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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1884.—TWELVE PAGES. TALMAGE’S SERMON. NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION, METROPOLITAN MEN. AU Manner or Bin and Blsspbsmy Shall bo Forgiven Unto Men; but the Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost Shall Not be Forgiven Unto Men. I tween 30 and 401 They get or lose their for- he will say: “You mind your biipine**. and . tuuea between 10 or 20. When you tell me thnt I'll mind mine.” But there lina beta affliction I I a man is just beginning life I tell you that he in the household. Ills heart is tender. lie is J is just closing it. ’The next fifty years will n«»t looking nrouiid forsympathy and solace. Now IN POLITICS, FINANCE AND MUSIC be of as muon importance to him as the first is your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold CIRCLES, twenty. Now, whv do I say this? Is it for your ponce. There is a time in farm life when wlin hmxrm aiiI* » K^^aii ni...* At* —>• -Kaii vam th« aeed. ^raldent Arthur, Now York’s Only Republican Can* didst*—Ills Habits and Associates In Years Past—Aronson, tho Musician—Ills Dream and His Nightmare, Etc. the Auitoyancc of those who have only a bale-’ you plant the corn and when you sow the seed, ful retrospection.? You know that is not my Let that go by and the farmer will wring his way. I say it for the benefit of these young men hand* while other husbandmen are gathering mid women. I want them to understand that in tho sheaves. You arc iu a religious meet- « t i rcrir> .inii n, eternity U wrapped up in this hour; that tho lug, a n d there is an opportunity for youto Brooklyn*, June 1.—[Special] Dr. Talmage sius of youth we never get over; that you are speak out for God.' You say: “I must do it. preached this morning in the Brooklyn Taber- i now fashioning the mould in which your great Your ( >heok Hushes with embarrassment. You nacle on the subject, “Is it possible for us to future is to run; that a minute instead of beiug hn i f wny> but you cower before men whose - ' uavlt. .oAAiiild l.itirr la mflilA I, fl fif nVii|*llliltlllI, I _. . I. • ... . I • ...ImiI. ..n.l vaii dllflllK IlftCK. S«» York, M»y 29.—New York atate, which h «• generally regarded a. tho pivotal nacie T" " : aixtyV^ondaTongfa made up of everlaeting breath Ya Fn tbdruoa'triU and you .brink book, state in tho coming national election, and New coinnut the nnpardonahl age.. You see what dignity aud importance and the opportunity 1. gone and all eternity York city, whieh has «o often decided the vote thlagivoa totho life of all our young folks, will feel the effect of your •ilenee. Try'o get , n U)() ,. mpir0 , tat( . p„, ent , on | y 0 «e Whv. in the light of this subject life is not bade that onnortunitv! You cannot find it. • r r . .. something to be frittered away, not something y ou m ;»bt ns well try to find tho fleece that candidate for nomination by tho republican to bo smirked about, not something to be Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew j eonv*nliou of June 3rd next; unless it has a danced out, but something to bo weighed in the *h n t came down upon the locks of tho Betblc- Terv ••■lurk horse” in reserve. Until a very linl.i,... I k viiiiiiw man IKabiii nf . ... , .... 1 .t... nl (lift - * two text.. The firnt waa from Matthew xii. .11 and 112: “All manner of .in and blasphemy .hall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Gho«t .hall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever .peaketh a word against the Son of Man, it .ball be forgiven him; but whosoever apeaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in tho world to come.” Tho second text was from Hebrews xii. IT: “He found no place of repentance though he sought ’ it carefully with tears.” bet it be understood at tho outset, said Hr. Talmage, that the Protestant pulpit has no revelation not given to the Protestant pew. The minister of Christ has no right to lord it over the consciences of men. When wo preach we do not utter edicts; we only offer opinions. In this Taud eu<l in this age where the Bible is in almost every baml and in almost every house, let every man understand that lie has a right equally with other., to interpret the word of God for himself, asking only divine illumi nation. As sometimes you gather tho whole family around in the evening to hear sonic in terestiug book read, so to-day wo gather great Christian family group to study this text; and now may one and the same lamp east its glow on nil this vast oirclo of immortal souls You see from the first passage that I read that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which a man is never pardoned. One having committed it, he is bound hand and foot for the dungeons of despair. Sermons may bo preached to him, songs may be sung to him prayers may be offered in hi. behalf, but all *• no purpose. He is a captive for this world ni a captive for the world that is to come. Ho you suppose that there is any one in this house that-has committed that sin? All sins are against the Holy Ghost, but my text speaks of one especially. It is very clear to my own mind that the sin against tho Holy Ghost was the ascribing on tho works of the spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of tho n pieties. Indeed the Bible distinctly tells us that. In other words if a man had sight given to him, or if another was raised from the dead, and some one standing there should say: “This mull got his sight by Satanic power, the Holy Spirit did not do this. Bccltehub accomplished :» o or H'pjji, man raised from the dead was danced out. but something to be weighed in tuc (hat Came down upon tilts looks or Ine neinie- , e rv--dark horse in reserve. Uqlil a very balances of eternity. 0, young man, the sin of |, e „i shepherds, or to find the plume of the first fcw ' . mtny „ ill( .,, r ,,| v thought yesterday, the sin of to-day, the ain of to-inor- ro bin that went across Paradise, It is gone s it y , ' ... ° row will reach over 10,000 years—aye over th« I, £ 1)]u . Ibrevcr. When an opportunity for J that General Grant might yet appear a compromise candidate but none think great and unending eternity. You may after 1H > r J ona | repentance or of doing good pOSSC* ■>. nvwuijqwuim snuuiuntu uut mint- uiissn cw while say: “l am very aorry. Now l have * nm y hunt for it, yoy cannot find it. ||npe hifl recent financial trouble-; and IW- does that amonut to? God may pardon you; Kemeiiiber what I tell you on this, the fintt, only metropolitan whose nanto will be men- but undo those things you never will, you „ moTOillK j„ Juno, 1884, thnt there are never cau. i and sins that can never bo corrected; In this snniQcategory of irrevocable mistakes urlvileaea lly not in circles, but in it We begin the edu- J, r ViZline t£t"be lightning! have not ns the time t " , our privileges when they we gone, mid let an opportunity of salvation go uy I put all parental neglect, cation of our children too late. By the t they get to be ten or fifteen we wake up to raised by sntanic influence,” the man who said that dropped down under the curse of the text, aud hos committed the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost. Now I do dot think it possible iu this day to commit that sin. I think it wns possible only in apostolic times. But it is very terrible thing ever to say anything against the Holy Ghost and it is a marked fact that our race have been marvellously kept bock from that profanity. You hear a nion swear by the Eternal God and by the name of Jesus Christ hut you never heard a man swear by tho name of the Holy Ohost.There are those in thishduse who fear they arc guilty of tho unpardonable ain. Have you such anxietyT Then I have to tell you positively that you have not com mitted that sin because the very anxiety in the result of a movement pf the gracious spirit, and your anxiety is proof positive, ns certain ly as anything that can be demonstrated in mathematics that you hove not committed the sin that I have been shaking of. I can look off upon this audience and feel that there is salvation for all. It is not like when they put outewith those* life-boats..from*.tho Loch Earn for the villa du Havre. They knew there was not room for all the passengers, but they were going to do as well ns they could. But to-day wo man the life boat of the Gospel aud wocry out over the sea: “Itoora for all.'Oh that tho Lord Jesus Christ would, this hour, bring you all out of the Hood of sin and plnut you on the deck of this glorious old Gospel craft. But while 1 hove said I do not think it Js possible for us to commit the particular sin spoken of in tho first text, I have by reason of the second text to call your attention to tho fact that there are sins which, though they may bo pardoned, ore in some respects irre vocable and you can find no placo for repen tance, though you seek it carefully with tears. Esau had a birthright given him. In olden times it meant not only temporal but spiritual blessing. One day Esau took this birthright and traded it off for something to eat. Oh, tho folly. But let us not be too severe upon him. After ho had made the trade he wanted to get it back. Just as though you, to-morrow morn ing, should take ull your notes and bonds and government securities, nnd should go into a restaurant and in a fit of recklessness and hunger throw all those securities on tho coun ter and ask for a plate of food, making that ex change. This Mas the one that Esau made. He sold his birthright for a mess of pottage and ho was very aorry about it afterwards; but “bo found no place for repentancef though ho sought it carefully with tears.” There is an impression in almost every man's mind that somewhere in the future there will be a chance where ho can correct all his mistakes. Livens we mav, if we only repent in time God will for give us and then all will be as well as though we had uever committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shall show vou, my friends, as God will help ine, that there is such a thing ns unsuccessful repentance; that there are things done wrong that always stay wrong, and for them you may seek some place of repentance and seek it care ftilly but never find it. ... Belonging to this clsss of irrevocable mis take* is the folly of a mispent youth. We may look back to our college days and think how we neglected chemistry or geology or botany or mathematics. We may be sorry about it all our days. Can we ever get the discipline or the advantage that we would have had, had we attended to those duties in early life? A man wake* up at 40 years of age and .finds that his jouth has been wasted, and he strive* to get back his early advantage. Doe* ho get them back—the nays of boyhaod, the day* in college, the days under hi* father'* roof? “Oh he says, “if I could only get those times bock again, how I would improve them!” My brother, you will never get them back. They are gone, gone. You may be very sorry about it and Goa may forgive so that you may at least reach heaven; but you will never get over some of the mishaps that have come to your soul as n result of your neglect of early duty. \ou may try to undo it; you cannot undo it. When you had a boy's eyes and a boy’* arm* and a bov's heart yon ought to have attended to those things. A man says at 50 yearn of age: “I do wish I could get over these habits of indolence. When did you get them? At 20 or 25 years of age, you cannot shake them off. They will June to you to the very day of your death. If a young man through a long course of evil conduct undermine* his physical health and repents of it in after life, the Lord may pardon him but that does not bring back good physical ' l to a minister of the Gospel condition. I said . . one Sabbath night at the close of the service: “where are you preaching now?” “Oh,” he says,"I am not preaching; I am suffering from the physical effects of early sin; I can't preach now; I am sick.” A consecrated man lie now is and be mourn* bitterly over early sin*, but that doe* not arrest their bodily effect*. The simple tact i* that men and women often take 20 years of their life to build up influences that require all the rest of their life to break down. Talk about a man beginning life when he is 21 mistakes and try to eradicate this or tfiat bad ” " ‘],1!!^'Vhe mie-liunSredti 1 partef an inch, tho habit of the child; but it is too late. That IthoiSSdth uart of an inch, the millionth parent who omits iu the first ten years of the t ot - i nc h, and no man can overtake it. child’s life to make an eternal impression for jjj rc . winff0< i seraphim* cannot come up with Christ, never wakes it. Tho child will proba-1 to. 25mhEi Ilimtdf cannot ciUtli it. bly go on with all the disadvantage* which 1 \ , , b 0 f nrc those who have a glorious might have been avoided by parental faithful-1,. . . t ; y u » a wn * no t so rich as yours. Sell ness. Now you see what a mistake that father ; Il'^^.^d vou seU It forever, the world or mother mokes who puts off to late life ad- . . buvTt. tiatan wants to buy it. Listen hereuee to Christ. Here is a man who at fifty f mnnioiit to these brilliant offers and It is years of ago says to you: “I must 1* a ! *^hy do I tell you these truths? I have Christian,” and he yields his heart to Got! and K . | vou year after year, telling you sitA in the house of prayer to-day a Christian. | t j |CWS things. Some have yielded their hearts None of us can doubt ft. Ho goes homo and , . » -J c i or i 0 u* crop of souls has been ho says: “Hero at fifty years of ago I have . but this audience of immortal men and given my heart to the Savior. Now I mu’ rcapeu; uui in.* au * "~ f establish’ a family altar.” What? Where a your children now? One In Boston, nnotli in Cincinnati, another in New Orleans. And you, my brother, at your 50th year going to " nily altar. ‘ Very well {better establish your family.. , . late than never. But alas, alas, that you did not do it twenty-five years ago. When I was in Chamouni, Switzerland, 1 saw in the window of one of the shops a picture that impressed ray mind very much. It was a picture of an accident that occurred 011 tho Hide of one of the Swiss mountains. A company of travellers with some guidos went up some very uteep place*—places which but few* traveller* at tempted to go up. They were, as ull travellers are there, fnstohed together with cord* at tho waist so thnt if one slipped the rope would hold him, the rope fastened to the others. Passing along tho most dangerous point 0110 of the guides slipped, and they all slipped down tho precipice; hut after awhile one more mus cular than the rest struck his heels into the ice and stopped; hut tho rope broko and dowft hundred* of thousands ot feet the rest went And so I 'seo whole families bound together by ties of affection, and in many wise* walking on slippery places of worldlincs* and ain. The father, knows it nnd the mother know* It, nnd they are bound all together. After awhile they begin to slide down, steoper nnd steeper, nnd the father becomes nlnrmed aud lie stons, planting hi* feet on tho “Itock of Ages.” Hi stop* but the rope breaks, nnd those who were tied fast to him by morn! aud spiritual influ ence* once, go over the precipice. Ob, there is such a thing a* coming to (,'lirUt soon enough to save ourselves, but not soon enough to save other*. IIow monv parents wake up in the latter part of life to find out tho mistake I The parent says: “I have been too lement,” or “I nave been too severe in • tho discipline of my children. If I had tho llttlo-onc* around mo again how different I would do!” You will never have them around again. Tho work i» done, tho bent to tho character is given, the eternity is decided. I say this to youug pnrrfnts, those who nro 25 or 30 or 35 years of ago. Jinvo the family altar now. How do. you suppose thnt father felt ns I10 leaned over tho couch of ibis dying child, nnd tho. expiring.son said tp him: “Father, you have been very good to mo. You havo given mo a fine education mid you have placed me in a fine social position; you havo done everything for me in a worldly sense, but, father, you never told me how to die. Now I nra dying, and I am lost. In this category of irrevocable mistake* I placo also tho unkindness done to the departed. When I was a boy my mother u.*«d to say to me sometimes: “DeWitt, you will be sorry for that when I nm gone.” And I remember just how she looked, sitting there with cap and spectacle* ami tho old Bible in her lap; and »he never skid a truer thing thou that, for I have often been sorry sinco. While wo have our friends with u» w. «ny unguarded thing, that wound tho feeling, of tho*u to whom we ought to give nothing but kindness, l'erhops tho parent, without inquiring into tho matter, boxes tho child’s ears. TI10 little 0110 who has fallen in tho street, comos in covered with dust, and as though the first disaster were not enough, she whips it. After awhilo tho child is taken or the parent is takeu, or tho companion is taken, and those who nro loft say: “Oh, if we could only get bock those unkind words, those unkind deeds; if we could only recall them.” But you cannot get them back. You might bow down over the grave of that loved one and cry and cry and cry. Tho white lips would make no answer. The stars shall be plucked out of their sockets, but these influences shall not lie torn away. The world shall die, but there are some wrongs immortal. The moral of which is, take care of your friends while you have them, spare the scolding, be economi cal of the satire, shut up in a dark cave from which they shall never swarm forth all the words that have a sting in them. You will wish you had some day—very soon you will— lerlmps to-morrow. Oh, yes. While with a irm hand vou administer parental discipline, also administer it very gently, lest some day there he a little slab m Greouwood aud on it chiseled “Our Willie,” or “Our Charlie;” and though you bow down prone to the grave aud seek a placo of repentance, and seek it careful ly with tears, you cannot find it. There is another sin that I pb“*« in the class of irrevocable mistakes, aud ttiat is lost oppor tunities of getting good. I never come to a Saturday night but I can see during that week that I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to my birthday but I cau see that I havo wasted many chances of getting better. I never go home on Sabbath from the discussion of a religious theme without feeling thaCl might have done it in a more successful way. IIow is it with you? If you take a cer tain number of bushels of wheat and scatter them over a certain number of acre* of land, you expect a harvest iu projwrtion to the amount of seed scattered. And I ask you now, have the sheave* of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded with the ail vantage* given? How has it been with you? You may make resolu tions for the future, but past opportunities are gone. In the long procession of future years all those past moments will march; but the archangel's trumpet that wake* the dead will not wake up for you one ^ of those ^privilege*; Esau ha* sold * ' “ * 1 1 his birthright, and there -is not wealth enough in the treasure houses of heaven to buy it back again. What does that mean? It means that if you ore goinjpto get any ad vantage out of this Sabbath day you willhave to get it before the hand wheel* around on the clock to 12 to-night. It means that every moment of our life has two wings, and that it does not fly like a hawk, in circles, but in a straight line from eternity to eternity. It means that though other chariots may break down or drag heavily, this one never droj»* the brake and never cease* to run. It mean* that while at other feasts the cun may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cup-bearers to this feast give u* but one chance at the chalice, and, rejecting that, we shall “find no place for repentance, though we seek it carefully with tears.” There is one more class of sin* that I put in =; are they pr^mra-l for U,o great ^rej I could .land hero aid pUy » ' ^ " eoultl talk of the Rule. l> f ,Ccro« n . of lie" of preclou, .tones and the cronn» tiiBU What i. the use of talking of tho.o th ue. t those who have no preparation for that land, and who are on tho stand hero Sabbath »^rB.bbMh endeavoring to persuade you to give up your ain and twex after God, nnd he at peace with Him. t re member the story of the lad on tin An tic «omo vear. ago—the lad, Stewart Holland. A ' ■ «»-> crashed into the Arctic iu the time of a ft g, end it was found thnt the .lop Ji***. * Home of the passenger. g*oiTJn ti><niMa»ta acme got off on raft.; hut 300 w«rt to tha tom Purine nil th MB hours of enlntmiy Stewart Holland stood at tho signal gun, and it sounded across the sea, hoo.nt iasmri The helmsman fomook.his place, the englnear »» liclniHinon forsook ms piac^» * , gone, and some fainted and some I’raycd aml some blasphemed, and the ■ • could no more let off the signitl gun. iroke in tho jnnensino nm! brought powder, and ngnm the gun hrwmcd o, my fri-'ml., 1 behold many nnd they could no m». e. ".i,. The lad broke in the Jnnpitino ami jwjjg* out more of^ou'in’tmmortal perii: ShdtnMa will JJJj* down after awhile upon you, death wd come upon you, judgment wdl come “P®" > " ir nuy will come upon y»u. Hoim-t ha'r ing tink. tho 7 warning, have gone ofl in the hfvboat and they are safe, but others aro »”t " »Wn* any attempt to escape. So I stand at this signal gun of the Gospel sounding the alarm. Now is the accepted time; now is the day «f «» l '» tion." That is what you want, sinful, ‘™‘I' l ' d r bruised and dying soul. May the I-ord hel you to accept the mercy and. the solace am the salvation of the gospel I Hear it that) our soul may llvel THE STOCK LAW IN ROCKDALE. How No-Fence Works Where It Ha. Keen Tried—An Interesting Dlaouaalon. The Honey Creek agricultural club, organised til 1*73,met May 17,1884, l-resldcnt MadLsun Tucker In the clmlr. Question for the evening: -What nro the advantages growing out of the stock law?” Mr. J. O. McNair Mid Bockilalo coqnty was one of the first In the state to adopt this law, ami It Is right that we should consider IU advantages and publish them to our more unfortunate sister counties, who aro still laboring der tlie old mistaken Idea of fencing. I oposed it at Out, hut after two years actual t rlol- and trial I. the test of facta—lOnd many Important advantage, growing out of It. First, it promotes lwnnony nnd peace between neighbors. We no longer fence our crops with dogs. We hear ho more of Injured .lock amt ruin ed crops. Second, a vast nmoudt of hanl labor l« saved. Thcdnldgeryof spllttlngand hallungrails, hanging water racks, repairing and building fencea, and fixing up after big rains aro now all dispensed with. It la easier to fcnco In my own .lock than to fence out every body else' Third. It Improve* our land, lsmd allowed to retain all the vegetable matter that grows on It wilt rapidly Improve In fertility, while land con stantly graxed and trodden by stock, deteloratea in nnallty. Fourth, we arc not forced to have m» much timbered laud. Fifth, It h an advantage to fruit growing, and alxth, it N an ad vantage to stuck raising. Good stock arc superseding poor, because it will not pay to keep aorry stock. Oue good cow well attended will pro- duco more good milk and butter than three ordi nary cows ordinarily kept. Tho fear of not being able to raise hogs was entertained even by the**- who tavorvd ita adoption. Morn lows now In the »e Rockdale coimty lL?y5JW? SS |, Mi! jl’tffii[oUlngswSrtb^'l did not vote for tho inwr at first. 1 am now well plettscjl wlth It. rim till three acre* of got*] laud without fonrlng twenty-five or thirty; have more milk am! butter; a general improvement In utoek; they are belter taken care of. The old Idea that* row rwulre* an entire county to graze over I* exploded. A cow will do better In an old-fieldupland i«sturc ol two or three acre* thun she will in a twenty acre field, llogs do better reasonably, confined than when running at large. 1 havo had no bog cholera since Its adoption. ...» » Mr. J. K. Rower: I think the law ha* proved even more than wa* claimed for it by It* most ar dent ailvocatcs. A prominent merchant said to me to-day: “We buy more and better tatter now than at any other time In the previou* history of Cony era.” It prevent* the spree© of cholera among hog*—have heard of none since it* adoption two year* ago. The bennude gra»* make* much the bc*t pasture for tbl* section; orchard gnu*next. WmT Richardson, opposed the law at first, as much a* any one could; am now highly pleased with It; ' - - - tioned at Chicago by the republicans. As for tho demoerfits it is generally believed that Til den, Hewitt and Flower, nil resident! of New York city, will ho talked of by enthusiastic frienda in tha same city at a later convention There arc few figures boiler known hi this city tlmn that of President Arthur, hut ho remembered here not ns “our aristocratic pn .rare of are; talk about a woman beginning this category of irrevocable offence, and that Ilf. when sh. is 18 years of age! Ab, not In . is lost opportunities of usefulness. There . .. , , , , many respect* that u the time they close life. I comes a time when yon can do a good thing In nme caaea out of ten all the mjeationa of I for Christ. It cornea only once. Your botines. F.^ ^e „ ln w py, w eternity are decided before that. Talk about! partner is a proud man. In ordinary riri-nm-; j^ket. and glong wharyou gwlne.” a majority of men getting their fortunes be- stances say to him; “Believe in Christ, and The negro promenaded. to 7 head of rattle on a 7 acre pasture; do better than when they ran at huge. My p old field land-no graenowpl. Mr. J. II. Holllnsworth:-I oppoaol the law at first, but If I were now deprived of it I would go to where it Is. Wc have our itock under control; ran select and Improve our breed at will; Is the grand est labor-saving Institution yet offered to the far mer. Many other advantages, which at first thought appear trilling, add coiuldertbly to theconvrn- icniv and pleasure of the farmer. It Is truly the farmer's friend. J. I. C. He Didn’t Want It, At the passenger depot the other day. a well- dressed negro approached Uncle Plato and offered It him a watch. It appeared to be a very good watch, but the old .gentleman looked _at ft bus pfclously. Vouk’n take her for five dollars,"^Mjd the darkey. Wa’t I gwlne do wld a watch!” asked Uncle Plata Wear her *roun\ Glmme.de money an- taka her -long." -Wat dear- -Deo aba's yourin.” -I say so.” -go you does, so yon does; but w’at I gwlne do cn de man come 'long alter da watch? W’at I gwlne tell 'lm. 1 say I batter do mo- talkin' for ter keep dat watch dan w'at yon done for ter git lm. Don't you come wallin' jro' eye-balls at me,” exclaimed Uncle Plato In a loud and angry tone; -don't yet do IL Idonebfnknowln' niggers loog fo’ i you -ux boraded. Wen I buys watebee, I'm gwlne There I whar dey makes nm at. You keep dat watch. arUatapayou.ln ue chatn^sny, watch In yo. rBKStmiST snTiii'a, ident,” but ns ono of the most democratic, free-and-easy, unpretentious of individuals. His position here for tnnny years before lie be came president would have developed this trait if he had not possessed It by nature. T bo the successful local political manager of minority party In a great city Ilka this, casting over 200,000 votes in presi dential years, requires a go#d many quslifi cations happily combined. Ho must be, as Arthur was, not merely affable but sociable with everybody. Ho must possess, as Arthur did, the happy faculty of not only inducing others to do ns ho wishes, hut thnt more un common faculty ofconvinclng them thnt they arc having their own wny all the time. He must not only be ready at all times to see ev ery new comer without ceremony, hut be nble also, as Arthur was, to put n visitor at onen at ease, nnd to hastily dismiss him with the idea in hia head, thnt in going, tho visitor Is act unlly conferring n favor on his host, A lady onco .reported to the result of a mission on which she had to Mr. Arthur with a note of introduction from me,—UiBtageurrcd long .before bo won prcai Ident. “Isn’t ho so nice,” sho said 011 returning, “He spoke so pleasantly, bowed inn to the door when I came away and opened it for me.” “Well, but wbnt did he proniiso to do?” 1 naked. “Ohl notbingl He refusd me; said it was -impossible;’ that ho'wni so bound by obliga tions Hint it could not bo done; but lm waa so very nlco about it.” Tho report was not unexpected, for I hud teen Arthur treat much more sanguine and pretentious claimants for politicul favor iu the same delicate way. 1 onco heard Hharidan Shook sny to a gcntl- man who waa urging tha npjmlntment of a man to a place nt Arthur’s disposal, which placo Shook wanted fur a friend of hia own,— “Well,” ha said, “You beat me, Arthur jutl your name on,—and ha sdemnrat. tool” “And your man,” asked the other. “Ho took him off to make room for yours,” said Shook, “And ho was a good republican, too.” But never mind, added Shook, “Arthur told my man to wait, It was all right,” and both the man and his hacker were satisfied. This faculty of satisfying everybody waa something of Arthur’s strength when he was the local "boss" of the republicans here. He could coax more harmony out of tho locnl leaders than any man who was over In control of tlm organization 1 and the proof of his pop ularity is that he has a solid delegation of them, notwithstanding there are now wldu differences betwen them as to local |mllcy. This local strength may prove a national weakness, for some repub lican palter* havo ridiculed nnd others abused the local republican leaders in this city into a notoriety, which is In many cases undeserved. There are a number of these among tho Arthur delegate* to Chicago. For instance, John J. O'Brien, Johu II. Brady, J. I>. Lawson, Ilob- ert 0. McCord, Jacob M. I’atterson, Bernard Biglive, John K. Lydeeker. I know them all personally, and they aro a very clover set of follows, as politicians ran, nnd far smarter than tho average. Yet a hundred mile* from this city some of them aro regarded among country folks ns monster* of political iniquity. Mr. Arthur’s democratic manners extended to bis habit*. Ha hns always been a good “diner out,” “a bon vivant,” but ho does not always go to Delmonicoe’ to supjicr. 1 have supped with himjtt three o’clock atjnight on an uncovered table at Brown’s English chop house on Welsh rarebits and London stout. I ought to add in explanation and apology that it was during a heated local canvass. “The business boom” of Arthur whieh was re cently gotten upliere waa mismanaged to soma extent nnd the selection of a time was linfortu- nate as it wax close on the heels of a panic of the millionaires and bank men who called the m James D. Fisb.on being arrested has endear- ered to convince tho public that Grant and Arthur profited by the blind poola on govern ment contracts which Ward conducted. No body believes that Arthur’s name was used with bis knowledge by the conspiring fiuao- ciers, „ . . A sign of summer now generally accepted in this metropolis as infallible is the opening of the summer garden on the roof of to* Ca sino. We no longer have to depend on the an nouncements of watering plar* proprietors to know positively that summer ha* eome. At the firxt indication of tha seaaon tha Caaino roof is thrown open and crowda on it nightly and an extra crush on Sunday accept the grateful omen. The Casino is a unique place of amusement in almost every respect. It gives an enter tainment unlike that of any musical resort in the city, at novel as are Daly's among the theatrical attractions mu - c ‘‘ ““ ,llr “ n a manager, conductor nnd projector, nil retain him in his sorvioe. Of combined in the one person of young Rudolph Aronson. If ever there was nu enthusiast it is this young raau. He may be & musical genius. Timo alone will confirm that claim of his friends. Hia minor compositiona familiar to many households. His compositions are frequently on the pro gramme* of public eourert* not only here hut in other cities. He hns privately played some * that is all RtMHH.ri! ARONSON, of hi* more ambitious operatic scores in my hearing, nnd though I know nothing of music nnd could not turn n tune with a crank, I re cognised tunny charming melodies in his “Cap tain Kidd,” for instance. He hns been before this public ever since lie wn« u mere boy t .and 1ir* met chiefly with ridicule by the musical critics. I think pretty nearly nil of them, exeept conscientious John R.U. Hnssnrd of the Tribune, linvc had something rude to sny of him. Ihit he appears never to hnve been dis couraged, however much ho nmy have been depressed by whnt was w ritten of him. With out much money hilt with abundant faith in himself, he has on two occasion* personally jone nhnut town and raised tho money to mild two theaters. One is now cnlled the Cosmopolitan. Ho built it as n concert hall, and a very elaborate structure it was. Barn like nnd destitute of color it was an uncomfortable place nnd it failed, ns it deserved to do. Not nt all disheartened lie went among the »uliscrihers to his first project nnd raised naif a million dollars to build tho Casino. The Cosmopolitan wa* Aronson’s nightmare; the Casino, hi* dream, nnd all who hnve seen the latter realize that it is a very beautiful nnd faneiftil conception. It is ai nearly an Oriental palace as Now York is likely to see in many years, or until Aronson carries out the idea already in hi* active brain of an opera house somewhere about Fifth avenue and the entrance to Central park. Amid all the financial confuaion whieh ex ists here, .lay Gould sit* smiling. He laugh* when told that the recent panic i* attributed to hi* selling bis own stock* short, and sny* that whether he did or not i* whnt no fellow can find out. Ho laugh* when told that it i* supposed thnt ho must hnve lost millions by tho depredation of Western Union, Wabnsh etc., nnd replies, “but l hold the stocks still." Ho shrug* Iiia shoulders when told thnt ho sold out tinge, nnd goes off to lunch with tho old fellow; nnd he smiles when told thnt it is reported he loaned tinge $5,000,000 “to help him'pull through.” You enu learn nothing from Gould’s look* or talks; everything he snys may bo construed two ways, and hi* fac ial expression roveaU nothing. He i* abso lutely sphinx-liko; Gfnnt is candor nnd loq uacity combined compared to Gould. But Jay Gould hns near him n financial weather-gauge, which all men who know him rend with accuracy. He is Gould's factotum: his man Friday:*his confidential clerk and cashier, Signor Mnfrlsini. He is an Italian, lander. Wall street wolves never thus upon each other, except when there are no lamb* to devour. I’F.nvmL poi.vth. I am told on good authority that tho Second National hank, whieh John C. Elio came so near to wrecking, hns paid an aver age of twenty per cent to it* ten stockhrSTcrs on their eupital for twenty year* past. It was therefore well worth saving. The death of Charles Delmonico appear* to have been a severe blow to the uptowu restau rant of that fa mou* house. The successor to its business, rharh-sCrist, ha* sought in vain to retain the old popularity by changing his name to Delmonico. But tho oldest habitue* of the place have deserted it tbr the more freshly at tractive Iloffmnu house across the wny. Since the trouble* which have come tijwm tlie Eno* of the Fifth Avenue hotel, compelling tho mortgaging of th;;t vast building, much of ite transient trade hns also gone to the Hoffman cafe, also, just across the way. In fact the cir cumstances and Its genera! gorgeousnes* havo made n* the IlolVmnn the central jioint of at traction, so far ns hotels ure considered; and, every day and evening the most important people of the city may bo found grouped theto n* at no other house. The sale of tho Truth newspaper and tho passage of the law regarding polhto papers takes the most sourrilloujof Now York Journal, out of profitable circulation. Tho Truth i* hereafter to lie conducted a* a lively, spicy, clean rival of the highly auece*sfiil Morning Journnli the purpose being, however, to make it •something more of n newspaper than the Journal, Herald men appear most prominent in it* conduct uuder the reor ganization, and this give* currency to the idea that it is to be furnished with the sinew* of both money aud telegraphic new* through the Herald. It is largely circulated by the Herald newsmen and boycotted by the other newsdealer*. * The origiilal iirojector* of tho Truth in ite scurrilous form nave beep scattered far and wide, nnd are quarreling among themselves. They were never a happy company. The paper was originally started, it was some time since* alleged, for the pur|>o*Q of plunder, aud n jury being npi>cnfed to to punish the person so declaring, con timed the idea by refusiug sub stantial damage*. It very early became the organ of tho Ixniisiana lottery company, t«sit its effort* in behalf of thnt concern resulted in the driving away of tlie lottery men and the indictment nnd conviction of the two prin cipal owners of the paper. The paper wa* always tho organ of two notorious blackmailing lawyers, one.of whom was dis barred for corruption, the other of whom i* an esrnned English convict, nnd both of whom were tried on eharge* of blackmail and escaped only through the good offices of a district attorney, who proved u defaulter, and whose embezzle ment Chester A. Arthur paid out of his own >ocket. Tho Truth wns little knowu outside of 'few York, nnd wa* held in contempt it*tho city. The publisher is defendant in several tuft* for torts, nnd the judgments must noon bn mid in money or by imprisonment. Iis experience bus been so rough that it will lm a long time before another ns equally reckless pnper seen the light of New York city. It i* currently believed here that John C. Eno sailed for Europe ns long ago ns Wednes day week last, and that he is safe from thrt irosecution begun by the United State* dis- rict attorney. None of the directors of the hank were parties to this action; hi* father having made goml the defalcation they wero qlling the son should escape. Ulysses R. Grant. Jr.'s, Arabian steed, Lin den Tree, apjemred in the horsn show on ,tho same day that the schedulo of liabilities of tho Grant family waa publi-h«>d in the papers. Tho publication of Grant's letters to Fish wa* made, by Grant himself, not Fish. They nro generally regarded a* indiscreet hut not in criminating. The ono written by hi men If is looked upon ns n plain assumption of responsi bility and liability in n house of whose opera tion* ho could have known nothing improper, r he would never huv< letter which now npp dictated by Ward, wa* quite a skillfully drawn linv in adroit i letter of Fi bee ply to ns ish which ply which failed Fish‘and Ward d king to p*tnbli*h that this lust letter wns used, not merely to justify Fish at this crisis, but to enablo Ward to draw other persons into hfs financial trap. Legitimate trade is beginning to feel the ef fects of the recent panic in the withdrawal of ninny million* from the hanks by frightened * monitor*. George I. Bcney’* picture gnllery ha* not been broken up, but transferred for tho consid eration of $350,000 to the Metropolitan hank which he and 111* sneculn’tive house so badly damaged. He owned about one hundred ami thirty paintings, of which there were only two by native artists—Houghton nnd Delian*. He owned it “Madonna nod Angels” of the most approved orthodox flesh tint, by Ilotigereau, which Ed Rtokcs want* for the Hodman liouio afeas a companion to his $10,000 “Xynipha and Hatyr,” by Bougrrenu. There was also in Beney’s collection a Mis«onicr, “The Hmokeri” n landscape by Turner; two examples of Zam- acois; n Rosa Bonhcur, nnd no less than six teen works of Diaz. Augustin Daly, whoso company ia playing in rook I vn, tells nm that his business in the cities tnus far visits*! on his annual summer tour, has been unprecedented. Thia la doubt less largely owing to the prominence given to the fact that his company gnea to England a* the representative stock companjr of Ameoira. Daly has played thus for this season in oppo sition to WaBack on one hand, and Jutnbo and the white elephant on tho other. The circus hs* not suffered. Tho chc/ip cubs have become ao popular that they are allowed in Central Bark, notwith standing an old regulation prohibiting any vehicle with n name indicating its public uso from entering.Willmu F. (J. Hiuxzs. GOtTSD'a MAX FRIDAY, youth. He dancca in and out of Gould'a offi ces in tho Western Union and at No. 71 Broadway with an opera bouffo air, with ono hand filled with bond* and tho other twirling at his moustachios as if to tear them up by tho roots; and all the timo amilinr, grinning with a Mephistophelian look, and shrug of hi* shoulders. Yet ho ia too mercurial of temper ament, too nervous, to bo able to conceal bis exaltation when the market U his way or hi* depression of spirits when it is going the ! other wsy. This is why sagacious men in the street uietly study Morrislm's feoo with success; and the opw l> r lira oppo.il. rearer: tha/ do not a'tud/ Gould’a immobil. countananr.. Morriaini more rloa.1/ reprmanta Gould than hia own firm of William E. Connor A Co. dona; morn m arl/ than «r*n hia aon, G«org«; for Gould hia com. to treat Morriaini more than ho treat, an/ other living man. Thia ia a./ing laaa than tho familiar axprea-lon •■rmiha- •iaoi; for Gould haa boon too tuocreaful tn have treated manv man, and h. fa too rich tn repoao entire confidence in »ny one tnan, inatitution, bank nr a took. Morriaini bu been with Gould ever vine, the day. of Flak and the Erie road. He WM auditor of that romnuny atone time made to by Gould—and he rewarded hi. The nouoe i. unlike benefactor by faithfully remembering every- anything in thl. country devoted merelv te thing about the roud whieh GouM plraaure, or probably in any other (and, | wanted to know, and1m faithfully hough it elainu to be huaed on Mooriab nrehl- forgetting everything which legielntive teetural tnodele. It revereee the ordinery rule. , or congreeaion.l eommitlere or,other obuoxioue of theatrical architecture in aa much and inoiaitive bodice aought to learn. He i. aaitputa the auditorium up two fllghte of aaid to hare grown rich acveral tirnee b Y*P«- ataira, reached by an eleratorl Itgirea two illation on the knowledge he had of Gouldal ataaea to a aingle auditorium; and pute the etoek operation., and to have been a. many I pl.uHure re-kern out of doom on the roof, for timea impoveriabed by Gould giring him fake J Fennaylronlaooal mining wdl be P iagreateat enjoyment, It ha. a norelty, too, point* in order to keep him poor that he might twelfe days in June. 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