The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1873, Page 6

NEW ‘YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1873—TKIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD|™ : BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume Xxxvin. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ~ NIBLO’S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.— 1.40 axp Loros. ood YMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston nd Bleecker streets.—Humrty Dumery. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av. Costin Jack, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Gannick. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty. third street, corner Sixth ayenue.—Dappy O'Dowp. GRAND OPBRA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Bighth av.—Uncux Sam. GERMANIA THEATRE, Ronrteene street, near Third Qv.—AUS DER FRANZOSENZ BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—vack Harkawar— ‘Lovers in tax Conner. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Bur.esaux any O10. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—New Yran's Eve. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st— Mavw Org, Afternoon and Kvening. ATHENEUM, No, {8 Broadway.—Granp Vanrety En- ‘FERTAINMERT, BRYANT’S OPERA HO av.—Nacro Minstre: TONY PASTORS OPE: Variety EXTenrarnmest. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- cert. Twenty-third st, corner ic, HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— BARNUM’S GREAT SHOW. Night. Rink, 34 avyenae an LENT'S CIRCUS, MU son and Fourth avs, A Now open, Afternoon and street. UM AND MENAGERIE, Madl- oon end Evening. COOPER INSTITUTE, Third avenue and Fourth st.— Lavauine Gas Exuimiries BROOKLYN ACADL.«* OF MUSIC, Montague st.— AGnes. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bermnc anp Ant. — York, ‘Monday, March 31, 1873. THE ‘NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ‘ot the Herald. “THE NEW YORK CITY CHARTER! PLOTS AND ERPLOTS OF THE POLITICIANS’— EDITORIAL ARTICLE—Sixta CHARTER STRUGGLI THE DIVERSE IN- TERESTS ENGAC PARTISAN ASPECTS, FEARS AND EF tTS! THE GOVERNOR WOULD RETAIN THE REPUBLICAN CITY OFFICERS! THE ALDERMANIC COMPLICA- TIONS—Tuigp PAGE. THE CUBANS ANOTHER STEP NEARER FREEDOM! CAPTURE OF AN IMPORTANT TOWN ON THE EASTERN COAST! NEWS FROM MR. O’KELLY ANXIOUSLY AWAIT: ED—SEVENTH PAGE. EXCITED MEETING OF THE HAVANA MER- CHANTS’ GUILD! A PROTEST AGAINST UN- CONSCIONABLE GOVERNMENT TAXATION! AMERICAN INTERESTS DEFENDED—TentTH PaGE. MORE CARLIST SUCCESSES! TWO TOWNS CAPTURED ! F' NG UPON A FLAG OF TRUCE! SANGUINARY RESULTS | REPUB- LICAN DEMORALIZATION AND HEAVY LOSSES! POPULAR EXCITEMENT IN BAR- CELONA AND MADRID—SEVENTH PGE. §PAIN’S POLITICAL UPHEAVAL! THE HISTORY OF THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENTAL FORM, FROM THE MONARCHY TO THK REPUBLIC, AND THE MILITARY IN- TRIGUES FC A RETURN TO BOURBON RULE! ORE! MARTOS AND SILVER- TONGUED CASTELAR—FOURTH Paces. & REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT FOR ENGLAND! RESOLUTIONS FAVORING SUCH A RULE PASSED AT A PUBLIU MEETING IN SHEF- FIELD—SEVENTH PAGE. & RAILWAY TRAIN THROWN FROM THE TRACK! A DEFECTIVE ROADBED CAUSES THE SACRIFICE OF TWO LIVES AND THE IN- JURY OF MANY PASSENGERS! THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS—TuHIRD PaGE. CMAPORTANT DISCLOSURES IN THE BROOKLYN MYSTERY! MRS. MYERS TELLS WHAT SHE KNOWS OF THE MURDER OF CHARLES GOODRICH! THE THREE WOMEN WHO ARE IN THE CASE! WHO COMMITTED THE BLOODY DEED—Turrp Paas. PERHAPS ANOTHER MURDER! THE THIRST FOR BLOOD UNSLAKED! EAST SIDE DES- PERADOES TAKE A PRISUNER FROM POLICE CUSTODY AND FATALLY INJURE ONE OF THE OFFICERS—TENTH Page. GOSPEL ORATIONS AND LUCUBRATIONS! THE DEVOUT UBS) VANCES OF THE SABBATH! THE SAVIOUR’S PASSION AND SUFFER- WGS! LIFE, THE JUDGMENT, SCRIPTURE STUDY AND THE CURE FOR CRIME THE TREMES FOR THE DIVINES—FirtH PaGE. NEWS FROM MEXICO AND GUATEMALA AND FROM WASHINGTON CITY—MISCELLANE- OUS TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH PAGE. EDITORIAL CHIVALRY! TWO NORFOLK KNIGHTS ENGAGE IN THE “IRREPRESSIBLE CON- FLICT” ABOUT RAILWAY SUPREMACY! A DUEL ESTOPPED BY THE MAYOR! THE MATTER UNADJUSTED—TENTH PaGE. THE EXTRAORDINARY STRINGENCY IN THE MONEY RATE! THE SUCCESSFUL AD- VANCING OF THE GOLD PREMIUM BY THE CLIQUE! OTHER FEATURES IN THE WALL STREET MARKETS! THE BANK STATE- MENT—Ercutu Pace. THE RIGHTS OF LABOR DISCUSSED BY A COS- MOPOLITAN CONFERENCE—Tuirp Pace. RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS AND BRO- CHURES—ARTISTS AND THEIR EFFORTS— FourTH Pack. SUNDAY BUSINESS AT THE POLICE COURTS— TRAIN INCORPORATED BY THE INTERNA- TIONALS—EiGutH Paces. A Terrie Accipent, which cannot prop- trly be charged to the carelessness of officials, occurred on Saturday night on the Rutland and Washington division of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, by which two or more persons were killed and many severely—some fatally—wounded. The special despatch to the Hznarp in our news columns gives the particulars of the disaster, which, it seems, was brought about through the washing away of the bed of the railroad track. The storm that swept over the country has already de- stroyed many lives and much property, and this dreadful calamity may not be the last of that kind we ) may have yet to record. Tur Frout Between Two Ratiway Krvos— Tom Scott, of Pennsylvania, and Garrett, of Baltimore—for @ certain connecting railway line in Western Pennsylvania, begins to as- sume a really warlike aspect. We hope they will keep it up, for the great danger to the public from our gigantic railway monopolies is not from any hostilities between them, but from coslitions for general extortions and a Givision of the spoils, ne wow) Weck. omy onarter—Plots | confusion. The Custom House Ring en-| The Spanish Republic—Our Correspond- | monstrous crime. On_ this testimony the jury and Oounterpiots *of tho Politi- clans. The letter of our Albany correspondent, published in to-day’s Henaup, supplies us with another chapter of the plots and counter- plots of the politicians over the proposed new charter for the city of New York. Demo- crats, republicans, liberals and reformers ; old Tammany and new Tammany, Custom House rings, Weed rings and Committee of Seventy, are all alike laboring for a common end—to secure the lion's share of the spoils. The democrats who are in office, and who ex- pected after their overthrow in November last to be turned adrift as soon as the repub- lican Legislature assembled, have taken courage and hope from the squabbles of the republican factions and are doing their best tokeep up the fight, so as to prevent the pas- sage of any charter this session, and thus re- tain their positions. 'The Custom House Ring, eager to centralize the power of the city gov- ernment in the hands which already control the large federal patronage in the metropolis and the State, is seeking to vacate all the municipal offices at one fell swoop and to place the appointing power in a source sub- ject to Custom House control. The faction acknowledging Thurlow Weed and ex-Gov- ernor Morgan as its chiefs is re- solved to hold on to such positions as are already in the possession of its friends, and is not prepared to trust to the new leaders for such reappointments os it may desire. Tho Aldermen who, under the Assembly bill, were to enjoy the appointing privilege, have shown themselves too selfish to merit the confidence of the republican leaders. The Senators, poor and hungry, have been led to expect that a quarrel over the charter may bring up to the State capital a harvest for the Legislature to gather in, and have not unwillingly aided to complicate the question of the appointing power. Finally, when a new place has been about agreed upon by all the republican interests, and when the issue dividing the Custom House and Weed rings has been reduced to the simple question of retaining four republicans in office instead of turning them out to-day to reappoint them to-morrow, 4 new difficulty springs up in the path of the proposed com- promise. The democrats and liberals having control of the Board of Assistant Aldermen are found to have a little plot of their own to match against the plans of the republican managers. As the new appointing power is to be the Mayor and the two aldermanic Presidents, and as a law dates from the time of its signature by the Governor, the majority of the Board of Assistant Aldermen propose to hold a quiet meeting after the charter shall have passed from the Legislature into the Governor's hands, and to elect a demo- cratic or liberal President in place of their present presiding officer. In all these bargains and intrigues the good government of the me- tropolis is entirely ignored, and the only ob- ject that occupies the minds of the politicians is how to get the city offices into their hands or how to prevent the city offices from passing out of their hands, For nearly a year and a half, ever since the people rose up in their might and over- threw the old Tammany ring, the municipal government has been in a condition of discord and inefficiency—almost of anarchy—which has been but little less injurious than the rule of license and fraud by which it was preceded. Under the specious cry of economy and reform all progress has been checked, and great works of public improvement which should before now have added materially to the beauty, comfort and wealth of the metropolis, have been either temporarily or finally abandoned. The har- mony and unity of purpose so essential to an efficient and vigorous administration have been wholly wanting. Our financial manage- ment has been penurious without true econ- omy, and the large powers of the Comp- troller have been used to gratify per- sonal spleen rather than to advance the general prosperity. Departments which were disposed to display vigor and enterprise have been crippled through the jealousy of the De- partment of Finance, and have found them- selves prevented from discharging their duties ina satisfactory manner. Our citizens, re- solved to bring this reign of discord and inef- ficiency to an end, insisted upon the nomina- tion of capable and honest candidates for office on all the great party tickets last November, and when the election was over and the vic- tory was found to have fallen to the republican side they looked to that organization for the reform they demanded. There was a general feeling of satisfaction at the decisive character of the result. The State Government, the City Government and three-fourths of the Legislature had been placed in republican hands, and there could be no divided respon- sibility. Had the democrats carried the city and the republicans the State, or had the Leg- islature been less overwhelmingly of one po- litical complexion, there might have been some excuse for delay, hesitation, intrigues and bar- gains; but with everything in the hands of one party it was believed that a thorough re- organization and reform of our municipal gov- ernment was a thing assured. The people were indifferent as to the distribution of the offices; they only asked that incompetent officers might be removed, that harmony might be restored, that vigor and enterprise might take the place of parsimony and petty intrigue, and that the machinery of progress might once again be set in motion. They were prepared for any political change that might be made in the municipal government, notwithstanding the democratic character of the city. They had tried democracy, and it had turned out an imposition and a fraud. They had tried a mixed government, and it had miserably failed. The republicans might have taken every officc under the municipality if they had done so in a manly, straight- forward manner, with the avowed purpose of giving us real reform under a party that had not yet been tried in New York, and the people would have been contented with the change. In place of prompt and decisive action we have had three months of disgraceful wrangling among the victors over the division of the spoils, The first blunder was made in the quarrel between the new Mayor and the Custom House Ring over the appointing power; the next in the discord among the republican Senators and Assemblymen over the samo bone of contention. The party organs, eaeh with its little personal axe to grind, lant their aid ip increasing the deavored at first to coerce obedience, and, when this friled, adopted the fatal policy of hesitation and timidity. The object of the republican party was to take control of the city government; yet with a three-fourth ma- jority in the Legislature they feared to do so boldly, and wasted their time in quarrelling over details and individuals until at last the people have become disgusted with their whole policy. They lacked the courage to say, We have the responsibilty and we will take the power; they lacked the political honesty to act as partisans for the benefit of their organization; they have ‘shown them- selves simply trading politicians, each bent on doing the best he can for himself and each on the lookout for a change to promote his per- sonal interests. If they have lost the chance of taking such advantage of their accidental victory in New York as they might have se- cured by decisive and harmonious party action they have only ‘themselves to blame for the blunder. There is now but one course to pursue,. The Legislature having shown its want of strength and of unity, and the faction leaders having displayed no faculty but the faculty of squab- bling over personal preferences, the disgrace- ful scramble should be brought to a clase at once and the uncontrolled power of appoint- ment be placed in the hands of the Mayor. This will be the more practicable and the moro desirable inasmuch as Mayor Have- meyer has become satisfied that the office of Comptroller is ‘too large’ for Mr. Green and that we can have no vigorous and harmonious government without a change in the head of the Finance Department. There are many in- fluential and intelligent citizens who believe that the best way to secure a strong, efficient and honest government is to give one man the whole, uncontrolled executive power and to hold him responsible for the good conduct of every subordinate department. The twaddle of some partisan papers in favor of giving the Mayor the appointing power subject to confirmation by the Board of Aldermen is not worthy of consideration. If the Mayor is to be in truth the executive head, and if the legislative and executive branches of the government are to be kept distinct from and independent of each other, the absolute power over the appointments and removals should vest in the Mayor alone. Many per- sons who believe in this theory of govern- ment hesitated to urge its adoption in the new charter, because the Comptroller was supposed to exercise undue influence over Mayor Havemeyer—an influence which every sensible citizen must feel would not be for the benefit of the city. This obstacle being removed, they are willing now to see the sole appointing power vested in the Mayor, and the Legislature will save itself from further reproach if it will coase its indecent wrangling and placo the appointments in Mayor Have- meyer’s hands. The Mayor will then be re- sponsible for the good government of the city, and if the republicans fail to secure the great political advantage resulting from the control of the enormous patronage once wielded by Tweed and his associates they will at least enjoy the satisfaction of having fulfilled their promises made before election and done their best to redeem New York from misrule. The Southern Tornado and the Equinoctial Tempest. The late storm proves to havé been one of the most remarkable Continental cyclones on record. It originated . «ween the advancing Spring currents from the Gulf and the north- erly Winter winds, which, at the period of equinox, are in ceaseless and. well-matched struggle. The tornado of Friday night, whose centre tore its disastrous way near Canton, Miss., was, it appears, only a circumstance in the vast general commotion which enveloped every section east of the Mississippi River, in tumultuous and stormy weather, as had been preannounced by the Weather Bureau a full day in advance. The origin of the Southern and Western tornadoes has been involved in much uncertainty, but the present instance gives a clew to the explanation. The return trade wind, which begins to blow from the southward in or about the thir- tieth parallel at this season, is known to be a rapid descending current; and, as it is forced northward, confined between meridians which converge and gradually close in, it bursts open for itself, in its fury, a channel to the North. The effect is similar to that of the bore at the mouth of rivers, where the broad and swift tidal wave is forced into 4 narrow space as into a cul-de-sac. The Friday tornado must have had a barometer nearly as low as that of the celebrated Natchez tornado of May 7, 1840, when houses were blown, or rather burst, outward, by the sudden removal of the external atmospheric pressure, and over three hundred persons killed. The fact that the Canton meteor was in the evening and at night, and that the usual time of such phe- nomena is from three o’clock in the afternoon to nightfall, when the sun’s daily action on the atmosphere has reached its maximum dis- turbing effect, together with the brief duration of the outburst—from two to five minutes— and the general track they pursue from south- west to northeast, all go to confirm the view suggested by this most recent hurricane, It yet remains to be seen whether meteorolo- gists can bring these sudden and terrible tor- nadoes under the power of prevision, as they have done the great Continental tempests; but, with an effective and extensive weather system, they may, no doubt, arrive at their philosophy, since Nature, like a coquettish woman, discloses her’ greatest secrets in her angry and stormy moods. The fact that the grand circular storm, of which the Missis- sippi tornado was only an offshoot, occupied more than twenty-four hours in making its way from the Mississippi River to the sea- board, gave ample time for forewarning ship- ping in the Atlantic ports, and proves the im- mense advantage the United States has for the successful practice of forecasting the weather. The phenomenal rainy feature of the current weather, which usually. accompanies a season of frequent tornadoes, justifies the warning of the weather-wise against a stormy Sprivg. Great Conanessman Ganrretp “rises to explain” his vote in the back pay grab in a letter # the Cincinnati Times. He says he ‘does not shirk any just measure of responsibility” for the vote he gave. His constituents have just measured the extent of that responsibility and found the result. The sum of it is, they request Mr, Garfield to resian bis peat. ence from Madrid. In another place in the Herarp of this morning will be found a letter from our special correspondent at Madrid. It is only a few days since we published a brilliant letter from the same pen, illustrating the present condition and foreshadowing the immediate future of Spain. The letter which we print to-day gives a lively, graphic and exhaustive sketch of the first days of the Republic. A series of tableaux leads us onward from the days of Ferdinand, the last of the absolute monarchs, up to the present moment. Isa- bella, who accepted tho réle of the constitu- tional monarch, and Sagasta and Zorrilla, and the venerable republican patriot Orense, and the eloquent and pure-minded Castelar, and the ambitious Martos and others of the promi- nent figures of the day are made to pass before us. So vividly are the actors in this national drama set before us that we could hardly failto know them if we met them. We have, besides, an inside view of Spanish politics, such as has not before been given to the public We now know what the Republic has had to con- tend against in the slaveholders’ league, and -how wretched is the condition of the Spanish army. Who that reads this letter will ever forget that dark and chilly night when, amid the ever “‘sharpening’’ rain, Castelar, mounted upon a balcony, his voice sounding “ike a chiming silver bell,’’ calmed the. tur- bulent multitude which besieged the Hall of Assembly and sent it peacefully home- ward? Our readers will not fail to detect in this letter the same skilful hand which described the Napoleon obsequies at Chisel- hurst and which gave us the opinions of the venerable statesman Guizot. We do not ex- aggerate when we say that such sketches of contemporary history have never before ap- peared in the pages of a newspaper. For clearness, fulness, graphic description and sweet simplicity of style we know of nothing in the same line of literature with which to compare them. Macaulay stands out not more prominently among modern historians, nor Dickens among modern novelists, than does our correspondent among the men of his order. In truth, we have in theso letters at once the brilliancy and high-toned phi- losophy of the historian, and the vivid, dramatic power of the novelist. These letters of themselves furnish convincing proof that in the future of journalism a place is to be found for the highest kind of talent in every department of literature. We refer our readers to the letter, w which will speak for itself. Gaps in the Deepenen Soundings, The Atlantic Ocean and parts of the Arctic Seas have been partially examined in the in- terest of the first maritime and commercial nations, and yet we notice some great gaps upon the chart. Wo allude to that portion of the Atlantic between the United States and the island of Bermuda ; also to the southward of the Newfoundland banks. In our opinion it is time some vessel of the United States or the English navy should be sent to execute this work in the interest of the commercial world, to say nothing of the intense interest surrounding all matters pertaining to physical geography. The condition of the depths of the sea, the nature of the bottom, the force an@ direction of deep-sea currents, the temperature at great depths, and, in fact, all the conditions affect- ing the sea bottom, have lately acquired and grown into great practical importance in con- nection with telegraphic communication by ocean cables. We anticipate great results by careful and systematic deep-sea soundings, and some time back alluded with pride to the preparation of the United States ship Juniata, which our gov- ernment was about to place upon duty so desirable to science. To make it the more appropriate on our part, we hear that the English Admiralty have equipped in their navy the Challenger, one of the finest of her class, for deep-sea sounding, dredging and other scientific researches, We hope that the Juniata will be prepared in every way to make her work as thorough as that of the English naval vessel, It seems to us that the lifelong labors of Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College, should entitle him to participate in the results of the Juniata’s research, and the commander of this vessel be instructed to gather for the Professor specimens of the ocean’s bottom at all depths, with recorded temperatures at great depths, so that he may be enabled to give to the world his opinion upon them. By ‘May the Juniata should be ready to start, for then the weather will be propitious. Tue BaNisHMENT OF THE BoNAPARTES FROM France.—Prince Napoleon (Plon-Plon) has again given proof that he is totally unfit to represent and guard the interests of sucha family as the Bonapartes, especially under the circumstances in which that family is placed. His petition praying for the restoration of his rights as a citizen and remonstrating against what he considers his illegal expulsion from France has resulted in worse than failure. It has led to the introduction of a bill into the Assembly decreeing the banishment of the entire Bonaparte family from France. It may be found in the long run that the President and his Ministers have erred in the course they have taken, for it can hardly fail to awaken sympathy in many hearts for the Empress and her son. It is undeniable, however, that the inconsiderate haste of Plon-Plon, by forcing the government to take decided action, has, for the present, done injury to the family of which he is a member. Prince Napoleon would have acted more wisely if he had quietly bided his time. Unngasonabrz Verpicts and perverse jury- men are not monopolized by New York. A man ‘has just been tried at Bordeaux for mur- dering his wife, her father, mother and two of his children, He was a country postman in the wild flats of ‘‘the Landes,”’ and addicted to drink. He went apparently to sleep under the influence of liquor at the post office, twenty-four miles from his house. That night all his family were killed except two children. The eldest, a boy eight years old, says his father was the criminal; that after butchering the others he came to his bed and shook him, the frightened child pretending to be asleep. In the morning the postman was seen shill asleep in the post office. No other evidence was brought against him than that of the child, who, though contradicting himself upon some points under cross-examination, stuck firmly to the assertion of his recogni- tion of his father as the perpetyatar of the returned a verdict of ‘Guilty, with extenu- ating circumstances,’ which condemns him to hard labor for life. What could have been the intent of this jury it is difficult to guess, Either the prisoner was guilty or he was not. If he committed the act a death penalty would be light in comparison with his deserts. If there was doubt of the fact he was entitled to an acquittal. On what grounds, if guilty, could he be considered worthy of the mercifal consideration of the Court? Clearly those jurors are of the sort who never read news- papers, and thus come with blank minds to do justice between the community and the pris- oner at the bar. Passion Sunday Sermons. Yesterday introduced the commemorative seagon of the Saviour’s passion and suffering more immediately preceding his crucifixion, and it was fittingly observed by the Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches. Father McNamee looked upon this season as one peculiarly adapted to prayer and meditation and offerings of gratitude and praise to the compassionate Jesus, who suffered and died for the race. These sufferings and this death, the scene in the Garden and on the Oross, we aré' told, were so vividly depicted that the audience wept. And we do not wonder at it. The recital of this story has a power to move human hearts that no other story has, and, as Father McNamee suggested, the ines- timable results of the Saviour's passion will flowin upon the soul that meditates thereon and seeks through faith the blessings of divine grace. It is the story of God’s love to sinning man. Of like tenor were the remarks of Rev. Mr. Thompson, who gave Christians a scourging for wounding their Saviour by their incon- sistent, if not absolutely wicked, lives. ‘The crucifixion, he said, was not the lesson of an hour. Christ was crucified from the beginning and was crucified to the end. The energy that is concentrated and used in twenty-four hours in the United States could conquer Africa and make it Christian from end to end. If this statement is true, or even partially true, does there not rest a fearful responsibility upon this Christian nation? And by our neglect in this matter is not Christ wounded in the house of his frionds? Mr. Frothingham, who had been accused of being a nothingarian, has manifestly veered around considerably within a brief period, else it would not have been necessary for a religious exchange last week to deny a rumor that he was thinking of entering the ortho- dox ministry. In his discourse yesterday on the vanity and value of life he acknowledges his belief in the hereafter, and admits that un- less we live cordially and sincerely here we may not hope for the felicity beyond His statement of woman’s sphere and duty should commend itself to every true woman, To rear a child and to rear it well, to soften its disposition and to teach it what it will be, is the noblest work @ woman can do. Home is the casket that contains men, women and children; everything about it’should be pure, attractive and beautiful, so that men and women will love to be there. We hope the women will read this discourse and be profited by it. Dr. Clarke, of Brooklyn, depicted the judg- ment day that is within every man’s breast in the soul's living consciousness of sins unpar- doned. The sun can no more efface the water marks on stationery than the record of sin on the soul can be blotted out save by the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Mr. Beecher yesterday delivered a beautiful essay on the senses and their uses. If Plym- outh congregation pay the large salary they are reported to pay for religious instruction every Sabbath and get only such as this, in our opinion they do not get the worth of their money. And why a minister of the Gospel should go into a philosophical explanation of the use of the reason in re- ligion, any more than in the business of every- day life, is a little incomprehensible. The exercise of reason that men bring into their daily business, if applied to the subject of religion, would save every reasoning man in New York in a week, if not in a day; and hence Mr. Beecher might have told his hearers in five minutes what they could practise at once, instead of laboring through an hour to teach them that the business of this life is one thing and that of the life to come is another, and that different faculties, and their exercise in differ- ent degrees, are needed. for each. It is to be presumed that the majority of Plym- outh congregation believe the Bible and the cardinal doctrines of Christianity contained therein, and all this sensuous philosophy will not increase their faith in these things, What they need is to know of the doctrines, whether they be of God, and this knowledge they can obtain only in one way—by doing the will of God. Let them apply the same principles to salvation that they apply to making money, and they will have the former as certainly as the latter. Rev. John Dipkenson has been preaching sermons on temperance and reading works of fiction, and in a late discourse on the last named topic he taught that the reading of the higher and nobler works of the imagination was simply the employment of a God-given faculty. He had been remonstrated with for making this observation, so yesterday he gave his people some lessons on Bible study. He claims that this Book contains some beautiful specimens of the higher and nobler works of the imagination—allegories and parables. But how to study the Bible should be no more of a puzzle to people than how to study history or geography or poetry. The Bible is a book, and asks no odds of any other book. It demands study, but not a par- ticular kind of study, unless the student is seeking for a particular thing. But if the search is made at all the testimony of the Scriptures will be found in favor of Christ from beginning to end, Hence Jesus bade the people in his day to search the Scriptures, and Paul commends the Bereans because they did search them to ascertain whether his teachings could be sustained by them. Father Elliott missed an excellent oppor- tunity yesterday to hold up Christ as the author and object of faith, instead of con- fining faith and trath within the narrow limits of the Catholic Church. Truth is as vast as creation and as infinite as God, and to pre- sume or to teach that God gives truth and faith ta ong creed of to gne clags of meg only, is na absurd as to teach that the sun upon one nation or people only and beyond is dark and drear. = on Church holds truth. So’ does the who are Protestant nor Catholic, Truth and faith are of God, and, as He is no ppd epic sons, He giveth a portion of each to man to profit withal. Glorying in Christ and. in Him alone is good and but) will not be needed in the world above, where we shall soe as we are seen and know even aa also we are known. Rev. Mr. Powers, who does not ‘pretend to ~ be orthodox, may be excused when he omits. reference to Christ or his Gospel in his treaf- ment of crime and criminals as he did yester- day. Ifcriminals act from sordid motives ea intimated by Mr. Powers why not bring to bear upon the class whence, according to this authority, they come—a power and a motive and an influence higher than and be- yond themselves or the society in which they live? Until men have higher motives they must act from lower ones, and it. is futile. and unfair to charge crime upon. the administration of justice, jury trials, the lack of education among the thousands of this metropolis and other things im which we may not be as carnest and honest as we should be. Is not the pulpit as much, if not more, to blame than any other agency for refusing or neglecting to present to those thousands he enumerates the higher motives of religion of which wespeak? And is not Mr. Powers himself as much to blame as any other clergyman among us for the existing condition of society that he laments? Rapid transit, compulsory education, prompt and judicial enforcement of the law against crime may help toward lessening it; but from present indications these will have very little influence indeed. We have already had three or four murders in this city since the death of Foster, and we know from his record and that of others now in the Tombs that the crime of murder is not confined to the ignorant and the debased. What rapid transi¢ will do in this line remains to be tested; bué of tho Gospel’s power to reform men and give them higher motives for action we have not the shadow of a doubt. Let the masses have it The News from Spain. Telegraph reports from Madrid under date of yesterday indicate that the struggle between the Carlists and the republican military au- thorities is still maintained with great activity and zeal on both sides, the results being, at certain points, encouraging to the hopes of the Bourbonists, The mutinous, or, at least, indifferent, spirit which is manifested by the bulk of the Spanish army in the discharge of its duty impages the action of the democratic régime vastly. There ig little doubt that the Carlists obtained @ decided success at Ripoll, and that General Campos, at the head of a government column, was checked and forced to retreat in the same neighborhood. Berga was captured on tha 29th inst., the royalists taking some five hun- dred prisoners Society is becoming demor- alized to a most alarming extent by the conse- quences of the civil war, and we are told of robberies, murders and lynch law executions from different points of the national territory. The government has ordered elections for the Constituent Cortes, Some of the munici-« palities appear very anxious relative to the working of the educational system in the com- mon schools, and it is to be hoped that the rising generation of Spaniards will, under any sort of persuasion, be induced to renounce the sword and pistol, and to learn the use and benefit of the primer and the pen. The Woman Myers and the Goodrich Case. The Brooklyn police now demand an amende for the criticisms on their treatment of the woman Myers. She is not the mur- deress, they admit, but an important witness, who admits seeing Goodrich in New York af nine o’clock on the Thursday night. She haa given clews to the discovery of a man who was an enemy of Charles Goodrich, and whom, according to Chief Campbell, she names as the murderer. District Attorney Britton does not agree with the Chief on this latter point, but it is evident the man indicated—Roscoe, a Spaniard—is sought for by the police, A later account ase serts that Mrs. Myers has since admitted meet. ing Roscoe in Grand street on last Saturday week, or within forty-eight hours of the mur« der. This man had an altercation with Good. rich at Mrs. Myer’s home, in Stanton street, or at the house in Degraw street, as it is variotsty stated, but at least one altercation. If this is Mrs. Myer’s statement her being held as a witness is legally defensible. We have no wish to doubt the vital importance of arrest- ing Roscoe. His description should be pub- lished as widely as possible. While, hows ever, the best efforts should be made to find him, we would warn the police against build- ing too complete a theory upon his identity with the murderer. There are at least two women in the case with whom the relations of Goodrich were peculiar. Whatever may have been Mrs. Myers’ connection with him, and whatever enmity Roscoe may have had against him on her account, the other woman,, of whom so much has been said, had a greaf personal grievance, that would point strongly to her as having some grounds for revenge. This “Diana-like’’ woman has not been found. Until she is the mystery around the casa will remain. Let the detectives attend to all the points. The letting go of grave hints, accompanied by sage nods, to hungry “locals’” will not settle the matter. The publication of Roscoe’s description in the papers when learned from Mrs. Myers would have beem worth more than all the winks that conveyed how “‘thunderstruck”’ we were to bes ‘Tue Increase oF Satany Law.—The {‘tucine nati Hnqguirer declares that if the inrense of, salary law is to be repealed—and it should be repealed—-let it be in all its provisions or none. It could not have been passed except as are entirety. ‘We can get good Presidents for $25,000 a year,”’ says the Znquirer, “and Con« gressmen for $5,000."" We have no doubt thad some men could be found patriotic enough to take the Presidency for nothing and give a good bonus for the job in the bargain. Take ome of our railroad monarchs, for example.