The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tu® BALLET PAN- vowing or Hunrry Domrry. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third at., corner Sixth av.— Hacer. Wood's MUSEUM, Broaaw: ances afternoon and evening. — ener Sith st.—Perform- iy TUR STREETS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 23d st— Tue Streets oF NEw YORK. FIFTA AVENUE T' B, Tweaty-fourth street. Tur New Dama OF LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No, 726 Broadway,—Ormra Bourrk—LE ONT DES SOUPERS, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ROSEDALE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Peogy Gneen—Rep Hanns. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—THE OPERA ov MIGNON. 8T. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eighth strest and Broad- way.—Tue Tuonre BRotarrs. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— PLAYING witd Fine. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall lyn. — VOUT OF THE COMMUNE. rider eh = THEATRE COMIQUE, Ot 16u8, NEGKO ACTS, &0. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- Way.—NEORO AOTS—BURLESQUR, BALLET, &0. adway.—Couto Vooar- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NrGRo ECORNTRICITIES, BURLESQUES, &C. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 33d at., between 6th and 7th ava.—BRYANT's MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Tur SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth stroet.—SORNES IN ‘Tux RING, ActOBATS, £0. New York, Monday, December 11, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, $—The Anti-Grant Movement: Frank Uttersnces & Conspirator against Ulysses I.—The Grand Duke in Bostoa—The Catholic Union: A New Movement in the Roman Catholic Church— The Wharton Murder Trial—Obituary—veath in @ Williamsburg Church—New York City— 1/1nternationale: The Forbidden Procession- ists Defy the Poltce Order; a Small Gather- ing at Cooper Insutute; Six Internationalists piiirestod. , 4—L'Internationale (continued from Third Page)— What Is the International? Emilto Casters Wefence of It in the Spanish Cortes; Origin and Progress of the Society; tne Republic Inevitable; Questions of Family and Morality, __,Law and Property. G—Frauce: Closing Scene of the Trial of the Assassins of Generals Lecomte and Clement Thomas—Music and the Draima—Art Matters— California Polittcs—Running Notes, Political and Geueral—The Strong Minded—National Board of irade—A Martyr to Dutv—A Legal Geutieman Fouud Drowned—Fire in Patcr- so0—A Man’s Throat Cut by Roughs—Free Fucht—Punishment in Deiaware—Fire im Warren Street—A Contested Gas Bill. ‘6—Editoriais: Leading Arucle, “General Grant and the Presidential Succession—How Can He Ke Defeated t—The impeachment Movement ana Its Probabilities"—Amusement Announce- 7—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Prog- ress of the Prince of Wales’ illness from Ten o'Clock on Saturuay Night to Half-past One ‘Tuts Morning—Intense Excitement in Madrid Over General Grant’s Message—News from Russia, Germany, France, Egypt, Mexico and _Cuva—Suipping Intelhgence—Business S—Relizious: The Proclamation of the Gospel and the Worship of the Sanctuary Attendants Yesterday; Mr. Beecher on Everyday Piea- sure; Mission Services of the Kedemptorist Lathers at St. James’ Caurch; Mr. Pullman on Pooks and How to Read Them; The New Gos- pel of Penance by Father McCready; Mieston- ary Meeting at the Church of the Transfigura- tion. ®—Religious (Continued from Eignth Page)—Dr. Liviugstone—The Hoboken Murder—Oity Rail- road Abuses—Chicago National Banks—Bee- keepers’ Convention—Fire in Jersey City— Court Calendars for To-Day—Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Mar- riages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10—Washington: Senator Wilson's Views on the Poliucal Situatuoa; The Breach Between Sum- ner and the President Widening; Investigation of the Defaications in the Treasury Depart- ment—European Mall Details—Weather Re- port—Affairs in South Carolina—Aavertise- ments. 11—Ad vertisenents, 12—Adveitisements. HERALD, Tae Winter Weartner still presses with anusual severity on the people of Paris, The cold was extreme in the city yesterday. The Seine was tightly frozen. A heavy fall of snow came down and impeded railroad travel. Paris suffers still. Tue REVOLUTION IN MExI00 continues its triumphant progress. According to our special despatch from Matamoros the unconditional surrender of Saltillo, with all the government troops, arms and ammunition, has been unounced by General Trevino, the com- mander of the revolutionists, while anotier rebel leader, General Quiroga, is marching on Mier and constagtly adding to his strength, without any opposition from the forces of Juarez. Tue DEFALOATIONS AT THE TREASURY are to be the subject of a special resolution to- day by Congressman Lynch. As General Spioner is considered as_ being responsible for NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DEUEMBER il, 187].—TRIPLE SHEET, General Grant and the Presidential Suc- cession—How Can He Be Defeated t—The Impeachment Movement and Its Probn- bilities. General Grant, under the existing condi- tions of the political parties and leading ques- tions of the day, is evidently master of the field for the Presidential succession, From the April contest in Connecticut down to the overwhelming November defeat of the demo- crats in New York, the State elections of the passing year are accepted on all sides as broadly foreshadowing the re-election of Gen- eral Grant. In 1867 the State elections were 80 generally carried by the democratic party that they were confident of carrying the White House in 1868, How, then, with all their defeats in the State elections of 1871, including New York, can they hope to gain the Presidency in 1872? As matters now stand they give it up. They admit that the democratic party is in a minority in the couo- try, and they are casting about for a new party coalition with the disaffected republi- cans, whereby the balance of power may be drawn off from the administration camp. The plan of operations most extensively advocated by the democratic journals of the country is what is called the passive, or the “possum” policy—the policy of merging the democracy, rank and file, in a liberal anti- Graot republican movement, and upon an anti-Grant republican ticket. But as a famous cook book, in its instructions how to cook a rabbit, says you must first catch your rabbit, so the sorely perplexed democracy, before they can effect this proposed coalition against General Grant, must first secure their anti- Grant repu%icans, How, then, are they to be secured and brought to the front? Mr. George Wilkes proposes the plan of a series of private consultations and confidential oys- ter suppers at Washington between the anti-Grant republicans and democrats of Congress as the readiest method of coming to an understanding. General Blair favors the Missouri plan of allowing the anti-Grant republicans to lead off asa new party on the Carl Schurz platform, aud then a fusion of the democracy with this new party— for this fight only—and all the Blairs second the motion. Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, pro- poses a National Democratic Convention right off for the reorganization of the party, so as to make an opening for all the loose materials of the country; and we are inclined to think that his plan of putting the horse before the cart is better than General Blair’s plan of putting the cart before the horse. Through some one of the many plans pro- posed the general idea of the democrats isa fusion with the republican elements of all sorts whose first desire is the defeat of Gen- eral Grant, and the Carl Schurz platform is generally recommended for the holy alliance. But what is this platform? It is economy, retrenchment, revenue reform, civil service reform and a general amnesty. Al! these are very good things for buncombe; but, unfor- tunately for Mr. Schurz, all this political thunder has been appropriated by General Grant in his late Message. It is unfortunate, too, that free trade will not serve as a bait for your anti-Grant republicans, because some of the chief apostles, among them such as Sum- ner, Fenton and Greeley, are opposed to free trade. And yet again, the project of the an- nexation of Mexico, 2 la Texas, though it would be avery popular movement, would not suit those anti-Grant republicans who bolted on the St. Domingo scheme. In a word, upon the current political topics of the day General Grant in his Message so com- pletely covers the ground that he leaves nothing for his adversaries to stand upon. This Presidential contest, then, under the present conditions of the inside and outside forces, will be a mere fight for the spoils; and how such a fight will terminate it needs no Daniel to tell us. What the opposition forces want is some new idea, some new departure on the fundamental principles of the govern- ment, which will rally a powerful party toa point-blank fight with the administration. The impeachment movement, as reported by one of our Washington correspondents in last Satur- day’s HERALD, furnishes the elements required for this new departure. In this movement it is proposed to arraign the President before Congress as guilty of “high crimes and misde- meanors,” in various usurpations of the powers of Congress, and in various unlawful and unseemly acts of intervention in the affairs of both Dominica and Hayti, and the prosecution of his St. Domingo scheme of annexation. Our correspondent on this subject seems to think it probable that if impeachment resolu- tions are introduced in the House covering these charges they may, with a junction of the anti Grant republicans and democrats, be passed; aud if they are passed, though the defaulters’ acts, and is engaged in conjunc- | the impeachment may fail in the Senate, \ tion with Secretary Boutwell in investigating | the frauds, which was known to the energetic as it failed in the case of Andy Jobn- son, there will be, from the general agi- member, it may fairly be termed a case of | tation of the subject, such a demoralization of lynching, so far as the feelings of the Secre- tary and his assistant are concerned, Presipent THERS AND THE ORLEANS Prinoes.—All sorts of stories are forwarded by cable concerning the relations and negotia- tions which are maintained between President Thiers and the Orleans Princes. The very latest report is to the effect that the Chief the republican party in reference to General Graut that it will clear the field for his defeat. These usurpations of power, including bis Ku Klux policy, thus brought into the tore- ground against General Grant, might be made as decisive against his re-election as was the agitation of the alien and sedition laws against the re-election of the elder Adams. In 1798-9, from the fantastic tricks of the Magistrate of the republic is in complete French republic of that day, though no de- disagreement with the gentlemen of the blood claration was made, a state of actual war on royal on the subject of their taking their seats | 14. nigh seas existed between France and the in the National Assembly. How will it be {| decided? The Princes cannot divest them- selves of their lineage, no matter even if it be a misfortune. nor can they put away their birthright and nationality as Frenchmen. United States, and active war measures were adopted by our government (John Adams | being President) to resist an apprehended { French invasion. Under this state of things the alien and sedition laws were passed. Sexator Witsox, or Massacnusetts, aNp } Under the alien law the President was em- THe PRestRNTIAL ELxcTION.—In a long and interesting conversation with the HERaLp correspondent at Washington yesterday Sen- ator Wilson expressed some sound and intel- ligent views in reference to this absorbing topic, The Senator has for some time been endeavoring to bring about a reconciliation of the recalcitrant republicans, but, so far, it does not appear that his efforts have been very successful. He maintains, however, that, despite the impeachment programme, recently published by us, no coalition that may be formed by the anti-Grant party will very materially affect the President; that the republican party to-day is stronger and more cohesive than was the democracy at any period of its history, and that Grant is by far the strongest aad noblest Roman of them. | powered to order any alien out of the country found or supposed to be conspiring against the peace and authority of the United States. One apology for the law in connection with our warlike relations with France was that in our country’s population, of only some three or four millions of people at that time, there were, in addition to other foreign agitators, thirty thousand French emissaries, mostly plotting against our Institutions and for French “liberty, equality and fraternity”—that French republic being insanely aggressive in its ideas in both hemispheres. But for all this the pre- vailing American sympathy at that day was with the French republic, and the prevailing American ideas of liberty were dead against this obnoxious alien law. The sedition law vrovided certain prosecu- tions, pains and penalties against political speakers, newspaper publishers and pam- phleteers. who might be deemed guilty of libelling the government or authorities of the goverament of the United States. The apol- ogy for this law was that againgt the adminis- tration the grossest falsehoods were uttered and published, tending to deceive the people and to excite their prejudices to the danger of the peace of the nation. The war made against this law was on the ground that it was an outrageous infringement upon the lib- erty of speech and of the press, There were at that time “some two hundred newspapers published in the United States, of which one hundred and eighty were in favor of the fede- ral administration and only twenty opposed to it, and, according to Bradford's ‘History of the Federal Government,” the greater portion of these twenty were under the control of aliens. They were doubtless, too, mainly of the French red republican school or of the Tom Paine type of democrats. Yet, with all the advantages of the federalists in newspa- pers, and in wealth and power of the country, those alien and sedition laws turned the elder Adams and the federal party out of tho gov- ernment and brought in Jefferson and his re- publicans. Now, let the men in Congress opposed to General Grant's re-election, republicans and democrats, retura in this impeachment move- ment to first principles, the limitations of the executive and the general government and the rights of the people ; and if they can even get up a debate in the House on the questions of usurpation involved in the St. Domingo scheme they may repeat in General Grant's case the defeat of the elder Adams on the alien and sedition laws. In this new agita- tion the St. Domingo scheme may fill the office of the old alien law, and the Southern Ku Klox policy of the President and his party may do the service in a popular reaction of the old sedition law. If there are twenty anti- Grant republicans in the House of Representa- tives with whom, as with Mr. Sumner, Mr. Schurz, Mr. Fenton and Mr. Greeley, the first object is the defeat of General Grant, they can pass their impeachment resolutions and thus excite a generil agitation on the great principles involved which will break up the republican party on General Grant, and clear the field for the opposition elements and their ticket, and carry them as a new party into power. Short of some bold and daring coup d'état like this impeachment movement, some stroke of state- craft which will create a new agitation and a strong alliance against General Grant, the anti-Grant republicans and democrats may give up the battle of 1872 as a ‘foregone con- clusion ;” for they have nothing left to do but to follow in the wake of the administration. The Prince of Wales at the Point Death. By a special cable telegram and a series of news despatches from London we are enabled to report the condition of His Royal Highness of The Spavlards on tho Rampage—2xcite- ment in Spain Over President Grant’s Message. The respectable old kingdom of Spain is in a ferment, The Iberian blood is up. Titu- Jados and Hidalgos, Caballeros and Escuderos twirl their terrible mostachos, and swear by the blood of Castile that an insult has been offered to the nation, From the Bay of Bis- cay to the Strait of Gibraltar, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, the whole country is boiling over with excite- ment, The Heraxp special cable despatch from Madrid, received late last night and published this morning, informs us that all this tremendous turmoil has been caused by the remarks of President Grant, in his recent Message to Congregs, in relation to Cuban af- fairs, The position taken by the Prasident is consirued by the irascible cavaliers as 8 threat or a defiance, or something else of a fightable nature, and with all the valor of Don Quixote firing their veins they hasten to pick up the gauntlet. If General Grant means mischief they are ready to meet and defy the power of the United States, and to show their earnestness, we are told that they have resolved to despatch immedi- ately to Cuba four thousand real Spanish sol- diers, with two generals—regular ones, too, and no militia shams—and four iron-clad ves- sels-of-war. In order that our readers may understand what all this fuss is about we reproduce else- where in to-day'’s Heratp all the paragraphs in President Grant's Message having reference to Spain andthe affairs of Cuba. The first allusion is to the organization of the Mixed Commission to adjudicate upon the claims of citizens of the United States growing out of the Cuban insurrection, and the President ex- presses the hope that the Commission will afford the claimants a complete remedy for their injuries. Surely Spain can take no ex- ceptions to this, as the Commission is looked to as the means of healing the difficulty and is a friendly method of settling what might other- wise prove a very unpleasant controversy. Nor can the most fiery spirit take umbrage at the President's statement that it has been the agreeable duty of the United States to assist in bringing about an armistice, with a reason- able assurance of a peace, in the South Ameri- can republics. Upon the subject of slavery in tho Spanish West Indian colonies the Message regrets that the voluntary promise of the statesmen of Spain to elevate labor has not been carried out, and points to the fact that the laws and regulations apparently made for the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico leave most of the laborers in bondage. But the Fresident does not propose to inter- fere in a matter which does not concern this country, except in so far as to recommend to Congress the prohibition by stringent legisla~ tion of any holding, owning or dealing in @aves, or being interested in slave property in foreign lands, either as owners, hirers or mortgagors, by citizens of the United States. This recommendation, however, has probably been regarded everywhere, at home the Prince of Wales from ten o’clock Satur- day night to five o'clock this morning. The statements contained in the medical bul- letins are not encouraging for the hope of bis recovery. The patient was prostrated by ex- haustion and the fever persistent in its peri- odical assaults. The Prince slept « lit- tle at intervals. It is said that he slept ‘‘slightly.” This means, most prob- ably, that he dozed in an unrefreshing slumber, at times awaking hectic and rest- less and anxious to close his eyes again from the present view of an impending fatal result. The physical condition of the Prince must not have been so much deteriorated as was supposed before his illness, or it is not likely that he could have combated the at- tack of this terrible fever for such a length of time with any chance of ultimate triumph. The people of London—of the kingdom at large, indeed—remained intensely interested concerning the result of the Prince’s illness, and the popular excitement was becoming still more general in London this morning. The death of the Prince was regarded as imminent at five o'clock. All hope of his recovery was abandoned. The Queen and the Prince's wife bore up wonderfully against the terrible sorrow. The Czar’s Speech and the Democracy in France—What sians Think. A special Heratp telegram from Berlin which we publish to-day reports. the opinion which prevails in the German capital on the subject of the condition of the relations exist- ing between Russia and the Emperor William of Germany, as it was set forth personally by the Czar in his speech at the Georgenfest anniversary banquet, in St. Petersburg, last Thursday. The Prossians think the imperial expression bodes little good to the cause of republicanism in France, Indeed, they imagine that it has made an end of the hopes of the French people in that direction. The Germans appear to find an equivalent for the misfortune of their neighbors in France in the conviction that the Russian ruler has guaran- teed the peace of Europe, However all this may be, the Czar’s address was important in every sense, It breathed friendship and peace to Prussia throughout. Why should it have been otherwise? Why should not the Emperor- nephew speak kindly of the Emperor-uncle, The Czar made graceful allusion to the time when the armies of Germany and the armies of Russia fraternally fought against and finally crushed the armies of Napoleon, The Czar did not forget that the armies of Austria then fought on the same side with those of Ger- many and Russia. In 1866 it was convenient for Prussia to forget the ancient fraternization with Austria. In 1872 Prussia, or rather Germany, may find it convenient to be simi- larly forgetful of the ancient alliance with Russia. The continuance of friendly relations between the two great empires depends less on the good feeling of the imperial families than on the good feeling of the two peoples. At the present moment the interests of the two peoples are not precisely identical, and opposing popular interests may prove more powerful than imperial peace speeches, Hopes of the Pruse AccorpinG to present appearances the new departure democrats are ‘‘crawling out of the little end of the born,” while the passive dem- ocrats are in a dilemma and do not know ex- actly which horn to take. A little old Bour- bon, perbaps, might stiffen them up a little, and abroad, ae a sort of rhe'erical flourish thrown into the Message out of re- spect for the old dead-and-gorm doctrine of abolitionism, which in its lifetime did such good service to the republican party. It means nothing but buncombe and is excusable because of the solid sense contained in the rest of the document. There is nothing in it to excite any other feeling than merriment in the mind of American or Spaniard. We must attribute the anger of our Spanish friends, therefore, to that portion of Presi- dent Grant's Message which refers more particularly to the present troubles n Cuba. The President regrets that the disturbed condition of the island coatinues to be asource of annoyance and anxiety, espe- cially in view of the close proximity of the protracted struggle to our own territory. It must be well known that the sympathies of the people of the United States are with the Cubans who are fighting for their independ- ence, and hence it would have been a non- sensical piece of ceremoniousness to ig- nore that fact. The Cuban war is signally an object of concern to our government, be- cause, while our principles prompt us to ab- stain from interference in the affairs of other Powers, and while we desire to maintain in good faith our neutral positioa as a nation and to enforce the observance of neutrality upon all our citizens, we are sensible that the whole people of the United States would joyfully see the islanders shake off the yoke of a Euro- pean monarchy and win those rights to which every people are entitled. The knowl- edge of this popular sentiment not only em- barrasses our own government, but is the incentive to many unjust and inhuman acis on the part of the Spanish authorities in Cuba towards American citizens. To guard against any outrage on the part of indiscreet partisans President Grant in- forms Congress that our naval commanders in Cuban waters have been instructed, in case it becomes necessary, to spare no effert to protect the life and property of bona fide American citizens and maintain the dignity of the flag. The President of the United States could say no less than this, and certainly that gallant old grandee, the Spanish nation, with his stiff ruffies and his long rapier can have no occasion to disturb his digestion by getting into a pas- sion aboutit, At all events, pleased or angry, Spain can make up her mind that President Grant means just what he says, and that should the necessity arise the power of the United States government will resent any insult to the American flag or any outrage offered to an American citizen by the Spanish government.in Cuba, despite the four thousand real troops, the two regular generals and the four iron-clad war vessels ,that are preparing to set sail for Havana, Tue Smatipox Dzata Row. ar Pata- DELPHIA for the last week was only one hun- dred and ninety-eight, being a decrease of thirty-four as compared with the report of the weck previous, The present number shows that the disease is still raging flercely, and the decrease in the number of deaths will have to be much less than now shown before the inhabitants of the city will be able to recover from that high state of nervousness consequent upon this fearful disease having appeared in their midst. Very Gexeratty APpPRovED BY THR AmEnioaN Newsparer Pxusa—The proposed postal telegraph, rene NONI pliner cc 1 The International Parade—Arrests by the Police=Senor Castellur’s Defouce of the Associution, It was not owing to the Police Commis- sioners, who made the singular blunder of prohibiting the parade of the International societies, but to the good sense of the members of the association, that our citizens did not wit- ness a riot and probably bloodshed in the strects of New York yesterday, The great body of the members refrained from turning out, but about a hundred gathered at Cooper Institute and started in procession along Fourth ave- nue. The police, who were on hand in great force, arrested six of the men who marched at the head of the line and conveyed them to the station house, no opposition being made by their associates, although the crowd of lookers-on indulged in groans and hisses at the expense of the captors. The names of those arrested are given in the re- port of the affair. Just at the moment that our own police authorities are so singularly stultifying themselves by a crusade against the Internationals wo have a fine defence of their objects from Emilio Castellar, the bril- liant orator of Spain, who has just de- livered one of his characteristic speeches in the Spanish Cortes. We reproduce the speech in another page this morning as it was forwarded to us by the HzRaxp’s corre- spondent in Madrid. The speech is in defence of the International Society of Workmen, which in Spain is making rapid strides towards the perfection of a strong and a complete organiza- tion, Castelar, of the many prominent men who have undertaken to elucidate the work- ings of this powerful association, is well quali- fied for the task. He has given the subject earnest study, beeo present at some of its Congress:s, and has watched with not a little anxiety the progress of its development. Yet he is not of the International—at least he says so. The subject gave him full scops and he made the mostofit. His discoerse led him over the whole field of European politics, and with that skilland directness of purpose with which Custelar, even in his loftiest flights of fancy, is noted, he brought all his knowledge of history, all his acquaintance with law and all his study of morality to bear on the subject which he rose to discuss. Don Fernando Garrido, an advanced repub- lican in the European sense of the word, pre- ceded Castelar in the debate. Garrido defended the International in a manner which left nothing to be desired by the most devoted adherent of that organization, and his attacks on religion were as violent as the most ad- vanced atheist could wis) for. With Castelar, however, it was different. His argument was clear throughout, and, though for over four hours he occupied the floor, he neither wearied his auditors nor shocked their religious convic- tions by language such as flowed from the lips of Sefior Garrido. He contended it was not the International that it was the aim of the Cortes to suppress so much as it was the desire to curb the freedom of thought and deny the right of association. It was to de- fend these that he rose, and to maintain such rights was a duty which he should continue to perform at all hazards. In speaking of the International, what it is and what it aspires to, he entered fully into a description of the political condition of Europe at the present time and described the development, of the society throughout the Continent, The spread of socialistic theories was also, he contended, a marked feature of the age in which we live. Tracing these ideas from early time and through various epochs, he referred to the Middle Ages as those of the Church, the next as the epoch of the aristocracies, the Renaissance as the period of the kings, the days that stretch back to the French Revolution as the period of the middle classes, and those which we are now experiencing as preliminary to the advent of the people and tie working classes to public life. When that time arrives the emancipation of the people politically will be accomplished. To attain this end the International directs its endeavors, and its power may be judged from its widespread existence. Fostered in the cold heart of Northern Russia, the society has found followers in almost every clime, and though some of the governments of Europe have expressed the resolve to stamp it out of existence, it is still being organized, preached and taught in England, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Russia and America, Castelar briefly detailed the several Con- gresses of the International and the business transacted at them. As the question of family had been referred to in marked terms by the opponeats of the International, and as it was contended that on moral grounds it should be denounced, the speaker declared that whatever may be the intemperate language of the ora- tors and editors who espoused the cause of the society, on the question of family the Interna- tional had decided nothing. The questions of property, of hours of labor, of education and of religion were all ventilated in a manner worthy of the reputation of the orator. Inthe existence of the society he could perceive no wrong; in the contemplated attempt to crush it the most vital part of the constitutional right of all Spaniards was aimed at. Castelar inter- prets the movement, if we regard him rightly, as the yearning of the peoples toward a system of government in which they themselves will take part, if not direct. The days of kings are passing away—they have fulfilled their mission; the day of the peoples is fast ap- proaching. Free thought, free speech and a free press will hasten the approach of the universal republic which is necessary aud in- evitable, “Proniition” is the great cry of the total abstinence temperance men. Prohibition of another sort seems to be the weakness at our “Palace of Justice” in Mulberry street. If there was anything to fear from the procession of the Internationals proposed for yesterday, but prohibited by the police authorities, the danger is augmented instead of leesened by the course pursued. Tne Macon (Ga.) Telegraph—democratic— is very much pleased with the nomination of James M. Smith, of Muscogee, now Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, as the democratic nominee for Governor. Ho is pronounced ‘‘eminently honest, capable and faithful.” These are rare qualities to be found in politician in these days of official peculation and corruption, But will he be @lected? The chances are that be will, Gems from the Pulpits, There is a remarkable tameness and comes monplacedness about the discourses delivered do the city pulpits yesterday, which will be found reported in the columns of the HeRALp this morning. There are few or mone of the flashes of eloquence or oratory, the scathing denunciations of persons or things, the biting sarcasm or the keen wit which we find gome- times distilled from the holy oracles by the theological maltsters. The season is becoming solemn, and so are the preachers. Itis the time for religious revivals, and the Church and the ministry bend their energies and direct their attention mainly, if not solely, to this. The Redemptorist Fathers are holding a series of revival meetings in St. James’ Roman Catho- lic church, in the Fourth ward, and with remarkable success, And in view of the near- ness of Christmas and the preparation of mind necessary to rightly observe that festival and the attendant holidays, the Rev. Father Ratschke yesterday preached a sermon on penance toa large congregation. It became the privilege and the duty of Rev. Father McCready to call the attention of the congregation of St. Stephen's church to the same event and the accompanying facts and circumstances, and to strive by example, entreaty and warning to induce his hearers to accept the love and mercy of God as mani- feasted in the gift of Jesus Christ to die for sinfulmen, But having received the Divine Saviour into the heart it then becomes the Christian's duty, as explained by Rev. Father Kearney, to manifest our faith by ‘‘practising good works earnestly and faithfully through- out life,” and not be content with the mere profession of faith. Tie inflacnce of a good example and a faithful fife was practically declared and held up for imitation. In St. Mark's Protestant Bplseopal church, in Second avenue, the Rev. Dr. Rylance preached a very simple discetrse on the Saviour’s advent as appropriate to this occa- sion and as reminding the congregation of the second coming of Christ, for whiclr he feared they were not preparing themselves as they should by lives of religious devotion to the cause and service of the Master, He advised the people not to depend much upon forms of prayer, buf to have the love of God in their hearts, daily inspiring their lives and increas- ing their joy. And thus, with lamps trimmed and lights burning, they may wait for the Lord’s: appearing, whether He shall come at midaight or at the cock- crowing or in the morning. The Gospel of Christ has won for itself such a place among the literature of mankind, as well as in buman hearts, that, as Dr. Richardson demonstrated yesterduy, itis not a thing to be ashamed of.. It has stood the teat of 1800 years, and still lives an ever-increasing power in the world. And‘ any'literary work which can thus survive is‘ not tobe despised. The Bible is the book.of the civilized world, and its readers may: be reckoned: by miblions, and its circulation: is a thousand-fold more than that of any other volume. Voltaire, who swore he would. extirpate it from the literature of world, died with- out accomplishing his task, and his: house near Geneva is now a Bible depository. “What, then,” asked Dr. Richardson, “shall be said of a Gospel that can stand sucha trial? This, that men. shall not-be ashamed of it. Contrast the nations who have lived under its light with others, and. everywhere it is seen that the Gospel has been the: mightiest power to enlighten and elevate.” But to come under its power we must part with. cberished sins, make sacrifices for its sake and em- brace it with full hearts, and then at the last hour we shall feel its quickening and: hallow- ing influence and peace. There was a change of priests but not of subjects in Lyric Hall yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Munday, of Syracuse, was substituted for Mr. Frothingham, The substitute found in the declaration that Judas Iscariot ‘‘might go to his own place” a text sugzestive that the tendency of men as well as of water is to find their own level—to go to their own place. The heart of the king is often seen now in the breast of the peasant, and the liberality of the prince in the backwoodsman, A good soul, no matter what its surroundings, is, by irresistible gravity, drawn toward those of like good work. And men are not working for this world alone while here, but also for the future world. Religion and life are bound up together, and while we are constructing our earthly habitations. we are also building our future and unchangeable abodes. The characters which we form here will determine our relations to the future world. And inasmuch as the character is formed by what we read and hear—for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he—it becomes a highly important duty to look well to our literature, And Rev. Mr. Pullman gave his Universalist congregation some useful hints in this line yesterday. What- ever is read should be mastered, but of course only the best should be read. The character and style of some of the popu- lar literary works of the day were hit off, and the sickly Sabbath school literature received its just rebuke. The mental faculties are ruined by this weak trash.. Some writers run into mysteries where no one can follow them. Sunday school books which don’t state facts and convictions are tissues of lies, according to Mr. Pullman, and by, giving examples of impossible goodness failin the very thing at. which they aim. The Apostle of Plymouth church, Brook- lyn, spread. himself out yesterday-against the despotism of conscience, amd showed the want of respect ang regard Tox the consciences. of others which is evorywhere apparent in this age and country. And@ Mr. Beechor very happily put it when hey remarked that ifa man thinks his duty lies, in so absurd prac. tice as to count twentyrows of pins a day his conscience should be ‘respected therein. The standard of business$ae deems to be altogether too low, and it proty.bly grows out of this vio- . lation of others’ cow sciences of which he spoke, Mr. Beecher is ‘very likely to differ with orthodox Christians in many things, and we believe he etanciated a doctrine yesterday which is net considered strictly orthodox when ho he).d that in social usages there ia nothing o'iways right or wrong according to the effec’t it produces, But this idea will be found, explained and amplified in his sermon, to wWuich we need hardly call attention, Dr. Chapman, in St. Joha's Methodist Rpiscopal Church, Bedford avenue, gave hia peoule ao