The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1871, Page 8

8 “ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAKCH 12, 1871L—QUADKUPLE SHEET The New Dispensation—ine Kev, Henry Ward Beechor om Progressive Christianity. In the Heraxp of yesterday we printed a synopsis of the lecture delivered by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to the select audience which, according to custom, assembled to hear him on Friday evening last. The HERaup has never refused to admit the warvellous power of the Plymouth orator, nor has it ever been indifferent or inattentive to bis utter- ances. He has often during the course of the last twenty-five years spoken effectively and writ- N ‘W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT - PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henan. Letters and packages should be properly nealed, ten effectively. Vic do net think, however, that Rejected communications will not be re- | Mr, Beecher was ever more thoughtful, more turned. folicitous, more in harmony with the spirit of THE DAILY HERALD, puditshed every day tn the peer. Foar cents per copy. Annual sabscriptton Trice 612. JOB PRINTING af every description, also Stereo- typing and Bngraving, neatly and promplly exe- cuted at Me lowest rater, the hour than he was in his colloquial dis- course to his chosen disciples in the lecture hall of Plymouth church on the evening of Friday last. The brief report of the lecture which we gave yesterday morning must have been to the many thousand thoughtful readers of the Hratp at once a surprise and a de- light, but, more a delight. Mr. Beecher is in perfect harmony with the Herarp. He does not find in the multiplica- tion of railroads and telegraphs, in the won- drous power of steam and electricity, not even in the enormous power of the newspaper, \ which has, even in matters religious, put the OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue RICHELIEU OF rar PrEion. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-On Hann—A Day WELL SrENT, YIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— SARATOGA. a pulpit—cemparatively, at least—far in the pNEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Anna | shade, any cause for sorrow, any special ground for lamentation. The world progresses, he admits; but in spite of the progress of which he finds traces everywhere, among all ranks and classes of the people, in science, in literature, in art, he does not find that the re- ligious principle inherent in humanity has sut- fered, or that Christianity has in any sense been injured. Ou the contrary, he finds that the new age is, above all things, religious, and that the advanced religious sentiment of hu- manity is eminently Christian, ‘‘There never was,” he says, “ta time when Christianity was 80 great a power as now, or when Christians were so large and sweet and true and sympa- thetic.” If the early Christians were more in- tense than their modern namesakes, the ab- sence of the intensity is amply compen- | sated by a sweetly pervasive power—a power of universal diffusion and which most unmistakably reveals, sot so much Paul or Peter, but the Master, Him who spoke op the Mount. In spite of the bad books and MEW:YORK CTRoUs, Fouweslh sist sosbhia. is bad journals which do come forth from time THE RING, ACROBATE, £O. i -to time, Mr. Beecher is proud to acknowledge ‘tlie fact that literature is saturated with Chris- tianity. Of course, in such a discourse the select audience of Friday night had a good right to expect something about the Pope, the temporal power, and generally the Catholic Church. In his allusion to the Catholic Church Mr. Beecher was singularly happy. He had only good wishes for the Pope. In Heaven, should be himself find a place, he would expect to meet Pope Pius the Ninth. This is most generous; and all that is wanted to round the GLOBE THEATRE, 798 Broadway.—VaRtety ENTER- ‘TAINMENT, &£0.—APTER THE Wak. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 384 si Mvcn Avo AuouT NOTHING, between 6th ang 6to ave,— WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30h st.--Perform- ances every afternoon and evening, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tns SPROTACLE OF ‘THE RLAOK Cxoor. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th street.— ROMANOR AND REALITY. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Lr SKrrours—Davy's Love. palin GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coraer of Sth ay. ana 23d et,— Les QRORGIENNES, RS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — East Lyywr. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL RB. Nrcuo MINSTRELSY, FaRogs, B 1, 586 Bron iway.— BQUES, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIETY EXTRRTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Com10 Vooar- ims, NEGNO ACTS, do. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at, between 6th and 7th ave.—NeGuo MINSTRELSY, &o. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HOoLEy'’s AND ALLY & Leon's MINSTRRLE. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sc1ENOE AND ART. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCURNOE AND ART. QUA New York, Sunday, March 12, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PaGE. RUPLE SHEET. i—Adverti 2—Advertisentente, beautiful circle of mutual esteem and Chris- Lines tian fellowship is that the Holy Father Conduct AG— Advertisements. frontiersmen that is a sure sign that they scent the battle afar off. Tae Stramsaip Horner.—-By special tele- gram to the Hgratp we bear that those interested in the steamer Hornet have given up her cage as hopeless, The captaia has been discharged and the steamer is to be sold. Tre Jomwr Hian Commisstox does not keep very closely to its work, The duty of | investigating and analyzing the documentary | reports, decisions, opinions and evidence before it relative to fishery questions, boun- Aury lines and Alabama claims is certainly got very entic ing. baa agonal Cane ike eae ae Bus honestly and without any further hesitation or ‘mete Soot High Cowman Sng | aborer “nthe Lord.” Tom Carlyle was ontha lane geen ei Stee wont to speak of hierarchies and aristocracies and Ecelesiastical Pramework—Rapld Transit | and all sach things as ‘‘old clothes.” Mr. Bent Bente ee ae Beecher is scarcely less felicitous when he y—The Sarnieal mn Rome: “Fat Tursaay” and the | speaks of the ‘‘baggage” of the Roman Catholic in Walesa bay of Drowensceriucwme of | Chureb, although he rejoices to think The Mines To te Gonen ammarum: Reply of | and believe that ‘God has thousands 1p Bankruptey and Their Fees—Bad Brooklyn— | and hundreds of thousands of precious meee tients Bcc scunck ao souls in that old lumbering baggage SNpennato ie Rev. Mone SE ele Mendel wagon.” In all the grand movements ogressive Curistianity”"—Amusement An- | which have taken place in recent times, on palccan acontinueal from Eighth Page)— | silently and without violence or by means of Page ey ea Freee tcernm er td? | what the Chancellor of the German empire General Reports—Napoleon—The British | delights to call ‘“‘blood and iron,” he finds reraen in, aigariae-Dregtean eG the Publi aal. | proof which admits of no questioning that the 5 retnlfe] Ignis ton ens Pore tg ieaateate | present is not so bad as the past, and that all 46—Germany and America: Washington's Birthday | the forces of the time, no matter what they ota eoty rel -y edie ie ell may seem to be in themselves, are impelling ene toiaae oats yong as us forward to a grander, more enlightened, dodge Beliyedrs IAMBENOD: a CAR more liberal, more religious, more Christian Delicate Fix—New York City News—Extensive | future; and beyond that ‘‘bourn” from which Fire Brooklyn's Bully Bors —Uricks: Continu- | no traveller returns, in the unknown and unde- (1—Procedings in the Courts—The New Market— | finable future, he expecis to find a broad Fmancial and Commercial Reports—The Dry | - Goods Market—The Ice Crop—Marriages and , charity. 19-PHen st tibtany: TA bY the ongerte at All this is good for Mr. Beecher, good for the Imperial Headquarters—Seven Times a | the sectarian teaching of New England, good Fea MALY Gorresponseut Followed >y 2 | for the Protestant faith, good for the Catholic Feet oi Te eR Fire on | Church—good, in fact, for Christianity in the ‘43—The Duck War: eon There Be a Confiict on the | truest and noblest sense. We rejoice in these Patigdiste Beene Nome Waller eA aes | liberal sentiments, not merely on account ef Murder—Adverttsementa, their intrinsic worth or for the healthful influ- ence which, considering the source whence ts tists | they come, they are bound to exert, but be- Tue Ixpians are getting ready for another | cause we find in the man who gave them utter- tening their ponies, and according to old | enthusiastic, fellow-laborer. Lt is long since the Heraxp cried ‘‘Shame!” upon the cowardly Christians who dreaded the progress of science ; long since we pointed out the unpardonable decided that it will do no business beyond pro- | since we pointed out the injury done to re- tecting Southern loyalists before adjournment. | ligion by those incrustatioas of centuries They want peace down South before they will | which Mr. Beecher happily characterizes as give it to us in Washington. “baggage” and “lumbering baggage wagons.” | give every Sunday morning an editorial lec- ture to the churches, and since, through our Monday edition, we began by publishing the sermons of Sunday, to exhibit the different We have not, certainly, been without evidence that our well meant efferts in the direction of the religions improvement of the people and of the reform of the numerous so-called ciated, and were bringing forth fruit. But we bave not had amy such comforting and en- Tae Democrats aNd Conse VATIVES of the conrnging sede ig cen eR two houses of Congress were in caucus mouth pastor has just furnished us. We now, of their future campaigns, One sensible reso- that success is secured. The power of the lution, urging a close attendance upon the see- | danang ca Pee voihag 4 oe See sions of Congress until the question of adjourn- | Linon of tie reget ee ment is settled, was adopted. Now that their | pide lected ok eine a | but in the grandeur, the wisdom, the liberality aiicename. aes | of his utterances. We ask him to remain stead- SOs ene | fast and we promise to abide by &im. Our fel- _Revort mw ALGEnia.—Contrary to previons | low laborers will soon be counted, not by twos been suppressed. A Brussels paper states | thousands, The eyes of the Christian world that the Mobile Guards sent there have been | will be opened, the “old clothes” will be flung disarmed by the natives, who are masters of | aside, the ‘‘baggage” will be abandoned and the situation. By the word “native” we sup- | the whole Church, unencumbered, united, re- that the Arabs should have contented them- | guided by a light which was never “seen on selves with disarmimg the French, instead of | sea or shore,” will arise and go torth conquer- killing the “dogs of Christians.” A regiment | ing and to conquer. Once more we shail of Zouaves is said to be on the way to Algeria | find ourselves back on the Mount of Blessing, Music and the Drama—The Nathan Muraer— | delay recognize Brother Beecher as a fellow ‘oug Through Bordeaux—Cars and war. Instead of killing buffalocs they are fat- | 2uce an intelligent, earnest, powerful, even Tue REPteuicay Cavers of Coxoress has | iniquity of Christian division and strife—long It is now over three years since we began to churches to themselves and to each other. | Christian denominations were heartily appre- terday taking active steps for the prosecution know, and we are not ashamed to confess it, minority is quite respectable in point of num- [reso We: CREE) Se pee ee ee réports, the insurrection in Algeria bas not | and threes, but by thousands and hundreds of pose the Arabs are meaat, but it is singular | jnvenated, baptized by fire from on bigh and to pe-establish order. | af the feet of the Mester. aud from Hi gentle words and sweet benedictions receiving light, life, joy, hope. One language, ove religion, one nationality, one common faith and hope— that is the goal, and the goal must be reached. Let no one say, “Impossible.” The bap- tism of fire which has fallen on Mr, Beecher may soon fall upon Dr. Manning and Dr. Gum- ming, and even upon the Pope himself, as it has already fallen upon Father Hyacinthe and Father Gavazal. The holy oil which has been poured upon the New York Hegarty may soon descend upon the London Times, Such agents, multiplied ten thousand fold, as they soon must be, forbid the word “impossible.” The cause is good. The season is opportune. The promise is sure. Mr. Beecher, let us go on. ‘The Parle Reds. Conflicting as is the news from Paris which we publish this morning, we are satisfied that the situation in the French capital continues anything but favorable to order. One despatch, dated in the afternoon, reports that the Na- tional Guards have agreed to surrender the artillery in their possession on condition that their organization is maintained and their pay continued, the latter until work is resumed. If any such compromise has been accepted by the French government a serious blunder has been committed. Why should the National Guards continue their organization when all the other provisional forces are disbanding and returning home? It may be both politic and humane to keep the men on the pay rolls for some weeks longer ; but this should be the limit, beyond which the French government should not go. Its is ex- ceedingly dubious, however, if any such com- promise has been made as we have referred to above. Another despatch from Paris, dated in the evening, states that the National Guards still retain posséssion of four hundred and seventeen cannon, and adds that the situation in Montmartre is unchanged, As this is the latest intelligence we have it is natural to conclude that the insurgenis have not yet decided to abandon their attitude of hostility to the government, but continue entrenched in the faubourgs. As we said yesterday, whatever be the true situation in Paris it must change for better or for worse shortly, There are now forty thou- sand regulars from the Army of the Loire in the city, and this force ought to be amply sufficient to reduce the insurgent National Guards to subjection. Paris and France need repose, and that they never will have while the turbulent elements of Belleville, La Villette and Montmartre are permitted to retain their military organizations and carry arms. Unless they are disarmed and made to remain quiet, pursuing the avoeations of peace, we shall expect chronic insurrection in Paris and con- stant alarms throughout France. By acting firmly now M. Thiers will prevent much trouble and, perhaps, a vast deal of bloodshed in the future, The Herald and Ite Religions Contem- porarics, The efforts of the Heratp in disseminating valuable religious information is becoming more and more appreciated by the religious press of the country. As an evidence of this we transfer from the columns of our young and vigorous religious contemporary, the Golden Age, the following very pretty notice: — Like a man who once a week dresses In his Sun- day best and goes to church, the New YorK HERALD arrays itself every #unday morning in an extra white sheet, costing an additional penny a pound, and, in this fine trim, pays its devout ‘respects to the religious press. ‘The HERALD, in this way, has lately caused a great excitement among this clas of journals—stirnng their heavy-laden leaves into sudden 0; nd Mutter, as of ens’ wings under a}, hawk’seye. The HERALD decides the orthodoxy of one journal! and the tieterodexy of another, It! metes out its praise or blame as if 1¢ were the Pduti- fex Maximus of the whole race ef religious scribes.| Its Sunday morning mood is 80 oracular, pious and sweet-minded that we Invariably read this particu- lar issue as an antidote against the more secular character of the professedly religious press, The HERALD shows 80 much enterprise as a religious Journal that we almost wish it would assume also the character of a secular sheet, So long as it con- tinues to be devoted to the religious edification of mankind the Golden Age desires a remembrance in its Sunday morning prayers, You shall have them, brother of the Golden Age, se long as you keep yourself right upon the record of righteousness and continue to tread the pathways of truth and morality. Our worthy friend of the Hoangclist is also appreciative, as will be seen by the following, which he gives under the heading of ‘Praise from a New Quarter :”"— The New YORE HERALD, which of late has given @ weekly review of the religious press, speaks of the Evangelist a8 “always chaste and elegant in its ex- pressions, as it 1s beautiful in typography.’ We are glad if we have done anything to command respect, even if it be nothing more shan to keep our clean, white pages unsnilied by cant or rant or by secta- rian bitterness, We have very decided opinions, yet we find it possible to hold and to maintain them with perfeci courtesy to others, without doing vio- tence to truth or charity. It is pleasant to chronicle these friendly words from such respectable and pious sources. We trust the Mvangelist may long keep its ‘‘clean white pages unsullied by cant or rant.” That is the way to make a good paper, religious or secular. The Heratp is inspired by these kindly greetings to push on in its congenial mission of sending forth pregnant fruits fer the consideration of thoughtful peo- ple of all sects and denominations. To-mor- row the Hgratp will contain its usual compre- hensive reports of the principal sermons delivered by our distinguished divines all over the city and suburbs, as well as in places more remote. Let piety thrive. A Franoo-GeRrMaN Riot is SwirzeRLanp.— We publish this morning a despatch from Zurich, Switzerland, giving an account of a serious riot which happened on Thursday and Friday last. It appears that the Germans re- siding in the city, while engaged in celebrating the return of peace, were attacked by the French officers held as prisoners of war in Switzerland, and driven from their ball. On the following day the disturbance was renewed, and was only quelled after the people and Swiss soldiery attacked and fired upon the rioters. It is evident that the French officers were wholly to blame in the affair. They sought an asylum in Switzerland from the German forces, and had no right to compromise the neutrality of the republic by an attack upon German citizens who were evidently not molesting them. If these French officers had been as anxious to fight the Germans two months ago as they were to attack unarmed citizens engaged in celebrating the return of peace, Beurbaki’s army would have not been compelled to fly into Switzerland. Hunn Roouerort’s reported death is con- tradicted. If he could only die politically it would not make any difference to Frances how long he remalued in the Aes, The Freech Kelief Movemert in Our Pro- testant Churches—This is the Day. Bishop Potter (Protestant Episcopal Church), of the diocese of New York, ad- dressed, on the 9th inst., a letter to the clergy and laity within his jurisdiction, appealing earnestly to them to aid in the relief move- ment in progress for the suffering people of France, and recommending that for this object collections, if possible, be made in the Episco- pal churches of this diocese on this, the third Sunday in Lent, ‘‘or as speedily as your cir- cumstances will permit.” On the 10th of March a circular, addressed ‘‘to the Christian pastors of America,” was issued from a large number of Protestant clergymen of different, denominations in this city, headed by the honored and glorious name in the cause of humanity of the Rev. Dr. Bellows, of the First Congregational church, and stating that ‘‘on the second Sunday in March (this day), or as soon as your circumstances will permit, you are besought to take up collections in your churches for the starving population of France.” From these two direct appeals—the one addressed to the wealthy Protestant Episcopal churches of this diocese and the other to all the Christian Churches of America~we expect good ‘fruits to-day. We believe that: the Chamber of Commerce, from the voluntary subscriptions of our mer- chants, brokers and other citizens, has already sent over to France » hundred thou- sand dollars, which has ben well applied to the great object of relieving the destitute and suf- fering French people. We expect to-day, or next Sunday, as an increase to this fund, a good report from our Protestant churches in behalf of the same good cause. We hope, too, that our Catholic Archbishop, his clergy and laity will take this matter in hand. We know that the Catholic population of this city em- braces a large proportion of poor, suffering and destitute people, who depend upon their ¢bhurch and its numerous benevolent institu- tions not only for relief but for support. We know that our Catholics who have means are drawn upon very freely for these objects, and that the poor among them freely contribute all they can to the same pious purposes; and we know, too, that in his present heavy misfor- tunes they do not forget their Holy Father at Rome; but still, we think they ought to do something as Catholics for the sufferiug people of France, who to the number of thirty-six or more out of their forty millions are Catholics. And what say our churchmen of the ancient Hebrew race and Mosaic faith, the fountain- head of all our Christian Churches? We are told that our Israelitish citizens have been lib- erally contributing to the relief of the suffer- ing French in France; but we think that if the movement were carried into our Hebrew tem- ples and synagogues they would respond in a manner which would redound to the glory of their race in France and all over Europe. Let our wealthy Protestant Episcopal churches this day show that they believe in the Chris- tian virtues and graces of faith, hope and charity, and that, with St. Paul, they believe that ‘the greatest of these is charity,” and we doubt aot the whole church programme we have sugyested will be carried eut, and with the happiest results to givers and receivers, and to the general cause of fraternity and charity among all uations and creeds and races of men. Plus the Ninth and the American People. It has long been customary, especially with the American people, to consider the digni- taries of the Catholic Church opposed to the progressive tendencies of the age. It must, therefore, give no ordinary satisfaction to per- ceive that the members of that Church have lately done much to dispel this belief. From his recent letter to the Catholic youth of our country it is manifest that Pius IX. has found in our institutions nething at all incompatible with the highest principles of Catholicism. We revert to this because we think that no slight importance is to be attached to the deep interest which his Holiness takes in our wel- fare as a people, and to his strennous exhorta- tion to his American children to maintain the honor of their country. This is nothing more than what we should expect from the liberal- minded and benevolent occupant of the Papal chair. Before bis election to the Popedom he founded many hospitals and asylums for the distressed. And we remember with what universal joy his liberal promises were acclaimed after his election, when the Pro- testants of our metropolis assembled to express their approval of his enlightened views, Before the studeats of the American College at Rome the Holy Father styled our country “the republic of virtue and intelligence.” We ouly hope that his Holiness may preserve those sentiments with that same firmness of character which he bere through all the trying vicissitudes of his life, We have reason to expect so much from the venerable man whose sole response to the furious rabble that besieged him in the Quirinal was, “I will con- cede nothing te violence’—from him who feared not to excommunicate royalty when it violated the patrimony of the Church, and who told the vacillating French Emperor, “Thy crown and my tiara are suspended by the same thread.” If the Catholic Church con- tinue to be governed by such a Pontiff it may be that she will yet bring back the world to “one fold” of one ‘“‘shepberd.” And who can tell she may not, in after times, deem it well to transfer the home of her Popes te Ameri- can shores? When the genius of civilization will, perbape, have abandoned Europe, and the monuments and palaces of old Rome shall have crumbled into ruins, the head of that Chorch may hold bis reign in Columbia, in as magnificent a mansion as that. which Italy bestows to-day. We wish Pio Nono a long and more auspici ign.” Rumors Paris are again current that General Trochu is insane, but they lack con- firmation, We should not be surprised if they were confirmed. Years ago it was said that Trochu’s mind was unsound, and it is alte. gether likely that the tremendous ordeal threugh which he has recently passed has completely overthrown it. MassackuskTTs Papers are getting up another pleuro-pneumonia excitement about cattle. The members of the Legislature are looking after a prolongation of the present or an extra session in @onsequence. ‘“‘It's not your knowin’ kind a) cattle that are caught with mouldy gorp.” seen antennae omen Charch Music In New York. That music is one of the favorite handmaids of religion, that beneath its magic spell the driest homilies and most abstruse and perplex- ing questions become at least intelligible and palatuble, there are very few to-day who can conscientiously deny, Without dwelling on those ineradicable instincts of music which nature has planted in the human heart and which are inseparable from the commonest principles of our acknowledgment of a Su- prome Deity—the stillness of night, the voices of the balmy breeze or the resistless hurri- cane, the bubbling of the fountain or the thun- der of Niagara, the peace jubilee of the feath- ered denizens of the grove or the ‘“cannon’s opening roar,” the glad symphony of praise that wells up from the heart of the righteous or the wail of despair that is coming from the bosom of the sinner—none to-day can sensibly deny the potent influence of music on the hu- man heart, especially when allied to religion. To be sure, there have been people in the days of Cromwell who held up their hands in holy horror at the union of masio and religion, but their days and ideas are new regarded as monstrosities in the history of buman progress. Next, if not equal, to a sound sermon and orthodox surroundings, church music occupies to-day an important position in matters of religion. We can safely assert that with the balk of the people music is an essential concomitant to religion. By it thousands of people have been from time immemorial attracted to Rome during Holy Week, and the infidel Rousseau bas wept bitter tears when the mournful tones of Palestina’s ‘‘Miserere” trom the Sistine chapel fell upon his ear. The importance of music is fully recog- nized in the New York churches. There is scarcely a temple of worship in this city which cannot boast of an organ and a choir, All denominations recognize the in- timate relation between music and religion. This relation is variously interpreted by those who are entrusted with the charge of the music for the various churches, and not always in accordance with the principles of religion. Some organists, for instance—for they are responsible for the music in their churches—regard this department of religion from an operatic or concert point of view, and treat their hearers to a florid overture either at the commencement or conclusion of divine service and torture arias and cavatinas from Rossini, Donizetti or Verdi. Others, pursu- ing the other extreme, carefully exclude any- thing in the musical line that may possibly interest even the dullest comprehension in the congregation. Both are wrong, the latter par- ticularly. As we conceive it, music should speak to the feelings of the congregation, and, without dragging in unnecessarily love songs and florid illustrations of domestic infelicities, it should be dramatic to the highest extent. The music of the Catholic Church stands pre-eminent in church music. The best of Enghsh writers for the Episcopal Church draw their inspiration from this fount. Even Luther’s celebrated hymn, ‘‘Hine Feste Burg,” is an old Catholic anthem, sung years before the renowned reformer was born. For this service the grandest minds ever illumined by the light of music devoted their best thoughts. Beethoven, Haydo, Mozart and Cherubini, with a myriad lesser lights, have made the “mass” their especial study. But, unfortu- nately, in this city the organists of the Catho~ lic churches neglect those grand exponents of musical religion, and treat their hearers to a mixture of opera and plantation ditties, There are some honorable exceptions, of course, among which we may mention St. Francis Xavier's, St. Stephen's and St. Ann’s; but the general coxrse of Catholic organists is alike detrimental to music and religion. In the other churches it is even worse. The programme, to use the concert phrase, is made up of the most incon- gruous elements, few of which have any bear- ing on the subjects they are supposed to illus- trate. Every organist, as a general rule, has a hobby of intruding his own silly works on the congregation, and few are worth hearing. Again, there is fault to be found with the pastors and church committees in a great many cases. They will persist, very often, in fore- ing their owa crude ideas in music upon those to whom they have committed the care of this important department, and interfere constantly in things which they know nothing about. A volunteer choir of amateurs may do very well for a small church which can afford no better, but we believe in a choir of good artists, at least a quartet, around which may be gath- ered a capable chorus, and in time tolerable soloists, Here the mistaken economy of some pastors has an injurious effect, aud the music might be well dispensed with entirely. If the music in a church is not good the sooner it is improved or entirely done away with the better. Few, of our churches in this city can congratulate themselves in having an organist, choir or pastor who thoroughly understands the first principles of church music. We can say the same of the neighboring cities. ‘The Messiah,” ‘‘Creation” or ‘‘Elijah” should be a model of church music to the unthinking or- ganists of the present day, not selections from Italian opera, or even the eancan ditties ef | Offenbach. Tne Ressis in Cuna.—By special tele- gram to the Heap we learn of still another defeat of the rebels, in which some of the foolhardy. unfortunates were killed, wouaded and taken prisoners. Among the latter was Colonel. Simonni, a Cuban of prominence, who was once before wounded, taken prisoner and pardoned, and then, after visiting New York, returned te Cuba with Jordan, and, unlike the latter, did not leave it in time, but remained until captured and’ executed, Rome Remains AGiratep by the conse- quences of the conflicting authority which exists between the. lay power of the King of Italy and the sovereignty of the Pope. The trouble and scandal which have been expe- rienced in the streets of the city have been carried to the very sanctuary ef the church, as will be seen by our cable telegram from the Holy Centre to-day. A New Derarture ip the temperance questionis mentioned by the Baltimore Amcvi- can, That paper thinks there is to be a calm, dignified and probably scientific discus- sion of the question of temperance, such as has uot yet been accerded it. Why not intro- duce a little moral philosophy into this new ‘omperance movement Wanted—A Foderal Christianity. The leading fea‘ure and characteristic of the present century is the association of meu for the promotion of common enterprises and common ends. We see it in commerce, business, trade; im social, religious and benevolent un- dertakings. Had one after another of the thir- teen colonies of America attempted resistance the tyranny of Great Britain it is easy to nesive what the result would have been. But under the guiding hand of Providence the principle of associated effort for the accom- plishment of a grand and noble purpose re- ceived here Its first and finest illustration, and ithe United States stands to-day the peer of he proudest and greatest nations of the Earth. ‘his brilliant example in’ modern history and ‘society has been repeatedly copied in other departments of life. But in many of them—as, for instance, in our railroad and telegraph sys- tems—asseciation has led to consolidation, and this again to monopoly—a thing utterly foreign to the true idea of union. The principle of union as adopted by our forefathers for the government of this country was a mutual con~ cession of rights, liberties and immunities to a certain elective power, before whom all should be considered and treated as equals. But had Massachusetts insisted upon governing South Carolina after its Puritan fashion, or had South Carolina tried to enforce her peculiar notions upon Massachusetts, the United States never wonld have been. When the latter alternative was presented in 1861 the result was not only memorable but grand, and our basis of union was shown to be not a rope of sand, but a band of iron. This is the principle most needed in the Christian Church to-day—association for common Church purposes and aims. When the subject of Christian union is presented two questions naturally and involontarily arise in the mind— What is Christian union? and how may it be attained? Christian union is, as we have stated, the aesociation of Christian men and of Churches upon a common principle and for a common nd. Apply the federal principle to religion as it has been applied in our governmental theory and policy, and we cannot fail te obtain the thing sought. It is not that the Baptist must become a Methodist, or the Methodist an Episcopalian, or the Presbyterian 2 Quaker— if that is or is to be Christian usion, then we sheuld pity mankind, and should have very little faith in the good time coming which we have been taught to look forward to. Nor shquid we labor se earnestly and so persist- ently as we do to hasten or to promote it. But our conception of this union being some- thing better and something different, we shrink not froin pressing it upon the various Chris- tian denominations of this land who look upto us for guidance and instruction ia these things. Personal union with Christ and personal con- viction of His presence with His people are and ought to be the basis of Church fellowship and association here and everywhere. Thon the duty of the individusl Christian becomes the duty of the whole Church, and each is bonnd to contribute as much as in him lies to the edifying of the body of Christ and the prome- tion of His cause. No doubt good ends may have been and still are served by the separation of the Church into sections and denominations ; nevertheless, great scandal and mischief have also resulted from those divisions. The world, while very far from inclined to look into and examine the matter fairly, has yet a wonderfully clear perception of the superficial infirmities and inconsistencies of Christians and of Christian denominations, When, there- fore, it perceives the Christian Church so broken up, not only by outward divisions and visible separations, but by bitterness of party spirit and distrust, and even rancor, it not only scoffs, but when the truth is pressed upon its acceptance we are met with the questions, Which of the Christian bodies are we to join? which of them is in possession of the truth? The bonds of denominationalism are, with the higher earnestness of our day, taken into greater veneration, as of the very substance and essence of faith, and Pro- testantiam, while it may be affected by the increased longing for union, shows at the same time a growing particularism and in- tolerance. The consequence is that we see in many quarters, not only of our own land, but elsewhere, less co-operation and re- cognition of our common faith and very little Christian communion. The missionary enterprise is visibly more denominational, since even the smallest of the sects are not content to support the great missionary societies, but must have each its own, to vansplant, if possible, the peculiarities of its. wo Church organization and: particularisma among the heathen. But this principle of unian, based upon a eommon faith in Christ and coaviction of His. presence with His Church, having beea applied and recognized by the several Christian de- nominations, will inevitably lead to twe thinge, namely: First, a recognition of orders by one denomination of the iministry of am other, and, second, co-operation of labor and energy in promoting the work of the Church. It is wery easy to see how far we are from either of those issues at present, when the Episcopalians wholly; ignore the rights and the orders of the Methodists, and: net only refuse to exchange puipits, but will actually prosecute and degrade: ene of their own mem- bers who accepts an invitation to. preach in a Methodist ‘‘meeting house.” Nor will the Baptist brother exchange with his Presbyte- rian neighbor, lest the latter should in an unguarded moment assert that a drop of water is as salvable as a bucketful, and that as the Hudson or the Jordan, and, that aman may' believe and be saved, and go.to heaven and “‘be forever with the Lord” without having received Christian baptism of any kind. These are the petty jealousies which have kept and whieh yet keep the Christian Church divided, And we might as profitably speou- late as tothe number ef those who heard the Saviour’s word on Barth and believed and died and wens to heaven withont baptism ; or of the many thousands converted under the preaching of Peter, and Paul, and John, and the other aposttes and early fathers of Christianity who were baptiand. St. Paul deciared that the Lod sent him, ‘not to baptize, but to preach, the Gospel,” evidently meaning that faith in Christ, and not sprinkling or immersion, is what saves a man. Aud, in the same spirit, he rebuked the aectar* of his dav. by ashe