The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. al Volume XXXV.......ssceceseereeeeresse+NOe 142 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. FLUTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth s—FROU- THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—GRAND VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Fait ONE WITH Bionpe Wie. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and .—THE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- Der Thirtieth st,—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Tue DRAMA OF THE Forty Tuieves. BOWERY THEATRE, Koouba. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—ITaLIaN OprRa— POLIUTO. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d st., between 5th and 6th ava.— Fox Vensus Goosr—Lost ASHORE. Bowery.—METAMORA — THE WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Tux Rant Day—Is HE JEALOUS. FRENCH THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th av.—Tse Corst- AN Broruens, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— East Lyng. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vocat- 18M, NEGRO AcTS, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooauism, NEGRO MinsT! ao. BRYANT’S OPERA HO! St.—BRYan1's MINSTR: KELLY & LEON'S AND OuT. Tammany Building, 14th INSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo OTRELS—PANORAMA, PROGRESS OF AMERICA, MIN- CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and 0th sts.—THRovoRE THOMAS’ PoPULAR CONCERTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIRNCE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, May 22, 1870. \ Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Washingtou: The New Fifteenth Amendment Bill Passed by the Senate; Petitlons for the Abolition of National Banks—Religions Intelli- gence—Sketch of the Duke de Saldahna—Ma- Tine Transfers. 4—Imvortant from Rome: The Archbishop of Balti- More and Monsignor eons Dispute— Army and Navy Intelligence—Packing the Jersey State Prison—Howard’s Case and Rail- road Matters—The Late Case of Cigar Smug- ated Cumulative Effect of Force on Iron ‘oundations—The Nation’s Dead—The Burn- ing of Mra. Gehrling—A Word to the Wives— Young Thieves in Jersey—The Railroad from Piermont to Nyack—Metropolitan Nuisances— Brooklyn City News—The Cobel Alleged Mal- ractice Case. 65—The Ninth Census: How it is to be Taken and Who isto Take It—Chile: Resuit of the Elec- tions—The Industrial Exhibition—Financtal and Commerctal—The Richardson-McFarland Bugbear—Military Chit Chat—The National Game—State Fairs for 1870—Art in Austra- la—Children’s Aid Society—Marriages and eaihs. 6—Editorials : Leading Article on the Emperor Napoleon’s Address to the Legislative Bodies, the Result of the Plebiscite—Amusement An- nouncements. ‘Y—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World: Napoleon’s Speech to the French Legislators; Parliamentary Endorsement of the Plebiscitum and Bonaparte’s Exposition of National Consti- tutionalism; Espartero Accepts the Crown of Spain; Revolutiona Reform in Portugal; rench Troops Marching from Rome to the Frontier of Italy—The Turf: Trotting at the Fashion Course—City Intelligence—Fine Arts— Music in the Park—Tournament at Prospect Park—Municipal Matters in Newark—Patti’s Sacred Concert in Williamsburg—The Gardner- Alexander Will Case—Business Notices, S—Advertisements, ¥—Advertisements, 10—The Pillory: Two Horse Thieves Fastened in it Yesterday; Their Own Stories in Seif-Defence— Return of ex-Consul Phillips—Emigration— An Aristocratic Drink—Discharges and Peti- tion in Bankruptcy—A Water street Mixture— Collision on the North River—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements, 41—Aivertisements. 12—Advertisements. Marsan Esparrero has accepted the crown of Spain. Is the national agony ended, or is jt only beginning? Tue Quakers have arrived in the city and will commence their anniversay exercises to- day, and we think, likewise, that their com- ing, as usual, will be followed by a good sup- ply of rain. Welcome, Friends, Foxites and Hicksites. From PortuGat we have cable telegrams reporting the progress of the national reform and cabinet movement under the Duke of Saldanha. The events are very important, particularly when taken in connection with the concurrent policy which is being observed in Paris, Rome, Naples and Vienna. A Goop Bzainxina.—In the new State constitution of Illinois some excellent provi- sions are made for the protection of the State and the people against railway monopolies, railway combinations and railway extortions and impositions. We have been urging Con- gress to provide some general law of public protection against these grasping railway monopolies; but if the several States con- cerned will each for itself: follow the good example of Illinois no intervention from Con- gress in this business will be required. Toe One LeG@ Rarroap to ComE Down.—We learn that the Corporation Coun- sel, in the performance of his duty, has in- stituted legal proceedings against the Green- wich street man trap railroad company on the grounds of a trespass upon the property of the city and the flagrant violation of the pro- visions of the law under which they claimed authority to set up those dangerous iron girders on a single pm. This eutrageous nui- sance is therefore in fair way to be soon abated. The case will be heard early in June. TUNNELLING FOR A DiAMOND Mixe IN DE- TANOEY StReET.—Against the ingenuity, pa- tience and courage of real master thieves what contrivances can avail for the safety of ‘‘port- able property?” But for the little accident that a detective took a walk in Delancey street | the other day we should have had to chronicle the plundering of a pawnbroker’s vault of an immense amount of property, for which the thieves bad tunnelled through the walls of a neighboring house. They were recognized by chance, however; their presence in the neighborhood was thds suspicion, and in- Quiny renulied ip the inte: tion of their at- tempt. Dhare aust be # wrong where WM diowe 001 pey for so much sagacity; pnercy Ps porwr stated to bs wouent. NEW YUKK HERALD SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Emperer Napolcos’s Address to the Legislative Bodies—The Result of the Plebiscite, In another place in this morning’s HraLp will be found the full text of the address delivered by the Emperor Napoleon on Satur- day in the Hall of State to the Deputies and Senators and other great public functionaries. Our readers are well aware of the circum- stances to which that address owes its origin and in which it was delivered. In the Senatus Consultum and in the proclamation of the Emperor regarding the plebiscitum it was pro- vided that the votes of the people, after having been counted by subordinate officials, should finally be counted by the people's Deputies in solemn session assembled, and that the result of this final counting or verification should bo announced to the Emperor. It was also made known that on such occasion the Emperor would make a speech. The programme of the plebiscite is now com- pleted. All has been done that it was in- tended to’ do. The Emperor's speech—the crown of the plebiscite, shall we call it?—is be- fore our readers, and every one, according to his own standard and his own judgment, can come to his own conclusions, As no one can deny that the plebiscite has been, all through, @ great success—cavil as men may about the principle of the thing—so no one can deny that the Emperor's address comes up to the high point of expectation and requirement. Hitherto it has been a fault of the Emperor that his addresses have been too long and 4 little too pedantic, or, if the term is preferred, professional. But in the past the Emperor has been training France, has been giv- ing her precept as well as example; and so long and somewhat formal addresses were necessary. If France is now trained—and who will say she is not trained?—the lecture and the professional style are no longer necessary. At any rate, no one can find fault with the Emperor's latest address for its length. As little can any one say that its brevity robs it of excellence. If itis brief it is pointed. If there is no parade of words there is no stuaied ambiguity or per- plexing conctalment of thought and purpose. In a few brief sentences all is said that needed to be said, and all that is said is said well. The Emperor is grateful for this fresh vote of confidence—the fourth given to him person- ally in twenty years. The plebiscite had for its sole object the ratification of constitutional reforms; and the French people, guided by tradition, by instinct, by sympathy, have, by this fresh vote, justified and ratified the votes of 1848, of 1851 and of 1852. The Emperor naturally takes pride in the thought that France, in the free exercise of universal suffrage, has preferred order to anarchy, the empire to revolution, and “thas settled the question in favor of that system which guarantees order and liberty.” It is evidently the conviction of Napoleon that he has removed the ground completely from the feet of his enemies, and that he can now with safety and confidence, with ample encourage- ment and with little fear, pursue his policy of progress and reform. ‘‘Theempire is strong,” he says; ‘‘but it will show its strength by its moderation.” The line marked out will be followed. There will be no partiality and no weakness. France is asked to assist its chief in augmenting by all lawful means the pros- perity and grandeur of the empire; and the promise is made that all the power the Emperor wields will be put forth to ' diffuse instruction, to simplify the administra- tion, to relax the severity of law, to encourage agriculture, to develop public works and to reduce as well as distri- bute taxation. Such is the burden of the Emperor’s speech, and, considering it in all its bearings, we cannot refuse to admit the force- fulness of the unanswered question with which the speech concludes:—‘‘Who are they who oppose the progressive march of the régime which a great people founded amid political troubles and which is thus fortified in an era of peace and liberty ?” Such are the Emperor's last words to France, and such is the result of the plebiscite. All the past is condoned or justified. While mal- contents inside of France and exiles out of it grumble and growl Napoleon boasts, and, as we think, boasts justly, of the fact that, in addition to the many claims of his house, France has for the fourth time, with almost unanimous voice, proclaimed him its chosen chief. What the past has been we all know. All the questions of the hour, so far as France is concerned, now point to the future. What the Emperor intends to do he tells us. Has he told us all? When we say he has not told us all we do not blame him. He has spoken to the plebiscite. That was all that was required. But we can- not forget that the main object of the plebiscite was to pledge France to his family and thus to make secure the succession of his son, As little do we forget that Napoleon the Third has never yet been formally crowned. For eighteen years the coronation has been de- ferred. Why, is one of the mysteries that at- tach to Napoleon’s name ‘and character. We are willing to believe that personally he despises the coronation show. Now, how- ever, that he thinks solely of his son, the question is no longer one of personal liking or disliking. A coronation is neces- sary. In what fashion is it to take place? The question is really imminent. It would not do for his son to be told that his father was never consecrated. Have we in this coronation the great coming question? Will Napoleon go to Rome or will the Pope come to Paris? Some people think that Napoleon meditates abdication in favor of his son. This would never do until the father were recognized by the Church as the Lord’s anointed. Really we do not see how the Emperor can longer, with safety, delay this matter. Crowned he must be, or the succes- sion is in peril. The coronation questign will be aggravated if King William of Prussia has himself proclaimed Emperor of Germany. We advise the Emperor to summon the Pope to Paris. The coronation of Napoleon the Third would be a fitting conclusion to the Ecumenical Council. If the Pope comes to Paris the Frenet people will pardon his infal- ibility, A Grasp Somers ror Straten Istayp— The proposer! brid from that island to Ellis Island, the communication from the Battery to Ellis Island to be by steamboat—four minutes. The Governor has sigagd the bill, and the Staten Island property holders will, it is said, build the bridge. It is certainly a grand scheme for Staten Island, including as it does & railroad on the bridge—s scheme which will bring the island. within ten minutes of the Battery, Our Special Letter from Rome—The Ameri can Prelates and Thelr Position in the Council, Our special correspondent in the Hternal City furnishes a letter under date of May 4, the contents of which are of the greatest inte- rest to the Roman Catholic world in general and of the utmost importance to the Catholic Christian mind of America. This communica- tion appears in our columns to-day. Our special writer sets forth the position which had been assumed by the American prelates on the subject of Papal infallibility in the Eoumenical Council. He narrates the particulars of tho dispute which was originated on this subject between the Archbishop of Baltimore and Mon- signor Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, France, and goes on to report the expression which the contest elicited from the members of the epis- copacy of the various nationalities as it pro- gressed. This discussion involved the prelates of St. Louis and Cincinnati, and constituted the only really important and, to the outside world, only intelligent proceeding which has been yet had from the Papal convocation. It will be seen that the vigorous, unfettered mind of the young and giant nation of the West was exercised on the side of liberty, order, the democracies and established right, in support of the solid old maxim that what is good and is ‘‘is right,” and in consecration of that great principle of legitimacy which is enunciated in the words, ‘‘Whoever is king de jure is king de facto.” The ruling of Pope Adrian and the case of the Irish national con- stitution as it was referred to Rome in former years were used as precedents during the argu- ment, and with great force, by the Americans. It is intimated that some of our clerical coun- trymen in the Holy City have a very consider- able leaning towards scarlet hats and pairs of scarlet stockings, Should this be so even no one can object; they will have “‘won them well, and may they wear them long”—that is, for many years, the stockings being, of course, of the standard regulation length. Ireland fur- nished a determined advocate of the Papal infallibility assertion in Cardinal Cullen, His Eminence was warmly supported by Arch- bishop Manning, of Westminster, England, 80 that the Vatican will no doubt claim a veri- fication of the declaration which was made by the late Cardinal Wiseman in the words, ‘‘Au- gustine must have planted the sapling firmly in the soil when the charred and hacked stump of the tree puts forth such healthy, vigorous shoots.” The manly, broad and tell- ing arguments of the American bishops, as set fourth in our special letter, will stand on the record of the Church. Their utterance will inaugurate a new era in the logic of the Sacred College. The Summer Opening of the Park. As we announced in Saturday's issue of the Heratp would be the case, the pleasant season of musical entertainments in our match- less Park was inaugurated yesterday after- noon, and, notwithstanding the manifold calls of Saturday upon our population, the nume- rous theatrical matinées, the grand tournament in Brooklyn and the many excursions offered by land and water to tempt the multitude to other haunts, there has rarely, if ever, been seen so large and brilliant a throng assembled in our great city promenade as graced it from about two until five o’clock P.M. The end- less procession of gay equipages, the troops of merry children in spring costume, the brilliant dames and smiling cavaliers, made up a dazzling and ever varying scene in the brightest of May sunshine. This moving picture was set in a framework of vivid green and bloom, for the yerdure and the flowers of the Park seemed also to have assumed their most vivid hues, and fairly glowed and glit- tered in the light. Neither Hyde Park nor the Bois de Boulogne, the Prater of Vienna, the Boboli Gardens of Florence, the Pincian Hill at Rome or the Chiaja at Naples could, in their palmiest hour, surpass, if they could equal, the spectacle we witnessed on the occasion we describe. American feminine beauty had arrayed itself in all its fascinations of dress and manner, and the light-kirtled flocks of merry juveniles and blushing donnes in charge of them were wonderful. The “‘animals” were allon their good behaviour and evidently in high-priced, pleasant humor. The elephant flapped his ears with ponderous satisfaction over his abundant harvest of nickels collected for his keeper, and the usually grave and pious camels chewed ‘‘the cud of sweet and bitter fancies” with a sly twinkle in their eyes, as though they knew a thing or two more than usual and as rich as any reminiscence of Sahara, All the gray-coated policemen were positively and undeniably civil—a phenome- non of itself delightful; and, in fine, what with prancing steeds, superb carriages, bright eyes, ringing laughter, attire that would have abashed “Solomon in all his glory,” and the lilting measures of exquisite music, waltzing through the sunny air, perfumed with the breath of the grass and the flowers, he must have been a dull dog indeed who did not feel his every nerve tingling like a harp-string to a master hand, But as tricksy fate will always have it with our gayest hours, ‘The brightest still the fleetest, at five o’clock the sky suddenly became heavy with clouds, and in less than half an hour the beautiful pageant was scattered in a wild Solferino of thunder and rain, Central Bap MANNERS IN CoNGREss.—Congress.is avery bear garden, and exhibits under any excitement sufficient to draw out the true character and nature of its members the most offensive demonstrations of bad breeding and bad taste that can be found anywhere. The proposition made on Thursday to revive the mission to Rome was a signal for an ebullition that disgraces the nation. There was a storm of recrimination. Every member seemed to exercise his faculties only to remember or invent some reproach to be cast at another, and an open and general declaration against a mem- ber’s veracity fitly closed the disgraceful tirade. Are the more prominent men in Congress the only ones there who have no sense of what is becoming between gentlemen? Congress Yesterday. The Sonate finished the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment yesterday in the all-night session of Friday, The members had agreed to settle the matter on Friday, and succeeded in doing so by running Friday’s session into Saturday, thus adding to their other defective legislation a reckless derangement of the calen- dar. Officially speaking, the Senate had no session at all yesterday ; but, in point of fact, it had a session from midnight of Friday until seven o'clock next morning, and in that inter- val passed the bill by a vote of forty-two to eight. It would seem from the vote that a great deal of useless rhetoric was used to de- feat so insignificant an opposition, but the Senate, as a body, has a weakness for rhetoric, and any slight opposition will call it forth. The bill will be found in full in another column of the Hzratp this morning. After the passage of a number ot private bills the House took up the Louisiana con- tested election case of Newsham against Ryan. The latter is the democratic contest- ant, and it is quite likely received the largest number of votes, General Banks himself testified to his loyalty, having occupied his house at Alexandria on the ill-fated Red River expedition, These facts were of course enough for the House. It could not withany Political consistency put him in, being a democrat; but then, as he was loyal and had the necessary majority, it would not do him the unkindness to put his opponent in. The first vote ousted Ryan and the second ousted Newsham. At this juncture the galvanized consciences of the republican members dead- ened again. They had already lost Sypher and another valuable coadjutor by this ill- timed generosity, and when the fact that Newsham was also lost to them was plain a number changed their votes, so that he was elected by five majority. After such a bare- faced imposition nobody was brazen enough to propose any further business except Butler, andhe was immediately frowned down. The House then adjourned, in a sneaking sort of way, until Monday. The Case of Consul Phillips. Dr. Phillips, late United States Consul at Santiago de Cuba, who was compelled to leave his consulate under the protection of the British flag because of the threats of assassi- nation by the volunteers, has arrived.in this city. He intends to proceed to Washington and lay his case before the government, The full particulars of Mr. Phillips’ treatment by the Catalans appeared in the columns of the HeERAxp shortly after the occurrence took place. It is most humiliating to reflect on the manner in which our flag is treated in Cuba. The indignity offered to the United States, by compelling its Consul to seek the protection of a friendly Power in order to save his life, is a circumstance which demands the attention of the government. The evil does not rest with this insult alone. It is well known that Amer- ican citizens have been seized, thrown into prison, their property destroyed and in many cases they themselves have been massacred. United States consuls, whose duties are to look after the interests of their countrymen, dare not fulfil the obligations of their positions if they have any regard for their lives, As Mr. Phillips intends to lay his case before his government we hope he will have a full hear- ing. The outrages perpetrated on Americans are too numerous to be passed over in silence and the insults offered to the American flag too grievous to be quietly borne any longer. DeatH FRoM A Bask Batyt.—A promising youth of fifteen was killed at Dover, N. H., on Friday last while engaged in a game of base ball, the ball striking him on the head. Con- sidering the weight and hardness of the balls generally used in said game, and the force with which they are thrown, the only wonder is that we have not had more of such fatal blows on the head. It is sad to think that every useful lesson in the world involves some sacrifice of human life; but so itis. There is no necessity in this national game for a ball so hard and heavy as to be sufficient to killa man or a boy by a chance blow, and the thou- sands of young men engaged in this otherwise wholesome pastime will do well to take warn- ing from this sad affair in New Hampshire, The sport is simply barbaric in which the instruments used, without rhyme or reason, involve the danger of killing or crippling the players, E1euty THousanp Demooratio Magority.— The Albany Argus claims eighty thousand majority for the democratic ticket at the last election. One of the most remarkable politi- cal somersaults was that in Orleans county, the lifelong residence of the democratic candi- date for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, Sanford E. Church, At the election last fall Sigel, the republican candidate for Secretary of State, carried the county by nine hundred and forty-three majority. At the last election Judge Church swept every town, with but one slight exception, and received seven hundred and eighty-six majority. This is one of the most remarkable changes on the political re- cord—a perfect ‘‘wheel about and turn about.” It shows that a man can be a prophet in his own country. Ifthe rural democracy keep on in this go-ahead way they will be able to swing the State without the aid of the metro- politan democracy. Maxine THE Law a Nouisanoz.—It is pleasant to sce from the Department of Inter- nal Revenue a sharp rebuke to those under- lings who enforce the law without discretion and in a way calculated only to provoke public ill-will against it. There is this great difficulty in making law: if it is made on the assumption that all men are honest it leaves plenty of places for rogues to slip through; while if it is made on the assumption that all men are rogues it is apt to become oppressive and grievously vexatious to honest men. It is on the latter assumption, however, that the law must be made, and thus much must be left to the wise judgment of those who administer it and apply all its force only against those who ‘give reason to believe that they are disposed to roguish practices. Several times the department has exhibited the purpose to act on this principle, and it is pleasant to note it. Daniet O'CONNELL AND AROHBISHOP Huenes.—A correspondent suggests whether it would not be more appropriate to erect a monument in Central Park to the late Arch- bishop Hughes rather than to Daniel O'Connell, Why not to both? Tho Presbyterian General Assombly and the General Conference of the Methodist For the first time since the year 1888—thirty- two years, or almost o generation ago—the General Assembly ‘of the Presbyterian Church, once more reunited—Old School and New School—under a common head, met in Phila- delphia last week, and its sittings are not yet concluded. Thus far the proceedings, ample details of which have been published in our telegraphic columns, show a general and com- plete acquiescence in the restored order of things and a hearty unanimity in all sections in regard to measures tending to promote the interests of the Presbyterian Church at large. The latest business before the reunited Assem- bly was the consideration of the report of the joint committee on reconstruction, fixing the boundaries of the various Synods by States and counties, but without recommending any change in tha representation tothe Synods and the Assembly at present. The discussion on this point will be continued to-morrow. The most revered among the Presbyterian pulpit beacon lights, Old School and New School, are lending their ald in directing the way to a happy and peace- ful solution of the subjects under considera- tion, and suggesting the methods by which the Church shall be re-established upon a founda- tion that shall hereafter be impregnable against assaults both from doubters and cavillers within and enemies without, The Assembly have a hard labor to perform; but there is no doubt it will all be done well and with the utmost harmony, The Southern Presbyterian General Assem- Westward Ho! The rush of immigration setting in with the advancing spring to this great metropolitan port and centre of the world’s movement is full of promise. The strangers come to us from all quarters, and of 8 comparatively su- perior class. The vast majority of them are sturdy, ruddy, bright-eyed customers, ‘with money in their breeches,” not much of that, indeed, but more than their brethren of former years who preceded them possessed, and enough to pay their expenses here for a while, if they can but keep out of the jaws of the land sharks. They are full of health, strength and hope when they first land among us, and we pity the narrowness of soul that feels no pleasure at the sight. From time to time there is a boiling over of, bilious journalism, the emanation, probably, of disensed livers and jaundiced blood, which bespatters with slang epithets the poor foreigner who turns go trust- fully to the broad lands of America for a new home; but the overwhelming majority of a free and generous people receive these exiles with hearty, open-handed welcome, And wise are they to do so; for no man who has the pros- perity and greatness of his country at heart can cast a single glance at the map, not of the Western States alone, but even of the al- most vacant regions of the old Atlantic Com- monwealths, without feeling the earnest need for populating and developing them that the burdens now pressing upon us as 8 nation and our position before the world impose. Therefore we are glad when we hear that steamers from the Baltic, the Belt and the German Ocean on the north, and from the Mediterranean and Adriatic on the south, bly is also now in session in Louisville, Ky. | are converging ‘incessantly upon the Most of the business thus far has been con-| French and British ports to turn in fined to the reception of reports, statistics and | their living contribution to the tide various documents relating to Church manage- ment, all going to show a healthy condition of affairs in regard to business. Now, why do not some of the great and reverend leaders in the grand work of Presbyterian reunion and reconstruction at present going on in Philadel- phia adopt some measures tending to win again into a common fold the scattered lambs of the Southern flock? But perhaps there is time enough for that after the Old and New School divisions North become properly cemented, While the above assemblies among the Pres- byterians are being held the Methodist Epis- copal Church South is holding conferences in Memphis, Tenn., and in Baltimore. The cohesive power of Southern sentiment seems to clasp these conferences in a common bond, in which mutual congratulations are indulged, anda happy time generally anticipated through time and eternity. Here is another chance for the good offices of leading Methodists, imbued with the benign and gracious spirit of the Saviour, to be signally exhibited. Why do not some of the Southern brethren throw out a hint that a movement toward reunion with their Methodist Episcopal brethren North would not be hastily condemned? Let the experiment be tried. At any rate, let a hearty, cordial and unanimous sentiment of fraternal love, conciliation and holiness animate our religious classes, and then, when the final trial comes, there will be less difficulty in meting out the proper rewards to the pure and good and the proper amount of punishment to the wicked and sinful. of human life that now bears from Ire- land, England and France with the regularity of the Gulf Stream itself toward our shores. The great mouth of New York admits this swarming current and the green fields of the interior absorb its fertilizing energies. The traveller passes in another year or two, and brighter spaces in the wild woods, broader reaches of waving grain and more frequent village spires announce the first result. A few years more and the clangor of populous cities, line after line of crowded highways and clattering railroads, majestic steamers on river and lake, and elegant homes, surrounded by rich gardens, show the completer work. Such has been the process that, year after year, in the lifetime of the existing’ generation, has pushed the margin of settlement from the bor- ders of the Ohio westward, wave by wave, across the vast domains now forming the or- ganized States of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Towa, Missouri, and is now urging its great tidal billow away beyond Minnesota, Dacotah, Nebraska and Kansas to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Among these new Common- wealths the immensity and varied capacity of Nebraska are this year attracting very par- ticular attention. A State two hundred miles in length and four hundred in breadth, com- prising a superfices of about eighty thousand square miles, or fifty million acres, of which forty millions belong to the United States gov- ernment, it offers a diversity of soil, resources for mining, manufactures, grain growing, fruit raising and cattle grazing truly remarkable. Its central position on the great line of travel by rail and highway from the Missouri river to the farthest West, fed by the Chicago, Logans- port and North Missouri branches, favors it in a peculiar manner. No less than six hundred and fifty miles of iron track were laid in the State within two years, and three times as many are now in progress. Its climate greatly resembles that of Cen- tral and Southern Germany; the winter is but four months in duration and quite mild, snow remaining only a few days on the ground, and the exuberance of meadow growth being such that, from April to October, cattle graze free, with scarcely any care. The air is pure and dry, and virulent disease is almost unknown. No swamps, no vast reaches of underbrush, no stagnant waters to mar the beauty of the rich valleys that stretch along the Platte and the Missouri, which are environed by verdant hills, covered in spring with a wealth of wild bloom in remarkable variety. Salt and excellent bituminous coal are among the minerals, and homesteads can be pur- chased, in the best region, on the easy terms of the original law. We mention Nebraska particularly because so large a ratio of this year's immigration seems to be directed thither; but, with modi- fications of site and latitude, the same general remarks will apply to the lovely lake regions of Minnesota and the grain lands of Iowa. Taking our Western domain as an entirety it offers unrivalled homes for perhaps a hundred millions of human beings, with flocks and herds more numerous than those of the patriarchs. In fact, the grand cycle of our continental wealth and power is but just beginning. This great land, “shadowing with wings,” is but just commencing to receive within its embrace the disfranchised millions of the older systems escaping thence to us, on the East and on the West, Commingled tongues and many creeds are fusing amicably together in this great inte- rior receptacle of America, and the boy of to-day may live to see an empire arise from it strong enough to dictate the law of humanity to the world, and enlightened and noble enough in its policy to win the willing homage of all nations. The Park Commission—The New Programme, This important body, which was organized under the new Charter, met on Friday to com- plete its arrangements for the government of allour parks. Much of the future beanty as well as the good health of the city is deposited in the hands of the gentlemen who compose this board. The parks over which they have con- trol cannot be regarded alone as the garden spots but as the lungs of the metropolis. If the eye drinks in beauty from the herbage and the flowers, from the artistic arrangement of color, and the delicate effects of light and shade, which are all essentials in the proper laying out of a public park, the sanitary value of these breathing places cannot be disregarded. The excellent report of a code of by-laws pre- sented by Judge Henry Hilton shows that the board understands its duties and comprehends the wants and wishes of the people. The abandonment of all political considerations in the employment of officials is a step in the right direction. The public parks are not po- litical institutions. They are not expected to be wheels in any political ma- chine, but the property of the people at large, to be governed honestly and judi- ciously for their use and benefit, We are glad to observe that the new Commissioners under- stand this, The division of labor into bureaus having each a separate responsibility is a wise idea. Judge Hilton in his report very properly says:—‘‘No greater spur to ambition can be devised in perfecting a great public work like the parks and places committed to our charge than to make each prominent employé feel that his success is bound up with it, and that its failure will be attributed to his inattention or want of ability.” The appointment of engineers, architects and landscape gardeners naturally falls into the programme for the regulation of our great Park, and there can be no difficulty in select- ing suitable persons out of the varied talent in these branches for which our city is conspicu- ous. So far the programme for the proper management of our public parks appears to be perfect, and we have good reason to expect that a wonderful improvement in all our parks from the City Hall to One Hundred and Tenth street will soon be efficiently accomplished. Anotuer InpiaAN DELEGATION, composed of Spotted Tail, Swift Bear and other harmonious chiefs of the Sioux tribe, are on their way to Washington to meet the Great Father and Red Cloud—a deadly enemy. It behooves our Indian Commissioners at Washington to make matters and things intelligible to these bloody- minded chiefs without any delay, and to keep them away from Washington whiskey, or else we are likely to hear ‘“‘the gentle war-whoop of the savage, the cheerful report of the pistol and the pleasant cry of the victim,” right under the shadow of the Capitol. Mr. Fisn’s NevtTRauiry is a very remarka- ble sort of neutrality. He allows thirty Span- ish gunboats to leave this port to make war on the Cuban insurgents against Spain, but will not allow a Canadian troop ship to pass through the Sault St. Marie Canal for war pur- poses against the Red River insurgents. But why the Secretary should make this nice dis- tinction in favor of Spain we cannot under- stand, except upon the theory that he is re- solved that Spain shall continue in the occupa- tion of Cuba, so far as our neutrality can be applied, and that, on the other hand, it is well to be on the right side of the Fenians, Tur Frenca Troops Stationgp is Rome have marched from the Holy City to the Nea- politan frontier ‘“‘to watch the insurgents.” Ominous, to say the least. What with the plebiscitum in Paris, infallibility in Rome, in- surrection in Naples, and the imperial eagles of France on the qui vive to the frontier of Italy, it is quite likely that ‘something will turn up,” or dowa, on ‘that line” before lone. A Goop Exneit—That of the last monthly report of the Children’s Aid Society. In be- half of thousands of destitute boys and girls in its several establishments this society is doing a good work and deserves a liberal encouragement from the city and State,