The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROYRIETOR. Volume XXXVI... AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Buoadway and 13th street.— Joun Garr. - NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway, between Prince and Houston streeta.— BLACK CROOK, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fatr—BroTaee BILL AND BROTHKE BEN. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Tor or Iu Trovators. sina OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk BaLLet Pan- ‘TOMiME OF HumPTY Dumpty. BOOTR’S THEATRE, Twenty-thira st., corner Sixth av.— HaMurt. WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broadway, corner 35th st. —Perform- ances afternoon and evening.—11OKET OF LZAVE MAN, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 23d st— CHARLES O'MALLEY. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Tweaty-foarii street. — Tux New Drama or Drvoror. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No, 720 Broadway.—OPRRA UFFE—LE PONT DEG SOUPERS. MRS. F, B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ROMANCE OF 4 PooR Young MAN. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— SCHNEIDER; Ox, DOT HOUSE VON DER RHINE. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- 18M8, NEGKO ACIB. £0. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st, and Broad- way.—NEOKO ACTS—BURLESQUK, BALLET, &0, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NEGRO EOOENTRICITIFG, BURLESQUES, &C. BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., bet eh and 7th avs.--BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. oa SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— THE SAN FRANCIBCO MINSTRELS. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.Granp OPERA Conogrr. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteentn surect.—SCENRS IN THE RING, ACKOBATS, £0. NIXON'S GREAT LOREEN CIRCUS, 728 Broadway.— “SHEET, TRIPLE New York, sunday, December 17, 1871, NTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace 1~ Advertisements, 2— Advertisements, 3—Tweed’s Nemesis: The Boss Indicted for Felony, Arrested and Committed Without Bail at Gen- eral Sessions; An Exciting Scene in Court; He is Applauded ana Hissed Simuitaneot on His Appearance; Motion to Admit to Denied by Judge Bedford; A Haceas Corpus Granted; The Boss faken Lefore Judge Bar- nard, in Supreme Court Chambers; Besump- ov of Lega! Hostiliues by Opposing Counsel; meee Admitted to Bail im $5,000 and Dis- 4—Juage Learned on Corruption: The Iweed and Connelly Cases in Albany; Tweed’s Bail Not To be Reduced; Why the Motion for Reauc- ton Was Denied; Connolly’s Ball Lessened One Hali—city and County Afairs: Domgs Yesterday at the Departments—The Broken Bauks—Lighth Avenue Improvement—ibe Mixed Commission: What Constitutes Na- tuonat Aliegiance—Contarini, the Bigamist, Caged—Omaha and the Union Pacitic—New- foundiand Mail service. S—Religious Intelligence: Services To-Day; HeRALD Religious Correspondence; Personal and General Notes; Thirty-fourth Street syna- gogue—Keligion in Germany: The Law Against the Priests AGopted in the German Reichstag—Mausic and the Drama—The Gard- ner-Alexander Case in Newark, N, J.—Con- soiidution in New Jersey—The Mysterious shooting of Romaine Rossmassin, alias Wal- den—The Danger of Carrying Stolen Gooas— Sullivan’s Counsel. 6—Kaitorials: Leading Article, “The Criminal Prosecutions lor the City Frauds on the Right Taok at Last’—Am usement Announcements. ‘Y—_The International—‘The Prince of Wales’ Lil- ness- land. New York To-Day—News from Washington— Horrible Murder of a Wile oear Boston, Mass.—Weather Report—Miscelluncous Teie- grams—Business Notices, 8-Mrs. Wharton's Trial: General Papers Excluded as Evidence; Grand and Jadicia! Tournament; Mrs. Chubos, the Deaf Man aud the Yartar Emetic; The ntl more Ladies Delighted with the Lore of the Lawers—Proceedings in the Courts—New York City News—Death on the Wheel—Corn and Cotton—Coal Miners in Session—Finan- cial aod Commercial— Marriages and Deaths, 9—Acivertisements. 10—Tweed's Nemesis (Continuea from Third Page)—Shippiug Inteiligence— Advertisements, 14—Aaverusements. 12—Advertisements. Ketchum’s Gotp 109.—Gold fell to 109 yesterday on the announcement that the Prince of Wales is likely to recover. Direct TELEGRAPHIO COMMUNICATION WITH Cura anp Japan is the subject now agitat- ing the commercial princes of California. Yesterday a bill was introduced into the Legis- lature there providing for the construction of interoceanic lines by the Pacific Sub-tele- graphic Company to those countries, either direct or by way of the Hawaiian Islands. As this is an undertaking that will favorably effect, more or less, the interests of the whole world, it is to b> hoped that the bill will be passed at once and, if necessary, backed by pecuniary assistance to forward its execution. Tue Granp Duke IN CaNADA appears to be taking matters in much abont the same manner as any otber sensible gentleman would. The authorities of Montreal and other places, while taking care that he shall have no opportunity to complain of their hos- pitality, have wisely determined to allow him to go about without that forced attention and ostentation which have characterized nearly all his movements 10 the United States. If Spotted Tail can arrange matters on the Prairies on about this basis the Prince may be enabled to enjoy himself there also, A Brora, Wire Murper aT Lywyy, Mass., took place yesterday. A man named Venner, having dispatched his wife in the most cold-blooded manner with a large dirk knife, fied to the woods, where he was shortly afterwards found by the police officers who had been sent to arrest him. After fighting furiously and severely wound- ing one of the officers, and threatening others with the same instrument he had employed to kill his wife, the City Marshal found it neces- sary to shoot him dead, that being the only manner in which they could take his body without danger to themselves. Brinsn Pouicy is tae Far East—Toe ANNEXATION oF Scmatra.—Great Britain still keeps stretching out her arms. One of our latest items of news is to the effect that the lower house of the Dotch Parliament has voted the cession of the island of Sumatra, one of the largest avd finest islands in the Indian Seas, to the Britisa government. In spite of her so-called decay Great Britain keeps build- ing op a grand oceanic empire. Let any man glance at the map, and, lookin; at India, on the one band, and Australia on the other, he will see the value of Sumatra as an integral por- tion of the British dominions, Java and New Guinea must follow; and then Great Britain in the Malay Archipelago will have no rival. Why should We be so squeamish about an- nexation when Great Britan is so anxious and po active? NEW YURKK HEKALD, SUNDAY, DEUEMBER 17, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Tee Urimtaal Prosecutions fer the City Frauds om the Right Tack at Last. The criminal prosecutions initiated against the parties alleged to have been implicated in the frauds committed upon the City Treasury afford some hope that justice will at length be done and that the mystery enveloping these notorious crimes will be cleared away. The civil suits heretofore instituted in the matter have not promised any satisfactory results. The well known delays of the law threat- ened to proiract the litigation for years; and even should the most favorable termination have been reached in the end and the full amount of the claim set up on behalf of the people have been recovered from the defend- ants, the demands of justice would not have been satisfied. It was generally felt by the people that the mere disgorgement of three million dollars by men who had stolen more than five times that amount from the public treasury would be a mockery of justice. Without entertaining any vindiotive feeling against those who have been recklessly led into these crimes by the passion for sudden wealth, our citizens have believed that a stern and sufficient punishment of the guilty parties was a public necessity in order to deter others from similar viola- tions of trusts in the future. It was with this feeling that the charge of Judge Bedford to the Grand Jury of the General Sessions call- ing to their attention the duty of thoroughly investigating the city frauds was received with universal favor, and that the action of the jury has since been watched with jealous anxiety. It is in accordance with this senti- ment, and not from any morbid desire to’ arraign the city officials at a criminal bar, that the arrest and formal commitment of Tweed and Connolly afford satisfaction to the people of New York. From the time of the formation of the Com- mittee of Seventy at the Cooper Institute meeting there has been danger that the move- ment originally instiiuted to secure a thorough municipal reform and to detect and punish the criminal violation of public trusts might be perverted to subserve political purposes, and thus rather injure than benefit the cause of good government in the future. As the political campaign progressed this appre- hension was strengthened, and it at last became evident that the most noisy advocates of reform were laboring only to transfer the spoils of office from one set of adven- turers to another. For partisan purposes a bargain or alliance was made with the ex-Comptroller Richard B. Connolly, and the efforts of the reformers were directed towards winning a victory at the polls rather than to the detection and punishment of those who had been guilty of frauds against the munici- pal government, Indiscriminate abuse was lavished upon prominent men who happened to be on the side opposed to the self-styled re- form party, while the worst corruptionists in the city were taken {nto the confidence of the reformers, and in some instances advanced by them to positions of trust. As soon as elec- tion was over and the victory was won the organs of the party that had most profited by the result set to work to claim its fruits as all their own, and to belittle the services rendered in the cause of reform by those leading democrats to whom the over- throw of Tammany was in reality due. The attacks that had before electiqn been levelled at such men as Isaac Bell have been since election directed against Charles O’Conor, August Belmont and Samuel J. Tilden. The evil of this partisanship has not, however, been confined to malignant misrepresentetion of the action of individual citizens. It is felt in the sudden revulsion against any measures looking to the bona fide in- vestigation of the city frauds and the punishment of the guilty parties. The evi- dent design of the politicians, who, having secured a two-thirds majority of both branches of tae State Legislature, are eager to seize upon the government of the city of New York, and to appropriate to themselves the spoils that had so enormously enriched their predeces- sors, is to hush up all agitation about munici- pal corruption, and to suffer the excitement against the dishonest office-holders to die out. It is easy to see that they desire an oppor- tunity to enrich themselves illegitimately out of the public departments, and that they, therefore, no longer wish to prosecute criminally the men who have been engaged in the past three years in defrauding the city out of millions of dollars. The very action of Judge Bedford, which has brought about the present indictments, bas been the subject of abuse and ridicule in the special organ of the political reformers, and our citi- zens have been assured day after day, not only that the professed desire to prosecute the guilty parties was a pretence and a sham, but that the offences charged against the unfaith- ful city officials were of a veal character and probably could not be made the subject of criminal indictments. The fall and graphic account given else- where in the Heratp of all the details con- nected with the indictments and arrests will render our-readers familiar with the proceed- ings so far as they have gone. Tweed is specially charged with felony, in having, as alleged, audited and allowed, in his capacity of chairman of the Board of Super- visors, a bill or bills of Keyser & Co. for forty-four thousand dollars, when he knew that such bill was fraudulent and had never been presented to the Board, and of having received and appropriated to bis own use the money drawn upon the warrant issued in pay- ment of such bogus account. Connolly is charged with gross misdemeanor in having neglected to properly certify # bill for ninety. one thousand dollars, of Ingersoll & Co., and of corruptly paying the same. without such auditing. The indictments were found by Judge Bedford’s Grand Jury, and were prepared by Mr. O'Conor. In the case of Tweed, who was arraigned before Judge Bedford, the Judge made a commit- ment witbout bail, his reason being the same as that assigned by him when he refused to admit Hagerty and Baulch to bail. He regards the offences as too grave to warrant the Court in risking the chance of the escape of the accused, and sees no injustice in refusing bail when there are no obstacles in the way of a speedy trial. The counsel for the prisoner immediately pro- cured a writ of habeas corpus and took Tweed before Judge Barnard, who admitted him to bailin the absurdly inadequate sum of five thousand dollars. This action of Judge Barnard was received with astonishment by the people at large, and we do not hesitate to say that should the accused not be forthcom- ing at his trial Judge Barnard will be beld responsible by the people for his escape. The Judge in fixing the bail stated that he could only regard the case of the prisoner as an ordinary one, and demand such an amount of security for his appearance as he should in any other instance. In this we think Judge Barnard has made a grave error. While the present charge against Tweed may be of itself comparatively light, it is notorious that the city has by similar prac- tices to those alleged against him been robbed of millions of dollars, and hence the case is taken out of the ordinary class. Five thousand dollars is a ridiculously small sum in which to hold a man who is suspected of hav- ing corruptly accumulated double that num- ber of millions, and in accepting such sureties Judge Barnard has taken upon himself a grave liability, In ‘the case of Connolly, the accused being already a prisoner in Ludlow Street Jail, a detainer was lodged at that institution, and until he fur- nishes bail on the civil suit on which he is now confined, and which bas just been re- duced to half a million, the question of the amount of his sureties on the criminal charge will not be taken up. It is at all events satisfactory to know that both the officials alleged to have been concerned in the city corruptions are now apparently certain of being brought to trial. At snch a time it would be unbecoming to enlarge upon the offences they are accused of having com- mitted, or to attempt in any way to ex- cite a prejudice against them. Every man is entitled to a fair and impartial trial, bowever grave the offence with which he may be charged, and this is all the people desire in the case of Tweed and Con- nolly. Let them be tried without prejudice and without favor, and whatever may be the result—provided no legal quibbles are allowed to defeat the ends of justice—the citizens of New York will be satisfied. They have no vindictive feelings to gratify, but they hav insisted, and do insist, that jus- tice shall not be prostituted to political ex- pediency, and that the city shall not be suf- ferred to rest under the stigma of being unable or unwilling to punish crimes that have been notoriously committed against the common- wealth, The British Cabinet and the Communists in Enogiand. A Heratp special telegram from London goes to show that the foreign revolu- tionary element which has found shelter in England under the designation of Communist, Foreign is subject to the guidance either of a vulgar and indiscreet personal leadership or of that which flows from the individual promptings of an uneducated feeling of levelling democracy. The press organ of the radical ‘‘reds,” published in the British metropolis, printed an article on the subject of the sickness of the Prince of Wales and its probable fatal result, in which the writer said, ‘‘The Prince ot Wales’ illness is an incident in our inter- est.” The Communist body did not wait, as it appears, to be correctly informed concerning the extent or severity of the malady by which His Royal Highness was afflicted, but has- tened toreveal the malus animus which moves the associated radicals with reference to the monarchical system of which he isa repre- sentative. Considering the facts that the foreign membership of the Communist Society in London consists for the most part of political refugees who have fled from other European countries in order to escape punishments at the hands of their own gov- ernments for the public expression of their opinions, and that they have found shelter and asylum under the Crown and Magna Charta of Britain, this conduct was, to say the least, in very bad taste. The Queen’s government regards it—as we ander- stand our special report—in this light. The Secretary of State for the Home Department is considering the propriety of asking Parlia- ment for power authorizing him to expel Carl Marx from the United Kingdom. Marx’s resi- dence in London is watched by agents of the police, This strife between the two powers, the English executive and the foreign Communist and home radicals, will tend to develop the respective strength of each. It will be an interesting struggle, but the “‘irre- sistible genius of universal emancipation,” as it is understood ia the British constitution, will, most likely, prevail in the end, and be declared a sufficient shield for all reasonable and healthy progressive reformers. The French Army The Power of the Day in France. By a special telegram from London, which appears elsewhere in our columns, we are made aware of the fact that the direction ot the International Society in England has employed of late a system of active political propagandism in the ranks of the French army. This missionary agency was not, as it looks to us, sent forth for the purpose of preaching among the soldiers for conversion, but for that of obtaining a declaration of firmer faith from reformers who had been already baptized and confirmed in the new creed of European democracy. The preachers have reported to the centre of unity in London. They say that the French army is divided in political sentiment. The men are either republican or imperialists; with the imperialists the strongest in number, the only object presenting against the real- ization of their hopes being the op- erations of the International. If this state- ment is correct the Internationals hold the “balance of power” between the monarchy and the republic in France. A “‘balance of power” party is always a strong party, pro- vided its leaders are honest and the rank and Mr. James Sreete Maokaye is the new lessee of the St. James Theatre, which he will open early in January for a three months’ season. New plays, new scenery, new proper- ties, new costumes, a new orchestra and a new company might alone offer novelty enough to attract New Yorkers, who, like the Athenians of old, always crave something new. But the chief novelty promived by Mr. Mackaye is as faithful an application as possible of the prin- ciples of dramatic art which were discovered and expounded by the late Delsarte. The Incarnation Mystery. During the coming week the civilized world will commemorate one of the grandest and greatest events recorded in history—namely, the incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of Mankind. The Christian Church has fixed the fullness of time for this event toward the end of December, and the world has almost unanimously consented thereto. There is very little dispute among men in regard to the life and sufferings and death of Jesus of Nazareth. ‘There has been a great deal of controversy, however, over his miraculous birth and his Messianic mission. And besides the vast body of Israelites in all parts of the earth -who stoutly deny these things, there are many nominal Christians who disbelieve, or affect to disbelieve, the entire history of the man Christ Jesus, And one of their strong arguments against this fact, which the Church so firmly believes and proclaims, is its con- trariety to natural laws. That a virgin who bad never known man should become a mother is undoubtedly opposed to the course of natare; but the Christian Church accepts now, asit has always done, the conception and birth of Christ as miraculous events, and does not undertake to argue the matter upon scientific or philosophical principles, That such @ person as the historic Christ lived and died and was buried, and on the third day rose again from the dead, are facts as amply verified as any fact in science or morals need be; and that “this Jesus whom we preach,” and whose birth we are soon to com- memorate, lived and died to redeem a sinful race of men can be testified to any day by more witnesses of every age and in every land than almost any other proposition that can be named. Still, with such a cloud of wit- nesses ever ready to attest the truth of this doctrine, men will quibble over it and re- ject it because they cannot understand it and because they find no analogy in nature for it, But the philosophy of it is very simple and comprehensible. All forms of life in nature, from the highest to the lowest, whether vegetable or animal, require for their production or reproduction the union of two bodies—the body of the seed, for instance, and the body of the earth into which it is thrown. But these bodies pre- suppose pre-existing life and power; and Na- ture herself tells us of a time when her womb contained no seed nor germ of life, and when she was ‘“‘without form and void.” Then it was that ‘‘the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,” and, through various crea- tive processes, brought forth the different forms of vegetable and animal life which we behold in beauty and endless variety on every hand. Why is not this fact of creation denied? It stands alone; there is noth- ing like it. It is a miracle, and as such is as unworthy of credence as any other unattested miracle according to the standard of evidence raised by those who re- ject Jesus Christ because of his miraculous conception and birth. But there appears by the record to be a very close analogy between the two recorded facts—the creation and the birth of Christ—and though Moses and Luke will hardly be accused of collusion in this case, they use language almost identical to announce both events. Moses says that ‘‘the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,” and the result was good, and beauti- fal and holy forms of life. St. Luke, using the angel's words to the Virgin Mary, says, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy Being which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” If this language, used to describe two apparently differing and very distant events, is not as substantially alike as it could well be, then we confess we do not know what would constitute similarity of expression. Indeed, the two facts and events have a much closer relation to each other than we are at firat inclined to admit, And to under- stand the latter physiologically we must recur to the former, and note another peculiar phrase of the Bible narrative, which in its simplicity contains the key to this mystery. Immediately after the Fall, when the Creator pronounced sentence of condemna- tion upon our first parents, He held out to the woman a promise that ‘‘her seed” should bruise the serpent’s head. This is the only promise given in the Sacred Word to the seed of the woman peculiarly. Invariably the promises of God regarding offspring have been made to men. To Abra- ham the promise of inheritance was to “‘his seed,” and to Isaac and Jacob likewise. David and Solomon also received promises of good- ness and mercy to their seed and offspring; and the record is uniform in this regard, save in this particular instance of the promised Saviour made to woman. And its subsequent fulfilment produced a perfect human body, sinless and pure, by the same power and means as the original life was produced at the Creation and without at all violating the law which requires the union of two bodies to produce or reproduce life. In both instances there was the union of a spiritual with a physi- eal body and the offspring was ‘‘good” or “very good.” The proper understanding of these things must encourage our faith and in- spire our hopes, and enable us to celebrate this wonderful and important event in a becoming manner and with godly sincerity, And we shall be able, also, the better to comprehend how ‘the Word was made flesh” and how “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself,” and we shall be constrained to ac- knowledge that greater love than this cannot be comprehended by human understanding, Great indeed is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gen- tiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory; and the first of these succes- sive events is again brought prominently to our remembrance by the recurrence of another Christmas Day. May it be a day of “Glory to God in the highest and on earth of peace and good will to men.” Tae Rvsstan (mpertan Caanogt.or, Prince Gortchakoff, has ordered the recall of Minister Catacazy, Mr. Donaas, First Secretary of Legation, will take his place ad interim. Mr. Catacazy returns to Russia forthwith. As @ consequence his establishment at Washington, with all its sumptuous fittings and furniture, is announced as coming under the auctioneer’a hammer at an early dar bin clubs of the first French revolution. ‘This Day’s Internations! Fanoral Precer elon—Equal. Rights Even on Sunday. Should the weather be favorable there will to-day (starting from the Cooper Institute at one o'clock), in respect to the memory of the Communists Rossel, Bourgeois, Ferré and Crémieux, recently executed in France for treason. The Internationals regard these men as martyrs to the cause of liberty, and hence this procession. We have found very little to admire, but much to deplore and condemn in the French Communists. The Commune has appeared to us only as a reproduction of the fanatical, senseless and sanguinary Jaco- Its blind excesses have arrested the march of republican ideas in France, and have caused a reaction in the public mind which points to the restoration of the empire. But all this has nothing to do with this procession. We suppose, however, that from the horri- ble doings of the Commune in Paris our Police Commissioners, when they first heard of this proposed procession, concluded that it was a project of seditious and disorderly vagabond- ism that could not properly be tolerated in this community on Sunday; and hence their original interdict. But they soon discovered, as with the interdict against the Orange pro- cession of last July, that there were one or two little principles involved in this business which would be maintained, even in New York, if necessary, to the extremity of an appeal to gunpowder. These principles of American liberty and equality thus affected were the “right of the people peaceably to assemble” and the principle of rights” in reference to these Sunday proces- sions, Accordingly, when brought by the public press to a reconsideration of their ver- million edict, our amiable Police Commis sioners wisely revoked it, and so the proces- sion will this day take place. “equal Many of our pious, church-going people will doubtleas be much annoyed and scandal- ized by this profanation of the Christian Sabbath. citizens the same constitutional rights in regard to their Sabbath, which is Saturday, and do they complain that it is not respected as the Lord’s Day by Christians? No; they are content with the liberty which they enjoy of worshipping God according to their religions convictions and usages, and they leave other sects to the same liberty, In deference to our Christian laws and usages they generally respect both their own and the Christian Sabbath; when, really, according to the constitution of the United States, they are not bound to respect our Sabbath. another view of the subject we find that the universal respect established in this city for Sunday as the Lord’s Day is due to the ascendancy here of the Puritan idea of the Sabbath ; but how is it in New Orleans? In that city, settled by French Catholics, we find he French Catholic observances of Sunday established, in the devotion of the day, partly to military parades, horse races, ings, cock-fights, and the amusements of tie legitimate drama, the opera, opéra bouffe and the nigger minstrels. The observances of the But have not our Jewish fellow The Jews do more. In church services and party to bear-bait- Sabbath, then, in this country, are determined by local laws, customs and usages. The usage in this city has been perfect freedom to funeral processions of every description on Sunday, and, according to this usage and this tolera- tion, it would have been a bad thing to have made an exception of these Internationals. But there need be no difficulty upon this sub- ject of the observances here to which Sunday hereafter shall be limited. Let the Legisla- ture, in framing a new charter for us, provide two or three different Sunday laws, and leave it to the people of the city to choose the law they prefer by popular vote, or leave our Sunday regulations entirely to our city au- thorities, and the whole matter can be soon set- tled. In this view this [nternational proces- sion may do much good in calling the public attention to this subject so actively asto result in some definite law relating to processions in this city and other cities, not only on Sunday, but on the business days of the week, and par- ticularly in reference to the streets and the hours which may be occupied by processions. English Speculation in Mourning Goods A Heratp special telegram from London makes known a curious incident in the history of trade speculation in England. When the Prince of Wales was considered beyond the possibility of recovery, or about that period of his illness, English merchants despatched orders to their agents in Paris directing them to purchase for their use the entire stock of black gloves, all the black ar- tificial flowers, all the jet ornaments and all the black colored dry goods which were held in stock in the French capital. The orders have been complied with, no doubt. The Prince’s convalescence will give a di- rection to the distribution of these habiliment appendages of national woe differ- ent from that which was at first intended. The mourning goods will be sold, to a great extent, no doubt, at home during the winter months, and their sombre colors—when the different articles of dress are made up and put on for wear—will meet the eyes of His Royal Highness at every step which he may take out doors—a solemn popular memoriam, it may be a warning, to the convalescent, When William the Conqueror laid sick in bed the use of a cutting taunt by a French monarch roused him to exertion and a terrible avengement in France. The Prince of Wales will be soothed by the sight of the products of French looms and of French industry gen- erally. The changes of time and a time of change. The Law Against the Priests in Germany. The Heratp’s correspondent, writing from Munich, gives us the particulars of the measure recently introduced into and passed by the German Reichstag ‘‘providing for the punish- ment for the misuse of the pulpit for political objects.” As may have been expected, the new law has caused considerable stir among the clericals, It is regarded by them as an unjust aod a tyrannical measure and a decla- ration of hostility. The ‘Old Catholics” and the liberal religious press are undisguised in expressions of its approval. This is not strange when we consider the character of the straggle now going on in Germany by the “Qld Catholic arty,” led by De, Dillinger, _—— ll ——————— against the Catholic party proper, who betleve in the infallibility of the Pope and give in their adbérence to the decrees of the Roman Council. The Bavarian Minister Lu‘s was the champion in - the Reichstag of the new law. The obnoxious para- graph in the law reads:—‘‘A priest or soy other servant of religion who, in the exercise orin the occasioning of the exercise of his calling publicly before a multitude, or who in acharch or in another place of religious as- sembly shall make affairs of the State the sub- ject of an announcement or debate in a man- mer dangerous to the public peace, shall be sentenced to imprisonment or arrest in a for- tress to the extent of two years.” It wilh be seen from the foregoing that the State has determined to act with vigor and prevent, it possible, the exercise of religious criticisms of its measures. How far successful in ita workings or to what extent the law may be enforced remains to be seen. Persecution — makes converts, :and persecuted priests are very liable to become martyrs in the eyes of the people. A persecuted Church is a strong Church; and may not this very law, made to protect the State from religious.criti- cism, yet prove the source of soriows annoy- ance in the German empire? Our Religious Press Table. The religious press is remarkably dull this week, There is scarcely a thought through- out its columns which if revived can do much toward benefiting Christianity or aid in extending the truths of the Gospel. The Independent, after dismissing the Prince of Wales as a corpse, discourses upon “Mr, Blair on the Passive Policy,” and sagely remarks :— The ‘sober second thoughts” of the democratt arty can hardly fail to reject this “policy,” a3 Done expedient and impracticable, aud this will leave a Loving and ie fight between the two great es into whicn the country is divided. This Will, ag We have no donbt, be the form ot the con- test, and there can hardly be less doubt as to which party will be the winner, Indeed, democracy is already deieated, as shown by the result of the pre- skirmish, We are gratified to learn from the Hoange- list that that map of the Presbyterian Church is completed and is in the hands of the printer. Now that the Hvangelést has taken a hand in the map business, why does it not give us a map of the tergiversations of other churches, and thus point out to the ignorant the signposts on the way to glory? The Hvangelist has a leading editorial on the subject of ‘“Victor Emmanuel in Rome.” We reproduce a paragraph :— We may pardon the somewhat exultant tone ia which Victor Emmanuel recently addressed bis Itanan Parliament assembled in the new capital. “The great work,’ he said, “to the accomplishment of whica I have devoted my life, 18 aow nappily completed.” If he had done nothing more, if his career should now Seek the King of Italy has made himself a name that will live in history and be con- spicuous on tne roll of illustrious men. He has been instrumental in restoring unity to Italy, welding its tragments into a single nation and giving it ite old historical capital on the Seven Hills of Rome. The Jewish Messenger has @ note from a Hebrew, in which the non-instrument subject in choirs in the synagogues is mooted. The Talmud is quoted, and the writer throws mud upon all who advocate the employment of string or wind instruments in this connection. “*At the time of the existence of the Temple,” says the Messenger’s correspondent, ‘‘there were twenty-four synagogues in Jerusalem. Had they any musical instruments in their interiors? Most emphatically no!” If the synagogues had enjdyed the luxury of having one of our street organ grinders in their “interiors” they would, doubtless, have worked out their salvation without being obliged to resort to blowpipes. “Trust not in oppression and be not vain in robbery,” was the significant text for an excellent sermon delivered recently by Rev. Dr. H. Vidaver, at the B’Nai Jeshurun syna- gogue, in this city. The ‘‘vanity of riches” has given way in this day to the vanity of robbery. Five thousand dollars’ bail is cheap for a five million robbery. Who can inter- pret ‘‘Coleman’s Dream ?’’ The New York Tablet is one of the best conducted papers of the Catholic persuasion in the country. In discussing the President's Message it says :— We wish it had recommended the abandonment of the ielheding. and useless Ku Klux policy, shown some respect for State rights, and urged a - lete amnesty to all who took part in the late rebel. lion, Revenge is unworthy of a great people, and ex- rience has proved the mpoasibility of maintaining the late Confederate states decent government! with scalawags, carpet-baggers and recently eman- cipaied slaves, While the real people of those States, under their natural leaders, are excluaed from the body politic. We sustained the war ior the servation of the Union, but we never dreamed thay go shameful a chapter in the history of our country vould ever need to be written as that which records the treatment by the general government of those States since they laid down their arms and sar- rendered to the Union. The Zablet has an article on the ‘‘Catholic Union” of New York. ‘‘We hail,” it says— With undivided joy the organization in New York of an aMutated branen (of that in England), under the sanction of His Grace the Most Rev. Archbishop, We rd it as the vreaking of ground for a mas- siveedifice which willone day receive within its wide portals Catholics from every State ana every portion of this vase republic of the Occident. There have been able and busy brains at work oa the pian and practical machinery of this Catnolic Unton of the city ot New York,.and the success which has been already attained testifies to the solidity and working eiliciency of the organization. The Observer (Presbyterian) has a charac- teristic article about sectarian donations, and says:— Our Legislature is soon to be convened, and the question is sure to come up. One of the first things that ought to be done 13 to set on foot au amend- ment to the constitution of the state of New York— and we would like to see the same amendment to every State constitution and to that of the United States—by which all grants of money or other aid, direct or indirect. shall be forbidden to be made to any lustitution that is under sectarian control. Such @ provision would put all our churches, colleges and schools on an. equal footing before the law. It would take secta- Tanism out of politics. it would be. tn. harmony with the theory of our government, which does not concern itself with the religious opinions of its citizens; but if their practice ts obedience to the Jaw it treats Christian and Jew alike, Wedo.not ‘wish it to do otherwise. Personal Inteiligence. Professor G. W. Greene, of Cornett: Untvorsitg, 19 at the Hoffman House. Jos¢ Manuel Gallegos, Delegate to. Congress from New Mexico, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. 3. B. Datcner, of Pawling, 1s stopplag at the Gilsey House, General J. E. Mumford, of Ricumond, ts sojourn- ing at the Grana Central Hotel. Governor J. L, Gibbs yesterday artived from Weshington at the Astor House. Rev. D. M. Halliday, ot Connecticut, 1s sojourn- ing at the St. James Hotel. Ex-United States Senator J. M. Thayer, of Ne braska, is among the recent arrivals at tie Aster House, Judge George A. Hardin, of Little Falls, 1s domt- ciled at the Metropolitan Motel, Ben Field, of Aibion, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Generals Franklin and Smith, of the United States Army, have quarters at the Astor House. United States Senator Aaron HH. Cragin and We &. Chandler, of New Hampshire, are domtollei at the Westmoreland House, United States Senator William M. Stewart, at Wavada. la at the St. Nicholas Hove