The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1871, Page 6

| | 6 NEW YORK HERALD] , BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. WALLACK’S THRATRE. Cy 4 and URE street. Ace@Ravatine Sam—Tum Neuvovs Man, Soa oer ere Fas mo. betereca bth and Gh ava — pROMERY THRATRE, Bowery.—Ume—s Pavonsre pXIBLO’ GARDEN, Brosaeray, botweon Prince and PR Eo HOUSE, corner ‘of Sth av. ane S84 st— ERE Non 6 and 41 Bowecy—Orena iv RMSE, Heel Teceme semen LINA EDWIN's THRATRE. No, 730 Broadway.—FssNOn Ormna—La PRRICROLE. Me STADT Bz sson, FIFTA AVENUE TUKATRE, Twenty-fourth street. Tur New Deana or Drvocor,— OLYMPIC THEATRK. Brosdway.—T13 Bavuer Pan- Tout. or Lgarry Dourrr. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and Brosd- qray.—Paiss Donna FOR 4 NiguT, £0. MRS. fF. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THBATRE.— Divorce. Pal THEATRE, LARS TATE, copia Oly Hats Breoiya—taw UNTON SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NzoRo AOPS—BoRLesque, Bate, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comic Vooat- 16ée, NEGRO ACTS. a0. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL RAUL, Broadway.— Tus San FRANCIS0O MINGTBRLE. bd me BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 et, between Gib and 7b ave,—Brvanr's MINeTRE.e. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 901 Bowery.— URLESQUES, £0. Seno Eoorntnicrrizs, Bi PARIS PAVILION circu Fourteenth street, ween ‘9d and 3a svoatne -HaUaaraLasione so. <r New York, Monday, Octeber 23, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HEKALD. Pace. 1—Adverttsements, ‘— Advertisements. 3—Europe: The Advance of the tate of Discount of the Bank of England; the Money Markets of tue World in Danger of ‘Disturbed: id pap Cay aud the ee ty in ‘ar Easi—News trom Japan—' chi ana Forest Fire Funds—Y: > Mr. ‘Ash. Sttua- bury’s Latest Views ou tne ¥ Uon; the Races the Livonia Claims—More Hor- —Dedi- rors 1n Ne wark—| in Kent Cation of @ Catholic ft) wark— Another Suicide. 4—Religious: The Services st the Churches and the Eloquence of the Puipit Yesterday; More Moral Lossons on the Chicago Fire; Collections in the Catholic Churches; Newman on tte Power of Great Cities; Mr. on Municipal and Nauonal Stealing; Re-igoatton of Dr. econ: i ‘ the ep bdiygere vee ay roar “4 ‘napman, Meri chardsop, Bishop o! Georgia; Fathers McAuley, McNerney and Nash; the Revs. Henry Ward Beecher, A. F. Curry, David Moore, Jr., and ©. H. Mano. S—Religious (Continued from Fourth Page)—The Public Parks: The Charges of Extrav: ce Asylum—The Maryiand Jockey Club— inhumanity in Hoboken—The Hobo- ken Murder—A Reformer's Riot—The Virginia ‘and Tennessee Railroad. €—Editoriais; Leading Article, “Republicanism in England’'—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Eailtoriais (Continued from Sixtn Page)—News irom France, England, Spain and ‘rurkey— National Colored Convention—Martial La’ South Carolina—News from Washington— Literature: Criticisms of New books; Literary Chit-Chat—Naval Intelligence— Music and the Prama—Porsonal Intelligence—Views of the Past—Business Notices. 8—The Fasaions : ‘tne Season Early Opened; Com- mon Sense and Good Taste in the Ascendant. Musical Review—Chicago Insurance: The Losses and Resources of the Companies—Sink- ing of a Lake Propeller—OMicial Extortion in Phuadelphia—Union ue of America— Dreadful Accident at Poughkeepsie—Mar- riages and Deaths, @—Finaocial and Commercial Rep orts—Domestic Markets --Advertisemeuta. 10— Massachusetts: The Tricks of the Gubernato- rial Canvass Exposed—New York Politics— Kunming Notes, Political and General— Shipping Intelligence —Advertisements. ‘£} —Aavertisements. 12—Aavertsements, Important, IF TrvR.—At Spartanburg, S. C., as we learn, a whole den of the Ku Klux Klan bave been captured—a chief, twenty men and all their arms and disguises. Tur Western Forest Fings—Gengrat SueRiwan TO Toe Resour. —On Saturday last, ‘on being officially informed by Governor Fair- child of the destitution and suffering resulting from the forest fires in Northern Wisconsin, General Sheridan at once issued orders for the despatch of four thousand army blankets, two thousand overcoats and one hundred wagons for their relief, These are the very supplies most needed by those exposed and suffering people—biankets for the poor women and children, overcoats for the men, and wagons which will serve as houses for homeless fami- lies until cabins can be provided for them for the winter. Well done, General; but we all know that when the cry for help comes from the suffering, friend or foe, in peace or war— ‘The bravest are the tenderest And the first to hear the call. Tar Open Porar Sga, discovered by the expedition of Dr. Kane some years ago, is now reported as having been sighted by the German expedition beading for the Pole by way of the Spitzbergen Islands. The Ger- mans report, too, that this open Polar Sea swarms with whales, and we are inclined to believe the report; for there, within the broad surrounding barriers of ice, the whales are secure from the whalers, and no adventurous Yankee has yet “‘struck ile” within that Polar basin, because no one has yet found the way to get into it, Captain Hall, we hope, will find the way in, and came back, not only with ® piece of the North Pole as the figurehead of the Polaris, but with a chart otf his route and a report that it is open to our whalers ia the summer, and that the open sea around the Pole swarms with whales, walruses, seals and white bears. Aw Arremprt To Burn San Franoisco.—An attempt ingeniously devised to destroy the city was detected in time and completely baffied on Friday evening last. A block thickly covered with frame buildings was fired fn five different places, and but for the season- able discovery of the diabolical work half the city might have been consumed, for San Fran- cisco is peculiarly subject to high winds, And here the suspicion is again suggested that incendiarism is probably at the bottom of many of these Western fires, and that the villains concerned, intent upon plunder, have been incited into these atrocious experi- ments by the terrible teachings of the Paris Commune. In this view of the subject we (hope that the investigation into this San Fran- clpoo affair will be pushed to a complete ex- pesare of the plot and all the parties coa- qormed ia It NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET. years; and even the most moderate incline to the opinion that the wave of republicealsm, unless checked by some unforeseen cause, wiil within twenty years completely submerge the royal house of Ragland. Ofcourse there are fe Fa Il it H el ut Si of the rich. So long as the tmaen can procure bread and quantities to satisfy their wants trouble themselves very little about the of their government. Taught from thelr. to boast that England is the governed country in the world, and knowing no better, they believe with a dull, stolid fatth. But within a few years a light has broken on the people, and there have not been wanting bold men who declared that the good govern- ment of England was a sham—an imposture. Turning to men whose faces were pale with hunger, whose eyes were hollow with watch- ing, who toiled and sweated, but enjoyed not, they asked the laboring millions, how does this model government affect you? Have you not liberty to toil, freedom to starve? You can huddle together in the fotid dens of the oity, or labor hopelessly in the mines for the “tommy” master ; but what do you enjoy of the fruits produced by your sweat? N> appeals to the glorious constitution can ba‘tle with the logic of facts; the people look round and see their children pale and wan. They toil, but their reward fails to supply bread, and they ask themselves why it is so. The rich grow daily richer and more magnificent, while the unfortunates grow thinner and more ragged. Hence republicanism gains force day by day, and the red cap, which a few years ago was laughed at, has grown to be a danger. And why? Because social revolu- tions spring from discontent, begot of misery, and there never was @ more fruitful field turned by a republican plough than modern England offers, Im spite of her immense wealth the masses of her people live in a con- dition of wretshedness unknown in other lands, and though her statesmen see the dan- ger and are etriving by concessions to avert it, events march so quickly that they may fail. The lodger franchise is but the prelude to universal suffrage, and this fact has forced the attention of the governing classes to the edu- cation of the people. It might be better for England that popular imstitations should come thus gradually to the mation; buat will the suffering masses have patience ? That this thought is deeply agitating the popular mind in England we have had evi- dence in the unexpected manner in which the question was treated by the press when the report of the dangerous illness of the Queen threatened to bring them face to face with the question of the future form of government. It is well known that the republicans do not desire the death of the present Queen, but, on the contrary, hope herreign may be prolonged until they have sufficiently educated the people to be able to declare the republic. Nor can even those most devoted to the pre- sent form of government refase to admit the firm hold which democratic ideas are taking on the masses. So noticeable has been the increase of the popular agitation that the English press, which represents the moneyed interests of England only, has been engaged gravely suggesting remedies by which the rise of the republican tide may be retarded, if not prevented. Without accepting the esti- mate of the advance of democratic senti- ment made by the friends of republi- canism, it is impossible not to perceive that the English people are gradually losing their respect for royalty, and have already gone so far on the road of progress as to have thought that they might be able to live with- out a king. It is a dangerous thing for a rotten institu- tion when a people 60 eminently practical as the English begin to examine closely its actual value. So much of the “respect that doth hedge in a king” is derived from the superstitious traditions of a dark age that there is danger to royalty when the cobwebs of time are rudely torn asunder by the force of modern ideas and we have disclosed in all its poor nakedness the vileness of the thing called a king. And this is the real danger to the British throne. The people estimate the Guelphs at their propsr value, and see in the heir of the House but the shadow ‘‘of the fools called George.” Had republicanism in Englend a leader, strong, bold and respect- able, the fate of royalty would be sealed. But the only man, perhaps, who possesses some of the qualities of a great leader—Bradiangh— has drawn upon himself the dislike, and even contempt, of the more moderate of the party by his blasphemy. But, with a leader or with- out one, the struggle between the people and the governing classes cannot be long delayed. Poverty is increasing yearly with amazing strides; not that England is becoming poorer, but that wealth is constantly centring in the hands of a few. When the overflowing point is reached, and men will fight rather than want, such inflammable material lies at hand in the Great cities as has never existed since the day the Bastile fell, Kaglishmen wil! not fight for an idea, but they must have bread, and any unexpected accident which would add greatly to the general distress might precipitate a revolution before whose horrors the scenes of ‘98 would pale. Apart from the English people proper, in Tif every important industrial centre there exists an element of danger which seems to be almost completely overlooked by those who weigh the chances of social strife in England, We allude to what are known as the “Irish colonies.” Separated by faith, race and aspi- ration from the British empire, these colonies are the very hotbeds of democracy and the most potent agents in its spread among the English working classes. And yet the Irish in England take no organized part in the movement led by Bradlaugh and Odgers. The cause is simple, Though republicans, the Icish are Catholic, and will not connect them- selves with mon who scoff at reli- gion. Powerless by themselves to achieve anything, these colonies would become most useful auxiliaries in case of a struggle be- tween the Eaglish people and their govern- ment. More disaffected thea even the Irish in Ireland, they are more thoroughly democratic day that the Turkish government intends ‘to seize the property of the mosques and spply it to the use of the State, The idea is a pro- gressive one, and in complete accordance with the spirit and rale which have lately moved and guided many of the Christian governments of the Old World—of Italy and Spain particu- larly—ia their treatment of the ecclesiastical domains. The statesmen of Turkey have been anxious to grapple with the power of the clergy for many years past, but the territorial wealth and consequent lay influence of the ecclesiastical corporations made the ministers timid and hesitating, both in their debates or the adoption of any actual resolve in the premises. Treasury necessities are most urgent to cabinets, however, and, looking at the actual condition of the Turkish exchequer, we are induced to believe that the Sultan will at no distant day lay his hands on the property entail of the Church, consecrated though it may be by post-obit donation, clerical pogses- sion and a time-acknowledged exercise of manorial rights. The final accomplish- ment of the act will be attended with a very serious popular commo- tion, no doubt; but its consequences must eventually produce the most excellent effects in liberating the churches of the East from monastic influence, and thus restoring them to their original simplicity of discipline and form of worship, and so permitting the native clergy to come nearer to their Christian brethren in Italy and other free countries. The importance of the subject can be esti- mated by the illustration which we append to our news telegram explaining the nature of the Church property all which will be affected by the act of the Sultan. The European M[ellef Fund for Chiengo. A tabular statement of the sums which have been subscribed in Europe for the relief of the sufferers by the Chicago fire is published in the Hrgarp to-day. The exhibit embraces the various amounte—rendered into American gold dollars—whieh were donated to Saturday, the 21st instant. The totals foot up six hua- dred and sixteen thousand one hundred dollars. The cherity was hopefully cosmo- politan, The Empress of Germany placed her name on the roll, as did the Prince Frederick William of Prussia and his wife, the Princess Victoria, Bankers of the Jewish and Gentile persuasions responded. Incorporated railroad and mercantile companies and the associated members of the municipal corporations came forward with funds from their respective treasuries, Americans travelling abroad for pleasure or on business set the consideration of their own personal affairs aside for a season and took counsel with each other as to the best means of assuaging the grief which had fallen so suddenly and with such ruinous severity on a portion of their countrymen at home. Stricken Puris, staid and steady Glasgow, impoverished Dublin, the light-hearted children of sunny Cork, the toilers and calculators of Manchester, the citizens of sober-minded Belfast, the huge mart of Liverpool and the overshadowing metropolis of England were all moved with a common impulse and pro- claimed with one accord that the “quality” of charity, like that of mercy, is ‘‘not strained, but droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven, and blesseth him that gives and bim that takes.” The Nilsen Italiaa Opera Season. To-night the long-looked-for event thet has for months past created such an excitement and interest in masical and fashionable circles will take place. Mile. Christine Nilsson makes her first appearance in opera at the Academy of Music in her best réle, that of Lucia, in Donizetti's charming opera. Her début will be made under the most favorable circom- stances. Her great reputation and her transcendent abilities, which roused to enthu- siaam the volatile public of Paris, rescued from bankruptcy the management of Her Majesty’s Opera and set the ‘‘Hub” in a whirl of ecstasy, lead us to expect more from her than any other prima donoa that has graced the boards of the New York Opera House for @ decade of years has shown. Of course, the Academy will be crowded this evening by such an assemblage of intelligence, beauty and fashion as only the metropolis can set forth, and the entrance of the Bride of Lammer- moor will be the signal for an outburst of applause as only can be heard in New York. With her appears the favorite tenor of the American stage, Brignoli, and the new French baritone, Barré. Miss Cary Capoul and Jamet will make their début in ‘‘Faust” on Wednesday, so that by the end of the week we shall be able to judge definitely of the calibre of the company. The directors and stockholders of the Academy have done all in their power to contribute towards the success of the new season, and the brilliancy of the Parepa-Rosa English Opera season is a suffi- cient guarantee of the desire of the metro- politan public to patronize.opers liberally this winter. Nothing further need be said, as the company will speak for themselves this even- ing, and a hearty welcome awaits them, The Demand of Spain Upon Hayti for the Surrender of the Hornet. Old Spain seems determined to be the Don Quixote of nations, The latest evidence of her bombastic belligerency—of a disposition to fight windmills—is the demand upon the poor and weak black republic of Hayti for.the surrender of the steamer Hornet. According to our telegraphic news from Port au Prince, published yesterday, the commander of s Spanish man-of-war lying at Port au Prince bad made this demand formally, and upon the refusal of the Haytien governmeot to give ap the Hornet the Spanish Consul took down his consular flag and left on board a war vessel for Havana. It is said the Consul had gone to Havana for instructions, ‘| though it. is, hardly to be supposed he would have'taken down his fiag and ceased holding intercourse with the Haytien government “withoul. a previous understanding with his own @overnment, The Hornet has been in the inner barbor of Port au Prince, the of Hayti, since last ry, 900 there does not appear to be any gy ogre affecting her status or , Tt ebems, therefore, that Spain y “object «in view ie her officials Hornet, as is well Blockade runner for the Cuban ‘belonged to Cuban sympathi- States.. She belonged to ‘and had been regu- papers from satisfied was Tennessee, of this at Port au Prince, out to sea or home the United States? Perhaps, however, Spain has been made to ufderstand that our pro- Spanish government at Washington will not trouble itself about the Hornet, and that she may do as she wishes with this steamer or the Haytiens. Hayti has not pleased our administration and the St, Domingo lobby at Washington by her hostility to the annexation scheme, and itmay bethat this Spanish hostile proceeding is the first step of a matured plan for punishing the presumptuous negro re- public. It will be interesting to know all the facts bearing upon this Hornet affair, as it involves an international question of some importance. The Sermons Yesterday. In the budget of sermons which we present to the readers of the Hera.p to-day it will be seen that the range of thought and topic is extensive and embmces love and pity, the laws of nature and of morals, the death and resurrection of Christ, the beauty of the Lord and of His house, the life and character of Peter and the advantages or disadvantages of impulsive Christianity, Elijah’s test of faith, the value of a good life, charity toward the suffering, the power of great cities, municipal corruption and the Chicago and Western conflagrations, Yesterday was the time chosen by the Archbishop for taking up subscriptions in all the Catholic churches of this city for the Western fire sufferers, and appropriate sermons were preached in each, some which we present to-day. In St, Stephen's the Rev. Dr. McGlynn made an eloquent appeal in behalf of our sister city, and the Rev. Dr. McMullen, of Chicago, followed with sermon, and under the inspiration of the occasion the congregation responded nobly. In the Cathedral the Rev. Father McNierny preceded a practical sermon on the use of the Lord’s talents by His servants by an appeal for Chicago. The Rev. Father McAuley referred to the same disaster in St. Theresa's church, and in a sermon of very great power Dr. Richardson, of the New Eng- land Congregational church, drew forth from the ashes of Chicago the sublime lesson that man is more precious than gold, and that the future world is more enduring than the present and should be sought after more earnestly and ardently. The eloquent pastor of Plymouth church is nothing if be cannot be affectionate. Hence every little while he pauses in his philosophi- cal and abstract theological pursuits to show his people something of the Saviour’s love, His recent ‘‘Life of Christ” has, perbaps, im- pressed him more than ever with this theme, and yesterday he was, if possible, more sym- pathetic and loving than ever. In a brief reference to Chieago Mr. Beecher stated that his chureh had given, in one way or another, not less tian forty thousand dollars to that strigken city. This is certainly a noble offer- ing from one congregation. The very opposite of Mr. Beecber’s principle of love—selfishness—was taken up by his neighbor, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of the big Tabernacle; and from that iron structure he read New Yorkers a homily on political parti- sanship, municipal corruption, fraudulent vot- ing and counting and drunkenness. His idea of the politicians was that those who got the best chance stole the most, and if the Church dia mot make them purer in politics it was worthless. How much, then, is it worth, may we ask, seeing thet many of this condemned class of politicians are church members and some of them church officials, and yet, accord- ing to Mr, Talmage, they are thieves, liars and drunkards? Politics, he declared, pro- duced more drunkards than any other cause, and more politicians died from delirium tre- mens than from anything else; but the physi- cians, from regard to the survivors, give cer- tificates of death from other esuses. If Mr. Talmage speaks truth here there ought to be a chance for the Board of Health to look after the physicians, Mr. Talmage was just enough | rapid development and promised extension of to confess that the two great political partics had their hands as deeply in the treasury one as the other, Aside from the topics and events referred to above two events, more remarkable than usual, took place here yesterday. One was the resignation of Dr. Joseph P. Thompson, who for twenty-six years has held the pas- torate of the Broadway Tabernacle congrega- tion—the old building of which on Broadway was once so famous as the centre of New York abolitionism, of which tha Doctor himself was always a firm and eloquent champion. He retires from the ministry on account of physical disability, and carries with him the prayers and the best wishes of his congrega- tion and of the great body of Christians gen- erally. The other event was the dedication of a Reformed church for the Rev. Dr. Ganse and his people on Madison avenue and Fifty- seventh street. The Reformed Church does not extend itself very rapidly here, and alittle child can easily count the edifices which bave been dedicated by it here during the last fifteen yeara, The State Grape Growers’ Association—The Wine-Producing Capacities of the United States. The remarkable success of the fourth annual Fair of the New York State Grape Growers’ Association affords a most encourag- ing view of the wine-producing capacities of the United States, The fair was held at Ham- mondsport, about three hundred and twenty- five miles distant from New York city, and the head centre of a region devoted to grape cul- ture and wine making. A full and minute deacription of this rezion, which has worthily won the title of the Epernay of America, was recently given by a Hearn o@'resfondent, who surprised many thousands of the resi- dents in our metropolis by revealing the fact that within a day's ride they may find in Western New York, and particularly in the counties of Steuben, Schuyler, Yates and Oa- tario, and on the borders of Lekes Keuka, Seneca, Cayuga and Canandaigua, a grape- growing and wine-making country which already promises to rival the northern border of European viniculture made famous by Rheims, Epernay, Ay, Cote d’Or and Johan- nisberg. [t is manifest that in America as in Europe we must look to the higher latitudes for grapes of the finest flavor and wines of the richest bouquet. At the recent fair in Hammondsport there were six hundred entries of grapes. Not- withstanding the drawback that this is not a first class grape season the three tables, each a hundred feet long, which were covered with plates of grapes, made an admirable show. All the commonly grown varieties and many newer kinds, such as the Croton, Senasqua, Una, Seneca, Irving, Walter and Eumalan, together with a score of unnamed seedlings, were exhibited. The latest variety of Catawba was unequalled in size of cluster and berry. The Iona, which is considered by wine makers the best of American grapes, was as abundant as the more common varieties. Not the least interesting and suggestive inci- dent of the fair was the result of the competi- tion for the fifty dollar prize offered by the Pleasant Valley Wine Company for the best sparkling wine of American or foreign manu- facture. Every precaution was taken to secure the fairness and impartiality of the contest. The committee sat in a room by themselves, and glasses, numbered to corre- spond with the thirteen bottles on trial, were filled outside of the room and brought to them, with no other designation than the numbers. Among the competing foreign wines were the Duc de Montebello, Roederer, St. Marceaux and Jules Mumm. The palm of victory was awarded unanimously to an American wine, “The Great Western Sparkling,” manufactured by the company which offered the prize. This is the first challenge and victory of the kind, The result is not relied upon to prove the inferiority of European wines, but it as- saredly indicates the perfection which wine making has already attained in America. When our wine growers shall have acquired the patience and assiduity exacted in European vineyards, and our wine makers the skill and experience of their European rivals—Ameri- can ingenuity and enterprise meanwhile de- vising new and improved processes and plans—we may be confident that not Western New York alone, but other portions of the Empire State and numerous regions through- oat the land, will liberally contribute towards securing the recognition of the United States as one of the best and greatest wine-producing countries in the world, It is estimated that upwards of twenty thousand persons in the western portion of this State are engaged in various ways in grape growing and wine making, that their field of labor covers twenty thousand acres and that a capital of five million dollars is employed uponit. But although the vineyards of Western New York have no parallel for extent on this side of the Rocky Mountains, their product is but a drop in the bucket com- pared with the aggregate of the future yield throughout the Union. On the borders of Lake Erie, on the northern ‘bank of the Ohio, in the Shenandoah Valley, in the mountains of Virginia, in South Carolina and North Carolina, in Illinois, Indi- ana, Kentucky and Missouri—in fact, in every State, and especially in Texas, Arizona and the southern part of Alta California, wine is now produced of a quality so superior and in 80 great a quantity as to warrant the predic- tion that the wine markets of the world will yet be abundantly supplied by the pure juice of the American grape. With the exception of those excellent California wines produced from vines brought from Spaia nearly a bundred years ago, almost every attempt to acclimate and naturalize European wines has failed. Bat prodigious success has attended the en- deavor by hybridization, or crossing, to im- prove the numerous varieties of our own native grapes. The purity of our best Ameri- can wines is their strongest recommendation. Mead, in his valuable work on ‘American Grape Culture,” very properly protests against countenancing anything but the puro juice of the grape. “No kind,” he says, “the pure juice of which cannot be made into an en- during wine should be admitted {nto the list of wine grapes; otherwise we ope the door not only to syrups and confections, rhabarb and elderberries, but also for Gallizing and other slow poisonings and absurdities.” The grape culture in this couatry muat inevitably Teasen the of vile, polsonoud whiskeys, adding to the wealth and promoting the welfare of our population by leaving more corn to be worked up into bread, From this point of view we cannot but rejoice in the: in- calculable wine-producing capacities of the United States. ; General Grant’s Movements The President and half his Cabinet, from thele famous excursion to the great railway cele. brations in Maine, bave returned to Washing- ton. The distinguished party from the East arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel early oa Saturday morning, where the President's family had been for some days awaiting him. He devoted the day to a drive through the Central Park, to tbe reception of & ‘host of politicians and to an excellent dinner, at the conclusion of which the whole party, including the President, his family, half the members of his Cabinet and other officials and followers were hurried off to the tweéaty minutes past nine o'clock evening trala’ for Washington. Collector Murphy and aumerous others of that wing of the.New York republi-, can camp were conspicuous among the callers upon the President at the Fifth Avenue;*but neither the benevolent face of Mr. Greeley nor the towering form of “‘Rufe Andrews” were visible in the crowd. They would rather stretch their legs under the mahogany. of “Boss Tweed” than sit at the same table with “Tom Murphy.” Nevertheless, the san atill rises and sets and the tide still ebbs and flows, without the slightest regard for the tribulations of Mr. Greeley. Parker—Evace—Northrap. ‘ The Rev. John Parker, pastor of Alaneon Methodist Episoopal church in Norfolk street, is aremarkable man and has s remarkable history. He isa small man, of wiry frime, and {s about forty-four years of age, twenty. five of which he has spent, in the ministry of the Methodist Church, When he was‘but nineteen years of age the Lord called him frou: the shoemaker's bench to declare His Goapel, and for three years the young preacher occu. pied circuits in England, having to walk twenty miles every Sabbath day to’ fill ‘his appointments and’ getting to rest at might rarely before midnight, And then he wasup at daybreak to attend to his secular busingss. His studies were pursued under very great difficulties and chiefly at night by the light of the coal or wood fire, so that at the age of twenty-two years he was compelled to wear glasses. His family and friends had not so mach regard for religion as he had, and they some- times tried to thwart his designs and aspira- tions toward the ministry, But his faith triumphed over every obstacle, and he has had the rare experience of knowing that he has never preached a sermon without having some souls awakened or converted there- ander, He is a man of wonderful faith and great power in prayer, and is, withal, asinger of no mean ability. He has now the largest ~ Methodist congregation in this city, and, though his people, with one or two excep- tions, are all of the mechanic and laboring class, they promptly raised three hundred dollars for Chicago on Sunday, 15th instant. And this, too, without the inspiration of a special sermon ; for, as Mr. Parker remarked, while souls were in his church seeking the Saviour, and he had letters of inquiry from some of them, he could not turn aside to tale about Chicago, however veg it might appear to be. Instead, therefore, of preaching a Chicago fire sermon he preached a Gospel fire sermon, which touched not only tne pockets but the hearts of the poo ple. His Conference fully understand his power, and as he is one of the few ministers who never look out beforehand for choice appointments his brethren send bim wherever they want to build new churches or to revive old ones, and his success is always certain. Ia conversation with a friend the other day he remarked, ‘I don’t care where they send me. Tcan gather a congregation anywhere. If I can’t pray the people in or preach them in I can sing them in, thank God.” And no doubt his talent of song is a gift of great power ia his ministry. Frequently his sermons are broken by # bymn of invitation or praise which be sings, and under which the people meltas ander the mighty power of God. His'nature is exceedingly sympathetic, and, as & cotise- quence, his sermons breathe, much. more of love and mercy than of judgment—much more of the spirit of Calvary than of Sinai, The Rev. Frederick Evans, pastor of the Central Baptist church in West Forty-second street, is a young Welshman, He first attracted the attention of the Baptists of New York by his noble and independent denunciations of the authors of the Avondale colliery disaster, two or three yeara ago.” While many ministers there and here pro- claimed it s judgment from Almighty God, ho very sensibly declared it to be the result of criminal carelessness on the part of the own- ers and officers. of the mines, Mr. Evans is @ man of fine descriptive powers, an excel- lent word painter, and is by many considered to bes ,rowing rival of the pastor of Ply- mouth church, Brooklyn. His star is certainly in the ascendant, and a promising future ie before him. When the old Laight street Bap- tist congregation found themselves dwindliag away they sent for Mr. Evans, but neither his eloquence nor seal could keep them together there. The majority of the members lived op town, some of them out of town, sod others lived in Jersey City, and ooald hardly be expected to get over to Laight street church very often, About the same time some dissensions arose in pal lg street congregation, part of whom, pastor, Rov, Dr. Westeott, left and built the Plymouth Baptist church, in Fifty-first street. ‘A union between the remaiaing members and the Laight atreet people was effected and the latter obtained the property, and Mr. Evans was settled as pastor of the united church. He has been very successful 60 fr, and baa. full houses at every service. His pulpit power seems to reside in his vivid imagination, by which he is enabled to present the beautice’ of heaven or the horrors of bell before the people, and to enforce the duty of immediate: repeatance and reformation of life. Mr. Evans, though speaking English very welt, has a marked Welsh accent, rather pleasing, perhaps, than otherwise, The Rev. H. D. Northrap, pastor of the West Twenty-third Street Presbyterian church, is also @ voune man of much promise. Ha