The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1871, Page 6

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Dignitaries Think of the New YoRK HkRALD—Sunday’s Rum—The Death of Mr. Haignt—a Funeral Incideat—A Dead Body Found-Accidents Yesterday. 4@—Religious: Sermons and Services Yesterday in the Metropolis and Elsewhere; Redemption and Regeneration; ‘The Straight Gaie and the Kingdom of God; The Agencies of Providence; A New Koman Catholic Temple. S—Reiigious (Continued from. Fourth Page)—Rome and Christianity: The Papal Centre Daring Holy Week—French Relief — Revolutionist Remuniscences—Steaiing a ship—Gas Explo- sion in Brooklyn—Law Breakers in Newark— Coroners? Cases—“Novody’s Children”—Jour- haiistic Notes—Bi Club tn Wiinams College. G—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘General Sher- man’s Speech at New Orleans’’—Amusement Announcements. Y—Ediioriais (Continued from Sixth Page)— HERALD Special Reports from I’aris and Ver- sailies: Terrible Fighting Around Paris— Germany—Personal Intelligence—Misoellane- views of the Past—Business 01 S—Literature: Criticisms of New Books ~The Anti- Income Tax Associauon of New York—The Great Raliroad Lease—Parts and Parceis—Tne Putnam Tragedy—Assaults in Public Convey- ances—Outiages in Street Cars—Sale of a Railroad—The Brooklyn Jail Prospects—More Brooklyn Scoundrelism—A Fancy Fisticuff in Boston—The Couris for May—Postai ‘ele- phing—baron Steaven’s Remains. nancial and Cominercial Reports—Catching @ Train—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- menis. 10—News from Washington—Music and the Drama— Shipping Inte!ugence—Adverusementa, Ba—Aaverusenents Sill Joun Haxcoox is the democratic candidate for Congress in the Texas Fourth district. It is stated that a number of radicals have signed “a declaration of independence and are going for him. Tue Tammany Excursionists are in Salt ‘Lake City. We presume Brigham Young can tend to bis own interests, even with these fierce reformers about him; but we advise him to keep more on the alert than usual. A Sreance DeatnH was that of Captain Btover, of the Trenton packet Raritan, who fell dead at the helm of bis steamer on Satur- day night while she was nearing Bound Brook. He died literally at his post, as every brave man wishes to die. Genera, Snerman said to his “rebel friends,” as he called them in New Orleans @ few evenings ago :—‘‘General Hood called upon me to-day, and J intend to call upon him to-morrow.” Is the General-in-Chief hood- winking bis ‘‘rebel friends,” or is he acting in sober earnest? — Tar Troy Wiig is hard on its friends when it declares that “the great republican party has been broken and defeated in this State, because a few men like Henry Smith and B. F, Manierre and others have bargained with Tammany for good offices and rich jobs, ‘and they would not give up their personal interests and profits even to save the nation.” Tae Repucrion or Fares on the Un‘on Ferry Company’s lines to Brooklyn goes into effect to-day. The reduction is from two cents, or about a cent and a half where tickets ‘re purchased, to one cent per passage, between the hoars of five and half-past seven fn the morning and evening. The difference Way seem very small to most people; but no doubi the Ferry Company will feel it very heavily. The interval between the hours of five and half-past seven, morning and even- ing, are the hours when the travel is greatest between this city and Brooklyn, and when the Passengers sre composed in greater part of the poorer working classes. To them this Uittle difference of a cent or two cents a day swill be a matter of serious importance. Rowtorr, tar Conpemsgp.—We published “yesterday an account of o curious interview which this precious villain gave to a party of Professional men in his prison cell in Bing- sbamton. It seems that ho invited them to visit him, on pretence of disclosing some secret theory in regard to languages which would be lost forever unless he imparted it before his death. It appeared, however, that the whole thing was a dodge on the part of the arch rascal to get his visitors to sign a petition to the Governor soliciting a few days’ respite, in order to give him time to enable him to make the pretended all-important disclosures. The sham was too thin and did not work. For all that Rulloff cen do toward enhancing the intel Sectual condition of the world the world were without both the man and his absurd Let him swing! vs NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 1. 18m. "TRIPLE SHEET. General Sherman’s Speech at New Orleans. General Sherman, having been captured by & radical political club in New Orleans, mado @ very remarkable and significant speech, in which he alluded to some of the leading ques- tions of the day. He spoke apparently very much against his will, and said many things that must have surprised the company who invited him to speak. Perhaps unconsciously to himself he took the field on that occasion as candidate for the nomination in 1872. General Sherman is a very popular man with all classes and parties, his military record is without stain, and taking himself and Grant, as soldier against soldier, they probably stand on equal footing. General Sherman’s namo has not been mentioned prominently in con- nection with the nomination. Perhaps his appearance in the field may relieve the demo- cratic party from many of its perplexities in regard to its selection of a candidate from the Western States, It may also relieve that portion of the republicans from a load of doubt and fear who are forced unwiliingly to carry General Grant into the contest as the only nominee available to the party. The popularity of General Sherman in the West, his own home, is immense, and would do much to set aside the jealousies and difficulties which beset both parties in that section. We think that these good, kind words from the man who led his gigantic army from Atlanta to the sea, leaving behind him in the Southern States through which his track lay those deso- lations which are’ the necessities of war—yet perhaps not any more desolation than those necessities demanded—will make General Sherman very popular with the Southern people. Speaking of the surrender of Joe Johnston and his army of Confederates, Gene- ral Sherman said :—“‘I believe this government will keep on growing until it spreads itself over the entire American Continent; but in order to gain this much desired end, and to maintain ourselves as a froe and independent republic, we have got to show more charity toward each other. It has been remarked by some gentle- man who has preceded me that it was gene- rally conceded by the soldiers of both armies at the close of the late civil war that if the questions and all matters of the settlement of the differences between the North and South were left to the armies it would be settled at once, and everything would become quiet and orderly. I so believed, and before signing the agreement with General Joe Johnston I called together all the generals under my command, and without a dissenting voice they agreed with me. I believed they surrendered in good faith and would have lived up to the very letter of the agreement; and, in my opinion, if there had been no reconstraction acts of Congress and the armies had been left at the time to settle all questions of difference between the different sections of the country, the people would have at once become quiet and peaceable.” Here General Sherman states an opinion which was shared in by every Southern man who was not a bombastic highflyer in his seces- sion sentiments or a purposeless disorganizer by nature. There are men who will not live at peace. Warfare is their normal condition. The Southern armies, as well as our own, had plenty of this kind of men in the ranks of the leaders, and it is not to be sup- posed that they threw off the tiger's skin to assume the silky fleece of the lamb apon the mere announcement of peace. To expect this would be asking too much of poor humanity. That no such result followed in many individual cases the action of Congress and the administration at Wash- ington prove quite as conclusively as anything which the Southern ex-Confederate leaders have said or done since Appomattox day. We do not except the spirit which is evinced by the restless demon which we have learned to call Ku Klux, that after-clap of a great civil war, that inevitable reaction which follows a wasting fever. The Ku Klux men are doubtless quite as bitter in their wrath, quite as uncharitable in their hearts, quite as unyielding in the exercise of their vengeance as Ben Butler or Senator Morton, or a dozen others we might namo in the ranks of the administration party; but, fortunately for the country, neither the Ku Klux, nor Major General Ben Butler, nor Senator Oliver P. Morton represent the feelings of the Amer- ican people upon this subject. The petty viciousness of partisanship, North and South, has not got control of tbe manly, honest Amer- ican nature, That narrow spirit dwells only with a few men in power and seeking a renewal of power, whose political existence, just as the life of the predatory insect, depends upon corruption. General Sherman, therefore, echoed only the opinion of all unprejudiced people, both North and South, certainly of the whole democratic element, when he said that if there had been no reconstruction acts of Con- gress, and the armies had been left to them- selves, at the conclusion of the war, to settle the difficulties—and they were not so manifold after all that a little kindness and good sense could not have settled them—the people would have at once become quiet and peaceable. General Sherman believes in the chivalric spirit of the soldier, He has great faith in it for good and noble purposes; but he does not believe in the necessity of the rule of the sword over a great, a peaceful and a commer- cial people. Herein he stands ia direct con- tradistinction to General Grant, and herein, too, he represents the views of the moderate repnblicans—of the men who have little faith in @ party policy which has noth- ing to recommend it but a sham economy in the management of the government financial system and the application of ‘“‘en- forcement “acts” at the point of the bayonet after the detested fashion of Great Britain in ita three centuries of fruitless and disagtrous rule in Ireland. Upon this matter of the necessity for mili- tary rule in the Southern States General Sherman ig most explicit. He takes firm ground against the administration when he says:—‘‘I probably have as good means of information as most persons in regard to what is called the Ku Klux, and am perfectly satis- fied that the thing is greatly over-estimated ; and if the Ku Klux bills were kept ont of Gongress and the army kept at their legiti- mate duties, there ars enough good and true men in all Southern States to put down all Ku Klux or other bands of marauders." Of course the General of the Army has as} The Red Robellion—Latest News good means, through the reports of his subor- dinate officers of all ranks, to know the facts of the Ku Klux carpet-bag conspiracy, as uy Dlatant committee man in Congress. Thus we see that the views of General Sherman upon these important questions of initiating Congressional reconstruction for the South and government by the sword are in accord with those expressed by our democratic Congressmen as published in the Sunday Hzrarp; that they chime in exact accord with the spirit which threw the State of Missouri into the democratic ranks at the last State election, which put New Hampshire on the same track, and which have 80 bewildered the radical party in Connec- ticut that they do not know whether they have elected a Governor or not, and hardly know whether the Nutmeg State is for or against Grant. We hope another radical club will catch hold of General Sherman, so that we may know his views on the financial policy of the government and other questions which will make his platform complete and the whole country comprehend how he stands for the available candidate in the coming Presidential contest. The Japanese Mission and the New York Herald. The account which we publish in another column of the researches made by Governor Ito, a high and learned dignitary of the Japa- nese government, into the science of govern- ment as we have developed it in this country, offers another convincing illustration of the rapid spread of American ideas all over the world. Only a few days ago we were giving England advice as to the tax on friction matches; we have had occa- sion to compliment Germany officially on her rapid tendency toward Ameri- canism; France is yet struggling in her erratic way to establish within her own bor- ders a government similar to our own; China some years ago sent her learned pundits here, under the leadership of a full-blooded Yankee, to take lessons in our school, and now Japan has been industriously at work throughout the winter months—nosing among our dusty State papers, revenue reporis and Treasury archives, foliowing our customs officers on their daily rounds, studying law under Washington law- yers and conning our system of coinage in the Philadelphia Mint—in order to perfect her own older but more imperfect systems. For so young a nation we are truly very precocious, It is gratifying to see that so much attention has not made us proud, and that all information asked for has been given promptly, fully and modestly, The gentlemen from Japan seem especially to have very cor- rect ideas concerning journalism. Their views regarding the New York Heratp are well founded indeed, and their intention to estab- lish a competitor to it in Japan shows that they have promptly comprehended the main propelling idea of this government. A free and independent press is what hes made this government a model for all governments, and Japan cannot inaugurate her proposed re- forms in her home government more com- pletely or more solidiy than by establishing, as the first step, a New York Heganp in Jeddo. The Albany Republican Indictment Aguins Tammany Hall. The address of the republican members of our State Legislature to the people of the State embodies a fearful budget of specifica- tions in its indictment against Tammany Hall. With the counting out of Twombly and the counting in of Carey in the Assembly Tam- many seized the control of the entire law- making power of the State, and her intoler- able outrages from this beginning dwarf the denunciations of the Declaration of Inde- pendence against the King of England. Thus, as it appears, she has practically re- pealed the Registry law; taken the election of school commissioners from the people; enacted a new tax for this city ; legislated for certain Buffalo officials at the expense of the people ; accomplished all ker desires through @ republican traitor in the Assembly, and she has shirked taxation to escape the disclosure of her wasteful expenditures ; has ruined the business of the State canals; has refused many rights due to the people; has clothed herself with power to waste and raise unlimited sums of money; has shown herself an ally of monopolies; has created boards and bureaus, multiplied officials, increased salaries and exiended the tenure of office without the consent of the people. Furthermore she has increased expenditures in every direction; has been lavish of money to party favorites, and so on to the end of the chapter. But what does all this signify? It signifies that Tammany, having the opportunity, has used it to strengthen herself in possession of the State without sticking at trifles. Has the party {no power at Washington been doing better or worse? Not much either way, They are both pretty much alike on the spoils. But can Tammany afford to enter into a com- parison of economy with General Grant’s administration. Perhaps not; ‘but what’s the bodds so long as you're ‘appy?” That's the question. Who cares on either side how the money comes, so that it goes freely to the party? That's the point. Tammany has been cutting it pretty fat. Carry out at Washington the programme of the late session at Albany, and on the samo scale, and we shall have a budget of a thousand millions a year. But in making money plentiful will it not make us all rich? That is the argument. But the national debt? It is big enouzh to take care of itself, and that’s a fact. What, then, are you going to do about it? Make way for Tammany ; for is it not by using the means that we gain the power? Just so. Senator Cameron is apparently responsi- ble for the approaching visit of Prince Alexis of Russia. It appears that the Senator, when he was Minister to Russia,.spoke to the Czar about sending one of his boys out here; and although eight years have elapsed since then the Czar, with his retentive memory, has kept the Senator's advice in mind and finally concluded to accept it, Certainly we can have nothing but the warmest attachment for the Czar and his boys, and the connection of Senator Cameron with the matter, he being now head of our Foreign Relations Committee, from Paris and Versailles. Our latest despatches from the seat of war are dated Paris, 29th, evening, and Versailles last evening. At a sitting of the Commune on Friday one of the members remarked that there was something offensive in asking Europe to recognize the belligerency of Paris. He went on to say that the Commune waged war irreproachably. Its forces did not use explosive bullets, but those of the government did, and no places filled with women and children were bombarded in violation of the laws of civilized warfare. Indeed, according to his statements, the Reds were in the right and the government altogether wrong. The Commune now proposes to confiscate the property of the Northern Railway unless it resumes the running of passenger and provi- sion trains into Paris. The Masons have planted their banners upon the walls of Paris, but this display did not lessen the bombardment. Sev- eral were wounded as a reward for their trouble and daring. The cannonading was unusually violent during all of Saturday, and fighting occurred at Asnitres and Neuilly. The gov- ernment troops, to the number of twelve thou- sand, occupy Gennevilliers. Preparations aro making to evacuate all the southern forts. Fort d’Issy was abandoned on Saturday night, the Versaillists having carried all the works up to within two hundred yards of the intrenchments, Of the sixty guns in the fort thirty were dis- mounted by the enemy's fire. The garrison became panic-stricken, the gunners mutinied and spiked half the remaining gans, and then the fort was evacuated, leaving it almost a complete wreck on the sides exposed to the fire of the government works. Batteries have been placed at the Orleans and Vaugirard gates of Paris. Theinhabitants of Montrouge, Plaisance, Vaugirard and Montmartre were removing from their dwellings. A delegation of Masons had been received at Versailles, and were informed by M. Thiers that they must look to the Commune fora restoration of order. France, he said, would not capitulate in the presence of armed insur- rection. The park, castle and cemetery of Issy were carried by storm by the government troops in the most gallant manner, Eight cannon and one hun- dred prisoners were taken, It was this movement that compelled the abandonment of Fort d'Issy. A circular from M. Thiers gives the reports of Generals Cissey and Faron, announcing brilliant successes for the government forces. The former gives the particulars of a coup de main on the Bounany farm, near Chatillon, in which a number of the Nationals were killed and taken prisoners. The report from Paris is that General Clu- seret, hearing of the panic, proceeded to the front, but was unable to check it. He then gent fresh troops, among them the “Avengers of Paris,” and at last accounts a severe fight was in progress. The engineers are at work on the southern portion of the enceinte. At the Maillot gate and around Asniéres all was quiet at the time the last de- spatch was sent. The Northern Railway Com- pany has paid three hundred and three thou- sand francs to the Commune. It is reported that the Archbishop of Paris has been released. The last despatch, being dated at Versailles last evening, includes, of course, all the operations of yes- terday by the forces of the government, The severe fighting is now going on south of Paris, instead of the west; and from the fact that the engineers are strengthening the southera face of the enceinte it is evident that the movement of the government troops in that direction is much feared. All precautions will be taken against a still nearer approach, and we may look for desperate fighting before the Versaillists fully establish themselves in the positions they have gained. HK must be conceded, however, that the occupation of Fort d’lasy by the government forces is a very important affair. This point gained and the guns of the work turned upon the city will make a great diversion in favor of the attacking foree. It is within easy breaching distance of the walls of Paris, and its guns will not only sweep the ramparts but they will throw projectiles into that portion of the city that has hereto- fore escaped serious injury. The other works on the south still held by the insurgents, and which command Fort d’Issy, are constantly subjected to the heavy bom- bardment of the government batteries, and their garrisons will “have all they can do to reply. The probabilities are, however, that they will soon ke reduced to a similar con- dition with Issy, and will be evacuated, and when this occurs the whole of that portion of the city facing them will receive a merciless hail of shot and shell. Under cover of this fire the government engineers will be enabled to sap close to the enceinte, and establish themselves in a position from which they cannot be dislodged. An effective breach will be made, either by bombardment or mines, for the purpose of throwing one of the assaulting columns into that portion of the city, The work progresses well for the gov- ernment. Its soldiers are pushing their way steadily, gaining and holding ground; and, altbough the final act in the great tragedy may be a little longer delayed, it will come in turn and prove effective, From the fact that all was quiet on the west we may jndge that attention has been diverted from that point to the more important one so sorlously threatened. President Thiers expressed him- self very plainly to the delegation that came from Paris to Versailles to urge peace. His stating that they must look to those who usurped authority in the city for a restoration of order fully evinces his determination, and his assertion that France would not surrender in the presence of an armed insurrection must have satisfied his visitors that there was no hope for Paris, save in submission, He has taken the right stand. His coarse is eminently proper. He sees the hazard of temporizing with the Communists, and it is very plain that his pur- pose will not be shaken. When he once more has Paris under his control and the reds dis- cover that he can and will rule, then, and not until then, will there be bope for the restora- tion of peace and tranquillit in | Frans, Tury Have an Aproit ILLAIN named Bolster in Washington condemned for mur- der—like Rulloff in Binghamton—who tried will serve to give the young man’s reception , eloquence and pantomime apon the Court, an official character. just as Rulloff attempted to humbug a com- ners Removal—The Alabama Claims. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, in a letter which is runoing the gauntlet of the republican press of the country, makes what we consider a very satisfactory explanation of the causes which led to the removal of Mr. Sumner from the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The reasons thus given for this proceeding are substantially those which we submitted at the time as a sufficient justification for Mr. Sumner’s displacement. What we then said Mr. Sherman now says— that Mr. Sumner was removed because “his personal relations with the President and Sec- retary Fish had become such that it was im- possible for them to transact in harmony the public business, and that the committee was 80 constituted as not fairly to represent the majority of the Senate;” that “‘the Senate shares with the President the treaty-maklog power, which, from its nature, is confidential and secret; conducted mainly in social inter- course, demanding confidence, advice and con- sent.” Next it appears, from Mr. Sherman, that while the social relation between Mr. Sumner and Mr. Fish were “incompatible with the public interests,” which must be confidentially considered between the Secretary of State and the Senate chairman on Foreign Relations, Mr. Sumner’s peculiar views on the Alabama claims and the St. Domingo annexation scheme were such that he did not on either of these questions represent the majority of the Senate, which is in accord with the administration. This we hold to be a sufficient explanation for Mr, Sumner’s removal without, going into the details. The difference of opinion, how- ever, between Mr. Sumner and the President on the Alabama claims, as defined by Mr- Sherman, was and is so broad that we cannot overlook it. ‘‘Mr. Sumner insisted that the hasty proclamation by Great Britain of neu- trality between the United States and the Southern confederacy was the foundation, the gravamen, of the Alabama claims,” while the President and Mr. Fish contended that this proclamation was an act of which we could not complain, except as an indication of an unfriendly spirit by Great Britain, and that the true basis of the Alabama claims is that Great Britain, after proclaiming neutrality, did not enforce it, but allowed her subjects to build, arm, man and fight English cruisers under cover of the rebel flag, to the destruction of our commercial navy.” Mr. Sherman further tells us that “‘this difference of opinion between the President and Mr. Sumner led to the removal of Mr. Motley, who sided with Sum- ner,” and that this removal of Motley ‘‘unques- tionably intensified the feeling that ie arisen from the St. Domingo treaty.” Here the mystery of Motley’s removal is solved, and, for the first time, a reason is given broad enough to cover this peremptory removal. Mr. Motley, on the Alabama claims, did not represent at London the policy of his government, but the policy of Mr. Sumner ; and surely this was cause enough for his removals and also for the wrath of Mr, Sumner. And just here we must say that in a broad, comprehensive, international view of this Alabama claims question we still incline to the opinion of Mr. Sumner, that the great offence of England in this business was, not in the mere proclamation of neutrality, but in that offensive form of neutrality which placed the ‘‘so-called Confederate States” on the same footing as the United States in the matter of belligerent rights, and the so-called Presi- dent Davis on the same international footing as President Lincoln. If the news should come to Washington to-day of an insurrection in Ireland, and that Dublin and some other cities and towns of the island were in posses- sion of the Fenians, and that they had pro- claimed the republic of Ireland, and if to- morrow President Grant were to issue his proclamation announcing equal belligerent rights to the Kingdom of Great Britain and the republic of Ireland, we should be exactly following the example of England in regard to our Southern rebellion. Hence we incline to Mr. Sumner’s opinion that the gravamen of our cause against England on these Alabama claims is her concession of belligerent rights to Jeff Davis. But in waiving this point Gen- eral Grant retaius the authority of England's example for the recognition of the Irish repub- lic with the occupation of Dublin by the Feni- ans; and if England, through the Joint High Commission, is ready for a settlement, giving us some day the right, on belligerent rights, to pay her off in her own coin, why should not even Mr. Sumner abandon his pet theory ? We apprehend, however, that the forth- coming treaty from the Joint High Commis- sion on those Alabama claims will be as stoutly contested in the Senate by Mr. Sumner as was the Dominican annexation treaty or the English roast beef and plum Leone treaty of Andrew and Reverdy Johnson. fear that Mr. Sumner will stick to his pat text on those Alabama claims, whatever may be the concessions from the Hizh Commission to the fishermen of Massachusetts touching those shoals of mackerel which sweep eround Princo Edward Island, or those placers of codfish within the marine league of Newfound- land and Nova Scotia, Scotia. pany of learned men in regard to a pretended | knowledge of a key to important secrets about languages. The best key in both cases is the prison key, or, better still, the hangman’s noose. It is your smart villains who create the most trouble all over creation. Seuator Sherman’s Explanat! of Mr. Sum- Tar Powmr or A Far Px or A Fare Press is very from Washington, that the decision of the Supreme Court on the Legal Tender act will probably be postponed until next fall on account of the newspaper criticism upon it. During the interval some of the judges may change their opinion under the new light afforded them by newspaper argument. It is said in this connection also that the proposed Alabama claims treaty will be kept secret, in order to avoid adverse ori.cism among the newspapers, It is feared that a strong public opinion against the treaty will be formed by the newspaper criticism likely to greet its publication, and the Britishers and friends of the administration object to this. They don’t want another Alabama treaty defeated by the force of public sentiment, as the last one was. The Britishers may be excused for not know ing the fact, but the Executive and his adherents must not forget it—that public/sen- timent reigns hero, and ia the chosen aatoorat of this republic, forcibly illustrated by the fact telegraphed us | d useful as the Church of the Holy Trinity Adams—Foss—Tyog, Jr. The Rev. William Adams, D.D., pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, is so well and favorably known, not only io this community, but throughout the country, that we shall not be aiding or adding anything to his popularity by any mention of his name in this connection. He is known and honored as a minister of Jesus Christ, an author and a lecturer. One of the oldest pastors in the city, and familiar with the progress of the Church and of the metropolis for more than a quarter of a century, he is looked up to as the seer of his own denomination and the welcome adviser of every other. His large experience by reading, observation and travel, both in this country andin Europe, eminently qualify him to encourage if not to lead the religious thought and enterprises of this age and this people. Dr. Adams is a man of very acute mind, a very critical reader and observer, and his sermons, lectures and addresses show that he is master of any subject which he takes in hand. His lecture on the ‘Catacombs of Rome,” delivered to a crowded audience in Asaociation Hall a short time ago, was one of the most interesting ever given to a New York audience. Of the many thousands who have visited those monuments of early Christianity in the Eternal City we believe Dr. Adams was the first to read and interpret correctly the Greek aod Latin inscriptions on them; and he has thus furnished a key to all biblical students, whereby the mysteries of revelation and the facts of history may be understood and appreciated. The Doctor is a man of fine stature, erect and youthful appearing, notwithstanding his locks are white for eternity, and he preaches with all the fire and vigor of a young man, but with th wisdom, experience and unction of a ‘father in Israel.” He is one of the largest hearted and most liberal Christian ministers in the city. There is nothing sec- tional or sectarian in his character, and he Joses no opportunity to demonstrate his fellow- ship of the spirit in communion with saints of every name. He is soon to leave this country for a tour in Europe, and we wish him God- speed and a safe return to his home and people, The Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church in Fourth avenue, has no superior in the pas- toral work of his denomination. He is a young man, in the prime of life, and by his pulpit eloquence and fervent piety has, within a comparativly brief ministry, attained to eminence in his Church. He has recently re- fused a professorship in Drow Theological Seminary, preferring to remain in the pas- toral work which he greatly lovea, His name is very prominently spoken of in connection with the vacant bishopries which exist in the Methodist Church at present; but as this order is likely to undergo some modifications in future it is hardly likely that he would accept even such honor. Dr. Foss is one of the most active temperance advocates in the State, and uses both pen and tongue to advance this cause. He is a contributor to religious and temperance publications. He is an excellent Greek scholar, an extensive reader and a close observer of the world, and from hia mental storehouse he brings forth treasures new and old, and presents them to his congr egations year afler year and Sabbath after Sabbath in choice language, uttered with remarkable sweetness of voice. His present appointment is the third to St. Paul’s church, so greatly is ho beloved by that people, who would gladly retain him permanently, did the disci- pline of his Charch allow it. As one of his ministerial brethren recently expressed it— “*Dr. Foss’ words are like water poured forth ;* they refresh the thirsty souls wherever they fall, and believers are built up and sinners con- verted under his ministry.” The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., inherits not only an honored name, but also the fire and energy and eloquence of his father. He, too, is quite a young man. When God would: prepare Joshua to lead the hosts of Israel He took of the spirit and the honor of Moses and put them upon him, and Joshua went in and out before the people and was accepted of them. And we may even say that the spirit and honor of the venerable Dr. Tyng rests upon his son, who is to-day one of the most earnest and active ministers in the Pro- testant Episcopal Qhurch. He has created a parish and built op @ large church and con- gregation within a few years where before there was none. Bat not content with that, he has educated his people up to the mis- sionary idea of the Gospel so that they support five mission churches in different parts. of the city among the neglected masses. They also maintain a college or ‘House of the Evangelists” for the education of young men for the city mission work. These enterprises cost the Church of the Holy Trinity about twenty thousand dollars an- nually, to which also must be added a dis pensary connected with the church, which is. supported at a cost of fifteen hundred dollars a year, and where two physicians give advice and medicine freely day by day. Several beds in St. Luke’s Hospital are also endowed by this church, so that there is no talent allowed to remain inactive among the people. The “Pastoral Aid Society” comprises nearly all the membership of the church, male and, female, and they are kept ‘‘steadfast and im~ movable,” because “always abounding in the work of the Lord.” And there are none among them more active than the Rev. Mr. Tyng. Were all our city churches as active the evangelization of the masses would ines longer be a problem difficult of solution. Qua advice to them is to go and do likewise. May Day in New York. Another return of the great local nuisance, the Ist of May. Everywhere else this day is associated with bright skies, the singing of birds, flowers in bloom and all nature puttinge on its garh.of greon; but here the association, is with carta and wagons loaded with furai-~ ture, and generally a shower or two to increase, the damage to our housebold goods, It is » day of glory for those whose business it is to remove furniture; a day of intense worri- ment and discomfort to thoso who ave having their effects removed and who with have to sustain groat loss by careless handling. To- day is a harvest for one class of the commu- nity and anything but profit to another, In plain language, itis a nuisance, looked fore