The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1871, Page 8

NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEST, NEW YORK HERALD EROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPR TOR. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th strect.— RaNvaue's Touma, NIBLO'S GARDEN, KIT, TRAVELLER, Broadway.—Kit, THE ABKANSAS LINA EDWIN’: E. Ct e - 8 THEATRE. 720 Broadway.—CoMEDY GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. ana 23d at.— Baxse Birvx. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtcenth sireet.—ITALIAN OreRa—RigoLrrto. BOWERY THEATRE, B owe! —RIourL1bU—TuE SNOW NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, No, 45 Bowery.— Louencnin. FIFTH AVENUK Usep Ur—Tur Cxitte. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadwav.—VARIETY ENTRR- TAINNENT, AC.—THE TEMPTER FOULED, EATKS, Twenty-tourty street,— OLYMPIC Horizon. ROOTH'S THEATRE, 23d 1, & Winter's TALE. THEATRE, broadway.—-Tuxe DRAMA OF erween ib ana 6th avs,— WOUD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Performs ances every aiteruvon and evenina, YARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague street— Rromagy i. BAN FRAN Sarsuma's REL HALL, 585 Broatway,— YAL JAPANESE TROOPER, BRYANTS NEW UPERA gna 7th avs,—N£OnO MINST st., between 6th TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIPLY ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway,—Comto Vocar- Tsa6, NFUNO ACTB, &o. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn (fi 9). —-Va> RIETY ENTERTAINMENTS, eee ree MINSTRELS, corner 28th NSTRELSY, AC, Matinee at 2. NEWCOMB & ARLINGTO At aud roadway.—N EGR DR. KAHN’S ANATOMIVAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— ScikNOY AND ART, QUADRUPLE SHEBT. New York, ys May 7% 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Pace. PRE ARRE IR en 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Adverusements, 4—Advertusements. 5—News from Washington—The Coal Troubles— Yachting lnteliigence—The Conaecticut Elec- tion—The Nori Carolina Ku Kix. G—Religious Intelligence—Tuurty-iourth Street Synagogue—The Pious Kioters—Rome: Holy Week and Easter Sunday in the Eternal City— Dr. vollinger—Horse Noves—A Colored Family Sue for $200,000, 7—Europe: The Tempest of Revolation Still Raging m Ue Capital of Frauce; What Was seen During a Visit to Asniéres; E. ordinary Flow of Emigration from Ireland—The May Auniversaries—The Germans for William M, Tweed—Sirychnine in Brewers’ Grains—Col- lision on the East River. 8—Editoriais: Leading Article, “Dr. Dollinger and the Religious Agiiauion in Germany”—Amuse- ment Announcements, 9—Editorial (continued from Eighth Page)—Tne Rouge Revolt—News trom Hayti and mexico— Personal Intelligence — Miscelianeous Tele- gtaphic News—Views of the Past—Lusiness Notices, 10—The Putnam Murder: Railway OMctal Murder; the Rall\ay Men on Their Defence; Damaging Aduissio) Erie War: *roceedings in the Courts—Tne ard Will Case—The Diamond ull Alter the Fat Melters, ples In tue Danubian Princt- w York City News—Base Ball Mate ters—(ueens Connty Murderers—Financiai and Commercial Reporis—Dry Goods Market— Marriages and Deaths, 1%—_The Erie Canal Break—Card from Jem Mace— Sparring Exhibition—Shipping Invelilgence— Advertisements, 13—The Workingwomen: Avenues of Labor that are Open to Them—From New York to Haitfax by Rail: How Europe and America will be Broughl Two Days Nearer Togetber—A Mar- vellous Story—Field Sports: Steeple-Chasing and Racing in Old England—Racing in Eng jand; Tbe Epsom Spring Meeting. 1d4—Aquatic: The Eastern Yacht Club and Its Fleet; the Coming poang warnl yaa in New Brunswick and Nova Scouua—A Thrilling Scene—A Woman Eighteen Years in Trousers— Advertisements, 15—Acvertisements. 16—Advertisements, Tae San Francisco Doctors are excited over the woman question. In view of the de- velopments in the Fair case, they are dubious about admitting women to their society, or, indeed, to the State. Taz Spring TrapE.—Dry goods from abroad received at this port to the amount: of eleven millions of dollars, for April, 1871, against eight millions of dollars for April, 1870, indicate a pretty lively spring trade, YESTERDAY, a8 our correspondent in Lon- don informs us, Commodore Ashbury’s new yacht Livonia had a trial trip with the Guinevere, from Ryde to Yarmouth and back, round the Nab Light. Although neither yacht was in racing trim, the trip was interest- ing, the Livonia displaying good sailing qualities and coming in ahead by three mioutes. Our SpectAL CORRESPONDENT IN JAMAICA reports this morning a Ministerial crisis in Port au Prince, Hayti. The Secretary of Finance was loudly abused as an imbecile and an old woman, whereupon the entire Cabinet resigned. On the night after some unknown persons broke into the Treasury office, took out the papers and burned them. Although the excitement was great the peo- ple were in favor of peaceable measures, and there were no apprehensions of a revolution. This is an astonishing announcement and says much for Haytien progress on the road to civilization. Tue Accuracy or tHE War Orricg Weatuer Reports has made them a matter of daily business and family importance, It is not only our seagoing element that closely scans them nowadays. The fine ladies and the jaunty swells all anxiously study them in the morning before they decide upon a prome- nade, and scan them in the afternoons before they decide to go to the theatres or churches, Every morning the question of business men, after the usual inquiry relative to stocks, is, “What is the weather going to be?” and thereupon they consult the War Office reports in the Heratp. Canapa Brppine For Inmicrants,—We see that a company has been formed in the New Dominion to give all facilities to immigrants. It provides for settlers land, utensils and a cottage, furnished. The Parliament has also under consideration an extremely liberal homestead law, promising to supply immi- grants with everything, cattle included. This is the right spirit. The more immigration Canada can command the better for us, She acts merely as a voluntary agent of the United States at the best, for of fifty thousand immi- grants to Canada forty thousand cross over to our borders finally. We consequently can have only the highest commendation for so much disinterested zeal in our eervios, Dr. Dellinger and the Rotigious Agitation ts Germany. At length, and in no doubtful form, infalli- bility has brought forth fruit. What seemed to some not very long ago a little spark has kindled what now seems to many a great fire. Dr. Dillinger is an old man, but he is not the crazy old man which some are disposed to regard him. His manifesto bas not, like that of Father Hyacinthe, fallen still-boro. The old man evidently has abundance of strength and wants neither for wisdom nor will. He has spoken out with a clearness and force which leave no room for misapprehension, and he maintains his ground with a courage which seems invincible. Catholic Germany has not, since Martin Luther nailed his im- mortal thesis to the door of the Schloss Kirche at Wittenberg, experienced an excitement similar to that which she is experiencing to-day, and, old as Dr. Dillinger is, he would be a bold man who, looking all the facts of the hour in the face, would say that the Bavarian Professor may not prove another Luther. The movement now fairly commenced has many points of resemblance to the religious revolution of the sixteenth century. That our readers may be able to understand this case and intelligently appreciate the gravity of the situation, it is necessary that we should enter somewhat fully into de- tails. Nor will it be‘ forgotten that Dr. Dillinger, although not a member of the Ecumenical Council, was the life and soul of the anti-infallibilist party. ‘Janus,” one of the most scholarly works of the age, a work which at one time frightened the Ultramontanes nearly out of their wits, was the fruit of his brain, and he is generally believed to have been the principal inspirer of the now celebrated *‘Letters of Qairinus.” While the Council was in session Dr. Dillinger made good use of his time and talents to open the eyes of his countrymen to the designs of the Uitramontane party in the Council. It was not to be expected that such a man would abandon the ground he had taken because the majority in the Council thought fit to invest the Holy Father with the attributes of Deity. Still, he remained for a time silent after the promulgation of the Vatican degrees by the Archbishop of Munich, his spiritual superior. It was not until he had received two separate letters from his Archbishop, asking him to ex- plain bis position, that he ventured to speak out. On the 28th of March he handed the Archbishop his answer in the form of a solemn manifesto, and had the same published immediately in the Allgemeine Zeitung. The manifesto has already appeared in these columns, and no one who read it requires to be told that the document is characterized by clearness, strength and determination. After making a request that he should have a hearing befor> the Assembly of Bishops, about to be held at Fulda, or before a commission named and pre- sided over by the Archbishop himself, he pointedly alludes to the new powers with which the Council had invested the Holy Father, and says:— This system beara its Romish ortcin on tts fore- | head, aud will never be able to penetrate in Ger- mauie countries. Asa Christian, as a theologian, as a historian, as a citizen, I cannoi aceept this doc- true, Not as a Christian, for 1 Is irreconcilable With the spirit of the Gospel ant with the plain | words of Christ and of the aposties; it purposes just that establishinent of the Kingdom of this world which Christ rejected; it claims that rule over all communions which Peter forbids to ail and to him. | self, Not as a theologian, for the whole tradition of | the Church 1s an irreconcilable opposition to it, Not asa hustorian can I accept it, for as such I kuow that the persistent endeavor to realize this theory of a Kingdom of the world has cost Europe rivers of blood, has confounded and degraded whole coun- tries, has shaken the beautiful organic architecture pathy and encouragement from all parts of the Catholic world, even from the Professors in the University of Rome, as will be seen by their address in another column to-day. It is not to be denied that if there is strong feeling and much activity on the one side, there is strong feeling and not a little activity on the other. Cardinal Rauscher, of Vienna, although he has not himself been bold enough to promulgate the decrees of the Roman Coun- cil, bas suspended one of his priests for signing the address of sympathy to Dr. Dél- linger. For the same offence the Bishop of Braumsberg has excommunicated one lay and two clerical professors. Dr. Friedrich, of Munich, who is supposed to have had a hand in the famous “Letters of Quirinus,” was ex- communicated some time ago. Bishop Hefele has been deprived of his “‘quinquennial” func- tions. Dr. Dillinger, as we now know, has not had his request granted. Without « hear- ing he has been excommunicated by his Arch- bishop, and thus formally cut off from the Holy Catholic Church—a Church which he loves as dearly and the interests of which he seeks to advance with greater wisdom than those who !ave shut on him the door. It is not to be denivd that the fight has commenced, Dr, Dillinger and his friends are, no doubt, bold and courageous; but so too are the friends of infallibility. It is reported on good authority that the educated clergy of Germany and the majority of Catholic laymen are on the side of Dr. Dillinger. His own words are:—‘‘Hundreds of the clergy and hundreds of thousands of the laity think as Ido.” It is also said that the movement is spreading rapidly through the Catholic cantons of Switzerland. On the other hand, it must not be forgotten that, in spite of all opposition, the Bishops in Council are strong enough to carry infallibility by a large majority vote. If the fight is to go it must be severe, for there is strength and determination on both sides. How the struggle will end it is impossible to say. No man can see the end as yet, One thing only seems certain for the present, which is that Dr. Déllinger will not give in. “I have,” he says, “‘little left to hope or fear in this world, and with the grave opening before me I am resolved not to go down into it with a lie in my mouth.” Such a man is not likely to go back. Can the Church recant—the in- fallible Church? Shall we have another grand schism? With monarchs at his back and peoples willing to follow, a new German Catholic Church, similar to the Church of England, is not an impossibility. If it should turn out to be so, history will have to admit the fact that the Pontificate of Pius the Ninth has been the most disastrous in three hundred years. The Paris Revolt—Prince Bismarck?’ matum. The war news from France this morning is unimportant, A redan held by the insurgents was stormed by the government forces, but as it was exposed to the fire of the forts it was subsequently evacuated. Beyond this affair the conflict seems to have been confined yesterday to severe cannonading and engegements. This virtual lull in military operations is probably the resuit of the movements the opposing forces are making preparatory toa resumption of more active hostilities. It is evident that a decisive blow must be struck within a very few days. The severe bombardment to which forts Issy and Vanvres have been subjected and the complete Ulti- of the elder Church, and has begotten, fed and sus- tained the worst abuses in the Church. Finally, a8 a citizen, 1 must put tt away from me, because by the claims on the submission of States and monarchs, and of the whole political order under the Papal Power, and by the exceptional position which it claims for the clergy, it lays the foundation of endless, ruinous di=pute between State and Church, between clergy and laity. For 1 cannot conceal from myself that this doctrine, the results of which were the ruin of the old German empire, would, if governing the Catholic part of the German nation, at once lay the seed of incura- ble decay in the new empire wnich has just been built up. To this the Archbishop replied by a threat “to cut the Doctor off from the Catholic Church” if he persisted in*his opposition. Meanwhile telegraphic messages were sent to Rome for instructions in the circumstances, Rome replied that the matter must remain in the hands of the Archbishop, and that he must act according to his judgment. The threat tocut him off from the Church was issued on Palm Sunday, the 2d day of April. Nothing further had been done except to for- bid the Seminarists to attend the Doctor's lectures. On the Tuesday after Palm Sunday an address was presented to him, signed, with three exceptions, by the whole body of his colleagues, the professors in the University. The address concludes with these ringing words:—‘'Persevere, right reverend sir, in the struggle, armed with the trusty and brilliant shield of science, and may it be as a Medusa shield for all the corruption of Christendom! At this turning point in the fate of Christianity we recall the question of the brave Gratzy, ‘Does God need your lie ?’ (Job xiii., 7) and we, and thousa: ds of true hearts with us, answer like you, right reverend sir, with a clear and emphatic ‘‘No.’” The Doctor did not discontinue his minis- trations. On Holy Thursday we find him cele- brating pontifical high mass in the chapel royal, the King attending in state. On Easter Day we find him again ‘‘pontificating,” as they have it, the King being present. On the 10th of April a special meeting of Catholic laymen was held in Munich, when it was resolved to support Dr. Dillinger and to petition the King to use his best efforts to arrest the evil conse- quentes of the ‘Vatican decrees.” This meet- ing called forth a somewhat violent pastoral from the Archbishop. If proof were wanting that the cause of Dr. Dullinger is popular throughout Germany, and particularly Catho- lic Germany, it might be found in the fact that a meeting of laymen similar to that which had been held in Munich, was held in Augsburg of famous memory with the like results. In Vienna the excitement seems to be as great as in Munich. The Municipal Council of that city have addressed a letter to the Emperor of Austria requesting him to stand by Dr. Dul- linger and the cause which he represents. The excitement, in fact, is intense among all German speaking Catholics. At Bonn, on the 15th of April, an influential meeting was held in support of the Dvllinger movement. The meeting was attended by eminent scholars from a distance, among whom was the distin- guished canonist, Dr Schulte, of Prague, as well as by all the professors, Catholic and Protestant alike, of the University, It is said that Dr, Dullinger is receiving letters of sym- isolation of the former fort must soon bear good results. In view, then, of the imminence of the downfall of Fort Issy it would not surprise us if the insurgents assumed the offensive and made a last desperate effort to destroy the investing line which Marshal Mac- Mahon is drawing closer and closer around Paris. But should they delay in making an attack the situation is such that the Versailles troops will be compelled to strike vigorously before long. More important than the news from around Paris is the report of our Special Corre- spondent in Frankfort of the interview between Prince Bismarck and M.M. Favre and Ponyer-Quertier. The French Ministers de- clared that it was impossible to comply with the terms of the Peace Treaty at present, and asked an extension of time, offering as an equivalent a commercial treaty with Germany and an advantageous arrangement of the Eastern Railway question. M. Favre re- quested, for the Versailles army, possession of the forts on the eastern side of Paris, the res- toration of all captured arms and munitions of war and the prompt return of prisoners of war. In reply Prince Bismarck in- sisted upon the strict and immediate compliance with the terms of peace and threatened the Versailles government with “serious consequences” if the delay in com- plying with them was much longer protracted. Thus matters stood at last accounts. It is not unlikely that the result will be the inter- vention of the Germans in the internal affairs of France. Irish Emigration. The letters from our correspondents in Ire- land inform us that the flow of emigration from the shores of that unhappy country is as great, if not greater, than ever, In alluding to it recently Mr. Disraeli spoke of Irish emi- gration “‘as the flowing away of a nation’s life-blood.” It would be difficult, indeed, to come to any other conclusion, when it is known that the ocean steamers which leave the ports of Dublin, Drogheda, Queenstown, Londonderry and Galway are inadequate to accommodate the vast numbers of emigrants who desire to leave their native land and seck a livelihood and a home across the ocean. The ports we have mentioned are not the only ones from which the Irish emigrants seek an outlet. Belfast, Waterford, New Ross and other seaport towns send forth their quota. This continued drain on the population is tell- ing onthe country. From present appear- ances it is calculated that the numbers will increase during the next few months. The small farmers and the farm laborers, and the poor of the industrious classes generally who can scrape enough money together, look to emigration and a home in the United States as their only hope. This sentiment, prevailing as it does, through the whole length and breadth of the land, is calculated yet to make the island—which should and would be, under @ liberal and wise government, a happy and contented natton—an unhappy and discontented country, The Ku Klux Kians—Movement of Troops Into South Carolina. We have the information from Washington that in view of the lawless operations of the Ku Klux Klans in South Carolina the War Department is moving a strong body of troops into that State, infantry, artillery and cavalry ; that these detachments will go at once, some to Charleston and some to Columbia, for service in any part of the State where they may be needed in the enforcement of the laws. It is believed that by this time most of the troops ordered down have reached Charleston, whence, excluding the force ordered to Columbia, they will at once be despatched to the disturbed counties in the northwestern sec- tion of the State. We may, therefore, soon expect to hear that the Ku Klux Klans complained of have mysteriously disappeared, or that a squad of them has been overhauled and dispersed, or that as bushwhackers they have given the United States cavalry a notice of the presence of “the moonlight rangers” by a scat- tering fire from their concealments in the woods, We are rather inclined to think, however, that the government troops will find on their entry into the disturbed districts that the terrible Ku Klux have left for parts unknown, Nevertheless, it is to be hoped that the military, in the maintenance of law and order in the counties declared to be “at the mercy of lawless combinations of armed men,” willact with becoming discretion in the discharge of their delicate duties. Let it be borne in mind that a small spark may kindle a great fire, and let all needless provo- cations of popular excitement be avoided by the troops, and we think it probable that they will have a bloodless campaign. At all events, the twenty days’ special notice given by the President to the “lawless combinations” of South Carolina to disperse and return peace- ably to their homes having expired, he has full authority, under the application of the Governor and under the Ku Klux bill, to bring the army to bear against said “lawless com- binations,” if they can be found by the army, Our Mey Asniversaries. This day opens the great week of the May anniversaries of our religious, missionary, be- nevolent, temperance and other reform so- cieties. We give a list of them elsewhere in this paper. Conspicuous in the week’s inter- esting programme is the Reform League, which will hold its anniversary at Steinway Hall on Tuesday, at half-past ten A. M., and which will be addressed by Wendell Phillips, Robert Pervis, Julia Ward Howe, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Hon. Robert de Large, of South Carolina, ‘the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet and others, We expect that the great pioneer reformer, Phillips, will give us his views on the proposed nomination of General Sherman as the democratic candidate for the next Presidency, und that he will advocate this proposition as a great reform movement. We hope to have from Mr. Pervis his views on the progress of the reform movement in Spirit- ualism, and from Miss Julia Ward Howe a beautiful glorification of the strong front pre- sented by the great cause of woman's rights in the British House of Commons, To Frederick Douglass we look for an ad- dress in behalf of the annexation of St. Domingo, which will completely eclipse the report of General Grant’s St. Domingo High Joint Commission. From the venerable Lu- cretia Mott we shall probably have some reminiscences of the old Fugitive Slave law and the underground railroad. From Mr. De Large, of South Carolina (colored man), we expect a fearful exhibit of the doings of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klans, and from the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet (colored man) we shall, of course, have a powerful dis- course on the fifteenth amendment. All these subjects, in addition to temperance, labor re- form, Tammany Hall, General Grant’s admin- istration, the great Anglo-American Joint High Commission, the Paris Commune, the German Kaiser, Spain, Italy and the Pope, are within the reform programme of this Reform League. Hence, with Wendell Phillips lead- ing off on General Sherman, it may well be said that the Reform League will hold a con- spicuous position among our May anniversa- ries, The News from Mexico, The news from Mexico which we publish this morning is merely a repetition of what we have been bearing from that unfortunate republic for many years. Revolutions and attempted revolutions at various points; po- litical anarchy and general disorganization form the principal items. The re-election of Juarez to the Presidency is to be the signal of a general outbreak, and, meantime, those op- posed to him are far from being united, but are abusing each other in the liveliest manner imaginable. The effort to drive Romero from the Cabinet continues; but that individual “‘sticks” and will not retire, mainly because he is supported by the army, and the army in Mexico is the great I Am. A little gleam of light comes from the pen of a Mexican editor, who predicts that the United States will finally absorb hiscountry. Doubtless such an absorp- tion would be a good thing for Mexico, but whether it would benefit the United States is a problem of so difficult a solution that we are not likely to place ourselves in a position to have to solve it—at least not for some years to come. The Congress of Mexico has abol- ished the death penalty, but we doubt if that will prevent the patriots shooting each other in the name of “God and liberty.” The fact is that instead of abolishing the death penalty it would, perhaps, have been better for Mexico had her Congress decreed the sum- mary execution of about one-third the popula- tion. Such a decree rigidly carried out would, if applied to the turbulent elements, which bave made the republic a mockery of republicanism, be very bloody aud appalling, but we have no doubt that it would be condu- cive to the peace and prosperity of Mexico. Jay Goutp has received a respite until the 26th inst. Then he will be summarily hauled up before the United States Court and com- pelled to answer as to his disposition of the stock of Englishmen in the Erie Railroad. Tue Mextoan Terzerarn Company has been incorporated for the purpose of insuring telegraph communication with Mexioo by way of Cubs, The men at the head of it are suffi- clent guarantee that the work will be vigor- ougly prosecuted, ‘The Ministry of Angels. Belief in the existence of another and & different race of beings to ourselves is as old as humanity, Every age has had some ides, more or less vague, of the sphere and condi- tion in which those beings exist and of their relation to mankind. The Bible takes up those ideas and embodies them in tangible forms, and presents them to our minds as angels engaged ina ministry of good or ill to men, and taking cognizance of all our actions. There have been times and periods in the his- tory of our race when angels seemed to take more particular interest in us than at others, and then our faith in them and their work was enlivened and intensified ; but, generally, we care very little about any class or race of beings but ourselves, Such periods we find recorded in the Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testaments, And our modern Spiritualism has come to revive our interest and our faith in the unseen and the immortal, Its followers claim, in their mut- terings, a perfect demonstration of the soul's immortality and of a futuro life whose glories and conditions they pretend to reveal. But we can hardly conceive how any sensible per- son can be convinced by the mummeries and jugglery of what, in these days, is called Spiritualism that it demonstrates anything higher than humbug. {[t is a mockery, a delu- sion and a snare. It is a convenient place for infidels and sceptics, atheists and pantheists, rationalists and men of no name or standing to enter, in association, and keep up a sort of religious form among themselves, But when in one breath we hear them denounce every- thing that is good and true and pure, and that men hold sacred and dear, and in the next present us a revelation from the spirit land which, instead of commending itself to our understanding, actually shocks our common sense, we can hardly be expected to have much faith in the seers or in their prophecies. There is, however, a spiritualism which is true, and which can be understood and appre- ciated without bells and ropes, and fiddles and dark closets, There is a wivistry of angels which we enjoy without having to pay a “mejum” a stipulated price therefor, And to this ministry we desire to call attention. The Bible, which contains the faith of the world in this particular for at least two thou- sand years, and probably for more than twice that period of time, reveals to us somewhat of the nature and characteristics of angels, the interest which they take in mundane things and the relations which they bear toward human beings, From its pages we learn that there are two classes of spirit beings, as there are of men—namely, good and bad—and that each is interested in the clevation and salvation of mankind, or in the degrada- tion and desiruction of the race, In their essential nature they are represented as having form—the forms of men—as eat- ing, drinking, walking, talking and doing other such things as men do. They are repre- sented, also, as created beings, as wiso and good, and, like us, immortal, but, at the same time, like ourselves, ignoraut of the day of judgment and of many things in the future. Indeed, in the days of the Apostles, we are assured that the angels desired to look into those things with which Peter and Paul and their associates were familiar, and which have been revealed unto us by the Spirit. They are in great numbers, and they under- take, voluntarily and by appointment, the guardianship of men; they are of different ranks, and those who have not lost their first estate nor left their Father's habitation are subject to Christ and are around the throne of God ready to obey his commands, when they are not engaged in ministering tomen, They are not to be worshipped, because they are creatures of God and worship Him them- selves. They rejoice when sinners are con- verted and conduct redeemed souls to Para- dise, These are some of the duties and char- acteristics of angels, as revealed in the Book of Books, and of their relations to the human race. That the spirits of good men who die in the Lord join with those who have never tabernacled in the body and bear a part in the ministry of angels to men is also susceptible of proof from the sacred records, So that we carnot successfully deny the claim of modern Spiritualists, that they hold converse with deceased friends, though we may be allowed to questien the sanity of such friends, whether here or elsewhere, from the messages which they send to earth, The word angel signifies a messenger, and we might suppose that the principal duties of angels would be consistent with and a demon- stration of the character implied in this name. They existed long before man was created, and may have enjoyed life in a sphere similar to our own ages ago. The first mention we have of angels in the Bible is where the angel of the Lord met Hagar in the wilderness after she had been driven from home by the pairiarch Abrabam’s wife, and encouraged her to return again and submit herself to her mistress. We next find them coming to Abraham on their way to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and partaking of his hospi- tality just as men might have done, ard sub- quently they entered Lot's house in Sodom, and ate of his food also, And all through the patriarchial age, and subsequently in the na- tional and prophetic age of the Jews,. we find angels appearing from time to time to Jacob, to Moses, to Joshua, to Gideon, to Manoab,, to David, to Elijah, to Daniel, and in the apos- tolic and pre-apostolic age to Zacharias, to Mary, to Peter and to Paul; and afier the Saviour’s resurrection to promiscuous nwulti- tudes. They fought the battles of tho Israel- ites and smote the Assyrians, and gave Byron his inspiration for that grand old song of holy triumph, ‘‘The Destruction of Sennacherib:— The rian came down like a wolf on. tha fold, And his cohorts were gleaming 1 purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when, summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset. were seen ; Like the leaves of tne forest when autumn hath That host on the morrow Iay withered and strown. They sang the Song of Jubilee—Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men—when Jesus was born, and announced the event to the Magi of the East beforehand, They knocked the shackles of Paul and Silas and Petor, and shook their prison walls, removed the bars that restrained some of them and restored tham to liberty, and smote the wicked King Herod so that ho was destroyed by a fearful disease, They attended Christ after His temptation and in Hig sgony in the Garden of 1 Gethsemane; they rolled the stone from the door of the sepulchre, and announced His resurrection to the apostles and the women who sought Him there, and followed Him to the mount of His ascension, and there declared to the wondering, almost despairing, disciples His coming again. And when Christ shall come at last it will be with ‘‘ten thousands of His saints and holy angels,” and when the great judgment draws nigh they shall sever the wicked from the just and cast the former into perdition, Thus, in all ages, even to the consummation of all things, angels have been, are and will be more or less interested in and identified with human progress; and doubt- less far more than any one of us can conceive we owe to the ministry of angels. And how much it will heighten our pleasure in the spirit world to know that our friends, perhaps of generations past, have watched over us here with more than parental tenderness! Or, on the other hand, how greatly it will add to our sorrow to know that they have led us or driven us to the place of despair! As we minister good or evil to our fellow men so do unseen spirits minister to us, It behooves us, there- fore, to minister only good, if we can. The Contempt Provision in the Amendments to the Code. A great outcry is made against the bill passed at tho close of the session of the last Legislature providing for amendments to the Code of Procedure, which means the compila- tion of the statutory laws of the State. The bill was, it is true, too hastily passed—almost, indeed, in the throes of the dissolution of the Legislature. It has not yet been signed by the Governor, and the great outcry referred to was created and is upheld for the purpose of deterring the Governor from making, it a.law by his sign manual and seal of the State. We have hitherto refrained from commenting on the various amendments proposed and their probable and, perhaps, intended etfect on the great principles involved and the important changes in the jurisdiction of our courts they would bring about, The New York Bar Asso- ciation have taken up the question in antag- onism to the bill in the style of special plead- ing to be expected from men of their cloth. And yet it would be too great a stretch for human credulity to believe that any one man of said association, ifa member of the Supreme Court bench, would not submit himself to be invested with the powers contemplated by tho dill, We have no desire to cavil with the con- clusions or acts of the New York Bar Associ- ation, The expounding of the law, according to such light as is in them, is theirs; and if in the proposed amendments to the Code they, as individuals or as a body, find.grave objec- tions to them, not having the hope of judicial preferment in their eyes to blind them, it is their lookout to press them on the consideration of the Executive. But we have objection to the sweeping condemnations fulminated against the measure by a partisan press, which sees good in nothing and bad in everything that does not pander to its demands, Te ‘‘con- tempt” provision, which gives to the Judges of the Supreme Court the same common law power conferred upon the Federal, Circuit and District Court Judges, is the especial object of all the denunciations that have beeh directed against the bill as a whole, That such power, if conferred upon the Judges, might be arbi- trarily exercised cannot be denied; but in this view of the case the conferring of power upon individuals as a body, legislative, judicial or executive, might be opposed. It is the evil- doer that dreads the law, and so in this case with the partisan press, which, fearing the power of the Supreme Court to repress its licentious attacks, naturally opposes the meae sure that would confer the power to do so. Without referring to other provisions of the bill—for which, in fact, no opportunity has been fairly given—we would say that to the independent press this ‘“‘contempt” provision can have no terrors. Its high privilege of commenting upon, criticising and censucing where needed the acts of public men, on the bench or off it, can never be invaded. Any attempt thereat would be fatal to the aggres- sors, and on that recognized fact we can afford to give such rights and privileges to all those in power which the requirements, the protec- tion and the dignity of their offices may dee mand. This bill, however, should not receive the Governor's sanction till the press, the legal profession and the people at large have an opportunity of judging of all its merits, The fact of the proposed amendments not having been printed and disseminated in itself looks suspicions, and to some extent warrants and justifies the attacks that have been made upon the measure. Our Keligious Press Table. Our religious contemporaries are not very bright the present week, either in.the tenor of their editorials or in their records of the pro- gress of Christianity. On the contrary,, there ‘seems to have been quite a falling off. in the revival line, while the news from China. brings disastrous intelligence from that quarter. The Dillinger question seems to have been lost sight of for the present, the name of.that dis- senter having been scarcely mentioned this week in the great bulk of religious papers upon our table. The Observer takes hold of a live sutject in a lively way in its treatment of. the ‘‘move-. ments against Christianity in Japan ani China.” It gives an interesting letter from private correspondent in Japan,.and says :— At_a moment when we had supposed the cause of religious liberty and toleration had been victo- rious in all the carth we learn that the gevern- ments of Japan and China are setting themselves against the pregress of Christlanity, and are tnter- posing obstacles in the way of misvionary labor, whicn are almost tantamount touts expulston, The Heangelist regards as a “Bill of Abominations” the bill appropriating $800,00) to charitable institutions passed by our late Lyg~ islature, Is it not better to make theee dona~ tions than to have the money “‘lop over” into the lap of some corrupt ring? ‘‘A Harmless Pontiff” is also a subject of consideration in this week’s Hoangelist, The Independent is devoutly religious this week, devoting, aa it alleges, ‘nearly thirty tons of pure white paper” to adver‘isements and coarse wood outs. Its chief editorial is entitled ‘The Jonah of the Domocratic Party.” Bat whether the whale swallowed Jonah or Jonah the whale it 1s difficult to determine from the arguments of the Independent writer. The Methodist has auite @ sensible article on