The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youu Heraw. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVIL..........00065 seeeeeeee! No. 196 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Biow rox Buow—Dick Torri, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Wirz ror 4 Dar— ‘Woman's Witt, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, Norax Dame. Afternoon and Evet corner Thirtieth — ning. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Varixtry Ewrsn- ‘TAINMENT. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stzect.—Grayp Con- cERt. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- curr, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, léth st. and Broadway.— Tax Voxxs Faxity—Tus Wronc Man in Tae Rigut Praca. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tux Lona StRikx. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Tex Nicuts NW 4 Barnoox. OENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpen Instrumenta (CERT. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY's HERALD, Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The Invasion of Chappaqua: The Forces of the Ex-Confederacy Beseizing Horace Greeley in His Home—Gratz Brown Badges and Ban- ners—Grant and Wilson—Ocean Breezes— Saratoga Races: First Day of the July Meet- ing; Brilliant Assemblage, Fast Time and Capital Racing; Scenes About the Hotels and on the Course; Colonel McDaniel in Good pirits, 4—Religious Intelligence: Seventh Sunday After Pentecost ; St. Bonaventure; Religious Sched- ule for To-Day; HgRaLp Religious Corre- spondence; Exiled Priests in California; Swedenborgianism and It Is So Called; Man As An Animal; All About a New Re- Hgiou—Pio Nino’s Successor: Europe Gazin; on Rome—Disastrous Conflagration in Mich n, SestoKes: Close of Summing Up of Counsel for the Prosecution; The Charge of Judge Ingra- ham; The Jury Retires; The Long Agony Al- most Over; Juror Number Ten Puts a Ques- tion to the Court as to the Time When Pre- meditation Can Be Formed; Speculation as to the Verdict; The Jury are instructed and Re- tire and Locked Up for the Night; Recess Taken Till Half-past Ten This Morning; Twen- tieth Day of the Trial—News from Washing- ton—The Dynasty in Spain—The Jersey Con- victed Commissioners—A Jersey Mystery— Burglars Committed—Cool Villany—An Error Explained Away—Army and Naval Intelli- nce—Dr, Sherman Pardoned—Wheat and als: Leading Article, “The New York Charter Election—The Importance of a Good City Government’—Amusement Announce- ments, ‘2—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—The | Havre Regatta: Vice Commodore Douglas Refuses to Sail Against Commodore ‘Ash- bury—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Rome, Fay, China and Japan—The HFRaLp and Dr. Livingstone—Personal Intelligence— Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices. S—Al Fresco Piety: Descriptive View of the Great- est Camp Meeting of the Age—Exiled Priests in Californta—New York City Itema—Brooklyn Opinions of the Parade—Cholera in Phantom—Aftirs at Quarantine—The Depart- ment of Buildings—Our Apache Visitors from Arizona—Sing Sing Prison Matters—Unfor- tunate Fitch—The enty-third Street Rail- road—Captain Woods Not Lost. Q—Financial and Commerclal: The Bank State- ent for the Week; Indications of a Reflux of ‘ational Bank Currency ; tee pilus Reserve Down Halfa Million; The Specie Export Yes- terday Nearly Three nope, and for the Week Nearly Five Millions; The Week's Im- Ports of Foreign Goods Six and Half Millions; A Dull Day in Wall Street; Gold Steady and Very Dulland Stagnation in the Stock Market; The Treasury Coin Balance—The New Manhat- tan Market: Description of the Building and Adjuncts—Court of pied Sessions—Free uarrel—Shoplifters Arrested—Mar- Tiages and Deaths—Advertisementa. 40—-Saratoga Races (Continued from Third Page)— The Cleveland Races—Turf Notes—The Turf in England—Obituary—Mr. Russell Gurney on Re Intelligence—Advertise- 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, Feom Curva anp Japan we have later news, “brought by the steamship America to San Francisco and telegraphed overland to the Heratp. The travel and trade from Asia to America continue in full and profitable vol- ume. The advices are not of very decisive import. Japan is much more determined in its exertion for communication with the outer world than is China, Ambassadors are to leave for Paris and London to represent the pao gee Ba « diffiop- augland had a case of otncinl e -y With the Japanese potentate at his ~wn Court. A Cuorzra Scare mn THE Crry seemed im- minent yesterday, from the fact that a report had been circulated of a death from the fright- ful scourge of Asiatic cholera having taken place in our midst. This was strengthened from the fact that a physician who made the post-mortem examination declared it to be a genuine case of the Semitic species. Further inquiry and active measures by the health authorities proved it to bea case of cholera morbus, and not the epidemic. This will be reassuring to those who may have been frightened out of their proprieties by the false report. Porz Pros tre Nixta anp THE VACANT Carprnats’ ~=Hat.—A London newspaper states that it has information from Rome, under the signature of ® person high in. authority in the Vatican, by which it is assured that His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth has created the Most Revér- end the Archbishops of Westminster, Eng- land, and of Paris, Cardinals of the Church, ond that a scarlet hat has been also assigned to the American episcopacy. The latter pro- motion was conferred on the Most Reverend Martin John Spalding, then Archbishop of Baltimdts, The English press states that the Papal fiat was profidiincaa on the Ist of No- vember Inst, All Sairits’ Day, The Arch- bishop of Baltimore, a most promisifig and estesined prelate, has been removed from the world by death since that tige. The fold is never wanting in shepherds; the watchmen are ever on the walls. America has lost one brilliant son by the demise of His Grace of Baltimore, but the Roman Catholic altars still sparkle with jewels which light up the uni- versal episcopacy. So, if His Holiness has | deigned to send us a scarlet hat, as is alleged jn London, let him forward it to New York, where it wijl be worthily and gracefully worn, |.running through the whole length of the island ‘The New York Charter Importance of a Good ment, Now that the Presidential candidates are fairly in the field, and the entries for the great national race in November are finally closed, our citizens can afford to devote some attention to their local affairs and to examine the pro- grammes the politicians are preparing for them in the charter election. The unanimous adoption of Horace Greeley by the democrats, who generally have majorities varying from thirty to sixty thousand in this city, is believed by the political prophets to be likely to draw out a very full democratic vote, and this, it is thought, added to the strength of the liberal republicans, will be sufficient to carry New York for the whole democratic ticket by something like eighty or ninety thousand majority. But our local politics have recently been much disturbed, and it would not be sur- prising if the peoplo should decide to vote one way on Presidential candidates and another way on local candidates, and thus disappoint the calculations of the politicians. The late corrupt Legislature failed +o make any altera- tion in the present city charter, and under the law as it now exists the national, State and municipal elections occur on the same day. It is feared by some that this pro- vision is calculated to prove injurious to our local interests, inasmuch as—First, the people may be too much engrossed in the important national contest to pay much heed to our city affairs, and next, an opportunity may be afforded to unprincipled men to trade and dicker between the several tickets. We can see no reason, however, why intelligent citi- zens, who have the good of the metropolis at heart, should not be capable of deciding on the same day whether Grant as weare or Greeley as we ought to be igthe most de ‘ble person to fill the office of President of the United States for the next four years, and whether this party’s candidate for Mayor or that party's candidate is the most likely to Prove advantageous to the city of New York as its Chief Magistrate. At all events, we are called upon to choose national, State and municipal governments on the 5th day of next November, the anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ famous plot to blow up the British Parliament, and hence it becomes the duty of intelligent citizens to examine and decide for themselves as to the qualifications of the aspirants for the several positions, all of which have their own important bearing on the prosperity and happiness of the Commonwealth. The Presidential candidates, as wo havo said, are already known, and the people will have ample time to discuss their respective merits if they have not already made up their minds on that point. The politicians are now busying themselves about the State and char- ter nominations, and several supposable as- Pirants for the latter have left the city to avoid the unpleasant complications likely to arise in the preliminary stages of the cam- Ppaign, during a season of political disorgani- zation ; some going to Europe and others to watering places, whence they expect to return about September, with rein- vigorated constitutions, non-committal rec- ords, clean hands and sharp appetites to commence the work laid out for them by their friends. The office of Mayor of New York is, of course, sought after with avidity by some, and it is very desirable that it should be well: filled at this time. The next Legislature, it is City Govern- would be honored by his acceptance, and his qualifications are ufficiently well established by the position he has occupied on the Dock Commission, one of the best ever formed under the city government. He has been one of the most active members of that Commission, and the energy with which he has pressed forward the great work of the Board under discouraging circumstances proves him to be unusually competent as an executive officer. He has an intelligent ap- preciation of the wants of the people and of the importance of helping the city forward towards its manifest destiny by a liberal ex- penditure that will speedily repay itself and make New York the metropolis of the world. Under his rule the city's pro- gress would be assured. - Senator James O'Brien carries with him the power always attaching toa young, chivalrous and fearless leader. He is tho acknowledged champion of the reform whose merit is claimed by so many pretenders, and to him is signally due tho victory of last November. The laboring classes are enthusiastic in his cause, and the warm- hearted Irishman and tho caloulating German unite in regarding him as their especial representative. The green flags of the city would all float in his ranks, and the greater portion of the lager would be pledged to his success. John Cochrane ig a. is sngehee politician and a asic “honorable nitn. No person is more familiar than himself with the business of the Mayor's office; no one cer- tainly is more keenly alive to the impor- tance of a wise fostering of all our city inter- ests. He would bring eleganceand eloquence to the discharge of the duties of tho office, and would command @, Jorge SuPer & a classes of citizefis. Under eithér of these can- didates we should secure one much needed re- form—the strict enforcement of some of those existing municipal regulations, such as tho Hack law, which are designed for the protec- tion of the poople, but never apparently put into operation. There are but few other offices to be filled this year under the charter election. A City Judge has to be chosex, but there seems to be but one candidate spoken of or thought of for that position—the present Judge, Gunning 8. Bedford. In the State canvass one journal has brought forward the name of Sanford E. Church for Governor. It has been understood that Governor Hoffman de- sires a renomination, but while he has ably and honestly discharged the duties of the office there are reasons that may render it advisable for him to decline the candidacy at this time. Judge Church’s nomination would be unexceptionable in every way, and would enable the democracy of the State to go into the November contest with an unbroken front and solidly united ranks. It is to be hoped that with both political parties the im- portance of the Presidential issue will induce good nominations for State and city offices, so that whoever may distribute the federal offices at Washington, we shall be certain of efficient and honest government at home. Germany and the Jesuits—The Rigor ous Policy of Prince Bismarck. The Official Gazette of Berlin has just pub- lished the law providing for the banishment of Jesuits from the German empire. The law is sweeping and severe. ll establishments now under the control of the Jesuits must, accord- to be hoped, will be of a different character from the last ; at least it can scarcely be so reck- lessly and shamelessly dishonest. Hence we may expect that it will so amend our present city charter as to secure us a stronger and more responsible government than we now have, and to remedy the last of tho evils of misrule, If this should be done it would be highly important that the work of change and reform should be performed under the superintendence of a com- petent and honest city executive, and of one fully alive to the great future that lies before the metropolis of the Union, and to the wisdom of preparing for it by a system of broad and liberal enterprise. We should have a Mayor next year who appre- ciates the necessity of steam viaduct railroads into Westchester county, along both rivers, opening up a healthful and beautiful locality as homes for our citizens within half an hour's ride of the Battery. We should have a Mayor who understands the vast benefit to be con- ferred on commerce and the impetus to be given to the business and wealth of the city by an energetic prosecution of the magnificent ren wou tail to Make Ney Xouk the greatest port in the civilized world. There should be as fixed a determina- tion on the part of the electors of New York to drive ont parsimony and false economy from the administration of our municipal ‘affairs next year as to exclude dishonesty and corruption. The honest men who, for a niggardly desire to appear to save a few dollars in the annual ex- penses of the government, rob the merchants, shippers, traders, mechanics, storekeepers and laborers of the city by blocking the wheels of progress and discouraging healthful and remu- nerative public improvements are as harmful to the interests of the people as are the rogues who misappropriate and steal the public moneys. The Central Park is a visible proof of the benefit of intelligent enterprise and biberal expenditure on desirable public works, as well os an evidence that | the people can be honestly seryed, Exom its | inception up to the presént moment tho man- seement of the Contral Park has been a credit to all concerned in it, and the fact that it has | already paid for its construction in the in- | creased valuation of property directly depend- | ent upon its influence stands forth in practical testimony of the profitable character of such undertakings. The next Mayor of New York should be a man with enterprise, spirit, bold- ness and honesty enough to foster all works of public improvement, regardless of their legiti- mate gost, The broadest liberality in this | direction is the best economy, Among the citizens prominently named in connection with the Mayoralty are John G. Kane, Senator James O’ Brien and John Coch- rane, President of the Board of Aldermen, in addition to Messrs. Stebbins and Loew. who are now absent on a European trip. These three gentlemen have all their individuab merits and quafifications to recommend them to the | favorable consideration of the electors, Mr. | John G. Kane is pressed for the nomination by the solid commercial and business influence of ing to the new law, be completely broken up insix months. Itis difficult for us, in this country, to understand why a man like Prince Bismarck, who knows so well how to win, should have lent himself to the encourage- ment and support of a measure which has in itso much of, the element of severity. It is well for us, however, sometimes to remember that the United States is not Germany. Sucha measure here is impossible, for the simple rea- son that it is notneeded. Looked at from our point of view, itis impossible to refuse to admit that the new law against the Jesuits is almost cruel. Looked at from another point of view, it is just as impossible to refuse to admit that the new law against the Jesuits is at once pa- triotic and just. The Jesuits in Germany, especially in the South German States, are rich and powerful. No one can deny that in the Catholic countries of Europe they have for many generations rendered good service to the cause of education. To put down wealth and admitted usefulness with so firm a hand would bo unwise, if not,cruel, unless justified by the very best of reasons. Of all living statesmen Prince Bismarck is the last man to allow him- self to be carried away by mere sentiment. With him thonght precedes judgment and getion i ig neyer rash. It may be difficult for us fully to understand his motives. But it is not at all unsafe to say that the rigorous policy which he has adopted against the Jesuits is the result of much patient thought and the fruit of judicious jndgment. The simple truth is that Bismarck has found out that the schemes and plans of the Josuits are opposed to the great work to which he has devoted his life and which he has ss nearly as possible crowned with success. From the most reliable of sources he has discovered that Rome is opposed to the unification of Ger- many under Prussian patronage and control ; that Rome is doing her best to defeat Prussian purposes, and that the Jesuites in Germany are the undisgnised agents and faithful ser- vants of Rome in this particular matter. It is not Bismarck who has made the trouble ; the trouble has been made by Rome and the Jesuits. Bismarck is the champion of Ger- fan unity; gnd we know no good _reagon why he att ding” to his purpose and his honors. If Romo offers fight to Bis- marek it is the duty of Bismarck to-accept the challenge, It is possible that Rome is too fearful and too anxious. It is possible also that Bismarck is too angry. It is not our opinion that Rome can destroy German unity. It is not our opinion that Prussian influence will Protestantize South Germany. The fight, however, is begun, and, while we occupy the position of spectators, we cannot be altogether silent. Bismarck has made the first decisive movement, The fight, now fairly commenced, must command attention the wide world over. It is a new religious war in the land of Luther. Heavy anp Desrnvcrive Storms are reported as having occurred on Friday last in the mid- landand southern counties of England, accom- panied by fierce lightning, which struck and killed several people. These violent summer tropical storms in the British islands appear to have become more frequent from year to Elcetion—The | ment of metropolitan society. Tho office | in these apparent changes of the climate ap- pear to be operating here in our increased summer heats. We hope that these storms in England will prove to be the beginning of a break-up of the dry season throughout the northern temperate zone of both hemispheres. Walting for the Verdict in the Trial of Stokes, ‘The interest in a great murder trial which claims the devotion of different classes, accord- ing to the phases through which it passes, gradually reabsorbs them all as the telling moment arrives when the jury retire to consider their verdict The trial of Stokes was no exception to the rule, and yesterday the fact that the critical period had arrived caused as deep an excite- ment to pervade New York as on the night that Fisk lay dying at the Grand Central Hotel, in January last. The Court assembled at the usual hour, and the whole room was crowded instantly. Among the throng were many prepared to look on the trial as a farce if the man at the bar did not hang as high as Haman, and who were not slow to say so, Others there were who, for old friendship’s sake or family reasons, hoped to see the prisoner free once more ; and the great morbid mass of men and women who cared for nothing but sensation filled up the listeners. It was known, that be see must go to the jary, and, altbatigh th wan a af tate in every word spoken, impatience for the end was visible on every face except the prisoner's. We have been told from day to day of the good spirits of the accused, as tho visible emotion or stolidity of the prisoner in capital trials has been described for many ears; but the pallor and anxiety which @rt thomeclveg gt the a moment came yesterday to Stokes. is not wonderful ; it is nature speaking in defiance of will at the sight of the fingers of fate raising the curtain of doom. §o, with the Judge on the bench, the jury in their seats, the counsel for the defence wary and watch- ful, and the prisoner with faculties strained, despite his restless nervousness, the District Attorney resumed his summing up. The line of argument was clear and kept carefully in view the theory of the prosecution, that death resulted from the injury by the bullet discharged by the prisoner, with inten- tion to kill, and that there was no provocation. Precedents were adduced to prove that killing, no matter with what suddenness, was often mur- der. Precedents, however, are not always paral- lels, for no two cases are ever alike throughout. The Rogers and Nathan murders, for in- stance, were not parallel cases, for the great reason that there never had been a trial in either case, and the fact that the verdict of a Coroner’s jury is frequently modified or set aside entirely by the higher and more formal inquisition, The implied comparison between Abraham Lincoln and Fisk, in the fact that hundreds of thousands thirsted at one time for the Blood of the former—but he (the District Attorney) did not dream that any one would be so base as to take his life—must be considered as far- fetched. Beyond these illustrations he claimed that the prosecution had proved all it desired. The defence, he contended, had brought for- ward theories weak in every point, relying for the main one—want of premeditation—on the evidence of the prisoner himself. The District Attorney’s style seems to deal Jargely in interrogatory, as, for instance, when attacking the medical line of defence, he asked, ‘Why did he put him in such a po- sition that no skill could cure him?’’ This is very suggestive, certainly, but not wholly sat- isfactory: On the minor points of difference between the evidence of witnesses for the pros- ecution he expressed himself as satisfied that the main story had been untouched thereby. In conclusion, he said that if the jury released this man blood would continue to flow in our streets. That the effect of Stokes’ acquittal would be so sanguinary seems not a wholly justifiable conclusion; for no man, where the organization of society is undisturbed, should be immolated purely with aneye to restraining murderous instincts in others. The essence of civilized law is that a case be tried on its merits alone, and that the immolation or acquittal have reference only to the guilt or innocence of the accused. The charge of the Judge-followed. Defin- ing the crime of murder, he recounted the theories on both sides, and told the jury to choose only upon the admitted evidence. Avoiding an opinion on the value of the medical testimony on either side, he left the probe and the morphia to the jury. He charged that if the wound was mortal the ac- celeration of death by the doctors was not material. This was excepted to strongly by Mr. Tremain. His Honor told them also that no verdict between murder in the first degree and manslaughter in the third was admissible, and, at the request of Mr, Tremain, that a reasonable doubt of the homi- cide not being justifiable would entitle them to acquit. The charge was impartial and clear, Thus directed, the jury retired. Then came on that scene of waiting for the verdict, where the imagination may find fall play for picturing the anguish of doubt, the alternations of hopes and fears, where the prisoned mind bursts its bars and riots in a fancied freedom, to find the iron of the dun- | geon on the limbs and a perspective bounded by a gallows and a patch of sky. These thoughts must rush across the fevered rain, np matter hoy frisnda may crowd around in éfriiest sympathy; they can live their careers of agony in the duration of a pistol flash, in the instant the words of cheer and the faitering of the tongue that ar- ticulates its hope against hope. We must let down a veil over these moments, which should be sacred with even the most abandoned of the human kind. The jury wanted instruction as to pre- meditation—the space of time in which the fatal intention could be evolved in the mind. The Court ruled, and the counsel for the defence excepted. They wanted to take the clothes of the deceased with them, and counsel on both sides con- sented. After long, weary waiting, during which the bloodthirsty, the sympathizers and the morbid of the audience never moved, the Court announced that since the jury had not agreed they would be locked up for the night. The andience slowly emptied into the street, and the prisoner was led back tothe Tombs. Dramaticand thrilling as must year for the last four or five years than ever the city and by the wealtby and intelligent ele- known before, and the causes qverating there always be the scone where a fellow being is 1 condemned to death, the picture of a man in the prime of life returning through the twi- light to a dark cell, with twelve men who hold his existence in their hands deliberating whether they shall give it or take it from him, is one sufficiently terrible for contemplation in itself. Such is the aspect of the latest step in this great murder trial. Holiness as a Hobby. It is quite possible, as people say, to have “too much of a good thing,” or in other words to make a good thing disagreeable in its pre- sentation and in its acceptance by continually harping on or “hobbying”’ it. This, we fear, is what the present advocates of the doctrine of holiness are doing throughout the country. They mean well, we dare say, but we question whether zeal is according to knowledge. The doctrine of holiness, both of heart and of life, is nota new one invented or promulgated for the first time by the National Camp Meeting Association of the United States. It is histori- cally as old as the Jewish Church, and is nearly as old as Creation itself. A God of holiness and purity must naturally and necessarily expect those qualities and graces in His children. He has made provision in His Gospel and in His economy of grace for their attainment, and- were people properly instructed in these things there is no good reason why the Christian Church should not as readily accept ‘full salvation” as partial salvation, which the advo- cates of holiness imply and assert the Church has only yet attained to, vi mois This movement in these latter days origi- nated among the Methodists, but within the past three years it has embraced Baptists, Presbyterians and Quakers. A national asso- ciation has been formed in this country, and two Methodist pastors pare gi Shanes yes Ap molly The prea ig oF ry pape ey travel thousands of miles angually, North and South, East and West, declaring this doc- trine from pulpits and platforms and through the press, and they count large accessions to their way of faith. But there is an egotism and self-assertion about its presentation that mar the beauty of the thing itself, and make it disagreeable rather than acceptable to the multitudes. The advocates and teachers of this doctrine to a great extent hide the Saviour’s work for human redemption behind that of the Holy Spirit, and in their own lives and conversation they too often say to the less Tam holier than thou.” Hence, though there are a goodly number of professors in many of the Churches, the doctrine is not at all pop- ular among the people. However, it has in it the elements of tenacity and of success, and though they may be called ‘a pack of fools,” as it is reported they were so called by a prominent Methodist minister a few days ago atthe Sea Cliffcamp meeting, they will keep hammering away until they make them- selves heard and felt, and, like the abolition- ists of other days, they may get the senti- ment of the Church around to their own by and by. But before that day comes ‘they must change their expressions and modes of presenting this great truth to the people. The professors of holiness draw very largely upon St. Paul for their understanding and assertion of this doctrine. But they seem to ignore the fact that that great Christian teacher did not confine himself wholly to this doctrine. Indeed, it forms a comparatively small part of his teaching. He was much more anxious that those to whom he preached should believe in and accept the Lord Jesus Christ, and then he encouraged the converts to go on unto perfection and to grow up into Christ, their living head, in all things. The Saviour, too, in all His teachings, conveyed the idea that the Christian life is a develop- ment of the spiritual in man, not a sudden transition from one state to another. With Him the kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which springs forth and develops into a great tree, or like leaven hid in measures of meal which is gradually con- verted into bread, or like treasure hid in a field, which by a gradual process of labor must be sought after. Itis on this point that the great mass of Christians differ from the few leaders of this doctrine. The former read and believe that perfection, purity, sanctification, or holiness of heart, as the experience is inter- changeably called, is a growth in grace, a con- stantly developing process of spiritual life. The latter believe that it is an instantaneous work, and that, after their explanation of it, ny man may obtain it who seeks for it; and on this rock they split. These deny practi- cally that the purification of the human heart may be both gradual and instantaneous, and hence, during the encampment at Sea Cliff grove, Rev. Mr. Inskip is reported to have said, in substance if not in words, that un- sanctified persons (according to his under- standing of it) were unsaved. It is this kind of dogmatic assertion, and limiting of the Almighty to particular modes of operation, that causes so much trouble in the Christian Church, men are so apt to forget that God’s ways are not as our ways, nor are His thoughts as our thoughts. We are none of us likely to become too holy; but if holiness is desirable it should be made at least as attractive to the masses as the Scriptures present it, and it should not be made a hobby to the exclusion of other equally important Christian doc- trines. No minister who confines himself solely to this can be said to teach the whole coungel of God, and the man who thus fails miserably fails. We recommend Messrs. In- skip and Company to give this doctrine its proper place in the line of Christian truths, but not to ride it to the death nor make it hideous. Tre West tN War, Srizet was an un- usually quiet one, and yesterday was about the dullest day thore in the memory of the present generation of financiers. Such a summer for leaving business and rusticating bas seldom been equalled. “All work and no play’ is a proverb which is getting to be generally sug- gestive to business men. Railroad Progress in the Far West. The development and progress of the rail- road system in the United States generally can hardly be realized. The increased number of miles constructed and put in operation every decade is truly astonishing. But the progress of railroad development in the heart of the Continent, which was an unexplored wilder- ness a few years ago, is still more surprising. Besides the Pacific Railroad, which traverses the whole Continent, there are numbers of other railroads pointing to the great dividing range of the Rocky Mountains, and are advanc- ing toward that central portion of the country, Then, lateral lines are being fortunate or less sanctified, ‘Stand back, for |. constructed from the States and Territoricd north in the direction of the Mexican border. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which is projected from Denver, Colorado, to the Mexican border at El Paso, and which will be eight hundred and fifty miles long, hes been completed and is in operation a hundred and twenty miles of the distance. Who, ten or fifteen years ago, would have imagined such, wonderful progress? It will not be long be- fore the States of Mexico will be reached both directly from the east by way of Texas and laterally from the growing States among the Rocky Mountains, and then will the work of manifest destiny be practically accomplished, if not before, by the absorption and control of Northern Mexico, Truly we live in a wonder- ful age of progress, No one, indeed, would venture to predict the future of our glorious country. Commodore Ashbury Sent to Coventry by Vice Commodore Douglas—A Proper Rebuke. A special cable despatch to the Hzratp, pubs lished to-day, gives an account of the sailing of the Havre regatta on Thursday. The Ameri- can yacht Sappho was entered for the race by her owner, Vice Commodore Douglas, of the New York Yacht Club, for the purpose of test- ing her speed with the famous English yacht Guinevere, owned by Commodore Thellusson, and expected to be one of the competing Ee , in the regatta, It appears, however, for some reason not explained, the Gui-, nevere was withdrawn, leaving in #h3 face only one English yacht of sufficient tonnage to con- tend with the Sappho—the well-known Livo- nia, owned by Commodore James Ashbury. Thereupon Vice Commodore Donglas. with- drew the Sappho also, declining to sail any ith Mr. aa sole Bu Bate te ow te Shara Sappho to the Livonia, already satisfactorily established here, Mr. Douglas started from his moorings fifteen minutes after the regatta fleet had got away and bowled along after the disputatious Commodore. The Sappho was out only one hour and a half, but within that time she overhauled and passed the Livonia, crossing her bows fully one mile ahead, showing that had the former yacht started for the race she would, doubtless, have carried off the prize and the Livonia would have been nowhere in the contest. The rebuke thus administered to Mr. Ash. bury, although a severe one, was undoubt- edly justifiable, and Vice Commodore Douglas will be applauded everywhere for his spirited Tefusal to sail a race against a yachtsman who has proved himself deficient in those sporte- manlike sentiments ‘that usually distinguish his countrymen. The New York Yacht Club some time since signified their opinion of Mr. Ashbury’s remarkable fretfulness and tiresome technicality while in American waters and his subsequent ungracious charges against Ameri- can yachtsmen by declining to accept the cups he had presented to the club to be sailed for by its members and directing their return to their owner by the silversmith with whom they had been lodged. Mr. Douglas, who is courteous and cautious by nature, and who never acts on a hasty impulse, has now shown Commodore Ashbury how entirely the American yachtsmen approve the course pur- sued by the New York Yacht Club. Vice Commodore Douglas is one of the most spir- ited and enterprising yachtsmen in the United States, and he sails a boat that has not its su- perior in the world. It was a sacrifice on his part to forego the satisfaction of winning the he could not consent to meet a competitor who, after receiving every courtesy and indul- gence from American yachtsmen, and being fairly beaten in every race, on every point of sailing and in all weathers, refused to accept his defeat in good spirit and charged the vic~ tors with unfairness and unsportsmanlike con- duct. We believe that Commodore Ashbury’s. legal acumen will enable him to discover, without the aid of eminent Queen’s counsel, the propriety and prudence of Mr. Douglas’ action. The Vice Commodore of the New York Yacht Club could not derive any satis- faction from a contest with a gentleman who had accused that club of sharp practice and unsportsmanlike conduct, and a temporary visitor to England, whose time is limited, would scarcely be wise to draw upon himself one of those wearying and interminable floods of newspaper protests and special pleas that are the inevitable penalty of a victory over one of Commodore Ashbury’s yachts. The luxury of defeating a yachtsman whose chart is Blackstone’s Commentaries, who carries a solicitor in addition to a sailing master, and an eminent Queen’s counsel as well asa cook, and who writes faster than he can sail, can only be indulged in when one has leisure to read col- umns of newspaper correspondence and to wade through quarto pamphlets liberally em- bellished with diagrams. The English yachtsmen, who are true sporte- men in spirit, will, we are certain, approve the action of Vice Commodore Douglas. A mem- ber of the Royal Yacht Squadron would not be likely to enter into a contest with a yachts- man who had charged the members of the squadron with sharp practice and unsporte- manlike conduct, and they are conversant with the unpleasantness generally connected with Commodore Ashbury’s matches. Some of them, as a matter of courtesy and national pride, sympathize with his defeat in American waters, and express the belief that he was overmatched; but they ask him why he sailed at all in New York if he considered himself unfairly treated? He had the option of de- clining to race, and an English yachtsman does not understand why he should have persisted in trying his fortune only to fret and fuss over defeat ond make charges against his competitors after the con- test was decided. ‘I only wonder you sailed at all if you were dissatisfled with the arrange- ments,” says Commodore Thellusson, when appealed to by Mr. Ashbury. ‘It would have been far better for you not to have sailed at all,’ echoes the Marquis of Exeter. These yachtsmen can understand an owner's de- clining to race when he believes his yacht ta be unequally matched, but, ss English sporte- men, they know that when a yachtsman accepts the conditions of a race, however unequal, and sails to win, he is precluded, in the event of defeat, from complaining and protesting and fretting about it afterwards. Indeed, we are aware that the English yachtsmen regret Mr. Ashbury’s American matches as much on ac- count of their countryman’ s.singularly litigious spirit as because of his defeat, and they will not wonder that Americans prefer to avaid any