The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1871, Page 8

4 6 NEW YORK HERALD BrOAPDWAY AND A STREET. YAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XNXVE.... see Ne, 155 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVERINS. WOOD'S MUSEL Auees every aiterno arner SOth st.——P GEE BLIND er of Sth av, ana 384 s.— Commanism—its Causes and Its Cure. Among the sermons delivered on Sunday last those of Mr. Beecher and Father Hewitt Were especially noteworthy, as containing the views of iwo eminent American divines on the revolt in Paris. While the Brooklyn preacher took a wider view of the subject than the New ic s agreed in saying that infi- tbe foundation of French Com- munism. Mr. Beecher attributed this want of as faith to want of education. To a xtent he was correct, but not was reli been guided and directed by intellectual men— pk's Su “ { WaldACK’ 3 THEATRE, Broadway and 1th stroet< | so. Ignorance has certainly been the NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broatway.—Krr, tur Amyawsas |‘ Shae Meee Socialite Uanibeantae 's TRAVELLYR. threatening power in France; but it has always GRAND OPERA HOU! ¥ ‘Tut TuRre Ho Nompac men of great learning—and in this fact is en- Sierae THEATRE, Bowery.—Prour—Tas Feuate ; Countered the great dificnity in dealing with FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twooty-fonnh etree, | it Were socialism confined to the illiterate Lanpor Acse canon, | and the vathioking a remedy might be applied OLY THPATRS, Broasway.—Tay Ewotionar | without much trouble. Bat the misfortune is Thay « sr LYNAE THEAT LORE TarGerat Daawa ww Ne o1 Np NECK BOOTHS a and Gt ave. — Tar May 0 BRYANT'S NEW 0} 254 si, between Oth ano Tih avs.—Neeno Ni TONY PASTOR'S 3 SE, Wl Bowerr,—Va- . 5 : 4 pueiy EXUETAINMEAT. |} sean; | tat pan to their prejudices, while the en- NEWCOUB e S, corner asp | lightened are attracted by the captivating Sand Brow das and boldness—-the élan, so io speak— TRIPLE SHEET. New Vork, Sunday, Jane 4, 1871. ENTS OF TODAY'S HERALD, Ciub: The Race Horses et y France, It will be sniticient for our Yachung Templars’ | present purpose to siate that socialism n We Island — Ad Uae: ne | was of gradual growth in France, mield | and germinated from the sufferings and 4—Peivr’s Period: Sketches of Long. Reig: tiffs; Pwenty-five Years Under the vara; ” May Die. but Peter Will Live—temple uel — Orthodox Fricads — F 100s ccormic sont t> wr eben | we have an explanation for the horrible ferocity | from the guardianship of their parents, Fashionable Summer —Financial aud | and absurd idealism of the Paris mob. ‘Tue | and ye' is clear il ¢t i a her ice d utism of the Paris mob. ne | and yet it “fy, clear that, ontil the in- Rarths dvertisements. | city v settled esperadoes, to | fluence of their mothers and fathers over | }—Kidtior ing Article, “Communism —It: et + reli : ; 6 Sacre 2B Ourell=. AIMGSEIEHY annonnee | TU and reli le, meaning- | their impressionable minds is effectually de- ments. less w: t ineir descendants have for | siroyed, all school educati vi ie rant Page'—France: | e , sir nts have: for | ve : education will be practi i mm Versailles—The | Centuric the French capital the most | cally losi. There is no more fascinating doc- | <i ES ge een’ | disorderly metropolis in Europe. Tt was | trine on earth thun that of socialism, Tt has | during the reiga of Lonis XI r, that | led astray the most liant of intellects ; it Wiing’s Departure for Parope—News Washington~-Shipping Inteiigence—Ad- Onn is Op Aviantio Cabies has finally b ea ¢ and is being rep at Heart's Cont Ex-Con Bowrn was convicted yesterday of bi dollars (o moved for a new trial. y, and held ia five th aw Tor usn Hieu Com “s ith the splendor of the tew, and plausibly | General nek, our Mii ed that if there were no rich there | tain, ar in Liverpool 3 i be no poor. At this very time the | Chamber of Ce erce waited 1 setting an example of | Schenck and presented to bim u ratleled before or since. | The Gevera}, says our despateh, made ‘a neat boen distinguisbed for virtue and speech” in re Tae Eur: York soon, I to New titary we he highest d are likely to have among us for soine time, and | inuch higher than »yal visitor we have : h if j was it, then, that infidelity and its in- had heretolore, an ru of his pre- i é 3 able consequences spread with sneb re- Reuce W be e by even y i LA 8 und fatal spe The clergy | 80 ordinary a human + Czar of | pl “1 to stem the nonholy tide, Russia, merely bece do not | erica i a 5 | but only met with ridicule, contempt and } look with mu American } 1 , death. In their madness the deluded people royalty. { is to n parcen ss r *. ig 7 nd | asked what had religion done to alleviate ft us. . a: see } “ ts | their sufferings and better their condition, | A Dar FSGiyING GreMany.— | that its docirines should be heeded? The On the Lsth of J 1815, wa fought the battle of Waterloo—a proad day since in the | history of Groat Britain Prussia, a sad in the memory of France, With a | canoot blame and witha we must admit of June, 1871, is singled ont for the triumphal entry of 5 German a Berlin. Princes, . emperors w part in the demonstrat le will proudest day that Ber! Pras the the vi ions be the that . that Germany, has koo that day France, | the rich. Th once 80 proud, now so lowly, will feel ment of J’aris and the other large cities found | special pang. We bla;ne Prassia for | two central ideas upon which to unite and having her sweet revenge. We can only ope | against which to expend their fury, The one | that snch revenge will never . either in | was against religion and the other was Berlin or ie Paris or anywhere be neces. | against the rights of property. With these sury | were mingled the aspiration for greater politi- Oe Masieccetice oe Vek ioik Bideak ve freedom, age liberation of the many from axp His CLam on THe Wise. asp Goon.— | 2 *yFsany of the few was set grand idea | Yesterday we chronicled the fact that the | "PO" sghchsohahbee begse Uhegisseeiraiga ee oti Holy Father, in apite of all the sorrow which | “e landed proprietors snd the clergy:: to secumulate of the fotare. sent sixty thonsand francs to re- 1 Parisia In addition he lieve the distress sent sey »yed by the the churche fidel be a New y there is to * | of pop Intelli- | Clerical Bigamist—teaith of Hon. | ed | not wanting sophists to instil into the minds of 18th | while the rich revelled in vicious pleasures upon him, and all the uncertainty | rated objects for | ° icked and in- | | burst the chy | that the pernicious and insidious poison has | entered into the vy. vitals, so to speak, of j the educated classes. The doctrines of such social disorgauizers as Voltaire, Rousseau, Vourier and others are cherished by the French people. The ignorant find something in them with which they assault the most sacred insti- tutions, constructed on the solid foundatio of order xud religion, Frenchmen like dash j they glory in en, and trouble their noddles precious little in what cause it is exhibited. Jt will not be necessary to trace the rise of communism and socialism, and to follow them | in their various phases down to the last sad | developments which have just ended in un- of the dwellers in the large centres lation, Paris was always peculiarly Tf the | hen | susceptible ro communistie t f hereditary depravity be 8, theory the Socialistic theory first became deeply 1 the minds of the urbana population. | rootes Endless war had given glory to France and | | had added cons Jerably to her territory: but it | had impoverished tae people, who instinctively | sought for some means of relief. There were the masses the belief that this relief was to be found in an overthrow of the existing social system and the substitution of a system which would form a universal brotherhood of man- bind. learning taught this, They contrasted the poverty of the masses Mien of great people into i had rality graduvlly corrupted the irating its practices. At this re Voltaire, who mocked at religion, an, who clothed vice active form. Liitle wonder | momen } and w in its most at romantic school was then giving way to the material, and it was difficult to get the unlet- tered mob to believe that it was best for them to submif to privations and even starve to death in wpliolding certain theological views, with consciences apparently undisturbed. | Because the clergy we for the most part, belonging to the upper they first | hated them and then hated God; becaus» they | | saw no escape from their poverty they hated | } it was that the turbulent ele- | classes, | tink wilh these was to act with them ; hence | they atheists agrarians. Our | | revolution was the initiation of the great politi- \ France, | became and lution in Europe. al and social re NEW YOR | miods—an education municipal political rights and liberties, It is true that Napoleon had an excuse for Lis arbi- trory rule of Paris in the oft demonstrated in- capacity of the Parisians to govern them- selves. All that there ig of the practical in their theory of goverament—a_tieory which, it must be admitted, contains some noble ideas—are made sabordinate to those de- | structive principles whose only effect is the subversion of society. Now, we heartily agree with Mr. Beecher, that it is necessary to educate the urban populations of France up to those sublime doctrines of Chris- tianity which are deemed essential to the pre- servation of modern eivilized society, But Mr. Beecher does not tell us how precisely to do this. Let us supply the omiasion, To get at the true remedy we must examine the past and present educational systems in France, After Sneh an examination what do we find? We discover that ever since the first bloody revo- lation the aim of the Freach government has been to weaken the influence of the clerzy. While in theory ihe French elergy has been allowed aceriain control over education, in practice it has amounted to very little. The Ministry of fustruction has been practically in the hands of infidels, under republican, mo- narchical and imperial rales, and, of course, the teachers ond teachings have partaken of the character of the controlling power. It is true the chaplains were and are allowed to give a little bit of religion to counteract full doses of infidelity, Voltaireism Rousseanism ingeniously injected into the daily studies of the pupils. Then, what little religion and piety the youth might gather from the lips of the priests and nung, in spite of all the insidious efforts of infidel instructors at the ‘schools, was always in danger of being seat- tered by socialistic fathers and mothers at the home circle. As the laws now stand it is not possible to apply the remedy. unless virtne once more actuates the government to place education in the hands of those who do not glory in infi- ice. Children cannot be taken and delity and has dragged learned men into the mud of im- y, audit has dazzted Lhe most thoughtful. tainly the oaly thing that will expose its errors and reveal its enormities; but it must be an education differing in all respects from that which youth now receive. It must be an education guided by the saving trines of religion—an education which will purify the while enlightening the which will meet the wants of poor and rich alike—an education which will teach to build up, not to pull down—which will convince all the curious classes of Freneh society that bloody revoin- tion is not the panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to. Candor and truta compel the admissfon that this can only be accomplished by giving the clergy a larger share in the im- portant business of educating the youth. Will M. Thiers, or whoever is to be the chosen raler of France, heed this suggestion ¥ hearts Annos Petri Non Videbis. Amid all the stories of uations rocked to their centre, and dynasties overthrown by the fiery blast of war or the volcanic upheavings of revolution, which start up in these days of chenge, the mental vision constantly reverts | | to ove object which lives apparently unshaken | through it all. This isthe Papacy. Yester- day it was attacked by a Victor Emmanuel from without: to-day it is assailed by a Dil- linger from within—both leaving iis intactness unimpaired. [t has been viewed from every demned—and now, under a new view, ii claims attention, Among the curious facts connected with it is the one that no occupant of the Hoiy See has sat there as long as iis earthly founder, the Apostle Peter. The brave old man now reigning as Pope-King is within a few months of the full period attained by Peter; hence much tribulation among the faithful, who have come to look on the proverb in, that regard aimost in the light of a prophecy. in con- nection with an interesting interview with the venerable Archbishop of New York on ihe subject will be found in to-day’s HeraLp a series of sketches of those of the Popes whose pontificates approached the dreaded period of twenty-five years. There is much matter in both for the student of paseiug events. It is rarely, indeed, that a prelate of the Church consents to being so explicit upon Church matters with a layman; and, therefore, Arch- bishop McCloskey’s should conned with care. ‘Touching the delicate question of the restoration of the Papal tempo- ralities, his Grace spoke with « firmness, ntterances by means of these very men who had been ! tyrannized over and worried into becoming | | atheists and agrarians, struek the blow which | that shackled the hands and | te mindsof ane; bat, while all other nations | of tbe ther | , 4 | é | were elevated to a nobler manhood, France | makea of we are |} | justified i gained vothing by ber own heroism and alone i liberty was | + sacrifices, In hem cup of ra to be liber fresh proof to the 3 ‘ z & world ti faults, | mingled the poison of tyranny. She exchange a but ie its faults, “ | res | tyranny for terroriam and at last welcomed knows how nforinnst Wedon't | if . i | the despotista of Napoleon fike anathem we sha to learn | nagar i als 7 ’ Voltaire and Rousseau triumphed with the | that the literal will be the means | , of bringing ble New York. | overthrow of tbe monarehy feligion was | ems hoe wit banished aud virtne forgotien in all the large Tae Nuws reom Pais ann Viusaives.— | cities, Had the Comm e Paris carried | Vhe tx of Paris are resuming their ordj- | ite principles to nary appearance, the barrice + all dis- | republic would have died the first year of ite | appeared, and the citizens Q n pase | birth, Butit had to conciliate the provinces, through them withont danger to iile or limb. | and so it cut up the property of the rich and Marshui MacMahon, however, has lost none of | gave it ty the peasantry. It threw « sop to his energy ip bi og up and all who | the Cerberus which bus just tivished strangling were connected wit mune. Arvests coutinue, and most of th who are scizad formerly belonged to the Na- tional Gourde and soldiers. Every precaution | ie taken make # clean sweep of those who were engaged in the insurrection. zg who boa dof & aucre of Darboy was arrested while bowsting of the part be played on that 5 P dreadful day, » the venerable priest and the sixty-two other clergy: tw the bloody demands of ihe mob. from Versailles looks bopeful for M. Thiers’ | of the lower classes. the workings of the Com- term beiay lengthened, and the prospects for the permanent esiabiishment of the republic aro briabteniax, | the Commune of 1871, | The destruction of the repnblics by the two | Napoleons did votdestroy socialism in France: | The first | the same despateb, that mobs in several places | liberty dearly; but if liberty is to take thik empire, the restored kingdom and the second | aie driving the Chinese away from the mines | horrible sbape we say hang it, etrangle it—; indeed, it rather strengthened it, Phe wretch | empire all committed the mistake of hoiding in comm ind at the mas- | the large cities in political bondage. liad Napo- | boasted civilization and of Ameri oon U., after the coup d’étut of 1851, granted ris municipal rights, reserving to himself the power of removing dangerous officials, he le ‘The news | toward eradicuting the socialistic tendencies He biundered, as the preceding government bad covfirmed the belief of the masses that in the socialistic reyudlic wloae could be found doubtless bora of innate conviction, if cot of personal knowledge. He boldly predicts the final discomfiture of the enemies of the Charch and his Holiness, and adds the remarkable reason (put forth long sinee in these columns) “that no throne in Europe is safe with the Pope a prisoner and stripped of his temporal possessions.” The interview, takeu altogether, | will strike one as an instance of a faith, aided by an acute knowledge of men and things, but % e < based on ‘the promise of Him who holds the universe in the hollow of His hand Tur Ouinesk IN Canironsta—Waicn are | one Barnarians’—The stoning to death of the Chinamen by the boye of San Francisco, their Jogieal conclusion tbe | taken in connection with the many other out- | rages committed on the Chinese in California, raises a question as to which of the two people are barbarians, The ¢ am Which we pab- | lished yesterday informing | and barbarone deed says thut “dozens of peo | ple witnessed the assault (a mild term for an atrocious murder), but did not interfere till * We learn, too. by the murder was complete.” ls this the result of our freedom ? it makes us ashamed of our countrymen, We | denounce the brutal conduct of Chinamen in their own country to Obristians, and onr and other works. nen were sacrificed | would have taken at loast one promising step | people ave equally brutal to hem, Is there | no law, justice or humanity in California ? Lot as hope the authorities will do justice to stone them and citizeus stand by and calmly | witness the outrage. K HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET. General Grant’s Intoresting and 1 tant Views on the liticnl Questions There is a very strong tendency in these of the Day. days toward what fs called liberal Christianity, Tue very interesting report which we pub- | broad churchism, free religion and all that is lished yesterday of a familiar conversation on | implied in those and kindred phrases. They public affairs between General Grant and a | #! affect to ignore creeds and systems of Herat correspondent at Long Branch we are | Church government, and to allow the fullest sure has given gencral satisfaction to our | liberty to every man to believe and act as he readers touching the views of the President | Pleases, subject only to the requirements of on the several political quesifons discussed, | °dinary morality. Of such a kind and First of all, it will be seen that General | ¢lass is the “Free Religion Association,” Grant is no sphinx, as Louis Napoleon at the | Which met in Boston on Friday, Tuilerios was said to be, and as even Prince | Whose members and leaders virtually pro- Bismarck is regarded by many people to this | “timed themselves independent of revela- day. It will be remarked, too, that in bis | on, except so much of it as they could find Creediess Religions. This isa sad but true picture. | doc- | | hugged possible side—praised, criticised and con- | be | familiar talk on the larzest political subjects General Grant, like Napoleon and Bismarck in their conversations, covers the whole ground in a few simple words and familiar compari- sons, full of matter and directly to the point and the purpose, For instance, in the very outset of this Long Branch conversation General Grant snid :—‘‘Some fellow, pretending to be a gen- | tleman, induced my steward to show him over | my cottage before Leame. IT hear that he has | published a lot of stuff in a New York paper bing the furniiure of my bedroom and | the quality of the spittoon in the hall. Why | are these creatures tolerated ?” So Bismarck, | in speaking of the Paris reds on one occasion, | suid:—‘*We have to deal now with those | gentlemen of the pavement, and we must cut | off their rations.” So Napoleon, in speaking ; a Wilhelmshohe of these same gentlemen of the pavement, called them ‘‘a provisional cabal of lawyers and loafers.” He might well, too, have put the question of General Grant :—“Why are sach creatures tolerated ?” Jo speaking next of the English grumblere against the treaty of the Joint High Com- mission General Grant said :—‘*They will grumble, of cours but they won't grumble long. The treaty was fully and ably dis- ; cussed, and, in my judgment, is the best set- tlement possible of the outstanding differences between us and Great Britain. Every article | of the treaty was submitted to me after its | adoption by the Commission, and approved by : and each article was in the same way tied to the British Cabinet, and approved Ministers of the Crown at once. The English Ministers spent a great deal of money in telegraphiag the sections of the treaty,” This fact makes the negotiation of this treaty the most remarkable work of negotiation in the | history of the world, It was the ocean cable that did the business. It further appears from General Grant that Queen Victoria having | pledged ber sigauture beforehand, he regards | the treaty as practically ratified by England, and says that the alternative presented to both sides was a settlement or war. He thinks the Canadians will be reconciled to it by and by and that ‘‘the fishermen of the East (General Butler’s constituents) have but little respect for treaties or engagements. They { are rough fellows, hardy, self-reliant and a law unto themselves.” Hence one of the necessities for a comprehensive settlement. But thai which appears from this conversa- tion to have been the strongest incentive with General Grant to this settlement was the apprehension, not that war otherwise might | follow with England, but that ia the event of pees a war our late Southern Confederacy might again. The General this subject said:—‘*‘There were sauds of inflaential people in the South treacherous and treasonable, who thought that the cause of secession would triminph whenever the country got involved ina war with England. The ' | on se up thou- the the encouragement of their agents abroad, ead they were most active in supporting a show of opposition to the national authority. 1 told Senators of this matter, aud urged them to act on the treaty with England at once.” Here, then, the most iiportant point iu this matter on our side is first brought to light, for we cannot suppose that General Grant is speaking at random on this Southern view of a war with England. And how neatly he hits the case of Jeff Davis! ‘tHe might be imprisoned. But what would be the use? It would be like seizing a newspaper. We can't afford to | make « martyr of Jeif. He will find his own | level in due time, and the Southern people will get tired of him. Besides, Jeff is makiug all the country republican. Let him go. He is a wasted candle, and will light no fire.” And what a handsome compliment the Presi- dent pays to his Secretary of State, Mr. Fish! ‘He has been faithful, patriotic and diligent, he won't resign.” In conclusion, we have a budget of valuable information on public | alairs, in our reporter's report of this interest- ing conversation of his with General Grant, | and the views expressed by the General on the | snbjects discussed are surely calculated to him, bis great treaty and bis strengthen | administration in the confidence of the | couniry. | mf i ale | Phe Coumuaniste and ‘Their forribly Ine | cendiary Schemos. To-day we print a special cable despatch | which reveals the wicked spirit of the Gom- mune more even than the atrocities of which they have been guilty in Paris. The despatch states that another Communist has declared | planus the world will at leasi be compelled to | admit its power. The Loudon docks, with all tired, London, Liverpool, Bristol are marked, Taking this despatch in connection with the despatch which we printed yesterday, and which singled out Lyons, Marseilles, Madrid, us of this terrible i Turin, Rome, Naples, Vienna, Moscow and | | Berlin as the future scenes of conflagration, ' we must admit that the Communists and their friends all over the world ongbi to be picked ' up and summarily disposed of. We love j at least put it ont of the way. We, too, have | our large cities, Let us keep our eyes open. | This new kind of Vandalism is assuming dangerous proportions. It may be necessary for London to eject the scoundrels. ff London does oject them they will come here. Can we safely give them shelter? We doubt if we cau. There 1s no brate so hor- blundered, and | the Chinese, though bratal, rowdy boys may | rible as the human brate, Let civilization be ‘on ite guard. We have been taught to bel’eye thet vermin ahowd be killed. ere SON Re were they who helped on the Ku Klux for | and 1 should be grieved if he resigned; but | that when the*Cowmane bas carried out ite | their untold and unknown wealth, are to be | in nature. Bound by no creed or formula, each essayist and speaker uttered forth his owa creed, regardless of its consistency or incon- sistency with the creed of every other speaker. Thus we find Rev. John Weiss asserting that “the independence of the soul of the material body and its permanent continuance are ques- tions which the greatest minds decline to au- swer,” for the reason that science bas not yet put facts sufficient into the case. We don’t be- lieve that one man in one hundred thousand cares a particle what facts science may put into this case; itcan never change the com- | mon belief of mankind in the immortality of the soul and in its uecessary independence of the body. But this reverend gentleman tried | to prop up his lame assertion by another, which we hardly know how to character- ive. “Vitality in the human structure,” srid he, “so far as observed, goes to disprove the theory of personal continuance | after death,” though Mr. Weiss himself was far from undervaluing its moral probability. ‘The nature of the Creator,” he added, “is in the material created.” If so, argning from Mr. Weiss’ own premise, we can hardly see how he or we can escape the logical consequence of a perishable and changeable God, as weil as a dying man. But the very best and ablest scientists assure us that there is evidence both in nature and in man of a divine Creator, and an indestructible force within them, Rev. D. C. A. Bartol also exalled nature, and espe- cially human nature, and declared that he who claimed it was bad did not believe. in God. Our own opinion is that a man _ without any knowledge of or faith in God at all may easily convince himself by a few weeks’ or days’ residence in Boston or New York that human nature is bad. We need no revelation on this point at all, Still, on the whole, it is not as bad as it might be, nor, in- deed, as in other ages it has shown itself to be. ‘Respect for the past,” continued Me. Bartol, ‘should not interfere with progress ‘The people are too jarge to get into the | churches, and more room is wanted—not for | a human body to sit down, but for a human | soul to stand up.” All this is very fine in theory, but what be- comes of it in practice? How do those sects and denominations which have no creed or binding formula compare with those which have? Rather unfavorably, we think. For instance, there are Universalists, Unitarians, Friends, Free Church Christia ns and a host of litthe who neither bave nor profess j to any creed or compact, and how do they stand in the great family ot Christian denominations? They as nothing in comparison with Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, and others, whose creeds are of the most positive | and some even of the most dogmatic kind. Universalism, although existing among us here | as long as any other ism, stands to-day ou- merically and influentially about where it | stood twenty-five years ago. Uuitarianism is | no better offand no further advanced, and ; Free Church Christians comprise not more-| | than u corporal’s guard in this city or in the United States. The Society of Friends is as | old as the settlement of this Continent by white men; but to all appearances it bas re- trograded rather than advanced. Small as | the body is’ in this country it is split up into sub-divisions, such as Orthodox, Hicksite and Unitarian Quakers. Each of these sects has held its annual or general Conference in this city during the past two weeks, and from their discussions aud deliberations we gather that their only bond of anion is found in the common belief in the indwelling of the Holy Spirii in human hearts; but they may believe as they please in regard to the inspiration of the Scriptures, the divinity of Christ and vica- | riousness of his death, and the doctrines of the | Trinity and of future rewards aad punishments. | Now, these are positive doctrines of other reli- } giotis bodies of Christians—Catholic and Prot- estant-—and they are taught as dogmatic truths, more or less, by all: aud the man, woman or child who unites with those denominations must subscribe to those truths. They are con- | creted in creeds, and must be accepted or re- jected together. And the result of all is that the Ohurch | with the creed advances steadily all the time, while the Church without a creed still, or moves so slowly that must be counted by inches instead of miles—~ — by tens instead of thousands, Men generally s i sects | have are Jatholics stands progress like to know and to understand what they are to believe or disbelieve, to accept or to Fr: and most mep are as willing that others shall formulate those truths for them as to do it themselves, The people are not too large to get into the creeds, though they may be to get into the churches, owing to the prevailing ungodliness and selfishness which pervade so many of them, And while it may be—and we believe it is—true that more | waoted in the denominations for { sonls to stand up--that is, to expand and | | develop and liberalize itseli—we do not} {think this expansion or development | can be best effected by tearing from beveath | our feet the ground whereon we stand. [ff we | | must have more liberty, let it be according to | , law. Uf we must have more popular prosenti- | tions of religion, let them be formulated into weeds and compacts, but let us not drift off to sea without compass or rudder, to be dashed | about by every wind of doctrine and ennning | ! device of men. if one denominational creed will not snit a mao he can try another, but a creed of some sort is as necessary to mankind | ag a revelation itself Away, then, with all | this talk of churches without creeds, A creed- | less church is a godless church, But, while we advocate creeds, we do not by way means contend for Pharisaical strictness on one band nor for liberal Christian looseness on the other. We want suoh a creed as we find embodied in the Golden Rnle--love to Grd and to our aelghbor. room is human The Sentence of Mrs, Fair. . Mrs. Laura Fair was sentenced yesterday im San Francisco to be hanged on the 28th of July for the murder of Mr. Crittenden. The particulars of the murder and the trial have appeared in full in the Heranp. The account of the sentencing of the wretched woman, as we give it this morning in our special de- spatch, is fully as graphic and thrilling as the previous reports of the murder and trial. The counsel for Mrs, Fair evidently under~ stood the fuil value of law quibbles in carrying on an indefensible case, but with the stern vigor of the California Judge they were prompily overruled, The principal quibble that counsel presented asa reason why the wurder of Crittenden should not be expiated on the gallows was that two of the jurors had formed opinions from reading the newspapers ; but this the Judge overraled, on the plain, practi- cal ground that if jurors were to be chosem only from those who never read newspapers: we could never have intelligent juries. Such a sensible ruling would have saved this county much time and expense in a recent important trial here. The sentence, however, was pro- nounced, as we record it above, and San Fran- cisco was much excited over the dismal sensa- tion, The prisoner had nothing to say to the Jadge’s usual inquiry why sentence shomd nof be pronounced upon her, and received her doom in silence, with her head and face buried in her bands. The scene was very impressive, and from it we may pos- sibly.date a reaction in the minds of the Cali- fornians that will do more to save Mrs, Fair’s life than any quibbles of her counsel. The hanging of a woman is a sight that the people of San Francisco are not willing to see, and we venture to predict that public sentiment will at once be brought to bear upon the Governor snflicient to induce him to commute her sentence to imprisonment for life. ‘The Dramatic Season—Curtain. The regular winter dramatic season closed last night at the leading metropolitan theatres. Not that either managers or actors propose for themselves a rest yet awhile, but it has’ become a sort of acknowleged rule here to-ran a di- viding line across the season in the beginning of June, and call what remains during the dog days the summer seasou, The season just past extends over a period of forty weeks, and affords abundant materials for reflection, Mr. Charles Mathews, in a brilliant and pertinent little address, delivered by him at the Fifth Avenue theatre on Friday night, on the occa- ' sion of his wife's benefit, paid a very high compliment to the taste of the metropolitan publie, and gave encouragement ‘to those who make art their model on the stage. For two months he has drawn the best people in New York to wilness the same characterizations by which he charmed their fathers and mothers thirty years ago; and in spile of all that has been urged by dramatic Jeremiahs on the de- cline of public taste, the absolute reign of morbid sensations and the usurpation of the stage carpenter to the exclusion of the drami tist, the simple little comedies of Mr. Mathews, by their genial ‘and unaffected nature, are as attractive and as popular as ever. This is the best answer that can be givea to the charges repeatedly made by the above mentioned JSeremiahs against the taste and liberality of the metropolitan — publi The managers alone are to blame for the de- luge of sensational plays that seem to have swamped everything connected with brains on the stage. When they deliberately step out of the sphere of art, and appeal only to the lowest instincts of human nature by leg spectacles, | pasteboard railway trains, steam hammers, pile drivers and exploding steamboats, they can- not hold themselves guiltless if brains are con- sidered only necessary behind the footlights asa target for a pistol bullet or an inquiring slung- Then these managers whine because when they attempt a week or two of the legiti- mate the public won't patronize them. No wonder, since the latter have lost all confi- dence in them, The repntation of a theatre is as sensitive as that of a woman, and the mavager who trifles with it need not expect that the public will place any credit in hia professions of repentance when he turns back to the right path. Hence the secret of the non-suecess of the legitimate when revived in houses which were for years surrounded by ap atmosphere of absolute indecency or mor- bid sensation. Daly's, Wallack’s and Booth's have no taint of this kind around them, and hence a real artist will always receive a warm welcome trom the public at these theatres. ‘The past season has also taught managers that it is a dangerous habit ta rush headlong into the same path with others without consideriag: whether there is room enough for all there. The field of the drama is a wide one, and every one can choose his own path without elbowing his neighbors. When spectacle first cawe into vogue in this eity half a dozen managers, emboldened by the success of the jeg drama, made it the object of their enter- shot. price and embarked their fortunes in it. They found out their mistake in a short fime, ax the public became satiated with the overdose of tinsel, red fire and padded limbs. The same happened with opéra bouffe, burlesque and pantomime. Each manager should adopt some special line of his own, and devote all his resources to that end, instead of watching what his neighbors are doing. Lessons may be gathered, certainly, trom the experience of others, but minding only one’s business is a golden cule in manege- ment During the first week of the summer season. many interesting features will be presented. Atwer a comple of benefit nights, the first being for the belle of the Fifth Avenae, Miss Fanny Davenport, Mr. Daly will present a dramatization of one of Willkie Collins’ strong characteristic works, “No Name.” The com- meucement of the season at Wallack’s will not with the ran of the ever-popular been revived with interfere “Rosedale,” whieh has | wore than its pristine vigor and brilliancy. A new play, ‘The Man o’ Airlie,” will present Mr. Barrott ir another of his artistic imper- sonations at Booth’s, and Miss Lucille Western, one of the most original and impressive actresses in her line on the American stage, will enliven the Olympic this week, Niblo’s and the Grand Opera House make no change in their bills for the present, and Wood's Museum is given over to pantomime. These features will likely be of short duration, for enioyment at least. a8 the midsummer gun in i | "