The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1870, Page 8

8 — NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Ss AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEWING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Prrrin; on, Tae Ki OF THE GOlb MINES, sia putamen BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Ti Boxpr— VARIN NEW YORK IN 16070= ow ON=AT OF BoD ROOTH'S THEATRE, 254 at., between Sth and 6th avs.— 4 Wivow Huxt—Toopirs, THEATRE COMIQ®) . aie Pony ad 5M Brosdway.—Comto Vooal- WALLACK’S THEATRI otreet.— Tax BELLE’s ‘SrnstAcae: br ania amend . OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway.—New VERSION OF Macuxrs. eer ere FIFTH AVENUE THEA’ ‘Twenty-fourth st.—FROU- Frov. GRAND OPERA HOUSK. of TER TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. Eighth avenue and WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIP, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtuoth at.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth sireet,—Guanp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— Bast Lynne. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-GRaAND Vooau np InoruoMENTAL CONCERT, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comr1o VooatisM, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, £0. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth at.—bRYAN2'S MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, $8 Broaiway.—ETR10- TIAN MINSTRELSEY, 40. not & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Frow APOLLO HALL, corner 2&h Tus New AiweRNi0con. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.-MIneTRELs— SUPERNATURAL ILLUSIONS--HAMLET. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street -Prorrssor Rts- BEY's COMBINATION. street and Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SH New York, Tuesday, April 26, 1870. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. epg 1—Advertisements, Q—Advertisements. 3—advertisements. 4—Adavertuements, S—Washington: Bill to Enforce the Fifteenth Amendment; Additional Subsidy for the California and China Steamship Line: The Senate Army Reduction Bill; The National Bank Influence in the Honse— New Jersey Precocity: Another Version of the Boy Bevnett’s Wonderful Adventure— ‘The National Game—The Indians—The Hack- ensack Bridge Ovtraze—The Judicial Conven tion—Tne Scott Mysiery. G—=—The Brigands’ Capture of English Tourists in Greece; American Securities on the Bours? in Germany; The French Plebiscitum; the Eng- lish Coercion Law in Ireland—The Fenian Scare in Canada: The Excitement Slightly Abated—Cuba: Condition of Affairs Through- out the Isiand—The Suez Canal—Negro Jury in Chicago. 7—The McFariand Trial: The Prisoner's Sleepless Nights in His Cell in the Tombs; the Question of Insanity Reopened and Exhaustive Testi- mony Taken Thereon; Scenes in Court—Impor- tant from Africa—Flowers and Florists : Immense Extent of the Trade—Personal Intelligeace—An Ingenious Convict—A Curious Physiological Phenomenon -—- Westchester County Courts—Municipal Affairs—India: The Duke of Edinburg in Bombay. G—Eilitoriais: Leading Article on The Plebiscite, the Emperor’s Policy and the Future— Amusement Announcements. @=—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World : Napoleon’s Appeal to the Civil Power of France; the Greek Brigands’ Murders and British Redress; Papal Progress in the Councii—The Byron Banquet— A Pretty Brooklyn Scandal—The Incorporators of the Arcade Railroad—A Rowdy Policeman— Capture of Teddy O’Ryan’s Pal-—The Wild-Fox ase—The Stack Stabbing Case—Shocking Af- fair on Long Island: An Old Man Stoned to Death—Amusements—Business Notices, 10=St. Domingo: The Feeling Regarding Annexa- tion to the United States—United States Su- preme Judges—The Bloomingdale Murder: Commencement of the Trial of John J. Nixon for the Murder of David Clisco—Musical Re- view—New York City News—Proceedings in the New York Courts—Probable Murder in Jer- sey—Old Worla Items—Killed by a Premature Biast—The Duello, 1—Mexico: Revolutonary Troubles Near the Capi- tal Subsiding; Rosecrans’ Mexican Improve- ment Scheme; Impositions on Foreign Mer- chants—George Peabody's Will—American Silver in Canada—Financial and Commercial Reports—Real Esiate Matters—& Remarkable Colored Genius—Marriages and Deaths, 19—The State Capital: Proceedings of the Legista- ture Yesterday; T Pneumatic Railway Bill Defeated in the Senate; Numerous Local Bills Passed and Four Vetoes Sustained—Nava) Intelligeace—Shipping Iatelligence—Advertise- ments. 13—The Red River Troubles: A Narrative by Dr. Lynch, One of Riel’s Prisoners—Brownlow on Reconstruction—General Sheridan in a New R6le—In Pursuit of a Truant Husband—Adver- tisements, 14—Advertisements. 15—Advertisements. 16—Advertisements, Tae Eicut Hovr Law has passed the Senate, and, having already passed the Assembly, now only awaits the signature of the Governor to become a law. A Sarg Conciusion—That at Albany that it will be as well to let the bill for raising Cen- tral Railroad fares wait a little longer, and perhaps it will be better to drop it than to pass ft, Wethink #0, too, No Suam.—The Chicago 7'imes thinks ‘‘the Winnipeg rebellion no sham. It is a Riel one.” The Canadian government seems to have a realizing sense of its consequence by sending ten thousand men to quell it. Nor ro Bz Removep For THE PrEsENt— The Brooklyn Navy Yard, the House Commit- tee on Appropriations, it appears, having agreed to report an item of one hundred thou- sand dollars for repairs of said yard. Very good, then, Even so let it be. Tue Prevmatio Ramway Tcnsxt Br has been defeated in the State Senate. This is the company that has been boring secretly ander Broadway at Murrry street, and we would like just now to know by what authority they commenced work and what damages accrue to the city from the work done. pi abe IE SS Surman Takina THE Sune Ovr oF Graxt.—At a reception of General Sheridan by the Constitutional Convention in Spring- field, Iil., the other day, he was introduced as a general who kindled an enthusiasm in the State which no other general could, Is Illi- nois “going back” on her favorite son, General Grant? NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1870—QUADRUPLE SHEET, rape deeanpioarnstieipaaresh ‘The PlebieclteIhe Emperors Policy and the Future. In the Heratp of this morning we print the Emperor Napoleon's address to the officers of the civil service. In the Hxzaup of yester- day we printed the conclusion of the Empe- ror’s address to the people. We have already reproduced and commented upon the kernel of the picbiscite in our edition of Sunday. It is fair now to say that Napoleon has said all that he wishes to say in the matter of. this latest plediscite, and that all the world has a fair right to sit in judgment and freely to ex- press its opinion. It would not be difficult to draw « distinc- tion between the address which he has made to the officers of the civil service and the address which he made to the people. Both addresses will take their places in all the future as able State documents. Each is as nearly perfect as any document of the kind can be expected to be. In his address to the people the Emperor gives proof that he knows the meaning of ad captandum oratory, and that even in print he can show himself master ofsuch oratory. In his address to the officers of the civil service we are not permitted to say there is not equal ability and equal mastery of the situation, The Emperor appeals to all the people and he appeals to all the officers of the civilservice, asking them to sanction the past, to endorse the present, and lend their combined help to make the future what it ought to be, or at least what he wishes it to be. Further than that the Em- peror fully understands his audience and fully understands the merits and demerits of modern society all over the reading and think- ing world, we shall not repine upon the quali- ties of the two discourses. It is now safe to say that the plebiscite is now before us as well as before France. No one who reads the despatches of yesterday will refuse to admit that the Emperor has made out a good case, and made a fair and not unjust appeal to the French people. Remem- bering that eight millions of Frenchmen voted for him in 1848, that a similar vote was cast in his favor in 1852 when he called upon France to re-establish the empire, and point- ing to the concessions of ten years, to the triumphs of eighteen years, and to the confi- dence unbroken of twenty-two years, he asks all true Frenchmen, including all the civil off- cers of the empire, to make this latest elec- tion sure. That he has a right to make such an appeal we are not prepared to deny. From the exhaustion of the first empire, from the weakness of the Restoration, from the stupidity of Charles the Tenth, from the selfishness of Louis Philippe and the miseries that begot the revolution of 1848, France might have recovered life with- out him; but history must admit that the Third Napoleon gave France the life she needed, and that for at least twenty-two years he figured as her saviour. He has given her a sirong government; and Frenchmen, finding peace within their own borders and security for property, have given themselves to industry, to home life, happiness and the accumulation of wealth. He has done more. Overcoming the dynastic dislike of his name and the European jealousy of the people over whom he ruled, he has forced recognition from the courts of Europe and made France @ power in the modern world, Whatever fault Frenchmen may have had to find with their chosen chief in connection with the coup d'état, they have had no choice but say they have been governed by the most intellectual, the most able, the most suc- cessful man in modern times. Ifsome French- men have had reason to grumble, millions of men, the world over, have had reason to envy or admire or worship him. Nothing is more absurd than toimagine that the French, the most spirited and the most liberty-loving people in the world, could be governed almost absolutely and for twenty-two years by a fortunate tricks- ter. That any man should have been able in this age of universal intelligence, of the rail- road, the telegraph, the open mouth and the free pen, to play the réle of Cwsar, of Crom- well, of the First Napoleon, among the French people, will be regarded by all the future as a great miracle. That such aman, after twenty- two years of prosperity, should ask the French people to repeat their vote, will be con- sidered by. the same judges as of all things the most natural. Whatever, therefore, from our own national or individual standpoint we may think of the plebiscite, we have no choice but say that from the higher standpoint of an all-embracing philosophy Napoleon is fairly justified in the course he has taken. It is, we admit, an exceptional course. But in great emergencies exceptional courses are justifiable. Once again France is excited and demands a change. The Emperor is not,| opposed to concession, He is willing to give his people a larger measure of liberty; but liberty must be compatible with order. It is not, therefore, without good reason the Empe- ror says :—‘‘In 1852 I asked power to assure order. In 18701 now ask power to establish liberty.” It is plain, open speaking. Never, perhaps, did any ruler fling himself and his motives so completely upon the people. He does not forget what he owes to the founder of his house. He admits that France honors him as the heir of the great Napoleon. But he is not disposed to ignore his own merits. He has a son, and he wishes to make the position of his son as easy and as com- fortable as possible. His son will be his heir, but he will also be the heir of the founder of the family. Napoleon the Third honors his uncle, but he wishes France to honor himself. In appealing to France tor his son he asks France to do honor to the Bonaparte name, and to give his son, as his heir, a fair and a righteous chance, He might have left all this undone. But he has chosen the better part; and, unless we greatly mistake, the French people will honor the Emperor’s honesty and heartily respond to his call. If we doubted the Emperor's honesty we could not so write ; but believing him to be sincere, we do, for his own sake, for the eake of his Empress, whom all the world honors, and for the sake of the boy prince, wish him one other popular tri- nmph. When the boy comes to the throne we shall speak of him as we find him; but for the present we cannot refuse to write kindly of the father’s policy and of the father’s intentions. Toe AROADE Ratiwar Is still in suspense in the Assembly. The country members, having somo qualms of conscience left, voted yester- day with the city members against going into Committee of the Whole upon it; but it is feared that they are determined to earn their money and will try to rush it through to-day. The First Sanday of Free Rum. Oa Sunday last there was no police survell- lance of tho drinking shops in the city and no active restraint upon the sale of beverages. There was rather a presumption on the par! of the keepers of barrooms that they would not be interfered with than an understanding to that effect between them and the police. Many Grinking places were closed as usual, but the larger number were open in a quiet way. The initiated could get in ats side entrance, and an enterprising traveller would have found that the key was not turned against him even atthe main entrance. This anomalous condi- tion seems to have been the result of some uncertainty in regard to the present state of the law touching the sale of liquors on Suv- day, There was so much done and undone by the Legislature in its action on the Excise law that it was not really known whether a Sunday clause was in force; and the dealers, on the one hand, feared to violate a law that might still be vital, while the police, on the other hand, were doubtful of authority to interfere with the traffic. As a fact, therefore, the dram trade was free, and it isa coincidence worthy of note that the mur- der return is very large, Four assaults—each one ending in death or likely so to end—are re- ported for that single day. Whiskey was ap- parently the immediately exciting cause in every case. The most flagrant of these outrages was the marder of O'Day, the direct consequence of a drunkard’s quarrel. Doubtless in this case the city is well enough rid of the victim ; but, as we cannot always bo sure what sort of a man is to be taken off, it is none the less desirable to prevent even murders like this; and it is not in the least likely that this crime would have been committed if the parties had not been able to hide themselves from pub- lic view in a convenient rum shop. O'Day began the disturbance in the street, already the worse for the liquor he had taken, and if he had persisted then he would doubtless have been safely carried away by the police ; but the adjournment to a saloon where the shutters were closed and the rum barrels open necessitated another end to the quarrel, If this slaughter and the three less desperate cases associated with it in the re- ports for Sunday are any indications of what Sunday is to be in the new state of law, the result in the minds of good citizens will not be favorable to this democratic change. It will be observed, however, that the Attorney General of the State has given an opinion that the sale of liquor on Sundays is still prohibited by law, and it is to be hoped that before another Sunday shall invite a murder carni- val the Mayor and the police authorities will take steps to enforce the law, whatever it may be. Our local authorities have now greater power in the government of this city than they have had before for many years, and it is necessary for them to show that they are equal to the right use of that power. The Reported Massacre in Greece. If the telegraphic despatch from London which we published yesterday, about the slaughter of Viscount Mandeville and the other Englishmen in Greece be true, 1t may lead to serious consequences to that little kingdom. The British government is never slow in avenging outrages upon its subjects, and in thiscase, when the son of a duke, a Secretary of Legation, and other prominent persons have been the victims, we may be sure the anger of the British lion will be ter- ribly aroused. Then the massacre, if true, was a most atrocious and cold-blooded one. The question which will be seriously consid- ered, probably, by the English is whether a government that cannot protect even foreign representatives from murder by brigands is fit to be recognized or to be in existence. We are told that the troops of the King of Greece were sent after the robbers who held these Englishmen and others prisoners, and that, though they were ordered to operate against the cutthroat rascals, they were powerless to do anything. In fact, it appears that the pur- suit of the brigands by the troops was the im- mediate cause of the massacre. The brigands defied the Greek government in the most bloody and contemptuous manner. Is such a government fit to be recognized or to exist? There are, we are aware, grave political and international difficulties surrounding this little kingdom. It was created and has been sus- tained by the great nations of Europe as a sort of balance of power or territorial equi- librium on the shores of the Mediterranean; but ifit cannot maintain order—if it cannot prevent brigands from doing what they please, the great Powers will be constrained to erase it from the map or to reorganize it. We shall soon hear, probably, of some strong language from England on this subject. ArrioaN Royatty In Encranp.—By mail from Liverpool we learn that King George of Bonny, on the west coast of Africa, with his brother, Prince Charles of Bonny, arrived in England on the 13th of April. The mail steamer which landed the royal personages brought also fifteen hundred casks of palm oil and two thousand pounds sterling in Specie and gold dust. The advent of the African princes will no doubt produce a very pleasant sensa- tion in the more aristocratic circles of Great Britain, as well as in the fashionable churches. Exeter Hall will be jubilant over the advent of so much live royalty, and from the very parent stock at that. See the names—King George and Prince Charles—a happy neutral balance between the Guelpks and the Stuarts, “King George and royal Charlie.” Africa is evidently neutral in the matter of English home politics. Two REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY, one in Vir- ginia and the other in Kentucky, have been ordered to report with all possible despatch to the commanding officer of the Department of Dacotah, This department borders on the Winnipeg territory, and Pembina, the most northerly town of the department, has recently been made headquarters. It is reasona- ble to suppose, therefore, that these hurried reinforcements are intended to watch the events that will follow the arrival of the great British ' expedition against the Winnipeg ingurgente, The Garden of Kden—Modero Progress in : the Rast, Our special correspondent, who accompanied the memorable Napier expedition into Abys- sinia, gave the readers of the HegaLp some exceedingly interesting letters of the ancient dominion of the Queen of Sheba, that famous queen who, in great state, made the long jour- ney to Jerusalem to see for herself the wisdom and the glory of King Solomon. Among the curious traditions of Abyssinia, in this connec- tion, furnished to the outside world by our commissioner, was this: that from this afore- sald journey the delighted Queen of Sheba re- turned to give to her royal line the glory of a descent from the glorious Solomon, and that King Theodorus thus claimed him as the head of his family, We published, however, in our issue of Sunday last, a letter from a HeRarp correspondent in another quarter, and from scenes which, through the imperial Callphs of Bagdad and the Oriental splendors of the “Arabian Nights,” and Alexander's crowning victories and death, and the royal cities of Babylon and Nineveh, whose sculptures to this day testify to their magnificence, and beyond Cyrus, Xenophon, Belshazzar and Nebuchad- nezzar, carry us back to the Tower of Babel, and thence to the first pair of the buman family and to the Garden of Eden itself. Our correspondent in this aucient region, after ascending in a Turkish steamboat tho Euphrates and the Tigris to Bagdad, writes that the site of the Gardon of Eden, by tradi- tion, is located at the junction of the Euphrates and the Tigris, at an Arab village called Korneh (about a hundred miles above the Persian Gulf), and that this is the only place which, in all essential points (including the’ four rivers) agrees with the Scriptural narrative of the surroundings of Paradise. **To look at Korneh,” says our correspondent, “it is by no means a Paradisaical abode, though it is certainly a much more inviting location than many other towns along these rivers, Scattered along the bank are some couple of hundred houses, made of reeds and thatch, whilo nearly on the extreme point, where the rivers meet, a shanty has been built for a telegraph station ;” and we agree with our traveller that ‘‘ it is curious, indeed, to think of the site of the rustic arbor in which our first parents billed and cooed being ap- propriated as a resting-place for commercial bulletins and newspaper despatches.” We are further told that ‘‘the town people live chiefly by the cultivation of dates, of which there are several plantations enclosed by mud walls ;” that besides the date there is only one other kind of tree in the locality, which, though nota fig tree, is plundered of its leaves by every traveller as souvenirs ; that two or three years ago the real fig trees of Korneh were carried off to the British residency at Marzill, and are much esteemed as lineal descendants of the trees from whose leaves Adam and Eve made themselves aprons, This isa very interesting budget of facts,“ and what a world of speculations, looking backward and looking forward, they suggest! The basin of Mesopotamia, drained by the Euphrates and Tigris, is some seven hundred miles long, north and south, by two hundred miles wide. Under the rule of the Turk it has become little better than an unbroken waste, the rich lands on the rivers being reduced to marshes by inundations, while all beyond on both sides have gone back to the domain of the Arabian and Persian deserts. We know, however, from the flourishing and elegant empire of the Arabian or Saracen Caliphs of Bagdad, when their dominion extended from the Tigris and Euphrates to Egypt, and thence across Northern Africa to Morocco and thence into Spain ; and we know, from the mighty armies and splendid cities of the Medes and Persians and Assyrians, that the basin of the Euphrates in times past must have sustained many millions of prosperous people, and at the highest mark of the civilization of their day ; and we know that what in the cultivation of the earth was done in times past can be done again. The telegraph station at the Garden of Eden and the steamboat on the Tigris and Euphrates mark the beginning of the new age of modern renovation of those seats of ancient empires in the distant ages of the past. A railway from the Mediterranean across the desert and by the southern end of the Dead Sea to the lower valley of the Euphrates or the Persian Gulf, and the = iufasion among those people of even a little Anglo-Saxon enterprise; will soon re- vive that overland trade which in ancient times enriched even the intervening deserts between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean with cities of marble temples and palaces. All those countries of Western Asia which figured so conspicuously through the first three thou- sand years of the human family, and which contributed so much by their migrations to the peopling of Europe, though now gone to decay, are destined soon, by a reaction from the West, to undergo a wonderful resurrec- tion, And such things as the Suez Canal and railway, and the telegraph station in the origi- nal Garden of Eden, and the steamboat on the Enphrates and the Tigris, are the pioneers an- nouncing this approaching revolution over all the sleeping East. Aw Iratan Banker in Paris has presented one hundred thousand francs to the republican committee engaged in agitating against the acceptance of the plebiscitum by the people. This is a pretty decided demonstration against the Bonaparte dynasty. The Italian gentleman may, however, enjoy a perfect citizen right of action. Perhaps he is a native of Savoy or of Nice, and they have been annexed to the empire. PERS a Ao A oY Tne Evrorzan Mam, at this port yesterday supplied interesting details of our cable news telegrams from the Old World dated to the 15th of April. The advices come in the shape of special correspondence and newspaper mail reports. They speak of the operation of the Gladstone coegcion bill in Jreland, of the brigand murders in Greece, the democratic agitation in France and political ‘checks and balances” generally. Kio Victor EMANvEL has just recovered from an attack of scarlatina. A short time since his Majesty was invalided by measles, and again by erysipelas. The King evidently pays very slight attention to the constitutio de fide, in either the theological or physiologi- cal sense of the words. Ths Proceedings tn Gongrees Yesterday. ‘Tho Senate yesterday devoted itself steadily to business, A bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment was reported from the Judiciary Committee, and a number of unimportant bills on the calendar wore passed, The provisions of the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment are very stringent. The amendments to the Income Tax bill are to be insisted on by the Senate, anda committee of conference on the House disagreeing vote has been demanded. The Senate Funding bill, it seems, has been Giscarded by the House Committee; but one even more objectionable will probably be agreed on, From Indications it would appear that this now bill surrenders everything to the national banks, which were already accorded a very heavy slice in the Senate bill. The powerful banking corporations, created by the government in an emergency, have become strong and cruel tyrants that it will take all the country’s energy to put down. Among the bills presented in the House yesterday under the regular call of States for bills for reference only, one was introduced by Mr. Sargent, of California, providing for a reduction, after the 30th of June next, of fifteen per cent on all internal taxes and ten per cent on _ all import duties, except on whiskey and tobacco, an abolition of the income tax and all special licenses except on distillers and tobacco manu- facturers. After some other maitters of little or no importance the House, of course, took a little recreation in the way of hearing more ex- cuses from absentees, who failed to answer at the call of the House on Friday evening. Nearly all were excused, most of them being sick or engaged with their legislative friends from Ohio. It would almost appear that that peripatetic Legislature carried around some contagious disease with whicb it had seriously infected Congressmen, The Sheltering Arms Bazaar. A very interesting canvass isgoing on at the bazaar for a watch presented to this charity by Messrs. Tiffany & Co., the friends of different clerical dignitaries voting for the man of their choice and paying a given sum—we believe fifty cents—a vote. The race seems to be between the Pope and two low churchmen, Dr. Wash- burn, of Calvary, and Dr. Potter, of Grace, Dr. Washburn at the last advices being about a length ahead. We are not, as outsiders, quite au fait in regard to the mysteries of hizh and low churchism, and there is one thing we should really like to understand. The Sisters of St. Mary who, as is well known, made the Sheltering Arms what it is, devoting themselves to this admirable charity without compensation, were driven out, or compelled to resign, accrding to the Protestant Churchman, ‘‘as the absolute condition of the co-operation in support of the bazaar of the rectors of St. Bartholomew, Grace Church, the Ascension, Calvary, the Atonement, St. George’s, the Incaraation, the Anthon Memo- rial, St. Thomas, the Reformation and the Holy Trinity.” We understand that the only objections to the Sisters were that they prayed seven times a day, and that they had Popish tendencies. We do not pro- fess to know how many times a day the rectors of those churches think it safe to pray without injury to one’s moral constitu- tion, We do what praying we consider need- ful for ourselves, and are willing that our neighbors should enjoy the same privilege. But what puzzles us is this—that as soon as the sisterhood is driven out on account of their Popish and praying tendencies the Pope himself should step in with a fair chance of carrying the day against the reverend gentle- men indeference to whose prejudices the ex- pulsion of these charitable ladies was brought about. We cannot say we care much who succeeds in obtaining the watch. The Pope andthe low churchmen are tugging at diffe- rent ends of the same rope, and if they would pull, in the same direction there would be some chance of putting an end to the clerical warfare by which the Christian world is scan- dalized. But we really do not see yet in what way the persecutors ot the sisterhood have been gainers by their movement. As the law- yers say, we do not perceive that they are likely to take ‘‘anything by their motion.” Crimz AND THE New Porice ReGimE.— As if to signalize the advent of the new police régime under Superintendent Jourdan in some emphatic manner, the reughs and rowdies of the city on Saturday night and Sunday morn- ing last enjoyed a high and bloody carnival. No less than four murders, or attempts at murder, were reported in Monday morn- ing’s paper, including the slaughter of one of the most desperate leaders of one of the most ferocious gangs in the city in a horrible fight with some of his own companions. Notwith- standing this sanguinary inauguration of his adminisiration, it is gratifying for law-abiding citizens to know that by the prompt arrest of several ot the parties by Superintendeut Jour- dan’s force rowdyism is likely to be made odious and dangerous, and that rowdies will be surely and severely punished by the imposi- tion of well-merited sentences of long terms of imprisonment by our young and inflexible City Judge Tax News From Mexico published on another page of the Hzratp shows little signs of improvement in the condition of affairs in that republic. It is true that the disturbances in the neighborhood of the capital have for the present been suppressed, but this may be only a temporary lull, and it would not surprise us to hear before long of fresh disturbances in the localities nuw restored to peace. In the State of Sinaloa affairs are growing from bad to worse, The notorious Garcia de Cadena, of Zacatecas, has been getting into trouble among his own followers. He has now lost the thirty- five thousand dollars which he stole but a short time since when his troops sacked the city of Zacatecas. The State governments in some parts of the republic have resorted to a prac- tice lately that may result in trouble. A system of ‘voluntary contributions,” as they ara called, on foreign merchants has been im- posed in many instances, and considerable feeling is manifested in the matter. Mexicans have enough domestic troubles without seek- ing for foreign ones, oh Tar Preaan INvIans, having been severely thrashed, now express themselves anxious for @ permanent peace. They have been con- vinced by the only argument that would over have convinced thep. tee oe ee een al Sunday Sermons atid Thelr Lufldence. It is just barely possible that the readers of the Heraxp have not been made any purer for our weekly publication of the sermons delivered on Sunday. On the other band, the probability is strong that many persons have beon bene- ted spiritually by their perusal, At any rate we are glad to note that the pulpit recognizes the alncerity of our efforts to promote the cause of religion, some preachera even attach- ing a value to them which we cannot with be- coming modesty lay claim to. After all, {t is the duty of the press toaid the pulpit. Wheo Christ bade Peter feed his flock He surely hever intended to restrict the supplying of api- ritual food to a few privileged men. He must * have foreseen the day when modern Peters would not be able to appease the hunger of the famishing multitudes, Surely, then, we may claim to be merely fulfilling a solemn obliga- tion in publishing these sermons, by means of which we lead the sinner to. repentance and compel the clergymen to be vigilant and untir- ing in their work of spreading the Gospel. It is fortunate that Christianity cannot be judged by the influence exercised over the masees by the sermons delivered every Sunday. Nothing illustrates more forcibly the decreased power of the pulpit than the mere fact that the discourses of clergymen no longer affect people as they did a few years ago. Mr. Beecher, than whom we could have no better authority, admitted as much last Sunday, and nearly all of the other preachers implied as much in their lamentations over the preva- lence of sin. Nor is it difficult to explain the reason for this. Three centuries ago the minister of religion was intellectually the mas- ter of his flock; to-day the flock are quite equal on the average, and sometimes montally superior, to the minister. Had our spiritual teachers progressed with civilization mankind would be to-day as blindly obedient to their teachings as they were before the days of Luther. Unfortunately, after achieving almost marvellous success with our instinote they came to a dead halt when reason began asking questions. Men do not make long journeys on horseback at the present time; they ride in railroad oars, which shorten the trip, are more comfortable and supply the demand for a practical method of solving the question of how to overcome distance, In like manner the mind of man cannot obey the religious instructions of the Middle Ages, however beneficial they may have been to our half-civilized forefathers, We want to go to heaven by railroad, and until the sermons of our present preachers are as much superior to the teachings of the clergymen of three centuries ago as ateam is to horseflesh we cannot expect them to possess that influence which is essential to the preservation of a high order of religion. When Mr. Hepworth tells us of the beauties of ‘the divine hope” we recognize and admire the picture on the principle that ‘a thing of beauty is a joy forever.” We admire meteors, rainbows and auroras also. What is hope? It is a good thing to die cherishing, but in life it is, like husks, ‘‘such dry fare,” as Mrs. Cal- houn says, that it can hardly be said to satisfy one. Now, to convince us on the subject of his sermon, Mr. Hepworth should have proven that it is better to expect a great deal than to poasess alittle. Despair is a ter- rible thing, no doubt, but one knows what it leads to, and that is a consolation at least, Of the twenty-one sermons reported in the Heratp of yesterday there was not one which might no‘ have been delivered some cen- turies ago. As mere literary performances they were, in the main, excellent. Undoubtedly the preachers were eloquent and some of thom ornate in their language. All recognized and depicted the evils which beset religion, but they did not apply a, satisfactory remedy. As Rev. Mr. Wyatt declared, more grateful pratse is needed in ourchurches. Christianity does not now inspire the masses with that ervor which characterized its youth. For this the religion is certainly not accountable. Believing that the Christian faith is that of God, we dare not say that it is at fault. Tho Divine essense is infallible and cannot err. Without doubt, then, the evil is to be found in the poverty of our Sunday sermons. When one preacher tells us there is no Satan; another that the devil does exist and marshals millions under his banner, and soon through thelist, supporting their doctrines with none but the weakest of arguments, what wonder is it that Christianity loses power and Sunday ser- mons lack influence? We never read some of these sermons without thinking of the remark made by a distinguished barrister who de- clined attending a church where a popular clergyman preached because “‘his arguments in defence of Christianity always made him think of what a logical and convincing reply the deril could make in opposition.” _, From Sr. Dominco we learn that the feel- ing of the people in favor of annexation to the United States is as strong as ever, and that the opponents of President Baez are as active as possible in endeavoring to stir up the ele- ments of discord throughout the republic. In the South, Cabral, at the head of a number of. followers, is doing all in his power to precipi- tate the country into a civil war. So far he has met with small success. He is, however, making desperate effort to overthrow the present government; but from the energy dis- played by Baez, who has already outlawed him, there is little probability that his labors will meet with any degree of success, An Exrraorpinary CompLaint.—The Fay~/ etteville (N. C.) Hagle says the children from the colored school make such a noise and. clatter along Gillespie street when school turna out;that citizens are becoming annoyed thereby. Such a complaint would have been superero- gatory in that locality ten years ago. The little niggers are probably getting jolly over the fifteenth amendment. Seven negroes escaped from the jail in the same county about the same time. This is an amendment of an- other sort. pig ANG ML Mh Ovr Copan CorresponpENog prescnts few features of importance. Little is doing beyond a guerilla war, in which the insurgents evi- dently are able to hold their own. Genoral Valmaseda is now at Bayamo, looking after affairs in that district. He has issued a pro- clamation. He is great on proclamations, and of course his arrival in Bayamo afforded him f gratifying this propensity of ' Pnerto Princive.