The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1871, Page 8

bi 8 NEW YORK HERALD = BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Volume XXXVI ——-_ —== AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadwe: ances crery afternoon and ev orner Sob st,--Performe NIBLO'S GARD Broadway.—Tue SPECTACLE OF Pak Buck Croc WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana Ltn strect.— Romanor anv Rrauity. RE. 720 Broadway.—Lingagp JEMENTS, £0. LINA EDWIN's THE, BRETOURS—NAval ENG. QRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay, ana 23d st,— Les GrorGtannrs. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 46 Bowery.—Tann- BAUSKR BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—-ON HAND—A Day Wee Srent. {FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Banraroca, GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vantery EXTER PALNMENT, £¢.—JUDGK DOWLING. BOOTH’S THKATRE, 234 si., vetween Sth anc 6th avs. — OVHELLO. YOURTEENTN STREBT THEATRE (Thoatre Francats)— Faxcaon MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn. — Oviven Twist. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The [rrepressibie Confiict—-Tho War of Churches, There can be no question that we are living fn an age of trouble and anguish, Wars and rumors of wars reach us from every quarter. Physical, political, social and religious earth- quakes are felt and feared all about us, and the world seems to be turning, as it were, up- side down; but the good, the true, the pure and the just, in men and ia things, are being evolved from the chaotic rains which we behold on every hand. The world has bad iis wars for national independence, for conquest and material greatness, for intellectual and moral progress and for social elevation and improve- ment, and, according to a certain class of ora- cles and orators, the next great coaflict is to be for religious liberty aud independence ; and it is to begin here in this republic, We had been accustomed from our boyhood to thiok that we were among the freest, if not alto- gether the freest, and most independent of all the inhabitants of the earth; but we must have been sadly mistaken all the time. A terrible tyrant has been spreading his net over us, and, uncon- sciously to ourselves, we have been rendered almost helpless, and unless we free ourselvas at once we may as well abandon all hope of religious or civil liberty in the future. Some | SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALE, 685 Bron away. — Nrano Mivsreersy, PARORS, BORLRSQUES, &O. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HRRALD, Pack. oe L—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Advertisements. 4--Arivertisements, 5—News trom Washington—Amus-ménts—Palling the Keno Ptayers—Obituary—Telegraphic News—European Markets. @—Methoaism: Its Origin, Growth and Present Proportions—Discourse by Father Damen— Religious Lntelligence—The Tempie Emanuei— Poverty and Potson, 7—Europe: Triumphal March of the Germans Through the Champs Elys¢es—Another Col- Hery Explosion in Wales—More Railroad Slaughters in New Jersey—The Fouadling Asylum—The Doomed Ferdue—Jersey City Free Library—Newark’s High School Agony Over—The Coal Minera: How They Live Under Ground and Over—the Gi Game—Not a Homictde—Reviving Paris: Triumph of Beauty on the Bridges Before the Capital. S—Eaditortals: Leading Article, “The Irrepressible Confict—The War of Churches”—Amusement Announcements, ®=Editorials (continued from Eighth Page)—Per- sonal Intelligence—Paris: A Serlous Crisis in the French Capital; Government Attempt to Suppress the Insurrection—Mexico: 3 pects of Serious Trouble in the Repubilc—Na- — Preparing to Seek au Asylum Boge avd—Movemenis of President Grant—News from China and Japan—Miscelianeous Tele- graphic News—Business Notices. 80—What of the Viney War Ravages in the Vine Districts of France—Conviction of Two Negroes for Murder in South © na—Base Buil Notes—Smiuggling on the adian Border— The Erie Railway Litigation—Two Counterfeit Culprits Caged—The Courts——Orange and Green—Prookiyn Police Headquarters—The b—Rariroad Rowdyismn. a1- aming Protest Agaiust Annex- an Telegraph Cables—Batied Burg- —Reai Estate Matters—Pickpockets in ‘Tronble—Pugnacions Anglers—Finapaal and i Commercial rt—Marriages and Deaths. #2-Hunting for He ay at the Free Labor Bu- reau—the Dinner of the Knights of St. Pairick—The Northern Pacite Ratlroad—ship- ping jateiligence— Advertisements, ig the Mare with The Brooklyn Navy = Tomb Goiig ta De- View of the Situacion §3—nugiisn biel! Spor ‘ou nds iu BD} A Verrrane Sv. Parriok—The handsome little stranger who, under very urgent circum- atances, was ushered into the world in the Dentre Street Hospital amid the booming of tue cannon of St. Patrick's Good luck to bim! eclebration, SkrNator 8: ne is ion as a good establishing a reputa- Since his first misun- lerstanding wii! President he has suf- fered no opporty y to pass unemployed to ent bis spleen upon General Grant and his Tabinet, and seems even willing to sacrifice the republican party, if by so doing he can injure the President, It is announced that the Senator contemplates at an early day mak- jing a speech on the condition of affairs at the South, in which he will arraign the President as false to his par'y and his country, in con- sequence of his neglect, at the beginning of the present session, to call the attention of Songress to matters requiring its attention, particularly to Southern outrages, of the exist- ence of which the President was oficially in- formed. Toe Eo Raiwway Lrri@ation,—~An im- mense crop of this litigation sprung up yester- day in the ted Stat-s Court, before Judge Biatchford. The various suils are now becom- Ang so mixed and muddled that it may well bo questioned if even the keenest lawyer engaged fn this Erie contention understand what they are all about except the fact that big fees are going and that the battle will proceed as long ‘as there are funds io and p it alive. English ree hips wnder the State courts and ap, ions to take papers off the files of the court formed the stay f yesterday's argument. Indeed, 't would be impossible to say when this bitter legal fichi is to have an end. It wo all surprise us if, before this li over, somebody will be badly staia sharebolders, hurt, é GLAND.~-The Emperor Louis Napoleon, Ewperor no more, is bourly expected in England. It is a funny thing that Eagland should be the asylum of unfortunate monarchs as the United States is the asylum of discontented democrats, When the First Napoleon threatened England from Boulogne the celebrated Robert Hall spoke of his country as ‘‘the last asylum of liberty.” No pne can refuse to admit that the United States and Great Britain are the two grand homes of liberty. Napoleon has been happy in Eng- land before. He has been bappy also in the United States. It is well that he should go to England now. But, if things do not turn out to bis advantage in France, we advise tim to come over to New York. Tammany Opens its doors to brains, and Napoleon's experience might be useful even to Peter Bis- marck Swe of our readers will doubtless be surprised to learn that this tyrant is none other than the Roman Catholic Church, and that his chief seat is in New York. We confoss that we } ought to have been aware of his presence here and of his designs, but as we do not wear gog- gies, like some of our neighbors and contem- poraries, we cannot see as they do. We are gravely informed that the Roman Catholic Charch is a political corporation, and that it always votes as a unit with (he democratic party against liberty and progress ; that it is rapidly acquiring vast tracts of real estate as grants from the cities and States which it con- trols, and which in this city alone amounts to ity millions of dollars; that the acquisition of so mach material wealth by one corporation is | injurious to our republican institutions and | will ere long prove fatal to our liberties, Pity us, O ye heathen, and deliver us from this monster! But the manner in which this thing is to be accomplished is as ridiculous as the result itself. The large cities, say those geatlemen, control the State Legisla- tures: thus New York city governs the State, Philadelphia rules Penasylvania, St. Louis Missouri, Chicago Illinois, New Orleans Louisiana, Boston Massachusetts and San Franeisco California, and so on throughout the country. And as the Roman Catholic Church controls those cities by the possession of so much real estate, it follows, as natu- rally as day and night succeed each other, that this Church is to control the State and federal Legislatures of the land by and by. All this trash and much more of the same sort would not be worth a moment's consideration did not our one-sided contemporaries and our warlike ministerial brethren treat it so seriously. If we believed, as they affect to believe, that such a danger threatened us, we should begin to convert our ploughshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears to meet this deadly foe. But there appears to us, perhaps in our simplicity and lack of prophetic insight, to be a glaring inconsistency between the preaching, the practice and the faith of those apostles of the sword and fagot. For example: One day we hear them in the pulpit and on the platform sbont- ing from the pinnacles of progress the praises of that Protestantism which they claim is gaining such headway in alllands. They point with pride to Spain; Italy, Mexieo and South America. Thei praise of Protestant Germany for the humilia tion of Catholic France is nnbounded, and th entrance of Victor Emmanuel into Rome is al certain sign that the days of ‘‘the man of sin’ are numbered. But when they turn their eyes toward America, and especially to this city, their joy is immediately changed to sorrow, and they fiud no comfort in the progress of their own faith elsewiere. But, good sira, if the vitality of religion consists in real estate, whether it be one million’s worth or fifty, why do not your churches and religious corpora- tions acquire it also? Then you will be on the same footing as the Roman Catholics. The State and city of New York appear to be just as willing to give you lots and plots for your religious and benevolent operations as they are toaid the Catholics in this way. But you refuse them, and, like the dog in the manger, what you: cannot get and do not want your- selves you are determined if possible that no one else shall get or have. But in regard te religious landlordism what are the facts? The population of these United States may be stated in round numbers at forty millions, of whom about thirty mil- lions are nominally or professediy Protestants, and five millions are Roman Catholics, leay- ing five millions more for infidels, athcists and heathen generally, The Methodist and Bap- list ies number each about ten millions of so and all the others about ten millions’ more. The church edifices of Protestantism throughout the land number 59 and those of Romanist age accommo- dation of the former is 343 persons each, or an aggregate of 17,650,000, and of the latier abon! 900,000 souls. The property and values of ths Protesiant denominations in the coun- try are about as follows :—Methodist, $80,000,000; Baptist, $60,000,000; Preshy- terian, $25,000,000; Reformed, $10,000,000 ; | Episcopal, $15,000,000; miscellaneous; #30,- 000,000; total, 000,000. The property of the ' Roman Catholic Church is about $80,000,000, the largest proportion of it lying in this city and State and along the Atlantic seaboard. Pitting real estate against real estate, therefore, it would seem from this showing that the Romaa Catholica have mach more to dread in the future than Protestants, and the more especially so siice, with every revolution of the earth upon i@s axis, the Methodists alone dedicate an average of two | churches throughout the land, and the other Protestant denominations are not very far bebind, The Cathoiies can show nothing to compare with this progress, and they have, therefore, the greater cause for complaint. But, again, what are we to thiak of the utterances of ministers, politicians and jonr, nalists who one day assure us that Romanisn ia dying and the next day seriously assure us that we are about to be strangled by it? We a shave no four that if tho question of maiutain- ing our republican institutions just as they are at this hour was put toa vote of the Catho- lic citizens of the country ninety-nine out of every hundred would vote affirmatively; and not only so, but they would vote the fullest and most perfect liberty to Protestants. Wo are ratber afraid to hazard a similar prophecy for the latter toward the former, If there is so much vitality in Protestantism as its adhe- rents insist there is (and we are willing to concede all that they claim for it), and so little ic Romanism as they also assert, why, may we not ask, are they 80 anxious to destroy that little with the sword? We cannot conceive any other purpose to be served by the flerce and fiery speeches and sermons of our neigh- bors and the editorials of some of our contem- poraries than the creation of a public sen- timent which must result in religious hos- tility; provided always, towever, that those utterances carry with them one- half the weight and importance which their authors give them. But seeing that, after so many attempts of this sort by the pulpit and the press, we are still at peace among ourselves, we are inclised to think that the community attach very little importance to those diatribes, According to our simple faith the vitality of Protestantism or of Catho- licity does not lie in lots or houses or legisla- tive enactments, but in the hearts of helievers, And if Catholicity takes hold of the haman | heart with a firmer grasp than Protestantism | then it deserves to succeed and it will succeed ; but if Protestantism has in it thet which appeals to every man’s conscience with greater | force it will and must sacceed. It is all | child’s talk to suppose that a church which | possesses the largest farms and the most | costly religious houses is going to live longest | and rule the world as with a rod of iron. The church and the creed that will have the mightiest sway in this world in all coming time is that which has, or will have, the great- est degree of purity, the most of truth and the simplest mode of presenting the same to the heart of humanity, This is our faith, and on this we are willing to rest the future of our own republican institutions and the perma- nence of civil and religious liborty in this land, and all who think with us will frown, as we do, upon those hypooritical croakers who would foment religious war among us, A Revolutionary Crisis in Paris. The tenor of the despatches from Paris which we publish this morning is most unfa- vorable for order and for the government of M. Thiers. According to previous announce- ment the authorities seem to have attempted the suppression of the insurrection at Mont- martre, but with results different from what were expected. Our despatches eay nothing about bloodshed, but speak of several Officers having been made prisoners. This is, to say the least, suggestive of fizhting. Montmartre was blockaded by three hundrod men under General Faron, and the hill was surrounded by large numbers of National Guards. The most significant item in the despaich is that which reports the armed sol- diers of the line fraternizing with the people, who filled the streets in large num- bers, shouting ‘Vive la République.” Tt is more than probable that the despatch does not tell the whole story. If there was no actual bloodshed in Paris yes- terday there was evidently an impulse given to the rovointionary element which will ter- minate fatally for the administration of M. Thiers if the sdldiers of the regular army abandon him. We expressed the opinion yosterday that General de Paladines would find it no easy task to surprise the cannon held by the insurgents, and a confirmation of the opinion is given in our despatches elsewhere. All the artillery in | the Place de la Vosges was removed on Friday i and the insurgents refused to permit one batialion of National Guards to mount the ramparts because it was not loyal io tlie re- public. By all accounts the revolutionists are | not only well prepared, but are also well handled. Their precautions againat | surprise have thus far been successful, and if their barricades and other defensive works are as formidable as reported they will give considerable trouble to the authorities. To the hour of going to press | nothing had reached us from Paris from which | it would have been possible to form a clear idea of the situation. The only despatch we have is so cautiously worded that we suspect it to have undergone a rigorous censorship be- fore transmission. It merely hints at a very serious state of affairs yesterday, which is possible enough to result in handiog over the destinies of France to the reds for a brief while. We confess to some surprise at the frater- nization of the regular soldiers with the insur- ge Vinoy and their other commanders are known to be imperialists, Is the alliance part of a Bonapartist plot to get rid of the Orleans Princes and the old Count of Cham- bord? or have the soldiers really become inoculated with the virus of red republican docirines? Whatever be the cause, we fear that the alliance bodes no good for France; and we trust that the despatches of to-day will bring the inte!ligence that a sufficient number of the troops remained faithful to the government of M. Thiers to enable it to tri- umph over the mob of anarchists which has raised the standard of rebellion in the Mont- martre quarter. Tur Fr ReIEF MOVEMENT IN THE Curr undersiand that this move- ment, which was commenced in some of the Protestant Episcopal churches of this city Jast Sunday (‘here was a collection of one thousand doilars in Grace church), will be resumed in others to-day. By invitation of Bizhop Potter the Rev. Dz. Verren will deliver asermon (in French) ‘o-day at the French Epis- copal Church du St. Esprit, after which a col- lection for the suffering French will be taken. Here will be a fine opportunity for citizens and strangers, especially of the French nationality, to drop in and contribute something to the good work, We cannot believe, meantime, that our Protestant churches generally will be guided in this matter by the objections, as a churchman, of the Episcopal Bishop Wiitting- ham, of Maryland; fr the Bishop counsels, not he Chrisiian example of the good Somaritan toward the robbed and disabled trave!lor, but the example of tue priest who passed Ly on the other side. The Situation in Mexico. By special telegram from the Hegaup's cor- respondent in Havana we have later advices from the city of Mexico, What a picture of tumult and disorder is presented in the de- spatch we have reeeived! Tae Congress of the republic bas convened, but for what pur- pose? Not to consider and enact measures that will be of benefit to the country; not to counsel peace in preference to war and blood- shed; not to strive and raise the State from the insignificant position it now occupies among the nations of the earth, No; it has been assembled to add fuel to the flame of dis- cord that now prevails; to strengthen the op- position party, so that in the civil war that is considered certain it will prove strong enough to render it victorious in the fleld; to secure the army against those who now control it; to incite the people of their side of the ques- tion to become more bitter against those who oppose them—in fact to do everything in its power to cause another dark and bloody chapter in the history of poor, unfortunate Mexico. What a prospect for the future! A bankrupt treasury; a civil war that will in- volve the entire country; rulers without honor or honesty; the highways infested with rob- bers and assassins—in fact in such a condi- tion that we cannot see one redeeming fea- ture, not a ray of hope that Mexico will ever be more than she is at present—the home of anarchy and revolution, When by reason of the influence of the Uniied States the French were compelled to leave Mexico, aud when the empire ended by the defeat, capture and execution of the unfor- tunate Ewperor Maximilian, it was hoped that Mexicans, profiting by the severe expe- rience of the ordeal through which they had passed, would endeavor to maintain peace at home and strive to regain some of the prestige they had lost. It was thought that some good mon could be found among those having influence with the masses who would exert themselves to strengthen home institutions; to preach peace, honesty and industry ; to encourage all that would tend to elevate the people; but these hopes have been dispelled, blown to the four winds, and we see now Mexico fallen almost to the deepest depths of degradation, unfitted to occupy a pluce among nations, and brought to this melancholy condition by the acts of those unscrupulous men who, instead of consider- ing the weli-being of the republic and their native land, prefer to plunge her deep into the mire of anarchy, and look oa calmly surveying the wreck they bave caused with no other feeling than that of how much profit they will make by it. Poor Mexico! What is to be her fate? A Jesuit Thunderer—Father Damen. To the list of eminent divines in the United States, whose words in the pulpit merit more than a momentary celebrity, Father Damen, of the Order of Jesus, must be added. He is 8 Belgian by birth, and just sufficient of a for- eign tinge remains in his acceatuation of Eng- lish to denote that fact. We need not repeat what the world already knows of the profound scholarship of these disciples militant of the soldier-priest, Ignatius Loyola, except to state that Father Damen is a worthy representative of that wonderfully intellectual brotherhood. His permanent residence is at the house of his Order, in Chicago, but for some weeks past he has been conducting missions, as they are called, in this city and Brooklyn. Elsewhere in our columnas we give a sketch of one of this learned father’s discourses delivered a few evenings ago at the Church of St, Lawreace, in East Eighty- fourth street. He seemed to direct bis logical batteries especially against what he calls his “separated brethren”—that is, all the non- | Catholic sects—by proving that the Bible could not be the essential basis of Christian religion. Some iden of his style will be gath- ered from his sermon. It might bo said that the mestal characteristics of the man are written in the outlines of the tall, solid form arrayed in Jesuit black; in the large, firmly balanced heed crowned with silver haira; in the high, square brow, clear, gray eyes, and the full face resting ona firm chin. There is a solidity and cumulative force in the direct- ness of his arguments which one would expeet from a broad-shouldered, broad-minded man. One can discern nothing of the nervously emotional either in his bright, frank face or his rebtoric. It is the impact of hard logic you feel, and not the brush of an angel’s wing. It is Augustine, not Lacordaire. Withal, he is never dry, but rather humorous in his illustration, and in this lies the success of his predication, for there is nothing in his explanation of the most occult theology which the meanest mind cannot grasp. Of course these sermons are the result of the lifelong concentration of a powerful mind upon the problem of the Cross, always starting from the absolute infallibility of the Church, and forc- ing all arguments back to the same point again, This, however, does not affect the value of his reasoniag; it is only a qnestion of motive, which is of no account in pure logic. Sophistry is the term the unenlightened or prejudiced will apply, but the unbroken arga- ment confronts them still. SMALLPOX oN Davin's Istanp.—It appears that this fearful disease prevails to » consider- able extent among the troops on David's Island, so much so that General McDowell has placed it under quarantine. We remember that the yellow fever mado its appearance among the Uniled States soldiers on Gover- nor'’s Island last fall, but the patients were promptly sent by Dr. Carnochan to West Bank Hosp'tal, away off in the lower bay, and thns the contagion was removed from the city. We hope that General McDowell will be equally successful in restraining the spread of the smallpox. But, notwithstanding the pre- valence of this disease on David's Island, it is satisfactory to know that it is declining gen- erally in our vicinity. Even the cases which arrive on ships from Liverpool and London, which the Health Officer carefully sends to West Bank, are not as a general thing of a very dangerous type. Thera need be no fear, therefore, of a spread of the disease under proper quarantine and sanitary management, Governor Horrman’s Vero of the bill to increase the expenses of the police couris by the appointment of additional clerks, which would add fif.y-four thousand dollars a year to the taxes of the city, is generally approved, if be would only electrify the State bv vetolag some of the vast jobs involving millions of dollars to the State, how it would add to bis Popularity ! The Princess Beatrice—Reported Marriage Engagement. It Is now reported that the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, the Princess Beatrice, is affiznoed to the youthful Marquis of Ely, The report may be without foundation, but it is not on that account the less interesting. It indi- cates the sentiment of the British people in the matter of royal marriages. It shows that the principle adopted by the Queen in the little love affair of the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne has engaged the attention ot the British public and that the Queen’s policy is most heartily endorsed, Scotland is proud of the Argyll affair, It is pleasing to the little kingdom to know that at ieast for one time more the blood of the Scottish people is to mingle with that of the governing family. Queen Victoria, with that good sense which has always distinguished her, has found out that she has paid a compliment to Scotland, and if thero is anything in this Beatrice-Ely affair it means that the Queen means to pay a similar compliment to Ireland.. The Ely family is scarcely less ancient and not a whit less noble than that of Argyll. It is our con- viction that the rumor regarding the Princess Beatrice and young Ely is well founded, and for this reason—that in consequence of the Marchioness of Ely having been for years one of the Queen’s principal ladies in waiting, the two young people have grown up to,ether, In democratic America we have no cause to be sorry that the most popular monarch of modern times has discovered a means of re- conciling all the peoples that look to her as sovereign, Reconstructed Germany mast look to the fact that Victoria says—‘* We want no more German lairdies,” Dr. Duryea und the Tempernnce Question. As long as we can remember the religious press of this country has taken the subject of temperance into its especial keeping. Reli- gious revivals are allowed to slumber if the soul of temperance can be touched, When that soul is qnickened it seems as if all the crimes “that flesh is heir to” must fecl the shock and the work of human regeneration go onat anenhanced pace. To judge from this week's religious press, taking two or three for examples, we find that Dr. Duryea has created quite a sensation by his sermon on temperance delivered before his congregation on Sunday before last. Dr. Duryea is inclined to be merciful to those who are, from inclination or friendly and social associations, disposed to quaff the exhilarating juices of thevineyard. The Heangelist terms this movement of Dr. Duryea a “commo- tion”—which we hold to be a little more than a “sensation”"—and the Independent thinks the whole question of total abstinence from all alcoholic beverages, viewed from his (Dr. Duryea’s) standpoint, is simply one of “expediency.” The Hvangelist thinks the Doctor did not believe that drinking wine was wrong in itself, but ‘abstinence from it was wise as a matter of Christian expe- diency.” In order, however, to make the subject as clear as possible, and to allow Di. Duryea to speak for himself, as well as to give its readers an opportunity to judge for themselves, the Zvangelist announces that it shall publish next week the Doctor's sermon in full, carefully revised and corrected by the author. It is regarded as somewhat remarkable that Dr. Duryea did not recur to this subject in the sermon he delivered last Sabbath. Perhaps he may enlarge upon it to-day, and thus re- lieve his congregation and a large number of his temperance friends from their prevailing anxiety about bis real views on this very interesting and important topic. Tue Prestpext AMoNnG tHE HiserNtaNns,— General Grant, in honor of St. Patrick, dined on the evening of St. Patrick’s Day with the Hiberniaa Society of Philadelphia, at the St. Cioud Hotel, in that ‘city of brotherly love.” His visit there is said to be in reference to the choice of a Collector for the port. His dinner with the Hibernians, however, is a good hit, and wonld have been a good hit had he gono to Philadelphia for that express purpose. It shows that while some of our republican jour- nals are foolistly laboring to revive the old condemned Know Nothing spirit General Grant is, by his example, endeavoring to cul- tivate ‘‘brotuerly love” among all races and creeds of the American people. This is the true policy, and eminently worthy this Phila- delphia example and all the other good exam- ples we have had from General Grant on the broad platform of ‘equal rights.” Marstats MAcManon aNp Bazarne.—It is announced from Paris that althougi Marshal MacMahon sapporta the present government of France he will retire from the army to private life. This simply means that the Mar- shal sti!l adheres to Napoleon and does not intend to compromise his future by taking service uader the new government, Mar- shal Bazaine, on the other hand, although supposed to ba the most violent Bouapartist among the French commanders, does not intimate any intention of resigaing, but insists upon an investiga- tion into his coaduct at Metz. It was stated some time ago that Bazaine had begun coquet- ting with the Orleans princes, and it is likely enongh that he is taking the initial steps to abandoning Napoleon, If he is, his conduct will appear in marked contrast to that of Marshal MacMahon, and will leave a stain upon his reputation. Tue Pacirio Rat.Rroaps.—It is encouraging to see the opening of business on that portion of the Northern or Oregon Pacific Railroad already finished. It seems to be the intention of the incorporators to hurry the road to a completion. The Southera or Texas Pacific is also in a fair way to an early completion, Both of these roads have received enormous grants of land from Congress, and there ought to be no impediment to steady work upon them. One good effect of the opening of the two new thoronghfarcs from the Atlantic to the Pacific will be the lowering of fares and freight tariffs on the present line, and the con- sequent increase of traffic, The roads them- selves will in time build up way trade of their own, as they build up the country through which they pass, so that they will not be de- pendent upon the immease through travel for their profits, reread ‘The Palpit Lights of Judnivm, During the past few weeks we have pub- lished each Sunday carefully reported abstracts of the sermons delivered on the Jewish Sab, bath in the principal synagogues of the city, They have been taken at haphazard, the only standard of selection being the high reputa- tion of the preachers, and, therefore, fairly represent the general tone of pulpit teaching among American Israelites. And their tone has been so high and the principles advanced so noble and liberal that we are sure our readers will welcome what we propose now to glve—brief criticisms of three great representative Jewish preachers, First of all we shall take Dr. Gutheim, of the Temple Emanuel, a comparatively young man, but with a world-wide reputation for his scholarly acquirementa, for the progressive and conclliatory attitude he has assumed toward the outside Christian world, and for an eloquence which, though rarely impas- sioned, is thoughtful, earnest and impressive. Ho looks at every injunction of the law, every tradition of his race and every ancient Jewish enstom in the naked light of abgolute logic. He accepts nothing until it has been ad.” judged acceptable by the unbiassed de- cision of the intellect. He, so to speak, untwists the very fibres of theologic dogmas, and holds fast only to such threads of divine light as seem agreeable to the spirit of the age and the genius of the people among whom he has been thrown. We shall next take Dr. Isaacs, a kindly but stubborn conservative, Here and there in his sermons plainly crop out doubts whether the old scheme of Judaism must not, perforce, be somewhat modified. But, as a matter of principle, he is ever anxious to tread in the ancient paths of thought and worship and custom, He evidently thinks that all change, even thongh it be for the better, is a misfor- tune anda necessary evil. Asa scholar he holds a deservedly high rank; but even hig scholarship is colored by his habits of thought and is tinged with a not unpleasing tint of pedantry. He is so genial, however, in the expressed tone of his discourses that all, Christian and Gentile elike, learn to love and respect him, And now we shall say a few words about Dr. Vidaver, a rabbi who stands between the two extremes we have thus briefly sketched. He sees that, like every other faith, Judaism must adapt itself to the altered surroundings of nineteenth century civilization, andis willing to cheerfully accept all inevitable changes, Such changes as are forced upon him in the present he, indeed, considers as harmless; but running through all his pulpit speech is a plainly marked undertone of dread at the pos- sible changes of the future. He is a prey to two opposite hopes. He desires to see every barrier broken down between Jew and Gentile, socially and politically, but, proud of the noble blood that runs in his veins, he shrinks from the possibility, how- ever remote, of the two races mixing together and ceasing to be distinct. In the synagogue heis eager todiscard the absurdities that have, like some unhealthy excrescence, grown over pure Judaism ; but he wants such a re- form to have a definite goal, and he fears that innovation will not stop at the limit which he would fain mark for it. In conclusion, we can only say how glad wa are to notice that Christian ministers now largely attend the synagogues. Toa public religious teacher nothing could be more salu- tary, as it cannot hut induce a feeling of wider, deeper and more earnest tolerance. Good men and pure livers are too scarce in these latter evil days to be kept apart by the narrow prejudices of doctrinal differences. The Industrial Losses of France—The Wine Districts amd the Production of Wine. Princes and miliiary heroes must not engrosa attention solely in our consideration of the cur- reat history of the late war in France and its consequences. The materialistic losses which the people of that coun‘ry have sustained in the sgricultural districts are enormous and calculated to affect the social and domestic economies of the French people as well as the income and finance of the nation injuriously for years to come. A HERALD special correspon- dent at Bordeaux sets forth in his letter, which we publish to-day, that four hundred and el:-hty~ four thousand acres of the wine growing districts of France have been occupied by the*Prussian troops. Counting the portions of the soil of Touraine and Nievre, with paris of Brittany and Normandy, which were invaded, the grand total of wine producing soil which passed under the control of the Prussians in France, foota up six hundred thousand acres. The production of wine in this area was equal to one hundred and sixty millions of gaHons, which, when sold at «ven fifty American cents fora gallon, gave to the country eighty mil- lions of dollars. The greater part of this was lost to France during the past year. It will be still worse in the wine season of 1871. The people in the wine country are vasdy dis- heartesed. It is bad, too, for wine con-~ sumers and traders in tho United States and England. The cost of the luxury will be advanced ; the adulteration of the article will be more frequent and of a character still more dangerous to health than at present. It may be that all this will inure to the spread of temperance ; that out of evil may come good. His Majesty of Germany may have even had in view the intent of converting the French to the use of lager beer—‘‘one flag and zwei lager”"—and_ thus benefiting the home trade of the empire from Borlin to the ‘Castle crag of Drachenfels.” I: will be seen, however, that France hag suffered many other losses—losses in her hop fields, losses in her acres of cereals and losses in her farm yards—all footing up a most enor. mous money aggregate. Unhappy France! Her sorrows are so deep, however, that the causes which excite them may revolutionize European society far more extensively than was at first anticipated by those who have chastised her, Atrempr to Rop THR BANK OF Com. MERCE.—During Friday night a party of bur- glars entered the Bank of Commerce, corner of Nassau and Cedar streets, and made » determined effort to break open the vaults of the institution. Several large holes were drilled into the doors of the vaults and filled with powder. In the powder was placed fuse leading to the front door, outeide of which the burglars took the precaution to place then] ay ‘