The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1870, Page 6

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SMe Woke eT 1—Advertisements. 2—Adveritsemen's, 3—Religious: The Moral and Sptritual False Bal- Buces of the Worid Considerea in the Pulpit; Fun aud True Religion in Plymouth Chureh; High anu Lofty Doctrinal Tambling in Heaven and Heli by an Irrepressible Local Prophet; Discourses by Eminent Divines in the Metropo- is, Brooklyn, Washington aud Jersey City on Live Political, Social and Religious Topics; Elder Orson Pratt in Justification of Polyg- amy—Mormonism Defended aud the Gentiie Preachers Roughly Handled. 4—Religious (continued from Third Page). 5—Midsummer ietreats: The Season of 1870 at Saratoga—A_ Western Wonder—Musical and Theatrical Notes—The Drama in England— Crilicisms of New Books—The Prize Ring—Our Fallen Heroes: Flora! Decoration of the Graves of Union Soldiers—Our Naval Visiters—Dele- ates (o Canada. i G@—Editoriais: Leading Article on the Astonis) Growth and Futare of the United Ste — ae Intelligence—Amusemeont Announce- ents. 7—Telegraphic News From All Parts o! Papal tnfallibist Activity m Rome: cide Conspiracy Trials in Paris—Ho: der in Brooklyn—Washingion: The Quban juesiton in the FH The Sales of Gold for une—Horse Notes—New York City News— ‘The Scannel Vendctia—The Sickles Suicide— Return of a Missing Bookkeeper—Highway Robbery and Outrage—A Swiss ‘Switched or— A Scene Not on the Bills—More Jersey Jus- tice—lire in Broadway—Bustness Notices, S—Reil River: Affairs at Fort Garry; the Transfer Gucsiion Not Settled; Indian Diticnities and the Milkary Defences of the Northwest—Art Notes—New Phase of the Indian Question— France: Imperialism and the People—Old World Itemms—News from the Sandwich Islands—Sulcide of Captain Godfrey in San Francisco, 9—"Pev” Haisted’s Whale’: Interesting Historl- cal Résumé of Submarine Vessels; Eventful History of a Remarkable Craft— Politics and Legislation in Washington—Real Estate Trans- fers—Financial and Commercial Reports— Court Calendars for To-Day—Marine Trans- fers—Desperate Attempt at ‘‘Muitling’’—Mar- riages and Deaths, 10—The Fen‘ans: Close of the Fenian War; Arrest ‘of General Gleason by a United States Marehal; Seizure of Fenian War Material by United States Troops; Interview of a HERALD Corres ondent with General O’Nelll in Burlington ‘tson—A Newark Mystery—Heartless Case of Wife Deseruon in Newark—Affray in Mont- omery ‘eet—Fatal Accident—Stabbing Af- ‘ay—Shipping Ioveiligence—Advertisements. Ai—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Apminat Porrer’s Mipprus at -Annapolis, in a handsome boat race on Saturday last, proved too much for the picked Quaker City Club. Perhaps from these waters a match may be found for those middies. Who speaks first ? e Too Mucn Fuss anp Fury Anovur No- tTHING—The excitement and rowdyism, pistols and bloodshed in Richmond over the small matter of the election of a mayor. Here in this city, with roughs by regiments, we get through with our elections more quietly. Decoration Day.—This is the day ap- pointed in y places for the decoration of Union eoldiers’ graves with flowers, Still, let us hope at the same time that the living crip- ples from the war and the widows and orphans of soldiers dying in the public service will not be forgotten. Prem or Serrano,—The question of a king for Spain appears to be narrowed down at last to Prim or Serrano. Serrano has declined in favor of Prim, and* Prim declines in favor of Serrano. They both see, perhaps, that the great struggle between the monarchy and the church on the one side and the republic on the other is coming, and they both shrink from it. Short of this struggle, however, the revolution in Spain will not be finished. AN Acent oF THE BeLaium TELEGRAPH Case Company has presented a memorial to Congress for permission to land one end of the cable on American shores, subject to State jurisdiction and such rules as Congress may establish. As no land grants, subsidies or money are asked of the government for the purpose, it will be a shame if the permission is not given by Congress at least as readily as the House gave “‘incomputable acres’ to the Northern Pacific Railroad last weok. BaOKWARD PROGRESS.—It is stated that the Chicago Board of Education contemplates a reduction in the compensation paid to school teachers. This is the very worst thing that can be done in a comparatively new country. “Poor pay poor teach” is a new reading of an old Indian saw. School teachers, considering the great amount of good they are expected to accomplish, are, as a general thing, the most poorly remunerated of any class of educated professionals. But there is one school in Chicago which common report says flourishes there in an uncommon degree. That is the “School tor Scandal,” in which teachers and exverte are both numerous and well cultivated. NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 3v, 1870.—TRIPLE AOR ARRL Se PERSE SRB ee The Astonishing Growth and Futuro of the United States. The progress of the United States has no parallel in the history of nations. Nothing has been seen comparable to it either in ma- terial development or in moral power. Less than a century ago there were but two to three millions of people, then forming remote de- pendencies of a monarchical and European Power. Now the republic has a population of forty millions or more. For a long time even after the independence of the country was es- tablished the settled portion of it did not ex- tend west ofthe Alleghany Mountains, except through a few little bands of pioneers mostly engaged in the Indian and fur trade. Though a few sagacious statesmen had some scintilla- tions of light as to what the country might be- come in the distant future, no one realized its rapid and wonderful growth, The stream of immigration from the Old World was steady in former times, it is true; but that was slow, and of course the natural increase of population could not within so short a time make the mighty empire we now see, Still the American statesmen of the early days of the republic began to lay the foundations of a continental republican empire. The acquisition of Louisiana was a great event and the first one to carry the people in large numbers to the immense and rich valley of the Mississippi. ‘This was really the initial step to our wonderful territorial expansion and development. Tho ambition and national pride of our people received a powerful stimulus in that. The acquisition of Florida, of Texas, of California, of New Mexico and Arizona and of Alaska was but the sequel of that act and followed the natural law of our development. ry But new agencies began to work in the course of time to increase the population of the United States and to spread it over the Continent from the shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific. The wonderful natural wealth, variety of products, cheap lands, free repub- lican institutions and a glorious future attracted the people of all nations from the Old World. A vast stream of immigration poured in and cultivated the soil, built-up cities and made the wilderness blossom as a rose. The redundant population of Europe, with the poverty, tyranny and political troubles there, increased the volume of this immigration from year to year, and it continues to swell more and more. Here was the home of the oppressed and poor, and here they could finda welcome and abundance, There is not a village or hamlet in Europe where this fact is notknown. Then came those mighty agents of modern civilization and science—the pross, steam power and the magnetic telegraph—to increase knowledge, facilitate communication and to inspire admiration for this great repub- lican and conglomerate representative nation of the world, The late war startled mankind with the wonderful power and resources of the republic. It revealed the fact, of which we were hardly conscious ourselves before, that the United States is really the most powerful nation on the globe, and as regards foreign nations absolutely impregnable. Within the course of a few years railroads and telegraphs have covered like network the vast area of the interior and have spanned the Continent over a distance of thousands of miles, A national debt of enormous magnitude, created in four or five years, that would have overwhelmod any other nation under such circumstances, is to us comparatively a bagatelle, and is now being paid off at the rate of nearly a hundred millions of dollars a year. Such progress, such wealth and resources and such power have never been known before. All this, however, gloricus as it is, only foreshadows the mighty future of the republic. By the natural increase of population and the enormous stream of immigration we shall have, probably, in thirty or thirty-five years, a hundred millions of people. The augmenta- tion of wealth will be still greater. Whatever difficulties we may labor under at present with regard to the development of our mercantile marine, commerce and naval power, we have such resources, such a geographical position and such harbors and vast seaboard that we must become the first maritime and commer- cial nation. Nothing can prevent this. And what is thirty years in the life of a nation or in history? Other nations may and perhaps will advance under the new and progressive dis- pensation of modern science; but relatively they have not the resources and means that we have. Already we see the moral influence of American ideas and institutions upon Europe and the rest of the world, and the time is ‘not distant when this country will control indirectly, if not directly, the destinies of mankind. here is but one thing we need, and that is, statesmen who can com- prehend the position we occupy and the glorious future before us. Instead of being bound by the precedents of the Old World or of the past we should strike out a policy for ourselves in consonance with our destiny, We should throw off the swaddling clothes that Europe has placed upon us and assert our manhood. It is our destiny to give the law to nations, for the people everywhere are with us, and there is no use of resistance, if we be wise, to the moral and political power we may exercise. As to the affairs and in- terests of the American Continent, this republic can do as it wishes, and no one will presume to interfere. Do the people realize their power and destiny? Does the government at Washington comprehend the necessities of our situation and the glory of the republic? These are important questions as regards the present and the parties concerned, but whatever in- capacity may be shown by those who are in power the grand future of our country is in- evitable. Ir Seems Prbsasie, from Commissioner Delano’s estimates, that the internal revenue for the present fiscal year will amount to one hundred and seventy-five million dollars. A pretty good electioneoring item for Grant’s next campaign, Massaonusetts Givine Way on TAR Liqtor Question.—Our last accounts from the Massa- chusetts Legislature say they have modified their liquor bill so as to permit not only some indalgence in lager beer, but likewise in porter, ale, strong beer and wines. Is this a small matter for the descendants of those pious Puritans who used to shut up their hives of bees on Saturday night to keep the thoughtless bees from working on Sunday ? Religious Services aud Pious Hilarity Yos- terday. On the whole yesterday was not a success, from a religious point of view. The Quakers were in town, and it rained. Whether the Presence of the pious and worthy Friends was the cause of inclement weather we shall not consider, By the vulgar it is believed to be, and the intellectual can say nothing in ridicule of this belief, because, singularly enough, it always rains when the Quakers visit the metropolis. We feel little interest, however, in this question. No matter who or what caused it, it certainly did rain yester- day—not a heavy, agreeable shower, but series of sharp drizzles, with a humid, sticky atmosphere, which made one feel like getting into a bath and remaining there, Of course the churches were slimly attended: This is to be regretted; but, knowing the weakness of human nature, we are not Wlisposed to be severe upon those who stayell at home. They will doubiless make amends for their non-per- formance of religious duties by reading the full reports of the church services published in this paper this morning. When it is borne in mind the class of persons that attend Grace church it will not seem surprising that the congregation was comparatively large, and in this respect an exception to the other churches. There was the usual display of aristocratic countenances, affecting a sort of condescending piety, which was good to look at. Rev. Mr. Washburn, in the absence of the pastor, preached in behalf of the Seaman’s Union, and his sefmon was quite interesting. Mr. Hepworth, at the Church ‘of the Messiah, was not so happy in his discourse as he usually is, His subject was “True Independence of Character,” which he in a measure illustrated in the sermon, whose character was marked by an independ- ence of all the rules of unity. Mr. Hepworth began with the subject of negro slavery, and passed successively the subjects of drunken- ness, fashion, Napoleon I. and Madame de Staél, Napoleon ILI. and the plebiscitum, and wound up with a slight censure of fashionable religion. So many illustrations tend to con- fuse, We are, however, happy to report that at Lyric Hall Mr. Frothingham spoke plainly and to the point. He advocated ‘free re- ligion,” by which “the meant the freedom of reason to deal with religion on rational principles.” He did not believe in a risen Christ, ‘Jesus was an idea, a principle, spiritual power,” but nothing material. In fact, the reverend gentleman was rather inclined to regret the doctrine that God himself is any- thing more than “‘an idea, a principle.” He merely went a step further than Bishop Snow, who, at the Church of Mount Zion, arrived at the conclusion that there is no hell and that the rigbteous shall not inherit heaven. After reading these two sermons we were quite pre- pared for the withering language of the dis- course on the Catholic Church, delivered at Calvary by Rev. Mr. Ashton, and were ready to and do commend and support the platform of Rev. Mr. Smyth’s new Presbyterian church, which was announced from the pulpit yester- day and which we publish this morning. Across the river the lambs in Brother Beecher’s fold had a right merry frolic. To those who must have amusements on Sunday there is no more popular and pious establish- ment for them to visit than Plymouth church. Yesterday the performance was admirable. As arule the Lord is glorified in standard comedy at the tabernacle. Yesterday His power and glory were declared to the world in broad farce. From the moment the play—we beg pardon, services—began, to its close, the audience was convulsed with laughter, and allon the subject of flowers, light and Sunday keeping. With this report we appro- priately close, Of what avail are prayers and tears, confessions and penance, when the sins of bumanity canbe wiped out with a witti- cism and regenerated mortals can go direct to heaven with a grin? Tue CanapiaN Rep River Expgpirion,— The British Canadian steamer which, with the troops on board, destined fay the Red River or Winnipeg Country, was allowed at last to pass through the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, arrived at Fort William, Lake Superior, last Saturday. Fort William isa military station connecting with the chain of little forest lakes which along the United States boundary run westwardly to the great Lake of the Woods, from which, with a short portage, there is water communication to the Red River and Lake Winnipeg. ‘bis Canadian expedition, by canoes which will be carried by the men across the portages, will take this route, and the distance, from five to six hundred miles, will require, perhaps, a month or more of this rough navigation. The expedition will doubt- less result, however, in steam communication with the Winnipeg basin by land or water or both, thus opening a new, large and fertile region to settlement and profitable industry from both sides of the line and looking to “manifest destiny.” Waar Can Be Done Wira rae Burtp- INGS IN WASHINGTON.—A_ Western corres- pondent, who is in favor®of removing the national capital to some point on the plains between the Mississippi river and the Rocky Mountains, says the buildings in Washington could be rendered useful. The Capitol, he thinks, would make an excellent asylum for decayed politicians. The Treasury Building he would appropriate as a refuge for free love philosophers and affinities of both sexes, The Patent Office would be well suited for the support of worn out women’s rights women, while the remaining public edifices would come in very well aa sheltering places for the leaders of all the other played out isms of the country. * Tue CuBan Portoy.—It is hinted in Wash- ington that Secretary Fish will have to back water on his foreign policy when the report of the House Committee in reference to Cuba comes up, which may be to-morrow. Itseems that he was rather indignant that the republi- can members did not defend bim in the spon- taneous discussion that sprang up on the ques- tion last Tuesday, and he recently said as much to General Banks, who, however, declined to act as his apologist in the matter. The House is strongly in favor of some aid to Cuba without regard to any partisan questions, and it is thought that such an impressive dis- cussion will ensue on Banks’ report that Fish will be thrown high and dry out of the State Department. Navy Reductions=Will tho People Submit? rested and instructed by the recent debates on the floor of Congress on the subject of naval appropriations, cannot fail to applaud the wise legislation that cut down the pay of officers, particularly that of the Admiral, Vice Admiral and Rear Admirals who led our fleeta and gained such important victories over the enemies of the Union. has been several times at death's door, owing to the exposure he underwent during the war, and has been subjected to extraordinary ex- penses for medical purposes, has had his pay reduced one thousand three hundred and thirty- three dollars a year. just after the ret cruise in which he was obliged to spend thirty thousand dollars from his private means to enable him to return the civilities extended while in the Mediterranean, when the comforts of life and the absence of care for the future are most essential, much intended to do honor to the American flag as to the gallant old Admiral who has con- ferred renown on the American navy which cannot be estimated by dollars and cents. While Admiral Farragut was abroad returning civilities to our flag at his own expense for- eign admirals were entertaining him at the ex- pense of their governments out of annual allowances called ‘‘table money,” which are entirely independent of their pay. Their pay proper is used for the expense of maintaining their families while they are absent from home ; and a liberal. foreign government provides that those who are dependent on their officers commanding abroad shall suffer no inconve- nience. and it is a miserable economy to take from him one-tenth part of his. pay at a time when he most needs it—a time of-sickness and suffer- ing. shore duty,” where he is. now employed, nearly one thousand dollars, and the moderate sum of three hundred and thirty-three dollars per annum only is taken from his ‘‘sea pay,” which latter compensation he will not in all probability enjoy more than once during his lifetime. The pay of this officer is reduced at a time when he is exposed to more than ordi- nary expenses, and in a city where the cost of living is greatly beyond that of other places. The rear admirals are out down six hundred dollars a year, and so on with the commodores and captains, while the younger officers are not quite so hardly dealt with. years; but this the vultures and daws won't that this pay is granted members for five or The country must have been greatly inte- Taxpayers in particular The Admiral, who for the past year This reduction is made of Admiral Farragut from These courtesies were as There is but one admiral in our navy, The pay of the Vice Admiral is reduced ‘‘on The navy would be satisfied’ with the pay to which it seems the army have objected; and why there is this wide discrimination between the two arms of the service it is hard to under- stand, The public can only see in it an act of gross injustice, and one that will reflect upon those who have acted so conspicuously in the matter against the members who exerted themselves nobly to pre- vent the pay being cut down so ruthlessly, but “fair and smooth words butter no parsnips,” and the only remedy the officers have is to take in a reef and sail close to the wind. have confidence in the conservative element in the Senate; and hope that they will stand firm and see that no harm comes to those who perilled all in the defence of the Union, and who under any other government would be so provided for that they would want for nothing during the rest of their lives. avy. There were some We It is a sad thing to see a nation made to appear ungrateful through representatives who have so well taken care of themselves while they are consigning others to short allowance, hardly enough to keep them from penury. different from that of a person in any other profession. with at least a competency, and frequently have opportunities to amass fortunes even, it The career of a naval officer is quite Most men in mature life retire they improve them. An officer of the navy, after running a brilliant career, is, at the age of sixty-two, consigned to a retired list, with a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and no matter how great services he may have rendered the country he gets so much and no more. For this reason his pay while on the active list should be sufficient to enable him to Iny“by a small portion for his declining let-him do. They glory in taking from the nayal officer, so that he may not equal them in any of the comforts of life. There is scarcely a member of Congress whose pay is not equal to ten thousand a year, taking into considera- tion the general allowances and those for travel. These matters, however, are kept in obscurity, and can only be estimated by the large amount of money voted annually for members’ pay and expenses. No one be- grudges it to them; they are welcome to it all, and more besides; but they should remember six months’ service only during the year, at the end of which time they can return to their homes and avocations. On the other hand, tife pay of an officer is for hardships on land and sea, in storm and baitle, and all earned by the sweat of the brow. Those gentlemen who claim to lead the republican party in the House, and who show their devotion to its principles by endeavoring to find fault with the administration, have a hard record to settle with the yeomanry who will meet them on their return home. The great associations of workingmen, that extend all over the United States, will call them toa strict account for the bitter hostility that members have displayed against the encour- agement of labor inaugurated by the Navy Department, whereby thousands of maimed soldiers found food and shelter within the gates of our navy yards.. When the present Navy Department came into power it at once set thousands of skilled mechanics to work who had been on the verge of starvation for want of employment. Twelve thousand men were employed in our navy yards, at reasonable rates of pay, and at an expense of three million five hundred thousand dollars less than four thousand eight hundred men were employed by Mr. Welles’ administration. This ig shown by the figures quoted by Messrs. Hale and Sargent—figures that they no doubt ob- tained from the books of the different naval bureaus. This result was due to a proper system of orgaffization, an honest application of the government funds and a faithful account of the whole. Yet, in the face of all this, members, some of whom recommend that millions of the veovle’s money should be SHEET. equandered in subsidies amd swindling land gxants, attempt to prate about tho necessity of curtailing the extravagance of navy officers. Mr. Scofield placed the matter in its true light when he spoke of the members in question as scolds who were berating the naval authori- ties for merely asking “for the necessary funds to carry on a republican administration. These same gentlemen will find their Nemesia in the organized labor movement that is des- tined to sweep them from the political arena like chaff before the wind. There are now nearly a million and @ half skilled luborers in this country out of employment, and the Navy Department has done more to relieve their dis- tresses than any other institution in the coun- try. Had the department been let alone it would have continued to employ the same number of men throughout the year, and at least seven thousand families would have been saved from want. This we know from good authority. The Navy Department has asked no money from Congress; it has had no deficiency bills, and only asked to use what money it had on hand, and when the honorable member from Massachusetts returns to his constituents it is to be hoped that he will be able to face them with a good grace and ariswer the questions that will be asked him. He is so good at figures that we have no doubt he will succeed in pacifying his constituents, provided General Butler is not on hand to correct his statements and figures, which sometimes most egregiously err. The Fenians. Our despatches to-day merely record the closing scenes of the great fizzle. Gleason and Lindsey have both been arrested at Malone, and, except in out of the way places, the forces of the Irish republic are preparing for the route homeward. General Meade is on the border, with plenty of United States troops, and even the bold ‘“‘soger boys” whom O'Neill led will not think of contesting the right of way into Canada against both Yankee and Canadian foes. The end is therefore at hand, although New Jersey and San Francisco, being rather distant from the seat of war, donot seem to think so, Jersey continues to send forward reinforcements with the confidence of assured success, and the San Francisco brotherhood are contemplating an attack on British Columbia as a diversion in favor of O'Neill and his army. As one outcropping of the ill-considered movement it is noticeable that one of the Philadelphia head centres, J, W. Gibbons, has issued a manifesto disowning the defeated braves in the name of his branch of the brotherhood. In this, asin nearly all other movements outside of the one legitimate one of freeing Irish soil by a war in Ireland itself, the Fenians have shown themselves to be nobody’s enemy but their own, The fiasco just ended, although no doubt frightening the Canadians until their bodies were as blue as their noses, has mainly reacted on themselves in dissensions and ridicule. A Megn Radical Dodge to Catch tho Negro Vote. Ata recent election for Town Commission- ers ‘in Chestertown, Maryland, the negroes carried the day by one of the meanest species of fraud that the fifteenth amendment has yet produced. According to the charter of the town all voters at a town election are required to be freeholders. Out of the one hundred and fifty darkies who desired to march to the polls not more than two or three could point toa foot of land they possessed. But this being.the first’election at which the negroes were to vote in Kent connty the emergency required that they should deposit their bal- lots, right or wrong. Hence the fraud we refer to. It happened that there was one negro in Chestertown who owned a small and worthless patch of land adjacent to the river. This he divided into lots of one foot square and made deeds of it to his fellow colored would-be voters. As a consequence one hun- dred and fifty negroes, representing just one hundred and fifty feet of land, went to the polls and claimed and secured votes as free- holders and elected their ticket. The whole thing—which throws the repeating frauds in New York entirely in the shade—was engi- neered by radical politicians. Naturally enough, the Jona fide frecholders of Kent county are highly indignant at the outrage; but there appears to be no help for them, and they are obliged to look forward tothe day when a ‘‘white man will be as good as a nig- ger” in reality.” Sureron WILLIAM FrotuineuaM, of a New York Volunteer regiment, was dropped from the rolls in November, 1862, by order of the Secretary of War, for alleged absence without leave, A few days ago, his case having been reviewed, it was shown that he was a gallant soldier, who had behaved well on many of the earlier Virginia fields, and an order has been issued revoking the order dropping his name from the rolls and honorably discharging him from the service. After resting for nearly eight years under the obloquy attached to this dropping from the rolls, which is a mild sub- stitute for dismissal, it seems to us very small satisfaction and very tardy justice to honora- bly discharge him. Besides, has not the United States through its tardiness lost the services of a gallant officer through the best three years of the war? Apvick GRavTis TO THE State oF VER- MONT.—There seems to be some higgling among the authorities of Vermont in regard to paying the expense of sending off the Fenian raiders who have recently centred upon her borders. Vermont would act wisely if she gets rid of these amiable adventurers with the least delay possible. Otherwise, in the absence of any chance to capture plunder in Canada, they may take a notion to pay un- timely visits to the sheep pastures and hen- roosts of the farmers of the vicinity. Tue Mormons seem disposed to be surly and churlish in their dealings with the United States officials. Some time ago they closed the court room of a federal judge while he was temporarily absent, and more retently they refused to let United States prisoners be con- fined in the Salt Lake City Jail. The Mor- mons ought surely to understand that they have a sort of judgment suspended over them, as it were, in the Cullom bill, and any overt act on their part will cause it to fall, and they should therefore be especially careful. Mormon Polygamy—Orson Pratt in Reply to Dr. Newman, In another place in this day’s Herarp will be found a long and well written document in the shapeof a letter addressed to us by Orson Pratt, Sr., in reply to a sermon delivered by Dr. Newman in the Metropolitan Methodist church, Washington, on Sunday, the 24th of April, and which was printed in full in tho Heratp of the following day. no doubt be read with interest by our million of readers, and it is certain to be reproduced in every paper of any consequence throughout the length and breadth of the land. There are those who will sympathize with the views advanced by the Mormon Apostle. Most men will admit that they are clearly put, and that Mr. Pratt has made as good a case as it is possible to make. Unless, however, wo greatly mistake, the arguments of the Mor- méh Apostle will fall flat on the great mass of the American people. heard or read Dr. Newman’s discourse that he had. exhausted the subject, that he had that his arguments were conclusive, and that he had proved that Mormon polygamy was not only not sanctioned, but condemned by Scripture. We do not see that the argu- ment built up by Dr. Newman has been shaken in the least by all that Mr. Pratt has written. On this subject, indeed, our minds are all made up, and it is not possible for ang Mormon sophistry to stem the tide of feeling which is setting in against this remaining The letter will It was felt by all who stated the whole case fairly, “elic of barbarism.” Mr. Pratt concludes his letter by an appeal to the ladies of the United States; but we question whether, if our women’s rights women were even more numerous, more foolish and more powerful than they are, they would give these Mormon doctrines any substantial support. It is our opinion that both Dr. Newman and Mr. Pratt would do better if they would look at the ques- tion more exclusively from a New Testament standpoint. ing is clear. place is left for polygamic institutions. In the New Testament the teach- In our Christian civilization no Widows’? Claims in Congress. It is to be hoped, for the credit of the gov- ernment, that the House bill granting the little pension of three thousand a year to the widow of Abraham Lincoln will yet be taken up and passed by theSenate. The adverse report of the committee ofthat body on the-subject doos not meet the case. Whether Mrs. Lincoln has or has not means sufficient to enable her to live respectably in an obscure village of Ger- many, where living is very cheap, is not the question, but it is simply this: As the widow of our murdered President, whose life was lost in the public service, has not Mrs, Lincoln a claim upon the government which nothing short of the moderate pension of the House bill willsettle? We think that Congress should have granted her, without quibbling, the salary for the whole four years’ second term of service for which President Lincoln was elected and upon which he had entered when he was slain. Atany rate the pension pro- posed by the House is small Snough, and we dare say that the Senate will not get rid of that little bill, which ought to be paid, until they pay it. The objections of the Senate committee are frivolous and contemptible, and properly have nothing to do with the case. Thon there is the claim of the widow of the late General Gates, which, we apprehend, is neglected by Congress because the poor woman has not the means whereby to engage the Washington lobby nor the inclination to do so, but is disposed rather to rely upon the justice of Congress and the merits of her case. And again, there is the long outstanding and unsettled claim of Mrs. McCauley, widow of the former United States Consul General McCauley in Egypt—a claim for moneys, &c., expended in the public service for which the poor widow ought to be indemnified whethor the sum, justly due, and for which she hasa legal claim, be large or small. Thore have been and are many claims, we know, made upon Congress for relief and compensation for losses and damages which are spurious or extravagant, but they should not be made the excuse for neglecting claims. like those we have recited, the fairness and validity of which are fully established; and of all claimants upon the government the poor widows of faithful public, officers who have died leaving the government in their debt are among those whose claims should first be recognized, acted upon and paid. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCS. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Count Von Lombaystinn, of Holland; J. A. Griss wold, of Troy; W. H. Crosby, of Chicago; J. B. Bads, of St. Louis; Colonel £, C, Williams, of Charleston; Jacob Homer, of Cincinnatt; C. H. Walker, of Eng- land; Willard Gay, of Troy; Dr. H. Blanck, of Prus- sia, and Ross Campbell, of Baltimore, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel E. Wilkes, of North Carolina; Commander Bassett, of the French Navy; D. D, Williamson, of New York; W. A. Beach, gf Troy; B. Triest and W, H. Patterson, of California; E. A. Buck, of Buffalo, and J. H. Wales, of Boston, are at the Hoffman House. Montgomery Blair, of Washington; George 0. Wiggins, fof St. John, N. B.; George E. Cuureh, of New York, and Judge C. L. Woodbury, of Boston, are the Everett House. Senator Thomas Boles, M. L. Rice and B. F, Rice, of Arkansas, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel W. McLean, of North Carolina: Judge J. 8. Markland, of Rhode Island; Colonel D. W. Fallon, of Boston; Thomas Powell, of England; A. S. Pe- norla, of New Orleans; W. Arnold, of the United States Army; Dr. 8. W. Gregory, of Pennsylvania; J. F. Hart, of Boston; Dr. E. W. Way, of Ohio, and State Senator Cheeseborough, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. W. T. Martin, of ldaho; J. D, Williams, of Halifax; L. W. Derrgin, of Concord; N. H. and W. Schon- berg, of St. Louis, are at the Irving House. E. Holbrook, of New Jersey; John Crane. of Wis- consin, and 8. P. Ryband, of Baltimore, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Colonel J. Fessenden, of Maine; Professor J. R. Hitchcock, of St. Louis, and Dr. E. Armstrong, of Savannah, are at the st. Charles Hotel. Prominent Departures. General Starling, for Washington; Dr, J. Parker Pray, for Albany; Major George S. Leland, for Ohio; M. P. Bemus, for Buffalo; J. E. Kingsley, for Phila~ delphia, and George B. Rogers, for Boston. Personal Notes. About three Itundred school teachers left San Francisco yesterday on an excursion to New York. Frank B. Austin, @ pioneer Californian, has beon appointed py the United States Grand Sirea speciat - commisstoner to establish Odd Fellowship in Ger- many. 7 Surgeon C. W. Pollard, of the Ninth regiment, and Chiet of the Bureau of Promotion of the Ere Ratiwav. lic vory ill at his home, un Ninth avenue. — *