The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1871, Page 6

r EW YOKK HEKALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEKYS. NEW YORK HERALD]"™* BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be eddressed New York Hrravp. "AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATR. Broadway.—Tur BauLeT PAN. ‘Tomine OF LuMrTY DUMPTY, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street. Tur JkaLous Wire. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orrka SAaTANELLA. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broatway, Corner 30th st.—Perform. ‘ances afternoon and eveming—TUR CHILD BTREALER. Fourteenth street,—ENGLisn TH - Pa, +k. IPATRE, ‘33a st, between Sth and 6th ava, BOWERY THEATRE, Bor no oe Bu yore E, Bowery.—Duram oF Dnetiny NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Pri Houston strecia.—THk STuRETS OF NE? YORK. bid GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner “1 Sb ay, ava 23d s— EILEEN Oon. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—F aENom wa-La Preicno.s. 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Mondny, October 9, 187 — —— = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The Municipal Muddie: Public Feeling Anout the Keyser Imbrogito; Barroom Speculations About the Municipal Rottenness—One of the Seventy Solons: He is Impeached by James W, Coliter—Kings County Polities—Polltics in New York State—Yacnting—News from Wash- lngton—New York Ciiy—The National Game— Murd in Richmond—Conservative Woman Sufragists—Prostituting Alfieri's Name—Al- leged Forgery in Brooklyn—The Welland Canal, 4—Relizious; Yesteraay’s Sermons in the Puipits of New York and Elsewhere; Prayer, Piety, Music and Fashion; A Side ‘rhrast at ‘Certain OMetals Who fave Bowed to the Will and Clamor of Mobs; Regeneration, Purification and Sanctification; ‘the Value of Woman's Work and Woman's Power 1n the Service of God; Archbishdp Mccloskey on the Means Necessury for Salvation; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on “Working with God,” S—Reltgious (Continued trom Fourth Page)—The “Old Catholic? Congress—Music and the Drama—Literary Cuit-Chat—Art Sales—Snoot- ing a Father—Sons of .iberty—Court Calen- dars for To Day. G—Editoriais: Leading Article, “State Elections the Current Month—The Outlook"’—Amuse- ment Annonnee:nents, 7—Edioriala (Cor e ~ sonal Inteilig: France, Gerir Nut" ather Report—Sunday we cella. usines: in the flagration Through the gota: the Pratne ¢ veep of the Con- Woods of Minne- mtry a Mass of Cindors and As Fiame fre Wolf Kiver— ling a S Smashi-up of jeorgia P ntumn in the Par! lyn Benevolent mmodore Builus’ Fuperat. @—Sing sing sedition: Protracted Commotion Among the Jai s—The Kecent Revolt of the Collegt» . tou—Du_ Chailla 1 Swedes—Myste. cial and Commer- vkets—Havana Mar- Market—Marriages and rious Disayp cial Repor: kets —D nents, Deatt 10—King urney: Third Letter from the BE udent Travelling with the King of Spaitn—Russtan Views of the Gastein Gonference--Germany and Austrla—Miscelia- peous Foreign llems—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, 11—Aidvertisemenis. space of four blocks, in which only four or five buildings remain uninjured, has re- sulted in a loss of only about $250,000 or $300,000. The BrazmiaN MEMBER OF THE GENEVA ARBITRATION bas probably been appointed by this time, it having been deemed expedient by the Emperor to wait until the adjournment of the Parliamentary Chambers. The appointee is supposed to be either Viscount Itaborahy or Mr. Torres Homen, both of whom are promi- nent statesmen, at present or very recently Bompastio ner ExcrsaBie.—A republican journal calls the late Syracuse Republican Jonvention a ‘‘scrambling mob of political ruffians, whose conduct would disgrace a set of untutored Hottentote,” and we heard an honest democrat the other day pronounce the gang of our city plunderers ‘‘a superincumbent mass of political putrescence that stinks in the nostrils of the Fiji Islander.” Neither shot may have hit the bullseye, but each is within the true line of fire. Whar or tHe SyNpICATE AND WHat 48 Mn. Bovtwett Doixc Witn Ir?—The people begin to be a little curious about Mr. Boutwell’s syndicate. They want to know what it is exactly and what it is likely to do or leave undone. This curiosity has been stimulated of late by the many rumors afloat that the syndicate business isa job, and that it will probably be a disastrous failure, with a Joss both of credit and money to the govern- ment, Then the Secretary of the Treasury appears to be rather nervous and uneasy re- garding the Syndicate since bonds have fallen and the market abroad is not so favorable, Now, will Mr. Boutwell inform the country whether the Syndicate has made a bona fides purchase of the hundred and thirty millions of the new five per cents, and in case of the bonds falling in the market it is responsible for the loss, or if it is only an agency and the Joss is to fall apon the Treasury Department. An explicit statement clearing up this matter will be very acceptable. Let us know all ‘about the transaction, A few plain words are only needed. The credit of the govern- ment is involved. There should be no trifling ‘or wystery io thie matter, . Blections the Currest Menth—The Outlook. The excitement attending the State Conven tions of the different parties in this State hav- ing partially subsided, we will give our readers a brief synopsis of the elections to take place the current month, mostly during the present week, in several States. To-morrow, the 10th instant, the anaual elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa will occur, In Pennsylvania ua Auditor General and a Surveyor General are to be chosen, together with members of the Legislature. The excitement is not very great outside of the city of Philadelphia, where the usual degree of agitation, amounting almost to actual turbulence, centres upon the contest between the rival candidates for the office of Mayor. There is some feeling in the interior of the State in regard to the ninth resolution adopted by the Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg, accepting the constitutional amendments and endorsing the new departure. Whether it will help the democratic vote or not remains to be seen. The vote for State eficers will probably turn not a little upon the relative popularity of General Grant and General Hancock as candidates for the next Presidency, the nominees on the repnblican ticket being in favor of the renomi- nation of General Grant, and those on the democratic ticket supporting the nomination by the Democratic National Convention of “Pennsylvania's favorite gon,” <1 ‘Superb Hancock.” As the State now goes so will the prestige be in regard to the direction her vote will take in the Presidential struzgle of 1872, In 1869 the republicans carried the State by between four and five thousand majority, with a republican Legislature on joint ballot. Penn- sylvania is too important a State for either party to lose, and hence the present apparent apathy in the canvass is almost a mystery. Especially is this so when it is remembered that the Legislature to be chosen will elect a succeesor to that veteran of a hundred political battles, Simon Cameron, in the United States Senate. The people will also be called upon to vote on a proposition calling a constitu- tional convention, the present old con- stitution having existed, we believe, for some forty years. The late Thad- deus Stevens had a principal hand in framing it; bat it is grievously behind the age in several important particulars. It may be that both parties are holding back their ammu- nition and heavy guns until next year; but “delays are dangerous,” and the party (sat shall be fortunate enough to carry the Stato to-morrow will have the inside track for suc- cess a twelvemonth hence. " In Odio the candidates to be voted for to-morrow comprise a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Attor- ney General and other State officers, together with a Legislature which will choose a succes- sor to John Sherman in the United States Senate. Beside the two regular republican and democratic tickets there is a temperance ticket floating around somewhere, probably on a voyage for ‘Cowes and a market.” ‘The temperance vote last year reached something near three thousand, and, therefore, in a close contest, it is not to be dospised. The re- publicans had nearly fourteen thousand ma- jority in Ohio last year, but the Legislature (chosen the year previous) was democratic. The struggle for the seat in the United States Senate dwarfs the contest for State officers into almost a local affair, a'though the entire canvass is so peculiarly surrounded as to invest it with more than ordinary interest. In tho first place there were the fuss and flurry of nominating epauletted heroes of the late or any other rebellion, and both parties put whom they considered their best men in the field—boti generals, par excellence, to wit:—Noyes, the republican, and McCook, the democrat. After a brief campaign the democratic hero col- lapsed and was laid up for the balance of the canvass, coming pretty near being laid upon the shelf altogether. The fight then seemed to lose part of its military phase or aspect, and a score or so of civic champions entered the field on both sides, It has been a real, sturdy, dowaright hand-to-hand conflict throughout, in which some of the ablest men in the Western country engaged, flanked by others not so able from Washing- ton and elsewhere. Among the prominent speakers were Groesbeck, Pendleton, Thurman, Cox and others for the democrats, and such men as Sherman, Morton, Boutwell, Delano, Bingham, Shellabarger and others for the re- publicans, In evidence of the importance attached to this election, it may be noted that the small claptrap electioneering dodges usually resorted to in Western political cam- paigns have been discarded during the one just closing in Ohio. The topics discussed have been of a high and statesmanlike char- acter, possessing more than ordinary national interest, and evincing that there still live American statesmen who are competent to grapple with subjects connected with political economy in the broadest, most enlightened and liberal sense. The danger of losing a Sena- tor, and such a Senator as Sherman, who stands foremost in their ranks, inspires the Ohio republicans with oanusual ardor, and hence their form'dable exertions to carry the Legisiature at the coming election. The election in Iowa is for State officers and members of the Legislature. Iowa is too strongly republican to afford the democrats even a ray of hope; but the fact that the Legislature to be now elected will choose a United States Senator in place of James Har- lan, whose term expires two years hence, im- parts to the contest no little interest. This arises especially from the fact that a strong effort is being made to dislodge the present Senator from bis comfortable seat, one he has occupied for several successive terms, and put some new man _ in—the democrats do not care much who, so long as there isa change. The anti-Harlan men are calculating with some confidence upon demo- cratic support; batina State that averages from thirty-five to forty thousand republican majority it would seem a little strange if the present managers have not the dexterity to so pull the wires as to make the whole po- litical machine run as they would have it. But the contest among the rival aspirants for the Senatorial dignity is very animated, neverthe- less. . On the 18th inst. California votes for two Judges of the Supreme Court aud for Superia- tendent of Public Instruction. Her late de- cision at the polls in favor of the repnblican candidate for Governor shows how the wind blows in that quarter. Ilinois votes for Con- gresaman-at-Large in place of General Logan; Indiana has purely a local elec- tion, and the October crop of elections will be reaped on the 26th, when West Virginia votes for delegates to a constitu- tional convention and members of the Legis- lature, Now, what is the lookout respecting the elections to take place during the balance of this month? In three States—Pennsylvania, Ohio, and lowa—United States Senators are to bo chosen by the Legislatures, and to these bodies, more than to the election of chiefs of States, are the efforts of shrewd politicians being directed. Of the members of these Legislatures a large proportion is to be chosen from the rural districts—from the farmhouses and workshops, the crossroads and country groceries of the interior. Hera the taint of political corraption scarcely ever penetrates, and here can more capital be made against any party accused of political delinquency than in any other part of a State where a canvass may be going on, And now comes the point and the moral. Never in the history of political campaigning in this coun'ry have weapons of such power and keenness been placed in the hands of the opponents of the democracy as those welded by Tammany Hall in its mon- strous peculations in this city for a few years past. They cut both right and left. They penetrate the obtuse intellect of the dull and unsophisticated countryman, and cannot be successfully parried by the most adroit de- fenders of the democratic faith. These Tam- many disclosures will be used by republi- cans during a campaign wherever a man can read—it is not necessary he should have understanding—and their effect will, we believe, be seen in augmented republican majorities in Legislatures where the republi- cans have beld power and in the discomfiture of democrats where they have been in the ascendant, as in the Legislature of Ohio, or where they held one branch, as in Pennsyl- vania—and, finally, in a general overwhelming defeat of the democracy, which is sure to pave the way for the triumphant re-election of General Grant in 1872. The Sermons Yesterday. The nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost universally observed in the nineteenth cen- tury of the Christian era in the free churches of the free republic of America, each man worshipping as his conscience dictated, each minister interpreting the law as his judg- ment and reason prompted and directed, and the members of the various congregations made one in the unity of faith and hope, and bound to their kindred and common country by the ties of charity and patriotism. Such was the consoling sight which was witnessed in our city and suburban temples yesterday; such the vision of atonement for the past and of hope for the future which was placed before the eyes of erring mortals from the pulpits and altars in distant cities all over the land; near as the HERaup reporters could describe it, and far as the telegraph was ena- bled to speak to us of the fact during the evening. The shield of government toleration protected all alike; the cleric in the exercise of his pastoral functions, the penitent in his choice of the particular path on which he wished to walk from the darkness of error to the glory of Christian light. The ceremonies which were performed made up a glorious offering to God in thanks for the fulfilment of the Law which was given on Sinai, while the sermons—in tone and eloquence, and words of admonition and reproof—afforded ample attestation that the flame of flery tongues which descended on the apostles on the first day of Christian Pentecost was inextin- guishable and enduring for all time. The dif- ferent congregations exemplified our national universalism. They were made up of the rich and the poor. In the sanctuary and before the altar all were the same—at least in spirit. There was a very considerable difference, how- ever, in the matters of outward appearance, dress, demeanor and the manner of devo- tion, The more aristocratic members were radiant in the rich tints of their elegant fall costumes. Brethren more heavily bowed down by the cares of the world were anxious concerning the coming “discontents” of winter, yet trustingly confi- dent in the promises of Him who “ tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.” Reverend Charles Lee preached in the Fifth Universalist Church. He made an excellent effort on the subject ‘Crowning Wrong and Crucifying Right,” a ministerial caption which he deduced trom St. John’s description of Christ carrying His cross to Calvary. The reverend gentlemen dwelt upon the hypocriti- cal and time-serving course of Pilate in giving way to the clamor of the Jews when the Saviour was brought before him. He asserted that the very same course of official conduct brought about the present state of New York city after its having been twice before endan- gered by the violence of mobs more fierce than the one which intimidated Pilate. Rev. Dr. Rylance exhorted from the three parables of the “Lost Sheep,” ‘‘The Temptation of the Piece of Money” and “‘The Prodigal Son.” He spoke in St. Mark’s Episcopal church, His infer- ences were well drawn and exceedingly well applied. The Roman Catholic churches taught of one fold and one Shepherd. St, Stephen’s was particularly brilliant when Father Mooney spoke from the text “Many are called, but few are chosen.” The congregation of Madison avenue Presbyte- rian church were told of the ‘‘certainty of eternal punishment of the wicked and the enormity of sin,” by the Rev. Mr. Conkling. This clergyman was ‘‘down" heavily on “rascals and thieves,” public and private, so severely indeed that many ladies in the very fashionable audience shed tears of pity when thinking over the probable future fate of many of our municipal leaders, who appear only too anxious to have all their joys and all their punishments here on earth, Mr. Conkling’s description of ‘‘the fear- ful doom” may open their eyes to their danger to-day; tbat is, provided they take up the Herarp just at the proper page. Rev. Mr. Hepworth advised everybody to keep cool and in good temper. He was scientific and tech- nical in his argument, too much so indeed for @ useful explanation of the simple text, from Ephesians, on which he preached. Plymouth church, Brooklyn, was made radiant with beaming faces, devotional eyes, jewels, silks and laces. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was at his post, “working with God,” as he termed it, with all the force of bis vast skill in the exercise of this saving handicraft. Mr. Beecher is evidently coming closer to the Divinity, for he now says, “‘It is so much the better not to be in the newspapers.” The Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian cler- gymen exhorted to grace and every day reli- gious discipline, according to the rather cold and rigid rules of their respective Churches. Ohio sent us a very available Methodist mis- sionary, from Lebanon, in the person of the Rev. Mr. White. Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey preached in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. His Grace exerted himself in support of St. Joseph’s Catholic Seminary, in Troy. The Archbishop was fervent, polished and effective, according to his manner, in his application of the Scripture parable of preparing for the wedding feast. Father Preston was, as usual, in powerful tone before a crowded and very fashionable congregation, in St. Ann’s Roman Catholic church. President Grant ‘‘sat under” the ministration of the Rev. Dr. Newman, in the Methodist Episcopal church, Washington. Miss Nellie Grant accompanied him. The reverend preacher recommended, in the simple words of St. Matthew, a complete acquiescence in the will of Providence in all the affuirs of life, the saving effect of such a course being equally useful to those in high places and the lowly. Thus do the Hgratp special reports of the church exercises and sermons yesterday go forth in our columns in support of the work of the successors of the apostles and to strengthen the people at large in their resolve to ‘hold fast to the faith” which is in them. Our City Parties and Factions—Tammany and Her Adversaries—*he “Ring’’ Placer Shut Up. It has been conjectured that Tammany, in the work of securing a majority in both houses of our last Legislature, expended in this city and in the “‘rural districts” for electioneering purposes, and at Albany in her legislative manipulations, not less than the sum of two millions of dollars. In the next place, in the bills passed making a close and confidential corporation of our city govern- ment, or, as Mr. Charles O’Conor styles it, “a pernicious oligarchy,” and looking to the grand game for the Presidential succession, it is said that “‘the Ring” considered these two millions a cheap investment, Whatever the precise facts may be In reference to the expenditures of Tammany in the business of our last November election, it is enough on the one hand that they were large and liberal; that where money was wanted for her purposes the money was sup- plied, and that the Legislature, by ‘‘a very tight squeeze,” was thus secured; and it is enough, on the other hand, that for the same purposes this fall the Tammany placer is shut up, and that “the Ring,” checkmated and chopfalien, has no object to gain in large expenditures of money to carry this coming November election. In this thing of itself we have a political revolution on this island. Why, the illumi- nated, pyrotechnical, imposing and never-end- ing Tammany ratification procession of last autumn must have cost, in all its appoint- ments, and equipments and contingents, nearly a quarter of a million of money, and the effect was the concentration at once around the old Wigwam of fifty thousand democratic majority for the city. Now, what is the prospect? The city treasury is empty, the city government is under an injanction, and Mr. Green stands guard over “‘the Boss” and his public works, and Tammany is under a cloud, If ‘‘the Boss” were willing, there would be no induce- ment for him to spend his own money in getting up a ratification procession, and in training and in supplying the sinews of war to his ward primaries for the coming election. He has another fight before him which is to him of paramount importance. In short, finan- cially speaking, the Tammany Ring is out of this State election; for the ringmasters must see that, in any event, it is sure to be dead against them in the Legislature, and that it will be sheer folly to waste their time or their money in the vain attempt to check the swell- ing tide of public indignation, Consequently, we shall have in this coming election nothing of that old-fashioned irresistible rush, en masse, of the Tammany boys at the polls which carries everything before it, and re- peaters will fall to a heavy discount in the market. The Tammany machine is smashed, the Tammany Ring is broken, the Tammany legion is disbanded, and the reform democracy of various organizations, including the ‘Young Democracy” and the German democracy, hold the balance of power in the city. _ Between the republicans and the democrats, between the remains of Tammany and the anti-Tammany men, between the Irish conservatives and the German reformers, between the Murphy and the Greeley republicans, to say nothing of temperance men, liquor men and the working- men’s leagues, we shall have in this coming November election the most extraordinary cross firing of cliques and factions, and yet, no doubt, the most honest, the best-natured, the most amusing, and the most peaceable and gratifying election, in view of the work of reform, of the long period of half a century. The revolution is inaugurated and it must run its course, Russia’s Latest Territorial Acquisition. The news of the final acquisition of the island of Saghalien by Russia, which we reported weeks ago by a cable telegram, is now again confirmed. The Japanese and Chinese embassies, as might have been ex- pected, have utterly failed to convince Prince Gortchakoff that they had any legal interest in the disputed territory. A single glance at the map shows how easily the conflicting claims of the Emperor, the Tycoon and the Czar bave arisen. The island lies in about equal contiguity to the domjnions of each. Regarded simply in a geographical light its northern end is Russian, its centre Chinese, and its southern extremity Japanese. The last two governments, many centuries ago, had planted colonies upoa it, but the Russian settlements ‘re comparatively recent. But what does this matter? The Russians sadly need a naval station further to the southward, and Saghalien is pretty well suited to their pur- pose. England and France may grumble at the seizure, but will not care to push the matter to an open rupture, So far as the interest of the scanty population of the island is concerned, the change is infinitely to their advantage, They will gain the protection and the patronage of a strong government, and may, for the future, grow rich, if they can, without fear of attracting official plunderers. It will be easy to defend the weak points in the Russian title by showing that China and Japan have enjoyed for ages the opportunity to make something ont of the island and have not availed themselves of it. Abstract rights ought tobe fairly weighed in questions of dis- puted territory, but the decisive point in such discussions ought always to bo the interest of the soil and people to be disposed of. Guarde—Gallaudet—Burchard. The Rev. Thomas Guarde, of the Irish Wes- leyan Conference, coming to our city a com- parative stranger, has during the few weeks of his sojourn here attracted considerable atten- tion in Methodist circles. He isa young man, apparently about thirty-three years of age, of medium height and size, and his countenance wears a remarkably meek and placid appear- ance. He has spent some years as a mission- ary in South Africa and fs now recruiting his health in milder climates. Yesterday he preached for St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church in the morning and for the Eigh- teenth street Methodist Episcopal church in the evening, and both discourses were models of purity of design and plainness of speech, at the same time evincing pro- found thought, without much show of philoso- phy or scientific speculations. A synopsis of his morning sermon in the Central Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday will reveal, after careful reading, an old subject presented with 4 vigor and freshness of thought which might well be imitated. The atonement by Christ has often been set forth in the pulpits of New York, but, so far as our experience and know- ledge extend, never in the line of thought in which Mr. Guarde then treated it. His style in the pulpit is more conversational than oratorical, and there is nothing boisterous or sensational whatever in his mannor or matter. He appears to have fine descriptive powers, and to be theologically well read and tho- roughly furnished unto every good word and work. His discourses yesterday do not ap- pear in the Heratp this morning. We un- derstand that the Ceniral and Seventh street churches are seeking his services from next spring for three years, He must return to Ireland to obtain a transfer here should he ultimately decide to abide with us. We hope his stay among us may be made pleasant and profitable, and that great success may attend his ministry here and elsewhere. The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D. D., rector of St. Ann’s Protestant. Episcopal church for Deaf Mutes, is one of the most industrious and hard-working Episcopalian clergymen in this city. He has done a grand and noble work for a class who previously had been almost without the pale of society and of the church because of the misfortune or providential deal- ings which deprived them of the sense of hearing and of speech. The Doctor's father was the first to establish a school for deaf mutes in the United States, and the entire family have ever since devoted themselves to the moral, intellectual and spiritual instruc- tion of this unfortunate class of persons. Nine- teen years ago Dr. Gallaudet began a mission among the deaf mutes in this city, out of which have grown missions to the same class in Bos- ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and other cities of the land, and Sunday week, as the Doctor reviewed the progress of his enterprise, he might well exclaim, ‘‘What hath God wrought?” The results of his labors cannot be measured here, though much might be said aad written interestingly on the subject. Of the four hundred and eighty members of his own church his statistics show that fifty are deaf mutes, and were he to count the many colonies which have gone forth from this spiritual home we dare say the number of his converts would be very great. No more interesting service can be witnessed than a service for deaf mutes, and the strictest attention is paid to every sign, for the eye has to take the place of the earfor them. Dr. Gallaudet has more Sab- bath services in his church than perhaps any other minister in the city ; nevertheless he at- tends and officiates in each. Bat, instead of growing weary and becoming exhausted, he seems to increase his burdens year after year, and to enjoy his Master's work betteras he grows older. His discourses are remarkably simple and spiritual, which probably accounts for his success. The Rev. Samuel D. Burchard, D.D., pastor ofthe Thirteenth street Presbyterian church, has passed the prime of life, but still retains the freshness and vigor of young manhood, and his pulpit discourses are delivered with unerring aim and precision. The Doctor is very posi- tive in his character, and lays the axe to the root of the tree in every instance, and with heavy and well-directed strokes brings the sinner and his sins to the foot of the cross, Years ago Dr. Burchard was a flaming torch in this city; but a good many men who, if they possess not equal worth, can at least make more noise, have since then taken up their abode here and the Doctor has been partially lost sight of in the bustling crowd. He, how- ever, has pursued his steady way, build- ing up bis church, which has one of the largest memberships of any Presbyterian church in the city, and we believe the largest association of Christian young men which can be found in any church here, His religious services aré well attended, and his week evening lectures are replete with interest and biblical information, The Doctor is no less worthy as a pastor than as a preacher, and by gaining the affections of his people in their own homes he ia able to do much more good in his ministry than he possibly could with- out. We hope he will live to ba useful many years longer, and that the future may be as the past, but much more abundant. ‘ Tur Erections iv Texas indicate a demo- cratic victory and the probable return of a full democratic representation to Congress, Three of the delegation of four from that State in the last Congress were republicans, so that the gain will bea very substantial one for the democratic minority in the House, RT A ‘The Mont Cols Tunnel and che Engincerd ing Enterprise of the Age. . We live in an age which is entitled by wf of distinction to be designated the age wonders, Year after year marvels multiply ¢ what was deemed impossible a few years pos has taken the place of accomplished fact, and it does seem as if distance was about to be annibilated, Mind is gradually triumphing over matter, and it begins to appear as if all things were possible to science. The Mont Cenis Tunnel is a fresh illustration of the great and growing power of human skill, and encourages us to believe in the almost infinite capacities of science. To the steam engine,, the electric telegraph, the deep sea cables, . the Pacific Railroad, the Suez Canal, must now be added the Mont Cenis Tunnel. It is only fourteen years since this greav work was commenced. It was one of the pet ideas of the great Cavour, and the project af once received the favor of the Emperor Na- poleon. Cavour believed that it would con- tribute at once to the unification and prosperity of Italy. Itis not unreasonable to presume that Napoleon bad a more selfish object in view, for already he had cast his eye on Savoy, and it was not unnatural for him te conclude that the tunnel, when completed, might contribute to the fulfilment of his great uncle’s plans by giving France so great a hold on the South that Italy would sink into the condition of a great French province. The work of excavation had hardly begun when Cavour died; but the Italians did not lose heart, and now, after all these years of patient and persevering toil, success has crowned their efforts, It wason the 15th of August, 1857, that the first operations were made, at bardonecchia, on the Italian, and at Forneaux on the French, side of Mount Frejus, through which the tunnel was to be cut. Properly speaking the name should be taken from Mount Frejus, for Cenis is some fifteen miles distant. For a time the work was done by hand, in the usual wer but by and by pers. forating machines, worked by compressed air, produced by hydraulic pressure from the mountain streams, were introduced, and the work went on apace. The average rate of progress was about nine feeta day. On the 15th of July, last year, it was found that about 15,000 feet had been cut on the north side, about 22,000 feet on the south, 2,000 feet between still remaining to ba pierced. On the 7th of November the sound as if of an explosion was heard by one of the chief engineers when going his rounds, and it was found upon inquiry that an explosion had taken place on the other side at that very time. Day by day the sounds became more and more distinct. ‘‘At the beginning of De- cember,” writes M. Ganesi, ‘‘we heard quite clearly the blows of the perforators against the rocks. Then we vaguely heard the sound of voices. For three days and turee nights engineers, foremen and heads of gangs never left the tunnel. We could neither eat nor sleep; every one was ina fever. At length, on the moruing of the 26th of December, the rock fell in near the roof. The breach was made, and we could see each other and shake hands, The same evening the hole was clear— the last obstacle—and the mountain was pierced ; our work was done. The two axes met almost exactly; there was barely half a yard error. The level on our side was only sixty centimetres (less than three-quarters of a yard) too high.” It was always a source of fear to the en gineers that the cuttings on the one side and the other might not exactly meet. It is a high testimony to the skill of the engineers, and to the care with which the work was done, that, after so many years of separate labor, the one cuiting should have been only two feet higher than the other. On the 14th of September the first train passed through the seven and a half miles of tunnel in forty minutes, on the 18th the same distance was accomplished in twenty minntes. From our own correspondent aod from others we gather that there are some im- provements which must be made before travel- ling in the tunnel will be perfectly comfort- able. The heat increases rapidly until the train reaches the centre, The smoke and vapor make it necessary to keep the carriage windows closed. But it is not to be imagined that the science which pierced the mountain will not soon be found equal to the removing of these inconveniences, The opening of this tunnel was made a source of mutual rejoicing by both France and Italy. Itis not to be denied, however, that Italy will be the pria- cipal gainer. The Brindisi route will be the favorite overland route to the East. Brindisi, in fact, will supplant Marseilles, Italy has at last a means of reviving all, and more than all, her ancient commercial importance. Thera are many good judges who are of the opinion that the opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, thus giving Italy all the advantages of the shortest, and; in some respects, most agreea- ble route to the East, is a fresh blow to the national importance of France. [nto this question, however, we will not now enter. It is more important to notice that this frealy triumph of engineering skill, opening up as it does vistas of commercial wealth, has pro- voked ambition and given birth to railroad and other schemes in almost unexampled abundance. The proposals are almost legion. There is the old proposal for a Euphrates Valley railroad, to connect the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, thus shortening by a week the present overland journey from Eng- land to India. There are about a dozen pro- posals to connect Constantinople with India. There is all the more anxiety about this for the reason that ina year or two Constantino— ple will be connected with the European system. One of these schemes proposes to make the Euphrates Valley line a section of the highway to India, Another proposes to run through the north of Asia Minor and Persia, passing through Teheran and on through Herat and Candahar. There is even i third class of schemes by which India is to ba ; reached through Russia. The latest proposal and one which is likely to win favor, is to ru a line from Trieste, along the Turkish coast, to Salonica, from which there would be a short sea passage across the Levant, and then a railwayy to India on the Euphrates line, running as fea as Kurrachee. Eathusiasts now speak wth’ confidence of a grand trunk railroad which will run across both Europe and Asia, “nd wo cannot say that the confidence is not justified by what has already been done, It doce appear as if the globe will g900, be too ema