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The New York herald., 1875-12-28
Crime An tho City.

The annual report Of the Board Of Police
Justices shows, by comparison with the pre-
vious year, an actual decrease in the number
Of arrests while the increase in the number
OF commitments indicates more vigorous
enforcement Of the law When it is remem-
bered that during the year strenuous efforts
were made to break up disorderly and gam
bling houses and to prevent violations Of the
Excise law, the number Of ordinary arrests
is still further decreased; but it must be adj
mitted that "a, 800 cases are enormous for
city like New York. This number is in the
proportion of one to twelve Of the entire
population Of the city Fortunately the
number of cases of felony and msdemeanor
is not SO great as we might be led to expect
from this showing. But the proportion of
the more serious offences was one to fifty
eight of the population, and this exhibits
prevalence Of crime too great for any COM
munity. A remedy must be found, and it is
possible to find it only in such measures
as will reduce the lower grades of
crime. During the year there were &C. 89i
arrests for drunkenness, and the police
justices estimate that from seventy to ninety
per cent of all the crimes committed in this
city are due, directly or indirectly, to the
use of intoxicating liquors. The Board asks
for ampler powers in dealing with the class
known in police phrase as ''drunk and dis
orderly" Imprisonment is the remedy
the justices suggest for this disease, but
it is likely the cure would be worse than
the malady 1t would not be well to give
the usually irresponsible judges who sit in
our police courts great discretionary power
in cases of this kind Even now innocent
men are often sent to prison, but if drunk
enness can be made so serious an offence as
the Board desires, trumped up charges of in
toxication would become almost as common
as intoxication itself The remedy, it seems
to US, is in very different direction. Drunk
enness is a sin which can only be prevented
by improving the condition of the poor and
elevating the moral tone of the community.
This is work for the benevolent and relig-
ious societies rather than for the Legislature,
and until these do their whole duty we can
not expect any appreciable decrease in crime
in this city.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

The GERMAN Government AND EMGRA-
TIoS.-The defeat of the government in the
Reichstag, on its attempted revision of the
penal code, has happily prevented the enact
ment Of law which would have done much
to embarrass emigration from Germany to
this country. 1t was proposed to punish
with years imprisonment "whosoever un-
der false pretences either wilfully induces or
attempts to induce Germans by groundless
representations to emigrate 1t is, Of
course, wrong to use 'groundless representa-
tions" to forward any cause; but, with gov
ernment bent on keeping its people at home
and not over scrupulous in the means it en-
ploys, such a clause could easily have been
twisted by plant judges into an engine Of
terror We congratulate the Reichstag on
its good sense in rejecting it.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28
The French Senate.

1t is reported that Nj. Thiers will be-
come a candidate for the Senate from Bel
fort from which it must follow that Belfort
is certain to return him. NJ. Thiers is
fully alive to the unpleasant consequences
Of failures in political life, and has re-
fused to stand for the Senate in several de-
partments as he previously refused to stand
La the Assembly, because his election was
not infallibly certain in any one of these
places. From what has taken place in the
Assembly it seems probable that he could
easily have been elected there; but it is
not easy to compute how many old ami
mosities would have bazed anew at the pre-
sentation Of his name. 1t appears that the
republicans triumphed in the Senatorial
elections because as the tickets were
framed it was a pretty even battle
between them and the adherents of the
Orleans monarchy, and in that nearly even
battle the Bonapartists and the extreme
legitimists together welded casting vote.
Both these factions prefer the republican
party to the Orleans party the legitimsts
because family quarrel is the fiercest of all
quarrels and the Bonapartists because they
believe the Republic the more likely Of the
two to fall into those extravagances and
errors that will open the way to the re-estab-
lishment Of the Empire. Hence both voted
for the republicans and laid the foundation
for a Senate not inimical to the constitution
Of the country.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

THEY HAD GRAND TIME at Trenton yes.
terday celebrating the ninety-ninth anniyer-
sary of the battle of that name. George
Washington was there, armed, We presume.
with little hatchet for we are told that the
costumes, &C., were historically correct. The
Hessians were, of course, compelled to
surrender, and George w. then formed
part Of classic tableau representing him in
by two hundred Philadelphia walters, each
in the character of George Washington's
faithful body servant. After all this we say.
Hail to the Centennial year
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

The ARRIVAL OF GENERAL MoRIoNEs al San
Sebastian shows that the Alfonsists are de-
termined to open winter campaign with
the Carlists. The wisdom Of this is ques-
tionable but as the government cannot
afford to keep its forces idle something must
be done to keep up popular feeling on the
young Kings side. We shall shortly know
whether this move means business or is only
for show. One of the plans for pacifying
the Basque provinces was to land an army
at San Sebastian and sweep the country in
southeastery direction, and this is the one
probably adopted. The trouble is that the
Carlists can fight or run as they choose.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

The AMERICAN COLONIZATION Of Brazil has
not resulted successfully. The letter we
publish elsewhere from Para shows how the
American settlers that went there on the COL
lapse of the Confederacy fared They did
not like the country, rich as it is. and the
country returned the compliment Hence
scarcely remnant was left when the Swatara
reached Para the settlers having found their
way homeward as well as they could during
the last seven or eight years. Still there
are many ways in which an am
bilious American may improve his
fortunes there /; but, with scarcely an ex-
ception, it must be said the same man could
do as well here, not perhaps in the crowded
cities, but where the wilderness is being
opened up and settled. In Brazil an
enervating climate, strange people speak
ing strange language and with different
customs and with little commercial energy
meet the American. On our frontiers he has
all the scope he wants. If he desires to
settle the people growing up around him
will be his people, and that counts for a
great deal
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

1HE HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRAINS. Ne1cS-
Gtoiers and tie Public throughout ne States 81
Aer York, Ae,r Jersey Gnd Pennsylvania, as
qreH as u, ne West, the Pacific Coast, ne Nort,,
lie South and so,iil,cest, also along tie lines
n He Hudson Rirer, Aa1 York Central and
Tennsytonid Central E0iiroods and their con-
nectorss, ,eU Je supplied ,oM The HERALD,
1ree d postage. Extraordinary inducements
offered q ne,csdealcrs ~ sending their orders
Oirec' 70 his Office.
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II Is Useful 10 KNOW who are to govern
print ia another column the personnel Of the
State and city governments and tie Legisa-
ture during the year q grace 1876.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

THE HEART OF rHE MAN or IRoE. Death
is king before whom the haughtiest bow.
If there is one tender vein in man it bleeds
into the heart when he stands by the bier Of
one to whose life his was closely linked.
Who shall wonder then that the great Prince
Bismarck wept by the coffin Of the young
Count who was to have been the husband Of
his daughter
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

WALL STREET YESTERDAY Without being
materially excited stocks advanced. Gold
opened and closed It ll2 u.s. Money On call
was 70 be Lad at and then at per
cent Government and investment securities
are without important change
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

OUR BERLIN LETTER gives the latest social
and political items from the Prussian capi-
tai. Prince GortschakofTs confGence with
Bismarck on the Eastern question, which
has resulted in the Porte acceding to certain
reforms. is prominent topic therein.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

THE BOARD or ALDERMEN have resolved to
hoist the City Hall flags % New Years Day
in honor Of the Centennial year, and wish
the press to inform the whole world Of that
flct We do so.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

NAPOLEON BoSAPARrE is once more on the
Column vendome. There were crowds, but
10 ceremony France loves the memory
Of this soldier, and on that love the greatest
band Of adventurers the century has seen
traded successfully for over twenty years
from December, 1s4s to December, 1851,
and thence to Sedan.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

AyorHER CHRISTMAS MURDER is reported.
This time a New Jersey village is the scene,
D colored man tie slayer and colored
woman the victim. It almost looks as though
Christmas in America would soon be worthy
of the reproach which the London Times, as
related in our London cable letter Of Sun
day, bestowed upon Christmas in England.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

The FRENCH REPUBIIc is taking shape.
An amendment to the Press law was carried
providing penalties for attacks against the
Republic. 1t is al odd indication, but in a
government where a bare mention Of the Re-
public by Cabinet officer was almost worth
the officials place. it is progress. free
press Is q thing undreamed Of yet.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

CROOKED WHIsKEY' PHMosoPHER.-
In another part of the HERALD we print an
interview had with Colonel Joyce in the
Jefferson City Penitentiary. 1t is not often
that we see in the conyict's garb man of
such well informed parts, such ready w.t. a
poser and philosopher, romancer, a
rhymester and criminal at once. Locked
in this mans bosom, we have no doubt is a
key to the inmost chamber of the Whiskey
Rings rascality. No one but he knows the
heights and depths Of corruption which the
Ring touched or sounded. 1t will be seen
that he holds back all the information he
possesses in the hope Of securing a pardon
for what he will not say. 1t is we believe,
o futile hope, for even if the President de-
sired to release him he could not face the
consequences Of the act. The cheap and
''crooked" philosophy with which he pro-
fesses to sustain himself will not last long;
his silence will not, as he supposes,
give him any better claim to esteem or dis
esteem than he now enjoys He had better
speak-for the sake of justice as well as for
his own
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

Of the island An Intervention for
what President Grant calls in his Message
''the interests Of humanity itself ought to
be joint Intervention if il is TO have any
moral weight OF looks to the Endorsement Of
the public opinion of the world. 1t would
be absurd to say that the United States is
the only nation that has any concern in 'the
interests Of humanity itself The local
proximity Of Cuba - our shores GER
tainly gives US a title to take the
lead in such movement in the
interests of humanity but if humanity, and
not territorial aggrandizemento or other selfish
motive, prompts our efforts, we ought to de-
sire the aid and countenance ofother Powers.
Acting alone our motives would be open to
suspicion and our intervention would be inn
puted to motives quite different from desire
to protect "the interests Of humanity"
Besides, joint Intervention would not lead
to war as the separate interference of the
United States would be certain to do. If
the three great Powers named should com
bine with America their moral force would
not need to be strengthened by military or
naval array.
Next to our own government that Of Great
Britain has the deepest interest in the peace
and prosperity of the West India Islands.
She owns the large and fertile island of
Jamaica, which is nearer to Cuba than our
own State of Florida she owns the whole
Bermuda group and large proportion of the
other West India islands she has a larger
commerce with Mexico than any other
nation. Her interests in the West Indies
and the seas which surround them are
scarcely inferior to our own, and if we are
to intervene in Cuba ''in the interests of hu-
manity" England is the first Power to which
we should apply for cooperation. What
ever might be done by her consent and with
her aid would command the respect of the
world and be exempt from dishonoring i'm
putations Her cooperation would prove
to Spain and would satisfy other nations
that the Intervention was really in the inter-
ests Of commerce and humanity, and not
pretext for covering other designs. Hence
we shall be particularly chagrined to learn
that, if negotiations for a joint Intervention
have been under way, they should have
failed or be likely to fail If Presi-
dent Grant is sincere in his professions,
and if there is no present intention to
quire Cuba for the United States, our ma
tional honor would be best protected and war
most surely avoided by joint Intervention.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28
Thin-skinned Amerieans in BERLIN.


By cable despatch we hear that some
American residents in Berlin have thought
fit to protest against the tone of the German
press in its comments on the case of the
steamer Mosel and the attempted crime of
Thompson. Crime does not happen to be of
any country; and if the German editors have
argued that there are some American kinds
Of crime, and that this frightful endeavor to
send ship to the bottom for gain is Of
character that is national with us, it would
be a great deal better for Americans
who may feel aggrieyed to answer
them rather than to protest with an
injured sense of patriotic pride. 1t is be-
lieved on substantial reasons that man
once attempted to blow up the British Par
Lament while in session, and all for gain
that would have been pitiful by comparison
with what the present rogue promised him
self Here is the very same crime, the un-
dertaking to kill some hundreds of persons
for personal qualification. But even in Berlin
they will scarcely argue that Guy Fawkes
was a Yankee, though they have some quaint
historical fancies. From time immemorial
men have killed other men, with motives
financial, fanatical, political, social or
amatory and though this crime departs
from the general category by its magnitude
by the number Of persons condemned it is
unfortunately not without its parallel in
that particular in the history Of every civil
lied people.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

CHRISTMAS HAS HAD ITS SHADOWS in the
Old World as well as in the New. A school
housoful Of villagers enjoying the great
festive occasion suddenly fell through the
flooring Of the building and eighty were
killed and 6fty more or less injured.
The New York herald., 1875-12-28

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From orr reports this morning The probabilities
are hat the lCedtter to-day ,cR BE ,caruer and
Ud7fly clo1dg
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Tsiy fourth street and adwsy-PRus SIEGE Or
PARIS open irtm + NJ TO r NJ and iron ~ 4 y
wALLACK's THEATRE.
Bpidvhy ana Thirteenth street.-rhE kOMANCE or a
4ook Young Mas, Al T. N. closes at ~ ~ r NJ M
PARTISAN VARIETIES, II !
Sixteenth street near Broadway A. + T. NJ
GERMANIA THEATRE.
tAarreenth street q NTEssE HELENE. At s T. NJ
v.,..., ... sn9e5EEs FagA5rF HEsEq Fl
Union SQUARE THEATRE
EreadNAs go Fourteenth street-RosE MICHEL q 9
~ eai Broadway. -iGEiErY, Al I'm Matinee Al
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
Iweniysigh'h strees, near Broadway-PeuE. 4 r. NJ
n :, TQSy PASTORS NEy TTEATEEa -,
sse nar 4.
PARK THEATRE.
Broadway and Twcn,yseeond street-THE cRUcIBLE, Al
EAGLE THEATRE,
broadway and Thirty third streeI-yARIErY. sP. N.
P.ve-yALIrSs soTfEd SoRsr, ranArHs aaa TIE Mr.
san FRANCISCO MTNSTRELS
Sew Opera House Broadway of twenty street
81 ) T. IA
TINOlI THEATRE.
Esh street near Third avenue.-vARiErY. a ?. N.
WOODS MUSEUM
3rnadwav. Thirtieth street-THF TICKET Of
LEAVE " An at s +. NJ: closes at 10 a. r. NJ n s
EAanfvau Matinee r N.
GLOBE THEATRE,
Sos TO and 80 Broadway.-YARIETY, atsP M
BOOTHS THEATRE
yeuf ihird street and Sixth HvenHe.-JULTCS CESAR
i = r M Mr. Lawrence Barrett
LYCEUM THEATRE
fourteenth and Sixth avenue-SERAPHINE. nt 3
:. NJ. Partisan Company.
THEATRE COMTQUE
M. 5i4 Broadway VARIETY Al + p. ~
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,eton's Reminder TO Yale and
Harvard.
Princeton's 8


The manly letter Of Captain Nicoll, which
we publish to-day, shows that, whatever
others may do, Princeton will stand boldly
up to her duty in the Rowing Association,
and do what she can to keep the weak kneed
from the Generalization which seems to
threaten some of them. 1t has been well
known for some time in rowing circles that
Yale and Harvard have been trying to cover
the unpleasant side Of their proposed with
drawal by urging Columbia and Princeton
to go along; but the resolute refusal Of the
latter, with the very plain words in her letter,
and the almost certain Endorsement Of her
course by Columbia, promise well for
American college rowing interests. Cap
tain Nicoll tells the boilers that in
running away in the year of all years,
when the world will come to look at us, they
are false alike to duty and courtesy. And
certainly, to join in an invitation to gentle
men to come three thousand miles to row,
and after they have considered and per-
haps acceded to your request to suddenly
turn and wholly ignore them, is, to put it
mildly, anything but fattering to our no
tions of good breeding. Nor does it better
it much if the rumor is true that Yale and
Harvard have already challenged Oxford and
Cambridge to separate race in eights. The
English university men should distinctly
understand that, if they whip both Harvard
and Yale, they have not beaten the best
American college oarsmen, by any means,
and that there are several crews here who
can do all that. One excellent course is open
to the visitors. Let them accept the chal-
lenge of the Rowing Association and decline
that of Harvard and Yale, stating their
ground that they prefer to row the
first college crew in America, not some third
or fifth rate one Then the result will de-
termine whether the famous British oarsnen
can beat us or not; otherwise it will not at all.
THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH F1oHr still pro-
gresses with the pastor leading his forces,
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

THIRD AVENUE THEATRE
Iaift avenue. between TlreiA aud Thirty hrst
NiA-lEft.SA aud VARIETY. at s Il. NJ.
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wAIIACKs THE

COLOSSEUM.
Thivty fourth street and Br0acway-PRUSSTAN SIEGE or
PARIS Open irtu r NJ TO 4 r. NJ. and irom i1 I. a.
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THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH FIGHT still pro-
gresses with the pastor leading his forces,
and cheering them with . speech like Rollas
to the Peruvians. The report of the business
meeting last night is, therefore, warlike read
ing.
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wALLACK's THEATRE.
bfoaawAv nnd Thirteenth street.-FhE kOMANLE or A
lUok Young MAJ, al y. NJ closes at ~ 4, 4 NJ Nh
~ il-arf
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VOLUME xt.................................No. 1862
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PARTISAN VARIETIES,
hlNteenth street. Broadway - AkiEFf. A. z T. d.
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THEATRE COMIQUE.
ko. 5i4 Broadway.-yARTETY. Al + p ~
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TRIPLE S HE T. 7.

lev YORK., TUESDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1875.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-06
Family RelIoion.


We beseeeh you, beloved brethren,
make your homes the sanetuaries of God.
Let nothing destroy your family altars.
Bring tho morning and the evening sac
rifiee. Let your children grow up taught
it the work, and familiar with the voice
of prayer and praise. Cultivate hearth
stone religion. Assert your rightful aU-
thOrity as parents to restrain your child
rem from evil ways. Teach them the
fear Of the Lord, which is the beginning
of wisdom Show them the great salts
faction which you yourselves have in the
service of God. Let them see the relig-
ion Of our Lord Jesus Christ on the lips
and in the lives. of those whom they most
love and reverence, in all the beauty OF
holinsss, in all the charm Of a radiant
and hopeful piety, and in all the power
of n joyful and triumphant faith DO
not be content simply with teaching ia
your household the truths of the gospel,
nor, indeed, with the fullest exemplifi
cation in life and conduct of the excel
lency of ChTist's service. EUdngeiize
your children. Bring them to Christ.
Expect not merely that they may grow
up to become Christians, but that they
may now, in their earliest years Of ae-
eOuntability, be Christians Have ID
church in your own house. And if its
living head will embOsOm himself in the
heart ofa child, see that no rebuke comes.
to your lips, that no distrust springs up
in your breast, and that no doubt de-
strOys your faith, but welcome the Holy
Spirit to its most beautiful and Joyous
work, remembering that as the fragrance
of the flower is garnered in the bud, so
the strength and glory of the life is born
of simplicity and purity Of our ehilG-
hoods faith In no way, dear brethren,
can you be such helpers in the gospel for
us, as in the diligent maintenance Of a
practical home piety, bringing up your
children in the nurture and admonitiOn
of the Lord, and showing forth daily IL
works of meekness and piety the doe
trines and principles of the gospel which
we preach. Nor can your reward, in any
other way, be so rich and full; for faIni-
ly piety restores the Eden loveliness, and
is, at once, the promise and the foretaste
Of the new earth and heaven. Pastoral
address IF Central Mem York CoRfeT-
ence.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-06

THE early crops of Colorado, this
year, were taken by the grasshoppers,
and had a dry season followed but poor
returns could have come of the resow-
ing and replanting. According to the
latest reports, however, the eopious
rains, coming at the time when grain and
vegetables were just starting again, have
made the prospects for fall crops better
than for two years past. This is so
throughout Colorado, Wyoming and
New Mexico. The agricultural product
of the former Territory will, it is estimat-
ed by those competent to judge, reach a
valuation of between fonr and five mil
lion dollars, or double the amount of
last year. As the result Of these improv-
ed prospects a very hopeful feeling per
vades all classes of the community.