The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_>-_———_ Rejected communications will not be re- BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Honnst Jonn—WHazet Ere. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Necro Mun- STRELSY, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: Sax. Afternoon and Even! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bi yy. between Houston and Bleecker sts.—A Liru’s Dream, &0. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Bius Bunn. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Cunis ano Lana. ezane THEATRE,. Brooklyn.—Escarep rom Sino NG. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Graxp Inxstaumentat Concent. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science amp Agr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, August 11, 1872, OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. CONTENTS Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—Grantism and Greele; tictans and Men of irs; What They Think of the Election—Bucolle Politics: “the New York Rural Sentiment;” Giving Reasons for Su) the ;, The Career of Honest Old Horsce—The Political Headquarters— North Carolina: The Oficial Count Not Yet Completed—Gratz Brown's Letter of Accept- ance of the Baltimore Nomination—Political jotes, ligious: Programme of Services To-day; HERALD Religious Correspondence; Are There Two Kinds of Spirit ism ? Rabbinical Edu- cation; Movements of the Clergy of All De- nominations —The Prussian Jesuits—The HERALD on Long Island. 6—8aved From Doom: Miserable Failure of Plan- tamour's Prediction; Interesting Review of the Astronomical Situation; Ancient Terror of Comets; A Few Interesting Possibilities— Merrick pen Meeting—Concert Saloons: The Interiors of the Dens and How They Are Con- ducted; Terrible Depravity in the Heart of the Great City—Brooklyn Afairs—The Cutting of Officer Marshea and James Finlay. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The British Par- Uament Prorogned—The Queen's Speech”— Amusement Announcements. J—The British Parliament: Queen Victoria’s Speech Proro; ig the ‘islative Session— Cable Telegrams from Geneva, England, France, Germany and Turkey—News from Sonoth Ameri ‘enezucla, Cuba, Hayti and St. Domin e Bristol Collision: Sinkin, of the Irish Bark B. Rogers by the New Yor! Steamer—A Steamboat Collision on the Hud- son—Shipwrecked at Cozumel—Business No- tices. 8=—_The HeraLp Livingstone Expedition: Con- tinued Comments of the English Press on ye Success; Dr. Livingstone and Dr. Kirk—Legal Raid on Burglars—New York City Items—Departure of the French Band—The Central Park Hoax—Departure of the In- dians—A Policeman Shoots Himseli—Pater- son, N. J., Items. 9—Financial and Commercial: The Usual Satur- day Quiet in All the Markets; Gold steady at 115%" a 115353 Foreign Exchange Quiet but Firmer; sSixty-Day Bills Advancing to 108% a 108% for Actual Business; Money Easy at 2 to 3 Per Cent; Stocks Heavy and Lower; Gov- ernments Quiet and Steady; Southern Securi- ties Dull and Neglected and Railway Mort- gages Firm; The Specie Shipment and Im- ports for the Week; Sub-Trceasury Report; Action of the Stock Exchange Upon the Death of a Momber—European and Havana Mar- kets—Proceedings in the Courts—Jeiferson Market Police Court Yesterday—A Woman's Rights Woman—A Model Sentence—The New ing Law—Marriages and Deaths—Aad- | vel ments. t0—Metropolitan — Natads—Obituary—Yachting— ae tc—Another New Steamship—The Pa- cific Coast—Delinquent Contractors—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, t1—Advertisements, 12—Advertiseme! —Talks with Poll- Tae Srvx1ne or THE Steamer Bristou.—-Yes- terday morning a dense fog brooded over the deep at Newport. As the magnificent Sound steamer Bristol, which left New York on | Friday night for Fall River, entered Newport | harbor, running very slowly, she collided with | British bark laden with iron. As soon as the Bristol could back away from the vessel the | lattersank, without loss of life. Having landed her Newport passengers and freight the | steamer proceeded on her way towards Fall | River, but after a short time was found to be sinking. Captain Simmons, therefore, beached ; her on Coal Mine Flats. After her passengers had been all got off she sank to the guards, | and thus lies at our latest advices. [t is not believed that the injury to her hull is very serious, and probably she will very soon be | got afloat, repaired and resume her place in the line. No estimate can yet be made of the damage, @ prominent item in which will be the partial interruption of the traffic of the line. Five hundred and fifty passengers were on board at the time of the accident, none of whom were injured. Tue American FuaG anp THE CocENEYS.— | The United States fleet, under Admiral Alden, which was expected at Gravesend from Cowes, has made quite a sensation among the Lon- doners. The British, and the Cockneys in par- | ticular, are agight-seeing and sensation-loving | people, and they were preparing to make a | rush down the Thames to look at the Stars and Stripes floating over our squadron. | “Large crowds,"’ the telegram says, ‘are going from the metropolis to visit the fleet, | and steamers have been specially chartered to | accommodate the people.’’ A few years have | tion in this place. | standing questions which divided two kindred | gains less than she seems to gain; for the | visions, has not removed the “ impediment to NEW YORK HERALD, The British rarliament Prorogucd—The Queen’s Speech. At two o'clock yesterday afternoon the British Parliament was prorogued. The occa- sion, though important, was comparatively uninteresting from the fact that Her Majesty Queen Victoria was absent, the Specch from the Throne, as has become of late years che custom, being read by commission. In the earlier years of Her Majesty’s reign, indeod, up until the death of the Prince Consort, the opening and the closing of Parliament consti- tuted the two grand events of the year. The Queen was always present in person ; and the Speech from the Throne, read by the Queen herself, was always and universally admitted to be the most tasteful apeech of the year, and spoken by one of the finest voices in England. In those days the House of Lords was uni- formly crowded ; and the gallorics were filled with fair ladies and bravo mon, the repre- sentatives of the best blood in the British isles, and with a fair sprinkling also of the best blood of all tho lands and kingdoms of the earth. Those good old times are gone; the Queen does not get over her sorrow, and royal speeches, delivered by royal commission, no matter how skilfully constructed and how artistically pronounced, are found to be ‘tame and uninteresting, As it has been for some years past, 80 was it yesterday. From an English point of view, judging from the outlines now before us, the royal ad- dress was sensible and good. © The first place, as was most becoming, was given to the rela- tions of Great Britain with the United States, and spccial reference was made to the Wash- ington Treaty. The indirect claims were alluded to, and the Queen was glad to inform Parliament that the arbitrators had come to the rescue, and, by # spontaneous declaration, had endorsed the views expressed by Her Majesty at the opening of the session. The Canadian Parliament, too, had behaved well. Tt had passed the acts necessary to give effect to the Washington Treaty, and Her Majesty could reflect with satisfaction that the sub- jects with which the treaty deals no longer offer any impediment to perfect concord be- tween two kindred nations. Reference was made to the notification from France of the termination of the Commercial Treaty of 1860, and some stress was laid on the fact that the French government had indicated a desire for further correspondence on the subject. It was announced that an Extradition Treaty had been concluded with Germany; and the Queen, influenced, no doubt, by the Stanley-Living- stone letters, and yielding to the public senti- ment which these letters have called forth, de- clared it to be the fixed determination of the government to take steps for dealing more effectually with the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa, The Commons were very properly thanked for the liberal allowance they had made from the public purse for the general purposes of government. The most impor- tant measures adopted by Parliament were flatteringly alluded to in detail; and thought ful reference was made to the tranquillity and growing prosperity of Ireland. The closing words of the speech are worthy of reproduc- They are these: —‘‘ While I cordiaily congratulate you on the activity of trade and industry, I hope it will be borne in mind that periods of unusually rapid changes in prices of commodities and in the value of labor are likewise periods which more than ever call for the exercise of moderation and fore- thought. In bidding you farewell, I ask you to join with me in acknowledging the abun- dant mercies of Almighty God, and imploring their continuance."’ Such is the Queen’s speech, as read by Royal Commission, in the month of August, 1872. To the speech itself, away from the reference tothe Washington Treaty, we have not the slightest objection. We are pleased to learn that in spite of all the marvellous changes which are taking place in the world and among the nations, the British empire goes on pros- pering and to prosper. We are not sorry to learn from the Queen’s speech that the British people are happy at home and on the best of | terms with all their neighbors. We musi be | excused, however, if we refuse to share in the general joy which the Washington Treaty, and particularly the ‘spontaneous declaration’ of the Geneva Arbitrators seem to have occasioned in England. Itis not our opinion that the Washington Treaty has brought to a satisfactory conclusion all the out- nations; nor can we reflect with satisfaction that every impediment to perfect concord has | been removed. What we have said before we | must repeat. The Washington Treaty has been a diplomatic triumph to England. On our part it has been a failure. But after all we lose less than we seem to lose, and England | Washington Treaty, it will be found, has not bridged the chasm, has not healed the di- Transfer bill (Scotland), the Contagious Dis- eases Prevention bill, the Master and Servants’ Wages bill and the Metropolitan Police Super- annuation bill. These and other bills were then formally set aside; and it is not unrea- sonable to take it for granted that many more, all of them, of course, of great impor- tance, were added to the unfortunate list before yesterday at two o'clock. It is not permitted us to pronounce the session just ended one of the great sessions of the British Parliament. It will not compare with that of 1867, when Mr. Disraeli, much to the annoyance of the liberals, carried his Reform bill. It will not compare with the sessions of 1869, 1870 and 1871, made memorable respec- tively by Mr. Gladstone's great triumphs— the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the reform of the Irish Land laws and the aboli- tion of purchase in the British army. At the same time it would be in the last degree unjust to say that the session has been a fruitless one. No great measure comparable to those we have just mentioned has been carried. But the Ballot bill has become law—a bill which in principle seriously touches a vital part of the British constitution; and it is not unfair to say that if no other bill of any consequence had been passed this one measure would have been sufficient to give the seasion a distinc- tion. This, however, has not been the only fruit. Much good work of various kinds has been done. In the absence of positive infor- mation it is not safe to speak with too much confidence; but it was confidently expected that before the prorogation yesterday the Scottish Education bill, the Mines Regulation bill, the Licensing bill and the Public Health bill would all be passed into law. It is not to be doubted that many important measures have been deferred; and it may be taken for granted that if Mr. Gladstone is spared he will have on hand in the next session of Par- liament sufficient work to tax his energies. There is a universal desire for reform; and England, Scotland and Ireland are each of them and equally imperious. Meanwhile we are not sorry that lorde and honorable gentle- men have exchanged the murky atmosphere of Westminster for the fine fresh air of the north. A Remedy Against Sower Gas. The immense importance of protecting our dwelling houses from tho impure and pesti- lential infusion of sewer gas, upon which the Heratp has often commented, has recently stimulated the inventive genius of our mechan- ics to supply a remedy. A simple and excel- lent contrivance has been lately made and patented by a gentleman of this city, for trapping the foul air in the pipes which open in houses and communicate directly with the reservoirs of the filthy and disease- laden atmosphere of the great sewers. Modern architecture has studied luxury far more than sanitary security in the interior arrangements of our private mansions and hotels. The net- work of sewer pipes brings the most superb and elegant residences of the wealthy, by sub- terranean channels, into direct atmospheric connection with the most neglected and deadly tenements and pesthouses of the city. There are hundreds of causes daily at work to set in motion the air of the sewer and propel it into the hundred smaller pipes which discharge their gaseous poison into our halls and bedrooms, azd thus produce disease and death. This pneumatic dissemina- tion of the foul air is accomplished by the wind blowing into the sewer openings at the street corners, by the agency of storm and rain flooding the great conduits, by the changes in barometric pres- sure, by sudden variations in the temperature and, indeed, by the ordinary return of day and night. It is a well-known fact that the late illness of the Prince of Wales was occasioned by just this agency, and our Board of Health have reported numerous instances in which whole families have been poisoned, and some fatally, by inattention to this lurking but fearfully real danger. Numerous plans have been suggested for meeting it, and some eminent sanitarians have gone so far as.to pronounce in favor of giving up the luxury of water in our houses. It is hardly possible that people accustomed to this comfort will ever part with it, and hence the great necessity of just such an | invention as the one referred to, by which the peril from the sewer is thoroughly averted. With an abundance of water to flood the pipes in the walls of our tenements and other dwell- ings, and with this simple and inexpensive trap, the air breathed by the inmates would be pure and unexceptionable. If we ara to be invaded by epidemic diseases this fall it is | very desirable that no time should be lost in applying a remedy to the evil pointed out. Steam on Street Railroads. Our street cars are entirely inadequate | for the work they undertake. They must be \ perfect concord between two kindred nations.”’ It is useless, we think, any longer to disguise | what seems to be a universal conviction, that | the damages to be awarded will be a source of | pain rather than a canse of satisfaction, As | produced a wonderful change in the English regarding everything American. They are | becoming very amiable to their “cousins” | across the Atlantic, particularly since they | have had their own way in the matter of the | Alabama claims, and as they are making so | much money out of us in the way of trade. | John Bull is apt to despise the day of small | things and to show his hauteur to small | people, but is extremely polite to the great, | whether nations or individuals. A fleet is not | a strange sight in British waters or on the Thames, but with the starry flag of the great American republic over one the Londoners are | intensely moved. German Honor To 4 Nationan Benzvactor.— The German people unveiled the statue which has been erected to the memory of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, in Berlin, yesterday. Jahn | was the founder—the father, he was called—of | the Turnvercin system of gytunastic exercises, which is now so universally practised by Ger- mans. The ceremonial which was observed | in the Prussian capital was worthy of his name | and work. German deputations from Amer- | ica, England and almost all the neighboring Old World countries formed part of a festive j procession, which marched to the base of the | monument and around it. Jahn’s name will be known on earth so long as the Turnverein practice continues to afford the mens sana in | corpore sano to the Teutons; and that is likely to be for a very long time indeed. \ | | | we bave said, with the rest of the speech we | are in perfect accord, and in the concluding | advice and prayer we can heartily join. Lords ; and honorable gentlemen are now at liberty. | Having left the heat and dust of the great city | behind them they are now rushing by rail to all the ends of the three kingdoms. Whether they seek health and pleasure among the Cum- | berland lakes, amid the wilds of Killarney, on | the Scottish hills or by the Fiords of Norway, | we wish them well. We shall not be sorry to learn by and by that they have all retarned to their Parliamentary duties, if not wiser, at least stronger men, A long and far from uninteresting session of the British Parliament has thus come to o close. It is reasonable, we think, to take it | for granted that a considerable portion of the | work which it was intended to’ do has not been | done. It is only a few nighta since Mr. Glad. | stone was reminded by Colonel Wilson Patten that among the orders of the day there were not fewer than ninety-eight bills. It was an alarming announcement to be made at so late a day in the session. Honorable gentlemen were put to their wits’ end. Mr. Gladstone, however, with his usual promptness, came to | their aid, and commenced, in Parliamentary | parlance, the ‘Massacre of the Innocents.” | Seven bills, as the Premier said, were standing like a row of criminals ready for execution; and exeented they were forthwith. Among the bills so set aside may be mentioned the Grand Jury Presentments bill (Lreland), tho Land the main reliance for conveying the vast | stream of local travel from point t point in | our city and into the suburbs. On all holidays theyare greatly overtasked. Take, for instance, | last Sunday. At certain hours the cars on all | the lines were crowded as full as they could be | packed—so full that only by almost cruel beat- | ing and urging couid the jaded horses start | their loads, If the companies put at work all spare stock on these occasions they still lack the requisite power to move the concourse of those who demand accommodation. Evi- dently it would not pay to keep large numbers of extra horses for use at such times, Yet the | lack of power should be met. Why can we | not try a remedy for this defect, | which bas proved a success in > New Orleans? There cars are run nine miles with ample power by a boiler of water heated at the station house. No fire is | used in connection with the car, uor is there | any noise or any escape of steam. Little | room is occupied by the engine and one man isable to act ag driver and conductor, stop- | ping the car by the brake and starting without | any difficulty. At the station the water is re- heated by connecting it with a furnace, and the car is ready to make another trip. By this | method there would be no killing of valuable stock from overwork, and only lack of liber- ality in the companies would defeat abundant provision for all who might wish to ride. Even if it should prove that this plan would failin the severest of our winter weather by the too rapid cooling of the water, we could at least nso it during such seasons as the present, and avoid the hardships which we seo imposed upon, the poor horses, who lack speech to plead their causo against too exacting man. New York should not be restricted to horse power in the service of her severely taxed street railways. The Great, Stream of August Meteors— Cometic aud Auroral Phenomena. We submit to our readers this morning, in another part of this paper, @ very satis- factory and consoling article on Planta- mour’s awful comet, giving the reasons why it is not going to reduce this little planet of ours toa cloud of gas or knock it into a hundred thousand fragments. From the perusal of this paper the thoughtful political reader will be apt to rise “like a giant refreshed with new wine,”’ and with renewed zeal in the cause of the administration, or in that com- prehensive opposition idea of “anything to beat Grant.” To our readors, however, we commend the paper referred to as particularly interesting and instructive at this season of comets, meteors and auroral displays. According to all astronomic authority our planet has now entered the immense stream of meteors which lie in its orbit during the present month of the year. These brilliant and mysterious bodies are most numerous from the 10th to the 13th of August, and, no doubt, our scientific observers will make the most of them. It is very generally believed that this month's meteoric stream describes a very large elliptic orbit around the sun, reach- ing far beyond the path of Neptune. We may judge of the enormous number of these “fall- ing stars’ from the fact that the earth, mov- ing at the rate of nearly seventy thousand miles per hour, is at least seven days in passing wholly through the dazzling ring, which must, therefore, be more than eleven millions of miles in thickness. The most eminent astronomers assure us that the whole of the solar domain is alive with meteors. There are on record over sixty re- markable displays of this August group, one of the earliest bearing the date of 811A. D. In France the popular tradition of the “fiory tears of St. Lawrence”’ on his féte day, August 10, embodies the scientific observation of the periodical return of these meteors. The most recent researches show that they recur with perfect regularity, and are visible over nearly the entire known surface of the earth. Hum- boldt, Herschel and others have assigned them a cosmic origin, and the last named physicist regarded them as establishing the existence of a kind of atmosphere ‘higher up than the aerial atmosphere, lighter and, so to speak, more igneous than our own.’ One of the most surprising and startling dis- coveries of modern times has been made re- garding the associaton of meteor systems with comets. So far as science now knows the meteoric and the cometic body are totally dissimilar, one being solid, the other vaporous in its nature. It has usually been supposed that the November me- teoric stream is tho most important end the richest through which our planet passes; but this is an error. The November stream is associated with a comet of little dis- tinction and so insignificant that it hae no tail, On the contrary, the August system is connected with a comet of distinction—one whose approach has been the subject of curious speculation by millions, and which, as | one of the most trustworthy of living astrono- mers tells us, but that the hour of its arrival is uncertain, it is far from unlikely that even men of science would have looked forward with some dread to the possible effects of its coming. What the effects of the earth's being brought into direct collision with a large comet, and whether it would suffer injury (supposing that its matter is merely vaporous), isa long-vexed question which may possibly soon be settled in the stellar regions of space. If we are to judge of the importance of the August meteors by the cometic nucleus said to accompany them they certainly deserve careful scientific observation. It is possible the bril- liant auroras of Thursday night, which, as the Signal Service reports show, flashed in un- broken lines and splendor from Lake Michigan | to Quebec, and southward as far as Washing- ton, may be proved to have some direct con- | nection with the earth's entrance on the great | belt of shooting stars. We are glad to learn | that our national scientific bureaus are to make special observations of these wonderful phe- nomena. Weshall look with interest for some results. The Milk Supply of the City. Our milk is bad. It is not alone poor ; we could stand that. It is poison. let it alone, but babes must live on it, and hundreds of them die by it. Not alone do the | evils of the milk supply threaten the city popu- lation; they oppress the producers of the nourishing fitid—the farmers in Putnam, Columbia, Orange and Westchester counties, in Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. These rustic purveyors of lacteal nourishment, with their dooile kine, furnish us daily three hundred and twenty thousand quarts of the pure fluid, whichis estimated to grow, before it reaches the consumers, by the addition of from twenty-five to Sfty per céht of water, and often to absorb deleterious drugs and abominable adulterntions, destructive to digestion and | threatening a slaughter of the innocents it should nourish. We pay from ten to twelve cents a quart for this so-called milk. For the pure original article the farmers receive two cents a quart; the margin and the advantage | of the increased bulk fatten a small army of dealers and middlemen far faster than | Farmers | would a diet bf their commodity. like money, and the milk farmers conceive that they have but a poor show for their share under this arrangement. No matter how short the crop, the dealer is not likely to run Adults can | short of the demands of his customers while | the Croton maintains its flow, but the farmer | must bear the loss when drought shrivels his pasturage. These considerations have nat- urally suggested to the producers the plan of a | stock company, whereby they may themselves conduct the business of serving customers in the city, and allow the present dealers a monopoly of the Croton and chalk combina- | tion. Six hundred and twenty-five one-horse wagous and three hundred two-horse trucks are now employed in the trade. To run these will require » capital of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which a number of the leading producers propose to raise by sub- scriptions of farmers, all who hold stock being entitled to furnish milk for distribution at a stipulated price, and the profit to be divided according to the quantity con- tributed by each. A large saving in the expense of conducting the trade would he effected by the association in buying feed | luding to Professor Tyndail’s offer to test the SUNDAY, AUGUSY Hl, 1872--TRIPLE SHEET. and supplies in large quantities, so that they | and the most sensitive and reverent hearts are could secure a fair price for their product and | omoes and states aa the ‘napular house of pearee yet dispense with those additions which the cupidity of dealers suggests and the apathy of consumers permits. A vigorous movement to accomplish this change is now making. In the names of thousands of puny babies we cheer the attempt. In behalf of all who look with doubt at the pale, turbid fluid as they pour it with distrust and apprehension into their cof- fee cups, we applaud the disposition of the farmers to put themselves in direct connection with those who consume their product, Too many cooks spoil the broth. Croton is better used in cleansing our streets than in diluting our milk. If our good neighbors in Goshen will give us the pure extract we had far rather pay them the extreme price than that five- sixths of our milk bills should go to those who water and distribute it, Spirit of the Religious Press. Most of the sectarian papers of the week discuss more or legs fully the opening skirmish of the political campaign, and nearly all tell their readers of the triumph of the Heratp Livingstone Search Expedition. The Observer (Presbyterian) says of Stanley :— He sequently mangnrabed himself by sending from the seat of war in Abyssinia important intelligence in advance of the despatenes for the ish govern- ment. In his last expedition he has displayed an shares of character and @ perseverance equalled only by the great explorer, Dr. Livingstone, himself, Its leading editorial is a consideration of the present tendency in liberal education to cultivate physical science to the noglect of classical studies. Neglect of either it depre- cates. “To this end’’ it concludes :— We do not insist that the ancient classics be re- stored to the relative position which they occupled & generation or two , but that in some way the equilibrium between the moral and material shall be preserved. It may be, perhaps, that something better than the old classical course revived may be discovered; and for those who do not see fit to pursue the study of the ancient languages there Must be. Much of the scepticism of to-day, which flaunts over its head the bannef of science, is due not to science itself or its ts Marie tendencies, but to the too exclusive pursuit of it under its ma- terial aspects. We have invited the infidelity with which we have now to contend, and we have de- termined the very form it was to assume by the extreme modification of the course of liberal educa- tion which we have accepted. What we need is that reaction in the views of educators and of the Christian community at iran which will give in every system of education Its proper place to the study of the moral system and the aspects of Prov- idence reflected in human life, The Freeman’s Journal (Catholic) prints Mr. Sumner's letter and remarks: — It is, nominally, addressed to the negroes, But Sambo, Curry, Cxsar, &c., cannot read it. If they could they could not understand it, If they under- stood it—judging from the course of the few darktes fas can read and think—it would not convince em. Mr. Sumner kept in view, as he was writing his letter, that it was not intended for the negroes to whom it was nominally addressed, What fraction, then, of the white population was it intended to impress? Not the straggling sorehead republi- cans—for each one of these is going to act on his own hook, as his selfish interests may dictate, Not democrats—for he double-coats, for democrats, with wormwood and gall, the Greeley pill that most of them have been trying to swallow. We cannot help thinking that this letter of Mr. Sumner fs, pure and simple, a plea of the modern Massachusetts Cicero pro domo suo—for himself! As an offset to this the editor leads off his second article thus : — Grant is damned by iis surroundings. Of his own motion, if he could command it, he might be a very different man. There is one fact that has impressed us in his tavor. As itis somewhat isolated, among sb many facts that tell heavily against him, we think it the part of robust polemics to give him the credit for it. Under Grant, for the first time in the history of the country, what used to be counted the best two federal ofices in New York—Collector of Customs and Postmaster—were held by Catholic Irishmen, | or by persons supposed to be the one and the other— | ex-Senator Tom Murphy, Collector of Customs, and Patrick Jones, stiil Postmaster of New York. The Baptist Union has an interesting histori- cal sketch of the Quakers. In this we are told that the sect—-once powerful—has greatly declined. They were in advance of the Puritans and far more numerous; and, had they established free schools in the Middle and Southern States and re- pelled slavery, how far ahead those sections would now be of New England! Ah, how our good or bad acts intluence our posterity! They have not fol- lowed up sinners nor their own people to the fron- tiers as times required. Their unconverted mem- bers have no love to labor for the lost as did their fathers. But a change has come; revivals are now among them, and they sing in their meetings and labor for souls to be converted. Like old Colonists they ran into extremes. Once it was, “The Spirit wili tell thee when to repent and pray” and “It is asin 10 do so without.’ But now our good Friends | are having revivals, for which we rejoice. The Christian Union (Congregational) gives one of Mr. Beecher’s lectures on “Preaching,” | in which he considers love the central element of power in the Christian ministry. An article on ‘Woman's Work” advocates the experi- ment of woman suffrage, female preaching, | and in general opening to women the voca- tions of men, maintaining that if there are natural barriers the experiment will correct the evil. It concludes: — We believe that any attempt to radically change the position of woman in the direction of isola- ; tion—to find for her sex a higher mission than that of ministering within the family—can but fail. So far as reform works tuward enabling her to do this more worthily, $0 far as it seeks to provide a ved for those women to whom circumstances | | deny this, its effort certainly is well directed. But + fbat theré shoyld be fonvd an intrinsically higher } qulssion than that of wifebood and motherhood is impossible, for under the present conditions of the race there can be no big! tend Pm vide The Union quotes from ihe Boston Pilot & paragraph advising kindness and conciliation | in religious discussions, and says : —- It is vavé to find such sentiments in Roman | fic papers. It is nét Fave to find them in the ve have seen many utterances in its columns which impress us with its good sense and candor. | But is not such a spirit rare in Protestant papersas | welly We honestly think it is. We are frank to admitit; we earnestiy deplore it; and we regard ; it ag foolish and wicked in every point of view. The | inflaence of ‘Re Christian Union is pledged for the | reform of a spirit and practice 80 hostile to the in- | terests both of religion and good aelghborship. | We cannot indeed promise that tiis journal shall never ert in this respeet; but we do engage that | such error shall be inadvertent, and, when pointed | out, shall not lack speedy correction. The Tablet (Catholic) undertakes to correct ' the exaggerated and false ideas of Protestants | as to the character of the Jesuits. It affirme | that - Ri - | Did but a giimmertog of the truth break npon this | pitiable darkuess, sedul care was taken by his Protestant guides ane ners tO Dar its way, and | prevent him from acqui correct and reassuring Views of the Order Ww had Deen 30 entirely mis- represented, So it is % almost overy Protestant | scarcely Knows Whether to fear most fhe devil or the Jesuit, In his soul ho believes that the occult “head” of the “Komish superstition” is the Jesuit Order, devoted first, last, always to the interests of “Rome.” and ruling the Vorsal Church, frou Pope to peasant, with a power limitiess and un- vending as iis devouion. The Gokien Age is largely devoted to politics, dealing heavy blows upon the administration, after the manuer of the Chappaqua Chopper. It has an article on “Praying at a Mark,” al- efficacy of prayer in curing disease. It says: ~ The very idea of praying at a mark strikes the devout and reverent reader as impious. Yet, after all, is not the absurdity of the thing rather in the way ip which itis put than in the thing itself? If it exaggerates, it certainiy does not caricature | the prevalent idea of the eMeacy of praying. | People pray for all concetvable things, hey ask the Almighty to give them this and that and the other object they happen to desire. They con- stantly beseech fim to work a miracle or @ score of miracles for the gratification of their seifish wishes and personal ambition, A very large per- centage of the piety of Christendom, instead of exhaling In the sweet incense of gratitude and adoration, or being condensed into acts of self. denial and charity, articulates itself in petitions for material good and goods. Worship is degraded into beggary, and instead of devovt and grateful acknowilcdginents of countiess blessings already received, the stereotyped language of devotion is “More.” It is no wonder that the finest miada as and imagine that they have ceased to pI to~ gether beca hey “hi alec’ Of the horse-lecch aud ne longer sey “Give, give.” The Metropolitan Record. (Catholic) is very decided in its advocacy of Mr. Greeley’s elec- tion, and correspondingly savage in opposition to the re-election of President Grant. The Mustrated Christian Union preaches charity, and has a hearty eulogy on Living- stone’s endeavors to break up the cause of African slavery. The Evangelist (Presbyterian) quotes the Heratp’s description of President Grant’« last Sunday services on Mr. Pullman's Island, in the St. Lawrence; and sustains the action of the Police Commissioners in relation to the sale of liquor on Sunday. In relation to the new religious system sought for Japan it says: — om te ; To Japanese statesmanship a State Church may’ seem to be an evident tiga of civilization, and the example of England might oe cited a8 a precedent. But we trust that our example will not be without its influence, and that when the Japanese Embassy to this country returns home it will be able to re- Port a theory of the relation of Church and State which allows to each its approprite sphere, and does not impose upon the civil ruler the task of or controlling the 1 lous convictions of Me putoots: Just now Japan needs to beware of awakening the bigotry of antiquated religious pre- judice, or mitt onion with a reactionary conservatism, Church and State (Episcopalian)’ advocates a a free Church in a freo State, Its article concludes: —~ It is but too evident that just to that extent in which the State tries to control the Church, the Church, under other circumstances, will seek to control the State; and the result will be, as it has en, endless confusion and mischief. To get along, therefore, with the least friction and to ac- complish the greatest results, it is necessary for each to work by an independent movemeat, re- membering, bowover. that in pursuing a divergent path, their end is one, even as man’s appointed destiny and true well-being are one, The Methodist discusses the relation of Kaiser William and the Papacy, its article closing thus: — Bismarck has the reputation that when he pre- pares in earnest for war he examines more the efficiency than the morality of his plans. So it may be that he will have recourse to some measures that will not meet the approval of all those who cordially wish him complete success, Thus, if Prussia, as is reported, is busily at work to secure, in the case of the death of Pius IX., the election of @ liberal successor, she*will probably find it neces- sary to adopt measures of more than doubtful morality, and may forfeit the sympathy of many who now look upon her as the banner-bearer tn one of the most important conflicts of the world’s his- ny At allevents, every new phase of this war will be watched all over the world with intense Interests gett = REM SIRT Ry oa se : we The Hunter’s Paradise. We think that the hunter's paradise has been found at last, and that to Mr. Stanley, the finder of Dr. Livingstone, belongs the honor of first.proclaiming it to the world. That famous French hunter of lions, Gerard, says that for the lion hunter there is no country to compare with Algeria. Gordon Cumming, the famous Scotch hunter in South Africa, fairly bewilders the reader with the endless catalogue of the wild game of all sorts in that quarter, and Sir Samuel Baker, in the graphic details of his thrilling adventures amo! the Yons,, elephants, giraffes, rhinoceroses, &0., of Abys- sina with his expert Arab sword hunters, puta in a powerful claim for the plains of Atbaru as the hunter’s Garden of Eden; but, in our judg- ment, as a hunting ground, that country on the Southern Gombe River, in Eastern Equato- rial Africa, between Unyanyembe and Lake Tanganyika, as described by Stanley, takes the premium. % y Mark what he says of this wonderful land of game:——“The glorious park land, spreading north and south of the Southern Gombe, is a hunter’s paradise. Itis full of game of all kinds.”” And then he goes on to tell of its herds of buffalos, giraffes, zebras, pallahs, water bucks, springboks, black bucks and koodoos, and of its several varieties of elands (antelopes as big as a medium sized horse), and hundreds of smaller varieties, and wild boars and wart hogs, &c., while the river swarms with crocodiles and hippopotami. On a grand scale the whole African Continent may be called the bhunter’s paradise ; but if, from all that we have read of the different African hunting regions, as described by Gerard, Cumming, Du Chaillu, Baker, Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Grant and the rest of them, there is one district which, in its natural beauties, fertility and abundance and variety of wild animals, surpasses all the others, it is, in our judgment, that “glorious park land’’ between Unyanyembe and Ujiji, as described by our successful pathfinder to Dr. Living- stone. Revorvtionany Exxcurion AND PRESIDEN> mmuaL Munvers im Perv.—News of a very startling character has reached us from Peru, by way of Kingston, Jamaica. The advices are dated on the 27th of July. They inform us that a revolution had been commenced—the exact date is not stated——under the lead of Sefior Gyiterroz against the existing govern-’ ment; that tt was successful, and that the in- agent chief “proclainied himself Dictator, and, under the form of his assumed authority, assassinated President Balta. A counter- revolution was inaugurated immediately, in the face of which Guiterrez attempted to es- cape. He was captured by the people, hanged to a lamppost and his dead body burned. Many other persons wore killed. Tho less noted among the deceased were buyic’. Sefior Pardo, a quiet sort of { A So ro cluimed President. "The change was complete and the insurrection terminated. If this is Hot democracy run to Thuggee we do not know what to say. The affair was of very brief duration—a recommendation, perhaps, in the eyes of the survivors. Its accomplishment was almost as instantaneous as that of the French coup d’ état under President Bonaparte, and it may be that the pecples of the smaller States imitate at times the examples which are setthem by the great Internationalist represcn- tatives. Bounp ror Nuw Carzponts.—The republi- can government of France is evidently de- termined to weed out the rankest croppings of the Communist growth which flourished dur- ing the brief period of the Second Siege. Six hundred of the Communist prisoners, who, since their conviction, found a temporary halt- ing place in the military prisons of the Island of Aix, have been transported to New Cale- donia, in the South Pacific Ocean. When shall we hear of the last of these punishments? Is not justice yet satisfied in France? Noata Canontva—the first gun from the South on the Presidential issue as made up | between Philadelphia and Baltimore—has been carried on the popular vote by the republi- cans, and next, from the North, comes the State of Maine. Here General Grant has the advantage of a heavy majority to work upon; but he must hold it or the result will be morally an advantage to Greoloy,