The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1870, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF The Question of War or Peace Still in i nee; England's Position Towards the Gortchakof Note and Circular; The Russian Note Regaried as an AMrmation of the Cir- cular; Cabinet Decision in Downing Street and Outside Agitation in Lopdon; Recruiting the British Navy; Russia Apparentiy Unmoved; Prus-ia and Anstria Inclined to Mediation— Reported Decisive Battle Near The Germans Repulse with Great 3; An Atte! to Turn the French Rigut i Defeated; The Bombardment of Paris Begin arly Next Month; Minister Washburne Granted Permission. te Leave, 4—Ke'lgions : How the Gospel is Spreading in the Metropolis and Elsewhere; Eloquent Sermons and Interesting Services; Jews, Gentiles and Latter Day Saints in ‘Their Rouses of Prayer; ie aesaueest Power of the Pope Variously wer wed. gious (continued from Fourth Page)— uuzht Down at Last—The Late Storm. orials: Leading Article on “The Rickety Condition of the Kepublican Party—Tne Game for the Presidential Succession” —Amusement Announcements. {torial (Continued from Sixth Page)—Per- al Intelligence—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the W —News from Washiagtou— Business Notices, 8—Furope : What the British Aristocracy Say of Rismarck’s War Policy; the First Number of the on Times and the Then Kin: of Pruss he Paris Freemasons Against King Wiliam —The Grape Growing District of Ohio — Political Notes and Comments — Forelgners in China—Music and the Drama— Shocking Casualty Budalo—The Aurora Borealis In India and Turkey. @—Rea! Estate: A Veteran’s Views; What He bout the Market—Fiendish Crime — of’ Art in| America—Without an —Finanelal and Commercial Report-— ate Debt of Geergia—Marrlages and ctive Preparations for War; rds and Muster of Crews; ying Squadrons tn Motion; 1s of Britain; Naval Power t! tet Kingdom—Free Lovers’ Free t; Midnight Scen t a Station House— Advertisements, of a Pro menis. Baden into the German federal army the Grand Duchy has virtually ceased to be an independent Power. As it never was a very powerful country at the best of times the loss of its independence will not seriously affect its inhabitants, while it will very materially strengthen Germany. Ovr Jersey Neiansors are sadly out of humor at the result of the census, The returns show a total population of 895,672, against 672,035 in 1860—a most respectable increase. Jerseymen, however, confidently predicted a better showing—a million of souls, at least, Ovr Latest Despatcues report a decisive victory for the French army of the Loire, which, if true, cannot fail to have an impor- tant effect upon the campaign. All the in- telligence we have concerning the battle | mous vote of the convention of 1872, and ‘comes from Tours, however, and as previous reports from that quarter have proven either wholly incorrect or exaggerated we must| ple, The people are satisfied that he is an await further and confirmatory news of the | honest President, and that he has done great event before placing full belief in the de- spatches. It is probable that the fighting has been nothing more than severe skirmishes | reducing the national debt. The country, it along the lines, which have resulted favorably for the French and which have been exagge- rated into a great victory. Honesty Were Least - ExXPEOTED.— McCartney, the king of American counter- fuiters, who escaped from the Cincinnati police tion, nevertheless ; but those small crabs, the last week, has been reapprehended in IIli- nois, This time he appears to have fallen into | the democratic party, as it stands, prepared honest hands, He offered his captors sixty | for the Presidential battle. It hag no plat- thousand dollars if they would release him, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NUVEMBER 28, 1870.-TRIPLE SHeér. wp Ss Nae ia fase The Rickety Condition of the Mepublican Party—The Gamo for tho Presidential Sacccasion. % Wiiho birds bogan (9 a, “Wasn't that a dainty dis! tn, FO Ot before the King.” From the results of the late election the rejoicing democracy are beginning to count their chickens of the noxt Presidential hatoh- ing. If they only hold tho States they have carried since 1868 the game is in their hands, And why not? Lepold the rickety condition ofthe republican parly! Mark hew it is out up, distracted and domoralized by side issues, disappointed office-seekers and ambitious leaders bolting from the administration, Sum- ner, the pretentious Sumner, evidently re- gards General Grant a failure of the class of Andy Johnson ; Fenton, it is clear, on account of honest Tom Murphy (Mordecai in the King’s gate), is resolyed upon a great revenge; the poets of the New York Hvening Post have lost all faith in the administration and are hot upon the new party trail of free trade, while Greeley will have nothing short of @ stout protective tariff; Cox, of Ohio, they say, isripe fora revolt; Trumbull, of Illinois, is named as a cheap salt and free wool new party aspir- ant for the succession; Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz in their bolt on universal amnesty and “revenue reform” have revolutionized Mis- souri beyond recovery; blundering radical leaders have thrown away to the Ku Klux Klan North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee; negro suffrage has failed to shake the demo- cracy in Delaware, Maryland or Kentucky ; and lastly, has not Wendell Phillips pronounced the mission of the republican party accom- plished, and the erganization broken up? Have we not here, in all these rebellious elements, the materials for a new party on “revenue reform” which will carry away from General Grant the left wing of his army, and carry in the democratic ticket? Do we not see from the democratic journals that Grant is a failure and a humbug of the first water—a greater failure than Louis Napo- leon—an ignoramus whe hardly knows his right hand from his left; a King Log, with whom the thinking men ef his party have beceme disgusted; a small, peddling poli- tician; or a sort of horse jockey, whose real policy is limited to the manipulation of his gangs of office-holders to secure the next Republican Convention, and to the employment of the United States army to secure his re- election? Are not the democracy satisfied from this, their estimate of General Grant, that his popularity is gone; that he is com- pletely used up; that Vicksburg and Appo- mattox Court House will ne longer serve him, and that, reinforced by tho ‘‘revonue reform” republicans and disappointe1 office-seckers and other deserters from Grant, the demo- cracy, looking at these late elections, will in 1872 walk over the ceurse and leave Grant perfectly free to retire to his tanyard at Galena or his farm in Missouri, or to his Jersey ‘‘ Cottage by the sea?”” Granting all the premises in this budget of republican blunders, we must accept these ccnclusions; but the premises are too sweep- ing. The late elections in reference to 1872 really mean nothing, except that the two parties remain substantially as they were in every State where a square fight has this year been made. Nor have these bolters against General Grant any issue upon which they can fight him under a new party organization. “Revenue reform” is a shallow device, which means in the East a squabble between im- porters of dry goods and hardware and home manofacturers of the same materials. The importers want the duties on imported goods removed or reduced so that they can get them cheaper to sell again, and the home manu- facturers want the existing duties increased or retained in order that they may get good prices for their wares, Out West, where factories of dry goods and hardware are few, and where the consumers embrace nearly the whole population, free trade or the modifi- cation of “revenue reform” means some- thing; but the “reform” which would satisfy the extremists of the West and Southwest, as the programme of either party, would alienate the East from Pennsylvania to Maine, and all the districts embracing the rising manufacturiag establishments of the South from the James river to the Alabama, In truth, however, the attempt to organize an independent ‘revenue reform” party has fuiled with the proclamation of the idea, It has not made even the respectable show of Andy Johnson’s independent Philadelphia Convention conservative party of 1866, The “sevenue reform” journals concerned in the movement have come to a parley en finding that they could not swallow the democratic party, but that the democratic party must swallow them, and so this new party is an abortion, Then with regard to General Grant and his administration. From the universal hue and cry of the democratic organs against him it is manifest that they fully comprehend the fact that while he blocks the way their prospects for 1872 are very slim, Hence the efforts along the whole democratic line to remove Grant or to weaken his position as the republican candidate. It ,is an old trick, but it has never succeeded against a truly popular President, and so it will fail against Grant. From present indications he is sure of the republican nomination by the unani- there is nothing in the political situation to indi- cate that he will be defeated before the peo- things in correcting abuses, in saving money upon reduced taxations, and in the work of is true, expects something more than this, but it will suffice for the present that General Granfs administration stands endorsed by the country in the elections for the next Congress, The republican party is in a rickety condi- fiddlers, will frolic at dead low water. Nor is form, except that of hostility to General Grant character and elements of the coming Presi- | The War Crisis in Europe=A Foaco Congress with a good deal of caution, around Orleans is not very much different from what it was two days ago, ments of the armies preparing for the great battle which must occur in this locality go steadily on, and when the real tug comes it will be found that the French will meet with not only determined opponents, but with foomen who are accus- dome. heavy force, and as this town is also distant from Gien, where the right of the Freach army rests, about twenty-three miles, it will be seen that the German advance is steadily, eompactly and solidly advancing down on the but his bribe was spurned, and he was | and the party in power; no recognized gen- remanded to prison, McCartney has been | eralissimo, no plan of operations beyond that arrested many times before, but always man- | of trusting to luck, and no idea of the Presi- figed to evade punishment. Bis legal experi- | dentlal battle beyond the hope that ‘‘some- ence has proved somewhat expensive, he | thing may turn up” from Tammany Hall—that having paid at different times seventy thou- | there is something in Tammany and in her sand dollars to be freed from the clutches of | active cash capital and political machinery. the law. And here we begin to see something of the dential contest. We see that the great rall- way corporations are a positive itioal power; that the central forces of this powér are in New York, ang that they are in the hands of Tammany Hall, Tho Western Union wate tie Uaaste vor, oc Pa pent penaponins chad | Telegtaph ihonopoly is fast becdming another positive political pit, and jt is folrly within reach of tho samo partly influences a8 our leading railway corporations, These forces, railway and telegraphic, under the manipula- tions of Tammany, may neutralize the national banks and bondholders on the other side, and may otherwise seriously demoralize the finan- lat machinery of the republican party, Wo expect these financial party disturb- ances in the fight of 1872; we look for con- tinued gains to the democracy South from the negro vote, as the laboring blacks are more'and mere drawn over to their common interests with their white employers, the Southern landholders. From the industrial relations between laborer and planter it is probable that by the year 1876 something like the old Southern democratic balance of power will be restored; and it is also proba- ble that by the year 1876, upon the tariff and other questions of revenue and taxation, the democrats will be in a position that will give them valuable gains In tho West. In short, while the prospects for 1872 are still decidedly in favor of General Grant, the prospect for 1876 is as clearly in favor ef the democratic party ond its candidate, Hoffman, Smith, Jones or Brown. In these estimates we ‘have considered only the present political situation and our domestic affairs in reference to the future. But in the iaterval te 1872 seme new issue in our foreign relations may be breught into the fereground, and as General Grant is in the field for another term it is not likely that upon any other issue he will overlook the public sentiment of the country. From some hints thrown eut by General Butler it is possible that Gencral Grant has ‘‘a rod in pickle” for England which, in its application, will revolutionize even the city of New York. If so, we may have some- thing like the unanimous re-election of Monroe in London Spoken of. Europe remaing deoply excited over the Enstern question tn the shape ta which it has beon revived by the issue of the Russian cir- cular and the note to England on the subject offs révision or ine Treaiy Of Paris, Our cable telegrams, dated in the different oapitais yes- terday, report.the diplomacy as tending to war, besides stating again, and still more distinctly, the many governmental exigencies which influ- ence towards the maintenance of peace. England has her peace and war parties in the Cabinet. The existence of this difference of opinion distracts the Ministerial council, ren- ders the national polloy hesitating and in reality prolongs the crisis, Tho idea of a war with Russia is very distasteful in high quarters in Great Britain. Prince Gortchakoff’s mote lies on the council table of the Queen threateningly, Tho Eng- lish resource of a shifting, evasive action is recommended to her Majesty. She is advised in reply to proclaim that Eagland “cannot act decisively in the Russian note, and that an overt act must precede the war situation.” After this sho may wait for ‘something to turn up”—mediation, a conference, a congress, or, it may be, a spontancous action of the great Powers on the Russian demands, General Ignatieff has had an audience with the Sultan, The Turkish ruler looks towards his British ally, and thus cannot reply deci- sively until he hears from London. Prussia and Austria appear to incline towards o peaceful mediation, although we are now told Prince Gertchakoff had informed Bismarck of his intentions in the matter soon after the commencement of the Prussian war against France, and that Bis- marck really gained some excellent military advantages in the concentration of troops against Napoleon, while he held the eyes of the Muscovite turned towards the Black Sea and Constantinople by temporizing. The division which exists in Englund is of serious consequence to the nation, The British nation is ‘‘drifting” towards war, but the course of the current is irregular, if not en- in the re-clection of Grant, and then, in a break-up of the dominant party, we may have a regular scrub race in 1876, like that of 1824, Phe War Situation in France. While there are indications sufficient upon which to base a belief that the two opposing armies in the valley of the Leire havo been engaged, it is impossible from the reports to ascertain either the extent of the struggle or in whose favor the tide of battle is running. It is true the despatches bear a French com- plexion and no announcement is made of a French disaster, but on the contrary, Pala- dines, it is said, was leading his army suc- cessfully, Still, these reports must be taken The situation The move- concentrating and tomed to victory. The position of the French Army of the Loire appears to extend from Gien, on the Loire, to Chateau de Loire, with the centre resting on Vendome, The Ger- mans, in all probability, occupied Chateaudun yesterday. This place is about tweaty-three miles in a northeasterly direction from Ven- At Montargis the Germans are in French lines, The uhlans have also made their appearance in the neighborhood of Le Mans, and this announcement affords addi- tional evidence of the movement southward of the German armies. This is the situatioa of affairs as we regard it to-day. Rald on Car Conductors—Suppression of “Knocking Down. A thorough investigation instituted by Mr. Robert Murray, formerly a United States Mar- shal and now President of the Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, resulted on Satur- day in the arrest and imprisonment of a number of car conductors charged with embez- zlement of portions of the car fares collected by them. It is said that the detectives who for several days had been secretly watching them and other conductors, who for some reason have not yet been arrested, have definitely ascertained that nearly seven hundred dollars was each day withheld from the coffers of the company and pocketed by its employs, Itis high time that this ‘‘knocking down,” as it is technically called, should be summarily sup- pressed, At the same time it must be remem- bered that the employ¢s on the city railroads are proverbially ill-paid. Their compensation is so inadequate as to excite a suspicion that in fixing it the railroad companies must caleu- late upon the opportunities and temptations of the conductors to make up the deficiency by “dnockinog down.” This is a wretchedly mean and foolish expedient on the part of the rail- read companies. It would be far wiser and better to pay the men liberally for the discharge of their trying and laborious duties. Tho honost way of doing anything is always the best way. Bota THE GERMAN AND THE FreNon ArMrEs near the Loire river seem to be afraid of each other, and, as a consequence, are indulging in movements and counter-movements, with a view to taking each other at a disadvantage. The spectacle of two armies engaged in these field manceavres carries one back to the Penia- sular campaign between the Duke of Welling- ton—then Sir Arthur Wellesley—and the French generals, However, all military strategy must have an end; 80 a battle must bo fought within a few days or one of the armies must fall back, Tor War Aarration IN Evropr affords us an opportunity to present to our readers a special exhibit of the vast naval power and resources of Great Britain. Her Majesty the Queen is recruiting the navy actively. It may be very useful for the American people even to keopaclose eye on the progress of the work, as well as to the ultimate dostina- tion of the force, tiroly undefined. The very latest news states that Bismarck has advised a peaceful solu- tion of the question. We sre assured, indeed, that the difficulty will be arranged— arranged by a European congress to be held in London—an event which is very probable and which we have already foreshadowed to some extent in the pages of the HERALp. Great Nailway Enterprise in Bolivia. In the November number of the London Fortnightly Review there is an ablo and instructive article on ‘Bolivia and Brazil in the Amazon Valley,” from the pen of George E. Church, Oolonel Church, who is the concessionaire of the pro- posed Madeira and Mamoré Railroad, has been for some months in London pushing, we are glad to learn, with great success, his im- mense undertaking. To the readers of the Heratp Mr. Church’s facts and figures have not the attraction of novelty; but the article in the Fortnightly Review, crammed full as it is of most valuable information regarding Bolivia and the valley of the Amazon, cannot fail to direct the attention of capitalists to the rich highlands of Bolivia and Maito-Grosso. These territories Mr, Church not inaptly de- scribes as ‘‘a casket of riches walled in from the Pacific, and having its natural outlets in part by the Plata, but mostly by the Amazon,” From a variety of causes whioh are sufficiently explained this wealthy region, abounding in all manner of natural products, has hitherte been but little utilized, Up until 1868 Bolivia was effectually shut out from the valley of the Amazon in consequence of the unsettled condition of the boundary lines between her and Brazil. In that year, however, the two governments signed a treaty of “Friendship Limits and Navigation,” and thus was removed the great stumbling block to the progress of four hundred thousand square miles of country, beautiful and rich almost beyond comparison, One serious diffi culty, however, still remains; and it ts this difficulty which the “Madoira and Mamoré Railway” is intended to remeve. Mr. Church explains this obstacle with great clearness. He says :—‘‘Taere is but one obstacle between the Atlantic Ocean and the heart of Bolivia, via the Amazon river; this is the line of rapids of the Madeira, at the northeast angle of Bolivia, They are rocky obstructions, found at intervals in the river, and are eighteen in pumber. They have a total fall of two hun- dred and twenty-eight feet, with a length of broken water of sixty-four- thousand five hundred and five feet. Tho total fall, in the navigable stretches between them, is forty- three feet. This makes a total, from the upper rapid of Guajari-morim to the lower, called San Antonio, of two hundred and seventy-two feet. The total length of river between these two points is two hundred and twenty-nine miles, of which two hundred and saventeen miles are of clear channel, perfectly naviga- ble, with a depth of water from ten to one hundred and twenty feet in the dry season.” Immediately after the boundary question was settled both Bolivia and Brazil began to consider how the difficulty presented by the rapids could be overcome, Two distinguished Prussian engineers wore appointed to examine the ground and to report to the government at Rio, The result of their exploration was in favor of a line of railway, which, avoiding the rapids altogether, should ‘‘connect the upper navigable waters of the Madeira with the Mamoré andthe three thousand miles of Bolivian rivera.” Of all possible solutions this seems the aimplest and the most satisfactory. A concession for the con- struction of this railroad has, by the two governments conjointly, been given to Colonel Church. The whole length of the railroad will be one hundred and sixty-eight miles. It is not expected that in the work itself any very great difficulty will be experi- enced. Labor is abundant and choap; the gradients are easy; there are “no rivers to cross, no swampy rround and very little exca- vation and embankment,” The cost is esti- mated at £625,539. The merits of this undertaking from a‘ com- mercial point of view are 60 obvious that capi- tal must be easily found. From the case which Mr. Church makes out he does not seom to exaggerate when he says that on a capital of £750,000 the result to the shareholders wiil be rather over than under fourteen ver cent el eel per annum. That he does not overstate the case is apparent from what has actually bap- pened in the lower portion ef the Amazen valley, These are the facts:—‘In 1853 the first steamers of the Navigation and Commoer- cial Company of the Amazons commenced run- ning. The imports and exports of the Amazon vais: 1852, 2,069,681 milreis, or, at ten milreis to the pound, £103,920, For 1869 it is necessary to make some deduction for the reduced valuy ef the milrei on account of the Paraguayan war. Tho approximative trade for that financial year was £1,750,000, This represented the commerce of 500,000 people at the most, and gave £3 10s. per head. They occupy a territory not for a moment to be compared in climate, agricul- tural and mineral wealth to Bolivia and Matto- Grosso, and therefore should not be expected to compare in trade with these countries when they are afforded an outlet by the projected railway.” If further proof were needed to strengthen the argument in favor of the scheme before us it might be found in the fact that besides this scheme there aro two others which have for their object the utilizing of the wealth of Bolivix, The Argentine republic has pushed & railroad forward to Cordoba, about two hundred and fifty miles distant from the port of Rosario, on the Parana river; and the pre- sumption is that it will yet be extended to the northeast and around the spurs ef the Andes to the Bolivian province of Tarija. A similar effort is being made by Peru. A railway is actually under construction from the Pacific to Lake Titicaca. This road, which is to scale a pass of the Andes fourteen thousand six hundred faet above the level of the sea, will cost when comploted not lesa than ten million pounds sterling, “ Of these under- takings Colonel Church says:—“They are bold end full of merit. The country is so rich that they will all reap large returns; but it is by way of the Amazon river that Bolivia looks for her greatest development, and it will be in connection with the Amazon valley of Brazil that she will receive it,” = raen far woe oe The Cabinet Crisis in Euginnd. Up to the time we write the Cabinet crisis continues, The Russian note is firm and decided. It does not appear that Gortchakoff has receded in any particalar from the ground he first took, He repeats his demands for a modification of the Treaty of Paris, and reiterates his charges of violation of the treaty by other European Powers. A congress is no longer spoken of. The burden of resistance clearly falls upon Great Britain. Italy seems indifferent. Austria is irritated, but it is not by any means certain that she is willing to fight. Not since the Crimean war has the British government been in such a fix, The altitude assumed by Russia is no doubt offen- sive to Great Britain. But to prevent the modification of the Treaty of Paris it would be simply absurd to go to war. The Quees, as wo have seen, is decided against war. Some of the best men ip the Cabinet and in the coun- try have openly expressed themselves as opposed to war on the question now at issue. It is 9 divided Cabinet, and, from all we know. as yet, it seems a divided country. Much will dopend on the course which Mr. Gladstone may take, It is hard for a Prime Minister to differ from his‘sovereign, but it is also a dan- gerous thing for a constitutional monarch to interfere directly with affairs of State. Mr. Gladstone is a lover of peace, but his career has given abundant proof that he is not lacking in moral courage. If the Cabinet cannot agree it will be necessary to convene both houses of Parliament and take the vote of the nation. If Mr. Gladstone takes a course opposed to the houses it will be bis privilege to call upon her Majesty to disselve Parliament and order a general election, For the present all is dark and doubtful. A war between Russia and Great Britain is not to be desired in the interesta of humanity. It is more than possi- ble, we think, that peace counsels will prevail. A few hours more and we shall in all likeli- hood be better able to pierce the gloom, Tho Two Great Fairs. The success of the two great fairs—the Fair for the Fouadlings and the Fair for the French Sufferers by the War—is all the more wonder- ful from the fact that both have been held at the same time and while an unusually attrac- tive variety of public amusements has been exhibited, The Foundling Fair closed Satur- day night, after having realized a profit of sixty thousand dollars, It cannot take long to make up by private subscription or in some other effective way the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which will at once insure the conditionally promised State donation of one hundred thousand dollars more, Several parishes were not only represented by richly- laden tables at the Foundling Fair, but they also held simultaneously elsewhere parochial fairs for local and miscellaneous charities, The unabated enthusiasm which prevails among all classes in behalf of the French Fair promises a financial success that shall rival that of the recent German Fair, The most cynical must be warmed into surprise, if not sympathy, by such undeniable proofs as are afferded by these fairs that, if New York is eager in the pursuit of wealth and fond of pleasure and luxury, it is equally generous in its gifts. New York has a large, true heart of charity, Moreover, the fairs muat be counted among the best and most satisfactory enter- tainments of the season. Young people meet at them under the most favorable circum- stances for revealing to each other their finest qualities, Ladies find here an agreeable in- terruption to the’ usual monotony of their lives, and learn that doing good is at once a pleasant pastime and a laudable employment. Young men, with plenty of money in their pocketbooks, had infinitely better spend it and a delightful evening at a fair than at any of the thousand-and-one demoralizing resorts which are open for the unwary in a great metropolis, Amizns Promises To Orrer a stout resist- ance to the Germans, Already there has been serious fighting at Boves, near the city, result- ing, as a French report states, in the defeat of the Germans, Operations in that quarter, however, can have no effect upon the general result, unless the French can organize a sufi- ciently large force in the north of France to threaten the German investing army around Parls on the one sido while De Raladines’ forces threaten it on the other Church Sermons Yesterday. he rebuke administered to the clergymen last weds on thelr lack of originality seems to have had sonie Lifect, for the sermons yester- day were noticeabiy petter than those of the preceding Sunday, althoug, ‘vo ‘ still Foot Tor Improvemer Ke Be Patrick's Cathedral Archbisho; oh the Roman P McCloskey preached on estion, taking the same ground that Archbishop Spalding took in his esa at Baltimore, In concluding he said:—“‘You know that the archbishops and bishops of the province of Now Yerk have already protested against these iniquities. Itis right that the clergy and laity should do the same, and the opportunity to do go will be given.” This, wo sappose, is a promise of a big Catholic meet- ing in Union square. We were about to sug- gest the Cooper Institute hall, but it is hardly large enough to hold three or four hundred thousand Catholics, in Rev, Merrill Richardson, the newly installed pastor of the New England Congregational church, discoursed on the dutiful son as epposed to the prodigal, showing, of course, how much better it is to be always dutiful than to be compelled to reform. Rev. Mr. McVicker. urged his congregation to pass the season of Advent in penitence and prepara- tion, The observance of this season was also made the subject of an interesting sermon at St. Peter's church, and also at St. Paul’s, St. Stephen’s, St. Francis Xavier's and the other Catholic places of worship. At the first Bap- tist church prayers and financial matters wero happily mingled, whereby eleven thou- sand dollars were obtained from the con- gregation in thirty minutes. This demon- strates both the wealth and piety of the attendants at this church. They may rest assured that every greenback they invested will be repaid, with heavy interest, in the world te come. Whilo this congregation was thus acting Rev. Dr. Thompson, at the Taber- nacle church, was administering a sharp rebuke to those who do not aid Christianity with cash. The pulpit of the Church of the Messiah was occupied by Dr. Warren Cud- worth, whe delivered a sermon on ‘‘Ripe Fruit,” in which he declared that man was only half ripe at the present time, and pre- dicted the universal republio when he fully ripened, Rey. Charles B, Smyth discoursed on the revelation, and Rev. J. E. Cookman flavored his sermon with the salt of divine grace. At the Berean Baptist church Rev. Mr. Davis declared that the story of the swal- lowing of Jonah by a whale was no myth, which, considering that it is recorded in the Bible, we should say not. Christ church was, as usual, filled by a fashionable and elegantly dressed congregation, which prayed in a graceful and highly respectful manner, even to condescending to kneel. * Rev. Mr, Ewer preached on various subjects, including the question of the presence of God in the European war and the present position of the Pope, whom he sharply criticised. In Brooklyn Brother Beecher’s subject wa3 “Spiritual Dynamics,” in which he ascended to the higher regions (metaphorically) and descended again to earth by turns. At St. John’s an interesting sermen was delivered on the beginning of the year, while at St. James’ (Roman Catholic), Lafayette avenue (Presby- terian) and Church of the Visitation (Catholic) there were interesting discourses. In Wash- ington and Jersey City the attendance waa good and the sermons of the usual quality. Tho Political Power of Great Corpora. tions. The popular expressions of ‘‘Cotton is King,” “Corn is King” and other kindred remarks, carry, as do most of such sayings, a great deal of truth with them. In the old ante bellum days cotton was king of this republic. The South, through the Senate, ruled the country, and by threats of disunion and all kinds of blustering forced the majority in the North to submit to anything they chose todo, But why go over the long, dreary story? It is familiar to every one, and the country has not yet recovered from the effects of the terrible struggle which resulted in the overthrow of the once all- powerful combination of cotton growers, Another ruler is, however, advancing towards the vacant throne with giant strides, and his rule will not control a section of the country merely, but aspires to absolute rule of the whole. We allude to the alarming and grow- ing power of great corporations in both State and national legislation. The bitter controver- sies which occupied the attention of Congress during its last session, the many heated de- bates over the tariff question, were sub- jects debated by tho representatives of large corporations representing the class of producers on the one hand, and by members who were enlisted on the popular side, or that of the consuming class, on the other. The power of the organized combinations, wielding their capital, a most efficient weapon, with experienced efforts, was shown by the laws they succeeded in passing—laws which in many instances bore on their very face the evidence that they were only intended for the benefit of a clique and not of the community, and which were from this vory fact a violation of the fundamental laws which underlio the whole science and scope of legislation; which from this fact were opposed to the genius of our institutions, which were violations of our great principles of individual freedom, and of our doctrine of the rule of majorities. Communities in all ages and in all con- ditions of society have been governed by what are now called ‘‘rings’—that is, combinations of a few to rule the many and benefit themselves at the expense of the rest. And this country, with all its boasted freedom, forms no exception to the rule, for the same laws which in other ages resulted in such associations are now as potent as ever, and work with the same unerring and invariable results, Their power, whether for evil or for good, has not been heretofore as apparent in this country as in others, owing, no doubt, to its immense extent, its enormous resources, and to the liberty of speech enjoyed both by individuals and by the press, This same liberty, this same fertility and wealth have, however, resulted in the growth and establishment of immensely wealthy and correspondingly pow- erful corporations; and the whole policy of modern finance, which is nowadays the lever which Archimedes sighed for, tends to a cen- tralization of these bodies and to a further develooment of their nower and influence. Let