The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1865, Page 4

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HOPE onaret. 720 Broadway.—Paoresson WIskMan's Vamnas OF MYsTERY AND ViSIOXS. “HOOLEY'S RA HOUSE, Brooklya:—Braroriaw Min- Po Ag ecuseaees ano Paxromimes, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Peal RIG Re aero seg STUDIO BUILDINGS, : Tenth street.—Exnisrrion oF Faswou, Exousa axp Firuisn Picrcess. New York, Sunday, December 10, 1865. core NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Saies of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending May 1, 1865. -$1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 Name of Paper 401,079 $0,648 095,000 871,229 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined THE NEWS. In Kentucky important results have already followed the ratification by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States of the anti-slavery amendment to the consti- tution. Judge Johnston, of the Jefferson Circuit Court, has dismissed the complaint against General Palmer, commanding in that State, of enticing slaves to leave their masters, on the ground that the requisite number of States had concurred in the amendment at the time the indictment was found, and that therefore slavery is atanend and there can be no criminal prosecution in ‘such a case as tis. General Palmer has issued a proclamation declaring that siavery has ceased to exist 4m Kentucky, and be also advises the colored people, if ‘they shall be refused permission to travel im public conveyanees, to apply to the courts for redress. Mean- while the Legisiature:of the Biate continues to sleep on ‘and to dream of the olfien times, instead of acting on the advice of Governor Bramiette and ratifying the consti- tational amendment. On Friday resolutions in favor of a general amnesty to mebels and recommending the par- don of Joff. Davis were'introduced into that body. In hia account of the dinner to Lieutenant General Grant by General Sickles in Charleston, 3. €., recently, our correspondent states that the Lieutenant General gave expression to the same contiments which ho has heretofore been credited with uttering at other places during his present journey in regard to the imperial invasion of Mexico. Now 1s the fayor- able time, General Grant is reported «s saying, for us to drive Maximilian out of Mexico, while we have plenty of veteran soldiers, A number of the loading South Carolinians attended this dinner, among them the rebel ex-Governor Magrath, recently released from Fort Pulaski. His attendance excited the indigna- tion of many of the old secessionists, who considered hia presence on such an occasion, and under existing cir- cumstances, as even more humiliating than his pathetic appeal for liberation, pulished in the Henan of the 234 ult, ; but the Governor did not seem to view it in that light, and made himself very sociable and agreeable. General Grant left Charleston on the 3d inst., and ex- pected at that time to continue his journey to the Rio Grande. We have already chronicled his arrival at Auguata, Ga., on the 6th inst. It ia said that the question of the constitutionality of the Congressional test oath is now before the Supreme Court for decision, on the application of one of the Ar- kansas Congresemen elect, and will be argued ina few days. Tho case of the government against Leroy M. Wiley, ‘now before the United States Supreme Court in Wash- ington, involves the important question whether‘ @ Presidential pardon remits a sentence of forfeitures rebel property, and reinstates the rebel in all his rights thereto. Some of the defendant's property was confis- cated on the ground that ho assisted the rebellion, and he now wishes to recover it, ‘Tho iuvestigations of the Fenian Senate going on in this city for the last week have culminated in the im peachmeat of the two official managers of finances, &o., Mosers. John O'Mahony aod B. D. Killian, for several erimes and misdemeanors set forth in long liste of charges and specifications, involving maifeasance fm office, On Friday the parties were served with -fermal documents requiring them (oe appear ia @efence before the Genste. They failed to appear, and at half-past seven last evening the trial proceeded, and judgment was entered by default. They were both pronounced guilty by a unanimous decision, all the senators being sworn. John O'Mahony was then de- olared removed from the office of President, and B. D. Killian from that of Secretary of the Treasury of the Fe- iam Brotherhood. Colonel William R. Roberts, the Vice President, was then installed Prosident of the Fe- aisn Brotherhood, en the undérstanding that the office should be divested of ail salary and emoluments, Being duly sworn, he formally ontered upon his duties by noti- fying the Senate that he would send in appointments for necessary officers early on Monday. An official circular Of direction wap isened to the Brotherhood with regard to their proper courses under tho circum. ances. Reports and despatches were received from telegraphed their approval. Some of them are expected #0 join the body this week. Some interesting facts in regard to Virgiuia legislative proceedings are given by one of our Richmond corre- spondents. The members of the Legislature, it appears, have decided that devotion to the rebel cause during the war is to be the measure of merit, and they bave there- fore resolved to oust the Unionists holding office under appointment from Governor Pierpoint, and appointed next Tuesday for electing secession successors to ‘They have aleo adopted an amendment State constitution which not only does the national troops from the State, one member remark. ing, during the discussion over the matter, that ho thought they “had truckled to the government long enough.” Judge Hoory Boyer and Mr. Randall Hunt have been lected United States Senators by the Louisiana Logisla- ture now in seasion, which har declared that Messrs. Legislature, are not entitied to the positions. Complaint# are made by a newspaper published in the parish of Monroe, Louisiana, that the military recently took from the custody of the sheriff, by force of arms, a ‘Treasury sub-agent who was arrested and held for trial by the civil authorities on charge of stealing cotton. It also says that the cotton agente genorally in that State ‘and Arkansas are guilty of gross mismanagement, but that the State courte are not allowed to bring them to Judge Paschal, of Tetas, in his late address to the eee A thal Mista olor thaw of thea mae require. 200,000 | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1865. | ments which they wit! buco tw meet before they can bo | and peices, generally speaking, were in buyer's favor. restored to their foruter position im the Union, imoluding | Petroiewn was in demand and sloady, Colton was en- the abolition of slavery and the ratification of the anti- | tirely nominal. Crocories were quiet. Imported goods On “haage flour was dutt and again decidedly lower, Wheat and corn werg also lower, « Boel was dlavery ainondment (o the constitution, the recognition Of the nuility of the ordinance of secossion, the re- Padiation of tha rebel debt, und the making of provision for scouring full protection tothe freedmen ta their civil rights. : ‘The official counting of the votes for Governor of North Carolina took piace yesterday, when it appeared that Mr. Jonatban Worth has a majority of six thousand seven hundred and thirty, he receiving over thirty-two thousand five hundred votea against twenty-five thou- sand eight hundred cast for Provisional Governor Holden. A despatch received in Washiugton, from the United States Consul in Chihuahua, Mexico, gives a few addi- tional particulars in regard to the evacuation of that city by the imperial:sts, heretofore fuily confirmed. The last of the imperial troopa left there on the 18th of October, marching thence southward, in fulfilment of Maxi- milian's plan, alveady described in our columns, for a concentration of his present military force at interior points. ‘The scenes, incidents and adventures in alate trip of one of the Henan correspondents from Matamoros to Monte- rey, Mexico, together with descriptions of the country and people, of the contending military forces, and o! bis interviews with both the repablican and imperial chiefs, are graphically presented in bis Brownsville lotter in our present issue, Of the party in which our corre- spondent travelled wero a colohel of the United States army and other American gentlemen, and by both the republican and imperial oflicers they were shown the utmost courtesy and given evory facility for seeing what was to be seog. At Monterey the arrival of the Ameri- cans caused quite a sensation. As # representative of the army of a great nation, the colonel, as well a8 his companions, received the greatest attention from General Jeanningros, the imperial commander there, and the Americans resident in the place, long shut out from intercourse with home, were delighted at tho arrival of their fellow countrymen, and immediately flocked to thelr quarters to greet them and express the pleasure afforded by their visit. The entrance into Monterey of even a colonel iff our army seemed to cast upon that town the ehadow of the power of the great republic of the North, eliciting the greatest respect from the officials and inspiring the American residents with a feeling of security, The French officers and soldiers in Maximilian’s army, our correspondent states, have a poor opinion of tho native Mexican soldiers on either side, and show lit- ue atfoction for the service in which they are now en- - m+ atatoments previously go often made by other correspondents «r+ repeated, to the effect that the Moxicau people are «!most unanimously in favor of the repnblicah cause, and would rise in numbers sufficient to drive Maximilian from the country if they could be fur- nished with Gms and were assured of the support of our WALI yp nnmngee eens | 01 nt. tS; ww ee a have been held last night at the Cooper Institute, was postponed to sult the convenience of Hon. Henry Win- ter Davis, of Maryland, ~and the other distinguished gentlemey who are to speak. Dae notice will be given of the meeting, when the date is fixed. , ‘The extracts from the annual report of the Director of the national Mint, which we publish this morning, will show that this statement is far from being the least in- teresting of the many important public documents each year laid before Cougresa, notwithstanding the fact that tho glittering issues of the institution but rarely dazalo the eyes of the general public in these days. From the organization of the Mint and its branches, in 1703, up to the 30th of last month, they coined altogether, in gold, silver, copper and nickel, nearly nine bundred and six millions of pieces, of the total value of over five hundred and twenty-three and a half millions of doltars. Some new revelations have recently beeu mado con- cerning the counterfeits of the one hundred dollar iuver- est-bearmng Treasury notes, allusion to which was mude in a Washington despatch in Friday's Huritn. An offi cer from the Treasury Department has visited this city, and it is believed that he returned in posession of the plate from which the fictitious bills were printed. The case of the peopic against William C. Barnoy, Bonthan Fabian and Captain Reginald Chauncey, charged with an atterupt to defraud tho internal revenue of forty thonsand dollars, has been transferred to the United States suthorities, and will be tricd ina United ‘States court, indictments having been found against them by a United States Grand Jury. The caso came up again before Justice Dowling yeaterday morning, when that magistrate decided that he had jurisdiction iu the matter, but stated that, as the offercoe charged was com- mitted against the government, he thought it best that the proceedings against the accused should be conducted ina United States court, and that he would therefore band them over to the national officials, In the United States Commissioner's office yesterday, further testimony was taken in the case of Dr. Gustaf, who is charged with an attempt at poisoning in Toronto, Canada, and the evidence for the Canadian government ‘was closed. In the case of William P. Turnuro against the city, for damages sustained in injuries to plaintiff's horse and car- rlage through @he bad condition of the streets, Judge Mullen, of the Supreme Court, yesterday gave a verdict ‘against the Corporation. The new Stock Exchange, Nos. 11 and 12 Broad street, ‘was formally opened yesterday. The Board of Brokers met in the board room, and, after indulging in several speeches, adjourned to the banquet reom, where they celebrated the occasion in a hearty, convivial man- ner. Mayor Gunther, as our readers will remember, in September, 1864, wrote a lettor intended to discourage immigration to this country from Europe, in which he stated that certain organized efforts for inducing emigra- tion were misnamed, and “should have been called a bait under fraudulent pretences to enlist foreigners," and also expressed distrust of our national currency, also represented that the prospects for Jaboring men here were very unpromising. The Mayor has recently, in responre to inquiries made by Mr. Willlame, agent in this city of the Amorican Emigrant Uompany, written another fetter on this subject, im which he saya that, the condition of affairs in this country having entirely hanged, he is now heartily in favor of encouraging im- migration, would assist {t by every lawful meane, and would earnestly invite the European laborer to come hither. We were visited with another slight snow storm yes- terday, which however has left behind as its traces only sloppy, slushy and muddy streets; for the fleecy sub- stance, under the influence of the mild atmosphere, meitod almost as fast as it touched the pavements. The snow commenced falling about five o'clock in the after. noon, and continued to come down quite plentifully until after dark, whon it degenerated into rain. On Monday last a private watchman named Peter Mor- rissey, who observed geome boys purloining cotton on pler 4, North river, fired his platol, merely, as he alleges, for the purpose of frightening them; but the ball struck alad named Goorge Kucher, living at 113 Sheriff strest, who was sitting near by, and wounded him so severely ‘that doubts are entertained of histecovery. Morrissey was arrested yesterday, and will be held to await the re- sult of the boy’s injuries. An inquest was held yosterday ovor the body of Charles Schoendorf, a German, aged forty-nine, who lived at 178 Suffolk etreet, and who committed suicide by swallowing a dose of arsenic. A young man, named John R. Guillen, aged about twenty-three, living in the Eastern district of Brooklyn, attempted to commit suicide yesterday by shooting him- self with a pistol, but did not fully succeed, as the ball, intended by him to strike his hoart, barely oscaped it, but inflicted a severe wound. His reason for the attempt is not known, An inquest was held yesterday in the case of John C. Fbeling, a victim of the nitro-glycerine explosion at the Wyoming Hotel, in Greenwich street, on the 6th of No- vember, who died.a few days since, at his residence, No, 11 Harrison street, from’ the effects of bis injurios. Mr. Ebeling was pase’g the hotel when the explosion oo- curred, and was severely wounded in the head and on his right leg and right band. AMr. Crandall and his wife, aged respectively sixty and sixty-five, wero murdered on Thankagiving Day in Coontown, Otsego county, N. Y., by some unknown per- fn oF persons. ‘The Kentucky Presbyterians aro engaged in vigor ous efforts to relieve the prevent pressing necessities of the clergymen of that denomination in the Southern States by taking up subscriptions in their behalf, A large meeting in prosecution of this purpose was held in Louisville on Thankegiving night, at which a considerable amount of money was subscribed, The stock market was uneottled yoaterday morning,. but strong at the close. Gold was irregular, and closed at 144% Business in merchandise was rather limited yesterday. The farther decline in the price of gold occasioned con- widerable weakness iu almost all branches of commerea, continued inactive, Pork opened firmer, but closed a shade dower. without change. Lard was lower. Whiskey coutinaed dul! and nominal, The Repu ms in Congress Repu- dinting Thetr Own Pledges. The responsible party in Congress, in follow- ing the leadagship of Mr. Stevens, of Pennsyl- vania, have placed themselves in a very awk- ward position before the country, They not only started out in opposition to the well known policy of the President, but in direct conflict with the verdict of the people in the recent elections. If there was one thing more marked than anything else in the State elections during the fall, it was tho emphatic manner in which the party conventions and party orators endorsed the announced policy of President Johnson. In the Central States, at lenst, the organs and stump.speakers cf the republican. party concentrated all their labors and arga- ments in the effort to prove that they we: earnest in thatendorsement. They brought for- F ward all the evidence in their power, and piled pledge upon pledge, promise upon promise, to show that they would keep faith and sustain the President in his plan for restoring the country, Tt was by convincing the people that they were acting in better faith than the oppo- tion that they were enabled to carry the State elections, The very fact that they were so persistent in their efforts to prove that they were honest in their promises is proof positive that there was no mistaking the senti- ment of the people. It also was complimentary to the President; for it recognized the tact that our people placed implicit faith in him as the nation’s leader and exponent at this critical period of our history. That faith in Andrew Johnson has’ gradually increased, and is to-day stronger and more general than ever before. " 3 an In the face of these facts we find the represei: tatives of that party in the lower house of Con- gress uniting in a solid body on the first day of the session and voting for measures which re- fe al their promises. Raymond and his paper, the Times, aug Weed, with bis long- wiuded letters, labored zealously during the canvass to prove that Stevens and Sumner were not the exponents of the party, and only spoke the sentiment of a harmless minority. But notwithstanding this record Raymond entered the Congressional caucus, and was the most earnest advocate of the schemes of Thad Ste- venus of any person in that gathering. Stevens had met his radical friends in a private caucus, and there marked out a programme, the avowed purpose of which was to head off the President and defeat his practical and popular plan for reorganization. This programme, in accord- ance with a previous understanding with the radicals, was presented to the caucus, and then referred to a committes of which Stevens and Raymond were members, Raymond united with Stevens in recommending it to the party. He thus turned his back upon all his profes- sions, and adopted Stevens’ radical theories. He thus committed himself, and by his vote for the proposition in the House placed bimself on record in favor of the extreme measures of the Jacobins of the country. What those measures are, be, as well as the public, can see by re- calling the numerous revolutionary speeches of Stevens and the harangues of the fanatics in Faneuil Hall during the past year. That class of persons have made no profession of abandoning their extreme measures. They have never intimated their intention to abandon the policy of preventing the restora- tion of the country under the plan marked out by the President. Stevens, Sumner, Wade, Phillips and their associate fanatics have not in the least changed their line, but they have drawn all those republicans in the lower house who claimed to be conservatives over to them. This isthe position which the republicans in the House of Representatives occupy to-day-- & position in direct antagonism to the President and the wishes of the people as expressed in the late election. The republicans, therefore, stand now pre- cisely where the Jacobins in the National As- sembly of France stood at the early stages of the reign of terror. Like causes produce like results, and, if they adhere to the same ex- treme policy, this Congress, instead of readjusi- ing the country and securing the long-looked for peace and prosperity, will plunge us into anarchy, political and financial ruin, bringing with it the terrible, bloody scenes enacted in the French republic. This is the fenst that Stevens and Sumner ere trying to lay before us. This is the cause in which Raymond has now en- listed and has become a champion. To this revolutionary creed we find such men as Blaine, of Maine; Deming, of Connecticut, and Banks, of Massachusetis, who claimed to be conserva- tives, now prominent converts. We trust that there will be back bone enough in the Senate to arrest this evil before it is too late. Unless that is done all the labors of President Johnson | in restoring the union will have been in vain. The work accomplished by bim in building up will be destroyed, and wreck and ruin will take its place. The people of this country fur- nished the government the means, the material and men necessary to prosecute the war. They stood this drain and met all the demands made upon them for four long years, to an extent never before known in the history of the world. All this was done to preserve the Union—to prevent evil-disposed and rebellious combina- tions from taking even a State out of the Union. They have seen their cause victorious, and have rejoiced over the defeat and overthrow of those who would destroy the nation. After submitting to all these sacrifices to prevent the secession of a State o faction springs up, headed by Stevens, Wade and Sumner, who, in effect, are endeavoring to show that, instead of preventing secession by the war, the success of our armies bas actually driven the Southern States out of the Union; that the sacrifice of life and treasure for four years was not for the purpose of preserving the Union, but to destroy it. This is the theory which Stevens is irying to commit Congress and the republican party to. This and no other would be the effect of treating the Southern States as conquered Ter- ritories. It was to secure the endorsement of this programme that he presented his resolu- tion in caucus. He has received the unani- mous endorsement of the republicans in the Honse of Representatives; but we trast that the Senators will hesitate a long time before thoy commit themselves to @ policy which will lend to the endorsement of the idea that our gallant soldiers gave their lives to destroy the Union. Whore the oractioal application of this Programme of Stevens will carry us is too painful to All who wish to see a picture of the future if Congress persists in following the lead of Stevens and Sumner can find it in the bloody recerds of the Jacobin rule in France. ‘The Railroad Accident in the Bowery— The Responsibility of the Companies. By the recent accident in the Bowery we see that life is not safo oven in the city cars; that the recklessness, the parsimony and mistaken economy of railroad companies caa follow us even to the doors of ourhomes, Families have recently experienced uncomfortable sensations if s member were compelled by business to visit ® distant city. No one knew when the father or husband who went away to-day full of health and hope might be sent home by express & mangled mass that it would be hardly possible to identify. Life on the rail was so precarious that the making of a will and securing a policy of insurance were but common precautions to any who ventured it. But wo thought that this was only for those rides where we trusted our lives. the rapidity and power of steam ; ‘and now find that even a ride in our:city strects is invested with a share of the samé terrors. There is but little more certainty of safety when ® man only starts down town for his daily affairs than when he is carted outto the guillo- tine on the New Jersey Central. The accident happened at a point where two tracks cross. The heavy express car, on its way up town, was just crossing the Third avenue road opposite Sixth street, in the Bowery. It was entitled to the right of way, was on its time, and going along straight enough. It was the. business of others to avoid it, Such are the main facts sworn to at the investigation in relation to thatcar. At the same time a Third avenue car was on its way down, and was so near to the other before the driver saw his danger that he believed his only safety was in going on and trying to get across, He beflevad that hé Was dértain to dol- lida if he tried to stop. As it was, he miscal- culated his distance only a couple of feet, and the large car hit the rear end of the small one. The boy killed came to his death by being thrown by the jolt under the wheels of the large car from the front platform of the other. As usual in these cases, there is hard swearing both ways, and each tries to throw the blame on the other. But the public are not concerned in relation to the drivers. For this accident the companies— and the companies only—are responsible before the public. Crossings are dangerous places, and therefore such regulations should be adopted as would make accidents impossible at those places. The companies can easily do this if they will, and the evidence of it is found in the fact that they always do make accidents impossible at such places after one has cost them a good rotind sum. A serious accident happened some years ago at the cressing of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad; but the simple provision then adopted—that all the trains should come to a full stop before crose- ing—has made that place perfectly safe ever since. The same plan of stopping has proved effective since a train on the New Haven road ran off the drawbridge at Norwalk. That acci- dent nearly ruined the company, and in that way made it respect human life as a very costly article. The present accident will un- doubtedly cost the Third Avenue Railroad Com- pany twenty-five thousand dollars. The com- pany can appreciate how much better it would have been to spend that sum in provisions to render accidents impossible. If it is wise it will make a timely use of this lesson, and by ordering @ full stop at every crossing, or by some other means rendering it impossible for even the most careless drivers to cause acci- dents at such points. That is their duty, and they must do it. Weep, Raymonp anp THs New Yor Repvup- ticans.—The course pursued in the organiza- tion of Congress by Henry J. Raymond, of the political firm of Seward, Weed and Raymond, isin striking contrast with his course in our late November ‘election. His resolutions, which were made the platform of the New York republican party at Syracuse, out-Heroded Herod in their glorification of President John- son and his policy. Upon this platform the republicans carried the State by nearly thirty thousand majority, a result which brings into the boldest relief the popularity of President Jobnson’s plan of Southern reconsiruction. Next we find this slippery little man, Raymond, in the republican Congressional caucus at Washington, cheek by jowl with that moat malignant radical, Thaddeus Stevens, in the treacherous concoction of a deliberate insult to the President in the repudiation of his Southern policy in the most offensive form—an insult which was carried out im the House in advance of his Message. The next proceeding of Weed and Raymond, if it has not been, doubtless will be, to wait upon the President with their congratulations regarding his excellent message, and to flatter him, if possible, into the appointment of their special favorite for the New York Custom House. The President, however, will be serving these treacherous and double-dealing friends exactly as they deserve, in giving them the cold shoulder until they sball have proved their fine promises to be genuine by good deeds. The New York Custom House is in charge of an excellent officer, and there is no occasion for any hurry in superceding him for the benefit of Weed and Raymond and their treacherous clique. Moreover, the President, in his own defence, should hold all his impor tant appointments subject to the proceedings of the radical managers of Congress, If they choose to support him in good faith, all right ; bat if not, the President, by holding his ap- pointments in reserve, will know where to be- stow them. It is clearly not his policy to sup- ply his enemies with ammunition. EnGianp anv Spatn—Ovrrace in Eorore and Ovrtnaor in America.— We were told during the late war that the sympathies of England were withheld from us becanse the destruction of slavery was not our main the de- struction of that institution being the only thing in our history that England could possi- bly sympathize with, as the one among all the nations who stood alone as the champion of moral right. Lord Russell even put this idea im @ letter to Mr. Adams. So, as England could not sympathize with us because we were not particularly against slavery, she showed her sincerity in the cause of moral right by giving her pathies to those who fought in support of a wore There were apparently some alm - Ple persons in the world—"nglishmen princi- pally—who were imposed upon by this, who believed that Englund was governed by a con- science and not by the prospect of trade with the Southern States. To those persons we commend the consideration of Kingland’s con- duct in two somewhat notorious events of Present history. One is the war of Austria and Prussia against Denmark, the other the war of Spain against Chile. One a national outrage in Europe just under Englaad’s nose, the other a national out- tage in another hemisphere ten thousand miles’ eail from’ any port of Great Britain. In the case of Denmark, England was called upon to interfere by bor various relations with the two Powers, and by her love of “moral right;” and in the case of Chile he has no other interest but that of a trade in copper: Bat that little business in copper settles the question for the great missionary. No British trade was par tiowlarly injured in the European outrage, and, Deomark could go to the dogs. British trade is injured ‘in Chile, and the indignation of Eng- land rises against the injustice of Spain. Will not Punoh give us a picture of the British lion ina white cravat? t Political Christianity in the United States. The old stylo of Christians—Methodists, Bap- tists, Episcopalians, Catholicos and Presbyte- rians—were much concerned for the moral con- duct and spiritual welfare of their fellow sin- nera, They worked earnestly in the world to keep down the devil. They wanted to make men better. They preached crusades, but thoy were crusades against sin—against those sins particularly that are forbidden in the deca- logue. They recognized distinctly that that was the trae sphere of the Christian laborer, and they would have regarded any disposition in their own minds to loave that sphere and to divert the attention.of men to any other sub- ject than thg galvation of their souls as a bold Yemmpiation from the father of all evil. They left to others the discussions of public quos- tions; the pride and ambition of the former they looked upon asa little vanity; and, with the humble earnestness commanded by their Divine Master, they labored to mako mon love one another and to deal honestly. They ad- dressed themselves to keep alive and right that growth of Christian civilization, the human conscience. And all the good that was ever done in the world by religion was done by the agency of such men. But that race is nearly extinct. Now there is another kind of Christian rampant among us. This is the political Christian, who repudiates the sphere and labor of the old-fashioned Chris- tian as something contemptible and beneath : his abilities. He cannot lend his lofty spirit to such little affairs as looking after the sins that weigh on the conscience of every paltry fellow. He canaot pray over human weak- ness, and pride, and passion, and misery, and inculcate lessons of charity and love. He considers that his sphere is to regu- late the politics of the nation—to make the pulpit as much like the stump as possible in its passion and profanity, and to utter flerce harangues of denunciatory hate against all who hold opinions unlike his, Good speci- mens of this kind of Christian are Mr. Cheever, of this city, and Beecher, of Brooklyn, The three thousand clergymen who made them- selves notorious as Kansas shriekers are of this class; and the same denomination is rep- resented by the ten Massachusetts parsons who have abandoned their flocks to go to the State Legislature. This kind of Christianity originated in New England, but is now spread pretty well over the whole country, and its inevitable effects are becoming apparent. Political Christianity regards the pulpit, not as place from which men are to be taught that there are other things to do in the world than those they have been doing in the last busy six days; it regards it, on the contrary, as & position of influence—a point from which a political schemer may get at the people and surround, his candidate or his theory with all the sanctity of the church, and make the people believe that to hold the one or to vote for the other is to do the will of God. It realizes the story of the Golden Legend. It is told that once when the parson was tempted out of the way the devil got possession of the pulpit. Did he preach the Christian doctrines of humility, patience, charity, love, and warn his hearers againet the allurements of sin? No! He preached pride, ambition, strite, dissension, malice, murder, glory, war. He political Christianity. He rode the hobbies of the day, and if abolition had been one of them he would have ridden that. Political Chris- tianity literally fille all the points of this pro- phetic old story. It has led the parson out of the way, out of the pulpit, and put the devil in his place to preach doctrines that are the very essence of anti-Christ. What is the practical consequence of this? Simply that the functions of the real Christain parson are abdicated, and the devil is having his own way in our midst with the moral nature of man and woman. Hence public and private morality is on the wane; our theatres can im- pudently parade before the public, night after night, plays for which indecency is a mild term; our courts have to adjudicate constantly divorce cases based on adultery; and murder is so constant that it is at length hardly a hy- perbole to say that “the heart is merely strop for the knife.” Political Christianity is, in short, carrying us just where philosophical Chris- tianity carried France and Germany. In the whole Rhine country virtue is not known, and throughout France it is sneored at. It will be the same with us if there is not @ change. The political parsons have done the work ot the fiend in the legend and taken the place of the real Christian in the pulpit, and the only hope for public decency is that they aball be driven out by the indignant voice of the people, just es their prototype, the Devil, was. Tupmriat Massacers 1x Mexico—Cortina, the liberal general, the other day caught three of Maximilian’s men near Matamoros, and imme- diately “hanged: them to the nearest tree.” Humanity and justice to his own men required that he should do it, Maximilian began the barbarous business, and his decree ordered that all liberals should be immediately murdered when taken. Cortina will open the Emperor’s eyes on that subject. But what « state of affairs this indicates. It is not improbable that the United States may yet have to drive Maxt- milian out in the interests of humanity. ‘A Conrnast.—Senator Doolittle, of Wiscon- ain, came out im favor of President Jobnson’s poliog. like © bold, decided statesman. Ray- thas just decided that the city is liable / , mond, of New York, wont againt Presifen Johnson's policy and voted for Thad Steven: radical resolution, like a weak, vacillating trim mer. What makes Raymond’s course the mor disgraceful and unpopular are the fucts that, the last State election the poople of New Yor decided unanimously in favor of the President’ Policy; that they preferred the republica Party to the democratic, gimply because the: , thought it more sincere in ‘its pledges to sup Port the Prosident; and that Raymond, in hi Own paper, advocated the very views which b Bow denounces by his vote. A more miserabl: instance of political inconsistency it has neve been our misfortune to witness. | Tas Weexty Haxatp—Imrortayt To Bony mrans.—We have been wondering for some tim past at the extraordinary increase in the circy _ lation of the Waxxiy Heraco, and have at la! | solved the problem. The Bohemians of this city _ itis well known, have free tickets to the Oper? all the theatres and other shows that “do not a vertise inthe Hunan.” They are, in shout, | poor Triplets and literary lackeys of the theatr calmanagers, They ere aleo the city correspe | dents of provincial papers al: over the countr? and in their capacity as the organs of ¢) operatio and theatrical managers they do 1 write a letter that does not teem with abuse « the Hmnatp. This naturally brings the Hunar before the country people, whose curiosity | thereupon sroused, and the upshot is wo 9) overwhelmed with orders and subsorip tions f our weekly issue. So great is the demand no for the Wassiy Hxratp all over the lan North and South, East and West, that we expe it soon to outstrip in circulation the enormo edition of Bonner’s eternal and everlastii New York Ledger. Of course we feel indebt to the Bohemians for doing us this servic and as they are no doubt frequently hung? and are always thirsty, we propose that th send in their bills for thus handsomely adv | tiging the Weexcy Huraco, and, if reasonab! we will see that they are allowed and settled} A Bro Case ror Corver anv Pistors.—T! Board of Brokers in New York have not ‘ % put the Fenian bonds on thoir regular list) bonds and stocks. Why is thist They m/ | have been bought up by British gold or | traitors in the camp. This is a logitimate ci for coffee and pistols. The Head Centre oug | to attend to the matter at once. If the pr may be let off on the ground that Fenianigm’ @ public matter, and editors may claim a ri to treat of such things, the argument does 1, hold good with the Board of Brokers. | putting the Fenian bonds on the regular list a gross offence to Colonel O’Mahony and Senate. We.do not .know how many brok! there are belonging to the Board, but number can be ascertained. Let there ba Fenian for each -broker, and challenges ¢ immediately. We will bet on the Feni) ~ Ho, vor Satt Rivaz.—A new double-end | copper-fastened, high pressure, light di shoddy steamer will leave this port in a; days, bound on a voyage of discovery to head of navigation on Salt river. The principal state rooms, one reserved for F nandy Wood and Massa Greeley, and the n. best will be assigned to Misther O’Robe Misther McHecker, Misther O’Gunthor and Citizens’ Association. At the foot of the ra; the company will land, and, mounted on d keys, will ascend the mountains, and cond! Mesera, Wood and Greeley to the hospital p! vided for political hard cases, where they v * he left to the healing appliances of fresh : bran bread, farina, cold water and shod. Parties desiring staterooms on this excurs| | will apply at the News or Tribnne office, or) — Captain Miles O'Reilly, No. 1. H Parino tae Damaces.—The Supreme Co % 3 a i” # damages that result from the streets being - of order. This ia only just, and when taxp ers learn what has to be paid on this sc they may find it cheaper to get a city gove ment that will keep the streets in order. fifty or a hundred horse owners would sue animals killed by the Russ pavement we mi find it cheaper to improve even tuat. The Haytien Naval Steamer @ataled Considerable attention was attracted yesterday by ganboat Galatea, now lying at tho foot of Grand str flying tho Haytien ensign at the peak. It will be rem, ered tbat this vessel was recently purchased by, agents of President Geffrard, of Haytl for the ao, service of that government. Her armament consis; twelve thirty-ponnders, and one one-bundrod - forward. She is a fine vessel, and has sen service in the United States. navy, from which she; purchased. Her commissioned officers art for the part gontlemen who have been honerably from this navy since the termination of rs 4 t Her crew will consist of about one hundred tnd oj mon, nearly all of whom are colored sailors, ako charged from the American navy. Yesterday these were busily engaged in signing the necessary articl¢ shipment. Payment is made in gold, which appray be agreat inducement among them. At present # confusion and bustle aboard the (Galatea, attendant 1) coaling and provisioning ® war steamer preparatory | cruise. It ie expected, however, that she will be in re ness for sea about Monday next, when she will haul im the stream and there await Ona! sailing ordgrs f the Haytien authorities. City Intelligence. Fam von St, Bomvace's Rouax Cars| | Onvnom.—A grand ladies’ fair for the bo | of St. Boniface’s Roman Catholic church, | East Forty-seventh street, will open on next Wed day evening, at Rupert's Hall, in Forty-fifth atrect tween First and Second avenues. The object of th Faran Accipart tx Broapway.—About half-pas’ o’ciock last evening « man named H. 0. Lovell, res: fat Merchants’ Hotel, Courtlands street, was run ove: killed at the corner of Broadway and Chamber stree) — stage No. 864 Firth avenue line, The body of was taken to the Third Precinct station house, an coroner notined. driver of the stage, named ‘Ruthen, was arrested and held to await the action of ‘A Leas Tarer.—On Thankegiving Day last of Perry, detective for the Fifth Avenue Hotel, noti, well dressed young man loitering about the hail) ) reading room of the house in s very suspicious mdr) * | and, thinking thet hie actions would bear watc} | in and observed that he took a cor BoP bite a morte articles within reach. The man might have known that euch an establishm the Avenue Hotel would not be without an to deal with sn: SOrve a8 8 passport; was mistaken, and when the officer thought he haa far enough he arrested him while he was feigning room. The young man was at the action of ihe omcer but fi ‘avail him nothing bh escape. He was firm! eyed to the Jefferson M gave bis name as John 5. ] i : t could and i - i Ft Ti B i f ;