The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1872, Page 6

4 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVI —_——— ‘ AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Bouston sts,—Tuk Natav omEN BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Cnossina THE LINE— Burravo Brut, ST, JAMES' THEATRE, Twonty-eighth street and Broad- (way.—MABRIAGE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth atreet.— ‘Tuk NEw Dkana OF Divonor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax BacLet Pan- ‘ToMIME oF HumPry Doumpry, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st,, corner Sixth av. — JULIUE CasaR, WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway. corner 40th st. Perform oon and evening.—OUT AT SEA. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th strest. — iB VETERAN. RSE MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— BE. DEnontvo. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, SAVED FROM RUIN, THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—C 16MB, NEGRO AC rev i Jalan: ai Brooklyn.— UNION SQUARE TILEATRE, Fourteent + way.—NEGRO ACTS—BURLESGUR, Dacuer ko me TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 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OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. pace — Advertisements, 2—Adverusemenis, $—Sectarianism: How the Public Money ts Filcned for Denominational Purposes; The coming Struggle Between Church and State; The Bible i the schools; ‘he Chief of a Politico-Religious aud Secret Organization Denounces the Pope a3 a Despot; A Church Corporation Worth Fitty Millions’ Asking for Alms—Dexter Haw- Kins Correcied—The Judictary Investigation— Brooklyn Retorm—The Niagara Ship Canal: Meeting at the Produce Exchange—The Quar- antine Investigation: More Lighton the Way “the Commerce of the Port 18 Ruined’”—Probd- abie Suictde—Suicide of an snvalid—Our Oi Merchants—Outlawry in Newark—Another Shooting Afray in’ Elizabeth—The Bulls and Bears: A’ Lively Fight in Prospective— Weather Report—Wesiern Steamers Sunk— Western River Loggers. 4—Reiigious Intelligence: February 25, Second Sunday in Lent; Religious Programme for To-Day; The New Bishops of toe Roman Catholic Church in America; HERALD Reli- gious Correspondence; Religious Notes, Per sonal and Generai—Congregation B’nat Jeshue run—Music and the Drama—Husted’s Gravel Pomain—Swindling Extraordinary: A Broad. way Banking Firm Issuing Worthiess Drafts on the Bauks of England and Ireland—The City Gas Bill to be Reduced—An Attack on Monopolies—Smallpox on Staten Isiand. G—Financial and Commercial Reports—Pick- Pockets at the Banks—Marriages and eaths—Advertisements, 6—Edltorials: Leading Article, “fhe Alabama Claims Question; What 1s to be the Eud??— Amusement Announcements. ‘Y=—The War in Mexico: San Louis Potosi Closely Besieged by ‘trevino's Increasing Army; ‘The Fall of the City Immineat—Trouble Ahead: ‘The Juarest Cotiecior at Matomoras Threatens to Sink an American Sieamer— News trom France, Germany, Eng- land ana belgium—News from Washington — ©’ Baldwin and Mace: The Irish Giant Throw. ing Down the Gauntlet—Personal Intelll- ence—Literay Chit-Chat—New Publications ceived—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices. S—Advertisements. 9— Advertisements, 40—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Lecture by Ex-Governor Hawley— rr | ps Tracks;"’ Meeting of tne Nineteentn War ‘ailroad Association—New York City News—Brooklyn Affairs—The Domestic De- mon—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisementa, 1—Advertisements, Q—Advertisements, Tue New American Bisuors.—Papal bulls Rave arrived in this city by which three very reverend clergymen of the Church are elevated to the dignity of Roman Catholic Bishops. The names of the clerics who await episcopal consecration, with the terri- torial limits in which they are to exercise their pastoral office, are set forth in the HeErRAp to-day. Tue Gotp Marks reflects the continued heavy imports of foreign merchandise, the in- troduction the past week having exceeded eight million dollars. On this amount the merchants paid nearly five millions of duties, the disproportion being due to the fact that a large amount of merchandise was taken out of bond during the week in addition to the fresh imports. Gold touched 111 on this de- mand for coin, Mi A Waryine To THE LipgraL REPUBLI- oANs.—The Louisville Ledger—straight-out democrat—warns, in a friendly spirit, the liberal republicans, if ‘they intend to preserve the integrity of their organization, ‘‘to watch some of their leaders.” Was there ever a political organization in which it was not necessary for the rank and file to watch their leaders? As a general thing, among politi- cians, the principle nowadays is to ‘‘watch and prey.” Tae Lxoirmists, the discrowned kings, &c., of Europe, who have been holding a sort of convention at Antwerp, with the Count de Chambord, became so uproarious the other evening in the streets as to require the inter- vention of the armed police to restore order. The importunate Bourbons, looking to the Count de Chambord and to France for a general restoration, became, in short, a little too happy over their brilliant prospects. We fear they will have time enough for cool reflection before they get their crowns again. “Sri Toey Come.”—The Republican State Convention of Kansas has chosen a Gelegation to the Philadelphia National Con~ vention, with instructions ‘‘to vote for the patriotic President and citizen soldier, U. 8. Grant, whose administration has brought use degree of prosperity at home and respect and dignity abroad which it would be suicidal to in- terrupt or interfere with till time has been given to complete the work so well begua and so auspiciously prosecuted to the present time!” ‘The prospect is now that the renomination of General Grant will be as easy and emphatic ‘as was the renomination of Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and on the same ground, that time must be given him in ouf home and foreiga affairs to “complete the work so well begun.” NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Alnbama Cinims Question—What I» | laws of noutrality and friendship were viclated A thousand millions of dollars would not pay us for the injury done, and would hardly be equal to the advan- tages England has derived from the maritime supremacy she has acquired through her To Be the End? Notwithstanding the courteous tone of Lord Granville’s note, and the more moderate tem- per manifested by the English journals in their discussion of the Washington Treaty and the American claims, it appears to be certain, from the debates in the English Parliament and from the latest information received by cable from England, that there is to be, on the part of the British government, a persistent and general opposition to what are termed the indirect or consequential dam- ages set forth in the American case to be laid before the Geneva arbitrators. The copious extracts from the leading English journals commenting on the parliamentary debate, pub- lished during the past week, present a pretty correct view of the British sentiment, or, at least, the views of those who do the thinking for the English people and lead public opinion, And there appears to be no giv- ing way from the position taken at the start, that the British government cannot admit the claim for indirect or consequential damages to be considered by the Geneva arbitrators, If, then, the British Cabinet, the adminis- tration and opposition members of Parliament of all shades of politics, the press, represent- ing all parties, and public sentiment generally, resolve to maintain this position, how can the difficulty be solved? We assume, of course, that our own government will not recede. It is understood st Washington and by the people of the United States everywhere that the case the government has made up for the consider- ation of the Geneva arbitrators will neither be withdrawn nor modified. The President has said so; the debates in Congress show that; Mr. Adams, our arbitrator, thinks it fair to submit the claims as set forth in the Ameri- can case to the Geneva arbitrators, and pub- lic opinion accords with the ground taken by the government. It is nota party question either here or in England. It is a national one on both sides, Since each nation has taken ground so positively and in direct oppo- sition on a point so sharply defined that it cannot be explained away, national consis- tency, if not national honor, 1s involved. Though Mr, Gladstone might have had chiefly in view the political object of courting popu- lar favor and strengthening his power when he denounced in strong terms the American case, the question at issue is now placed be- yond party control. The British Premier is flexible, and, as we said, bas already modified his tone; but can he, in the face of his positive language and the public opinion he has created, make a complete somersault? Can he, to use a strong colloquial expression, back down com- pletely? He has committed himself, and the oppositién, aided by popular sentiment, will hold him to the position he assumed, This is evident from the tenor of the debate in Par- liament. He has placed himself in a dilemma from which it is difficult to escape. Mr. Bernal Osborne showed this in the speech we copied. Mr. Gladstone praised the British Commissioners who made the Washington Treaty for their skill, and assumed all the re- sponsibility for their conduct. He denied that there was any ambiguity in the treaty, and yet he maintains that the construction the Ameri- can government gives to it is different from that given by himself. If the meaning were so plain, why this difference of views? No one can doubt the desire of both countries to secure lasting peace by carrying out the treaty; still the British Premier asserts that the interpretation of it by the American government is not correct, and he has raised, seemingly, an insuperable barrier to its execution. By assuming that there is no ambiguity in the treaty, and that the British government is right in its construction of it, is to say that the American government is not acting ir. good faith. Mr. Gladstone's first false step— for a political object, apparently—is leading him into others that only tend to increase the difficulties. , Looking, then, at the dilemma the Premier isin, and at the fact that he shut the door against a compromise in the commencement of the treaty negotiation by declining the proposition to pay a round sum to cover all the claims, we do not see how he can settle the question, As our government will not recede, will not withdraw or modify its case before the Geneva arbitra- tors, some new and acceptable proposition must come from England, or the treaty will be lost. It is not certain that our govern- ment would accept any such proposi- tion, but if it should be disposed to do so Mr. Gladstone could hardly stultify him- self so mach as to take the initiative. This question, therefore, may le over till another Minister takes the place of Mr. Gladstone, and if the people of England desire very much to have it settled a change of Ministry may be demanded for the purpose. Lord Derby and Disraeli, though apparently holding similar views to those of the present Cabinet with regard to the American case, could plead that they did not make the treaty, and, being un- trammelled in that sespect, might find a solu- tion of the difficulty by some new and satis- factory proposition. If a change of Ministry should be the consequence Mr, Gladstone can only blame himself, The people of this coun- try would racher see a liberal than a tory gov- ernment in England, though this is a matter that concerns the English and not us espe- cially ; but we cannot give up the position we have taken to serve any party. It is possible Mr. Gladstone may find a way out of the pres- ent difficulty, but not probable, The British government cannot expect the other provisions of the Washington Treaty will hold good if it refuses to conform to that now objected to with regard to the Alabama claims. The basis and principal object of the treaty were the settlement of these claims, For the sake of peace and friendship this country conceded a great deal, England, having destroyed our maritime greatness and much of our commerce—the only formidable maritime rival she had—ties our hands by this treaty from retaliation. It exempts her from like consequences in the event of war. It is useless to talk of friendship and impar- tiality in our civil war. The feeling was against the United States, and the purpose was to aid as far as possible the threatened disruption of this republic, The privateers were let loose and the rebels hastily recog- nized as belligereats with that ohiect. The -from this selfish motive. unfriendly acts, Were it not for this treaty the day might come when we could justly retaliate and build up our maritime power on the ruin of hers, The treaty, then, is of immense value to her, though of doubtful value to the United States. Had we continued to follow the advice of Washington we would not have entered into any such entangling alliance. The fewer treaties we make with Europe and the more we maintain an independent position in every respect, especially with regard to neutrals and maritime laws, the better. Our system of government, rdle in the world and future are different from those of the European Powers, and we ought to preserve the utmost freedom ofaction compatible with fair dealing to other nations. Still, as we have made the treaty with England for the sake of peace and friendship, we wish to carry it out in good faith. If, however, England repudiates it, we shall not suffer, We may remain at peace with her notwithstanding, though the sore may remain uohealed. On one hand there might appear to be always some danger, while on the other there might be greater care to avoid offence, as there has been, in fact, for some years past. The only serious difficulty we have had with England since the war is from this very treaty, which was intended to remove every cause of trouble. England has placed herself in a false position on the question of submitting the Alabama claims to the Geneva arbitration, and it remains for her to deter- mine how she can escape. Our government cannot recede from the position it has taken. Progress of the Mexican Revolutionistse— Our Latest Despatches from Matamoros. From our special advices by telegraph from Matamoros on the 23d instant we lfearn that the revolutionary Governor of Aguas Calientes occupied that important city on the 15th; that the revolutionary army of General Treyiilo before San Luis Potosi is rapidly increasing, and that on the 12th a small Jaurista, or gov- ernment force, pronounced, or went over to the other side at Guanajuato; that cattle steal- ing by the Mexican moss troopers had actively recommenced on the United States side of the Rio Grande, exciting great indignation among pur frontier stock raisers; that an international issue is likely to arise touching the clearance of ariver merchant steamer at Matamoros, which is in the hands of the Juarists, for Ca- margo, up the river, which is occupied by the revolutionists ; and that there is a hitch be- tween the Mexican and United States officials concerned in this affair at Matamoros which can only be settled by instructions from Wash- ington. We are at peace with Mexico. Our govern- ment deals with that of Juarez and knows nothing of these revolutionists, Therefore, if the authorities, military and civil, of Jua- rez, at Matamoros, object to the clearance of a trading steamer for Camargo, a town occu- pied by Mexican insurgents, and object on the ground that the goods of said steamer will be so much ‘‘nid and comfort to the enemy,” we are not sure that even Mr. Fish can lawfully require the clearance of the vessel, Any way, this revolutionary chaos in Mexico is a great public nuisance which ought to be abated, and ultimately we shall have to abate it by the military occupation and annexation of the whole country. Something, perhaps, opening this road to the Mexican capital may grow out of the present revolutionary move- ments against Juarez, In the event of the defeat of his army at San Luis Potosi the revolutionary forces under General Trevifio will, doubtless, be at once reinforced to such an extent as to render their march to and into the city of Mexico a comparatively bloodless campaign. Then, with the expulsion of Juarez, there may be such fightings and confusion among the rival revolutionary lead«rs for the government as will compel General Grant to pronounce in favor of army.d Untervention for the pacification of Mecico, and for the establishment therein of law, order, industry, trade and prosperity, Nor do we think that there are any good rea- sons in this other question of the Alabama claims for the continuance of this do-nothing and trade-suppressing policy of non-interven- tion in Mexican affairs, The Russian Mission Advanced to the First Class—A Graceful Act of Friendship. In the Diplomatic Appropriation bill which passed the House of Representatives on Friday, the Russian was placed among the' first class missions, our Minister’s salary to be $17,500. Before the late Franco-German war our first class missions were only two—those of Eng- landand France. The results of the late war having enlarged the national government of Berlin from that of Prussia to that of the powerful German empire, the mission to Ber- lin was recently advanced to our first class. Now Russia is very properly added to the number. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, however, opposed the motion, He is too good a demo- crat to grant any favors or compliments to Russia, that ‘‘hoary-headed old despotism, whose whole career had been one of despotism and the crushing out of the rights of mankind.” He “‘did not know of one friendly act on the part of Russia towards the United States,” and he ‘did not know of a government on the face of God’s green earth with which our rela- tions should be more restricted” than with this “profound and absolute despotism.” Of course these profound remarks of Mr. Holman were only intended for buncombe in Indiana, and the simple and astonishing facts recited by General Banks, of the great pro- gress of Russia in civilization, emancipation, general enlightenment and liberal ideas, and of her valuable friendship for the United States when the governments of England and France were against us in our great struggle for the life of our nation, settled the question, and the amendment, without further debate, was adopted. This is a graceful act of friendship towards a friendly Fower that has never betrayed us, while simply as 4 question of diplomatic consistency the claims of Russia to be ranked with England, France and Germany, cannot be denied. In the face of such acts of “a happy accord” as this all such nonsense as the diplomatic imbroglio between Mr. Fish and Prince Gortschakoff about Mr, Catacazy signifies nothing, fort, evidently. begin with the caucus itself. They have just elected a chairman—the fittest old creature in the caucus. He is blind, and, therefore, well The European Caucus of Royal “Sere- heads” by Divine Right. The dethroned sovereigns were to have had a caucus at Antwerp, we were informed by cable; and that sets us thinking of ‘‘sore- heads.” When European orators and writers of the monarchical school are in want of “frightful examples” republics in some form or other are made to furnish the requisite raw head and bloody bones. Our own govern- ment formed a magnificent scarecrow, with its civil war, its ‘‘rings” and corruptions and jobbery; but then it was three or four thousand miles away, and somehow we managed to come up all rightevery time. This distressed and disheartened them. Now they are fortunate in having a bugaboo at their doors. La Commune arose ina night, shook its gory, fiery locks all round the royal borizon and dis- appeared, leaving a strong odor of petroleum in the kingly nostrils, Divine right, which had fora long time been steadily declining in the European market—slipping off a throne here, being kicked off another there, and with throne foundations growing ricketty all round, even where built upon bayonets—has taken heart of grace from the red spectre. As above announced, some of the respectable old uncrowned noodles from all over the Continent have been gathering at Antwerp, with their seedy sym- pathizers, to agitate the restoration of all de- throned princes in the world, This, again, has been denied; it was only a gathering of ultramontanes, they said, to help the poor old Pope in his misfortunes, and had no designs on the neighboring French republic nor any other country—'pon honor, you know. The sly dogs are too deep to admit the object of their little pastime; but with a wink and a smile worthy of old Talleyrand, they will tell you, these old-fashioned seigneurs, to wait, and then you shall see what you shall see, We have no hard feelings, none in the world; and while these relics of the era of cocked hats and silver snuff- boxes furnish us with the characters for a quaint old farce we will laugh at them as heartily ag health will permit, But they spoiled it; they grew ashamed of the absurdity, and we are afraid the scream- ing farce of ‘‘Sorehead Legitimacy by the Grace of God” will lic in the Great Manager’s pigeon holes for many a day to come. We can only fancy it now. The present ‘‘sore- head” cabal, which will give us such fun during the coming Presidential campaign, would not be a circumstance beside the motley array of Divine right soreheads we could scrape up, who are lying among dust and cobwebs in the shady corners of Europe. There is a life and vigor in our soreheads which takes most of the comedy out of them, while our musty Europeans have only that automatic action which makes children scream with delight at a pantomime. caucus they would make! and what a cry against royal carpet-baggers would echo and what a strutting of their mouldy chivalry would be seen as their faded purple fluttered in the breeze, with as many tatters as the cloak of Bamflyd Moor Carew, the King of the Beggars! What a comic Tho caucus is in session, the doors are closed, and before we look around the benches we may notice that a certain ex-Emperor, re- siding at Chiselhurst, England, has not been admitted, He was not legitimate enough, albeit once very powerful; but this Dutch Bonaparte has a common cause in his own way, with his old snaff-box gentility, and he will be pardoned for applying his ear to the keyhole, while what he hears is visible by the twitching at the end of his nose—small com- It is hard to say where to fitted tolead such an assembly of the blind. He hails from Hanover, where he was once known as George V. Then there are Bour- bons by dozens on the front row, raked up all over Christendom, who have never learned and never forget anything. Henri V., one fat old fellow calls bimself, and France is the country where he would like to introduce the Pompadours, the seignorial rights and the snuff-boxes once more. There is the Marquis of Carabas beside him, of whom an impudent lout (Beranger) sang, in mockery of his shaky legs and harmless sword :— Chapeau bas, chapeau bas, Vive le Marquis de Carabas ! Then there is the fussy Duc d’Aumale, the son of the ‘tpear-headed” Louis Philippe, who thinks he has Divine right, too, because his father was made King by the people and hunted by the same after some unsatisfactory years of trying to be a popular king. “Served him right.” The young Count of Paris brings down condemnation from the old noodles around him, because he is caught humming the old air of revolutionary tendency, which wasa “campaign” song for his party forty years ago:— Souvenez-vous de Jemmappes; Souvenez-vous de Valmy. But we cannot gush over this young upstart, as the old boys call him, while we regard the stout old lady, late of Madrid, styled Isabella IL, with the ‘golden rose” in her hair, and her head more full of stout captains of the guard and bewitching opera tenors than ‘‘sore- head” intrigues. Then there is young Bomba, late of Naples, whom n eruption of red shirts, under @ tallow chandler named Garibaldi, swept away, while Gladstone, the perfidious Englishman, was writing letters about the way his father tortured his maccaroni-eating subjects. A comical figure is that in an opéra bouffe Greek costume, with a dropsical look, as if he had been solacing his sore head with a cask or two of Bavarian beer. This was Otho I., King of Greece, sent kiting some ten years ago by his cutthroat subjects, the descendants of Miltiadés, Demosthenes, Diogenes and other classic swells. But when we turn to the German benches we give up the catalogue in despair at the old, buried magnates, whose full names mortal never pronounced, but whose epitaphs, as kings, princes, electors, landgraves, with their Schleswigs, Scheve- rins, Holsteins, Hesse, Lippe, Meningen, Schafferhausen, and so on, are to be found | among the crypticisms buried in the inscru- table pages of the “Almanach de Gotha” for some years now gone. There is Charles I. of Wurtemburg, who only lost his crown—unlike his English namesake, who lost his head in addition, Carl Schurz is a live, respectable men beside him, Them there are Grand Dukes from Italy—Robert L of Parma, as much disliked there as Robert the Devil; Francis V. of Modena, wi! like another Francis, has lost but —_—honor, his duchy included, a beggarly one at that. A Ferdinand of Tuscany, like a broken-down masquerader, sits thinking of the hard-headed cabbages of Savoy. Back of these are ranged anumber of ragged Polish and Irish kings, whose noise bewilders the blind old chairman. Another illustrious dethroned, in the person of the Japanese Tycoon, has been given @ place because he belonged to an ancient and respectable family of Divine righters. We cannot follow the stale old arguments advanced here; but the shadow of Maximilian, late of Mexico, comes hovering around them, and the caucus is broken up without coming to a vote, Let monarchy take what comfort it oan in this rattling of dry bones, but, as the comic old crew scatter by the early trains from Antwerp and hasten from the battle ground of Europe back to their corners, we think the laugh sardonic is on the side of the people after all. And, sorry a sight as a “sorehead” is at any. time, we think the Divine righters the most sorry of all, A Congressional Lull=The Performances of the Senate and House. The Senate Chamber, in which the new but not improved adaptation of the ‘French Spy” has been presented to crowded audiences for several weeks past, was silent and deserted yesterday, and Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Conkling, Morton, and the other star perform- ers had a holiday, which many of them, prob- ably, took advantage of for further study and rehearsal of their parts. The piece is to go on next week, and will occupy the boards of the Senate as long as it continues to draw. According to present appearances it will have @ run equal to “‘Humpty Dumpty,” the “Black Crook” or the “Seven Sisters.” It is keeping up very successful rivalry with Lord Dun- dreary in furnishing entertainment to the peo- ple of Washington. As a matinge it is espe- cially attractive. # th The chamber of the House of Representa* tives yesterday was given over to that most dismal of all spectacles, the spectacle of a dozen or a score of intelligent, practical men assembling to read, or to hear read, essays on miscellaneous subjects of a political character having application to no pending measure of legislation, and intended only for home con- sumption. It is astonishing that public men who are not deficient in common sense can go seriously through such a ridiculous perform- ance. That is a peculiarity which is not found in any body of legislators in the world except the House of Representatives, and would be almost incredible if it were not repeated every Saturday of the session. Has the French Republic a Free Press ¢ The government of the French republic ap- pears to fear a free utterance of citizen opinion through the columns of the newspaper press. Plans for the more effective enforcement of the existing press censorship, with projects for the introduction into or engrafting on the present law of clauses still more penal, appear to engage the attention of the Thiers’ Ministry hourly. The press censorship subject was again before the Assembly yesterday. The Executive demands still more power, and has embodied its request in the shape of a Cabinet measure. It is likely to be defeated in the Parliament, however, so that it is highly probable that France will soon experience another political “crisis.” During the pro- gress of the legislative examination of tho government measure M. Gambetta voted in favor of the Ministerial plan for a more stringent examination of newspaper publica- tions. The Minister of Public Works opposed the Cabinet, and will, it is said, vote against President Thiers and his own colleagues. French politics must be sadly mixed when we find the head of a new republic founded on revolution, himself a writer of vast ability, becoming frightened at the popular exercise of ‘‘nature’s noblest gift, the gray goose- quill,” and the radical Gambetta recoiling before the current of the ‘‘inky stream. ” Tux Missourt River, at its head in the Rocky Mountains, has broken loose from its winter chains, and is reported rising rapidly from the melting ice and snows. Thisis a warning of what is coming with a general break-up over the whole basin of the Missis- sippi from the Rocky Mountains to the Alle- ghanies, But as the head springs of the great Missouri are, by the winding course of the river, nearly three thousand miles from its junction with the Mississippi, and as over all the elevated region from Fort Benton to Omaha the frosts of February and March will be apt to arrest anything like a general thaw, the spring flood from the Missouri will perhaps not get down to St. Louis in ad- vance of the month of May. When these floods do come down, however, from the enormous snow fall of this winter over the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains, the exposed cities and towns on the Mississippi, and especially New Orleans, may look out for the heaviest inundation of half a century. A Waisxey Jos—The proposition in Con- gress to raise the tax on whiskey from fifty to seventy cents a gallon. As in Brooklyn it is found impossible to root out the illicit whiskey distilleries on the profit of the fifty cents tax which they save, such distilleries would be increased ona tax of seventy cents, But in jumping from fifty to seventy cents tax the large holders of whiskey would make something, and, of course, they are in for it. Toe INTERNATIONAL being understood in Leipzig as a society for the elevation of the working classes to a voice .in government affairs, the artisans of that ancient city have been notified by the local authorities that they are not to join the Internationals, What an interesting old-time city to a traveller of modern ideas Leipzig must be! They have the telegraph there and the railway, but the authorities have still their cherished ideas of. the Middle Ages. Tuz Ono Democrats FoR Davis AND Parxer.—The Cincinnati Znguirer says :— “Davis and Parker (the nominees of the labor reformers) isn’t a bad ticket for the elements opposed to Grant to unite on.) As the organ of the Pendletonian Ohig/ democracy this remark of the Haquirer,is somewhat sig- nificant, Our Religious Press Table. We take pleasure in noticing that our suge gestion in regard to the reports of religious revivals has been responded to by at least one of the occupants of “Our Religious Press Table.” The Christian Union—Heury Ward Beecher—furnishes us (aside from our own regular religious correspondence) with infor- mation of a most gratifying nature. We learn from this source that these revivals are too numerous to mention—too tedious to particu- larize—as if it were too tedious to particularize the golden stopping places on the way to the resplendent Throne of Grace. Brother Beecher seems to have regarded this as the Lenten season per se, Hence he might other- wise go into Wall or Broad street and accu- mulate a nice little fortune for bis parishioners by bulling up ‘‘ La Crosse ” and bearing down on ‘‘ Pontius Pilate.” Passing from this point, the editor of the Christian Union, after pitching into Sumner, gives us his views upon the “Treaty of Wash- ington,” and takes the American view of the “American case” by saying :— We have asked only compensation for provable damages and a reformation of the laws relating to neutral nations, Let this treaty fall to tne ground and the policy of Great Britain during the American war be an allowable bogprripe and where will England’s commerce the moment her hands Shall be engaged with a foreign enemy? Our day of trial 13 past, her day of trial 18 yet to come. this treaty falls there will not be likely to be another one formed for many years. If Great Britain can take her chances in the future without this treaty, surely America can. And, we repeat with deliberate emphasis, on conviction, that Great Britain must hot reckon upon any change of peels on the part of the government of the United States or of feeling and purpose on the part of its people, This sounds a little like the ‘Sharpe's rifle” invocation, pending the ‘bleeding Kansas” campaign, in which Brother Beecher assumed more than a prominent part. The Hvangelist (Presbyterian) makes ite chief editorial upon the text of the annual col- lection in behalfof the Board of Education. It is an appeal in that bebalf, and “such an appeal,” it trusts, ‘‘will, on the first Sabbath in March, invite a prompt and fitting response.’ According to the representations.of the Hoan gelist prompt help is needed. Anything that will help education in any part of the world and among any sects should be regarded as a facred duty among all religious denomina- tions. It is pleasant to learn from the same evan- gelical source that the New York Magdalen Society, whose asylum is near the Central Park, is doing a very useful work in its efforts to rescue the fallen. The work is done modestly and quietly, and deserves the en- couragement of all good men and women. tn regard to temperance legislation, as exe hibited by the action of the Legislatures of Ohio and Illinois in passing laws of so stringent a nature as to render the execu- tion of those laws almost nugatory, the Evangelist remarks: — It would certainty bea very desirable thing if among the States of the Union there could be intro- duced something like uniformity in temperance legislation, The day has gone by—whether ta Eng- land or this country—when laws to repress drunk- enness can be denounced as infringements of nata- ral Li eg Nor can we any longer flatter ourselves: that the enthusiasm kindlea by temperance orators, or the organizations to which tuey give rise, can permanently turn back the tide of evil urged for- ward by men whose very pursuit shows their indil- ference alike to moral obligation and public senti- ment. We must have temperance laws tnat can and that will be enforced. Illinois deserves credit tor having taken a step in advance; but her legisla- tion, though perhaps all that is at present attam- able, still falls short of the standard to which we should aspire. We learn from the Tablet—Catholic organ— that the sacrament of confirmation will be administered by Archbishop McCloskey in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the last day of the present month. The 7ablet is agreeably surprised to find that the New York Observer, ‘‘the oldest, ablest and most influ- ential Presbyterian journal in the Union,” as the Zablet avers, is opposing the movement for amending the constitution of the United States so as to make it recognize Protestant- ism as the national religion, Says the Tablet :— We believe, and nold more firmly than any Metho- dist or Puritan, that religion and Rie only true religion, is the basis of the State, and that no State founded on political atheism can stand or ought to stand, But religion is not made the basis of the State by inserting a clause in the preamble of the written constitution recognizu it, for the written constitution is only a law ordained by the people of the several States in convention as- sembled, and which 1s alterable at the will of the same power that ordains it, Written constitutions are not worth the parchment on which they are en- grossed unless they express the living constitution Of the people. Adopt tie proposed amendment and the nation will be neither more nor less Christian than it 1s now, and the government, general or State, will be neither more nor less in accordance with the will of God, The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) has entered into a discussion with the Christian Advocate (the organ of Methodists in what is termed the St. Louis and Baltimore regions), and in the course of its argument says :— re must be thousands of readers of the paper referred to who believe that Jesus Christ, who died for them on the cross, was, from eternity, their Lord and God.” ‘They belleve also that He that ica for them on the cross was the same person, God and Man in One Person, who was born of the Virgin Mary, and was “subject” to Mary and Joseph, in Nazareth. (St. Luke's Gospel, li. 51.) But this exceptionally privileged Metnodist teacher tella Meir was suiyect to Mary aod Joseph." Jesus was not God The Jewish Messenger talks of ‘‘Justice in the Dictionaries,” as if Justice did not settle that question when the Hebrews of olden time made a gold exchange of the Temple, The objectionable word “Jew,” with its defi- nition in Webster's Dictionary, ‘‘to cheat or defraud; to swindle,” will, as we learo from a correspondence published in the Messenger, be stricken out in future editions of the stand- ard American dictionary. The word ‘“Jes- uit” must come next. Shade of old Noah Webster! to what splendid uses are your labors coming ! The Observer (Presbyterian) has an article upon “Revivals in the Church of England.” Let those revivals come nearer home. We need them. PIGEON SHOOTING. Mr. Charles Palmer has presented to the Jerome Park Gun Club two silver prizes, valued at $100 each, to be contested for by the members on the dim ot March at Jerome Park, as follows:—The first. will be a handicap at twelve single birds, H and T traps, eighty yards boundary, one and 4 quarter ounce shot; the contestants to be handicapped at not less than twenty-one yards, por more than twenty-six yards rise, The second handicap 1s at ten paira of double birds out of two traps, to bo sprung simultaneously, one hundred yards boun- dary, one and a quarter ounce shot. The contest« ants to be handicapped at not less than eighteen, nor more than twenty-three yards. Entrance to each handicap, $5, the mouey to be given as a second prize in each match. Club rules to govern the shooting. The President of the Ciub will name the Nandicapper. William Peace and Milea Johnson will shoot a match for $200 om Monday next at tie Suifolk Park, Philadeipoia. FIRE IN SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb, 24, 1872, Richard Bradley's steam saw mill, with alarge quantity of lumber, was burmed tqday. Los avout $40,000, pi d ‘