The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08

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Out Of Fashion.
Special Correspondence Of the Star.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 1875.
"New Years" in New York means a
great deal, and keeps it up for week.
AS the week from Christmas may be
called the grand .blow out" of the year,
so the woek from January LIST is the great
opening or blowing in. II we could only
have the national anniversary and the
annual moving day also occur on the first
of January, it would leave little to be de-
sired. AS it is, We content ourselves
with two days of complimentary calls,
tone male and one female," Gas the new
ly married swain said when he asked for
his passage tickets), an annual balance
sheet in hundred thousand counting
houses, more or less, the reorganization
of the city and State governments, the
meeting Of their respective legislatures,
the voluminous messages of their re-
spective chief magistrates (chiefesT of
chief magistrates, tor "yarn," are Tilden
Il Wickham, Of this New Years and
THE WEEK OF PRAYER.
To begin here and go backward: The
last named observance has naturally
shifted from its pristine position as
great combined effort OF devotion by the
Christian World as such; and though
unchanged in theory and form, tends to
become in practice what the same peri
odic season Is in secular affairs-the
starting point of the religious year,
which, unfortunately, is not a year by
any means, but three or four months
season. So many great reyivals have
dated their inception to the Week Of
Prayer that it is becoming too much the
custom to look for little and attempt lit
tie Until the signal is given by the Evan
gelical Alliance for long pull, a strong
pull, and pull all together. Some think
tnat for this reason the date Of the week
ought to be set back to the first of No
vember. But then the holidays would
come in to mar matters, and it is the gen.
eral feeling in Church as IN Congress,
that not much can be done until alter the
holidays.
Yesterday, therefore, the annual new
departure began, in the natural way Of
all business, with a sort Of taking ao-
count OF stock in the form of general
thanksgiving Tor mercies on hand, pre-
paratory to asking for more. Daily union
services are kept up in churches central
to large districts of this city and Brook
lyn. Quite number OF churches, espe-
ciaily of the Methodist denomination,
are strong enough in fervid purpose TO
sustain independent daily meetings.
Brooklyn-and tor that matter meas
urably the whole Christian public-is
this year very unfortunate in having a
large proportion of the Swearer's Prayer
Mixed into the .'Week." The excitement
over the tournament of the Titans' al
ready runs high, and will be hot before
the week is out, with hard swearing on
the crescendo to pitch more terrible
than our army in Flanders ever dreamed
of.
Yesterday and today they are fighting
for the Judge. The two junior Judges of
the Court McCue and Reynolds have
been well understood to stand In posi-
ton of presumable bias; the latter Tor
TiIton and the lormer for Beecher; while
the presiding Judge, Nelson, has been
regarded as in perfectly impartial po-
siLiOn, as well as uncOmmonly respected
tor judicial ability and character. For
these reasons it was some time ago ar
ranged between the Judges aud counsel
that Judge Nelson should try the case.
Mr.. Beecher has judicious friends as
well as other men, only you don't hear
from them, and they were freshly cha
grined and discouraged by Shearman's
and Tracy's snap move and sharp strug-
gle to get the case on before Judge Nc
Cue before the time arranged, SO as
to secure for the trial OF the case the
Judge whose decision favorable to
their tactics had just been overruled by
the majority of the Court. AS in each OF
Mr. Sherman's previous sharp strategic
movements, he took nothing by his mo-
tion except the odium OF it. Never,
surely, was man SO cruelty handled by
his friends.
But the war of the Titans is to be q
grand affair, whoever is hurt, and when
the great oaks and r0ck-rooted bills be-
gin to fly, shall be there to see. The
plaintiff leads the Tiit-on with sharp
lance of Beech; though some offer to bet
lie will find the fibre of the defendant
Beecher. The Shear-man draws blood at
| every clp-but whose? There is q
mighty Porter on hand with plenty of up
Hill work to do. Fullerton is no joke
! anyway that / can see. And while the
| attack VIII have the Pryor argument,
then it will be finally refuted by the
most consummate forensic Evarts' effort
put forth in a court OF justice.
10 return to our moutons, t0-wlt: The
Democratic lambs just returning to the
| fol DIS and pastures of the municipal gov
ernment. The true old lNng is clear
| enough in the long and Well written
message of Mayor Wickham. The new
BOSS ulSplayS lHe LaCtlcS Oh Lne Olus Oh
| which his popularity or that Of any other
| Democratic Boss in a city like this must
depend. Not in vain was the augury OF
the May exploring tour of
the suspended extravagances in city
| ''improyement," projected and begun
under former not SO very fragrant reg
ime; nor that of the prompt appointment
of Mr.. Martin, the great Improvement
Man-perhaps the coming Haussmann of
the American Paris-as Commissioner
of Public Works.
| Now, am no party man nor carping
critic OF our virtu0us rulers, and shall
make no insinuations on the Mayors i'm
mediate and eager resumption of the
Tweed improvement policy. have not
intimated that magnificent regime of
Expenditure can be intended only lor that
other magnificent purpose to which it
was appned by the 1ormer Boss. l
might have said that both Kelly and
Friday are Wiser in their generation than
the children Of reform could be without
becoming children OF the Other Person
age. But didn't say, did 4, that one of
them was an "uniust steward" or the
other representative city "creditor'-
such as WicKham is emphaticalIy in IA
vor of treating tairly-whO may expect