The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. Volume XXXVIII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davin Garnick. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Ticket or Leave Man, THEATRE COMIQU! on, Tax Lone Stan oF 514 Broadway.—Sranianps; BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pantomime or Witt oO Tue Wise. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third Qv.—FRRNanpe, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Elghth @V.—CATARACT OF THE GANGES. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 750 Broad- way.—ALixn WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Guancr at New Yorks 1 148 Afternoon and Evening. ATAENEUM, No. £85 Broadway.—Granp Variety Ew. 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POLICE POWERS! DUTIES OF THE COMPTROLLER AND CHAMBERLAIN! THE CITY DEBT—Fovrti ANp FirtH PaGEs, CROWNING THE SPANISH KEPUBLICAN EDI- FICE! THE REPLY TO AMERICA! POLICY IN THE ANTILLES! FEDERATIVE REPUB- LIC DANGERS! REASONS FOR FRENCH NON-RECOGNITION ! AMADEUS' MOVE- MENTS! ILLNESS OF HIS WIFE—SEveNta PAGE. CUBAN RECEPTION OF THE SPANISH REPUBLI- CAN NEWS—CHICAGO'S ST HORROR— NEWS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN—SEVENTIU PAGE. LATEST NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF THE MODOC WAR! OREGON PROTESTS AGAINST PEACE! SAVAGE DOINGS—SeventH Page. EGRAMS FROM EUROPE—PORTUGAL AiNFORCES HER MENACED SOUTH AFRI- CAN COLONY—SEvestH Pace. SEEING THE SUUTiL! PRESIDENT GRANT TO START ON HIS TOUR IN MARCH! WHAT HE GOES FOR—Tuinp Pace. THE MAN WHO DEFEATED “OLD POM!" THE FACTS NARRATED BY HI F! A MOSY INTERESTING HISTORY—Tuirp Pace. POMEROY IN THE HANDS OF THE KANSAS PO- LITICAL DOCTORS! HOW THE GREAT DEFEAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED—TuirD Pace. A LANDMARK FALLS TO PIECES! THE OLD HOUSTON STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A RUIN! NARROW ESCAPE OF THE CONGKEGATION—TEnTH Pas. THE SUIT OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE IRISH CATHOLICS! WHO 1S KEOGH? HIS NOTORIOUS JUDGMENT SPEECH—TENTH Pac. PULPIT ELOQUENCE! THE RELIGIOUS NUTS CRACKED BY THE DIVINES, OF BOTH SEXES, YESTERDAY, AND THE KERNELS OF TRUTH THEY CONTAINED—EiguTe Pace. REASONS FOR THE MONETARY STRINGENCY! | THE GOLD AND STOCK SPECULATORS AT WORK! THE BANK RESERVES BELOW THE LEGAL LIMIT—REAL ESTATE—NiytH | Pace. WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE DEPART- MENT OF DOCKS IN 1871-72! THE OFFI- CERS, THEIR SALARIES AND DUTIES— | ELEVENTH PaGE. SPANISH VOLUNTEERS IN CUBA THREATEN THE UNITED STATES! A RED-HOT DOCU- MENT—Sf. JOHN'S GUILD—FirtH Pace. KENTUCKY GAMBLERS “GOING WEST!” THE | LOUISVILLE AUTHORITIES “TAKE A HAND" IN THEIR GAMES IN THE PUBLIC | INTEREST—Nistw Pag Tue Spanish News is Cuna.—The news of King Amadens’ abdication was published in Havana on the 14th inst. The intelligence produced a considerable degree of excitement in commercial and financial circles, but | the public peace remained undisturbed. Prices were unsettled and the premium for gold advanced. Ceballos issued a proclama- tion officially announcing the new order of affairs, as, likewise, his determination to obey any government which may be established in Spain. Sefior Olivarez, Political Secretary, sailed for Spain in order to confer with the Executive of the Republic. Locally, Havana was agitated by the volunteer, treasury tax, and other questions of home interest and exigency. Tre Mopoc Peace Commissioners have arrived in the neighborhood of Captain Jack's stronghold and organized for business. They have encountered, however, a serious obstacle in the protest of the Governor of Oregon, who holds that no peace should be made with the Modocs until those of their number who murdered eighteen citizens of his State some time since are given up to be dealt with by the civil power, and, further, that as Lost River is « part of the State of Oregon, it cannot be “reserved” by the general govern- mont for the use of the Modocs. We are in- formed by our special correspondent with the | Commissioners that the Governor's protest was ‘Jaid on the table;’’ but it cannot be al- lowed to remain there. The rights of the people of Oregon must not be trodden upon, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1873. The Republican City Charter—How | authorize the New York Is To Be Governed in the Future. Comptroller to dispute the amount of any legally established salary, or to question the due performance of his We publish in the Hznaxp to-day the full | duty by an officer entitled to such salary. Of text of the new city charter, prepared for us | Course there will be @ general howl on the by the republican Legislature, and soon, no | Part of the democrat, liberals and disap- doubt, to become a law. In reality it is much the same asthe charter under which we are now living—the much-abused ‘Ring’ charter of 1870, concocted, if we are to believe the terrible things that have been said of it by the partisan papers on both sides, for the sole purpose of robbing the city under a show of legality. To be sure there are some alterations and some improvements in the present law. The expenses of the several city departments, so far, at least, as the regular salaries paid to their heads are concerned, are materially de- creased; the public advertising, which has heretofore been such a prolific ‘source of plun- der to the party organs, is swept almost en- tirely away; taxpayers are éntitled to exam- ine any books or obtain copies of any accounts or papers in any department, except the De- partment of Police; any public officer is sub- jected toa summary examination respecting his official conduct on an order froma judge, to be issued on an application, based on affida- vit, of the Mayor, Comptroller, a Commis- sioner of Accounts, or any five Aldermen; and several other baits are thrown out to satisfy the consciences of the reform party and to furnish an opportunity for a flourish of trumpets over the disinterestedness and honesty of our new rulers. Still, as we have said, the substantial features of the present charter are preserved, and the principal changes to be found are those which were re- quired, first, to get the offices into republican hands; second, to keep them there against contingencies as long as possible, and, third, to prevent their value from being inter- fered with while they remain there. For all this the people were quite prepared. They have only asked that the charter shall be a fair, practical instrument ; that it shall restore the harmonious working of all the city depart- ments, and that it shall remove the obstrac- tions now in the way of the progress and improvement of the metropolis. We believe these ends are accomplished by the proposed law, and hence we favor its enactment. The great work of the new charter, asa matter of course, is to place the city offices wholly in the hands of the party which car- ried the last election in the city and the State, and which is, therefore, responsible for the good government of both. This is done by legislating all the present heads of depart- ments out of office and supplying their succes- sors from a republican source. ‘The latter task was the difficulty in the way of the repub- lican managers. It has been overcome with- out injury to the city or injustice to the peo- ple, and hence every citizen not personally interested in decrying the method of appoint- ment finally determined on will accept it without grumbling. It was believed honestly by many that the right to appoint and remove the heads of departments and other officers should vest solely in tho Execu- tive, inasmuch as he can be readily held accountable for an improper exercise of the power ; but, as the Aldermen are elected on a single ticket, they can be as easily reached as the Mayor, and, as we have heretofore shown, the concentration of such vast patron- ago in the hands of a single officer would be liable to lead to corrupt combinations and | defeat the very object sought to be accom- plished by the advocates of the one-man power. Besides, it became evident through the premature iutrigues of Messrs. Green, Tilden and other leaders of the reformed democracy that, if the appointing power should be given to Mayor Havemeyer, we should have another two years of discord in the city government similar to that which has prevailed for the past year, and that the public interests would continue to be sacrificed to personal prejudices and petty malice. For these reasons the system of appointment provided by the charter will be generally approved. The present Board of Aldermen are to hold office for the term for which they were elected—until January, 1875. The next Board, elected at the general election in 1874, will consist of fif- teen members, chosen on a general ticket— five for one year, five for two years and five for three years, the terms being designated on the ballot. Thereafter, although the charter at present omits to say s0, five Aldermen are to be chosen every election forathree years’ term, one-third of the Board thus going out every year. The Mayor nominates heads of depart- ments to the Board for their confirmation, and provision is made for immediate meetings to consider the nominations. Should they be rejected the Mayor is required to promptly make other nominations, and thus the farce of sending back the same names isavoided. If the failure to agree continues for twenty days the Mayor is to meet with the Board within four days thereafter in joint convention, and the appointments are to be made by the viva voce vote of the majority. There seems, however, to be no provision for an election in case the Mayor should absent | himself from the meeting, and this, we think, should be provided for. It will also occur to the minds of many that thore would be a | better prospect of an agreement if the Alder- men should appoint and the Mayor confirm, in- asmuch as one person would be more likely to agree with the decision of fifteen than fifteen would be to accept the choice of one. These | are points which can be considered during the progress of the bill through the Legis- lature. Outside the appointments there are many alterations which commend themselves to ap- proval, although some are probably designed rather for effect than for use. The Mayor is made subject to removal by the Governor of the State, theo same as Sheriffs, only that the proceedings may in his case be conducted by the Attorney Gen- eral. The heads of departments may be removed on written charges by the Mayor, with concurrence of two-thirds of the full Board of Aldermen, after the accused officer shall have been heard in his own defence, In the Finance Department there are some changes which more clearly define the powers and duties of the Comptroller, so as to prevent a conflict between the departments and a constant squabbling and confusion in the public offices, The power given to the Comp- troller to settle and adjust claims against the city is not to be construed to give such even to please the benevolent friends of the Modoc savages. settlement and adjustment the binding effect of a judgment or decree, nor to pointed Committee of Seventy place-hunters over this provision as directed against Comp- troller Green; but as the Finance Department is known to be in a dangerously confused condition; as the city has been and still is engaged in a ruinous litigation, which cannot fail to prove disastrous to the taxpayers if suf- fered to continue; as many thousands of dollars have been thrown away in interest, through neglected assessment rolls and on deferred payments of honest accounts, it is certain that the change will be beneficial to the people. The Chamberlain's duties are also clearly de- fined; the banks of deposit, to be selected by the Chamberlain and Mayor jointly,are to be re- quired to pay four per cent interest to the city. The Chamberlain is to pay this interest over to the city; is to appoint his own deputy, clerks and assistants, to receive thirty thousand dol- lars a year in licu of all fees and perquisites, and is to pay out of his salary all hig office expenses. In the Police Department some changes are found. There are to be three Commissioners; but there should be five, and it is to be hoped that the number will be increased by the Legislature. Enlarged powers are given to the Superintendent, who will, indeed, be tho most important officer in the department, if not in the government. All orders relating to the movements and duties of the force are to emanate from him; he is to appoint and remove tho clerks at his pleasure, to a number not exceeding six, and he is to have the special and sole chargo of the detective force, whose number is fixed at thirty. A full registry, containing tho name, birthplace, age and place of residence of each inhabitant of cach precinct is to be kept by the Superintendent, and all changes of residence and removals from the city are to be recorded. It is understood that, as far as possible, descriptions of the male citi- zens over twenty-one years are to be kept, so as to make the system as nearly as possible like the secret service system of the French Empire. The Board of Aldermen are prohibited from any legislation affecting the inner workings of the departments or the duties or number of the employés, except on written application of the head of the department interested. Bids and contracts are to be opened, as now, in the presence of the Comptroller, but, should that officer neglect or refuse to attend, the opening is to proceed without him. All fees are abolished in every office, and bribery of a city official is made a felony. The Presidents of the Board of Aldermen and ofthe Taxes and Assessment Department, with one person to be appointed and removed by the Mayor at his pleasure, are to form a Board of Commissioners of Accounts, anyone of whom may at his pleasure examine the books, accounts and workings of any department of the city government and make recommendations to thé Board of Apportionment and Audit. Once in three months they are to examine all tho books, accounts, vouchers, &., in the Cham- berlain’s and Comptroller's offices. There are other provisions which deserve notice, but we defer reference to them to a future oppor- tunity. The News from Spain. The despatches from Madrid and Lisbon, which we publish in the Heraup to-day, report the latest aspect of the condition of affairs which prevails in Spain, and, genorally, on the Iberian Peninsula, from the shores of the Tagus to the palaces and streets of the Portuguese capital. The news is of an at- tractive and interesting character. Its point of immediate importance will be found in the account which it presents of the policy which the Spanish Ministry of the Republic intends to pursue towards Cuba and Porto Rico. Sefior Figueras stated to the United States Minister, in reply to the American recognition of the new Republic, that Spain will retain the Island of Cuba as a link in the bond of friendly union which binds her people to the transatlantic Continent, as a sparkling gem, in the girdle of fraternal embrace which will unite the freemen of Spain to the transatlantic democracy. The Porto Rico reform bill will be taken up for debate in the’ National Assembly to-day. Spain remains uneasy at home. The Communistic leaven appears to be working towards the accomplishment of a still more radical change in the national system, politi- cal and social, before the present movement has been consolidated. Radicalism is in- clined to run ahead of wholesome reform. The provincial Spanish peoples have been se- riously disturbed at several points. Catalonia, the cities of Barcelona and Malaga, and some few other centres, have manifosted a spirit of seditious opposition to the democracy in power. The ‘‘stamping out”’ and discipline of military repression have been used against the malcontents. The International walks abroad, and it is more than apparent that the secret censors of Old World radicalism have already condemned very many of the acts of the Madrid caucus pioneers of the great prin- ciple of equality and fraternity. The ex-King Amadeus remains in Lisbon, where his wife, Maria Victoria, is invalided by a serious at- tack of illness. His father, the King of Italy, has become reconciled to the abdication, so that it is quite probable the son and parent will soon meet at the great centre of charity and absolution—Rome. Portugal is becom- ing agitated in presence of the events which have just taken place. King Luis is deter- mined to maintain the peace. The British fleet in the Tagus has been placed at the ser- vice of Amadeus. The Italian vessels-of-war had not arrived yesterday. The Pope in America, Why should not the Holy Father decide to make the New World his home? It is now many years since kindly invitations were tendered him from these shores. These invita- tions were given in good faith, and from the best of motives. We foresaw the fall of the temporal Power; and it is useless to deny that since the fall of the temporal Power the Pope | might as well havo his headquarters in New York or Baltimore as in Rome. His empire is now purely spiritual. The question is where the headquarters of this spiritual Power should be established. In tho interests of religion it would be well if the seat of spir- itual authority wore far removed from all scenes of conflict. Our wars are ended. War on the North American Continent is scarcely a possibility. Europe is lapsing into chaos, We are rich enough and willing enough to provide the Holy Father with a peaceful and quiet home. Here tho fall of thrones and the change of dynasties will never disturb him. Removed from all worldly annoyance he would be able to give his undivided attention to the interests of his widely scattered flock. Let him come. We promise him a grand recep- tion, a reception such as never was gien anywhere to mortal man. In the midst of us he would find rest and peace. His arrival on these shores would most certainly mark a new and happy departure in the history of the Papacy. Good Sermons in Bad Weather. Nothing perhaps so discourages a lecturer or a preacher as slim audiences, and no weather is so apt to produce the latter as that to which we were subjected in this city yeater- day. Nevertheless we have a superior class of sermons to lay beforo.our readers to-day. It’ would seem that the preachers took fresh inspiration and endeavored to show the absent ones, by contrast, how much they lost by their absence from the sanctuaries, The sermon delivered by Rev. Father Cazau in St. Francis Xavier’s church, we especially commend for its Scripturalness, its beauty and point and practical bearings upon the daily lifo and conduct of individuals. It is especially appropriate to that large class of Gospel hearers who stifle conscience that they may continue in sin. They must admit the truthfulness of the picture of the oft-renewed conflicts between conscience and lust; and though it may be true that ‘‘many sinners have been recalled to God’’ through the stingings and lashings of remorse, it is also too true that to many more remorse comes too late. They have trifled with the Almighty just a little too long. The ease with which we change our views on Christian duties and mutual obliga- tions is portrayed all too faithfully, we fear, to be very acceptable to many of our readers. Yet we believe the ministers are right, and they are true to their divine mission when they call us back into the old paths and warn us against the dangers which lie ahead in our own wayward courses, In this regard the trumpet of Father Cazau yesterday uttered no uncertain sound. The Christian reader should turn from Father Cazau’s discourse to Mr. Beecher’s, and after reading both carefully say if there is not much more of the Gospel, both in letter and in spirit, in the former than in the latter. Mr. Beecher’s is a nicely written essay, which would read just as well without a text as with one. Weare told, for instance, that “God's truth works not by visible means but by or- ganization.” Which sentence would bear a little more light, it seems to us, ere it can be comprehended by the uninitiated. Wendell Phillips, too, will have to rewrite his lecture on the ‘‘Lost Arts’’ if it be true that ‘there is no evidence that any single truth or any in- vention has ever been lost.’’ We have no fear: that religious truth will either shrink or sink, and we are glad that Mr. Beecher shares with us the same faith. The truth of God is im- mutable. With the sketch of Father Kearney’s sermon before us his language seems incomprehensi- ble. He divides the Christian Church into three classes—those who believe in the written Word of God alone, those who believe partly in it, and those who don’t believe in it at all. And the first of these, he déclares, can never form a creed or law, because each interprets for himself, and hence their dissimilar views and interpretations cannot be concealed in ereeds. The second is the fruitful source of new-fangled denominations, and the third he dismisses altogether. But, with the evidence of so many creeds and denominations before him, we cannot see the logic of the argument that creeds cannot be formulated by the be- lievers in the right of private judgment. Rev. Mr. Clarke, looking for the Church's foundation, finds it ‘not on Peter, the infallible master, but Peter feeding the sheep and teach- ing the children.’’ And hence, while the Catholic Church chose tp preach a Gospel of love and peace to a world full of cruelty, which it did for five or six centuries, it became a mighty power. But when it abused this power the Reformation came, and its purpose was to convert the Church as master into the Church as teacher; and all the institutions of the Church and of the Gospel tend this way. Forms and words were made for man; but man himself was made for truth, love, jus- tice, God. Mr. Talmage, meeting the arguments of those who intend to become Christians, but not now, made an excellent point yesterday when he asked his auditors if they ever knew a man to get away from an evil habit by pursuing it? Of course not. They run the wrong way. Hence the force of his proposition that sin, instead of relaxing its hold on the soul, throws out its grappling hooks and captures the immortal nature of man. Hence, also, there is no better time than to-day to hear the Saviour’s voice and to answer His call to duty and to obedience. The royalty of the Christian as a son of the King of Kings was set forth yesterday by Dr. Ormiston. The contrast between our condi- tion as children of wrath, miserable creatures, without light or hope, and our condition as sons of God, endowed with a divine right to be kings, isone so great and yet withal so marked and true, it is surprising that millions more do not accept the offers of the royal Father and return to the household of faith. But many are kept back in nominally Chris- tian lands by the vices of the age and the tendency to plunge into infidelity. To warn the faithful against these breakers was the office of Father Gross yesterday. Asan illustration of the result of this tendency he pointed to the Paris Commune and the agita- tions in Spain. The sermon, however good in itself, was spoiled in the application when the ‘traditions of men’’ and alleged miracles wrought by pictures were made to take the place of the commandments of God. All the eloquence that can possibly be be- stowed upon such ‘‘miracles’’ in this enlight- ened age can never carry conviction to the heart or conscience of the sinner, and priest and parson should toss them aside when they enter the pulpit or stand before the altar, and not hamper the Divine Word with them. Mr. Frothingham said many things good and true, but we fear he will not make to him- self friends of the mammon of unrighteous- ness by his statement that ‘society would never hold together unless the people duped one —TRIPLE SHEET. another.’’ And because this is true we suppose the logical consequence is that ‘we should expect murders every day.” ‘Man must be kept down under the inspiration of fear in order to have peace in the community." There is a tender spot in every human heart, while itis probably true that there is ‘the Possibility of a great sin in every man and Woman,” as well as in Stokes or Gaffney. We should therefore be unselfish. Dr. Thompson showed that without a media- tor itis impossible for us to come to God, and Christ being the only Mediator between God and man we must come unto God by Him. Dr. Anderson, inculeating the principle of beneficence and consecration of wealth to the work of Christ, declared that a man who had but « dollar and gave but a fraction of it was far happier than the rich man who gave nothing. We doubt if the Doctor's strictures on those who go to church as they go to an entertainment, to make s show and to attract attention, were applicable to any congrega- tion in the city yesterday. It was not the kind of day to invite that class out. And here we find Mrs. Annie E. Smith, a Methodist preacher, agreeing fully with Mr. Frothingham that everything in this age is hypocritical—that there isa reign of deception in busineas, in politics, in science, and even in religion. What object scientists and religious folk have to deceive themselves or others we can- not perceive. The great temptation of this day, Mrs. Smith thinks, is tho all-absorbing love of money. It is the curse of the age, and it seems as though there never was a time of such severe trials for true Christians as this. Sad picture, indeed! We, however, have the assurance that the same graco which kept Daniel will keep us in this day. Bat then, we must give ourselves to God, to be kept by His power. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Verdi gives 200 francs towards a monument to Napoleon III. at Milan. The Grand Vizier of Persia has begun the intro- duction of Western manners into Eastern society by giving a series of entertainments to the diplo- matic corps ana the nobility. Queen Victoria is making extensive alterations and improvements in the royal palaces, and it is understood that during the coming season she will be more frequently seen in. public than at any time since the death of the Prince Consort. A-venerable lady, named Mary Miller, who rode from Exeter to Pottstown, Pa., on horseback to at- tend the obsequies of George Washington in that borough, on the 1ith January, 1800, is still living at Mount Airy, Berks ceunty, aged ninety-two. One “John P. Randolph’ was cornered by the Washington official as a coiored gentleman keep- ing an intelligence ofice in Brooklyn. He said he knew nothing about the Crédit Mobilier, as he never was in Mobile in his life. He was born and Taised in Old Virginny. M. de Lesseps finds greater difficulty in making his Suez Canal pay than he did in overcoming the physical obstacles which intervened between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. He wants to in- crease the tolls, and for this purpose he has gone to Constantinople to ask the assent of the Porte. ‘The Syracuse Journal says of General John 3. Clark, formerly of Auburn (appointed City Sur- veyor of New York), that when the city of Wash- ington was cut off from the North, at the outbreak of the rebellion, he made a memorabie trip over land and through water, in conveying intelligence of the situation at the capital to friends at An- napelis, Two young people thought it was fine fun to get married in tun ata country frolic out West. The man who had married them was a Justice of the Peace, and they were married in earnest. The groom is the son of wealthy parents and the bride @ poor orphan factory girl. There are hopes that the father of the groom will be elected to Congress, when the standard of relationship will be more equal. The Concord (N. H.) Datly Patriot publishes what purports to be a series of “visions’’ by the child- murderer Evans. These ‘visions’ are all of a heavenly character—not satanic. [tis safe to infer that a wretch like Evans never had an idea of eternal punishment. Murderers do not begin to reflect upon it until the fatal noose is about their necks. Then the news of a reprieve is joyfully re- ceived. J. P. Jones, newly elected United States Senator from Nevada, recently said in a speech that “to inveigh against the use o1 money (in Senatorial elections) is simply to decry the inevitable.” That is a new name for it. Money has been called “cin,” “sugar,” “soap,” “dust,” “brass,” “the ready,” “the needful,” “spondoolix,” and a thou- sand other names, but “the inevitable” is the latest and best. Ayoung divorced woman in Illinois agreed to marry a gentleman, who took the required pre- liminary steps, such as procuring a clerk’s license &c., to obtain possession of the treasure. While engaged in this errand of love the quondam hus- band unexpectedly returned, confessed his fault, was forgiven, faded affection was restored, the marriage ceremony was again performed and the reunited couple left the village, and “no cards” for the disappointed suitor. THE NEW YORK HERALD. {From the Shreveport (La.) Times.} Amid the disastérs which have fallen upon the State of Louisiana, the South, and, indeed, the entire Union—for what touches the sovereignty of one of the States touches them all—through the recent course of the administration, there is one gleam of light which, like the solitary star to the | lost and benighted wayfater, tells there is still hope—that, guided by its beams, a haven of peace and safety may yet be reached. This beacon is displayed at the mast-head of that greatest of newspapers, the NEw YorRK HeRaLp. In times past it was charged upon the elder Bennett that his motives were all mercenary—that every other consideration was made to yicld to the prosperity | of the HexaLp. Whatever of truth tnere may | have been in these accusations, the inde- Pendent course of the paper under the management of the younger Bennett; the fearless and outspoken manner in which it has dealt with the Louisiana imbroglio, give promise that the country is not entirely lost—that true republi- canism has yet an able champion, waose earnest protest against the wrongs inilicted upon a@ Sonthern State, and powerful appeals to the nation’s sense of justice, cannot pass all unheeded by the Northern mind, although they may avail nothing for the immediate redemption of Louisiana. We repeat it is cause of congratulation to know that there is at least one journal in the North, avd that a leading one, which—unawed by the frowns of the Executive and his parasites and advisers; uninfluenced by the spoils to be won by a truckling and subservient endorsement, such as the New York Times and kindred sheets stand ever ready to accord, no matter what the acts they are called upon to defend—dares to say to General Grant that he is falsifying the pledges made for him by the Heracp, and that he is committing a grievous wrong to an uafortunate people by listening to the suggestions of men who are prompted by mean hate and whe recognize fealty only to a corrupt party. ‘The course of the HERALD shows, too, that if judges, legislators, Congressmen and Cabinet mem- bers can be bougut and sold like cabbages at the huckster’s stall, @ great newspaper cannot be bought, but, relying upon the support of the peo- ple, can be sustained outside of the rings and mo- nopolies which have well nigh taken from the masses all control o1 their own affairs. But, while according praise to the paper and its course, we regret there is one pofat upon which it signally fails to appreciate the character of the contest in Louisiana, or, for some reason, ia un- willing to acknowledge it, There is no scramble $140; ! Fitteds) Sword, $345; The Execution, $190; for oMce be:ween Warmoth and Kellogg. [tts @ war of right against thieves; of an outraged and Oppressed people against a band of carpet-baggers, who, alded by a few scallawags, are manipulating ‘8n ignorant and easily deluded people for the ruin of the whites and their own ultimate injury. This is the character of the contest, and this alone, the assertion of Grant to the contrary. NEW BOOKS. St able ana Estes & Lauriat, of Boston, are publishing monthly &senes of tracts which they call “Half-Hour Re- creations in Popular Science.” The latest addition to this series is Dr. W. B. Carpenter's lectures on “The Unconscious Action of the Brain and on Epl- demic Delusions.” These topica are treated with afund of anecdote and illustration which makea them exceedingly interesting, and where the claims of spiritualism are considered the natural causes to which the phenomena are generally at- tributed are made very clear, “Modern Diabolism,” by M. J. Williamson, and published by James Miller, would have been more fitly called modern spiritualism. The work con- tains some account of the so-called spiritual phe- nomena and embodies an attempt to explain them on the new theories of light, heat, electricity and sound. Toa great extent the book is a book of ex- cerpts from spirtualists and sctentists—Judge Ed- monds, Andrew Jackson Davis ‘and Robert Dale Owen en the one hand, and Herschel, Sir David Brewster and Professor Tyndall on the other. ‘These make it valuable to some extent to persons inter- ested in these subjects, but merely as hints for in- vestigation. The philosophy of the day is beginning to evoke @ good deal of discussion, and the spirit of doubt which was nursed into life by Kant, Hegel, Schel- ling, Cousin, Jouffroy and other German and French writers is being quicted by men who seek to uphold revelation and retigion, One of the latest works which teach the grounds of belief and faith is a little book entitled, “Truth and Krror,” by the Rev. Henry A. Brown, D. D., published by D. J. Sad- lier & Co. It is well written and will prove a valu- able aid in promoting a reaction against the Growth of scepticism. M. Doolady has just published a very remarkable book. It is called “Tar-Heel Stortes in Vernacular Verse,” and was written and composed by Major Jep Joselyn. We bave not the pleasure of Major Joselyn’s acquaintance, but we are constrained to Point him out to an anxious and waiting world as a true as wellasa brand new poet. Joaquin Miller never wrote anything as delicious as this:— When the honeymoon pars'd And love seem'd ter grow cold, I strayed down ter the tavern— Thar squanderd my gold And neglected the told. Nor did Bret Harte bring into more prominence his three heroes, “Truthful James,” “Bill Nye” and the “Heathen Chinee,” than does Major Joselyn make the creatures of his imagination stalk torth when he sings of Rarftin’ lores Years ago upon the Suanco— With Ashley Cole, Will starks and Ed. Flynn And a dozen more maybe. What could be more poetic than this:— ‘As we pare'd out of Berks one mornin’, Far ahead of the “acorn” corps, We soon diskiver'd a fine old homestead ‘And a fair young gal in the door ¥ Or what so realistic as these few lines, in which the poet tells us how —————— 01d Samuel Bard Pick’ up a hatchet and whacked away Until he came ter some spruce lorgs, That, bein’ unkiver'd, dersplay’d ter view ‘The kennel of the little dorgs t It is no wonder that such a poct —— Increased in years and mischief Sich as haz’ our neighbor's pig; for, while we do not know what the poet means by hazin’ @ neighbor's pig, and cannot understand how it should be synonymous with increase in years, we have no doubt Major Joselyn could tell allabout if he would, We thank him for his iu- comprehensibility quite as much as for his poetry. Mr. George Vandenhoff has translated the younger Dumas’ brochure “I.’Homme-Femme,” and published with it the English title, “The Man- Women.” It is a discussion of the quéstion a knowl- edge of which is most necessary to man for the happiness of mankind, but upon any allusion to which society has placed an interdict— the relations of the sexes. Mr. Vanden- hoff saya in his preface:—“It is a very remarkabie work, containing many startling paradoxes, some untenable positions, some false reasoning, but a large substratum of truth, sound sense, good advice, just sentiments and true morality at the bottom.” It is not unlikely that the book will be greatly condemned tn certain quarters for its free handling of the topics of which it treata, and yet it is much better that the subject should be discussed in the common sense, though bold aspects Dumas brings to its consideration, than in the purely noxious and tmmoral way in which the Free Lovers approach It. Moulvi Muhammad Hussain, of the Lahore Col- lege, has brought out, under the auspices of the Punjab Educational Department, the second part of his “History of India,” which is interspersed with interesting anecdotes regarding its principal personages, and is written with dramatic effect and in an elegant and idiomatic Urdu style. Beatrice Cenci is the subject of a new work just issued in Florence, by the Canonico Antonio 'forri- giani, entitled, ‘Il Processo criminale della Bea- trice Cenci,” and intended to refute Guerragzi’s “famous novel, published a few years siuce by G. W. Carleton & Co. The Schenck Sale Last Week. The anticipations last Tliursday expressed in these columns in regard to the then pending sale of domestic and foreign pictures at Schenck’s Art Gallery, far from stuitifying themselves, were more than justified by the result. The second day’s sale alone amounted to nearly twenty-five thousand dollars, the gallery being crowded with bidders, and the bids exceedingly spirited and competitive. We append the list of prices realized, exclusive of the frames :— View on the Hudson, $12; Marine, $15; Old Mill in the Catskills, $14; Mother's Help, $32 50; $20; A Glass of Punch, $36; Sheep $82 50; The broken Pitcher, $67 50; Fruit and Flowers, $63; Good Bye, $160; Barn Yard, $63; Swiss Lake, $175; Farm Yard near Stockbridge, $80; Stand Up, Sir, $120; A Royal Moonlight Party, $60; Poultry Dealer, $115; Mother’s Joy, $230; Sylvan Grove, Ulster alg $130; I'll Catch Him, $165; Preparing for the Ball, $150; Launching the Life Boat, $95; The Answer, Fruit, $275; Venice, #225; Autumn, New Novel, $140; The Orphan, $675; Cattle and Landscape at Granby, Conn., $390; The Rescue, $505; Knitting, $250; Happiness, $100; Prayer on the Road Side, $400; A Bit of the Bouquet River, 225; Candle Light Etfect, $605; Temptation, $410; he Parrot, $500; The Beautiful Dreamer, $425; h, $355; Grandma's Story, 333: oiug to Promenade, 3650; nell The Storm 145; ‘The 140; Returning trom Chureh, $175; The Parting, $510: Croisic, France, $205; Meditation, $150; A Penny, Sir? $330; The Correspondent, $110; sunset on the Ohio, $160; The Chatelaine, ti Rural Courtship, $275; Leap Year, $205; Unwelcome News, $115 On the Hudson, '$155; Sewing, $240; The Wreck, $65; The Bouquet, $145; Grandpa's Visit, $115; The Artist’s Studio, $190; The Little Shepherdess, $75; To the Rescue, $60; The Drawing Lesson, $135; The Water Lily, $115; Deer, $110; Still Lire, $65: The Dance, $145; View on the East River, $50; Waiting. ae TR od Nyack, $40; Morning on the Cordilieras, $27. At noon, on Thursday and Friday of the present week, there will be a saie at tie same gallery of 150 water color drawings, including general, architectural, marine and landscape subjects. ‘The pictures will be on exhibition on and after to-day. King, % = Somerville Art Gallery. This evening is the first of the sale of Williams & Everett's collection of paintings at the Somer- ville Art Gallery. The number of visitors during the week has been large, and sufficient interest has been shown to justify the expectations that animated bidding, and good prices ail cv! ‘i York’s appreciation of the artistic ex ies, which Boston's intsfortane has thrown in our way. Not less than forty foreign and twenty American artists of eminence find representation, The Suydam Statac. At the brass fouudry of Fisher & Bro., No, 200 Forsyth street, may be seen @ bronze statue of Mr. Snydam. The sculpter ts Mr. George Hess. The figure is represented seated and in the ordinary costume of the modern man of business. The leit hand closed, rests upen the thigh; the right open, lightly clasps the edge of the louse sack coat. ‘The oe a upright, expression frank, genial and resolute.