The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1871, Page 6

eer he 8 NEW YORK HERAL! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI ——_ AIAUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Mouston ets.—Tur DEAMA oF Fuire. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 15th street.— Buvr Braxv. tin GLOBE THEATRE, 128 Broadway.—NrGRo EocRnTE- QITIES, BURLESQUES, £0. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bro corner 80th st. —Perform- Ances afternoon and evening BOOTH'S THEATRE, 34 st, between 6th and 6th avs.— LIvTie NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. LINA EDWIN'S THEA’ & Leon's Mrnstaria, 8AN FRANCISCO MI 2 BAN FRANCISCO MIN - No, 720 Broadway.—K RLY TREL HALL, 58 Broadway.— TRELS, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.— ’ SUMMER Niouts' Conorets. Seen tere TERRACE GARDEN, 88th street, between Li avs.—JULIEN'S CONCERTS, ° sia man GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, ite ©: Vas ee Marea RToNT™ opvontio City Hall,—Va TRIPLE New York, Sunday, Angust 27, 1871 CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, alee: SSL EU 1—Advertisements. Q— Advertisements, eons on the Coast: The City of Houston the ‘Yempest; Satety of the cent City—vutlawry in North Oarolina— Art Matters—Yachting: The Regatta for the Lorillard Cup; the Race for the Newport Cup; End of the Brooklyn Yacht Club Cruise—Dexter Park Races—News from Washnigton—Brooklyn A‘airs—Homi- cide in Dutchess County—Fires—Another Adee Blunder—vpening of the Duluth Can. 4—Religious Intellizence—The Dlolinger Catholics: weeding. of Old Catholic Leaders in Heidel- berg—State and City Politics—Pavement Puz- io—Brooklyn Couris—sauce for the Simple- tons—Infanticide in Newark, G—The “Lost Cause:” Startling Manifesto from the “Southern Association; How the Inde- Po ge of the South May pe Secured; the Work Already Commenced in North Caroima—The Fall Trade: Prospects and Probabilities for the Coming Season; Prices, Prophectes and Profits; What the Wholesalo Dealers Think and Say—A Terrible Tonic: ‘The Westchester County Poisoning Case— Lacrosse on the Capitoline Grounds—Relief for the Sufferers by the Pittston Mine Ex- 1osion—A Friendly Fieecing—Cities of Eng- nd ana the United States—A Valuable Tract ol Land, @—Editonais: Leading article, “The Gi 1 in the Woods—The HERALD’s Aavice ken”! — Amusement Announcements. GY—Editorials (Continued from Sixtn Page)—Per- sonal Intelligence-New Pubdiications Re: celved—ihe Situation in France—News from a jain, Italy, Austria and Greece— ugnter: Horrible Kailroad Catastrophe near Boston—The Southern Plague—Misce]- laneous Telegraphic News—Help for the Sol- diers’ Orphans~Saiurday Night Shooting— Views of the Past—Business Notices. S—"Snarks ;” Disinterested Legal Lights and the Westileld Sufferers; ‘Heavy Damages” To Be Recovered from the Ferry Company—Summer Resorts—Financial and Commercial Keport— American Finances Abroad—Foreign Miscel- laneous Items. ®=—Tne Gibbet Shadow: A Felon’s Gallows Phi- Josophy; Interview with Buckhout, the sleep; Hollow Butcher—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- vertisements. *40—A Boxed Up Body—The Remains of a Woman Found ina Trunk; A Horrible Baggage Reve- lation—Keno_ Players Arrested—tlealth of Jersey City—Bad Barksdale—Shipping Intel- ligence—Advertisements. "1—Advertisements. AQ—Advertisements, Horrmie RatroaD Siaveater.—Last evening, at Revere, a locomotive crashed into a car filled with passengers, kill- ing twenty-one persons and mangling fifteen ‘others. To add to the horror of the scene the splintered woodwork took fire, while the escap- ing steam from the boiler helped on the work of death and mutilation. Mass., NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, Gospel im the Woeeds—The Herald’s Advice Takes. A couple of weeks ago we took occasion to comment freely and plainly, as we felt it to be our duty, upon the “sanctification hobby” which our camp meeting ministers and friends were riding at these Christian gatherings in the woods, and we advised the committees of such as were then to come off that they might improve on this style and give all the people their portion of spiritual meat in due season. The Sing Sing camp meeting has been held since, and has been wondrously successful on the principle which we indicated. But very few of the recognized generals of division of the sanctified hosts of the Lord were present, and some of those were disappointed, if not a little chagrined, that the meeting had not been conducted in accordance with their pro- gramme. One of them, indeed, ina public address excitedly remarked that had the meet- ing been run on the line of holiness its suc- cess would have been double and quadruple what it was. But the presiding elder very pertinently replied that the meeting was not to be carried on in the interest or on the line of anybody's hobby, but that the Word of the Lord should be fully ministered, the subject of holiness, according to the Bible standard, coming in for its share of exposition and com- ment, but not excluding other topics of equally vital importance. thousand people present with those remarks of Dr. Brown was unmistakably manifested. The success of the meeting was great, the con- versions numbering over one handred and twenty, and a very large number professed to have sought and obtained the higher blessing of sanctification. And the sympathy of five While many ministers and a great many lay- men and women in the churches profess holi- ness of heart, an experience of thirty-nine years has convinced the managers of the Sing Sing camp meeting that the greatest success comes on the line of practical religion, and hence almost all the preaching was of that kind. Preaching the doctrine of holiness or sanctifi- cation to miscellaneous congregations of im- penitent persons and easy-going religious pro- fessors is like teaching the people Greek be- fore they have learned the vernacular. And, as proclaimed by some of the leading cham- pions of the higher life, it is too ethereal and visionary to be adopted readily by practical men and women. The higher spiritual life, like the higher intel- lectual life, follows as the result of consecra- tion and of study. Man is ever developing from the lower to the higher, from the grosser animal nature into the purer spiritual nature, and the true object of Christian teaching is to develop this growth after a natural and healthy manner, and not after the fashion of hothouse plants, that most of the Sing Sing camp meeting preachers took this practical view of the subject, and fed the people with food con- venient for them during the ten days of the encampment which on Friday moraing was broken ap. apprehended easily and And we are glad to know The very best sermons delivered on the ground were one on the nature and philosophy of prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Miley, of Sing Sing, and one on the nature and attainment of salvation, by the Rev. Dr. Foss, of New York. They were masterpieces of theologi- cal and philosophical argument in illustration and support of their respective themes. A very able discourse was preached also on Sunday last by Rev. Dr. Crawford, of New York. But very many of the ablest preachers in the Church and in the Conference who were present either shirked the duty of preaching or were not invited, and some ministers in- dulged in a great deal of ‘‘small talk” from the stand. There was, } 'wever, on the whole, a greate? display of earnestness and erudition and a more manifest inspiration resting upon the preachers there than is ap- parent in their pulpit discourses at home. And it seemed to us that if they showed as much zeal and interest in the conversion of Tae Granpest BALL oF THE SEASON AT ‘Lone Branou—The ball of to-morrow night ‘at the Continental; for in all respects tho preparations are of Continental proportions, Tux Stare DeparTMeENT yesterday received Mespatches from Captain Hall, of the Arctic exploring expedition, announcing his safe ar- rival in Greenland. His ship, the Polaris, proves admirably adapted to the purposes in ‘which she is engaged, and both captain and crew are confident of the ultimate success of theirexpedition, Tux Trunk Mystery.—The account of the finding of tbe body of a woman, yesterday morning, packed in a trunk and checked for Whicago, is in another page of this paper. ‘The Coroner has a most important duty to per- form. Let him find out whether this woman has mot been, like many others, the victim of some vile quack, who adopted this means of hiding his guilt from the world. This terrible case cannot have been the first of its kind. Yettow Fever at Cwarteston.—That terrible plague, the yellow fever, has really invaded our country in a serious form. It is at Charleston, S. C., and the Board of Health of that place think it has assumed an epidemic form. So apprehensive of this are the authorities and people that through railroad trains between Wilmington and Charleston have been discontinued, and everything is being done to improve the sanitary condition ofthe city. Unhappily the weather at present is likely to favor the spread of this fearful disease. Let us hope for the best—hope that the fears of the people along our Southern border may prove groundlees ; but it will not do to shut our eyes to the facts. The Boards of Health of New York and Brooklyn ought to go to work in earnest to cleanse and purify these cities at any cost. The Health Officer end all others having authority in this matter cannot be too vigilant. Tae Emprrors WittiaM AND Francis Josepu, says our cable report, are to meet at anearly day at Salzbourg in Upper Austria. So the two sovereigns appear to be on the best terms after all, and the rumor that their recent advances had been chilled by some frosty occurrence falls, therefore, to the ground. Another report, that Count Beust did no onger bask in the sunshine of imperial favor, 4s likewise afable. We did not believe that the Emperor of Austria would be s0 ill-advised as to’ discard his cool, far-seeing Cbancellor at the present time of European complications ; for Beust is just now the only statesman who can meet the wily Bismarck with something ike equal skill in the chessboard of diplo- macy. Whatever may come of the meeting of the two Emperors this is certain: that the political world will for some time to come be wastly busy with speculations as to the pro- able result of the imperial interview. It Imay, however, bo taken for granted that the two Kaisers have some weighty object in view Desides the simple exchange of civilitics, the impenitent among their several local con- gregations, especially in the city, we should not hear so much of the cry of laxity and deadness among the churches here as we do. And now that they have returned home we hope they will not allow the revival spirit to die within them, nor wait until November for God to display His saving power among their people. The older this Sing Sing meeting grows the more interesting evidently it becomes, and, notwithstanding the establishment of so many other camp meetings in the vicinity of New York, this has held its place in the hearts and affections of the Methodists of this city and of the regions along the Hudson River. from the opening to the close of the meeting there were probably not less than five thousand people on the ground at any time, and the nomber varied from that to twenty thousand, which number it was estimated were present on Sunday. The Camp Meeting Association add some new attraction or improvement to the ground every year, and the Christian people who have the leisure and the money to spend a week or a month in the country spend it there more agreeably than they could else- where, square Methodist Episcopal church inaugurated an important movement in this direction. They organized a camp meeting association among themselves, purchased a large tent, And The members of the Washington about twenty-five by forty feet, and fitted up one end of it with beds in separate apartments a their male and female members and friends, gether with the necessary adjuncts for com- fort andcleanliness, There was nothing like it on the ground; but if the other city churches who admired it carry out their pledges it will not stand alone next year. In this way the comfort of spending a week or two in the woods is vastly increased, while the expense thereof is greatly lessened, because, having once fitted up the tent in this manner, there will be very little more expense connected with it for a long time. Another feature of camp meeting exercises, introduced also by this church, was a ‘‘praise meeting” of one hour, from six to seven P. M., which was afterwards adopted by other churches; and it is the purpose of the pastor of Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Mr. Wyatt, and his official advisers, to inaugurate similar meetings in their church in the city. And thus the Gospel in the woods acts and reacts upon the people and their local church institutions, and grows every year more snd more in favor, and becomes more and more recognized institution of Methodism. “The Lest Cause”’—An Astounding Pre- gramme, Though Perfectly Absurd. We publish to-day, with the “‘strictly con- fidential” circular introducing the document, avery remarkable pamphlet, entitled, ‘‘Con- cession, or How the Lost Cause May be Regained, and the Indepengence of the South Secured—Being an Addr to my Fellow Countrymen, by a Concessionist, &c, Pub- lished by the Southern Association.” The “strictly confidential” circular letter is dated “Rooms of the Southern Association, New York, August, 1871,” though it appears to be issued for the ‘‘Southern Association, Wash- ington.” And this is all that we know about it, though looking at the indignant repndia- tion of the ‘new departure” by Jeff Davis, Alexander H. Stephens and numerons other leading Southern fire-eaters, we may say to this extraordinary political paper, as Hamlet said to his Governor's ghost— Thou com’st in such a questionable shape, Tl speak to thee. The document before us is divided into three parts. Part First is a compact, double-dis- tilled Southern argument, intended to show that ‘‘we, the people of the South, area na- tion, different and distinct from the people of the North,” and that ‘‘no effort to bind us together by force can succeed,” and that at best ‘‘such a union can only be temporary.” Part Second enters upon the main question, “how the Lost Cause may be regained,” and says that to this end ‘‘the first step is to turn back forever upon the venal, hypocritical, false-hearted, Yankee, ‘new deparwre’ de- mocracy ot the North,” because, intent only upon the spoils of office, ‘‘they have ever de- luded and deceived us.” Next ‘‘concentrate all your attention and energies upon your own domestic political affairs,” and then, men of the South, having cleared the track, you have only to do three things to secure your inde- pendence, viz:— First—Secure the complete control, through the ballot pox, of the local government of every Soutn- era State, Second—When this is done cali a convention of the States and elect a Fresident for your Souihern Confederacy. Third— Appoint a Commission to Washington to demana your independence, and treat for @ peace- able separation. It is contended that this plan of operations, being ‘‘according to law,” cannot be interfered with, and that the demand* suggested, if firmly made this time, will succeed. We are next told that ‘‘North Carolina has commenced the good work” in the impeachment of the radi- cal Governor, &c. Part Third of this ‘‘con- cessionist” document is “addressed to the People of the North” in favor of the separa- tion of the two sections, whereby ‘‘the inde- pendence of the South and the peace, prosper- ity and liberty of the North are insepa- rably linked together.” In other words, the two sections cannot be united till they are divided, and they must be separated in order to live harmoniously together. Whence cometh this extraordinary revolu- tionary document? You may call it madness; “put there is method in it.” It is concession- ist, and yet it is secessionist. It preaches concession in order to gain secession, and, sticking a pin here, we think there is some- thing in it. We are informed, in the circalar letter aforesaid, that this Southern programme of independence ‘‘was prepared by one of the most distinguished of Georgia's statesmen.” This means, we suspect, that Mr. A. H. Ste- phens is the man, and upon this assumption we can account for the establishment of the new Southern rights paper at Atlanta, of which he is the political editor, and in which his whole heart is devoted to a Southern repudiation of the Northern democracy on their “new de- parture.” And to strengthen this opinion that Mr. Stephens is the author of this pamphlet we are told in it (Part Second) that ‘that glo- rious banner, which was so sadly furled at Appomattox, will once more fly freely from the Capitol at Richmond, and he who of right ought to sit there (Jeff Davis, of course) to preside over our destiny, will be recalled from his retirement amid the rejoicings of a re- deemed people.” Now, all thie may be very absurd; but it cannot be denied that the Southern programme here presented furnishes a new and striking interpretation of the late speeches of Jeff Davis in Alabama and.Georgia on the ‘‘ac- ceptance of the situation.” He accepts nothing, he admits nothing, and he will do nothing toward the ‘‘acceptance of the situation.” Mr. Stephens, in his new paper, holds the same position. ‘Fore God,” as Dogberry puts it, ‘‘they are both in a tale.” There is evidently an understanding between them. Davis proclaimed his position, and Stephens takes it up as the ‘‘new departure” of the ‘‘lost cause.” Upon this theory there is mischief in this thing. It demolishes the democratic party in the South. It revives the issues of the war in a new shape. It ex- plains the Ku Klux Klans and the Ku Klux bill. It gives color to what General Grant lately said to our correspondent at Long Branch on the Treaty of Washington. He feared another war with the South, and hence his great desire for peace with England. But may not this pamphlet be a republican coun- terfeit? We hope so; but we fear that it is not. It has all the ear-marks of a Southern manifesto, and doubtless it speaks the senti- ments and the purposes of a large body of Southern men. If there is any man within this call who knows that this is not a Southern manifesto let him speak; for we learn that this pamphlet is even now in course of distri- bution to all the known friends of the ‘‘ lost cause”—North, South, East and West. Toe INTERNAL RevENve Commissiongr.— Deputy Commissioner Douglas having been designated by the President to perform the duties of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in place of Commissioner Pleasonton, sus- pended, Secretary Boutwell submitted to Attorney General Akerman the inquiry whether a vacancy occurs in the office of Deputy Commissioner in consequence of this promotion of Mr. Douglas? ‘The Attorney General yesterday rendered the opinion that under the provisions of the Tenure-of-Office act Mr. Pleasonton is still Commissioner, inas- much as he can be removed only by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Mr. Douglas, having been designated to perform the duties devolving upon Mr. Pleasonton, is entitled to receive the salary of that officer, but such designation does not remove him from his nosition as Deoutv Commissioner, Thiers and Gambetta. The contrast between Thiers and Gam- betta, the two men in France to-day who have most to do with sRaping the immediate future of that country, is so marked as to attract universal attention. The latest de- velopment of Gambetta indicates, we think, that when the proper time comes he will show his hand openly and boldly and play his game to the end with that vigor, determina- tion and boldness which characterized his whole course when, as Minister of the In- terior during the first months of the republic, he ruled France with the imperiousness of a dictator. Outside of Paris, in these days, Gambetta was the one man to whom the whole nation looked up for consolation and encouragement, THe raised armies, appointed generals and directed campaigns. Had he been successful in expelling the Germans from France, Gambetta, not Thiers, would have occupied the chair of the executive of the nation; but on vastly different condi- tions, He would have been President of a French republic in name, in act and in bear- ing; and in the determination to execute the laws of the nation he would be found strong, vigorous and ~ energetic. Now, M. Thiers possesses neither strength, vigor mor energy. For a time he did well enough. He went on feeling his way cautiously. The indications now are that he desires to keep on the same old beaten path. If interfered with he threatens to re- sign. Like a fretful schoolboy, he threatens not to play politics with his fellows if they don’t let him have his own way. This line of policy might do for once, but to continue it is to trust too much to good nature and to rely too little on patriotism and the effect of a de- termined will. M. Thiers, like a great many other men, may discover, when it is too late, that he is not the only man who can secure to France a republican form of government. Judging M. Thiers from his pledges ‘‘before God and man that he will be true to the re- public,” we believe him honest and sincere; but there are other qualities besides those of honesty and sincerity requisite for the perma- nent establishment of the republic in France, Gambetta is growing uneasy under the tedious administration of Thiers, and from late indica- tions he will not long continue inactive. He, too, has been teeling his way, and he finds he is not without supporters. The present state of affairs in France cannot progress as they have been progressing much longer. A crisis is approaching. Thiers may hasten it; if not Thiera, then possibly Gambetta may bring it about, Tue DotiincEeR CatHorios IN GERMANY.— We print elsewhere to-day a letter from the Heratp’s correspondent at Heidelberg, giving an account of the meeting of a number of Catholic clergymen who sympathise with Dr. Dillinger and the fight he is making over the infallibility dogma. This meeting, however, is only the precursor of the great mass meet- ing of liberal Catholics which will be held in Munich on the 22d, 23d and 24th of the com- ing month, The supporters of the new move- ment, of which Dr, Dillinger is the head, are increasing throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the September meeting, to which the ‘‘old Catholics,” as the anti-infalli- bists now choose to call themselves, look for- ward with considerable interest, a new “declaration” will be issued, and the Catholics of every nation will be asked to attach them- selves to the great reform movement in the Church. This now, it appears, is the aim of he Déllingerites. Munich is to take the place of Rome in the new departure of the ‘‘old Catholics,” and the venerable Dollinger may become a German Pope on a platform of Catholicism with the infallibility plank left out. A Drovenr in New Yore.—Many of the people of this “tight little island” and its sur- roundings will probably be surprised to learn that there is a drought in New York. But so it is, or was till yesterday at Rochester and over a large region on both sides along Lake Ontario and along Lake Erie to Lake Huron. Exhausted wells, failing springs, ponds and streams, parched up fields and fires in the woods have been for weeks the general com- plaint from those districts, And from year to year up there these complaints are evidently increasing. Why? Because, with the de- struction of the forests in those sections the air is so changed that the rain fall diminishes, and the clouds pass on to the woods and mountains to the eastward and northward, where they meet a cool, condensing atmos- phere that brings down the blessed rains. We would call the attention of the people of West- ern New York and of Canada to this subject, and to the important fact that there is a greater value in their remaining forests than the market value of the timber by the cord or the lineal or square foot. Sap REMINISCENCE OF THE REBELLION.— The bodies of Third Assistant Engineers G. M. Gowan, H. W. Miriam, A. Mitchell and M. Shonburg, attached to the monitor Weehawken when she was sunk in Charleston Harbor on the Gth of December, 1863, by a rebel torpedo boat, have been recovered from the wreck, The brave fellows flinched not from their duty, but went down at their posts. The divers, in their explorations of the sunken ship, found in the engine room four ghastly skeletons, nearly denuded of flesh, which, upon being removed, were recognized by their clothing as being the remains of assistant engineers of the ill-fated vessel. The bodies will be sent to this city, and be placed at the disposal of their surviv- ing relatives. Should they not be reclaimed within a reasonable time, they will be buried in the burial ground attached to the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn. Tne Victorms or Pracg.—Within the circle of the bloody battle grounds of Manas- sas they have had two Methodist camp meet- ings this season, both in full and successful operation at the same time, gloriously success- ful in bringing over to the cause of ‘peace and good will to men” ‘‘Yankees” and “Johnny Reba,” whites and blacks, as @ band of brothers. ‘‘Oh! thus be it ever when free- men” unite under the broad banner of salva- tion. csi A Great Day ror THe “BAGGsGE SMasi- rns’—To-morrow, with the regular setting down of the ebb tide from the seaside, the mountains and the springs. The fall season of business, fashion, amusements, political and general activity in the liz. ig glose athand, Review of the Religious Press. The religious press is « trifle livelier than ast week. The editors are, evidently not yet out of the melting mood, but they seem to be & little more disposed to mental labor than earlier in the month, The Odserver indulges in a delicate piece of satire about the “Throne of Gold” proposed to be presented to the Pope, and suggests that, inasmuch as the Pontiff “is no longer king of anybody or anything, he could have no more use for a throne than a cradle.” Whether the throne be of gold or not, or whether it be intended literally for temporal purposes or not, our Presbyterian contemporary cannot help admitting that the venerable prelate is enthroned in the hearts of his followers in a degree more precious and resplendent than ean ever be seen or appreciated by mortal eyes. But our brimstone brother grows flery and sulphureous on the question, Hear him :— Such 1s the nature of our institutions, and so thoroughly are we under tne dommion of dema- gogues, politicians, jobbers in votes; so Ieariul ts the power of universal suffrage, and so rapialy 1s the i? passing away from the intelligent virtue of the nation into the unwashed hands of the million, that no cautious man will venture to deny that the throne of gold may be set up here within twenty years, with a Pretender to Universal Empire upon the top of it. The great majority of the cnlef offices in the chief city oi the republic are heid to- day by the slaves of the foreign potentate who teaches that States exist only to do his will. ‘Lhe polit‘cal destinies of this great nation may be as Teadity ruled by the agents of that power as the des- Unies of a city. The nancial control of this city, under which control the people are spoiled of mil- lions on millions of dollars every year, 18 in the hands of an ignorant but crefty son of that Church, which, boasting of poverty, offers a throne o: gold to its Hign Priest, and can steal enough in this city alone in a single year to mount every Cardinal in the Court on throne of the same metal. The Observer makes a point in an article headed “The Sin of Ice Cream,” by instituting a comparison between the rigor of the Jewish Church, which has just expelled a rabbi for eating ice cream on a fast day, and the rigor of the Christian Church (the Presbyterian), which turned a great and good man out of their Church because he would sing God’s praises in the hymns that other Christians love to sing. ‘‘Was not Mr. Tyng’s sin” (preaching ina parish other than his own) asks the Observer, ‘“‘just about as great as that poor Jew’s who fell under the temptation of an ice cream on a hot day?” Similar com- parisons might be multiplied with regard to the intolerant in other than the Jewish or the Presbyterian churches. The Independent is awakening to an appre- ciative sense of the prevailing revival in religion, although this is ‘‘not much of a season for revivals,” as they say in Arkansas when they go out on a nigger hunting expedi- tion and return after bagging a couple of score or so. The present religious revival is regarded as a most powerful and gracious movement. It began with the first breath of June, and has steadily grown in fervor and intensity with the heats of summer. It is not, says the Independent, what is commonly called a work of grace, but rather what the old preachers would style a ‘daw work.” That is to say, while the late ca mp meeting at Sing Sing might be called a work of grace, and the convicts who recently escaped from State Prison there no doubt thought theirs was, the recapture of the latter was a ‘law work” in the spirit if the law officers did thé principal labor of recalling back- sliders. The Independent ascribes this unusual revival in religion to the corruptions of the day, and, as a matter of course, espe- cially to the sins of poor old Tammany. Ob, Tammany! Oh, Tammany! The dominions of Satan will have to be enlarged if half the wickedness thine enemies allege against thee shall be proven on Judgment Day (and it is not likely to be much before that interesting epoch). The Independent pitches a strain to the tune of a new rendition of ‘‘The Arkansas Traveller”"—or to the secesh music of a paper in that State—in which the Northern demo- crats are called ‘“‘base cowards and hypo- crites,” because they have ventured on the “pew departure” dodge. The Independent parades this Arkansas editor as the type of Southern sentiment, and attempts to revive sectional prejudices upon so flimsy and ridicu- lous a basis, The Golden Age is up to its little sparkling eyes in a tilt between Mr. Tilton and Mr. Greeley, and about which the public gene- rally cares as much as if an old bald-headed, spectacled country pedagogue (Greeley) was engaged in the operation of switching an unruly urchin. Greeley. backs down on his early ‘‘free love” theories; Tilton clings to and exalts them. They are but the fruits of the seed the philosopher of the Zridune sowed a quarter of acentury ago, and the crop has not all matured yet. Our distant religious contemporaries pre- sent no novel features this week. Toe Tareatenep Carust Risina IN Spam.—Again the Carlists are growing uneasy and make a show that they are anxious to try conclusions with the soldiers of King Amadeus, Our despatches from Madrid this morning tell us that troops are being hastened to the frontier to meet the threat- ened invasion of the Carlists. A more uneasy, restless or turbulent party it would be difficult to meet with outside of Spain than these same followers of Don Carlos, The chances of a Carlist rising being successful are almost hopeless; yet these periodical risings tend to distract the country, annoy the goyernment, exhaust the treasury and diffuse a sense of insecurity all over the peninsuls, Between Carlists and Montpensierists, Isabellites and republicans, Spain is in almost as bad @ con- dition as Mexico. Tue ALABAMA CLatss.—Count Luigi Costi has been agreed upon by the United States and Great Britain as the umpire to dispose of all claims arising out of the Alabama disputes not provided for in the Treaty of Washington. The machinery for the settlement of these long-pending claims is being gradually got in order, and it will not now be a great while before they come up for consideration before the proper tribunals. Toe Werk 1s Want Srreet was pretty well diversified for midsummer. The gold “bulls” gave the “boars” a terrible hug on Tuesday, but were frightened off by Mr. Boutwell, Then the Syndicate made a won- derful sensation with,the new loan, On this latter point, however, there is a good deal of suspected humbug, and further developments aro looked for that may show the loan to have been marketed at enormous expense to the government Hacumen, rete Manners and Howdled at the Railroad Depots. A French cynic relates the story ot ship- wrecked man being cast upon a bleak coast, and states that he knew at once he was in o civilized country because he saw in the dis- tance a gibbet with the skeleton of a criminal hanging in chains, What are the feelings of a stranger on arriving by trainin New York after dark, and what bis impressions of its civilization must be when surrounded by a gang of thieves and rowdies who fight for his baggage among themselves and blacken his eyes if he grumbles, we leave to the profound philosophers of ages to come. From the standard of the French cynic it would be con- sidered highly civilized. When the case is that of a lady, without male protectors, who is set upon by these vagabonds, under the guise of hackmen and hotel runners, and in addition to insults and robberies is hustled and mal- treated, one’s blood tingles with a desire te deal summarily, lamppost fashion, with the scoundrels and those in authority under whose misrule such a state of things is tolerated and fostered. Alady arriving lately in this city details her experience of maltreatment; but her case is only one out of hundreds or thousands. The Hudson River Railroad depot, outside of which the disgraceful scene took place in the case alluded to, is not alone in its spe- cial concourse of thieves who prowl and prey around its terminus. The New Haven Railroad the Harlem Railroad and the line of depots along the North River are not a whit better. Take a case which happens nightly at the New Haven depot. The night express arrives very late. The horses which draw the cars down from Forty-second street are unbitched in Fourth avenue, leaving the passengers to scramble down from the high steps as best they can. For ladies this is especially incon- venient. A gang of hack thieves and bogus hotel runners, shouting, jostling and swearing, surround the platform, and among this agree- able crowd it is necessary to descend. It is raining, and a lady requiresahack. ‘Taey are all hackmen, so they say, and there is noth- ing for it but to surrender herself to the mercy of these miscreants. The company declares that there is safety to every one io the depot, but they cannot control persons outside, Unfortunately for this slipshod logic the question remains, ‘“‘Why, then, are the cars left out on the avenue?” If the respon- sibility of the company ends when the cars are opposite their depot (a proposition which, however, we do not at all admit), to whom belongs the right of protecting defenceless women and preventing a system of robbery as deflant as successful? A cynical echo answers, “The police!” But the officer of the law knows better than wet his uniform where he has no positive orders, and where possibly bis friends, the honest hackmen, are concerned. But this is not all. Some know- ing wight runs the gauntlet of the roughs aud jumps upon the first streot car. His example is followed and soon the vehicle is crowded. Here commences the second act of the farce of police protection. Four or five expert pickpockets mingle with the passengers, shoving, pushing and robbing. By the time the conductor begins collecting his fares the booty-laden pickpockets are ready to start, and as tho car approaches the Bowery one by one they drop off and disap- pear in the side streets. In a few moments the drowsy passengers become alive to the losses of watches, breastpins, lockets and pocketbooks—anything, in fact, light, valuable and portable. This occurs every night. Where are the detectives? is now the cynic’s cry. They are taking it easy, friend, on this rainy night; loafing in a barroom, compromising with a burglar on his own aecount, or working up—the curse of the detective system—some private reward case. These pickpockets are known both to the car conductors and the police, and we insist that the matter be looked to, The lack of system and responsibility everywhere is alarming, considered as part of our social institutions, and calls for instantremedy. It is not enough to say that New York is no worse off than the other large cities of the Union, where, if the nuisance is not so feloniously effective, it is because of a smaller, less wealthy, and there- fore leas thief-attracting travelling population than that which is constantly poured inte New York. If any improvement is to be made we of New York must begin with our own Augean stable, and in herculean earnest. If the rail- way companies and the police require a con- trast to their neglect, let them be instructed in the European manner of receiving ,travellers. The termini in England and on the Continent are mostly large and roomy, and in these, awaiting the arrival of the trains, are a num- ber of hacks. The hackmen are not allowed to hustle among the passengers, nor leave their seats upon the box, but must wait to be called either by a police officer or one of the company’s servants or by a passenger. A lady can with perfect safety ask an official to hail acab or voiture and then rely upon her bag- gage being securely placed upon the vehicle by a porter of the company. In the few cases where a depot is not sufficiently large to allow arank of cabs inside they are called one at a time from the ‘‘stand” in the street, and if any one allows himself to be robbed it is plain- ly his own stupidity. The idea of having @ sufficient number of properly uniformed railway porters to under- take such a duty and carry it out has not yet entered the heads of railroad directories on this Continent, and, as it entails additional expense, is not likely to unless they are forced. The baggage-smashers of Castle Garden are a thing of the past, and the time has now arrived when public indignation will demand a change in the matter of railroad depots. If the poor emigrant has been protected, why not the wealthier classes of our land, who come down to the sea in railway cars? The rapid ratio in which railroad travel has increased and is increasing on Manhattan Island necessitates this depot aystem being placed upon 8 safe basis ; for what man can rest easy to think his wife, mother or sister is on her way to New York and has to run every risk, from insult to rob- bery and outrage, which our State and fed- eral goveraments pledge themselves to guard against ? We call on the railway companies and tho police authorities for a prompt reply and rapid remedy. and ask if thore are among our