The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Tux Rrcivss—Dor- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prit Houston sts.—Fairz, of GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Sb ay. - Oorry Goort. een a FIPTR AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty, cteekce Tun New Duawa OF Divonce, “VCMU-foarth street, OLYNPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—T " TOMIME OF HUMPTY DUMPEES ae BAULET Paw STADT THEATRE, 43 and 47 — Pag Ey Bowery.—Tuk OreRa oF BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23a st, a King Henny Vill, between Sth and 6th avs, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—La MENDIANTE. shes GLOBE THEATRE, 788 Bi = INTRA CITtES, BUBLESQUES, &0. Pee teen: ace LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. I Ph Rag hot No. 720 Broadway.—K ELLY SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAu! We THE San FRANOISCO MINSTRELS” Broadway. ——9, BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 83d at, between 6th ana 7th ave.—BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 01 Bowery.— NEGRO ECOENTRICITIFS, BURLESQUES, &C. TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET OPERA HOUSE, corner Broadway.—NEWvous & ARLINGTON'S MINSTRELS, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague street— AOROSS THE CONTINE PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between and 3d avenues.—EQUESTRIANISM, &0, AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, ud Sixty-third street.—Open day and eveuue edtaade nl TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Mond ptember 25, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'’S HERALD, PAGE. 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisement 4—Religious: Sanctuary Services and Sermons in New York, brookiyn, Astoria, Flushing and Washington; the Fraudulent City Government Denounced; Mr. Hepworth’s State Prison Rewedy; Ordination of a Missionary at & Methodist Church; Laying the Foundation Stone of a New Rowan Catholic Church; Sermons by Dr. Chapman, Revs. Merrill Richardson. Hepworth, James Beecher, An- drew Langdon, Charles Hooker, Father Pres- ton, Dr, Becker and Others. 3—The Tempest on Tammany—Rum and Prima- ries—Love, Liquor and Murder—Alleged Wife Murder—Another Murder—Sunday Night De- bauchery—Crime in Williamsvurg—Stabping | and Cutting Affrays—The McGehan-Myers Murde naties—Local Inteliigence—Inter- view Woman Who Murdered Her Hus- band—A nd Italian Pageant—Aristocratic taltans 1 Council—The Linco Monument Qt Springfield, Il,—iscellaneous Telegraphic oe gious (Continued from Fourth Page)—The sumsted * eee Disclosures of a Coutractor Not inthe “King”—Wood versus Iron: Curious State of Affairs in Jersey—Sci- entinic les—Southern Scandal: Domestic Infelicities Among the Georgia Aristocracy— Running Notes. 6—Lattoriais: Leading Article, “Republican Quar- rels in New York—Conkling aud Fenton the Red Cloud aud Spotted Tai or the Party— A Lesder Wanved"—Amusement Announce. ments. %=—Editvorials (Continued from Sixth Page)— France: Marshal MacMahon’s Responsibility for the Disaster at Sedan—News froin England, Spain, Italy and Portuga!—Important from. ‘ava : Capture and Surrender of All the Prom- inent Leaders of the lnsurrection—The Massa- chusetts Campaign: Butler ana His Enemies Nursing Their Strength for the Decisive At- tack at Worcester on Wednesday—News from Washington—Movements of President Grant— Miscellaneous Telegrams—Personal Intell gence—Business Notices, S—Art in its Universalum: The American Exposi- Uon in the Institute fair, New York: The International Exhibition in London; Studio Notes—Musical Review—Criticisms of New Books—Literary Chit-chat. 9—Lower California: Natural Products and Native Trade—Horse Notes—The McCatill Will Case—financial and Commerciai—The Crops— Singular Casuaity and Fatal Resuit—Suicive by Taking Poison—Sports in Arkansas—Mar- riages and Deaths— Advertisements. 40—kurope: The Movements of the Bourbon Aspirants for the French Throne—Amaacus and His Subjects—The Cholera in Russia— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. 11—Advertisements. 32—Advertisemen! Preswwent GRANT will visit Dayton, Ohio, to-day, where be will attend a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Military Asylum. Tug Cuban LyscRREcTIoN is on its last legs—in fact, it appears to be fairly floored. According to our special despatch from Havana the Spanish forces have achieved the complete pacification of the eastern part of the island, comprising the whole extent of the insurrection. There remain only a few marau- ders in hiding, who are said to be willing to surrender if secured immunity from jadicial retribution. The Cuban insurrection bad threatened to become a chronic nuisance, and its end is very much to be desired in the inter- est of humanity. Tor YeLLow Fever, that found its way through the port of Charleston, is rapidly spreading through the South, In Jackson, Vicksburg and Natchez, Miss., the dis- ease bas appeared, and is more viru- lent than in Charleston. Quarantine cannot defend us from an epidemic which has thus secured a foothold in the rear of our defences, and the pressing duty of the city authorities now—if the power yet remains to them—is to clean the streets, remove all filth, cleanse the tenement houses and prepare to sepel Yellow Jack with vigilance. ‘Tue RepcsiicaN Contestants in Massa- cbhusetts have settled down calmly to await the decisive action of the Worcester Conven- tion. Butler, so far, counts a majority of all the delegates; but whether be will have the necessary majority at the final moment is yet in doubt, many towns being still unheard from, Sumner and other adverse republican lights are aiming to form a combination against him, but they make slow work of it, and the great Essex warrior stands ready to grasp the Governorship that he thioks is already within his reach. But we still expect an astonishing coup from Butler—a startling move that will serve him far better than the Governorsbip of Massachusetts. Kina = AMADEvs’ « JournEY Taroven Srars.—In an interesting letter, which we publish this morning, from the Hera.n's ec pondent in Spain, we give an account of éting King’s departure from the capital on his tour through the provinces. All along the road over which the royal train .passed His Majesty was received with the greatest éclat by the inhabitants, Our correspondent, who was favored with a place in the royal train, testifies to the welcome reception which the young King everywhere received. Ama- deus is laying, by the career he has pursued since his assumption of the Spanish throne, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. Republican Quarrels 1 ling and Fenton the Ked Cloud and Spotted Tail of the Party—A Leader Wanted, The party journals are screaming over the coming canvass. Here in New York we have an immense clatter about the convention of republicans that is to meet in Syracuse next Wednesday, On one side is the Tribune, whose editor (Mr. Greeley), in addition to being a candidate for the Presidency, is also the chairman of a contesting delegation. On the other is Honest Tom Murphy, our handsome Collector of the Port. Behind Greeley we have Fenton and his following; behind Murpy we have the brilliant and unapproach- able Roscoe Conkling. The great quarrel is over the spoils, When Grant became Presi- dent he summoned them all before him and tried to satiafy every faction. But this was impossible, Fenton wanted the whole ad- ministration, while Conkling would have taken a couple of administrations contentedly. The truth is oar New York republicans had been spuiled by a daily contemplation of the Tam- many Ring and the great sums of money that were being constantly tucked away in dia- monds, yachts, convertible securities and registered bonds by Boss Tweed and his cronies, It was agonizing, and in their envy they rushed upon the Treasury and pleaded for office and emolument. Well, our inscrutable and wise Ulysses calmly surveyed the situation and made up his mind. He had tried to please everybody, to make the party a unit, to conciliate all factions, to put every peg into a cosey hole, and failed. The more men he appointed the more enemies be had. SN d anxious moment be found Murphy—‘‘Honest Tom,” as his friends for generations have called him—and bade him to go to New York and make peace among the factions, Since Grant could not please everybody he would please somebody, and who mere worthy of honor than Murphy, the leader of an active if not a dominant wing of the party? That began all the trouble. If Mr. Greeley, for instance, had been made Minister to England at the same time there would have been no strife. While the broad and ruddy face of Murphy was rising over the Custom House radiant with peace it was only necessary for the bland and childlike countenance of the famed philosopher to be seen dawning over the drawing room circle of Buckingham Palace to make universal peace in New York. But that was not tobe, So there has been war—war bitter, implacable and ma- lignant. A reader of the political jour- nals would imagine that we were really ina more desperate struggle than the war for the Union, We have column after column about Gridley, and Bliss, Jr., and Murphy, and Laflin, and Webster, and Datcher, and Tracey and tremendous discus- sions of the wards and districts, with all the decorations of angry and heedless rhetoric, T for instance, Murphy ran against the Tribune for some Fésson that does not appear, and he was denounced as a partner of Tweed, a Tammany man, and a School Commissioner who could not spell. To which Tom, girding on his armor and spreading his wrath over a couple of columns, argued that he never did anything a8 @ republican worse than bailing Mr. Davis, and that he had as much right to be a business partner of Mr. Tweed as Mr. Greeley had to be a business partner of Charles E, Wilbour, the President of the Tam- many Printing Company. This revelation by Tom of an astounding circumstance that will certainly embarrass the philosopher's canvass for the Presidency aroused the Tribune, and we have such a dinning of adjectives and furious nouns that the political journals are worse than the organ-grinders, and decent people will pay money to the newspaper carriers to laice them away, as full of vexation and vanity and profitless strife. -.. i For in all respects, looking over the ground seriously, we have never seena more dismal and childish quarrel. It only illustrates the morbid vanity and restlessness of our small politicians and the folly of party journalists to really write about them. What does New York care about the whole crowd of these noisy adventurers? They want office; they fight on one side to-day, on the other to- morrow. And why should the administration, and those who honestly support it in the interest of peace and good government be dragged into the quarrel? What does the country care whether Murphy is Collector or not, or whether he would be removed to- morrow? Murphy attends to his business, we suppose, and if he does not there are a thou- sand men in New York who would be glad to take his place for half the money. And of what special interest are the woes of Fenton to humanity at large? Suppose Grant does not give Fenton all the offices—what business has Fenton with any office but his own? Are we to understand that all the patronage of a President belongs of necessity to one Senator or another, or, in fact, to any Senator at all? And is a party professing high principles and supposed to be under some discipline, to be driven bither and thither and distracted from its legitimate discussions and duties because Grant does or does not give his few places to acertain Senator's favorites? And much the game with Mr. Conkling, Why should this young Senator go from district to district like the Red Cloud chief of the Sioux, with a sharpened tomahawk, seeking the scalp of every Buspected Fenton brave? Mr, Conk- ling, when he becomes older, and is really «a father in tho tribe, will learn that the way to hold a party together is not for those in power to destroy the men outside. [t is his business, having all offices and emoluments within his reach, and his friends snugly fixed, to coax the outside starvelings to remain quiet, and hope and not fly into mutiny, This Mr. Conkling and his friends have not done, They bave driven the poor, officeless Fenton men from pillar to post so persistently that while before they were simply unhappy candidates for place, they now claim to be martyrs, and are about to begin a pilgrimage to Syracuse to exhibit their woands and bruises to their friends from all parts of the State. What a collection of cripples and bloody-handed braves we shall see! Conkling and Fenton—-the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail of the tribe~-angry, lowering, the fonndation of a prosperous reign, and if | defiant, eager for revenge; Red Cloud Conk- a wise, democratic and thoughtful course can secure him the affections of his subjects he will win them. ling, with his belt full of scalps, fresh, bushy, bleeding scalps; Spotted Tail Fenton, with never # scalp to his name, but some worn-out New York=—Couk- | remnants of his victories in other years. Then, with mutilated and headless Palmers and Grid- leys and Grinnells all in line, and the ghastly face of the newly-butchered Pleasonton bring- ing up the rear, like Banquo’s ghost, what a sight we shall see! While we look on in our quiet mocking way at this war of the minnows one serious thought comes, how are all these quarrels to affect Grant? He has all to gain at Syracuse and all to lose. May we have not Romeo and Juliet over again—Tybalt and Romeo in quarrel—Mercutio Grant stabbed, and retreat- ing off the stage, saying, “‘A plague on both your houses. I am soundly peppered. Ask for me to-morrow, and you will find mea grave man.” He may well say it, and with truth and bitterness, He has had more injury from his own party—nay, even from his own friends—than from the democratic party a hundred times over. Certainly there must be some way of ending the quarrel, The repub- lican party must have more men than Conkling and Fenton. The mass of the voters and politicians must have -some in- terests outside of two quarrelling, envious and ambitious Senators. If not, and Grant is doomed to be eaten by his own dogs, then the sooner the party retires from business the better. As it is now it is little more than a scandal, and offends our sense of decency and fair play towards the President and his admin- istration, What the republicans want in New York is a leader. Wedo not expect to see one in Syracuse, Has it ever occurred to them to send for Daniel E. Sickles? Sickles in the Custom House would do some good. Murphy would make a good Minister in Madrid, epend his money freely and see the bull-fights. Some change like this would help the party. As it now is we shall have as thorough a row as was ever seen in Donnybrook Fair—no good to anybody, and Grant, it is to be feared, with a deeper gash ip his pate than any on bia, Peat kteerasee one. The Churches and Sermons Ycaléfday— Grand Clerical Combat with Beclzebub, Omcial Corruptioninte and Old Stylo Sin- ners. The religious people of New York have not had time to completely recuperate from the effects of the fatigue induced by the jollities and carousals of the watering places ere they are called on to sustain the enervating influ- ences of an Indian summer and a new moon, The feeling indaced by such a sudden transi- tion of temperature is anything but encourag- ing for a hopeful exertion of the body corpo- real. We find, consequently, a great number of stay-at-homes from church. ‘The flesh is willing but the spirit is weak.” Intrath, it may be said that cold weather acts as an excellent aid to the pulpit. ‘‘Happy the nations of the moral North” was sung years since by a poet-noble, and the most gimple-mioded _ theologian prides in his fervor on the grand Catholic fact that “it was anow that brought St. Anthony to reason” when his faith had almost deserted him under the heat of an ‘“‘indecent sun.” Having premised this much we may say that the city churches were not at all overcrowded yesterday. The congregations were fasbion- able, devout, and generous in their contri- butions, but not by any means numerous, The ladies have not had time to clear out their trunks for the reception of their fall costumes, and anxious papas have not yet correctly footed up the total costs of the seaside visit and of their late attendance at the Jerome Park races. The religious reports of the Heratp, which appear elsewhere in our paper to-day, are very consoling in the mat- ter of the work of the cure of souls notwith- standing. _ The | city clergymen were at their posts. “They defended the truth valiantly and denounced Satan and his ways vigor- ously. Indeed, we may anticipate, now that the reverend pastors, refreshed as with, or, perhaps with, wine, have again put on the harness of the Lord, that New York will experience at a very early day a grand colli- sion between the Church militant and Beelze- bub, who is almost triumphant just now in the metropolis, It will be a tremendous clash at arms; but the banner of tbe Cross will be victorious in the eud, notwitstanding the dis- agreeable fact that the exorcism of the lead- ing spirit of evil may force the pious, honest people of the metropolis to endure a disagree- able smell of sulphur for a brief season sub- sequently, Let us see how the account stands. Satan has fall swing in the city. That's certain. The clergymen are after him sharply. That's fact. In the Central Methodist Episcopal church Rev. Mr. Longacre expounded the “Work of a Christian and How It Can Be Done,” pointing out “how a brave man will live in a bad world and win in the end.” He did not notice the fact, however, that bad men live in a good world and frequently win before the end. Rev. Mr. Hepworth warned the city corruptionists, in the words of the Holy Book—‘‘For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.” The pastor pointed out the difference which exists between a poor, pitiful rogue, who robs only a little, and the gigantic swindler, who goes for the millions, closing in favor of the poor fellow in the hang choice. Rev. Dr. Richardson preached on self-judgment. He arraigned the sins of public life. Every man is becoming his own judge—a fact which promises very light sen- tences here and a “‘rusty lock” and ‘dull key” for many in the infernal regions. Rev. Father Preston aanounced that the world is arrayed against the Church of Rome, describing it as a wicked, lying world, which obeys a false progress and deprives the nations of their Christian character, substituting infi- delity and revolution to an alarming extent, as has been just demonstrated fearfully in Paris. Rev. James Beecher was exceed- ingly hopeful in the Plymouth church pulpit, Brooklyn. Like unto his brother, he advises that bis hearers take pains to ‘‘know themselves,” and then act in Christian disci- plinary accordance with their experience. St. John’s church Methodism was gloomy ; St. Stephen's Roman Catholicism magnificent. Rey. Bishop Becker preached one of the most eloquent aod really useful sermons of the day in this gorgeous temple, taking for his text the love of God ‘“‘above all things” and ‘‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Rev. Dr. Fransicli warned the Catholics of South ! Brookiyn against the dangers of Pharisaigal temptation, and Right Rey. Bishop Loughlin officiated for the building of the temple in Astoria, General Grant was started as ‘the colored people's candidate for the next Presi- dency” before a Methodist congregation in Broadway. Washington, Buffalo, Brooklyn, and the “Jerseys,” with all the other places in more immediate reach of the Hgraxp report- ers and writers by telegraph were full in the light—the members of the different congrega- tions being repentant, hopeful or exultant just as the conscience gnawed or the soul felt at ease within them, The Gold Market and Mr. Financial Policy. Mr. Boutwell fails in almost everything he undertakes, His attempt to keep down the premium on gold py pouring on the market last week six millions not only failed to have the effect expected, but gold has actually gone up about one and a half per cent. On Mon- day, before the six millions were put on the market, the average premium was a liftle under fourteen, and on Saturday it was over fifteen. In this fight between the Secretary of the Treasury and the gold market the Secre- tary has been defeated. This has been the result, too, in spite of the flourishes that the Treasury and Syndicate rings had been making, to the effect that gold must go down under the grand financial scheme and new departure of the Secretary in connection with the syndicates, It was represented that this scheme, by the skill and able management of the syndicates, would not only check the out- flow of gold but would bring a supply from Europe, and thus reduce materially the pre- mium, It is a curious fact, too, that gold has gone up when it is being shipped from Europe to this country, though in inconsiderable quantities, as well as at the time Mr. Bout- well put six millions on the market. The truth & there is no reason to suppose a largé Amount of gold will be sent here from Europe, and our shrewd Wall street specu- lators, bankers and merchants know that. From present appearances it is more likely the syndicates will require gold to pay for the bonds to be redeemed than that they will be able to exchange the new five per cents for them at par; that is, if these syndicates do what they are represented as having engaged to do; and, here, referring again to Mr. Boutwell failing in everything he undertakes, this syndicate business will probably fall through. It wasa job from the beginning to put money into the pockets of a few favored bankers by doing that which the Treasury Department could have done directly quite as well or better. It must be clear to every one that if the syndicates have dona fide pur- chased the new loan, and gold remains up and the five-twenties to be redeemed should remain below par in London, they must sink beneath the weight. If they be mere agencies, as the name implies, and as we believe they are, then the Treasury Department will have to bear any loss, and may become, in view of what it has undertaken, greatly embarrassed. Boutwell’s It may be this state of things which the gold speculators in Wall street are anticipating and acting upon. involving himself in one blunder after another through bis ignorance of financial matters, and his overreaching efforts to make political capital for himself and the administration. Secretary Boutwell is That the small export of specie from abroad to this country will soon be checked is evident from the action of the Bank of England. That powerful institution, the managers of which watch every movement in the financial world, has begun to raise the rate of interest, or, to use a familiar expression, to put the brakes on, Not that we suppose this has been done with special reference to the small amount of specie recently shipped to this country. There are, doubtless, more general causes, and among them, probably, the flow of specie to France, which the indemnity necessities and reviving trade of that country call for. regard to ourselves, there will be not only no considerable amount of gold America, but there will continue a steady drain from this country until our exports of raw material and manufactures approximate more nearly the imports. amounting to eight millions and a half a week, as they did last week, which were a million more in amount than for the corresponding week of last year, and with little or no more With shipped to With imports exports, the balance must be made up in gold or by securities. It is the balance of trade that regulates the price of gold under our pre- sent abnormal financial system, Mr. Bout- well is fighting windmills when he attempts to control the laws of trade by his spasmodic gold operations. Our whole financial policy must be changed and a better revenue system established before we can expect any great improvement. Hostility to German Residents in France Late telegrams, as well as recent mail advices from Europe, inform us of the con- tinued ill Jeeling of the French people to the German residents in France. Every now and then this bitter enmity crops out, and each time with increased intensity. In Paris, Havre, Amiens and other cities the antipathy towards the Germans at the close of the war was of the most severe character. In fact, many of them considered it more prudent to remain in England than to return after hos- tilities between the two nations were ended. It was hoped, however, that the sober second thought of the people in a little time would correct these abuses, but this estimate has proved fallacious, In Lyons and its vicinity the outrages and abuses perpetrated on the Germans living in these districts have been so notorious of late that the Prussian representative at Versailles—Baron Von Arnim—has found it necessary to file a pro- test with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs against the excesses committed by the people of Lyons and its vicinity on the Ger- mans living in these places. This measure will, undoubtedly, call for some action on the part of the authorities which may, for a period, allay the bitter feeling of the French ; but we question very much whether it will wholly do away with the antipathy which, for a long time to come, will be cherished by Frenchmen towards German residents on the soil of France. Tarek Murpers sum up the record of the horrors produced by Sunday rum within the last twenty-four hours. Love, hate and rum are doing the deadly work of cholera and war. Lougacre—Murray—Sabiue. The reverend gentlemen whose names are herein inscribed are not unknown to fame already. Mr. Longacre is a comparatively new man in this vicinity. He is now in the midst of his third year's pastorate of the Central Methodist Episcopal church, in Seventh avenue, near Fourteenth street, and a few months more will find him laboring in another and, perhaps, more distant field. Ibuta man of such manifestly spiritual power as he ap- pears to be ought to be retained in this wicked city, where there is so much real work for such as he, In size and personal appear- ance Mr. Longacre is tall and thin, and ata distance young-looking, almost to boyish- ness. He is, however, a man about thirty-eight years of age. His ut terances in the pulpit are those of a scholar ripe in the things of God. There is no affectation, no attempt at anything like sensation in his manner or matter ; no dabbling in “‘science falsely 80 called,” and no effort to cover up the simple truth with a load of logic or philosophy. His Sabbath morning sermon, which will be found in another part of this paper, may be accepted asa fair sample of his general preaching. It is a message of inspi- ration, of faith and power, and is well calcu- lated to strengthen the faith of the Church and to increase its zeal in the Master's cause. And coming, as it does, from a heart appar- ently full of tenderness and sympathy with those to whom the message is presented, and given, asitvery frequently is, with tearful eyes, and always with deep pathos, its effect in the end cannot fail to be sublime and touch- ing. Mr. Longacre uses extended notes in his discourses, The Rev. J. O. Murray, D. D., pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church in Fifth avenue and Thirty-sevonth street, has a widely extended reputation as a predcher and asa theologian, as well as for being the successor of that venerable saint of God, Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D., who has lived out more than the allotted ine. of ams «PEs Myrray_ is both deepiy logical and theological in bis pulpit; very choice in his language and highly picturesque in his illustrations and incidents, He reads his discourses, and adheres very closely to his manuscript; so much so, indeed, as to mar the effect of many good things which he utters, ‘‘The Spirit shall teach you in that hour what ye shall say and what ye shall speak,” and it seems to us that a greater reliance on this work and office of the Holy Ghost would enable most, if not all, of our ministers to look their audiences in the eye while they deliver the message from God, There is a power in the look and in the man- ner of a minister who preaches rather than reads which no amount of carefulness in the choice of words or picturesqueness of illus- tration can atone for. There is a degree of inattention in every church audience almost incomprehensible and beyond belief, and which requires the steady eye and the earnest word of the preacher to keep in check and ullti- mately to dispel. And were this fact borne in mind more by ministers they would leave their manuscripts at home, and either commit their sermons to memory or trust to the spirit for utterance—which, we think, is the better way. However, Dr. Murray has attained an eminonoe and a reputation which few men without their manuscripts have yet attained, The Rev. W. T. Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atone- ment in Madison avenue and Twenty-cighth street, is, a small man, of nervous tempera- ment, and very active and earnest. His life has been and is one of consecration to the work of his Master, in which he is constantly engaged, and not without considerable spirit- ual success. A meek, simple-hearted, pure- minded Christian, he made one mistake for which the unchristian world will not accept an atonement. He refused to bury the mortal remains of an actor from his church, although that actor had been for years a member of his churcb. But Mr. Sabine’s refusal was based on principle, and for reasons which appeared satisfactory to himself he recom- mended the messenger to try ‘‘the little church around the corner.” This circum- stance gave the young minister a notoriety which he did not seek and he never expected to obtain. But the purpose to be consistent was what impelled him to refuse the burial rite to the dead. He had declaimed against theatre-going and ball-going and intem- perance, and other follies and vices of the day, as they seem to him, and he felt that he could not with consistency perform this service and thereby swallow all that he had ever said against the stage. This and only this was the inspiring motive of his action, and though we may not agree with the letter the spirit is certainly commendable, since consis- tency in the pulpit or out of it is a very acarce article, As a preacher Mr. Sabine is plain, simple and direct—the cross and its vicarious victim being his constant theme. As a pastor he is ‘‘instant in season and out of season,” teaching and preaching from house to house, and encouraging, reproving and warning in love wherever he perceives the need. He is admired and beloved, for his spirituality and zeal and Christian large-heartedness, by all who know him, whether of his own denomina- tion or others. : Jupcz Unperwoop, of Virginia, has un- officially rendered an opinion that the women of Virginia have a right to vote under the fifteenth amendment. The fact, indeed, seems to be that the women have a pretty strong argument, The fifteenth amendment speaks of all citizens with the qualifying adjective “male,” and a number of judges learned in the law have thought as Judge Underwood does about it. Happily, it is feminine nature to retract and become sorry for all that bas occurred as soon as they have the best of the argument, and we trust now that the ladies will calm their rufled tempera and be quiet. At the same time we feel pretty sure that as soon as they are unrestrictedly granted the suffrage they will refuse to use it. A Fire is San Franoisco on Saturday night destroyed eight stores on Market street, involving a loss of a million dollars. San Francisco is a comparatively new city at present, but we trust that in the new buildings that are now being erected, and that may be erected to replace those destroyed the prin- ciple fully recognized in New York, of building only with fireproof materials, will, be put ia practigg, The Social EvilmIte MattWay fous ~E* forts for Its Suppression and Limitation, * The Washington papers speak with varied comment on a meeting which took place on last Friday evening under the auspices of the Woman’s Club, The object of the meeting was the rescue of the fallen women of the national capital, A public mixed meeting may offend the sensitive consciences of some journalists when such asubject is to be broadly discussed, but as none of the blusbing jours nals find fault with the sincerity of the effort, we shall simply deal with its probable effi- ciency. When a good, pure woman, under- takes to overstep the canting, dissembled igno~ rance to which society condemns women, and reach out a helping han¢ to fallen womanhood, all men should hesitate before branding such conduct with any degree of obloquy. We con- demn indecency in print as in speech, and ia so far as any such was indulged in at the meeting referred to, it is only a point showing that those in Washington who have taken the work in hand have mistaken the direction in which they should use their reforming ener- gies. All that they can say in a public mect- ing condemnatory of the crying sin is already an axiom in the moral law. The wretched creatures and their horrid traffic flour- ish on publicity, and the only hope of ameliorating their condition lies in with- drawing them as gently and as quietly as pos- sible from their exciting surroundings. The work of respectable women in this direction must ever be more effectual than that of men, and where a woman feels the instincts of humanity strong enough in her to set about this charity let nv man decry or denounce heri. Public meetings give a play to the worst ene- mies of reform, for no shame hinders them from tura ing into burlesque the brave effort of. a few women on so delicate a matter. Their true success will be achieved when, without: parade or trumpeting, they rescue a womam from shame and make her once more, in some degree, a useful member of society, They have eget task of lifting those already fallen— & blessed work—but there are many poiats on which bolder minds must interfere to protect society. These are to check the course of thig crime at its inception, and in its incurable phases to check its disastrous effect upon society at large. In counting the unfortunates who, from the causes which lie in the evil passions of our nature, come tu form the saddea~ ing array of fallen womanhood, we must cal- culate how much opportunity and encourage= ment are given to recruiting this sisterhood of, sorrow by the d efects of our police code. We place this qu estion, for the nonce, outside of the religious and moral view, and regard it from the colder, harder side of law. Prosti- tution, or, as it has been euphuized, the ‘‘so- cial evil,” bas engaged the attention of many! patient, philosophic minds in the Old World, of which the “register” system of France and. the “‘certificate” system of the English garri- son towns have been the result. In all its unchecked course it has existed among us in the monstrosity which Hogarth’s pencil de- picted of England's capital a century ago. It is with us, as there, the nursery ground of all crime and the parent of unutterable disease ;, its homes are those where the criminal finds a retreat and new affiliations, and the time of Hogarth is reproduced in the fact that when a, detective ‘‘wants” a notorious criminal bis best sources of information are among the dens of the female outcasts of society, How this deformity spreads out its hideous arms’ among all classes, snatching to its foul em-' brace a sister or a daughter, and planting the felon’s mark upon a brother or a son, is some- thing whose modes are well known to those ia power, without scarce an effort having beeu made to prevent the social destruction. There is practically no guard against it opposed by law. The process on which a police superintendent or captain makes a tem-. porary fame for vigilance by swooping down on a brothel at midnight and dragging the painted hags to the police station is as painfull as it is ineffectual. In effect it Is a farce A) because in every locality so raided on thera, are dozens of houses of an equally vile charac-, ter left untouched, for reasons best known to: the vigilant officer. It is adopted as the principle of the happys. go-lucky thinkers that a certain amount of evil must exist in the world, and that the pro- cess of sinking from virtue to vice is a simple question of moral gravitation. We do not accept this; but if there is depravity on oue side and woman’s weakness on the other,, should our criminal negligence allow the, downward process to be accelerated? The half-way house from the virtuous home to the filthy cavern of vice is what is known as the ‘ ‘house of assignation.” The/ girl of tender years who is once decoyed: beneath the roof of one of these has taken her; firat step downward. When the first signs of a maternity accursed of society appear there: seems to her but one refuge from a life of shame to end in prostitution’s worse than. death—that refuge is the malpractice mur- ; derer, of whose blasting ministrations wo have of late had such melancholy proof. Of all the unfortunates who drag out an out- cast’s existence there is probably not one in ten but would retrace and blot out her blasted career ; for, uo matter what the passions: of our nature, few there are so lost as not tr prefer reputation to disrepute, Society can never look with other than’ frowning glance on illegitimacy, and the: heritage of such a blight upon herself and ber, offspring is what the new!y-fallen girl most: fears. She must be ‘‘relieved” or plunge madly into the recesses where her shame haa! company, The ‘house of assignation” ta/ owned by some wretch who is ever ready to paiat a gilded picture of the whited sepulchre,,, , thus showing that as a direct agency they are’; the most effective recruiters for the brothel, or! the abortionist. The ‘house of assignation) is of quiet exterior; its real character ig, guarded as safely as possible; but it ig safe to say that the police know them all. ‘There ix not the stigma attaching to them which hangs around the house of ill-fame; but we think we have disclosed enough of their workings to cause some steps to be taken In sbolishing sa insidious an infamy. All such bouses should, if the law cannot wipe them ont altogether, be made to bear some outward Sign of their char- acter, as should also the hiwase of prostitution. There should be no difereuce between th Not here alone should, ‘the authorities their supervision, Ail those bouses. their Pe a ye a ete a