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IftlMMSiaaaaWMaillia Ing character of the building. The roof is high pitched PLYMOUTH. TALMAGE. A HIGH DAY. CrjRRE.VT EVENTS.

The subscriptions to tho 4 per cent, loan on Saturday wore $3,230,650. The Chatham street branch of the New York Elovotod Hatlroad was completed on Saturday, ond MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1879. Twenty fifth Century to know that Erin, the name of the green isle, was simply a modification of Aryan, the land of the Aryans that into his veins through a very direct channel flows the blood of the people, who, having created the great Sanskrit literature, diverged by various channels into Europe and Asia Minor and laid the basis of Grecian, Roman, Italian, French, IrisH and Scottish manhood. We care to say nothing against street parades on St. Patrick's day, but we submit to the rising generation, who cherish the memories of the old land, that there is in the past we have been treating a wealth which they might worthily unfold once a year at least to each other and to their neighbors, and in the doing of which they would do more for their own advancement and for the gratification of the great mass of intelligent American citizens than can be accomplished by any number of processions.

Madame Patterson Bonaparte. Years ago, when Tyler was President, Madame Patterson, of Baltimore, was one of the distinguished people invited to become gue6ts of the White House. It was something of a compliment to be among those invited, because it implied a high social standing, and the people accepting the invitation were sure to meet with the F. F. along with the first families of othe? States as well as Virginia.

Mr. Tyler committed a fatal blunder in issuing the invite and failed to enjoy the honor of her company. The invitation was written to Madame Patterson, and tho haughty old lady declined to recognize the note. She could not legally bear the name of Bonaparte, but she scrupulously insisted upon her right to bear it, and in society, wherever she appeared, she was Madame Bonaparte. Her career is one of the most romantic of all the women of her day and country.

She was a great beauty, and at 17 was a belle of Baltimore. When Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon, came to this country in the Winter of 1802, he met Miss Patterson, and fell violently in love with her. The story is told that the father of Elizabeth, a rich merchant, opposed the match, having little. faith in foreign princes, but the young girl's head was turned, and she was intent upon becoming the bride of the young Corsi can. As a child, she had expressed the desire to marry a foreigner of title and live abroad whore could figure in courts, and her highest ambition as she grew up, was to verify her girlish wish and prediction.

Tho most brilliant marriage ever celebrated in Baltimore was that of Miss Patterson, and all the creme de la creme of New York and Washington society witnessed the ceremony at the house of the bride, on the evening of the 24th of December, 1803, Bishop Carroll, of Maryland, performed the ceremony, and the marriage contract was signed by a number of official personages, of so much importance was it considered. The couple remained in America a year, visiting the large cities and being feted and toasted everywhere. Then they embarked for Europe, and, after landing at Lisbon (Napoleon had forbidden them to land on French territory) Jerome left her to go in person and intercede with his brother. She went to England, where Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, her only child, was born in 1805. The husband did not join her in England, as Napoleon had annulled the marriage and orbiddon him to leave French territory.

The disowned wife returned to America with her son, and resided in Baltimore permanently, occasionally visiting Europe. On one occasion she was in Europe, after Napoleon had been sent to St. Helena and in a gallery in Florence she met her husband, who was then married to the daughter of King Frederick, of Wurtemburg. He recognized her with a start and an exclamation, and in agitation left the gallery and Florence. Madame Patterson made no exhibition of her surprise and continued to examine the pictures as though she had seen a stranger and not the husband who left her so suddenly that Spring morning in 1805 to return in a few days.

She had the stronger nature of the two, and it was often remarked that had she malicious, but because, not having rehearsed with Miss Hauk, he did not know which way to pull her. The failure to rehearse was due to the short notice he received before appearing. This was owing to the fact that Campanini was to have sung but did not, and the reason why he did not was because he had already sung twice that week, and by the terms of his contract was entitled to receive extra pay for his appearance on Thursday night, which extra pay Colonel Mapleson declined to give him. It is therefore, to a mind as feeble as that of an amateur negro minstrel that in making his original contract with Companini months, or even years ago, the insidious Mapleson worded it with a special view to wounding Miss Hank's arm and entrapping her staunchest defender, the EagIiE, into a momentary doubt of her graciousness. This certainly is an outrage which nobody would have suspected Colonel Mapleson of committing.

His ingenious malice thus disclosed, the public will do well to beware of him. But not only by suoh sinuous courses has he aggrieved and persecuted the lady. Ho has failed to let her sing in suoh operas as she would prefer operas in which she has few equals and no superiors. This is not only ungenerous, but exceedingly unwise, on tho part of Colonel Mapleson, who is clearly unfit to be at the head, or even at the foot, of an opera company. Miss Hauk certainly deserves the sympathy of tho American public, for, judging from the number of times during the present season that she has appealed to it for support and encouragement in her various difficulties with various people, she is a most unfortunate lady.

An illustration of the uncertainties of the law was given in a case reported in the Eagle on Saturday. Nineteen years ago a gentleman residing in this city contracted for the building of a house A dispute arose in regard to extra work done, and the contractor sued the owner, the actual sum in difference being only thirty dollars. First there was a reference, but the referee died before making his report. Then there was another reference. The report in this one was set aside and there was a jury trial.

At this stage of the contest the costs amounted to only four times the amount of the verdict. This was appealed, and the taxation of costs was set aside. Then the costs were saddled on the other 'party. This was appealed, and there were further complications which none but lawyers could understand, and it is questionable whether there are many of the profession even who could form clear ideas on the case at this stage. Then there were three more trials in another county, with two trips to the General Term and one to the Court of Appeals.

A final decision has at last been reached. Who triumphed in the matter first in difference does not clearly appear, but one thing is certain that each had a big bill of costs to pay and that the bill against the original plaintiff was twelve hundred dollars, or forty times the amount of tho original claim. Doubtless both parties fully vindicated their pluck, endurance, honor and all that sort of thing but they also illustrated the folly of going to law about small matters. It was a good deal more striking than tho fable of tho monkey and the two cats. Tho feline litigants got nothing, the simian Justice ate all the cheese, but the cats did not have a monstrous bill of costs to pay.

It would surprise some of our readers who have not given serious attention to the comparison to be told that in a race between New York and Buffalo between a man and a horse, the former could give the latter a start of about half the distance and beat him. But such is really the case. Anybody who knows the rudiments of horse keeping recognizes the fact that forty miles a day is considerable work for a horse, and work which he could not keep up very long. Drive him twenty miles in the cool morning, rest him, and let him go over the same distance in the evening, and ho is doing protty good work if he keeps it up four or five days. On the other hand here is Rowell doing five hundred miles in six days, or an average of nearly eighty three miles a day, and recovering his condition within a comparatively few hours.

It is really to be questioned whether any animal except man could accomplish such a feat of pedestrianism, either in point of speed or endurance. Whether the feat can be repeated more than three or four times by any man is an open question, and whether the system can be recuperated in a month or so is also to be determined. At all events, Rowell will have auuiu cuYoreu hihi maw. ah uos oeen stated before tho church is hllilfe of nrninnr.tlRiit. hhinafortn nn.l XT l.

Keely, ot this city, is tho architect. Tho interior of" tho BiniiiHufl ia nun aim utwuiiiw. xne Das relief and fresco work employed on the walls and the ceiling is exquisite. It is tho only church in the State with a wooden celling, ana this is vaulted. Tho painting is dona by Gustavo KlnkeUn, who cannot proceed at present with his work because the wood la not thoroughly dry.

It was on vinrisnnas last mat Father Kiely preached for tho first time in tho new building. For a few weeks longer the old edifice was used as a Sunday School, but now It is entirely deserted, having been used by tho parish of. the Visitation for twenty five years. The new bunding will seat 8,250 people. The present organ will soon be replaced by a larger and a better ono, which Ib in the hands of the manufacturers.

ABUSE OF PEDESTKIAiYfSJr. Sermon by Bev. W. C. Steele tast Evening.

Bev. W. C. Steele at the South Third street Methodist Church ventilated his ideas on the evils accompanying the prevailing mania for pedestrian feats. nehw "Bodily exercise proflteth littlo "he said; Mere bodily suffering, mere efforts after asceticism will not do in lieu of faith in Jobub Christ, and mortification of the flesh has no effect, unless done in obedience to tha divine will.

Hence, no good can possibly come from the most unheard of state of public excitement at this time on the subject of pedestrianism. Our people, with their nervous temperament, are prone to grow wild on any subject, even extending Into the domain of religion, but their present sensation soemsm antagonism to all moral principle. 1 he public press are silent on tha subject or are fostering it. ond it therefore becomes the duty of the censors of puolio morals appointed by the Almighty to point out tho dangers arising from it. We remomber ITow tho ladies of the Temperanoe Union in the Western District protested against the open violation of tho Sunday law i Ji irae rouBk woman, Madame Anderson, at Mozart Garden and how she treutedthem and the Boph isms with which she replied.

Since then, hundreds of imitators have started, so that every village of any size has liod a touoh of tho walking mania which has been renewod and reinvigorated by the international walking match. The evils of pedestrianism are First, a violation of physical laws. ExerclBO In tho opon air whou not excessive is good and bonendol. Our people do not take exorclBe enough. English ladles walk more and take mora exorcise than our American ladies, aud are proportionately stronger and heultliior.

Some of our womou take too much oxerciso, and yot no ono sends bouquets or cheers them on. I refer to thoso who bend over sewing machines, laboring oxccssively for a bare pittance, and thoro Is no Joy in thoir exorcise. Good ex erciBO in a Joyous way is always beneficial, for "all work and no play makes a dull boy." The body should be developed that tho mind does not become a monstrosity and destroy it. NervouB diseases oriso from the lack of exercise. The women of this country owe a great debt to Dr.

Dio Lewis, who was a public benefactor by hia proof and preaching that the best thing for tho body aud tho mind Is opon air exercise of the right kind. But he would not say walk day and night for Ave or six days together. He would raise voice and pen against such an abuse, experience proving that tho result Is only bad health and ruined constitutions. The first man who withdrew at Gilniore'e Garden said tho duet and tobacco smoke, with what ho had inhaled at previous matches, had undermined his constitution and compelled him to retire. Mrs.

Ennis said that her huBband would never recover from tho great strain on his physical system. O'Loary may never recover audit is all the bettor if ho does not yet they coll such things manly Bports. Mr. O'Leary Bays he was In the habit of losing a too nail or two now and then while walking, and often continued his task in great agony, with feet blistered and the whole system racked. Harnman, worn out, Btaggering around the track like a drunken man, was only sustained by tho applause of the crowd, though It is to his credit tuat no tobacco poisoned his lipBor whisky bliBtered his throat.

Pe deatrianiBm develops the muscles of tho legs, while the Prize King developed the muscles of the arms and tho fists. Keverend Fred. Bell showed mo the scars on his face and body, where he had been beaten to a jelly during the time ho took part in the manly sport that, as a ralio of barbarism, ought never to havo had a place among civilized amusements. Mony things, good themselves, have been bo abused that good people cannot indulge in them, or by their presence countenance them such sports as took place In Kit Burns' rat pit, All credit to Henry Borgh who speaks for poor dumb creatures who cannot say a word in their own behalf. Ho is a public benefactor.

We don't hovo amusements enough in America of a good kind. Ono celebrated Frenchman, after a visit to this country, said ha thought we had only twoamusementa in which we generally Indulged politics for the men and religion for tho women. But I am glad they do not have Buoh amusoments hore as thoy have in Continental Europe. Take the Champs Elysees in Paris, for example, a "plain of heaven" by name, but really a "plain of hell." On Sunday afternoon aud evening, concerts, drink and every form of gilded temptation has there full swsy. Thank God Americahas not such a sensual idea of amusement as thoy.

Endurance is all very well; our postmen, somo of whom walk regularly thirty miloB a dry for a BmaU salary, and yet tt does not xnako them healthy. For instance, ono of them ailing, in applying to a physician, who did not know the occupation in which he was engaged, told him, "You do not take exercise enough." Whou it comos to the pinch, however, take our sinewy race and send them on the battle field and they will show their grit. AU honor to the men WHO ENDURE SUFFERING FOB A PURPOSE like our grandfathers at Volley Forge, or our own boys in the swamps of tha sunny South. Hero was endurance for tho right, and in a holy cause. This International contest is, however, far different.

Such affairs raise international jealousies and ill feeling. Wo are young among the nations and can't afford to promote jealousy between us and other peoples; but should promote good feeling. Every man who lands hore should throw off all Old World connections ond ideas and bo coma American In thought aud deed. Now, at tho match some people hissed Rowell, thus losing all American lovo of fair play. Yet he, belonging over thoro to what ia denominated as the lower order of society (thank God such distinction 1b unknown hore), has shown hini EOlf a good, generous man, and when a bouquet was presented to him with a union Jack on it, he requested that it bo removed and the Stars and Stripes substituted.

Both flags represent tho Protestant genius of the Nineteenth Century. God grant that they may alwoyB be entwined together. America and England Bhould stand shoulder to shoulder, knea to knee and foot to foot In the grand struggle going on in the world for freedom and progress. Let, then, the belt go back to England whore It came from. Wo don't ask a man hore where he oamo from, the great American idea Is universal brotherhood.

There haa been some rivalry, but the principle or our republican government is the equality of all men and tha union aud linking together of all men. Christ died for all men, black and white, rich and poor, of ovary race, creed, kind and condition. Second It is injurious to morals, promoting Sabbath breaking. Look at last Sunday evening. From six o'clock Madi Bon avenue was filled with a drunken, ribald mob, that made the night hidooua with their obscenities.

Our own Eastern District is also disgraced to day with ono of the Sabbath breaking scenes of pedestrianism. The BUBaker than read a handbill as frtllowa "Thr yoiingest pedestrian on record. 22 inilo walk in 5 hours of $100. On which occasion only 10 years of age, will walk22 miles against time. Commencing at 4 P.M." A 22 mile walk a Sabbath walk by a ohild of ten years hould we not protest against this In the name of every star and every stripe in the old flag.

It is high time this came to an end. Where ar the police that they permit suoh outrages 1 Then reading again, Admission, fifteen oents. Music in attendance." Ah 1 there is the secret. It is a moneymaklng affair, and if the admission Is not enough, there is more made at the bar in tne aujoimng room. 11 mat is ngnt the Bible is wrong.

We do not want the Old World Sabbath here with its desecrations. When Professor Agassiz was askod what first impressed him in America, he replied tho oalm, holy Babbath." When the Mayflower first came in eight of the Now England shore on Sabbath morning, she dropped anohor, tho regular Sabbath ser vices were neia on uoara ana not a boat put off till Monday morning. Oh, for all thoso memories of the past, and thoir renewal In tho future. The next great evil Is intemperance, fostered and encouraged by these matches, and seemingly inseparable from them. At Gilmdre's there was a bar 65 feet long, with 21 barkeepers' and 5 cashiors.

was paid for the privilege of selling, and thoro was no license demanded or grant, ed. Policemen and police captains passed in ond out drinking daily, violating the law thoy were paid to sustain and 8e carried out. Twenty five thousand drinks were necessary to pay lor tno bar alone, so you can estimate tho amount of business done, and thero was drunk enness and quarreling all through the match, tha profit Deing maao uy poisoning mo people, num nas destroyed thousands and tonB of thousands, and If tho gravestones of tho drunkards were utilized they would pavo every street in New York and Brooklyn. Let us do all we can to cry down this great evil. But the worst of all and the last of which I Bholl speak is gambling rum and gambling.

Al Smith, as he is called, said on tho first day that $25,000 had been put on O'Leary, and it is not improbable that over a million dol lars ohangod hands on the result of the match. Gambling is wrong, and a gambler is as bad as a burglar or a murderer. A man who takes money he does not earn will Bteal, and I look at a gambler as a thief. Gambling Is rampant just now In one way or another, and in one paper I have looked at recentlv in tho very next column to that containing the roligioua notices for to day I saw sevonteon advertiBcmonts for lotteries, one of tho meanest sorts of gambling, for it will stoop to rob its poor, drinking votaries of such paltry sums as two or three cents for its littlo scribbled slips. It is time tho Police Commissioners were turned out, for the laws are broken with Impunity, and fraud, murder and dissipation are rampant, aud all are connected with gambUng.

But what shaU wo do? Discountenance everything of its nature, and in caso of such a public evil, protest against it openly. If there is anyone here who breaks God's holy day, drinks or gombles; If you are standing on tho sulphured edge of eternity and the clods are breaking beneath your leet, it is not coo late, uoa wiu pun you uses. Get ready for death. Thore Is but one pedestrianism that navs. Gult vou.

like men Bird up your loins, and so run tha race set before as by Jesus Christ, that you will win the prize of a crown that never lauos, and Bit down at tho right hand of Goa tho Father, who wiU give you an eternal rest. nOSS STBEET PRESBYTERIAN A service of more than usual interest was held in the Boss Street Presbyterian Church, yesterday. Tho attendance was tho largest ever present at a religious gathering in this church slnco its organization In 1884. Tha occasion was the first anniversary of the pasto rate of Bev. Archibald McCuUogh, who, a year ago this month, left a prosperous church In Germantown, and accepted his present charge undor circumstances not particularly promising.

After tha usual opening exercises, Mr. McCullagh said that It was not his Intention to proaoh an anniversary or statistical sermon, but he would simply refer to a few facts in the history of the church for the year, as the retrospect had given him great pleasure and he believed it would cause many others to rejoice. The additions to membership during the year had been 110. An increase of nearly. SO per cent, of the previous tote membership, ond this Increase very largely upon profession of faith.

The number received to uoy nity iour, iony seven nnon examination and seven by letter was more than the original number at the organization of the church. The report of Mr. Burger, the Superintendent of tho Sabbath ocnooi, aiscioseu uiai lis memuenuup uau dnnhlAd. The attendance in the comrresation had more than quadrupled. Tha dobS of the church had been reduced tne cnurcn naa oeen nowiy puuiieu auu repaired, improvements had been made in tho Sabbath Hchool hall, the old Boats having been superseded by comfortable chairs, and all these expenses, together with the regular expenses of tne cnurcn, naa oeen prompuy met ond provided for.

Tho offioors hod been particularly faithful and efflolont, ond the outlook was one of good cheer to all who loved tho Master's work. The usual sermon gave place to Interesting remarks by the pastor upon tho last words of tho Saviour, as recorded in the Gospels, and ho drew therefrom many practical lessons which were attentively listened k. air. mo Onllagh was assisted ot the communion service by Rev. Dr.

Burroughs and Bev. Mr. Benedict. The exercises were solemn and impressive throughout. A WOHAH IS PEBIIi.

A horse attached to light wagon in which was Mrs. E. Crothy of No. 86 Hamilton avenue, took fright at the corner of Eighth avenue and Eackett street, yesterday afternoon, and ran away. Mrs.

Crothy drop pod the reins and fall into a fainting fit, the horse still dashing at fall speed toward Seventh avenue. Fortunately, Officer Wassmann, of the mounted squad, happened to be on the track of the runaway horse, and fol lowing in hot pursuit, succeeded In stopping it at the corner of Seventh avenue and Sterling place. Bin) Crothy was much frightened, but fortunately escaped without any injury. 8 USD AN BIGHT FBEE FIGHT. About 11 o'clock last evening Captain Early, of the New Lota Police, was informed that a free fight was taking place in a dwelling house an the Jamaica Plank road, between Miller and Van Stolen avenues, East New York.

With officers Belnala, Clifford, Dn paign and Fischer he made a descent npon the place. The contestants in someway obtained a warning that the noUea were oominR. and all but John Bill ley, WU John Loftus, James Murray and Eager B. Magulro "escaped turougn rear entrencs mo Thjs. morning the JpsrHes who were arrested wore taken, before JuBaoBdertuin.

They Informed the inagTBirateimlttnftfjo wjr' md that they were onljiookersoij, Thoy pleaded guilty to a'go'or plAood undjsr own against any foreign power. It is questionable whether tho United States could safely go to war with China or Japan. This is a state of affairs calculated to make the average patriot sigh for a few hours of honest despotism. St. Patrick's liar and St.

Patrick's Time. The celebration of St. Patrick's day ought to be the moans of dissipating to some extent the fog of ignorance through which the era of St. Patrick is viewed by most people. The common belief is that the saint found Ireland in a state of comparative barbarism, and by Christianizing the rulers and, through them, the peasantry secured a footing for civilization.

This is as far from the truth as it would be to say that the persons to whom St. Paul spoke from Mars' Hill were Btrangers to philosophy, oiid that the introduction of Christianity was what made Plato, Phidias and iEschylus possible. The strongest argument that can be advanced in behalf of historical Christianity, as against some forms of modern skepticism, lies in the fact that the Apostles were at the outset of their ministry required to make the claims of the new religion good against the hostile scholarship of great nations. Had they merely converted the ignorant or secured dominion over 6emi barbarous minds the work could with some plausibility be attributed to superstitious enthusiasm but since they invaded the temples of learning; offered intellectual battle in tho shades of the academe, and challenged the disciples of Epicurus in their strongholds, there seems no escape from the conclusion that the new faith advanced because, as against all its opponents, it had invincible reason on its side. These things were not done in a corner." St.

Patrick's triumph was great in that he converted the most enlightened people of Northern Europe and thereby secured for the religion of the Cross the prestige which acknowledged niontal superiority alone can confer. The only hypothesis upon which the subsequent establishment of Irish missions in the adjoining lands and tho influx to Ireland of students from tho neighboring peoples are explainable is, that all the machinery of enlightened proselytism was ready to the saint's hand as a result of many centuries of orderly, intelligent government, and needed for its effective application to the extension of Christianity only a hange in the beliefs of the people. Cscsar, Strabo and Lucan, may, with several other classic writers, be cited as witnesses to the fact that Ireland was civilized and potent among her neighbors before the Nazarene had been put to death on Calvary. Mathew Arnold, in his excellent little treatise on Celtic literature, shows that the Brehon laws defining ranks, regulating property, providing for the protection of life and assuring education, were promulgated and enforced by the people of Erin anterior to the dawn of Christianity. Dr.

O'Curry, whom Arnold speaks of as a giant in historical research, has shown that before St. Patrick landed in Ireland there had been an unbroken line of over one hundred and forty kings, and thousands of volluin books and manuscripts in Trinity College and in the British Museum attest the wit, the wisdom, the romance, and the poetry of their subjects. It is not unsuggestive in this relation that the collection of gold ornaments in the British Museum illustrative of pre Christian workmansliip was chiefly gathered from Ireland. In that island, according to Chambers, moreof these rare ornaments have been discovered than in all the other countries of Northern Europe combined. While we are looking with wonder upon the rings and amu lets gathered by Dr.

Schlieman from the rubbish of Troy, wo can affordto cost an occasional glance at the brooches and bracelets that were worn by the daughters of the Celtic nobility when the poet who sang of the direful woes that foil upon Greece because the son of Priam eloped with the wife of Menelaus, was upon tho earth. If the greatest problem in philology and ethnology is ever solved it will be solved by getting at the truth concerning the Celtic family, and all scholais are agreed that the only visible field in which this truth is likely to be uncovered is Ireland. Professor Craik, Max Muller and Professor Whitney find in the Gaelic or as it is now called the Gaedohlic language, evidence that the Celt was the leader of the great Aryian migration from Central Asia. Colonies settled in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland and the British Isles. Of these colonies the only one that attained to the rank of distinctive nationality was that established in the Green Isle, by Milesius.

In Wales, it is true, the Celtio spirit strongly survives in the Cymric form, and in the Highlands of Scotland two or three hundred thousand people still persist in the daily use of the Erse tongue; but the Scottish people, as a whole, were transformed to a considerable extent before the intelligible history of their country opened, and the Welsh were so affected by Saxon and Roman invasion that littlo of importance can be learned from them concerning events prior to the Sixth Century of our era. In Italy, Spain and France the Celtic characteristics only survive as elements in a compound people. The case is altogether different in Ireland. The island was never Romanized. No soldier of the Empire of the Ciesars ever put his foot on Ireland.

Indeed, it is not the least suggestive element in this discussion that when the Romans undertook the conquest of Briton the Irish kings sent expeditions to the succor of their harassed kinsmen. That Ireland was not attacked bytho Romans was due to the fact that, having an established government, a warlike people, and being surrounded by water, the task of conquest would have been difficult, if not impossible. What the Roman rofrained from undertaking, the Saxon who oyerrun England never seriously attempted, and thus it came that down to the time of Henry the First there was a pure Celtio nationality, with a Celtic literature and a Celtio vocabulary more extensive than was the English vocabulary in the time of Dr. Johnson. Here surely is material unough for the intelligent admirers of St.

Patrick to work upon material which every scholar regards with the liveliest interest and upon the proper treatment of which depends the perfect elucidation of what may be termed the great Indo European problem. Mr. Morley in his work on English literature declares that without taking cognizance of the Celt English literature cannot be explained, and that without Celtic influence Shakspeare would have been impossible. If an Irishman had said this much he would have been laughed at by the superior Philistines who have so long given prejudice the dignity of an axiom in all their critical geometry. But Mr.

Morley happens to be an Englishman and a student, whose knowledge ''s as great as his fidelity to truth is except na Here, too, Matthew Arnold also comes in with the declaration that the turn for style, so markejl in most English poetry and so notoriously absent in the German, is derived from the Celt, as is the turn for what he terms natural magic and the use of rhyme. The same writer continues, that to the presence of the Celtio element in the modern English character must be attributed his emotional and spiritual susceptibilities, while to the Norman is due the capacity for statecraft and to the Saxon the systematic practical working power that has done so much to procure material ascendency for the empire. It should not be forgotten, when speaking of these things, that when our modern historians took up their pens to describe the peoples who contributed to the ourrent civilization, the Celtio people were in the shadow of a great eclipse. By the intervention of tho sword the men who could have told the story of Celtio attainments were exterr minated before the men who have cince sought and found their long neglected and dust covered memorials were born. The liberties of Ireland had been overturned and her schools destroyed before the printing press had an opportunity to perpetuate the records of her former greatness.

It has, therefore, been necessary to seek the truth in out of the way places, in venerable inscriptions, in fragmen tary manuscripts, in the occasional writings of men of less unfortunate nationalities, and in the tongue of the common people. This is a subjeot that cannot fail to interest Americans. They have had no part in the feuds that followed the overthrow of Celtic nationality. They survey the field with the calm eye of unprejudiced criticism. The Celt is to blend with other manly constituents in tho formation of the American character of the future, and the inheritors of that character will certainly iriquire as curiously concerning the antecedents of the people to.

whom St, Patrick preached aa the modem Englishman does concerning the Saxon and the Norman. It will be Bomethina tot tho American, of the Bishop Simpson with the York Street M. E. Church. A Stirring' Sermon by tho Bishop to a Large Congregation Lore Feast and Reunion In tho Afternoon A Begnlor Old Fashioned Methodist Time.

Yesterday was a high day at the York street M. E. Churoh. Bishop Simpson spent tha day thore, preaching in the morning to a very large congregation which filled tho edifice. There were visitors from all parts of Brooklyn and a largo number of strangers trom nearby.

The congregation appeared to be made up chiefly of workingmen and their families, and large number of children were in tho assembly. After sing ing, reading and prayer, Bishop Simpson preached a short, stirring sermon from the words, "No man liveth to himself That we should no longer live unto ourselves, but unto Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light." Tho Bishon becon hid oddrosn bv ehnwinc how this earth was prepared by divine power for the reception of man, and how tho various good things were distributed all over it, so that all might share in tho gifts which tholr Heavenly Father had placed there for their benoflt. The lesson drawn from this was that the inhabitants of the world wore one great brotherhood, enjoying alike tho favor and core of heaven so far as all general blessings were concerned, ond in a way to participate, if thoy choso, In any great and good thing which God hod to bestow. Man, tho Bishop 'said, did not live for himself, but was associated with others. Success could bo secured onlv bv co onerotlon.

When one devoted him self to one kind of work and another to another, tne results or their labors wore brought together to complete a perfect mechanism. This devotion to one kind of work secured perfection in it, and bo the union of parts thus separately perfected produced a perfect ond beautiful wholo. This was true of all kinds of labors, whether in tho field or tho factory or tho shop or tho study. ThuB by these labor exchanges the experience of all was made to benefit each, and excellence, wealth, aud increase of human improvement were attained. Ono man did not runko the whole pm.

Hero one fastened the head, there another the point and so on, all combining to complete the perfect thing, and no one living to himself. Wo wore possossod of STRONG CURIOSITY. Wo were all anxious to know about our neighbors. God had implanted this fooling in our minds. It might bo denounced by sorao as impertinence, but after all God bad made us look at others "Look not every man at his own things;" God said early in tbo history ol the world, "Where is thy brother?" And it was a Cain who replied "Am I my brother's keeper?" It was true that this curiosity often dogenoratcd into gossip, and that pooplo talked of matters concerning others not essential.

It was evil when we Bpoke of others onlv to criticise their Rorb, or make remarks on tho stylo of bonnet or tho color of a ribbon, or to explain whore their garments did not match, or wherein they failed to show proper taste. This was a very low uso of curiosity. It was a hinher USO of it whim wn vuimtnrl til know not how a dress fitted, but whether thoy had ou mo weuuiug garment not whether such a one had risen from a servant irirl or was of obscure orliln. but whether she belonged to tho family of tho Lord Jesus ijuriHC, ana was Dorn ol loa ond an nolr ol glory. Anion, glory, hallelujah.

It was a right curiosity when we inquired about our brethren in Lapland or China or mo isles oi tno soa, ana wanted to Know wnetnor thoy poBsessod a knowledge of tho true God. Tho Lord had Joined us altogether by a bond of brotherhood, as tho very curiosity wo manifested in each other showed. This was alBo seen in our love of society. The child wanted other children to play with Just as Boon as it knew anything. Tho young man went forth In soaroh of companions.

Tho young woman hod the Bamo longing for associates. Tho old man, on tho vergo of tho grave, BtUl wanted to know about the world's progress. Though his eye was grown dim, he was unwilling to close it on the objects and beings around him. Though his ear was becoming doaf, ho bUII desired to bo told by tho voice of aff action of what was said around. A child played around while a group of its elders were in conversation about politics, or science, or literature, and ho Boomed not to hear.

But let the talk change. Lot one tell of a friend dying, or a battle raging, or a dreadful accident, or tho wild Indians of the West, and the child would at onco dr op his playthings ond ceape his sports to listen eagerly to what was Bald. Why was this? Because thore wore certain oommon bonds that united us all, and because we were not made to live to onrselvea. Everything that touched one heart awoke an echo in another. It was said that there was NO PUNISHMENT MOBE DBEADFUli than what was styled BOlitary confinement.

There was no such thing, howevor, In fact, for tho prisoner could hear tho footfalls of the keeper or his fellow prisoner, or tho clanging of a door, or soma sound that told him that human beings liko hlmsolf were near. Nevertheless, tho reason of men so coufiuod Bomotinics gave way. How often had it been told how human beings, when they could not have man to talk to, had talked to beasts. Baron Tronck, in tho deop recess of his solitary duu goon, made a friend of tho Bpidor which spun its web in a corner of his coll. Mon had made companions of the most minute living creatures whou deprived of tho so cloty of their kind.

The greatest of poets made tbo desolate and forsaken old man talk to tho clouds and the winds. All these things sorved to show that "no man liveth to himself." A disposition to Imitate was observable in the human race. The girl saw hor mother nurse the baby and must havo a doll. Tho boy saw his father chop tho wood, ond must havo an ax and a bow. This prinolple was in tho vory heart of man, for God had put it thoro.

None of us wore independent. Many people talked of Independence, but there was really no such thing, for men were imluauced by each othor aU over the world and in every grado of society. If we were made to live to ourselves, there would bo no such thing as pubiio opinion. Yet thero was not a young man who wont into the society of young ladles who did not feel that, as soon as ho crossed his doorshop, tho eyes of others wore upon him; or who, when ho got Into tho company of young iodlos, did not fool at a loss what to do with his hauds and foet. This was i proof that ho belonged to a great family, and knew ho was a subject of common interest.

We were oil sailing on ono ship for one port fellow passougers for timo and eternity. To loarn the habits of tho post, we had only to stand on tho shoulders of the present. The Bishop and othors in tho congregation could remembor when thero were no street cars and no matches. Ho could call to mind tho timo whou, as a little boy, he had to run a quarter of mile to get a flro stick to light tho fire with of a morning. A fow years ago more wore no sowing macumen, and now taoy were in almost ovory household.

Thoso who were growing up now hod no oouception how their elders passed meir luiaucy. we wore MAKING INFLUENCE on those around and on thoso to como. Tho blasphemy and obscene word from tho lips of a young man touched and tainted the heart of the boy, and tho influence thus exortcd would go on to eternity, for "No man liveth to himself." When MoBes came down from tho mount his face shone bo with divine splendor that all tho people wore oston lBhed, yet Moses did not know that It was so. It was thUB with us we were dispensing our influence for good or evil aU tho timo however lguorant we might lie of the fact. If we dwelt with God and were like Jesus our influence would shine out among men like Christ's, Many forgot all this, aud they were so selfish, earthly, Banana! and devillBh ta to corrupt others all around them.

They were not only lonors themselves, but snreadlnn thoir leprous Influence wherever they went. The judgment we formed of ourselves and others showed that none of us lived to himself. Whon wo turned away from a boggar wo could not help leeung tnac we nod done wrong, and we began to reason ond try to persuade ourselves that we had dono right. We said to ourselves, "Ho smelt of Uquor," or "He waB protending," or something or other, so as to relieve our conscience from a sense of having failed in duty, and the reason was that God had implanted In us tho fooling that "no man liveth unto himself." Wo came homo in the evening, tired and with an aching head. We were told that a neighbor was IU, without a friend to do anything for him or say a kind word.

Wo hositoted about going to see him. We were too tired and wont to bod and slept. Next morning we learned that ho had died in the night, alono, and without anyone to speak to him of a bettor world and a Saviour. Thon wo reproached ourselves, way Yas it not ngnt to take rest? cor taialy but God had taught us not to live for ourselves alono, and wo condemned ourselves for our selfishness. If we had gone we could have given him a cordial, and soothed his sorrow and told him of JeBUi, and heard hie last words, ana closed nis eyes.

mignt navo had a pain in tho head noxt day, perhaps, but the heart would have felt aU right. Glory Hero was a generous, benevolent man, helping tho gospel, estab llBhlng schools, building churches, doing all he could for tho welfare of society, cleaning out the miasmatic Tinrls of tha citv. and trvino to holn tho noor and noedv and ill housed every way ho could when he died. WHAT A FUNERAL. Men wept as though for a father, and a multitude followed him to the grave.

Tho secret was that that man did not live for himself There was another man. Just as honorable, as moral, as successful in life, but a miser getting all he could and keeping all he got. When he died there were no tears aud no mournars. only a host of relatives rejoicing over bis removal aud flffhtiniy over Ills board. He lived to himself and died to himself.

We admired horocs, not because thoy were men of blood, but because thoy lived not for themselves, but for others, for their country. Howard, tho philanthropist, Bpont his turns ond his money traveling over Europe to ameliorate the condition of prisoners In the horrible jails of despots. His name still lived as a Bynoinym for all that was self denying and beneficent. So was it with Miss Nlgbtlngalo and tho noble band of army nurses: so with Luther and Calvin and Wesley. They learned the lesson that "no man liveth to himself." So was it with Paul who, after recounting his sufferings, said "None of these things move mo, neither count I my life dear unto myself." Tho Lord Jesus Christ, the author of glory, cast off his crown and laid aside his robes, and became a babe; talking with men and sufforing reproach and death, to save sinners.

(Hallelujah. If, then, we should not live for ourselves, for what ought we to live J.0 live lor cnrist was tno only way to live for humanity. Many had tried to live for their friends ond failed. A priest, thinking ho was doing the European inhabitants of the Spanish colonies a favor, suggested that the African race could better stand the ciimato ana tne wors oi tno tropics, in mat way Biovcry was originated in this part of the world, and what a price It had cost us to free ourselves from the ourse. When we lived for ChriBt we took Him as oar pattern and lived for humanity.

Then would we lift up the fallen, cleanse the leper, lead tho blind, be ears to the deaf and make tho lame leap for joy. It was a curious thing that we had to be introduced to Christ by somo one wno Know mm. I5ut introduced, we could Introduce others. Thon whatever we asked in His name would be done for us by His Father. "Sometimes," said tho Bishop "not often, it is true, but sometimes I have but to to the bank for money.

My name was worth noth ng, and so long as I assed for money in my name I Bhould hove got none. But 1 had friend worth thousands of dollars, and when he put his name to the note there was no trouble, and whatever tho bank might think of mo, thoy were glad to givo mo tho money. Jesus gives us His nomo glory I glory I And oh, how ft it worth in the bank of glory. Loud cries of Hallelujah and glory from all parts of the assembly. No draft of Bib was ever protested.

Exclamations of ap Vice nans oi glory is inn oi ncn mcBsings, ana when we hand in the name of Jesus the draft Is paid at sight." THE VAST AUDIENCE WAS OBEATLT MOVED, and loud cries of "Glory" and "Hallelujah" and Praise to Jesus" arose from oil sides. The Bishop referred to the fact that the gospel was intended for the poor, and that nevertheless there were large spaces In our large cities without gospel services. Jesus, sal a tne uiBnop, was gouerouy witn uie poor. Once He called down Zacchous from the sycamore tree and said: I'm going to tako dinner with yon," but tbo common people were his almost constant companions. And thoy are loved of Jesus now, and arc.

to have the gospel of His salvation. The gas comes from a common source, and lights all the city, the alleys as well as the avenues. The water comes from one reservoir, and supplies rich and poor alike. So shall the gospel send Its light and its streams of salvation to the people, high and low, rich and poor. Let us help that on.

Let us live not to ourselves but to Christ, and through b'" to all. Then when wo come to die, we shall die not to ourselves bnt to the Lord, and from the banks of the river send back shouts of glory 1" Hearty omens and ejaculations followed the close of the sermon, which was delivered with great fervor and AiTivt A collection was taken nn in aid of the church. Its debt is $1,800, and the expenses for running it last year were only $1,783, including Interest on the debt. In the afternoon there was a grand reunion Mrafeut. Bishon fllmnson and other ministers were present and thero was a regular old fashioned Methodist time, in un evening wi wnmnn, preached to a fine audience.

FEWEBAL OF MAX CBIEFKLDT. The funeral of Max Grief eldt, the victim of trichinosis, took place yesterday afternoon, from bis late residence. Ho. 181 Atlantic avenue, and was largely attended. Deceased was the President of the BrooMyn Moennerchor Singing Society and a member of Lodge No.

219 D. O. both of which orders were present la a body, and paid tho last sad rites tohlamoinory. Thelnte mont took place at the Cemetery of the Evergreens, and there was an Address by Ernest Lascho, and singing at the grave. aba.

Qrelfeldt is still in a precarious condition, and Henrietta Dior, who also partook of the raw ham, to which the trichina are traced, la not expected to recover, l)tij0HaAN. Mr. John Lougfaran, an old and wealthy resident of theEtecnDlttriot, 'u ahejiV taking his residence, oa SqzUtui aYu.U, He Preaches Without Alluding to his Persecutors. A Yast Audience In the Tabernacle "The Sweetest Sound ou Earth." Doubtless ninny in the vast congregntiori that filled the Tabernacle yesterday morning, atteudsd with the expectation that Mr. TaUuage would make some allusion to his fight with tho Presbytery.

It may bo remembered that on Monday last, ot tho metiriK of tho Presbytery, ho threatened that if that body did not try him he would try it at the Brooklyn Tabernacle tho following 8unday morning. The Prebytery did decide to try him, and Mr. Taimage made no reference to the matter yestorday morning. Ho preached a plain, orthodox sermon, which was listened to with tho deepest attention throughout Before, the sermon ho baptized a number of infants. Mr.

Taimage preached in Kulistinco as follows: "Tho name which is above every namo." Phillpplanj, 2:9. Paul Is hre making rapturous aod enthusiaatlo description of the nomo of Christ. There are merfilv worldly names that sometimes thrill you through and through. Such was the naino ol Henry Clay to a Ken tuckiou. tho name of William Wirt to a Virginian, tho name of Daniel Webster to a New Englandcr.

By common provorb we havo come to believe that 'there la nothing in a name and so parents sometimes at tho baptismal altar give titles to their children, reciless of tho fact that that title, that name will a lifetime hindrance or a lifetime help. You have no right to gtvo to your child a nomo laukiDg either in euphony or moral meaning. Because you hove hod on exasperating name yourself Is no reason why you bhould Inflict it upon your progeny. Aud yet how often it is that we neo a name full of Jargon rattling down from generation to generation simply because a long while ago somoono appencd to bo afflicted with it. Institutions and great enterprises sometimes without Buiiicieut deliberation take nomenclature.

Mighty destinies havo been decided by a name. While we may, by a long course of Christian bohavior, get uor tho misfortune of having been baptized Uk tbe naiao of 0 despot, nr a cheat, how much better It wc uM have lon if wo could all havo started life without any midi Incumbrance. When Paul, in my text, and in other passages of Scripture, bursts forth in acclauiotlniis ol admiration for tbo namo of Christ, I to Inquire what are tho characterls tic i of that appellation. "'1 lie namo which is above every name." Oh. that I mtijht be tilled with tho proyenco of Jesus while I speali, for you aud I havo found out long ago that wo cannot speak on thtsse great themes of religion unless we have in our own heart felt the truth of them.

In tbo first place, speaking to you In regard to tho uarne of Christ, I want to tell you it is AN EAST NAME. You are sometimes introduced to people with long and uupronouucealjio unices, oud you havo to listen cau to get the names and you have to hi tlu iu iro uounced two or three times before you riik trvir.K to utter tbeui; but within the first two years tho lmi child folds it hauds and looks upward and says, "leus." Can It lv that in all this church this moruij ara representatives of any household whoro the children are familiar with the names of lather and mother and brother aud sister, yet know nothing about tbat "name which Is above every nomo Sometimes you Ioret tlio of a iutto familiar friend, and you havo to think and think before you got it; but can you imaijiao any freak ol intellect bv which you should forget the nuno of Jesus 7 That word seems to fit the tongue iu every dialect. Down to old age when the voice in tremuluiu and uncertain and indistinct, oven then this re6nl word fluds potent utterance. But I remark further In regard to tho name of Christ that it ia a beautiful name. Now you havo uoticed that you can not diafiBoclote a namo from the character of the person who has it.

There are some names, for Instance, that are repulsive to my car. Thoso names are attractive to your oar. What Is the difference? Why, I hoppened to know some persons of that name who wore cross, or sour, or queer, or unsympathetic, and tho persons you havo happened to kuow of that name wore kind and genial. Since then we cannot disassociate a name from the character of the person who bos the uume, that consideration mokes tho namo of Jesus unspeakably bcautifiU. I caunot pronounce that uanin in your presenco but you think of Bethlehem and Gvth seuione ami Golgotha, oud you see His loving face and you hear His tender voice, and you feel His gentle touch.

As soon as I pronounce His name in your presence, you think of Him who buinjut ted with heavenly hiorarchs, yet come down and breakfasted on tho fish which tho rough men hauled out of Gennesaret; you think of Hhn who, though tho clouds are the dust of His foot, walked ootsore ou tho road to Kmmaus. Bnt I cannot sjioak His namo In your hearing this morning but you think right away of the shinlnR Oue who restored tha centurion's daughter and who helped tha bliud man to sunllijht and who made tho cripple's crute useless, and who'lookt down into the laughing eyes of tho babe until It struggled to go to Him. Then flinging His arms arouud it and (mpressiuK a kiss upon its beautiful brow, said "Of Buch is tho kingdom of heavou." beautifui name, beautiful name the namo of Jema. which stands for love, for patience, for self sacrifice, for magnanimity, for overything that is good aud glorious and tender and sympathetic aud kind. It is araciatio with all odors.

It is accordant with all harm uit j. Sometimes, whon I look at that name of Jenus Christ, It seems as if tho letters were niado out of tears, aud thnn they seem to bo gleaming crowns. Sometimes that namo foema to bo twisted out of tho straw on hich ho lay, and thon it seems to be built out ot tho thrones on wliioh His poople aro to reign. Sometimes I sound that word Jesus, aud I hear iu it the sob of (Jetbseuiane and the groan ot Calvary, and then speak His noma and it is all a ripplo with gladness aud ariug with hi Ranna. Glorious name 1 But 1 remark again iu regard to this name of Christ that it Is A MIGHTY NAME.

Rothschild is a namo mlnuty iu the commercial world, Killiman is a name mighty in tho scientific world, Irving is name mighty In the literary world, Waih ltiUt ju is a uame mighty iu the world, WeIIm ton Is a name mighty Iu the military world; but where in all the earth Is a nam so potent lift and thrill and arouso aud rally mid btev, as the name of Jesus 1 Why, the Bound of that ono name uuhorbed Haul, and throw Newton on his face on chip's dock, and that oue name to day, while I speak, holds a hundred million souls uuder omnipotent spell. That name Iu England to day. means more than Victoria. In Germany, that name to day moans moro than King William. Iu Italy that name to day means mora than Garibaldi or Victor Emautiol.

I mighty natuo. I havo boon a mau bound hand and foot of tho devil and captlvt of all ovll habits at tho sound of that name, dash down bis shackles and march out forever free. I have seen a man overcome of misfortune and trial, every kind of trotiblo had ho. but at tbo sound of that noma, the sea dropped and tlio oloud parted, and tho sunburst of eternal glodueBs poured upon his soul. I have seen man hardened In lnfidollty, defiant of God, full of Jeer and scoff, Jocose of tho Judg mout day, reckless of eternity, at tho sound of that name, blanch and cowor and groan, and kneel aDd woop and repent and pray and believo and rejoice and triumph.

It Is a mighty name, a mighty name, and undor its power, the last templo of superstition will come down, and tho last Juggernaut of iniquity will bo shattered to pieces. Tho red horse of carnago spoken of in apocalyptic vision, and tho black horse of death must como back on their hauucboH, whilo tho white horno of victery goes forth mounted of Him who hath the moon under His feet, and tho stars of heaven for Hi tiara. Mighty name. But I remark egatn, taking a step forward In this subject, that tbo nomo of Christ is an enduring name. Vou get over tbo fence of the graveyard, and you pull tho weeds back from tlio name that Uos nearly faded from tbo tombstone, and you wish that Walter Scott'o "Old Mortality" would come along and rcchlsol It so that you might really find out what the uanio is.

Why that was the name of tho mightiest mau lu all his towu. iu oil the country, in all tha State, now almost failed fmm the tombstone. Aud no the mightiest names of this world cither have perished oK aro pertsLfug. Mora tlian all, it will be embalmed in the hearts of all tho good of earth and all the great ones of Heaven. Shall the emancipated bondman over forget who set tilm free 7 Shall tho biiud man ever forget tho Divine Physician who gavo him sight 7 Shall the lost and vyanderlng ever foraet who brought them home 7 Why, to moke forget that noma would bo to barn up all tha Bible, and buru down all the churches, and tuou.

In tho spirit, of universal arson, go through the gate of Heavou and put tho torch to oil tho temples oud mansions and palaces until In tho awful conflagration, the whole city went down and tho poople came out to look upon the charred ruins but oven thon they would hear the name of Christ In the thunder of falling towers, and iu the crash of teniplo walls, and see it interwoven into the flying banners of flamo, and tho redeemed of Heaven would say: "Lot tho temples and tho palaces burn lot them burn we have Joxua left." Blessed bo His glorious name forever ftThe name which is above evor name." The Catholic clergy of Chicago oppose tho p'oa of appealing to the Catholics of tho United Sutee to help Archbishop Purccll. The opposition is basod oa tbo fact that so many of tbo parches ara in debt, and again it is doubted if a general appeal would be responded to, Cnthollce not being bound to contribute against their will, oud many opposing it on th ground of precedent. HUSfiVESS 1SOT1CES. SUNDAY EAGLE. OKDKR YOUR CABKIKR TO LBAVI5 TUF.

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8Ho. StperiijsobotUt, ri Si YAK SKHa yrtisi Mr. Beecher's Sermon Evening The Old Testament Discourses Continued. The Prophecies of Balaam Nebo and Plsgah. Plymouth Church was filled to overflowing last evening with the onstomary audience, and Mr.

Beecher's sermon was another of the series which ho is giving npon "the Old Testament. He has, fir the present, at least, completed the discussion of the polity and' government of the Israelites and the philosophy that lay under all tholr ritualistic observances, and last evening he again took up the narrative of the history of the Hebrew people. The last discourse had left themcampod upon the plains of Sinai, where they received the law, and that law has been the topic of the evening sermons for several weeks. Last evening the discourse took up the history beginning with the events of the plains of Moab, on the east of the Jordan. Yesterday was the 10th of March, the anniversary of the death of Frank W.

Howard, and as Is customary, the choir sang as the opening anthem the selection composed for the occasion and what 1b always sung upon this anniversary. It is entitled "The Light in Darkness," and opens with these lines "Though some may weep with breaking heart, Thore oomos Oh Christ a day of Thine." The text of Mr. Boecher's discourse was found in Matthow which reads "Now when John had heard In the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disoiplea." This prison, said Mr. Beecher, was a castle on the east side of the Dead Sea. It was built ou a high crag overlooking the land of Moab on one hand and the Dead Sea in front while to tho northward Itlooked over the land as far as Lebanon.

It was on this orag where the castle was buUt, or a near one that Mosos stood when just before his death he looked out over the whole land of Canaan, and saw, what the Inheritance of his people should be. It was from this, or a near elevation, that Balaam stood when he looked out over the host of Israel and biassed instead of cursed them as he had been called upon to do. There Is not across Jordon a spot of deeper interest, or which gathers moro interesting associations around it than the land Moab. We have been occupying ourselves with the Internal economy of the Government and the religiouB observance of the people, for the past few evenings. Historically, we left them in toe plains of Sinai.

After thirty eight yearB of wandering In the deBert, they had now come to the southern bordor of Palestine, but far to the eastward. The numbers and warlike threats of the people ou tho south had prevented Moses from entering by that way and he had led tho people far to the east of the Dead Sea, avoiding Moab and Amnion. They were of the family of Abraham, In that they were tho direct descendants of Lot. They hod settled here and had become a prosperous and flourishing people, inhabiting a high table land peculiarly adopted for agricultural purposes. Thero was, therefore, the tie of blood between thorn and the Hebrews.

Moses had osked leave ol the King of Moab to pass through his country, and when they refused, had turned aside and passed them by, aud had gone away to the eastward. Israel was now encamped in the plains of Moab as they were called with country of Moab lying to tho southeast. Over against thorn was Jericho which was soon to fall before them. The King of Moab was greatly exercised because of their nearness to his borders, for he did not kuow how soon this victorious host would roll down, upon his land and sweep away his little kingdom. His people also appear to have been seriously alarmed, and at this juncture tho king bethought him of the spiritual arm, and determined to evoke that against this mighty host.that l3y camped upon his bordera.

He Bent away eastward to the Assyrian territory for BALAAM, a prophet, to come and curse the children of Israel. Balaam waB tho greatest prophet of his age and time. His fame appears to havo extended far and wide, and he calls up the fact of the existence of truth in religion, outside of the children of Israel. It would appear that, although the heathen nations were sunk In pognn superstition, there was still among thorn a knowledge aud a recognition of the true God. Balaam lived among a heathen people, and was, no doubt, more or less corrupted by their observances, but ho held to the truth to a certain degree.

HiB fame appears to havo extended far and wide, and to him Balak, the King of Moab, sent, asking that he would come and curse the children of Israel. Ho sont messengers with costly gifts, and Balaam received them, telling them to wait over night and he would consult tho Lord. Mr. Boeoher then road the sacred narrative, commenting as he read The prophet refused to go tho first time, and the Klug of Moab sent again with more honorable mossages and a still more costly gift. It shows the terror of the people and the king that thoy were so anxious to get this holy man from a far country to curse thoso whom thoy looked upon with fear and trembling.

Mr. Beecher read the narrative to the passage where it ia Bald, "And tho asB opened his mouth and spake" "and it has never been shut Bince," intcrjocted tho pastor, and he read on. He then took up the disoussion of thiB Bingular occurrence. In those early days dreams and visions of tho night were thought to bo revelations from God, and were of ton looked upon as veritable history. This account is just what a clear headed though very superstitious man would dream and would look upon as verltablo history.

Wo havo hero tho singular spectacle of an ass talking, and talking good sense and getting tho best of the argument. Wo know that fear and terror come in dreams, but never any senso of their Incongruity nor any sense of shame, the wildest and most absurd things appear to us in our dreams perfectly natural and proper. It has been thought by commentators that this occurrence was a dream, and that it was gradually incorporated Into history. we havo here the fact told that God was angry because of the journey which Balaam was taking, and yet, just before It we have the account of how tho Lord told him to go. It Is thought by Grove and other commentators that the whole passage is an incorporation from the records of Moab, and shows their sido of the story, that It was perhaps first a sort of foot note.

to the rest of the record, but gradually became Incorporated Into the text. It shows us that tho Bible is not a book written contin uously by one man, but that it is the gradual assemblage and growth of different minds. Mr. Beecher read the account at some length. Ho thought it was a mysterious account, and to him it seemed like a oloudy drama.

It throws considerable light upon.the people and time, and upon tho old'prieet and prophets of the time Balaam was the great rival of Mosob. Under all hlB divinations and corruptions of of heathendom he appears to have maintained a knowledge of tho true God. His performance of his work was not pleasing to the King of, Moab, but he makes the excuse that the Lord had put'the words in his mouth and he could not speak falsely. tt was not long after this that Moses was called upon to lay aside his burdens, and it was from the top of one of these crags that he looked forth over the land. He was 120 years old, but we are told that his natural strength was not abated.

We are told that he was tho man. We havo no word to translate the word that appears tno original. It really means a man modest and nnassumlm? in the presence of his own abilities. He lies buried somewhere in ravines, but the spot no one Knows. THE VISITATION.

A Lecture in ttie Cliurcli br tlic Rev. J. IH. Kiely, and a Concert by the Choir and the Harmonic Club A Few Words on the Architecture, of the New Edl fice. A concert and a leoture attracted to the Church of the Visitation, last night, one of the largest audiences that have yet sat within tho new building.

The musical talent consisted of fifteen voices from the Brooklyn Harmonlo Club, tho choir of the church and several other artists of note. Professor Burns opened the concert with a brilliant organ solo. Tho soloists, Miss Helen Duffy, MiBS Lizzie Hoagland, William Young and Nicholas Doyle, Bang "Eegina Cceli," the choir uniting in tho chorus. This was a charming performance, which eltoited loud applause. "To Prego O'Padro," by Nlchoiai, brought to the front Miss Maggie Mitchell, of St.

Stephen's, Miss Doyle and Mrs. Plunkett. Tho pioce was excellently rendered, the three voIcob blending harmoniously. A trio, "Christmas," from Glorza, by Messrs. Doyle, Early and Young, was flnoly sung.

This was followed with a delightful quartet, "'Alma," from Martha, by MIbs Griffin, Mrs. Plunkett, and Messrs. Doyle and Young. Miss Maggie Mitchell's fine soprano voice as again hoard in and then came the lecturer, tho BEV. J.

M. KIELY, who Bpoke on "Ireland's National Music." He said When St. Patrick entered the grand hall at Tara he saw around him not kings only and princes, but bards, harpers and mlnutroiB. Aged men they wore, for the most part wearing long beards and dressed In flowing robes. They sat as the counsels of tho nation.

They saug the nation's anthems. And their duty wan, whan debate and argument were ended, to fill tho mighty halls with tho stirring strains of national melody. Tho greater part of Europe was yot in comparative barbarism. Christianity had not dawned on tho West or the North. But if I prove to you that Ireland, though not Chris Han, was, nevertheless, even at that early period, a land of letters and of culture, it will not be difficult to prove that she was a land of music also.

She was a land of letters from the days of her earliest colonization. For, Phoenocla, which gave their scholars to Egypt and to Greece, was the mother of Irish literature. The firBt Christian missionaries to Ireland found there records written in old Greek characters. And even after Latin was introduced tho people copied it into the same old Greek ciphers. So that if Julius Ornsar went Ireland when he went to Britain, he would have found, Instead of lawless, languageless, naked trlbeB Buch as ho did meet In Britain, a people of Eastern cast, refinod and governed by tholr own laws.

The Brehon law and the customs of 'Tanistry governed the land, and five kings ruled the people, each king having a separate parliament but all joining in one congress every three years at: Tara, in Meath. Tho sun was the supreme object of their worship, fire and water being secondary delUes. The shade of mighty oaks was their favorite sanctuary, huge stones their altars, Druids their priests, bards their mln Btrels. In view of this state of things we are justified in supposing that muslo, sister of literature and HANDMAID OF NATUBATj BEUOION, was cultivated by tho Irish people. Nor la this mere oonjeoture it is fact.

Of the antiquity of the harp there oan be no doubt. It was tha favorite Instrument of the royal David, and that the Irish harp is tho perfect copy tt the Egyptian one goes far to prove the early antiquity of Irish music. Indeed, 1,300 years before Christ according to the book of Ballymote, the harp was well known in Ireland "Tara," the book continues, "was so called for tha celebrity of its melodies." And thoro was no class of men in the land so honored as the national minstrels. That musio attained something like perfection after St. Patrick came is not to be wondered at For he was master of the Ambroalan chant and introduced it into Ireland not many years after Ambrose and Augustine went to their reward.

The Gregorian chant was taught by: the Irish priesthood, not only at home, but in every country on the continent. Two Irishmen, as we see to the Aeta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, were the first to teach psalmody to tho nuns" ol St. Gertrude's Convent in 650. Cologne received its first lessons on Eoman chant from St. Hollas, or Hely.

England and Scotland received their first harpers from Ireland and, in an early preface to Dante's "Inferno," the poet atateB that the only harp hoover saw came from Ireland. Every Irish bishop, according to CambronalB, was a harpist. And who wlU say that the Irish are not a musical race, in face of the fact that they alone, of all the people? of the earth, havo interwoven the emblem of their nation's muslcwlth the green and gold of their nation's flag 1 But all the glory at length gathered over the head of one man. And Carolan, the last of great harpers, had scarcely died when heaven sent Ireland a minstrel who revived all the glories of her ancient national melodies. In THE MOQBB we have at onco a bard, a poet and a musician.

Taking hold of thograha old melodleB of bis native land, he had only to wed them to the most beautiful words, old in their national conception, weave them into the ex qulBlte verse' of which ho was Buch a master, and lot die grand old airs which for centuries kept warm tho national lifoblood of the people, assumed life, popularity axid vigor. Applause. After the leoture the concert was resumed. Mr. John Evans Bang Salutarls," and "Tantum Ergo" was performed by Mr.

Nicholas Doyle, assisted by a chorus Of male voices. THE ABOHrrECTlJEE OP THE OHUEOH. Tho residents of Bed Hook will hive something to look at when the Church of the Visitation is completso; which will bo about two years hence. In the midst of so many factories, and where there is so much vacant ground, it wffl form a striking object. The architecture of th church is English gothlb.

The entrance ia on Verona street, through three largo massive pino doors', four lhohea thick. There la thus ample room for ingress and egress at all times. The building Is 140 feet long and 75 feet wide. The height of tha nave is 88 feet and the width 88 feet inches, un the eastern cor ner of the bunding there will be a tower and spire ol 200 foot Eighty foot of this tower ie already oom cleted. There WW be three, yesper hetta placed In the tOTer.

orof thTOrwelghing 4,000 pounds. Ithasnot whither the'etserwiUbesTirmounted with ah JHUTnUHtea woes una m. oropnoa or a gut The minaret on the western earner Is completed, and if th tower, was, unshod, oan can eagUy imagtno the gtrj trains began to run to day. Comfort Tiffany, father of Reverends Dr. O.

II. Tiffany and Dr. Charles Tiffany, died on Saturday In Now York, aged 01 years. The General Passenger and Ticket Agents Association held three sessions in Now York Saturday. The association was in session to day and the regular order of business was the making of rates.

The Indians of Alaska are preparing for war. The situation ia alarming and tho English ship Osprey, will remain at Sitka nntil relieved by an American man of war. Senator Jones, of Nevada, was the recipient of a complimentary dinner at tha Unlou League Club, on Saturday evening, tendered by Colonel Drake Do Kay. A largo party of gentlemen were present. George G.

Redington, proprietor of the Delaware Houso at Port Jervls, died Saturday night. Hs formerly hold an important position In tho office of James Fisk, and was 'afterward Superintendent of tha Delaware Division of tho Erie Ballway. The funeral of Dr. John M. Woodworth, Surgeon General of the United States Merino Hospital Service, took place in Washington yesterday afternoon.

A large number of officials attended the remains to Rock Creek Cemetery, where thoy were interred. James M. Sutherland, known to the theatri cal world as Bob Hart, was baptized hi tho Berean Bap tist Church, New York, yesterday, by tha pastor, Rev. John Qulncy Adams. Sutherland is to devote his future to the gospel ministry and is to study under Dr.

Adams. Ono of his brothers Li a minister. The eighth anniversary of the Paris revolu tion of March 18, 1871, was celebrated last evening in New York by tho Society of llof ugecs of tho Paris Com mune. Thero woro speeches in French and English, music aud games. Ciarendon Hall, In Thirteoutb street, where tho coiobration occurred, was crowdod with poo pie.

The sale of tho Brinley library was concluded Saturday evening In Now York, and tho grand total for tho six days' salo amount to $48,830. Ono third of tho collection was sold. Tho second sale will come off late in the Summer. A larger sum was realized than was expended on the books, thus proving Uint old books aro a good investment. Mrs.

Josie Wilson completed a walk of 2,700 quarter miles in 2,700 quarter hours in Jersey City on Saturday night. She then announced that she would continue until 3,000 quarter miles wore finished. Yesterday there was a free exhibition and the ball was crowded. In the afternoon a party pf roughs got into a fight and Miss Wilson was so frightened that sho fell into a swoon aud remaiuod unconscious for os'er an hour. She did not resume hor task.

A caucus of Democratic Senators was held Saturday night In Washington to measures preliminary to the formation of tho standing cotmnittct B. Senator Wallace was selected Chairman and Senator Beck Secretary of the caucus. A committee to rearrange tho standing committees and to report to an adjourned meeting to day was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Wallace, McDonald, Eaton, Ransorn, Cockrell, Davis, Garland, Grover and Pendleton, Christ Episcopal Church at Bordentown, N. memorable as the church where Joseph Bonaparte and Madame.

Murat worshiped whon tho forrnor lived in that village, is to be torn down. The first organist of tho church was Madamo Murat, wifo ot Princo Lucion Charles Murat. nepliow of Napoloon. Tho church was consecrated by Biwhop Doano and since that time a great number of notable pooplo havo Bat In its old fashioned powj. The edifice is primitive in form and Badly out of repair and tbo Vestry decide! to tear It down and put up a moro commodious placo of worship.

Deacon Asa Otis, of Norwich, left nearly a million of dollars for bouovolent societies. Am horat College and tho Yolo Theological Seminary get 25,000 each. Bulkley High School of New London, Bacou Academy of Colehoster, Firdt Ecclesiastical Socloty of New London ami the American Board of Conunlsaioners for Foreign Missions each got $10,000, Half a million is given to the American Board of Foreign Missions, Tho American Home Missionary Society, tha American Biblo and tho Tract Society each got $5,000. Richard Cook Tilghiuau, Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court of Queon Anne's County, diod on Friday, near Coutrovtlio, aged sovouty two. Judge Tilghman was a graduate of West Point and had among his classmates General Jo Johnston and Jetlorsou Davis.

Ho acted as groomsman when Uobert E. Lee married Mary Custis. Ho inherited the Hermitage, ono of tbo finest estates in Maryland, and after his father's death dovotcd his lifo to agricultural pursuits. He married Miss Williams of Baltimore. His funeral occurred yesterday from his country seat.

The people of Newport, hanged Peter Klein last night, for having committed an outrage on Mrs. Truesdale, moro than a week ago. Klein wai caught yestorday, and several articles stolen from his victim were found In his possossiou. He was put in jail, but tha people overpowered the jailor, and took him to tho house of Mrs. Truesdale, where ho wa3 Identlflad.

His confession of guilt and plea for mercy did not avail, for he was swiftly hurried to tha spot where he committed tho crime, and was hanged before the Sheriff and his W8S could get to the place and rescue him. Klein had been released from the Poiuteu tlary but a fow dayH before for a similar offense. The number of negroes who have flocked to St. Louis under the Impression that they would be provided with means of subsistence while there, and free transportation to Kansas, whoro they were to receive lands and mouoy Irom the Government, has necessitated active measures on tho part of the officials. The Mayor has Issued a proclamation warning oh persons against going there without money to support themselves and the railroad and steamboat and lines havo boon warnod to bring no moro.

As tho negroes continuod to flock in ou every train and boat the matter is a sorious ono aud what the end will be cannot be told. The Panama Railroad Company is pressing the Pacific Mall Steamship Company on account of tho failure of the latter to make the payment due to the railroad company under Its contract. Tho officers of both companies are reticent about the matter, but it 1b known that the Pacific Mail Company is Indebted to the Panama Company In tho sum of $2,039,411. Tho February Installment on this dobt was not paid, ond tho sum of $100,000 additional 1b now owing. Tho Pacific Mall gave tho Panama Company tho steamship Georgia as security for a part of the debt, ond recently tho Georgia was lost at sea.

A compromise, it Is thought, will be effected, so that the Pacific Mail Company will be able to continue its control of its steamships, General Thomas W. Sherman died yesterday at Newport, K. in his sixty fourth year. Ho was a graduate of West Point In the class of 1830, and obtained his appointment, it is said, by tho pluck ho exhibited in walking to Washington aud asking for it of President Jackson. During tho Mexican war ho was conspicuous for courage and was rewarded with tho rank of brevet major.

At Port Hudson during tho late war he lost a leg. He was placed on tho retired list In 1870 with the full rank of a major general of the Army, Gonoral Sherman lost his wife a fow da ago, aud leaves one sou, who inherits considerable property from him and his mother, who was a daughter of cx Uovernor Shannon, of Ohio. RIGHTS BARTERED AWAY. Alderman Stow art' Utile Omnibus IllII How Classon avenue wax Over to Speculators A Specimen I'eti tlou. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eajle From repeated declarations niado by Ahh mau Stewart, of tho Soventh Ward, the iople of Clas sou ovonue wore led to believe that their rights were secure in his hands, and that they had nothing to fear from the attempts of speculotors to capture tho best portion of tho avonuo.

They are now roured as from a deep sleep, to find themselves bound baud and foot, aud their rights bartered away, without an opportunity to raise a hand or voice In self defeuee. Ono week ago last Monday, a petition was presented to the Council and referred to the Railroad Committee. It purported to be a petition of parties, who were both Teeidents and property owners along tbo lino of Classon avenue," aud It asked that Charles J. Sands (a gentleman represented as a spoculator In omnibus franchise) might bo allowed to extend his sbigo route along Lafayette avenue to Classon avonuo, and through Classon avenue to Atlantic. No notice of tho presenta of this petition appeared in the report of proceedings published In the newpapcrs, and tho Ballroad Committee did not condosceud to give notice In the usual manner to parties interested.

On last Monday, Just at thO Close or tne BOSBlon, resoiuuon wa run lurougu by a vote of 12 to 11, and Mr. Sands secured his prize. Two days before men supposed to be Interested In omnibus lines were asserting that "all it ueeded to secure the franchise was tho proper distribution of little mouoy among members of the Council." A FRAUDULENT PETITION. The following interesting document id found on file in tho office of the City Clerk 4 Merman Stsuart Dear 8m We, tho undersigned residents and property owners along tho lino of Classon avenue, respectfully request that you will extend your ofilclal aid toward obtaining the consent of tho city authorities for Mr. Charles J.

Sands to oporate his Lafayette avenue line of Btages, during week days only, along and through Classon avenue and thence to Coney Island Ballroad depot at tho corner of Franklin and Atlantic avenuos B. Fowler, No. iU Lafayette avenue Patrick Lyons, No. 340 Classon avenue John Lyons, No. 340 Classon avenue H.

Verlinger, No. 373 Classon avenue J. 8. Connor, No. 347 Classon avenue T.

H. Dieckmau, No. 1,079 Fulton street Jones, No. 1,060 Fulton street W. 8.

Garrabrant, No. 1,004 Fulton street J. P. Harper, No. 298 Groono avenue W.

H. Turner, No. 1,081 Fulton street Dounis Collins, corner Classon and Lexington avs C. Langford, No. 143 Qulncy street Joseph Wells, No.

21 Loffcrts place J. W. Sands, No. 145 Qulncy street Samuel Walt, No. 585 Classon avenue W.

T. Morford, No. 616 Classon ovenuo Louis G. Kohl, No. 374 Classon avenue B.

Schroeder, No. 3G0 Olaraon avenue Jos. G. Underbill, No. 397 Classon avenue J.

W. Hamilton, No. 437 Classon avenue. A careful examination of tha above petition discloses the fact that only two of tho petitioners ore property owners on Classon avenne, and these only represent twenty feet each, while the franchiso grants the right of way along tho line of tho street for eleven blocks. ANOTHXE INTERESTING.

PETITION. Another naner found accomnanvina the above rtnti tion is signed by M. living four blocks distant and within naif a block of the present Grand avenuo stable (the starting point of tho Lafayette avenue Une), and their deep concern for the welfare of the property owners on Classon avenue is supposed to arise from a desire to remove the stages a UrUo further away from, their own doors. It ia signed by A. H.

Catlin, M. 207 Greene avenue; J. L. H. Elmendorf M.

192 Greene avenne; D. Atkln, 207 Greene avenue; w. 8. Sands, 237 Greene avenue; B. Lanikin, 216 Greens avenue, ALDZBMAN 8TBWABT0 EXPLANATION.

Alderman Stewart was questioned as to his part Id tbo transaction, end admitted that when other parties potitionod, few weeks since, for the use of one block on Classon avenne to ran Gates avenue line of stages hs was opposed to it, and objection was raised because it su in closo proximity to Dr. Duryea's Church. said he opposed the granting ot that franchise, but could see no objection to extending the Lafayette avenue lino over the street from Lafayette avenne to Atlantic avenue. The Alderman Insist that it was not necessary to give public notice, becauee notice bad been given when one block alone was asked for. The people who know Alderman Stewart, and who are positive' tohia knowlodgoof the ownership of the Classon avenue property in the vicinity of the church he so frequently attends, win uoi ooiievo inai ne oouiu nave been ignorant of the fact that the petition did not rep.

resent property owners. They also assert that hia pod tlan on the BaUroad Committee leaves the whole respon. alblllty upon him as to the toll ore to give public notice. Boon after the passage of the resolution, through the Common Council Ute Mayor waa tmpovtuned to give it hia approval, and from tha roprosentatiotu made to blrohebfiUavetlfiuttit expressed the vrUh of the proti srtr holders. tatritil ua uwofcft thyioto, Ot This Paper boa the Largest Circulation of nil)' Evening Paper Published in the United States, its value as an Advertising medium is therefore ap parent.

The Extra Session. When Congress meets to morrow the Democrats will find themselves, for the first time in nearly twenty years, in full control of the legislative branch of the Government. The Democratic Senators being united and in a clear majority, the Senate will be reorgantzed promptly and orderly, to the end that the majority shall shape its councils. The first act in the reorganization of the Senate which will attract public attention will be the formation of its committees, forthecountryatlargeiscon cerned in the quality of the material the Democratic party has provided for this purpose. The opinion entertained by the country of the Senators selected as Chairmen of the more important Committees, will determine the judgment of the country as to the complexion of the Committees themselves.

By a very simple understanding arrived at by the Democratic Senators in their caucus, they have decided upon ratifying the choice already made as to the capability and qualifications of each other for the work devolving upon the most impor tant Committees. Inasmuch as the presiding officer of the Senate is not selected by the Senators themselves, the Senators select their own Committees each party in caucus determining for itself how it shall be represented ou the committees. The majority party determines also how many members the minority is entitled to on the sevoral committees, and, presumably, according to the relative strength of the two parties. After the majority has determined upon the number of committeemen it sees fit to assign to itself, and selects them, it turns over the list to be filled out by the minority, giving it the absolute right to iuake its own selection, and to complete the (several committees. Presumably, the Senator (the minority places at the head of its members on a committee would bo its first choice for Chairman, if it had power to name the chairman.

Tho Democratic majority cow propose to act on this understanding, and lionoo they have decided that, as far as it is possible, in view of the changes that havo been made in tho composition of the Senate itself tho Senator who heads the list of the late minority phall now have the Chairmanship of the com mitteo on which his name appears. While tho Republicans had a bare majority in the last Senate, they claimed and secured rather more than a bare political preponderance on some of tho committees. For instance, the Committee ou Privileges and Elections has a peculiar political importance, from the faot that this committee passes upon tho question of the qualifications of members whose seats may be contested. This committee consists of nine members of these gis were Republicans in the last Senate, three only boing Democrats. A bare majority of tho committee was held not to afford sufficient Bocurity to the majority party in the Senate, for, in the absence of ouo Republican, the Committee would be equally divided, and this was a contingency the Republicans felt justified in guarding against, on a committee winch deals nlmost solely with political Find party questions.

On the other hand, the Democrats were given four of the nine members on the Committees oh Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Commerce. Although the Republicans had but a narrow majority of two or three in the last Senate, and the Democrats have seven or eight majority in the present Senate, the relative political complexion of the committees will remain unchanged, we presume, except that, of course, it will be reversed the majority party assuming the ascendency on the committees which belongs to it. Under the understanding reached by the Democratic majority Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, will take the place of Mr. Hamlin, of of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Mr.

Morrill, of Vermont, will give place to Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, on the Committee on Finance Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, will probably take the place of Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, on the Committee on Appropriations Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, who retires from the Senate, from his State, and from public affairs, will be succeeded by Mr.

Randolph, of Now Jersey, as Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs; while Mr. Thuruian, of Ohio, will take the place that belongs to him of right, as the foremost lawyer in the Sonato the head of the Judiciary Committee supplanting Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, a gentleman whose judicial attainments are as respectable as can possibly be exercised by any man who is in the habit of dividing his countrymen into two classes saints and sinners who assumes that he is on the side of the saints, and that his side should always have the best of it. There is no intelligent man in the country who will contend for a moment that the Senate has lost anything in weight or dignity by these charges. In the contest for control of the organization of the House of Representatives, there is no change in the situation.

Tho Eagle has not at any time regarded Mr. Randall's election as doubtful, and for the reason that we did not conceive it possible that the party was in a temper to make rash experiments at this time. Mr. Randall has deserved well of his party and of his country. We know of no change that could be made in supplanting him that would not, under existing circumstances, be accepted as a public misfortune by Democrats who honestly believe that the ascendency of their party will inure to the advantage of their country, and whose attachment to their party is based on this belief alone.

With the full restoration of Democratic ascendency, we hope to see a change in the sectional relations of parties, and it will come through a revival in our politics, that will bring into prominence the old questions of material concern. In past times, Massachusetts and Kentucky Vermont and North Carolina were in closer political sympathy than were Maine and Massachusetts, or New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The Democratic members of the House of Representatives have it within their power now to bring to an end the era of emotional, sensational and sectional politics. If they are equal to their opportunity, it will be fortunate for the country if they are not, a great many Democrats will be disposed, at last, to look to some other organization for the maintenance of principles vital and enduring, if the Confederated Republic is to remain in the form in which it was fashioned by its founders. It is generally supposed that the people of this country have a Government and an army and a navy capable of protecting its rights and upholding its honor and dignity abroad.

Such is the popular idea founded mainly on the undeniable fact that vast appropriations are annually made for the support of innumerable officials, civil, military and naval, and for the building, repairing and victualling of ships of war. It seems, however, that this supposition is a false one. The Government of the United States has no navy. It is true that in various foreign ports a lot of rotten old hulks are, by vigorous pumping, kept afloat, and that from them the American flag is displayed. But these decayed old tubs are not able to put to sea without imminent danger of foundering.

By rare good luck some of these ships succeeded in crossing the ocean, but it is not possible for seamanship to bring them back again. The Gettysburg now lies in the harbor of Genoa, and an effort will be made to 6ell her there. She may possibly bring something for old iron. A steamer is on tho way to that port to bring home the officers and men. Another war vessel, the Dispatch, 5b also In a similar condition in Mediterranean waters.

Her boilers have given out, and it is question able whether she would survive an ordinary gale should an attempt be made to fetch her away under sail. There are several other vessels abroad totally unfit to make a homeward voyage, although the attempt will doubtless he inade with some of them, and, if they do not go ashore, as the Constitution recently dicL. on the EngMi coast they may succeed in getting home. All this seems vastly We pay enormons sums for the support of a navy, nd we have hardly a vessel that can keep afloat, po est aoihiaa ot tho Doasribilitv of holdJne our and not her husband gone to the Emperor she would have been acknowledged. Napoleon never saw: her, but his nephew, the late Emperor, received her son and grandson at his Court and the nobility of the day paid them all attention.

Jerome lived until I860, and he alone of all the family opposed the recognition of his son and grandson as a Bonaparte. The American marriage was never annulled by the Pope, and Madame Bonaparte still insists that her grandson, Jerome Napoleon, will yet as cend the French throne. She has lost none of her admiration for the house of Napoleon, and always recognized the head of the house as the most superior mind in the world. The daring and courage of Napoleon she could admire even though he was her enemy, but the pusillanimity of her husband she never understood. Seventy six eventful years have passed since her marriage, and Madame Patterson is living to day in Baltimore, aged and ill, but "still a woman of resolute will, determined if possible to live until she reaches her hundreth birthday.

It is hardly possible, for though she lacks but four' years of that great age she is wearing out physically, and the Winter just past has been usually trying upon her Bystem. Up to a few years ago Madame Patterson was one of the most interesting women in the land. She was younger at eigh ty than most women are at forty five, because of her intelligence, vivacity and unabated interest in public affairs. As a business woman she has been phenomenal. Her fortune has been so invested that it has constantly increased in value, and it is owing to her wise management that her son and grandsons are so well off in this world's goods.

Her life reads like a romance, and her history is one of the most remarkable of her sex. OTapleson and miss Ilauk Again, It must be discouraging to a gentleman who has devoted so much time and ingenuity in proving his identity to the world as has Mr. Henry Mapleson, to be informed through a daily newspaper that Mies Minnie Hauk, while graciously acknowledging the palpability of Madame Marie Roze Mapleson, sternly declines to admit that there is any Henry Ma pleson. "For me," says the pert and piquant Carmen, "he does not exist. To grope in the gloom of Miss Hank's disfavor is to exist in misery and pitiable obscurity, to be sure, but after all 'it is to exist.

This is the more emphatically proved by the existence of Miss Hauk in opera. For, by the same process of self obliteration, namely, by giving offense to Miss Hauk, Colonel Mapleson himself has ceased to have any personality. II there is no Colonel Mapleson then Her Majesty's Opera Company is a myth, and, as the part cannot be greater than the whole, Miss Hauk also is a myth, and has no existence. But we are forcibly assured of the falsity of the hypothesis upon which this argument is based, by Miss Hauk herself, who makes excellent use of an opportunity afforded her by an esteemed contemporary to let the world know with what extreme cruelty she has been treated. Now, it is impossible to ill treat a myth, and therefore Miss Hauk must be regarded as having what she has usually been supposed to have, a delightful substantiality.

It is painful to think, therefore, that Miss, Hauk should be living in a constant state of martyrdom and persecution, and that to this melancholy state the Eagle, her most devoted admirer and foremost champion, should have contributed. Yet it is even so. One night last week Miss Hauk sang in Brooklyn. After one act in which she had not especially distinguished herself, the audience by its applause signified its desire to call somebody out. As Madame Sinico had the opportunity for distinction in this act, and made excellent uso of it, little surprise was felt in the house when Signor Tecohi brought her out.

JBut the audience wanted Miss Hauk and finally suoceeded in bringing her before the ourtain. She "gave a little nod and retired, and even her devoted admirer, the folt constrained to comment upon the ungraciousness of the recognition. It is with evident pain that it now discovers how completely it fell into a trap set for it by the designing Mapleson. What this trap was can best be explained by traoing babkward the scheme whioh this versatile intriguer' had planned. Miss Hauk responded reluctantly; 'and" with a deceptive appearance of ungraciousness because the time of the encarf, haying arm rubbe'd with Thifl was necessitated by tho clumsiness of Signor who sang the row of Jose, and In hia acting bruisen ana twisted her arm three times.

The reason of bis doing this was not that bo was to meet Weston the first week in. May, and try his endurance against him. Inasmuch as Weston is known as the great American failure, the English champion seems to stand a good chance of successfully defending the belt at past once. Miss one of the most attractive artists on any stage, who played for many consecutive nights in one of the most thrilling dramas on any stage, appeared at Macauley's Theatre, in Louisville, last week. Miss is unquestionably without an equal on any stage in certain lines of business, and left her sachel in her dressing room at the theatre.

In emotional dramas she is especially strong, as has frequently been proved, and tho sachel contained several diamond rings, gold pencils and money. When she seeks to move an audience to tears real tears course down her cheeks and her voice trembles with genuine sorrow and sym pathy, but while she was on the stage some thief came through the window and carried off the sachel. Thero is not an artist in the world who so thoroughly understands the value of public interest in herself and the fact that true merit will always command admiration as Miss but her loss by the robbery was $150, more or less. Exchanges will please not allude to this grievous and important robbery, for Miss is very sensitive of newspaper notice. The latest dispatches show that aot only was the extent of the Szegedin disaster not ex aggerated in the earlier accounts, but that the largest estimates of the loss of life and property were greatly understated.

It is now asserted that the loss of life will be between two thousand and six thousand, and that nine thousand seven hundred houses were destroyed, most of them being the abodes of the poorer classes. These figures will convey a very inadequate idea, however, of the actual extent of the misery which must ensue. The utter destruction of so many homes means still further loss of life by disease, starvation and exposure. The mortality will be largely increased among the children and old people. It is hard to see whence adequate relief can be obtained so sudden and widespread is the distress.

It seems strange that our people, usually so ready to respond to calls for assistance for the sufferers of other nationalities, should not have already set on foot organized relief for these. They are the same Hungarians whose cause Kossuth so eloquently and as far as assistance in money was concerned, so successfully advocated in this country in the early part of 1852. Very interesting religious exercises connected vrith the commencement of the forty hours' devotion took place at St. Patriot's Church yesterday. The church was crowded to excess.

The main altar was decorated with rare flowers and a profusion of lights. The two side altars were lit up with gas Jets, and the church presented quite a brilliant appearance in contrast with the sombre dress worn during the Lenten season. A grand high mass was oelfbrated, Rev. Father Taaffe, tho pastor, being the celebrant, with Rev. M.

Goodwin as Deacon and Ser. 3. MoOioaSey as sub Deacon. M. A.

Conroy acted as Master of CeremonleB. At the conclusion of the mass the Litany was chanted, after which the procession of the sodalities came up the left side aisle, headed by the cross bearer and two acolytes. After passing by the main altar and bowing before it, they proceeded down the middle aisle. First in line came the Infant Sodality.compoaed of about eighty little girls, dressed In white, with white sashes and wreaths. After them came the Aloysius Sodality, numbering some sixty little boys, Borne wearing red capes and caps, and some wearing blue capes and eaoh carrying a bouquet of fragrantflowera.

Hfixt came the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, fifty boys, wearing blue sashes. texthe Bodalltlea had passed the altar, six little misses, each clothed In white and carrying baskets filled with flowers halted in the middle aisle. Father Taaffe then descended the stops of the altar, being supported on either side by Fathers Goodwin and McCloskey. Be carried the Mdnetranoo, containing the sacred host, being Immediately preceded by acolytes and Incense boaters. The little children carrying the baskets 61 flowers walked backward as they proceeded around the church, strewing flowers in the pathway of the advancing sacrament.

A littlo bell tinkled every few minutes, the' procession would halt, and two little angels would kneel down. The congregation knelt while the procession moved around the church, and bowed In bumble adoration. The choir sang Tantum Ergo" during the exercises', and the4 soeno was T'impreMire, The ser vloea wlttoloaB on Tuesday morning with a high, mass imdaprpcesBioitouiuTtfca' A fpleasafit book or old and young people1 is tne great Niebuhr's "roek Hero which Dow, Mead Co. have juat published it la Illustrated hr HoqoJjv,.