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The Late Dr. Howe.-Mr. James T. Fields prefaced his morning lecture to the students of Boston University on Wednesday, the 12th of January, with this tribute to the late Dr. Howe: "There is a man now lying dead in this city, and who is to be buried at noon to-day, whose life and character have such an exceptional interest for all of us that no one of his old companions and friends on arising to address an audience anywhere this morning could possibly omit some reference, however brief, to a citizen so distinguished. The grandly rounded carcer of Dr. Howe will receive from eloquent lips to-day, its fitting meed of culogy. Inspiring words will be spoken, inspiring thoughts will be suggested at the appropriate place of ceremony, but I cannot proceed to the special topic which has called us together without pausing to utter these words of thankfulness for the heroic youth, the generous manhood, the noble, life-long philanthrophy of one whose energies were all employed in imparting strength to liberty, language to the dumb, thought to half-extinguished person, and the benefits of light to so many who were born blind."

Jurors in Utah-Senator Christiancy has introduced a bill in the Senate in regard to jurors in Utah. It provides that in any trial for bigamy or polygamy it shall be a sufficient cause for challenge and for the rejection of any juror, first, that he has more than one wife living in said Territory, whether married by the ordinary rites or by the so-called "sealing" ceremony, or second, that he believes it morally right for a man to live with more than one wife. If the panel is thus exhausted, talesmen may be summoned until the requisite number of jurors shall be obtained.

Toleration in New Hampshire.-Arthur P. Devlin lectured at Dover, New Hampshire, a few weeks since, on "Romanism in America." After the lecture a crowd fol. lowed him to his hotel; on the way he fled into a drug-store for safety, where bricks were thrown through the windows, and the Mayor was compelled to read the riot act. The police finally succeeded in getting him to the hotel, not, however, without being compelled to use their revolvers. It is wellnigh time this species of toleration were checked by making examples of some of the tolerants. If not checked, it may be necessary some day to secure a license from the Cardinal before a lecturer can safely ascend the rostrum.

The Lutherans in Russia pay big salaries to their pastors, viz., two rubles for each soul, the average number of souls in every parish being fifteen hundred. On account of this circumstance the Russian government proposes to increase the salaries of the orthodox clergy.

Salaries of New York Clergymen.-Some of the more distinguished of New York's clergymen will not suffer the pangs of hunger right away if their salaries are any indication of their abundance of the comforts of this life. The preacher who receives the highest salary in this country is the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. For several years past his alary has been $20,000 per annum. In addition to this, it is safe to say that he received $5,000 per annum for various lectures delivered by him in the winter season. His salary as clitor of the Christian Union was $10,000 per annum,

and from the Christian Union Publishing Company he one year received $10,000 for a life of Christ. Besides all this he is in the receipt of an annual income as author's percentage on the sale of his works, so that his income for several years past has been in the neighborhood of $40,000 per annum. His salary this year, it will be remembered, was raised to $100,000. The Rev. Dr. John Hall has a salary of $10,000 gold, per annum, and he also adds to his income by writing and lecturing. The Rev. Dr. Hepworth, of the Church of the Disciples, was in receipt of a salary of $10,000 per annum until recently. The Rev. Dr. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, receives a salary of $10,000 per annum. He was offered an advanced salary by one of the New York Congregational churches some time ago, but was induced to remain with his old charge. The Rev. Dr. Buddington, also one of the best known of Brooklyn pastors, receives $10,000 per annum. The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the rector of Trinity, receives $15,000 per annum. He has two or more assistants, who receive from $4,000 to $6,000 each. The senior minister at St. Paul's receives $10,000, and his assistant $4,000. The Rev. Dr. Weston, for many years past the pastor of St. John's Church, receives $10,000 salary, and has an assistant at $4,000. The pastor who officiates at Trinity Chapel also receives $10,000, and has one or more assistants. The Rev. Dr. Chapin also receives $10,000 salary. The Rev. Dr. Schenck, rector of St. Ann's, the fashionable Episcopalian church of Brooklyn, receives $10,000.

Toleration in Constantinople.-A Christian gentleman lately rented house in a quarter of Constantinople which is partly inhabited by Turks and partly by Christians. When moving thither he was insulted by the Turkish mob, led by the Muktar and the Imaum. They broke open the doors and threw the furniture into the street. Mr. M. sent to the police the mob and imprisoned the gentleman. His house was station for assistance. Three policemen appeared, but assisted plundered and his furniture destroyed.

Another Papal Diocese.-The New York Freeman's Journal, announces that Alleghany City, Pa., has been made a diocese, and Bishop Domenec, now of Pittsburg, named its first bishop. Very Rev. J. Quigg, of Altoona is appointed Bishop of Pittsburg.

John C. Fremont.-Instead of being "a little, weazenfaced, dried up old man," was stated by a New York paper recently, General John C. Fremont is, according to the Virginia (Nevada) Enterprise, a splendid-looking man, his face fresh and strong, though bronzed as though by contact with years of out-door life. His hair is silvered, but in looking at it the impression is that it is so through exposure and not age, and it sets off the face finely.

Col. A. A. Mechling, a former resident of Pittsburg, died at Yankton, D. T., recently. The deceased entered the army when the rebellion broke out, and fought through the war making for himself an excellent record, and leaving the service with the rank of colonel. He was fifty years of age at the time of his demise. Rev. I. Mechling, of Greensburg and W. H. Mechling, of Pittsburg, are his brothers.

Tramps.-The great numbers of tramps who infest all our large cities, some of whom have been converted into tramps by inability to procure employment, have been a source of much annoyance for some time past, and have called forth many efforts, philanthropic and otherwise, to devise a remedy. The State Board of Charities, of New York, estimates that over two hundred thousand acts of relief are extended to tramps annually in the State, at a cost of at least $200,000. This aid is granted without any equivalent therefor, and in most cases to persons who are able by their labor to provide for themselves. To correct the evils resulting from "tramping," the Board makes the following recommendations:

"A radical change in the manner of dealing with this class is believed to be necessary; a more careful scrutiny than heretofore as to the condition of all transient persons applying for aid should be made by the public officials. The enfeebled and disabled may be committed to the various State almshouses, and be provided for under the act regarding State paupers, or be sent to the care of friends or places of legal settlements in other States or countries. In case of the ablebodied, no aid should be extended to them, except upon their rendering an equivalent therefor by their labor. It may not always be within the power of the officers to make such labor remunerative to any considerable extent, but in all cases before relief is furnished it should be stipulated that a certain amount of work shall be performed in return therefor; and if the person, after being aided, refuses to perform the work, he should be subject to summary arrest by the Superintendent or Overseer of the Poor, and be proceeded against under the law regarding vagrancy. Under the increased powers conferred upon Boards of Supervisors by the last Legislature (Chapter 482 of the Laws of 1875), the subject is within the control of the several counties, and it only needs general action in the matter greatly to lessen the evils complained of. The enactment of a suitable law conferring additional powers upon Superintendents and Overseers of the Poor, and defining their duties as to arresting and examining the class of persons referred to is probably necessary, and it may be advisable also to authorize the Boards of Supervisors to erect and maintain county or district workhouses in certain cases. The employment of this class has been resorted to in several counties during the past year, and it is claimed that the number of tramps has, in consequence, largely diminished in these counties. When tramps throughout the State are obliged to work, and to render an equivalent by their labor for the aid they receive, it is believed that they will take measures to provide for themselves, preferring to work on their own account rather than to labor under compulsion for the public.

Washington dies evidently do not allow the hard times to interfere with their desire for dress, for The Star says of them: "It is universally the subject of remark that the dressing this season is more magnificent than has ever been the case before in Washington. Individual instances may be cited of toilets heretofore seen that have fully equaled those now adorning our salons, but rich attire is more generally adopted now than it was in the past.

The Moody and Sankey Meetings in Philadelphia. -Mr. Thomas McCree, Secretary of the Revival Committee, furnishes the following estimate of the grand total of the attendance upon the services since the work in the dept church begun:

18 Sunday meetings,

40 Weekly evening meetings,
56 Noonday meetings,
14 Bible readings,

48 Young men's meetings,

36 Young women's meetings,

36 Men's and women's afternoon meetings,

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There have been besides a number of meetings for boys, for parents, and for reformed men, bringing the total up to nine hundred thousand people. It is believed that no orator, religious or secular, ever addressed so many persons in 2 equal length of time. Of course, this great aggregate has been made up by the repeated attendance of thousands of pios men and women who have been drawn to the meetings by the same religious zeal that takes them to their churches every Sunday, and of thousands of others who have found the services so interesting that they have gone many times. How many different persons have heard the evangelists during these eight weeks can only be conjectured-three hundred thousand would perhaps be a reasonable estimate, Not the city alone, but the whole populous country for y miles around has furnished recruits to this great army of worshippers. One night recently there were five thousand people present, who came in as excursionists on the railros is. The total expenses of the revival are about $30,000.

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So much has been said about the antecedents of those recently appointed to subordinate positions under the officers of the House of Representatives, that a statement prepared by Doorkeeper Fitzhugh, and published recently, may be of interest. Of the new appointees, he says thirty served in the Union army, and eleven in the Confederate army; sixteen have taken the modified oath, and ninety-four the iron-cal oath; nine colored men and one colored woman have been appointed by him. There is no doubt that, as far as Colonel Fitzhugh's appointments are concerned, as much consideration at least has been shown for Union veterans as to the same class by the Doorkeeper of the last House. The Postmaster of the House, who has comparatively few appoint ments to make, has probably given preference to his Virginia friends, a large percentage of whom were Confederate soldiers.

RECORDS OF THE SOCIETIES.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania.-This Society held its quarterly meeting on Monday evening, January 3d. The President occupied the chair. During the year, the additions to the library have been as follows: Books, 631, of which So were purchased, 345 presented by members, 104 by persons not members, and 102 were received from Societies, etc.; Pamphlets, 766; of which 2 were purchased, 426 presented by members, 195 by persons not members, and 143 were received from Societies, etc.; Magazines, 87; Maps, 21; Manuscripts, 24; Works of Art, 341. Of the last, there were two valuable original portraits of George Washington, purchased and donated by a number of liberal members of the Society; one of these is the celebrated one by Wertmuller, the other painted at Valley Forge, by Charles Polk, of whom we have been unable to learn anything beyond the fact that he painted this portrait and a portrait of Commodore John J. Audubon, the father of the eminent naturalist. Article I. of the By-Laws was amended to read: "Stated Meetings of the Society shall be held on the second Monday of November, January and March, and on the first Monday of May, of each year, at 8 o'clock P.M." The meeting in May is the Annual Meeting, when the election of officers occurs. A called Meeting" was held on Monday evening, the 17th, when the attendance was large, the President in the chair. An eloquent tribute to Alfred Cope, a member and generous patron of the Society, written by Daniel B. Smith, and read by Charles M. Morris, was ordered to be transcribed in the minutes. Rev. Joseph P. Tustin, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, read a paper on “ The Norse-Lands and their Races." It was listened to with evident interest by the numerous and intelligent audience, and a resolution was unanimously adopted tendering the thanks of the Society to the Rev. gentleman, and requesting a copy for preservation in the archives.

The Dauphin County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society, whose collection is at Harrisburg, is a prosperous association, which has gathered an unusual number of valuable papers, and is vigorously pursuing the purpose of its foundation. Its officers for 1876 are A. Boyd Hamilton, President; Thomas H. Robinson, D.D, Corresponding Secretary; Hon. John B. Linn, Librarian. This Society is in possession of the original pledge of "the officers of the Pennsylvania line" to "the Society of the Cincinnati,” a valuable collection of the autographs of the brave men who commanded that military organization. It is in excellent preservation.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin.-The Society held its annual meeting January 4th, 1876, Hon. Harlow S. Orton, LL. D., Vice-President, occupying the chair.

Secretary Draper read the report of the Executive Committee. The year 1875 has resulted in large and varied additions to the library-the issuing of a Supplement to the Catalogue and securing, we trust permanently, a remarkable collection of the Pre-Historic Antiquities of Wisconsin. The details of these evidences of continued prosperity serve to attest the healthful growth of the Society in all its departments of collection.

The Treasurer's report gives receipts of the year into the General Fund as $3,535.74; and the expenditures, $3,533.87, showing a balance of $1.87. The Binding Fund-one of the greatest needs of the Society-was last year reported at $2,724.61. During the year this has been increased to $4, 068.43.

The additions to the Library number 2,851 volumes, of which 1,494 were purchased, and 1,357 were secured by donation and exchanges and 1,764 pamphlets, only 10 of which were purchased-making the total book and pamphlet additions 4,615. Of the book additions, 165 are folios, and 153 quartos-increasing the number of folios in the Library to 2,214, and the quartos to 2,858, and both together, 5,072. The total number of books and pamphlets now in the library is upwards of 65,000.

The total number of periodicals now received by the Society is 198- -an increase of 13 over last year; of which 7 are quarterlies, 13 monthlies, I semi-monthly, 165 weeklies, 2 semi-weeklies, and 10 dailies-of which 166 are published in Wisconsin.

The only oil painting added to the Art Gallery during the year is that of Horatio Ward, an American banker in London. The total number of oil paintings now in the Gallery is 99.

Eleven valuable manuscript historical papers have been received during the year, and filed for future publication, or binding: from these and former contributions, the Society will be enabled to select suitable matter for the seventh volume of Collections, designed to be issued during the current year.

The following officers were elected: President, Hon. Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee; Vice-Presidents, Hon. Harlow S. Orton, LL. D., Madison; Hon. Morgan L. Martin, Green Bay; Hon. Jas. T. Lewis, LL. D., Columbus; Hon. James Sutherland, Janesville; Hon. Henry D. Barron, St. Croix Falls; Chauncey C. Britt, Esq., Portage City; Hon. John H. Rountree, Platteville; Hon. C. C. Washburn, LL. D. Madison; Hon. J. F. Potter, East Troy Lake; Samuel Marshall, Esq., Milwaukee; Hon. John T. Kingston, Necedah; Hon. Sat. Clark, Horicon; Hon. Moses M. Strong, Mineral Point; Hon. Thad. C. Pound, Chippewa Falls; Gen. J. J. Guppey, Portage City; Fred. S. Perkins, Esq., Burlington.

Honorary Vice-Presidents, Hon. Cyrus Woodman, Massachusetts; Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL.D., New York; Hon. Perry H. Smith, Illinois; Hon. Stephen Taylor, Pennsylvania; Hon. A. C. Dodge, Iowa; Hon. L. J. Farwell; Missouri; Hon. C. C. Trowbridge, Michigan; Charles Fairchild, Massachusetts; Col. S. V. Shipman, Illinois; Soloman Alofsen, New Jersey; Hon. George W. Bradford, New York; Rev. R. M. Hodges, D.D., Massachusetts; Corresponding Secretary, Lyman C. Draper; Recording Secretary, Col. F. H. Firmin; Treasurer, Hon. A. H. Main.

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D., was designated to deliver the Pre-Hisannual address, during the present winter, on the " toric Antiquities of Wisconsin," Lyman D. Draper to prepare a paper on the life and services of I. A. Lapham, LL.D., and Hon. E. H. Ellis on the life and services of Hon. Henry S. Baird.

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LITERARY AND ART MEMORANDA.

in the years 1846-7-8. By JOHN R. KENLY.

A Century After: Picturesque Glimpses of Philadelphia | Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer; War with Mexico, and Pennsylvania, including Fairmount, the Wissahickon, and other Romantic Localities, with the Cities and Landscapes of the State: A Pictorial Representation of Scenery, Architecture, Life, Manners and Character. Edited by EDWARD STRAHAN. Illustrated with Engravings by Lauderbach, from Designs by Thomas Moran, F. O. C. Darley, J. D. Woodward, James Hamilton, F. B. Schell, E. B. Bensell, W. L. Sheppard, and other eminent artists. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, and J. W. Lauderbach, 233 South Fifth Street.

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"Part Nine" is admirable throughout, in no respect inferior to the previous parts which we have so warmly commended. The chapter on " Phases of Social Life" is continued. The pictorial illustrations comprise fine engravings on wood, showing handsome views of "The Baptist Home;" the building of The Little Sisters of the Poor;" "The Presbyterian Home for Widows;" "The Foster Home;" "The Burd Orphan Asylum;" "The Northern Home for Friendless Children;""The Old Men's Home;" "The Home for Aged Colored Persons;" "Girard College;" "Girls' Normal School;" "The University of Pennsylvania;" "Pennsylvania Hospital;" Christ Church Hospital;" "The Episcopal Hospital;" "St. Joseph's Hospital;" "The Presbyterian Hospital;" "The City Hospital;" "The German Hospital;" "The University Hospital;" "The Young Men's Christian Association Building;" "The Fountain, Rittenhouse Square;" and "West Walnut Street." Then we have another chapter on "Fairmount Park," with pictures of "The Lincoln Monument;" "The Terraces, Lemon Hill;" "A Family Picnic;" and a rowing party "Taking the Waves."

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The Rev. Horatio B. Hackett, of the Rochester Theological Seminary, was elected an honorary member of the Society of Biblical Archæology of London, a short time before his death. The honor was conveyed to him in the following letter: "I have the honor to inform you that at the last meeting of this Society, on the 6th of July, 1875, you were, by a special vote of council, invited to become an honorary member thereof. The Transactions of the Society will henceforth be duly sent to you as they appear, and I shall be happy at all times to receive any paper from your self upon any subject connected with the researches of the Society."

The Rev. James Freeman Clarke has been pastor of the Church of the Disciples in Boston for 35 years. The members of the church have presented the trustees with a fine portrait of the pastor, to be held by them in perpetual trust. The cost was about $1,000.

The Hon. John Lathrop Motley, the American historical writer, has been elected foreign associate of the Academy of Moral and Political Science.

We are indebted to "John P. DesForges, Bookseller, No. 3 St. Paul Street, Baltimore," for a copy of this interesting book, published in 1873, by J. B. Lippincott & Co., of this city. Mr. DesForges writes: "I sent you yesterday General J. R. Kenly's book on the Mexican War for review. I think you can do so favorably; it is a good book on the subject, and the General is a good man. He commanded the First Maryland Infantry [in the late war] on the Federal side, and came out of the war a Brevet-Major-General." We cannot more than acknowledge the receipt in this number, reserving the review for a future one, probably the April MONTHLY.

Walter Savage Landor.-The Spectator says of this famous writer:

"Like Coleridge and Sir Thomas Browne, he will always find an audience, fit, though few; and they who have leisure and a love of English literature for its own sake will often turn to Landor's works for, amusement and edification, and will never turn in vain. Crotchety, impulsive, and undisc plined as his intellect was, the fire of genius burnt within it; and, if genius' seem too vague a word, our use of it will be plain to any one who will compare Landor at his best with so great a master of English prose as De Quincey at his best, or the efforts of Coleridge in Shakespearean criticism with the efforts of William Hazlitt. It must be confessed, however, that the flashes of Landor's genius are as fitful as they are vivid, and that we often pass abruptly from noble thoughts, expressed in noble language, to platitudes and paradoxes, poured forth with all the blustering volubility and emphasis of an exasperated Napier. The truth of the adage that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but a step has nowhere, perhaps, been more abundantly shown than in the works of Walter Savage Landor."

The Marquis of Bute and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe are the last additions to the English list of noble authors.

West, Johnston & Co., of Richmond, Va., have issued a curious historical document; it is a fac-simile of the Virginia ordinance of secession, with all the signatures.

Greenough's statue of John Winthrop, ordered by the State of Massachusetts, has arrived from Florence, and will be sent to Washington. If accepted, it will be placed in the Capitol as a gift of Massachusetts.

The famous Portanigra at Treves, a very interesting Ro man building, will be restored by the German government.

An oil painting by Georg Pens, a pupil of Albrecht Durer, has been found in a castle in Silesia. It is marked 1547.

Catalogues. The year 1876 promises to be rich in American bibliography, if not in original literature. "The American Catalogue" proper, though a publication meant chiefly for the trade, will have great bibliographical value, and Mr. Sabin keeps at work on his task of cataloguing Americana. A general catalogue of the Library of Congress, which, as connected with the copyright depository, has an authoritative value, is in progress at Washington, of which Mr. Spofford says, in his annual report: "This catalogue will embrace, in several volumes, the entire contents of the Library up to its date, arranged in the alphabetical order of authors' names, with brief titles, to which the collation will be appended. This general catalogue, which will bring for the first time into print for ready reference the titles of a collection now numbering almost 300,000 volumes, will be much sought for by public institutions and by the collectors of private libraries." A catalogue of the military library at West Point, which will be of authority in military literature, is also in preparation. At Boston, Mr. Cutter is at work upon his Athenæum catalogue.

A Curious Memorial of the Late War is announced by a publishing house in Richmond, Virginia, a fac-simile, with all the signatures, of "The ordinance of Virginia to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States and State of Virginia," as passed by the Virginia Convention, April, 1861.

Life Insurance is calling forth a special literature of some importance. The latest announcement is of a "LifeAssurer's Hand-book," to be published in London. The preface will be an essay surveying modern life assurance. The editor, Mr. Clifford, calls especial attention to the silent social revolution going on in large centres of population abroad, by means of small industrial assurances among workingmen, and, proceeding a step further, puts in a plea for compulsory life assurance for small amounts among the employés in great mercantile establishments.

Among the collection of old plays presented to the British Museum by Mr. Coventry Patmore, which formerly belonged to R. Brinsley Sheridan, has been found, says The Athenæum, the holograph original of the comedy "The Trip to Bath," written in 1749 by Mrs. Frances Sheridan, his mother, and which, it is said in Moore's "Life of Sheridan," was the source of his play of "The Rivals." A very slight comparison of the two plays leaves no doubt whatever of the fact, and in the character of Mrs. Malaprop Sheridan has actually borrowed some of her amusing blunders from the original Ms. Tryfort, without any alteration whatever.

The equestrian statue of General McPherson, modeled in Cincinnati by Prof. Ribesso, is nearly finished. It represents the General sitting in a position of repose on his horse with a field-glass in his hand. The clay model will be cast in plaster and then be sent to Philadelphia to be cast in bronze. It is suggested that it be placed on exhibition during the

Centennial.

There are one hundred teachers' seminaries (normal schools) in Prussia, among them six for female teachers.

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Wife No. 19.-Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth "wife" of the Mormon chief, in her book, which she calls "Wife No. 19," has told the story of her miseries in that relation in a touching and evidently truthful manner, and it is to be regretted that the hyper-fastidiousness which is far too prevalent among the better classes in our country will doubtless considerably circumscribe the number of its readers. The book is worth reading, and not of evil tendency; it is certainly incalculably superior to ninety-nine of every hundred of the entire number of many hundreds of the novels which are popular in polite circles.

One Man's Work.-The enormous statue of Hermann, the ancient German warrior, which was inaugurated some months ago by the Emperor of Germany, was entirely made by one man. The figure is of embossed copper, one hundred feet high, and every inch of the immense surface was hammered by hand. A Westphalian nobleman, Herr von Bandel, performed the entire work, from the preliminary modeling to the finishing with the hammer, many years of his life being devoted to the work. The statue stands near Detmold, the capital of the principality of Lippe, and the artist's workshop was located on the spot.

The German scholar, Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, is about to excavate the Phoenician-Carthaginian town of Motya, in Sicily. The town was located six miglia north of Marsalz, on an island, and destroyed by Dionysius in the year 397 before Christ. There are many foundations of old walls and relics of gates around Isola di Mezzi. New excavations have been made at Pompeii. A great treasure of gold and silver objects has been uncovered, among other articles many goblets, cups, plates, mirrors, vases, and ornaments, also an embroidered purse with money.

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