The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXVI. == AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. LINA EDWIN" — oA 'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Conzpy BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Tur Goup Bri Your Lire’s tx DANGER. cance Nis FIFTH AVENUK THEATRE, Twenty-fourta street.— Nor Svon 4 Foo. as HE Looks. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadwav.—Vaninty ENTER- TAINMENT, A0.—Taz TrmpTex Foren. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—NEW VERSION OF Jack SuEPPAGD. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d st., verween St anc 6tn avs.— A Winter's Tate. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Performs ances every afteruoon and evening.—HELP, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13tn street.— Banvacw's Tavs. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broa: TRAVELLER. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITALIAN Oreea—MakTHa. * NEW YORK STAD Grewan Orrna—L'ar IT, THE ARKANSAS ‘RE, No. 45 Bowery.— CENTRAL PARK EN.—THEODORE Tomas’ SuMaEE Nicuts Conork GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. ana 28d st.— La PERicnove. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Pace. 4—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Map Showimg the Field of Military Operations In and Around Paris. 4—Religious: Sermons and Services in this City and Elsewhere; Plain Preaching on Prayer, Penance and Papai Infallibility; the Patience ‘of Job and the Policy of the Vatholic Church, $—The Darien Canal: Uperations of the Surveying and Exploring Expedition—The Last Shake: Our Correspondent in a Chilean Earthquake— Music and the Drama—Musical Keview—Lit- erary Chit-Chat—Rallroad Disasters—Crusade Against the Liquor Dealers—Missing Brook- lynites—The Great Crevasse in the Missis- sippl—A Statue to Fitz-Greene Halleck. 6—Editorials: Leaaing Article, “What China Wants—A Good Soynd Thrashing and the Armed Occupation of Pekin by the ‘Outside Barbarians’ ”—Amusement Announcements, ‘Y—Editorials (continued from Sixth Page)—The Dying Commune: HeRaLD Spectal Reports from Paris and Versailles—The Roman Ques- tion: HERALD Special Report from Berlin— | Personal Intelligence—News from Washing- ton—Is the Treaty of Washington a Diplomatic Humbug ’—Miscellaneous ‘elegrams—Busi- ness Notices. §$—The Ku Klux: Views of the Frends and Foes of the Modern Vebmgericht—Poiltical Intell gence—Yachting—A Crazy Christian—Victory Vanguished—‘the Mercantile Library Muss— Church Ropbery—Marriages and Deaths, 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Operations of the Prize Ring Cang—The Treaty ani the Fishermen—Advertisements. 120—The Long Strike: Final Rejection of Mr. Dick- son’s Terms by the Miners—Obituary—The Pope and the Itallans—The Newark Meadows— ‘The Last Erie Railroad Accident—Tnhe Susque- hanna Railroad Case— Trotting at St. Louis— Court Calendars—Another Sample of Car Ruf flanism—The Annapolis Boat Race-A Voice Against the Propose] Lexingten 4 nue Rail- road—Shtpping Intelligence—Adv sements. 11—Advertisements. 72—Aavertisements, Tae Coax MrseEns of Scranton still hold out against the propositions of the corporations, and that dusky city trembles under the appre- hension of coming trouble as if her great coal mines were 80 many powder magazines, ready to explode under her feet. “EXPLOITING FOR THE Presipzncy.”—The New Orleans Bulletin has an erticle about General Sherman and the Presidency under the above title. It will be one of the grandest exploits the American people ever attempted if they elevate “Old Tecumseh” to the Presi- dential chair. Ovr Panama Letrer of May 8 reports ihe progress of the Darien Canal expedition. The work of the surveying party is nearly com- pleted and the route mapped out—the Napipi route from Cupica bay to Atrato—is supposed to offer a sure solution to the great problem. We may yet count among the wonders of our mew decade the joining of the two great oceans, Some Senators are reported to bo invent- ing all sorts of objections and amendments with which to hamper the new treaty. Among others is a suggestion that the San Juan boundary question is to be submitted to Em- peror William, of Germany, who, being pretty old, may die, whereupon the settlemsnt will have to be made by the present Crown Prince, who, having a daughter of Queen Victoria for wife, may be influenced by her against our interest. Marvellously wise and far-seeing statesmen are these Senators, indeed ! Ovr Rareian (N. C.) Lerrer gives the two sides to the Ku Klux story—one from Gover- nor Caldwell, who scems to be as confirmed a radical as Governor Holden, the impeached, ever was; and the other from a democratic standpoint. Our readers may take their choice, according to their politics and predi- lections. Governor Caldwell evidently be- lieves in his own side, for he has issued a sound and stirring appeal, calling upon the people to help him by moral influence, and the ministers of the Gospel to help him, by the preaching of the Word, to put down Ku Kluxism. He ends by warning these secret black and midnight clans if moral weigh! has no effect on them to “look out.” He'll threw stones next. Tae GERMAN PrAce Festivat IN Prina- vELPHIA To-Day.—The great German peace pageant commences in Philadelphia to-day, and will continue three days. It will probably be the grandest affair of the kind that ever occurred in this country, eclipsing even the grand demonstration in this city a few weeks ago. Philadelphia is not much given to dis- plays of this kind, and it is time she was be- ginning to learn something about them as a sort of preliminary rebeargal, as it were, of the monster celebration of the Centennial auni- versary of American independence, which takes place on the Fourth of July, 1876. The “City of Brotherly Love” is the properly famed place for peace jubilees, and the Ger- man rejoicings of to-day will be a happy and fitting initiative of the grand’ time coming Aire ToArs Lenco, id NEW What China Wante—A Good Sound Thrash- img and the Armed Occupation of Pekin by the “Outside Barbarians.” In the great treaty of peace between Eng- land and the United States, which we may regard as good as ratified; in the treaty of peace between Germany and France, just concluded at Frankfort-on-the-Main; in the proceedings of the Italian Parliament looking to a definitive treaty of peace with the Pope; in the peaceable settlement of the Black Sea question ; in the peaceful establishment of the new King of Spain, and in the dying strag- gles of the Paris Commune, we hail the signs of a new and glorious reign of peace through- out the civilized world, But, on the other hand, from a series of outrageous transactions and disturbing events during the last twelve months in the great pagan empire of China, with its four hundred millions of busy people, we apprebend that nothing short of a warlike coalition of the Christian nations directly interested in Chinese affairs, will establish peace between that self-conceited and treach- erous people and the ‘‘outside barbarians” of the West. And when we consider the vast trade which is growing up between that great Asiatic empire and our Pacific poris, and the incalculable expansion of that trade to which we look with the completion of our Northern and our Southern Pacific railways and our projected interoceanic ship canals, a friendly understanding with China, in the reciprocities of trade and business and social intercourse becomes a matter of the highest moment to the government and people of the United States. But how is this good understanding to be brought about ? It would seem that enough material had been furnished the public of late with refer- ence to the massacre of Tien-tsin, in June, 1870, to make them see how impossible it is to receive China into the comity of nations, at least on just the same footing we do the Chris- tian nations of Europe. It may be a very pleasant and a very gratifying thing to read in a nicely bound book of their gracious man- ners, their smiling and bowing and exchang- ing of courtesies with our officials. We were charmed, intoxicated with delight, when. the Burlingame Embassy showered its celestial smiles upon us. We thought then that China had really entered the family circle of nations ; but we have occasion now to be ashamed of what we lavished at that time upon them in compliments and in confidence. Having read the foreign pap¢rs published at Shanghae and Hong Kong at that time and since we see that our countrymen, as well as other ‘‘Western barbarians” residing in China, were right in their opinions; and surely their opinious are worth studying; for who more than they are interested in the commerce of China? Who more anxious fora policy which will in all time insure peace, surrounded, as many of them are, with all they possess in the world, not to speak of their wives and children, their homes, earned at the expense of many priva- tions and years of toil in the strange and distant land? From the views of the fore}:ners residing there we see that for the mosi part they distrusted China when she sent the Burlingame wission forth, and while in the United States and in Europe this mission was being received with every mark of respect, our people among the Chinese looked on with dismay and disgust. While the civilized world believed in the sincerity of China our countrymen and their fellow men about them knew it was but. the acting of a base fraud. Why? We shall sce if we look further. Commerce with China, more than with any other country, in fact wholly, depends upon treaties; and perhaps there are no people who better understand their obligations in the keeping of an agreement, contract or a treaty, simple or complicated, ordinary or extraordi- nary. Among them written contracts for various purposes are of constant occurrence, all of which are duly written according to form, sealed, signed and witnessed. And is it to be supposed that they are in the least ignorant of their obligations to keep or carry out their treaties with foreign Powers? No. But how have they kept them? Not with good will, most certainly ; but by and through constant contention, argument and endless trouble on the part Sf every foreign official, Minister and Consul in China, of whatever nationality: Concessions have been obtained from that government mostly at the point of the bayonet. That is where the treaties came from. And so long as our policy was a strict one—so long as we put our fingers on the letter of the treaty and held them to it— we got our rights, But times have changed. We wanted to be magnanimous. The spirit was a good one—grand and generous indeed, beautiful in theory, but impossible in prac- tice, to bring China into the circle of civilized nations—semi-civilized, ignorant, stupid and obstinate to a most intolerant degree as she is. Her politicians kept the run of foreign politics, They saw that England was influenced by the peace party and the rest of the world following in her train, and, like a cunning diplomat, as old China is, she played her part well. She began to fondie us, touch our vanity, and we were pleased, flattered, cheated. The time was drawing near for the revision of the treaties. She wanted time—time for delay— and so in the largeness of her heart she sent an Embassy to tell us of it. The Embassy made a treaty with us, a kind of complimen- tary exchange of sentiments. But what was the part this wily, oily Oriental was playing behind the scenes? Despising us at heart— counting us among the ‘“‘outside barbarians”— she prepares for war, or something that looked very much like it. And so she begins by insult in every quarter and ends witha massacre, in which the most horrible crimes were enacted—another Cawnpore murder of East India memory. But for the condition of poor France at that time just ponishment would have been meted out unless China had come to terms, Had this affair occurred in any other country with whom we are on amicable terms, even Turkey, we might have expected that instant and com- plete justice would have been demanded and dealt out. Not so with China. She learned that France, the most aggrieved party, was engaged in war—so she hung back and hung back—promised an indemnity—but has lately said she could not give any compensation, But in order to give blood for blood she decapitated acorresponding number of her own subjects, wretched creatures, bought up for the purpose, while the guilly were permitted to go free. YORK HERALD MONDAY. That is Chinese justice! What next? We see her next bristling up and showing her teeth and adding insult to injury. We (foreign na- tions) will bear it a while longer, and then we shall go to war with her, whip her soundly, and finally. get another treaty out of her. That is the way it looks at present. She needs pity because she is so blind and obstinate; but she deserves a wholesome chastisement neverthe- less, and the sooner she receives it the better. But there is one all-important question to be settled before anything like national equality with China can be established. In diplomacy it is called the ‘“‘Audience Question.” In social life how impossible to think of friendliness where one party looks upon the other with con- tempt. The same is as true with the nation as with the individual. And yet these semi-civilized, ignorant, effete Chinese look upon us with positive contempt. The ‘‘central,” the ‘middle Kingdom,” views the surrounding nations as in reality but ‘outside barbarians.” Our ministers cannot have an audience of her ruler because our rulers are not his equal! Dis- tinguished men, men of royal blood, cannot be admitted to his presence. Ministers and consuls, and other officials, not unfrequently meet with insult, the Chinese officials refusing to extend the same courtesies or permit the same rules of etiquette to be employed that they would among themselves under similar circumstances. Let us insist, then, upon equality in word and in act asa basis to future understanding. Can free Americans, can a republic, ask less? The good effects of this line of action will be felt in every direction. The high Chinese functionaries, the subor- dinate officials, the petty officers, the people, will feel the influence of such a point gained. And this must react upon us. Such is the law of nature. In bringing down the ‘“‘Brother of the Sun” and the ‘Uncle of the Moon” a peg or two we bring him to reason. Would we, in the next place, avoid future wars in that quarter, let us insist at all times and in every instance on the keeping inviolate of the letter of our treaties, Let our minis- ters and consuls be not only permitted to press every point, but be instructed never to yield our rights, always acting in concert with the officials of other ‘‘outside” nationalities. Maral pressure is doubtless a powerful weapon, and we would have it used most perseveringly in our intercourse with China. We have said that the Chinese were ignorant and obstinate, and so they are; but we have seen that they are possessed of the art of diplomacy, and we know that they boast of a perfect philosophy of reason. Doubtless, then, they can under- stand us when we use moral pressure, with our finger on the letter of the treaty. But we cannot doubt that they would appreciate the force of moral pressure more readily were it backed by an array of ships of war and of bayonets. Obedience to the law is, however, always insisted upon, even when obedience is exacted through fear. There are many among us, both children and men, who would not obey but for the fear of punishment; and the arm of the law is everywhere a monitor, when properly supported by fores! Enlightened Europe or America will not always listen to moral pressure, as we know from sad ex- perience, and so recourse is had to the force of arms. Can we expect more from semi- civilized China? We surely need not attempt to show that ignorance is harder to deal with than reason, And so we shall find in time to come, as in the past, that a moral pressure will have often to be backed by a show of steel. And with China, jndging from her very nature, this will often be enough; but to make sure work of it the allied armies of Christendom should march over her plains to her capital, and hold it fora time, in order to teach her, through her Emperor and his Cabinet, the needful lessons of modern civilization, cour- tesy and good faith. Otherwise all our ne- gotiations with her government will be treated with the same contempt which is felt, from the Emperor to his basest subjects, for all ‘‘outside barbarians.” The time is close at hand when President Grant, in his representations to the Great Powers of Europe, may secure their co-operation in behalf of a new treaty with Qhina, to be dictated to her from the Imperial Palace of Pekin. The Sermons Yesterday. It was an excellent day for church-going yesterday. The paths of the Christian were literally the pleasant paths of peace, made flowery by the budding beau- ties of May and enjoyable by the balmy breath of spring. It was easy to be good on such aday. The preachers—those chronically good men, who attend to their religion as punctually as if it were a busi- ness—felt as if they were better Christians, and entertained their audiences accordingly in a better Christian spirit. Dr. John Hall discoursed upon the joy and the crown of the Christian to his elegant Fifth avenue Presbyterian congregation, Dr, Armi- tage spoke of the attributes of the aposiles to his Baptist brethren at the church on Forty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, and Rev. Mr. Hepworth preached. cloquently upon the text “No room for them in the inn,” and instanced the reception the mother of the Saviour and Joseph the carpenter met at the inn in Bethlehem as a type of the reception Christ has ever since met in the hearts of mankind. In Brooklyn Brother Beecher ventured upon anew and startling theory. He said that this world is as a primary school where men are taught the rudiments of Christian growth, and that the fature world beyond the grave is the advanced school, where growth and education go on indefinitely for ever, on a higher scale and for a nobler ultimate purpose, This sentiment smacks soméwhat of ihé progres- sive docirine of the Spiritualists, and with Mr. Beecher’s advocating even an approach to that, there will doubtless be many an ardent con- vert rushing from his church to the more pleasant and gratifying faith of Swedenborg. But Mr. Beecher knows generally of what he talks, and we may hear more from him on this subject. The other sermons were of the usual interest, all partaking in some degree of the sunny weather and the early glories of spring. Ovr Sant1aGo (CuiLe) correspondent gives, in another column, a graphic description of the last great earthquake in that precarious and topbeavy country, MAY 15. 187L-TRIPLE SHEET. We publish this morning a map giving a general view of the field of military operations in and around Paris. It is interesting as show- ing the waning proportions of the Communist insurrection, and as enabling the reader to trace the movements of the belligerent armies. ° A few days ago the forces of the Paris Com- mune held important positions at Chatillon and Meudon, beyond the line of the southern forts; they also held ,the entire right bank of the Seine west of Paris. To-day, as the map shows, they have been driven from the river on the southwest, and Fort Issy, as well as the Bois de Boulogne, are in possession of the Army of Versailles. And since preparing the map our special despatches from Paris and Versailles announce the evacuation of Fort Vanvres by the insurgents and its oc- cupation by the government troops, thereby materially weakening the line of de- fence held by the insurgents and confining it to the enceinte of Paris. We also anticipate the entire abandonment by the Communists of all the positions occupied by them between the northwestern ramparts and the river, in the vicinity of Neuilly, Asnitres and St. Ouen, as, at last accounts, the Versailles army was gaining ground in the direction of the Maillot Gate. None but madmen like the leaders of the Commune would continue the struggle with the situation as desperate for them as it now is. The occupation of Fort Vanvres will ex- pedite the fall of Fort Montrouge, just as the capture of Issy made inevitable the fall of Fort Vanvres, And with all the southern forts in possession of Marshal MacMahon’s army the enceinte of Paris will be exposed to a bombardment unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare. Itis difficult, indeed, to understand how the insurgents will be able to hold the ramparts against the storm of shot and shell which will be poured upon them from the combined guns of the forts and batteries. Already the troops in the Bois de Boulogne are opening trenches in the Bois de Boulogne, and, if they work energetically, it will not be many days before their works will be as near the enceinte as were the works of Grant's army at Vicksburg to the Confederate works on the Jackson road, and these were so close that the soldiers of the opposing armies con- versed with each other without raising their voices. Our latest special despatch from Versailles reports the troops in the Bois de Boulogne as actually advancing on the enceinte, and an entry into Paris as imminent. We ought, consequently, to receive important news from the scene of operations to-day; but even should there have been nothing more achieved than taking up a position closer to the walls than before, as the situation now stands, all of the southwestern corner of Paris is at the mercy of the Versailles troops, whose siege guns ought to render utterly un- tenable all that part of the city from above the old Exposition building to Point du Jour, on the right bank of the river, and the entire Vaugirard quarter on the south. As soon as the government forces get possession of these quarters the insurgents will be compelled to abandon the entire western and southern line of the énecinte and take up position behind the barricades in the streets, which form their interior and last line of defense, If the temper of the Commune faithfully re- flects the sentimenis of its troops the fighting in the streete promises to be murderous and desperate. Street fighting in Paris, however, has never resulted successfully to the de- fenders of barricades except when the troops opposed to them have been disaffected with the leaders of fheir opponents. Had Marshal Marmont’s twelve thousand men been loyal to Charles in 1830 the revolution of that year would have been a complete failure, and we may say the same of the revolution of 1848, Cavaignac, in June of the same year (1848), and Napoleon, three years later, proved how impotent a rabble was behind barricades when opposed by resolute, loyal soldiers. Of course the assailants of barricades erected across com- paratively narrow streets are almost certain to suffer heavily in killed and wounded; but, un- less the present insurgents have erected more than one line of them, the fall of a single bar- ricade will end all serious opposition, for it will enable the troops to take the others in the rear, when the slaughter will be principally among the insurgents. We therefore con- clude that if there is any street fighting, how- ever bloody it may be, it will not be long sus- tained, and that the moment MacMahon’s men get within the enccinte the final collapse of the insurrection will become a question merely of hours, and not of weeks nor even days. ‘The Attorney General and the Imernal Revenue Tax. In being overruled as he has been by the Attorney General on the subject of the just- ness of the imposition of the revenue tax for the closing five months of 1870, General Pleasonton should take comfort rather than indulge regret. Nothing, to our’ mind, so well proves the very reverse of the decision to be true as its origin from this source. Mr. Akerman, as the complacent friend of the Secretary of the Treasury, is ready to back him up at all times with ‘‘an opinion as is an opinion.” He is worse even than poor Bunsby in the matter of giving advice, for the ancient mariner did not muddle the situation if he did not clear it up. But Mr. Akerman’s opinion is clearly against the facts. In reality, there was no opinion needed. Ten thousand Attor- neys General can never make it a fact that there is any Congressional enactment pro- viding for the collection of an income tax upon moneys received during the interval between the Ist of August and the 3lst of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hua- dred and seventy. Mr. Akerman has only re- peated the stupid blunder which he made in the case of the Pacific Railroad bonds when he “decided” against the plain reading of a deliberate contract. Over Sprcian Desraton from Berlin an- nounces that twenty-eight archbishops and bishops of the Catholic Church have petitioned the Emperor of Austria to demand of Italy the restoration of Rome to the Pope and a suitable territory to insure his independence, We are of opinion that his Apostolic Majesty will find himself too engrossed in the business of managing his empire to attend to the veti- tion, The Military Situation Around Paris. May Anniversarice—The Women’s Rights 7 Conventions. The most remarkable, as well as the most alarming in their bearing upon society at large, of all the May anniversaries that have been held this year, are those of the women’s rights conventions. Remarkable by reason of the size and character of their audiences; alarming because of the pernicions doctrines they endeavor to inculcate. In former years they have been of comparatively no impor- tance; those assembled to hear the ravings of women who are endeavoring to sap the foundations of religion, of virtue and of morality were of a kind that did not represent our better classes. This year, however, there appears to have been a radical change, and strangers entering the halls wherein these meetings were held, would have sup- posed themselves at a Nilsson concert rather than at a women’s rights convention, judging from the respectability and high standing in society of many of those women who were present. Both at Steinway and Apollo halls, whereat the two branches held their meetings, the audiences were large and fashionable, showing conclusively that if no other effect has been produced woman’s curiosity has been arodsed to such a pitch as to cause some of the best of the mothers and daughters of the land to be present to hear for them- selves what women’s rights mean, and to learn how much the sex is to be benefited thereby. The Steinway Hall branch is ap- parently the more conservative; it does not yet go to extremes, And while it demands and insists upon women having rights and powers not heretofore conceded to them, it does not advocate at present any doctrine that aims at woman’s purity or that will tend to lower her position and deprive her of that re- spect which her sex now entitles her to. But will it remain so? Will the infection not spread? Will it not in time be poisoned by the most radical in their opinions, until the whole mass becomes corrupt? The Apollo Hall branch is radical in its teachings. There the entire freedom of women is preached. There free-lovism reigns supreme. There doctrines are sustained that must bring the blush to the cheeks of all noble, pure-minded women, who believe that virtue and morality are still the greatest ornaments of their sex. And, we regret to say, that, basing our opinions upon the number and character of those who were present at the last meeting, the cause is apparently besoming popular. What must be the result to society if the Apollo branch doctrines are allowed to spread— if the disease is permitted to become epi- demic? It must endin utter demoralization— in a destruction of all that we hold most dear and which men love, honor and do homage to— viz., the purity, the gentleness aud all those redeeming qualities which are at once the charms and securities of civilized society. Startling as this assertion is it is nevertheless true. Any one who will examine the case closely can see what the end must be ofa doctrine that holds up immorality as proper and that offers a premium for vice. It is sure to destroy the fabric upon which all of man’s hopes are based; it will stay the progress of civilization and enlightenment; it will utterly overthrow all the good that Christianity has done, and the end will be perdition. It is time now to check it. The movement should not be countenanced even in its most moderate form, for moderation will soon cease, and those who now profess to be conservative in their ideas of women’s rights will soon be con- verted to the radical platform and adopt the theories and favor the practices advocated by the Apollo Hall branch of womon's-rightsism, The disease is of a malignant character now, and it requires strong remedies, and these should be applied without delay, or else it will not yield so readily. If not nipped in the bud it may pass beyond control. It cannot be disguised that of all the promi- nent leaders of the women’s rights movement there does not appear to be one who has not in her arguments utterly ignored religion. The teachings of the Old and New Testaments have been thrown aside. The books that have been placed in our hands from childhood, and which we have been taught are to be our guides through life, have been by these strong- minded women abandoned. But it cannot be otherwise if they wish to make their argu- ments good. What we have been given as re- ligion they cannot acknowledge, They must have one of their own, or else their reasoning will fall to the ground, and, to sum up the matter, they must be non-believers in Christi- anity, infidels in every respect, or they could not and would not endeavor to destroy all that renders life pleasant, all that secures happiness now and that promises reward here- after. The women’s rights programme is a species of insanity; it is one form of madness, and the assemblages of those who are its ad- vocates remind us of the Paris Commune, The former must have their own way; s0 must the latter. The women’s rights platform must be accepted by all women. And so with that of the Commune; all France must adopt it or there can be no peace. We believe in the success of the one as much as in the other. Both, we think, are doomed to defeat. The exclusive ideas entertained by both will prove the cause of their downfall ; and we can- not but hope that the masses of mothers and daughters who remain firm in their allegiance to woman’s best interests, who believe in wo- man’s high estate and who do not desire any other than the lofty and honorable position they now occupy, will of themselves be the means of crushing out the pernicious doctrines that are at present preached by many of their sex. We must acknowledge, however, that the conservative form of women’s rights has assumed large proportions, The movement in England indicates it, as well as the persistent manner io which it is being pushed in this country. But we think that when the Apollo Hall branch teachings are spread broadcast over the Jand, and men and honest women see how far it is proposed to carry the matter and how much of right women claim, they will not fel inclined to further a movement that is cer- tain to inflict so much dishonor and disgrace upon all who have been, who are or who will be connected with it, either directly or indi- rectly. It such is the effect women’s rights will be held in check and no great harm will be done, Jt will fail from its very excesses, Tue New Terrrrontat Government for the District of Columbia goes into operation to-day. It will soon be seen how the pow thing works, Spiritual Loneliness. It is, perhaps, well known that the honored and respected pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, in Henry street, Brooklyn, Rev. Dr. Storrs, is now travelling in Europe, and his pulpit has been filled temporarily by strangers during his absence. The Rev. W. M. Taylor, a Scotch divine, is also travelling in this country, and for the past two or three Sundays he has preached to the Pilgrim congregation. Yesterday that large and handsome edifice was filled with worshippers, to whom Mr. Taylor discoursed with great unction and marked simplicity on ‘Spiritual Loneliness, ’ taking his text from the story of Jacob’s wrestle with the angel. The sermon con- densed will be found in another col- umn, and will well repay the most careful reading of it. It is full of pure Christian comfort. There is not the least at- tempt at rhetoric or sensationalism in it, but from beginning to end the text and its lessons are kept constantly in view. Mr. Taylor is a man of medium height and size, and appears to be about forty years of age. He speaks slowly and studicdly, and every sentence seems to carry convincing power with it. His style and manner in the pulpit are very much like that of Rev. Dr. John Hall, of this city— calm, dignified, earnest, solemn. He evi- dently feels in his own soul the power of the truths which he utters, and he delivers them with all the earnestness which such knowledge and conviction impart. His sermon yester- day morning shows how much may be gleaned. from careful reading and study of the Scrip- tures. Although he talked for more than an hour there was no sign of uneasiness among the congregation—no looking at watches or going out when the midday hour arrived. The audience were too intent on the subject 80 beautifally and yet so plainly presented be- fore them. And how heartily the majority could agree with him in his delineations of spiritual loneliness and of That sacred awe which dare not move, which dwells securely in every human heart, and can only be made known to the God and Father of our spirits! This picture of loneli- ness was heightened by a quotation from the “Ancient mariner, who out-on the boundless sea all, all alone,” scarcely realized that even God existed. And then to think that such was Jacob's condition, and such is the condi- tion of thousands among us! A doctrine which few persons would look for in this narration was also brought prominently out by Mr. Taylor—namely, the incarnation. The Angel of the Covenant, God manifest in human flesh, appeared to Jacob and wrestled with him, and in his weakness importunate prayer and steadfast faith prevailed. The reader may notice the remarkable illustration of the Jehovah of the old dispensation and the God of the new—the former awe-inspiring, the latter love-begetting. Surrounded by majesty and power and glory in the former, His children failed to recognize Him;_ but laying aside His glory and assuming our nature, He appears as the man Christ Jesus with men, as God in essence and power. So that we, His children, though blinded with tears and weighed down with sorrows, may embrace him as a father and a friend. How much more sublime and appropriate is such a Gospel sermon to any Christian audience than one which we had occasion to notice recently, which was delivered in one of our city pulpits. There seems to be something so solid and stable in the palpit teachings of British minis- ters which is lacking in our own. The sta- bility of their local institutions and customs seems to impress itself on their religious thoughts, and they come among us here like welcome messengers, bringing not another gospel, but the old, old story, clothed in ita Jerusalem dress without our nineteenth cen- tury trimmings. The trimmings, to be sure, may cost more and look better to the eye, but they cannot wear as well nor feel as good to the troubled and sin-sick heart. We welcome Rev. Mr. Taylor and commend him to Ameri- can Christians, not because we think he needs any commendation at our hands, but because we believe they need more of the kind of preaching which he dispenses. The Southern Press on General Sherman. We publish to-day some printed extracts from our Southern exchanges, showing the drift of public opinion in that section in re- gard to General Sherman as a candidate for the Presidency. It will be seen that a num- ber of influential Southern organs believe that General Sherman is just the man to check the strides now being made by the radicals to keep the South in a continued state of humilia- tion, and that they are ready to drop the veil over his devastating ‘march to the sea” if they are satisfied that General Sherman ia sincere in his revently avowed sentimenta about the Ku Klux and the Southern people, The subject of Old Tecumseh’s nomination is being canvassed all over the South and the Southwest. The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, in discussing the question of the election of General Sher- man to the Presidency, utters the following excellent sentiment :— If General Sherman comes with the olive branch instead of the sword the South wiil gladly meet him on half-way ground, For our own part, drop- ing the veil over his bygone deeds, we can see in fimrand is well developed character & moral force that having once gained due momentum in the proper direction, will bear down all opposition and rescue the people from the untold diificulties and aangers that surround them. The pendulum of his impulses, if 1t has really reached the thither limit of fig arc, Will swing just as far to the side of the people when it leaves the turning point on which 1¢ now appears to be so evenly poised, Under the heading, ‘‘The Coming Man—-~ 1872,” the Selma (Ala.) Z'imes says :— The New York HeRauD has always had the happy faculty of being with the strong side. we UPd ne ant with its asual ‘‘feeling the public mind” style, it has taken up General sher- man, since his recent speech in New Oricans, as & marvellousty proper man to carry the colors of the democratic party in the coming campaign of 1872— acontest which, in our Cen gh to decide for- ever constitutional government by the people on this Continent, The Times then asks:—‘Is the Heratp right in its suggestion?” Time will show, ‘The Montgomery Mail also, after recalling some of the terrible incidents of Sherman's “march to the sea,” and arguing that his nomination would on that account be a bitter pill for “‘those Southrons to swallow who re- member him only as the thunderbolt that blasted their lives, burned their cities and beg= gared their innocent babes,” adds :— If, with all these facts and arguments duly cone sidered, however, the Northern democrary are stilt of the opinion that General Sherman 1s the only can+ didate that, In opposition to Grant and the powera conferred hy the Ku Kiux bill can pe crowded through, we say by all means let him be nomimated, Because, wile we believe that in the absence of ail Bu Klug icaigiaiion tue South could be