The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ANl business or news letter aud telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hezrarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broadway, corner 30:h st, —Performe a ances afternoon and evenmg,— WALLACK'S THEATRE, B: Sta stres. — ee RAR’ roadway ant Lith stres, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston si—LA BkLLE SaVAut BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Burraco Bit—Tue iD MINE. ST, JAMES' THEATRE, Twenty Way.—MARRIAGE. sig zhth street and Broad- FIFTH AVENUE TI ‘Que New DRava OF Dr Twenty-fourth street. OLYMPIC THEATER Broadway.—?! x in somiMe OF Humery Downy TE Bathet Pax ACADEMY PR N OF MUSIC, Fo, oa ys One ‘ourteenth §street.—[TALIAN BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corns: SS JULIWB CABAR. E, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av. MRS, F. 2. CONWAY'S BROO! yy _ siltnts Ge wt KLYN THEATRE. PARK THREAT! 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Po New York, aa “March 4, 1872. d ements, 2—Auvertiseinenis. 3-The Swamp an; Outlaw “error Senegal and sels: Amonst the Lowervs, the of North Carols lan Kiood fheir Veins; His of Ther Campugn; A Bioody Nine Yeu "1; SIXteen Murders, 300 Kobveries, id Nou a M the Band; Five Men to_ 1,000.90 Con- dition of Aifairs; The Old No te Dis. | Maved and B; Clever ure of | $3,000 Worth of China—Obituar 4—Religion City a S$ and Lac | 1 on the | on Thoughtiess Denounced by rather hern Politic: South on tae Avprovenin paene A Democrane V will Pohtical vd | M IN Ink the Tra: Jersey Justi 6—Editoria!: ek, Commodore } —Naval Incveliigence, Auusement Announceine ‘V—Editorial (Continued frou rams from England an javana-—New: n Wash dntelligence—Express Thiey Criticisms of New Books— Lite: Business Notices, S=—The Emigration tive: The London Sta Muscle—Horse Kaid on Obscene Literature —| in a Stable, Log an 1a! and Commerc e| Résumé Dealings in W of the and the Corner in Mone Bonds 3 Foreign change \irgima Consois; Va nel the Dea rt Saiendars. Brooklyn Atfatr 10—Engiand: The Coluer De Advertisements, { Me im tne House of Lords—A Lecture by Mr. Ward on ile Lnter- nanonat "3 Mite— eraus— 8 e A’ eriisements, 1Q—Adiveriisements. Tue G attended a cock fight y y at Havana. Among the Dons this is the sof of pastime reserved for the Lord's Day. Govtp Was ts Atpany Last Weex, It is given out that he will be there again to-day. Unless he ean bring very powerful arguments to bear in favor of his retention in power the committees of the Senate and Assembly should all the more promptly report the E bills because of his presence at the State capital, Anoriier SNow BLockapE ON THE UNION Paciric, and the trouble is still on the great Rocky Mountain divide. The railroad com- pany is still said tobe uaprovided with the Necessary ploughs and machines for clearing the track, which has great ridges of snow fif- teen feet high piled up on either side and more blowing down. Old Sol is likely to solve the question one of these days, Let the short- sighted managers of the road beware of another such winter of mishaps and delays, A Moves Request.—A bill has been in- troduced into the Virginia Legislature asking Congress to appropriate fifty million acres of the public [ands to aid the State in paying her public debt. This may seem at the first blush arather modest request; but, afterall, the pub- lic lands might as well be appropriated in the qanner suggested as to have them gobbled mp by railroad speculators and lobby jobbers, Frenon Caviner Dirricorrins.---President Thiers’ Cabinet remains divided by personal jealousies and official recrimination. We are jnformed to-day, by telegram from Paris, that ‘Whe Presidency—The Anti-Grant —Poll- ticiaus—The Recent Senate Debate and the New Hampshire Election. We have already two parties in the fleld for the Presidential succession, and there are three others preparing for the battle. The two parties that have proclaimed their candi- dates and their principles are the party of labor reform and the party of temperance and women's rights, The labor reformers, with their ticket of Judge Davis and Governor Par- ker, of New Jersey, are evidently in the mar- ket and manoeuvring for a bargain with the democrats; the temperance and women’s rights reformers as evidently intend to hold their own course as an independent organiza- tion, The three parties which remain yet in the background are the regular republican, the anti-Grant republican, and the demo- cratic parties. The democrats, on General Blair's passive policy, are hoping for a coali- tion with the anti-Grant republicans, on a mixed ticket and India-rubber platform. The anti-Grant republicans have two strings to their bow. Their first object, if possible, is to supersede General Grant in the regular party convention, and, failing in this, their ultimate purpose is an alliance, offersive and defensive, with the democratic party, What, then, is the prospect? We conjec- ture that the five political parties we have named will, in the final shaping of the cxm- paign, be reduced to three—the republican party, the democratic party and the party of temperance and women’s rights, and that this third party will, practically, signify nothing. In short, from present appearances, this Presidential contest will be between the republican party, with General Gran! as its candidate, and the demo- cratic party, strengthened to some extent by floating voters and by bolting and stay- republicans, But still, the catalogue of | year’s State elections presents so strong a case in favor of General Grant that democrais and republican bolters and malcontents despair of defeating him unless they can divert from the republican camp a considerable body of new bolters to the opposition lines, The anti- Gront republican leaders and engineers of the Senate—Messrs. Sumner, Trumbull, Seburz and others, including the ‘Tipton Slasher”— have been for many months industriously de- voling themselves, by day and by night, to this one great object—the diversion from Gen- eral Grant of the balance of power, St. Do- mingo served them a good turn last March in New Hampshire; but St. Domingo being then abandoned by Grant he more than repaired his New Hampshire losses in Connecticut. Then came from Mr. Schurz his civil service reform, in which he was flanked by General Grant. Then came the New York Custom House in- vestigation; but as this inquiry has resulted in exposing only the evils of a system forty years old, it soon became apparent that this mine would not serve to blow up the administration. Desperate cases require desperate remedies, and so, then, as the last expedient from the remorseless Schurz, through the soured and disappointed Sumner, came that terrible in- dictment aiming at nothing less than the alienation from the President of the whole German republican vote of the United States. Oa the 12th of February last Mr. Sumner submitted to the Senate a leagthy preamble reciting certain transactions, naming certain parties and embracing certain letters in refer- ence to the sales of arms to the French by our government, during the late war between France and Germany, and suggesting not only corruption on the part of United States nome Ast | officials, but that ‘“‘the good name of the | American government seems to be seriously compromised by these incidents,” &c.; and to this ominous preamble was appended a reso- lution directing a select committee of seven to be appointed ‘to investigate all sales of ordnance stores made by the government during the war between France and Gerniany , to ascertain the persons to whom such sales were made, the circumstances under which they were made, the real parties in interest and the sums respectively paid and received by the real parties,” &c. On the 29th of Feb- ruary, after a hot debate, running through ' sixteen days, this aforesaid lengthy preamble was cut off and the resolution was adopted, Having fully informed our readers of the parties behind the scenes concerned in this extravaganza, and of the real object of the parties on the stage, we may now properly consider the developments and the general results of the Senate debate. Among these developments we find that the insinuations of of Mr. Sumner’# preamble of corruption and bad faith on the part of the administration are all given up as groundless; that Sumner, Schurz and Trumbull have each and all failed to make out even a plausible case against the administration; that Sumner was seriously crippled early in the engage- ment, and left the brunt of the battle to be borne by the bold, persevering Schurz ; that Schurz comes out of the hot fight without much gain, but without serious loss, having had nothing serious at stake in the controversy as the henchman of Sumner; that the wily Trumbull is a full-fledged anti-Grant or lib- eralrepublican candidate for the Presidency, and has pinned his f€ith to the passive or possum policy of General Blair, and with an eye to the democratic party as a hopeful bal- ance of power, This is among the most clearly defined of the developments of this Senate debate, and yet we are sorry to say that so far we have no encouraging democratic responses to Mr. Trumbull’s advances asa liberal republican, We find, too, from this debate, that Schurz has taken the oath of Hannibal against the administration, and is prepared to join any coalition that may be formed for the defeat of General Grant in the elections of next November, We find, on the other hand, that while the half repenting Sumner has not rendered himself ineligible to sit as adelegate in the Philadelphia Conven- tion of June next, the cunning Fenton has not committed himself in this discussion. This silence of Mr, Fenton, under the ‘ ministerial crisis is imminent at Versailles. The Executive and the Parliament are at vari- ‘ance on the subjects of the Catholic petitions, e time of Legistative adjournment and the press law. Then there are likes and dislikes wards ex-imperial officials accused of mal- feasance in office, so that the attention of the xecutive must be withdrawa, to a very maiderable extent, from the national repub- motto—Liberty, Eguality and Fraternity. temptations presented him as an anti- Grant republican to reopen fire upon Thomas Murphy, is very remarkable, He is evidently no longer on the same Presidential road with Mr. Greeley; for, indeed, since the opening of this discussion on the sales of these second hand muskets to the French, the Tribune, on the Presidential question, barring the tariff, has been a demo- cratic paper, We infer that Mr. Fenton does not intend to carry his opposition to General Grant beyond Philadelphia, and is meditating a-treaty of peace, but that ‘high reaching” Greeley, notwithstanding the little draw- back of free trade, has fixed his heart and his hopes upon Cincinnati, where Gratz Brown and his liberal republicans are to’ act as the forlorn bope of the passive democracy. No encouraging voice is heard by the New Hampshire republicans from “our later Frank- lin.” On the contrary, he is working like a beaver to defeat them, because they ignore the Sage of Chappaqua and fly the flag of ‘‘the Appomattox apple tree.” The House: investi- gation of the facts connected with the sales of arms to France Mr. Greeley denounces as & farce, because the facts disclosed sustain the honesty of the administration, fivancially and politically. In short, we fear that if there is one man in the country more anxious than Sumner, Trumbull or Schurz for the success of the democrats in New Hampshire it is the absurdly ambitious and implacable Greeley. He has reached that point in his personal grievances which, in 1848, turned Martin Van Buren against his own party and his own re- cord in order to obtain his great revenge. Thus, as a godsend, this Senate. debate has served a good purpose to the democrats of New Hampshire, where they are circulating liberally the speeches of ‘Messrs. Sumner, Schurz and Trumbull as campaign documents, and where the old party claptrap and chop logic of their stump speakers are greatly enlivened by the interlarded anti-Grant grum- blings of the New York Tribune, In short, the two weeks’ discussion of Sumner's resolution in the Senate on both sides, Grant and anti- Grant republicans, was mainly intended for this coming New Hampshire election, and ia view of its probable and possible consequences as the first gun of the Presidential campaign, "he republicans of New Hampshire are fight- ing this fight under the banner of General Grant, and if they are defeated (and at best the State is very close) what will be the effect upon the Cincinnati Convention and upon the | Philadelphia Convention? The effect, it is thought by the democrats, may strengthen the Cincinnati diversion into a hopeful enterprise, while the anti-Grant republicans are dream- ing that New Hampshire nfay possibly enable them to cut out ‘the military despot” even in the house of his friends, Hence this Senate debate, and the unusual importance attached on all sides to this impending New Hampshire election. a The Hiwkias Mite—Dhe Doubt. The fame of the Hawkins mite is still spreading, and waxeth strong in promise of goodly results to public morality generally. Our correspondents, as will be seen elsewhere in to-day’s Heratp, make many excellent sug- gestions as to its ultimate disposal, which we shall hereinafter pass to consider, Truly, one could hardly foresee how many worthy objects there are in the compass of Manhattan Island on which one might lavish ten dollars with so much comfort to his soul; and we are the more enconraged to publish these suggestions that, although they heap hot coals on the head of Brother Hawkins, they will give him a hint as to how much better use a man can put his surplus currency than in insidiously attempt- ing to corrupt public opinion at its fountain- head—the press. Now as to the suggestions, No, John Pemberton, it cannot be. Yonr case is a hard one, even though you-be nota ‘“‘hard case” yourself. But you entered the bonds of matri- mony with your eyes open, even as Brother Hawkins listened to the temptings of the Evil One. By your own confession you are fit to serve on a jury, and that alone is an effectual bar to your claim. At your present wages you could afford to serve your country at the jury allowance with considerable profit to yourself. Doit, ‘Sister Ann,” if you ‘‘see any one coming,” it will not be the effigy of De Soto on the white horse, which is en- graved on Brother Hawkins’ greenback. We gave on Thursday last our reasons why it should not go to the Foundling Hospital. We repeat them in the case of the Infant Asy- jum. To guard against the hinted possibility of the mite returning whence it came, we hide it in the inmost recesses of our safe and lock the door. ‘Unitarian,” you have not bet- tered yonr case by your second appeal. , The sewing machine stockholders that purchased shares at five dollars expected them soon to be worth ten; while it cannot be denied that those who got them for ‘“‘thank yow” made all they deserve. Run not the sewing machine needle into the eye of the peccant Hawkins, whatever his connection may have been with the ‘company,” while the iron of disappointed speculation has entered into your own stockholding soul, Jennie Thompson, you have moved us with your story of the poor, almost sightless girl. The very publication of the girl’s honest en- deavor, bless your heart, will, we are sure, obtain the needed balance; for the givers of mites in this great city have not all axes to grind about Unitarian sermons and sectarian appropriations, The Hawkins mite must still abide with us. The Presbyterian minister's wife’s horse and buggy charity we commend to Bergh. We'll ‘‘none on’t;” it is sectarian, We wonder, if the Presbyterian got it, would he call the horse Dexter? For the family of the wretched Foster we have deep compassion, and we commend our answer to the sewing machine girl to this kind-hearted ‘‘wife and mother.” No; the mite must remain with us for the present. Cannot that Holy Alliance—the Union League—help us? We have a vague general idea that there is in this ten dollar bill the germ of a scathing monumental rebuke to unctuous gray-headed Phariseeism, which, after being caught in the act, can carry its head with a sleck smile, rub its hands washingly, after the manner of Pontius Pilate, and attack sectarianism as if its Unitarian cat had never been ‘let out of the bag.” But where, oh where, can we plant this ten dollar note, like a city on a bill, where it may do its work of rebuke and exhortation; where, in teaching the hard way of the transgressor, it can in some way be read personally as Dexter A. Hawkins, his X mark ? Herald Still in ASSEMBLYMAN Samugn J. Tinpes is the representative man at Albany of the, regene- rated democracy. It is impossible that he can be lukewarm on the subject of Erie reform. Yet he might as well be an open advocate of the Ring lobby as be a cold friend of the re- formnre The Outlawed Lowerys of North Carolina and Goverumontal Supineness, The deeply interesting story of the outlawed Lowerys which we present in to-day’s Heratp, written in the midst of the scenes and curious personages described, will be @ startling revelation to those who have only re- called the existence of this gang of bandits as from time to time the particalars of an addi- tional murder were woven in with their long list of crimes, The grapbic picture of Robeson county, North Carolina, and its mongrel in- habitants, tells a frightful tale of social and racial demoralization, which becomes an un- solvable enigma when attempted to be argued back to its causes. The puzzle is not that the brigands have defied the local, State and federal authorities over a period of nine years, with rewards mounting up to forty-five thou- sand dollars on their heads, but that a plun- dered and outraged community should, through favor as well as fear, have remained passive with such deadly cut-throats in their midst. The swamp land around that significantly named village of Scuffletown has become to the Lowerys what Sherwood forest was to the band of the somewhat mythical Robia Hood, while the hybrid inhabitants, springing from Scotch, Portuguese, Indian, negro, and Lord knows what other racial germs, replace the friendly Saxon boors of post-Norman Yorkshire. Taken as bold and crafty robbers, treacherous, with by times a spice of bandit honor, murderers of a cool, yet savage and relentless stamp, they appear to have com- bined in their intricate characters 2 problem of race presenting all the worst elements of human nature with a positive tinge of genius and a distinct trace of such of the better phases of our naiure «as can be ex- pected (o appear in human beings the branded Ishmaelites of a semi-barbarous people. The truth is that it is a ques- tion of wealth as well as comparative civilization, No people with much of the good things of this world, with a hope of in- creasing them, could permit for a month the existence of marauders of this bloody stamp prowling around them. It is the social curses of the whole South brought to a focus of filteen tiles square of swamp land, We can discern there the deadly canker of slavery, with its vile, irresponsible and promiscuous admixture of race; its so-called chivalric haughtiness and disregard of human life; its improvidence in the master, its indolence in the slave, and its grovelling sensuality for gencrations every- where. With this cursed fabric overturned; with a country worried by a depleting war, which upset the slipshod economy of a century past, the people seem like men scarce wakened trom a horrid dream, and without enerzy left of the sort that strips to the waist and toils to recover lost ground. This is indeed a sad- dening state of things, and one which it behooves all who love their country and its greatness to see remedied. The enterprise and manly vigor which have built up one village in the East, North or West, would have cleared away such human pests as the Lowery gang before anything else was thought of. But the bandits of Robeson county are as natural an outgrowth upon the population a3 poisonous fungi upon decayed vegetable matter—expilainable in the same way as the bilgands of Greece, Italy or Mexico. We wish for and must have a better state of affairs in our republic, where the rotten portions of our social organism have been uprooted, and it needs but the exercise of will to set the rest right. The Old North State cannot for shame’s sake stand carelessly by on the principle, ‘‘Vacwus contat coram latrones viator,” while her name becomes a by-word anda reproach. The failure of one attempt at the capture of these mongrel bandits should not be made the excuse by either the State or federal government for a shameful inaction, The Great Southern Brilliant Triumph of the Signal Buroau, The great cyclone which has just ravaged the Southern seaboard opens the equinoctial campaign. If we may judge by its fury of what is to follow, our cities and seaports may take timely warning and prepare for a rough and stormy season. The Signal Service re- ports on Saturday morning reveal the immen- sity of the disturbance, covering the entire country from Tennessee to Florida and thence everywhere northward to New York with a tremendous rotating gale, whose centre had worked itself from the Gulf across the South- ern tier of States into the Gulf Stream off Wil- mington. The velocity of the wind the pre- ceding evening at Savannah had reached the hurricane figure of sixty miles an hour, nearly as high as in the cyclone of last August; and twelve hours later nearly the same velocity was reported from Norfolk. In Virginia and northward very large quantities of snow fell as the vast meteor moved northward off the Atlantic coast. Here in New York the storm set in between twelve M. and one P. M., with the wind strong from the northeast, gradually by nightfall veering round by the north to the west—a point of the wind from which invariably a clearing up commences. Our westerly and northwest winds are dry, because in passing over the dry land they collect no vapor, but sweep off that which has drifted in from the sea. It was past midnight, however, before the clear sky over this island began to be visible, from which some idea may be formed of the immense mass of vapor which had come in upon the land from the Gulf of Mexico. This is a well defined example of the readi- ness and frequency with which such travelling depressions are propagated towards the Gulf Stream and a striking proof against many theorists, that this great ocean current is the natural track and highway for storms, entitling it to its old name--the Storm King. As yet we have heard of no casualties or shipwrecks on the coast in this gale, but itis hardly time yet to hear. The Saturday steamers for Liv- erpool and other European ports fortunately got off just in time to elude if, and are prob- ably now ten or twelve hours ahead of it, and will doubtless be able to keep it ata respect- fal distance. The prediction and signalling of this cyclone is another brilliant triumph of the Signal Ser. vice at Washington, The tempest was noticed at the Signal Office early on Friday morning, then in the Gulf, creeping stealthily along, preparatory to its grand and violent outburst over the country, and its approach wae fore. Cyclone—Auother or twenty-four hours in advance. It is of the utmost importance to the country that General Myer shonld have telegraphic weather reports from the West Indies, to insure similar success always, and to enable him to warn the Gulf ports, which are most exposed, because first overtaken. No department of the govern- ment has done more for the honor of science and the good of the people, according to its means, than the Weather Bureau; and the whole nation will be disappointed if Congress does not provide for it most liberally and pnt it upon the best possible footing. The Legisintive Committees and the Eric Railroad Bills—The Responsibiiities of the Republican Leaders. Another week has been wasted by the com- mittees of the Senate and Assembly in hearing arguments on the bills relating to the Erie Railroad direction, and it is given out that further discussions are to take place during the present week. The republican reform Legislature is thus doing the work of the Erie Ring with fidelity and efficiency. Whatever may be the final action of the committees on the repeal of the Classification act and the fair election of directors, whether they report Senator O’Brien’s bill in its original shape, or mutilate it in the secret service of the ‘‘Ring,” or boldly report against it, the present extraordinary and unnecessary delay is the very thing the Erie lobbyists desire, and for which they would be willing to pay a liberal amount of the — stockhold- ers’ money. Unless the committees of both houses bring their labors upon these measures to a close this week they will find it difficult to persuade the people that they are any better than their predecessors of the infamous Legislature of 1869. The pretence that any further legal arguments are needed to enable them to understand the plain provisions of Senator O’Brien’s bill or to make up their minds upon its merits, is," in the language of New York politicians, *‘too thin.” Before the last election, which swept the State in the cause of reform and sent the pres- ent large republican majority to Albany, no candidate on that side of the House would have hesitated a moment to declare his con- viction of the vicious character of the Erie management and to avow his determination to overthrow the men who, by their recklessness, unscrupulousness - and lawlessness, have brought reproach upon the nation. Itis as ab- surd and inconsistent to require arguments as to the justice of restoring their rights to the Erie stockholders and of overthrowing the men who have violently seized and con- fiscated their property, as it would be to listen to the pleadings of counsel as to the justice of attempting to restore to New York the money stolen by the Tammany Ring and of over- throwing the men who plundered the city treasury. It is rumored that the tactics of the Erie lobby are to enlist the prominent leaders of the republican factions in their service on the promise of aid, pecuniary and otherwise, in carrying out their personal schemes. It has long been sus- pected that the Fenton interests have been identified more or less with the Erie manage- ment, and many attribute the Senator’s suc- cess in his last contest to that influence. It is certain that many members of the present Legislature who are known as Fenton men are either openly or sec- retly playing the game of the Erie Ring. Now f will not do for Senator Fenton to be preaching civil service reform in Washington while his political adherents at Albany are voting and working in the service of a noto- rious lobby. Already some of his nearest friends in the Legislature are looked upon with suspicion, and should they be found, directly or indirectly, openly or covertly, supporting the Erie Ring, the suspicion will ripen into certainty and the peo- ple of the State, who have taken to heart the cause of Legislative reform, will remember it against them in the future. The republican factions are now pretty evenly balanced in this State, although the weight of federal patronage has hitherto turned the scales in favor of the Conkling wing; but let either side become, through its representative men, associated with the corruptions of Erie, and it will be swept away before the indigna- tion of the people. Our Senators at Washington should keep a sharp look- out for their friends at Albany, and should insist that the interests of the party shall not be bartered away for money; for it is just.as certain that Senator O’Brien’s bill cannot be defeated this session, except by the use of money, as it is that the Classification act. was passed by bribery and corruption in 1869. The republican leaders shonld remember, too, that there can now be no divided responsibility for legislative action. The republicans have the whole power in both houses, and if they use it to sell out the cause of reform they will have to answer for their venality to the same power that last November destroyed Tammany and swept the democracy tempo- rarily out of existence. John Bull and the Alabama Bill. Our transatlantic cousin, Mr. John Bull, experiences twinges of conscience now and then with reference to the Alabama affair-— the piracies of the vessel and the payment for the venture, John has a national con- science, be it known, and this same conscience was, at one period of his family history, very sensitive one; that is, before it became de- moralized by foreign war and the crochety consequences and treasury incomings thereof, The seared and charred remnant of this con- science prompts him to discharge the Ala- bama claims bill, but then comes in his sense of materialistic economy, which urges him to inquire how much money he will have to pay in reality, and whether the American receipt for the cash will be a receipt in full, and have effect for his securement against damages in the future. A cable telegram from London states that it is conceded generally in the metropolis that the English government is prepared to allow the arbitra- tion of the Alabama claims to proceed under an agreement that ‘in no event shall the sum awarded for damages exceed a certain stipulated amount,” That is, according to our reading of .the news report, Mr. Bull will pay a certain round sum, but have nothing to flo with the matter of consennential or infers, announced to all the Atlantic seaports twenty | ential damages. In this wiso have Mr. Fish throw up bis claim, “Thank God! just enough More !”—words used by the English proprie- tress of a fashionable boarding school for young ladies as the daily after meal grace, at the very moment when the girls were pain- fully aware that they had not had half enough toeat. It must be acknowledged that John Bull is really | complacently domestic fel- low—‘the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.” Sa an ASSEMBLYMAN CHARLES A, FLAMMER, re~ publican reformer, represents the Seventeenth district of New York city at Albany. He is a lawyer, and received the votes of all the friends of reform in the November election. He is on the Judiciary Committee, represents an independent constituency, and knows the true character of the Erie ring. He cannot hang fire on the bill to repeal the Classifica. tion act and secure a fair election of directors of the Erie Railroad. Any tampering with the question would on his part be suicidal. France axp Her Royat FrRienps.—~ Cotut de Chambord is willing to “risk his lif? to save France.” So we are assured on the authority of his private secretary. Aa Old World philosopher of the politico- economic school says he has frequently heard men assert, ‘I will lay my head on the block” for the maintenance of this or that principle or dogma ; but that he observed ‘‘the block was well out of sighw”’ at the moment, The Count may be a brave man personally, but that is nothing at all, for there were “brave men living before Agamemnon.” Gleanings from the Pulpitse This is the season peculiarly assigned to religious revivals, and in most of our city churches sermons are preached to advance the revival interest, and, the first thing neces- gary on the part of the sinner toward conver- sion being repentance and then faith, or both combined, Mr. Hepworth thought good yester- day to point his congregation to ‘‘the lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.” The whole race, he said, is in the bondage of sin—not alone sins which we have committed, but sins also which we have inher ited, and in whose consequences we are involved. Our religious nature is dis torted and twisted, and we find it hard to do right, even with all the incentives of the Christian religion in our hearts. The disease is in our wills, and it is well nigh mortal, but the lamb of God can take away all our sins, and that lamb is to be found in the person of Christ, whose atonement can do all for us that we need, both for this life and the next. The manifestation of Christ's love in giving Himself for the life of the world, and the de- mand which that manifestation makes upon our love in return, and the efficacy of prayer to God, through Jesus Christ, was the theme of discourse by Rev. Mr. McNamee in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The danger of delaying repentance and resting in a nominal profession of Christianity was also pointed out, and the feverend father wished it to be well under- stood that ‘“‘a close attention to affairs which concern the soul never interfered in any way with the routine business of the world.” This is a stumbling-stone and rock of offence to thousands of men. They think that religion will interfere with their business or their pleasure’; whereas it purifies both and enlivens and beautifies life in all its forms and phases. The Rev. Mr. Birkins pictured the solicitude of Paul for the souls of his people, and showed that this solicitude is ‘‘not only produced by Christianity, but is de- veloped to its most effective forms by the same power. Religion not only kindles a glowing desire for salvation, but keeps it flaming in the soul. And Napoleon recognized this self= perpetuating power of religion when he said ‘the religion of Christ subsists by its own force.’” The motives which inspire the solicitude for the souls of the impenitent were also clearly depicted, and in his closing appeal to this class the reverend gentleman very pointedly and eloquentiy said, "There will be no Calvary crowned with the cross and sprinkled with atoning blood in eternity,” and hence here and now is the time and the place toseek salvation. “Say not in thine heart that the former days were beiter than these,” said the preacher. Yet this is just what Dr. Hitchcock has told the Broadway Tabernacle congregation. The age is degenerate, he says. Our profoundest thinkers, our greatest essayists, our most erudite men, come from Germany. To that land we are indebted for the best elucidations of our scriptural lore, and the best Hebrew and Latin translations of evangelical archives we owe to Teutonic scholars, And yet, despite all their erudition and teachings, the world at large is getting to be more sceptical. Ritual- ism is abounding, and ‘“‘many are caught within the silken meshes of the net of Romanism and are drawn into the vortex of the papacy.” Pantbeism is also gaining sway, and in our atheism we try to deny our sins or to convince ourselves that sin is right. We are happy to know and free to believe that there is a silver lining to this dark cloud, a bright side to this black picture. We believe that much of atheism and infidelity which exists and prevails in nominally Christian countries is on the lip and not in the heart. Peoplé think too much and too deeply now to be persuaded by others or to persnade themselves that there is no God or that He is one with matter, We can trust “the world at large” for more common sense and more faith than Dr. Hitchcock seems in- clined to credit it with, According to the liberal Christian or Unitarian view of the Lord’s Supper, as expressed yesterday in the Church of the Messiah by Mr. Schermerhorn, that sacrament is simply @ commemorative feast in honor of the noblest and divinest of human beings. The Romanists, he said, believed in a mystical transubstantiation miraculous the Ritualist in some supernatural influence pervading «the institution and constituting it a sacra. ment, and the varigus evangelical denomina- tions believe that by this means they individ- ually appropriate the merits of a vicarious atonement. Reason, as well as the obvious meaning of the Bille, refutes these views. ‘The ge argument against them, however, % that they im- implied an abnormal and supernatural ageney in man’s spiritual development, and it was against this theory that the liberal Christian contended most strougly, ‘The illustrations i H .