The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1871, Page 6

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Sux ER Nivuts Coxornsa, TRIPLE PAGE. 4—Advertisem nts, — Adveritvemeonts, S—Amone the Ku Klux: The Cleveland (N. C.) ection Ignomiatonsiy Fizzles Out; Jim ye and the Ku Rinx [il—News from the pists in Chicago— ires in the Haigh. ne ‘turnpike Mur- the “Church and Fiashes li; Wisdom, nid Redemp- Spiritual Du- Progress § Services and ih the cy, and Elsewhere ‘a the Fourth Page) — mperial Chambers of H anon the American em ol Government Applied to France; ‘The Washington Treaty in Ba : Leading “The Great Treaty— Peace "pol Oy “Of England and the tes, and 143 Glorious Promises to —Amuseme 5 Anuonnecments, (Continyed Sixth Page)—The e Collapsed; Pans Abané cutry of tie Versat cial Keporis m1 graphic News—! Notices, 8—The Heathen Chine Kong and Shangn eilaneous 7 1co—Business joes from Hong christian Move- varies by Re- 8 from Japan— it General Tweed— unning — Notes—A of Edward #. y In Pater- Lee- ‘rial Trip of the New Political inteii men—A turer Wanted in Vermont—Thi ii tal Sul —An Obiiging “Asseasoc—Narriages andl Peaths. 9—Financiai and Commercial Repo pnd Domestic Markets—iudge the vower of the Sunerior Court—Court Calendars—Fire in Williamsburg—Ad vertise- ments, AO0—News from Washington—Pales' ine plora- uons—Weather Keport—New York Ci ments, 12 - Adverusements, PrrstpENtT ae goes to Long Branch on the 31st inst. Tue Eprror of the New Orleans Republican has passed a day with Horace Greeley. He regards i. as a ‘white stone” in h's existence. What does he think about the old white hat? A Westren Paper thinks that Sherman caunot be elected President for the same reason that Stephen A. Douglas was not— pamely, that be spells negro “nigger.” A very strong argument indeed, Dr. Doruincer un Rovre to Lonpox.— Dr. Dillinger, it is said, is shorily expected in London, “Does he go to consult the Arch- bishop of Canterbury about the propriety of establisiing in South Germany a national Church similar to that of England? Menry the Eghth took lessons from Luther. Jobo Knox learned mach from Calvin, The ru- mored visit to London of the great German doctor {is not without significance, Let him come to the United States, and he will find beticr Church models than he can find ia Lon- don. Father Hyacintie will tell him so. Tae Ricamonp State Journal regards it as “exceedingly suspicious” that such men as Governor Hoffman, of New York; Governor Walker, of Virginia; Jefferson Davis and a ew others of lesser note should be in Rich- mond at one the same time. Poh! A company as disiinguished can be found almost any night at any first class hotel in this city. But it is ‘about time Richmond produced a sensation, Things are getting dall there. Cinoaco, as A Rewiaiovs Centre, shows its usual commendable enterprise, and treats us to one of ihose charming sensations that seem conzenial to Chicago atmosphere, In the meeting of the Baptist Home Missionary So- ciety on Saturday two old fogyish Southern preachers argued that slaveholding was never morally wrong, and that as a maiter of fact the negro was never so happy as when dis- porting in chains among the pleasant coiton fislds of bis master. These sentiments were irreverently hissed by the Chicago audience gathered in the ball, and when a colored rev- erend, from Boston—an unhappy free “‘nig- ger"—arose and said, in deprecation of the conservative views that his white brothers had taken, that the blood of the two races bed | been running in his veins for fifty years with- out qfarreliing, the unseemly crowd actually applauded, the report says, “wildly.” The Southern preachers are without doubt ‘perfect gentlemen,” and Chicago, with its low siandard of humanity, and, we may say, morality, cannot appreciate them, But evi- dently they are more honored as propbets in their owa country than thoy are likely to be anywhere e's’, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET, The Great Treaty—The New Peace Polic: of England and the United States, and Its Glortcus Promises to the World. “Behold how brightly breaks the morning!” We expect to-morrow, and we may. have to-day, the ratification of the great treaty of peaco between the United States and Great Britain, now awaiting the action of the Sen- ate. We call it the great treaty of peace, because, from the spirit in which it was approached, discussed and agreed upon, from poiat to point, by the Joiat High Commission, we have seen that peace was recognized as the paramount object and controlling purpose oa both sides, and bstause we know that in the establishment of cordial relations of peace between the two great nations of the Exglish speaking races a new carcer of prosperity and progress Is opened to both and all their people and a new march of their civilizing and Christianizing forces begins of the most glorious promise to the four quarters of the globe and the remotest islands of the sea, Tiow wonderful and astonishing have been the political revolutions of the last ten years! Tiow amazing the change which bas come upon her Britannic Majesty's government since the first Bull Ran in reference to the “manifest destiny” of the United States! That tirst battle of Bull Ran, one of the most important in its far-reaching consequences to the whole civilized world, was accepted by the government and ruling aristocracy of England as foreshadowing the inevitable breaking up of the great American Unioa into two or three fighting republics of the South American school; and that battle was accepted by Louis Napoleon as creating a fino opening for a Freach balance of power, political and com- mercial, on this Continent. Hence the one- sided neutrality of England, with all its “aid and comfort to the enemy,” in our late terrible struggle against a gigantic Southern rebellion for tho life of the nation; bence tho armed occupation and imperial protectorate of Louis Napoleon in Mexico. England had been agitating for thirty years the abominations of American negro slavery, and, with the opportunity at last offered Ler Lo rejoice in the prospect of its extir- pation, she declared her sympathies and gave all her moral and material support possible, short of actual war, to the cause of slavery in supporiing tho pro-slayery cause of the ‘‘so- called Confederate States.” And yet her pol- icy and her purpose in the denunciation and in the vindication of American slavery were the same—the breaking up of the United Siates into a group of fighting and revolutionary ro- publics of the South American order, whereby our popular institutions would be brought into disgrace among all nations to the advantage of the ‘divine rights of kings” and aristocra- cies, and whereby England might hope to gain the practical control of the political and com- mercial afairs of North America, This was the game of E d in the United States, in her thirty years’ agitation of Amer- can slavery, in her belligerent rights of Jeff Davis, and in tat nen‘rality which has brought her at last to an honorable setilement of those Alabama claims. Louis Napoleon, in his Quixotic Mexican adventure, was infln- enced by similar ideas He expected, from the inevitable dissola.ion of the powerful American Union, an easy fulfilment of his scbome in Mexico, and alsq it has been i mated, the absorption of California, Texas and Louisiana, ia the progress of events. Bat the little affair under that fimous “‘Appomal- tox apple tree” destvoyed all these great expectations of England and imperial France. Louis Napoleon gave up his grand Mexican idea and retired; and protest that she was honest in her neu- trality and giad of, the success of our Union cause; but still it was not till the downfall of Napoleon, her righthand man and confed- erate in all this business, that she began to sea those Alabama claims in their proper light, and that peace with the United States bad be- come to her the first necessity in a new dip!o- matic departure. Thvs we may safely assume that we are in no small degre: indebted to the armies of Ger- many for England's satisfactory recognition, at last, of our Alabama claims. In this view there is something amusing in the thought that we may trace this treaty of Washington to the Emperor Napolvon’s quarrel with King William over General Prim’s nomination of a Hobenzollern as King of Spain! But for that quarrel there would have been no war be- tween France and Germany, and had there been no war between tuem Napoleon might have been this day the recogniazed arbiter of Europe, and still so closely bound up in his entente cordiale with England on American affairs as to make England as imperious and as exacting now toward the United States as under Palmerston and Russell. With the fall of Napoleon on the other hand, and with the resloration of the French republic, and with the significant agitation and progress of popu- lar ideas which have followed even in England, we have the results before us in the satisfac- tory peace arrangements of the Joint High Commission. Such is the amazing revolution accom- plished in our relations with Eugland since the first Bull Run. The Appomattox sur- render took much of the conceit out of her Majesty's government; but the capture of Napoleon bas turned out as glorious a victory to General Grant as the capture of General Lee. England has gladly come to the terms of an entente cordiale with the United States, because lier late entente cordiale with France is gone, and may never more be restored in a form to bo evailable as a balance of power against us; and because, if, while detached from the United States, England stands alone among the nations, she knows that while joined ina “happy accord” with the United States she holds the balance of diplomatic strength among the Powoars of Europe in favor of peace. She thinks, too, that with the eastern gates of France held by Germany, and with a compromise effected on the Back Sea question, the diplomacy of peace will hence- forth be the prevailing diplomacy of the Euro- pean Continent, and she feels that hencefor- ward she will find abundant employment in holding subject to law and order the great revolution going on in the “three kingdoms” in Church and State. Above all, in this great Treaty of Washing- ton we have the virtual recognition from Eng- land of our ‘manifest destiny.” So far as Luman foresight can fathom the events of the Eagland began to explain |, United States to occupy and govern the North American Continent and the islands thereof, and England, in the reciprocities of this treaty, if she does not accept this idea, ceases to resist it. She abandons the idea of war, and consents to the settlement of the great question through the moral agencies of peace. And while, no doubt, realizing the overwhelm- ing moral! forces in our favor looking to the ultimate annexation of the New Dominion, England is manifestly alive to the fact that, as a ‘‘nation of shopkeepers," the prosperity of her people at home will not sur from the extension of the boundaries and trade of the United States. [tis enough, at all events, that she regards peace with the United States asher paramount interest and duty, whatever through the rival agencies and forces of peace may be the consequences to her North Ameri- can colonies. This is enlightened statesmanship ; for, as- suming that all the British North American possessions have been absorbed under the “Stars and Stripes,” there will still be ‘‘ample scope and verge enough” for all the coloniz- ing and civilizing powers of England in Cen- tral, Eastern and Wesiern Asia; in Eastern, Western, Central and South Africa; in Auz- tralia, New Zealand and all her islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Meantime, this new Treaty of Washington provides that, hand in hand and side by side, the: different English speaking races of the two’ nations shall not only in North America, but in every land and elimate under the sun, press forward in the great mission of civilization and Christianity, and the expansion of industry and commerce, in the order of Providence assigned them. And in this broad and attractive view of the subject we may say that, with the maintenance of peace and good will between these two great nations, the child is now living who will live to see all the peoples of all races of all the lands they occupy around the earth, all citizens of one great republican confedera- tion of equal civil, political and religious rights. France having proved that this great mission is beyond her capacities, with the bayonet, kingdom, empire, republic or Com- mune, it devolves upon England and the United States to try their hands, with the printing press, the free school, the free church, the cotton gin, the loom, the anvil, the rail- way, the steamship and the electric telegraph ; for these are the forces destined to subdue the world. Our It must have been observed by all the re ers of the Heratp that since we began the publication of the sermons delivered on Suan- days the religious discourses of our preachers have greatly improved in style and crgument. Occasionally, however, we have a sermon which is so ambitious that it deals in remark- able m-taphors. We do not know but Mr. Howard Crosby was correct when he said yesterday that “a Hindog b- day t of Sermors, has & heifer tdea of hls relation fo God than a Boston philosopher;” for, as a rale, Boston philosophers, if they devoie any thought at all to a Supreme Being, are more occupied with the idea of His relation to them than with that of their relation to Him. But we think it some- thing new to hear that ‘love, in order to save, must sirike cruel blows, and poisoned man must be rudely shaken ard roiled and br to save bis life.” tered by love they may pain, but they are not cruel, and a3 for the poisoacd man, we have heard of doctors pumpiag him, but never of their roiling and bruising him. In another part of the sermon Mr. Crosby re- marked that ‘a commander who would surrender a city which he finds ho cannot hold must, however, first silence the clamorous clique within"—something by no means a neceasity ; in fact, tho surrender is often pre- cipitatel because he cannot silence the clamorous clique. What Mr. Crosby desired to show was that the grace of God was necos- sary to enable the spirit to triumph over the flesh, and that this grave was often manifested in a manner which appeared cruel to the sinner, Pretty much on the same subject was the Rev. Chauncey Giles’ sermon, in which he de- scribed the Christian’s battle fur the mastery over sin. Father Byrne, of Clogher, Sreland, told the story of the Saviour’s love and mercy ; Dr. Glynn discoursed on the personality of the Holy Ghost, and Father Cxssa dwelt eloquently on the comfort which hope cives to the repentant soul. At Lyric Hall Mr, Froth- ingham delivered a broadside against capital punishment, holding that killing a man for his crimes was not punishing Lim. Mr, Beecher’s sermon was a laudation of Christ as tho ideal of perfection in everything, and a description of heaven as a place of freedom and joy. In Washington Dr. Newman prayed for the ratification of the treaty drawn up by the Joint High Commission, after which he proceeded to discourse on the low standard of the moralist. The subjects of the several sermons to which we have special'y referred ought to suffice the reader who seeks salva- tion; butif they are not sufficient tuere are others published which may aid in leading him to righteousness. The reli ious viands are before him; all he need do is to take his hoice. Now tmat Horace Greecey has visiled a sugar plantation and refinery in Louisiana we hope we stall have some ‘‘sweet talk” from him when he returns North. But why should not Horace take an interest in sugar culture ? Has he not been for many years engaged in “raising Cain” all over the country? Mrs. SnerMAN aND GeNeRrAL Snerman.— The Norfolk Journal declares that ‘Mrs. Sherman is entitled to the highest praise and the heartiest thanks of the country, and espe- cially of the ladies, for her opposition to the movement ‘for woman’s rights;’ and General Sherman, by his frank and manly reprobation of the exaggerated accounts of Ku Klux trou- bles, added a hundred cubits to his staturo in the estimation of the Southera people.” We do not know about General Sherman reaching that particular height, for half the clevation mentioned has a Scriptural eignifi- cance not altogetier felicitous; but if he does he will have a flae opportunity of witnessing the punishment of those who are continually stirring up bad blood among the people of the South and endeavoring to make that fair land “one scene of rude commotign,” When blows are adminis- | on the Eve of Collapso—The Versailles Troops in Paris, Good news at last from France. sailles troops entered Paris yesterday. news comes to us from our special correspond- ents in Versailles, and is corroborated by the intelligence received through other sources. From information at hand it appears that the forces of the Commune made but a small show of opposition, and that the success of the forces under the command of Marshal MacMahon have achieved an almost bloodless victory. While the guns of Fort Valcrien were pouring in their rain of shot and shell on the ramparts, which extend along a line in front of the Bois de Boulogne, preparations for the assault were going on at points to the south and southwest of the city. During the whole of Saturday night the bombardment was kept up from Fori Valerien, and this, probably, with the idea of impressing the Communisis with the notion that from that direction the grand assault would be made. Indeed, this view is in a measure confirmed, if the news prove true, by the fact that Gen- eral Dombrowski was preparing to offer re- sistance to the Versaillists outside the walls with the forces under his command in the Bois de Boulogne. He and General Wroblewski, who was reported in the neighborhood of Geatilly, were the only Commune generals outside the walls of the city, While the bombardment from Valcrien was kept up the movement on the ramparts simul- tancously on the southwest at a point near the Point du Jour and on the south a point near Fort Montrouge was made. The resistance, so far as can bo ascertained at present, on the part of the insurgents was slight, and the city, if entered at the points indicated, has been accomplished, so far as known at present, with a small sacrifice of life. The Arc de Triomphe has also, according to the telegrams, been reached by the republican forces, M. Thiers in a proclamation an- nounces that the gate of St. Cloud having been battered down by the guns of the besieging forees, afforded an opportunity to the forces in that vicinity to enter the city. This ad- vantage was improved by General Douai, who, at the head of his troops, rushed into the city. Generals Ladmirault and Clenchamps, who were also in that neighbor- hood, ascertaining that Douai was successful aud had really got within the city walls, were at latest accounts preparing to follow the example set them. As yet we have no news concerning the main body of the army, which, according to previous despatches, was concen- trated in the Bois de Boulogne, under the im- mediate command of the Duke of Magenta, The position held by General Douai is now within the walls of Paris, and already tho telegraph wires communicating with the inte- rior of the city proper have been cut. From a report made by General Cissey it appears also that Fort Montrouge and the Malakoff have been eyacnated by the Commune troops, who kave retired within the enceiate. The guns, therefore, of these places are silent, bul from the ramparis a beavy cannonade is siill kept up by the insurgenis, This intelli- gence does not coincide with a previous des- patch, which announces that the gate of Montrouge was one of the points at which the forces of the republic entered the city. The firing at this point must have been very severe. The terror-stricken inhabitants of ontrouge are fiying in al! directions from heir homes, which hive been rendered un- tenable by the cannonading from the contend- ing forces. By this time probably the The Ver- evacuated positions of the Commune troops at Montrouge and the Malakoff are occupied by General Cizsey, who expressed a determination to take possession of these points immediately. We are rather inclined to the opinion that as yet the city has not been entered at this point, for almost im- mediately within tle walls here the insurgents have erected formidable barricades, which they will defend with bitter determination, From the news before us there is little reason to doubt but that an entrance into Paris bas been effected at two or three points, but the victory so far which has crowned the efforts of the Versailles troops is not the final triump>. This they have yet to win, and this may have to be bought at a fur dearer price than that which has resulted by the cross- ing of the enceinte. The barricades still exist, the army of the Commune is stili in the city, and the organization which they lack fits them better for fighting behind barricades than encounters in the open field. These are the new difficulties which the forces of Mac- Mahon have now to overcome. Last night Paris was in a feverish state of ex- citement. Mounted couriers flying through the sireets, if nothing more, informed the inhabitants of the unfortunate capi- tal that the day of their deliverance was near at hand. We discredit the announce- ment that the Versaillisis were repulsed, and we are inclined to lean toward the idea that many of the prominent leaders of this unjusti-. fiable rebellion have fled from the city which they have disfigured and fom the people aey have tyrannized over. Tne TamMMANY Curlers are coming home from the Golden Gate. They seem to have had a jolly time all along. They are not bringing anything home with them as souve- nira of their trip, apparently, except a num- ber of mission blankets. What use they can put them to in this warm weather is doubtful, and they hardly intend to bang them up as parlor ornaments. The San Francisco people of course have a thorongh knowledge of the peculiarities of real Indian chiefs, and evi- dently they thonght that these Tammany sachems were real red men, probably on ac- count of their complexions and probably on account of the war dances they danced on the trip. But they made a mistake in conciliating them with blankets. Firewater and trinkets, gold and big diamonds and such are the presents that these poor Indians crave most, Greewey’s visit to the South bas been a godsend to the papers there. Our last batch of Southern exchanges contain nothing but gossip about Greeley—Greeley—Greeley. Even the crevasse is swallowed up in Greeley, A Prize Fient or Tue Riant Sort,.—The Omaha Herald says Nebraska wili “whip hard fimes through immigration." This \s prize worth fighting for. This | Th eRe future it is the “manifest dostiny” of these | Impertaut Nows from France—The Co' Our Correspondence’ from Ouina. We publish this morning interesting letters from our correspondents in Hong Kong and Shanghae. Although no fresh demonstrations of hostility to foreigners on the part of the Chinese government are reported, the attitude of the imperial authorities continued threaten- ing, making it more evident that foreign Powers would be compelled finally to adopt a decisive policy to bring these officials to their senses. By a recent decree it is ordered that Christian missionaries, when summoned to the Yamen, “shall present themselves as natives do—prosirate on their forcheads—and shall in all respects conform to native customs.” It will, of course, be very humiliating to comply with this demand; but if the Chinese govern- ment went no further foreigners would have little to find fault with. Our correspondents, however, confirm the news received by telegraph of the edict» aimed against Chris- tianity, and some of the provisions are exceedirgly severe, The expulsion of foreign women connected with the missions, the plac- ing of all mission establishments under the immediate supervision of Chinese officials, and the order that ‘no missionary shall receive more than forty-five converts,” aro repressive measures which will be condemned by all the foreign governments. We have nothing to say against the provision “that Confucius shall not be reviled nor the feelings of bis followers insulted.” Ta this regard the Chinese govern- ment is not at fault. Missionaries are too ofte2 prone to propagate the ideas of Chris- tianity by means of revilement of and insult to paganism. Nevertheless, it is clear that the tendoncy of the Chinese authorities is retro- gressive, and as the interests of foreign na- tions demand a continuance of commercial intercourse with China it will be well for them to at once notify the imperial officials that they will not tolerate any violation of the rights of foreigners, either secured by treaty or made necessary by modern civilization, Groupings of Opinions on Vallandigham’s “New Departare.” The Albany Hvening Journal is disposed to be facetious over Vallandigham’s new depari- ure, It says “vis magnanimity in consenting to accept the new amendments to the constitu- tion is very delightful, His influence in se- curing the acquiescence of the Dayton democ- racy is still more charming. With the united support of Mr. Vallandigham and the Dayton democracy the constitution is safe.” Cannot Mr. Vallandigham be allowed to do a litile “india-rubber advertising” on his private account without being ridiculed in this ua- scemly manner ? The Cincinnati Z'imes thinks Vallandizgbam, in his late Dayton coup de politique, displayed “infernal cunning.” It is nothing uncommon for Satan to have a hand in political move- ments, Their infernal origin is only too fre- queatly apparent, The Springfiold (Masa.) Repudlican attaches considerable importance to Vallandizham’s “bombshell.” It says it “either threatens the division and dissolutiou of the democratic party, by their refusal to accept its principles and poli- cies, or it promises, on the contrary, through such acceptance, their speedy return to power in the national government. The demonstra- tion,” continues the Republican, “is the most threatening one against General Grant and the power of the republican party that has yet been made.” The ‘‘little uapleasantness” ex- isting between General Grant and the editor of the Jtpublican may be “father to the thougit” expressed in the latter sentence, ne Boston Journal (republican) speaks of Vallandigham as the unterrified platform maker and remarks :— Upon this plat‘orm, with Groesbeck as the candi- date tor Governor, or if not him perhaps Durvia Ward, Raius P. Ranney or General Ewing, and Val- landigham for Senator, it is Calculated that the new cvemocracy Will be enabled to head of the guberna- torial aspirations of McCook and the senatorial ones of Pendieton, and sweep the State of Ohio by a com- fortable majority. It 1s also fondly believed that the same peimeirles adopted by the other States wiil resuitin a democratic victory at the next l’residen- tial eiection, Valiaadigham seems to forget that he never led anything more invigorating than a forlorn hope, and lo judge from present appearaaces he never will. The Steubenville (Ohio) Herald thinks that “a confusion of tongues and a babel of voices of dissent and condemnation will greet the extraordinary and unlooked-for change of principles” as exhibited ia Vallandigham’s new departure. “A confusioa of tongues” is nothing remarkable among politicians, for ever siuce the time of the Tower of Babel there has been more or less squabbling among political ‘‘bricks.” The Chicago Republican (republican) says the objective point of Vallandigham is the United States Senate, and tells him, ‘in con- fidence,” that he will never get there until he departs into something quite different from the democratic party of the present day. Ir Seems THAT Mr. Greeley has been re- ceived in Texas by Colonel Thrasher. It has many times bee predicted that if Greeley ever went South there wonld be a thrasher around somewhere. Tne Czanina IN Brertwx.—The Empress of Russia is now on a visit to the Court of the Emperor William. The imperial family of Russia and tho imperial family of Germany are so nearly—we had almost said so much—related to each other that this visit in itself considered ousht not to be con- sidered as anything out of the way. It is but natural that cousins siould visit each other. At the same time ithas to be admitted that this visit of the Empress of all the Russias. to the Court of Emperor William is important, because it unmistakably indicates on the part of the two great imperial governments of the Con- tinent a thoroughly good understanding, .The family ties which bind together the royal House of Great Britain and the imperial Houses of Germany and Russia givo us good reason to hope that the peace of the Old World, now that troublesome, war-makinz France is in the dust, will not soon or rashly be disturbed. All these things taken into ac- count and looked at in connection with the work of the Joint High Commission, we feel warranted to conclude that an era of peace has dawned upon the great civilized nations. May the dawn brighten into'a glorious noon ! Tne New Orteans Republican thinks it hard oa Alcxander H. Stephens when General Breckinridge requires 9 greater historian thaa either Gibbon or Macaulay to write the bis. tory of tho “Lost Cause.” It has been sup- posed that “Little Alvoit,” instead of a hard, vad a “xoft thing” in. getting up that history. ———_—_—_—_—_——————— »sby—Cookman, "sh, ane hence our * we sometimes on from any Newman—Or. The world is our pat. readers need not be surprise@ call to the front Zion’s watchite. part of our vast domain. While we shelleve that some of the greatest men of the m2 have their home among us we do not consitfer, that they all dwell here, New York has sont out more than one leader of theological thought who has made his mark in some other section of the land, and one of these wo bring back to our readers to-day in imazination as he himself appeared among them a week ago in person, The Rev. J. P. Newman, D. D., now chap-- lain to Congress and pastor of the Metro- politan Methodist Episcopal chxurch in Wash- ington, D. C., is eminently a New Yorker. He was reared in this city, and here he left a mechanical puranit to become a captain of one of the Lord’s hosts. He is a man of fine physical frame, strong and vivid imagination, admirable descriptive faculties, often rising to the sublime, and possesses a clear, ringing, pleasant voice, which never seoms to yield to the pressure of speech. The Doctor’s power in the pulpit consists chiefly in his imaginative and descriptive faculties. He carries an audience right along with him, Philosophical disquisi- tions are not his forte, and he rarely attempts them, He is possessed of a strong will and is inclined to be argumentative, but only where Christian principles or docirines are involved. These traits were recogn'zod in him toward the close of the war, and the bishops sent him down to New Orleans endowed with authority and power to reorganize the scattered societies of the Gulf States and to reopen the churcbes which had been closed by the rebellion. He nobly answered the expectations of him and did the work of a mis- sionary bishop. But he did more than this, for he founded a college and opened several schools for the freedmen, and estab- Ished a religious paper, and until bis call to Washingten his hands were full with dutiea belonging to these interests, The Doctor is known also as an author and a lecturer, he having travelled extensively in the Holy Land and on this Coutiaent and published his viewa and impressions of bot in oae or other of these forms, and has thus given to the world many new thoughts and ideas concerning old avd well traversed places, The Doctor was formerly pastor of Bedford street, Washington square and other Methodist churches in thia city, and is known and loved and honored by hundreds of his old parishioners here now. The Rev, Howard Crosby, pastor of tha Fourth avenue Presbyterian church, is one of the best classical and biblical scholars in the country, Weis a graduate of the New York University, where also he was for several years 4 professor, and ol which he is now Chancellor, The Doctor has the happy faculty, whether in the pulpit or the lecture room, of making the dryest scientific or philosophical subjects interesting and instructive to an audience. While » teacher in the University a few years ago he realizod hia call to the ministry and answered it promptly, and, as many can testify, with great success for the cause of Christ and the Church. The Doctor is very far in advance of hundreds of his brethren in the Presbyterian Church in regard to doctrines and forms of Church government, and in his denominational life is always rendy to exterd tho hand to any man who loves the Lord Jesus Christ in sin- cerity and ia truth. His style in the pulpit is more didactic than rhetorical, and with great plainness of speech he presents the truths of God to his people and enforces them by pre= cept and example. In another column will bs fond a synopsis of a plain and practical dis~ course delivered by Dr. Crosby yesterday morning, which we recommend our readers to sindy carefully and prayerfully. The Rev. John E. Cookman, pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, comes of a ministerial stock, He is a young man, about nine years in the ministry, but has mada his mark sufficiently to draw one of the largest congregations ever gatheredjnto any church in this city. Heis a bachelor, judging, like Paul, that he can better serve the Lord without a wife and family than with one. He is a very godly man, and his pulpit discoursea show that he bears a very close relationship to his Maker. He preaches to the hearts and ccasciences of men rather than to their intel- lects; and multitudes wait upon his words, and some come even from a distance to hear him. He is very earnest and enthusiastic in his calling, and this is perhaps the great secret of his success. ‘‘Believe in it or fail” is his motto, and, believing in it, he succeeds, to the great surprise of many of his brethren who have not similar strong faith and devo. tion to their office and work. ALSACK AND Lorraing Forever tTo- Br INcorPoRATED With GERMANY.—The German Parliament has adopted the second clause of the Alsace and Lorraine bill, which provides for the perpetual incorporation of these con~ quered provinces with the German empire. Prince Bismarck is not of those who say hard things but do them not. Between his words and his deeds there is perfect harmony, Ho says what he means and he does what he says, Tho Alsatians and Lorrainers may be stubbora for atime, but Prince Bismarck hopea much from kind treatment, and the annexed popula- tion must have been flattered by the Priace when he told them that not only were they German in race and in speech, but that. they constituted a species of French aristocracy. The incorporation of these provinces. with Germany threatens to make an end forever. of French ambition in the direction of the Rhine, Tue New Orrrans Times states that somo. inquisitive fellow who thinks Horace Greeley, knows everything asked him the other day how to stop the crevasse. ‘Damn it, sir; don’t ask me,” was the characteristic, nat te. say appropriate reply. Oxe oF Our Saerarian Conremporartns ix 80 idtent upon magnifying the Dillinger cif}. culty that it is wiiling to ignore all the facts in conflict with its pet scheme, Thus yester- day it again referred to the Professors of tha Roman University, who in a long published letter reoontly endorsed Dillinger, as Gatho- lics of theliberal type, The fact ia they aro not Catholics at all, being composed entirely, of professors of the free-thinking school, trang: forved from Florence to Rome and inatedled in the places of genuine Catholic teachers, wh¢ refused to acknowledge the naw ordee @