The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, : PROPRIETOR SS ——S {Wolmme MAKVAL+... 0. cee cescceseseseeeeeNOe BD AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING ST. JAMES' T! way.—Mon, 'HEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tum ‘TOMIME OF HumPry Domerr. bats aA to AIMEE’S OPERA BOUFF! Ie = BOUFFE, 720 Broadway,—La GRANDE “| BOOTHS TREAT! - \sROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st, corner Sih ay, GRAND OPERA HOUSK, corner of 8th av. and 23a st— Evnorzan HiProTHRATRICAL COMPANY. Matinee at 2. | FIFTA AVENUE THEATR x street, — Tur New Drama oF Divonoe, arene ‘3 WOOD'S MUSLUM, Brosaway, = ances afternoon and evening “ON Hany ror ‘ \WALLACK’s ke SQUAHEACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ant 10h street ‘| BTADT THEAT . i! OPTADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and «7 Bowory.—Tae Ormna NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, bet juston streets.— BLACK ‘Cn00K.” von’, Ertane,,, ae BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—T — ‘Ziv; on, a Live's Devore oni tha wile MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘MAN AND WirFr. * THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couro Vi a8M8, NEGRO erence Wine eno0k. ae Ona UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Fourteenth at, and Broad- way.—NEORO AOTS—BuRLESQUE, BALLET, 40, STEINWAY HALL, CuambER Music, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ATORO ECORNTRIOITING, BURLESQUES, £0. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA and 7tb ave.—BRYANT’s Fourteenth street.-SOIEER OF 9B, 234 et., between éth INGTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 885 Bi — ‘THE San FRANgisco MINSTRELS, i. en te NEW YORK CIROUS, Fourteentn strect.—SCENES IN ‘THE Rrn@, Acronats, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— _SOIRNOK AND Ant, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, J ‘22, ———S == CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PAGE. 2~ Advertisements. S—Another Church Departure: A Protestant by copal Clergyman Goes Over vo the Roman Catholic Chureh—Washington: Our Policy in the Pacific; Japan Seeking Closer Union with the United States; tne Vice Presidency; Cuba 8nd Spanish Slavers—Mrs, Wharton: Review of the Ketchum Murder Prosecution Case; Anticipation of an Acquittal—botis and His toride: The Mystery of Murderer Botts’ Mar- Tiage—Miscellaneous Telegrams. 4—Religious: Sunday Services and Pulpit Preach- ing 1 the Churches ¢f the eras Neighbor- hood; Mr. Beecher on the Use of Money; Father Macnamey on the Infallibulty of the Church; A Sermon on Prayer by Mr. Hep- worth; Discourses by Dr. Chapman, Revs. ay taries, J. 8 Willis, N, Bjerring and J. M. S—Religious (conunued from Fourth Page)—Music im Worship—The. Legislative Printing: The State Organ of the Moral Retormers Taking a Dip Into the Puplic Treasury; How the People are Robbed. by the Sa’ Warlike Prepara- tions; ‘the Navy vepart nd the Southern Coast Deiences; Spanish War Fever Among the OMcials—the Relief Fund for Chicago— Importont to Droggists§ and Prescription Clerks—A Melancholy Affair—A Supplement to tho Charter—Court Calendars for To-Day. G—Biltoriais: Leading Article, “Mexico—Its Ter- rible Disorders and Mantiest Destiny—A Call pont General Grant’’—-Amusement Announce- ments. Y—Editoriais (Woutinued from Sixth et France: President Thiers’ Explanation of His Executive Poaition—Telegrams from Eng- land, Russia, Spain, Austria and Ireiand— Nimrod Alexis: The Mighty Hunter on the Colorado Piains; ‘Buflulo bil” Outdone; tho Grand Duke's Fight with the Mammoth Bull; Little Phil to the Kescus—The New Orleans Anarchy: Two Thousand Carterites Arming and Preparing to Attack the Warmothites To-day; A Bloody Riot Probable; Warmoth Appeais to Washing - ton—Personal Intelligence—Miscellancous Telegrams—The HexaLv and the River Niie— Jor Bergh and the Poor Pigeons—susiness jotices. S—Quarantine Affairs: Annual Report of Dr. Var- nHochan—Work for the Missionartes—Music and tne Drana—The English e—Political Movements and Views—The Coal Trade for 1872, @—The Syndicate: The Treasury Department Shrouded in Oncertainty; the Mystery Fully Exposed ; Secretary Hout well as a Diplomatist— Adventures of a Miscrable—Tne Story of a Communist and His Description of Life on the Pontons—Fire In Willlamsburg—Heavy Business in Kirds—Fioancial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markels—Marriages and Deaths, 20—Anolher Ghoul Parson: A Filthy Sermon on Fisk and Fraud by the Rev. J. 8S. Beecher— Affairs in the West indies—Obituaries—Liter- ature: Criticisms of New Books; Literary Chit-Chat—Horrible Stabbing Afray—Ship- ping Intelligence— Advertisements. Al—Russia and Germany: The Festival of St, George and the Reception of tne German Guests in Russia; Russian Preparations for War—English Racing—Foreigh Uorse Notes— Personal Notes—Advertisements, 42—Advertisemenis, mary 22, 1872. New Orteans has not seen the last of its legislative troubles. Speaker Carter has issued a pronunciamento against Governor Warmoth, and calls for armed volunteers to Gisperse the force standing guard over the Mechanics’ Institute. To-day he purposes attacking the forces of Warmotb, and the result is likely to be bloodshed. The national government, up to the latest information, has ecided not to interfere in the deadlock. A Danaerrovs ALTERNATIVE—That of Presi- dent Thiers, of the so-called French republic, of threatening to resign, or resigning, when his childish Assembly proves intractable. Lot him keep on repeating this experiment and one of these days he may find some ‘man on horseback” who will take him at bis word. For the present, however, like Louis XIV., M. Thiers may truly say, ‘‘I am the State.” Rossta AND Germany.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Heratp gives us a pleasing account of the reception of the Ger- man Princes and Generals in the Russian cap- ital. The company who, it will be remembered, visited St. Petersburg by invitation of the jCzar, included, among other distinguished warriors of the German empire, Prince Fred- erick Charles and Field Marshal Count Moltke, In the correspondence, which will be found on another page, the bistory of the Russian Order of St. George is included, Toe Cotorapo Borrarozs will be among the few denizens of the United States to whom ‘the visit of the Grand Duke Alexis will be a subject of sincere regret. Starting from Kit ‘Carson station the imperial bunting party sallied forth under the guidance of ‘Little Phil” and the dashing Indian fighter, Geveral Custar, and forty of the horned kings of the prairies were turved into buffalo mest before their return. The Grand Duke proved himself a very Nimrod, and on two occasions in the hunt was placed in positions sufficiently jeopardous to make the reminiscence very in- teresting. In our news columns will be found & graphic account of the gallant doings of the chasseurs, which, while proving a hard bone to pick for Bergh, of the Bonard will case, will prove that the son of the Russian Empe- ror is as thuch at home in tie saddle, out on the Plains, as on the deck of the Svetlana or at a ball in the Academy of Music, NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1872.—I'RIPLE SHEET. Mexico—Ite Terrible Diserders and Mani- fest Destiny—A Call Upon General Grant. Mexico, the richest and most splendid coun- try of the American Continent, is in the last stage of national decay. Through its wonder- ful resources, productiveness of soil and fine climate, the primitive inhabitants had made great strides in the way of civilization when the Spaniards first landed. Under its native rulers it had become a populous and flonrish- ing country, without contact with the people or civilization"of the Western World. Its wealth, particularly in the precious metals, was marvellous. Though the Spanish conque- rors plundered it on a stupendous scale, slaughtered millions of its inhabitants and es- tablished the most fearful despotism, it still continued to teem with riches. So, too, after Spanish tyranny was abolished by the independence of Mexico and estab- lishment of the republic it supplied the world with silver and was a prosperous country. Since it took its place as an independent nation among the nations of the earth it has been the hotbed of revolution and has gose through numerous phases of government within a com- paratively short period; yet, with all these damaging and exhausting cifcumstances, wealth bas sprung from it almost sponta- neously. Any other country would have been utterly ruined long ago. Now, however, it has reached a climax of disorder when even its extraordinary resources cannot save it from ruin and desolation unless the strong government of the United States and our enterprising citizens interpose and regenerate the country, Our special despatch, dated Matamoros on Saturday and published yesterday, says “fighting still continues ;” that the revolu- tionists under General Quiroga had attacked the forces of Cortina at Camargo; that this General was invading the State of Tamaulipas, with the object of capturing all the towns on the frontier ; that Matamoros would soon be taken; probably that the States of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon are held by the revolutionists, and that in other States the different rebel forces were making progress, We may hear a more flattering account in fowns a¢ sh. Juaies Foverumeuty possibly, in the course of a few days, and by way of the city of Mexico, for these accounts are colored according to the channels through which they come, But however the con- flict may incline from day to day or month to month, or whichever party may triumph for a time, nothing will be settled. No permanent government of Mexico by the Mexicans is pos- sible. ‘Fighting still continues.” This might have been said of Mexico any time since that country became independent, with the excep- tion of short and rare intervals, Civil war has been the chronic condition, Rival and ambitious chiefs, who are often only robbers oa a grand scale and under the guise of politi- cal disaffection, make war upon the govern- “ment and each other, and they drag the peace- ably disposed peon population into their con- flicts, With these chiefs and bandits there is no regard for any regular constituted authority. The central government is power- less to keep them down. The whole history of the government shows this. The disease of civil war is too deep seated to be eradi- cated by the Mexicans themselves, Nor is the Mexican government capable of malntaining the independence of the nation against foreigners, Twice has our govern- ment restored to Mex'co her independence after being corquered. Once we were in possession of the country, and in looking back to that time it is unforiunate, perhaps, that we did not hold possession. We can imagine what a different fate Mexico would have had if, instead of taking only California, General Scott had been ordered to hold the whole Mexican territory. But the institution of slavery in the South and the sectional diffi- culty at home prevented annexation at that time. With a magnanimity unparalleled in the history of nations the United States not only restored to the Mexicans their conquered country, but actually paid for the Territory of Californiu—:ben a wilderness—which we held by the laws of war. Then, when the French subjugated Mexico and established a foreign imperial government over it, the United States forced the invader to ‘leave and re-established the native repub- lic. No unprejudiced and intelligent Mexican wil dispute the fact, we suppose, that, but for the intervention of the United States Mexican independence would have been ex- tinguished. A country, then, which is neither capable of self-government—which is in a con- tinual state of civil war and anarchy—nor of maintaining its independence against foreign Powers, can have no hope of perpetuating a national existence. iy Then, Mexico cannot perform the duties of good neighborhood to the United States. What- ever may be the disposition of those in power at the city of Mexico, they cannot prevent dis- orders, robbery and smuggling on our border. The two countries join for the distance of a thousand miles or more, the narrow stream of the Rio Grande lying between them part of the way, and the dividing line through the other part being only an imaginary one. During our war Mexico along this border was the base of vast supplies to the rebels, which, of itself, was sufficient cause of hos tile proceedings against that country. Since then millions have been lost to the revenue by smuggling across the boundary line, and Mexico is so far forgetful of her duty and so obstinate that, powerless as she is to protect the border, she refuses to admit freedom of trade, With all that we have done for her, and witb all our forbearance, she denies us the only compensation possible in her power. Our soil is made the base of hostile prepara- tions and movements, the property of our citi- zens is seized and appropriated with impunity, and our people along the border live, in fact, in a state of terror and quasi war. No other great civilized nation would endure half that we bave endured from the robbers, revo- lutionis(s and disorders of Mexico and from its weak and unfaithful government, It is useless to hope for anything better or apy redress, The only remedy is in annexa- tion, either by treaty negotiation or by force of arms. Turkey, Poland, nor any other country was ever so sick unto death as Mexico is. Our interests, progress and future aré intimately connected with the destiny of Mexico. If there were any prospect of peace or maintaining a regular government in (bat country we might be forbearing still, overlook injuries and help to uphold its independence, as we have heretofore; but there isnone. As anation Mexico is in the throes of death. The fate of the people depends upon us. Our duty is plain. We should save the people from destruction and that magnificent country from desolation. Every one admits that annexation is only a ques- tion of time. The-great nations of Europe bave twitted us for our apparent indifference to the fate of Mexico and on our want of a grand national” policy with regard to that country, Woe have neither per- mitted them to cure disordera that are a disgrace to the civilized world, nor have we attempted to put an end to them ourselves. Has not the time come to act? If the Mexi- cans cannot govern themselves and annexa- tion is inevitable some time, as every one ad- mils, why should our government wait any longer? Why wait till ruin and desolation are spread over the whole land ? We have no doubt that the Mexicans would gladly accept annexation if the proper means were used to show them the advantages and the subject were handled in a statesmanlike manner, The sentiment of race cannot be strong where there is such a mixture of people, and where the pure Mexican race, which is composed chiefly of the peon olass, is governed for the most part by those of mixed Spanish blood. Nor can there be a strong sentiment of national autonomy or hope of perpetuating it with a nation which is in a rapid process of disintegration and which suffers so much from want of proper government, As regards their religion, the Mexican people, as well as the priests, know that under the United States they would have. the greatest liberty and tol- erance. The latter would see, too, that the property of the Church would be as fully, or better, protected and be made more valuable under the government of the United States. Every one, indeed, who owns property in Mex- ico would be greatly benefited. The peons, or laboring class, would be raised from their present state of degradation and obtain a bet- ter reward for their labor. Even the political and military leaders wha naw keep the coun- ‘cy ia anarchy might indulge in tigner ambi- tion for distinction as citizens of this great republic. The Mexicans of all. classes could not help seeing, if properly eulightened, the advantages of annexation. And what would be the effect upon our own country? It would give us the richest terri- tory on the earth; would add several Cali- fornias to our domain; would multiply our productions and the variety of them, and give us, particularly, a monopoly of the silver and quicksilver production of the world; would open a vast commerce to build up our de- pressed shipping interests; give us numerous and valuable ports, both on the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico, and virtually make that gulf an American lake; make us independent in sugar, coffee and other tropical products; afford a splendid transit route from ocean to ocean across Tehuantepec; extend our rail- road and telegraph systems to every part of Mexico, and hundreds of advantages for American capital and enterprise. It would, in fact, advance the country in wealth, pros- perity and power amazingly. The labor of seven millions of peons, who are, when properly treated, a most docile and indus- trious people, would soon create boundless wealth and make Mexico blossom as a rose. | All this happiness to the Mexicans ‘and advantages to this country are within grasp. There is one man who can secure the prize and send his name down to posterity with a far greater halo of glory than now surrounds it, That is General Grant. It is within his power to annex Mexico. Is he equal to the occasion? The way and means of accom- plishing the object can be found if he will make that the policy of his administration. Quarantine—KReport of the Henlth Officer of New York. . We publish in another part of the paper the report of the Health Officer of the Port of New York for the year ending December 31, 1871, which has just been submitted by the Gov- ernor to the Legislature, in connection with the report of the Quarantine Commissioners, . It is an ably prepared document, covering every point relating to quarantine of interest to the public and the government, and will prove unusually interesting just now, as this department bas been the subject of consider- able discussion. This report is the best answer, and a complete one to the strictures made by those inimical to Dr. Carnochan upon the management of quarantine, and he has in good taste avoided anything like re- crimination or special pleading. He appears to feel satisfled that the facts he presents will” justify bis conduct, and in this be is right; for no impartial person can read his report without giving him credit for ability and a faithful performance of his duties, The position of Health Officer is both a dell- cate and an important one. The first object is to protect the public from infectious and dangerous diseases, No great commercial city in the world is so exposed to these as New York, and it requires skill and incessant vigilance to prevent them reaching the city. Cholera, smallpox, ship fever and other dis- eases are brought with the vast influx of im- migration, dod yellow fever comes through our large trade with the West Indies and other | ropical regions. During the last year, as Dr. Carnochan shows, these tearful scourges have been brought to this port, but they were not allowed to reach the shore. With all the danger the health of the city has been pre- served. The object for which quarantine was established has been accomplished during Dr. Carnochan’s administration. This is the great fact that must prove satisfactory to the govern- ment and inspire confidence among the people. When we consider what disasterse—what loss of life, property and trade would be the con- sequence of yellow fever, cholera or any other such scourge getting into this city, and look at the danger to which we have been exposed, every one, we think, will accord to the Health Officer the credit due to him for his vigilance and able management of quarantine. The statistics embodied in the report will show the nature and number of the diseases brought by vessels to the port. Another object which the Health Officer has had constantly in view and has carried out wisely has been to place as few restric. tichs uvon commerce as possible gompatible with safety to the public health. This is fully shown in the. report, Some few shipping agents or merchants, more intent on saving a few dollars than caring about the health of the city, may have complained of neces- sary restrictions, It would be strange if some such persons were not found in this large commercial community. It would be surprising if the necessary quarantine restric- tions were not complained of by some. But the mass of our best merchants, as well as the community at large, must be satisfied with the facilities given to commerce by the Health Officer while protecting the city from disease. Ths vast and increasing amount of tonnage entering the port, as shown in the report, proves how little there is to complain of in the way of restrictions, and is a complete reply to those who have wrongly stated that our commerce was falling off. In adjusting so well the interests of commerce with the necessities of quarantine Dr. Carno- chau has reduced the system to something like science. The Quarantine Commissioners are like the fifth wheel to a coach. They are unnecessary, except, perhaps, one might be useful to co-operate with the Health Officer. It is a useless expenditure of money to keep up this Commission. The real work is with the Health Officer. Dr. Carnochan has proved 8 very efficient one, as the facts show, and it is tobe hoped his report will he as satisfac- tory to the Governor and Legislature as bis administration of quarautine has been to the public, President Thiers and President Grant— The Latest News from Paris, President Thiers’ resumption of office as chief of the government of France is pleasing to the Legislative Assembly, to the French army and the neighboring ruling great Powers; to the majority of them at least, as appears from our telegrams from Paris. MacMahon has spoken for the army of France personally ; the electric telegraph conveyed the congratulations of the foreign Cabinets. The members of the French Ministry have resumed their portfolios, and France has a government again, MacMahon declares that the army ‘‘would obey the orders of the Assembly, but that it will not be controlled *y = Aiatatorship, which was likely to follow the unconditiouat catiramant of the President.” The French newspaper press publisnes ..~. sensible, mayhap seasonable, advice to M. Thiers. The public journals recommend the Chief of Cabinet not to participate in Parlia- mentary discussions. The writers hint that there have been too many Messages of State to the Legislature. They allege, indeed, that the reconstructed Ministry has already resolved to curtail these privileged communications— to abridge them both in frequency and volume. President Thiers will, in the future, address the Assembly only on “‘important occasions,” and the debate pendiny at the moment shall be adjourned for the purpose of receiving the government statement. This will b> a plaip executive letter without interference with the debate of Parliament, This brief outline of news from Paris is of an exceodingly encouraging character. It goes to prove that France really pos- sesses all the elemeuts of a moderate democratic conservatism, which can be easily moulded into a solid, substantial structure of national, patriotic self-government. Presi- dent Thiers is convinced that the spark of trae liberty remains alive in the hearts of his countrymen. He has fanned it into a bright light even amid the hurry of a Ministerial dissolution, and proved to the world that the blood-stained and red-handed men of the con- tinental ‘‘isms” of the day have been merely violent and temporary intruders around the peaceful firesides of the’ nation, President Thiers has grown weary, however. This is not to be wondered at in a man in the seventy- fifth year of his age. He appears to be slightly despondent in tone. This is vastly regretable, He is tired of conflict with the Assembly. He is certain that these conflicts will be renewed. ‘‘Sooner or later he will be compelled to retire from the Presidency of the republic.” France sees to-day that this event would be to her a great one. President Thiers, by a formal resignation, with his Cabinet, has already brought the impracticables of the French Assembly to their marrow bones. He bas shown, from the results of this proceeding, that, without the guiding hand of this old man just now, France is chaos come again. The Versailles Assembly admits the fact, and all parties shrink from the alternative of another French revo- lution—with the International and the Com- mune on the watch, and witb the Bonapartes awaiting the signal for their return to Paris, M. Thiers, it seems, too, is an indispensable security to the Germans for their indemnity, and that with his retirement, under the ex- isting condition of things, the German armies would reoccupy the departments they have lately abandoned. Was there ever in France such a picture of national insecurity, danger and helplessness as this? How long can this fearful state of things last ? It cannot last long ; but when the change comes what will be the reaction, and where will it be arrested? The whole situation in France, on every side, and in all its aspects, is fearful to contemplate; for ‘poor France” was never before so mad- dened by disasters and misfortunes, and never so full of combustibles and explosive ma- terials as she isnow. She isina state of doubt, torture and suspense, which cannot be much longer endured, and then look out for the Bonapartes or another deluge. Meantime there is mach in the situation of President Thiers as the safeguard against the wrangling factions of France that resembles the situation of President Grant as the peace preserver among the clashing factions of the United States. If it can be said that the retirement of Thiers and his Cabinet to private life at this time would bring chaos upon France, it may also be said that the retire- ment of President Grant at this juncture would throw the United States into a general politi- cal agitation and confusion perilous to the peace of the country. To be sure, Vice Presi- dent Colfax would take the helm, and Mr, Colfax is an experienced and trustworthy man in public affairs, But, considering the hostile cliques and factions that are moving heaven and earth to upset Grant, there would be no hope for Colfax, Grant has a more sub- stantial and a larger and deeper popularity than Thiers; he has given uso good adminig- tration; he is a safe man; all the great inter- este of the country rest securely upon his shoulders, and yet against him such hostile elements and combiaations are developed that they foreshadow nothing but political chaos with his sudden retirement. Ifhe were to retire peremptorily from pub- lio affairs this day the disintegration of the re- publican party would commence to-morrow. The public spoils and plunder in the hands of Mr. Colfax would only Johnsonize, or, rather, Tylerize, the party. A half dozen rival repub- lican Presidential candidates would spring up; the party, in their ‘“‘rrepressible conflict,” ‘would go to pieces at Philadelphia, like the democratic party in the Charleston Conven- tion, and the combined forces of Southern se- cessionists and Northern copperheads, on their “old departure,” would come to the front. Confidence in the national securities would be swamped; the national currency would go down and gold would go up, and a panio would come next in order, culminating in general bankruptcy and repudiation. If President Thiers, therefore, in regard to the taxations needed to meet her national debt and ip regard to her revolutionary factions, is now a necessity to France, so is President Grant to the United States. If the one is needed for law and order aod the healthful Processes of reconstruction, so is the other; . for if France is ‘still. adrift we, too, have still to establish the perfect work of a great revolu- tion, Plain Talk from tho Palpits. Sensationalism having for the time being exhausted itself in the Fisk furor, we had yesterday a return to the old, but ever safe, path of Gospel truth where Christ alone holds the central place and His name is the great attraction, The Rev. Mr, Willis treated his large and attentive congregation to some prac- tical thoughts and suggestions on the power which that name possesses, It is the symbol of love and mercy, of justice and of triumph, and through this name God can be just and yet justify the sinner. The Rev. Mr. Mac- namey, in St. Patrick's Cathedral, held up the same great name, and illustrated the results of faith in Christ, and also the substitution of reason for faith. In the latter case we have the Church, which should be a unit in Christ, split up into fragments, so that she who was constituted guardian of the truth ic warring Ogalnst vu~ tenth, But the blessings of faith enable us to escape the jssrings and conten- tions of this life and the terrors of the;~agment, and bring us toa rich reward in heaven. in contrast with the leading thought of this minister of Christ was the discourse of Rev. Mr. Hale, -of Boston, inthe Charch of the Messiah. The liberal and the orthodox theologies were portrayed and held up for the admiration or approval of mankind., Under the latter the priest and the Church are everything, but under the former God has made of us all kings and priests unto himself. Let us each do nobly his work, The beat preparation we can have for the functions of this royal priesthood is a recognition of our self-con- sciousness and individuality before God. This thought was elaborated by Mr. Pullman in the Church of Our Saviour. Men have been kept down, he said, by their religious creeds ; but the world is now outgtowing- this blind adherence to creeds and ceremonies, though the shell still clings to it, Man’s superiority over the lower animals consists in this con- sciousness which should never be lost sight of. But will this consciousness always continue? Is there a life everlasting beyond the grave? Let any doubter take up Rev. Mr. Bjerring's able argument in the Greek church yesterday, and he will probably begin to doubt the sound- ness of his own theories on the subject of the soul’s immortality. This doctrine is treated, not from a purely religious standpoint— because, of course, sceptics scout the Bible, which reveals it—but rather from a scientific and philosophical standpoint where they are met on their own ground. Old Trinity church was aroused last even- ing by the Rev. Dr. Dix taking those three words so intimately connected with man’s pre- sent and eternal welfare—home, marriage and divorce—and stripping off the gaudy attire from the latter while he beautified the former, Without -wedded life home is impossible. Marriage is a natural, a civil and religious contract; but the Doctor has no faith in polygamy or plural marriage, Reckless mar- riages give the Courts all they can do in the divorce line, and the Courts are only too ready to step in for the benefit of licentious men, He did not endorse divorce, It was never de- signed by God, and he considered it nothing more than naked heathenism in modern dress, Mr. Hepworth is rapidly forming his new Congregational church, and this evening the initial steps will be taken toward organizing a corporate society and gathering in a Sunday school. And as in all such laborious mis- sionary undertakings divine strength and grace is needed, and these come only by prayer, Mr. Hepworth very simply and touchingly yesterday discoursed on this sub- ject, illustrating from scenes in the life of Christ the necessity for it and the nearness of access to God which it gives us. Ion Brooklyn the pulpits were also com- paratively free from sensational topics yesterday. Mr. Beecher for the time being forgot his favorite topic—God’s love to the race—and indulged in a little plain talk about money and its uses, recommending therein greater simplicity and economy in living. It was a thorough going home sermon, and should be read at the tea table or the fireside this evening, when every member of our readers’ families might and should be present. The Rev. Dr. Osborn preached to the Tabernacle Baptist church on the Atonement, and Dr. Chapman. gave his Methodist flock some ex- cellent reflections and suggestions on the duty and the beauty of a witnessing church. The Rev. Mr. O'Callahan in St. Mary's Church of the Sea stripped the veil from that modern fiction, ‘‘science falsely so called,” and pre- sented it naked to his audience as rebel- lion against God and as generating and giving power to sins for which there may be no forgiveness neither in this life nor im that which is to come, In Grace church (Protestant Episcopal), Jer- sey City, a very touching and eloquent dis- course was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Rice, on the men brought to the surface by social aod religioug and political upheavals, and ia So ee striking contrast with the demadds of Umsar, Napoleon, Gregory VII. and Mohammed wera the demands of John the Baptist and of Jesus Christ as presented by Mr. Rice. To these and to the other pulpit thoughts of yesterday we invite our readers’ attention to-day. The Legislative Printing Swindle—Finding a Molebill and Missing a Mountain. One of our amiable contemporaries, the racy and readable organ of the republican “outs,” is just now waging a terrible war against the Clerk of the State Senate, who is charged upon the affidavit of a discharged clerk—those discharged clerks are your most ruthless enemies of official having received some three or four thousand dollars in money and forty dollars’ worth of pinchbeck jewelry from an Albany printing firm as a sort of bonus or per centage on work done for the State, The Clerk of the Senate and the printer reply by a counter affidavit, in which they deny specifically the several alle- gations, affirming that the sum paid to the former by the latter was in consideration of services rendered in preparing manuscript for publication, proof-reading and revising, and altogether repudiating the pinchbeck jewelry presentation. It is- not worth while to inquire what amount of factional hatred, malice and uan- charitableness enter into the criminations and recriminations constantly going on between the republican administration ond antl- sdministration cliques. The matter is as im- material to the independent press as it Is to the people at large. Either faction fs so lib- eral in its charges and so positive in Its. proofs of corruption and rascelity against the other as to induce a general belief that they are all rogues together. If the Senate Clerk, Mr. James Terwilliger, has been guilty ot any offl- cial misconduct it is proper that be should be exposed, no matter how much the exposure may be due to the fact that he has heretofore held a prominent position in the New York Custom House and is friendly to President Grant, Senator Conkling and ex-Collector Murphy. Tobe sure, no improper act has yet been proved against him, and he has borne a good reputation in the midst of much legis- lative corruption, We only allude to the present trumpery charges io order to show our philosophical contemporary that in search- ing for a molehill he has missed a mountain, and to call his attention to the rich develop- ments made by.our Albany correspondent in the snug little matter of the legislative print- ing swindle, The fem of Weed, Parsons & Co. ropres sents the proprieturship of the Albany Hoen- ing Journal, the State organ of the moral aod intellectual reform party. Our old friend, Aminibad Sleek, could not have denounced the sin and abomination of worldly pleasures with more pious vehemence than has moved “the firm” in its indignation against the cor- ruptions of the Tammany officials; yet all the time it has been doing a very pretty job of aling on its own account, The extent Hee Get Gan be seen from the exhiblé a one single session's outside work in the State Legislature—that isto say, of the printing, the Red Book and civil list frauds, and other swindles outside the -regular contract for Legislative printing. It will be seen from our Albany correspondence that in the session of 1871, when so many wicked deeds were done by the democratic majority at Albany, “the saintly State organists of the reformers man- aged to get into the Supply bill, under their own names and through the medium of a dummy, to the extent of nearly one bun- dred and eighty thousand dollars. Almost the whole of this amount was secured through resolutions passed by the Legislature ordering a large supply of books— many of them utterly worthless—such as school registers, insurance reports, meteoro- logical vubservations, Wade's Poor Laws, Cook's Poor Laws, supervisors’ manuals, town clerks’ manuals, and the like. One of the items—amounting to over twenty-seven thousand dollars—is significantly designated by our correspondent a ‘‘steal out of whole cloth.” We invite Attorney General Barlow's attention to the exhibit, and suggest whether it is not a case warranting an action for re- covery in the name of the people of the State. The Supply bill items furnished by our cor- respondent will give hima clue to the whole swindle, Let him take, for instance, the “meteorological observations made since 1850,” and ascertain, first, whether it is not an old stereotyped job revived; and, next, whether the pamphlets are worth the enor- mous sum of overeleven dollars aeopy. Let him make the same inquiry regarding “Barnes’ Condensed Insurance Reports,” and find out whether this is not an old Monsieur Tonson in the Supply bill, and whether six dollars‘a copy is not an extortionate’ charge. Next, let him investigate the ‘extra composition, exira corrections, stereotyping and lithograpbing,” and see whether the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars, or there- abouts, is or is not a “‘steal out of whole cloth.” Suits have been brought in the name of the people of the State against the Tam- many thieves; now let us see whether some action cannot be taken against the Albany plunderers. We call the attention of Speaker Smith and the reform Legislature, with a republican four-fifths majority, to this glaring, outrageous and rascally printing swindle at the State capi- tal, and insist, in the name of the people, that they shall put a stop to it at once. The Speaker is thoroughly conversant with the fraud and with the manner in which it is con- summated; and as he is known to be the espectal protégé and friend of the republican State organ, he is all the more imperatively bound to oppose the further robbery of the public Treasury by that pious concern, He has already been instrumental in saving on paper at. least about twenty thousand dol- lars a year in the expenaes of the Legislature ; let him now save some two hon dred thousand dollars in the corrupt and use- less jobs forced upon the two houses, session after session, by these Albany printers. The ~ new members can learn how the business is done by reading the ezposé made im our Albany correspondence. The Printing Com~' mittee of the Assembly, whose members have already been subjected to the oiling process, will be carefully watched to see whether or not they become parties to the old swindle. Not a single book pulmed off year after year upon the State is Worth anything to the people, and