The New York herald., 1870-05-04
TIE May An.ivsrsarlss.
Broadbrims are in town,
And the rain Will Con,a Io~rm

And the rain will come down,
Is good nursery version Of an old saying
especially applicable to the approach Of the
May anniversaries. While the city people are
devoting themselves assiduously to moving,
either about the city or out Of 1t to Hoboken
or Brooklyn. all the country parsons within
hundred miles radius are assiduously prepar-
ing to move into 1t. The occasion is sort Of
annual clerical spree looked forward to with
yearnings all the rest Of the year by the fat
ministers and the sleek broad -brimmed Quakers
In the provinces. As general thing the result
is quite harmless, both strait-laced ministers
and rigorous Quakers conducting themselves
In manner to serve as bright example to
such lavish and liberal followers as Henry
Ward Beecher, and to throw into utter disre-
pute the alleged heretical doctrines Of Brother
Smyth and other prodigal children Of the
Church. In fact, the country paragons usually
make point Of lecturing city brothers on the
evil of their ways during these visits, and at
the coming meetings 1t seems highly probable
that they will have food enough for such
lectures, very highly seasoned at that. The
and chnrch-going society will prove highly
palatable morsels, and will go extremely well
with fat spring chicken and strong tea. Thus,
while the village saints are sharpening their
steels and their appetites for the coming visits
the city culprits are, 80 to speak, trembling
in their boots.
The benevolent societies, such as the Sea-
mems Friend, the Female Guardians and
others, do immense good by their meetings,
and usually give encouraging reports. The
Universal Peace Union, on the other hand,
mainly meets to encourage universal peace
throughout the world by quarrelling among
themselves; the National Temperance Society
unfortunately does little more than expose the
futility of its own workings; the Foreign Mis-
sions generally give an encouraging report only
az to the Improvement in cooking missionaries
among the savages- in Fugapoor and Hydera-
bad, and, as for the Eqnal Rights Association,
our last impression of it was that the members
succeeded only in forcibly illustrating the
| equal rights of men and women to denounce
| one another in public. The Anti-Slavery So
ciety, which used to make the biggest "blow-
out" in the lot, being now self-confessedly
dead, we hope that it is speechless There is
| no certainty, however, that it will not resur-
rect itself for the occasion if it have the ghost
| of chance.
| We wish the expectant parsons all success
| in their ministrations, and we would advise
them before returning to their rural pulpits to
store themselves with that useful knowledge of
human life that is to be found at almost any
time in the slums and alleys and in the bril-
liant theatres and gilded saloons Of the city.
LATEST FROM FRANoE.-The news from
France this morning presents no new
features. The Internal machines designed
to be used against the Emperor have
been discovered, and descriptions of them
have been given in the French journals.
Horrible enough they seem to be-; but the
question remains, who caused them to bt
chimes than to organize a conspiracy. The
public meetings on tho ple6iscite are about
ended. Arrests are being made in large mum.
bers. The French bishops now in Rome de-
mand that their votes be recorded in favor o.
the ple5iscits. The Italian banker, Cernuschi
who was compelled to leave France, has since
been compelled to leave Geneva, where ht
had taken refuge. All things 60 well for the
Emperor, and the ple6iscite is to be tremen
dous success for Napoleon the Third.
THE RIGHT AND THE WRoNa WAY.-Som'
of the intractable antediuvian pro-slaver,
anh-nigger journals Of the South are advocat
ing the organization Of "a white mans
party" Senator Salisbury is said to have
recommended this experiment as the only way
TO head off the republicans in Delaware OF
the nigger vote; but the proposition is mean
mischievous and absurd. In South Carolin;
the democracy have learned wiser lessor
from little rough experience. They propos'
to admit that there has been deluge-that
things have been changed-that fixed facts are
stubborn things-that negro suffrage is fixet
fact, and that the negro vote is worth having
This is the right way to face the new order
Of things the other is way that leads t.
fire, sword, slaughter and anarchy.
A TEMPEST IN A WALL STREET TEAPOT
On Saturday Mr.. Spinner found himself wit
about a million dollars gold belonging to tn
Sinking Fund, which he desired to sell and tur
the proceeds into government bonds, to add t.
his fund in time for the debt statement OF Ma
1, He sold his gold and bought his bonds
privately but not secretly. The speculator
are trying to get up storm because he did NO
consult them before doing what he did. Wer
there no speculators the government Nigh
transact it's business as any does, without hav
ing these charges of violated faith and wicke
inconsistency hurled at it from Wall street.
Tile W1NNIPEa AFEAIR-Sir John McQ0nal