New-York tribune., 1874-12-17

and her play. II she has been an ill-reated wife
| she has our sympathy; but suppose all ill., trosted
wives should insist upon bringing ont dramasi Alas
more and more arc we satisfied that the domestic
| linen should be washed at home that marital
squabbes should lie adjusted without making jIry
| of the whole public and that newspapers are not
| printed solely to inform the world how Darby has
cut up rough and Joan turned rusty.
Any ursinc prowlerof Wall Street will tell yon that
the country is going to the dogs; that there are now
some three hundred millions Of interest defaults
on American securities. and that there will be double
that sum before the Winter is over. But it s re-
markable fact that the widespread ruin and general
poverty have no effect Whatever upon the budget
for Christmas. Tho myriad shops in the city
show no dminutiOn whatever in the annual expo
siion of holiday goods. Down Broadway from
Central Park to the City Hall, on both sides. YOU
will find ten miles Of brilliant preparation for Santa
Claus. Third and Sixthave-. present an equally
snowy, though perhaps less costly exposition. One
star diiercth from another in glory. aud there arc
no two show windows alike in color. choice or AZ
rangemeut Of temptations, but each the ego
of the passer-by is seduccd assaulted
by different sort Of allurement. There
hayo never been richer or moro trliy artistic
holiday books displayed, AMI the bibliopoles ara
reaping the merited harvest of their enter rise
The toy shops attest the wonderful. power and nili-
ence welded by baby hood in modern lfo. which va
would call of the vices OF republican society AZ
we did not remember that the windows OF Paris and
London gay with equally rich and expensive
sacrifices to the caprice of infancy. Besides this all
the stores display special line of holiday goods
better and finer than their stock of every day. TO
tempt careful purchIs Isers into spending little moro
than they intended 80 to do honor To Christmas,
and convert a necessity Of life into graft
fcatiOn Of taste aud keepsa@e OK afec-
ti)n. This mOmentary and amla1e reckleHS-
ness is rarely carried far. and while it lasts 1t
brings with it needed impulse to trade, aud Ioyi-
val of the better feelings Of our nature. IL Useless
for savants to talk about the helthen origin of thla
now sacred festival. II the Gospel has changed Tho
feast of the savage gods the North to the ha!lowcd
Advent Time with which we are all made kinder
and genter once year. it ia one OF lis greatest
achievements. 1t needs bu5 little observation To
show that the crowds which are busy just low with
their Christmas purchases are more tnan usually
touched and influenced by the class Of motives re-
lating to home and to charity.
Oar alliance with Hades, it seems, has 70 be p't
off little longer. We have told our readers nor;
perhaps than was necessary o. the ncg";ia;i'oi
which were going on by means Of kosey, hve-yea:
old Chippewa Ann. Corkoniln wa3herwoma1. and
Katie King. Katie, the head Of this ghostly embassy,
was rather disreputabc character IN the days "I
Charles H.. the daughter OF Morgan, welsh pa
rate. chiefly remarkable for founding buccaneers
kingdom in ono OF the smaller BAHAMAS. lho
Morgaus father and daughter, however. con-
trived this Fall to get back TO the flesh
and Oy virtue of their ancient family
probably were taken into good society IN Phiiad J.
phia Doctors Of medicine and law, fashionable
women scientific professors crowded the dirty
little house night after night where they held tAet
receptions. Old Morgan persuaded Quaker doctor.
| Child by name and of most infantlle crcdullty OF
nature apparently to write his biography, in when
| he Dragged good deal about having been Governor
! of jamaica and a bosom friend OF Penn ana RANK
| lin, &C. Katie wrought upon tho sensiDiiities Ok
our old friend Robert Dale Owen in tha
manner already related. Iu fact oil hopes OF
bridging over the gulf between the United
States and tho Silent Land rested in Miss
King when some chance member of "a circle" more
open-eyed than the Others discovered the radiant
maiden to be mask, either held up by Mr.. Holmes
the medium to the window Of cabinet, or worn by
a plump very live young woman introduced through
secret door. After Drs. Child and owen had
published their recantation in this weeks Banner y
Light an energetic reporter going UP TO interview
Katie's shade, found it bad taken fight. not 10
realms Plutonian, but with bag. baggage. and the
Homeses, via the nearest railways Eheu Katherine.
A carelessly worded paragraph in yesterdays rs
port Of the search for Charles Ross has been MIS-
construed into reflection upon Superintendent
Walling. The misconsrucion seems to us forced;
but we regret the less since it gives occasion for
expressing our admiration for the Jealous and above
ALI the INTELLIGENT manner in which Mr.. Wang has
from the first directed the search for the lost boy.
This effort of itself uStifes the strong encomlums
10 which we urged before his appointment that orr
best Detective and Inspector oaght to lie made
Snpernendent Of the Police. Whatever else of the
abduction case remains mystery to-day, II Is
clearly demonstrated that the burglars OF Bay Ridge
were the abddctUrS Of Charles Ross that within
few DAYS Of the commission IF the crime in Phla-
delpha Mr. Waug gave the authorities of that
city the names of the abductors that since that
time he has been in constant though bafied pursuit
of the villains and that be has had the wife Of tie
principal under constant surveillance Ii is certain
also that he had pushed the criminals so closely as 10
drive them to desperate deeds such 3 finally
| resulted IN their horrible deaths The
pursuit has not been as uniformly sue
cessfll AZ similar detective fea;s in modern
romance. but those familiar with the difficulties
which beset and often bafl, justice will heartily re-
echo the strongest commendation of Mr.. Walling
which is likely to be pronounced He has shown
himself not merely indefltgahle but incenous. and
! we do not doubt. If the chlt be alive that Mr.
! Wallins will yet restore him to his parents.
| The analogy between Rum and Religion has been
discussed, but has never been practically deter
mined; and now, in England, comes up the recon
dte relation of TtheS and Beer. The Mdncte,fr