The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1871, Page 6

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Pace. me 1—A dvertisements. 2— Advertisements, 3—Uur lnternal Revehue: The Commissioner's Anvual Keport; fotal Income tor the F ‘Year from all Sources—Li American Geys rs—Musi Matilia Heron and the $ Alexis at the Academy of Design: Pri on of Mr. Page’s Picture, “Adm in Mobile Bay,’? to the [cussia: troller Connolly: The Bail t satistied — Municipat Reconstr Tiger ‘Ireed: ‘the Jungle + OMicer—Jersey’s Mgeon | 4=—Religious Intelligence : I’ro; HERALD Religious Correspond fonrth Street 3; A Hoboken—A Catholic Chu Be Couverled— Murderer—The Gas Question—fhe Willtamsburg, S—The Horse Car iiorrors : How the du rates Forty- City Railroads ‘ Are Kun, Managed an: pd; A Kide on the Third Avenue Cat ‘aris Fashious : The Opera N and the Reco.lection of What It J Calvary Cemetery—The Custom he New Collector Besieged by OMice- holders—Beecher and te Spirits—League of the Daughters of Cnba—Sull They Come—A Sneak Thue! Trapped in Hoboken—Ice in the Delaware River. G—Ediiorials : Leading Article, “The L Atrocities in Cuva—ihe Reports at Madrid of English and American Intervention”— Amusement Announcements, F—Ediorals (Continued trom Sixth Page)—In- teresting from Spain and Cuba, England, Ireland, Rome, Germany, Mexico and India— News from Washingtop—Weather Keport Personal Intelligenve—Muscelianeous —‘Tele- grams—Views of the Past—Hiusiness Notices. S—Proceedings in the Courts—The ‘Tombs Police Court. Closing of the Hudson River—New York City News—A Gallant Rescue—Financial and Commerctal—Dry Goods Market—Mar- riages and Deaths. 9—Importai t to the Drug Clerks—Advertisements. 30—The Reform Movement in Brooklyn—Litera- ture: Criticisms of New Kooks; Literary Chit- Chat—Stndio Notes—Musical Review—Ship- ping Inteliigence—Adver Lisemenis. J1—Advertisements. 12—Adverusements, ‘ =— —_—_—— Tue Price oF WatEs passed a quiet night Yrom a late hour of Friday to yesterdsy morn- ing. The fever was severe Saturday fore- noon, but the physicians reported that the case was ‘‘progressing favorably” notwith- standing. e Spanish Governor HorrMaN aNp tHE Convicts had a settling of accounts yesterday which terminated in favor of the latter. The mag- nanimous Governor exhibited that tonch of nature which makes all men kin—liberated ‘one man and reduced the sentence of others. Tae Gerrans IN Bertin are growling ominously at Brazil, on account of the insult which was recently offered to the great Euro- pean nation by the maltreatment of Prussian naval officers in Rio Janeiro, The Black Eagle may bend his war flight towards the American Continent. \ anoususnor Masnino aNp His MIssion- Aries TO ovR SoutHern Buacks.—Dr. Man- ning, the Catholic Primate of Westminster, has sent out a band of missionaries to deal with and convert our Southera blacks. There are those who think this officious and meddling. We are not so minded. Our Southern blacks are deplorably ignorant. Made citizens of the United States by the act of emancipation, they are fully entitled to make use of their privileges. But to be useful citizens they need education; and we are glad to welcome all educational help, whether it comes from Archbishop Manning, or Dr. Tait, or Prince Bismarck, or Pius the Ninth, or Heory Ward Beecher. What we want in the South is an intelligent vote, and whatever contributes to that must be regarded as a blessing. Tae ComMissiongr OF INTERNAL REVENUE yesterday issued his report for the fiscal year 1871 of the transactions of his department. According to the account which we pub- lish to-day the total amount of revenue received from all sources, exclnding the duty upon the circulation among the national banks, is $144,011,176 24. Com- missioner Douglas, after commenting on the general working of the machinery for the col- Jection of the revenue from distillers and others, makes a decided stand on the question of the tobacco trade; animadverts strongly on the manner in which it is received into bond, and almost makes an assertion that the United States Treasury has hitherto been grossly swindled by those who deal in the commodity. He has made several recom- mendations for the prevention of such fraud in Bre {abuser The Late Spanish Atrocities in Cuba—The Reports at Madrid ef English and American Intervention. We have a despatch from Madrid, dated December 2, to this effect—that the Council of Ministers was in session the greater part of the day yesterday, and did not adjouro until a late hour at night; that questions of great- moment, growing out of the recent executions in Havana and the general condition of Cuba, were under consideration ; that it was reported that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had been advised that the governments of the United States and Great Britain had telegraphed to their representatives at Madrid that they would feel compelled to intervene in the affairs of the Island of Cuba io the interests of humanity, since the efforts of the Spanish authorities to restore order had been fruitless, Here we have an important fact and a plausible conjecture. The fact is the pro- tracted Council of Ministers, and the conjec- ture is the notice of Eaglish and American intervention served upon the Spanish govern- ment. The fact means something in reference to Cuba, but the conjecture, in our judgment, i8 wide of the mark, We have no doubt that important despatches from Washington were the cause and the subject of this extraordinary Cabinet Council at Madrid. It is probable that the British government may have sent in some remonstrance against these late sav- age Spanish atrocities at Havana; but we apprehend that the real question before the Council aforesaid was the delicate and mo- mentous question of peace or war with the United States, in reference more to certain offences of the Spanish navy at Hayti and at the Island of St. Toomas, than to any of the late barbarous outrages. of the Spanish au- thorities in Cuba, although these outrages may have been embraced in the general indictment against Spain by our government, The American trading vessel, the Hornet, is under blockade in the harbor of Port au Prince, by several Spanish ships of war, on the assump- tion that the Hornet is a filibuster; and the Florida, another American: trading vessel, on the same charge, we suppose, is held by another detachment of the Spanish West Indian squadron a close prisoner in the harbor of St. Thomas. These insults to our flag, it appears, have awakened the wrath of Secretary Robeson, of the Navy, and his indignation has evidently been too strong for the amiable and pacific Secretary Fish. Hence, no doubt, remonstrances have been telegraphed to Madrid which have alarmed King Amadeus ard his Cabinet, and hence this protracted Spanish Cabinet Council on Cuban affairs, including those complications with the United States resulting from Spanish presumptions and insolence. We like this news, because it promises a settlement of the Cuban question and a fiaish- ing stroke to all the Spanish barbarities in the island. We are glad to hear that General Grant has ordered down to Cuba a respect- able squadron of our best war ships, and that these ships go down with instructions touch- ing the Hornet and the Florida which will admit of no further Spanish insolence or tom- foolery. We have had a little too mach of this, and it is high time there was an end of it. The Spanish Minister at Wasbington, Mr. Roberts, it is given out, acknowledges that the predicament in which Spain is placed is a very serious one, and for several days past, in his despatches to Madrid, he has been a valuable customer to all the tele- graph lines concerned. With these hints be- fore us the conclusion inevitably follows that the return of General Sickles to the United States is not so much a honeymoon excursion as a recall for a consultation with his govern- ment on the fruits of bis mission. We infer that he returns to inform his government io person touching the purpose and expectations of Spain with the scandalous doings of her offi- cials in Cuba and thereabouts, and particu~ larly in contempt of the rights of our citizens on theisland and of our flag in numerous cases during the last two years ; for it appears that a correspondence of a serious character, from one cause of complaint to another on our side, has been going on for a long time be- tween Washington and Madrid. We are gratified, therefore, that all these causes of complaint have reached at last a crisis which promises a decisive settlement. For some weeks past we have had ramors from time to time of the retirement at an early day of Mr. Fish from the Cabinet, and “where there is so much smoke there must be some fire.” We shall not be taken by surprise if, amoag the first special messages of General Grant to the Senate, there will be one an- nouncing the appointment of a new Secretary of State in place of Mr. Fish, re- signed. Nor do we think that his retirement will occasion any general feeling of regret, if it shail be made known that this change in the Cabinet means a change of the policy of the administration ia regard to Spain and Cuba, anda change from temporizing in- activity to decisive action like that of ‘‘Old Hickory” on those claims against France. The country will be delighted to hear that upon this Cuban business and oa all these never- ending but still-beginning complications with Spain General Grant has dropped the shilly- shally, do-nothing policy of Mr. Fish, and has adopted the point-blank and short-range policy of General Jackson, which brings down your coon after the style of Captain Scott. Qur relations with Spain since the time of General Jackson have been anything but friendly relations, although it was not till after our war with Mexico that our Southern filibusters, in the interest of African slavery and King Cotton, began their filibustering en- terprises for the seizure of Cuba. These filibusters were remorsely suppressed on the island; but for all that, by the year 1856 they had created a popular sentiment in the United States in favor of the annex- ation of Cuba by the strong hand which gave even the weak-kneed Bu- chanan, as a Presidential candidate, the courage to declare that if Spain could not be induced to sell Cuba we would be justified in wresting from her this desirable island. Buchanan was elected, but the overshadow- ing conspiracy for a Southern Confederacy then looming up soon caused under his ad- ministration the Cuban question to be com- pletely obscured. The war of our Southern rebellion followed, and then, at the point of the bayonet, came the abolition of Southern slavery, which put an end to Southern aspira- tious for the slaveboiding island of Cuba, Our Southern brethren care nothing about the an- nexation of Cuba now; for with its annexa- tion comes emancipation and another State ruled by niggers, and so much more to the nigger political balance of power in the Union. Next came from the revolution in Spain, which expelled Queen Isabella, a revolutionary movement in Cuba, which promised for some time the independence of the island and a republican government, including the emanci- pation of the blacks and the annexation of the island to the United States, dla Texas. In the early stage of this revolutionary enter- prise the recognition of the Cuban in- surgents by our government, as entitled to belligerent rights, would have speedily settled the whole business. But Mr. Fish had other fish to fry, and Mr. Sumner opposed apy intervention in Cuba which would interfere with his pet hobby of those Alabama claims. The emancipation of a mil- lion of blacks, more or less, in Cuba, was an affair in his mind too small to be permitted to upset his hobby on those Alabama claims, by giving the same belligerent rights to Cespedes which England gave to Jeff Davis, Now, with those Alabama claims virtually settled, Mr. Sumner, perhaps, may be willing to do something for the cause of human rights and liberty in Cuba. Let us wait and see. Meantime, we cannot believe that General Grant will undertake to dismiss this question of our present relations with Spain and Cuba in a brief paragraph in his annual Message to Congress to-morrow, which may mean any- thing or nothing. We hope he will submit the essential facts in the case fairly and frankly, and suggest a decisive treatment under the authority of Congress, We have dallied and trifled long enough with these insolent Spanish barbarians in and around the island of Cuba, on the land and the water; and now is the time for General Grant, on this subject, to electrify the country with a touch of the de- cisive qualities of General Jackson. A Presentation to the Family. One of the most conspicuous of the honors tendered to the Grand Duke Alexis by the citizens of New York was his visit to the Academy of Design yesterday morning. It is highly probable that the young lieutenant has visited more stately edifices for the retention of all the beauties of the eye, the mind and the hand, and looked upon more stately paintings and of a higher order than those he there witnessed hanging to the walls, but it was not the mere visit or the building or general art tableau that we wished to com- ment on. It was the presentation by a num- ber of private contributors, and the accepta- tion on the part of the Duke, on behalf of his imperial father, of a picture of the late Admiral Farragut that will render this visit memorable and interesting to the American. Proffered in a few well-timed remarks by General Dix, and accepted in a graceful speech of much shorter’ duration by the Prince, the representation of the once gallant, Grand Duke's warm-hearted and generous Admiral will pass into the hands of a royal owner and be ex- hibited amid the choicest collection of art subjects in the Russian capital. The readi- ness of the Duke in concurring in the lan- guage employed in tendering this testimony of regard for bimself and the profession he has entered upon, and his expressions of the nobility of the character of the late Admiral are sufficient evidence that the opinion formed of him while in Russia was such as to render the present gift an accept- able acquisition to the people there. In the evening His Highness was enter- tained at Delmonico’s, at a dinner given in his honor by the members of the New York Yacht Club. Mexico and the Company. According to a despatch which we print this morning the Mexican authorities have made trouble with the Lower California Land Com- pany. The lease has been annulled, and the port of Magdalena has been pronounced closed against the American adventurers generally. From La Paz troops bad been sent to Magda- Lower California Land | lena to drive out Drak» De Kay and others connected with the Lower California Land Company. Two American vessels have been seized, and they are now, so far as we know, in the hands of the Mexican authorities. In itself considered there are many who will pronounce this a smull affair. It is not, however, so small as it seems. It touches the rights of American citizens. A charter, some time ago, was formally signed by the Mexican government making over to certain American citizens a large portion of territory in Lower California—a portion of territory large enough to make a State. The charter granted privileges not at all unlike those which the British government was in the habit of granting in our ancient colonial times. The Lower California Land Company has been doing what it could to make thiigs pay. Orchilla—a species of seaweed—bas been found in great abundance on the coast. This weed has been found useful asa dye- stuff and scarcely second to cochineal, and in the British and American markets it has com- manded high prices. It was perfectly fair for the Lower California Land Company to make what money it could out of the orchilla. The business conducted under this head was rea- sonably within the limits of the charter, The seizure of the two American vessels by the Mexican authorities, whether the result of ignorance or wickedness, is an insult to the people of the United States. The sharehold- ers of the Lower California Land Company are American citizens, and their rights must be protected. The Mexican government has committed a fresh sin, Reparation is due and must be made at once. If not made without delay there is a clear case for a larger opera- tion than could be made by the California Land Company, and Mexico had better take heed. Our citizens must be protected, and all Spanish nonsense on this Continent must be ended. Suppose OrFicg-Hotpers should be ex- cluded from the National Republican Conven- tion, what would become of the Collector of the port of Philadelphia? What would such a convention be without a Forney ? ‘What's a house without a woman? AD empty space, a cheerless waste ; In fact there is @ joy uncommon. About Jack Forney’s smiling tace— especially in a National Copvention, ; There 18 likely NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET, — Our Religious Press Table. Our religious contempuraries this week have served up in lieu of their usual spicy dishes about official corruption a delectable collation upon the timely theme of Thanksgiving. And, considering the rout the Tammany corrup- tionists have been put to, the subject is not at all inappropriate. The Observer says:—‘“‘It is a good day. Let us be glad and rejoice in it,” and adds: — Remembering them who are in adversity and mimis- tering to their wants, let us have the bigher joy of making others more joyful than they would be but ior our aid; and so shall this day to them and to us be a day of thanksgiving. Wonder if our brother of the Observer, while penning these lines, cast a thought upon one of those poor men in adversity, the ex- Comptroller, who was languishing in a com- mon jail because none would ‘‘minister to his wants”—that is, go his entire bail? Wonder if he cast a thought upon poor Tweed, or poor Ingersoll, or poor Garvey, or poor Wood- ward, or any of those poor miserable sinners who are now suffering under the ban of the law or have been obliged to flee from the wrath that cometh, and have sought shelter— like ‘Little Breeches” in the sheepfold— among the cattle herds in South America? Alas! what a change one little twelvemonth has wrought in the fortunes of these once proud disciples of St. Tammany! The Hvangelist has hit upon a novel and perhaps a money-making idea, It is prepar- ing for publication a ‘‘map of the Presbyte- rian Chure,” which will be very handy for backsliders to have in the house when they desire to retrace their steps and once more gather themselves into the bosom of the Church. Of this map the Hoangelist says :— To prepare such a map of the Presbyterian Church 18 a work of greater labor than might be supposed, Since the union our boundaries have almost all been chanred, so that ac first we hardly know Where we are or to Whom we belong or who are associated with us. In other words, it is difficult to tell the black sheep from the white; hence the neces- sity of drawing lines so marked that there shall be no danger of wolves in sheep's cloth- ing crowding their way into the folds of the lambs. Seriously, this idea of a religious map is a very good one, It is about time the tenets of some religionists were mapped out, and no doubt the enterprising publisher of tie Hvan- gelist will reap a suitable reward from his en- terprize. The Hoangelist is made happy by the fact that the two Presbyterian quarterlies will henceforth unite their strength. The Ameri- can Theological Review and the Princeton Re- view have joined fortunes, and the twain will hereafter be known as the Presbyterian Quar- terly and Princeton Review. This will prove a sort of double-headed boomerang of Presbyterianism, and all oppos- ing sects mus‘ look out for brimstone and lightning. In regard to the late Congregational assem- bly at Oberlin, a correspondent of the Hvan- gclist—a Presbytsrian—who was a looker-on at the meetings, writes privately as follows :— I wish I nad time to give you my impressivns ot the Oberlin Council, Ia spite of the disclaimers made, itis a “new deparcure.” Young Congregation- alism has the bit in his teeth. The denomination 13 to be organized. 1 hope that it will be so thorouguly done that by and by it can consolidate with us. to be, however, a breadth of doc- trinal allowance tather excessive and insecure, Young Congregationalism with the bit in his teeth would make a very pretty picture for the monthly illustrated Independent, or a penograph from Heary Ward Beecher in the | Christian Union, or a sillygism, by Theodore Tilton, in the Golden Age, provided the latter can manage to cut himself loose from {he | apron-sirings of those women-shrieking syrens who are turning to an inevitable morgue of literary oblivion. The Independent, in its Thanksgiving homi- ly, touches upon the opportunity the preachers of the day will have to express their thankful- | ness for the removal of municipal wickedness from among us. It says:— It is sate to predict that the Thanksgiving ser- mons will noe lack for point to-day. No minister wil. need to search for a theme. The wariare of the people upon oiticial corrapton, the triumphs al- ready gained, the struggles yet to come, will give | him plenty to talk about. If the politicai riuglead- | ers could hear all that is said o( them to-day in the pulpits of the land it wonld cause even their dull ears to tingie. As there never was truer occasion jor thanksgiving than that which the country tinds in the grand uprising against oiicial rovbers, so there never was greater need that the people should | hear words of truth and soberness concerning their political duues. After laying out the course for the forih- comiag session of Congress to pursue the Jn- dependent subsides into its accustomed dreary expansiveness. The Hebrew Leader takes exception to the newspaper practice of stigmatizing criminals | for religion or nationality. It says :— ‘The name of Rozfusweig alone prands him sum- cienuy. What is the use of mentionwg his creed and nationality ? None at ull. Such villains have no religion. They are not recognized on high; and when their time comes, no matter whether they pro- fessed all the religions in the world, they are sure to go to the bottomless pit, unless they put in a caveat and reperit in time. The Freeman's Journal (Catholic), strange } to say, seems to strike an uncongenial theme when it enters into the discussion about Pres- idential candidates. It says :— Betore all this “reform” fuss began we sald to some gentlemen that there was but one power in the land with force enough to overthrow Grant’s mili- tary and political old, and that this was the rall- road power. It 18 very curious that the “Tom scott’? idea should nave grown out of this. We never thought of an untrained manipulator like Yom Scott—a person merely to carry and fetch, and in- capable of any organific iorce. ‘The men who have foolishly put forth Mr. Scott have killed him. ‘They say he has Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &c., in his | pocket; that he rules them as owning them. That isan absurdity. A railroad despotism such as this implies evokes an anti-ratiroad resistance im every State. We are not fool enough to be putting forth any man as a candidate tor Presiuent. If the democratic party will put forth a democratic candidate, as thev ought to do, we will vote tur him—except he be proved a fraud. ‘the next Presidency may be run on the idea of electing the most worthy citizen, and be won on it, We do not believe that any such fate awal(s us. This looke as if the Hreeman’s Journal had made up its mind to a democratic defeat in 1872, Nil desperandum. We are bappy to announce that our country brethren of the religious press furnish us with renewed evidence of the progress of the work of grace among their immediate neighbor- hoods. Let the good work goon. Now is the accepted time. Tne Buller County (Ohio) Democrat speaks ofthe Cincinnati Hnquirer as ‘‘a ready-to- send-the-party-to-the-devil sheet,” and asserts that the secret of its support of Tom Scott is that its proprietors are interested in some of Scott’s railroad schemes. That is nobody’s particular business. It is safficient to know that the Hnguirer—Wash McLean and all the rest—stick to Scott like wax, The Democrat goes with the Cincinnati Commoner, and that sheet names Charles O’'Con” as the many What Is Morgonism? A very common, but vagy erroneous opinion, prevails in the Eastern States that polygamy and Mormonism are identical, and that if the former is by law abolished under the prosecu- tions now going on in Utah the latter will also disappear. This isnot so. Polygamy is not vital to the existence of Mormonism at all, and were it destroyed to-morrow it would not materially affect the religious belief of the Saints, The theory upon which this system is based is declared, like many other ab- surdities, to be founded on the warrant of Scripture. The Mormons, so far a8 we have been able to ascertain, do not deny a single tenet held by the Christian. They believe in a Supreme Creator and Ruler, in a Divine Saviour and a vicarious atonement, in the trinity and. unity of the Godhead, in the con- stant and personal presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church, and in the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures. They hold to two sacraments—baptism and the eucharist— and accept immersion as the proper mode of administering the former. Wherein, then, do they differ from us?, Not in the rejection of essential truths, but in the additioa of vulgar superstitions, The foundation doctrine upon which the Mormon system rests is that of special reve- lations from God. How do we know, they ask, that the canon of Scripture has been closed? The Church of Christ, they assert, has degenerated and made shipwreck of faith, and God, of course, cannot reveal Himself, as in ancient days, to men who know not the word of the Lord when it is given, Hence for ages there has not been a divine revelation. But that is no argument against the possibility or the probability of such revelation whenever the fulness of time should demand it and the conditions of the Church should be favorable to receive and recognize it, Such time and conditions had arrived about forty years azo, when God revealed to the pious Joseph Smith the basis upon which the true Caurch of Lat- ter Day Saints should exist. The three forms of Church polity—patriarchal, propletic and Christian—are united in this Latter Day Church, Tithes and sacrifices and revelatioa and a high priesthood are, therefore, necessary adjuncts, since the Almighty designs to restore the Church to its primitive purity. We fear very much that Judge McKean and his Gentile friends will either materially interfere with or greatly aid ia this purification, In the first named period of the Church the Metchise- dean priesthood existed, to whom, as Paul argues, the Aaronic, or prophetic, priest- hood paid tithes and recognized its supe- riority, And from the former more especially Jesus Christ descended, though in his person the two were combined. He, therefore, be- came the High Priest of our profession. But since those days there had not been a high priest of God upon earth un‘il Joseph Smith was selected as such, And the Charch being a perpetu.l institution the priesthood neces- sarily becomes so. Hence Brigham Young, being the rightful successor to Joseph, is tie only genuine High Priest and representative of God upon earth, and bis apostles and elders are the only true minis‘ers of the Church of Jesus Christ in these latter days. Thisis the finely spun theory of Mormonism, and these are the doctrings and dogmas which they hold and teach. The Mormon popula- tion of Utab consist very largely of Methodists, who were once members of Christian churches in Europe or io the Eastern States of the Vaion, They, or most of them, are wholly persuaded of the alleged divinity of Mormoa- ism, and while they may yield to inevitable fate and give up polygamy they are ready to fight and to die for their religious faith, And Christian ministers from these parts who have sojourned among them, and inquired diligently into the grounds of their adherence to the scheme, assert that the women will be the last to give upeither Mormonism or polygamy. The legal aspects of the system we need not touch upon at this time. But why, it may beasked, was not polygamy revealed to Joseph Smith and the Courch that he gathered instead of being withheld until after his decease? Brighain Young and his apostles answer the question by asking another—wiy Mormonism itself was not revealed before Smith’s time? They answer both questions again by saying that uatil Joe made his appearance on tie stage of life there had been no man like-minded to whom God could have revealed His will as He did to Smith, And for similar reasons, until the Church of Latter Day Saints had been estab- lished in sure habitations, God did not reveal the polygamic doctrines. And the Saints await patiently for any other revelations which the Almighty may have to make. As things look now, however, all future revelations to the Mormons will probably be made after con- sultation with Uacle Sam’s officials in Congress or in Utah, and through them alone. Orson Pratt, one of the foremost Elders of the Church, insists that Mormonism and polygamy are identical, and that the former cannot exist without the latter. He therefore de- clared that they would never give up polygamy for any civil government or power on earth, aod with this sentiment he bad the hearty ap- proval of his entire audience. We might ask Elder Pratt how did Mormonism exist here fora score of years without polygamy if this vice is so necessary to its stability? And what is there in the above enumerated doc- trines that requires to be bolstered up by legalized or illegalized prostitution ? From the foregoing synopsis it will be seen that Mormonism, in all its essential aspects, may still exist after polygamy and its super- stitious abominations have been destroyed, as they now bid fair to be by the plain interpreta- tion and enforcement of statutes enacted by the Mormons themselves, Tur Lynousure Republican says the “‘re- action against Grant seems to be deeper, stronger and more determined than was at first supposed,” And it is arousing the friends of Grant in opposition with « corresponding degree of determination. Tae Week in Watt Street was one of intense dulness. Speculation is waiting on Congress and the development of the financial question. Tae Crvorsnati Times says the Hnquirer’s candidate for President—the Pennsylvania Central—‘‘has just borrowed five millions of dollars.” Precisely the amount required to 0 bail for five of the Tammany delinanents, There are very few who have any idea of the amount of wealth expended on ornaments; and not one out of a bundred of those who wear the most costly kind would believe what a large proportion of them are spurious. It would be impossible to show in one article how innocent the world is in this respect; but it is our intention that such of the readers of the Hmrarp as take any interest in the sub- ject shall have their eyes opened, at least to some extent, in regard to it. Even in the space which we occupy to-day some facts will befound which, if duly considered, will prove, useful. Let those who consider this merely a sensational remark pause for a moment, We appeal in advance to chemistry, geology and history for the truth of the statement, that thousands are enriched in all the wealthy nations of the world by means of spurious gems sold and worn as genuine. vi Nor is the traffic one of the “‘modern im- provements.” It was a source of wealth among the ancient Egyptians. As for the Greeks, they carried to perfection the art of counterfeiting the finest gems. Yet they con- sidered it dishonorable to wear the spurious. Solon tells his brother-in-law that he would not believe a man on his oath who would be guilty of such an imposture, ‘‘At best,” he says, ‘‘it is a species of deception, and he who would deceive merely to gratify his vanity would not hesitate to do so in order to gratify his avarice or his cupidity.” That the Jews were acquainted at an early age with the traffic in false gems, if not with the artof manufacturin: them, is beyond ques- tion. There are learned historians who are ill-natured and heterodox enouzh to insinuate that, in speaking so often of gems in the Pen- tateuch, Moses had an eye to the worldly pros- perty of some of his friends. Be this as it may, the great lawgiver was always rather fond of recommending cosély ornaments in one form or other, Aaron, for example :—“‘And thou shalt set it in séttings of stones, even four rows of stones. The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz and acarbuncle; and the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire and a diamond; and tho third row a ligure, an agite and an amethyst ; aod the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper.” This is sufficiently plains Nor did Moses merely recommend the precious things, In the same chapter (Exodus xxviii.) he adds:—‘‘And the stones shall be engraved with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the en- gravings of a signet.” Bishop Colenso is not the only critic who remarks that, if all the gems the Jews are said, by their historians, to have possessed had been real, they would have left none bat spurious gems to the rest of the world. Had we no other proof of the skill of the Greeks in the art of couaterfeiting precioas stones but their mosaica the latter would be sufficient. Many engraved stones to’ be seen at the principal art galleries of Europe were regarded for ages as, real gems; it is but recently that some of them have been proved to be nothing more, after all, than artificial crystal. Almost everybody has heard of the celebrated Portland Vase now in the British Museum, This waz long regarded as the finest porcelain; and finally one of the most ficulty in proving even to connoisseurs that the precious article was composed of deep blue glass. Nor is it merely the composition of the vase that shows wonderful skill, ‘The sculpture,” says the poet Rogers, “‘is in the greatest perfection; all of the figures fall of. grace and expression; every stroke as fine, sherp and perfect as any drawn by a pencil.” Yet the Portland vase is not Greek, but Etruscan. Exquisite’ as it is it does not ap- proach many of the Greek cameos as a speci- men of ancient art. Now, can we of the present age boast of our numerous discoveries and inventions, and at the same time deny that the moderns can im!- tate gems so as to deceive four-fifths of thoso who buy such articles? This question can be the more easily answered if it be borne in mind that science has much more to do with the work than art. There is not a schoolboy we meet who will not tell us how much better the moderns understand chemistry and geolozy than the ancients did. If this be true—and we do not deny it—ihe moderns can imitate the precious gems more successfully than the ancients. Nowhere has chemistry—the science most essential for this purpose—been brought to greater perfection than in France. Accord- ingly none have attained more skill in the art of imitating gems than the French. If the revenue that Paris has derived from this source alone for the last quarter of a century were stated in plain figures it would seem more fabulous than any story in the ‘‘Arabian Nights.” But it would seem worse than fabu- lous to say that three-fourths of those gems which are worn daily, or at least nightly, in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, including those that sparkle on the bosoms of some of our great men, have contributed to that revenue, in proportion to their size and other characteristics, Yet it would really be no exaggeration of the fact. Let those who think we want to trespass on Neri and Fontainieu. That of M. Fontainieu alone would be sufficient. This learned mem- ber of the Royal Academy of Sciences has been enabled by a long series of experiments to produce a perfectly colorless crystal. This he calls fondant, or base; he lias formed one by each of five different processes; he has also shown how the various colors are prodaced, according as a given piece of crystal is emerald, a ruby, &c. Several German chemists have given the world the benefit of their researches on the same subject, and some have enriched themselves and others by them. This is true, for example, of Pro- fessor Lippert, of Dresden, who prepared three thousand casts; of these one jeweller bought one thousand and rapidly made his fortune; the remainder were purchased by different jewellers, each of whom obtained the prices of real gems. day, this year or last year. We do not pre-, sentthem as novelties. {noredible as were the results produced by the chemists and lapidaries we have mentioned, those results have been much improved upon within the last decade, so that,at the present day even Take the breastplate of eminent living chemists had considerable aif.” intended to be a diamond, an amethyst, an‘ Nor do-we mention these as affairs of to- their credulity turn to the works of Kunkel, . - ‘