The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, x Volume XXXVI... No, 303 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—Frencn Oraxa—Fizun Ds Tun. . FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tux New Drama or Divorce. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tu® BALLET PaN- TOMIME OF HUMPTY DuMrTY. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-el ith street - way-—Paiua Dona YOR A NIG does on Broad: WALLAOCK’S THEATRE, Broads a Tur Busropy, vis sidan nine: sutra WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st. —Perf: : ances afternoon and evening—THE Boy DETECTIVE. pied ACADEMY OF ome 4 wane OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—La Tra. BOOTH’S THRA’ Wa ot, j - are bn between Sth and 6th avs, STADT THEATRE, N. : 8 wh aang jos, 45 and 47 Bowery'—Orrna oepraex THEATRE, Bowery.—Crimz—Turn Hie NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw: between Prince and Houston strecis.—OuB AMERICAN COUSIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. ang 23d st—= Emre Oan. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Divorce. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HFRALD, PaGR. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. $—Alter the Stolen Millions: Prosecuting the City and County Officers: Mr. O'Gorman Defends His Action in Commencing Suits and Writes the Attorney General—Union for the Sake of Honesty; Charles O’Conor Declines the Nom- ination for Assembly—News from Washing- ton—Art Matters—Mulitary Operations in South Carolina—Music and the Drama. 4—Religious: Sanctuary Services aud Sermons Yesterday in New York and Elsewhere; Beecher Solves the Woman Question; the Rev. Messrs. Frothingnam, Richardson and McAlister on Our Municipal Scandals; Zaccheus Held Up as an Example to Pillagers of the City Treasury; Abortionists Handled Without Gloves; the One Hundred and Futh Abniversary of Methodism in America; Pope Pius IX. Eulogized; Dr. Thompson’s Farewell Sermon. e—Hebeons (Continued from Fourth Page)—Cen+ and South America: Revolutionary iis- turbances and Church Combinations Against the Governments—Fiendish Outrage: Three Men, of Savarnah, Ga., Probably Murdered by @ Band of Black Assassins. 6-—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘More Complica- tions in the City Corruption Business—Mayor aa one Only Hope”—Amusement Announce- ent Ve—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Utah: The Latter Day Reign of Terror Overthrown at Last; the Clutches of the Law Closing on the Bioodstained Saints; Weils, Stout and Kimball in Jail; Brigham and Joseph Young ana Orson Hyde Fugitives from Justice; More About the Hawkins Case—News from Cuba— Miscellaneous Telegrams—Literature: Critt- cums of New books; Literary Chit-Chat; New Publications Received—Personal Intel- ligence—New York City News—Business No- tices. S—Reai Estate in New Yorx: Review of the Condl- tion of and Feeling in the Real Estate Mar- ket—Political—A Defauiting Boston Cashier— ‘Trial for Murder in Lockport, N. Y.—Obituary, 9—Financial and Commerctal Reperts—Domestic Markets—Havana Weekly Markets—Dry Goods Market—New and Important Steam Botler Test—Kings Couuty Surrogate’s Court-- Court Calendars for To-Day—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 210—Europe: The Trial of Victor Place in Paris, for Embezzlement of Public Moneys; The Chicago Fire apd the Money Market—Waiting for the puke—Lecture by Father Haggerty—Murder in Jersey City—A Man Killed by a Policeman's Bullet—Brookiyn Allairs —Naval Intelligence— The Old Sunday Story in Newark—Yachting Notes—Views of the Past—Shipping Lnteili- gence —Aavertisements, #1—Advertisemenis. 12—Advertisements, Tne Woman's Crus, of Wasbington, have despaired of curing the social evil, and they now announce woman suffrage as their plat- form. Noyes’ Masoriry For Governor oF Onto is Officially announced as sixteen thousand one hundred and eighty-four over all. Not so fuch to make so much noise about after all. Toe ATLANTIO CaBLes.—No press news despatches by cable have been received from Europe since Saturday night to the moment of the HeRaxp going to press this morning. PomapetpHia hath her moths that corrupt and thieves that break in and steal, and her treasury has‘ consequently suffered; but sho has taken a wise, prompt and decisive step in the matter, and arrested the broker who broke in and beld bim under eighty thousand dollars’ bail. Is rr Not a Mistake to have two Thanks- giving days this year, as is proposed, within @ week of each other? Governor Hoffman might with propriety change the day he re- commends to the one suggested by President Grant. We are afraid there will not be ‘‘tur- key” enough to go round if we have two Thanksgiving jubilees within a few days of @ach other. Tue Qursi10N oF A Unirorm Divorce Law throughout the United States is to be agitated by the anti-suffrage women in Washington. They think there is room for a sixteenth amendment in the regulation of the divorce laws of the various States to one common standard, under which it will not be possible for a New Yorker to smuggle himself out of married life into single blessedness through the lax regulations of Indiana, Tor Los ANGELES (CaL.) RioTens who ¢o ruthlessly slaughtered a Chinese colony in that town are receiving such punishment for their crime as the better class of the com- munity are able to inflict, Eight of them have been arrested, but they will not prob- ably suffer anything worse than arrest until Jobn Chinaman holds a ballot in his hand and is entitled to testify against a white man in the Courts. Tax Serriers IN Axizona have petitioned the President to leave General Crook un- trammelled in his plan of maintaining peace and order out there by any interference or suggestions of the Peace Commissions. These old settlers are deeply interested in this matter, and, having seen soft words and kind treatment tried so frequently and unsuccess- fally, they waut a fair and uoblased trial given to more symmary wy sures. NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY. More Complications im tne Uy Corrap- tion Busiuces—Mayor Hall Our Ouly The correspondence between the Corpora- tion Counsel and George Ticknor Curtis, pub- lished in the Hxratp to-day, increases the muddle and confusion in the legal division of our municipal corruption question, Mr. O'Gorman, in the innocence of his heart, does not know, first, whether an action for damages would lie on the part of the city or county of New York against Officers of the city or county who by connivance or neglect may have been instrumental in the unlawful abstraction of money from the public treasury; and second, whether he is justified in doing his duty as the head of the Law Department of the Corporation by the prosecution of suits against such officers, or whether he should trust to some one else to do it for him; in other words, whether he should abandon the suits brought by him against Tweed and Con- nolly and leave the matter in the hands of the Attorney General of the State. He therefore asks the opinion of Mr. Curtis on these points, and the latter replies at length, reviewing the law in the case and arguing the question of the power of the Attorney General to maintain the suits he has already commenced against Tweed, Ingersoll, Woodward and Garvey. The con- clusion reached is that the city or county alone has the right of action, and that the law officer and people of the State have nothing to do with it. Itis regarded as a point already settled by the courts that culpable negligence in the discharge of official duties or fraudu- lent connivance with claimants renders a pub- lic officer liable in damages to the extent of the loss incurred by the people, independent of the statutory bond he is required to give. But where the money {s wrongfully abstracted from city or county funds the city or county alone has cause of action, and no other government or body politic has, The money recovered would belong to the people of the city or county of New York, and not to the people of the State, and hence the State cannot sue. The statute duties of the Attorney General are declared to be to prosecute and defend all ac- tions in the event of which the people of this State are interested, and no special power is delegated to that officer to sue in tases where the people of a city or county alone are in in- terest. Mr. Curtis considers it to be the plain duty of the Corporation Counsel to prosecute the suits he has commenced against Tweed, Connolly and others, and he does not think such suits can impede the prosecution of any actions that may be brought on behalf of the people of the State by the Attorney General, This is, no doubt, all good law as far as it goes; but the ground upon which Charles O’Conor bases the actions brought in the name of the Attorney General of the State is that the legal authorities of the city will not prosecute at all or will not faithfully press the suits for the recovery of the money fraudulently obtained from the treasury of the city of New York. Supposing the allegation in the Attorney Gen- eral’s complaint to be true—that the actions commenced by the Corporation Counsel are brought in bad faith and with the object of shielding Yhe defendants from the consequences of their acts— there would in that case be little question of the power of the law offiver of the State to sue on behalf of the people of the city of New York, who are, as a portion of the people of the State, entitled to his services and pro- tection. But is there any proof that the actions brought by O'Gorman by direction of Mayor Hall are of the character described by the Attorney General? The Committee of Seventy and all the sub-committees and joint committees, with every facility to reach the evidence in the Comptroller's office, have found it a long and_ tedious task to collect the facts that have been laid before the public, and certainly no suits at law should have been commenced before enough solid proof had been secured to render an action likely to succeed. If Mayor Hall had failed to instruct the Corporation Counsel to bring the suits in question he would have been properly chargeable with a wilful neglect of his official duty, The fact is that the abuse of the Mayor and of the head of the Law Department of the city for commencing these actions, and the demands of the partisan newspapers that they shall be abandoned, are only part of the general disorganization, anarchy and semi- communism under which we are at present living. The proper officers of the government are pushed aside, and bodies not recog- nized by the law assume their powers. The Mayor is superseded by a com- mittee; the Finance Department is ruled by a deputy, who holds office only on the uncer- tain tenure of a Comptroller, probibited by the Courts from signing bonds and warrants ; the Corporation Counsel is not suffered to dis- charge his sworn duty; the State assumes the guardianship of the people of the city, This is the condition to which the great metropolis of the Union is reduced at the present time, and if Judge Pierrepont and ex-Governor Salomans, of Wisconsin, could have prevailed upon Governor Hoffman to bestow martial law upon us, we should have had, in addition, a government of bayo- nets and drumbead court martials, These evils have doubtless been brought upon us by the corruptions of some of our public officers, but they are increased by the political intrigues and schemes of the various cliques and factions that hope to make a profit out of our municipal troubles. So far as the suits against the plunderers are con- cerned, let them all go on—those commenced by the Attorney General, if they can be maintained, and those brought in the name of the city. The latter have the advan- tage of including among the defendants Comp- troller Connolly, who is singularly left out of the actions brought by the State, and the ob- jections made to them are probably due to this fact. The people desire that the law shall be exbausted in the attempt to make the robbers of the city treasury dis- gorge a portion at least of their unholy gains, Bot the courts are slow and the delays of the law are proverbial. The citizens of New York are anxious to get rid at once of their unfaith- ful officers and to see the government of the city again carried on in a regular and legal manner, For the accomplishment of thia desirablo epd. Mavor relief at onee if he will Sra\> gxercise the anthority placed in bis hands and assert his power and bis rights as the chief executive officer of the city. The abuso of the partisan press is heaped upon him for the purpose of deterring him from taking decisive action and putting a stop to the anarchy that at present prevails, Let him take a bold stand, and immediately get rid of those heads of department who are already virtually convicted of having shared in the plunder of the city. Punishment, if punishment is to be awarded—restitution, if restitution is to be required, can come here- after ; but the corruptionists should be driven from office without delay, aud the credit and good order of the city should be restored at once. This can be accomplished with the aid of the Supreme Court, if not without it, for Judge Baraard stands committed and pledged to “invent a remedy” by which abuses in the city government can be speedily cured. Let Mayor Hall remove Connolly and Tweed through the power of the Court, if he cannot eject them without such assistance, and let him place Andrew H. Green in full charge of the city finances and General McClellan at the head of the Department of Public Works, This will not only restore confidence in the government, but will confound the schemes and intrigues of the political harpies who are secking to keep up the present anarchy for the accom- plishment of their own ends. It will bring order out of disorder, and will defeat the hopes of those who would not hesitate to plunge the city into riot and bloodshed if they could thereby promote their own interests. What says Mayor Hall? Shall we have two strong and honest men at the head of the two most important depart- ments in the city government, with a restored credit and a return to law and order before election, or shall we continue to live on ina state of semi-communism, with the prospect of worse evils before us—a libel on republican in- stitutions ? Withdrawal and Ad- vice. The people of New York city and of the State at large will regret to learn that Charles O'Conor has declined the nomination tendered him for the Assembly. The reasons given by Mr. O’Conor are, however, sufficient, and he can probably accomplish more real good for our citizens in the labor in which he is at present engaged than he could in the State Legislature. At the same time he promises to give all the advice and assistance in his power to those who will be charged at Albany with the important duty of remodel- ling our municipal government. The counsel given by Mr. O'Conor in regard to the elections for the Legislature should be followed all over the State. Wherever a tainted candidate appears let an honest man be nominated as his opponent and supported irrespective of party. In districts where Charles O’Conor’s of the Mormon Chiefs and the Prosecu- tions Aguiast Tiom—The Policy of the Government. he Henaxp specials from Great Salt Lake City which wa publish this morning show that the crisis of life or death to Mormondom in Utah has come at last; that the United States judicial authorities are pursuing the guilty chiefs of the “‘Latter Day Saints” with the remorseless retributions of the law; that the leading apostles and elders of the Mormon Zion are not ‘only being indicted, arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced for adultery, but that Mayor Wells, General Hosea Stout, William Belden, Elder Kimball and Parley Canyon have been arrested and locked up on a charge of murder; that warrants are out against the Great High Priest and Prophet, Brigham Young, and his son Joseph, on the same charge; that they, with the notorious Orson Hyde, are among the saintly fugitives from justice, and that dire confusion and con- sternation prevail among the faithful of the democrats are weak let them unite with their political adversaries in the election of an honest republican, and where the democracy has the majority let republicans support a good democrat against a bad one. In this way, such candidates as _ex-Sheriff O’Brien, Tweed and Fields may be kept out of the Legislature and men of character and integrity be made to fill the places they would disgrace. The British Premier in Defenee of His Own Policy. Mr. Gladstone has just had an ovation at Greenwich. It has been known for some time that his constituents were anxious to have a visit from their illustrious representative. On Saturday Mr. Gladstone met their wishes, and on Blackheath Common some twelve thousand persons listened to his eloquent words. We know no man who ever heard Mr. Gladstone speak who will refuse to admit that he is the most pleasing and effective speaker of his day. On Saturday, it would appear, he acquitted himself in his best style and abundantly grati- fied his constituents. The burden of his speech was a vindication of his policy. He spoke with pride of those measures which he had introduced and carried through which had for their object the conciliation of - Ireland. With equal pride he referred to the improve- ments he had introduced into the army and navy. It was something to be able to say that the government of which he is the chief has bad the longest lease of life of any similar government since the passing of the Reform bill in 1832, We can excuse Mr. Gladstone for taking to himself and his administration all the glory he can; but we have a right to recognize the facts that Ireland is not yet con- ciliated, and that under his policy of economy Great Britain has sunk into the condition of a second rate power. It deserves to be noticed that Mr. Gladstone is determined to carry through his Ballot bill, and that he is not un- prepared, if need be, to make some radical changes in the character and composition of the House of Lords. The next session of the British Parliament promises to be more than ngually lively. Much heavy work is on hand; but the Premier is courageous and determined to go through with it. ‘“Onward” is Mr. Glads‘one’s motto; and under his guidance the British people have good reason to hope for the early enjoyment of republican institu. tions. Tox Propanie Exp or THE NoRTHWESTERN Fines.—The storm of Saturday in Nevada will, in its movement northward and eastward, probably put an end to the long-lingering fires inthe Northwest. But, like every great loss, that of our stricken and desolated territory will not be half known until time suffices for intormation to come in and the people can properly estimate the destruction. The pre- sent storm is reported to be very severe, and it will doubtless be succeeded by a spell of very cold weather, for which thou- sands in the Northwest are sadly unprepared, Their condition originally was bumbler and poorer than that of the wealthy people of Chi- cago, and their real sufferings, it is to be feared, have not yet been fairly told. Tele- graphic communication with hundreds of points in the burnt districts is cut off; the mails are, doubtless, delayed or have been stopped, and we may yet hear much more of the hor- rors of their fate. AvExis.— What dovh now the people most perplex 1s ‘The QOM-ArriVél OL LAG LUKE AlCXUy Holy City of the Prophet's harem. The glory of the Prophet, like that of Mr. Tweed, has departed; his power is broken ; his prestige is gone, and, stripped of his hypocrisies and false pretences, he appears as a fugitive ia a far more pitiable plight than Garvey or Woodward; while compared with the Indian stoicism of the “Boss” in his present trouble the runaway Mor- mon Dictator become truly contemptible. But what is the meaning of this vigorous and remorseless campaign of justice against the Mormon chiefs for their high crimes and mis- demeanors? It means simply the extirpation of Mormon polygamy from Utah, root and branch; that General Grant has resolved to abate the nuisance, and that his Territorial ministers are carrying out his instructions, For twenty-three years, through all the admin- istrations of Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and Johnson, and ddwn to this year, this thing of Mormon polygamy in Utah has continued to flaunt itself before the world and flourish, Had General Taylor lived through his Presidential term he might, perhaps, have grappled with Brigham and his great scandal successfully, for Taylor was a soldier, Fillmore tried the task, but signally failed, and was compelled to an armistice with Mormon polygamy. Pierce tolerated it. Buchanan attempted a military invasion of Uiah; but his expedition was cut off and he was reduced toacompromise. Lincoln had his hands full in the war with Jeff Davis, and Mormonism in Utah left undisturbed prospered exceedingly. Johnson was so completely absorbed in his fizht with Congress in defence of the constitution that he had no time to spare for the Mormons; and 40, after twenty-three years of toleration of Mormon polygamy in Utah, the duty has fallen upon General Grant to take hold of it, and from these proceedings at Great Salt Lake it is abundantly made- manifest that he intends to wipe it out. “Let us have peace” is the General’s motto. “Hence his great treaty with Eagland; hence his Quaker peace policy with the Indians; hence his abandonment of his favorite St. Domingo scheme when satisfied that he was kicking up a fight with it in his party camp; hence his policy of non-intervention in the affairs of Cuba. So resolved, indeed, is Gen- eral Grant to have peace that where the ordi- nary means of peace fail he will fight it out with the disturbers of the peace, Hence he fought it out with Fenton and Greeley for peace in the New York party camp at the Syracuse Convention, and wad too much for them. Hence he brings his cavalry to bear upon the Southern Ku Klux Klans and United States Courts, marshals, juries and soldiers in this decisive campaign upon Mor- mon polygamy. The only law through which this polygamy can be reached is found to be a Mormon Territorial law against adultery and “lewd and lascivious conduct”—a law intended by the Mormons to save polygamy, but clearly interpreted by a United States Judge as intended to punish polygamy. To make the matter worse, these prosecutions against the Mormon leaders for their murders committed from time to time through a series of years are coming in thick and fast against them. But worst of all for Mormondom in Utah have been the discoveries of the precious metals in all those new Territories and States of the far West and the building of the Pacific Railroad. The greatest crimes of Mormondom have been against the Gentiles as spies and designing emissaries in their Territory. In 1853 Captain J. W. Guanison, of the United States Topographical Engineers, and his party, engaged in a reconnoissance for a Pacific railway route, were slaughtered at their camp on Sevier River, in Utah. The massacre was reported to be the work of Indians ; but it has been circumstantially charged upon the Mor- mons, and that it was the work of a “high council” against the exploration. Red Cloud understood at first sight that the Pacific Rail- road was death to his buffaloes and bis In- dians, and there can be no doubt that from first to last the Mormons did all they coald to prevent the fatal connection with Salt Lake of a Pacific railroad, even to the extremity of murder, The number of suspected Gentile spies, informers and explorers cut off by the Danite band of “destroying anzels” will never be known; -but if any of the parties indicted for any of these murders are ever brought to trial Bill Hickman, a chief of the Danite band, as State’s evidence, will doubtless make some startling disclosures. The most horrible of all the crimes charged upon the Mormon oligarchy is the ‘‘Mountain Meadow massacre,” of September, 1857. In the spring of that year a favorite Mormon apostle, Parley P. Pratt, while travelling in Arkansas, was waylaid and killed by one Hector McLean, whose wife Pratt had con- verted (o Mormonism and taken to himself. In September of that same year a large emi- grant party of one hundred and fifty or sixty persons—men, women and children—with their horses, mules and ox wagons, conveying stores of clothing and valuables, en route to California, were treacherously invested and massacred, excepting some seventeen chil- dren, at Mountain Meadows, in Utah. The massacre was reported to be by a band of Indians; but the charge and the evidence against the Mormons that it was their work and a scheme for revenge and plunder is very strong. And why not the Mormocs? There was everything in their antecedents, their persecutions and the teachings of their prophet to incite them ta the crime, He had gchogled OUTUBER 380, 187L—TKIPLE SHEET, Hall is their only hope. He can give them | The Crisis at Groat Salt Lako~The Crimes | them to the commission of any crime that would desiroy af enemy as a religious duty, and he had himself learned to defy the general government and to proclaim himself as above it in the service of the Lord, and his supersti- tious followers believed him. Such, then, are the dark deeds of the Mor- mon prophet and his satellites in their despe- rate game of building up polygamy in Utah, of excluding the Gentiles and of vengeance against the enemies of their faith aud their priesthood. They are the Ishmaelites of our country, whose hands, outside of their tribe, are against every man, while every man’s hand is against them. They know no country, no faith, no authority but that of their false prophet, and polygamy is the corner- stone of their religion. During their twenty- three years in Utah they have become ninety thousand strong, and twenty thousand of them are in Salt Lake City. The number of Brig- ham Young's wives is not known. We have seen a listof twenty-nine of them; he is in- dicted for adultery with sixteen ; but it has been said that they number at least fifty. His chief apostles and elders have from twenty down to three, four or five wives each. Assuming that there are fifteen thousand Mormon families in Utah averaging six persons each, and that seven thousand of these families are repre- sented by three thousand husbands and fathers, we shall, in simply reducing these men to one wife each, cut off four thousand wives and their children, not as widows and orphans, but as loose women and their illegiti- mate offspring; for this is the law. What, then, are we to do with these people ? Let the law take its course against the guilty men; but let the law be enforced in the division of their effects among these unfortu- nate surplus wives and their children. It is probable that Brigham Young has cleared out from Salt Lake City, never to returo, He may push down into Mexico to escape this indictment for murder. Under any conditions it is hardly probable that he will consent to submit to the law of one wife. It would be the surrender of his religion, and so it may be said of his priesthood and of a large body of his followers, They will prefer to go to some other country; but where can they go? We believe there is a land company in this city which has secured from President Juarez, of Mexico, the right to colonize and develop Lower California—a fine, open, almost unin- habited semi-tropical country. This company wants settlers, Brigham Young is their man. He is in a condition to accommodate them on easy terms, And what is Lower California to Mexico any how? A blank as itis; but, under Brigham, it may be made a strong Mexican border protectorate against Indians, revolutionists and fillibusters. | General Grant, meantime, is certainly pushing his crusade upon Mormon polygamy with the fixed purpose of abolishing it. But chaos is threatened, and, if great care be not taken, the Gentile miners now crowding into the newly discovered gold, silver, lead and tin mines of Utah may repeat there the Mormon expulsions' of Missouri and Illinois, We ap- prove the purpose of General Grant in reference to Mormon polygamy, but passing events should warn him of the danger of the rising of an anti-Mormon mob in Utah, Jupez Saxrorp E. Cuuron says New York will go democratic on account of the apathy prevailing in the republican ranks, and the repablican pres’ in the interior are in conse- quence exhorting their followers and leaders to close up the ranks and go iato the fight in earnest. Oar Special Letters from Central and South America, The Heratp special correspondence from Central America and the South Pacific States reached this port yesterday by steamship from Aspinwall. The letters are published in our columns to-day. They supply a very in- teresting and ample review of the condition of affairs which existed in the leading repub- lican confederacies at the moment of the latest mail dates, The tendency of the pub- lic mind was evidently towards pro- gress, but it is equally patent that a variety of old and hereditary influences were at work to restrain it, The Church party, with a majority of the native aristocrats, were allied at different points in array against the pauperised agriculturists and demoralized laborers, Guatemala experienced the conse- quences in the shape of a conflict which took place between the State troops, commanded by President Garcia Granados in person, and a body of clerico-revolutionists who were armed, near Santa Rosa. The soldiers of the Execu- tive defeated and dispersed the mal- contents. The republics were moving towards the completion of a more inti- mate union, the bond having been almost perfected between San Salvador and Guate- mala, King Amadeus’ flag, on board the Spanish war ship Tornado, did not obtain any accession of honor by the operations of the commander of the Tornado off Aspinwall in his attempt to seize the steamship Virginius on a charge of complicity in the Cuban war struggle. The neutral attitude of the State of Colombia towards Spain and her colonial peoples, aided by the prompt action of the United States Consul at Aspin- wall, humiliated the position of the Spanish officer to such a degree that itis very prob- able both of the American governments will hear of the affair in the shape of a very angry correspondence from Madrid.. Religious agi- tation disturbed the minds of the people in the capital of Colombia. Costa Rica bas revised its commercial tariff. San Salvador had placed an ex-President in prison by vote of the Legislature, and also declared a free church and complete religious toleration for foreigners—the last named act a most remark- able symptom of popular advance, as, indeed, is the first, Aside from its peril from the squabbles of electioneering politicians Peru was developing its native wealth ex- tensively and solidly, The railroad works of the republic were carried on vigorously towards completion. There remains little doubt but that the vast resources of the fer~ tile country which lies between Callao and Lima and the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon will be opened at an carly day, perhaps, to the world by the travel of the iron horse. Chinese coolies were being landed in Peru in large numbers. The Stato was receding from its hitherto intimate rela tions with the Church, as are others of the countries of the Sguth,Pacifia, Thug We may repeat that the Conitents of our apdolal fottce news budget from the Central and South American States to-day are more encouraging’ than have been any of our written advices from the same portion of the world during many years past, Tux Cost of Copa—Payine DEARLY FoR Tar WHISsTLE.—From a ministerial statement just made to the Spanish Cortes it appears that the cost of the war in Cuba for the past year had been sixty-two millions of dollars, This surely is paying dearly for the whistle, How much more sensible it would have been if the Spanish government had handed the island over to us and in lieu thereof pocketed say one hundred millions of dollars. It is not yet too late, and in the matter of Cuba Spain ought not to be blind to manifest destiny, Sooner or later Cuba must come under the broad ban- ner of the republic. The Sermons Yesterday. The clergymen of this city and vicinity seem yesterday to have greatly extended the range of topics discussed by themselves and their congregations. Compared with those which we gave last week the readers of this morning's HzRatp will perceive the effect of the stimulus that we then gave them, Here in our own midst Dr, Hepworth, in treating of Paul’s magnificent argument for the resur- rection of the dead, touched gracefully upon the recent death of that Chris. tian hero, General Robert Anderson. Dr. Bellows delivered a semi-political discnurse on the value of character, which be styled the jewel of time and of eternity, and to secure which the education of tho masses is greatly needed. Mr. Frothingham declared that want of simplicity is the greatest; defect in American character, and to prove his proposition he took a tour through the City: Hall and County Court House, the abortion’ dens of the city, the theatres, the yachts in! our harbor, the ashes of Chicago and the pos- sessions of the Monk of Erfurt, whose sim. plicity developed the Protestant Reformation! One would suppose that the minister wouk be able to talk his hour out on such w range of topics as this. But it seems td us that if the object of such discourses is tq turn men from darkness unto light and from’ the power of Satan unto God the result will’ hardly be attained this side of the millennium. Such “‘sermons” may please those who hava itching ears, but they can never comfort sin~ sick souls. Dr. Richardson longed to hava such a man as old Zaccheus at the head of tha Finance Department of our city government ¢ for then we should have moncy enough ta carry on our business. That old publicam was ready to restore fourfold wo any man whom he had wronged, even uninten- tionally, and Christ took salvation to his house. Dr. Thompson, in the Broadway Taber- nacle, in a few farewell words, very feelingly, acknowledged the gift of $55,000 by bis con- gregation, so that he may end his days im rest and quietness without fear that piuch- ing want will ever reach him. This is in part the estimate of pastoral worth by one Christiam congregation, and it is a noble gift worthily bestowed. The Rev. Mr. Guard, of South Africa,, preached an eloquent Christian discourse las evening in John street Methodist church, off the occasion of the one hundred and third au< Tuas AEE Fo Bey UE OF ae Ned hiversary of its founding. It was a sermon iq striking contrast with some that we have sum< marized above, and it will be found full of pure Christian thought and soul food. Th Lord Bishop of Nassau, N. P., tol the congregation of Trinity church a piteous tale of tribulation and distresq which has befallen his diocese in the cweceind away of three churches, many dwellings an very much property, and the wrecking of vessls on the coast by a terrible tidal wave which recently visited that island. Tha people here were asked for afd for the suf= ferers there, and no doubt they will respond with their accustomed liberality, In the Catholic churches some very eloquent, discourses were delivered. The Rev. Dre McGlynn, at St. Stephen’s, preached on th relation of the Church to the State, or ot Cesar to God, and the degree of obedience ta be rendered by each to each and obligationg imposed upon us by both. Dr. Preston, Inf St. Ann's, preached on the same topic, but from another standpoint. He did not con~ sider that they could be united so that one shall eclipse or cancel the other, or destroy its functions—such a uniom would be destruction. A spiritual ruler may, indeed, fill the office of a temporal ruler, but he does not neces sarily thereby destroy the existence or independence of the temporal order. But the spiritual power cannot say, ‘I'am the State.” Much less can the temporal power say to the spiritual, ‘‘Come down from your lofty emi nence and obey me.” In religion, he insisted, there must be infallibility, because God is in- fallible, and He speaks to the world through the, Church, And as if by concert amon; the priests this same subject was aiso treated of by Father Flattery, in St, Teresa’s church, bat from an- other and different standpoint from that of Drs. Preston and McGlynn. The Casarism of the Gospel, he said, is comprised under three heads, namely—our physicial health, our nat~ ural propensities, and our just obligations to civil society; and these three points he elaborated in detail, The Rov. Father Vaisseur, a missionary from China, made am eloquent appeal in behalf of the propagation of the faith among the millions of the Celestiak empire. The picture of spiritual darkness which the reverend father drew of that land was indeed dark enough. Half a million ou@ of four hundred million souls in that vast empire acknowledging the Lord Jesus Christ in any form should stimulate the Christian Church of America and Europe to greater efforts for the evangelization of the millions. Mr, Beecher considered some of the diffl- culties and disadvantages that spring from men trying by physical processes to build an inward manhood, Instead of putting their force into their religion thsy try to kill the force in themselves, to ignore it. Nobody sa much as the Christian needs fire and thunder, “What we are fighting for,” said Mr, Beechor,; “necds push and perseverance and pluck, You are trying to be a Christian and so you think you must be meek, and if you feel that you love praise you must watch yourself and confess, You sweet, dear fool, let your love of praise be guided and not taken out.” And by the most