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requirements, as he understands it, of making BEVIVAklSM. ing In the rooming ana) to danoe In the evening, and when trials and temptations come, down they go, and the world goes stumbling over them, saying that If that ORPHANS. MC GUIRE. was somewhat limited in numbers. Those who dared to bravo the storm, however, were not sorry for It, at thoy seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly.

Oonter no's band added materially by the muslo It discoursed to the "entertainment. Tils' fair, which will continue during tbe week, will be entirely suooessf uL suoh is the unshaken belief of the lady managers. Considering the olroumstanoe that It was the opening night," and a very Inclement one at that, the fair waa a pronounced success. COUNTT CANVASS. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1876.

This Paper fans tfae Lnrffeat Circular liott of any Evuntnrr Paper Published in fee United States. Its Tftlne as an AdTtertutnjr Medium is therefore ap parent. require the allegations to be very carefully examined, as doubtless they will be. The point of time is the important one in the plea "of mental unsoundness. If it can be shown that the unsoundness exists, but that it dates after the marriage, not before, the marriage is, good.

A man may not legally hold a woman to a marriage contracted when she was insane, the law be invoked, and if the allegation be made out. But post nuptial insanity dissolves no marriage, and ahoultjnot. The burden must be borne by the parties and ought to be. The law will let no advantage be taken of the insane whioh inveigles them into marriage in that mental condition. Neither will it let advantage be taken of them by divorce when the affliction of cerebral disorder falls upon them in the relation of marriage.

In this is the law both logical and humane. There is an increasing class of cynics who will decide out of hand that love is another name for lu naoy, and marriage a proof that it is ineradicable. As such have doubtless failed to succeed in those designs upon their own intellectual constitution, which are involved, as they say, in all romantic and marital enterprise, doubtless their Conclusions are prejudiced. They are measured with their own rule by those they contemn, for there is nothing more certain than that those who are in love esteem all those who are not as mentally defective, and that those who are happily married (the immense majority), regard the Celibate as a condensed asylum in themselves. The married, or those meaning to many if they can, comprise two thirds of one sex and all of the other.

So they are in immense majority. The advocates of the theory that matriomony is madness, among those who have not con tracted it, claim, however, a large support to their views from those who have given the estate the test of experience. Doubtless," that is sheer assumption, and we advise our readers, our Benedict readers, and their other and better halves, to debate the matter among themselves this evening. The gentlemen will be wise to ascertain what are the impressions of their wives before taking any position 'Though blown and brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home." ney Britton, now that he has done so well with McGuire, may feel disposed to favor the public with an explanation concerning Joyce. An explanation is oertainly needed.

Bells ions Egotist! While the Eaole has expressed confidence in the sincerity of the revivalists, and the hope that the work they are so zealously carrying on might be productive of lasting good in the community, it is due to a large and conscientious lumber of Christians to 'point out whkt seem to us "spots in these feasts1 of ''charity'' and disfigurements of the work of graioe. There are certain results whioh follow the self conviction of sin, as regularly as cause and effect follow each other in the kingdom of Nature. When, under the olden covenant, "two men went into the temple to pray," the one whom Christ declared to'have gone" away justified rather than the other" was not the Pharisee', who "thanked God that he was not "as other men are," but stood upon a higher plane, bat the Publican, wh6 not so "muoh as lift up his eyes unto heaven, ogd "smote upon his breast, saying, 'God be merciful unto me a We see no reason why the phenomena and expressions of religious conversion ahould be different in the nineteenth century of Christianity from what they were in the first. Deliver me, Lord, from the wicked man from mjsety was the prayer of St. Augustine, whose pious mother, Monica, had so long prayed for his conversion, and it is the prayer, uttered or felt, of every man to whom the interior voice, or that, of an evangelist like Paul, has "reasoned of temper anee, righteousness and judgment to come." It is a great step Zionward to feel that sin exists as a disease within as, that our worst enemies are our own wrong impulses.

The next step onward is repentanoe, sorrow for the past, reparation to others if we have injured them, a tight rein held over our own lusts and meannesses, apd an enlisting in Christ's army, not that we may be made Major Generals, and be called Colonel in heaven but that we may fight manfully against sin, the flesh and the devil." Bring said the Saviour, "fruits meet for repentanoe," or as it may be translated, "worthy fruits of peni "tence" of that metamtia, change of thought, desire and purpose which makes vice hideous and virtue beautiful. One of the fruits of this repentanoe is declared to be "meekness." The Christian neophyte must be modest he must be clothed with humility;" he must decrease in his own estimation, and Christ must "increase," and be all in "all." It is this humility the opposite of religious egotism which, from the days when Enoch "walked with God," and Mary Magdalen bathed with contrite tears her Redeemer's feet and wiped ihem with her golden hair, and Peter "went out and wept bitterly," and Paul called himself "the ohief of sinners" and f'less than the least of all saints," down to the times of Bishop Heber and Henry Martyn and the saintly biographies of our own immediate time, which has been the setting of the Christian character and has shed a halo equally upon the life of "Dairyman's Daughter" and them "a history of Blavery." A certain amount of attention may be attracted to the work because the author, or rather the carpenter, of the work is Vice President, and was for eighteen years a Senator of the United States. But when all this is admitted, the work will not be a history of slavery it win not be a history at all it will not be in any sense intellectual; and the papers whioh this morning solemnly refer to Mr. Wilson's sickness as a proof that too muoh intellectual labor cannot be undertaken with impunity, are either very ignorant and entirely "incapable of such labor, or are unjustifiably sarcaetio upon a man who is very sick indeed. There will be a general sympathy with Mr.

Wilson's sufferings and a general wish that he may speedily be restored to a strength sufficient fox his enjoyment of his life which for years has been shadowed by a dire apoplectics apprehension. The country has come to a benevolent feeling of tolefanoe toward him, because, while he has always been as addicted as any man of respectable public reputation that could be named to the devices of, Federal politics, the offensivoness of his affecting to deplore them has beetl mitigated by the faot, that the vulgar sincerity of those who avowed them, was more demoralizing than the translucent pretenses of Mr. Wilson himself. As politics has been conducted, he has not done ill who has professed well, albeit it was mere profession. There were enough who neither did nor professed well, to make men of external moral furbish have sort of value.

Mr. Wilson has been the most valuable of that class, and his electro plate looks more like silver to day than it ever did. McOuire' Conviction and Sentence. Twenty seven days ago, a colorod man, named SamuelJackson, was brutally murdered at Schuetzen Park, while endeavoring to protect his sister from insult at the hands of a white ruffian. Yesterday afternoon John McGuire was convicted of that murder, and by Judge Barnard sentenced to imprisonment for life.

The swiftness with whioh punishment has in this case followed upon the heels of crime is creditable to Distriot Attorney Brit ton, and must be gratifying to law abiding people. No punishment prescribed by law for violators will do muoh to restrain them if there be delay and uncertainty in its infliction, but even a moderate penalty will hold the hand of the outlaw, when the prospect is that it will fall with speed and precision upon the guilty. McGuire's experience is of a kind to make outlaws hesitate. Twenty seven days ago, the breaking up of a negro pionio and the shedding of a negro's blood Were to him and his like amusing pursuits, but this morning, with a vision of unending imprisonment before his eyes, a different conception of enjoyment is moderately sure to occupy his mind. The next negro pionio given at Schuetzen or any other park in Brooklyn will not be broken up by white invaders, and no white loafer" will for some time to come deem himself at liberty to crush in the skull of colored men who seem disposed to defend their sisters.

The Schuetzen Park murders for there were two of them and McGuire's companions yet remain to be disposed of were in their nature of the most atrocious and unprovoked kind possible. The oolored people had been at the Park during tbe the afternoon and evening enjoying themselves quietly. No white person was invitod to join them, and no white man had any business there, and when McGuire and his companions entered the ground the fair inference is that they did so with the intention of creating a disturbance. The colored people, however, behaved with good temper and self restraint toward the intruders, and but for the well settled determination of the latter to get up "a row" no breach of the peace would have taken place. As it was, Jackson and his friends, when they found all possibility of pleasure gone, undertook to leave the grounds rather than quarrel with the ruffians who had disturbed the harmony of the gathering, and were bent upon insulting the women.

Here a moderate spirit of scoun dreliam would have rested content. The picnic was broken up, the "niggers" had been compelled to leave the grounds, and the women had been treated like professional harlots. But McGuire Co. went further; they followed the colored people out of the grounds, and growing bold as their victims exhibited fear, laid their foul hands upon the women, and undertook to drag them into the park again. This the colored men would not consent to, and their determination not to submit resulted in the two murders with whioh the public is familiar.

Jackson sseing McGuire take hold of Mrs. Henry, told him desist, that she was his, (Jackson's) sister, and he would not allow her to be insulted. McGuire showed his appreciation of Jackson's manly sentiment by calling him an opprobious name and knocking him dead on the spot with a stone, while Henry Thompson, another colored man, who came to Jackson's assistance, shared a similar fate in a similar way. Thompson's murderer remains to be tried and sentenced. McGuire's defense was of the most improbable kind.

He pretended that some of the coloredpeople threw the stone at him but that it missed him and struck Jackson. The evidence, however, was direct. He was seen with the stone in his hand, he was seen in the act of throwing it, he was seen to fly when Jackson fell, and he boasted a little later in the evening that he had "laid a nigger out." These facts, left nothing for the Court and the jury to do but to settle the degree of the crime that had been committed. District Attorney Britton pressed for a conviction, of murder in the first degree and Judge Barnard intimated after the jury rendered their verdiot, that in his judgment, the District Attorney's estimate of the crime was correct. The jury however, concluded that there was hot sufficient premeditation shown to justify them in consigning him to the gallows.

At all events, three of them so thought and the other nine rather than allow the trial to end in a disagreement consented to bring in a verdict of murder in the second degree. Perhaps the jury were right. At all events, the action of. Judge Barnard in consigning McGuire to the State Prison for life leaves little cause for regret that he was not sent to the gallows. So far as his trial, as a trial, was concerned, the prisoner had every right respected and every point in his favor urged that could be urged.

Mr. Britton pre sented the factB calmly and clearly but without anything approaching vindictiveness. Judge Barnard presided, as he always does, with calm ability and conspicuous fairness, while Mr. Samuel D. Morris conducted the defense with the vigor, astuteness and impressive earnestness that characterize all his efforts at the bar.

By the way, Mr. Morris objected to an Eagle editorial as designed to create a prejudice against the prisoner. The Eaole does not object to Mr. Morris' objection, for it was his duty to do as he did all he could for McGuire's clearance while it was the Eagle's duty to acquaint the public with the uncontested facts in the case without regard to whom they helped or injured. Altogether the trial and conviction of McGuire is a satisfactory matter.

It will serve to convince the idle, riotous persons who find their chief amusement in destroying the i pleasure of their neighbors that they must keep well within the law if they would remain 1 out of jail; it will help to subdue the brutality which is happiest when colored people are being put in misery it will show that; whatever Brooklyn may think about the colored man in politics, it is determined to protect him in his person, and it will do something to restrain all outlaws by letting them know that the machinery for the punishment of crime in Brooklyn moves with speed and certainty. In this connection it is worth while, instituting a mental parallel between the punishment of MoGuire and the fate of Policeman Joyce. Both men killed colored men without provocation or justification, the chief difference being that Joyce, an officer of the law, after having his man, without right, drew a revolver, in the daytime, end shot him dead in the public street, because he was doing what he had a right to do, running away from an illegal detention. This man Joyce was sentenced to jail for twenty nine days. It seemed to the a month ago, and it seems so now, that Joyce should either have been punished more or not at alL The taking of a kurhan being's, life should not under any circumstances be punished with twenty nine days' Perhaps Distriot Attor is Christianity they want nbae of It.

Christians ahould be dead to the world, and separate from it. Paul says "Come, go out of the world," but they remain In it, find their pleasures in attempt to be the servants Of Christ. If they would only keep clow ti the Master they wouid not hive" hair so m'uch'troubte and trial. Mr. Moody then read a few lines on "Humility," whioh he said had been sent to him, and which he thought We very good.

He closed by exhorting his audience to be hnmble. After singing the 45th hymn, "Jesus keep me near the orou," THE MXETTKO. WAS THBOWW 'OPEN to all. A gentleman sake for prayers, and Bey. Mr.

Morton spoke of the influence which the meeting! were exercising upon people and churches throughout the country. In Now Jersey, where he had been ye terday, they were moving and ware organising to canvass the State for Christ during the coming Winter. He had heard from Indiana that one hundred business men were arranging" their affairs so that they oould go out dnnng the coming season as lay preachers, and the same idea was at work is Ulinolaf He closed his remarks with prayer. Bev. Mr.

Murphy, of the Mariners Church, told of the work which was going on among the seamen. Meetings were held nightly, and sailors "from all nations had oome'to his study to talk with him. At the last communion over thirty had applied for admission to the church. Mr. A.

D. Mathews called upon the youn? converts to toll what God had done for their souls during the past two weeks. It was a command of Christ that they ahould confess Him, Mr. Sankey sang a sole, "Where Are the Nine The thought of the song is founded upon the miracle of the healing of the lepers. A gentleman In the gallery told of the conversion of a young German, and a man from Buffalo, who said he had been a police officer, apoke for several minutes, saying that it was the first time he had ever got as far aa New York, and telling of the Joy he found in religion.

Prayer was offered by several in the andienoe, and then Mr. Moody asked them to join in silent prayer. During this interval, upward of one hundred people, men and women, arose and asked for prayers for themselves and others. This interval waa closed with prayer by Mr, Moody, who presented the requests that had just been made, and also prayed for the meetings of the day. The exercises closed with the Doxology and the benediction by Bev.

Mr. Smith, of Chicago, The women's prayer meeting followed, under the leaderahip of Mrs. Needham, and quite a number of women remained. To morrow is the day set apart as a day of fasting and prayer. To night at 8 o'clock a young moofs mooting will be hold again in the Tabernacle.

BISHOP BACON. Eulogy of Hia Lite and Character Delivered at Portland by Father Kee fnn, of tbe Oburcb of tbe Assumption. The first annual requiem mass for the soul of Bishop Bacon was celebrated yesterday by Bishop Healy in tho Roman Cathollo Cathedral of Portland, over wbloh diocese the deceased prelate presided for years. It is unnecessary to state that the Catholics of Brooklyn took a great' Interest in tho event, and sent one of their most prominent clergymen to preach the oration. Bishop Baoon, shortly after his elevation to the priesthood, came to Brooklyn, whioh then had about two Cathollo Churches.

A suspended priest was endeavoring to establish what he chose to style an Independent Boman Cathollo Church, but falling In obtaining the necessary funds to complete the edifice he abandoned it, and in time it waa purchased for Father Bacon, For a long series of years he labored in Brooklyn as the pastor of the Churoh of the Assumption, endearing his memory to the Catholics of Brooklyn by the seal and self sacrifice he displayed at all times in their behalf, till bis virtues and ability induced tbe Holy Father to raise him to the episoopacy of Portland. His visit to Europe a year ago, tho fatal disease whioh overtook him and compelled his return to this country, and his saintly death in New York City are facts still fresh in the memory of the Catholics of the Unltod States. Bev. William Eeegan, as pastor and successor to Bishop Baoon In the pastorate of tho Churoh or tho Assumption, in this city, very appropriately preached the oration yesterday. Speaking of the deceased's career in Brooklyn, Father Eeegan said Thero is a kind of melanoholy satisfaction felt in looking upon those tilings which recall tho memory of one whom we loved in life.

Pass into one or our cemeteries aud see with what affection a child will prostrate itself upon the grave of a dead parent. How the tears of sorrow and sympathy wiU flow from the eyes ot a widowed mother as bub pours forth her poul in supplication for her deceased husband. And, my friends. Bishop Bacon was to you and to me the kindest of frionds and the most affectionate of fathers, I have looked to blm as tho guide oi xny youth and my pattern in tho priesthood. I have known him almost from his ordination twenty seven years ago, but more especially from the time in which he made Brooklyn his home and tho scone of his labors, and I tbink I can eay, without exaggeration, that he felt the charge which St.

Paul addressed to Timothy, his beloved deciplo, as one particularly addressed to himBelf (II. Timothy, 12): "I charge thee before flod and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead by His coming and His kingdom, to preaoh the Word be instant in season, out of Beaeon reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine." HIS OAEEEB IN BBOOKLTN. When he came to Brooklyn he found there two churches and two priests, with very poor and scatterod congregations. Previous to this, a certain priest, who had inourred the censure of the late Bishop DuBois, thought of erecting what he was pleased to style an independent Cathollo Church, The walls of this independent nondescript wore nearly completed, but for want of funds it remained unfinished for several years. This was purohased by tho Catholics and placed in' charge of Father Bacon, who immediately set to work to complete it, and with an enorgy that never flagged, with a zeal that knew no bounds, with a hope in the good work in which he was engaged, and above all, with a oonfldence in the prayers and intercession of the Blessed Mother of Qod, he soon brought to completion that churoh whioh he afterward dedicated in honor of her glorious assumption into heaven.

At that time our people were very few and poor, but as years rolled by aud our numbers increased, he gathered around him not only the poor of bis own flock, but by the gentleness and kindness of his manner, by bis fidelity to duty, and, above all, by the example of his spotless life, his congregation waa enlarged by conversions of some of tbo most wealtby and distinguished oitizens of other denominations. Well, when I Bpeak of his gentleness of character, do not understand mo to mean that he was by any means effeminate, faint hearted or cowardly, or that he would not resent an insult, especially if that insult was offered to his holy religion. TRAITS OF COUBAOE. I remember an moidont whioh ocourred in the year 18(4 which will illustrate the character ot tbe pries! and man. There was a terrible hue and cry raiBed against the aggressions of Popery.

Catholic churches were an eyesore which should no longer bo toleratod. There were meetings held and placards posted in every part of the city. Societies were organized and the prejudices of the people were aroused to tho highest pitch. Finally an evening was appointed to burn down the cb.uroh.es and wipe us out of existence. The infuriated mob, armed with every species of weapon which they could oommand, started out upon the work of destrne tion.

They marched through some of the principal Btreets, hooting and insulting every Catholio who chanced to cross their path. Bishop Bacon was then a young priest and a young man, but, with tho fortitude of David of old, he goes forth to meet this modern Go Uah, He gathered around him a few poor Catholics. He took his Btand in front of old St James' and told the men to remain quiet, but firm. "Let the mob come on," he says, "they will find that church burning is not so harmless and pleasant a pastime as they imagine. Tbey may have other work to perform before they get back to their own homes." mob approached they saw the protectors, our defenders of the churoh.

They saw that their leader was not to be intimidated firm and immovable as a rock and aa brave aa a lion and they quickly retreatod, and St. James' was never fired from that day to the present. In 1S49 an enemy, stronger aud more powerful than any organized or lawless mob, attacked, our peoplein Brooklyn. The cholera was making fearful ravages along the water front, especially in the Assumption parish. Then was tested the Christian heroism of the pastor and the zeal of the apostle.

Father Bacon was everywhere when there waa occasion. He would hear confessions Saturday even Inge, walk the streets all nlgbt ministering to the sick and dying and be at his post at the altar next morning to celebrate two masses and preach and give consolation to those who looked in vain for ooneolatlon outside of his ministry. A BOUGH GANG. Tbeir Out rase Upon an Inoffensive Saloon Keeper Stabbed, Sbot at and Pounded With Stonei. Tuesday afternoon Justice Sender disposed of the cases of three young men who have been awaiting trial for several weeks, owing to tho Illness of the complainant, resulting from injuries they Inflicted upon him in a row that took place at his saloon, No.

1,254 Myrtle avenue. The namo of the saloon keeper Is Charles F. Mattock. On the night of the occurrence Fred. B.

Boblnson, Frank McOillis, Benjamin Conner, August P. Watson, Henry McKinley and Duff Cotton came into the complainant's liquor store and asked for drinks. These were furnished to them, and they all sat down at a table together to play cards. Subsequently, several other persons entered, and the young men already named continued to drink, and as they did so, entered into conversation with the. new comers.

Presently a dlBpute arose between the parties, and either Bobinson or McKinley threw the oontents of a lager beer glass in the tuca of one of the BTEANGEBS TO THE GANG. McOillis and Conner followed tbe example thus set them and emptied their glasses over members of the opposite party who happened to be near them. A general fight ensued, and Mattock, tho proprietor of the saloon, interfered, as he alleges, with a view to Btop it. He succeeded In getting the persons who last entered to leave bis premises, and was desirous that the young men who first came in should do likewise. Bnt entreaty or remonstrance were alike unavailing when addressed to them.

Tbey swore they had been insulted, although in reality tbey had been the aggressors, and vowed they Bhonld have revenge. Mattock next attempted to put them out, and was set upon and beaten about the head and shoulders with lager bier glasses and stones, which latter some of the ruffians brought in from the street. A knife was also used, with which one of them stabbed Mattock, inflicting TWBNTT jrrVE OUTS' in his right, and nineteen wounds in his left hand. Another of the gang, who has not set bsen arrested, then drew a pistol and fired a Bhot that took effect in the wall. When Mattock was beaten, so that he lay prostrate, and unable to assist himself, much less to resist further outrage, his assailants, went outside, and threw stones at the building, breaking the windows and defacing the outer cornice.

They also tare up a elding In front of the house, and burst in a side door, after which, with the ferocity of brutes, they began to tear off the wainscoting from the walla of the saloon. Then the police entered and succeeded In arresting MoQiUls, Boblnson and MoEinley. Tbey were imprisoned for a few days, and when Mr. Mattock began to recover, they were admitted to bail. Ofi the witness stand, Mr.

Mattock, the. complainant, detailed the Injuries which he had sustained, but could not swear which of the prisoners Inflicted them. He knew, however, that they all engaged in the work of wrecking his saloon. On this charge those in custody were found QUILTS OF MA1IOIOUS MISCHIEF. McKinley, who appeared to be a ringleader, was fined 25; Boblnson, $15 and MoQllus, (10.

It appears also, that Watson was arrested after the outrage and was held to bonds. He failed to appear for "trial and Justice Semler declared his bonds forfeited. The faot that Mr. Mattock's recolleotlon has failed him la the eflortto aiax their crimes npon the actual perpetrators Is fortunate 6ri: the 'Mwis who. been leniently dealt with for a minor offense.

Sentenced to Sing Sing fot Ills Natural Ilfe. Summing Up of Counsel and Char to the Jury bj Justice Biutaard GiiUtf of Murder in the Second DegreeThe Court of Opinion that It was Murder in the First Degree. After recess yesterday, in the case of tho Pooplo against John MoQnlre for the murder of Samuel Jackson, at Bohuetaen Park, Mr. Morris sunimed up for the defense. Mr.

Morris said the duty of defending a parson accused of tbe highest crime was a solemn and oppreaatv one. In view of the erara MSDOnsibllltr on ih inrr he was sure they would weigh the evldenoe fairly. Ho would call their attention to some matters not strictly In the evidence. It bad been said tbe prisoner had played cards. Couusel mado no common on tbat.

A most unrighteous attempt had been made to influence them outside. CouhboI road au editorial from tbe Eaou of the previous day, and characterised it as a brutal attack on the prisoner. It was an attempt to infiuenoe the Jury, he aatd, and the man who wrote it had the heart of a brute and the spirit of a fiend; all would agree with him in oondemning it as It deserved, and In the opinion that the man who wrote It was a crystallised brute. The prisoner was indicted for murder in the first degree. "Will you argu that proposition, Mr.

Britton Mr. Morris asked. Mr. Britton Oertainly I shall. Mr.

Morris then read the law of murder. Be said that as matter of law the Jury would not determine unless tho evidence showed THESE WAS DBTJBEBATION. A matter of law, tbe Court must say there was no deliberation, unless thero waa a time shown by the eri iuo onenaer tnougm over ine onms. Men did not commit murder without some motive. To take the life of an assaUant was not murder.

A mon might be in the discharge of a duty most acceptable to the Almighty when taking life. Hore was no purpose of gain, no grudge, no malloo, no revongo to gratify. AU testified that everything was friendly at the Park. The first indication of any dUB culty was in the house. Jaokson was put out for Interfering with the old man Tom.

There is no evldonce to show that Jackson was the origin of what proved so fatal to him and one of his companions. Mr, Morris then reviewed the evidenoe, endeavoring to sbow that Mrs, Henry was lying all through hor testimony. Then he attaoked Bennett's statement and set him down as a liar also. Then ho gave his theory. There was a collision and stones were thrown, but not by tbe prisoner, who had given the natural and reasonable story of the transaction.

They must give due weight to his good character. The people In the gallery loudly applauded Mr. Morris' closing remarks. SUMMIHQ HP FOB THB PBO8B0UTION. Mr.

Britton said that there were more things than ono to bo considered in tbe case. A few oolored people assembled for a little peaceful recreation. At 13 o'clock at night six white men enter the garden, go on the stage and perform oertain acts to be afterward At the close the brain of one man is orushod in and he lios dead on tho Bpot. Another man Is fatally Injured, These white men bear no marks of injury not a soratob. The public are shocked and set the polios to work.

Parties are arrested, an inquest Is held, and oertain persons are Indicted. The Jury were there to see whether it was possible, in this olty and age, to find out who committed the offense. The District Attorney would show tbat ono of two men perpetrated the crime, and it would bo for them to say which. Two innocent men wore slaughtered in oold blood, and someone brutally killed them. No sympathy for father, mother, or anybody else must influence the Jury's verdict.

They were not there to try the question whether some arsons were or wore not in the barroom. They were try the minutlat only aa thoy bore on the main fact. Did McGuire cause tho death of this man That was tho question. There was no pretense of any provocation, or anything to instlgato tho crime, If he did. What called thoro six or olght mon In squads to tbe Park? Everybody knew that colored pooplo's plonlca wore exclusively their own.

Thero was a groat prejudice among the uncultivated and vicious against th colored raco. No white man would qo to a colorod picnic at 12 o'olook at night, unloss on business. There was a largo cUsb who thought it no harm to 8TIB UP THE COLORED PEOPLE by oalllng them nlggeis ond so forth. Thoso men woni to the pionio and sought to danco with the oolored girls. "Lot us dance with tho niggers," thoy said, and tbe noise of crows oawtng was made.

There was no disturbance but why Bccauso the oolored pooplo dreaded tbe class of mon who Insulted Ihem. Dad the oolored people complained there would not havo been any trouble iu having a quarrel. Tbo coloredpeople know it. Thoy were there with thoir sinters and wives and tbey knew that their safoty doponded on bearing luBiilt, After standing thero and seeing hor brother struck down dead, tho wonder was not that Mrs, Henry bad forgotten tho olroum stancos of that evening but that Bhe was no a lunatic tho nBxt day. And yot counsel for tho de fonso said tuat bocauso buo oould remember nouo of the minutlm, her testimony as to the main fact was not to be behoved.

There was no motive on her part to state tho minor faots Incorrectly. Tho main faot she remombored was, that Johuny MoGuIro struok down her biother doad at her feot, and becauRG flho committed some minor errors in hor testiinouy tho Jury wore not going to doubt her mam evlilonco. No ono but McGuire himsolf said tbat he did not throw the stone. MeGulio said that there woro fourteou or fifteen per Hoiis there. Why wore nono of thorn produood to show that he did not throw that fatal stone McGuire had DANCED 'WITH JENNIE WALTEBB.

He addreasod Mrs. Henry behoving hor to be Jennie Walters. Whether ho took hor hand or put his arm around her, was not matotlal. Tho brother said, "She's my sister, let hor alone." Evidently tbe brother was thoro protecting his sister, as tho witness showed. Jaokaon thought there was an improper design on tba port of McGuire.

What followed? "I'll kill tho a of a 1 He danced with Jennie Walters insldo, and wanted to meet her outside. No motive! There never was an adequate motive for a murder. McGuire mado blB advances to Jonnie Walters, came out to meet her af torward, met Mrs, Henry and wanted her to go out at the other gate with him. Ho had a motivo which they could understand. There was a olass or whits men who stood around oomers and went to negro plonlca and did not scorn suoh things, as counsel hinted it.

This man met with a rebuff. His white skin was punctured and ho said. "I'll kill the son of a Whereupon Dowden had knocked down Thompson, and Bennett was struck. When tbey saw Thompson kuooked down and Bennett assailed, JackBon and bis sister fled into the street. Bennett said that then Me Guiro came up with the stone and hurled it at Jackson.

These wore men belonging to the leafing classes who would think it was a thing to boast of that tbey had killed a nigger. Taking all the main facts on which there was no difference, tbe case was clear. Dowden, MoGulre's 'friend, said McGuire Btruck Jaokaon with his fist. After Dowden knocked down Thompson, ho ran toward Jackson, He and McGuire were thero and nobody else. When MoGuIro said "Look out," waa not tbat a warning to Dow don TO GET OUT OF THE WAT OF THE 8TONB which McGuire was about to throw? As Dowden turnod to run, he saw McGuire standing.

At that moment he saw JackBon fall? Did Dowden hit him There was nobody there but Dowdon and McGuire. Nobody undertook to say that Bennett did It. Unless the Jury believed tbat Dowden or Bennett killed Jackson, then the deed was McGuire's. Add to testimony of tbe two witnesses who Baw the stone and McGuire throw it. Waa there no evidence thore As to the good oharactor of the prisoner, how much testimony, such as tbe; hoard, would make them bolteve, under the clrcumBtanoes, tbat the prisoner was a man of good oharaoter Would a man who called a stabbing affray a "cutting match" influence them much In his testimony as to character? Another man who testified about character, said ho beard of the stabbing affray, but he paid no attention to that, as though it was a matter that would not affect hlfl opinion of the man's character.

Men did not commit outrages against the law when thoy were at work. It was at night when they Bhowed their true nature. It was to suoh fun to clean out a Dutchman, or to lick a nigger. THE DE2D8 OF THE COBNEB LOAFERS stampel themselves on their features, and 'counsel would leave the Jury to maka the application. MoGuire Baid that when be went away he didn't know anybody was hurt.

But Dowden heard tho woman cry "Mur dor," and tho polloeman heard it. The offense depended on ono thing. If they behoved that McGuire killed Jackson, then they must determine whether it waa predetermined. When a man camo up with a murderous stone, they must infer that it was predetermined. If they believed tho account of Bennett, that he went and got the etone after the threat, then there was predetermination, and he was guilty of murder in tbe first degree.

Society had some rights, and it was by virtue ot the punishment of tho criminal classes that peaceable men managed to live. Two men had been killed br violence in a publio street, and if the law oould not punish the men who did it, then they could not afford to live under the present system. The' Jury's sympathies must go behind him. In view of the rights of all. they must not scruple to give a verdict which would sustain the law.

Applause followed Mr. Britton's address, THE OHABQE. Justice Barnard charged tbe Jury. There was no real question tbat a man was killed, on the night of the Uth of October, by a stone. Practically, the question was whether the nrlsoner killed him.

Did ha throw the atone? That was the sole question. They had the testimony of two witnesses that he did, and of the Sruoner tbat he did not, and of two others under lln lotment that they did not see him. There was also the testimony of the man Hall, who said he thought McGuire told him be had laid out somebody the three colored men and one colored woman went toward home: there wit an effort to detain Thompson Bennett told nim to come home; the reply was that nobody was going to hurt htm thon the prisoner put his arm around tbe girl; that was wrong; there was no Justification for it be was told tbat she was Jackson's sister, and Jackson muttered, tbe prisoner Bays then be struck Jaokson; did he throw the atone If he did ho had no Justification and whatever the result of tbat was, be must meet it, If be threw no stone, then he was not guilty. He waa on trial for murder in tho first degree, that is, the effecting the death of a person with deliberation and premeditation If it waa done intentionally and without deliberation, thon it was murder in the second degree. If the killing was Involuntary, It was manslaughter.

If he did not intend to kill when he threw the stone it was covered by the four kinds of manslaughter. A man was supposed to design the ordinary and natural results of his actions. Whllo all have an utter horror of such an act, yet unless the Jury showed that the prisoner did the deed ho must not be found guilty. Ho must have the benefit of any reasonable doubt, but no consideration for father, mother or any body else must Influence them. THE VgBDIOT.

Tbe Jury retired at four o'clock, and after an absence of nearly an hour returned with a verdict of guilty of murder in tbe second degree. District Attorney Britton moved that the prisoner be sentenced. Ex Judge Morris moved for a stay. Judge Barnard said he did not. think this was aaus for delay.

The prisoner was ordered to stand np. The usual qursuuuD nmwpu, uiiu. Run wiviu asaeu itiik iia had to say why sentence ahouldnot be pionounoed, ha replica, 1 tua um meow tne atone, aod 1 don't Maow what for the jury brought in that verdict." Justice Barnard aaid that, in his ludnment. he waa guilty of murder in the first degree. It waa evident that he had the atone In his hand with the intention of.

killing Jackson. The sentence of the Court was that he be confined in tbe State Prison at Sing Sing for, tho term oi nis natural uie. The prisoner was removed and his friends gathered around him. He was escorted to Jail by the police, accompanied by scores of young roughs who had crowded the galleries during the trial. BUSINESS tVO'MCfcS.

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The meetings at the Rink and the Tabernacle. The Evening and Horning Gatherings The Nine O'clock Services for Young Hen. The revival movement is bo far a success that It irifl stand the teat of dampness. The crowd was slower in gathering, but it came sorely, and before the hour for servioe the Blnk was paoked as usual, and it was an exceedingly well dressed People who have been waiting for an opportunity to attend the aerTloee, and whose motive was. simply more than idle onrlosity, took the oocaslon when the elements promised that the croud would not be so large.

A NSW WSATtrfiB his appeared daring the past two evenings. The first dozen rows of chairs in front of the platform are barred off serosa the aisle, and until after seven o'clock none but those holding tioketa an allowed to seats in front of the barrier. After seven the reserved a cats are thrown open to the great world. Before that time those allowed to pass are supposed to be of the world, worldly, end not given to things evangehoal; or, in other words, non churchgoers. As yet, the sinners hare not shown an eagerness to de elan 'their condition, for last night, at seven o'olook, the reserved seats had only about fifty ocoupants.

A fewseats were still held in reserve to accommodate the later comers, but at naif past seven these were filled. There was a little backwardness in the coming of the people, but the inclemency of the Weather was the cause of this. The later oomers fared better than usual, that waa all. But there was not enough of fringe to the crowd to fill an overflow meeting in the Simpson 14. B.

Church. The clouds only lifted for a liitla while, and after the services began the dripping Of the rain waa heard again upon the tin roof of the building. But it was only the rear guard of the storm, and when the sarvlqes dosed it had cleared away. Mr. Moody's audi en oe hut night waa in the main cultured and somewhat critical, and there were no exhibitions of feeling.

They laughed pleasantly at two or three quaint and homely similes, and listened attentively. From a social standpoint it was one of the best audiences that has gathered at the revival services. THE BIBLE LE0TUBB. Iu spite of the driving storm of wind and rain yesterday afternoon, about 700 people, mostly women, gathered in the Tabernacle at four o'clock to attend the Bible lecture. These meetings are becoming a favorite service.

The toplo of Mr. Moody's remarks waa the life of Jacob, aa narrated in the book of Genesis. He paraphrased the narrative and commented on it as he went along, drawing Illustrations and teachings from the story applicable to Christian life. Other passages were quoted from different books of the Bible bearing upon the theme. The services lasted for about an hour.

TBE EXEBOTSES at the Bink last evening opened promptly with singing the 37th hymn, "Ten me the old. old etory," followed with prayer by Mr. Needham, the Irish Evangelist. From the tones of his voice, Mr. Needham should be an efiFeotnal preacher of the persuasive style.

The sliglft touch of a brogue that lingers in his voice gives it pathetic tone that attracts attention and excites sympathy with his words. After the prayer Mr. Sankey snng the hymn, "Oh think of the home over thero," the choir only joining in tne chorus. Mr. Moody then announced the topio of his discourse.

He said that on the provious evening he had talked about "Heaven," and he desired to take np the subjeot again where ho left it. He based his remarks upon the Bixth ohapter of St. Matthew and the lath vorso: "Lay up for yourselves treasures Heaven, whore moth and rust do not corrupt nor thieves break through and steal." The revivalist has a frequent habit of preaching two or throe conseoutive sermons upon the same topio. He does not propare his discourses in the ordinary way. A topio suggests itself to him, and in thinking it over, he becomes filled with it, and talks out the thoughts it suggests, and the time given to one discourse is not sufficient to talk it all out.

From what ho said it may be inferrod that Heaven is a lavorlte topic with him. He first spoke of jthe advantages to bo derived from the placing of treasures in Heaven; tho treasures of earth were a source of constant worry and trouble, but those of Heaven a constant Joy. It was easy to toll where a man's treasures are from wbero his heart is. Men need no urging to garner up the wealth of earth, but you have to plead with them to get them to store wcattu in Heaven. Mon may be wealthy here below but perfect paupers In eternity.

If a man's goods come down on the freight train, you may look for him on the next passenger train, and if a man has goods packed up in a Heaven you may look to see him Jour neying in that direction, Mr. Moody then passed to the consideration of the record chat awatts the faithful in Hoaven, and took up the words and labors of the Apostle Paul. Nothing could turn him from the orown tuat awaited him thoro stripes and beatings aod imprisonments could not shake him. In his description of what Paul said and did, he brought his r. atistJo method of presohing into play, and held an imaginary conversation with nim, as to what would have beon said to him at tlio present day.

11 See here, Paul, here you've beon beaten three or four times with stripes, now don't be so radical. Go off down into Arabia until this persecution has died out." "But no," said the Bpeaker, "he counted all these things as nothing was ready to give ten thousand Uvea that he mighc win the crown that was laid up for him in Heaven. If there had been a Jerusalem Herald in those days, they would have called him mad tbe press, had there been one, would have been against him," which very likely would have been tho cose. A quaint simile oropped out in the course of the sermon Mr. Moody related an lnoident of a vessel loaded with lumber, whioh sprang a leak at sea, and the water soaking into the cargo, the vessel became hat they called WATEB LOQOED.

She would not sink but the weight bore her down way below the water line and she had to be towed into the port of Liverpool. There are, said he, a great many "water logged Christians" and the oburch all it can do to keep them afloat and bring them into port. The speaker was at his best last night, earnest, and toroeful, happy in his illustration and forcing thorn home with quaintly drawn.inferences. He spoke np to half past eight and then reqiiestod those in tho audience who desired to talk with him to retire at once while they sang. During the sermon a mijx, fell asleep in the throng right before him.

Moody callod to him to wake up, as he had something to tell him." The services closed with prayer and singing the 150th hymn, In the Christian's home in dory." A prayer meeting followed, lasting about half an hour. THE NINE O'OLOOK MEETING FOB YOUNG MEN. Nine o'olook was the hour appointed for the meeting for young men at the Tabernacle, and before that hour they began to gather. Mr. Sankey arrived first, and going to the organ sang sevcrul hymns while awaiting lor Mr.

Moody. The ground floor of the building filled rapidly, the. comers being mostly young men, although a lew older ones were present. Mr. Mirvin, tho President of tbe Young Men's Christian Association, was on the platform, shortly before 0 o'clock a portion of Company of the Thirteenth Regiment, in uniform, marohed into the church in military order, and took their seals together.

Their coming gave a martial suggestion to the hymns sung, and the talking. ttev. Dr. Talmnge led in prayer, and while he was pruylng Mr. Moody came in.

The 14th hymn, "HOLD THE FOBT," was then song by Mr, Sankey, the audience joining in the chorus. Mr. Moody then said he hardly knew how to begin, or who he was taking to. He would like to know how many of those present were Christians, and he asked such to rise. About 250 stood up.

He then said, perhaps the best thing would be to tell whit they proposed to do. What they wanted was to get tho young men to work. He then told about the young men's meetings in the various cities of Great They began in Edinburgh, when he was laboring there, and never had he Been such a work before. Thousands attended, and now tney wanted to get the young mon of this city started. He said he believed there was more buried talent among the young men of America than the church had any idea of, and they wanted to stimulate it in the Master's cause.

He then gave a brief description of the young men's meetings in Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester, Londonderry and Dublin. In the latter city, he said, in one mercantile houio there are seventy live young mon converted. The most talented young men in Ireland wore among the converts, and tne work done was a great one. What they wauted here was not proacbing, tbey bad had enough of that. Personal contaot was the thing they needed, the labor ot young men among young mon.

We want, he said, to get you young men to work. A thousand of you seeking souls in these two cities would almost revolutionize thorn. Now how many of you will go to work? Let those who will stand np. About 100 young men arose and joined in the chorus to the 82d hymn, "Only an Armour Bearer," sung by Mr. Sankey.

Mr. MOOdy then talked for about twenty minutes, upon the text, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." His theme waa tho neoeBsity of Christians working among those oronnd them. The audience listened very attentively. Mr. Moody then concluded with prayer, and "Kock of Ages," was sung.

He then asked who were Christians to speak to those around them, and coming down from the platform, began to talk pleasantly and quietly to two or three young men Bitting together, upon the subject of religion. Mr. Sankey also engaged a little group in conversation, and a number in the audience began the same method of work. Gradually the audience Altered away, but the work con tinned for about half an hour. The major portion of the audience were young men, who appeared to bo In business and had apparently como in after the labor of the day was finished.

About 2,500 were present. A Bimilar meeting will be held tomorrow evening, at the same time and place. file morning Prayer Meeting; at tlio Tabernacle. The chilly winds that swept over the city this morning in the wake of last night's storm had the effect of diminishing somewhat the attendance at the prayer meeting this morning, but tho lower portion of the bouse was well filled trad the gallery about half occupied. A few new faces were present, but the audience was in tho main the same that gathers every morning.

Tho exercises opened promptly at eight o'ofock with singing the 116th hymn, "Come thou fount of every blessing." THE BEQUESTS FOB PB.AYEBB were then read. Mr. Hawley says that the necessity of abbreviating them to bring the reading within the allotted time deprives them of much of their intensity and earnestness. They opme from all over the country. Bequests were read this morning from nine churches, scattered through the Eastern, Western and Middle States, asking that prayers would be offered for their revival from a Western pastor for the unconverted young men in his church, from a sister asking prayers for five brothera and herself.

Prayera were asked for three clergymen who had backsliden, for seven persons who are ill, for four widows and their unconverted sons, for eight baoksliders, for eleven sons, by their mothers, for twenty husbands by their wiveB, for ten brothers by their sisters, for three fathers by their children, for an or 43 relatives by their friends, for the reconciliation of an estranged family, for three sisters by their brothera, for whole neighborhood, where there are only three or four converted people, for a daughter, by her mother, for a rloh olergyman, for a woman in affliction, for three pastors and their people, for five anxious souls, for an aged intemperate father, by his daughter, and for a little son, by hia mother left suddenly widowed. During the reading of the'requeat the audience engaged in silent prayer, and closed with prayer by Bev. Dr. Budington. The 86th hymn, "Book of Ages," was then sung, and Mr.

Moody addressed the gathering upon the subject ot "Humility," baaing hia remarks upon passages found in tbe second ohapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Coloeeians, He said that more people lost the peace and sweet communion with. God through pride than through anything else. Pride was tho greatest enemy in the church to day. If men do not keep the inner life pure ana sweet, the outer life will not be what it ought to be.

Christians must humble themselves before God, must get down in the dust before htm, before they can be filled with the love and spirit of the Master. The storm that passes over the mountain Bide uproots the trees, because' they are only rooted In the surface soil the roots do not go down deep enough to give them an adequate support. The trouble with tuochurohis that there ore too many ermB ApB cHBisrrANs. The rootsof thelrlovs lor Christ do not go down dean into their hearts. They will go to a prayer meet Annual Fair in Aid of the Brooklyn R.

Asylum. Some Facts About the Society Itself The Committees In Charge of the Fair How the Academy Loots The Varied Attractions in Detail A Storm Inaugural Evening, bnt a Good Attendance of Visitors A Place no One Should Omit to See. The annual fair in aid of the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum was opened at the Academy of Music, yesterday afternoon. As far as this year's enterprise is 'oonoersed, it commenced with gloomy prospects; ia the weather line, and this event would have had a depressing effect upon almost any other undertaking of a similar character, excepting the present one. The object which is intended to be carried out by this fair ia so well known and so commendable, that despite the most adverse circumstances it can be counted on as an assured success.

The institution, like the fair, la managed exclusively and entirely by ladles. It has been established for forty two years, and from the first days of Its origin, to the present time, the one creed to be adhered to, anfl the one goal to be reached has been "To protect, relieve and lnstruot orphan children." The ladles have shown themselves equal to tho sometimes trying tasks of battling against adverse fortune in the undertaking, and their fortitude and perseverance has been most liberally rewarded. A few years ago they were enabled to build a handsome brick building at tbe corner of Atlantic and Kingston avenues. It has all the neoessary conveniences for destltuto children, and has stretched forth a sheltering arm to many homeless little wanderers. THE OFFIOBBB OF THE SOCIETY, for the present year, are as follows First Directress, Mrs.

J. B. Hutchinson Second Directress, Mrs. A. H.

Dana Treasurer, Mrs. F. Woodruff Recording Secretary, Mrs. D. O.

Cross Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Charles Flncke. Board of Advisors. Mr, S. B.

Chittenden, Mr. John Halsey. Mr. A. H.

Dana, Mr. B. W. Delamater, Mr. James L.

Morgan, Mr. John B. Hntchinson, Mr. John W. Mason, Mr.

James W. Elwell, Mr. Abraham Wyo koff, Mr. Frauds Moran, Mr. F.

A. Crocker. Executive Committee. Mrs. S.

B. Chittenden, Mrs. John J. Merritt, Mrs. John Spinney, Mrs.

Charles Finoke, Mrs. B. W. Ropes, Miss M. Hurlbut, Mrs.

A. L. Merwin, Mrs. Asa Parker, Mrs. John W.

Mason, Mrs. Ij. B. Burnham, IiTrs. Demas Barnes, Mrs.

Charles F. Rhodes, Mrs. Abraham Wyokoff, Mrs. F. A.

Crocker, Mrs. Franklin Woodruff, Mrs. D. O. Enos, Mrs.

George AlUn, Mrs. E. B. Dillingham, Mrs. A.

W. Foote, Mrs. H. a. Nichols.

The fair, which la held every year, Is for the purpose of supplying needed funds to defray the neoessary expenses of tbe institution, and one can feel confident that the ladles who have charge ot it will not waste any of the funds intrusted to their care. In this undertaking is thus presented an opportunity for charitably disposed persons to contribute to a worthy they can feel confident that whatever they do contrib ute will be msde to go as far as possible toward the object for which it was Intended. THE APPEABANOE Or THE ACADEMY. No one on entering the Academy would recognize it as tbe same old building. The parquetto has been floored over on a level with the Btage.

Whero once eat audiences are tables loaded with a thousand and ono bewildering collections of articles, bowers of flowers and fruits and eatables. Where the actor repeatod his lines, the singer warbled her notes, the lecturer delivered blB argument, are all the neoessary requirements for a feast suoh as the gods woul 2 revel in, but whioh it is hoped that the patrons of the fair will liberally patronize From the columns supporting the gallery to the centre of the buildin? havo boen suspend ed flaga and other decorations, which holguton tho generally brilliant effect. 6n entering the main door the first objeot of attention is THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUIIiT, an ingeniously constructed edifice, calculated to attract children. Experienced fair goois say that it is nevor known to fail in delighting the httle folks. Tho namo it bears, so dear to all children's memories, seems to call forth the sympathies aud good feelings of the young.

Thoy always get their parents to contrlbuto to the littlo basket in front of Jack's hoUBe. They reoeivo a ticket in oxohange, and this is placed in a little car riage, drawn by littlo metal horses and driven by a little metal man. Immediately upon receiving the tioket It la driven by the little metal man, who seems to almost smile in tne excess of his delight, up a little graveled path toward the house. Two doors open and shut mysteriously bohind tho vehicle, which a moment later appears laden with some presont for the httlo ones. The mediis operandi of all this is a profound mystery to tho ohUdren, which they finally unravel as thoy grow older.

Mrs. Crocker, Miss Lazcll and Miss Richardson attend to this branoh of tho ontortainmeut. Directly in front of the main entranoe la the Floral Bower, in ohargo of Mrs. Demas Barnes. The bower Is to ue made a specialty of the fair, and the ladles who are managing it are making great efforts to present a brilliant show, and extensive preparations are continuously in progress to the end that the first large crowd may be successfully captured by storm, though as yet the storm captured the ladies, and deprived them of many expected customers.

Mrs. BarneB is assistod by Mrs. S. B. Duryoa, Mrs.

Georgo A. Allin, Mrs. J. Crowell, Mrs. J.

W. Mason, MlsS Foote, Miss Laura Barnes aud Miss Cora Barnes. The bower has been elegantly and tastefully decorated by Ogden P. Pell, of the Botanio and Exotic Gardens. To the rear of the Floral Bower Is a miniature cottage, perf ootly fitted up with mirrors, tables, chairs, beds, carpets, eto.

Mrs. Franklin Woodruff and Mrs. Bhodes have oharge of it, and they expect to raffle it off and realize 500. Next in order is the fruit stand, which is presided over by Mrs. George M.

Parker, Here may be purchased all the dellcaoles of the aeason, and of past seasons, which are presented in suoh a variety as to hold out a Btrang temptation to all fruit lovers, THE CANDY. SIOBE. All porBOns partial to sweets will have but little trouble in gratifying their taste if tbey come to the fair and patronize this table. Bonbons, sugar plums, Frenoh mixed and every kind of candy imaginable oan be had under ono condition, and that is, that it must be paid for, not dearly, but a reasonable amount of obango judiciously expended will bring a liberal return. Mrs.

J. H.Thorpe, Mtb, Beuben Ropes and Miss Barnes have charge of this table. FANOx TABLE NUMBEB 1. Mrs. E.

D. White, Mrs. B. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Snow and Mrs.

Uhler are in charge of this table. It is devoted to the sale of fancy articles, and are principally such as most interest ladies. The attraction here is a large easy choir, of elegant pattern and manufacture, tbe donation of William Wood, furniture dealer of Fulton street. There ore to be one hundred chonocs at one dollar per ohance, a number of which have already been disposed of. THE OOTJNTEY STOBE.

This department differs in many respects from the generality of those places from wbloh it derives Its name. It has nothing of the appearance of a country store. On the contrary, it is neat and clean, and in the placo of lumberragjcountrymen, as olerks, are kindly, matronly ladies. The goods offered for sale are of a I first class quality, and embrace a catalogue as complete as any grocery store of twenty years existence, with the exception of those more cumbrous artioles, snch as potatoes, which tho nicely dressed kid gloved young ladies and gentlemen would not exaotly care to carry home with The greater portion of the goods are the donation of Dnrkey grocers. The store is managed by Mis.

O. M. Field, Mrs. Cortelyou and Mrs. Crocker.

BEADY MADE CLOTHING. Next to the cnuntry store is the ready made clothing establishment. They don't sell men's ololhing there. Probably if tbey did they would not find many anxious purchasers, so the ladies have wisely ooncluded not to deal in that line of goods this year, at least, But bed quilts, babies' jackets, ladles' garments and the like, can be bought ad libitum. From the reporter's slight experience with this class of goods, he should ssy that they are well made, and deserve to be worn by some of the patrons of the fair, as they undoubtedly will be.

Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Burnham, Mrs. Cahoone and Miss Moffatt are the ladles in charge. THE TOY TABLE.

Dolls, babies, horses and wagons, ooal carts, Jaunting cars, steamboats, dolls' carriages, babieB' beds all in miniature and dozens of other things that are the children's delight, are displayed profusely at this table. It would be an unlucky thing for the parents purses should they allow their children to come near this table, for they would be surely compelled to buy something, and the youngsters would be oolish if they didn't make them. Mrs, Ptlmer, Mrs. Easton, Mrs. Cook and Mrs.

Johnson are In oharge. LEATHEB GOODS. Near the entrance is a table devoted exclusively to leather goods. Persons going to tne fair with nlenty of money should not neglect to buy a handsome pocket book, which can be secured very cheap, in which to keep their bills. They can be supplied with everything they desire in the sbape of leather bags, pocketbooks, bog straps, by Mrs.

Byron Murray, who presides over the tabic. The goods, whioh are handsome and of tho best quality, are the donation of Mr. James St. Taylor, of New York. FAIR LITEBATOBB.

An interesting department is the book stall, The ladles in charge have shown good judgment in not presenting for sale merely light reading alone, though they violate a timo honored custom in doing so. It has been the rule that almost nothing outside of harmless romantio tales and story bookB have been displayed, as though they thought that the buyers were ao shallow brained as to care for no other kind ot literature. Good books of a sound moral tone are conspicuous, and will, there la no doubt, find ready purchasers. This table is presided over by Mrs. Foote and Miss Jackson.

MOBE TOYS. Another table near the stage Is devoted to the sale of toys, and Mrs. Dunning, Miss DiUiogor and Miss Knight are in charge of It. FANCY TABLES. Mrs.

flright Johnson is in oharge of a fancy table near the Btage, and she has succeeded in making a very attractive show of goods that are calculated to sell quickly and bring good prices. There are three other fanoy tables, devoted to no special class of goods, but displaying those little fanoy artioles for which fairs are noted, and in which women excel in manufacturing. They are respectively managed by Mrs. Dunning, Miss Thompson, Mrs. Powell, Miss Seeley, Mrs.

Batoholor, MIsb Diokerman and Mrs. Boblnson. THE BESTAUBANT. As before mentioned, the restaurant occupied that portion of the building where the stage is situated. There are half a dozen large tables, and tbey have the capacity of seating, about seventy flve gueitav The tabic d' hoU will bo served at tlx o'olook, and for a dollar one can get a good dinner.

Mr. Stephen Bro naugh la the cook. Dieter, the caterer, has loaned a quantity of handsome silver plats, which will be used during the fair. The ladles In this department are Mrs. Oharles F.

Bhodes, Mrs. AUin. Mrs. J. N.

Wyokoff, Mrs. A. Wyokoff, Mrs. Merritt, Mrs. H.

Nichols, Mrs. Finoke, Mrs. Thompson, Miss: Hurlburf, Mrs. Nesmvtb, Mrs. Mason, Mrs.

Hepburn, Mrs. Hlldretb, Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Tombs, Miss Wilklns.iMiss "Mrs. Dil Mnghamj Mrs, Sherwood.

Owing Vo the "storm of' was not to largo aa It otherwise would have been, and Tbree Blore Wardv Canraiscd. The' Board of County Canvassers re assem Mod yesterday after recess, and prooeedod with their work, finishing the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards. Tit following are the results by wards: STATE. Wirda. Bigefow.

Psvard. Fourth 1.0X7 1,004 Fifth 8,199 6119 Blxth 9,899 179 SOP EBVISOB AT LAEGE. Wards Howell. DsTies. Fourth US Fifth 'esi Sixth 1,406 Wards.

Fourth Firth Sixth Kevins. Daggett. 874 1,181 3.1SS 3,667 111 C0MMI8SI0NEBS Or OUABTTIES. Wards. Bogan.

Hutohlnson. Norrls. Herman. Enrth In 1,1,1 fa i.ih 697 2,161 70 81th S.6M 1,444 2.648 1,438 SBNATOB, SECOND DISTIUOT. i 1,1.1 jvaras.

un. "J1 1,145 863 Firth S.SJ9 611 SENATOR, THIUD DISTRIOT. Ward. Jacobs. Kavanagh.

Sixth 1,615 9,435 SUPREME OOUBT JDSTIOE. Wards. Tbddaii. Dtknian. Jrth .668 1,019 g'J" S.SJ7 660 Sixth 2,749 1,863 NOTES ON TUB CANVASS.

Among the peculiarities of the canvass, In the Seventh District of the Hlith Ward, one vote was found returned for Wm. M. Tweed for Supervisor at Large, and one for the Cardiff Giant, for the same office. The Fourth Distriot ot tho 8ixth Ward was sent back for correction, tbe total vote on Justice of Supreme Court not agreeing. The returns for the Sixth Distriot, Sixth Ward, were returned for correction, the votes not having been written out as the law requires.

Tbe Slight Distriot of the same ward was sent back for correction, the voto on Sheriff and Commisslonor of Charities, Second District, not agreeing with the total. The Ninth Distriot was sent back for correction, because the rote on the State ticket did not agree. In the Tenth Distriot of the same ward the onlv votes agreeing with the totals were those for Senator, Justice of the Supreme Court, and Justloe of Sessions errors appeared in all the others. This also wss sent oacK ror correction. At 3 P.

M. the Board adjourned until 11 A. M. to day. FIFTH WARP REPUBLICANS.

A regular meeting of the Fifth "Ward Be publican Association was held last evening, at the corner of Bridge and High streets. Mr. Enoch Jacobs in the chair. Alter the Secretary had read the minutes of the previous meeting the names ot several persons were received for membership. The President then announced that the Registration Committee would meet on next Wednesday evening, when they would aot upon the applications for membership.

Mr. Webb, on the order of now business being called. made a charge against Ed. F. Phillips with having voted the Democratic ticket at tbe last election.

Mr. Molntyre said that Mr. PblUlna was not the onlv man who belonged to the Association who had voted tho Democratic ticket. There had been several men who had shouted Republicanism boforo election, and men nan gone in witn tne winning borse, Mr. Molntyre suggested that a ootnmittee be appointed to supervise tho roll and drop tho names of Buch men from it.

Another member charged that Mr. Alexander Mitchell also belonging to the Association, had also voted the Demooratio State ticket. The Chairman then Dreferred a comnlaint apainst James McGovern, whose name was on the bookH, with having voted the Democratic ticket, and then Mr. Mo lntyre Balu that James McNally, another member, bad not only voted, but had openly peddled tho Democratic ticket all day of olootioa, uud Mr. John Uaggcrty had a similar charge laid against him.

On motion oi Mr. Mclntyre the abovo persons wore to bo notified of tho charges preferred against them, and to appear before the Begistration Committee but tbo motion was withdrawn, and Mr. Phillips' motion that the offending members should be summoned to appear before the next regular meeting was cairied. Mr. iticintyre saia that the pnmanos were coming on and ho thought the uiiotlne should take some action with regard to the making out of a ticket to bo voted for.

and moved that a conimittoe be appDintod to make such ticket. The Chair appointed tho following gentlemen Messrs. Shanloy, Gardiner, Pendorgrast, woll, Csrlmrt and Conklin. On meeting aJjournod untU noxt Wednesday evening. CDRRENT KVEXTS.

It is roported that the District Attorney of Erie County will, on Monday noxt, In the Court of Oyer and Terminer at Buffalo, move for tbe (rial of the Indictment against George D. Lord for perjury. The de fenso will be conducted by Hon. Wm. A.

Beach. Cardinal MoCloskey will oinbark at Queens town on Sunday noxt, on board tho Cunard steamer Abyssinia for New York. The factory of Messrs. Cook Sons, whole Bale clothiers, at Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, was destroyed by fire yesterday and six hundred operators were thrown out of employment. The passengers and crew of the burned Bteamshlp City of Waco aro still missing, and it Is feared that all on board have perished.

Russia has annexed the territory on the right bank of the Syr Daria from the Bussian frontier to the Biver Nareen, hitherto belonging to Khokand. To day Cardinal MoCloskey will attend the Catholic University Commencement in Dublin, at which Cardinal Cuilen is to preside as Chancellor. The congregation of the Prospect avenue Presbyterian Society, Jersey City, have determined to change the name of the ohuroh, and Mr. Glondonnlng will soon go to Illinois and resume preaching. Charles F.

Olmstead was appointed Division Engineer on tho Western Division by tbe Canal Board yesterday. The French Minister of Finance has informed tho Assombly that tho revenuo since tho commencement of the present year is $22,000,000 in excess of the estimates. Mr. Charles Addington, of St. Louis, while going to the Pavonia Forry, yesterday, was knocked down and robbed by two highwaymen in Warren atroot, New York.

The wifo, son and daughter of Charles Masaey, of Fordsvillo, were killed yesterday by drinking water from a well in whioh a large quantity of arsenic or strychnino had been thrown. The Kansas and Missouri Bridge, which spans the Missouri Biver at Leavenworth, has oeeu placed in the hands of a receiver. Another survivor of the foundered steam Bbip Paclflo, has been picked up while floating on a raft, thirty miles inside the Straits of Fuca. A number of German merchants in New York, have volunteered to raise $30,000 to defray the expenses of the reception of the German Crown Prince. One inch of snow fell yesterday morning iu the neighborhood of Miltord, Pa.

In the United States District Court of St. Louis, yesterday, Chan. D. Bobbins, indicted for conspiracy and for removing whisky which was not stamped, pleaded guilty as to two counts. The Quebeo Council of Arts and Manufactures have determined to exhihit grain at the Philadelphia Centennial, according to districts.

At Salt Lake City, Judge Soreman has decided that a Mormon is not necessarily incompetent to be a Juryman in a suit between a Mormon and a Gentile. The "United States Grand Jury, at Cincinnati, yesterday, indicted for violation of tbe Internal Revenue laws, Howe st Hub bell, H. H. Hamilton, Amann Co. and W.

T. Marshall, rectifiers, and L. A. Logan, Geo, J. Linlnger and W.

O. Williams, gangers. It is proposed to looate the State capital of West Virginia at Wheeling. The Directors of the Emma Mining Company In London, have resigned. Wm.

M. Green, ex Postmaster at Dayton, Ohio, was indicted yesterday for fraudulent practices while in office. John Hyler, of Montville, was run over by a Delaware, Lackawanna Western Railroad train near Boontcn, on Tuesday night, and had both legs cnt off. The two leading Baptist papers of Boston, the Era and the Watchman and Reflector, have boon consolidated, with Dr. Lorimer as Editor in Chief.

Thirty one deer have been killed on Long Island since the 1st inst. nE WASN'T L00KINU. A woman entered John Heggart's dry goods store, 19 Sands street, yesterday, under pretense of purchasing. When the proprietor's back was turned she got away with two caUco wrappers and two knit jackets, valued In all at $9. SHALL WE HAVE C11EAPEB GAS To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Will a word from a young housekeeper induce you to keep constantly before the publio the necessity for rebelling against our burdensome gas bills 7 I have snch faith In your persistent pursuit of all publio abuses, that I hope your editorial betokens the coming of a new era.

It is useless for economical wives to watch servants that they do not waste gas in their department, or to be vigilant In our own domain, if with each recurring mouth we are presented with the same undiminished bill. It Is certainly time we have a change, and it can only come by pressing the matter hard and earnestly, and we look to you who have the power to do it, knowing you are upheld by many, if not all of your readers, of whom I am, respectfully, Ons. A Heavy Day's Sales Last Saturday, at the corner of Canal street and Broadway, New York, and Fulton and Smith streets, Brooklyn. The two stores disposed of $31,000 worth of Mon's and Bor's Clothing, at retail, C. O.

D. And Bald wrw, tho clothier, never did hotter thing for our oitizens than when he opened a branoh hooso in this city. dot not the Failure Of all other remedies for coughs and colds deter the sufferers from seeking relief from Bale's Hohet OF EORKHOUND AMD TAB. Pite'b Toothache Dbopb cure hi one minute. BUSINESS NOTICES.

RAPID TRANSIt An eiUbliahed fact, at the ORIGINAL BROOKLYN TBA AND COFFEE STORE, 161 FULTON ST, corner of High, For the Celebrated Teas Sold at 60c per and Cream Java CoBee, in 8 lb Canisters for 81 each. ELECTRO snJCON Has received "the award of the Amerloau Institute as the best article known for cleaning and poiUMn silver ware and all fine metals. 8ol4 by droisirta, iewelen, house famishing and grocery stores. TgB OF THE HOUR. IJtdles'fin pebblagost.

button. Those dsalraas of obtaining the foUnlae ifoi thjlr 'money 'rdtaryriahui. BRISTOL'S, Wtoa st, Junction Lafayette av, Our Annual Local Expenditure. The taxpayers, who are naturally interested in ascertaining how the money is expended whioh they contribute to the support of our local fjOTemment, should not fail to read the discussion of the of the Common Council who have now under consideration the estimates for the incoming year. A full report of yesteiday's session will be found published elsewhere.

By the way, the Aldermen could contribute greatly to the enlightenment of the taxpayers of Brooklyn, if they would continue the consideration of the estimates day by day, until their labors are concluded. This would enable citizens to get a better knowledge of the affairs of their government than they can while the budget is discussed at remote and irregular intervals, during the Fall, as has come to be the practice. In round numbers, the estimated cost of supporting the government of Brooklyn is six millions and a half of dollars, or a little over thirteen dollars for each man, woman and child of our population. Of course, while all contribute' directly or indirectly to this expenditure, some pay more and some pay leas, according to their mode of life. The ohief items of expenditures are I.

Interest on our permanent debt, whioh amounts this year to just one million, seven thousand, four hundred and ten dollars, showing conclusively, despite all the discussion which has taken place on this subject, that the permanent debt of the city, payable by direct taxation, is, in round numbers, fifteen millions dollars. This debt has been contracted almost solely for two purposes: Prospect Park, which has oost us nearly ten millions of dollars, and the East Biver Bridge, to which enterprise the city has loaned its credit to an amount within four millions of dollars. Of course the reader will remember that this does not include the water loan of about ten millions, the interest and principal of which are provided for from the revenues of the Water Department. IL The next large item of expenditure goes to meet the expenses of our free school system, for whose maintenance we contribute annually something less than one million of dollars. IOC The next considerable item of expenditure is embraced under the head of "general "purposes," which amounted lost year to between eight and nine hundred thousand dollars.

In this is included the coat of lighting the streets five hundred thousand dollars. IV. For the direct protection of our property and lives we pay about a million and a quarter of dollars in this proportion For the support of the Police and Excise Department (according to last year's figures), $787,776 for the Department of Fires and Building, $339,500. V. The Department of City Works required for its maintenance last year, $404,944.

It is due to this muoh abused branch of the City Government to say that ti has reduced its eBtimateB over $60,000. VI. The cost of maintaining our public parks is about $150,000 per annum. VII. The salaries of officials of the city government proper amount to very nearly four hundred thousand dollars per annum.

The item was vastly augmented under the new charter, which increased the salaries of all the heads of departments from fifteen to three hundred per cent. This charter was framed in the main, by Mayor elect Schroeder. While he is not responsible for the changes made in the charter after it passed into the hands of. our representatives in the Legislature changes which added largely to the salary account it is assumed that one of the leading purposes of his administration will be to reduce official salaries, and that to effect this purpose, he will cheerfully consent to the reduction of the salary of the Mayor from ten thousand dollars to the old rate of five thousand. We need hardly say that no measure of economy would strike the public imagination as forcibly as this.

This is almost the only item in which economy can be promptly and advantageously enforced. In the Committee on the Annual Estimates, Alderman Kopes has given notice that he will move, this year, for a reduction of twenty five per cent, on all salaries not fixed by law. This would be a beginning of the policy of leveling down, and with Mayor Schroeder's, support, it could hardly fail to be supplemented by legislative action reducing the salaries of all the heads of departments, so that public officials, like all other classes, would be made to realize the fact that, sooner or later, we must, as individuals, bring down our mode of living to that of ante war times. VIII. The balance of our annual local expenditures is embraced mainly in the items For the payment of so much of our public debt as falls due annually the assessment loan debts, which are charged to taxpayers within special districts taxed for local improvements; the support of the Health Department; the maintenance of the Bureau of Elections, whose oost has run up, by the way, to some forty thousand dollars per annum.

These facts and figures will enable the taxpayers to obtain what we may term a bird's eye view of the cost of our city government, and it will prevent him from being imposed upon by the wild splurging of the New York papers when they refer to Brooklyn affairs while all of them are silent on the broad contrast presented in these figures for every dollar expended in supporting any one of our local departments, four dollars are expended in New York for the corresponding purpose and while we, on this side of the river, raise a little over a million dollars to pay the interest on our permanent city debt, the taxpayers of New York will be required next year to raise ten millions of dollars to meet the interest alone on the debt of that city. In other words, the interest of the public debt of New York City amounts to a sum largely in excess of the total cost of supporting the local government of Brooklyn. The Eagle will probably never be able to say that our local public affairs are managed as well as they might be. That it has largely contributed to have them managed as well as they are, and have been, has never been denied in Brooklyn by taxpayers of either party. The Illness of tbe Vice President.

Vice President Henry Wilson is sicker than his friends and the doctors give out, and they are impelled to belittle his illness because he is a candidate for the Presidency, an ambition which requires robust or a fair degree of health, to be presumed of the man entertaining it. It is not worth while to indicate the difference between the idea of Mr. Wilson's candidacy for the Presidency, as it appears to other minds, and as it may appear to his mind. It is entirely obvious that a man of the negative and goody, goody mannerisms of Mr. Wilson will not be thought of for President next year, especially now that his broken constitution gives nobody an assurance that he oould stand the racke of politics a month.

Mr. Wilson, however, does not see it in the same light, and he has been nursing himself, his aspirations and the reports about his health at the same time. We do not care to indicate the disparity between Henry Wilson as he really is and as he pretends to be. It is not necessary, for he is on the next to the laBt year of any service he will ever render the American people at large and what Massachusetts may do with him after that is of no consequence, till it perpend. We think it due, however, to a right use of words, and to a class to which Mr.

Wilson never can belong, that the statement of "his "prostration after ten hours' of intellectual "labor" should receive just this consideration: It may have been labor and ten hours' labor but the faot that it was performed by Mr. Henry Wilson is proof positive that it was not "intellectual" labor. Any man who has ever engaged in Intellectual labor, and who has read or heard Mr. Wilson, will know this without amy explanation and beyond any doubt. It may have been the fatigue of writing that prostrated Mr.

Wilson, but any entry clerk is liable to the same exhaustion. Mr. Wilson can write books with the aid of much reprint matter, scissors, mucilage, and his facility for turning off a great number of heavy sentences. He can limit or enlarae these books to the The Prince ot Wales In India. That astute politician, Mr.

Benjamin Disraeli, deolared some two years since, tbit the present generation would witness the most gigantic war of history, and more than hinted that the complications out of which it should arise were already making, day by day, in India. At the time of this remarkable declaration remarkable not because it was novel, but because it was made by the head of the Government, whose possession India is the British public was in a certain sense lulled into oblivious' security in reference to India but the moment Mr. Disraeli's speeoh was published publicists all over the empire inoreased the general alarm the Prime Minister's words had awakened by such arguments, illustrations and testimony of practical experience, as created the impression that the gigantic war predioted was within a week or two of commencement. Mr. Disreali found it necessary to allay publio excitement by another speech in which he kindly postponed hostilities for some years, and then, having created a popular sympathy with his work went about devising diplomatic meanB for maintaining pacific Anglo Indian relations as long as possible.

The Prince of Wales' journey to India is one of these means. The idea is an old one, but its application to India is novel, and was carried out, if rumor speaks truth, against the strenuous opposition of the Prince himself. Whether it will be as successful as former visits of the kind to other dependencies is very doubtful. The State visit of the hereditary prince of a monarchy to a country whose hundreds of millions of inhabitants have risen more than once in bloody revolt against it is not likely to compose such differences as exist between England and her Indian subjects. The paltry presents which the Prince has taken out with him, and which have been refused with native hauteur by more than one Indian dignitary, in advance, are not likely to soothe the warlike breasts or lull the subtle brains of the aBtute, oruel, plotting tubes whioh have so long burned to avenge the British occupation.

The pomp and paraphernalia of the Prince's suite are much more' likely to inflame resentment than to cool it. Some suspicion of this has lately fallen on the English people, if we may judge from the tone of the. English press. The recent declaration of the Pall Jlfall Gazette that the English occupation of Egypt as a base of operations with a view to the preservation of the British Empire in India will shortly become neoessary, is a declaration scarcely less important than the speech of the Premier, to which we have alluded. And its truth is unquestioned, for Egypt would alone supply a vantage ground for England in any contest with Russia for domination in India.

It is not possible to believe that a journal of the grave semi official character of the Gazette would make so bold and sudden an announcement unless the publio mind was to be prepared for some new and important disclosures in this ever vexed question. The Prince has arrived in Bombay. Here, and in Calcutta, Madras, and in the English Colonies of British India, he will undoubtedly be enthusiastically received. But when the fetes are over, there will still be 250 millions of human beings unsatisfied, exhausting all the arts of native secret diplomacy to revenge themselves for the contumely heaped upon their religions and their persons, and biding the time when the inevitable quarrel between the British lion and the Russian bear shall furnish them an opportunity to be seized with all the ardor religious fanaticism lends to merely secular revolt. Tbe Asylum Investigation.

The testimony given before State Commis sioner Dr. Ordronaux yesterday, concerning the management of the Flatbush Lunatio Asylum, related mainly to matters with which the readers of the Eaole have long been familiar namely the unfitness of the subordinates employed in the institution and the lack of intelligent system in the administration of its affairs. Ex Commissioner Hassan H. Wheeler went over the old ground about the resignation of Dr. MacDonald and the infirmities of Mrs.

Cunningham, the matron's, temper. The testimony considered as a whole leaves no room for more than one inference concerning the recent and present management of the institution it has been, and is, unqualifiedly bad. What is not incompetent is brutal, and what is not brutal is irrational. The Commissioners exhibit no regard for the institution except in so far as it is of political service, the physicians are incompetent and the nurses, underpaid, and. unwatched, treat the inmates as capricious temper dictates.

This cannot be denied. The only question remaining to be answered is as to the remedy. There will be no thorough and creditable remedy that does not lift the Asylum, out of politics altogether, and there will be no tolerable essay toward reform that does not commence by reorganizing the medical staff and corps of nurses. So far as Mrs. Cunningham, about whom so much noise has been made, is concerned, she is the widow of a man to whom Brooklyn was under considerable obligation and whose memory is held in kindly regard by a great many of our people.

He served the public long and died poor, and a natural impulse of gratitude made the men in control of trar affairs do what they properly could for the widow. That she is not well placed in the Asylum is evident, and we trust some position for which she is better fitted will shortly be found. Russia will be represented at the Centennial, and no expense will be spared to make the display as fine as possible. Two steamers will leave Hamburg in February, and exhibitors will have every facility afforded them for sending in their wares. The space devoted to Russia is to be decorated in purely Russian styles, tbe cases and fittings to be made in Russia, and the exhibition this country will make at our Centennial will no doubt be one of the most interesting in our national exhibition.

SONS OF TEMPERANCE. At the meeting of the Grand Division of the Son's ot Temperance, for Eastern Now York, held yesterday at No. ,723 Sixth avenue, Now York, the following officers ware elected Grand Worthy Patriarch, 8. B. Stoddard; Grand J.

fright Grand Scribe, E. H. Hopkins Grand Chaplain, W. O. Steel Grand Conductor, J.

Healey Onnd UnUneL 0. Biohardaou. Christian statesmen. The "fruits of the Spirit'' are the same everywhere, in every ago and every clime, and amid all diversities of circumstance and oharacter. Knowing that this is so from infallible authority, and not doubting but that much good may be done by Buch gatherings and earnest appeals as are now daily witnessed 'at the Rink and the is with pain that we have notiood the creeping in thin the last day or two, of a spirit of brag and self complacency which is altogether at variance with the evangelical spirit we hsve described.

Some converts are even found to boast publicly of their extreme wickedness in the past, as though a lurid and appalling background brought out in stronger relief the splendid shining of the Sun of Righteousness and upon them. And so it would, if others, not themselves, painted the picture, for there is as muoh vanity, sometimes, in making oneself out worse, as better, than one really is. Again in the Primitive Churoh all converts were subjected to a considerable probation, not only that they might become more perfectly instructed in "the way "of the Lord," but as a test of their sincerity. This was an excellent plan, and is the only effectual way of excluding hypocrisy and religious charlatanism. Many start in the heavenly race with a great flourish of their own trumpet, but they soon get out of breath and "fall by the wayside." It is all easy the first mile, while Moodey stimu lates with preaching, and Sankey with triumphal song, but foolish Galatians, said St.

Paul, "ye did run well; what did "hinder you that ye should not obey the "truth?" Religious egotism is "one of the hindrances, and perhaps the chief of all. Nor is it, unhappily, confined to laymen, who get up, and after boasting of their reckless lives, declare that they found Jesus last night and think that to morrow they will give up business and become preachers, but some of our ministers are found, to boast in words like this: "I cannot go into detail. I will give my report in lumps. I am confident "that yesterday. I led thirty three souls to rest in Jesus." Such language as this reminds one of the betting and prize ring rather than the heavenly amphitheatre.

It does not inspire confidence in the solid piety of either minister or converts. There is reason to warn men against confounding nervous ecstacy with sincere conversion, lest when the rain descends and the floods come their fragile house of faith be swept away, because they built it on no deeper foundation than the shifting sands of transitory feeling. What the Christian Church has a right to ask is that the "good works" rather than the fine words of these converts should shine before men. The theology we need in Brooklyn and everywhere is the theology of right living, not of loud talking. The stereotyped phrases of revivalism are easily caught up.

The technicalities of Calvinism have no power for good upon the life. But the self denial, the gentleness, the honesty and justice, the patience and hard work that come of true religion, these are "epistles known and read of "all men" and are mighty to the pulling down of Satan's strongholds and the winning of souls to Christ. Let the new converts be a little modest. As new born babes, let them receive the pure milk of the Word that they may grow thereby." Let them imitate the godly pastor, whom Chaucer describes, who taught The lore of Christ and His Apostles Twelve, Bat first of all, ho followed it hinisolve. Then, after they have become habituated to a good life, so that it sits as lightly upon them as though they had been to the manner born" of respectable behavior, we shall all hear them gladly" and be the better for their experiences.

Is Love Lunacy Is Matrimony Madness 7 The Pope Jeffrey case synopticized in last night's Eaole raises the question, whether a contract of marriage between a man and a girl, the latter being of unsound mind, can be held valid. As matter of law, if it be proved that either party was of unsound mind at the time of the ceremony, the friends of the victim, for victim not consort suoh a party is, can have him or her freed from the bond. The victim indeed can secure such a release of his or her own motion, if subsequently recovering reason, and not when so recovered doing anything to affirm the relation. This rises from the fact that marriage is a civil contract between legally responsible parties, and an irresponsible person can not be concluded by any advantage taken of him, under the forms of matrimony or any other form. But the fact of mental incapacity to comprehend the contract at the time it was made, must clearly established.

The parents of the woman in this case affirm such incapacity at the time of the contract, and say that it continues still. The husband plaintiff denies it, and makes the objeotdon one of religion. Who establishes his case gains bis suit in this litigation. There is doubtless a history that is not in the pleadings as reported. A two years' intimacy is alleged not without the' knowledge of the parents of the woman.

'The hot surprising marriage, however, surprised them, ana it was clandestinely procured, though without reflection upon the minister, to whom sufficient representations were made at the time of the ceremony. There is a disparity, of circumstances and a differenoB.if jreligion jn jewi' The alio gatdons of the girl's mental unsoundness do not conflict with any of these faots, bat the faots.