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the Evening news JOSS H. EOIJ.TDAY. Paontirroa. 15, 13." at aitosoos, at lour o'clock, at the cSce, sou the corasr of Meridian and Circle streets, STESCHIPTI0X3: Babscrtbers Krred carriers injwy part of the tit at Ten CeaU per week. 8utcrrbers served by mail, one coir one a -1 60 One eopy lor three 2S One oopy for oa6 year oo THE WEEKtT XEWA Is a handsoxae eight-column folio, published every Wednesday.

Price, tl 00 per year. Specimen-copies tent free on application. No ADTnmmnerrf ctimou szutobxax iut- TELEO HAfll SEWS. I Sir Harh Allan, of Canada, is in Washing ion witn iiu lanuiy. The Paijy Globe, A Atchison, Kansas, has gone into Bankruptcy.

A complete reconciliation has been effect between "Catelar and Sal mtrori. Udderzook. the Westchester, Pennsylvania, murderer, was refund a new trial Saturday, and sentenced to be bung, A ereat deal of destruction was caused by the late rains in Pennsylvania and in the vicinity of Wheeling, Weht Virginia. Ii ia ascertained that R. J.

Grier. the misv ine cashier of' the National Trust Company of Philadelphia, is on his way to William Mage was found dead in bed at Kcuinville. Ontario, on Ihurvlay, and his wife has been on a charge of killing liiin. At elect ions for members the Assembly for three departments of France, yesterday one lladical and two Kepuuncaiis were elected. The Bonder family' the noted Kansas mur Vrer.

hare lieeii arrested. Thv were liv ing at RnartansbiiriT. Carolina, under (lie name of Wrbb. A Prof: Acassiz's condition i worse, and hK i'iwprv r-misidered imiHMhle. pitch to tlmt effect has been to hb daughter in Brooklyn.

Another long petition to '-ngn will fivcroin thousand signatures tor legislation on behalf of Ctatf, is to l.c ent to Wa-liing ton from Salt Ikc'City. The St. Loui ill r-i usurp Life Insurance ompain iMjIiciH'-in tin Mound City Mutual. James It. Ends will le President of the Mound CJtv Mutual At Pittsburg.

Saturday. erxoiis wim had been convicted of unlawfully selling nilr.m.1 ti Let were sentenced to fay the tostsof the prosecution and a line of $l'0 -Michael killed Ins son, was miivirtml of nianslaorhter in the third de- greo in New York on Saturday, and sentenced to eighteen months in State Prison. (Jeneral IWninijuer has assumed command tt fnreis lwsoiirini Cartmretia. tui f'ri- liv there was enteral review of all the troops, ttnd.the bombardment waVteiujvora-rily suspended. AV Adams press Hgnnt at Franklin, was robbed of anl had bin Mkull crushed.

Thursday night. Three men. nuoposed to be concerned in the rob bery, have been arrested; Caw of, Good Hoik? advices to the 17th of Iovnibct reioft that near Natal a band of natives, led by th-ir chief, are committing I many excesses, aud the government has volunteers againjt tiiem.j I Prominent Senators say that Mr. llichard Kon's bill Ui increase the tax, can not pass in any form before the holidays. The proposi tions to tax tea and coflee are looKed upon favorably by Congitessmen.

TJhc Isabella 'da Catolica has returned to Havana' from convoying the Virginius to Bahia Honda. The Simnish steamer liazan has taken the survivors of the irginius to the same nort, to be delivered to the United At Carbondale, lfinois, Saturday evening, J. W. McDonald, proprietor of the Planters' House, shot and instantly killed a guest named James M. -Brush.

The aflairgrew out tt the npilling wf ink ou the hotel register ly tnc guest. Thirty-tive IKiubcratic members met in cau us "at Sacramento Satunlay night, but made no nomination for Senators. IVmixrats atthe capital express the opinion that Booth will be elected Tuesday on the first toll call of each House. Samuel Hildreth, Gt years of age, murdered his room-mate, (JIohind, aged 72, at Westford. Massachnsetts, ioor house, ou Saturday.

He then-vut his throat with a razor, and ill probably die. The old nien had been intimate ft iends for a long time. Cape of Good Hope advices to the 17th of November, report that near Natal a band of natives, led by their chief, are committing iaany excesses, aud the Government has sent volunteers against them. A sou of the Colonial Secretary was killed in a late skirmish. The late" Sethr-Adams, of Boston, left an UntAt valued at JL700.000, and Provided in 'his will for the establishnienfnear Boston of a home for the treatment and tion of those afflicted with hypochondria, froui which malady" Adams suffered for -many years.

The Rev. Father Duggan, of Sun Francisco, hose declarations about apostacy from the Catholic faith caused auch a sensation there; and who advertised a lecture exposing Catholicism, failed to -He has written an abject letter to the Archbishop, acknowledging, his faults, and praying to be taken back into the fold. It is stated that D. A Gage, City Treastf of Chicago, is shorj in his accounts with the citv to an amount which will reach lv $100,000. A portion of this amount is locked up in the suspended Secoud National and Manufacturers National Banks.

It is said that Gage will be able fo secure the. city frfru any ultimate loss. James" Colli ns, a farmer, was called from his bed at his residene, sixteen miles above Little Rock. Saturday morning, and as he appeared at the door shot down and killed bv some unknown ierson. lSuspcion -tested upon George Fiedger, a jfojing man who worked on the farm, and he was arrested, pending an A special from Berlin says the commander of one of theGerpian vessels seized by the Spanish man-of-was, in Zooloo Archipelago, andV carried to Manilla, writes home that himvir nd erewwere sent to prison, and kept there two months, receiving very harsh tMilnont at the hands of the fcpanisb.

offi cials. The dispatch says that the public feeling in Jermany is much excited over the seizure of the vessels, and the fullest satis-' facpkjrx for the insult jto the German fiag rs demanded. tm rrimner's iurv iu the Cronenbold- Boettecher munlercase rendered a verdict toJ IWUu u. 1 The etlecl tna r. iiyHw-y techer bv shooung him, and that Charles Cronenbla was an accassory to thcnme.

It was also in evidence that I XI eber xinred Cronenbold to commit thie deed. Coroner Yoerster swore out a warrant charging B. F. Cronenbold with murder in the nm decree and Charles Cronenbold and F. W.

Weber as accessories. All the parties wan arrtitsi aadcommitud to JaiL The meeting called for Saturday evening in the hall of the House of RepresentataTes at asniDgton, to compare views on tnesuo-iect of rawd and chean transportation, was presided over by Representative DunnelL of Kepresentatives Clements, oi Illinois, and Stone, of Missouri, were chosen secretaries. or sixty Representatives, were present, also Senators Alcorn and Stevenson. Nothing was done beyond speech-making, and an adjournment was had for three weexs. Fcnr and notaoie deaths from na tural causes occurred Saturday.

ExrJudge Samuel Nelson, of the Lmted States Su- rreme Court, died in his chair at his late residence at Cooierstown; Major Robert A. Kenzie; Payma-ter attached to the taU" of Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, died of Leart disea-V at his residence in Chicairo; Isaac Fxkert, a leidiug iron master and influential citizen of Reading. Pennsylvania, fell dead from lion.

P. Thomas, Judge of the layette County Court, fell dead sud denly from congestion of the lungs, at Lex ington. Kentucky. At 4 o'clock last evening a locomotive drawing a baggage car three coaches niied with passengers, pulled out or tne de pot at Columbus in apparently good condition, but when opposite the round house about five hundred vards from the depot, and between two freight trains, the engine boiler exploded with terrible force, instantly killing the engineer, and throwing the hreman several hundred leet intotne freight yard, injuring him but slightly. ii nineer of "the vard eneine attached fo the "freight train, and Fletcher Bates, a Hreman, were also considerably in jured.

The engine was blown to pieces, some the heavy pieces ting thrown nve nun- lred ards distant. Two freight cars were torn to pieces, but the conductor and baggage inAsttr. seated in tne Dagpage car, were noi iniured. The caue of the accident is un known. The consecration of Bishop Cheney took lace at Chicago vesterdav.

In addition to iishop Cummins, the following Presbytery of the Episcopal Church were in attendance and participated in the services: the Key. Marshall Mmth and Kev. Masn tiallagher, New Jersey; the Rev. II. B.

Seacock, of New York City; the Rev. W. V. Felt West Farms, New York; the Kev. Charles H.

Tucker, of S. George's Chael. Chicago. The services were iti accordance with a formula arranged by the Couneilof the Reformed Episcopal Church, recently held in ew York, and which differs in some particulars from the consecration nerviee of the Protestant Episcoial Cliurrh." as when, after the reading of testimonials in behalf of the Bishop elect. the lorinel ser ice says there shall be said" the litany, save only after the place "tliat it may please Thee to illuminate all lSisliops, etr.

li'ermon ot l5inoi uniiiiins was based on the third and fourth verses of the -ii secoiiM r.pi-iv. oi i eier. ii eai- iit ol i iow-; iirl'l by tile ad herents i ii I In' Ki'lormcil i hiirch. if the iit 1 1 and i hara iTof the Episcopal tt'n and of the "power and authority i-on- terred bv ordination to me nmnistry anu to the pi'-ropaev. In the fd-Flu of con- secrating a iimik in ine ieioriueu hurch iiriead of tin wmiN "receive the Holy Gho--t for the othce, and work a Bishop in the fl'uirch of Cod." Bishop Cum- nuns uv-il Hie won in- taite tnou ine auinori-tv to execute the ollice amMvork of a Bishop the Church of God." The Bishop ex plained that the 'Reformed Church rejected the words "receive the Holy Ghost, because they are not sustained by the teach ing ot I od holy woras on tins poini.

lie quoted learned hpiscopai authorities to jiow that down to the iweiiui century tne lorm of words -alluded lo never e.istel in any rdination services. The main points uie Bishop's seiinon were: hirst, that no jxwer ihu Jiuii oi me noiy unosi can make an embassador of Christ. Second, The election of Ins fellow Christians f1 one of their number to be their teacher. ruler, shepherd and guide in spiritual things, is conferring on the chosen one the right to the is their acknowledgement of a all from God to this great work. Third.

The ordiuatiuii or laving on of hands with 1.1 1 A. prayer on the one chosen ny tne people to the "office weak of the ministry is the solemn ratification and continuation by those in authority of the act of the church, and in the minister an outward sign and seal of his ad-' ministration to omce. fourth, uruination does not, as the Church of Rome teaches, elevating it against the testimony of the holy scriptures into a sacrament, confer spiritual gifts or vow ers. These come from God alone. About lour minured worKingmen mei ai Arbeiter Hall, Cincinnati, Saturday night, and passed resolutions that any government should be overthrown that failed to furnish employment to the poor, and adopted the New York resolutions, modifying the demand for work and the remission -of rents till next April.

The proceedings were chiefly in German, and most of the assembly were Germans. A report of the -meeting represents Carl Rossa. a young man from (Austria, as saying, that an appeal to arms would have to be made, winch was cneereu, aim tne cam-mittee on Sundav organizing for all uneni- lovcd workingmen to meet in Fountain Square at nine clock tins morning, and march en masse to Mayor Johnson and de mand work. The virgintus-is safely awaiting 8Ur render to our authorities at Bahia Honda. Cincinnati at last sees a 6tep taken 'to ward the buildinc of the long talked of Southern railroad.

TitE indications of returning confidence and growing trade, are becoming cheerful apparent in the larger cities. Tue; report comes that the notorious Bender family have been arrested in an obscure villajre in South Carolina. Should this prove true it adds another notable in stance to prove that it is almost impossible or a known criminal to escape the clutches of the law in this ceuntry. The Rev. Charles Edward Cheney, of Chicago, was yesterday consecrated as Bishop of the new Reformed Episcopal Church.

It was certainly a strange spectacle. A man ho had been degraded rom Uie priesthood according to the rules of his church, and who had no status in it, consecrated as a Bishop, by anpther Bishop who but lately belonged tofthe church which sanctioned his expulsion. Is that portion of the city charter pre scribing the qualification of members ia thedollo wing section: "Xo person shall hold the office of Coun cilman unless he is a resident ef the ward from which he is elected; and in case of the removal of any Councilman from the ward from which he was elected, the Common fWinril shall have rower to declare the office vacant, and order a special election to fill such vacancy. This is particularly recommended to the careful consideration of Mr. David Gibson, who was elected from the Fourth Ward and subsequently removed into the Third, and who still retains a seat in the Council Some colored men held a convention in Washington last week called the "National Civil Rights Convention," proceedings of which do not seem rto have been' of audi interest, or they would hits bees reported more folly.

A brief dispatch tins morning indicates that they adopted an address, inj which is the following: They take it for granted that action wilj be had by Congress for. protecting them from invidjious in the enjoyment of privileges of common carriers, ho-' tela and other public places of convenience and refreshment, in places of amusementj afad enjoying all other civil rights, includ ihg entrance to public schools without regard to race, and they want the denial of these rights punished. If these colored gentlemen rely very strongly upon Congress to do all this, it may save them some disappointment to inform them that they are leaning upon a broken reed. Congress will be very clear of doing anything of the kind. No tender hearted congressman need labor for the restoration of the franking privilege under cover of benefitting the newspapers, and promoting- the cause of education.

A newspaper is a business enterprise and should have' no privileges from the government which other business enterprises do not have. A very large majority of the newspapers are well satisfied with the present arrangement of paying postage on exchanges, and among those which have a legitimate business of their own we find no advocates for governmental assistance. The incapablesiand the lazy in journalism, and the men who look to politics and rings for their living are the gentlemen who are anxious for a removal of "the incumbrance." The talk of education is all bosh. Xhe m11 w'ho will not pay twenty cents postage per year for his county paper i3 beyond the reach of education. No intelligent man will permit that pittance to deprive him of his newspaper.

Piobablv very few persons are aware that next to New York, Montreal is visited by more ocean steamers than any other port on the continent. The Daily Bulletin of New York is alarmed at the increasing rivalry of this Canadian'; city, and calls attention to these facts: Three lines of steamers, including thirty-eight ships, sail between Montreal and England, and to a great extent they are owned in Canada. Although these steamers sail from Portland in the winter, their freight goes to Montreal, and that city' receives the benefit of the trade. Not satis-tied with this, the Canadians are increasing the facilities of communication between Montreal and the West, and are proposing to. establish a line of swift steamers between St.

John and Valentia, hich will make the passage across the ocean in one hundred hours. The Bulletin insists that New York must take some active measures to maintain its supremacy, but it does not intimate that this could be done by legislation which would make it profitable for Americans to own ships for themselves, and not permit Europe to hold our carying trade at an expense of eighty millions a year. The Sentinel of yesterday contains more than a column About The News and its course in reference to the recent charges againstjthe Home for the Friendless. iAs the cuttle-fish when attacked exudes an inky liquid to discolor the water and per mit it to escape, so the Sentinel emits a multitude of words to cover its chagrin in being so signally defeated in a very bad cause, ut its mam cnarge, lurtively although no less directly made, that the Home is a place where crime is concealed and abetted, and whose managers for a paltry sum are ready to receive the victims of the seducer and conceal the consequences of their sin, we have no patience to speak We know these people, Jnd we know their characters, and we know them to be earn est, intelligent, and conscientious Christian women, zealously striving to live lives of usefulness, the very last persons who would attempt to conceal or condone a wrong. No man can truthfully impute a wrong action to them, however much in error he may consider their judgment do not care to engage in any argument with the Senthiel upon a question of publicniorals which we cannot see is at all related to its charges and the investigation of them.

When the time comes for such a discussion, The News will be found where it always has been found. In the meantime the less the Sentinel has to say about the Home in particular, tlfe better it will be for its reputation; unless it can bring some charges that will have at deast a gloss of truth about them. Onei thing more, of a personal nature The Sentinel seeks to escape the strictures of The News by asserting that they were written by "some poorly informed person," "a volunteer" permitted to use the editor ial columns. This is' a very contemptible insinuation, and one particularly unworthy of the SentineL The editor of The News is responsible for whatever appears in it4 ed itorial columns, as every other editor is for his paper. No honorable journalist should seek to single out the writers of particular articles and attempt to shoulder the respon sibilitv upon them.

For the benefit of the Sentinel, however, we offer the inform tion that the articles in question were written bv tne editor himself. As. to the further charge that our report of ihe testi mony was garbled, we fleny it in toto. It was not a phonographic report, but it cov ered all the essential points and covered them truthfully. It is no.

part of our business to garble facts, and we never werejc-cused of it before. -The News is not afraid of facts. Perhaps the Sentinel is. Pleaty mMey. financial Chronicle.

The inflationists know, aa every one knows, that where a man fails it is for want of money, and that plentv 'pf money always gets him out of hb troubles. Just so it must be with a great nation. Would' you make its finances flourish? There is "an easy method; create- greenbacks! Our phi lanthrbpists imagine the thing has never yet been tried. You have only to set the press in motion. can fill the public Treasury with money in endless profusion.

Since money is what business needs let us make money that business may nour- ish! should the country languish when monev. the ereat renerator of com- zaercaaadtxadcaaioaasilbscrsaudr I The Old Graaajev. FA.BODT. The Pacific organ of advanced agriculture. -iSe California Granger, is rsthetioailT adorned br a poet who detects the great peril of the associated Orangers of the fields from the wtlf, politician ol the town, and raises a warning Toice in the appended graphic parable: Ifear the tracts tf a railroad newly laid.

A farmer leased on his earth-worn: spade: While his taxes were hiKh, and bis cropa but slim. The charge for freight played the deuce with Mm; go he growled a jrrowl at the train'rsharp din Til gather you ia I'll gather you la "I hare borne you long, and here Yon railroads to beat, some way or how; I will get up a law, by the great horned owl! To cut down your profits and make you howl And but little, or nothing. 1 11 ship ifrom bin Of hoarded corn, till I'Te gathered pu in! "We will rise in onr Granges, bold and free, And 'Down with freights shall our wax-cry bet Not a partisan crew, nor a party haek: Shall help to gam our biithrightiback; For the battle is ours, to low or in We'll gather tbeia in we'll gather hem in Kow a gaunt politician came that way, O'erheard'the old man's angry say And he gave to hi head a knowing screw. And cried to the Granger. "Count me, too! With a thought to himself, replete With grin, Til gather you in I'll gather you ha!" Then a twist of his eye.

he seemed acute, "The farmer'a tongue has too long been mate I am junt ytuf man, if it suits your mood So plate me where I can do most good If an office fit you will help me win. e'll gather them in we'll gather them in!" Touching hand to hand, in a warm! exchange. They take a walk to the farmer Grange, Where the stranger speaks with rural air. And sprinkles hayseed in his hair; "Let railroads quail when our bloitis begin We'll gather thtm in; we'll gather them in!" So they vote for him at the coming "polls, Those simple, rural, honest souls; Never dreaming that they of the iron horse. Are vottng, too, for the man, of coiirse As on him alone their faith they pin, To gather them in; to gather them in! When election is over the railroads run A score of trains where they once had one While a ditch by the track is found to hold A poor old Granger, stark and cold For the chap he'd helped to office win Had gathered him in had gathered him in.

"SCRAPS." Raised embroidery is about the latest fenii nine hobby. Four Enclish female dentid ts practice in Cairo, Egypt A lookseller's convention is at Cincinnati. soon to be held A Rochester woman has insured her wood an leg for $150. The lanrest room in the world rthe room fur improvement. Photography is to be taught High School in Boston.

in the Girls' Louisville consumes 100,000 glasses of whisky and beer a day. Mgr. C'apel is mentioned as rector of the proposed Roman Catholic University in Eng- ai'id. Five thousand tickets have been for Philadelphia the coming Tea Party at thd Academy of Music. Salmon P.

Chase was confirmed as Chief. Justice within thirty minutes (after his nam reached the Senate. Usceoia lowa is one vast treeless prairie ami one-nait tne population are now burning hay for fuel. The coal tradeof Buffalo will, reach an ag gregate of tons the present year, ac cording to the Express. "Thirteen roosters per annum strictly in advance," is the subscription price of the Bloomington, Iowa, Democrat.

The Empeijbr of Germany was too ill to receive Prince ttortschakoff on the occasion of the latter's recent visit Berlin A Normal College professor holds that ''the State must not go back to thejpsychological ethical genesis of a negative died." Japanese youths who are educated in this- country, arc very snobbish when they get home, and have to have their ears pulled. As to clearing the ice out of! the canals, a Rochester genius thinks that buzz saws placed in-front of a large scow would do the buzz! ness. A new "What-is-It" has been seen on the Pacific Slope, taid to be a cross between a bear and ia man. The specie is well known here. English audiences are charmed with the saltation of a dancer who hai lost both his legs, but whose feats are said to stump al competitors.

Sad Summary of-the Mexican Expedi tion. Maximilian shot; Carlotta in a mad house Napoleon dead in exile Bazaine. de graded and condemned to death. Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Chancel lor, is at his desk, every morning at o'clock. He rarely goes to receptions, it being his habit to retire early in the evening, Benjamin' P.

Avery, one of the editors of the San Fraucisco Bulletin, and one of the oldest journalists of Slope, has 1 taken charge of the Overland Monthly. Garibaldi' writes to a friend in England "Affairs in Spain are not going on badly for the republic, and I hope she will end by tri umpning. in ranee tneyi are growing worse. The rat, according to Mr. Bergh, occupies a higher place so far as utility is concerned than the gambler or thief, and Is just as much entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

i Five bad Boston all in their teens, were, recently, fined $5 a piece for playing cards on the Lord's day. They had a little club, and called themselves I the "Twilight A Madison, has a restaurant and billiard room which be conducts on strict temperance no liquor or beer being sold on the premises. It is being well patronized. The British government countenances polygamy not only among th natives of In dia, but among the white residents. Mr.

K. G. Melville, of the British civil service, has disgusted his wife by becoming Mahometan, and marrying a native girL I As Mrs. Freeland, of Jacksonville, Florida, was sitting in her room on Monday night, the doors being open, an owl "flew She tried to turn it out, but the owl attacked her and bit her on the ear. Assistance arriving, the owl was captured and confined.

1 A matt sat down on a. buzz saw iu Curry, Pennsylvania, last Saturday. He will not sit down on anything again soon.f The doctors said the wound in the thigh was a foot in tanrrtK anil ih wff taift alia xnulrtn't nath Atl pantaloons and make them look decent nohow. Stephen rearr-indrews and nine others have bean incorporated under the general law of the District of Columbia as tha Normal University i of the rantarchy. Applicants for admission to the freshman class will be examined in the "Basic Outlines of Universology." The remains of ex-PresulentXachary Taylor are tojbe- removed from iheir obscure resting place in a country, cliurchyard in Jefferson county to the State cemetery at Frankfort, where.i at State expense, a monument will be erected to- the memory of the gallant old Rough and Ready.

"Where are you going?" saici a young gentleman to an elderly one in a white cravat, whom he overtook a few miles from Little Rock. "I am going to heaven, my son. I have been on the way eighteen Weil, good-by, old fellow, if you have beeri' travelling toward heaven eighteen years, and got no nearer to it than Arkansas, Tit take another route." The Boston Journal amuses itself with the nicknames of New Yoak churches. Dr. Tyng's new church is the Church of the Holy OUCloth; Hepworth'sls the Hippodrome; Dr.

Storrs's, from its steeple, is known as the Corn Cob; Dr. Be Hows' as the Church of Holy Zebra, and we have also heard it called the "Church of the Infinite jBeef Steak;" while a Baptist Church is Christened the Wash Tubi a Calvinistic tabernacle the Furnace; O. B. Frothinghani's the Insurance Office, and Mr. Powers's, the Church of the Holy Turtle.

Howard Glyridon, otherwise Miss Laura writes a letter to the New York Evening Mail for the purpose of correcting some widely spread mistakes, and also to ex plain the reason for some faults in execution in her last published poemsJ. She lost her hearing when about ten years! of age, -but re tained her power of speeclv. The errors arose from the fact being able to hear, she mentally pronounced words to suit her own taste, and might have continued to do so had it not been for an editor who, when rejecting on.e of her poems, explained jthat he did sq on account of a flagrant blunder in prosody. Miss Redden has since taught herself to pro nounce correctly. OSE BARGE Of COAL.

Some 1'naeeonntable Aceldenf that Have HaBienel Nlnee i the Hpaniati lrwn-elnd Entered Xw Yvrlt llarbwr. N. Y. Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

The costly dry dock in the Brooklyn navy- yard, constructed oy Andrew Jackson ad ministration, -was viewed as a piece of ex travagance whicn the nation could not wel afford. No expense was spared in making i one of the in the world. It is a vast basin, excavated to a great depth near the center of the main wharf, so near the main landing place that its nicely-finished granite walls and ponderous oak and iron gates nave been the nrst obiects to challenge the adrni ration of thousands of visitors visitors who will learn with astonishment that the mag nificent work, which, was built to stand through centuries, has already begun to show defects; The discovery 'was about three weeks ago, just as the iroii-clad Arapues was preparing to go to sea. i Ine Arapiles came into Jew York harbo: for repairs, her kelson, having been badly eaten by worms. 8he was at once handed over to Delamater, the builder of Spain' iron rams, and as no private dock was capa ble of lifting ner, JJeiamatennred the navy yard dry-dock.

The great gates were opened and tide was let in a day or the vessel a arrival anu she was floated in without accident, Then the gates Were closed the water was pumped from the dock. and the hull of the Arapiles. was bared for the inspection ot admiring thousands. Then the seizure of "the iVirginius made it desira ble that the Arapiles -should join the Spanish fleet of Cuba, and the officers of the vard vied with each other in politely aiding the commander of the Arapiles in liis preparations for a hasty departure. The old salts of the yard, meanwhile, with a prophetic vision, which seems to be en joyed by all the weatherwise followers of the jsea, predicted trouoie in getting tne Arapues out of the dock.

"Some screw, they thought, would be loose; something would break -down; the gates might get out ot order. And so the event proved. On the inonjing that was fixed for floating the war ship out into the stream, when the workman began. to look about to see whether everything was in readiness, it was ascertained that the gates were sprung and could not be worked on their hinges, and that a small leak! had let in so much water that the workmen could not get down to the spot whence they might repair the A uontcey engine was there fore set to pump the water out, but the New York werkmen scrupulously live up to tne eigni nour law, ana the little pump was kept at work only eight hours a day, and, as more water leaked in during the sixteen hours of idleness than they pumped out in the eight hours of work, every morning found more water in the dry-dock than was in it the day before. was adverse fate, and it made the Arapiles's commander profane.

He thought that tne commonest ol courtesies to a friend ly power snouia nave prompted the navy- yard authorities to put their great puraping-engine at the Arapiles's command. But it was politely explained to him that that great engine was out of order, Then with a fearful Spanish oath he wished to know whether everything in that navy-yard was oui oi gear, anu me agea saiu replied to me A. A conundrum amrmativeiy. Alas, for Ameri can enErineerimr skill! The canaciona drv dock, which had been constructed at almost fabulous cost, had become defective, and was not much better than a frog-pond. trived to caulk the leaks, and the gates were repaired.

Ahe Arapiles was made ready. and on Saturday last she was to be out of the dry; dock, and courteously convoy the American jngate Colorado to Cuba. Judge, on Saturday morning -she learned that another mishap had' befallen the Arapiles. and that that formidable representative of Spain could not accompany her. It.

seems that on Fridav nieht one of the coal ha.r?es up the East river broke loose from her moor- i i a. then she took to leaking and filled and went down just as she reached the dry dock, with a pervjerseness that is unaccountable, plung- ng her head under the dry aoc gates and fastening them immovably. The Colorado's orders were imperative, phe was required to sail yesterday, company or no company: and so she sailed alone, leaving the Arapiles blockaded by a coal barge laden with 600 tonsofcoali The navy yard men think it will be the most troublesome load of coal that ever a barge broughtSntoNew York harbor. Titer don't know to raise it. It is a problem to intricate that they spent all day Sunday and yesterday over it, and yet were no nearer its solution than when they began.

It was thought that derricks might be rigged on the masonry of the dry docks, but bone of suffi cient strength could be found. Lighters were impracticable, for it would take too much time to rig the required machinery on their decks. The barge might be dredged out, but the dredging machines were all behind time on contracts that could hot be broken. -The coal might be blown out of the way with mtro-giycenne, out. the harbor commissioners would put an injunction upon that as a wanton filling up of the harbor.

The Arapiles might be jack-screwed up fifty or sixty feet, and then launched out over the dry dock g-ttts, but that, would tail Holiday Trade. will this day and during th re Merit week-make large adui ion to our stock of and desirable goods Expressly for the HOLIDAY TRADE. including well selected unci cheap SHAWLS, BLACK SIlKS, COLORED SILKS, WRAPPER DELAINES, DRESS GOODS and FANCY ARTICLES. Intending; purchasers of HOLIDAY PRESENTS. are invited to examine our'stook previous to snaking their seleo-tiontu PETTIS, DIOKSON CO.

VJJUJULUJL'tUJ. Clothing! SPECIAL SALE or Childreh's Suits. A large lot of Odd Suits. All fine fabrics. Foreign and Domestic.

Former price, fll) to $1(3; now selling at and $12. A lot of West of England. Cassiniere Suits. Prince Imperial. Marked down to $13 50.

A'lotof fine Ctica Cassimere Suits, Jack ets, Psnts and Vests. Former price, $15; now selling at $10. A lot of Genuine Scotch Coatee Suits. "Former price, $30; now selling at $1XX GEO. H.

HEITKAM KENNET, THE CLOTHIERS. 39 West Wasblattba Street. time. The navy yard mind was' baffled. Nobody seems to know how toralse that sunken coal barge from under the gates which imnrison thn Snanish war shin.

Hat you anybody in the West who can raise a -submerged coal barge Axchisss. The Colored Hta and Ills Fa tore. "From the New-York World's Report of Lecture by Tliirty years' study of the negro race both in slavery and in freedom, had disclosed to him (Mr. Pryor) no deficiency in their nature, physical or moral, and had satisfied him that they were altogether competent to the highest achievements of. civilization.

lie alluded to their faithfulness to their masters during the war, and said that they were the guardian angels of their masters' household, and their sublime forbearance would weigh more than all the glories of the puissant white race. He spoke of thelrdtep religious faith and sensibility, which had never been tainted wjth skepticism or infidelity. There were some on this picture, but it must be remembered that while the virtues of the negro were his own, his vices were his heritage, and the former outnumbering the latter. Jn'1865 emanciption came to him, and it was a noteworthy fact that the liberation of 4.uuu,uuu staves was auenoea wim as muo shock or perturbation as a lady withal lets loose her canary from its cage, and then the negro, with the nature which God had given him, but which circumstances had tended so much to mar the negro addressed himself to the mighty problem of self-government. Lest the audience might think his picture of the negro a partial one, and too highly col- ored, the lecturer gave the1 following is tics: In I860 the slave1' population was in 1870 there were 4880,079 colored citizens of the South, thus refuting the confident prediction'of their decay.

There, was also proof of inoral advancements In 18G01 the cotton crop was 3,850,000 tales. It was 2 IV. 1. 4V. -1 I I I decrease this, and in itw it was put bales; but the rebound was prompt and pro digious, and in 1872 the voluntary labor of the freedmen contributed 3,909,000 bales.

In that portion of the South where slavery bad reduced the negro to his lowest level, in -Mississippi, it was stated in the message of the Governor of the State that in 31 counties' there were issued in 1865,, 664 marriage licenses, and in 1870 there were 3,427. In th same counties in 1865 the number of colored churcheswas 105; i in 1870. 233. In 1865 the number of colored schools was 10; in 1870, 148: and ia 1872 the National Freedmen's Tm.it nnJv one out of ninv trimi- lar institutions, held of deposits over 000 of the savings of the enfranchised slave. Gratifying as these statistics were, they gave but a faint idea of the physical, mental, an4 moral improvement of the negro of the South; compared to that which might be rained by going among them and contrast! ng their present condition with the past.

Yet there was still one drawback to De surmounted. and that was, prejudice of race and color; and this, still strong at the South, was almost equally so at the ISorth. It was felt in the hotel, in the theater, in -the church, "and," continued the lecturer, "even in the rrave- fard, for the bones of negro rest in your eautiful It was to endeavor to do something to destroy: or at least weaken. 1- a 1 V- 1. iixi3 iiiai wu me oojeci vi tne lecture.

Allnding to the mistakes in legislation made by the negro in thoe States where be is in the ascendant, Mr. Pryor said ft only proved that slavery had not been a poo! school in which to fearn political and, after all, no negro had been connected with Credit Mobilier, and the Legislature of South. Carolina would compare favorably with the New York Assembly vunder the government of the ring. In the future he deemed it inevitable that the black population should forsake the border States and go South, while the whites of the South would. come North and populate the border States.

tu: i i- i uis wo ucsuujr wmca uuu nu yi r- aring for the race! and he (the lecturer) did a 1 1 a a. a i ance everything would be wisely and well for the bestjnterest of both races. A Poor Proapoet for Blaise. Speaker Blaine wants to be President; but It may not be pleasant for him to reflect that Ol twenty-nve men wno nave Deen cpeasers of the House since Congress first organized only one, James K. Polk, of Tennessee ever reached the White House.

Henry Clay was i Speaker tweive years. Bal a War Woald Cost Horo. Terr Bute Express. The surrender cf the Virginias wiU' cost our government about fifteen millions. This would build a palace for each Cabinet Minister and each Senator, aad ray fcratsa jtu bads salary grab..