The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1870, Page 6

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Nrano Miy- OPERA HOU OKLYN MINS AMERICAN 1 EMPIRE Ring, Third avevu NEW YORK M randway.— TRIPLE SHEBT, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Pace. ev Engagement Near the City Re- The Prussian Siege Guys Arriving; | Movement on Operations of Bezaine Around Me ading Heard at You! for Three Da of Two Hea Government ton. 5 German —Wrion, toanes & | New York, Monday, Ociovrr 3, 1870. | ule in Sedan; jon of Al. tion of an Speech of the Leading Article, Fagiand in of European Affarrs—-' rike on the Railroad—A Dark Deed-—Another Young Thief in Jersey—Auusement Aunounce- 'y Falr—Art Notes 1 on Burgiars—Aqu: a ‘Territory—businosa Notices. S—Religious: Spiritual Pood Tor What fieaven a, Oa is Huu land I ar 9—Religions i of the Ce —A Much Mixed Ireworks—Marviages and ve 10— Yellow | monarehical feelings of the mn from | Laws Opinion of | {his Affairs. The British govornment is in a dilemma evi- dently as to what course it should pursue in the present crisis of affairs In Europe. This is apparent from what took place at the Cabi- net Council in London on Friday. It came to no decision with regard to mediation, but post- poned the question. At the same time it is said the conservative leaders are very active, and that the Earl of Carnarvon and Karl Derby had gone to London to confer with Mr. Disraeli on the situation, The conservative prees begins to speak out plainly, too, and urges that the government must yield to pub- lic sentiment. Sir Henry Bulwer has pub- lished anotler letter deprecating the minis- terial policy of waiting for opportunities to mediate that may never arrive. As an argu- ment of what the’ duty of England is in this crisis ke appeals to historical facts, and asserts that if England had protested when the Em- peror Nicholas told Sir Hamilton Seymour that he mediiated marching his troops to the Principalities the Czar would not have taken that step, and that if she had protested against Napoleon the Third undertaking this war he would not have commenced it. It is sajd, also, that Mr. Somerset Beaumont is prepar- ing an elaborate exposition of what he calls “the policy of inaptitude.” Then there is the underground swell of popular opinion in Great Britain which is moving against the Ministry for ils inaction. Not the least significant of these movements is the reported conference of Earls Derby and Carnarvon with Mr. Disraeli. ‘This looks like a contemplated attack of the opposition upon the Gladstone Ministry for the weak and timid policy it has pursued on the Prussian-French war question, That is the way one party suc- ceeds another in power in Eagland, and Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli are not likely to lose the opportunity of riding into office, if pos- sible, ou the tide of public scntimeat which seis so strongly in favor of efficient mediation to close up the war, The masses of the peo- ple of England—like the people of the United States; like, indeed, the people everywhere— are in favor of the French republio, in favor of giving the French a fair chance to establish republican government, and are aguinst the crusade monarchy and absoluiism is making, under the King of Prussia, upon republicanism, Such able statesmen as Derby and Disraeli see, doubtless, the irresistible current of popular sentiment and the neces- sily of giving direction io it. They under- staud, probably, the danger of resistance, and, both from motives of ambition and to save the country from internal difficulties, they may become more liberal than the so-called liberal adminisiration of Mr. Gladston». {[t is evident Mr. Gladstone is unequal to the present crisi: With all his great and ackuowledged abil | he is timid and hesitating ata time when bold- ness and decision are most needed. It may be thot he is influenced by the pro-Prussiaa and Queen, for she, probably, dislikes and fears tue French repub- i much as King William aad the Emperor £ Russia do. {If s0, the Premier places the ritish monarchy in jeopardy as w his own while Europe is shaken to its foundations by the most astounding evenis of modern times he will fall, probably, and oter mea will have to take the helm of State, In such a contingency who is so likely to come iato power again and to guide Great Britain through the breakers as the author of “Lotha’ Lord Derby, from his command- ing position and great talents, might be ac- corded the first place in » new administration ; but Mr. Disraeli would, most likely, have a very prominent place. Certainly, he would be the leader ia the House of Commons. St is not improbable, indeed, that he might be remier. ands better the events of the No man under and movements wonderful Warning to the © of ths Cit Authoritie: the ety — Morder—Shipping ments. Vi— Advertisements. 12—Advertisewents. Symparny wirh tHE Pre IDEAS in Europe i and commendable. Bui why should limited to by indiff to fr it be arope ? Why should it be replaced ste of Cuba anish des- ence to the brave strug, self from the grasp of ICKEN wits Ps Richmonc from the sorrowing intelliggnee that on the 28th ult. Genera! Robert EB. Lee was stricken with paralysis. His case is ovidently « most criti- cal one, as since his attack he has been un- able to utter a syllable. Tne Cx TA AND THE Macto—Tug Race Posrponey ixprvrsrrery.—tIu another place in this day's b will be found correspor ence which explains why the yacht race be- tween the Cambria and the Magic will not come off, as was expected, to-day. he race, it is possible, may yet take place, but for the present it is indefinitely postponed. 1 Rep River is likely to prove a white ele- phant to the Dominion government. volunteers sot the laws at defiance, and G nor Archibald utterly powerless to restore order and maintain peace. Already have the politicians commenced their machinations with the view of overthrowing the present adminis- tration and driving the Hudson Bay Company from the country. Upon one point only do the English settlers, Canadians and volunteers ‘egree—hostility to Americans, none of whom ‘are to be permitted to live in the Manitoba { Rome anp Tap EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.— Now that the temporal power of the Pope has vanished all manner of strange things are said about the Holy City. One of the latest is that the Evangelical Alliance is considering the propriety of holding its nunual sessions in t city, probably next year. A Protestant i Council in Rome is not a bad idea; but it will be well not to be too hasty. The Evangelical Alliance has not as yet given lus any good The In fact, dthem. He has time. vestors—of giah and the other old pro- 3fallen upon him. In that e book, ‘‘Lothair,” he has described | in vivid language the astounding evenis and | extraordinary conflict of ideas which we now witni Look, for example, at the language he puts in the mouth of Theodora—that beautiful | iastic spirit of republican progr: ussing the future of Rome:—** we are” (that is the revolutioni “is the threshold of Rome. 1 soon cross if.” she gays, and This was a short time his & but emembered, when the Pope at S| supposed they w consolidating and strengthening the Papal power. Now what ; do we see? The prophecy fulfilled. The | iionists have crossed the threshold of and lor is v nuel only their | instrament and pioneer. And, with regard to the political situation of Kurope generally —to “the vanishing empires and rising republics”— as Mr. Disraeli so grap! expressed it recently, he has foreshadowed all that in his novel. Who, then, so fli to take the helm of aff in the present crisis as this far- sighted prophet of Israel? Who so capable of being the Moses to guide the people of England or of Europe to the promised land? Con- ive ashe may have been, he sees the ineviiable future and is not likely to be tram- melled by the prejudices and ideas of the past. If we mistake not this worthy descendant of the grand old patriarchs and prophets is des- tined to perform an important part in the great drama of modern progress. | But the question recurs will, England come out of her withering ré/e of abstention and make an effort for peace? Will she do this before it is too late—belore Paris, the great and beautiful capital of the world, is laid in ruins, and before Europe is in a blaze of revo- iution? Parliament will not meet, in the ordinary course of things, till the beginuing of the year. Events of the greatest magnitude wove rapidly in these times, and it might be too late then for England to do anything. Will the Queen be obalinate, and will Mr. Gladstone yield to that, or continue to advise inaction in spite ef public opinion and the | Should he pursae his do-nothing policy |a England iu the Present Crisis of Kuropean | about Turkey, Egypt and other parts of the Eastern World. All the old systems of gov- ernment are fast crumbling to pieces. And is not the stupifying Ottoman rule about to follow the fall of the papacy, and the ‘‘vanishing empires” of absolutism in Europe? Will Eng- land march with these wonderful events, or will she stand still and be overwhelmed in the general crash? That is the question, What says Mr. Gladstone? What says Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli? Military Situation Through- out France. At Paris the siege continues with no active advances on either side. The Prussians are said to be awaiting the arrival of their heavy siege guns, and in the interval keep securely out of reach of the guns of their enemy, In- side three hundred and seventy-five thousand of the National Guard are said to be eating their heads off and the heads of the citizens, too, with the onerous demands they make on the provision supply, and are, besides, fretting with impatience at the coo! inactivity of their enemy. The dreadful suspense and monotony of the siege, like hope deferred, maketh the heart sick, and it is having its effect on the volatile garrison within. One ennuied indi- vidual, commandant at Fort D'Issy,.trying to whistle down the monotony, has bravely de- clared, in the spirit of Mrs. Micawber, who would never desert Wilkins, that he will not surrender his fortress on any terms. While the Prussians are thus quietly waiting for the plum of Paris to fall into their mouth King William seems to have taken extraor- dinary steps to secure the plums that have already fallen. He hus issued a royal decree ordering all districts of France occupied by German troops, except Alsace and Lorraine, to submit to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Schweriu as Governor—a decree which looks very much as if there were questions beyond the war to be setiled ; as if little German gov- ernments might be substituted in instalments for the republican provisional government; asif King William intended to split up or dismem- ber France. Another heavy detachment of landwebr are pushing forward from Berlin, The General ostensibly to operate against Lyons in the | South. May it not be rather that they are to help hold the districts already captured, to actas the army of occupation to secure to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin this un- expectedly large addition to his little duchy? General Uhirich, the hero of Strasbourg, has | arrived at Tours, and bas been welcomed with the most distinguished honors by the people and the government. France needs such a general as Uhirich at the present crisis. Never, in any previous emergency, has she proven so deficient in able generals. Ulbrich, by his bravery and persistency at Strasbourg, showed himself to be the very general that France needs, a3 the war evidently is to be one alone of sieges; but, unfortunately, he is paroled, we believe, to figut no more until exchanged, Virjinia. hh mail brings additional details of the Vhe Disastrous Bloods in r, and particularly between Lynchburg We have already spoken of prrible destraction of property and life at yneiburg. Richmond has suffered even more grievously. War and fire, and the recent eking fall of its Capitol had made beautiful Richmoad seem to be a doomed city ; and now the James, suddenly rising twenty-six feet above the ordinary level of that river, has inun- dateda large part of the town, submerging warehouses, stores, dwellings and the gas works, destroying more than four million dol- | is strous floods in the valley of the James | v NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, UCTOBER 3, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Investment of Parie—The Prussian Mode of Siege and the French Method of De- fence. The siege of the gay capital of France seems to have settled down to the slow work | of parallels, mines, starvation and irregular bombardment. The indications according to the latest telegrams are that the Prussians are gradually nearing the fortifications, and are | building redoubts and earthworks of their own as they progress. These are in front of Forts Vanvres, Bicétre and Montrouge on the south, and no doubt the same method of approach has been adopted all along the southern and southeastern portion of the besieging line. It isa comparatively safe method of approach, and is quicker work than undermining. It | presents, in fact, a rival line of fortifications fronting that of the besieged enemy—a line, too, which slowly but securely croeps closer to the besieged. Undermining may also be going on steadily, though we are not likely to bear of it until an explosion exposes the fact to the beleagured garrison and the outside world at once. Both these systems of siege were rendered familiar to our own countrymen during the war of the rebel- lion by several noted instances, the most prominent of which was the siege of Vicks- burg by General Grant in 1863. The land side of that city was completely invested by the troops, and, after two ineffectual assaults, the system of parallel approaches and of un- dermining was resorted to with such good effect that Grant’s line of fortifications in some places was advanced to within speaking dis- tance of the rebel works. A mine was exploded directly under one of the most formidable of the forts, and the troops were in readiness for an assault; but it was not made, owing, probably, to the rapid massing of rebel troops at the breach. | Even where no assault is intended the work of throwing up parallels is frequently resorted to to keep the besieging forces busy, and, by narrowing the circle of invesiment, to render it more secure. Either iatention may be held in view at present by the Prussian force in front of Paris. On the north and west of Paris the sioge is not so closely pressed, the magnitude of Fort Mont Valerien and the forts about St. Denis | offering no probability of an effective breach or a successful assault, The besiegers con- tent themselves on these sides with closing the communications as effectually as possible, and, considering the great circumference over which they must spread to do this, it an immense task in itself. The earthworks connecting all the forts about Paris give the besieged army excellent oppor- tunities for sudden dashes on the besiegers, which, besides demoralizing a force that sup- poses itseif to be altogether on the aggressive, serves to derange or break up the investing line. Although such dashes aro not apt to break up the line permanently or to compel the besiegers to withdraw, they serve an excel- lent purpose in keeping up the syirits of the besioged army. With the heavy line of works thus enclosing the city the success of the siege becomes a matter of time. The Prussians may \ be able to hold their own, and, no doubt, so far | as physical opposition is concerned, they can, until Paris is starved or wearied into a sur- render, As for a successful assault, if the Parisian troops are well handled and their leaders are vigilant, such a thing is impossible. On the other hand, the French troops cannot break up effectually the sturdy German line of bayonets and cannon that surrounds them, protected as il is by earthworks almost as for- midable as the French forts themselves; nor do they wish, as in the case of Bazaine at lars worth of property, stopping operations in | Motz, to break ont of the city and leave it to all the large cotton, corn and flour mills, and occasioning the most heart-rending scenes, Saiurday night must, indeed, a night of horrors at Richmond, The little jown of Columbia, in Fluvanna county, was the foe. The fight is over the possession of Paris, and the besieged would merely be giving have been | up the fight if they deserted the city. The two forces thus stand with locked horns, unable to make any material impression upon one completely inundated by the same freshet, and | another; and possibly thus they will stand many of its five huadred inhabitants, strug- gling in the waters, were swept off and drowned. The food in the ¢ merged Harper’s Ferry and cansed the loss of fifty lives. T flood in the Potomac has wrought incalcn!able dainage in Georgetown and in Washington, suspending business in the former city and puiting a stop fo Southern railroad travel. It will probably be many days before the torrific toial of the devasta tions by the Virginia floods can be accurately ascertained, Turkey Preparing tor Fveutualitics. The letter which we published on Saturday feom our correspondent in Consiantinople inti- mates that, as vet, the troubled state of Europe has not disturbed the wonted peace and tran- quillity of Turke Like ihe other Enropean Powers, Turkey has declared in favor of neu- trality, and, recognizing the influence of the presa, has called upon the Levant gazeties to abstain {rom all political discussions on the subject of the war. Notwithstanding its neu- trality, however, Tarkey is actively preparing for possible eventuulities, She is enlisting her reserves and sendiag additional forces to Shumla and on the Danube. Despite the rumor that an early peace may be the result of the actual and puzzifng European complica-. tions, it is not at all improbuble that Russia is inclined to notify the five Powers witich in 1856 signed the treaty of peace at Paris, that she regards that treaty as nulland void. Nor isit surprising thal Rossi the ignominy of that treaty, which forbids the restoration of Sebastopol and the maintenance of a naval force in the Black Sea. But Tur- key is manifesily alive to the urgent impor- tance of the situation, and is straining every nerve to be prepared for the conflict in which she may ere long be engaged, Waar Prussia 18 Doise—Just what Aus- tria did after the revolution of 1848. Austria entered Italy with her armies to put dowa the republicanism of the reds, but after this pur- pose was accomplished she held possession of the I[\alian cities of Milan and Venice, and kept her grip ona part of Lombardy. sia waged war against the Bouaparies. Now the Bonapartes are dead, politically extin- Prus- gravity of the circumstances? We shall see, Inthe meantime other eveuts touching the preof that it is capable of being | safety of British iaterests inthe Hast may force usefal than the Council of | the government to make a friend of the French the Vatican, which, after much labor, brought | republic, or, at least, may force it to some guished; yet Prussia still occupies the soil of France, aud insists upon holding it in the aame of absolutism and monarchy even against a republican government accepted by the French people and recognized by the United States. should deeply feel | until some outside influence—the successful negotiations for peace, the interference of nandoak sub- | Europe, the arrival of a formidable army from the rural districts of France, or the breaking out of the threatened revolution iu Germany — compels them to desist. y Hayti and St. Troubles are again multiplying in the repub- lics of St. Domingo and Hayti. They follow each other so quickly that it is almost impos- sible to keep track of them, Parties are se numerous, dissensions so prevalent and in- trigues so common that peace seems almost impossible under the existing order of things within the confines of these countries. ‘The terrible example made of Salnave, if seems, has not proved a suilicient warning to deter certain members of his family, backed up by a small party, and secretly aided, it is said, by President Baez, of St. Domingo, from plotting the overthrow of the Saget udministration. Frauds, too, of a grave nature, have been dis- covered in the Haytien treasury. The national bank notes of the republic have been counter- feited. Some of the counterfeiters have been arreated, tried, and the terrible sentence of death meted out to them. In St. Domingo we find almost as bad a state of affairs existing. Spain is at her old work of intrigue through her secret agents, and although poor as she is | she atill has gold suflicieat to stir up the enemies of Dominican annexation to the United States. With the sad picture of the condition of these two republics before us, and | considering how productive, happy and pros- perous both might be if governed by any de- gree of wisdom, forethought or sagacity, we cannot see why the United States Congress acted so blindly in the matter of Dominican annexation. President Grant's West Indian | policy is wise and demands a fair, impartial and thoughtful consideration. The American people favor it, American merchants believe in it, and we trust that when next it will be taken up for consideration in the national legislature the result will be such as to show that the desires of the people have been re- spected. Domingo. Miitary ARro » AMBITION OF Pressia.—Our special correspondence from Namur and Bouillon, on the Belgian frontier, gives a most harrowing description of the con- dition of the people in the city and neighbor- hood of Sedan, under the Prussian rule ; how thousands of them are seeking refuge in Bel- gium and how the entire population of the Will not Bismarck have to shift his ground in | province of Alsace is reduced to poverty and forth infallibility and at the sqwe tije ruined | action. Russia is assuming «threatening atti- ee : Ktude, aud a cleud of treubly id loomiae uo order thay King William may be consistent? mepaced with actual (amine, The Prussians are carrying things with a high hand In Bel- gium, and are heard to boast that after France will come Belgium, after Belgium Holland, and after Holland England. Our special corres- pondence from Berlin indicates the tone of public opinion in Prussia in regard to an em- pire or a republic in France and the difficulty which besets the Prassian government on that point. The United States of Europe. One of the most significant and suggestive cries to which this Franco-German struggle has given birth is that which has been raised in favor of ‘The United States of Europe.” The origin of the ides of which these words are the expression is not difficult to find, It is long since the United States of America began to influence the people and the politics of Europe. It was the successful struggle of our American colo- nies against the mother country which gave to the French people the needed courage and the needed nerve to strike the blow of 1789. For the services which France rendered us in our struggle we helped to give France liberty— a liberty which for a time was undoubtedly abused, but which nevertheless marked the commencement of a new and happier era for France and for Europe. From that date the old tyrannies began to totter and fall, In all the struggles which have since taken place in Europe between despotism on the one hand and liberty on the other the great republic of the West has always heen looked to as a model—a model detested by the one party and admired by the other. We have but to recall the memories of 1812, of 1630, of 1882, of 1848, and to reflect on what has taken place in Spain, in Italy, in France, in the Netherlands, in Germany, to be convinced of the immense power which the example of the United Staies has been steadily exercising on Europe. Jt was not, however, until we came forth from our late civil war triumphant that the full value of our republican institutions was seen and appreciated. While our warlasted Europe was taught to believe that republican insti- tutions, which had uniformly failed in Europe, were doomed in America—the only part of the world in which they had at all a chance to succeed, With our war ended, the Union re- stored, the return of financial prosperity, the reduction of our debt and all our many other signs of healthful national life, has come a change over the mind of Europe. The govern- ment of the people, by the people and for the people wins the hearts of all nationalities. The peoples are sick of useless and pampered dynasties, of effete aristocracies and of ‘‘bloated } armaments.” ‘The United States of Europe” is the latest and most sensible cry of the burdened and weary peoples. There are those who will laugh at the idea of ‘the United States of Europe.” It is pre- mature, they say, and impossible. In times like these, when revolution marches apace, and when years seem pressed into minutes, ‘‘pre- mature” and ‘‘impossible” are words to be used with caution. A universal republic, even a general European republic, is not now a possibility. But it requires only a slight change in or a slight impulse given to the course of events to make not only possible but: easy ‘‘a United States of Europe.” ‘The Latin nations are ripe for some such radical! revolu- tion. France is already a repablic. Spain is without a settled government and crying loudly fora republic. All over Lialy the republican feeling is intense. {f it should happen that the whole south of Europe should become re- publican what good reason would exist for France, Spain and Italy remaining apart? How many good reasons would exist for their becoming one! If these three great sections of the Latin family were to go together, Por- tugal would join them, Switzerland and Bel- gium might follow, and ‘“‘the United States of Europe” would be an accomplished fact. Should this latest republican experiment prove at all successful the example of the south might goon tell upon the north, and German and Scandinavian republics might inspire Great Britain and Russia with alarm. Grant repub- lican success in the south of Europe, and who dare say that a confederation of all the Eur: pean States, great and small, is an impossi bility in the year 1900. Fall Meeting of the Jockey The programme for the fall meeting of the Jockey Club is extraordinarily attractive. The value of the stakes to be run for, and the num- ber and superior merits of the horses to be entered in the autumnal games, which will begin on Thursday next, may well excite public interest. If the fine October weather shall prevail which usually makes this season the most delightful one in our American year, the five days of the fall meeting—Thursday, Oct. 6; Saturday, Oct. 8; Tuesday, Oct. | Thursday, Oct. 13, and Saturday, Oct Clab. will witness at Jerome Park not only some of the best racing, but also the most brilliant gathering of beauty, fashion, intelligence and wealth. No more favorable opportunity can be offered to foreign tourists and to visitors from all parts of our vast country for seeing the representative men and women oi New York society than is offered by these races. Nor is the animated picture, with its back- ground of unsurpassed rural scenery, the less agreeable because of the absence of the ragged, noisy, swearing mob which disfigures an English race course, On the contrary, by excluding that ugly feature of an race course, the Jockey Cinb has succeeded in securing for iis members and their families and guests the unalloyed enjoyment of the legitimate excilements which await them at Jerome Park. The club stands will be thrown open to the public at the approaching meeting. Each year additional provision is made for rendering the races more interesting, not only to turfmen but to all classes in our community. Experience has shown the wisdom of remov- ing certain absurd restrictions which at first lessened the popularity of the Jerome Park races. Ona more liberal basis they will now become more popniar thanever. The exhila- rating drive throngh the Central Park to and from the race course is in itself a delight. A Protestant Counc. iN Rome.—Some of the Protestant religious journals are throw- ing out hints that the universal Evangelical Alliance, which was to have been held in this city last month, and which was postponed on account of the war or the weather, may be held in Rome, as ‘‘Rome ia free.” The expe- iment is worth trying, ‘The Sermons Yosterday—Religioun Seman tions. Tt was opening day yesterday at the new Church of the Strangers, the edifice recently purchased by Commodore Vanderbilt for the congregation of which he is a member. As with most other fashionable ‘‘openings,” the place ot worship was filled with elegantly dressed ladies and pious millionaires, who listened te the exercises and heard « hymn sung which was ‘“‘written expressly for the occasion.” ‘The event was a decidedly interesting one, although it lacked the excite- ment imparted to the congregations of the Second Advent church, and the Church of the Coming Woe (as the reporter facetiously dubs it), by the terrible sermons which were there delivered. Elder Bishop was tho preacher atthe one and Bishop Snow at the other. Both clergymen seemed determined to deliver discourses which would ‘‘smash things generally.” How well they succeeded we leave the reader to ascertain, The Dragon, the Beast, the False Prophet, the Pope, the Scarlet Woman and various other persons and things were handled in a style which displayed a perfect acquaintance with adjectives, if not a very clear understanding of Revelation. At the Abyssinian Baptist church, too, there was a small sensation. Sambo and Dinah told their ‘‘experiences.” Wailing and groaning filled the place of worship, broken by exclamations such as ‘Amen, Lord!” ‘‘Lord save him from the lion!” “Lord for- bid!” as the sable brothers unfolded to the congregation their tales of sin and sufferings, of the triumph of righteousness and of that happy future day when all the colored people will sit in paradise singing hymns and having no work todo, Closing up this array of extra- ordinary church services, we had at Lyric Hali an eloquent sermon by Rev. Mr. Froth- inghamw, who explained what heaven is and where it is—to the entire satisfaction of his congregation, we trust, for really we confess to lave received no very clear idea of the divine abode from the reverend gentleman's “profoundly incomprehensible” sentences. Perhaps to some good, old-fashioned people, whose faith in Christianity does not relish the sensational in religion, the sermons to which we refer above may be rather too highly sea- soned with the spice of a latter day piety to suit their tastes. Ifso we can direct them to the reports of sermons deiivered at the other churches. Brother Beecher, for instance, was unusually pathetic and eloquent in his dis- course on the love of God. He was earnest ia his language, and preached the gospel of the Saviour in its truest sense. Then there was the sermon of Vicar General Starrs, at St. Patrick's cathedral, something eminently edifying and religious, Indeed, if we had the space we could name several’ other churches at which the creed of Christ was taught, not with a view to creating a sensation, but for the purpose of saving sinners. In this city, in Washington, Brooklyn and elsewhere our reports show that if ever there was much said and done in places of Christian worship which cannot fail to injure the cause of reli- gion, there was also much which gives hope that the activity and earnestness of good, pious mea will suffice to counteract injurious influences, THE STRIKE ON (ME BELT RAILROAD. Fifteen Hours? Work tho Drivers? Ultima- tum--That of the Company Seventeen und a Hualf—No Prospects of a Settlement. Yesterday was the first Sabbath in along period of time on which the drivers of the castera section eit Railroad line rested from their labors. nuctionaries having struck, in Conseauea ce of certain encroachments made by their supertor oflicers, a8 announced in yesterday’s Healy, were not to be abashed yesterday morning by the indtife- rent attitude of the Superintendents; nor were the “splendid carloads’ of tumaa English \ freight on a Sunday, suMcient incentives to a re- sumption of their labor. Having understood in te morning that the company had no intention of yielding yet awhile the drivers resolved to pursue @ similar course. ‘They complatn that the officials endeavored to up- 1 the old arrangements by prolonging the dri- During the past few weeks a crop of raw drivers bad been broug)t forth by Terry, and the time did not seem far distant hands wonid be exchanged tor new ones. Hence the veteran members of the whtp aud rela corps are not particular about obliging the company. ‘hey emphatically aver at present that tt ‘accept no terns other than those on Which Uy hitheriv worked, or such proposals as will Hot ren- der their day's sery ‘They aitivm that wh by the Mr. when all the old ses longer than fiflcen hours. rivers axe eta- n would be now demand, he road, uvows aul to Suit them selves, confess enorunce of — thelr ultimatum, and promises to pay them $2 50 if consent to ran according they: t b Mr. ‘Tuck the he men will of course re- that i does not _ seem both parties are firm 1 th number of cil rt pension of tr culty settied. A DARK DEED. Desperate Conflict Between a Colored Man and oa Policeman. At alare hour on Saturday night ofiecr Martin Short, wile patroiling his beat, was called apon to suppress a disturbance in Johnson street, near Lor- rimer, Wiliiamsburg, between a party of intoxica colored men, When the ofiicer reached the sceve ef the disturbance he found at least a hundred per- sons surrounding two infuriated combatants, one of of mammoth proportions and — tite other of delicate construction, and he imme- diately undertook to protect the weaker brother by arresting his assailant, But his underiaking cs ed witle = to heap Ina. ‘The offic former's cali wus respo: bewiing, bui no om | He was in a desy giant held = him the pigm, hin si ely, ‘This was too much for oMfcer short. Belug a powerful man he gathered up his 3 wil and, by « desperate effort, freed himself, ng Ute useless belt nm his asgailant’s hands. He ub and applied it so vigorously to junts that tuey soon cried for mercy and surren . Officer Short then carted them otf Stagy street station house, where they re- the names of Theodore Seaman and Hosea Captain Muilen secured the services of a ‘ uu for Seaman, whose skull showed evidence of having come in contact with the oMcer’s cinb, ate for a few minutes. heiviessly by the belt while ore lis coat from his back and “panched? ANOTHER YOUNG THIEF IK JERSEY, Saturday night OMcer Boyle arrested @ little girl, named Kate Taylor, eleven years oid, at the Jersey City Mepot of the Jersey City Railroad, on the charge of picking the pocket of a colored woman who was a beset tad en the train from Newark. When Katy found herself entrapped she drupped tne pocketbook, but the officer saw the trick and picked itup. The colored woman who owued ine article refused under any circumstances to go to the police station to prosecuie the young graduate, 4s she did not want to “get locked up ail night for noifin’."’ ‘the oMcer threatenea to confiscate the pocketbook, but the owner coolly walked off, telling lim to keep {t rather than take her to jail. then receiyed her property aud the prececigus thiet esgaped, She