The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1867, Page 3

Se te Regulations for the Prevention of Smnggling on the Northern Frontier. areas orca ora cere ad Reristration’ of Voters in Wash- ington. 1 &. &. &e. Wasuixcrox, ‘ Aunivoreary ef the Pent tp ead Lincela. + Zeday te the anniversary of the saddest + in American history—tno assassimation of President Lin- % ‘@eln, which two years ago siartied the nation and threw @glcom over the whole country, Tho day Ifns not been @heerved here with any attempt at solemnity, It has ‘heen bright, clear and warm, and crowds of people have ‘enlivoned the streets, apparently utterly forgetful of the earful recollections called up by the occasion. It seems ‘Steange that in this city, which was the scene of such a | ‘@aeadful tragedy, no provision has beea made to com- mmemorete ins Sitting manner this sad anniversary, Meperted Capture of tae ma by the Lib- er ripple of excitement was occasioned here this even- ‘ng dy a rumor that information had been received from ‘MBaister Campbell by Secretary Seward, stating that ‘Maximilian was captured by the liberal forces on the 34. ‘met, Upon inquiry, however, the report was found to ‘Be without foundation in truth, The ramor doubtless ‘@viginat’d from the fact that a gentleman who left San Lats Potosi on the 26th ult. arrived in the city to-day ‘and called at the residence of Secretary Seward. This @eatiomen brought no intelligence of a later date than ‘Ihns boon received by the press, Despatches were re- @eived at the Department of State from Mr. Campbell ‘Poth yesterday and to-day, but they contained nothing ‘@f importance in relation to Mexico, ‘The Vacant Offices. ‘The office-filling muddle docs not seém to grow any clearer as the adjournment of the Senate approaches. ‘Whe slates have accumulated to such an extent, and the ‘Basiness of compromising between the two great forces @t tho ends of the avenue hag become so mixed, that wome of the shrewdest wirepullers hore confess thomselves befogged, and the unlucky candi- $e for office who has never aspired to eny greater knowledge of political manceuvring than ts ‘mecessary to dispose of the petty offices under a municipal government is utterly bewildered, and evinces a decided @isposition to listen to everything that anybody will tell ihm in reference to the situation. One of the late devel- @pments is the change which is said to have taken place ‘fm the task of seeking a Commissioner for the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Tho principal cause for the re- ‘oval of Isaac"Newton iszaid to have been several tere from Presidents of Agricultural Colleges asking for a @hbange in the position of Commissioner. It bus been re- ently discovered, however, by these colle:tate officials tat the information upon which they acted came from fadividuals who had been discharged by Mr. Newton, ‘and was found to be untrue. The story goes that, having Qemt their aid im effecting the rewovai of Mr. Newton, the @ellege presidents have made the amenie honorable by ‘writing @ request for his reion“lon as the head of the de- ‘partment, avd that the Pres.dent has decided, in caso the ‘Benate does not confirm Coronel Capron, to send no other ‘Womination in for that office. ‘It t@ not true that Colonel John Lorimer, of Now ‘York, isa candidate for one of the Registers of Bank- ‘Wapicy or any other official station. Regulations for the Prevention of Smugaling. ‘The following regulations are prescribed under the QFovisions of the second section of the act of Congress ‘Ser preventing smuggling, approved February 18, 1867:— ‘The matter or manager of every vessel which Is ‘@mrolled or licensed for carrying on the coasting trade northeastern and northwestern frontiers ucts of the growth and manu- only, betcre the departure from the port or piace where Jaden, shall make out caption of her cargo, one of which shall be filed in Oustom House and the other to be retained by him; ity of the Collector or some other rrlee the customs when required. be granted to any such vessel, her master manager shall file the manifest required by these with the Collector of the Port where her cargo unladen, and shall also comply w®h the provi- the first clause of section 1 of the act of July entitled ‘An act to provide for the collection Tevenue upon the northern, northeastern and western frontier, and for other pu ”? which is torce; but it will be distinctly understood that not be construed as abridging in any degree the the master or manager to commence the dis- g of the cargo of his vessel without first repori- to the Collector of Customs at the port of his ar- ival and obtaining a permit to unload, Registration of Voters. ‘The number of voters registered in the First, Second, ‘Whird and. Fourth wards of this city is 8,958, of whom €406 are white and 4,562 colorea, which gives the latter majority of only 146 in these wards. The registration 4m the other three wards will be commenced to-morrow. Operations of Uirich, the Counterfeiter. ‘The solicitor of the Treasury has recently received the G@etailed stair mont of Charles Ulrich, a native of Ger- ‘many, mads in the presence of Colonel Wood, chief ot ‘the secret ervice division of the Treasury Department, ‘end of Marshal Murray, iu the Grand Jury room at New Werk, about three weeks ago. The statement of Ulrich was voluntary. It will be rocollected that he was famresied by Colonel Wood in the city of Cincinnati, in March last, charged with being a counterfelter of na- ‘tonal currency and with having counterfeit plates of various denominations in his possession. Ulrich gives ‘en interesting history of his dealings with traders in ‘@vanterfelt money and the names of the principals for ‘Whom ho worked as anengraver aod printer. In re- mponse to e question by Marshal Murray he said ho paid ew York police dotectives amd deputy marshals, as Rash money, $19,600 in the aggrogate, bestdes altering Stolen watches for them so as to destroy the identity of ‘the time keepers. Ulrich acknowledges that he printed ‘Grom the $200 plate $200,000 worth of notes, He had ‘Matended to print two kuadred impressions from the 9500 plate, and if he had not been captured that work ‘woald havo bean completed in ten or fifteen daya, The Plates are now in possession of the government, They ‘are remarkably well executed, and the notes produced from them are calculated to deceive even the most ‘expert. Descont on Gambling Houses. Tate last night, by a preconcerted movement, the po- Mee made descents on the prominent gambling houses @m Pennsylvania avenue and elsewhere, As these @mablishments have heretofore enjoyed an almost un- Aaterrupted immunity the raid was to their proprietors a @ariling event. All the material and mechanical con- ‘@ztvances for playing faro and other games wore cap- @ared, and the occupants of the houses were taken into oustody, but were afterwards released on ball, The Seopers of similar places, having received a brief warn- {fag of what was going on at other places, bolied their ‘@eors against all comers, the police included. \@he National Aayi: for Disabled ‘Soldiers. \, The board of managors of the National Asylum for aXeabied soldiers mot in this city yesterday, The old on, vers wero ro-olected, vis. :—President, General B. F. Bath; First Vice President, General J. H. Martindale; Vico President, Jay Cooke; Sccretary, L. B, Ganekei. Reports were received showing the donation ‘@f the Om: '0 Soldiers’ Home near Columbus, Ohio, by the #0 the National Asylum, and the purchase of 2 aie and bui ‘dings near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Three ‘eeylams will be, ‘be opened to all disabled volun- feer soldiers, No. one thousand such have been cared for or assisted DY thé national asylum within the Jeet quarter, A comm, “4ee was appointed to issue pro- Pomls for now buildings #4 Milwaukes, and to select 1 be ot ae ee i na injunr'ion, Mr, Johnson responded that be would have 10 “seoline, inasmuch as he desires to aid the South, and bis opinion ia that these proceedings must end in injury to that section of the country, rather than good. He does not think the Court will entertain the bills in the two cases before it, and the same views that caused him to pursue the course taken by him in the Senato onthe reconstruction question now compels him to keep aloof from all such proceedings in Opposition to the measures. determined upon by Congress and to regret their appearance in the courts, It is the opinion of the most eminent lawyers here, even of those who are suspected of having had sympathies with the Soutn during tho war, that the Court will not eter- tain the bills because it cannot do so. The case of the removal of the deposits by President Jacksan is instanced as one in point, and it is asserted that in those good old times—the days of good lawyers, too—when the mian- dates of the Supreme Court were held in the highest Teapect by the entire country, It occurred to the mind Of no one that the Supreme Court could interfere by injunction to restrain the removal. General Schoficlu’s Summer Restdence. The statement of a Fortress Monroe correspondent that the seminary at Old Point was being fitted up at the expense of the government as summer quarters for General Schofield’s staff and families is utterly false. This building is partly owned by B. F. Butler and others, from whom General Schofield has rented it for the season, The General is now having it refitted at his own personal expense, and on the Ist of May bis family and the Department ladies will move there to spend the sum- mer months. Military headquarters will still remain at Richmond. Payment Money Due _—_— $$ & 5 ef Commatation Prisoners of War. The commutation of twenty-five cents per day for rations of enlisted: men who have been prisoners of war is now being paid-at the office of the Commissary General of Prisoners in this city, and quite a large num- ber of cases have been disposed of already. A state ment was mad hort time age in reference to the com- mencement of these payments, in which it was said that the commutation was due to officers who had been prisoners of war. Titis isa mistake. None are entitled to it but soldiers, sailors and marines. Relief for the Seuth, Collections continue to be taken up in churches and elsewhere for the reliof of the South. The subscriptions are liberal, An extensive fair is to be held for the same Purpose, John Bowne, Genera! Ag nt of the Southern Famine Relief Commission of New York, was in Wash- ington several days ago on business connected with that subject, and has telegraphed tho following to the press of the Pacific coast:— Sovraran Famine Retixr Commissions, No. 61 Broavway, April 10, 1867. The famine in the South is severe and increasing 1e means riven by for resef, through the Freed- men’s Bureau, are very inadequate, and unless generous contributions are made by the public the loss of life must be appalling. 2 ARCHIBALD RUSSELL, President. Epwanb Bricut, nding Secretary, ing Secretary. Jaurs M. Brows, Treasurer. Jon M. Bowne, General Agent. There is no doubt of the truth of the above statement, and we earnestly hope that generous contributions will ve pty ‘made to this commission in the Far West. fon Jobo Con: United States Senator from Cali- fornia; Hon. W. M. United States Senator from Nevada; Hon. James W. Nye, United States Senator from Nevada; Hon, Geo, Wi United States Senator from Oregon; Hon. H. W. United States Senator from Oregon. ‘We belteve that liberal contributions from the States and Territories of the Far West would at once save many hives and relieve great suffering, and would have a most infimence upon the aoeong om} the nation. Bros, & Go.; the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- el Oo,; Lees & Walter The General Agent of the Commission states that the cash receipts up to the present time are $165,000, Of ‘this sum California sends in gold $31,000, or, increased to currency, $40,000; New York city, $61,000, and the country, West and East, $74,000. Appeiutments Confirmed by the Senate. The Senate in executive session on Friday confirmed the following nominations:— s porivet of Public Moneys—Edward Hart, New Or- beater of Land Ofico—John 8. Tully, New Orleans, Postmaster—Samuel W. Smith, Seymour, Indiana. ea AA G. —— of eon nae 1 a Kin yang; D, L. Marsi ‘Massachusettes, at Si weet sonnt of Africa,” pts Improvements of Government Balldings. The work on the north front of the Treasury building is progressing with great celerity. Within the last four months the old brick building so long occupied by the Department of State, has been torn down and the rub- bish removed. The immense oxcavation for the base: ment Is almost completed and a large portion of the foundation is laid. It is the intention of the supervis- ing architect to have the whole front under roof bofore the reappearance of frost. The Congressional Debate on Friday—Cor- Fecth Owing to the transposition of a paragraph in the re- port of the Senate's proceedings of Friday, as pub- lished in some of the Northern Journals, the remarks of Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, appear to be those of Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin. It was Mr. Ferry who stated the causes of the defeat of the republicans in Connecticut, and to him Mr, Dixon directed his reply, as the context shows. Receipts from Custome. The following is the statement of receipis from customs from the 1st to the 6th instant, inclusive:— The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has completed the report in relation to the statistics of the Bureau and the treaties now in force with the various tribes, called for by the résolution of Senator Honderson. The report is very complete, and prepared with great care, and covers about seventy pages of legal cap paper. it will most Probably be submitted to the Senate to-day, Survey of Indian Lands. ‘The Commissioner of the General Land Office has just received information, from the Surveyors of the lands coded to the United States in trust for the Osages, under the second article of the treaty concluded September 29, 1865, showing the progress thoy have made in the prose. eution of the subdivisional survey of the northern strip of the Osage lands, being twenty miles from north to south and fifty miles from east to west, These lands are situated on both sides of Verdigris river and Fall river, ite tributary. The surveyors report having completed sixteen townships, and that by the Ist instant they will bave finished one-haif of their contracts, covering the area of twenty by fifty miles, Patents tor Lands in Kausas. The Commissioner of the General Land Office bas transmitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for delivery to the parties entitled to receive the same, eighteen patents, covering sixteen hundred and eighty- Seven acres, for Kansas trust lands in the State of Kan- eas, being sales of Indian lands under the treaty of October 4, 1 RECOVERY OF STOLEN MONEY. Pirranuno, Pa, April 14, 1867. The $10,000 which were stolon from the messenger of the Adams Express Company on the steamboat Elisha Ben between Pittsburg and on the ight of April, have aire agency, and ie ‘ony pantie be agua brought to justice, ‘thingie ACCICENT TO THE STEAMER ST. JOHN. Ataany, ¥. ¥., April 14, 1867, Toe steamboas si\ Sohn, of the People’s-line, became Atcabled Inst night on‘ her downward trip, near Catskill, porate o/h Yisroel disarrangoment “0n's machinery, Berepalted ine Gay or tme® ha aah pine anKannnnnn Carteatares. wa‘ Bho 1@ the fect that there are doin exhibiled tp the windtw of a small paint shop 02 Broadway several picture calculated to bring the ef Excise law into conte~apt and The subjects of he are: jae SS wit Meense; ng UD of the of Bealth; closing up a drinking one minute after twelve o'clock; a an old rum blos- Ped back, oe anes comrraencs ES Ak id attention of Police Captain Jourdan should called to the matter. . Ald for the South. “J. F. Bone of the committee appointed to pre- sent the hose-carriage to the Columbia, S. C., firemen, earnestly solicits his fellow citizens to relieve the desti- tution pervading that section. He asks: ‘‘ Why should we still bold from them all that is dear to a freeman? They are humble now and feel full weil their situatior and would, Iam sure, properly appreciate any acts kindness the North might make toward them. Then let our lawmakers at ington, instead of wasting time in em: talk and debate, set to work in earnest, and afflict that portion of the and the result will be the development of a country people, 2 lasting. honor to this great republic, while the North and South will be wedded together in love, styength and glory.’? ~The Income Tax. “Freedom”’ endorses the course of the Beraup rela- tive to the abolition of the income tax, and desires that ‘the citizens of New York take some definite action about tho matter, The law doubtless is detested by. almost everyone as being inconsistent with, the prid- ciples of free government, and as oppressive and tyran- nical, and all would be highly gratified if some notice ‘would be paid to the feelings of the people, ’ Poor Jack.” “Charles K—,"' a sailor, who served daring tho. war on board.the Star of the West, writes us at length re- specting the ii! asage of seamen in the United States Navy. Ho thinks that the government should do.some- thing in the way of pecuniary aid for this class ‘of our defenders, Tho opinion prevails, he says, that sailors need no hounty because they are supposed to have re- ceived fabulous sums in the shape of prize money. Ho then instances his own case, as follows:—The frigate on which I served compelled the citizens of Galveston dar- ing fifteen months to pay $20 (Confederate notes) for a bushel of salt or else eat their food without any. She captured two prizes and cut out the privateer Royal Yacht from under the guns of the forts with the loss of several men. During all this timo we were alone and ran the risk of the same disaster which subsequently befell the Harriet Lane, aided by a whole fleet, We lett, Decanse, as the southernmost ship, the supply steamer supplied us with two hundred and Atty casesof scurvy, marked putrid beef, creoping bread, but, arrah! na “murphy!” Now, for the reward of these hardzhips and privations, together with she tedfousness of this solitary blockade, having shipped for one year only, we were detained for tiiteen months; but tho lawful one- [old pay for overtime has not been paid to any one, lespite of numerous applications. You willbe aston- ished to learn that our share of the prize money amounts to $190 and the captain’s to $2,000, or more. The correspondent earnestly presses tho ciaims of poor Jack on the notice ot Congress, Reward of Merit. “«F. H.C.” calls attention to the services rendered by Drs. Swinburne, Burdett, Bissell, Harcourt, Kennett, Read and Sprague, on the hospital ship Falcon end the United States sloops of-war Saratoga and Portsmouth, on board of which vessels the cholera patients, wero Vag when the epidemic threatened this city last year. le thinks that a public testimonial should be given these gentlemen “for the work they have already done, und to stimulate them to still further exertions (if that were possible) during the approaching season.” F. H. C. proposes to head the list with a subscription of $20. Lottery Swindling. A“Victim of Misplaced Confidence’? wants to know what has become of the firm of Taylor & Co., who started a gift enterprise arrangement in this city a short timo since for the benofit of the Women’s and Children’s Dispensary, and which underiaking was endorsed by some of the leading ladies and gentlemen in the city. He thinks that the partica who endorsed Taylor & Co. would have sufficient regard for their own good name to at Jeast see that innocent purchasers of tickets in what pur- ported to be a laudable underiaking wero not swindled out of their money. Improvement of the East Side of the City. ‘Touching this subject “A. B, C.”” says:—“An old pro- ject was advocated in tho public prints many years ago, but for some reasons was not carried into effect. I ale jude to the widening of Nassau street from the head of Broad street t the lower end of Chatham square. Also to that of the lower ond of tho Bowery. If these were accomplished, together with the improvements ag pro- posed by you at the northern end of Fourth avenue, there would be formed a straight and spacious avenue from South street, East river, to the Harlem river; and if the Ann street project could be combined therewith so mueu the better. What, then, is to hinder this great avenue, superior to any other in many obvious respects, in rivalling Broadway, which disappears, praotioalige, at Fourteenth sireetr Should this vast tmprovement be accomplished, would not Chatham square be a suitable site for the new Post Office t”” The Monument to President Lincoln. “D. T. B.” desires information from Mr, Timothy G, Oburebill, Treasurer of the Lincoln Monument Fund, as to what amount of dollar subscriptions have been col- memory of the martyred President, aad also.na to what marty: ni as to wi Atisporttion " has been made of the same. Processions on St. Patrick’s Day. “An Irishman” sends us a long communication rela- tive to processions on St. Patrick’: Day. He thinks the whole affair should be discountenanced. He writes thus:—"'It is in bad taste with rogard to other nation- alitien If the Germans, for instance, lost thei common sense, intelligence and Cig one fine morning, and Broadway, imagine the Ingulig and gibes on the *‘d Dutchmen,” as they would be politely termed. In_ this their adopted country, Irishmen, however deeply they may love their native land, show a want of good taste aud it towards Amcrican citizens in thus forcing themselves in such an imperious manner on aticotion. When St. Patrick's Day falls on a weex day business and travel are greatly impeded, and the pro- ceasion becomes a nuisance worthy of the notice of the Board of Health. Treatment of Car Horses. “Constant Reader" desires to call attention to the car horses in general, but those of the Fourth avenue in par- ticular, alleging that they ore the worst treated of all. They get barely enough feed, he sayz, to keep them alive, and are, in fact, living skeletons. There is hardly one of tiem that is not lame or has not some disease or injury. They are fed on a very small quantity of cut hay and bran, and nothing else, The Crosssngs of the Erie Railway. “G,” calls attention to the avowed carelessness of the watchmen employed to attend the gates at the crossings of the Erie railway in New Jersey. Several accidents by collision have already occurred, he says, and it is only a ‘| fow days since that one of the Jersey City and Hoboken horse cars, crowded with agers, & hairbreadth from being crushed to atoms in the rail escape t en a jrain was coming on and the gate not i. pod it should have been. ba High Rents and Their Cause. “Anti-Extortion” thinks that there is collusion be- tween rich men and the house agenis to force up rents to ‘an extortionate rate. When one man who wants one house, he says, examines ten or even twenty houses be- fore ho is suited, it does not follow, as the agents would have us believe, that “there ato twenty applicants for every house.’ Relief for Broadway. On this subject “K” advises as follows:— “Widen Chureh street from Fulton street to Park place, 60 as to make it seventy-five feet wide; remove the sdewalk the Park, in Broadway, and add tho to the way. Pedestrians can walk inside of the Park.’? ‘The same correspor ndent, in another communication, thinks that General Grant disgraces himself by associat- ing with General Robert E. Lee, whom he regards as no better and lees modest than Bonedict Arnold. “ A Victim to Appeals’’ asks the following question, — on an order of eg maty made Judge jam in the case of ‘The and St. Nicholas other banks va, the Comptroller of the City and County of New York,” in order that the case can be heard at the t term of the highest State court :— “Why have and ions the privilege of get Ung their cases settled in the Court of Appeals whenever they deem fit, when vate Lewd weng Wg myself (as much interested and perhaps more 80 they), are wired to bottle up their pationco for ten or twelve you? Can the Court of ‘be seen’ as can an Les only or is justice bl only on particular otca- ‘The Underground Railrond, AD advocate of the proposed subterranean road dis- courses thus:—Upon what ground you oppose the un- derground railroads is a mystery to me, The people cer- tainly support the Harazp, and why should not tho HBA vapport arid eavorste plans that will benofit and help the ‘people? We want more houses abd cheaper roam, and te eeane to me our only relief is by steam communication up town and across the two rivers—es- pecially up town—for then the mechanics and middie Class men can go up to Wi county, All the papers are constantly filled with articles descriptive of the miserable, deadly condition of our tenement houses. The only relief I can see is by steam roads, either under or above ground, If capitalists will build a roads, for heaven’s sake heip them along. And if others will build proper steam above ground, give them a chance also; and we, the people, be the gainers, RELIEF FOR THE SOUTH FROM CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, April 13, 1867, The Southern Relief Committee of San Francisco to- day telegraphed that they had transferred, through the Bank of California, the sum of 000 to the New York Reltof Commission for the Relief or beaut of thn aesbunis poops INCENDUARY FEAT ST. LOU. Sr, Loum, April 14, 1867. The extensive cattle stables of John Wilder, in the REILGIOUS SERVICES. Sermca by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher—The Zasential Power of a Nation — Universal Education. ‘Yesterday morning, at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, before & very crowded congregation, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a sermon on the rights of the freed- men, universal education and kindred subjects, seleot- ing for his text the 234 and 24th verses of the 9th chapter of Jeremiah :— “Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in’ Lis wi neither let the might feat er 2 Be might, not the rich man but him that glorieth, glory in thi i Tepeetandecs and knoweth Mo; that f am the which exercise le loving kindness, judgment and righteousness earth, For in these things I delight, saith the ‘Lou The following is an abstract of : TRE SERMON, Z Men are so made that they must needs glory in pome- thing. If they take pride in mean: things, i degrades them; if in noble things, it exalts them: ‘The"prophet dissuades men from glorying in secular elements—in smartness, in riches, in political power. Instead let him glory in those quatities of the soul which form God’s glory, His goodness, His justice, His loving kindness, His trath, Let him glory in the quaiities which form According to the Divine ideal grue manhood, as they form true divinity, It is not on the outside that men find their prosperity, but within themselves, clear intel- ‘iigence, moral purity, reverence for God, justice and goodness,” These are the true powers of thowonl, The @octrine . ia that im the qualities of. religious manbood, or, if you will not understand it,. in the qualies simply of manhood, ono ts to find grounds of prosperity and the occasions of rejoicing Suppose one Were dead; laid out im state ina mansion filled with splendor, surrounded rie een full. of sommer blossoms; what would these , nee ae, attiu.sha beauty, the scenes and sconery—avail to one thai lay dead? What; would-a crowa on bis head be worth to him, and ail that it moana, or a seeptre in his hand ’ What would barps or viols avail for him that lay doad ? Imagine avy single facuity restored to life, to open and have some enjoyment of these surrounding éuljécts, aud then a second, then a third and then a fourth, until by and by his I:fo was restored to lim. Now he is sur- rounded by all these objects. Which is it that makes him strong, happy and joyiul, the objects or the facul- ties in Limseif upon which these objects act? Aro these exterior things so good that have bo power except upon the presupposition of vitality in us? All the wealth and beauty. of the world is useless to a doad man. Each faculty awaking makes him more and more rich and strong, A iman’s wealth, then, a man’s power, a man’s happiness, do not stan in external things. There may be an effoct in their relation to that which he is in himself, but a mao stands in the atiribates of Lis own mind, and what be is at all is to be fonnd out by measuring bim there, The trac method of wisdom is then to augment the man—not the circumstances that surround him, Where you augment that which is the covstituent element of power in him, then you give nim being, and being is Joy, for where you secare your case there yen secure also effect. But it does not follow that when you secare ects you therefore the powers that produce them. secure He that owns. the is going to bring forth; he tl garners tho’ harvest does not necessarily own the soil. The cause in man which works out effects makes him strong and rich. No man is capable of any greater degre of hap- piness or real power than is already provided and stored up in him by the creative act, A tree may cer- tainly be made better by circamstances, The oak tree in a rich soll will bo a bigger oak with gencrous ciimate and good culture than if loft strueeling against nature on the side of a penurious bill. But after all, with a soil deop under it and skies benign above it. and with the hand of skill attending it, that treo will never be anything else than joyous in itself. It will nover be anything but an oak—not an apple, orange, pine or palm, but justan oak. That form wi to itin the creative design. Cultivation only preases it out, TRS POWRR OF EDUCATION, Eduoation developes men, trains men, but education never creates anything, lt wasallinthe man, All the education in the world does noshi but develop that which you bave, Education, then, is the greatest boon which can be conferred upon man, because it takes hold of the secret of happiness and of proaperity in jis very causes and sources, Men must roiterate that after all happiness is not that which is outside of us, but that whieh is inside. We carry the secret of our bappincas in ourselves. Education developes the power to contro! external effects and it makes men king of causation, 12 80 far as anything cao make them so. He that rales es over results, He is not the most 4-3 up effects, accumulate thiags already done, but he who can produce those effects over again. The parame results makes the ideal manhood. Not what @ man has created, but his educated power sti to create, measures. Lim. ‘The secret of manhood underlies tho. doer is still greator than the deod. sen all that Michael Angelo has built, he wae nobier than his building, When you have read all thas Shakspeare ever wrote, he was himself a hero more than all his own. heroes. For what the faculty works upon is perishable. Is is matter. It heaps up, it fashions, ib builds, it carves, it adorns; but ali that is painted and built and cut fs stilt dust, Tho artist is spiritual, immortal. Men aro great by virtue of this power, not of effect. They are soil owns the harvest that that soil but ‘hot pros] ee ‘things fortuitously heaped up around them, by tho power “yh. ng within them. A man’s life “oonsisteth not in the abundance of the things which ho possesseth.”’ This whiah, is true of individuals, is even more true of communities, ‘THE TRUE RESOURCES OF A STATE. The of States, their power and their riches b Per nage am their physical products, ‘Sol, mines, forests, Cities, wi navigable wat rare: houses aro mere bills of credit. The bullion is tho men that created these things that can still croate then. And a city that is full of old transmitted riches, with a population that are lazy, shiftless and unvirtuous, 18 like the bill of a bank that broke Mens: Sa The bill may still be handsome, but there is no gold when you cal! at the counter for i, You must measure the growth of society vot by the things that men bave done, but by the men that yet kuow how to do. Laws, constitutions, in- stitutions, fibraries are treasures. They are’ all admirable, bat chiefly on account of those who creatod or those that now know how to use thom. The living power that caused, or the living wer that was, makes the value of these things. For Eiwe are but hurnosses, and what 1s @ harness without @ steed in it, Constitutions are so many iastruments in the ds that uge them, and libraries are soul-bearing treasuries that we must search out, and merely tell us what real men who once lived knew how to do, and what roal men who still live may do who know how to do, These are all adiiravle, but not for tho purposes for which they are too often stored and gloated over, God made bat one thingin this world—man, Manis the unitof measuroment and the unit of value. The strength and the glory of a State, therefore, is to be looked for, notin its achievements, but in them that achieve, That was a noble blood that innded on the banks of tne James or on Plymouth rock; a people without any legacies of the pact. But as they brought manhood they brought empire. With a large and ignorant popu- lation, rude, unknowing, idle, » state cannot be butit up, no matter if you keep any amount of wealth or any amount of physical power around. No defence is haif so impenetrable as a whole community full of resources and of living pow Aud the weak place in any Stato that in which ignorance ai ge imbecility exist, inecrs felius that no chain is strongor than the weakest link in it, So no State is stronger than the weakest part in it, Measure the city not by the fiue streots going to its purlieas, but look at the bu:ldors, Do not measure by Prosperous and middle classes, but go to the tom. The lower class carries tho life and bof the nation in it--measure those if you would know. No ship is stronger than its own bottom is. If the hull is built of weak timber and rotten planks, it would not bo stronger with gold masts and silver rij . So it is with nations, You may build your upper circles with glittering refine- ments and make then: beauteous as the precious metals and precious stones, but after all it is the bottom of the community that tells the story of its condition and strength. An educated class at the top is better than nothing, bat nothing savé community from the igoor- ant masses that are at the bottom. A nation is a com- muoity, and to be prosperous must be treated as such. The extremes of advancement ou one side must also carry up with them tho other extreme, or else like a cake not turned, it is on one side aud dough en the And £0 aro most nations that are wise at the top and rich and happy, and at the bottom ignorant, rude and miserable, BOW TO BUILD UP OUR NATION, We know then exacily where to begin and how to build our nation, Not territory, not climate, not goil, id mines, inventions, machinery, ships, foris, armic?, jucated Chrigtiau citizens are our safety and our ‘Thts nauon might put in letters of old over ite Capitol, I think, the words:—“Let him that gloricih glory in this, that he undorstandeth and knoweth me; that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness, the Garth, for in thoss rd.” That very greod frovertt very infidelity to before silenced jus honor » manhood, when tude was declared to bo supreme iu the State, and above all policies, parties, commerce or wi 1 18 quiet now, aod mea are coming into coaditions when they can gh Cnr a eh won are the very pe! of Ly weai| ‘a trainiug, right affec- tional, moral and jonal tralzing, whes Sringing manhood to ita highest state of power and most perfect co-operation in ip, t educadva, is tue surest eufeguard of @ Stave. Tho means of this educa- tion are, family, the charch, the school and the shop, or rather workin all its varieties, I recognize thom all a8 co-factors, co-ordinate ia their work and vending to the game results, ‘THE COMMON SCHOOL. baw fat ad! + peculiar circumstances bn need of pushti and that, too, more than al any other period out bietory. But there are certain great reasons why, in our condition. wo should push ‘with a apecial zeal the common school, which is that education which enables men to bo educated, which un- thelr eyes and their faculties, them the iibsriy fo think = and It diffuses intelligence obtained by means and writiog to an immensur- able intelligence will tend powerfuliy to produce and to malatain po; morality. Indivi- a not fi to wales to Satna LSPS oc Co Ae peetiieg fan 3 g not delieve: iguorance is compatible with the highest morality. {do mot call torpidity morality. Then stoves i onl, because they never fall into The quality of morality is voluntary—ap of that which 1s right and good, better and boat. iy itsel! ts often but another name for inexperience. There, is mach of it. like the il What spiders opin bet) two fowers in night, and When the wind comes im the moruing it ts broken to picces—piety that you spin between flow. ors of affection in the fami'y—tbin, thin, the mo- ment that the outer air passes on it it bi and gives tical thing—trae pict; an intelligent thing. An ook, \eaghan Wapeee- sary. Like the preaching of the gospel, morality ta‘es on different forws in different periods, to the, exigencies which are created by the unfoldings dence. not the same the preaching of the gospel means only ‘hing tehoically religious truth, I do not. Trui develop. As communities grow new questions trise, requiring new investignuion, new applt- cations of Tbe preaching of the apostles aud.the gospel as Christ preached jt would not suit the new tastes and questions that have a, Society “grows not toward — simplic it toward ne a 13 the peculiar gospel of v, while the" mivistration ‘of the moral teacher is still needed. Common intelligence is the natural remedy in our timo and.in thie nation for the various dangom that are iniensified on every sido of us. , _ THE CONSKRVATIVE INVLUENCZ OF NEWSPAPERS, KTO. Our vast territory and the diversity of our inwrests apd shave led ae 6 men to suppose that we could not Yoog remain together as one great republican empire, but wo are not isolated. But with am mtelligent people, whea the Kast, West, North and South, by the surprising power of the. press and of the telegrap all thinking of the same news and eame question Is no more difculty with the improved modern im- ploments of: civilization of holding together acontinont than once there waa.a ilttie isiand no bigger than our fatherland, It used to be further from the North Sea to the Irish Chenuel, than now it is from tite Atlantic to the Paciic Ocean, for we do notineasure by Wagues but by time, and electricity has destroyed it | Comtnon schools create tha: kind of popular intelligence that will make all this vast poputation that is to come up batween these. twe oveaus unitary, Lat is. they shall be conscious of t6 same interests, tho same curiosities, the, same zeal about ttie same thing? at the same time,” The newspaper scatters this intelligence, It never grows old, Ita renewed every morning; fresh every morning. It goes everywhere, It penetrates the forest, the me, the very shanty of the farthermost city. It is on the ship, with the drayman, the col:ier, and it swarms without number. They look to us as we gaze upoa thein simply ag enterprises; but, in point of fact, these are the instru. ments that God ls employing to unitize the thoughts and foslings of the vastest nation tuat ever held a common population, and it is this unity of feeling thas ls going vo bewmore than latitudes and longitudes, und more than constitutions, a protection to the nation. Common schools will create the capacity and the desire to read, MMANCIPATION. Without these emancipation is a misfortune, The most glorious event cf our history now is not the land: ing of the Pilgrims upon Mymouth Rock, nor the Decia- ration of Independence, which our fatuers issued and then stoutly and victoriously defended. Itis the emancipa- tion of four imiilions of men by the act of the nation and with the full determination that they should become not merely no longer siaves, but that they should be- come men. But without education it ia a mis.ortuuc. This nation is just as much bound to educate them as it was toemancipate, The work of emancipation is but just begun, and we baye not givon them liberty and the means of maintaining it until they have the same meaus by which we maintain our liberty. It is the duty of the vation to provide the means of their education, That was a wise idea in Samner’s speech, that national cdu- cation should be neceesary to the full idea of emancipa- tion, UNIVERSAL SUPERAGE is upon us likewise; and as there is no political distinc- tion ‘between Greek, Jew, barbarian, bond, free, male or foinalé,”’ so we have got along to the last clause of that same declaration, and suffrage is to be universal. Distinctions on account of sex are just as ridiculous in Tespect to the rights of the world as distinctions on ac- couut of color, It is upon us. It is said that revolutions backward, Heformation certainly never does. It presses on from eration to generation, This is growth, and growth is not apt to ungrow. You have got to either eevee the theory of aristocratic government of the comimunity by the few best men, or that of demo- cratic government of the community by the sum total of that community. “Without education, without com- mon intelligence, univeral suffrage can be nothing but mischievous to us. It is turming loose upon us men moved more by passions—animal influences—than reason, unless rt is accompanied by universal education. Tho ballot box shouldbe on every schoolhouse, © corroptions of politics, the of Jegisiators, can be corrected only by some course of gene- Tal public edacation. Here isa case in which we per- ceive that intelligence does not eave men {rom cerrap- tion, because the men that are bought and gold like meat in the assomblics at Albany and Washiogton are men that are intelligeut—educated enor much in some directions. (Luughter.) Yet they fail in a shameful manner. They sell their country, their mani |, their, honor, the trust that was put upoa them by their eiti- zens,’ Thoy aredebauchers of the young. They the traitore, Not thoy that litt are iy © sword against the country are half s0 much traitors. Not they that des- potted the old banner aro half so much traitora, They are gnawing under the foundations of the mont and destroying it - They are the dock teattoet eld. and (Great. applause ) among the moat erudite—practised in colleges, bred in academies and finished in various professions that em- ploy great intelligence, Yo correct this you want a community that in every part is so intelligeat that there is a public sentiment that shall make it so perilous and banelui for them to sell their couutry for a mess of pot- tage that they will not dare to do it, (Applause.) Nothing will maintain respect, power and authority, if we are to be bought and sold in this way, but school houses, which are more than a match for legislative halls, The schoolmaster is botter tvan the sheriff. Flucato! educate! and If the top of society corrupts go down to the Tho way to regenerate communi- ties is to develop more manhood in men. Men do not tall because they have too much liberty, but because they bave not enough. D "ABOCHIAL SCBOOLS, This education shali be promoted first by churches, There is a little dispute growing up as to parochial schvols and common schools. I settle the matter by taking both, Churches that want parochial schools let them have thea, but parochial schools caunot do all, These and denominational schools guard religion. Noth: ing so uecds to be cesired for spraitlc purposes, but they don't anawor every parpose, Voluntary societies may also promote schools and give schools as that society tor which I am abont to ask a collection is doing, THE ANGWICAN UNION FREXDMAN'S AID COMMISSION, which ig seud’ng teachers (hrougnout the South, and is organiz ng schools and attemptiug to introduce a patrern among the African poveition of this country, school systems which have been proved successful in the Norih. PRUSSIA THE FIRST POWKR, The Prussian system compels every child to go to school from aftereight years of ago until it 16 fifteen. By this system Progsia bas come up as from tho dead, and ffom laving been a nation utterly trodden down and like a sheat of wheat, after Napoleon bad threatenca ber, uutil only straw and chaif wore left, by a wise education, by universal education, Prussia 13 to-day the first Power on tho globe—the strongest and the wisest, and for no ovher reason than this, Whatis it? That she has {ound a leader, That is a providential mani- festation. What would a leader be if she had not such a people? This gives her a prominence, and will enablo her to hoid it I thank God we are going to hav chance to see. (Laughier and applause. 'ranco has a miserable, undeveloped antry, without schools aad without culture, aud in u6 confiict of the two nations is going to show us which is strongest. If they dash together it will be |) fron and pottery. (Leughter.) There oughtto be b @ supereisory supplementary power that where states cannot educate their people, the national goverament can. Feucation is the foundation of republicanism, the chatter of her liberty, that om which the community stands, on which Stats stand, and on which seli-goveru- ment itself reste, ‘THADDEUS STEVENS, ETC. When Stevens shail die it will be remembered among many thmngs; for is one of those men who are in- convenient when ilving, bat. very valuable when dead {laughter}; and I think if I were bo i would rather have wrilton on my gravestone “Father of tho Common Schools of Ponueylvania’”’ than anything olse, It might j and from the grave no calmer, stream, so faras humanities are scription to bim as his life work, concerned, than the the founding of a system of common school education which has already disenthralied that Siate from its ignor- ud 18 building it up into the stature and into the po of agigantic commonweath, I long to see the day when that noble old commonwealth of history, that in the dark days of Masgeachusetts gathered cora {rom the valiey of the Shenandoah and from the James val- jey, and from all the valleys of her streams, and sent both mop and provisions to the struggling colonists of Now Engiand-that great commonweatth that has goi through so sad a degradation, so sad an experienc: the hand of war, I long to see that day wien in all hor valleys, and through all her mountain passes, aud down her maritime plains, the tranquil light of learning common schools for common peopie, without distinction to color, shail be ia all that vast commonwealth. ‘Then again, slowly, but with the sure t of the young she shail come up in her second life—Virginia re- rated ; and when the Carolinas shall be recon- ructed by that most sovereign and final of all recon- structions ; intcligence, virtue aud true religion. God speed the day | A collection was then taken in aid of the American Union Freedmen’s Aid Commission, The usual retigious exercises followed and closed’the morning services, Trance Sermon by Rev. S. H. Tyng, D. D.—-The Prominent Errors of the Charch. Rev. & H. Tyng, D. D., rector of St. George's church, New York, delivered @ sermon last evening at Christ church (Episcopal, Rev. Dr, Canfield’s) corner of Clinton and Harrison streete, Brooklyn, selecting for his subject, “Tho Prominent Errors or False Obrists which Afilict the Church at tho Present Time.’ Thero was a very large @ongregation present, who evinced a general interest io the discourse. Dr. Tyng took his toxt from Matthew xxiv, 23: “Then if any man shall say unto you, lo, hore is Christ or there, believe it not, for there aball arise false Gbriete and false prophois,” ko. After doclaring Jems our Saviotr to be the only true Gari, the sprerent gout psaed 99 Ip the got sideratioh Of the ‘inige Christs which apptied to the Gicron at the procont tims, Wire, tivero was the Christ of thointical rationalism, whieb be said, take onr divine Lord in His deity and and give usa ? i : Hi | fF F : i aid I E : Bi i | 2 = pe E i i cE 5 &) 5 Fy BE H i E gice teh control, The istere o! word of the true.Christ, the Bible, fragmentary and without atize it They would set aside the com: God by their tradition, This impertinent wag a false Christ which was rising, and fague with them was, should it be su not? The third false Christ we Bpenet which, he said, was comg amoug slimy frogs and innumerable vermin. oe told us that man could got salvation rist, indeed, but by his own works, lowly tion of worshippers, and 8 Wooden communion table transformed the His evangelical church decorations, at the very enormitics. If ieee f 2 fl alinost like af EF i 3, felt their merely ceremonialism, it would be simply ridiculous, Andigoant bus it was biasphem: and removes the true Christ for the (alse Christ cx 'y ritualiem, Fourth, and last, there was the falso Christ of assuming ecch claiming peculiar divine authority, whose followers de- nounced all those who did not submit to their demands, Tu a series of propositions it affirmed that salvation was to ve found ia this Church only, and shat A those not members of tue flock were classed with t! Ifo aid not wonder that this was called the jece of Sutan, as its mature portrait was in the Charch.of Rome. ‘They’ rejected. the chosen holy ones of , Chi and Delieved that submission to priesthood was sion = Christ. They —_ all the peculiar sanctity and poculiar deference among men, ud say, “io! hero is Christ!” Should this be adopied No! Our Lord bad said, “believe that not.” Their false Christ, their idol of ecclesiastical assumption, he Would utterly renounce. These four were the impostures which were arising in the church to taro men from the ouly tree Christ; and if the church was maranded by thelr influence, and societies maintained, he was called upon, with others, to resist them, even unto blood. He dad lived to see one rebellion on earth subdued, and he would praise God if he would witness the subjection of another. Dr. Tyng continued speaking a short time longer, and t the conclusion of his remarks the congrogation were dismissed with tae benodiction, Mee to Aid the Education of the Freed me: ddresses by Major General Clinton B. Fisk, Rev. Dr. Vermilye Rev. E. P. Smyth, &c. A public meeting was held Iast night in the Reformed Dutch Church, corner of Twenty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, at which a number of addresses were made on the system of the relief, education and instruction of the freedmen established by the American Missionary Asso- ciation, The church was protty woll filled, and the greatest attention was paid to the words of the speakers, "The proceedings were opened with prayer and singing, after which the Rev. E. P, Smyth, formerly field secre- tary of the Christian Commission, was introduced. On coming forward he raid that to make a statement of the work of the American Missionary Society satisfactory it should give a view of the condition of the freedm on and the progress of the work of education now being made among them, The American Missionary Argoci- ation was organized twenty years azo in behalf of the African race wherever it wasto be found. It established schools in Canada, in Jamaica and along the Border States, so faras the lawa of the States allorred, and it had missions in Africa; and when the war broke the fet- ters of the slaves and loft them free, this association was oue of the first—in fact, the first—to sead thom mission- aries and school books and to establish schools among thea’ From that time the work of the association had been growing rapidly, increasing ut least one handred per cent each year, until last year it was represented by three hundred and fifty teachers and missionaries, and to-day had over four hundred of them fm the field. In =e the last eighteen months had brought one-tenth of the freedmen there under common school education, And in the city of Atlanta, where last December one of the agents of the association went and put dpa liile schoolhouse, devoting the mornings to. the edycation of ‘one Class and the evenings to the other, thore were at present twelve hundred children at school, receiving as instruction as could be ‘had in the city of New York. He could not account for the eagerness with which the colored race sought for instruciton. It was, in his opinion, the mysterious inflnence of Provi- dence, After citing many examples of the anxicty of the jmen to receive instruction and the neveasity of farnishing it to them, he said:—When they conwdered there were ten States now to be reconstructed—for no matter whatever view thoy might take of their being out of the Union they were now to come and with the vote of these citizens—and that two-thirds of these Citizens who Cd to —— pln ge oo food read the ballots they were going, cast, lemands on them in this respect, whet aa, as lovers of God or as lovers of thelrcommon: country, were great, The bayonet could not carry om:the wo: of reconstruction, it should be done by the influcace of (the teacher and the missionary, who should clear awav ail a influences that hindered the progress of the worl The next speaker, the Rev. Dr. Vermilye, stared that he had every confidence himself in the m: ment of the American Missionary Association, and he felt it was the sphere in which they as a Ohurch ought to engage, and he therefore stood there as the repregentative of the Dutch Church more than as the representative of the association. After a brief review of slavery up to tne emancipation eos he eald evory one should think seriously ja regard to what shou!d be done for the freedmen. They were citizens and were to exercise the fmocbise of and the ‘was tlierefore of more import what was to be result ben our own condition aud how were Christian: them for their new condition and to prepare them to come forth and take their place a the other races on this continent; to carry ‘the idea embodied in the constitution of the United States, thas all mon were vorn free and equal. They should prepare this nation to set such an exuimple to all the nations of the world that wherever the sum rolled im the light of heaven there should be no slaves, 20 race or class, but that map should stand ferth in presences of God and of bis fellow man free and independent. He concluded by an earnest exhortation to ald the freedmen by instruction and education in Gtting themselves tor the new duties they would be required to perform General Fisk next remarked that he not much to add after the addresses they had heard, Hewas in the Soathera States at the close ofthe war, and also associated with the Freedmen’s Bureau, and could bear bis testimony that In tho great work of recoustruction no organization in the country was entitled to more credit than the American Missionary Society. At the close of the war, when tho Southern planters and soldiers turned to ther desolate homes, the missionaries of the society wero there preaching the Goepel fo all in the spirit of love and charity, and establishing schools for both the colored and’the white people. After incalcatiug the necessity for training schools and the spread of edu- cation among the freedmen, he concluded by asking thera to cast their gifts liberally into the treasury of the American Missionary associaticn, as they could not be better destowed. Afver a short prayer, the meeting separated, The Catholic Churchos, In each of the Catholic churches yesterday the fest- val of Palm Sunday was duly observed, and the cere- mony of the blessing of the palms was carried out as tully as circumstances would permit. In Catholic coun- tries and in institutions in which the prescribed rules caa be adhered to the ceremony ts attended with grow solemnity; a procession is formed after the palin has been Blessed and distributed, aod after proceeding around the outside of the church, om arriving at tho door, two of the 8 go into the church and facing the procession entone the first two verses of the Gloria, laus, whieh the priest and othors iu the procession without repeat, after which the singers inside recite the remaining verses, and at the end of each verse thoso without answer Gloria, laus et honor tibi sit, rex Christe Redemptor, When the chant is endod the sub-deacon knocks at the door of the church with the foot of the cross; those within thon open tho door, aud the procession enters the charch chanting Jngrediente Dor ‘in sanciun civia- tem, &c, This ceremony is intended to Frepresent not ovly the entry of Christ Into J Dut also to t nf the opening of the gates of Heaven by Corist (the ‘aschal Lamb) dying on the cross, This Jattor is reference to the fact that the time of the entry of Christ into Jerusalem was about the time of ih over, when tuo lambs were to be killed commemoration of the deliverance from Eavpt. In this city the ceremory could not be because of the limited space arctad the churctes an because also of the Immense crowds wiiicd assemble on all great festivals at the principal ceremony of tye day, ROSSINI 8 STABAT MATER AT ST. ANN’S CHURCH This well kaown work wae given at the above men- tioned church last evening before a iy congregation, Signor Vilanova was Mies Wells, fopranc; Miss Gomion, T -o, tenor, and René, basso, the vocalists, regarded this Stabot Mater as “eh piece, but not possessing a tithe of sontiment, We have it hundreds bat never given in such # mediocre it St. Anu’s yesterday, The ensemble in tho and the solos with litle manner concerted parts was very bad, exception the mame, ‘Mise Gomlen sang tho fac ub hostem correctly, as far as a jotes went, but without tho slightest degree of ox joo. or fevling. In the Inflammater Mies Wells’ voice was tho countorpart of Miss Natalie Leoiig, and ail we have sald of tho inter tay ‘bo taken ag au catimate of the abiiities of tho for. mer, There [me gerne ae cutting and oa ef score unnecessary dolays ween parts, The amon can hardly be called the handiwork of Rossini, as it was cut and batcbored in pirate fashion, ‘Tamaro was tho best of the vocalists, and gave some eatisfaction, Rossini is a great composer, but his sacred, musio is a mockery of religion and devotional feciings, The cujut animam and otuer parts of his 8 Mater might as woll bo Ah/ mia oma, or La brindisi, as ox~ pressions of tho soul towards its Creator. Give us any» wat Rossint’s Me % thing in Pa, bet aoe sak reper “Pht POO ea THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. “ty, Laem, april 14, 1807, m ‘eclppi te vow open {0 the foot of Lake ‘The Upper Mise'ssippt Yan ‘edi Fisieg more of in, All the Westera toon rep