The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HE RALD BROADWAY. sii ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume SREY AMUSEMENTS: THIS EVENING, GRAND UeERatHOUSE, corn corner of Eighty avenue and gad se Tuy THeLYE TRMPTAnONS. - FRENCH THEATRE, Mtb at, and 6h ar. De BRAbANt. aN ny OLYMFIC THEATRE, Brosaway.—Sraious Paniiy— ‘Tar Spiny ine. FIFTH AVENUE THE, on, SUMMER SORNES AT ~GUNEViEVE » Twenty? ourth at,—-SURF; NG BRANOM. NIBLO'® GARDEN, Broadway.—Gnavo ROMANIIO Phar or 14? Duxe's Morro, ACADEMY) OF MUSIC, lth reek MAGAMIEL.L0. Pe MUSEUM AND MENAGERI!, roadway irtieth si. —Matinee di daily. Performauce evary -lratianw Orgea— BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. Brox, Many Horn; on, GOLD Ur 10 185, 4c. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth we or Tae Seven, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway sand Wh air ScwooL. BOOTH'S: Lye re Free a., between Sih and Gih avs,’- Epwin Sooru as H Buck, How THE BURLESQUE MRS. F. BL ONWAY'S P. ATR, Rrookiya,— ‘Tam Fay 0) HE, 1ECLE~THE CUSTOMS OF THE COUNTRY. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA House, 20 Bowery.—-Couto Vouat™, N£GRo MINSTRE! big hd Commgus, oe Broadway.—Couto Vooar Rake ACTS, Pipe ~ ia OPERA HOUSE, S,—BRYAN1' MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa way. Erato. PIAN MINSTRELBY, NEGRO AOTS. ke. --‘1iasn." Tammany Building, Mth KBLLY 4 LEON'S: MINSTRELS, 720 Hroadway.—B1ni0- PiAN MINSTRELSBY, NEGRO ACTS, 0. NEW YORK OIRCUB, Fourteenth street, AND GYMN 45110 PERFORMANORS, AC. HOOLEY's OP} MineTRx.s—-TAE EQurargian RA HOUSE, Bro ooklya. MEATRICAL AGENCY, ~Hoo.rr's APOLLO UALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.— Tue New Hiskanicon, ‘ sheet uayt NEW YORK MUSEUM O1 OF A ANATOMY, 618 Broadway, BCORNOR AND Ant, betas fae York, Monday, February 7% 1870. See cowTENTS OF TO-DAY?s | HERALD, PaGE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. B—Religious: Toe Superficial in Religion; Arttul and Artistic Accessions to Gospel Preaching; Discources by Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Des. Potter, Chapin, Hepworth, McSweeney and others—Reviews of New ooks---Journalisuc Notes. 4@—Europe: M. Rochefort arraigned by the -Crimi- nal Tribunal, the Army and Printers of France; Prim’s Position in Spain and the Elements of a Counter Revolution; he Papal Counci! and Lay Governmental Interests; ‘Travel i Ireland aud the Landlord and Tenant (uestion—Egypt Revivifled: American Travel in she Land of the Pharaohs, S—The Social Evii: A Practical View of Female Depravity; Statistics and Facts for the Legisla lure—The Chinese Treaty—Prociamation by the President—Prince Kung’s Upinton of the La- bors of the Burlingame Chinese Embassy—A Tail Ghost; What Herr Grossman Saw im Har- leu—Vebruary Term of the Courts—How to Catch Rogues—The Heaviest Drinking Yet. G—Fadioriais: Leading Articié, Wili General Grant’s Administration be a Success or a Fatiure t—-Amusement Announcements, ‘YeTelegraphic News from All Paris of tne World French Demand for Rocheiori’s Surrender - Prison; Poiiticai Persecution in Mormon Women Petitioning Against the Antt-Polygamy B1il—Washing- ton: The Sale of Cadetships: Fashiouabie Movements of the Cabinet Corps and the Corps = Diplomattc—Personal invelligence— Odituary—Wiil the Gas Companies Examine?— Descent on Gambling Houses in Philadel phia—Business Notices. S—The Navy: Our Register for 1810; The Organiza- tion of the Navy; The Marme Corps; List of _ Vesseis, Their Station and Condition; Changes m Nomenclature; Vessels Lost and soid—Up tue Nue; The Dawn of Morn and Sunset as Seen on the Father of Waters; Legends, Ro- mance, Tombs, Temples and Prayer; Bull Run Russell in the Presence of Four Thousand Years and the Egyptian Holy Oue—The Hack- ensack Mystery, S—eThe Erie Rawroad: Observations Here and There Upon the Management—Atiantic and Great Western Railroad: Kesum of Is History—The Hell Gate Obstructions—our Uniformed Gentiemen—iimanctal and Com- mercial Reports—The u Francisco Yacht Club— Marriages and Deatiis. L0—New York City News and Police Inteliigence— Brooklyn City News-—Suburban {ntelig Musical and Theatrical Notics—German ¢ vals—Modern Journalism— Hempatead Piains— The Flushing Contested Kiection—The Latest Newark floax—Fire and Loss of Life in Pougukeepsie—General Notes—Shipping intel- ligence—Advertisements, \1—Mormonism: Progress of the New Church of Zion; Operations of the Mormons on Long Isiand—Real Estate = Tranaters~Adver' ments, 12—Advertisements. Tae Crinese Treary.—President Grant bas issued bis proclamatian prgmulgating the new Chinese treaty negotiated by Mr. Bur- lingame’s Embassy. The full text of the treaty an? the proclamation will be found in another column. Tue New Navy Reeister for this year, a résumé of which we publish this morning, con- tains much interesting information on naval matters. Of.eighieen hundred officers in the service not less than thirteen hundred and forty-five are on the active list, while of the balance two hundred and forty-eight are mid- shipmen atthe Naval Academy. There are one hundred and eighty-eight vessels of all Kinds and classes, from ships of the line to the Hittle torpedo boat laid up in this harbor. During !ast year fourteen vessels were sold and one (the steamtug Maria) lost. THe Prixce IN Bosron.—No attention whatever, except that of being left alone and having bad attendance at his hotel, is being paid to the Prince at Boston. not @ single native of that suburb who offered yesterday to show hit tie Common or the frog pond, or Faneuil Hall or Bunker Hill monu- There wi ment, or who outwardly seemed to know or care who he was. He was all day left to wander about, winding in and around the mazy labyrinths they call streets, without the guidance or company of anyhodly but his suite, and the whole party might hive got lost in the interminable iwistings and turnings for ali Bosion cared, The Hubiies are on their dignity, and if a prince snubs them they are evidently determined that he doubtless, but he has trasted to others when he should have followed his owa impulses, has | of the public, | and other purely domestic questions for dis- v | WH! Generat Grant’s Admintsrration be & | most valuable island on the border ‘of the ————— Success or « Failure ¢ Never since the foundation of our govern- ment has an administration come into power with more éclat, with greater advantages or more opportunities to acquire enduring fame than the present one; but we have yet to see if General Grant understands the splendid position he holds or has the ability to use these favorable circumstances to make himself as famous in government as he was in war, Will he become another Jackson, or greater than Jackson, and close his administration with as much popularity as did Old Hickory? Or will he go out as ingloriously as Buchanan and sink into similar disgrace and obscurity? Eleven out of the first twelve months of his four years’ presidency have passed with little promise, The next three years will show whether he will improve by time as wine does by age. 4 There can be no question as to General Grant's elevated patriotism, true republican principles, in the general sense of the term, or of the honesty and kindness of his heart. His public career during the war and since has proved that. Nor is the President incapable of learning statesmanship, He has a large fund of practical common sense, and common sense is the first quality of a statesman. During the war he advanced in knowledge by experience and shuwed himself competent for every emergency. Though he commenced as a colonel of a regiment, and had never been in command of a larger force, he rose through republic, if annexed, would not only greatly enlarge the area of our dominion and republi- can liberty, but would tend very much to revive our commerce and declining mercantile marine ; would increase the variety of our products, and would strengthen. our power throughout the American Continent, seas and islands. The administration has but to lift its finger, and Cuba would belong to us. Here, then, is a fine opportuntty to gratify national ambition and to promote national interests. Then there is British Columbia knocking for admission to the United States; there is a similar move- ment on the Red River, in the heart of the Con- tinent, and some of the British colonies on the Atlantic side are casting wistful eyes to the great republic. Can not General Grant strike out in a bold policy for the acquisition of some or all these territories as a settlement of the Alabama claims or upon some other terms? Extension of territory and increase of population and products lead to an increase of commerce and shipping, and that is just what we need now. Besides, the President might well turn his attention to measures for extend- ing our trade abroad and for reviving our mercantile marine. The republic has reached that prominent position when it cannot stand still. It must advance exteriorly with the wonderful progress and developments of the age, with its internal growth and in accord- ance with the aspirations of the people, or stagnation will follow, domestic trouble will spring up, and we shall fail to fulfil the great his military genius and practical sense | destiny marked out for us. If General Grant to the command of all the armies. | comprehends the necessities of our national It is true the foundation of this | situation, and should strike out in a new and brilliant military career was laid in a West Point education and some little service previ- ously in the army ; but without genius or great ability he never could have gained the victo- ries he did gain or have carried out that glorious campaign which closed up the war. Looking, then, at his great success as a mili- tary man, we might hope for the display of uncommon talents iu the administration of the government. We find many examples in history of great commanders becoming the first of statesmen. Casar, the first Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington and others may be named as examples. We are aware that ‘General Grant had no experience or training in civil affairs till he attained, a short time since, the elevated position he oecupies—had never been even ina local legislature or employed as a civil officer; but the same qualities of mind which distinguished him so much as a general might make him a great statesman were he to apply them with industry and ambition to civil affaira, It is only necessary, we believe, that he should cut loose from the weak men and mere politicians that surround him, trust to his own practical common sense and patri- otic impulses, and act independently for the good and glory of the country. General Grant’s conduct at the close of the war, and for some time after, showed broad and correct views of national affairs and indi- uied ability for statesmanship. . Immediately after the rebellion was suppressed he wished to see the Union restored at once and the sad memories of the war oblitérated as soon as possible. It was evident he did not favor then, and for some time afterwards, the prolonged reconstruction agitation, pro- seriplion of the Southerners or the party political object of Congress in keeping the question of reconstruction open. He had large and liberal views then. It will be remembered, too, how broadly national and patriotic he was on the question of the French occupation of Mexico, when he boldly pro- posed to march an army across the Rio Grande to drive the French from American soil. In fact, on all questions both of a domestic and foreign character he was liberal, republican and American to the core. His heart is right, bold policy in accordance with them, his adminisiration will be a success; but if his vision be confined to petty local affairs and party politics, if he cannot understand the mission and destiny of this mighty country, and remains the mere instrument of the nar- row-mwinded politicians that surround him, he will prove a lamentable failure and his glori- ous war record will be buried beneata the unpopularity of his government, Mexican Auarchy—A Subject for General Grants Consideration. Anarchy has become the chronic, life-ex- hausting disease of Mexico, aggravated by her old sores breaking out in fresh eruptions from day to day. Among our latest items of news from that unfortunate country are these:—-That the Governor of Zacatecas had proclaimed against the general government because Juarez had ordered him to deliver up a conducta (a government silver train) which he had recently seized; that this refractory State Governor had also appropriated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of private property deposited in the mint, and that the State Legislature had backed him up in these operations; that free- dom of the press had been suspended in the republic; that Rocha, a revolutionary leader, had gained a decisive victory over a detach- ment of government troops at San Luis Potosi, capturing twenty pieces of artillery ; that Escobedo is supposed to be in danger; that recently an attempt was made to kidnap or assassinate the Cabinet Minister, Lerdo de Tejada, but that the plot was discovered and the ringleaders arrested, and that a pronun- ciamento followed; that a band of scoundrels had plundered the church and city of Orizaba of money, arms and horses ; that the anthori- ties of Michoacan are arming troops; that troops had marched from Vera Croz against the Orizaba insurgents; that General Negrete is working in favor of the -old exile of St. Thomas, and that several persons had been arrested on a charge of conspiring for the return of General Santa Anna, This is a suggestive budget of disorders, following directly upon the heels of Mr, Seward’s late triumphal progress through the Mexican republic as the honored champion of non-intervention and self-government. Butas our venerable statesman, who literally scolded Louis Napoleon out of Mexico, was, naturally enough, hailed as a deliverer by that grateful people, what else could he do, in return, but glorify their patriotism and rub them with the blarney stone? In contrast, however, with the rejoicing processions, and meetings and balls and fétes, and presente of all kinds show- ered upon Mr. Seward along the line of his Mexican travels, the revolutionary movements we have just recited bring the miserable bur- suffered himself tf be the tool of a faction when he had the people with him and the power to carry out his own policy, and is now only drifting along as a few men direct him, because he wishes to avoid trouble and to take things easy. He seems to have lost in a measure his independence and ambition since he becaine President. None of General Grant’s predecessors had the opportunity he has for accomplishing great things and acquiring fame. He is President when the republic is undergoing a great | lesque of Mexican self-government into bolder material, social and political revolution, | relief. We see that battles between opposing partly as a result of the war and partly from | factions, revolutionary pronunciamentos by the wonderful developments of the age. The American republic, with its forty millions of intelligent and intensely active citizens, its boundless and varied resources and wonderful future, holds the first position among nations, and is the one to which the people of all others are looking 4s ihe hope of the world. General Grant holds the helm of affairs just as we have commenced this new era of progress and greatness, Will he comprehend this and the glorious opportunity before him? In- stead of suffering himself to be clogged in the mire of party politics, or to be controlled by weak and narrow-minded politicians, can he raise bimsell up to the grandeur of the occa- sion and high aspirations.of the nation? Con- gress is weak and tossed about like a ship at sea without a rudder, It wants to be steered. Tt needs a guiding hand. The doniinant party that elected General Grant looks to the admin- istration for maintaining its power, and would be glad to follow the President in any popular course he might mark out for himself. Recon- struction is about to be finished and will no longer be a political question. There remaia the various questions pertaining to the national finances and taxation. With regard to these the President may do something beneficial to the country. Hecan cut down all expendi- tures of the departments to the lowest figures and thus save millions a year. He can use | his power to check the extravagance of Con- | gress and by an improved system of taxation | to lessen the burdens of the, people. | military chiefs and by States, highway robbe- ries, and military seizures of mints, churches, towns and cities, have become so far the estab- lished order‘of things in Mexico that in locali- ties where these annoyances are not in active operation the inhabitants as freely indulge in their amusements as if they were living under thegmillennium. But so it was in Paris, even in the midst of the Reign of Terror, and again when that gay metropolis was under the scourge of the cholera. Nor are such things utterly horrible to contemplate, when we remember that they are but the natural opera- tions of the human mind from a strain in one extreme to a rebound in the gther. But still the question recurs, is there no remedy for this never ending but still begin- ning anarchy in Mexico? Mexico. In the elements which compose the Mexican population there is no hope. The dominant unmixed Spanish race in that coun- try numbers less than a million; the unmixed Indians number four millions; the remaining three millions and a half of the population, excepting aout say ten thousand pure negroes, are hybrids from all the crosses between whites, Indians and negroes, and between the products of these crosses and Indians, negroes and whites. With slight adulterations in a part of it the Indian element embraces about five-sixths of the Mexi people, This is the laboring element. The other sixth of the population is that in which the Spanish blood predominates. What sort of elements for self- government have we here? The worst in Christendom, With these Spanish Americans, from Mexico to Buenos Ayres, as we know from their history of revolutions, revolution is the ruling passion, They are never satisfied unless they are in a revolutionary ferment. It There is none in He can | set his face against the national bank monopoiy and the schemes in Congress now to increase | iis enormous power and profits at the expense | \ ‘There is a broad field in these | But | { | tingnishing and making himself popular. if he would arouse the sympathies of the | | is the old fighting spirit of the heroic Spanish people, if he would tonch the popular heart, | Christians and Moors of the Middle Ages and make his administration famous in history, | degenerated into Spanish American bush- shall find his own way through their town, which is about as hard a thing as a neincea | (a ever compelled to do. ‘ he must do something to gratify national ambi- | whacking. These Spanish Mexicans again tion. There is Cuba looking to us for practi- \ are divided between the Church party cal sympathy and anoexstioa, This rich and aad the auti-Church party, and. be-’ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY if 1870.—TRIPLE SI SHEET. tween the ins and the outs of their fighting politicians. The Mexican Indian element, comparatively passive and tractable, and completely subju- gated by the European element, nevertheless still has the Indian's ruling passion for war. Hence among the Indians of Mexico there ie always @ mercenary gang ready to join the standard of any upstart leader who can give them a show for pay and plunder; and if their leader is defeated they are ready to join onthe same terms the party defeating him. ‘The scheming Mexican factionist has accord- ingly the materials always at hand for a revo- lutionary rising. He has only to gather under his banner a few highwaymen as a nucleus, and next to seize a passing conducta or com- pel a forced loan from some church, town or city in order to gather about him a trouble- some army. ‘ Again, a very serious difficulty to the central government in maintaining peace in the dif- ferent States lies in the slow and difficult lines .and modes of intercommunication throughout Mexico. A mountainous country like that, of great extent, without navigable rivers and without railroads (except the line from Vera Cruz to the capital), is admirably adapted for Mexican revolutions, To keep the peace Maximilian, as Emperor, found it necessary to make every salient point over the whole country a military station, occupied by a strong repressive force; but Juarez has not the means, and cannot rely upon his subordi- nates to carry out this plan. Therefore we find him involved in a cordon of revolutionary factions and risings which will continue till he is superseded, and then they will begin afresh against his successor and the new party in power, Now, has noi this state of things in Mexico been tolerated long enough? In the interests of civilization, law and order and humanity does it not becdme the duty of the United States to intervene in Mexican affairs? The anarchy revived in that distracted country since the departure of the French and the bloody execution of Maximilian is a scandal to republican institutions and a reproach to the United States. Our government, in view of the public sentiment of this country and ‘“‘a decent respect for the opinions of mankind,” cannot much longer evade its responsibilities in reference to Mexico. Annexation or a pro- tectorate over that chaotic republic is only with us a question of time, and we would respectfully submit to General Grant that the time has come. Mexico may keep better than Cuba; but sound policy and all the interests of civilization, peace and progress call for action in a case like this. We say this, too, because we cannot believe that General Grant is hopelessly ignorant of or indifferent to the active, expansive and progressive spirit of the age. The Political Sitnation in Great Britain— fhe Parliamentary Programme. On an early day the British Parliament will assemble. During the protracted recess Minis- ters have been unnsually silent. Latterly this silence has been broken by Messrs. Bright and Forster. Mr. Bright looks forward somewhat despondingly. Mr. Forster is full of hope. The different views taken by the two statesmen may, perhaps, be accounted for on the ground that, although both are responsible Ministers, both are not members of the Cabinet. Mr. Forster is perhaps the more hopeful that he knows not the sorrows of the inner and more sacred circle. According to Mr. Bright the government intends to settle the land question in Ireland, but he apprehends so much oppo- siffon and sees in this one measure so much work that he despairs of being able, to con- sider any other question. Mr. Forster sees no more difficulty in the land question than was encountered last session in disestablishing the Church, He is not without hope that government will find time to abolish forever university tests, and he is determined, if at all possible, tomake such provision for the educational wants of the English people that it will be next to impos- sible for an English youth to grow up in ignorance, or, as Mr. Forster calls it, ‘‘weak- ness”-—‘‘weakness to resist temptation,” “weakness that fills the prison and the work- house.” It is not our business to say which of the two statesmen takes the more correct view of the situation. It may be that the Irish land question will monopolize the session, but it is undeniable that other and deeply impor- “tant questions will be dorced on the attention of Parliament, Besides domestic questions there are international questions and colonial questions—all of them imperiously demanding immediate attention, Inthe next session of the British Parliament we look for great ex- citement, keen debate, great political rivalry, the possible failure of the liberals and the pos- sible formation of a coalition ministry with Lord Derby atits head. But Gladstone is too strong to be easily defeated. Wuy Nor ?—In the Missouri Legislature the other day the bill to regulate the compensation of teachers was amended in the lower house s0 ag to give females the same pay as males where equally qualified and performing like duties. And why not? This is a matter of women’s rights upon which a great deal of reform is needed throughout this country, and needed in New York as much as anywhere else. It is a matter, too, upon which for the present onr women’s rights agitators may more profitably employ their time than in their travelling conventions on woman suffrage. If our women’s rights women could only be made to understand that the Pyramids of Egypt were built stone by stone they would learn that ‘all great reforms are not accomplished in a single j jump, but are penchey piece by piece. Prince Fisk’s Reunarsart last Saturday night, at the Grand Opera House, according to all accounts, was a right royal rehearsal of oysters, boned turkeys, salads, sweetmeats, champagne and bouquets, all of which, amid the popping ‘of corks, the cracking of jokes and the sparkling of bright eyes, went off hke hot cakés*At a Pacific Railway station on a frosty morning. And they say that the Prince of Erie has thus probably inaugurated a new cra in the theatrical world which will be fully developed only when every place of amuse- ment in the cily shall have adopted the grand idea of o regular Pilgrim Fathers’ festival every Saturday night. This will be New Eng- land Puritanism ia a new phase, but it will draw The Churohes * Yeeterday. There is no subject which comes more di- rectly within the province of a newspaper than the church gatherings, servicos and sermons. They include all the varied interests of every- day life—politics, fashions, music, finances, commerce and the stirring events and reforms of the day as well as religion. The sermons of Sunday are like weekly reviews or edito- rials on the news of the past week, and the congregations that come to be edified come also to have. their’ opinions formed by the editorials from the pulpit as they are by the editorials of the press. And whether these gatherings are of the lowly or of the great, the mediocre or the gifted, the humble or the ele- Gant, the press performs its duty to the public in reporting them fully and in laying before its larger congregation the views expressed by the ministers who claim the attention of these gatherings. For these reasons we devote a larger space than usual to-day to our report of the church services yesterday. ‘The services, too, were more than usually brilliant, and the right of the rich to worship God according to their conscience and with a view to their comfort was fully confirmed. The old doctrines of wearing sackcloth and grinding one’s knee bones for the honor of God has gone out with the Inquisition and the thumbscrew, and the new idea that a man should worship God in his good clothes and on ® comfortable seat» has come in. Grace church, where Bishop Potter officiated and the suave Brown gave his attentive presence, blossomed like a flower garden, with its thousands of beautiful worshippers and the conntless hues and colors of their costumes. The Church of the Covenant, St. Stephen’s church, the Church of the Divine Paternity, St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Plymouth church, and all the numerous temples of God in this city and Brooklyn, teemed with humble devotees in silks and satins and broadcloth, who prayed with fervent anguish out of gold clasped prayer books, kneeling humbly upon a thick lined cushion to confess their sins and ask forgiveness. Dr. Chapin, at the Church of the Divine Paternity, with his over- powering eloquence, laid down the injunction of the lowly born Son of Man to these brilliant worshippers :—‘‘Be ye therefore followers of God and His dear children,” Father Mignard discoursed at the Church of St. Francis Xavier on the law of divine charity, ‘“to love one another and to forgive your enemies.” Thus while the hearers illustrated the humblenegs and character of riches and fashion the preachers held forth upon the loftiness and power of the poor and the lowly. NileOar Special Egypt. From Cairo, Egypt, under date of the 26th of December last, our special correspondent continues the narrative of his experiences when journeying on the banks of the river Nile. The letter is published in our columos to-day. It comes filled with legend and romance, and speaks of tombs, temples, prayer and the effect of modern European travel in the hoary land. The scenes which were witnessed at the dawn of morn and as sunset closed on the face of the Father of Waters are described with much elegance. The contemplation of them in their natural grandeur was not at all more inspiriting and soothing than is the great hope held out to the world by the writer in the assurance of the certainty that this modern return to the fountainhead of religion and civilization will benefit both the Old and the New World’s peoples. The river fringe populations of the Nile, their state of morals and mode of life, are noted with a degree of accuracy which is slightly painful to civilization, but hopeful withal. ‘Bull Run Russell” was there, and, as usual, made a grand blunder in his chronology. This is not to be wondered at, however, for the man who could not comprehend the jokes of the late lamented President Lincoln, or recognize the charge of the Black Horse cavalry of Virginia, or the cheer of an Irish brigade, would almost cer- tainly get ‘‘mixed” in his ideas when in the presence of four thousand years and in the midst of sphinxes and idols, and at Abydos and Thebes and Joseph's river and such like old-fashioned things and places. Our Ameri- can account is accurate noteatantantoE: Up the Lotters from Mormonism—The New Reveiation. Our letter from Salt Lake says that the schismatics claim to have had the rough ont- lines of the new’ constitution by direct revela- tion from Heaven, but that its details are to be supplied by the thoughts of individuals, Heaven having no desire to supersede human brains, and wishing the schismatics to be satis- fied with their own arrangement. The rough draft is presented to our readers in the letter of our correspondent, and they can form their own opinion of it as a handiwork of Heaven, It will be especially encouraging to the Woman’s Rights advocates to know that one article expressly declares that women have the right to vote on church questions, but the authorship of the draft is rendered rather doubtful by the fact that, although it deals in such minor matters as ward organizations, it fails to take ground for or against polygamy, the great question which threatens to uproot both the new and the old Churches and bring about a general revolution {n the whole religions organization of Mormonism. Not- withstanding the evils rampant in the chief camp of the Mormons, the missionaries of Brigham Young’s dispensation are intently at work to secure more proselytes, and the move- ment is becoming quite successful even so near home as Long Island, THE QUESTION OF ANA Divorces is be- fore the United States Supreme Court on an appeal, and it is considered probable that full force will be given to the pernicious doctrine in all the States. As one of the causes for divorce allowed by the laws of Indiana is in effect the pleasure of the judge, it will become an easier matter to be divorced than to be married, Mysrerizs 1x Brookiyx,—The people of Brooklyn, it would appear, have a “knack” of picking up human legs and feet that have no owners, Within two weeks the Coroner over there has been presented with three appen- dages of unknown human bodies, and is now only waiting for a head, a couple of arms and a stomach, to bold a twenty. dollar inquest. Medera Jonrualism—A Step in the Bight Direction. We publish to-day an article from the Philadelphia, Morning Post upon the sub- ject of the formation of a new press association, The ideas expressed are sound. The old Associated Press organization, a¢ it now stands, is hardly up to the pro- gress of the age as evinced in modern journalism. The ideas of a quartér of a century ago cannot be applied at this day to enterprises that have made such wonderful strides in advance as are to be observed in the mode of managing and conducting newspapers. We anticipate much good from the new press association, even if it does nothing more than to incite the old association to renewed efforts in carrying out the objects for which it was originally instituted. Competition is the life of trade, in the newspaper as well as in all other kinds’ of business, and when the Press Association shall discard some of its exclusive features, practice more economy and infuse a little fresher energy into its operations, the better will it be for newspaper proprietors and the public generally. : We hope the new asso- ciation will be allowed a fair trial; for-in the success of the experiment the people at large have an especial interest. European News by Mail. Our special European correspondence by mail, published in another column to-day, sup- plies a very comprehensive and’ interesting detail of our cable news telegrams to the 25th of January. M. Rochefort’s arraignment be- fore the criminal tribunal of Paris, his trial and sentence are reported. The account oc- cupies a very short space in the foreign journals. In this respect alone it illustrates the public advantage which accrues from & strict, impartial and somewhat sum- mary administration of the law; for, if acted on under a system full of bails, replevins, new trials motions, injunctions and counter, injunctions, with all the varieties of the mandamus, such as wo have some little experience of here, it would be interminable, Prince .Pierre, even the Prince Imperial, running a good chance of * being forgotten before its conclusion, Our special writers in Rome, Ireland and Spain furnish matter of immediate import relative to the progress of the Ecumenical Council, the difficulties, doubts and lay and royal influ- ences which prevail in and distract the assem- blage, of the working of the land system in Ulster and the local tenant right, and of Prim’s position, aspirations and dangers in Madrid. Our foreign budget is consequently, as usual, piquant, lively and instructive. The Tady Bankers of Broad Streot. King Solomon was of the opinion that there is nothing new under the sun. On general principles he was, perhaps, right; but when we come to’specialties, details and modifica- tions of old things he was wide of the mark. Something new in this line is turning up every day, and among the latest, the most interest- ing, the most suggestive and the most promis- ing of new things is the female banking firm in Broad street of Woodhull, Claflin & Co. They have created a new sensation ‘on ’Change,” not so violent as, but more profound than, the gold corner panic of that awful “black Friday,” and these lady financiers, as dealers in bills, bonds, stocks, &c., appear to be so firmly seated in the saddle and so confi- dent and so well posted that the notion pre- vails among the lame ducks and old foxes of Wall street that Vanderbilt, the oldest fox of them all, is at the bottom of the experiment. No matter. The experiment is one ef great importance. If successful it opens a new and boundless field for employment to women—a regular California gold placer, not only in New York, but in every city and town in the United States and in both hemispheres. But if it should fail? Fail! These ladies of the new banking firm, they say, are backed by a capital of half a million, and that they cannot fail. At all events, we like the experiment as a new thing, and we wish its success. Popery and Civil Governments, The Civilta Cattolica, a journal notoriously in the interests of the Jesuits, and to which we have more than once been indebted for valuable information, has come out with a strong article against the bad politicians. The article has been provoked by the oppo- sition manifested towards the Council by the governments of Austria, Bavaria, Spain and Italy. The Council is vigorously defended. The opposing governments are plainly told that the bishops despise menaces, that laws enacted contrary to the decrees of the Council will not be binding on the subjects, because they will not be recognized by the Church. All such governments dre further warned that they must ekpect “terrible revolutions to overthrow them.” France alone has been faithful to the Concordat, and Prance is to have a special blessing. If Papal thunder were now dreaded this would be very well. With the example of the United States, of Great Britain, of Prussia, of Denmark, of Sweden, not to speak of Russia and other non-Protestant Siates, hefore them, we do not think that Austria and Spain and Italy will be much alarmed by this threatened thunder, As for France, we must wait to learn what the Emperor says about infallibility before we pronounce her out of danger. American Travel In Egypt—Wiue and Honey in the Land. From Cairo, Egypt, we have a special cor- respondence to-day which will attract very gen- attention, not so much on account of the variety of news matter which it contains as by the widespread domestic and national interest which it affords by its personal erfumeration of the American travellers who have just lately visited the territory of the Viceroy. The list commences in the year 1867 and concludes with the year 1869, at and subsequent to the inauguration of the Suez Canal. Jt presents a curious exhibit of the system of cosmopolitan checks and balances which is just now prevail- ing among the populations of the world to find the youngest nation of the carth sending forth its sight-seeing, money-spending and un- prejudiced inhabitants in a utilitarian propa- gandism for the revivification of the people of the most ancient. This social missionary travel is calculated indeed to show forth the vast and universal progress which has been made withia a few years under the influence of tho Givilizing agoacios of stegm aud the elgoicia