The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1870, Page 6

‘ | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET.\ ‘slants calasnsnanmnepeaeditieataaestatie neg tA OA LE Dt TLL NS - sentnnanannnnrnanne BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. maenanennannnnnnnnen JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, oanheanmmeniennnn All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. 3s Letters and packages should be properly pealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE, in st. and 6th av.—-Tus Lavy oF Lrons GRAND OPFRA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 26d oh. —THE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS, * WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGE Broadway, cor- ner Thirticth nt,—Matinee dally. Perso adee overy evcaing. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tuk DuaMa OF Mos- Quiro. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Taz Beagan's Prri- TION—THS MURDERED ATEKMAN, BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d st, between Sth and 6th ars.— A Wivow Hunt—Loop.es. THEATRE CONMIQUE, $14 Broadway.—Couto Vocat- wn one Aor ko - WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— MASKS AND Facus. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broacway.—Nsw- Veusion ov Maobrra. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRoc- Frou. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth ENTERTAINNENT. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRUY, Brooklya.— Tus Daveurin oF THe ReGimenr. t.— GRAND VARIRTY TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couto Vocatisa, NEGRO MINSTERLSY, £0. si BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, T: SDBYANTS OFERA ‘ammany Building, Mth BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, $6 Broa’ way.—Erut0- PIAN MINSTCELSEY, £0. KELLY & LEON’: — aa ON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—-Prow APOLLO HALL. e _ ‘THe Naw Himenssoon. vaya gthagarthto ah on HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-.Hoouny’ Me OrBELS—BINKs THE Fed eee aa mee NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, @crmNcE AND Art, TRIPLE New York, Monday, May 2, 1870. « ease aes CORTENIS OF TO-DAWS HERALD. Page. + a L—Advertisoments, 2—Advertisements. B=Religions: The Curiosities, Caste, Churacter, Pomp and Circumstance of Modern Christian Service; Theological Taunder, Spiritual Spice and the Richmond Calamity Religiously Con- sidered; Colored Views of Chitstian Life; Free Love Fanatics and Free Lunches; Tue Devil Aftor a Darky Deacon. @—Religious (continued from third page)—The Darien Canal Expedition—Natlonal Assecia- tien of Medical Colle; ews from Asia— VThe Brooklyn Wa' d—Real Estate Bales G—Yachting: The New York Yachts at New Lon- don; Fitting and Repairing for the Coming Season—Murder or Suicide, Which ?—Inde- pendent Citizens’ Union Association—The Sherlock Case—Europe: March of the British People Towards Democratic Sell-Government; ‘The Irish Peasants’ Cater de ’ @--Editiorials : Leading Article ou the Conspiracy in France, Plot Against the Bmperor’s Life, the Prospect—Amusement Announcements, Y—Telographic News from All Parts of the World: The Regicide Conspiracy Against Napoleon; Serious Aspect of Affairs in France; Au Unfriendly [allan Exiled from Paris; Council Policy in Rome; Serrano Still Regent of Spain; Art and Religion in Engiand—News from Washington—President * Grant at Elizabeth—Destruction of the Office of the New York Printing Company by Vire-—- New York City Nows—Versonal Intelligence— Brookiyn City News-—The Landis Child Aban- donment Case in Newark—Arrest: of an Al- leged Forger in New Je —Communipaw Steck Yards—Musical and Theatrica!—Busl. ness Notices, S—The Eastern Question; The Egypto-Turkizh Question Explained; Consequences of an Outbreak ; Sketch of Ali Pacha, the Grand er; French and English Rivalry; tno ver und Action of Russta—The Tendenctes of Government: Mrs, Woodhull’s Third Let- ter—The Industrial Extubiion—The Jewish Refogees from Russla—Daring Highway Rob- bery—General Lee in His Glo O—Pisancial and Commercial Rep and Deaths—Advertisements, 10—United States Supreme Court: Decision of Chief Justice Chase Against the Exemption of Raltroads from Siate Taxation—Sunday in New York—Enforecement of the Liqaor Law—Start- lng Increase of Arresis—An Occan Tragedy: A Sailor Killed at 8 Shipmete— sionary Society for Shipping Mntett- gence ~Adv BA—Adver tixemeuts, 2—Advertisem 18 Broadway.— Marriages PROGRESS OF THE HERALD, During the last weok the average daily mass of advertisements in this journal of all descrip- tions was about forty-three columns, or some- thing over seven compact pages in small typeo— a greater average than that of any preceding week since the issue of our first aumber. Ina corresponding ratio our daily circula- tion has been and continues to be steadily and fapidly increasing. In its advertisements and circulation, the Heravp having been for many years a recog- nized reflex and indox of the prosperity and expansion of this great commercial and finan- cial metropolis aud of its fiuctuations in business affairs, we may submit our enlarging prosperity of this season as a fair indication of a genera! revival of business here and througt out the country. From present appes growth of the city itself, and of its eurround- ng suburban cilics and villages on Long Island, Staten Island, and in New Jergoy, Westchesicr and Connecticut, and at tho increasing demands of our advertisers and subseribers within this radius, and from all parts of the Union, the Continent and ihe civil- ized world, we expect soon to be required to {sgue a daily quadruple Heratp, and to meet demand which we are prepared to meet, rising from one hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred thonsand coples every day in the rances, looking at the ‘New YORK HERALD|™ Conspiracy tu FrancePlot Against the Emperor's Life=The Prospect. When wo salda few days ago that affuirs would be lively in France at least until the plebiscite had been voted upon wo did not in- clude in our prevision that kind of liveliness which comes of conspiraotes, regicide plots and such like, We did expect violent speeches, multitudes of negative votors and some street rows. It appears, howover, that the political excitement which we expected to culminate on the 8th of May is likely ¢o yleld to another excitement, which, whatever its foundation, will be more advantageous to the Emperor and his ministers, A plot against the Emperor's life has been discovered. From that hotbed of French conspirators, London, @ man named Beaurl had found his way some short time since to the French capital. This man’s steps had been watched; his ways were mysterious ; his associates, so far as he was known to have any, were of adangerous sort. At last, accord- ing to our cable news, the authorities felt justified in arresting him, and papers foand on his person, taken in connection with his own confession, leave, it is said, no room for doubt that his special mission to Paris was to assas- sinate the Emporor and take part in other kindred work. Other arrests have siuce been made; the International Workingmen’s Asso- ciation has especially been “spotied, and in the Belleville quarter, the scenc of the late harrl- cades, large quantities of powder and a number of explosive bombs have been found. If the reports already to hand bo well founded it is not to be denied that the conspiracy has wide ramifications and that the would-be assassin has many associates both in and out of France. A special cable despatch which we priat this morning shows that the excitement is still intense, avd that although order has been maintained the gravity of the situation had not been exaggerated in the firat reports. The assassination of the Emperor was but one of many purposes, all of which were directed to the overthrow of the empire and to the re- establishment of the republic. According to some of the Paris papors it was Intended to blow up the Palace of the Tuileries and the Prefecture of Police. Wo are not disposed to ignore the fact that this conspiracy has hap- pened opportunoly for the Emperor and his friends, That it will materially assist them in their plans and purposes we cannot deny. We know well, also, that siaca the days of Louis XIV. the Freach police have been adepts in first of all getting up conspiracies and then discovering them. We have no rea- fon to doubt that the presentchief of the French police is a worthy succeszor of ihe cele- brated Fouch¢, of the First Empire. At the same time we cannot say that we have any good reeson to connect this conspiracy with any scheming or plotting on tho part of the Emperor or his friends, Such a course could only have beon resorted to in the direst ex- . The Emperor is inno such extromity, sing is promising for the 8th of May. It is the ‘‘reda,” the “iereconcilables,” who are te. They seo that France is not hem, ond that their only opportunity Ties in some dogperate effort, All lovers of order, in and out of Fraace, must rejoice that this “foul scheme has been discovered and frast 1, Beauri has not been so suc- cessful as the Ravaillacs, the Balthazar Gerards and the John Wilkes Booths of the past; but it is now more than possible that, elevated to the same platform of infamy, he will share with them their unenviable noto- riely. No good ever did come, no good ever can come, from the assassia’s stroke. Even when it has rid the world of a tyrant its results have ag, aled, not mitigated, the crime. It is impossible to refuse to admit that the discovery of this conspiracy has added some- what to the gravity of the situation in France, It will not of course diminish the number of affirmative voters on the 8th of May; but it will have a dicquicting effect on the public mind, and so temporarily paralyze trade. In the ead, however, good rather than eyil will be the result.” France, already devoted to the cause of order, will rally around the Emperor as the representative of that cause. The words of M. Oilivier a few daya ago, when he asked the French people to choose betweea pe and prosperity” on the one hand, and “seyolution, anarchy, revenge,” on the other, will now be fully und ; and the oppo- nents of the present 1% é, by whatever name knowa, will be more impotent than ever. We cannot permit ourselves to think that any section of the parliamentary opposition is im- plicuted in this vile business, We shall expect to find the respectable members of the ‘“Left,” as well as the Orleanisis and the legitimists, denouncing avd disowning the conspirators, Meanwhile, urged on by a wholesome dread of falling into the hands of assaasins, led by her most respected and most honored citizens, encouraged by hor priests and bishops and commanded by his Holiness the Pope, France will go to the ballot box and sustain tho Em- peror by an almost unanimous vote. Thia foolish and wicked conspiracy has made the Emperor's succsss certain, Taxine Tum as Taey Come.—Jastice Dow- ling had some faro bankers before bim the other day, who were arrested in the Firat ward for their depredations on the purses of the canal boatmen. Their counsel was the in- ovitable Mr. Howe, who finds no rascality so small as to be beneath his notice. Mr. Howe, with characteristic impudence, wanted to know why the judge did not try some of the Broad- way furo men instead of the First warders. The Judge told him he would try just then the cases that were in court, and as for any others he would take them as they came, and did not care “if there were Congressmen in the number.” “Box Brown” on THe Hzrarp.—Accord- ing to a report in the Troy Daily Times, Willlam Wells Brown (who made his escape from slavedom in a dry goods box) asserted in arecent lecture that he “had great faith in the Nuw York Herarp--in ils deviltry; | that he would stick by the old Herap, and whatever might come he never should lose faith in ii.” That is a sort of devil-may-care way of expressing approbation ; but taking him allogether, Box Brown is one of the most sensible mon of his race. He well earned his freedom by his courage and daring, and not by any proclamatton +» Afteonth amendment pro- ona ~ ‘The Churches Yosterday. A prominent topic for religious discourses at the churches yesterday was the recent terrible calamity in Richmond, which enabled quite a number of clergymen to ventilate their ideas touching the mysterious ways of Pro- vidence, Aside from these sermons, to which we shall specially refer another time, there was much said of an interesting mature at the several places of worship reported else- where. At Plymouth church, which was bedecked with flowers in such profusion as would have tempted Mirabeau himself {nto the tabernacle, some one hundred persons were admilted to membership. Brother Beecher discoursed on the hidden life of the Christian, contending that a care- less or ordinary exterior often conceals a soul animated by the sacred fires of religion. For humanity's sake we pray this is so; for, although we are told to judge men by their works, charity pleads for lenionce and compels us to agree with Mr. Beecher. Pretty much on the same subject Mr. Frothingham preached in this city.. He also thought that the good, the true, the beautiful in mankind was con- cealed within man, and he might have added that these qualities are often so well concealed that thoy never can be'found when sought for. However, Mr. Frothingham is hardly an ortho- dox authority, neither is his the Church of the True Believers, which our reporter vainly sought, although we do not question the sin- cerlty of his congregation, But the church in question was a particular one with that title, and as it appears to have but twenty-five mem- bers, wo fear that Christianity is in a bad way, it being the only church of the True Believers intown. At the Church of the Messlah the usual services were varied by a scene of much sadness, arising from the attempt of an evi- dently insene lady to take possession of the pulpit, She was led out of the sacred place, after which Mr. Hepworth proceeded to deliver an eloquent sermon. At all the other churches, Catholic and Protestant alike, the attendance was large, the music avd other material appliances admirable and the dis- courses of the ordinary quality. It will be .observed that we devote much space this morning to reports of the churches attended by the colored people. Our African brother, we are glad to note, progresses reli- giously with as, much rapidity as he does politi- cally, Perhaps he was a trifle too demonstra- tive at the Abyssinian Baptist church, but this must be overlooked on the ground of his natu- ral impulsiveness. At this place the colored brothers and sisters told their religious expe- riences with refreshing candor, one ancient sinner even confessing that he had been chased by the devil. At the African Mis- sion church Rev. Mr. Wood preached a brief sermon on the unchangeable character of God, after which ho fell into what was evidently a profound revery, which the reporter mistook for a quict nap. Here, also, the congregation was most enthusiastic in manifesting religious feelings. At Zion, St. Philip, Shiloh, Laurens street Presbyterian and other churches patronized by the bene- ficiaries of the fifteenth amendment sensible sermous were delivered. Cmsur and Maria, Titus and Jane fervently, if not noiselessly, offered ap their prayers. And so the day passed, whites and blacks performing their religious duties in a manner becoming Christians, and, we trust, accepta- le to the Lord, CAN, Mr. Boutwell and the Fanding Bill, Tho Secretary of the Treasury is indefati- gable, according to the Washington corres- pondents, in his efforis to get the Funding bill passed through Congress, He has lowered his tone a little, however, andis more pleading than heretofore. The Funding bill, as it went from the Senate, is a complicated, an incongru- ous and-impracticable measure; yet Mr. Bout- woll reiterates his opinion that he can success- fully negotiate a loan covering the debt, or the greater portion of it, at a low rate of interest. Very well; lot Mr. Boutwell try. Let Congress passa simple reeolution authorizing the Sec- retary of the Treasury to try what he can do and toroport the result for futare action. Or let him be authorized specifically to convert the six per ceut securities of short date to four or five per cent ones of long date at par, if he can find the parties or capitalists to do that without cost to the Treasury or country. There needs no complicated Funding bill for that. We should know, then, how far Mr. Boutwell’s opinion and ability can be relied on. We recommend some member of Congress to propose such a simple joint resolution as a substitute for the Funding bill, and, if passed, to wait the result before there be any further attempt at doctoring the national finances. Srarz TAXATION or Rattnoaps.--The case of the Union Pacific Railroad (Hastern Divi- sion) against the treasurers of several counties in Kansas, to restrain them from collecting taxes under State laws, which has been for some time pending in the United States Supreme Court, was decided on Saturday last against the company. Chief Justice Chase, in delivering the opinion of the Court, held that corpora- tions deriving their existence from State ghar- ters were amenable to all taxes imposed by laws of such States; that the several Pacific railroad companies were local, not govern- ment institutions, and the fact that govern- ment granted such roads certain subsidies, under certain stipulations in no manner exempted them from their State obligations. This is sound reasoning, and such a decision only could have been expected aftor the ruling of ihe Court in the recent national bank cases, where a similar principle was involved, “Mormonism 18 Psacz,”—Brigham Young insists that Mormonism is peace, Like a wise ruler, the much-morried Brigham is de- termined to preserve that peace at all hazards, and therefore is busy arming and drilling his saints, THis most effective peace officers are the Danites, not one of whose prisoners have ever been known to utter a word of complaint to Gentile ears, Evidently the Mor- mons think their wives worth fighting for. Secrerary Fisu AND THE WinNIPEas,--We Jearn from Washington that Secretary Fish denies in the most emphatic terms that Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, has asked per- mission to pass British troops over our soil or through our waters to put down the Winnipeg rebellion. He says that no such application has been mado by Mr. Thoraton or any other man. ‘Tuo Eastern Question—An Important Special Despatch trom Turkey, The grand politico-dlplomatle problem known as the Fastern question was not solved by the Crimean war. Tho dead of the Alma, the chivalry of Balaklava, the stubborn endu- rance and flerce onslaughts of Inkermann, the glories of the Malakoff and the disaster of the Redan, with their sequences, industrial and financial, have been, so far as the ultimate issue is concerned, offered up and endured in vain. The mind of the world still turns to the East, to the land of the Star seen by the shepherds. Christianity still directs its eyes with anxiety to that land, Indeed, it may be said that the Christian eye looked with more confidence towards the Orient in the days of Bichard the et end of Brian Bols de Gailbert, and of Charlemagne and Godfrey de Bouillon, than it does to-day, after all the strategy and deeds of St. Arnaud, Pellissler and Lord Raglan, and their brave and allied armies. The truth of this position is made apparent by our special correspondence from Europe to hand yesterday, but more particularly and pointedly so by tha special letter from Con- stantinople which appears in our columns to-day. This valuable paper describes the present aspect of the Eastern question, chang- ing the venue, however, of the seat of its actual and moving points of complication from London and Paris to Alexandria and Constan— tinople, It appears just now as the Egypto- Turkish question. The chief parties shown as being in more direct apposition are the Viceroy of Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey. The points of difference between them are tho old claim of absolute sovereignty and modern assertion of a quasi executive inde- pendence, After the reader has read our special exhibit of these Egypto-Turkish pre- mises he will soon come to our written fllns- tration of the whole case, with our special exhibit of the probable, almost certain, consequences. England and France, Turkey and Russia are again in motion; Rome looks to the holy places, and we havo a letter from the Eternal City which goos to show that very many able and distinguished Israelites are looking to Rome, two talented writers of the ancient faith having just appeared in print as efonders of the Ecumenical Council—of its diplomacy, at least, if not exactly of its canon- ical rules and dogmatical intent. Constanti- nople, as will be seen, is again the seat of # very active diplomacy. France and England are represented as in cabinet rivalry, however. Indeed, it appears as if it were quite unlikely that the occurrence of any diplomatic or territorial contingency in the East could bring the two Powers agaia Into a union for allied war purposes. Greece forms a fractional unit of Christian consideration also, Behind all-—speaking more correctly, before all—looms up and stands forth Russia, the one grim, solitary, cold and formidable neighbor, if not master, of the East. Russia is at hand, powerful and untrammelled from Rome. From St. Petersburg she views Con- stantinople, but yet remains unthawed by the reflected sheen of the light of Catholicity which fs reflected from its Christian churches and native mosques. She depends on the no@die gun, the bayonet, the sword and the vowest cannon, just as she depended in days past on the arms which were then in the hands of the troops of Peter, of Catherine, of Suwarrow and of Nicholas. Jn fine, Russia, as tt ie 0 Ss SPs s > will be seen from our spectal correspondence, has five hundred thousand soldiers to-day within a twenty hours’ march of the coast of Turkey. Can they remain as they are? Cer- tainly not. When ard where will they move? This is one of the grand questions of the hour. Ttis the Eastern question itself, and this ques- tion brings that of Christianity—Rome, Israel and the Bible—along with it. Our Constan- tinople special despatch constitutes therefore a new standpoint in the history of the world, Nor Hien Exoven.—Wendell Phillips wants ten millions of dollars to countercheck the New York Herarp, That bid is not high enongh by along shot; and evidence of that fact is furnished by Wendell himself, who, putting words into the mouth of a merchant, when speaking of the Hxraxp, utters the fol- lowing :—‘‘The best news on stocks I can getis here ; the keenest insight I can getinto politics ishere; the most instructive sagacity and judg- ment of Amorican life is here.” What would @ paliry sum of ten millions amount to towards enabling a newspaper to reach this lofty and unapproachable position? A mere drop in the bucket. Besides, what do hundreds of millions amount to in conducting a great newspaper unless the cash is allied to enterprise and brains? Necro Supremacy mm Mussissrpp1.—The Brookliaven (Miss.) Citizen states that the colored men, having a majority in the Board of Commissioners appointed to lay off the new county of Lincoln into districts, organ- ized by electing the President and Secretary, both from their own number. The Citizen suggests that the whites draw off and let their colleagues ‘do tho districting, by way of illus- trating the wisdom of the Legislature in making the appointments.” In other words, the Citizen recommends the whites to “‘bite their noses off to spite their faces.” Having once entered upon a commission in partnership with negroes, the whites would make noodles of themselves by retiring and leaving the whole concern to the manipulation of the darkies, May Day m Rome anp New Yorx.—May Day, yesterday, was a very gloomy, dull day, apparently, in Rome, Instead of being out on the Campagna, or at home in their native fields, enjoying tho sunlight and flowers and in festive communion with children, five or six hundred bishops were shut up in the Vatican, or the Catacombs, listening to the reading of the ‘preliminary propositions of the dogma of infallibility.”. This proves how far New York ig ahead, Our people ‘‘keep moving” on May Day. Removal OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATS Carrra.—It is proposed to remove the State capital ef Pennsylvania from Harrisburg to Philadeighia. Is there not wickedness enough there already ? “Toe Ins Farmer's Careonism,” a very curious production, with other interesting European news details, appears in our columas to-day. Gabtérrancen What an subterranedn puzzle Broadway will be one of these days if all the “grand enterprises” that are promised or threatened shall be completed. There are just three underground railway schemes, With the Arcade Railway, the latest and greatest mon- stroaity proposed, the public fs familiar. It proposes to plough up Broadway and scoop it outto # sufficient depth to run a railway train just beneath the surface, and then meke a new surface which will never be in order, so that the publio will bo indefinitely deprived of the use of the atrect. There is also what is called the Central Underground Railway, the law authorizing which was passed last year, and is not now repealed or set aside nor the rights cr iu any way provided for by the new law for the Arcade hee ka the bills are clearly inconsistent, and there must inevitably be a collision of claims, for a great part of the line of the Central Underground Railway runs beneath Broadway. The con- tracts for the construction of the Central Un- derground Railway are made, and the Areade Railway cannot, we suppose, very easily oust its predecessor of the right given by law. Can the State, under the con- stitution of the United States, pass a Inw to impair the obligation of these contracts? A third gift of the subterranean regions of Broadway was to the Pneumatic Tube Com- pany; and, though the law under which this company operates has been repealed, w aout ie. Fgh asl be the end of bs enterprise. It cannot, certainly, without great injustice, for the company has evidently spent @ great deal of money on the faith of the law incorporating it, and there is something funda- mentally wrong in the organization of govern- ment if the State can thus render worthless all the property of that company without any good reason of public necessity. Hero, then, are three subterranean. operations under Broadway, and then, bofore all, there is tho public right in the sewers, Croton water pipes and gas pipes, both for the length of Broad- way and crossing it at every cross street, With all this under Broadway something or somebody must suffer, and this, of course, will be the people. ~ Serrano’s Resignation. The temporary withdrawal of General Ser- rano from the Regency of Spain, as announced in our despatches of April 30 from Madrid, marks a decided crisis in the development of the situation. Its first effect, should it become absolute, which is not likely to-day, would be to leave General Prim undisputed master of the position at the capital, where the parliamentary representatives of the Spanish nation and the leading spirits of the army are now assembled. In the country at large the occasion may at once be seized by the Isabellists, the Carlists, the unionists, the radicals, and all the other factions and parties that agitate the unhappy realm, to got up a wild, wicked, pell-mell scrub race for power, Even Espartero’s name is whispered about quite audibly, and his partisans might make still another diversion to thicken the broth of politi- cal turbulence, The recent troubles in Cata- lonia, which required so determined a demon- stration on the part of the army to suppress thom, were not so much political as aimed against the hated guintas, or conzeription, which Prim had promised last year, when ii called for twenty-five thousand mon, sbould cease, but which has been renewed this year by a draft for forty thousand. Prim insisted pon this levy, and pushed the question in Parliament by esking for authority to be granted the government to employ the re- served resources of the country in rais- ing that most needed aliment of all, viz.—ready money. The unionists, it may be remembered, then endeavored to check him, whereupon he threw himself boldly into the ranks of the radicals and literally called on them ‘‘to follow” him. General Is- quierdo, military commandant of the city and province of Madrid, gave this act a still greater import by exclaiming :—‘‘To the vote first, General, and then to horse!” Next day the unionists in the Ministry resigned, declar- ing that they could not follow in ‘‘the way that led to the republic.” Such was the attitude of things but the other day—Prim at the head of the army, and yet in seeming alliance with the radicals, whom he not long since repudiated—at the head of the army which fiercely fights rebol- lion in Barcelona and Gracia—at the head of the army which is said to be monarchical even while it recruits most largely from republican districts. This result appears to indicate but one immediate consequence—the invest- ment of Prim himself with the actual, vis- ible insignia of the highest rank, as he has long virtually possessed its power. In the mean- time Serrano has acted the part of that wise man who foreseoth the danger and straightway standeth aside while fools pass on and are punished. As for the choice of monarch, that question is more of a muddie than ever, and we are well persuaded that be the favored candidate who he may, he'll find but A barren sceptre in his gripe. Meanwhile it is pitiful to see Spain, hat in hand, go begging fora master, and its politi- cal master minds wrangling and fighting, and in and out of the Cabinet every second hour iu the twenty-four. Axotnzr Rapioat Prov Gonz.—The con- servative character of the United States Supreme Court {is sustained by a decision delivered by Chief Justice Chase on Satur- day—a decision so manifosily just and. equi- table that the only surprise is that its prin- ciple was ever questioned. The Court held that loaning money to the Confederate gov- ernment, when such loan was extorted hy fear, was not an act giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This decision relieves many of the best Southern Unionists from the penal- ties which radical legislation sought to impose upon them, Ey CantrorniaA Augap of New Yourk.—While New York, aided by the funds of the general government, has for years and years beon en- gaged in the undertaking of blasting the rocks in Hell Gate, young California jumps at once to a solution of the problem affecting obstruc- tions in the harbor of San Francisco by scat- tering to deep waters the dangerous obstruc- tion known as ‘Blossom Rock.” The experi- ence of the San Francisco blasters might possibly be adopted with advantage by those ongazedin the work at Hell Gate. just ‘The Greek Brigands, Uikewise the Italian. There {s ® pressure upan the great Powers of Europe to urge them to compel on the part of Greece the extirpation of tho brigands, so that such outrages as the recent murders of Englishmen may not occur again. From the practical travellers’ this is ® good idea, It is, no doubt, when one goes on his travels, a great deal better to go with the certainty that he may come home with his head all right so far asthe brigands otherwise might damage it, But then imagine the historical, respec- tability of the class it is proposed to destroy. How can conservative Jobn Bull think of the thing? Why, there are the real anolent Greeks. Achilles himself was one of, thoso fellows. Witness his carrying away the falr Brisels whose father followed to ‘‘ransom his daughter point of viow with the richest ransoms.” Therous also, who was of the same kidney fn his hot youth, gained some good fame in later life by making the roads safe by the example ho gave in the punishment of Sinius, the pine bender. Sinius used to catch unwary wanderers, as the brigands recently caught the pleasuring Englishmen, Then ho used to bend down tho main stems of the young pine trees and tio them to the earth. Next, he used to tie the limbs of his prisoners ingenlously between the trees, one limb to ono treo, another to another. So long as Sinius kept the trees tied to the earth the prisoner wag comfortable enough, and while ho was thus comfortable his friends might come with a ransom. If thoy did not come promptly Sintus gave himself no furthor trouble. Wh. should he bother? He merely cut tho co that held the young treetops to the earth, and the trees, with the splendid olasticity of thelr young stems, returned to their places. It was difficult to say which tree held most of the traveller ingsuch a case. Theseus tied Sinius to a few of his finest young pine sprouts, and hence originated the phrase of “‘putting a per- son through a course of sprouts.” Since thon the brigands have cut their prisoners’ throats, and now it is thought they will be annihilatod. So antiquity passes away. But while the pressure is up to compel Greece to clean out her brigands, why not put a little of it on the good old Pope, who keeps a preserve of these precious rascals in his dominions for special uses, and is not always able to control them? Why not clear the throat-cutting vermin of all the classical ¢ountries at once ? An Important Avuivorsary Sermon, Among the important sermons preached in thls city yesterday and reported in the Hzratp to-day special prominence is due to that of Dr. Burchard. Tho occasion was one of more than ordinary interest. It was his thirty-first anniversary. For thirty years the Doctor has labored with acceptance and success among the same people, The text on the occasion was suitable: ‘‘Wierefore I take you to re- cord this day that Iam free from the blood of allmen, ForI have not shamed to declare unto you the whole counsel of God.” The sermon was worthy of the text-—a sound old Calvinistic lecture. It smacks of genuine orthodoxy. The Doctor recounts his labors with a good deal of self-complacency, But we are willing to believe he has good reason for go doing. Thirly years of faithful toach- ing, combined with the onerous duties of the pastorate, must have been productive of good, and that Dr. Burchard has been able to re- main at the head of the same congregation for that lengthened period is to be regarded as proof of the excellency of the man. Of course the Doctor has to regret that he has labored in vain, like so many others before him; but the record, on the whole, is such that we cannot help expressing the regret that so few mon of his stamp are to be found in the modern pulpit, But few of our younger divines are atubitious to remain so long with one people. The love of money in the case of many of them is stronger than the love of souls, It is the congregation that pays them the biggest sum, not the congrega- tion that loves them most, which commands their services. Dr. Burchard tells ue he has added to the Church during his ministry some two thousand eight hundred members, and that he has during the same period officiated at some two thousand five hundred’ funerals, Let us hope that the Doctor may be spared. to add to the Church many thousands more of such as shall be saved, and that the time may not be near when any brother shall have to pronounce over his remains those words of kinduess which he has so often and so affec- tionately spoken over the remains of his friends, It is agreeable to be brought into contact with a Christian minister who can say with the Apostle Paul, “I have fought a good fight,” Of such we cannot have too many. Anniver- sary sermons are sometimes empty words. We are willing to regard this as an excep- tion, Roxrat Rom.—In Jersey just now there is a difficulty about drinking their own lightning. In the pretty village of Passaic, a place of new growth, but already a centre of first class population, there were two licensed rum deal- era, but there were in fact thirty-two rum- shops. The decent people- concluded the superfluous lightning taps must be stopped, and stopped them; whereupon the customers of the thirty-two are indignant and wage civil war, Several persons have been badly beaten, and the row may proceed till a gallows stops the way. Gesera Lee in His Giory.—We give elsewhere an acconnt of the reception of the ex-rebel chief, General Lee, ia Charleston. It will be seen that the ‘Southern heart” is { still fired by emotions that kindled the late ; civil strife, and itis pleazant to witaess the t @ignified qnd temperate course of General Lee | in the midst of these heartfelt ovations, The,’ name of Loe is identified with the most heroioy deeds of tho war for independence, and it ig pleasant in these latter days to fiad it connectey with words and acts of fraternal reconciliation and pacification. Nor Sarisyrép.—It seems, after al, that Jersey has got a soul above railroads, Publis sentiment over the river is not satisSed with the exoneration of the conductor who caused the death of passenger by cjecting, him from acar, and the end of the casce,is not yet, becafise ever in Jersey there ary more passen- gors than there are railroad 9/mpanios or con- ductor,