The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HeEravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. BE Rtn ree THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volume XXXVII. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Home—Tue Caritic. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Anicte 47, ST. JAMES THEATRE. Twenty-cighth street and Broadway.—MacEvor's New Hrmeenicon. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Per- formances afternoon’ and evening.—ON Hann. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Brorugr Bin AnD Me—CaLirornia. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue Batuet Pax Tommme oy Humpty Duxrty. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth av.—Enocn ARDEN LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Woop- LEIGH. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—German Orrra—Ivannox, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, lth st. and Broadway.— Nava. EnGaGemunts—Tux WRONG Man IN THE Ricut PLACE, PARK Wren MRS. F. B. East Lyrnve, &c. fp BAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sau Suarp- Lxr’s MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Neoxo Eccentuicirins, Burrxsgors, Lc. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Granp InstRUMENTAL Concert. PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway, near Fourth st—Lapr OnonestRa. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— Screncx anv Art. THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Hanp. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— RIP New York, Monday, May 27, 1872. = CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. Pages. “e Advertisements, R—Advertisements. 3—Ihe Anglo-American Boat Race—Boating at Harvard University—The London Stage— Europe: The Rejection of Prince Cardinal Hohenlohe by the Holy See; Pio Nono Snub- bing Bismarck; The Emperor of Austria's Letter—The Vatican Council—French Inter. nationals in Councll—Methodist Episcopal Church Extension Society, 4—Religious: Trinity Sunday Proclamation of the Gospel of Great Joy and Glad Tidings Unto All People; Africa for Christ; Livingstone as a Christian Pioneer, and the Henaup Enter- prise Discoursed On by the Rey. David Mitch- ell; Henry Ward Beecher on Liberty; Bishop Bowman at the Brooklyn Academy; Bishop Wiley on the Power of the Gospel; Fathor Sheridan on the Foundation Stone of Christianity; Father Kean at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. S—The Quakers’ Anniversary; Lucretia Mott Preaches on the Principles of Peace; An Immense Gathering of ‘'riends"—Music and the Drama—Musical Review—Art Sale—Sun- day He eae Presidential Campaign : First Rally of Illinois Republicans; Speech of Governor Oglesby—Tariff Reform—Miscellane- ous Political Notes—A Rowdles’ Fight: The Midnight Shooting in Mercer Street—Stab- bing Affray—Death from Scalds—Another Suiclde—An Aged Suicide. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “Political Move- ments and Indications of the Day”—Amuse- ment Announcements. 7T—Editorials (Gontinued from Sixth Page)—The Treaty: The National Humiliation and Its Achievement; Minister Schenck Ordered to Carry out the Disgrace—The War in Mexico— Cable Telegrams from England, France, Spain and Cuba—Affuirs in Hayti—The Rev- olution in St. eT es ut trom Washing. ton—The Search for Dr. Livingstone—Miscel- laneous Telegrams—Business Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial: The Attitude of Wall Street as Regards the Supplemental Treaty; The Long Agony Over; Speculations as to the Drift of Foreign Capital; The Depre- ciation of Money as Indicated in the Rise in Wheat; The Enhancement of Values by the Advance in the Price of Labor—Street Cars: The Cushion Regulations of the Board of Health; Opinions of Presidents of Prominent Railroad Companies—The Cruise of the School Ship Mercury: Five Months on the Atlantic Ocean—The Homeopathic Hospital—Twenty Thousand Dollars in Jeopardy—A Lad Killed by a Rail Car—Cut With a Knife—Fatal Hatch- way Accident—Mrs. Meriwether’s Disclaimer, @=—American Jockey Club—Ilorse Notes—Racing in California—Ofmicial Proceedings of, the Boards of Aldermen and Assistant'Aldermen— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 20—The Strikers’ Sunday: Meetings of the Eight- Hour League, Pianoforte Makers and City Lavorers—The Manila {nsurrection: Full De- paniards— eae hipping In- tails of the Rising Against t The Croton We Drink—Yachtin, on Keligion—Naval Intelligenc telligence—Advertisements, Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. Tue RevorvtTion my Mexico has been re- peatedly declared at an end by the government of Juarez, and yet, according to the latest ad- vices, this fratricidal struggle still drags on, with but little prospect of an early peace. The special despatch of our correspondent at the headquarters of the government troops at Ca- margo indicates a fixed determination on the part of the revolutionists to fight it out near Monterey, and to offer a stubborn resistance in defending that city, the possession of which will be the prize of the victor. Croton Water mm THe Lanonatory, ac- cording to Dr. Chandler, of the Board of Hoalth, does not warrant the presumption that, in the ‘mains,’ it is dangerous to health. His analyses of the water New York drinks declare that the dissolved and suspended impurities are not much more than five grains and one third to the gallon. Of these the ofganic mat- ter does not amount to a grain per gallon. The sediment left was found to consist of veget- able matter (green scum) associated with parti- cles of sand, clay and iron rust. Nothing dan- gerous was discovered even in this. The in- crease in suspended impurities, those which meet the eye, but which are not by any means the most dangerous, he attributes to the fact that in summer the rain water has to permeate the soil before reaching the streams, carrying with it fine particles in suspension. ‘The dissolved impurities will be accounted for in the same way, as the water takes up certain soluble salts from the earth as it drains through it. We are glad to learn the results indicated on compe- tent authority, Our principal satisfaction is derived from the fact which Dr. Chandler states, as to Lis disbelief iti the presence of de- caying animal matter, We opine, however, that the presence of much of the vegetable sed iment could be got rid of if the main volume of the water was confined through its entire length to proper channel and not allowed to meander at its leisure among spongy marshland. ‘We congratulate our citizens that this great Water matter is 9 well as it is, but adhere to Opinion that by a little extra care and ve ry little extra expense it could easily be made much better NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY Political Movements and of the Day. While there are certain established princi- ples at the bottom of all great political move- ments, changes are continually taking place in the current of events to modify the actual situation and prospects of parties. As the mercury in the barometer indicates atmos- pheric changes from time to time, while the world and seasons move on in the general way according to fixed laws of nature, so popular sentiment varies with the develop- ments and exigencies of the day and passing events. This was never more apparent than at the present time. Public opinion fluctuates almost as much as the face of the sky changes. There is a restlessness and fecling of uncer- tainty arising from dissatisfaction with the actual state of things and desire of change on one hand, and from o conservative instinct on the other. There are no great party and no leading representative men that fully mect the wants of the people and country. We appear to have entered upon a transition period in our political life without any competent leaders to carry us through. The great parties which have governed the country seem to have fulfilled their mission, and are left without living issues. Their plat- forms at best are but negative or are based upon the dead past, By the great parties of the country we mean the democratic and reg- ular republican or administration parties. No others can be considered as having national in- fluence; for should the revolting republicans who nominated Greeley and Gratz Brown have any chance of success it must be only through the support of the democrats. Of themselves they are the mere fragment of a party, and cannot rise to the dignity of a pow- erful national organization. The regular republican leaders and press may assail the Cincinnati bolters as disap- pointed and ambitious politicians, as reckless disorganizers, and so forth—and no doubt many of them have been influenced by no higher considerations—but a number of the Indications leaders in that movement, as well aos a large body of citizens who go with them, do not deserve such an accusation. They are actuated by a dif- ferent and better motive. Whether they aro tight or wrong is another question. They honestly believe they are right, They were convinced that the party with which they had affiliated had become corrupt and needed purging; that the administration failed in bringing the country back to harmony and the supremacy of civil rights and law; that one term in the Presidency is a wholesome rule, and that a change is necessary to promote the interests of the republic. It was the opinion of many, undoubtedly, that the old organiza- tion had finished its work, and that a new departure was in order. The movement at first did not promise much, but there was such a combination of able men from all parts of the country at Cincinnati that it assumed a more formidable character than had been anticipated. The harmony of the Convention, the views and policy enunciated and the prompt manner in which the work was com- pleted rather surprised the public, and awakened the anxiety of politicians, A de- cided impression was made at first. Though some were disappointed at the nomination of Greeley by the Convention and lapsed into a feeling of indifference or disgust, the an- nouncement of the nominees was received generally with favor. Though there were no stirring popular elements in Mr. Greeley, peo- ple were rather pleased as well as amused by his quaint peculiarities, and, remembering his liberal views of late with regard to the South and his earnest denunciations of the cor- ruptions and failings of the administration party, he was hailed as a reformer and as hold- ing out hope of a better state of things, A great number of the men of the press were disposed to support him because he was a journalist. Numbers in the South were favor- able because he advocated universal amnesty. A great many farmers, his old republican friends, and those who were disappointed with the administration and a certain class of pro- tectionists, signified their approval of his nom- ination. Such were the earliest impulse and phase of this new political movement at Cin- cinnati. The first act of the drama, farce, tragedy, or whatever people are disposed to regard it, ac- cording to their predilections, has been closed, and we have entered upon the second. There was not much enthusiasm with the great audience of the public at the beginning—hardly more than a little earnest attention to what was going on because of the novelty. With the opening of the second act that even has subsided. The prominent performers fail to awaken enthusiasm. The novelty is passing away and the public begin to discuss seriously the merits of the work and the gentlemen on the stage. Loud murmurs of disapprobation are heard already, particularly among some of the prominent leaders of the great party the support of which is necessary for the success of the Cincinnati candidates. Wood-chopping, drinking copiously of spring water and nothing else, the old white hat or other peculiarities of Mr. Greeley, will not arouse any electioneering furor. There is nothing either solid or amus- ing enough in these. They do not come up to the rail-splitting of Abraham Lincoln; and rail-splitting without higher qualifications and a powerful party to back him would not have gone far to elect Mr. Lincoln, Nor is there anything heroic in the character and history of Mr. Greeley to stir the public mind, unless the bailing of Jeff Davis be considered an act of magnanimity bordering on heroism; but that would hardly give him popularity with the American people. We see, therefore, the cause of the apparent apathy with which tho people, after the sensation of novelty has passed away, regard the Cincinnati nomina- tion. ‘There is not, however, as was said, such in- difference in the party to which Mr. Greeley looks chiefly for his election. While some of the democrats are disposed to accept him from a motive of expediency, to bring about a change in the government, to defeat General Grant, and with the hope that Mr. Greeley’s election would be a stepping-stone to the restoration of the democratic party to power, many would not havo him at any cost. Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, especially, has led off in a vigorous assault upon the Cincinnati nominee, True, this gentleman is one of the old copperhead Bourbons who stick to obsolete ideas and theories, and is not likely to see the great changes that have taken place in the { country, but he bas neverthqdess influence in his own party. This democratic Achilles of the West showed in his speech in Congress, and in his speech delivered at Terre Haute on Friday last, that he will not fight with the Greeks under the chief appointed by the Cincinnati Convention. Voorhees is offended and disgusted at the nomination. Nor is he contented to sit sullenly in his tent watching the war that has commenced, but he denounces the nominee of Cincinnati and the pro- posed alliance between the republican seceders and democrats. This is the first strik- ing effect of the Pandora box of trouble which the Cincinnati movement has brought to our politicians and political partics. Was Grant the Jupiter who played this trick? Did he cunningly devise the mischief? It was said so in Congress, and by the old demo- cratic friends of Voorhees, They accused their colleague of having had a secret conference with General Grant and of aiming to re-elect the President, The article published in the Washington organ of the administra- tion on the morning of the day Voor- hees made his speech in Congress, which was used as a text by him, and tho elaborate preparation he had made for that speech, seemed to justify the accusation of a collusion with the republican friends of the President, if not with the President himself. But Mr. Voorhees denounced this accusation or suspicion in the strongest terms, and we are inclined to believe he acted from a convic- tion of duty as one of the leaders of the democratic party. It is well known that he has always been one of the boldest and most unswerving democrats of the strict State rights school. The idea of his party going over to an old centralizing federal protectionist and negro idealist was too much for him to bear. His blood was up. ‘Was he expected,” he said, ‘‘to support Mr. Greeley because he had been the life-long champion of doctrines which he (Voorhees) had opposed? Was he expected, as a Western man representing a Western laboring constituency that was ground down by a high protective tariff monopoly, to support the great champion of protection? Was he expected to support a man who had been the most clamorous advocate in all the land for that Ku Klux legislation which had desolated the homes of the Southern people? If Mr. Greeley’s nomination promised relief to that blasted and downtrodden section there was not much which he (Voorhees) would not forego to subserve so holy and benign a pur- pose.'’ But Mr. Voorhees, looking at the ante- cedents of the Cincinnati nominees, had no confidence, and thought that General Grant might be better trusted to bring about reform. Apart from the hostility among some of the democrats, there is to be, we notice, a move- ment of the reformers of the Free Trade League for a general organization in opposi- tion to Mr. Greeley. Acall is made fora meeting in this city next Thursday for this purpose. Such opposition must have an effect upon the Democratic Convention at Baltimore in July. The meeting of that body will be the third act of the political drama. The fate of the Cincinnati nominees will be decided there. That is, it will be all up with them should that Convention nominate another ticket. They could not expect to be elected under such cir- enmstances, and, probably, would withdraw, leaving the bulk of the republican seceders to return to the regular party and first love. It becomes every day more doubtful if the Baltimore Convention will en- dorse the Cincinnati nominees. The demo- crats are certainly in a dilemma. If they do not .support the Cincinnati nom- inees they have scarcely any chance of defeat- ing the regular yepublican candidate. They would hardly expect to elect a candidate of their own party if even the Baltimore Conven- tion should nominate one. General Grant— assuming he will be nominated by the Phila- delphia Convention—would cither run in upon the popular vote, or, in case of there being several tickets and no election by the people, would be chosen by the House of Representa- tives. If they support the Cincinnati nom- inee there may be a chance of defeating Gen- eral Grant. Still that is doubtful. But what would the party gain by the election of Mr. Greeley? That is the serious question. There isthe rub. It would be the end of the party as a distinct organization. Perhaps the time has come for a reorganization of parties upon new issues, for the war and subsequent events have destroyed or materially modified the old ones, Mr. Voorhees may cling too much to the past. Some of the democrats may be too ready to rush into a coalition, from hostility to the administration, with a party with which they have little sympathy. Every way there is a curious contest commencing. Looking over the whole field of political movements and probabilities the indications are that General Grant will be President of the United States till 1877. Spring Meeting of the American Jockey Club. Jerome Park isa name dear to every deni- zen of Manhattan who has ever attended the spring and fall meetings of the American Jockey Club there. The dazzling spectacle of equipages of all kinds on Fifth avenue, in the Park, along Harlem lane and around the grassy amphitheatres near Fordham, gives but a glimpse of the splendor and enjoyment at the course itself, where the pride and beauty of the great metropolis may be found on the piazzas of the palatial club house or clustered on the grand stand, and where the choicest specimens of American horseflesh are brought together in friendly rivalry, When we add to these inducements the perfect order, propriety and re. spectability that the management of a corps of refined and high-toned gentlemen bring to each race meeting at the American Epsom, the picture of enjoyment is complete. The lover of equine sports will have his most san- guine expectations fulfilled in the number and variety of the races each day ; the fair sex can find abundant food for contemplation in the many elegant toilets around them, and the great public will enjoy the brilliant spectacle that seems to extend from the avenue to Ford- ham in an unbroken line on a field day. The announcement, then, that the Spring Meeting of the American Jockey Club will begin on Saturday next at Jerome Park will be hailed with delight by all classes, These events grow more popular and more brilliant every year, and can now challenge competition with any turf meetings in Europe. They have had an effect in rousing a public spirit in all parts of the country, and much of the sue- coss Which has attouded the various mectings , MAY 27, 1872—TRIPLE SHERT, in the South this year may be attributed to the exertions made by the American Jockey Club to elevate horse racing to the standard of a fashionable and ennobling pastime. They went far toward creating the racing fever that now pervades the land. The entries for the prosent meeting comprise larger number than perhaps have ever been mown on an American course before, and among them may be found the best stock that ourcountry can set forth. The prospects of the Jockey Club were never brighter than at present, and it will be, no doubt, the earnest wish of all that bright skies and radiant sun- shine will greet their opening day. The Cycles of Cholera and Sun Spots. One of the most remarkable deductions of modern science has recently been made in England, in regard to the long-supposed con- nection between the cholera and sun spots. The intense interest now felt everywhere as to the origin, movements and present march of the great Asiatic plague invests the subject with more than ordinary importance. The phe- nomenon of golar spots has long since been connected with the wonderful auroral displays, magnetic storms and other physical changes which so often bewilder and amaze the most eminent philosophers of the day. On the lst of September, 1859, the face of the sun was obscured by such spots, and two observers, far separated and unknown to each other, while viewing them with powerful telescopes, simultaneously saw a strikingly dazzling light burst forth near one of the spots and sweep across it, traversing in a few minutes thirty- five thousand miles of the solar surface. A magnetic storm at the same time was in violent progress. The whole planet seemed electri- cally convulsed on that day; and gradually telegrams annouuced magnificent auroras in Europe, in the West Indies, on tho tropics, within eighteen degrees of the Equa- tor (where they are very rare), in South Amer- ica, and even at Melbourne, in Australia, In many places the telegraph wires ceased work, and at some of our chief cities the electricians received severe shocks, The magnitude of solar spots, which astronomers believe to stand causally connected with such convulsions, is almost incredible. Instances are frequent of spots covering eight hundred millions of square miles on the sun’s disc; and there are excep- tional ones, as that seen by Herschel in 1837, more than thirty times as large. It is, there- fore, not to be wondered at, as the distin- guished authority whom we have just quoted suggested, that the spotted state of the grand luminary is intimately connected with a great variety of meteorologic, terrestrial and other phenomena. The new and striking deduction to which we referred at the outset emanates from Mr. B. G. Jenkins, of the Inner Temple, London, in a paper (read before the Historical Society) on cholera, founded on a communication to the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, and now under review by the Medical Council. The author of the paper emphatically main- tains and strongly supports the view that cosmic influence lies at the origin of cholera, and that the great epidemic is intimately con- nected with auroral displays and solar disturb- ances, and graphically illustrated the con- nection upon a map giving the amount of cholera and the numberof sun spots for the past fifty years. Following out this idea, he proves, by the annals of the disease, that its maximaand minima coincide with the maxima and minima of solar agitations, auroras, banners, earth currents, magnetic storms and great electrical cyclones. It is a well known and curious fact that the last year of every cen- tury—e. g., 1800—has a minimum of spots, and, by various processes, different physicists in distant countries, working from photographic and other sun records, have reached the same result, that the period of time in which this minimum returns is about eleven years and a half, But the maximum year falls about five years after the minimum, and not midway in the period. The author of the hypothesis con- cludes that the cholera period is about equal to a period and a half of sun spots; and thus reckoning, his deduction is verified as far as cholera statistics are known. According to this reasoning 1866 was a year having a maxi- mum of the disease, and the next maximum will be in 1883—a conclusion which will be welcomed by those who have apprehended its visitation inits worst forms this year in our own country. Contrary to the usual notion Mr. Jenkins projects the idea that the “home” of cholera is not confined to Asia or the delta of the Ganges, and that it originates in seven distinct and equi-distant seats, on or near the tropics, of which the Gangetic is the most important. The others are to the east of China, to the north of Mecca, on the west coast of Africa, to the north of the West Indies, to the west of Lower California and among the Sandwich Islands ; and his map shows that the recorded appearances of the epidemic on our globe may be satisfactorily explained by supposing seven atmospheric streams, each fourteen hundred miles in breadth, proceeding from these foci in a northwesterly direction. The curious but not infrequent cases of vessels being sud- denly struck by cholera while at sea and the instances of ships sailing along the coasts of India being attacked by the disease in the same place, at different times, seem to be explicable only upon the supposition that they were sailing in these cholera streams, At any rate it is pretty clear that the places hitherto exempt from the infection lie outside the limits of such streams as Mr. Jenkins de- scribed. The whole subject is worthy the practical and most exhaustive investigation of scientific men. What the world wants is to put this whole research upon the solid basis of fact, and this has been done by the author of the view above cited. The Gallant Conduct of Our Boys. Within the past few days we have learned of instances of bravery and gallantry on the part of our national sailor boys which render their names still more than ever to be cherished. Both at home and abroad they have been performing deeds of which they may well feel proud, and which their country- men regard with admiration. How our blue jackets behaved at Marseilles in saving the shipping in the harbor and the city froma conflagration, when both were threatened with destruction, is already made known to our readers by the special despatch in the Henatp from London, If their conduct in foreign parts has been noble, heroi¢ and self- Naval sacrificing, it is no less so in Amerfeah waters, The gallantry of the two midshipmen who Jumped overboard to save the life of a com- Panion who had fallen from aloft is another instance of the inherent pluck of our jack tars. Commandant Worden has made this act the subject of a special order, and in doing so has done well. The bravery at Mar- seilles as well asthe heroism at Annapolis are both deserving of the fullest measure of re- cognition ; and to the former as well as to the latter will the words of Commandant Worden apply, that “from such materials are heroes made and by such acts is life ennobled.’’ The New Spanish Cabinet. During his brief reign King Amadeus has had large experience of Cabinet changes, Tho latest Cabinet change—that which places Ad- miral Topete at the head of the government— is but little likely to be the last. The great drawback to the success of constitutional and popular government in Spain is the irrecon- cilable enmity which separates party from party. No one party in Spain at the present moment is strong enough to govern without the aid of one or more of the others. A coali- tion government, composed of men judiciously chosen from two or more of the parties into which the Spanish people are now divided, and broadly representative of the best interests of the country, is the kind of government which Spain needs. This, how- ever, is precisely the kind of government which the King finds it difficult, if not im- possible, to form, The new government of which Topete is the head is, according to our cable news, to be composed entirely of unionists. If such be the fact it will not be long before the King is called upon to accept the resignation of his Ministers and to look around him once more for materials out of which to construct a new Cabinet. Tho unionists and the progressists, who are the strongest parties, might, united, give Spain a strong and efficient government; but neither the unionists nor the progressists are, singly, equal to the situation. The presumption therefore is that this new Cabinet will soon give place to another. The Two-Third Rule in the Democratic Convention—Much Ado About Nothing. The politicians at Washington and else- where are making their calculations upon the probable action of the Democratic National Convention, and the chances of its endorse- ment or rejection of the Cincinnati nominces. While it seems to be conceded that Greeley will find many advocates among the unterrified and unreconstructed, it is supposed that the “two-third rule,’’ as it is called, which re- quires a two-third vote to nominate a candi- date, and which has generally prevailed in the Presidential conventions of the democratic party, will be fatal to his chances. The two- third rule was first adopted by the democracy in 1832. It was adhered to in the Convention of 1836, but was dropped in 1840. In 1844 Martin Van Buren had a majority of the delegates pledged to him, although some of them were supposed to be secretly not unwilling to defeat his nomi- nation. When the Convention assembled his opponents, of whom Lewis Cass was the most powerful, succeeded in carrying the adoption of the rule of the Conventions of 1832 and 1836, making two-thirds of the votes cast ne- cessary to the choice of a candidate. On the first ballot Van Buren was far ahead of all others, and lacked only twenty votes of the requisite number. Cass was the next highest, but much behind Van Buren, On the succeeding five ballots Van Buren continued to lead, but with a grad- ually decreasing majority, Cass gradually creeping up to him and a balance-of-power party of delegates scattering their votes. On the seventh ballot the respective positions of the highest candidates were reversed, Cass lead- ing Van Buren at its close by twenty-four or twenty-five votes. The eighth ballot was taken amidst much excitement, with a nearly similar result, when the Van Buren men became alarmed, and, resolved to defeat Cass at any hazard, withdrew their candidate and concen- trated on James K. Polk, who was nominated on the ninth ballot. Four years afterwards, in 1848, a great struggle again took place for the nomination between Van Buren and Cass, but the latter distanced his competitor, who had been co- quetting with the Wilmot Proviso: party, and was nominated on the fourth ballot, receiving the necessary two-third vote. The two-third rule was adopted mainly through the efforts of the Van Burenites, who, believing that Cass could not control the requisite number of votes, although he clearly had a majority from the start, resolved to use against him the same policy he had suc- cessfully employed against Van Buren four years previously. Finding their hopes disap- pointed, the Van Buren delegates withdrew from the Conyentjon and refused 1% Support its candidate. Van Buren aésépted the Wilmot Proviso or Free Soil nomination, and the re- sults were the election of General Taylor, the subsequent accession of Fillmore, the tempo- rary disruption of the democratic party and the final dissolution of the whig organization. The question as to the vote requisite to abrogate the two-third rule has before now been argued among the democracy. Some hold that it has grown into a standing rule by its general use in the nominating conventions of the party and that it requires a two-third vote to setitaside, Others argue that cach national nominating convention is an entirely new and independent body, authorized to adopt its own rales, which require’only a ma- jority vote, and that they can do as they please with regard to tho insertion of a two-third rule. The latter have undoubt- edly the right of the argument, But in the case of the proposed endorse- ment of Greeley, the two-third rule would under no circumstances be operative. He would not receive the nomination of the Balti- more Convention, as he is already in the field; and a resolution to make n6 nomination or to endorse the action of the Cincinnati Conven- tion would, like any other resolution, require only a majority vote for its adoption. So that the calculations of the wise Washington poli- ticians, who are employing their time in can- vassing States and grouping together figures in order to show that Greeley cannot obtain a two-third yote in the Baltimore Convention and hence cannot be made its candidate, aro wholly erroneous, It matters very little, however, what the Baltimore Conyention may do, The rank and a eS Se a file of the old democratic party have already made up their minds not to act as dummies in the approaching Presidential contest, but to take sides and fight the battle out in a practi- cal manner. Some of them, and probably a majority of the Baltimore Conventionists, will go for Greeley in the expectation of eontrol-' ling the policy of his administration, should he be elected, and in the certainty of sharing the spoils of office with the liberals, Others, end by far the greatest number and the most respectable _ portion of the party, will support Grant as an old democrat and a safe, conservative man. Tha democratic organ in this city, th gen of the Nationa | Bemocratio Committee, Voor, hees and his friends in Congress, and hosts of others are already on the side of the adminis. tration, and while some of them may assume for expediency to favor a straight demooratiq nomination, they do not intend to counsel any such folly, and will be found at the proper moment fighting under the Grant banner, standing shoulder to shoulder with all tha solid commercial, financial and conservative interests in the country. Trinity Sunday Sermons. Yesterday was the time specially devoted by the Church to the enunciation of the doctrine of the Trinity—a doctrine which has become a stumbling block to many good Ohristians, They cannot understand how ‘‘the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost’’ can be one and still be three, and they therefore reject tha doctrine. But those very persons hold to other things, which are just as incomprehony sible, and believe in them with all the ardor of their souls, Ingbility ta understand a thing is & “Vote illogical reason for rejecting it; and tha greatest triumph of faith is the acceptance of @ mystery. Hence the Church does well ta call her children’s attention to this doctrine least once a year, so that they may examin the evidences anew and refresh and strengthom their faith with the inspirations and hopeq which the doctrine contains, Tho Rev. Fathey Kean, in impressing upon the congregation it St. Patrick's Cathedral the duty of loving God, made the point that we love Him in direct ratio as we know Him, and if our knowledge of God is small our love will be dwarfed also. The preacher then dwelt on the several mani- festations of God to mankind—first ta Adam, then to and through His prophets and afterward by His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and encouraged his hearers to look with care at the many manifestationg of grace and bounty which He every day places before our eyes under different forms, that they might learn to love Him more and serve Him better. Rev. Father Sheridan, of St. James’ (Roman Catholic) Cathedral (Brooklyn), drew from the lessons of the day and from the manifestations of God in nature and in grace the great truth that love and mercy arg the foundations upon which Christianity rests. He depreeated calumny and talebearing, tha evils resulting from which disrupt households and are fatal to the soul’s salvation. Some people think they have a right to sitin judg- ment upon their fellows, but they forget that the tongue is a fire—a world of iniquity—that it defileth the whole body and is itself set on fire of hell. Conversation should be so framed that detraction, insinuation and calumny should have no place therein. Law and liberty are the principles which govern the material universe not less than created intelligence. They are sometimes op- posed to each other, and sometimes they work together harmoniously. It was the province of Mr. Beecher yesterday to talk about those principles and to show his large congregation that while they might think themselves frea they were slaves of sin ; and though they might set themselves above law, they could not escapa from the penalties imposed for violations of law. Obedience to a great natural law, he said, was the only liberty that a man had tha¢ was worth anything. He had many pleasant illustrations to present to the hundreds of provincial Methodists who were present, and who will return to their homes, no doubt, with the most extravagant ideas of Mr. Beecher's powers as a pulpit orator. But they will hardly think it possible to leave their thedlogical tomes to study men and women an@ children and the varieties of na- ture, as Mr. Beecher does, that they, too, might obtain some portion of this power. It is not all a natural gift or endowment of Mr, Beecher ; very much is acquired by the study of men and things, and those volumes ary open to all alike. But some men go through the world blindfolded, while others have ther eyes open. The former may see men as treed walking, but the latter can g¢¢ thom clearly. Bishop Bowman’s sermon in the Academy a simple emotional exposition of the fast that sin isin the world and that the Son if Man came to seck and to save that which wa lost. Dr. Stebbins, of Ithaca, gave an exposition of the Unitarian belief touching the natury authority and mission of Christ. According 0 the Doctor, Unitarians accept Peter's confer sion, that ‘Christ is the Son of tho livin God.’’ Jesus isa being to be loved, trusted followed, obeyed joyfully. He was the Son € God in such sense as to distinguish Him froa all other sons. In Him dwelt all tho fulngs of the Godhead bodily. It is not so importat to ascertain Christ’s ancestry and standing society as to know how we may escape frm sin and its consequences, and follow our lovd ones and our Saviour to the better land. Ui- tarians also believe that to Christ the spit was given without measure, so that His wols are God's words, His promises God's promis, and Hig works God's works; and they furtl?” believe that God gave Christ to be a Saviour “to save that which was lost""—and that su- cient power was given Him to be such Savio. He came not to reconcile God toman, but mm to God. It was not to assuage God's wra, but man’s lust, that Jesus came into the wot. It was not to satisfy justice, but to show mer; it was not that God’s wrath demanded a :- tim, but that man’s wrath sought one, tt Jesus Christ was crucified. And in this fa, with brightening hope, they can awaitie future, Tho divinity of the Gospel andie divinity of Christ are so related to each or that we commend the reading of Bisp Wiley's sermon on the divinity and poweof the Gospel as illustrated in St. Paul's triums in the beginning, and the grand and glons victories of the Church of the Lord Jesum these latter days. The elements of its por are its truth, its authority, and the asswte that it brings that we who belieye are péd