The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1870, Page 6

vais + 7 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic ‘despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packsges should be” properly ‘gealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘JHE HERALD CORPS CF LUROPEAN WAR COBRESPONDEN). We have special correspondents moving »with each division of the opposing forces of 'France snd Prussia, and news agencies in the principal cap{tals—London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- drid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing of aa important news character escapes our vigilant representatives. Our news agencies in the principal cities of Europe, and dur system of travelling corre- spondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the Herarp have no doubt long since become familiar with, and as our letters from all paris of the Eastern Hemisphere for years past have fully proven, We do not pretend that our comments upon the war, or that our opinions upon the proba- ble success of either belligerent in contem- plated movements come by the cable. Our only aim is to give to the public the fullest, the most reliable, and the most authentic record of facts as they occur in the grand operations of the contending armies. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—A BrEp IN Han Is Woxru Two IN THE Busu, &0. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Orzea Bourra— ‘Littie Favs, BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 between Sth and 6th avs.— Bir Van WINKig. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—Tue New Domrstio Deama or Heart's East. 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EMPIRE RINK, Third ue and Sixty-third street.— Fate oF rak ANKRIOAN LN@TITUTE. BROOKLYN TALL, Myrtle avenue and Adams street.— GRAND INSTRUMENTAL UONCERT. LEEDS' ART GALLERIES, 617 and £19 Broadway.— EXmisivion oF Paintings. New York, Monday, September 12, 1870. Pace. 1— Advertisements. ‘2—Advertisements. 3—The War: of the Prossian Advance on Paris; Rumors on the oer ges of Peace; Russian Opinion Against French Democracy: Special Reports from Laon, Metz, Thtonvilie and Sedan; Engenie’s Meeting with Her Son; An Affecting Scene and Shock to the Ex- Empress’ Health—False Samaritans—One- Eyed Peccadilloes—Death of Ex-Coroner Dr. E. D. Connery—Killed by His Cousin. 4—Religious: Opening of tne Fall Season in the Metropolis; The Pride, Pomp and Circumstance of Modern Christian Worship; Our White and Colored Aristocracy at Church; The Philosopliy of the Gentiies and the Teachings of Christ; More War Sermons; Father Quinn and His Holiness, . 5—Religious (continued from fourth page)—Military Chit-chat. -chat. 6—Editoriais: Leading Article on the War in Eu- rope, Peace Negotiations in Progress—Amuse- ment Announcements. '7—Editorials—Telegrapnic News from All Parts of the World—New York City News—The Census—News from Washington—Yachting— Personal Intelligence—New Jersey News Items—Snicide at Poughkeepste—The Suicide of Mr, Breeze—Suicides and Sudden Deaths— ‘The Chinese Deluge—Business Notices. 8—Vive la Republique: French Appeal to the Amer- ican People—Musical and Dramatic—Long Istana Ch Highway Robvery—Alderman Cain’s Ride—Mnsical Review—-The Two Quar- antines: Ambitious Amboy versus New York— Improvement ip Telegraphing--The Long Island Cabbage* Eater—The Americus Club: Windig Up of the Season—Skilful Engineer- ing Operation—Nice Sunday Pastime , in Newark. 9—Disaster in Fassaic Village, N. 4.—The American Jnstitute—The Newton Creek Tragedy—Rural House Burners—Poltticai Intelligence—Court Calendars for To-day nancial and Com- merciai Reports—Real e Transfers—West- chester County News is—Marriages and ths—Advertisements. ory of the Sea: The Spanish Brig Nacional the Captain st—Brooklyn jects for the SI Shipping 1 Ai—Aaverty 12—advertse Wnuo Fear tue P: fort, Pelletan, Simon i the project for invoking vice of the people by a constitutional convention. All the other members are ready to derive directly from the nation a new government, but the men who were lately very loud in the claims of the rights of the people are not ready to take any chance of losing the places they hold, mbetta, Roche- erry voted against Tue Ciuss IN Parts.—The socialists, the reds, the democrats—all the stripes of discon- tent and differing opinion—have their nightly meetings now in the capital of France. In ‘The War in Europe—Peace Negotiations in Progress. Out of the varying and conflicting stories telegraphed from Europe we think it may safely be assumed that there are negotiations in progress to obtain the consent of the King of Prussia to an armistice, preliminary to the arrangement ofa treaty of peace. It seems now to be regarded as an absolute fact that Austria and Russia are, through their respec- tive Ministers at Paris, endeavoring to effect that result, These Min{sters are said to have had frequent interviews with Jules Favre, the head of the provisional republican government, with a view to induce him to propose certain terms, to which Count Bismarck is pledged in advance to accede, What these terms are has not been givenut, but it may be assumed that they do not involve the loss of territory by France—for both Russia and Austria have declared against the further aggrandizement of Prussia—nor the humiliation of ignoring the republican and restoring the imperial govern- ment, for of course no such proposition could be submitted or accepted without stultification on both sides. : It seems, too, that Count Bismarck does not share tho views of his royal master in reference to the status of Napoleon, but is willing to treat with the provisional govern- ment as the de facto government of France. has been quietly arranged by Bismarck in order to get time to overcome the King’s obsti- | nacy in that respect, If there be a fair allow- | ance of truth in these telegraphed statements | then We may coneur in the opinion ‘attributed | to one of the French ministers, that the siege | of Paris is an improbable event. A very singular circumstance in connection with the peace negotiations is that the English government holds aloof from all participation in them, and is said to encourage King Wil- liam in bis avowed intention to ignore the ex- isting republican government in France and to treat only with Napoleon. That is a course of policy which, if persisted in, may shorten the existence of monarchical rule in England and bring about, sooner than might otherwise happen, the establishment of a republic in that country. It seems, too, that notwithstanding the great success of the German arms in this campaign the war is beginning to be regarded in Ger- many as a terrible evil, and that great anxiety for an immediate peace on almost any terms is making itself felt in all classes of the commu- nity. This condition of the popular mind will possibly have its effect on King William, and make him less obstinate and exacting than, under other circumstances, he might prove to be. From the operation of these various causes there is something like a probability that the siege of Paris, with all its inevitable horrors, will not be pressed to the bitter end. Nevertheless the preparations for that event are not slackened on either side. The Ger- mans are gradually drawing closer to the city, and the French are resorting to every means to make a protracted and successful defence. Nor is that defence to depend entirely on the fighting men inside the walls. A large force is being formed in various sections of the country, intended to operate against the besieging army. The citizens of Paris are represented as bury aap and resolute, de- termined to defend the city to the last ex- tremity and not to consent to the cession of a foot of French territory; and there seems to be a growing confidence in their abiliiy to make a successful defence. Under all these circumstances, with Metz and Strasbourg still holding out, with the im- mense losses that his srmy has undergone, with typhus and cholera doing their work in thinning the ranks of the Germans surrounding Metz, with the uncertainty of the result of the siege of Paris, and with the dangers that are floating in the political atmosphere of Europe, the wisest and best course for King William to adopt is to offer fair and liberal terms of peace to the French republic, withdraw his armies and let Louis Napoleon return to pri- vate life. If he will not do this, but will per- sist in his intention of destroying or capturing the fairest city of the world, he will rouse a feeling of indignation which may not be ap- peased until his and every throne in Europe is shattered and the people everywhere have resumed their rights. Saneursary Mopg oF Repvoine PoricaL Masorrrizs.—At a political club meeting held somewhere up town last Saturday night, pre- sided over by the poet warrior, Colonel Du- ganne, arather summary method of reducing the great democratic majority in New York was proposed by one of the speakers, This was nothing less than for the members of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Central Club—a branch, probably, of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic—to station themselves at the various poll- ing places and blaze away with their revolvers at such American sovereigns as might offer to vote without the approval of these guardians of the polls. In this way it was calculated that the registration in this city might be cut down from one hundred and seventy thousand to one hundred thousand. General John A. Foster, who recommends this cool process, was made use of during the war in the capa- city of Judge Advocate to frighten off or sup- press the Presidential votes of the army for McClellan; but he did not venture on so san- guinary a plan as he now proposes, The bal- lot is truly in these days a glorious privilege of freemen. ‘‘Vive Ia leberté!” A Goop Jos For Jomn Bout is the Prus- sian advance on Paris. The defenders of the city need all the weapons they can get, and John Bull is selling them Remington rifles in large quantities ata very respectable profit. How will Germany take this? It will be remembered that she protested angrily against England sending arms and munitions of war into France, just as we protested against furnishing blockade runners to the South at the beginning of the campaign ; but John Bull don’t care a straw for a protest as long as he can make a penny. So much the better for the Parisians. this there isa hint of old times. In the first revolution the clubs began as patriotic assem- blages, purposing to develop the popular power; but they developed a tendency to domineer over and finally a disposition to con- trol and crush all wills that did not bend to theirs; thence came the Reign of Terror. Now, however, the government is reported as watching these bodies closely by secret agents. An Exampie.—It is said that Paris was never kauown so orderly as at present, and that in ten years there have not been so few arrests per day as there are now. It.might be thua in every city, if the government would begin as it did in Paris by sweeping out of the city or into prison all the rogues and vagrants and the dangerous classes generally, It is even said that the delay in investing Paris | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1870.—IKIPLE SHEET. The German Race and the Territories That {¢ Occupies. The ger-men, or spears-men, (as the old Teutonic words united in the name may be in- terpreted), now known as the people of Ger- many—or, in other terms, the Germans—are a mighty race. We shall not attempt any de- tailed narrative of the wanderings by which, in the long succession of- ages, stray tribes migrated from Western Asia into Eastern Europe, and, sweeping over the wide steppes of Russia and the plains of Finland, at length poured down through Scandinavia and, cross- ing the narrow straits and inlets which divide Sweden and Zealand from what is now the German mainland, peopled the central region of the old Continent with innumerable Teutonic tribes, the ancestors of the modern Germans. The Danish archipelago, the island of Riigen, Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Holstein and Northern Prussia are dotted everywhere with tumuli in which, beside the bones of the an- clent Teutonto warriors, are found implements and weapons of unmistakable Eastern origin. In fact many of these relics, which we have personally inspected in the Danish and Swe- dish museums, bear no slight resemblance to articles of similar use found in the mounds of North America and the ruined mausolea of Yucatan and Peru When Cesar, pursuing his. conquests in | territory beyond it peopled by some threescore j Wibes of different names, local manners and | dialects, whose general title Sirabo, the his- torian, gives in the word Germani, the } origin of which we indicate in the first lines of our article. Although the Germans, even bed that remote epoch, had a certain fixed | civilization, laws and agricultural life, and prac- | tised in their sacred Druidical groves a religion { that embraced the immortality of the soul, their position as a nationality was undefined, and many centuries elapsed before the igno- rance or indifference of the West could peer far enough through the dazzle of the Roman empire to discover beyond it, stretching away to the eastward, a mighty race, wondrously ‘endowed with both intellectual and pbysical ‘power. But a few hundred years have wrought a magical change. The scattered tribes between the Rhine and the Danube have just become transformed into one vast people, still temporarily and slightly divided here and there by a foreign boundary line, but spiritually welded together by common blood, a common language, common glory and common aspirations, The Germany of to-day comprises a terri- tory of four thousand six hundred miles in circuit in its entire measurement, and an area of two hundred and forty-four thousand square miles, without including the eastern provinces of Prussia not embraced in the old Germanic Confederation, which would swell the total to two hundred and eighty thousand square miles, The population of this vast region is about thirty-eight million souls, which, with the Germans in Austria, varionsly computed at nine and at eleven millions, would make the Germanic race in Central Europe number from forty-seven to forty-nine millions. But this is not the sum total of the family on the elder Continent. The Baltic provinces of Rassia—viz., Livonia, Esthonia, St. Peters- burg and Courland—contain about two mil- lion five hundred thousand souls of German kindred, and Alsace and Lorraine, still com- posing part of France, have two million more. This would increase the aggregate of the Ger- manic European family to nearly fifty-three million five hundred thousand souls. Adopting the higher numbers, and fully considering the matrimonial, business and social alliances of so active, enterprising and nomadic a race, the result becomes imposing. But when we have done with the statement of communities recognized as German we have by no means finished the muster roll of German settlement. In France proper there are fully five hundred thousand, in Italy five hundred thousand, in Spain and Portugal two hundred and fifty thousand, in Turkey, Syria and Egypt two hundred and fifty thousand, in Switzerland two hundred and fifty thousand, in the Scandinavian States, Belgium and Hol- land five hundred thousand and in the British Islands five hundred thousand Germans. But it is in Amerigg that the outside Ger- man emigration has developed into the grandest proportions. In our own city and in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and St. Louis whole wards are almost entirely peopled by Germans, In Pennsylvania they are so nume- rous in some counties that the local laws are officially printed in German as well as in English, and in several of the Western States they compose almost the majority. In round numbers the Germanic race and its offshoots in the United States may be estimated at five million souls. Again, they are surprisingly numerous in Mexico and Central America, In Brazil, ever since the enlistment there of the disbanded Germans who had served in the Schleswig-Holstein war, they have re- tained a firm foothold, and in Buenos Ayres, Colombia, Chile and Peru they own some of the best enterprises and are rapidly increasing. They have recently founded thriving colonies in some of the island groups of the Pacific, and are an influ- ential and growing element in Australia, China and Japan. We feel quite within bounds, then, in computing the final complete the globe at Sixty million souls. This esti- mate fora race go persevering, so expansive and so notedly prolific represents a tremen- dous power for to-day and for to-morrow ; and well may statesmen who scan with astonish- ment the overwhelming for: t United Ger- many in Europe has just exhibited in crush- ing the colossal military empire of France ia a six weeks’ campaign begin to cast a mighty horoscope for the grand German federation of the future. new-born giant with fully half a million stal- wart, effective soldiers on the soil of France, of whom three hundred thousand are knock- ing at the gates of Paris, while at least one ! hundred and fifty thousand more have been swept aside by death, sickness and wounds. Yet, with all this stupendous mass thrust far into a hostile country, Germany, at home beyond the Rhine, has three hundred thou- sand more tboroughly drilled and equipped troops, awaiting the word to march, and still new armies of twice that number mustering for the field. Order, tran- quillity, erthusiasm accompany this amazing display of vital energy, and from land to| France and Amerien—International Fras land, from far up along the Baltic to the ternity. remote borders of the Adriatic, and re-echoing Elsewhere we publish a complete translation thence throughout all the civilized regions of | of an address from enthusiastic and able advo- the earth, is heard this great masculine Teu- | cates of the French democracy calling upon tonic voice mingling the words of brotherhood | Americans, as such, to give louder and more and freedom with its songs of patriotic devo- | emphatic testimony than they yet have done to tion to Fatherland, It is an imposing revela- | their sympathy for the new-born French repub- tion of our immediate time, this sudden dis- | lic, The Messager Franco-Américain of New closure of a. vast, liberty-loving element all | York, in whose columns we find this appeal, over the world—this recognized presence, in | complains that the American press has not days so lately thought to be ‘degenerate, of | manifested a sufficiently warm and cordial “home,” “household,” “country,” . ‘‘honor,” | appreciation of the new order of things. In “freedom” on the lips of a cosmopolitan race | doing so the Messager assuredly overlooks the who unite profound skill, indomitable perse- | circumstances under which this third declara- verance and heroic valor to a natural love for | tion of the republic in France has taken Gaul, reached the Rhine, he found the vast ; aggregate of the Teutonic. stock in all parts of | At this moment we behold the | peace and all domestic virtues. Let us take heart, again, who believe in the better desti- nies of mankind. God has His champions ready for the appointed hour! Italy and Rome=—National Consolidation and the Papacy. The facts of how Italy “struggled gallantly in Austria’s loosening grasp,” of her battles and final triumph, have been sung by the poets, felt in the Parliaments, ‘and. acknow- edged by the peoples. Her banner of terri- torial unification and national consolidation held out hope to tne Italians, spoke {of enfranchisement to the French, ‘and warmed the Spaniards to a still ; more devoted love of citizen freedom and independence. Italy, herself, has been incomplete notwithstanding. She ra- diated the glow of democratic heat right out from her heart to the surrounding nations, j but it was too diffuse, the rays were not suffi- ciently concentrated; it was light, but light ; without general illumination. The fact is, Italy wanted, still wants, a central focus, a centre of authority, a centre of order and law. She wants a point for the “crowning of the edifice.” That centre and point is Rome. Deprived of her natural capital, Italy remains a lusus among the empires; a huge body with the caput of an infant. Italy is about to mature. She is about to move to Rome and crown herself. The people have spoken in France. The Iberian Penin- sula looks for light to the white cross of Savoy waving in the dities of the Casars. Italy must either abnegate her position and lay down her crown or seek to lead the way for | the healthy regeneration of the peoples of Europe by acting as sponsor at their baptism in the font of St. Peter's. The special tele- gram reports from Europe which appear in our columns to-day go to show that King Victor Emanuel feels that this great crisis is now upon him. He has heard the voice of the democracy. He has consequently spoken to Rome. A special envoy from Italy has had an audi- ence with Cardinal Antonelli, The Cardinal still objects. Plo Nino looks to the sword of Saint Peter; he speaks of the army and clutches both the keys and the crown. Eminent prelates who are still in Rome | from foreign countries have advised his | j Holiness to abandon the attitude of war and make terms with the Italians and their place—viz., at the very crisis of a war pro- voked by French rulers, and while a victo- ‘Figus enemy is at the gates of Paris. The empire that has just fallen, in declaring that dt meant peace, brought to Europe and to Ame- ‘rica a sword;it was one almost continuous “guccession’of terrible wara, “sometimes par- doned because apparently upon the side of struggling - nationalities, but as often utterly abhorrent to the sense of ‘universal justice, because evidently waged for the purposes of ‘dynastic ambition. Of the latter, character were the invasion of our sister republic, Mexico, by an armed coalition headed and inspired by France, and the recent war so defiantly declared by Napoleon IIL. against the German Fatherland. It was not surprising, then, that ‘with so recent an experience before them Americans should hesitate to express the boundless enthusiasm that the birth of legiti- mate republics in the Old World must awaken in their breasts when they saw the provisional government about to continue the war policy of the late empire. War! was the first word of the spokesmen of the new régime, and war the people saw meant fresh slaughter, fresh devastation and impoverishment, fresh hatreds and divisions, and at last a fresh dictatorship and military rule. From this prospect American common sense—which is, after all, the surest basis of liberal forms of government—revolts. We know that liberty could not survive it. ‘The republic is peace,” and with that motto and in that sign of frater- nity alone can the republic hope to conquer. Do we counsel a degrading submission on any terms? No! far from it. But we do counsel moderation, concession, conciliation, and even the highest reasonable price for liberty. Liberty is worth it. A thousand millions and a few battered fortresses are a cheap consideration for the inestimable boon of freedom, which, -hovering to-day over the domes of Paris, but prepares her triumphant flight of to-morrow from city to city over the broad Continent. To invoke the destruction of that ‘‘cradle of liberty” on the banks of the Seine, to which the address so elegantly refers, would be a-crime against progress and hu- manity that would cause mankind to execrate, for all time, the madmen whose obstinate pride should entail so great aloss upon Christ- endom. The German soldiery, who uncon- sciously have borne liberty into France in their knapsacks and have commingled their best King. The Italian Cabinet says that he must do so, It has been resolved in Cabi- net Council in Florence that should the Pope still persist in his resistance to the national will an Italian army shall be marched into the Holy City at once. This will lead to other new and exciting events in the Old World. The issue will be between the governmental spirit of the Caesars, the war spirit of Charle- magne, the ecclesiasto-imperialism of the Popes and the indestructible mind of the hearts blood with that of the French chivalry, to plant her glorious standard on the fallen ramparts of the military empire, will feel the thrill of congenial sentiments when, as ad- mitted friends, they tread the pavements of the old city of the Revolution; and in those same knapsacks they will carry back an augmented treasure of enlightened and fraternal memories to their own land of toil and taxation, but of sturdy love for truth and freedom beyond the Rhine. Peace, then ; let peace be the offering of the masses. The American people understand easily which will triumph. The Pope will young republic, and we warrant that all America will ring with the watchwords of remain chief pastor of his Church, but the j brotherhood and affection for her, to flash out people must become free units of the vast congregation. Tue Reorirts From Cusroms at this port present a most flourishing appearance. Col- lector Murphy’s returns show that the receipts at the Custom House for August were nearly sixteen millions of dollars, which is four mil- lions and a half more than those of July, and actually a million and a quarter more than the customs receipts of any one month since New York was a port ofentry. If the income from this source was so immense during the war month, when the ocean trade of France and Germany was so materially retarded, what may we expect when we “have peace,” and the status of these two largely exporting nations is restored? The new Collector must feel very comfortable in his seat when he is able to make this exhibit at the first start. Bismarce’s GAME oF Biurr.—The samo telegram from Ostend which announces that Count Bismarck insists as a preliminary to all negotiations for peace that three army corps of the Prussian army shall be en- camped within twenty miles of Paris as a satisfaction to public opinion in Germany, adds that it is believed in Brussels that Prussia asks for more than she expects to get, and that she will be glad to treat with- out undertaking the siege of Paris. It is, thea, a bluff game that Bismarck wishes to play. We shall soon learn whether he will win at it or not. Tue Best ELeorion Canvassers that Gene- rai Grant can have are the statisticians of the Treasury Department. effective and convincing of stump speakers, Every now and then they utter sentiments in advocacy of his re-election that burn like words of fire, The very latest reads somewhat ip this ‘Receipts for revenue from all sources under Johnson—$556,315,203 ; receipts revenue from all sources from March 1, September 1, 1870—under Gr 8,968; strength of argument in favo 7,418,765.” of Graat, Tae AmertoaN Bonaparte.—It is reported | that all the Bonapartes are now out of Paris. If the American Bonaparte has gone he has made a mistake. He has thereby forfeited all chance of figuring in the republic. It is not likely, however, that free France will choose another Boaaparte for President. of the fondness for that name. Mase Eteocrton To-Day.—The annual State election in Maine takes place to-day. With the exception of one or two Congres- sional districts, where matters are consider- ably muddled, the republicans will no doubt carry the State. We have already given a list of candidates, They are the most j 1869, | She is cured { in glittering steel at any hour when banded despotism may venture to throw down the gauntlet for a death struggle against the spirit of the time and the just rights of the long- suffering peoples. ANOTHER SENSATION SpoILeD.—A wonder- ful story was gotten up a few days ago about the Parsee merchant, Mr. Colah, who unfor- tunately became insane, and had to be cared for ina private asylum. The gentleman, who was a guest at the Hoffman House, had a large amount of gold and-valuables in his possession, and it was endeavored to be shown that he was fraudulently and mysteriously deprived of it by the proprietors of the hotel. The sensational bubble, however, is pricked and burst up by the statement of Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., Clerk of the Common Pleas Court, who was appointed receiver to Mr. Colah’s pro- perty. He says that every‘dollar of the money as expressed in the bill of lading has been satisfactorily accounted for by Messrs. Mitchell & Read, of the Hoffman House. Division iv GermMany.—Germany is not altogether disinclined to open a fire in the rear that will not comfort King William in his operations against Paris. Since the sudden change in the King’s attitude toward Napo- leon this feeling on the part of the German people has become very evident. Germany does not sympathize with those ideas of the King that have led to, this change of front. There is no contingency in which the German people could prefer Napoleon to any other power that might be found in France—least of all could they prefer him to a republic ratified | by the consent and adhesion of the nation; and this King who hates republics more than he hates Napoleon—that is to say, who hates | his own enemy more than he hates the enemy | of Germany—has therefore taken a turn in which G y will not follow him, and which can only regard with displeasure. | AvorneRr Fat CHIEF—ABDICATION OF | ce Fenian Leaper.—The late Emperor of | the French is not alone in his fall from great- On this side of the Atlantic there is another leader, who, like Napoleon, went forth to war without counting the cost, and now finds himself a prisoner where he is treated with consideration than Napo- leon at Wilhelm: But General O'Neill has determined not to give his captors the same excuse that the Frenchman gives to his, He has formally abdicated, merging all ! his powers in the Fenian organization of which Mr, Savage is the president. Now that unity has been thus restored, let John Bull look to the safety of the Green Island, and let the Irish servant girls look to their pocketbooks. Raids may be expected ness. he. ‘The Senson of Grace Opened. * Let us sinful mortals take courage. The season of grace opened yesterday. All the churches were full, and at the aristocratic churches prayers and perfumery mingled as they have not since the spring months bloomed into summer. Our warnings and exhortations of last summer seemed to have had some effect ‘upon the fashionable worshippers. We are fassured by the reporters that at most of the ‘tabernacles the congregations appeared more devoted to their prayer books than to their own and their neighbors’ fashions. Heaven knows that none of us are free from sin, and it is just possible that after ten weeks spent at the watering places some of these church-goers might have cause for unusual piety and devo- tion. At Grace church only did’ the religious stagnation continue. But Grace church is not easily stirred. Its regular congregation is sa eminently proper that the members never hurry themselves to open the fall season, Brown, gorgeous as ever, was there, of course, and so were a few strangers, who listened toa good sermon, not so well delivered as it might have been. But at all the other tabernacles where the leaders of society meet on Sunday the attend- ance was large and the attendants as pious as a dry goods store, a dressmaker and a jewelry establishment could make them. Trinity was redolent of sanctity from the steeple down to the doorsteps. Plethoric papas slept tran- quilly while Dr. Dix told of the good Samari- tan, and their daughters condescendingly lis- tened to a lesson on the duty of compassion. At Lyric Hall the season opeped with the re- turn of Rev. O. B. Frothingham. He preached on the subject of wisdom, which we trust he carefully studied during his vacation. . The Pope and Louis Napoleon were held up as ex- amples of human fatuity. Referring to the age of excitement in which we live he declared “it is the dreadful privilege that we modern men enjoy that we cannot escape from the suf- ferings and sorrows and agonies of all our kind.” The enjoyment of anything dread- ful by modern men is a sad evidence of natural depravity. Speaking of + the rapidity. with which we now receive . news as compared with the length of time re- | quired fot the same purpose in the day of our forefathers, Mr. Frothingham said— “The great events came to them (our fore- fathers) slowly, and when bad tidings reached them from over the water the distance had already deadened the shock. How different now! The telegraph wires are knit in each of our heartstrings.” This reminds us forcibly of the Irishman who wrote his brother a letter announcing the death of their mother, and on the back of the envelope requested him not to open it until he had prepared himself for the sad intelligence. Why the effect of any news coming before the invention of the telegraph wires should have been less than now we can- not imagine. This illogical style of speaking was also in- dulged in by Rev. Charles F. Lee, who, preaching on the law of progress, declared that in the life of a fast young man, “‘the full corn in the ear ripens and rots before the blade has been matured.” Placing aside the fact that we do not remember any other reference to grain in the life of a fast young man than the sowing of wild oats, the presence of full corn in the ear before the blade matures is such an absolute impossibility that the meta- phor seems rather stretched. However, some allowance must be made for the open- ing sermons of the season. A couple of weeks more are needed to prune down the exuberant imaginations of the preachers. Rev. Mr. Smyth got off an old joke about King William being wide awake while taking a Nap, and then continued in a sermon on the war in Europe, in which he expressed the opinion that there was a possi- bility of Napoleon being restored to the throne of France. Dr. Wedekind, at the English Lutheran Church of St. James, delivered an interesting discourse on the dignity of ‘man ; while Rev. Stephen Tyng, Jr., preached on the goodness of God and the debt of gratitude we owe Him. “Evangelization in Europe occu- pied the attention of the congregation at the Broadway Tabernacle, Dr. Thompson and Rev. Mr. Clark, of Milan, speaking on the subject. They promised that great things would accrue from the overthrow of Napoleon and the expul! sion of the Pope from Rome. Rev. Mr. Clark was of the opinion that Rome would be the centre of evangelization. At the Church of the Strangers Dr. Deems eloquently declared the glory of Christ, and at the other churches the sermons were very good. In Brooklyn Plymouth tabernacle was crowded, but Brother Beecher did not officiate. , He was represented by his brother, who did well. In Washington and elsewhere the ser- mons were excellent and the attendance large. We must not omit mentioning the churches where our colored population meet to wor- ship. These were well attended, the toilets were gorgeous and the congregations very decent. Altogether the openings of the reli- gious fall season gave promise of a large number of saved souls during the winter. City Improvements. The Commissioners of Public Parks havo been actively engaged of late in beautifying every green-spot in and about the city which might by any possibility be designated by the name of a park. Itis not alone the Park, par excellence, which receives the Commissioners’ attention, but all the smaller open places, where the poor can enjoy the luxury of fresh air and a peep at the greensward and the flowers, come in also for & portion of the good work, This is a humanizing labor. What with the pleasfat breathing places, and the cheer- ful music supplied in the small parks at regu- lar intervals, the working classes in the middle and lower parts of the city have refinoment brought to their very doors if they do but choose to avail themselves of the opportunity to enjoy it. And we know that they do, in vast numbers. It is unnecessary to refer to the influence thus produced upon whole masses of people who were hitherto shut up in crowded tenements and dwellings during the sweltcring evenings of sumer. ‘ The Park Commissioners must be credited with good sense and a consideration for the health and comfort of the masses in thus im- proving the small! parks. They are convert- ing the City Hall wilderness and the Battery trodden-dowa desert into “pleasant places,"