The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1872, Page 8

NEW YURK HEKALD, MONDAY, NUVEMBER 18, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, fi Sees HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. on — Wolume XXXVIL......ssceeeeeseee NOs 383 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ' woop's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Dixie, Aiternoon and Evening, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRES, Twenty-fourth street.— Evurysopy’s Fuixnp, ‘ WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana Thirteenth street.—Oun American Cousin, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Irauian Orrra—Don Giovanni. \ TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 88th st., between Lex- ington and 3d avs.—Orkxa—lt. Trovarons. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Kino or Can- RoTs, ft BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth ‘j@venue.—Romzo aNd JULIET. 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OUR FUTURE POLICY IN REGARD TO CUBA! SHALL SLAVERY EXIST LONGER ON THE ISLAND?”—LEADER—SIxTH Page. PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINERS STRIKING FOR HIGHER WAGES! ‘AN INCREASE OF TEN PER CENT DEMANDED AND REFUSED! SIXTEEN MINES IDLE—Tgnru PacE. wo THANKSGIVING POULTRY! A MYSTERIOUS DISORDER AMONG THE HEN ROOSTS! THE DANGER EPIDEMICALLY !—Tuirp { Page. WABLE AND GENERAL TELEGRAMS—PER- SONAL AND GENERAL NOTES—SEVENTH PaGE. AVASHINGTON! INDIAN COPARTNERSHIP FOR WAR: GRANT'S) NEW POLICY—THE DROPSY AMONG THE HORSES—Tuirp PGE. Boston PENITENT! CHURCH SERVICES YES- ' TERDAY : REMARKABLE SCENE IN “OLD SOUTH CHURCH : THE MILITIA FURNISH SACRED MUSIC—Tarrp Pages. (ARRAIGNING THE PRETTY WAITER GIRLS! SCENES AT THE TOMBS: THE GIRLS COM- MITTED—MUSICAL REVIEW—MARINE IN- TELLIGENCE—TENTH Pace. PROCLAMATION AGAINST CUBAN INCEN- DIARIES BY THE CAPTAIN GENERAL! AMERICAN CLAIMS FOR SPANISH OUT- RAGES REFUSED—OBITUARY—FIrTH PaGE. PoPruLaR OPINION ON THE PREVENTION OF GREAT FIRES! SOME SUGGESTIONS—THE AIMS AND PROGRESS OF OUR EVENING SCHOOLS—EiguTH ‘AGE. WOHERENCY OF THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY! THEIR STATUS AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE: CHARTER WORK—Firtn PaGE. }BuLLs” AND “BEARS” AND THE BOSTON PANIC! CONDITION OF THE WALL STREET MARKETS: NORTH CAROLINA BONDHOLDERS MOVING—NintH Pace. KING FROM THE TOP OF THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE! WHAT ONE MAY SEE IN THE FUTURE: THE WORK AND 1THE WORK- MEN—SEVENTH Pace. sAFFAIRS IN PERU! INDUCING IMMIGRATION: THE LABOR PROBLEM: TELEGRAPHIC EX- TENSION—LITERARY GOSSIP—FirTH Pace. javsrRia’s WAR BUDGET! ANDRASSY ON THE CONFERENCE OF EMPERORS: PARTY PROSPECTS—EicutTu PaGE. CULLING MATCH AT PUINEY, ENGLAND— HORRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT—ANNI- VERSARY OF SWISS INDEPENDENCE— E1cutTn Pace. WEVERAL OFFICES IN NEW YORK! CONSOLI- DATING THE REVENUE DISTRICTS: WORK OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS— BROOKLYN—ASIATIO EXPLORATIONS— NINTH PAGB, OISCOURSES OF THE DIVINES! PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL AND COMMENTING ON BOS- TON’S DISTRESS: THE LAST STOCK EX- CHANGE—Fourtn Pace. MASS AT ST. PETER'S, JERSEY CITY—SAD SCENE IN THE ADIRONDACKS—STATEN ISLAND CHURCH OPENING—SEWARD'S WILL—FirTi Pace, Ovr Orentnc Sxow Sronm, heralding the pproach of Winter, swept over a vast extent of ountry. It came in with that great tidal vave of Arctic air and clouds and snow from $he Rocky Mountains; but how far it has fovered the country westward the Signal Ser- Rice Bureau, as it should have done, does not form us, North and south the storm ex- nded inside the Atlantic slope from Lower Panada to North Carolina, The heaviest fall pears to have been along the basin of the one great lakes, At Buffalo on Saturday the was two feet deep on a level. In the oon of the same day the storm descended pon Richmond, Va., though there it was paratively light. This storm, it is feared, dicates a rough winter, and rich and poor ould do well to make their preparations rdingly. We hope, however, that this jerce November visitation may prove a false rm, Pennsyivania Takes rae First Premrox With her imposing popular majority of 137,728 sd Grant and Wilson. ovember there were 105,799 Pennsylvania fiemocrats missing who voted in October. Btick o pin there, Oar Future Foley im RKegard to Cuba—Shall Slavery Exist Longer on the Island? The existence of slavery in Cuba is a re- Proach to the United States, and is especially scandalous to the republican party, which has held control of the government for the past twelve years, and has just secured a new lease of power through the personal strength and popularity of President Grant. The crusade against slavery within our own borders brought on the war of the Southern rebellion, cost the nation hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of treasure, and still keeps a large section of the country stripped of those rights guaranteed to all the States by the constitution. The responsibility of aboli- tionism for the war has been from time to time denied for political effect; but the day has gone by for such sophistry and the truth of history vindica‘cs itself. When Mr. Sew- ard, pending the first election of Mr. Lin- coln, declared that the triumph of the latter would enable the republican party within four years to convert the Supreme’ Court of the United States into a partisan tribunal that would interpret tho national constitution as giving no rights to slavery, he committed an act of war just as effectually as did the rebels when they fired the Srst gun on Sumter. From that moment an appeal to arms became inevitable and slavery in the United States was doomed. No unprejudiced person now thinks of upbraiding republican- ism for its attack upon the “institution” any more than they would blamo the colonists who threw the tea overboard in Boston Harbor. The end justified the means, But it is ques- tionable whether a party that has carried a great moral idea to a successful issue at home at such enormous risk and sacrifice; that has soaked its own soil with the blood of its best citizens in the cause of freedom for the negro race, can, without censure, refrain from using its power to strike down slavery in the neigh- boring Island of Cuba. Yet we find our republican Congress and the administration at Washington not only abstaining from aggres- sive acts against the system of slavery in the Spanish colony, but doing much to foster it and keep it in existence. We contend that inasmuch as the party in absolute control of the legislative and executive branches of the government achieved power on the principle of unceasing war against slavery as a great human wrong, it has not the moral right to remain inactive while four hundred thousand negroes are held in bondage on an island lying in our waters and within reach of our hands. Inaction is not, however, the least of its sins. The policy of the dominant party has given direct aid to Cuban slavery, both in its un- friendliness towards the cause of the revolu- tionists and in its liberal encouragement of Spanish interests in its commercial inter- course with that nation. We pointed out to General Grant a few days ago the fact that the shortest and surest way to liberate the Cuban slaves is to free the island from Spanish rule, Independence to Cuba means freedom to every human being on the island, for the regularly adopted constitu- tion of the Republic declares that ‘all the inhabitants,”’ of whatever race or color, shall be ‘absolutely free." The recognition by tho United States of the belligerency of the revo- lutionists—a recognition to which over four years’ successful resistance of Spanish antho- rity entitles them, would speedily close the struggle and drive the Spaniards from the island. This is the judgment of reflecting friends of the patriots, and the unceasing in- trigues of the Spanish authorities to prevent such action on the part of our government in- dicate that they share the opinion. By re- fusing to Cubans, after four years of rebellion, the rights that were accorded to the South almost as soon as they had raised the banner of insurrection, our government incurs a grave responsibility, of which it ought to be glad to relieve itself, and, as we have heretofore shown, General Grant has now a happy op- portunity to make a new departure in his Cuban policy appear a graceful concession to the sentiment of the people who have just re-elected him to the Presi- dency of the United States by a largely non-partisan vote. Should there be any hesitation about the recognition of Cuban belligerancy, or should such action as we be- lieve ought to be taken by the administration fail in securing the desired object, we have still the resort of an earnest appeal to the Spanish government for the abolition of human servitude on the island, and, better still, the means of forcing that concession from Spain if we are serious in demanding it. Up to the present time there has been much talk at Madrid about the emancipation of the slaves in the colonies, and the republican party has declared in favor of such a policy; but the promises of the government appear to have been induced by expediency and the de- clarations of the republicans seem to have been made more for eftect than from principle. The protracted rebellion afforded a favorable opportunity for sweeping away the evil of slavery, had the Spaniards been really desirous of accomplishing that professed object; but so much time has been wasted over unsatisfactory propositions for gradual emancipation and so many difficulties have constantly appeared in the way of action thatall faith in the sincerity of the movement has been destroyed. Intervention with Spain for the liberation of the Cuban slaves is no new proposition to Congress or the administration. Neither has been idle in this direction, so far as sen- timent is concerned. President Grant has alluded to the subject time and again; Con- gress has resolved and memorialized, and Secretary Fish has been as strong in words and as weak in action as usual. Congress But on the 5th of | the long since adopted a resolution declaring that the existence of slavery in Cuba would have an important bearing on the diplomatic and commercial relations of the two countries, and notice to that effect is supposed to have been given by our Secretary of State to the Spanish government. We have plenty of evidence to show that the powers at Madrid stand pledged to our government to abolish slavery on the island, @ promise which they have as yet shown no sincere intention of redeeming. In January, 1870, Secretary Fish, writing to the United States Minister in Spain, said, “This government regards the govern- ment of Madrid as committed to the abolition of slavery in Cuba; and Secretary went on to instruct the Minister that if it should appear that tho Cuban insurrection was regarded by the | Spanish authorities as finally and completely suppressed, he would seize the opportunity to inform them that this government, relying on “assurances so repeatedly given,” would ex- pect immediate steps to be taken for the eman- cipation of the slaves in the Spanish colonics, In June, 1870, Senator Sumner presented a report from the Committce on Foreign Rela- tions of the Senate, declaring the “pain of the American government at the fact that the pretension of property in man is still upheld in tho island colonies of Spain lying in American waters; that such a spectacle is justly offensive to all who love republican institutions, and espe- cially to the United States, who now, in the name of justice and for the sake of good neigh- borhood, ask that slavery shall cease there at once.” In July, 1870, the correspondence between Secretary Fish and our Minister at Madrid was sent in to the Senate, and from that it appeared that in June preceding, about the time the above report was made, the Sec- retary addressed an official communication to the Minister, in which he spoke of the plan proposed in the Spanish Cortes for the ‘‘extirpa- tion of this blot upon the civilization of America’’ ag falling far short of what the American people “had a right to expect.” Mr. Fish showed at length the insufficiency and deception of the proposal for a gradual emancipation of the Cuban slaves, and said, “You will state to the Spanish government, in a friendly but decided manner, that this government is disappointed in this project; that it fails to meet the expectations that have been raised by the various conversations with you; that in the opinion of the President it will produce dissatisfaction throughout the civil- ized world, that is looking to see liberty as the universal law of labor; that it will fail to satisfy or to pacify Cuba ; that peace, if re- stored, can be maintained only by force so long as slavery exists, and that our proximity to that island and our intimate relations with it give usa deep interest in its welfare, and justify tho expression of our earnest desire to seo prevail the policy which we believe calcu- lated to restore its peace and give it perma- nent prosperity." These were certainly brave words; but they have unfortunately been unproductive of good. It is now nearly three years since they were penned, and Cuba is still in revolution and the fetters cling to the limbs of four hun- dred thousand negroes on the island as cruelly asever. This isnot as it should be. A pow- erful nation like the United States should utter no threat that it docs not mean to carry out, and should make no de- mand that it doos not intend to en- force. The republican Congress, whice, nearly three years ago, ‘in the name of jus- tice and for the sake of good neighborhood,” asked of Spain that Cuban slavery should cease at once, and which declared that the non-emancipation of the slaves on the island would influence our diplomatic and com- mercial intercourse with the Spanish nation, is the republican Congress of to-day, with a powerful majority in both branches of the na- tional Legislature. The administration which nearly three years ago declared that the gov- ernment of Spain was pledged to us for the abolition of slavery in Cuba; which declared that our government, relying on pledges re- peatedly given, would expect the immediate emancipation of the sIayes in the Spanish colonies; which formally expressed dissatis- faction with a scheme of gradual emancipn- tion, and in view of our proximity to Cuba and our intimate relations with the island pressed for the redemption of the promises of unconditional emancipation, is the administra- tion now iu power and about to enter upon a new term of office. Are the republican Con- gress, the republican administration and the republican party to stand idly by another four years, contented with high-sounding protests, while the Cuban negroes drag out their lives in bondage and suffering? There is an easy way to force the abolition of Cuban slavery from the Spanish govern- ment without the argument of powder and steel. The government and people of the United States are in fact to-day its chief sup- port, and without their aid human servitude in Cuba would not survive year. Our trade makes slavery profitable on the island; our money enriches the slave owner and confirms him in his desire to rob the negroes of their labor; the revenue we secure to Cuba makes its ownership valuable to Spain and raises up a barrier to its independence and freedom. In 1868, of the whole six hundred and twenty thousand tons of sugar exported from the island in nine months only, from January 1 to September 30, the United States took nearly four hundred thousand tons, and during the same period, of three hundred and thirty thousand tons of molasses, we took nearly two hundred and twenty thousand tons, The sugar crop for the year 1870-71 was five hundred and forty thousand tons, of which tho United States received three hundred and twenty thousand tons. We may safely state that we consume on an average between sixty and seventy per cent of the Cuba crop of sugar and a greater percentage of the crop of molasses. This slave-labor sugar, under our present tariff, comes in direct con- flict with our free labor, and realizes to the Cubansa larger profit than our own citizens can secure, On the other hand Spain affords us no facilities or advantages in the Cuban markets, Her tariff discriminates against American im- ports, and the enormous duties are prohibitory ofa great part of our products. Machinery and a few articles that cannot well be procured from home are the only things on which the Spanish tariff allows us a fair market in Cuba, Our government thus directly encourages the manufacture of slave products in our immediate neighborhood, and gives life to the system of slave labor. If we were to place a duty of one hundred per cent on the slave-labor sugars of Cuba we should at once do much to loosen the hold of Spain upon the island and to strike the fetters from the limbs of the slaves. The loss of the American markets would be fatal to the pres- ent condition of affairs, and it would not be long before the island obtained its freedom or voluntarily sought an asylum within the Union, At all events, it is o policy which should commend itself to republicans, unless their concern for the liberty of the negro has ceased with the enfranchisemont of those of the race whose ballots are cast in the United States. At present the party which for the sake of abolition provoked the war of the rebellion stands in the position of encouraging slavery on territory lying at our verv threshold; of placing foreign slave labor in competition with our own free labor; of raising no hand to release four hun- dred thousand neighboring negroes from the most cruel bondage. Let us see whether President Grant will suffer the Spanish gov- ernment to trifle with us on the subject of Cuban slavery for another four years, or whether he will boldly take the initiatory in carrying into practice the policy which his present Secretary of State has been for the last three years so bold to avow and so incom- petent to enforce. Methodist Missionary Appropriations. Any one who will take the trouble to ex- amine the schedule of missionary appropria- tions of the several societies operating from this country among the heathen must be surprised at the steady and rapid growth of the Churches’ contributions to the cause of missions, Of the forty and more societies hero who carry on missionary work sixteen of them labor among the heathen directly, while others operate among foreigners here in this land and among the “heathen Chinee” in California, The aggregate amount of money spent in this mission work at home and abroad by American national societies was last year nearly six and three-quarter millions of dollars. This is a large sum, but it dwindles into insignificance before the mighty populations for whose evangelization and ennoblement it was appropriated. And yet even large as it appears it is not much more than one dollar a head for every church member in the land—certainly not a very extravagant donation individually for mak- ing known the Gospel of Christ to the world and hastening on His kingdom. But more than three and a half millions of this aggregate sum went almost wholly to foreign lands. The Mothodist Episcopal Church of America, as it is the largest and woalthiest in the country, raised tho largest amount of money for missionary purposes last year of any organization—namely, $629,921. One Board administers for the home and foreign fields, so that in the aggre- gates there is no division of the appropriations made. But the home and foreign work are, nevertheless, as distinct as if the Methodists had, like other Christian denominations, sep- arate Boards to administer to each class of missions. The appropriations last year to the foreign work and to foreign populations in the United States amounted to $301,938—a little less than one-half of the entire sum. The bal- ance was distributed among the annual con- ferences, to be by them used as they should judge best. This plan does away with agencies and officers and much clerical help and other- items of expenditure which draws upon the missionary income of other churches and so- cieties. The great changes which have taken place throughout the world during the past year, chiefly in Japan, China and India, and the practical though indirect opening up of inte- rior Africa by the Hxnaup expedition, has awakened new zeal and increased the mission- ary interest of the churches of America in the foreign work. Hence the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now in annual session in this city, has based its appropriations for 1873 upon an income of $800,000, a2 sum which the founders of the society would hardly have dared to dream of fifty years ago, when they had but $2,500 to be distributed over the home and foreign work. But in 1852-53 the Church took a commendable stride from $152,482 to $338,068. It then fell off in its contributions until 1862, when the sad havoc of war awakened the kind- liest and tenderest sympathies of Christian hearts, and a general sentiment prevailed among Methodists throughout the country that the missionary cause would probably suffer because of the war. Every one there- fore determined to do more for it than ever. The result was that the receipts leaped from $272,523 to $429,768. The year following they went above half a million, and since then they have fluctuated between $642,740 and $606,661 ; and such faith have the Missionary Committee that the receipts for 1873 will overreach their estimates that they have already appropriated $859,525, and their work is not yet completed. Among the first, if not the very first, to utilize the important discoveries and in- formation given by Mr. Stanley to the world through the Hzratp, the ¢ommittee has appropriated $10,000 to establish a new mis- sion in the interior of Africa, And, as it was expressed in the committee meeting on Thurs- day, if Dr. Livingstone ever comes to the sur- face of civilization, this will become the most important station and Africa the most impor- tant foreign mission field in the world. Its people are comparatively thrifty, and, to a large extent, agricultural. Slavery and the slave trade are the primal and continuing causes of their savagery; but when these blots disap- pear from our Christian civilization there will be no good reason why the same enthusiasm should not burn in the hearts of the colored people of this country for the evangelization of the land of their ancestors that now burns in the hearts of Germans, Swedes, Norwe- gians, Chinese and others, and that they, like these, shall cheerfully offer themselves to the missionary work among their own people and color, But no such enthusiasm could ever be kindled in the breasts of slaves and of de- graded ond ignorant chattels. Hence God began here in 1862 to make freemen of the blacks, and in 1872 He has begun to show them the way into the interior homes and hearts of their race in Africa, The increase of appropriations to India and China amounts to more than $37,500, and the grand total to those countries is $171,446 in American cur- rency. New missions will probably be planted in those lands, and an entirely now work is tobe opened in Japan. The amount appropriated to domestic missions is over $280,000. Thus the sun is rising, never more to set on the Kingdom of our Lord, Christ, The President and the Politicians. Cameron and the Cameronians and the other office-hunting and office-holding politicians of Pennsylvania are giving the President a great deal of trouble, The Philadelphia Post Office is the subject of discordance and annoyance just now; but it is the old struggle over again, and General Grant may expect to have fre- quent repetitions of it from one set or another and from different localities, There are no more hungry or insatiable people than the small partisan and office-hunting politicians, and no more troublesome and presumptuous men than the leading partisan politicians, There is but one way for the President to save himself from such perpetual annoyance, and | The Spirit and Gossip ot Gur Religious that is to act independently for the public good, and to carry out the principle of civil service reform by keeping in and appointing to office the best men, irrespective of political opinions. It is gratifying to seo by our Wash- ington correspondence that the President is taking such a stand, and has, consequently, created consternation among the Pennsylvania politicians by his firmness in the matter of the Philadelphia Post Office. If he will stick to this policy he will be sustained by the people everywhere, and he need not fear the ire of either the small or leading politicians. ‘The November Meteoraand the Weather. Our planet has been just Iately and is now running the gauntlet of the November me- teors, which lie in countless myriads near its orbital path, On the 12th of November we reached the confines of this vast meteor stratum of cosmical matter and were several days traversing it. It is now very generally agreed by scientific students that these bodies, generally small, but occasionally weighing several tons, revolve like planets round the sun, which in their course approach the earth, and when seen by us furrowing the sky are ablaze with heat, generated through tho re- sistance and friction offered by our atmos- phere. It is very rarely the case that they penetrate to the earth’s crust; but it is not pleasant to think that our planct has in its path such innumerable neighbors so near as to dip into its aeriel envelope. In 1799 Humboldt and his compan- ion counted thousands on the const of Mexico on the 12th of November before sunrise; on the samo day, in 1833, Arago computed that nearly a quarter of a million passed over the heavens in three hours. Last July soveral meteorites fell in France, with a violent report, in a clear sky, in the commune of Saucé. On the 8th of last August one was seen at Rome, and its detonation heard and recorded by Father Secchi. _ It is well known that the periods of greatest display of meteoric phenomena are in every thirty-three years, the last being in 1867 on the night of Novem- ber 14; but the phenomenon appears to bo partial in subsequent and intervening years. It is a question of great interest whether these displays are connected with the great atmosphere changes. It was observed by Herschel that’ a vast atmogpheric wave an- nually sweeps over England, to which he gave the now well-accepted name of “the No- vember atmospheric wave,’ which is the cause of many fearful storms and coast disasters. The Royal Charter gale of 1859, the great Crimean hurricane of 1855, which came near destroying the allied fleet before Sebastopol, and the still more awful storm of December 8, 1703, chronicled by Defoe, are supposed by Herschel to be the beginning, middle and end of this disturbance. The connection of this season with violent storms in the higher latitudes seems to be suggested by the late weather we have had, with its great alternations. A telegram from Florida on the night of the 12th inst. an- nounced the well-defined appearance there of the celebrated polar bands of cloud, said by Humboldt to telegraphically announce the severest storms. On the same night (Tuesday) a violent storm was predicted at Washington, and began in the'far West and in the Missouri Valley.and moved rapidly eastward over the lakes, said to be the most severe lake storm of the year, and this storm has been—is indeed now—passing over the Middle States and New England. The subject we have suggested for inquiry is well worth extensive scientific research, The Horse Disease. The scourge that has been prostrating our horses for the past six weeks in the shape of influenza is now assuming a more fatal charac- ter in the form of dropsy, and in some stables farcy and glanders have followed the epizootic symptoms. There is no question but that private horses have been more free from tho disease than those that have been overworked on railroads, stages and carts; but those who have had palaces for homes have not been exempt from the plague and have had all the various stages of the disease to the last and fatal one of dropsy. Veterinary science has been all abroad about the diagnosis of the scourge. Mr. Dunbar does not believe that the disease was atmospherically infectious, while Professor Taylor declares that it is contagious, and too much caution cannot be used to keep diseased horses away from well ones. It was argued by some scientific gentlemen when the disease first broke out that there was no danger whatever, except relapse by exposure, to the well-conditioned horse; but we have seen during the last few days that the reverse is the case, and dropsy, farcy and glanders are now ending the miseries of many horses that were receiving the greatest care and were supposed to be improving a week ago. We hope that we have seen the worst of this horse disease, and that the clear atmosphere which we are now enjoying may stay the ravages of the scourge in our stables and that the debilitated animals may recuperate rapidly; but we advise care in keeping the diseased animals away from the well ones, and where farcy or glanders is dis- covered to destroy the horse at once, ; Is Ir re Horse Diszaszk AMONG THE Povtrry?—We have bad news for Thanks- giving Day. Up the Hudson and from the highlands and lowlands of this river back to the Susquehanna, and how much further we know not, a terrible disease has broken out among the poultry. Chickens are dying from it by hundreds, and ducks, geese and turkeys in the market are said to betray evidences of the same malady. It appears to resemble the epizooty; the fowl affected has a running at the nose, But, in addition to this symptom of catarrh, the victim becomes dizzy, its head swells and it soon diea as of cerebro-spinal meningitis. In another part of this paper we give the latest information on the subject, and, from the facts presented, it appears that this disease is really assuming the form of a de- structive pestilence among our domestic fowls. Should this pestilence continue to spread as rapidly as it has been developed we can only hope that at least our beef, pork and mutton will be spared for Thanksgiving Day. Tur Sreamsarp Anrzona, it is feared, may have foundered in a storm on the Pacific. But as she was a good, strong ship, and well offi- cered, we adhere to the opinion that she has only been disabled in her machinery, or delayed by head winds and heavy seas, and will yet come in with her full list of passen- gers and without serious loss of property. Press. The conflagration in Boston is the subject of editorial articles in several of our religious pecans Henry Ward Beecher (im Christian Union) presents « really pleasant Picture when he says:— I¢ would be profane to assume to read lesign of the Almighty in pending 50 eee catastrophe. But it carries lessons on the physical side which cannot be missed. To those whose dis- tress is for the time overwhelming the supreme fact, the one thing eternally sure aud changel is thas God's srmpathy is close to every troubled heart; that with infinite tenderness He fecis-what- aire ius psa Nes tag os to higher good, > 7 ne The Union—(turning to politics)—thinks “the democratic party had a first rate funeral, but that it is alive yet, and how long it may last no man knows.”” The present political situation, as described by the Union, is this: — The coalition which supported Mr. Greeley has been killed past all revival. The talk of its profit- ing by defeat and gotng on to final conquest like the republican party alter 1856 deceives nevody. Mr. Greeley tells the story when, in “yesum as a editorship of the 27 he sa; pers which have hitherto divided the country.’? une, 8 very frankly he is not in full accord “with aither of the it is just it; there are two parties, the republicam and the democratic. The supporters of Mr. Greetey * constituted no yeal party antmated by a unifying rinciple, hut a temporary alliance, broken py the Grae gront defees: sat ‘ y, The ‘Decline of Ministerial Inftuonce’”’ is also the subject of an able article in this un- usually interesting number of the Union. The writer says “the controversies of past generations last longer within tho walle of theological schools than they do any- where else. What, to the living mind of our time, is the controversy be- tween Calvinism and Arminianism, or be- tween the substitution and governmental theo- ries of the Atonement, or the discussion con- cerning original sin, or Edwards’ theory of the will, or the metaphysics of the Trinity? We do not say that such subjects should be ig- nored. They should be studied attentively, as phases in the mental life of the Church in times past, and with a considerable influence on the present. But to make them the chief subjects of study, to equip and drill students with main reference to these, is like dressing soldiers in medimval armor who have got to face rifled cannon.” The Boston Pilot is reported to us as cer- tainly to appear this week through tho enter- prise and pluck of its proprietor, Patrick Donahoe. The Pilot is one of the oldest of Catholic champions in America, and its lead- ing journalistic exponent in New England. The fact of its having been through a small purgatory on earth will, doubtless, make it still more acceptable to its readers. The Jowish Times discourses upon ‘That Irrepressible Jew,’’ who, it avers, seems to stand in the highway at every crossing, and to be in everybody's path;. he even has the impudence, it continues, to remain thero, in spite of the thousand and one attempts to remove him. Proceeds our Jowish contem- porary: — Let one bea Jew, and he is sure to have that at tribute pointed out as being chiefest of note; statesmanship, artistic accomplishment, literary genius, commercial enterprise, financial bolduess come next in consideration, and mostly in spite of his beinga Jew. He to rest on his arms through ali the ages of his existence; the precau- tionary injunction given to the Israelites at their exodus from Egypt, “Have your staff in your hand,” retains its full significance to this very day. He was everywhere received with reluctance, and his gilts accepted with surly humor. But he stood manfully to his colors, and the unshakable confidence in the ultimate triumph of his cause, which never forsook his race, no matter how try- ing the ordeal, has preserved him and hts faith in- tact amid the ruins and devastations of 8, the downfall of nations and the collapse of empires. The Liberal Christian (Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows) contains a sensible article in relation to ‘‘American Warehouse Architecture.” Saya the Liberal Christian :— Boston has exceeded all the world in the costit. ness and splendor, the architectural ambition and showiness of her wholesale warehouses. They have been solid and eocratrae which is well. But why make places of ordinary business and traffic, where people store and sell merchandise, like palaces in their external appearance and often in their inter- nal finish? The Golden Age declares that it ‘stands with Treland against all the world.’’ So it did for Greeley, Mr. Tilton gives a pleasant retro- spect of the late Presidential campaign, and seems satisfied that one principle at least was settled by the result—to wit, that Sambo had a right to vote. The Freeman’s Journal (Catholic) discourses upon the “Result of the Voting,” and, rofer- ring to Francis Kernan (democratic candidate for Governor), declares that ‘‘the cry raised against him on the score of his being a Catho- lic was an afterthought—started, we think it can be proved, by Canal Board thieves and others, who feared not his religious belief, but his religious integrity and official honesty.” The Observer (Presbyterian) advocates ‘Sun day school reform,” and sees no propriety in “depreciating sound evangelical instruction for the sake of encouraging the singing of hymns. Sing them by all means, if they are good ones. Teach them to the children, and let the words sing in their hearts by the way and at, home. This is very well. But from a child upward each one should know the Scriptures and be thoroughly instructed in the doctrines of the Gospel. It is a fatal mistake to suppose that children cannot understand the grand truths of the Christian religion.” And yet some of the greatest geniuses of this age and generation haye been puzzled to understand them. The Siethodist pitches into scepticism and goes back a hundred years to quote Bishop Butler, who said, “It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many per- sons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious."’ To call Christian- ity “fictitious” in this enlightened age would cast a slur upon the pious people of our coun- try, who compose at least nine-tenths of our population, The Kiowa-Comanche Copartnership. A despatch from Washington informs us that our red brethren of the Plains, who lately called at the White House and assured the President of their sentiments of distinguished consideration, have made a business arrange ment with their friends, the Kickapoos, on the other side of the Rio Grande, and that there is therefore a cloud on the brow of the United States military commander in Texas. This means that having enjoyed themselves on their first-class excursion North, and fooled the Quakers to the top of their bent, the Kiowas and Comanches, in partnership, are making ready for a campaign against the people of Texas on a much larger scale than that of last year, The Kiowa is the domi- nant tribe on the Southern Plains, mora by reason of the superior cunning of the braves than their valor in war. Lone Wolf, their leader, saw, no doubt, whila