Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-03-03

5e freed from the reputation of GOuldism,
it will be again.
RELIGIOUS.
The Moody and Sankey meetings are no
more a success in New York Than they
were in Brooklyn. The numbers in atten-
tauce re as great as ever, but the effect
produced is nothing. And the really re-
ligious people Of the city-those who were
instrumental in bringing them here, are
repenting of their bargain. Moody is
coarse sian, though earnest and honest
and his manner and method repel rather
than attract. He has trick Of familiari-
ty when he speaks of the Deity that shocks
the sense of any devout person, and he has
bullying, staggering way with him that
is anything but pleasant. He is very shOI
crusty and dctorial in his dealings with
the clergy, lacking entirely that NEE kness
that is go important an item in the Chris
tian makeup. Sankey's singing is delight
full for time, but like every thing that lacks
the principles of true art, it gets tearfully
tiresome in r. little while. It is lamenta-
BILE fact that ninety-nne hundreds of the
people IN attendance are religious people
the sinners stay carefully away and never
60.
The revivals in other parts Of the city
are more successful. Dwyer and Collier
are preaching IN the slums of Fandum
Street with marked success, for they have
gone where the sinners are, and forced them
to listen to the gospel. Several of the
large churches seeing tha: Moody and
Sankey must fail to produce any effect, are
| arranging for revivals IN tine regular way
! in their own churches, where they can
| work more directly upon the people, and
| where families can be successfully used.
| The winter is gone, but the religious ele-
ment does not despair of making some head
| way vet. At all events they mean TO try
! it.
| BUSINESS.
| During the week has been exceptionally
! dull, and it will doubtless stay So TIL the
spriug opens. The merchants are puzzled
| To know why it is so. One jobber who Is
! doing nothing, showed me letter from a
banker in a western city complaining that
the institution had $500. 600 lying idle and
F, doing no thing, and he said that that was
the case everywhere. SO it can't be the
scarcity of money that makes the dullnes:
of trade The fact is no one has comb
dence III anything, and nothing is beln4
engaged in. New York is no. going to re
cover from the present stagnatlon I'LL con
fdence is restored, and when that will D'
the wisest man can't tell.
THE MARTHA WASHINGTON RECEPTION.
The affair of the 22nd, was, very appro
priately. the reception IN continental dr's
at the Academy of Music, which not 10 s
was to regret for the rest OF the century
il one should live 30 long. Three hundred
ladies and gentlemen of the best circles 10
only of New York, but of the Union, -
/ wore the full dress of the old time, and ;
pretty sight it was. The handsome mel
of The club of the clubs in luxurious court
dress, white satin knee-breecbes with pur
ple and maroon velvet coats, lace ruifle
and buckled shoes, the ladies lOyeher thai
ever in satin petticoats. with brucade over
dress, their heads deliberately built up
with powder and plumes, jewels aud flow
era. The beaux, it is said, found the dres
30 becoming that they put it off with sigi
of regret that they could not wear knee
breeches to show handsome leg, or th
ruffles which set off soft aristocratlc hant
amazingly. There were dresses worn :.
the Academy, which figured at Lad
Washinglon's evenings, eighty years be
fore. and one fortunate lady. it is salC
wore tlounce which was art OF tie mate
less lace ordered for Maria Louisa, by Ma
poleon himself, who was commons seuT
1t was not generally surrnised, however
that the Iiounce in question. was part
the Empress bed-haDging though 1t wa
remarkable fine piece OF Mechllu. Ih
Academy was densely packed, and the re
ception was d signed, FOL fashionable Ne'
York views its gayest festivities with ID
sanction of charity. Twenty thOusan
tickets were sold at five dollars apiece, an
the result was, that hundreds OF holders
tickets on seeing the crowd, went hOm,
without irving to enter, it was worth tn
crush, to see the minute danced by tw
dozen couples, trained tor the occas ion b
: a fashionable Fifth Avenue dancing mas
ter. The elegant movements, the sinking
AZ" rasturings, every turn of which va
y ! lovely, "--- --.-r rnlika the adular fuoli'
:, which pass for dancing nowadays. The
:. the courtly three hundred filed of, throug
: covered way, built across the street I,
the evening, to the tea tables in Irwin
: Hall. where it was the thing To regale one
partner with tea at two doilaas a cup. an
buy the cup and saucer facsimies of Martl
|
lar.
FOREIGN PICTURES.
y To be a successful artist is TO be Il faVo
ite of fortune. The art-mania with OF
. rich collectors, who buy their pictures :
agents, as speculation, is we'll nigh
, extravagant as the tulip mania of the la
century, when fortunes were offered Tor
single bulb Mr.. Stewart lately paid $40
- h,,. .l.,hr H'r..n ~
artist, and very kindly proposed 70 thro
his gallery open to the public, one aiternoo
1. week. Foreign artists are determine
: not to lose good prices for want OF ask NJ
, At the exhibition of water colors now Ope
; the finest efforts of our best artists, me
like Samuel COlman and Swayne Clifford
rarely venture above 500. while son
wonderfully scrawly pictures OF yolul
tuous woman With equally yoluptuo,
couch haugings, in which the artist ha
. | contriyed to make the woman look as lul
urious as the demasks. and the demask
/: somehow, as liceniious as the womai
were sked with the price OF wv apiece
Will cultivated Americans have the juds
Z, | ment TO show these artists that this couI
4 try is not the backdoor by which they al
: to discharge all their artistic rubbish
TOR THE GIRLS.
The bonnets for spring will DC largely
straw, trimmed with velvet, and the SHAPE
J curve protectingly round the head. IT
first impOrtations of dress goods are mer
ly last Falls styles, lighter i'll shade an
: fabric, to suit the changes of March. III
long square overskirts open in the bac
trimmed all round with tiue side pleating
and drawn into easy folds across the tror
by pleats at the side, and held togetht
with large bows behind the seam on tn
! ! new suits. The long polonaise with lon
sides caught together in the back. Is til
. latest and favorIte style, very becoming IN
economical too. For the house, nothir
is so much in style as the gOred dress wit
{ full skirt in the back, aud the least trim
i ming that the fabric demands.
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