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

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CGS20225 OF TO-PAYS HERALD. mite, 3—The World's Commerce: Projects for Grasping an: Dolarging It; Bap Showing the Accom. na Projected Interoceanic Ship Canais i isee—Yachting— ue Street—The ‘ne Pearls of Yesterday's Religions Wisdom: Paternal Advice irom the Pope; A Fatch of Lenton Lessons, S—Religious services ip Brookiyn and Washing- ton: feecher on Birds and Hattiefieids; Dr, Newman on Conscience—Anoiher Doubtful OCase—Murderous Assault—Newark's Naviga- tion Bughcars—Criticisms of New Books, @—Eilitoriais: Leading article, “The Worid’s Gom- merce--Armerican Inter-Oceantce 8} y and hattway Enterprises”—A muse nouacemeuts, 7—Edito:ials (Continued from Sixth Evacuation of Faris: HERALD from the Frenca Capi General Reports from France; Joy at the clnaion of Peace— Prince Frederick Charles te Command the Army of Occupation tn France—Visit of tne | Empcror Willtam and the Prince Imperial to Paris—Napoleon—Miscellaneous Teiegrams— Business Notices. S—National Legislation: List of Acts Passed at the Third Session of the Forty-first Congress—The ‘weed Statue—Proceedings in the Courts— Shared With Arson—Tombs Police Court— Meeting of the Fire Commissioners-—Ni Inteiligence—Base Bali Death—The Eagie and the Jackdaw. 9—Financix! and Commercial ports—Real Estate Maiters—The Dry Goods Market— Deaths—Adve-tisewents. 10—News irom Washington—The Joint High Com- mission Music and the Drama—Shipping in- tellgence—Advertisements, £1—Advertiscments, 12--Advertisemenia, y to death on the summit of Mount Washiugion all winter in the interests of science, report that the weather there yea- terday was extremely pleasant, and that the summit, being coated with ice as clear as crystal, would make a splendid skating rink. Our fasiionables are not to be tempted to visit it by any such representations as this. They wovid prefer to let the hermits slide all by themselves. Tae IepzacRMENT game of “‘bini”’ in Ar- kansas has ended in Governor Clayton taking down the “pot.” The Board of Managers in the House have sunounced that they could find no evidence against him. dently the Gevernor “‘biuffed” on a small hand very judiciously. He persisis in press- ing his luck, and bas formally declined the ; United St: Senatorship to which he was elected some time ago, for the reason that he doesn’t want to give the State over lo tire demo- cratic Lieutennnt Geverner. Tar Rus ‘ON WAIOH Passe vHE House on Saturday ‘or a flaal adjournment on Wednes day will probably be stopped in the Seaate, if it is not recouridered in the House to-day and Defeated It appears to have been a Bight of sev'ions, the New Englanders desiring bo adjourn in order to get rid of the proposed rew apportionment, which wiil reduce the New England representation in the House, and the Gemocrats favoring the same idea on the gen- eral democratic principle of holdivg as shert @ | ‘session as possible while there is a republican majority. Bex Butler, however, who wants the Ku Kiux bill passed, in order, ashe fondly hopes, to 1e Southern States in 1872, will most likely knock’ the resolution in the head to-day. in regard to the matter there is wo doubt a good deal yet for Congress to do, god it cau very comfortably hold over for a | ‘mouth or six weeks. Tar Porr ro Youre Amerioa,—The letter which we publish to-day from the Pope to the Catholic youth of America will b> read with | general interest. It gives usa timely warning Yhat the “honor and prosperity of our coua- try” depend upon our preserving ‘‘the love of justice, pure morality and religion.” This is aot, perhaps, a very new discovery, and it | reminds us somewhat of Washington's Fare- well Address. But the general wording of the letter is so kindly and genial, and it is such a delicate and appreciative mark of affectionaie respect, that it will be cordially welcomed by Protestants and Catholics alike. The best thing for the Pope to do now is to come ané live among the most fotelligent and loving of iis children; and we are sure the Pope himself nrust have thought so when he received the addresses of American Catholics on Italian «poliation. His letvoc inst received oreves ly Srmmacn | —Porform: | idle—The Colored ; abbed in the Baok—Assault with @ | Evi- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 6. 187L-TRIPLE SHEET. ' Oceanic ship Canal and Bailway Buter- prises. From the horrors and deaolations of war we propose to consider, in tais artiele, the ‘‘mant- feat desiiny” which invites the ‘‘great repub- lie” oaward in the glorious triumphs of peace. | To this end we would first onll the reader's attention to the sketch (with the accompany- ing map of the world) which we give clse- whore in these columns, indicating the great | lines of commerce proposed and in operation | between the two hemispheres nnd across this | Contineat, wad the commanding central post- | tiow of tie United Siates and of this imperial city in reference to the commorcial exchanges | of the globe, A glance at this little map will i be sufficient io show that the lion’s share of the | tvade of all ‘his Contivent and its islands, and | of the Pacidic Ocean and of ail the Oriental nations and islands of Asia, and of the rich | islands of Australasia and Pulynesia—that, in | short, the bulk of all this measureless traffic | is within our reach, and will be ours with the | opening of a ship cunal across aay one of the isthmus rontes, from the Mexican isthmus of | Tehuantepee down to the Gulf of Darien. A | railroad will not do, unless we can make a | ship railroad, But, as we canuot make a ship railroad, a ship canal. is indispensable to the | end snuggesied, and the only question concera- | iug such cana! is the most feasible route. We | must have it by some route, ‘The only ques- tion is the beat. ; The practical experlment of the Union Pacific Railroad has settled the question that | We can never bring into New York the trade of Eastern Asia by rail across the United States ayainst the cheaper, though ten times longer, water route of Cape Horn, taking time aud money as the measure ef distances, The short isthmus railway between Aspinwall and Panama has established the fact that it is cheaper and safer to risk the passage of a ship's cargo around ‘‘the Horn” than to risk the costs and dangers of its transshipment over- land from Panama or Aspiawall. Our Union Pacific Railway has proved its mission to bo the settlement and development of the coun- try between the Mississippi river and the Pacific Ocean within reach of its transporta- tion. Such, too, will be the mission and the resulis of the Northera Pacifie road flanking the British Possessions, and of the Texas Pacific road, running along from New Mexico westward, near our Mexican boundary. { Between our great Western plains and the ! Pacific Ocean, and betweon our Northern and | Southern boundaries, we have a vast Asiatic region which, excepting the Missouri river and some short lifts of navigation here and there on the Pacific, is witheut water ways of communication, It is an arid regien, without navigable streams, resembling in its general features the Asiatic region between the Black Sea and the Eupbrates—that region which fills so large a space in the world’s history as | the cradle of the human family and the nur- sery of civilization—ihat region in which the | ruins of Baalbec and Palmyra attest to this | day the wealth of the overland commerce to | the Mediterranean which built up those splen- did marble cities in the desert. From our great plains to the Pacific, excepting the line i of the Missouri and our few short river chan- nels of navigation on the Pacific, we can do | nothing without railways; but with them we may excecd the marble wonders of Baalbec } and Palmyra. As we are building up a line of prosperous States and Territories along | the Union Pacific road, so will a line be built ap on the Northern and the Senthern roads, and the local traffic thus created in each case will rapidly pay all expenses. The govern ment, too, will be indemnified, as well as the and grabbérs, from the settlement of these otherwise uninhabitable wastes and from the development of their wonderful mineral re- sources. Itis the railway that is needed to people and develop these desolate regions in | America, and it is the railway that will bring ; again to life and prosperity the waste places of Western and Central Asia. Here, however, in the work of local settle- ment and development, excepting their through passenger traffic and some small through shipments of freight, ends the business of interoceanic railroads. Nothing else than a ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceun will give us the control of the trade of Tehuantepec to Darien there are a half dozen ! routes over which a ship canal may be con- j structed, with locks on cach side from the sum- mit level. From New York er Liverpool the advantages of the Tehuantepec route to China and Australia are apparent on our map, as are the drawbacks of ‘the Darien route in the matter of distances. We want, however, not only an inter-sceanic ship cansl, but a canal with a dep, safe and capacious harbor at each end; and above all, if possible, we want a through-cut canal—a canal in which we can sail fro: sea to sea, as by the Suez Canal, without lockages. From ‘Tebuantepeo to j Aspinwall, and below for hundreds of miles, | no feasible rente for such a canal has go for been discovered, nor do we think that Captain Shufeldt will discover any route over the Tehuzntepec isthmus avatlable for such a | canal. If it shall turn out that at no point | between Mexico and South America is ship canal practicable without lockages up and down, of two, three or four hundred feet each way, then we dare say that the | Nicaragua route, with its great lakes at the summit level for reservoirs, and its river bed | of the San Juan for all but fifieen miles for the canal itself, will be the -route adopted. Indeed, from the French and English explora- | tions and reports upon this route, if the United States do not adopt it, we think that it pro- | bably will be adopted by England and France. | But we are almost irresistibly drawn to the | conclusion, from the report of Captain Self- ridge’s preliminary reconaoissance of the route between ihe Guif of Darien and the Gulf of | San Miguel, that he has solved the great | problem in finding a route for the construction of a ship canal by a through cut, so that, as by the Sucz Canal, a ship may pass from sea to sea as ihrougha strait. The route indicated by Captain Seliridge has certainly the great desideratum of a deep, secure and capacious approach and anchorage at each end, and in the navigable waters of the Atrato river on this side from sixty toa hundred feet deep, and in the navigable Tuyra river on the other side, his canal cutting is reduced to less than one i the Pacific and of Eastern Asia, and from | The Worl¥s Commerce-Awerican inter. | tree hundred feet above the sea indicates, from the friable character of the rock, an easy excavation. We iofer from the enthusi- gam upon the subject of Captain Selfridge and of our special correspondent accompanying his explorations, that he has settled the ques- tion—that mature has here provided tho harbors desired and the route for a through- ent canal between the two oceans. Assuming that the great problem is solved, how long will New York, the United States and the world have to wait for this oanal? If we may rely upon our reports the work will cost less than half the prime cost of the Suez canal, and, with less than half the forces em- ployed on that great undertaking, this Darien canal may bo opened within five years, With its completion, as she did with the opening of the gold placers of California, the city of New York will begin a new maroh of prosperity and expansion, Muoh of the trade of South America, which now goos to England, will, from our enlarged activity, be drawn by the Gulf Stream or equatorial current from the Amazon and La Plata to the United States, with s largely increased traffic from Central America and the West Indies en route, In viow of this ship canal our map will show the great importance of the half-way house of the island of St. Domingo. Indeed, if Cap- tain Selfridge has found the true route forthe proposed canal, the annexation of St. Do- mingo may be considered fixed and settled, as part and parcel of the great enterprise of a short cut for our steam and sailing ships to San Francisco, Henolulu, Shanghae, Yoko- hama, Hong Kong, Australia and the Spice Islands of the Indian Ocean. Important News from Parls=The Gorman Evacuation of the City of Revolution. The series of special cable telegrams which we publish in the Heratp this morning contin- ues our report of the situation fn Paris as it existed during the moment of tho triumphal march of the Prussian victors through the city and immedivtely subsequent to the military pageant—that flaunting proclamation of con- quest and sorrowful acknowledgement of and Symptoms defeat. The Intelligence is not at all enoour- aging. In fact, wo may say that it is alarming. Tho rankling memories of the vanquished prompt to retalia- tion—a § desperate resolve—but, even should it be completely adopted, one which, it must he acknowledged, will be taken under very desperate circumstances. Lagt Saturday atnoon, ia the full glory of a spring sunshine, the Parisians looked out from their garrets and cellar places of retreat and found that the Germans had passed through the city. The Prussian conquerors marched un- der the Aro de Triomphe, after the Em- peror William had ridden through the Bois de Boulozne, accompanied by his royal com- panions in arms—a living monument of the fruits of military persistency, a personal embodi- ment of the grandeur and consequences which flow from national union and patriotic cohe- sion, when moved by the propulsion of a Pan- slavist principle. After this Paris was thrown again back upon itself, The intercommunion was not by any means pleasant, Citi- zen discontent appears to have induced popular crimination and recrimination. The elements of future disorder were plentiful. Idlers by nature and non-combatants, demoral- ized by the excitements and terrors of the siege, moved through the streets. They murmured and growled, and whispered and huddled together as did their fathers before the great French Revolution, when Danton was perfecting the guillotine in his cheerless room and exhibiting the rude instrument to Robespierre, as the coming ‘‘reformer” of the nation, in its policy and plan of government and morals, The promptings of the moment, inspired by the recollections of the past and moved by the actualities of the present, brought ont the National Guards of Paris. The soldiers came in. collision with the newly constituted authori- ties. They demonstrated against the prison of St. Pélagie. The troops ef the line were called into action, and, as we are specially informed by cable, drove the National Guards away and forced them to ‘‘fall back.” The agitation extended. It terminated in revolution. An outbreak of the people took place in Paris during the night of Saturday, or at an early hour yesterday morning. The fact is reported on Prussian military authority. General Von Moltke tele-~ graphed to Bordeaux that a rovoluiion had been commenced in Paris. He also ordered the Prussian officers to permit a free march to the French troops who would move for its suppression. The government in Bordeaux may be in danger. French troops were being moved rapidly from the provinces to the contre of disaffection, and the very latest reports as- sert that at five o'clock yesterday afternoon “Paris was quiet.” The city had beon tran- quillized. Whether this quiet was induced by the ex- hausted syncope which sometimes follows an outburst of aimless passion or by the stifling logic of an armed suppression we have not yet been told. When the Prince President of one of the latest republics of France, after- ward Napoleon IIL, was told at the initiation of the coup d'état that the people ‘fred on the troops,” his reply was an order conveyed in the words, “Let the troops fire on the people,” In this expression Napoleon em- bodied the sentiment which has prevailed in Paris during the period of every tumultuous movement from the moment when King Louis and Marie Antoinette lost their heads to the hour of the election of Louis Philippe, thence to the organiza- tion of the Provisional government and the period of the philanthrophies of Lamar- tine and the soup kitchens and free labor shops; onward to the Prince President Napo- leon; to the exile of Cavaiguac and Changar- nier; to the revived and refreshed purple of the empire; to the march for the Rhine; to the surrender at Sedan; Parisian riot and the republic again; the constitutional elections, aud to the venerable Thiers. France. has been a8 a fiery planct, brilliant, but fitheful to the economies of the surrounding monarchists, Has the meteor been eclipsed? Will ft career through space to darkness, or will it, after many moura- ful eccentricities, burst forth and illume the democracies of Europe to joy? to the fruition of o wholesome measure of bundred piles: while the gummlt level of | “Uberty, equality aad, frateralty.” which will become dearer to the civilizations of man- |’ kind than are ‘‘the trophies of all who have risen on Liberty’s ruin to fame,” and again prove to the world the fnot that Arig! 1s the march of that gi nigh treads o'er the hearts of the free! Church Sermons Yesterday. Sinners had all the attractions of a fine spring day yesterday to lead them to church and to salvation. Consequently we announce this morning the fact that all the pleces of worship visited by our reporters were crowded by orring humanity, who prayed, devoutly, wo trust, and who listened attentively (o the sermons, In a very enter- taining discourse desoriptive of the several isinds of sin Dr. Chapin made the somewhat curious assertion that “people who say the most about sin usually possess the most.” Doubtioss the reverend gentleman made ® mental qualification in favor of clergy- men. Dr. Merrill Richardson alao preached on the subject of sin, using the atonement of Chriat in illustration of his argument, In urging the necessity for atonement he related how Dr. Jobnson once stood in the rain three days and nighte to atone for a sin he had com- mitted at the funeral of his father. Of the efficacy of this kind of mortification we have some doubt. one’s errors It may do very well to have soaked out of him by @ summer shower; but in the pres- ent weather, what with pneumonia and smaiipox, the drenching might kill the sinner with tho sin, The fact is that all such mant- | festations of repentance are the result of a mistaken idea of the goodness and mercy of God. It is not necessary for us to get wet or to expiate our sins in any other eccentric man- ner to obtaln forgiveness, Penance in tho form of a shower of rain would never be done by many of our sinners. Dresses, bonnets, coats and hats are too expensive. Tn a sermon in aid of the fund for the relief of disabled clergymen and their families Dr. Hall marred his argument by an unchristian- like attack on the theatrical profession, de- claring that ‘‘the representatives of the stage were (are) to be found among the swindlers and blackguards of the community.” Mr. Hall is evidently anxious for the kind of martyrdom suffered by the thrice pious Sabine. Rev. Mr. Frothingham delivered one of his character- istic sermons. He advocated what we may term a Darwinian theory of religion. What- ever belief was best calculated to bring the soul nearest to moral perfection was the proper one to hold, If infidelity er atheism could bring it, we must not shrink from beceming such. And after this declaration the reverend gentleman proceeded to pitch into all ‘reli- gious sects generally. Dr, Ormiston proached on the Christian's race for everlasting life, and Dr. Ridgeway on personal and pro- petty consecration to the Lord. At the Brook- lyn tabernacle Brother Beecher enlizhtened his congregation on the subject of “The Aathor and Finisher of Our Faith,” previous to which, however, several knockers at the door of righteousness were admitted to the beatitade of Plymouth church, thence to march forward to Paradise, singing hymns of joy and laughing at Brother Beecher's clerical jokes. Rev. Mr. Meredith (alsv in Brooklyn), described the various kinds of emptations which beset man and explained how they could be resisted. In Wasbiagton, Bishop Pinokney, of Maryland, delivered a sermon, in which he showed—using the story of the blind beggar in Jericho—the benefit arising from faith. In all the Oatholic churohes the attendance was unusually large and the sermons ad- mirable. The discourses were on subyects appropriate to this the most solemn season known to the Church. Dramatic and Musical Entertainments. While the minor theatres offer thoir usual variety of attractions for the present week those of a higher class do not relax their efforts to satisfy the most intelligent and refined of our large theatre-going population. At Booth’s “Richelieu” has at length been withdrawn, to be replaced this evening by “Much Ado About Nothing,” with Mr. Edwin Booth as Benedick, Mr. Lawrence Barrett as Don Pedro, Mr. J. H. McVicker as Dogherry, and with new scenery and appointments. At the Stadt theatre this will be the farewell week of Mme. Seebach, and no lover of the perfection of dramatic art should miss the precious opportunity of witnessing for the last time in this city the performances of this gifted and accomplished actress. Miss Glyn, another actress of rare dramatic power, who would be heartily welcomed on our New York stage, will not resume her Shaksperian readings until next week, on Tuesday evening, the 14th in- stant, at Association Hall. At Wallack’s the programme for the week consists of ‘‘Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady,” to be produced this evening for the last time during the present season; ‘‘Ours” on Tuesday evening and at the Saturday matin¢e; ‘Romance and Reality” Wednesday and Saturday evenings, with Mr. John Brougham in his inimitable personation of Jack Swift, Mr. John Gilbert as Jasper Manly, Mr. Owen Marlowe as Frank Meredith, Mr. B. I. Ringgold as Lavender Kydd, Mr. J. C. Williamson as Tom Badger, Mra. Thos. Barry as Rosabel, Miss Effie Ger- ton as Blossom and Miss Emily Mestayer as Barbara Manly; “The Serious Family” on Thursday evening, and, for the last time, “Money,” on Friday evening. Mr. Lester Wallack himeelf will appear on Thursday, the 9th inst., in a representation of *‘Ours,” at the Brooklyn Academy. At Daly's Fifth Avenue theatre “Saratoga” still holds the boards. At the Olympic Mr. G. L. Fox will give some “more last nights” as the real ‘Richelieu of the Period,” in the very olever travesty by Mr. Schinberg and Mr, DeWalden. At Niblo’s either the demoa’s revel or the artistic feats of the Majiltons would alone suffice to sccount for the permanent success of the ‘Black Crook.” At the Grand Opera House a new opéra bouffe, the libretto by Jules Moinaux and the music by Offenbach, wiil be produced for the first time this Monday night, It will be an extraordinary spectacular display as well asa musical entertainment. Everybody in town and everybédy whe comes to town will be tempted to go and see the elephant, even if mildly wondering why Mr. Fisk, Jr., should want to have yet another elephant on his hands. Nor can they fail to admire the logic as well as costumea of General Fvroza-Aimée and Cantain Npal-Porsini and tl reat of the woman's rizhts women at Djegani in Asiatio Georgia, who seom better aware than thelr Amerioan Borosisters that when woinen set up & government of their own they must at once all become soldiers. The great musical event of the seasen, eclipsing the numerous concerts in which Lent always abounds, will, ef course, bo the tri- umphant réetara of Mile, Christina Nilsson from her successful. tour throughout the East and the West. . This celebrated artist will make hor reappearance in New York on Tuesday, the 14th inst., at Steinway Hall, in » grand miscellaneous concert, On Wednesday, the 16th inet., she will sing in Haydn's. master- piece, “The Creation,” and on Saturday, the 18th inst., at a two o'dlock Nilsson matin‘e, The choruses of “The Creation” will be ren- dered by the Mendelasohn Union. ‘Tho Board of Health and ite Duties. If the duty of the Board of Health is not to preserve. in every way the sanitary condition of the oity as perfectly as possible, especialy in times when contagious diseases like the smallpox are prevalent, we do not know what its duty is. Yet wo find, at late meeting of the Board of Health, apersiatent effort made by three of the commissioners to’ perpetuate the existence ef a nuisanoo which the Sanitary Committee in their report declared to be offen sive in the highest degree and dangerous to public health. The evidence that the dumping and storing of manure at the foot ef Enst Forty-sixth street and vicinity went to show that the health of the whole neighbor- hood is affected by the foul vapors arising from the practice. But it appears that three of the commissioners were found willing to extend the permit to the parties who own this nui- sance, in spite of the recommendation of the committee to the contrary. These gentlemen were Dr. Carnochan and Messrs. Barr and Mallaly. Tho members who voted in favor of the nuisance being removed were Dr. Cecoa- rini and Messrs. Manferre and Stephen Smith, Surely Dr. Carnochan could not have studied the subject, or he would not have so voted ; unless, which we are loth to believe, it was done under political pressure. We cannot un- derstand how an efficient Health Officer, as Dr. Carnocham proved himself to be during the perilous yellow fever term ‘of last summer by keeping the city free from the pestilence, which had almost mastered all the powers and facilities of a rigid quarantine, could be indifferent now to the health of the city, when emallpox is making headway in the vicinity, As for Mr. Mullaly, who is the editor of a kind of nonde- script paper, not over religious in its tone, but now engaged in the small political line, we fear he partakes miore of the spirit of the ward politician than of the journalist. His course of action, therefore, ia not shrouded in very deep mystery. We sustained Dr, Oarnochan from the beginning in his arduous position as Health Officer of the port No one can tarnish the reputation he has won as the protector of the public health against the invasion of con- tagious diseases. Few men in his place had more to contend with for years past in meet- ing the fiend of pestilence in the harbor with 80 much nerve as to confine the danger to the lower bay and save the city from the spread of disease, and for this we and the public accord him every credit. But if Dr. Carnochan—a man of high professional ability, a giant among giants as a physiclan—or any other public official supposes that the influence of ward politicians amounts to anything compared with the power of the press and the public opinion whiok it fosters and represents, he is very much mistaken. The ‘‘pressure” which ward politicians can bring to bear upon the conscientious action of a public officer should not be regarded as a feather’s weight when measured against the powor of an independent press, which, reflecting the views of the people, can uomake, as it makes, public men, In the matter of the health of the city and the suppression of nuisances which may im- ! pair it, we look, of course, to the Board of Health, and every one of its acts will be care- fully scrutinized. Hence we remark upon this recent extraordinary vote of a portion of the Board, Elevating the Ministry. If any of our readers have the curlosity and the time to make the necessary comparison between the style of pulpit preachigg indulged in five years ago and now they must be con- vinced that a great advance has been made of late; and, without egotism, we may claim for the Herat the merit of this advance and improvement. It was formerly the custom to measure ministerial ability and succeas by the numbers who might be attracted to hear any particular preacher, and hence the sermons of only one or two men in this city or Brooklyn obtained currency through the press, But if drawing « crowd is an evidence of ministerial success we can draw as big a crowd with an ergan-grinder and a monkey any day as Brother Beccher draws, It was left to the HepaLp to apprehend the fact that Mr. Beecher did not monopolize the whole, nor, indeed, any very considerable part of Chris- tian truth, and then to demonstrate this fact to the public. And we need not now argue whether we have been successful in our de- monstration or not. Qur columns of sermons from week to week bear us sufficient evidence, 80 that wo have but to state the proposition and leave it for universal acceptance. The elevation and improvement of the min- istry to which we refer reaches both to the manner and the matter of the pulpit discourses, There is an advance in the thought of the pul- pitand an improvement in the utterances of the minister. The weak have been made strong, the thonghtless have been stimulated to think, the idle have been encouraged to work and to stady by the friction of their own minds and thoughts with those of others which we have presented to them. .. Ministers very rarely have an opportunity to hear onean- other preach; but we have given them all the means of knowing what their brethren think on the doctrines and precepts of the Gospel, and the result is an elevation of the mass of ministers and people toa bigher plane and to purer and more gpirltual ideas. The nearer a man gets to the Sun the warmer he becomes naturally, and the nearer s man comes, to the truth the beer and the holier will he bes but no man unaccustemed to interchange of | thought can rise much higher thax: the plane {on which be starts out, Hence, ihe Henauy js benefiting the ministry, as well a6 tho poss ple, by its weekly presentation of ‘dost thoughts of the best men in olty and country, and we believe the ministry fel and acknowledge this fact and their obliga. tions to us; and this improvement must gq forward-until. the Church shall command the very best tslent in the land, and the men feebie intellect who now flock into it as pre- senting an easy and an {dle life will have to take to the plough or the plano for « living, We know that at present and for some time past the beat class of minds, the mos} talented young mon, have sought and do seck other professions, and the ministry must take many men of a second or third rate mould, and eyen the number of these who seek adinission to ita ranks do not equal the losses by death and other causes, so that an average of about one- half the churches of the land are withont Settled or regular pastors, and of the appli- onnts a larger proportion are nearer to forty years of age than to’ twenty-five. But’ we expect to see all this changed by and by, and when we do, and the best talent of the Church and of the world is given to the best work fo which mankind can engage, we shall feel that we have been amply repaid for all that we have done to bring it to pass, the the the The Ontlook in Real Estate in Now Work. This is @ matter that bas engaged the attention of men’s miads during the last two years with much of speculative anxlety, during whish time they have canvassed, accepted and dismissed various theories. Viewed from an intelligent standpoint, with the light which a clear understand- ing of the circumstances and conditions operating upon the present character of values gives, the problem is not one of difficult solution, Mathematically considered, it is quite as capable of demonstration as any im Euclid. In the first place we may state there can be no botter permanent investment—that is what we regardas permanent investment—~ viz.: for a long term of years, than real estate on New York island, no matter where it is situ- ated. The natural and determined growth of the city, its increase in wealth, populationand commerce, will give sach additional value te every acre environed thereby as to insure tes years hence almost incalculable profits to the investor of to-day. This is the position we have taken in our eurrent history of the move- ments in the real estate market. This is the position we hold, and cone fidently, without fear of contradiction. Passing from.the remote, however, and com- ing back to the immediats or near future, we do not find in the outlook the same groand fer ~ confidenoo. It is a well known fact that almost the entire of Manhattan Island is under mortgage. This arises from the circumstance that, notwithstanding the enormous amount of our currency, it is difficult at times to obtain sufficient of the circulating medium except at extravagant rates for the uses of trade. Henod business men who buy a store or a house, rather than sink their entire surplus capital in suck an investment, prefer to borrow monoy upon the security of such store or house, so that they can keep their bank account open for sudden emergencies. This is one great draw- back to real estate speculation in New York. Coming to a second branch $f our subject we find the evil of this mortgage system. It works probably very well for capitalists, who, although they may sacrifice fie credit of an unencumbered fee*in order to keep a good balance at their bankers, are always able to avoid foreclosure; but in the case of the necessiious mortgager there is a different story. Real estate was one of the last of all values to feel the effect of the war excitement which sent all ther values “kiting.” During the war real estate was dull, and, avoiding the suggestiveness of alliteration, wo may say very dull, When peace was concluded, or accepted, or recognized—it is difficult, under the circumstances, to find an exact term which will express how peace was breught about— Shoddy came North; so did the fortunate speculators in cotton. Some of the latter had cotton in charge to European ports, but stopped in transitu—much to their advantage. These people looked around for a means of employing their surplus gains.. The average shoddy millionnaire, or short biscuit capitalist, or cotton speculator, had not intelligence enough to go pn the Stock Exchange and em- ploy his funds there, A few did and. got. “cleaned out,” to use the vernacular of the- street. Mostly they went into real estate— bought largely, bonght ignorantly, bought indiscriminately, bought heavily. Real estate during the war had been, dulk heavy, and, in fact, neglected. The pre sence of this new element in the market gave it an impetus, and the great crowd of specu- lators on the Stook Exchange—gamblers par se, who turn a stock or a Contract om real estate in the same spirit as they watch a card in the hands of a faro dealer or trust their for- tunes upon the eventualities of the greem cloth—rushed in, with a view of raking; in their share of the profits. In the present condition. of things: it is impossible to tell who suffered. Prices. were foroed-up to an abnormal degree. The out- sido public was ‘“‘ropedin” and bought Iiber- ally, and now we are reaping the conse- quences, This is the point of the real estate market of the period. During that excite- ment @ great many small capitalists bought property on speculation, expecting to realize. shortly ata large advance. Quickly a reactiop, came and they were left with this property op their hands. Thg only relief wae a mortgage, which they sought and obtained. Others bought confidently for investmont, expe also an advance. The South Sea Bubble had probably never heard of, the great sippi scheme was to them amyth; but, although they had known of the great failures in petroleum, they still confidently held ta what had been told them in regard to the great profits belonging Yo real estate invest: ment on New York island. Thus history repeats itself, and, no matter what the character of the investment, there will be thousands who will be ready to throw away their most secret hoards—if you only promise interest enouzh. Respecting the future of real estate on New” York island, — however, while holding! to ite final appreciation, we cannot but ‘Togard the present prospects as not encouraging to weak holders, In fact. taking the, matter of mort- + & rte