The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1872, Page 6

EW YORK HERALD Sete ba RT BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. -No, 182 Volume XXXVII. _——— All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Herat. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, WOOD'R MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ‘Won Ovr. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Vaniery Exten- TAUNMENT—THE SOUTH; OR, AFTER THR WaR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Scuneiper: or, Tae Ovv House on Tux Raine, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, léth st. and Broadway.— Paina Donna or 4 Nigut. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tue Last Tromp Carp. 2EPPA. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 72) Broadway.—Gxoncta MinsTRELA, ae PARK THEATRE, opposi Across tax CONTINENT. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Necro Eccentarcrtizs, Buruesqur, &c. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Lirk—SoLon SuinGix. Brooklyn.—Marnien CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garorn InstromentaL Concret. TERRACE GARDE ton avs.—Summur Event PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway, near Fourth street.— Lapy Oncnestna. between 3d and Lexing- NCERTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scumnce anv Art. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Aut axp Science. TRIPLE SWEET. New York, Sunday, June 30, 1872. CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. CEES Paar. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Long Branch Races; First Day of the Racing | Reunion by the Sea Side; A Brilliant Inaugu- | ration; All the Favorites Beaten—Wonders will Never Cease; The Fastest Mile Ever Trotted—Pigeon Shooting—Salt from the | Sea; Long Branch in the Ecstacy | of Sport, Pastime and Politics—The Hos- tile Red Men—Indian War in Utah—Naval Intelligence—The Matinée at Chappaqua— Central Park—Normal College Alumni Asso- ciation—The Late Explosion in Liberty Street—The New American Iron Steamship | City of St. Antonio. 4—Religious Intelligence; Sixth Sunday After Pentecost; The Religious Schedule for To-Day ; Herald Religious Correspondence; College Church Commencement; The Popes and Her- ald Communicants; A’ New Religion De- manded; Derivation of the Word “Religion; The Value of Man in Creatéon; Views of a | Non-Believer in Eternal Torment; Piain | Words vs, Pulpit Oratory; Petty Church Qua: rels in the South; What is the Human Soul? Ministerial Movements and Changes, | S—Religious Intelligence (Continued from Fourth | Page) —Germany’s Religious Difficulties— Brooklyn Affairs—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Strikers Sent to Prisoa—Tombs Police Court—More Jersey Justice—Drowned at Rockaway Beach— O’Keefe's — Wardrobe—Thomas fonument | Fund—The Long Strike; Premonitory Symp- toms of Its Close. | 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Catholic and | Protestant Eloquence of New York""—Amuse- JUNE 30, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Catholic and Protestant Eloquence of New York. The more eloquent the minister the smaller the importance of his doctrines, is a compli- ment to human genius which is little less than a fundamental principle in the Pro- testant Church. This remark has adequate verification in the fact that the prosperity of Protestant congregations depends almost entirely on the oratory of the pulpit. The Rev. Mr. Beecher overcrowds his temple by the magic of his voice, by the fluency of his tongue, by the flights of his imagination. No one goes to worship under his roof either from belief in the doctrines he declares or from admiration for the undoubted virtues of his private life. A similar thing is quite true of every other successful Protestant clergyman in the nation. This is not the way in the Roman Catholic Church. Within the walls of Rome eloquence is by no means whatever either uncultivated ordespised. But within the universal juris- diction it is not the principal thing. Worship is. With all Catholics the best gifted and the least learned priest is as much at the altar, as — | sacred und as effective in his sacerdotal office, City Hall, Brooklyn— | as the Bossuits and the Massillons themselves. Hence it is that Catholic parishes last forever. , The important fact is founded in the dogma of the Sacrament of Orders—in the doctrine of the Apostolical succession. The Catholic pulpit of this city does not, it would appear, make as much noise, yet it is at the least the equal in merit of that of tho Protestants. Dr. Dix, of Trinity; Dr. Ewer, of St. Ig- natius, and Dr. Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, are unquestionably the best educated and the best endowed Protestant clergymen in New York. The former, very much like a Catholic priest in person, has very noble talents and excellent learning ; the sec- ond, with figure and face, some say like Savo- narola, is decidedly gifted with eloquence and well versed in Puseyite-Patristic theology ; the third, athletic, farmer-like looking Irish celt, has no superior in the Presbyterian pulpit of the United States. With these distinguished ecclesiastics re- spectively we compare Father Dealy, S. J., of St. Francis Xavier's, West Sixteenth ; Dr. McGlynn, of St. Stephen's, East Twenty- ninth, and Father Preston, of St. Ann’s, East Twelfth street. Father Dealy is an Irishman. Nature has given him quite a good looking person. He is | tall, fair-haired and very fresh in the face. His appearance in the pulpit is exceedingly engaging. He presents to his hearers an ad- mirable blending of modesty, dignity and authority. He never uses the manuscript. But that he comes well prepared cannot be doubted, for, although rapid and glowing in his delivery, he never uses inelegant language; never makes an unfinished sentence ; never omits graceful illustration ; never pre- sents the links of his reasonings but in the most skilful and telling way. The S.J. we have put to his name declare Father Dealy to bo Tent Announcements, J—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—Per- | sonal Intelligence—Spain: Valmaseda's Re- | Signation Accepted and His Successor Desig: | nated—France—The Boston Jubilee—News | from Washington—The Auburn Convicts— | North Carolina—New Publications Received Nr Robbery in Broadway—Busiuess No- ices. S—Financial and Commercial: Intense Dulness and an Early Adjournment of the Boards; A | Further Advance in Governments; Gold Rises Two Points More on the Specie Shipments; | The Export of Coin for the Week Three and a Quarter Millions; The Imports Falling Off and for the Week Less than Six Millions; The Bank Statement a Very Good One; T! urpins Ke- serve Neari le" ith Avenue | Extension—New York City Items—A Case for | the Board of Excise—Run Down by a Locomo- | tive and Killed—A Murderer’s Grave—Mar- riages and Deaths. 9—The Glorious Fourth; How tne Ninety-Sixth Anniversary of American Independence Wiil Be Celebrated in the City; A Great Day for Gotham—Care Use of Fire-Arms—Adver- tisements. 10—Camp Meetings; The Fashionable Rage for the Next Two Months—The Weather—Yachting Notes—Our Police Fe —Shipping Intelli- | dvertisements, | nents. 14—Advertisement | DaessixG Troy Daily Times (Grant) has been putting a new face upon its matter since the Philadelphia nominations. It | still, however, sticks to Grant, undismayed by | the Greeley torrent that surrounds it. Ur.—The Important rrom Sparn.—A special telegram from Madrid announces that the resignation of Count Valmaseda us Captain General of Cuba | has been at last accepted by the government. Valmaseda will probably be succeeded by Gen- | eral Cardoba, a radical, and present Minister of War. The Captain General of Porto Rico is also to be replaced by a man of similar sen- timents. Tux OLp ApacE that “necessity knows no law” was not exemplified in the case of the candidate nominated for Vice President by the | Fifth Avenue Conference. It was there that | necessity did recognize Law, but Law did not | Tecognize it. Tur German Evacuation oF France— An Isrerestine Approacuine Event.—To- morrow it is expected that President Thiers | will be able to announce to the Assembly that a fresh treaty has been concluded be- tween France and Germany, and if the an- nouncement comes up to expectation it will mean that France is about to be freed from the presence of the German invader. On Friday, so far as we know the facts, a treaty was signed by the Count Von Arnim and President Thiers, | providing for anticipating the time for the | liberation of French territory from occupation by German troops. On Monday President Thiers, in making the aforementioned an- nouncement, will demand authority to conclude loan to raise the necessary funds to make the payments provided for in the treaty. On Tuesday morning it is more than possible that the Hegaxp will be able to announce that France is in a few weeks to be freed trom the | German invader. If such turns out to be the | fact President Thiers will have good cause to | be proud, and the French republic managed | by President Thiers must be pronounced a success. France may do as she thinks fit ; | but whatever is to be the future form of gov- | ernment adopted by the French people the | republic form of government under President | Thiers will be lastingly remembered as one of the greatest political successes in the whole | history of the French nation. | ‘Tur Spanien Pantaament has been dis- | solved by royal proclamation. The Spaniards will vote at a general election in August, and } their government open the first session of a | way of addressing heir hearers. Dr. Hall is new Parliament next September. In the meantime the country will be ruled by a cen- | sand dollars a year made him leave Dublin for tralized royalism, and the jarrings of political partion | Le femporarily hushed. | of Trinity he would be, by general acclaim, the | more, Dr. McGlynn is at peace and in happi- | tain that Dr. Ewer is the better gifted man. a Jesuit. The excellent completeness of his sermons would, of itself, be quite enough to indicate this; for, whatever talents nature may confer on a Jesuit, be they great or not great, the training he gets in the Order never ls to make him able to give completeness to every duty that may be imposed upon him. There can be no doubt that Dr. Dix is quite as well endowed with talents as Father Dealy, and he is an olderman. But evidently the rector of Trinity has not made the studies of the son of Loyola, and, in consequence, he is really inferior to him. We have often heard | each of them. Dr. Dix comes with a fine essay, and he reads it very well, and when he is done you admit him to be an elegant scholar in the English language and in the Protestant pro-Catholic theology. (Dr. Dix is very much of a Roman Catholic.) On the other hand, Father Dealy has no mere fine essay written | out before him, but a genuine, glowing, admi- rably constructed sermon, of which he never wrote a line. As he proceeds he proceeds with the most decided and admirable eloquence and vigor, and when he is done you are satisfied | that you have been listening to a priest of in- disputable piety, of noble gifts, and of learn- ing of the highest class in sacred matters. Were Dr. Dix a Jesuit he would be a luminary of the Order. Were Father Dealy the rector | first in the line for the next vacant Episcopa- | lian bishopric. Between Dr. Ewer and Dr. McGlynn there is as preachers a good deal of contrast. Both | are Americans by birth, but both are Celts, | each being of Irish descent. But this is the strongest similarity that is between them. | coasts of Great Britain that lie to the wind- | the remarkable fact that solid bodies and or- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, Hughes from the clerical ranks of Bishop Potter, of this city, and there is not a harder working man living. Had he remained under Bishop Potter he would be to-day the fore- most Protestant clergyman in the metropolis ; for, in talents, he greatly excels Dix, Vinton, Forbes, Thompson and Tyng. It cannot be said that he changed his creed from ambition, for ecclesiastical place or for social rank ; for he has more than once refused to allow his name to be sent to Rome for a bishopric, and because his delight is to be employed all day | long among the poor and undistinguished. No doubt a similar thing to the latter would be true of Dr. Hall, if Dr. Hall’s church were not in the most important quarter of the city and if his people were not in the front ranks of opulence, aristocracy and fashion. There is great pleasure in listening to Dr. Hall in the pulpit. His air of authority is very im- posing, and the arrangement of his discourse, his voice and his gesture and his rapidity of word, are in the first class of excellence. He is really a very eloquent man. But he is often a very sophist in his head and a harsh bigot in his disposition. Much of his logic in ex- pounding sacred matters is transparently shal- low, and he seldom or never descends from his pulpit without having cast new seeds of rancour in the hearts of his hearers against the Church of Rome. This defect is so much a vice with him that it is lawful to suspect that the elders who have given him his posi- tion have stipulated for an embittered arrow at Rome in every sermon. But there is also great pleasure in hearing Father Preston. His voice is very mellow, his gestures graceful as that of a Spaniard, and his sentences—every one of them well shaped, and short and long as rhythm demands—flow from his lips like water from a bubbling well. And this eminent Catholic priest is entirely free of the odious poison of bigotry. While most of his sermons are controversial, the severest word he has for the Protestant sects is ‘our dissenting friends.” It appears that Dr. Hall is unable to write well. We have seen a great many contributions from him in the Protestant papers, and candor compels us to say of them that they are rather mediocre articles. They do no honor to a man brought here from Ire- land at the high price of ten thousand a year. On the other hand, Father Preston is even ao finished writer. A volume of sermons pub- lished by him some years ago and a book recently produced by him in defence of the Pope justify this statement. Of course Prot- estants would sooner go to hear Dr. Hall than Father Preston, and of course Catholics would sooner go to hear a devoted priest of their own than a decided enemy of their Church. But we are here speaking as critics, and now, that we have heard these two men, our judgment is that the two are about equag? in giving intellectual pleasure. These remarks may help to show the com- parative merits of the two great pulpits of New York. Where to Find Summer Reereation— The Seashore and the Mountain. During the present season of the sun's fiery radiance, when all nature trembles under its power and everybody is seeking escape from ordinary scenes and business, it becomes o qnestion of the utmost moment where to find the greatest relief from the summer heats and diseases, The common answer of Newport, Long Branch, Cape May or some of the popu- lar resorts is unsatisfactory to the large masses of people, who cannot afford such luxurious relaxation ; and it is not altogether certain that the most popular retreats are always the most beneficial and salubrious. Without undertaking to draw comparisons | between rival places of summer residence, it may be of great interest to the readers of the Heratp to indicate generally the principal facts that bear upon a choice of such situa- tions. The overworked man of business in all parts of this country needs not only rest but renovation in a pure and unadulterated atmosphere. The purity of the air he is to breathe is, perhaps, more important than coolness, which is usually the first condition demanded. But the question of what is chemically a pure atmosphere is hard to decide. In this country very few experiments have been made to test the air of different localities. The English experiments show that the purest atmosphere is on the islands and | ward. Analysis of the rain water establishes ganic substances populate the aerial masses everywhere, and it is only a matter of the maximum and minimum of such impurities the health seeker is called to consider. In the experiments to which we allude the rain which The former is an eloquent, impassioned, en- | thusiastic ritualist, who acknowledges no re- | ligious superior in the world. The latter is | | also eloquent, impassioned, enthusiastic; but | his tongue, his passion, his enthusiasm are | regulated by submission to his great Church; | and hence, while Dr. Ewer is frequent in quarrels with vestries and bishops, to the dis- edification of many and the amusement of ness with all mankind. Of the two it is cer- But in study, in education, the pastor of St. Stephen's is undoubtedly in the first place. | Dr. Ewer is nothing better than a rhetorician | in his logic, than a rhapsodist in his theology, | than a much misguided, over-conceited man in | historical reading. Dr. McGlynn was edv- | cated in Rome; he was made a D. D. there; and, while he has rhetoric in abundance and imagination in plenitude, it appears that he | and bathos, and the assertion which can never be proved, and the argument put in awkward shape, are never found together. Dr. Ewer is aschismatic by disposition, by study, by con- ceit. An important jurisdiction can never fall into his hands; and when he dies there will be | nothing after him which either the Protestant- ism which he anathematizes, or the Catholic | Church, of which with amazing inconsistency he claims to be a priest, can either admire or applaud or bless. Dr. McGlynn has quite a different fortune. The mitre—perhaps even | the pallium—is certainly before him; and | when he quits the scene it will be as a great | prelate whose naite will long shine in honor | in the religious annals of North America. Father Preston and Dr. Hall have a great deal in common. Both are impassioned, very | fluent and equally given to the conversational a stalwart Hibernian. ‘The offer of ten thou- New York. Father Preston is # native of falls at Valentia, Ireland, and in the Hebrides, | may be regarded as the least adulterated, and | contains little else than beautiful crystals of | common salt, while at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on | the east coast, within five miles of the German @ nesses of disposition, enlarges the social cir- | upon even the grandest topics, can make bet- \ thetr religion as i representatives, rae zeae ae leaders and ntat tm- The Catholic Review regrets to see daily news- papers in New York doing all in their power to bring about a repetition of the brutal mas- sacre which has forever desecrated the mem- ory of the last 12th of July. The Golden Age arraigns General Grant's platform against his own administration upon 4 series of indictments, The conclusion is that They are the voluntary and unanswerable con- fession of the failure of that administration, even allowing its best friends to be the judge in its own case. It {8 the spectacle ofa President put under condemnation by his own party; nay more, of & President and his party making a joint and unani- mous testimony against themselves. They are selfcondemned. Nothing remains, therefore, but that they should be condemned by the people. The Golden Age has the following to say of the Fifth avenue fizzle: — The stream of popular feeling rose up round the delegates and carried them willy nilly on its billowy breast. Representatives from nearly allthe States were present and testified in alphabetical order, with almost tedious monotony, to the astounding success of the revolutionary movement. The result was surprising. Among the gentlemen at the hotel who would originally have preferred some other candidate than Mr. Greeley, yet who then gave him thetr hearty adhesion, were Horace White, editor of the Chicago Tribune; Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Colonel William M, Grosvenor, of St. Louis; General Brinkerhoff, of Ohio; and Charles Nordhofy, formerly of the Bening full blast last Sabbath. It scolds Gilmore and Dose, Not in all the country could five more deter- mined free-traders be named than these. And the “Gilmoreum”’ in the following quiet but de- cided manner: — when such former Spponsnts of Mr. Greeley now unite in supporting him it may be said that the This 18 not a pleasing record to come from the | Yon fe! be hoes musical festival, which was anticipated by | REO aac eaeeiant a sh hristian people with as much interest and pleas! : as by any renee but which is thus turned Says the Boston Pilot (Catholic) in regard to the proposed Orange parade in this city immense engine to promote Sabbath desecration. The influence of this one day's proceedings, its ten- next July, and the suggestions are well worthy of consideration: — : dency to promote the growing laxness in regard to ‘The Orange rowdies mean to turn out on the 12th the observance of the Sabbath asa day of sacred rest and worship, will reach as far and wide as of July with arms, tem ing their fellow country- men to break the law of this country, which gave the multitude which it has brought together from them botha home. This being the case, the Irish- all parts of the world. The next complaint of our worthy friend of the men who are thus to be insulted by the Orangemen must be armed, too. Friends and Irishmen, we Observer should be made against the sinful prac- tice of having singing choirs in our churches, | Tust all be armed that day with patience and and especially when brass, string, wind or other | peace. These are the only weapons that carry instrumental music is introduced to give the farther than the revolvers of the Orangemen, wred airs effect. And as for employing eminent Our country religious exchanges are barren prime donne at high cost to do the oratorio of ee Res COCA ave oe Bid e morceaux of Mozart, Handel and Haydn, Beet- a however, that they Ce lag) Ganibit Hoven,:&0,, that! iden’ should not ‘be tolemted evidences of prosperity and are faithful tran- for a moment! Strange what a difference scripts of the religious sentiments in their there should be between sacred music given on ge Hea a Sabbath in an enclosed five-acre lot in Boston and in Trinity church, New York, where pro- grammes of musical exercises are posted up for the benefit of spectators just as playbills are circulated in theatres for the convenience of the audience! The vangelist editor is writing pleasant sketches from Central and Western New York; hence there is nothing particularly striking in the columns of this usually well-filled reli- gious journal this week. The Methodist is rejoiced that the fraternal overtures of the General Conference to the Methodist Episcopal Church South have been received in the friendliest spirit. The Methodist says:— 5 As to the condition laid down by Dr.’ Lovick Pierce, in 1848—namely, that fraternal intercourse must be established, 1 ever, upon the basis of the “plan of separation’’—the St. Louls Advocate admits that the condition no longer applies. This has been @ very important point, and we are glad to see it so gracefully yielded. * * * Another important point conceded by the Advocate is that the two churches will henceforth, without censure from each other, labor either North or South, as the wa: opened before them. This is our own groun in. ave reached its climax of excellence when music will be madea necessary study from the primary to the grammar school. seacoast—i. ¢., within one or two miles of the salt water—will give more invigorating air to the health-seeker than he can get at any in- land retreat. But if he is to choose between a place of residence thirty or forty miles from ® leeward seacoast anda mountain home he will be a great loser if he selects the former. It is said that on the high Alps animals are peculiarly attracted by salt, as if the groat altitude and distance from the sea prevented | the usual supply in the rains; and there can be little doubt, as meteorologists tell us, that one of the most important uses of storms is to furnish the earth with a supply of salt. But the mountains of the Eastern United States are not 80 elevated above the sea level, nor so more remote from the Atlantic as to suffer from the insalinity of the air. As the Signal Service reports and weather maps show, these moderate and lovely elevations are weekly swept by the storm winds which come in from the sea and enriched by air fresh from the laboratories ot nature, and daily fanned by the ascending and descending air currents. With the immense facilities afforded by the rural and mountain neighborhoods for the summer accommodation of all classes, every man should have at least a transient recreation amid scenes bountifully provided, by no human hand, for the relief of worn-down and overworked mankind. The Topics and Gossip of Our Re- ligious Contemporaries. The religious press this week is remarkable only for itsdulness. This, no doubt, is owing to the heat of the weather and the absence of many of the shepherds of the flocks, who seize upon this season to visit the country, the seaside, or to make the tourof Europe. In either case it is a benefit all round. Itisa benefit to the preachers and their folds, to the editors and their readers. All sides require rest and recreation some time during the year, and no period is so appropriate as the sum- mer solstice. That period is now upon us, and if the editors of the principal religious papers, together with their clerical contribu- tors, have not already departed for ‘‘pastures new’’ they are getting ready to do so, which amounts to about the same thing. The Observer this week is considerably exer- cised on account of the Boston Jubilee being in The Hot Week in June. The closing week of this sweltering month is, meteorologically, deserving of special men- tion. Within a radius of thirty miles from our new Post Office (which is slowly creeping upward), we think the oldest inhabitant might be safely challenged to produce a hotter week in any June within his recollection. With the mercury among the nineties, from day to day, for most of the week, and the wind southwest, sweeping up from the roasting Llano Esta- cado and Jornada del Muerto of Texas, it only needed a degree or two more to add to our weekly bill of mortality a fearful list from sun- strokes, and we may get itin July. But let us rather be thankful for what we have escaped, than go out of our way in search of trouble. We were disposed yesterday to envy the happy people of San Francisco, where the summer afternoons are refreshing, and the summer nights are deliciously cool from those strong, steady winds of the Pacific; but, then, remembering that the San Franciscans have hardly a sprinkle of rain from May till Octo- ber, and that there, for watering purposes, “every garden has to have its windmill,’’ we began to feel sorry for our Westenders; for here, almost every week, we have our refresh- ing and life-giving rains all the summer through. And then we thought of cool and cloudy Alaska, and the splendid fishing up there, Internal Revenue Receipts. We learn that the receipts from internal revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 will amount to one hundréd and thirty-one million dollars, and that this exceeds the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury six million dol- lars. This estimating below the receipts is an old trick of Mr. Boutwell, who is intent on having a plethoric Treasury, and who makes these estimates for the purpose of deceiving the public and of keeping up burdensome tax- ation, in order to protect the New England manufacturers. Since Mr. Boutwell has been Secretary his estimateshave always been far below the receipts of the government, and had itnot been for the good sense of Congress we should still have had a war revenue of four . hundred million dollars or more. Mr. Bout- well has, by his misrepresentations, induced Congress to still keep up burdensome and un- necessary taxation, though that body has so far disregarded his recommendations as to modify to some extent both the internal taxes and customs duties. With all that has been done in abolishing vexatious internal taxes, and in re- ducing the duties on imports ten per cent, we have no doubt the revenue for the next fiscal year will reach considerably over three hundred millions. It will be, probably, nearer three hundred and fifty millions. The enormous importations and vastly increasing wealth, population and business of the country will go far to make up the amount cut off by the modification of the tariff and internal tax- ation. Three hundred and fifty millions of revenue, or even three hundred millions, is quite unnecessary, and is, in reality, a sur- plus corruption fund for the manipulation of Congress and the administration. The interest on the debt is about a hundred Where it rains or snows always; but a rain-gauge report of three hun- drod and forty-seven days in'the year of snow, sleet, hail and rain, is indeed too much of a good thing. On such terms Mr. Seward is welcome to his moist Alaska, where they really don’t know what dust is; but though broiled here in the Sun, or suffocated with dust or poisoned with gas, we prefer Manhattan Island. On the average the New Yorker, who has travelled all round the world, is glad to get home again, and, winter or sum- mer, there is no place to him like our Central Park or the road to High Bridge. Let us be devoutly thankful that our lines are cast in such pleasant places, and let our stay-in-town fellow citizens prepare to bear the patriotic fuss and fire-crackers of ‘the glorious Fourth’ with becoming; resignation. Music in the Public Schools. It will be a welcome piece of news to all in- terested in the culture and advancement of In summing up the results of this happy re- conciliation between the Methodist Churches, North and South, the Methodist adds: — No new standards of faith have been created; both have bishops, general and annual confer- ences, an itinerancy, &@ local ministry, class lead- ers, stewards and exhorters, Just as they were nforetime. We appeal reverently to the same fathers and founders, sing the same hymns and work with the same agencies. Saving a difference ona aingle ethical question we are one people. That difference, mighty as it was in its day, is past, and the least we can do is. to meet each other in the spirit of Christian fraternity. We predict that the meeting will be a very happy one. Several of our religious contemporaries touch upon the subject of the labor strikes, and, as a general thing, in deprecation of them. The Methodist says on this subject: — As to the eight-hour movement, even should it universally be successful, capital will suffer less youth to learn that the Board of Education are | from its effects than labor. Supposing, as is esti- and four millions; ensions amount to 7 eae ie 7 mated, that it will withdraw twenty per cent from : So es seriously considering the feasibility of intro- | the suin total of work done, it will by just so much | some thirty millions; and the current increase the cost of living. Capital is better able ducing music as a distinct branch of study into | than labor to bear this increase of necessary ex- our public schools. This is a stride in ad- penditure, It will suffer temporarily: ‘but it will . ‘: | soon adju self to the altered condition of affairs. venee and cannot fail to bring forth the hap- | In the meantime the workman receives the same piest results. The effect of such a course in | He for his uae Gay, as before, bat, hls land- :, - lord charges him more for rent, his tailor more the schools of Germany is well known, and | (or ciothes, his butcher more for meat and his baker nothing can exercise a more humanizing and | more for bread. He cannot readily relieve him- refining influence on the youthful mind than self by working more hours for extra wages, for he the divine art. It tempers asperities and rude- expenditure of the government, independent of. these charges upon it, ought not to exceed eighty or ninety millions. It might by proper economy be brought down to seventy millions. Allowing the highest amount, the entire expen- diture for interest on the debt, pensions and the maintenance of the several departments should not exceed two hundred and twenty millions. We have no doubt the revenue for the next fiscal year will be a hundred millions over the necessary requirements, even upon a liberal allowance, of the government. Why should this extravagant system be continued ? Why should the people be taxed thus to suit the notions of an incompetent Secretary of the Treasury, to keep his coffers tilled with un- profitable capital and to subserve the interests of his constituents, the New England protec- tionists? A considerable reduction, both on import duties and internal taxation, is still imperatively demanded, and we hope this will be one of the first measures of Congress when it reassembles next December. is bound by his rules of association not to take ad- vantage of his brother workingman. The Independent has a long editorial upon the same subject, from which we make the following extract: — It is not in human nature to be content with do- ing well. The instinct of doing better is tne motive | power of the civilized world. And the inherent vice of the trade unions is that they seck to ex- tinguish this instinct and bend all labor down to | one common average of work and wages. If it were possible that they should succeed they would establish, as we have shown heretofore, an | immovable oligarchy of capital and a hopeless pro- letariat of labor, But human nature is too strong to be driven out by selfish folly. We do not be- lieve that the industrious, the strong and the | skilful are to be kept down by the lazy, the feeble | and the bungling forever. The Independent talks plainly to the Philoso- pher of Chappaqua. In the course of a severe article entitled ‘Mr. Greeley’s Ku Klux | Apostacy,’’ the Independent says :— We wish to do no injustice to the Cincinnati candidate and the present application for demo- cratic votes; yet we regard his position in respect cle, makes the mind and soul more cosmopol- itan and brings us nearer to the millennium. One city in this country (Boston) has at- tempted this course, but the inordinate vanity of its inhabitants forced what otherwise would have been a blessing into a nuisance. The ab- normal development of music in the public schools of Boston culminated in a Peace Jubi- lee. It is unnecessary here to refer to the sad results of such an unnatural course. But New York, with its large, cosmopolitan heart, its illimitable enterprise and its shrewd reasoning ter use of music thus popularly located than any other city on the American Continent. Music as a special branch of education in our schools must necessarily result in the advance- The Question of Lighting the Central Park at Night. Ocean and other places similarly situated, the absence of such crystals has been ascertained and the presence of sulphate of soda. The Man- | chester rain is full of the oxide of iron, dust, | coal ashes and organic matters, and in London, | Paris and some of the German cities, the simi- | lar deleterious constitutents of the air have | been found alarmingly abundant. There can | be no doubt that the greatest care should be | taken to avoid breathing such air as_ this, | which, though, so far as we know, not yet | discovered, exists in fearful quantities in most | of our manufacturing and thickly-settled towns. | In 1809 a celebrated physician, Moscati, | made experiments on the air of hospitals, sus- pending over the beds of several patients spherical vessels full of iced water, and care- fully collected the dew and water condensed | on the external surface, which soon putrefied, as animal substances do, and gave a residue of analogous matter. It has been found that similar collections, on flasks filled with ice, suspended over the rice plantations of Tuscany, yielded what was at first ap- parently limped water; but it soon putrefied and deposited flakes of nitrogenized or- ganic matter. It has been very clearly proved that such aerial poisons diminish as we pass from the centre to the environs of our large towns and cities, and, usually, as we approach the windward seacoasts of a country, and also | as we ascend above the sea level—a fact which is accounted for by the gravitating properties of such floating matter in the air. In the United States the prevailing winds of the sum- mer are southwesterly, and they bring the salt air of the tropical Gulf and spread it over the higher portions of the Southern States and the mountainous regions of the Middle States. It New England ; he isa convert to Archbishop | ment of true art and the annibilation of mu- | method of study is most incomplete and un- to the Ku Klux question as a very grave matter. It is much more serious than his tergiversation in reference to the theory of a protective tariff. It is much graver than his personal hostility to General Grant, or his abandonment of the republican party vecause he could not control its nominations, at least, 80 far as one man is concerned. These things are sufficient to discredit all his claims as a repub- | lican; yet they are far leas objectionable than his present political dalliance with the avowed and un- | disguised enemies of the law which he has himself approved aud declared tobe both necessary and constitutional, The New York Tablet (Catholic organ) elab- orates upon the ‘Union of the Protestant | sects."’ It remarks: — We see no reason why such a union should not be | | practicable, and even inevitable, at least so far as they are contined to one and the same nation, They treat in the Park under the shelter of darkness have all come to consider doctrinal differences and i i i doctrines themselves as matters of no grave. Im- | and the bushes, in spite of the rule that it shalt portance, sn5 Serer feel) oe CGRCD BOY erie | be cleared after a certain hour, might object. ment as matters of perfect indifference. The ‘Trini- ie A tarlan Protestant greets the Unitarian Protestant | But we think the mass of the people would as a brother, and jobnobs with him. the Calvinist prefer to have the Park lighted by gas at nd the Arminian find no ground of controvers' : ri ‘ 4 between them, aon pe ‘ongregationalist, the Pres. | night. This delightful retreat is the property bytertan and ‘the Episcopal Methodist ‘are quite | o¢ iti willing to iutercormune end act together as-one, | Of 81 our citizens and not merely of those a Only se Baptists, as yet, hold out on the | who can afford to ride in their carriages or question of baptism. "i heir ti th in the da: r , : ‘ otherwise spend their time there in ry. ae ophawire Chas a Wi a ee The convenience, pleasure and health of the Nibee eod M Mcce Ni gta ag, mass of the community should be studied in saying: — ‘ i this matter, and not the’ convenience of the Ontside of New York, which is not likely to cast i " . its saccoray vote for Mr. Msg hh th nthusiasin police or the Park authorities. The greater for him is of a very sin jar charact In some i j i quarters it is represented by what ry stinguisned part of bho citizens cannot enjoy the Park in New England democrat is Feporved to Dave said in | the daytime, for they are occupied. The very elegant langui “Lam trying 0 e Greeley. ‘ Aq have swallowed him three times and Kept my | time, and almost the only time, when they could have that privilege is at night—is in the cool evening of our hot summer days. Let them, then, prolong their stay till a late hour if they choose. And how gay and beautiful would the Park be if lighted up by gas! The lights blending with the dark foliage and charming greensward and reflected in Shall the Central Park be lighted by gas at night? This is a question that begins to occupy the public mind of this city. There are, of course, some for lighting the Park and some against. Many are opposed to it be- cause it would be a change—an innovation upon the present rule. This class of people are so excessively conservative that they never want change. Then, the Park police and authorities might not approve of it because they might have a little more trouble. Again, some of the loafers who find a secure night re- sical humbug. Music is nowadays an indispensable part of a complete education, while its usual satisfactory. If the child can be instructed in music the same as in the ordinary branches, and with the same care and skill, it will mas- ter all the elementary and rudimentary parts early,and be prepared to attempt the higher and more advanced steps of a finished musical education at an age when, under the usual methods, it will not have commenced even the study at all, The Normal College could Be | made the finishing or graduating school in | music as in other branches for at least one thousand young ladies, and would produce great artists beyond doubt out of this large number. Selected from out all the schools of the city, they will produce and de- velop musical talent of exceptional excellence. Again, music as at present taught in this country is a most expensive branch of educa- tion, being practically by private tutors, at great: cost. If introduced into our public schools as a necessary branch of education it will immediately bring within the reach of every child in the city, whether rich or poor, | the advantages of a musical education quite superior to any of the city schools of a private character, no matter what effort is made in the private school, nor how much money is ex- pended. The day has come when music is uni- versally prized and estimated, and the guar- dians of the public education should recognize mouth shut; but every time he comes up through my nose!’ That New Englander will, probably, suc- ceed in keeping Greeley without “enthusiasm.” At the South, some talk of taking him “as an | emetic!’ Emetics, taken in June, are of @ very queer character if beld till November. The Jewish Times urges reform, declaring that: — ‘The Rabbies can no longer shrink the sacred duty of meeting in council, of continuing the Conference this as a public want and necessity, and so auspiciously begun in Philadelphia and so treach- the lakes would be a delightful x should provide for it as such and bring it | {foUsly mere OM IS ersonal considerations; | scene to tempt all classes inta Bae ory or antipathies, if exist, and the tl ey Oe a Ter mclonce, that bouon | cere a Ment Many would drive there to within the reach of every child of the city. is obvious that the immediate vroximitv of (he the cool of evening in preference to davtime, their oMigial position, the obligations they owe ta Depend upon it, our public school system will