The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1869, Page 6

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The Yerger murder tria! im Jackson, Miss, still continues, but there has been an unusual reticence on the part of the telegraph relative to it, Yerger’s counsel have closed the case, depending mainly on proofs of his insanity, but the prosecution have com- menced with strong testimony in rebuttal. The Narraganset has arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., from Key West, with yellow fever on board, two deaths having Occurred on the passage. It is now surmised that Mr. Howard, the new Minister to Qhina, will resign that position, and that J, Ross Browne will be allowed to retain it, The frigate Sabine, with the graduates of the class of 1869 of the Naval Academy on board, sailed from Boston yesterday for Portsmouth, England, Allen and McCoole are to have another fight in four months, wuhin fifty miles of Cincinnati, for $2,500, Among other watters of interest on our triple sheet this moruing will be found articles on ‘“Reli- gious Sects in Kussia” and “Sketches in Catna."”” The City. ‘ Work is to be immediately commenced on the new city Post Office at the southern end of the City Hall Park, the commission finding it impossible to effect @ change of the site for one uearer the central por- tion of the Park. The Harvard crew, who are to convend with the Oxford's oarsmen for the international champton- ship, sailed in the City of varis yesterday for Europe. An enthusiastic crowd on the pier wished them good luck and a safe voyage. Twenty-five Wall street brokers have been indioted for alleged usury, bui no arrests have yet been made, Mrs. Deane, who murdered her mother-in-law, Was declared to be insane yesterday by a coroner's jury and sent to the Lunatic Asylum, It was reported yesterday that some one su3- pected of robbing the Ocean Bank had been ar- rested, but the force professes entire ignorance of the matter at headquarters, In the matter of the alleged customs frauds yester- day A. Doolittle, one of tne Custom House weighers, was arraigned before Commissioner, White and after the hearing of considerable evidence the case was dismissed, the proof being insuMcient. Doolittie was thereupon honorably discharged. The stock market yesterday was dull for the gene- ral list, but strong for the railways and weak for the miscetlaneous shares, Gold was also dull, closing finally at 13 The mark were generally dull yesterday. Cot- ton was slow of sale and heavy at 343¢c. for middling upiand, All kinds groceries were dull, but un- changed in value, On ‘Change flour was in fair de- maud, chiefly for shipment, and the market was firm. Wheat was quiet and prices were materially lower. Corn was only moderately sought after, but held with firmness, while oats, though quiet, were lighter. Pork was dull but held 124¢c, a 25e, per barrel higher. Beef and lard continued to rule quict but steady. Naval stores were generally but firmer. Petroleum was quiet and +c, rude closing at 16%(c, a 17¢., and refined at sec. Whiskey was firmly held. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Lientenant General P. H. Sheridan, of the United States Army; General G, W. Wright, of Ohio; Com- Broadway. SHEET, New York, Sunday, July 11, 1869. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooxiyx Canatens axpd Newsmen will in future receive their papers atthe Branca Orrice ovrne New Yous Huratp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Apvegtisements and Susscrirrions and all letters for the New York Hexaup will be jeceived as above. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ‘The DaiLy HERALD will be sent to subscrivers for one dollar a month, The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement cap receive the HERALD at the same price it is furniaed in the city. THE NawWs. Rr eae Europe. ‘Tbe cable telegrams are dated July 10. ‘Lhe excitement in England over the probable con- flict between the Lords and Commons on the Irish Chureh bill is on the increase. Public sentiment has changed, it is claimed, and this reason is given for the course pur- sued by the House of Lords, Large public demon- strations are being actively prepared to agitate the matter, Mr. Gladstone, in the House of Commons yesterday, speaking in relation to Central Asta, said that it has ever been English policy to ruie subject countries by the adoption of measures beuefictal to them. A special despatch from France informs us of the resignation of the Mimstry. The Paris Constitution- nel of last evening has an article on te political situation, and the Patrie comments freely on the recent negotiations oetween the government and the Corps Législatif. The London Times and tne Tilegraph also contain articles on the French position. The Great Eastern when last heard from was off the “tail” of the banky of Newfound- jand. ‘The resignation of Sefior Herrera, Spanish Minister ol Justice, has been accepted. Mexico. Minister Nelson has entered upon lis active duties. A force of about 5,000 Indians had raided to within Afteen milee of Merida, the capital of Yucsian, and captured 150 of the State troops, They then with- drew. South America. ja letter is dated July 2. Captain Creigh- ton elved the Mander McCann, of the United States Navy; Max Von Veraen, of Berlin, and W. E, Chandler, of New Hampshire, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mayor Miles Beach, of Troy; Lieutenant Commander Henrv W. Johnson, of the United States Navy, and Captain T. Kassalol, of the Ruasian Navy, are at the Hoffman House. General Simmons, of Providence, and Captain W, P. Henry, of the steamship Sherman, are at the Astor House. Commander Allen V. Reed, of the United States Navy; Captain P. F. Hoxie, of New Orleans; Cap- tain W. 3. Williams, of New Maven; Governor 8. Faircnild, of Wisconsin, and Judge Parchen, of Texas, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel J. J. Schowles, of Missouri; Captain B, L. Beckwith, of Washington, and Colonel J. V, Beck- enhoff, of Baden Baden, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Major Lewis O. Merritt, of San Francisco, and Dr. J. H. Woodbury, of Boston, are at the St. Julien Hotel. W. H. McCartney and C. F. Payne, of Boston, and Charles E. L. B. Davis, of the United States Army, are at the Westmineter Hotel. Prominent Departures. General Totten, for Boston; General McKibbon, for Meadville; General Clary, for Newport; General Hill, for Washington, and Colonei F. T. sharp, for Balti- more, Lae Peck eed se The Great National Camp Meeting—The Methedist Church. The great national camp meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now in full blast at Round Lake, Saratoga county, New York, far and near is attracting general attention. Its audiences are immense, excelled in num- bers only by those of the Boston Peace Jubi- lee; and its attractions to the worshipper, the summer butterfly, philosopher and the Bohe- mian are infinitely more attractive than the late stupid and senseless ‘‘hubbub of the Hub.” This Round Lake establishment is the perfec- tion of the camp meeting, with all the modern improvements. The grounds are forty acres; the encampment is laid ‘out like a city, with its streets, avenues, squares and fountains, The association have tents to rent in any quantity, and very cheap; likewise cooking stoves, bedsteads and bedding, chairs, tables, &c.; there are also boarding tents, where strangers can be accommodated at from fifty to seventy-five cents per meal, or for a term not less than three days at one dollar per day. They have accommodations for carriages and teams, a market, a post office, a telegraph and expresa, and a bookstore, and the only wonder is they haven't a daily newspaper. The en- campment is ander strict discipline in reference to order, good behavior and cleanliness, and medai dona y the United States govern. | (See the Revised Statutes) shows, games, ment, aud tu 4 with his steamer for Liverpool, | hucksters, liquor dealers, &c., are tabooed. It haa transpired that the $25,000 presented to Cap- The association declare the special objecta tain Creighiou by the people of Uus country nearly ‘ < Alten years avo was claimed and kepi by the own- | “als nice Theta used & deeper in- ers of the v he Commanded. terest in the Methodist religion, ‘fraternal har- General Melgarejo, the Dictator of Boltvia, has | mony and living faith in Jesus,” and they Assued a decree prociaiming the constitution to be | “ask the friends of Jesus everywhere to pray ete and voluntarily laying aside his dtetato- } that thin gathering of God's people may ex- r a *, Our Lima (Pera) letter is datea June 22. The Ama- | Ceed even the Manheim Pentecost; that zon emigration project 1s creating some excitement, } thousands may be awakened powerfully, con- and a Californian has proposed to the government | verted soundly and sanctified wholly, and that colonize 5,000 in the tract if the government will ke, to @ Round Lake, a« Vineland and Manheim, may grant him the land lying on the of the aiMuents of the Amazon. I" the government has refused further permits for stip: to go there. Our Valparaiso (Chile) letter Congress was opened on the Ist wit. tural b:xposition is still in session. Miscellancous. A set of presents, given oy & native Mexican 1 President Grant, General Sherman, ia dated Grant's alone was $748. ‘The enforcement of the Prohibitory Liquor law in Boston has created such an excitement in that city Jeayali river, one guano deposits ‘al the Chincha islands are so nearly exhansted that dune 7. The Agricul. ex-Secretary Seward and Mrs, Lincolm in apprectation of ther efforts for emancipation, has just been received by the Collector at Georgetown, D.C. The presents are of massive silver, and the duty on General be had in everlasting remembrance ;” and they pray ‘‘that the Lord may make bare His holy arm,” and that the sanctifying influences of this meeting may be felt “‘all over the world and continue through all coming time.” The camp meeting is peculiarly an American Methodist institution. It was introduced here with the doctrines of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, a century ago, Through all this time it has admirably served the cause of his Church, In sparsely settled sections of the country Qe camp meeting has been and isa high social as well as a great religious festival— # holiday recreation highly prized among the backwoods and country people, with their fes- 4 0 that it was deemed better to partially ignore it, and | tivgis and pastimes limited to the camp meet- consequently last night the lager beer saloons were ‘ " again in fail biast, after having been closed nearly a | '& the county fair, the county court, the po- week. litical mass meeting, the race course and the ‘The Colorado river has overflowed in Texas, and a large amount of property has been destroyed. La Grange and Columbus are being evacuated by the people as rapidly as The water reaches ‘Tas sanwanion bgabbiadere’ (QUAMAie® WAY? Bre: strolling circus, And it is chiefly among these people that the Methodists abound. Through- ont the land their churches are counted by thonsands snd their brethren by the million, in city, town aad country; but amoge the , smaller towns and in Mie eural Methodism has made the deepost impression. To become a Methodist the sinner must pass through a peculiar ordeal. Wirst, he is im pressed with the magnitude of his sins, and the danger and horrible punishment of ever- lasting fire; then he mourns his fallen con- dition on the altar set apart for mourners ; he weeps and wails and cries aloud for mercy to the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of sinners, and to the Father, and some of the brethren pray with him; and next, from the depths of despair a reaction comes. He feels that he is forgiven by the Holy Ghost; he springs to his feet and shouts and weeps in the ecstacy of his joy, and he is converted and added to the Church. Sanctification follows as ‘he feels more and more strengthened in the faith. Now, if the philosophical reader will consider the impress- ible character of the human mind in refer- ence to a future state, and the almost universal training of the people of the United States in the general dogmas of Christianity, and if he will bring his mind into rapport with the pre- vailing spirit of a Methodist camp meeting, he will understand something of the wonderful effects in the conversion of sinners, from the energetic and earnest preaching, exhorting, singing, mourning and shouting for joy of a camp meeting vigorously kept up, day and night, for a week or ten days. And the larger the gathering the more powerful and conta- gious beeome the preaching, singing and pray- ing, and the more abounding the healing show- ers of salvation. Hence the camp meeting has become the favorite institution of the Metho- dists in the conversion of sinners; for like a great and resistless army it carries the strong- holds of Satan by moving upon the enemy’s works, The sceptic may say that all these phenomena of religious ecstasy may be seen among the dervishes of Mohammed; but the genuine Methodist proves in his life that in his conversion he has undergone a new birth—a most wonderful and enduring transformation in character, beyond the reach of philosophy. The wonderful spread of Methodism in this country is due to the facts that it is a simple, earnest, democratic and positive religion; that its followers, with few exceptions, are good men and women, and that in thousands of cases it has changed the most vicious characters to the best and most amiable in their everyday life. Hence the universal respect which these camp meetings command, notwithstanding the reports of evil tongues concerning them; for they have come to be regarded as sure to reclaim and reform some of the black sheep of the community. This establishment at Round Lake, midway between Troy and Saratoga Springs, is evidently in- tended as a flank movement upon the fashion- able and the sporting world; and as in this direction the regenerating influences of reli- gion are much needed, we hope that this flank movement will be crowned with a glorious success. In this hope we believe that even the Holy Father at Rome, if necessary, will grant us a large absolution, because we hold that any religion is better than none, and because the tree may be judged by its fruit. The Exodus for Europe. The steamships which leave this port for Europe daily are filled to the utmost extent of their accommodations with passengers bound to the Old World, either ona first visit ora joyous and pleasurable return to the land of their birth. Four vessels took their departure yesterday with all their berths engaged, two of them—the Pereire and City of Paris—being patronized with first cabin passengers to an almost inconvenient extent. Every grade and class of our fashionable and well-to-do society was represented, individual members intend- ing to stroll at leisure from London to Paris and Rome, and it may be from Dublin, Cork and Madrid away off to the Mediterranean, Alexandria, Constantinople and thence home- ward, announcing their intended day of return sailing to their friends here through either the Anglo-American or French Atlantic cable. Every one of these leisure-loving American citizens, whether he takes his tea in ‘‘China’s small-eyed crockery ware metropolis,” or looks in at the Vatican, or “‘sits amidst the bricks of Nineveh,” will furnish a solid, living attestation of the wealth and vast resources of the United States, with special evidence of the fact that the doors to the attainment of affiu- ence by honest exertion are here open to the natives of every clime. Europe supplies us with a most valuable motive power for national development in her ever-flowing stream of emigration, and we return her annually in the summer the polished article, happy, wealthy and free, accompanied by the native born of the soil—visible missionaries of the grand effects of democracy and self-government, despite the drawbacks of rebellion and war and the jealousy of the expiring monarchies. Good News About « New Post Oftce in New York. That there was some sense remaining among the high functionaries in Washington there has been a recent illustration. The construction that long agitated local agony—has not only been determined, but the original site fixed upon end the commissioners ordered to pro- ceed with the erection of the edifice forthwith. This site is the original one—at the lower end of the City Hall Park. In the opinion of some the building ought to have been erected at # point where there would have been better facilities for expansion as the business of the establishment increases ; but no donbt the libe- rality of the city government will arrange that matter ina manner that will redound to the honor of the metropolis. We are glad that this long deferred subject of building a new Post Office has been finally settled, The trmble-down rat-trap in whicl the immense postal business of the city bas been for #0 long a time transacted is a monu- ment of disgrace to the city and the national government, The well known fact that the federal government owns no twilding of re- spectable appearance and proper capacity, ont- side of the city of Washington, in which to conduct its revenue and postal business—with but few exceptions—is more thin realized in the miserable post office structure toppling to rain, with its crazy timbers and monidering masonry, at the corners of Nassau and Liberty and Cedar streets, Let us have, then, a new Post Office built without delay ; and let the commissioners who have the business in hand see that no private or personal job or specala- tion obstructs the wav to Its svegdy coppletiqn. of a new Post Office in the city of New York—, 9. TRIPLE , Our City Polition=Yovemeuts of che Gere | | eval Prospects | In another column of the Heranp will be | found a report on city politics, which will ena- ble the reader to form some idea of the activity that will predominate tbis fall in | politics throughout this city and county. The | German element is already slightly disturbed ; its leaders are thus early making their prepara- tions to enter into the next campaign with re- newed determination, fresh vigor and a desire to succeed, The November and December con- tests may, therefore, be looked forward to with interest, as the present indications tend to foreshadow a lively time in the political arena. When the vast vote which the Germans can cast when it is fully brought out, and the bold- ness of their exhibit at this early day are con- sidered, there is just cause for fear in re- publican circles that this great auxiliary may drift into another channel, It is not at all un- likely that the Germans, taking umbrage at being called “lager beer republicans” by the kid-gloved gentry of that party, and disgusted at the temporizing and fast and loose policy of the democrata, whom they are afraid to trust, will now turn round and set up an indepen- dent concern on their own hook, A German party could carry powerful vote in this city, and the rank and file of the German popula- tion are at length beginning to open their eyes to this fact. The big anddittle Injuns of the Tammany Wigwam are also preparing their paints and their powders, their tomahawks and scalping knives, their lanterns and their big bells for the approaching campaign. The festive boys of the Americus Club, in their haunt on the Sound, and the hardy sons of the Neptune Club, beneath the shade of the Highlands, are now interesting themselves in slate making, and when they return to the city, together with those of their political brethren who flock to the resorts of Saratoga, Newport and the numerous other recreative spots, we may expect a vigorous pipe-laying and caucusing season ere the plan of the political battle is exhibited to public gaze. Apart from the regularly recognized political parties we have additional elements, consisting of the temperance people, the trades unionists and the liquor dealers. The advocates of temperance, be it understood, are exceedingly active, well and compactly organized and decided in their policy. The trades unionists, though strong in point of members, are not so powerful, for the reason that up to this work- ingmen have not yet decided how far they ought to allow their organizations to enter into the field of politics. With regard to the liquor interest, if not numerically strong, the members bave the money, are willing to spend it, and their course is unmistakable— possibly an arrangement with the Germans, whose battle cry of “free lager” may have con- siderable weight in deciding which ig the pro- per course to pursue. Then there is the Irish element—a no small or insignificant vote, by the way—which, at the present time, it is impossible to say how it may incline. From the review of the situation which we have attempted to describe it will be seen that the situation of political affairs is exceedingly complicated. The factions, cliques, sects aud parties will be more distinctly marked than they have been heretofore, and, taken altogether, the state of affairs is such that the present fall elections in this city and county may present a picture which has not been witnessed in old +otham for the last twenty years. A. T. Stewart's Proposal to Buy Hemp- stead Plnine—A Capital Idea. It appears from letters of Mr. Stewart to the commissioners for the sale of Hempstead town lands and to the Queens County Sentinel that our great merchant prince offers nearly four hundred thousand dollars for the seven thousand acres of barren land which are now for sale. Moreover, he pledges himself to apply all the resources of modern agricultural science, road building and landscape gardening to improve those barren wastes go that ‘‘they may speedily be covered by a population de- sirable in every respect as neighbors, tax- payers and citizens.” This is a capital idea, and one that the vast wealth of Mr. Stewart will enable him fully to realize. The concep- tion of it does honor alike to his head and his heart, and entitles him to high rank among such sensible public benefactors as George Peabody, Gerrit Smith and other noble types of a class which we are glad to see is becoming more numerous. How much better it would have been for Girard and other millionnaires had they thus bestowed their liberalities dur- ing their lives, not only anticipating posthu- mous fame, but also retaining the power of wisely regulating the disposition of the wealth devoted by them to charitable-purposes. Rev. Charles B. Smyth. Most of our city clergymen are now enjoy- ing themselves at our popular watering places, and a few of the more fortunate are recupe- rating their exhausted energies by extensive European tours. [0 their absence their churches are closed, and the Gospel that has beeg in the habit of being dispensed from their pulpite is now dispensed with altogether. We will not say which ia attended with the best result, the dispensing of the Gospel or dis- pensing with it, And neither {s this a matter that concerns these ministers. They want a good time during the summer, and they are bound to have it and do have it. The wicked and the ungodly may look out for themselves, ‘The devil may take a6 many of the hindmost as he pleases. It is all the same to them. Rev. Charles B. Smyth is not a summer watering place patron, is not a Buropean tourist, is not the shepherd who goes away to leave hia flock to take care of itself. He geta up no pseudo plea of enteebled lungs and weak stomach and « contribution to pay his travelling and hotel expenses. He stays ig the city, He pulls off his coat and rolls up his sleeves and keeps at work with lusty sinews. He don’t mind the heat or dust or dog days, He stays in the city all summer, ‘There is no holiday intermission in his call of sinners to repentance. Those who go away from the city during the summer do not take all the sin and wickedness with them, There is a good deal of sin and wickedness left, There are political spoliators to preach against, There are mynicipal office-holders of feeble financial morality to be denounced, | ‘There are the Wall street gamblers, whose | araspipa, areedy souls need saving, Mr, SHERT. Smyth feels all this, He is now preaching in a church in Eleventh treet, near Second avenue. We stood by him when he began his memorable invectives against the Black Crook style of drama. He acknow- ledges that our notices increased the attend- ance in the Houston street church, where he was then preaching, from twenty-five hearers to seven and eight hundred, and afterwards in Cooper Institute to andiences of over three thousand people. The Hgratop will stand by him now, and we trust that there will be the same proportionate increase in his congre- gations. It has always been our opinion that Napo- leon, though a little too much of a theorist, was really and truly @ practical man, He has, like most of us, his favorite opinions and his pet projects, but he never allows opinions and projects to stand in the way of success. Since 1848 he has really been the ruler of France. He has allowed no will to be superior to his own. He has his own idea of government, but he never loses his chances by unnecessary resistance to popular feeling. Once and again he has gracefully yielded. On many occasions he has expressed his desire to crown the popular edifice. Nothing but the dread of possible ingratitude has pre- vented him from crowning the edifice long before the present. Events are shaping them- selves to his desire. The French people wish to have something to. say in the management of their own national affairs. Again Napoleon gracefully yields. Further reforms are to be granted, and in spite of M. Rouher and M. Rouher’s wife another step is to be taken in the direction of crowning the edifice. In some qualified form government by a responsible ministry is likely to be granted. It will be interesting to know how much Napoleon will grant and what chances there are that his re- forms will satisfy the French people. We have no doubt that the Emperor will come out of this ordeal stronger than ever. There may be some little trouble in pleasing all parties, but Napoleon knows how to win. More . Murders, For several days past the wéather, with scarcely an interruption, has been as bright and delicious as that of ‘The Summer Land” of which Andrew Jackson Davis has given such glowing descriptions. But there may be some malignant influence in the hot rays of our summer sun, for the black catalogue of murders has lately been swollen by some shocking instances. The testimony in two cases particularly—the killing of Maurice Long by Officer Campbell and that of Adam Grsell by Frederick Schlee and, as alleged, by the mother-in-law of the deceased—shows that the pistol ‘and the club and the swordcane are very dangerous weapons in this as well as in other seasons of the year. A gross assault was committed on Thursday night upon a respectable citizen by a drunken policeman. In one of the railway murders which we ure so often compelled to chronicle the jury ren- dered a ridiculous verdict, satisfying them- selves with censuring ‘the parties for criminal negligence who were in charge of both the Belt car and the engine” when the collision on the Harlem and Belt Railroad inflicted such injuries on Jason Carson as to cause his death. These railway murders must lead to sterner verdicts and to adequate punish- ment before we can hope to have no more of them to record. {n this connec- tion we must be permitted to repeata sug- gestion that the horse railway companies ought to be rigidly compelled to enforce their own regulations, the violation of which has in so many dreadful cases of recent occurrence con- verted the front platform of their cars into a fatal scaffold. The latest murder which has shocked our community is the terrible tragedy in West Thirteenth street on Friday evening. In this instance insanity impelled a woman to kill her aged mother-in-law with an axe. Against such an exceptional cause of murder no pre- cautions can avail. But there seems to pre- vail at present a certain moral insanity which might lead to equally horrible consequences, and against this the safeguards of temperance in drink and all other provocations to passion, as well as of law, should surely be erected. Let us hope that we shall at least be spared in New York the repetition of the dreadfal and mysterious poisoning of a whole family—a husband, wife and six children—a domestic tragedy which was lately enacted in London, and the details of which we publishad yester- day. Tae Question o¥ THE Far Hasy.—Eng- land is just now, as acknowledged by her leading statesmen, more an Asiatic than a European Power, so that the considerations of India will evermore exert a direct influence in her home policy. Worried by the Irish Church bill debates, the opposition of the minority in the House of Commons and the class privilege intolerance of the majority in the Lords, Mr. Gladstone seeks, in a very adroit manner, to divert the attention of the British people to India, He announced yesterday an interview between Lord Mayo and Shere Ali Khan, in which the English Governor General did not concede anything, and also the consoling fact that Russia expressed a widh that Affghan- istan should remain asa ‘‘neutral zone” be- tween Britain and the Czars. This will give confidence to the India interest and be useful to the Cabinet. Will Russia keep within her division of the ‘‘zone?” Just so long as suits her. India is still in danger. Tae Usperagounn RAuRroan.—The com- pany chartered a year ago last April to construct an underground railroad from the City Hall Park to Harlem river, having gota fuvther act to extend the time for commencing work, now announce that they are not ready to goon, A@anexcuse for not commencing this. much meeded work, they say they have not yet had a survey or estimates. made by 9 competent engineer, and that these cannot be ready till the end of Octoter. These excuses do not tally very well with the announcements sent through the cable from London a year ago, that “satisfactory arrangements had been con- cluded with the London ynderground parties to build the work.” Nor d¢ they comport with the representations made ab, Albany last spring fo obtain an extension of their charter, that much time and money had been spent in getting up surveys, plans, &., 4. Why don’t these arent capitalists begin the work and spend some of their own money, and thus inspire public confidence in an undertaking that ought to pay handsomely? Tho whole matter now looks ike a ‘put up” job for sale in London, Ocean Cables—The Duty of American Capi- tolists, British enterprise has given us two Atantic cables. French enterprise is giving us another. It is a misfortune, however, that the French cable, like almost everything else in the world, is the property, so far, of English capitalists. We have the very best reasons for believing that the French cable, although landed at Duxbury to-morrow, while it would certainly increase the means of commu- nication between the Old World and the New, would, in a financial point of view, be no gain to the United States. British capitalists control all the three lines, and British capitalists will, of course, reap the benefit. The time has come when Ameri- can merchants must make up their minds whether or no they are to remain at the mercy of their European rivals. News in time is equal to millions of dollars. Millions of dol- lave weula pas for an American Atlantic cable. Has the time aot come when Amorican capital should find a natural as well’ -as.. profitable investment in a fourth Atlantic’ cable? We need it, We can afford it. . Tt would pay, and pay handsomely. Why, then, should we not have it, and have it at once? The proprietors of the Great Eastern are as willing to serve ua as any other. If we are to have fair play in the mercantile world we must have an Atlan- tic cable, owned and controlled by American capitalists, The Catholics and the Irish Charch Bill. In the House of Lords on Friday evening the Irish Church bill came up for report from committee. Some important modifications were made in the bill, and some keen discus- sion took place in regard tothe same. The remarkable feature of the evening was the stand made hy the representatives of the Catholic Church. A generous and well moant amendment was moved by Lord Redesdale, to the effect that the representatives of the © Irish Church and the Catholic Synod, in cases of vacant bishoprics, nominate three persons for the Crown to select from, and that the Crown be empowered to summon one archbishop and two bishops from each Church to sit in Parliament. The Earl of Granard protested in the name of the Catholics against the amendment, which was in conse- quence withdrawn. Later in the evening, when a proposal was made to give the Catho- lic clergy glebe lands and residences, the Earl of Denbigh announced that the Catholics had decided not to accept glebe lands or residences. Thus far the Catholics have. given Mr. Glad- stone’s bill a warm and unqualified support. This is one of our strongest reasons for think- ing that when the bill goes back to the Com- mons Mr. Gladstone will yield to the Lords ia no important particular, The Fashions, It ia somewhat reassuring to learn from the Parise fashions letter which we publish to-day that the most important military question in Paris is apparently the dispute as to whether the new épi of the Garde Mobile is preferable to the shako, The empire is peace 80 long as Parisians have nothing to fight about éxcept the uniform of the Garde Mobile. Our cor- respondent's description of the next new fashions for men's wear at the races and sea- side resorts, and of the prevalent anarchy io the shirt collar department, will prove interest- ing to our dandies—to some of whom we may be allowed particularly to commend ‘‘the incre- dible,” with pointed ears upwards, @ la donkey. We unite with our correspondent in hoping that ‘another new Idea,” which has been dis- covered by Parisian dandies to prevent them- selves from being dragged down by ladies’ trains while dancing, will not be adopted at Saratoga. ‘‘It is one thing to state what is done in Paris, but quite another to follow French lead in America.” This, we must add, is the true moral of many of the customs and costumes described in our Paris fashions letter. They may be read about without being imi- éated. 4 The Credit of the City of New York. Within six months the city of New York has called for loans amounting to about six millions of dollars for local pur- poses. The calls have been responded to in a most extraordinary manner. Instead of six millions, at least forty millions have beea offered, and every dollar at a premium. By & spontaneous movement, as it were, the savings banks, those inestimable depositories ot the accumulated wealth of the poorer classes, as well as the acute and opulent: financiers of Wall and Broad atreets, have poured in their proposals to the Comptroller im acceptance of the city’s bonds. The city wil realize from premiums on the recent sale of bonds, amounting in the aggregate to over two and three quarter millions, about fifty-four thousand dollars cash. At the previous sale,. within the past half year, a similar amount must have been realized, showing that In the aggregate over a hundred thousand dollars ia premiums must have been secured to the city treasury simply upon the sale of bonds issued to obtain money for local improvements. With this splendid exhibit we must not hesi- tate to give credit to the Comptroller of the city’s finances for the admirable manner ia which he has steered our financial ship out of turbulent into smooth waters, and placed her upon a current that must lead to a future and an equally pleasant haven, Tue Op Doxy anv THE New Doxy,—The article which we publish this morning from the Jewish Times gives one some idea of the old and new doxy of Judaism. The pamphlets of Wagner and Virchow are taken for a text, but American Judaism expresses itself plainly in the Jewish Times, The Messenger, the Leraclite, the Leader, and other Hebrew jour- nals will undoubtedly take up the glove, And: thus the new doxy will wage war against the old doxy. Who can or will say which of them is right? The doxy is always.right; it only depends npon whether it is your doxy or mine that is called in question. TWE DAUNTLESS AT SEA, ‘The steamship China, arrived at Liverpooi on the 20th inst, reports having seen the yacht Dauntioss on the 34 inst., in latitute 45 58 north, longitude 54 4 Went, about ninety miles south of Cape Race. A good north-northwest wind was blowing at the Hime, with rough 90a and bazy yroayper.