The New York Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1872, Page 6

\ Tan era NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVII. —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sis.—POLL any Paw Jor. WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broadway, cornor 49h st, —Perform- ances afternoon andevening—HUNTED DOWN, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe: ‘THR Fine. FIFTH AVENUE THE. Tak PROVOKED Husband. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tum BALLET PAN- TOMIME OF HUMPTY DoMPY +» ~SALLY SMART—OUT OF ‘RE, Twenty-fourth street. — ROOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third Tae Hunoncack. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ant Lith street. — ‘Tae VETERAN. ACADEMY OF MUSII OpKLa—IL Trova ToRE. LINA EDWIN’S THEATER! or Thorn. GRAND OPERA HOUS Lava Rooku. Fourteenth street.—ITALIAN 120 Broadway. —THE PALAOE orner of Sth av. and 23a sth ighth strect and Broad- B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— MRS, F. Frou Frou. PARK THE RE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— IQUE, 514 Broadway.—Cowro VooaL- AE, NAGKLO ACIB, €C—J ULIUS THE SHIZER. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st, and Broad- way.—NEGKO AOTS—BURLESQUE, BALL, &O. TONY PAS’ NECK Boor DR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. ~ KICITIES, BURLESQUES, &0. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HO\ 38d at, between 6th and Tt ava.—BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. > S8Te THEATRE, near Third aye- TY RTAIGMENT, FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway. — SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. “Ski uh PAVILION, No, 688 Broadway, near Fourth st.—GRanp Congr, NEW YORK OTRCUS, Fourteenta sires.—SoENRS IN bE RING, ACROBAT, AC. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOK AND AxT. ‘ DR KAIIN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — Re, New York, Monday, April 1, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pack tA iJ—Advertisements. 2—Adverusements. %—Astoundiog Frauds: The Nattonal Treasury Robbed of One Hundred aud sixty Millivns of Doliars; How Andrew Johnson Admints- tered the Government; How the ‘Treasury Was Cheated out of the Taxes Upon Whiskey aud Tobacco; ‘ihe Most Appalling’ Couspiracy Of the Age; President Grant Directs a Steru Prosecution of the Offenders; ‘The United States Grand Jury at Work; Seven Hunared Persons Presented for Inquiry; One Hundred and Seven tndictments Found and Presented ou Saturday—The Earthquake in California. Religious: ‘ihe Observance of Easter Sunday at the Churches im the City and Suburps; Gor- geous Ceremonials, Enchanting Music, Vocat Marvels and Allar Decorations; High’ Ponti. fical Mass at St, Patrick’s Cathedral; Father Mooney on the Resurrection; The Easter Decorations and Music at Grace Churen; The Bisuop of New York at the Church of the As- Cension; Easter Sunday in Brooklyn and Jersey. S—Religious (continued from Fourth Page)—The Washington ‘ireaty: The American Reply to Ear! Granvilie’s Communication—Poutical Ln velligence—Charter Election in Jersey—The Assailauts of Oflcer ‘Tully—The City ot Kingston—A Dilapidated Coa House—The Thtel of Time—Fatal Casualty—Too Tragic r Romance, torlais: Leading Article, “General Grant's Campaign Against Corruption—Panishlug the Frauds of Jonnsou’s Admimistration—The Whiskey and Tobacco Thieves'’—Amusement Aunonneements, y—Eq Horials, sContingy dt from Sixth Page)—The ‘ar in Mexieo—General Sherman’s Your— ee Cable Telegrams trom France, Germapy agd + Italy—News from Washington—The Senate Tax Bil—Escape of the Virzinius—Miscella- neous ‘Telegrams—-Personal — Intelligence~ Business Notices, S—Finaacial and Commercial Reports: The Week in “The Street;” Whe Great Influx of Foreign Capital; 4 Reminiscence of stuck Inflation 11 the Early Days of une War as Appiled to the Press Situation—pon ic rhets—Siatis- e West. ommerce and } amity Aquatic r oles—Horse Notes—- r Collec! — brooklyn Afairs— ; coe Poison—Another ; nation of Deputy Tealth Oficer Reid—Sent to the Tombs 1UF Sate Keeping. 9—The Ocean Mail Service—The Cathoite Temper- | ‘ine ance Unk Societies —The Couris for April—Court Caiendars—Marriages aud Deaths—Advertisements, 16—Pariiament im an Uproar Charies Dilke’s Mioulon in the fouse oF Commons—Spanish Poltics—Shipping Iutelligeuce-—Adveruse- ments, T1—Advertisements, 12—Adverusements, German MI.Tue Sirvation iv Mexico, according to our special despatch from Matamoros, is more hopelessly confused than ever, Indeed, that unfortunate country appears to have sunk so low that it is impossible to fathom its depth of degradation. The report of the recapture of Zacatecas by the revolutionists appears to be premature, Neither has the rumor of Rocha’s rout and capture received confirmation; while, on the oth r hand, the courage and fands of | Che revolutionists are stated to be at a low ebb. In the meantime the outrages on American citizens continue, sal for protec- tion remains unanswered. of Mexico and when will the patience of our government be exhausted ? ud their a Tur REIGN oF Fasmion on the avenue yes- prday succumbed to the rain of Jupiter Pluvius, Aprit Foou's Day.—Look out (or Counee- <icut canards. Ir ts Statrep that a rupture has occurred between Senators Sumner and Wilson, The best of friends sometimes must part. ENGLisi COMMONERS ON T RAMPAGE. -— The London correspondent of the Hx a letter which we publish on another page, gives an interesting réswmé of the proceedings in the House of Commons on the 19th ult. It will be remembered that on that day Sir Charles Dilke introduced his motion on the subject of the Civil List, The scenes which followed during the debate find no parallel in Vee history of the proceedings of the English P ent. For the time the legislative chalkber was transformed into a bear garden. Scenes which might be cousilered legitimate at a Fourth ward primary under the old régime @baracter! this session of the British-Commoners. As if conscious of the disgraceful display they were making the Commoners ordered the galleries to be cleared, and in the general sweep the Ameri- can Minister, who was quietly gazing on the doisy demonstrations in the chamber, was forced to retire, Tue Goat Isiaxp SwinpLe will be seen as viewed by those whom fi most nearty affects in the protest published elsewhere of nearly twenty-five thousand citizens of San Francisco against giving up the Gibraltar of the Pacific to a rich and greedy corporation, already gorged with government grauts. | t is to become | ony | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, General Grant’s Campaign Against Cor- ruption—Puni ing the Frauds of Joln- sows Administration—The Whiskey and Tobacco Thieves. We print this morning the preliminary chapters of one of the most painful events in our political history. The attention of the country has been excited by the overthrow of Erie and the downfell of Tammany Hall. These events, startling as they were, simply belonged to our municipal and State history. The narrative we give this morning is national in its character. Instead of frauds upon the treasury of the city and State our attention is directed to the frauds upon the nation. A careful est imate indicates that Tammany and Erie in their unholy and infamous alliance robbed the people of twenty or thirty millions. The frauds now opened to light show coa- clusively th at In the articles of whiskey and tobacco alone the Treasury of the United States was robbed of one hundred and sixty millions of dollars! When we deal wi th figures of this magni- tude we feel as though we were bordering upon the realms of romance. To speak of one hundred and sixty millions of dollars rob- bed from the Treasury is to make what might be called a wild statement. Yet the investi- gations now in progress show that during the unfortunate administration of Andrew John- son the revenue laws were so administered by the Treasury and Revenue Departments that the taxes upon whiskey and tobacco w virtually never collec’ When the nation emerged from the great war the necessity of paying the interest upon an enormous debt, and of providing for the reduction of the principal, compelled Oongress to exact uaugual duties from articles of luxury that were mainly of general consumption, Following the example of the older countries these taxes were imposed upon all classes of wines and spirits, us well as upon tobacco. Thus upon whiskey alone, an article of very general consumption in this country, as gene- ral as that of gin and beer in England and the ordinary wines in France and Germany, the law exacted a tax of two dollars per gallon. This, as a tax alone, was largely in excess of the rude cost of manufacture, and it made the profits upon the sale of whiskey not taxed so large that it was virtually a temptation to violation of the revenue, The argu- ment was made by political econo- mists, and in time it was found to be an argument conclusive enough to affect the opinions of Congress, that a tax so dispropor- tionate to the real cost of manufacture was really a premium upon defrauding the rev- enue. We know that thls same argument has been made in reference to the burdensome and unjust tariffs of England until within the last century, and that political economists have declared that but for the enterprise of smug- glers there would have been an end to the commerce of England. The folly of this argu- ment, when applied to the case under con- sideration, is, that although there is a large tax upon whiskey and tobacco in England and a monopoly of tobacco sale in the hands of the French government, and every possible temptation to defraud the revenue, the imposts are collected and the law is rigidly enforced. There was nothing in the laws of taxation, so far as tobacco and whiskey are concerned, to prevent a thorough collection of the tax. Tobacco and whiskey enter largely into the economy of our modern life, too largely, as the moralisis believe. Weare afraid to say how many dollars are spent yearly upon the consumption of these articles. The ingenious calculatioas are open to everybody. If our remembrancé js correct we spend money enough for whiskey and tobacco every year or two to pay the national debt. But, how- ever comforting and exhilarating some of our citizens find tobacco and whiskey, they are simply luxuries. The world was well with- out them, and it would be better if they were as rare as nepenthe and mandragora. Since their use is or better, perhaps, a custom, and when we accept them as necessities, we should pay. No government can exist without taxes. Our surest taxes are those which assess our vievs. Oar pub- licans would find it a dismal business to en- force the Ten Commandments. *‘*The vice of brandy drinking,” said Napoleon, “pays me a hundred million francs a year; what virtue pays the Treasury so well?’ It was a wise and customary act to tax whiskey and tobacco. The men who consume these articles could betier afford to pay imposts upon them than the consumers of tea and coffee and sugar and salt and nineteen-twentieths of the arti- cles on the tax list, Every dollar collected from tobacco and whiskey was really a saving | tothe industrial classes, to those who found tea and coffee a necessity. Every dollar de- frauded from the government upon these articles was a tax upon the nation’s industry and happiness. Any failure to enforee the tax laws was a moral wrong. A debt to the government is a debt of honor, A gentleman would aS soon think of neglecting his whist account as his income tax. We exact protection, national honor, public improvements, tho general peace and welfare from the government. We pay in return what to the most sorely taxed is a small sumof money. An officer of the gov- ernment who enters into a conspiracy to deprive the government of its just reve- nues is kind of a thief. Dutch Heinrich or Liverpool Jack or the meauest criminal whose photograph cheers the Superintendeni’s sanctum of a Rogues’ Gailery gentleman in com- parison. The unworthy tax official betrays a manifold trust. He surrenders his bonor. | He adds to the burden of the poor. He | deceives the President who appoints bim and the parly which seeks his preferment. Since governmeat began the man who amassed a fortune out of its necessities or in betrayal of its trusts hes been despised of mankind, | If, as we fear, the public opinion of New York has been so callous as to tolerate these crimes against the revenue, as venial and perhaps necessary crimes, the time has come to dispel the illusion, Our arraign- ment shows that men high in place, men who have enjoyed and still enjoy the confidence of the government, have swindled the ‘Treasury and striven for immunity in the fact that at a vive, the basest inner is a that they wero indicted, and that the indict- | The Connecticut Election—The Parties and | hand} if the republicans re-elect their Gover- ments were reconsidered. We must know what the evidence was which led to the in- dictments, and the influences, if possible, that reconsidered them, We see, furthermore, to our grief, that most of our local and party newspapers are under the influence of the Whiskey Ring. They seem disposed to regard the whole affair as a political mancwuvre. The articles thus far published in most of our contemporaries show a disposition to distort and bury the facts, to print false news and to divert public attention from these crimes. What we see and what the country will see is that one hundred and sixty millions of dollars have been unjustly withheld from the Treasury; that there was an organized conspiracy to commit these frauds; that the President long since gave orders to amass the proof; that his orders have been silently and reli- giously obeyed; that conclusive evidence was submitted to a Grand Jury of twenty-four cil- izens; that upon this evidence one hundred and seven persons were indicted and wilt he arrested to-day or to-morrow; that the work of investigation now continues, and that over seven hundred cases, with the evidence all in readinesa, are about to be submitted to the Grand Jury. This, of course, will develop a power- ful opposifion. The men who are sum- moned by the government to the bar of justice are In most cases men of large fortune, They have social influence, personal ambition and political power. Their authority over the press, and especially over the two republican newspapers of New York, may be seen in the the time swindling was the rule and not the exception. Mr. Courtney, the ex-Disirict At- toraey, and Mr. Murray, the ex-Marsbal, are {in a vexatious position, We are informed articles printed, which merely echo the wishes of the Whiskey Ring. We now see how an infamous scoundrel like Bailey, the defaulti collector, was forced upon Grant by politicians at a time when his honesty was sorely suspected, The work of pur- suing the investigation will be severely assailed, The war upon Tammany was & great and noisy achievement. That was backed by a powerful political party. The war upon the Whiskey and Tobacco Rings is a war upon men of both parties, We honor General Grant for having made it. We call upon honest men to strengthen his hands, ‘We must hew to the line, let the chips fall where they will.” In a work like this the Heratp lends a prompt and joyful aid. What we print to-day is but the beginning of what we mean to publish. It is the keynote of a campaign which will only eud when every villain, however powerful, who has defrauded the revenae bas been brought to justice, Easter Music in the Churches. The great festival of the Resurrection is particularly welcome to organists, as it gives them an unlimited field to display their abilities and to test the qualities of their singers. The divine art is most appropriate in chanting the praises of the King of Kings, and the tones of the organ and the voices of the choir bear with them a power of attraction greater than that of even the most eloquent preacher. In the grand old cathedrals of Earope the musical services occupy the most prominent position in the celebration of Easter in the churches, and all available talent is éngiked fo do honor to the festival of fes- tivals, Ia the leading churches in this city the importance of music as am element of worship on this occasion has been long recog- nized. Yesterday, despite the inclement weather, the attractive announcements of the principal organists brought large congrega- tions to many of the churches, and held them there also, although the rain beat pitilessly outside, and no opportunity offered itself to display the usual spring fashions. Indeed, as far as fashions were concerned, they might be summed up in two articles, waterproof cloaks and umbrellas. In the Catholic churches the music was unusually brilliant. Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Gounod and Lambillotte, with a score of lesser composers, were represented by their choicest works, and every choir of importance was strengthened ‘by a chorus and orchestra, The Episcopal churches, headed by “Old Trinity,” were no less zealous in the musical celebration of the great festival, and all the other denominatioas vied with each other in doing honor to the event which has proved to be the corner-stone of Christianity, Among the programmes of music for this occasion there are some singular features, and the most striking is the selection of Rossini’s ‘‘Stabat Mater” by a few organists as appropriate music for Easter, As well might a requiem be sung ata wedding as any portion of the work of the Swan of Pesaro on the feast of the Resurrection. Another feature in the churebes the introduction of orchestral performers, [i is an innovation that should be severely rebuked by every pastor, as it robs all the music of its religious character, and, judging from the calibre of the members of each orchestra, reduces the Easter music to the level of a Saengerfest in a beer garden. The organ is sufficient for a church at all times, and other instruments should be en- tirely excluded. If an orchestra playing in a chureh were only half as good as an orchestra in a Philbarmonic concert there would be little reason to complain, but fidlers and horoblowers in a mass are, as a general rule, a nuisance to any musical ear, The music of Easter is joyous in the highest de- gree, and the exultant “Hallelujah!” is the most frequent exclamation in the service. But the organ and the voice are sufficient to give full expression to the feelings of the most enthusiastic follo is Tae Earrn@uvake has again seized on the vitals of the Golden State, entailing the usual direful effects of that great spasm of nature. Towns and settlements have been overturned, one hundred persons have been injured and thirty killed. A chasm thirty-five miles in length, and varying in width from a few inches to forty feet, has been opened, and terror and dismay are the portion of the settlers, A new volcano is rumored to have broken out in full activity, The locality of this last visitation appears mainly to be confined to the southern part of the great basin or valley lying between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range Moun- tains, near the point where the ranges are linked by Mount San Bernardino. It is o matter of present congratulation that the earth. quake did not extend further north, in the {Issues Tuvolved in the Contest, and Its Presidential Bearings. The Connecticut election for Governor, State officers anda Legislature upon which will devolve the election of a United States Senator, comes off to-day. There are four parties in the fleld—the republican, the demo- cratic, the temperance and the labor reform parlies—and in addition to these there is the unknown element of the liberal or anti-Grant republicans, The test question and the national interests in this fight, however, are centred in the struggle for the Governor— between Jewell, the present republican incum- bent, and Hubbard, his democratic competitor. Last year, after a vigorous republican /attle, upon a total popular vote of ninety-five thou- sand, Jewell, from an overb@uling and weeding rich and thickly settled basin we have referred to, running north and south, which is known ag the San Joaqgin Valley, p out of the retur he Legislature, was declared el, @ slender one hundred majority nglish ; so that, considering the intrusion of all these outside parties, Jowell would appear now to be in considerable danger of defeat; for it must be remembered that your temperance and labor reformers everywhere are mainly offshoots from the republican camp, as in New Hampshire, and that the out-and-out anti-Grant republicans, if limited to the contemptible figure of two or three bundred bolters, may turn the scale. On the other hand, our special correspond- ents, who have been carefully attending to this Connecticut campaign, report that many things have been operating to the advantage of the republicans—that they have had plenty of money, plenty of good speakers, a very active and experienced chairman of their State Central Committee and the prestige of their New Hampshire victory. They have canvassed the State thoroughly, they have nor the democrats will say, as they have already proclaimed it, that we can dispense with your liberal republicans; for, having proved unequal io the few hundred votes re- quired | to restore Connecticut to the demo- cratic column, your Cincinnati love-feast be- come® a farce as ridiculous as the Cleveland extravaganza of Fremont and Cochrane, Nothing but the election can settle this difi- culty, and speculations as to the general result ary ‘profitless with the actual verdict 80 nhs fe hand. But the Cincinnati round robin of Messrs. Selden, Greeley, Barney & Co., issued on Saturday last, indicates a deci- sion among the anti-Grant republicans in favor of Hubbard, and the consequence this day, perhaps, may be a political earthquake in ‘‘the land of steady habits.” Nobody can tell. It maycome, as earthquakes generally come, like a thief in the night. Tne heavy storm of yesterday is certainly in favor of an earthquake; for it compels the republicans, whose strength is in the country, to wade through the mud a day’s journey to the polls or to stay at home and trust to luck. But the regular old line democrats of Connecticut, those old copper-bottomed skippers, who still believe in the constitution of Buchanan, give no encouragement to the helping band of Mr. Greeley. Mr. Eaton, for exampl», in one of his old-line speeches at Hartford the other evening, frankly declared, “I would not have drawn the platform of the democratic party made in New Haven in the words that were used, because Connecticut can draw a better platform than Missouri (referring to the pas- sive policy), I am asked, ‘Are you in favor of plantation negroes voting?’ I was not, nor amInow. Iam opposed to letting negroes vote under a law of Congress. I would have worked night and day, and, above all, they are enthusiastic in their efforts to secure a ringing popular judgment in favor of General Grant. On the democratic side it has been heavy, discouraging, uphill work. They have had few speakers, fewer campaign documents and very little financial and material aid., Last year they had the open sesame to that cave of the forty thieves, with its big jars of gold, silver, greenbacks and diamonds, the cave of the Tammany Ring. But now the Ring and its treasures are gone, and the lonely cave is haunted only by the ghosts of dead Indians. The ‘Boss” has not come down to the cry for help from New Haven, be- cause the ‘‘Boss” has ‘‘gone up.” Hence, cut off from State and federal patronage, and from the liberal largesses hitherto furnished by Tammany, this, to the Connecticut demo- crats, has been ‘‘the poor man’s campaign.” And so the general impression is that the republicans will win the day; for, on the whole, their prospects are decidedly the brightest. Itis morally certain that in the Legislature and the United States Senator they will secure the fruits of a substantial victory; but still the key of the fortress, the Malakoff of this contest, is the Governor. The republi- cans, nevertheless, must do better this year than they did last, or they may fail; but they may do better. Here is the Connecticut vote on both sides in 1868 and in 1871:— 1868—For Grant ...... 50,780 For Seymour .... 47,844 Grant’s MAjority............ 06. Prreeey + 2,936 Or, in round numbers, the handsome little majority of three thousand upon a full vote. As first reported, the vote of 1871 was as fol- lows:— For English.. For Jewell... 47,490 47,450 Englsh's majority .. Pehigdeiitses ona Bat the point to be observed in the vote of each of these two parties, as between that of 1868 and that of 1871, is this: that taking the vote of '68 for General Grant as representing the full strength of the republicans, and that for Seymour as the full poll of the democrats, we find on the one side a reserved force of three thousand and on the other a reserved vote of only three or four hundred in last year’s election, Now, as this contest between Jewell and Hubbard is really a contest be- tween the friends and the enemies of Grant, we may be sure that the Grant men will do their best to-day, and that the issue depends upon the anti-Grant republican bolters, But what says ex-Governor Englisty upon these anti-Grant republicans? Ina conve r- sation with a HERALD reporter the other day Mr. English expressed himself as_ still in doubt of any materia! assistance to Hubbard from the anti-Grant mercenaries. He had seen one of these stray chickens, who had promised togo for Hubbard; but that was all. He could not say how far this feeling extended. But he could and did say that upon the result of this Connecticut election mainly depends the success or failure of the Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention, and that if we (the democrats) win the liberal republicans all over the country will pluck up courage to come out boldly and cross the Rubicon. ‘They will see,” continued the ex- Governor, ‘‘that the masses of the people are opposed to Grant, and, certain of support, will venture to act up to their convictions. But (mark this ‘‘bat”), if the republicans are successful, [do not think the Cincinnati Con- vention will amount to much. The disaffected | members of the democratic party will give up | the contest (the passive co-operation policy) and go back into their party lines.” As to these outside parties, Mr. English thinks the temperance ticket will, perhaps, poll a thous- and votes, and the labor reformers something less. The Cincinnati Convention, then, which in- volves the passive policy of Genoral Blair, is the real issue in this Connecticut election. Here, too, notwithstanding the very decided opinion of Mr. English, the policy of the anti- Grant republicans is a debatable question. The hint has been thrown out that if the demo- crats succeed in their efforts to elect Hubbard theirs will be the victory, and, hailing it asa sign of a popular reaction in favor of the demo- cratic party, they will cut Gratz Brown and company, send them adrift, and, with their old time-honored party banner ‘‘full high ad- vanced,” they will nominate a democratic ticket and try again their fortunes in another desperate campaign from the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House. The anti-Grant republicans of Connecticut are thus placed between the rock and the whirlpool; for if ti they can and do turn over the balance of power in favor of Hubbard the democrats will say we have no further use for your Cin- cinnati flank movement, as we have flanked the administration “withoutit, On the other South Carolina make her own laws. I believe the States superior to the federal govern- ment,” and so on. In tbe next breath Mr. Eaton pleads for the constitution, and says, ‘if Lyman Trumbull or David Davis will stand on the constitution of the United States we will give him our sup- port.” He means the constitution purged of these radical abominations of negro political equality and negro suffrage; and is this the democratic entertainment in Connecticut to which liberal republicans are invited? So it appears, and, recalling the unwelcome spectre of Jeff Davis, in a wild harangue on the final triumph of the “lost cause,” sach intractable demogratig sopeeryond apostles as Mr. Eaton are apt to frighten off the trembling deserters from the camp of the administration. Hence, do doubt, the unity and confidence among the republicans in this canvass in support of Grant, the doubts of the democrats and the misgivings of disappointed office-beggars, who kaow not what to do. Soas in New Hampshire, and with all the advantages to the democrats of republican bolters, tempe- rance and labor reformers, a heavy storm and miry roads, we apprehend there will be nothing done in Connecticut to-day calculated to recall Mr. Belmont from the blue grass pas- tures of Kentucky or to make a fusion jubilee of the Cincinnati Convention. We are told that in any event the demo- cratic party will remain intact, and yet it is possible that this little Connecticut election may be the end of this once all-powerful politi- cal organization. The Chicago Tribune (anti-Grant republican) urges the defeat of Hobbard in this Presidential skirmish as the one thing needful to kill off this toothless and useless old Mumbo Jumbo, known as the democratic party, for that then the field will be open for a new, fresh and powerful organi- zation, adapted to the new issues that have risen since the deluge of the rebellion. Very good. We are ready to assist in the last sad rites to the democratic party and in the christening of its successor, but we await the issue in Con- necticut. General Sherman’s Reception By the Pe- tentates of the East. A Heratp special telegram from London, which conveys the contents of the latest de- spatches from Cairo, enables us to report that General Sherman enjoyed a magnificent recep- tion at the hands of the Khedive of Egypt. His Highness gave a state breakfast in honor of the American commander, and more than one review of the army was held to afford him an opportunity of inspecting the troops. Special trains on the railroad conveyed the visitors hither and thither at pleasure. Gene- ral Sherman declined a lodgment in the palace, which was tendered to him in due form immediately on his arrival. The Gene- ral will take his depariure from Ezypt to- morrow on his way to Constantinople, where he will be the guest of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey. The American soldier will have thus marched from the Seven Towers, which are still known as the “granary of Joseph,” to the mosques of St. Sophia and of Solyman the Magnificent, aud the ‘“burat column,” originally erected by Constantine the Great—a tour which is calculeted. to unfold the grandest and most ennobling sentiments of the Christian heart. “A VoTk FoR JEWELL 18 A VOTE FoR Grant,” cries the democratic Hartford Post. Probably the people thick so, and henee there is so little enthusiasm in the democratic ranks, President Thiers’ Strtement of the Conde tion of France. The French Lagis!ative Assembly adjourned its session on Saturday for a recess, which is to extend to the 22d instant. President Thiers addressed the Parliament previous to its separation. His review of the existing situa- tion of France was terse and brief in words, but full of promise for the fature of the nation. He guaranteed the maintenance of internal order during the period of the representative interregnum, proclaimed the army faithful and assured the members that the foreign rela- tions are peaceful. The Chief of the Execu- tive added that ‘France is not entirely isolated ; she is not without alliances.” The venerable French statesman is, as he has been in the past, ever hopeful of his country— an exceedingly encouraging symptom, particu- larly when it is evidenced by a man who enjoys such vast/experiences of her humilia- tions and also of/her wonderful power for recu« peration, He guarantees the preservation of peace, and pledges himself for the fidelity of the army—excellent bonds for the perpetua- tion of the/republic, M. Thiers became still more animated in bis expression towards the Glose of; bis remarks. The French Presidept has perhap® diplomatizod something new and encouraging {or France, it may be with the British free traders and English Crown, or with the European democracies, pure and simple. Resurrection Kejoicings. As our readers will perceive by the sere _ mons which we publish to-day, the one com- mon sentiment of the churches yesterday was that expressed by one of the apostles of old, “The Lord is risen indeed.” It was a senti- ment that was responded to in the Catholic and Protestant Episcopal and other churches by the sacramental host of God’s elect. Though the day was unpropitious for the gathering together of large assemblies, still joy and gladness reigned in every Christian temple, and we trust also in every Christian heart. Lilies and asters and other flowers, products of the greenhouse and the garden; music, thrilling, glorious, heavenly ; gaslights, brilliant, beautiful and expressive in de- sign, were combined to lead the thoughts of the worshippers toward the pros- pective joy and glory and blessed hess and peace of the final resurrection of which every Christian has an assurance in the resurrection of Jesus Carist from the dead. St. Alban’s church was richly decorated and presented an elaborate display of ritualistic ceremonies—acolytes, processions, incense, gorgeous vestments and other paraphernalia suggested by the occasion. The Rev. Canon Dorset, of Chicago, who preached, said that “our joy is too large, our hearts are too full, and we want ceremonies to explain it to us, And these ceremonies,” he added, ‘‘tell us that Christ bas risen to-day.” In Grace church Dr. Potter presented, in a very clear and convincing manner, some reasons which account for the growing infidelity of this age, and especially for the great lack of faith in the doctrine which the Church yesterday reaf- firmed as the basis of her future success as it had been in the past, He asked of those who talk of death as an inevitable fate, a dire ne- cessity, a natural consequence, to be met with philosophic stoicism—who deny the resurrection and assert that beyond the grave all is dark, drear and unknown—that they look the subject squarely in the face, and they shall find that with this doctrine are bound up the hopes and fears of the Christian world, “On this day,” said the reverend doctor, “of all days in the year, our risen Christ cer- tifles to us the existence of another and a purer life. Whe Right Rev. Bishop Potter administered the rite of confirmation to” twenty-five persons in the Church of the Ascension, and preached on the universal rejoicing of the Easter festival. He encour- aged his hearers with the thought that there will be another morning, of which this, the greatest and most joyful of our Christian gala days, is only a faint promise. In treating of this resurrection doctrine Dr. Scott, of the Church of the Redemption, very truly and touchiogly remarked that ‘“‘Christ’s love for mankind was unbounded; that there is no limit to the mercy of the Almighty, though it might prove a fearful thing to fall into the hande of the living God should a taan trespass too far upon His fatherly care.” — The Rev. Father Mooney struck the key. note of Christianity in his discourse on the resurrection, in St. Bridget’s church, yester- day. ‘Every heart,” he said, ‘‘should rejoice in commemorating the resurrection of Christ, the Son of God, for if we had not this festival we should have no Christianity, and all the miracles He performed and the revelations He made would have proved fruitless. Easter’—that is, Easter tion Quinn, in St. Peter's church, exam- ined the testimony upon which this truth is asserted and believed, and de- clared that even “the Jews, who martyred Jesus of Nazareth, must have expected the fulfilment of the prophecy that He would rise again, eet a guard of soldiers to watch the sepulchre in which His holy body had been laid.” All this testimony, the preacher remarked, tended conclusively to prove the divinity of Christ, and to stamp the symbols of truth upon the records of His life. In the other Catholic churches in the city the sermons were all based on the same fact and were presented similarly, Such was the case in the Brook-_ lyn churches also. In St. James’ Cathedral the Rev. Father Sheridan drew attention to the greataess of the miracle yesterday com- memorat2d, its literal and typical importance and the lessons to: be deduced therefrom. Father Cassidy declared in Si, Mary’s Star of the Sea that it is the trimmphant resarrection of Christ that has for almost one thousand nine hundred years given to man the pledge of resurrection on the Jast day. The great Plymouth church pastor was too unwell to preach to the anxious thousands who waited for him yesterday, but he put another Beecher in his place, and the congre- gation had to take the will for the deed. There seems to have beer a commendable re- ligions rivalry between: Brooklyn and New York churches in respect to the misical pro- gramme. It was grand and grandly per- formed in both cities, a8 oar reports to-day will testify. In St. Ann’ e Reights Dr. Schenck said, in reference to the great thema of the day, that “there. was not a single fact in history so old as that and yet so perfect. We have not on record. a single instance of the writers and chroniclers of that day to de- stroy the truth of the resurrection, The glorious truth stands yet.” Dr. Par‘ridge commended the credibility of the wituesses and the importance of implicit faith ia this . doctrine to his congregation in Christ church (Protestant Episcopal), Brooklyn, and Father Beaudesian, of St. Peter's church,, Jersey City, declared it was the greatest miracle ever performed, and was a proof that Christ is Master of the world. E Here, then, isa variety of testimony, all’ bearing upon the same fact, and the witnesses. corroborating each other, and all of them de« claring the blessedness and the peace which an abiding faith in the resurreetion of Jesus Christ, the Great Head of the Church, brings to the human heart. And not one of all the host gathered into our religious page of the Heratp to-day had any other topic than the resurrection, We trust our readers will dili- gontly ‘read, mark, learn and inwardly di+ gest” the truths, thoughts and suggestions herewith presepted, aud that in the gener: the lo which commemorat, j ot Christianit: ie Rev. Father ~