The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Mutual Influcaces of Christianity and Cem- merce=The Opening of the Wilds of Africa to Civilization, In no other age of the world since the apos- tolic days has the Church been so anxious and earnest in its endeavors to bring the blessings of Christian civilization within the reach of all men as at the present time. A kind of enthu- siasm prevails in many lands among Christians in this direction, and every year the idea is gaining ground that nominally Christian coun- tries should not be treated, as they now are, as mission fields, but that those ‘‘who know not God nor regard the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” and the blessings which always follow in the wake of this knowledge shall be taught the way to secure and to enjoy the same. Hence missions among the heathen are being enlarged and multiplied, and the results justify the expenditure of money and means therein. And as those re- sults are from time to time spread before the Church in the various religious papers of this country and Europe the missionary contribu- tions correspondingly increase. No inveat- ment pays so well as this, either in a religious or a commercial point of view. Half a century ago, when mission enter- prises were in their infancy, India and China and Burmah and the countries and kingdoms adjacent thereto, were the great points of in- terest, There mainly the Church and mission- ary societies of Europe and America planted the banner of the Cross and reared their schools and churches and colleges and or- phanages. But now that the Christian re- ligion and the form of civilization which it owns and fosters has obtained a sure foothold in Asia, and that regular commercial rela- tions have been established between it and the dollars or pounds of the other will be repaid a hundredfold by and by. The coming five years will probably make manifest as great if not greater changes and dis- coveries than the seventy years of this cen- tury past have revealed. The common, the almost universal, impulse of Christendom, is toward Africa, of whose eighty or more mil- lions of inbabitants less than two millions probably know or enjoy in any true sense anything of the religion without law and the liberty without license which we enjoy. Africa has not yet had a fair start in the race for religion and civilization in these later days. Her sons have been bought and sold like chat- tels in the market, and her soil has been shunned as if it were the very gateway to the bottomless pit. But no sooner did slavery begin to disappear from the commerce and the statute books of the nations of the earth than scientists and philosophers and philanthropists began to direct their attention toward the home of the black man. As long as he was a slave and a chattel he was nothing, but when he became a man, recognized as such among men, a feeling of brotherhood was awakened, and Christian governments and individuals at once undertook the task of bringing to bis land the blessings of our Chris- tian civilization. And in this noble effort we take no small degree of praise to ourselves for the enterprise, unparalleled not only in the history of journalism, but in the his- tory of the world for self-sacrificing devo- tion, The Heratp knows no sect or race or nationality, Itis cosmopolitan in its charac- ter, and publishes its news from all parts of the world fer all parts of the world, And we hope ere many years to see or to know that some enterprising African has a regular HeRatp Our Religious Preas 7»! The religious press this week is esseutia!|7 non-startling. The Fisk-Stokes tragedy ls been ignored, our religious contemporaries having apparently exhausted themselves «p0a that subject last week. The Hepwor'! e from Unitarianism furnishes 10 positive pose upon which to ewing an original idea, ‘The Independent thinks that Mr. Hepworth has “burned his bridges,” and in ‘“‘takiog his new departure has left nobody in doubt as to which way he is going.” Softly, softly there. He has, according to the the Independent, gone to the platform on which that paper stands as an evangelical chronicler, making the reverend gentleman a monthly transcript of pictorial illustrations on religious tergiversations, Passing to political topics, the Independent trusts Congress will not do so “foolish a thing” as to give legal effect to the feature in the bill presented to the House by Mr. Willard, of Vermont, in regard to civil service reform. According to this bill the tenure of office of all appointees shall be permanent during good behavior, thus im- posing a restraint upon the President and heads of departments in making removals. The Independent believes this bill to be un- constitutional, and “if it were not,” it con- tinues :— ne interests’ of" reform iu the civil service. Wile aiming to prevent the President trom making re- movals on political grounds, it would create more evils than it avoids. ‘There 1s no necessity tor any such bill, provided Congress shall see it to adopt the rules of the Civil Service Commission in respect to the manner of making appointments. ‘These rules, by divorcing appointments from political reaso! destroy all motive for removals on the ground of such reasons, and thus gain the end without interfering with the constitutional Tights of the President. The strict Observer, referring to the “True Basis of Reform,” says :— All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. teesceeeeeNO. 2 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, 8T, JAMES’ THEATRE, way. MORALDL. ‘Twenty-eighth street and Broad- OLYMPIC THEATRE, i TOMIME OF HUMPTY nowecr* way.—THE BALLET Pan. pines OPERA BOUFFE, 72 Broadway.—La GRANDE BOOTH'S TH ia ROTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sinh av. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 23a st— Evaorean HirrorHeatnica Comrany. Matinee at 2; FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth - Tuk New Drama or Divoror. oe rye WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway, ie enceeaflerngon and evening wOe Laan, ror WALLACK’S THEAT! - Phir peel RE, Broadway and 13th atreet. STADT TH) N or bon 2 eptaad loa, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Tuz Orzna NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad, ween Houston streeta-Biaox Cxoume’ iinet, ont BOWERY THEAT! Bowery—Tignn OF — Zip; OR, a Lire’s Daviriek ee ee MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— MAN AND WIFE. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brosd¢way.—Comio VooaL- 1sma, NEGRO ACTS, &0.—WuiTR CRooK, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st, and Broad- ‘Way.—NEGRO ACTS—BULLESQUE, BALLET, &0, STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—SOrkEE oF Cuamaer Mosto. ‘TO! -; PSY Oe Lt Elta alatl and Christian lands, the attention of | route on the steamers which ply along the we pare said Ho eee foal Cie Seer the Church is directed more especially | Nile between Lake Nyanza and the Mediter- | our readers wnen we intimate. that soie of our be- BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 284 st., between nd 7th ave.—BRYAant’s MINSTRELS. iad nevolenr DAAC ae and ‘ Clations are In great need ot would be invidious and perhaps 10, this society or that club or another association and show wherein it has departed from its original basis and what abuses have gradually crept 10; but we are willing to take the responsibility of saying, in general, that some of our largest and best national Organizations need to be brought back to the basis and the practice of their earlier anu better history. And here the strict Observer perpetrates a joke, to wit:— The Citizens’ Association was established for a great and good purpose, and lived to lose itsel/ in the Sands, Whether those ‘Sands of life,” like those of a notorious quack medicine advertiser, are “nearly run out” does not appear, but the toward Africa, This terra incognita has been comparatively closed for ages to every form of civilization save such as could be maintained along the coasts. But even this, feeble as it may seem to many persons, has surrounded that dark land as with a net- work of religious and commercial stations, whose influence and laws are felt and feared by thousands and millions of savages adjoin- ing and within them. It is said that the little republic of Liberia, with a population of about six hundred thousand souls, including savage and civilized, really controls teu millions of ranean ports of Egypt, or on some grand trunk line or interoceanic railroad traversing the length or breadth of that vast but un- known land. Ethiopa shall soon stretch out her hands to God, and the nations shall look upon her whom they have pierced and trampled under foot, and in her exaltation and pros- perity shall be their highest gain. She is comparatively one of the best customers which England has to-day, in proportion to her semi- civilized population, with whom contact can be had. And in the opening up of Africa to Christianity Western civilization and com- a880- gc ekety reformed, It SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 685 Broadway.— jurious to name ‘Tur 8an Francisco MINSTRELS. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strect.—SORNRS THE Ring, AcRoBATs, £0. ~ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATO roadway.— SOmRNoK AND ART. ere M8 PeOMe Ar, TRIPLE SHEET. Sete New York, Sunday, January 21, 1872. ———— CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pact, aan tee = Advertisements, La in gree rll i Sloat merce will find its richest and surest rewards. | strict Observer goes on to say:— —Adverusements, and Southern ica have a similar, if not 3—Washington: President Grant’s Supporters : phan uriasiestoyg Que Cummeroe Uneryees PO earteea Seancaa ees greater influence. And how much soever the natives may fight against an established and independent community which builds railroads and canals and ships and locomo- tives and thrives and grows great upon the products of the earth where the aboriginals starved, or obtained only a meagre subsistence, the latter must eventually come to perceive and to understand what it is that makes the difference and to accept and adopt it. And thus religion and commerce are con- tinually acting and reacting, the one upon the other, and are mutually blessing and ennobling mankind. Seized With Fear and Trembling; Ulouds Darken the Political Horizon; Trumbull, Wil- sou, Julian and Various Organizations Against the Re-Election of Grant; The Vice “= Presidency; The Powers Behind the Throne Looking for a New York Candidate—Squan- dered Deposits: Suspension of the Market Savings Bank; Ltaoilities Double the Assets; the Union Square Bank to Pay Fifty Per Cent; Continuation of the Run on the Third Avenue Savings Bank; Meeting of the Deposit- ors of the Fight National Kank—The German Reformers: Hints for Legistators; What Should be Done at Albauy—The New Orleans Muadie— Affairs in Canada—Music and the Drama. €--Figeon Shooting: A Pleasant Day at Jerome ‘ark; Capital Shooting aud No Interruption by Wergn—The State Capital: A Fierce Fight Between the Republican Factions Imminent; a Grand Grabbing Game Under the Cloak of Reform; Introduction of a Novel and Important Measure—The Custom House Committee: A Oull Day and a Short Session—Tammany in react upon each other, and that law of morals as well as of physics holds true in this case, as in every other, that he who watereth others shall be watered also himself. We hail, then, this fresh evidence of the growing brotherhood of mankind, and for our share in furthering these grand movements we have the approval of our own consciences, and are willing to wait for the opening up of the dark and unknown land for our recompense, It isa glorious privilege to live in such an age as this, and to have a part and lot in such enter- ‘prises as these. corruption and promote reiorm and to elevate the idea of American ciuzenship;’’ yet, enrolied among its members, are men almost dally denounced in our most prominent journals as notoriously corrupt; Others, Whose associations with the “whiakey ring’? and kindred abominations certainly disqualify them for public usefulness, even if they do nos unfit them for the society of gentlemen. This is a good deal like pigeon shooting from atrap. One hardly knows whether the object the strict Observer wishes to hit isa “driv- ing bird,” a ‘‘towering bird,” a ‘quartering bird” or an “‘incoming bird.” It is very likely, however, that the “‘bird of income” is the one levelled at, and our Custom House “general order” pigeons may be regarded as the targets at which the marksman of the The Legislature Yesterday—Manufacturing Newark: Asiounding Disclosures about Less than a generation ago the English Roce of Work torn Committe a wAbund: | Church Missionary Soclety established its Honesty by Law. Observer aims. Weather Report—New York City News— | agents in Abbeokuta, West Africa, and six The State Senate was not in session And yet we may be mistaken even in this Brooklyn Affairs— Brooklyn Reform—Half the Town of Monticello, Ark., Destroyed by Wind end Fire—Robbery'in Broadway—Diamond Rings. S—Relizious Intelligence: Programme for To-Day; HERALD Religious Correspondence; Foreign Keligions Matters; the New St, Alphonsus Chorch; Temple Emanuel—Mysterious Mur- der in Loutsville—South Carolina: Bigamist Bowen's Bully Biast—A Distressing Cuse: A Denust Charged With Stealing a Young Lady's Teeth—A Catholic Temperance State Union—Possibly a Case of Poisoning—Par- doned by the Governor. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “Mutual Influences of Christtamty and Commerce—The Opening of the Wilds of Africa to Clvilization’— Amusement Announcements, 9—Editoriais (continued from Sixtn Page)— France: HERALD Special Reports from Paris; Resignation of President Thiers and the Mem- bers of the Cabinet; Important Message of Thiers; Legislative Alarm gnd a Deputation to Thiers; the Oppositionisis Explain and Re- we Him to Resume Power; Excitement in ersailies and a Military and Naval Concentra- tion; M. Tuiers in UMce Again—England: Rumor of a Coming Loan by the Rothschilds for New York; American Railroad Stocks in Favor—reiegrams from Germany, Austria, Belgium and Jndia—Proceedings of State Legislatures—Personal _Intelligence—Depar- ture of Catacazy for Europo—Art Matters— Miscellaneous ‘Telegrams—Literary Chit-Chat— New Publications Revelved—Business Notices. B—Lenouncing the Dead: Letters from the Peopie on Parson Willis’ Sermon on Fisk—Statulstics of Commerce and Navigation—The Courts; view, for our Presbyterian contemporary con- tinues :— We know of abuses in benevolent and charitable institutions that would incur the indignant censures Of political men, but the promoters of such wrong are conscientious, and would regard as their ene- mies those who denounce their errors, Such abuses creep in and continue; the longer they are tolerated the more mveterate and incurable they become. Thereiore we say that in the light of religion, of his- tory and philosophy, the very agencies for reform need reforming. If the strict Observer knows all these things why does it not come out flat-footed and give names? Ifthe ‘‘very agencies of reform need reforming,” let us know where we can catch those agencies, and thereby be enabled to hold them up to merited public odium. That there is something ‘‘devilish sly” in the preten- {fous rqform movements going on nowadays may be gathered from the concluding para- graph of the strict Observer's article, which we reproduce :— We have aright to expect and demand that every agency claimiug, in these days, t0 act under the auspices and banner of reform should be, at least, in harmony with universal truth. We have a right to demand, and we do demand, that the friends of reform should apply a uniform tesc to all the movements and operations conducted in its name—some solia principles on which they shall proceed and by which they shall ba governed. As such movements and operations originate with in- dividuals, reform must be personal. We must be- gin with ourselves, our errors, failings, faults of character, doctrine and lite, The above, we have no doubt, will afford food for solemn reflection to many of our read- ers, in this city and elsewhere, on this blessed “Sabbath day. The strict Observer wants to know whether “Risk and Tweed are the natural product of our soil,” and proceeds to discourse upon our peculiar civilization as follows :— The London 7imes attributes the tragedy that has recently horrified the town as the fruit of the pecu- Mar civilization of the United States, and some of our own dally papers resent the insinuation. It is very easy to relort the charge aud make a list, as some papers do, of worse things done in Engiand, France and Germany; but that does not touch the spot. It is easy to say, and we say, that the civilization which encourages the prize fighting, apd adjourns Parliament for a horse race, and permits @ pauperism, as in England, 1s peculiar. Sots ours, There 1s no other country that would produce or permit such a career as is just terminated in the murder of Fisk, The same may be said of Tweed and his friends, No city in the world but an American city would tamely permit such an unuitigated scamp, as he has been jong Known to be, to hold the place in its councils and government that he bas held. But Fisk and Tweed were rich men, They were suc- cessful. We worship gold in the form of a calf or a tiger, it matters pot which. Success is the god of this city, and he who is rich may drive his four-in- band inthe Central Park with flaunung harlots at his side, and New York 1s not asnamed, This is we type of our civilization, It 1s peculiar to us. The Evangelist thinks the course of Mr. Hepworth in renouncing Unitarianism is in itself a noteworthy event, while it derives in- creased significance from the fact that it is one of a number in which are such honored names as Gage, Coolidge, Osgood and Bishop Huntington, The Lvangelist continues in con- years later cotton presses and gins were in full blast, and Liverpool and London were receiving and are yet receiving annually thou- sands of bales of cotton for British manufac- ture. About a generation ago Liberia, too, became a mission field and mart of commerce, and now England and America, Liver- pool and New York, carry on a traffic with that country which amounts. in value to mil- lions of dollars annually. And so It is with the Cape and other African colo- nies of Great Britain, The influence of civilized men is pressing itself 80 strongly and steadily against the savages everywhere that the latter are compelled to admire and then embrace this civilization which we denominate Christian. But the great drawback to the spread of this religion and this civilization in Africa is the absence, or supposed absence, of communica- tion between the coast and the interior. No river, no commerce; no railroad or steam- boat, and.no water supply can be obtained. This has been the puzzle of Christian govern- ments and religious associations for a quarter of acentury at least, as one expedition after another has been sent to explore the dark land and to find out whereto its rivers flow, or if it has any save the Nile and the half dozen that have long been known along its coasts, Not in the interest of commerce merely have these expeditions been undertaken, but rather in that of religion and science. And while none of them have furnished us with anything like a complete or satisfactory account of the whole or of any part of the peo- ple or of the country traversed; yet each has given a new impetus and inspired a fresh hope in the breast of every succeeding explorer, and the contest of religion and science with physical and physiological difficulties and op- ponents is steadily kept up in that land. And the result is becoming more and more gratify- {ng every year, as each succeeding expedition reaches some new point or reveals some new fact. Oaptains Speke and Grant, Baker and Burton, Du Chaillu and Dr, Livingstoae, the most intrepid and persistent explorer of them all, assure us that there are tribes in the inte- rior of Africa who enjoy a comparatively ad- vanced degree of semi-civilization, and who carry oo a syetem of internal commerce among themselves, and occasionally, also, with const tribes. And the recently published corre- spondence from the HERALD expedition con- firms ina measure these statements, Those travellers also tell us that there are rivers in the interior, but so little is known of them that yesterday, and in the Assembly very little business of interest was transacted, Mr. Strahan, of Orange, introduced a bill, which is not likely to become a law, providing that no person, being a director, trustee or officer of any corporation existing under the laws of this State, or having an office within the State for the transaction of business, shall purchase, directly or indirectly, or acquire any right or title to, any share or part of the capital stock, and making a violation of the law a mis- demeanor, punishable by fine or imprison- ment, It has become the fashion nowadays for would-be reformers to display great zealousness in the attempt to legislate men into honesty. If laws could accomplish moral reform and regeneration it would be well to fill up our statute books with just such enact- ments as that proposed by Mr. Strahan; but such is not the practical experience of the world. A''law to prohibit stockjobbing on the part of directors would be just as operative as a law to provide that every public officer shall be scrupulously honest, or that no citizen of the State of New York shall go to bed at night or rise up inthe morning without saying his prayers, If Mr. Strahan’s bill should be con- stitutional it would be a dead letter and an absurd piece of unnecessary legislation. If he really desires reform in railroad and other cor- porations let him vote first for the bill to repeal the Classification act passed by de- bauchery of the Legislature, and next for a sound general law holding directors to greater accountability to stockholders and to the people. The fact that the powerful Erie lobby now at work at the State capital endeavoring to buy up Senators and Assemblymen to prevent the repeal of the Classification act would only laugh at such a law as Mr. Strahan proposes should alone be sufficient to point out to that member the path of real reform. The Assembly {s to meet on Monday night to decide finally on the bill to enable the city to pay its debts for labor, services, supplies and materials for 1871. There is abundant indication that the political fight inaugurated by the Hawkins and Green party and entered into with such vigor by the opposing side will be renewed. It is tobe hoped that some honest and independent representative will draw and offer a simple substitute for the schemes of both factions, providing for the raising of a sufficient fund for the purpose, and authoriz- ing and requiring the Comptroller to apply such money immediately to the payment of all salaries fixed by law for services rendered Decision tn Admiralty; the New York Prinung Company in Bankruptcy; a Habeas Corpus c Dectsions—Tombs Police Court—The Two Grand Juries: sack ange of the Oyer and Terminer Grand Jury and Judge Bedford's Jury Alone In tts Glory—A Vlea for Mr. James J. Riley--A Desperaie Uliaracter—Destructive Fire at Perth Amboy—The Ways of Whitley— Department of Punitc Works—Naval Orders, 9—Pinancisl aud Commercial—Dry Goods Market— Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. 10—Mra. Wharton: Crusmag Argament to the Courtand Jury; the Lemonade and Brandy Given to the General; Eioquence of the Balti- foner and bsequent Emotion akdown—Ovituaries—Affairs in Vir- imia—The Matron of tne Smalipox Hospital— Shooting Affray—Killed by Falling from His Wagon—Kuropean and flavana Markets— Shipping Inteiligence—Advertisements, 21—Adverusements, 12—Advertisemens, A.rxis 1s THE Usirep Starzs—Rvssian Opixioy.—The Journal de St. Petersburg, in a recent issue, speaks in the most congratula- tory terms of the reception accorded to Prince Alexis by the people of the United States. It says all Russia feels grateful and will never forget it, and further adds, “The peace of the world and the progress of humanity will be promoted by an eniente cordiale between Rus- gia and the United States.” Prvs THE NintH anv His Poor RELations,— No person with any regard for truth can ac- couse the present Pope with nepotism. His re- lations owe him little or nothing. Few in- deed, if any, of his predecessors have received near the amount of moneys which have poured into the Papal coffers during Pio Nono’s un- equalled reign, all of which have been ex- pended on wor! f public utility, ecclesias- tical institutions®hd the diffusion of the Word of God throughout the world. In bis will the PEL tn the bork plition of, three they cannot be made available, in the present | to the city, of all labor performed nection with the vege sed tle a ‘ope prov! e nt ower, Unita- aa “gaat idle eect i. imperfect state of our knowledge, for any prac- | and of all supplies and materials actually | ,,Sch.a man, 1 one oto loss pus iore aainaging now a > '. | tical purposes. Should the exploring parties | furnished, in accordance with contract | than Bie aeoeesiotl er osama the fen case they should not he Guished during his | now at work succeed in tracing the sources of | or order, for the year 1871, and to reimburse fog into existence with at the prestige which @ control over the oldest and most influential cotiege in New England could give it; boasting from the outset @ wealth of culture and literary refinement which left its rivals under @ sort of pleveian shadow; the Unitarian denomination felt warranted to indulge the fondest hopes of spreading itself over the land. But a single genera- tion had scarcely passed away wien in the dying embers of {ts early enthusiasm was buried ali 118 romise of the future. Some of its great lignts, like Everett, Sparks, Palfrey and Emerson, abandoned the pulpit for the platform or the Senate, whtle others, Tike Theodore Parker, became wandering stars, going farther and farther of into the darkness of total uabelicl. The Christian Union, remarking upon the imputations cast upon Mr. Hepworth for an alleged design of withdrawing the church property from bis denomination in an under- hand way, says:— We have excellent reason for belleving phat these the Nile to the interior, as they suppose, and find it navigable for any considerable distance, or should they find other and perhaps more favorable outlets to the ocean, anew future may be opened up for Africa, It can hardly be the design of Providence to shut out this land alone from the blessings which the rest of the world enjoy more or less. And the time must be near at hand when its inhabitants shall cast aside their sheep skins and goat skins and assume the garb and the manners of civilized men, as other barbarians are doing. While the Christian missionary may lead the way the Christian merchant will not be far behind, gud the toil and trouble of the one the several funds that have been unduly ex- hausted. The people will then be able to ascertain what members are willing to keep the honest creditors of the city out of the money due to them, for the purpose on the one hand of giving the Comptroller the power to adjudicate alone upon all claims against the city, and on the other hand of forming new po- litical combinations for the control of the city government, Let us have such a bill, pure and simple, not only authorizing but requiring the Comptroller to pay our honest debts, and let the people know what members of either House will venture to record their votes acaingt it, I The Rev. J. S. Witiis, of the Seventeenth Street Methodist Episcopal church, may thank the Heratp for making him famous, and if the notoriety he has gained is of the kind he wished for he is welcome to it all, We pub- lish to-day a considerable number of extracts from a host of letters we have received on the subject of that divine’s uncharitable work of Jast Sunday. With no maudlin sympathy for the sing and shortcomings of Fisk, we are glad to see the wholesome abborrence which Mr. Willis’ lucubration has awakened among the as our readers will find on reference to our news columas. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1872.—1RIPLE SHEET, rg are groundices, and that Mr. Hepwortn has acted rit of the jhest honor. it iS enonas of his Wish Wwe do not know fo vo the caso iae Dine Is Rot to be cast upon him. The Golden Age thinks that Mr. Hepworth's best place, if he is man enough to hold it, will be an “independent foundation of his owa— chained to no denominational creed, bound by no sectarian limitation, amendable to no local conference or general council, but using bis free mind as God shall give it liberty, subject to no bondage which he cannot shake off in each day's sunshine, and obedient to no other authority in the church save only its Divine Head.” The Hebrew Leader discourses on ‘‘The Sabbath,” the ‘‘Pulpit in Orthodox Congrega- tions” and the ‘‘Franklin Statue.” In regard to the latter it makes the following apt quota- tion, the words which Moses once spoke to the tribe of Benjamin :— Beloved of God, how Sean gm and happy Thou lookest around Thee |—(5 B, M., Xxxill., 12) If the eldest of the tribes of Benjamin should come among us and look around Priot- ing House square at this time, and take a glance up the east side of Chatham street, he might imagine that the lost tribe of Israel had been recovered, and that the statue of ‘Poor Richard” was commemorative of the event. The Jewish Messenger touches on ‘‘Mixed Marriages,” ‘‘Russian Diplomacy,” &o. The New York Tablet—Catholic organ— declares that it has ‘never known a bigoted Catholic, for bigotry is overweening attach- ment to one’s own opinions. But as Protest- ants have only opinions, not faith, they are necessarily bigots, if incorrect and not indiffer- ent in matters of religion. Who on earth were ever more bigoted and intolerant than John Knox, John Calvin, the Calvinists of Geneva, Virginia, Maryland or Mas- sachusetts, in old colonial days? The cruelist and most persistent persecutions ever heard of were carried on by Protest- ants against Catholics in the name of the Bible, and would be again if the indifference and unbelief of the age did not bind the fist of bigotry so that it can no longer strike,” A Harp Ser To Manace—The republican reformers and fighting factions. In New York they want the Custom House, and, failing to get it, they are bent upon mischief at Albany, In Louisiana they are squabbling for the Custom House, and, failing to get it, they raise a terrible row, involving the killing of a man or two. In Missouri they have set up a new party, and in South Carolina they are playing the farce of “High Life Below Stairs.” In Georgia and in Tennessee they have turned over the State to the democrats, and in Alabama and Arkansas they are going the same road. And the whole trouble is that, as there are from five to ten or twenty applicants for every office and every job under the government, the spoils won’t go round, No wonder that General Grant, to save himself and to head off Messrs. Trumbull and Carl Schurz, has adopted the saving policy of civil service reform, with an examining board of seven schoolmasters, and the ignoring of the claims of members of Congress. Tue Mormon Counor, or Uran have rejected the proposition to send delegates to the Republican National Convention and the proposition to submit the State constitution they are framing to a vote of the people, We apprehend that their State constitution will be “ove’s labor lost,” for it is abundantly mani- fest that the President will be sustained by Congreas in his policy of first abolishing Mor- mon polygamy in Utah, as a Territory, before admitting those people to the rights of a State. In their Territorial condition the President, with the co-operation or consent of Congress, can compel our Mormon brethren to adopt the one-wife principle; but if admitted as a State they can make polygamy their supreme law, applicable even to the Gentiles within their borders. And so, while the Saints hold on to polygamy, or make only uncertain promises of its ultimate abolition, they will not be admitted as a State. Their game for the jurisdiction of a State over their local affairs is understood, and it will be a failure, Morg ATLantio Casies.—The subject of increased ocean telegraphic communication is attracting at the present time considerable attention in England. The necessity for closer connection between this country and Great Britain is every day becoming more and more evident, Two propositions concerning this subject are now under consideration in the latter country. One is to the effect thata proposition was recently submitted to the British Chambers of Commerce throughout the kingdom for the acquisition of the existing cables by the American and British governments jointly and the se- curing of the monopoly of all future lines; the other is for the immediate laying down of anew line, We learn by telegram that a contract by a new company has already been signed for the construction of a cable direct to New York. With the Atlantic cables under the contro! of the governments of both nations we might reasonably expect a large reduction from the present excessive rates and consequent advantages to the general public, A Terrmre VitLAIn.—Read the despatch from St, Louis concerning one Harry Free- man or J. W. Thurman, which we publish to- day. Here is a case in real life which throws into the shade the wildest fictions of the dime novelist or the sensational dramatic cuithroat; and here is a subject, withal, for the historian and the philosopher, in his treatment of the vicious and horrible outcroppings of our late civil war. AnotuER Bap Jos—The failure of the Market Savings Bank, though it does not appear so bad as it might be. What are we coming to? Is the good old Ben Franklin rule of square and careful honesty among men “played out?” Are we, the proud and prosperous people of New York and the United States, going forward or backward? Reform! reform! There is so much to do that we hardly know where to begin the work of reform. Tae Mountain Detiverep or A Mouse— In the opening of the deceased Bonard’s trunk disclosing to his heirs, not rich treas- ures in diamonds and bonds, but a gorgeous display of pinchbeck jewelry and a pedler's “old clo’.”. What an awful old humbug was that Bonard} «nee : i Important News from of President Thiers and His Cabin’ Parliament Alarm: and = = Reactionar: Agalast Its Vote on the Tarif Tax— Thiers Consents to Romain in Office. From Paris we have the important intelll- gence that President Thiers and the members of his Cabinet forwarded to the Legislative Assembly yesterday a formal resignation of the government of-the nation; of the office of Chief of Cabinet and the portfolios of the dif- ferent departments. The news reached us by Herarp special telegram and from other sources during the evening. M. Thiers’ ac- tion was taken in consequence of the adverse vote of the Parliament on the govern- ment proposition to impose a tax on raw material intended for manufacturing uses, It was the result of the first direct, decisive issue which has been had viva voce between protectionists and the disciples of free trade in France, President Thiers played his rdte with his usual tact, bearing himself to the end with his peculiar official skill, He disarmed his opponents in the Legislature by creating an alarm for the entire nation. He showed France to the Parliament without a head, with the view of convincing or affrighting her representatives into the belief that it is more healthful for the body corporate to go almost naked, unless it is garbed in the products of native looms, which are heavily taxed for the very food by which they are kept in motion. The exhibit was suc- cessful for the purpose intended. The Par- liament became agitated and excited, and, as the world was assured by a patriot of ancient Rome, “fear admitted into public councils be- trays like treason.” There were legislative consultations, a legislative deputation to wait on Thiers and an injunction authorizing its members to request the withdrawal of his letter of resignation. To this was superadded a declaration signed by the Deputies of the Right Centre, in which the gentlemen asserted that they regarded the ‘‘tariff solely as a ques- tion of finance, not of politics, and that in vot- ing against the proposal to tax raw mate- rial they had no intention of expressing want of confidence in the government.” The scene appears to have been exceedingly solacing in the light of the ‘‘caw me, caw thee” policy of politics. So President Thiers consented eventually to remain in office, and the very latest of the French ministerial crises was terminated at midnight yesterday. The Paris clubs were vastly excited during the period of the interlude. Marseilles was moved also, and military and naval demonstrations were made both in the city and off the port by government order. As the members ot the Thiers Cabinet are all likely to remain in office it is probable that the excitement bas passed away and that ‘“‘order reigns” in Paris and the provinces of France at this moment, Whether the plan of galvanizing a mighty na- tion spasmodically and occasionally by shocks of public alarm, radiated from the ceatre of government, is beneficial to the public weal or not remains to be seen, President Thiers knows France intimately. He is venerable in his experience, brave and patriotic in her revo- lution, and is guided in his executive career, no doubt, by a constant desire for her permanent benefit and the wish to save his country from new evils and for ultimate rehabilitation and regeneration. He is, in truth, in the dis- agreeable situation of a Minister who must endeavor to make up a heavy budget revenue income from charges on materials which are required to olothe millions of backs, which are almost naked after a terrible war. He is compelled ulso to tell a people afflicted with the most slender purses to purchase in the dearest emporium, and thus to contradict the very natural idea which was so forcibly expressed by Spotted Tail the other day when he told General Sheridan that ‘‘it is well to’ have two shops.” M. Thiers will come all right, no doubt, for the reason that France cam scarcely get along without him. i a s Srate Rieuts IN THE AUSTRIAN EmPIRE.— The Diet of Croatia having ignored the com- promise on State rights offered by the govern- ments of Austria and Hungary, the said Diet has been dissolved by imperial decree. Thia will remind the Croats that there is snch a thing as Hobson’s choice, and that half a loaf is better than no bread at all. Superrtvovs Apvicz To THe LapiEs.— Mind that in church to-day you look out for the latest fashions and the newest thing ia bonnets, Jupek InaRawAM, sitting as Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, yesterday dis- charged the Grand Jury of this Court. Judge Bedford’s Grand Jury is therefore now the only Richmond in the field, The rivalry be- tween these two juries is now at an end, and with it, it is to be hoped, the feeling of bitter- neas engendered between them, which had certainly begun to assume an unpleasantly threatening aspect, Judge Ingraham, how- ever, in his parting words to the jury, dis- claims any intention or desire on his part or that of the jury at interference with the Gene- ral Sessions Grand Jury, and declares that the only purpose of the prolonged session was to finish the criminal business before it, Tne Boor on THE OtuerR Lec—In the proposition of the Committee of Seventy in their new charter to substitute the City Record for the Transcript. Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Bririst Honpuras—Its ENTERPRISE AND Cavtion.—The people of Belize, British Hon- duras, are ever complaining, of late years, of the melancholy fact that capital flows away from the colony and that the inhabitants are being pauperized rapidly by the want of trade, The government of Costa Rica has endeavored, it appears, to relieve their necessity by taking off some of the unemployed males of the popu- lation and placing them to work at railroad construction. The Costa Rican agents ask the men to go to Monkey Point, a place on! the coast aboat three hundred tiles south Belize, The Belize newspapers Oppose the idea bitterly, advising the men not to go to Costa Rica under any inducement. One edi- torial conservator of native poverty and idle. ness says:—‘‘Who knows but that the men hired here as railway navvies will not be made to turn out as soldiers, and by so doing cause our government to be compro- mised? When Walker, the filibustor, was hunting round and about for rgeruita he hired,