The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1872, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1872%—VRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letier and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New YorE Velume XXXVi AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-t| —— noara’s ra . ity-third st., corner Sixth ay. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coraer of Sth ay. and 334 sh GERMAN OPERA—THE MrRky WIVES oF WINDSOL. WOOD'S MUShUM, Broadway, cornor 35th st. —Performs ances afternoon and evening.—DABLING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Tar Verknan, = J NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sts.—81ack Croex. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Crossina Tux Lixz— Burraro Bit, ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eighth Fuad: ‘way.—MARRIAGE, " ote sheeet and Bi FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty- streets — Tue Naw Drava oF Divoner’ Vents fourth OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae Bat '° ToOuLME or HumPry Duspry. ‘ig Nas aera MRS. F. B. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. con Advertisements, 2—Adverusements, 3—Tke State Capital: Reform in All Its Aspects ud the Prospects of the Charter; Brookiyn’s Political Trivulations; Alvord, of Onondaga, Imitaning Brownlow, of Tennessee; Report 0} the ‘Terwilliger investigating Committee; a New Yors City Colonel Denounced as a Coward; Bills Introduced, Reported and Passed; Wash- ington: The President and the New York Custom House Frauds; The Nortn Carolina Senatorial Contest; The Southern Claims Com- mission; Deience of New York Harbor; ‘Vic? Woodhull in a Rage— Literary Chit-Chat—New Pobiications Received—Meeting of the Nine- veeuth Ward Ratlroad Reform Association— “The Presidenv’s Opportunity’ —Fisning Bounttes—Canadian Visitors ta St. Louis, 4—Religious Intelligence: Religious Programme tor ‘Yo-Day; HERALD Religious Correspond- ence; Keigious Notes, Personal and General; Miss Smiley Among the Methodists; Thirty- fourth Street Synagogue; Proposed Creation of Cardinals—The Ghost of Lafayette: A voice from the Wires Against Churchily Assertions; The Lave Archbishop Spalding and the Living Professor Morse; Revival of an Old Know- nothing Controversy. S—Miller’s Manifold Misfortunes: The Extortion- ate Fees of His Commissioners; $1,000 for a Week's Work—Proceedings in the Courts— Capture of a Notea Newark Burglar—Penn- sylvania Law—The Great Western Storm— Marine Accidents—Meeting of the Fire Com. mussioners—Shot by Accident—The Veterans of 1812—The Bride of an Hour—Suicide by Manging—Hoboken News—Marriages and Deaths. 6—Eiiitoriais: Leading Article, “Our Transcontl- nevtal Raiiroads—Their Progress and Influ- ence Upon the Country”—Personal Inieili- gence-The Metropolitan Museum of Art— Amusement Announcements, ‘y—Cable Telegrams from France, Germany Spain, England, India, Cuba and the West Indies—Raisihg the Snow Biockade—Bni- nds in tne South—Eiepement of a oung Lady of Seventeen—Between Life and th: Seven Persons Plunged into the lov Waters of Black Lake—Afatrs in Utah— Weather Report—aA Philadelphia Chemist dies in the Toombs—Miscelianeous Telegrams— Business Notices. S—Workmen’s Troubles: The Contemplated General Strike; The Eight Hour Law To Be Rigidly Enforced—sSuicide by Taking Poison— Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. 410—-The Board of Audit: Meeting of the Board Yesterday; City vreditors Getting Restive and Demanding Payment; An Important Exhibit; List of Claims Disallowed by the Board; Mr. Tweed and Judge Fowler Not To be Paid; Report of the Board of Apportionment—The Municipal Ratlroad Committee—Shipping In- 3 telligence~ Advertisements. 11—Advertisements, 12—Adveruisements. “Tom Scort,” the Pennsylvania railroad king, having become President of the Southern Pacific Railway Company, it may be safely conjectured that the late snow blockades on the Union Pacific have satisfied him that there Ss a mint of money in this Southern line, and that he ‘means business.” Tue Riant To Do Goop—the highest of ‘woman’s rights—has been undertaken by a new society to promote the comfort of patients in the various charitable institutions of the city, and Mrs, Farragut, the widow of our great Admiral, is thdbead of the association. A most commendable institution this, and in behalf of Mrs. Farragut and the benevolent , ladies associated with her we hope for the fullest encouragement in their good work by the community, and especially by all the officials directly concerned. Tne Freon Commerroian Tarirr with England is likely to be revised in the spirit of the free trade principle of the Cobden-Bona- parte treaty. President Thiers will thus be saved a vast deal of trouble, and Great Britain still enjoy a vast deal of trade profit. M. Thiers could scarcely carry his country back to protection. Lowry axp His Banp oF Bricanps.—We publish to-day an account of the most daring exploits in robbery ever recorded of this ruf- fianly band. Providing themselves with neces- sary tools from a neighboring carriage factory and stealing a horse and dray from a livery stable, Lowry and his men eatered the offices of the only banker in Lumberton, North Caro- lina, quietly placed the safe and its contents on the dray; then drove to the Sheriff's Office and did likewise, subsequently taking their departure, The Deputy Sheriff followed the next day ; but his force was too weak to capture the gang, and they retreated with about twenty-five thousand dollars in money and goods. Thirty-five thousand dollars re- ward was offered some time ago by the State government for the bodies of these men, dead or alive. Are there no poor officers in North Oarolina who could unite and either take or exterminate these terrors of their State? the settlements westward, and which, before the expiration of many years, will span the Continent. The Northern Pacific, from the head of Lake the advantage of terminating at a point nearly two-fifths of the distance across the Continent, where it meets cheap transporta- tion by shipping through all the lakes and to Europe by the St. Lawrence. the tableland approaching the British boun- dary, which divides the waters flowing south by the tributaries of the Mississippi and Mis- souri, and those that flow to tae north through British territory. and has a fine, dry climate, with an abund- Then there isthe Atlantic and Pacific Rail- road from St. Louis and the southwestern corner of Missouri Territory, New Mexico and Arizona to Cali- fornia, The distance is shorter than by the Union and Central Pacific Railroad. This ronte is free from obstructions by snow, and for the greater part of the distance is through a rich pastoral, agri- cultural or mineral country. there is almost a perpetual semi-tropical climate. Besides its connection with the vast railroad systems of the North, it is more directly connected with the railroads of the South, with those of the rich and progressive State of Texas and the lines which are pro- jected to the Mexican border and the Gulf of Mexico. tinental routes, then, has special advantages, the Transcontinental LKailronds — Their Progress and Influence U; the Coustry. enn « nto A few years age, when Whitney and others proposed to make a railroad to the Pacific from Lake Superior, and applied to Congress for a charter and land grants, few believed the scheme was either practicable or necessary. It met with much the same incredulity and opposition that Professor Morse’s magnetic telegraph scheme did when first brought be- fore Congress. Hardly any one could imagine then that a railroad would be completed across the Continent by the year 1869, Yet this marvel of American enterprise and engineering skill was accomplished within a few years after it had been authorized and commenced. The route selected for this first transcontinental railroad was not the one proposed by Whit- ney, but a more central one. The Union and Central Pacific line, on which the cars have been running several years across the Conti- nent, embraced more settled territory and a larger population than any other at the time. Both economical and political considerations favored it. It connected the great port and flourishing city of San Francisco, the best agricultural and richest mineral sec- tions of California, the Territory of Utab, the large semi-rebellious Mormon popu- lation of which there was a political necessity for controlling, and the rapidly de- veloping States of Kansas and Nebraska, with the railroad system .of the older States, the Atlantic seaboard and the commercial me- tropolis of New York. Engineering ditficul- ties, the heavy cost of the work and the pros- pect of obstruction by deep snow in winter had to yield to these considerations. And this, one of the most stupendous works of the age, has proved successful and a blessing to the whole country. But the Union and Central Pacific is only the pioneer transcontinental railroad to sev- eral others., Not only are others needed, but the success of this shows that other rail- roads across the Continent can be made and will pay. While the Union and Central route has some advantages, particularly in those things we have named and in traversing the central portion of the territory of the United States, it is liable to serious obstructions from snow in winter. This has been seen within the last few weeks. It is not improbable that communication with the Pacific States and Territories by this route might be suspended for some time by this cause during very severe winters, At present there are two other Pacific railroads projected, which are being pushed forward rapidly to the limit of starting Superior, has It traverses It is free from deep snows ance of rich soil. It enters on the west the productive region of the Columbia River and terminates a thousand miles or so nearer Japan and the northern part of China than San Francisco. In the future, with the growth of Oregon and other States north of California, this railroad must become the most valuable artery of commerce with Asia. through the Indian Along this line Every one of these great transcon- and all will be traversed by a Pacific Railroad at no distant day. There is, however, another and an impor- tant line of railroad which may perhaps be called transcontinental; for, though its present projected limit is the Rio Grande and Mexican boundary, it must ultimately reach city of Mexico and the Pacific shore. We refer to the Missouri, Kan- sas and Texas Railway. The northern division, starting from Junction City, on the line of the Kansas and Pacific Railway, traverses the State of Kansas in a south- easterly direction to the Indian Territory. Another division, uniting with that at Par- sons, starts from Sedalia, Missourl, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. From Parsons, or the southern line of Kansas, this road is being constructed through the Indian Territory, and will pass to Preston, on the Red River and Texas frontier. From Preston it is designed to extend the railroad through the great and productive State of Texas, by the way of the city of Austin, to the Rio Grande, at, or near Camargo, Mexico. This line through the Indian Territory is authorized by the federal government. There is no richer country in the world, probably, than this through which the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad will run, and that for nearly the whole distance, Apart from the agricultural products the State of Texas could supply meat enough for the consumption of half the Northern States if there were sufficient means of transportation, Some obstacles appear to have been raised to the progress and development of this grand and far-reaching project. There has been some difficulty about the Indian Territory. This is a vast and most valuable region, larger than the New England States, which was set apart for tho Indian tribes, numbering less than seventy thousand. It seems to be neces- sary from the pressure of settlements, civili- zation and railroad progress, a3 well as look- ing to the future advance of population in that direction, to create a regular Territorial goverament over this Indian Territory. There is a conflict of necessity, treaty guarantees and the exercise of supreme authority, With- certain. than that gress and development of the country. ing country. Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Com- travel in five or six days from New York to the famous city, of Montezuma, From thence, too, there will be in time a railroad to Acapulco or Mazatlan, opening o new and shorter route to Australia and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Thus we see, then, the rapid strides that are being made to traverse the Continent by railroads in every direction. The accom- plishment of these projects sooner or later, and certainly at no distant future, is inevit- able. They are the great agents of civilization, progress and wealth. No country is so favor- ably situated as this for railroad development, and in none will be seen such mighty results, There is room enough for all the great trans- continental lines projected, and let all be en- couraged. A Red Hat for America. The death of the venerable Archbishop Spalding, of Baltimore, amid the mourning in the Catholic Church caused by the loss of one of its brightest ornaments, recalls a question that was the subject of animated discussion after the demise of a uo less eminent prelate, Archbishop Hughes, of New York. This is the long-expected Cardinal's hat to which America is entitled, and which, it was said, would have been conferred on either of the above-mentioned prelates had not Death claimed them for a higher dignity. At the approaching Consistory of the Catholic Church, to be held in the Vatician this month, a con- siderable number of scarlet hats will likely be distributed by Pope Pius IX. When we con- sider the influential and important position occupied by the Catholic Church in the United States, and the vast number of its children, it is but reasonable to expect that one of these scarlet hats will find its way across the At- lantic. The South American bishops are said to entertain sanguine hopes that the desired dignity will be conferred on one of their num- ber ; yet it is not easy to see what claims they can advance paramount to those of their brethren in North America. Intelligence, education, enterprise and constantly in- creasing power are the qualities that distinguish the great republic from its misoamed imitators in the South, and the presence of one of the Sacred College here would undoubtedly have the effect of binding the Catholics of the United States closer to the Holy See, and would be a recognition of the great services done by them for the Holy Father in his hour of need. In the selection of an American pre- late worthy of being invested with the dignity of Cardinal the name of Archbishop McClos- key suggests itself. His reputation and position place him foremost among his brethren in this country, and render him the most conspicuous candidate for the scarlet hat. New York is the most important diocese in the United States, and the noble character and profound erudition of Archbishop McClos- key give him a commanding influence in the American Church. Among the twenty-four hats now at the disposal of the Roman Pontiff it will be strange if one shall not finda worthy possessor in New York. The jealousy of Ltalians against the introduction of foreigners into the Sacred College has considerably abated during the long reign of Pio Nono, and an American Cardinal might exercise an im- portant and beneficial influence at the councils of the Vatican. A PraotioaL Civi, Sgrvicg Rerorm.— President Grant has a practical way of setting about civil service reform which is not accept- able to office-holders of a certain description or to those who are simply political reformers. When the rascalities of the general order business were proved to his satisfaction, the President went to the root of the evil by ordering the abolition of the system, Now that the abuses existing in the New York Custom House are exposed, he wastes no time in beating about the bush, but bags his game at once by order- ing the United States District Attorney to pro- ceed against every officer who has been shown tohave received a bribe and against every per- son who has offered to bribe an official, Grant deals with dishonest public employés as he dealt with the Southern rebels—he marches directly on their lines, At this rate the growlers who abuse the President bad better be contented to remain out of office, Prorgssor Morse Writes To tHe Heratp, discussing an old controversy that was worn threadbare about twenty years ago. Whether Lafayette ever said or wrote the words imputed to him by the Know Nothings of that time as his distinct opinion, whether he only quoted them to condemn them, as the Catholics maintained, or whether he ever uttered them at all is of very little moment now. One way or the other it does not impair in the slightest the memory of the venerable prelate just deceased, nor need the worn-out story fret for an instant the white-baired father of the electric telegraph, still, happily, in our midst, The good old Father Morse, we are sure, does injustice to our correspondent when he thinks it possible that the latter should imagine him dead. Men like Professor Morse do not pass away in this age of gratitude unnoticed—men whose existence are epochs in the world’s advance, It is gratifying and emblematic of two great collateral successes—the telegraph and the Heratp—to learn from the Professor himself that he has our journal laid before him every morning, with his rolls and coffee— food for the mind and food for the body. This isasit should be. Long may the Professor live to digest both, unannoyed by the polemics of a quarter of a century gone by, Finst SuNDAY IN Lent, and, weather per- mitting, we expect a remarkably full attend. Lance at all gur Rrincipal churches thia dav, out going into the details or merits of this question we may assert that nothing is more the Indians cannot be permitted to stand in the way of the pro- There must be railroads and white settlements through their Territory stretching in the direc- tion of Mexico, New Mexico and the Pacific. Nor will it be long, with the railroad progress and growth of Texas, before there will be a line to the city of Mexico through the rich mineral and tropical regions of that neighbor- The city of Mexico is nearer New York than San Francisco, and with a railroad to Camargo, as projected by the pany, it would not be long before we could =e Clerks and Laborers. at the meeting of the Board of Audit yester- day, although reprehensible, was not alto- gether inexcusable. The State Legislature passed a law some three weeks since for the purpose of insuring the immediate payment of clerks, laborers and other honest creditors of the city who have been kept out of the money due to them last year in consequence of our recent municipal troubles. There could be no question or doubt of the intention of the Legis- lature or of the spirit of the law; yet as soon as the Board of Audit met technical objections were made to this and that provision, and after a number of vexatious delays, which ought never to have taken place, it was deemed expedient that a supplemental law should be passed explanatory of the original act, This was done, and there has been time enough since then, it would seem, to settle the more pressing claims of the clerks and laborers, who are the greatest sufferers for the want of money, and whose accounts can be paid as soon as audited, under the provi- sions of the law. The Board has, itis true, done some work; it has made the apportion- ments for the several departments of the city government up to the 30th of April, and has disallowed a number of claims of doubtful honesty or of unquestionable dishonesty, and it has paid the street-cleaning con- tractor, who never cleans the streets, and has reimbursed some banks and trust companies for money lent to the Comptroller; but it has paid but few of the clerks and laborers whose families are suffering, and, in some instances, in actual want, although the urgency of their cases was cited at Albany as the wost powerful argu- ment in favor of the speedy passage of the Audit bill. These were the parties who yes- terday made some riotous demonstrations in presence of the Board, and it is scarcely sur- prising that angry feelings should have been excited when the announcement was made that the Board would adjourn until Thursday next, without having made any provision to mect the claims of those who should have been the first to receive their pay. It is to be hoped that no further delay will be made in the payment of these men, in whatever department of the city government they may have beenemployed. The examina- tion of pay rolls may take time, and a smalt army of claimants cannot be paid in a day; but the law was passed specially for the im- mediate relief of these very persons, and the urgency of their cases demands extraordinary efforts on the part of those whose duty it is to settle with them on the instant. The Board has, no doubt, found the apportionment busi- ness a laborious task, as well as the investi- gation of the long list of accounts that have been disallowed; but its first duty is to the poor clerks, laborers and other employ¢és who have been kept without their honestly earned money for seven or eight months. They should be paid before the Board turns its attention to any other subject. The amount of the apportionment for the ordinary expenses of the city and county government forfour months, up to the first day of March, is close upon seven and a half million dollars, being at the rate of twenty-three and a half million dollars for the year. It is doubtful, however, whether the expenditures can bo kept within these limits, and we shall, no doubt, find a deficiency bill needed at the close of the year. Sewer Gas and Contagious Diseases. Ashort time ago the Heratp pointed out the danger of contagious disease resulting from the pneumatic diffusion of sewer gas in our houses. The late report of the City Sani- tary Inspector on spotted fever and other con- tagia fully sustains our view that this evil must be remedied in the construction of mod- ern dwelling houses before we can ever hope to escape the scourge of the pestilence. In the five cases on one floor cited by Dr. Mor- ris it is a remarkable and conclusive fact that each case commenced with an attack in the night, when ventilation was closed and the foul exhalation from the sewer pipes was free to infuse its poison into the sleeping vic- tims. Nor is this danger confined to the abodes of the poor and those enfeebled by hard toil and insufficient or unwholesome food, but insinuates itself into our most luxurious chambers and attacks all classes. Every varia- tion of the atmospheric level and every strong wind that blows serves to waft the germs of disease and death into the pipes which com- mounicate with our bathrooms and bedrooms; and, as the Heratp has before shown its readers, their houses are im direct connec- tion by the common sewer with the foulest and most fetid nests of contagion in the most abandoned parts of the city. The Health Officer says :—‘‘Experience has con- vinced myself, as well as the corps of health inspectors, that to these direct causes may be attributed by far the larger proportion of typhoid and other fevers of a sthenic and asthenic character, and that contagious dis- eases here find their most active factors.” It is well known to scientific men that gases and odors move through other gaseous bodies and air without mixing or becoming diluted, so that Coleridge wittily said he detected in the city of Cologne a hundred distinct smells, and it is because of their immiscibility that poisonous sewer gases are peculiarly danger- ous; and it is almost idle to employ an army of scavengers to clean the streets when we take no precaution against the enemy within doors. It may be hard ever to teach our architects and house builders their technical duties; but, to use the words of the Sanitary Inspector, ‘house drainage, tight-jointed pipes, efficient traps in waste and sewer pipes, with a free outlet for gases by a continuous open-mouthed sewer pipe, beyond and above the roofs of houses,” are much greater neces- sities than the thousand and one so-called improvements in the furnishing and equipping of hotels and private residences, Movina For Grant.—A Grant Central Cam- paign Club has been organized in Boston, with ex-Congressman Alexander H. Rice as Presi- dent, and Governor Washburn, Senator Wilson and the entire delegation in the House of Rep- resentatives from Massachusetts among the Vice Presidents, The name of Senator Sumner does not appear in the list, This is something like enacting the play of ‘‘ Hamlet,” with the character of Hamlet omitted, ‘Tho Board of Audit=The Claims of ee | ; Our local religious contetaporaries this The demonstration of popular feeling mace’ | tagh i? Our Religious Press Table. the nratter‘jn the following light :— Dr. Cuyler ‘has escaped. Dr. Cuyier will live to fasct) unnumbered readers with ant articles {n the religious journals, ‘The man was travelling along the beaten path of clarch work, when au angel met him—ap earthly angel—with no wings but words, Discreet, comely and useful was she. the Quakers she came fort, moved by the good to preach good will to men. This had she done with Much success, and when Dr. Cuyler beheld that the Lord was with ber he reasoned as did Peter once betore, “What was I that 1 could withstand God?” So he asked Miss Smiley to Preach in hus pulpit, ang * From in his pulpit did she preach. Quakeress in a Presbyterian pulpit! Fox and Barclay teaching Calvin and a Tur- retin! ‘Tmis was flat rebellion against Paul the Corinthians! “Let your women keep silence i your assembites,” said Paul to Corinth, Miss Smiley thought women had been silent enough, and long enough, to satisfy the spirit ih a Cpe Soe tant me ee a (inna in n Quakeresses, train: speak in & society that loved to have them preach, in the midst of @ new and Christian civilization, When he Co amt uliterate Greek women to hold wetlr The Methodist says, in this connection :— Methodism has, in the treatment of this question, ven women tree scope for the exercise of their ents, and yet has exercised a wholesome Chris- Uan prudence. In experience and prayer meetings they have always taken part; in the holding of Public services they have labored as evangelists rather than as licensed preachers, This nas given Opportunity for a freedom in the form of their pub- lic addresses which has been of advan to the Church, In such manner the excellent Dr. and Mrs, Palmer have travelied over the United States, the Canadas and England, In a few instances Quarterly Conferences have women as local preachers. The question of the admission of one to an Annual Conference has been raised, but Not decided, Systematic preaching, of course, re- quires special training, and it is not likely that many Women will offer themselves for that work; but in evangelizing labors they have been and can be made most extensively uselul. ~ The Independent (Congregationalist) closes a two-column leading editorial on the subject in the following jocose strain :— One of the clerical debaters in the alscussion before the Presbytery of Brooklyn closed the most animated passage of his speech by shouting at the top of his breath, ‘The nineteenth century and the woman are upon us!!! Nobody seemed to be alarmed but bimseif; and in less than ten minutes even his alarm had collapsed into the blandest mas- culine composure. He will probably retain his self- sion, unless some juakeress should appen to frignten him again; and in that event we recommend him to repeat the shout, ‘The nine- teenth century and the woman are upon us!!!” Not otherwise, as Jeremy ‘faylor would say, did “Chicken Little, when @ fallen leaf brushed her feathers, scream out, ‘fhe sky 1s falling! | saw it with my cred and I heard it with iny ears, and @ piece of it tell on my tail! ”” The “Hvangelist (Presbyterian) contents itself with publishing a report of the proceed- ings of the Presbytery of Brooklyn in relation to the proposed censure of Dr. Cuyler for permitting Miss Smiley to preach from his pulpit, The Observer (Presbyterian) endorses the action of the Presbytery in resolving that, “To teach and exhort or to lead in prayer in public and promiscuous assembly is clearly forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles,” and scouts the attempt to make it appear that the opposition to the course of Dr. Cuyler in this matter was from the Old School Presby- terians, It will thus be seen that the staid old Observer is also frightened at the appari- tion of a pretty and eloquent Quakeress in a Presbyterian pulpit. The Golden Age says:— There ts no question in regard to the character, the orthodoxy, or the spirit of the gifted Quakeress. Kher work 1s indisputavie. She represents a class. She stands for the New Order, a priestess of the new civilization. And the Presbytery looks at her, and behind her to those who would come througn the door were it once opened, and bolts the door with atext, And so it stands self-condemned. Our worst wish for it is that when its churches languish and are dying, and it shall send and entreat some of the new order of preachers to come and revive them, they will recall the death sentence it pro- nounced on itself. The Freeman's Journal protests against the sending of Catholic children to Protestant schools. It wants it to be Thundered in the ears of Catholics that they can- not make their Easter Communion if ee thus offer their children to the tmmuinent peril of perdition, and the Inning of the cure will be wrought, When Catholic parents understand that they can- not have absolution in the confessional while the; let their children go to godless or to Protestant schools they will soon tind a remedy. The Jewish Times has an article on the ancient progress of the Jews, in the course of which it says :— Why, the meanest Jew, the ragged dealer in “old clo’,”” the mender of broken glass plates, can boast of @ more ancient nobility than the scion of the old- est princely house of Europe! When the Black Prince was earning his laurels the house of David had already sent its proqenty into all the corners of the glove, and at the time when the ancestors of the present nobijity were yet steeped in gross ignor+ ance and superstition Jewish sages haa already promulgated the very ethics of morality and wisdo! which form the groundwork of the present social system. The Hebrew Leader touches upon the an- niversary of the birthday of Moses—an event that happened a good many years ago. ‘ We rejoice to notice that a spirit of revival is spreading over the country, and even the densely populated cities are being blessed with works of benign grace. Let the good work go on. Baok AGAIN aT THE Bgainnine.—The American case on the Alabama claims is the official correspondence, boiled down, of Mr. Charles Francis Adams, our Minister at Lon- don, during the war of our rebellion, and the British case is only an enlargement of the surly answers and excuses of Lord John Rus- sell to the pungent complaints of Mr. Adams. England submits her case to the arbitrators agreed upon; we submit our case, and here we stand by the treaty, in leaving the judg- ment to the Court. But England demands a modification of our case, and she must have it or she will withdraw from the Court. What, then, can we do? Wecan only stand by our case and the treaty, and leave to England the responsibility and the consequences of upset- ting the treaty. A year of war with England would make us completely independent of English manufactures, whereas, otherwise, we may be kept paying tribute to English cotton, woollen and iron mills for fifty years to come. Tere 1s No Prack Like Romg.—It is re- ported in a German paper—the Vaterland— that in @ recent conversation with some Roman Catholic visitors, Count Andrassy, the Austrian Prime Minister, suggested that there was no place now for the Popo but Rome; that it was the pdsition and the policy of Austria to maintain her present friendly relations with Italy, and that ‘‘he knew of no Catholic Power, not excepting Austria, which was ina position to offer an asylum to the Pope.” The Holy Father has evidently re- signed himself to this opinion; but io the event of the restoration of the empire in France this condition of things will doubtless be changed, and the time is fast approaching when there must be a change of the present uncertain and unsatisfactory state of things in France. eae ‘ Tae Week 1x Watt Street was charac. terized by general dulness, Even an over- issue of five million dollars of shares of a prominent speculative railway failed to arguse, wore than temporary animation, week ave mostly exercised in regard to the action of the Rey. ‘Dr. Cuyler in allowing a Woman to preach from his pulpit. Henry Ward Beecher, in the Christian Union, puts The Presbytery met to doom him; bus their wrath wal turned. away, and Spirtt | surprised by the number and qual a ts * Mr, Gindstoud and His Dimecultion Mr. Gladstone has most assuredly been successful Pritie Minister. He has carried several great meggures of reform. The daring and the success of his Irish reform policy have secured for him s\place on the select roll of honor of English statesmen. It now, how- ever, begins to appear that in the matter of domestic reform he has attempted too much. Never, perhaps, were there so many domestic questions demanding attention, dividing the sentiments of the people, and by the impe- riousness with which they insist upon’solution, irritating political parties, Ireland ds not satisfied with what has been done for her, The home rule movement, which, though not yet formidable, may give trouble to future English statesmen, is abundant proof that Ireland dees not mean to be satisfied with anything whick England can give. Then again, Ireland has her school question. scarcely more contented than Ireland. The educational question in Scotland demands the immediate attention of the government, and the difficulty of the government is in- creased by the fact that Scotlawd does not very well know what she wants. In addition to the Scottish and Irish questions the purely English questions are almost num- berless. There are the Collier and Ewelme scandals, as they are called, one or'both of which may bring censure on government. There is the Licensed Victuallers’ bill 5 there is the denominational education question; there is the Megwra Commission trouble; there is the army retirement propo~ sal; there is the Miners’ bill, and there are many other questions besides. Mr. Gladstone has on his hands a big, a heavy, a difficult task this session. All this, too, apart from the trouble which has suddenly arisen in con- nection with the Alabama claims and the work of the Joint High Commission. How is Mr. Gladstone to face all these difficulties? There are those who see in the near future the failure of the present English Ministry. It is notorious that Mr. Disraeli and Earl Derby and the other chiefs of the tory party are full of hope. It will unquestionably be a lively session, The tories have a chance, if they know how to use it. It will not be wonderful if, through the divisions of the liberals and the pressure of the tories, an appeal to the people should be founda ne- cessity, Mr. Gladstone testing his strength at the polls, At the same time it is impossible for us to admit that in the present condition of Great Britain the tories could remain in power for three weeks, or that any other Minister than Mr. Gladstone is able to stand by the helm in the immediately approaching storm. For some time past Mr. Gladstone has had but one possible rival; but Lord Derby, to the surprise and vexation of many, has voluntarily declared his adhesion to the policy of the tories, At the close of the present session of Parliament the reasonable presumption is that for good or evil Mr. Glad- stone will still-be Prime Minister of Great Britain. Coneress YEstERDAY—Tue LEGISLATIVE Harts Dzsertep.—The Senate closed its week's work, or rather talk, by taking a holi- day yesterday. The Speaker and all but a score of members followed the example of the Senate, and kept away from the Capitol, The House, however, went through the form of having an open session, in which half a dozen speeches, or essays, on various topics were rehearsed to empty benches and galleries and the manuscript delivered over to the reporters to become part of the Globe collection of Con- gressional oratory, and then to be distributed as free mail matter among the constituents of the members who participated in this dismal farce. Tue Granp Dox and his party leave New Orleans via Mobile, by rail, for Pensacola to- day, where the Russian fleet awaits them. Personal Intelligence. Lieutenant General P. H. Sneridan, and Colona George R. Forsyth, of his staff, are at tne Filtn Avenue Hotel. Congressman C. W. Kendall, of Nevada, was. at the St. Nicholas Hotel for a shor. time yesterday. Colonel James C. Ward, of Tennessee, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Colonel C. Webster, of Chicago, is quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. James W. Tucker, the banker, of Paris, France, ig domictied at the Brevoort House, Colonel Rush C. Hawkins.has returned to the St. James Hotel from Albany. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, Is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General J. H. Farasworth, member of Congress. from Ilinois, is among yesterday’s arrivais at the Metropolitan Hotel, General E, Jardine, of New Jersey, is at the Eve- rett House. General Jardine, while 1eading nis com- mand tn a charge upon the mob, during the riots ot July, 1863, received a wound that has crippled him for life, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. At last we have something to represent to us what the Louvre is to Paris and the National Gal- lery to London. To the vast body of the public who cannot afford to visit Europe the Metropoit- tan Museum of Art will supply a means of becoming acquainted with the works of tne great artists of past ages. Of course, the principal value of such @ collection as has been brougnt together in Filth avenue is to the student, for he will be able now to study from his first step in art the manner and excellence of the different schools. Nor will the effect be less happy on the body of art patrons by teaching them to set the proper value on merely meretrictous modern work, which 1s popular just now, but will certainly sink m time to is proper level. Considering the Many diMiculties to be contended with in gatnering together good works by celebrated artists, we con- fess that we were pleasantly surprised at the suc- cess which has atcended the first efforts to establish @ representative metrupolitan art galery. The works have been carefully selected and a really large proportion are of great merit, while even the inferior paintings are of importance as illustrating =the periods of art. So far as Wo, saw the earliest examples did not reach sarther back than the four- teenth century; but trom that period forward tne scnools have been pretty well represented. How- ever, none but the Dutch painters, can be considered As at all adequately represented. Thisis, no doubt, owing to (he fact that the collection Was originally maue in Belgium, Examples of the French aad English schools are very rare, the latter, we believe, being confined to @ portrait by Reynolds; but this elect Will, no doubt, be remedied in time, In fact, the whole of the collection was not ina position to be shown last nigat, but only enough to sausiy the artist and the press that the work had been under. taken seriously and carried out witi intelligence, ‘The Legislature has already passed a law ee ing the Department of Public Works to rae hait a million dollars to erect a suitable building tm Central Park, and we have no douot that by the tme it has been completed the trustees will have jargely added to the present collection, which, so far 48 1 goes, 1S Most satisiactory, The reception of the press and artists jast night was quile a Tieasant avair, and even the most inveterate #rumblers had to admit that Men were agreeably ity of the works. About one bundred and thirty thousand doliart were expegded on the collections Scotland, however, is © is