The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ‘BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Herat. Volume XXXVIL........0.-2..00005 seeeeesNO, 29 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner a ances afternoon and evening “OX Han. rm WALLACK'S THEAT! rasa doun Gauen ‘RE, Broadway and 138th street. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad Houston streets, BLACK Cuoun.” Pree rece ane BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—TanovgH BY Day- Lieat-A Huseanp at SiGH ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twonty-eishth street and Broad- way.—MONALDL. hie act OLYMPIC THEATRE, ‘TOMIME OF HuMrry Dum way,—THR BALLET Pan- AIMBE'S OPERA BOUFFE, No. aa pAlMers B, No. 7% Broadway.—Lxs ROOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-thira at, e EOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third at., corner Sixth av, STADT THEATRE, Nor BL tl E, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.—OreRra oF FIFTR AVENUS THKATRE, Twenty-f - Tue NRW Drama OF Drvouce. 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S—Washington: The Utah Memorial at the Capital; tho Owner of tie Fiorida Snubbed by the President and Secretary Fish; the Coolie apd African Slave Trades in Cuba; Sale of Gold aud Guying of Bonds: Uur Pro.ective Duties 10 Hoaduras—Who Murdered Panormo ¢ An- other Act in the Mysterious ‘Tragedy in Brook- lyu; Suicide of the Frotessor’s Associate, Alfred Hast; What He Said and Toougnt Conceraing the Assassipation—The Brookiya Highway- Mmen—ihe Hepner domicide—Obituaries—Brit- isu India; Reports of the britisa Army Expe- diuou Against the Lushais—items irom Asia— News from Africa: ‘the briush Territorial Auvexation Movement in the Orange Free aie Naval Inteliigence—New York City 4—Relizious: Yesterday’s Sermons in the Metro- poluan Pulpits; Defence of te Contessional; ‘The Swedenvorgian View of Christ's Trans- Gxaration; the Power of Enthusiasm; Unita- rian View of the Mission of Unrist; Hope for the Sinner; Arrogant Seifisiness Worse Than the Sins That Mea Punish; God's Presence in the Church; Discourses by the kev. Dr. McGlynn, Kevs. aenty Ward Beecher, Merrill Richardson, Geo.ge Hepworth, W. M. Pun- shoo, James Freeman Clark, Chauncey Giles and Father Kane—Help the Poor Girl: A Nobvie aud Much Neeved Associauon—burglars Captured, S—German Polar Exploration: New Plans by Weyprecht ahd Gayer and Captain Kolde- Wev; the German j.aders ai Logeerteads— Au laginary Polar Expedition—Engiand and America: The American Clams Against England—sebenck and tae Emma Mine Com- Sap Juan Questiou—The Catacazy Case: Phe Russian Press on the Fish and Oatacazy Case—Pio Nouo and Bishop Dupan- loup—Brazil: The Cause of Keform, Keligious, Educational and Soctal, in tue Empire. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “Our Katlroads and Katiroad Legislauon—Whbat the People Waniv’—amusement Announcements, 7—Edttoriais (Vontinued trom sixtn Page'—The War in Mexico: Deieat of the Reyoluuonists— The Lave Louisiana Trouvies: Arrivai of the Congressional luquiry Committee—Utan: The Mormon Cry tor Admission to the Upion—The Hornet: The Sevsation Abour the Mysterious Cruiser in Baltimore—Miscellaneous Kuropean and Domestic ‘telegrams—Tne Granu Duke— Business Notices. S—Destroying the farbor: History of the En- croachments ou the Waters of the Port of New York; the Damage They llave vone and are Doing; Legissative Action Dermmanded—Fire in Bethune Street—Internationais tm Council— The Horse Market Thieves—Attemptead Grand Larceny—Italian Opera: Its Career tn New York aud London for Twenty Years—Music and the Drama, @—The vrieans Estates: A Glance at the Vicissi- tudes of Louis Philippe; History of the Or- leans Estates; Artiul Scheme ot M. Thiers— How a Cruel Mistress Avandoued Her Lord and What Came of It—More Keckless Driv- ing—Court Catendars for ‘To-Day—Financtal and Commercial Reports—'omestic Markets— Tne Dry Goods Murket—Marriages and Deaths. £0—Literature: Criticisms of New Books—Literary Cuit-Chat—Art Matters—Weather -Report— Supping Intelligence —Advertisements. 41—Eurvpe: Germapy’s Dislike to the French Milt lary Activity; France Preparing for Ven- geance; the Departure of Prince Metternica from Paris; New Year's Day im Rome; “yrus W. Fiela’s Banquet to the international Tete- grapnic Delegates; Prince Frederick Charles ord the Pan-siavist Leader; English Racing; Foretan Miscellancous items; Advertisements. 12—Advertisoments.. Mr. Greetey Firoorep Acatx—In the suit of his friend Sheehan against Tom Murphy for Our Railroads and Railrond Legislation— What the People Want. The railroad war in Albany, the contest of our citizens with Vanderbilt over the Fourth avenue track, the growing and imperative necessity of quick transit from the lowgr to the upper parts of New York city, and the wants of the people generally for improved facilities by the railroads and in better manage- ment of them in the interest of the public, make this subject ane of the most interesting of the times. Railroads, whether in the cities or through the interior of the States, whether worked by horse or locomotive power, are professedly for the convenience and good of the public, This is expressed in the char- ters. Upon this principle companies make application for charters, and in terms to that effect the Legislatures concede the privi- leges asked. Yet whoever knew a railroad worked or managed with a view to the interest of the people, except where by chance the in- terest of a company was found to be in accordance with that of the people? The legisiative phraseology in charters recozniz- ing apparently the public interest is a fiction. Incidentally the public may derive advan- tages from the railroads, as from any other great improvements, but generally at an un- necessary cost; for railroad laws are framed really for the benefit especially of the capital- ists who get up companies. The capitalists generally get such laws as they want, or have the power afterwards either to defy the law or to control the Legislatures and the Courts. Frequently the legislators are incorporators, directors or large stockholders in railroads ; or, if they are not, the money power of the the recovery of a certain alleged Custom House party tax levy. Why don’t our vener- able philosopher “go out West and buy a farm?” A WELL-GrounpgD APPREBENSION—That of Congressman Beck, of Kentucky, who thinks that “‘this is going to be the worst corporation-ridden country in the world.” But the worst of it is, Mr. Beck has no remedy to offer. He proposes to ‘‘grin and bear it,” and so we must look for a better country doc- tor than this. St Five Hunprep Monuments 1x OnE CiUvs- Ter.—The Trustees of the London Peabody Fund bave let out five bundred bouses, with planted grounds attached, at Brixton, to small families, in accordance with the directions of the immortal American philanthropist who furnished the funds. And what glorious monumeiuts to his blessed memory are these! A Sup wird a Strance History—That Jong, low, rakish, Clyde-built steamer, the Hornet, now at Baltimore, and of which we published an Interesting sketch yesterday. Built for speed, first, as the Lady Stirling, she was a successful blockade ruaner during our late rebellion; next, turning up as a Cuban filibuster, she is caught in the harbor of Port au Prince by a Spanish squadron and block- aded there for a year and eight days, when she is released and brought out by the United States ship Congress, and now awaits at Balti- more the action of our government upon her case. Theresbe is, and, from the facts before us, we judge thev will have to let her go, companies controls their action. The railroad interest has grown up to be a stupendous monopoly and almost irresistible. The contest at Albany just now over the Erie Railroad is between rival par- ties for the control of that impor- tant line of communication. The burden of the arguments raised to influence the Legislature one way or the other is based upon the private claims of indi- viduals. A good deal is said about the in- terests of the public for effect, but really no ove thinks or cares about them. All the fuss about repealing the so-called Classification act is simply a fight for the control of the Erie Railroad among the parties interested. Certain foreigners, who bought up the At- lantic and Great Western Railroad, found that this road did not pay without connecting its business and interests with the Erie, and, therefore, purchased stock in the Erie with a view of getting hold of the management, so as to make the latter supply the deficiencies of the former. Without going into details as to the history of this movement, or of the coquetting and attempt at bargaining between the two companies, this is the gist of the original difficulty. The Erie managers, to use a colloquial expression, did not see it, and with a view to the interest of the Erie road, as well, perhaps, as with a view to their own interest. and power, they have pre- venied the foreign owners of the Great Western and Atlantic controlling the Erie. These latter, consequently, apply, as stockholders in the Erie, to the Legislature for the repeal of the Classification act, in order to depose the present managers of that road. Though much might be said of the improve- ment of the Erie Railroad under the present management, and against placing one of the greatest lines of commerce and communica- tion in the country under the control of foreigners, this is, after all, only a war of rail- road factions, and goes to show the necessity of some general and comprehensive law regu- lating these great works. Coming to the difficulty in this city about the Fourth avenue railroad track to Harlem, the same necessity is apparent. The citizens who have been agitating the question of sink- ing the track from Forty-second street, over which the trains of the Harlem and New Haven railroads run, have had several inter- views with Commodore Vanderbilt and his son, with a view to carry out their object. Commodore Vanderbilt pleads his vested rights, as all other railroad magnates do, and seems to think the interests of the vast popula- tion of this great city should be subservient to these. True, he cautiously talks of com- promise, and says to the citizens, in the language of Wall street, this is a matter in which we must ‘‘give and take” With all of our railroad kings there is much more of taking than giving. But what should the public be called upon to give? Has it not given already most valuable privileges, from which the railroads make vast sums of money? Have not the people rights as well as the railroad companies ? Were not the railroads chartered professedly for the benefit of the public? And ought they not to be made subservient to the public good? The Fourth ave- nue tracks, as our citizens say, virtually cut the city in two parts. From the frequency and speed of the trains on it there is no safety in crossing. Many lives have been sacrificed, and the damage to property can hardly be es- timated. In the course of a few years the city will be built up solidly all the way to Harlem. It will not be possible to permit the trains to run along the surface through such an extent of our populous city. There must be a conces- sion made to the rights and convenience of our vast and growing metropolitan population either by the railroad companies or the Le- gislature. But, after all, the time is not far off, prob- ably, when no trains, except such as may be used for city purposes, either underground or on viaducts, should be permitted to come over the Harlem River. The whole railroad sys- tem ought to be concentrated in one depot in Westchester county and near the Harlem River, Here the Hudson River, New Haven and Harlem roads might come together, and so, indeed, might the Erie, West Shore and Jersey railroads, by a bridge over or a tunnel under the North River. This would be the grandest and most stupendous railroad con- centration in the world, and must prove a great convenience to all the roads, as well as to the people. With this, and centring at the same point, there should be a viaduct or underground railroad, for passengers and city freight, on each side of the island, For further convenience there might be a few lateral and as many crosstown horse railroads as the public convenience would demand. Perhaps viaduct railroads from tbe lower portion of the city to connect with the great central depot we have suggested would be best and in the end the cheapest. Thus we should have a most complete and beautiful system of rapid transit and railroad commun!- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. Theological Thought aad Theories. There is a worthy simplicity and directness in the discourses which we publish to-day | from the palpits of this city and vicinity. Christ and the Father are the objects held up cation from one end of the city to the other, | for admiration and imitation by most, if not and all through, uniting with the great lines of the country near the Harlem River. Nor is the time far off when a great portion | all, of the preachers, and the general aim seems to have been to induce the people to look above and beyond the preachers, to “the of the shipping will go to the upper end of | Author and Giver of faith.” Mr. Hepworth, Manbattaa Island aod in the waters between | who so recently escaped trom Doubting Castle, Long Island Sound and the East River and) North River, We look forward to the time when a vast ship canal will be made between the Hudson and East rivers along the line of the Harlem River, with numerous docks, where the produce from vessels coming from the Hud- son and by railroads can be conveniently shipped for exportation. The water between the Sound and East River is deep enough for fleets of the largest ships, in most parts, and along what is known as Morris’ Dock it is forty feet. deep. With these improvements, and when Hell Gate is cleared of rocks, a large portion of the commercial business of New York must be transferred gto that end of the island, Any legislative action or movement made with regard to railroads and the im- provement of New York should be based upon this view of the future. In twenty-five years there will scarcely be a vacant lot not built upon on Manbattan Island, and our metro- politan population will reach near three mil- lions, The commerce of the port, growing with the wonderful growth of the country, can hardly be imagined, Will our Legislature comprehend the wonderful destiny of the city and prepare for it? Nothing but the railroad system we have referred to can meet the wants of the future. Having adverted to the railroads of the State, the war at Albany about them, the power of railroads in the Legislature, the cupidity of railroad managers and the necessi- ties and future of New York, let us say a word with regard to the duty of the federal govern- ment, The railroad interest has become a mighty power in the land, and is wielded for the most part by a few individuals. This vast monopoly is growing more and more to gigan- tic proportions. There are few of the State governments that it does not control, and it has become the greatest power in Washington. Nearly all its operations are for the purpose of enriching a few at the cost of the mass of the people. Stocks are watered and bonds issued far exceeding the capital invested, and every one who travels on the roads or trans- ports a pound of produce has to pay for thia inflation or fictitious capital. The people are taxed unnecessarily by the railroad compa- nies beyond what the federal government would venture to tax them. The railroads are the great arteries of commerce among the several States, and Congress has the power, under the express provisions of the eonstitu- tion, to regulate that. The time has come when Congress should pass some general law to restrain raflroad puseceiton and to protect the people from their exactions, The public interests should be first considered, and pre- tended vested rights, through charters ob- tained generally by questionable influence, must yield to them. Some of the States have taken the initiative in grappling with the rail- road power, and we may mention Illinois especially ; but Congress only can accomplish the needed reform. Tae Toearres Tus Weex.—Tho. era of long runs into which our theatres have en- tered during the present season leaves little worthy of special mention, The managers of the leading theatres, not finding it necessary to change their present attractive bills, jog along quietly and complacently on the high road to fortune, and the theatres seem to take care of themselves without any further mana- gerial interference. With the exception of the first representation of Marschner’s opera of “Ivanhoe,” which takes place to-night at ‘the Stadt Theatre, the bills at all the principal places of amusement remain unchanged. The public nowadays like to cling to a good at- traction, and evince no desire for variety, and the managers are very willing, and even de- lighted to oblige their patrons by keeping on the ame attractions with which they opened the season or which the holidays brought forth. This may be called the managerial mil- lennium—to produce a first class play in unex- ceptionable style, and then retire to Europe or the country, leaving the piece to take care of itself and enjoying oneself upon the for- tune it brings in. Happy managers! Indul- gent public ! SririrvarisM IN A Portog Court.—It isa remarkable fact that when Spiritualism is brought into Court it is always proved a hum- bug and a swindle. A very funny case was brought before Justice Fowler, at Jefferson Market, on Saturday last, of which we gave an interesting and instructive report yester- day. The case was that of a Mrs, Fuller, a Spiritualist and ‘‘magnetic and electric physi- cian,” against one Thomas Sproul, who was also a Spiritualist until he found out ‘how the old thing works,” Sproul being charged with stealing from Mrs. Fuller a valuable watch and chain, On the trial a ludicrous rigmarole of incoherent Spiritual rubbish was elicited from the plaintiff, and a side-splitting exposure by the defendant of the shallow Jeremy Diddler devices of these so-called spiritual mediums, which brought down the house. Sproul pleaded that, being regularly sold and ‘‘cleaned out” by them, he had resolved to turn public informer against these mediums as the ‘‘big- gest sort of frauds,” and having ‘‘the vouch - ers” in his possession which would nail them to the counter, they trumped up this charge of larceny in orde: to head him off and impeach him as a witness. So far, too, from the evi- dence, and in the absence of any spiritual manifestations in Court in behalf of Mrs, Ful- ler, we are inclined to bet on Sproul. But the case comes up again to-morrow. the retirement of President Thiers it seems that the fight for the French government will be between MacMahon and Gambetta. What then? MacMahon will clear the track, and then a certain family at Chiselhurst will leave for France. Tue Prettiest Sporr or tHe SEason— That of the Poughkeepsie iceboat races, They are short, sharp and decisive, and, with the boats fairly flying before the wind, they are “altogether lovely.” and thinks or koows that there are many other poor Christians locked and barred within ite dismal walla, instructed his people last night on the kinds and character of doubt and the only means of deliverance therefrom. Ac- cording to his doctrine doubt is of two kinds— theoretical and practical. And though, in some sense, these are distinct, they are also united. There is @ theoretical scepticiem which yet admits of a virtuous and moral life— the actions right, though the faith be wrong. Then there is the practical infidelity, which may have a very fine theory of fualth, polished and fitted so nicely that it looks just like the faith which is the gift of God. But it is not. These may exisi separately or to- gether in the soul, and in whatsoever form they exist they strip o man of all peace and leave him at the mercy of every wind and wave, The only release from this uncertainty and doubt is implicit faith in revealed religion—a thorough belief in the record (hat God has given of His Son and an acceptance of the atonement provided by Him for every man, And that the religion based upon such a faith as this is eventually to subdue and swallow up all others was emphasized yes- terday by Mr. Clark in the Church of tho Mes- siab, Christianity, he believes, is to become the all-controlling religion of the world. So we believe, too, But in the life to come be bad no doubt that Socrates and Confucius and all the ancient and modern exponents of progress toward @ higher aud « better life will be gathered around the Lord Jesus Christ, Wedo not believe anything of the sort, unless, indeed, they have progressed far beyond their teachings and theories which remain among us, and which, instead of lifting their votaries up, tend only to keep them in ‘the mud and in the darkness, Dr. Richardson felt the pulse of his congre- gation yesterday in regard to the erevtion of a new church edifice for their use, and pointed out the qualifications necessary and the mo- tive which should prompt and guide in this as in every other good work. Religious enthu- siasm is the great spring of action, and this, based upon the motive to honor God and adjoined to a determination to overcome every obstacle, and a willingness on the part of every one to do his part, are essential to asso- ciated Christian work, and are and must always be successful, The power of these principles was illustrated by the example of Ezra and Nehemiah and their men building the ruined walls and Temple of Jerusalem, which they reared up in less than three months, notwithstanding they had to hold a weapon of defence in one hand while they wrought with the other. There is nothing that will lead to such persistence and sacrifice when called into exercise as religious senti- ment. But having built your church, you need then the Divine presence in it, and this requirement was the theme of Rev, Morley Punshon yesterday in Alanson Methodist Episcopal church, The won- drous change which God's presence in His church makes is likened by this minister to the raising of the dead, the bursting of spring from winter, the ruined made rich, the beggar become heir to the bariquet hall. Christ gives unsearchable riches instead of poverty, everlasting life in- stead of universal death, and without Him there is no help ‘for man. And every believer is entitled to have, and will have, a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud round abent his own homestead—the Divine presence coutinually encircling him. And beyond the grave there is a heavenly light, unclouded, which every believer here gets a glimpse of before he departs. This light and the home of the saints was the sub- ject of comment’ by Rev. Chauncey Giles in the Swedenborgian church yesterday. The Catholic churches are putting forth ex- tra efforts at this time for the salvation of their people; and yesterday many of the priests discoursed upon the necessity of prayer and the confession of sins as pre-requi- sites to pardon and salvation. In St, Pat- rick’s Cathedral Rev. Mr. Kane pointed out the object of the Master's call to the uncon- verted and its frequency ; and in St. Stephen's church Dr. McGlynn showed the importance of confession and its Scriptural origin, Father Damen, in Jersey City, also touched upon it, and announced that at some future time he would prove it from the Bible, and its necessity from reason and human nature. His appeal to wanderers from the fold was very touching, and no doubt will have its proper effect on the minds of his bearers. The greatest happiness, he contended, is not found in the sinful pleasures of this life, but in the enjoyment of a quiet conscience and a life of virtue and religion. The various ex- cuses which men and women give for not be- coming religious were taken up and combated by the reverend preacher, and it is said that many of his auditors wept at his pathetic appeals. Mr. Beecher gave his people some plain words about ‘‘burden-bearing” yesterday. We dare say his wealthy and fashionable congre- gation need to be reminded once and again that the weak must lean upon the strong in this life; the poor must depend on the rich, and all together should travel to- ward the final goal as harmoniously and pleas- antly as they can, like emigrants going over the Plains, Other congregations in this city and Brooklya would not be injured by like plainness of speech. The use of piety for selfish purposes he condemned, and the fruits of harsh and unchristian treatment of the young, the weak, the poor and the erring were held up to be avoided, and the opposite— sympathy and tenderness—was inculcated. In the midst of all these pulpit thoughts, and mingled with them, were some very subtile theories; but our readers are advised to sepa- rate the chaff from the wheat, to prove all things, and to hold fast only to that which is Hoaaisn—The City Council of Porkopolis, that wouldn't invite Alexis. almost strongest official evidence of it. ‘Ihe testi- mony taken before the Ku Klux Committee on that point will sadden and astonish the people of the United States if ever it comes to be published. One witness, a man of standing and intelligence, was asked by the committee whether there was any prospect at all of captoring those fellows, and his melancholy reply was, “‘None in the world, There they have been four or five years and not one of them has been killed. They are a terror to f crates. He described the fruitless efforts to ought to put our civilization to the blusb, and which reflects utter disgrace upon the autho. rities of that State, and to some extent upon our federal officials, who ha: ‘Tae Scuffletown Settlement in North Care| Russia and the Holy See—An Imperial oliua—A Band of Organized Robbers and Visit to the Pope. Murderers. His Holiness Pope Pius the Nioth granted We published some days since a communi- | an audience to the Grand Duke Michael of cation from Rutherford, N. C., giving the par- | Russia last Saturday in the Vatican, The ticulars of the assassination of a farmer's wife | event-of their meeting is regarded as indicat- and daughter in that neighborhood by mem- | ing the approach of a reconciliation between bers of what is known as the “Lowry gang.” | the Pontifical and Imperial powers on They bad broken into the smokehouse at | the subjects of difference which have night for purposes of plunder, and the owner | existed between them during some having sallied out of the dwelling house, | years past. Such a result would be armed with his gun, and followed to the piazza | of the very greatest im not only by bis wife and daughter, the robbers opened | to the cause of Christianity in general, but fire upon them and shot the two women. | for the furtherance of the progress of religion Strange as the statement may read in all civil- | in the East, and again northward in Europe. ized communities, the unfortunate people | It may be that His Majesty the Czar has be- among whom this foul crime was committed | come fatigued with the discharge of the duties look upon it as one of the ordinary and almost | of an episcopo-royal function, and that he has inevitable occurrences of life. Ever since the | come to the conclusion that the separation of war, and, indeed, for some time before its} Church and State would be a wholesome close, an organized band of robbers and mur- | measure for his subjects, and that he himself derers has had its headquarters in one of the | would in reality be more of an emperor if he large pine swamps with which the State of | were nothing of a pontiff. The Russian North Carolina abounds. In a morass {nac- | royal interview with the Pope may thus pre- cessible to all who are unfamiliar with | cede very important results, to be brought to it these assassins dwell, in defiance | perfection under the rule of the successor of of all law, issuing from it by day or| the venerable Pio Nono. Poland and the by night only for the purpose of! Polish educational question may be bene- robbery or murder. Their leader is a sort | fited and simplified. The hereditary con- of cross between a half-breed Indian and a | flicting arguments which have prevailed be- mulatto, and the members of the gang—eight | tween the Catholics of the Roman and Greek or tea in number—are all related by blood or | churches during so many years, on the much marriage. The chief, whose full name is | disputed question of the primacy of Peter Henry Berry Lowry, is as great an object of | over Paul or of Paul over Peter, may be terror to the people of the surrounding coun- | harmonized eventually by the adoption of try as King Theodore of Abyssinia was to the | 9 joint Russo-Roman Church declaration to neighboring tribes before his stronghold at | the effect that both Peter and Paul were Magdala was stormed and captured by the | ‘right good and earnest” missionaries, but English expedition, The nearcst settlement, | that Peter was.slightly more stubborn iu the which rejoices in the suggestive appellation | enforcement of his will than Paul—being a of the Seuffletown Settlement, is mostly in- | fighter and a good swordsman—and hence im- habited by negroes and mulattoes, many of | pressed his ideas more forcibly on the people, whom have ties of kindred with Lowry and | and go held on tothe claim of the keys and his gang and all of whom regard the outlaw | the pastoral staff tenaciously, The com- with a mingled feeling of terror and admira- | munication between the Holy See and tion, and are always ready to give notice of | the Cabinet of St, Petersburg haa the presence of any officers of justice who | not been “warmly “cordial since pre. may venture into the locality, The State au-| vious to the assemblage of the Ecumenical thorities of North Carolina have proclaimed | council, at which time the Czar Alexander the gang as outlaws, and various attempts | placed some impediments in the way of the to dislodge them from their — fastness | travel of the Polish and other Roman Catholic and secure them dead or alive bave | bishops from Russia to the contre of Pontifical been made, but always without success. | ynity. The outlaws have the reputation, and seem to | The Grand Duke Michael may have, how- deserve it, of being dead shots, and the citi- | over, made only a friendly call on His Holi- sens, whom the Sheriff sometimes enrolls a8 | pegs, and just spoken to him of the condition & posse comitatus for the purpose of aiding in | of health and so forth of the Emperor, who was their capture, are generally very glad to get | in his younger days a special personal out of the morass after several of their num- | fayorite with Mastai-Ferretti, now the Father ber have been struck down by the deadly | of the Faithful. This royal Russian jour- bullets of their unseen foes. ney to Rome may, after all, .have been Such a state of things as exists there in the | for 9 visit made primarily to the King heart of an American State is a standing | of fialy. So the conversation between reproach to. our institutions, and would be | the jay royalists will be likely to tura on incredible if there were not the | the subject of the great buffilo hunt of the Grand Duke Alexis on the American prairies ; for Victor Emmanuel is a ‘‘mighty” huater himself, passionately fond of the sport and the owner of the finest stud of horses in Europe. When he hears what Alexis accomplished perhaps he would come this way on a bunting expedition himself, aad “finish up” by mapping out a transatlantic location for the Vatican in the future. Arrer THE SrorM IN a TEapot in New Orleans comes the Congressional Investigat- ing Committee. Our special despatch will convey aclear and forcible idea of the situa- tion, as far as it can be made clear. The fol- lowers of Governor Warmoth feel themselves securely intrenched in their position, and laugh all the efforts being made by the Carterites to scorn, Although the business people do not take much interest in the fight as it stands, yet there is so much of the prosperity and future of Louisiana wound up in the quarrel that its detailewyill be found interesting. The committee will take up the acts of the United States officials there, and if necessary will proceed to rake up that which no one seems to have hit on yet—namely, the cause of the quarrel. the country. Our people of all classes and complexions are leaving. - The men are sending off the female mem- bers of their families to avoid their being taken as hostages.” Further on he stated his belief that ove of the reasons why this gang had not been broken up was that they were voters on the republican side of politics, and that they carried their political bias into their murderous trade and only killed demo- capture them made by the Sheriff, with a party of @ hundred citizens, and stated that the party had not been able to do anything after they got into the swamp, except have five of their men killed and four wounded. According to this witness these murderers have inspired terror on account of the cer- tainty of their aim, as they rarely fire without killing; and he proclaimed bis bonest belief that their opinion was that so long as they did not kill any but democrats the government would not try to capture and punish them. These remarkable statements were verified by all the other testimony taken on the same point, and certainly reveal a condition of society in the State of North Carolina which The Mormon Demand for the Admission of Utah as a State. The Message sent by Governor Woods to the Territorial Legislature of Utah, vetoing their act directing the calling of a convention to draft a State constitution, caused a lively scene in that body on Saturday. The Governor mildly suggested that, before hoping for admission to the Union, they should abandon polygamy, it being in opposition to the laws of the United States. This was touching the apostles in a tender spot, and a universal kicking up of polygamous heels was the result, ‘Are we nonentities?” indig- nantly asks Apostle Taylor. “If we have committed crimes why are we not punished?” The brazen-faced old sinner then complacently went on deriding the government ina way most unapostolic, It is very certain that the wily Mormon leaders know that, although you can indict and sentence a whole community, itis impossible to award punishment in more thaa a few cases. This is the meaning of the Apostle Taylor's sneering query as to why they were not punished if guilty of any crime. This interrogatory and interjectionary Apos- tle asks, however, one grave question— “Have we any righta?” That the rights of every American citizen should be re- spected is something we are bound to insist on. But rights in this case presupposes duties, and the nation is bound to protect itself against the outlaws in principle who claim and assume rights while defiantly evading the performance of their duties. A creat responsibility is on the government In dealing with the question in its prosent phase. The irate Apostle makes « mistake when he thinks that the question of polygamy is “worn threadbare.” He and his vulgar fellow. sensualiste may wonder, indeed, why we trouble ourselves about the number of wives & man owns among the dreary wastes of Deseret, yet the answer is very simple, We want a grand free country from ocean to ocean, untarnished by savagery, degrading and debasing immo. rality, murder in the name of religion, or any kindred barbarisms of an uncivilized age, They may, therefore, sincerely believe that until they come voluntarily up to the level of the age, or are forced to, their chances of being admitted to the fraternity of States are very slim. It is difficult for one outside of Utah to understand the bitterness of the Saints’ feel- ings om the matter, Thev built un Unie used the mili- tary forces where there was much less cause for their interference, but bave not attempted to put down these outlaws. SveaR-Curep—The offence of the Porkopo- lis Aldermen atoned by the committee of pri- vate individuals who invited Alexis. Waar Mr. Scover Tutnxs Anovt It.—Mr. J. M. Scovel, of New Jersey, who was a great Grant man, must now be numbered among the “sorebeads.” He was at the late St. Louis Con- vention of the Missouri liberal republicans, and made a speech on the occasion, in which he said :—‘'I thought Frank Blair talked like o child when he said Grant, if elected, would never leave the White House. Elect bim again and you will never get him out.” And this new reformer went all the way from Jersey to St. Louis to repeat this original idea of General Blair. But Mr. Scovel bad something else to say. He said that the present Secretary of the Navy, Robeson (there's where the shoe pinches), had declared that with million of dollars he could control New Jersey. But what of that? If half that we have heard oo this subject is true, Jersey was controlled, in the good old days of Camden and Amboy, by subsidies hardly exceeding half a million. Let Mr. Scovel stick to Secretary Robeson and Jersey. Governor Brown, General Blair and Carl Schurz can take care of Missouri, Tne Mexicans are bravely doing the work of mutual extermination, According to our special despatch from Matamoros another fight has taken place between a small body of gov- ernment troops and about the same number of revolutionists, in which the former claim to bave been victorious, The “general” commanding the revolutionists was killed and his dead body “hung on a tree,” no doubt to heighten the martial glory of the victors who carry their courage even to the lengths of warring with the dead,