The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1871, Page 6

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Retura to Gotham—Local News. 4=Keligions: The Feast of Pentecost in the Churches; Sermons and Services in tue Me- tropolis and Elsewhere; Restrain ana Restoring Resources of Religion; "Bieging Bas, = for Paris and the Pope; The Evils of S—Religious (Continned from Fourth Page)—The Treaty of Washington; Another Triumph for British Diplomacy; Grave Blunders of the American Commisstoncrs—The Fish Ques- ery tuon—The Many (?) Art—A Stab in the Back. €—Eaitorials ; Leading Article, “The Paris Insur- rection Ended—The Death Struggles of the Commdne—Sixty Thousand Lives Sacrificed — Oue-third of Paris Destroyed”—Amusement Announcements, 7—Fdittorlals (continned from sixth page)—The Commune Dead : Storming of Pere 1a Chaise, Meuilmontant and Les Buttes Chaumont— Paris Tranquil: Tne Latest News from France: Herald Son Reports from Paris and Versailles—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Business Notices, S—Paris Rouge: Pho h of the Appearance avd Description of the Paris of 1871; Before the Fall of the Reds; Details of the Bombara- ment; Future of the Imperial eae tela Notes, Political ana General—Whitsuntide— The Latest Express Robbery: $75,000 Stolen from the Adams Company tn Columbus, Onto— Fire in Brooklyn—Jdournalistic Notes—A Brook- lyn Policeman Beaten—The San Juan Boundary Question—Base Bail Notes—A Brute, 9—The Insurance Cr 83: Report of the Com- mittee on Assets and Investments—Heavy Verdict Against the Erie Railroad—The Ricli- ardson-McFarland Case—Pinaucial and Com- mercial Reports—Domestic Markets—The Late General Burger—Foreign Personal Gossip— Departures for Europe on Saturday—Court Calendars for 'To-Day—Loss of Racing Stock— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisemént. L0—The Sopin: Military Opinions of Its Conditions ‘aid Prospects; “Outside Pressure” a Mistake; How to Put Down the Ku Kiux—The Flushing Bigamist—Douvle Drowning Accident in Newark—Weary of Waitthg—iatlroad Meeting in Trenton—Shipping lutelligence—Advertise- ments, 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements, Tor Aracne Ixpransin Arizona have taken to robbing the mails—the only evidence of civilization that they have yet evinced. » Tne Yosemirg Vatrey and the big trees of California are becoming famous as summer re- sorts, The New York Blossoms put forth here for a short time on their return home. » Our Correspoypent rm Nortm Carortna Gives an interesting account of social matters among the Ku Klux counties of that State, Northern men evidently are not assiduously sought after by the aristocratic natives, and ‘are only tolerated socially when their political ‘complexions are more democratic than those ‘of the Southerners thomselves, , Rumors are current in Paris of cruelties Perpetrated by the Versailles troops upon the insurgents during the fighting in the streets. At is charged that they slaughtered all persons found with arms in their hands, including ‘women and children. While these rumors are ‘probably exaggerations we have no doubt t the slaughter was horrible. This, how- ever, was inevitable and unavoidable under Abe circumstances, The passions of the com- atante on both sides were excited to their utmost limit; hence it is nothing surprising Yhat no mercy was shown by the victorious troops. Men In the heat of battle, their minds Aoflamed by the resistance encountered, are ore likely to behave like barbarians than like wo philanthropists. The amenities of r do not apply to cit\es which are taken b; Desnuls suger by aires . NEW YORK HERALD: MONDAY. MAY 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Paris Insurrection Eaded—Tho Death Struggles of the Commune—Sixty Thou- sand Lives Sacrified—One-:bird of. Paris Destreyed. The Paris insurrection is completely sup- pressed. After a week of most desperate fighting in the streets of the capital the suc- cess of the government forces is announced and victory proclaimed. With the glad an- Nouncement that this unholy rebellion has been crushed by the armies of republican France come, the painful tidings that the gray haired Archbishop of Paris has been massa- cred. Archbishop Darboy, a sketch of whose life was published in the Hrratp when tho first rumors of his agsassination were received, along with the Abbé Daguerry and sixty-two others who were held as hostages by the in- surgents, were, according to the latest news from Paris and Versailles, murdered in cold blood fm La Roquette prison, to which place they had been trans- ferred from the Mazas a short time prior to the entrance of the Versailles troops into the city. The last days of these unfortunate prisoners must have been terrible indeed. Be- tween fear and hope the suspense cannot have been other than terrible. For the six long days and nights which preceded the massacre, during which the terrific struggle in the streets continued, and when possibly the conflagra- tions which were devouring the capital illumi- nated the prison. cells wherein the hostages were confined, alternately fearing the worst, yet hoping for the best, the venerable Arch- bishop and those confined with him spent their last hours, When at last the dreadfal moment arrived, and when the insurgents—those who were left of them—found that their cause was lost and no hope of success remained, then, as if to consummate the dreadful work in which they were engaged by cne deed moro terrible than those which had already proclaimed the rising of the reds as the most unjustifiable, barbarous and bloody that stains the record of Paris, the hostages which they held were massacred in cold blood by wretches who but a few hours later, perhaps, were summoned before the throne of Him to answer for the crimes they had committed against their country and their fellow man. Of tho manner in which the hostages suffered death we are not informed— uothing but the bare announcement that they were massacred has, by the latest news from France, reached us. The last struggle of the Commune is, therefore, marked by another dark stain which will cause it to be remembered for many years to come. From the very first direct movement on the city (now not quite seven days ago), which must have convinced the insurgents that the time had arrived when the final struggle was about to take place, despair seems to have taken possession of the leaders in Paris, and they, believing their cause to ba hopeless, resolved to consummate their last hours by acts which will hand their names down in infamy to future ages, The taking of the ramparts and the crossing of the enceinte, by the Versailles forces were accomplished with comparative ease. Indeed, the works were taken so easily that what appeared a matter of surprise when the news was first received is now accounted for by subsequent events. Behind the barricades, from the housetops, through the windows of the build- ings and in the open streets, the insurgents resolved to stand the hazard of success or failure. The early days of the week just passed found the insurgents driven from some of tifir positions. The troops of Versailles before Tuesday had captured a number of the barricades, and the headquarters of some of the govern- ment generals were established within the walls. This foothold gained was an important one; but it had the effect of goading on the despairing rabble, who were fighting with desperation, to deeds darker and more blood- thirety. It was on Tuceday, according to one despatch, that Archbishop Darboy and the other hostages were shot. It was on this day also that fires began to.break out in different parts of the city. This served as aa indica tion of the dreadful resolve of the insurgents. If they could not succeed then the city should be laid in ruins. In the carry- ing out of this awful determination women assisted. They carried from point to point, amid the rain of shot which swept through the streets, the inflammables which were to work out the destruction of Paris. Still, amid streets rendered almost impassable by the conflagrations which were everywhere raging, the Versaillists pressed on, driving the insurgents before them, carrying barri- cades at the poiat of the bayonet and strew- ing the streets with the corpses of their oppo- nents, while the gutters, we are told, were running with human blood. One by one the grand edifices which graced Paris were given to the flames by the self-same hands which were dyed with the nation’s blood. At one time It was feared that the whole clty would be destroyed, but this dreadful calamity, thank Heaven, was averted. Before a week had rua its course from the time when Marshal MacMahon’s movement on the city was commenced, the insurrection was in ite death throes. On Saturday General Ladmirault captured Les Buttes Chaumont and Menilmontant, and at ao -later hour General Vinoy carried Pitre Ia Caaise. It will also be seen that Belleville and itg sur- roundings, the last stronghold of the rebellion, the heights of which were stormed by the Ver- saillists on Saturday, had to yield. Yesterday morning the last of the insurgents surrendered unconditionally, and the insurrection was at an end. Not a gun has been fired since yesterday morning in the city, and the people, so long depressed, were delighted that the reign of the Commune was over—an end attained only after the sacrifice of sixty thousand lives and the destruction of one-third of Paris. The Latest Cosel Mine Horror—Eighteen Men Choked to Death. Oa Saturday last Pittston, Pa., was the scene of a calamity similar to that which visited Avondale in the autumn of 1869. The shaft of one of the mines took fire, and as it was the only means of ingress and egress all the workmen in the mine were completely shut out from escape. Fortunately the number of men thus trapped was not as great as at Avondale, where one hundred haman beings fell victims to the carelessness, inhumanity or, what is most likely, avarice of the mining companies, At Pittston only thirty-seven men were entombed, of whom eighteen were taken out dead and the others alive, though insensi- ble. It is feared that the recovery of several of the latter is impossible. One would have thought that after the ter- Tible catastrophe at Avondale precautions would have been taken at once against its occurrence in other mines. The fact that the number of victims in the Pittston mine is only eighteen does not make their fate less horrible to contemplate. Two years ago we called the attention of the mining companies to the necessity of providing all their mines with more than one shaft, 60 that the work- men would be not only secured against death from sudden and unforeseen occurrences, but that they would be also provided with a strong, health-preserving current of pure air, so much needed in all mines. It is evident from the tragedy at Pittston that there bas not been any improvement made in this direc- tion. The mine in which the thirty-seven men were immured has but a single shaft; that shaft took fire, and instantly every soul in the depths below was as much cut off from escape as are any of the souls we read of in Dante's “Inferno.” Not long ago tho same shaft caught fire, and, says the report, “has not been considered entirely safe in its working gear for some time. Nevertheless, 02 Thursday last, a mine inspector investigated its condition ‘‘and reported everything satis- factory.” But, as events have proven, every- thing was not satisfactory, In the first place, there was danger of the shaft taking firc, and, in the next, the company was deliberately violating the law, which forbids the em- ployment, at one time, of more than tweaty mean in a mine which has but one means of retreat. Furthermore, there was next to nothing at hand to extinguish a fire in the event of one occurring. When the shaft at Pittston was in flames on Saturday a miserable well was the only source from which water could be rapidly obtained, and as its supply was insufficient recourse was had to the river, half a mile distant. In short, every fact developed by the tragedy strengthens the evidence of the criminal negligence of the company in the matter of providing against fires. A witty Englishman has observed that for a people who make it a constant boast that they possess more freedom than any other nation on Earth, Americans submit to an amount of tyranny from corporate bodies that would provoke a revolution in Europe, The truth of this assertion is to wo seen in this latest coal mine horror. So far as we are aware the Avondale tragedy had not the slightest effect upon the corporations which own the Penn- sylvania mines. Although the expense of constructing additional air passages and means of escape from death is comparatively trifling nothing seems to have been done, Our correspondent in Pittston reports the ex- citement as intense at that place, and well it may be. The sudden stifling to death of eighteen husbands and fathers is a catastrophe horrible enough to excite one, particularly where the tragédy could and should have been prevented by the simplest and least expensive of precautions. It is not long since the monopolists who own the mines crushed all resistance out of the miners and compelled them to return to work on their own terms. During the long and weary strike, of which a surrender was the result, the companies appealed to the public for support, alleging that their expenses for- bade their paying the Fages demanded. If these expensés include fife-saving appliances | we should like to know what amount was pe pcs for the purpose. Itis the duty of evéry corporation to adopt all reasonable pre- gautions for saving the lives of its employds, In the Pittston mine there wad nd pre- caution whatever taken. The shafts of all mines are liable to take fire at any moment; it is impossible, perhaps, to guard against accidents of this kiad; but where a mine has more than one shaft the chance of the community being horrified by the whole- sale choking te death of workmen becomes so infinitesimally small that it can scarcely be said to exist at all. It is, perhaps, too much to hope that the Pittston tragedy, following within two years after that at Avondale, will bring the coal companies to proper sense of the duty they owe to the miners, But we trust it will influ. ence the Pennsylvania Legislature to enact a law compelling the monopolists to provide additional shafts to every mine which at pres- ont has only one, and forbidding under heavy penalty the working of any mine as dangerous to human life as that at Pittston. A law of this kind is necessary to prevent the recur- rence of just such borrors as the one reported with painful fidelity in the Henrarp this morning. Tre OvrraGes IN CuINa,—Minister Low officially reports to the government at Wash- ington that the troubles in China grew out of @ conflict of jurisdiction under the treaties between the French and Chinese governments relative to missionarles and proselyting. The almond-eyed authorities, however, ex- hibit their great boldness in atrocity, because they have heard fully of the distracted con- dition of France, and aro no longer in dread of her power The Straggle im Paris—The Cause and Ite Moral. The frightful excesses of the Paris Com- mune have been denounced by the civilized world. The free people and press of America, as well as the governments and monarchists of Europe, have expressed their horror at the bloody deeds and madness of the Parisians. The fearful and useless destruction of life and the splendid monuments of art will never be forgotten. An indellible stain will rest upon the history of the great city which claimed to be at the head of civilization. The horrors of the first Revolution, when Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were beheaded, and the guillotine was kept going mercilessly mowing down all who opposed the revolutionary monsters of that period, were scarcely lees shocking than the occurrences in Paris during the last few weeks, Yet, while these facts are as ondeniable as they are appall- ing, and while the civilized world and history must condemn in the severest terms the Paris insurgents, there may be two sides in the cause, object and history of these occurrences. However indefensible the bloody and destructive conduct of the Com- mune may be it is clear that the vast body of the Parisians, outside of the criminals and scum of society, have been fighting for some- thing more than plunder or from mere brutal inatincts. A large portion of the shopkeepers and respectable industrious classes as well as a great many intelligent and educated people have been identified with the cause of the Commune and have laid down their lives for it. With a surprising heroism worthy of a better cause the Parisians have been warring against what they deem existing evils or to prevent those they fear. They are wrong, doubtless, and have resorted to extreme and inexcusable means to accomplish their object, even if that object were reasonable or practicable. They ought to have given the republic as estab- lished by the voice of the whole people of France, with M. Thiers at the head, a fair chance. Whatever reforms they desired should have been left to votes of the peaple. History is full of examples to show that those who resort to the sword perish by the sword, and that those who would despotically force their views or dogmas upon others generally become the victims of despotism. Apart from the dangerous classes—the criminals and scum of soclety—which always emerge from their dark abodes and take a prominent part in ¢meutes or revolutions in Paris, the Commune contended for local self- government and for the decentralization of the national government. It saw, as others have seen in and out of France, that under every form of government, of the old Bourbon mon- archy, of the different ephemera! republican governments, of the consulate and tue em- pires, and of the Orleans dynasty, the cen- tralization of power in the hands of whoever was chief of the State for the time being had been inimical to the establishment and per- petuation of liberty, and tended always to provoke revolutions, To remedy this evil was one of the objects of the Commune, Whether the plan proposed was a good one or not we cannot discuss here. The means re- sorted te for making the reform were cer- tainly bad, and more likely to defeat the object than to attain it. The insurgent Com- mune thought, no doubt, that the best time to accomplish their object was just on the inauguration of the new government, and be- fore it could consolidate its power. But in connection with this movement, and, perhaps, at the bottom of it; is another one both exceptional and dangerous, We refer to the attempt of the leaders of the Commune to engraft on republican institu- tions their socialist theories, If they do not go quite so far as their prototypes of the first Revolution, who declared all property a theft, or of the Communists of the revolution of 1848, who proposed to take the property of the rich to support the poor, their theories have the same tendency and would, if carried out, break up the framework of society and lead to the worat consequences, eS Then, again, these Commune leaders, of whom Bergeret is a chief and a representative man, endeavor to subvert the Christian reli- gion, and, indeed, all religion. These soi- disant philosophers, but narrow-minded men, follow in the wake of the Miraboaus, Marats, Dantons and Robespierres of the first French Revolution and are as ivsanely hostile to Christianity. Infidelity, in the worst sense of that term, seems to have been ineradicably engrafted on the French mind since the time of Voltaire, Rousseau, the Eucyclopedists and their successors of tie revolutionary Moun- tain, At least this is so in Paris and other large cities. Ia the revolt of the French mind —_ against monarebical tyranny and priestly — despotisni thé ~ men of progress ond _ education in that country, ‘particularly in the gréat centres of intelligence, lost sight of the good in Chris- tianity. They attributed all the political and social evils of the time to the Christian reli- gion; and yet, when they saw that mankind needed some kind of religion, they, in their madness, attempted to substitute the Goddess of Reason—the worship of humanity—and took a lewd woman as its representative. They were wilfully blind to the fact that the principles inculcated by Christ and his imme- diate followers are broadly democratic and embody the noblest sentiments of humanity, and that the priests, monarchs and privi- leged classes who had held the mass of man- kind in chains for so many ages not only did not act in accordance with Christianity, but directly contrary to it. The infidels of the Commune and of France to-day hold the same irrational and dangerous ground. ‘The conse- quence is that not only the priests, rulers and privileged orders are alarmed, but that the conservative and religiously disposed every- where regard these destructive theorists with apprehension. Mueh as the people may desire liberty. and reform, or even republican institutions, they would be disposed to accept an Imperial or other despotism from fear of the danger of infidelity, communism or anarchy. Hence It will be difficult, if not im- possible, to decentralize the government of France. The French do not reap the fruit of their revolutions in consequence of their extra- vagant and impracticable theories. Reaction alwaya takes place, and some master, under the name of King, Emperor, Consul or Presi- dent, holds them in subjection, There isa siruaale golpg on la other parts of the world as in France between the ideas of the past and the present, but generally with more reason and with more regard to what is practicable. Everywhere the conflict between excessive innovation and rigid con- servatism may be ssen—between theories to elevate and improve the condition of the masses and the old established order of things. Paris has been a sort of intellectual, political and moral volcano. A shock there has vibrated through Europe, It was so in 1930 and 1848. Whether that power has been lost or not through the humiliation of the Inte war and the dreadful excesses of the Commune remains to be seen. We rather think the rest of the world has outgrown that influence, and is marching in the way of liberty and improve- ment better and safer than the Parisians or the French can march. Still the uneducated or partially educated masses and progressive the- orists everywhere awaken apprehensions lest they should outstrip the march of intelligence and arrest the progress of civilization. The laboring classes feel the force of Burns’ ex- pression, that ‘‘a man’s a’ man for a’ that,” and not only are demanding political equality and privileges with other classes, but are seriously looking for a solution to that social problem how they are to live comfortably by their labor and how they are to be prevented from starving in a land of wealth and plenty. These are the thoughts that are fermenting in and upheaving society, and that bave no little to do with the terrible events in Paris. In our own happy country, where labor is in demand and better rewarded than elsewhere, where land is cheap and the soil productive, and where all have political rights and are equal before the law, there is growing up a conflict between labor and capital and there are disorganizing movements similar in character to those in Europe. The late war arose chiefly from the desire to abol- ish slavery and the inequality of the rages of mankind, That remarkable event and the amendments to the constitution growing out of t accomplished more in ten years than ages have in the Old World. But there are other movements going on that cannot be regarded with like favor. Spiritualism. and rationalism are undermining religion. This movement is Infidelity, with a specious disguise. These, together with the women’s rights agitation, threaten to subvert the family relation and to demoralize the whole community. To arrest the progress of such evils, and to appropri- alte whatever may be found good in the pro- gressive ideas and development of the age, we must have a universal and a higher standard of education, Above all we should cherish and diffuse religion, which restrains vice, ele- vates the character of men and teaches us to seek the good of others, Yeaterday’s Religious Discourses. Yesterday, while the insurgents of Paris were laying down their arms and enacting the last scene in their gory drama, Father Hewitt in this city and Mr. Beecher in Brooklyn were discoursing on the subject of their revolt, Both gentlemen attributed it to a lack of reli- gious sentiment, but their gonclusions were not alike. Mr. Beecher thought that the working classes of Europe had been ‘so bad- gered and beaten by those who have pretended to religion that it is no wonder that they feel animosity” toward the Word of God. On the other hand, Father Hewitt rather implied that they bad not been badgered and beaten enough. Doubtless a philosopher would at- tribute the revolt to ‘‘pure cussedness,” and we would feel inclined to agree with him were it not that, in spite of all their brutality and shocking atheism, the Communists hold certain well defined ideas not incompatible with religion, social order or good government. We do not share Mr. Beecher’s apprehensions for New York. Socialism in this country cannot make headway until our population becomes so dense that men find it difficult to make a living. If the Communists of Paris had a West or a South—with plenty of uroccu- pied land to get, ‘free, gratis, for nothing”— to go to, their rejection of God would not impel them to aspire to that ‘equitable distribution of property” which robs from Peter without paying to Paul. It is undoubt- edly wise to educate our children in a firm belief in the Almighty, but we should do so for the sake of their souls, and not through fear that if they be uninstructed in religion they may some day bring upon us such horrors as those which have just drenched Paris in human blood, Dr. Stevenson's sermon was an able argu- ment against the possibility of any man being neutral in religion, the preacher holding, with the Bible, that whoso is not for God is against Him. Dr. Bellows comforted his congrega- tion with fhe assurance that, even as the rosé is fragrant and beautiful, though guérounded by thorns, so our lives may be happy and contented though beset by troubles and misfortunes, which are often meant to chastéa OF dod Ofig2 Sent a5 favors from Heaven. Mr, Heprorth a owed how God is always with those who call for his aid. Bishop Janes discoursed on the restraining and re- storing influences of Christianity, and Dr. Ewer described the evils of the day and sug- gested their remedy, In Brooklyn, Washington, Westchester, Jersey City and elsewhere the sermons were good. At all the churches the attendance was large and the congregations devout and prayerful. We do not say that the delightful weather contributed to the piety exhibited, but It certainly was a temptation to the sinner to don his and her Sunday clothes and go to church. Tne “Spgzorre Rover” having vanished beneath a river of blood, there now remain in France the imperialists, legitimists, Orlean- ists and moderate republicans to struggle for possession of the government. It is clear that the government of M. Thiers will not be per- manent; but it would be a bold thing to pre- dict what form of government will succeed it, unless the army “proclaims.” Singularly enough, the French army has never initiated asingle one of the many revolutions through which France has passed, and the only one which was inaugurated through its agency (not by it) was that which made Louis Napo- leon Emperor. Tne ANNiversanrtgs have transferred them- selves to Boston this week. Wendell Phillips and the savage feminines of the suffrage per- suasion can utter their plercing wails and crushing denunciations against our govera- right Iq the old cradle of Ubertr Ituglf, Stupson—MeClosky—Jancs. These names are neither new nor novel, They belong to men who have at least a con- tinental if not a world-wide reputation, The Rev. Matthew Simpson, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has no equal in his own and no superior in any other denomi- nation on this Continent, He has been in the ministry nearly forty years and about half of that time in the episcopal office. An Ameri- can of Irish descent, he possesses a good deal of that physical elasticity peculiar to the Celtio race, and appears young and strong enough yet for many years of labor tocome. His flow of language in the pulpit is in volume like Niagara, but Mm fluency and ease like a mill stream. And yet never a word falls from his lips uselessly or without effect, There is thought and food for thought in every utterance of his, and consequently power; for we .have no great faith in any pul- pit discourse in these days which does not either exhibit thonght and ‘study or create thought in others, Bishop Simp- son hag travelled extensively both in the Old World and in the New, and has read the history of every nation and kingdom as ho Passed through it, not so much in books as in the moral, social and political condition of the people. But he is an extensive reader, as well as observer. His power of imagery ia magnificent, and his voice has in it peculiar sharpness, which attracts a listener at once. The Bishop is both a writer and a lecturer. One of his grandest successes on the platform was the lecture delivered in the Academy of Music here, in the darkest days of the rebellion, when his eloquent and faith-inspir- ing words, uttered to at least five thousand people whom he held as with the charm of an angel for more than two hours so enchained that at times the silence was deep enough te hear a pin fall. He drew on the treasures of ancient history to show why the Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Macedonian, Roman and other empires and kingdoms had passed away until naught but the barest records of their existence or of some of -them remain, And then with triumphant faith and hope he pointed to our own land and its institutions and demonstrated the utter impossibility of its severance, much less of its speedy decay and death, And at the same time he repeated a prophecy he had made many years before, and which had been inspited by a French circular he had met with in one of his trips across the Isthmus to California, and which prophecy was then in actual fulfilment by the occupation of Mexico by Louis Napoleon, whose defeat on this Continent the Bishop at the same time foretold. And many a man left the Academy that night with a firmer faith in the success of our arms and in the stability of our institutions than he had ever had before. There is a charming blending of manly vigor and deep pathos in the Bishop's style in the pulpit, so that at times an audience scarcely knows whether to weep or to appland. Yesterday, according to announcement, Bishop Simpson dedicated a church in Williamsburg. The Right Rev. John McClosky, D. D., Archbishop of the diocese of New York, is in many respects the opposite of his Episcopal neighbor. He is slowin speech, but not in knowledge. His reputation both as a scholar and a divine was made long before he came to this city, else he would not have been chosen to succeed the late Archbishop Hughes. The thousands who listened to his funeral oration over the remains of that great man will not saon forget the scene, nor the tender sympathy which welled up in the Bishop's breast until it finally choked his utterance, and faund vent only in tears of sorrow at the loss of a prince and a great man fallen in Israel. The Arch- bishop does not preach very often himself. The infirmities of age and the multiplied duties appertaining to his high office forbid, to a great extent, this additional labor. But when he speaks words of wisdom flow from his mouth with all the tenderness and affec- tion of a womanly nature. He is exceedingly fond of children, and, like his predecessor, is greatly interested in the causo of education. He is not, however, like him, a controver- sialist, and hence does not command that degree of public attention which Archbishop Hughes always received; but he is doing his own work and the work of the Church as steadily, and, though silently, we doubt not just as well. “The Rev. E. S. Janes, D. D., another bishop of the Methodist Church, is also a resi- dent in our midst and familiar not only to his own people but to Christians of other de- nominations, with whom he freely mingles. He is small of statue, but every inch a bishop. He never fires of labor for the Waien Val talways abounding in the work of the Lord.” A few days ago ho was near tne base of the Rocky Mountains, meeting West- ern conferences, and later burying ‘hls asso- ciate, Bishop Clarke, Io Cincinnati, and, as Dr. Fowler remarked yesterday in @ sermon at a church dedication, to illustrate the pro. gress of science and invention, the Bishop is now nearer to Hong Kong than he was to the farthest end of Lis circuit when he began his miniatry. Bishop Janes is not gifted with the eloquence of his associate, Bishop Simp- son, nor has he the deep and tender sympathy of the Archbishop, or, if he has, he can con- trol it better; but there {s in his style and constiiution more of that middle character- istic of manliness in the pulpit which takes with the generality men. His sermons are learned, without being labored; practical, without being painful, and logigal, with- out being metaphysical. 4nd as o sample we may refer to @ sketch of @ sermon delivered by him yesterday, which may be found in another column. The Bishop is a very godly man, and we doubt not preaches the Gospel far more effectively by his daily life and conversation than by his pulpit discourses. He has never, we believe, entered the lecture field, and is not very ex- tensively known as an author. Nevertheloss, he has written some interesting works. He is possessed of a wiry constitution, and though well advanced in life looks capable of bearing the burden and heat of the day in the vineyard of the Lord for many years, to which we hope he may be spared. Hera, then, aro three princes in Israel, working in different departments of the Church of Obrist, but each doing what his Gogo mista ll big molghjs with the ,