The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1872, Page 6

EW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hepat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ieee mip t THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the vear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. JOB PRINTING af every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. AMUSEMENTS | TO-MORROW “EVENING WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirte: street—Ixion; om, Tux Max ar Tux Wurst, xo GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Rot Cannorx, a BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth avenue.—Tux Buus; or, Tax Po.isn Jew. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Trurs—Ovr Neicn- BRS, SMITH AND BROWN, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwa; Kit, THe ABKANSAS TRAVELL! corner Thirtieth st— Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houstonand Bleecker sta—Rud PockeTuooK. 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S—Financial and Commercial: A Dull Closing of the Week in the Street; A Bad Bank State- ment; A Flurry in the Money Market and Ad- vance in the Rates on Call; A.Quiet and Heavy Market at the Stock Exchange; The Cotton Movement and the End of the Cotton Year; The Foreign Imports of the Week Eleven Millions—The Custom House: The Manner of Bonding Warehouses—Jefferson Market Police Court—New York City News— Fatal Hatchway Casualty—Marriages, Birth and Deaths, 6—Editortals: Leading Article, “The Dreadful Catastrophe on the Sound; Precautions Needed in Darkness and Storm; The Burning of the Steamship Bienville at Sea”—Amuse- ment Announcements, ‘J—Livingstone: British Detence of the American Record of the Recent Exploration in Atrica— The Council of the Crowns—The Alabama Claims—Cable_ Telegrams from England, France and Germany—News from Japan and China—The Louisv! Business Notices, 8—<-The Courts—A Panel House Operation—Adver- tisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—Sir John P. Grant: Arrival of His Excellency the Governor General of Jamaica—A Biog- raphy Manufacturer: How the Lives of “Men of Progress" are Published—Yachting—Cu- bans in Canada—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- vertisements, 11—Advertisemeuts. 12—Advertisements, le Bourbon Convention— Te Fatt Season anp THE Rerunn or ‘Tnape.—The advent of the cool autumn days is marked by the return of the pleasure seek- ers, and the strects begin to give evidence of returning life and activity. The delightfully cool weather which we have enjoyed for the last few days has not been without its marked influence on commercial energy, which was prostrated during the heated summer term. A general resumption of business took place as the lost days of summer bade us adieu, and we are once more face to face with the real business of life. The state of our advertisement columns to-day gives evidence of an unwonted activity in business circles; and as no better indicator of the fluctuations of trade can be found than the columns of the Heraup, which faithfully reflect the hopes, fears, wants and wishes of the community, we may confidently look forward to a season of unusual enterprise and activity. Tre Atapama Cxarms Anprrration Count is progressing, we are assured, in the most conscientiously careful manner towards a final settlement of the great international work which has been confided to its care, The members appear to be slightly embar- rassed by the presence of ‘a multitude of petty details.” But this was, certainly, to be expected. These details are the mere débris of the wreck which was made among the American mercantile marine by the Anglo- rebel cruizers. Better, if it is judicially pos- sible, to permit them to drift aside, for a season at least. The counsel, with one of the members of the Court, are enjoying another period of recess. Tue Speci, Wonper in connection with the late dreadful disaster on the Sound is not that the steamer was so quickly flooded and broken up, and is not that such terrible destruction followed so quickly such an apparently trifling collision; but it is in the number of lives saved from the st rin the confusion and under all the difficulties of the heavy sea, the storm and the darkness. These things considered, while the lives losi cause for sorrow, the lives saved are for our special wonder and thank their preservation appears almost a » re cause Tue Nosancia.—After the little yellow fever seare, on account of the Spanish steam ram Numancia, our citizens will rejoice to know that the disease has entirely disappeared from among her inmates, no fresh cases having occurred within several days, and those who ‘were prostrated being now convalescent. She still lies at the anchorage in the Lower Bay, near the Southwest Spit, but will, within a day or two, by permission of Health Officer Vanderpoel, be brought up to the city by Pilot Gillispie, who safely conducted her over the bar, After taking her supply of about a thou- sand tons of coal sha will proceed to Spain, ‘The Dreadfal Catastrophe on the Sound— Precautions Needed in Darkness and Storm—The Burning of the Steam- ship Bienville at Sea. In another place wo publish the latest ac- counts of one of the most appalling disasters that has occurred on our coast for many years. Fortunately the extent of loss of life incurred in the wreck of the Metis has not been so large as was at first estimated ; but for this we have to thank a series of fortunate circumstances which might not be met again in a century. On the other hand, the collision and sinking of the vessel crowded with helpless passen- gers is an event that may happen again at any moment with results still more appalling, because it seems as though the necessity for the adoption of precautions for the preserva- tion of life must be enforced by terrible calam- ities, It would be rash and premature, with the present incomplete and con- flicting evidence, to lay the blame of the collision on any individual, but the insuff- ciency of the equipment of the steamer Metis to contend with such an emergency furnishes us with an explanation of the deplorablo loss of life which ensued, about which there can be but.one opinion. Avoiding all discussion as to the solidity and sea-worthiness of a steamer that could be crushed like an egg shell by a very slight collision with a small trading schooner, we have legitimate ground for com- plaint when we find that the vessel is not sup- plied with boats capable of accommodating one-half of the passengers and crew. Had the steamer gone down in a perfect calm it would have been impossible to save all the passengers, because the niggardliness of a wealthy corporation failed to supply a few additional boats. 1t is true that the company were by no means sparing of the ornamental life-saving apparatus, those deceptive life- buoys, cork beds and other ingenious contriv- ances to prolong the agony of drowning wretches ; but, however comforting these may be to the sight, experience teaches that, prac- tically, they are of but slight avail. Their uses are temporary, and in no case can they safely be allowed to replace the lifeboat. In this latter absolutely necessary equipment the Metis seems to have been almost entirely want- ing; for, while she nominally possessed four lifeboats, the réle they played in the disaster shows that they were little better than a sham, so far as being useful for saving the lives of the passengers. If they were available for this purpose at all the fact seems to have been for- gotten by those in command of the Metis. If these lifeboats were worth anything they ought to have furnished the safest means of reach- ing the shore, which was at no great distance, and as a matter of hu- manity should have been placed at the service of the women and children; but in tho confusion and demoralization caused by the collision it appears that a portion of the crew and a few of the male passengers appropriated the boats, thinking only of their own safety. This conduct was all the less defensible, be- cause the nearness of the shore and the cer- tainty of help being at hand as soon as the morning light should appear left no excuse for the supreme selfishness, which, in mid-ocean, where none but the strong could reasonably hope to survive unavoidable hardships, might be pardonable. We have the safe arrival of one lifeboat chronicled. It bore to the shore a number of deck hands and male passengers, but not one helpless woman or child. One can scarcely repress a movement of indignation at the cow- ardly selfishness of these creatures in the form of men. In imagination we hear the cry of anguish of helpless women as the infants they clung to with a love strong even in death were swept from their benumbed embrace and lost forever in the watery waste. We can imagine the pale faces of women turned up despairingly and helplessly amid the awful gloom of the dark waters, vainly seeking fora friendly arm to rescue them from a watery grave, while these contemptible fellows are rowing away with the noble aim of saving their worthless selves, a| Fortunately for humanity this is the dark sido of the pioturo, and there were not wanting gallant men to step into the post of danger and strive to shield the weak and helpless from the danger by which they were sur- rounded. If it were not so the list of victims would have been terribly increased. The number of women saved in _ spite of the carrying off of at least some of the lifeboats is a proof that the cowardly and the selfish were, after all, but a very small minority among the passengers. While it is a matter for congratulation that the loss of life has not been so great as was at first supposed, it is regrettable that the care- lessness and indifference of great corporations expose the public hourly to similar disasters. It isa debatable question whether an occur- rence like the collision of the Metis and the schooner Nettie Cushing can be properly looked upon as an accident. That is a point which must be settled when fuller and more reliable information is at hand; but the loss of life which results from an insuffi- cient supply of lifeboats must be blamed on a criminal neglect of the safety of the passengers for which the company alone are responsible, Calamities like the loss of the Metis are suffie ciently frequent to demand that no precaution for the safety of life shall be neglected on board steamboats plying on home waters. In the present case, so faras can be judged by the information received, no sufficient prep- aration for possible shipwreck had been made. The calamity which befell the Sound steamer had its parallel in the loss of the Arctic, off Cape Race, just eighteen years and two days before. That magnificent vessel left port with a perfection of equipment which seemed to defy the fates, but when off Cape Race the dark hull of on iron steamship suddenly loomed up through the dense fog, and before either ship could obey the helm they met like angry monsters of the deep. A crash, anda ery of despair from hundreds of helpless men | and women, and both vessels settled down | in the dark waves. An effort was made by the | Arctic to reach land, just as similar effort | was made by the Metis ; but the waters rushed in through the gaping sides, extinguishing the fires, and the vessel, suddenly plunging into the ocean depths, carried with her some two hundred souls. Except in the number of lives lost the circumstances of the loss of the two vessels are almost identical. Fortunately the Metis was close to shore, or we fear the paral- lel would have been perfect. The lesson taught by the constantly occurring catastrophes on our river and coasting steambonts 1s ensy enough to read. Each calamity proceeds with melancholy regularity from the want of pra- dential forethought. The most prominent characteristic of our steamboating is its reck- lessness. Our great companies are so much above public opinion that even a disaster like the present one fails to make them respect the laws made for the safety of the public, unless they happen to be to their own liking, and of course it is useless to hope that our officials would enforco stringent laws on powerful cor- porations, whose resentment is so much to be feared and whose favor it is profitable to culti- vate. The use of such ordinary precautions as blowing the fog signals, to give notice of approach, might have prevented a collision in the case of the Metis; but, inconceivable as it may appear, such neglect on the steam- ers plying in the Sound is absolutely habitual. It is notorious that steamboats crowded with to whom a collision means almost inevitable death, constantly steam in the most reckless manner during foggy weather in waters crowded with sails, without giving the usual fog signal of their approach. Under these circumstances thé wonder is that we have so few disasters to chronicle. Nor is the look-cut kept on board those steamers very keen. It is only a few wooks since the Bristol, of the Fall River line, ran down an Irish bark at anchor in Newport harbor, although the bark had her lights hung out, and with char- acteristio indifference proceeded on her way after a superficial examination of the damage she had sustained. Fortunately the weather was fine, or a fearful loss of life might have been the result, for when the Bristol had pro- ceeded on her way some distance it was dis- covered that she was fast filling with water and was only saved from sinking by being beached. This ought to have been a warning against similar carelessness, but it sooms as though every lesson of prudence must be taught to steamboat and railway men in letters of blood. Similar acts of neglect are constantly producing calamities that differ only in ex- tent of injury and suffering inflicted, and the only excuse or explanation that can be offered in extenuation is the poor ono that all the mis- ery caused is by ‘‘accident.’’ But when we examine closely those so called accidents we find that in most cases they are the result of selfish indifference or gross neglect, and we are almost tempted to wish for some law that would punish reckless indifference as a crime. No one can doubt that it is so morally, and there is no good reason why the criminal neglect which sends hundreds to premature graves ought not to be visited with merited chastisement. Almost before the last wailing cry of the victims of the Metis collisioh has died on the ear the wires announce another disaster at sea, involving even a greater loss of Ife. This time the agent of “accident” is fire, and the unserviceable condition of the steam pumps tho visible cause of the calamity. On the 10th of August the Bienville left this port for Aspinwall, and the telegraphic despatch which will be found elsewhere in- forms us she has been destroyed at sea. In this case the vessel might have been saved, and a lamentable loss of life avoided, if only a careful examination of the «steam pumps had beon made before leaving port ; but this would have been contrary to the reckless, hap-haz- ard mode of preparing ships for sea which ob- tains among us. But it is useless to multiply examples; if need were, it would not be diffi- cult to fill our columns with stories of disaster as fraught with suffering and warning as those wo mention. It could, however, add nothing to tho weight and importance of the lesson which the examples we have to-day before us teach. Unless we are to hold our lives at the caprige of careless and irresponsible compa- nies some steps will have to be taken by gov- ernment to enforce attention to the public safety. Weare glad to notice that an official investigation into the causes of the catastro- phe to the Metis has been ordered by the Act- ing Secretary of the Navy. It is to be hoped that the authorities will not stop at this. We had lengthy investigations when the Westfield dealt death to hun- dreds of innocent people, but they changed in little the reckless system of steam- boating which is the underlying cause of all such disasters. What we do wantare such clear and simple laws as would be likely to prevent such occurrences in the future, and to have them stringently enforced. Steamboat captains who sail through a fog without taking the precaution of making use of their fog- whistles are guilty of recklessness which ap- proaches very closely to a crime, and, whether or not they cause damage by such neglect, they ought to be punished for exposing the lives of others to imminent peril. We hope that the terrible warning furnished by the fate of the Metis will arouse a public attention to this matter that will compel the authorities to take such steps as will render the occurrence of similar catastrophes rare in the future. Tax Storm on THE Laxes.—The late storm on Lake Ontario was very severe, resulting in several shipwrecks ; but so far, as it appears, involving no losses of life. Within the last week o series of heavy storms, all no doubt be- longing to the same general drift of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico, have occurred in different parts of the country between the great Plains and the Atlantic coast. We had been warned of their approach by the northern lights for several nights in succession, and now, from the vast extent of country swept by these storms, and from the great change in the temperature from heat to cold which has followed them, we infer that ‘the back bone”’ of this equatorial Summer in these latitudes is broken, and that clouds and storms and cold winds will probably now prevail for some time. At all events, our seafaring men, on our out- side and inland seas will act wisely hence- forward, for many months to come, in care- fully consulting, before putting out to sea, the warnings of the Signal Service Bureau; for the Summer season of calms has passed away and the season of storms is upon us, and the September equinoctials, it would appear, have already been skirmishing over the Continent. Tue Great Mistaxe.—After the collision the Metis kept on her way, her injuries, owing to the darkness, not being immediately dis- covergd; but they were thought to be incon- siderable by the mate and engineer, who were sent by the captain to inspect the ship in the quarter where the collision occurred. The mate and engineer, without a thorough inspec- tion, it would thus appear, supposed there was no danger, when they and the captain should have been sure as to the real condition of the ship, as the very first duty after tho collision required of them at all hazards. NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. Doctor Livingstone’s Dread of Fancy- Ographers in Geography. A Hznaup special despatch from London, which appears in our pages to-day, indicates very plainly that the independent mind of the British nation is about to emancipate itself from the would-be control of the stay-at-home scientists of the hour, and that it will accept enlightenment in geography, as in all other matters appertaining to public education, when it is afforded from trustworthy sources, even if its current should lack the direction of the associated savans of the Royal Societies. The London Standard, a very careful paper, published an article yesterday defending Mr. Dawson for his action in support of Mr. Stanley against the Royal Geographists. who attempted to deny the accuracy of his detail of the finding of Livingstone. Tho English press writer states that the Royal Geog- raphists did not care so much to aid Living- stone as to get hold of his narrative of discov- eries, and thus be enabled to manipulate the detail so as to make it suit their own views. In support of this position the Standard reproduces a letter which Livingstone ad- dressed to Lord Clarendon in the year 1868, wherein the great and very cautious ex- plorer denounces such : projects, and ex- presses his terrible dread of such fancyogra- phy—another peculiar yet very forcible word— and proceeds to show his reason for not permit- ting the result of his labor to be ‘‘desecrated’’ by self-sufficient and ignorant persons, Living- stone in truth wishes, as he said in the letter to Clarendon, to be the “guardian” of his “own observations till publication.” This statement answers sufficiently the queries why Livingstone did not send a record of his travels to the Royal Geographical Society by the hands of Mr. Stanley. It proves also that the explorer’s head remains perfectly “level,’’ for the reason that he re- collected the fancyographers and feared their theoretical fireside discoveries. Austria’s Position in the Congress. His Excellency Count Andrassy has conde- scended to give the peoples of the Old World an inkling of the attitude which his imperial master, the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, will assume in the council of the great Crowns at Berlin. The information is conveyed in the form of an official circular addressed to the Ambassadors of the Empire serving abroad. A portion of the contents of the paper has been permitted, as it appears from our news telegram, to leak out for publication. From this it will be seen that the Austrian monarch is made, or has undertaken, to play the part of an interpleader between the mon- archies and the democracy of Europe. He assures the Fronch Republic of his good will, leaving it to be inferred that some persons, or somebody, has become afraid lest the heads of the great royalist houses would attempt to con- spire for a reaction against the progress of the popular march to self-government. Or it may be that Franz Joseph has thought of 1848—the moment of his accession to the throne—of the “risings’’ in Vienna at that time, and of the revolution in Hungary, and that, experiencing the flow of ‘‘a new set of noble affections” in his heart, he is calculating whether, with all his personal chivalry and dash, it would not be more glorious, or more safe, to march with the masses than to oppose their course to-day. He has seen the people ‘‘out’’ in Vienna—a sight Alexander has not witnessed in St. Petersburg. Emperor William can speak wisely of the effect of such demonstrations; so there remains little doubt but that very important results will ensue from the congregation of the Crowns. Count Andrassy states that “the prompt de- velopment of the civilization and wealth of Turkey’’ will be a grand object with the sovereigns. Perhaps we have the whole case in a nutshell here, although it is difficult to understand how the ‘‘civilization of Turkey’ can be developed by the lay pontiffs of three great Church subdivisions of Christianity. The ‘wealth of Turkey’’ is another thing. Tre Wee in Wawn street wound up dull for gold and stocks. A sudden acceleration of the demand for money was credited toa poorer showing of the banks, as revealed in their weekly statement, made public yesterday. Imperial News anp Passenczrs From THE Far East.—The steamship Alaska, which arrived at San Francisco yesterday, supplies the tele- gtaph news report from Japan and China which appears in the columns of the Heratp to-day. She landed also a very valuable cargo, with a number of passengers for the United States and Europe. The relations existing between Japan and Corea remain in an exceedingly delicate position, indicative of war, which, should it occur, will be likely to evolve a variety of interests affecting the foreign Powers. The policemen who mur- dered the members of a family in Yokohama were executed. The Kioto exhibition will be reopened, but the passport system which is enforced against foreign visitors intending to journey to the famous city appears to be both rigid andexpensive. The Prince of Tosa, one of the baronial leaguers who broke down the Tycoonate, has just died in Japan. Fovancran Arrarrs 1x Encianp.—A report comes from London that the recent failures in England had the effect of depressing consols and causing a general feeling of insecurity in financial circles. We do not suppose thero is any probability of a general disturbance of values or the market. Certain speculators in cotton and other things have been trying to make a corner, justas the wheat speculators in Chicago and the gold speculators in Wall street did, and have been cornered themselves in the operation. That is about all there is in it, and we do not suppose the effect will ex- tend far or last long. Canapman Nevrrarrry.—A royal proclama- tion has been issued by the Governor General of the New Dominion, warning Canadians not to assist the Cuban insurgents by enlisting for their service, in violation of the Foreign En- listment act. Her Majesty's loyal subjects are commanded to desist from thus levying war against the friendly power of Spain, and noti- fied that any infraction of the law will be promptly dealt with. In the case of Cuba the British government is more tardy in recogniz- ing the insurgents as “belligerents’’ than in the case of our rebel States during our late unpleasantness. she been thus prompt ond firmly neutral in our case we should have had a shorter war, with less loss of life and de- struction of property; and we should have had no necessit; Tor the ‘Treaty of Washington and Geneva arbitration. The Butterfiles of Fashion and the Reopening of the Churches, Now the thermometer has ceased its erratic flights towards the upper ball, and humanity can at last breathe without encoun- tering a Sahara atmosphere, everybody thinks of home, and the stifling rooms of the water- ing place hotels are deserted. The first to feel the sudden change from the nineties to the sixties are the Summer butterflies of fashion, who naturally feel at once-the chilling effect on their plumage. Consequently the hum of packing up in hot haste affects every Summer resort, and rueful and joyful countenances taay be seen at the Branch, Newport and Sara- toga ; the rueful ones, those who have to foot exorbitant bills, and the joyful ones those who have made a small fortune during the season at those unconscionable caravansaries called Summer resorts, But theavant-coureurs of the homeward hegira are the parsons. They have been also amid the haunts of fashion, and have fought the good fight even in the strong- holds of the enemy. While the devotees of fashion were bathing, dancing, picnicking and flirting the stern soldiers of the conventicles inaugurated camp meetings and religious feasts and exchanged many experiences in the spiritual contest on the green sward. Now they have come back and have girded on their armor to give battle with the common enemy. Their sermons are carefully prepared, and it is hoped that in their future discourses they will remember the axiom of turning from ‘‘na- tare to nature's God.” The clergymen of our fashionable churches have had a glorious op- portunity of getting ideas of sermons in run- ning brooks, and we sincerely expect from their experience in trout fishing that they may conceive ideas in the way of being fishers of men. But, per contra, it is most devoutly to be expected that their sojourn among their country brethren may not contaminate that vigor of rhetoric and logic of ideas which so distinctly mark the country clergyman from his metropolitan confrére. In fact, we should regret that our clerical light would sink into the moribund condition of the country clergy- man, with—as Oliver Wendell Holmes so humorously says—‘‘a one-story intellect and a one-horse vocabulary.”” Yot it is astonishing that clergymen fresh from rural Arcadias dive so deeply into the mere matter of fact as if na- ture had no influence whatever. But there are hopes entertained, even in the best circles, that our fashionable churches will take a les- son and endeavor from the poor provender provided at watering places to turn their at- tention to spiritual food. The birds of fashion, finding the brief Summer day is over, will re- turn to the metropolis. But, oh! how differ- ent will be the expectations of the multitude. Here is the belle, who has no embarrassment of choice. She can afford to beas gay as she pleases; but the quict, domesticated damsel goes away with fear and doubt. Does she know the antecedents of the gay cavalier? Ah, it is the same old, old story, and let as drop it for the present, as the future is pregnant with more important events. Fashion, the impe- rious goddess, that allows no rival near her throne, says that the coming Winter is to be one of the gayest that New York has yet known. All the great emporiums are prepar- ing to display their wares before an admiring public, and this city, the greatest in resources and the most extravagant of any metropolis in ancient and modern cities, has an exhibition of fabrics that would cause a distraction among the public that would much disturb the peace of the female mind. We forget, how- ever, that the theatrical season is opening, and, with the churches, we hope to find a true school of rhetoric different from the ridicu- lous sensational that we have been accustomed to under the ancien régime of Tammany Hall and its illegitimate successor, Apollo, in which the comic orator says of the present campaign, ‘‘The air is redolent with blond.” The prospects are that we shall have, in the blessings of a subdued clergy, a more respect- able political campaign, and a class of citizens who can feel that there are some rights which the city and algo all corporations are bound to understand. The Cream of the Religious Press. The Christian Union enforces Mr. Beecher’s views on the Sunday question pretty thor- oughly, spoiling the ammunition of the Puri- tanical critics who have found fault with his recommendation to open library reading rooms on Sunday. Quoting the saying of the Master that ‘‘the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,” he shows that its proper ob- servance does not consist entirely in attending public worship or in secret religious medita- tion, but that the exercise of social virtues and communion with nature often aro useful in get- ting the highest good out of the sacred day. It treats also of the ‘Life to come,’’ showing that it is but the continuation ond natural sequence of our present life, as maturity and old age follow and flow from youth. Thechar- acter formed in us through the million acts of our will abides with us when we face death, and crosses the boundary with us. The Tablet devotes a long article to Catholic reform in Germany, remarking that calling Pére Hyacinth, Dillinger and other excommuni- cated priests “Old Catholics’ is a mean fraud, intended to deceive the credulous. It alleges that these teachers are not Catholics, old or new, but simply Nationalists, endeavoring to break up the organization of the Catholic Church and the authority of its head—the Pope—for the benefit of Kaiser William ond other political rulers, whom it denounces as enemies and persecutors of the Church. In a political article it asserts preference for Grant for administrative ability and person- ally, and calls Mr. Greeley's nomination one not fit to be mada, Yet it wants peace and despairs of obtaining it through republican party methods, and hopes for brighter days to the South and the nation from a change. Church and State talks about orthodoxy in character, showing that what is really desir- able in character may not be attained by all who hold a pure theoretical faith. A true creed is not Christianity, and, however valu- able in conjunction with a Christian charac- ter, itis but useless property without that nc- companiment. The creed and the life should run together, but we should remember that Christ was before all creeds moulding the character of His disciples and forming them intoa power for salvation to those that be- lieve, It urges the necessity of Christian unity, reasoning that many of the points of difference among the various sects may really be immaterial, and that, if not absolutely con- trary to the spirit of tho Divine Word, these points should be conceded or winked at Christian brethren into friendly The Evangelist says some unkind the English ritualists in an article Stonley’s defence of ‘Broad Chi i the English Church. Admitting that makes a strong argument for the stabi the Church, which it considers as hol attempting to hold the tenets of Ro Geneva at the samo time, it yet sees the Establishment in ‘the effort to ha: antagonisms,"’ and foretells the utter tion of parties hating each other so eo! as do the evangelical and ritualist bran the Church of England, It pays a high to Dr. Livingstone for his enthusiastic tion to geographical science in his lo: weary search for the sources of the Nil says that his highest gloryis his exp hope to be instrumental in destro; scourge of East African slavery and trade, and it trusts that the prompt an bined efforts of the United States and Britain will soon accomplish that hope for the coming time when the done to the people of Israel will be re] and among all civilized people they will equal religious and civil liberty and t tion. It also ably defends the conduct o: American Consul in Roumania, and clai as an honor to the nation that it is so fi presented thero. | In tho Liberal Christian Dr. Bellows upon Christians the ‘‘duty of helpfuln To help your geighbor, in that liberal which considers every man our brother neighbor, is advanced as the paramount of life, and the question of whether we out that idea as the true test of our ©. tianity. Like mercy, such disposition to our neighbor blesses both the recipient ang giver, and is well pleasing to God. The Episcopal Methodist (Baltimore) qu from an article by the new Methodist Bisl| Haven, and comments thereon in a 4 which clearly shows that if there is g power in Methodism there are bitter f among Methodists, and that our poli contemporaries do not monopolize the capal for throwing dirt. | Zion's Herald considers “the True SI herd” one wholly consecrated to the worl leading men to heaven. It observes { such preachers as Beecher and Spurg| charm by the graces of oratory, of great i lectual power, physical force, musical vo: and personal magnetism; but advises young pastor not to attempt to win hearet imitating their methods. They are gifted to draw and hold the public attenti but a weak imitator would fail. He sho’ rather put his whole soul into the effort to useful in the everyday work of his char not depending too much on pulpit orato, where his powers come into competition w the platform lecturer. He should follow t Saviour whom he preaches in his works mercy to the poor and distressed. Familiar, with dead languages and philosophy are |; to be desired than knowledge of the divi nature and will and acquaintance w, humanity. The Advance discourages the worship contemporary heroes, whom posterity are to despise. It also defends ‘religious righ but concludes we have the power to circu: scribe what the Mormons consider one of thé rights, polygamy, to restrain the desecration| the Sabbath and to regulate the use of intoz cants. E The Baptist Weekly advocates the conversic of children, and enjoins the effort as one of ti prominent duties of Christians, claiming th! there is far more hope of a spiritual harve from the young than from those confirmed i evil courses. THE WEATHER. | PSE CCE er ea | War DEPARTMENT, ) OFFICR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, } | WasHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 1—1 A. M. | Provabitities. | Northerly and westerly winds diminisning { force and clear weather for the New Englai and Middle States; northerly and easter! winds and partly cloudy weather for the a Altantic States; winds veering to easterly an southerly with generally clear weather from Ke tucky to the Gulf, easterly to southerly winds an: generally clear weather from the Ohio Valley t Michigan and Wisconsin, diminishing pressure an: increasing easterly to southerly winds and cloud! ness from Missouri and Kansas and Minnesoti with probably threatening weather. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in th temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building :— i Ist, 1872, 1871, 1872, 7 . 82 67, Ave ature yesterd: se Average temperature for corresponding date last year 81. Average te last year. Average te W. E. 000K’S OPINION OF NOE, Cnrcaco, I, August 31, 1872, The Times publishes a report of an interview with W. H. Cook, who was mentioned by Noe in a recent letter throwing discredit upon Stanley, a8 faving been the trar-| elling companion of Stanley and Noe on their recent tour through Asia. Cook says Noe was a boy, whom Stanley picked op on board a vessel and took along asaservant. From the published report it appears that he considers Stanley a re- markable man and Noe a fraud. AN ALLEGED BORGIA. A Woman Arrested Charged With Hav- ing Poisoned Five Persons—Remarka- ble Suddenness of Death in Each Case. St. PavL, Minn., August 31, 1872. Mrs. Charlotte Lamb has been arrested at Trum- bull, Pierce county, Wis., and placed in the Ells- worth jail, charged with poisoning five persons, In September, 1871, her husband died very sud« denly, showing symptoms of poisoning. ’ In May last her son, aged ten years, became sud. denly sick, was affected like his father, and died Mi by ‘inughter, aged eight years, died equally va onth Mrs. Lamb went to Mrs. Jane Oll- man’s house to assist in taking care of her while sick, mixed a powder for her patient, which Mrs, } : ’ Oliman drank, complained almost immediately of violent pains in the stomach, and in a few minuted was di ead. Royal Garland, another neighbor of Mrs. Lamb, is her 1 victim. Mrs. Lamb was cooking for him during harvest, and one day last weck, after drinking @ cup of tea prepared by her, he was seized with violent pains and died in a short time. The stomach of Mr. Garland has been sent to Dr. Hay, of Hudson, to be kee it 18 sala poison was found, The bovies of the other victims have been disinterred, and the stomachs are now with the doctor for analysis. Mrs, Lamb's house was searched, and strychnine and arsenic were found. Her examination Will take place September 5.