The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BLO. DWAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatche be addressed New York HErary EMENTS TO-MORNOW EVENING, NIKL N, Broadway.—Tas SPROCTACLE oF THe Sh ¢, Broniwavy and 3th street Farm Lapy—Usxp Ur. WALL AC Paine He TRE, 720 Broadway.—LingaRp DAVY's LOVE. OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av, ana Qua st.— ERIN ES. OUXMITO THEATRE, Broadway.—-TH® RICHELIEU OF TH mm pBOWPRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pour—-Tar Crown PR INOF FIYTH AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourty street.— SARATOGA. NEW ¥¢ im Die GLOB: TAINNYNT, ATRE roadway.-VARIE ry APTER THE Wan. OnTRE- BOOTH’S THAT Mvow Apo Anour vetween bin ans 6th ava,— WOOD'S Mt ‘orner Sith st.--Perform- ances every a! MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, — Augogs THT Cos riNENT. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Hontep Down; Ox, IE Iwo Lives oF Many Liou. SAN FRANCISCO MIVSTR: HALL, 985 Br NeGno Mincrunisy, Panons, & RLURSQUES, rOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Va- ERTAINMEN'T, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Co x10 VooaL- Ins, NEGRO ACIS, Fo. BRYANT'S and 7th avs.— HOOLEY'S RELLY & Lr SOMERVI HIBITION OF NEW YORK SOIENOR AND DR. KAHN'S SCIENOE AND Avr. NATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ATOMICAL MUSEUM, 743 Broadway.— Mareh 5, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S BERALD. PaGE. 1s71. Advertisements. 2— Adverts s. \ 3—Map ot rritory Ceded by France to Ger- Many—Evacuation of Paris by the Germans, 4—Religiou Intelligence—Thirty-fourih Street Syuagoe Marriage Between Jew and Gen- | tile—Tne id in Newark—Financial and STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.--SrEnAcn j NEW YORK AERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET; Pepe Plus the Ninth and tho Fall of the Tomporal Power. In the Herarp of yesterday we printed a special cable despatch from Rome which was | to us more than ordinarily encouraging. For some years we have been so much in the habit of chronicling Romaa folly that we are glad to have the opportunity of recording Roman common sense, and of associating Roman common sense with the good aud venerable man who now occupies the chair of St. Peter. Pope Pius ihe Niath bas proved himself the worthy successor of Pope Pius the Seventh, the worthy successor of the Popes who vainly fought against the Reformation, the worthy successor of the Avignon captives, as well as of Hildebrand, of Leo the Third and the others who made, maintained aud perpetuated the Papacy throagh all kinds of adverse for- tune from tho days of Constantine, of Pepin | and Charlemagne up until the present time. | No one who has any respect for the past can refuse to admit that the Papacy has been much | indebted to the men who have occupied the cbair of St. Peter, and that the present incum- ben: of the Holy See, by his Christ-like meckness and his magnanimous submis- sion to misfortune, bas shed a halo of glory around the fading fortunes of an aacient, noble, useful, religious, but doomed institution. If Pope Pius the Ninth is to be the lust of the Popes who is to wield the authority of a temporal prince, Pope Pius is destined to an honorable and sweetly remem- bered place in one of the best pages of the history of the past. His incumbency has covered a long period; as Pope he was in favor of popular liberty in 1848 ; if the world has changed and his position and principles have more than once been questioned, ad- vancing civilidhtion must share with him the blame, if blame there has been. It is not to be denied that the incumbency of Pope Pius the Ninth has been in comparatively evil times, ,and that during the evil times, which have been somewhat painfully protracted, he has comported himself with a dignity becoming his high and sacred character and pesition. If anything is sacred surely property guaran- teed by ancient possession is sacred. If the Isidore Decretals can be believed the Em- peror Constantine gave to the See of Rome all that we m modern times have known as the States of the Church. ‘‘We give as a free gift to the Holy Pontiff the city of Rome and all | the western cities of Italy, as well as the western cities of other countries. To make } room for him we abdicate our sovereignty over all these provinces, and we withdraw from Rome, transferring the seat of our empire to | Byzantium, since it is not just that a ter- | | restrial emperor should retain any power 1 Reports—Poisoned by Mistake. loss Troopers—Tnis is a Swindle— and Deaths—Advertisements. : Leading Article, “Pope Pius the Ninth and the Fall of the Temporal Power"— | Amusement Announcements. | ‘7—Panis (Continued from Third Page)—Yachting— Cubda—Misceilancous Telegrams—The Joint | ssion—Amusements—The Colored mess Notices. 10—News from Washington: Closing of the Forty- first Congress and Organization of the Forty- | Shipping News—Advertisements, tS. Tue DEADLOCK aT Coat Mixts,— We are informed that in ail probab‘lity one of where God has placed the head of religion.” Such are the words of the Isidorian Decretal and, if the work of the Spanish Bishop whose name must be forever associated with the story be genuine, the temporal power of the Pope dates as far back as the year of our Lord 827. According to Gibbon, who laughs at the whole affair, ‘the first of the Christian emperors was healed of the leprosy and puri- fied in the waters of baptism by St. Sylvester, the Roman Bishop; aud never-was physician more gloriously recomp ad. His royal | proselyte withdrew from his seat and patri- | mony of St. Peter, declared his intention of the largest coal operators in the Wyoming re- | founding a new capital in the Hast, and re- gion will recommence work in a few days. This will break the “deadlock” that has prevailed for we: past between the miners and coal! opera and a reduction in the price of the ‘black diamonds” will speedily follow. Cuba.—By special telegram from the Heratp’s correspondent in Havana | we learn that the humane policy of Valmaseda has been the means of restoring peace to several imporiant districts of the island. If the remainder of the rebels in arms would study their best interests and save their lives they shouid at once lay down their arms and thus end a contest in which they have not the slightest hope of success. Tue Sounp Tnrasnixe which the Missouri republicans brought upon themselves last fall from their factious divisions about General Grant and the federal spoils appears to have done them good. The fighting factions have agreed to come together again and repair damages if they can. It is to be feared, how- ever, that, as with their factions brethren of New York, their repentance comes too late. Brayed in a mortar the fool may see his folly; but being brayed his case is past mending. Rersoroinc Over THE Fourta or Marcy.— fhe Leader (Tammany organ) says that the 4th of March ‘isa day when the democrats have aright to be glad,” and that two years hence ‘“‘the tables of the thieves shall be over- turned and the people shall be made happy.” This may be good news to the ‘‘Young Demo- cracy,” but what sort of music is it for the ‘‘big Indians?” Call you this ‘‘backing your friends ?” Tne Gov: eNt WEATHER Reports of the last few days show that the whole country east of the Rocky Mountains has had a good supply of rain, and from these auspicious beginnings of the spring we are led to hope that we shall have no drought this year, buta fruitful and plentiful season in all things, from the strawberries of June to the apples of Octo- ber. And so we hope, from the same signs, it will be in France and Germany. RELIEF FOR RENCH.—The Young Men of the Mercantile Library Association have engaged in a praiseworthy undertaking to raise funds for the relief of the sufferers in France by the war. For this purpose they propose to give a lecture in Clinton Hall on | Tuesday evening next, and the eloquent Wendell Phillips has been engaged as the lec- turer. The nobleness of the charity and the brilliant talents of the speaker must insure a grand attendance. Governor Horrman has refused to grant a further respite in the case of the negro, John Thomas, recently convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the murder of Walter Johnson, another negro. It will be remem- bered that he was sentenced to be hanged on the 17th of February, and a respite of three weeks granted to allow argument for a new trial before the Supreme Court, General Term, on @ writ of error, and that a new trial was refused, The respite expires next Friday, on which day Thomas will have to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. signed to the Popes the free and perpetual sovercigniy of Rome, Italy and the provinces of the West.” The sneers of Gibbon do not seriously affect the fact that first of all, Pepin, then Charlemagne, then the First Otho, then the Third Otho, endorsed, confirmed and en- larged the grant. The line of the Po and the Neapolitan frontier have, since the days of Charlemagne and the fall of the exarchate ef Ravenna, marked the limits of the temporal power of the Papacy. In spite of the deman: of moderna civilization this fact must be re: garded. If modern civilization means spolia- tion we say, ‘Away with it.” In makin, these remarks we are not forgetful of the days of Philip the Fair of France, when the Papacy was sadly humbled; we are not forgetful of the days of the Avignon period, when the Papacy wasa sham, a shame, a sin; we are not forgetful of the Reformation period, when the Papacy gave its sanction to unnecessary cruelty; we are not forgetful of the days of the First Napoleon, when Pope Pius the Sev. enth was a prisoner and an unwilling slave. The great fact to be remembered in this résumé is this—that after the downfall of Na- poleon the great Powers of Europe, expressing themselves through the Vienna treaties, re- stored to the Papacy the possessions gifted by Constantine, restored and enlarged by Pepin and Charlemagne and the First Othe and made sacred by the ownership of more than twelve centuries. If the situation is changed to-day we ought to know the reason and should not be indifferent to justice. The HERatp has never been opposed to the unification of Italy. We rejoice in progress, We have always rejoiced in progress. We welcome now, as we have always done, every idea which looks to and helps toward a higher and better future. And every popular move- ment which promises good to humanity has our encouragement and support. We do not by any means regret that things are as they are to-day in Europe. Germany is a unit and strong. Italy is aunit and strong. France is weak. With the humiliation ef France has come the destruction of the temporal power of the Papacy. All these facts of the present moment must be regarded as the fruit of the ripening years of the long extended past. In other words, the facts of the hour indicate progress. The world goes on, age after age; and each successive age is the richer and the happier for the age which has gone before. At the same time we cannot close our eyes to the fact that progress is sometimes painful | and that those who benefit by it are not | unfrequently unjust. Italy has not proved | herself suflicient!y grateful. Germany is just now too exacting, toocruel. France is stupe- fied under the weight of her misfortunes. But what shall we say of the Papacy? That ancient institution, so far as the temporalities go, is | unjustly humiliated aud somewhat mercilessly despoiled. But, as becomes an institution which claims to derive its rights from Heaven, the Papacy is not desperate. It raises no mad cries to man for mercy. It makes no yain or foolish efforts to resist the apparently inevitable. It only leans upon its rights and trasts to Heaven. The present venerable Pontiff and his numerous adherents ail the | world over remember that dack clouds have | often gathered around them before; but they cannot forget that the dark clouds have always been dispersed, and that after the darkness the light has been brighter, the com- fort greater, the strength more potent than before. The Papacy is most unquestion- | ably placed under new conditions, As we think, the temporal power is gone, and gone for good. But Italy, which | has found the temporal power in her way, | begins now to give evidence that in her judg- ment the chair of St. Peter has temporal | rights which must be respected, Compensa- tion is, therefore, coming. Pope Pius the Ninth, by remaining in Rome, in spite of | much bad and foolish advice, is acting in har- mony with the highest wisdom and ‘for the best interests of the Church. The Catholic population of the world are more attached to the chair of St. Peter in this the day of its trouble than perhaps they ever were before. By clinging to Rome the Pope haz shown that the councils of the Catholic Church are not wanting in wisdom. The present is only anew trouble in a new age; but the Popo and Cardinal Aatonelli have wisely concluded that there is nothing in the present aspect of things to bar the hope that the Catholic Church will live long enough to give Macau- lay’s New Zealander an opportunity of stand- ing on London Bridge and sketching the ruins of St. Paul’s, It is always well when wisdom rules. We are not sorry that the Pope has decided to remain in Rome. The Prussian Occupation and Evacuation of Paris—Herald Special Reports and a Map of France. We have full and interesting particulars by special cable telegram from the New York Heravp’s correspondent in Paris, which we publish in another column this morning, of the German occupation of the capital of France and its subsequent evacuation by the soldiers of Germany. Our news columns supply all the information that could be gleaned of the German occupation, the conduct of the Parisians during the stay of the victors, and the satisfaction which was expressed when it was announced that the retirement would immediately commence. The military pageant, as it is described by the Heratp writer, was very brilliant. The eavaleade commenced to move through the city at an early hour in the morning and passed rapidly. In the ranks were dis- played the tattered banners of many of the German regiments. The men moved under the Arch of Triumph in the blaze of a sudden burst of sunshine. Precautions against oppo- sition or disorder were not neglected by the Prussians generally ; for it was observed that cannon were unlimbered near the arch, and that the gunners stood ready for duty should it have been made necessary to clear the side avenues. The act was completed, however, in quiet, With our special despatches we publish a Heratp map, ample and most carefully pre- pared, setting forth the ceded territory of Alsace and Lorraine, accompanied by a de- seriptive account of its population, area and resources. This exhibit pictures France as it was, shows the portion of the soil which has been lost to the French, the fortified places, cities, towns and other strategic points which have been conquered from them by the vic- tors, and presents the land as it remains for its regeneration. The war is ended, and now that peace has at length dawned on France let us hope that with its restoration may come a resumption of commercial activity, a revival of industry and an effort to call back that prosperity which during tie war was silenced and crushed but not annihilated. The “Golden Age” of Religious Litera- ture. We have received a copy of a new religious publication called the Golden Age, edited by Theodore Tilton. Onthe same table we find a religious paper called the Christian Union, edited by Henry Ward Beecher. Both these distinguished writers were formerly contribu- tors to a so-called religious sheet (and through whom it obtained its reputation) that has given itself to the flesh and is going the way of all worshippers of Mammon. Upon this text we propose to hinge a few remarks. Through the electricism infused into the religious press by the enterprise of the HERALD it is pleasant to notice a marked improvement in the field of religious literature. Our pious people were wont to be satisfied with the staid and steady teachings of some of our regular religious press, until a new element, coming, as it were, from Nazareth, brought light and advancement into enshrouded cor- ners. The field of religious literature should be covered with a mantle of snowy purity. The ploughshare of religions progress should fol- low, and, as it were, upheave the roots of evil and unrighteousness wherever they may be found. In this work the labors of the Ameri- ! can Bible Society, with its marvellous distri- butien of the Holy Scriptures all over the world, are entitled to a full share of credit. “Read the Scriptures” is a solemn injunction, and our little people—our little boys and girls—are pleasantly led into a study of piety by the beautiful minor productions issued from the press of the same and other religious societies. So far all is well. Now we come to that class of publieations which make pretensions to religious caste, but pros- titute their columns to blasphemous cartoons and seduetive advertisements. This class of religious papers is published for lucre. The dissemination of precious religious knowledge is not in their line—unless it be at so much per cent per line. With these our religious friends should be chary of holding communion. But when we are called upon to scan the columas of so voluminous a sheet as the Christian World, and the elegant features portrayed by the Golden Age, we are led to believe that religious nomenclature was never more wisely chosen, nor the lines editorial more thoroughly guarded. We welcome the Golden Age and the Chris- tian Union into the ranks of sound and pro- gressive religious journalism. Roast Bgerr aNpD Pivm Prppine.—If the Joint High Commission begin, like Reverdy Johnson, on English roast beef and plum pud- ding, where will they end? Of course they will wind up with Nova Scetia codfish, St. Lawrence salmon and those hardshell Ala- bama clams. Those clams are tough, but | those “Bigh Joint” mon area match for them. Impartial Atd ¢o Charitable Objects and Blundering Bigotry. One of the grandest and noblest character- istics of the Christian religion is that it looks after and cares for the two extremes of life— infancy and old age—with an affection un- paralleled by any other system of belief. It smooths and prepares the way for the helpless babe to grow up into strong and healthy man- hood and womanhood, and then, when the werk of life is done, whether it be well or ill done, the closing days are made as comfort. able and happy as they may be, the grave is opened and the body is gently and tenderly deposited in the earth, there to await the sounding of the last trumpet. But before Christianity came into the world individuals, cities and States then existing made and had provision for the care of the aged and for the young to a limited extent; and heathen na- tions at this day have some such provision in their political or social economy, But any one familiar with the subject will readily per- ceive that there is nothing in all the Earth, outside of Christendom, that can compare with what the Gospel has provided. There are always to be found in every community two classes of poor people—namely, Christians and those usually denominated sinners; and as the Church is neither commanded nor ex- pected to care for any save those of its own household of faith the other class must be cared for by the State. But the State is not always able or always willing to undertake this work, and under a_ republican form of government like ours, perhaps, it is best that it should not attempt it, The Church then, or benevolent societies auxili- ary to it, undertake this work, and the State, as a matter of right and justice, is bound to do through the Church and its auxiliaries that which equity and the law of Christian love demands that it should do were there no such organizations in existence. The simple fact that a Church or a Christian asse- ciation undertakes to care for the poor and the aged does not absolve any State from its obligations to aid or wholly to do this thing. It belongs to the State to do this, first and last and always. Well, such societies exist all over this | Christian land and in this city, in connection with our different Church organizations. A few years ago the Baptists, following the ex- ample of their brethren of other denomina- tions, organized a society to look after their aged and infirm coreligionists. Some of the members of this society—believing, doubtless, that their work belonged as much to the city and the State as it did to themselves—applied to the municipal authorities for a grant of land in the upper part of the city whereon to erect a Home for the aged; whereupon there arose a terrible hue and cry. It was an outrage on Christianity to ask or to accept such a gift. It was a perversion of city property from its legitimate and constitutional uses, It was an attempt to destroy our religious freedom, and soon, Prolonged dis- cussions were held and-labored arguments were made to prove that this grant was a bribe to silence Protestantism so that the lion’s share might be given to the Roman Catholic Church. But why must Protestants be so jealous of Catholics? and why should the State or city refuse to give support to one denomination more than another? There is no complaint made that the authorities have ever refused io grant a Protestant sect what- ever it asked for ag well as the Catholics, and if the Protestants ask for one thousand and the Catholics for one million dollars and both get what they ask the city or the State is hardly to be blamed for the difference. “Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?” said the Saviour to a class of grumblers of His day when they objected that they did not get as much as their neighbors. ‘‘Didnot you get what you asked? Take that thine is and go thy way.” This rebuke would be timely now, when the Lord’s vineyard laberers are quarelling with the city and State, not because they don’t get all they ask for, but because they don’t get as much as their fellow laborers, But after the protracted discussions in the Baptist Society common sense won the day and prevailed over blind bigotry and ignorant prejudice and ‘‘the bribe” was ac- cepted. And now what of it? As we have already intimated, neither the city nor the State can rightfully establish denominational institutions among us—for that would be a subversion of our religious ard republican institutions—but it may and it must do its duty fairly and im-, partially to all. The great objection to this Baptist bribe is, as we understand it, that it will form a pretext for larger grants to the Romanists, and not that the city does wrong in giving away a rod of land ora dollar of money for benevolent and Christian purposes. The State is presumably Christian as well as the Church, and the obligations of the Gospel rest upon it in its corporate capacity just as they do upon the individuals who compose it. It must bear others’ burdens if it would fulfil the law of Christ. And we are glad that the city and the State recognize their obligations in this regard and are ready to assume the re- sponsibility and to do their duty to the poor and the aged and the helpless within their borders; and we are glad alse that the Bap- tist Home for the Aged Society has not, through any false notions of duty and propriety, shrunk from accepting the city’s offering. The Methodist Old Ladies’ Home Society are seek ing a similar grant, and we hope they will get it and accept it too. The vacant public lots on this island could not be put to better uses, and if they are not devoted to such purposes now ere long the railroad monopolists and “ting” mo nopolists will leave us without a lot which we can call our own for benevolent or charitable purposes. Crvit Servicz Rerorm.—The Miscellaneous Appropriation bill, which finally passed both houses on Friday, contains a section authoriz- ing the President to prescribe rules and regu lations.for the examination of candidates into the civil service of the United States, Suitable persons will be appointed to conduct such examinations, and all applicants for office will be subject to rigid inquiry as to their qualifi- cations before being appointed. This is a great advance on the present system of ap- pointment, but still it falls far short of the requirements of the service. Tue WALL Street Sexsaw.—‘‘Here we go up, and here we @o down,” Organization of the Forty-second Congress— Proposed Final Adjournment of the Ses- sion. Our Washington reports and correspondence present all the remarkable scenes and inci- dents attending the dissolution of the old and the opening of the new Cengress. Contrary to general expectation all the general appro- priation bills got through in good time. The “Omnibus” bill, whieh kept the House in Waiting through all the night session of Friday, Game in from the’ Senate at half-past four in the morning, and, instead of referring the Senate amendments to the Committee on Appropriations, or to a committee of con- ference, the House came to the desperate resolution ef agreeing to them all in bulk, which was certainly the easiest and possibly the best plan of disposing of them. Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, awoke the slumbering lions of democracy by an astute device of his to give the republican ma- jority in the Forty-second Congress the same power over legislation that it had in the Forty-first, where it could always carry through its measures by a two-thirds majority, Eldridge declaimed, and Randall stormed, and Brooks vowed resistance, even at the hazard of revolution; but all this storm was pure ex- travagance of passion and rant, for Garfield was not sustained even by his own party in what, after all, was but a very simple and ne- cessary plan of shutting off that peculiar par- liamentary resort familiarly known as filibus- tering. The night session, diversified with such scenes and with occasional but unavailing at- tempts at land grabbing, wore on until near sunrise, when, the ‘‘Omnibus” bill having been passed, the House took a recess till ten o'clock, having first made the very sensible arrangement that in the remaining hours of the gession no business should be in order except conference reports and matters connected with general appro- priation bills. By this means the House shut out a variety of propositions which might otherwise have come up to torment it, and the only matter of business that did come up afier- ward was the report of the conference com- mittee on the bill to abolish the rank of admiral and vice admiral. The committee could not agree and asked to be discharged. The House, under the lead ef Schofield, was disposed, however, to recede from its position and let the Senate bill pass, which simply pro- vided for a cessation of the offices whenever vacancies occur, But that did not suit the views of Butler and Starkweather and other opponents of Admiral Porter, and they called for the yeas and nays, when there was not time to complete the vote before the hour of noon, The vote was being taken when the moment of dissolution arrived, the Speaker's hammer descended, and the close of the Forty- first Congress was announced, Then followed the organization of the Forty- second Congress, and Mr. Blaine, having been re-elected Speaker by a vote of 126 to 93 over the democratic candidate, again took the chair and called the House to order. His addresses to the old and to the new House were models of terseness and vigor. While assuring the minority that it would find in him in the present House, as it had found in the last, an impartial presiding officer, he pro- claimed at the same time his fealty and alle- giance to the party to which he owed his posi- tion. He paid a high compliment to the na- tional government, under whose wise adminis- tration peace reigns in all our borders, and referred te the work of the High Commission as something that will bring an honerable, cordial and lasting adjustment of the only misunderstanding that we have with any foreign government. There was some difficulty about the admis- sion of the Tennessee and Mississippi dele- gations, but finally all the members who presented credentials were sworn in and took their seats. There was also in the Senate a question raised as to the admission of new Senators from Alabama, Texas and Georgia; but the Senate, which never does things ina hurry, postponed action on them for the present. Both houses adjourned over till Tuesday next, but not before the House had passed a concurrent resolution, by an overpowering majority, providing for the final adjournment of this session on Wednesday next, at noon. It is not yet certain whether the Senate will con- cur in that prompt termination of the session, but the general understanding is that, even if it do not agree to adjourn on Wednesday, it is Hot disposed to protract the session. The Herald as a ‘iteligious Hercules.” We clip the following from our sprightly contemporary the Commercial Advertiser, of this city:— ‘The HERALD, with all its magnificent opportuni- tles for propagating Gospel truth, 4s working, if we may so express it, like a religious Hercules. Beecher, Spurgeon, Collyer, Hyacinthe, and the whole host of church luminaries admit this, and breathe more freely in the blissful conviction that it 18, indeed, expediting the millennium. One thing, however, we trust our matchless contemporary will not forget in its warfare with the devil—bis Satanic majesty is notoriously a “cheeky”? customer—and so long as the HERALD too assiduously cultivates the eminently Christian grace of modesty, it cannot hope successfully to cope with him. t it, there- fore, cast aside the shackles of nuultity, and pose old “Cloven Foot”? with some of his ‘brass. We are exceeding glad that the heart of so profound a theelogian as our friend of the Commercial has at last been touched, and that he unites with the eminent divines he names in pronouncing the Hzrarp a “Hercules of re- ligion.” We know that the Heratp is doing good work. We desire ‘‘peace on earth and good will to all-men.” If we can bring this mil- lennial era about sooner by arraying all classes of religionists together, face to face in the columns of the HERALD, with its million readers, scattered all over the bosom of the Earth, than by any other means, we gain a great point in civilization and progress. We want the schisms and divisions, the criminations and recriminations, the dogmas ef this Church and the dogmas of that Church, the questions of “regeneration,” of original sin, infant baptism, baptism by immersion and baptism by sprink- ling, an hereafter of fire and brimstone orone of perennial love and adoration and a thousand other things which now so much disturb the Protestant Church and estrange its worship- pers—-we want these distractions healed up, and the establishing of a common brotherhood by all pious persons. If we can pour oil upon the troubled waters that rock the citadel of the Saviour among our people we believe we are doing well. And it la a source of sincere eD- own gratification tous to know that we have thus far succeeded beyond our expectations {n quickening the pulse of grace in various com- munities, in infusing new and enlarged ideas ingo pulpits, and in spurring the laggard pro- fessionally religious press all over the country to livelier werk under the banner of their chosen and halo-crowned Leader, Our Religious Press Table, Our religious table is gay to-day, like bouquets of precious loveliness coming with the new spring. We have reports from all directions showing an improving spirit in revi- vals, compassing all sects. If we were to take our daily meteorological reports as they come from Washington, for example, and give a glance through our religious horoscope, we will say that ‘“‘all is clear in the north, all clear in the south, all clear in the east, all clear in the west.” Goodness and godliness every- where. The Christian Intelligencer, mindfal of the eighth commandment, gives due credit t6 the HeERaxp in publishing the sermon of Rev. Dr. Ormiston, delivered last Sabbath in the Colle- giate Reformed church, Why do not our other religious contemporaries do the same? The Jnielligencer has some suggestive remarka about the poor pay of clergymen, and urges renewed efforts in behalf of the New York City Mission. The Golden Age shows a new and brilliant and welcome face upon our reli- gious exchange table. It treasures as an heir- loom ‘‘a neat bit of the King's English” written by Horace Greeley. The Golden Age de- serves golden success, The Christian Union, in concise and comprehensive form, not only cheers with pleasant words written by the “star” editor (Henry Ward Beecher), under the title of “Spring Is Coming,” but furnishes a number of glowing articles, not the least savory of which is a paper on cooking ‘Roast Duck,” written by Mrs. H. W. B, The Metho- dist reaches its eleventh year, and soundly proclaims:—‘‘Were all the secular journala owned and controlled by the civil govern. ment there could be no safety in the State.” Hence it is to be inferred that the Methodist ia not in the market and cannot be bought by political adventurers and quack advertisements. The Observer glerifies over the establishment of Protestant worship with- in the walls of Rome, and under tl ading “* What is Christian Burial ?” attemp' rough a correspondent, to apologize for the course the Rev. Mr. Sabine pursued in regard to the funeral of the actor, the lamented Holland. The ‘little church around the corner ” will not be shaken to its foundation by this philippic. The Hvangelist—always chaste and elegant in its expressions as it is beautiful in typography— makes objection to the speech of its excellent brother, Dr. Bright, of the ZHzaminer, in favor of the acceptance by the Baptists of the offer of lots from the city for their ‘‘ Home for the Aged.” Here the Zvangelist is wrong. All acts tending to the good of the aged, of any sect, should be encouraged, whether they come from the New York Lezisiature or any- where else, and the religious society that de- spises them fails in its duty to humanity. The Heangelist also refers to ‘‘suspicious legis. lation” in regard to the bill introduced by Mr. Tweed authorizing religious corporations to ac- quire lands for the purpose of erecting Sunday or parochial schools. It seems to think there is a colored gentleman under the woodpile. The Hebrew Leader is fall of Purim, the feast of rejoicing for the deliverance of Israel out of the hand of Haman the Aggaite, the 2227th anniversary of which occurs this week. The Jewish Messenger is in the same jolly strain, while the Jewish Times mixes Purim with a little self-congratulation. The Zimes confesses that ‘‘religious journal- ism is no holiday labor ;” therefore we infer that it is in favor of plenty of Purims. The Tablet gives a list of the names of subscribers to the new Catholic Cathedral, whose sub- scriptions, in the aggregate, amount to over sixty-five thousand dollars, and echoes the words of the Archbishop, that ‘the work of the Cathedral would be carried out.” Let it be finished, The country religious press is working well and faithfully in the good cause. A pioua | people must become a great people. A British Rotanp For AN AMERIOAR Outver.—In anticipation of the proposed remedy to be applied by the Joint High Com- mission now in conference at Washington to settle all our great and ‘‘little onpleasantness,” action has been taken by a number of British subjects in our midst for indemnity for goods alleged to have been seized during the war, their property. It is charged by these British citizens that they were deprived of their goods under pretence of their having given aid and comfort to the enemy in the late struggle. The question as to the time when these several claims are to be presented has been already, considered, and their counsel, Mr. Edwin. James, is at present in correspondence with Sir Edward Thorfton and the secretary of the Commission on the subject of the amount of indemnification to be demanded. Hotpixe Over.—As. a politician Willar& Saulsbury dies hard, and hold on to office with the grimmest tenacity even after haying been officially decapitated. At noon yester- day the honorable Delawarian ceased to. be a member of the United States Senate, While the Vice: President was organizing the new Senate the old feeling overcame Mr, Sauls- bury, and he commenced to harangue his former colleagues. This was more than, even Senatorial gravity could endure, and amid uproarious applause the rubicund Willard re- tired to private life. TOO MUCH MORPHINE. Inquest en the Body of Mr. Swift. Coroner Hermann held an iaquest yesterday on the body of J. G. Swift, who was found dead in his bed at the Hoffman House on Fr day evening. John S. Swut, of No. 16 West Thirty-first street, uncle of the deceased, was sworn and testified that he arrived in ‘tls city on Saturday lass, ostensibly to consult Dr, Van Buren; he appeared to be exceedingly do- pressed, and he had some doubts as to the stase of his mind; he left the residence of witness on Friaay morning about ten o’clock, with tie inten- tom, as he stated, of returning to his home at Ge- neva, New York. Feoling auxtous to know whether he arrived safely, he telegraphed w his parents und Was surprised to learn that he was not there; wit. ness then called at, the differen: hoteis, and 1ound is name on the register at the Hottman House; on golng to his room the door was found to be lecked, ut an entrance Was effected, and he was found lying In bed undressed and quite dead, ‘The post-! examination proved that death Was caused piu, and on searching the pockets of deceased & drachm bottle of morphine waa Bo ar about cleven grains had beon taken, probably at one time, and thus caused death. The jury rendered a verdict as to the cause ot death, but that there was no evidence ta show that Ut was taken with suicidal tent.