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6 NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, Church Sorvices To-Day. APRIL 3, 1870.-TRIPLE SUSZT. Oregon and California road. The bonds of | Drese and Dress Fashions—Our fipecial | A Woman's Rights Womae for the Next Iefeli@itty—Why Should Not the Holy NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly AMUSEMENTS TO-HO230W EVENING, FALLAgES THEATRE, Broadway and 18th streot,— OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broaaway.—New VERSION OF Bamurr. are AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth «.—FROU WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- nerThirtieth o.—Mutinee daily. Performance every evening GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and Md sh—Tue TWEuve Tearrarions. NIBLO'S aan. Broadway.. y.—-PiPrin ; on, Tur Kina OF THR GoLD MIN RY net ah Bor Ti — ‘Gane oe wery.—THR AVALANONS. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth a atrect.—Gnranp VARIETY BMTERTAINMENT. BOOTH'S T! 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Q—Advertisement= S—Washington: Republican Efforts to Secure the Northern Negro Vote; Anxiety of Dominicans for Annexation; House Discassion on the ‘Tariff Bil; Tea and Coffee Not to be Placed on the Free List—The Castom House Smuggling~ Napoleon and the ,Pope: The Marquis @e Bannenlee Presenting the Emperor's Letter to Pio Nono—Yachting—an Un- civit Civil Justice—An Alleged Bizamis:— Boston, Hartford and Brie Ratiroat—The Jer- sey City Electione—Anotner Cuarter—The Ouban League—Tne Park Commussioners— Haytt: Further Particulars of the Capture of United States Consul Wiener by Jacquet—The Steepy Hollow Crime—Buruing of o Large Dis- tillery tn Connedticut—The Condemned Mur- derer ; Application for a Writ of Error and Stay of Proceedings tn the Case of Jack Reynulds. 4—Paris Fashions: The Economy Council in Dress : Material; How the Nationalities were Re- presented;: What the Ladies Gossip Abont— Religions Intelligence—The Forty-s1xth Sirect Galamity: Investigation Before Coroner Kee- nan—A New Way to Collect Ola Debis—Mar- riages and Deaths. S—A Hideous Sea Monster—Advertisements. G—Editorials: Leading Article on Infaliibiiity, Why Should Not the Holy Father Have His Own Way—Amusement Announcements. '¥=Telegraphio News from All Parts of the World : The French Trade Strikes Assuming Serious Proportions; French Diplomacy Towards the Holy See; First Fruits of the Fifteenth Amendment—Personal Intelligence—An Un- holy Alliance: Dark Doings at Deimonico’s— Vigorous Oratorical Titt Upon tho Election of Supervisors—Moeting of the Union League Club—Amusements—Postponement of the Tammany Demonstration—Biossom’ Club Biowing: Presentation of a Cane to Sena- tor Tweed—Melancholy Suicide in Hoboken— Suicide in Brookiyr—Jefforson’s Birthday— Dasterdiy Ousrage on 8 Young Girl—Tne Col- Mery Accident at Shenadoah City—Business Notices. S—Advertisements. @—Advertisements. 10—Fisk’s Fire Demons : Working Up a Oase ; Col- Usion Between a Manager and @ HERALD Ke- porter—Heavy Bond Robbery—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courte—New York Cixy News—Another Alleged Detaica- tion—Brooklyn Intelligence—The New Haven Explosion—Telegraphioc News Iteme—Albany Municipal Nominations—Chess Matters—Sbip- ping Intelligence—Aadvertisements. 11—Advertisements. 129—Advertisements. TRIPLE At Ir Acary.—The Pennsylvania coal speculations, for the Schuylkill miners, havo begun another strike. The time of the year, however, is not very favorable for bulling coal, GREELEY AND Morrissry.—It is given out that there was a confidential consultation at an up-town restaurant the other evening between Greeley and Morrissey, the Puritan and the faro banker, which is exciting considerable “speculation as to the drift of the conference. Some think it involved a proposition to sell out the young democracy to the republicans, and others that it was a move to sell out the ropub- licans to the jackknives, But whatever the object or the upshot of this extraordinary meeting, it signified only that everything is Gish that comes into the net of the politician. Jack Reynoips Aaain.—A stay of pro- ceedings in the case of this unfortunate philo- sopher was applied for yesterday by counsel- lor Howe before Judge Ingraham. In support of the motion the affidavit of Dr. Echeverria was submitted, claiming that Reynolds exhib- its a loss of moral feeling, and that he has marks about the head not unfrequently attend- ing epilepsy. He bases his belief that an inquisition as to his sanity ought to be had on the ground, among other things, of the circumstances connected with the murder of old Mr. Townsend. The Court reserved its decision. Next Friday is the day fixed for Reynolds’ execution, and it he is executed we believe it will be the first time for many years that a murderer has had justice meted out to him in this city without the indulgence of twolor three trials or respites. In Reynolds’ case, after being convicted of one of the most brutal and motiveless murders ever recorded, it seems avery slim argument to say that he ought to be respited for the very reason the murder was so brutal and motiveless. America. Manning, known as Archbishop of West- Fathor Have fils Own Way? At Romo infallibility still is the absorbing question. All accounts go to provo that the Pope is infloxible in his purpose, that if his voice is not now vox Dei it is his fixed deter- mination that it will be so at the earliest pos- sible moment, and that honceforward there will bo no sublunar difficulty as to what is the will of Heaven, From sources somewhat authentic we have learned that the Council has not been wholly a failure, that it has done some good work, and in matters subordi- nate has somewhat sutigfed the wants of tho inner circles of Catholicism. The two great objects, however, for which the Council was planned and convened, which gave it meaning and purpose, which gave it importance in the eyes of the world, which interested Protestants and divided Catholics—thore two objects, the Syllabus and Infallibility, have been mysteriously, or mischievously or happily postponed. During the first four months of its existence the Council has done everything but that which it intended to do. And what it has done, there are not a few who will say, it has done ina very question- able manner. Our latest news is to the effect that the Council, in spite of the presence of the Papal Legate, or Legates, and in spite of a presumed Presence which is holier and mightier than that of Legates or Popes, the Council has become not a little rowdy in its mode of doing business. It is only a few days siace we had occasion to comment upon the fact that when Bishop Stropmayer, of Hungary, ventured to express his opinion in opposition to the will and wishes of the majority he was rudely silenced—put down, in fact, somewhat after the fashion that the Sixth ward of New York puts down obnoxious orators—and forcibly and in some peril driven from the tribuaec, Our news of yesterday informed us that the scene was repeated with some aggra- vations, Cardinal Schwarzenberg, Prince and Primate of Bohemia, acting in conjunction with Stropmayer, Chief Bishop of Hungary, and both of them giving expression to the pre- vailing sentiments of Catholic Germany, had gone strongly in for common sense and for sympathy with dissidents inside the Ohurch and for Protestants beyond the pale; but amid uproar and confusion wilder than Tam- many Hall would have presenied had the flerce worshippers been permitted to assemble on the evening of Monday last within its sacred precincts, both Schwarzenberg and Stropmayer were compelled to shut up. The purpose of the Council is thus no longer doubtful, and that the Holy Fathergis in perfect harmony with the majority fn tho Council is made abundantly plain by a thou- sand concurring circumstances, but particu- lurly by his treatment of the Marquis de Banneville, a report of which treatment we give in the Hsraxp of to-day. We know the sentiments of all the Catholic Powers, Not one of them encourages the Pope in his present course of conduct. Austria, Bavaria, Italy, Spain, TFrance—a!ll are opposed to the ambitions designs of the dominant party in the Counci!. Nor is the opposition in those countries limited by the range of civil authority. It includes in each country, if not the most numerous, at least, the most powerful and most active portion of the Catholic community, the Dollingers and Schwarzenborgs and Strophayers of Catholic Germany, and the Dupanioups and Darboys and Marets and Hyacinthes and others in France, not tomentioa the thoughtful and determined anti-infallibilists in Italy, in Spain and in the United States of The parvenu Catholic, Dr. minster, who reveals all the zeal of a novice, has the advantage of being at the head of a majority, but it remains to be seen what fruit this zeal is to bring forth. To the Catho- lio Church it may be grapes from Eschol, but it may also be bitter water from Marah. If all the Catholic Powers turn their backs upon the Holy Father, and if France takes a fancy to withdraw her troops from Rome, the Catholic Church all the world over will not be without good reason to bless Dr. Manning, the Jesuits and the Ultramontanes generally for their hearty and unmistakable aval. In any case, we now koow that whatever infallibility may mean when it becomes the unquestioned pro- perty of the Holy Father, we have yet to be taught to entertain ordinary respect for the so- called Ecumenical Council, the Divine channel through which this infallibility is sought and from which alone it is admitted it can come. For our own part we cannot say we dislike the present aspect of things. It was all along our conviction that it would come to this. history has not tanght us that ecumenical councils have done either the world or the Church any large amount of good. We did not expect this Council to show more wisdom than had been shown by its predecessors. With the best intentions, believing, as we did, that the Catholic Church had found an oppor- tunity, if it knew how to use it, we pointed out some possible difficulties and gave some sound advice. The infallidilists, however, did not need advice, and, of course, did not take it, They have now made their bed, and, like or not like it, we suppose they must lie upon it. Since matters have come to this pass the best thing the Pope can dois to insist on being proclaimed by the Council what he believes he is, and the best thing the Council can do is to grant the Pope’s prayer and then disperse, One or two good results will follow from such acourse of action. All the world will know what the Roman Church means by the word Pope, and it will be possible to test the Holy Father by the test which he himself has set up. If good comes of infallibility we shall not te sorry. If sorrow comes of it we shall not be disappointed. Meanwhile we must cof- gratulate the Council on its mighty achieve- mentyand the Pope on his magnificent pros- pects. Long live the Pope ! Tar Strepy Hortow Murpergr, Buckhout, who killed his wife, a Mr. Rendall, and almost killed Mr, Rendall’s son, has had the satisfac- tion of a disagreeing jury. This is a long step towards his final discharge, as delay is always gain for the guilty in such cases, and therein lies one of the reasons why we favor a speedy trialand a prompt administration of ivatice We have never known assembled di- vines in any church giving much ‘ proof of wisdom. Our reading of To-day, as on all other Sundays, the churches will be opened for divine worsbip, and, if the weather bo fine, will be crowded by all classes of people, some of whom will attend because they have no other place to go to, and others from a sincere desire to testify to their devotion to God. Considered solely as an institution whereby sociely is preserved and civilization progressed, Christianity has undoubtedly made rapid strides during the past century, But ltis a matter for serious consideration whother the Christian faith main- tains the same position in the hearts of the masses that it did one hundred years ago. Men and women will attend at Plymouth church to-day and listen to Mr. Boecher’s dis- course; but how many of them will leave the tabernacle impressed with a sense of the great- ness and glory of God? They will hear Rev. Mr. Hepworth at the Church of the Moasiah and Dr. Chapin at the Church of the Divino Paternity ; but will their minds dwell more upon the subject matter of the sermons than upon the manner in which the sermons themselvos are delivered? And even in the Catholic churches, where the rites are of too solemn and imposing a character not to affect the con- gregation with religious feelings, do the wor- shippers leave the sacred edifices with hearts full of love and gratitude to the Christ whose life and death they have just witnessed typified in the services? We do not ask these questions from any doubt of the sincerity of those who attend the churches to-day. Undoubtedly a very large majority believe themselves earnest, sincere Christians, sorrowful of sins and anxious for the Divine pardon. . What we fear is that there fs not that absorbing contemplation of God's power and mercy which is necessary in religion; that men are too apt to think of their worldly affairs while the clergymen are delivering their sermons ; that women are too often given to the consideration of their neigh- bors velvet cloak or to the style in which their next new dress will be made, and, in fact, to many other subjects which have no connection with Christianity, and which, we need hardly say, take no part whatever in tho saving of souls, And it is because of this, what we might term unthinking irreligion, that we now earnestly conjure our readers to cast aside all worldly thoughts for this day and to devote their minds to Him who made us and to Him who alone can save us, when all of earth has passed away and the spirit stands before the judgment seat. Our clergymen are, alas! fallible beings and too prone to yield to every whim society clamors for—to practise innova- tions which tend to lessen the influence of re- ligion, and to make divine worship but the fashionable observance of an old custom. But in spite of their derelictions of duty there is much in their teachings to lead the sinner to repentance and to heaven. To the churches, then, we invite our readers this day, confident that the services and the sermons will prove beneficial to their spiritual beings, The Pepe and the Marquis de Bunneville. The very racy dialogue between his Holi- ness, Pius 1X., and the French Minister at Rome, which we translate in another column, is published in the Movimento, of Gonoa, and other Italian papers, on the authority of the French journal L’ Histoire, Where the latter obtained,a copy of the despatch or how is not stated, but it guarantees the authenticity of the document. At all events, if the paper in question be not a bona fide reproduction of the original it looks very much like one indeed, and it is not disclaimed by the Roman journals, Hence we may apply the shrewd Italian phrase, ‘‘Se non é vero, é ben trovato.” There can be no shadow of doubt that the French ambassador has been, to all intents and pur- poses, very prettily pooh-poohed by Pius IX., and all the honeyed blandishments of Cardinal Antonelli cannot conceal the fact. Moreover we learn from our Italian mails by the last steamer that the L'rench colors had been most heartily hissed at the Valle theatre in Rome just about the time when De Banneville may have been engaged in the rather difficult deglutition of the leek so adroitly presented to him in the sequestered garden of the Vatican. The keen, sly humor of the Holy Father in fencing off the Frenchman's attacks with affectionate inquiries about the health of the imperial family and the young Prince's veloci- pede is only less noticeable than his sombre warning that the Damocles sword of Mazzini, now suspended over the Papal tiara, equally menaces the Napoleonic crown. Is this well- acted ecene but the prelude of a broader and more imposing, drama? Tue Far. or THE For “SIXTH Sirker Bumpine.—An inquest was held before Coroner Keenan yesterday on the bodies of the Donnelly family, who were crushed to death by the fall of a building on Forty-sixth street during the gale last Sunday, The evi- dence clearly showed that the building was defective in construction, frozen mortar being used, and its foundation being upon a slanting rock; but Coroner Keenan, in laying down the law to the jury, said that verdicts of censure were of no conse- quence, as the matter must be determined by a civil suit. The jury being thus circum- scribed in their mode of expreseing the indig- nation naturally aroused by the evidence took it out in censure of the wind, which they blamed with the casualty. Although it was the general opinion of the witnesses that the building would not have fallen but for the gale, it is an equally probable idea that the wind would not have blown it over but for ita defective construction, and if there is any law against the erection of unsafe buildings Coro- ner Keenan had no right to charge the jury against censuring the guilty parties, AMERIOAN RALroap Bonps iN Evrore.-—— We have ao despatch from Frankfort-on-the- Main which says that five millions of the mort- gage bonds of the Oregon and California Rail- road have been negotiated in said city, which is another illustration of the faith of European capitalists in American investments, This is particularly a good time tor borrowing money in Europe for Amerjcan railroad enterprises. Inthe Bank of England and in the Bank of France the stock of specie is steadily increaa- ing, and all over the European Continent capi- tal is seeking employment abroad. Hence the saccess of ‘General Fremont at Paris in his negotiations for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and of the agents at Frankfort in behalf of the the Northern Pacific had not yet been brought into the market, but when issued they, too, will no doubt be quickly taken up, General Grant's administration, however, and the wonderful suecess of our experimental Union and Central Pacific road, have contributed immensely to the popularity of American investments all over Europe. General Grant ond the Public Debt. On September 1, 1865, our public debt, according to the statement of the Treasury Department, amounted to two billion seven hundred and nearly fifty-eight million dollars, the highest point it ever reached, either before or after the war, Andy Johnson was then fresh in office as President, and General Grant, commanding all the armies, was disbanding them and returning them to the pursuits of peace and taking them from the national pay roils as rapidly as possible. Lee, Johnston, Dick Taylor and Howell Cobb’s armies had surrendered some months before, and Kirby Smith's men, beyond the Mississippi, were then on their way to their homes or Mexico. By September, 1865, the whole expense necessary to paroling the rebel armies and disbanding our own was paid up, and the effect of General Grant's promptness became plainly noticeable soon after in the reduction of the debt, Tho next three months indicate a reduction of forty millions, which, of course, is to be largely attributed to the immense reduction of force, General Grant, of course, could have no influence upon public finances outside of the army arrangements, and during the rest of President Johnson’s adminstration the debt fluctuated, falling as low in November, 1867, to give it in round numbers, as two billions four hundred and ninety millions, rising again as high as two billions five hundred and fifty- six millions in a little over 9 year, and finally, in the last days of President Johnson's admin- istration, settling down to two billions five hundred and forty-five millions, the last year showing an actual increase of the debt by over twenty-six million of dollars, On the Ist of April, 1869, just one year ago, Prosident Grant's Secretary of the Trea- sury made his first report. It indicated a reduction of over two millions, the next month’s report indicated a reduction of thir- teen millions, then seven millions, then twelve millions, then about five hundred thousand (somewhat of a finctuation, to be sure, but always a reduction) and so on up to the end of the year, when, with the twelfth monthly report issued on the Ist instant, the grand balance shows a total reduction of the public debt during the year of over ninety million dollars, Thus the soldier of the war, who understood the fact that no means or money was to be spared in quelling the rebellion, has demonstrated the fact, even from the self-same day on which he received Lee’s surrender and commenced disbanding his own army, that the whole energy of the authorities of the country must be bent toward relieving the people of the debt imposed by the rebellion. He has been twitted with extravagauce since he became President; but if it is his extravagance that reduces the debt, we wish with Old Abe, in relation to the Bourbon that the same General was charged with drinking, that other bigh officials had more of the same extravagance, and especially that it was the kind of extrava- gance most in vogue among our State end municipal rulers. Democratic Regard for the New Voters. The fifteenth amendment seems to have touched most effectually that particular chord in the democratic heart that has hitherto vibrated for the oppressed colored msn. Now that be can vote without a doubt, and all chances of preventing his voting are lost, there is nothing that democratic heart and head (especially head) can conceive too good for him. Governor Bowie, of Maryland, has even mustered up a virtuous indignation that culmi- bated in a veto over a bill of the Legisla- ture incorporating a new town wherein the voters are described as white male citizens, As for Delaware—almost a twin sister of Mary- land in politics and importance--the eyes of Delaware rested lovingly, even if somewhat distended, on the process of colored voting on the school question in Wilmington yesterday, and itis even said that a democratic election officer accepted the new voters’ ballots without challenge or change of color. Delaware is thus the very first to accept the new political element under the new amendment, and we predict that her whipping post will be abol- ished betore long. Tow Frenon Trape “Srries.”-—The “atrikers” at La Crenzot, Irance, it appears, are bent upen misohief. The report is that they had been doing their best to provoke @ bloody collision with the military, bat that through the judicious conduct of the officers in charge the troops were restrained from firing. Louis Napoleon is well aware that a little spark in France now may kindle a great fire, and hence the forbear- ance of the army. The Emperor is on the defensive and knows his enemy. Our cable despatches, dated in Paris at half-past seven o'clock yesterday evening, state the situation at La Creuzot as being then very serious, and becoming still more alarming hourly. The troops were being reinforced. An idea was floating around to the effect that the ontbreak was, to some extent, produced by foreign in- fluence. This aspect of the case is serious also. Apropos “to Snap. —The lively Jersey fishermen are once more afloat on the Hudson, and they carry poles which are trees and obstruct navigation; and they also carry gill nets that may violate the laws of the State of New York for the pro- tection of theshad. The Jerseyman puts down his poles, driving them deep dn the mud, and the mysterious G. W. B. comes along with a tug and pulls them up. Every year this is done. For how many years will it continue? The Jerseyman evidently expects that he will wear out the patience of G. W. B., and that some year his poles will be permitted to re- main, In this he only proves that he does not know his man. Sooner will Bergh look with patience on the sufferings of a badly used horse than G. W. B. forget to pull up the Jersey shad pole. But as New Work State has jurisdiction over the waters of the harbor, cannot an example be made of some trespass- ing Jerseyman so as to settle all this trouble to a single agpeog? Report from Parts, The exolting flurry and cosmopolitan interest Preside.ucy, We published yesterday the pronmnelamento which were produced by our recent report of the spring fashions opening in New York have not subsided, Tho ladies have not yet ‘“‘mado up their minds” absolutely ag to what they will “really” wear. The costume material which is presented in our leading city stores and by the great merchant prince is bewilderingly varied and beautiful, both in fabric and design, 60 much go, indeed, that the fair sisters who look elegant in “anything,” no matter how simple, are considerably puzzled and some- what slightly exercised in mind to know ex- actly what is just the most becoming, end thus find out how they may afford to art the very best and most pleasing opportunity of har- monizing with nature by its fitting adornment. In this serious crisis the letter of our special fashions correspondent in Paris which is pub- lished to-day comes in hopeful aid towards the ultimate solution of the ‘‘walking calcula- tions.” The writer concludes the detail of the proceedings of the grand economic coun- cil which was assembled in the French capital, and the initiatory ceremonial of which was de- scribed by the same pen in the Hzxatp on Sunday, the 27th of March. It must not be supposed that this fashions council in Paris is by any means an economic assemblage in a financial point of view. It is, indeed, quite the reverse, being economic merely in its endeavor, after the wnities of plenty of rich clothing and huge trunks and in its anxiety to (a powerful document on behalf of woman's rights) of Mrs. Victoria ©. Woodhull as a can- didate for tho next Presidency. She says, in winding up her viows of the political situa- tion:—“I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people ay a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to eontest it to the close.” That's flat. Mrs, Woodhull, then, may be considered in the fleld, and being of the female firm in Wall street of Woodhull, Clafin & Co., who can tell the extent of her financial resources among the brokers, bulls and bears ? A woman, and a smart and handsome woman, she is the proper person to stand forth against the field a3 the woman's rights candidate for the White House. This makes three inde- pendent candidates already on the course. The other two are Daniel Pratt, Jr., ‘tho great American traveller,” as the independent Bo- hemian candidate, and George Francis Train, another great American traveller, as the inde- pendent Fenian candidate. We shall probably next have Senator Revels, Downing, the oyster- man, or Frederick Donglass, as the African can- didate, and the famous Koopmanschap as the Chinese labor candidate, and then it is undor- stood that the new labor reform party have hit upon Governor Geary as their candidate, and in the course of the next two years a halt ‘tents im church. solve the great problem and show forth the quod erat demonstrandum of how many yards of silks, satins, velvets, laces, ribbons, hat trimmings, shawls, cloaks, petticoats, flounces and furbelows and such like can be conveniently adjusted, arranged and piled on and worn by the most charmingly petite per- sonages on earth all at the one time without danger of overloading or injury to health. This is a very absorbing, really grand, scien- tific pursuit—a world-wide, universal one. A lay seeking after a mundane infallibility full of anxieties and tending to nervousness, like the Papal schema, which has just informed the peoples of the world of how bad they are at present here below, but really leaves them in very mournful ignorance as to whether they will ever be better off, either here or here- after. From this special letter we obtain new ideas of costume from Italy, Spain, France, Rome and England. Paniers, garters, hats, shoes, boots, bonnets, court robes, morning dresses, evening dresses, mantles, Cashmeres, gauzes, diamonds and gold are shaped out and glitter almost before our eyes in the communi- cation—a letter which will, we guarantee, be widely read and deeply studied in this the great American metropolis at an early hour this morning. In conclusion we beg to ex- press the very ardent hope that the ladies will not think of our fashions letter und its con~ “Render unto Cesar,” and so forth. ‘What Our Navy Should Do Indies. We are about to send # new naval comman- der to the East Indies, with a well-appointed fleet of several ships. This officer is well chosen, and brings to his duties rare ability. When he assumes command of the squadron we shall confidently expect to hear he has orders from the administration to mark his assumption of command by some acts which shall redound to our credit as nation and make us additionally proud of our navy. It is true China and Japan are open to our commerce. We draw from both extensively, and also find a market for our goods ; but there are other new countries to be opened up, and we confidently expect Rear Admiral Rodgers will be charged with this and the complete suppression of piracies in the East. Up to this time onr ships, as well as those of other nations, are attacked by pirates in Chinese seas, within « day's sail of Hong Kong and Macao, crewa murdered and ves- sels destroyed. This, too, while the civilized nations of the world sustain squadrons for their suppression. It would seem that it will yet prove in the Kast Indies to be the duty of the United States Navy to suppress piracy, as it did in 1812-15 in the Mediterranean, by destroying the last foothold it held in Africa, under the very nose of the great Powers, France and England. In our Tripolitan war the United States first assumed its place as a first class natiou, and to that position we arose by one well-directed blow by our gallant navy. We owe also to our navy the opening of com- merce with Japan, as we will, itis hoped, owe to it the suppression of piracy in the East Indies ; and with the thought of this work yet undone in the East comes the question of new coun- tries not yet opened to the civilized world. We allude to Corea. There lies a splendid country, teeming with life and industry, with precious ores and staples, and this day the world knows lesa of Corea, her King and people, than we ever did of Japan. It is a kingdom larger than France or Spain, and yet we only know its people to be disposed to kill every person and rob every ship that falls a prey by wreck upon its coast. Here, then, lies the opportunity for our navy—suppress piracies: on these seas, open up this new country and thus combine a double purpose. We trust our flect will be ordered to visit Corea and treat with its King. Our position as a first class nation calls for this, Our commerce will then be protected and our channels to trade opened, and again, for the handredth time, the navy will prove its inestimable yalue to the country. Here, then, is a chance for our Hast India squadron, under its sable commander. It would be no little glory for it to thus end piracy in its last stronghold and open up to the world this last semi-civilized empire, which is now a sealed book. This should be done, and we hope our fleet will go to Corea with the sword, to suppress piracy, drawn in the right hand, and let the left hand hold the olive branch. We can, without much claim to wisdom, predict which will be accepted. in the East Tur Cusrenne Inpians demand peace. They want to trade with the whites, and a delegation is at Fort Fetterman to present their requests, These Cheyennes have been the most powerful and malignant among our red enemies, but their unscrupulousness in war is equalled by their impudence and auda- city in demanding peace. They would slaughter a dozen white families with infinite zest to-morrow if they wore loaded down with presents in token of pene to-day. dozen more candidates may turn up, which will make things very lively. in any event, the women’s rights women have their own candidate, and the Bohemians and the Fenians each have their man on the track, which will-do for a boginning two years in advance of the race, and of these three Victoria C, Woodhull has all the advantages that point to success. Personal Religious Activity. As in civil, political, commercial and other operations of society, so-also in religions, the tendency of this age is to association and asso- ciated efforts to promote common objects. The axiom that in unioa there is strength may, however, be carried too far and be accepted too literally, and we fear that in religious efforts this is so, personal to lead their tances We hear no more of the of individual Christians friends and acquain- to the Saviour which were so common half a century or a century ago. efforts There are now no Harlan Pages who devoie hours of each day to personal entreaties with those whose souls he loved to become Chrie- tians. We are altogether too apt to delegate our duties to the association or the Charch or the minister and to content ourselves with the assumption that the work is in some way, we don’t care how, attended to. This is a grave error either in business or in religion, and its baleful effects are often witnessed in commer- cial and business enterprises. Personal reli- gious activity was one of the most marked characteristics of early Christianity, and by it mainly were converts made from paganism. It has been the leading agency in all thd great religious revivals of the Church, and through it thousands have been turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God. The Church of the future is to receive ite largest accessions also by personal efforts. And the philosophy of it is plain. In minis- tering to congregations personal identity is, to a great extent, lost, so that the preacher can- not utter his reproofs nor urge his reasons for a better life with that earnestuess and direct~ ness which he can bring to bear upon indi~ viduals in personal conversation. And, con~ sidering these facts, it must be admitted that the pulpit is doing as well as it can‘under pre~ sent circumstances. Taking two weeks, end- ing February 24 and March 26, a8 exampies, we find in our religious exchanges four thou- sand three hundred and ninety conversions reported. About one thousand five hundred of this number are reported in the Methodist denoniination. thousand converta should put forth personal efforts enough to convert but one other in the course of a year, and the wholé number should ropeat these efforts year after year for a sin- gle decade we should have one hundred and six millions of people professing Christianity, instead of about seventy millions, as there aro now. And ifthe seventy millions throughout the world should exert similar efforts, and succeed, the entire haman family might be converted to God within the same period, But we cannot hope for any such result so long as the individual is sunk in the com- munily or in the congregation, Tus New Cuarter amp THE ParK.— A meeting of merchants and property owners was called yesterday at No. 111 Broadway to “protest against the change in the man- agement of the Central Park Commission pro- posed in the City Charter now pending in the State Senate;” but owing to the storm the meet- ing was postponed till Monday afternoon at one o'clock, The call grows out of some public migapprehensions in reference to this new Charter, and the organ of the, “‘rough and rea- dies” has been making the most of it in its en- deavors to frighten the republicans at Albany with the scarecrow that, under tho Froar bill, violent hands will be laid upon the Park. Nothing of the sort, however, is con- templated. The eupporters of the bill at Albany—democrats and republicans—know what they are about, and the provision of the bill in reference to the Park is not for its de- struction or demoralization, but for the main- tenance therein of law and order, and of econ- omy and honesty in its management. Mr. Wiener, the American Consul who was recently arrested by Jacquet, the chief of the Haytien insurgents, is still held as a hostage at Des Abricots. The English, French and American Consuls at Port au Prince have taken the matter in hand, and a ficet, consist- ing of one English and two Haytien men-of- war, have been sent to liberate Mr. Wiener, Here is another argument for the augmenta- tion of our naval squadron in the Antilles. The créme de la créme of the darky popu- lation in Washington, headed, of course, by that artist in bivalves Downing, had on amendment jubilation yesterday. It was the general opinion among the colored aristocrats present that Grant was their bona fide Moses and the fifteenth amendment was a nutshell edition of the Ten Commandments, Now, if each one of those four -