The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL BRO. ADWaY co ANN STREET. !AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPS LETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letiers and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the fer, Four cents per copy. athe $12. Annnal sanscription cuteas XXXMV AWIUSEMENTS 5 THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Riemaxy TL, Pure THEATRE, 738 Broadway. THE AVENGER, tar Constoay Twenty-fourth street. — HEATRE, Broadway. UNDER TWO FLAGS; w Down, TONY Paste HOUSE, Tuk Were or “Wind, wc. No. 201 Bowery. WALLA THEATRE, Broadway and Uth strest.— THe LONG Stair. semoais r NIRLO'S GARDEN CoLLtke Baw woon's snces afterno rorform= ! eventn| yuan LY DAYLIGTtT. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSB, Brogklyn.Grrar Pan. TOMIME TRourE, CENTRAL PARK Timopors Tuomas’ SuMMER Nicnrs’ Coxe’ New York, seater vied 3, 1871. CONTENTS OF bl giaesh HERALD, Pacr. 1—Advertisements, Q—Adverti 3—New Brooklyn Law Courts—-Tomb3 Police urt—New York City News—More Brooklyn “Et cheries—A Kailro: ‘zzle~Ad- ver nis. e—Rattoris Leading Article, “The vrestdpntial ee) in 1:72—The Chance for the Demo- oI — Personal Intelligenne -- Amusement noun ements, S—Frauce: ‘rhe Hlections Yesterday: Gambetta meg ' to the Nattonal Assembiv—The Pontifl- u of Pus IX.—Pio Nono and His one ‘h Troubles at Tudson—A edy: “Pet” Haistead Shot Through rom Washiugton—Miscella- ay —Yachting—W t Re» a the Drama—Busi Notices, iio nd Sermons Yesterday in the Metropolis and. Elsewhere: The Programme of Salvation; The Festival of St. Peter and St. ‘aut Commemorated in the Churches; The Fight of Paitn; Discourses by the Rev. Dr, Dix, Rev. Merril ‘Richardson, ‘Rev. Pere Aubri, Rey. E. S. Harrower and Others. 2—Religious (Continued from Sixth Page)—The War in the Corea: Hostilittes Not Unexpected by Our Government; Bismarck’s Confidential Despatch—The Scott pcan shaooee of Financtal aud Commercial Reports— jarring and Deaths. S—“The Fourth:” ‘The celebration To-morrow—The Rarvard Graduates“ Long Branch: Fighting the Tiger at Chemberlain’s Club House—Cack- ling Communis's: The Internationals Trans- planted in Cur Soil—Beer in Massachusetts— Deaths i the Water—Wicked Wickmeyer— Views of the Past—Shipping Inteiligence—Ad- vertisements, Tae Frexoa SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTIONS, fhe telegrams inform us, passed off qnietly yesterday, Who the successful candidates are in Paris we are not informed, but the indi- cations are that the republicans have been vic- torious. Gambetta is elected in Havre. EMIGRANTS AND THE SMALLPOX.—A wrong impression is sometimes created in the pub- lished reports of smallpox cases iu the boa- pitals, all foreigners who have not resided in this country tive years being classed as emi- grants, thereby creating the idea that they have just arrived and been permitted to land without undergoing quarantine. This expla- nation is j to Health Officer Carnochan, who somet s suffers from a wrong appli tion of the ley of the wor: ae emig grant. Mr. Sewarp iN Constantinorie.—In his now famous tour around the world Mr. Seward has reached Constantinople. His reception in the city of Constantine, while it was a high compliment to him, did honor to the Sublime Porte, When we think of the attentions which have been paid to Mr. Seward as an untitled though distingnished American citizen we are reminded of the change which has come over the face of the world. Time was, and not so | Jong ago, when only noble lords and dukes and princes of the blood commanded while travelling the attention of governments. Civix sum Americanus is how as grand a title as My Lord Duke. . So much for our free institu- tions and the success which has attended them. Rome tHe CAPITAL or ITALyY.—At last Rome bas become the capital of Italy free and ynited, All the Italian Ministers have arrived and taken their places in their respective head- quarters. Many of the foreign ambassadors have also arrived, and the expectation is that to-day the entire diplomatic corps will be estab- | lished in the new capital. With the arrival of the King and the members of both houses of Parliament tbe long talked of event will have been accomplished, and Rome will have be- come once more one of the great secular seats of empire. The Pope still protests; but he very wisely remains in the Vatican. It will for some time to come be an interesting ques- tion—How do the Pope and the King get slong in the same city? New Boop 1n tHE OLD CoLLEcEs. —The election of Professor Eliot to the Presidency of Harvard University and the choice of Dr. McCosh to preside over the destinies of the ‘venerable institution at Princeton have horne ch excellent fruits that we begin to look for e progress in the other of our older colleges. . Woolsey, for a quarter of » century the resident of Yale, long ago signified his inten- ion of retiring, and the retirement of Dr. Caswell, who has been President of Brown University only since 1868, though he was Jong conuected with the institution, has just been announced. These men made very ac- | table executive officers ; but both are old, ‘and what these institutions, in common with | many others, now want is new blood. Our Jastitutions of learning must be brought into | sympathy with the spirit of the age and pushed forward to the position they ought to occupy in an era of steam and the telegraph. This is an opportuaity for two of our most respectable colleges to go forward, and we hope that peither Oid Yale nor Old Brown will succeed fo beeping thew from advancing. 1 bat rather indefinite meaning | Presidential Election in 1879—The Chance fer the Democrats. Two or three years ago the democrats were in a hopeless condition, apparently. That once powerful party had gone down go far, through many of its leaders, that it amounted to little more than a faction. The South, where a great deal of its strength used to lie, was not reconstructed and was in the grip of the radicals. It was expected, indeed, by the radical party that the South had been revolu- tionized politically, and that through the negro vote and carpet-bag governments it was lost to the democracy. Nearly all the Northern State goversments were in the hands of the radicals, In both houses of Congress they had over a two-thirds vote. The democratic Sena- tors could be counted on one’s fingers, and the democratic Representatives were but a corporal’s guard, The late President Johnson had no party, and all the power of the govern- meni was wielded by the republican Congress, General Graul, the great hero of the war, came into office with ¢clat, The country was rapidly recovering from the disasters of the war, the revenue was enormous and the Treasury replete with money, which enabled the admin- istration to pay-off the debt at the rate of a bundred millions a year. Never was a party stronger. Never had one such an opportunity or means of perpetuating its power. This was the condition of parties in 1868 and for some time afterwards. Whatever chance the democrats might have had for electing a candidate in 1868, or, at least, of recovering a large part of their lost ground, they threw away. Had Mr. Vallandigham and other old copperhead leaders made a “new departure” at that time and nominated Chief Justice Chase, as we advised them, they might have elected their candidate—at least, they would have gained much strength and have been in a better position for the contest in 1872. But the party was not sufficiently reconstructed then; the rival aspirants for the Presidency, factions and sections would not harmonize ; and, under this state of things, the National Convention and party were sold to the New York politicians, who cared more about their State than the federal government. Seymour was nominated by a trick—by a sort of political coup d'état in the Convention—with little expectation that he could be elected over General Grant, but for the purpose of making the State of New York democratic. National politics were made subservient to the selfish | objects of Tammany and the democracy of this | State. Our New York politicians were suc- cessful in that, and it must be said they have used their success to a good purpose. With all that may be said against them they have given us back municipal self-government, and have made Tammany and our State a greater power in national political affairs, Having attained their object they should now use the power they possess for national purposes, and to make the success of the democrats in the next Presidential election their aim. Notwithstanding the powerful position the radical party occupied, intrenched and forti- fied every way, and the depressed condition of the democratic party two or three years ago, the latter has been gaining ground and the former losing. We see this in the largely increased number of democrats in the present Congress as compared with the last. Be- sides the larger representation in the House there are more democratic Senators, Then several of the Northern State governments, as well as that of New York, have been recov- ered by the democrats, and even where the | radicals still retain power the elections laiely | have generally been more favorable to the democrats. In fact, the tide has been setting that way since a short time after Gencral Grant took his seat in the White House. Most of the Southern States have gone back to their old love, the democratic pariy, in spite of the extraordinary and reprehensible efforts made | by the radicals to hold them. And now comes | the new movement—the ‘new departure” of the lamented Vallandigham—the reconstruc- tion of the party upon a broader and more | liberal platform. This, evidently, is making | the dry bones of the politicians shake. It | brings into discussion fresh issues and tends | to overshadow those of the war upon which the radicals have relied and on which they still mainly rely. It alarms the radical party | and inspires the democrats with hope. In view of these tendencies and the prospect before the democrats the important matter to be considered is who should be the candidates of the party. Chief Justice Chase would be, undoubtedly, the strongest and most available | candidate for President on broad national grounds which the party could nominate. He stands precisely where the democrats now stand, as his Vallandigbam letter and his whole conduct of late show. In 1868, when the Democratic Convention was urged to nomi- nate him, there was a doubt in the minds of there can be none now. He occupies the most prominent position in the country except that ! of the President. He is a statesman of great ability, as is well known. He has filled almost | every position in public life, and, except the Executive chair, the highest ones. The con- servative masses, particularly those of the South, would vote for him, because he has been since the war the most earnest defender of the constitution against the dangerous and rapid encroachments of federal power. Num- | bers of the negroes, it is to be presumed, would cast their ballots for the man who did more, perhaps, than any other to give them | freedom, Nor can we doubt that many of the republicans would support him on the ‘‘new depariure” platform of the democracy. Many, in fact, who are tired of military expedients | and experiments in the White House would vote for this eminent civilian and tried states- man as a most desirable change. Then, for those who are still infatuated with | military glory or hero-worship, that distin- guished and splendid military chief, General Hancock, could be put on the | ticket for Vice President. And, being a native and citizen of Pennsylvania, his | nomination might give that doubtful State to the democracy. He is known to bea solid | and unswerving democrat, has a brilliant war record, and has shown that he is ever ready to defend the constitutional rights of the people. Chase and Hancock would be, in every point of view, a strong ticket, and with that the democrats could go before the public with a fair proavect of carryiog the election. We some as to his full accord with the party, but | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1871. take broad, national ground in considering | weather be traceable in some it will be ac- makes that flag still dearer to the hearts of all this question, supposing the issue may turn knowledged that a lack of force of thought or upon the national reputation or popularity of | energy of expression is not visible. the candidates. General Grant, who will be, no doubt, the radical candidate, stands not the anti-war policy and other blunders of | ¥P0® his local influence—for be has none—but upon bis national reputation. Chase and Hancock could compete with him on that ground. Should it be seen, however, that the election is to turn upon any particular State, that one of the largest States is to be the bat- tle ground, the National Convention will have to cousider who will be the strongest and most available man to carry such State. But the delegations of the different States when in convention must forego their in- dividual preferences for the good of the party and to succeed. One after the other they must, if necessary, throw their favorites—the so-called ‘‘favorite sons” of this or that State—overboard in order to save the ship. There must be no more Tammany-Seymour tricks, nor desperate partisan fights, as in the Charleston Conven- tion, when Douglas and his antagonists destroyed the party. Nothing but harmony and a determination to take only such candi- dates as are most likely to be elected, no matter where they may come from, can give the democrats a fiir chance of regaining power. If the democracy should succeed, let us hope the man of their choice may be a statesman,.one who will not aspire to the Presidency simply to take his ease and to have a good time—simply to gratify his pride or vanity in being President—bnt one who will be more ambitious to promote the welfare of the country, to study and labor to that end, and to acquire future fame for ability and lofty pairiotism. The republic has grown to be a giant among nations. Mediocrity in high plaees, particularly at the helm of affairs, ought not to be tolerated any longer. States- men we want, and statesmen we must have, or the country cannot fulfil the destiny that lies before it. Without these we shall be drifting along al! the time among breakers and at the mercy of ephemeral heroes and mere poli- ticians, The Summer Solstice and Yesterday. Very for people are thick-skinned enough to be fond of catching a red-hot iron with their fingers, It is well known that an iron bar exposed to an extremely low temperature will communicate a sensation similar to burn- ing on its being grasped by the hand, Argu- ing lazily on the same line, a certain class of minds have as _ insuperable an objection to grasping the metal of Christianity on a hot midsummer’s day as on the most freezing noon in midwinter. Our discriminating reports of the congregations in the churches yesterday point this in a marked manner. Ah, children of such Sybarite creeds, a lollon your verandahs surrounded by tobacco smoke anda moral atmosphere of the earth, earthy, should not be your only offering to the bountiful Providence on a Sab- bath morning! In Plymouth church Mr. Beecher, so far from being prostrated by the ambient caloric, seemed to have caught upa quantity of it in his high-conducting mental nature and literally spoke in ‘‘words that burn.” He rolled on in such a fiery eloquence that every sentence was at high-pressure fever heat, and he bids mankind glow with a red-hot intensity. As this was the last sermon before the summer vacation, he imparted to it a breathing flame that would suggest a country trip in February. Nevertheless, in the midst of this furnace rhetoric he managed to draw in a sound lesson of noble manhood mixed with much delectable eccentricity on the subject of first thought impulse ‘‘whittled” down by sober second thought in a way all that pastor's own. “Fanaticism is the vice of people,” he says, “over-cerebrated,” and in that connection, possibly, he doubifully complimented his con- gregation by adding that ‘‘some of you have too much brain, but not many of you.” The Plymouth members may now rusticate with a fully charged battery of holy electricity to keep them going through the holidays. In the Catholic churches the festival of Peter and Paul was celebrated, and in the churches under the patronage of either or both apostles the appropriate services were rendered, Dr. McGlynn, at St. Stephea’s, preaching on the subject of the Papal succession from the great fisher- man. At St. Vincent de Paul's (the French church) Pire Aubri lectured the few faithfal who came to pray on the laxity of Sabbath observance in those who stayed away. This is a somewhat roundabout way of reaching the absentees, but from to-day’s Hnratp they can learn all of moment he said on their souls’ account. At the Sixth Universalist church the Rev. J. M. Pullman descanted on the sad- ness of life, and Dr. Dix, at St. Paui’s, on its weariness. They were intended as cheering, in view of the prospective joy and refreshment for the repentant sinner, and under the close at- mosphere of the respective temples the idea of a seaside breeze or a shady cooling stream formed a fitting physical analogue. ‘To those who had no prospect of a ran out of town the spiritual comfort remained. The Rev. Merrill Richard- aon preached gue of his solid sermons on the applicability of salvation to all, pointing ont that God's law, like the civil code or the natural law, cannot be violated with impunity. A good old-fashioned discourse is that of Rev. Charles B. Smyth, at the American Free chureb, on the eighth chapter from the First Corinthians, full of energy and broad in charity, He advises teetotallers who quote Scripture not to meddle with this chapter. At St. Luke’s Methodist Episeopal church Rev. Mr. Harrower ploughed up the ground on which the good fight is to be fought. If, however, attendance was slim in town, Dr. Stitt, at the Second Reformed church, in Kingston, Ulster county, had a crowded city-fying anditory to hear him thuuder on Political Imperialism. This is the only Fourth of July spread-eagle sermon which it was our fortune to hear of. Various are the lessons of a political nature he draws from Holy Writ, with the Declara- tion of Independence flapping in and out through it all, He advocated paying taxes on divine authority, but scorches the oppres- sive taxmakers with a heavenly brand. Give him a free Gospel in free America and it will soon embrace the Union, under the folds of the Star Spangled Banner. Other ser- mons of power and beauty wilt be fonnd in our columns to-day. and if the effect: of the the Sermons The Celebration ef the Fourth—Its Signifi- cance and Impertance. The American peoples have only two anni- versaries which appeal to them with a pecu- liar foree—Christmas and the Fourth of July. The one is symbolical of the religion we all respect, the other of the freedom and independ- ence we all cherish. Other nations have their Séte days, but none an Independence Day—a day fall of inspiration and enthusiasm, and rich in the glories of the past and the promise of the future. France had her Second of December and now she has her Fourth of September, but as her people never wholly assented to Napoleon’s proposition that ‘the empire is peace,” so now they do not wholly assent to that other proposition, the truth of which we shall attest to-morrow—namely, “the republic is safety.” Germany has no great liberty day like our glorious anniversary of freedom. Spain is animated by no higher purpose that the celebration of the birthday of a foreign prince, who is an accidental king. Even England fails to celebrate the grandest era in her history—the day when thé Magna Charta was extorted from a reckless and pusil- lanimous king—but contents herself with the remembrance of such insignificant events as the Battle of the Boyne and the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. We alone celebrate the grand natal day of freedom for the world—a day standing out from all other days as a finely chiselled figure stands out in the bas relief of agreat master. The Fourth of July is, after the Twenty-fifth of December, beyond all com- parison the most significant and important anni- versary of the world’s events. The significance and importance of the day are not due altogether to the promulgation of that wonderful Declaration of Independence which is still a star in the north to all men struggling to be free. This celebration has a deeper and profounder meaning than the mere separation of the colonies from Great Britain. Every blazing cannon which shall belch forth in flame to-morrow will be a renewed oath of fealty not only to the republic but to liberty. Every fizzing firecracker in the hands of the romping urchins just let loose from school will have a moral and political significance boyond the power of words to inculcate or the ability of treason to obliterate. The Long Talk of the warrior who is to address the braves of Tammany Hall cannot convey a more valuable lesson than the burning powder and the waving flags. The Short Talks of the orators who are asked to stand up with the chiefs in the great Wigwam cannot be more eloquent than the slightest act which patriot- ism prompts. If actions speak louder than words the heivy tread of the regiments of the National Guard early in morniag, the silent gatherings of those who are to take part in the different exercises of the day, the closed doors of the great business houses of the city, the flags waving from the housetops, the Sun- day-like silence of Wall and Broad streets, the joy of the children and the unmistakable pleasure of children of a larger growth at the return of the glorions anniversary, will be a volume of praise beyond all the orations and sermons and poems iu every part of the land. In this city the day is to be celebrated with unusual pomp and splendor. For once the Fourth of July holiday begun on Saturday and will not end till Wednesday. For once it has been recognized as a season proper for re- creation. Itis not by powder and by speeches alone that it may be fitly celebrated. Excur- sions to the country, to Rockaway, to West Point, around Staten Island, getting a breath of salt-laden air from the sea and on the Sound are an excellent way of testifying to the glories of the Fourth. The sports on land and sea, of which the Henatn has already published such full reports, the regatta at Cape May, the races at Monmouth Park and other trotting places, the contests of the cricket and base ball clubs, all properly enter into the day’s amusements and are another way of giving expression to the patriotism of the moment. We like this tendency among our people. The Fourth can be as fitly celebrated in some quiet corner of the country, on shady knolls and on the grassy banks of gentle streams, as in the town. Military parades are well enongh, and so are speechmaking and the singing of patriotic gongs and the chimes from the tower of old Trinity; but the little gatherings on the mountain sides and in the rural valleys, far away from the noise and heat and dust, the necessary toil and care of the city, are better. There is no better way of promoting patriotism than by promoting health, and no surer way of securing for each succeeding year a joyful welcome to this glorious anniversary than by making it a day of pleasure and of pleasurable anticipations. The celebration in New York will begin very early. The members of the First Division of the National Guard will be in their places to be saluted by the rising sun. Au hour later the bells of Trinity church send forth their chimes of joy in those good old pieces of patriotic music, “Hail, Columbia!” and “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean,” while the enlivening changes of ‘‘Yankee Doodle” will again remind us how our fathers made the red coats run about the time they lowered the leaden statue of George IIL. in Bowling Green, and moulded it into bullets for the little and badly served Revolutionary army. It was our little Column Venddme, broken to pieces in the name of liberty, and used in securing for us the perpetuity of the day we celebrate. But we think tbe prettiest notion of all in the arrangements for to-morrow’s celebration is that of the Boulevard Club, in singing at snn- rise these grand lines of the grandest Ameri- can ode :— ' Ofwnae wo. routs we Haliod "at the twilight'e last ‘Whose fond vnipes and bright stars through the rijous t over te ram ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. Wherever it is seen, that ‘Star Spangled Banner” is bailed with a peculiar pleasure. Men who fought against it during the rebel- lon were known to shed tears at the sight of it, Its foldsare not only folds of light and beauty, but the sure sign that there is a power in patriotism to make republican liberty pos- sible to mankind. Wherever it is raised aloft to-morrow it will re-echo its past glories and renew its promises for the future. It is one of the good results of thie celebration that it who acknowledge it as thelr own, and impels each man to act as M. Dumas implores France to feel—to recognize that there is a man by whom liberty and law are to be per- petuated: that “it is you, it is I, it is each one of us.” We should like to see this example of the Boulevard Club copied all over the country, affording to the world the grand spectacle of a whole people in the cities, towns and hamlets, on the hillsides, in the valleys, among the mountains greeting the sun of Independence Day with the measured ond magnificent strains of our grand and cherished national an- them. It would be a scene not un- like that when the morning stars sang together and prove to all struggling peoples the singu- lar sincerity and devotion with which we ob- serve our two great anniversaries—the days on on which we celebrate our religion and our freedom. Were the Fourth of July a celebration of the separation country from another it much of the significance and import- ance we now attach toit. Ninety and five years are too long a period to allow any people to keep alive a strong and growing interest in the day which marks a mere war, and especially of a war which was an internecine struggle. Our great anni- versary is something beyond mere party politics, something above national existence even. It is the assurance of the success of republican institutions—the foun- tain from which liberty-loving people every- where draw their inspiration. In its celebra- tion year after year by the whole American people without regard to party creeds or party differences the world sees that the day of kings is doomed, and that the people must be- come the rulers of mankind. merely of one would lose Racing at Monmouth Park, Among the many ways that will be taken by pleasure seekers on the great national holiday thousands will select the excursion to Long Branch and Monmouth Park to witness the ex- citing sports of the turf which commence at that fashionable watering place to-morrow. Three races will be run, the first being a steeple chase of about three miles, the second a dash of a mile for all ages, and the third race will be for the Jersey Derby Stakes, which has thirty-one entries, among them Gen- eral Buford’s bay filly Salina, who ran at Lex- ington in May last a mile in the unprecedented time of one minute and forty-three seconds; Colonel McDaniel’s bay colt Harry Bassett, the winner of the Belmont Stakes at Jerome Park; Mr. Swigert’s chest- nut colt Stockwell, Mr. Sanford’s bay filly Madame Dudley, Mr. McGrath’s chestnut colt McKinney, Governor Bowie's chestnut colt Edwin, Mr. Babcock’s chestnut filly Nellie Ransom and many other fast three-year-olds, who, together, will make one of the most exciting races ever run in this country. The distance to be run—one mile and a half—is the same as the English Derby, and it will not surprise us to have to record the fastest time ever made by several seconds. Harry Bassett is the favorite; but should he win the race he will have to ran considerably faster than he ran at Jerome Park when he won the Belmont Stakes, as Stockwell is a better horse now than he was on that occasion, to say nothing about the flying filly Salina and the other new ones that will be run against him, some of whom have as yet been untried at a mile and a half with Northern weights up, but may be better weight carriers and atickers than those of more pretentign. The other days of the meeting will bave equally as exciting races as the first. On the second day the sports will open with the Hopeful Stakes, for two-year-olds. There are eighteen subscribers. For this race Colonel McDaniel has a magnificent candidate in his chestnut colt Hubbard, by Planet, dam Minnie Mansfield, by Glencoe; and Hunter & Tray- ers have an imported colt by Lord Clifden, dam Consequence, by Bay Middleton, that many suppose unbeatable. Yet still there is another one in the race that, if beaten, will break the whole of the Western delegation that will be at the Park. This is General Buford’s filly Malita, by Marion, dam Susan Harris, by Revenue. And there are a,num- ber of others in this race that are flyers that have been kept in the shade and yet may win the stakes, This race will be followed by mile heats, which will undoubtedly have a large field at the post. Then will come the race for the Monmouth Cup, two miies and a half, for allages. For this there are fifteen nomina- tions, but should only Longfellow and Preak- ness start the race would be worth a voyage across the Atlantic to witness, as they are, it is generally believed, the best four-year-olds in America. Other horses will start in the race to add to its attractions, but between the sons of Leamington and Lexington we think the struggle will lay. Longfellow is a great favorite, and should Preakness beat him a rich harvest will be reaped by his backers. On the third day the first race will be a selling stake of a mile and a qnarter, The second race will be for the Monmouth Oaks, and in this the starters will be many and of the first quality. The race is a mile anda half, similar to the English Oaks, for fillies only. It will be a rich and open affair, as there are twenty-four entries, Salina, Sauce- box, Mary Louise, Madame Dudley, Nollie Ransom, Anne Arundel, the aister of King- fisher, and several others will be likely to start. The third race on this day will also be one of much interest. It is the Long Branch Stakes, two miles, for all ages, with one hun- dred pounds up. The entries for this event are fourteen, comprising, among others, Helm- bold, Hamburg, Cottrill, Niagara, Ortolan, Judge Curtis and Edenton. Judge Curtis’ chances we think the best for this race, should his leg be well enough for the conteat, as he has a great tarn of speed with that amount of weight on his back, and the distance suits him exactly. The sport onthe fourth day wili begin with the July Stakes, for two-year-old colts and fillies, three-quarters of a mile, and as there are thirteen entries we expect to witness & ‘good field and an interesting race. This will be followed by race which cannot fail to arouse the highest interest and bring out the fastest horses, It is the Americus Club purse of $2,500, free fur all, mile heats, best three in five. There will no doubt be desperate racing for this purge. The third race of the tes —— ‘pastor than asa preacher. a eG day will be for the Tweed purse of $1,000, for’ Dbeate,” horses of all ages, and as there will be & great, number of horses that will have been beaten by’ the time this event will have to take place we may look for a large field and a capital race? On the fifth .'nd last day of the meeting we shall have a hura'le race, a race of three miles over the flat, aml the Sequel Stakes, for three-year-olds, two niles, the winner of the Derby to carry five pounds extra, Twenty- seven colis and fillies are’ engaged, and out of. that number a grand race, may reasonably be anticipated. We predict that this race meeting at Mon- mouth Park wiil be one of the most successful and memorable meetiags that ever took place in this section of country. Thompson—Prentise—Vail. The Congregational pulpit in this city bas no more able minister than the Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., pastor of the Tabernacle in Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street. Whether considered as a writer, a lecturer or & preacher, Dr. Thompson excels. He is a man of a deep philosophical turn of mind, rather fond of treating all subjects from & philosophical standpoint, and of treating specially the social and political questions which come up before the nation periodically. He never loses an advantage or an occasion to strike a blow at any giant wrong, and in the old political contests under the slave- holders’ régime his voice was heard often and eloquently protesting against that curse and demanding its overthrow. In laier days he has lifted up his voice against the corruptions of our city, State and federal governments, against intemperance, adultery and other social evils which prevail in our midst. He has also written some stirring words against them. The Doctor, both by travel and read- ing, has made himself perfectly familiar with Bible lands and Oriental customs, and is one of the best descriptive illustrators in the city of many of those things in the Scriptures that are hard to be understood, and which to the casual reader appear unintelligible and mean- ingless, His church is perhaps the largest in the city, and is capable of seating about two thousand persons ; hence a good sized congre- gation scattered in it appears small. And there are often seen small congregations gathered therein; for, for some reason or other—probably because our people are not sufficiently educated—philosophical instruc- tion in the pulpit does not seem to be half as popular as exposition or illustration. The Rev, George L Prentiss, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, in Park avenue and Thirty-fifth street, is one of the oldest city pastors and one of the most industrious and energetic. Dr. Prentiss was formerly pastor of the Mercer street Preshyte- rian church, but when the uptown movement began his people purchased and built on the present site an elegant and substantial church edifice. Dr. Prentiss and his congregation belonged to the New School before the anion of the two bodies, to bring about which he labored zealously and faithfully. Asa preacher the Doctor is solid and simple, pointed and practical, protesting against vice and enforc- ing virtue by every means in his power. He is sometimes so inspired by his theme as to rise to sublime eloquence, and to move his audience as if by a supernatural impulse. He is a faithful pastor, and does not consider his work done when he has preached twice on the Sabbath and lectured once during the week. He has gathered a goodly congregation in that new Presbytérian ground and is spreading Gospel influences all around. The Rev. A. D. Vail is the pastor now of St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, i Fifty-third street, near Eighth avenne. He is perhaps more remarkable as a Sunday school And as such he has no eqnal in the city in his own denomina- tion, and very few, if any, equals in any other, A firm believer in the conversion of the children, he has, during the past three years of his ministry in Thirtieth street Methodist Episcopal church, reccived into the church either a8 members or probationers between two and three hundred Sabbath school scholars, ranging fa age from eight to eighteen years. He is very interesting as a talker to children, and is very successful in his ministry to them. He is often in his Sabbath schools and addresses the young, and besides he frequently holds special services for them and organizes them into church classes for religious instruction. As preacher Mr. Vail would not be considered popular in the generally accepted sense of that term, but he is really instructive and interest- ing. He has the happy faculty of pointing his discourses with apt illustrations and incidents, which have a marvellous effect upon a mixed audience, and he is given more to exposition than to dogmatism in the pulpit. He has now one of the handsomest and moat agreeable Methodist Episcopal churches in the city, Mrs. Farr has again been refused a new trial, The day of her execution is fixed for the 28th inat., and from present appearances it seems highly probable that she will have to suffer the fearful penalty. Personal Intelligence. Henry Godey, of Philadelphia, publisher or the Ladies’ Magazine, is w town at the Albemarie Hotel. J. Cracroft Wilson, ©. B., of New Zealand, 13 sa journing at the Brevoors House. R. B, Carpenter, of Charleston, § C., is-at the St, James, United States Senator B. F. Rice, of Arkansas, yesterday arrived. at the St. Nicholas. J. 5. Featherstone, of New Zealand, 18 stopping at the Fifth Avenue. Lieutenant Commanding R. P. Leary, of the United States Navy, is quartered, at the Washington, Place Hotel. M, Von Brandt, of Yokohama, Japan, 1s domicd. ing at the Brevoort House. F. Walter, of England, 1s stopping at the Fifte Avenue. Judge Osborn, of Poughkeepsie, has taken quar. ters at the St. Nicholas, Marquis de Chambure arrived yesterday from Washington at the Waskington Mace Hotel. J.B. Gariand, of England, and James Williams, of Auckland, New Zealand, are staying at the Claredon Hotel, Livingstone and W. R. Winch, of England, aro sojourning atthe Brevoort House. Colonel W. P, Denckla, of Arkansas, has quarters at the Si. Nicaolas. Ex-United States Senator James W. Grimes, of Towa, yesrday arrived from Kurope on the Oceaute. The Serator has been absent during the last tee Years. He ts stopping at the Brevoort Mouse.