The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1871, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letier and telegraphic be addressed New Yorke despatches must Higrap. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tanovau Br Dar- LIGHT—VALENTINE AND ORSON. LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—Tuz BERGeR FAMILY OF BELL RINGERS, OLYMPIC THEATRI. Broadway.—SoHNIEDER—Naw fONGS AND DaNogs, prannacnis THEATRE, Broadway and 13th mreet.— LPL. N(BLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aoross tHE ConTI- NENT. WOOD'S MUS ances alterao: IM, Broatway, corner Sith st.—Perform- d evening—Iplor OF THR MOUNTAIN. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— SIGRTLESS BaipE—DUTOHMAN ToRKEY, CENTRAL PARK GARD SUMMER Nicurs’ ConoEnts. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadwa y.— BOIENCK AND ART, .—Taroponre THOMAS? New York, Sanday, July 23, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PAGE. 1—Advertisements. ‘2— Advertisements. 3-News from Washington—Taxes on Interest Coupons—Explosion at the Washington Arse- nal—The Times Out of Jomt—The Late Riot— Yachting Notes—Base Ball—Railroad = In- telligence—Weather In telligence—Fire in Wiliiamsburg— New Publicauons Received—The Orleans Princes: A Mo Call on a Gentleman of the Old Regime—Journatistic Notes—Distress in Minnesota—Delaware Peach Crop, 4=—Religious Intelligence—Running Notes, Political ‘and General—Tne Irish Brigade Officers, 5—Tombs Police Court—New York City News—Pro- ceedings in the Courts—A Woman’s Blessing— Aub Race at Hoboken—Secretary Robeson at the Brooklyn Navy Yard—Queens County Politics—The — indians—Miscellaneous Tele. 'ams—The Camden and Amboy Lease—A New Long Island Raitroad—The People’s Ferry Company of Williamsburg—Englana Runs Awas—Sharks at Rockaway—Cheap Fuel— The National Game—Another Noble Institution of Charity—A Fatal Affray—A Bold Safe Rob- bery—Bold Robbery Near Newark—Dangerous Kerosene—A Missing Citizen of Wiliiams- burg—The Recent Terrible Raliroad Collision Near Morristown—A Minister Brutally Whips His Daughter—Voudouism—New York Canal ‘Tolls—Prize Fight in Illinois. @—Editorials: Leading Articie, ‘Christianity tn Rus:ia—The State Church and the Dissenters” — Amusement Announcements, 7—Editorial (Continued trom Sixth Page)— France: unt de Chambord Resigns his Seat in the National Assembly—Cuba : Herald Special Report from Havana— Telegrams from Spain, Germany and Eng- Jand—The Mont Cenis funnel—North Pacific Rallroad--Views of the Past—Business No- tices. 8—Ruiloff II.: Zeigenmeyer, the Chicago Murderer; One of the Earth's Greatest Criminals—Death of a Distinguished Dame—Found Dead in Trenton—Fatal Result of an Accidental Shot— Military Chit-Chat—Literature: Criticisms of New Books—Art Matters—Music and the Drama—Jenny Lind: Ber Recent London Ap- pearances—Increased Consumption of rr. 9—Re Galantuomo: The Coming In of the and the Going Out of the she mr oe Emanuel—Brooklyn Doliar-Ocracy—Fatal Mid- nignt Affray—The Cocos Island and the Gold Hunters—The Recent Awning Casualty—The Dry Goods Market—Financial and Commercial Report—A Negro Murderer Arrested by & Negro—Marriages and Deaths. 40—What is Thought of the “Battle of Dorking” — The Old Story—Archbistop Darboy—Miscel- Janeous Teiegams—Cricket Match at New Haven—Rockwell’s Littie Game—Personal In- telligence—Shipping Intelligeace—Advertise- ments. 11-Our Summer Resorts: What the Pleasure- Seckers are ear 3 at Niagara Falls, Fire Island and Babylon— Foreign Personal Gossip and Miscellaneous lvems—Advertisements. AQ—Advertisements, Logan.—‘‘Who is there to mourn for Logan?” So far as we are advised, ‘‘Not ene.” GeyeraL SHAter’s Oprion is that ‘‘the troops did not fire any too soon,” and the facts and the testimony support him. PracHEs AND WATERMELONS are pouring Into the city by the ton—the peaches from Delaware and Maryland and the melons from South Carolina and Georgix. Cholera bomb shells for a dollar from the Carolinas are not very dear, but when they begin to pour in {rom Jersey they will be cheaper. Watt Street Durine THE Week was the field of pretty extensive transactions in stocks, considering the time of year. The war be- tween two of the rival Western roads led to some pretty hard knocks being given to prices allaround. Gold was weak and wound up at 111}. Governments were strong and the rail- way mortgage bonds firm, at advancing prices. Sate oF THE ATLANTIC AND Great Wesrrrn Rawroap.—The interest held by Pennsylvania in the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad was sold in Philadelphia yesterday by auction, But few bidders were present, and the entire interest in the road was sold to Senator Thurman, of Ohio, for $560,000. AnorueR Inpiay War seems imminent in the Northwest. The last steamer from the Upper Missouri reports that Fort Berthold was attacked by the Sioux on the 12th, Spotted Tail pretends to have untold grievances to redress, and is out on the warpath witha large band of braves. The mail station be- tween Fort Stevenson and Fort Totteu was attacked a few days since, and, despite the presence of a military escort, ‘he house and mail bags were burned. This outrage was committed by a party of Sioux who had received rations at Fort Thompson a few days before. Evidently our Indian matters are sadly mismanaged, or it would be hardly pos- sible for tribes to be fed at government sta- fions at the very time they are preparing to wake war upon the whites, Quesapa'’s Exprpition 1x Cusa has come to grief. After suffering great privations, even being compelled to slaughter the mules to satisfy the cravings of hunger, the men who composed the expedition effected a junction with another body of insurgents near Puerto Principe. A detachment of Spanish troops which was sent out in search of the invaders attacked the com- bined insurgent forces, The Cubans seem to have made a stout resistance. They at first greatly outnumbered the Spaniards. The lat- ter were, however, reinforced in the nick of time by the arrival of fresh troops aod scattered the insurgents, maay of whom were either killed or wounded, several being captured. Quesada's force has been by far the most important array of men which she Cubans have of late opposed to the Spaniards. The disastrous end of this expedition and the surrender of 80 many prominent leaders will, perhaps, convince the Cuban insurgents of the futility of all further resistance, NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY. JULY 23, 1871-TRIPLE SHERT. Christianity in Russia—The State Church und the Dissenters. The address which has within the last few days been presented to the Ozar of all the Russias, signed by several distinguished American gentlemen, members of the Evan- gelical Alliance, has had the effect of calling attention to a subject which is but little under- stood out of Russia, and with which even the Russians themselves are imperfectly ac- quainted. Some twenty years ago the Ger- man Baron Hanthausen could say, writing of the sects inthe Russian Church :—‘‘Even I can in no way lay claim to being able to afford anything like exhaustive information on the subject, yet, after all, I know more about it than other strangers, and more even than the majority of Russians, officials and magistrates not excepted.” Unless we greatly mistake, the time has come when this eccle- siastical terra incognita shall be more tho- roughly explored. One of the latest attempts is that of Mr. Hepworth Dixon; but his ‘‘Free Russia,” although a most readable and highly interesting work, cannot be said to have shed any very satisfactory light on the many mysterious aspects of Christianity in the Russian empire. As the subject has been brought up through the action of the Evangelical Alliance, and as it is likely at no distant day to become of general public interest, we propose to give our readers a brief sketch of the Church as it is in Russia, includ- ing the Orthodox or State Church and the various sectarian bodies, The conversion of the Russian tribes to Christianity dates as far back as the year of our Lord 986. According to the historian Nestor there came about this time to Vladimir, the then ruler, certain Bulgarian Mussulmans from the Volga. ‘‘Wise and prudent prince,” they said, ‘thou knowest neither law nor religion. Believe in ours, and honor Ma- homet.” ‘In what does your religion con- sist?” asked Viadimir. ‘‘We believe in God,” they replied, ‘‘but we believe also in what the Prophet teaches. Be circumcised, abstain from pork, drink no wine, and after death choose out of seventy wives the most beauti- ful.” Vladimir listened to them for the last reason; but that which he did not like was circumcision, abstinence, and, above all, the prohibition of drinking. ‘‘Drinking is the great delight of the Russians,” he said; “we cannot do without it.” Next came the representatives of Western Christianity. “The Pope,” they said, ‘‘begs us to tell you that your country is like ours, but not your religion. Ours is the right. We fear God, who made the heaven and the earth, the stars and the moon, and every living creature, while thy gods are of wood.” ‘‘What does your law command?” asked Vladimir. ‘We fast,” they said, ‘‘to the best of our ability, and when any one eats or drinks he does it to the honor of God, as we have been told by our master, St. Paul.” ‘Go home,” said Viadi- mir. ‘Our fathers did not believe in your religion, nor receive it from the Pope.” In like manner came to him some Jews. But them he summarily dismissed. ‘‘What,” said said he, “you wish to teach others; you, whom God has rejected and dispersed. If God had loved you He would not have scat- tered you abroad. Do you wish us to suffer the same?” The next visitor was a ‘Greek philosopher.” Vladimir listened to him as he poured contempt on the Jews, on the Mobam- medans, and on the emissaries from Rome, and told the story of the Cross; and as the philosopher held up to him a tablet on which was painted a scene of the last judgment, ex- hibiting the just entering paradise and the wicked going into hell, Vladimir heaved a sigh and exclaimed, ‘“‘Happy are those who are on the right; woe to the sinners who are on the left.” “If you wish,” said the philosopher, “to enter with the just who are on the right you must consent to be baptized.” Vladimir re- flected and answered, ‘‘I will wait yet a lit- tle while.” Next year he sent a number of his wise men to Constantinople to see and report, All that could be done in the magni- ficent temple of St. Sopbia to fill the imagina- tion of the Russian envoys was done, and not without success. The report was satisfactory, but Vladimir still delayed. Having laid siege to the city of Cherson, he vowed that if he succeeded he would be baptized. Cherson fell, and having obtained in marriage the sister of the Emperor Basil, Viadimir fulfilled his vow. Shortly afterwards, at Kieff, he or- dered a great baptism of all his people. The whole people of Kieff were immersed in the same river, some sitting on the banks, some plunging in, others swimming, while the priests read the prayers. ‘‘It wasa sight,” says the historian, ‘‘wonderfully curious and beautiful to see.” The spot was consecrated by the first Christian church; and Kieff, although it ultimately yielded in importance to Moscow, remains a sacred city to this day. Such was the introduction of Christianity into Russia. It is not possible for us to dwell at any length on the subsequent history and progress of the Church in Russia. It would be inter- esting to follow it from Kieff to the banks of the Moskova, and there to linger in the city of ‘innumerable churches, of everlasting bells, of endless processions, of palaces and charches, of thrones and tombs, of relics and treasures, feasting the eye upon that forest of domes, springing like gaudy flowers or weeds—blue, green, red, silver, golden—from the wide field of green roofs and groves and gardens.” It might prove instructive to trace its history under Mongolian and Polish suprem- acy, and to note the various reforms wisely or unwisely introduced, first by the Patri- arch Nicon, the Hildebrand of the Russian Church, and completed by Peter the Great. This, however, is for the present impossible. We have only space and time to look at the Church in Russia as it now is, and direct at- tention to some of its peculiarities. The Russian Church, as our readers have seen, was Greek in ite origin. For some centuries its teachers came from Greece. To this day, although there is no longer any direct connection between the Charch in Constantino- ple and the Church in Moscow, the Church in Russia is to be regarded as a part of the Eastern or Greek Church. It was not until 1589 that the Russian Church had a Patriarch of its own. It was not until 1593 that the Patriarch of Moscow and Metropolitan of all the Russias became absolutely independent of the Ecumenical Patriarch at Constantinople, In the times of Peter the Great the Patriarch- ate was abolished, and the Czar, like Henry the Eighth of England, became head of the Church as well as head of the State. Ter- ritorially the Orthodox Russian Church con- sists of twenty-one Eparchies or ecclesiasti- cal provinces. At the head of each of these is a prelate, whose consistory is charged with theadministration. According to their extent these provinces are of the first or second rank. In addition to these there are thirty- one Eparchies or ecclesiastical provinces of the third rank, analagous somewhat to Roman Catholic Bishops in partibus. All these pre- lates with their Eparchies are equally subject to the Most Holy Governing Synod, which is at the head of the whole Russo-Greek Church. In this Synod the Czar is represented by a Procu- rator General, sometimes called ‘‘ the Czar's Eye,” and without the confirmation of the Czar no decision of the Synod can pass into law. The Patriarchate, therefore, resides not in the Synod, but in the Czar. The clerical body of the Russian Church consists of three main classes—the black or regular or monastic clergy, the white or secular clergy, and the ebureh servers, The first is of course the most important order. All bishops, high dignitaries, teachers of ecclesiastical semina- ries, belong to this class. From the second order are drawn the parish priests. To be qualified for a secular charge the candidate must have gone through the full course in an ecclesiasti- cal seminary and must have been married to a spinster. On the occasion of his wife’s death he cannot marry again, nor can he retain his office. The third class is of course the lowest, and its work is the meanest. Such is the machinery of the Orthodox Church of the Russian Empire. The Orthodox Church is very rich, some of the dignitaries living in princely magnificence; but it cannot be said that the work which they have specially undertaken is very effectually done. The masses are steeped in ignorance ; nor can it be said that the great body of the people are in sympathy with the Church of the State. The Orthodox Church, with all its immense wealth and power, and backed up as it has been by all the strength of the State, has never been, at least for many centuries, the church of the whole people. The Ruscolniks, or Sep- eratists, are innumerable. It is impossible, in fact, to say how many different sects there are in Russia. A detailed account of these vari- ous sectaries could not fail to be interesting. Differing much among themselves, and in some cases given to the most absurd, not to say bar- barous, practices, they almost all agree in their opposition to the Orthodox Church. Some of them are even bitterly opposed to the reigning government. All or almost all of them are firm believers in the principles of Communism. On some early eccasion we shall revert to this subject, and give our read- ers some clear idea of what is meant by the Russian Ruscolniks. Meantime, let it be noted that an empire which numbers millions of men who are Communists in theory and practice, who are opposed to the national church, who have no affection for the government under which they live, who are most of them deplor- ably ignorant, cannot be said to be wholly free from danger in the event of a great European convulsion. A great future no doubt lies be- fore Russia, but she has much hard work to accomplish before she can bring her vast popu- lation into harmony with the civilization of the West. Tae MINIsTERIAL Crisis IN Sparn.—The meaning of the ministerial crisis in Spain will soon become as obscure a problem as the fa- mous Schleswig-Holstein question, The young King seems completely at sea in the choice of his ministers, and in the few names already an- nounced as belonging to the new Cabinet which Marshal Serrano was charged to form we recog- nize none of the old Spanish politicians. The policy of calling upon the young men of a na- tion to administer its affairs has generally proved a wise one, and if this is what Ama- deus is doing he is showing himself a wise King. We are slow to believe that much trust can be placed in young Spaniards, but we know that any confidence put in the old Span- ish political leaders is thrown away, If the King is to succeed at all it can only be with the help of the younger element of the coun- try. The men who have so long essayed to rule Spain only to rain it have headed and subducd too many revolutions to be of any assistance in forming a stable government. AyoTnER Reporr or a Bourson Fusion.— The cable tells us that it is again reported that an agreement has been reached by the legitimist, fusionist and Orleanist Deputies. What they have agreed on we are not informed, and even if we were we are inclined to the opinion that it would not make much differ- ence. France has proclaimed her faith in re- publican institutions by the vote at the last elections. Disgusted with the empire, and knowing nothing of the monarchy, the French people have spoken plainly and unmistakably regarding the form of government which they desire to see succeed in France, and although announcements such as the one referred to do not at all affect the accomplished fact, still they show that there exists a party, how- ever small it may be, and that there lurks a desire, no matter how concealed it may have lain, antagonistic to the permanency of the republic in France. If the recent elections prove anything they prove that Bourbon fasions and Orleanist compromises count for naught when the people of France decide otherwise, How Sampo 1s Fapina Ovt.—We have the remarkable official statement from Colum- bus, Ga., bearing a recent date, that out of a population of six thousand whites and three thousand blacks the burials for three months were—White adults, thirteen; black adults, eighteen; white children, twelve; black chil- dren, thirty-six. The proportion of deaths, taking into consideration the namber of white non-residents buried, is nine whites and forty- eight blacks. The proportion of deaths to respective numbers, it will be seen, is one white to ten and two-thirds blacks. At this rate, in thirty-three years from the promulga- tion of the emancipation proclamation Mr. Sambo will have followed Mr, Lo! Five Persons to Eaon House is the re- ported average for Great Britain. This is better than twenty-one persons to each house, which is the reported average for this city. What a field for reform is here! Review of the Religions Press—Their Com- ments on the Riot. Our religious contemporaries this week gen- erally devote their columns to the discussion of the late riot, its causas and its consequences. As was to have been expected, the Protestant press give the whole affair a religious coloring prejudicial to the Catholics, while the journals in the latter interest talk mildly on the sub- ject, and refer to the admirable course of the Archbishop and priests of their Church in ad- monishing their adherents to abstain from all interference with the fatal procession on the 12th, The Independent hits wherever it finds the head of a Tammanyite, laying the blame for all the trouble upon the politicians who rule the city and who in turn, it alleges, are ruled by the mob. It pitches into the authorities in the following amiable manner :— Cowardice, for purely political reasons, with an astonishing stupidity of judgment, ‘s the true solu- tion of these varying and contradictory counsels, More incompetent and thoroughly d sgracea men never sat in the seats of power. e Tammany hag ce governs—or, rather, misgoverns—the city ot New York, has with all its reputed shrewdneas at last outwitted itself. The Hvangelist says the lesson taught in suppressing the riot is but the aggregate sense of the American people, and by no means a chance and impracticable exaltation of feeling on their part. ‘‘Our gallant soldiers,” it con- tinues, ‘“‘knew the lesson long ago, and our brave police also have it by head if not by heart. Our apparatus being thus in order for instruction and emerzency, it seems unadvis- able to turn back to temporary and superficial expedients.” The Zvangelist still continues the controversy with certain daily papers about that article defending the city govern- ment which appeared In its columns a week or two ago. It bears, however, very little in- terest to the public. The Golden Rule talks of ‘Municipal Mur- der,” and declares that when the city authorities forbade the Orangemen from turning out they struck a blow at all that makes American independence worth the having. It was not men, it was liberty that the municipal authori- ties tried to murder. ‘‘And thank God,” con- tinues the Rule, ‘‘the blow has recoiled with fatal effect upon the heads of the men who dealt it. Well may they tremble at the doom they have written for themselves and the party they represent. It is the fate of some men to be remembered.” The Tablet (Catholic organ) excuses no one of its Irish countrymen ‘who attempted, if any one did attempt, to interrupt the infamous Orange procession on Wednesday, July 12. Those whom that procession was intended to insult and to provoke to break the peace should have stayed away, as most of them we believe did, and refrained from appearing in the streets either simply to see or to interrupt the procession.” The Tablet avers that the “‘procession was gotten up for a political pur- pose in the coming elections, in which the republican leaders hope to recover their power in the State by making the issue one between Protestants and Catholics.” The Liberal Christian touches up the riot in the following lively manner:— Itis not as foreigners, it is not as {rishmen, it ts not as Roman Catholics that we dread their in- fluence. It ts as ignorance and superstition banded and arrayed for political spoils; it is as a body of violent, quarrelsome, ram-drinking people, organ- ized by the atd of base American self-seekers, to grasp, uncer the forms of laws made for purposes of pecalation, the possessions and rights of the public, that we dread and detest them. The Freeman's Journal is of the opinion that Governor Hoffman is a murderer; but this is only a mild phrase in comparison with others brought to bear by the Abbé in this riotous controversy. The Protestant Churchman of this city thinks the riot, ‘although not so sanguinary as might have been anticipated,” is suggestive of most serious consideratious. The Church- man says :—‘‘It is strange tha‘ any one could have doubted for a moment that it was the duty of the civil authorities not only to allow, but to protect the Orange procession. The prohibition of this denomination, while those expressive of opposite political and religious ideas are permitted, is a discrimination of the most odious character.” While we could wish, continues the same paper, that demonstrations perpetuating bitter memories might cease, the forcible suppresaion of them “‘in deference to the demands of men with bludgeons and pim tols in their hands would be one of the most perilous concessions to the ruffianly element among us.” The Methodist says the Catholic clergy de- serve commendation for their previous admo- nitions against riot, and goes on to say :— Why any necessity for priestly admonitions against such barbarous crimes among Church com- municants? What would be said of any of the great Protestant denominations of the nation whose peo- le should be capable of such things? Would not heir clergy be held responsible as having failed to train them aright? The Bapust Church alone has a larger population than that of the whole Papal com- munion in the land. The Methodist population ts larger by many thousands. What would be the amazement of the public mind, what the indignant emphasis of public opinion if either of these leading Protestant bodies were ever and anon breaking out in such public disorders’ The American pie mow tacitly put this question home to the Roman Catholic clergy, and justly demand of them such moral elevation of their people as shall save the country from these intolerable grievances. The Baltimore Hpiscopal Methodist elabo- rates on the riot of the 12th. It says :— Does not every one see that something deeper, more passionate and profound than tags politics is underlying all this? At once, as if by an electric shock, all Protestant America rallies to the side of the Orangemen and makes their cause itsown. We care not for William III., we care not for Irish quar- rels; but we do care for justice and fair play, and we bard not permit brute force and violence to disturb either. The Philadelphia National Baptist con- gratulates the supporters of law in every large city that such a prompt quietus was put upon these deadly enemies (the rioters) within the camp. ‘‘We breathe more freely now. Because we would have life and property secure and enjoy undisturbed all the delights of prosperity and peace and freedom we sin- cerely and religiously rejoice,” continues the Baptist, ‘that blank cartridges were not used by the law’s defenders on the 12th of July.” The Christian Standard, Cincinnati (Camp- bellite Baptist), thinks that the recent occur- rences in New York will serve to startle a too credulous public out of their false security ; and therefore augurs the best results to our country at large from the history of this out- break, Corrupt and truckling politicians and ambitious ecclesiastics, it says, will alike be looked after, and the vigilant ontlook of the awakened friends of liberty will perhaps save us from dangers that were gathering thickly around us, The St. Louis Christian Advocate don’t trouble itself about the New York riots, but takes up camp meetings. It observes that “after all that has been said against camp meetings by Methodists and others, they are evidently more in favor now than ever, and may be regarded as one of the fixed institu- tions of American Methodism.” Anything that will help along religion should be encour - aged—whether it be by out-of-door or in-door praying. But it strikes us that a little ‘‘closet praying,” when the heart, silently and alone, pours forth its overflowing measure of devo- tion, comes about as near to the idea of true piety as anything else. Dramatic Prospects—A Brilliant Season in the Fall. Although few of the managers have com- pleted their arrangements for the next dra- matic season, and many of them have not even commenced to arrange their programmes, still sufficient is known to make it certain that we are on the eve of one of the most brilliant seasons ever known in the annals of the American stage. There is a complete stagna- tion in dramatic matters at the present time, and some of the leading theatres are hermeti- cally sealed. But the sounds of preparation are constant and significant, and at the hotels and dramatic agencies scores of managers may be seen on the lookout for attractions and novelties. We have already referred to the brilliant prospects in the musical line, and we can safely assert that the dramatic will not be behindhand. Of course we are not to have a Ristori, but the provinces will havea representative of the drama equally great, the favorite Janauschek. There appears to be some inexcusable negligence on the part of our metropolitan managers to allow such a sterling actress to escape them. Grau brings with him from Europe the charming German comé- dienne, Hedwig Raabe, who has won golden honors in St. Petersburg and Berlin. Fechter and Sothern will renew their former triumphs, the one, perhaps, at the Thédtre Francuis, and the other at Niblo’s. We preserve the first name of the former theatre, since there was no legitimate reason why it should ever have been changed to the unmeaning title of ‘“‘Four- teenth Street Theatre.” The only excuse was that a German actress was playing an engage- ment there during the war between France and Germany. Daly has engaged avery large company, culled from the principal theatres in other cities, besides retaining all the old fa- vorites that made the Fifth Avenue Theatre famous. The standard temple of the drama over which Mr. Wallack presides will lose none of its time-honored renown in this race for popular~ favor. The company at present is so complete and embraces so many well known artists that it will be dif- ficult to add to its strength. Booth’s is, we believe, to be mainly devoted to stars, and the Olympic will be the scene of a grand panto- mime revival, for which many European celebrities are engaged. The Grand Opera House passes under a new and, we trust, more competent management than that which has guided its fortunes for some seasons past. There is no reason why such a splendid build- ing should not be well patronized. Sheridan Shook’s new theatre on Union square will be opened early in the fall, and projects are on foot for the erection of more uptown theatres, A few weeks later we shall learn the full details of the programmes of the coming season. They will be of such a voluminous nature that even the most sanguine of our theatre-goers will be astonished, The Press and the Public on the Riots. The opinions of the various class journals in the country—the democratic, republican, Irish- American, American-Irish, the religious Catho- lic, the religious Protestant, the religious anti- Christian, the religious pro-Christian, the religious independent Christian and all the rest—having been given on the subject of the riot, and the multitude of occasional corre- spondents of the press having fully ventilated their ideas on the same topic, suppose the public attention be directed to something else, for the present, at least. Many of the pulpits are empty, the pastors doing the pastoral ‘in some shady grove or sylvan nook” and rest- ing their weary brains from the incessant labors of the past year. Therefore many of our pulpits are barren of novelty. Now, why cannot some of our lecture editors, Horace Greeley or Theodore Tilton, for example, who have nothing else to do—supply one or more of these pulpits in the absence of the regular stock preachers? It would do many a heart good to hear Horace expound from the pulpit how deep it would be necessary for a man to plough through the subsoil of sin before he reached the hard pan of righteousness. He would eclipse Henry Ward Beecher in the uniqueness of his metaphors and in the pro- fundity of his parables. Tilton could fill up the interstices in the exercises, as Old Bullion Tom Benton might have said, by sprinkling in a few scintillations from a shower of golden thoughts from the Golden Age. This would be a big card for any church short of attrac- tions at the presentJuncture, and help to divert the public attention from the disagree- able sensations consequent upon reflecting upon the tragic doings of the 12th inst. The experiment is worth trying at any rate, as the farmer said when he crossed his pink- eye potatoes with blue noses, EXPLosion AT THE WASHINGTON ARSENAL. — About three o'clock yesterday morning a small building at the Arsenal in Washington city, used as a magazine and laboratory for the manufacture of rockets, lights and shells for the Signal Corps, exploded, setting fire to several adjoining buildings and another maga- zine, which contained five hundred pounds of powder, a large quantity of bombs, shot and musket cartridges. A regular bombardment ensued, the bursting bombs and cartridges flying in all directions. Among the buildings demolished was the Model Room, or Museum, which was filled with models of all kinds of foreign firearms and equipments, ancient armor, Revolutionary trophies, &c., the loss of which is irreparable. The explosion 1s sup- posed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, Count pe CuamBord,—The Count, we aro informed, has resigned the seat to which he was elected in the National Assembly. As M. Rouher has decided to run for the first vacancy in the National Assembly he will now have an opportunity of doing so. The chances are that he will wait, and the vacant chair will be filled by another advocate of the republic, The Breach in the Episcopal Charch. After what has appeared in the public prints from time to time we presume there will be no denial that a serious difficulty—a doctrinal one, too—does exist within the bosom of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. And, as we have also seen, the pre- latical and ritualistic spirit is becoming so rampant that it threatens to drive out of that Church the most spiritual ministers and mem- bers, as its prototype in Great Britain did » century ago. Last Sabbath we took ocvasion to comment freely upon the issues in this con- troversy, as set forth in an interview between the Rev. Mr. Tyng and a reporter of this jour- nal. Our comments on that occasion have drawn forth some correspondence from Epis- copalians who think that Mesers. Cheney and Tyng are altogether wrong and that the ritual- istic party are altogether right. We do not think so, and for several reasons. The trouble, as we have said, and as the Rev. Mr. Tyng has declared, is a doctrinal one, and consequently cannot be settled by silencing or deposing one, two, ten or more “Low Church” presbyters. It is too deep- seated to be thus disposed of, and every act of repression or oppression—like those applied to Messrs. Tyng and Cheney and their breth- ren—will but stir up a stronger resistance to the spirit which seeks to crush out of them that manly independence which every minister of Christ should feel in himself. We contend that liberty is not libertinism, and that a very large degree of ministerial inde- pendence of congregations and of bishops is necessary and is consistent with true obedience to ecclesiastical authority. While, therefore, we defend the independent action of Messrs. Cheney and Tyng, we do not. defend that liberty which sets itself above law, nor men who seek martyrdom by rushing madly on to death or disgrace, Now, what are the doctrinal differences. which so disturb the Episcopal Church and which seem likely to cause a division of that body, already small enough in this country? They are the doctrine of regeneration by bap- tism; transubstantiation in the elements-of the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper; the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of Episcopal hands in ordination, &. These things the ritualistic or ‘High Church” party hold to most tenaciously, accepting the language of the Common Prayer Book literally, and even stretching that language to serve occasions. Upon these doctrinal propositions are based certain assumptions, among which may be named that of ‘‘apostolic succession,” whereby the ministry of the large body of Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and other evangelical Christians, composing more than nine-tenths of the population of this country, are wholly ignored, and ‘‘the American Church,” as those ritualistic aspirants affect to call them- selves, attempt to usurp spiritual authority over the land. And acting upon this assump- tion the General Conventions, composed for the greater part of High Church men, district the Union and send out their missionary bish- ops—mainly ritualists—to take possession. We do not object to this in itself; but when the newly elected prelates undertake to drive out ministers who have been on the ground before them, and who have gathered large and flourishing congregations together whom they love and by whom they are loved, to make way for men who have less of manly and spiritual independence and more of the spirit of subser- viency than of true obedience, then we think the highest censure and condemnation should be poured out upon such prelates. Another assumption is that the elders ot presbyters in the Church have the power, by virtue of their calling and elevation to the ministry, to ‘declare and pronounce to the people being penitent the absolution and re- mission of their sins.” There are other assumptions of lesser note, such as that the houses of worship of other denominations (save, of course, Catholics), are not properly dedi- cated, and are, therefore, meeting houses, and not churches; and hence, while the Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., was convicted three years ago, technically, of violating section 6, canon 12, title 1 of the Digest of Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the pith of the evidence adduced by the prosecution went to show that he had “preached and read service” in a Methodist meeting house in New Brunswick. The section cited prohibits one presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church from officiat- ing in the parish of another without the other's consent; and under the assumptions already noticed the entire population and area of New Brunswick belonged spiritually and legally to Rev. Messrs. Stubbs and Boggs, the Episcopal ministers of that town. Very little testimony was adduced on Mr. Tyng's trial to show his disregard of Dr. Stubbs’ notification against trespass, but a great deal was intro- duced to show how he was dressed, what prayers he read, what hymns were sung, and whether in reading or reciting the prayers he altered this phrase or omitted that altogether, and whether he knelt or stood. These were the little details upon which the counsel and. the court spent most of their time during that memorable trial. It is bardly necessary to comment upon them further. The spirit and purpose of that trial were too apparent then, and the same spirit is now following Mr. Cheney in Chicago, and is. seeking other vic- tims elsewhere. Mr. Cheney’s congregation, like Mr. Tyng’s, proclaim their fullest con- fidence in him ; but the former, unlike the lat- ter, does not stand to be reproved, admon- ished or deposed by his ecclesiastical superior, notwithstanding the Bishop's assumption of this right, And so long as his congregation hold up his hands, as the papers last Sunday and Monday reported they had done, he can safely resist the ritualistic power which would degrade him from his high office. It will be necessary now briefly to examine. those doctrines and assumptions which are creating so much controversy, in the light of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It is well known that infant baptism by sprin- kling water on the forehead of the child is the mode and manner chiefly used in the Protest- ant Episcopal Church. In the baptismal rubric the object of this rite is declared to be to “tes- tify the receiving of them that be nowly baptized into the number of Christ’s Church.” And in the opening declaration the congrega- tion present are asked to pray that our Lord Jesus Christ may grant to the child that which, by natare it cannot have—namely, baptism by the Holy Ghost and reception into Christ's holy Church, and that it may be made a lively,