The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No. 233 —= AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad ances afternoon and eveni BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d Larree Nevt ap THE Ma TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. _ Tue OoTOROON. sii corner 30th st. —Perform- TA. ween Sth and th ave, —— NESS. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—KRLLY & Leon's MINSTRELS, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory..-SAiy LIBRS AND ROUNDHERADS, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston ste.—Tue DRAMA OF Furry. GLOBE THEATRE, roma: ¥ 6 col cities, Buatraguesy be SoMtwAy—Nacno Rooewent CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-THovors Tuomas’ Fann-Ca between Prince and SUMMER NigHts’ ConcERTs. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall,—V BIRTY ENTERTAINMENTS ns OPPORME Clty Hall Va New York, Meuday, August 21, 1871. « a, 2 CONTENTS OF T’-DAY’S HERALD, “e, ere — Advertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—The Murder at Cape Ms Actress—The Rhode riages and Deaths—Advertisements, 4—Editorials : Leading Article, *'he Loan of the United States and Operations of Secretary Boutwell”—Amusement Announcements. S—Mutiny at Sea: Dastardly Plot to Slaughter a Ship's Crew; Particulars of the Mutiny on Board the Amer.can Ship Nevada—Telegrams from France, Spain and England—News from Washington—Miscellaneous Telegraphic News—Italian Unity—Music and the Drama— y dkylarking—Foreign ‘oual Gossip and Miscelianeots lrems— jews of the Past—Business Nouces. G—Religious: Men and Brethren in Praise ana Prayer; ‘The Beauties of Holiness and Re- ligious” Insanity, Compared ; Man's Free Agency and God's Grace; A Self-Appointed Messenger trom Heaven in a Towering Rage— Sing sing i Meeting—Homicide at Berkeley Springs, West Virginta. ‘Georgia Politics: More About the Third Party Movement—Running Notes, Political und General—The Grounding of the Guerriere— New York City News—Sunday Rowdyism—The Last Boiler Explosion—A Newark y—Sulcide of an id Indians—Mar- iy cliement—?Probable Murder—Beating eB A Man—Sudden Death in Jersey City—New York Canal Tolis—Fimancial and Commercial ‘Reports, = $—Le: Miserables: The Leaders of the Commune Summoned to Appear and Answer for Their Deeds; The Court Room at Versailles and Por; traits 01 the Culprits; Reckless Behavior of the Prisoners in Court; Assi on Trial; The bishop Insulted on His Way to Execu- The Burning of Pa Facts Relative to the Murder of the Hosta, The Alabama Claims—The tion Tribunal. ‘neva Arbitra. This board, as it now siands, is as fol- lows :—Charles Francis Adams, the arbitra- tor appointed by President Grant; Chief Justice Cockburr, the arbitrator appointed by Queen Victoria; General Menabrea, a dis- tinguished soldier and statesman, of liberal ideas, the arbitrator chosen by King Victor Emmanuel, and Jacques Staempfli, an ex- President of the Swiss Confederation and an able advocate, named by the government of Switzerland. The Treaty of Washington pro- vides, further, that the Emperor of Brazil shall also name an arbitrator, and no doubt we shall shortly hear that the board of five arbitrators is complete. The treaty (article II.) next provides that “the arbitrators shall meet at Geneva, in Switzerland, at the earliest convenient day after they shall have been named, and shall proceed impartially and carefully to examine and decide all questions that shall be laid before them on the part of the government of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty respectively,” and that ‘‘all questions con- sidered by the tribunal, including the final award, shall be decided by a majority of all the arbitrators ;” and ‘‘ihat each of the high contracting parties shall also nam@one person to attend the tribunal as its agent to represent it general, all matters connected with the arbitration.” Counsel before tbe tribunal on both sides is also authorized, and while General Grant has intimated that Mr. Adams shall be fortified by some of the best lawyers | in the country, we may be sure that England will not neglect to give the best legal assist- ants of the realm to Chief Justice Cockburn. Thus the arbitration board, with its two agents, its lawyers on both sides, and its clerks, &c., will be a somewhat imposing body, and as its sittings may be extended over e year or two the tribunal wili be a windfall to the city of Geneva, both in a financial and political view ; and we are glad of it, because of our sympathies and respect for the faithful little republican Swiss Confederation, and be- cause the selection of Geneva.for the sittings of this important tribunal is not only a great compliment to Switzerland, but a flatiering concession to the United States on the part of | Her Majesty's members of the Joint High | Commission and the British government. Finally, under all these encouraging auspices, we are confident of a just and decisive seitle- ment of our Alabama claims and to the satis- faction of both countries. Yacutine axp Horse Racinc—A Fine Sgason.—The New York Yacht squadron, as well as the horse racing brotherhood, have been having a splendid season. The races at Saratoga have so far been a yreat success, and the sports of our yachtsmen during their cruise have proved exceedingly enjoyable. A finer season, both on sea and shore, has never been known than this, aod we cannot doubt that the excellent auspices under which our land and water recreations have been conducted will continue to the end. A REMARKABLE Case OF POISONING occur- red in Williamsburg yesterday morning, The family of Ricbard Cook, consisting of six per- sons, while eating breakfast, suddenly began to exhibit symptoms of poisoning. Physicians were immediately called, and by the adminis- tration of proper antidotes the lives of the family were saved. The poison acted precisely as does strychnine, and was contained in the bluefish of which all the party had freely par- taken. The fish was thoroughly impregnated with the poison, but from what cause is a mys- tery. It is contended by some that the fish used had been caught near some wreck, and had been impregnated with copper ; others believe it to have been poisoned by the bait used when caught, as it is said that some fishermen use strychnine on surplus bait when they strike a school of bluefish, This family exhibited all the symptoms of strychnine poison; their faces became swollen, accompanied with in- eee Lean ef the United States and Opera- tions of Secretary Boutwell, The press of this country has been flooded of late with Washington telegrams, reports and articles on the supposed new financial de- parture of the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to the so-called new loan of the gov- ernment, Upon the superficial reader the 1m- pression is made that some extraordinary finan- cial ability has been displayed and some sur- prising results have been attained. ‘The lom a success ;" ‘Heavy subscriptions to the loan;” “The loan placed in Europe ;” and other like headings have been placed to reports from Washington and the com- ments of the press. Tuen we have heard a great deal of the ‘‘Syndicate,” the ‘‘Syndi- gate of European and American bankers” abroad, and of another sort of “Syndicate” of bankers at home, which have taken the loan, or promise to take it. Now, to the American reader this sounds grandly. Without knowing the facts or reasoning upon these spread-eagle sort of statements he indulges the idea that something great has been accomplished. Par- tisan politicians and newspapers ‘ring the changes on these reports issued from Wasbing- ton or manufactured by those government agents calling themselves the ‘‘Syndicate,” and make a great flourish over the ‘‘success- ful financial policy of the administration” and the surprising ability of Mr. Boutwell. Now, while we would be first to encourage the Secretary of the Treasury in any effort to fund the debt at a lower rate of interest and to give him credit for what he does to that end, we must denounce anything that savors of claptrap, jobbery or pretence. Indeed, we would rather overlook any little weakness or questionable advertising dodges for the sake of the public credit-~would rather help the Treasury Department to place the new debt than be over-critical ; but we cannot counte- nance shams. Inthe end the public credit will not suffer by the statement of facts, though speculators may, and though the grand flourishes made for political effect may be divested of their gilded coating. What, then, are the facts with regard to Mr. Boutwell's reported financial success in nego- tiating the new loan? By the acts of Congress of July, 1870, and of January, 1871, to autho- rize the refunding of the national debt, fifteen hundred millions of the six per cent bonds were to be converted, at par, into five four- and-a-half and four per cents. Of the first class the amount was fixed at five hundred millions, the second at three hundred millions and the third at seven hundred millions. Mr. boutwell urged with all his power the passage of these acts of Congress, and expressed the greatest confidence in his ability to refund the whole debt thus provided for. He argued that the long time the new bonds would have to ron before redemption, together with the exemption of them and the interest on them from all taxation, federal and _ local, would be equivalent to the difference of interest and render the scheme successful. The Secretary supposed the national banks, which derive 80 much profit from the bounty of the government, would at the start subscribe largely for the new bonds and thus show their gratitude for the advantages given to them. What has been the result? After thirteen montbs since the refunding act was passed, after seven months since the act in amendment was passed and after nearly five months since books were opened, both here and in Europe, for subscriptions to these new bonds, what has been accomplished? Ont of the fifteen hundred millions but seventy millions of one class, the five per cents, had been subscribed for up to the new financial departure of the Treasury Depart- ment, with its ‘‘syndicate,” a few days ago, It is said the seventy millions had been sub- scribed for principally by the national banks. The private subscriptions, therefore, must have been very small. The national banks, having near four hundred millions of bonds, which are held by the government as security for their circulation, did not show any eager- ness to take the new bonds or to aid the gov- ernment in refunding the debt. They have not taken more or little more than fifty millions of the five per cents, Under this unfavorable state of things, after trying so long to nego- tiate the new loan, the Secretary of the The Treasury changes, apparently, his plan of operations, On the 4th of this month he issued a circular to the agents previously designated by him to negotiate the new loan, informing them that he withdraws the loan from the market, with the exception of the five per cent bonds as offered to the national banks on the 10th instant. The bonds thus excepted and that still rem: in the market are two hundred millions out of the five hundred millions of five per cents. All the four anda half and four per cents and three hundred millions of the five per cents, making thirteen hundred millions out of the fifteen hundred millions that were to be re- funded are withdrawn. There is certainly notbing to boast of in this, either as to the sagacity of Mr. Boutwell in originating the re- funding scheme or in his management since. How, then, as to the two hundred millions, or the balance over the seventy millions al- ready taken, that is stillon the market? There has been, as weremarked before, a great flourish of trumpets over the reported, or rather the expected, disposition of this bal- ance of a hundred and thirty millions. The so-called syndicate of bankers organized for placing this balance is neither more nor less in plain English than an agency, of which Jay Cooke and Co. here and McCulloch & Co. in Kurope are the principals. It is composed chiefly of the old parties who have been ma- nipulating the goveroment bonds and funds ever since the late war commenced, and who have made enormous fortunes in doing | | debt, as provided for by law, has turned over the business of negotiating the small balance of one hundred and thirty millions of five per cents not withdrawn from the market to these bankers calling themselves a syndicate, y millions of this amount, it is understood, is to be reserved for the national banks, though we do not see, in view of the tardiness of the banks in subscribing before, what screws the Secretary is to pat to these establishments to tense pain in the head, and but for the speedy | make them take as much more as (hey bave relief afforded them probably not one would have recovered, taken during the last five or six months, Bighty millions, then, remain for the svadi- so. The Secretary of the Treasury, confessing virtually that he can do lit- tle or nothing more in refunding the | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST cate or agents to dispose of. This 1s narrow- ing the amount down very much compared with the whole debt intended originally to be refunded. We are told that the syndicate of bankers here have subscribed for ten millions of the fifty millions reserved for the national banks. Whether this means that they have actually purcbased the bonds, or that they only take them as agents to dispose of, and for which they are to receive commission, we cannot say. Then there appears to be some ambi- guity about the eighty millions allotted to the European markets to be disposed of by that other syndicate of large houses in England and on the Continent and about the fifteen millions said to have been already subscribed for by this transatlantic syndicate. Have they actually purchased fifteen millions? Or do they hold this amount to sell on commission, as well as the balance of the eighty millions? Let us know the facts before we throw up our hata and hurrah for the financial success of Mr. Bout- well and the administration. Is this syndicate business only another scheme to make money out of manipulating the debt over again, or a bona fide sale of a portion of the new loan? These bankers at home and abroad may be able to do what the Treasury Department could not, and, if so, we wish them success. We shall be glad to see any portion of the debt placed at lower interest if the cost of commissions and other things do not make the change unprofitable to the country. But let us have no clap-trap or exaggerated state- ments—-no mountebank advertisements. The public credit of this great and rich country ought to stand first ia the world. There is no necessity for any flourish or deception. Will the Treasury Department let us know if the so-called syndicates at home and abroad are actual purchasers of any portion of the new loan, or if they are only agents, and also what it is going to cost for placing the balance of this loan which is not withdrawn from the market ? Yesterday. With the exception of the ‘‘man of God,” the venerable and oracular Bishop Snow, who fulminated against the Heratp and the HERALp reporters with great earnestness and effect, the abstracts of yesterday's discourses are somewhat dull reading. No doubt they are solid and instructive, but they are either a little too hackneyed or a little too profound to merit any very particular notice. As to Bishop Snow, we have only to say that we cheerfully listen to criticism upon our- selves, and that we even invite it from all proper quarters. Whether the Bishop is a “‘proper quarter” may, perhaps, be questioned. At any rate, we think he might have found a more dignified means in which to utter his indignation than the verbal garbage of the lowest slum in the Five Points, The Bishop does not, however, apparently believe in the immortality of the soul; and what can be expected from a creature who delights to regard himself as ‘‘one of the beasts that perish ?” ¥ The Rev. Mr. Larkin, a ‘‘stranger,” preacbed at Dr. Foss’ church, Dr. Foss himself having wandered away to the Sing Sing camp meet- ing. The discourse was, perhaps, a trifle too elaborate and argumentative, but, as a whole, it was an admirable explanation of the need of a Saviour and the general scheme‘of redemp- tion. At ‘‘the little church around the corner” Dr. Houghton discussed the character of ‘‘re- joicing in heaven.” This is one of those de- lightful, though perhaps fanciful topics, in which the imagination of a true Christian finds agreeable, and at the same time profitable, re- creation. While we abide in this vale of tears and sin it is indeed a sweet thing to dwell in fancy upon the glories and the joys of the city of our hopes. Wecan easily understand that Dy. Houghton—whose great-hearted charity upon a certain memorable occasion earned him the gratitude of the American peo- ple—places first among those delights the knowledge that some poor sinner had been caught like a ‘‘brand from the burning.” Dr. Curry preached on sanctification as a development of Christian manhood. He holds that it is not necessary in order to be pure and holy as man can be on earth to separate oneself from the world and lead an ascetic life. On the contrary, we should be in the world, though not of it, and should ennoble and purify the things of earth by using them in a Christian way. Dr. Curry urged, however, repeatedly upon his hearers the caution it was necessary to use in their daily life. The snares of the evil one are ever spread before our feet, and onr life is one long continued conflict with temptation. There were also some curious services at Neptune Hall, Grand street, by the Second Adventists. Mistaken as we deem the views of these heterodox enthusiasis, we cannot forbear admiring the apparent earnestness of thetr longing for full and perfect communion with God. To them the world seems indeed but an empty show ; the real life lies beyond and above it. We wonder at and applaud the greatness of their faith, even though we doubt whether it have any stable founda- tions. If they err they err in no ignoble manner, ing Quarantine. We understand that certain parties have been evading New York quarantine, and that men sick with fever were surreptitiously brought into this city by the way of Perth Amboy two or three days ago from the bark D. Chapin. It appears that this vessel was from Aspinwall, via Cienfuegos and Yaza, Cuba, that she lay two or three days off Sandy Hook, and then proceeded to that convenient little port of New Jersey for jumping quarantine, Perth Amboy, and that Dr. Carnochan, hear- | ing sickness was on board and some of the | crew who were ill with fever having landed | had gone to New York, he took measures to ascertain the facts. Three men had gone to a | boarding house in Cherry street and one man | to Carlisle street. Dr. Carnochan immediately telegraphed to ny of Health, and Dr, Morris, the city @Anitary Inspector, acting promptly, found the two men sick with fever and had them removed to the West Bank Hospital. Only a day ‘or two | before the brig Victoria, which arrived on the 16th from the same port of Cienfuegos, left one in the hospital, others were sick on the vassage with the same disease, and gue died of the crew wi low fever ‘The captain and ai with it. Lt will be seen, therefore, what peril this city is placed in by those who en- deavor surreptitiously to evade quarantine, and how much the public owe to the vigilance of the Health Officer. If yellow fever or cholera were to get into New York it might be fearfully destructive to life and do incalculable damage to business, Let us hope the captains of vessels, consignees and shipping merchants will take warning, and not attempt hereafter to evade quarantine and thus endanger the city. Above all, let the Health Officer and the Board of Health continue to do their duty, no matter whom they may offend, and they will receive the commendation of every good citizen. Researches in Cyclon An important discovery has recently been announced touching the difficult science of managing ships in cyclones. The avoidance of these moving terrors on the ocean has been the study of many of our ablest minds, and any discovery that throws additional light upon it will be gladly hailed by intelligent seamen and by all ‘who do business in the great waters.” Ever since the magnificent generalization, which was given to the world in 1831 by Me. Redfield, of New York, the marine has ceased to tremble before the fall of the quicksilver in his barometer and the other premonitions of the hurricane. This American meteorologist, of justly world-wide celebrity, clearly established the fact that storms, seemingly the most violent and law- less, moved with precision in fixed path, and executed their rotative movement with almost the regularity of the balance-wheel. He also demonstrated that hurricanes in the northern hemisphere revolve around their centre invari- ably in a direction contrary to the motion of the sun and the hands of a watch, Since the death of the lamented author of this physical law, now so well known as “‘the “aw of storms,” little or nothing has been done to perfect its details, and many seamen, having but crudely grasped it and having failed rightly to apply it in their first attempts, have frequently found it impracticable, though countless cases are on record in which it has saved large vessels, and even whole squadrons, from probable destruction. Ata recent meeting of the Meteorological Society of Mauritius, Captain Douglas Wales (of that island), a sailor of long experience and great practical knowledge and skill, pre- sented a paper “On the Converging of the Wind in Cyclones,” in which he argues that, on the margin of these storms, whose diameter is often several hundred miles, the wind does not always blow around the central area of the storm in concentric circles, but frequently it converges or curves inward, in nearly radial ines, upon the centre of the gale. As it is in the centre that the vorticose motion of the cyclone is most intense and deadly, it is, of course, of the first importance to give it a wide berth. According to “‘the law of storms,” as first laid down by Mr. Redfield, Reid, Dové and others, the winds within the entire area of atmospheric disturbance blew in perfect and concentric circles around the common centre. Captain Wales, however, after multiplied ob- servations, shows that this rule is not strictly observed by the winds, and illustrates his view thus :—Let us suppose the vessel in the south- ern hemisphere, where, by the cyclonic theory, the wind moves around the storm centre with the hands of a watch, Her commander, in latitude twelve degrees south, longitude seventy degrees east, we will say, finds his barometer falling, sky overcast, confused swell and other cyclonic premonitions. What shall he do? ‘‘Heave to on the port tack” or “run te the southwest and make use of the storm?” It is hard to tell which will be the more dangerous. The wind being northeast the inference he draws is that he is on the southeast edge of a cy- clone, whose centre bears northwest. Con- sidering that in the latitude and longitude where he is sailing the storm is probably travelling west-southwest, he thinks that by running to the southwest he will diverge continually from the perilous centre, and, by making a locomotive of the storm, he will have fine runs for several days. But if the northeast wind be only converging toward the fearful, tem- pestuous whirl in the centre, that centre bears west. by north, half north, instead of northwest ; so that, by following the law of storms and running to the southwest, he runs into the very jaws of destruction. At any rate, without doubt, on the supposition of a converging wind on the outer rim of the hur- ricane the seaman would be apt to get en- tangled in the iron meshes of the cyclone, or involved among enormous seas and pyramidal masses of water. The important fact—for it is a fact rather than a theory—now announced does not at all overthrow, but confirms, Mr. Redfield’s discovery, and, by giving greater practical value to the latter, it will mark a new era in navigation, as well as in the sci- ence of cyclonology. The converging of the wind toward the centre of the revolving gale is, of course, due to the centripetal force being greater than the tangential force, which is the fact observed in tornadoes. It is of the utmost im- portance to all the interests of commerce, navi- gation, science, to say nothing of humanity itself, that such discoveries as that of Captain Wales, which is confirmed by the testimony of a host of distinguished seamen, should be given the widest publicity and importance. The HERALD pointed out some time ago the necessity of holding our steamship commanders to a strict responsibility to public opinion at least, if not to international law, for the fullest acquaintance with the science of cyclones, and the strictest obedience to those laws which modern science has prescribed for their avoid- ance. The reasoning of Captain Wales is much more than theory or hypothesis, and ex- presses the opinion and experience of many observers. The Secretary of the Meteorologi- cal Society of Mauritius, before whom Captain Wales’ paper was presented, stated that ‘in various papers published daring the last fif- teen years he had often called attention ,to the incurving of the wind in‘cyclones, and to the losses occasioned by acting upon the supposi- tion that the bearing of the centre was at right angles to the direction of the wind.” Let these cyclonical investigations be skil- fully and patiently pushed by all our seamen and naval commanders, and their observa- tions systematically published, and the ter- rors of the deep will disappear; for ‘we have only to study nature in order to subdue 21, 1871, Vaan Meter—Shaffer—Mingins, Every man hath his own calling of God, one after this manner and another after that, The three ministers whose names we have placed at the head of this article have their special calling as city missionaries in one department or another. The Rey. William C. Van Meter, Superintendent of the Howard Mission, in Roosevelt street and New Bowery, is denomi- nationally a Baptist; but so much of a cosmo- politan Christian is he that it would be difficult to tell to which of the tribes of Israel he really belonged. Many years ago Mr. Van Meter was strongly impressed that something could and should be done for the miserable masses of the Fourth ward. Accordingly a “mission” was started in Warren Hall, Henry and Oliver streets, Subsequently this mission was trans- ferred to larger quarters in the Bowery, where it remained a few years, and met with such decided success that the property on which the present mission siands was purchased, and after a time the large and commodious build- ings which now adora that neighborhood were erected at a cost of more than forty thousand dollars, The Howard Mission is now a recognized institution of the Fourth ward and since its permanent establish- ment there it has proved marvellously success- ful among the young, in whose behalf espe- cially it was founded. For a time Mr. Van Meter left the mission, when by mismanage- ment during the bogus Water street revival it fell into disrepute. But the trustees and Managers could find no man so well fitted to superintend the work as he, and they gladly invited him to resume his place again. He is a man of deep feeling and genuine sympathy with poverty and suffering, and is looked up to as a father by the children of the mission and as a good friend by many a poor honse- keeper in the ward. Asa preacher Mr. Van Meter is simple and pathetic, as becomes a minister of Christ dealing with the poor and ignorant. They need the gospel of sympathy and love more than anything else, and hence the tenderness and love of Jesus come to them with tenfold more beauty and power than they do to others not in such a lowly condition. In preaching to regu- lar Church congregations, as he frequently does, Mr. Van Meter makes good use of his experience among the Fourth ward slums, and most effectively and readily reaches the hearts and the pockets of hishearers. During a late visit to Europe he secured a number of annual cash subscribers to the mission, and wherever he goes its claims are so clearly and pathetically presented that it is more difficult to withhold than to give toward its support. The Bev. J. N. Shaffer, Superintendent of the Ladies’ Five Points Mission of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, has been for several years successively appointed to this work by the New York Conference. He, too, is emi- nently qualified for this field of labor, possess- ing both the parental affection and sympathy needed, to deal successfully with the young, and the shrewdness and discrimination required to guard against the tricks and impositions of the old Five Pointers. This mission has been estab- lished about a quarier of a century in what was once the ‘Old Brewery,” in Park street, and about which Mr. Van Meter, now of the Howard Mission, when he was Superintendent, used to make such stirring anniversary appeals, displaying large paintings of the Old Brewery as it was and as itis. Mr. Shaffer does not possess the tact and talent for his work to the same de- gree as Mr. Van Meter does, but he gets along more methodically, though more slowly, The educational proficiency of the children of the mission was complained of some time ago; but we presume it has improved, a3 we have heard nothing against it lately. Besides the four or five hundred children cared for in the mission a number of poor families are lodged there and provided with work, while the wants of hundreds of needy households in the vicinity are wholly or partially supplied from day today. In bis pulpit ministrations to the mission folk Mr. Shaffer is simple and direct, given to illustrating his subjects by incident and anecdote, and in his intercourse with the churches this is also his style, and it is very effective. Tales of silent sorrow, of deep suffering and distress, have a charm for us all, because they appeal to our higher nature and touch our common humanity as nothing else can. And there are no men possessed of such a store of illustrations of this sort as the men who go in and out, day after day, among the poor, They can better appreciate the importance of a full and free salvation for mankind than others, and they ought to be practically better fitted to present it thus to others, as we believe the Rev. Messrs. Van Meter and Shaffer and their assistants faith- fully do. The Rev. George J. Mingins is the Superin- tendent of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, under whose auspices the Five Points House of Industry and Calvary chapel, connected therewith, were erected and are maintained. He is a Scotchman, endowed with a good degree of business tact and shrewdness, which is needed to save him from imposition in his sphere of labor. He is a very entertaining speaker to the young, and has a fund of anecdotes and incidents, which he can relate pleasantly and instructively, and which the little people always love to hear. He was an agent of the Sanitary Commission and the Evangelical Alliance during the war, and has some interesting experiences con- nected with his travels during those years which he makes very effective in pointing and enforcing missionary appeals. Like his two brethren herewith named, his style of preach- ing is simple and expository, and his relations to and experiences with the poor of this city give him ample resources of illustration for every practical theme which he may present in the pulpit. And he makes free use of this knowledge, and by its power is well able to move the hearts and, if need be, the pockets of his audiences. Mr. Mingins is compara- tively a young man, and has been very suc- cessful, indeed, in his mission work here, espe- cially since the establishment of permanent churches by the society was determined upon, There are now eight mission stations in the city established under the auspices of this society, which has been engaged in its noble work about half a century. Tue Roxt, or Penstonens increases with astonishing rapidity, The number of certifi- cates issued last week to pensioners was 31, of which 484 were to soldiers of the war of 1813, e : S caine aaa) Mr. Gis.%e7’» Canvase—A Frightiul Ex< Just as we were e the point of discogecing that Mr. Greeley was, indeed, a candidate for the Presidency, the cafivyss of that dis. tinguished politician is brought (6 an end. A month ago he might have had some chance for a Presidential nomination; now he ia a dead cock in the pit. This melancholy tact is owing toa train of melancholy causes which is full of a fearful lesson for young politicians. If there ever should bea training school in politics the old political nurses will turn the attention of the young men of the party to this Frightful Example just as nursery maids in- vent ghosts and wild beasts to frighten chil- dren into good behavior. in the meantime, we may discuss Mr. Greeley’s canvass ina more kindly spirit than would be allowable after he takes his place beside “Blue Beard” and the renowned owner of the seven league. boots. Mr. Greeley’s canvass opened very wisely. He made a journey to Texas, courting South- ern politicians all the way going and return- ing, and at the same time launched forth one of those coy, reluctant bids for the Presidency which all Presidential aspirants know so well how to use, It was, as a matter of course, om the ‘‘I will ne'er consent, consenting” principle. And it took well, For afew days it seemed not imposstble that the Farmer of Chappaqua might becom’ a farmer of offices. But the mania to write more letters seized upon the philosopher, and now he wonders what his canvass was begun for if so soon ‘twas done for. In an epistle addressed to one of the Beechers he admitted by implication that he had drunk strong liquors before he was thir- teen years old. This might have been for- given him if he had not declared besides that even now he eats all kinds of food rather than wait for bran bread. These admissions naturally enongh finished his career. No party could afford to set up a man as the early guzzling and unfaithful bran bread munching candidate. It was plain from the beginning that he could only stand upon an eating and drinking platform, but in bis eagerness to ba all things to all men he has made its moat valuxble plank as wortiless aaa leading ar- ticle in the Trombone. Now there was a certain old poet whose name is still in dispute who taught the world to give the world the lie. This old poet wrote a “piece” which is the only poem which Mr. Greeley ever read, but he learned it to such purpose that he has been giving everybody the lie ever since; no, not exactly ever since, for the other day he used the word *‘mendacity” three times, the word “untruth” twice and the word ‘4ie” only once. We cannot, of course, demand any explanation of this seeming consisteacy. But were there an early guzzling and bran bread munching party determined upon making Mr, Greeley its candidate we should do our duty by the country and require him to exculpate himself. Has it come to thia that ‘‘mendacity” or “untruth” can be printed in the columns of the Trombone? Or is tha use of “liar” prerogative only with Mr. Gree- ley? If the philosopher deigns to answer the latter question affirmatively we shall ask some party—which one we do not know yet— to forgive him his early guzzling propensi- ties and his unfaithfulness in the matter of bran bread, And we shall support him aa the candidate of the party whose candidate he is, passing as lightly as possible over his early indiscretions and his later unfaith- i fulness, Unfortunately Greeley’s canvass is over. Not content with estranging the foes of early guzzling and the noble army of bran bread munchera this unfortunate man, this Frightful Example, this disappointed politician, even throws away the votes of free born and strong/ minded American women. He actually pro- fesses to disbelieve in woman suffrage and free love. All this is simply horrible. Did he not, first of all men, foster the notions of which Margaret Fuller was the great high priestess ? Did he not even peddle Margaret Fuller's Works over the country on the pretence that there was ‘“‘thonght” in them? And is he now going back on the women of the nine- teenth century? Soit seems, The Victoria League must give him over to his idols, of whom Victoria appears not to be one, and the early guzzling and bran bread munching fac- tion—it is not strong enough to be called a party—must allow pig iron to envelop him... Tt is all over with him now, and we await in calmness the day when his history and his picture shall appear in a new collection of nursery tales side by side with thoss of “Blne Beard” and of that wonderful old fellow whose boots were even wonderful than Mr. Greeley’s famed pedal decorations. more The Wentfiold Disaster and the Inspectors? Report. In some respects the report of the United States inspectors who investigated the causea of the boiler explosion on the Westfield felt short of what the public had a right to expect. It is asserted that the accident was the resulé of a defective boiler in the hands of an incon} petént engineer, but it must not be forgotted that both the boiler and the engineer had beer examined by Inspector Matthews and that the soundness of each was certified to by that officer. The fitness of Robinson ought not ta have been a question in this case, and we can~ not acquit the officer who gave hima certifi-( cate; neither can we overlook the fact that President Vanderbilt is in every way as culpa. ble for his being employed by the company aq Superintendent Braisted. If the president of a ferry company is not to be held responsible for disasters like this the office of superinten~ dent will become « thankless one, superinten- dents being merely the creatures of great cor- porations. It was a great mistake to omit the name of Mr. Vanderbilt from the report and / to charge the entire responsibility upon his subordinates. Neither can we entirely acquit Mr. Mathews from any share in the responsi- bility. It is the business of government in- spectors to know that a boiler is a good ona before certifying to its soundness, If the, hydrostatic test is not sufficient to ascertain whether there are any flaws in it some other’ test must be found which will prove more satisfactory. Steam boilers must be rendered! absolutely safe or accidents and explosions may be as frequent in the future as they have been in the last month, and the public will not bo satisfied with anvthing short of absolute safety,