The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1871, Page 4

ry | 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, aa Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ROOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st., between Sih and 6th ave.— S10aRurey. ¥o! NTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— xine beak NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—TuB SPROTACLE OF TUE BLACK CxrooKk, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 18th street Home—Bicr Device. Broadway.—HUNTED AkY Liou. LINA EDWIN'’s THEATH Down; Ox, THE Two Liver @RAN Grayp OPERA HOUSE, corner of 6b av, ana %éd at— PRRATIO CARNIVAL: OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tat Pan TOMIME oF RICBELIEV OF THE PERIOD. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery Pour; oR, Way Down SouTH—MAN anv TigrR. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Banatooa. GLOBE THEATRE, 78 Broadway.—VaRteTy ENTER- TAUNMENT, &0.-GREEN BANNER, 3 NEW YORK STADT TH: EATRE, 45 Bowery.—ADRIENNE LEoouvarun. ACADEMY OF MUSI VaTORR. Fourteenth street.—In Tro- WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner Sch at.-—Performs ances every afternoon and evening. 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Pace, Advertisements, Advertisements. 3—Proceedings in the Courts—Voice of the People— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “The French Eleotions—The New National Assembly—The Republic Voted Out?—What Then r?’—Amuse- ment Announcements, 5—Editorials (Vontinued from Fourth Page)—The Situation in France—The Elections to the National Assembly—Proclamation of Napo- leon—The Pope and the Peoples—ltaly and the Pope—kevolutionism in Nice—Italy and Alrica—England’s r—Spanish lec- tions—The Roumanian Question—The Joint High Commission—Muscellaneous Tel Views of the Past—Business Notices. G—Washington Society: Brilliant Reception at Secretary and Mrs, Fish’s—Tne erkranZ Ball—What Queens County Sends te the New York Markets—A a Female—Music and the Drama—Masical Review—Art Notes—The Tnree Executions in Maryland Last Weck— Shooting Affray at Morley, Mo.—Asa Kittle, the Blind Murderer—The Oldest Horn—The Albany Express Messenger, 4— Advertisements. S—The Paris Riots—Before the Affistice—Inci- dents of the War in France—The Snow Storm—Fenian Affairs—Constitutional Equal- ity—Newark . Rowdies Routed—Religious: —— and Services in the Metropolis and where. (Continued from _ Eighth Page) oe oa Commercial net in ee Goods Market—Real Estate Matters—General News Items. 10—News from Washington—The Black Record of the Ship Neptune—The Missing Steamer Ten- nessee—Fires im the City—Domesiic Tele- grams—Shipping Intelligence — Advertise- ments, Tae Jorsr Hien Commission.—Some of the English journals hope for the most excel- lent and beneficial results, both to England and America, from the labors of the members of the joint High International Commission. The “‘political atmosphere is to be made clear.” That will be healthful and pleasant even of itself, not to speak of any other good. It is rumored in Washington that Sir John Rose being unable to serve on the commisgion his place will be filled by the appointment of his Grace the Duke of Argyll er the Duke of Devonshire. GENERAL SioKLEs AND CoBA.—It is offi- cially stated in Washington that Minister Sickles is carrying on negotiations with the Spanish Court relative to claims for damages to American citizens arising out of the revolu- tion in Cuba. It is very satisfactory to see that these matters are opened at this particular time of a general balancing of our outstanding claims; and it is a suggestive fact in this con- nection that Secretary Fish insists that any convention for an adjustment must be held in Washington. Sones A New Aarration iy Fraxoz.—The peo- ple of Nice are in tumultuous agitation for a repeal of the union with France. They wish to obliterate the consequences of Napoleon’s work after the Italian war. The Nizzards want to return tg their first allegiance to Italy. They have had & city meeting for the attain- ment ef this object. French troops were called out and dispersed them at the point of the bayonet. A very cogent argument, indeed, but in glaring contradiction to the French democratic principle of the right of popular self-government as ithas been expressed by the men who now attempt to rule the republic. Tae Nationa, Executive Committee of the Union League are to meet in Philadelphia next week, and the members imagine among themselves that there are great evils for them to remedy in the social and political atmos- phere ofthe Sonth. Among other things they think thet general amnesty must not be thought of forthe present. There is too much hard feeling toward Union men in the South- ern States, and the prospect of democratic suc- coss is too imminent. It is now nearly six years since the close of the rebellion, aud we would like to propound this question to the learned statesmen of the Union League :—if such is the state of affairs in the reconstructed South as you represent it to be, after five years of military and political and social reconstruc- tion under the leaders of your own League itself, does such reconstruction serve its pur- pose, and is it best to continue it? And another :—Is it likely that the rebel soreheads who rule the majorities in the rebel States would have had any majorities at all to back them by this time if a full and generous pmnesty had been extended to the Southern oonle Give veara aro? NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 187.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Fresch Rilections—The New National Assembly—The Republic Voied Our— What Theat Upon her new National Assembly just elected hangs the destiny of France—king, emperer or president—kingdom, empire or republic. The armistice agreed upon at Ver- sailles between Count Bismarck and Jules Favre, and which expires on the 19th instant (Sunday next) at noon, had for its object a treaty of peace through an authorized repre- sentation of the French people. No other ob- ject is mamed in the armistice. The present Government of the National Defence, though recognized by Bismarck as de facto the gov- ernment of France, has been and is regarded by him as a spurious usurpation, a self-consti- tuted body, the mere accident of a chapter of accidents, utterly {ncompetent to enter into any binding engagement beyond the necessi- ties of a state of war. When it is considered, too, that this election of a National Assembly was proposed by Count Bismarck as the condi- tion of an armistice early in the siege of Paris, and that Favre and his colleagues refused to accept it, and that it was at length extorted from the Parisian branch of this provisional government as one of the necessities of a starving population, it becomes evident that Favre, Gambetta and company have been convinced from the beginning that their gov- eroment does not represent the will of the French people and could not survive a pit. biscite, The Jacobia Gambetta and his Jacobia col- leagues in the national defence doubtless overruled Favre and Trochu upon the first proposition of Bismarck for a National Assem- bly; but, in the secend case, without con- sulting Gambetta, there was no alternative to Favre but to assume the responsibility, We have seen, in the next place, the unscrupu- lous character of this desperate demagogue, Gambetta, in bis proclamation from Bordeaux, excluding from these Assembly elections the Bourbons and the Bonapartists, and in the face of the armistice providing for “‘a free election.” A hint from Bismarck, how- ever, that there must be ‘‘a free election,” or that he weuld recall the imperial Corps Légis- latif dispersed in September last, promptly brought about from the National Defence at Paris and Bordeaux the suppression of this outrageous decree of this aforesaid desperate demagogue. This checked the adventurer whose foolish course since his flight from Paris in a balloon has made only a bloody mockery of this crude experimental French government of the people, and ina ‘‘free elec- tion” France, it appears, has voted the déchéance of this fantastical republic. From the reports so far received it appears that in the cities—especially those in the south, such as Bordeaux, Marseilles and Lyons, which have escaped a scorching from this war—the republiean “reds” have been successful, while the suffrages of the provinces, or ‘rural districts,” have been divided between the Orleanists, the moderate republicans and the imperialists in the order named. The loose materials of the great cities, which have nothing tolose and much to gain from a republic of the communist order, calling for a new division of all the lands and property in France among all the people, have gone for the Gambetta republi- cans. On the other hand the property helders, including the peasantry on their small estates, prefer things as they are to any change which threatens to dispossess them. And, again, the Catholic clergy of France seein Gambetta, Garibaldi and Company only the enemies of their Church, aiming at its destruction, and so the influence of the Church has been wielded against the republic. We infer from the general results reported that the Orleanists, headed by M. Thiera, who will represent four constituencies, will be the strongest party in the Assembly; that next will come the con- servative republicans, next the imperialists and lasily ‘‘the reds.” The chances thus appear to be in favor of the Count de Paris, the same who, in 1848, when a little boy, was proposed te the National Assembly as a eom- promise, with the flight of his grandfather, Louis Philippe. The boy was brought in as the last chance for the monarchy, but he came “too late.” On the other hand, the disas- trous blunders and alleged imperialist treach- eries of the war seem to have operated in these elections against the Bonapartes; but still, as the half-way house between the Bour- bons and “‘the reds,” this new Assembly may come to a compromise on the empire, The object, however, named in this fast ex- piring armistice, as the only object of the election of this National Assembly, is a respon- sible national body with which Germany can treat for peace. Count Bismarck expects a definite issue from this Assembly, peace or war, by Sunday next at noon, and he is ready for either alternative. If the French ask for a brief extension of the armistice, in view of a treaty of peace, it will, we suppose, be granted, We expect that the Assembly, within a day or two, will meet at Bordeaux, and that, as in conjunction with the present Government of National Defence, it will at once proceed to consider the terms of peace offered by the German Emperor. The issues involved are tremendous; but the mecessity for action is urgent, and 80 these great questions, which, under other circumstances, might occupy a twelvemonth of discussion, may be settled in a single day, after the usual fashion of treaties as between a victorious army and a badly de- feated army still standing face to face. But should a little more time be asked it will no doubt be granted; and inasmuch as the object of this Assembly—named beforehand to the French, and with some general understanding of Germany’s ultimatum—is a treaty of peace, we expect from this convention a definite ending of the war. M. Thiers, we dare say, will be appointed in behalf of the Assembly as the head of the committee to confer with Count Bismarck, and the report of this committee will be rati- fied by the Assembly. M. Thiers will under- stand the exigencies of the case, and will make peace on the best terms he can com- mand. He will know that Bismarck has the game in his hands, and that the turn has come to France to be cropped and shaved by a foreign barber. That she will be shorn of the province of Alsace, with its million and more of inhabitants, who, though French in their sympathies, * still mostly retain their old Ger- man speech, is morally certain; that she will have to consent to the demolition or to 9 Gor. man eccupation, for a time, of Metz and other strong places thereabouts, as “‘material guar- antees” for the payment of a heavy indemnity, we have been repeatedly told; and also that some of the best iron-clad ships of her navy will have to be surrendered to Germany. That the Germans will be somewhat exacting is certain, with their recollections of their re- peated humiliations and spoliations from the first Napoleon, and not forgetting ‘‘the reotifi- cation of our Rhine frontier,” intended in this war by Napoleon the Third, But there is no visible alternative to France but the choice between losing 4 little, comparatively, as the price of peace and hazarding even her exist- ence as a nation from the resumption of the war. Assuming, then, that this National Assembly will restore peace on the general terms indi- cated, will it next proceed to the restoration of the Bourbons or the Bonapartes, for appa- rently Gambétta and Garibaldi have spoiled the case of the republic? But this Assembly, elected for the le object of peace, may adjourn after this object is accomplished and after providing for a new election for the reorganization of the government with the removal of the German armies, In the event of the adoption of this course the return home of the three hun- dred and fifty thousand French imperial sol- diers now held as prisoners of war in Ger- many may turn the scale. It is possible, too, that the conditions imposed by Germany in reference to the return of these prisoners may enable them by a coup d'état to restore the empire. All that we know is that this National Assembly has been exacted by the Germans as a responsible national body with which to treat for peace ; and all that we are reasonably sure of is that peace will be made, and that, after securing her conditions of peace from this Assembly, Germany will retire from France, After this a new French government may be quietly established or chaos may come again, Which is it to be, order or chaos, who can tell? Napoleon’s Proclamation, Napoled#, from his luxorious captivity at Wilhelmshéhe, has declared to the world that, “betrayed by fortune,” he has kept ‘“‘a pro- feund silence, which is misfortune’s mourning.” To say the least of it he places his situation and accounts for his silence in a most delicate and touching manner. The time has come, how- ever, when he declares he will no longer remain silent before his country’s disasters. If we may anticipate his future productions by the proclamation now before us Napoleon will neither add to his friends nor strike terror to his enemies by the publication of such papers. How the empire was overthrown and how the “unauthorized government” that succeeded it was established is a piece of intelligence neither new nor interesting; and though the captive Emperor may console himself with the patriotic reflection that his dynasty was a secondary consideration altogether when his country was in distress, still we cannot lose sight of the fact that when he became a captive after Sedan the power which, for long years, he exercised over the destinies of France disap- peared like a vision, Of what avail, then, would have been the voice of Napoleon? To whom could he appeal? The armies he had cemmanded were prisoners, and the tcontinued defeats which the French forces sustained previous to the final disaster at Sedan had undermined the little popularity which the French people en- tertained for their emperor. Napoleon could not have accomplished anything by pursuing a different course to what he did. He reposed in silence in the shadow of the disasters which he himself brought on the country, becauée'he knew he could do nothing else. This is the plain English of his situation. “France should be united to her wishes,” says the captive. Does his Majesty mean to hint by this that the French people wish him to resume the imperial purple and again wield the sceptre of an empire? Though Napoleon “has no room for personal ambition” it is probable that he still clings to the idea of re- turning to Paris and again resuming the power which was wrested from him by the prowess of German arms. The Sermons Yesterday. Another severe snow storm tested the Chris- tian virtues of city devetees yesterday, and many of them tripped in the faith. It was very unpleasant weather, thought many ef the weaker followers, to go to hear the sermons which probably you heard last Sunday, and, besides, we can read them all in the Heratp to-morrow. But these parleying Christians must remember that it is not the mission of the Hzrarp in these reports to support them in their wavering and straying away from Jesus, but to bind them faster in the faith and to spread the goed seeds over a greater field than the pent-up pulpits can possibly reach. They missed many excellent sermons fresh from the fountainbead yesterday by their lack of zeal. Dr. Armitage, at bis church on Weat Forty- sixth street, near Fifth avenue, preached on the crucifixion, and commended the last dying scene on the cross to his hearers as an instance of Christian resignation. All the combined ills of human flesh and the moral heroism of Earth can never contrive to furnish a case at all approaching its sublimity. Bishop Niles, of New Hampshire, delivered an excellent ser- mon on the text, ‘Let your light shine before men,” at the Church of the Heavenly Rest. Dr. Buckley preached upon the aubject of the Christian’s hope at the St. Paul’s Reman Catholie chwch. Bishop Bayley, of St. Mary's church, Hoboken, gave an interesting sketch of the past and present Rome, and its probable future under the ‘‘debasing” influ- ence and control of the Italian government. In Washington Dr. Newman gave a very interesting discourse en the subject of official honesty, in which he seathed legis- lators and public officials of all grades for the prevalence of lobbying and bribery, and rowed political trickstere generally up Salt river, These are a few of the sermons which we pre- sent in our columns to-day, They are the gist of the words ef wisdom which fell from the mouths of God's ordained teachers yesterday, but they are not the only sermons which the Herat preaches this morning, Study the looal columns, search the living pictures of everyday life that are to be found renewed every morning in onr pages, and the preacher and the student will find there texts even for suoh grand discourses 48 Christ preached from she Moun, The London Weekly Roviews on Angloe American Difficulties. The London weekly reviews of January 28, just received, have each editorial articles on Anglo-American difficulties. Of course the articles were all written before the appoint- ment of the joint High Commission, and evi- dently in ignorance of the intentions of the government, These journals, including the Saturday Review, the Spectator, the Hcono- mist, the Zxaminer, the Pall Mall Budget— which last is a republication of the better class of articles inthe Pall Ma Gasette—are in some respects a more reliable Index of the sentiments of the thinking and reflecting por- tion of the British public than the Timea, the Telegraph, the Standard or the Daily News. What they say about our international difficul- ties ought not to be uninteresting to us. The Heonomist and the Zxaminer direct at- tention particularly to4he Fish-Motley correg- pondence. The judgments pronounced by both journals on the correspondence {s not flatter- ing either to Mr. Fish or to Mr. Motley, The Pall Mali Budget, the Saturday Review and the Examiner treat specially of the fisherles, incidentally only touching on the Alabama af- fair. In the Pal Mall Budget and in the Saturday Review a history is given of the fishery question, from the treaty of 1788 down to the present time. From the British standpoint the case is admirably made out. Both journals quote from the Convention of 1818, which is still im force, the following clause :—‘‘The United States hereby renounce forever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabi- tants thereof to take, dry or cure fish on or withia three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks or harbors of his Britannic Majesty’s dominions in Amerioa not included within the above mentioned limits; provided, however, that the American fishermen shall be permitted to enter such bays or harbors for the purpose of shelter and of repairing dam- ages therein, of purchasing wood and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such re- strictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby conceded to them,” The Budget feels emboldened to declare this to be “so clear that it would drive any- body who had not General Butler's tempera- ment to despair.” The Review puts it not leas strongly when it says :—‘“‘It is for the purpose of asserting the claim which his predecessors had formally ‘renounced forever,’ that General Grant accuses the government of the Dominion of unfriendly conduct, and proposes a direct violation of treaties to exclude Canadian ves- sels from the waters of the United States.” The Review concludes by asserting that ‘” series of speeches like those of General Butler, and of State papers after the model of General Grant's Message, might create a permanent estrangement between Canada and the United States.” ‘If American diplomatists,” says the Budget, in a milder strain, ‘begin a nego- tiation about the fisheries, with an admission that the Canadians are only doing what they have a right to do, we may hereafter state the- reasons which lead us to think that some con- cessions may be made.” Of all the journals the Hzaminer takes the most sensible view of the general situation. It admits that the Canadians have an excla- sive right to the fisheries within three miles of their coast and that American vessels found fishing in Canadian waters are liable to for- feiture. But it very justly says :—‘‘The Cana- dian anthorities claim to proceed upon the Convention of 1818, which is the only treaty governing the rights of the parties; but their interpretation is repudiated by the American government, and is, moreover, unsupported by the custom of half a century. If they are right in contending for the power to prohibit the entry of American vessels it is the first time the claim has been advanced, although the treaty has been in existence since 1818, Even supposing that the Canadians have in certain events a right to exclude American fishermen, the exercise of that right may be an unfriendly act, and may lead to retaliatory measures. The French had am undoubted right to expel all Germans from France ; but such a step, justifiable as a means of defence against the wide organization of German spies, df taken in time of peace would have been an outrage. There is also an ugly inconsistency between the policy of exclusion carried out in Canada and our Eastern policy. We went to war with China to compel the admission of English goods, and especially of a certain drug from which the Indian government draws agreatrevenue. We compelled the Japanese to open their ports by a display of naval supe- rierity; and we can hardly refuse to the United States privileges that we have extorted in the East by ‘blood and iron.’” The Zxaminer admits the justice ef Presi- dent Grant's complaint that American vessels are examined before local Canadian courts, where anti-American feeling runs bigh, and advocates the establishment of an international prize court, composed of representatives of different countries, and which might be held alternately in London and Washingten. Such acourt, the Hvaminer thinks, would go far to assure permanent peace between the two branches of the English-speaking people. As we said before, all this was written be- fore the appointment of the joint High Com- mission, and in ignorance, in all probability, of the intentions of the British goverament. Now that the Commission is so soon:to meet, and that all outstanding questions between the two peoples are to be submitted to its con- sideration, the speculations of the reviewers are of theless value. In seouriag the appointment of this Commission General Grant has won a great victory; and if the Commission is suc- cessful, as we have no doubt it will be, in re- moving all differences and causes of irritation as between the United States and Great Britain and the United States and the New Dominion, General Grant will have entitled himself once mere to an expression of gratitude from the American people—an expression of gratitude which we may rest assured will not be grudg- ingly given in 1872, Tux WeaTHER SiqnaL SeRvicg.—The War Department has decided to furnish forecasts of the weather hereafter on the basis of the three daily reports which are now received from all the telegraph stations in the country. It will certainly invest the dry details of the reports with aroater intoreat to all the people, aa well 48 our merchants and seamen, to have some official indication of what the weather will be for the next twenty-four hours, England Preparing for Detence Against Invasion. A cable telegram, dated in Loudon yester- day, which appears in our columns to-day, comes in prompt confirmation of the HzraLp special exhibit of the military situation of Great Britain which appeared in our pages the same day on which Queen Victoria opened Par- liament. The Brftish government acknowledges officially that the country is preparing for war— that the island is in danger of invasion. The Ministers of the Crown estimate the cost of the army for the year at sixteen millions of pounds sterling. The country around the city of London isto be surveyed for the purpose of a topographical selection for the best defensive positions lying between the metropo- lis and the seacoast, New fortifications are to be built at Dover and Harwich and on the Island of Malta, All this involves Most costly propositions, and that, too, at a moment when John Bull is complaining loudly of his taxation and endeavoring lustily to save something for ‘‘a rainy day.” On what side Mes the danger? From French republicanism, or the consolidated imperialism of offended Germany? Is the alarm produced by ex- terlor or nterior symptoms? Has British democracy received an impulse which moves the people from St. Giles tothe garrets and cellars of Manchester and Birmingham? The Question of Religion Approaching to a Serious Issue. A special Heratp telegraph leiter from Florence, which we received yesterday through the cable and publish to-day, reports the exciting and rather alarming fact that the question of religion in Europe is likely to be brought to a point of issue, and this by means of a system of arbitrament which may perhaps involve all Christendom in agita- tion and turmoil before its termination. We are told that a Roman Catholic league has been formed in Belgium havipg for its object an armed interference in behalf of the Papal temporalities and for the vindication of the sovereign lay authority of the Pope. It is asserted that the promovants of this asso- ciation, or organization, have already extended its ramifications into Austria, Spain, and some of the provinces of France, and that its operations are directed by a secret conclave, which is assembled on an island in the Mediterranean. The movement is absolutely against the sov- ereignty of King Victor Emmanuel. His Majesty is, consequently, on the alert, and, as is stated in the telegram, his government is already informed very extensively as to the intent and means of the conspiracy. Busy rumor may, possibly, in this instance be mistaken, It may be that the very active political intrigues which are being carried on by the Bonapartists in the neutral centre of Belgium, and which have become still more lively as the day of the complete assembly of the French Parliament approaches, have been mistaken by the outside world for a Catholic Church movement. Bonaparte may have, ashe has personally in former years, sought the sanc- tuary of the altar; or, in other words, endeav- ored to cloak his cause under the garb of the vestments of the clerics. This would be cer- tainly a very unworthy act; but a desperate case, as we are told by the physicians, needs desperate remedies. Should the case prove to be exactly as stated, however, the results will be most se- rious to the entire social system of the world asat present constituted. It will bring the question of religion to the homes and firesides of the peoples for discussion. It will un- sheath the sword of St. Peter, leaving out of sight and out of ‘mind the healing influences which were exerted by the Great High Priest to heal the wound which the. weapon of his overzealous Apostle had inflicted. For the words of the Sermon on the Mount will be sub- stituted the orders, “draw swords” and ‘fix bayonets” of modern war. The worst pas- sions of humanity may triumph for a time aver the scriptural beatitudes of charity, joy, peace and patience ; and this, too, after the ex- ercise of an evangelism of love during eighteen hundred years. Wecan hardly believe that it will come to this, We incline to our first theory—that Bonapartiam is agitating Chris- tianity selfishly and unnecessarily, and we sincerely hope that our inferences may prove correct. V one Haytien Revolution, It is nothing new, of course, to hear of a revolution in Hayti, for internal dissensions and wars among rival political chiefs are almost nermal in that country, The last gen- eral war that occured there was but a year or two ago, and resulted in the overthrow and execution of Salnave, the President, Now it seems they have originated a new row at Port au Prince, the capital, and althongh the revolutionists were defeated at the first onset there {s little donbt that it is the kin- dling of a great flame that will renety the fiery scenes of Salnave’s time unless some friendly nation interferes. One of the chief causes of this outbreak, we do not doubt, is the present threatened annexation of St. Domingo to the United States. There are numerous little cliques of warrior politicians in both St. Domingo and Hayti who get up a revolution on any shadow of pretext merely to effect some change in the office of the Presi- dency, to which they all aspire, and that so important a question asthe annexation of one of these Slamese twin republics to the United States could be even broached without a war is simply preposterous. The consequence is that the appointment of Ben Wade's Commis- sion has fired the Haytien heart, and they have jumped at the chance of putting some of the disappointed politicians back into office again. One result of this new fight has already shown itself,and that is a strengly expressed wish on the part of the respectable citizens who desire permanent peace to bring about annexation with the United States. If St. Domingo should finally be annexed Hayti would evidently have to fall in line the same way. That this would be best for these rud- derless republics, which are too weak to de- fend themselves against a foreign foe and too unmansgeable to keep the peace within their own limits, is beyond qnestion, and it is equally beyend question that the United States need aq strong a foothold among her own ‘and advanced ever since. a West Indian buttresses as the nations of Hurope have held for so many ages. We can dovetail these two issues easily enough. Annexation, net only of St, Domingo but Hayti, will bring about the two consummations—give us not only the required foothold, but give peace to the tw distracted territories, ; Hall—Beecher—Hepworth. The three most popular and eminent divine in this city or vicinity are those whose nameg head this article. They are representatives of three different schools of thought, two of which are classed as orthodox and one as hete~ rodox, though in the public esteem a different classification might be made, They are men whose pulpit power lies in totally difforent directions, and yet almost instiactively the people go to hear their words from Sabbath to Sabbath. Their congregations yesterday wore larger, ptobably, than those of any other min-. {sters in New York or Brooklyn, and they will be found so on any given Sabbath in the year, Rev. Dr. Hall is an Irishman, about forty-six years of ago, and gifted with that natural elo- quence peculiar to his race and country, His pastorate of the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church of this city has been marked with great spiritual prosperity, His eloquence is not of that boisterous kind which makes an im- pression by noisy demonstrations and thump- ings on pulpit er Bible. Nor does it consist in saying witty things or protty things in ser- mons or in lectures in the pulpit or on the platform, But it is that eloquence which springs from the most thorough bellef in and sympathy with the truths uttered and the people who hear them, and which expresses itself in Christian exactness and personal directness. Whoever has listened to the Rev. Df Cumming, of London, will understand more readily what sort of eloquence this is, Dr. Hall’s manner and style of pulpit dis- courses, especially to his own people, partake more of the conversational and familiar than, perhaps any other minister in this city; and it is almost impossible to sit under his instruc. tions and not feel that he speaks directly and personally to each individual. There is a solemnity in his manner and address which impresses one even at fire sight, His sermons are deeply scriptural, and his prayers are a beautiful blending of the divine utterances of the Saviour and of his disciples, so that there may appear in both as little of Dr. Hall, but as much of Jesus Christ, as possible. The Doctor is a thorough theologian, an eminent scholar, a diligent stu- dent of the Bible and of such books as have any relation thereto, and a sound and logical reasoner. He seems to appreciate, perhaps more fully than most men in bis calling, that he is Christ's ambassador, and his sole aim and object is to make full proof of his miuis- try. Our readers will find in another columa 8 synopsis of a sermon preached by Dr. Hall yesterday, which is such a plain and practical exposition of an event with which the Jewish and the Christian Church is so familiar that each will find no great difficulty in drawing forth the lessons of Christian morality which it contains, The Rev. Menry Ward Beecher has a ne- tional and almost universal reputation, based originally perhaps as much upon that of his father as upon any intrinsic merit of himself. His sturdy republicanism led him early in life to take decided ground against slavery, and by illustration and imagery, in which he is very prolific and happy, without abusing slaveholders personally or as a class, he was able to make the venerable institution appear ludicrous in the eyes of the nation. Anti-slavery men were not as numerous in those days as they became subsequently ; neither was the doctrine as savory as it is now. Hence the boldness of Mr. Beecher’s attacks on it attracted the attention of the press and, through it, of the people, and his popularity was thenceforth secured. Mr. Beecher is a great student of men and things— much more so than of booke—and his illus- trations of Scripture truths are very largely drawn from facts in mature or in social or political life with which his hearers cannot be unfamiliar, His radicalism reaches down to the inner depths of his soul, and by years of training has acquired a degree of mastery over him so that he does not speak with the ordinary caution that preachers exercise when addressing promisouous audiences on religious subjects. Unconscionsly, per- haps, therefore to himself he frequently makes use of phrases which may shock the ears and offend the consciences of weak brethren. Such, for example, as his recent description of St. Paul as ‘‘a blear-eyed Jew ;” his more ancient assertion that he had “knocked the bottom out of hell,” and others of a kindred stamp which appear in his ser- mon published in to-day’s Hratp. “Many a man,” said he yesterday, “‘prays to the devil, believing him to be on the throne of the Almighty.” Again, “If I thought that the world was a huge bag and the nations wild- cats swinging around in {t, fighting with infernal noises, I should have no heart to preach.” Andagain, ‘That I consider that a heresy which strikes the Gospel of Christ flat in the face.” There is, perhaps, no other Christiaa minister in this land with the culture and genius of Mr. Beecher who would use such forcible though quaint expressions to illustrate the same ideas. Mr. Beecher is nothing if he is not original. His theologt- cal faith fs as difficult to settle as the color ef the chameleon’s skin, One day he 8 thoroughly orthodox, but the next he is as thoroughly heterodox. He is reputed to be a Congregationalist, but any one who carefully reads his sermon ia another page of this day’s HeRacp will find as good Unitarian or Universatist doctrine in it as cither Dr. Hepworth or Dr. Chapin could utter, Nevertheless, he is accounted orthodox ; they are not. The Rev. George H. Hepworth, D.D., is a comparatively new man among us. He came here with a reputation already high aa a pulpit orator, and which he has steadily maintained He was absent from the city yesterday, and we are unable, therefore, to present our readers with a sketch of his discourse. But from what they have, heard and read they will readily agree vaith un when we state that Dr. Hepworth Is Pyculiarly a student of solence, and in his discourses aims to demonstrate the science of religion and morals and tts relation to 6ther sciences, His disconraea are the ravalte mainly of aciens