The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1872, Page 6

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Paar LeAdvertisements, Rem Advertisements, 3—The Outlaw Mu ‘herliy Reuben King's | Assassination; Trial Pa ACR Uiteal of Calvin Oxendine; a Swamp Ange Soper Murder Case: Murders tn Custody—M i 3 pring Fashio Yachting—! the bine Ele ation—The Rates of Two und the Drama— nday in the Central ra, to the Rescue— ‘al Intelligence. 4—Koligious: Sunny 5 ind Sunday Service: Crowded Congregations at the’ Churche: Henry Ward Beecher on Calvanism; M1 worth on Pharisaism; Frothingham’s De- scription of Morse and ni as the Inventor and the Idealist; Dr. Hedge on the Attributes of God; Memorial Services in Madison Street Church for Captain Richardson, the Seaman's Friend; My. Van Meter's Return to Rome; Dr, Vanghan’s Sermon on wiholic Mission to the Colored People: Music and Fashion at St. Stephen's Church. BeRellgious (continu a from Fourth Page)—Me- tropolttan Dogs ¢ Hydrophobia— ‘oceodings of the ut Aldermen— in The Saturday Night F tits of Aldermen aud A and Deaths, Artic “The rallon Re nit Announ rom Sixth Death of Diay ah Telegrams » and Rome— Leading Miscellaneous 'f Bei: Features in Wal! str in Money; Its Reasous " Abhorma! Movemen Stock Exchange lution be Revived? The Alabama Claims Quesiion as an Influence; The Interstate Quarvels of Lowa und Nebraska} The Om: Mi ‘Transcontl- mental Railv outhern State Bonds and the Dilness—Haek- Pi Court Calen- reat Stringe ney 8 Suggestions; of Prices on the York City vlden Death Markets— — Advertisements, Shipping Intel TW Adverti Dee Adiverii Tue Stare Leotsiarune is getting industri- ons in ifs latter da The Assembly has limited speakers to five minutes on any one subject. This will give push throngh such jobs as are yet on hand and likely to prove remunerative. Ordinarily talking members are fut with the present Legislature words are less harmless all the more time to nuisances, than acts. The less these reformers do the better. ‘Tiere Anz Revors os tae Arr of a prob- able agreement of the Conference Committee of the Seuate and Assembly on the New York charter; Lut we adhere to the belief that no charter will be passéd this Cer- session, tainly the legislative patchwork is not likely to | give us nny better law than that we are now | living under, and hence the little what may be the result. Tax Starz Senate Has Appornrep another investigating committer. Its business is to examine into the frauds alleged to have been committed in connection with the build- ing of the Third Judicial District Court Howe of this city. We have no doubt that the committee will discover a very pretty little people care very nest of plunder, althouyl we expect that the | investigation will end in nothing exhibition made by the Senators in the case of their money-borrowing ate James Wood—it would seem more appropriate that they should be investigated themselves instead of investigating others. After the Ass Gig AND Conspiracy ty Sraiy.The con. dition or Spain, in its social aspect particn- | larly, appeal? te TOW worse daily. ‘The cable report trom Madrid tors of ineendiar’ ism, con- piracy, arson with.a view 18 gity p shmnder and | attempts against life and propery"6 on the rail roads. It is not easy Canse or causes of all fon demowalization, par- ticulurly at this distance from the’ scene, ‘The church of St. Thomas in Madrid was destroyed by fire last Friday night. An extensive confla Sration was threatened in the capital, but the flames were stayed in season to prevent it. King Amadeus and Marshal Serrano afforded | Personal aid to the firemen, it appears, of accidental or Political agi- tation prevails toa very consid: rable extent. Amny furloughs have deen suspended and mil- itary officers on jeave The fire-was, as ol absence have been ordered to their posts of duty by the Minister Of War. The Spanish reactionisty are evi- dently intent on pr yvokiug the King’s gove roe Jueut to actual cvatliyt. to discover the exact | | have filled the island had it been telogn | to the London Times that we had asked fox NEW Y ORK HERALD, MONDAY, = The Alabama Case—Caa the Adminis tration Recede from Its Position? ‘The indications from Washington are that a strong pressure is to be made upon the administration for the withdrawal of the case as submitted to Geneva. That particular newspaper which is regarded as ‘the organ of the administration” discusses the whole sub- ject as though wo had in some way been | guilty ofa fraud upon the English, and had | taken advantage of the Commissioners to give | the treaty a construction that was never in- | tended, Speaking with Washington inspira- | tion this newspaper admits that there was mistake, some advantage pressed upon the English , which was not in- tended by either party, and that naturally nothing remains for America but to withdraw trom her position, consent that England was | tight and that we were wrong in the construc- tion of the treaty, and so meet the arbitration , in » complacent and satisfactory frame of mind, By such a course the treaty will be j saved, the administration of General Grant will have won one conspicuous foreign achieve- ment, and we shall feel that peace has been established between the two great English- speaking Powers, Nothing would afford us more gonnine satis- faction than the achievment of this result. We desire peace with England—a complete settlement of all the questions now at issue be- tween the two countries. We looked upon the anger excited in the English mind by the | publication of our case with deep concern. We trusted that a careful survey of the whole ground would show that there really was some point which would enable America to say to England that we had acted upon a misappre- hension, and with the frankness of honest men retire from our position. We cared nothing for our case. After all, it was but a rhetorical composition, and would not be considered for moment when the peace of the nation was at stake. If our case had been a blunder tho vory worst — result | would have been the retirement of Mr. Fish from the State Department. However this might be regretted, it would be a sacrifice in | the interests of peace which the honorable Secretary would be glad enough to make. We | felt, as we feel now, that this continued appre- hension, this strain upon the commercial nerves of the two countries, this uncertainfy as | to our relations, have injured, and continue | still to injure, the business interests which the | two nations have in common more than we | should gain in money value by any possible award at the Geneva tribunal. If there could bean end of this unhappy abnormal condi- | tion and the return of perfect peace and cor- | dialty we should welcome it as a blessing to | civilization. Therefore, if it can be shown | that we were wrong in our case, our duty is to abandon it at whatever sacrifice of national | pride, We have, unfortunately, seen no argument that leads to this conclusion, On the con- | trary, the evidence is overwhelmingly the | other way. presentation of the claim for consequential damages. It was not held in abeyance during the negotiations of the Joint High Commis- sion to be sprung as an afterthought at | Genev: Remember always that the strong, | emphatic point of the English in their diseus- | sions is, that if we had intimated an intention | | to demand consequential damages, or at least | that a claim for them would be presented at Geneva, their Ministers would have retired at | once“4rom the negotiations. Now, the truth is that this demand was clearly expressed by Mr. Fish on behalf of the American government | and no dissent made by the slish Commis- sioners. The point that rested in the mind of Mr. n, and, no doubt, of Lord Ripon and | | some | | | | | a There was no surprise in our | | his colleagues, was that, as there were | such claims in existence, they should | | be considered and determined forever; that there should be no remaining ‘‘issues’’ or “questions'’ to come to life in a new genera- | tion, like Frederick the Great’s claim upon | Silesia or Napoleon's demand for Malta, and | | be used as a means of disturbing the world’s | peace. If this was their reasoning it was | | sound and statesmanlike; for this treaty would | have been nothing had it been incomplete or wanting in comprehensiveness, or with any | reserved or neglected issues. There could be no better way of ending the discussions upon these claims than by referring them to the | Geneva tribunal, and we have no doubt the decision was reached as a happy way of bury- | | ing the whole business in the interest of last- | | ing peace. | certainly a natural sequence, if the whole | question would resolve into a struggle on Mr. | nent than they were formerly, and, we may | last night in the Bedford street Baptist church | with imagine the fury which this would have excited, and justly excited, in England; and yet the presentation of the Confederate bonds on the part of the English was a parallel case. Re- garded as consequential damages or indirect losses, or claims of British subjects, or what- ever we choose to call them, they were infi- nitely more offensive to us than our Geneva case could possibly be to the English. And yet we accepted them. We did not threaten to break the treaty ; we made no clamor nor protest. Woe felt that the claim was extraordi- nary, unjust, almost an indignity in itself. But there was the treaty. We had signed it and we made no murmur. The Board threw out the Confederate loan, just as the Geneva Board may throw out the claim for consequen- tial damages. This shows that on our part we accepted the theory of indirect claims. It shows clearly the existence of an understanding between the high contracting Powers by which all such claims as Confederate bonds and consequential damages by reason of the Alabama should be considered and determined now, and be no longer a source of anxiety to the two countr' It is impossible not to believe in the existence of such an understanding, for thus is it only possible to explain the presentation of the claim for consequential damages by reason of English investments in the Confederate loan. Certainly if there were any open questions under the treaty, any reserved rights, any privileges of diplomatic scrutiny, the Ameri- cans would have made war upon the Confed- erate loan; but wisdom and good faith pre- vailed and that is dead, just as the Alabama claims might be dead had wisdom and good faith controlled the action of English states- men. It may be a serious charge to make, but it does not seem to us that the English have shown ‘either wisdom or good faith. It was unwise to make this demonstration against America. It was dishonorablg to break a solemn treaty. Mr. Gladstone is ‘as much responsible for this treaty and our construc- tion of itas Mr. Fish. His Ministers signed it with open eyes. They knew the value of every provision. They knew perfectly well that the indirect cliims were in the protocols, and that they would be presented in the case, and when England rose and protested Mr. Gladstone should have manfully assumed a responsibility which belonged to him pecn- liarly, and which he could not divide or shirk, Here is all the trouble. If our government responds to the political necessities of Mr. Gladstone s0 far as to withdraw this case, Mr. Fish must retire from the Cabinet. That venerable and distinguished statesman cannot in honor sit in a Cabinet which puts upon him this stigma. Nor do we see how General Grant can go to the country after withdrawing his case. It will be a surrender, a confession of insincerity, a pusillanimous concession to the exigencies of Mr. Gladstone’s government. If Mr. Fish insists upon his ground Mr. Gladstone may be driven from power. It would be an odd termination of the affair, and Gladstone’s part to retain his position as ime Minister, and on the part of General Grant to retain the Presidency. Italy and America, Protestantism in in Cathol- icism Sunday lectures are becoming more promi- add, more interesting also. ‘The Rev. W. C. | Van Meter, who has just returned from Rome, where, it is said, he has made arrangements to open another ‘Howard Mission’ for the orphaned Italians, gave an interesting account of some experiences and incidents of his travels in Italy. He rejoiced in the entry of Victor Emmanuel into Rome because the Bible went him, and now it was to be seen all over that fair land, ‘though during the past eighteen hundred years not a single copy of the Bible was ever printed at Rome, except through necessity.’’ No one could be more enthusiastic in praise of the Roman people than Mr. Van Meter. They have awakened to a new lifeand a hungering and thirsting for knowledge like a sponge wanting water. But | every pore, he assured his hearers, would yet be filled with the lessons of the Bible—the pure water of life. Mr. Van Meter is soon to return to Italy to proseeute his mission there, and he is making a tqur of the principal cities here to awaken an interest among Christians in his work. Cooper Institute was well filled last night We know that these claims were presented | by Mr. Fish in his protocols, becanse the evi- | | dence is written on the record. are led to | believe that an estimate of the manner in which Lord Ripon and his colleagues received this presentation is the true one, from other It will be reme red that, while America had a claim for consequen- tial damages, England also had such a | claim. We insisted that we should be paid for | the losses incurred by the prolongation of the war after Gettysburg, holding, as we did, that this was the result of the unfriendly course ot England. England insisted that she should be paid for the investments of her people in Confederate bonds. No Englishman ever felt | that these bonds would be paid; their learned knew that we had forbidden it by an | amendment to the constitution—that they | paid withont a revolution or a change in the fundamental law. No American | v circumstances, men conld not be with an ‘andience gathered to listen to Dr. Rogers’ lecture on the past glories of the Cath- olic Church and her future triumphs. He maintained that the American government is founded upon Catholic principles, to wit:— The recognition of citizenship, the separation of the Church from the State, opposition to slavery and serfdom, unity of nationalities and unity of churches. ‘The lecturer also claimed that the Catholie Church had de- veloped the arts and sciences, that she is the friend of education, and that by her “an Ameri- | can architecture will by and by be built up and lifted in magnificence and refinement to the clouds.”’ Papal Pronoancement on the European Situation. Pope Pius the Ninth give andience to a large number of foreign visitors at the Vatican | last Friday. After replying to the addresses | border. felt that the presentation of the ease for conse- | i sswould result in any moneyed | that if any money were allowed it | would bg « trifling sum, So, when the Con- | Bone dy wore dressy to the Board of | ‘ + at Washington, ‘Ate Goverment made | no comply unt We had looked the whole ease | over: we knew that we about to ask the tribnal to extraordinary indirect | claims upon England, and so we should not object to the consideration of ¢ xtraordinary in- s. And the nature of these claims was posikively offensive and in- + sulting to America, by rebels for money nnd, \rms with which to overthrow our country. WwW had as much right to pay them as England we Md have to pay Indian mutiny bonds issued , YY Nena Sahib, Irish mutiny bonds issued b, ¥ 0’ Donovan Rossa and purchased by Ameri, “Citizens. Nothing could be more offensive 4, M2 such a proposition to England, and we om ‘Wd well funcy the bowls of wrath and anger tha, * bd phe the - it payments 5 we consider direct claims upor The se bonds were issued payment of Fenian bonds purchased by ovr pr vle trom Livh rebela, Wo say we gan we of the faithful His Holiness took brief review of the situation as it presents, to his mind, in the different conntries which were represented. He found it necessary to offer up a paternal prayer for Germany, “subjn- | gated as she is by an anti-Catholic spirit.” Austria, he added, ‘greatly needs the prayers | of the faithful.’ This makes all the differ- ence in the world. The Chief Pastor pray for G ny; the people may pray for Aw tria--that is, if the people are charitable enough to do so; but, judging from our cable report, the Pope is not exactly p whether they perform the Christian duty or a cular as to | neglect it, It may, consequently, be inferred that Austria, on account of her treatment of | the Peter's temporalities case, will remain “ont in the cold’? during her sublonary career as a nation. Of the hereafter the least that is said the hetter. Imperial Germany may come al straight through the efficacy of prayer. The United States were blessed in | the same breath with Ireland and Poland—a | that the American cord of the Propn- | as itis certain that they do (in matters yf more solid substance, grand fact, whieh show people stand well on the 1 | ganda spiritually, —TRIPLE Anarchy in Mexico-—What Will Our Government Dot Tho varying phases of the civil war in Mexico are laid before the readers of the Herat from day to day in the special tele- graphic reports from our correspondents on and across the border, so that a pretty correct view is obtained of the state of things and prospect there. Each of the contending par- ties makes, of course, representations most favorable to “itself for effect at home and abroad. It is always so in war, particularly in civil wars; but there is no people who can beat the Mexicans in exaggeration or misreprese: ta- APRIL 15, 1872. The tion, Still, we get at important facts through our vigilant and impartial cor- respondents. To sum up, then, it ap- pears from the latest news by our special despatches from Matamoros that the revolutionists have made a new departure to recover the ground they had lost, to unite the different factions opposed to Juarez and to make renewed efforts to overthrow the govern- ment. Heretofore General Diaz and his party aimed not only to depose Juarez, on the ground of illegal tenure of office, but to effect a complete revolution as well. Their inten- tion was to override the constitution, which provides that the Chief Justice of the republic shall be President in the event of a removal from or vacancy in the Presidential chair, This was the plan of the Noria, as it is called, and the object was, no doubt, to make Diaz President. Of course this would have de- rived the Chief Justice, Lerdo de Tejada, of bis constitutional right to be President in the event of the removal of Juarez. Dissensions between the reyolutionists who were friends of Lerdo and those in favor of Diaz were the consequence. Now it is alleged that Gen- eral Diaz has declared the plan of the Noria abrogated, that the constitution is to temain intact, and that the war is only to depose the usurper Juarez. The death of General Diaz, which has been repeatedly reported, is now again announced—this time on the authority of General Trevitio himself, who is stated to have reliable information to that effect. It is supposed that the unfortunate Diaz has died at fhe hands ¢ of Assassins, His death has been ‘kopt a profound secret by the revolutionary chiefs, who could not well spare the prestige of his name at the moment of inaugurating so important a change in the original programme. In order, perhaps, to lend the moral weight of Diaz’s authority to the coalition it was deemed necessary that the revolutionists shonld be- lieve him alive until the proposed alliance with the Lerdistas had been perfected. Thus, after the death of Diaz, we have the announcement that he had abrogated the plan of the Noria, although he had been its originator and the principal obstacle -to a union with the Ler- distas. This is the conclusion we draw from our special despatches of yesterday and to-day. It is supposed, therefore, that this step will result in all the Lerdistas joining the revolutionists, and to more active hostilities against the Juarez government. As Lerdo would be President under this new pro- gramme, in the event of the overthrow of Juarez, the abrogation of the plan of the Noria is meant as a tempting bait to the Lerdistas. Lerdo and his followers may be caught by it, and that, undoubtedly, would strengthen the coalition against Juarez, But, | on the other hand, as these Mexican plans and | proclamations are very uncertain things, Lerdo may feel himself safer under the wing of Juarez in the city of Mexico than with the revolutionists. The result of this new move- ment has yet to be seen. In the megntime the Commander-in-Chief of the revolutionists in the North, General Trevifio, has issued a manifesto declaring the —_allianee an accomplished fact. He was on his way, too, from Camargo to Matamoros with fifteen hundred men and nineteen guns, including three heavy siege guns, to attack the latter city. Another revolutionary force of a thou- sand cavalry were marching to join him | for the same object, and it was expected the assault on Matamoros by these combined forces would be made in the course of two or three days. These are some of the latest phases of the war in Mexico. It is simply a desperate strug- gle among ambitious chiefs, and the poor Mexicans are dragged into it and their prop- erty seized to support it, regardless of their views or wishes. They have to obey, fight for and support whatever chief of cither side rules them for the time. The government, | if there be anything in Mexico worthy of being called so, is a revolutionary one and a usurpation; the military chiefs who are | endeavoring to overthrow it are, for the most | part, little better than bandits. The country is utterly demoralized, and nothing but anar- chy can be expected until the United States | takes possession of or exercises a protectorate over it. Nor is it possible to prevent trouble and depredations on our own soil along the The anarchy that reigns and will exist for hundreds of miles along the Rio Grande will necessarily overleap that narrow river, Cattle stealing and other robberies will goon, Our citizens will be plundered and otherwise injured. Smuggling will be prac- tised and the United States will suffer in reve- nue. Though a check may be given tempora- rily to these depredations through tear of our government, the cause will remain, and they will be renewed. Tn fact, Mexico has neither the power nor inclination to perform the duties of good neighborhood. Is the government, then, to leave our citizens and territory unprotected ? That must not be. Nothing less than a lit- tle army would be sufficient to afford protec- tion and maintain peace against robbers, smugglers, warring factions and Indians along | a border extending a thousand miles or more. And are we to be at @ch an expense to accom- modate a people that cannot govern them- selves? The few troops we have there now can ndo little except to protect two or three of the | -ipal points on the Rio Grande larger | force, with a feneral | Sheridan, is needed, and the President should not delay in ordering it there. If we mistake not the time is near when the boundary line will have to be swept away and the authority of the United States extended to the Pacific Ocean. 1s General Grant preparing for such an event? A considerable force is necessary on the border now to protect our citizens and territory und the revenne. Let it be inerensed | to a corps of observation, under the imme- | such commander as diate command of General Sheridan, so that our government may be ready for any contingency that may and probably will | soon grow out of the anarchival condition of Mexivo, j | which we SHEET. ‘The Sermons—Beecher on Osivinism, | quiet way ministered up and down tho docks We begin to fear for Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. His orthodoxy is in danger, and our faith in it wavers a little, Yesterday he ana- lyzed ‘the Cambridge Confession’ —that is, the creed adopted by the Congregationalists of New England ten years ago—and warmly de- nounced its Calvinistic ideas and tendencies. We never thought Mr. Beecher had much Cal- vinism in his nature, but his discourse yester- day on the Fatherhood of God has dispelled any lingering hopes or fears we might have entertained on this point. The idea is false and dérogatory to the nature of God, Mr. Beecher declared, which represents Him as supremely content with Himself and indifferent to the creatures who offer Him their adoration. ‘The tendency of theologies is to teach us that God acts supremely for His own glory. The extracts of the ‘Confession’ read by Mr. Beecher declare that “some men and some angels are predestinated to everlasting ruin, and some are foreordained to everlasting death; that they are fixed to an unchangeable destiny, and that their number is certain and defined, and can- not be increased or diminished."” We don't wonder that Mr. Beecher, with his large heart and liberal nature, should call this ‘‘a tight fit,” and should, as he did unhesitatingly, pronounce in favor of infidelity and atheism rather than of such a faith fis converts a | Father into a fiend and a Saviour intoa butcher, as Mr. Beecher very forcibly putit. And, in the magnanimity of his nature, he asked, ‘Is this the God rho sent His Son into the world by whop: man are to be saved, and who is represented in the parable of the Prodigal Son as not waiting for this son to come to Him, but who goes pale pect, Rim and falls on his neck and kisses him?” We hope our Cal- vinistic friends will not allow Mr. Beecher to misrepresent them, if he has done so; but if he has not: the sooner this confession of faith remodelled or discarded altogether the better, for God hath not appointed us unto wrath, ‘but has made salvation possible for every human being. Our Pharisaical nature needs as many and as pungent reproofs to-day as the Saviour found it needed when He was on earth, and Mr. Hepworth took occasion yesterday to talk, | plainly and pointedly about it. Comparing the sham of religion with the reality he said :— “Not reputation, but character, is the thing that God looks at. He goes to heaven, whether he be priest or beggar, who has obeyed the law in his heart as well with his hands; and he goes into tor- ment, whether rich or poor, high or low, who has played the part of the hypocrite.”’ There are many who hope to cheat the apostle | who stands at the gate of the New Jerusalem by flaunting their sacred robes before his won- dering eyes; but, as Mr. Hepworth re- marked, the investigation is a great deal sharper iz heaven than it is in our Custom House in this city, and when we get up there our own inventory of our good qualities will not be taken. It is this trial that will make many who are first last, and the last first; and is as some who think they have tickets for reserved | seats in heaven will find themselves lucky if they get there at all. Mr. Hedge endeavored to exalt the worship of God by belittling the ship of Christ, who was merely the repre- sentative of God; and such worship of Ghrist, he declared, is idolatry. A personal God is | needed for religious purposes, but this person- ality idea may be carried too far and become a snare, It would seem from the number of sermons preached on the subject by ditfer- ent ministers in the Church of the Messiah | that the congregation have a little more faith | in the divinity of Christ than is good or whole- some for them as Unitarians. And hence, we presume, the ministers try to persuade them that Christ was a man sent trom God, and | nothing more. As Mr. Hepworth once said, we believe, in that same church, the people be- lieve, but the preachers try to persuade them | not to believe. Mr. Frothingham yave the late Professor Morse the highest niche as an inventor and Mazzini the highest asan idealist. The charac- teristics and the careers of both were con- trasted by the preacher, and the closing scenes in the life of each portrayed. They two lived for humanity's good, but the roads they tra- velled were dive Dr. H. D. Moore demon- strated the divinity as well as the humanity of Christ from the manifestations of His great sympathy for the suffering and His sorrow for the bereaved. dox theory and belief regarding the divine call to the ministry, which he insisted is proved by | the fact that God sent His only begotten Son | to act as a mediator between God and man. ‘The Doctor considered preaching one of the | grandest occupations, that a man could be | engaged in. He believes in a predestination | to preach the Gospel, and that only those so predestined can preach. Perhaps it would be well to settle the question, What is preaching ? at the same time, and then we may be able to judge who are predestined tg preach and who are not. ‘There are a great many men preach- ing who some people think ought to be engaged | in some other business for which they are better fitted. ‘The characteristics of 2 good shepherd were set forth yesterday by Father McNamee, in the Cathedral, and illustrated in the life of Christ, | who treated his bitterest enemies affectionately, and went into the wilderness after the straying sheep—the wayward child. And all this man- ifestation of the love of Jesus the preacher said was to show how grand and sublime is the soul of man. We should, therefore, “learn from him to feel how important is the eternal salvation of that soul which each of Us possesses, and to remember the end for were created, to love God and serve Him to insure the gain of everlasting life.”’ one Father Vaughan ably represented the cause of | | his missions among the colored people in the South in St. Francis Xavier's church, and aroused the interest of the people therefor. And in dersey City Father Monnot, the Superior | | of the Catholic Missions in Syria and the Holy Land, advocated the claims of that part of the Old World upon the religious sympathies and material support of the New World. One of the most modest, unpretentions and lnborions Christians who has lived among us since the days of Harlan Page has gone to bis | glorious reward, Captain Richardson, well known in New York and Brooklyn, and, indeed, in distant parts of this and other lands, has rested from his labors, and his works do follow him, With a rough but maguanimons sailor's heart divine love for perishing seamen and sinners generally, be las for foxty yours or yore in bis Dr. Miley elaborated the ortho- | throbbing with | and streets of this city and on seagoing veasela, in mission chapels and churches, doing the work of an evangelist, and though unordained by the laying on of hands he gave full proof of his ministry by gathering hundreds of sonla into the fold of his Master. And yesterday hundreds of those rfugh tars who had wept and rejoiced at his words gathered in the Mariners’ Temple, in Madison street, to honor his memory and to shed a tear because of his loss. Surely a prince and a great man is Cincinnati The Convention and Ita Managers—What wil They De with Itt—What of Charles Sumner? The late Cooper Institute meeting haa thrown no light upon the Cincinnati Conven- tion, The speeches of Messrs. Trumbull and Schurz, which, it had been proclaimed, would foreshadow the Presidential line and order of battle of the new party, were only the rehash of their oft-repeated harangues in the Senate aguinst the shortcomings of General Grant's administration. The entire catalogue of their stall complaints had been spread broadoast over New Hampshire and over Connecti- cyt in advance of the recent elections in those closely contested States, but without any per- ceptible effect upon the results in either ; and,’ hence, something more to the purpose ina new departure was expected from Cooper In- stitute. But while the general indictment, | against the administration was the old story, ‘full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing,” the resolutions of thd Sven ing were, as “flat as dicioaee: From the “Tncongruoas elements, however, of which, phe. assemblage | was composed—new line’ and old line denidéiais, bolting republicans, doubting republicans, conservatives, radicals,” ex-rebels, disappointed office-seekers and ad- venturers, Bohemians, protectionists and free traders-—it was essential, for the suke of har- mony, to avoid any declaration of principles, except the common principle and purpose of hostility to the re-election of General Granf._ Upon this common bond of union and hae mony—hostility to Grant—it has been deter- mined by this motley assemblage of reformers that Mr. Greeley shall have from this citya large escort to Cincinnati. The object sought | by the meeting is the object thus gained ina response from New York to the original liberal republican manifesto from Missouri, and from athousand men, dismissed from or failing, under Mr. Murphy, to get into the Custom House, the escort of Mr. Greeley can be supplied. Moved by the same patriotic | impulses, similar delegations to that of | Mr. Greeley will pour into Cincinnati from | all the States between New York and Mis- souri, and from all the States below, afford- ing cheap and convenient communications; and as there is no limit fixed to the numbers in- vited to this “mass Convention,”’ it will be an imposing affair, at least in numbers. Cinein- nati and her immediate surroundings to this political curiosity shop will be able to furnish | at least a hundred thousand men for the ini- tial meeting of the Ist of May. Perhaps a | day or two will be required to get this cumber- some assemblage into a workable shape in the | Separation of the sheep from the goats, and in | the assignment of picked men to represent the several States. When these preparations for business are all satisfactorily carried out, and when some democratic hardshell Southwest- ern Baptist shall have delivered an impressive prayer (the Rev. Mr. Beecher will probably be | selected for this duty at Philadelphia), Mr. | Greeley, by general consent, as chairman, will brietly announce the objects of this imposing | Cincinnati Convention and what he knows | about farming, and then—in the name of | Andy Johuson and his hand-in-hand Phila- delphia love-feast—what then? ‘Then will come up for settlement the impor. tant questions of the new party name, the new party platforin and its Presidential ticket. The new-born party, we suppose, on motion of Gov- | ernor Gratz Brown, the father of the lusty in- | fant, the motion being seconded by its god- | father, Mr. Carl Schurz, will be christened the | liberal republican party. Secondly, according | to the Missouri manifesto, the distinguishing features of this new party platform will be | free trade, a general amnesty, civil service re- | form—that is, a change of the office-holders— | State rights and the fifteenth amendment. | But while Mr. Greeley, full of joy and hope, as the head of the New York delegation, will go to Cincinnati, he has frankly and sharply in- | timated that if the Convention shall declare for free trade or for anything like a war on Penn- | sylvania pig iron and Syracuse salt, he will | bolt tor Philadelphia, Grant or no Grant, Mur- | phy or no Murphy. It must not be understood | that in his carefully double-edged endorsement | of the Missouri call Mr. Greeley has become @ | free trader. He may accept a compromisa | which will serve in Missouri for free trade and | in Pennsylvania for protection; but he can | make no larger concession against home in- dustry. On this point, like Henry Clay, he would rather be right than be President, ag you will perceive. We susgpect,, too, that Mr. Greeley will prove too much for Mr. Brown on | this test question of free trade, and that the | Free Trade League, deeply intrenched in thia | Cincinnati Convention, will have cause to re- member the effective flank movement of Greeley aguinst them. In the same way, for the accommodation of those disaffected republicans who still cling to the memory of that old war song which promised to “hang Jeff Davis on a sour apple tree," who believe that the military have done good service against the Ku Klux Klans, and that State rights are subject to the national sovereignty of the United States, we think it probable that the Cincinnati reformers wilt deal with these matters too daintily to please the old line democracy. If so, this Couven- tion will be a short-lived bubble, for its main object is to open a way by which the demo. era party may regain their Paradise lost. Mr. Belmont, with his National Committee, in this view, will wait a week after the | assembling of the Cincinnati pathtinders before he proceeds to consider the question of calling the nsunl National Democratic Con- yention. He must be satistied upon three | points before he can be persuaded to abandon the usual call for bis national party council | | | ‘and to substitute therefor a recommen. dation to the — demoeraey to support the Cincinnati liberal republican ticket and platform. He must be — satisfied | that the liberal republicans will be able to command against Grant a respectable vote in the approaching elections; that their platform (will be acceptable to the raul aud file of deg