The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1872, Page 8

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DR, KAHN'S ANATOMICAL M = aa ‘AL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. QUADR New York, Sunday, April 7, 1872. UPLE § CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?S HERALD, Pacr 1—Advertisements. 2—Auveriisements, 3—Advertisements, 4—Auver\isements, 5—The State Capital:—A Repnblican Measure Passed Over the Governor's Velo; Resolu- Nous in the Senate on the Death of Professor Morse; ‘The Sectarian Scnool Question— Studio Gossip—Ihe Neuonal Game—the Convict’s Hope: Probabilities of a Wholesale Jail De- livery—Domestic misery in Brooklyn. 6—New Pulldings in New York: Tne Great Free Library at Central Park; Millions of Doilars Invested ip Building Purposes—Another Cause Celebre: More ‘trouble for the Ene Ring. Y—Religious Intelligence: First Sunday after - Easter; Religious Programme tor To-Day; ae Religious Correspondence; Religious joves, Personal aud Geveral—Tniriy-fourth Street synagogue—Financial and Commer- cial: Continued Stringency in the Money Market; ne Clearing House Institutes an In- juiry; The ‘Bears’ Deflantiy “Squeeze” the loney Market; One Hundred and Forty-five Per Cent Per Annum Interest Paid for Loans on Stocks; Stocks Give Way aud Close at a Decline; an Uniavorable Bank Statement; Gold and Governments Firm; The Week's Im- orts of Foreign Goods Nearly ‘hirteen Mil- ions. Leading Article, “The Easter 8—Eattorials: Season—Our Lesson for the Day—New York fs the Metropolis'’'—Amusement Announce ments, 9—Cable Telegrams from France and Spain—The Sait Lake Saints—Interesting from Canada— News trom Washington—Tue Roveson Investi- ation—Weather port—New York City items—Yachting Matters—Personal _ Inteili- gence—Miscellaneous Telegraph—Music and the Drama—business Notices, 40—Tammany’s New Sachems—vrushed by a Rail Car—A Prisoner Peppers a Pecler—Marriages and Deaths—Advervisements. 11—Advertscments. 12—Interesting Procedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Board of Audit—The Comp- troller and His Appoiniment—The Judiciary Committee: The Investigauion of the Charges Against the Judges—Strange Accident in Ho- boken—European Markets—Suipping Lnteili- gence—Advertisements. 3—Aavertisements, 4—Advertisements, 5—Adveriisements, 6— Advertisements, Tox Weex iN Watt Street wound ap with another ‘‘squeeze” in money and considerable demoralization of the speculation on the Stock ‘Exchange. Gold closed at 110}. Fizziine Ovur—The French arms investiga- Kion, and Senators Sumner, Trumbull and Behurz likewise. It is indeed the old comedy jof “Much Ado About Nothing.” Tue State Senate yesterday ratified the ion of the Assembly of the previous even- ig by passing over the Governor's veto the bany Police bill. , A Goop Bu1—The bill introduced by Mr. [Herrick in the Assembly ‘declaring the day for holding the general State election a public feotiany.” Mr. Herrick has taken the hint for his good measure from the example of Wis- yeonsin, the example which ought to be adopted Pby all the States, Territories, cities and towns fof the Union in reference to their govern- mental elections and by Congress in reference to the Presidential and Congressional elec- ions. This general adoption of the law of ‘Wisconsin, in relieving the people on election ways of the cares and pressure of their finan- wial engagements, will contribute immensely to Yhe purification of the ballot box in bringing ‘out responsible citizens to the polls. Having no excuse for absenting themselves, and hay-~ ing on election day nothing else to do but to take o hand in the election, they will learn at pnce, under the law of a public holiday, the wholesome practice of a duty which has been ‘too long and too generally neglected by active Pusiness men. Hence the scandalous history pfthe corraptions and robberies of the Tam- wmany Ring. Give us Mr. Herrick’s bill for the wlections of New York, State and cities, and ‘we shall soon have law and order and wonest Woting and counting established in the govern- bment of our elections, As there can be no ob- jection to the measure proposed it ought to be assed into a law without delay ; for to all parties it will be a pleasant thing to know that oo day is a public holiday, as it ought be. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET, ‘The Easter Season—Our Lesson for the Dny—New York as the Metropolis The Easter season bas brought with it gladness and beauty, We have hada hard, bitter winter, with more than usual severity, especially in the West. The tidings from the Territories are dismal. We are afraid to cal- culate the damage to crops and cattle, On the broad stretches and plains between the Missis- sippi and the Rocky Mountains vast herds have been in the habit of grazing all the year round. Improvident farmers and ranchmen, careless of the comfort of the necessary dumb beasts committed to their care, permit them to wander without shelter during the mild winters. While all might suffer and many die, generous Nature in that luxuriant country always gives the owner a profit on his flocks and droves. This last winter, however, was unusual n its bitterness, and it is calculated that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost to the stock raisers. While this is a matter of regret, we deplore still more the sufferings of their hapless, help- less, neglected cattle, Their misery appeals to us with u keener sense than the diminished gains of the owners, who will find in their misfortunes an admonition and a punishment. We have learned from this winter what pru- dent and humane men must have learned from the experience of winters preceding, that one cannot trust the cold and frost and snow. Our winter is treacherous and uncertain, and no one has a right to commit any living things to its mercy, cspecially the cattle and stock that go so far toward insuring the com- fort and happiness of life. We have not felt the severity of the winter in the East as keenly as in past years. Some- how, as we advance in science, we are enabled to grapple with the inclement seasons and to fiud comfort in spite of nature. We are in- structed that our civilized life is enervating, that luxury and comfort create artificial necessities, and that with all of our progress in the economy of domestic living we are far from the true enjoyment of life; of the air, the sunshine, the cold, tumbling streams, the plain fresh food from the fruit tree and the trout stream and the deer covert, We should envy the Sioux Indian the elasticity of his body, bis simple wants and the complete enjoyment that Nature gives him in winter and summer. If we have purple and fine linen, music and art, savory, toothsome dishes and dainty beverages; if we have the resources of this teeming earth, spices from Ceylon, the rich fruits from the luxuriant tropics, all manner of welcome herbs and flowers and grains; if gems decorate the body and rich cloths protect it; if we have frankincense and myrrh and spikenard, we also have dyspepsia and typhus and cancers, and our body has limited offices compared with the bodies of our ruder ancestors. Who can now wield the sword of William Wallace or wear the helmet of Richard the Lion Hearted? What thews and sinews and brawny limbs they had com- pared with us, their puny descendants! It may be that progress has educated the mind at the expense of the body; that while we have been shunning the means of bodily de- velopment we have been laying nature and science under tribute to minister to the ne- cessities of existence. We have seen a small man, like Napoleon, almost a dwarf, whose body would not have delayed for an instant the arm of the Saladin, and who, in the days of the knights and the tournaments, would have been debarred from the arena as im- perfect and helpless, command great armies and achieve victories by the power of the mind which no prowess or valor would have gained in the days of the chivalry. So that progress, like everything else, has its compensations, and if we neglect the body and its resources we strengthen the capacities of the mind. Following this train of reasoning we find the highest expression of social comfort and intellectual opportunity in our cities, The city is civilization, Our greatest cities are the most complete types of our national skill and enterprise. What is Paris but the civilization ot France, the genius, the grace, the culture, the valor, the vivacity of France, its active, teeming brain? What is the vast, mighty Lon- don, but the concentration of the energy, the selfishness, the courage and the practical com- mon sense of England? Emerson says that Macaulay's philosophy was that the world’s principal use was to bring lemons and wine to London, and there is, in truth, very littlein the world but what may be found in that British capital and in some way pays tribute to its wealth and greatness, What is New York but the highest form of American character? We have many great cities, individual cities, with their elements and attributes of value, such for example as Philadelphia and Boston and New Orleans and Chicago and St. Louis— they all do honor to our country. One is manufacturing, another literary, a third has the trade of the lakes, a fourth that of the great river, America is proud of them all and wears them as jewels in her crown. But New York is Philadelphia, Boston, New Or- leans, Chicago and St. Louis combined. It is not a city merely, but the metropolis. Every rail we lay, every ship that sails from port, every acre of land reclaimed and tilled in the West, adds to the greatness of New York. This noble, majestic, beautiful city, seated on the rocky base of the gray old palisaded hills, looking out upon the sea, which swells and foams over ber lap, with her wide welcoming rivers and bays, that stretch out like arms towards Europe and invite commerce and emigration, patriotism, enterprise and man- hood to nestle in her bosom, this Queen Manahatta, with all her faults and extrava- gances and follies, is the highest reach that our free institutions have attained. Our brethren have scorned New York because in her confiding generosity aud her care for other duties she permitted evil men to tamper with her fame. But if they scorned her in the day of weakness they blessed her in that day of anger and strength, when, rising in her fall majesty, sbe smote down the enemies of her New York was never more inviting than on this opening spring. Th» hard Lenten season is over and Easter brings life and rejoicing. Trade, amusement, fashion and enterprise are bursting from the bleak embrace of winter. Gay, inviting colors come with the buds and blossoms, Beauty anticipates nature, and celebrates herself in violets and daisies and | Winning tiats. Our great dry goods stores ‘look like gardens, The theatres are nightly crammed with delighted crowds of pleasure- seekers. The soft skies and calm air seem to have given usabetter temper. ‘The south wind,” it is said, ‘brings life, sunshine and desire.” Does it not also bring Kindliness, amiability, good nature? Even our politi- cians, who cudgelled each other so fearfully in the winter, are making merry before they again enter the arena. The investigating committees are becoming as wearisome as the songs of the last generation or the novels of Samuel Richardson, If everything was rotten and corrupt, says the easy-minded world that but yesterday was so suspicious, we should have found it out in less than three months, The “‘soreheads” are more comfort- able, the regulars more placable, and we may have them all in Philadelphia and Cincinnati together, with good Tom Murphy at their head. Andas for the democrats, they are as quiet and cosey as spring lambs cuddled into the pens quietly waiting for the green peas and mint sauce. New York is breathing after her Tammany and Erie achievements, She has only a Judge or two to dispose of and her herculean labors will be atan end. Her parks and boulevards are in superb condition. She has churches without end, with .every variety of gospel, and clergymen who take advantage of the general happiness to preach of that Christ who islove and mercy and good will. Those who look curiously at our column of marriages will see also that this is the sea- son of love and marriage. Our maidens and princes apparent, yielding to that law of na- ture which overmasters all and has never been dishonored since Adam looked into the eyes of Eve in the garden of Eden, are stealing from the home nests, eager to begin the journey of life together. Heaven go with you, children, and scatter the roses in your path and make the days to come as bright and happy as the skies that have bended over us these gracious spring mornings. The Capital of a Continent. The American who travels among the capi- tals of old Europe oftentimes comes back to his native land with a feeling not exactly of reverence for the architectural progress of hia own land. He finds solace in the idea that if this great, young republican giant possesses not the splendor in shrines and monuments of the hoary old Continent from which we sprung, it has within it more than the germs of a greatness destined to eclipse the efforts of ail the older world. Outside of this the average mind that leaves the young towns of America for the civic growths of an older civilization, and seeing there the huger, statelier piles of masonry that sit like gray old stone epics of the buried centuries, he turns back with some- thing of regret to the more modest structures that we, at home, are accustomed to regard with pride, There is a natural but great mistake in this. It is the looking at results instead of causes. By this we mean that the American traveller for- gets that these great ‘‘sermons in stone” were raised by the will of individual men who had unlimited, tyrannous command over their fellow men, Here in America the voluntary principle replaces all this. Itis the effort of men as a nation, as a state, as a municipality, as a religious sect, and a philanthropic, edu- cational or social body that accomplishes what has been already achieved. With the limited resources in the hands of onr fathers the suc- cess was wonderful. It has always been a question of resources. The awe that is said to overcome men in presence of mighty nature to such an extent as to dwarf the ideality of man has never counted for much with Ameri- cans, because in the oldest settlements on the Continent, which formed the nucleus of our nation, the influence of nature could scarcely be felt in the one impressive point of awe which depends entirely on a coup d'ail and does not extend beyond the apparent horizon, As our communities have grown they have de- veloped artistic and architectural taste in the same proportion. New York, the empress in wealth, is equally so in architectural munifi- cence. The peculiar bent of its develop- ment should be a matter of pride with us, in that it exhibita none of the hackneyed curbing lines of European cities. In point of private effort it surpasses any city in the world. When the newcomer wanders uptown and sees the stately brown stone and marble mansions at every step bis longing to see one huge palace must be checked in the idea that we own no kings or princes here; that the wealth he sees is that of individual citizens of great nation, with just a vote like their poorer neighbors. The variety in style of our churches proclaims the supremacy of the public conscience, which imposes no belief on any man, but lets the congregations of any creed build as they list, if they can pay for it, If there be a unique street architecturally it is Broadway. The perfect disregard of unity, the competition in costly and massive build- ings, the diversity of material, as well as adornment, combine to make it a highway of commerce, the paragon of the world, and in every pillar, fagade and cornice proclaim it the proud result of the energy and enterprise of a free, thriving people. In another part of to-day’s Heraxp will be found a history of some of the public build- ings in course of construction in the metropo- lis, It will be found of special interest in every one of its details, demonstrating the widespread truth of what we have indicated. Foremost on the list is the great Free Library, the princely gift of Mr. Lenox to New York. From the bare description given it will be seen that our wealtby citizens do not lack the spirit of love to help onward their fellow man, The Masonic Temple is 4 grand specimen of what such powerful bodies can achieve in united effort; the Homes for the old and indigent are not forgotten, nor the noble work of our Hebrew brethren in providing for the young and needy of their olden faith and blood. Conrt houses, hospitals and Catholic schools and churches are there included. Even by the standard of this articla New York's prog- ress should not be entirely jndged, Our grow- ing Post Office, our unfortunate but grand Court House, the new white marble Catholic Cathedral of St, Patrick’s—the finest church building on the Continent when finished—are not included, lengthy descriptions of them having been given heretofore. Enough, how- ever, will be gathered from its perusal to satisfy the reader of how rapidly New York, by its individual effort, is architecturally fitting itself for the position which is its natural des« tiny—the metropolis of a continent. The Approaching Methodist Conferences. A few weeks more will bring us into the anniversary season, and the present year will witness one of the largest gatherings of ec- clestastics which has been seen since 1868. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will convene in Brooklyn on the Ist of May, and the Academy of Music has been hired for its sessions during theentire month, English-speaking Methodism throughout the world will be represented in that gathering, and delegates from all the mis- sion fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church will also be present. This General Confer- ence will be the most important of any that has taken place since the quadrennial meet- ings of the Church’s representatives were in- stituted, For the first time in American Methodism the lay element of the Church will be represented in the supreme council. The Western and Southern Conferences have already elected their delegates, and the East- ern Conferences now holding their sessions are choosing theirs. Next Wednesday the two Conferences whose field of operations centres in this city will meet—the New York Conference in the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church in this city, and the New York East Conference in Connecticut. Their wealth, numbers and position give them an important, if not a controlling influence in the General Conference, and as this latter body will elect four or five bishops at its next session there is a good deal of “loz-rolling” and ‘‘wire-pull- ing” in favor of or against prospective candi- dates. Four ministers from this section of the country are freely spoken of as candi- dates for this high office, namely :—Rev. W. F, Harris, D. D., the Assistant Secretary of the Church Missionary Society; Rev. E. G. Andrews, D. D., pastor in Brooklyn; Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, D. D., a pastor in this city, and Rev. Joseph Cummings, D. D., President of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, The Rev. Thomas Carlton, D. D., senior agent of the Methodist Episcopal Book Con- cern, was prominently named as a candidate a few months ago, but of late there seems to be a stronger desire to keep him where he is and where he has done the Church such signal service for twenty years past, The Book Concern troubles will be rehearsed again from beginning to end before this Gen- eral Conference or one of its committees, and though the proceedings on this matter will be secret, a lively time is expected when it comes up for review and final action. There is a possibilty if not a probability that the publish- ing and much of the editorial interests of the Church may be committed hereafter to laymen, and with this peradventure before them the lay delegates will have to act for the first time in the councils of the Church. It is therefore important in some sense that certain persons, lay and clerical, should be elected to serve in the General Conference and certain others should not be. And to accomplish this pur- pose circulars have been sent to several min- isters in this city and Brooklyn asking them to choose delegates from a list of names appended thereto rather than to send those whom they have thus honored for successive years heretofore. The General Conference will have to take some action also upon the tenure of office of the biahops or general superintendents, about which a great deal of newspaper controversy has been had during the past year. While the majority of the church members and ministers doubtless cling to a life tenure there is a very respectable minority who favor a re-election quadrennially or for a specified period. And when a bishop ceases to be effective they want him and his family to be cared for by the Conference from which he is chosen rather than by the Church at large, as is now the case. There are some also who want a sort of provincial system of supervision, with @ separate Bishop in each province, instead of the general and interchangeable supervision which all the bishops now exercise over the affairs of the Church. The presiding elder- ship economy, it is quite probable, too, will be modified; and a demand is made in some quarters, especially in the large cities, for an extension of the pastoral term in certain cases, This would tend to destroy the itinerant system upon which Methodism depends for a large share of its success, and any change thereof will be strenously opposed. There has also grown up in late years among the Methodist ministry a desire for a broader Church and a demand for a more liberal form of Christianity. This desire is felt and expressed mainly by the younger class of ministers, who partake freely of the spirit of the age. Itis the natural result of the hasty manofacture of clergymen which at present prevails, not only in the Methodist Church, but in evey other Church and denomination in the land. Young men are in great demand for the ministry, and when the proper persons are found with the requisite degree of piety in their hearts they are rushed through a college course, and after three years are sent out to teach—often they know not what, And the most important interest that can be com- mitted to men—the care of souls—is handed over to striplings of twenty or twenty-two years of age, whose ideas and beliefs are ever changing, while men of thirty or forty years of age, with fixed principles and settled ideas, have the barest chance of entering the min- istry at all because of their years, And this partly, though not wholly, accounts for the fact that nearly one-half the churches in America are without pastors or regular preaching. The first minister of Christianity began His work when He was about thirty years of age, and when, as a man, He had time to form and fix his opinions, and to study hamanity and understand its needs, and His three ycars’ ministerial labor was the most effective that has ever been performed among men, His chosen followers, too, were men in the prime of life, whose religious convictions, such as they had, were rooted and grounded in them, and who needed only the Spirit’s power to send them forth as heralds of salvation, And yet Jesus Christ kept them back for three years ere they were per- mitted to go and teach all nattons. But now & young man, in college or out of it, at eigh- teen, feels, or thinks he does, a call to the ministry, and if he can talk glibly and is rea- sonably religious, two or three years will set him out 4 full fledged minister of truths which he has had hardly time to think about, much less to teach, And yet we wonder how it rate ministers in the Church of Obrist, and so few of the first class, A little child could easily count the latter, and their number must continue to be small until there is a change in the particular we bave indicated, and the Church shall begin to realize that the call and the commission to preach are two distinct and often widely separated periods. When Christ calls and sends forth 9 man to teach his suc- cess is assured beforehand, but when the Church calls and sends bim forth his success is something that we cannot predicate. The dif- ference between the two is in some sense the difference between Paul and Matthias. The General Conference may, and probably will be asked to modify its disciplinary tests of Church fellowship; but there is very little hope of a change in thie particular, Another and, for Methodism in this city, im- portant consideration, will be brought before the General Conference. At a recent conven- tion of Methodists, lay and clerical, held in this city, a resolution was adopted requesting the General Conference to throw this city into one district of one of the annual conferences at present operating here. And from the facts and figures then presented in argu- ment there can be no doubt that the New York Conferencs will take the whole, The consolidation is demanded by the City Church Extension and Missionary Society, and it will probably be effected. These are among the most important mat- ters that will come before the General Confer- ence. The annual conferences, which meet next week, will very likely have something to say on these things and may prepare and lay out some other work for the General Council. The Return of Spring—Frospects of a Prosperous Season, The Winter, so slow to pat forth his strength, so wicked when at last he came, has finally come toaclose. We are now in the second week of April; but we have to confess that we have had a week of glorious weather, and that Spring, if a little lazy, has come at last with all his power and with all his beauty. What a week! How glorious and bow com- plete the change! How grandly the old King of Day has come to our aid! The winter is over and gone; the flowers begin to appear and the voice of the singing bird is again heard in the land. Old Hudson has burst bis barriers; our stores are filled with plenty and Broadway once more is brilliant, It is not to be denied that spring has been slow to come, and that our manufacturers and merchants have almost found out the lover's sorrow, that hope deferred maketh the heart sick, The season which this year began with the 1st of April has often begun with the 1st of March. March this year was hard upon life and health, It was harder upon trade. Hard as it was on those who wished to sell, it was almost harder still on those who wished to buy. A good March sometimes brings a double spring trade, as our milliners and drossmakers and others will tell you. This year March was bad; and tsose who wished to sell and those who wished to buy have been equally sold. Now there is no longer any doubt, and now there is a rush, Look at our advertising columns this morning and see what life and activity and energy there is in trade. Our advertising columns are always an index of the trade pulse of the nation; and, if we are to judge from our advertising columns this morning the rush is great and the trade pulse of the nation is strong. Itis not certain, but it will not be wonderful if, before the Ist of May, the sup- posed losses of March will be more than covered. Whatever be the result as regards spring, there is no denying that the prospect of the year is good, Our wheat crop, which is always an index of wealth, has this year been more than usually excellent; our cotton crop has also been good, and our returns from Europe must be correspondingly large. Our Western farmers and our Southern planters have been made rich; and as both must spend their money, and as they cannot spend it anywhere so well and so much to advantage and to comfort as in New York, our city has no reason to dread a dull summer, Our imports this last week from Europe have been more than usually large, and the goods are said to be more than usually attractive. It is not unreasonable, there- fore, to conclude that New York this summer, with its stores and its theatres and the ameni- ties of its Central Park, will be to the rich men of the West and South a centre of at- traction. We are now reviving from our war exhaustion and from our war economy. Our people are again beginning to spend money, and to spend it freely; and New York, of all the cities of the Union, must reap the benefit of the new departure. A Poor Prospect for the Crops in Ireland. From all that can be learned from the agri- cultural districts of Ireland the prospects of a good harvest are far from cheering. The winter has been not only severe, but also most unhealthy—a wet, sickly, dreary sea- gon throughout the island, and farmers argue from this that crops will be unpro- ductive and the harvest small, In many of the cities and towns smallpox has prevailed to an alarming extent, Dublin particularly has suffered, and in Cork, Belfast, Drogheda and Waterford both smallpox and fever have helped to throw a gloom over the inhabitants of these cities. With these diseases, amount- ing almost to an epidemic, in the towns, and poor harvest prospects in the country, the hardships of Ireland will be increased rather than abated this year. The continuous rains which prevailed from the beginning of No- vember until the end of February have inter- fered greatly with the farmers, and the winter crops amount to nothing. Indeed, it seems as if the ills of Ireland increase with years. Be- tween internal dissensions, failing crops and epidemics, the condition of the Irish people is yearly becoming worse, and an- nually we find thronging to our shores the poor Irish emigrants seeking a home which various causes conspire to deny to them in their native land. Tum Passive PoLicy FOR PENNSYLVANIA. — They say that if the anti-Grant republicans of Pennsylvania will nominate Colonel McClure for Governor the democrats will take him up. But what will the old-liners of Berks county, who still vote for Jackson, say to this backing out from “the time-honored principles of the happens that (here are go many second or third | democratic parly?” ‘There's the rub}, Our Religious Press Table. In common with many of our religious contemporaries we take pleasure in congratm lating pious and God-fearing people upon the prevalence of the revival excitement all over the country, As is stated, in most cases these seasons of revival date from the Week of Prayer, which is now so generally observed throughout Christendom. In many churches the week was anticipated by the appointment of preliminary services, and when that period arrived those who met to pray found that the spirit was already moving upon the hearts of the people, that Christians were unusually quickened, and that many were anxiously in- quiring ‘‘what they must do to be saved.” One feature of these revivals, remarks the Observer, is more marked than in any similar season of refreshing that we remember, and it is one which not only characterizes it a6 @ genuine work of the Spirit, but also inspires hope in regard to the future of the Church. “It is the spirit of unity among various de- nominations which has preceded and accom- panied these quickenings.” We heartily endorse the prayer of the Observer that the people of God all over the land shall strive together in their prayers and in personal service for the continuance of the present revivals, The enemy is coming in like a. flood; wickedness in every form abounds, In such a time it becomes the Church to be awake and to persevere in prayer and to abound in the work of the Lord. The Zvangelist discourses upon the subject of “Spiritualism Answered by Science,” but the answer seems to surround with more mystery things which in themselves were before marvellously mysterious, As the Zvan- gelist remarks, it is certainly a relief to find scientific men employing their acumen in detecting the mysteries of psychic force, “confident that they are on the right track, and can cherish the hope of unveiling a specious delusion, and detecting whatever nucleus of scientific truth there may be at the bottom.” The Independent endeavors to explain ‘Why the Doctors Disagree” in regard to certain theological matters. All Christians agree, says the Jndependent, ‘That men need salvation, and that Christ 1s the Saviour. ‘The questions that divide them are, for the greater part, quesvions of mode, rather than of fact. When they fall to disputing about doctrinal matters it is almost aiwavs true that (heir disputes have reference to the philosophy of salvavion, rather than the fact of salvation, Itis faith iu christ thas saves men—vbat they all admit; but they diifer um wying to tell how vhs faith operates. The Golden Age offers to show ‘Why the republican party is divided against itself,” but says it ‘has no criticism to make on the character or motives of the gentlemen who will convene at Philadelphia,” adding :— Tosay that the convention will be largely com- posed of federal oflce-holdors and their representa- lives will be true, but ought not to be opprobrivus, Our feeling toward President Grant and bis parti- sans 1s Dot at all nostile or bitter. We are ot those who respect him highly. But, looxing at the forces 1m the field of politics, any man wouid be blind nos tosee that the President has ceased to represent the whole party, but only @ part of 1%. The Golden Age might ask of the ‘‘gentle- men who will convene at Philadelphia” why they should vote for the renomination of Gen- eral Grant, ‘“‘is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?” Bat the dog did it. The Tablet (Catholic organ) discourses upon the subject of ‘Secular Elucation,”’ conclud- ing in this way :— The school question, in this country at least, Is at bottom simply a question between Infidelity asa Cnnstianiiy—inat 1s, whether the chiidren of tig land shail be trained up to be infldels or Christiaus, Disguise 1 as you way, this 1s the real quesuoa at issue, The sects by godiess scnools mjure us, no doubt, but they injure themselves more, for when inudelity by tneir aid bas got rid of the Cataolio Churen it Will make short work with them, The Jewish Times, referring to the ‘‘Ameri- can Jewish Publication Society,” remarks that it is now a little over six months since that society was fairly organized, and adds :— ‘The formation of such a society had become a ne- cessity, and @ general ieeling prevailed that it coula be no longer deferred. There was some enthusiam maniiested by those that were present at the birtn of che chud, and a numoer of people stood ready to assist iu bringing it on tts feet and to stand sponsor to the young institution. But we fear that those ap. pointed tosuperiniend the growth and progress of the young American Citizen do not oestow that care aud attention upon it imperatively needed to insure for ita permanent existence. * * * Tne teachings of our sages, the burning eloquence of our prophets, the peeriess researches of our philos- ophers, the wonderiul record of our peopie in their trials, vicissitudes and wanderings, the sparkling allegories of our poets and singers, must be repro- duced in the language of the people, and thus Jews ish ideas, Jewlsy wisdom, Jewisn philosophy, Jew- ish ethics be refhstated as the houseaold gods of the Jewish home. The Hxaminer and Chronicle (Baptist organ) suggests that AS against Romanism, the Protestant host 19 ‘united in upholding the Bible as supreme authority, the court of last resort 1p ail controversies concern- the faith; bat whea @ Protestaat, holding tne Biole in his hand, deciares against the dogmas of apos- tolic succession, infant baptism, sacramental ree generation, sprinkling for scriptural baptism as Having no basis in the Word of God, he sees the very champion of scriptural authority thus assalied searching elsewhere—and, in trath, into bis own traditional authoriues—for arguments and prece- dents which he cannot, and knows well that he cannot, tind in the Bible. The Christian Union (Henry Ward Beecher) thinks there is a serious rock ahead for the Cincinnati Convention in the question of revenue reform. The original call, declares the Union, ° le the abolition of protective duties a promi. tiene donrene Tne same tone ts taken by most of the supporters o1 the movement, But the Yribune has all along given notice that it would only co-ope- rate on condition that there should ve no tree trade jank in the platform. The appearance of Mr. Gree- jey’s name among the signatures explains why the document was non-committal on tuis point. The Convention, when it meets, must eituer give up one of the strongest positive ideas that originated tt— that of revenue reform—or alienate a very desirable allye Our country exchanges, particularly the Methodist and Presbyterian, contain glaring accounts of the religious revivals that abound everywhere, JupaGE SELDEN thinks it will be well enough to have a free talk at Cincinnati, but be “will not go there for the purpose of forming a coali- tion or a bargain and sale, nor to afford aid and comfort to the democratic party.” The Judge, we suspect, like a good many other of these liberal republicans, after they have had their free talk at Cincinnati, will bid goodby to Mr. Brown and strike a bee line for Phila- deiphia. Tne Lraistature has decided to let the churchmen fight out the question of appropri- ations to sectarian schools, having defeated the bill for the stoppage of supplies to educa tional establish ments controlled by clergymen, A Sign From BrookiyN.—The call for a meeting in Brooklyn for Grant and Colfax has received over two thousand signatures, shall not wonder if Grant and Colfax are made the Philadelphia ticket. ABMY AND NAVY ORDERS. Lieutenant Thomas P. Wilson has been ordored to the Lackawanna. The Superintencent of Mounted Recruiting Sor vice has been ordered to send 100 recruits 19 Oinaoe for aswignument ty the Third gavairy, We