The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARUH 18, 1872. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communicatious will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVIL. 0000 eeeeeeseesceseessesNOs 78 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, —La Bre W4 fio ae nee between Prince and ' WOOD'S MUSLUM, Bronavay. oorner 10: encesafternoon and evening—WoORKINGME! 8T. JAMES' THEATRE, Tweaty-otghta Pe arith 8, Twoaty-otzhta strest ani Broad- BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—! 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New York, Monday, March 18, 1872. =: CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. i art vertisements, 2—Advertisements. * 3—England on the Qui Vive: Rear Admiral Ingle- Held inspecting Our Forts and Harbors—News from Washington—Music and the Drama— Literary Chft-Cuat—Shipouilding on the Dela- Ware: The American Clyde of the Future— Miscellaneous Sewtas I 4—Religious: Christian Worship and Christien tterauces in the Churches Yesterday; Mr. Beecher at nea Hall; Mr. Hepworth at Plymouth Church; Father ‘rom Burke on the Worship of Saints; A Discourse by Dr. flastings on Men, Poets and Philosopuers; Dr. Furness on the Roman Catacombs; lather Fransioli on the Persecution of the Catholic Church. S—Keligious (Continued from Fourtn Page—St. Patrick: Service and Sermon by Father ton Burke at St. Patrick's Caihedral—St. Patrick's Day—the New Normal College—Foreign art Notes—Racing in France—-A Utopian Colony in Kansas—A Terrible Case of Hydrophobia— Alarming Spread of Smallpox tn Plainfield. N. J.—DbiMicuity Between German Brothers- in-Law—Highway Robvbery—Row tn & Wil- Mamsourg Ballroom. G—Eaitoriats: Leading Article, “America and Manifest Destiny—Our Duty Towards Mexico—General Grant's Wonderful Oppor- tunity””—Amusement Annonucements, 7—Editoriais:; (Continuea from Sixth — Tne Swamp Angels; Latest Intelligence Re- specting the Captured HkRALD Correspon- dent; His Perilous Position; Determined to Succeed, Relving on the Heraip; The Gang Reduced to Three—Cable ‘Telegrams from Engiand, France, Italy and Ireland—The Goat Island Steal—Personail Intelligence— Business Notices. 8—Financlal and Commercial: ‘rhe Great Popular Movement in Erte; Gold and Governments Firm—A Sea Marriage: The Honeymoon of Rising Lawyer and a Famous Actress—The Havana Regatta—Jobs Before Congress: Sixty- oue Jobs Now Penaing—Two Murderers to be Hung at Louisville, Ky.—Knocked Down and Robbed—Court Calendars, 8—The Present and Proposed Drug Olerks’ Law— Foreign Miscellaneous Items—Fuueral of OM- cer Lambrecht—Iiliness of Wayne McVeagh— Marriages and Deaths, 10~—Sentence of & Murderer: Jonn Devine, the San Francisco ‘Chicken,’ to be Hung April 26— Weather Report—Obituary—Kaglsh i eine — Dry Goods Market—Havana Markets—Tn Board of Education—A Peanut Pediers’ Bat- Ue—Lurglary in Williamsburg—C!ty Govera- ment—Shipping Intelligence- Advertisements, £1—Kaltroad Monopoles in France: Evil Effects and the Necessity of Legislative Interference— Rata on a Keno Shop—Advertsements, 12- Advertisements. Mazzixi's MemortaM Iv Rome/—The Italian people paid honor to the memory of Mazzini by the display of an immense national proces- ion in Rome yesterday. The workingmen’s societies were out in force, with banners and music, A bust of the deceased patriot was borne through the streets and deposited in the Capitol with imposing ceremonies. The cily remained perfectly quiet during the day— ® fact which, coupled with our news from Ire- land, gocs far to prove that the European masses have come to appreciate the value of ‘moral force” and are still more respected by the governments in consequence, Maz- zini’s bust rests in fitting position ia the Capi- tol of Rome, near to where Cwsar ‘thrice re- fused a kingly crown.” Seoretary Fisn’s Rerry ro Fart GRan- wittx.—The American note in reply to Earl Granville’s dvspatch on the Alabama claims case was read in a British Cabinet council and debuted by the Queen's Ministers on Saturday, A Londoo journal, issued yesterday, an- Pounced the fact, accompanying the news ‘with the statement that the contents of the American missive produced ‘‘a favorable im- ression,” and were ‘regarded as furnishing n opening for farther negotiations on the asis of the arrangements provided by the reaty of Washington.” As it Is generally onceded that this London Sunday newspaper is moved toa considerable extent by Minis- erial inspiration in its utterances on subjects f great international interest, we may per- aps accept its report as correct. This report js pleasing in so far as it presents Mr. John ull ta an amiable mood officially. We can Bearcely approve, however, of the prospect of Welay which is opened by the use of the words *‘further negotiations,” for, as the whole world Is already convinced, John is a terrible fellow ¢ procrastination usdor the gu'sy of ‘further jegotiations,” and, as every Kazlish school. oy knows from bis copybook, ** procrastina- Sa the thief of time.” Towards MexicoGeneral Grant's Won- derful Opportunity. A great nation has duties as well as re- sponsibilities, When Providence raises up a people like the United States to become in less than a century one of tie great Powers of the world, He certainly means that we shall do something more than plant corn and build railways. It was Napoleon who was always fond of dwelling upon the ‘‘mission” of France, while Pitt and Canning mado many proud speeches upon the *mission” of Eng- land. France construed the Napoleonic dic- tum to méan that she should make and un- make kingdoms on the Rhine and the Baltic, and establish Bourbons and Bonapartes upon alien thrones, England translated the policy of Pitt to be that all flags should be furled before her flag, when they met upon the high seas. We put an end to that legend, as far as America was conceraed, in 1814, while the ambition of France, in going beyond her real dutles as a liberal and progressive Continen- tal Power, ended in defeat. On the othor hand, the influence of France in Italy and Spain, in making war upon superstition, and the influence of England in liberalizing India, have added largely to the happiness of the world. They have shown their appreciation of their responsibilities as nations. We have a tradition in our politics against intervention in the affairs of foreign States. It comes to us from Washington, and should be remembered with the reverence that we pay to every precept thet fell from that illus- trious statesman, We have a tradition that no European power should he permiited to interfere in the affairs of any nation on this Continent. We owe this to John Quincy Adams, and it does honor to his courage and sagacity. Apparently antagonistic, these principles are harmonious, We have no business with the affairs of foreign Powers, The time may come, in the progress of Oriental regeneration—separated from the Eastera nations as we are by a sea which washes thousands of miles of our Western coast—when we may be compelled to exercise our iofluence over Japan and Caina. Ties of commerce, emigration and, perhaps, of citizen- ship, may make this necessary, and we may have to depart from the Washington maxim. But for the present, and for another generation, most likely, the wara of Europe or Asia are of no concern to us. The teachings of Mr. Adams admit of no criticism. The American republic is the dominant Power upon the American Continent. Compact, united, homo- geneous—with more population than England or France, and as much as Germany—with one language, one code and one government, we have a responsibility upon this Continent which becomes a duty. In our extravagant mo ments we speak of it as ‘‘manifest destiny.” We prefer to regard it as ‘‘manifest duty.” Since we came into confederated existence as a nation war, annexation and purchase have added largely to our domain, received Fiorida from the Spaniard, Louisiana from the Frenchman, Alaska from the Rus- sian, Texas and Calffornia from the Mexican. Tho acquirement of these Territories has been @ source of happiness to the people and a con- tribution to the progress of mankind. have made California a Commonwealth as We have We rich as Tyre or Carthage, and in twenty years a city has grown up in an old and neglected dependency of Mexico which bids fair to rival Babylon. Texas and Louisiana are rich and proud Commonwealths. Florida is far different from what she would have been as a Spanish Porto Rico or English Jamaica, while humid and ice-bound Alaska has been developed into one of the most important commercial stations in the world. Wherever the Yankee has gone be has carried life and growth. The world is better, civilization is riper because of the American’s work in these Territories, Nor has the republic been weakened by the addition to her domain. As we have advanced in the path of political aggrandizement and reform science has kept pace with us, steam and eleciricity have become the servants of the Union, and the republic holds the two oceans more closely in her armz than when, in the early days, she held Virginia and Mas- sachusetts. Taking a religious view of the America and Manifest Destiny—Our Outy The Sermons Yesterday. The religious event of yesterday was the exchange of pulpits between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Hepworth. The congregation of the Church of the Disciples in Steinway Hall were thrilled and spellbound with the matchless eloquence of the pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, and we dare say the Plymouth congregation were de- lighted with Mr. Hepworth. It was a mutual recognition of Christian greatness, and was, no doubt, as great a treat to the preachers as to the people. Greater numbers left Stein- way Hall, we are told, unable to enter than those who were fortunate enough to gain ad- mittance. Plymouth church was also crowded as usual. The subjects chosen by those two eloquent divines were peculiarly suitable to the occasion and to the present season of the Church, when the great work of the Lord Jesus Christ is brought vividly to our remembrance, Mr. Beecher, in his own inimitable style, presented in striking contrast the pale glory of intellectual power, of riches, of material greatness and might when com- pared with the knowledge of God and His righteousness, The race, Mr. Beecher said, had always sought to know God, and every man had his own concepiion of Him, Men say that they know God, and plume them- selves on their knowledge, but the wisest only know just enough to touch the hem of His garment, said the great preacher. How almost utterly impossible it is for any human soul to understand and know God was illustrated by Mr. Beecher by our imperfect knowledge even of great men of our own ora former age. He uttered a fearful trath as well asa witticism when he remarked that for rich men to glory in their riches would upset New York in twenty-four hours, Equally appropriate was Mr. Hepworth's dis- course on the inscription on the cross, in which was comprehended all that Jesus said and did before He ascended Calvary to die. Tho whole sentence, said Mr. Hepworth, ex- pressed concrete contempt; but the words are true, for Christ is not only the King of the Jows, but to-day He is King of the whole world; and our hope of heaven lies in the fact that Jesus went up to God and left the door open for us, Dr. Hastings, {mn the Forty-second street Presbyterian church, endeavored to set forth the worth and preciou3ness of man. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, considered the pro- posed religious amendment to the constitution, which he ridiculed, as if there could be no re- cognition of the Supreme Being except by name, and as if it were not one thing to cry “Lord, Lord,” and another to do His will. Christianity at the first, as evidenced by the Catacombs of Rome, was not, he said, like our present forms of it,.a creed or an observance, bnt a life—not an artificial routine of formali- ties, but a sphere for all common sympathies and deeds. The Rev. Mr. Park encouraged the New England Congregational church to move forward as the Israelites did across the Red Sea, while their Egyptian slavebolders pur- sued. The importance of prompt and decided action was the lesson deduced and which was illustrated by historic events. The dreadful crime which men commit who make light of God's invitations was the subject matter of Mg Taylor's discourse in the Broadway Taber- nacle, The mistaken notions which people get about religion were disclaimed as having any foundation whatever either in the Gospel or iu Christian experience. The now celebrated Catholic preacher, Rev. Thomas Burke, did a good service to his countrymen and to his Church when he dis- coursed, as he did yesterday, on St. Patrick, about whom, perhaps, a greater amount of ignorance prevails than any other historic per- sonage of equal importance, not only among the opponents of Catholicism, but among its, adherents. The Rev. Father Damen, whose revival meetings have had such wonderful success in these parts, preached with great acceptance and power last evening to a large congregation in the Church of the Holy Inno- cents. He took up the popular objections to Catholicism, and showed their groundlessness, The objection that Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible was particularly noticed, and he called attention ta the fact that Pope Pius VI. exhorted the faithful to read God's Holy Word for edification and divides the two republics. Any foreign Power can make the Rio, Grande a base of hostile operations. Any foreign fleet may cruise in the Gulf of Mexico and prey upon our commerce, and find refuge ia Mexican ports. This gulf is an American lake. We must hold it against the world. Every port on its shores must be under American guns, We saw during the rebellion how Mexico was made a supply depot for the rebels. We saw how the fleets of Spain, France and England were sble in our time of care and helplessness to enter the Gulf and make war upon Mexico, We know well that if these nations, or any large maritime nation, had recognized the independence of the South, Mexico would have gone far towards enabling them to vindicate that act. Therefore in the maintenance of our national intezrity we are compelled to look seriously at the dangers we undergo with this turbulent, restless Mexico upon our borders. The time may comé when another Maximilian may land bis armies at Vera Cruz, and such an event would bring war. In the interest of peace to the United States we urge GeneralGrant to declare a protec- torate over Mexico, In the interest of hu- manity we make the same appeal. The suc- cesses of Juarez are illusive. They bring the country no nearer pacification, Juarez sits upon a trembling seat to-day; to-morrow he may be shot in the ditch of Queretaro, where poor Maximilian was put to death one day, with some Porfirio Diaz to reign in his stead until an- other adventurer is strong enough to shoot him. Goverament in Mexico Is simply assassination by law, and universal brigandage tempered by universal saffrage. The country hus every- thing to Invite the honest and industrious man, Our duty is to rescue it from the influ- ences that have thrown it into anarchy and shame. Nor in doing so do we invade any vested right or wound the pride and patriotism of the honest Mexican people. They want &@ good government. Their own flag does not command obedience at home or respect abroad. The American flag would mean a step from inanition and insanity to Ife and health and progress. The President knows Mexico well, and is an intrepid statesman, as he showed in St. Domingo. Here is an enter- prise the splendor of which will throw St, Domingo, or even the acquirement of Cuba, into the shade. In the end it means the con- trol of the West Indies. Manifest destiny points across the RioGrande. A protectorate over Mexico means the freedom of Cuba and the annexation of St. Domingo. No such opportunity has been afforded to a President since Jefferson acquired Louisiana. Let President Grant show himself wortby of his fame and create another claim to the confi- dence of the people by establishing a pro- teetorate over Mexico, inSuring to her people peace and freedom, and ending the scandalous condition of affairs in that richly famed but most unfortunate country. St. Patrick’s Day—Texts, Bauners and ‘Tonats. The patron Saint of all good Hibernians will have bad a double-barrelled observance this year. The religious tributes to the memory of the Apostle of Ireland were characterized all over the city yesterday by a fervor and devotion which will rejoice the soul of St. Patrick in Heaven, as he observes that the faith which he patiently and laboriously sowed in the Emerald Island, over fourteen centuries ago, is still bearing fruit of godliness, and that the insula sanctorwm is worthy even yet of itsname. St. Patrick’s Cathedral was the scene of a solemn high mass, in which Arch- bishop McCloskey was the celebrant, and the sermon whereat was preached by the gifted friar of the Order of St. Dominic, Father Tom Burke. It will be found from the Hgranp report to be an able and learned panegyric on the Saint and a definition of his teachings and their wonder- ful effect, and will be duly read with interest by every son of the old sod in the city before falling into line for the great procession of to- day. They cannot do better, and we prophesy that thirty thousand Hibernian heads will be carried the higher for it and a like number of beaver hats assume a more jaunty air. Every indication promises that we shall have an or- derly, quiet and respectable display, Imposing in numbers, and with some additional pic- past, we may truly say that Providence has blessed our adventures in union and annex- ation, by enabling us asa people to come closer and closer. The duty we fulfilled to those Territories has become a graver responsibility in the case of Mexico. President Grant has an opportunity greater than what came to Jefferson when Napoleon offered to sell Louisiana—greater than what came to Polk when he annexed ia, Here is a country roe tet i ies ¥ rich in all naturel resources, Its climate is fertile beyond description, its scenery exceeds the most romantic sections of our own country ; itis full of agricultural, in- dustrial and commercial capabilities. Yet, by reason of evil government, apathy, slug- gishness and bigotry, it is no more advanced than it was under Montezuma. Buckle has shown in his sketch of European civilization that while England and Russia, Germany and France, bave kept pace with the progress of the age, Spain has stood still—a hopeless, dormani, siuggieh mass—cherishing ¢ é trae ditions and superstitions of the Middle Ages ; ignorant, and proud of her ignorance, as though it were a phase of patriotic virtue. What we see in Spain, as compared with Europe, we see in Mexico, as compared with the United States. The Spanish character controls the Spanish colony. The priest aod the bandit contend for the mastery of the country, A republic in name, Mexico has simply beea a recognized and intermittent @narchy. To-day Iturbide; to-morrow Santa Anna; the next day Maximilian; again, some stolid, listless Juarez, who holds his seat only by the sword and sits in stoay iadifferency, helpless to command or even obey, while society is in a state of volcanic eruption, law ig disregarded, the national crodit is bank- rupt, property insecure, and capital and emi- gration are debarred from its shores. There is no healthy life in the country—nothing but political corruption and social chaos. It Mexico were simply her owa enemy we might limit our argument and speak ouly of the good that annexation would do to a people who have shown no capacity for continued self-government; but there is also a selfish view. Mexico is, geographically speaking, a part of the United States, A. sow river sanctification, It is the bulwark of the Church, its sword and shield, and by it heretics are convinced of their errors and the truth of Catholic doctrines is proved. Father Fransioli, in St, Peter’s church, Brooklyn, was very sensitively affected because ‘“‘that pure and holy mother the Catholic Church is vilified by the press, by pamphlet, at public meetings, in official assemblages and by indi- viduals,” and he wished to know how he might stop this stoning and turn aside these turesque features thrown in which were sadly lacking In the parades of former yoars, Then, when the out-door glory of the day is over, when the marshals have stowed away their regalia of green and gold and looked carefully to the comfort of their eighteen-inch ostrich feathers, when the prancing steeds are returned to their owners and the brawny rank and file have retired with their regalia from publio lifo for another twelvemonth, the third phase of the honors to the Saint will begin. The religious portion | darts of the enemy. No Pk a Me declared, was plously attended to yesterday, the should be on the criminal st. The ‘trae parade will occupy to-day, and the mystic process of ‘‘drowning the shamrock” will hold good for the evening and on to the verge of to-morrow. A spirit of joviality may be certainly expected to be extant, and a great thing in this Saint’s favor ls his happy adapt- ability to the mirthful necessities of our Celtic fellow citizens. As he furnished a theme for the preacher yesterday and a very venerable subject for innumerable banners to-day, so, in the fun of the evening, he will bo a first rate subject for a toast; nay, it is more than probable that some fugitive members of the ancient order will bring him irreverently down to state lyrically that he was a gentle- man and respectably connected, with wholly unfounded and unwarranted references to his relations with the Gallabers, Bradys, O’Shaughnessys and O’Gradys. Leaving the holy man’s memory to his en- thusiastic disciples we will say word or two earnestly to them as patriotic citizens of the United States. It is to draw 4 lesson from to-day’s procession, undisturbed in its pro- gress, protected if it needs protection, re- viewed by the Mayor and Common Council, and allowed to take possession of the principal streets of a busy city for hours, The lesson is the application of the golden rule to other procesionists—to respect the privilege which they enjoy to-day themselves, As they would resent interference during their march let them in future avoid even the semblance ot interference with others, no matter what their opinions, With this settled in their minds we say to our hardy and bappy Hiber- nian fellow citizens fall in, march, break up, Apast your patron Saint and be happy. children of the Church must reach a state of perfection, not only.in faith but in acts, which will challenge respect and admiration, That should be the aim of every one of every church and creed and name, The Rev. Mr. Hill presented the lessons taught to the Jewish mind by the transfigura- tion of Christ to his Methodist congregation in South Third street (E. D.), Brooklyn, yes- terday. Their prejudices were to be loosed concerning the necessity of their obedience to the ceremonies and requirements of the Mosaic law and the fulfilment of that law in and by Christ to which Moses and Elias were wit- nesses. It was also designed to teach that the road to exaltation and glory runs through the valley of humiliation. As becometh this solemn season the sermons yesterday were largely sugyestive of heart thoughts and searchings after the highest and purest good, and we can commend them to our readers to-day. Sr. Patriog’s Day on Tue ‘OLD Sop.”— Ireland observed the national auniversary of St. Patrick’s Day in peace and good order yes- terday. Thero were no disturbances reported in Dublin from the provinces to the moment when the cable news telegram which we publish to-day was forwarded to the Hzraup. Dro- gheda, a town of which Cromwell said ‘it hath pleased the Lord to deliver Drogheda to my sword,” demonstrated in mass meoting for “home rule” and a petition to Queen Victoria for amnesty to the Fenian coaviots, although it is difficult to see bow the two ideas can be reconciled, unless they constitute, really, oae, the first beiag subservient to and adjus, rant for the promotion of the last, —TRIPLE SHEET. hh General Grant and the ppesition Elee the meate—The Political Movements of Day. New Hampshire has cleared away at heap of rubbish from the Presidential course. dn the verdict of her late election the facts are ewtab- lished that General Grant is the candidate of the republicans for the succession against alf comers, and that nelther republican bolters nor temperance radicals nor labor reformers nor all these elements combined against Grant have in any degree shaken the integrity of the party of the adwinistration. All the State Conventions so far held for the election of delegates to Philadelphia tell the same story. For example, the “Hunters of Kentucky,” in their recent Convention, thus defined their po- sition: —‘‘We pledge ourselves to support the nominees of the Convention which is to assemble on the 5th day of June in Phila- delpbia; and, believing that President Grant has met his pledges given to the country in the administration of his high office, he deserves our thanks and support, and our delegates are instructed to vote for his renomination.” And the men of Wisconsin affirm that ‘‘this Conven- tion most heartily recommends that the dele- gates here elected to the Republican National Convention cast their united and entire vote for the nomination of U. S. Grant for President of the United States ;” and they do this because they hold ‘‘that the continued confidence of the people of the country is due to the administra- tion of General Grant;” and they refer spe- cifically to the leading acts and measures of his domestic and foreign policy in support of this declaration. * From the unanimity of all these State con- ventions we can hardly doubt that General Grant at the Philadelphia National Council will be renominated on the first ballot, and by acclamation. But the Vice Presidency remains an open question, and among the rivals of Mr. Colfax for this nomination are James F. Wil- son, of Iowa; Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts ; General Harlan, of Kentucky, and Mr. Denni- son, of Ohio, and a dozen others may appear upon the first ballot, in the way of complimen- tary notices. It is probable, however, that Mr. Colfax will carry off the prize,. for the Convention will be cautious in. avoiding a repe- tition of the great mistake made with the renomination of Lincoln, in dropping Vice President Hamlin as bis associate and taking up the intractable Andy Johngon, Meantime New, Hampshire appears to have settled the question for the democracy, as between the active and passive policy,. in favor of the Missouri coalition movement. is admitted that upon the fair trial made in New Hampshire, between the republicans and. the democrats, Grant and anti-Grant, the result confirms the State elections of 1871, in showing that the democratic party does not: carry guns enough to capture Appomattox: Court House. must look about for reinforcements, and so it seems to be generally understood among the party leaders and oracles that ‘‘the party is to play second fiddle to the Cincinnati L‘boral. Republican Convention.” On this passive: programms Judge Davis at present seems, to: be the coming man, exchanges, however, views of an old line democrat on this subject. He says that if Grant is renominated the democrats will keep very quiet (the passive policy), in order to allow the independent re- publicans to meet for the purpose of presenting candidates and forming the nucleus of agreat movement, and that then the democrats will come out, hold a convention and: confirm the Cincinnati nominations, if they happen to embrace Davis or Trumbull or some other satisfactory man with a satisfactory associate on the ticket, democrat is somewhat roughly explicit. says that Chase, of course, {fs out of the question, because he is broken down physi- cally and his mind is failing rapidly. It Consequently the democracy We find among our the: following as the Upon one point this. old line He This may do for an old line democrat, but it is not the opinion of the ‘‘democratic republi- cans” of West Virginia. Their movement of last summer at Parkersburg in favor of Chief Justice Chase has been followed up with the pronunciamento of principles, which we pub- lished recently, embracing negro suffrage, a universal amnesty, national sovereignty, State rights and free trade, and a call for a National Convention at Parkersburg on the 18th of April for the nomination, as we understand it, of the Chief Justice as the democratic republican Holy Alliance, this Parkersburg move will be a failure, because of the prevailing opinion that Mr. Chase is out of the question. ize the fact, however, that as a Presidential availability he belongs to the past. candidate for the opposition We fear, nevertheless, that He cannot real- And what a lesson to all our hopeful, scheming and intriguing aspirants for the Presidency is here suggested! The Wyse. Bourg Belongs to that class of glowing and magnificent castles in Spain which few men reach, except in their dreams. We think it was Fremont who, in one of his famous exploring expeditions, in crossing a desert in Southern Nevada, saw before him looming up inthe hazy atmosphere a beautiful counterfeit of the White House, embowered in trees and with a charming lake at its front of shining water. But on approaching it the de- lightfal picture faded away into the naked rocks and blistering sands of the ‘‘howling wil- derness.” And to how many aspiring men has this mirage appeared in other places than Nevada, only after thelr following it for years, todisappoint them at last? Who can tell the number? The long list that ocours to us, trom Aaron Burr downward to this day, may be compared with the bones of travellers and camels that mark the route over the African desert to Timbuctoo. And what does it all amount to? ‘Vanity of vanities,” saith the preacher, ‘‘all fs vanity,” But what of this Cincinnati Convention? Called by a little meeting of anti-Grant re- publicans in Missouri, it is assuming the character and the proportions of a democratic flank movement upon the administration Delegates to this Convention have been ap- pointed from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, North Carolina and other States, General Cox, late Secretary of the Interior, they say, will head a fine body of liberal republicans from Ohio, and Mr. Greeley has promised a powerful delegation from New York, It bas been reported, too, as news of the highest moment, that Mr. Sumner bas not only made up his mind to go to Cincinnati, but bas patriotically consented to preside over the Con- vention, But, considering the fragile health of Mr. Sumner, this report may be dismissed 88 4 newspaper canard, Nor is the’formal ad- hesion of this disappointed Senator .\ecessary now to fix the character of this C‘onven- tion. It is agreed upon between the high \©o0- tracting parties that the liberal republicans Rd to prepare a new departure forthe democracy,® and upon a ticket and platform which will fuse democrats, labor reformers and the loose usaterluls of the country generally under the flag of the iberal republicans in the commoa caued against Grant. The scheme embraces simply the disbanding of the democratic party and the merging of the democrats in a now party organization. Can this difficult scheme be made a suc- cess? Hardly, under’ the best of probabifi- ties, in the short interval to November next. General Grant has a party at his- back and & personal and official popularity im his front which will compare with the advantages of Jackson in 1882;: for in tbat campaiga Jack son had to fight the national: republieans under Clay, the anti-Masons under Wirt and the Southero nullifiers under Calhoun, It was supposed, too, before, and believed.after, the election, that if all these opposition ele- ments could have been: fused upon'a common ticket Jacheon might have been defeated. Bat the divisions among these opposition: parties were too wide to be closed up, and this wit be the first impediment to fusion at Cia- cionati, In 1836, had the opposition ele- ments united upon a common ticket,, they might have defeated Van Buren; for in: the popular vote of the Union he had only some twenty-five thousand majority, notwithstand~ ing the distractions of the opposition upon four different candidates—Harrison, ‘White, Mangum and Webster. From the divisions-of the opposition Polk, Taylor, Buchanan: and: Lincoln (first time) were each elected. with a- majority more or less of the popular votes against them. Now, with a popular majority for Grant in 1868 of over three hundred thou- sand to overvome in 1872, the very first neces-- sity to the opposition elements is fusion, and. fusion is the work to be undertaken at-Cin- cinnati. The movement is imgortant, not as affecting the issue of the impending contest,. but as likely to determine the question whether the democratic party in this cam- paign shall disappear like the old: federal party in 1820 or be extinguished in battle like the old whig party in 1852. “sons of Thunder.” Some stars are made to shine and some to burn. In political life, in statesmanship, in war, in religion—everywhere, and in all the different phases which go -to make up human society, some meq burn atid; some merely shine. Some are stars of first magni- tude and some only of eighth or between these magnitudes. Such were Napoleon, Wel- lington and Washington—astars that burned in military life; and such also are Grant, Voa Moltke and others still living. Such were Jefferson, Calhoun, Thad S:evens, Palmerston and others in political life, and such are Bis- marck, Thiers, Disraeli, Ben Butler, Charles Sumner anda few others beside them still shining among us. The Church bas given great men—‘‘sons of thunder”—bright and shining lights to the world, all along: the pathway of its history. It has had its St. Patrick, its Huss and Wyckliffe, its Luther and Melancthon, its Wesley and White~ field, its Knox and Edwards, and a host of others too numerous to. men- tion. But how sadly deficient does the present age seem to be of great men in Church and State, in -religion and:politics,. when compared with the past! ‘True, the. clroumstances are greatly changed since the. former times, and, as greatness is a comparan tive quality, it was much easier for a man to be great one, two or five hundred years ago than it is to-day. The masses then were so small intellectually that a man who rose above them was so much greater as they were smaller than the masses of the present day. Moderate ability, to stand above the average: crowd in our time, would have been supreme nobleness and breadth of intellect and soul a century ago;.and yet the heroes ef the past were great even in comparison with the great- est men of our own age. But hard as it may seem to be for one man or two men to soar above their fellows so far that they shall be generally recognized as great even while they live, in this land and in this day we have a few such in the Church among us, Right here in our midst is a man who is recognized, not only in the United States, but in Europe also, as one of the brightest religious intellects and greatest. pulpit orators of the age. He is the esteemed pastor of Plymouth church, from whose. platform he utters his thunders Sabbatir after Seven which gre echoed and re-echoed through the Herat week week, A man of deep thought and inexhaustible origi- nality of illustration and expreasion, Mr. Beecher, in some sense, stands alone and un- equalled in the Church of Christ today. There isa heroism and boldness in his thought and utterance which commands the respect even of those who most radically differ from him, He probably preaches not only to the largest congregations gathered into any reli- gious place in the land every Sunday, but he preaches also to the most varied and complex congregation and to the greatest number of strangers of any minister in the land. His power for usefulness is, therefore, multiplied a thousand-fold above any one of his brethrem in the ministry, and his obligation to “‘preact » the Word” and to declare “the whole counseb of God” is correspondingly increased. We trust he sees and feels the responsibility of his position, and alms to speak only the word which the Spirit of the Lord gives him to speak; yet we are sometimes inclined to believe otherwise. His declarations of faith appear sometimes so contra- dictory, and we find it so difficult to locate bim, that we are at a loss what to think of him. Now he is on the evangelical side, and now he isnot. Like the “little joker,” now you see bim, and now you don’t, But though we cannot define Mr. Beecher we are charlie table enough to believe he is doing his Lord’s work in the way and with the imploments which a Henry Ward Beecher knows how ta use and which he alone can use, . Io our own metropolitan city Ave have another man in the ministry w'go is rapidly rising to the pinnacle of fame., One of the greatest local roligious “‘ecfaatious” of the ae was created by biz: 4 couple of months