The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1873, Page 6

ee - NEWYORK. HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH. 8, -1873.—TKLPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | "0! Spmtstoner tm cone BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR. =—_— —<—= AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston end Bleecker street.—Hvxrry Dumpry. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—One Hunprep Yuaus Oup. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth treet.—Davip Garnice. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth fvenue.—No THOROUGHFARE. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Irauiax ‘Orxaa—F aust. THEATRE COMIQU! ‘tne Momper ar tur Fa POWERY THEATRI Wairs—Wiit o' rar Ws GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rovoning It. i NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 an@730 Broad- way.—AUR WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broeeweny, corner Thirtleth st— Negox anv Neck. Afternoon and Eveuing. ATHENEUM, No. 65 Broadway.—Granp Vanier En- ‘TRRTAINMENT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston strects.—Lro axp Loros, ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st—Bus- Lesqus Orena—Masxs AnD Facrs, &c. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ALE, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mont _ Bur Van Wincix. “ieee i BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSP, Twenty-third st.. corner Oth av.—NeGRo MinstRELsy, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaninry BNTRRTAINMENT. 0. 514 Broadway.—'98: oR, Bowery.—Mx. AND Mas, Pete NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Scrancs axp Arr. gent TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, March 3, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER IN CURA LIBRE’—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC— Sixtu Pace. JAMES J. O'KELLY, THE HERALD COMMIS- SIONER, SAFE IN THE CUBAN CAMP! MORALES “MAY HAVE TO SHOOT” HIM! ARRESTED! SPANISH HAIRSPLITTING! SOUL-STIRRING DETAILS OF A DANGER- OUS MISSION—TuIRD PaGE. FOLLOWING THE STAR OF EMPIRE INTO THE TROPICS | TRANSFUSING YANKEE BLOOD, BRAINS AND MUSCLE INTO DOMINICA! THE LATTER DAY PILGRIMS | THE ROCKS UPON WHICH THEY MAY SPLIT OR SAFELY BUILD! HOWE NON EST! PICTURESQUE GLORIES ! SOCIETY AND POLITICS! THE SAMANA BOW OF PROMISE—TaIRD AND FourtH PAGEs. MAP OF THE POSSESSIONS OF THE SAMANA BAY COMPANY—Fourtn Pac. CAPTAIN JACK'S REBELLION ENDED! THE TREATY OF PEACE PERFECTED! THE MO- DOC CHIEF AND HIS BRAVES CONSENT T0 BE RESERVATIONED! A PROPOSED VISIT TO WASHINGTON! AN INTERVIEW WITH THE HERALD CORRESPONDENT— SEVENTH PaGE. A PERTURBED REPUBLIC! SPANISH SLAVERY ABOLITION PRESSED IN THE CORTES! REINFORCING THE ARMY IN THE FIELD! OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE REPORTS OF THE CARLIST WAR—SEVENTH Pace. PULPIT MINISTRATIONS! THE SERVICES AND SERMONS OF THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT! THE FORTY HOURS’ AND THE FORTY DAYS! DEVOTION! PASTORAL VIEWS OF MOBILIER SINS, THE BIBLE IN THE PUB- LIC SCHOOLS AND CHRIST IN THE CON- STITUTION—EIcuTH Pace. EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—MISCELLANEOUS TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH PaGx. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! A RUMPUS AMONG THE DISTRICT OF- FICIALS! THE SUNDAY WORK OF THE SENATE! COLFAX AND POMEROY STILL GRILLING—Tgnte Pace. BISMARCK’S ASSAULTS UPON THE GERMAN RELIGIOUS ORDERS! BISHOP LYNCH ON THE LESSONS OF HISTORY—MARINE NEWS—TENTH PaGE. THE CLIQUE OPERATIONS IN WALL STREET! PACIFIC MAIL AND MONEY OCCASION A GRAND GAME OF FOOTBALL BETWEEN THE BULLS AND BEARS! HOW POINTS ARE TO BE CARRIED! THE WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE BANKS—NINTH Pace. SANDWICH ISLANDS NEWS! KING LUNALILO AND HIS POLICY! HAWAIIAN DECA- DENCE! THE NEW CABINET—VENEZUE- LAN AFFAIRS—Firtu Pace. ‘Tue WeaTHen iN Wasnrncton To-Morrow.— The indications strongly favor a pleasant day to-morrow for the second inauguration of General Grant. Although quite an extensive rain and snow storm prevailed yesterday in the Middle and South Atlantic States, its centre was reported moving eastward off the coast of the latter section. It is not likely #hat the rain or snow will continue falling Jonger than this forenoon, and the snow in the District had not sufficed to cover the ‘ground last night, but turned to rain as fast as it fell. The storm will perhaps be followed Dy the usual cold northwest winds, which, ‘generally, are known to treat upon tte heels nt this season, so that the capital will be in good condition for the display of the great pageant. Even if the disturbance in the South Atlantic coast should move in parallel lines along the coast, as is sometimes the ‘case, it can hardly, by any possibility, last longer than this evening, so that ugly weather need not be apprehended to-morrow. Tax VevezvetaN PRESIDENT AND THE Cuvncu.—President Guzman Blanco has initiated and carried into effect a number of local reforms calculated to relieve the people of the Republic from the burden of many petty tax imposts, thus giving a new impetus to the interior traffic and export trade of the Republic. His Excellency has also quar- eelled with the Church, after the fashion of many of the more powerful governments in the Old ‘World, that of the mother country, Spain included. Menag Bishop of Caracas has been banished territory as punishment for @ quarrel with the Executive. The law of civil marriage has been decreed by the State, as a “blow,” 80 we are assured, at the “power” of the prelate. More than this—and hero must be admired the courage and zeal of the lay chief—Prosident Blanco himself stepped forward and was married in civil form to his wife the very next day. It may be that he is Gisposed to dispute the crown of martyrdom with the Episcopate. He may rest assured, however, that, no matter what his sufferings be here on earth, he will never receive the of canonization in Rome, By special despatch from our regular cor- respondent at Havana we receive the gratify- ing information, and said to be perfectly reliable, that Mr. James J. O'Kelly, our Special Commissioner’ to Cuba, bas safely reached the camp of the insurgents. On the 19th ult. be set out from Santiago de Cuba, and, after a journey of two days into the mountain fastnesses, arrived, at four o'clock on the morning of the 21st, at his destination, This news confirms all ho has said for himself in his dealings with the Spanish authorities—namely, that whatever the ob- stacles thrown in his way, he would persevere until he had performed his task. As a jour- nalist of the school of moral courage and discipline he could do no less, but the especial danger of his surroundings makes the exploit the more notable. The history of our Commissioner's visit up to his departure for the insurgent lines may ; very aptly be recalled here. Upon the return of our first Commissioner from the island of Cuba it was thought desirable, in the interests of civilization, to have further and more com- plete information of the character and extent of the struggle which has been bloodily waged there for the past five years. Accordingly Mr. O'Kelly was sent thither with instructions which he has since repeatedly explained to the authorities. His request fora safe-conduct, made to Captain Gencral Ceballos, was met with a flat refusal from that high functionary. The Heratp Commissioner was naively in- formed at the same timo by the Captain Gen- eral that he was at liberty to proceed through the island ‘‘at his own risk.’’ No explanation of this ominous phrase was vouchsafed at the time. Our Commissioner, thus given a very equivocal carte blanche, resolved to dis- cover the exact meaning of tho four words. While he continued within the “pacified” districts the phrase seemed trans- latable into, ‘‘Go where you please so long as you pay your way; there is no risk worth mentioning.’’ On reaching Santiago de Cuba, the capital of the Oriental Department, where the rebellion boasts of its greatest strength, the aspect of things began to change. The lines of suspicion and surveillance were drawn suddenly around him, and bis real difficulties began. Courteously received by the Spanish officers, this restraint came with a velvet pad- ding at first. Professing a desire to accom- pany a column of Spanish troops starting for the interior, permission was graciously ac- corded. He, however, found himself and the column brought to a halt after a day’s march, and the significent information was tendered him that he was at liberty to return to Santi- ago if he desired. Thus brought to a stand- still, so far as observing the conduct of the war from the Spanish side, he openly made his preparations to reach the rebel lines, which he had all along declared to bo one of the necessities of his mission. Finally equipped, he set forth alone into the mountains, and made several excursions hither and thither, as his information or sagacity Suggested, in the hope of reaching the mystic land of ‘Cuba Libre’ somewhere. From two of these un- successful excursions he returned to Santiago, and the authorities continued apparently to regard his movements with indifference. This itis particularly necessary to note. He set out again; but, as detailed in the letter we print in this issue, he found himself detained atthe mountain village of Ramon las Yeguas while General Morales was communicated with. He was suffered to proceed; but was arrested at the village of Palma, and for some time forbidden to leave his hotel. Astonished at this new turn of affairs, he telegraphed to Santiago, and was informed by the British Vice Consul, Ramsden, that General Morales had decided to ‘treat him as a spy’ in case he should leave the Spanish lines or if ho afterwards attempted to return. The Consul added that this meant he would be shot im- mediately. Determined to probe the matter to the bottom the Hzrarp Commissioner re- turned forthwith to Santiago de Cuba and sought an interview with General Morales in person, This mecting was rendered the more important by the presence of the At- torney General of the Department. This in- terview will be found at length elsewhere, and for its curious expressions of opinion alone de- séfves attention. It was, first, a question of sending a telegram to this journal announcing the arrest and the threat to shoot him asa spy. The sensitiveness of Spanish officialdom cannot be better instanced than in this case, The General absolutely declined to allow the telegram to be forwarded unless the word “detained’’ was substituted for ‘“ar- rested.” It was in this form that the report reached us. But the feature of the interview lay in the discussion regarding the threat to shoot the newspaper man as a tebel spy. It will be evident from its careful perusal that the governing idea of the Spanish soldier was to throw such terror around a visit to the ii ent e Com- Seanad eae ate as rato death. Itis certainly highly discreditable to the Spanish government in Cuba, if General Morales fully represented its intentions, that this effort to frighten away an im- partial truth-seeker should take such visibly logical forms. A few minutes’ conversation between the General and the correspondent sufficed to show how disingenuous wasa threat which could not find justification even from the Spanish standpoint. General Morales de- clared what regret it would cause him to have to shoot Mr. O'Kelly, but added that if found with the insurgents or coming from them he would be treated as a spy. Upon being asked if all prisoners were shot, the General hastily qualified his first state- ment by saying that the civil authori- ties dealt with them, and that many were pardoned, as he could see for himself. The pertinent remark, ‘Well, you are not willing to treat me as well as you do the insurgents, for you allow them to surrender, and you even refuse me that privilege, because you threaten to shoot me as a spy if I come back," brought avery singular rejoinder from the General. He said:—‘‘No, if you present yourself and ask pardon, you will be treated with the same generosity as the other insurgents (sic), but if you leave the Spanish lines you will expose yourself to the danger of being treated as an enemy if the Spanish troops should fall in with you.” Never before in the history of rebellions—Spanish, Cuban or otherwise—has such ® remarkable conversation been brought to such absurd conclusions—that a general in command of government forces should in- form a journalist that, if he goes among tho insurgents, his only way out is to assume him- self a rebel and surrender and ask pardon, when he-will meet with al) possible generous forgiveness. It shows how completely tho General understood the absurdity of the appearance of hostility to the Henap Commissioner's mission which he assumed. We have treated this point at length hereto- fore, and shown conclusively that in professing not to regard Mr. O'Kelly as a spy while within the Spanish lines, in giving him leave to quit the Spanish camp, and then dating his so-called spy character from the mo- ment he touched the skirts of an insurgent column, the Spanish General was laying down an outrageously illogical definition of what a spy might be. Weare now convinced that the General is aware of his mistake—it is for him to say whether intentional or other- wise. That the Attorney General did not mend matters by citing what might. happen toa journalist in St. Domingo during a state of war there he found reason to acknowledge himself, In every way, then, even on their own ground, the authorities must admit a failure in their efforts either to make their threat effective in its intention to frighten our correspondent or respectable in face of a fow simple questions. 5 Woe aro gratified that such is the case, as we are now more than ever unlikely to hear that the Spanish government will order the assassi- nation of a journalist whose only possible offence would be telling unwelcome truth. Wo have had reason to speak strongly upon this matter, and, with our correspondent in the very midst of the peril he has sought in the course of duty, we certainly do not feel inclined to speak less forcibly or warmly now. We warn the republican Spanish government in Cuba, as we did that of the fugitive monarchy, that it is accountable before humanity, before civilization and the American people, for the safety of our correspondent, whenever he claims protection within the compass of its sway. To the Cuban insurgents, who profess liberty as their aim, wo address the same words. Wherever, if anywhere, they com- mand obedience, so long as our Commissioner is among them they are responsible for his safety. But Spaniards as well as Cubans know that a great people who respect intelligence, liberty and good government are jealously watching them in _ this matter. It is not the question of a spy on one side or the other, but of the untrammelled emis- sary of the great light and seeker of the world, the press. We feel assured that he will return unharmed and with his duty nobly fulfilled. To call sternly to the minds of all concerned their duty in the matter is as imperative on usas it is on them to closely observe it. In the result let us hope that a fresh flood of pure light on the affairs of Cuba will result in the foundation of a fairer future for that beau- tifal but troubled island. We call on all lovers of enlightenment to wish our Commissioncr God-speed on his perilous mission. ‘The Nows from Spa The news despatches from Spain bring tntel- ligence of the progress of affairs in that coun- try which is varied and conflicting in its aspect and statements, according to the sources from which it comes, Spanish or French. The slavery abolition legislation of the government of the Republic appears to have become less animated in the Assembly ; but we are assured that the Madrid Ministry still entertains the very highest and most phi- lanthropie resolves with respect to the cause of emancipation. This resolution is accom- panied by another for the complete extinction of Carlism. This is to be accomplished by the raising and equipment of a new army, numbering about fifty thonsand men. The War Office enterprise is to cost a very large sum of money, and this necessity has of itself evoked a ministerial demand for a subsidy of one hundred millions of pesetas. Whether the Cabinet demands will be granted, and whether, if granted, such legislation will tend to the maturing of the Spanish people towards the robust manhood of an enlightened democracy remains to be seen. In the mean- time the war for and against Carlism is being prosecuted with great activity. The progress of hostilities is attended with a serious loss of life and the daily destruction of an immense amount of valuable and produc- tive property. The Bourbonists are being driven from the soil at some points, and, again, are advancing in the territory at others, They hold court, under the divine right claim, here and there, and appear to be exceedingly graceful and courteous in these most exciting moments of their monarchical itineracy ; but the government of the Republic is, notwith- standing all the ‘‘blights of the olive branch,”’ still the government of Spain. The Frencn Assembly the Report of the Committee of Thirty, Another crisis has been got over in France. It was confidently believed in Versailles on Saturday that the situation was critical in the extreme pnd tie something serious might happen before the day expired. Siapehy the prophets of evil were disappointed. M. Dufaure’s speech was highly satisfactory; and the vote by which it was decided to take up and discuss the proposals embraced in the report of the Committee of Thirty is entitled to be regarded as a vote of confidence in the government, It is quite manifest, however, from the tone and temper of the Assembly, as well as from the necessity which compels the government to adhere to the Bordeaux com- pact, that the political situation in France is beset with considerable peril. What is to be the future government of France is still an unsettled question; and adherence to the Bor- deaux compact means that neither monarchiste nor republicans are anxious to precipitate the struggle. Some fighting must take place in the Assembly on the committee’s report; but the presumption is that President Thiors will be sustained. The French people will do well to content themselves with things as they are until the indemnity is paid and the invader has left her soil. Delay ought to be a gain to the Republic. Tue Senate or Tae Usrrep States reas- sembled last night and went to work with a will on the appropriation bills, getting even with the business of the House and making all ready for the dissolution of the Crédit Mobilier Congress at noon to-morrow. What remains of the foul work of this memorable session will probably be finished to-day, 60 that there will be no necessity for calling an extra session of the House, The New West Indian Company’s | their councils and decided them w yield. j Dreamland in St. Domingo. We aro enabled in to-day’s Henanp to present our readers with a first glance at the tropical El Dorado which certain cunning speculators under the Stars and Stripes havo fenced in with treaties, leases, powers and po- tentialities in Samana Bay. The ship which bore the Pilgrim Fathers of this new argosy bad on board a Huraup corre- spondent, whose impressions upon the first experience of this land of perpetual Sum- mer will be found in- another part of tho Herarp. In ordor to help out our readers wo have hada map of the delectable spot pre- pared which will leave but little to the most forvid imagination. Prominent in all fairy tales will be found the stories of trees, birds, flowers and sparkling waters, azure sky, blue ocean wastes and lovely vistas of hill and dale. All theso are lavishly provided in the black paradise which the Samana Bay Company hopes in the twinkling of a harlequin’s wand to turn into the abode of perpetual youth and plothoric bank accounts. It would seem in- deed as if, between cocoanut milk and bana- nas, Nature had invited tired man to go there and live for the cost of stretching out his hand and carrying it to his mouth. The fairy tale people ill find that their expec- tations “tan ‘be “Carried forward ‘still another step, and the most roman- tically ruinous old towns and forts and mansions are obtainable for the asking. But there tho fairy tale receives its sudden quictus. The Pauls and Virginias who should make life a seraphic melody must be dreamed of; for the shirtless, shiftless population of mongrel blacks and Spaniards will not evoke any pleasant feclings in the reader, much less in the beholder. ‘‘A moneyless and thriftless people,” they are described, ‘with a worth- less currency, a roadless and pathless land, and never-ending dissensions.”’ A slight blur on the rosy showing of the prospectus writers this drawback will be admitted to be. Santa Barbara, where the new Yankee colony is to stretch out its avaricious palms, is de- scribed as physically a delightful spot, and Samana Bay affords first class an- chorage. The fertility of the soil is made evident by the products which in the very variety of luxuriance it parades to the most casual observer; and then the plans to turn all this into greenbacks or hard cash are as well laid as the plans of mice and men can well be. It will be nothing if not 2 success greater by far than ever John Law, in the most enthusiastic mo- ments of his French West India speculative fever, dreamed of. Itisa hundred and fifty years ago since the Scotchman set all Paris— all France for that matter—agog with specula- tions that built their wonder-land and profit- land around the Gulf of Mexico. John fizzled out in a short time, and now here is Jonathan trying his hand at the same game, with a large, needy, ragged, cutthroat population te be taken. glong with the pprgain, Thoye tg one thing ver¥ tertain—that the one huudred and fifty thousand dollars paid over to Baez or his government has smoothed away much of the first fuce of the difficulty. The plébiscite, through which Baez gained the ratification of the treaty, is, doubtless, no better than our correspondent describes it; but it seems in its decision to have very well met the views of the majority of the precious inhabitants—that is, of those who have any views. While we may not have | a very high opinion of a people who can thank God they have a coun- try that will felth o hundred and fitty thousand dollars and then jump with avidity at the bargain, we cannot say that it is of very good augury for their future behavior. It is a chronic failing of demoral- ized peoples to be anxious to repeat such an advantageous sale as often as possible. If the Yankees can give them that amount this year, they are very likely to think that with a little judicious show of surliness they can extract a similar amount next year. Twenty-two thousand votes, the sad-faced Ministers of Baez informed our correspondent, were cast for the treaty, and, taking this as correct, we account them as _ twenty- two thousand hungry pensioners ready to become steady blackmailers when oc- casion offers. When this population discovers how little of the Samana Bay Company's money rolls round outside of the coffers of Baez it is the most natural thing in the world that they should look for something for themselves. The company may offer to make "longshoremen or hod carriers or plantation | hands of them at five cents a day; but the sovereign St. Dominican is much more likely than not to turn up his nose at such a proposition. ballot box or the musket, if necessary? Not he. He may take it into his head that his miser- able, slovenly, moneyless republic was better after all than the hard-working, money-grub- | bing monopoly he has allowed to settle in his midst like a veritable Franken- stein. Should he, then, some fine day, knock Baez and his Ministers on the head, and then, in company with his twenty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine com- patriots, ‘clean out’ the Samana Bay Com- pany as the Heathen Chines “Waa cleaned out, who will say him nay? Is he not a sovereign? Can the United States interfere with a free people's management of its own affairs? Certainly not. To do so would be tyrannous and all the rest of it, This is where the fairy tale may end some day. Those who have read Dominican history will not say that itis improbable. The Samana Jonathans are to have an army and so on, we are told, to coun- terbalance all these contingencies. If they do, they must enrol them under the pirate’s black flag, for that is what the whole scheme means, But, whew! They have not driven down the first stake in Santa Barbara yet. Pxack wita THE Mopocs.—The inglorious Modoe war is over. We are informed by our special correspondent with the Peace Com- missioners that the Indians have accepted the terms offered them by the United States authorities, and will surrender to the military and go on 4 reservation either in Oregon or California. The promise given them that they would be protected from the civil powers in Oregon while en route to and on their new reservation, and the assurance that the promise would be kept, which the presence of & representative of the Henatp in their midst afforded. no doubt influenced them in Work, indeed, when he | has the right to turn out the Yankee by the | This is good news for President Grant on inanguration eve. Lenten Sermons. The course of Time has brought us again into the season of Lent, and wo are called once more from revelry and mirth to sober meditation and religious thoughtfulness. It is well for us occasionally to reliove the ton- sion of our lives and to look facts in the face, and ask ourselves, Does not Obristianity offer something better than the cold creed of the world, which says, “Eat and drink, for to- morrow wo dic?’ This, as the Archbishop said yesterday, is, of all other seasons, the ac- ceptable time and the day of salvation. It is the time peculiarly set apart for fasting and prayer and humiliation and reconciliation with God. Impassionedly the Archbishop called upon his people to ‘cut loose those sins of passion, indifference, covetousness, intemper- ance, impurity, pride, malice, avarice, ro- venge, and all those bonds that have enchained their souls’ hitherto, He mourned the moral desolations of the land and the spread of blasphemy, immorality and rank infidelity, and called urgently to his flock to turn now and seck the Lord if haply He may have mercy upon us and spare us, Bishop Odenheimer, of _New ee ex- plaining the Saviour's fomiptation in the wilder- ness, and drawing lessons therefrom for the daily life of business men and others, warned Calvary church and congregation that faith alone can save them in this millennium of infidelity. Men are tempted every day by the lust of the body, the lust of the eye and the pride of life, as Jesus was; they are tempted to get what they see others possessed of, and are more likely to be caught in this snare of the devil than in any other. Honce they should begin this holy season of Lent by trying to resist temptation and seeking God’s grace to enable them to succeed. Dr. H. M. Thompson looked upon theso forty days of Lent as the memorial of one of the greatest events that ever occurred on this globe. During these days the Lord prepared Himself to offer up His life for the salvation of mankind, and we should try to follow in his footsteps, instead of doing as ‘thousands of men who call themselves Christian do—fall down every day and worship the devil.” So, then, devil worship is not confined to the heathen nations of Asia or Africa, as our mis- sionary writers are so apt totellus, ‘A man,”’ says Dr. Thompson, ‘‘may go on lying, cheat- ing and scheming, robbing the widow and orphan,” just as those men in Washington ‘have gone on day after day, bringing tho nation into disgrace, all for their own selfish purposes."’ This isa temptation that should be guarded against. Most of us admire goodness in others and are trying to be good ourselves, but how fre- quently and how sadly we fail! Dr. Clarke, of Brooklyn, tells us where to look for strength and how we may be good, He lamented the tendency of the teachings, both of the pulpit and the pen, in the gieestion.. yf ix gx agence, and moe vows and ah aa out own strength with those made after com- munion with God. Mr. Hepworth gave his hearers a few rea- sons why they and we all, ought to be Chris- tians. First, because this faith is the only possession of value on earth. It tells us ofa God ‘‘whose hand is bencath us and whoso | sympathy is closer than can be told. This faith is worth more than millions; yea, even than love of life.’’ Secondly, be- cause science, like a colossus, has gone through the world looking for mistakes, and yet has found none. Thirdly, faith in a governing Deity is universal among men. The soul believes in God because it cannot help it. As the flower unconsciously turns toward the sun, so man lifts up his hands and cries out after God, These are good reasons ; but the personal enjoyments of Christianity, communion with God here and the hope of the better life to come, with its joys that are unfading and its pleasures for evermore, are inducements that ought to draw men by thou- sands tothe Saviour, and they would do so were the Gospel preached instead of the tradi- tions and philosophies of men. Communion with God is a holy experience. ‘It has in past ages made heroes of human worms, and has enabled men to snatch victory from defeat. Dr, Edward Beecher endeavored to explain philosophically in what this com- munion consists. The grand prerequisite for it is conviction of sin, repentance and pardon through faith in Christ. Its effects are a pe- culiar sympathetic joy in the human. soul; strength of will and divine courage, unity and quickening of thought and plan among all who thus commune; transformation into the divine image and a reflex influence on the world, and finally it controls the future. Through God only can these things be done. Mr. Frothingham reviewed the proceedings of the Christian constitutional amenders who met here last week. He could not despise them when he remembered what had been done by the handful of anti-slavery agitators, the Sabbath-observance committee, the temperance reformers and other apparently feeble associations. But he despised their work, and believed that the separation between Church and State should be thorough than itTs, Bhd that en Rete of God should be weeded out of our funda- mental charters. He did not fear this move- ment, however, for he believed that when the common sense of the people is aroused they will give this proposed amendment a quietus that will silence it forever. He could not conceive, nor indeed can we, how the name of the Deity in the constitution could make honest men out of rogues,’and we have no sym- pathy with any movement which secks to tie up any man’s conscience to » particular creed or formula by legislative enactments, Let the people get Christ in their hearts, and that will ben thousand times better than having Him in the constitution. Mr. Talmage reviewed the Crédit Mobilier scandal, and, while he had no doubt atall that many of our Representatives took through tickets to hell on the Union Pacific Railroad and paid their fare in eighty per cent divi- dends, and sold political influence and honor and Christian principle and their immorta, souls to Oakes Ames and the devil, ‘‘nothing could make him believe that Schuyler Colfax isa villain.” It is very evident that Mr. Tal- mage would never make his mark asa lawyer if, after reading the testimony, he has no better appreciation of evidence than he dis- plays in these remarks. Dr. Cheever agitated the question of the Bible in the public schools. Ho believes that “the arts of culture, refinement and morality require that all our children should have this pure light of heaven. And no madnces out- side of bedlam would be so great as that which would attempt to build up society with- out this great spiritual aid.”’ Dr. Stoddard devoted a part of the Sabbath day to an advocacy of the hanging of Foster and Stokes and the twonty-six murderers who ere now confined in the City Prison. Ho has no sympathy at all with that ‘pitiful bu- manitarianism, the child of atheism or low morality, which endeavors to excite sympathy for the criminal at the expense’of the victim’’ and the community. Dr. Tiffany, of Washington, in rendering to Cesar the things that are Cwsar’s, and to God the things that are God's, gave President Grant a pretty good inauguration ‘send off” yesterday, and applauded his policy towarda the Southern States and the Indians. The Debts of the State—Important Questions for Taxpayers. A report to the Constitutional Commision reveals.a startling fact. The aggregate debt of the several counties, cities, towns and'vil- lages of the State, for which the taxpayers are reqpgnsible 8 ty und: id fours ce ae Wee ae than ten and a half per cent upon the assessed valuation of all property in the State. Twenty-seven millions of this amount has been incurred forthe benefit of railroads; a like sum comes from the loan and bounty debt ; $10,500,000 for public buildings; for water works and fire apparatus, nearly thirty millions; for roads and bridges, $36,000,000, and for parks and other local improvements, $84,000,000. If to this total debt of the sub- divisions of the State be added that of the State itself, which, beyond the various sinking funds, reached on the 1st of October $25,386,725, we have as the entire cor- porate debt of the State $239,685,902— almost twelve per cent of the whole assessment of property. This is a heavy encumbrance upon every man’s and every woman's estate, for we accord the fair sex the right to pay taxes. It has grown out of a long course of reckless abuse of power too lightly confided to legislative and the various repre- sentative bodies which control the State in its several divisions. Lavish extravagance has been too often authorized in expenditures for the public account by men who carefully guard their private interests and credit, and it is no secret that much of the burdens imposed upon the taxpayers have enriched those who made the appropriations. How are these onerous obligations to be met? Or aro they to be paid at all? These are questions which seri- ously concern every citizen. There have been vague sugcestions of repudiation. That dishonesty will never be tolerated by New York. Her credit is good and she will main- tain it so till the last dollar of these debts is paid. But to forward this end requires all the honesty, wisdom and courage of the Legisla- ture and the various corporations empowered to spend money on public account. They will be importuned and tempted for all man- ner of jobs and will need all their powers of endurance to shield their constituents from plunder. But they should bear constantly in mind that, one and all, they are solemnly bound to see that hereafter no money is appropriated except upon the clearest grounds of public re- quirement, and to fully provide for raising every dollar they vote away. A constitutional amendment is proposed limiting the debt- creating power of each municipality to ten per cent of its assessed valuation. Doubtless this will be adopted. Instead of party testa every local election should henceforth be con- ducted on the questions of faithfully guarding the public purse and promptly paying the public debts. Let the people set aside all un- faithful and reckless feeders upon the publio crib, and see to it that only honest men are legislators, Aldermen and Supervisors, and there will soon be a more cheering condition of our corporate and municipal finances, Gladstone’s University Reform Bill for Ireland. One of our latest cable despatches informs us that the Catholic Bishops of Ireland have resolved to oppose Mr. Gladstone’s Education pill, and that they have already sent an ad- dress to the Irish members in Parliament urging them to press for its withdrawal. It is not stated on what grounds the bill is opposed, but the fact that action has been so promptly taken is sufficient proof that the Ministerial measure, however good in itself, and however well intentioned on the part of its promoters, will not be carried without considerable diffi- culty, and, if carried, not without extensive modifications. As the discussion of this question is certain, for some time to come, to be the principal feature of British politics, it is desirable that our readers should have some idea of the na- ture and extent of the reforms which Mr. Gladstone proposes to introduce into the educational system of Ireland. At the present moment Ircland boasts of a fair num- ber of seats of learning. There are tho three Queen’s Colleges—Belfast, Cork and Galway. There tg the Queen's Yniversity, which was created to confer unsectarian de: at the time when the Queen’s Colleges were instituted to give unsectarian education. Mr. | Next come Dublin University and Trinity College. In addition to these there is Magee College, an institution for the education of Presbyterians, and the Catholic University. Mr. Gladstone proposes to do away with the Queen’s College at Galway because it has been from the first a failure. Belfast College and Cork College he means to retain because they have been eminently successful, fulfilling the most sanguine hopes of their founder, Sir Robert Peel. The Queen’s University will be rendered needless by the new scheme, and so it is to make room for the more compre- hensive, more national institution. Trinity Coilege is to be retained, with its endowments substantially untouched, but it will be re- quired to abolish its religious tests, which at present confine the greater part of its rich rewards to Protestants. As the new scheme will leave no room for the Queen’s University, so neither will it afford a place to what is called the Dublin University— an institution which is bound up with Trinity College. The Dublin University as such will disappear; but it will be the nucleus round which will be grouped the colleges of Ireland. The colleges of Trinity, Belfast and Cork will he affiliated to it: so will Magee College; a