The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD ; te JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. _—— All business or news leters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youx Huma. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. Volume XXXVIL..........:ccssseseeeee Os 107 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowory.— ‘Brow ron Brow—Dick Turri. wont THEATRE, Bowery.—A Wire ron 4 Dar— ‘oman's Witt, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad’ orner Thirtieth at. 3 way. corner eth st.— Norez Daz. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC TUEATRB, Broadway.—Varizry Entss- ‘TALI. 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Wotkingmen’s Asaoct b? . ave 8, ternal stir and Sem’s Red Rebels: How Skulking ‘ Hi sopreciate Governmental Caressing; eo Drama—Advertisements, 'eace Policy “Played Out;” Mr, Lo Im- mt and Callous; General Sheridan's posed memieay; Loud Cries for Vengeance— of & Murdered Policeman—The Po- . i Ke 4 in Spain: The Downfall of Ser- 10 low It Was Brought About; A gerous Crisis Reached ; Zorrilla Declines to Premier Party Bring Him in 8 lumph to Madrid and He Yields and Forms a eo pentpens—4 qammonsshiy Monument: The New Medical College—The Alsations and Lorraines—Court Calendars. bags sr Leading ewer Letters from the erald Expedition to ica—Its entific end Historic Interest”—Amusement An- jouncements. GeLivingstone: Staniey’s Letters to the HERALD ribing the Finding of the Great Traveller; vingtone and Stanley Face to Face at Last ; vingstone’s Own Account of His Explora- ns a8 Related to the HERALD Explorer; AStory More Romantic than Romance; Liv- itone’s Refit for Further Surveying by the erican—Business Notices, 6—The Stokes Jury: hahaa ey the Verdict in the Great a p sary Agree to Dis- 3 Lock on Saturday and Sunday hts; The Foreman Ge We have Not d ability of Us Agreet guage Ingranen Sends Them Back gteeing;" Judge Ingraham Sencs Them Bac! Bo Be Lock a Op Until This Morning. and Tells ema That ‘annot Discharge Them Yet; iatonse Excitement in the City Among all lasses of People; How Do They Stand? A Ru- or That There Are Four Jurors for Acquittal, ‘o tor Murder in the First Degree and Six | tr Manslaughter in the Third Degree, Late Last Night—Crime in London: A Man Murders His Mistress, His Two Children, aud Then At- tempts Suicide—Cuba: The General Satisfac- tion at the Removal of Valmascda; Marshal Concha Repudiated—The Uxbridge Bank: ) History of the Robbery of the Institu- lon by an ve bee and Drilled Gang of Burglars—Murderous Affray at Weehawken. J—Advertisements. S=Religious: Sunday Solemnities and the Solar Influences; A Collapse of the Congregations; AGeneral Desertion of the Churches; The Reveren Fathers on the Second and Third Command- ments; Professor Green on the Light of the Word; The Signs of the Times Described by Dr. Edward Beecher, at Plymouth Charch; Reconstruction of the Brooklyn Catholic Cathedral; Dr. Peabody Discourses at the Gare of the Messiah on the Fatherhood of lod—Yale College: Finale of the Annual Ex- ercises—Central Park—Sunday Excurstons— A Superb Police Flag of Honor—Barroom raw! BYale College (continued from Eighth hy ses Financial ‘nd Commercial; Our Wall Street Weekly Review; The Money Market and the Bank Statement; Duiness on the Stock Ex- change; Disproportionate Effect of the Erie Railway Election; New York Central and Commodore Vanderbilt; The Situation in the Gold Market; The Pool Still Waiting Develop- ments; A “Call’’ of Bonds at an Early Day Anticipated in the Street; The Presidential Candidates and the National Finances—Prest- dent Greeley's Financial Policy—Our Apache Guests—Police Mutual Ald Assoclation— Brooklyn Affairs—Long Island Afairs—Mar- es and Deaths, nia Ina Balloon: Tho Aerial Voyage Yesterday y Professor King and Companion—The Ala bama Claims—Cable ‘go ome + from Germany, France, England and Cuba—Brazil for War— Gratz Brown—Miscellaneons Telegrams—Ship- Ping Intelligence—Advertisements, ‘Tae German SnanrsHoorens rnomM AMERICA who have gone over to Fatherland to contest in the National Schuetzenfest enjoyed a cordial and brilliant reception from their countrymen in Hanover, as will be seen by our cable report to-day. Recent Tesrwie Mcnpers w Lonpox.— Our London correspondent in another page of to-day’s Heraup furnishesa letter on the recent terrible murders in London. These horrible deeds find no parallel in recent days, and the brutality with which they have been commit- ted affords another striking example of the effects of liquor on brutal natures. Tar Gexeva Count or Agptrnation for the settlement of the Alabama claims between the governments of the United States and Great Britain will reassemble in the Swiss city to- day. English opinion already anticipates that the Queen’s government will be made to pay a very large sum as compensation for direct damages, and the mind of Mr. John Bull is being cautiously and skilfully prepared for the event of a very heavy draft on Her Majesty's treasury from Washington, Ovr Mapa Cornespoxpece, which is published on another page of the Hznatp this morning, is full in detail and rich in interest of the late political crisis in Spain. Scrrano’s attempt to become dictator and his subsequent retirement from office placed tho King in a most perplexing situation. It was evident to all that a dangerous crisis had been reached. To make matters worse Se fior Zorrilla, it was understood, had declined to accept tho position from which S»g-sia had been forced, and which Serrano felt compelled to resign. From ‘the outlook a stormy aspect presented itself, The gravity of the situation became apparent to all, and not until Zorrilla, at the solicitation of bis friends, finally consented to accept the reins of office, did the dark clouds of the gathering storm pass over. Borne in triumph back to Madrid, the statesman consented to- accept the difficult situation imposed upon him, and immediately set about forming a government to aid Amadous to discharge his kingly duties under the oath he had taken to rale Spain ac- cording to the Spanish constitution, Director of the Redemptorist | Letters from the Herald Expedition to Africa=Its Sclentife and Historic Interest. ‘We present to the Hunatp readers to-day the details of the Livingstone Search - tion to Africa, as regqunted by its in- leleader. As mere relations of personal courage and perseverance amid exciting and trying situations these letters will be read with deep interest and pride by the American people, and will be found of sufficient value to reach, without the lapse of a letter, every country where civilization is more than a name. On this ground alone they will be prized, and will bear out the olden aphorism that ‘truth is stranger than fiction.” Narrated in clear, perspicuous English, agen unvarnished and epitomized record of an eleven months’ journey of over two thousand miles through the haunts of savage beasts and more savage men, these lettéPs, or more properly despatches, contain as much infor- mationas might be extended into a quarto volume. Although in a certain measure an- ticipated by the cable compendium from Lon- don, their perusal will lose none of its edgo and piquancy. In addition to the main facts already published, the history of the journey from Unyanyembe to Ujiji by a circuitous route is told. It will be remembered that the Henaxp expedition"had been delayed in its advance by a war between the Arab traders and Mirambo, a native king of the Wayowea tribe, the latter domanding extortion- ate toll or blackmail on all caravans passing through. Quitting the usual caravan track for Ujjiji, which lay at this point in a northwesterly direction, he plunged into the wooded country towards the southwest, Reaching by this means Ukononga, he made a semicircle to the north, dnd, crossing the Mala- gariza River --came--onee~ more on the caravan track westward to Ujiji. The whole country was at war, and he was obliged to push in a northwesterly line until hg reached a country named Ubha, noted by Burton and Speke. Another native war was before him here, and, ai on former 0¢¢a- sions, he was obliged to quit the road and march through the jungle. This brought him to the outakirts of Ujiji, and there took place that romantic meeting with Livingstone which will form a group for the future as indestruct- ible as the stoutest of stone and bronze, In this exciting framework is set the gem of the narrative, namely the story of the great explorer’s travels, as told by himself. Truly does the Henatp correspondent charac- terize them as the story of five years’ travel, suffering and discoveries. Tho great gaps which existed in our know- ledge of his movements from the day of his desertion by the Johanna men, with their false account of his murder by the Mazitu, to the present are all filled up, and whata record of perseverance, patience and indomit- able will does it not present? Like the echo from a fairy tale comes the old man’s story of races almost white and of fine’ physique, walled in as it were by the negroes around them ; and dear to the students of gray old classic lore comes the tale of the natives | bearing out the words of the oracle as to fourfold fountain sources of the mystic Nile. | But the actual discoveries which cost so much of peregrination, inquiry, hopes, doubts, illusions, misleadings and final successes, are recounted also. He has first of all discovered, as already intimated, that the great river Chambezi, which rises somewhere near eleven degrees south latitude and probably thirty or thirty-three degrees east longitude, is not the Portuguese Zambezi, but the true source of the Nile. After flowing north and westward it runs into the great Lake Ban- geolo, which he discovers to be as large in area as Tanganyika. Out of this ‘a river, the Lua- pula,,flows northward into lake Moero, in about eight degree south latitude. Emerg- ing from this the Lualaba, a mighty stream, runs gonerally northward and in six degrees thirty minutes south latitude, spreads out into Lake Kamalondo. Follow- ing this river northward he reached as far as four degrees south latitude, still tracing tho course of the river, when, from sheer want of supplies, he was forced to return to Ujiji, where tho Herarp Expedition found him. From this statement of his wonderful discoveries the vicissitudes f his travels cannot be imagined ‘hey were not gained with the same ease that one might enter the Mississippi at New Orleans and reach its source in Minnesota. They were the result not merely of per- sonal observation, but required several at- tempts and tortuous journeys, depending for food here and information there upon the natives and two expeditions. Striking a river here and tracing it to a lake, returning for supplies; taking a new direction to find another river and lake, and then connecting these with the former as the links of a chain, is something of tho manner which he worked out the troublesome truth. The unexplored portion of the Lualaba, or Nile, lies between four degrees south latitude and one degree below the Equator, where probably through Lake Albert Nyanza of Baker it connects with the White Nile and flows still northward, meeting the Blue Nile and Atbara from the hills of Abys- sinia, and continues in its wondrous stream past the ruins of Thebes and Luxor and near the Pyramids, constant in its mighty volume as when Sesostris reigned over that old, old land of Egypt. This gives the Nile a total length in direct latitude of twenty-six hundred miles, or through over forty-three degrees. Explorations of Lake Tanganyika were con- tinued by Dr. Livingstone,in company with Mr. | Stanley,and proved thatthe River Ruzizi, of Bur- | ton was an affluent and not an effluent of that tiver, Livingstone also thinks that there is Possibly an outflow through the mountains on the western shore from this lake to the Lua- baba. After a pleasant sojourn at Ujiji the Henarp correspondent escorted the Doctor to Unynnyembe, where supplies from Eng- land were awaiting him. The route this time was by travelling southward on the lake, and, landing on its onstern shore, making a curve ina northeasterly direction, through Unkononga, Then they parted, tho hale, old man of iron will and iron frame turning back toward the savage land to master what remains of the old enigma of the Nile. Liberally supplied was he, too, by the Hrnatp leader with all arms, stores and merchandise (which mean money) that could be spared. On the question of Livingstone’s having received the supplies sent him by his friends iu England these letters will throw a startling light. The carelessness, theft and general mismanagement which overtook the stores forwarded by tho British Consulate at Zanzibar, usually wasted and frittered these almost entirely away before they had timo to reach him. This cannot be bettct stated than in the Henayp commander's words:— “Your correspondent begs to inform his friends that the Hzrarp Expedition found him tured back from his explorations when on the eve of being terminated thoroughly by the very men sent to hig by the British Consulate; that the Expe- dition found him sitting down at Ujiji utterly destitute, robbed by the very men sent by the British Consulate at Zanzibar with his cara- van; that the Hznary Expedition escorted him to Unyanyembe only in time to save his last stock of goods, for they were rapidly being made away with by the very men en- trusted by the British Consulate with the last lot of goods; that it was only by an accident that your correspondent saw o packet of let- ters addressed to Livingstone, and so, forc#ly, took one of Livingstone’s men to carry the letters to his employer.” As showing the sloth of the agents of Livingstone’s English friends, it may be stated that the Henaup Expedition accom- plished two thousand and fifty-nine miles of march in the same time it took the Consular expedition to traverse five hundred and twenty- five. A baffled, sick and weary and destitute man was this great explorer when met and succored by the Herat expedition. When he parted to wend his way back to the Lualaba he was not in the best of health, yet had no fears for his life, and bore with hima formidable -plan of exploration, which. he-heped to get over in eighteen months, or at moit two years. | This great work of the Herat, thus mag- nificently accomplished, forms a proud monu- ment to the enterprise of the independent jour- nalism of America, As such it was under- taken, and ae such the world bears witness to it, SP ne ots ig Another Day of Agony for Stokes—Con- tinued Disagreement of the Jury. Another day of painful, racking doubt for the prisoner Stokes will havo passed ere the long-deliberating jury are called up once more to say whether they have found a verdict. At eleven o'clock yesterday morning Judge In- graham took his seat upon the bench did the jury were brought in. A crowded Court, des- pite the fact of its being the Sabbath, scruti- nized them as they entered, and as the prisoner came in, wearied and nervous under the tenta- tive agony, the usual ripple of whispered comment was brought to a dead stop by the voice of the crier. Still the jury had not agreed—no probability, said the foreman, of their agreeing. Emphatic protest from the same man to tho contrary, the Judge, not listening to their difficulties, locked them up again. A messenger to inform the Judge if they agreed was kept at hand, and the Court adjourned. Public excitement tan higher than ever, and speculation was rife as to the position of the jury in their disagreement, The most general rumor seemed to say that a large majority were in favor of the lighter verdict—manslaughter in the third degree. Some adhered to the idea that the majority held out for the death sen- tence, either story being believed by those whose views it suited. The prisoner, it ap- pears, and his immediate friends, felt that every hour told in his favor. In all such cases, outside the jury-room, speculation gam- bles curiously with life and death, and, except very rarely, the sad, central figure of it all gains in sympathy of a personal kind. The naked crime‘ftself may stand before the public mind unchanged in its aspect, but the most impatient for a prisoner's life must pity the long-drawn mental torture of a man waiting with unclosed eyes and fevered brain from sunrise to sunrise for the two words of liberty or the one word of doom. It is one of the anomalies of the human mind, but not a dis- creditable one. The Traders in Indian Troubles. The United States government, in its deal- ings with the Indians, hag found no more for- midable obstacle in the path of conciliation than those unscrupulous white men who make a business of fomenting the worst passions of the aborigines. An Indian war to such men means only a brisk trade and a fortune gained in the blood of slaughtered settlers, The recent letter of the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Brigham Young, shows that the government at last thoroughly understands the true position of affairs on the frontier. He says:—‘I am apprehensive that there are some evil-minded white persons who are, and have been, contributing their influence to produce dissatisfaction among the Indian population.” Alarming reports of hostilities on the frontier are of frequent occurrence, and it makes no small demand on the coolness and judgment of the officers of the government stationed there to discriminate in such cases, The treachery of the Indians is proverbial, but much of it is engendered by white men who are lost to all feelings save those of making money, no matter what vile means they employ for that purpose. The prompt punishment of such men, when detected, would go further towards abolishing Indian wars than all the military power of the government exerted against the savages themselves, They are the real authors of the miseries that periodically afflict tho frontier. Tae Bank Rosszny m Uxsninor.—The facts of the entry and robbery of the Black- stone National Bank, at Uxbridge, Mass., by a band of burglars are reported in full detail by special telegram in the Hznatp this morn- ing. The operations of the robbers, their taking of the teller of the institution from his private residence in the night, leading him to the bank with a halter round his neck, forcing him to open the safe and to stand present while they took out, bagged and car- ried off thirteen thousand dollars, go far to show that the spirit of roniance in crime did not expire with Jack Shepperd and Dick Turpin. The wanner in which the members of the family of the bank official, from his father down to a little female child, were gagged and handcuffed and held in their own houso while the work of outside violence was being accomplished, as well as the time and mode of their release, aro extraordinary in the annals of honsebroaking crime, and will, no doubt, afford food for many new and inge+ nious theories on the part of the police of the United States, ry The Presidential Contest In Its Fi- mancial Bearing Upon the Country. The supporters of the rival candidates for the Presidency will endeavor to make the most of the financial condition, prospects and chances of the country under whichever can- didate may have the control of the govern- ment the next four years. This is always an element in such political campaigns, and though the arguments of public speakers and tho party press will be directed principally to other matters in the present contest, this will be, necessarily, an important topic. Then, the stockjobbers and speculators are always looking out for something to force stocks up or down, in order to make tho most of their business. Not unfroquently they resort to canards for this purpose, particularly when | thereis no legitimate cause for fluctuations in price. Any political excitement, and espe- cially a Presidential election, they seize with avidity. The London stockjobbers are of the same genus as ourown. The cable in- forms us that the 67's fell off a quarter to three- eighths on the receipt of the political news from America, meaning, we suppose, theaction of the Baltimore Convention, There.was no response in our market, however, except that which naturally results from financial sympa- thy between the two great money centres. Our Wall street men knew there was no real cause for a decline in national securities. The London stock speculators, partly from igno- rance of American politics and affairs, and partly because they were glad of any pretext to do a little speculative business, seized the opportunity afforded, without knowing or caring about the facts, It answered their pur- pose for the hour, but they will soon learn that our Presidential contest, whichever way it may turn, is not going to disturb the credit of the country. The administration orators will lay great stress upon the payment of over three hundred millions of the national debt during the term of General Grant's office, the establishment of the credit of tho government on a solid bagis, the eck the premium on gold as pyar nn er ping ng the last year of fifty or sixty millions of taxa- tion, In fact, this argument has been the staple of oratorical efforts in and out of Con- gress, as well as of articles in the administra- tion press. It is upon this mainly that the friends of General Grant rely to secure the support of the conservative, solid and business men of the country. The war issues and the political capital that was made out of the seo- tional feeling against rebels, as well as the Ku Klux bugbear, have served their purpose and are no longer available. The country has well nigh outgrown these, or, at least, is weary of the theme. But the appeal to the people on the management of the national finances is a legitimate one, and has no claptrap jn it. The payment of three hundred millions of debt or thereabout in three years or little more is a stupendous fact. Few governments could boast of a like accomplishment under such extraordinary circumstances as this coun- try had recently passed through. We cheer- fully give the administration all the credit due to it for what it has accomplished in this re- spect. Butletus be just. A large sum of the principal of the debt, os well asa vast amount of doating indebtedness were paid off in the previous administration of Mr. Johnson; Jet little or no credit was given to that admin- istration. The result was accredited to the wonderful resources of the country and the enormous revenue which Congress thought proper to raise. General Grant, it is true, has been able to collect the revenue more faithfully than Mr. Johnson did. The frightful corruption, particularly in the Internal Revenue Department, during the ad- ministration of Mr. Johnson, has been greatly abated in General Grant's term of office. But, while we make no apology for the inefficiency of the former administration in this respect, it is but fair to say that President Johnson was embarrassed at every step by a hostile Congress and by that very party which now claims so much virtue. With General Grant oll has been plain sailing. He had an overwhelming party in Congress, and the political interests and hopes of the large Congressional majority were identical with those of the administra- tion. So far, then, as the financial policy and management of the government has been suc- cessful since the inauguration of General Grant, the merit belongs alike to the adminis- tration and the regular republican party, Still, while wo admit that the revenuo has been more faithfully collected than under the preceding administration, we do not see how the government could otherwise apply the enormous surplus revenue raised from the people than by paying the debt. Nor has this vast revenue been productive of good only. It has kept up a system of extravagance and has led to all sorts of corruption and jobs in Congress. Had taxation been greatly reduced from the commencement of General Grant's administration and the revenue cut downto a peace and an economical basis the country would have been more prosperous. The hun- dreds of millions taken unnecessarily from the pecple and lying idle, in part, in the Treasury vaults would hays gone into the channels of industry and have addea immensely to our productions. The credit of the gov¢rnment would have becn as well or better established | by o smaller revenue and economy than by the policy that has been pursued. This is a fact well known to all political economists. The nation bad shown already before the commencement of General Grant's term of office its ability and fixed purpose to pay the debt. If a small amount compara- tively had been applied to this object annu- ally, and the go¥ernment had returned to strict economy, our securities, wo have no doubt, would have stood higher in the market and we should have been nearer specie pay- ments. The money which has been drawn from business and industry and hoarded in the Treasury has not facilitated specie pay- ments, and has been a loss in interest alone of over twenty millions sinco March, 1869. The administration party in Congress did, within the last few months, bring about a re- duction of taxation some forty to fifty millions. It ought to have been a hundred millions at least. The approaching Presidential election probably led to this action, But it was too partial. It wos a halt measure. A more thorough and bolder reform might have been more advantageous to the administration in the present political contest. Upon the principle that conservative people are dis posed to bear the evils or state of things NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. that exist than to fly to others that they know not of, we suppose a largo portion of capitalists and business men may support Gen- eral Grant in preference to Mr. Greeley. But, as was said before, there need not be any ap- prehension of financial disturbance or decline of the credit of the government, whichever can- didate may be elected. Indeed, the platform of the liberal republicans and democrats and tho profession of the candidates of these com- bined parties promise much more in the way of economy and revenue reform than we havo reason to expect, judging from past experi- ence, from the administration party. Admit- ting that Mr. Greeley has certain vagaries about financial matters and the tariff, he pub- licly avows his purpose to submit to the will of Congress in these matters. With his election, too, there would be, probably, a large number of revenue reformers returned to Congress, for revenue reform is one of the most prominent issues of the campaign. Nor should wo lose sight of the fact that’ the object of this great combined opposition nfovement is to re- store harmony between the different sections of the country and to bury out of sight the issues of the war. This of itself would tend to promote the material interests of the repub- lie, and particularly of the South, andj there- fore, must lead to a better financial condition. If even General Grant should be re-elected, this opposition and bringing the question of reform 68 prominently before the people would, in all probability, lead to a change in the policy of his administration. Every way or any way, the Presidential contest will prove healthful to the interests of the country, and there need not be any fear of tho consequences whether Mr. Greeley or General Grant be elected in November. Yesterday’s Sermons—Timoly Thoughts. Walking with God in such weather as yes- terday is something grand and heroic; and yet we doubt not that Enoch walked with God when the sun shone 4g brightly over the plains of Ispahan as it did over the Island of Manhattan yesterday. And we fully agree with Rey. Mr. Gorham, that walking with God in any doason or place and for so long a time as Enoch thus walked, implies great steadfast- ness of heart and faith, At times it is, as the preacher said, comparatively easy to be a Christian ; and under ‘some circumstances it is easy, but itis always pleasant and always profitable. And hence the poor as well as the rich, and the ignorant as well as the learned, may walk and talk with God, and it is their duty and privilege so to do. And no more fitting example of steadfast faith and cleaving closely unto ~God could have been presented to the Harlem Methodists for their imitation than this walk of Enoch. Church people havo gone and are still going-to the country, and there is a tendency when away from home and from the watchful care of friends and pastors to cast off restraint and cease to walk with God. It becomes, therefore, doubly necessary to encourage them to keep close to Christ and to honor Him in the country as well as in the city and in the heats of summer as well as in the frosts of winter. Many persons who re- spect the church and the Christian religion are yet afraid to openly identify themselves with the people of God lest their pleasures of life should be marred or some great thing be laid upon them to do. Tosuch we commend the timely words of Dr. Peabody. Christianity calls for nothing, he said, but the obligations ofa son of God, of a brother of man, of a citizen of this world. Jesus lays no yoke, im- poses no burden upon us, but rather takes our burdens to Himself and bears them for us. The yoke of Christ is, then, an easy one and His burden light—to light that childhood can bear it; so easy that age and feebleness shall not bend beneath it nor be galled by it. Sceptics who are inclined to ask, What has Christianity done for the world? may find some food for thought and reflection in the dis- course by Professor Greene, of Princeton. It is to the light of the Son of God that the dis- pelling of the darkness which overhung tho hearts and homes of men is due, and the light which we have received from science and art of late years is nothing compared with the light which illumined the world eighteen hun- dred years ago. The entrance of God’s word giveth light not only to individuals, but to. nations, It giveth understanding to the sim- ple and power to them that had no might. We don’t wonder that Plymouth church yesterday presented a desolate appearance. Its pulpit was filled by a Beecher, but not by the Beecher. Dr, Edward Beecher, who has evidently been read- ing the signs of the times, gave the few Plymouth fol who were present yesterday some waymarks and tokens by which they may know when the millennium approaches, There is to be ono great battle, and afterwards a judgment of Christianity itself in relation to Church organization and doctrine. After this there is to be the organization of human soci- ety and the millennial reign, But great changes are to take placo before that time arrives, and, according to this prophet, every one of the conflicts described by Daniel have been gone through or are going through. There has been begun already what may be called a historical Day of Judgment. Popular -institutions are being formed by the Catholics to ¢ontrol political questions and to bring some contro: Over tho Prussian government. It is therefore neceasazy, the Doctor thinks, that we should be ready to undermant and roe cept God's manifestations and the Saviotrs appearing. Personal responsibility to God for the gifts of His grace and love, for the right use of wealth, power, position and influence, is a good subject to be brought before any audience at any time, and Rev. Father Kiely, of St. James’ Cathedral, Brooklyn, presented it grandly and faithfully yesterday. And how truthfully he portrayed our habits of neglect- ing our duties toward God and our fellow men, until some terrible accident awakes us to a sense of our responsibility to both, let the reader judge for himself, And we hope it will be carefully read, and not merely glanced at. The Catholic churches and congregations of New York got along yesterday very generally without sermons. Indeed, their service is in itself so elaborate and. tedious that in such weather as this it is a weari- ness to the flesh without a sermon. Father McDonnell, of Jersey city, took Bismarck in hand yesterday for making war upon tho Jesuits of the German empire. Against his attack the Pope has stood up single-handed and alone, because “it takes out of his bands one of the most powerful and most efficacious means of governing the universal church." This isa very plain admission that Jesuitism is the main support of the Papacy. There is poh dredge Les said, a government that has moral courage enough to declare itself in favor of this defender of right and justice, Pius the Ninth to-day is poor for the cause of Jesus Christ. He rejects what his enemies would offer him, and he will re- main poor rather than that-the Catholic faith should be imperilled. Hence the necessity for the faithful next Sunday to make their ‘‘Poter’s pence”’ into dollars for the sustenance of tho Roman Pontiff in his unequal contest, not with one, but with all the governments and powers of Europe, And this was the lesson enforced by Father McDonnell, The News from China and Japan— Difficulty Between Qucen Victoria and the Mikado. The steamship America. has arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama, as was briefly announced in our columns yester- day. She landed a lprge number of passen- gers for the United States and Europe; the advent of the latter reaffirming the correctness of the first position of the Hznaup, to the offect that the current of travel, as well as the flow route of trade between Asia and the Euro- pean countries would soon be revolutionized and in our favor, the United States becoming the grand reservoir centre for the reception and distribution both of the travellers and cargoes. The news by the America was tele- graphed to us overland and published in our issue on Sunday. It is not of very decisive import, but goes to prove, as have the bulk of our Asiatic advices of late, that the Japanese are more active, more enterprising and more sincere in their efforts for tho attainment of @ solid, substantial national progress than are the Chinese. China inclines towards reactionism, instigated and directed by nativiet fe and the influences which succeod from & Satis of long-preseryed ‘and jealously guarded isolation; Japan looks aha, ia ae ious to see what is beyond her own ts, to” compare fe foreign systems with the home, to expurgate some and hold fast to that which is good. The Mikado was preparing for his visit to France and Great Britain by way of the Suez Canal. He will thus be enabled to at once learn of the social and governmental changes which have ensued from the sudden effacement of a very ancient royalism and the substitution of an almost new-born plan of democratic republican government in its stead. An Ambassador has been appointed for Japan to Paris, and a high functionary of the Execu- tive will hp despatched to London to the way for His Majesty the tidied "The friends of the ex-Tycoon attempted a revolu- tionary demonstration in favor of his restora- tion. It was suppressed by the authorities, many lives being lost in the effort. England is engaged in a quarrel. with Japan on @ ground of ministerial official etiquette which promises to overshadow in its gravity the great Court coat-tail question of the United States with Queen Victoria, and that of Macartney, on the part of Her Majesty, with the late Emperor of China. It appears that a new English Chargé d’ Affaires has been presented to the Mikado. The Eastern poten- tate requested the European envoy to sit down. The latter refused to ‘‘squat,” as it is written in the despatch, and insisted on retain- ing his erect position. Terashimo-Tozo, im- perial Minister of Foreign Affairs, would not receive the Queen’s envoy unless he sat down, so the Englishman retired, head erect and straight on his pins, promising to write to Earl, ville, asking him to say what he is to do about it. The Japanese Ambassador, Terashima (not Tozo, the Minister, but per- haps of the same family), will not, it is said, be received at St. James until this difficulty is adjusted. Queen Victoria may be slightly puzzled at first on the subject ; but she will, no doubt, do what is fair and meet and proper in the premises, One would imagine that the Britisher would feel more comfortable when seated on a fine carpet or rug than he would, standing up, but then it may be that it was more convenient to him to stand up. Perhape he is a very fat Englishman and one well versed” in the law of consequential damages. It is well that the Japanese reception question is brought out just now in such portly shape at ® moment when the physiologista and diplomatists are on the qui vive all over the earth and when science herself is receiving new light from New York to Geneva and onward thence to the source of the Nile and the hoary seat of government in Pekin. It is to be hoped, however, that the British official in Japan: will take a seat somewhere before the Geneva matter is finally adjusted, and permit the cabinets to maintain their intercourse in peace and harmony. Let us attend to the Alabama case first and compel this English- man in Japan, if it isright for him to do so, to sit down afterwards, if only to please our friend the Mikado. War DFraRTMEnt, OFFICE OF THR CHIEF SIGNAL OPFICER, WaAsHINeTon, D, C., July 16—1 A. M. Probabitities, Falling barometer, fresh to brisk southerly to easterly winds, increasing cloudiness and areas of rain from Tennessee to Lake Erte, the upper lakes and the northwest; southeasterly to south- westerly winds. and increasing cloudines# for the New England and Middle States, with prob- aoly areas of rain from Virginia and Pennsylvania to Southern New England; southerly to westerly win partially cloudy weather and occasionat eas oy ain for the South Atlantic States, followed greas 01. | weather on Monday afternoon and by clearid to westerly winds ‘aud geucrall night; southerly (0 Westeny winds and generally clear Weather for the « ~The Weather in This City Yssterday. The following record will show the chariges .2 the temperature for the past twenty-four Lours in com parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Phar- macy, HeraLp Building: 1871. 1872, 1871, 1872 80 3 SP. Miu, 9 = 9B 72 «OPM \ ot oP. M 12M. $ 88 §6128P Average temperature yesterda: Average temperature for corresponding dat last year.... DISTINGUISHED YACHTSMEN, Banaon, Me., July 14, 1872, The yacht Firefly arrived here yerterday from Mount Desert, having on board Senators Hamlin and Chandler, Speake: Blaine, Representative Peters and others, AOOIDENT. | Evia, July 14, 1872. Two young men, R. K. Wallace and John Mead, were drowned im the Chemung River, at Jenkins’ dam, some two miles below here, while bathing this morning.