The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD werk for the Churches. The summer is almost over, and the thou- sands of New York’s sons and daughters who have been seeking health and recreation in the country are returning to the city, and in a week or two will be in their accustomed places in the church and the counting house and the home. In each of these spheres there will be abundant work for every hand and heart, and the calls of the poor for sympathy and henevo- lence will not be less this year than formerly. Dread diseases are making rapid strides toward our shores, and already the yellow fever has begun to lay its heavy hand upon the inhabitants of some of our seaboard cities, and we know not how soon it may be here among us, News of disasters by sea and land come to our ears in quick succession, and famine and pestilence warn us of the “begin- ning of troubles.” There is in New York, as there is in Lon- don and Paris, in Rome and Madrid, a disturbing element in the population, ever ready at the favorable moment to burst forth in acts of violence and bloodshed, determined, if possible, to change the face and form of society. We may be more safe and secure than the other cities named because of the popularity of our institutions; but there are influences at. work here which, if allowed to go unchecked, will, ere long, upset our institutions and leave us a prey to the basest passions of the mob. There is, there- fore, something for each one of us to do, but the part which each is to take must be decided by our individual sense of duty and obligation to God and to our fellow men. Last Sunday we were told by a stranger that the three great evils which are destroying New York are :—Intemperance, licentiousness and politi- cal corruption. These and kindred evils spring, of course, from a low state of morals in the community; and this comes from the Church’s neglect of duty. If, therefore, this state of things would be altered and improved, every Christian man and woman must take hold and work. There must be no shirking and dodging. That has been the cause of all our immorality and rioting. There isa tender spot in every human soul which may be reached by the proper means and in a suitable way, and the obligation rests upoa the Church of God to bring the truths of the Gospel and of morality to bear upon every form of vice and wrong doing. Notwithstanding the number of temperance societies which exist in our midst, the evil of @runkenness is on the increase, and it is no longer confined tothe laboring poor, but finds hundreds of victims among the “‘better classes,” One cause of this increase of intemperance, and, perhaps, the most potent of all, is the rapid rate at which we live and our excitable style of living. It is “‘all work and no, play,” BROADWAY AND STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic be addressed New York despatches must Hera. io, 246 Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,-M¥ Nriaavon'’s WieR— “On Tar TRack” NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prin ‘Houston sta.—THE Baama o¥ Furry, — GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8th av. ang ey JAstPR; OB, THE MYSTERY OR EDWIN DEOOD. LINA_FDWIN’S THEATRE. No, 120 om & Leox’s MINSTRELS. No, 120 Broadway.—KELLy WALLACK’S THEATR F 3 Bice eee E. Broadway and 1th street. — GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadw: OUTTES, BURLESQURS, &C. OLYMPIC THEATRE. B poo Mu 5 TOMIME OP HUMPYY DUMPET NE BALLER PAN NEGRO EcoRNTRI- BOOTINS THEATRE, 23d et, between ith: and 6th ave. —- Liv. NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th at. —Perform- ances afternoon and evening—EAst LYNNF. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL Haul, 585 Broadway.— Tux SAN FRANOIS0O MINSTRELS, BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., vetween 6th apa 7th avs.—BRran1’s MINSTRELS. TWENTY-EIGHTA STREET OPERA HOUSE, corner Broadway.—Newooub & ARLINGTON’s MINSTRELS, CENTRAL PARK GARD: SUMMER NiGHTS’ CONCERTS. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, © jowite City Hall,—Va- mitty ENTERTAINME: idea as iS BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mont treet— ene IC, Montague street. So Senens anne vevne-me on —Takopore TaHowas’ New York, Sunday, September 3, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAW'S HERALD. Pace, Re aeenet at 1—Advertisements. 2— Advertisements. 3—Rosenzweig’s Rascality: The Medical Murderer in Fitting Company—A Shoe Shop Slaughter : A Fatal Quarrel Between Man and News irom Washington—The National High Toned Huray Gurdy Men—koil sions—The Pennsyivania War Pastor's Reputation Vind 4—Religious Intelligence—Glen Camp Meet- ing—Horribie Tragedy in Memphis—Paris Fastious—Our Public Markets—!low Prison- —Cholera Invited to Hoboken— Claim: nator Con Ryan Releasea-. A tive Explosion 11 G—Editorials: Leading Article, Churehes"—Amusement Announcements. 7—Editorial (Continued irom Sixth Page)—The Sitation in France—News from Germany, ey, Spain, Italy, and and Ireland— scellaneous Telegrap! News—Yachting— Aquatics— Amnusements—--Obituars— Personal Intellizence—Studying Sing Sing—Literary Chit-Chat—New Publications Received—Views of ths otices. s—The | Mak Another Family res Un- and the dulness which must ensue from over- Jortunate aring of the Alle; *, . Abanction M) Sportive Seots--The Dry | Work is kept at bay by the use of stimulants, which, taken at first, it may be, for a laudable purpose and in a healthy proportion, have come at last to be our masters and the destroy- ers of our liberty and our lives. Temperance societies do not strike deep enough to get at the root of this evil. There is something more needed than the mere signing of a pledge. The vice must be met and fought on an intel- lectual and spiritual basis, and the Church of Christ is the only proper agent to combat it. And were our churches, Protestant and Cath- olic, to delegate a score or more of their ablest religious teachers as apostles of temperance to attend to this thing, both privately and pub- licly, during the approaching fall and winter and the.ensuing spring, it would be time and labor and money well spent. Itis estimated that not less than sixty thousand persons die annually in these United States from intem- perancealone. Our proportion of that number is probably one-sixth, or ten thousand. What a noble work the Church might do, therefore, in saving, or trying to save, ten thousand immortal souls from ‘going down to the pit!” We believe there is no ministerial work within the Church half so important as this; and we are very well convinced that if those perishing ones are to be saved at all it must be by going after them and following them into their haunts of debauchery and death. i Licentiousness is very closely allied to in- temperance—indeed, the one leans upon the other for support. This vice leads to crimes untold and of great magnitude, not the least of which is that which just now is agitating this community, This, too, must be fought on the higher plane of Christian morality, and not merely by Jegal enactments and penalties. We have tried these for many years and failed. Tostead of lessening the evil, our laws, and the administration thereof, have but tended to in- creas? it, until the most flagitions crimes are committed in the full blaze of day and with the utmost unconcern—nay, even in defiance of the results. This, too, is the Chorch’s work, and it must be met out of the pulpit as well as in it, We cannot clear our skirts by going to church, or to synagogue, once or twice or thrice a week, and praying or preaching against this evil. Somebody must take the ploughshare of the Gospel and run it through this vice until it is torn up, root and branch, from our midst. Who will do it? And akin to intemperance and _licen- tiousness is the want of probity and in- tegrity in all classes of the community. We see and hear of merchants and brokers and business men going to work deliberately day after day to cheat and defraud their neigh- bors or the government, or the tax payers, and with the price of honor and principle coolly leaving our shores for other lands, or perhaps for distant parts of our own land. And yet how seldom do we hear the thunders of Sinai or the gentler but more powerful threatenings of Calvary uttered against such wickedness in high places, When the press bas announced the dreaded facts there are plenty of ministers bold enough then to harangue their congrega- tions on these things, But the evil was cul- minating and ripening long before, perhaps, under their owo ministry while they held their peace. It is not the best time to lock the stable when the horse is stolen, neither is it the beet time to deliver set orations against particular sins when the particular sinners have gone beyond our reach and hearing. And yet we fear that this is the too common } practice of ministers in the pulpit. Indeed, we know that more than one, two or a dozen of ihem take their cne from the daily or weekly press, and treat from the pulpit such subjects as they consider the public mind has been interested in or agitated about during the week, We do not, of course, object to Goods Market—Court of Appeals Calendar— Financ’al and Commercial Report—Deatis— Advertisements, —Advertisements. 10—Traftic in Concubines: Soiled Doves on the Wing—Louisiana Affairs—Trotting at Fleet wood park—Horse Notes—Weather Report— New York City News—seizure of an American Fishing Schooner—Shipping Inieiligence—Ad- Genxerat Hancock in tHe Sovru.—The West Virginia Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs have for some years past been the summer headquarters of the Southern politi- cians opposed to General Grant and the republican party. At, those headquarters now, we are informed, General Hancock is the favorite of nearly all the Southern democratic magnates, old departure or new departure, and this gives the General a powerfal lift for the democratic nomination. Tue Tea Trape with China is increasing with a rapidity that astonishes even the most sanguine importers. The steamer Alaska, which arrived at San Francisco yesterday, brought fifty-four thousand six’ bundred and sixty-five packages of teas, the largest cargo ever landed by any one vessel in an Amefican port. A British steamer is also en route to San Francisco with twelve hundred tons of tea, and other vessels, in addition to the regular lines of steamers, are being chartered in Shanghae for the same destination. ‘Tur Eastern CoNFERENCE seems to have alarmed ithe different Powers of Europe; for, according to the Prussian Cross Gazette, the German government was to issue a circular on the subject to its representatives abroad, but has now abandoned that intention, declar- ing, however, its readiness to give ‘‘reassuring explanations where disquietnde is expressed.” No great Power is likely to undergo the humiliation of appearing alarmed, and thus the German government will be spared the explanations which it, perhaps, did not intend to make and would now prefer to avoid. A New Fearore iN THE Corzan QUES- v10N,—The more the facts concerning the Corean difficulties become developed the less defensible we find the course pursued toward that goverument by the United States. Shang- hae papers received at San Francisco yester- day contain an authenticated letter from the Corean government to the commander of the United States steamer Wachusett, when that vsssel was despatched to inquire after the crew of the General Sherman, in 1868. The Jetter is very friendly and conciliatory, but, unfortunately, it was not received in Shanghae until after the Wachusett had sailed. Had it been received in time all the subsequent mis- understanding and bloodshed would have been averled. h Georata REJOICES in negro justices of the peace, but those same justices seem disposed to destroy the peace of mind of Premier Fish. In Darien, Ga, on Monday last, a negro jus- tice caused the arrest and imprisonment of the captain of a British vessel who had at- tempted to enforce his orders on board his own ship. This infraction of international law has aroused the British lion, and already his growlings roarings are heard in Wasbington. ‘his is the second time that the stupidity and ignorance of negro justices have imperilled the triendship existing between Great Britain and the United States, It is due to the great commercial and wanu- facturing interests of the coupiry that mea- sures should be taken by the adminisiration to prevent a repetition of such offences. A set of ignorant, worthless State officials, no matter whai their color, should not be suf- fered to endanger the peace of the country by heir incapacity and offigiousness, and this on all occasions, It is often very proper; and the press furnishes excellent material for texts and sermons every day if the Christian ministry and Church members knew how to appreciate and improve them as they ought. In the increase of youthful criminals in our + midst the churches should see a large field of labor before them, and in the strength of God they should go up and possess it and cultivate it for the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no work in which Christian men and women can engage that will yield- half so abundantly as child culture. And here, in spite of all the benevolent and missionary institutions estab- lished for their special benefit, there are still over thirty thousand chil- dren utterly neglected and shut off from all religious instruction; and this, too, in the Christian city of New York! A few more thousands of dollars spent annually might accomplish this object; but the men and the means are lacking, and these 30,000 Ishmael- ites are allowed to grow up in our midst, with their hand against every man and every man’s hand against them. Who will try to save these young sinners this fall and winter? And who will lead the way in giving the Gospel more fully and freely to the masses in their homes and haunts, as they cannot get it or will not have it in our churches? There are other spheres of labor and duty that we might mention in which the Church of God in this city might profitably engage during the coming months, but we have indicated enough for the present. Let our ministers and churches and missionary societies take hold of these in earnest, and other fields large and extensive will open up before them. The Sentenced Leaders of the Commune. The court martial of Versailles has at last pronounced sentence upon those leaders of the Paris insurrection who were captured after the final collapse of the Commune. The vari- ous penalties to which they have been doomed are as severe as might have been ex- pected from the temper of the victors and the military character of the judges. Yet it cannot be said that the sentences are unjust; but in several cases, chiefly in that of Lullier, a crack-brained naval officer, the doom might have been more merciful. For France is a country of revolutionary changes, where the vanquished of to-day may be the victors of to-morrow ; and those who give no mercy may expect none. The hardest case of them all seems to have been Ferré, who was delegate to the Prefecture of Police and the only superior officer present at the Prison La Roquette when the massacre of the hostages took place. Yet the charge of having taken part in the murder of the Archbishop and the other hostages could not be brought home to him. But the most damning piece of evidence against Ferré was an order, signed by him ordering the burning of the Ministry of Finance. He was sentenced to death. Lullier, who is like- wise doomed to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, was General of the National Guard, and formerly a naval officer. He was noted for his eccentricities under the Commune, which, under any circumstances, would have sufficed to procuro him the entrée to a lunatic asylum. Assi was the only man who gloried in the Commune, and behaved something like a hero during the trial. He took, perhaps, the most prominent part in the Paris insurrection, but as he was arrested before the collapse he could neither directly nor indirectly be charged with the firing of Paris and the murder of the hostages. His crime was purely political. Paschal Grousset, the ex-delegate for Foreign Affaira, was, next to Assi, the most promi- nent and intellectual member of the Commune, and he now shares the fate of Assi. Jourde, the financial man of the Commune, who found six hundred thousand francs a day for the wants of the insurrection, and spent altogether about seven and a half million dollars, which he obtained from the Bank of France, was sentenced to simple deportation. Courbet, the painter, who was instrumental in the destruction of the Column Vendéme, escaped with a comparatively light sentence, The Latest News fr Spain. The expected Carlist rising in Spain is not likely to assume a formidable nature, nor is it, perhaps, intended for aught else than a noisy demonstration. Don Carlos and his adherents have from time to time thought fit to remind the world of their existence by such periodi- cal outbursts, which have of late years in- variably come to nothing. These demonstra- tions served the double purpose of replenish- ing an exhausted exchequer and of keeping alive, or at least in a flickering state, the spirit of the party. No enterprise of this kind can have a chance of success if an- nounced beforehand by a grand flourish of sound, as the Carlists seemed to have dote in the present instance. Such has been the case with the Cuban and Fenian fillibustering schemes which for like reasons were always foredoomed to failure. The French government, moreover, will cer- tainly not permit armed hands to violate its frontiers for the purpose of attacking a neigh- boring friendly power. The Spanish govern- ment seems to attach but little importance to this reported Carlist attempt, else it would not have issued a general amnesty—as it did a few days ago—for all political offences. Nor would the greater part of the Spanish people be the gainer by the success of the reaction- ary Carlist party. The liberal policy and measures of economy recently introduced by Sefior Zorrilla tend to give a solid basis to the government of King Amadeus, and no such attempt as that premeditated by the Carlisis is likely to upset it. A Gem or Beaviy—The beautiful flower garden which they have made of St. Paul's churchyard. Right at the very busiest point of Broadway, with its endless streams of foot passengers, carriages, omribuses, street cars, carts and drays, this churchyard, trans- formed into a garden of flowers, recalls the words of the Prophet Isaiah: —‘“The wilder- ness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert sball rejoice and blossom as the rose.” It is a refreshing little picture, grateful to the eyes of the living, and we cannot and would not dismiss the idea that such tender remembrances musi‘be grateful to the souls of those whose earthly remains are thus covered with the emblems of beauty from dust and ashes and of the resurrection from the grave, The Latest Paris Fashions. It will be seen from the Henraty’s Paris fashion letter, which we print to-day, that there has not yet been a complete revival in the preparations of ladies’ costumes. As winter often lingers in the lap of spring fashion clings to the forced simplicity of war times. The rustic in dress is much affected, and to look countrified is the ambition of many fine women, But this is an idyl in real life which cannot last long, and the fact that such rich and elaborate costumes as the one called “cloud lining,” which is described in the HERALD, are seen at all is evidence that rus- ticity in dress is already on the wane. All this is the natural result of the political condition of France. In the days of the empire the gilded show which all Frenchmen, and especially Frenchwomen love, was fos- tered by every art in the multifarious re- sources of the Emperor and the exquisite Eugénie. The Empress seemed born to lead the fashion, and to her was the exquisiteness of Parisian taste attributed. But when the empire went down in that fearful crash at Sedan and the government of the National Defence sprung into existence in an hour, only to be subdued by the same hand which had sub- dued Napoleon, and afterwards to fight a less glorious even but more successful battle with the Commune, the leadership in matters of dress was also lost. The croakers lamented, and those who were wise beyond their genera- tion declared that thereafter Berlin would dictate the fashions to the world. It was a vain saying, for much as we admire German fighting we would be slow to welcome Ger- man sovereignty in fashionable costumes. American women would as soon allow London milliners to transform them into scarecrows as submit to the hideous tastes of Berlin. After all we can look only to Paris, and when the fever for ‘republican simplicity” has passed away Paris will show to the world that in matters of dress at least she is the Paris of the past. The fall of the empire could not drag down with it tho exquisite ingenuity of the world’s = modistex, These will still go devising their devious models, and pretty women will demand that the reign of the sombre pass quickly away that the bright things with which Paris has been wont to console them may again make their hearts glad. Even the necessary accessories to fashionable dress—tie alms pouches, chate- laines and bonbon boxes, made in the shape of explosive shells, and the long walking sticks to small sunshades—are, as our correspondent-| asserts, suggestive of the support France wants to some genial form of government, and of her fond anticipations of the time when the city of inventive resource will be again free to exercise her wondertul talent in the art of pleasing. Our own openings for the autumn will take place earlier this fall than has been the case for many years, the sadden termination of the watering-place season having the effect of stirring up our merchants, milliners and dress- makers to the necessity of preparing for the retarning multitude, If we are to get along without Parisian taste in matters of design this is our opportunity. Whether we shall succeed is exceedingly doubtful. This season will determine the anestion. hnt we net not fail to remember that Paris is daily growing stronger in the field which she occupied so long. The October fashions which the in- genious workers in the models of dress in this city and in Paris are preparing will put the matter at rest both for Paris and for us. We should like to see New York lead the world in this respect, as in every other, but if we must get our fashions from abroad let us have them from Paris by all means. Religious Reform in Germany—The ‘“ Old Catholic ” Movement, The reform movement in Germany in mat- ters religions, and of which Dr. Dilfiiger is regarded as the head, though quiet and unde- monstrative, is still full of life. The cor- respondence which has appeared in the HERALD on two successive Sundays—a cor- respondence which has given us more insight into the actual movement than anything which has yet been published—shows that the movement, which means opposition to the de- crees of the Vatican Council, is pregnant with a powerful vitality. Dr. Dillinger, Dr. Fried- richs and those who act with them are deter- mined not to be put down. Then, again, Ger- many, North and South, is so much in sympathy with the new movement that those who look for a new Reformation are fall of hope, and those who cling to Rome and the Pope are full of despair. We are not of those who make too much of religious disaffection in Germany. Germany is the native home of thought. Disaffection in matters religious is as natural to the Ger- map as to drink lager or to smoke a cigar. The great Reformation of the sixteenth cen- tury was especially a German work. It is true, and all men must admit it, that the Monk of Wittenberg shook the world; but it is not the less true that since Luther's days we have been waiting for a great reformer. During the last three hundred years Enrope has seen and felt many revolutions; but the religious landmarks which were sharply drawn before Luther died have not been seriously disturbed. Many attempts have been made, but all have failed. “Febronius and Hermes and Ronge have each in his day made a sensation and en- couraged the belief that out of Germany was to come another monk who should shake the world ; but to none of these has Germany been responsive. ‘The time was not yet; and the would-be reformers one and all have labored in vain and spent their strength for naught. Tt is not unnatural that many should ask whether this new movement is to prove equally weak and equally worthless, and whether Germany, in spite of all her strength, must not wait for ber second Luther. We cannot answer these questions defi- nitely. But we cannot close our eyes to the fact that there are indications of religions life among the German Catholics which, to say the least, are dangerous to the continued supremacy of Rome. Dr. Dillinger bas, in spite of his opposition to Rome and the pre- tensions of the Papacy, been elected Rector Magoifiens of the University of Munich, Whatever else this may prove, it at least proves this: that the professors of the greatest Catholic University in Germany are in favor of the new departure of which Dillinger is the prime mover, Dr, Friedrichs, a young man, is, a4 our cosreapondence has shown, even more determined than Dillinger. ability and influence, is second to neither, Twenty thousand of the most thougbtfal men of Germany are with the reformers, who with much wisdom call themselves ‘Old Catho- lics.” They cling to Rome as Rome was before the late Ecumenical Council. primacy of St. Peter and the unity of the Church, without the abuses which toleration has permitted to take root and flourish—sueh’ is their programme, Catholics” will fight the good fight. has set a good example by ignoring the Vati- can decrees and retaining priests in office whom the Church has deposed. stands true, although the young King evi- dently vacillates. One meeting of the leaders of the new movement has been held at Heidel- berg. Another meeting, of a more imposing character, is about to be held at Munich. The Munich meeting will determine whether Dollinger and Friedrichs.are to take their places with Febronius and Hermes and Ronge, and whether we ere to wait for another Luther. and most certainly we should like to see it in this. know whether religion in Germany is a name and nothing more, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1871.--TRIPLE SHEET, ee Dr. Huber, in The It remains to be seen whether the “Old Prussia Bavaria We like pluck in every good cause, We wait for the Munich meeting to ‘The Musical and Dramatic Season. One by one the promised attractions of the season are unfolded to the public eye, and the managers throw open their doors, some in fear and trembling and others with feelings of the most serene confidence. Booth’s, the Olympic, the Grand Opera Houge and Niblo’s, with many of the minor theatres, are already in the field, and the Fifth Avenue Theatre will commence its seasgn on Tuesday. The regular company of Wallack’s will not'be called together until the end of the present month, and Mr. Fechter’s arrangements at his new theatre are yet unknown, The dramatic managers will need all their resources to hold their own against the powerful opposition in the musical world, especially those whose patrons are stockholders or subscribers at the Academy of Music. tions this winter that we may reasonably fear that some impresarii will not be able to pull through the season in safety. managers, however, will be the first sufferers, as music will undoubtedly take the lead in amusements this season. There will be so many musical attrac- Dramatic The Italian Opera Company, of which Nils- son js the chief attraction, is now completely organized. ists:—Mlle. Nilsson and Mlle. Léon Duval, soprani; Miss Carey, contralto; Capoul, Brig- noli and Lyall, tenori; Barre, baritone, and Jamait, basso. the only Italian artist in the company, and the légere element predominates. “T’Ombre” will be the novelties of the first season, violin in the orchestra. The management promises to place each opera on the stage, with a fidelity to detail which will astonish the much-abused haditucs of the opera. Mme. Parepa-Rosa, who was so fortunate as to secure the Academy for the best month in the year, October, has the strongest English Opera Company ever organized #= T-rone and The following is the list of art- As may be seen, Brignoli is “Mignon” and Mr. Sarasate is engaged as leading America. A tower of strength herself, she has secured Mile. Vanzini (Mrs. Jenny Van Zandt) and Mile. Clara Doria as prima donne soprani, with all the old favorites of the Eng- lish Opera stage and Tom Karl and Aynsley Cook as new‘candidates for public favor. not able proportions of Carl Rosa is representative tenor, Theodore Wachtel, who is expected to arrive on the steamship Westphalia this week. The visit of this great artist was totally unex- pected and creates no small commotion among But already formid- company, Mr. with the German the the in negotiation of the great content with the managers. If he fails to come to terms with the Parepa-Rosa Company it is likely he will join the German opera troupe, of which Mme. Lichtmay is to be, as before, the prima donna. The concert prospects are no less brilliant than those of the opera. Mme. Fabbri, Mile. Elzer and Messrs. Mulder and Miiller, the soloists of Mr. Rullman’s great troupe, are already in town, awaiting the ‘ar- rival of the Vienna Lady Orchestra on the steamship Vandalia. We learn that Ole Bull is rapidly recovering from his recent illness, and will probably be able to fulfil all his en- gagements for the season. Then Miss Kellogg is determined not to remain idle this season, and Theodore Thomas has all his arrangements completed for an extensive tour with his orchestra and Miss Marie Krebs, Lastly, the English ballad and oratorio quartet, Miss Wynne, Mme. Patey and Messrs. Cummings and Santley, under the management of George Dolby, may be looked for at an early date. “No less than a dozen smaller troupes are pre- paring for aciion in different parts of the country. The old adage, ‘it never rains,” &c., receives a strong illustration this season in the domain of music. We have been too long deprived of the divine art not to rejoice in this grand revival. There is but one dra- matic feature in the country worthy of notice, and that is the tragedienne, Fanny Janauschek. Machine plays and other trash fill up the greater part of the season on the various cir- cuits. Senator Conk1iN@ is personally interested in the success of the republican party in this State at the next election. The Senator's political future depends upon the complexion of the next Legislature; hence we find him counselling union and harmony in his party as the only means of attaining the desired end. In a letter to ex-Congressman Griswold, pub- lished this morning, Mr. Coukling grieves over the divisions in the republican ranks, By turns he is pathetic, heroic, indignant, suppli- cating, and even indulges in a little grim pleasantry at the expense of certain lenders, who, because they were refused more than a fair share of spoils, are endangering the integ- rity of the party, The Senator's advice to his friends is choicely worded and well- timed, although his sceming humility and assumed fervid party zeal will be apt-to raise doubts of his entire diginterestedness in the minds of republicans who have narrowly watched the course of events during the laat two years, Snort, Saarv axp Deowive—Vice Presi- dent Colfax in reference to the next Presi- dency. He asks to be counted out, and goes fov General Grant for 1872 agatnst the field. Review of the Religions Presa, Our religious press table does not groa@ very heavily this week. There is nothing either very sparkling or very sombre—nothing very good or very bad—to be found in its cot. umns, * The Hvangelist is slightly iluninative, be. ing touched up by a spark from the tinder box of the Observer, which accuses it of being the “apologist of fraud.” This is the objection- able sentence : — ‘That apologizing article in the Evangelist tas pro. bably done more evil than all the moral teachings of that pay have gone good lor many years past or will do for vears to come, To this the Hvangelist exclaims ‘“‘Oh! oh! oh!” while the Devil chuckles ‘Ha! aa! ha!” at witnessing this pretty little quarrel between two of the stanchest Presbyterian organs in the land. While the Observer accuses the vangelist of apologizing for wickeduess, the latter says of the former :— ‘Thats jnst like hundreds of letters that we used to get about the Observer, which said that by tte apologies for slavery it had done more evil than it could undo if it lived @ thousand years, Indeéa, many believe—and still belleve—that oy its false representations of Northern sentiment it did much to mislead the South and to bring on that terribie war which covered the land with mourning. Is not this rather a queer confession, coming from such a sanctified source? But this is not all, The Hvangelist, following the example of the fiendish petroleuses of Paris, applies a firebrand to the fleshly tabernacle of the Odserver, in the annexed scorching style :— As the Observer 1s 80 zealous just now in exposin: frauds and corruption, will it be so kind as to tel the public about the Calforaia Petroleum Company, of which it Knows a good deal? Some six yéars ago a vast scheme—a second South Sea Bubvle— arose out of the Pacifico Ocean, and fiovered for a While with a goldeu glow on the Western horizon. A company was organized in this city, with a capital of ien millions, which was to pour fabulous Wealth into the hands of all its stockholders. The New York Observer was one of the means used to flcatthe concern, Trusting im the assurances of such a journal, hundreds of poor widows and orphans hastened to pat their little means into tt. In a few montis the bubble burst, and they lost all. Verily, verily, brethren of the cloth, we say unto thee proclaim not unto thy kin- dred—‘‘I am holier than thou.” Notwith- standing this astounding exposé it would not be surprising to learn that the Observer had no sinful or worldly object in view ia ita petroleum speculation—it merely wanted to, see if it could not strike a bargain with Beelzebub to supply his dominions with crude petroleum instead of the more expensive article of crudé brimstone for official uses. The Observer has a few sensible remarks on ‘Clerical Absenteeism,” and offers a pri- vate letter from a village in the interior, in which the following statement is made :— We sufier here from a dearth of religious privi- lJeges. The ministers have fallen into the city habit and mast have their vacation in hot weather. Several Sundays nearly all the churches were closed, and we had to stop at home some of the time. When one was open, there were eight clergymen present. Some of them had come here for pure air and recreation, while the ciergy of the placo, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, &c., had goue elsewhere to find the same. The propriety and duty of clerical “Vaca- tions, especially in large cities, adds the Observer, are obvious, and the fault does not lie with the absent ministers who have taken a recess according to the agreement with their people. It lies with the people themselves, who do not make suitable provision for the supply of their own wants. But the want is a serious one, and we hope that when another summer comes the thing may be better arranged. LHe Were we. oeeweem, UU OF Te American delegation to Russia to present the memorial of the American branch of the Evangelical Alliance to the Emperor, writes to the Olser- ver a detail of the facts of the interview with Prince Gortchakoff, from which it appears that at the preliminary conference, held in London, ‘‘we found that an address had been prepared at the British office of the Alli- ance, and the signatures of all the Continental Deputies had been obtained. We were warmly urged to sign it as well, but to this we unanimously demurred, and for two cogent reasons: —First, we could not transfer the names of Cnief Justice Chase and Professor Morse to another document, and we much preferred to present our memorial with the prestige of such distinguished signatures. Again, we objected to the European memorial because it contained matter which we deemed objection- able, and we thought its spirit calculated to defeat the object we sought to attain.” The memorial being withdrawn, as before stated, Dr. Schenck proceeds :— The American deputation had every reason to bs satisfied with their reception and the result of their mission, Alter the conference Priace Gortchakoir took occasion to say in private interviews held the sane evening with two members of the deputation that he was exceedingly well pleased with the inters view, that it had been conducted in a purely Cristian spirit and that he was happy to give the assurance that everything would be done to carry out the wishes of the aeputation, consistent with the circumstances in which the government was placed, and that we might congratulate ourselves upon the result of our Embassy. If a delegation from the Greek Orthodox Church of Russia should visit this country and present to General Grant a memorial of similar character to that of the American branch of the Evarfgelical Alliance, there is but little doubt our Executive would give them leave to withdraw in language not couched in so amiable terms as those em- ployed by Prince Gortchakoff. The Jndcpendent lets Satan slide and slashes away again at the Tammany ring. It attempts to make out that the doors of Tam- many Hall are blacker than the hinges of the other place, and says to the gentlemen of the ring :— . We ave going to turn you and all your creatures out of your offices. That we can do, and shall do, please God, before the new year ts a week old, We are going to get back as much as we can of the booty you have stolcn, We are going to use our best endeavors to send you to your own place, the penitentiary. At any rate we are going to make this city and the whole country too hot for you, In another article it harps upon the same string as follows :— ‘The power to create and uncreate is in the Legise lature, and republicans this fail must elect such « Legislature as will withont hesitation apply the knife to the oficial villanies of New York city, So much of the city charter should ve at once repeaied as may be necessary to terminate the career of the present authorities, and provision made for a tem- porary government of the city until tae people can choose & new set of rulers. The Golden Age has another tract on wo- man’s rights, It is entitled ‘The Constitution a Title-deed to Woman's Franchise,” and is addressed to Charles Snmner by the author, Theodore Tilton, These tracts should find a place in every well regulated library, for they will be of inestimable value for reference about the era when the Viaduct Railroad or the East River bridge shall be finished, or when Horace Greeley shall be elected President of the United States. The Taeblet-—Catholic organ—is crossing swords with the graybeard of the Methodist in a discussion on the subject of ‘‘Romanism and Government.” The Methodist declares that “the Papal system is inherently monarchical and absolate,” to which the Zabel rejoins that