The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1872, Page 4

4 zW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND AEN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR. -No. 225 smear THEATRE, Bowery.—Honest Joun—Hagen ve, WHITE’S ATHEN2UM, 585 Broadway.—Nucro Min- STRELAY, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Phirticth sh— Sam, Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEAT! Broad’ , between Houston. Biveckar seek tare Dueiay ee ~ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Bive Baearp. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Onnts anp Lena. PRL. oe THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Bscarrp nom Sivg iG. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gnanp InstaomeytaL Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrmnom AND ART. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, August 12, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisemonts. 2—The Footlights: Musical and Dramatic Season of 187273; Ringing ues the Curtain; A Kaleidoscopic View of t Stage and m- plete Directory for the Public and the Proies- sion; Lucca and Rubinstein; The arn for Opera, Oratorio and Concert, and the Progress of the Revolution on the Stage—Ad- vertisements, 3—The Footlights (Continued from Second Page). 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “Latest from Mexico—‘All Quiet on the Potomac,’ but Something {n the Wind’’—Amusement An- houncements. S—The Alabama Claims: Legal Essentials Re- quiren by the Arbitrators from the Counsel in Argument—Cable News {rom Spain—Horace at Up-Hill Work—New Jersey Politics—Sum- ner bolzing—Andy Johnson on the Can- vase—News from Washington—Brooklyn Af faira—The Turf in England—The Weather— ear ea ety i een rt 6 Ever thi! le: inst ‘the United States; America ‘Alone Malntains Slavery and Spanish Tyranny in Oubda— Yachting—Viva 'Italia—The ‘Old Catholics” — the Fishing Banks and Central tk—Daring Robbery in Trenton—Sunday Jefferson Market—Another Newarker etait Gun Accident at Hopewell, t ments. lous:, Sunday Services Under Sunny in the City and Suburbs; Preachers and ir Alternates; A Southern Divine on the Relation of Man to Christ; Dr. Holden 4 the Claims of the Gospel; Father ey and Eternal Salvation; Mr. Hege- New Brunswick, Discourses on the Barbie ot the Talents; Laying the Corner tone of & Box Bpisco thon in Roneyen : tt aude vy; ape. lon ol vine Sharky hares Bifeion: fethodism Under Green Leaves—Sunday at ene yar ‘9—Sunday at Rockaway (Continued frém Eighth —Financial and Commercial: A Glance at treet for the Week and Review of ‘arious Features; A Firm Gold Market; Stocks Heavy and Lower, with the Greatest Decline at the Close; Speculation in Foreign Exch y Easy, but Borrowers ime in the City—American le With Paris—Uorovers’ Work Yester- @ay—! Affairs—A Bathing Fatal ity— id Deathe—Advertisementa. an legraphs: The Western Union Telegraph Company's Appeal to British Capitalists; juropean Telegraphs ; Rates o! Telegrap' in the United States and Europe Compared—Piayed-Out Plantamour: A Cam- bri Savant loding the Foretold Barst- U ping Inteligence—Advertisements. ‘Tae Sace or Cuarpaqua Ur Mount Kear- sagaz is the latest note of his peregrinations in the Granite State. He will continue his trip over hill and dale for another week or two, Brass bands, leading citizens, clean mechanics and fat babies have been ordered for a week ahead. He will soon earn, at this rate, a high tank in the peripatetic school. Tue Sreampoar Law Does Nor Samir the | authorities, and, accordingly, laudable efforts are being made by the Treasury Department to combine ina future statute all the rules, safe- guards and precautions necessary to the pro- tection ot life and property on vessels propelled by steam. The growing need of such a law is | felt by every one; for the amount of property and humanity risked on steamers increases largely from year to year. Everything which experience and foresight can suggest as means of making steamboat travel safer should be carefully included. Tue Comer raat Dozs Nor Sow Ur at the beck of sensation reminds one forcibly of Hot- spur and Glendower about calling spirits from the vasty deep. Will they come? There's the rub. It will be some consolation to the nervous that we have had meteoric showers in abundance; but the statement of Professor Winlock in to-day’s Heranp that a comet might be compressed into the size of a peach- atone places the matter in a comfortable nut- shell. The Professor gives as his opinion that M. Plantamour is not responsible for the hoax, It is possible that the ingenious de- signer of the humbug, whoever he was, knew just sufficient of astronomy to place it about the time of the August star shower. A pleasant fact in relation to this canard is that none but very old women have been scared. Amzproan Trape Wrra Panis.—Elsewhere in our issue this morning will be found statistics giving the figures of trade trans- acted between this country and France for a space of time extending over cight years. In the aggregate the sum foots up the neat figure of $219,490,694, or taking yearly about $27,436,337. Strange to say, the war had not a very noticeable effect on the trade, and the Commune did not wholly deter the industrious and thrifty Parisians from maintaining their business relations with the United States. Some idea may be had of the description of French luxuries and knick-knacks we spend our millions upon by consulting the tables referred to, Faance aND THE APPROACHING Mertrxo or NEW .YORK HERALD; MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1872.—WITH) SUPPLEMENT. \( Gatest from Mexico—<‘All Quiet om the Potomac,” buat Something in the Wind. The funeral of Juarez, as it appears from our latest Mexican advices, was a vory impos- ing apectacle; and wo are assured that through- out our sister republic his death is still gener- ally regretted, notwithstanding the fact that it appears to have given general peaco to the country. The Aghting factions that were in the field inspired by tho common war ory of “Down with Juarez” have, since his decease, generally laid down their arms in a recognition of the constitutional authority of his successor pro tem., Lerdo de Tejada. Men, however, may cry “Peace, peace!” in Mexico ; but ‘there is no peace.” If just now there is no fighting going on among her warlike patriots it is be- cause they are all waiting to see if, as friends, they cannot make something out of President Lerdo. When he shall have divided the spoils in making his principal appointments it may be safely predicted that there will speedily ap- pear another batoh of revolutionary reformers in the field and pronunciamientos and bat- tles once more, From the centre all round to the sea, Indeed, it seems that the civil service reform- ers at Tampico, on the receipt of the melan- choly tidings of the death of Juarez, pro- nounced in favor of a revolution, and that the Guerrero insurgents raised the battle cry of “Hurrah for Diez-and death to Lerdo!” on the principle of ‘anything for a change.’’ Meantime the Cabinet of President Lerdo re- mains an unsettled question, and there is nothing certain as to its composition. The Congress will meet in extra session on the 15th of September to name the day for the-regular election of a President. Lerdo isa candidate for the popular suftrages in this capacity, and he is evidently doing the best he can to tickle the popular fancy; for instance, he has issued a decree of general amnesty to political pris- oners, announcing that he is ready with all concerned to ‘‘shake hands over the bloody chasm,” excepting the Lieutenant Generals under the empire of Maximilian; but as these excepted parties have no friends in Mexico they are beyond the reach of Executive clem- ency. Itis supposed that the revolutioniste, who still maintain an attitude at best of armed neutrality, will disband when they hear of this general amnesty. We think, too, that with this amnesty and with the sinews of war in his possession President Lerdo will be strong enough to carry the election against the strongest of his competitors; but then it will he thé old story— He had money, and they had none, And that’s the way the fray begun. 3 2 ile a Nevertheless President Lerdo is making a good beginning fora strong foundation, In addition to his amnesty he has voluntarily ordered an investigation into the outrages committed upon American citizens at Chiapas, ‘and we presume that he will not overlook Cortina’s cattle stealers on the wrong side of the Rio Grande. It is reported that he in- tends tho expulsion from Mexico of the celebrated Schultz, whose American citizen- ship is derfied by the newspaper, Two Repub- lics. And here, we confess, we are more in- terested in this newspaper called the Two Republics than in the case of the celebrated Schultz, We suppose that the idea of the Two Republics is a happy accord between Mexico and the United States ; but we hope that this strange name for a Mexican newspaper really means one republic of the two republics, which is the inevitable solution of the Mexican ques- tion. Of course, the projected departure about the Ist of September of our Minister, Mr, Nelson, from the Mexican capital, for a short visit to the United States on a leave of absence, is purely a private affair ; but still it may turn out to be the precursor of great events touch- ing the future relations between the ‘two republics."* President Grant—or rather Secretary Fish— has not made a very brilliant reputation in reference to Spain and Cuba; and if the admin- istration did a good thing in regard to St. Domingo it was in the abandonment of that crude enterprise of annexation, whereby, among other dreadful consequences avoided, we es- caped a war with Hayti. But all the time General Grant has had the best of opportuni- ties for a peace policy towards Mexico which would completely eclipse in its popularity the Treaty of Washington on those indirect Ala- bama claims. Nor should we be surprised if from this coming visit of Mr. Nelson to Wash- ington, and from this Mexican Border Com- mission 6n cattle stealing, some new line of diplomacy in reference to ‘ manifest destiny’’ in Mexico were to be proclaimed from Wash- ington a3 a new departure by General Grant, He could, if he would, still make a decided hit upon this question; but the great trouble is that Mr. Fish is in the way. So “allis quiet on the Potomac,’’ though nevertheless there may be something in the wind. Meantime the advices from the Mexican frontier show that the inaction of our govern- ment is producing its natural result on the minds of our lawless and turbulent neighbors. As the United States forces stand idly by, without offering any opposition to the cattle thieves who carry off stock from the Texan graziers in the open day, the Mexicans reason- ably conclude that we are unable to protect our territory. The rude men who dwell along the border have little respect for the restraints of moral law, and look on horse stealing and cattle lifting as an honorable profession when- the existing condition of things it is at once the pleasantest and most profitable pursuit in which they can engage. To swoop down ona tae Tange Experons.—In one of our latest | cable despatches we are informed that the | French Minister to Berlin, M. Goutant Biron, | has been with President Thiers at Trouville. | It is said that the Minister before setting out | forgotten, and the men whom we contemp- for Berlin received from President Thiers full instructions regarding the fulfilment of the Evacnation Treaty and also regarding the ap- proaching conference of the three Emperors. It is understood that before the Ozar returns to St. Petersburg, after having visited Em- peror William, the Czar and the Emperor will be joined by Francis Joseph of Austria, As we have said more than once already, we do uot apprehend any serious consequences to flow from the meeting. Happily there is no question likely to involve Europe in war. It is not improbable that this conference may be i found to have some connection with the Inter- national. In such a case President Thiers will have something to say as the executive head of the French nation. The results of tho imperial -conforenge will, be awaited with some anxinti, herd and appropriate it as spoil, with ready markets within easy reach, is certainly a rapid and effective way of becoming rich. Habits of that kind when once acqufred are not soon | tuously call “greasers’’ are so used to plun- | dering American citizens that they look upon | our protests ag an unwarrantable interference with their prescriptive rights. The govern- ment of Mexico has not the power, even had it the will, to put an end to the state of chronic war which we suffer with a patience that can only be described as cowardly. Our govern- ment makes no real effort to secure the lives or property of the citizens, because the gen- tlemen at Washington aro too busily engaged in the fight for the spoils at home. Em- boldened by this indifference the border rob- bers no longer hesitate to murder Americans under the yery shadow of the flag that mocks them with the pretence of protection. In answer to the demands of the outraged and Riwadered people, we despatohed Commis- sioners to parley where we ought to havo ent soldiers to strike. Even while the profit- leas powwow was being carried on with mock solemnity armed bands laid in wait for those who had the courage to give testimony to execute vengeance on them. And still the mockery of inquiring whether our soil had been invaded and our people plundered was continued, even while the rifles of the invaders wore ringing in the ears of the American Com- missioners. If the question did not so seriously involve the honor of the American flag and the safety of the citizens, the conduct of tho Washington authorities would be amusing from its absurd- ity. But as it is we cannot afford to make light of blunders that are being paid for in the blood. of Americans. The public mind of the country is scandalized by the inaction of the Executive in face of affronts which would not be suffered by any other civilized Power. Some- thing must be done to protect our territory from the inroads of Mexican freebooters if the administration would avoid the condemna- tion of the people. What is wanted is vigorous action; and the presence of some active general, with a sufficient number of troops at his, command, would do moro towards: establishing security for person and property than any amount of treaty making with a people who only respect force. If the government will only adopt strong measures and give orders for the pursuit of robbers into the Mexican territory, the system of plunder would soon come to anend. Tho mistaken respect for the territory of a people who sys- tematically violate our soil is carried a little too far, and the sooner it is brought to an end the better. Perhaps, however, from this Mexican Border Commission, and from this projected visit of Mr. Nelson to Washington, there may be, as we have suggested, some- thing in the wind in reference to Mexico which will electrify the country. The time is getting short, but still “manifest destiny” offers a golden opportunity to General Grant in Mexico. The Alabama Claims Arbitration. The Henaxp special report from Geneva, which appears in our columns this morning, sets forth the judicial rule which the members of the Court of Arbitration in the Alabama claims case enforced as an essential of the international counsel argument just previous to the recess adjournment. The Court required that the legal gentlemen should show that what is called ‘due diligence’ on the part of a nation isa principle of law. What was the value of the commissiong held by the Confed- erate cruisers, and how far did they entail responsibility on Great Britain when they entered her ports ; how far did the coaling of the cruisers in English ports make England re- sponsible for their acts? Sir Roundell Palmer and the American representatives debated the propositions at great length and with much force on either side. The very fact of the arbitrators having insisted on their doing so is accepted as a proof of their anxiety to render a final judgment which will be ac- ceptable not only to the peoples more imme- diately concerned in the present suit, but also to the Powers which were more professedly neutral during the existence of the original difficulty. And it should be so taken, indeed. The Geneva arbitrators are men of enlightened minds and of high character and position. In their wish to discharge their duty faithfully and intelligently they have gone back to first principles—to the very fountainhead—to the little bubbling springs—of the late misunder- standing between tho Americans and the English. Itis to be hoped that their effort will be successful, and that they will be en- ever it can be successfully pursued. Under | abled to secure a firm footing, from which they will pronounce a judgment which will be recognized as a new creed for the regulation of the conduct and comity of the great Powers of the world in cases of war in the future, The Musical and Dramatic Season of 1872-73, We publish in the Heratp to-day an ex- haustive article on the coming season of music and the drama, giving the full details of the arrangements made by all the leading theatres in the United States. The wonderful growth of the public taste for the theatre has been the means of increasing the number of establish- ments throughout the country until now a theatre or music hall seems as necessary an adjunct to some towns and villages as a school- house. And a good school it may be when conscientious management directs it. ‘Hold- ing the mirror up to nature,” however, is not thought much of nowadays by manogers, The only mirror they know is of the convex kind, which caricatures nature and distorts her most beautiful features. In their insane desire to acquire a fortune as quickly as pos- sible, even if it is necessary to degrade their profession and to cast aside the principles of taste and decency, some of our managers are stumbling blocks in the path of progress and art. We find here a machine play which is the veriest trash, with, perhaps, some ex- traordinary sensation in the way of a railroad or steamboat disaster, and a negro minstrel as a star, with song and dance and a banjo or tin whistle solo. This will do very well for the class of people that fancy it; but when wo find it occupying the boards of some of the best theatres in the provinces, to the exclusion of real merit, the nuisance becomes intolerable. Again, the detestable principles and morality of the latest French school, of which Dumas | fils is, perhaps, the most outspoken exponent, have insidiously crept into some of the society plays on the American boards to poison the minds of all who witness these plays and to give color to the diatribes of the parsons | against the stage. Surely American society, which such pieces are supposed to illustrate, is | not so lost to all shame as to trample under | foot its own laws. What we want is a mirror of respectable society, not one that reflects the extravagancies of the unpleasant classes. The evil bas grown to such an extent in some quarters that ® legalized censorship would prove highly salutary. The Presidential cam- paign, formerly such a bugbear to managers, | seems to have no effect on the arrangements | for the coming season, for they are move ex- tensive than ever before. Engagements ex- | tending far into the Spring are made without a thought of the rival attractions of Chappaqua and Grant's “‘cottage by the sca.’’ The pub- lic will not let politics interfere with their amusements as in past ycars, but are content | the inhabitants, who took one-third of the to vote and let the wirepullers and their pup- pets amuse themselves. are highly encouraging. The new manage- mont at tho Academy of Music will not be con- tent with a prima donna of. such world-wide renown as Pauline Lucca or a favorite Ameri- can artist like Mias Kellogg, but they bring over from London a complete company. This is a long stride in the right direction and one we have repeatedly insisted upon. English Opera is dead for tho present, no one having the courage to succeed Parepa-Rosa, and Ger- man Opera and opéra bouffe promise to be as successful as during the last season. In the concert line we are promised a musical colos- sus, Rubenstein, who ranks with Wagner and Liszt as owe of the chief representatives of the divine art at the present day. America has of late years become the Mecca of European artists, and now no artist's fame can be called complete until he or she has received the endorsement of the people of the Great Re- public, Summer Cruising. It would be hard to find more perfect rest from the toils and cares of business than is enjoyed by thoso who are yachting during the summer months. Many gentlemen who cruise for a month or six weeks every season aro firm supporters of yachting as a system of rec- reation, for they declare that it is one of the only amusements they can enjoy without being subject to the cares of business. When afloat they appear to forget that they ever had a busi- ness, and for the time being are completely wrapped up in the picturesque scenes they pass on the daily sail and the management of the beautiful yacht that carries them over the salt water of Long Island Sound and adjoin- ing seas. The summer cruises of the differ- ent yacht clubs are looked forward to by their members as the vacation of the year; and the different yacht owners have always to exercise much ingenuity in order to accommodate their friends with a stateroom or berth. Some of the larger yachts carry ten or twelve guests, and it is not strange to find five or six on some of the small sloops. The life on board is very enjoyable, sailing from harbor to harbor during the heat of the day and anchoring at some pleasant watering place in the cool of the evening, where, after a short ran on shore, one can return on board and pass a comfortable night with the weather so cool that a warm blanket is not to be despised. Tho Atlantic Yacht Club have now been afloat since August 3, and they leave Newport to-day for Martha’s Vineyard. They are cruising, sixteon strong, the fleet comprising eight schooners and eight sloops. The yachts of the Atlantic fleet vary in size from the magnif- icent schooner yacht Resolute tothe small open sloop Undine. During the past week they have visited Glen Cove, New Haven, New London, Greenport, Stonington and Newport. They will probably break up at Martha’s Vine- yard, as some of their large schooner yachts will then start to join the Now York Yacht Club fleet at New London. The New York Yacht Club fleet rendezvous this afternoon at Glen Cove and start on Tues- day morning for New London. Not- withstanding the absence of the large keel schooners Sappho and Enchant- ress, now cruising in foreign waters, there will be a very large fleet of schooners and sloops on the New York Yacht Club cruise this year. The programme at present com- prises a visit to New London, Newport and Martha’s Vineyard, stopping a day or so at each place. The further movements of the fleet will be decided upon their arrival at Martha’s Vineyard. The yachtsmen will be sure to havea lively and interesting cruise, as they will sail under the command of Rear Commodore Franklin Osgood, who will fly his pennant upon the schooner yacht Dauntless. Commodore Osgood is well known in yachting circles as an experienced and enthusiastic yachtsman and the former owner of the schooner yachts Widgeon, Magic and Colum- bia, each of whith achieved a famous record while sailing under his colors. There will not be a very large attendance of the yachts at Glen Cove, as most of the big schooners are East and will not join the fleet until they arrive at New Lon- don; but the squadron will probably enter Newport harbor about twenty-five or thirty strong. While the fleet are visiting Newport there will be several regattas and an interesting match race between the schooner yachts Tidal Wave and Madgie for the Chal- lenge Cup, which has been held by tho latter | since last season. The Brooklyn Yaght Club start on their ernige on the 5th of September, and they will doubtless have e véty pleasant time. There will be a large fleet of yachts on the cruise of the Brooklyn Yacht Club this year, as Commodore Jacob Voorhis has taken the precaution to se- cure a date when the New York and Atlantic fleets have broken up for the season, and as many yachts belong to all three clubs they will thus be enabled to enjoy a cruise with each. The yachting season will conclude about the latter part of the month of October, but before the different yachts are consigned | to their winter quarters they will have some October racing, which will go far towards de- ciding their respective merits as fast sea-going yachts. The Shipwreck et Cozumel=Mexican Barbarity. In the Henan of yesterday an account was given of a shipwreck on the island of Cozumel. The story is harrowing in its details and re- yeals an amount of barbarity not to be exceeded | by the savage tribes of Central Africa. On the | morning of the 29th of June the schooner Lizzie Webster, after some rough experience at | sea, was beached on the island of Cozumel. Soon as day broke the vessel was discharged by cargo for the Yucatan government, one-third for salvage, and stole the other third. This, however, was not all. Having appropriated the cargo, they next proceeded to steal the | clothing of the women and children. One | gentleman, a Mr. Huismer, with a French lady | and her daughter, contrived to get into a small boat, and after twelve days’ sailing they suc- | ceeded in reaching Belize. Here they stated that a Mr. Littlepage, wife and five chil- dren, a German doctor and child, a Mr, Parsons and child, the captain and crew, were | left on the island, all ina most destitute con- dition. Efforts were immediately made to send a boat to their relief; three distinct charters were made; but the owners of the vessels found that tho laws of Yucatan stood in their way. According to the laws of Yucatan no boat can go to the relief of another in distress, there The progpecta for the Italian Oporo season | until it first ontersyand clears tho oort,of Sisal, | tance of the ono talent of religion and the lin- | steward, whose keen foresight in providing Mexico. The poor sufferers were thus left on the island to fare as best they could. Such laws are quite worthy of the people who make and enforce them. This matter must be dili- gently inquired into; and we hope that Mex- ico will be made to understand that there is a limit to human endurance. We have surely had enouga of Mexican barbarity. It is time that the whole people were taken in charge and compelled to conform to the requirements of modern civilization. Impatience for Further Nile Discovery— The Second Herald White Nile Expedi- tion. Among many signs of the absorbing in- terest awakened by the announcement of Livingstone’s discoveries in Ccntral Af- rica, through the success of the Hznap expedition, is the impatience with which people of a scientific turn of mind re- gard the prospect of waiting a couple of years or more before the last links in the chain of Nile discovery are welded together. The following from Wilkes’ Spirit conveys.a sugges- tion, of which more anon:— But the Doctor's views and weaknesses and plans are of but small importance in comparison with the prospects and opporiunities which the H&RALD ex- pecieoy, has opened to the scientific world. [t has, in the first place, capone of the British sclentificists, sources of the Nile may be revealed with the same ease that the dreaming Doctor was himself dis- covered in the jungle. In this point. of view, therefore, we suggest that the Heap, after giving Mr. Stanley's, report to the public, shall send him or somo other of tts bright young correspondents back to Zan- aibar and finish the Doctor’s business. The HERALD Will Know how to do the matter in the American style; and, if it succeeds, as we have no doubt it will, the government of the United States, with the universal approbation of the people, will be glad to refund Mr. Bennett his exvenses, Having laid this advice before the public we will inform our contemporary that a second exploring expedition is already on its way up the Nile, under the command of a Hezratp correspondent, to join the party of Sir Samuel Baker, who, with a strong force, was pushing into the interior in the service of Science and the Viceroy of Egypt. The Khedive has volunteered to pay half the expenses of this second ex- Ppedition, which was last heard from at Gondokoro, on the ‘White Nile.’ The encouragement thus given to scientific enterprise by the Viceroy shows unmistakably the value set upon the hoped for discovery by the Egyptian government. While Doctor Livingstone, therefore, is making his best endeavors to solve the mystery, aided substantially by the supplics turned over to him by the expedition under Mr. Stanley, another Hzrarp exploring ‘corps is working toward the same point by the route from the north. There is, therefore, a chance that a Heratp correspondent will “finish the Doctor's business,” The Sermons Yesterday. The country parsons at the present time rise in importance in the absence from home of the city preachers. Hence our weekly budget of sermons will be found to have a large share of the pulpit productions of country churches. The little Episcopal church at Rockaway beach was crowded yesterday as it is not wont to be, and its pastor, Rev. Mr. Pierson, made the circumstances and the occasion profitable by dilating on the character of the unjust beforehand for the time of want and trial is impliedly commended by the Saviour in the parable concerning him given by St. Luke. Mr. Pierson also made a point of encouraging and advising rich mento come forward and pour out the stream of their opulence upon their fellow men. The Merrick camp followers were instructed and greatly delighted with the eloquent dis- course of Rev. Dr. Eddy, delivered on their grounds yesterday. It was one that en- couraged them to Christian activity by the assured fact that Christianity is not a culture, a growth, a development, but a creation. It is the only system that declares its readiness and ability to take “that broken, battered, ruined, debauched man and make him glorious in God.” And, did it not do this, how easy it would be, said the Doctor, to blow Chris- tianity to the moon! Dr. Eddy demolished the culture theories of the liberal Christian school, and showed how utterly impossible it is for culture to develop the spiritual in man or make him a new creature. The Sing Sing camp people are enjoying themselvey ag greatly as untoward surroundings will admit. Yesterday several hundreds of them in the poe commemorated the Lord’s death, and ada good time frou: ¢arly njcra till late at | night. Bishop Harris was among them and preached in. the afternoon. "The Denville, N.J., camp ground is already filling up, in anticipation of the opening of the meeting there on Tuesday. It will close just in time to enable visitors to run to Ocean Grove and spend a few days there; and hence most of the prominent Methodist pastors of the city are reported to be there or going there. The noblest of all the Christian virtues, ac- cording to Rev. Mr. Beandevin, of Jersey City, and the Bible, is divine charity or love. It was to enkindle the flame of divine love in our hearts that God created this universe and decked it with beauty and loveliness; and it was for that end also that He created man. This charity or love is not a sentiment; it is obedience to the requirements of God's law. In this obedience we are to find our highest happiness—a result that the Creator greatly desires. This obedience leads to and this happiness is found complete in tho life eternal; and how to obtain this life was the query propounded and answered yesterday by Rey. Mr. Kearney in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The reckless life here of the worldly-minded man, the preacher declared, was ‘a sure mark of an intention to rob Almighty God of a soul | which rightfully belongs to him.” Man is very little; God alone is great. Man has nothing which belongs to himself, and there- fore nothing to be proud of. How, then, can he pretend to be independent of God, his Cre- ator and supreme protector? This fatal pride and overbearing confidence prevent a great many from coming to a knowledge of the truth and of fulfilling their end, whereby eternal sal- vation is secured. The Episcopalians of Ho- boken yesterday Inid the corner stone of a me- morial Church to be built by Mrs. E. A, Stevens in memory of a deceased child, and to. be called the church of the Holy Innocents. Short addresses were made on the occasion by Bishop Odenheimer and Revs. R. G. Novin and H. F. Hartman, the latter of whom is to Naan ccna ee nEnnnnneeenemeennmnemmnr Uemmmmmemmmmeneeec ca strangers gathered within its walls the Rev. Dr. Dixon, of Augusta, Ga., showed how easy it is to obey Christ, and painted the picture of the affection, the philanthropy and tho spirita- ality of the Saviour’s mind. The philanthropy of Christ is bounded, he declared, by no oceans or mountains; and we never can call every one brother until we have Christ's spirit, Connection with Obrist is not governed by social position. The wise in vain may seek for Him. Behold, His brothers and sisters are the unlettered and poor; but, thank God, the-rich are not excluded. CGon- nection with Chrisé is not inconsistent with material love. What is the bond with Christ? Obedience to- the Divine will. . There is but ove infallible will, and Christ shows this through all His teachings. That ono willis omnipotent in creation. It is the explanation of the universe. Scepticism and doubt, as . illustrated by the Apostle Thomas, were handled by Rev. Howard Kingsbury, of Ohio, in a masterly manner, ia the Central Presby- terian church, In illustrating the nature of faith he declared that ‘‘there was no more reason to believe in the existence of the First Napoleon than of Jesus Christ, Yet many insist on seeing and touching their Christ, and thus die Christless. To believe in Christ one should put himself in contact with those be- lieving in Him. Nothing can overcome doubt but faith.” The perfect harmony and union of reason and experience with Christianity and their full and complete corroboration of ite principles and laws were instructively set forth in Grace church by Rev. Dr. Holden, who, therefore, insisted that it is the duty of every man to listen to the voice of God's loving spirit and not delay to make his peaco with God. Disgraceful Proceedings in the North Carolina Election—Is the Ballot Box @ Farce? There has been no election of late in which, from all appearances, there have been such gross irregularities and tampering with the ballot box as in the recent election in North Carolina. The politicians there are not a whit more unscrupulous and bold in their dis- honest manipulation of the ballots than those of New York have been. We are inclined to think, from the information we have published, that they beat the old Tammany joliticiacs. They know how to keep the ballots locked up and uncounted in certain localities, carrying the boxes home with them, till they learn what number of votes are required to accomplish their object. Though the law requires the Sheriffs of the precincts and townships to pub- licly announce the vote cast for all the candi- dates from the Court House door within 4 specified time after the election, this law has not been complied with in several localitics. Our correspondent informs us that this was the case in Craven county, and that in Warren the poll-holders, con- trary to law, carried home the ballot boxes, and did not count the votes till the day after. In the First Congressional dis- trict, where Pool resides, the boxes, it is said, were held till it was found convenient to count the ballots. In several counties, claimed to be administration republican, the vote cast ex- ceeded the voting population. In Duplin county the voting population is put down at 2,959; the number of votes actually reported is 3,485. And so in Cumberland, Franklin, Halifax, Lenoir, Nash, Robeson and other counties the same suspicious irregularities and frauds are noticed. The mass of illegal and fraudulent votes polled apparently is in the counties throughout the State where the negroes are most numerousand have the political power. It seems evident that the administration repub- licans have been playing a desperate game. Under such a state of things the ballot box is a farce. The Legislature, when it meets, will undoubtedly investigate the matter. Though Caldwell may claim to have been elected Gov- ernor by a thousand or fifteen hundred ma- jority, he may yet find that his bogus votes will not be recognized. Merrimon may after all be declared Governor by a handsome ma- jority. We hope, for the sake of the purity of the bailct box and republican institutions, the matter will be thoroughly probed and the fraud exposed, whichever party may gain or lose by the operation, And we warn the administra- tion not to interfere, but to leave the local authorities to decide upon and control their own affairs. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tue WONDERFULLY EXTENSIVE French Biography of the Jesutt writers, prepared by the Messrs. Backer, is being reissued tn three huge fotio vol- umes, entirely revised and tn large part rewritten. It is a monument of painatalsing labor. MATTSaEW HALE Sure (‘Burleigh’) has a new book in press, called “The Old Country, from the Thames to tle Tiber, with Odd and Curious Things by the Way.” THE WHOLE NcmeBer of publications relating. to the Franco-German war, to the close of 1971, was 1,125, besides maps and charts, A New Boox on the Adirondack region isto ap- pearfrom tie press of the Columbian Book Com- pany, Hartford, It will be entitled “The Modern Babes in the Wood, or Summerings in the Wtider- nese. By H. Perry Smith. With a rellable and de- scriptive Guide to the Adirondasks, by E. R. Wal- lace.”” Tur LoNpon PUBLISHERS’ CIRCULAR announces that Mr. Walt Whitman, who ts about to visit Eog- | land and the Continent, will be for some time the guest of the poet laureate. 4 AMONG new and entertaining English books are the two volumes of Lady Clementina Davies’ : “Recollections of Society in France and England.’ ; ‘M. QUATREFAGES' curious sdientifie book on “Tho Prussian Race” has been. transtated.into English.) and published in London. J. W. Goopsprep & Co., of Chicaga, will publist by subscription “Master Spirits of the World ant the American Citizen’s Treasure House; being a political and statistical mirror of the Unised States.’ MR. BENSON J. LogsinG, Who published some years ago the first volume of @ Life of Mteneral Philip Schuyler, has the seconst and coretuding volume nearly completed. Miss Manta CUMMINS’ novel of tarenty years since, “yne Lamplighter,” has just, been pubilshed ak Paria in @ French transiation, A METRICAL translation ‘of Prddéric Minstrat's Provengat epic, ‘Miréio,”” already once translated become rector of the new church, The impor- into English, has apperred in the United States, fom tue pon of Misa Harriet Preston, Ce a eI Te OE ee ee ee ee ee ee soa