The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI.. ba AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, “Bowery. —Tax Recivsr—Dor- ‘Tans. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ; Bouston st.—Fuirz, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8h av. ana 284 st— Oorry Goort. FIFTA AVENUE TNEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tur New Duama oF sprndinate OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue BALLET Pan- qTomime OF HuNPTy Duxery. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Tur Orena oF I TeovaTonre, BOOTHS THEATRE, 234 st., between 5th and 6th avs. — ive Henny VIL WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broa¢way, corner 30th st.—Perform- -mnces afternoon and evening—LA MENDIANTE. GLOBE THEATRE, 726 Broadway.—N8G2o EccRNTRI- OITUES, BURLESQUES, &C. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—KSLLY & Leo. N's MINSTRELS. Be aad SQUARE THEATRE, corner of Fourteenth atreet and Broadway.—Nr@Rx0 ACTS—BORLESQUE, BALLET, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAuL, 585 Broadway.— ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 st, between 6th and 7th ava, —Brvanr’s MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— BxGRo BOCENTRICITIRG, BURLESQUES, kc. TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET OPERA HOUSER, corner way.—NEWOOME & ARLINGTON'S MINSVSELS. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall,—Va. RIETY ENTERTAINMENT. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montaguo stree:— AcRoss TIE CONTINENT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. —YHEODORE Tuowas’ { Sumuxy Nicuts’ Concerts. PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between Ba and 3a avenues. —EQUESTRIANIBM, &: O. AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXMIBITION, Third avenue and Sixty-third street.—Open day and evening. TRIPLE SHE ET. oat York, Pa September 24, 1871. CONTE NTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PAGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The Ring Row: Unwonted Quietude in Every Departiment—Tne Committee yenty—Har- lem Waking Up—Those ouchers— 47) The Consolidation of Lab ate and Oity } Politics—Anti-Tammany: Organization of the a New Party L: ning—‘“lionest Tom” in a Stew ft in Brooklyn —Naval Intell 4—Retigio yn Affairs—Royal e Courts—Exten: Fr Newburg—Modest Demands of K is Squat- ester Items—Katal Accident to a ockey Clnb: The Race Horses at rk—trotung at Flectwood Park— Exploits. ne National Game—Di Daring tobbery in Hot Leading Article, Corrnption— and the Cure yauscment An- test Against Oatrages Upon the sidents of Lyons—Kurning of tie Lafayette—Tho Rebellion in Mo- s from Washington: an on the erry «onvicted and nts, nis. + OF THE Frenow STEaMsuip vurt is one of the very nnusual logue of marine disasters, and »re unaccountable because the ere the conflagration occurred ie and every assistance in the varatus was probably near at beyond the mere announce- ister has as yet been reported i when further particulars are » perhaps, be found that the only been partially burned. il to think what might have jer passengers if the fire had Rz’'s new departure has proved success at the South. His Nashville, Tenn., is received by all classes, and has been y several hundred ex-Con- and soldiers, who yesterday expressing their admiration » non-partisan and patriotic ex-Confederates say their ne significance and mission republic is unbounded, and turn their backs upon all which live only upon memo- These are encouraging words, he selfish, narrow views of 1s are discarded by the think- n of the late rebel States. Ex-Cotiecror Snoox.—A have been commenced by vkers in this city against idan Shook, to recover in- es which they had paid him the impost was either illegal ese proceedings were origi- a the Court of Common Pleas, »eing removed to the United Uirew.v Court, where they will come on hearing. Two or three of the suits will be as test cases, and the decision in these all the others, to the number of r, Shook is merely a nominal he was a public officer the it assume the responsibility of ERs have peculiar notions rights and finance, which ughs and even find advo- slums of great cities, but be popular with capitalists ful business men. The it public meeting in Bax- ted their platform, which unt of land to be ac- , either by purchase or dred and sixty acres; railroads, except so wary to the working of ee gift of one hundred fic lands to all settlers, d issues all money— je people, City Cerraption—The Cause and the Cure. That innocent and excellent old lady Dame Partington, being once asked what she thought about the doctrine of total depravity, replied that it was a very good thing when properly carried out. But we fear if the old lady could behold the astounding illustration of the doctrine which this city just now presents she would be convinced that even a good thing may be carried too far. The commercial and financial metropolis of this great country stands now before the civilized world shora of her strength and stripped of her greatness, and rone are found so base as to do her homage. The public has expressed its sur- prise at the revelations of fraud which have been made during the last few weeks, whereas the wonder should have been that the losses are not greater than they seem to be. The wholesale corruption, the lack of integrity and common honesty which we be- hold on every side, are not the result of an acci- dent, but are the natural growth and develop- ment of seeds sown in other years and by other hands, and may be as easily traced to their source as any fact in nature. The laws of matter are not more clearly known and easily defined than the laws of morals, and if we can call off our minds for a brief considera- tion of our present condition we may be able to point out the causes thereof and the cure, We are what we are and as we are because of three facts, at the bottom of which lies the root of selfishness, These three facts relate to money and morals and politics. A great outery is being made now against our muni- cipal rulers, and their crime is laid at the door of the democratic party of the country, whea it should rather be laid at the door of every Christian and moral man and woman in this city and State. Those men, whom we now unitedly condemn and seck to punish, are the creatures that we have made. "They could not hold the positions they now hold and for years past have held had not the religious and moral portion of the community placed them there and retained them there. We are the great criminals; they are merely our tools. This charge may seem strong; but its great strength is found in its truthfulness, as we shall try to demonstrate. Here, for instance, are thrsescore and ten good and honest and upright men, in whom the public have unlimited confidence and who are now actively engaged (or so appear to be) investigating frauds against the city, with an avowed purpose to prosecute the guilty. They, of course, would repel the insinuation that they are at all responsible for the crimes of our rulers; and yet they anda thousand other good men like them are the real culprits. They are the men who rise at a seasonable hour in the morning, sip their coffee, glance at the daily paper, ride down town to their banks and mercantile offices, to their railroad and steamboat and other places of business, remain there until the evening hour calls them home again, when they take their tea, read the evening paper, chat a half- hour with the family, go to the club or visit a | friend and are in bed regularly at ten o'clock every nicht. And thus they go the round week after week and year after year. When Sunday comes they are found in church, and perchance sit in the seat next to the man who has had his hand up to the elbow in the pockets of the people for a dozen years. But Mr. Old Fogy knows nothing about it. He has been ‘‘minding his own business” and has not had time to look after that of the city in which his greatest interest lies. And so while he is making money one way the clerk, the plasterer, the chairmaker, the ginshop keeper and the pothouse politician have been making money another way. They have taken, not two per cent of his éarnings or income, but ten per cent of his property of every kind. He made money so fast and was so intent on accumalating wealth be could not give a thought to anything else. Self was his god and the greenback was his prophet, and both jogged along to- gether very comfortably until some one cried out ‘‘Stop thief!” and the conservative old gentleman looked around to see the thief, and then to inquire whose house had been robbed, and, finding that he is the victim, his righteous indignation now knows no bounds. But, had he watched, the thief had not entered. Had he as a Christian man per- formed his duty the men who now stand convicted before the community would not have been to-day in their places, and they might have been honest and worthy members of society. Had he supported an honest man for office the thief would not have got the place. What a sad commentary it is on the morality of the city also to see a crowd gather, as they did a couple of evenings ago, to do- homage to one of the men who thus stands before the people a moral convict! Led by a few small politicians, who, by prey- ing upon the ignorance and the prejudice of the masses, have foisted themselves upon the public, and by the game means hope to retain place and power, the crowd shouted and made: noise enough. But in point of respectability the meeting of Friday night was a failure. No de- cent democrat could be found to preside at the gathering; and We hope not one will be found until the honest people have asserted their right and driven every one of. those leeches from the high places which they now disgrace. What communion hath light with darkness? And what agreement bath Christ with Belial ? And what fellowsbip hath honesty and integrity with immorality, deceit and corruption? We might answer the last question in the lan- guage of the apostle to another :—Much every way. We have already intimated that the accused city officials hold pews and sittings in Chris- tian churches, and some of them in more than one, They hold important positions also in our benevolent institutions, and their money and their influence are not only accepted, but are eagerly sought after to aid and support the same. The citizens’ committee, whose address to the people of New York will be found in another column of this paper, very truly say that ten righteous men in every Assembly district could raise the moral tone of the people so that a bad man would have no chance of stpport, But there is just the rub, The ten righteous men are not found. There is scarcely a single dis- trict in the city untainted with corruption, Saint and sinner, the church and the orphan- ay ¢ alike bowed down before the god of gold which has been setup. “Make money; honestly if you can, but make money,” bas been the motto of every man; and from the republican national administration down to the democratic musicipality bribery and cor- ruption prevail as the result. [tis the readi- ness with which so-called honest country legislators sell themselves away and barter virtue and honor and honesty for money and place and power which has enabled our city rogues to thrive and fatten upon the spoils of office, And among the shrewdest thieves in city and country are many presumably Christian men. There are a few that we wot of prominent in the charches here, who, if their consciences are not wholly stifled, must feel rather wncasy at the revelations which are now being made. But they need never fear being disturbed by their pastors. They, too, bare been bribed and dazzled by the glare and glitter of gold, and they fear more the loss of one bundred dollars a year from their salaries than the frows of the Almighty for a failure to denounce the wrong and reprove the wicked. Who does not know that the growth of vice and crime in our midst is by the permission of the Church and the Christian community? And the danger is deep laid; the vice is spreading, and onless the Church of Christ, without regard to sect or denomination, shall arise and face this foe she must be conquered by it, and she will richly deserve to be. This is a good time to begin a crusade, not against one man, or two men, or ten men; but against crime and vice in all their forms; and let the investigation and the jndgment begin at the house of God. The Perry-Van Buskirk Abertion Trist— Anether Righteous Verdict and Sentence. The trial of ‘Doctor’ Benjamin Perry for the manslaughter of the late Miss Emily Post by means of his endeavor to procure an abortion was continued and concluded before Judge McCue, in Brooklyn, yesterday. The case was placed before the jury in a very able and lucid manner oa behalf of the people, for the prisoner and in the cause of impartial justice by the Court. After an absence of two hours the jurors returned a verdict of man- slaughter in the fourth degree, The fwil- cide was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison during two yeare, the highest punishment which the law as it stands at present permitted the Judge to inflict, Mrs. or Madame Van Buskirk, the fellow prisoner of Perry and his former coadjutor in his infamous practice, made application to be ad- mitted to bail. The motion was denied by His Honor. Madame Van Buskirk was remanded to prison. Her day of trial is fixed for the 4th of December. This issue of the Perry-Post- Van Buskirk tragedy will go far to strengthen the position which Judge Bedford, aided by the voice of Christianity and philanthropy, is about to take in his application to the next Legislature in Albany with the view of having the crime of the professional abortionist declared to be a capital felony, punishable by the death penalty. Nothing short of this will put a stop to the careerof these cloaked and hooded murderers, who decimate the popula- tion and ruin the physical condition of thou- sands of healthy but unfortunate girls, inflict- ing on their persons one of the most degrading and terrible of earthly punishments for their one crime, even if all the poor women should escape with life. The ruling authorities should not lose sight of the situation. An alarming necessity exists for legislative action, Religion, home discipline, morality and law must unite and go hand-and-hand to preserve the ‘living priaciple which is not life,” and to enforce the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill.” The German Pemocrats, At a meeting of the General Committee of the German Democratic Union organization of the city, the other evening, it was resolved that, as “grave responsibilities and dangers have fallen upon the democratic party of the city and the State” and ‘‘a lamentable confasion and demoralization,” &c., it becomes advisable to recommend the Germans of the city to com- bine for municipal reform, to see to it that, so far as they are concerned, honest candidates are nominated for the next Assembly; that to this end and inthe great work of reform the German democrats are ready to co-operate with other democratic organizations; but that as long as the democratic party is not reor- ganized this German Democratic Union will maintain an independent position; and that. while they are ready to co-operate with repub- licans in city reform, these German democrats do not intend to abandon their democratic principles. This is a very good platform. Reduced to a few words, it means that these honest German democrats intend to remain democrats, notwithstanding this terrible up- roar against Tammany Hall, but that until the democratic party of the city and the State is reorganized they will occupy a position of armed neutrality. We may expect, then, from this and other similar democratic movements, that the part y will be reorganized at its coming State Convention at Rochester. On tae Warpatn.—By a special despatch to the Hgracp from St. Paul we learn that ru- mors prevafl at several points that large bands of hostile Indians have compelled the surveying party of the Northern Pacific Rail- road to retrace their steps. When it is con- sidered that the military escort of this party consists of nearly one thousand men, com- posed of seven companies of infantry, two of cavalry and a battery of Gatling guns, if the report is true, it must be a large body of In- dians that could check their progress—so large, indeed, as to render the matter serious, and indicative of an Indian war of no small proportions. It is about time that the Indians on our territory were placed in such a position as to render their interfering in any manner with the march of civilization utterly out of the question. Geyzrat Butven’s friends contend that bis contest for the Massachusetts Governorship is purely an unselfish affair; that the question at issue in that Commonwealth is for Grant or against Grant. Butler was always noted for his magnanimity ; hence his present anxiety to sacrifice himself to secure President Grant’ success. Perhaps the Massachusetts soldier would not object to a place on the next repub- lican Presidential ticket ; he has played second fiddle to President Grant in other campaigns. ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBEK 24, B71 —TRIPLE sumer, ‘The Parepn-Resa Sonson of Opera. The opera season at the Academy of Music will be formally opened next week by the | English Opera Troupe, of which Madame Parepa-Rosa is the chief star. Rarely on these boards has there been such an assem- biage of real talent secured for one season. On Monday, September 11, 1865, Mr. Bate- man introduced tothe American public two artista, whose names bave since become house- hold words in every city inthe Union. They were Mile. Parepa and Cari Rosa, and during the six years which have elapsed since the prima donna made her débat at Irving Hall she bas never relinquished the hold which she then took on the affections of the public. She bas appeared in concert, oratorio and opera of all kinds with equal success, and time improved ber voice and fine dramatic instead of committing the havoc that observable in other artists. One of her triumphs was her singing of the reg from Rossini’s ‘‘Stabat the Boston Jubilee, in which her above the chorus of ten Pee bl eleven bundred in- y, October 2, she will 7 i principal opera houses across the ocean. She makes ber first appearance during the second ‘Week of The seasdn in Balfe's opera of “Sata- nella.” Miss Clara Doria, the third prima She is the daughter of the celebrated composer, Jobn Barnett, one of England's most gifted musicians, The new tenor, Tom Karl, brit with bim strong endorsements from Italian public, baving been the favorite at La Seale, Milan, for three years, The otber tenors are Messrs. Castle and Whiffen. In the contralto lime we have Mrs. Zelda Seguin aod Mrs, Cook, and for baritones and basses theres are ‘8, ©. Campbell, Aynsley Cook, Gastavus Hall, Segain aad Ellis Ryse. To this list of artists we may add the great German tenor, Wachtel, who will probably make an appearance at the Academy this season, One peculiarity about this company is that the leading artists can sing as well in Italian or German as in English. A number of members of the chorus and orchestra"of Covent Garden and Drury Lane have been secured, with a view to strengthen these de- partments as mnch as possible. The prospects of a successful season, it will be seen, are very flattering, and we trust that both it and the brilliant Nilsson engagement that follows immediately after will have the effect of mak- ing opera a permanent institution in the me- tropolis. Is the Earth in Repose ¢—Reseat Gicologic Displacements, Scarcely any occurrence is more apt to rouse public attention than the now frequently- reported and strange displacements of the earth's crust. Whether or not the facts to which we allude seem more startling, solely because of increased facilities of having them accurately recorded, we are in danger of rejecting the popular notion of a terra firma, The New Orleans Picayune recently con- tained an account of a most remarkable subsi- dence in one of the chief thoroughfares of the Crescent City, and nearer home we have some singular phenomena of a similar kind yet un- explained by the scientific:—‘“For some thirty or forty years past,” says the Picayune, “the battare in front of the Bazaar Market and Red Stores bas been gradually sinking until to-day, just below the Red Stores, it is seven feet below she ordinary level, and the settle- ment varies from three to seven feet.” The length of this batture is seven hundred and fifty feet, and its width one hundred and twenty feet; and it is stated that the City Surveyor, after deep borings, made with a view to investigate the strata for the construc- tion of a work to prevent further sinkage, bas been able to find nothing sufficiently Grm to sustain such a work. Another depression on the space over which the Ponchartrain and Chattanooga Railroads are laid has caused great trouble, In Southern New York last fall three acres of land, heavily timbered with hemlock, it was stated, suddenly sank below the surface of the surrounding country. At the time it was asserted that the bighest trees in this track were not to be seen above the banks and around the rim of the depressed area, A few months ago we had the intelligence of the sinking of the bed of the Monticello and Port Jervis Railway, near the former place, to a depth of ten feet, and only a week or two since we had the still more startling anoouncement of a similar phenomenon on the line of the New Jersey Mid- land Railroad, the workmen discovering in the morning that several rods of grading they had left the night before had, in the short space of twelve hours, entirely disappeared, and water and ‘loose mud of undetermined depth was all that could be seen. So remark- able and impressive was the fact that it has given rise to a popalar belief in a subterranean lake, In the immediate vicinity of this sunken spot are numerous boiling springs. Even later, only a day or two ago, we had the statement that the orange region in Florida had suddenly sunk, leaving a sea of rushing, seething waters, where before were trees and verdure in most glorious bloom. It is usual to refer such agitations to the agency of volcanic force and fire—an explanation by no means agreeable, and yet, there is reason to believe, not more scientific than agreeable. The great volcanic lines on the globe cling with remarkable tenacity to the chafed and wave-worn edges of the great oceanic basins and Mediterraneans. There is no authenticated information of the existence of any decided volcano within the central area of any of the earth’s great land masses. Humboldt, in his narrative of travels in Central Asia, gives re- ports andrumorsof the exceptional existence there of some feeble fires bursting through the earth’s crust, but his information has, to this day, lacked the confirmation of Asiatic explorers. It is not probable that the seething of the vast Plutonic furnaces has any vent in the regions of our recent disturbances. In- deed, it ie almost gapablo of demgnatration that volcanic belts skiet the sea atid occupy its island, not merely because the fines which limit the continents are those of geologio frac- ture and may communicate with the earth’s molten interior, but also because water must be near enough and in large quantities to supply the gigantic boiler for the steam erupted. Were the agitations and convulsions of the earth within a few months reported in the United States due to volcanic energy we might justly apprehend some such terrific dis- plays as occurred in 1807, when the roaring of St. Vincent was heard seven hundred miles distant, and, as subsequently, when the Chilean furnace of Antuco sent stones flying to a distance of thirty-six miles, and Cotopaxi horled a two hundred ton rock nine miles from its crater. It has been beautifully said that we live upon s ball that has been ‘molten by heat, chilled to a solid and sculptured by water.” This last apparently weak, easily furrowed and yielding agent is yet even more potential than the noisiet Vesuvius, Aqueons action, in its silent but intense operation, producing stratification and accompanied by metamor- phism, is the great fact of geology. The giant oak, surviving the storms of ages, owes its vigor and stability to the ceaseless current of sap that circulates through its tissues everywhere and causes that continual charge and replace- ment we call life. So also must the globe itself preserve its life by that perpetual circulation of which water is the circulating medium. Water is the life-blood of the earth. Every fragment of limestone, sandstone and clay in our rocks has been water-formed, and even granite, the patriarch of the rocks, as the microscope reveals, has been formed in con- tact with water and contains water in a fluid state mixed up withit, Replacing the old and wornout material by new material, sepa- rating ‘That whic! pas done. its work and enabling it to enter new gombinations a and new spheres of usefulness, water is truly the divine symbol of life and energy and order; and if at times it occasions alarm and popu- lar sensation, as in the instances alluded to in the outset of this article, we should rather rejoice than shudder at the evidences of its benign activity. If modern geology has not successfully grap- pled with many great problems, it has clearly settled one point—the apparent repose of the earth's crust, the foundation and floor of man’s habitation, is unreal and illusory. Observa- tions for a period of twenty years, in the present century, in which there has been noth- ing to interrupt the publication of unusual occurrences, show that in Europe and its adjacent island, although far re- moved {from the equatorial (or parent) belt of disturbance, at least forty earthquakes or shocks are felt every year, or one in every nine days—the eure indicators of vast inter- nal changes, showing the shallowness of the scofferas of old, who cried, ‘Where is the promise of His coming, for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning ?” It is a fortunate thing that modern science is able to strip these normal, necessary, ordained changes in nature of the terror in which ignorance and superstition, and espe- cially charlatanry, love to clothe them. Only a few days ago, at the meeting of the British Association in Edinburg, an important geolog- ical paper was read—‘‘Experiments on the Contortion of Rocks"—showing that moun- tain and magnesian limestone is indefinitely plastic and slate slightly elastic. In the lagoon and limestone regions of Pennsylva- nia and New York, the scenes of the late re- ported subsidences, we are not at a loss to apply the principles of geology. The intense permeating agency of water upon plastic matter, combining with chemical changes, evolving heat and terrestrial magnetism—an important disturbing force—we are at no loss to understand, insures the instability of New Orleans, built, as that Southern metropolis is, upon a moving bod of euicksend, quicksand, Misery Loves Company, they say, and so to the unhappy people of this island, lamenting over the deplorable corruptions of our city government, it may serve as some small mea- sure of consolation to assure them that corrupt rings of spoilsmen and public plunderers are the order of the day; that they have them in Philadelphia, in Boston, Baltimore, Wasbing- ton, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, New Orleans, and all over the country and back again to Jersey. In proportion to the size of the city concerned the Chicago Ring is said to be as bloated as the Tammany Ring, and the Washington Corporation Ring is not far behind that of Chicago, while as for those of Boston, New Orleans and Charleston, if half that we bear of them is true, they ought tobe pot at once under an injunction and a citizens’ committee of seventy or seventy-five of the oldest inbabitants, Let us hope, then, that as New York bas undertaken the serious business of reform, all these other cities suffer- ing from the same disease will proceed to the same remedies, if they can't find any better, “Tae Conmervs Powsr ov rar Prstio Pucyper,” according to Jobo C. Calhoun, was all that held the democratic party together uoder General Jackson, and Calboun in this opinion was backed by a very considerable body of disappointed democratic office-seekers and spoilsmen, We have now the same cry raised again by the republican malcontents clamoring against General Grant. Every mao of them, including Carl Schurz, Gratz Brown, Fenton, Greeley and the rest of the noisy company, has been disappointed in the matter of a custom house, s post office, a for- eign mission or something of that sort; and so it ig and will be generally understood through- oul country, and General Grant, like General Jackson, will be strengthened by the senseless clamor of these angry soreheads. Bat, nevertheless, we expect that Senator Fenton and company will raise a lively breeze before the end of next week in our Republican State Convention. “Wnat's i) a Name?"—Ex-Senator Doo- littie, of the exploded Senatorial firm of Cowan, Doolittle and Dixon, is reported as doing much in Wisconsin, as the democratic candidate for Governor, to encourage the party with the prospect of carrying the State this fall. Lately himself high in the councils ofthe republican church, be knows how to fight them, and he fights with a will because he has hiseye upon something higher than the Wisconsin State House, ~ a — oe Ta acai tel Tom > Ome Oa FeO nyoaipen Pe papers dey oar religious press table sit» seript from the Boston Pile: organ of New England) port: an inter- view with Archbishop sey tie dor cese, It will be read with interest. \fe are happy to notice that the Pilot is its sphere of intelligence and atility, The Independent (Congregationalist) us a leading article on ‘President Graug and the One Term Principle,” the sum of whiat is embodied in the following conclading sen> tences of the article we refer to :— Nine-tenths of the blican am the administration, of General ‘Grest!, prove nis Doula i forte yest ought to be contunued; | now, e party to forego the privilege ng Lis hame, simply tor the sake of the “one bry principle,” is to ask of it a sacrifice tor & doubtiul theory, at best, which cannot adord ie make. Having never adopted the tan prtataphe ” ie Will not now fake it the means of exctuding Gen- eral Grant from a second nomination. The Independent also indulges in a topic’ which it designates as ‘‘The Judicial Bomb. shell,” referring to Judge Barnard’s decision in the injunction case. According to its opinion, . Now is the time to make an example of official villany aod villains—the whole of it and ali of them—tnat will stand as a monumental waraing to Others for at least naif a century. The Observer (Presbyterian organ) gives us & prominent article, entitled ‘‘The Carnival of Rogues,” and, after reviewing the situation of Toguery in New York and in Washington, comes to the conclusion that ‘‘the time has come for honest men to assert themselves and demand the safety of the State.” Why don’t you go to the polls and vote? The Observer gives areview of the address of President McCosh upon the opening of the one hundred and twenty-fourth academic year of Princeton College. Especial reference has been called to the following remarks of Dr. McCosh :— I am addressing the students of a college which pas als always supplied large numbers for the public ‘May [ trust that those of you who are thus destinga will forma fixed purpose; that whatever be the temptations to which you are exposed and whatever be the issue in regard to your prospects im life you will pursue the path of integrity and nonor? If you can make it to be Known as a Characteristic of Princeton raised statesmen that they never yield’ to corruption you will do more good to your Alma . Mater than by the most ign nt glits or-thg most. sdining abilities, . - ot Ee eo” The Hoangelist (Presbyterian) has pronun- ciamento entitled ‘A Call That Must be Heeded.” Tt has nothing to do with local politics, but bas especial reference to the operations of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. This is a movement in the right direction. ‘‘Home missions” about these days are just what is demanded. We can afford to let the heathen slide for a few months at least. The Aoangelist is suggestive upon the inter- rogatory, ‘‘What is Public Opinion?” and in a carefully considered article plants the seeds of beautiful thoughts which must yield generous fruits if properly cultivated. To create public ’ opinion of an elevated kind the Lvangelist says:— ‘ The law of God must be exhibited and inculcated’ as the standard oi justice. Our youth must be trained to loyalty to conscience, Household life must be moulded by pure and Christian infuences, Outbreaking vice must be sharply rebuked and steroly repressed. The bare Or gear of corrup. ton must become withering to political aspirants, The Golden Age bas opened its fire in an engagement it designates as “The Battle Against the Thieves,” and knocks down and drags out in this furious manner :— We do not want to see ropes dangling from the lampposts; lynching, though not without justice, would be without excase; Violent measures react against the too indignant people who undértake them; but we do want to see all the mercilessnesa of the offended law showing its frowning tront and uftng ts avenging hand ugainst these four guilty scouudrelg who have ruled and ruined our city gove ernment. Down with them, one and all! Let theny be pushed from their stools, and honest men put in their places. The people must not comprotnise with any of the villains, but show Khadamantnine jus- Uce to them ai, Their rascality has peen bouna. less, thelr punisxment should be extreme, and their names must be it to rot, And so we might go on, reprinting extracts from our religiour contemporaries which re- flect the sentiments ef pious people upon tha present situation. We have given enough, however, in our judgient, to let those wha do not take religious papers know how tha current of public opinion\is working in that direction. en en te Ben Batler’s Campzign. Geueral Butler seems to be frightening: the old women in Massachusetts out of their wits, excepting the women’s rights women, who doat upon him as their coming man. Iq Springfield, the headquarters of the terrible Bowles, the General, on Friday evening last, carried the town meeting for the election of* delegates to the coming Republican State Con- vention in astyle which created a regular panic among the “‘old grannies” and the great- est excitement in the town since the capture of Fort Fisher. Still the odds are against the General in the Convention, and still the greatest apprehension which troubles the old Bay State is not the prevailing apprehension, that Butier, failing to get the republican nomt.! nation, will run as the independent Boston re- form, labor reform, temperance reform, work- ingmen’s rights and women’s rights candidate for Governor, but it is the apprebension that’ in so running the main result of the election will be the defeat of the republican candidate and the election of Butler or Adams, Very good. Why not? Adams would make an ex- cellent Governor, and as Butler did prove him- self a first rate Governor for demoralized New Orleans it may be said that from the present demoralized condition of ‘the Hub” he would make a first rate Governor for Boston. Re- form, too, is a good word in these times, and #0 we have only to say, in reference to Massa- chusetts, let the good work go on, . Tae Week iN WAL. Srreer was replete with incident, The conspicuous feature was the further rise in gold, which advanced to 1154 in face of a sale of six millions by the Treasury Department, made for the deliberate , x purpose of breaking down the market. The “bulls” and “bears” in stocks wrangled in. their new, or, rather, refitted quarters, and a lively movement in sbares ensued. The bank, statement yesterday was an astonisher, and! took away the breath of the street. Their re-! serve has been so encroached upon that the banks now hold only about a million of dollars surplus, They were seldom or never so run down in their history. The Comp- troller of the Currency should como here by the first train that leaves Washington toa morrow. Sorprers or Tok War of 1812 must have been sturdy fellows. Although more than half a century has passed since they exchanged ‘ : compliments with John Bull, still 32,475 yet ‘ live to receive pensions awarded them by tha, last Congres’