The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD Dries BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPKIBTOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the Four cents per copy, Annual subscription year, price 812, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Annual subscription price:— Cents per copy. One Copy.. Nuw French Elections naparte Victory Certain. To-day will be a French holiday, Sunday always is a boliday in France, Usually, how- ever, it is devoted more to pleasure than to politics, although more to politics than to reli- gion, To-day will be a purely political holi- day. In the great cities and the small, in the townships and the villages, in every centre of life, civic and rural, every man who has a right to vote will go to the polling booth and vote ‘*Yes” or “No” on the plebiscitum, Every man! Well, not, perhaps, every man; but the no-voters will bo solar zely in the minority that the exception is scarcely worth noting. ‘To us Americans a Sunday devoted to purely political purposes by a whole nation seems to imply a plentiful lack of the religious principle. To our English, Scottish and Irish cousins on the other side the fact presents very much the saine aspect, Our American Sunday is one of the many blissful peculiarities of which as a Three Copies. 5 | free people we have ceuse to be proud. Not Pive Copies $ | from compulsion, bat by common consent, Ten Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of sub- acribera $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten, Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates moke the WEEKLY Hetap the cheapest pud- Ucation in he country. Postage five cents per copy for three months. ‘The Evrorgan Epition, every Wednesday, at Six CENTS per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a Limited number, will be in- werted in the WEZKLY HxeRALD and the European Edition. Volume XXXV. AMUS . BOOTH'S THEATRE, 250 st, petween Sth and 6th avs.— BOROOL OF LEFORM-—AMONG THE BREAKEGS, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street.— THE Lanoris. ee AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRov- THE TAMMANY, ENTPETALNMENT, FRENCH THEATRE, } or Kuy Bias. Pourtecath stroet.—Granp Varinry and 6th av.-Tox DRAMA GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Qa wt.-—lie PWRLVE TeMrra ner of Eighth avenue and oa. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND 3 ner Thirvieth «t.—M stinee dui CRIE, Broadway, cor- rrormance every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tuz Dzama or Mos- ur" ACADEMY OF MUS In Tuovawons. 1u, iMsn strect.—IraLian Orrta— BOWERY THEATER) Living Pre. c6—J0. TWENTY YEARS DeAp— Je MRS. F. B. 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CONTESTS OF TO-DAY’S HeRALD. usemente. rench Plebiscitum: France to Vote on the tronal Cons it.tion To-Day; Issue Between von Jil. and the Opponents of the Dy- Hisiory of the Pieb.scite and the Votes— tina Game—The New Régime: The Depa tment of Parks in Special Session—Aart Noves—City Polities—Probable Murder in Br oklyu—Joln Chi am .n Wanted, 4—Pars Fashion iz ous Inteilizence—A Mod- ero King Henry: Ra ining Extracts from the Lite 0 & Man of Leisure; Tae Aris, Vicissi- tuies Suc esses, Reverses and Kevolting Crimes of a Thief, Forger, Bigam'st and Com- Hytited ¥r..ud—Venezue a—Criticisms of New \ - spor igs Chzarmakers’ Strike—Under the -We Is. S—Tic Crysial Palace: Amusements of the People; A Syd nham Palace for New York—Financial an! Comusercial Report—Brooklyn Courts— Mills Sign d by the Gov ruor—Marriages and Deaths—Adve ti ements. G—Edituital : Ladin: Article on the French Elec- itons To-Piy; Auober Bonaparte Victory Certan—Personal —_ In elligence—Amusemeut An oun emesis, 7—Telogra hi: .ews from al Partaof the World; ‘Jue French Kepie.de Cousplracy Arvests; Ger- man Allia c: wih Napolcon Agatust Infaiii- Dillity: ‘ine Trisn Land Bil in Parl amentary Com si tee; Murder of an Austrian Diplomat in Kus 1a’ Deieat of the Chinese Imperiaiiats. in the North; Execution of G neral Goicouria in Hav.na—News from Washington—Amuse- monts—B o.en H ads—Railroad Slanghter— ‘fhe Exe se 1aw in Brooklyn—The Richmond Disaster Fund- Fires in the Shawangunk Mu itins—Dartng Burglary at Union Hull N. J.—Blasunz Ace dent in. Hoboken—Sad Dr wing \a e—Yo.th ui Depravity in Jersey City—-etios Atiray in Newark—The Rich- mond County Police Commissioners—Business Nott es. S—A ‘veri semen's. O- Advertisement’. 20—New York City News—Jack Sheppard in Skirts—Crime im New Jersey—A Praiseworthy Endvwinent—Ciertcal Sinuer in Massachu- setts—Army int Wigence—Brooklyn — City New — ‘1 € n Shooting in Jersey—Shipping In 8 1gence—Advertisements. RI—A ivertl ewe i's. 12—Advertisements. Unper THE TitLe oF A ‘‘MopERN Kina Henry” we give in another column the history of a sharper who has six wives living, and is probably at this moment intent on running up the number to the royal polygamist’s standard of eight. It is to be hoped this wholesale ez- pose of the rascal’s doings will result in putting ‘a full stop to his raid on unsuspecting females. Dress Fasnions 1s Evropg.—Our special Correspondent in Paris supplies a full report of the various styles of dress costume which pre- vailed and were just being matured in the French capital on the 20th of April. The letter is beautifully hopeful, but certainly bewildering in its contents—bewildering to every person except the ladies. To them, a very large class of our readers, the whole communication will be just as plain and easy as the first letter of the alphabet, They will wnderstand that there are new materials of * gostume, that there are new hats, new trim- mings, flounces, furbelows, “cunning” little boots, parasols, with the most cosily jewelry ~ worn andin use. From the Tuileries to the Paris cafés everybody was in good spirits after Lent—joyous in the present and hopeful of the future, Napoleon sported for a turn on the “iuif” at Longchamps. There was a brilliant ene on the occasion—American beauly sparkling in its fine simplicity even among the most remarkably elegant representatives of he Exench aristocracy. Sunday with us {s the people's day; and happily religion is its dominant characteris- tic. Our Sunday is part of our inheritance from the ancient, noble and God-fearing peoplo from whom we sprang, But the Sun- day of America and Great Britain is not the Sunday of France and the Southern European nations, Spain selects Sunday for her bull fights, France yields it up of late years to the Jockey Club; but she has all along, at least since the great revolution, used it for special political purposes. We cannot say we should rejoice to see the day when the United States had divorced Sunday from religion and given it up to ‘fashion courses” and political elections. Our free yet religious Sunday is one of our many adornments. It has done more than all other causes combined to con- vince the world that the tyranny of a State Church is not necessary to preserve in all its sacredness and in all its .entirety what our forefathers delighted to call ‘‘the Lord's Day.” As we have said, however, it is otherwise in France. The Emperor does not wound the French conscience by selecting Sunday for the vote on the pebdiscitum. France has become used to this kind of thing; and if we are to judge from facts France rather likes it. It has this addilional advantage—it enables Frenchmen all over the country to go to the polling beoths if they will. Relying as the Emperor does on tle vote of the peasantry, which it is said amounts to some six millions, Sunday, being a day of leisure, admirably suited his purpose. In the cities—especially in the large cities—no matter what the day, the vote would be against him. Any day would suit the cities, and on any day the result would be the same. In the rural districts the polling booths are more widely apart, and time is necessary to reach them. On week days it would not be possible for the peasantry to leave their busi- ness, On Sunday they will flock to the polis in crowds. It is calculated that between eight and nine millions will vote all over. Of these the peasantry constitute two-thirds; and the peasantry, it is generally admitted, will go for the Emperor and the plediscitum almost to a man, It is safe, we think, to conclude that Sunday is a good day for taking the French vote and that the French vote to-day will be a fresh victory for Napoleon the Third and for the House of Bonaparte. We have no reason to regret the certain victory of the Emperor. It is the interest of all peoples that peace and good government and order should reign all the world over. It is especially the interest of all peoples that law and order should prevail inside all the great civilized nations. Among the civilized nations no nation is more important than France. It is a French saying that for the world to be in the enjoyment of peace france must be contented. But, Frenchy as is the saying, itis full of truth. France given up to anarchy to-morrow would bea world-wide calamity. The men who are opposed to Napolean are impracticable dreamers. ‘Their triumph would be the triumph of lawlessness, of wild misrule. We have no special interest in the Emperor or his dynasty. We have as little interest in his “red,” “radical” and “irreconcilable” enemies. But we have a deep interest in the advance- ment of all that is good, in the progress of the race, and the advancement we wish and pray for, the progress we are anxious to encourage, is identified with the Emperor, and not with the men who are so bitterly opposed to him. Ifany further reason were needed to induce us to wish the Emperor success we should find it in the fact that the Emperor has played his cards well, and that his enemies have bungled at every move. We shall await the news of to-day’s doings in France with some impa- tience, although we have no doubt as to the result, Tux WINNIPEG SETTLEMENT.—It is reported that the troubles in the Winnipeg country are atan end, that there will be no war and no question in regard to passing troops over the United States territory, because the govern- ment has yielded ‘‘to every demand of the insurgents.” This is very unusual conduct on the part of the government, but it is a wise course, especially as the demands were only the reasonable ones that every people may justly make—the requirement of local self- government and the right of representation. Is it not altogether a new thing in the world to see any government with the spirit of John Bull behind it yielding to demands like these? John is getting wisdom late in life. Ifhe had learned. this great lesson of wise concession some few score of years since he might have faved thirteen colonies worth far more than the new province of Manitoba. He might, perhaps, have held this whole Continent as a grand dependency. Sattors WANTED.—Uncle Sam cannot get sailors to man his men-of-war. Several ships are ready and under orders to sail for cerlain points, but cannot go for want of sailors, Are sailors scarcer than ever? Very likely not, but there is some point in the treatment of the men, some severity of disclipline or other objectionable point that Uncle Sam must see to. In such cases as that of the Nipsic the effect upon the men is altogether overlooked in the discussion between the officers. Yet there | the lesson to the men was one of arbitrary oppression from which there was no safe appeal. It does not take many such cases to drive Jack to 9 new shiz. y YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, Choire as Christian Worshippers. The programme of religious services to-day is an attractive one to the Chris\ian, and we trust it also is to the sinner, Ample oppor- tunity is offered for all to join in prayer, and it is pleasant (o now that one's words of praise or supplication will be born above com- mingled with the harmonious strains of musio and the melodious notes of choir singers. Whether it be Grace church or St. Stephen's, Trinity or St. Francis Xavier's, Church of the Messiah or Presbyterian, the music will be the best obtainable, Perhaps after the notes of the organ have ceased their reverberations and the voices of the singers are no more heard, some persons do not take kindly to the sermon—look on it, in fact, as liltle short of a bore, And this is one of the reasons why several of the minor denominations object to organs and trained choirs, holding that they merely gratify a sensuous passion without touching the soul. These rigid sectarians, however, quite forget that the persons who go to church for the sake of the music are the very ones who would keep away if there was none. As matters now stand salvatioa is forced upon them, The sermon may bore them, but they are compelled to listen to it, and no matter how perverse and obstinate sinners may be it is the duty of the clergy to drive the devil out of them, whether said sin- ners will it or not. Believing, then, that organs and trained choirs are useful and efficient appliances of divine service, by means of which many weary foots...ps have been directed to the right path after long travelling of the wrong, we give them hearty support, What we desire is that members of choirs shall, without exception, be something more of Christians and less of pro- fessional singers. It is true that they are regularly paid to chant the praises of the Lord in soprano, contralto, tenor, basso and the rest; but whether the notes of these warblers be worth the infinitesimal part of a mill each, or the fraction of a dollar, or even a whole dollar, is not the question. We propose that after they have ceased singing they shall set to praying or listening to the preacher, with the balance of the congregation. How often has it not been observed that the instant mem- bers of a church choir have finished a hymn they settle down to a cosey chat, passing their little jokes with as much indifference as if they were not in a place of worship, or as if they had received information direct from Heaven that they need not trouble thomselvesivith the question of salvation? We do not mean to say that a majority of the members of choirs act in this manner; but that a minority, sufficiently great in numbers to attract attention, do this no person will deny. Indeed, we are assured that at some of the churches social topics are discussed in the choirs every Sunday ; satire and criticism are indulged in, and pleasant stories are told, between the pauses of the music. Such levity and irreligion merit and ever receive our condemnation. We are will- ing to pay these people to sing us to heaven, but we cannot undertake to pray them to that happy home of the hereafter. They must do their own praying; they must become Chris- tian worshippers. Conversation on social matters and pleasantries are very good and allowable things in their way, but they are not appropriate at church, Let us trust the erring members of choirs will heed this admonition, behave better in the future and become faith- ful and devout followers of Christ. The New Excise Commission at Work. The new Board of Excise issued their first general order on Thursday, regulating the terms of licenses and the time for applying for the same. This order, we imagine, will give considerable satisfaction. It is just to the liquor dealers, and at the same time is in keeping with the expectations which the democratic voters of the city looked to see falfilled. The moderate rates of licenses can- not be grumb!ed at, we suppose, graduated as they are by consideration for the amount of business done in each establishment. For instance, the proprietors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the St. Nicholas, the Metropolitan, the Hoffman House or the Astor cannot complain of the paliry tax of a hun- dred and fifty dollars s year—and this is the maximum imposed by the Excise Commissioners—for the sule of their luxurious wines with fancy brands and fabu- lons prices attached, and the more democratic drinks which may We called for at the ‘‘bar of the house.” The lesser establishments, known as saloons or barrooma, are admitted to the privilege of entertaining the public in liquids at the modest price of fifty dollars, or anything less, at the discretion of the Board. So far it appears that the liquor interest is well taken care of; but we are glad to see that the Commissioners have carefully protected the Sabbath from desecration. Upon this ground they are very properly firm and explicit in probibiting the opening of drinking places on Sunday. We can be as democratic as we please. We can afford as much latitude to the tastes and habits of our neighbors as they are entitled to, in conformity with the general good; but there are lines beyond which we cannot safely pass—we cannot cross them, in fact, without endangering the peace and order of the community, The reports of brawis and bloodshed in drinking places on Sunday morning for some time past have been painfully frequent. We are admonished by these events of the necessity of a strict Sunday law. We would suggest to the Excise Commis- sioners that, as they have dealt so favorably with the liquor dealers, there are other inte- rests outside of that particular business which are entitled to some consideration, We allude to the law and order portion of our community. We trust that the new Commissioners will not overlook this, We hope that they will 80 ex- ercise the power entrusted to them as to re- strict the evils arising from an indiscriminate sale of liquor within the smallest possible limit. The Board of Excise has authority under the law to use a vet'y wide discretion in this matter. The public, therefore, will look tothem for the wise and faithful application of the powers reposed in them. PRvsstA AND FRANOE are about to join hands, as indicated by our cable telegrams, against the Papal infallibility dogma. It is about time, The question is coming toa crisis, A ‘fellow feeling” with the remainder is just in place here. i re MAY §S, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. to the United States, The garbled and one-sided view of affairs in Cuba, and the condition and prospect of the Cuban insurrection which the American public has been receiving through Spanish soarces, have led some to believe that the patriot cause had little chance of success, Then there have been @ class of mon, aud some of them in high position, who, either from an unaccountable sympathy with Spain, or from hostility to American progress southward and in the tropics, have persistently misrepresented tho condition of things in Cuba. We have now from General Jordan, who arrived hero oa Friday in the Morro Castle, a full and no doubt truthful statement of the character and prospects of the Cuban insurrection, This statement, which was published yesterday, will have greater weight with the American people, and we hope also with Congress and the administration, than all the manufactured news sent to this country through Havana and Spanish agents. It bears the stamp of truth on its face, and no American will believe, we suppose, that this high and accomplished officer would oither misrepresent facts or would contemplate returning to fight the battle of Cuban independence if he did not fel assured of the success of that cause, General Jordan's narrative of the long and heroic struggle is full of interest, and shows that the mass of the Cubans are resolved to acquire their independence at any cost. The bravery they have exhibited in war when properly commanded, under the greatest diffi- culties and with very limited means, proves this, The sufferings they endure and have endured for two years for the sacred cause of liberty and self-government attest their hero- ism and inflexible resolution. All classes, and the negroes as well, are intensely earnest. The story of their bravery and suffering is enough to arouse the sympathy and to secure the aid of every lover of freedom, There are few examples in history where a people have acted as nobly or have continued a struggle with such limited resources. All these facis go to show, as General Jordan. says, that the Cubans will fight to the bitter end and that they will succeed at last, though the war may be long—though it may be a guerilla war only—and though their beautiful and rich country may be made desolate. One impor- tant fact, which ought to awaken the sympathy of the administration, the dominant party in Congress and the republicans everywhere, is that the negroos are made absolutely fres wherever the power of the patriot government of Cuba extends, and that slavery is maintained only by the Spanish authorities. We were aware before that the Cuban government and constitution had abolished slavery, and we notice General Jordan’s testimony to this fact only to correct the mendacions statements of the Spaniards and their allies in this country. General Jordan appeals to the Americaa people for aid to the Cubans. He tells us how they are suffering—meo, women and children are suffering—for the cause of freedom. He tells us they want the materials of war, arms and ammunition particularly, and such aid as can be afforded in clothing. Shall he and the brave Cubans who are fishting the battle of American liberty, who are fighting really to give another magnificent country to the Amorican Union, appeal in vain? We do not believe tho freedom-loving people of this great republic will turn a deaf ear to the Cuban patriots, They cannot be so dead to the noble principles for which their forefathers fought. No people have ever siruck for liberty in any part of the world—in Hungary, Poland, Italy or anywhere else abroad—without enlisting the sympathy of the United States, and shall we now turn our backs upon an American people and our near neighbors, whose cause is our own to a great extent, and who have battled long and nobly for freedom ? We do not believe the Cubans will plead in vain for aid. Let public meetings be held and societies organized for this noble object. Let the apathy of Congress be aroused through public sentiment, and let not the administra- tion be humbugged by Spanish falsehoods and the pretence that at some convenient and fuiure day Spain will sell Cuba to this country. Nothing need be expected from Spain. She will see the island utterly ruined rather than part with it voluntarily to the United States. With such moral and material aid as our government and people can properly give and ought to give to the Cubans they will achieve their own independence, and then annexation would follow. It would be an everlasting disgrace to this country if it should not favor the struggling Cnbans at this crisis. Let a powerful movement be organized at once, and, if we mistake not, the President and Congress will abandon their do-nothing policy, and will gladly follow public sentiment. EXEcutTion OF GENERAL GoicourtA.—Our cable news from Havana last night informs us of the execution of the Cuban General Goi- couria. The General was brought to Havana in the steamer Triunfo on Friday and placed in jail, Yesterday he was tried by a “verbal” court martial and sen- tenced to be garroted. It is hardly necessary to add that the sentence was carried out. At eight o’clock last night the venerable old Cuban, who, since the struggle for the in- dependence of Cuba was inaugurated, fought against Spanish oppression, was executed in obedience to the sentence of a court called together with such indecent haste that its act cannot be regarded other than as “bloody, wolfish, starved and rav enous.” Corngrine Coat.—The coal operators are already at work in Pennsylvania preparing the prices for the coming season, fearing that if they leave things alone coal will be too cheap. They are manipulating that great and favored instrument, the bogus strike. One strike is in progress, and it is hoped to extend this through the whole coal region. “‘If the move- ment to bring about ® suspension in Lehigh and Wyoming fails s decline in the price of coal may be looked for ;” and we may there- fore confidently believe that this movement will not fail if the coal operators can help it, Prosperity oF THE Suippine INtTEREST—A Goop SiaN.—In the first five days of May about sixty-five applications have been made to the proper government office for the award of official numbers and signal letters to mer- chant vessels—indicating a very satisfactory start in the growth of the American mercantile marine. To-Day~Another Boe | Church Services To-Day—Members of | Aifuire in Cubs and Appeal of the Cubans | Material and Moral Aspocts of Protes- tantiom. Every system of religion is in its nature dual; it has a material and a moral aspect, With some the former takes precedeace,. with others the latter. Protestantism, the latest form of Christisaity, presents these phases to the world in avery striking degree, Looklug at it materially we fiad that the world has never had a system of religion that has progressed 49 rapidly in physical greatness and power, ‘bree bandred and fifty years ago it had no material standing among men ; it was the religion of but few persons, who professed it in secret places—in doserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth, Jt is now the religion of the leading nations of the world—Amerloa, Ragla.d, Prussia and North Germany, Scandinavia and other por- tions of Western and Contr :l Barope, It is now the religion of courts and prices, and is pro- fosged by abo it one hundred aad fifzy millions of people in both hemispieres, Taree centu- ties ago these ‘nations had no material or moral standiny, and some of them existed through sufferance and some had no existence at all, Look at them now. The wealth of the world is in their hands. And this is espo- cially true of Great Britain and America, the mother and daughter of modern Protes- tantism. They are to-day the commervial car- riers for all nations, Taey are emphatically the merchants, the manufacturers, the bankers and the shopkeepers of the earth. They own and work the productive mines of coal and iron and the precious metals from which the nations of the world draw their supplies, The homes of mankiod are heated with English or American coal. Their ships are built with timber from American forests and iron from British and American minss. Tt istrue that Russian and South American forests furnish a large amount of ship timber and precious wood; but even this is converted into articles for human use largely by the skill of English and Ameri- can mechanics. The cotton and wool of American and British colonial plan- tations and pastures clothe to a great extent the civilized people of thé world, and our granaries supply them with food. Protestant- ism has given the great Anglo-Saxon Ameri- can people their pre-eminence in a material point of view. Protesiantism has made Prussia the superior of other and larger European States, Protestantism has given Sardinia the controlling influence in Italy, and has enabled Switzerland to maigtain her autonomy for centuries, though surrounded on every side by foes, Protestantism, though of a very poor sort, has enabled the other nations named to maintain an independent position among European States. But the material greatness of Protestantism is more apparent in the application of these elements in the annihilation of space and time, and the elevation of mankind, than in the mere possession of them. The application of steam as a motive power bas made coal and iron more important than they could possibly be otherwise, and has brought remote peoples almost within speaking dis‘ance of each other. British and American stvamers plough the oceans, and British and Amorican iron binds the distant nations of the earth in one com- mon brotherhood. The United States has about forty-eight thousand milvs of railroad traversing the several States, while England has about eighteen thousand. The weaith of both countries has, however, planted railroads in India, China and Japan, in Mexico and Cen- tral and South America, and in the islands of the sea, British and American gold, has also almost encircled the earth with telegraph wires, and the Pacific Ocean cable to China and Japan is another of the movements of mankind for closer unity and family fel- lowship which should be encouraged. The time will come when we shall be glad to have for neighbors and customers the millions of Asia and Africa, and by continuing our liberal policy towards them now we may secure their friendship hereafter. If we traverse their rivers with steamboats and their highways with locomotives; if we show them that we are desirous of holding communion with them through the telegraph and the printing press, they will reciprocate our kindly feelings and become our best and most steadfast friends. It is well understood that the precious metals have been going for ages toward Indin and China, where millions of dollars’ worth has been hoarded up. By and by the balance of trade will turn, in our favor, and all this gold and silver, together with much more of native wealth, will flow back to our coffers. But our policy must be unselfish, else we shall drive them to seek other markets. The United States now holds the most acceptable and foremost position among civilized nations toward the great Asiatic empires. They re- spect and honor us, and there is no good rea~ son, if we act wisely, why we should not speedily open up adirect trade with the East by way of the Pacific Ocean, which shall be worth millions of dollars annually to our mer- chants and manufacturers, It will be understood that the moral stand- ing of nations in this age depends greatly upon their material status. Hence those ele- ments of material greatness that we have named mustalso be considered as elements of moral power, But among the purely moral forces of Protestantism the school house and the church take the lead. While Protestant- ism cannot in any sense be considered as monopolizing the intelligence of the age, every form of knowledge has been aided and advanced by it so that the masses of mankind are to-day more intelli- gent, and we believe, all things con- sidered, more happy and contented than they ever were before. After the church and the school house comes the newspaper a3 a moral agent, Its power and usefulness are un- doubted and undisputed, Never was @ force more completely master of the situation than is the daily newspaper in moulding and fashion- ing the ideas, pursuits and purposes of men, The greatest degree of civil, reli- gious and political liberty exists in those countries where schools, churches and news- papers are most abundan, There is also 8 greater love for the Sabbath and its fnstitu- tions, and a stronger reverence for the aged and affection for the young and the feeble among them. Asylums are furnished for the poor and the needy, the aged and the infirm, That is one of the greatest boasts of our \ Christian civilization of this century that the two extremes of IiMy, the feeblost periods of human existence—childhood and old age—are most fondly cherished, These things belong to the victories of peace, which are notless re- nowaed than those secured by war, and where- insoever elso Protestantism may have failed, or not done as well as it might, it has nobly suc- ceoded in this, and until other systems Qf reli- gion can show a better record it must stand as the crowalng glory of the nineteeath con- tury, both in material and moral greatness. Conanss.—The Senate adjourned on Fettyy until Monday. The House has not been in session since Thursday, having taken arccess until Monday in order to bave the carpets in the hall taken up and a general summer renovation completed, We gener all find that little measures looking to the indi- vidual comfort of members, such as raising salaries to five thousand dollars from three thousand and providing for ventilation and house cleaning, go throush withont any unnecessary delay, while great measures which may in the abstract unpleasantly affect those individual comforts, such as the Civil Service bill, which limits Congressional patronage ; or the Franking Privilege bill, which cuts down Congressional emoluments ; or the biil for the abolition of the Globe, which hampers Congressional buacombe, go through very gingerly’ or don't go through at all. Darinz the week just closed there has been nothing of importance to note. In the Senate there has been morely the usual frittering away of time, and in the Honse there has been nothing more important than the virtual defeat of the Civil Service bill and a strong attempt at land grabbing. Tus Mayor.—Mr. Greeley, who used to be acknowled .ed as pretty good authority on election returns, has become considerably muddled about the election of Mayor. He seems to think that Mr. Hall is holding his office by virtue of some votes that were cast last fall. There was no Mayoralty election in December last, and consequently no inaugura- tion of chief magistrate of the city took place in January of the present year, us there cer- tainly would have been if a Mayor had been newly chosen, In the fall of 1868 there was an election which resulted as follows :— A. Oakey Hall, democrat..........+ Fredrick A. Conkling, republican, 75.109 20,835 Hall's majority. Tux Late Murpers tv Gregor.—The Eng- lish press thunders vigorously against the helpless government that pretends to rule in Greece. An aggravating point in this matter is that the deaths of the unfortunate tourists were directly caused by the action of the Greek authorities, The men could have been released on ransom, but the active measures of the government drove the outlaws to un ex- treme act. It may seem difficult to blame the government for this activity, but it should be remembered how untimely it was, There this government had stood face to face with the brizands for a month and manifes‘ed no severe spirit of justice, but the moment its activity may kill a dozen travellers it becomes fright- fully active. singin Szwarp Amona tak Lake Porrs.— And now also bas William H, Seward be- come a poet of the lakes. He chanted very prettily the other day a little lyric speech in praise of the beautiful lakes of our State and of the men that grow on lake shores, though he omitted to mention the delicious white fish that grow in their cold waters; and from these doniestic lakes he launched away in easy phrases to acatalogue at large of lakes, in development of a half-formed theory that there .is an especial excellence in the human nature of lake countries, that “‘lake countries inspire and elevate, that they stimulate loyalty and patriotism, philanthropy and religion.” It is not at alla new theory that man, like any other earthly growth, is a product differ- ing in exact proportion to differences in the soil upon which he dwells, and from which he draws his food. This theory has been worked out to an extreme nicety in recent scientific arguments; and since lake countries represent perhaps the best average of condi- tions in which humanity flourishes, there is some scientific ground for what the ex-Secre~ tary is pleased to regard as his ‘‘conceit.” Tax Frenou PLesisorroM vote will be taken to-day all over the empire. It is a “grand occasion,” both for the dynasty and the people. A special history of the French plebiscite appears in our columns, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Promiuent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Dr. J. F. Gray, of Utica; C. W. Jotnson, of Hart- ford; Fred. Billings, of Vermont, and Alfred Sey- mour, of Ottawa, are at the Brevoort House, Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; General W, Preston, of Kentucky; Dr. Drew, Dr. 0. Antaux and Dr. F. H. Dennis, of New Orleans, and Capiain McMickan, of steamer Calabria, are at the New York Hotel. Captain T. M. Canton, of Philadelphia; Rev. M. 8. Baldwin, of Montreal, and J. D, Smith, of Cincin- nati, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Gen- eral James W. Singleton, of Illinois, and Dr. B. Le Honey, of Rochester, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Major General Robinson, of the United States Army; Geo. Innis, of Poughkeepsie; Major Samuel Mills, of Pennsylvania; Dr. G. W. Ramsay, of West Virginia; Congre-sman B. F. Butler, of Massa- chu:etts, and H. Walbridge, of Washington, are at the Astor House. Captain W. F. Green, of Sandusky; Professor R. a Gordon, of Sa-ramento, and D, W. Curtis, of Havana, are at the St, Charies Hotel. Colonel A. Wiiliams, of London, England; Dr. Scott, of Edinburg, Scotland, and Dr. B. Abernethy, of San Francisco, are at the St, Elmo Hotel. Prominent Departures. General Jon S. Marmaduke, for Baltimore; Major A. H. Pruyn, for Kingston, and E. a. D. Valor, Jr, per steamer Malta, for Europe. Personal! Notes. j James E. Harvey is about to publish his recollec- tlous of Portugal during eizbt years’ resid nc: there as representative of the United States government ‘A Polish Count Potoskt has just died in Connecti> cut, He was handsome, spoke five languages, and formerly run insurrections; but of late has been ran ning a machine in @ suspender factory. General Bragg, the “grape'? man, who has ha so much to do with fireworks for so many years, is now in control of the New Orleans Water Works, But a negro has just been elected to oust him. A negro preacher Was admitt:d to the Lexington, Ky., Presbyiery iast week. He ts repute | to be a son ofa. 8. Prentiss, of Mississippi, the fainous orator, and onexamination proved to be famtiar with Hebrew, Greek and Latin, but is so deformed tuat it is painsul to look at him, The Syracuse Journal. commenting on the death of a laie citizen of chat city, says.—*‘For years Lienry Wilson has proved that honesty and efficiency are compativie with Luneracy tn cleaning ang repairing CLOCKS.”