The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— Rav. Day K. Lee. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. Large Chapel, Unt versity, Washington square.—REY. Dk. DEES. Morning and evening, CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rev. Dz. Fade. Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR, Thirty-fifth street.—REv. J. M. PULLMAN. Morning and evening. . _ COOPER INSTITUTE.FRex PREACHING BY REV. GEO L. CMANEY. Morning and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SriniTUALists. Cuase. Morning aud evening. Hon, WARREN FREE CHAPEL OF THE HOME FOR THE BLIND.— Afternoon, FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East BUKN BENJAMIN, Morning and evening. YTERIAN CHURCH.— ning. FORTY-SECOND STREET REy, Dx. Scort. Morning SOUTH REFORMED CHURCH.—Rry. T. 8. CULYER. Evening. UNIVERSITY, afternoon, Washington square.—BisHor Sow. TRIP = New York, Sunday, February 28, 1869. Notice to Herald Carriers and News Dealers. Heratp carriers and news dealers are in- formed that they can now procure the requisite number of copies direct from this office without delay. All c&mplaints of “‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the HeRaup establish- ment. i Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the HERALD: office, are requested to re. turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the HzRaLp. —_,—_——- MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Day Hgraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement ean receive the Hgratp at the Same price it is furnished in the city. STEN aA eta PE THER NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated February 27. ‘A bill was introduced into the French Corps Legis- latif on Friday last to authorize direct loans for the improvements of Paris. In a speech M. Rouher re- ferred to the inconvenience of the government in controlling certain financial societies, and intimated that a bill would be introduced with a view to abolish such control, Prime Minister Serrano addressed the Spanish Cortes on Friday evening last. He said that the members who composed the late provisional govern- ment still retaim their seats; an economical and lib- eral policy would be parsued, and he regretted that the contemplated reforms in Cuba were necessarily delayea by the revolution there. The Prussian Diet proposes to grant two millions of florins to the Municipality of Frankfort. The King will add 9 million from his private purse. Friendly relations between Greece and Turkey have been restored. Cuba. Affairs are quiet in Bavana and the night patrol hasbeen taken off. Attempts Nad been made to drive Cuban families away from Nuevitas by threats. A large foraging party belonging to the Spanish gar- vison in Puerto Principe had been severely whipped Dy the Cuban forces, forty of them being killed and many wounded. Four thousand refugees were at Givara. The cholera is decreasing im Santiago. ‘Three steamers left Havana yesterday for tue United States crowded with Cuban refugees, Congress. In the Senate yesterday the resolution to with- draw government bonds from the Pacific Railroad Company until certain conditions are complied with was called up, briefly discussed and postponed. The House bill to strengthen the pubiic credit and legalize gold contracts was taken up. General dis- cussion ensued upon it and lasted through the even- ing session until adjournment. In the House the Louisiana contested election case was considered. Mr. Menard, the colored contestant, Was present aud addressed the House in support of his claim im an easy and good humored style that won for him the congratulations and sympathies of members on both sides. The debate was a very general one, and several attempts were made to have Menard admitted during the consideration of the case. Finally, however, both Menard and Hunt, the other contestant, were declared not elected, and then the Whole subject was Inid on the table, a resolution being adopted to pay each of the con- testants $2,500. Mr. Chanier, who, during the discus- sion, had demurred to the rulings of the Speaker and charged him with partiality to his own side, rose to personal explanation, and the matter of par- Uality was again discussed with some show of acri- mony between him and the Speaker. In the evening session a portion of the Alaska Investigating Committee presented a report ad- ditional to the one presented on Friday. The Present one condemns Mr. Robert J. Walker for becoming counsel for a foreign government in a bargain with his own without letting the fact be pup- licly known. The Senate amendments to the Indtan Appropriation bill were then considered in Com- mittee of the Whole. During the discussion Mr. Butler admitted that the treaties made with the lately hostile Indians were more favorable to them than former treaties were to comparatively friendly Indians. A lively debate ensued, and was continued until adjournment. Miecellancous. Genoral Grant was in close conversation with Gen- eral Sherman nearly all day yesterday, but this did not prevent the usaal influx of visitors. Among these was General Butier, No political allusions of i . Ware mad. fy @uaaae a mportance Wéré made. The conversation netween Grant and Sherman was entirely in relation to the | business of army headquarters, It is not known when Grant will tender his resignation. General Grant’s house in Wasbington has been Purchased for General Sherman's use. General L4e recently applied for the retarn of cer. ‘Vain relics of Washington, which had been sized at Arlington House during the war, and which are | mow in the Patent OMce at Washington, It is said the Cabinet had the question under consideration and favored thetr returtt, apd that Secretary Brown ing had directed the Comfy 'ssiouer of Patents ac. cordingly. Additional reports of a frestt outbreak of hostili- Wes on the plains are received? The war seems fiercest in Arizona, where severai exg,wwements have recently taken place. The Apactres are particularly unruly. Little Raven and 900 Arapahoe, had sur- rendered to the authorities. | uri Legislature has confided the care ry management of brothels in St, Louie to imon Councils of that city, without, how> iting any assessment or collection of revenue from them. ) NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. very heavy snows in those regions. The trains are Dlocked on most of the railroads. Moutreal is !ter- ally buried in snow. "There are at present 1,331 male and 138 female con- victs 1a Sing Sing Prison, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Livermore and Miss Anthony are addressing the legislators and cttizens of Wis- cousin at Madison on the subject of female suffrage, The City. ‘There were 454 deaths, 194 marriages and 218 birchs in this city last week. ‘The Atlantic and Great Western and Erie Railway litigation came up again yesterday before Judge Cardozo and was postponed until March 10, ‘The stock market yesterday was firm and buoyant, Governments were again excited over @ further ad- vance in London, Gold dropped to 130%, rose to 18174 and closed at 131%. The aggregate amount of business. consummated | nation. in commercial circles yesterday was diminutive and values were generally lower. Cotton was only mod- erately sought after, but 4<c. higher, closing at 20;¢c. for middling upland. Coffee was steady and firm. Sugar was slow of sale and a shade lower, while molasses was in fair request and held with firm- ness, On ‘Change flour was dull and nominal. Wheat was almost inactive and lower, while corn was im fair demand, and being in light supply was fully le. higher. Oats were steady, with ‘a moderate inquiry. Pork was a shade firmer, while beef was steady, and lard dull and a shade lower. Naval stores were quiet, buc steady. Petroleum—Refined was firmer, closing at S44. a 35c., while crude was lower, closing at 23:4¢. for bbis., and 19¢. bid and 19}. a 200, asked for buik. Freights were extremely quiet and heavy. Prominent Arrivals in the City General Barnum, of Syracuse; Senator J. F. Nix, of Elmira; A. D. Barber, of Albany, and Congress- man Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, are at the Astor House, General Kilpatrick, of the United States Army; Lieutenant G. O'Grady, of the Seventy-elghth High- landers, British Army; George Higgins, of Montana, and John A. Selkreg, of Ithaca, are at the Metropoli- tan Hotel. General B. G. Terry, of the United States Army; Jose Anillo, of Cuba, and Major ©. C. Wheeler, of Chicago, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel S. B. Grigsby, of New York; A. M. O'Neal, of Alabama; James C. Barclay, of Kentucky, and M. L. Alexander, of Tennessee, are at the Maltby House, Ex-Governor A. H. Bullock, of Massachusetts, is at the Brevoort House. . Congressman F. E, Woodbridge, of Vermont; Gen- eral E. M. Lee, ex-Governor Buckingham, of Con- necticut; Colonel H. Canfield, of Vermont; Colonel J. M. Richmond, of Buffalo; 8. Wellstool, of Edin- burg, Scotland, and Dr. Horace Richardson, of Bos- ton, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. W. Thayer, of Annapolis; Professor Benton, of Salem, Mass.; Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army, and Walter E. Paine, of Buffalo, are at the St. Julien Hotel. The Higher Development of Religious Teaching—The Future Seen by the Lights of the Past. The great activity presented everywhere in the operations of the human intellect during the present age points with unmistakable di- rectness to a coming higher development of re- ligious teaching and belief. Whether the re- sult of this movement will be to bring us im- mediately to the millennium, or whether it will be merely one of the stages of progress which marks the successive cumulative development of the human mind, it is not our province to in- quire. Our present object is merely to pre- sent a concise review of the historical testimo- ny which points out the great fact that in every age a higher religious development has been the result of periods of great mental ac- tivity. A contemplation of the dawn of our religious belief carries us back to pre-historic times, when Egypt enclosed the light and science of the world. The remnants of Egyptian culture and civilization which have come down to us all indicate a high degree of mental and mate- rial development, accompanied by wide politi- eal conquests. The remains of their architec- ture are still a subject of admiration to the world, and the testimony alike of Holy Writ and pagan philosophy bears witness to the great expansion which Egyptian wisdom had attained. The scanty remains of their litera- ture which have been preserved include only a number of funeral prayers and portions of the so-called Book of the Dead; but these contain many of the highest precepts of our present religious belief. The immortality e the soul, a state of future rewards and punish- ments and the moral teachings of the Deca- logue are there, but mixed up with the worship of beasts and reptiles and entwined with a my- thology as varied as that of the Greeks and Romans. But the testimony of the monuments points undeniably to the fact that the period of greatest activity in the Egyptian mind was that of the Mosaic religious development. The reign of Tothmes LiL, which, according to some of the Egyptologists, was coincident with, and, according to others, shortly preceded the time of Moses, was the Augustan era of Egyptian history. From this period of wonderful mental ac- tivity in the olden time sprang the Mosaic development. Leading forth his people from captivity Moses cast aside the impure in the teachings of the Egyptian religious scheme, as no doubt it was rejected in his day by all cultivated minds (and as were also the debas- ing portions of Greek and Roman mythology rejected at ® later day), and, adopting the highest developments of the accumulated wisdom ot his age, he announced to the wondering Hebrews the mighty scope of his design. ‘‘Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people ; for all the earth is mine; and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” (Exodus xix., 5-6.) But the Jews, who had been slaves to the Egyptians for generations, had’ not participated in the higher degrees of the mental deyelopment of their age, and Moses was compelled to give them, in addition to the Decalogue, au organized priest- ; woud in the tribe of Levi. 2 The Mosale scheme presents its times of development during the periods of great mental activity which attended the Hebrew The era of the prophets was an era of war and trade, and David and Solomon were mighty pfinces and merchants. The mental activity of that time has given us our sweetest songs and some of our most imperiah- able teuchings, But before we proceed to cite the age of highest mental activity among the Hebrews we must refer to another out- sptinging from the Bgyptian mind. The entire scheme of Greek mythology and philosophy owes its origin t Egypt. Taking the sensdous and the wsthetical in the Egyptian teachings, the active and #npple-minded Greeks wert on trading, fighting and philoso- phizing through a period of seven centuries, developing the mythology of their torernnners, The result of this activity was the religion of reports from Maiue and Canada igdteste geet, which culminated ia templos and statues that have never been surpassed in any period | Emormons Increase of Real Eatute Taxes, of the world’s history. Ten years ago we bought a piece of pro- The next period of great mental activity in | perty at Fort Washington for which we paid history is that presented by the culmination of | ninety thousand dollars, We are now told Roman conquest and empire, which has given | that it is worth from eight hundred thousand form to thought in the scheme of Western civi- | to a million dollars, We do not believe it is. lization until the present day. Religion, litera- | Although we hear of a great many other ture and law all acknowledge the heading of | pleces of property that are said to have in- their streams in this era, and Cicero, Tacitus | creased in nearly the same degree we do not and Paul represent its progressive schools. | believe that the real value of property on the Looking only to the religious development of | island is greater than it was ten years ago in that period, we find the purest and highest | anything like this proportion. These excessive among the Hebrews. It waa a time when uni- | prices are simply bubbles blown by the specu- versal conquest had brought universal trade | lators, who are as active just now in real and intercourse, and the schools of religion | estate as they have been at other times in the and philosophy were stimulated to their highest | mining line and in oil companies. Real estate effort by mutual contact and irritation, | transactions are managed somewhat as gold Among the Hebrews the period of highest | transactions are in Wall street, where men culture was during the time immediately pre- | ‘‘operate” millions of dollars without touching ceding and coeval with the Cliristian era. It | acent. Some speculator ‘‘buys” @ piece of brought forth the entire scheme of angelology | property with a small sum down, leaving the and demonology which characterize the New | bulk of the price in mortgages. He then puts Testament and the Talmud, and Gamaliel, at | it in the market, publishes his maps, an- whose feet Paul claims to have sat, was but | nounces improvements and so on, and if the one of a long list of eminent Hebrew teachers. | thing takes and he can run the property up he The Talmud informs us that Jesus was a pupil | sclls out and pockets the increase. So the of Joshua, son of Perachia, and the same | property goes through two or three hands, record claims Paul, or Acher, as he is there | every new owner pocketing his ten, fifteen or called, as an eminent scholar and disputant of | fifty thousand dollars, and at last the land the school of the Pharisees. At no period of | really falls back to the hands of the original the world’s history, unless we except that of | owner—the holder of the mortgages—worth, our day, do we find atime of greater mental | by legitimate increase, rather more than it was activity ; and its religions development is fitly | in the first place, but nothing like the figures represented in the sublime teachings of Jesus | it has been sold at. People may suppose that on the Mount and His succinct recapitulation | the owner of the land is none the worse for of the Law and the Prophets—love the Lord | all this, and that it is no harm to any one that thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul, | his property should be declared worth a mil- and thy neighbor as thyself. lion, though it be worth in fact less than Following the parallel we pass throngh the | half that. This is a mistake. These age of mental inactivity and decay which suc- | fictitious values are a real injury; for while ceeded the breaking up of the Roman empire. | they exist only in the brains of the speculators The activity of the Carlomagnian period gave | they affect the assessment of property for the Church @ new strength, but the age was | taxation, and thus impose upon it burdens not equal to the requirements of religious de- | greater than it ought to bear. Commonly it velopment. It possessed none of the ancient | is supposed that the assessment is about half or modern agents of civilization, and religion | the value of the property, but property is run fell back into the darkness of the middle ages. | up in these fancy prices to three and four A period of unusual mental activity appeared | times its real value, and assessments made at in Europe when Charles V. of Germany, | half these prices are necessarily very burden- Francis I. of France and Henry VIII. of Eng- | some. Taxes are sufliciently large by legiti- land aspired to universal rule on that Conti- | mate increase without such addition, and this nent. The influence of the New World and of [| evil should induce some common action in re- the printing press was felt coincidently with gard 'to it on the part of real estate owners. the schemes of these great rulers, and the pro- Lee Sa Rana ra duct of the age was Martin Luther and his fol- lowers. As Moses had sloughed off the accre- tions of Egyptian priestcraft, as Christ had elaborate descriptions of the toilets worn at rejected ‘the accumulated dogmas of the the opening of the Legislative Assembly, and Hebrew schools, as Paul had broken alike the | Of other latest novelties, including the mourn- limited teachings of Hebrew Christianity and | ing costume of the Empress, utters » comical Greek mythology, so the reformers of the six- | CTY of alarm at the tendency towards extreme teenth century cast aside the accumulations “simplicity” of dress in the French capital. which fifteen hundred years had gathered | ‘Things are getting curtailed somewhat too around the pure dogmas of revealed religion. generally. I fear that with our mania for That great work is not yet finished. Tho charades and tableaux vivans we shall, as itis, age has but gathered material and impulse for have ladies illustrating ‘Eve Chased from Para- its accomplishment, and the mental activity dise,’ clothed in nothing but original sin; which results from steam as the common car- | ‘Susannah Before the Elders,’ in nothing but rier of matter, and electricity as that of the | the blush of innocence; “Venus Coming Out products of the mind, points conclusively to a | Of the Waves,’ with nothing but a cross on her higher development of religious teaching and | ck, which, however ‘tasteful, really is too belief. In this development of the future the | Simple.” Our correspondent, however, in sublime moralities of revealed religion will pot previous letters has noted encouraging indfoa- suffer. These have shone forth with a brighter tions that the present ‘‘excessive simplicity’ lustre after those mental attritions which led | ° Parisian fashions is an evil so great that it Moses, Paul and Luther to reject the accumu- will soon prove its own cure. It must be fol- lated errors of their times; and so it will be lowed by a reaction in favor of greater after the age of unparalleled mental excite- modesty, if not less expensivencss, in femi- ment upon which we are now entering shall | Mine attire. have swept away the accumulated follies of our modern Church and schools. Paris Fashions. Our Paris correspondent, in the midst of Ir “Ma” can accomplish eo much for reli- gious toleration in China what may not ‘‘Pa” do when he tries his hand? General Grant Defining ‘His Policy. ents atte It will be seen by our Washington despatches | A Lirtig ror Love.The Jewish Messen- that General Grant is beginning to talk,out | ger is much chagrined at the pitblic exhibition freely and to define his policy on several | made lately in Chicago of the ceremonies at- public questions. Thus he delighted Senator | tending’the conversion of a Christian maiden to Wilson and others by endorsing the constitu- | the Jewish faith, and her marriage the same tional amendment giving the suffrage to all | day in the same synagogue. It ungallantly citizens without regard to color, and expressed | remarks:—‘‘Our space forbids us from en- the wish that the States would ratify it. | larging on the subject of conversion generally, a conversation with General Butler and | or we would place on record the facts of our Genctal Sherman on the Indians he agreed | experience, that where one is converted for with thoge gentlemen that there should be re- | the sake of religion at least one hundred are trenchment jin the management of Indian | made Jews for some marriage speculation.” affairs, and ‘that die Indians should not be | Do allow a little, only a little, for love; for supported as paupefs, He was anxiously | young Israel is composed of such handsome inquiring, too, how the enue could be | fellows that it is no wonder Christian maidens faithfully collected and where {hd diiigulty of | become smitten with them. Better a dinner of so collecting it lay. Upon these and ér ] verkand beans where love is than a stalled subjects, as will be seen by our despatches, | ox and hatred therewith. he talked freely. About the Cabinet, however, he is still reticent. The General denies hav- ing he Mr. McClure, as reported, about not being™s party’ man. His sayings and. togeth doings, and even his looks, are closely come pretty well nt scanned, and a host of atzious inquirers and Duce Foreets Maximiniax.—Orders havé politicians dodge all his movements. The | been issued to the Spanish soldiers in the field curtain begins to rise, although’ the figure of | in Cuba to take no prisoners in arms, but to ® Cabinet officer has not yet been secu: “shoot all.” Tne Ataska Porcuase—A Carts 0% | THe Monaury or Dssr Pavixo.—A Baron Srorck..—The Alaska fraud point of morals is in question between the mittee bave terminated their labors, or rather { Christian Advocate and the Observer, It is théir lack of labor, on the subject entrusted to | ‘Wl about the condition of debtor and creditor them. They tell us in their report anc the Morality of taking advantage of the acknowledge, in fact, that they have not brains bankxupt law. In this matter of paying debts sufficient to fathom the subject. In this stage | Would {not be more appropriate for our reli- of the case we call upou: Baron Stoeckl to pub- | gious es oe lish a card stating how much it cost the Rus- | of how to paY the greatget debt of all—the debt sian government to “shove through” the | ofmature? = . Alaska job. If it cost nothing, then he can Youna Israzt looming up in England. have no objections to stating the fact and | One of them has ju%t won the “‘senior wran- quiet the public. If it took a good percent- | glership” of Cambridge? He is not a member age of the seven million two hundred thousand | of the P. R. dollars, then by his keeping silent we can be ———— assured that where there has been so mach “Warse, WATER EvRRYW UBER, AND NOT A smoke there must have been some fire. Drop to Drink!” cried the , \ncient Mariner. on —_————— “Purim, Purim everywhere, a'0d plenty of ®n Forrtox Conresronpance. — Our wine to drink,” has been the cry th'e past week. tay ltrentng sad tnsceee, ‘Coe tote mn nanan pemtng ont tee’. Des oo from Madrid showed that all onr worst fears sina pipe of hae tig ote may probably bo realized before Spain settles |- Crack Exouisn Yacrts.—In an ther down into « condition of security and content- | colutin we give a letter from Cowes thut \ ment, Our letters from Vienna, Frankfort | have some Interest in the yachting world ia* and Paris, besides the views they presented | view of recent challenges and discussions. of the political situation, were of special value | Our correspondent describes the two boats in so far ae they showed that confidence in | Aline and Cambria—‘‘tho finest specimens of American securities was fcrensing all over | naval architecture among the Englivh Europe. It is thus that the Ifsratn is @ daily | yachte’—-in ® way to satisfy the curiosity map of tits busy life. It is thas from day to | naturally felt to know all about the latter day that in its pages we have a refex of the | especially. It ts noteworthy that this boat is times. being refitted to carry more canvas than That Currain Ratsevo.—McClure pre- hitherto. tended to have to his endorsement of Curtin Tue Cuvron Street Exrension.—Every for a place in the Cabinet the recommendation-| one has been assessed for the extension of of the Governor of Pennsylvania, and that | Church street, and the money has been paid ; gentleman denies having written on the sub- | but what has become of the extonsion? Have ject. McClure was, then, oven more impudent , the olty magnates spent the money and for- than he at first appeared, | gotten the atroet? Ovr Great Nvisances.—Washington Mar- ket is the greatest and the worst. Fulton Market is a good second, and all the ferries Shall There’ be a Smnsh Up of tho Re- ligious Anniversaries ¢ . Some of our cheerful religious contempora- ries have announced that the religious anni- versaries usually held in the month of May in this city are to be discontinued. Further- more, it is authoritatively stated that the Con- ference of the Evangelical Alliance which was to have been holden here next summer, and which would have attracted hither the most celebrated evangelists of. the Protestant Church in the world, has been postponed for another year. This conference no doubt would have been a great affair, the equal, possibly, in its Christian influences, of the grand Catholic Ecumenical Council which.is to be held in Rome in December next. New York is, there- fore, sure to be deprived of the benefits of the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, with all its foreign airs and graces. But how about our own blessed religious anniversaries? Shall we be deprived of them? Shall all the glorious ‘‘Hallelujahs!” and solemn ‘‘Amens!” all-the soul-stirring hymns and psalms, all the bountiful donations for the poor heathen, naked in body and in faith; all the startling tales of missionary labors in the wilds of Africa, among the Caffirs, the Foolahs, the Mandingos, the Fellatahs, the Hottentots, the Bushmen; among the Copts, the Arabs, the Turks; among the Malays, the Himalayas,. the Shemalayas and all the rest of the savage, barbaric, heathen and God-forsaken realms of man and womankind—are all these marvellous narratives, all these donations, all these hymns and psalms, these ‘‘Amens!” and ‘‘Hallelu- jahs!” to say nothing of those ravishing love- feasts which intoxicate and bewilder the body and peril the soul—are all these annual and thyilling exercises to be abol- ished, done for, smashed up forever? Forbid, ye virtuous powers! Forbid it, ye saints who hover over and protect our city from fire and brimstone! Forbid, ye hot-griddled Satanic scamps of the other place, whose market would be glutted with material were our virtuous city to be bereft of the beneficent influences of this annual visita- tion of the parsons and preachers and pious bounty-seekers and romantic tale-bearers from all parts of our wicked land. Seriously, we desire to put a plain question to the American Tract Society, the New York Observer, and such other pious bodies and organs as favor the estoppage of these religious anniversaries. It is this: What will the country clergymen do for subjects and illustrations if they do not visit the metropolis at least once a year— overhaul its wicked places, attend its sinful Black Crook exhibitions, thrill with a view of sin on the flying trapeze, shiveryat the sight of wickedness astraddle of a velocipede—what will they do for subjects and texts with which to startle the righteous of their home congre- gations unless they come here once a twelve- month and see what pramtks Satan is kicking up, what temptations he is holding out, what mischief he is playing generally among the good, the bad, the virtuous and the demor- alized in this profligate but magnificent city? During the coming time for the annual meet- ings, too, the politicians may all be in a broil about the offices under the new administration of General Grant; and here will be a fine fleld for the observation of our Christian brethren from a distance. And another thing—what about the clergymen’s and deacons’ wives and daughters, who, unless they attended these anniversaries, would probably never behold this great city in the whole course of their lives? Shall they be denied the pleasure of a yisit here to gee the fashions 7 >-. into the dry goods palaces, peer Tato its regal Thaber- dasheries, observe how our city belles behave on the promenade, in the Park drive, at the opera—for they must go there, just to see the wickedness of it, you know—attend our fash- fonable churches, and while their papas and mammias are drinkitg in the exhilarating syl- lables of # sparkling, champagne-like sermon, they, their darling daughters, are observing the style, the pattern and the textile in the next pew, or listening enraptured to the be- witching trills of the angelic cantatrice in the choir‘above ? No, no. It will never do to smash up these religious anniversaries. They are as much a necessity to the city as the city is a necessity to the clergymen who attend them. So let them come on—we're armed! Grand Opera and Opera Bouffe in New York. Successful enterprise in New York is sure to provoke excessive competition. Thus a legion of competitors soon followed in the wake of the neyly-launched New York Hzraxp, but only to sink, gne after another, into the deep waters of failure aid gblivion, Thus, also, what is called “Shi revival” is no sooner an- nounced, with a fair prospect of success, at one theatre, than the managers of almost all the other theatres hasten to rival or to burlesque it. The introduction of French opéra bouffe jato this country by Bateman, under the most favorable auspices, tempted Grau and Pike and Fisk, Jr., into the same field of golden promise, All the minor theatres, and even every negro minstrel hall, speedily echoed the music of Offenbach. Then English burlesque companies, each with its bevy of blonde beau- ties, invaded the New York stage, until there is scarcely a theatre in town where the can- can, that dubious accompaniment of the opéra bougfe, is not nightly exhibited. The whole thing was so much overdone that a reaction was inevitable. Bateman shrewdly retired. Pike transferred his Opera House to Fisk, Jr., and Fisk, Jr., absolutely shut up shop a week or two ago. Grau has at length been left in undisturbed possession of opéra bougfe proper. Determined as he is to ‘fight it out on that line,” he has rescued opéra bouffe from the languishing state into which it was beginning to fall, even ‘at the French Theatre in Fourteenth street, p,¥ Feproducing “Genevitve de Brabant” and by _ taking preparations to bring out two new and , ‘plendia novelties, ‘‘Chilperic” and ‘‘La Vie Par. 4sionne.” By skilfully alternating the ata stions of the well-selected pieces in his repertor ‘y Grau will doubtless succeed in perman ently e. stablishing opéra bouffe, saving it from the fate °° which it has been exposed by over-competits. ™ He will, moreover, in accordance with » original programme, favor the public with Several choice opiras comiques. The latest attempt to res New York has thus fax pt vive grand opera in ved to bee more signal failure than at any previous season. Much silly indignation was excited by our pre- dictions that a neglect to profit by our advice to secure the very best operatic artists would infallibly lead to precisely such a deplorable result. Our advice was not heeded and our — predictions have been verified. It is now un- likely that even Miss Kellogg, with all the prestige of her triumphs in England, and more recently in the Great West, can do more than galvanize to a semblance of life the poor, pale corpse of Italian opera. Mr. Max Strakosch announces, however, that he has made arrangements for the appearance of Miss Kellogg in a few ‘farewell operatic represen- tations” at the Academy of Music. She will appear to-morrow evening in ‘‘Faust,” and will be heartily welcomed by her numerous admirers, Independence of Cuba—Movements in Con- erens. Mr. Sherman submitted a resolution in the Senate yesterday to authorize the recognition of the independence of Cuba, by giving autho- rity to the President, whenever, in his opinion, Cuba shall have established an independent government de facto, according to the laws of nations, to recognize her independence. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. A movement tending to the same object was made in the House of Representatives the day before and referred. ‘This all shows that Congress is watching with interest the revolution in Cuba, and believes there is a prospect of the Cubans acquiring their independence. We hope these move- ments will be followed up, so that the revolu- tionists may be encouraged by the moral sup- port of our government, and that the bloody horrors now threatened by the Spaniards may be averted. In a geographical, commercial and political point of view Cuba belongs to our American system. Her people and their trade and interests are more identified with the United States than with Spain. The time is coming when all America must be detached from the European governments, and no fair opportunity should be lost to forward that des- tiny. Upon every principle of sound policy and humanity the people of this country must feel deeply interested in the Cuban revolution and fate of Cuba. A Tyng Case in the West. A case somewhat resembling that with which the name of Stephen H. Tyng will be lastingly associated has occurred in the West. It ap- pears that certain religious societies of Chicago invited Assistant Bishop Cummins, of Ken- tucky, to visit Chicago and eddress them. Bishop Cummins having signified his willing- ness to comply with the request, Bishop White- house, of Illinois, thereupon wrote him, dis- suading him from making the intended visit and addresses, and characterizing the societies on whose behalf he was to appear as schismatical and soon. Cummins replied that as he had accepted the invitation he could not abide by any dictation of Whitehouse. Whitehouse then entered his protest, giving notice thereof to Bishop Smith, the colleague of Cummins. Cummins would submit to no dictation, and accordingly last Sunday he appeared in Chi- cago and preached morning and evening. The entire correspondence has since been pub- lished, but there, for the present, the matter rests. What will Whitehouse do? Consider- ing the recent Tyng case, the present lively struggle in the Catholic Church at Auburn and this little matter among the Episcopalians in Chicago, it really appears very doubtful whe- tner Eplacopai jurisdiction is a lasting possi- bility on American soil. The love of liberty is strong among this people, and it is too highly prized, to be given up in exchange for anything whith the Church can offer. When -% among themselves how bishops cannot agree |”... authority? The can the people respect the ~., old commandment was, ‘‘Go ye fato ol 1 world and preach the Gospel to every ¢/4a- ture.” The new commandment is, ‘‘Keep out of my preserves.” This mean, contemptible spirit of jealousy is a disgrace to the Christian - OR 1 a Appreciation of the National Credit. The sudden and rapid improvement in the price of United States securities in the foreign market is one of the noteworthy events of tha hour, The rise in their price has been as much as seven per cent within a few weeks, and the margin between their value and par, when ‘the difference in exchange is taken inte consideration, ranges from twelve to fifteen cent. This advance has been succeeded by a rapid advance in the home market, the curious feature of the matter being the promptitude of the foreign price to ascend while the home price has merely followed. The question arises, have we been all this time ignorant or diffident of our own capacity ana) abilities? Are we really more solvent than some of our politicians would have us be- lieve? Certainly the answer which comes to us from the long-headed capitalists of Europe is very reassuring on these points. These men are not likely to make mistakes. They have calculated deliberately and calmly upon all the chances before investing their millions. That the rise abroad is no temporary specula- tive movement is evidenced in the fact thatthe price has continued to go up in the face of enormous shipments. When the demand is thus met it is generally the rule that prices yield, But nearly forty millions of dollars’ worth of bonds have gone to Europe during the pre- sent month, and the price yesterday, the last day of the month, was the bighest it has ever been. Doubtless, while we have been wrangling and quarrelling over reconstruction and like political questions since the end of the war, Europe has been quietly taking notes of us. Outsiders oftentimes see more of the game than the players, and so European moneyed men have made up their minds that, despite our large taxes and our heavy debt, we are both able and willing to settle all back scores. Hence the demand for our bonds, which pay a ‘rate of interest largely greater than that which capital is able to earn in the Old World. ‘To confirm the belief that their investment is a prudent one comes the admin- istration of General Grant, with its platform of retrenchment, economy and reform. The country is evidently on the eve of # period of unparalleled prosperity, and nobody knows it better than the foreign capitalist. We shalt not say nay to their purchase of our debts. To many Ananoiors it seems bad policy to pay such