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and Tunis hnve sent munitions of war and mitrailleuse batteries to ths Sultan. Tlie protocol is to lie immediately. Consul Suffer lias been Imprisoned at Aea pukoby one of President Diaz's An insurrection has broken out in Armenia. great many were bud in Wi-Mliiii'-ton by Hampton ('Iiaml? lam witb Cabine. e-Beata and ethesaj al Mr.

ttoyesfs t'liambeilaiii lias subniilted plans for a Bet tleiiiciit; a Ciibinei BMet-Bf discussed Soutlierii affairs, and manifested a stroni. for witli dranal of the troops. A minor was circulated yesterday thai Mr. Tilden liad nerv? wiil of tot warranta on Mr. Hayes, but it proved ta he false.

Joliii r. Stoiktoii was conlirined Attorney General ol New-Jersey tlie iiomiiiatioiiH of Distrii Court Jedges were all tioaiissed except for one court in J.isev City. Mr. State rrisons bill passai tlie N'ew-Vork AsKeintdy. and Si trunk line oAcers say that the Kaltiinore and Ohio's bad faith caused the renewal of tbe, railioad The, lnter LiteraTJ Association adopted its new constitution.

haihUags-in Qieenwieh-st. were burned, with an estimated loss of The and Park differ on a question of -latiawsli-n Qood Fiiday mrieeawsw held in Rosaaa CathoUeaad Protestant Bgiseopal eliurelies. Tiik liKiil observations in dieate a fair morning, followed by gradually in ereasing cloudiness, and ultimately rain. Thi-r yestenlay, 'A7 Gov. has not only his own (.

but lie has organized his own iM-iscniil furor. He ha? earned hit. recoKuition. Tbe Hon. John P.

Stockton, who fell from llic Senate the time of the Salary Grab, is agaia slowly ctbabiag up -fhg laddeor of New-Jersey year lie elbowed his way into the St. Louis now lie has Attoiney-liencral. At this rate, he may eventually iibjiiie to the There to lie no further room for doubt that the States will be formally tl the Paris Kxhibitioii. ef? fort? of the press and of public-spirited sent, to this end have made action by Con gress at the almost certain. This much assutcd, the of the ('oiiiinissioii which is to of the matlt-r becomes of the greatest importance.

Some vuluablc on this a'id other jxiinta are in.ule in a letter ptinti-d on page, and with it will be found a stati-inent by some lu-omincnt of their to MIMIC an adeqthite of American Tliis is a phasant doctrine on the subject arresU put forward by the Park ('ominis suuiere. If the police cannot makt rests in the parks becau.se liny aro within the of the Park De? partment, will ily change their character Instead playgioiinds for youth and sunny ri sorte for the contemplative tramp, we have in the midst of the great ol crime, cities of refuge for fugitive, from the law, asylums for lliose whom police wish to put where they will the most gisnl, gie.n pastiiits where may and be at No, no. An occasional policeman will help the apiiearauce of the landscape. It appears that the Direct Cable Company cannot place itself under the ooutrol of the Anglo-American without going into liquidation acheiue requiring the approval of three fourths of the htockholders. The company will do Wttll to heed the warning of its uiaii aging director, and refrain iiotn taking that peiilou-.

(luce in course of disisolution it would the moral support it now enjoys, uiny be tu.riously bhouid the Catiiiiliiiu (iovernineiit insist upon the ful nu-ut of r. Ibsides, spectael a corpmiitioii deHberatelj winding up affairs in order to break faith with tlie pu ami the lo which it BWOI must bring discredit upon nitei tional schemes organised in London? The appointment of Mr. Layard as Hri F.mbassadoi* hi) the Porto tloi-s not BOBM Satisfaction IB Kurland, although the pu? nte willing to iircept almost any in pi of Sir Henry who was mon- Turk than the Turku during Ml stay at Constai imple. Mr. Layanl lian his year, and lias had extensive, expolie as diplomatist.

His discoveries aiBOMff ruins of Nineveh anil llabylon pave him fame, which was increased hy his visit to nuil his earnest efforts for military form. He owed his political promotion to Whigs and Liberals, ami on that MOOUBt feel at liberty to puisne an indent -iident progressive polley at Stamboul when diplos tic relations Faven a polieetnan has rights. The wli force should not be condemned in the pal estimation because some brutal nun in have boea thrust forward of as its rep Kcntatives. With Deary and Lewis on trial their respective cities on charges icspottiy of savage riiulty ami savage insolence, i pabHc is in some danger of forgetting that i poheeman who keeps out of the newspap must usually lie putty good offlccr, ami tl the BWabCf wlio do keep out is very lar. Bat now and then one gets into print good deeds almost ntone for the ruffianism some of his comrades.

Ollicer Lh il, who OCived testimonial yesterday trom Ihe Co missioners for his bravery in saving li certainly comes nmler this head. roa of saved SOggeatS James Lambert. his tribe increa.se 1 Gen. Benjamin F. Butler must be Mgl flattered In that his js the liest name whi Suggests itself in connection with any demonstration of political wiokedaess.

He mentioned in Waafatngtoa as the leader of carpet-bag coalition which proposes to aasui Control of both houses of CongTCOS and its hand at running the Governmei We beg leave to doubt the repo (Jen. Butler never goes into eoaiiti? unless be is quite sure ol success and of reasonable profit, and he is too shrewd not know what the effect would on the libel of the Bontfa of an attempt carpet-bag treachery to hurl both branches Congress against the Southern policy of Proi ideal Hayes. Such a scheme is so clearly pr destined to failure that Gen. Butler can safe be counted out. No words ean fitly paint the horrors of tl famine in Imlia.

It is a picture which eamii be overeolored. A correspondent furnishes another page some of the larger details of th great calaniily, and also narrates some of personal experiences in the afflicted region. is pleasant know that the British (Joven ment is makiBw noble efforts to relieve the trees, though when the best that is poaaiUe done, many thousands mnst starve. Of tbe si famines that have taken place in India il in the past 04 years, the present is in son respects ihe most formidable It is ex? ilent that the recurrence Of famines in (li East must be expected at intervals in the fu ture. In Tiik Tbibcbb of March 17, und? the head of Bciencc for the People, an acooui was pi ven of a discovery of Dr.

VI, Ihn ter, Director-General of Statistics in Indi; which seems to make certain a connection be tweea these famines and the periodic diminn bon of spots upon Iiie sun. When sun-spot are fewest, the drouths oOCUr that bring famine, The discovery is likely to prove the highest value, may enable futur famines to foreseen, and provision to made against them many months in advaiuc It is getting to be the fashion for Governor to seold their Legislatures. Gov. Bedle takes the cue from Gov. Bobinson, ami read his Senate a aermon.

He had an exeellen text, and delivered an excellent discourse though wc doubt if it had any great upon his congregation. The Governor's mes sage shows that i committee of his awn part; in the Senate waited upon him some time agi and informed him that they would not vote confirm Republicans for the new judgeahips It is pity that this insolen! attempt at tation ditl not move (Jov. liedle to give tin Republicana a larger share of these appoint mints than he did, and it is a pity, too, tiiat ii bis message he, should have thought i necessary to show that the Democrati bat sot nearly everything) but the action of tin Democratic Senators was so flagrant that ii left no room for criticism of (Jov. liedle. Dm publican was confirmed because he airead) hehl one these positions, but the other vim and, being rcnoininated, was again rejected, as was also another Republican nominated in his place, simply because be wai a RepubUcaa.

This exhausted ihe Governor'i patience? and be politely told the Senate ko home. This it ditl. It is a good riddance of a bad lot. SENTIMENTAL POLITICS. It was natuial for several icasOUS that the Republican party, during fire) years of reconstruction? should be disposed to eatertain very strict ideas of its duty toward the people of th?" South and to put a rallier liberal oust met ion upon the constitutional limitations the Federal authority in dealing with them.

The liberation of the subject IBC0 was the of the Republican path's long the defense of their political rights, won at such tremendous cost, was essential to the preservation of the fruits of the war if not to the safety of the Union itself. And it was plain, very soon after the parren der Appoiiiatlox, that the frctdnien -nid ni-ep no rights which the General rum? nt did not defend for them. Tlie lust men of the South, accepting the re? sults of the war as final, and too chivalrous to continus Struggle by assassination after they had been conquered in the open ii? sulked in their homes, ami left public affairs to the Ku-Klux and White League. It I absolutely accessary for tin- Federal power Interfere, acaro was helpless. We had eoaferred certain rights upon him by Procla? mations and Acts of (' mgieSS, but he was ut? terly unable that time to eiifnue tlnui, and lie baldly knew what tiny were.

leave bim at the mercy of tin- most and unsi rtipu ions of Southern whites the dam which iiiiuishid the hated ot pl.inta I ttoa days, erad ihe hands and despised by have been tin-ie luulai Irony. It must have to a new bondage, worse than the old, bociUSfl fasting upon lei torism of law. policy anil p-od fading both that should use the whole power ui the wherever it was m-ccfwary, to secure for the freediuan his of ritfht under the law. A policy Which rest.s upon Philanthropie con? siderations is always liable to to extremes- ami tha "enforcement policy" at the South has bien especially expOSSd to this danger. Many true Republicans have gradu? ally convinced tiusnaarres that the first duty of the Fedeial (iovernineiit is to protect and bold up tlie colored in all his ways, to stand by bis side when he keep p-nard over his political im-etiiiRs, pick out candidates for him, see that nobody disputes his to oilice, and him a good scat in the rail? way car and a first-class grave in the ccnie tCty.

The Federal soldi? is to lxi for the man a sort of gunrdhu BBgel with a musket. Then is no action of the man's life which this beneficent warden is not called upon to mijmiintend. It is upon this theory that some very honest politicians in the Northern States are now exclniinini; against the mcilitated "descrfhin" of l'ackanl and Chamberlain by the 1'residcnt. tho Republican State (ioverninents of Louisiana and Bottth Carolina 1-epWSCntingi in their inimis, the prin? ciple of protection upon which the South has been ruled ever sine? the war, ami a IcfUsal to sastaia them by the army being to a saeriflce of "the nation's wards.1* Their remonstranees do less credit to tlmir heads than their hearts. Bentimentnl consid? erations have BOnlnCC in the business of polities, and the people of the Tinted States have now bcgUB to that the liiiardian ship of the freed people has been carried a liltle too far.

The extracts whmli we print morning from an address by the Hon. Btanley Matthews, delivered two ami a half years CXpreW the current opinion of to-day. "We have done our whole said Mr. Matthews, "when we have cslab "hsiml ami enforced in favor of thefreedssea "equality of right umler the law. The rest, whatever it may prove to be, he must do If he is not able to hold a position in society ami politics in competition with the superior training, education, ami pos? sibly natural capacity of his white neighbor, that is a condition of tilings which tlie Gen? eral Governmen' lias no right to disturb.

Con? gress and the President have no duty and no authority in premises except guarantee equality of right "under law." If the freedlBBB with this Cannot take the first place in Southern society, he must sink to the second and we do not know that any ham will come either to the Slate to the colored man himself by such a eat mal process of adjustment No man is tit for a posilion which he has not strength to hold. A Mate in which a unable to maintain themselves alone are kept in authority by an extraneous armed force is not a free government and has no business in the American Cuion. THE LOOT DP THE MATTER. The mistakes of just men are dangerous. A mistake into which very many just and sin? cere men have fallen, ami by which their course in an important emergency may 1m? governed, has been slated with characteristic sharpness by the well-known correspondent, Redfield of Ihe Cincinnati Coniinerciitl.

To him, recognition of NichoUs or Hampton means abandonment of Impartial suffrage. Hut recognition of Packard or Chamberlain means a of thai corrupt ami odious rule which can be upheld only by the bayonet. Hence be cuts to the Ixuie of the mailer, as he understands if, with one keen sentence: The North must face the real ques? tion, shall carpet-bag ruh-, with all its in? famies, be upheld by the bayonet, or shall we allow Democrats to stamp ant negro suffrage in Louisiana ami South Carolina as have in Mississippi and Georgia 1 Ihe mistake be? neath this reasoning is precisely that which a million honest voters at North are in dan? ger of makiag to-day. It iindcilhs all honest opposition to policy of the Let it be granted that, if troops are with? drawn, negro vail be stamped out ss to the vital ISSUS upon which parties at the South aii- now divided. Southern hit? want local self-government.

They for nothing else. Tbey do want that the or be ruled by its own and tax-payers and eitiseas, and shall not be ruled by Irresponsible fastened upon it by Ted? ral troops. On tiiat matter the whites of the South are practically united. 1 hey are not united about Saythmg else, and never can be. long as tho controlling question in all politics for them is whether the Federal GoY emment shall continue to uphold a set of earpet-baggers, who by colored votes and Federal bayonets have wrecked and robbed Stales ami cities, the whites of the South aro and will be practically unanimous.

So long, they wi'l control the colored vote for their own defense just as far as they aro able. So long, baud will be met with hand, and bayo? nets with revolvers, and the South will con? tinue to be the unsolved problem in politics and the chief danger to free institu? ions, Tlio mistake is iu supposing that Ihe daagST will remnin when local self-government is conceded. The instant carpet-bag dominatkm is no longer Upheld by Fed. ral force, in? stant it becomes longer desirable for South? ern abites to get control of the Federal Gov ernment in order to secure local self-government for themselves, they will divide on evny question that can be named. OU antagonisma, of principle rather than of party, will control.

Whigs and Democrats will flght for ancient ideas. Those who are called South? ni Demo? crats not united to-day in rasped to any feature Bepabttnui polity, good excepting in regard to the ass of troops to maintain BO-caDed Republicans power. Able ami sincere men at the South will contend for tin- right of colored dtiseas to vote freely and to bold oilice. Such men will demand tion for ihe Colored mail as the only safety bu' State. Do ne talk ot the currency Hard-money Dessoeratsal the smith havesho-wn aa much courage aad persistency as anj defenders Of pUblk honor at the North, of either parly.

Is ihe tarilfaii issue 1 The South lias thousands who will battle for the ideas of Cliiv, ami other thousands who ding doctrines of If Improvements are pro? posed, Bouthera Whigs will appeal te Southern Interest, while all th- taachiags ami traditions of Democracy will bs revived to defeat them. Nui a single lusas san be nsmod Imngim upon which tlie whiles of the SoiKh will be united. Inevitably tbey will Inevitably ciernen! will strive to Bcenre that colored vote which will tarn the seals iu any To secura, each party mast defend and pro Um colored voter? Ami thus at last im? BUftage will Im-, not abandoned or stamped out, but defended ami upheld by every sano man of either party the South. The sssenee of thapaUsg President Hayes i- that it will put out of th" way the only question upon which Soul In iu ahites can milted to n'sirtt the Colored men. If it suc? ceeds, it blou out tin.

color Hoc fot-atar-, lk-ro and there, when new issues arise, turbulent and brutal men may try to control the rohired yote in the interest of one party. But they will be met, defied, hunted down, and pun? ished, not by Federal cavalry, but by South? ern whites, tax-payers and of the other party. Tho thing will never be tried twice on any county, after a body of Southern property-owners make it their husiiu'sfl to protect the rights of all citizens. One such man can do more than a regiment, of cavalry to stop bulldozers anil punish assas? sins. tho South it will be? come a necessity for each party to defend the right? of colored men.

The South will divide whenever it has gained self-government. Take away troops, only requiring that lawful and measures shall be resorted to, and the cohired citizen will lind himself, within a protected in all rights of person, property, and citizenship than he ever could if a thousand Federal bayonets were iu every county. SOUS!) tSEST BY WIRE. Cloud and other Sioux chiefs, when re forting to a tokfiaphk message, have always deaeiibed it as talking through a wire." If tin- telephone becomes a familiar instrument in ordinary use, fanciful phrase of the Indian will somewhat nearly coincida with the fact. Students of have shown for lM-lieving that the current in telegraphy ft transmitted not by the of the wiro but by its outer lib? is.

In calculating the of the metal for carry? ing a current, the regards the wire as if it were hollow. Hut neither in the pictur? esque phrases of man nor in the boldest llights of fancy or tradition is thorn anything quite so weird as the speaking tele? graph. In all the Bggten legends of magic, people are placed wide apart never coin directly with each other by AlU-r the niagiciiin has drawn his circh-s in the Kami, anil Ughtod the mystic tin', anil spoken the cabalistic words, he may perhaps summon the dislaut by occult Influence or through the agency of a genio. It la a thousand limes more astounding a mere conei plion thai the the the very utb-rance of friend who is miles miles away, may be distinctly heard by the listener who holds to his ear trumpet of tht telephone. Compared with thi--, the trau, mission of music by telegraph, won? derful though it is, Menu a minor achieve inellt.

There has been, however, a very gencr.il misconception in the mind on this very point. The confusion arises from the circum? stance that there are two distinct inventions, each known as a telephone, and c.ich capable of transmitting musical bines. Both in? ventions have been exhibited to large in other cities; I'rof. BelPl telephone at the Kast, Mi. (J ray's music telephone al Wi -t.

As the latter of these is soon to shown to a New-York audience, our renden will doubt? less be interested in a detailed account of the mode tiansniission. In other col? umns are preaenl this morning explanation of tin- methods by which of these instru? ments does its w.uk. Kach is valuable iu its own field, and the most of what either can do, the other cannot do at present. The speaking telephone oan, eoorae. trans? mit rocal mnsk as easily ns speech the other instrument can only such niu-ie is played noon its piano at the further end of line.

Hut how far the capabilities of either Inatramenl may lu- extended, nobody can glll.SS. It already obvious that by means of Mr. Gtaay'i telephone ordinary mes? sages may be sent any one distan! station, not be repented by the instruments any other stations on the line. This is a decided ad van! age. As tilings are now, the most enn iitlt-ntial communications between points may be tapped at any ofllee in the circuit.

Donbtleos manj of our readers who have stopped while waiting for a train, to bare a chat with the telegraph clerk at a way station, have heard him mention that his instrument, ticking away in lively style, was repeating a message iu which he had no concern--a be? tween other platan on the Hne, In war limes a lively business need to be done by "tapping the wires." Mr. telephone may dis? pense With the need of taking all tele? graph operators on a into one's con? fidence, narrowing the matter down to two, the sending anil receiving opetatois. Prof. Hell's telephone may dispense with Ihe tele? graph clerk altogether, and the sender of a message to talk into the ear of receiver. Hut then suppose, in the latter caee, that eomebody who has no business in the affair applies his telephonic funnel sonie Where along Ihe line while a very confidential message is passing.

Qmnter scandals than were ever pound into the e.ir-tiumpet of Dame Elinor Spearing may be absorbed by the telephone tapper, it is too soon to predict whether the new inventions will fully aecore what is most of all needed, the sacred privacy of telegrams. A MAD WOULD, MY MASTERS Botne of our more kind-hearted entcnipora think that Lee, the Mormon luuiih rer, must have been insane. There ate a few peo? ple who hold same theory about the well known lawyer who lately ami mysteriously The BOT? Zebiilon Phillip? having absconil'-d from Amsterdam, N.Y., with a great of other people's money, after having for a long time enjoyed the admiring confi? dence of the coniniiinitv, it is now inclined to the opinion that the Rev. Zebiilon Phillips must be a lunatic. Perhaps it is the world that it never gits acenatomed to (hege instances of moral breaking down.

It still heueren respectability be reapeetaUe. No mattet how many clergymen may brin? scandal upon the cloth, society wants pleach? ing, and goee to hear it from those who have not bist their good reputations. This theory of lunacy in MM w-nse is a just one. Kvcry moral oblitpiity has its mental siil-, inasmuch as horn-sty is the best policy, and the wione-doer never reasons accurately and this is why so many them are caught Henee the popular notion that tin- devil deaerta his own at laet, Bhrewdneai is at fault; precaution blunders; cunning makes mist.ik? cleverness goto traps fog it? self. In this sense wi- may fairly say that the Kev.

Zebiilon Phillips was not iu his right mind. Neither was the bookkoepet who van the other with the money of the Brooklyn Hank, and who behaved in such a prepogh way. So, too, juries ihink mur? der to ho such an utterly thing (as i consider? fii-in one point it tituloiibt? -lly is) i that the del', often pours its theory of ui I sanity into perfectly willing ears. A man may, however, be somewhat insane and at the same time morally impos? sible. Admit this, aud the trilling wtiit.lt hits disgraced our criminal jurisprudence will It is a great mistake to suppose that even tho inmates of lunatic asylums have no moral sense.

Some of them are there they have persistently culti? vated a habit of disregarding it. They did wrong so frequently that finally they lost the power of doing right. If tho Rev. Zebulon Phimpa had never with consiience, he would not turned out a thief. Insan? ity, or what we call insanity, is oftsa nothing more than a continued habit of doing wrong.

A great many because they cannot help stealing, but they are locked up all the same. COL EU Pi A YE- DIG ISO. Vatliek," the marvelous Eastern tale, which Byroa pronounced to be far superior to was written at a single sitting of three days and two nights. The paCS was too fast for a young man of four-and-tweiity, and Beekford paid the penalty of nervous presura tion and a dancreroiis illm-ss. The killing stride which he took under the spur of imagination and literary excitement, American collegians fall int?) very naturally through injudicious courses of training ami the incautious zeal of teachen ami friends.

It is a national harac teristiS to do too much too quh'kly, and no win re are the evils of this dumrcrous habit more apparent than in our schools. We re? cent lv had occasion to preach a lay sermon on the tendencies of the forcing process as illus? trated by the melancholy sumido of young Bchwerdtfeger, an ates walked stadeat of Cor? nell University, and remarks have called forth two coiiiiniini'-atioiis, ono of which will found in our columns of correspondence from the people, while the other is appended hen To the Editor of The Tribune. Hin I BSVS often ft It lik- thanking fur the BBfSB ym liiivc itifiilnst I lie pernicious system of forcing piiiiiiiiii-iicti ut tlie risk of their present health mu? future cunt.iitiiiiiit. Yet I tlilnk that yoa i.iiil yiiur pnssoss mu? sasearagBflMm tu mi aMociation tu prii'liicc, in tliclr form, SO the evil? which you tit plore. In view of tho recent sail occiir BBBSSi which is directly tBaSSSMs to the intcreolle Kiate literary contest of a few I auk you, in (In- iiitine of liiinianity, to use your tintiiich tin- t-tiiuiiiiM of Tas as well bs pessBeagy, to rt-itetltioii of what caumit bo callctl hy any imitier BSSBS Ifeaa munier.

Yale. Sew-llurrn, March 21, If "Yale'' will read the letter which comes to ns fnmi Schwerdtfeger'S intinmte Mead he will be OOmpelledi like ourselves, to admit that this suicide cannot be justly ascribed to forcing process. The mind ot this bril? liant stadeat seems to have beca daaded with morbid fancies. He inherited a taint of insan? ity, and appears to have thoughts that were as unwholesome as Ophelia's dressas. He had a presentiment that he was to die as Chatterton had He brooded over the fate of wretched boy-genius at Bristol.

Among his papen has ben found a ski'Udi of a tombstone With an (ascription recording his own death at the which would have made his Bge accord with that of Chatterton. He had ill-health from the outset; his associates held him back rather than sparred him on ami his suicide seems to have resulted from a morbid impulse. The direction of so phenom? enal a nature was a delicate task, ami we do not see that ths professors and friends acted injudiciously. Abnormal tendencies and in herited taints ceased hia death overwork may have aggravated them, but it was at the worst an indirect His fate is a strange psycho? logical study. While wrote under a misapprehension of facts of the case, as are now to us, said nothing to justify the onslaught which our New-Haven correspondent makes upon the Intercollegiate literary contests.

Beekford stnu-k oil' his romance at too intense a heat ami was sick unto death; does it fol? low that literary should not bo tired with enthusiaaml Several of Mr. Moody's converts have been crazed by religious mtnt does it follow that there should be an abatement of religions seal ami an abandon? ment of revival services? The awards of the Literary Association foim a species of scaffolding by which Students can attain the bights Of scholarship shall the frame? work torn down because a reckless climber has too fast, overstrained himself fallen to the bottom Is ambition to be repressed simply because it sometimes o'er "lcaps itself and falls on the other sitie?" Even if young Sehwerdtfeaer's death could be traced directly to overwork in connection with the recent competition in this we should hesitate before condemning intercollegiate literary contests. Intellectual labor will never kill a student so lona as it rests upon a physi? cal basis. If he attempts to work a tlis embodied spirit, he will lean very soon that lie is in flesh. Nature will warn him to ai range his life so as to lind time for rest, recreation? and exercise.

The most ambitious brain-WOrker can labor as many hours as did Leonardo da Vinci, if, him, he never for gets to take his horseback ride, and lets Na? ture have her own way for the rest of tin? Neglect of exercise, Impaired digestion, daggish vitality? chronic nervousness, and physical are the fruits of a dang? rous forcing system which not only overheats the student's ambition? but chills his faith in the eflkpej of exercise and rest? and, by shutting him up all day with his books ami keeping him up two-thirds of tho night, starves out tho natural man. Brain work will not kill so long as the faculties are not strained daring periods of physical ex? haustion. Disregard of rest, exercise, and re? is the fatal habit. The later collegiate contests promote thorough scholar? ship in the mathematics, metaphysics, oratory, aad literature. It is a legitimate and intelligent BBCthod of quickening intellectual life in our eoOegeO.

Tboos v.lio take part in the Contests have formed habttB of study and life in their own colleges. If graves are dug, they dig them themselves. THE SI OSE AT IHE SEPUIA HER. Yesterday Christians gathered beneath the shallow of cross on far-away Cal vary? while hosts of otber people? professing to be neither good nor Christian? looked nt it with an awful doubt. Was it indeed this which could them through their every? day Worries ami through that strait of death Which must come to them Bl last? To-morrow all ChristiSBS will rejoice in the Lard? ami of us an BOt Him iu words will think of His triumph over ath with unwanted tsadsraeas? simply because then is not one of us who has not laid down a mother, a child, or a friend in that solid yellow clay under foot, and our hope for ever limliiig them again rests iu that old story of the Nasareaa? Upon this day He lay buried out of sight, as our now.

Tim tumult which He had kindled throughout the Roman piovineo had been sharply cheeked. Nothing more was to be hoped or feiueil from the son of the carpenter. He was not the who was break Cii-siu's yoke: He was not great prophet Kbjah retaraad to had the people out of He wad dead. It was true that the earth was shaken when He died, that tlie sun vailed face: but He did die. Nothina remained but to lap the body in a few pf(0r spices.

to weep over it, and there was the up? We can see how, on this stunned, bmntHaa day, His missed in the the tall figure in its seamless robe, visage more marri'd than any man's, in w.n--|_ even dull fn-nso had told thetn a Ru? went by. There WM His mother, too; John whom He had loved; the blind and He had Lazarus, himself brought bae, from death, wandering through the "rocky hill? ami tlu-ir dreary gray olive groves, or in th? narrow streets of tlio great Oriental city, linding them all vacant. There is no evidence that any of tln-m that He would ris. again. a rich, friend 0f Jesus, beggi'd His body, paid it all honor, but rolled a henry stoue to the of sepithher.

Now nobody can read this story without pet Wiring how closely alike the condition of the world is just now to this intermediate day. Very few of us doubt that Christ was her? alive very many of us doubt that He alive now. Thinking men tell you that if the truth, the stem integrity, the broad brotherhood humanity which Jesus of Naz? areth preached, could work like leaven in this world of to-day, it would purify and elevate. Hut they do not tind linvit Teacher. 11? is not iu the among the "dangerous "tla.ses;" He is not in the prisons, nor iu Wall-st.

You do not lind Him at massacres in Seivia, in Indian wars, in political jobbery or government corruption. The jxxir man looks into the costly fashionable church where he must pay his im-ome to buy leave to bear of Him, and he is certain that the lowly Savior not lln-re. Is He theii? Many think so; and others think that the for His teaching is over, ami they put Kant Baseiaon or Darwin in His place an the world's helpers. Hut the great mass of honest lievers and of all thiuk ttk know that He is alive, that the only ad van? made by the world in civilization have been made by adhen-nce to His teaching, and tho only retrocessions bft.ro been from denial OT corruption of Christianity. in heathi'ti countries we lind how their progress toward civilization has heen caused bv those religious doctrines which they held synonymous with in many in the cn-eds of Confucius and Hiiddha.

In our own political history even the skeptic must acknowledge how quickly prosperity has followed cverr light wand ami right for instance, within a few weeks after years of wholesale corruption the of the people responded instantly to the first movement toward plain integrity of action on the part of an honest man, and declared it to be the highest states? manship. It is the cheer and stn-ngth of the world that Christ is alive. It is its shame that Hi? friends, will-meaning and ofti'ii rich Joseph, roll henry stones to the of His sepuh-lu-r and keep Him out of sight. Money spi-nt to gratify their tastes on carved stones and stained glass, while thousands of His poor are starving in back alh-ys in soul and body, is a stone. Blind bigotry, the bitti-rm-ss of sectarianism, the Pharisaic pride which bars its ten-foot on the gheep within and scuds the myriads without straight to Indi ale they not all stonesT So dead the Christ lies wii in that there is but fgcMo hope hat He will rise again.

There are none of us, iu short, who, in His name, speak a false word or live a sham life who do not lu-lp to bar His sepulcher. He will rise as surely as to? morrow's sun. But it will not be wo who have rolled away the stone. Thore is nothing very laaghaUs about least not to MOM yet is impassible, to r.i.l it without smiling some. We mean by "it" tli? list of the electrotype Besets of the well known book house of John Ii.

Ford with th? values put upon them by a member of tin? tirai ia his testimony before tho The list made a distinction between sash rains and future businoaa value of tin- plates, aad of a certain book it is thus irreverently reported: "Man's Immor? no value either way," which MOM to Indicate rather a short life for a hook sheet immnr tabty. Wa'are else rather shocked to read "Life of Christ, by Henry Ward BOOO-MM Sp.ciilativi? no present minet" but it is eaeanrnghMj know that this HI Stalled production has a future posai hi? value of "Christ iu Art. mort? gaged to Moray ol Beaten." is worth nothing now, hut may be worth $10,000. One Mr. lhv "Poetry and is also in the lim ho of nortgags, but will bo worth ay eedhy The plates of A Good Mutch" are worth what they will fetch aa old metal.

So are those of the of Kli though the appraiser is of opinion that Mr. Pirkin. may by-aml-by go up to $100. There is more reality than romance fact that tho hook called Romance and RealitiM is only worth what it will bring as typo ui-tal. IhstO are other books worth "nothing either way;" among them Pastes Ilalliilay's "Little Swi-i per." of the valuations are MjnstorioaO? Thti.

the work called "Patten's Coiici-e History" is worth $100 now, but has no future possible biisi nt-sj value. unes the terms are railed. Thus it is said if A.sistant Pastor llallmay's "Arousing Souls" that it is worth "nothing at all." now or prospectively, which is stating a laet rather curtly. Hut the Assistant Pastor is iu good nompany. for wo are pained to that Sir Philip Sidney" is also valued at "nothing at all." while the "Overture of Autels" by Mr.

Hci.ry Ward Beeches is only worth what it will bring from th? type founders le molted These aro roelanfihnly but when "Our BOVOO Chiirchcs" ate put down as good for nothing but to be otut to tho pot, what can wo expect This is a good year for The Aimavac. I-'ivo 1 editions have been sold since Jam Sty, and a sixth will be on our counters this morning. The secret oi Ito unprecedented sale lararyelaiplsi it is a good Almanac, and contain? what people want political news and ollii statist.es of the year, accurately compiled and conveniently ar ranged. The Appendix leaned with the tilth aid sixth editions contains an outline of the lii.tury whia-li the American people have maile th? ezdtiag Winter that nageleasd. Within the paae of sixteen pagne ure eMbcaeed the text of tho Electoral Commission bill and the pmeeeiiaf- of tho Tribunal and IhotWO HonOM in relation lO the ele.ti'ial count un lirst lo last.

The uf the Appendix has been as niaikcd was that of the earlier editions of Tun AimaN'ac. glaflgs tmnicr uf NbeeriheH who and ahead! pntehnosd Tus Al.m have sent for the biipplcnieiitaiy edition, which is issued the same price twenty li cents The favor with winch Tun Al MS-MO mtk been received is very gratifying to us, we has? taken great pains this year to secure accinacy iu cxe.iilion, conipletencM in form, and proniptn. in publication. Tho changes rendered the New-Hampshire election and the choice of two Senators gad fang OeOgM-OMn have been the sixth edition, so that the of tue th i is now ie. The eccentric lties of th? Emperor of Brazil have Im-cii talked about Home, and great amuMt.miit been by a ca.

which be lo Count am nui beariug ths autogiaph "Piofessor Dom de Alcantara. His most ivtnaikable exploit, howover, wa-iuvilm? to an em.rtaiiimout tho Jiploiuuti. oorpa.