The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1871, Page 6

NE W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will pot be re- BOOTHS THEATRE, 23d st, between bth and 6th avs.-- LirTLe NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tue BLACK BAND, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 73 pe 4 Leon's MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—KELLY BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe MACHINE GIRL—TaE Buzzan BERTSA, THE SRWING WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 0th st. —-Perform @uces afternoon and evening—Davip Garnicu. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S Unper THE WitLowe. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Tazopoar Troma’ Summers Niente' Concerts. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, August 13, 19871. ———_— = CONTENTS OF TQ-DAY’S HERALD, Pack. 1—Advertisements. @—Adverusements, 3—Seward on His Travels: Rum: Among the Ruins of Pagan Temples and Christian Shrines; Where Mr. Seward Went, How He Went and What He Saw—Amusements—Yachting—The Rochester Tragedy: Vile Attempt to Blacken the Victim’s Character. The Corea: An Ofticer’s Account of the Recon- Moissance Force; the Coreans to be Cleaned Out; Scene of the Operations—The Persian Famine: Full Confirmation of the Accounts Previously Received; the Letter of the Persian Minister—Buftalo Trott Purk—Fleetwood Pairk—The Late Captain William F. ons— Midnight Murder—New York City News— Brookiyn Affairs—A Noble Act of President Grant and Collector Murphy—The St. Louls Express bvery—Suicide of a Brooklynite— aan . J.) Casualties—Tne Scott Cente- 6—Our Tars in Norway: Splendid Reception of the American Squadron at Christlania—The Eng- lish Army Purchase System—The lord Mayor's Banquet: The Queen of Engiand’s Ministers and the Foreign Representatives Entertained at the Mansion House—Communists for Arizo- na—City Improvements—Danger in the Dark— Assassination in Colorado—Deaih from Care- tessness—'The Street Inspection—Marketmen's Murmurs—Proceedings 1n the Courts—Stabbed ; ee jng Casualty‘in Westches- : Leading Article, “The Great Camp Meeting of the Season—Camp Meeting Chris- tianity"—Amusement Announcements. 9—Ejitorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—Impe- rial Mceting at Gastem: The Emperors Willam and Francis Joseph to Confer in the Presence of Prince Kismarck and Count Beust—Another Orange Riot iu Dubln—The New American Loan in Europe— The Situation in France—Miscellaneous ‘lele- rams—?ersonal Intelligence—Rowdyisia ‘ampant—Business Notices, $S—Religious lutelligence: Programme of Services in the Churches To-Day; HERALD Religious Correspondepce—The Merrick Camp Meeting— The Great Unwashea—A Well-Wedded Wo- man--A Happy Famtly—The Pleasant Valicy Boats. @—Literavure: A Remarkable New Book; Literary Chit-Chat; New Publications Reveived—Finan- celal snd Commercial Report—Marriages, Birta and Deaths, 1WO—News from Washington—The Indian Question— Senator Carl Schurtz’s Address to ue Ger- ans of Caleago—Long Branch—A Haven of —Local lvems--Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. Life on the Beach, In the Forest oud Lands—Vallandigham: His Afe; precarious Condition of His -Acvertisements. To te Viorors Bertone THE Sroms General Pleasonton’s removal from the Inter nal Revenue Bureau is being felt among his fate subordinates. Yesterday the heads of several of his appointees in this city were lopped off, and others are expected to follow guil very shortly. Perxor BisvAnoK AND Counr Brust, snys our special despatch from Berlin, will assist at the conference of the Emperors William and Francis Joseph at Gastein. Great political importance is attached to the meeting of the two Kaisora, and it is said that an Austro- German alliance is on the tapis, az set off against the alleged Franco-Russien combina- tion. Me earl hee Tur War tN THE Corza.—The letier which we publish this morning from our correspond- eut with the Asiatic squadron furnishes very interesting details of Admiral Rodgers’ expedi. tion against the Coreans and the engagement with the forts on the Salu River. A diagram of the river, which accompanies the letter, shows the location of the forts and explains the critical condition of the United States forces at the time the Coreans opened fire upon tiem, Tax INDIAN Question is again assuming importance. Large bands of Sioux are oc- oupying territory in Montana owned by other tribes, and a conflict in that quarter is looked for. Generals Hancock, Sheridan and Sher- man agree that the government will eventually be called upon to effectually settle the Indian question, both in regard to the relations existing between hostile tribes as well as with the whites, The government troops at present in the Upper Mis- souri country are declared to be altogether insafficient to carry on a successful campaign in case hostilities should break out, and the plan proposed is to keep the Indians quiet by furnishing them with supplies until next spring, at which time « force of cavalry can be placed at the more exposed points large enough to awe the savages into submission, or et least conquer an endaring pe Senator Scnvez unfolded his views on political topics to the Germans of Chicago jast evening. The Senator is one of the most progressive of politicians, and recognizes the fact that the present hour brings to view a new order of things, with new problems and Tranght with new dangera and new duties, which call for corresponding new legislation. He is emphatic in his endorsement of the new amendments to the constitution, and declares civil and political rights to be the only theory consistent with the main- tenance of a free government. Mr, Scburz strongly favors general amnesty as the only means of quieting the South, A quiet hit is given the St. Domingo job, which shows that the Senator is still ready tw battle that infamy should it again make its appearance before Congress. Upon all questions of party princi- ples he is in full accord with the republicans, but he is not hampered in his opinions of right aud justice by mere party trammels, aad in this respect he but represents the Germau «le- gaeat throughout the couptry. NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET. The Great Camp Meetings ef the Seasos— Camp Meeting Christianity. The Methodist Episcopal Church has now in full operation a magnificent camp meeting at Ocean Grove, a few miles below General Grant’s cosey cottage at Long Branch. The camp, in the midst of a beautiful grove, is flanked by 4 pretty little lake, and in trout O14 Ocean rolls his cooling waves Upon the burning sand. Under the supervision of Bishop Simpson, encouraged and assisted by the President, who in practical things is a good Methodist, this Ocean Grove camp is rising to the dignity of s permanent and prosperous settlement, and a few years hence it will doubtless be- come one of the most attractive localities on the Jersey coast to quiet people In search of a comfortable summer resting place. The pres- ent camp meeting, under the favorable skies of the last few days, has been a great success, and with a continuance of this fine weather to-day the multitude assembled at Ocean Grove, with the great encampment and all its accessories, will form a rare spectacle for the religious enthusiast, the poet, the painter and the philosopher, With the opening of the fashionable season at Saratoga, last year and this year, the Round Lake Methodist camp meeting in that neighborhood proved a greater attraction, not only to the religlous society directly con- cerned, but to travelling health and pleasure seekers generally, than all the fashionable attractions of Saratoga hotels, springs and lake combined, So it is with this Ocean Grove encampment below Long Branch; for as an attraction to the fashionable world it com- pletely eclipses the Monmouth Park horse races, and is the greatest seaside hit of the season. Indeed, whether in their mammoth tent in Great Salt Lake City, denouncing in the very face of Brigham Young the aboming- tions of Mormon polygamy, or expounding to the gay world of Saratoga or Long Branch the fleeting delusions of ‘Vanity Fair,” the Methodists in their aggressive warfare upon the strongholds of Satan, from their camp meetings, find no difficulty in storming the enemy's works. Camp meetings are a duly recognized reli- gious institution of this country. Though originally founded and maintained wholly by the Methodists, they are no longer peculiar to that denomination, Every little village and town must now have its camp, or ten days’ meetings, and recenily we have se'n the or- ganization of a National Association, dosigned to travel at liberty all over the land, pitching its tent ‘‘a day’s march nearer home,” or fur- ther away, as the case may be, advocating the doctrine of sanctification, or the ‘‘higher Christian life,” Asameans of grace camp meetings have outlived their usefulness, but as a means of relaxation and physical enjoyment for Chris- tian people they are highly profitable, and are worthy of the fullest encouragement. Spirit- ually considered their greatest worth consists in being safety valves whereby the overpress- ure of highly charged temperaments is allowed to escape on the wings of the wind, uncircum- scribed by the conventionalities of city or vil- lage society. Some of the most extravagant ideas, expressions and theories, such as one rarely hears elsewhere, are freely ventilated at camp meetings, But the evil is not un- mixed with good. Converts to Christianity | are obtained; hardly, however, in such num- bers as to warrant us in including these meet- ings among the regular means of grace. The novelty of these meetings long ago passed away, and they are not now so fruitful in spiritual results as they were formerly. But perhaps the social Christian element which they inspire and evoke, and which is so greatly needed in our churches and among our religious societies, in city and country, leads to greater spiritual good in the fall and winter succeeding. We know that the lack of this element in our city churches and congrega- tions is one of the most powerful hindrances to religious revivals among us, Very few Christians have moral courage enough to speak to the unconverted about the soul’s eternal interests without having had a previous intro- duction—unless, indeed, the ‘‘saint” be a ven- erable maiden, mother or patriarch, and the “sinner” an innocent child or bashfu! girl or youth. If camp meetings shall break down this barrier of caste in the churches they should be encouraged by every means. In our everyday walks there is comparatively litile difference between the words and actions and manner of life of the saint and the sinner, and caste should be forgotten and wholly ignored when the higher interests of the future life are involved. Every church in New York should have its social meetings, so that the members generally might be brought more closely into each other's sympathy and feelings than they are at present. We know of churches and congregations where men and women go in and out year after year and never speak a word to their fellow saints or sinners, Breth ren, these things ought not to be. Yield your prejudices or your bashfulness, and let your- selves down, if need be, if thereby you may be able to raise one soul up to Christ. For ‘‘ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though He was rich, yet for our sakes He be- came poor that we through His poverty might become rich.” He humbled Himself that we might be exalted; let us therefore imitate His example. We have remarked that camp meetings are, spiritually considered, a failure, They are ventilators for the most extravagant notions of Christianity. Chief among these notions is that of ‘‘sanctification,” which the National Camp Meeting Association fecls itself called upon especially to champion. The outward signs of this grace as manifested by its pro- fessor consists mainly in shouts and ejacula- tory exclamations, in declamations against and denunciations of those who have vot yet at- tained to the highest round in the sanctified ladder, and in fierce and oftentimes blasphe- mous tirades against sinners and those who refuse to believe in such sanctified extrava- gances, The inward life of some professors of sanctification, as we know, will not bear thelight. Fortunately for religion all are not so, yet the number is sufficiently large and important to claim our attention. We too are believers in sanctification; but it isin such a degree of sanctification as shall make ns prac- tical, not impractical, Christians, We don't want to be so sanctified as to be compelled to ‘‘pase by on the other side,” lest we should be contaminated with the touch of the drunkard or the prostitute, We don’t want to be so sang- fiestas ener ee tified as to float as it were in the airabove the mass of our fellow men. Living in a world of sin, as we do, we prefer a less sanctified but a more practical state. We want to rub against our fellow men every day and tu show them bya profession and a life of Christian usefulness that the religion of Jesus of Nazareth is not so far above their reach that they can never attain unto it; nor so difficult to retain that they must go pilgrimaging about the country saying hard things against God and humanity in order to possess it themselves or lead others to seek it. Our correspondence from some of the camp meetings of the coun- try during the summer justifies us in writing thus plainly about these things, if we did not know any more about them. A reform is greatly needed in this direction, and if our remarks shall lead in any small degree in effecting it we shall feel amply repaid. During the present month a number of those meetings are to be held throughout the Eastern and Middle States, and many of them will be within easy distance of New York. There is one now in progress near Merrick, L. I., under the auspices of the New York Eust Conference, which, so far as known, has not been very successful, and next Tuesday another will open at Sing Sing under the auspices of the New York Conference. There is still ample time to initiate the reform we call for among these, and to make them what they onght to be in truth—churches of God in the wilder- ness, travelling toward the promised land, and extending invitations to all who will to go with them that they may dothem good. Camp meeting and all other Christians, we say to you that you must be practical if you would be useful in this world, and especially in this age of the world, The Reve and the World=UCatholic Devoe A letter from Rome, which Wat printed in yesterday’s HERaxp, contained a beautiful and most significant extract from a speech recently made by the Holy Father on receiving the representatives of the Archican Fraternity of St. Peter, who bore to him the Peter’s pence collected in the Eternal City. In view of the events which recently happened in Italy, and especially of the offer of the title of Pius the Great and a throne of gold to the Pope, we cannot do better than to reproduce the words of the Holy Father on that occasion as the text for what is, perhaps, the most important lesson of the century. His Holiness said:— ‘There was a good old priest, Monseigneur Rafaele Natali, a zealous promoter of the venerable Anna Maria Faigi (whom the Prince Chizi, your President, has much assisted), who used to tell us wonderful things of this servant of the Lord, and among others of various predictions relative to the times in which we live. ‘We rely but litte on these prophectes; nevertheless they are contained in the examination ot her worthiness, and the Holy See will judge of them, We have not read them, but the good priest has very often repeated that the venerable lady, redicting the events we are Dow Witnessing, sald here would come @ time when the Holy See would be forced to live on the charities of the entire world, but that never would money be wanting. In fact, it would be dificult not to Kbit, are the precision of that prediction. I rejoice with you, who are tne co-operators of Providence, in this truly wonderiul way by which God reaily manifests His help to the ‘narch. Let us, then, thank the Lord, and may it encourage us always to pray more and hope. As the Head of the Roman Catholic Church, supported by Catholics of every country, and giving bis time and thoughts only to the spiritual welfare of his people, the Pope will be more completely the Supreme Pontiff than if harassed by the temporalities which he so reluctantly yields, Neither the Holy father nor the Church can ever want for money. A golden throne—such as was offered to him and declined by him—asnd, indeed, any throne whatever, except that of his episcopacy, can never be of any use to His Holiness. The money collected for making it would be much better employed if used, as the Pope suggests, in freeing candidates for the priesthood from military service. This is a practical purpose, for which, like every other need of the Church, money will not be wanting. We have always deprecated the idea of the Pope leav- ing Rome at all, and His Holiness has shown indirectly, both in his remarks to the repre- sentatives of the Archican Fraternity and in his letier to the committee who would have thrust honors and magnificence upon him, that his going to Corsica or anywhere else is uonecessary. Everything which the Holy See may require the Catholic world will be ever ready to provide, and the Eternal City may be the Eternal City still. In spite of the Pope’s relactance in relying upon the pre- dictions of Monseigneur Natali, events show that they were as true as the Holy Father's recital of them was simple and beautiful, We are not of those who see harm even to the Roman Catholic Church in the Italian occupation of Rome. It is not an event so direful as His Holiness fears, The King of Italy can only exert a temporal power in the Holy City. Ina other words, he can only be the chief police officer in the neighborhood of the Vatican and St. Peter's, while the Holy Father bolds a spiritual sway over the entire Catholic world. The entire Catholic world would be rejoiced if the Holy See were con- tent to live on its charities, and would think that in giving to the Church they were only yielding up that which belongs to the Church. Catholics everywhere are always happy to send their contributions to Rome, and the Catholic world supporting the Holy See would be a picture of singular and impressive devotion and duty. And this, we think, will prove to be the lesson of the century. Oxanar Riore are the order of the day. According to our special despatch from Dub- lin the anniversary of the siege of London- derry has led to a disgraceful fight be- tween Orangemen and Catholics in the latter city. The military was called to the rescue of the police, and the riot had to be quelled at the point of the bayo- net, There was the usual contingent of broken heads and bloody noses. Among those arrested wae a Member of Parliament, Johnson by name, who appears to have figured as one of the ringleaders of the riot. Tt seems that these Orangemen and Hibernians were desirous of emulating upon their native soil the deeds of their transatlantic brethren, Tne PerstaN FaMine.—Accounts received in Bombay, from the agent of the society for assisting the sufferers by the famine in Persia, fully confirm the reports previously received. Thousands of people have already died of starvation, and in places where every other vestige of food has been consumed men have been driven to eat their own offspring. Such scenes of misery have never been witnessed elsewhere in modern times, and to add to the accumulated horrors this year's crop is ex- ceedingly sonnty, yelug inauficiens for the wants of the population in prosperous seasons. The Persian Minister in London denies that any famine exists in his country; but the reports from disinterested sources are so minute and circumstantial as to leave no doubt upon the subject, Our Street Car Rallronds—Immediate Rs- form Called For. It is o curious fact that the American people, absolutely their own masters, and perfectly able at any time by a slight exertion of will to redress a crying abuse, should require so much to rouse them to action. In a European country, where the people have more trouble to get justice, they are eager and noisy in demanding their rights. But we free citizens sit down quietly and let people ride roughshod over us until the matter reaches the point when human nature can stand no more, and when the crushed worm must turn, and then we arise in our might, and by an energetic sweep of the hand put things straight again. It is only a few months ago that the public attention was drawn by a brutal murder to the shameful mismanagement of our various street car railroads. We then had a melancholy proof that these soulless cor- porations felt no companction in entrusting our comfort and our safety to the hands of desperadoes, no matter how reckless and bloodthirsty, so long as they were content to stand on a car platform with the reins in their hands fer fifteen hours in the twenty-four, at the moderate compensation of a couple of dollars a day. Of course we were greatly excited and made all sorts of threats to force areform, That reform was tacitly promised, not only in regard to the character of the men employed as drivers and conductors, but also as to a myriad of other grievances, the recital of which filled for weeks together from two to four columns of the Huranp. ST We all know how these promises have been kept. There is Not a line in the city on which any substantial “Triprsvement has since been made. The owners of thesé vast monopolies patted the public on the back until the rush of blood to the head had subsided and their victims were again calm and patient, and then allowed things to fall back into the old routine. We trust, however, that the matter will not be allowed to sink to rest in this unsatisfactory manner. We hope public indignation will revive and grow stronger and stronger until at last we have something like a tolerable system of urban intercommunication. These corporations are making enormous profits out of the privilege granted them by the people to lay down their tracks on public property, and itis but fair that they should fulfil their original pledge of speedy, pleasant and inex- pensive transportation about the city. We shall now notice just two or three of the evils on a couple of the roads—the Third and Madison avenue lines—which call for imme- diate redress, First of all we ask the directors of the Third Avenue Railroad if they think their cars are fit and proper vehicles, in point of cleanliness, for public travel, and whether it is fair play, after having collected five or six cents for a ride, to stuff unfortunate passengers together like herrings in a barrel until the air is dense and foul as was that of the Black Hole of Calcutta? It is notorious that the cushions in the cars are alive with vermin, and the fluor and platforms reek with tobacco juice and all sorts of noi- some filth. We do not believe that these cars are swept out once during the twenty-four hours; perhaps, indeed, they are only cleansed once a week. Many ladies are afraid to use them, unless they happen to be wearing a morning dress which cannot be spoiled. And then as to the overcrowding at morning and night, it is simply shameful. A passenger must, indeed, be sanguine to hope for a seat during ten out of the twenty-four hours of running. Is this a just fulfilment of the con- tract on the part of the car company? It is idle for them to say that they now run as many cars as they possibly can, and that there is only half a minute between them, That is nonsense. Some arrange- ment might be made to have the horses drag two or three cars or to build big- ger vehicles. There is no obstacle to there being plenty of room and a seat for every- body except the selfish greed of the company. Then, again, why is not more care exercised in engaging respectable and courteous drivers and conductors? One of the former resents agan insult a request that the car should stop to allow a passenger to alight. It is notorious that many of these men are the allies of thieves who ‘‘work the car route,” and that the company’s employé and the criminal share the gains thus acquired. The car companies ought to insist on politeness on the part of their servants, and they should not grumble if it costs a dollar a day more to get men pos- sessing this essential qualification, Another nuisance we shall notice is an almost everyday occurrence on the Madison avenue line. This is a delay of from twenty- minutes to an hour in Centre street, caused by the blocking up of the line by the Harlem freight wagons. The interests of city passen- gers are coolly subordinated, as a regular thing, to the interests of the freight traffic of the railroad, This isa sublime piece of im- pudence on the part of ihe company, that, if it received its deserts, would merit the revoca- tion of its charter. And now we shall only at present call atten- tion to one more grievance that cries for instant aud effectual redress. Our list is, however, by no means exhausted, and we shall continue the discussion of the matter as convenience allows, his last abuse is the impunity with which women of bad character are allowed to ply their vocation in these vehicles. Respectable men, and, worse, im- pressible youths, are exposed to constant, annoyance from this source in their daily rides up and down town. The unblushing audacity, too, with which these atiacks upon innocence are carried on proves that the women are in league with the drivers. it is an ugly question to discuss, and we therefore merely indicate the existence of the evil in general terms, but we have no doubt that its particulars are familiar to most of our readers by personal observation, We call upon the city railroad companies to at once adopt measures to put a summary atop to these abuses, If they refuse to listen to wise counsel they may find themselves forced to do justice to the public by the com- walaion of the Leglalatures, Our Religious Press Table. si We are sorry to be again compelled to find fault with the religious press. In our view\@ religious paper ought not merely to give us polemic and political discussion and milk-and- water tales and abstracts of sermons, but should also furnish the latest and freshest news in regard to the progress of the churches. This is exactly what the religious editor never or ever imperfectly does. We are sure that there is a splendid opening for a real live journalist in this as yet untilled, or at any rate clumsily tilled, field. The “Religious News,” or some paper of similar title, which should specially devote itself to the gathering and publication of interesting items about the religious interests of the country—nay, we might say, of the wide world—would prove an immense success. At present the religious press is only a sort of diluted theo- logical review, profusely padded with pious clippings setting forth the penalties of Sabbath- breaking and the alarming growth of in- fidelity. The Zndependent this week surpasses even its usual high standard of literary excellence, Its leader is a somewhat gloomy article on the “Wild Irish,” in which, after an analysis of Pat's character, there occurs the following plain-speaking passage :— It 1s, however, an important and timety question what the attitude of the nation shall be toward this turbulent customer. Protestant leagues, that make war upon his religion, and Know Nothing orders, that ostracige him because of his foreign birth, are equally absurd and mischievous; there 18 a more excellent way of teaching him nis Place and hetp- ing him to fillit with credit to himself and to the country. In the first place, then, Patrick the rioter must be put down, This nation gives him the largest liberty, and 1t will not suffer him to interfere with the liberties of other people. The sooner he cures himself of his chronic disposition to consider every expression of an opinion at variance with bis OWN 88 an Insult the better for him. The Hvangelist has along but of course parti- san article on the interesting problem whether the Pope will leave Rome. It thinks that to abandon the city of the Casars to its fate would be the most dignified oolltee to follow, but infers that the personal inclination of the Pope and the great improbability of his ever being allowed to return on any conditions, if he once betook himself ‘to another refuge, will induce him to remain, It gives, however, a fair picture of the danger involved in the Italian occupation of Rome to the. indepen- ence of the Holy See, and concludes 4a fol- lows :— The first among the members of the University to compliment the King on his arrival at Rome were Signor Alibrandi and the Canon Audisio, both partisans of the Pope—Signor Alibrandi having even visited the Vatican that morning. The Jesuits are very flerce against these deserters and have im- stituted a process against the Canon Andisio in the Holy Office, which, it 1s believed, will result in hts being deprived of all his benefices and suspended. Ifthe Pope lingers at Rome, where is this to end? it ae penass, Where is he to go? Echo answers— where The Observer, as usual, is conspicuously agricultural. It gives an interesting article on the best way to commence operations on a truck farm, and another on the Colorado potato beetle. What connection these sub- jects have, however, with the spread of the Gospel and the edification of the faithful we fail to perceive. This weekly also contains a thoughtful article on the Déllinger movement and the results it may work in the Catholic Church. It says, in effect, that while the tendency of the present age is more favorable to the prospects of a reform agitation in refer- ence to such things as the separation of Church and State, a free press and liberty of public opinion, than was the case in the age of Luther, yet still the Charch is more perfectly drilled now than then, and that at present ‘‘the fair average of pious Roman Catholic people is more Romish than Catholic, and that their devotion to Christianity and their attachment to the Church are bound together almost in- separably with an unreserved submission to the Holy Father. Consequently it demands more clearness of thought, a greater sensi- bility of conscience and a far higher degree of spiritual sobriety than ever before from a faithful Roman Catholic to join at this time the party of opposition.” We have previously commended the Free Methodist for being faithful in the main to its religious duties as a newspaper. As usual, it is this week filled with well written and lucid presentations of its particular stripe of the- ology, and we hail these efforts with applause, But, says the Apostle, in speaking of certain virtues, ‘‘and the greatest of these is charity.” And this week the Free Methodist is sadly wanting in this, the most important feature of the Christian character. It pitches, with almost indecent fiercencss, into the Methodist Episcopal Church at Buffalo for having assumed the cost of completing a Masonic lodge, which was opened in that city recently, ‘according to the idolatrous rites of this Christless assocl- ation.” The Free Methodist then savagely inquires :— Why should not the Masons build toer own churches and support their own preachers? Why should professed Christians support Masonry, an {n- stitution which entirely rejects Christ? Why should they give their money to Masonte preachers any more than to Jewish rabbies or Buddhist priests. The Free Methodist also throws stone at some other unforiunate Methodist Episcopal congregation that apparently hes allowed young ladies to sell cigars and papers of chewing tobacco at one of its bazaars. Worse still, people were encouraged to buy the noxious weed by a stutement that the papers of tobacco contained here and there a ten dol- lar greenback. This was, of course, « species of gambling, and we disapprove as strongly as any one of religious lotteries, but still we think the W7ce Methodist goes for its brethren with unnecessary—nay, we might say, with—un- christian asperity, ‘Shou fool, first pluck out the beam from thine own eye,” &c., &c. The Church Weekly fires tta tractarian gans this week on the Bishop of Montreal, who, it charges, has adopted the same “‘crashing ont” policy towards clergymen who hold what is termed “‘bigh doctrine,” as has been already ivaugurated in England and in certain Ameri- can sees, A case in point is cited, and the Bishop is twitted with cowardice and injustice and so forth. From recent declarations on both sides we bave no belief in any coming split in the Episcopal Church on the Ritualism question, but still there is a great deal of angry aud hard feeling now and then ex- hibited on both sides, which contains the seeds of great danger, We ask both parties to moderate their views, or, at any rate, their mode of discussing them, Let them remember that ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand.” The Christian Union is pleagant reading, but it just at present seems to give nothing in the way of opinion except a few brief hits at Tammany. The Metropolitan Record thia week in cons, paratively tame. It touches almost entirely on political topics, The St. Louis Advocate, the Chicago Standard and the Philadelphia Boptist dederve notice among the provingjal press, We do'ngt know, indeed, but that in spmie respects ey excel their metropo! brethren. They are leas concerned with politics than their metropolitan brethren, and discuss in their stead the healthier problems of the Christian scheme of salvation. But in: the matter of giving news they are just as fax behind our ideal of what they ought to be if they were true to their duty as a religions “newspaper.” Deportation of Paris Communtsta te Arizona. One of our Paris correspondents announces the solution of the question as to the disposition of the Communist prisoners. M. Victor Le Franc, Minister of Commerce, has informed Mr. Charles D. Poston, ex-Delegate to Con- gress from Arizona, that the prisoners are being divided into three classes :—First, those to be condemned to the public works, the most violent and those guilty of offences punishable as crimes in any country; second, those to be transported to a French penat colony, who are really vicious and would render society impossible anywhere they ob- tained the upper hand; and, third, those who will receive general amnesty upon accepting voluntary emigration. ‘The last class will have,” says our correspondent, ‘‘the opportu- nity of going to America via Poston’s Ari- zona colonization scheme.” This well-matured scheme, which has the advantage of being the firet of the kind pre sented to the French government, is said to have the approbation and active support of a large number of leading officials and some of the most distinguished statesmen of France. Its originator has long been identified with Arizo apd no one can be more thoroughly familiar with jts special glaims upon European, emigrants in general and the Paris Communists in particular, His scheme commends itself by its simplicity a its utter freedom from the false glare of illusions—in a word, by its feasibility. Its adoption would at once stimulate the applica- tion of capital to the development of the in- calculable mineral resources of Arizona. Kven if the skilled workmen who form a large. proportion of the Communist prisoners wera not tempted to devote themselves to the agri- cultural pursuits for which Arizona offers so rich a prospective field, they would find ample remunerative employment either in the mines or at their various trades in the villages and cities which would spring up as if by magic on their arrival. Moreover, the advent of so great a number of colonists could not fail ta supply the United States government with ad- ditional motives to give the inhabitants of Arizona adequate protection against the sav- age Apaches. The colonists will be provided by the French government with arms to use against the Indians, as well as with transportation by way of the Gulf of Cali- fornia, implements of husbandry, mining and railroad tools, tents and six months‘ supplies of provisions. The government's ex- pectation is well founded that it will be reim. barsed for the requisite large outlay by in- creased commercial relations with the colo- nists, “‘who must, if they succeed, replenish the French exchequer with bullion in pay- ment for French manufactures.” The success of Mr. Poston’s scheme would doubtless lead the peoples and the governments of Europe te look with fresh interest tothe great Western republic as offering a happy escape from pov- erty, oppression and the perils of civil war. The somewhat grandiose proclamation of the deportation scheme of the Lower Californiz Company sets forth similar inducements, and French immigrants will be welcomed by what- ever ronte they may come. But M. Thiers, in submitting the Lower California scheme to the Assembly, onght to be able to give assurance that the Paris Communists, with rations for only sixty days, will be less exposed to star- vation than were the six hundred men whe were, not lopg ago, sent out from New York to Magdalena, consigned to the United States Consul at the latter port, the resident agent of the Lower California Company, Seward on Hin Travels. We publish to-day a couple of letters dew scribing Mr. Seward’s adventures in Stamboul. He has been received by the Sultan with the most marked honor. Indeed, he has been treated with practically the same consideration as a royal visitor, if we except the nonsensical forms of etiquette which make such courtesies sometimes rather embarassing than pleasant. The Sultan granted him a long andience, placed his own private carriages and a government! steamer at his disposal, and personally saw that nothing was wanting to make his visit ta Constantinople one of the most pleasant epi- sodes in a long and eventiul life. Nothing can show more strikingly than thie the growing importance of the Americam republic in the estimation of the outside world. And American notabilities on their, travels, while they enjoy all the respect thaé is yielded to power, are spared the desagré~ mens that are involved in a fear lest that power should ever be used to bully our inter+ national sisters in the grand family of States. Our republic fs indeed “peace,” not merely‘ in pretension, but in fact. No shadow of dis— trust blights the ceremonies of welcome int mere formal insincerities, that but badly hidd the jealousy, heartburning and suspicion that lurk beneath. ‘ Mr. Seward invited the Sultan to pay us @ visit, but the imperial Osmanli seid in reply, that the sea greatly affected him, and that further public cares would never allow him ta be absent for so long a time from his people. But if he can’t come himself he might wed one of his brothers or his children, He hai plenty of both, and such of them as are of adult age are kept caged upin a splendid prison-palace, lest they should conspire against him. He onght to give one of them a holiday and let him cross the Atlantic. We would take good care of bim and send him back safe and sound. Tne Prowoneation ov M, Taters’ powers came up in the National Assembly yesterday. An excited debate took place. One member, of the Loft Centre proposed that M. Thierd should be mado President of the republic for thee yeara, while another Dopyty of the exe