The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1871, Page 8

B NEW YORK HERALD |*“*"* © Sn Ovristinnity. There are many good reasons why this sub- ject should not be uninteresting to our readers. To the East we look when we think of the infancy of our race ; to the East we look when we think of the infancy of our religion. All basiness or news letter and telegraphic | The Garden of Eden, whatever it was and despatches must be addressed New YORK | wherever it was, was at least an Eastern Hizrap. land. All that we call religion had an Letters and packages should be properly Eastern origin. Buddha, Confucius, Abra- ham, Moses, Christ, Mohammed, were all men Asiatics; and whatever there is in religion Rejected communications will not be re-| to aay which commands human attention or turned. & absorbs human thought, is somehow asso- THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the | Ciated with the rising sun. Those mysterious gear. Four ceuts per copy. Annual subscription | Waves of human life which centuries ago rolled toward Europe, and those currents of belief which flowed in the same direction, have been Ne. 218 | checked, and European thought and senti- seca ment, Asiatic in birth, aided by Great Britain and the United States of America, go back to the old centres to give, with interest, what they received. Our civilization is Christian. We owe it to the Holy Roman empire, to the Popes of Rome, to Spain, to Great Britain, to the Cava- liers and the Roundheads. Whatever influ- ence the American Continent has, that influ- ence, go out in what direction it may, is esscatially Christian, Our business tenden- cies are still toward Europe. Our intellec- tual and religious tendencies move aggressively toward Asia, For business purposes we bridge the Atlantic. For intellectual, but re- ligious purposes particularly, we bridge the Pacific. ‘ ‘ r What weare doing in the direction of Asia, Great Britain has long been doing, and so too has Russia, Russian aggression is toward the East. British aggression is toward the East. Russia, mistress of the North of Europe, bas made herself mistress of the North of Asia; BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. a GARDEN, Broadway.—Aczoss Tux Conti- LIRA RDWIN’S THEAT Broad I & Leon's MinsTezis, arabe ied tea BOWRRY THEATRE, Bowory.—Breru, WEN Macuix Ginu—Tne JoLiy Connurn ™™ nach Woon's MUSEUM, Broadway, “corner ‘0th st,—Perform- ‘ances afternoon and evening—DAVID Gaucicx. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hous No. 201 Bowery.— Dap Boxxe—Loan OF A vores: OLYMPIC THRATRE, " Broadway.—SOHNEIDER—New Sones axp Danors. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th sirect.— Burin MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S FARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tur Lone Stxixe, bia aaeaaads APOLLO HALL, Twent eighth at, and Broad ~~ EX- CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Tueopow ¥ Bumurn Nicurs’ Concrers, ei a SHEE ie TRIPLE — and | mighty influence. CONTENTS OF T9-DAWS HERALD. PacE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The Finane aa : Statement of tho City and -H:stols and Coffee for Two: Tae Fasalonable Worid of Newport. Excited—Sui- ctoal Mama—Anu-Rum Riot in Lowell, Mass,— Tombs Police Court—Kailroad Accident at Al- bany—Spending Sunday, erin Science: Interesting Desertption of the Working of the Meteorological Bureau; Wind, Clouds, Fogs, Rain, snow, Hail, Tor: nadoes and Cvctut ‘rhe Peculiarities of American Climate; hat Meteorology Has Done and What It Seeks to Accompltsh —The Yonkers’ arm Fight—The National Game— Lacrosse—Central Park—Chief Justice Chase. S—The Crue! Calamity rther Details and Re- sults of the Westficld Disaster; Two Addi- tional Peaths, Making Ninety-six In All; Con- Mauation of the Onicial Investigation; ‘Testl- mony of ixperts; The Boller Made of Old Traps; Burst Not an_Explosion—Long Races—Melancholy Fate of a Commo- Police Depariment. 1 Leading Article, “Religion in the fast—Mohammedanism and Christianity" — and on the confines of Persia, of China, of Japan, she begins to press southwards, Great Britain has built up a magnificent =" on the plains of Hindostan, and, enough India cannot be said to be converted, one hundred and fifty mil- lions, representing the pith of the thought of Asia, are in their inner life and their outgoing tendencies substantially Christian. The steam- boat, the railroad, the steam plough—these are potent preachers ; they are changing the face of the land, and they are in the Eastern mind inseparably associated with the Christian religion. It ought not to be forgotten, however, that Turkey, standing cn the confines of Europe and Asia, and in full possession of the best border lands of either continent, is religiously Personal Inte ligence—Amusement Announce- | powerful over the whole of Asia. Moham- ments. . . : +, +, z, oNews from France: France and the Papacy; | medanism is omnipotent in Persia; it is a Proceed Se oe ee cengiand: | mighty power in British India ; it is danger- of the Presidential Elecion—News trom Wash- | ously strong in China; ington—Yachting Notes—fhe Turn Fest— id g a ares age tee Weather Keport—Probable Hoicite—New | Of the Southern Seas it can claim many vo- York city and Brooklyn News—Views of the Past—A Massachusetts Fiend—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Husiness Notices, S—Religious Intelligence: Religious Programme taries. The two aggressive religions in Asia are Christianity and Mohammedanism. It is tor sSiecl teresting Herald Ret not to be denied that Mohammedanism has responde —Tewple Emanuel R iT =o shed oe lee t 2 taken a firm hold of a large section of the Camp Mi ¢—Naval Inteingence—Obite Asiatic mind. It has to be admitted, however, The in Persia—Another Great 4) igi sion Foreign Miscellaneous items. at the same time, that the religion of @—Our Summer Resort jountain Murmu: i i and Whispers from Sea and Lake; our Gore Ia HA IE Let the work be done as it ought to be done; let us have peace, but let us obey the Master; and, unless we greatly mistake, the Crescent, so long so brilliant, will pale and disappear, and the Cross will arise and shine resplendent and glorious, not over Asia alone, but over all continents and all peoples, Our Weather Bureau. We publish in another Fi of to-day’s paper an interesting articlé compiled from documents just published by the Meteoro- logical Bureau at Washington, on the general laws of storms and atmospheric changes, which will amply repay the thoughtful atten- tion of the reader in search of knowledge on this important subject. It has only been a year since this branch of the public service was organized, but it seems to have already the life and development of an old institution. Its initial movements have been modest and wisely slow, and its daily bulletins may not have yet attracted the eye of the great mass of readers, To borrow the lnes— ee At first it seemed a Little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist, And yet, small as this meteorological enter- prise now appears to be in America, it is a part of that grand system of scientific obser- vation now being prosecuted all over the civilized world. Like political and social re- volutions, the revolutions in the scientific world. never go backward—their shadows ‘Wever retreat on the sun dial. The steady march and ever-widening triumph of the Baconian philogopb¥ (which led man to Search and investigate Nature, rather than to theorize and speculate about her) are not more certain and assured than the continued advances of weather telegraphy through the world. The smallest beginnings of true science are imperishable. When Lord Bacon let fall the remark that ‘the wiads usually follow the sun”—i, ¢.,.veer in the same direction round the compass card with the sun’s apparent diurnal course in the heavens (from east by south, west and north in our hemisphere, and reversely in the southern)—he little dreamed that he was laying the foundation for demonstrating the great law of atmospheric gyration, now known to us through the labors of Ferrel and Dové. Still less could the old philosopher have conceived that the knowledge of this law of storms would have become so practically utilized that ves- sels are every day rescued from destruction by its timely application, and even when ably managed the vessel, with a sagacious seaman over her, may follow a cyclone at a respectful distance, making use of its wind and training the very furies of the tempest to act in his service. Liitle algo, in all probability, did Buys Ballot, of Utrecht, suppose, when he dis- covered and proved by means of the daily weather balletins of Holland, that a lize drawn in the direction of the wind and another from the place of observation to that of least barometric pressure usually make an angle of sixty degrees, tbat he had announced a law of the wind, holding true almost everywhere, by whicb, barometrical readings being given, we know what winds or gales will blow at any epoch, and upon which law also the great ao Hee Ere aa | any of the aggressive forces of ¢hese. times. the pcneeoraph—Attempled Wit Murder in | One nation only stands behind that faith; that Brooklyn Courts—' ag ese eye one nation is Tarkey. But Turkey must be Alleved | Wilmington | Fraud—Financial and | pronounced anything but a balwark. This, Commercial Report—Marriages and |eaths. i i ii 2O=Literature: Reviews of New Books—Literary | however, is not all. Mohammedanism is $r Chit-Chat—Shipping Inielligence—Aavertise- | some cause or other the enemy of progress. Zt—Sanhedrim: Herald Special Report .of the | Aggressive only im the matter of the propaga- tears 0° “ae Gaston Oe te ee tion of the faith, it is in everything else will 42—Advertizements. ing to let things remain as they are. Modern ee civilization, in the sense in which we under- Cwcaco evinces a determination and a go- | 8'and it, it despises and condemns. It is alto- sheadstiveness unparalleled in the history of | gether different with Christianity. Aggres- Westero cities, A census just completed | sive civilization is the expression of Christian shows her to contain a population of 334,270 | tuonght; and all the nations of Europe and squls, of wpm 170,276 are males. America, Turkey alone excepted, unite in eg ~————— giving force to the: expression. Everything . Norrn Canora has turned another po-.) valuable in science is on the side of Christian- Titical somersault. The democrats, having | jty, On the rail, on the river, on the ocean, socured the ascendancy in the last Legisla-'| on the field, in the bern, steam proclaims ture, submitted to the people at an election | the superior genius of the religion of Jesus; last Thursday the question of calling a con- | and as the long uncultivated field begins-to be vention to amend the constitution, Contrary productive, as the barns begin to be filled to the well laid plans of the party in power, | with plenty, as money and everything which the republicans carried the State and defeated | money brings begins to be enjoyed, the mind the convention scheme by over seven thousand | of the untutored rises above the mere machine, majority. and Cbristianity receives all the praise and A Duet, Armost.—A few evenings since a | all the glory. HOUSE popular club house in this city was the scene It is long et the Crescent and the of a personal rencontre between two gentlemen Cross came into collision, and since the fight well known in fashionable circles. Both par- | for the mastery of Europe and Asia, and, in- ties have adjourned to Newport, where it is deed, of the whole world, began, Russia and asserted the quarrel is to be settled according Turkey not unfairly Represent the actual con- to the “code.” Doubtless the ocean’s cool | dition of the contest. Russia is the mistress breezes will moderate the pulses of the Gotham | of the North; Turkey is the mistress of the Hotspurs, and enabie them to adjust their mis- South, so far, at least, on the South has any understanding without damaging each other’s | direct connection with Asia. They both stand corporations. on the confines of the two continents, More RT EE ae ‘ than that, the triamph of Christianity or the Tas Soorr Cuxrexary.—The Doke of triumph of Mobammedanism means the triumph Argy!l will preside at the Glasgow centennial of one or other of these Powers. With celebration of the birth of Sir Walter Scott. Christianity Rassia advances; with Moham- That great novelist was so eminently English medaoism Turkey prevails, It is not difficult, and yet so preeminently Scottish thas the | stier what we have said, to know which must Scotch celebration will have @ deep interest | Vi, Au that is good in modern civilization wherever bis works are road. The selection | i, on the side of the one; all that is stand- of the greatest man in Scotland to preside at | 41: or reactionary is on the side of the other. the Glasgow centennial 1s not only @ tribute of | 1.6 time has come when the truce which has Dlood to merit, but a fitting recognition of the allowed the Mohammedan Power to remain on genius which wrought a revolution in modern this side of the Bosphorus must be literature and gave fiction an impulse to which ends’ Sooner or later Turkey will we owe such masters as Dickens, Thackeray cramble to pieces, aed whatever ar- and Hawthorne. rangement be come to regarding the Tur Westrip Catamiry.—-Yesterday | future government of Constantinople, it is not added three more to the long list of victims of | to be denied that the fall of the Turkish em- the Westficld calamity, and still others are | pire in Europe will mean the triumph of the Jingering in agony without a hope of recovery, Christian religion in Asia. ; ‘The official investigation into the causes of We advise no resort to violence. In the this disaster indicates no lack of attention on | building up of Christianity violence has too the part of the fireman; on the contrary, itis | often beenresorted to, To viglence Moham- shownthat the boiler was full of water, and | medanism is mainly indebted for its success. therefore the explosion must have resulted | ‘‘Believe or die” was long the brief but ex- either from a defect in the boiler itself or an ; pressive sermon. As it was not always con- over-pressure of steam. An expert, ex-Boiler | venient or desirable to die, the believers mul- Inspector Berryman, is of the opinion that | tiplied. Even among the followers of Moham- the accident must have been caused by too | med this practice has long since been much pressure, and this is also the belief of | discontinued, nor is it likely rashly to be other practical engineers and boiler makers, | renewed. Fire and water, death and im- Mr. Berryman reflects very severely npon the prisonment no longer force men and anagemiént of the Staten Icland Ferry Com- | women into the Christian fold. We advise pany. He says he ever found their boats in | only the preaching of the Truth, But we bad condition and always experienced trouble | advise that it be preached. Let us send more in getting repairs done, and but a few months missionaries to the old home of civilization, aince predicted some fearful catastrophe un- | and let us send missionaries of the right sort. In this direction, as we have said, Russia and leas s reform was instituted. The investiga- k ‘tion thus far has been most searching, and, no | Great Britain and the United States have long been working. So, too, has France. -@oubt, will establish the blame where it be- Jonge, Germany must now lend the weight of its equatorial and polar currents of the atmo- sphere are as dependent as’ the aiz in an ordi- nary storm. The accuracy and almost clock~ like precision by which our own daily weather telegrams and storm “probabilities” are marked, give abundant evidence that our meteorologists at Washington are not to be outstripped by those abroad, and thet silently, but surely, they will work out the great prob- lems of American storms. The weather, fitful as it may appear to be—‘‘ Varium et mutabile semper”—is, after all, only a complex part of nature’s machinery, the: working ‘of so much of which has already been laid’ bare by science. Even those wheels which revolve most slowly and indiscernibly are now so closely watched that their revolu- tion and the periodical return of certain phe- nomena are foreknown. Sir John Herschel, in one-of his latest works, strikingly alludes to such:a periodical phenomenon in: ‘the Novem- ber atmospheric wave” which, it is now found, sweeps every year over Grest Britain and Western Europe, probably originating in the opposite: hemisphere; and of which the gale ef the ill-fated Royal Charter (October 25, 1259), the great Crimean hurricane (Sovem- ber 14, 1855), and the still more awful. British storm of December 8, 1703, chronicled by the matchless pen of De Foe, as the greatest which has ever swept England, may be con- sidered as shadowing the beginning, middle andend. Even the periodicity of the dark spots on the sun has been determined by the most laborious and protracted observations to be once in eleven years. It was sceptically said by Dr.. Johnson that, when the philosophers of the seven- teenth century congregated into the Royal Society of London, the time was supposed to be near when ‘‘learning should be facilitated by a common character and commerce ex- tended by ships which could reach port in defiance of the tempest.” What wonder if it should all come to pass! There is much more in heaven and earth than was dreamed of In the Doctor's philosophy. Sanugpem.—We publish in our issue this morning, on the eleventh page, a full report from the HeRa.p’s correspondent in Augsburg of the proceedings of the Second Israelite Synod, which commenced in that city on the 16th of July. To our readers generally, but to our Israelite friends in particular, the letter will be read with interest, Last year, on the occasion of the First Synod, the Hrrarp’s representative was present, and we were thus enabled to furnish a report of the proceedings on the arrival of our German mails. The recent Synod was attended by the prominent professors of the Jewish faith, and the subjects discussed were of an important character. Tne Crry AND County Frnanors.—In another portion of to-day's paper will be found full and explicit statements of the actual con- dition of the city and county finances. The figures have been prepared and furnished the Mayor by the Comptroller's Department, and Our Religions Press Table. As the weather gets hotter and hotter the religious press grows more and more stupid and uninteresting. With each ascending degree of the thermometer the brain of the religious editor seems to subside another fathom in the abyss of dulness. The earth during the past few days has indeed been a “furnace of affliction thrice heated,” a ‘‘vale of tears”—of perspiration ; and our Christian profegsional brethren appear to have accepted the situation with a resignation that has assumed the form of mental torpor. Sunk in the languor of a clime that for the nonce is torrid, they no doubt yearn for the more genial clime of the New Jerusalem; but they have no energy left to track out for the edifi- cation of the faithful the narrow path that leads to the Golden City of their hopes. We notice first this week the Hree Methodist, & journal which, true to its professed character, eschows, with ong Or two natu- ral exceptions, everysping but purely religious discussion “aid ‘intelligence. This is as it 'fhiould be. We have the best authority for the principle that a man eaffhot serve two masters. The Free Methodist has an excel- lent article to prove that true religion is prac- tical, not ulative, It takes as an illustra- tion the’ vahialeos efforts of many theolo- gians to determine who shall be saved and who damned. The gist of the article, per- haps, may be found in this brief excerpt :— How ready men are to argue and speculate. They want to know what ts goi to be, instead of ask- ing, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” The aare thelr study, whereas it should be the presen The Tablet is determined to have the last Word about the riot. As before, it debates the questions involved in a temperate and sensible tone. It denounces mob dictation ; but still maintains that the Orangemen ought not to have been allowed to parade. It then says :— ‘The attempt to hold the Church responsible for the riot is absurd. he Church, through ali her official organs in the city, warned beforehand all Catholics to keep away and to attempt no interruptioa of the procession, and all good Catholics did Keep away. ‘Those who uctively participated in the riot, if Catholics at all, were what Protestants call en- lightened Catholics, who have grown too wise and know too much to listen to the voice of their pastors. The Protestant Churchman and the Church Weekly are contesting vigorously, but with admirable good temper, the mooted intention of the Evangelicals to propose, as a further alteration of the Prayer Book, the substitution of ‘‘presbyter” for ‘‘priest” wherever it occars in the Liturgy. Surely these controversialists must remember Milton’s opinion that Presbyter is but priest writ large. The principle involved is a very important one. Priest carries with it the ‘‘high” doc- trine of the functions of an ordained Christian pastor, and thouzh the ritualists contend that presbyter originally meant the same au priest, yet they assert, and, as it seems to us, with justice, that the word has now acquired a secondary meaning, almost directly opposed to its first one. From indications, however, we think the Evangelicals won’t insist upon this and other similar points. As in the Ro- man Church the Uliramontanes have swept everything before them, so in the Episcopal Church the history of the last twenty years is almost an unbroken chronicle of Tractarian victories, The Protestant Churchman already says :— We do not meditate a schism. We do not desire it, bat the contrary. We are'members and ministers of the Protestant-Episcopal Charch in good faith, as we receive the same. If the Church can be restored tothe prevailing temper of twenty years ago: we shall preter her communion to'all others, Failing his, if the ancient and undoubted rights and immu- nities of liberal churchmen shail be secured to them by the next Generai Convention, we shall be satis- fled, and prefer our status in the Protestant Episce- pal Church to any “anew departure’? whatever. The Lexington Apostolic Times copies a long article about lottery morals and moral lotteries, and ‘‘testifies” against the licensing of any form of gambling. This, for a Ken- tucky paper, is a noch-needed stroke for the right. No object, however worthy, ought to resort to illegal means for pecuniary support. The mam who learns to tempt fortune in a religious fair will very likely, some day or another, pat a faro chip into the collection plate on the Sabbath, under the impression: that it isa legal tender. The Chistian at Work is,.as usual, kindly in. spirit and utterly free from controversy;. It appeals to the entire Christian world, and enforces: the duties of life with a sweetness: and gentleness that are singularly charming, Saint Peter is still true to that violent,. sledze-hammer method of discnesion which it has exhibited since its first issue. Its editor wields the pen with the same vigor that an old: Anabaptist preacher pounded his Pulpit, drum. ecclesiaszic. It has one sensible article in it this week;. however, on Jesuit education. Macaulay and every other impartial critic has praised this body for its large-minded| perception of the value of intellectual enlightenment. Would that the Jesuits had been in all things equally wise and liberal ! Tiltan’s Golden Age has apparently ceased. to be a “‘religious weekly.” It announces Ben Butler as a future contributor to its columns, and then in jts leader criticises the American press. We want to know, though, who isthe party alluded to in this piquant paragraph :— Did we not say that the: press Is the first estate of the realm? There are five thousand journals tn America. They ought to be, every one, a tongue of flre—instead of which, for the most part, their pages are a handful of ashes. Subserviency to party 3 the canker of the press, An editor whose: sheet 19 mortgaged to the State Convention, or whose con- science is joaged in an envelope and filed away tn a pigeon-hole of the White House, bas abdicated jour- nalisin. Generally, too, when a journalist shuts the door of his office behind him to take a seat in Congress, bis pure flame of first iove for his profession is gone—he Das slighted’his wife for a mistress. One thing, bowever, is quite certain. Tilton is not of those who Compound for sins they are inclined to, Ly damning those they have no mind ta The Chicago Standard, Philadelphia Bap- tist, St. Louis Christian Advocate and the Baltimore Hpiscopal Methodist are very poor, They will return, no doubt, to their former spirited style as soon as, the thermometer again gets among the seventies. The New York Observer has a carefully written and timely article on the Chinese mission question. While so many religious papers are clamoring that the sword should be unsheathed, the Observer doubts whether our representatives in the East have not been at fau!t, and winds up as follows :-— No commercial or international advamtages should ever be regarded a8 any motive to uyjustice in our dealings with nations any more than with tndividu- als. Another unrighteous war with China might be show the net funded debt to be $60,242,396. The statements are sufficient refutations of the persistent partisan charges made against the municipal managers and will well repay care-, ful perusal, the means of 0 ing up the counsry compilevely to unrestricted nussonary labor, but not to save the ‘world would we sanction or abet the principle of doing evil that good might come. Honesty and Justice are the best policy, thenty true policy, this universe over, and, although it may work more siowly in bringing about repuits, 1s Buould peves pe abandoned og auy obuem. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. AUGUST 6, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, | Making 2 Martyr of cho International Society. Tho International Society is making too much noise in the world, or rather the world— chiefly that composed of officials—is making too much noise about the International Society. The number of fiendish plots that have of late been set down to its account is apt to lead any reflective mind to the inquiry whether the society is composed of men or howling demons, or whether the plots attributed to its agency have not been grossly exaggerated? The International Society has, no doubt, many misdeeds to answer for. It was originally established for a good purpose, but it has gone to the bad. Still the persecutions of the governments of Europe will only increase its aggressiveness, Political and religious societies have ever thrived by oppression, and the International belongs to the latter class as much as to the former, for its followers have been taught to look upon it asasort of creed. Persecution will render the society interesting, by making its members appear ip the light riyrs, and ost will- Pt rari The French government, says our despatch, 4s about to introduce in the Assembly bills against the International Society. The French severity instead of yielding to the clamors of the reactionary element. It could destroy the evil effects of the society by peaceable means. How much better would it be to rend the veil which surrounds the International, by allowing its proceedings the utmost publicity and treat- ing it in the same manner as any other society ! The Fashionable and Religious Season in the Country. While fashion now rales the hour at the sea- side, at the spriogs and at our mountain sum- mer resorts, and while a large proportion of our fashionable city parsons ar2 wandering government ought to deprecate excessive” Presidential vote, Is so great that Juarez cam ecarcely hope to contend against them if they carry out their intention of uniting to defeat him. Whatever may be the result we hope to see the candidates and the people abide by it; otherwise the republic cannot be successfully maintained. Suggestions te the Churches on the Ea plovien. To-day in many of the churches of one city no doubt reference will be made by the pastors in their discourses to the disaster which has covered the metropolis with mourn- ing, lamentation and woe. There are a cer- tain class of public croakers who always avail themselves of such mishaps as this—and the more lives lost or endangered the better for their purpose and the more capital can they make—to denounce the Almighty and to im- pute to Him those calamities. We warn and advise all such who may have their ‘‘skele- tons” prepared in this mould that the Staten Isiand Ferry Company and its officials, and not the Lord Almigbty, are to blame for thia atastrophe, Last Sunday evening, a3 we understand, a Staten Island minister made the sad event the subjact of a dis- course, in which this very common, but, we are free to assert, blasphemous theory, was reiterated; and it was declared to be a judg- ment from God upon the Sabbath breakers, as this reverend gentleman looked upon the hun- dreds of happy hearts’ who stood upon the decks of the ill-fated steamboat to be. We might use the Saviour’s language in reply to all such croakers:—‘‘Think you tat, those eighteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners than all the dwellers in Jerusalem?” It is not necessary to go on excursions to break the Sabbath. And neither is it necessary for the Almighty to vindicate His broken and violated law by blowing into eternity, without a moment’s warning, nearly a hundred men, women and innocent children from a boiler head, and permanently injuring as many more. And we are perfectly satis- fied that man, and not God, is to blame for this calamity, And if the pastors and preachers will take our view of it, and will so enlighten their congregations, they will do = good work. But ‘‘deeds speak louder than words,” an@ no better purpose could be served by the offerings in the several churches to-day than to devote them toward the relief of the be- reaved and suffering survivors and friends of the dead amd dying. We see that the Rev. Daniel Mitchell, of the Canal Street Presby~ terian church (Greene street, near Canal), has made such provision in connection with his about our country places of fashion and folly, in search of health and recreation, or are off, with a good allowance of funds for contingent expenses, for the tour of Europe, the cause of religion is by no means neglected, even at the seaside caravanseraies or the springs. At Newport, at Saratoga, Niagara Falls and Long Branch and elsewhere, in various churches they have ‘“‘the stated preaching of the Gos- pel,” and the guests of almost every country hotel have the Gospel preached to them, Sun- day morning or evening, or hava a church where they may bear it within » convenient Sabbath morning’s journey. But the Methodists are particularly distin- guished, with their great camp meetings, for their religious summer campaigning in the service. country. More, perhaps, are they indebted to this peculiar institution of theirs than to auy other for their multitadinous muster roll of churches, chapels and congregations through- outthe land. They began this summer season with their great national camp meeting, lasting for ten days, at Round Lake, near Saratoga Spriugs, and their coming camp meeting below Long Branch will make the month of August a memorable month of this extraordinary sum- mer to thousands of people. Never failing at these camp meetings to make numerous con- versions to them from the most God-forsaken sinners, the Methodists have found it to be their true policy to keep up this popular and useful primitive institution,. It combines religion with wholesome recreation and country air, and business with pleasure, and strengthens the Church among:the masses of the people, And so we say success:to the camp meetings of the Methodists and of:every other sect calcolated to make msn and women better qualified for the duties of this world and the everlasting joys of the new life reserved for the faithful in the world to come. Tue Heatran or tag Crry—PReoavzions o¥ THE Boar oe Haatrn.—While the cholera is slowly travelling toward the West yellow fever is raging in many parts: of tropical America. It issabsolutely necessary to the health of the city:that both should:be carefully excluded by a rigid quarantine. So far this season has been unusually healthy. Nothing like an epidemic has even been threatened; but the ravages:of cholera in Persia, and even as far to the westward as Central Enrope, and the- fatal type of the yellow fever everywhere,,suggest the necassity of em- ploying every safeguard against their. intro- duction. This the Health Officer of: the Port is determined to do, not only by a strict quar- antine of all vessels. from infected: ports, but by a careful scrutiny of the condition of the eity. The first requisite to the healthef the metropolis is cleanliness, and the Board of Health is acting wisely in haviag all.the hot- beds of disease. in, the city disinfected. Pre- cautionary measures are wise, and we heartily commend the resolation of our. health au- thorities. ADJOURNMENT of THE Ku Kiux Commit- Tex.—For a time, at least, the publi¢ will be- relieved from the daily bulletins issued by tha Congressional Committee appointed! te investi- gate the condition of affairs. in the Soutbern States. Yesterday the committee: concluded its labors and adjourned till. the raididle of Sep- tember. The last witness examiued was Lieu- tenant Pickett, of the Sixteenth Waited States infantry, stationed at Pontiac, Mississ'ppi, who testified that the Ku €lux organization ex- isted in.that State, its object. being to drive out Northern men an@. to intimidate negra, voters, and that within fonr months. nine negroes had been murdered in: Monroe county by these masked marauders.. The investiga. tions. by the committee dempnatrate the exist- ence of powerful secret political orgenizations throughout the South, and: show thas in many sections fearful outrages. have been committed upon both white and black republicans. Many excuses were offered for the organization of the Ku Klux Klan, sugh as the impossibility to bring a certajn class.of offenders to justice ; the facility with which convicted felons cond obtain executive clemency and be tuxned loose. to again prey upon society, and the anarchy and misrule which prevailed everywhere undor negro legislation, Tar Mexican \ELEcTIONS.—It is at last‘cer- tain that the idential election in Mexico has not been devided by the people, ‘and the Congress. The. elections for members of Gongress were held on the 9th quéation will go 4f July, but the fesult has not yet. been ascer- tained. The prpbabilities scem to be that General Diaz wl be chosen. the Dias and | The strength of factions, as showa by the,] to Nowport (rom the Breveors Let his example be imitated by others, and let there be one common and united effort made throughout the city to-day in this interest. The theatres have already taken this matter in hand, and it will be an eternal disgrace if the churches of New York shut up their bowels:of compassion on such an occasion as this and permit the very class of persons whom they look upon as diametri- cally opposed to Christian morality to teach them its first. and greatest lcsson— charity. We know the churches are slow to learn and slow to move, but when a case is plainly presented to the Christians of New York they will act promptly and effectually. When we made our appeal last Tnesday to the Christian ladies of the city to:give a few spare‘hours to ‘the allevia- tion of pain and suffering the response was:as hearty: and complete as:we could wish; and. manyof those ministering angels have at great lack of ease and comfort to-themselves stoed nobly:by the injured: ones: until the present time.. We have, therefore; strong evidence before:us that the great religious constituency of the -Hixraxp will not allow’ our present ad- vice to pass unheeded or the opportunity:te- go by unimproved. Batito make our offeringsthe most usefti}, and permanently useful, .a general fund should be created, and volunteer committees of ladies chosen to distribute the same according to the necessities of the poor and. sorrowing ones. The winter is before them, and many a house- hold has been forever deprived of ita only support by this. calamity, and the reliefi that max be given siould extend beyond the preseat month. Fuel and warm clothing will be reqnired, the latter of which the various Dorcas: and sewing so-- cieties:of our churches might prepare betweem this time and October. And: we dare say the- Christian ladies of New York. will find in theiz own houses many articles of domestic use and wear-which are to.them of, little value, but to she poor may be of. inestimable benefit. If they would also visit the poor in their humble homes. and be the dispensers: of their own gifta they would find in such acta ® reward greater than: can be imagined\or describad. They would realize thut it is more blessed to give than to receive. We are sure we need not preee this matter any-forther, believing as we do that this presentation. of it will be sufficient to. awaken a response in, every heart of which neither we nar’the city in which we live.shall be-ashamed.. Let us; aif bear a hand aad do i. cheerfully;as unto the Lord. Personal Intelligence.. Rev. J. W. Tottenham, of England, is ab tne fifty gAvenne, K. R. Hill, of the United States.army, is-staying a& the Everett House, General A. P. Hovey, \ate Minister teReru, is so ‘Journing at the Glisey House. Noles G, Parker, State Treasurer of South Caro. lina, 13 @ resident af the St. Micholas.. Mr. J. Kelly, of Liverpool, Engtama, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. United States Senator J. &. Morrtt, of Vermeat, 19 stopping at the Astor Houe. A. A. Hobart, of Chicages, Supertosendent of the Northwestern, Railroad, is restding at the Grana Central. Dr. Younghurst, of England, ts. at the St. Nicholna, Colonei James Freebarn, of San Francisco, 18 stop. ‘ping at the Svartevant House. Lieutenant D. T. Woodrow, of the Ualted Statea Navy, 18 quarterod at the Gisey: House, Henry Klaney, of Boston, ts temporarily residing at the Grand Central. Sir Francia Hineks, of Ottawa, Camada, bas apart. ments at the Fifth Avenue. ig at the Sturtevant House, José Carrascosa, of Mexico, ts domiciled at the Brevoort House. John W. Knapp, Of England, is at the Fifth Aves nue. William Dorsheimer, of Buffalo, is @ sojourner at the Gtisey House. ‘The German Minister, K. Schlozer, with Count’ Arco and Baron Alvensleben, yesterday proceeded Howe Captain J. 1D. Koberts, of the United States Army, - —EEE