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EUk RENT. AT 202 EAST MAIN G;;
Il Street. TWO FLOORS, BASEMENT, and AL
half ui KITCHEN, in The same house occupied py
General ". II. Richardson. ApDiy 70
d. {, lraS1w GRURBS l. WILLIAMS.
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NOR RENT. ONE OF THE STORES 1
4 roy occuuicd bv a. II. Cha.klcy & Co.. G:i
Thirteenth street. Possession lst january. Apply
Ia &c 23-3t 5. ). COTTRELl..
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At the Convent of the Visitation, Monte
Marie, there was no midnight mass, as IN
former years. This is a privilege the nuns
of the Visitation alone enjoy, and it was no
little disappointment to them and the young
ladies of the academy, who had made great
preparations for the event, that tkey should
have had to give it up. The indIspositlon
of the celebrant was the cause of this change
in the usual order of the services.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-25

TAINTED, TO RENT CHEAP FARM
w near Richmond, or TO work n farm On shares,
by Q man of family aud experience rs a fsrnlers
Address Ea RMER, Dispatch flee. de 26.2tN
WTANTED. an industrious, energetic
Wv MAN, TO take charge Of and work on small
ofRce de 25 3t.odk
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TORN WANTED.
We wish to buy CORN at good landings on
James river.
THOMAS BRANCH & CO.,
Bankers and Commission Merchants,
de 23- d5f&w3t lzl5 Main sfreeS 4
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VNT ANTED, for an experienced and hard.
w working white man, with a small family a
SITUATION as MANAGER and WORKER On
suburban farm for 1875. The advertiser knows
him 10 be capable, Industrious and honest 10 fault,
and the best sEEDsMAN In the county. Apriyat
81 west Broad street. de Z4-Zlr
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WANTED, TO LEND MONEY in SUMS
wv 10 Euit on city improved nnincumberea real
estate j. THOMPSON BROWS,
de25.3t Real Estate gent. lib Main areet
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tAJANTED. by the 10th Of January, a No.
w ] STAND to conduct WHOLESALE and
RETAIL GROCERY BUSINESS; residencs and
stable attached preferred. Address, With pariicu-
lars, P. care Of Disp0tch Office. Ge 24-2.S
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SATURDAY. 49,. .DECEMBER IS, 1875.
WEATHER. REPORT.

OBSERVATIONS TAKES At 1886 A. NJ. DRcEMBF
eA. 1878. At HUNTINGTON, HINTON, An
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
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At St. Mary's (German) Catholic church b
the services will be the same as are usually
solemnized on Christmas day. High mass
will be celebrated at a. NJ. by Rev. Father
Benno Hegele. This will be followed by
four other N lsses at intervals during the
early morning hours. At 1880 A. IL. high
mass will be celebrated by Rev. Father Her
man Wolfe, and a sermon preached by Father
Benno. In the afternoon at 3 O'Clock vespers
will be sung, the days services concluding
with benediction Of the Blessed Sacrament.
The decorations about the three affairs and
the sanctuary are tasteful, though not elabo-
rate,
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

WAS not word Of truth in the story The
HERALD selfadmits as much. - : and one
can only wonder why 50 patent lie could
have been invented and circulated" This
language is not in itself model of taste, but
applied to the New York HERALD is mani
fest injustice. Would it not have been more
creditable and considerate in the English
Journal to have been first sure that the story
was published by US as original matter ?
Could it not have taken the small trouble to
see that it was copied from another paper as
an extravagance, and so alluded to editorially
bv usp
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

large win have no option but TO
support him. III there should be two
or three other republican candidates he
will 90 into the Convention with greater
strength than any of them, and the rivals Of
Blaine would perhaps sooner have Grant than
him The idea OF the Sun that the Method
ist influence with the Southern negroes is
strong enough to give Grant the delegates
rect, and with such compact body of sup
porters he need not despair Of controlling the
Convention He is likely to have threefold
more votes on the first ballot than any other
candidate, because the delegates from every
State in which the republicans are minor
ity will give him their support The relig-
ious question will win him the Southern ne
groes sa DsaSSe, and his official patronage
will enable him to virtually appoint the
delegates from every other State in which
the republicans q minority. With the
opposition to him divided between Blaine
and Bristow it will not be difficult to get
ahead of both and carry off the prize if
backed by the Methodist influence through
out the country President Grants strong
loint is his control of all the Southern dele
cations through the Methodist influence over
the blacks, and when he has once achieved
the republican nomination the whole party
will do its utmost to secure his election.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
pa,,, naid $40 500 for a fur cloak.

Pattl paid S12 500 for fur cloak.
Hon Alexander Fl. Stephens coughs very much.
Something ails Bass the great brewer. He is nos
expected to recover.
Lord darcy Osborne, OF England, is among the Iate
arrivals At the Finh Avenue Hotel.
4 French doctor says that all great criminals have
been great smokers. Where did Cain get his long cut
from Doetors
Captain Paul Boyton is expected to arrive the
Germanic, which is due Sunday. He will soon
turn 10 Paris,
The Cinnamon Of Virginia city, Nevada have started
a billiard saloon, which is well paronzed by these
knights OF the queue.
Senator John P. Jones bought some land which
he has discovered a OF CASTLE soap John ?. al
ways did manage to have the suds
The Earl Of Dunravcn who has been shooting
excursion in Canada for past returned
this city yesterday and is at the Brevoort House
Moody says that the devil goes to church mora
regularly than anybody else Now you folks that have
pcen going church regularly stop ecturing, will you.
John Burroughs winter Sunshine is calculated to
warm the coldest heart and brighten the darkest
hearth, AS his Wake Robin cheered wherever It was
heard
.,rhe moon is dead, /" said Professor Proctor Then
Murat Halstead took slice or lemon OF his punch
and said to watterson "lce-hay, Henry how's that
fur moon 2"
Belknap don't know whether Morrison will be good
head for the Ways and Means Committee or not but
thinks he would make good leader for country do
nation party.
Dr. Holland TImothy Ttcomb) thinks that the cure
FOR gossip is culture Oh, Doctor don't you know
that culture may add TO tho OF berry, but that is
takes away all flavor?
Governor Hendricks Of Indiana has accepted an In
vta,on TO deliver the opening address Of the Southern
States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition at New
Orleans February 20 next
.society in Washington isn't what II was, said .
republican Congressman the other day. schuyler
Coliar always ate with the back OF his knife, and
put The sharp side in his mouth"
tramp arrived in SUSSEX county New Jersey, whers
the authorities gave him stones 70 break before he bad
his dinner Then up spaks the tramp and said.
"when they ask for bread will ye give them stone"
In France the average salary OF workmen twthous
board or lodgnGl is sxty-eighi cents IN Germany,
Italy and Switzerland thirty yeight cents; in England
eighy.hree cents living being shirty per cent dearer
than In France.
Mr. Speaker Kerr and family arrived In Philadelphia
on thursday TO remain during the Congressional vaca-
ton with his friend Colonel Henry d. Welch, but yes
terdav he received telegram announcing tho illness
mi, brother James X. Kerr OF Pittsburg and will
leave to day for that city. He expects TO return in
few days
Abernethy, the great physician, said that giass o.
ale before time is for sleepessness Another
authority says that holding the hands In water will
bring slumbcr to the eyelids Now arrives writer In
Mooro's Rural Ne0 Yorker who recommends heart.
felt prayer a remedy for those TO whom Morphcus
, does not eaals come. Thank Yoa
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
the Holiday Adjournment.

We trust the members Of Congress will
have pleasant time when they reach their
homes to exchange holiday greetings with
their friends We fear the occasion will be
more festive and exhilarating on the repub-
lican than on the democratic side. Mr..
Blaine, the republican leader in the House,
cannot fail to be in high spirits, considering
who is pitted against him as the leader on
the democratic side. He can easily wind
poor MIR. Morrison around his finger in every
debate and win succession of cheap VIC
tories. "Pig iron" Kelley should also be very
happy during the holidays, as he will re-
ceive many congratulations for the honor
conferred on him by the free trade, hard
money Speaker, who slaughtered some of
the ablest men of his own party for very
slight leaning toward Mr.. Kelleys views.
Mr.. Morrison will also pass the holidays
happily as he has not yet encountered the
formidable antagonist who is likely
to strip him of his blushing hon
ors in the arena of debate. There
are few other members whose joy is likely to
be exuberant while exchanging the compH-
ments of the season. When the admirers of
Mr.. Cox and Mr.. Wood approach these de-
lighted gentlemen and congratulate them on
the political honors they have received at tho
hands of the democratic Speaker whom they
assisted to elect it will require all their
courtesy to maintain the dignifed smile of
the one and the jovial cordiality of the other
Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Chittenden are members
whom it will be equally adventurous for
their friends to congratulate on the official
recognition given them by Governor Tilden's
Speaker. The holidays will be an occasion
when political eganS ter7'ibles should be kept
shut up in the nursery, lest they spoil the
pleasant festivities of the season.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
at the Beginning of the
Year One.

The small village Of Bethlehem, where
Christ was born, was 80 Insignificant at the
time Of that great event that, if the modern
press had then existed, it may be doubted
whether the circumstances would have been
reported with fulness enough to satisfy
legitimate curiosity. Rome was then the
capital of the world but if there
had been an enterprising Roman news
paper entitled to be called the Rome
HERALD, it is not at all certain that
its conductors would have detailed alert cor
respondents to report the greatest fact in the
history of the human race. Judea was an
outlying province of the Empire; and even
if there had been wide-awake provincial
newspaper at Jerusalem it might have had
no conception that the lying-in of the wife of
an obscure peasant from Nazareth, which
happened in a stable because there was no
room for her at the inn, was the master event
in the annals of the human race.
Mankind will always have reason to regret
that the enterprising modern press did not
exist either in Rome or Jerusalem at SO inn
portant an epoch, and that even if it had ex-
listed the most important occurrence Of the
time would probably have escaped its atten-
ton But what would we not give for file
of Rome HERALD, or even of Jerusalem
Telegram, published at the time The
slightest mention in small type in the OBJ
scurest corner of such journal would have
been invaluable to subsequent generations.
The more authentic fixing of the date of the
birth of the Saviour of the world would have
been worth great deal. For want of such
facilities nobody knows when Christ was
born, and we are quite uncertain whether
our Christmas celebrations come in at the
right point of the calendar. 1t was not till
the fourth century of the Christian era that
the 25th Of December was fixed as the
proper date, and the day was then Sc
lected by the Church on mere vague
tradition, without accurate data Nobody
can ever know whether the 25th of December
is the correct date or not, and the improb-
ability of shepherds watching their hocks
by night at the time of the winter solstice in
so severe climate as that of Judea may,
perhaps, justify doubt. But if there had
OCSA hh aoClfO ucMSpdPcA PlSoo ~ thot OiiAie,
recording all events as they occurred, it
might be possible to fix the date with GER
tainty; but we know nothing about it, and
the world must always remain in ignorance
as to the real date Of the most important event
that has ever occurred in its history. The
contrast between ancient and modern times
between the period when there was no press
and the presents strikingly illustrated by
our uncertainty as TO the real date of an
event which eclipses every other in the his
tory of the world.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
The Position OF Turkey--Appointing .
ReOefvar

The telegram from Vienna that Turkey 10
preparing for war was intended apparently
to Affect some financial interests between
that city and London but the statement
made simultaneously in Berlin, Vienna and
London as to what is to be done by the great
Powers is evidently worthy of more conf
dence. 1t is given out as their programme
that the ambassadors at Constantinople OF
the neutral Powers shall hencetorth consti-
tute practically the government of Turkey
in Europe that ''the reforms in the prov
inces" shall be under their special direction
and control rather than in the hands Of the
Sultan simply, of course because the Sui
tan cannot possibly become a reformer in
Christian sense, and that if he pretended to
this would only be the repetition Of time
honored political swinde. The effect Of
giving such power to the ambassadors would
be analogous to the appointment of q re-
ceiyer In any ordinary case of financial en-
barrassment. This body Of ambassadors
would, in fact, constitute sort of component
receivership, and would be preliminary to
settling with the creditors and winding up
the concern. At this rate it will not be many
years before the Sultan will be sent to Asia
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
Etheric Force and Electricfty.

Mr.. Houston, Professor Of Physics at the
Central High School of Philadelphia, has
communicated to the press Of that city some
observations on the so-called "etheric force"
of Mr. Edison. He is of opinion that no
new force has been discovered. and that the
phenomena relied upon to demonstrate the
existence of new force can be accounted
for without going beyond what is already
known of the operations of electricity.
Phenomena which to Mr.. Edison were If
reconcilable with the presumption that the
force in operation was electricity all find in
Mr.. Houstons view "a satisfactory explana-
tion by the presence Of induced electrical
currents"
From this criticism it would appear
that Mr.. Edison simply got lost in the
scientific dust he made, and. arriving at
well known cross road from new direction,
did not recognize where lie was. His appa-
ratus was so arranged that an electrical cur
rent moved in each direction separated by a
time SO infinitely little as to be inappreciable
to sense. The result Of this double current
was an electrical equilibrium, and this equi-
librium accounted for the fact that the
'force" did not respond to the tests for cleo
tricity, which were all tests for direct cur
only
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
Another Political Nostrum.

1t is proposed by philosopher, who is,
perhaps "only nor nor west mad, that the
country shall be saved from the dangers Of
negro suffrage by the balance wheel Of fe-
male suffrage, with an intelligence clause"
BY giving votes TO the slaves it is admitted
that we have adulterated the political life Of
the nation, and to the extent Of that adul-
teration debased and degraded the body poll
itie: but the addition OF the women as voters
will neutralize the evil effects, because their
vote will outnumber the negro vote, and SO,
practically, count Sambo out provided, Of
course, the suffrage is given only to the white
women. That is, Of course, the meaning Of
'the intelligence clause" which therefore
could only stand the assaults Of demagoguery
till it was thought by some one down in New
England that the votes of the colored sisters
would be useful Then Dinah would come
in beside Sambo and we should have the
prettiest kettle of fish, politically speaking,
the world ever saw. There is only one point
Of view from which this proposition can be
said to offer any advantage. Things are
pretty bad as they are but before they can
mend they must, perhaps, be worse, and this
will make them worse
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

IHE HERALD B1 FAST Man TRAINS. -Ne11s-
5co'1s ond ir pottc throughout ~ States y
Ac'e rort Me- Jgsy md Pennsylvania, 0s
toeR as - III Hesi, ne Pacific toast, ire North,
Ve South and Somlusst also aiong the lines
q he Hudson Hirv, Ne,o Yorlc Csrtr1l and
Pennsylvania Ceniro, Railroads and their con-
actions, nil 5e supplied ph The HERALD,
zee @ postage. Extraordinary Inducements
6srsd % ne'rsdsa'ers " st,.ding heir orders
oircct 10 his Office.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
Yale's New Opportunity-WiI There
Be Two Associations.

The action Of Harvard, in accepting Yale's
invitation to four-mile straghtaway race,
in eights, with coxswains, gives the latter an
opportunity which, save in one contingency,
may bring her far greater renown than she
has ever yet known. Should she now,
believing that she can row Harvard and whip
her and that the two conditions-that the
race be in skies and without coxswains-
imposed by the Rowing Association in its
challenge to the British universities, will
prove fatal to a race, challenge the
latter to their own sort of con-
test-namely, four-mile in eights with
coxswains-she will make it so hard for
them to decline that she may have the only
race with them after all, and may win it.
But, on the other hand, should Harvard beat
Yale, and then the British do the same, it
would be Harvards turn, and if she should
succeed in returning the favor Oxford did
her on the Thames it would seem only right.
In any event the challenge to the English
ought not to be long in going out, for there
is really no time to lose. If accepted it will
put Yale to her best efforts in the way of
training, and, if Harvard joins, will probably
induce the three gentlemen Of her last crew
who, though still at the University, had in
tended not to row, to reconsider. Her ac-
ceptance Of Yales challenge makes it
strongly probable that she has rowed her
last race in the association. For rowing in
six without, and in an eight with acoxswain,
requires such essentially different sorts of
work, that where, as this year at Harvard,
first class oarsmen are scarce, it will be almost
impossible to have two separate teams, and
as the eight are now in for it the six must
give way Bowdoin, too is already reported
weakening, and it will not be odd if, on the
reassembling of the colleges after the
HOLIDAYS or at the meeting of the as
sociation in this city, on the 4th
of January, word may come of the
nine New England colleges preparing to
row by themselves if they can find what they
have never yet found in New England for so
many crews-an absolutely fair course-to
say nothing of adequate hotel accommoda-
tions for even third of their friends.
Should these crews or the pick of them, row
the visiting Englishmen and be beaten they
will yet have accomplished one good thing
they will have gotten the latter here and If
before they let them go they will permit
Cornell or Columbia to interview them some
afternoon for about seventeen minutes on
wicked Saratoga Lake, possibly, in their
cooler moments Afterwards, they may not
regret it.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25
A BIG Man was seen in Havana, and in

A BIC Man was seen in Havana, and i'm
mediately some impetuous people declared
he was Tweed 1t is not likely that Tweed
would 60 to Havana, because that city just
now is as much prison as LUDLOW Street
Jail, and less comfortable. But while we are
speaking Of Tweed whereabouts we may as
well ask Mr.. David Dudley Field what he
meant by telling reporter Of the HERALD
the other day that he could communicate
with William NJ. Tweed within an hour?
Was it one OF those yapid jokes in which old
men sometimes indulge, Of mentally sub
stituting another person Of the same name
for the person meant? If Mr.. Field was
speaking Of William NJ. Tweed and not
William NJ. Tweed, Jr., there is in this in
formation an important clew for the police.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

Amp Now AUDITOR THAnE explains that he
vas able to reduce his Indebtedness to the
Troy City National Bank from fifty thousand
aollars to five thousand dollars in q single
- by the sale Of -four, which he had been
,rrying ia this city. We think, however,
.b in spite of any explanation hs may
wake AZ this time, bis official conduct can
g Judged only by the entire testimony in
case, and it is for the Canal Investigating
Commission 10 determine the question
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

ExTRADrTIoN ON THE BoRDER.-A curious
case has arisen under the Extradition law
on the Rio Grande border which, like every
thing else in that interesting locality, seems
difficult Of solution. While the proceedings
we're in progress the Judge before whom the
case was brought was removed by the Gov
ernor and the prisoners counsel appointed
to the Bench in his place. As the etiquette
Of the Mexican Bar does not require judge
to refrain from giving decision in case in
which he has acted as counsel. and as, in
this instance, the new appointee has the
question of rendition under adyisement, the
outlook for the alleged criminal may be re-
garded as very favorable.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

COURTESY AMONG JOURNALS dictates that
when one paper feels called upon to condemn
the course OF another its structures should,
first Of all, be grounded upon fact. This,
unhappily, is not always as rigidly carried out
as could be desired. An English journal,
commenting on despatch published in the
Boston Herald Of November 20, which was
copied into the NEw YoEK HERALD Of the oath
and duly credited, has seen fit to give us all
the discredit which, from its view of the case,
the inventors of the story deserved. The
Boston story related to q supposed probabil-
ity of war between Great Britain and the
United States growing out Of the Canadian
fisheries question. We did not believe there
was any truth in it, and said 50. Yet the
English journal says:-"The New YoRK
HERALD was equal TO the occasion, and ex-
planned at once the story which 1t possibly
invented and affectionately fathered." Sum-
ming w the matter. Il savss--''0f cnu rse there
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

Yin. LESTER WALLACE sends letter to the
HERALD contradicting statement to the
effect that he is sixty-two years old We
concede that nothing can be more annoying
TO an artist than overstatements Of his age,
because somehow in the case of an actor
this question, 50 interesting to most people
who frequent the theatres, is intimately asso-
ciated with his business and his art. But Mr..
Wallack is too well known as an artist of
rare excellence to be injured by any mis-
statement. All the patrons of his model
place of amusement know the worth and
completeness of his acting, and many Of
those who have seen his strength az an artist
increase with his years would gladly ex-
change their youth for his years even il he
were az old a. the paragraph represented
HIM
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

VAIL STREET YESTERDAY Stocks we're dull
end foverish. Money on call loaned * 8 ana
per cent. Gold was heavy at l13 - liz.
Governments were weak. The bank state
aont is not fattering.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. On and
after January ]. 1876, the daily and weekly
editions OF the New YORK HERALD will be
sent free OF postage.
The New York herald., 1875-12-25

Nor CowrRST with the troubles on the Rio
6rande some OF the uneasy spirits on the
.rontier in Southern California and Northern
Noxieo are seeking to embroil the two re-
yublics in war. The only way to cure such
1,.orders is to punish the bandits On both
ilcs Of the line