The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, j| AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bro: a a Macnxru. maway.—-NEW VERSION OF woe AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRov- OU. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, ec a sua —THE TWELVE TENPEATIONS, “hte Avenue and WOOD'S MUSEUM AND M NAGERIE, Rroad a ° ner Tulrueth w--Matines dally, Per ormuice every evening NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway,—Prrrin; on, Tue Kixe OF THE GOLD MINES, BOWERY THEATKE. Bowery. 18i0—-Le QuaveR Anoun—-Pu New Yor« rv 180 AND DP THK OURAN. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—GeanD VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. BOOTHS THEATRE, 2 Li St, between 5th and 6th avs.— A Wivow Hurr—Toon WALLACK’S THEATRE: dway and 13th street. — MEN AND Aonrs. NEW YORK STADT THE wt 2—Lumpact WAGABUSDL 4h Bowery.-~ Afternoon ning—FisA DIAVOLO, MRS. FP. B. CONWA Lavy AUDLEY URE’ BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Rir VAN WINKLE. PARK THEATRE, Brooklya,— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerv.—Comic Vocalism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, £0. Matinee at 2. THEATRE COMIQ’E, 614 Broadway.—Comto Vooar- IsM, NEGRO ACTS, a Tammany Building, 14th SAN FRANCISCO MI PIAN MINSPSELBEY, 6. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRE Cuow-HL. 720 Broadway.—CuiNa- STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street,—-Mayxe Rem On Brxon. 1 APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.— ‘ThE New HinkRntwon, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Hoonry’s MINSTEELS—SUPERNATURAL ILLUSIONS HAMLET. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth strect—Proresson Rrs- LEY'6 COMBINATION. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOE AND ARI New York, Monday, April 18, 1870. CONTEVIS OF TO-DAY?S HERALD. ‘ VacR. 1—Advertisements, ‘2—Adverusements, B—Religions: Easter Sunday Fervor, Fashions, De- corations, Discourses, Manners, Music, Exhor- tations and Exotics; Religious Teachings of ihe Resurrection; The Batteries of the Caurch and the Batulements of Het); Wise and Fool- ish Virgins in Propria Persone; The Central ‘Truth of Christ the Root of the Christian Faith. 4—Religious (continued), 5—Yachting: The Great Season of 1870; The Hard- lest and Healthiest of all Pastimes; Science in Construction; Invention io Design and Ex- pertness in Seamanship; Tne Patrons, Pio- neers and Perpetuity of American Yaciting; Owners, Officers and Organizations; Kaces, Matches and Regattas. {G—Edittoriais: Leading Article on The Future of Our Navy—Amusement Announcements. 7—Telegraphie News from Ajl Parts of the World: France Still Agitated by the Trade Strikes; Provincial Riots and Fighting tn Portu- gal; The Indians and Fenians—Washing- ton News—The Long Island Farmers—A Novel Steamboat—New York City News— ‘Teddy O’Ryan’s Sortie—Musical and Theatri- eal—The Proposed Crysial Palace—The May Magazines—Personal Inteiligence—Obituary— Business Notices. S—Europe: Premier Ollivier’s Definition of Constt- tutional Government: Napoleon’s Inferences from the Briush and American Systems—Oid Worla items—Muitary Chit Chat—Powers’ Greek Slave—The Army and Navy Compared— ‘The Oneida Disaster—Musical Review—Court Calendars for To-Day—Financial and Commer- _ cial Keports—Marine Transfers, 9—Marriages, Births and Deaths—Aavertisements. 10—The State Capital—A Strange Story—A Femt- nine Mystery in a Jersey Jail—Jersey City News—The Irishman Who Repu- diates the Brogue—Art Notes—Reai Estate Matters—The Struggle Between Capital and Labor—Fires on Long Island—is the New Jer- sey Central Railroad Swindling Its Stocknold- ers?—Lectures Lasi Nignt—Journalistic Notes— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisemenis. 12—Advertisements. For Suertrr—A citizens’ meeting of the Thirteenth ward have put up E. J. Shandley. Who next? Coneress.—Georgia in the Senate and the Tariff bill in the House will probably be talked over azain to-day. Revivat of Bustness.—Look carefully over our advertising columns. They embody a vast amount of important information. AN ALASKAN Apri, SHOWER was given the good people of Indiana on Saturday last in five inches of snow. A’ white robe to the earth for Easter Sunday. Coneress, it is said, will have to sit until July to finish up its business. We presume it calls its long-wigded mode of proceeding on the Georgia bill business. If so, the country can dispense with ils further services at once. Tur Tax Levy, as we have published it, is pretty fair; but we are a little apprehensive that there will be some doctoring that will spoil it before it gets to the Governor. Can we depend upon Mr. Tweed to watch it, or has he just now some other fish to fry ? Rerurninc To Reason.—Ths Grand Lodge of the Good Templars in Maine has adjourned after disavowing any intention to make a par- tisan corporation of the institution. It is about time these temperance Maine-iaes of the Neal Dow stamp had a returning sense of reason. Briguam Youne has returaed to Salt. Lake City after an extended tour through his dominions. He reports everything quiet on the Colorado. Brigham was received with great demonstrations of joy by his constitu- ents, which, after all, is nothing strange, con- sidering that many of them are his own rela- tions, and he has the reputation of being a kind husband and lenient father. Exvrration Taar 1s Not to Be De- singep—The apparent exultation of the ‘‘dan- gerous classes” at the appointment of Captain Jourdan in the place of the late Police Super- intendent Kennedy. Our law-abiding citizens have great faith in Captain Jourdan, but the joy of ‘‘the roughs” over his appointment would seem to indicate that they expect in their vocation some advantages eal the change. Captain Jourdan, however, has no slternative vat that of law and order, Let him not be deceived by false pretences. . ‘The Future of Our Navy. ‘Whatever may be the present condition of our navy as regards its dimensions, its future is assured from the fact that its usefulness was made so apparent during the rebellion that the people of the country wish to see it kept up on ascale commensurate with the greatness of our institutions, We are a great nation in all things. Our railroads surpass in extent any- thing of the kind in the world ; our floating palaces on the North and East rivers are un- equulled; when we had merchant ships they were supovior to all others ; our public build- ings at Washington are equal to the best in Europe, and our public and private iustitu- tions of all kinds challenge the envy of the world. We have a naval prestige also that sticks to us, although we have but few naval ships, and our private workshops will vie with any in England, if they only receive that lib- eral suppor: which is given to those of England by their government, We possess the best of timber and iron, and are independent of other nations in rigging, canvas and equipments of all kinds. What else, then, do we want to make us a great naval Power but the fostering hand of Congress? Millions of money have been spent hitherto in our navy, and yet the result is that we are left with one hardly worth mentioning, from the fact that professional naval men, who have the charge of the fleeis of other nations, are ignored in this country. The navy is thus left in the hands of politi- cians, who cannot be supposed to understand its wants or have any knowledge of its de- tails, Up to 1842 our naval affairs were controlled by a certain number of senior officers of the navy, called the Board of Naval Commis- sioners, and history shows that, considering its size, our navy would compare most favor- ably with the best in Europe. Our three- deckers were the heaviest known, our frigates the fastest, and our small craft the handiest little vessels extant for breakiug up piracy and running down privateers, When the board of experts or naval commissioners were left out inthe cold, and the bureau system, without pro- per balances, was adopted, wiid schemes were undertaken without responsibility and with no knowledge of the real wants of the navy. Had not our mercantile marine come to the as- sistance of the nation inthe darkest hour of her need there is no knowing where we should have been at this time. It was to the machine shops of our great cities that we were indebted for the numerous steamships and steam engines that were built during the rebel- lion. Much of the steam machinery, it is true, now encumbers our navy yards, and is in @ measure ussless from having been con- stracted on wrong principles by a person who was allowed to squander the public money; but it stands as a monument to the ability of our mechanics to construct as large engines as any in Europe. On these same shops we shall have to depend in time of war for a fresh supply, and if the rebellion served no other good purpose it certainly was effec- tive in bringing out the talent of our machine builders and demonstrating their ability to supply the government with engines of any required description. Most of the great machine shops of this coun- try are in New York. The necessity for them is the greatest here; for here congregate from time to time the one hundred and seventeen great steamships that weekly wend their way from our shores to Europe and depend on these machine shops for their repairs. These works will increase in number and importance as the steain lines increase, and would it not be insanity to undertake the removal of the Brooklya yard to New London when such adjuncts as these are to be left behind? On these works we shall have to depend in the future; and instead of building up great shops in our navy yards for the con- struction of machinery, all the engines planned for the navy should be built by contract at private establishments. This is the policy of the British government, and it is dictated by motives of economy ; for it is well known by their naval authorities that engines made at government yards cost twice as much ag those built by private individ- uals and are not half as good after all. A board of naval commissioners would soon ascertain that fact from comparing the cost of such engines as are made at government yards with those constructed at private establish- ments, and, having been taught a lesson from the failures of the past eight years, they would prevent an inefficient engineer from palming off upon the service engines built on exploded theories” and fit only for the scrap heap. The first step in a proper reorganization of the navy is to place the management of the pro- fessional part in the hands of those who have been identified with it from boyhood; who know the best men in it; who will guard against frauds; prevent people from growing fat on contracts, and who, from their high standing, can satisfy Congress that the money asked for the support of the navy is really needed, When this is done let us begin to build anew, sell all the nondescript ships and let them go into the coal business, for which they are best suited. A number of them that were sold by the government have gone into the coal and coasting trade, for which they are well adapted, especially in the route be- tween New York and Boston. We have full faith that the time is not far distant when our navy will begin to again hold up its head. Already, under naval manage- ment, our ships are being equipped in a manner to do credit to the service, and a class of vessels are leaving our ports for duty abroad that we need not feel ashamed to look upon, <Allthat is wanted is for Congress to see the necessity of abandoning for a while its system of unwise economy and grant eup- plies to the naval service. We need five or six millions of dollars at once to col- lect timber and other material, and to build a new class of vessels with engines designed and constructed outside the navy. We want four or five millions more to build seagoing iron-clads superior to the Monarch, that came into our waters and taunted us with “You have nothing like this in your coun- try ;” and we need the best intellect of the navy to tell the builders how the ships are to be fitted of which they are to have the man- agement in battle. Lord Collingwood once remarked, when a new ship was sent out to him, “Ifa constructor had to command this ship and I hadthe building and making of her internal arrangements, how he would - swear at me;” and it is supposed that the Admiral swore a little himself—inwardly. It is announced in the papers that the North German government have sent a frigate, as a schoolship for their midshipmen, to witness our improvements! What will be their sur- prise when they find that their port of Kiel, although but a few years in their possession, has a larger and better navy yard than any in this country, and that they outnumber us in ships of all kinds, although they were never considered a naval Power until within two years! This is the first North German ship- of-war that ever visited our hemisphere, and deficient as they may find our navy now it is bound to outstrip all others when the people of the country will it, The navy must advance, for it is as much a necessity that we should havo guardians of the seas as that New York city should have its guardians of the night. We remember the time when only one sleepy old sentinel of the night could be found within a dozen squares on Broadway. Now they exist in the ratio of the wants of the community. So it will be with the navy if Messrs. Dawes, Washburn & Co. will rise to the occasion, and if Mr. Stevens will cease his attempts to abolish all that is good in the service. The Church and State Trouble in Spnuia. Our latest news from Spain shows that the situation is becoming more and more sharply defined as between Church and State. It is well known that the bishops have not yet accepted the facts of the revolution, and that this fact has given birth to one of the liveliest questions of the hour in the Peninsula, Rome has bad to take the matter into consideration, Rome is, of course, against the revolution. It is only a few days since the Spanish bishops received instructions from Rome forbidding them to sign the new constitution, Later we have learned that Prim has issued orders to the effect that within a given time the bishops must decide finally ‘‘yea” or *‘nay,” the gov- ernment reserving to itself the right to deal with the malcontents as it may think fit, A despatch of a still later date has it that the republicans of Spain, now a powerful party, are on the side of Prim in this matter. They insist on the separation of Church and State, and advise the government to deport to Rome all priests and bishops who prdve refractory. This, we think, is sound and sensible advice, and we hope Prim will have the pluck to fol- low it. In Spain, above all countries on the face of the earth, the priests and bishops are stumbling blocks in the pathway of progress. With the republicans at their back, Serrano and Prim, commanding as they do the unionists and the progresistas, can have no difficulty in sweeping aside those clerical barriers. Svnd them to Rome, say we. So long asthe French troops remain there the bishops will be safe ; and when the French troops shail be recalled and Victor Emanuel or Mazzini shall be master of the capital of the Cxesars neither Spain nor any other Power shall have much farther trouble with priestcraft. Meanwhite Spain cannot do better than send the priests and bishops to Rome. France und Enropean Disarmament. ‘Iwo of our latesi cable despatches are sug- gestive as to the immediate international policy of Europe, One is to the effect that Great Britain and Russia have agreed to pro- pose a general disarmament to the Prussian government. Another is that so soon as the plebiscite is voted on by the French people the Duke of Persigny will proceed to Berlin to propose a European Congress. A European Congress has long been desired by Napoleon, and within the last two years he has more than once expressed his anxiety for a general dis- armament. Prussia has been the main hin- drance to the carrying out of this scheme, Prussia knows well that Napoleon is not satis- fied with the results of 1866. Prussia will never consent to disarm unless France accepts things as they are. Bismarck is still the mas- ter of North Germany, and Bismarck will have no parley with Napoleon about the treaty of Prague and the other fruits of Sadowa. If, however, a European Congress could agree about disarmament the peoples of Europe would not be without good reason to bless it, It is not at all improbable that a Congress of the great Powers may be the next European sen- sation. % A Grear Rep River Exrepirion.—We learn from Ottawa that the Canadian govern- ment expedition to the Red river of the North, the seat of the Winnipeg Basin insur- rection, will number ten thousand picked men, including a steel battery and a rocket brigade, as well as two thousand loyal Indians. This will be a more formidable army than was that of Napier’s famous Abyssinian expedition. But why this powerful warlike force? There are, from all that we oan learn, less than three NEW XUKK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET, eA ae earch ecaxaeSomaesa ! ‘The Churches Yesterdays As on all previous Easter & days, a large number of the churches in this city, Brooklyn, Washington and other places, reported else- where, were yesterday decorated profusely with flowers, and the ceremonies were of that solemnity and beauty which distinguish the celebration of Kuster, As regards the ser- mons, they were for the most part on the subject of the resurrection. , As Bishop South- gate expressed it at Zion church yesterday, Christians were all catholic—at any rate the preachers were in their language. if not in their hearts, and the congregations seemed to unite with the clergymen ia glorifying the ris- ing of Christ from the dead, It was gratify- ing to observe that the ‘alsity and juggling” of Roms were not referred to; that the ques- tion of salvation by means of immersion was not agitated; that the Bible in the public schools was not made the theme for pious invectives, and that even politics was eschewed, Of course there were exceptions. In a country like this, with threo hundred and sixty-five religions and only one gravy, it would indeed be surprising if tacre was on any Sunday but a single subject discoursed upon in the churches, There was, perhaps, less of fashionable dis- play than is usually the case; but we fear the moderation in dress was due more to the raia than to piety. And this same inclement weather, we regret to record, prevented es large an attendance at the churches as was expected. It is true that they were comfort- ably filled; but had the day been clear and bright we have no doubt they would have been crowded to repletion, But there are Chris- tians and fair weather Christians, and the thousand armed insurgents in the disaffected and sparsely populated territories to be visited. Has the Canadian government information of a Fenian raid down the Red River valley from Minnesota this coming summer? Perhaps so. But can the Canadians spare ten thousand picked men for the far West with O’Neil in their rear? That is their look out, not ours. Tue Comine Yacutinc Szason already shows evidence of unexampled brilliancy. Be- sides the regular regattas in our lower bay of the ten or twelve yacht clubs that flourish in the immediate neighborhood of the metropolis, the international contests in English waters and across the Atlantic are already exciting the attention of the yachtmen, and will be watched with great interest even by land Iubbers. Elsewhere we present in this connection a list of the yacht club organizations, the lead- ing yachts and their owners, and give some ex- planation of the complicated rules of measure- ment and time allowances that had almost, by their insoluble intricacy, prevented the con- summation of those international races re- ferred to. Tae Sunpay Heratp.—Forty-nine columns of advertisements, generally ‘‘short, sharp and decisive,” for Easter Sunday, is a sign of a return, after the Lenten season, to active business and the affairs of everyday life again. Sampo IN THE JaRsine.—The city of Perth Amboy, N. J., has gone republican, under the negro vote and the new charter, for the first time in twenty years. Sambo is looking up in the Jarsies, When will bis ‘delicious brogue” be heard in the Legislature? z latter never go to church when it rains. In fact, it is not unlikely that had the resurrection of Christ taken place yesterday, instead of over eighteen hundred years ago, these people would have stayed at home rather than have run the risk ot getting their spring dresses and coats wet. We have no fault to find with the attendance, on the Catholic and Episcopal churches, for these were so full that many persons could not gain admission, At the Church of the Messiah and a few other placeswf worship the congregations were also large, but in the main too many believers in Christianity were not in their pews. An explanation for this dereliction is attempted in the statement that a large num- ber of Protestants visited the Catholic churches yesterday for the purpose of hearing the music, thus causins vacancies in the pews of their own tabernacles. This, if true, only makes the case worse. Music is but an ap- pliance of religion. If the explaaation be correct these people believe in the appliance more than in Christianity itself, which may say much for their artistic taste, but is a deplora- ble reflection on their theology. Moreover, since it is music and not God that they wor- ship, and considering what a wretched day yesterday was, in 9 meteorological sense, they might have procured the services of an Italian organ-grinder and to his strains paid their devotions without getting a wetting. However, on the whole, Easter Sunday was observed in a manner creditable to weak hu- manily. That preachers and congregations were impressed by the grandeur of the event commemorated was evidenced by the earnest- ness of the one and devout attention of the other. Mr. Beecher was eloquent and full of pathos in his depiction of the resurrection ; Mr. Hepworth rejoiced over the fact of the future life which the rising of Christ from the dead made patent to men; Rey. Mr. Pullman, Bishop Southgate, Dr. Chapin and other Pro- testant divines told anew the wondrous tale of the Saviour’s last appearance upon earth and explained its meaning to their hearers, There could undoubtedly have been a little more originality in the sermons delivered yester- day. Some picture, for instance, might have been drawn of the resurrection of Christ as impressed upon the modern mind. Com- parisons might have been made which would have shown the sinner how ineffably grand and beautiful was the event celebrated. But until the press shall have completed its task of enlightening the preachers we shall hear but little original from the pulpit. Until that is done we need not expect anything more than we received yesterday—earnest, God-loving and God-fearing sermons, which we believe were effective, insomuch as they sought to move the hearts of sinners to that appreciation of the sacrifice of Christ for man which is the first dawn of a sincere re- pentance. ‘ “Wo Dar Knockin’ at vE Door?”— New Mexico. And she is ‘‘right good look- ing,” and she ought to comein. What's her number? Set her down No. 38. How many more are coming behind her? Let us see. There are Colorado, Arizona, Dacotah, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Washington. With all these admitted the number of States will be forty-six. Then from Texas, with her two hundred and thirty-seven thousand square mites of territory, at least two new States must be cut out, which will give us forty-eight States. Then leaving Alaska—about five hundred thousand square miles in all—out in the cold, but taking in the New Dominion, and the West Indies and old Mexico, and—and—we give it up. Watt, watt ye winds the story, And you, ye waters, roll, Til, Jike @ sea of glory, It spreads irom pole to pole. Corner GROCERIES AND THE Excise Law.— According to the Excise law, as amended, per- sons are allowed to sell wine, spirituous liquors, beer, é&c., in quantities less than five gallons, upon the payment of a license fee that shall not be less than thirty nor more than one hundred dollars, This of course includes the corner groceries, at which places some have inter- preted the law to mean that they shall be exempt from the imposition of the license tax. There are obscure points in the” law which will require time and the decision of the courts to determine the exact meaningof. In any case, however, under the present democratic régime, the law will no doubt be interpreted in favor of the liquor seller and the liquor con- sumer. Broapwar.—Our citizens who are directly interested in the preservation ef Broadway from.a destructive mutilation will do well to have afew strong representatives at Albany from this day tothe end of the session. Other- wise no man.can tell what o day may bring forth in the Lanlalature. Americans as Diplomatic Representatives for Foreign Countries. It would appear that the example of the Emperor of China in accrediting an American citizen as his representative near the Ameri- can government has been followed up by séve- ral of the American republics, cortainly by Bolivia and Honduras, The latter some time ago named Mr. E.G, Squier, formerly Minis- ter of the United States in Central America, as its Minister Resident and Chargé d’ Affaires in Washington, and recently Bolivia accred- ited Mr, J, W. Caldwell, late United States Minister Resident in that country, iu a similar capacity, Neither of these gentlemen have, we believe, been received in the character in which they were accredited, not on account of any personal objection, but from considerations of public policy, it being held that no foreign government can invest an American citizen in the United States with rights, privileges or prerogatives not accorded to him by the laws of his own country, A dis- tinction is drawn, however, between accepting an American citizen as a Minister Resident and receiving him as a special envoy for @ specific purpose not involving permanent abode in the United States, Mr. Burlingame, itis held, wasa special envoy, whose official character terminated with tho conclusion of the specific business confided to his charge— namely, a revision of our treaty with Cuina. The United States has constantly received American citizens as Consuls General and Consuls of foreign States, but always with the understanding and on condition that such officers shall not claim or exercise any of the special or personal privileges or immunities usually attaching to these offices, and which are freely conceded to such officers when not citizens, On more than one occasion have the exequaturs of Americans holding foreign con- sulships been revoked because they claimed exemptions and privileges beyond those of other American citizens, The government, however, does not decline to receive persons American born who have changed their allegiance or citizenship. Mr. Elisha H. Allen, actual Minister Plenipoten- tiary of the Hawaiian Islands, is a native ot the United States. He was a member of Con- gress from Maine in 1841-43, and a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1849. He went to Honolulu about that time as United States Consul, but soon obtained the conti- dence of the Hawaiian government and be- came Secretary of State. It is presumed he formally transferred his allegiance on that cc casion. The same is probably true of Mr. Heory M. Shieffelin, actual Chargé d’Affaires of Liberia. Great Britain, on the other hand, steadfast to the dogma ‘‘once a subject always a subject,” has always refused to receive any native of the British islands in a diplomatic capacity, even after a formal transfer of alleziance on his part. <A notable case occurred in 1823, * when the old republic of Central America accredited Colonel John Galway, an Irish officer who had distinguished himself in its armies and taken an oath of allegiance, as its representative at St. James. Notwithstand- ing the gallant Colonel! disguised his patro- nymic under the rather more sonorous Spanish name of Juan Galiundo, yet the “rich Irish brogue” was obstinate and betrayed him. He was not received. Still there are numerous examples of citi- zens or subjects of certain States having been received in diplomatic capacities from other States or sovereigns and obtaining full diplo- matic privileges, Writers on diplomatic law and usage, without exception, admit that a govern- ment may receive a subject as the representa- tive of another government; but, as the re- ception of any Minister at all isa matter of discretion, it follows that it may decline to do so without assigning any reason, or it may receive such subject or citizen conditionally— that is to say, on condition of his renouncing any privileges not attaching to him as a citizen, such as immunity from arrest or the jurisdiction of the courts. Wiquefort thinks it a special mark of good feeling and a high compliment on the part of a foreign State to accredit a citizen of another State to the government thereof, ‘as it is impossible to suppose that the individual thus distinguished could be more devoted to any country than to his own.” This is a view probably in which most men on reflection would share. It is certainly complimentary to the coun- try to find thatsome of its representatives abroad have so far obtained the respect and confidence of the governments to which they were accredited as to receive their nomination in turn to a corresponding position ‘at home. This shows that among foreign States the intelligence, capacity and activity of Ameri- cans are understood and valued, and that these qualities are sought to. be utilized to the advantage of all concerned. It seems to us that our true policy is rather to encourage such appointments than otherwise, yet we can comprehend the propriety of receiving the appointees on condition of their not claiming: to exercise any rights not belonging to them as American citizens. The government may wisely reconsider its decision before it shall become an established precedent. We cer- tainly can afford to trust our own citizens if foreign governments can do so. Tae Fentans,—The government has already received official information that a move on Canada by the Fenians is apprehended, but it has no tangible facts on which to base official interference, If there are any such facts the government no doubt will soon hear them. The Fenian Congress in Chicago is at present engaged in discussing the Pope's bull and the Red River rebellion, but it will soon find means to let out all it intends to do concera- ing the proposed invasion of Canada. The Canadians in the meantime continue in their state of exponsive alarm, and thus far serve the Fenian purpose. In fact, the bel- ligerent parties on both “sides are extremely obliging enemies, if they can be called such, for at present it really seems that neither party is anybody's enemy but its own. Caprats Mayne Rei on Brron.—Under the invitations of some hundreds of our most eminent citizens Captain Mayne Reid lectures on Byron at Steinway Hall to-night. We are ‘assured, too, from the numerous incidents and characters which will be introduced in this dig- course that it will be exceedingly interestiag. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham’s Ideas en the Resurrection. The most remarkable religious discourse de- livered within this Metropolitan District yester- day was that at Lyric Hall of the Rev. O. B. Frothingham. Recent events have brought him into bold relief among the new school of Puritan doctors of divinity as an expounder of the mysteries of Christian free love and spiritual afiinities. The discourse in question, like all the other sermons of the day, was on the resurrection—a text, however, which this belligerent dispenser of the gospel of peace could not refrain from perverting to the con- dign punisiment of his supposed enemies. He said, for instance, that ‘‘some men—nay, almost all men—hold selfish views in relation to immortality and the resurrection, as if it was their inalienable right,” and that they would go to heaven no matter what was their condition and status in this life. ‘It was only the other day,” he remarked, in illustra~ tion of this human weakness, “that a poor wretch imbrued in the blood of one of hig fellow men, who regarded not life and who killed another poor man with no more com- punction than he would have shot a deer, went out to be executed, and as he went by the ells he shook hands with another, and they both said they would rest in the bosom of their God. And then,” said this benevolent teacher of Christian charity, ‘think not of the caricature of this, but of the blasphemy.” Did he forget that the excellent institution of purgatory, where the sinner of the darkest crimes may be purged and purified by fire and then released to a better state of existence— did this horrified divine forget that here we have a provision which takes away all the alleged blasphemy of this reported earthly farewell between Jack Reynolds and Daniel McFarland? We fear that Brother Frothing- ham is a believer in the eternal roasting of the offender against his peculiar faith, We have no complaint to make of this preacher's denunciations of the gods or god- desses of ‘fashion, drink and debauchery,” as the gods mostly worshipped at this day. We agree with him that ‘“‘many things ought to be changed;” that “drink should not be allowed to men to make beasts or murderers of themselves;” and that ‘‘the press, if things were changed, would not be allowed to insult people, and corporations, and everything, with their bold calumny of unceasing asper- sions;” but that ‘the sweetness and blessed- ness of the marriage relations should be con- sidered with a view to its better develop- ment” is a proposition which, coming from this reverend gentlemen, is open to the suspi- cion of free love and free love leave to the Oneida community of the Rev. Doctor Noyes, where all things, including husbands and wives, are held in common. But the most remarkable feature of this very: extraordinary sermon is: this: that while it has for its text the sublime theme of the re- surrection, it is in reality a rambling disserta~ tion on the opinions and personal grievances of the Rev. Mr. Frothingham in reference to the Richardson-McFarland case. His mind is filled with it and his wrath is great. Hence his allusion to the blasphemy involved in the farewell between poor Jack Reynolds and Mc- Farland; hence his passing-side blow at the press for its ‘‘insults to people, and corpora- tions, and everything,” and its ‘ bold calumny of unceasing aspersions ;” and hence his pecu- liar philosophy on ‘‘the sweetness and bless- edness of the marriage relation.” The friends of this.exasperated and'thick-headed free love parson cuzght to take charge of him, for other- wise there is no telling the extremes to which. his strange notions and foolish rage may carry him. He is not fit, in his present corflition, to preach the Gospel, The European Mails. Our European news budget, supplies an. illustration of our cable despatches to the 5th of April, The intelligence is of quite an important character, some of the most salient points of the Old World history of the day being elucidated. As proof of this fact it is suffi ient to call attention to-Premier Ollivier’s. official exposition of the constitutional reforms which have been inaugurated in France by Bonaparie, and of the oral definition of the position of the Roman Catholic Church deliv~ ered. by Pope Pius the Ninth, as well as. his description of its enemies, The: Jesuits: in Rome tell of citizen allegiance and the duty of subjects towards the crown. in Austria, as they understand. these. matters. in the Order—an action on their part which. becomes of the very highest importance, as one fraught with the most serious consequences, both to the thrones and peoples, in the prosenf ; situation of European affairs. Russia appear 3 inclined to shape her Cabinet policy so: as 1.0 turn her eyes from France to. England arid thus seek a still more intimate, relation w ith the Court of St. James, to look, as it we re, from the Malakoff into the Redan. Spain! had some new candidates for her vacant thre me. Austria had just experienced the inception of the late cabinet crisis, so. that it may be; said with much trath that the then existing situa- tion in Europe was being rapidly hurri2d to- wards a solution—perhaps a startling one— when our mail despatches were forward.ed. Toe Exrectep News From Rowtx.—We may hear before our next issue of the adop- tion by the Ecumenical Council to-day of the dogma of Papal infullibility. We say let the Holy Father have his dogma, and al! the dogmas he may desire; we have not the slightest apprehension that thoy will turn the world upside down. In Europe, however, there seems to be considerable alarm, among kings, potentates and politicians that this dogma of infallibility is a Trojan horse, fall of armed men; and if the Pope.can thus frighten them they confess in their fears that he is still a power in the earth. Pourrics tx South Carorina.-—The Charles- ton Republican (radical) proposes this conun~ dram:— Why will the little Septemvirate who hatched the citizens’ party In Coluinota ‘ail? Because they are too many to get along Wituout guarreiling, and too Jew and too feebie to lead the people of the State. The fact isthe party in South Carolina, as well as in other Southern States, thatis likely to hold power wil! be the one that takes the best of Cuffy’s vote, gnd all trifling factions will be swept away before it. How to Disrosz oF tHe INDIAN QuEs- Tion—Send a commission of quack dociora among them ta vaccipate them sharply for the smallpox,