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NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. mn f 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXVII. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner 30th st. Performs ances afternoon and evening. —LUN a. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — THE VETERAN. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brond Houston ste.—La BELur Sav between Prince and BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Burrato BiLt—ToE Buiny. Mine. ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eizhth streot and Broad- way.—MARKIAGE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty. an) THR NEW DRaa Or Divozon” Nemy fourth street. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bro al i~ ‘TOMIME OF HUMPTY Dower rae se ne Bae ACADEMY OF MUSIC, F it OPERA~—MIGNON, ‘ourteenth street.—ITALIAN BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty- ae sROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-thirast, corner Sixth av. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROU! _ Maupis PRRtie KLYN THEATRE. 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IPLE SHEET. j= Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. ‘News from the State Capital; Erle and the Legislative Committees; The Metropolitan Dis- trict Courts to be Abolished; Report of the Canal Department—Tne Insurance Inquisition: Seeking for Corruption in the Insurance De- plore Polittes: The Red Men of the mocracy Preparing for the War-path—News rom Washington—Fires in the City and Else- Where—Iiceboat Race on the Hudson—A ‘Travelling Swindler, 4—Religious Intelligence: Services To-day; Ser- mons, installations, Dedications; HERALD Ke- ligious Correspondence; The Temple Eman- uel—Stokes: The Action of the Grand Jury Sustained—Proceedings in the New York Courts—The Gentiles’ Memorial to President Grant—The Alieged Swinaung—“Democracy” Discoursea Upon at the Cooper Union. S—Financial and Commercial: The Week Closes on an Easy Money Market; Stocks Strong; A Fair Bank Statement and a Pleasant Perspec- tive; The Contest in Pacific Mat and North- West Common; Victory Inclining to the Bull Side; Foreign Exchange and Gold Steady, tat wanted Strong and Southern Bonds jul; A “Point? in North Carolinas—Euro- pean Markets—When the Band Begins to Play—Arrest of a llorse Thief—Rovbing a Shoe Store—Marriages and Deaths—Adver- tisement G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Revolution in Mexico; Border Dificuities and Necessity of Intervention by the United States’ ersonal Intelligeace—Foreign Personal Gossip—Obitu- ary—Amusement Announcements, y—Rome: Vatican Preparation for the Flight and Exile of the Pope—News from France, Ger- many. Austria, Engiand, Switzeriand and Gieece—Steamboat Disaster—Virgiala — Fi- nances—The Snow Storm—A _ Horrible Tragedy — Miscellaneous Telegrams — The Dead Hero—New York City News—Naval In- telligence— business Notices, S—Aiivertisements. 9—Advertisemenis, 10—Spring Fashions: What Marcn has Brought Forth—Paris Fashions Letter: France Looking Unsuccesstully for a Man to Guide Her Desu- nies—Municipal Affairs—Garibaldi and the International—Shipping = Intelligence—Adver- tusements. 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisemen' M, Trters’ Exposirion of the relations of France towards the Pope, which we append to our news telegram, relative to the project of His Holiness’ departure from Rome, is of much interest, not only to the religious world, ‘but to the lay societies of Europe. President Thiers is of opinion that Pio Nono will not leave Rome, and in this we are inclined to agree with him. Tammany Tactics AmMona THE ENGLISH Loyauists.—On Friday evening last a repub- lican meeting at Kingston-on-Thames, in the county of Surrey, England, was rudely dis- turbed by a belligerent party of loyalists or royalists, who smashed in the windows, dis- persed the assemblage from the hall and com- pelled Mr. Odger, the republican orator of the evening, to fly for his life by the nearest route of escape, which was over a wall. Her Majesty's loyalists or royalists, therefore, in adopting ‘‘the time-honored” tactics of Tam- many Hall, are beginning to show some evi- dence of prozress in partisan warfare; but Joho Bull, as a champion of the Crown, in these proceedings closes his, own mouth against similar doiggs by Brother Jonathan. In reference, cheng win he has heretofore been pleased to denounce as “‘the vulgar brute force which governs American political meet- ings,” let him hereafter hold his peace. Stoxes’ Granp Jvey—Tue Inpiorment Susrainep.—The petit jury before whom has beon tried the charges against the legality of the action of the Grand Jury that indicted Edward S. Stokes for the shooting of James Fisk, Jr., has, by direction of the Court, sus- tained the indictment. After weeks of ha- rassing examination of witnesses and excruci- ating argument and frothy declamation by counsel for the prisoner, the case was yester- day brought to a close. Judge Cardozo's views of the case, as made out by counsel for and against—because they cannot really be called a charge to the jury—will be read with interest. In concluding his remarks the Court directed the jury to render a verdict sustain- ing the indictment, which they did without leaving their box. Counsel for the accused asked that the jury be polled, but this the Court could not permit; for the verdict on the law controlling the case was, in fact, the ver- dict of the Court and not of the jury. On ap- plication a stay of proceedings was granted, which will, of course, have the effect in- teaded—of staving off the evil day. That and pothipg more. The Revolution in Mexico—Border DiMf- culties and Necessity of Intervention by the United States, The end of anything like national govern- ment ia Mexico is evidently approacbing, Juarez, in all probability, is the last of the Presidents over that republic, as it existed some time before the French invasion and since the fall of Maximilian. Our latest news from the Rio Grande border confirms the intel- ligence previously received from our corre- spondents, that the revolutionists are too powerful for the federal government at the city of Mexico, and that its utter rout is immi- nent. The report had arrived at Tampico that the important city of San Luis Potosi had been captured by the revolutionary ‘General Trevifio, though the government had a force of four thousand men there, and had made the greatest efforts to send ample rein- forcements. It has been apparent for some weeks past that the revolutionists had a much larger force than the government concentrat- ing upon San Luis, and that the government was unable to raise men and means to-cope with its enemy. San Luis is, probably, the most important place in the republic, both in, a military and political point of view, next to ithe people and unity of the republic, the city of Mexico. It is in the centre of the re- public, and, in a strategical point of view, cuts off the whole tier of the northern States from the capital. The capture of this place will be likely to lead to the conquest ulti- mately of the whole republic by the revolu- tionists. Should Juarez, however, be able to hold the city of Mexico and the States south of that for some time the chances are that an the one alternative left us in the cause of civili- zation and humanity, We see no way of affording protection to American citizens and commerce except through the strong band of our government, unless, indeed, the Texans are to be left to fight their own battle. And it would be un- reasonable to expect the government to keep continually a large military force at great cost on the border for the purpose of holding the Mexican desperadoes in check. The only sensible policy to pursue is to take possession of Mexico and end at once and forever all this trouble. The crisis has arrived, and General Grant has the Opportunity of giving peace, happiness, prosperity and a strong government to Mexico; of adding immensely to the wealth of the United States, by the annexation of the richest country in the world; of greatly pro- moting our trade, commerce and shipping in- terests, and of making for himself a great name in bistory. To defer carrying out the manifest destiny of annexation would be only to permit Mexico, with all her wealth, to run deeper in ruin and to increase the difficulties already existing. The world looks to the United States to save and redeem Mexico and to make its vast natural riches available. Let us hope our government will not disappoint this expec- tation nor neglect the opportunity now afforded for accomplishing an object so desirable, The Spring Fashions at Home and Abroad. The first of the spring months has come and the fair daughters of Gotham have bestirred themselves on the ali-important subject of what to wear and how to wear it during the independent republic, composed of the northern States, or, perhaps, several small republics, may be establisied. At all events we consider the old federal republic of Mexico, as it existed at the time of Maximilian’s overthrow, doomed and incapable of being reconstructed and perpetuated. Admitting for the sake of argument that the aim of the revolutionisis is only to overthrow Juarez and to change the personnel of the gov- ernment, who can believe that the rival chiefs would harmonize and sustain any other Presi- dent? This would be contrary to experience and not in accordance with the history of Mexico and all the other Spanish-American republics. Porfirio Diaz, if not dead, might be putin the place of Juarez, or Lerdo de Tejada or some other prominent man; but that would not satisfy the ambition of the numerous generals, governors of States and other revolutionary leaders who now exercise independent authority and are looking more to their own selfish objects than the welfare of their country, Taere is no patriotism in the hostility to Juarez. Say he has held the office of President longer than he ought according to the strict construction of the constitution, he | was forced to do so under extraordinary cir- cumstances and to save the country when in a perilous crisis, Of all the Presidents of Mexico he has been the most thorough representative of If he cannot satisfy the Mexicans, at least till the present term of his office would expire, we do not see who can. There are causes of com- plaint, doubtless, in his administration, as there may be for his usurpation of unconstitu- tional authority; but the revolutionary chiefs who are endeavoring to overthrow him are simply ambitious rivals. The revolution, prob- ably, will be successful, but that will not bring peace or a stable government to Mexico. In the chaos that is inevitable in Mexico who or what party is the United States to re- cognize as the proper governing power? Who is to maintain peace and good neighborhood on our border, and to afford satisfaction for in- juries to our citizens and commerce? Who are we to look to for carrying out treaty obli- gations? Even now the Juarez government cannot perform these duties, and there is little hope that the revolutionists, if successful, will be either willing or ableto doso. Our citizens in Texas, as appears from the special telegram published in this paper yesterday, have been compelled to organize to protect themselves from the depredations of Mexican desperadoes, Wanting protection from their own govern- ment, they are contemplating making reprisals on Mexican territory. The feeling against the Mexicans is very bitter. It looks as if there were to be a border war between the Texans and Mexicans. Such a conflict must in the end lead to trouble between Mexico and the United States. There is no prospect, as was said before, of the Mexican authorities being either able or willing to prevent invasion of our territory and robbery and other crimes upon our citizens on the border of the Rio Grande. The Mexicans are, naturally, an amiable and kindly-disposed people; but they are in- capable of self-government, Their revolu- tions and fighting factions of half a century have fastened the evils of anarchy upon them, as delirium tremens, after years of intemperate indulgence in alcohol, is fastened upon the confirmed whiskey drinker. Moreover, the great body of the Mexican people are Indians, or mostly of Indian descent, The unadulter- ated Spanish element represents but a small figure in the general population of the coun- try, and Spain and the Spanish republics of South and Central America and the Island of Cuba tell the same story as that of Mexico—of the turbulent and intractable character of the Spanish race. The Moors, who, for seven hundred years, held the finest portions of Spain, were of that fighting race of the Saracens which proved too much for the Christian Crusaders in their fanatical struggle for the Holy Land of two bundred years; and those Moors, even with their expulsion from Spain, left their warlike propensities behind them in the blood of the Christians, Hence the restless temperament of the Spanish race. It is the blood of the Arab struggling for the wild life and freedom of the desert. More- over, the children of the heroic Spaniards of the day of Pizarro, Cortes and De Soto, de- bauched and demoralized by the wealth and luxuries of their new world, and “fallen from their high estate,” are now everywhere in the condition in which we find them to-day in Mexico—unfit for the sober requirements of self-government and utterly disqualified for the restraints of regular industry and peace. There is no help for this degenerate and hybrid people of Mexico except in their an- nexation to the United States; nor can we have peace on the border short of annexation. All other expedients to bring order out of Mexican chaos have failed, aod there ia only fairest portion of the year. Fashion has is- sued her annual proclamation and the modistes have unlocked the treasure: of the toilet to their expectant customers, Althouzh that mysterious period, general opening day, is yet more than two weeks distant, enough is known of the styles and materials to be worn this spring, and our fair readers, after a care- ful perusal of the article on Spring Fashions published in another column: to-day, will be enabled to make their own selections in the bewildering array of novelties set before them, {t is gratifying to find that independence in dress has at last found favor with Ameri- can ladies, and that they evince a determina- tlon to allow themselves no longer to be tied to the apron strings of foreign modistes, Taste has at length asserted its right to be the guiding principle of our belles in their se- lections for the toilet, and we may expect a lady now to choose only those styles and ma- terials that are suitable for her. The laudable efforts of the leading modistes of this city have done much to attain this desirable end, and American fashions have already attained an enviable popularity even in Europe. Our Paris fashions letter, which we publish on another page, will give the readers of the Heratp a glance at the gay world of Paris as it is to-day. Contrasted with former times the French capital has lost much of that fresh- ness, volability and light-heartedness which distinguished it. The stranger is absent from the boulevards, a brilliant court no longer sheds its brilliancy from the Tuileries, and dis- content among the artisans and shopkeepers is painfully evident. France is unsettled, and Paris reflects the real condition of the coun- try. Amid all the disadvantages under which the capital labors there still exists the old spirit, the desire and ambition to lead the fashions of the world. Our correspondent, in the letter published, points out the particular forms, colors and styles which the spring will usher in in gay Paris, and, as in years gone by, the example set will find its followers at home and abroad. Yet we would counsel our belles to depend more upon themselves and the dic- tates‘of taste and common sense than upon the proclamations of Parisian milliners, Tho American Case—Mr. Fish’s Reply to Earl Granville. The reply of Mr. Secretary Fish to Earl Granville’s note on the American case on the Alabama claims (which went outin yesterday’s mail steamer for England) is, so far as off. cially made known, the answer we had fore- shadowed as the only available one which the issue raised left to our government. It briefly amounts to this ultimatum—that, believing the American case as submitted to the Tribunal of Arbitration to be clearly and fully authorized by the Treaty of Washington, it cannot be recalled for modification to meet objections from the other side, The letter of Earl Gran- ville, it is understood, submitted only to our Cabinet the complaint of the Queen’s speech that Her Majesty’s government do not inter- pret the treaty as providing for the submission to the arbitrators of our claims for indirect or consequential damages. On both sides in this correspondence the most cour- teous language is employed, and from each of the high contracting parties the paramount desire expressed is a friendly adjustment, And yet the position assumed by the United States, as one from which we cannot recede, requires the aban- donment by England of her objections to the submission of the American case, Bat will Her Majesty's government now yield its objec- tions and agree that our case, with its conse- quential damages, sball be considered as within the stipulations of the treaty?’ If yes, the arbitrators will be recalled to Geneva to consider the subject on both sides and to strike such balances in our favor as may seem to them just and proper from the weight of the law and the testimony; if no, the Tri- bunal of Arbitration is dissolved and the treaty falls to the ground. But before this point is reached, even if resolved upon by England, as she now interprets our case, we shall, doubtless, have many letters passing and repassing between London and Washing- ton, desiring and explaining what we mean and what we expect and what we would ac- cept upon this branch, that and the other of our consequential damages, In the end the Board of Arbitration, we dare say, will be recalled to consider the American case as first sub- mitted, Concress Yesterpay.—‘Dulness reigns supreme,” Both houses were in session yes- terday—the House of Representatives for its usual Saturday entertainment of buncombe oratory, and the Senate only to dispose of a little bill to grant to the State of Indiana the bed of a reclaimed lake, Having disposed of this heavy piece of legislation the Senate did not feel called upon to take up any public business, and so adjourned, after « session of two hours, Our Religious Pross Table. The recent manifesto of the Political Reform Committee of the Union League Club in re- gard to appropriations of public moneys for sectarian purposes has created quite a lively sensation among our brethren of the religious press. The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) takes up the cudgels in behalf of the Roman Catholic interest, and shows where the Union Leaguers have committed some errors in their report, For example, in assuming that cer- tain appropriations were made for Roman Catholic institutions, when the fact, it seems, is that they were made to’ Protestant benevo- lent societies bearing names similar to those adopted by the Roman Catholics in christen- ing their charitable asylums. Very naturally ten-dollar Hawkins, as the foster father of the Union League statement, comes in for his share in the responsibility of uttering these blunders—these counterfeits of the true coin. Says the Journal in this connect ion :— Mr. Dexter Hawkins has put down Protestant and infidel institutions and schools in tne list as Catho- lic, A correspondent tn last Sunday’s HERALD has pointed out ten such schools and insututions, the Opposite of Catholic, to which over sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars were granted, and which the ambi-Dexterous Mr. Hawkins lumps in as Catholic. Nor has this HERALD correspondent ex- hausted the list, He does not note that the “Sisters of Mercy, Kioomingdale,” are a well-known Pro- testant community, to whom fifteen thousand dol- las Were granted, ‘There are yet others on the list Uhat we gravely doubt of, but these are enough to snow that no reliance is to be placed on the accu- racy of tunis report. The Hvangelist—Presbyterian—on the other hand, is equally outspoken, taking grounds in support of the truth of the Union Leaguer’s re- port, After reciting the statement in that re- port that a single sect—the Roman Catholic— during the last three years, by allying itself to the Tammany Ring, has drawn from the public treasury of the city and county of New York, in cash, for the support of its convents, churches, cathedrals, church schools and asy- lums the sum of nearly a million and a half of dollars; and, ‘‘if to this be added the present value of real estate transferred to this same sect by the public authorities for a nominal consideration, the aggregate mounts up to be- tween four and five millions of dollars.” The Evangelist goes on to say :-— Such statements would appear incredible if it were not for the evidence afforded by the specific items. Under a sense of the gross outrage thus committed upon the community, and the insult to overvuraened taxpayers of calling it by the name of cnarity, 1t will be ditticult for persons accustomed to acaim tone to speak of 1t as it deserves, It is @ violation of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the con- stitution, itis a public robbery, veiled under legal forms. Itis as fraudulent at the bar of conscience as the enormous stealings of che Tammany Ring. It brings in upon us surreptitiously what the very genius of our government disavows and abhors—an established Church, And when the act is done under the guise of a charity 10 adds hypocrisy to the Insult which it offers both to our rights and our common sense, Dexter is a well known ‘‘two-sixteen” horse; but this ten-dollar Dexter seems to be able to come down to a simple ‘‘one-ten” without an effort. The Observer (Presbyterian) quotes Hosea Bigelow, when he wrote :— John P. Robinson, he Says they dida’t know anything down in Judee, —and makes this the text for an article upon the woman preaching question. The Observer says it is not, as the HERALD suggested, “frightened at the apparition of a pretty and eloquent Quakeress in a Presbyterian pulpit,” and proceeds :— No, not frightened. Weare just of the opinion of the Friends’ Review, @ Quaker weekly paper that we read with attention. its calmness rests us, and we enjoy it. Now, tais paper speaks out op the woman preaching question, and we are almost en- tirely of Gnaxct bersuasion on the subject, It says “that voluntary speechimaking (on the pars of women) and other attrition with the public may de- velop masculine habits and lessen the gentle feml- mineness which we love to contemplate;” but it does not object Lo women preacaing who are called by the Spirit to that work and have the gift, The Observer concludes :— The modern crusade for the overthrow of the Scriptural and beautiful harmonies of soctal Jife is a rebellion against the nature of womanhood, and the reflued feminine soul cries out against it. She isright, God made herso, May God forbid that the weakness of men, the folly of men or ambition (that sin by which the angels fell) of women should seek to make her otherwise. But ‘the world moves,” and Quakeresses and other gifted women will preach or lecture, behind the curtain or otherwise, as the spirit moveth them. The Independent (Congregationalist, if any- thing) fires a broadside into “sectarian pilfer- ing,” as developed in the Union League re- port, and utters some words of truth and common sense when it says :— The time has come for a kind of action that will teach all religious sects to be content with the rights and protection of citizenship, and not ask or expect the State to contribute a dollar for their support. This 1s the true ground to be taken, and there should be no delay in taking tt, The Zablet (Roman Catholic) denies that republicanism is anti-Catholic and necessarily heterodox or infidel, and believes that when Christendom— Isonce reconstituted on a republican basis the Church will see brighter and more glorious days than she has ever yet seen, though her life in this world Will always be @ warfare, a life of struggle. It 18 as easy to educate the people as It 18 to educate the heir of a throne, Let the people be well and thoroughiy educated in Catholic principles, in the law of God, the teachings and precepts of Chris- tranity, and they will offer no collective hostility to Catholicity, and Church and State will co-operate for the good of society and the salvation of souls. The Church, in educating her own cnildren in her faith and discipline, is taking the very course neces- sary to save republicanism from perversion and ae- striction and to secure the stability and perpetuity of the republic, and hence the madness and perversity of those journals that oppose Catholic schools and seek to force a godiess education upon all the chil- dren of the land, The Methodist says it speaks advisedly when it refers to what it calls “Our Established Church,” and asserts that ‘in New York city that Church is the Roman Catholic.” Con- tinues the Methodist :— We must come to the only safe principle for Amert- can institutions:—“That sectarian charities shall be supporteii wholly by che voluntary contributions of their friends.’’ Let the State in its work of benevo- lence Le itself hereaiter apart {rom the Church, It has tried co-operation with the Church only to find itself bullding ap an established religion. ‘The past may serve for warning; the future must show that we have entered upon a new path, In the Christian Union we find quite a number of good articles, among them one upon the “National Labor Convention,” in the course of which the writer says :— The “labor party’? in this country has thus far inctuded but a small minority of the Class it pro- fesses to represent. We judge that its chief value is mm forcing on the attention of the community questions which might otherwise be neglected. Its success a8 @ politicai organization could only bo desirable upon a great Change in its principles and tendencies, It has suffered through the adoption of ideas generated in Europe and wholly inappro- priate to the state of our society. The existence of @ party professing to represent the working Class 18 usually @ great opportunity for the demagogue, who 1s the trae “natural enemy” of rich and poor alike. And there can be no permanent necessity for a ‘“Japor party” a community like ours, where the “working Class” 13 the whole populauion, and there is no confict of interests except in the !maginations of ioe short-sighted wad tie representations of the selfish. The Jewish Times, in answer to its own inquiry, ‘‘Has the Saviour come ?” responds :— No, the saviour has not come yet; the time ts far off yet beiore his advent, He has been vorn and we see traces of him; he is growing stronger and mighuer, and we see him take shape and torm, but not in a person, not in one invested with sinews of flesh and blood, No, that Saviour’s name is ho. mauity and civilization, the true Son of God, spirit of His spirit, The Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic), inspired probably ly the controversy WAS bas lately occurred in regard to sectarian appropriations and schools in this city, utters in an article ” headed ‘The Duty of Wealthy Catholics the following suggestions :— Independently of nationality the vote of Catholl- city in this country should be a unit on certain gpessions now atissue, There ought to ve a Cath- ic vote, above all things, on education; this is the question underlying all others, the foundation stone of all progress and reform. “Temperance, provi: dence and all the otker schemes of reformation or advancement hinge on to educauion. They are the branches; it is the tree, Catholics who pay for edue cation want Catholic education; it 1s no treason to ask for it. Tell those who say we want to aestroy the public schools that, instead, we want to reform the public school system. Catholic citizens have as much right to agitate for a reform of the public schools as for @ reform of the civil service. When the Protestant mind awakens to the knowledge that & nation cannot be great without religion, and that the want of that essential in the public schools and public institutions is destroying the morality and health of their children, they, too, will have a vote on denominational eaucation. We are glad to notice from our religious exchanges that the spirit of revival prevails throughout large portions of the country. This 1s especially true of Missouri and Penn- sylvania, where the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian Churches are holding union protracted meetings and accomplishing much good in the work of grace. Important from Rome—The Pope Prepar- ing to Leave the Holy City. From Rome we havex most important cable despatch, which leaves us little room to doubt that the departure of the Holy Father from Rome on an early day is, if not seriously con- templated by the Holy Father himself, at least seriously talked of by the Popo’s friends and advisers. Our despatch has it that prepara- tions for departure are being made on a large scale. The archives and jewelry of the Vati- can are being packed so as to be ready for im- mediate removal. It is added that His Holi- ness will go to the city of Trent, in the Tyrol. It is evident from this and from various other despatches which we have received within the last few days from the same source that the Holy Father is really dissatisfied with bis position in Rome, After having given the new situation a fair trial he seems to have come to the conclusion that Rome is not big enough for two potentates—at least, for such potentates as the spiritual chief of the Catholic world and the secular chief of united Italy. His desire still is for a more congenial home. It has always been our opinion that the Pope should content himself in Rome. Rome is the home of the Papacy ; and, although it may become once more a great secular capital, that is no reason why it should not recover touch of its medieval splendor and remain a suitable home for the Head of the Catholic Church. Still, if the Pope likes it not, he has a right to leave it. It is long since we offered him an asylum in America. It is still our opinion that the Holy Father should transfer his head- quatters from the Old World to the New. Coming as we are into direct contact with the countless millions of Asia through Japan and China, not to speak of the facilities which our own glorious future will open upto the industry of the Catholic Church, it is here, not in Europe, where the Chair of St. Peter should be established. Many places have been spoken of—Fulda, Pau, Malta, Salzburg, and now Trent—all good enough in their way. Good as they are, our advice is that the Holy Father, if he will not come to the New World, ought to remain in Rome. The presumption is that he will remain; but we suppose it is not desirable even to seem satisfied, , Our Minister to Italy and His Private Despatch. Mr. Marsh, our Minister in Italy, is dis- tinguished as one of the most accomplished scholars of the day, and in every respect, and especially as a diplomat, as a model of all the proprieties. But it appears that from the blunder of a clerk of the State Department, in sending to the printer, with our diplomatic correspondence of all sorts, a copy of a con- fidential despatch from Mr. Marsh on Italian affairs, this gentleman has been placed in an embarrassing position. The Italian govern- ment has thus been favored with a reading of said despatch, and complains of it and of the writer. It is expected, however, and it is to be hoped, that a little explanation will settle this delicate affair. We know that the Italians are a sensitive people, and are quick to resent anything that Artemus Ward would call “‘garcastikal.” Thus, in the good old days of our democratic party, when a Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, was our Minister at Turin, we Unlucky remember that the publication of a certain private letter of his brought about his recall. Mr. Daniel at the time was the proprietor of the Richmond Hzrami- ner, ® fearless, trenchant democratic paper, cutting and slashing right and left. He had written to his partner in the journal a private letter describing somewhat freely the peculi- arities of the domestic life, habits and cus- toms of the Italians, in which he said, in ‘substance, or something to this effect, among pther things:—‘‘Talk of the air of Italy heavy only with the odor of roses. Why, when I go out here about breakfast time the air is sickening from the odor of garlic. Yes, sir, all these people eat garlic, and in the morning especially they all smell of garlic.” This letter was considered too good to be lost to the world, and so it was published in the Examiner, and so Mr. Daniel had to come home. We trust that Mr. Marsh’s offence is comparatively trivial, and that we shall have in his case, not a repetition of the case of Daniel, nor of the case of Catacazy, but an amicable adjustment consistent with the honor and dignity of the United States and United Italy. Meantime vive la bagatelle! Financial Condition of Virginia. The Virginia General Assembly was yester- day again occupied with the finances of the State. According to the Funding bill, still in force, the coupons attached to the State bonds were receivable by all collectors for taxes, This was considered a hardship upon the poorer portion of the community, who bad no bonds, inasmuch as they had to pay their taxes in legal tender for the full value, while those possessing bonds, which had been purchased at a considerable discount, met the collector with the coupons, which in reality were worth something like fifiy per cent less, The first step toward a remedy was the attempt to repeal the Funding bill and the coupon pay- ment for taxes by introducing 4 bill which should offer a certain specified interest, to be paid regularly and promptly to the bondhold- ers, and make gold and silver coin, govern- ment and national bank notes only receivable for taxes. This meagura hes already created great dissension in the State, and yesterday morning—as stated in a despatch from Rich- mond, published to-day—Governor Walker read his message to both houses of the Logis- lature, vetoing the measure and severely ani- madverting on the attempt to compromise the State, The bill was immediately passed over the veto in the Assembly, while the message was tabled in the Senate, where it is expected it will remain, thus maintaining the financial deadlock until the end of the session, Mr. Boutwell’s Monthly Debt Statement. The public debt statement up to the Ist of March, just published, shows there has been a greater reduction of the debt during the last month than in the preceding month. The decrease in February amounted to $12,391,461. The average decrease a month for the year has been nearly eight millions, or, in all, $94,895,348, The amount of surplus unem- ployed cash in the Treasury varies very little from month to month and year to year. On the first of this month the Treasurer held in coin $110,405,319, and in currency $14,463,428. The coin certificates standing against the gold ia the Treasury amounted to $32,520,000, which leaves a clear balance of $77,885,319 in gold, in addition to the cur- rency. The whole calculated in currency amounts to nearly $100,000,000, Sometimes! there has been more in the Treasury; hardly ever less, The interest of this sum at six per cent is $6,000,000 a year. That is what Mr. Boutwell is losing and has been losing during the whole term of bis office by foolishly and unnecessarily hoarding the public money. The whole of the interest-bearing debt, includ~ ‘ing coin six per cents and five per cents, Navy Pension Fund three: per cents, certificates at three per cent and four per cent, amounts to $1,883,998,200, Debt bearing no interest, in the form of legal tender currency, fractional currency and coin certificates, $431,602,401. The total debt, less cash in the Treasury, is $2, 225,813,497. The reduction during the last three years has been within a fraction 100,000,000 a year. Personal Intelligence. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, 1s at the Fittn Avenue Hotel, Congressman Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, 19 in town at the Hoffman House. Commodore W. E. Le Roy, of the United States Navy, 1s at the New York Hotel, Colonel T. F. Mitchell, of Austin, Texas, is stop- Ding at the Grand Central Hotel. General Thomas 0. Osborn, of Chicago, has quar- ters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge S. Burke, of Cleveland, Onto, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Assemblymen G, T, Hammond and Theodore M. Fowler yesterday arrived from Albany at the St. James Hotel. General George B, Corkhill, of Iowa, is tempora- rily at the Metropolitan Hotel, Ben holladay, Jr., of San Francisco, 1s sojourning at the Sturtevant House, Judge Samuel A. Foot, of Geneva, N. Y., 1s tem~ Porarily domiciled at the Clarendon Hotel. Ben Field, of Albion, and George 0. Jones, of Al- bany, the well known members of the “thira house’? of the Legislature, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Colonel Simon Mandlebaum, of ‘Lake Superior, ig among the sojourners at the New York Hotel. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. —tThe Grand Duchess Olga is at present im Naples, —Father Hyacinthe is now in Rome, editing a paper. —Count Beust will return to the Embassy ia London in a tew days. He has been received in a private audience by the Emperor at Vienna. Re= port says that he and Count Andrassy, his successor 1n the Foreign Office, are not on the best of terms. —Daniel Strong, an American doctor at Marq sailles, occupying @ modest house fronting on the sea, 1s making a reputation as @ worker of wonder- ful cures, He gives nothing to his patents but Ved water, which he magnetizes by a few passes of is hand; and it is said to be a curious sight to wit- ness hundreds of persons of all conditions waiting their turn at bis door, each with a erent or de~ canter of water. The number who call dally upon Dr. Strong are estimated at an average of 900. Tne, papers speak of the Doctor's charity to poor people, but do not tell us how much of a fortune he is mak- ing by his novel process, —M. Drouert de Lezey, lieutenant in the Frenclt Navy, first class, and naval staif officer, who car- Tied off the hignest honors at the naval school, has resigned and entered the famous monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, near Grenoble. He is barely thirty years of age and wears the Cross of the Le- gion of Honor. An elder brother, heutenant col- onel in the army, resigned his commission two years ago and has been ever since a monk in the Grande Chartreuse. A third brother is a mission- ary priest in partibus (nfidelium, and a sister 1s & Carmelite nun. The family belongs to the ancient nobiesse of tne department of Isere, OBITUARY. Rev. Edward G. Fitzpatrick. The death of the Rev. Edward G. Fitzpatrick, pas» tor of St, Patrick’s church, Brooklyn, was an- nounced to the community yesterday, to the especial grief of the Roman Catholic citizens, Mr. Fitzpatrick was a youthful clergyman of great talent, who gave much promise of a useful mise sionary career by zeal and attention to nis duties, He was a native of Brooklyn, born in that city Feb- ruary 18, 1840, and consequently had just entered upon his thirty-third year, He graduated at St. Jonn’s College, Fordham, N. Y., with high honors, in 1858, but remained one year longer in the Semt- nary. Shortly alter the expiration of that period young Fitzpatrick went to Rome, where he entered the College of the Propaganda, and devoted himself, though in delicate health, to the study of theology and the other courses requisite for can- didates eeking holy orders, ‘The desire of his life was gratified. In 1864, having passed four years In the Propaganda, he Was ordained priest and returned to America, his country, to his parents and his many iriends. He entered at once upon the discharge of his duties as assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s church, and endeared himselt to his flock, mauy hundreds of whom had knowm him from his boyhood. Upon the death of the Kev. Father Fagan, the curate was eleval pastoral charge. He caused to be erected a hand. Some parochial school house, at an expense of, $59,000, This structure remains as a monument, that will endure, to bis zeal in the cause of educa~ tion and religion. The church edifice was algo ele betiished and much nore while under his During the session of the Ecumenical Council pond the question of Papal infallibility he ire a Paper in Brooklyn, and 10 1t the acvisabiliiy of pro claiming the dogma was uestioned, PR Ad 9 or tue Blsnoh Rev of was in ‘Noms ‘ivenaing. the ie ISO), Counc at the ‘time, caused the paper to be discon tinued. — Samuel € tle gael oe tas In Puitneyville, Wayne county, N. ¥., las ust died Hon, Samuel O. Cuyler, in the 64th year of hia age. He was born at Aurora in 1808. Mr. Ouyler, was State Senator for the Wayne and Cayuga diss upied for many years a prominent po~ Rio daogert! vil affairs and in the philanthropia movements of the region in which he resided, He was a pioneer in the anti-slavery and temperance movements. Rev. Heury Hervey. Rev. Henry Hervey, D. D., one of the oldest and ablest Presbytertan ministers in the State of Onio, died at his home in sartiusbarg on the 17th ultimo, in the seventy-lourth year of his age. br. Hervey was a fine scavlar, & thorough theologian, an inde. pendent (hiaker and @ (aituful pastor, Mrs. Dinnn Hemenway. Mrs, Diana H, Hemenway, wideiy known for het zeal in promoting the cause of Savbath schools tn tha, West, died reentiy at her home in Chambersnurg, Mo, Though partially disabled by paralysis, Mra. Hemenway devoted herself to this work for the last i years, Year before last she wrote five nun: red letvers in its interest and aided in ongannzing pHa geod eighty-seven schools in the section she resided. country Wi