The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1872, Page 6

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New York, Monday, Sept. 16, 1872. & oe CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ——_+—___ ha Advertisements. —Advertisements, —England’s Distress: A D: Tous Wintor on the Peasant Failure of the Potato; “The Crop is Obliterated” in England, Scotland and Ire- land; The Cattle Disease; Dear Meat, Dear Potatoes, Dear Bread, Dear Coal; ‘the London Bakers’ Strike—The Ward’s Island Horror: The Alleged Murder of a Patient im the Insane Asylum; One Man Said to Have Been Guilty of Three Murders; A Number of Luna- tics Give their Testimony Against Him; The Accused Denies His Guilt; An Inquest to be Held To-Day—Civil Service Reform—News from Washington—Music and the Drama— Yesterday's Accidents and Assaults, 4—Religious: Services and Sermons in the Churches of the City; Naeger of Ho) Bud- ding in Fancy; Fashionable Churches Biaaren sh rothingham’s Battery; Talmage on Var- nished and Vencered Religion; Marriage and Divorce Microscopically Considered by Rev. Charles B. Smyth; The Charity of God and Its Power Over Human Hearts Considered by Father Farrelly. 6S—South America: Balta, the Murdered President of Peru, and His Successor Pardo; Details of the Murder and the Execution of the Culprit Gutierrez; A Gathering War Cloud in Bo- livia—Great Republican Muddle: The Despe- rate Fight in the State of South Carolina; ‘The Boiters Promised Support from Wash- ington; The Rival State Tickets—Yorkville Police Court—Brooklyn Affairs—Coroners’ Work in Newark. S—Editorials: Leading Article, “Mexico—Our True Southern Boundary and the Trans-Con- tinental Short Railway Line Thus Offered” — Amusement Announcements. %—Editorials (continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims—Spain: His Majesty Ama- deus Opens the First Session of the New Par- lament—News from Cauba—Another Ameri- ; an Songbird—Mr. Greeley’s Movements— Eerggnal Intelilgence—Miscellaneous Tele- Bra ‘G—Financial and Commercial: The Fall Trade, the Imports and the Charges of Overtrading; The Persistent Ease in Money; The Stock ‘ket and the Situation; The Erie “Corner” Main- tained; Alleged Treachery in the Gold Pool and a Live et pumacene ss Bg hed stome est U an javana Hiatkets-Adver mein udden Death in a@ Theatre—Lieutenant Dawson and Dr. Liv- ingstone—Odd Fellowship, Its Origin, Progress and Wonderful Success, 9—Odd Fellowship (Continued from Eighth Page)— Newark Industrial Exhibition—Attempt to Steal an Island—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements, 10—Moltke’s Story: The Great Soldier's History of the Late Franco-Prussian War—The Chero- kees: The “vivilized” Nation as Seen by the Government Sub-Committee—A Perspicacious Policeman—Melancholy Yachting Accident— The ig tego Boma ey otal Hick- man for President—s! intelligence— Advertiscments, ping she L—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements, i pre Kura Amapevs’ Srexch to te Spanisa Corrzs.—His Majesty King Amadeus opened the first session of the new Parliament of Spain in Madrid yesterday. He proceeded to the legis- lative hall and addressed the Cortes in a specch from the throne. ‘The main points of the royal gtterance reached us last night by cable, They ‘are stated in brief terms; but are, nevertheless, of the very greatest impo’ to the Italo- Iberian royalty. The King announced that the efforts which have been made by his gov- ernment with the view of effecting a recon- ciliation of the relations with the Holy See NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1872—TRIPLE Sawn. Mextco—Our True Southern Boundary end the Trans-Continental Short Railway Line Thus Offered. For years, a8 is notorious, predatory raids upon our territory from across the Rio Grande have been affairs of daily occurrence, with con- stantly widening proportions with each expe- dition, until tho whole Texas border, as far eastward even as the Nueces, has been swept almost completely of its horses, mules and cattle. All this has been so fully attested to our government that no one is authorized to doubt or deny that there exist and havo long existed in Northern Mexico organized bands of Mexicans systematically engaged in pillaging forays upon American soil to such extent that an official commission, now in session on the Texas frontier collecting evidence in this con- nection, have already under consideration ap- parently well-founded claims for spoliations of this character rising above eight millions of doilars. Those who have committed these brazen breaches of international and civil law, it is quite plain, must have felt quite secure from the least interference on the part of the local Mexican authorities, as well as comprehended that they were altogether too far removed from what there is of central national author- ity in Mexico to be reached or restrained by it. Inthe very nature of that authority it has been absolutely unable to impose the least curb upon the operations of these marauders, much less to sup- press them. And as it has been in the past, so will it surely be in the future, whoso- ever may be at the head of the Mexican cen- tral government, in spite of the best resolu- tions and dispositions. It is idle and unwar- ranted, therefore, on the part of our govern- ment and people to expect any materially dif- ferent or better state of affairs which shall enable the Mexican government to act effzc- tively so remote from the capital. On the other hand, it were equally idle for our own authorities—disregarding Mexican boundaries, as under the circumstances they would have the clear right to do—to pursue these pillagers jnto their lairs upon Mexican territory. From the very nature of the country, and other patent causes, such pursuit would invariably prove fruitless. For this sad state of affairs we see no effective remedy, so lomg as a foot of the broad valley of the Rio Grande may re- main, nominally, under Mexican rule; and this fact points out the only course imperatively imposed upon our government—that is to say, we have no alternative but to acquire the whole valley. When our southern boundary was first ex- tended to the Rio Grande some of our ablest statesmen of that day foresaw and urged that our true boundary in-that region should be the line of the Sierra Madre, and not a mere water course like the Rio Grande, without dofensive military points or passes. This is the just, statesmar-like view—unfortunately overborne at the time— which should now be taken up and carried out without hesitation or delay. Were that region transferred to the United States there would be an immediate end to the anarchy and discords which have so long reigned supreme there, and which, overrunning Mexican boundaries, have already despoiled our own adjoining ter- ritory of property to the value of as many millions of dollars as we are likely to recover from England for the ravaged of the Anglo- Confederate cruisers. This were alone suffi- cient to make it vital for our government to set on foot and strenuously urge negotiations for the early acquisition of this territory upon terms generous and satisfactory to Mexico, whose prolonged possession of the territory must in fact involve that country in a debt, growing out of these enormous spoliations, that Mexico cannot pay, and that may exceed the value of the region itself. But there are other equally weighty reasons that make: this acquisition a necessity to the United States. Of course, were our boundary thus extended across the Rio Grande—about three degrees of latitude—it should be car- ried as nearly as practicable upon the samo line to the Pacific coast. This would be indis- pensable. Placing the foot of a draughts- man’s compass at New York, on any map of North America, and reaching out with the other for the nearest point upon the Pacific Coast. and it will rest at the port of Mazatlan, barely four hundred miles from Laredo, in Texas, on the Rio Grande. This is a significant fact, to which our engineers, os well as our public men have hitherto been sin- gularly blind, and, consequently, have over- looked in all plans fora great highway across the Continent, looking to the Asiatic trade. Railways filling almost the whole space be- tween New York and Laredo have either been built already or are under construction, and the early completion of the whole line to Ma- zatlan is one of the great transportation neces- sities of the period, as a glance at a map of the Continent will clearly demonstrate. ~The great problem of the modern engineer is to reduce or shorten the mileage of railways and add to that of water transportation, so as to cheapen substantially our transportation facili- ties, while securing all necessary colerity of movement. This is an imperative need of the epoch, as the most cursory examination of the question will demonstrate. The difference be- tween the cost of transportation by rail and water is enormous. As has been shown bya recent writer in the Allantic Monthly, to move the 25,000,000 tons of annual American do- mestic commerce would cost by railway no less per mile than $750,000; by canal, $250,000; by river, $75,000; by lake, $62,500; by ocean, $32,500. That is to say, there is the incredible difference in favor of ocean over railway trans- portation in the proportion of $32,250 to $750,000, or of $1 to at least $23 15. Hence we may readily see the immense gain to the have beon, so far, unavailing. He assured the members that the Cuban rebellion has been subdued; that the inland colony has been quieted. Then he proclaimed the existence of a heavy deficit in the Treasury budget, and requested the Par- liament to take measures, by the imposition of taxes as it appears to us, to remedy it. This is an unpleasant position for the youthful aud brave monarch of Spain—ont of grace in Rome; out of money in Madrid; and in trouble with the members of the family who reside beyond the Atlantic. How this has all come about, so far as refers to the Vatican and the moncy coffers at home, is explained in our pages to-day. The exciting causes which have troubled and still trouble Cuba are already known to the world, country and to the commerce of the world ; indeed, that would ensue from the acquisition by the United States of Mexican territory as far south on the Pacific const as Mazatlan, and the consequent immediate construction of ® continental railway to that port, which would enable us to reach the trade of India, China and Japan by a saving of at least eight hundred miles of railway at the western end, with as material a shortening on this side by means of a terminus on the Gulf of Mexico, for the bulk of the Asiatic freight. It may be said, however, that the celerity of railway transit is an essential feature of modern commerce, and has thus become the favorite vehicle—notwithstanding dearnese— for freight movement, as it has also made the fast ocean steamers in tho European trade the favorite means of transportation for so large a part of that trade. To which we answer that Proper steam facilities will give us all requisite speed upon the ocean sections of the great highway which we look upon as so vital to the commerce of the world. What, then, in view of the facts and tho argument submitted, is the proper policy of General Grant for the settlement of these Mexican border troubles? It is clearly the policy of the acquisition from Mexico of the whole basin of the Rio Grande and the estab- lishmeut of a boundary line west from the Sierra Madre, which will give us at least one good port on the Gulf of California. ‘‘Mani- fest destiny’ points to our ultimate annexation of the whole of Mexico; but this manifest destiny must, under all the existing impedi- ments, be a work of time. The immediate necessities of law, order and the security of life and property on our Mexican frontier call meantime for decisive measures. The acqui- sitions suggested of and from the Northern Mexican States will meet the ends desired, and nothing else, except a large and expensive military force, will serve to suppress those Mexican border freebooters. At the seme time these border Territories, which includo that troublesome “Free Zone,’’ are worse than valueless to Mexico. No doubt the Mexican federal authorities would be glad to dispose of those Territories for a few millions in ready cash, inasmush as this cession would forever relieve that govern- ment of those Northern revolutions and rovo- lutionary conspiracies which for years have kept the Republic in a state of civil war; and because, unquestionably, in the establishment of law and order and in the development of the trade and unlimited mineral resources of all those regions the proposed transfer of our southern boundary would be as advantageous to Mexico as to the United States. In the in- troduction of railway communications, from its extremities to its capital, the Mexican Re- public will be so far consolidated and strength- ened that revolutionary factions, however remote from the centre, may be readily sup- pressed; and this new boundary will at once inaugurate in Mexico this new era of railways and capital, enterprise and active industry, with the means and facilities for enforcing law, order and peace. What is there, we should like to know, to prevent a movement by our government in this direction? The Geneva Settlement of Our Alabama Claims—The Washington Treaty. We published yesterday, by special de- spatches from Geneva, copious reports, in- cluding the text of the decision of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration on our Alabama elnims. The essential points of the decision, in a few words, are these: —T'irst, that accord- ing to the rules of neutrality in the premises laid down in the Treaty of Washington, ‘the British government failed to use due dili- gence in the performance of its neutral obliga- tions’ in reference to the Anglo-rebel cruiser, the Alabaina, and that said government ‘‘can- not justify itself for its failure in due dili- gence on the plea of the insufficiency of the legal means of action it possessed.’’ Second, that in the case of the Confederate cruiser, the Florida, ‘‘Her Majesty's government failed to use due diligence to fulfil its duties of neu- trality;”” and that, in regard to satd fuiser at Nassau, N. P., ‘there was negligence on the part of the British colonial authorities” which cannot be excused. Third, that in regard to the Shenandoah, while in the Brit- ish colonial port of Melbourne, Aus- tralia, ‘and especially by the aug- mentation which England admits to have been clandestinely effected in her force of men by enlistments at that port, that there was negligence on the part of the British authori- ties at that place.’’ Fourth, that ‘the Tusca- loosa, the Clarence and Tacony, as aiders or tenders to the Alabama and Florida, must fol- low the lot of their principals and submit to the same decision.” These are the Confederate cruisers whose acts, under certain specifications, against our commerce, under British negligence and failures in the obligations of neutrality during our late civil war, are condemned. On the other hand, in relation to the Georgia, Sumter, Nashville, Tallahassee and Chicka- mauga, the Court unanimously acquits Great Britain on the charge of failure in her neutral duties; and the cases of tho Sallie, Jeff Davis, Music, Boston and Joy were ‘excluded from consideration.”” The gross amount of the in- demnity awarded for the damages indicated is The Partisan Press on the Political Position. While the results in Vermont and Maine have inspired fresh hopes and encouragement among the republican press, the liberal and democratic sheets do not appear to be at all discouraged by the finality of the recent elec- tions in those preadamite radical repub- lican States, They declare both elections to have been but simply a second edition of that renowned historical event—‘The Dutch have taken Holland’’—and go on to labor for and to predict triumphant success in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and Indiana in October next. In this spirit the Albany Argus (demo- Grecley) reviews the situation in Pennsyl- vania, and arrives at the conclusion that tho whole democratic and liberal Stato ticket will be victorious the coming month. It takes this opportunity to suggest that the Grantites had better make the most of their success in retaining their strongholds in Maine and Vermont, for tho ‘‘early frosts in October will nip all their calculations in the bud.”* The Philadelphia Age (demo-Grecley) fig- ures from the result in Maine that if the same ratio of loss in the republican vote in Ponn- sylvania should occur in October the adminis- tration will be defeated by fifteen thousand. “Tf,” adds the Age, the republicans ‘are. pleased with Maine we are content.’’ This is upon the Mark Tapley principle of making one’s self jolly under all circumstances. The Pittsburg Commercial (Grant) an- nounces that since the Maine elevtion many democrats are ‘‘insisting that as Greeley develops no strength he should withdraw in favor of O’Conor, who, they maintain, will not only run but divide the democracy and take the larger part himself.” Our sooty city contemporary seems to know more about the opinions of Mr. O'Conor’s friends than that gentleman does himself. As for Mr. Greeley’s withdrawal, the ‘Farmer of Chappaqua” will probably be reminded of the words of one of England's tragic writers, to wit: — dette i Thave placed my foot upon the pton shsharé, And wal stand the hazard of the die: In other words, that he will plough out his furrow, no matter what political stumps may stand in his way. Referring to O'Conor, the Worcester (Mass. ) Gazette (Grant) has the irreverence to say that the recent political letter of the eminent law- yer and jurist ‘‘smacks of the study lamp and the calfskin covered tome—it could hardly use the word ‘book’ after reading his majestic sen- tences.”” The Gazette adds that it ‘‘might feel constrained to believe him sincere in all his fine sentiments, but his course has crushed out the little life left in the movement which his encouragement first breathed life into. There is left for the democratic party the choice between Grant and Greeley. Mr. O’Conor gives an opinion on this point which may help their decision.’’ As Jack Bunsby would say, ‘It isan opinion as is an opinion.” The Boston Traveller (Grant) quotes from its contemporary, the Post (Greeley), the ex- pression of a fear that the people will con- tinue to re-elect General Grant as President during the next thirty years. The Traveller regards this as a causeless alarm, and adds, “The country would undoubtedly prefer thirty years of Grant to one month of Greeley.” Our Boston contemporary seems to be “slightly prejudiced.’ seit) .Tho editor of the Boston Travelier—Tho was the wheel-horse of the Massachusetts coalition twenty-three years ago, when Banks, Butler, Boutwell, Burlingame, Bird, Wilson, Sumner and others (‘Anything to beat slavery” being their password and countersign) bundled together in the same political bed—regards the action of the Liberal and Democratic Conventions at Wor- cester on Wednesday last as more than a coali- tion; it was a ‘fusion of parties.’ In the old coalition times each party had its State and electoral tickets; now they are mutually dove- tailed—a foaming flagon of “’arf and ’arf’’ all round. The Wilmington (N. ©.) Journal (Greeley) comes to the sensible conclusion that the result of the elections in Vermont and Maine demonstrates that a movement conceived in a spirit of reconciliation and brotherly feeling between the different portions of the Union has made no impression upon the cold-hearted people of that section. Hence it opines that the restoration of brotherly feeling between the North and the South must take place without the assistance and in spite of New England, and, further- more, that Greeley and Brown must depend three million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling, in gold; and this is the ridiculous little mouse of which the great mountain from its terrible labor has been de- livered. But we have gained, in addition to this money, those three rules of neutrality on which this indemnity has been awarded. And what are they? They are that a neutral govern- ment is bound to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming or equipping within its jurisdiction, or the departure, &., of any ves- sel which it has reason to believe is intended for war against a Power with which it is at peace. Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to use its ports or waters for warlike purposes against each other or for pro- curing warlike supplies or recruits. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and as to all persons within its juris- diction, to prevent any violation of the fore- going obligations and duties. These are the three rules of neutrality upon which these Ala- bama claims have been settled, and these rules have been blown to the world as a wonderful concession from England for the sake of peace. In the next war of England, however, with a Power with which we are at peace, these rules may prove a bad bargain for the United States. In this view our neutrality for the future under these rules has been cheaply pur- chased by England. Well, we have only now to close up some little formalities with the New Dominion in reference to the reciprocities agreed upon in the matter of the North- eastern fisheries and the navigation of the St. Lawrence and its canals, and the Sault Ste. Marie canal and Lake Michigan, and to get tho decision of the Emperor of Germany on our Northwestern boundary dispute, in order to proclaim a complete settlement of all the qnestions involved in the arbitrations and re- ciprocities of the Washington Treaty. But the Geneva Tribunal and its decision upon the main question of the Alabama claims is, at best, only the old story of the mountain and the mouse. upon the votes outside of New England for their election. Certain Southern States, by reason of their overwhelming negro popula- tion, will also vote for Grant. So the result of the Presidential contest depends upon the Middle and Western States. Meanwhile, in the opinion of our North Carolina contempo- rary, ‘‘there is not the slightest reason for de- pression on account of these two elections.” The Boston Traveller regards Senator Sum- ner's letter as an admirable piece of ‘grim humor,” aud the Wilmington (N. 0.) Journal says his nomination as the democratic candi- date for Governor of Massachusetts is rather paradoxical. It seems to have beon, in the case of Mr. Sumner, a parody on paradoxes generally. He was not the candidate of the leading liberals for the nomination in the Worcester Convention, Mr. F. W. Bird, the life-blood and manager of the new movement on the liberal side, being opposed to his nomi- nation. General Schouler, an old-line repub- lican, converted to liberalism, was only dis- posed to give him a complimentary vote, ex- pecting some one would rise and give an au- thorized declination on behalf of Mr. Sum- ner. Evena candidate in place of Sumner (General Wi'liam A. Bartlett) had been se- lected, and was to have been named to tho joint Conventions in the event of a vacancy occurring in the gubernatorial nomination. But no such vacancy, no such opportunity, did occur, and the old hunker democracy of Massachusetts may therefore take upon them- selves the responsibility and the credit of choosing as their leader in the present State canvass their formidable foe of more than o quarter of & century's standing. Partly in the words of the Wilmington paper, ‘What can Mrs. Grundy say to this?’’ Tax WeaTner anp THE Poxrrictans.—As the weather becomes cooler our political cam- paign becomes hotter. The politicians will be at fever heat on the day of the Pennsylvania October election, and on the next day we fear that many of them, like gas baga too highly inflated, will explode, The Peace Regime in Peru—Prospects of the Republic. The letter from the Hznaup correspondent at Lima, under date of the 27th ult., which will be found in another column, gives us considerable hope for the future of Peru. The history of that Republic, which has for half a century furnished so many fearful scenes of disorder, disorganization and bloodshed, seems at last about to be entered on the quieter pages of fruitful peace, wherein the victories fre more real and enduring than in those stained with the bloody finger- marks of revolution and military op- pression. The doctrine of the sword, which in all the Iberian settlements of Amer- ica, North and South, was bestowed as a terri- ble legacy by Spain on their throwing off its yoke, has generally left them in a condition of hopelessness and industrial stagnation. Fos- tered under the iron rule of the Spanish gov- ernors, from Pizarro down, who knew no other means, and certainly: tried none other in preserving or extending the Spanish power, this tradition of the sabre remained when the power was gone to tell them in unmistakable tones that ‘those who use the sword shall perish by the sword.” The recent step forward which Peru has made comes out of the reign of the spadassin and the Dictator by a series of évents com- prised wituin a few days. The coup d'état by Colonel Gutierrez, which deposed Don José Balta, the President, the murder of the latter in prison and the swift immolation of the usurper, were all in the way of the old réyime ; but on their heels comes an atonement to out- raged civilization in the exaltation of a simple citizen, Manuel Pardo, to the Chief Magistracy of Peru by the voice of the people. The novelty of a citizen President, one reared in the ways of peace and commerce, a travelled, observing man, is a fare novelty for the land of the Incas, Could but the other ill-starred Republics of South America take a leaf from this book, what a harvest of wealth, prosperity and peace would be before the peoplsd df the countries so lavishly blessed by the hand of nature! While the reign of the petty soldier, with its narrow personal ambi- tions, its pronunciamientos, its avarice, its forced loans, its insecurity and anarchy, is per- mitted to continue, the pitiable record of the past will be repeated in the future. The present experiment of a citizen President with a peace policy will therefore be looked on with absorbing interest by all who believe in a republican form of government, or who desire to aid the material progress of those rich lands yearning for the hands of industry to bring forth their teeming products, and to see their harbors thronged with the white sails of commerce. If the events of July have taught their proper lessons to the people of soldier-ridden Peru, and if those on whom the responsibility of power has fallen will grasp the reins firmly and work only for the public good, the day of promise will have dawned. From all we can learn the outlook has the best of omens. An im- petus will be given to the work of raiload con- struction, so necessary in developing the wealth of the interior. The labor question, which, at present, from want of a proper sup- ply, seems a source of considerable dificulty in the forward movement, is about to be met by an extension of coolie immigration. Of course this plan has its attendant evils, which are nous the less to be considered because ‘they are cumulativé, Ang, aichough meeting a want for the present, should not be looked to as the only source of supply. These Celestials, no matter how low their wage rate, are a continual drain on a country, since they carry back to the Flowery Land everything they can seize in the way of money. Hence, Peru should follow the shining example of the United States and throw open her doors to an immigration from overflowing Europe, which will bring sturdy, thinking citizens to till her valleys and defend her honor and her peace in the hour of danger, instead of an army of mere labor machines, without any other interest in the land than what they can extract to carry off. We sincerely hope that the efforts to regulate her finances may be crowned with success. On this head, indeed, with judicious management, there can be little fear, the secret lying more in the chance of public security being a pro- longed fact than in the dexterity of its tax- makers, In the accession of President Pardo and the present temper of the Peruvian people, we are fain to believe we see the opening of a new era of peace and plenty, and for its boun- teous continuance the people of the United States will offer their heartiest wishes. England's Distress at Home. We print on another page this morning a letter from the London correspondent of the Hera regarding the gloomy prospects ahead during the coming Winter for the English poor. The telegrams and mail accounts re- cently have spoken of the advance in the price of fuel. ‘Coal has gone up,” as the saying is, and whether the advance in price arises from a falling off in the yield, increased consumption by the manufactories, or by reason of the conflicts between the miners and their masters, the fact remains the same, that coal has enormously risen in price from the rates charged last year. This of itself would prove a hardship, especially to the poorer classes; but then there are other misfortunes still more distressing. The potato crop has failed generally throughout the British Isles. ‘The accounts from the agricultural districts in. the English shires is of the most distressing character. A writer in one of the agricultural papers of England estimates. that. 1,630,000 acres of the potato crop are all but. destroyed, while another equally good authority declares that he ‘hardly ever re- members the malady so general and the de- struction so complete.” In Ireland and Scotland the crop is also blighted, possibly not to the same extent as in England, but suf- ficiently extensive to be soverely felt. by the poorer classes in both countries. The foot and mouth disease among the cattle is, another cause for alarm. The disease, whieh made itself manifest to a considerable extent last year, hag now reappeared in still greater pro- portions. In Norfolk, in two weeks, the loss in sheep alone amounted in value to over one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, Taking everything into consideration, ond with these facts before us, it is evident that the approach of Winter is regarded with feelings of dread by the poor, hard- worked and ill-paid mechanics, laborers and ae people of England, Ireland and Scot- President Thiers at Havre—A Complie mont to the United States. On Saturday President Thiers arrived ab Havre from Trouville, and had a most hearty reception from the Mayor and the other city officials, In reply to an address which was presented him the President spoke encour- agingly of the foreign relations of France, and also of the satisfactory condition of things at home. Ashe had ruled in the past, he told the good people of Havre, it was his intention torule in the future. In the afternoon he paid a complimentary visit to the American man-of-war Shenandoah, now lying in the harbor at Havre. As he stepped on deck the band struck up the ‘Marseillaise’ and the yards were manned, As hoe stood under the Stars and Stripes President Thiers, with his historic mind, must have reflected on the different fate of re- publican institutions in France and in the United States. We owe Frenchmen much for the assistance they gave us in the War of Inde- pendence. We have never been wholly forget- ful of that kindness; nor had they occasion to complain of our want of gratitude when, imi- tating our example, they attempted, in 1789 and subsequent years, to found a republic. Our Republic, in spite of wars, foreign and civil, has remained intact; and under the lead of manifest destiny it marches on in pride and power to a glorious future. How different has it been with France! How checkered in com- parison has been her career! Two restora- taons, two empires, one kingdom, three repub+ lics, with revolutions almost innumerable— such constitute the history of France during the period referred to. And the fate of the Republic that now is—who shall say that it is not trembling in the balance? We wish President Thiers success in his arduous work; and it is our fond hope that the Third Repub- lic may have a better fate and a more enduring existence than its predecessors. ioe Yesterday's Palpit Utterances. From the variety of topics presented in om budget of sermons to-day it will be strange indeed if our readers are not each served to some dish suited to their individual tastes, Aiming toward the highest, purest and best, ifwe turn to Rev. John Kay’s discourse we shall be encouraged by his picture of the future glories of the righteous, or be warned by his presentation of the wails and torments of the lost. There is just enough of heaven and hell in it to make it palatable to the orthodox and perhaps not to greatly offend the hetero- dox reader. But if we would shun the grim and gain the grand estate we must be stead- fast in the faith of Christ, and not have a hollow profession and an empty name. The advocates of female preachers and prophetesses will very likely be glad for the reinforcement which Dr. King brings to their ranks to-day. While he would not ordain women as regular pastors ond set them over churches and congregations, he would license them as local preachers and exhorters and would revive the old order of deaconesses im the Church. The Methodist Church, which owes so much to the labors and influence of women, should be the last tosay them nay. St. Paul was certainly too gallant, as well as too earnest an evangelist, to refuse any lawful aid that might be given to him in his great work ; and there is too much evidence in his writings in favor of female teaching in the Church, and too many acknowledgments of their usefulness %¢ himself to pe overborne by a strained interpretation of a couple of passages in his letters to the Corinthian’ Church and to his son Timothy. The subject of marriage is an interesting one to young and old, and, from a recent example, to priest and parson alike; and Rev. Charles B. Smyth is probably sufficiently versed in the mysteries to give advice thereon, since this was his ‘‘les- son to the clergy'’’ last night. But it was coupled with divorce—a legal act that is not always pleasant or profitable. Mr. Smyth, of course, goes in for the clergy of Rome or of America having wives; but he thinks that when @ man takes an oath or a vow of celibacy he should not violate it. But is such a vow more sacred in the sight of God than the fulfilment of @ moral duty, a divine obligation, which He has enjoined upon mankind? Of course the clerical readers of the Heraxp will turn with eagerness to read what Mr. Smyth has to say on these points to-day. We dare say there are a great many men who will be surprised as ‘they read Dr. Oha- pin’s sermon to learn that the most pitiable condition for a man to be in is to be com- pletely satisfied with himself, since self-satis- fied is the condition in which most men find themselves. This was the condition of the Pharisee long ago, who was so glad that he was not like his publican neighbor, a sinner. But the latter went to his house justified. One nearer to-God’s altar trod, The other to that altar’s God. The Doctor declared he had so sympathy with that religion which would make Sunday « day of grim severity, and he had less with that anti-Puritanic spirit that would make it merely a day of license, or remand it to the chaos of the work-day. world. Mr. Frothing- ham evidently has no sympathy with our fash- ionable churches of to-day. They are built by the wealth of the few for the convenience of the few, and no reverence attaches to them. In no way, he declared, are they an expression of faith; there is mo sacredness at- tached to them, and they constitute no sanctuary where needy men can forget their trials and tribulations in the exercise of prayer. Notsois the Church to the Roman Catholic. To: him it is ever eternal, a.pro- phetical institution, a special condition. apart from society, always the same, founde?. on an, eternal. rock. The Roman Church, Mr. Frothingham declared, is 8 pure democragy,, and every member can aspire to be Pope, as the American. citizen to be President. Ho advocated more spiritual homes fer strangers in this metropolitan social wilderness. The idea of God mortgaging heaven is a nowel, one; but Rev. W. T. Clarke believes the Almighty has done this, aud done it, too, to pay tha self-forgetting toil of earth. Who is, the mort~ gagee? and what was the equivalent paid? Three classes of questioners of religion will be interested in the discourse of Rev. Father Farrelly in the Cathedral, as they will gather from it what questions were answered by tha Saviour and how they were answered. Ques- tions relating to salvation direotly were always answered by Christ directly; questions of mera idle curiosity were not noticed by Him, and questions prompted by malice or bad faith were answered sometimes clearly aud directly