The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1871, Page 6

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PAGE. t—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3=The High Commission: American Negotiators ina Dilemma; The Unanswerable Counndram of the Alapama Claims; Keportea Agreement Upon a Basis of Settlement—Washington: Pros- pects of an Early Adjournment of Congress— ‘The Presidency: Plotting for tie Succession— The Coal Riots—Cotfee and Tea—New Jersey Politics—Newark’s Last Excitement, 4—Religious : Commemorating the Mystery of the Resurrection ; The Most Glorious Festival of Christianity; Its Legends and Its Lessons ; The Beauties of Nature, the Refluements of Art and the Flowers of Eloquence Contribut- ing 10 the Joys of Easter ; Services and Ser- Mons in the Metropolis and Elsewhere. S—Religions (continued from fourth Page)— Horse Notes—Musical aud Theatrical Notes— Boat Race at Saiem, Nass,—Violations of the Game Law—Sad Case of Poisoning, G—Eilitoriais: Leading Article, “vreliminary Con- vention and Platform of the Admunisiration irty”—Amusement Announcements. 7—Editoriais (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Rouge Revolt: Desperate Fighting Around Paris on Saturday ; A Battie at Viltejalf—criti- cisms of New Books—Fine Arts—Miscella- neous Telegrams—City Lnotelligence—Disas- trous Row—A Row Among the Roses— Business Notices. S—Financial and Commercial Reports—The Earl of Aberdeen—Arrangements for the Sports- men’s Convention—Base Bail Notes—National Guard Veterans—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- vertisements, O—Advertisements. 10—Shall St, Domingo be Annexed? Sir James Walker, Governor of the Bahamas, Counsels Annexation—Frightful Accident on the Bos- top, Hartford and Erie Railroad—Terrible Marder in New Orleans—The Crittenden Homi- cide: Continuation of the Defence—Tne Weather—Shipping —_Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisements. 19—Advertisements. Our Advertisements Yesterday. The value of the independent as compared with the party press was never, on this Conti- nent, at least, so unmistakably revealed as it was in these columns yesterday. Our quad- ruple sheet was all but too small for the adver- tisements, news, editorials and other matter which imperiously demanded admission. Fifty-nine columns of advertisements was a magnificent vote of confidence in the New York HEekatp as a newspaper, as a public teacher, as a direct, simple, effective medium for the transaction of business. It is the first time in the history of the American press that go large aspace has been devoted to adver- tisements alone. We question if even the London Times, that greatest of European journals, ever made so grand a show. As we have said, we regard it as a vote of confidence in the Heratp. We accept it as a recogni- tion of the superior merits of the independ. ent as compared with the party press. We rejoice in it as a proof of the marvellous growth and astonishingly increasing pros- perity of this city aud neighborhood. We look forward to the not distant day when the quadruple shall have sweiled into a sextuple, and when the sextuple shall in proportion be as crowded with advertisements us was the quadruple of yesterday. Sreawosxrreries from Charleston are in town; but at the low figure of two dollars and a half per quart, with the stems on, we cannot recommend them for general consumption. ‘They are, for everyday purpoges, like the Tammany men in the bisbcceeet election— they do not pay expenses. Tue Commissioners oF Pusttc Somo0Ls.— All who appreciate the vast importance of popular education will agree with Mayor Hall fa bis opinion that the new Charter, in provid- municipal departments, ‘should have in- clnded one of education.” It is gratifying to fearn from the correspondence between the wenerable Peter Cooper and the Mayor, which the Henatn published récently, that any ap- Prehensions lest the proposed amendment to the of! Charter, introduced in the State Sen- ate by Mr. Twoed, should, if passed, result in doing away with the excellent Board of Com- missioners, must now be allayed by the Mayor's resolution to reappoint each and every one of the present members of the Board to member- in the new Department of Instruction. Mayor endorses the merited eulogy of the by Mr. Cooper, and declares that all its ‘members have proved themselves to be vigi- economical and conscieationsly devoted the exceedingly delicate trusts committed to Prelimisary Ocnvestion and Platform of tho Admiuistratios Party. That little gathering of the Indians Republl- ean Association at Washington on Saturday night “has a much greater politica! significance than the mass of people mayimagine. Though the meeting was worked up spparently by 6 few office-holders from Indians to give Senator Morton an opportunity to ventilate his ideas outside the Senate Chamber, it was, evidently, carefully prepared by and with the advice and consent of General Grant and his friends as an important political movement. The Presi- dent, Vice President Colfax, the inevitable Colonel Forney, the Indians members of Con- gress and others were there to assist, All was quietly arranged, and General Grant seemed to have dropped in at the National Hotel to visit Senator Morton just in the nick of time; but the initiated understood why he was there, and the Marine Band had their instruments ready tuned and music books open to play ‘‘Hail to the Chief” the moment he showed his face on the hotel baloony. As the old saying goes, ‘Great oaks from little acorns grow ;” and so this ap- parently improvised office-holders’ meeting, at which the President of the United States as- sisted, must be regarded as a sort of pre- liminary convention to nominate General Grant for the Presidential race of 1872 and to lay down a platform for the party. This meeting furnishes a curious chapter to the political history of the country. Consider- ing that more than a year must elapse before the regular Presidential nominating conven- tion will be held the President and bis friends have taken time by the forelock in thus at- tempting to forestall the action of that body and to head off rival aspirants. Not the least curious circumstance connected with this affair was that the President was on the spot to hear his nomination and the extraordinary laudation that accom- panied it. From the presence of Vice President Colfax, also, there is reason to be- lieve that he too is on the slate for 1872, and that the ticket is to be the same as in 1868. This seems the more probable, as the move- ment is a Western and an Indiana one, par- ticularly when we consider that Senator Mor- ton—who was the prominent figure in it—and Colfax had been rivals and not on very friendly terms previously. We suppose, there- fore, that these political chiefs have agreed to bury the hatchet, in view of the troubles in the republican camp, and to harmonize the party. Their action, the appearance of the President: at the mecting and the whole pro- ceedings are intended as a warning, no doubt, to all other republican aspirants to stand back and not to think of getting on the track for 1872. True, it is something unusual for cas- didates to nominate themselves or to assist directly in doing #0, especially so long in advance, but the exigencies of _the party and the times may justify that now. Generally prominent candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency have kept away from the nominating conven- tions, leaving their friends to do the work for them; but-there is no law against men attena- ing to their own business or interests. Extra- ordinary circumstances make exceptions to general rules, and even personal modesty hes to give way when great public matters are in question. : The platform laid down at the Washinston initiatory convention is not very compreheu- sive, and, perhaps, is all the better for that. It endorses in the strongest terms the administration of General Grant and eulogizes Vice President Colfax for bis distinguished services in language that probably brought a blush of modesty to his cheeks. The other resolutions, proclaiming the praises of Sen- ator Morton, his colleague Senator Pratt, all the representatives in Congress from Indiana and every Indiana republican, were thrown in for a little diversion and mutual gratifica- tion. Indeed, there never were a body of men got together who tickled each other with more satisfaction or went through the mutual admiration busi- ness with more gusto. But, as we said, all this was thrown in, the real purpose being to endorse the President and Vice President and to put them fairly on the track for 1872. Of course the republican party, its purity, ser- vices, greatness and exalted patriotism, were extravagantly praised. The necessity of unity and fidelity of the party was urged, and a determination was expressed to repel all assaults upon the party, ‘‘whether from internal foes or political adversaries.” No one can fail to understand the motive for this expression of ‘‘internal foes.” The gist and motive of the whole proceedings of the meet- ing lie in these two words. They mean all opponents of the administration and its Presi- dential programme, They .were intended to hit, no doubt, Sumner, Schurz, Fenton and a host of other republican leaders who have dared to show ambition or independence, As to other matters the resolutions are silent. But Senator Morton and Colfax, particularly the former, supplied all that was needed on political issues, The speeches of these gen- tlemen make up the platform of principles or issues upon which the administration party intend to go before the public. There is one thing, however, that is not mentioned—no, not even alluded to either in the resolutions or speeches—and that is the pet St. Domingo scheme of the administra- Yon. We do ot Tefer to this by way of re- proach or to poke the administration tn a tender spot, but rather in commendation of the sagacity the President ahd his friends have shown in go utterly abandoning this un- Popular scheme. If the democrats were as wise in dropping unpopular issues and trim- ming their sails for the popular breeze they would succeed much better thaa they do. But what of the platform of principles laid down | in Senator Morton's speech? Boiled down, as Andy Johnson would say, we see nothing bat the shreds of the past—nothing but « general tirade against the democrats for their past follies and the great things the republicans, by way of contrast, assumo to have done since they have been in power. Then the Senator raises up. a frightful Ku Klux spectre to frighten the voters of the North into the republican fold. It looks, indeed, from the proceedings of this meeting, the action of Congress and the general course of the party, as if the Ku Klux spectre is to be made the main issue before the people. An effort is strenuously made to fasten somo of NEW YORK HE the mannfactured Ku Klax opprobrium upon the democrats. This Ka Klux, it is thought, will be a good enough Morgan for the republi- cans until after the Presidential election in 1872, Another monstrous bugaboo Senator Morton calls up to alarm the voters is that the democrats might repudiate the national debt. What says the democratic city of New York, where the greater part of the debt and finan- cial operations of the country are concen- trated, to this? It is more likely that Mr. Morton's section, the West, would repadiate the debt than the democrats. But there is no fear that avy party in this country will enter- tain such a thought, The Senater boasts of the republican administration having paid off ® considerable amount of debt, bat he for- gets to tell us this has been done by wringing four or five hundred milllons a year out of the hard earnings of the American people. In fact, the whole of the republican platform, as laid down by Mr. Morton, is negative. He proposes no great measures. He brings forward no popular issue, He and the administration party ex- pect to flourish upon the old war issues that are obsolete, and all their efforts now are directed to galvanize the dead past. _ No great party can exist long ia that way. General Grant, Speaker Colfax, Senator Morton and the little circle of their friends at the Washing- ton meeting have opened the campaign for 1872, but it has yet to be seen if other promi- nent leaders of the party will accept their action or follow them. The race is not always to the ewift. Vast changes may take place in the course of a year, and these gentlemen may yet discover that they started too early. The Drama of Blood Before Paris. On Saturday last the fighting before Paris was resumed, and our despatches represent it as having been desperate, Throughout the day the guns of Fort Mont Valcrien and the arifllery of the government forces kept up a steady fire upon Porte Maillot, many of the shells falling in the Champs Elys¢es.. Under cover of this bombardarent the troops are said to have crossed the Seine at Aznieres and concentrated at Longchamps, They must, con- eeqren'ly, be in the Bois de Boulogne. Onthe south side of Paris an engagement took place at Villjaif, a small town some three miles distant from the ramparts and in front of Forts Ivry and Bicetre. This place we take to bave been the advanced position held by theinsurgeats, The resalt of the conflict is not reported, ba! it must have been favorable to the Versailles army, as the despatches state that the troops had gainsd ground in front of Forts Montrouge and Bicetre. More desperate fight- ing was, however, anticipated. Ia fact, we look for a speedy resumption of the offeasive by the insurgeats. At last accounts a flotilla of gunboats and a train of siege gun3 wero on their way to aid in reducing the city and the southern forts. In addition, M. Thiers . was said to be averse to forcing an entrance into Paris by fizating, preferring the slower and less bloody process of an investment. Unaware, as we are, of the precise situation of affairs around the French capital, it is diffi- cult to form a correct idea concerning the yrisdom of M. Thiers’ reported policy. But it is certain that, whatever may be the best plan for the Army of Veraailles to follow, the insurgents dare not permit an investment of Paris. The city contains but a very small supply of provisions, and, if invested, must capitulate to starvation in a few days. Hence we conclude that the Communist leaders will endeavor to break through the line which seems to be gradually drawing around the ramparts. Their chances of success are, it must be said, rather slim. Already we have reports of their fizhting among themselves in the Fau- bourg St. Antoine because of the refusal of some of the insurgents to go beyond the walls. Whatever be the trae cause of these dissensions—whether it be terror of the government forces or _ disaffec- tion—the fact of the insurgents” lack- ing in unity will materially aid the authorities in crashing the insurrection and restoring order. But be this as it may, we still hold to the opinfon that the end will not arrive for some days yet, and that in the interval there will be severe fighting. The situation within Paris continued most deplorable, although the “party of concilia- tion” were redoubling their efforts, and had held public meetings in favor of peace, which were attended by members of the Commune. Paris, however, was under the control of a desperate gang of wretches. Bergeret had been arrested, arbitrary arrests had increased in nusnber, more priests had been thrown in prison and church services had been generally sus- pended. To add to the horrors of the situa- tion, the insurgents, compelled to evacuate the Champs Elys¢es, were engaged in erecting additional barricades in other parts of the city, thereby inflicting much misery upon the inhab- itants, Napoleon’s name comes up again in the despatches in a statement of a London paper that Bismarck is still favorable to his restore- tion, This, however, may be a mere opinion; but even if itis authoritative it cannot help the ex-Emperor unless the Germans interfere in the civil contest now pending, and we doubt if Napoleon would accept the throne from German bands. He would prefer to take it from any party in France, even from the Com- munists themselves. Nor, by the way, would it be anything very extraordinary if the Paris insurgents, finding their cause hopeless, wete to proclaim the restoration of the empire, and thus win over the army opposed to them, It must be remembered that the same class of men now in revolt supported the {nsurrection of June, 1848, which was s by General Cavaignac. This revolt began with shouts of “Vive Napoleon!” and ‘Vive UEmpereur!” and the men who uttered them were just as much communists and socialists as are the insurgents now behind the ramparts and barricades of Paris, Tae Ko Kxvx bill will probably be reported to the Senate by the Judiciary Committee just as it passed the House, and will probably be passed at once without amendment. On the heels of this bill Representative Hale, of Maine, proposes to introduce & new amnesty bill that fs more generous than preceding ones, and is, consequently, an appropriate ten- der to the Ku Klux bill, But it still lacks the clement of full, free pardon to every one, and bien lacking generosity lacks true statespan- ship. F PAS aE ALD, MONDAY, APRIL 10 I87L-THIPLE SHEMP. The Power of Uhrist’s Life and Leve. There never lived on earth a personage who has attracted such universal attention tmiration as He whose ignominious death and glorious resurrection the Christian Church celebrated yesterday. Other great teachers of religion and morals lived before His day and had their followers, but one after another they have faded or are fading away from the faith and conscience of mankind. In regard to many of them there was an inconsistency between their personal lives and their pablio teachings, and as the world grows if intolli- gence this fact must be damaging if not dama- ing to the cause with which it is connected. But the most malicious sceptic who has ever sought to weaken or to throw down the founda- tions of our faith has never attempted to gain- say the perfect purity of the Savigur's life. He may quibble Over certain sayings of Jesus, and may deny the supernatural in His mira- cles; he may desp! » the whole Christian soheme and mock at the doctrine of a vicarious atonement, but he must ever stand silent before a life which bas no stain upon it— before a man who, though tempted in all points like as we are, was yet without sin. It was by the power of His life, and not by the eloquence of His preaching, that Jesus of Nazareth won the multitude to himself in the days of His flesh. It was by the power of His life that His disciples after Him were able to preach His word with effect and to win con- verts by thousands to his standard. And it is by the power of His life that the Church in all ages bas perpetuated itself and commanded the respect, if not the admiration, of the world. The power of an upright, stainless life is incalculable. It cannot be resisted; and, whether men will hear the Gospel or whether they will forbear, they must acknowledge the truth written in the life and words and actions of every man who professes to and does faith- fully follow the Lord Jesus Christ. It has come to be a truism in this our own age that the world ‘will no longer judge us by our creeds, but by our acts; and the sublimest creed that ever was written or uttered was that by the Saviour when he bade us ‘‘Do unto others as we would have others do unto us.” We do not wonder. that this should be called “the Golden Rule.” It works nothing but good, and the man who squares his life by it will find peace and pleasure here, and a joy unspeakable and full of glory hereafter. But there was in the Lord Jesus Christ's life the manifestation of another power equally grand and sublime—the power of divine love, He came not only to fulfil the law and the prophets, but to manifest God's love to a sin- ful world. It was impossible before the com- ing of Christ for mankind to have any other conception of the Creator than that which they had—namely, a God of fierce countenance, taking vengeance upon his adversaries and recompensing his enemies, The Jewish law and the prophecies breathe very little else than threatenings and slaughter against sinful nations and individnals; but the. Christian law and the Gospel teaching are full of the spirit of love and peaco and long suffering. God is no longer a hater of the human race, but an intense lover of it. He so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son—the express image of His person—to die for sinful humanity that we might have a different and @ truer conception of the Great Father. Now men can feel a relation to and a sympathy with the Almighty which they could never have felt without such a manifestation of God in the flesh as the world has had. It is fitting, therefore, that at this season of the year the power of the Saviour’s sublime life and of the Father’s unutterable love should be brought vividly before our minds by the ordi- nances of the Church as the latier is by the developments of nature. But such a life and such love were too su- perhuman to be fully appreciated by men whose fondest schemes and most cherished hopes were brought into striking contrast with them day by And hence the world could not long suffer the Son of God or the Son of Mary to live and to preach as He had done, ‘And all who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” A little persecution now and again would be a great invigorator and purifier of the Church. It is dying of respectability and fashion. Itno longer makes its people ‘‘a peculiar people, a royal priest- hood, @ holy nation,” but allows such a same- ness to exist between them and the world that they might almost at any time, now, be mis- taken each forthe other. The great deside- ratum of the Church to-day is holiness of life and a fervent love for Christ and for the seve- ral members of His body. And for this let all good men pray and labor and second the efforts of the Heratp to bring about these glorious results, The High Commission=The Basis of Set- tlement Agreed Upon. The Joint High Commission, according to what is called good authority outside of the members themselves, have agreed upon a basis for the settlement of our fishery diffi- culties. American fishermen are to be per- mitted to fish in Canadian waters, to land and dry their fish and cleanse their nets in Canadian territory, and the United States is to pay a certain sum of money for these privileges. As to the Alabama claims, certain general international principles, covering the neutrality theories ander which the Alabama claims arose, have already been laid down by the Commission, and it has been agreed that commissioners shall hereafter be appointed to adjust the claims themselves on the basis proposed in the principles thus laid down. This agreement is ald to have been already forwarded to Eng- land for approval, and it is stated that by the 1st ef May the entire conclusions of the Com- mission will be ready for submission to the two governments, It fs satisfactory, doubtless, to the Glouces- ter fishermen to know that their interests have been o well attended to as to secure them all they could have desired, but it can hardly be 80 satisfactory to the general public to know that they are to pay out of their own pockets to the benefit of these fishermen for what the publio mind has been trained to believe is rather a right than a privilege. The agree- ment in regard to the Alabama claims is so vaguely stated that we are in doubt yet whether we aro to have the old John- son-Clarendon Arbitration Committee, or merely a formal auditing of the accounts will put © prompt estoppel upon any final pro- ceedings in the matter, and if the latter the auditing need amount to nothing more than s clerkly checking off of the items that we have summed up ere now in the Heratp. How- ever, by the 1st of May—moving day—we shall hear from the august Commission, and be better able to decide whether the mysterious ways in which they have moved will tend hereafter to more settled harmony or more un- pleasant discord between us as neighbors. Sermons on the Resurrection. Exoopting at. very few churches all the the sermons delivered ‘ yesterday were de- voted to the subject of the Resurrection. A theme so appropriate to the day, and one so pregnant with ideas, could not fail to. produce some able discourses, which, delivered in elo- quent language, brought before the hearers the picture of the last great scene in the mighty drama of the sacrifice of the Son of God for sinning man, To those who had passed the forty days of Lent in penitential exercises— who had searched their hearts and torn there- from all the wickedness which abounded therein—Easter Sunday must have been a@ real day of rejoicing. ‘‘The gates of heaven are thrown open,” said Father Gallagher, at St. Peter’s, ‘‘angels came down upon Earth, the eclipsed Sun shines in re- newed splendor.” And was it not easy, when we remember what a beautiful day it was yesterday, to apply this language to the Easter Sunday just past? ‘The grave is still here, yawning for the multitude to fill its silent depths. But it is not the same as if Jesus Christ had not come.” So spoke Dr. Hall. No, it is not the same; the resurrection as- sured us of that life beyond the grave of which even the chosen people of God had but a faint, dim conception before Christ came. It showed us how death was conquered—how, to quote from Father Doucet’s sermon at St. Patrick’s, the hope of immortality ‘is not something resting’ on speculation or imagination,” Yesterday, ‘at least, witnessed but little sec- tarianism in the pulpit. Catholio and Pres- byterian, Episcopalian and Methodist, Baptist and Congregational—in a word, all the denomi- nations, united in commemorating the anni- versary of the day when Christ rose from the dead and went forth to sit at the right hand of the Father. The sermon of Father Hecker was not less eloquent and touching than the discourse of Mr. Beecher, and the eloquence of Dr. Chapin was equalled by the earnestness of Father Ronan. If Mr. Hepworth taught that the resurrection proved man superior to the bonds of death, Father Lake, in Brooklyn, showed how it was the day of liberation, when the spirit could walk forth “ii all the majesty of free- dom.” In a word, all the preachers told the same story and drew the same conclusions from it. Indeed, they could not differ in their conclusions; for there can be but one meaning to the resurrection, and all who call them- selves Christians must believe in it, no matter to what sects they belong. To-day let those who prayed in penitence during the Lenten season and who rejoiced yesterday—let them strew flowers on the graves of the dead whose spirits, risen from the grave, sing, with the cherubim aud sera- phim, praises of the Triune God, awaiting the more glorious day when the mystery of creation shall be revealed and man shall walk forth to eternal life. The Row at Albany—Is Jim Irving to be Expelled? The committee investigating the assault upon Mr. Weed in the Assembly are busily engaged upon that subject. The House must maintain its dignity. We would not prejudge the case, but if Mr. Irving is to blame for the assault there should be no hesitancy about his prompt expulsion. No question of majorities nor of politics should enter into the discussion. It is, in fact, hardly possible, if the circum- stances a8 at first reported are true, that Mr. Weed can retain his’seat and his self-respect, too, unless the indignity heaped upon him shall be resented by the House in some manner more severe than mere censure. He will probably resign unless Irving is expelled, and the democratic preponderance will suffer equally in either cage. There are some very important measures to come before the Assembly during the present week with which the democratic interests in this city are closely identified. The new tax levy scheme is one of them, and from the united front which the republicans opposed to it in the Senate and the personal affection which the small members have for the old arrangement, it is quite likely that opposition enough may be engendered in the Assembly to defeat it if the democratic majority is cut down so much that the parties are ata tie, It is not likely that the people of this city or the smaller democratic members of the Assembly will be sorry on this account. The new Registration bill, which substantially does away with registration in this city, is also to come up for final passage before the Assembly, and in the event of Irving’s ex- pulsion or Weed’s resignation ft too will be likely to go by the board unless some republi- can of easy virtue can be found to support it. Unfortunately there is nothing hopeless in this latter alternative; but, even if there were, the Assembly cannot afford to let ite dignity be insulted with impunity. It may require some nerve and some self-sacrifice on the part of the democrats of the House; but there is no help for it. They must maintain what dignity they have, and if these two obnoxious bills are finally defeated the cause may be traced directly to that unfortunate blow upon Weed’s nose, Sumner axp Butter are to be serenaded by the colored folks of Washington. Now we'll hear which is the republican party, Sumner or Grant; and we'll hear too which one Butler traing with. Tr 18 Prosastz, with the prompt passage of the Ku Klux bill in the Senate, that the two houses will adjourn on Friday. With peace promised in the South and peace se- cured in Washington that will be a good Friday. Catoaco Has Inventep 9 mew terror for married men, When @ woman is jealous of her husband there, now, she has ber brother shoot him, The brother-in-law, consequently, has become almost as terrible an element of fear in private life as the mother-in-law or an | ~"etidoment, If it ia the former the Gonate | the aame relative in polidon, envy. every man whose palpit can command such universal attention from preachers and people, albeit many of them con- demn his words; and this of itself is a tribute to.a well earned reputation. But in this tem- perance crusade against Dr. Duryea we behold how easily a man’s principles may be mis- judged and his words misinterpreted. Any one acquainted with the Doctor must be aware that he would be one of the last men in the country to encourage or to advocate intempe- ranee or any other vice; but it is not easy for men who ride hobbies to perceive anything but what they themselves create or carry with them. They cannot recognize the fact that a man may drink without being a drunkard, and eat without being a glutton, and that total abstinence should no more’ be applied to tie one than to theother. Dr. Duryea can afford to wait, however, until his brethren who have so hastily condemned him shall know him bet- ter, when they will, we are sure, appreciate his motives and hia words as they cannot now. As a preacher the Doctor is philoso- phical without being heavy and dull, and all his arguments in support of Christian doc- trines and gospel precepts are so developed and so elaborated by him that the least intelli- gent of his hearers, at any time, may under- atand the doctrine and the foundations upon which it rests. He is an admirable expositor of the Sacred Word, and is deservedly popula: among his people. - The Rev. H. M. Gallaher, pastor of the First Baptist church, in Nassau street, is a re- putedly eloquent preacher. Aa Irishman, self-made, and springing from the people, he can gain the ears and the hearts of the masses better than many men who have had far greater educational advantages than him- ‘self, because he understands their feelings and modes of thought better than they. Thera is a good deal of dramatic power in his style in the pulpit, by which he rivets the attention of his audiences from the very start; and with the natural genius and tact of his race he places everything in nature, art, science, music, poetry, under tri- bute to give beauty, force and direotness to his discourses. His homely illustrations fre- quently cause his hearers tosmile, though it must appear evident to them-that he had no such design. But any careful student of human nature will find abundant ‘food for witiy or sarcastic illustration, The main object of all preaching, namely, the conversion of souls to Christ, is never forgotten by Mr. Gallaher. The smile and the tear succeed each other as naturally as do the day and the night, and while a person may laugh at the quaintness or homeliness of the simile he will not forget the truth which it was designed to illustrate. The result is seen in a crowded cburch, a large congregation and an active membership, ever increasing. The Rev. Mr. Meredith, pastor of the Simp- son Methodist Episcopal church, in Clermont avenue, is, doubtless, the most earnest and eloquent minister of his denomination in Brooklyn, He is a comparatively new man in this vicinity, having coma from the Troy Conference and jusi closed his first year’s pastorate in this church. Ho is a young man, and with a growing reputation as a deep thinker and a most thoroughly practical preacher. He comes of a priestly family; he being one of three or four brothers all in the Methodist ministry. All his sermons are framed and his texts chosen with a view to bring vividly and intelligently before tho minds of men the necessity and the advantage of godliness even in this life, but much more in the life to come, And as a result, his large church fs usually filled with an ailentive con- gregation. Every season of the year is to him @ revival season, and as his people and him- self coatioually look for the blessing of God upon their labora, they are never without it. Holiness of life and purity of heart are the ultimates which Mr. Meredith seeks to bring before his people, and with the attainment of these everything else {s assured. Tho Magdalenes of Gotham. While the Easter-filled churches were ringe ing to the praises of the poor converted Magdalene, who came down to the tomb of the risen Lord with spices to embalm His body, ninety-seven of that dark sisterhood from which Mary was snatched were on their via dolorosa to Blackwell’s Island. In yester- day’s HERALD was given a full account. of the saddening, sickening scene in which these wretched, brazen creatures figured. Last evening the Rev. Mr. Ebbits evidently took that report as the text of a sermon which he delivered at the Methodist Episcopal church, Washington square, It is time that this ghastly sore should be cauter- ized by the etyptics of the Church, as well as by the mere mechanical operations of police rule, Mr. Ebbits was right in his bold treat- ment of a professedly delicate subject. Great credit is due to Superintendent Kelso for the manner in which this raid was effected; but we ask, ia all seriousness, can nothing be done to prevent these ninety-seven immortal souls from planging again into: guilt upon the expiration of their half year’s imprisonment? Can nothing be done to pre~ vent the young and guileless from sinking into the vacant places of these sinks of crime? It is the daty of all to look thoughtfully upon. this matter. ‘She hath cast down many strong” is Solomon’s saying, and yet it is. the embodiment of weakness which aobioves i. We live in an age of seemingly fervid religion. | The pious congratulate themselves on the triumph of godliness, when all at once that sinister procession of ninety-seven at) tern prostitutes through the streeta New York on Holy Saturday offends the prectous daylight, hurts the ear with its Itany of sbeieks and semi-drunken - blas- phemies, and gives the “lie 'i tho throat deop © the Iynge” to tho gry of the sufficlency