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Year: 1874

Governor Hoffman is reported as due in
this city on his return from an extended
foreign tour. He has inspected the Pyra-
mids Of Egypt and puzzled himself over
those heavy riddles with the aid of guide
book. he has contemplated fallen Rome In
what remains of her Colosseum. He has.
indeed, gone over great deal more ground
than old Rip Van Wrinkle did in that famous
ramble which led to his absence for so many
years; and, like Rip, he once more returns to
The scene Of his former activities. There are
some relations which may suggest that his sur
prise VIII likely be as great as Rips was when
he saw that famous picture of gentleman
in q blue coat with brass buttons con-
spicuous on a signboard that once gloried
in the efigy Of His Majesty George III.
There have been great many changes, and
yet, what is different2 Men Of the same type
and style as those he knew are waging the
same political warfare in tho same way, and
animated by the same motives. There are
little differences in the names in some cases
unessential and unimportant variations on the
great theme-but the principles" are in the
same characteristic activity. And no doubt
when he hears from one side and the other
that all the candidates are rogues together,
and observes the small tactics Of chicanery
and vilification and the earnest activity for
spoil that is so universal, he will feel thor
oughly at home and be oppressed with the
comparison between our republican liberty
and tyranny abroad
Year: 1874

We are delighted to find that the manage
ment OF this favorite house have resolved to
present such series of attractions this season
as must command success. New plays will be
produced from the pen Of the foremost living
dramatist and old ones that have won for
themselves the undying affection of the popu-
lar heart will be presented with splendor
and completeness never before witnessed on
the metropolitan stage. But what will give
most satisfaction to the public will be the to-
tai exclusion of the prurient drama which some
speculative managers imported from Paris in
the hope of naturalizing it in America We
are happy to say that the attempt has proved
an utter failure in those theatres that sought
to achieve popularity by pandering to the
coarsest passions. We have had strong proof
that public opinion will not suffer the produc-
ton on the stage in this country of i'm
moral lessons thinly covered over by
sickly sentmentality. Our people want to
be amused, but not at the expense of decency.
Fortunately too, we may depend on the
severe censorship of the press in the absence
of any governmental control of the stage.
How powerful that censorship may be made
for good we have seen in the withdrawal of
the ''Timbale d'Argent," under the protest
of the press. Other pieces, still more un-
healthy in their moral tone, have been i'm
ported but, instead of the splendid success
anticipated by the hawkers of the depraved
doors with disgust 1t is true these enter
prising showmen threaten us with further ex-
hibitions of the vile stuff, but they are likely
to find difficulty in disposing of their wares
which will bring its own punishment. We
turn from the contemplation of this unpleas-
ant subject to the consideration of the sound,
healthy food provided by the Wallack man
ayers for their patrons with q feeling
Of relief. Partners for Life" one of
II. j. Byron's best efforts, opened the
season last night. 1t is o charming comedy,
without one Objectionable line A play
withal not wanting in interest. 1t will be fol-
lowed by new Irish drama by Dion Bouci-
cault, which will give pictures Of Irish life
differing widely from those with which the
stage has familiarzed the public. The
scenes too, will be laid in one of the most
ron nantic spots in Ireland, giving full scope
for the introduction of scenic effects. Two
plays ore promised from by the same dramatist
for MIR. Lester Wallack, in which characters
specially drawn to suit the peculiarities of
that favorite comedian will be introduced. In
addition the ''School for Scandal will bo
produced with a completeness and splendor
not hitherto witnessed on this side of the
water. Not alone have the settings been de-
signed with magnifcence, but the cast will be
one IF the strongest on record. With such
bright promise does Wallack's begin the
season that we feel justified in prophesying
for this house splendid success.
Year: 1874

When the brief season Of watering place
gains Its accustomed appearance OF hustle and
gayety those lovely autumn days can nowhere
be enjoyed with such keen zest as at the
charming park devoted to equine contests and
embosomed amid the hills of Westchester
The fall meeting of the American Jockey Club
comes opportunely for those who are fresh
from the mountains or the seaside, and who
do not desire to be enclosed at once within the
murky atmosphere Of the great city
without o parting visit to the coun-
try. Nature is now clothed in her
choicest raiment, and drive through Central
Park and across the hills beyond Harlem
River reveals scenes Of beauty that the eye
can long linger on with delight. Then there
is tho gay scene on the road and at the course
itself-beauty. fashion and exciting sport-un-
marred by single Objectionable feature. The
smallness of the attendance on the opening
day of the meeting was to be regretted on &C
count of the positive attractions of
the occasion, and it is to be
hoped that the splendid programme
offered for to-day, comprising six races, will
induce more people to leave the dust of the
city and breathe for a day the pure brac-
ing air Of the road and Park. The first race
will be for five hundred dollar purse, the
distance being one mile the second for the
Hunter Stakes, one mile and three quarters;
the third for the Maturity Stakes, three miles,
the fourth for another purse five furlongs;
the fifth for third purse one mile and halt,
and the sixth will be q handicap steeplechase
The management of the meeting should not
have the race days SO far apart Spreading a
meeting at Jerome Park over two or three
weeks is calculated to cause dissatisfaction. In
the early seasons of the course the arrange
ments we're different, and one gala week sufficed
for meeting. There is no sufficient reason
why the same plan should not be followed
to-day One grand race week would be more
successful in attracting large attendance
each day than the present system can ever
hope to attain. This may afford cew to the
scanty attendance on the opening day of the
present meeting.
Year: 1874

The recent elections in France decide two
questions that there is an irrepar-
able breach between the two branches of the
House Of Bonaparte, and that the feeling Of
France is true to the idea of a republic.


We should think that the Bonapartists
would naturally husband their strength and
win the throne before quarrelling about i'm
perial honors and precedence A party whose
chief is pretender to power would
naturally attain power before the leader deci-
mated his following. But Prince Napo-
leon has labored for the disruption
Of the family since the death of his cousin
the Emperor. 1t became necessary for the
followers of the Prince Imperial to decide be-
tween the heir to the throne and his cousin.
They made the issue in Ajaccio, the homo of
the great Napoleon, where Napoleonism is not
merely principle but religion. The result
is that the Prince has been defeated and an
other Bonaparte more loyal to the Prince In
perlal has been elected. There are now two
factions in the Bonaparte family, just as there
have been two factions in the Bourbon family
since the time of Louis Philippe.


This alienation must aid the Republic.
Prince Napoleon will act with the republicans
as far as they will allow him. In the meapr
time the republicans, in spite of the opposi-
ton of MacMahon and the Assembly, have
been largely successful in the elections. We
cannot commend too highly the wisdom, the
patience, the steady, silent, orderly discipline
of this party, especially since the advent Of
Gambetta to it's leadership. His polite good
sense is the highest form Of genius, and
in the end it must win. If MacMahon
were wise he would read events
at their true meaning, place himself at the
head of the republican movement and found
permanent conservative republic. In doing
this he would become the Washington OF
France and win title to Immortality more
enduring because more patriotic and self
denying than that Of Napoleon.
Year: 1874

The arrest of Count Henry Won Arnim in
Berlin is on event of 80 startling character
that without further information we shall not
presume to explain it. Minister Bancroft,
editor Medill and other learned American
travellers, have been telling us SO much about
the freedom" Of Germany, the respect for
personal rights, the resemblance of the new
Empire to the United States, the liberty, en-
ightenment and progress that have come with
the new dispensation, that it is hard to COM
prehend this sudden arrest Of great noble
man and diplomatist and his imprisonment in
o Berlin police station like common thief,
simply because of q political quarrel with
Prince Bismarck. Count Henry Won Arnim
is one of the prominent statesmen of Ger
many. He signed the treaty with France
at the close of the war. He was
Minister to France in time of
peculiar embarrassment, md he showed
the utmost loyalty and delicacy of feeling in
that mission. But he quarrelled with Bis
marck, who disgraced him. He now proposes
to vindicate himself in a publication, and
Bismarck suddenly arrests him, seizes his
papers and locks him up in q police station.
All of this is extraordinary, and we wish
Minister Bancroft, editor Mediu or some of
the eulogists of the new Empire would explain
it We can understand how statesman Like
Bismarck would, to use on American phrase.
'shave no nonsense from his foes. But what
shall we say of the freedom Of country
which enables any minister, no matter how
powerful, to send rival minister to
police station like common felon?
When Voltaire left Berlin with copy of
Frederick's poems which he meant to print,
that great King had him arrested at Frank
fort, and kept him under duress until he re-
turned the volume. But this was done by an
absolute King, at time when kings were alb
solute, and, Notwithstanding, it made great
scandal. The arrest of Won Arnim, pro-
ceeding no less arbitrary than the arrest of
Voltaire, takes place under q free empire
"much resembling the United States in it's
laws and customs


We are afraid freedom and personal rights
in Germany means-when it suits the interest
or the pleasure Of Bismarck. In any aspect
of the case the arrest Of Won Arnim is 80
hgh-handed o proceeding that it must do
Germany great harm in the public opinion of
other nations.
Year: 1874

The GLENDENNING case will come to q trial
to-day before the authorities of the Church of
which Glendenning is a minister The ses-
sion will be secret, we are informed. This
will be blunder. This extraordinary case
is one that requires the utmost publicity and
for the sake Of no one so much as
that of Glendenning himself. If he is
innocent he cannot have too speedy q
deliverance. As it is Christianity is now suffer-
ing from the moral epidemic that seems to
pervade the ministry. More souls are led into
doubt, despair and ultimate wrongdoing by
the Glendenning and Beecher scandals than,by
all,the other evil influences of Satan combined.
Would it not be well for our pastors to think
of these solemn facts?
Year: 1874

LOUISIANA Conservative Committee in
Louisiana have issued an address, the purport
of which is that all conservative people should
take hold and vote and endeavor to overturn
the Kellogg government The address is o
little bit wild and declamatory, and is too
feverish in its tone to be accepted
as calm statement Of the condi-
ton of affairs in Louisiana. But some
thing can be pardoned to the spirit
of resistance, especially to government
like that of Kellogg. We trust the con-
servative men will accept the advice Of the
committee. There will be fair hearing for
Louisiana when Congress meets. The public
opinion of the North is too earnest on this
subject to permit any more injustice to the
people of this and other suffering Southern
Commonwealths There is more potent in
fuence at work than Kelloggs checkbook.
Year: 1874

The UNITED STATES CONGRESS of the
Episcopal Church assembled yesterday. Rev.
DR.. vinton in his address called attention to
the missionary work necessary for the ad-
vancement of the cause of Christ-a point
upon which the reverend divine dwelt with
special emphasis DR.. Smith read paper
on o church question which led to an interest
ing debate. Bishop Whipple said the true
point before the Church was "What are we
going to do with the millions of souls that are
to be saved?" There could be no graver
question than this, and our reverend friends
cannot too earnestly discuss it.
Year: 1874

THE MINERS RIoT at Moosic, Pa, is likely
to be resumed to-day with redoubled fury.
The absurdity and positive danger of preju-
here shown in its worst light When Irish
men and Welshmen fall out because they
were not born on the same side of the Irish
Sea little sympathy, but a great deal of stern
chastisement, should be extended to them.
Year: 1874

WE HAVE THE SADDEsT KIND OF NEWS FROM
BUENos AYnEs.-The insurrection makes head
way and all useful government seems to have
come to an end. II would be blessing to,see
such man as old Franoia governing this
country.
Year: 1874

YACHTING is especially enjoyable in this
lovely month, when a bracing breeze swells
the sails and lends bloom to the cheeks.
The race between the schooner yachts, Clio
and Meta, Of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, an
account of which will be found in another
column, resulted in the triumph of the former
boat.
Year: 1874

We LEARN FROM INDIA that the famine is
virtually at on end and the blessed rain is
falling. At the same time six hundred thou
sand natives are employed on the government
relief works So happily passes away what
threatened to be the most appalling calamity
of modern times.
Year: 1874

IT Would be very odd if the ambition of
Grant for third term should be the mill
stone around the neck OF Centennial Dix.
Henry Wilson feared as mucA the other day
when conversing with . reporter, and Henry
Wilson should know.
Year: 1874

WE LEARN that extensive preparations are
making by many prominent Methodist clergy
men for general revival and awakening of
the spirit The members OF this powerful
and noble Christian body are always earnest
and advanced in their missionary zeal. They
have taken the note of warning and are
making ready.
Year: 1874

So FAR as the third term is concerned
General Grant may feel that he owes the re-
publican party nothing, and that he is under
no obligation to make any sacrifices in its in
terest If the republican party bad not taken
him up he would have been the success
full candidate of the democracy. From this
point of view Grant may be right
Year: 1874

We SHOULD LIKE to see revival among
the Protestant clergy. The Pope seems to be
laying his plans for o grand campaign in Eng
land and America, and unless our Protestant
friends cleanse out the pending scandals and
purify their churches strange results may hap
pen. Let the Episcopal Convention think of
tbia
Year: 1874

The CIoARMAKERs are very indignant about
the filthy tenements in which many Of their
craft live and decay, and call upon the health
authorities to suppress them. Perhaps that
accounts for the queer flavor of some of their
cigars
Year: 1874

casionally, it will be found a conven-
ience in hot weather. On the shelves
may be kept constantly on hand, balls
of butter, cold and hard, ready for the
table the cream jug, custards. lemon
pies, blanc mango, jellies.; any such
delicacy or luxury may be brought
from the shelves, icy cold. An ice box,
so arranged, is not only great conven-
ience, but is matter Of economy. One
fifth the usual amount of ice will be of
more benefit to family than the usual
amount used in the ordinary way; and
no housekeeper who has once tested this
CONVENIENCE would ever be willing to do
without it through the hot season.


After the box is finished it should be
painted and set where the cover, when
lifted up, can rest back ON a brace or
frame, as it is heavy, and would easily
break from the hinges. A cellar is a
good place for the ice boz, but it may
be kept in the pantry, store room. or
wood shed, as it is most convenient.
Year: 1874

1t seems to me that I read all kinds
Of cures for ivy poison except the right
one. l have always endeawored to
keep it before the public, but have
failed. 1t is to dissolve sugar Of lead,
bit the size of hazelnut, in half a
teacur of sweet milk or warm water.
Apply rs warm as can be easily borne
with soft, hnty piece Of linen rag.
Three tr four applications are sufficient
to effect cure. If the poison is on the
face and nearing the eyes or mouth,
this astringent wash may be constantly
applied.


1t is marvellous cure, and by watch.
ing closely one can see the fevered blis-
ters turn from white to yellow during
the application. This remedy for ivy
poison should prevent great deal Of
suffering. 1t is well where member
Of family is easily poisoned to keep
sugar of lead in the house all the time.
Let it be labeled and kept where it can
be found the moment it is wanted.
Keep it well wrapped up that it may
not lose its strength.-Cor. Ohio
Former.
Year: 1874

Sam. Wilcoxen has a small menagerie
of monkeys, badgers, foxes, and the
like. He also has large Newfoundland
dog, on whose back he sometimes places
one Of his pet monkeys when he is GO
ing for walk about the town-the
monkey fastened to the collar of the
dog by string. As a general thing
the monkey enjoys his ride; but we saw
him o day or TWO ago when he would
willingly have traded himself off for
some less privileged specimen of his
species. His canine steed, being al
lowed to roam the streets at will,
saw another dog that he thought he
could whip, and forthwith went for
him like hairy hurricane. In mo-
ment both dogs were on their hind legs,
and going for each other like two sau-
sage-machines. This made times very
lively for the monkey, as the stranger
dog evidently considered him as part
and parcel of his antagonist. Such
walls of despair as that monkey uttered,
and such hideous faces as he made. we
never heard or saw. He would climb
down the side Of the dog he bestrode
opposite to whore the war was going on,
and thence peep over occasionally
his jaws quivering, his visage dis.
torted, and his eyes starting from their
sockets with terror. AS the dogs were
constantly changing sises,it made times
awfully lively with the monkey!
When he jumped to the ground the
string held him, and he found himself
trampled under the feet of both friend
and foe-and he was glad to get again
upon the back of the steed and face the
battle. The poor monkey was in
worse fix than the boy who stood on the
burning deck, and, had not the dogs
been separated, he must soon have been
rendered fit subject for the insane
asylum. AS it was, he did not get
over examining the end of his tail for
wounds for four hours after the battle.
Perhaps he had fears Of hydrophobia!
Year: 1874

1t is not often that a man wins emil
nence in two distinct fields of litera-
ture. Sir Walter Scott, who became
the first of novelists long after he had
been recognized as one of the first of
poets, is the most prominent instance
in English literature of an author who
gained "double first ;" and the late
Jules Michelet, the historian and social
essayist, affords the only Instance
among recent French authors of a par
allel success. Michelet for the first fifty
years of his life was wholly devoted to
the study of history. His lectures were
alike distinguished for their learning
and brilliancy, and his historical works
have gained a permanent place in French
literature. But when at the age of fifty
three the Government forbade him to
lecture, he abandoned history and made
for himself new reputation by the Gu
rious essays, half scientific, half roman
tic, by which he is best known in this
country. The publication of 'L Amour"
was greeted with as much surprise as
though it had been the first work of a
new author. There was nothing in
common between it and the previous
works of Michelet. The grave dignity
and calm marshalling of facts which
had been the leading characteristics of
the author of 1.-The History of France"
were here succeeded by Keen analysis
of emotion and poetic beauty of style
that no professional romance writer has
surpassed. 'L'Amour' and La Femme
were not books which an Englishman
would have ventured to write, but, in
spite of their fearless handling of deli
cate topics, they were eminently pure
and wholesome. Women the world over
owe Mlchelet debt of gratitude for his
efforts to secure for them the true re-
spect and appreciation of the other sex.
The charm OF the authors style would
alone have made his later writings pop
ular, but they also gained the admira-
ton and gratitude of all noble natures
by the loftiness and purity of their aim.


The great author had reached the age
of seventy six at the time of his death.
During that long and busy life there is
no act of the man or sentence of the
author which needs apology. He was
always the friend of liberty, morality,
and truth and there have been few
Frenchmen of the present century
whose death has been 50 great loss to
literature as that of Michelet, the his
torian and the essayisr.
Year: 1874

We clip from an old paper the follow
ing account of trial for breach of
promise of marriage, in which the iudge
laid down a new doctrine, which We
should not be sorry to see adopted


A case was recently tried in Rutland,
Vermont, in which a Miss Munson re-
covered 81, ,425 of Mr.. Hastings for q
breach of marriage contract. The curl
osity of the thing is this the Vermont
Judge charged the jury that no explicit
promise was necessary to bind the par


ties to a marriage contract, but that
long continued attentions or intimacy
with female was as good evidence of
intended matrimony as a special con-
tract. The principle of the case un-
doubtedly is, that if Hastings did not
promise, he ought to have done so-the
law holds him responsible for the non
performance of his duty. A most ex-
cellent decision; most righteous
Judge, compared with whom Daniel
would appear but common squire
We have no idea Of young fellows dang
ling about after girls for year or two,
and then going off, leaving their sweet
hearts half courted ; We hate this ever
lasting nibble and never q bite, this
beating the bush and never starting the
game it is one of the crying sins of the
age. There is not one girl IN twenty
can tell whether she is courted or not.
No wonder that when Betty Shippers
cousin asked if Billy Doubtful courted
her, she replied, 81 don't know exactly
he's a sorter courtin' and sorter not
courtin'." We have no doubt that this
Hastings is one of these "sOrter not
courtin' felloS Us, and most heartily do
we rejoice that the judge has brought
him to book with 81, As verdict. The
Judge says that long-continued atten-
tons or intimacy is just as good as a
regular promise. Now. We do not know
what would pass for intimacy accord


ing to the laws of Vermont, but sup
posing attentions to consist of visiting
a girl twice a week, and estimating the
time wasted by Miss Munson at each
visit to be worth a dollar (Which is too
cheap Mr.. Hastings has been making
a fool of himself fourteen years and
some odd weeks. This decision makes
a new era in the law of love, and We
make no doubt will tend to the promo
tion of matrimony and morality"