The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1872, Page 6

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KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Art 4xp Science, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Science anp Arr. : New York, Sunday, June 23, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Paar. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Yachting: The Fifteenth Annual and Fifth Union Regatta of the Brooklyn Yacht Club— Trotting at Fleetwood—L'Internationale, ‘The Boston Jubilee: A Day of General Disappoint ment in Gilmore’s Babel; The Financiers Trembling—The Jersey Municipal C6nvicis— ‘The Farragut or Paul Jones of the Future—A Card Froin the Greek Consul—Weather Re- port. {Religious Intelligence: Fifth Sunday after Pen- tecost; Religious Programme for To-Day; The Herald keligious Correspondence; “Let Us Eat and Drink, for To-Morrow We bie;" Ser- mon by the Bishop Odenheimer; Ventilation of the Old Theologists—Lexington Avenue Syl — Work in London and Ne ‘ork. S—The Trades Unions: Proceedings of the Fight- Hour Leagues; Progress of the Movement— New York City News—The East River Bridge— Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Stokes Trial—Tombs Police Court—Death of Mr. James O'’Neill— and Deaths. Leading Article, “Germany and The Next Papal Election’’—Amuse- ment Announcements, 7—Editorial (continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims—Cable Specials from England, Spain, Germany and Egypt—The War in Mexico—News from Central America— Another Cuban — Fillibuster—The Cable Steamer Dacie Safe—A Railroad Holocaust: AT ble Catastrophe on the Grand Trunk The Coterie at Chappaqua—Grant : Ratification of the Philadelphia Mr. Holmstead Declines the Honor—Bus 88 Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial: A Dull Ending to et; Gold Declines Two the Week in Wall St Points More; Stocks Higher and Strong, with a Sharp Rally in Erie; The Bank State- ment Unfavorable; The Wool Crop and the Mone arket; Heavy Expansion of Loans; The Banks Dealing Liberally in Business Paper; The Cotton Movement and the Specie Export; Imports for the Week About kight Millions ‘college of the City of New York— Advertisements, QmAdvertisements. we—Dire Disaster: Terrible Explosion in Liberty Street; A Furious Fire; Twenty-three P sons Injured—Shipping Intelligence—Adver- tis 5 W—Ady sen 12—Advertisement: Butiyive Haytr is about the safest thing any warlike Power can do. The German navy has as yet had little scope for the exercise of its prowess. So, by way of experiment, a Ger- mansquadron made bold to demand of the puny republic at the cannon’s mouth the pay- ment of a sum claimed by Germany; and, says the latest cable despatch from Jamaica, upon the apparent hesitancy of the dusky warriors to “pay up,’ the German fleet fired two shots into the frightened town of Port au Prince. The Haytiens ‘threw up the sponge.” At the second shot they found they had tasted enough of war, and settled. ‘The official German report contradicts, how- ever, this story, as it did the former one about the three hours’ bombardment of Port au Prince. According to a despatch from Berlin, which appeared in yesterday's Henanp, the German fleet had contented itself with seizing two Haytien gunboats, which they released on payment forthcoming. Tae Canapian Ratmiroad Accipent.—We record to-day one of the most appalling catas- trophes of the present year. As a night ex- press train on the Grand Trunk Railroad was proceeding from Toronto to Montreal, at | about one o'clock yesterday morning, having arrived eleven miles below Belleville, the en- gine jumped the track, and several carriages, filled with passengers, were hurled with great force on top of the locmotive. Several persons were immediately killed and sixty-five others were scalded in such a manner that at least fifty of them, it is stated, will die. A number of clergymen returning from the an- nual synod of the English Church in Toronto rendered valuable assistance in extricating the sufferers fraya the reeking débris, and after- wards lent their aid in the temporary hospital where the injured were received. ‘The latest account shows that twenty-three persons had died and others were rapidly sinking. The sufferings of the injured are reported as being beyond description, and that the temporary hospital was resonant with their wailing and entreaties, Germany and Rome—The Next Papal i Election. Some two or three days ago we were made aware of the fact that the Holy Father, Pope Pius the Ninth, had addressed a letter to Car- dinal Antonelli deploring the spproaching enforcement of the law suppressing convents in Italy, and pronouncing such enforcement to be in violation of international law. In that letter the Holy Father freely expresses his opinions. The government of Italy is daily and hourly making encroachments on the rights of the Church ; and these encroach- ments are declared to be in open violation of the principles of morality and justice. Nothing buta regard for the highest interests of the Church prevents the Pope from leaving Rome and from shaking the dust of Italy from off his feet. The conflict between the Holy See and the Italian government is pronounced inevitable and reconciliation impossible. The Pope cannot submit to such usurpations, and Cardinal Antonelli is instructed to protest against them to the foreign Powers. So far as the present incumbent of the chair of St. Peter is concerned, it is to be war against the Italian government, open war, and war to the death. On the same day that this intelligence was received another cable despatch informed us that the bill proscribing the Jesuits had passed its third reading in the Reichstag by a vote of 181 to 93. Simulta- neously we had the announcement that the North German Gazette, o leading government journal, had editorially stated that ‘‘Germany intended to make her influence felt in the elec- tion of the next Pope.”’ All this, we think, must be regarded as plain and most intelligible speaking. If these pieces of intelligence mean anything they mean this—that a fresh and most serious crisis has arrived in the history of the Papacy. The Italian government, gradually and slowly giving way to the prevailing popular sentiment of the Italian people, has found it necessary to endorse popular legislation. Some time since the national Legislature passed certain bills which had for their object the suppression of acertain class of so-called religious institu- tions. These laws are now to be enforced, and certain conventual institutions of old standing are to be _ suppressed. The Pope protests, and an appeal has been made to foreign governments, calling upon them to say whether or no the action of the government of Italy is not an open violation of international law. Had this been all it might not have been difficult for the various foreign governments to give some satisfactory answer; but the appeal, strange to say, renders a reply almost next to impossible, for it declares that the conflict between the Holy See and the Italian government is inevit- able and that reconciliation is impossible. It has long been our opinion—and the opinion has more than once been expressed in these columns—that nothing but an international conference could settle the questions which divide the Papacy and the Italian government. For many good reasons such a conference as that which is now in session at Geneva, having for its object the reconciliation of the Papacy and the Italian government, is most desirable. Things favoring, it might have placed the Pa- pacy in a position in which it would have had the encouragement and support of all the great and leading nations of the earth. As it is, however, such a conference is impsssible; for the conflict is declared by the Holy Father himself to be inevitable and reconciliation impossible. So much for the general question. This, however, is not all. It may, we think, be now taken for granted that during the life of the present Pope there can be no peace between the chief of the Catholic Church and the chief of United Italy. The Italian government and people are determined to be aggressive, and the Pope and his advisers are resolved never to yield. Itis a curious and not uninstructive fact that Germany is quite as much at war with the institutions and pretensions of Rome as is Italy. The Berlin government, since the close of the recent war, has given Rome no rest and has revealed no disposition to compromise. It has done much to encourage the old Catholic movement. Excommunicated priests and pro- fessors have been maintained in their places and have received their pay. The schools have been emancipated from clerical control and placed under the care and supervision of the State. And now a bill has passed through the Reichsrath by a sweeping majority, which, when it becomes law, will empower the government to banish every Jesuit from North German territory. Prince Bismarck is no trifler; and it is no longer possible to doubt that the counsels of Prince Bismarck are almost as powerful at Rome and in the Cabi- net of Victor Emmanuel as they are at Berlin and in the Cabinet of Emperor William. Germany and Italy are thus at open war with Rome. Austria is scarcely more friendly to- wards the Holy See than is Germany or Italy. Spain is under the anathema of the Church quite as much as is Italy. France is in a po- sition in which she can render no assistance to the Holy See. Russia and Great Britain are as little likely to fight for the restoration of the Papal temporalities as are the people of the United States of America. All things con- sidered, therefore, this appeal of the Holy Father to the foreign governments can have but little effect in changing the current of history. The tide of modern thought and reform has set in against Papal Rome; Papal Rome, in spite of infallibility, has iost her ancient place and her long recognized power; and, if there is to be a place in the great and growing future for the Papacy, that place can only be won and | held by a system of tactics on the part of the | leaders of the Catholic Church which will not disregard the facts of modern progress, and which will be in harmony with modern | thought, with modern impulses and with modern requirements. Protests and appeals are now useless; they can do no good, but they may do much harm to the cause which the Pope represents, A new departure is, we believe, demanded by all the best friends of the Papacy. A new departure must be regarded as impossible during the lifetime of Pope Pius the Ninth. We say this with no feeling of disrespect to the venerable Patriarch who now fills and who so long has filled with honor the chair of St. Peter. The reign of Pope Pius will be immortal in history. No Pope, not even St, | Peter, has ruled the Church so long. For | good or for evil he has stamped his impress on the Church as no Pope has done since the days of Hildebrand. Two great dogmas will forever remain associated with his name—that of the Immaculate Conception and that of the personal infallibility of the Vicegerent of Christ. Whether the authoritative settlement of those questions has been a gain or a loss to the Church it must be left for the future to decide. Inside the Catholic Church opinion is divided as to the merits of his protracted reign. The goodness of his intentions has never been questioned; but while there are those who pronounce his reign the most illustrious there are not a few who regard it as the most disastrous in history. Be that as it may, certain it is that the hopes of friends and foes alike begin to be directed to the time when the election of his successor will be a necessity. It is the determination of one party in the Church that his successor shall be more ultramontane than himself. It is the determination of another party—and this party is the party of progress—that the next Pope shall be a man who understands his times; who is in sympa- thy, within reasonable limits, with the pop- ular sentiment of the period; who will rather cut asunder than multiply the cords which bind the human conscience, and who, in other ways, will make it possible for the Catholic Church to become coextensive with Christendom. The right to elect the Pope is vested exclusively in the hands of the College of Oardinals. The present College of Car- dinals are most of them men whom Pope Pius has himself appointed, and are of course more or less in sympathy with his ways of thinking. Itis not unnatural to conclude that if unresisted their choice will be a man who will not seek to undo the work of his pre- decessor. It ought not to be forgotten, how- ever, that some of the great governments of Europe have the right to veto an election. Austria has that right, France has that right, and it may be regarded as certain that Em- peror William, as the proper representative of Charlemagne, will claim that right. If Ger- many is not pleased with the choice of the College of Cardinals the world may afresh enjoy the spectacle of a contested Papal elec- tion; nor is it at all impossible that two Popes may claim and divide the allegiance of the Catholic world. Such a state of things has existed before, and, considering the attitudes of the different Catholic governments and the conflicting sentiments which divide the Cath- olic Church, such a state of things, it is not unreasonable to say, may exist again. Bis- marck for one has made up his mind, and if Bismarck is spared we may rest assured that no College of Cardinals will hinder him of his purpose. In the nxt kapal election Germany means to make her influence felt. German influence may bring about a revolution, if not another so-called Reformation. The Bolting Free Traders and Their Presidential Ticket. I think there be six Richmonds fn the fleld. —King hichard, The bolting free traders from the Cincinnati Convention and from the Fifth Avenue con- ference of Thursday last have had a little convention to themselves, and have announced a Presidential ticket of their own choosing and on their free trade platform. We have, therefore, the following Presidential tickets before the country, taking them in the order of their importance: — Regular Republican Ticket. .Grant and Wilson. Cincinnati Liberal Ticket Temperance Ticket Labor Reform Tick -Davis and Parker. Amalgamation Ticket. . Woodhull and Douglass. In addition to these we have that inde- pendent outstanding candidate, ‘Daniel Pratt, the Great American Traveller’ between Harlem and New Haven; Chauncey Barnes, of Ohio, who proclaims himself ‘the American Prophet’’ and ‘‘the coming man that the Lord of Hosts has chosen to take the place of General Grant;’’ and last, if not least, there is George Francis Train, who, scorning the small domains of the United States, announces him- self in both hemispheres ‘‘Next President of America.”’ But, with all these tickets and candidates in the field, the final shaping of the contest de- pends upon the approaching Democratic National Convention. From present indica- tions that Convention will adopt Mr. Greeley as its candidate by an overwhelming vote on the first ballot, and, in this event, the contest will be narrowed down to Grant or Greeley. To be sure a prominent anti-Grecley demo- cratic journal makes up a table from which it appears that of the five hundred democratic delegates to Baltimore, more or less, chosen so far, only about one hundred are under instruc- tions to vote for Greeley. This suggests an opening for a new deal; but it is begging the question. In nearly every case where these delegates have not been directly they have been indirectly instructed to go for Greeley ; so that it is the almost universal opinion that “the Chappaqua Woodchopper’’ will enter the democratic Convention with four-fifths of its delegates to back him. Dismissing, then, all these little sideshows and outside tickets and candidates, we may safely assume that this Presidential battle, and the issue thereof, will be Grant or Greeley. The Free Trade League, which, upon its one idea of the removal of the duties on imported goods, has been spending two or three hundred thousand dollars to make free trade the bal- ance of power in this Presidential contest, has been taken in and done for. The Evening Ghost admits it, and admits, too, that there is not the ghost of a chance for Mr. Groesbeck. But these bolting free traders have made the happy discovery that ‘there is something better in the world than success, and it is for that they are struggling.”” But what, it may be asked, will it avail them without success. There may be some chivalry in fighting windmills, but it is a profitless chivalry. Next we are told, ina doleful voice from these free trade bolters, that the democratic party, ‘‘yielding nothing, com- promising nothing, acknowledging nothing, promising nothing, have captured a feeble old man, whose desire for office is almost an in- sanity,’ and that from “his popularity with his own party they propose to capture repub- lican votes enough to put themselves into power.’ But still the fact remains that the tempted to creep into a corn field through a very crooked hole in the fence, find themselves, incoming through their first Fifth Avenue con- ference, still outside; and, like the pig, they cannot understand it, and they have tried it again, but with precisely the same result. The famous Colonel Dick Johnson, of Kentucky, who, as the supposed killer of Tecumseh, was made Vice President of the United States, said that a nomination for the Presidency was neither to be sought nor declined; old Sam Houston, of Texas, upon the same subject once Free Trade Leaguers, like the pig which at- | House is a lottery, and no man can tell in ad- vance of the drawing who will get the prize;’’ but the late Senator Douglas, down to 1860, held to the opinion that ‘the democratic nom- ination will open the door.’’ In 1860 -the democratic party, torn to pieces by secession and the rebellion, fell from its high estate; but in 1872, with an old republican as its standard- bearer, on the new departure of ‘liberty, equal- ity and fraternity,"’ may astonish the world. The outside free traders are sufficiently aston- ished already at the prospect; but are appa- rently satisfied upon this point, that a peck measure will not hold a bushel of corn, The Explosi at the Liberty Street Fire. Yesterday morning a fire broke out in a wholesale drug store in Liberty street. The gallant firemen, of whose organization, cool- ness, pluck and effectiveness New York has reason to be proud, were promptly on the spot, and set about their work with characteristic vim. The police cordon was formed and every- thing done which experience dictates to ex- tinguish the growing conflagration before further harm to property had been done. While thus engaged a fearful detonation was heard, followed soon after by others, and instantly the firemen on the premises and in front of it were struck by portions of the building and dreadfully scalded by the exploded fluid, which was discovered to be vitriol, con- tained in a number of carboys or huge glass bottles upon the first floor. Although no one was killed outright, some twenty-two persons, of which seventeen were firemen, were injured by scalds and burns about the head, face, neck and hands— some, it is feared, fatally. Now, it seems incredible that, with such dangerous stuff in such large quantities on the premises, the firemen were not warned of their danger by some of the residents of the neighbor- ing buildings. From the manner in which the brave fellows exposed themselves it is certain that their peril was unknown to them, yet not a word seems to have been whispered to them in warning. It is truly a lamentable occurrence, and we trust that in future it will be made a matter of instant in- quiry, when the department sends its forces to a fire, whether the building contains anything likely to explode, and that the men whose daily duty is one succession of heroisms shall at least havea premonition of the greater danger lying amid the vengeful element they hasten so promptly and fearlessly to battle. Ministerial Summer Vacations. The time of year again approaches when those who have been for eight or ten months engaged in educational enterprises, whether of & moral or an intellectual character, close their schools, churches and colleges and hie themselves away tothe bracing air of the sea- side or the cooling breezes of the mountains. This custom has always prevailed to some extent in regard to schools and colleges. It was more recently adopted in regard to churches, so that a dozen or even half a dozen years ago it was not an uncommon thing to find on a warm summer Sunday in July or August one-third of the Protestant churches of the city closed. The theory, of course, was that their congregations and supporters had left New York and the work and opportunities of the Church and its pastor had for the time being ceased. Such a theory was and iy a libel upon Christianity and upon the original in- tent and purpose of a church organization. Within a few years past, however, there has come upon the religious community a revul- sion of feeling in this respect, and now, though city preachers and people may take vacations in the “dog days,” the churches are almost invariably kept open and their pulpits supplied by men to whom the country is not a treat, and who breathe the mountain or the sea air perpetually. There can be very little fault found with pulpit exchanges, whether made in summer or in winter. Were the practice in- dulged in more generally, not only by corre- sponding denominational ministers, but by ministers of differing denominations with each other, the effect would, no doubt, be very beneficial, and would go far towards helping forward that unity of the Christian Church for which its Great Head so earnestly prayed and so many of its leading members now so fer- vently hope. But we may inquire, Do summer vacations benefit the churches or the ministry? Both a negative and an affirmative answer may be given to this query. If by close study and hard labor during ten months of the year the pastor of a city church in trying to keep intel- lectually abreast of the intelligence of his con- gregation and of the literature of the times has so taxed his mental and physical system as to endanger his life and health, then he ought undoubtedly to enjoy a season of rest and re- creation, and his people should pay his ex- penses and supply his place. If, however, he has not done this, and desires a vacation, he might, with the consent of his church, take it at his own expense and supply his own place to the people during his absence. If we may form any just judgment of the amount of study required to prepare two such sermons a week for any pulpit as we have reported and pub- lished in the columns of the Heratp during three-quarters of a year just passed, we should say that on this score there is no need of vacation, and the reasons for taking it should be sought for elsewhere, But there isa very strong motive against ministerial vacations in summer in the fact that so many hundreds and thousands of our citizens who cannot go to the country are de- prived of their usual spiritual ministrations, | and have the temptation presented to them to profane the Sabbath and to neglect the sanctu- aries of the Lord. The tendency of human | nature is for the people to do as their priests and teachers do, If tlie latter, for self-gratifi- cation, canter away to the fashionable or the unfashionable country or seaside resorts, the former will hardly look upon a corresponding action on their part as an unpardonable crime, even though it be done on the Sabbath day. | But besides this, there is greater need of religious comfort and spiritual ministrations to | the masses in the summer than in any other season of the year, It is the time ot sickness, disease and death, when Christian consolation should be always ready to be offered, and when the mind of the people is less preoceu- pied than at any other time with worldly thoughts and considerations. But, again, we see no better reason why Protestant ministers should take summer va- cations than Catholics, nor why the latter remarked that “the struggle for the White | should stand at their post of duty so Brmily and faithfully as they do, summer and winter, and the former not do so. If there is good reason why the one class should stay there is equally good reason why the other should. And yet we rarely hear of Catholic priests going off on pleasure tours for two or three months to Europe or to any of our fashionable American resorts. On the Point of labor they need rest and recreation much more than their Protestant brethren in the ministry; but they recognize always, and to the fullest extent, their obligations to the Church which they serve and the people whose spiritual welfare they seek ; and hence a priest can always be found to answer acall of duty at any time of the day or night or at any. season of the year. It would be an anomaly in the policy of the Catholic Church to find any one of its temples closed in the summer except for repairs or al- terations. The advantages claimed for ministerial sum- mer vacations, except as above indicated, are scarcely worth considering. The proof of any mental benefit to the majority of those who take such vacations is not apparent in their fall and winter sermons and religious cam- paigns. The proof is almost wholly on the other side in favor of those who stay by their people as closely and as faithfully as they can, and minister to their spiritual wants as occasion and opportunity may demand or per- mit. A minister's life should be one of self- abnegation and self-denial. He should live and labor alone for God and for His cause, and, trusting in Him who has promised to be with him even to the end of the world, he should do with all his might whatsoever his hands find to do, for the day of labor will soon end and the day of reward draweth nigh. Yesterday’s Yachting—Pocts’, lors’? Weather. The three great yachting events of the past week have passed into the annals with the regatta of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, which came off quietly and lazily yesterday. The scorching weather, which relaxed mus- cular activity on shore, had a similar effec mot Sai- ‘on the sport at sea, and the pomp and circumstance of trim yachts and snowy sails became little better than the setting of a marine picture of that hazy, idle, sail-flapping, blue-sky, white-cloud kind which sets poets dreaming and sailors swearing, even of the amateur stripe—that is, if amateur sailors ever achieve the meaningful rotundity of a sound nautical oath. Coleridge had some idea of the yachting weather which fell to the lot of the clubs last week when he described the ghostly calm in the ‘Ancient Mariner.” That grim old salt, however, Had done an horrid thing, And it would worke our woe. With his crossbow the bird he slew That made the breeze to blow. The wretch who killed the breezeful birds of the three principal clubs that possess themselves of our bay has not yet been reported to the Meteorological Department, and it would seem from certain circumstances of climate that the bad luck is not likely to be removed from that third week in June. The Atlantic Club on Tuesday last had just enough breeze to awaken the desire for a little more, and managed to pull through with- out much grumbling. On Thursday, how- ever, when both the thermometer and public excitement were up to fever heat, the light zephyr at the start, which would just have raised the outside row of Tennyson’s long hairs, led the four- teen yachts into dispiriting calms, which would have set the melancholy author of ‘In Memoriam”’ singing, ‘‘O for the touch of a vanished hand,”’ &e. Yesterday a light boreal breeze rolled listlessly into the canvas for a while; but, growing tired of the exertion, handed over the job of propelling the yachts to a light easterly breeze, which at the time was loafing around Sandy Hook. This latter was kind enough, after squabbling feebly with them as far as the Lightship, to walk (cannot say run) them in leisurely to the Narrows, where the light boreal was sitting, laughing in the face of the setting sun at the sailors’ efforts to beat up to the home stakeboat in its teeth. This is not very encouraging for club course regattas in the third week in June. Only three schooners were entered yesterday, the Madeleine (poetic dreaming again) coming in first and winning the two club prizes, while the Eva, of the New York squadron beat her for the Union prize on time allowance, the Ianthe, which was the third schooner, being so far behind as not to be timed at the home stakeboat. The victory of this yacht in Thursday's race, taken in connection with her position in the regattas on Tuesday and yesterday, will not give much weight to her success, and, in- deed, points to its fallacy as a test of sailing powers, although we should be sorry to de- tract an iota from the ability with which she was handled. The race for first class sloops would have been an exceptionally good one if there had been any breeze worth talking of, six excellent yachts having been entered. The Meta, in gallantly winning all three prizes im her class, beat both the Gracie and the Addie. There were thirty-one yachts entered in all, and the programme contained all the elements of magnificent sport. It is once more to be hoped that the race for the Wallack Cup, which was lost in a fog last fall, will have better fortune on Monday in the ocean course from the Lightship to Long Branch and back. The Carlist Insurrection and War News from Spain, The news from Spain is of a very contradic- tory character and not of easy comprehension to the outside world. We have been laboring under the impression during a few weeks past that the Carlist insurrection had been sub- dued and that Carlism was the lost cause of the hour as against the monarchy of Amadeus in Spain. We received a telegram from Madrid last night, which goes, in the most easy manner, to detail the latest operations of a campaign between the contending forces, which, as the despatch reads, has not been concluded and is still current. We are told that the Carlists, ‘for the first time since the out- break of the insurrection,’ awaited an attack by the King’s troops last Friday, and that the elec- tive monarchists triumphed after a severe bat- tle, which was continued for five hours, when the Carlists were driven from their position, both sides sustaining heavy losses. Now, if all this be true and correct in statement, we must take it for granted that Ama- — , Gous’ is still engaged in war agninsd @ portion of his subjects, who sre in armed rebellion. But is it true? We may reasonably doubt it from the fact that it is alleged that the “Carlists, for the first time, awaited an attack of the government troops,”” whereas we have been before told, from tha same source, that the insurgents have been, long since, the attacking party on more tham one occasion, doing battle with the Italian’s government men both in the field and in city intrenchments. We may hear from the Spanish monarchy men to-day. The Spirit of the Religious Press. Political Views and Religious Ink. lings. The subject of the existing strikes among the workingmen has attracted the attention of at least one among our leading religious con- temporaries, The Observer, a stanch Presby- terian organ, reviews the matter under the heading of “The New Tyranny.’ Says the Observer :— Some good 18 to come out of this general agits tion, but it will not work for the ee arty ar are endeavoring to establish an odious form of tyranny. The workmen who demand the entire con- trol of their Copier business, and who are un- willing to allow others the same’ freedom that they claim for themselves, will ere long find the stronger elements of society arrayed against them. Counter combinations will be formed for self-de- fence, Politicians have been hypocritically javing into the hands of the leading nlite in this raid. but even the politicians are beginning to perceive that nothing short of the complete disot ization of society will satisfy those who are under the guid- ance of Communists and Internationals. One of the greatest benefits that can be done to honest work- men will be to set them free from the leadership and the tyranny of the base men who are leading them on to ruin. The Golden Aqe talks about the contents of “An Old White Hat,” and gives an amusing description thereof. A venerated guest enters the sanctum sanctorum of the Age, and settting his hat, with crown downwards, on a copy of ‘Webster's Dictionary,’ an observation is made of the contents of the aforesaid hat. The contents are regarded as ‘“‘sunbeams into a flower pot.’’ Tht Old White Hat contained: — First, universal amnesty; second, political equality ; third, tariff; fourth, State Tights ; fifth, policy of the new administration ; sixth, a motto borrowed from Daniel Webster— “One country, one constitution, one destiny;’” seventh, draft of a letter; eighth, a card to the public. The Golden Age continues: — The moment Mr. Gresley, left we went to the win- dow to see him navigate his course across Printing House square, and we could not help thinking, as the brazen form ofthe statue of Our Earlier Frank- lin cast its soft shadow on the living figure of Our Later, that the fathers of the republic still live im ‘their sons, and that in a free country great men ne (2 Perpetual race and patriotism a perennial plant. Mr. Tilton gives, under the heading of ‘‘The Prospects of Victory,” a personal letter from Ethan Allen, chairman of the National Com- mittee of Liberal Republicans, in which Colonel Allen says: — In a great movement like ours, opposition was to be expected as wellas double dealing on the vant of coworkers; and I have encountered both, Yet I say to you that throughout this whole nation the liberal party is already organized, some States Levels more advanced than others; and respecting Balti- more, twenty days ago it was regarded as a cer- tainty at these headquarters that Mr. Greeley woulé be endorsed by an overwhelming vote. There may be a bolt at Baltimore, as large as the expenditure and patronage of the administration can afford to make it; but it will amount to nothing. The enthu- siasm for Mr. Greeley increases like the drops of a fast gathering storm, and he will surely be elected President in spite of the hostility of open enemies and the treachery of pretended friends. This contest will be a very bitter one. We should do whatever we can to repress its personalities. I trust the arrow of slander may not be found in the quiver which I bear. Vituperation never won @& battle, but it has lost many. The truth, without any exaggeration, is quite sufficient for our pur- poses. Grant was a success in war; let us confess this and honor him for itaswe have already abun- dantly done. He has been a sailure in peace ; let us as frankly declare this, and remedy it by electing another and better man. He cannot claim that re- ublicans are ungrateful, even if he be defeated. le heroized our armies, but he has jockeyized the White House. The people who applauded the man on horseback at Appomattox will condemn the same man who insists on remaining on horseback in the Executive parlor. Trejoice, not so much in the fact tha. will suc+ ceed in electing Mr. Greeley as in the belief that we ought to succeed. I would rather be defeated in a good cause than be successful in a one. For nearly twenty years you and I have labored together to free the Southern negro from slavery. We are now united in effort to free the Southern white man from oppression. This is a paramount issue in this fight, and mercy and right are on our side. Mr. Greeley has been the foremost champion of this idea, and hence he is our nominee. He is the boldest politician Lever knew; but the honest man is always bold. He was the Samaritan to the rebel chief in face of the frowns of half the nation, and he proclaimed amnesty to the conqured when he knew it would cost him a seat in the United States Senate. Henry Clay said, “I would rather be right than be President.” Clay expressed this — in language; Greeley has expressed it in acts. Thope and trust the democracy will stand with us, and if so, for one, I shall insist that both now and hereafter they be recognized as brethren with- out distinction, r. Greeley’s integrity of charac- ter and devotion to principle commend him to the whole country. The government, under the pres- ent administration, needs the disinfectant of the solid, conservative statesmanship such as might be expected from the modest philosopher, who, through nearly half a century of a busy life, has at oe same time labored to deserve and to avoid ap- plause, The significance of the above letter is only to be read to be appreciated, and we give it its present prominence for the purpose of letting the people know in what direction the anti- Henry Ward Beecher religious sentiment is tending. The Independent scolds about the ‘‘Faithless- ness of Young Men,” proceeding from this text :— An apostle wrote to the young men of his dey because they were ‘“‘strong” and had “overcome the Evil One.” We have a message to the young men who represented—or, we nee misrepre- sented—at Lowell, last week, the Christian Asso- ciations of the United States and of Canada, be- cause they showed themselves weak and distrustful of their Christianity, and hopeless of their ability through God to overcome the Evil One. The “Evil One” in Lowell has for many years been considered by his political oppo- nents to be Ben Butler. Wow the Independent should have so far forgotten the benefits of infantile baptism as to ignore this fact passeth present comprehension. The Independent talks thus favorably of General Grant: — One of the things which commend General Grant to republicans is the fact that he has been trne as steel to the principles upon which he was elected, and in this respect he is a fit model for universa! imitation. He has not cheated or attempted to cheat those who elected him in 1868, He does not belong to the race of cheating politicians, who say one thing as candidates and do quite another when in office. Noteven Senator Sumner himself has thought of charging General Grant with being a traitor to the party that elected him or the princi- ples of the platform which he accepted in 1868, The Evangelist (Presbyterian) touches upon “Recent Hymnology’’ and says: — An unprecedented degree of attention on the part of non-liturgical denominations seems of late to be given to the subject of sacrea song for the service of the sanctuary. One compilation after another has appeared in which successive authors have endeavored, in their selections of hymns and tunes, to improve upon the work of their predeces- sors, and the liberal patronage which in some in- stances has been extended to them can be inter- preted only as a popular admission that a real want existed, for which they had made more or less ade- quate provision, The Evangelist continues, with a great deal of truth :— We regard it as a public calamity that so much of worthless rythmic trash has been introduced into the music of our Sunday Schools, and we feel that to substitute in place of it more of these grand old lyrics that have come down to us from the past, that have been associated with the deepest experiences and the most ardent hopes of God's saints, would be a consummation devoutly to be wished, The Jewish Times wants to raise money for