The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1870, Page 6

§ NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS TO=MOaR0W EVENING, WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13tn street.— Minate’s Luoa. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRR- ‘NANDE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tu® FikLp OF THE CLorE oF GOLD, USEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadw st,—Matinee dai or- GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corger ot Eighth avenue and id st.—THE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth ana 6th avs.— Tar HUGUENOTS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—PRinck AMABEL— PRINTER AND HarreR~WRALTH AND Poverty, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—UNoLR Tom's CABIN. . MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— TRODVEN Down. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Byoadway.—Couto Vocat- 18m, NEGRO ACTS, &0. SELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 780 Broadway.— Frow-Frow—Horse FLY Don’? TICKLE MBE, &0, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58h and 80th sta.—THxovoRE Tuomas’ POPULAR CONCERTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCLENOE AND ABT, TRIPLE. New York, Sunday, June 26, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY HERALD. Pace. rea wh ne an ae 1—Advertisements. 2— Advertisements. 3—Washington: Report of the Hatch-Baboock Investigat Committee; General Babeock Completely Exonerated; Death of Representa- tive Hegion, of North Carolina; The Assailant of Representative Porter Sentenced tos Im- prisonment; The Civil Service Aue. tion Bull Before the House—Prospect Park Pother—Trotting at Prospect Park Fair Grounds—The Cincinnat: Races—Result of @ Spree in Jersey City—Quarantine— The Green-Byed Monster in Elizabeth—Daring Boud Robbery—The Newark Wife Beater—Fair at the West Hoboken Monastery. 4—Europe: The “Masqueraders” Trials in England and Case of the American Consul; Church Absolution of Dickens and Episco} ment of His Religion; General Defender of the Malak Petersburg; The Crops in France—The Fenian Fiasco—The New Labor Movement; The Pig- Tali Shoemakers in Massachusetts—The Sisters or Uharity and the Bogus Princess—Midsam- mer Retreats: The Season at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs. S—Jmportant from Rome: The Ecumenical Coun- eu; Its Work, Progress and Approaching De- py ee eg Letter from an Oid Resident of the Mohawk Vailey—The Park Yesterday— Lager—Paris Fashions: The Empress’ To let; the Prince Imperial at a Queenly Reception; Dress Golors, Make Up, Laces, Silks and Diamonds—Yachting—Spanish Butcheries in Cuba—The Ram Atianta. 6—Editorials: Leading Artic'e on Our New Prob- lem, the Question o: Race Once More, a Favored Continent—Amusement Announce- ments. Parts of the al Endorse- hruloff, the of, His Funeral to St. ‘aphic Newe from all Trades’ Combination Riots in Ireland; Burricades aud Bloodshed; Napoleon’s Health; ‘The Papal Council; Ex-Queen Isabella’s Abdt- cation; the Revolntiouary Movements 3, The City of bels—The Heated Term—Amusements—Jersey Alley Battie—An Unknown Suicide—Fine ait-: ihe New Mu- seum of France: Ameriern Procu:tions - Aquatic—Fatal Railroad Accident—susiness Notices, S—Nineveh: Religion in Mosu!;,The American and Dominican Fathers’ Mission; A New Transla- tien of the Bible and Fxtraordinary Results Looked for; The Tomb of Jonah—Political Inteliigence—Religious Intelligence—Emigra- tion—A German Nobleman in Trouble: An ex-Mayor Of Salnsburg, Germany, the Pog. seasor of Two Wives—Murder in Manstficla, Pa.—Marriazcs and Deaths, 9—F nancial and Commercial Reports—Real Ms- tate Transfers—General Grant in Connecti- cut—Advertisemen's. 1C—New Yok and Brooklyn Courts—Personal In- tel igenee—Brooklyn City News—Academy of red Heart—Madame Meyers Vreeland— uctive Fire in Newaik—The Excise Board en Island—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- ements, 11—Advertisements, 12—Adverusements, Tur RerorteD RovMANIAN MassacRE— ALL a Muppis.—The story of the wholesale massacre of Jewish men, women and children in one of the towns of Roumania has not yet died out. By mail we have received papers from France and Germany purporting to give circumstantial details of the outrage, with names, dates and a variety of minutie of the most particular character. At the same time we have to acknowledge a letter from the diplomatic agent of Roumania at Paris utterly denying the whole affair and citing the contra- dictory despatches already published. So there the matter rests; the dead victims, if there be any, cannot speak for themselves, and we are thrown back upon the blessed conflict of petty, narrow, jaundiced opinions which are rapidly destroying the dignity and influ- ence of ihe press in many places. The only solution of the Roumanian muddle thus far attained is simply one worthy of Captain Cut- tle and his great friend Bunsby—“‘If so, why so, and if not so, why not so, also!” Very Hor ror June.—Excepting the cool and breezy day which immediately followed the general purification of the atmosphere by the widely extended thunder storm of Monday last, we have had two weeks of unusually hot weather in these northern latitudes for June. This ‘heated term” has covered, £0 far as we can learn, the whole area of the United States, always excepting Alaska, and even there we dare say that Mr. Seward’s testimony of the climate is confirmed this day upon this important point that, under the warm June skies of Alaska, ‘‘the American eagle proudly soars and the humming bird does not disdain to flutter.” But in regard to this widely extended heated term we think it will very soon be ended, and most likely in a series of thunder storms and tornadoes that will “‘mate all rattle again.” Violent heats bring violent reactions, and so we are expecting another electrical purification of the atmosphere, on a grander scale than even that of Monday last. Matt Despatcngs From Evrops.—The Euro- pean mail, at this port yesterday, supplied our special correspondence from the Old World in important detail of our cable news telegrams to the 14th of June. From St. Petersburg we have a special report of the funeral of General Khruloff, the heroic defender of the Malakoff during the siege of Sebastopol. The honors paid to his remains and memory were national as of Russia and international as by the civi- lized world, Perhaps the most eloquent eulogy of his valor and worth was that which was pronounced by a Russian workingman in the words which are reported by our writer. England speaks of crime, France of the har- vest and Portugal of Peninsular troubles and the tendency towards Iberian executive con- solidation. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, New Problem—The Question of Race Ounce More—A Favored Continent, Small beginnings have great endings. So we have found it, So no doubt we will find it. In the demolition of African slavery we have had one big ending. In the introduction of Chinese Iwborers and mechanics into New England we have another big beginning. The beginning we see, but the gad is afaroff. It is a new question; we can only look at it and speculate, It is fair, we think, to say that the question which is now put before this people was never put before any other people since the world began. Greece never had such a question to solve. Rome never had it in the sense in which we are bound to have it. Rome did begin to extend the privileges of citizenship; the door was opened after a fashion to the barbarian; but the opening of that door marks thecommencement of the decline and fall. Spain and Britain, with all their large experience, were never in circumstances to be tested as we are likely to be tested. On this Continent we have space enough for all the surplus energy of Europe and Asia for ages to come. Land in thousands and thousands of acres lies waste, the tilling of which will add to the comfort, if not to the wealth, of every indi- vidual member of the community. This, how- ever, is not all. Work of various kinds has to be done, the doing of which, at a reasonable figure, will relieve hands and brains which can be profitably employed in higher and more useful fields of enterprise. Crowds come from Europe at the rate of ten and fifteen thousand a week, and the addition to the population is felt to be the addition to the nation of so much actual wealth. With the single exception of language our immigrants from Europe find no difficulty in becoming good American citizens, and the one difficulty soon disappears. Crowds now begin to come in upon us from Asia ; and the remarkable faet is that Asia has begun to show her ability and her willingness to give us skilled labor. If Chinamen can give us cheaper shoes why ' should not Chinamen give us cheaper coal and iron? If the importation of a few hun- dred Chinamen adds to our general comfort as & people, and if there is room and work for more, why should we not have thousands where now we have only hundreds? Nay, why should the hundreds not become mil- lions? There are those who see trouble in this new experiment. We donot say that there will not be trouble; but wedo say that there is no proper cause for trouble. Labor leagues may resist this new movement, but labor leagues must in the end be defeated. If John Chinaman can give us cheaper boots and shoes, cheaper coal and iron, there is no good reason why the community should fight against John Chinaman. Our politicians who do not like this new thing ought to remember their principles. If negro emancipation has turned out so rich a blessing why should not a new nigger be gladly welcomed? Far-seeing statesmen dread a collision of antagonistic civilizations and rival races. We can see no such trouble. The force of our national or- ganization has been such that Europeans of all nations have soon become English-speaking. English, Scotch, Irish, Germans, Scandinavi- ans, French, Italians, all become good American citizens. The negro so far as we have tried has done well. In what is the Asiatic beneath the negro? We are the stronger race. We have the shaping power. As we have gained from all immigration of the past, s0 are we bound to gain by all the immigration of the future. Our politicians must push their prin- ciples. Wecan never have a second Know Nothing movement. If it be true that God hath made of one flesh all nations of men that dwell upon the earth we must give proof of our convictions. We have swallowed the camel. We must not now strain at the gnat. Say or do what we may, however, the neces- sity is now upon us. We must face it, and, if need be, fight and settle it. It is our conviction that the future of this great American people is to be honorable be- yond all comparison with the past. Ours is a central continent. On this Continent we are the central and favored pepple. No nation in all the past ever knew such a mixture of the races. No nation ever grew sq rapidly. We have done much to prove the equality of the races. We have done a great deal towards the destruction of the curse of Babel. In all this we have been true to the funda- mental principles of our noble federal consti- tution. Our example, while it attracts the people of all lands to our shores, is powerfully influencing all the older nations. Hitherto we have marched honestly on. We cannot now look back. A great future is before us, if only we are faithful and consistent, Think of our influence now in Great Britain. Think of our influence now in Germany. Think of our growing influence over every nation on the European Continent. In proportion as Asiatics arrive on these shores so will our influence tell on Asia. Chinamen will communicate with their friends as now do the British and the Germans. The Chinaman will no doubt build his joss house, and a joss house will bea funny thing in New Engiand. But the joss house need not give so much offence after all. Has not the Catholic his joss house, and the Methodist and- the Baptist and the rest of them? Has not the Jew his joss house? What harm has come of these things? Religious liberty is the birthright of every man who touches this soil. Let us be proud of our privileges. If it falls to our lot to give to the human family that unity which it has lost—to make it one in language, one in religion, one in nationality—we shall not, asa people, have lived in vain. Let us not, then, shrink from any question of the hour. With our eye intent on the future and our faith in progress let us march fearlessly on. Welcome to John Chi- naman! . Tae Mexican ReBeEts in the northwestern part of the republic are actively at work. On the 28th of last month an armed force, under Colonel Yascano, captured the city of Guay- mas, seized a quantity of arms and made a levy on the citizens amounting to sixty thou- sand dollars, No matter to what part of Mexico we look we find revolution breaking out. The government is openly defied, its laws trampled on and Mexican citizens forced to contribute to the support of lawless and desperate bands that are to be found every- where throughout the republic, The Quarantine Quarstion—The Duty of the Health Oflicer, No one doubts that the duties of the Health Officer of the Port are to a great extent two- fold. He is required, first and. above all things, to preserve the public health from the incursion of contagious diseases arriving here from foreign ports, This is a responsibility from which he cannot be permitted to shrink, and from which Dr. Carnochan is evidently not disposed to shrink. Next, inasmuch as it lies in his power to facilitate or obstruct the commerce of the port according as he fulfils his duty in this particular, of course he is bound to entertain a reasonable consideration for the interests of the merchants and ship- owners, not because they ‘represent a class, so much as that their interests are In a mea- sure identical with those of the whole commu- nity. In this regard, also, we notice that Dr. Carnochan has been as liberal as the gravity of his duties permit. But the most serious of these duties surely is to keep contagious diseasés outside the city, when they come or are suspected to come upon the decks or in the cargoes of vessels which cannot bring a clean bill of health from an infected port. Some narrow-minded merchants grumble because they cannot have their ships dis- charged in their own way, whenever and wherever they please. Dr. Carnochan has too much experience to permit anything of the kind. Now, let us see with what good reason he takes a firm stand in behalf of the health of the city as against the clamor of individuals. Since the beginning of the quarantine season, June 1, there has been detained at Lower Quarantine, arriving here from Rio Janeiro, where yellow fever rages, one bark, the Braziliera, leaving five men in hospital at Rio, of whom the captain and one man died. On the voyage a passenger died of the same disease. A brig, the Selma, entered our port after leaving six of her crew sick in the hospital with yellow fever at Rio Janeiro, of whom two died. The bark Lord Baltimore also comes into our waters, leaving four victims of yellow fever out of her crew in hospital at Rio. The bark Foyen also arrives here, having left two of her crew stricken down by the fever in hospital. What kind of bills of health could these vessels bring that would warrant any honest Health Officer in giving them per- mits to discharge their cargoes at any of our docks, no matter how convenient it might be for a few merchants to get their consignments a little easier, and perhaps their goods delivered a little cheaper? The steamship Weybosset arrived here from Port au Prince recently ; her assistant engineer had just died there of yellow fever before she left the port, and her captain died on the passage. With these facts— which ought to satisfy Gradgrind—before us, together with the official statement that, since last March, not a single vessel from the ports of Rio Janeiro or Port au Prince brought a clean bill of health to our quarantine, how can we too strongly commend the caution, the wisdom and the strength of purpose exercised by Dr. Carnochan in his efforts to protect the city from the fatal: invasion of terrible infec- tious diseases? Individuals may growl at the course of the Health Officer, but the public of this vaat metropolis, with its million of souls, crowded into a small compass in this fiercely hot weather, which threatens even the breed- ing Of disease in our midst, have reason to be thankfal to him for taking measures to exclude foreign demons of disease, which, with less firmness than Dr. Carnochan has, evinced, might have crept in among us before now. The city has a‘‘clean bill of health” at present, thank God, and we hope that Dr. Carnochan will help to keep it so. Action of the Senate on the Income Tax. The Senate could hardly have done a more popular thing just now than it did on Friday in striking out of the tax tariff bill the clause tocontinue the income tax. The vote against the renewal of this odious impost shows that the Senate is determined it shall cease. For striking out there were thirty-four yeas to twenty-three nays. It now remains for the House to abandon the ground it took for con- tinuing the taxin a modified form. The House will act unwisely if it should not concur with the action of the Senate. No vote of the Senate during this session has been more acceptable to the people of all parties. The press of all shades of political opinion endorse it with singular unanimity. The republicans have a large majority in the House, and the responsibility of continuing or abrogating this tax rests with them now. They will damage their own political prospects and the prospects of their party if they refuse to concur with the Senate. When the House proposed to continue the income tax in a modified form it had not felt the pressure of public opinion, but the Senate has. Now, however, there is reason to hope the House will feel and act in accordance with popular sentiment. This income tax was & war measure, as has been admitted by Con- gress, and in times of peace it is inimical to our institutions and views. Let it be buried with all the other evils of the war, and let us hope there will never be any necessity for its revival, Nineveh os It Te—Religion at the Tomb of Jonah. “It’s a far ery to Loch Awe,” says the British poet; but, as will be seen in our pages to-day, it is not too ‘far’ for the Hratp to speak from Rome to Nineveh and thence to New York, to instruct from the Vatican and enlighten from the site of the tomb of Jonah. One of our special writers, dating at Mosul, on the banks of the Tigris, tells us of the progress which is being made by the disciples of the modern religious creeds in the East, He reports the present position of the American Church missions near Nineveh, and describes the advance which is being experienced under the French fathers of the Dominican Order in the same field. His statements indicate that the Church of Rome, for some reagon or other, works in these far-off lands with moro central- ized energy, and, according to a more uni- form, perhaps more intelligent, consequently, tule of action. Her propagandist influences in the East are thus more extensive and her Church foundations more stable. Christianity, in its broad scriptural acceptation, was making consoling progress however. The field is ample, the laborers few. As evi- dence of the work which is being done we would call attention to the fact that a oew ee JON 26, 1870.—IRIPLE . SHEET: translation of the Holy Bible is just being perfected in Mosul. The readings of some fgw of the texts, as will be seen from our letter, are new indeed; so new that their publica- tion in London may produce most serious revo- lutions both in the colleges and chureho. J Nineveh as it appears to-day is described. Jonah’s grave, according to Moslem tradition, was visited by our writer. Our Mosul letter thus comes to us full of grand old traditions and memories, and replete with hope, with faith and charity, with a little about the reali- ties of commerce and steam, of trade, travel and general progress. So bo it. Congress Yesterday. {” The complaint of Mr. Hatch, of Dominican notoriety, was settled yesterday in the Senate by the reception of the report of the special committee on Dominican matters recommend- ing the indefinite postponement of his case. Mr. Hatch may now retire content with the fleeting notoriety which his complaint has gained for him. The Sumner resolutions on Cuba were discussed for afew moments and then went over to admit of the consideration of the Naturalization bill, which was post- poned until Saturday next, when it will be finally voted upon. In the House the bMl which has already been passed in the Senate to incorporate a company to open up the navigation of the Amazon was discussed at some length. Sev- eral members, among them Mr. Wood, of New York, opposed the bill, but for what reason is hardly apparent. It appears to be a fair, honest proposition. It asks no subsidy nor land grant, nothing but a charter from the United States, in order to impress the people of South America favorably with their enterprise. The Amazon is one of those large, broad rivers which would be crowded with steamers and whose banks would be dotted with cities and towns were it within the limits of the United States. It flows through a country which needs only Yankee enterprise to make it bloom like a garden instead of stagnate like a swamp. Its naviga- tion will resuscitate, to some extent at least, our shipbuilding, and will open up legitimately to us as rich a land as Cortez or Pizarro con- quered. Several of the New York members, among them Mr. Cox, strongly supported it, and certainly the New York delegation ought to have been foremost in its advocacy. Itwas amended and passed. Pat Woods, of Rich- mond, the unfortunate laborer who was 80 unlucky as to knock down a Congressman in one of his Donnybrook fights, was sentenced by the Judiciary Committee of the House to three months’ imprisonment for his mistake. The Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill was discussed in Committee of the Whole until the close. Sunday Recreations of the People. No city in the world—not even Paris or Naples—for'at the former where is the glori- ous bay, and at the latter where are the embracing, crystalline rivers?—offers such manifold delights to him who seeks rural recreation as are presented by the vicinity of New York. On all sides, by car, by akiff, by sailboat and by steamer, there are endless excur- sions, amid lovely scenery as ever inspired poet or painter. Some to the whispering groves of verdant Westchester; some to the foamy beach of Coney Island; some to the crags and cliffs and sparkling cascades of the historic and legendary Kaatskills ; some to linger for dreamy hours by the sugf-beaten strand of dear unfer- gotten Rockaway, where our fathers and mothers danced and laughed by moonlight ‘‘when this old hat was new,” and thousands upon thou- sands to scaje the smiling hills of Jersey, or ramble through the groves of Long Island, wooed by the flitting sea breeze, or row and sing over the ripples of Silver Lake and picnic in the cool woods of Richmond county. Should the skies be as bright and the mid- summer heats as ardent as they were yester- day this Sunday will witness a wondrous migration of the people proper crowding forth from the close coverts of the city to seek fresh breath, new blood and _ literally re-creation of both mind and body in the enchant- ing environs that spread their pano- ramic beauties for fifty miles on all sides of the metropolis. The moon and the morning star, now of supreme effulgence, will not have made their parting obeisance to the sun ere every road and river will be alive with merry throngs. The reader has but to glance at our excursion columns to see how varied and inviting are the means of escape to country neighborhoods by land or water, Where Health, so wild and gay, with bosom bare, And rosy cheek, keen eye and flowing hair, Trips with a smile the breezy scene along And pours the spirit of content in song. The great multitude will seek the delicious shade of Bergen, Union Hill, Fort Lee and the romantic haunts, though less poetically named, of Tillietudlum and Dobbs’ Ferry. Hundreds will flash down the Bay and up the Hudson and the Sound, not omitting to patronize the grand trip on the floating.palace Plymouth Rock, to Newburg, offered by Magician Fisk— a day from Boccacio done by steam! Jovial, whole-souled Hans, with his good fran and all the blue-eyed fraulein and chubby bables— graduated sizes—will bedot the groves and meadows with parti-colored groups, and Pat and Brother Jonathan will emulate their good- humored mirth and innocent enjoyment. The more retiring element will distribute its bright company in a thousand bloom-embowered cot- tages and villas all through the smiling land, with cosey converse over summer fare in open dining rooms or while sauntering along shaded garden walks. To-day, then, amid the chime of Sabbath bells, when the early orisons are over, a hearty enjoyment of the few brief hours of respite from our common toil, with measure- less gratitude to the Giver of all Good, and to-morrow its refreshing remembrance to strengthen us through all the week. An Empaatio WarNinc.—From Philadel- phia we have the news of an explosion of fire- works ina shop, This is not an unusual acci- dent in times near the Fourth of July. At the present moment there is stored in this city enough of the perilous material with which our people make merry on Independence Day to shake half the city to atoms; and within the coming week we shall probably have to record several calamities originating in this danger. As there is an ordinance in force against the use of squibs and against the stor- ing of extra hazardous articles, why should not the pyrotechnists be shut out ? Rome and the Councli—Herald Special Letters from the Holy City. The first council of the Vatican, the Ecu- menical Council in Rome, is approaching near, and atill more near, towards the completion of its work. Its membera are coming to the solemn declaration of Papal infallibility. They ave treated the subject cautiously, and, even if at times intemperately on the part of some of (he fathers, searchingly. It has been presented in every possible aspect and looked at in the light and inthe shade. It has been turned about in the hall of St. Peter's and twisted— tortured even—into every conceivable shape by the outside world. Still, as would appear from the special letters from Rome which we place before the readers of the Herat to-day, Papal infallibility approaches us just pretty much as it was at first. The Church relied on the ¢u es Petrus of the Holy Word, so that it is very likely that the Pontiff! and hierarchs will proclaim her one—in- fallible in the matter of faith and indivisible and unchangeable in the matter of disciplinary essentials—before the heated season terminates. This constitutes a really important era in the hist6ry of Christianity. Convinced of this solema fact, one of our special writers in Rome rolls back the ponde- rous doors of the Vatican and thus permits a gleam of light to play upon the great work which is being conducted towards the placing of the coping stone on the ecclesiastical edi- fice, . Our writer has talked the matter over with a most reverend and very learned Mon- signore of the Church. The prelate goes for infallibility. He states bis reasons, as they are set forth in our correspondence, and writes, in anticipation, the inscription which will be placed on the renovated banner of Catholicity according to Rome. The Monsig- nore thinks that the world, in its morals par- ticularly, ‘“‘requires correction”—correction by an authority acknowledged to be right in itself. He asserts that the world has been going wrong—wrong from . head to foot, or from head to tail, as he describes it. God the eternal is denied, he says, from the housetops; the materialities of science seek to dethrone Him. Science has already, he says, asserted that man comes down in a “straight line from a monkey,” on the one side, while, on the other, it assures us that the human brain, both in its organism and sentient quali- ties, is merely a fosforo, or lucifer match. The good Monsignore dislikes the Lucifer idea as it has prevailed from the beginning, so he is satisfied that humanity requires a universal sermon, a world-wind indication of the true path, and as he thinks that the Council will ultimately supply both these requisiles of sal- vation he goes for infallibility, for the Council and for his order, and says so manfully and with much erudition to the world through the Heratop in the plain Anglo-Saxon words of our special writer, who has translated his utterances for the benefit of the American people and. the instruction both of the altars and pulpits, Dress Fashions in Europe—American Beauty Revolutionizing Imperialism. Dress, dress fashions’ styles, international communion and friendships, the triumphs of beauty, with the refinements of true democ- racy, as they stand acknowledged by imperial- ism, sparkle all over the special letter from Paris which appears in our columns to-day. Mind, as will be seen, was asserting itself, bursting from the corporeal fetters of the modistes and thus proclaiming to the world that the eternal spark, the human intellect, is everlasting and still undimned by the presence of those ‘‘walking calculations” whose sole mission on earth seem to be embraced in the making of daily attempts at the solution of the one problem of ‘‘What will I wear.” True fashion is elevating her votaries rapidly above this vulgarism. The fact is acknowledged almost universally ; the peoples of the East and of the West, the North and the South, bow to it. The result of the popular acceptance of the new and refining syllabus, the infallibility of good taste, is set forth in a very pleasing form by our fashions writer. The Prince Imperial of France has been de- clared a man. His Highness was permitted to attend, asa “‘first gentleman” of France at a royal reception given by his mother, the Empress. On this trying occasion the Prince proved himself to be not only a man but a gen- tleman of dignified culture and a true Bona- parte. He chose for his partner in the court dance an American lady—a young lady from New York, fresh and beautiful. By so doing he thus far indicated that he believes in the traditions of the dynasty, and has read the family history, inasmuch as it relates to the first marriage of its brilliant founder—read of the love of Napoleon the First and Josephine. Hussein Pacha was at the Tuileries and took part in a dance. French aristocracy was there also, brilliant in diamonds and dazzling in silks, and ‘‘all went merry a8 @ marriage bell.” French democracy, educated, and with a clean shirt, was received with courtly smiles and thus subjected to the most refining influences, so that it is pretty certain that even if the ‘‘Reds” should ever again enjoy their ‘‘wicked way” in the great cities the French nation will not be found wanting in Mirabeaus, rugged it may be in demeanor, yet gallant and devoted to beauty and worth, In the midst of all this gay whirl the Prince Imperial of France appears ina very amiable light. It is likely, judging from present appearances, that the Empress Eugenie, in the declining years of her life and when the brilliancy of her beauty has faded, will enjoy that internal consolation which was so devoutly expressed by the late Duchess of Kent when she anid of the Princess Victoria (now Queen Victoria), ‘I have edu- cated my daughter,” and that Eugénie may announce to Europe, ‘‘I superintended the education and disciplined and guided the morals of my son.” Tae Crops In FraNnog.—The French Minis- ter of Agriculture, M. Louvets, in answer to a question, informed the Corps Législatif that, notwithstanding the drought in France, the government had. satisfactory reports of the creps, and that no precaution or provision had been neglected to guard against famine. Louis Napoleon is a wise man in thus closely looking to the subsistence of his people. A Hint or A Lone Sreaz.—It is reported from Rome that the Ecumenioal Council will probably sit.through the summer, and the fall, and the winter, and may not finally adjourn till next Easter. ' Boy Church Services To-Day. Should this day be as warm as yesterday, and the religious fervor of ehurch-goers rise with the thermometer, the praying in the churches will be unusually devout. We doubt, however, if it will; not that people will be less religious than in cooler days, but that perspiration and piety are antagonistic ele- ments in modern fashionable religion. Besides there will be hardly a chance given the public for any very great display of fervor, Quite a number of the tabernacles are closed, their learned and eloquent pastors having tempo- rarily abandoned the work of saving souls for the pleasant occupation of strolling amid the architectural, artistic and scenic wonders of the Old World, or the agreeable pastime of catching trout in our native streams. As for the church-goers, they are at Long Branch, Nowport, and other summer resorts, Only the nobodies are in the city, and however for- midable they may be in numbers they make no noise in the world, and, as a consequence, the world is profoundly ignorant of their exist- ence. On the whole, then, we do not expect the churches to be crowded to-day. Of course in those which are opened there will be the usual services, and doubtless the sermons will be as logical and as convincing as those delivered on any previous Sunday. Indeed, we expect they will be, for the clergymen are all aware by this time that they no longer preach to the handfuls of individuals comprising their con- gregations, but that through the Heratp they preach to the entire people of the United States, and to some extent to the people of the whole world. This being the case we have no fear about the quality of the sermons. We are only apprehensive lest the heat of the weather deter many sinners from attendance upon divine services, and lest lager beer and soda water in the suburbs prove stronger attractions than the lessons of the Scriptures. War Among the Workingmen—A Terribto Rumpus. If the Workingmen’s Union had met on a Saturday night the rampant rubbish of its resolutions and speeches against John China- man would have appeared quite natural, and would not have been unaccounted for; but to meet on a Friday, and such a hot Friday, too, and propose such terrible things, is enough to fright the isle from its propriety. The work- ingmen are for once agreed on one point, which is, that something must be done to stop the “monstrous importation of the uncivilized, unsocial, and, comparatively, non-consuming infidel.” This much is clear, then, and quite proper; for of course it isa horrible thing to be an infidel, especially in a country where people have an absolute freedom to believe what they like, and where, therefore, it is quite inexcusable not to believe at all. If it is bad to be an infidel in a country having such advantages for great faith, how much worse it is to be uncivilized in a land where the workingmen give such brilliant examples of the benefits of civilization by proposing to make sausages out of every creature whose gibberish they do not understand. It is a high crime, therefore, to be an infidel—people have been burned at the stake for it; it isa still higher crime to be uncivilized ; but the greatest crime of all is to bea “comparatively non- consuming infidel.” What can you do with a fellow for whom it is useless to brew the tempt- ing lager—who cares not a button whether beef is two cents a pound or forty—who, in fact, has the thrift that lives on rice and saves money? He will not continue poor even on compulsion. He will not tipple nor join your trades unions, nor contribute his weekly earn- ings to exalt demagogues, or to support idle- ness on the pretext of a strike for wages. Not he. The only thing you can do, then, is to launch resolutions against him with the ther- mometer at ninety-four, and fancy you are patriotic when you are only ridiculous. The workingmen are agreed that the Chinese laborer must be annihilated; they are not agreed as to how it shall be done. Blissert, a tailor, who is doubtless a fine fellow, proposes to “shoulder the rifle.” No doubt this is habit. Blissert probably carried a rifle so long in the war that his indignation naturally takes that shape. He also wants to get at the hair of the man who brought the Chinese over; but he will not harm the Chinamen’s hair, because, likely, they have so little. Cruse, another tailor, is bloodthirsty, and would “kill them all off,” and Masterson, who is a cutler, significantly proposes ‘to take care of this business” by a secret council of ten hundred, every man with a mask on his face and a pair of shears under his jacket. They are dreadful chaps, these tailors, And Mr. Young, the head of the workingmen’s organization, hopes that the “resort to arms” will not be necessary, but “dares to lead” in case it prove so. He would haye inquests, Whatarelic of pther and more ignorant timesie all this balderdash! How hackneyed and trite is all this superflu- ous indignation! When the Irishman first came to these shores the workingmen made the same pother against his cheap labor that they now make against John Chinaman; an equal indig- nation fumed itself away against the Germans, Against all sorts of lsbor-saving machinery there was an excitement that quite belittled all similar excitements. The excitement against the Chinese is only-one more similar opportunity for the men who lead the trade societies to make a noise and hear their own sweet voices. © : Burter Improving THE Report.—Ben Butler has not lately appeared in a more ami- able light than that in which he is seen as the self-appointed corrector of the Congressional report. His solicitude for the reputation of Mr. Randall isa touching spectacle. He did not believe that Randall would use such lan- guage, and he did not want him to go before the world as having used it, Of course he did not care a button about the imputation on Butler’s character, He is used to that, Toe Last Haneixsa Exnistrion in this city was that of Jack Reynolds, the philoso- pher who discovered that ‘hanging for mur- der was played out.” The next will probably be that of John Real, who killed his man long before Reynolds ever conceived his plan of murder. How far the law’s delay in Real's case influenced Reynolds, Jackson and other murderers, living and dead, to commit their crimes, under the serious belief that hanging was played out, is a question that is easil answered.