The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERAL * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR. "AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Two Srorts—Tax Pousu Jew—My Feivow Cxenx, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st— Tioxer oy Leave Max, Afternoon and Eveuing, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—A Liru's Dazau, £0. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadw: a Thi th a la ‘ay and Thirteen! THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. -Ermiortn Eo- PeNreroirixs, Burtesque, Draw, 40. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ‘evenue.—Tax Bris; on, Tuk Potisa Jew. WHITE'S ATHENAUM, 685 Broadway.—Necro Min. ‘ernaisy, dc. \ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSR, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tax Poutox Srv. \ CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gnawo Ixstevuxntat, Cononar, {_ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— Bowmnou anv Art. " WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, August 19, 1572, OONTENTS OF T0-BAY's HERALD. Pacz. 1—Advertinements, R—Brazil and the Banda Oriental: Imperialist Diplomatic Complications with the People and Power of the Argentine Union—Jofferson Market Police Court—Yorkville Pollce Court— Brooklyn Affairs—Logic of the Eight-Hour Rule—Advertisements. S—iniportant from South America: The Presidency of Peru and Its Constitutional Avengement Against Party Treason—Central America— News from Jamaica—The African Slave Trade— The Health of the Port. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “Charles O'Conor on the Presidential Problem—The Doubtful Elements in the SContest and Their Unknown Quantities’—Amusement Announcements, 6—The Religious Riots tn Belfast—News from Eng- land and Scotiand—Life at Newport—News from Washington—Impeachment of Judge Barnard—Naval Boat Race at Panama—Mis- cellancous Tele; h—Business Notices. 6—West Virginta: The Political Pot Boiling Hot in the Little Mountain State; A Close and Most Interesting Canvass—Political Campaign Notes—Maine: The Pine Tree State Kural- ized ; Picturesque Political Phenomena by the Wayside—The Philosopher's Return: Gree- ley’s Trip from Boston to New York—1.’Inter- nationales—French Internationals—The New York Turn District—Long Island Affairs—New York City ltems—Drowned in the Bay. J—Advertisements. Religious: Sermons and Services at the Sanc- tuaries in the City and Suburbs; Universalism at Plimpton Hall; A Large Assemblage at St. Patrick's Cathedral and a Sermon by Father McNamee on the Leprosy of Sin; Re- turn of Dr, Foss to St. Paul's Methodist Fpiscopal Church; Services at the Church of the Redemptorist Fathers; The Livingstone Expedition Commended by the Rev. John Wesley Howe at the Babylon Methodist Church; Sermons and Services at Saratoga and Rockaway. @=—Religious (Continued from Fighth Page)— Financial and Commercial: The Ebb and Flow of the Gold Market; A Fluctuation of One Per Cent During the Week; The Closing of the French Lo: the Signal for a Revived Euro- row Demahd for American Securities—Naval intelligence—Drowned at Rockaway—A New- ark Iderman eetoy itared mysterious Shooting of Frobasch—Marriages and Deaths. £0—Straight-out Democracy: The Coming Con- vention at Louisville-—South Carolina Finan- ciers—Fearful Fratricide at Poughkeepsie— ‘The Jersey City Police War—The Mississippi Tragedy—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. - An Unoenrnovs Arrempr to Digcreprt THE Heratp's Exrzprrion to succor Doctor Liv- Ingstone is telegraphed by cable to us from London. This occurred at a banquet at Brighton, where the British Association is in session. It causcd the Heratp's explorer, Mr. Stanley, to leave the tablo Immediately and Brighton shortly after. It is to be hoped that ‘there is a mistake some- where,”” as wo cannot believe the English people would permit any insult to go unre- buked when offered to one who did so much to save to England and the world a great man of her nationality. But there are, we sup- pose, afew of the doubting Thomases living yet. No New Yeurow Feven Cases Werr Re- Porrep in the bay yesterday, and no deaths occurred among those already stricken. Tho health authorities are keeping a strict quaran- tine, and we are happy to say that their pre- cautions to protect the public health appear to be entirely successful. Unrrep Srares Tans at THE Oar.—-From Panama we have an interesting special roport of a boat race, which has just been contested off that harbor, between crews taken from the United States war ships Saranac and Califor- nia, The occasion was quite exciting, the course being lengthy, the stakes worth something nice, and the spectators numerous. The friendly strife was maintained gallantly to the close, terminating in the defeat of the Sar- anacs—Jobn Bull, on deck, under his own flag, testifying his approval of our display of muscle and skill by the utterance of loud huzzas, for the vanquished as for the victors. From tHe West Inpies we have a special report of the fire ravages which were commit- ted in Kingston, Jamaica, in the early days of the present month, and of the scenes which were enacted during the efforts which were made for the suppression of the conflagration and afterwards. The men of several colored regiments were called out for duty, and they got drunk, after breaking into a neighboring liquor store, became frenzied by the general excitement, and subsequently ‘an & muck,” bayonet in hand, killing a woman and wound- ing several other citizens. Railway extension and the subject of the right of property in press news telegrams engaged the attention of the government. Tae Inpuns Acain—Never-Enxprso Trov- ‘sLz.—No sooner is one serious trouble with the Indians over than another begins. The news from Salt Lake City represents 2 critical state of affairs as regard the savages in the southern part of Utah Territory. All the Indians there exhibit hostility and are committing depreda- | tions. On Friday night last five of them en- | tered a settlement at Mount Pleasant and toma- hawked a telegraph operator. At the outlying settlements and mining camps there were grave apprehensions of a general war. The citizens generally in the Territory are greatly alarmed, Happily Governor Woods, General Ord and General Morrow have confidence that they have force enough to quell disturbance, and they are taking active measures to that end. Still, the prospect is a fearful one. It is evi- dent from the conduct of the Indians in Utah and the recent outrages of the savages in other parts that the government will have to deal with these people in a more severe manner than our Quaker peace philanthropists recom- mend. Mercy isa noble quality, but if over- strained towards these savages it may become cruelty to the white settlers, oe Nuw Y! Charles O'Conor om the Presidential Problem—The Doubtful Elements in the Contest and Their Unknown Quantities. We publish in the Heraup to-day an inter- esting interview with Mr. Charles O’Conor, in which that able lawyer anid old line democrat 232, | 8vows his intention to support neither Grant —-—= | nor Greeley in the Presidential contest, but to cast his lot with the genuine, straight-out Bourbon democracy and vote for the candi- dates of the Louisville Convention, should a regular democratic ticket be put in nomination by that body. Mr. O'Conor can seo no princi- ple involved in the present Presidential strug- gle as between Groeley and Grant, and hence fools at liberty to adhere to his old democratic’ inclinations and to vote for straight-out Bour- bons if any are to be found in the field. Wo judge that itis probable Mr. O’Conor would not decline to allow his name to be placed at tho head of such a ticket, although he must see that it would have no more chance of success than will tho ticket of the temperance reformers, But, in the event of Mr. O’Conor’s nomination, the politicians believe they dis- cover a prospect of breaking Greeley’s Irish strength in this city, and thus giving the State toGrant. This certainly isa shrewd policy, as the Irish could never be induced to vote directly for a party whose organs persistently misrepresent them and whose artists love to caricature them as half demons and half baboons. If they can be persuaded to go for a straight democratic ticket, with Charles O'Conor at its head, it would, of course, an- swer the same purposo as if they should vote directly for the republican candidate. But, whatever may be tho action of tho few stubborn democrats who refuse to bend to the will of their party, it is morally certain that this Prosidential battle will be sharply and closely contested— that against the combined forces of the demo- erats and liberal republicans General Grant, in 1872, will not have his easy walk over the course of 1868, and that, under the circum- stances, the Cincinnati programme for a fusion of the opposition elements is the best that could have been adopted in view of the com- mon desire among the anti-Grant leaders of a change in the administration and their general readiness to accept ‘anything for a change.” Yet there are certain doubtful political ele- ments and unknown quantities which are so inexplicably mixed up in this contest as to reduce us in our calculations of the crowning results almost entirely to presumptions and probabilities. These doubtful elements, with their un- known quantities, arc the anti-Grant republi- cans, the anti-Greeley old line or Bourbon democrats, the free traders, par excellence, the labor reformers, the temperance reformers and the German vote. From the results of the late North Carolina election it may be safely assumed that the colored vote of the country, with some scattering exceptions, is good for Grant, while, on the other hand, the bolters against Greeley from the solid democratic phalanx of our Irish-born fellow citizens, notwithstanding Mr. O'Conor's example, will probably be very few and far be- tweet. The diti-Grant republicans have not yet given us any well defined manifestations of their strength as a balance of power. In Gree- ley and Brown, Sumner, Banks, Schurz, Traum- bull and others, they have brought forward o considerable body of powerful party leaders; but their followers in every State remain an unknown quantity. Their strength, as a balance of power, remains still to be demon- strated. Weare as deep in the fog in refer- ence to the strength of the anti-Greeley Bour- bon democrats. According to our travelling correspondents, they are, one at a time, to be found almost everywhere, east and west; but nowhere do they appear to create any active alarm among the democrats who march to the music of their national convention. On the 3d of September these anti-Greeley democrats: are to have a national convention of their own at Louisville, Ky., and from tho attitude of Mr. O’Conor they will at least be able to reckon one good name among their supporters. In support of this Louisville movement there was in this city the other evening a meet- ing of some fifteen or twenty ‘‘old liners’’ representing twelve States; but at the meeting, as it appears, numerous letters from sym- pathizing friends were read from every State of the Union. The conference lasted several hours, and its leading results were that Horace Greeley, as the Presidential candidate of the democratic party, is not satisfactory to these “old liners,’’ and that it is eminently proper that they should put up some other man. Then, in discussing what man, the names and claims of such distinguished individuals as Charles O'Conor, General Hancock, Judge Davis and Senator Hendricks were discussed, though Hendricks is just now doing yeoman’s service for Greeley and Brown in Indiana. The members of the conference, furthermore, after making arrangements, as reported, for the representation of every Congressional dis- trict in the Union at Louisville, separated to join the Convention in that city on the 3d of September, to assist in the work of nomi- nating a straight democratic ticket on ao “gtraight-out’’ democratic platform, in oppo- sition to both Grant and Greeley. This may mean something or nothing; but the Con- vention itself will probably determine whether this movement covers a bona fide democratic revolt or only a trick of strategy by the ad- ministration party. i The free traders, par excellence, whosé ulti- | matum is the abolition of all Custom Houses and the substitution of direct taxes for the in- direct assessments of the tariff, are too few in numbers to do much mischief; but what mis- chief they can do they will do against that “fierce protectionist,’ Greeley. If you wish to see the antics of an enraged turkey cock in | the presence of an obnoxious bit of red flannel, | mention it to a straightout free trader that it is his policy to support the compromise ticket of Greeley and Brown. But still this out-and- out free trade ¢lique, like the corporal’s guard of Captain Tyler, has sufficiently proved its weakness to be dismissed as an element of ‘no consequence’ in this canvass; and so we dis- miss it. Nor can we imagine that this new political coterie, known as labor reformers, are of any material importance as a make-woight to either Grant or Greeley. They nominated last February a Presidential ticket at Colum- bus, Ohio, which disappeared in June; they tried in New York the experiment of another Convention in July, which was a farce; and | Puladsihie, yg ye on the 22d inst. at same farce over again, and that with this col- | the flag of the Union during the moments of| Cortina’s Piundertmy lapae the whole movement will end in smoke. The Presidential ticket of the temperance reformers—the ticket of Black and Russell— has not, we believe, been withdrawn ; but it this their latest misfortune and danger. The Competition for Western Trade. An unusual awakening is apparent among has apparently died and made no sign. If | our neighboring Atlantic seaports to tho im- abandoned, then, as the temperance teetotaller never could reconcile his cold water notions with ‘the time-honored principles of the demo- cratic party,"’ he will doubtless go for Grant and Wilson. This temperance faction has some strength, too, in Connecticut, Massachu- setts and New Hampshire; but outside of New England, as a political force, it amounts to nothing. Of all these unknown quantities, therefore, that of the German vote going for Greeley and Brown romains to be considered. It will be large in this city; it will draw more or less of tho German strength from the ad- ministration party in the West; but it will require the actnal results of the October State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana to indicate how much. In short, the im- portance of these October elections cannot be over estimated, for, as in reference to every Presidential election, with hardly an oxcep- tion, since the timo of Jackson, they will be apt to settle the question. To sum up these doubtful political elements and their unknown quantities, the Inbor re- formers, the temperance reformers and the free traders par excellence may be dismissed as of no consequence, for in their dissensions they will be neutralizod. There will be a gain to the administration—a clear gain in all the Northern States—from the blacks, the fifteenth amendment having become a law since 1868; there will be the loss to General Grant of the Cincinnati bolting republicans, and a loss, no doubt, of a considerable body of Germans in the West; and these losses would, perhaps, bo conclusive against him but for that unknown quantity of the old lino or Bourbon anti- Greeloy element of the democratic party. Ac- cording to the test of the North Oarolina election this refractory element does not sensi- bly shake the integrity of the democratic party; but the Maino election will be a sharper test, in being fought more diroctly upon the Presidential question, and it will go far to in- dicate the general drift of public sentiment in the North on an issue between Grant and Greeley, before which all these outside dis- turbing forces will be absorbed or swept away. This issue is on the general merits of the administration, and it may thus be pre- sented:—Do the people desire a change in the White House at this time, and are they pre- pared to substitute Greoley for Grant? Upon this question the great body of the people— farmers, manufacturers, mechanics, merchants, men of capital and workingmen—will be apt to determine respectively for themselves whether the time has or has not come for a change in the national administration, and under the conditions presented in this canvass. Upon this issue the result in Maine is not yet fore- shadowed as an administration victory, and it is because, with all that may be said in favor of General Grant, there has been and is a growing popular desire for reform among the “powers that be,”’ and a growing conviction that tho re-election of the President is no longer necessary, a3 in the case of Lincoln, to the public safety or general welfare, Whether this popular desire and this conviction have become strong enough in Maine to inaugurate there in the coming election a political revolu- tion is the point to be determined. Meantima the labor reformers will have their national convention number three at Philadelphia, which we dismiss as signifying nothing ; and the “straight-out’? democrats, under Colonel Blanton Duncan’s management, will have at Louisville their second national convention, which will be important, at least, in determin- ing the question whether there is or is not against the liberal coalition ticket of Greeley and Brown a serious defection among the rank and file of the democratic party. Wo enter- tain the opinion that this Louisville Conven- tion will also prove a failure—that it comes too late as o third party movement, and that even should it put a ticket into the field with so respectable a name as Charles O'Conor at its head, its success will be so utterly hopeless and its mission so self-evident, that in the end its best friends will see the folly of throwing away their votes on it, and will divide between Grant and Greeley, according to their several inclinations. Peruvian Revolution and Presidential Murder. By a special correspondence from Lima, under date of the 27th of July, we are enabled to publish in the Henatp to-day a full report of the inception and progress of the revolutionary movement which was initiated against Presi- dent Balta, of Peru, and which eventuated in the murder of that statesman, the chief of the executive, in prison, by the representative of a rival house, the leader of an opposing political party. The chronicle is of exceed- ing sadness, the misery of its details being re- lieved in the eyes of civilization merely by the existence of the coincident fact that the first outrage and its concomitant horrors ap- pear to have been induced and perpetrated by the jealousy of an imaginative people, made anxious for the preservation of whatever of coustitutional right remains to them. It may be said, indeed, that it was pa- triotism run mad, or the envy of Casea, transmitted and triumphant in the mod- ern Bruti of the South American Re- public. Balta’s arrest was accomplished at the very moment when his daughter was being prepared for marriage, and a house which wag hopeful of joy was thus made suddenly sen- sible of the most profound grief. The foreign Ministers serving in Lima were amazed; the people, citizens of the place, were horrified. They beheld personal power likely to prevail over their rights. The supreme office of State was seized by Sylvestre Gutierrez, Mar- celiano Gutierrez, brother of the coup Dicta- tor, became the murderer of Balta, and the nomination of Pardo for the Presidential succession by Congress was endangered. Tho people acted by counter revolution. They rose against the Gutierrez family faction and dis- posed of all of its members by summary death. The work was dreadful; its fulfilment alarming. Peace was restored at length. Pardo was called to power. It is evident, however, that the eyes of the great governments must bo turned still more directly and anxiously towards the working of the democratic execu- tive system in these South American republics. The diplomacy of the United States particu- larly must be active and energetic, as it will be seen, from our special letter to-day, that portance of Western trade. The great staple of grain seems specially to claim the attention of the commercial communities to the north and south of the metropolis and stimulate ex- traordinary exertions to attract its current to their wharves. Thus we see that at Boston a combination of railroads, whose lines are eight hundred miles in extent, propose the erection of immense grain elevators, which will be able to take freight from their cars and discharge it directly into steamers and vessels destined for European ports. This, in connection with negotiations for bringing to Boston steamships of the Allan Transatlantic line, now plying to Portland and the cities on the St. Lawrence, affords our Yankeo rivals opportunity to rejoice in advance over the prospect of divert- ing to their wharves a profitable part of tho business of transporting and handling grain, which has during the last forty years brought great gain to New York. In view of this pro- ject to divert trade from “the leading com- mercial city of the. Atlantic coast,” a newspaper of Boston boasts that our monopoly of that business with the West is. already broken by the judicious use of railroad facilities on linos leading to other ports. It particularly specifies the busi- ness of the Canada Grand Trunk road, with its terminus at Portland, and says that quite ro- contly heavily ladon freight trains have begun to pass through direct from Western ship- ping points to Massachusetts Bay ‘‘with- out paying tribute either to the canals or elevators of New York.’ To this im- proved railroad connection between tho New England ports and the seat of grain production this paper attributes the fact, which it alleges, that whereas ‘‘a few years ago New York used to ship annually to Boston and the ports of Maine many hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain and proportionate quanti- ties. of flour, now these shipments amount to comparatively nothing.’ It gleefully looks forward to tho day when, with the proposed elevators built, Boston will furnish Montreal and other Canadian shipping ports ample and convenient outlet for their merchandise Winter as well as Summer, affording plenty of busi- noss for both the Cunard and Allan linos and great advantages to Boston. But the Yankce capital does not rely on Canada alone for hor Western trade, Sho is vigorously pushing and improving her railway con- nections with all our New York Woest- ern lines, and her merchants have their drummers scouring all the country between the Hudson and the Rocky Mountains, seck- ing to establish business relations with con- sumers of merchandise and shippors of pro- duce. . In doing this we note with regret that the thirst for gain induces a departure from truth and transgression of the rules of fair rivalry. False reports have in this interest beon spread of the prevalence of yellow fever in New York, to frighten customers from their habitual Summer “visits, and induce them instead to trade at Boston. Gilmore's big musical festivals have had the same object. To all honest offorts in neighboring cities thus to cultivate business, even at her own expense, New York does not object. Sho, too, has many and great advantages of position and facilities for trade, nnd what she lacks in im- proved land and water lines connecting with end Wild deeds and reckless orimes ate not anu- sual on the line of the Bravo, or, ag we call it, the Rio Grande. For many years the belt be- tween it and the Nueces has been infested by bands of thieves who think nothing of murder when it comes in the way of carrying out their Schemes of robbery, or when it gratifies their resentments, Among the worst men this region has produced is the monster Cortina, ‘the Tiger of the Bravo," formerly a thieving em- ployé of the United States Quartermaster's Department, later chief of a company of indis- oriminate plunderers, and, latest, Janrez’s Com- mandante of the line of the Bravo. His record is one of blood from the age of fifteen until now, and his sanguinary career of thirty years, in which he has slain scores of men, has had for its sole object the acquisition of money. During the unsettled period after the close of our Mexican war, when this portion of Texas was only inhabited by bold rancheros, who at the risk of their lives sought wealth and inde- pendence in stock raising, Cortina, who had already by murder and theft acquired some property, took into- his pay a number of tho most reckless criminals and outlaws of the border and systematically made plunder his occupation, ‘accompanying it by rapine and murder unchecked. He has undoubted per- sonal courage, and, while permitting the utmost ‘license te his followers, held them under the most absolute control, and reaped for his sole use the lion’s —_ of their booty. His raids were many, and made him one of the richest men of the Rio Grande line. His crimes secured for him in Cameron county seventy-one indictments for murder and rob- bery; yet he was always able to elude pursuit and to find safety on the Mexican sido of the river, though Texas outlawed him and would have seconded his assassination. While Juarez desperately fought: imperialism and insur- rection at once he was glad to accept the ser- vice of this murderous chieftain, and the title of general, with the command of tho Texan line, was the price the robber received for his loyalty. His accession of dignity was no check to his cupidity and lawlessness. He announced himself as the constant foo of the Yankees, and the national Mexican troops under his command stole the herds of Texan frontieramen and drove them across the Bravo to be sold for his account. These thefts were often accompanied by the murder of those in charge of the cattle and the burn- ing of their houses, Cortina, the command- ing general of a neighboring and friendly re- public, became more feared and worse hated than Cortina, chief of armed thieves. This state of affairs produced a protest from Gen- eral Andreas Trevifio, Governor of Tamaulipas, and General Quiroga, of New Leou, which cul- minated in 9 most formidable rebellion under the lead of Trovifio, who is a liberal and edu- cated man, native of Matamoros, a graduate of the National Military Academy and a pro- nounced friend of the Yankees, whose lan- guage he speaks. Juarez, who, though patri- otic, was exceedingly illiberal, could never be induced to doprive,the bloody Cortina of his command, and in consequence the probability, at the time, of his death favored the success of the revolt of Trevifio and the secession from the federal bond of all the Northern Mexican States, which would have formed friendly rela- tions with their Texan neighbors. On the tender of amnesty by Lerdo de Tejada Tre- yifio proffered his allegiance, and the revolt along the Rio Grande has now terminated. It the great fruitful West she has the means and the enterprise to construct. So, too, of ele- vators and all the appliances essential to the speedy and cheap bandling of freighta, They éan be created at command, and our mer- chants will see their necessity if they would retain the proud position of our city as the great entrepot of American commerce on the Atlantic. Portland is industriously making the most of her fine harbor and short Cana- dian railroad to court freights. Southern cities are also not behind those of NewEngland in efforts to secure a share of the toll which the Western farmers pay on their grain before it reaches European markets. Philadelphia seeks it by her comprehensive railroad system. Last week she launched the first of a line of steamships for direct trade with Great Britain. To support this line she must give it twice the present amount of her trade; but if the steamers fail to find employ- ment in the Delaware no doubt freights in abundance will await them at our docks. Bal- timore has both railroads and canals for her connection with the Ohio and the territory beyond. Norfolk boasts natural and - artificial facilities. Charleston and Savannah, with their railroads, claim share, and the cities of the Mississippi are alive to the fact that certain classes of vessels can take grain from the pro- ducers and pass from their levees to the Liver- pool docks without breaking bulk. Canada’s cities make the same boast. All these rivals of New York for the Western trade are active, and each determined to make the most of their several advantages. Still, if our business men keep step with the growing requirements of commerce, we have no reason to fear its diversion. We need improved canal naviga- tion and cheapened tolls; we need exclusive freight railroads, which would greatly reduce the cost of transportation on long lines ; and we need warehouses and elevators, with a sys- tem of city tramways, to facilitate the handling of freight here and lessen its expense, Will our merchant princess eo the busfness which | has done so much to build the metropolis carried to other ports for want of the proper accommodations for its transaction here, where our interior products most naturally seek exchange for the products of other lands? Canret-Bacism in Sovutn Canora stands out in worse light yet, viewed through the Henaxp’s despatch from that State in to-day’s issue, If no positive dishonesty were intended by the Financial Board in hypothecating to capitalists in New York seven millions of bonds, issued simply for the conversion of old State paper, the readiness with which these men, who believe in their own irresponsibility, plunged into illegality shows the utter reck- lessness and want of principle among them. The aggrieved bondholders should prosecute. Canoes 1x THE GermMaAN Army.—There are changes to bo inaugurated in the German army, such as the new armament of the infan- try, which will be hurried up so as to be entirely completed by next spring. The new Werder rifle is to be introduced; and the troops are to Philadelphia, which we suspect will be the! the peovle of Jyima looked anziovsly towards | be immediately drilled in its practiog, is to he hoped that the segacity of the present President of Mexfoo will ely he éxpédlations of his friends by dismissing from the federal service the rapacious Cortina, and bringing him, with his fellow thieves, to justice. Improved Pulpit Utterances. Yesterday was the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and, being within the octave of this festival, the Catholicand ritual- istic churches commemorated the event in a manner to them highly befitting. As a Chris- tian mother, a devoted wife, a godly, meek and pure virgin nothing need be added to nor can be taken from her character as described in the sacred Scriptures. But there is a ten- dency among men in exalting our heroes to soar above the solid kingdom of facts into the aerial realms of fiction and tradition. This cannot be safely done with historic characters without destroying tho influence of our hero which we seck to bring prom- inently before the world. It is especially dangerous to thus trifle with Bible char- acters. Hence we consider that Rev. Dr. Friel, of St. Borromeo’s church, Brooklyn, erred in giving such dogmatic prominence to what he must know and his studious hearers must know is mero tradition and without Scriptural foundation in regard to the death of the Virgin Mary. True, the Bible does not pretend to give a history of the life or death of this holy mother; but such an event as is described by Dr. Friel could hardly escape the attention of some one of the sacred historians. And if it be true, as stated, that threo days after her death the Apostles visited her tomb and found only the linen which had enveloped her corpse, while she had ascended into heaven in fire or in a fiery chariot and was reunited with her divine Son, it is almost incredible that they, who are so minute. and particular about mat- ters of far less importance to the Church, should pass this event by in silence, There is danger that by teaching for doctrines the com- miandments of men a faith of some in the Lord Jesus Christ may be weakened, if not destroyed. Let Him have the highest place in human hearts, no matter who has the next. Per contra, the Rev. J. M. King, of Saratoga, preaching yesterday on the humanity of Christ, declared that ‘the invocation of saints and the Virgin Mary, as practised by the Roman Catholic Church, is condemned in its very principle’ by the fact that there is but one mediator between God and men—the man Christ Jesus. The humanity of Christ makes His example inimitable and exalts Him as a hero above all the heroes of earth. He is the ideal man and the ideal hero, and our humanity may grasp His conquering hand and be by it lifted up to the throne of God. Every sane man designs and desires at some time to be saved and to get to heaven, and the only difficulty in his mind is as to the time and manner of attending to this important business. When and how shall we save our own souls? Two ways are set before us in the sermons which we lay before our readers to-day. Rev. Dr. Foss, of St. Paul’s Metho- dist Episcopal church, having returned from his Summer vacation yesterday, preached works follow faith, we arrive at tho true way to the cross and to the crown. If faith with- out works be, dead, certainly works without faith are of no avail whatever in the salvation of one’s soul. And the true medium is to havo faith. in Christ first, and this faith will manifest itself all through life in works of love and charity. Life as a battle field, Christianity and the world, Christ and Satan as-the contestants, and human souls as the prize, brings the war- faro within the reach and makes it highly interesting to every one of us, Mr. Cowper told tho Allen street Methodists. that this war- fare is not an eagy, lazy oocupation, but ho who enters it must be ready for an earnest conflict “with selfishness, ambition, pride, fashionable secret sins, as well as outwardly heinous crimes.” It is, indeed, 9 sad, dark picture of our world which fills it with ‘mon who organize the business of their lives on the basis of gelfishnoss, ignoring their fellow mortals,” We are glad to know that the world is not so dark as this painter would make it. Thore never has been a time in the history of the Ohurch or of the world when so much wealth was dedicated to God as at the present day, and Christian benevolence and brotherly sympathy walk about hand in hand, seeking whom they may comfort and aid. Both the Church and the world to-day have great reason to thank God for pious and devoted business men, and for sanctified wealth; and their numbers and influence are continually increasing. Tho manifold wisdom of God in sending His Son Jesus Christ to declare and manifest the divine love to humanity was an appropriate theme to be introduced before the Fifty-third street Baptist church, or indeed any other. Ohrist brought a gospel for every man, and to every human heart this sweet story of Hislove has a charm that cannot be resisted. And yet there are persons in Fifty-third strect Baptist church and in every other church in the city who do resist its charms, and who with both hands push back the salvation which the Lord God presses upon them. Men are so dead in trespasses and sins that, as Dr. Holden said in Grace church yesterday, they ‘‘have need to be aroused by something that will astonish them beyond measure, and send a flash of truth into their minds, which, if they would, thoy might learn in the daily lessons of their experience.” And for this reason the Doctor thinks God gave the world those wonderful manifestations in the days of old; but He no longer deals with us in the way of miraculous manifestations, but calls upon all men every- where to repent. Christ came into the world to save evory soul, and, as Father Kroise de: clared, ‘He will save us a3 He ‘faved tho Jeperg if we apply to Him.” «Evory- ono (ae is went," said the reverond Father, ‘has graces enough to save his soul if he dope not abuse them. The inforence, of course, is plain that thosa who are not saved are not because they will not be. The fault is solely their own. The nature and benefits of sacrifice presented to God wore laid before the Universalists in Plimpton Hall yesterday by Rev. Mr. Jordan, who encouraged his hearers to present themselves ‘‘a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is their reason- able service.’’ Tho Irish Riots in Belfast. A nows telegram from London, under date of yesterday reports that tho religio-party riots in Belfnst were continued during Saturday and 6n to Sunday morning. The combatants fight, as Catholic and Protestant. The polico fired on the mobs, wounding several persons. Troops of the line, with fixed bayonets, held the streets and the military was being rein- forced. This sort of intelligence, continued from day to day as it has been, is not very creditable to Belfast, the most orderly, industrious and thrifty manufacturing town of its extent in Great Britain—a town which enjoys a heavy trade with some of our greatest American merchants. The wonder is that if all the army force which is spoken of is on the spot, it does not clear the’ belligerents ont or send their leaders neck and crop to jail. The ‘boys’ of Sandy row and the Pound—the Alsatian of Belfast—have created much trouble for the English authorie ties in bygone years; their conduct at one period in July extorting from the late Sir Robe ert Peel the indignant Parliamentary query— “Is Her Majesty's government to be held re- sponsible for the acts of a set of shoelesa and shirtless vagabonds in Ireland?’’ Mr, Glad- stone will perhaps adopt the sentence and obtain a reply after the next general election, Continued Flow of Spe to Franec. We have noticed the wondorful success of the French loan, and, indeed, it strikes the whole world with surprise. The strength of France financially shows that the country is full of resources and that its credit stands high, notwithstanding the most disastrous and exhausting foreign and civil war through which it recently passed. © Now we seo by the telegrams from Paris yesterday that the specie in the Bank of Franco had increased eleven and o half millions of francs during the past week. The tendency is, in fact, all the time to the accumulation of the precious metals in France. The secret of this astonishing state of things financially is found in the in- dustry and economical habits of the people in connection with the great and varied produc- tions of the country- The products of their industry are such as find a demand in almost every country on the globe. France exports these to greater amount in value than she im~ ports, and therefore the balance ,of trade im her favor is « continual nae of oe i who spends less than pe poeal Par ening Privy attain a high credit, and itis the same with nations. Here is a lesson for us, who are importing all the timo extravagantly over and above our ex- port and hn consequently keep in debt,