The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERAL D, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1873.—QUADRUPLE SHEET--WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —- - : ——— ———s AIMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo anp Lotos. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker strects.—! Domrrr. UNION SQUARE T Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Covsiy Jacg, t WALLACK’S THEATRS, Broadway and Thirteenth street —Davip Garnicx. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappy O'Down. * GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Bighth ay.—UNCLE Sam, ROWFRY TMRATRE, Lovers in Tae Connen. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. Sli Broaqway.—Drama, Burrxsgure axp Oxi. Kowery.-J Ack HARKAWAY— NEW FIFTH A TRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—New Yran’s Woon's MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirticth st— Dao Cxx. Afternoon and Evening. ATHEN APERTAINENT, RBRYANT'S ff, Twenty-third st.. corner TONY PASTOR'S OP ‘Vasinty ENTERTAINME! STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Graxn Cox- cent. BARNUM’S QREAT SHOW. Now open, Afternoon and ‘Night. Rink, 3d avenue and 63d street. No. 201 Bowery.— LENT'S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Madi- won and Fourth avs, Afternoon and Evening. . Third avenue and Fourth st.— BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— AGnxs. YEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ND Qu HEET, New York, Sunday, Precaes THE NEWS OF ADRUPLES WITH SUPPLEMENT. — March 30, 1873. YESTERDAY. *To-Day’s Contents of the ; Herald. “THE CARLIST MOVEMENT IN SPAIN! ITS INSIGNIFICANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE” — EDITORIAL LEADER—EIGHTH Page. EXCITING SPANISH NEWS! GREAT SUCCESS OF THE CARLISTS! IMPORTANT POINTS AND LARGE AMOUNTS OF STORES CAP- TURED BY THEM! SEVERE LOSSES! GENERALS KILLED AND WOUNDED! FAILURE OF THE ARMY LEVY! THE THE VERGE OF BANK- ‘TH PAGE. A GRAND VICTORY FOR CAMBRIDGE! IM- CROWDS WI 8S THE GREAT ITY RACE ON THE THAMES! DE- UL WEATHER AND AN EXCITING NTEST! PREVIOUS STRUGGLES AND THE WINNERS IN EACH—Firtn Pace. TO MORTLAKE! A DIAGRAM OF THE ERSITY COURSE—FirTa NINE DAYS' WONDER! THE DE LOUKING FOR SOME ONE ELSE TO BRING IN FOR THE GOODRICH MUR- DER! THE POOR SEWING WOMAN “DE- y : "IN PRISON! HER AGED FATHER A GLIMPSE OF HER! THE Ist “THEORIES’—Frrru Pace. LA THE BONAPARTE FAMILY EXILED BY THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY! FELIX PYAT 8! TENCED TO DEATH! CABLED GRAMS—NINTH PAGE, THE WORST RAIN ‘ORM OF THE vs DIRE EF 5 HERE, ON TE SON AND. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY— Ninta PAGE. FREDERICK A. LANE, ERIE BRIBE DENT PRESI- AUDITOR D b ASSEMBLY - INTERESTING HISTORY— ATSON AND IFY BEFORE THK Bt! AN FROM HYDROPHOBIA AIS) FRIGHLFUL St MRRIBLE DEATH—Firry P. REAL PROPERTY! A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S TRANSACTIONS IN NEW YORK VD SUB- URBAN REAL ESTATE! THE ANNEXA- TION QUESTION—SrventH Pace. POSTAL EMBARRASSMENTS! A CONF OF RAILWA IN THIS CIT RAL'S VIEWS TUE AND FTH PAGE. . FISK'S CLAIM AGAINST THE CREDIT MO- ! ATTEMPT TO BURN AN AMERI- AN VE cL IN B OS AYRES! GEN- ERAL LEGAL BUSIN —SEVENTH Page. A FURTHER RISE (N THE GOLD PREMIUM! HEAVY IMPORTS OF FOREIGN GOODS! THE RSSERVE OF THE 5 BELOW THE LIMIT! MO! STRI T AND STOCKS STEADY—EVILS OF THE TELU- GRAPH SYSTEM. SHOCKING BRUTALIT THE MASO) NEW HAV! NTH PAGE. NEW ATTRACTIONS AT —A BANK CRASH IN T VIEWS AND SALE: —AK THE YOUN INQUIRY—LOCAL IT Sixth PAGE. SFARCH FOR BURGLARS—A “MEDIUM" AR- RA ED FOR DECKPTION—DAVID A, y ON LOCAL AND STATE TAXA. TION—SEVENTH PAGE. REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS—Tateteentit Pace. Tar Evousu Ustvesstry Boat Race took place yesterday afternoon on the Thames, over the well-known course trom Putney to Mort- lake. For the fourth time running victory ‘has perched upon the light blue of the Cantabs. All London enjoyed the bright day and the fine race, and whether the dark blue or light blue was the favorite color with the masses we have no doubt each side was vehemently cheered. London indeed may well be proud of the specimens of English muscular man- hood which make up the Oxford and Cam- bridge eights. Every year the boat race creates & furore in London second only to the Derby, and every year the learned doctors discuss the Henefits of athletic exercises versus the «langers of overtraining. Whatever way the race ends all London is satisfied, for every- body believes in the perfect fairness of the race, and the losers receive as much recogni tiou as the victors. One of the traditions of this race is that both the crews should wind up the day with a supper at Evans’, in Covent Carden, a quaint old place, where sweet-voiced boys sing glees and choruses, and the great national beefsteak is served in a good old style, It is a comfortable place, ayd the }Oung oarsmen can do worse than cclebrate their victory thera | of the first French revolution. | the Republic. The Carlist Movement in Spain—Its Insignificance and Significance. The new Spanish Republic seems born to evil fortune in the very beginning of its exist- ence, For the moment at least the Carlists are achieving triumphs over the armies of Spain—triumphs which Amadeus may have considered certain before abdicating the throne. What may be the result of these vic- tories time only can reveal ; but the Heranp’s special despatches this morning show them to be victories of no insignificant magnitude. Hitherto the followers of Don Carlos have been only scattered bands of adventurers among the mountains; but these successes give them something like the appearance and authority of an army. With the fall of Berga they will have in their hands the key of Cata- lonia and will be able to operate with increased force and effect. What vigor the Republic may be able to show in opposing them is another problem of the future. Itis not un- likely that parts of the army are disaffected. The interminable Cuban war has depleted Spain of much of her fighting material. The latest report from Madrid announces that the government attempt at a levy en masse in Catalonia has failed completely, and that the Minister of Finance has proclaimed officially to his colleagues that the Spanish nation is on the brink of absolute financial insolvency. Conflicting interests and the conflict of parties tend to make everything uncertain and chaotic. Circumstances over which Sefior Figueras and his associates of the young Republic could have no control have made the task of the republicans a peculiarly arduous one; but, in spite of Carlist successes and of base in- trigues at home and abroad, we believe the Republic will succeed, and that its success will be the first great step toward the triumph of republican Europe. It may be set down as an axiom that there are no longer settled ideas of government any- where. Even inthe United States the croak- ers predict despotism and the imperial power of the one-man rule. In England the intelli- gent part of the laboring classes detest the limited monarchy, and poverty and discon- tent will inevitably overthrow the throne of the unsympathetic German princes. Ger- many, cemented as it is under the sway of the present Emperor, is certain to yield more and more to republican ideas. France is repub- lican, but the final triumph of the French Re- public depends in some measure upon the suecess of the Republic in Spain. Both may fail, but failure now will be only another step toward stability in the future. In all civilized countries republicanism must triumph in the end. No sane American, free from crotchets and free from a ridiculous worship of foreign titles and customs and institutions, believes the American Republic in danger. It is an article of his faith, born into his very blood and bone, that republicanism must become the political creed of the world, and yet he is so conservative in his beliefs that it is seldom he becomes a propagandist. The American republican says to himself, ‘‘We can wait.”’ We can afford to smile at English averments in regard to the stability of British institutions, knowing the discontent that is undermining the monarchy. We can regard with moderate complaisance the suc- cesses of royalist factions in France and Spain, because in both countries the downfall of royal or imperial rule is always followed by the | Republic. Chaos is always averted by repub- liconism, and no longer by the terrible ordeal When Louis Philippe abandoned his throne the Republic saved France from anarchy. When Napoleon ILL and his empire fell together at Sedan the Republic again interposed, subdued anarchy and conquered a peace. When the shameless life of Tsabella TI. made even the Spaniards disown her the Republic kept the peace ; and, last of all, when Amadeus abandoned a crown he had too hastily accepted it was again the Republic which kept Madrid in order. The | people of Europe are dependent upon repub- licanism for the preservation of their nation- alities when their tottering monarchies fall. No greater compliment could be paid to repub- lican endeavor nor could there be any more certain sign of a universal republican triumph. Viewing the conflict in Spain from a stand- point so dignified and so philosophical we can find nothing in the successes of the Carlists to cause uneasiness. The royalist factions— whether they are the followers of Don Carlos or Prince Alfonso or of some other pre- tender to the throne—must be met and beaten in the field before there can be peace for the Republic. Whatever accessions of strength it is possible for any of them to gain they must gain now. If they mean to conquer they must conquer now. A series of slight successes will | amount to nothing unless the result of them asa whole is overwhelming and immediate. ‘The command of a province like Catalonia is not the control of Spain. Madrid rules, what- | ever Catalonia may desire; and unless prov- ince after province falls into the hands of Don Carlos time will weaken him and strengthen If he is checked and driven back among the mountains from which he has just emerged he will be a8 good as beaten. ‘The number of his adherents, augmented by circumstances, is few at best. Other factions are as much opposed to him as to the Repub- lic. There can be no hearty and permanent union among the friends of monarchy in Spain. So far as we can see the chances are | with the Republic, and it only requires pru- dence and vigor in the republican leaders to de- stroy the monarchical pretensions of Bourbons like Don Carlos or doubtful Bourbons like Prince Alfonso, “The history of the last century shows that republicanism does not depend for stability upon isolated success or failure. Even in America the Republic could scarcely have lived an uninterrupted life if rival ele- ments had been contending for a throne which had sunk deep into the traditions of the people. It is not easy for any nation to throw off all the traditions and habits of the pastand sternly subdue every attempt to re- establish the old order of things. France has tried it time after time, and yet the first efforts only resulted in giving her new dynasties— dynasties which yen now are looking for the overthrow of the Republic. Spain tried it once, and almost immediately sought out a foreigner and made him King of the Spaniards. When the throne of Amadeus fell Don Carlos thonght it his time to gain the throne. Some day Prince Alfonso will be making a like effort against Don Carlos if the latter should | overcome the Republic. Yet Spain will come back again bud again to the Republic, and the Republic will live when the effeminate Spanish | princes are forgotten. Though we regard the movements of Don Carlos as possessing little significance in them- selves, whatever their result, there is one aspect in which they are of striking impor- tance. They indicate the steady growth of republican sentiment and the deadly hostility of crowned heads to the growing giant. The unsettled notions which men hold with regard to government are a strong evidence that the chaos of to-day is the germ of the true repub- licanism of the morrow. Emperors and kings may well endeavor to stay a tide which is sweeping them away. It is not impossible that Don Carlos’ hands are strengthened by the men whose power is made stronger by his success. They and he have everything to gain by this contest, for, after all, it is not an idle struggle among the mountains of Spain; it is not a mere contest as to who shall rule Spain, but who shall govern Europe. Even English statesmen contemning their Queen and her probable successor, in their hearts are apt to regard the efforts of Don Carlos with favor, because he is fighting the battle of royalty in Europe. The imperialists and legitimisf® in France look upon him with like favor, because the overthrow of the Spanish Republic gives them a chance to destroy the Republic in France. Bismarck and his master see in it at least the temporary over- throw of republicanism in Europe. But all these will be disappointed. Republicanism ‘lives though all its forms perish, and the fact that in the last three-quarters of a century it has so often been the savior of the two most royal, if not loyal, nations of the world shows plainly enough that when monarchy is thor- oughly effete the Republic will be the accepted model of the State. A pure Bourbon on a European throne would be a spectacle which the world has not seen in a long time, which it scarcely expected and certainly never hoped it woukd see again. But it would be an event which would lead only to fresh troubles and result in a deeper growth of republican sentiment. If a king is to govern Spain for the time, it is, perhaps, as well that heshould be Don Carlos as anybody. Unless he is unlike all the Bourbons who ever governed either Spain or France before him he would not long be a ruler. Even as mon- archists among monarchists the Bourbons are out of sympathy with Europe and the world, and the crowning of Carlos would be the first step toward the destruction of a spectre more terrible than the aspirations of men to be free, which have so long terrified the Cabinets of Continental monarchs. Rome and Prussia=The Church and State Question. Prince Bismarck has fought another great fight and won, as no doubt he thinks, another great victory. In the Hrratp of Thursday we gave a full outline of Prince Bismarck’s speech in the Upper House of the Prussian Parliament. The speech was a success, be- cause it convinced the House that the Prince was right and enabled him to carry his meas- ure. The speech and the bill in support of which it was spoken have commanded a large amount of attention in Europe. It is possi- ble that the one and the other have com- manded more attention than the merits of either deserve. Prince Bismarck is up in re- bellion against the Catholic Church, and be- cause he believes that Rome is opposed to the unity of the German Empire he has abolished the fifteenth and eighteenth articles of the Prussian constitution of 1848—articles conceived in the genuine spirit of liberty and which gave the differ- ent religious denominations control within their own proper limits—and so has placed the entire ecclesiastical system of Prussia under the rigid control of a Minister of State. ‘Chis measure, as Prince Bismarck confessed, was drawn up in the interests of the new German Empire, and in order that, in the new Empire, there shall be no imperium in imperio. Germany is to be reconstructed on the Prussian model, and Bismarck is resolved that there shall not be one infallible Prince, having his headquarters in Rome, and another Prince, fallible or infallible, having his head- quarters in Berlin. We wish Prince Bismarck success in his novel and daring experiment. It seems to us, however, that the Prince, in exasperating his enemies, has not been multi- plying his triends. The new law must give pain all round. It is a specimen of legislation which was not uncommon in the sixteenth century. The question is, whether the nine- teenth century will submit to the policy of Henry VIIL After all that Prince Bis- marck has said, and after all that has been said and written on the subject, it is our opinion that this German difficulty, and other similar difficulties in Europe, can only be settled by adopting the American principle and completely severing the connection between Church and State. This German difficulty is only another and a stronger argument in favor of the voluntary principle in matters religious. The Church should confine itself to its own proper province ; the State should do the same. Let the churches be left to themselves, and the level will soon be reached. BaNISHMENT OF THE BonaPartes.—President Thiers, it is reported, as @ last resort against the Bonapartes, will shortly introduce a bill in the French Assembly demanding their banishment from. France. Prince Napoleon (Plon Plon), in his demand to be recognized as a French citizen, with all the rights attach- ing to such citizenship, has doubtless driven President Thiers to this desperate expedient of the banishment of the Bonapartes. In the proposition he confesses that the Empire still commands a dangerous party in France. But will the expulsion of the Bonapartes weaken their cause? Will not such expulsion rather strengthen them on the ground of a needless and anti-republican persecution? That is the question. Tae Weex ww Watt Srrcet closed with an advance in gold to 117, the rise being chiefly due to the enormous importations of foreign merchandise, the total for the week having been $13,884,000, or at the rate of nearly $2,000,000 a day. The rumor also prevailed that the April statement of the public debt would show an increase. Furthermore, the Bank of England has raised the rate of dis- count to four per cent, . Tue Latest Stuty Hoax.—The reported burning of the National Bridge of Virginia. The story was started by some callow sopho- more in the Southern Colleqians The Unexampled Prosperity of the Herald—What Accounts For It? Over a paper containing one hundred and eight columns of printed matter, of which sixty-seven columns are advertisements, we salute our readers to-day. The paper on this score speaks for itself; but the public may not be aware that it is the first time in the history of the Heratp that the quadruple sheet of ninety-six columns fell so far short of the demands for space of advertisements and news as to compel the issue of a twelve column sup- plement in addition. We have many times of late found ourselves considerably chagrined at the necessity of choosing whether we should omit valuable news that we had paid for or advertisements for which our business com- munity were anxious to pay us. The puzzling position is not so comical or so easy to decide as would appear at the first blush. There is a serious, weighty contract on each side, and even in the best arranged compromise one or both must suffer. To a struggling journal the windfall of a rush of advertisements might settle the question of news pretty effectually. To a moderately successful journal the adver- tisements might prove a temptation hard to resist, and the human likelihood is that the news would suffer. To the Heraup, however, whose prosperity removes greatly the necessity of a narrow view of the situation, it can only be decided on the fairest and most impartial valuation of the items on either side lowest down in the scale of interest. To the Herat, with its reputation to sustain of being the foremost news-gatherer of the world, and the mouthpiece of independent opinion, the necessity of giving all the news and the fulness of its views thereon becomes paramount. On the other hand the advertiser has undeniable claims upon publication out- side of the money he is willing to pay. These are briefly told. The advertise- ment is o means by which a person seeks to appeal to a wider circle than he could otherwise command. In nineteen cases out of twenty he desires to make his appeal on a certain day. After that date it may be value- less to him, or at least of diminished benefit. From the regularity with which the contract to publish in an indicated issue has been kept it becomes highly improper to break faith with him. When he presents and pays for his advertisement it becomes a real duty to publish it. To return his money would not fully compensate him for the loss, and, if the Geneva Court of Arbitration had not ruled as it did he might have good grounds to sue for ‘indirect damages,’’ based on the profit he ought to have reaped. There is only one real escape from the diffi- culty, and that is to publish all the advertise- ments and all the news. The Hzratp of eighteen pages, which we issue to-day, is a proof that we have determined fully on that course, To those unacquainted with the busy inner life of a great daily paper this resolution may seem as simple as knocking in the end of an egg, to make it stand, did to the Spanish courtiers with whom Columbus had his re- nowned discussion about discovering America. It requires, nevertheless, the consideration of a multitude of details which we do not now propose to relate. Every newspaper estab- lishment has a well-known limit to its pro- duction. Its maximum issue of printed copies is regulated by rules the public do not appre- ciate. The number, capacity and working speed of its presses are not, as many imagine, the only conditions of its productive power. If the Heratp presses can run up to & hun- dred thousand impressions an hour and can prepare a full edition of ninety-six columns in time for the mails and the carriers, it does not follow that with such immense printing resources a ,twelve column supplement is a mere bagatelle addition. The time and facil- ities for ‘‘setting up," classifying, arranging, indexing, editing and stereotyping the entire mass of matter are limited, especially the time. In an establishment conducted on business principles there is as little waste force as possible, and hence every step forward in increase of size or circnlation makes careful fore- thought a necessity in the mechanical branches as the occurrence of events at home and abroad does to insure their being duly chron- icled among the news. In the present case the symptoms of increased wants have not ap- peared altogether unexpectedly. The rise of the Hrraxp in public demand has been steady and continuous. The present number indi- cates sufficiently how we have prepared for the pleasing emergency. Need we add that further calls on our resources will be met with similar promptness and cheerfulness? But what does this unparalleled prosperity of the Hzratp mean? It is simply the strong pulse of the nation beating with gathering force and vigor. The Henatp is the paper of the nation, not of a class ora party, and it rises and prospers with the nation it repre- sents. The full tide of the young nation’s life-blood flowing fresh from the heart tingles in its lines. The energy, the persistence, the unconquerable courage of the people are in- fibrated with its thought, its aspiration and its achievements. That such a paper should be in rising demand, that men seeking to make their wants known through advertisements should seek its columns, are easily deducible conclu- sions. An examination of its editorials, its news from every quarter of the globe, the ex- tent and amazing variety of its adver- tisements, will show how this national, popular, non-partisan, unsectarian spirit is sustained, and how it is justified by its great re- sults of which success is only one. The growth of a paper like the Heratp is, in some respects, surprising to those who have watched over it from its beginnings. Uncramped with the ties of parties that rise and fall, .un- shackled to men who come and go, unswayed by the stormy waves of popular passions that ebb and flow, it was laid open only to progress born of truth. Science laid its gifts at our door, and they were gratefully received, not to be hidden away like the talent of the parable, but to be made instantly of. service in the career we had chosen. Only a paper based upon the mogt catholic principles conld im- mediately grasp the opportunities offered, and only such » paper could so soon and so fully reap the benefit. What seemed bold ex- periments, even to those who made them, were swiftly proven to be but the workings of a rational law, the new medium for which had been recognized, as it were, by instinct. Such, for instance, was the application of the tele- graph to news collecting. ‘The heavy, dog matic, quarrelsome patty journal had all the Preceptions of its directors engrossed upon party affairs. From gazing too long on the party it became the whole world to them, and they neither understood why any- thing more was wanted nor cared whether it was or no. To a journal that recognized intelligent human beings in the members of all parties and virtues or vices in any party possessing either, the appre- ciation of aids from science to reach the grow- ing needs of journalism was a simple matter. The essay and thé success were easy of de- monstration afterwards. The secret of the whole thing lay in the basis on which the Henawp was started. It was broad in principle to accommodate itself to any call of progress, and it needed thereafter only clear heads and willing hands to keep the Heraup abreast of its destiny. The fields of active, independent journal- ism have been wonderfully enlarged since the Henatp first saw the day. Yet it can proudly say that its banner-bearers have been the pioneers in every one of them, and that in none has it ever lost ground. This, and the determination to seek opportunities for its activities wherever over the wide world there is anything of human interest to be found, keep it keenly alive to its duty. Its past and its present are not only guarantees for its future, but the measures on which its endea- vors to surpass must be calculated. Subjects wear out like the types from which they are printed ; but in the world of to-day it only needs enterprise to replace the one and money the other. The fearless voice that defends and upholds right and justice and assails and condemns wrong is sure of its audience in a land where all men are free. The words which reach a million minds before the day of their utterance has grown into noon must, when formulating honest, untrammelled thonghts, wield a powerful influence. The journal which respects no person or doctrine when either is prejudicial to national, social or moral well-being, must, if otherwise up to the true journalistic level, be a mighty power. This brings its heavy responsibilities as well as every other attribute, managerial or me- chanical, which goes to make up the true journal. We have not, in this general article, dwelt on any of the special features of the Henary’s work of late except in the nature of advertisements. We have said that they typified the commercial activity of the nation. At present they indicate a highly encouraging outlook for the Spring trade in all its branches. A markedly severe Winter is pass- ing away, and business recovers from its hybernation with wonderful celerity. We present to our readers, with hearty congratu- lations, the Hzratp as the best evidence of this sturdy awakening. With it we wish to present the moral of this day’s issue, that it instances prosperity because the nation is prosperous, and because in its earnestness, energy, activity and courage it is the repre- sentative journal of the whole people. The Brooklyn Detectives Still at Fault. The efforts of the Brooklyn detectives to make the woman Lucette Myers fit the place in their theory designed for the murderess of Charles Goodrich have been futile. The Chief— the wondrous Chief—now thinks that Lucette Myers knows something, but has done nothing in the case—a chapfallen oracle, surely. Never- theless, she is to be held ‘as a witness.’’ What she is to tell is not clear to the Chief or the District Attorney; but the pleasure of having @ poor woman in prison to be mys- terious over is irresistible. The great, grave and heinous fault the Delphian Chief has to find with Lucette Myers he details to the ele- phant-eared Brooklyn reporters. It is this: — “She will not talk about the murder unless she is questioned.” It is surprising she should hot, for the Chief only puts her about one hundred and twenty questions in an hour. Asa result he is convinced she knows some- thing ; but what, he knows not. He is fixed alone in the belief that she has done nothing. Therefore he thinks she is too valu- able a witness to be bailed out to make shirts for the Jewish lady in Orchard street for the support of her father and mother. While this is being enacted it is to be observed that the Brooklyn detectives have failed so far to find any trace of the woman who is known to have lived in Degraw street with Mr. Goodrich. Now we wish to encourage all honest efforts which will bring the murderers to justice. ‘The fortune which allowed the capture of Mrs, Myers should be supplemented by the skill which will arrest ‘the woman.” In the Nathan case a Brooklyn lawyer was arrested on mere hearsay, and the necessity of dis- charging him weakened the case sensibly. Similarly this false scent after the woman in prison must make the real criminals feel more secure. Everything tends to point that there was not merely @ woman in the case, buta woman in the murder. Is it possible that she has disappeared, leaving no trace which a skilled detective can follow? The woman Lucette Myers will, we understand, be called on to detail her knowledge on Tuesday at the inquest. The Rev, Mr. Talmage=—The “Scourge | of Small Cords” Needed. Our readers are now well aware of the novel scene which was witnessed on Thursday night in our sister city, known all over the Union as the City of Churches. We refer to the subject not for the purpose of reproducing the scene, with | its unholy and offensive surroundings, but for the purpose of recalling to memory another seene, witnessed nearly two thousand years ago. For Mr. Talmage’s purposes the Brook- lyn Academy is now used as a church. There he preaches, there he baptizes, there he dis- penses the bread and wine at the holy com- munion. According to the Presbyterian canon the Academy, so far as Mr. Talmage and his congregation know it, is a sacred edifice. In that place, for the sake of filthy Incre, Mr. Talmage and his congregation are holding a fair ; and there, on the night above mentioned, and before an audience brought together for amusement and as an additional attraction to ticket buyers, the solemn cere- mony of marriage was performed. We ask our readers to take in the scene as the scene was presented, and then to ask themselves the question whether the Master could smile upon it. Happily we have one example to guide us in the premises (see the Gospel according to St. John, second chapter and thirteenth verse), On that occasion the Master entered the Temple and found those that sold oxen and sitting. What did Hedo? He made a scourge of small cords, and drove them all out of the Temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overthrew the tables. What did He say? He said:— “Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.” What thought the Disciples? They remem- bered that it was written:—‘The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.” We com- mend this passage of Scripture to Mr. Talmage and to his congregation. We com- mend it especially to the Presbytery which has Mr. Talmage and his congregation in charge. The public waits to see what the Presbytery will do, The Presbyterian public particularly expects that the Presbytery will do its duty. Reflex of the Views and Opinions of the Religious Press. The Christian Union this week addresses a few very pertinent words for writers, remark- ing that the number of people in the United States who are seeking to earn a livelihood or to augment their incomes by writing for the press is beyond computation, to judge from its own observation and experience. Says the editor: — Every day we are appealed to, either in person or by letter, by men and women who beg lor an opportunity to earn money by writing for the ristian Union, and tn many instances these ap- peals are enforced by stories of poverty and priva- tion that excite our profoundest sympathy. If we could accept all the matter Ad che upon our atten- tion in this way we might easily fill ten sheets os large as this, every week, to the exclusion of everything else, What is true of tho weckly press in this connection is equally true of the daily press, especially when, like the Hznatp, a day is dee voted to the publication of the Iucubrations of religious correspondents, Jf we were to pub- lish a quadruple sheet every day in the week we could scarcely find space to give the long and sometimes dry and tedious commu- nications with which our religious table is weekly flooded. Hence we frequently find a capacious waste basket both convenient. and necessary. Try as hard as we can, we cannot impress upon our religious correspondents the necessity of brevity ; and for that reason, no doubt, many good ideas are lost to the eye of the general reader. If this class of corrce spondents would take pattern by the short, concise and yet comprehensive epistles of our everyday correspondents, their efforts would standa much better chance for getting into print, and thus contribute, no doubt, in a very great measure, to the enlightenment of the world at large. The Freeman's Journal (Catholic organ); continues to take the Carlist view of tha crisis in Spain. In referring to Don Carlos, who, the Journal hopes and thinks, will soon be Charles VII. of Spain, it reminds its read- ers that this day (Sunday, March 30) is tha twenty-fifth birthday of the youthful aspirant for the Spanish throne. The Journal editor will to-day, he says, in his family, offer his communions “for one of the two princes who dare to say that they are children of tha Vicar of Christ, and that if they come to the kingdoms of their several fathers they wilE rule as sons of the Catholic Church.” Thera is no disguising the earnestness with whick the Journal presses the claims of Don Carlos, and the fact that the editor relies altogether upon Catholic influences for the elevation of. the young Catholic Bourbon to the throne of Spain is equally apparent. 2 The Independent, in referring to the large number of converts who have recently joined the various churches, says the fact is estab- lished that Christianity is not altogether effete in this country ; that in spite of the croakings of its faint-hearted confessors and the sneers of its confident adversaries, it yet possesses a good degree of vitality and proves itself am aggressive and conquering force in the latter half of the nineteenth century. To these new converts in the army of the Lord the Independent gives the following words of pas- toral counsel :— Remember always that godliness and manliness are not twain, but one; that the test of piety is right living; and that a religion which does not make you better husbands and wives, more dutifub: children, more faithful friends, more truthful wit- nesses, more honest dealers, more kindly neigh- bors, more patriotic citizens, is a fraud and a smare. God save you all from the deep delusion of a sem mentai and sanctimonious piety, and lead you into the path ef the just which shineth more and more unto the perfect day! : The Hvangelist, referring to the recent visit of Governor Seymour, of this State, to the South and a conversation he had with one of its correspondents, says the Governor spoke: with much concern, and even anxiety, of the probable fate of the four millions of emanci- pated slaves. An ex-slaveholder, an elder im the Presbyterian Church, remarked to this correspondent: — “They (the blacks) will remain hopelessly ignos. rant fer ages to come unless some active measures’ are taken in their behalf.” He adds, “If tue Soutien cannot furnish teachers the North must; but they must be men of education and character.” Bue the South is unequal to the task to be accom- lished. ‘If not aided from abroad thousands of hese people will live and die without having the Word of God in their houses,’? The Observer has a long argument in favor of the death penalty in cases of murder. It remarks :— The penalty must be applied with knewledge and admission of its authority; then its efficacy will be demonstrated, but net otherwise. It must be ap- rir to the crime of murder, not sheep-stealing 5 f it be ppuee to lower crimes murders will committed in order to escape; a8 well be hanged: for an old sheep as @ lamb, ‘or & man as a counter- feit sovereign. You drive men into murderers if you misapply the murder penalty; and that fero~ cious habit has been the great source of false statistics against it in the case of murder. The Golden Age also has an editorial on the subject of the punishment of criminals, in which it differs with the Observer and advo= cates the abolition of the death penalty. The Age avers that crime is on the increase be- cause there is no certainty of punishment, The Liberal Christian believes that ‘‘no folly | ean be greater than for society to excuse crimes on the plea of drunkenness. It is say- ing to passionate, lusty and thoughtless youth, If you want to do anything criminal, get drank and you can do it with comparative safety. It is multiplying and increasing the quantity of crime and the perils of society.”” The Jewish Messenger touches on ‘‘synas gogue singing,’’ saying: — We would restore congregational Hep e would have our children interested in the and praises, even though the sensitive ear ef the skilful musician sheuid be occasionally disturbet by a false note. And letit be remarked, that the exaggerations in the chant of the reader are as much out of place as the artistic subtieties of the choir, We should be inciined to treat the musicat part of our service on the most radivai of princi~ ples—reform it altogether. The Jewish Times is opposed to. the Inter- national Exhibition to be heid in Philadel« phia in 1876, in consequence of ‘the feature of Christianity contained in a business circular, issned by the executive. committee. Tha Times thinks “‘there musk. be something wrong in the management of the affair thus far, else it could not have fallen so stillborn on the and mns sheep and doves. and the changers of money | minds of the vgovlg’* Why won't our Jews