The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD |™ yim Tet, tt BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat Volume XXXV...... -No. 156 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenty strect.—GRanp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk Fair ONE WITH BLonvE Wid, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- Performance every evening. ‘ner Thirtieth 6t.—Matinee ¢ GRAND OPERA HOUS! ‘Wa st.—THE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—IxioN--Tuk MILITARY DuAMA oF Nor Guiry. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tus Cogstoas Broru- ‘EkS—TOM CRInG.e. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Wd at., between 6th and 6tu avs.— TAKING THE CHANCES. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. THe Rep Liayt. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourtn st.—Tae Goop NaTuLeD MAN, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Wattace’s Com- PANY—TuE LANCERO, MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Mtnnir's Look. 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PAGE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisernenis, 3—Waslington: Filibustering in the House Over the Tax Attempt of General Schenck to Keport the Funding Bi tion of G menis—The Indians—Drainiug the N S -up—Fire in P: Suicide in Jersey City—Kings County Polit: ‘The Bremen Dock Robbe 2 St. Nicholas Hotel Diamond Robbe: x other Rall- road V telegraphic News 4—Tue Fas : Pol Seng; Imperial be Worn The pak Eaitha—The Masonic Fenians—The Greatest Fraud of the Promoted. 5—Procerdings in the New York and_ Brooklyn Two Hua- ifalli—Recop- es in April g Shad—Pinan- Courts—holictous Tntelligenc dived add Pifty Million Dollar tion at Grammar Sc! \ and May—Enugrat c rcial Reports. celal and Comn 6~ Editorials: Loadi! tion of the and Soc 7—Teographic News from all Parts of the World: French & 3 of a Russo-k Agaiust Turkey; Spanish Par on the Throne n Development— ‘The Ar and Glorious Ope and Longchan} and Chivalry Alle: ness No! a S=The 1 Game—Marriages, Birth and Death. Advertisements, 9— Advert: ents. 1@—New York City News—Art Notes—Aquatic—Tho Flushing Railroad Accident—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements, 11—~Advertisements. 1L2—Advertisements. Tue Biack Popuration that so character- istically buzzes about the free concerts of the Marine Band in the White House grounds were dispersed yesterday by a sudden rain, and took refuge indiscriminately in the base- ments, entries and halls of the White House, scaring General Grant and his family from the portico. Tne Frenco Minister to THE PRUSSIAN Court, who has been enjoying a short leave of absence in Paris, has been ordered to return to his post at Berlin forthwith, He has ‘‘seen” the Emperor Napoleon, and received, it may be, an idea on the subject of Papal infallibility, The 29th day of June will be an eventful day in the history of Europe. Ex-Mayor Cranoon, of Richmond has been arrested for alleged forgery and con- spiracy to defraud the State of Virginia of $7,000. Without knowing anything of the merits of this case a presentiment seizes us that Mr. Chahoon is an object of persecution on account of his position in the late muni- cipal war in Richmond. If such is the case it is a pitiful method of restoring peace and barmony. SUPERINTENDENT JocrvAN’s RECONNOI- SANOE AND Its Resvits.—The Superintendent of Police made some night trips recently in the style of Haroun al Raschid, and caught several police functionaries napping in the station houses and elsewhere. Already the official heads of these worthies are in the bas- ket. This is good; it is conducive to disci- pline in the most admirable way. All the other policemen can now see the best reason in the world for keeping awake and attending to duty, and some good men can be promoted to the places made vacant by the dismissal of these inefficient sergeants. Sr, Domixsco,—Every steamer arriving here from St. Domingo brings additional intelligence of the feelings of the Dominican people re- garding annexation. They look forward with anxious hopes to the action of the American government in this matter. The length of time which has clapsed since President Bacz declared that the Dominicans desired to be admitted into the American Union has do- veloped nothing that would lead us to the belief that he either intentionally or accidentally misrepresented the feelings of his couitrymen on this important matter. Cabral, it is trae, endeavors to throw all the obstacles possible in the way of the government, but his opposi- tion really does not amount to much. The present is the most opportune time for the United States to acquire a foothold in the West Indies, and we hope the government of this country will recognize that fact. St. Domingo should be American. Meudows—Another Morris and Essex Ratiroail Art, Aristocracy and Itles as to What Is to ierday—The Princess ival—The Returned ‘Age— Marine Transters—Municipat ‘Auirs—Porsenal Intelligenco—Yachting—Weston Triumphant— The Last of the Atalanta—The Fourth Ward ‘Tragedy; ‘The Corouer’s Luquest; Oiicer Burke Article On The Great Agita- el » Political une Progress British Tron- NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET, than ever, It is our fortune, good or bad, to live in an age of unusual activity. The progress of scientific discovery, the accumnlation of thought and experience, the multiplied and rapidly multiplying applications of science to purposes of practical utility have placed the human family under conditions that are en- tirely new. It is not to-day nor yesterday that men have begun to feel the antagonism be- tweon the staid conditions of the past and the imperious requirements of the present and of the growing future. But year after year this antagonism sharpens aud becomes more intense, All over the world at the present moment men feel the force of the conflict, and the conviction becomes more and more gene- ral that acrisis is at hand, All old things have‘not yet passed away, nor have all things become new; but the new fights successfully with the old. During the six thousand odd years of its existence the world has survived many testing ordeals, It has survived the flood and the Babel confusion and the fall of Rome and the disruption of the Papal Power and the French Revolution. Auother periodic and radical revolution seems close at hand. When it comes it will affect not a sec- tion, but the whole of the human family, But as the race has survived and been benefited by all the past, so will it survive and be bene- fited by this coming convulsion, no matter how searching and destructive it may prove. Let us look at the present state of things. In the religious world the elements are in a state of fierce ferment, From the magnificent Church of Rome dows to the humblest dissent- ing body it is felt that things are not as they should be—at least are not at rest. Rome feels that the world is leaving her high and dry as one of the grand monuments of the past. But Rome thinks she is right and that the new forces and requirements are wrong. Therefore she resists, and therefore the Ecu- menical Council, and therefore the insane pas- sion for an infallible Pope, or, if the reader prefers it, a God upon earth, visible and tan- gible. It is not better in the proud Protestant Church of England and the churches scattered over the earth that follow her lead, Ritualism, or a more sensuous worship, is to the Protestant Episcopal Church what infallibility is to the Catholic or Roman Church. Logical Presbyterians in Scotlond and America yield to the same motive impulses, and union for the first time in their history has become a passion and a fact. Pan- Presbyterianism cannot any longer be spoken of as an impossibility. Among tho Methodists and Baptists and Independents the spirit of revolution is equally active. Of the old grooves all are sick; but while the past is all but uni- versally despised, and while the forward impulse is yielded to, men axiously ask, Whither? On one or two great: leading points the majority begin to agree. The alli- ance between Church and State is considered, and religion must be left to the individual conscience. Tn social life we see the same tendencies. The code of Justinian and the laws of the Church are equally regarded as obsolete. How popular is the word “‘rights!” It is comparatively anew word. It is so new and so foreign to the spirit that has governed the past that even Mr. Disraeli, when pushing through his Reform bill two years ago, could only speak of the franchise as a privilege. How long is it since the colored man had rights in this free republic? Now, however, present fact, CongressThe Ceusus, the the Internal Taxes. moreover, be taken as rapidly as possible. tion through mistaken economy. lished by law. criminating between religious sects. to the Quaker policy, was adopted. day. colleagues and several republican opponents, him by cries of “‘Ahab”’—a somewhat mys- lical error which the Honest John made seve- ral sessions ago. Mr. Woodward was the only democrat thoroughly nettled by Mr. Covode’s remarks, and he succeeded in making a reply, in which he intimated some extremely sharp things in language only about half Parlia- mentary. Finally, at five o'clock, the minority having expressed a savage determination to keep it up all night, exhaustion got the better of the tariff men and an adjournment took all important bill to reduce internal taxes, the income tax included. The Advent of Nilsson to Stag: A good many people in the theatrical line have been trying to catch Mile, Nilsson—the the American the word is in everyhody’s mouth. What a] Swedish Nightingale “number two”—for the regiment of “‘rights” we have! We| American operatic stage. We have heard of have people's rights and workmen’s | various attempts on the part of ambitious rights and women’s rights and other rights in- nuwerable. Socially, every man and woman strives to be a law to himself and herself. The old law that gave ‘authority is in general dis- favor, and the rights of the past are in univer- sal disesteem. The subject will have no soy- ereign; the servant will have no master; the wife will not be obedient to her husband. Socially, even more than religiously, the world isin a stateof chaos. Politically, things are as confused and as unsatisfactory as they well can be, The plebiscite in France, the latest and in some respects the greatest political ex- periment in modern times, while it has satis- fied some has filled the minds of others with despair. Some look at it in the light of a re- surrection, others regard it as the burial, of the popular cause, Neither view is, perhaps, correct; but the difference is noteworthy as indicating the peculiar condition of polttical sentiment. Inside all the nations political questions exercise a disturbing and dividing influence. But the great political questions which affect the immediate future are more in- ternational than national. The prosperity of this great republic and its proud independence of barcier lines have commanded the serious attention of the peoples of Europe. The natural result is that they have become impatient of the state of things which impresarit to bring this beautiful Scandina- vian warbler across the water. Her splendid roputation in Europe is certainly a great in- ducement to keep her there, and we cannot be surprised that it required a good deal of blan- dishment and finesse to secure such an engage- is officially announced by this indefatigable purveyer of artistic celebrities that Curistine September next, ter time. It will be just at that opportune season when the wateriag places are giving up their crowds, half tired of the country and longing for something new in city life, The name of Christine Nilsson is now as familiar to us as that of Jenny Lind was before she came among us. Perhaps her European reputation, if not as widely diffused, is quite as well established as her Swedish sister of song. It is said that Strakosch has agreed to pay Mile, Nilsson fifteen hundred dollars a night for her services. This, in connection with the expenses of the company to support the donna, isa bold venture. But the matiager must rely upon the known liberality of our people to sus- tain anything in the way of art which approaches perfection. It is said further that Mile. Nilsson has bound herself in a for- feiture of fifty thousand dollars to carry makes them the slaves of a court} out her engagement in America. This is or @ cabinet or a miserable national | probably no more than the manager should idea, They long for more freedom, for | demand. But another curious incident in alarger field of effort for a less restricted brotherhood. German union, Scandinavian union, Iberian union, the union of the Latin races, although as yet unsettled questions, all point in one direction and reveal the ten- dency of the times. Meanwhile much jealousy and bad feeling exist among the peoples; and selfish Courts and ambitious Ministers, by the aid of unholy alliances and ‘‘bloated arma- ments,” will do their best to turn this jealousy and bad feeling to their own advantage. Thus looked at the world, religiously, socially, poli- tically, prestnts an appearance which is any- thing but satisfactory, How all this trouble is to be got over it puzzles the wits of the wisest to tell. But the wits of the wise have oftgn been puzzled be- fore. While our own civil war lasted many wise men wondered what we were fighting for, When it was ended they wondered what me would do with the emancipated negro, Where is our trouble now? How simply and how easily has all this difficulty, so far at least, been got over! Tho solution of the many questions, religions, social, political, which now agitate the world will in like manner be accomplished, There may be rumors of war and actual wars—wars devastating and bloody; there may be wild and apparently inextricable confusion; men’s hearts may fail them for fear; but out of all the fire and tumult, out of this other chaos, this later deluge, a new heaven and a new earth will emerge, and men regard to her engagement is the report that the Emperor Napoleon has offered to pay this forfeit if the Swedish diva will only consent to remain in Paris. If there be any truth in this we only hope that Strakosch will prove a better diplomatist than Napoleon and steal away the beautiful cantatrice. We want to hear her on our stage. She will find quite as critical an audienco here as in Europe, and, we thiak, fully as cordial a welcome, Tue Spanish ParviaMent has, as will be seen from our cable telegrams from Madrid, grappled with the throne question in an ani- mated debate. The candidates for the crown are to be submitted to the rule of a legislative majority vote. The lucky man must have a majority equal to one-half of the whole number of Deputies in the Cortes, Montpensier is re- garded as “floored” by this action. Who comes next? He must be very popular and have a fair account at his bankers, Generat Banks is puzzled over the manner in which his report on Cuba was obtained recently, and President Grant is similarly mys- tified as to the way in which his secret message relative to St. Domingo was obtained, both these documents having been published exclu- sively in the Hgrarp recently. We can set both these distinguished gentlemen easy at once. The reports were obtained—by superior enterprise, will find themselves under nobler conditions One language, one religion, one nationality, one brotherhood will no longer be the vain droam of the poet, but a living, Will not this be the millennium? Quakers and The question of increasing the compensa- tion of census takers came up in the Senate yesterday, and it was stated in debate that census operations had been suspended in some parts of the Union on account of the impossi- bility of securing agents at the compensation allowed. The census should be taken simul- taneously all over the country, and should, Therefore any interruption to the work is apt to cause serious differences in the count, and Congress should not allow any such interrup- Under the present slow method of business in the two houses the interruption may continue until the time for taking the ognsus expires before here) i eer Ste the proposed increase of pay becomes estab- The proposition yesterday caused considerable discussion, and went over on the expiration of the morning hour. The Indian Appropriation bill was then taken up, and the Quaker policy was sharply dissected. Some members conceded the peaceful system of dealing with the Indians to be a failure, and others opposed the appointment of Quakers as Indian agents on the ground that it was dis- The amendment, however, which was favorable The House was simply uproarious yester- If Spotted Tail or Red Cloud had been in tho galleries—and it was doubtless through a merciful interposition of Providence alone that they were not—their savage blood would have been roused to irresistible ardor by the furious scene beneath them, and there might have been some scalping done as well as tongue lashing. The Internal Tax bill was under discussion, and Mr. Schenck, on his own responsibility, offered an amendment tacking a tariff provision to the bill. This was vehemently objected to by the democrats and anti-tariff men, and the trouble commenced. Hiluiory motions, filibustering expedients and calls of the yeas and nays were resorted to to gain time, and no gowpromise was offered that could be acceptable to either party. Honest John Covode commenced a speech, in ‘which he heartily belabored his democratic thereby heartily amusing the democrats, who were willing * enough to gain time through his verbosity, and for that purpose encditaged terious but apparently cutting allusion to a bib- place, with no decisive ection whatever on the ment as Mr. Max Strakosch has perfected. It Nilsson is to appear in this city on the 19th of She could not appear in bet- era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative govern- ments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community such as has been be- fore altogether unknown and unheard.” ‘‘Let us contemplate, then, this connection which binds the prosperity of othera to our own, and let us manfully discharge all the duties which it imposes. Auspicious omens, cheer us on! Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path,” There is the keynote struck by a master hand. Such, too, is the demand of the hour. We are strong enough, we have skill enough to be no longer merely a heterogenoous mass of men subsisting by the good pleasure of royal councils and conclaves, but to become indeed a nation, standing upon a platform of our own, 4 broad rule of humanity, justice and freedom, and urging the law of right upon the world. The events that are crowding upon us speak trumpet-toned in this sense to all our public men, and, if we mista not, the immediately approaching future will call to the front the supporters and consign to oblivion the oppo- nents of @ broad, generous, genial and un- trammelled policy truly modern, truly liberal, and, therefore, truly American. An American Policy. When, in October, 1765, delegates from six of the English colonies in America assembled at New York to take decisive measures in reference to the obnoxious Stamp act, which had been received everywhere upon this side of the Atlantic with a storm of indignation, they laid broad and deep the basis upon which the superstructure of national independence was subsequently built, In fact, they formed the first image of an American Congress. William Pitt was the great echo of this bold demonstration in the British Parliament, An American policy began to germinate beside the very throne of Great Britain, and the Stamp act was repealed. But oppressive taxes in other forms were imposed by the mother country, and at length, in 1773, on the 18th of December, the inhabitants of Boston and the neighboring towns assembled in mass meeting to consider the admission of the famous cargoes of tea into their barbor. | Then it was that the famous address of Josiah Quincy, reminding his fellow townsmen of the gravity of the step they conteniplated, served by its impressive eloquence only to fire their enthu- siasm, and the ‘‘Mohawks” on that same even- ing boarded the British vessels and tossed the tea into the water. American policy was again enunciated. On September 5, 1774, the first Continental Congress met at Philadelphia, with Peyton Randolph presiding--and what a roll of illus- trious names was there! George Washington, Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry, of Virginia; Jay, of New York; Samuel and John Adams, of Massachusetts; Hopkins, of Bhode Island; Roger Sherman, of Connecti- cut; Livingston, of New Jersey; Dickinson, Mifflin and Ross, of Pennsylvania; Sullivan, of New Hampshire; Rodney and McKean, of Delaware; Chase, of Maryland; Middleton and Rutledge, of South Carolina, and thirty- two others only a little less distinguished, Once more the voice of Pitt was heard in Par- liament extolling ‘the dignity, the firmness and the wisdom” of the Americans, At home the proceedings of that grand Congress were read “‘with enthusiasm and veneration,” and when, at last, the Continental Congress that succeeded it, with John Hancock in the chair and delegates from thirteen colonies around him, sounded the final note of 1776 from the State House bell in Philadelphia, American nationality and ‘American ‘policy sprang forth boldly into the arena of practical political existénce. And they were received with the acclamation of the world. From the Baltic to the Bosphorus salvos of welcoming cannon announced that the nations of Continental Europe cordially greeted the young Power of the West. No matter what their mative for so doing may have been, the fact remains of his- torical record that every leading European State, excepting the one against which the colonies were contending, manifested deep interest in the American declaration and openly applauded the character of our leading men, Such were the events that surrounded our first appearance as a nation in the presence of mankind, and they were hailed with intense hopefulness everywhere by all who yearned for constitutional freedom. The position was the proudest and the vantage ground the most conspicuous of the age, The class of men at the head of the movement, the sterling worth of the people who sustained them and the admirable organization which they planned, all promised glorious results. The same spirit long animated our counsels, and an illustrious line of statesmen have kept it alive through four tremendous wars, the last of which sur- prised mankind by the gigantic scale on which it was conducted and the wonderful resources that it revealed. The dignity and independence of Washington, which, after conducting our revolutionary struggle to a successful issue, secured proper respect from England and France, and in bringing Spain to her senses freed the navigation of the lower Mississippi; the prompt action of Adams, which curbed the naval aggressions of the Freach Directory and forced them to make overtures of peace; the swift reduction of Tripoli and the prohibition measure against British impressment of American seamen under Jefferson; the determined’ resistance to foreign insolence, culminating in successful warfare, under Madison; the advantageous treaty wilh Spain and the acquisition of Florida under Monroe; the firm, decided bearing of Andrew Jackson on all points of national policy were a magnificent begianing for a future of continually increasing splendor. Since then there have been, here and there, bright flashes of the same intelligence under different administrations of various political complexion, but it would be trenching upon partisan ground to specially digcuss them. The one disheartening fact, more and more disclosed in these later days, is the absence of that high-toned, independent bearing which should distinguish a government like ours, republican fn form, occupying the geographical middle region of the world’s intercourse, com- manding both the great oceans of the globe, extending through nearly all climates and possessing every variety of soil and product, numbering even now almost forty millions of souls and doubling the number every twenty years, and regarded by all peoples as the land of new hope and home for humanity. With such power, on such an area and in such an attitude, we have outgrown the lead- ing strings of small diplomacy. As we have received much from God, we owe much to our fellow men; we cannot be deaf to the voice of our own high destiny calling us onward; we cannot safely slight the just aspirations of the races who daily contribute their - toil, their treasure and their love to build us up; we cannot with impunity prefer the favor of courts and cabinets that strike at us in the hour of trouble and conspire against us in the hour of seeming repose, to the cry of outraged nations whose children are among us by mil- lions, close to every fireside, delving in every field, sentinelled on every highway, sailing on every ship we send to sea. Said Daniel Web- ster in his noble eulogy on Jefferson and Adams:—‘‘T&e striking attitude in which we stand to the world around us cannot be altogether omitted here, Neither individuals nor nations can perform their part well until they understand and feel its importance and comprehend and justly appreciate all the duties belonging to it. * * It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America and in America a new a erermarer as Dress Fashions in Europe. The American beauties who graced the Jerome Park race grounds with their presence yesterday will be enabled to recuperate from the aristocratic languor consequent on their exer- tion by reading our special fashions corre- spondence from Paris to-day. To-day! Why, it course, and matier of necessily, as régards the hereafter, attend church. They will duly re- member, however, that the discipline of one of the most ancient of the churches permits and Pronounces the viatorilus licitwm est, or, in other words, that itis lawful for travellers to do many things and enjoy divers carnal consola- tions which are not permitted to stay-at-home people. Sir Walter Scott's venerable abbott availed himself, as the readers of the novel are already aware, of this very convenient dispensation clause of the canon which relates to personal mortification, after he had jour- neyed about a mile from the monastery, by eating a slice of venison steak ona day of “black fast.” “It is lawfal for travellers,” says the Church, ‘to eat flesh for the nourish- meat of the body.” ‘It is lawful for travel- lers,” and everybody else, says the Heratp, to read our special lettet on dress fashions, so that they may be enabled to adorn the person with good taste, and thus promote the religion of popular refinement. Having thus pronounced the do veniam, we may say that our Paris special writer supplies avery animated, sparkling and encouraging fashion exhibit. Art, poetry and song, roy- alty, axislocracy, valor, grace and beauty are commingled with much elegance in the commu- nication. We have th’ perplexities of wonder- ful underskirts, of ribbons, of fdatle and other hats, of promenade toilets, indoor robes and new parasols, Laces, dress trimmings, flounces, jewels and costume oraaments flash, as it were, before our eyes in a mingled blaze of color formed by the tints of the Nile, the Baltic, the Ophelia, the green and other shades which are just now patronized at the great continental centre and in Europe generally. The reported “engagement” of a beautiful and accomplished American girl to a French marquis is noted. Madame Canrobert, widow of the famous French Marshal, looked exceedingly pretty and very attractive when engaged in admiring the portrait of her deceased soldier-husband in the gallery of the Fine Arts Exhibition, Paris. The Empress Eugénie was beautiful—almost as ever—as she drove on the city promenade in a simple, elegant toilet, which is descriled ; but her Majesty was radiant, almost ethereal, in her presence and charity as she stole softly from the Tuileries to sit by the bedside of a poor child which had been stricken by small- pox, and there minister to the ease and com- fort of ihe infant sufferer. Ladies’ veils have been worn affixed to the chignon, with orna- mental daggers, and novelties in style, in dress materials, in make up, ia trimmings and even inthe “put on” of the robes, prevailed on every side, from the more humble rooms to which is duly and specially reported in our pages. The Eastern Question—The Reported Russo-Egyptian Alliauce. The cable gives it as ‘‘almost certain that the Viceroy (of Egypt) is preparing for a struggle against the Sublime Porte, and that Russia will lend him her powerful assistance.” Of course, if this be true, the end of the Sul- tan’s dominion in Egypt is near; but then this story comes from Paris, where it was first heard at the Bourse. ‘Wall street” in Paris, like Wall street everywhere else, is ingenious in the contrivance of reasons why speculative values should go up on the one hand or down on the other, and there is no reason more potent than a war in which any European Power is compelled to spend money and ven- ture its credit in any degree. Thus the trouble that suddenly becomes imminent may be only a fancy of the financiers, It is true, however, that the financiers contrive these stories shrewdly; and there is no story they could invent more likely to be true than this. Fora long while it has been scarcely a secret—or, if @ secret, certainly an ill kept one—that the Viceroy is sparing no. effort to organize an effective fighting army, and it is well known that he has officered this army with some of the men who were best tried in our own great war. Neither has Russia ever yielded a point of her traditional policy of pressure against the Turk, Fora while, however, she has made no very apparent demonstration against that Power, but if she should suddenly join hands with Egypt the doubt of the latter's ability to contend successfully against the Sul- tan would pass away and the Ottoman empire would be torn asunder. It does not appear probable that the Western Powers would undertake another Quixotic trip to the East for the defence of a balance of power that they could not save. England has other ideas in her head just now, and if France should move she would perhaps presently come to know that Russia had not begun this business without an understanding at Berlin. is Sabbath, and the ladies must as a matter of the most regal and aristocratic salons, all of Church Services To-Day—Persccution of Jews in Roumania, No day in the week exercises so tranquilliz- ing an effect upon the mind and body as the Sabbath. Even to the mere materialist it is welcome, not, of course, because of its asso- ciation with religion, but because the calm and quiet springing from an almost total cessation of labor lends to the day a geniality and a ten- derness which cannot be found in any other day of the week. To those who believe in Christianity the Sabbath day is one inexpressi- bly dear. Enemies lay aside grudges for the time being, even though—and we regret to say it—they do not become reconciled to each other. Men who have been fortunate in busi- ness during the week feel light-hearted and happy over their success, while those who have been unfortunate dismiss for the time being their cares and anxieties. As for the ladies, none who have seen them entering the churches, their countena nces expressive of seraphic joy, but must feel assured that to them Sunday is, indeed, a day of rest, and, in many instances, artistically as well as spiritu- ally, a day of triumph. But above all other feelings which the Sab~ bath inspires is that which arises from a knowledge that on this day we offer "gperes to the good Gog for mppnifola leasings vouchsafed ys daring the past week. Ought we not, then, this morning, in supplicating the. Diyine grace tobo imbued with the charity which forms go great 4 part of true Christian- ity? Ours is the religioi of Wah cae love, and when we hear of the repeated fright- ful massacre of Jews in Roumania ought wo not to have a deep sentiment of sympathy for them and to breathe a prayer for their delivers auce from the hands of their oppressors? For though it is true that the perpetrators of the massacre are ostensible Christians, theirs ia the religion of Christ degraded by savagery, and not the religion of Christ in all its wonders ful charity, leading us on to a yet more exalted civilization than we now possess. Undoubtedly the sufferings of these Jews will form the sub- ject for more than one discourse to-day. The coreligionists of these unhappy Roumanian’ Israelites will meet in their synagogues in this city to take into consideration the case of their persecuted brethren. Yesterday at the Temple Emanu-El a sermon was delivered on the subject, which we publish this morning, and to which we call attention, asit reflects the views of American Israelites and expresses the righteous indignation of the liberal-minded everywhere. But it is from the pulpits of Christian churches more especially that we desire to hear words of sympathy for the persecuted Jews. Count Montalembert, the great defender of Gaiholicism, once de- clared that he Pégarded the St. Bartholomew massacre with no less horror than he | dja the, persecution of Catholics in England and Ger-' many. In like manner every Christian not a fanatic must look with horror upon the recent reported persecutidng in Roumania, The question is one of humafitiy not less than of religion, and that religion is” Moxe the most acceptable to God which is the most imane, Thus we expect to-day that our caristlatl’ clergymen will preach in the spirit of Christ and express their abhorrence of religious per- secution, whetber the victim be Christian or Jew, Turk or Infidel. Charity for the opinions of others, in the broadest sense of the word, is the noblest pillar in the edifice of our nine- teenth century civilization, Christianity never gained anything worth possessing except by tolerance. Intolerance is the fiend born of fanaticism, which stabs Christianity in the name of the faith. And it is thus due to the cause of Christ that his ministers on earth shall to-day condemn the barbarity which op- presses human beings because of their reli- gious opinions. A CHAPTER OF SERIOUS ACCIDENTS IN NEWARK. The past few days in Jersey have witnessed an ex- traordinary run of more or less serious accidents. Foliowing hard on the railroad disaster near Pater- son, whereby several lives were lost, comes the ter- rible fate of poor Andrew Baumgartner, who felt into an ore crushing hopper at Newark, and for nearly three hours had crusuing out his vitality over 400 horse power. He has since died. Again at Newark, yesterday, in adaltion to the smash up at the Morris. aud Essex depot, comes a list of casualties. In the afternoon, about five o'clock, while bathing in the Passaic, near the Centre street bridge, on the Hudson county side, in company with other boys, @ liitle fellow named Edward Gages, of Wooa or Lawrence street, got beyond his depth and was drowned, The body was recoverea and taken charge of by the Hud3on county authorities, Then again, in the afternoon, while driving a butcher's wagon through Greene street, which for months past has been in the hands of the sewer buiiders, to the disgust of people resident in the street, & man named Charles Openseter, of No. 46 Greene street, lost control of the horse, which took fright and dashed furlously against a pile of bricks, left there alsg for months as a monument of some- body’s siubboraness and the city’s negligence. Charles was shot out and alighted on his head. He was very seriously hurt about the head and shoul- ae so that Dr. Cutter had to be called to attend 2. iin. And still another runaway accident is recorded as having occurred yesterday afternoon. A Mr. Mur- phy was driving along Rallroad avenue, when tie horse took fright at the snorting of a locomotive and became unmanageable. He was thrown out and badly hurt, as were ried several children who got tu the way of the infuriate horse, THE REFORMED CHURCH SYNOD AT NEWARK. Yesterday aimost the entire session of the Nationat Synod of the Reformed Church, now being held at Newark, N. J., was taken up with the case of Rev. William Demarest. This clergyman was pastor of a church at Ramapo, N. J., but got toto some difficulty with his congregation, so that they repudiated him, tie Classts of Marasmus having sojempowered them. He appeated to the Particualr Synod of New Bruns- wick, but the judgement of the classis was cou- irmed. Now, ain, he appeals to tie highest authority in his church—the National Synod. After Mr. Demarest had had the ear of the synod ioc some time yesterday, urging his own reinstatement, Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the Particular Synod, arose ana stated that that synod was a unit in favor of sustain- ing the action of both the classis and the consist- ory. The case was stil under consideration, when the synod adjourned till to-morrow morning, EXPLOIT OF AN ACCOMPLISHED “‘FRAUS." A respectably dressed man arrived at Sing Sing, from New York, on Thursday evening, and, without registering his name, engaged a room at one of the village hotels, in which, by his instructions, a large and apparently well filled trunk, comprising his bag- gage, was promptly deposited. On Friday morning the consequential guest proceeded to business by hiring a stylish horse and vehicle from the livery stable of Abraham Acker, stating that he wished to drive to Price’s Riage, a few miles distant, and would return in @ couple of hours, The fellow has not since reappeared with the property, which is valued at $400. Having become satisfied that his gentlemanly guest was a “fraud,” the hotel keeper forcibly opened the trunk, and found it tignily packed with green grass done up in smali bundles, similar to that sold @ many stores tn the city at this season of the year. SERSEY CITY ALOEAMEK TAKING NOTES IN NEWARK. Yesterday afternoon Messrs. Wakeman, Fitzpat- rick and John McDonald, members of the Jersey City Common Council, together with Chief Engincer Coyle, visited Newark for the purpose of examining and inquiring into the workings of the fire alarm telegraph, with a view to introducing the same in Jersey City. They were recelved and takep on the grand rounds by Chief Engineer Cardrum™ They manifested their unqualified approval ot the sys he and were speciaily oa with ee tenee by were shown pertaining to the Fire Deparunen’. Epectatly were they satisfled with the high state of [ine the horses had attained, Billy Camieid’s. ir of bays surpassed anytiing of the kind they wd ever seed, r