The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD —-—__— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York (Hzracp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. BE Ta Volume XXXVIII...... AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—KouGHenc It. ld NEW FIFTH AVENUE TE ‘way.—ALIXE WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Neck anp Nxck. Afternoon and ‘Evening. “ ATHENEUM, No. £85 Broadway.—Granp Variety Ex- TERTAINMENT. . ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orersa—MiGNon, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo any Loos. ST. JAMES’ THEAT! Lesqux Orena—La Som Fourteenth street.—ITauian roadway and 28th st.—Bur- Ae OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Mouston and Bleecker streets.—Humyty Dumpty. 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SERIOUS AP- PREHENSIONS OF THE RESULT—SgvesTa Paar. THE REPUBLIC AT PEACE WITH THE MODOCS! THE SAVAGES IN THE LAVA BEDS SUC- CUMB TO THE PEACE STRATEGISTS! CAP- TAIN JACK ANXIOUS TO INTERVIEW THE HERALD CORRESPONDENT AND PRESI- DENT GRANT! SUCCESS UF THE SQUAWS’ PEACE MISSION—NINTH Pag. MADRID EXCITED! FEARS OF A POPULAR ODT- BURST! PREPARING FORIT! GOVERNMENT RECONSTRUCTION ! THE CARLIST CAM- PAIGN—NIntH Page. fFUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS—NinTH Pace. DISAGREEMENT OF THE SCANNELL JURY! JUDGE BRADY REFUSES THEIR APPLI- CATION TO BE DISCHARGED! AGREEMENT UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE! STANDING OF THE JURY—FiFTH PAGE. OUR TROUBLED NEIGHBOR BEYOND THE RIO GRANDE! GENERAL LOZADA FLIES TO THE MOUNTAINS! HIS FORCES INSIG- NIFICANT—NintH Pace. NEW YORK AND SUBURBAN REALTY! A BRILLIANT OUTLOOK! UPTOWN PROP- E HEAVILY DEALT IN! ANNEXING WESTCHESTER ! THE HELL GATE IM- PROVEMENS ! EAST SIDE INTERESTS— FIFTH PAGE. COLFAX SMILES UPON THE SOUTH BENDERS! HE IS RECEIVED BY HIS CONSTITUENTS AND DEFENDS THE MOBI R TRANS- ACTION! A RESOLUTION OF CONFIDENCE PASSED—TWELFTH PaGE. WAGNER'S FIENDISH CRIME! MRS. HOUTVET FULLY IDENTIFIES HIM AS THE MUR- DERER OF THE TWO GIRLS! OUTRAGED JUSTICE APPEALING TQ JUDGE LYNCH— NINTH PAGE. GLEANINGS FROM THE RELIGIOUS FIELD! THE SERVICE PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY! WHAT THE HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRE- SPONDENTS HAVE TO SAY! MINISTERIAL NEWS—SIXTH PAGE. OPENING OF THE ENGLISH OUTDOOR SPORT- ING SEASON! AN EXCITING MATCH FOR THE WATERLOO COURSING CUP! THE SALIENT POINTS OF THE SPORT AND OF THE MATCH—SEvVENTH PAGE. FEATURES OF BUSINESS ON ’CHANGE! GOLD « ” THE TIGHTNE: SEN G THE THE CORNER—TentH PaGE. DEPARTURE OF THE FORMER CONFEDERATE PRIVATEER CHICKAMAUGA FOR HaA- VANA—ART GLIMPSES— BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS—Skventn Page. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN FORTIETH STREET—MUNICIPAL ITEMS— TENTH PaGE. A MURDER MYSTERY CLEARED UP! MONETARY “BULLS” THE RE- MAINS OF THE MURDERER OF+ JAMES GRAHAM, AT LITTLE NECK, DISCOVERED— SEVENTH PAGE. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS! THE MADISON AVENUE EXTENSION! PAYMENT OF OFFICIAL SAL- ARIES—MARITIME NEWS—TWweLrta Pace. BOOKS AND BROCHURES—OBITUARY—Sixru Pace. Tur Mopoc Dirricutry is, it seems, settled. The special Henarp despatch, printed in our news columns, conveys the gratifying intelli- gence that Captain Jack and his braves have concluded that discretion is the better part of valor, and are willing to surrender. Jack's anxiety to hear the HrraLp correspondent’s views on the situation, however, indicates a lingering doubt of the good faith of the Com- missioners that may yet breed trouble, Tae Srrvation iw Mexico.—A HERALD spe- cial despatch from the Mexican capital, which | appears in our columns to-day, goes to show that the cause of the Republic is being vigor- ously maintained, and with good results, | against Lozada and the recusants gene " ‘The question of the Vice Presidency interests As Gop Went Up in Wall street during the CASH | TO | The Reported Illness of President Thiers—The ‘Importance of His Life to France and to Europe, and the Probable Effects of His Death. We print this morning a despatch, special to the Hznaxp, to the effect that the condition of President Thiers justifies serious apprehen- sions, The venerable statesman, it is said, cannot sleep. Other than sleeplessness there are, as yet, no definite symptoms. In ordi- nary cases there would be small reason to predicate serious consequences from mere in- ability to sleep, although not even in the case of youth and vigor can it ever be said to be a desirable symptom. President Thiers’ case, however, is no ordinary case. He is an old man. In a few weeks from now he will have reached his seventy-seventh year. Although quite recently in vigorous health, it ought not tobe forgotten that his life has beon singu- larly active, and that his labors have been of such a nature as to have an exhaustive effect on mind and body. At an age which few men reach, at which few enjoy mental vigor, and at which rest is absolutely necessary, this man finds himself in a position the cares and responsibilities of which are more than sufficient to tax the strongest frame and the most vigorous intel- lect. ‘Kind nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep,’’ if needful in any case, is certainly needful in his. If this wakefulness continues it must hasten his end; and itis not at all impossible that, for the sake of prolonging his days, he may yield to the advice of his friends and retire from the cares of State, which, in his case, amount to much more than the cares of sovereignty. Things being as they are, his death or his retirement could scarcely fail to bea calamity to France; the one or the other might prove a calamity to Europe. We have had occasion frequently of late to comment with freedom upon the man and his actions, and to question at once the wisdom of his policy ‘and the sincerity of his motives. His ability, however, we have never doubted ; his patriotism is beyond question; and his success in certain directions, as a temporizing ruler at the head of a provisional govern- ment, we have always confessed and admired. No man. ever ruled France in more difficult circumstances; no ruler was ever more suc- cessful in keeping the factions at bay; and, if it must be admitted that he has done nothing to make certain what is to be the future form of government in France, it must also be ad- mitted that he has done much to preserve France from anarchy and to restore France to herself. After disasters unparalleled even in the history of France, under a load of debt sufficient to stifle the energies of any people, and with the grip of the invader still on her throat, he has been successful in restoring order, in developing industry, in reviving commercial prosperity, and in all but wiping out the bill of indemnity, and so restoring France to herself. In another place in these columns, this morning, will be found a de- spatch from Berlin, special to the London Times, stating ‘that the Government of France has officially given Germany financial guaran- tees for the payment, at the designated time, of the last milliard of francs of the war in- demnity, and that negotiations between the two governments for the entire evacuation of French territory by German troops, at an early day, have already been commenced.’ Up to this date three and a half milliards of the indemnity have been paid. Early in July will be paid another half milliard, thus leaving one milliard. It is the desire of the French government, and it is the object of the negotiations just alluded to, that, with the payment of the half milliard in July, Germany will formally accept financial guarantees for the remaining milliard, and forthwith evacuate French territory. It is not impossible that these wonderful results might have been achieved by France under another administration than that of President Thiers. What might have been we know not ; what is alone is certain. Such results have been achieved by France under the government of which President Thiers has been not only the actual head, but the ruling and guiding spirit. In giving to President Thiers the praise which is justly his due we are neither disparaging other names nor robbing them of honors which they never won. In this connection it ought not to be forgotten that the executive position was rather forced upon than courted by him—that he has ruled by the power of no military dictatorship, but because he has been up to the present the only capable man under whom all the factions could unite. Whether he has, notwithstanding his many public assertions to the contrary, been working against the Republic and playing into the hands of the monarchists, is a question which it | must be left for the future to decide. Certain | it is that under him and under the name of the Republic France has wonderfully recovered her strength and marvellously revealed her re- sources, as well as enjoyed an experience which she is little likely ever to forget. That they can live and prosper without either em- | peror or king the French people ought never | again need to be told. | Whatever be the estimate which differ- ent minds may form of the Presidential ca- | reer of M. Thiers, it is undeniable that his | life is still useful to his country, and that his | death or retirement at the present juncture | might lead to serious, perhaps dangerous con- sequences. It requires no unusual amount of foresight to predict that there would be an immediate breaking loose of the factions and | & fierce struggle for power. The Assembly, of | course, would still remain, as before, the re- | pository of authority. It would be their busi- | ness to appoint a successor in the Presidential | chair. On whom would they fix their choice ? What public man in France to-day would com- | mand, as President Thiers does command, | the confidence of all the factions? M. Grévy | is, perhaps, the most eligible man in | the Assembly; but M. Grévy has never | given proof that he is possessed of that | tact and skill in managing men which | have enabled President Thiers to weather so. many storms. Nor have we any | good reason to believe that the monarchical majority would vote for the elevation of a man | | who is a pronounced republican. The Duke d@’ Aumale, it is well known, is the favorite of a large section of the conservatives in the As- | sembly ; but is it at all likely that Gambetta | would consent to an appointment which, on the face of it, would indicate the restoration on the part of the Assembly would most un- questionably prove a difficu% task, and tho difficulty would consist not only in their agree- ing upon a candidate but in their agreeing upon such @ man as would be aceeptable to the French people. Nothing is moro certain than that the death or retirement of President Thiers would revive and give intensity to the demand for the immediate dissolution of the Assembly. Have we any good reason to believe that the Assembly would, in such a case, be more willing to vote themselves out of place and power than they now are? It is the belief of the majority in the Assembly, as it is the belief of M. Thiers, that the Bordeaux compact should be adhered to, and that there should be no fresh appeal to the people until the German invader shall have left French soil; and it is their determination that it shall not be otherwise. Left to themselves it is im- possible to say what a hot-headed people might do. In the confusion an appeal to the sword must be considered possible. It is our belief that the army is prepared to stand by the Assembly; but we cannot forget that if the larger portion of the army is tinged with imperialism a large and’ important sec- tion of it was organized under Gambetta; nor can we deny that a divided Assembly might lead to a divided army and consequent civil war. A coup d’éat in the interests of the Em- pire, a bold stroke of policy on the part of the monarchists, a daring effort on the part of Gambetta, must all be considered as within the region of the probable. The imperialists, however, are without a head since the death of the Emperor, the Orleanists are opposed to violence, and Gambetta, with all his daring, dreads the return of the German hosts, It will be well if the life of Prosident Thiers be spared until he shall have completed his task. In the event of his death it will be well if all parties agree and wait until the indem- nity is satisfactorily arranged and the invader gorie. The Republic cannot gain by rashness. It must gain by patience, for time is working in its favor. Public School Ventilation. Quick to comprehend whatever has length, breadth or thickness, the human mind per- sists in ignoring the intangible with an obstinacy that no amount of argument seems able to overcome. What goes into the stomach twice or thrice a dpy is considered of momentous importance; but what goes into the lungs with every bréath in no way con- cerns mankind, notwithstanding that digestion and respiration are so intimately connected as to be inseparable. ‘Respiration is the last act of digestion and essential to it.’’ In every twenty-four hours there flow to the lungs sixty hogsheads of air and thirty hogsheads of blood. The purity of the latter depends upon the purity of the former; consequently indiffer- ence to the atmosphere by which we are sur- rounded is suicidal. Says Baudelocque, a celebrated French writer :—‘It will invariably be found, on examination, that truly scrofu- lous disease is caused by vitiated air, and it is not always necessary that there should have been a _ prolonged stay in such an atmosphere. Often a few hours each day is sufficient, and it is thus that persons living in the most healthy country and passing the greater part of the day in the open air become scrofulous, because of sleep- ing in a confined place, where the air has not been renewed.’’ Typhus fever is an especial product of foul air, and as, by the law of “sympathetic association,”’ no one part of the body can be injured without detriment to all the rest, the evils wrougbt by imperfect venti- lation are beyond computation. In no coun- try are diseases of the digestive organs as prevalent as in America. Connection between stomach and brain being intimate, it follows that insanity must be more frequent here than elsewhere, and though the major part of it be traced to an inordinate use of intoxicating liquors, let it be remembered that there is no greater encouragement to intemperance than a vitiated atmosphere. It seems incredible, therefore, that so little attention should be paid to a subject of vital importance. Intelli- gent men and women sleep in rooms with closely shut doors and windows, taking care, if itbe Summer, to stuff chimneys with paper, that no soot may fall. They frequent ball- rooms, concert rooms, theatres and churches, where oxygen is unknown and carbonic acid gas a drug, and ‘never protest against the system of slow murder universally practised through- out the civilized world. But bad as are our places of worship and of amusement, still worse are our public schools. The public school is a national hobby, and incessant riding of this hobby has convinced the popular mind of its absolute perfection; but a thorough inspection of a large proportion of our public schools shows that not one building can be found wherein the occupants are not daily poisoned because of foul air. Sixty, eighty and one hundred children are packed into rooms capable of decently accommodating but half os many. In some cases attempts have been made to provide means for the admission of fresh air or for the ejection of that which is impure; but the architects of these devices have not realized the importance of combining the two movements. In most of the school- houses windows are the only ventilators, but on damp or cold days it is manifestly unsafe to precipitate draughts directly upon the backs and heads of those pupils who, by the faulty construction of the assembly and recitation | rooms, are placed on a level with the window sills. Strange as it may seem, new buildings are no better than old. Money has been lav- ishly expended in certain directions, but not one dollar has been devoted to that which should be insured to every individual on entering a public institution—pure air. If the question of cost be brought forward as an objection to remedying existing evils, it should be sufficient answer to reply that the health— perhaps the existence—of two thousand teach- | ers and two hundred thousand children depends upon reform. That complaints are not loud is owing to three reasons:—1. Parents rarely or never visit the schools, and consequently do not inform themselves of their condition. 2 Teachers are one-third ignorant and two- thirds helpless, knowing that retention in office depends upon a deference to status quo. 3. Primary children are too young to realize their danger, and when promoted to grammar schools are 80 accustomed to foul past week sterling bills declined. The latter | of the monarchy? Such an attempt would fell so much as to invite shipments of specie | bring the whole strength of the small, but this way from England. It was a most curious | united, imperialist band to the side of the re- financial see-saw. publicaus, The appointment of a President air that, finding themselves better off than formerly, they rejoice at what is bad rathor than protest against what is worse, Did parents and teachers kuow that twenty times a minute the blood requires an additional. sup- ply of oxygen, without which the whole body suffers; did they know that although the brain weighs but one-forticth of the whole body it receives one-fifth of the blood flowing from the heart, and that at no time is decar- bonization of the blood so imperatively de- manded as during study hours; did they know that listlessness, languor, irritability, want of appetite and inaptitude for study are necessary consequences of bad ventilation, perhaps a revolution might take place. Teach- ers should themselves be physiologically in- structed in order to decide upon the sanitary condition of their schools and to acquaint their pupils with the laws of health. It is super- fluous to say that this important branch of edacation is entirely neglected. The problem of how to live is swallowed up in the more popular one of how to caleulate. The system is false and requires reconstruction. Mathe- matics is not the sum and.substance of exist- ence. ‘The first thing in every efficient man is a fine animal,”’ says Emerson. Much of the wrong apparent in New York public schools is undoubtedly owing to the local boards, composed, for the most part, of illiterate men, who owe their position to the votes of the sovereign people, and who are sadly incompetent to discuss matters of health and education. Five or six schoolhouses are built yearly; five thousand wilt be erected in the State during the next ten years, Surely it becomes the trustees of our school fand to see to it that no more Black Holes of Calcutta disgrace the Republic. These changes, among others, are needed :— ea a he of primary and grammar sol . —Introduction of an adequate system of Ventilation in all existing schools. Tht nstruction of @ sufficient number of new buildings, to prevent overcrowding. Fourth—Employment of competent architects who understand the subjects of ventilation, heat- ing and i lee rehase of healthy sites large enough to admit of playgrounds that are not satires on the name. Not until these reforms are brought about will our public schools be worthy of their rep- utation. Until that good time, so long com- ing, public school children will be the most eligible candidates for early graves and fever- ish epidemics. The Scannell Case—Disagreement and Discharge of the Jury. Three weeks have been wasted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in the Scannell murder trial. Late last evening the jury came into Court, after having been out more than twenty- four hours, with the assertion that they saw no probability of agreeing upon a verdict. Judge Brady thereupon discharged them, and sent Scannell back to the Tombs, to take his chance of another trial after a few more months of delay. There was no serious denial ‘of the killing, as the readers of the Hzraxp have seen by the daily reports of the trial. The main defence was placed upon the metaphysical question of moral insanity, which was most elaborately worked out, as though its main object was to produce insanity in the jury. For many months the prisoner sought the life of Donohoe, shooting at him three or four times and wounding him once before. He accused him of killing his brother, Florence Scannell, in a fight two years ago, where the two Scannells attacked Donohoe and others in a political quarrel. From that time the prisoner has frequently displayed great emotion when his brother was mentioned, or when he chanced to meet Dono- hoe, whom he had repeatedly threatened to kill. He showed the Court a sample paroxysm while his counsel was summing up. It is very doubtful if he produced any favorable impression. Judge Brady charged the jury on Friday afternoon. He trusted to their good sense for a correct appreciation of the evidence, and fully explained the legal defini- tion” of insanity, the occurrence of which would deprive the homicide of criminality. He drew the distinction between unrestrained passion of malice or revenge and that frenzy in which reason and moral responsibility are overthrown and man becomes like a wild beast, dangerous to friend and foe. Yester- day morning the jury came into Court. They had not agreed, and wished further light on the subject of insanity. A clear repetition of the law on that pont was given them from the bench; yet, after a vain endeavor, they were still unable to agree. It is reported that eight of the twelve had no doubt about their duty to find a verdict of murder in the first degree. Four wondered at the stupid ob- stinacy of twice their number, and voted for the proved insanity of the prisoner. This result is another confirmation of the truth of an assertion which brought Jack Reynolds to the halter—that “hanging is played out.”” No other offence is so little likely to be punished in New York as the taking of human life. It may occasion temporary loss of lib- erty, but the chances of its bringing the slayer to the scaffold are very slim. Society cannot long afford this practical abandonment of the penalty for murder. Life becomes utterly at the mercy of any drunken rnffian in the car or an embittered antagonist in any feud. Scotland requires only a majority of a jury fora conviction. A change of English law is proposed in the same direction; and in the New York Assembly on ‘Thursday last Mr. Voorhis introduced a bill declaring ‘that after the passage of this act a verdict rendered by two-thirds of a regularly empanelled jury shall be considered in all criminal cases the verdict of such jury.” Such a farce as Scan- nell’s case has proved shows that our own statutes might be improved, in the interests of public safety, by a modification of the rules governing trials for murder. Gold Coin Valaes and the Par of Exchange. Most people, except money dealers, bankers and merchants, are puzzled about what is called the par of exchange between England and the United States, and, as a consequence, are surprised at the seemingly low quotations of American securities in the London market. The Finance Committee of the Senate, having been instructed by resolution to investigate the matter of the relative intrinsic value of British and American coins and the value of exchange, has made a report thereon. It is known that the sovereign has been valued at $4 84 in American gold, and this was the rate fixed by the act of Congress of 1842, as far as all transactions of the government with foreign countries went. But the Finance Committee shows in its report that this is not the true rela- tive intrinsic value of British and United States gold coin, and that the real value of the sovereign is $4 96 and a fraction over, ‘For — me UE Rita SSRN 2 ee ee the bette." understanding of this,’ the report | of the Christian Inizlligencer. The editor takes says, ‘we yvill examine the values giver .one | occasion to refer to #.2@ communications he of our bonds or $1,000 in the London més |.has received on the subject, and proteods to ket. As the tate value of the sovereign is $4 86.656, there mast be in the $1,000 bond 205.484 of such sovereigus—é£205 9s. 8jd. But if we assume the valueof the sovereign to be $444.49, the par of exchange, there will be of such sovereigns in the $1,000 bond 225, by which it is seen that the $1,000 bond is given a valuation of some £19 10s. more’.than its true or intrinsic value, and, of course, it can- not be quoted at par unless its premium is sufficient to equal or exceed the fictitious in- crease of value thus given if.” It is this which makes the fiction of nine and » half per cent difference of exchange between London and New York, upon which all our financial operations with England are based. Tho committee properly says:—‘‘This par’ of ex- change exists between no’ other two nations. It is entirely arbitrary; it is unneces- ary; it is anmoying; it is absurd,’ The committee concludes its report by re~ marking that “such a valuation of the ficti-- tious sovereign should not be recognized by apy of the departments of the government,. and that they should use every means in their‘ power, abroad as well as at home, to attain a system of exchange based on truc:or intrinsic valuations.” This is # sensible: conclusion, for not only is there great inconvenience arising from this merely fietitious difference of values and exchange, but to the mass of.the people it gives the impression’ that American securities abroad are nine anda half below par when they are really at par. Carrent the Old The Religious Press Topics—Still Harping Themes. Our religious contemporaries this weck still cling to the corruptions in the late Congress and the project of the Christian amendment agitators in regard to the national constitution as the chief topics for editorial comment. President Grant's Inaugural, however, is the theme for one of Theodore Tilton’s usual caustic articles. Admitting his. admiration for several points in the Inaugural}, the editor of the Golden Age goes on to say :— If President Grant thinks that his re-election was tribute to his own personal character in com- mig ate! with that of rival (a rival who excelled im both in intellectual endowments and moral gitts) ; or if he thinks that, in consequence of this re-election, he can now afford (as he phrases it) to “disregard” all that was said of his nepotism, of his personal favoritism, of his federal interference with local law, of his mediocre appointments, ef his trifling with the eivilservice, of his money- making secretaries and jovbing friends and asso- ciates, of his Custom House corruptions irom New York to New Orleans, and of the neral intel- lectual and moral decline in our politics which he inaugurated with his first presidency—if he lays such a flattering unction to his soul, then he has voluntarily put a bandage on his eyes. and. biiaded himself te the signs of the times. After giving a long and apparently faithful résumé of the State constitutions, which ac- 09 from one, withholding names, as fol juaintance who have read it tabi sharp ually for the last ten years have ir a seca indidels or acoptics through its in _da- The Intelligencer thinks it .docs “no wrong in printing the above sentence without repeating the name of the paper.” Wo don’t know about that. There are so few teligious papers that can claim to have so muoh influonce, it is but fair that the right one should have the credit of it. The Intelli- gencer submits that whoever the cap fits may wear it, and profit thereby by changing its course. The Tablet has a truo ‘religious: amend. ment" of its.own. ‘In view,” it says, ‘ob the desperate and widespread evils which make good.so raze in these times of God-for- sakon slumber, the voice of every true Chris- tian must be raised for a deeper remedy than © the ceremony of embodying. in our. constita- tion a written acknowledgment of the source of all power and. government.’” Tho Tabled continue: — The want is—anbthe thought of it is a1 ling—» that the people of these United States Seeee Bc. knowledge God in their hearts, The need is-not of associations to put Aim inte the piece of parchment from which we.think we derive our power of. gov- erning oursetves, but of preachers, and eloquent Speakers and writexs who’ will spread themseives. threughout our land, aud awaken in the hearts of these poor, unhappy people who have: forgotten their God that idea of their responsibility to Him, of their obligation to kmow, and love and serve Him, which ean alone form. them to sucklives as will make 0! this @ true Christian land, The, Catholic Review discourses from the text “Is Catholicity a Foreign: Religion?’ and concludes that The vital questiomis not whether Catholictty> ts’ or is nota foreign religion, but whether it is a true or false religion! The argument has become theo- logical. It attacks the dogma; it opposes remson to faith, but has abandoned, as: itivolous and meaningless, the sneer at ‘a foreign religion.” And yet, empty as the phrase is, what wicked power has tt not yet upon the lips of the anatie and the demagogue! Satan, father of lies, like history, regeats himself, The same taant that a- Nero and a Claudius levelled against the infant Church, the sectarian revives again in: the nine teenth century against! the same religion, thats” ~~ and is persecuted, but triumphs and never es The Boston Pilot (Catholic organ: in New England) proelaims ‘Liberty of Conseience,”” and gives its Protestant contemporary, the Christian Register, a taste of its. theological shillelah in diseussing the subject. The Jewish Messenger rejoiceth in the con- templation of a ‘‘Merry Purim’ which will be inaugurated on Wednesday - evening :next, with religious ceremonies, the social. gather- ings taking place on Thursday. The Jewish Times is troubled about. the “Decline of Morals,” but fails to suggest a remedy. The Liberal Christian, in discussing. upom “Party Politics and Personal Honesty,’”’ ar- that’ more than’ knowledge the Divine Paternity the Age an- nounces its condemnation of the Christain amendment movement and says it shall strenu- ously oppose it. ‘‘We took no stock in the Crédit Mobilier,” says the Golden Age, “and shall take none in the religious amend- ment.”” The Evangelist toucheson ‘Dr. Bentiss’ Acceptance’’ (of a new professorship in Union Theological Seminary); ‘Poverty and its Relief’’ (conceding the efficiency of the ‘As- sociation for Improving the Condition of the Poor,”’ and calling for increased means), and. various other non-startling subjects, The Independent, after making an editorial visit to Washington, comes to the conclusion that the “great briber’” (Oakes Ames) is really quite popular, as was indicated by Mrs. Gen- eral Sherman’s bouquet which graced his desk during his trial. The Independent presumes That the prevailing jadgment which refused to expel him and which quite belittles his crime is right so far as it acquits him of any idea that he was doing a criminal act. He was a business man, and had been in the habit of “putting stock” where he thought it would do good. It is generally thought perfectly legitimate to let a man of influ- ence have steck at a low or nominal price, that the guarantee of his name may be used to induce other men to purchase at the full rates. Now this also may be a fraud, but it is not generally so regarded ; and, if some scrupulous teacher of morals thinks the contrary, let him remember that it is precisely the same in principle as the action of a book agent who gets the name of a minister on his subscrip- tion list without receiving full price fer the book. Now that a prominent religious journal compares the operations of Oakes Ames to get the good opinion of Congressmen with those that are planned by book agents to get the right side or good opinions of clergymen (in the former case in favor of a doubtful stock; in the latter in favor, possibly, of a poor book), we suppose we may invoke the aid of old Diogenes to find anywhere what he so assidu- ously searched for with his lantern—an honest man. The Observer has an article on the ‘Prepara- tions for the General Conference of the Evan- gelical Alliance,’’ which is to meet in New York in October next. The ‘Profanity of Preachers’’ is the subject of a brief article in the Observer, but long enough for the editor to say: — The most flagrant instance of ministerial impro- riety in this respect we saw ana heard last Thurs- Bay afternoon in the Cooper Union hall. A clergy- man was advocating the so-called “religious amendment” to the constitution. He said the constitution was once regarded as a sacred insfrument, and to alter it was a saerilege. Bul it has been amended sixteen time: securing to negroes and all men equa! rights, “ap now,” exclaimed the reverend gentleman, “we want to make one more amendment to secure the rights of Almighty God.’ The proposition to ex- tend the constitution of the United States over the Infinite Ruler of heaven and earth, and that, too. under the pretence of doing henor ‘to God, seemed to us, as the words fell from the lips of the speaker, to be both irreverent and preposterous. The Observer also refers to a subject, no doubt very familiar to our readers—namely, the litigation in regard to the Jumel property. «The endeavor to cloud and disfigure the mem- ory of Mme.‘ Jumel,”’ says our orthodox contemporary, ‘‘has failed, and, although she was undoubtedly a child of indigent parents and a woman of singular temper and manifold eccentricities, there is no reason why candid persons should not agree with the intelligent jury, who, after three months’ consideration of the case, have by their verdict practically vindicated her good name.” It would be curious to know what the ideas of the old Madame were on the subject of religion. The Evaminer and Chronicle, in treating of the subject of ‘Good Listening," tersely re- marks, that although much is said about the art of preaching very little is said of the art of listening. ‘The preacher,’’ says the editor, “might as well speak Choctaw if you simply hear without understanding, and you might as well stay at home if you don’t remember what is said until you get home’’—and very likely not then, might have been added. Suppose the business of “paid listeners’’ be started and carried out on the basis of the trade of “paid mourners’ ot funerals, How would that work? rives at this proper conclusion: — We have faith that the really true and good ‘citt-* zens in this community can rally @ following so eminent in character and worth, 80 formidable in numbers, that no party can long dare to act in fla- grant disregard of its reproach or its require- ments. What we want is the testimony of honest, unpartisan men, who have not got rich by serving parties in the past and now desert one side for the other, but of men who on all grounds—commercial, personal and domestic—are known .to be incor- Tuptible. Let such men as -the community trust in all other things lead in the way of political re~ form and we shall have it, The citizens of New York have tried that plan and have discovered that as soon. as® new set of men get into power under the cry of ‘reform,’ they begin to ‘truck. and dicker’’ about offices, and the result is that men of very light calibre get into the most important official positions. We have again to congratulate our pious friends upon the continued success of the pres- ent season of revivals. ‘The good work.is not confined to any particular locality, but spreads- like the wings of soothing and sympathizing angels, all over the land. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Kilpatrick is at the Grand Central Hotel. Bishop John Sharp, of Utah, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mayor William Wallace, of Syracuse, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany, is-stOgping at the Astor House. General G, P. Este, of Washington, is registered’ at the Astor House. Ex-Governor H. H. Wells, of Virginia, is staying: at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky, 1s at the Grand Central Hotel. The Pope will soon appoint several new Cardi-- nals, both foreign and Italian. There’ is a six feet ten inches man, named: Thomas Jones, in Newark, Ohio. Colonel OC. H. Hobart, of the United States Army,, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Colonel H. Cook Smith, of the British Army, yeae terday arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. i Alexander Mackenzie has been chosen the leader of the opposition in the Canadian Parliament. if V. B. Dinslow has abandoned the editorial rooms. of the Chicago 2ribune and opened a law office. Congressional delegate George Q. Cannon, of Utah, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, A Washington paper says Vinnie Ream is on @ bust again. The joke is old and re-quires resurrec-. tion. Ex-Governor Frederick Smythe, of New Hamp- shire, is among yesterday’s arrivals at tho Gilsey House. Charles A. King, editor, has.teft the Vermont Gazette and hung up his hat in the office of the Milford (Mass.) Journal. Prince Humbert, of Italy, is becoming very popes. lar for his charitable actions. For two, years he has supported an acoustic dispensary, in Milan, * Jacob A. Ambler, who has represented the: Seventh district. of Ohio four years in. Congress, has started a law office in Salem, from which place — he was chosen. } G. W. Lowell, Postmaster at New Orleans, whe { failed to make his money and figures correspoml to the satisfaction of the government is a carpet- bagger frem Maine. A servant girl in Pittsburg, Pa. has sued her employer for 778 weeks wages, at $3 per week— $2,334. Shehas been waiting a long time: for her, money, and she thinks now she she ought to have it, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is. getting ready to. make another attack on the city of New Orleans. She lost her last suit, but the littte old lady ts un- daunted, and seems determined to establish her claims. Governor Fenton gave a ainner party in Wash- ington last night, by way of @ bumper at parting, | , to Mr. Trumbull. Mr. Sumner was one of the guests, his first appearance at a festive board since his illness. Sterling Sledge died in the Virginia Penitentiary last week, leaving an estate valued at $30,000. He | was seventy-three years old,and had been sen- | tenced to fifteen years imprisonment for killing, @ man in a row. Josh Ward, who was last week defeated for t'aa the office of game constable at Cornwall, on the Hudson River, has challenged his opponent to row aboatrace. fe says if he cannot beat him at spoll- ing he thinks he can at pulling. A friend of M. Thiers, calling upon him, ajladed in the course of conversation to the events of Spain, saying:—“Well, Monsieur le President, the Pyrenees exist no longer!’ M. Thiers rephied sharply:—“Yes they do! and, if they did nat, Wo ‘Religious Jourpaliam’” ig the leagjog theme | would nave to make them." ‘The traitor .