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NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Rogues or Naw Yourk—Dominigus, THe DeseRreR. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —V aniety Exten- TAINMENT—Tue SouTH; oR, AFTER TH WAR. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Pour. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Scnseiper: on, TAR Oup Hovsu on tue Ruiwx—Rir Van Winker, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, lth st. and Broadway.— Tux Graxp Ducurss. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway aud Thirteenth etreot.—Tue Last Ti “AMD. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Toorisse, Tie JUGGLER: ‘ov tik Woops. HOOLRY'S OPERA H , Brooklyn.—Caste—Lippy Buunper. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Tae Strauss Concxnt. ATLANTIC GARD BY THE Prussian Ba! CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpen Instevmentar, Concert. TERRACE GARDE! ton avs.—Suxauer Ev: NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anv ART. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Arr AND Science. The Press and the Presidential Elec- tion—The Dangerous Growth of Fed- eral Patronage. The Presidential contest in which the coun- try is now engaged will leave behind it one beneficial result, even though it should fail to produce any of the desirable political reforms promised alike by those who are anxious to change the national administration and those who are dismayed at the prospect of losing their hold upon the federal spoils. Owing to its peculiar character, distinct from that of any previous Presidential struggle, it has involuntarily done good service in the emanci- pation of the press from party thraldom, and when the smoke of the battle rolls away, whether Greeley and the reformers or Grant and the office-holders remain in possession of the field, a goodly number of the hitherto prominent partisan papers of the country will be dis- covered arrayed under the banner of inde- pendent journalism. The Henap has recently had occasion to trace the progress of the independent press of the United States during the past thirty-eight years, and to show how, under its influence, even strictly partisan journals have within that period acquired a more honorable position than they previously enjoyed. We may attribute this general elevation of the press in a great measure to the fact that since the establishment of independent jour- nalism it has become necessary that a daily paper, in order to be successful, must be 8 newspaper as well as a political organ, and must lay early and good intelligence before a general class of readers, as well as provide highly-colored partisan food for the relish of its political patrons, The expense of publish- ing a daily metropolitan journal is now so heavy that ‘no party patronage would be suf- ficient to meet it. Occasionally we see news- paper ventures attempted for the advancement of some particular party object or the gratifi- cation of some individual political ambition, but while kept alive a longer or shorter time, WITH SUPPLEMENT. i ees York, Monday, July 8, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Paar, + Advertisements. 2—The State of Schurz: Movements, Men and Mat- ters in Missouri—Pennsylvania: Probabilities and Preparations in the Keystone State—Vir- ginia—Verils 0! Bathing—Advertisements, 3—Baltimore: The Tramp of the Unterrified Re- sounding in My Maryland; Two-thirds of the Delegates Arrived; Enthusiastic Calculations on the Chappaqua Chopper; Six Hundred and Fifty-three Votes Claimed for Greeley; The Decorations and Mottoes; Opening of the Struggle for Convention Chairmanships; Joe Johnsen Denouncing Jeff Davis; Strange Echoes from Baltimore's Ante-Bellum Conven- tion; The Horace-at-Any-Price and No-Nomi- nation Parties—The Heated Term—New York City Items—International Pigeon Shooting— Aquati 4—Editor : Leading Article, “The Press and idential Election—The Rangerous Growti of Federal Patronage’’—Amusement Announcements. 5—Editorials (Continued from Fourth Page)— The War in Mextco: Saltillo Cut Of and Bound the Revol tlonists: Revolution to the to Capitulate Spread of Straight-Outs and the No-Nominationists; A Huge Ku Klux Story; The Position of John 'W, Forney on Greeley and One Term—Cable * Telegram from France—Business Notices. G—Grant and Wilson: What the Regular Grant Republican Papers Have to Say—Greeley and Brown: What the Greeley Liberal Democratic Papers Have to Say—Curious Developments in the Greeley Movement—Fire tn Jersey City—The Toilers of the Natlon—Congress of the Internationals—Federal Council of Inter- nationals—The Third Avenue Cowhiding— Burglary in a Liquor Store—Marriages aud Deatis. T—Advertisements, 8—Religious: The Closing Sunday of the Season; Pastors and People Taking Their Summer Vacation; Sermons and services at the Sanctuaries; Dr. Storrs on Prayer as a Condi- tion of God's Blessing; The Doxology in Wail Street; A Sermon at Kingston on the Horror of a “Continental Sabbath; A New Presbyterian Minister’s First Sermon; Henry Ward Beecher on Hope as an Element of Christian Life; Dr. Chapman and Bishop Harris at St. John’s Methodist Church—Sun- day on the Sands at Rock: ly Beach, S—Aunday on the Sands at Rockaway Beach (Con- tinved from Eighth Page)—Sunday at the Park—Financial and Commercial: The Re- moval of the Duty on Tea and Coffee; What | the Merchants Think of Its Expediency; A Listless M: et at the Stock E. nge ; The The Erie Seeret of Its ess; Saturday's Bank State- ment; The New Produce Bank—Probable Murder in Jersey City—Brooklyn Hi Again—The German ‘Eight Hour Clubbing Atte: Ni Service in Scene—The V Wasiington—Mise ping Intelligenc “GREELEY AND Brow: ‘Grant anp Wu- son.’’—Under the above headings we furnish | in other columns the gleanings from some of our yesterday's exchanges in regard to the two tickets. Without expressing a preference for either we advise our readers to peruse these brief scintillations of the partisan press, and, as they pay their money, take their choice, Imprrmusistic Symparutes Between Ena- LAND and Asia.—The King of Burmah, on the occasion of his receiving Queen Victoria's au- tograph letier in reward for his conduct during the progress of the recent troubles in India, thanks the special messenger who conveyed the paper from England, and remarked that “neighboring governments should entertain friendly feelings towards each other’’—a very fine and excellent truth, which will bear repeti- tion, even though it comes from Asia, His Majesty can scarcely help himself, however, just at present, and this fact detracts vastly from the grandeur of his expression, Tae Innerresstete Catacazy Acam.—tft appears by a telegram from London, pub- lished in our columns yesterday, that the late Russian Minister at Washington—Mr. Catacazy—is up again ina belligerentattitude. He has written «a pamphlet, it seems, “con. taining terrible revelations’’ concerning the administration of General Grant, and wants to | have it published. It appears, also, that this is a little pecuniary speculation. He wants to sell the pamphlet to some publisher. Widemann has offered it for sale, and states that he has been engaged by Mr. Catacazy to do so. to have revenge on Secretary Fish, and might not object to turn a penny at the same time. He hasa stinging pen as well as a voluble tongue, and might make the fur fly and create @ sensation; but we advise Mr, Oatacazy to keep quiet and retire upon his pension from the Russian government. He may lose that, even, by imprudence, as he lost his position of Minister, unless, indeed, ‘that sly old fox, Prince Gortschakoff, should ha‘ no objection tosuch a hit at our Secretary of State, now that | the Russian government is in no way respon- sible for the actions of Catacazy. The pen in | ue hands of those who have a mania for writ- Ang often injures the writer more than the One | No doubt the ex-Minister ‘would like | according to the means of their supporters, such papers never become permanently estab- lished. The leading political organs of this city have achieved success because they are well con- ducted newspapers, availing themselves liber- ally of all the means of collecting intelligence within the reach of the modern journalist, and not because they are the mouthpieces of this or that political organization, The reputation their proprietors have acquired and the for- tunes they have secured through their journal- istic enterprise and ability have raised them above dependence upon party, and have given them an influence over the politicians not en- joyed by their predecessors twenty-five or thirty years ago. The same is true of the bet- ter portion of the political press all over the country. Nevertheless it has hitherto been re- garded as an honorable obligation on the part of a journal attached toa political organization | to respect its regularly constituted authorities, Latest’ from Baltimore: The Fight of the | to yield fealty to its conventions and to sup- port its nominees, however objectionable they may be. Thus, although a party organ may have strongly denounced this con- templated action “or that foreshadowed candidate in the preliminary stages of a political campaign, it has seldom carried its objections beyond the final determination of a regular con- vention, But the present contest, as we havo said, is exceptional in its character. There have been former divisions in the great politi- cal households, changes in organizations and independent tickets in the field; but party | lines have never before been so completely obliterated or party obligations so entirely ignored. Tho subversion of all recognized political rules has driven many journalists into open warfare against the organizations to which they belong, and the result has been a declara- tion of independence by some of the leading party organs on a broader scale than that with which they have heretofore been satisfied. All the once formidable power of regularity has been insufficient to induce some of them to advocate a candidate who they believe to be unworthy of their support, while others | have been unusually rebellious in their opposi- tion to the evident sentiment of their political | associates. Thus self-emancipated they have | avowed their determination to exercise here- | after the full right of individual judgment and conviction regardless of the action of the party to which they belong; and after having once | enjoyed the advantage of entire political free- | dom they will not be likely to relinquish it in the future. We hail this accession to independent jour- nalism with satisfaction, because we believe a | truly independent press to be the best and surest safeguard of republican institutions. But the action of the emancipated journalsand the heated personal character of the campaign prompt the inquiry why so much earnest and angry feeling should be called forth by a Presi- dential election? What is it that causes this great commotion the country through whenever the chief executive officer of the | nation is to be chosen by the electors? There is too much reason to fear that the solution may be found in the enormous amount of | patronage attached to the position, In the | present contest there is nothing to excite party enthusiasm on either side, and no great issues | divide the people into distinctly defined oppo- sition, The platforms of the two republican conventions that have already been held are substantially the same, except that the Cin- cinnati conventionists declare in favor of a civil service reform, which they charge that the present administration has failed to make, and of a foreign policy different from that to which we have been subjected under the un- fortunate régime of Secretary Fish. The Balti- more Convention will, no doubt, endorse in | the main the principles laid down by the liberal | republicans. The candidates themselves oceupy a singular position, General Grant has never | been a republican, and outside the war quese | tion, now dead and buried, has no sympathy in common with republicanism. Yet he is the candidate of the regular republican party. Horace Greeley is the father of republicanism | and the leading champion of its principles; | yet, although he carries with him a large pro- portion of original republicans, he looks to | the almost united support of the democracy for his success. Grant cannot touch the roe- publican heart as it was touched by Lincoln. | as it was aroused by McClellan and Seymour, We must look, then, for an explanation of the heated partisanship of the campaign elsewhere than in the loyalty and devotion of the politi- | cal organizations to their staadard bearers, | and few will be disposed to question | that it is to be found in the federal patronage, which has grown with the growth of the nation until it has become an alarming source of corruption, threatening to eradicate all patriotic sentiment from the breasts of the people and to sap the foundations of the republic. With millions within his gift, the President is looked up to more as the dispenser of office than as the Chief Magistrate of the republic, Strip him of the power of wielding all the enormous patronage now pertaining to his position, and there would be but little excitement and strife over his election, despite the high character of the office, It will not be denied that this overgrown federal patronage is a public evil. It destroys in @ great measure the independence of Con- gress, and enables the Executive to exercise an unwholesome influence over the legis- lative branch of the goverhment. It tempts to undue and unworthy efforts to obtain through its means a second and probably a third term of office. It chokes the voice of the less independent press, and not infrequently destroys the purity of the ballot box. There are two ways of rem- edying the evil—one by appointing the main body of government officials during good be- havior, as in England, retiring them on half pay after a certain period of service; the other by curtailing the patronage of the Presidential office. The former method would probably be impracticable with the American people; tho latter presents a curious problem well worthy of consideration. The real power of the Amer- ican government is in the hands of Congress, and not of the Executive. The President can do little without Congress; Congress, with a two-third vote, can do almost anything despite the President. The experience of Andrew Johnson’s administration proves how impo- tent the Chief Magistrate may become in the hands of a hostile Senate and Houso of Representatives; The Johnson-Clarendon Alabama Treaty, approved by the President and Secretary of State, was overthrown by the Senate. The fate of all treaties with foreign Powers is in the hands of the Senate; why, then, should not that body appoint all our dip- lomatic and consular force, independently of the President ? At present the Senate bears the responsibility for the adts of our foreign representatives, without the power to do more than approve a President’s nominations. In the recent negotiations growing out of the Treaty of Washington the administration shifted the odium of the acceptance of the English Supplemental Article on to the shoul- ders of the Senate, because it was evident that the controversy that had arisen between the two governments was destined to prove dis- creditable to America; but if we had come out of the difficulty with honor the glory would have been claimed for the adminis- tration, and not for the Senate. Congress has the power to raise revenue aud to expend the public treasure ; why should not Congress have the right of appointment of all custom house and internal revenue officers? The present constitution of the United States has lasted us a long time, and it is by no means certain that the country has not outgrown many of its pro- visions. An entire remodelling of our govern- ment may become absolutely necessary before is | to preserve the spirit of the constitution and to prevent the republic from becoming a Presidential autocracy. The objections that naturally occur to the mind to which these suggestions are presented are—first, that the Prosident, as the chief ex- ecutive officer of the nation, should possess such power of appointment and removal as will enable him to insure the proper enforcement of the laws; and, next, that Congress has enough to do without being distracted and corrupted by the exercise of patronage. The President at present knows but little about the manner in which the practical duties of the government are dis- charged, and the offices are invariably distrib- uted in return for political favors. There is greater danger of a neglect of the public business by men on whose political influence the President relies than there would be by men dependent upon such a body as Congress for their positions. In our general elections the corrupting influence of patronage would be less injuriously felt with the appointing power vested in a large representative body, whose members are scattered all over the Union, than it is at present, when one man holds the distribution of millions in his own hands. Such a reform would contemplate the appointment by Congress of the heads of departments only, while the President would be left to select his own State council of ad- visers, and hence the exercise of the power could not prove any serious obstruction to the business of Congress. At all events, whether these suggestions are practicable or impracti- cable, desirable or undesirable, it is certain that the enormous and increasing patronage of the Presidential office, larger now than could ever have been contemplated by the framers of the constitution, is a fruitful source of danger to the republic, and deserves the serious consideration of all patriotic and thoughtful “ MoxicomOur Latest Despatches=The Revolutionists Strong. Our special telegraphic despatches from Matamoros, published in another part of the paper, show that the revolutionists are strong and hopeful, and that a battle at or in the vicinity of Monterey is imminent. Though General Trevifio was reported to have a force of three thousand revolutionists before the city of Saltillo, he had not attacked that place, see- ing that the Juaristas had little ammunition, no hope of aid, and must soon capitulate, and he being, therefore, desirous of avoiding un- | necessary shedding of blood. On the side of | the government the generals and leaders still talk hopefully and promise great things. Our correspondent telegraphs from Marin, eight leagues from Monterey, that General Cevallos | boasts that he will soon be in Monterey. There was a report of the defeat of three hun- dred of General Ochoa's Juarista cavalry, with a loss of a hundred and fifty prisoners by the revolutionary General Pedro Martinez. Ochoa was concentrating his forces in San Louis, In fact, there are the usual ups and downs and | changing fortune of war on both sides, without | anything decisive or any prospect of peace and Greeley cannot arouse democratic enthusiasm | order. On the whole, the news is unfavorable to the Juarez government, and shows that in the northern and border States there is scarecly a hope that Juarez can restore his authority, Itis perpetualanarchy. The only chance to | redeem Mexico from this deplorable con. dition is through the intervention of the | United States, The Present Gathering of the Democ- racy at Baltimore and Their Past Conventions. The reconstructed democracy, on their ‘new departure,’ are gathering at Baltimore by scores, by hundreds and by thousands. They meet in National Convention to-morrow for the purpose of nominating their Presiden- tial standard-bearers and proclaiming their principles in this national contest, and our exhaustive and interesting letters and despatches, published this morning, give a graphic description of the scenes, inci- dents, doings and predictions. All the indi- cations are that the Cincinnati liberal repub- lican ticket and platform will be adopted with unparalleled harmony and enthusiasm; that Mr. Greeley, on the first trial, will be overwhelmingly, if not unanimously, nom- inated, and that with his nomination all the democratio bolters, inside and outside, will fall into line. Heretofore the two-thirds rule has been the great stumbling block to party favorites in these democratic conventions ; but it is evident that this rule will be no im- pediment to the nomination of Mr. Greeley, who will walk through the Convention with the victorious stride of General Andrew Jackson, In this respect, as in other respects, this democratic convention of 1872 will be a new thing under the sun. Under the leadership of “Old Hickory,” while his will was the law to the party, it was plain sailing with them down to the overwhelming defeat of Van Buren, in 1840. But against that defeat even the will of “Old Hickory’ failed in the Baltimore Con- vention of 1844. The southern slaveholding oligarchy had had enough of the regular Jack- sonian line of succession, enough of the ex- periment of two terms to Van Buren, enough of Van Buren; and they wanted Texas. There- fore ‘Little Van,’’ who went into this conven- tion with a handsome majority at his back, came out superceded by Polk, under the pres- sure of the two-thirds rule. This astonishing nomination fell like a wet blanket upon the masses of the party throughout the country; but quickly recovering from their surprise, they rallied to the ory of ‘Polk and Dallas— Texas and Oregon,’’ and by an unexpected lift from some bolting whig abolitionists of New York, they carried the election, and the great Harry Clay was left high and dry. So much for the two-thirds rule in 1844, In the Baltimore Convention of 1848 General Cass ran this gauntlet, but it did not work so well as for Polk, for Van Buren bolted, and, as the independent free-soil candidate, he carried off the democratic balance of power in New York, which left Cass, in his turn, high and dry, and elected General Taylor. In 1852 baker's dozen of mighty men came before the Balti- more Convention, each backed by a hopeful posse of his friends, more or less. Among these gandidates were Cass, Douglas, Marcy, Dickinson, Buchanan, Woodbury and Sam Houston; but they were all swamped by the two-thirds rule, and ‘Poor Pierce’ was lugged in at the eleventh hour of the last day of the week, and carried through, like Polk, as & compromise, some of the Southern managers from the beginning having held Pierce in reserve for this purpose, for they had sounded him and they knew their man. Pierce was triumphantly elected, too, as a compromise man on the slavery question; but asa compro- mise ho proved a bad bargain to all concerned, and a terrible failure asa peace-maker. In 1856 the Southern pro-slavery dictatorial Jeague under the two-thirds rule, finding that they could not do without Pennsylvania, and finding Buchanan subject to their good will and pleasure on slavery, or “souid on the goose,’’ as they called it, they carried him through the Cincinnati Convention as ‘Penn- sylvania’s favorite son,’’ though not without a hard fight from the Western men in behalf of Douglas. Next, Buchanan, through a lucky division of the opposition forces be- tween Fremont and Fillmore, slipped through in the election; but this was the last Presidential nomination forced upon the Northern and Western democrats by the Southern slavehold- ing oligarchy. Douglas broke their power in breaking up the democratic party with the Charleston Convention of 1860, under the two- thirds rule, and thus he opened the way whereby Lincoln was elected President, pledged to the suppression of “those twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy;’’ and we know what followed. The democrats at Chicago did well enough in choosing General McClellan as their candi- date; but in tying him down to an anti-war platform they only brought him out to be defeated. So it was with the operation of their two-thirds rule in 1868, whereby Mr. Seymour was nominated, with the condition precedent that he represented the issues set- tled by the war as null and void. Seymour, like McClellan, was thus saddled with a load which he could not carry, and broke down in the race, whereas, had the Tammany Conven- tion followed gur_adyice Sy taking up Chief Stistice Chase, they would have saved at least the four years on their new departure, which they lost, Now, having Secepted the constitution as it is, and the situation ag it is, and having ral- lied upon Mr. Greeley as their champion in this contest, tho democratic party will fight this contest with very encouraging prospects of success, because the issues of the war are out of the way, and the battle ty reduced to the living issues of the hour—between the party supporting and all the elements oppos- ing General Grant and his administration. Natural Weather Signals. An interesting suggestion wad made a short time ago by a German physicist for making use of certain cloud forms as telegraphic storm indicators. Tn connection with the aeronaitic experiments conducted under the supervision of the Signal Service an excellent opportunity is afforded for ascertaining how far and under what conditions these natural weather moni- tors which float aloft may be depended upon for meteorological information, Humboldt first called attention to the delicate, uniformly | broken groups of clouds and small clond strial which move on the lines of the magnetic meri- dians and converge perspectively toward the magnetic poles of the earth, This eminent authority connected these fleecy and ill- defined stratified clouds with the Polar or auroral lights, and conjectured, with the great Arctic navigators, Sir John Franklin and Richardson, that they were the effect of a meteorological process, generated by and ace companying the magnetic storm, When ex- Ploring the Mexican plateau in 1603, and Northern Asia in 1829, Humboldt pushed his investigations of this phenomenon. He found that, in conformity with the magnetic varia- tion, the direction of the delicate cirrus clouds, or “polar bands,’’ as he called them, changed from south to north to an easterly direction or followed a line running from southwest to northwest in the Altai territory. Dr. Prestel, a scientist of Germany, has ob- served that in his own country such polar bands extend from southeast to northwest, and then change slowly to the line of southwest to northeast, When such cloud strial appear over Europe he has found the telegraphic weather reports there make it possible to compare the simultaneous conditions and motions of the atmosphere over the entire Continent, the storm area, even if still far distant, being at the same time present to all places over which the polar bands and their vanishing points in the horizon aro visi- ble. While the weather is still beautifully clear in the lower depths of the atmospheric ocean, the delicate filament of clouds fringe the extreme limits of the advancing storm area, and give unfailing indications of the upper air currents which are bearing it onward. Thus, with the varying direction of the cirrus clouds the meandering course of the storm centre is said to be determined, the observer being able to discern the coming disturbance while yet five hundred ora thousand miles distant, as the storm thus telegraphically announces its approach by the fine celestial tokens. The habitual observation of such signs in the heay- ens would doubtless enable the farmer and the mariner better to appreciate the daily weather probabilities, The elucidation of this long-studied but ob- secure subject of practical science is much needed and will amply reward investigation. National Progress in Music—America the Mecca of European Artists. Less than a quarter of a century ago, or even a decade, America was considered the last place that a truly great artist in Europe would think of visiting on a professional tour. Music was then in its infancy here, and the ideas of the public regarding it were of the crudest de- scription. Boasting—or, to use a more expres- sive word, ‘“buncombe’’—was the chief ridicu- lous feature of the day, and united to it was the no less foolish notion of hero worship. This afforded Dickens a fruitful theme for satire, of which ho made liberal use, and all smarted under the lash of his pen. Although the indignation of the people at tho time was intense, yet we can now, with more matured judgment and experience, acknowledge that, apart from such an ungrateful return for un- bounded hospitality, there was a great deal of truth in these satires. The American eagle was then a very noisy and demonstrative bird, what we would call nowadays something of a nuisance, and the Stars and Stripes were ob- trusively flaunted in the face of every for- eigner. But the thermometer of ‘“‘buncombe”’ reached fever heat during a Presidential elec- tion, when windy orators monopolized the entire attention of the public, The stump was too much forthestage. ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler too’’ was more popular than ‘Bel Raggio’ or & symphony of Mozart, and crowds would gather to a political barbecue, leaving ‘‘Ham- let,” “Don Giovanni’’ and the Philharmonic Society to entertain empty benches. Manifest destiny and our ability ‘to whip all creation” received more attention on all sides than the sonatas of Beethoven or the dreamy poetry of Mendelssohn. Yet there was some excuse for all these pranks of national hood. an triumph of the war of the Revolution, and the sédond tussle we had with the mother country, which may be considered as a drawn battle, left the country in pretty much the same state of mind as the victor at Donnybrook Fair. The stump orators hurled defiance at everybody and everything, and loudly called upon all creation to tread on the nation’s coat tail. The spirit of ‘“buncombe’’ took possession of the stage too, and mingled true art with charlatanism, Jenny Lind and Joyce Heth, Shakspeare and the Astor place riots in curious confusion. Then Italian opera was the sole, undisputed property of cliqnes, and maintained from time to time a sickly existence, fed on outrageous puffs and a com- plete cuisine of misrepresentation. Artists who had outlived even the prestige of their reputation in Europe were brought over here and lauded to the skies for the very qualities that they had lost, and Mr. Puff drew all his inspiration from the managerial sanctum. Occasionatly—very seldom, however—some knight of the quill would kick in the traces, and forthwith a howl would go up against him that would soon make him hide his diminished head, ; ; But a change has come over the once royster- ing nation, and this change is more particu- larly marked in the art world. The ordeal of the civil war had a chastening effect upon the fepublic, and ‘buncombe’ orators, party press and managerial humbug were swept away, we trust never to afflict the land again. What- ever specimens of these once popular features of the young republic that remain only excite curidsity or pity in the minds of the people. The Boston Panjandrum was the last exp.zina effort pf musical charlatenism, and oyery lover of trae art may be ¢onfident that such a monstrosity will never be called into existence again. The growing taste of the American people for music has not only made itself felt in every part of this vast country, but it has had an. effect iu Europe which cannot be overestimated. Already an American engagement is the most cherished thought in the mind of every artist of noteacross the pcean. Even the most preju- diced writers admit that New York is monopo- lizing every season the crexm of European talent, and listen with surprise arid delight to the artists we send them over in returif, In the best conservatories of Italy and Germany Amtericans are carrying off no small share of the highest honors, and orf. the operatic stage American girls. are crowtted with laurels. A piano here has become as necessary toa honsehold as a bureau or a sewing machine, and no church will have any congregation worth speaking of without its organ'and trained choir. Conservatories of music spring up in the most remote country districts, concerts are of nightly occurrence, summer gardens re-echo with the strains of Beethoven, Mozart and Meyerbeer—even the music of the future isa themo of general discussion—and Liszt and Wagner are as familiar to our ears as they are in Bavaria or Berlin, and musical societies are as numerous as political clubs were in the olden time. 1_ ‘This week, von in thig worse than tropical weather, there will bea genuine sensation in the musical line at the Academy of Music. This is the merourial Strauss, whose waltzes bo whole world in a whirl, and who undergone a purgatory for the last fortnight at the Boston barn such 8 Never musician was subjected to be- fore. Here he will have an intelligent orches- tra, worthy of him; an appreciative audience and tributes to his genius more valuable than the howls of the noisy erowd on Back Bay. It was no easy task to get him out of the clutchea of the thousand and one committees of the Panjandrum. Mr. Rullmann, a New York manager, the same who took full charge of the Dickens readings, independent of Dickens or his agent, was tho successful one in this in- stance. The Solons of the Hub stormed in vain, Faneuil Hall protested, the Liberal Club almost became sunstruck in their frantic en- deavors to keep the great composer away from the ungodly city of Manhattan. But all in vain. The sturdy manager stood his ground under ninety-five in the shade, and disregarded the fierce expostulations that went up from Back Bay to the Neck. As Strauss returns to Europe on Saturday next there can be only three concerts given by him. These will take place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, and the orchestra will consist of the «picked musicians of the metropolis, General Toombs and Governor Brown, of Georgla—A Smell of Gunpowder. A letter was recently published in the Grif- fin (Ga.) Daily News, signed R. Toombs, in reference to a certain act passed by the Geor- gia Legislature, and in this letter these extra~ ordinary observations occur :— The Legislature accepted the offer of $35,000 from Lochrane, Kimball and Brown, who engineered the bill through the Legislature in the name of the Mitchell heirs. The term “orphans of Mitchell’® was applied to them in derision of the pretences under which the people were stripped of this prop- erty for the use of these “orphans.’’ This action of the Legislature was the result of bribery, pure and simple. * * * 1 did state further, as far as my knowledge extended, all of the public plunderera who pretended to be democrats, from Tammany Hall down to the smatiest petty larceny thief on the State Road, were Greeley men, and so 1s the fact. Now ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, suspect- ing that he is the Brown alluded to by the aforesaid R. Toombs, issues a declaration of war, in which he says that ‘if Goneral Toombs intends by this language to say that I have been guilty of bribery in engineering this bill through the Legislature I pronounce his statement an infamous falsehood and its author an unscrupulous liar.” And this is signed ‘Very respectfully, Joseph E. Brown.’” We fear that General Toombs and Governor Brown have both been overdoing their virtu- ous indignation; but we hope that these two fiery young gentlemen will settle this little affair without an appeal to gunpowder. Let them follow the good example of Uncle Sam at the Geneva Conference in the settlement of their indirect damages—let them try a Board of Arbitration. Pith of the Sermons Yesterday. Notwithstanding this warm July weather, when so many ministers and church members are tempted to be away from the city, and so many havo yielded to the temptation, it is.. quite refreshing still to find such faithful me among us, ministering to the people as they d, yesterday, as Rev. Dr. Chapin, of the Churc of the Divine Paternity; Rev. Dr. Foss, of Paul's Methodist Episcopal church; Rev. W. M. Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle; Rev. Dr. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims; Rey. Dr. Chapman, of St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, and others of ual prominence in-our midst. Mr. Beecher thid ed his’ pie-vatation i eS and the thousands who worship him from Sab- bath to Sabbath will miss their idol from Ply- mouth pulpit for three months to come. Had they gone there. more generally to wor- ship God they should not now be so disappointed and forlorn. Naturally enough, too, the crowd of worshippers was larger than ordinary at this or, indoed, at almost any season of the year. Very appropriately, too, Mr. Beecher, bidding his people ‘“goodby,’* encouraged them to hope, and presented hope to them as an clement of Christian faith, And why shouldn’t they hope, since, though they may temporarily lose one Beecher, they will gain another? And the further consideration that the Beecher will return should inspire them with hope. But hope is peculiarly an element of Christian faith, Almost all re- ligions outside of Christianity have the element of fear asa propitiatory position, and where fear is the generic element the religion must be servile. Christianity alone makes hope the genius of religion. As to the future life, ac- cording to Mr. Beecher, if a man gets to heaven, even though it be “by the skin of his teeth,” he will have an opportunity to develop what he nefilected here, while the man who has de veloped his nature into a higher life will go up still higher in Christian or spiritual deyelop- Dr. Chapman dilated on the breadth of the Divine law, which the Psalmist declaresis “ex- ceeding broad.” But law is not the active agent, but the rule according to which actions are measured. Everything in nature is sub- ject to law, for God Himself is subject to law. The law or commandment of God fg dxeddding prca4; because it extends to every action of tho mora! and. the, physical being of man. Violations of those laws Wort cited and illustrated, and the Doctor took oc- easion to condemn indolence, intemperance, profligacy of every sort, and the unnatural and irrational pressure that is brought to bear upon children in the common schools by the sense- less ambition of parents and teachers, as well as the terrible strain to which the nervous energies of men in business life are subjected. There gre every day violations of the laws of our being, and their penalty is felt in the shortened lives and the sudden death of young and old of ourpeople, The necessity of prayer and the blessings that flow from it wera themes worthy the thought of Dr. Storrs, who declaréd that the noblest life on carth is the life of prayer’, and no life so perilous and poor as the life of oud who never prayed. But as to the nature and extent of our requests, which were indicated by the Doctor, we refer our readers to the synopsis of the discourse giver elsewhere. “p One of the attractions im Dr. Ohapin's church yesterday was the liberal Christian candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Greeley. ' The conflict between right and wrong, between’ good and evil, which is at some time waged in human hearts was considered by the Dostor, , and the ease with which men submit to the control of evil when this conflict takes place’ Waa deprecated, “No men, however depraved,

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