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6 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘Tre Presidential Coentest—Goneral Grant, the Opposition Elements and the Ap- proaching Outside Party Conventions. From day to day, as we approach the active field work of the Presidential campaign, the shaping of the political elements of the coun- try, administration and opposition, still more sharply than on the day preceding, foreshadows the renomination and the re-election of Gen- eral Grant. Since the time of Monroe we have —— had no candidate for a second Presidential Volume XXXVIL.......00++++-+++s++2++++eN@. 50 | term whose prospects at this early stage of the canvass have been better than the prospects of General Grant for a triumphant endorse- ‘ment by the people. In 1868, beyond his great achievements asa soldier in the cause of thé Union, the country knew nothing of this quiet, modest, unpretending man. Io grateful recognition of his incalculable ser- vices as a soldier he was advanced by the people to the head of the government. Now, in the work of retrenchment and reform, and of reconstruction in the cause of equal rights, harmony and peace, at home and abroad, he has given us the proofs of a practical states- manship which has won for him and his ad- minigtration the general approval and confi- dence of the country. To look at him and to talk with him ninety-nine men perhaps out of a hundred would suppose him to be pos- sessed of none of the gifts of the first class Bueracue Bavpin, soldier or statesman; and yet his achieve- ments in the field and in the cabinet for prac- 2b ARGH ACIS RCE voRcer sy OMS Vooate | ia) work stamp him as one of the most re- UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourweenth st. and Bread- | markably gifted men of the age. Best of all, en ean ee he has Saniaisal @ character for good, hard common sense, honesty of purpose and devo- tion to the public interests which cannot be shaken with the great body of the people. Whence, then, this extraordinary hue and cry against the military despotism and mani- fold corruptions of General Grant's adminis- tration? Whence these remarkable disaffec- tions of such menas the Sumners, the Fentons, the Greeleys, the Trumbulls, the Gratz Browns, and all these anti-Grant republicans? It is only the old story of over-ambitious poli- ticians and disappointed office beggars seeking their small revenges. From Washington, who was the best abused man of his tive, we have had the same croppings out, mure or less, SHEET, | me every administration to this day. There ————— * | was a formidable company of bolters from Gen- New York, Monday, SEE 19, 1872. eral Jackson during his first term, and such = an array of opposition elements in the outset CONTENTS OF TO-DAY!S HERALD. against his re-election—national republicans, \pacz. anti-Masons and Southern nullifiers, Calhoun Sea rextncmens, at the head of them—that they threatened the 3—The Ku Klux: Repurt of the Congressional annihilation of ‘‘Old Hickory” and the democ- eke EA dh ptt onetcaoge teal sampalgn | racy; but the result was the annihilation of Minority. Say about the Btate of the South; these discordant and incongruous opposition domped on Bors Slee aaNet oT ax Cons | forces, and a defeat to Calboun from which he fedecd lenaenre rave ana Murder : A Hoary | never recovered. From Jackson dowa to Lin- Manufacturer; Py en migeen eeanay. coln we had no President equal to the diffi- Brotbiea in Newbung--The Alleged Corrupt culties to be overcome in order to command a @—Religinn Ts pn arg rat RAGS re-election, Van Buren was cut out in 8 con- can Church; Father Tom Burke on Heuyen | vention of his friends by the application of Papers ae Does Bible i the | the two-thirds rule as an ultimatum from the ae re aT ae Grace Southern oligarchy, in consequence of his op- Divine Providence; Archbishop McCloskey on position to the scheme of a war with Mexico Onlonge os the Ghee SP el nace involved in the Southern scheme of the annex- cae tue Catholic Churches on the Pemten- | ation of Texas. Harrison, Polk, Taylor, &—Religious (Continued from Fourth Page\—The | Pierce and Buchanan were mere temporary A aes fs the Brooklyn, Navy Yard A For- managers; and the great revolutionary storm Superinten lent Miller's Detences, ‘special Re- which began to thicken and darken the sky Eaves Mase ‘Against tie! In ook Deere over the amiable Polk burst with all its fury ment—A Hewark coe MUTdering @ Mis- | upon the head of poor old Buchanan, and tore 6—Editoriais: Leading article, “The Presidential | to pieces and swept away the old democratic ee cae ec: the Oppeairion Ele- | party. Conventions" Annusoment announcements: 1 iti ‘7—Editorial (Continued trom Sixth Page)—France: The ecg of the rebellion and the necessities ae Peactionary Movemant Toward Royalty of the Union cause made the re-election of General Sherman's Tour--News irom Wash. | Lincoln a necessity to the republican party. ps alld Comdntion rise othe Uap General | And yet there was a powerful array of bolters Creditors—The Weather—Personal . Intelll- | against him as a candidate for another term ; Sere ia Ue teases LR aaa Run: | ana particularly conspicuous among these men S-New Metropolitan Churches: | Hplscopalian, | was Chief Justice Chase, as an active rival gress; Memorial Presbyteriau Houses of Wor- | republican candidate. The anti-Lincoln _re- A''Magniticent. Jewish ‘Temple About. Com publican movement, however, finally took the pleted: locrease of Churches in Thirty Years— | shape of an ind=pendent new party in a Investigation; Will the Coarters of the Diploma national convention at Cleveland, which nom- Sellers Be Taken from Tnem?—The Alleged | inated the independent Presidential ticket of General Jobn C. Fremont and General Joho Cochrane. But with the renomination of Lincoln by the regular republican conven- tion Fremont and Cochrane withdrew from the fight, Chase capitulated, Greeley fell into line, and worked like a faithful omnibus horse to the end of the campaign, and the anti-Lin- coln republican party mysteriously disap- peared. Naturally enough, however, after his second election, Lincoln was as much annoyed by the demands and complaints and impracticable crotchets of Greeley as he had been before. At last, however, in being humored with the special diplomatic mission of peacemaker on the part of the United States, with George Sanders and others on the part of the so-called Confederate States, at Niagara Falls, Mr. Greeley was pacified, and became a great admirer of Lincoln, until itleaked out that this extraordinary diplo- matic mission was only one of “Old Abe's” practical jokes, Boston Swindle. @-Horse Notes—Pigeon Shooting—Mysterious Disappearance—Suicide of a Youth by Taking Powon—Financial and Commercial Reports— Domestic and Havana Markets—Commerce and Navigation—Dry Goods Market—Court Calendars for To-Day—Marriages and Deaths, 10—Europe : #ritisn Comments on the Wasnington ‘Treaty ; No Indirect Losses; Important Move- ment Among the Parts Clergy; Another Se- ceder from Infallibility; the Spanish Cortes in an Uproar Previous to Its Dissolution--The Alabama Claims—Did the Alabama Destroy Our Commerce—International Copyright— Music and the Drama—New York City News— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, ‘Li—An Ohio fragedy : A Negro Murders His Wife nd Shoots Himself, in Springfleld—The Na- Uonal Game—City Government Proceedings — Advertisements, 19—Advertisements. So “here we are again, Mr. Merryman, and what horse will you ride now?” It is the same old circus, with its side shows, though the pro- gramme is changed. Mr. Sumner now takes the place which was occupied by Calhoun in 1882 against Jackson; Mr. Trumbull takes the place which was filled by Mr. Chase in 1864, and Mr. Greeley comes up, as usual, to head off the party favorite. He is the clown of the ring, a8 completely established and as great a favorite in his line as Dan Rice. Moreover, he is ‘‘our later Franklin;” but still he has his Custom House account to settle with Grant, Conkling and Murphy, and he has re- duced it to the ‘“‘one-term principle.” And, Tom, Dick, Harry, and all the rest, this is all there is of this independent, liberal reform, anti-Grant republican coalition. From the management of Governor Gratz Brown, in a little Missouri gathering, these disappointed republicans, outside the kitchen, are to have a national convention at Cincinnati on the 6th of May, and the result will probably be an- other independent Fremont and Cochrane Pre- sidential ticket, The idea at the bottom of the scheme is a coalition of the anti-Grant republi- cans with the democracy on a “‘liberal repub- lican” candidate. We fear, however, that it will be found as useless to try to mix these incongruous elements as were the efforts to fuse the opposition factions of 1832 against Jackson. Meantime, on the 2ist instant we are to NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREBT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR _ All business or news letter and telegraphic Jespatches must be addressed New YorE Herat. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEAT! rd i shoorn RE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av. 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No. 201 Bowery. — RB, AC. bid STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth — WaANeEn Myer, ‘L, Fourteenth street.—SorrEz OF PAVILION, No. 683 Broadway.—Tux V! ty way.—Tae VIENNA Lavy Ox- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteentn street. genx RING, AcROBATS, 40. i pmesniaad NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANAT‘ -_ wht reed ly OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. |, DB. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUS ie BOIRNOR AND ART. 'USEUM, 745 Broadway. TRIPLE New York Town Execrions.—The recent town elections in this State indicate but slight ehanges in the political complexion of the several county bodies since last year. Where the republicans ruled last year they continue to do so this year, and the same may be said with regard to the democrats. CAL on THE DemooraTio National Exz- outive Commirrez.—The Louisville Ledger— straight-out democrat—makes a loud call upon the Democratic National Committee to show its band. It says the Presidential cam- paign is already entered upon by the republi- cans, and as yet no movement whatever has been made by the democratic committee as to when and where the national convention is to be held or whether there Is to be a national convention at all or not, The Ledger speaks for a very important class of Kentucky demo- crats. Will its call be responded to? Mextoo—Tue Revoivtion anv Lervo De Txyapa.—A report comes from Havana that the passengers by the last steamer from Mexico say that in the event of the downfall of Juarez Lerdo de Tejada would become President of Mexico, The opinion was ex- pressed, however, that the government would be able to defeat the revolutionists. Those who speak in this way get their impressions from the city of Mexico. Our information from all parte of the disorganized republic shows the prospect for the government to be anything but flattering. Lerdo is an able man, and probably the ablest man in Mexico, and he might take the place of Juarez should Juarez be deposed or resign; but no Mexican can give permanent peace to the country. Oar strong, liberal and progressive republic only can end the troubles in Mexico and make it prosperous. We advise Mr. Lerdo de Te- jada to such « solution of the difficulties in his country by treating with the United States for annexation, The way to end revolutions in Mexico is for Juarez and Lerdo to unite in movement of this sort. formers at Columbus, Ohio, in view of an in- dependent Presidential ticket, And here it may be said of these labor reformers, that if they could command the solid co-operation of the Trade Unions of the country and the Inter- national, as a political organization, they might at least, in their first effort asa third party, prevent the election of a President by the electoral colleges. But we apprehend that these labor reformers, as politicians, are in the market, and that in the course of the com- ing campaign their leaders, here and there, will go off to the highest bidder, and the party will disappear as did the Know Nothing party, with the final selling out of the remains of the organization in New York to Tammany Hall. The other outside parties which are talking each of an independent Presidential ticket are the Women’s Rights women, the temperance men and women, and the unreconstructed Southern fire-eaters of the exploded Confed- eracy school of Jeff Davis, Stephens, Toombs and Wade Hampton. We must await, however, the regular re- publican convention at Philadelphia for the shaping of the Presidential contest. The Cin- cinnati concern, as an experimental side show, we suspect, will be a jflasco, and these labor reformers at Columbus’ will probably postpone their projected Presidential move- ment to a more convenient season, In any event, the Philadelphia convention, with the renomination of General Grant, will crystallize the opposition forces and the floating materials of the country into some definite shape. The bewildered and demoralized democracy, all adrift since the downfall of Tammany and the loss of New York in our last November eleo- tion, will await the action of the Philadelphia convention. As soon as may be deemed most expedient after it the democrats will be called to take counsel together on the political situa- tion. It is apparent, meantime, that their plan of operations will be the plan suggested by Gratz Brown, Schurz and General Blair— general amnesty, free trade, negro suffrage, a war upon General Grant on St. Domingo, the New York Custom House abuses, the appoint- ment of his relatives to office, the corruption of the Southern carpet-baggers and against the military despotism and the one-man power generally, as imperilling our precious liberties, State rights and everything else worth having. This plan of warfare, on a “‘liberal repub- lican” candidate and platform, will bring together a powerful party ; but, as on the side of the administration will be the ‘“‘bloated bondholders,” the integrity of the national debt, the national finances and the national currency, law and order in the South and the “American case” as it stands before the Geneva Conference, we'think that the general public idea of this coming Presidential elec- tion will be made good in the triumphant popular endorsement of General Grant for another term, International Copyright—Appleton “Ginx’s Baby.” The letter which we published on last Wednesday from Mr. Jenkins, the author of “Giux's Baby,” gave a pretty accurate insight into the views of foreign writers on the present state of our laws with regard to the rights of foreign authors. When men are smarting under a sense of wrong inflicted they are sel- dom dispassionate in the statement of their case, and Mr. Jenkins may have been some- have a national convention of the labor re-, what too severe in comparing Mr. Appleton to the scoundrel in Gil Blas who extorted alms through the influence of his blunderbus. Yet if we examine the subject judicially, and take as our guide the commonly accepted princi- ples of right, we shall be forced to confess that the irate Englishman has no little justifi- cation for the serious charge which he brings against the American publishers. “We can pity the moral obliquity of the man who argues that authors have no right to the creations of their brains, unless, indeed, he be prepared to accept the logical sequence that the publishers have no right to the works they may print. In fact, unless we deny the right of property alto- gether, it is impossible and illogical to argue that authors ought not to enjoy what they create, While other toilers, the product of whose labor we are told is sacred, merely convert an already existing material into a new form, the author coigs thoughts and fancies that without him would have no exist- ence for the amusement or instruction of man- kind. He creates absolately, enriching the world with new ideas; and if any property has aclaim to be considered sacred surely it is this, This view will scarcely be accepted by the publishers of Philadelphia, whose rep- resentative before the joint committee of Congress denounced the rights accorded even to our native authors. Mr. Hazard’s morality has the rather questionable merit of consistency. Not content with the present privilege which the publishers enjoy of ap- propriating the property of foreign authors this honorable representative of publishing morality would like to be at liberty to prey upon American writers. That such a pro- position should be seriously and unblushingly made, ought to be at once a warning and an incentive to usto put an end to a system which so blunts the moral perceptions as to render it possible that a presamptively re- spectable man should dare publicly to urge the plunder of one class of citizens for the benefit of another. There seems much difficulty in agreeing upon such a billas will satisfy all parties; but if the publishers of Philadelphia are serious in the propositions put forward in their name we see no reason why any effort should be made to satisfy them. The question at issue is one which affects the honor of the American peo- ple, and which admits of but one simple solution, so far as the rights of foreign authors are cconcerned. These ought to be guaranteed as fully as those of the American citizen in all cases where reciprocal protec- tion can be secured. The other questions which are intimately connected with that of authors’ rights belong rather to the industrial policy of the country than to the abstract principle for which we contend, A proposal which seems to meet all the requirements of the case has been submitted to the committee appointed by Congress to report on the best way to reconcile the different interests. It grants full rights to foreign authors on con- dition of having their works published and manufactured in this country, We look upon this a ‘easonable and satisfactory solution of the difficulty, It will protect the publishing industry of the country, and, what is of still more imoortance. will oven a new field for the development of American mental activity; for when publishers can no longer use with- out payment the works of foreign authors they will be more ready to encourage native writers, who have hitherto been heavily weighted in the race with their European rivals. If there were no other inducements than this one it ought to be sufficient to decide us to put an end to the present unsatisfactory state of the international copyright question; bot beyond there is the not less important one of the dignity and good name of the American people. And until some modification of our present laws has been adopted which shall place the foreign author on the same footing as our own writers the reputation of our people for honorable feeling and fair dealing taust continue to be compromised. The Ku Klux Investigation—Campaign Documents from the Congressional Com- mittees. A synopsis of the reports of the majority and minority of the Congressional Joint Com- mittee appointed to investigate the alleged Ku Klux outrages in the Southern States is pub- lished in the Heratp to-day, and will be found interesting reading, no doubt, by the politicians. The reports are neither more nor less than campaign documents intended for use in the approaching Presidential contest—the one a republican Paixhan, and the other the Krupp gun of the democracy. In the former we are afforded glimpses of the highly dramatic pictures, occasionally seen in the trashy illustrated papers, of Mokanna-looking forms in black cloaks and hideous masks shooting down domesticated negro women and colored families numbering from ten to a dozen, and ranging in ages from a month to fourteen years, and are solemnly as- sured that the sketches are from life. In the other we are told that the Ku Klux is of a piece with the Black Doug- las with whom the old Scottish nurses used to frighten their charges in bygone days, but that President Grant is the tyrant in disguise from whom all sorts of ter- rible deeds are to be feared. Both succeed in making out a fearful tale of suffering for the unfortunate South, the majority find- ing all the evils to spring from these mysterious midnight ghouls and from the cantankerous, revengeful spirit yet prevalent among the chivalry, while the minority discover the source of all the ills in the greedy carpet-bag adventurers and in- triguing politicians who work upon the fears and prejudices of the black race in order to hold their votes for the republicans. The majority, through a sub-committee, set forth an array of figures to show that in the eleven States, in 1865, the total State debts and lia- bilities existing and prospective, with the Confederate debt and commercial debt and interest, amounted to two thousand nine hun- dred and seventy-six millions, or two hun- dred and eighteen millions more than the national debt at its maximum, and they enlarge upon the magnanimity of the general government in saving the bankrupt Confederates from utter ruin and starvation throuzh the agency of the Freedman’s Bureau. The minority, on the other hand, de- clare that the South would be prosperous enough if let alone by the politicians, and trace all its pecuniary embarrassments to the corruptions and rascality, of the carpet-bag governments forced upon the States at the poiot of the bayonet. Both, of course, ad- duce evidence in support of the views they advance, but the minority insist that the majority ‘have come to their conclusions upon partial, imperfect and prejudiced statements furnished by witnesses examined at Washington, who were refuted and in many instances shown to be utterly unworthy of belief by the testimony of their roentgen ig) ics ~ ena aoe m vantages new ‘e have a te career that has opened before them. ¢ i The unnecessary exaggeration of the Ku Klux outrages on one side, and the stupid arraign- ment of President Grant for enforcing the laws in States whose local governments are paralyzed and helpless on the other side, are alike the paltry tricks of narrow-minded politicians. The people will receive them for what they are worth, and meanwhile they will rely upon time and an earnest, faithful Presi- dent, to remove those “‘twin relics” of the war, Ku Klux and carpet-baggers. mons, in his Presbyterian church, on ‘The Vices of New York,” among which he selected, as the first and vice, amusements, He admitted that the human heart was made for happiness, and it is no sin to be happy, nor is it sinful to seek after amusements, There are three kinds of amusements—the absolutely pernicious, the harmless, and such as may have something said for and against them. The latter are by far the most dangerous to the young, because they have a certain moral halo around them. ‘You might as well,” said Mr. Northrop, “‘banish sunlight as to banish all harmless pleasure ; but to be a mere pleasure seeker is about the poorest life that any man can lead.” The theatres, as conducted, he con- sidered as stepping-stones to perdition; but they might be ‘‘so constructed as to damage no one any more than it would to listen toa dialogue recited by Sunday school children.” It will be a long tite, doubtless, before we shall see such a theatre in New York. Special and general providences were the theme of Mr. Frothingham’s discourse, and, after various illustrations to show that Providence manifests itself only through human agencies, he con- cluded that ‘‘Providence is in the working- man, in the laboratory, in the machine shop, supplying all our comforts and forming new ones.” But as these improvements cannot be carried on without wealtb, wealth is, there- fore, the lever of Providence, Fixed principles of belief are what mankind is groaning and seeking after, and they are what Mr. Hepworth talked about last night. Snatches of his own experience appear ever and anon in his discourse. We can starve the soul to death as wellas the body, and until the mind and spirit are supplied with proper aliment they are filled with unrest. Atheists and infidels are spiritual dyspeptics. Nega- tions in faith areto the soul what improper and indigestible food is to the physical sys- tem. Such we presume Mr. Hepworth found his Unitarian negations to be, else he would not have left that fold. And now with his fixed principles of faith we hope he may become strong and robust and valiant as @ captain of the Lord’s hosts. The sympathy of Jesus with suffering was the topic of dis- course in Grace church, It wasa filting sub- ject for this solemn Lenten season, in which the Christian Church commemorates the suf- ferings of its Founder and Redeemer. This season suggested to Dr. McGlynn, of St. Stephen’s church, also the necessity of urg- ing the duty of penance upon his people—not, indeed, as that word is too frequently under- stood, to consist of mere formal acts of devo- tion, but in reconciliation to God, the giving up of the vain things of the world and re- fraining from indulgence in worldly pleasures, and the performance of deeds of charity and love, and ‘a simple abiding faith in God’s great justide and mercy,” which shall bring our will into complete harmony with the Divine will and make the possession of eternal joy to be ours. Surely this is something worth seeking and praying and living for. The mystery of the Eucharist and the sym- pathy of the Blessed Saviour were themes suggested to Archbishop McCloskey’s mind by the ‘forty hours’ devotion,” in the Cathedral. Christ was represented as inviting all to come unto Him and He would give them rest— “priest and people, young and old, great and little, without distinction of rank or sex or nation or tongue.” Yes, this is the kind of universal invitation which Jesus extends to the fallen race, and those who are wise unto salvation accept it and accept it now. Hydrographic Researches aud the Revival of American Commerce. The great problem of the revival of Ameri- can commerce and shipbuilding is now deeply exercising Congress and the public mind, For several years this subject has been spasmod- ically discussed and rediscussed, and yet nothing has been done, Like the Sybilline books in which the fate of Rome was sealed up, each time the question comes back upon us it makes larger and heavier demands upon the wisdom and ability of the statesman. It will be a lasting misfortune, if not shame, if some measure is not now earnestly put into execution for restoring this great American interest. Commerce is to a nation like the ancient stream of Pactolus, which ran down into the streets of Sardis, richly freighted with gold, and it is for us to decide whether its treasures shall be diverted into other channels than our own. The remedies for the present depression of commercial and nautical activity in America lie partly within the power and control of the people. But there can be no doubt it lies within the power and the duty of the national legisla- ture to do much for its resuscitation; and the people are looking to that body to do all that it canto thatend. Without at this time going out of the way to concoct new measures, a great service can be rendered the shipping interest by the reform and improvement of those branches of government enterprise specially created to fostegand advance these interests. Among these are the Coast Survey, the Hy- drographic Office, the Storm Signal Bureau and other minor departments of a scientific character. Some years ago, when the Coast Survey was established, it was argued that the additional safety its charts would give to our vessels would encourage investment in ship- ping and give an impetus to trade and naviga- tion. While that institution prosecuted its legitimate work there was much accomplished of which the country might be proud, although its charts of our coasts and harbors—having been made, not on the Mercator projection, to which all seamen are accustomed, but on the spherical projection, which is practically useless to the great majority of sailors—have never given satisfaction. Still, the Coast Sur- vey, notwithstanding this and the complaints that it has become a mere adjunct of Yale and- Harvard Colleges, and: spends its energy and means in fitting out Agassiz expeditions, is capable of performing an inestimable service for the country. With a little of the spirit of its former Superintendent—the lamented Bache—once more infused into it, and cut loose from the shackles of scholastics, the country would not begrudge the large appro- priation of two-thirds of a million annually made it. But the shipping and navigation interests are much more deeply interested in another government bureau which, at present, is struggling along on a bare subsistence, and teceiving annually less than one-tenth of the Coast Survey appropriation. We allude to the Hydrographic Office, which ie charged with that profoundly difficult and important responsibility of furnishing a series of charts, not for the coast alone, but for the entire ocean, opnagie he rnin nage i from pole to pole. It has heretofore been so Something like a religious “‘sensation” was EO! JRO) Canes ar eeeiee ‘e-majority | crippled for means that it takes years to do ; paint in vivid colors the midnight |?” J created in the Dominican church, in Lexing- work for which there is a pressing exigency. If at this time we were at war with England, our ships and fleets of gunboats actually could not go to sea for want of charts, for which our navy is dependent on Great Britain. There are, moreover, many parts of the ocean for which not even British cartog- raphy has provided, especially along the eastern shores of the Pacific, in which we have an increasing and national interest. Not to dwell on details, the elucidation of many of the great problems of navigation and ocean currents, and prevailing marine winds, upon the settlement of which commerce so much depends for its rapid and economic transits, and its safe deliveries of merchandise, cannot be too carefully pursued; and after the gov- ernment is in possession of such information as commercial and nautical men most need, no expense should be spared in its widespread dissemination. It must be a long time before the United States can hope to rival England in building steam vessels; and the only im- mediate possibility of the extensive develop- ment of American commerce lies in the direc- tion of giving to the sailing vessel the means of making nearly as fast time and quick trips on the ocean as the average steamship makes, The advancement of hydrographic knowledge amd the improvement of the models of sbips, which Congress might well encourage and stimulate by high rewards, would go far toward encouraging and awakening the long depressed and dormant spirit of nautical enter- prise in this country. We can now only suggest or point out these one or two directions in which immediate and energetic action should be taken, and these will in turn suggest others, But whatever is done, let it be done quickly. The nation cannot afford to neglect this great question, upon which its honor as a great Power of civilization, its wealth and its safety in time of war must forever largely depend. ton avenue, by the discourse, or lecture, of Father ‘Tom Burke,” as the good priest is familiarly called. He gavea brief but com- prehensive sketch of the founder of his Order, St. Dominic, and then talked about heaven and hell, contrasting the bliss of the saved with the woe of the lost, and bringing the pictures so vividly before his congregation that a general weeping all over the house was the result. The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, preached in the Church of the Messiah yester- day, on the ‘“‘little flock” of Unitarians with whom “persecution and social disability re- main, although in a modified form, in these later days.” He praised the denomioa- tion for the work which it had done and is still doing, ‘‘It was the pioneer to the other sects, and the orthodox are under great obli- gations to its men of thought.” It was the only home of comfort and sustenance to those who were longing for a spiritual freedom from the bonds of orthodoxy. Mr. Collyer was expected and invited to preach a doctrinal sermon, but he excused himself by saying that all his doctrinal manuscripts had been burned and he had had no time to write other sermons on such topics. Foreign mis- sions received honorable notice from Rev. Andrew Longacre, who urged the subject upon his hearers upon the ground of a com- mon brotherhood—we are all our brothers’ keepers and should seek the elevation and Christianization of the heathen, for in their welfare our own will be enhanced, Mr. Beecher had a quiet talk on “practical religion” and the duty of making the lower serve the higher nature. The material should be the servant and not the master of the spiritual. ‘Our lower duties,” said Mr, Beecher, ‘may be made @.chanoel for our duty to God or they may be made a substi- tute.” This is an important distinction. ‘Men may be attracted by the truth of religion who will abandon it as soon as they see what labor the truth involvee—the moment they are put tothe test of self-denial, of poverty, of fol- lowing Christ through all things, they are not willing to pay the price. Men are perpetually putting duties in the way of their spiritual development. It is always suffer me first to do this or that; suffer me first to,take care of myself. This con. stant putting the higher in subordination to the lower is demoralizing. Nothing in the world has a right to take the place of your spiritual manhood.” Dr. Chapman, of St. John’s Metho- dist church, Brooklyn, preached on the insuf- ficiency of the law to work salvation, He demonstrated this proposition by showing that Ja aupreme in navuro and that it has mane outrages of the Ku Klux conspirators, and declare that the poor, inoffensive, intelli- gent and well-meaning negroes are slaugh- tered by them, their wives and children out- raged, their schoolhouses burned and their teachers banished to Liberia; while the minority are warmed into eloquent indigna- tion because “‘the atrocious measures by which millions of white people have been put at the mercy of the semi-barbarous negroes of the South and the vilest of the white people, both from the North and the South, who have been constituted the leaders of this black horde, are now sought to be justified and defended by defaming the people upon whom this’ unspeak- able outrage had been committed.” It will thus be seen that there is a wide differ- ence between these political doctors. The people of the United States, who will, no doubt, be liberally supplied with both docu- ments under Congressional franks during the next six months, in deciding between the two statements may safely be left in the position of the patrons of the showman who “pays their money and takes their choice.” It is an unfortunate thing that a large and important section of the country should thus be harassed and torn by the intrigues and struggles of rival political parties. Between the old slaveholding democracy, with their hatred of negro freedom and political rights,on the one hand, and the cunning, avaricious carpet-bagger on the other hand, the fairest States of the Union are kept in dis- cord, misery and want. The existence of the Ku Klux organization is no longer doubt- ful, and this lawless conspiracy, the con- ception, no doubt, of the rash and hot- headed youth of the South, is only one of the means by which the prejudice still nourished against the freedmen exhibits itself in some of the ex-rebel States. Itis the daty of the United States government to pro- tect the colored race in those rights guaran- teed them by the constitution; and the war of the rebellion would still be unfinished if the constitutional results growing out of it could not or should not be enforced over every foot of territory in tho Union, It is not less incumbent upon the general govern- ment to discourage and discountenance any unnecessary intermeddling in the political affairs of the States. Neither political party can hope to secure a permanent control of the colored vote of the South except by promoting education and - spread of intelligence among the freedmen. Enlighten. ment oe) the pein i of afew years’ will | arrangement, They are hedging to defeat the teach these men the direction in which their | renomination of General Grant, and failing Lxeal interests Lie, and will polpt out ta them | in this oblect thax will auxcendars . Wirn GrxeraL Grant as the republican candidate for the Presidential succession, what will become of these anti-Grant republi- cans? They are to have a National Conven- tion at Cincinnati on the 6th of May, under the management of Governor Gratz Brown and Senator Carl Schurz, of Missourl. They may nominate a compound reform republican and democratic ticket, If so the Missouri republican reformers will no doubt stick; but if neither Sumner nor Fenton nor Gree. ley nor McClure goes to the Cincinnati Con- vention we fear they will each and all, with their followers, have to be eounted out of that