The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Herat. NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, The Proposed deuce. Congress proposes to adjourn on the 15th of It will just run into the dog days, but has a wholesome dread of sitting longer in The ses- sion will have been long enon, no doal despatches must be addressed New York when the day of prlimiysbny: me a it has becu long enough now if the time bad Letiers and packages should be properly | been spent in practical and necessary logiala- July. the oppressive heat at Washington. Adjourament of Conrress— ‘What Has Beon Done and Left Un- there will be little cause for regret at the ad- journment of Congress. Our hope must be ia the practical common senso of the people and the natural progress of the country, and not in legislation or the government at Washington. A Pastor in Bis New Fold—Smyth on His Own Hook, Few people doubted that the gin and milk martyr would soon fiada new congregation if he did not found a new Church, Mr. Smyth's first appearance at Masonic Hall yesterday ™ MAY 23, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Continental Kurope Under Arma “Aten. tion 1—+Make Ready.” By a special correspondence from Berlin, published to-day, we are enabled to present to our readers the muster roll totals of the armies which are just now maintained op the Conti- nent of Europe and in Russia. The figures are taken from the War Office records of France, Austria, Italy, North Germany, South Germany and St. Petersburg. ‘The facts, a4 set forth in tabular form by our writer, speak for themselves, The Oburches Yesterday. ‘We suppose few persons will contend that the Christianity of five centuries ago is that of to-day. In the abstract, porhaps, it is; in reality it is not. Civilization progressed too rapidly for the theologians, They first fought against the reason, which science set into avtivity, and were beaten, and some of them not ouly surrendered, but have since been ruaning & race with reason on the question of religion. After ‘The Defenders and Defamers of the Navy im Congress, In @ previous article we somewhat antici- pated the spirit that seemed to animate cor- tain legislators in Congress in relation to naval matters, but we were not quite prepared to witness the ill feeling that exists towards this branch of national defence on the part of in- dividuals who have failed in carrying out pro- jects to demoralize the service. While the discussion of the naval appropriations was boing carried on it afforded opportunities for gealed. tion, It is now more than five months since : The continental great Pow- | all, the good old days of our forefathers, which Baleatedl i : the session commenced, and It will oxtend to | 8% far to show that he has approached both | ers have one million, eight hundred and | we read of, were happy enough, and men and | some of the members to introduce remarks on elected. communlontions will not; be re- over seven months on the 15th of July. one and the other, Taldag for his text the twenty-three thousand able-bodied men, ready | women were pious, good Christians, if even | the navy that will stamp them forever as able turned. Thore was no delay in Dooember in the organi- | °° chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Corin- | for immediate operations in war. It may | they were ignorant, Saints, if they did overdo | and patriotic mon, who have made themselves = = === | gation of the houses; the President's Mossage | *tians, he avowed himself rejoiced that tho | be said, indeed, that this number is | the thing a little, wore still men of distinction, | masters of a very difficult subject, and have Volume: AAA, No. 143 | and all the official documents from the depart- chains and the strait jacket of the regular | actually under arms, ‘The men etand | whose devotion to God, charitable works and | thrown their opponents so far in the back- = monts were sent in at onee; there was nothing Presbytery had been removed from him and} at “attention.” They need only the | asceticism surrounded their lives with a mys- | ground that the latter will hardly emerge from AMUBEMENTS TRIS EVENIHS Ps AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRov- that he was now free to preach as Luthor. preached and as Christ preached to the Jews, according to the great doctrine of the right of words of command, ‘‘make ready,” ‘‘present,” “fire,” to involve the Old World peoples in the flame of war, its difficulties, sufferings, pov- terlous sanctity. And tho angels that ap- peared in those days were always spiritual beings with beautiful faces, flowing garments, the obscurity to whioh they have been con- signed. It is to Messrs. Sargent, of California, and Hale, of Maine, that we are indebted for to hinder the important and necessary work being commenced right away. But much valua- TUE TAMMANY, Pourteonia strect—Geann Vaurerr | ble time was wasted, as has been the caso usu- ENTEWIAINMENE, ally before, in the early part of the session, ‘Tho | Private Jndgmant. The “Church of the | erty and death. With auch a state of facts | naked foot, arms clasped across the heart—in | such lucid expositions of naval affairs, and pOLYMPIG THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tux Fare Oxx wir | most important work will again be left till the Pharisees” bolds him nolonger. Smyth hence- | before our eyes can we wonder at the emi- | fact, real angela standing on clonds. It is | Mr. Archer, also, although a democrat and ia GRAND OPBRA HOUSE, cornor ot Eighth avenue and $34 ot.-—THe TWELVE THMPTATIONS. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGSRIB, Proadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily, Perormauce every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tae DRaMa OF PUR Poriy Tutves, BOWERY THEATRE, Moouua. Bowery.—MBTAMORA — Tire ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14 % Ee Pouwuro. HC, 1th street.—ITALian OrEia- BOOTH'S THEATRE, between —~ POX Vensvs GOOsE—LOS? ASHORE. > SB i ave WALLACK'S THEATR Tux Bent Dax—Is HE Broadway and 13th street.—~ Lous. FRENCH THEATRE, Ith and 6tb av.—Tar Consi- OAN BRoinERS. MR3, ¥. B. CONWAY'S PARK | a ehty Y. D OOMWAXS FARK ZHRATRE, Brooklyn. THEATRE COMIQ"E, S14 Droadway.—Comre I” Pda Pincay ty oadway.—Comtc VOoat. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA {OUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couro VOCALIOM, NEGRO MLNGTRELBSY, £0. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Build SALBYAST'O MINSTRELS ar eee ee KELLY & LEON's 3" _ Pe MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.. HOOLEY'S OPERA HC STRELE—PANORAMA, P: Brooklyn.—Hoo1.ey'8 MIN- OF AMERIA, &C. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN Tth ay,, between 5 bith sts.—TarovorE Tu 1 a as' PoruLan Conczers. YORK M FP aAxD Aw 'SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway TRIPLE SHEET. — Now York, flendny, May 23, 1870, “DAVS MH iRaLD ns, Services and Ser- Meiropotr, ; The Imnortriity Aven'e Point of from third page)—Personat eat BR v.ew. tral B 1 and dy for ¢ an pay—The Pacific me~Murriages and anday at the Park—M ‘oa—New York City Shipping Intelii- At cal and ‘Theatr News—Bronkiyn City lvert. sements, rainst the passage of British troops to the Rod River territory for war action is de- scer.bed by a London weekly journal as an act of ‘studied unfriendliness” on the part of the United States goverament. The American people said that the ‘‘escape” of the Alabama from a Brilish port was an act of ‘studied unfriendliness” on the part of England at the time, but none of the English writers would hear of such a thing. Trex VeNezveraN Revotution Expgp.— The revolution in Venezuela has been brought toaclose. Guzman Blanco has assumed the Presidency of the country, and Monagas, per- ceiving the hopelessness of his chances to suc- cessfully put down the rebellion, voluntarily surrendered to Blanco’s agents. The agony is, therefore, over for the present, and for a few weeks to come we may reasonably expect peace in that model republic, where rebel lead- ers can imprison or parole the Presidents elect of the nation, With the close of the war we also learn from Havana of the death of Ex- President Falcon, who, in years past, had mach to do with the troubles that alinost continua'ly affect Venezuela. Waat 1s A TournaMent?—Some specula- tors in popular amusement have organized a not unpleasant equestrian sport over the river, upon which, however, they invite unnecessary ridicule by gi it the pretentious name of “Tourniment.” A tocrnament is, perhaps, etymologically speukiag, any riding around a circle—and so our circuses and our races are a3 good tournaments as any ; but in its proper use the word was applied to a knightly combat, and therefore to cali the sport of tilting at a ring a lourvament gives the character of a eham to a fine sport that by a proper name would be equally entertaining and satisfactory to the masses. We hope this sport of tilting wiil recvive enough encouragement to keep it up. We haye too few equestrian sports, and this of tilting has over racing the great advan- last few days, and, perhaps, to the last hours, Then, judging from what has occurred before, measures will be rushed through, probably, at railroad spoed, and a number of jobs will be ingeniously tacked on or worked in of which the people will have no knowledge nor time to That is the way the business of legislation is carried on in think about till all is over, Washington. Itiz said, we are aware, that the preliminary work of preparing, maturing and discussing measures is done during the early part of the — session, that Congress is prepared for decisive action at the end; but this is only partly trae. fact is, Congress is 40 occupied wild mere poli ~ tical matters, and has such a bad system of doing its business, that most of the necessary legislation is crowded into the last days, and, even then, much of it has to be passed over. Let us look at what Congress has done, or, rather, what it has not done during the five months and upwards that it has been in. What important measures have been passed? Has anything really important been done, or likely to be, relative tothe domestic affairs of the republic, to the national finances, to taxation, to our foreign relations, to commerce, to reator- ing our shipping interests or to give direction to the astonishing progress and development of the country? Nothing of the sort. Recon- straction or restoration of the South is not yet finished even. All this might have been ac- complished in one year or less, yet it is five years since the war ended. A great part of the present session has been occupied with that miserable Georgia business—that quarrel between Governor Ballock and the Logisla- ture—with reconstructing a roconstructed Siate—and now the end seems as far off as ever. The welfare of the country, the in- terests of the South and Southern people, maintaining peace or the execulion of the lawa have had little or nothing to do with this long agony of reconstruction. Party politics have been at the bottom of it all. Congress has shown no elevated patriotism or slatesman- ship in the whole matter. It continues still to fritter away precious time on this question, though the people everywhere are weary and disgusted with it and have earnestly desired the settlement of it long since. With regard to establishing a sound and en- during financial system 80 as to reduce tho rate of interest on the public debt, ts cheapen money, to lessen the burden of taxation, and, as a consequence, to give impetus to the indus- trial pursuits of tue country, Congress has dove nothing. The proposed modification of tho tariff and taxation to bring down the revenue thirty, forty or fifty millions would scarcely be felt. It would not touch the great and vital interests of industry. Congress is legislating in a small way and chiefly for little local in- terests. There is no conception of a compre- hensive plan of raising revenue from a few. articles of laxury in general use, which would simplify the system and cut dowa the exyen- sive and complicated one now existing, The Funding bill, which has been before Congress for months, isa cumbrous and impracticable measure. It has no foundation in established principles and is a mere experiment. Nor is there any unity of views or purpose in the dominant party in Congress or between that and the administration on this measure. It is doubtful if it can be passed, and, if passed, whether it will not fail in operation. In all the measures relating to the national finances, revenue, the tariff and taxation legislation is clogged by sectional and special interests. These prove superior to the general welfare. The party in power has no defined policy or unity of action, and there are no statesmen to take the lead in or to impress their views upon Congress. If we cast our eyes over what is transpiring in the world we see the most ast onishing pro- gress. Allthe great commercial nations are making oxtraordinary strides in developing their trade, wealth and power; but we, who have the best opportunities and greatest re- sources, lag behind. We ought to occupy the first position as a commercial nation, but rela- tively we are losing ground all the time. Yet what is Congress doing or likely to do to re- vive our shipping interests and to enlarge our commerce? The members, for the most part, are small local politicians whose vision does not extend beyond their own districts or sec- tion. They do not comprehend in the least the wants or the mighty future of the nation. Of all the examples of weakness, vacilla- tion, and want of statesmanlike foresight in the government and Congress, perhaps, the course that has been pursued with regard to Cuba, St. Domingo, and the countries of America generally, and particularly with re- gard to Cuba, is the most remarkable. No part of the world presents such a fine field for the development of our commerce, Cuba, and the other countries that are contiguous to the United States, and that belong to this hemis- phere, abound with the richest and a great variety of products, We ought to have a mo- nopoly and to control ina great measure the valuable trade these afford. We could find there an extensive market for the products of our own soil and manufactures. But through the weakness of the government and stupidity of Congress this country turns its back upon the opportunities within its reach. It refuses the gifts of Providence, ignores its destiny, and violates, in the case of Cuba particularly, the principles and love of republican liberty, tage that the gentleman goes with his horse, and that bis dexterity is as much on exhibi- tion as the points of bis animal. which are the foundation of our own govern- ment. Looking at these and other evidences of the weakness and incapacity of Congress, 8) The forth stands upon the bottom of his own grant wave flow which unceasingly tides, and pulpit, and, if we can judge from the cordial manner in which the exiled martyr was received by his new congregation yesterday, we should say that the pulpit is likely to be wei! propped up. We must understand Mr. Smyth to mean that the stralt jacket church which he has abandoned cripples its ministers in teaching the Gospel with certain restrictions not in accordance with “the fuadamental doctrine of the Reformation,” when he states that now, if God gives him the opportunity, he will ‘teach the Gospel of the Lord freely, fully, without alteration, and free from the interference or dictation of any man.” The question might bo asked, under what circuuistaaces, then, has Mr. Smyth been preaching the Gogpe! of the Lord all this tine in Eleventh street? That he was doing his work conscientiously no one doubta—not oven the bigoted Pharisees who drove him from their temple—but it is in hourly increasing volume, from the differ- ent countries of Europe to our free and happy shores? Can we be astonished that the strangers arrive, very frequently, in a fretted state of mind, and often also in an impover- ished condition as to the possession of wordly £0008? Need we even ridicule or be too severe on many of the initiatory citizens and municipal vagaries of our friends trom abroad when we recollect how “good” they must feel just after landiug at Oastle Garden? Cer- tainly not. The emigrants who come here, particularly those who arrive from the countries indicated above, escape not only the personal dangers and physical sufferings which are direotly incident to actual military service in the field in the cause of dynasties and monarchism, but they escape also the withering local consequences of the wara—taxation, want of peaceful evident from this admission that he waa not allowed to exercise freely the right of private judgment, nor to follow very strictly the ‘“‘fun- damenta! doctrines of the Reformation.” However, he has full fling now, and he can bang away at the Pharisees, lead his new flock to salvation, and—if in the course of human events it should become necessary—after an exhausting sermon to tako a little gin and milk on Sunday, he will have no narrow-minded masters to haul him over the coals therefor. Leaning upon St. Paul, even as he did in his opening sermon yesterday, ho can point to the great apostle’s advice to Timothy, and there is no maa to gainsay him. Our Special Letters from Europe. Our special writers in Madrid, Frankfort- on-the-Main, London and Rome furnish an ample historical résumé of the condition of affairs ia Spain, Germany, England. and tie Holy City as it presented on the 7th of May. This exhibit is, as will be seen by our columns to-day, of very great public value. The American people are thus informed of the Cuban question—an exciting question at all times to them, but one which is particularly, personally and mournfully so just now, after the tragic events which have trans- pired on the island. Spanish telezrams from Havana, in Madrid, report “great re- sults” for the Spanish cause in Cuba. Minister Sicklea was in negotiation with the Spamsh authorities. President Grant's name was used in the course of the official communications, It appears, however, notwithstanding the per- sonal assiduity of the American Minister, as if our diplomacy towards Spain as directed from Washington lacked that broad scope of idea, and were wanting, to some extent, in that elevated range of executive position which the importance of the Cuban subject demands. Franktort-on-the-Main sends forth a report of the operations which were conducted in American securities on the German Bourses, Our writer speaks words of warning against a speculative overfloodiag and, it may be, a con- sequent panic and financial crash. From Eng- land we have special advices of caution to capitalists who may be inclined to hazard their cash in newspaper speculations, Our wriler chronicles the epitaph of a London morn- ing journal which had just expired after a brief and sickly career; a lite- rary infant, precocious from its birth and rickety ina corresponding degree. An exira- ordinary police case is noticed, as it occurred in London, The Roman Catholic ladies of Great Britain were out in indignant protest against the Convents Inspection bill of Mr. Newdegate. Some of the grand old names of England and Scotland appear on the roll; the blood of ‘Belted Will” Howard, of Nor- folk, of the Dukes of Argyle, of the Stuarts, of the Douglas, of the Oliftons, of the Stourtons, and of others equally distin- guished in the annals of their country, flush- ing with indignation in the faces of the fair representatives of these houses at the legisla- tive imputation which has been just thrown on the reputation of their sister relatives, their personal friends and their co-religionists who have embraced the monastic life. This protest, as it appears in our pages, would alone render our European special corre- spondence quite attractive. Tae Rusisranog ov Iron Beams.—The de- struction of some of the beams of the iron elevated railway is only what men of expe- rience have had plenty of reason to antici pate. One of these gave some facts in a com- munication published by us, showing appa- rently that the constant application of force tends to produce such « condition that a quite inconsiderable pressure will ultimately fracture the beam. Perhaps it would be proper ia such cases to say that the continued application of force exhausts the iron—works the virtue out of it—so that a last cohesion between its atoms becomes imperfect or is reduced to a nullity, Fire will, itis well known, produce this con- dition in iron, and the consideration of Tyn- dal’s theory of heat will show that the constaut application of force may do it also, since by that theory force and heat would be in such a case convertible terms. Sixty Roman Cartorto Prerarss have to be yet heard on the subject of infallibility in the Papal Council. They will ‘‘get through” in about a mouth from to-day. It is fixed that the debate on the subject shall close on the 29th of June. By that time the heat of the weather in Rome—the ‘sun, which will keep baking, broiling, burning on” our helpless clay, will bave taught them that man is miserably fallible, employment, the absonee of home comforts and ihe grim vision of the gates of a poor- house in old age. This military drain on the industrial ener- gies of Hurope produces the most exhaustive consequences, aud there appears at this moment very little hope of its sanitary, eco- nomic, healthy, generous, Christian estoppel. Tudeed, it looks very much, judging from the tenor of our recent special written despatches from Europe, as if the exodus would be largely increased, and that at an early day. France and Russia send out the least number of emigrants; it may be said, speaking comparatively with the other continental territories, that they send none. France and Russia need the ‘raw material” of humanity at home, They keep it in the crude state ; unrefined, but inflammable ; poor, irritabls, and consequently belligerent, France and Russia are the powers which will most probably first need the use of the force of the brutum fulmen,; their ralers may direct the great power eastward, march it to the tombs of the warriors of the Crusades, and once there subsequently enlighten it at the fountain head of Christianity. Is it science, charity, Chris- tianity, diplomacy or mere brutality which Mutrimonial Marder. A lady writes to us that her husband is an intolerable tyrant, whom for his bad usage she has beea compelled to leave, and that he perseentes and pursues her, encouraged by the conduct of McFarland and by the approval he seems to suppose that conduct has received at our hands. Into this error with regard to ow views the lady also seems to have falien. We of course do not approve of murder, or of any violent taking of human life, and quite as little do we approve of the abuse of his wife by any man for any pretended reason what- ever. In the case of McFarland, as it ap- peared to the public, we saw a family broken up by pernicious notions in regard to amatory affinities. It did not appear that the wife was ready to rupture her marital relations previous to the time when her fancy waa caught by the more agreeable person and more engaging manners of aman other than her husband. The frenzy awakened inthe husband by the discovery that she would then cast him away seemed only a consequence of the conditions of human nature, and as such relieved him of the responsibility of aay crime he might com- mit. [f full faith is given to the story of Mc- Farland’s sometime wife, as related by hersell, a different face is certainly put upon the whole history, and McFarland appears as a wretch too mean and contemptible for association with any animal that respects the female of his species. ‘‘Mary,” no doubt, puts full faith in that story; we believe it is colored by false notions, though we are satisfied there is so much truth in itthat McFarland is certainly no hero. Tur Opera.—The first week of the Italian Opera troupe, under the management of Brig- noli and Albites, has proved a great success. The public have testified to their appreciation of good artists by crowding the house every night. Even the stagnant reputation of the Academy did not keep them away, and that is saying a good deal for the popularity of the management. ‘Lo-night the second week opens with ‘‘Poliato,” to be followed on Tuesday and Wednesday by the ‘Ballo in Maschera” oud “Trovatore,” with an interval of one night (Thursday) in Brooklyn, and a grand matinée on Saturday. A fresh instalment of artists is announced to add to the already excellent list, embracing Brignoli, Kellogg, McCulloch, Gaz- zaniga, Petrelli, Fossati and Lefranc, This looks encouraging for. Italian opera under judicious management. Can we not hope that when the summer season at the watering places is over there may bea fall and winter season of opera inaugurated? The public seem disposed to encourage such an enterprise. Ong or THE ApVANTAGES OF RarLRoAD Coxprtition.—Out of the strife of the railroad giants, if there comes much evil, there also comes, now and then, a point of decided ad- vantage to the general public. One of these we note in the proposed arrangements of the Erie people for the transportation of live stock. Because the transportation from this State eastward favors the Contral above the Erie, so as to strike damagingly at the interests of the latter, this company is making arrange- ment to give greater facility to the trade by way of this city, thus giving to the dealers @ great market on their route and to the city a larger choice of supply. At this rate let the railcoad war go on, mortifying to think how things have changed. To-day all our saints live in tine houses, wear shining broadcloth and while chokers, while our anzels have a weakness for Jock:y Club and have nothing to do with clouds except when they make their fathors ‘‘see atars” in the shape of dressmakera’ bills, Let us not attempt to ignore the fact. Chriatianity bas made prodigious strides, Whether for good or ill time alone can deter- mine. Preachers who aim at the sensational, who dare not risk becoming ‘‘played out cusses,” to use @ most expressivo American- ism, are always ready with innovations, Our ideas of propriety get knocked into ao cocked hat; but what if they do, so long aa Christianity advances? And did not Christianity take a wonderful step yes- terday when Mr. Beecher announced from the pulpit that a womau's meeting was to beheld in Brooklyn next Wednesday? Now, at this meeting there will bea deadly assault made upon marriage and a vigorous plea entered for more pliant divorce laws, and Mr. Beecher was aware of these things when he made the announcement, Here, then, was progress. It was something more than the ‘soul-building” of which Mr. Beecher preached. It hinted strongly of an approaching day when professed Chris- tians would build a church, and, in imi- tation of the Pagans, dedicate it ‘to the unknown god.” Certainly if they persist in eliminating Him from the Bible, it will not be long before Ho will be quite unknown to them. However, it is consoling to think that we can leave Plymouth Church and refer to Rutzer's Chapel, where Rev. Mr. Richardson preached on the immortality of the soul. His text was taken from the question ia Job, “If a man die shall he live again?” Ou this the preacher remarked that ‘’a moro intoresting inquiry could not to be made.” We should say not, and we are glad that Mr, Richardson came to the con- clusion that the soul is immortal. Mr. Hep- worth's discourse on ‘‘Tho Bible, and How to Read It,” was of curions interest, being on a subject less often treated from the pulpit than it might be. Father McGlyna, at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic church, preached a sermon on the essentials to salvation, which deserves particular notice because of the liberal views and broad charitable ideas of the preacher. At the Church of the Strangers Rev. Dr. Deems discoursed on the Lord’s scavengers, in which he held that when things are no longer useful to the world they die and God has them removed. We are not quite certain what the point of this sermon was; but we think it had reference to the desire of ‘‘some Protesiants,” who would get the Roman Catholic Church out of the way. However, Dr. Deems thinks that this should not be, as the said Church is alive at the present moment and will probably live. We have no doubt that he will reecvive the grati- tude of ali Catholics for his kindness. Tn the other churches in this city, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Washington the stiendance waa large, the music excellent and the sermons instructive enough. Whether the clergymen might not have done better is a question we shall not discuss at the present moment, We suppose they did their best, which is all we can expect. Pope Pius IX. is reported to have oace remarked of an African priest that he was made in the image of the Creator if ho even was an ugly likeness. And wa hold that ‘sincerity leads the sinner to heaven, even though it be surrounded by poor preaching. Special Advices from Persia—Ten Millions of People Ready tor International Commu. uion, From Bushire, under date of April 13, we have a special correspondence which sets forth the condition ofthe ‘‘solidarities” as they exist to-day in that part of Western Asia. Oar writer tells us how youth is educated, and how manhood lives, prays, trades, robs, is punished, nnd makes money generally on the shores of the Gulf. is letter makes a very useful economic exposition, and being dated in Bushire, the principal entrepot of trade in Persia, will command a very uni- versal attention, The city of Bushire is unexeeptionally prosperous. Two lines of steamships run from Bombay up the Gulf. Cotton and opium and other valuable products are produced in the neighborhood, and ten millions of people—frugal, industrious, com- mercial Persfans—look to Bushire, and also look for other and new outlets, for a more per- fect communication with Europe and America. Where ten millions of people ask for a frateraal intercommanion with the great nationalities of the world they will not be permitted to remain ox cathedra for any length of time, particularly in a day of evangelism by steam and olectri- city. In this point of view the letter of our special writer in Persia is quite opportune and exceedingly useful. 4 CaprraL =Pusisament.—The proposition made in Berlin to abolish capital punishment except for murder committed in cool malice has much in ils favor, and it is pretty clear that if we had such a law here much would be done in the punishment of criminals who now go free because of the impossibility of proving that highest point of homicide, If it were understood by juries that this distinction was part of the law they would convict—and so condemn to imprisonment many whom they now acquit because they cannot conscien- ciously believe the case justifies the extreme penalty of hanging—though the legal defini- tions make it murder or nothing. the opposition, could not lay aside the gentle- manty instincts that belong to him and join in the abuse of the service, when he had been placed on the Naval Committee to understand its wants and help it through its difficulties, All three of the above named gentlemen are entitled to the gratitude of the country for their noble stand in defence of an institution whose decadence would be a deathblow to our country, It must gratify the friends of the navy to find that it has so many able advo- cates on the floor of Congress and so few enemies worth consideration. Tao people of the United States are too in- telligent to be beguiled into the belief that naval affairs are badly administered, when they have daily proof that the service is being reor- ganized and brought into a harmonious and systematic condition, which it has not enjoyed for years, and the aims of those who have un- dertaken to depreciate it are too well known to have any effect or to need much comment. Mr, Stevens, of New Hampshire, has shown so much vindictiveness in his late speech that he has failed moat egregiously to carry any of his points, which are very bad points, and would do incalculable injury to the navy. This gentleman's term will soon be up, and without doubt it is the last one he will enjoy in Congress; for the people of New Hamp- shire require fair and honorable legislation, ‘and they hesitate to re-employ a man to repre- sent their interests whose -judzments are warped by personal and vindictive feelings. There never was a more feeble attempt than the one made by Mr, Stevens to cast odium upon the Navy Department, which is a part of that administration he professes politically to uphold; and in undertaking to underrate a branch of General Grant's administration, the management of waich meets with the Presi- dent’s entire approbation, he ia placing himself in opposition to all the principles that should govern a public man. No politician ever oveupied any position in his party who decried party measures and placed himself in open opposition to any principle or question by which his party was governed, Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, who has here- tofore been the party leader of the republicans in the House, had not prestige enough to stand the attack of General Butler when the latter showed the House how enormous had been the errors of Mr. Dawes’ figures and on what slight grounds that gentleman had assailed the Navy Departmeat and the administration. Mr. Dawes had to go to Massachussetts and recall all that he had said, thus placing himself before the political world in the character of a man who makes assertions one day and denies them the next, showing entire want of. consistancy and knowledge of his sub- ject. These political errors are so annoy- ing that parties never forget them. Figures are dangerous thiags to meddie with un- less a man siudies his arithmetic be- fore going into action, and both Mossrs. Dawes and Stevens came upon the floor of Congress so badly posted that their assertions were swept away as if by an avalanche by the counter statements of Messrs, Hale and Sar- gent, who overwhelmed their opponents with facts that would admit of no rebuttal. Mr. Sargent’s spsech was a masterly vindi- cation of the present management of the navy, and-will be read all over the country as the production of a gentleman who has broad na- tional viswa and who is trae to the best intor- ests of the navy and the country. He placed the condition and wants of the service before “the House in a statesmanlike manner, while the sentimental Mr. Stevens, although pro- fessing to appreciate those who have done so much to add lustre to our flag, never failed when opportunity occurred to introduce dis- paraging statements against the navy. Mr. Haile, although » young member, showed him- self worthy to be classed with the firat lord of the English Admiralty—Mr, Childers, who so ably conducts naval matters on the floor of the Housé of Commons. The future will show that the men who have exhibited mean and contracted views on naval affairs in Congress will be lost sight of as poli- ticians; for when men are selected for political positions their constituents have that pride in their selections to hope that they will at least exhibit some of the qualities of statesmen. When, however, the people ascertain that their representatives are deficient in those broad national views which statesmen should possess they reject them. Such has and will be the fate of politicians to the end of time. While Sargent and Hale will be long remembered as orators and statesmen Dawes and Stovens will be lauzhed at for presuming to contend with men so far their superiors in all that consti- tutes public men. The action of the House in regard to the pay of naval officers must meet with universal disapprobation. The Admiral is cut down $1,938, the Vice Admiral a proportionate amount, and other officers have likewise suffered. This is unjust to the navy, while officers of the army of assimilated rank will receive much higher pay. This action shows the temper of the House, which it is to be hoped the conser- vative Senate will somewhat check. A Nice Gurman Question ror Tam-~ MANY.—In the Seventeenth ward the election goes against a German candidate by the interesting process known as ‘‘counting owt,” and in favor of an Irishman named McKiever by the equally interesting process of ‘count- ing in.” McKiever, of course, is the Tammany man, and the Tammany tactics were once