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NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_+—_— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hepa. Volume XXXVII.......... Sreererrer errr No. 127 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, BOWEREY—.Caazy Nan—Woon- xtc . OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Batter Pay- tomixe or Hourty Doxery. BOOTH’S THENTRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth av.—Ricuanp LIT. WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Lonpon Assupance. THRATRE COMIQUE, 51é Broadway'—Comtc Vocat. isms, NkaRo Acts, &0. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Tux Gop Deuon. * Houston sta—Latis Roos FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-Fourth street.— Articis 47, ST, JAMES THEATRE Broadway.—MacEvor's NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince fea ku. Twenty-cighth street and HiauENicon. STEINWAY HALL, Putsaxsontc Society. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Per- formances afternoon and event FRENCH SPY. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Anricux 47. eds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mantague street — Granp Vooat ann IxstuumeNntaL Concert. Fourteenth street—Coxcerr or UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—Vanurry ENTERTAINMENT. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Necro Eccentaicitis, Burtesques, &cr SAN FRANOISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.—Vaniety Per- FORMANCES. PAVILION, No. 688 Broadwa: Concent. near Fourth st—Graxp DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, No. 745 Broad wway.—SclmeNCE AND Aut. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bounce anv Art. New ‘ork, Monday, May 6, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. ee a Pacr. J—Advoitisements. 2m Advertisements. 3—After the Fight: Illinois Democrats Thundering | Over Defeated Hopes; Schurz and the Mis- sourians: Hostility v Germans—Miscel- | laneous Poli otes—The St nh for Dr} | 1 Washington 1 ice von—Yachting Notes—Jeal- Reveng Handsome Young Wife vd to Pie While Sleeping; The Act | Partially Justified by Her Alleged Guilt— | Franz Abt—Fire in Greenwich Street. May Sunday } ions in the the Churches of the City and Neigh- | borho Sermons by Prominent Methodist | Preac Characteristic Sermon by Henry | Ward ther Gavazzi on Justifica- | ‘ather McReady on the Ma- ternity of the Biessed Virgin; What M Frothingham Knows About the Conscience; Heroism Described by Mr. Hepworth; Bishop Ba icy on the Opposition of the Church and the World. S—Religious (continued from Fourth Page)— Racing in England—Louisiana State Fair— Racing, Trotting and Running in California— Horse Notes—Sunday Promenades: The Scenes in Central Park; Who Were There and What They Did—The Stamp Tax on Matches—Proposed Improvements in New- burg Bay—Gladness Transformed to Gloom— Digging out the Guns at Resaca—Another Jersey. Railroad — Horror—Alleged_ Infanti- cide—Prospective Labor Strike in Newark— Killed by a ie Bowery Concert Saloon Stabbing Aifray. GeeEditorials: Leading Article, “The Royal Geo- graphical Soclety, Dr. Kirk, the British Con- sul at Zanzibar, and the HeRatp Livingstone Search Expedition,'Amosement Announce- ments, TeImportant from Spain: Defeat of the Insur- — Army Under the Personal Command of on Carlos—Cable selene from England, France, ninark—The Situ- ation in Mexico—The Alabama Claims: An_ Extraordinary Proceeding on the State Department; England's Peace Prop- osition; Minister Schenck’s Instructions to be | Withdrawn—News from Washington—The | Japanese at Annapolis—The Weather Report— | Miscellaneous ‘Telegrams—New York City | News—Business Notic 8—Financial and Comme Western Union ‘tt Specie in the ‘Trea: Bonds; The Stage—Musical and Theatrical Notes—Court Russia and ial: The Race Between raph and Pactiiic Mati; sury; Southern State Bank Statement—The London Calendars for To-Day—Deaths—Advertise- ments, V—Advertisements. 20—Cuda: Increasing Power and Activity of the Insurgents—Aquativ Notes—The International Bout Race—The North Pole: The New Aus- | trian Expedition—A Warning to forse Thieves—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. W1—Advertisementa. 12—Advertizements. Tux News rrom Mexico is very indecisive, and exceedingly chameleon like in statement, as usual. Sefior Guzman, the new member of the Claims Commission, was preparing to leave, en route for Washington. Tue Kixcry Crowns aND THE INTERNA- f1onaL.—The King of Denmark has brought ithe question of argument between the mon- archies and the members of the International Society to a point of issue. The President and Treasurer of the Internationalist body in Copenhagen were arrested yesterday. They will no doubt be placed on trial charged with unlawful combination. His Majesty King Christian is an excellent representative of the crown system, not merely on account of his own personal position and worth, but also for reason of his near alliance by family union with the thrones of Russia, Great Britain and Greece. If the Internationalist Society is as powerful as a democratic leverage against the monarch- igms as its admirers profess to believe, its executive will soon enjoy a splendid chance for earning a world-wide distinction. Rousstuan Cures ror Crry Tomort—Muiu- mwarny Action Acarxst Riot.—The Russian au- thorities in the town of Kharkof undertook, a few days since, to disperse a street crowd which had become riotous, in the face of police interference with the Easter holiday amuse- ments of the people. They tried the hydro- pathic plan of curo by showering the assem- blage with water thrown from fire engines. The first stimulant effect which follows the .J plication of cold water was not of an en- during, healthy character in this instance. It did not subside, and thus soothe, but, on the contrary, increased to inflammation and the suppurative vent of popular passion. The Russian officers were compelled to have re- course to the old practice of blood-letting. Tho operation was performed with musket balls ond the bayonet. This was effective. Many citizens were killed: and wounded. The rioters were dispersed and the town held by martial law. Thus, as it appears, the science of governmental hygiene has not progressed greatly in its mode of application for the bene- fit of the Old World populations since the mo- ment when Suwarrow drilled his Cossacks in Tamail, after inditing his famous despatch, “Glory to God, the Empress, Ismail’'s ous!” |of our African expedition. We have already in these columns published the letter of Judge Daly, President of the American Geographical Society, | head as well as goodness of heart, and which & Fall—A_ Railroad Victim Iden- | | actually found out Dr. Livingstone, the old man | with the pale face and the white beard. In all NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY; 6, 1872%.—TRIPLE SHKKT. Kirk, the British Co: bar, and the Herald Search Expedition. In the Hznaup of yesterday we published a Livingstone The Royal Geograpnica: society, Dr. | vessel loft; and when we remember how few 1 at Zansi- | English-speaking people are in this miserable town off the African coast, if is not unfair to argue that the report was in some way or other | and calls will be made for continued and in- sanctioned by Dr Kirk We cannot believe communication from one of our London cor- | that the rport was invented tye the men on ereased contributions. The reports, we have listlo doubt, will amply justify the calls. In respondents, summarizing the proceedings of board the Abydos, As hitle ea we Dotiewe that spite of the glaring wickedness which abounds the monthly meeting of the Royal Geographi- cal Society, held at the University of London, had been received by the Secretary from Dr. Kirk, the now well known British Consul at Zanzibar, regarding Dr. Livingstone and the recent expeditions sent out in quest of him, and, ag was most natural in the cireumstances, the meeting was largely attended, other sciences correspondent and the conductor of the come acquainted with Mr. Stanley while in Zanzibar; had had frequent conversations with him; had, with others, been amused with Stanley's stories as to how he passad on details of the Abyssinian war to New York and outwitted the London correspond- ents ; and, from what he saw of the man, Dr. personal character and in regard to equipment Mr. Stanley was quite equal to the task which he had undertaken. Dr. Kirk's own wonis are these :—“You wish me to say, confidentially, what I think of Dr. Livingstone’s position, and I see that you are not averse to taking any | measures that might lead to his being commn- | nicated with, if only a fair prospect of success | offered. This I think Mr. Stanley will accom- plish."" This, we think, will be sufficient to silence our numerous and envious rivals, wha, wore pleased to regard our Livingstone search expedition only as a hoax, and who, in want of more useful employment, found in it suit- able and convenient matter for ridicule. It has gratified us not a little to notice that while some of our contempories have been busy and detracting to the extent of their ability, the most respectable journals of this continent have recognized our enterprise, honored our success and meted out honestly and ungrudgingly the praise which is due. In more than one quarter whence praise is not to be despised it has been candidly admitted that no individual newspaper ever undertook so gigantic an enterprise, and that no under- taking was ever more entitled to be crowned with triumph. Weare pleased to know that our learned societies both here and in Europe appreciate and honor the aim and object a letter which reveals the Judge’s clearness of finds in this expedition something honoring to ourselves and creditable to our common coun- try. The letter of the Judge convinces us that there are at least some men who begin to un- derstand the province and the increasing duties | as well as responsibilities of the modern daily newspaper. We do not attempt to conceal our delight at this news from London. It comes in good time and stands us in good stead. | Henceforth detractors may detract as they | think fit, but doubters must cease to doubt. | As to the final result of the expedition, we do not feel warranted to speak with too much con- | fidence. We cannot say quite so much as was said for us in a spirit of true kindness by one of our contemporaries, that “‘the most daring and the most generous undertaking of modern journalism has been crowned with perfect suc- cess.” The most that we feel emboldened to say is, that there is a strong and not unreason- able presumption that our correspondent has our despatches relative to the safety of Living- stone there is a singular and noteworthy con- sistency. The first despatch, which was special to the Heratp, and which recognized Bombay as its source, encouraged the belief that Livingstone was safe with the Henatp Stanley at Zanzibar. Next day's telegram stated the case more clearly. The ship Abydos, which took out the English search expedition to Zanzibar, had gone on to Bombay and had conveyed thither the intelligence that whon it left Zanzibar the report prevailed that Livingstone was safe with the Henatp Stanley. Another despatch, which appeared in all the London papers and which was printed here simultaneously with the latter, put the case still more clearly. According to this despatch advices had been received in London from Zanzi- bar, dated as late as the 29th of April, and announcing that ‘a report. was current here (Zanzibar) that Stanley, the commander of the New Yorx Herap expe- ditionary search corps, was with Livingstone at Ujiji in the month of January.” Dr. Kirk’s second letter, read at the Royal Geographical Society, is dated 14th February, 1872. At the date of this letter Dr. Kirk had not had any positive information of the whereabouts of Stanley, or what had been his success. alt that he could say was, ‘There have been many rumors both concerning Mr. Stanley and the Arabs, but nothing of Dr. Livingstone and | Uj This, however, proves and disproves | nothing. It only shows that at that date the | Doctor had heard of the trouble which Mr. | Stanley and his Arab forces had had with the natives, of Stanley's sickness, of the losses he had sustained; but nothing of Livingstone or | Ujiji. Let ot forget the enormous distance | at which Ujiji is removed from Zanzibar; | the many miles of swamps, steaming under an African sun, which have to be crossed; the | heavy rains which make travelling in those regions impossible in the month of March, and it will not be difficult to understand why Dr. Kirk had not heard from Stanley when he wrote, on February the 14th, and why he may have heard from him by the 29th of April or about the time of the departure of the Abydos from Zanzibar for Bombay. ‘The English expedition,” says Dr. Kirk, ‘will be hopelessly delayed by the rains of the coast region until April at least. Now is the end of the best trav- elling season.’ We do not know whether the English search expedition has set ont for the interior. We do not know whether it was hindered from leaving Zanzibar by the receipt of the intelligence that Livingstone was already 3 Henaxp search expedition. Dr. Kirk had be | safe with Stanley and his men. But it is rea- | an idle and unfounded ramoe was telficraphat about the same time to New York wad Lowdon. on the 22d of April, the President of the | Look at the report fw what pom of view Society, Sir Henry Rawlinson, in the chair. It | We may the presampiion Hawawmgiy te faver Covltbadions will be made in vain, had become known previously that two letters | of its trad. A few Gaye Mnvine wad we wall be disapporntiad if ore Rave eel wont pehiable fate) ligence thal ot expaditivin, WE was aor tainly “wiarieg,” wed which, wa wall adden, was mod “angrier,” din hava perteot gona: wind Oi Des he pade fare wid Wve wie Dum Bre greawtaw besides that of geography being well repre. , aveller Ya waadienn Wane nk, wid All Dis sented. Both of Dr. Kirk's letters make Qin. Wt experiamee wed ik yutiullen ata of | New Vouk aed Biookiva ave found in the tinct reference to Mr¢ Stanley, the Himain krowladgs, Down watered a Gy waeld wed PRAGA vem, ae GWE be @ healdhtul on- to Ora antann, Ti as mot paws to neem asicimete Oe vale of Die, Lavtinggaitone’s Wie, Alter yawn of tiene wag, and alter whal he thoi ihe Rave of all previo explorers, crolading Barton and Speke and Grant and Rakon he went fomh to attempt the sotation of a vaywhety which has prasad and porplexad mankind strc the dawn of history, Ages before Homer sung the Kirk had no hesitation in saying that both in Std obi Nile rolled in majestic power past also the centres of goodness, the colossal grandeurs of Thebes and Mem- phis, bat whence the mighty river came has in great part remained a mystery until this day, Speke did much to solve the mystery ; Raker has dome mor, But the presump- tion is that with the discovery of Living- stone the mystery will be fully solved. “Livingstone’s great aim and object,"’ to quote the words of Dr. Kirk, “has been to trace the Nile further south than it has been done by others, and we may rest assured ho will not come out of Africa to leave that undone. My own conviction is that he has by this time left Uji& and passed north to trace the Tanganyika and discover its connec- tion, if any, with Baker's Lake. If he returns without doing this we may be quite sure he has made some great discovery regarding the course of those lakes that pass Cazembe'’s Town. One thing we must keep in mind— there is nothing discouraging in the last news we have received of him, and we cannot expect to hear again until the war at Unyanyembe has been closed.’’ If our best hopes should be blasted and our worst fears realized—if Living- stone should not be found, we are not without tho hope that our enterprising correspondent may succeed in completing the unfinished task. Most certainly, so far as we are con- cerned, he shall not be allowed to give up the work for the want of encouragement and sup- port. Our primary object is the recovery of Livingstone, but in seeking to gain this object we are not indifferent to theinterests of science and to the general welfare of humanity. Political and Social Progress in Japan. Progress of the right sort seems still to be the order of the day in Japan. Since the change which took place in the government of Japan a few years ago—a change which de- throned the Tycoon and restored the Mikado to his true place—the former has been living in retirement. It reveals a rare magnanimity on the part of the Mikado and an unusual amount of good sense on the part of the Ty- coon that they have mutually agreed to accept the situation. The Mikado invites the Tycoon to come forth from his retirement and to take an active part in the government of the coun- try. The Tycoon, we are told, has complied with the Emperor's call and has received an honorable appointment under the government, with a highly complimentary title. How striking is the contrast which this presents to the long-established customs of the Western World! A nation in which such things can be done may have a civilization different from ours, but it is certainly far removed from bar- barism. All the indications of the time—and the indications are numerous—prove that Japan is taking kindly to our Christian civili- zation; and itis not unreasonable for us to feel proud that from the United States the gov- ernment and people of Japan have received- their most important lessons. Japan is to have the glory of emancipating herself and find ing a place in the ranks of civilized na tions, but she will never be unwilling to recog- nize the debt of gratitude under which she has been laid by the United States. The May Anniversapies. The month of May, smiling May, as from childhood we have been in the habit of hear- ing it named, has once more arrived, and with the genial sunshine, the gentle breezes, the buds and flowers, have come also the religious anniversaries. From time immemorial, and in almost all lands, May has been the favorite month for religious reunion. During the next two or three wecks Exeter Hall, London, will be a powerful focus of Christian force and activity. In the month of May the representa- tives of the various parties into which the National Church of Scotland is divided are in the habit of going up to the ancient capital of the little kingdom very much as the Jews of old were wont to go up to Jerusalem. Bel- fast and Dublin present spectacles at this season of the year not dissimilar to those wit- nessed in Edinburg and London. The cus- tom of the Old World, having been trans- planted, has taken root in the New, and May is a lively religious month in most. of the cities of the Union. It would be strange if the city of New York was not a favorite religious centre. Our religious societies, as well as our enterprising merchants, reveal an affection for the Empire City. If here sin abounds so also does wealth, and without funds the religious societies cannot get along. New York merchants have never been niggardly with their money. The money which is given freely for every laudable enter- prise has never been grudgingly given to. the churches and the other kindred associations. This year the societies are represented in. con- siderable force. The American Home Mise sionary Society held its first meeting yesterday. The American Seamen's Friend Society meets to-day; on Wednesday ladies representing the American Female Guardian Society hold their first session ; on the same day meet also | the National Temperance Society and the American Tract Society ; on Thursday will be | held the first sessions of the American Bible | Society and of the American and Foreign Christian Union; and in Brooklyn on the same day meet the representatives of the sonable, we think, to conclude that the report conveyed by the Abydos to Bombay was American Cougregational Union, All these associationa are representatives of ty the midst of us it is not to be denied that New York has a healthy religious pulse, We cannot twagine that the demands for fresh Wo tive fh an age of reform Our people Dave giwn weary of “Black Crook’ and » White Bawa’ and Black Priday,”’ hoo Hires ond, Bd Urey are down upon corrup- nad oath. HOR a sown da every shape Let us Youn with give MEN Poa? OF owe sincerity by Alling Uke evnply ew Requers oF Uke religions svoiotios, We eral be glad iy barn Ghat the ladies of meni We ahall be aall more glad to | Rrow Baal give weal yrotohanta have given Dherlly of Deir abaadance fo help on the good work, Led wa hope Dhat the participators wm the awaiverariea wow or soon to be within our gatas, wall refira fo their own homes with a goat opiaion of our great and growing city, and with the conviction deepened that if gtvat cities are the centres of vice they are Don Carlos Defeated After a Fierce Bat- te—The Carlist Centre Captured by the Spanish Army—The Insurgent Don Said to be a Prisoner. Special advices from Spain to the Hmnatp, | telegraphed from Madrid through London yes- | terday, and nows despatches from other sources, | announce that the Spanish royalist forces, under command of General Moriones, have defeated the Carlistinsurrectionary army, headed by Don Carlos, at Oroquieto, that hundreds of prison- ers were captured by the victors and that the troops of the crown are in rapid advance. ‘Telegrams from San Sebastian were received in Madrid last evening, and forwarded to us also through London, confirmatory of this first intelligence, and supplying the additional information that the Carlist centre was com- pletely routed. The combat was a fierce one—a crown being at stake. The battle was maintained during nine hours, and termi- nated in the dispersion of the Carlists concen- trated in Navarre. The soldiers of the King carried the village of Carasa at the point of the bayonet. The entire force which served as the Carlist centre was captured. The very latest advices allege indeed that Don Carlos was flying into France, attended by two hun- dred of his adherents. We are not informed as to the relative strength of the divisions engaged, but it is safe to presume from the fact of Don Carlos being personally present in the battle that he led on the headquarter body and most efficient aggre- gation of the insurgent muster, and that he staked his very best chance for success on the hazard of its action and his own estimate of its devotion and prowess. This conjecture is rendered still more feasible for belief by the report which accompanies the news in confir- mation of the fact that the Prince Don super- seded General Rada just prior to the engage- ment, and appeared himself as the chief of the army. In this he proved a true Bourbon— learning nothing by experience, and forgetting nothing on account of misfortune. He showed also that the monarchical dy- nasty representatives are ungrateful as well as assuming, and that the character of the class, as it is represented in Europe to-day, has not altered materially, if at all, since the mo- uientsof the landing of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the Hebrides, of his march to Edin- burg, his triumph at Prestonpans, his entry to Carlisle, Derby and Glasgow; his victory at Falkirk, and that of his terrible defeat at Cul- loden. The Prince Pretender to: the British Crown was compelled to: escape for refuge to France, just as the present claimant of the sceptre of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the modern exponent of their guiding principle, may be forced to return to the shelter of the eagle of the Hapsburgs, should he escape with his life from Spain. The ques- tion remains, however,.is this field triumph over the Carlists final for the present: vindica- tion of the crown of the Italian in Madrid? We do not find that Serrano was present in the final action, nor do we know the particulars of the former services of General Mortones—who appears to have represented the Marshal—his reputation, discretion or power. But facts of this class don’t matter much, provided Morio-- nes has succeeded.and made a name, verifying in his person the truth of the regi- mental rhyme which was formerly used by the British recruiting sergeants in their. efforts to enlist the youth of Ireland to fight against the French ‘tyrant’’—‘‘A. raw recruit may chance to: shoot brave General Bona- parte.” Should this victory prewe efficient and final for the extinctioa of Carlism as. a political cauge and a principle: of party in Spain, it. will be exceedingly well for the throne claim of Amadeus, and. may go far towards the founding of his family as a dis- tinct monarchical house; a branch made worthy of the parent home in Savoy—always advanc- ing, ever encroaching, never surrendering, ter- ritory or power, and remaining each day; more and more stubborn in the assertion and main- tenance of its new claims, as.was his warrior ancestor of the Hardhead, and just as watchful in the guardianship of the profitable interests as was another, the Man of the Hundred Eyes. The President Secking Advice on the Ala= bama Claims Difficulty. Mr. Secretary Fish has got the government intosuch a precious muddle about. the Wash- ington Treaty and Alabama claims that the President finds it necessary to seek advice out- side of the State Department. We understand that he called the menabers of the House and Senate Committees on Foreign Relations for consultation on Saturday. ‘Whe conference was held in the State Department, and, of course, Mr. Fish was present. It is remarka- ble, however, that only the republican mem- bers of these committees were invited, and therefore, that none of tha democratic mem- bers attended. This seems to indicate that the consultation had more reference to the political bearing of the subject at home than to the ar- rangement of the difficulty abroad. If the matter in its national bearing and with regard only to our relations with England were to be considered, there appears to be no reason why the democratic members of the committees should not have been invited to at- tend. At the same time the President was report prevailipg in Zanzibar at the time the | the religious life of our people. They are one | consulting with these gentlemen the London and all well deserving of our sympathy and support. At the meetings abovo, referred to reports will be read, progress will be noted the American case for consequential damages, How wonderfully disinterested is this advice! If our government will do just what England desires and concede everything England claims all will be well enough. John Bull will pat us Americans on the back in a most gracious, patronizing sort of way and call us good cousins. Well, we hope General Grant, after consulting with his partisans of the Foreign Relations Committees, will put a stop to the shilly-shally diplomacy of Mr. Fish, and will take firm and strong national ground with re- gard to the disputed matter of the Washington Treaty. The Themes of Pilgrim Preachers. As is usual at this anniversary season of the year, this city and Brooklyn are filling up with’ strangers—clergymen and laymen come hither to discuss measures for the future progress of their work. It will not be surprising, there- fore, to our readers, that our religious columns are marked to-day with the utterances of some of the ablest of those clerical visitors who are temporarily with us. Brooklyn, of course, had the lion’s share of the Methodist preachers, who were distributed among other denominations than their own. Dr. Newman, of Washington, with his graphic pictorial representations and illustrations, kept Mr. Talmage’s Taber- nacle congregation interested for an hour while he earnestly enforced upon them the necessity, the fitness and the power ofa holy life. He was careful to make a pro- per distinction between a devout life and a life of holiness and pure devotion to God. He boldly asserted, what we fully believe, that this is the great need of the Christian Church to- day; and were we in possession of this power, how much more useful the Church of Christ might be than it is! A larger congregation thaw Dr. Newman had, and one composed mainly of clergymen, gathered in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, in the afternoon, to listen to the words of wis- dom of one whose reputation is. as wide as Methodism on this continent, Dr. E. 0. Haven, of Detroit. His discourse was one of great power, coupled with great simplicity of presentation. The value of the human soul was his theme, than which none moro impor- tant could be presented. His line of thought was new so far as our experience reaches. The idea of property and of value—the cen- tral idea of human life—was that chosen by the preacher, and in describing the elements of value—usefulness, scarcity, skilled labor, per- manency, liability to loss and association, he carried the mind of the hearer along until he brought him square up to the question, ‘What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a men give in exchange for his soul?’’ and left them to answer it themselves before God. .The Rev. Dr. Fowler, of Chicago, than whom there are few men in the Methodist Church more able and eloquent, preached in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal'church, Bed- ford avenue, also to a large audience. The limitations of human knowledge was the subject chosen by him, and the expanding greatness and grandeur of that knowledge in the world to come was contrasted with the little and the partial knowledge of things that we can have bere. The recognition of friends in heaven, which naturally grew out of the theme, was beautifully illustrated, and the Doctor remarked in regard to our anxiety about pedigrees that, for himself, he preferred the one which read, ‘‘which was the son of Adam, which was the Son of God,’’ to any other. Side by side with those eminent preachers, but a little in front of them yet, stands Mr. Beecher. The stranger who should stop over Sabbath in Brooklyn or New York and not make an effort to hear this prince of pulpit orators would risk his reputation among sane and intelligent men. And hence hundreds of: clerical delegates and society men now here crowded to Plymouth church yesterday to be instructed and delighted. The characteristics of Christian unity and the creed that is likely te-unite all men was a theme proper for such an occasion, when so many men are here to applaud or to amend old creeds or to make new ones with a view to more comp» plete unity among themselves. Following the train of Paul’s argument to the Hebrews when he in the eleventh chapter of that epistle calls the roll of Jewish worthies who had made their names imperishable by acts of great faith, he built upon it Paul’s conclusion that faith in God consoles and exalts men, and that a pedigree traced to a good man is far better and more enduring than one traced to a royal ancestry. And, by the way, we may pause a moment here to thank Mr. Beecher for the very flattering compli- mént he paid the Heratp in the last num- ber of his own paper, and/to congratulate him for his keen rebuke to other religious contemporaries, who find in our columns only texts for censure, but nothing for praise. But itis true in religion as it is in polities, no man can see clearly through creed or party spectacles. We belong to no party or creed, save that party which, loves God and humanity; and we are glad to claim associa- tion and fellowship with; the pastor of Ply- mouth charch in this great party. In our own city the Rey: W. Morley Punshon, of Canada, whose reputation as a preacher and: lecturer is almost world-wide, discoursed in St, Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, The appar rent paradox, being free from sin but servants to God, was explained and illustrated, and the difference between license and true freedym clearly demonstrated. The yoke of sin, heavy and. galling, was contrasted with the yoke of Christ, light and, cheerful, and the audience were left to decide for themselves whether they would continue to wear the former or ex- change it for the latter, Dr. Joseph McKay, of the Irish Wesleyan Conference, and Dr. Holmes, of Pittsburg, Pa, and Dr. Dailey, of Louisiana, also preached excellent sermons in different churches, but we are able only to re- fer tothem. Father Gavazzi held up for the admiration and acceptance of a Presbyterian congregation the grand old theme of ‘‘justifi- cation by faith,’ but made it the basis of some superfluous reflections upon other de- nominations. Messrs. Frothingham, Hep- worth and Powers are always with us, and whensoever we will we can do them good, and hence we pass them by to-day with this brief notice. Whatever wo may think of tho theological mba hi = Times volunteers its advice to Genoral Ga®2, | acumen which talks about “the mother of and urges him to send a communication to ti? | God” and exalts a creature above the Creator, Genova Tribunal of: Arbitration withdrawing 8nd most illogically attempts to prove such an aJurdity, 88 Father McCready endeavored to do yenterday in St. Stephen's church, we can- not blanie im for declaring what his Church commands, 3 jong as he is subject to her dis- cipline. But ijt be true, as the reverend Father asserted, thin! ‘man is finite, whereas God ty eternal,”’ we fis, to comprehend how the Eternal could have x look Ps it — himself he wil appreciate the force of the difficulty of proving the ion.) Bishop Bayley preached in et sane on the opposition of the world to the Church,. and showed, as Christ himself declared wag the case, that all men belong to one or other of those two classes, lovers of God or Sovers of the world. They are hostilo armies set im orray. Skirmishing is carried on between! battles have occurred, and will again occur through the ages to come, until Christ and His Church shall triumph over all their enemies. We can more heartily commend the pulpit utterances of this day than many that we have laid before our readers for some time, and we hope that a moral and an intellectaal benefit will be derived from their perusal. The New North Polar Expedition. The new North Polar expedition soon to leave Bremerhaven will go forth on its perilous mission under the happiest auspices, al- though the fruit of the earnest and indefati- gable labors of the great German cosmographer, Petermann, its personnel and equipment, as well as the means by which it is sustained, are Austrian. It is well known that a strong jealousy exists between the rival explorers of Europe at this time as to the best route for Polar research. For their differences no one would care except that when such expeditions set out the lives of many gallant men and mem of science are exposed. It seems. also impos- sible to divert the current of geographical. in- terest from these inaccessible icefields of the extreme north, according to the sentiment once quoted by Humboldt— Man, amid ceaseless changes, Seeks the unchanging Pole. In the United States there seems to be am effort to challenge the views of the com- manders, Lieutenants Payer and Weyprecht, of the new Austrian expedition, because they: have selected what is known as the ‘ther: mometric’’ route in the track of the Gulf Stream and in the meridians where last year’ these explorers found an open Polar sea.. The’ attempt to call the opposition route west of Greenland, through Smith’s Sound, tho “American route,’” because it was Dr. Kane's, seems very misjudged and unfortunate. It is the part of a scientific explorer to imitate the mistakes of. no man, and to be guided in his investigations by no- man’s authority, but to be led by the gentle hand of nature in hor unerring indications. If Dr. Kane's experi- ence taught anything: it taught the difficulty of penetrating in ships that ice-clogged channel of Smith's Strait and the seas west of Greenland, which are: the great flood-ways- for the Polar currents. The single drift of ice which a. few years ago bore on its Atlean shoulders the English ship Reso- lute, abandoned by Captain Kellett north. west of Baffin’s Bay, and cast it twelve hundred miles further south, was calcu- lated to weigh over eighteen billion tons, and gives a fair proof of the torrent through which Kane had to make his way. To argue that the mariner should advance in the face of: this, watching his opportunity to inch his way around floating ice islands, is like directing him to the path of perpetual danger and dis- aster. So impressed’ was Dr. Kane himself with this fact that when his attention was called to the advantages of the ‘‘thermometric” route between Nova. Zembla and Spitzbergen by its originator, Captain Silas Bent, he took the pains to recommend it to future Arctic explorers, although he had made his last voyage anil could not test it for himself. The route Dr. Petermann has selected for the new expedition is that in which the great Equato- rial currents of the Atlantic Ocean are pro- longed into the circumpolar ocean, and where they cheife against and probably dissolve the great ice belt which it has always been be- lieved ‘has thrown itself as a strong cordon aronnd/the Polar periphery. The Austrians will spend three years in the endeavor to test: this ‘“‘thermometric’’ route, , and it is almost certain that they will give- this entire problem of Arctic geography ita. quiets. The, Spring Racing Seasom—Revival, of Turf Sports in the South. Nb more encouraging sign of the returning. prosperity and: brightening prospects of thi pecple of the Seuth could be presented than im the revival of the sports of the turf, once so der to every Southern heart. This is the first season in twelve years during which a large number of brilliant and successful meetings have been held south of Mason and Dixon's line. The meeting at the Metairie Course, New Orleans, was the inanguration of the season, and:for a week the beauty and fnsktion af the Crescent City held. high carnival and enjoyed the exhilarating: scenes which are inseparable from well-conducted races. Close on the heels of the Metairie races came the meeting of the Louisiana Jockey Club at their own course, the first meeting of this association less than sixteen thousand spectatags being, present;on the sixth and last day. A five dgy’s: meeting of the Chickasaw Jockey Club, % Memphis, Tenn., was the next. event in order; and was scarcely less bridliant than either of its predecessors. The next meetings of importance during the present, month will be those of the Kentucky Association, at Lex- ington, Ky., and of the Nashville Blood Horse Association, at Nashville, Tenn, This revival of turf sports, in the South will, tend to increase. the brillinnoy and success of the meetings im the North, especially the one which, above all others, interests the people of New Yorke— namely, the spring meeting of the American Jockey Club, commencing at Jerome Park on the lat of June. We may now expect a friendly rivalry between the various clubs in the South every season and the popularity of turf sports increased in proportion. Meam while all New York, young and old, is on the tip-toe of expectation, impatiently waiting for the opening of the Jerome Park races and -_ at Father Timo for his sluggish it, since the, war, and it was.o brilliant sugcess, no