The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1870, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?S HERALD. nenis, The Christianity of the Hour; Another abbath’s Work of Grace: Marriage in lig Social and Religtous Aspects; The Fanure of Christianity as Developed by Sectarianism; Papal Intalitbility Fougut For; The Fervor, Fory and Fr.ght of Modern Christianity, 4—Rel gious (continued trom Third Page), S—Hurope: Tue Redical Revoiutionary Agitation in Great, Britain; History of the Alleged Con- sptracy to “blow Up” a Great London New-- paper; Coercion, Resistance snd Spies and In- formers and Detectives in Ireiand—Important from Turkey; A New. Quarrel Between the Viceroy of Egrpt and the Porte; The Viceroy Repor ed to be Still Preparing for War; Ex- citemen: tn Cons'antinople—The New Masonic Hall: Full Description of the Bulldiag—Court Calendar for To-Day. 6—Editorials: Leading Article on the President and Congress, Our Domestic and foreign Afairs—Amusement Anno ncenents. 7—Faditorial —Tegrapni> News from Ail Parts of the World: highy Important News from France ; Paris Votes “No” on the Plebiseitum ; Intens. Agitation and the Tuiileries Guarded by the Army; Papal Reply to the Aus- triaa Note ; tue Church Que tion in Spain and Commercial /uestion tu Germany—Oi ituary— The Excse Law—More Sabbath Rowdyism in Newark—Mu ical and Theatrical Notes— Reunion Among the Baptists—Old World ems—hus.ness Notices, S—Palesti The Jaffa American Colony, Its Origin, Orginization, Settlement and Work; Modern Demoralization at the Fountain Head of Chetsiianity—The Tendencies of Govern- ment: Mrs, Victoria C. Woodhuli’s Fourth Paper—The Prive King—Communipaw Stock Yards—Real Estate Transfers. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—A Would- Be Murderer—The Founding Asylum—The Eastern bo levard—Deaths—Adver‘isements. 30—Washington: Testimony of General Bal- loch in the Howard Investigation; a Summer § ssion of Congress Apprelended— city Politics—The Homeless Poor~—Beard- ing the Laon—New York City News—Defence of General Howard—Base Ball—Brookiyn City News—Assault Upon a Confederat» Colonel~A Sabbath Seuabble—New Jersey State Library—Drowning ‘Casualty in tne Hndson—'ie New Jersey Staie Prison Gvercrowded — Mysterious ~Abdnetion—Self- destiuciion in Hoboken, N. J.—Shipping Intellizence—advertisements, D1— Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Highly Important News from France—The Plebiscitum and the People—Paris Votes “Ne. A series of cable telegrams from Europe, Gated in Paris from the evening of yesterday to an early hour of this morning, bring news of the very highest importance. They report the close: of the polls in the French plebiscitum and the counting of the votes. The result is not satisfactory to imperialism as exemplified by Bonapartism, Paris is unfriendly. The great city voted “No” by 182,881 to 188,790. The tural districts—so far as heard from— say “Yes,” by 106,536 to 39,310. The house is divided. Can the edifice be safely “‘crowned” under the circumstances? This ie the grand French—the really great Euro- pean—question of the hour. Itis immediate ‘and intense. The architect of the Tuileries, the workman in purple, must reply to it. He must answer immediately and decisively. It may be, answer to-day. It is a momentous emergency. Paris fs not only hostile in vote but fevered in her body corporate. Paris is ex- cited. The democrats, the radicals, the “eds,” have not labored in vain. Crowds of people demand to know the result. They surge from the polling places to the Tuileries. The soldiers, who voted in their barracks during the day, are under arms fn ond around the royal palace and at other convenient points of opera- tions. They may be commanded to reverse their own votes at the point of the bayonet; to “shoot, if commanded, their loving brothers” of the ballot box. They may do wo should the order be given. They may refuse should they deem it more prudent, more useful to their country and to their fami- lies, to their fellow men. Such is the situation as ft remained in France at daybreak. It is democracy looking to the management of its own affairs—the great revolution working to “its legitimate conclusion.” What is the legitimacy? When will be the conclusion? ‘The republic, the first consulate, the first empire, Ham, Boulogne, the coup d'état, the second empire or the people—utrum jorwmt NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, eC LE The President and Congrese—Our Domostio and Forelga Affaire. What are they doing at Washington? What has General Grant dono? What is he doing? What doos he propose to do in defining the policy of his administration? Wo hear such inquiries as these from day to day concerning the President, while in regard to Congress the original public expectations of various wholesome measures of legislation have faded away from week to week, until now, in the sixth month of the sossion, all hopes of any material relief in the matter of taxes or bonds or banks is generally abandoned. The pre- vailing opinion seems to be that the two Houses will gabble and fritter away some two months more on the Tariff, the Funding bill and the Georgia question, and on all the per- plexing theories and abstractions of ‘the day, and then, rushing through the annual appro- priations, including a choice assortment of sops and jobs, will adjourn over to next De- cember. The President so far, all things consid- ered, has done very well. In the programme of his inaugural address he promised us economy, retrenchment and reform ; earnestly advocated the ratification of the fifteenth amendment and the establishment of equal rights, regardless of race or color; foro- shadowed a fair, pacific and yet progressive American policy in our foreign relations, and a domestic policy of law and order, with as little of harshness or coercion as possible. He said, too, that he would have no particular policy of his own to enforce against the expressed will of the people, and would endeavor faithfully to execute the laws, whether, in his opinion, good or bad. Put to the test of this programme, we say, General Grant has done very well. He has done much in the good work of economy, retrenchment and reform. He has stopped many leakages; he has broken upan extensive system of revenue frauds and spoliations; he has reduced the expenditures and increased the receipts of the Treasury on a curtailed basis of taxations, whereby he has paid off over a hundred millions of the public debt, holding at the same time over a hundred millions surplus asareserve fund, He has by this policy of reductions of expenses, and by savings and retrenchments, brought down the price of gold from a premium ranging among the thirties and forties to the narrow margin between twelve and fifteen per cent above the national paper dollar. Thus, in the approxi- mation to the gold standard, the value of our say seven hundred millions of paper money under Grant has been increased to the extent of one hundred and forty millions of dollars—a gain of so much to the country and the people. On his important pledges, then, in regard to economy and retrenchment General Grant has done and is doing well—indeed, remerkably well. Inregard to the fifteenth amendment and equal rights his promises have been fully accomplished; and the same may be said of his programme of Southern reconstruction. It may be urged, however, on the other hand, that the administration of General Grant has greatly disappointed the country on the Cuban question; that it has given no signs of any disposition to enforce a settlement of those Alabama claims; that it has made no approaches to the ultimate and inevitable destiny of Mexico, and that upon all these questions it has not only cast away the finest opportunities for decisive action, but has manifested a culpable indifference to and an offensive contempt of the prevailing public sentiment and wishes of the country. Against this indictment what is the defence of General Grant? It may be pleaded in his vindication that the Alabama claims will not spoil by keeping; that his Cuban policy has been shaped so as not to give any quibble of advantage to England in the reopening of the question of those Alabama claims, and that there is no necessity for haste in reference to Mexico. It may further be said that General Grant has sought to avoid a war with Spain because he has been and still is hopeful of a cheaper settlement of the Cuban question by treaty with the Spanish government, and that if he has somewhat earnestly pushed the Senate for the ratification of the Dominican annexation treaty it is because the acquisition of the island of St. Domingo will at once bring Spain to the alternative of parting with the island of Cuba. There is yet another reason why General Grant has not adopted any decisive policy in regard to Cuba. Decisive action there in- volves the possible contingency of war, and the war power belongs to Congress. But still the President may recommend to Congress a decisive policy. Why has he, then, made no such recommendation in reference to Cuba? Because his paramount objects are peace and the redemption of the national debt. We think, too, that, from the suspension ,of.the late agitation of the Cuban question in Con- gress, there must be an understanding on the subject between General Grant and General Banks. We are also strongly inclined to the opinion that, in relation to the future policy of his administration, General Grant is care- fully studying the political field, in and out of Congress, and that while the two houses are floundering in a sea of doubts and uncertain- ties “the man at the other end of the avenue” is quietly shaping his new programme to meet the new order of things and the future. It is settled that General Grant is to be the republican candidate for another Presidential term. His mind is easy upon that‘score. His present policy, therefore, is to hold the party together upon this idea in Congress. Hence he is rather a passive than an active instru- ment in reference to the legislation of Con- gress. He desires, moreover, to avoid the raising of any distracting issues touching this year's approaching elections for the next Congress. He doubtless thinks that his administrative record, as it stands, will be sufficient for these elections. Let us suppose that upon, this record another republican Congress is secured, what then? Then we predict General Grant, in his annual message, will take a new and bolder departure upon our foreign relations, looking to the Presidential election of 1872... Meantime we do not despair of a satisfactory solution of the Cuban question, and it may be that the swift execu- tion of the unfortunate General Goicouria will hurry up the work, In any event, having secured the vantage ground of the recognized head and embodiment of the republican party, it is not probable that beyond a few months longer General Grant will be content to remain in the position of a mere tidewaiter upon Con- gress, especially when be has reached a posi- tion from which bis word may be made the law to both houses, Wo expect a bold and popular foreign policy from Genoral Grant for 1872, The Hxecution of General Goicouria. A brief but terrible telegraphic despatch from Havana, in yesterday's HeraLp, an- nounced the execution of that brave old Cuban hero, General Goicourla, The words are ew and there are no details, but thero is no doubt that ho was quickly and in indecent haste garroted. ‘Ho was taken into Havana a prisoner on the night of the 6th, a “verbal” court martial immediately assembled. and sentenced him, and at eight o'clock the next morning he was executed. Of course he had no trial, or but the mockery of one, and he was condemned by drum-head court martial. The unseemly haste with which he was des- patched was prompted, no doubt, by cruel revenge in part, for he had beon nearly all! bis life devoted to’ the cause of Cuban independence. But another object the bloodthirsty Spaniards had in view, probably, was to provent any appeal from the United States to sparo his life. Though a Cuban born General Goicouria was, we be- lieve, a naturalized American citizen. He had beens ‘resiaent of this country a quarter of a century, had been engaged extensively in business and was well known to the busi- ness community of this city and of New Or- leans, Probably an effort would have been made to save his life ; but the Spaniards were resolved to prevent this and to have his blood. .Goicouria was truly a martyr to Cuban freedom, for he faced many dangers and carried his life in his hand, as it were, for that object. Whatever may be thought of his prudence there is no one that willmot admire his patriotism and heroism. We do not know what the American government will think or do, if it can do anything, in this case of barbarity; but we do know that the American people will denounce it as a disgrace to this age. No other people calling themselves civilized but the Spaniards would be guilty of such brutality and inhumanity. No rebel lost his life in our civil war except on the battle field. We executed none for rebellion. All the civilized governments of the world are coming to the same humane practice except Spain, The brutal way she is conducting the war in Cuba deserves to be execrated by all nations. Our own citizens—native born Ame- ricans—have been butchered in cold blood on mere suspicion, Is it not time that the govern- ment of this great republic should denounce Spanish barbarity in Cuba and demand that the war be conducted ‘with some regard to humanity and the civilization of the age? The Rev. Charles B. Smyth’s Appropriate Discourse ‘to His Congregation. The Rev. Charles B. Smyth yesterday gave some wholesome Christian advice to the con- gregation of the Eleventh street Presbyterian church on tha subject of the persecution to which he has been subjected by some of the members. His text was very appropriate, and, to use a familiar simile, hit the nail on the head. It was the language of Paul to the Romans—“Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love; in honor pre- ferring one another.” A large congregation had assembled, and among them many strangers, in anticipation, no doubt, of a sensation. However, there was nothing par- ticularly sensational. The preacher spoke in a mild and exhorting manner, and in true Christian spirit.. It will be weil if the con- gregation follow his example. It appears from a notice which Mr. Smyth read at the request of some members of the church that a portion of the congregation is still dissatisfied with his conduct in the matter of the gin and milk drink on the Sabbath and the generous entertainment he gave to certain Bohemians of the press. The notice was a call for a meeting of the church members to consider the conduct of the reverend gentle- man and to determine whether or not he should be allowed to continue his pastoral duties. This is a movement, it seems, got up by those opposed to him and who want to oust him, After reading this notice Mr. Smyth remarked in good spirit that he hoped there would bea full attendance. He urged that he and his congregation have taken mutual obligations, and it should be carefully considered whether the reasons were sufficient to dissolve his pasto- ral relations. He was ready to sacrifice everything, however, for the good and harmony of the church. Whatever might be the action of the Presbytery he would gracefully submit to it, and if he should think the interests of the church required it he would present his resignation. It remains to be seen if the con- gregation will be ‘kindly affectioned” toward him as the text enjoins Christians to be with one another. He gave them good advice and amply sustained the Christian principle he proclaimed by abundant Scripture quotations. It is doubtful if the narrow-minded, puritanical members of the Eleventh street church will be able to get over their gin and milk. They are, like the Pharisees of old, apt to.strain at a gnatand swallow a camel, It is not the spirit of religion and Christian charity that moves the greater part of church members nowadays. They belong to churches because it is respectable or fashionable, and their hearts are at the same time full of bitterness and all uncharitableness. But Mr. Smyth is not one of the men to be easily put down or keptdown. If his present congregation should dismiss him he will show himself to be irre- pressible and will soon find a place where he can denounce the Pharisees. JERUSALEM, JAFFA AND THE New LicuTs or Amzrios.—Our special correspondence from Jaffa, dated on the 10th of April, goes on to describe the initiation, progress and results of an attempt which has been made to colonize the very heart of the Holy Land from the States of the New World; to locate a New England Christianity at the very fountain head of the Word which is ‘‘the Life and the Light of Man.” It was, aa will be seen, a materialis- tic experiment, an endeavor to reverse the sentence of the expulsion of the “money chan- gers” from the Temple. It failed.. The Word was found to be eternal; “‘Get behind me, Satan ; for it is written thou shalt not tempt the Son of Man.” The Eastern Question ta a Now Light. By ® special correspondence from Constan- tinople, dated in the Turkish capital on the 19th of April, which appears in our columns to-day, we are enabled to present the ques- tion of, the Oriont to the Amerioan public in a new light, This may bo called an inside view of the affairs of the moro ancient lands—Tur- key and Egypt. The modera Cabinet com- plications, the exact interests of to-day, as between Russia and England’ and France and the Sultan, aro momentarily set aside and the home situation considered as it just now exists between the infidel guar- dians of the Holy Sepulchre and the Vico- roy of Egypt, who wields executive power in the land of the Pharaohs, The Sultan and Viceroy are again in difgculty—at the point of actual quarrel, The settlement which wasre- ported as having been effected between them some short time since has been disturbed. The Viceroy in his financial necessities is forced to look tothe European capitals, He needs cash and can obtain it far more readily in London or Paris than in Stamboul. The Sultan is con- vinced that a man who is in debt is not exactly a free agent; that the bond sérvant may be- come more honored than his mad ter, Hig Majesty consequently objects tp the plan of an Ezyptian loaa by the Viceroy. He is doubtful of the intent of its contract; jealous of the probable direotion and applica- tion of the money. The Viceroy is really arming. It may be forrebellion, war and independence, or it may be with the idoa of ohtaining some of those concessions which are frequently had | from the greater Power by the maintenance of an armed peace on the part of the weaker. Behind the Viceroy and in and around the imperio-feudal ring stand the great Powers of Europe. The monarchies referred to above are on the gut vive. They watch snxiously every point of development of the game; con- centrate their energies, diplomatize for time, and wait the result. Should any rea- sonable exouse of interference present they will not be slow to avail themselves of it. After this will come the great religio-political revolution of the age, @ revolution which will be accomplished under the standard which is carried by the ‘‘quickest marching” troops— the men who can rough it best on the banks of the Danube or the Pruth, whether they wield the sword of Charlomagne, the battle axe of Edward the Confessor, the spear of the Cos- sack of the Don or the lance and needle gun of the Hapsburgs. Our special writer shows that the religious question, as between Rome and the East, adds to the gravity of the situation. The Pontiffs and the priests— Roman Catholic, Armenians, | Armeno- Catholics, Hassounites, anti-Hassounites and others—are fast losing sight of the beauty and precept of the Sermon on the Mount. They are about to battle for ‘forms of creed,” just as “angry zealots” have ever done. The result, whatever it may be, of the Ecumeni- cal Council in Rome will exercise a very decided influence toward the solution of this point of issue, We are glad to learn from our special letter that, amidst the intricacies of the diplomacy and the immaterialities of the spiritualities of the East, something has been really accom- plished for the solid material interests of the world at large. The port of Sulina has been declared free by the Sultan. This act may, after all, be the very essence of the occasion— the one which will permanently change the aspect of affairs in the East and bring the entire peoples into the comminglement of a happy fraternity, made enduring by the Bible and the inspiration of the civilizing agencies of the day—steam and electricity. Light in the East, “‘the light which illumineth all men. Irregularity of the Mails. We regret to hear renewed complaints au reference to sundry matters connected with the safe and prompt delivery of our local mails. In spite of repeated remonstrance it still seems to require, in hundreds of cases, a longer time to get a New York letter properly delivered in Brooklyn or Williamsburg, and vice versa, than to send it to San Francisco, This is a very absurd and apparently needless annoyance. What is the negligence that occa- sions it? Again we hear of carriers under- taking to decide points with regard to the delivery of letters that belong to the province of the Postmaster solely. The abuses to which the toleration of any such assumed au- thority leads must be obvious, and the subject requires immediate examination by the respon- sible chief, We also hear of employers and others claim- ing the enormous prerogative of opening letters addressed to their subordinates under ordinary circumstances. On this head the criminal statutes are most explicit, and even in the most extreme cases the utmost caution has to be exercised with regard to letters, even by officers of the law duly empowered to serve the purposes of justice. When we reflect upon the amount of misery that a careless or laggard delivery of the mails or any undue meddling with them may occasion, we will be sustained by our own conscience and the universal senti- ment in demanding ‘that the regulations facili- tating and protecting the correspondence of the public shall be most stringently enforced. Virat Sratistios OF THIS Ciry.—The deaths in this city last week were 424; the stillborn 45—total bill of mortality, 469. The births for the week were 276. Excess of deaths over Virths 198. The average weekly excess of mortality for the year over the births we may set down at 200, and be within the mark. At this rate the city, without any accession from the ontside vrorld, would, in the course of a single year, be reduced in its population over 10,000, and the same ratio of loss applied to the population of the United States would reduce it in one year to the extent of over 400,000. What lesson for the political econo- mist is here! Tue East Sipe ann West Sipe.—It appears that the east side and west side of the city up town are in favor of the Broadway Arcade. Of course they are; for will not the destruction of Broadway transfer its business to the east sige or the west side? But would not the burniwg down in a single night of all the buildings on Broadway effect the’ same object, and at a smaller loss inthe long run to the property holders directly concerned than this destructive Arcade? } tion which the young democracy have invited City PeliticaThe Coming Election. At noon to-day the delegates elected at the Tammany primaries will meet in convention atthe great Wigwam to nominate candidates for the offices created by the new Charter, who are to be elected on Tuesday, the 17th inst, Three Judges of the Court of Common Ploas, three Judges of the Marine Court, fifteen Aldermen on a general ticket, and one Assistant Alderman from each Assembly dis- trict are to be elected on that day. Thus, we are to have an increased and reconstructed judiciary and a new city legislature, There has not been for many years an election so important to the city as this. We are start- ing under a new régime, and with every oppor- tunity for the people being fairly represented atthe polls by the names of respectable men on the’ tickets, It rests entirely with the nominating conventions whether the voters shall be ao represented or not. There appears a certainty now that three tickets will be pre- sented: that of Tammany, which may be safely bet upon as the winning animal, unless Some untoward circumstances should occur; the threatened coalition ticket, with its five heads, which expects to butt Tammany Hall to ‘pieces, but won't; and the republican ticket, which will rally a corporal’s guard of supporters in comparison with the gigantic democratic armies opposed to it. The coall- to make war upon the Tammany fort is com- posed of the fragments of Mozart, the Demo- cratic Union, Smith Ely, R. B. Roosevelt, the German Union, and the youthful chiefs, who have hardly a fragment left after the toma- hawking and scalping at Albany. This alliance threatens to fight the Tammany organization with a combination ticket; but if unity is strength, the diversified elements com- posing this coalition do not promise much in the way of success. If there be any chances for it at all they may lie in the fact that the Tammany leaders, having purified the party by putting out the rough, discordant and rebellious members, in the late grand Albany battle, have not been firm enough to keep them out alto- gether. We notice with some regret in the list of delegates to meet to-day a large representa- tion of this class of democrats. The leaders should have endeavored to exclude these men from the Convention as far as was consistent with the possibility of success. They may plead that they have done their best in this di- rection ; but it must be confessed that there are nearly as many black names in the catalogue as if there never had been a day of purification nor a wholesale sponging out of rough members. However, by their fruits we shall know them. Tammany may, if her leaders act wisely to- day, even now, give us a list of candidates for the bench and the Boards of Aldermen that will be acceptable to the taxpayers and prove triumphant at the ballot box. The fate of the party depends upon the result of the coming election, The game is in their hands,: We shall see whether they will play it skilfully, both for the good of the public and the per- manency of their own power. | Our Special Letters from Europe—A Great Scare in London. Our special writers in England and Ireland supply communications of much interest in our columns to-day. The letters are dated to the 24th of April. Their contents exhibit the con- tinued existence of that national intermittent and exhaustive fever which is gradualy con- saming the strength of Great Britain, rendering the policy of England fitful—hectic as it were— and directing her eyes a gloaming at dangers which appear to exist only in the imagination of her own people. Our special writer in Lon- don details the history of the great Fenian “‘acare,” which prevailed in that city some short time since, which was briefly and rather im- perfectly described by the cable at the moment, on account of the allegation of a cunning attempt on the part of the Irish ‘“‘reds” to “blow up” the newspaper building of the leading London journal, as also the place of publication of one of the more juvenile lights of the English press. It was, as will be seen, @ “‘scare,” a ‘Tale Irish blow up,” with- out gunpowder, or drills, or fuse. London was alarmed, however. Scotland Yard was a3 busy as if the spirit of Fouché himself had inspired the police, who are: quartered there, and Horse Guards stood at ‘‘attention” and ready for action in any direction as commanded. The great “geare” ended without smoke, however. The smallest London journal had a first rate notice, by being temporarily tacked on to the coat tails of the great one during a fancied danger, thus realizing the fine philosophic idea expressed by Dundreary in the words, “Jf the dog. didn’t waggle his tail the tail would waggle the dog.” City excite- ments of this class and order are dangerous, however; dangerous by their very inception, dangerous in effect and demoralizing in the consequences, They do not bear repetition. If England is really frightened from such causes the national constitution must be dis- eased to a very considerable extent, and if this be so the sooner the cause of such disease is removed the better, both for the crown and the people. The news of the recent murders in Greece produced a very deep excitement in London— a sort of counter irritant against the local inflammation. Ireland remained in process of coercion under the Gladstone bill. | This pro-_ cess necessitates spies, informers, court trials and punishment, police, military, general distrust, the fleeing away of emigrants, the locking up of capital, idleness, pauperism and the poor house, The people of the Green Isle have all this to-day just as they have had from the landing of Strongbow, with the excep- tion of the police and the informers—the men “twho steep the holy Evangelists in blood”’— which are modern institutions. Our special correspondence from Europe is thus, at all points, attractive and useful. How to Kitt aGoop Recorp.—Governor Hoffman can do it in signing this Arcade abominatisa; for his name to that outrageous job of fraud and corruption will, kill his good record of vetoes of railroad jobs from first to last. Curious State or Tarncs.—That which we see around us now in this city in the turmoil among the ‘‘ Young Democracy ” against that very democratic government for the city for which they have been clamoring for twenty years, i ‘The Churches Yesterday. So intimately connected with religion are the opposing theories and practices whioh have resulted in the great criminal case now on trial in this city that it is appropriate at this time for the preachers to discuss the subject of the marriage relation, were two sermons delivered on this subject, one in New York and the other in Jersey City, which gave the Protestant and Catholic view. Although the arguments of the Metho- dist preacher, Rev. W. ©. Steel, differed from those of the Catholic priest, Father Grahame, both reached the same conclusion. clergymen eloquently described marriage as a sacred obligation entered into by man and wo- man, and condemned the loose notions which obtain with a certain class. nounced the divorce laws of Indiana, while Father Grahame fnclined to the opinion that the heresy of free love, “sympathy” was the proper result of the teachings of Luther, To what extent Indiana legislators and Luther are responsible for free love we leave the preachers to docide. At present we believe that Satan is at the bottom of the whole doctrine. If we are wrong then the argument that man is naturally depraved must be right, and we would rather not entertain this belief just now. Yesterday there The two Mr. Steal de- with its and abominations, “affinity” Referring the reader to the two sermons mentioned as embodying the true principles of social morality we direct our attention to the other churches, Church of our Saviour discoursed ably in sup- port.of the views taken by the Hzxarp a few Rev. Mr. Pullman at the days ago on the subject of ‘‘Providential Interference in Human Events,” which, he wisely held, were regulated solely by natural laws. At Oriental Hall Rev. Mr. Lee comforted his congregation with the assurance that ‘‘man was not only not degenerating, but was advancing, physically, intellectually and morally. Rev. Mr. Jones, at Trinity church, preached on the ‘Voyage of Life,” described the ‘grand river flowing onward to the ocean of eternity,” and deplored the fact that some of the voyagers on it were asleep. Of course by these somnolent trav- ellers. he referred to the sinners, Now, we rather incline to the opinion that sinners who travel down the stream of life are everything but asleep. They are wide awake and actively. employed stirring up the mud at the bottom of the river. They know well enough that they are doing wrong, and can even tell who and what the Father is in heaven, if not so ably as Rev. Mr. Hepworth told at the Church of the Messiah yesterday, yot sufficiently well to make their sins all the more heinous. How- ever, there is hope for them. At the Catholic churches the dogma of Papal infallibility was defined and supported, the effect of flattery upon weak humanity was de- scribed and many other ‘subjects were consid- ered well and ably. In Brooklyn and Washing- ton the sermons were interesting. All the churches in this city and at other points from which we have reports were well attended, the Lord was faithfully served by all, without distinction of race or color, and, with sins forgiven, as we trust they were, people looked forward to the coming of the next Sabbath, hopeful of being able to pass through the pre- sent week with fewer transgressions of the divine law than they did that which had just passed. Mrs. Lincolo’s Pension Lost in the Senate— A Paltry Piece of Economy. The virtual rejection by the United States Senate of the application made on behalf of Mr. Lincoln’s widow for a moderate but greatly needed assistance in the shape of a pension wounds the nation’s taste and sense of justice, It is a glaring illustration of the penny wise and pound foolish policy that is so often revealed in our public affairs, and a more unfortunate occasion for its display has not occurred since we became a nation. To see the bereaved wife of the Chief Magistrate who wielded the executive power of the republic at the very darkest period of its later history, and saved it from utter destruction by his sagacity, his rectitude and his unswerving devotion to every claim of patriotism, until struck down by an assassin’s hand at the very acnie of his usefulness—to behold this lady turned coldly away from the doors of the Qapitol, which might to-day be surmounted by another ensign had it not been for the genius and fidelity of her deceased husband, is a pitiful spectacle. We have carefully read and weighed the report of the Committee on Pensions, to whom the bill which the House of Representatives had the grace to pass was referred; and while the technicalities of its special pleading may be all right, we find the tone of the whole docu- tion lame. For instance, to assert, as the report does, that there is nothing to distinguish self-stultification. The truth is that no for- mer cage bore any similarity or comparison to it. Mr, Lincoln was suddenly snatched away in the noblest prime of life from his family, his friends, his country and the world that es- teemed him among its great and good men, by cruel and treacherous means,” and in his death not only the cause of American peace and union, but humanity and liberty every- where suffered. If there was nothing peculiar in that foul crime and the consequences that ensued, then were all the pageantries of mourn- ing in which the entire land indulged, the con- dolences of foreign nations’ and the regretful records ef contemporaneous history mere waste. But this they were not, as the con- science of mankind testifies, and the lesson of rebuke for political murder, in order to be com- plete, requires that the family of the martyred President should be placed beyond the remotest reach’ of pecuniary anxiety by the delibe~ rate act of the national legislature. In no other way, whether by the local action of communities, by private subscription or by separate States, could the feeling of the Ameri- can people be go significantly expressed. To convey, even by insinuation, the idea that this act of tributary justice to a sorrow- ing and now infirm Indy, left to contemplate in loneliness one of the most sudden, overwhelm-’ ing and heartrending vicissitudes of fortune that ever befell mortal being, would serve as an evil precedent is doubly diluted weakness. Are we to have more chief magistrates mur- dered? end ao often that pensioning éheir ment feeble, and its generally assumed posi- - Mrs. Lincoln’s case from others, is to commit ©