The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1872, Page 6

NiEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. £— AMUSEMENTS TH THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. —Buxakers—lis First Ppcoapiiio. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1872.-TRIPLE S cial Corrospomdenmts om the Prospect in the Empire State—How Goes the Battle? ee wee Our politiogl readers, without distinction of creed or party or race or color, will, in our judgment, be liberally compensated for tho time required in the reading of the two spark- ling special letters which we publish this morn- ing-—one from Syracuse and ono from Bing- hamton—on the political situation in the rural districts of the “Empire State.” From tho Gran OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth | initial State skirmish in March last in New av.—Ror Canorre. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourieenth strects.—AGNrs, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, and Bicocker sts.—Orzxa Bourre— ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ‘AUST. between Houston ‘a GRANDE Ducnnsse, { WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Wuexe Mus-KE-reERS. Alte’ TRONS and Evening, THEATRE COMIQUE, 51 aM Broadway. —Forcrery—Tue Powsn ov Music. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Diamonvs. @WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Serect.—Pramanion axp Galatia. (Poors THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth —ARRAn-N AP juz F. B CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Live's Drea: BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. Bwontyenies st. corner @v.—Nuoro MixstruLsy, Locenraciry, &c. tas BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.—Grayp PLAN Eoounrnrerries. ‘B'S ATHENSZUM, 585 "$85 Broadway.—Nearo Min. ETRBLSY, 40. FTONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— Vaniery EnzeRrainaent, £0. N FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, er of 28th st. and Broad w: Ermiortan MInsTRELSY, ABAILEY’S GREAT CIRC ND MENAGERIE, toot ‘Houston strect, East River. RICE’S CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of vorfouril street and East River. «ASSOCIATION ean 23d st. and 4th ay. ;—Lecrone, “Tur Penat Laws AND Turik ConsequEnc! “AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., bet ween 63d ‘Bhd 64th streets. MEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Rgimmow anv Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. bia 5 York, Monday, “Oct. a, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. MWo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. *THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN! OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS ON THE PROSPECT IN THE EMPIRE STATE: HOW GOES THE BATTLE? EDITORIAL LEADER—Sixtu | Page. RAMBLES AMONG THE RURAL ELECTORS! AN UNPROFITABLE SEARCH FOR BOURBONS! SUNSET COX IN THE SALINE CENTRE— THIRD PAGE. WASHINGTON: REPORTED CHANGE IN THE INDIAN POLICY—THE INGRATITUDE OF A GREAT CITY—SEVENTH PaGF. EUROPEAN NEWS BY THE CABLE—REPORTS OF THE WEATHER—SEVENTH PaGr. A SOLEMN SCENE! INSTALLING THE CATHO- LIC BISHOP OF RICHMOND: HISTORY OF THE SEE AND OF THE NEW DIGNITARY— Firta Pace. PRUSSIA’S PERSECUTION OF THE JESUITS! | SEPARATING CHURCH AND STATE! POPU- LAR AFFECTION FOR THE EXILES—Firta PaaE. THE NATURALIZATION FRAUDS IN LANCASTER! HOW THE GAME WAS PLAYED: FREY’S STATEMENT—TuikD PaGE. ELL GATE AND THE HUDSON! THE WORK |} OF THE UNITED STATES ENGINEERS IN IMPROVING AND REMOVING OBSTRUC- TIONS—TENTH PaGE, THE “LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN REAL ESTATE! WEST SIDE GROWTH: THE | FUTURE FIELD OF OPERATIONS—TarRp PaGE. A FLORIDA FEUD—ART—LADIES OF CHARITY— ESSEX MARKET COURT—Firre Pace. THE RED HANDS IN THE TOMBS! THE MUR- | DERERS OF THE YEAR AND DETAILS OF | THEIR CRIMES—EIcHTH Pace. THE NOTEWORTHY EVENTS OF WALL STREET DURING THE PAST WEEK: AN ADVANCE OF FIFTEEN PER CENT IN PACIFIC MAIL— E1@uta PaGe. fHE DISCOURSES BY ELOQUENT AND MAGNIL- | OQUENT MALE AND EMALE DIVINES IN THE VARIOUS SANCTUARIES—Fovurta PAGE. AMERICA’S RED REPUBLICANS IN COUNCIL— JEFFERSON MARKET AND YORKVILLE POLICE COURTS—EicurH Pace. | £0-DAY'S TROTTING AT PROSPECT PARK—LAURA | FAIR'S BROTHER SUED FOR DIVORCE— Nunta PaGe. Count pz Caamnorp is out with a protest | against the French Republic, and Prince Napoleon Bonaparte threatens a suit at law against all the officers of the Paris government ‘who participated in his recent expulsion from the territory of France. The wnbre nominis of the royalties will have little chance against | the solid substantial facts of the democracy. Faenoh Pantisextany Exzcrions were hold yeaterday for the purpose of filling some few seats which were rendered vacant by death the resignation of members in the National mbly, The returns of the voting, so far bs they reached us by cable last night, in- flicate that the radicals have maintained—it may be improved their strength in the towns, and also that that of the conservative power has been stricken down by republican gains in some of the more rural districts. The prog- ess of the people is thus still onward in the French Republic. Inpvustaiat Procress m Arrica.—From the | Cape of Good Hope, under date of Port Eliza- beth, September 1, we are informed that a | Wery successful cotton show had just been | held in Graham’s Town. The total number bf bales exhibited was one hundred and seventy-two, thirty of which were ginned cot- Hampshire, and East, South and West, wo have, through our special correspondents in the field, made it an object to foreshadow, as far as possible, and fairly and without proju- Pourteenth sttect.—Irauiax | dice or partiality, from the facts and the signs of the times, the general results of im- pending local elections and the outlook in each case for the White House. Having thus fully posted our readers from New Hampshire to Connecticut and thence successively to tho local battles of North Oarolina and Vermont and Maine and Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and Georgia, and having amply reported and expounded the spirited, romantic, chivalric and amusing triangular contest in Tennessee for her Gon- gressman at Large, between Cheatham, May- nard and the inextinguishable Andy Johnson, we have come round from these incidental State battles to New York, now the central point of attraction, as it is now the contral and essential point of the gonoral engagement between the contending forces of Grant and Greeley. Our correspondents in the interior, like «Japhet in search of a father,"’ have been de- voting their attention particularly to the dis- covery of the forces of that mysterious ele- ment, that unknown quantity in this general contest, styled the straight-out or Bourbon democracy. But so far, it appears, the re- searches of our industrious explorers have not resulted in any extraordinary developments of strength in this Bourbon movement. The managers have nominated an electoral ticket for New York, but there are as yet no indica- tions that it will amount to anything as a di- version in the election. The straight-outs of Pennsylvania have resolved that, as the results of their late October election have settled the November struggle there in favor of General Grant, the Bourbon policy for Penn- sylvania is masterly inactivity. In Kentucky, in Delaware and in two or three other States, we believe, these inflexible old-line democrats have set up an electoral ticket for O’Conor and Adams; but as the organization in every State appears to be ‘only a small tea party, without newspapers or funds or stumpers or working committees, the probabilities are that in no State will this Bourbon faction mate- rially disturb the concentration of the opposi- tion forces upon Greeley and Brown on the all-important 5th day of November. In short, as the Presidential order of battle was formed between the administration and the opposition forces when Colonel Blanton Duncan's Louis- villé Convention assembled, there was no room for his outside Presidential ticket, and go, for all practical purpdses, it may be dismissed with the labor reform ticket, the women’s rights ticket and the temperance ticket and George Francis Train. But while our special campaigners in the interior of New York have been very poorly rewarded in their searches for anti-Greeley or “straight-out’’ democrats, they have dis- covered, without difficulty, a .pretty strong force in some of the strongest repub- lican counties of anti-Grant republicans. The conclusion naturally follows that | inasmuch as there does not appear to be any appreciable strength asa disturbing element in these democratic Bourbons, and as the anti- Grant republicans do exist in considerable numbers in all the strongholds of the republi- cans, the chances in this State are still in favor of Greeley and Brown, even should their ma- jority im this city fall so low as forty thousand. Meantime, however, the complications and cross-firings of the various parties of the city on our municipal offices to be filled in Novem- | ber are so inexplicably mixed up as to throw into the shade the perplexities of the Schles- wig-Holstein entanglement or of the Spanish succession. Leaving for the present, then, these munici- pal difficulties to the high contracting parties for a solution, we return to the consideration of the Presidential prospect in this great State. In this connection our State election of last November is no test whatever; for upon the terrible hue and cry raised against the abound- ing and astounding corruptions of the old, exploded Tammany Ring the democracy were bewildered, struck dumb and paralyzed, and on a short popular vote the election, even on their State ticket, went against them by de- fault. But still, upon these figures—the worst that can be supposed for the democrats of this city—on their Presidential ticket, they will have a majority here of forty thousand. Add to this say five thousand Greeley republicans—a moderate estimate—and this majority is en- larged to forty-five thousand. The democratic majority in this cit ‘for Seymour in 1868 was sixty thousand, upon the largest popular vote ever cast in city and State, and Seymour carried the State by ten thousand majority. Upon the popular vote, then, of the State of 1868, excluding this city, and giving Greeley and Brown here only forty-five thousand majority, they will lose the electoral vote of New York by some five thousand majority. But supposing that in the State at large out- side this city we transfer only ten thousand republicans of 1868 (and they may number thirty thousand) from Grant to Greeley, the State, with the loss of these ten thousand men, is lost to Grant by fifteen thousand majority, assuming that this anti-Greeley democratic ton. Besides these there were some eighty | Bourbon element signifies nothing. bales on the way from Kaffraria. Real estate tn town lots and buildings was advancing in qgalue rapidly. The recent heavy rise in the price of coal and iron in England affected the market values of these articles at the Cape greatly. A few months before coal was at fifty phillings sterling per ton, and iron thirteen shillings. and sixpence fora hundred pounds weight, When our mail advices were de- ppatched coal was at one hundred shillings and iron at twenty-five shillings sterling for the same quantities. These facts go to prove the ‘aniversalism of the spirit of commerce, It may be said, however, that the general moral effect of the recent elections in Pennsyl- vania and Ohio, to say nothing of Indiana, must necesserily strengthen and encourage the administration party in New York and weaken and discourage the opposition. But, taking the elections of 1868 as our guide, this rule will not apply as to the demoralization of the opposition in New York. In 1868 Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Indiana were all carried by the republicans, for on the main test, even in Indiana, their victory was clean and clear. Such, too, was the depressing effect of these and demonstrate the tender and delicate sym- results upon, the democracy that they con- pathies by which the operations of trade are | fessed at once that the main battle of Novem- moved, all the world over, under the influence | ber was lost by these incidental defeats. of the throbs which are sent forth from its | Indeed, to their great centres. © was added The Presidential Campaigh=Our | Spe-| wioretneel ming eine of the patty thtalagers & change of base in a change in their pacer ticket for November. And yet the democratic party in New York, with all these didcourazemente fhem, on by far the heaviest vote ever ‘polled in the State, carried it for Seymour and Blair by ten thou- sand and for Hoffman by twenty thousand Wo may, then, logically assume the position that the Empire State this year will be con- tested by the opposition coalition over every inch of ground from Montauk to Dunkirk and from the St. Lawrence to the Ponnsylvania border upon tho Prosidential ticket and upon the State ticket, for the Congressmen and tho members of the Legislature involved in the general struggle. We have no satisfactory evidence that the democratic party of the State has been materially weakened since 1868 or by the new departure for Greeley and Brown, while, on the other hand, our travel- ling correspondents, instructed to find out and report as far as they can the exact situation of the contending parties and their apparent losses and gains, assure us that the republi- cans who have gone over to Mr. Greoley form @ vory considerable accession to the democrats in many of the interior counties. Hence the vigorous struggle which the opposition alli- ance are making and will make to the end of the general contest for the Empire State. They count upon it, too, not as the demo- crats counted upon it in 1868, as their citadel and base of operations, to be saved from the general wreck of the party at all hazards, for another campaign, but as still a possible bal- ance of power by which this Presidential struggle may be determined. The opposition alliance cannot deny that Genoral Grant, without New York, may be elected in 1872 as he was in 1868; but they do not admit this time that the loss of Pennsylvania and Ohio in October decides the issue in Novomber. They claim New York throughout the country, and throughout the country their confidence in New York still gives them hope for the White House and strongth in every State that may still be considered debatable ground. The republicans, therefore, who are counting upon carrying New York for Grant and Wil- sonand Dix and Tremain have still the odds against them, and in closing up the gaps in their State line of battle they must act with skill and discretion or their whole line may be thrown into confusion and defeat. The Caban Question, Spain and the United States. No question relative to the foreign or ex- ternal relations of the United States has occu- pied the attention of the American people, fora quarter of a century or longer, more than that of Cuba. Indeed we may go back to the time of Mr. Monroe, when he was President of the United States and Mr. Canning was Prime Minister of England; for the declaration of what is well known as the Monroe doctrine had reference to the Island of Cuba as well os to the Spanish-American States which had become independent of Spain. This protest againgt the x reconquest of the Spanish-A Ameri- can Republics, or the ‘subjugation of them again to any of the European monarchical Powers, was based upon a principle of pro- found and far-seeing policy, and one which our people have cherished ever since. And, though it did not call for the forcible ex- pulsion of Spanish rule from Cuba, or from the other colonies which Spain continued to hold in this hemisphere, it was under- “stood as embracing Cuba so far as to prevent that island passing under the dominion of any other European government, and to give the United States, as the great American Power, the right to watch over the destiny of that contiguous territory. Spain has always been conscious of the position the United States assumed with regard to Cuba, and never relished it. The other monarchical govern- ments of Europe have at different times and up to a recent period endeavored to checkmate or overthrow the republican policy of the United States as implied in the Monroe doc- trine. Jealousy and fear of the progress of republicanism were the motives chiefly. The famous tripartite treaty guarantecing the per- petual possession by Spain of the Island of Cuba, to which the American government was invited to become a party, and which the Buchanan administration refused to accede to, was inspired by that jealousy of and hostility to American republicanism and the vast, grow- ing power of the United States. This country has, in fact, had more trouble with foreign governments, and with Spain particularly, about Cuba than about any other question of an international character. We have more than once been on the verge of war about that island, and from first to last we have been put to great expense, as well os annoyance, in protecting our people and interests and in maintaining our policy and the dignity of the Republic. Heretofore, and up to a recent period, then, the Cuban question has been complicated and difficult of solution. Spain has been too proud to part with the island, though the United States | has offered a large sum of money for it, and though there can be no expectation of perpet- uating Spanish rule over it. With all the diffi- culties and cost of money and blood in main- taining her authority for awhile, she is unwil- ling either to sell Cuba or to concede its inde- pendence, yet every sensible Spaniard must see that the time is not far off when Spain will have to give up the island. The United States government, from a sense of honor and to fulfil to the letter the duties it owes to a friendly nation, has not forced an issue with Spain on this Cuban question. It has, in fact, resisted the popular sentiment of the country, and in its extreme forbearance has endured indignities and suffered the grossest outrages upon American citizens to go unpunished. There is scarcely any other great nation, under like provocation and with the same popu- lar sentiment and policy existing, that would not have seized the opportunity to wrest Cuba from Spain. It was not fear of war or of the consequences of war that made the United States so forbearing, but @ sense of honor strained to the utmost, Then the intrigues and resistance of other Euro- pean nations some years ago had an influence both upon the United States and in making Spain more obstinate when the subject of Cuban annexation or independence was brought up. There is a very different state of things now. Spain, it is true, appears to be as proud, as obstinate and as impracticable as ever. The same haughty focling which led to a prolonged and hopeless war ‘with the South American States when they declared their independence, and which prevented Spain from recognizing them even after they had established separate nationalities, exists still; but the four years of desperate resistance of the Cubans, the enormous cost of the war against them, both in money and life, the financial difficul- ties of the Spanish government both at home and in the colony, and the apparent impossibility of crushing the insurrection, ought to make Spain more reasonable. The sympathy of other nations is not with her now as at first. Evon tho old conservative monarchies see the folly and cruelty of the relentless and hopeless war she is waging against Cuba. They are not fright- ened as they were some years ago with the bugbear of American republicanism and its extension. Tho leading journals of Europe, which a short time ago declaimed against the sale of Cuba to tho United States and what they termed the aggressive ambition of this Republic, now advise Spain either to surrender the island to this country or to give the Cubans independence. Tho nations of Europe. are shocked at the barbarities of the war in Cuba and would not have the island ruined. A more liberal spirit is abroad and people every- where begin to recognize the right of self- government in a distinct community when that is desired. People now look more to the progress and happiness of communities and to the commercial advantages to be derived than they formerly did. But there is one view of this Cuban ques- tion which must enlist the sympathy of the world more and more for the Cubans and make Spain more obnoxious. That is relative to slavery. The Cubans abolished slavery in their declaration of independence and in the constitution they framed for their Republic. Spain upholds it both in Cuba and Porto Rico. With the exception of Brazil, where slavery exists in a mild form and is in process of being abolished, the Spanish colonies are the only spots defiled by the institution throughout the whole extent of America. Spain defies the sentiment of the civilized world. Though this Republic has abolished slavery and raised the negroes up to all the privileges of citizen- ship, Spain perpetuates the institution on our border. So determined is she to do this that, as we are informed, two wealthy planters in Porto Rico are to be prosecuted by the Spanish authorities for presuming to manu- mit some eight hundred of their slaves. Surely the anti-slavery sentiment which has been reawakened through the exposure of the slave-trade atrocities by our correspondents in Egypt and of the Living- stone Search Expedition, by Dr. Livingstone, by Sir Samuel Baker and by others of late, will lead civilized nations to denounce the conduct of Spain for maintaining and riveting the chains of slavery in the Antilles. Ourown government ought to be the first to interpose, for the slave colonies of Spain are near our shores, and the American people are deeply interested in the destiny of these colonies. Not only the citizens of this free Republic, but civilized people everywhere, will naturally con- clude that it is not wise to countenance a cruel ayd despotic government which upholds slavery and, at the same time, to give the cold shoulder to those who have declared the free- dom of the slaves while heroically struggling for their own liberty. In view of the slavery question, which is now acquiring fresh importance; of the pro- longed and fearfully bloody struggle in Cuba, which Spain is powerless to end; of the inse- curity to Americans and American interests in Cuba; of the threatened ruin to the island and our commerce there, and of the demands of humanity and civilization, is it not time that the United States should recognize the Cuban patriots as belligerents, and thus put both sides on the same footing? That would tend to ameliorate the horrors of this most savage war. With all her war ships, gunboats and large armies Spain has not been able after four years to suppress the insurrection or even to weaken it. A people who can resist such power for that length of time, however limited their resources or small their army may be comparatively, seem to deserve recog- nition. Spain is not likely to make any con- cessions to Cuba, or to make the war less hor- rible as long as the United States does not recognize the Cubans; but if our government were to change its policy that might lead toa solution of the whole trouble. The Vienna Exposition. The preparations for the exposition of the art and industrial products of the world at Vienna are on the largest scale. Some idea of the importance of the undertaking may be gathered from the fact that the building itself will cover six times the space of the Palais de YExposition at Paris. In addition to this strenuous efforts are being made in all coun- tries to secure a complete representation of art and industrial products. The various sys- tems of public instruction will be contrasted, and we hope that the result will not be un- favorable to our public school system. On account of Congress having made no appropriations, the representation of American manufactures will not be so large as might be desired; but as the exhibition of goods isa form of advertisement we see no good reason why the public should be called on to pay for the transportation of goods be- longing to wealthy corporations. Unless ex- hibitors believe that the exposition of their wares is likely to be sufficiently profitable to justify them in incurring the expense of trans- portation we do not feel called upon to pay their advertising bills. At thesame time we wish the exposition all success, and desire that Americamindustry should be properly repre- sented; but those who reap the profits ought, in justice, to pay the expenses. IxsTaLLATION OF 4 Roman Carsoxic Brsnor.— The Right Rev. James Gibbons, D. D., was installed Roman Catholic Bishop of Rich- mond, Va., in the’ Cathedral of that city yes- terday. The ceremonial was conducted with all the solemnity, pomp and dignity which the Roman ritual prescribes and the discipline of the Church requires for observance on such sacred occasions, The scene which was wit- nessed inside the church edifice was very grand and effective ‘in the cause of Chris- tianity. His Grace the Most Rev. Archbishop the Primate Metropolitan of Baltimore, with many other eminent prelates of the Church, were present, as were a vast congregation of the laity, including the members of several organized relief and aid societies, in rogalia the course of which he proclaimed wt%* the “free air of America’ is most favorable to tac and Wooings. The Methodists had a little sensation of their own yesterday in Forty-third street church, Mrs, Van Cott, who is now hon- with or honors the title of ‘Rev.,” forth any other motive, the church crowded, Mrs. Van Cott hasa good deal of dramatic power in her exhorta- tions, and has a good command of her clear, ringing voice, which calls the prompt attention of the most listless worshipper. As a stationed pastor she would doubtless: be a failure, but as ence to cohesiveness, either of matter or style. She got offsome good shots against fair-weather Christians and careless Christians and -half- hearted Christians. This “reverend” lady shows by the earnestness of her speech and manner that she fully believes what she preaches, and believes also in her own mission to preach; and in this faith she goes forth and succeeds everywhere. And no teacher or preacher can be successful in the Gos- pel ministry who has not faith in his mission and in himself. The Chris- tian race was Mrs. Van Cott’s theme, and she drew graphic pictures of men who had laid aside every weight and had run this race with patience ; and occasionally she found halting places in the race where she was morally certain some of her hearers would have stopped or turned back. But the successful athlete must run with his eye fixed on Jesus, who holds in His hands the crown of eternal lite. Exten- sive repairs having been made to the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church it was reopened yesterday, Bishop Janes preach- ing in the morning on the two hopes of menkind—the religious hope and the worldly hope. He described the characteristics and qualities of the latter and demonstrated that it could not be the virtue indicated in his text. There was a time when the world was without hope, but God gave a promise full of hope to mankind, and Jesus is now the soul of all religious hope; and the only reason that we now have hope is because we are the sons of God by faith in Jesus Christ. The Bishop earnestly exhorted his hearers to repent and be converted at once and not manifest such meanness toward God as to put it off from day to day because He spares their lives. Mr. Hepworth may be said to have retaken his ‘new departure’’ yesterday, for he preached a thoroughly evangelical sermon on salvation through Christ alone. Without Christ there is no harmony between humanity and God, but His death reconciles both. He could appeal to universal human experience to prove that there is disharmony and a disturb- ing element in our natures; and he could also appeal to the experience of every Christian heart to prove that a new element has come in to make peace between them and God. We are living in a moral snarl, and four-fifths of New York’s inhabitants ‘“‘have a twist in their faces that plainly tells the story. They think no more of God than the heathen under the vertical sun of Africa.’ And the great Reconciler and Medi- ator between God and man is Jesus Christ, whom they need. While Mr. Hepworth was dilating upon the moral reconciliation of man to God Mr. Frothingham was discussing the problem how to reconcile brotherhood and busi- ness. Brotherhood means kindness, but busi- ness means every man for himself. The former has everything to do with char- ity, the latter nothing. Monopoly, com- munity of property, work and wages, the relations of ministers to congregations and of servants to employers were touched upon by Mr. Frothingham, who, in choosing finally be- tween brotherhood and business, decided for the former, and urged his hearers to remember that they are members of the great family of humanity, and that the good of humanity de- pends upon the exertions of each member. In the Cathedral Father Kearney traced the murders and other horrible crimes against life and property to a spirit of envy kindred to that which followed the Saviour on earth with all sorts of perplexing and entangling questions, Envy is to be found in every heart in a greater or less degree. It showed itself in the Garden of Eden; it caused Cain to kill his brother Abel and Judas to grieve at Mary Magdalene’s extravagance in pouring the precious ointment on the Saviour's feet. The only antidote to this spirit of envy is the spirit of love, which must come from the Lord Jesus Christ, who has left us lessons of sympathy, affection and love in His life and sufferings. Dr. McGlynn, talking about the incarnation of the Son of God, could not conceive “how persons professing to be Christians should deny that the Blessed Virgin wos the mother of God." But it is a matter of greater surprise to others how any Christian can believe such a doctrine except in a very qualified sense. The Council of Ephesus may have declared it as a dogma of Christianity, and yet it might have erred, as other ecclesias- tical bodies have done since. The incarnation is a mystery which cannot be fully com- prehended by finite beings ; but, nevertheless, most men have been endowed with sufficient common sense to distinguish between “sound argument” and ‘‘silly assertion,’’ even in regard to a matter so grave and mysterious. Father Burke has assured us that while there is ‘no salvation outside of the Catholic Church,” yet the Catholic Church does not damn any one, -but is lenient to all, merely ignoring the redemptionary claims of those who accept not her creed. This is, at least, generous and encouraging, but such sayings meant far more a few centuries ago than they do now. rats Ay in the Busso-Greek church on Ohrist the resting place and sure foundation of the soul. Mr. Beecher, in his peculiarly plump way of stating facts and assumptions, talking on moral honesty and moral eatnestness, could see no way of escape from the conviction that Christ was cither insane or divine; and, a home discipline of some allusion which might be interpreted bearing upon the caso at all. And that is where he admits that, if all men were com demned as men and communities and churches condemn them, why “hell would not be largo enough to hold the condemned,"”’ Mr. Talmage preached a housekeepers’ sermon yesterday. He believes that Christ had real sympathy for housekeepers because at a marriage feast turned water into wine. The children is in his opinion, to send them ‘to gathered from that miracle that everything on a generous scale; that tion is fulland free for all; that He is mot impatient with the luxuries of life, and that there is as much religion in a new coat as im an old one and in a frescoed house as in @ hovel, and that Christ always comes at the time ofour extremity. Dr. Wild had business and religion before him—not, however, trying to reconcile them, but showing wherein they agree. Beecher and Stewart are equally great in his mind. Drew and Talmage are both in- genious in their respective spheres, and both are wide awake. Dr. Twing made plea in Christ church for the domestic missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and gave some statistics and incidents that show the cause to be worthy of the fullest support. A Great Nautical Invention. Very recently an important and beautiful nautical invention has been presented to the scrutiny of the British Association by Mr. W. Froude, a scientific gentleman of some dis- tinction. The object of the inventor was to produce an automatic apparatus which would record the rolling of a ship in a seaway and also register in a graphic manner the slopes of waves and the general undulations of the ocean. The apparatus depends for its faithfulness and precision upon the simple principle that a plumb line or pendulum, if its point of suspension be near the ship’s centre of gravity, will be for the moment in equi- librium if it occupy the normal ‘position (or that which the vessel would give it in still water) and its oscillations will conform to the changes of the wave slope. It consists, according to the description of its contriver, of a revolving cylinder covered with paper and turned by clock work, which causes it to receive the tracings of several pens. Ono of these pens marks the time at equal successive intervals by an exact clock, while, the instru- ment being placed at the centre of gravity of the ship, a pendulum of very short period and great power vibrating in a plane transversely with the keel records continuously by a second pen the angles made at each moment by the ship—that is tosay, her relative inclina- tions, as imparted by the billows of the sea. Another pen, actuated by a rocking arm kept level and pointing to the horizon, simul- taneously records the angles which the vessel makes with the horizon or her absolute in- clinations. The invention has been fully tested and ita fundamental principles thoroughly verified by protracted nautical experiments. This simple contrivance, while apparently useful only for developing the mechanical theory of a ship’s rolling at sea, will doubtless subserve some of the most practical purposes and vital necessities of the navigator. It is well known that the com- pass deviations on shipboard are materially affected by the various motions of the ship as she heels to the port or starboard side. Late experiments as to the amount of devia- tion of the mysterious guide of the mariner show conclusively that no good seaman can fail to keep the rolling of his vessel perpetually in mind, and will find such an invention as Mr. Froude’s of incalculable value, The ob- servations on board the City of Baltimore by the Committee of the English Admiralty proved that when the steamer was swung ten degrees to starboard the magnetic needle wandered from its true point twenty-five de- grees and thirty minutes to the westward, and, when she was heeled ten degrees to the port side, the needle erred fifteen degrees and three minutes to the east, making a total vari- ation of forty-one degrees of longitude due to heeling alone without in any way changing the direction of the ship’s head. These re- sults were consistent with those of a large number of similar experiments on the different classes of sea-going vessels. It is also found that ships built with their heads towards cer- tain points increase or lessen their deviation by heeling as they go to high north or south magnetic latitude. But the invention to which we have called breaking loudly against the south shores of that island fully three days before the pest broke upon it. At that time the hurricane was still within the tropic and distant ten degrees of latitude, and as the gale neared earlier or later, the long and true swells, con- fused and cross seas, raised in pyramidal and other distinctive forms, are among the surest premonitions of a cyclone atsea; and these premonitions by the automatic or self-register. or unskilfal master, but force themselves upon theeye as they graphically display themselves on the paper prepared for recording them. ‘This valuable contribution to nautical in-, struments willbe greatly valued at a time when navigation is so rapidly increasing aud careless or ignorant seamen #0 often imperil ‘he lives and property entrusted to them