Red Ribbons

- " Does it pay to indulge in intoxicating iltinks ? " was the question Judge Cooley discussed bafore the Reform Club on Sunday afternooa last. Aud his nddress proved to the youngmen wholieard it that thora was nothirig but ruin in the practico : ruin to busiuess, ruin to liealth, ruin to reputation, ruiu to the ffhole man, It iri!l be woll with his hearers if the lesson is huedeü. - The uext Sunday afternoon meeting of the Reform Club will be held iu the club rooms, and the time will be occupied by tho members. - R. E. Frazer goes to Eist Haginavv next Sunday evening. - The periormance oí the Miustrel Club on Thursday evening of last week netted $60. The boys giveanother performance this evenlug, and next Tuesday oveniug go to Ypsilanti. The leading article in tho Novth American Review for November and December is a disïussion of " Resumption of Specie Payments," ty ex-Seoretary Hugh McCullooh, Judgo W. ö. Kelley (or " pig-iron Kelley "), David A. Wells, tren. Thos. Ewing (chnmpiou of the greenbacks au 1 all other modern vagaries), ■Joaeph S. Ropos, and Secretary Sherman, - a timely discussion. Among the other papers re: The Functions of Unbelief, by Thomas Hitchcock ; The Southern Quostion, by Charles ♦Jayarre, of Louisiana Í How shall the Nation egain l'rosperity 't by David A. Wells ; and, The Sihiation in France, by a Paris Resident. The North American is hereafter to be issued fi'om New York, by the Appletons, but without ny change in tho late vigorous management, and with an enlarged and able list of contributors. fó a year ; with the AE0US, f ü 2S,