The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1869, Page 6

— _——— NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York SERVICES 10-DAyY. = » NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1960—TRIPLE SHEET. ; groater deatruction to | right and good, and if the rosulta of our Friday afternoon caused crops and other property than was at drat supposed. The damage to vinoyards t# tmmense, aud most of those in the vicinity of Wheeliag are utterly rained. struggle in their grandeur are on a scale sur- passing the grandeur of the war itself, the Sheep and lamba were killed in the feld, and many | Preservation of our national cemeteries and Persons were seriously injured by the falling ball | their annual decoration with flowers, accom- stones. ‘The botler of the paper mill of W. B. Mullin & Sona, at Mount Holly Springs, Pa., burst last night. Two Mien are supposed to be fatally injured. The damage to the mili ia estimated at $5,000. A party of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians attacked the Scandinavian colony, near Lake Sibley, Kansas, on the 26th inat., Killing five men, Several families on the Republican river have been murdered re- cently by the Indians, and great excitement pre- vails amoug the settlers. ‘Thomas Bond Onton, & survivor of the war of 1812 and one of the garrison of Fort McHenry when that work was bombarded by the British in 1814, died in Baltimore on Friday. Grain of all kinds ts very scarce tn the valley of the Ottawa, Canada, and agents have been sent BRULAM PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHURCH. —Ecvre. | abroad to purchase seed for the use of the farmers. Jaues & Mares, Morning and alteravon. CURIS® CHURCH, Broo! Boning. . xis Miss(ox any MERTING. CHURCH CLLLATION. Rev, Porter. Ki OF THE RECON Dr. vening. CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR. Rey. J. M. POLLMAN Morning aud evening. COOPER INSTITUTE. Fare Puxscuixa, and evening, CHURCH OF THE ASU Ivening. Morning SION.—Peee SER CHAPEL OF THE ATONEMEN?. M.D. D. Surrm Morning afd evening. . CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Large Chupel, Univer: sliy. Rey, Dx. DREMS, Morning aud evening. CUURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—"xy, Avcorr Brows. Mocoing and afteraoon. EVERETY ROOMS.—Sriztruatisrs Mus. BaioHan. Morning and evening. FORTY -SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning and eventug. FREY CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.Rey. Eass- BURN BENJAMIN, Morning and evening. JORN STRELT-METHODTS Rey. W.P.Coxprr. Morn! POPAL CHURCH. — MORRAY HILL BAPTIST COURCH. wer A. Conn’. Morning and eve: SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rry. De. Ruwiiscuaw Morning and evening. SI. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. —Morning— Rrv. De. Pacce, Evening—Rev. De. Hianer, Rev. Du. Sip- ST, LUKE'S M. EB. CHURCH. MoGuINToos. Evening—Rev. 6. TRENOR'S LYRIC HALL, 6th ay. between dist and 424 te Bev. 0. B. PRormNoiiaw. “Morning. Morning—Rev. Joun . Fosret, thawenry.POURTH STREET M. E. CHURCH.—-Rav. evening. ZRSITY, Washington square.—Brasor = Sxow, tlonsi—pxsanist CHURCH, Greenpoint.—Krv. ALS. Resolsip. Aficrnoou. TRIPLE SHE New York, Sunday, May 30, 1869. HB NEWS. Europs. ‘The cable telegrams are dated May 29, At a meeting of the London Jockey Ciub yesterday SirJoseph Hawley’s motion to prohiit the racing of two-year olds before the Ist of July was lost, and Bir. Forrester’s resolution fixing the date the Ist of May was adopted. Mr. Peabody left Liverpool yes- ferday by the Scotia for this country. The abolition of patent laws was discussed inthe Brilish Parlla- ment fast aight. ‘The appointment of General Cavatiero de Rodas to be Captain General of Cuba was oftictuily announced yesterday by the Garela Oflela! of Madrid. It is rue mMored that a new ministry will shortly be formed to hold in office until October, when the sovereignty question will be settled. A number of oMtcers have been arrested for conspiring to restore Queen Isa- della. Ii bas been announced by the Ggivin! Journal of Paris tha rumors regarding the evacuation of | French troops from Rome aro without foundation. Mr. Buriingaine and Minister wburne yesterday entertame! Gencral Dix in a farewell banquet at the Grand Hotel. General Pix dines with tue Emperor noxt Thursday. Jules Favre has been defeated, but Will contest the election of his opponent Cuba. xecounts state tuat Va y the thaurgents und ay Revolitiv ° ral n out of Baynuio. A severe near Puer dire on the ef Spaniards carrying provt- sions to were compe of the town great vict defeated with great loss and to give up their designs for the reliet The insurgents clatu this as another They have determined to keep the Spaniaras on the seaboard, and thus el the suc. render of the inland towns by starving them out. Coal ta getting scarce in Havana and the govern. ment will probably layan embargo on aii in the isiand, Two hundred Spanish troops have died of cholera, and most of the remainder are reported Bhoeless an] discontented. Paraguay. ‘The intelligence by the Atlantic cable relative to Paraguayan atairs ia to the effect that the Count Eu had taken command and was moving upon Lopez, | lar change in value, Hay is worth forty dotiars @ ton and straw twenty dollars, The City. An ex-member of the poltee foree, who was dis- missed & year or more ago, attempted to club Super- intendent Kennedy at the Central Omce yesterday morning. He struck Kennedy once over the skoul- der, and was then seized by oMcer Webb. On being taken to the Tombs he was committed in default of $500 bail. The blow was not heavy enough to lay the Superintendent up for any length of time, but was probably paintul enough to produce a reform in the general management of clubs among the present members of the force. The first meeting of the Prospect Park air Grounds Association closed yesterday with two capital races, the last being @ trot, best three heats In five, in harness, for $5,000, in which Ameri- can Girl, Lucey, Bashaw, Jr; Rhode Island, Gola- smith Maid and George Wilkes took part. The race was won by American Girt tt three gtraight heats, her best time heing 2:21, Tbe investigation into the circumatances of the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Dorr Clark, of West Fifty- first street, which was called for by her slater, who suspected poisoning, extended no further than re- ceiving the statement of Dr. Sears and the other physicians who attended the deceased. From this statement it appears that her treatment was the re- sult of consuitation, and a post mortem examination made twenty-one hours after death, exhibited no evidences of foul piay. The Coroner after receiving this statement declined to continue the investigation any farther, ‘The stock market yesterday was strong for the general railway, but trreguiar in some features. Gold sold as high as 140%{. but closed finally at 13024. The aggregate amount of busineas consummated in commercia! circies yesterday was only moderate, though there was considerabie activity in some arti- cles. Coffee was in fair request, but at lower pri Cotton was in good demand, and the petter grades, which were most inquired for, were ‘gc. higher, the market closing at 20¢c. for middling upland. On ‘Change flour was quiet but firm. Wheat was in fair demand and a shade firmer. Cora was dull and nom- inal for both old and new, Oats were quict and heavy. Pork was slow of sale but firmly heid, while lard was active and about 4c. higher and beef quiet but steady. Naval stores were dnl but without particu. Petroleum was active but crude closing at 121s¢, @ i4e., in bulk, and re- Preights were active and very firm. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Parker, of the United States Army; Sena- tor C. Cole, ot Washington; Colone! Squires of Lion, N. Y., and General Schooler, of Bostou, are at the Astor House. Major Gibbs, of the United States Artay; Washing- ton Lee, Jr., of Baltimore, and W. A, Griswold, of Philadelphia, are at the Hoffman House. his advance being within nine mites of the latter, and a battle was imminent. It t4 stated, however, in Rio Janeiro that Lopez's wuereahonts are uncer- tam aud that Minister dicMahon has vo! oeen heard from, Miscellaneons. ‘The ceremony of decorating the soldiers’ graves at Arington, Va., attracted an imincnse throng to the National Cemetery at that point yesterday. ‘The public departments in Washington and many of the placesof business were closed for the Occasion. Colonel Fisber delivered the oration. In Boston, /hiiadejphia and other cities the day was iso observed by the closing of many of the public offices, the nalf-masting of fags and the firing of minute guns. The same ceremonies will be per- formed (n this city to-day, and in Brooklyn on Mon- day. ‘The removal of General Emory from the position of Commandant of the Soldiers’ Home, at Wasbing- ton, was ordered because the law says a retired ‘Ofiicer unfit for active service alone shall hold it. Besides, General Sherman, it 1s said, objected to an able bodied oMcer and a fighting soldier like Emory Dr. J. R. Tryon, of the United States Army; Nelson Tibbitts, of Boston, and Congressman W. 8. Allison, of lowa, are at the Brevoort Honse. Captain J, Doliver, of Boston, is at the Weat- moreland Hotel, F. Garcia, of Peru, and Hammond Alien, of Leeds, England, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Captain T. B. Gale, of Rochester; Colonel Whitson, of Chicago: Dr. J. ©. Eulis, of Schenectady; Colonel SW. Leigh, of New York, and Colonel W. H. Clemens, of Vermont, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major Frank Tayler, of the United States Army; J. V. MeCorinick, of San Francisco, and Colonel Sydnor, of Texas, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army, and Captain R. T. Donaldson, of Toronto, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Dr. A, Casanova, of Cuba, and J. it. Key, of Mary- land, are at tha New York Hotel. Prominent Departures. M. B. Champlaita ana Judge Anabdie, for Albany: General Boruside, for Rhode Island; Senator Cas- serly aud D. 0. Milis, of Califoraia, for San Fran- cisco, by the overiand route. The Decoration of Oar Soldier” Graves— The Holy Day and the Holy Caaye. Such graves ns theirs are pligrim Shrines to no code or creed & The Delplian Vales, the Palest ‘The Mecca of the mind. This Sabbath day, for its extraordiuary and | beantifally appropriate religions services, in this Metropolitan district, and in numerons places throughout the State and the United States, in the decoration of the graves of those patriotic soldiers and sailors of the Union who died that the nation might live, will crown in history the pyramid of the battles of the war and its glorious victories with wreaths of roses and garlands of immortelles. This beautiful idea, if we mistake not, originated with our erring Southern sisters of the “lost cause,” in their floral offerings to their fallen heroes. Adopted by the Union fraternity from the war of the Grand Army of the Republic, they have given it the dignity of a national celebration, The ceremonies, in some places, came off yes- terday, and in others they have been post- poned till to-morrow; but the general observ- ance of this pious festival will be on this holy day. The unity which otherwise would doubt- less have marked the occasion has been some- what marred by the objections of over-right- eous Pharisees with their profane notions of Fomalaing out of the field, and he will probably be | “the desecration of the Sabbath.” But as oc eee ne SOGve merviog On RO 1 Hg, this charge from the Pharisees the Divine Miss Pene’ope Adkins, of Atlanta, Ga., pnotiahesa | Founder of Christianity Himself did not stirring appeal to the people of th jate and of the | escape, nothing more need here be said nation for justice and retribution upon the clan that | upon this branch of our subject, except that murdered her father, the State Senator Adkins, Sue says no one had any personal enmity against him and he was murdered because he was a republican. ‘The murderers are well known avd can be named, but no step has been taken to bring them to justice. Albert Tyler, a negro who murdered Pauline Hub- bard, 9 negress, in Richmond (Va.) in February last by poisoning her was executed in that city yester- day. He went to his doom singing praises to heaven and declaring that @ crown of glory awaited him. On the scaffold he gave out a hyma which some of the negroes joined him in singing. When the rope fell his neck was broken and le died withouta struggie. In North Carolina three negroes were to have been hung on Friday, but they were respited, ‘one of them early in the day and the other two after the ropes were adjusted tapout their necks, and just os the Sheriff was ready to spring the trap. ‘The New England Woman's Clu held a meeting fm Chickering Hall, Boston, yesterday. Mere. ©. M. Severance presided, and the occasion was devoted t0 discussions on horticulture project being broached to establish horticultural echoots for young gitls—titerature, art, lectares, social reform, and other matters not allied to politics or snitrage. The Coliseum, tn which the Boston Peace Javilee is to be held, has been thoroughly examined as ‘to strength and capacity, by prominent engineers, and pronounced satisfactory. Admiral arragnt a en. eral Sherman have accepted invitations to be pres- Ont at the Jubilee, “the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” Yes, we may say that as during the war it was the highest religion of onr soldiers and sailors to march, dig trenches, build forts, prepare for battle, and | fight on the Sabbath, there can be no better day than this for these religious offerings by their | surviving comrades to the memory of those | ) many? who will move upon the perilous edge of battle no more. We may say, too, that as the rank and file of our army and navy were largely made up from the workingmen of the country, the selection of the Sabbath for this peculiar form of thanksgiving is good in re- gard to the interests of our working classes so deeply interested in these ceremonials. It bas been suggested heretofore from various quarters that it would be wise on our part to follow the examples of other nations, past and still existing, in regard to their civil sletters to the people? panied with religious rites, cannot be wrong. Nor can we consistently blend the dead of the opposing army in these rites, But in their graves, if we cannot forget, we may at least forgive them, and in this spirit kindly in- dulge the men and women ofthe ‘lost cause,” not as politicians or rebels, but as men and women, in all harmless manifestations over their lost children and brethren. The registered dead of the Union armies, in summing up the coats of our Southern rebel- lion, exceed three hundred thousand men, cut off in the vigor of their youth or manhood. Their cemeterios mark the bloody and fiery trails of the war through the Southern States, beginning at Arlington Heights, within cannon shot across the Potomac from the President's House. On Arlington Heights, the pro- perty of General Lee in the beginning of the war, a graveyard of many thousands of Union soldiers received especial honors yesterday from General Grant. The special feature of the occasion at this place was the decoration of the monument under which lie the remains of two thousand heroea marked ‘‘unknown.” Thence we follow one or two lines of populous cemeteries through Eastern Virginla down to Richmond, including Bull Run, Culpepper, Fredericksburg and ihe Richmond peninsula. Thence down through the Carolinas on the trail of Sherman into the heart of Georgia, from which, branching off to the southward, we halt at Andersonville, the most melancholy graveyard of them all, with its thirteen thou- sand victims of imprisonment, torture, ex- posure, disease and starvation. Thence north- ward throngh Georgia we go along a line of national cemeteries, culminating in the large one at Chattanooga, in the gateway through which ‘‘the confederacy” was broken to pieces. Thence through Tennessee and Ken- tucky, and thence across West Virginia to the Shenandoah Valley, and down it to Harper's Ferry, from which point, diverging to Antietam and Gettysburg, we finish a circuit of some two hundred thousand of the Union dead. Missouri and the line of the Mississippi, Ala- bama, Louisiana and Texas will very nearly supply another hundred thousand. There they lie along those terrible lines of the war—those cities of the Union dead, whites and blacks, natives and foreign born, with very few exceptions, more populous than the cities of living men in any one of the Southern States in which these cemeteries mark the sallent points of the struggle. For instance, within each of the great cemeteries at Frodericksburg, Richmond, Atlanta, Chat- tanooga, Nashville and Vicksburg, lie be- tween twenty and. thirty thousand Union soldiers, known and ‘‘unknown.” At all or nearly all the cemeteries along these in- dicated lines of the war there will be to- day the tributary offerings appointed by the Grand Army of the Republic. Through- out the South, no doubt, the emanci- pated blacks will enter most heartily into the work; for they comprehend at least the main issue. Of ‘‘liberty, equality and fra- ternity,” settled by the war, they have reason to rejoice as much in General Grant as in their liberator Lincoln; and they are an enthu- siastic race. We dare say, however, that the patriotic celebration in this city and along the | line of march through Brooklyn to Cypress Hills Cemetery will be the most imposing and the most impressive of any of the catalogne within the limits of the republic. It ought to be the crowning glory of that series of great events which began with the grand Union mass meeting ia Union square in 1861, and which fixed the heart of the mighty North for the salvation of the country against tho most formidable rebellion in the records of the humaa race. A Case 1N Port.—It is a timely ques- tion whether this government shall be- eome a general agent to investigate at the bidding of Spain the destination of all ships leaving our ports. We can present one rea- son against the entrance of the government into that line. This is iis utter incapacity todo the business well, Witness the case of the Quaker City. Government had decided that she was a filibuster, and kept her in sight from the deck of a gunboat a ridiculous time. Finally she proved to be no filibuster. Wuenx?—The people of this side the world have connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by continuous rail. When will the people of the Old World connect the same oceans in the game way at their side? Tuat Postwaster.—Some of “ithe people of Macon” object to the color of the postmaster furnished them by Grant. Certainly the reasons given for the appointment of a negro to that place are very bad ones. It is said to have been done to punish the people, because of the murder of Union men, &c. We do not see that the punishment is proper or likely to be effec- tive, nor does it seem just that the appointing power should be made use of in that way at all. When a postmaster is appointed with a view to “punish” a district is it meant that the punish- ment shall be a complete failure to deliver their If so, what becomes of the intention to administer the government efi- ciently and honestly? But is there any real objection to this postmaster from the real people of Macon? On the contrary, is not Macon proper well satisfied with him, and does not all the protestation come from the radi- cal carpet-baggers who went South, becoming radicals and carpet-baggera simply to get all tho offices, and have been disappointed iw Bes Borier's latest political programme is very simple. He bullies the President and gets whatever he wants, Has not that bottle changed places ? Grimes’ saying in England that the conduct of men in the British Embassy here had much | to do with the rejection of the Alabama treaty has. naturally made quite a flutter in the imbassy, and the attach’s are all wondering what they could have sald or done. Perhaps wars, by casting the veil of forgetfulness over the heroes, the achievements, battle flelds and graveyards of our great rebellion, But this for generations to come cannot be done. This great war of ours willoutlive the Pyramids, The bail storm which visited West Virginia on | and, moreover, If the cause of the Union was | they went around Washington enjoying the English shrewdnoss that had so jockeyed old Reverdy and dined and wined the poor old fellow ont of his senses, Porhaps they could not conceal their clatioa at such an easy suey cass. ‘Tho War tm Cuba—A Now Captain Geuoral. From Havana, by way of Key West, and Madrid, by way of London, we have the im- portant special cable telegrams which appear in our columns to-day reporting the progress of the Cuban revolution, the latest actions which have taken “place between the patriot forces and the Spaniards, the condition and prospects of the regulars, with the change of policy and executive colonial rule necessitated in Madrid by the tenor of the despatches from the seat of war. The conflict continues with unabated vigor. The filibuster volunteers who landed from the Salvador were immediately marched to the scene of action, and it must be noted in connection with their arrival that a British war vessel joined the Spanish oruisers in their attempt to seize the Salvador on her retura. Men, arms, ammunition, clothing and food had reached the bay of Nipo in safety, and the Cubans had completed the erection of an eight gun battery, fully armed, which com- mands the entrance to its waters, so as to pro- tect sympathizing strangers and sweep off enemies, The range of the gunsand accuracy of the gunners were immediately tested on a Spanish war steamer which attempted to enter the bay, but was compelled to retire with her hull pierced in two places. Steaming to the port of Manati for assistance, she was there reinforced by a gunboat, took a number of soldiers on board, and returned to Nipe, where a regular engagement took place, at the close of which the Spaniards were landed, and, hav- ing made a detour from the line of march first indicated, suddenly seized these guns, the filibusters being apparently compelled to aban- don the battery. It was only in appearance, however, for they returned in double quick time, made a magnificent charge with the bayonet, retook the cannon, and drove out the inva- ders, killing forty-five and wounding one hundred of their men—a very sharp action, and attended with important present results, Fire being continued from the Spanish steamer the position was endangered for a time by conflagration, but the defenders succeeded in saving the war material and guns. Foreigners took a prominent part in the command of the Cuban van as well as in the ranks, the Spaniards revenging themselves sadly by instantly shooting one of them, a Prus#ian, when a prisoner in their hands. Other en- gagements, of equal severity, followed, at- tonded with results almost similar, after which the Spaniards were forced to give up the attempt of provisioning Tufias, forced to forward their wounded to Nuevitas and sound a retreat to Puerto Padre. They were there joined by one thousand of their com- rades, under General Ferrer, who has as- sumed the chief command of the Spainards, The war will be waged to the bjtter end, as the Cubans are jubilant, united, active, generally healthy, and battling for their homes, national liberty, individual security and free hearths, Valmaseda has been driven from Bayamo by Marmol, and even his capture is reported. How long will this war continue? How will it result, in the desolation and barbarism ofa magnificent territory, or its freedom ? Such questions interest the American people to an extent nearly equal to that in which they inter- est Spain, and this, as we know and are told from Madrid, is to an extent almost vital to the country. Changes have been made in the government of the island. Captain Gen- eral Dulce has been relieved at his own request, and General Cabellaro de Rodas, Director General of Artillery and at one time a royalist commander, appointed in his place. General Dulce is in ill health. We are not at all surprised at this, in view of the scenes by which he has been of late surrounded. He has seen the Spanish soldiers dying off with cholera by the hundred, in want of food and uniforms, shoeless in many instances and discontented in all. He was unable to supply the demands of the commis- sariat, coal could not be had for the com- plete working of the navy, and the provisional government had decreed the abolition of the slave trade. The office, thus embarrassed, impoverished and dangerous, is scarcely of value to a Spaniard of the old school. So Dulce leaves at a moment most critical as to the future of the island. Can General de Rodas, a man of iron will, save it to Spain ? We doubt it. Disarmina THe Dominton.—A despatch from Montreal states that the English govern- ment has ordered the colonial officers to for- ward home all the arms and ammunition ‘“‘ab- solutely” in store in the province. What's the matter now? Is the supply in the Tower of London failing, or is Canada to either fight her own battles or be left ‘“‘defepceless to the enemy ?” Cuxatixa Workine Womey.—Another case against certain parties charged with defraud- ing poor sewing girls is likely to occupy the attention of the courts. This time it occurred in Lispenard street, and, as alleged, is a very paltry transaction, a sewing girl's small pay being refused after a hard week's work because of some trivial defect or some soil on the goods. It is in cases like this that women’s rights are infringed upon, and not in keeping them from the ballot box. If the ladies who attend women’s rights conventions and thunder from the stump about the fran- chise and the ballot would devote a little more of their attention to their poor working sisters, who cannot make a speech at all, but are struggling to make an honest livelihood, would not the condition of the working women, and women generally, be better? A Sinister Acorpent.—It is said that a lady who was riding home from a women's rights meeting drove her wagon furiously over her husband and injured him seriously. It looks suspicious for the influences she had imbibed from the meeting of the strong- minded that this accident should have oceurred just at that critical time, Was she inspired with the idea that rough riding the male sex in this fashion was one of women's rights? \ Dreavrut.—Sanford, Minister to Belgium. has resigned the post he holds because he failed to get anovaer, Now we hear that unless he “cay te induced to withdraw his resignation” fhe government will have to ap- point Some one to his place, and the country ‘i lose the incalculable bonefit of his ser- | vices. The alternative is too awful for human and patriotic contomplatien, The Boligious Mevemente of tho Age. ‘Tis @ strange world we live in, my maa- tera.” Very. It has always been so. It was so from Adam to Noah, from Nosb to Moses, from Moses to Jesus Christ. It was #0 also from Christ to Luther. It has been so from Luther tothe present time. To judge from Present appearances it becomes a stranger world every day. True politically, scientific- ally, socially, this is especially true religiously. From a religious point of view, when did the world present such a spectacle as it does at the present moment? In Europe all is excite- ment because of religion, In Great Britain religion is absorbing all political effort and enterprise. The Irish Church is at least as big a question as the Alabama claims. Re- ligion has found its annual focus in Edinburg, and Exeter Hall, London, ‘‘brays” as loudly as it. did in the days of Lord Macaulay. Itis more or less the same allover the European Continent. Protestant Germany is excited because of the friendly re- lations which are known to exist between the Court of Berlin and the see of Rome. Catholic Germany is indignant because of Papal stub- bornness, and looks forward with something like holy horror to the approaching Ecumeni- cal Council, believing that the object of said Council is torob it of its liberties, fanatical’ sectarians multiply in Russia, and all over Euro- pean Turkey the inroads of Christian mission- aries are said to be alarming. Religion makes some stir in Spain, and Italy is a hotbed of re- ligious strife. The Holy Father, looking abroad upon the wide and troubled sea, pours oil upon the waters in the shape of plenary indulgences and gladdens the hearts of all good Catholics by encouraging the belief that they are tle most blessed of all mankind. On this side how is it? We have or have had all the societies in full blast. The Presbyterians, still with us, are attempting a great workin the shape of reunion. The most bellicose of all the sects thus seem to have caught inspiration from the words of President Grant, and are going in for union and peace. The Free Reli- gionists and the Shakers have had meetings in Boston, and if the latter have not convinced the world of the sins of the flesh and of the holiness of celibacy the former have given us some encouragement to look forward to another great religious reformation. No one can reflect on the various religious movements of the day without coming to the conclusion that in spite of union tendencies, Ecumenical Councils, plenary indulgences and broad Boston platforms, the spirit of true religion is rather weak all over Christendom. Love of change is everywhere. A passion for something new controls the universal heart, Out of all the fuss ft is difficult to know what is to come. Ove thing alone is clear: the Churches, one and all, from that of Rome downward, but imperfectly understand the characteristics and irresistible tendencies of the times. They seem all to be groping in the dark. Not one section of the Church recognizes the existence of that modern spirit which exists on the majesty of reason, which demands evidence, which despises human dogmas. The Protes- tants have learned little if anything since the days of Luther and Henry VIII, and the Pope’s last circular is as medixval as any circular could be. We cannot accept the Boston platform of the Free Religionists. It is too much like Noah's ark, which was filled with all manner of clean and unclean animals, Noah's ark, it is true, was useful for a time. So, also, was this Free Religionist platform. But what is to come after the deluge it is really difficult to say. The progress of true religion, from all we can seo, must be more dependent on the newspaper, upon the railroad, upon the elec- tric telegraph, than upon the preachers or any Church power. The world does seem to have outgrown the Church, and it remains yet very doubtful whether the Church is able to adapt herself to the new and arbitrary conditions under which she is placed. We move on. We cannot wait. If the Churches will not follow they must perish, one and all. Ayxa Ditok'Nson wants us to find her three aldermen or three legislators to compare in intellect with Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermore. Now, this is the justice of woman. Why will they always compare the worst of one side with the best of the other? Why endeavor to rival from the least intellectual class of men tho most tremendously intellectual and unanswer- able of all women? Oh, Anna! do you call this ‘‘nothing unreasonable?” Again, Anna wants us to furnish an editor or reporter who for wit or satire can compare with Olive Logan. We decline. We cannot do it. We know the utterly incomparable character of that wit and that satire. We have read ‘‘Chateau Frisac.” As Was Expxori Greeley’s ‘‘ Political Economy” is printed. It contains but one thing new, and this is the dis- covery that the present condition of Turkey is due to the fact that they have no “‘ protection” there. Native industry is not ‘‘protected.” Therefore there is no native industry. There- fore the country is what it is. Pod — 4 Kexrtre Ur Over Diaxtty.—Our dignity, nationally speaking, is kept up well under Grant. Government detains a ship in our ports atthe bidding of one foreign Minister till compelled to let her depart at the bidding of another foreign Minister. Thus, between these two foreign Ministers as battiedoora our dignity is “kept up” like a shuttlecock. Wurere 1s Groras ?—We hope Mr. Bancroft will be on hand in the company of the gentle. men who are to protest to the Prussian govern- ment against the imposition of » tax of one per cent on foreign bonds. It is especially desir- able for us that our bonds should be within the reach of small investers whore they are in such favor as in Germany, and the tax will rule them out of the German market, Bont Racing In the Navy. We commend the suggestions of Admiral Porter in favor of cultivating boat racing in the crews and offi of the navy and fitting out our war vessels with fast boats, This branch of the public service requires in the physique of its attach plenty of muscle, and it would do them ‘0 harm at all to onliivate « spirit of ri- Vaify in oarsmanship, not only among them- selves but with forgiga navies. —The first chapter of | Admiral { Porter says well won he suggests that lf thay Se ae een | bo usoful to get up boat races abroad botwoon our crows and those of foreign vessels, in order that we may learn the speed of their boats and the power of their muscle. Athletic sports are justas needed to develop the frame of the sailor as the landsioan, and while the students of our universities and those of England take great pride in excelling in oaramanship there is still better reason why our gallant tars should receive every encouragement in per- fecting that splendid science. A puny officer, says the Admiral, ‘can never efficiently lead boarders or repel them.” All the more easen- tial, then, that our midshipmen should be trained to manly sports until their muscles become like iron; and what sport is better fitted to that purpose or more appropriate than boat racing ? WASHINGTON, May 29, 1869. Sherman Out-Gonorals a Wire-Working OM- cer—Govornorship of the Soldiers? Homo— General Emory Disuppointed. OMicers of the regular army stationed here givo General Sherman the credit of petng an essentially practical soidier, All his military ideas, they aay, are of the most practical kind, notwithstanding what has been sald by politicians to the contrary. Sherman loves his country, hates politicians, and has uo respect fof oMcers who receive the pay of the government while shirking their duty. Few things could more favorably tilustrate the truth of this than his recent action in the case of General Emory, which has caused such @ flutter among military men in this District, Emory had set his heart on the governorship of the Soidiera’ Home, a delightful retreat, where everything ts soft an@ breezy, and on which nature has bestowed beauties of the rarest kind. It was just such @ position as @ soldier of a quict turn of mind, with not the siignteat taste for the turmoil and danger incl- dent to life on the plains, where Indians were on the warpath, would sigh for, Emory sighed for tt, and, what was more, received it, through a plece of manceuvering not exactly understood here, but which it ta supposed Commissary General Faton, Surgeon General Barnes and Adjutant Generat Townsend could explain, if they would. In short, Sherman himse!f signed a document which wae nothing short of a recommendation of Emory as & soldier, not supposing, however, that it was to be used in securing him the snug little appointment of go delight a retreat as the Soldiers’ Home. No sooner was Sherman's attention called to thls matter, through the columns of the Hs#Ratp, than he went to thinking, examining the laws governing the Soldiers’ Home, and setting himaeif right. Emory was a soldier in robust healta, found On examination to be sound in wind and limb, and, it is to be heped, otherwise. His reputation for re- markably rapid movements made during the late war, as well as his unsullied record for loyalty, were familiar to and appreciated by Sherman. They were exactly the qualities needed on the plaina at this time, when Indians were to be fought. Rapid movements are eminently essential to success, and Sheridan, who knows Emory to be s perfect Bengat tiger at Nghting savages, was ca'ling for his services to command his regiment. Then conning over the law Sherman had mistaken it, and was indebted to the Heap for correcting his error. Oniy 8 re- tired oMcer—retired for long and faithful services— is eligible as governor of the Soldiers’ Home. Sherman wrote Emory a letter calling his attention to the law and also notifying him that if he continued in tho position he must get some other colonel to command his regiment. Emory, who has a weakness for giving legal opinions on conati- tutional law, feplied at length, attempting to de- molish Sherman's logic; but Sherman was as much of @ logician, legally, as Emory, and referred the case to President Grant for his decision. In order to cut the matter short Grant sustained Sherman, and hence Emory resigns the golden apple, so mucie coveted, contained in the governorship of tho Soldiera’ Home. Sherman desires that his oppo- sition in this matter should not be misunder} stood. It was shaped on essentialfy practical military ideas as to the duty a patriotic soldier owed to nis government, as well as a propor appreciation of the valuable services General Emory was capable of rendering the country, just at this time, fighting Indiana, at the head of his regiment. Emory, it must be satd to his credit, gives up his governorship like a Christian soldier, and wiil sooa proceed to join his regiment in the far West, satia- fled that the atmoxphore, to use a term popular with General Sherman, of Washington does not agree with him—in short, that it hasa tendency to pro- duce billious disorders, which seriously diminish the usefulness of a good soldier. Emory’s disappoint- ment must have been rather severe, inasmuch as he had written a ietter to the present commander of the Home, Colonel Lee, notifying him that he was coming to take possession on a certain day, and had also made arrangements for conveying his furniture to the Retreat. Emory beiug out of the way, threa other candidates have sprung up, namely—Sprig Carroll, ad interim Thomas, and Ricketts. It is diMcult to aay which will be the successful candi- date. Personn!. Tho steamer Talapoosa will leave Washington to- morrow for Fortress Monroe with General Sherman on board. He will return Tuesday morning. Suicide by Drowning. This morning Robert Penman, a well known priat- er, committed suicide by drowning himseif in the canal. AMUSEMENTS. Prexco TaraTee.—After a prosperous prospeat- ing tour of the Western citics Mr. Grau, with his.an- surpassed French opera company, reappeared at their headquarters, in Fourteenth street, last @ven-, ing, “like giants refreshed with new bape “ta Vie Parisienne’ was the bill, with the st gz cast of Carrier, Beckers, Mussay, Deligne, Roy ,9-Bel!, Desciauzas, Gueretti, Rizarelll and all the rest of this favorite troupe. There was a good /uouse, a somewhat sarprising gathering in the paf quet and boxes in view of the supposed exhausttor , of Offen- bach and company and the opéra bowwe , More re- markable . still, this play of “Life in Paris," which some profound judges had, pronounced “played out,” was welcomed . with more enthusiasm = =than on. first: juction. ‘The encores were numerous and er’ phatic, and aw for that admirably rendered ‘‘Tyroli¢ ane” “Auf der Berliner Brucke,"’ by Rose-Bell, they .¢ times was this artist required to ti The play will ve ven again and for the last time f nig season (which to be a brief one), and on Tues jay evening (first time in America) Horyé's chef \aurre “Chilperic’? (of the age of the Druids ¢ na other rango creatures) wili be bronght out t 9 grand Hye, up to the high water mark of “Ge geyteve de Brabant.'? Grau is decidedly of the op) gion that the Frenca opera still lives, and that an’ y(her great success will be iuaugurated on Tuesday.’ night, rain or shine. Musical TP catricnl Notes. Mr. Edwin Booth close q nis engagement in thie city yesterday afternoor ,, appearing a4 Iago to Mr, Fdwin Adams’ Othello. — Afy, Booth retires from the stage only for &@ shor’ season, but his theatre will re- main open during © .e entire summer, with “star? attractions of the first magnitude, Mr, Edwin Adams, who takes 4 benefit to-morrow evening, will be te leading f@ jture for the next two weeks, afer which Mr. Joe J egerson delights us with his Inimt- table impersor jations for seven weeks, and he ta turn will be { ,jowed by Mias Kate Bateman, who, since hor lav + appearance in this city, bas agtievod one of the, most britiiant successes in the leading cities of ‘Great Britain ever Won by an Aimericaa actress 7, foreign lands. John Brougham made his last appearance last ovonta’g at the Park theatre, Brooklyn, ‘The weniat John deserts this section of the country avout the 100 of June for the Pacific Slope, where he goes to tay. charge for the season of one of the feating Vaeatres i) San Francisco, He journeys thither via the Pacific Katlroad, and will tarry for a while — Feqetet ov Brettee eh oe Lake city at angen 8 rother Brigham te deiigit Ure: with side-spiiiting whimaicalities, aden A now troupe of negro piinstrets took thelr da. parture from this city yesterday for Kuroy The combany was orgauized by Mr. Josepu Taylor, of ©0\ fornia, and fs to be known as Smith & Taytor’a ow York Minstrels, Tie troupe consista of Menara, Vaylor, Archy Hughes, Milly Sheppard, William &. Mallaiy, George Ciny, Jack Milton, Pevoiwal, AW OW Gud the brotuers George aad Willie Gur