The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1872, Page 8

= NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. xxXXxXVIL.. ‘woo! MUSEUM, Broadway, er Thirtieth st.— « Gowstse's Crimx. ' Atternoon ‘and Evening. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Eurike Citr— gceBATeS, oo) ' FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE! @Piamonns. Twenty-fourth street.— ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orsea—It Trovatore. ‘ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Bropaway and Thirteenth street.. MALION AND GALA’ | BOOTH’S THEATRE. ‘Twent; -third street, corner Sixth j@venue.—ARRAN-NA-POOUE. 3 PR ddd THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Tar House Fourteenth street.—Irauian GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth Wi—RorCanort. | UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Broadway, between Thir- \feenth and Fourteenth streets.—AGnus. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. betweon Houston ker sts.—Orxna Bourrx—La Prricnoue, NBS F. B..CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. BRYANTS OPRRA HOUSE, Twonty-third st.. comor @v.—NeGro Muvstretsy, Kocknracrry, & 720 BROADWAY, EMERSON’'S MINSTRELS.—Graxp TRIOPIAN EcceNtniciTixs. WHITE'S ATHENAZUM, 685 Broadway.—Nxaro Min- ‘BrRELsY, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— baad Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT, &C. \_8T. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad- ay.—San Francisco Mixstaeus iN Fance, &c. CHARLEY SHAY'S OPERA HOUSE, Thirty-fourth st. mand Third av.—Vanisty ENTERTAINMENT, BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot hae Houston strect, East River. AMERICAN aaa FAIR, Third ay., between 63d and 64th streets. . NEW erty MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— IKNCE AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. q New York, Sunday, Oct. 13, 1872. an i HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. *Yo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. (OTHER SPANISH REVOLUTION! CORUNNA HELD BY THE INSURGENTS! GOVERN- MENT MEASURES FOR SUPPRESSION— NintH Pace. VIVE LE ROL!” MONARCHIST BEATS HARRY BASSETT BADLY: FIVE CAPITAL RACES AND CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB’S AUTUMN MEETING—SEVENTH PaGE, /YACHTING—THE NATIONAL GAME—FALL MEET- ING AND FOOT RACES OF THE ATHLETIC CLUB—A ROBBER MURDERER—SEVENTH Page. WEADING EDITORIAL THEME: “THE PRESI- DENT’S PROCLAMATION OF A NATIONAL DAY OF THANKSGIVING: A DAY FORA UNIVERSAL CELEBRATION”—SixTH Pacs. MABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EURUPE AND ASIA— NEWS FROM MEXICO, VENEZUELA AND THE WEST INDIES—NintH Pace, (AUBURN’S SILENT SAGE! PREPARATIONS FOR MR. SEWARD’S FUNERAL: GOVERNOR HOFFMAN'S ESTIMATE OF HIS GREAT WORTH—NintH Pace. MR. GREELEY IN HIS OWN COUNTY ! CORDIAL RECEPTION AND ADDRESS OF THE PHI- LOSOPHER AT A LIBERAL MASS MEET- ING—FirtH Pace. APOLLO HALL NOMINATES SENATOR O'BRIEN FOR MAYOR—LOCAL POLITICS— ART MATTERS—FirrH Par. " WAPPY WALL STREET “BULLS!” THE CURTAIN DROPS AMID HARMONY! MONEY EASY, THE BANK EXHIBIT IMPROVING; THE PACIFIC MAIL “CORNER’—TentTu Pace. BIXTEEN DESPERADOES ESCAPE FROM BLACK- WELL’S ISLAND WITHIN THE YEAR! ANOTHER ATTEMPT AND ITS FRUSTRA- TION—TENTH Pace. WHE SOPER MURDER TRIAL: “NOT GUILTY;” AN ALIBI SWORN TO BY THE PRISONER'S MOTHER—FirTH PaGE. VERSEY'S RIOTERS! THE PRISONERS TO TES- TIFY IN THEIR OWN DEFENCE—THE JERSEY BANK BURGLARS—CRIME IN NEWARK—TENTH PaGE. ASSUMING THE PALLIUM ! THE INSTALLATION OF ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY IN THE ARCHI- EPISCOPAL SEE OF BALTIMORE: A HISs- TORICAL REVIEW—SixTH Pace. FHE SERVICE PROGRAMME AND EPISTOLARY « POLEMIcs OF HERALD CORRESPOND- _22"s—JEWISH ATONEMENT SERVICES— ‘\, “Buxra Pace. BATTLE WITH AND MURDER OF A WOMAN— CHOKED TO DEATH—ELE&vENTH Pacs. THE COURTS—BROOKLYN NEWS—REGISTER OF SHIPPING CHANGES—TwELFTH Pace. Tae Weer rm Watt Street wound up with » cheerful feeling in financial circles an con- Binued ease in money. The bank statement hows the effect of the relief given the money market by the Treasury, the gain in reserve for the week having being over five millions, ‘The “bulls” in stocks were happy over the tarn of the market in their favor, and the pool fin Pacific Mail succeeded in advancing that {stock to 85}. Gold was dull, and closed at 112}. The London market was quiet, with the street rate up to 5 a 5} per cent, against 6 \per cent. at the bank. Tue Arotzo Hawt Democnats yesterday ppominated James O'Brien for Mayor. The iciary nominations of this organization are postponed until Wednesday next. Ler tae Men Be Pam.—Now it is the unfortunate Boulevard laborers who are con- demned to wait indefinitely for the pay due them a week ago yesterday. They have worked for their money, harder and more faithfully, probably, than some high in authority, whose uty it is to seo that those who serve the city | a sa These men mostly have families, must be fed, housed and clad. Failure to receive their pay when due reduces them to the necessity of asking credit at the corner proceries. If they get it they are shaved tothe quick, and if they don’t they and theirs must suffer. For months past this style of nonsense foas been going on. Small pipe men, large pipe men, street cleaners, men of all kinds @vho do manual labor for the city, have applied, fin large and small delegations, at the Finance Department for their over-due pay, and been put off week after week. Comptroller Green should understand he can gain no prestige as @ reformer by neglecting to pay these poor men. It will neither satisfy their hunger nor win their votes. During last week the City ‘Treasury received more than a million dollars of taxes. That a portion of that sum was not applicable to pay the diggers and delvers of the Boulevards is a serious fault and » Gingrace to our city government. The President’s a of a National Day of Thanksgiving—A Day for a Universal Oclebration. The President of the United States moe issued his proclamation recommending a tional day of thanksgiving, and Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as the day. In support of this proclamation he most” truly says that ‘if any one people has more occasion than another for thankfulness to Almighty God tor His mercies and His blessings, it is the citizens of the United States, whose gov- ernment is their creature, subject to their behests, who have reserved to themselves ample civil and religious freedom and equality before the law—who, during the last twelve months have enjoyed exemption from any grievous or general calamity, and to whom prosperity in agriculture, manufactures and commerce has been vouchsafed."’ Therefore he recommends that on the dey named ‘the people meet in their respective places ot wor- ship, and there make their acknowledgments to God for his kindness and bounty.’ We have here a gratoful and beautiful theme for a Sabbath morning discourse to our read- ers. Let us briefly consider it. And first of all the inquiry occurs as to the origin of this institution of a national day of thanksgiving. It comes to us among the rich fruits gathered from our late terrible civil war. Before the war Thanksgiving Day, as a regular annual festival, was limited to the North, and was not much observed in the good old Puritan spirit of happy social reunions and devout filial gratitude beyond the New England States. It is to President Lincoln, a native Kentuckian and a free thinker, if you please, thatwe are indebted for the example of a national proc- lamation which has made Thanksgiving Day a regular national festival, The Southern dog- mas of State sovereignty, from the time of Jefferson down to our late Southern rebellion, were things not to be trifled with by the Presi- dent of the United States, even in the matter of a national thanksgiving; and so from Jef- ferson to Lincoln our Presidents did not think of assuming the doubtful constitutional power even to recommend a national thanksgiving day. It would be trenching upon the forbid- den ground of State sovereignty to venture upon such recommendation. But in undertaking to make good, through the ordeal of battle, fire and sword, that other dogma of the sov- ereign authority of the United States, at home as well as abroad, the logical Lincoln, as President of the United States, bravely ven- tured upon the recommendation of a common day of thanksgiving to all the people thereof; and General Grant in this year’s proclamation is simply following in the footsteps of his ‘4lustrious predecessor.”’ Such, we may say, is the origin and the establishment of this beautiful and beneficent institution among us as a regular national fes- tival, Of course the Governors of the States are still free respectively to recommend some other day than that named by the President, and the people of each State are free to make their own choice; but in view of that grand idea that the people of the United States are one people and that their President represents them in this capacity and their general desire, and their sovereign authority, our State Gov- ernors, as they have hitherto done, will doubt- less in this case in their proclamations adopt the day suggested by the President. We hope, too, that the Governors of our restored South- ern States, this year more generally than here- tofore, will fall in with the President's propo- sition, for in doing so they will furnish a tes- timonial of a spirit of sectional reconciliation which will have a powerful influence in behalf of generosity towards the South over the still doubting minds of the North. We have said that this national thanksgiv- ing, as a regular yearly festival in the United States, was inaugurated by President Lincoln; but the origin of the institution dates back to Moses, that divinely inspired leader and law- giver of the children of Israel. Thus, among the sacred festivals ordained for their observ- ance, and recited in the seventh chapter of Leviticus, it was ordained: —‘‘Also, in the fif- teenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: On the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath,” &c. When the Israelites were yet wandering in the desert wilderness between Egypt and their Promised Land this law, among the others of the code of Moses—that fountain of law to which we are so much indebted—was given them. President Grant, however, on the broad American ground of religious equality—thank God!—so shapes his proclamation as to cover Jews and Gentiles; and this is as it should be. Passing over his remarks upon this subject without further commentary, wé come to his observations on the blessings which we, as a people, have enjoyed during the last twelve months, in ‘‘our exemption from any grievous or general calamity” and in our general pros- perity “in agriculture, manufactures and commerce."’ Last year, in the month of Octo- ber, by those terrible fires in the West, by one of which the beautiful city of Chicago was nearly destroyed, and by others of which in the forests and prairies of Michigan, Wis- consin, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota, ex- tensive districts were laid waste, man; y Vives | Ph were lost, and thousands Of ED womén and children were left destitute, wé did suffer “a grievous and general calamity.”’ This year we the glittering waves of the aie of pedro from the windy waste of Coney Island to to the Golden Gate of the Western Ocean; from the heart of the Union to its oxtremities; From the centre all round to the sea, in our cereals, plants, and fruits and roots of all descriptions, we have reaped in each a glorious harvest, and should be duly thankful therefor to the bountiful Giver of all our bless- ings as a peopla And in our manufactures of all kinds, from the cotton mills of New England to the silver mines of Nevada and the gold mills of Mari- posa; from the copper factories of Lake Supe- rior to the iron works on the Susque- hanna, we have had a corresponding degree of prosperity. Listen, for in a thousand busy Sone We Pett Semi -— Take the thunder rattle of a Trond ‘Their an — still multiply. fer. brothers of the dusty brow, are your strong arms ‘oreing now? intaans forging ten thousand useful in- struments of civilization. And in our com- merce the steamers alone which come and go within a week at this great centre of the world’s traffic reduce toa bagatelle the trade of Tyre and Carthage in all their glory. And from point to point, east and west, along our ocean coasts and from point to point on our inland seas, we have at each the trade of an empire. And in this comprehensive term— our commerce—we may include all foreign and domestic exchanges of every kind, and in all, from our general prosperity during the year since our last thanksgiving, we have an abundant occasion to be devoutly thankful. We indulge the hope, therefore, in consider- ation of the general prosperity which we have enjoyed during the golden year which is pass- ing away—in consideration of all the Provi- dential favors and fortunes which have fallen upon us as a people—that on Thursday, the 28th day of November next, we shall have the most extensive and the most happily enjoyed Thanksgiving Day, North, South, East and West, and the most eflective on behalf of sec- tional reconciliation and harmony, in the his- tory of the United States. Shakspeare’s Comedies—Shall We Have a New Falstaff? Both in England and in this country there, is a frequent demand for the revival of Shakspearian drama, especially the light and sparkling comedies in such remarkable con- trast to the grandeur and majesty of the great dramatist’s tragedies. Just now we find the English press in ecstasies over Mr. Sullivan’s Benedick in “Much Ado About Nothing,’’ and asking why the English public cannot witness the Sir John Falstaff of ‘‘The Merry Wives of Windsor”’ a little oftener. The same inquiry applies to New York. Since the death of the great actor, Hackett, this country has not had a Falstaff on the stage, though we have had Romeos, Hamlets and Othellos in abundance. The reason may be found, perhaps, in the want of American interest in the historical plays, but this could apply only to the Falstaff of ‘King Henry the Fourth.’’ We can only look, then, to the alleged inferiority. of the part in ‘‘The Merry Wives’ as an explanation of the fact, though we are unwilling to admit the one creation as in any way inferior to the other, the Shakspearian scholars and critics to the contrary notwithstanding. ‘The two char- acters, though the same in inception and out- line, are wholly dissimilar, and that is all. We prefer for “‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’’ a Falstaff of the Elizabethan era, and not of the earlier age, when Prince Hal was a roaring and roystering youth. This, we conceive, is what Mr. Daly intends giving us in presenting Mr. Charles Fisher in the part, and this will certainly be most acceptable to the majority of theatre-goers. Dramatic progress in the last ten years has been very great, but it has been in the direc- tion of stage-dressing and scenic decoration rather than in dramatic art. At this day no artist, however great, can be acceptable without the accessories of the costumer, the painter and the carpenter. The getting up of a piece must be perfect, for a clumsy actor or a feeble actress is more tolerable than a blunder in dress ora hitch in the machinery. It is in this direction that Mr. Daly particularly ex- cels, and we may expect a Garter Inn that would please the soul of old John Willitts, and pictures of Windsor that would satisfy Sir John himself. Without these there is no act- ing that he can supply that will besatisfactory. With these the question whether we shall have a new Falstaff is already half answered. In regard to Mr. Fisher's assumption of the part we have nothing to say in advance, but it is for him an opportunity seldom offered to an actor of his distinction. He takes possession of an unoccupied field, and he can hold it against all comers if he is equal to the task he essays. Of all stage loves the ridiculous passion of Falstaff stands out fhe boldest. There is no mistaking him for one of the feebler heroes of Mr. Albery, Mr. Byron or Mr. Gilbert. Shakspeare’s hand touched him and he sprang into a second life as com- plete and inspiriting as when he was boasting and drinking with the dissolute companions of generacgot Waleg of a much carlier age. e Secon character is to us more interesting than the first, for we have in the later creation the Falstaff of the historical play acting his part'in the comedy. Comedy is best suited to are reminded, and we recall the great fact with pleasure, that the immediate and widespread sufferings and destitution resulting from those Western fires roused the people of all the nations of the civilized world as a band of | brothers in the fraternal work of relief. We are reminded, too, that Chicago, this year, in her special thanksgiving (on the anniversary of her great fire) has anticipated the Presi- dent's proclamation, and we rejoice that her waste places are being so rapidly rebuilt that soon the passing traveller will look in vain for the track of the sweeping conflagration. The general prosperity of our agricultural, manufacturing and commercial interests this year may well suggest a national thanks- giving. From the hay meadows and potato patches of Maine to the boundless wheat fields of the Sacramento and San Joaquin basins, where they count their wheat by thousands of tons; from the olive groves and vineyards of Los Angeles to the apple orchards of Oregon; from the tobacco fields of Connecticut to the rice plantations of Sonth Carolina; from the sugar canes of the Atchafalaya to the cattle ranges of the Brazos; from the sweet potatoes of the “Old Dominion” to the cotton fields of 1 the Red River: from the flashing rapids of the the spirit of this generation, and had not Shakspeare’s 3 tragedies been so much greater than the tragedies of all other dramatists they could not have hela & age so much superior to his comedies. Unlike the former, the latter are not without their rivals 0 the English stage, and so it has become the fashio® to make Shakspeare the representative of only the grander passions, and yield a more frequent, if nota higher place to the comedy characters of Sheridan and Goldsmith. These consider- ations make the production of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’’ at the Fifth Avenue Thea- tre an event of some significance, and its success will, we hope, pave the way for a more permanent reign of Shakspeare’s comedy characters, In the last few years the principal attempts at presenting Shakspeare’s comedies were in the production of ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream,” at the Olympic, and Mrs. Scott-Sid- dons’ occasional appearance as Rosalind in “As You Like It.’ The success of the fairy play, both here and in Boston, is sufficient evidence that the comedies cannot fail when presented with the necessary completeness in stage properties and effects. The acting, though it ig desirable that it should be as andy aclacn woudl dacnioan ape secondary consideration, according to modern taste, Obtrasive bungling would not be tol- erated anywhere; but where there are appre- ciation and skill enough to blend the artistic nd mechanical effects into one harmonious whole nothing more is demanded. A stutter- ing Hamlet, a lackadaisical Othello or a feeble Romeo would not satisfy any audience, nor would a mere burlesque of the part of Sir John Falstaff be more satisfactory; but with the boasting old villain well done and the perter characters fairly represented, ‘‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ must be successful. In reproducing this play we shall demand of Mr. Daly a new Falstaff and a fair opportunity for the revival of Shakspeare’s comedies. Installation of Archbishop Bayley. One of the most solemn, important and imposing ceremonies of the Catholic Church will be performed to-day in Baltimore—namely, the installation of Bishop Bayley, of Newark, as Archbishop and Primate of Baltimore. Our Baltimore exchanges speak of the preparation for this event as being something very exten- sive and magnificent. Bishops and clergy from different parts of the country. will. be present, and will participate in the ‘ceremo- nies. Religious and benevolent societies from this neighborhood and from districts con- tinguous to the archiepiscopal diocese will also attend, and we may believe that this event will be one of the most memorable in the history of the Monumental City. The growth of Catholicism in the United States has been most remarkable—far out- stripping, indeed, the increase of population itself, which has been great. Ninety years ago, when our national government was organized, there were but twenty-five thousand Catholics in the country; now they number nearly five millions. And Baltimore, with its twenty-five churches, has had much to do with this advancement. Hence it was elevated into an Archiepiscopal See in 1808, and the Sees of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bardstown were established as suffragans toit. The importance, therefore, of the posi- tion to which the Right Rev. Dr. Bayley has been transferred will be readily apparent. Archbishop Bayley is the eighth in the illus- trious line of metropolitans of Baltimore and is the third convert from Protestantism who has filled the archiepiscopal chair. He was formerly an Episcopal minister in this city; but in 1841, during a tour in Europe, he joined the Catholic Church, and three years later entered its ministry. The new prelate is a writer of considerate note, and was in other years a preacher of some celebrity; but it is as’ pastor and chief shepherd that his abilities and his virtues shine out most beautifully and grandly. The diocese of Newark, which he has left, is filled with monuments of his Cath- olic Christian zeal during the nineteen years of his Episcopal administration. He has man- aged in a most wonderful manner in his late diocese to live in peace and charity with all men, and he leaves this vicinity with the best wishes and prayers of those who knew him. Bishop Bayley is a native of this city, and is now in the fifty-ninth year of bis age, in robust and vigorous health, and in an eminent degree possesses a sound mind in a sound body. The “pallium” or token of spiritual power sent hither from Rome, and which will be conferred upon Archbishop Bayley to-day, is simply an addition to his priestly vestments, made of lambs’ wool, spotted with purple crosses, and is worn on the shoulders of the prelate over the chasuble and with a label hanging down the breast and back. It was formerly a long garment, and was an imperial habit which the Roman emperors conferred as amark of honor and dignity upon eminent priests and bishops. It was subsequently limited in size and was conferred only upon archbishops. Its use is limited to particular days and occasions and places, and it is guarded with the most jealous care by its wearer while he lives and is buried with him when he dies; so that every new bishop has to ask and receive a new pallium. Palliums derive their ecclesiastical sacredness from the circumstance that the lambs from whose wool they are made are blessed in the Church of St. Agnes on her festival and are afterward kept in a nunnery until they are shorn. And when this wool is manufactured into cloth the palliums are laid over the tomb of St. Peter in Rome the whole night of the vigil before the feast of that Apostle. Hence it comes with a dual or a triple authority to faithful Catholics, To-day not only Baltimore but the entire Catholic community of the United States will rejoice that the vacant Archiepiscopal See has been filled and by so eminent a pastor as the Right Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley, a fitting successor to Carroll, Whitfield Spalding and other of his eminent predecessors. Catholi- cism in that archdiocese will lose nothing at his hands ; but, if the past is any criterion of the future, it will gain much under his wise and able administration. We therefore hail the installation of the new Primate of Balti- more to-day as a good omen for the future. Tae Russian Movement Towarns Carxa.— The latest mail from British India, under date of September 3, supplies evidence of the fact that the Russian imperial ruler still turns his eyes in the direction of the fertile terri- tory ‘of the Mongolian people which lies adjacent to his own. We are told that four officers of the Russian army, attended by an escort of twelve men, had just visited Yarkand, in Chinese Turkestan, where they were favor- ably received by the Governor, Ataliq Ghazi. The Russians had a look over the rich and extensive plain by which they were sur- rounded and departed quietly and suddenly as they came. Such movements do not escape the notice of the officials of the Chinese pJupire proper. The same press files from India tell us that Chinese officers and troops were bust,’ ‘ engaged in repairing and rearm- ing the Taka 178, and we are made aware generally of the fog? that an uneasy feeling of apprehension of war révpils among the mili- tary men who serve thé Chinese Emperor. The subject is quite inferest‘vg, and the mili- tary-diplomatic strategy of the great empires of China and Russia well worth thé constant attention of the great outside Powers of the world, more particularly that of the commercial populations of the United States and Great Britain. reat Tae Sorzn Murpzr Tatat Expev.—As will be seen by our special reports, published else-. where, Hiram Sluyter, charged with the murder of Walter Soper, has been acquitted by the Kingston iury, Coliege-Bred Mon in New York. ‘There are many ead of life’ in York, but few moreso: that tersely touched upon in one sentence of Mr. Greeley’s speech before the Normal School at Kutatown, Pa., reported in the Hegatp of Thursday. Said the Philosopher, ‘I have known not less than @ thousand thoroughly educated, that is, ex- pensiyely educated, men in New York—men who have entered German or English or Amer- ican colleges and been sent forth with mas—who are yet utterly unable to earn their bread and who are to-day pacing the stony streets in a vain search for something to do.” This seems strange and hard to hundreds of thousands who think a fine education always removes & man from the horrors of poverty and want and to thousands of college youths now strolling under the trees and sunshine of Alma Mater, fancying that success is assured in advance to a man of classic education, thinking a degree of A. B. a sword and shield that will give them all the advantage in the battle and make their triumph certain, expect- ing to carry the world by storm and easily secure a position of distinction and worldly comfort. But Mr. Greeley’s statement is doubtless within the reality, and his experience is not exceptional. The Hzpaxp could tell the mate to the story. The office of a great newspaper naturally has a strong attraction for an unpro- vided-for college graduate, and the application of such for work or @ position is a matter of almost daily experience in the office of all the great dailies. There are few occasions when itis so hard to say ‘‘No” as tos man of fin- ished education and the refinement of feeling that comes therefrom, when applying for work which men of much inferior abilities and general knowledge, it may be, are often em- ployed to do. All such applicants for work take it asa matter of course that a man of collegiate education can do the work of jour- nalism and make himself useful in the corps of a great daily. That so many are rejected and fail of sought-for positions is because ex- perience has demonstrated that a college train- ing is by no means requisite to an acceptable discharge of much of the work of gathering the material for the supply of a daily paper, however valuable and requisite some men of such training on the journalist’s staff. The business of journalism, like any other busi- ness, requires men of tact and talent specially adapted for certain departments, for certain kinds of work, and it often happens that a man who can do nothing else can doa special line of work infinitely better than most men of liberal education. Hence it is that the bache- lor of arts often fails to secure the place which may be filled by a man vastly his inferior in general attainments, But this is no disparagement of classical education or of such courses of training as are now pursued in our colleges. On the con- trary, our institutions are doing good work and turning out men in the main well qualified for the duties that await them and for useful citizens and members of society. The instances here alluded to are a small minority, the exception, not the rule, and nothing should be judged by exceptional instances. An American teacher of some note used to tell his boys, “You can’t make a Damascus sword blade out ofa shingle.’’ Out of the large number that enterand graduate from our colleges there are, of course, some men of such mediocre abilities that no course of education could make intellectual men—some whose lack of character and propensity to evil must inevita- bly draw them down in the world when thrown upon their own resources. Hence there is nothing to be surprised at in the circumstance that some college-bred men are not successes in the world—that some who take high rank in college scholarship wander the streets of New York in straightened circumstances—nor at the fact, which is within our knowledge, that the names of recent graduates of Harvard may be found on the roll of letter-carriers and, still sadder, on the roll of the inmates of Sing Sing. Revotvtionist Insuppectionary OvTBREAK tn Sparn.—By telegrams from Madrid, which reached us during yesterday, we are made aware of the fact that the peace of Spain has been disturbed, and the government of King Amadeus alarmed, by the occur- rence of another incident in the series of revo- lutionist insurrectionary outbreaks which have so agitated the Madrid royalty of late days. The Spanish troops serving in ordinary garri- son at Ferrol have revolted against the Crown. They have the aid of a number of disaffected persons, under the lead of Sefiors Montijo and Rojas. The garrison stationed inside the fortress of the town of Ferrol, with the crew of a war steamer on duty at Majaredo, had been tampered with as to théir allegiance; but it is said that they rejected the overtures of the rebels. Despite their loyalty, the insurgents obtained posses- sion of the gunboats, extinguished the light in the Ferrol lighthouse and held the town barred against the advance of the King’s troops. The Cabinet acknowledged the facts in Par- liament, proclaiming at the same time the gov- ernmental official conviction that the trouble- some outbreak would soon be subdued. The Alphonsista and republican members in Cortes disavow the idea of party political com- plicity in the disaffection. There is little doubt that Spanish soldiers and sailors will restore order at Ferrol; but it is equally cer- tain that the recurrent application of military irritants serves to keep alive a social sore which may very soon gangrene almost the whole body corporate of Spai pea a erat Tas Barmsa Revenve.—Chancellor Lowe boasted in his recent speech in Glasgow that he had taken off £9,000,000 of taxes, and yet the half year’s receipts of revenue would reach £1,200,000 more than in 1868, before the reduction of the tax. The half year to which he alluded closed on the last of September, and the Treasury returns more than bear out the boast of its chief, the gain over the corre- sponding period of last year being £2,353,341. It will be perhaps more gratifying to Ameri- cans thai fo the British ratepayers to know that Mr. Lowe will have a surplus next April of £5,000,000, out of which he can conven- iently discharge the judgment the Geneva arbitration awarded us, though the loyal sub- jects of the Crown may possibly grumble that they are unnecessarily burdened to produce this brilliant Treasury exhibit. The returns certainly show a healthy commercial activity in the British realm, and that, Anthem: an ex- pensive form of government, Oo pres- ent fear of an increase of the national debt. ‘The Religious Press aad Ite Views. Our religions "exe unnsually interesting this woek. active writers have resumed their poste after their summer vacations, and the wonted vigor now — their columns, The Observer (Presbyterian) gives the ‘publi 8 spirited article upom the subject of “Churches without Preachers and Preachers without Churches.” From this articte it appears, by the figures in the minutes of the Presbyterian General Assembly for 1871, that nearly one-fifth of its whole number of ministers are unemployed. More than one-half of this. number were con- sidered capable of performing service for the Church. The same minutes show that more than one-fifth of all the churches are from year to year, while s large m of ministers capable of filling these vacancies continue unemployed. The Observer calls these “astounding and humiliating facts,” quotes Carlyle in saying that “the saddest sight in the world isa man willing to work, but-ne work for him to do,” and suggests the estab- lishment of a central bureau by the Presby- teries, from which capable preachers can be sent to furnish Gospel food to the famishing seekers atter Gospel truth: - The response of a number of young ministers is “Here am I; send me.’”’ ' The Observer has also a suggestive article upon the “Suppression of Vile Literature,” and says it is a matter for congratulation that the prosecuting attorneys, notwithstanding the “violent opposition from the powers of dark- ness,”’ have done their duty so faithfully. The course of Recorder Hackett is favorably mentioned in connection with this' movemént against immoral literature. The Golden Age (Grecley)—and itg name should be written with a golden pen when ite editorials are written in the proper spirit— gives its readers an elaborate and compre- hensive article upon ‘What Reconciliation Means.” Mr. Tilton says he wantsa “new heart as well as a new head for our national government.”” The pulsations of a pure heart in Washington would be as rare as the fragrance of a tuberose in the heart of a South Carolina buzzard. The Age also discusses ‘ballot brig- andage,’’ trom which we learn, not for the first time, that the republicans are as bad aa the democrats used to be in regard to tampering with the ballot boxes, The Evangelist (Presbyterian) is communi- cative upon ‘Communion Logic” and the ‘Co-education: of the Sexes.” In the former article the editor: apprehends that “there are many who timidly or prudently drift on with the current of Baptist opinion without any open protest who would yet rejoice if that feature of their.system which has occasioned them at least occasional perplexity and forced them to do violence in restricting the sympa- thies of their Christian fellowship were wholly and forever done away.”’ But the opinions of the Baptists wave on in their usuab current nevertheless. In regard to the co-education of the sexes the Evangelist is en- tirely correct, provided its theories can be put into practice. It recognizes the fact that a: committee of the Board of Overseers of Har vard University has been appointed to report upon the expediency of the co-education of the sexes in that institution, but acknowledges that, like other innovations upon a traditional past, this scheme of co-education Will have “serious difficulties to encounter inthe form . of social prejudice and popular opinion.”” Hardly. Having extirpated from the woman's movement the universal taint of free-loviesm and general conjugality the sphere of usefulness: for women becomes enlarged. A great champ pion in this cause has just arrived in this country in the person of Miss Faithfull, from England, truly a faithful expounder of the faith, for by her good works she is known, The Independent thinks that the Presidential canvass, as thus far conducted, has served not only to reveal the essential weakness of Mr. Greeley as a candidate but also to increase the general belief among the people that it will be wise to leave the administration of the goverm- ment in its present hands. The Boston Pilot (Catholic) has a rematke able article upon what it calls ‘‘The Fashionable God,”’ and judges, from the ‘words of popu- lar preachers, religious newspapers and late books, that the God of the enlightened Ameri- can Protestant is an abstraction—a beautiful unreality.”” This isa good text from which our Protestant brethren may preach a practi- cal sermon. The Jewish Times gives an article upom “The Day of Atonement.’ It refers to the complement of the Jewish Year (last Friday) and remarks that ‘Judaism is founded upon the principle of man’s accountability to God for his acts during his mission on earth. But,” it adds, ‘no matter how far man may hava fallen away from the Divine source, how dom-’ inant the carnal part of his nature may have become, how deep the slough of sin that he may have strayed into, he cannot altogether blot out the Divine spark embodied in his being.”’ Referring to the fact that the Evangelical Alliance will hold its next session (1878) in the city of New York, the Methodist remarks that it will afford special interest to our own countrymen, and be still more interesting, probably, to the foreign delegates them~ selves. No city can present religious or other entertainment equal to New York. Visitors from abroad, therefore, may always be assured of a hearty welcome, no matter whether they come in the garbs of the — hood or in those of the laity. ‘We are pleased to notice that there is a pro- gressive spirit of grace pervading our country population, and we would like to see records of revivals and all matters in that connection more fully mentioned in the columns of our distant religious contemporaries. Prrxcz Naronzon Bonarante has yielded to the Thiers governmental order for his exile from France and taken his departure from the soil of the Republic. His wife, the Princess Clothilde, followed his example and accom- panied him in his emigration. Agents of the Paris police compelled them to move. They were escorted towards the frontier line by French troops. President Thiers has made complaint, it is said, to the King of Italy to the effect that His Majesty's Ambassador in Paris sympathizes with a party of Bonapartist reactionists. The Plon-Plon affair may be thade interesting eventually. Mr. Nelson, United States Minister to Mexico, arrived in Havana trom Vera Cruz yesterday meee on rote fae Wawe Vive