The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. e XXXVIII........ eeeeee ereeeees WO. LIS ———————————————————————— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, £7, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.— @McEvor's New Hiseunicon. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Witp Cat Nep— WOs.icine 4 Frrenp, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 51é Broadway.—Drawa, SBuRuxsqce AND OLI0. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- fway.—Divorcr. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— [Broop Moxey. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Varusty Ewnrsr- MENT. \_NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Bouston sts.—Azraxt; on, Tux Magic Cuanm, | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston end Bleecker street.—Huxrry Duxrrr. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near fBroadway.—Frov Frov. t | WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth pitrcet.—Davip Gannic, &c. (_ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth (ev.—Monrx Caisto. 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AN ENGLISH SCHOONER WITH CONTRABAND OF WAR ON BOARD—SEVENTH PacE. DEPLORABLE CONDUCT OF THE AMERICAN OFFICIALS AT THE VIENNA FAIR! THE “MODEL SCHOOL HOUSE” TURNED INTO A RESTAURANT! MONEYS REOCFIVED AND BORROWED FOR PRIVILEGES GIVEN! VAN BUREN INDIGNANT! GERMAN JOUR- NALS VENTILATING THE SCANDAL— SEVENTH PaGE. WRADICAL TRIUMPHS IN FRANCE! AN UNUSU- ALLY HEAVY VOTE CAST IN THE PARIS ELECTIONS! THE CANDIDATE OF M. THIERS BADLY WORSTED! COUNT DE REMUSAT’S ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS— SEVENTH Pace. SOLEMN CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF SAVANNAH! PERSONAL SKETCH OF THE NEW DIGNITARY, THE YOUNGEST CATH- OLIC PRELATE IN AMERICA—Tuirp Page. RREVELATIONS OF SPIRITUAL TRUTH! VIEWS OF THE PASTORS ON THE PAST AND A PURGATORY OF OLD AGE, RADICAL AND SECTARIAN RELIGION, THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE BIBLE AND KINDRED TOPICS! GRAND CATHEDRAL SERVICES— i FourtH PaGE, FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF ASSYRIAN AN- TIQUITIES! IMPORTANT OPERATIONS OF AN ENGLISH PRESS EXPLORER! NEW KEYS TO ASSIST TRANSLATORS—SEVENTH Page. RAND HONORS ACCORDED TO THE GERMAN 's KAISER IN THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL! IM- POSING CEREMONIES IN THE WINTER PALACE—SEVENTN PaGE. WAINTOR, THE DEFAULTER, IN PRISON! SHAME- FUL MISMANAGEMENT OF THE ATLANTIC BANK! EVILS OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM— TENTH PAGE. WALL STREET AND THE ATLANTIC BANK DE- FALCATION! THE PHILOSOPHY DEDU- CIBLE! THE NATURAL FRUIT OF LACK OF HONOR AND OF SKILL IN MANAGE- MENT! MONEY, STOCKS AND GOLD— FourtTH PAGE. YHE PHELPS, DODGE & CO. FRAUDS! OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE TREASURY FILES, GIVING THE CASE FOR THE PROSECU- TION! WHAT WAS CUMPROMISED—TuirD PaGE. BRICELAND, TRE WASHINGTON (PA.) MUR: DERER, AGAIN IN CUSTODY! HIS STORY OF THE ESCAPE! LITERARY EFFORTS— A MURDERER DOOMED—AUSTRIA IN ASIA—FirTH PAGE. Preswpest Grant 1x Cororapo.—President Grant, his wife and daughter, and General Bab- cock, his private secretary, reached Denver, Colorado, on Saturday at two P. M., and re- maining over Sunday in that city as guests of the Governor, they were booked for an excur- sion to Taho Springs to-day, and are doubt- less going, provided they are not flanked by a snow storm. Colorado, meantime, is very anxious to be relieved of her apprenticeship as a Territory and to put on the dignities of a State, and doubtless her sturdy pioneers wish the President to see that she is pretiy well up im the world. Tae Pryce or Wares En Rovre ror Vrenna.—On Saturday the Prince of Wales passed through Brussels on his way to Vienna. During the Summer months Vienna is certain to be the centre of attraction to the travelling and pleasure-seeking public. It is not un- fair, we think, to say that the interest which is taken in the Vienna Exposition revives the memory of the great London Exhibition of 1851 more than any of the others which have been held in the interval. One of the attrac- tions of the great fair will be the assemblage of crowned heads and so-called princes of the blood. The Emperors of Russia and of Ger- many, the Shah of Persia and the Khédive of Egypt, the Prince Imperial of Germany and the heir-apparent to the British throne, with others of the world’s magnates, will, on the opening day, give grace to the scene and lend interest to the proceedings. Let us hope that among the fruits of the Exhibition will be the promotion of a good understanding among the world's rulers and the establish- ment of peace on firm and enduring founda- pri The Greed of the Atlantic Cable Com- pany—Public Rights Against the Tyranny of Monopolies. The history of the Atlantic Cable Company is not a history of enlightened views and lib- eral management. Pending their protracted struggle for success the projectors of the magnificent scheme of uniting the two Con- tinents by the electric wire were regarded as public benefactors, and the world gave them credit for a loftier obje>t than that of securing enormous profits out of the venture. It was believed that the advancement of science, the progress of civilization, the enlightenment and happiness of the people, were the incen- tives to a perseverance and devotion that commanded general admiration. But as soon as success was secured, that greedy policy began to manifest itself which has ever since marked the action of the company and disfigured its otherwise useful work. It speedily became evident that the views of the managers of the cable were limited to the commercial aspect of the enterprise, and that the momentous question with them was, not what would be the advantages of the great triumph of science to mankind, but how much money it would bring into their own pockets. There have been laudable instances of unselfishness on the part of men who have accomplished resulta of vast importance and benefit to the world, but the constructors of the first Atlantic cable were remarkably free from any such senti- mentality. No project ever offered a more promising field for the gratification of the passion of avarice. The immediate connec- tion between the leading markets and mon- eyed centres of the world was certain to effect a revolution in commerce and speculation, and the practical minds of the directors of the company at once suggested that by confining the benefits of the cable to the wealthy, through the exac- tion of an exorbitant tariff, they could make larger profits than by placing it within the reach of a greater number of customers at reasonable rates. The first charges for mes- sages were almost prohibitory, and although in this instance, as is frequently the case, avarice overreached itself, and reductions in the rates became a necessity, they were made in a niggardly manner and grudgingly yielded. It was only when the near approach of the completion of the French cable threatened a destruction of the original monopoly that anything like a liberal policy was adopted by the Anglo-American Board. Fear then ex- torted, from those who had made enormous fortunes out of the people, concessions which a sense of justice would never have prompted, and something approximating a fair tariff was announced. The press has never received liberal treat. ment from the cable company, although the leading American journals have been the best and most steadfast customers the cable has ever had, besides having been its most valuable ally when it was struggling for suc- ecss against apparently insurmountable ob- stacles. It is scarcely too much to say that but for the aid of the press the Anglo-Ameri- can Company would have been a failure ; cer- tainly its work would have been delayed and embarrassed for years longer than it was if the leading journals had not supported the enterprise with vigor, and encouraged capital, proverbially timid, in the apparently despe- rate investment. If the cable managers had been capable of taking a broad view of the subject, if their eyes had not been buried in their money bags and blinded to every- thing but the vision of big dividends, they would have seen that their wisest policy was to encourage the use of the cable by the press and thus, by familiarizing the people with its advantages, to have made its constant use apublic necessity. As it was they stupidly regarded the daily newspapers with jealousy, believing that the publication of cable news decreased the number of private messages. When the Anglo-American Board was first urged to make reductions in the press tariff, the policy of enforcing full rates for press messages was strenuously advocated by some of the directors, with the avowed object of preventing the newspapers from using‘ the cable at all. Englishmen, unaccustomed to the enterprise and liberality which mark the management of American journals, believed that the suppression of all cable news would largely increase the receipts of the company from its private customers, and they could not understand that the press and the people had any rights which cable directors were bound to study or respect. Their policy was, of course, as fatuous as it was illiberal, be- cause the American newspaper would have secured the news even at double the cost of private rates; but the animus of the proposi- tion has been evident in the treatment of the press by the company, with very few excep- tions, from the completion of the first cable to the present time. When the French cable approached success the Anglo-American line was better disposed to appreciate the patron- age of the American journals; but, as we have said, the apprehension of dissolving dividends had great influence in inducing the tardy jus- tice. The eventual re-establishment of the mo- nopoly by the union of the French and English cables under one management soon put to | flight any hope of a more just and liberal course on the part of the company. The people and the press have ever since been at the mercy of a greedy corporation, and have had ample opportunity to judge of the quality of that mercy. They have been subjected to a | policy as annoying, from its petty tyranny, as it is injurious by reason of its sordidness. The use of the cable is now a public necessity, and the advantage of its liberal employment by the daily journals cannot -be overestimated. Without the press the cable would be a dan- gerous weapon in the hands of capital. It would afford undue advantages to the wealthy over men of ordinary means, and would become an instrument of fraud dnd conspiracy for the benefit of those who hold it under their control. In combina- tion with the press the cable is a public bless- ing. It places all men in possession of the news simultaneously, and does much—it ought to do more—to nullify the undue | advantage of enormous capital and powerful | combinations. It is probably to this very fact | that we owe the policy which we have de- | nounced, and which is about to be still more | offensively enforced unless public sentiment | should succeed in preventing the consumma- tion of the illiberal and unjust action pro- posed by the Cable Company. .It is an- uuced that the dinard pf Dirogiora intend to advance the rates in view of the business likely to be created by the Vienna Exposition. There is no Jack of present profit to the corporation; the fat dividends still find their way into the purses of the stockholders; the original investors in the enterprise are still amagsing wealth out of the investment; but, With_a perfection of covetousness peculiar to great and greedy monopolies, as tho busi- ness is likely to increase, and as the neces- sity for the use of the cable becomes tem- porarily more urgent, the gross imposition of raising the tariff for messages is practised by the directors upon the public and the press, In proportion as the people increase their patronage of the line the company in- creases its already exorbitant charges to the people. The more liberal the patrons the more illiberal and exacting become the patron- ized. We can conceive of no meanness more thoroughly contemptible than this. It re- verses the accepted rule of all commercial transactions and outrages every sentiment of justice and propriety. It is peculiarly unfair to the press, which has ever been the best and most permanent customer of the cable company. Without the business of the daily journals and of the press associations the dividends of the monopoly would have been much smaller than they have been from the completion of the first cable up to the present moment. The enterprise and liberality which induce the leading American newspapers to make pro- vision for ample cable reports from Vienna have prompted this new exhibition of avarice and injustice on the part of the company. The greed of the directors has taught them the characteristics of American journalism, and they rely upon the determination of our press, to obtain news at any cost, to enable them to successfully enforce their gluttonous policy. We desire to say that, so far as the great lead- ing dailies in the United States are concerned, a high rate of tariff is rather an advantage than an injury. If our business morality were on a par with that of the cable company, we might rejoice at a policy which would de- prive the less prosperous journals of the news, and confine all the benefits of the cable to a few firmly established papers. But we speak in the name of the whole American press, whose enterprise is an honor to the nation, when we denounce this projected imposition bya grasping monopoly. There can be only one efficient protection against the exactions of the cable company. We should adopt with our inland telegraph lines the postal telegraph system, and the English and Ameri- can governments should, by an international treaty, extend the system to the Atlantic cable. The true interests of the press and of the people demand this reform. Opposition might do something to remedy the existing abuses; but we have seen, time after time, how speedily and effectually a monster mo- nopoly, once firmly established, can dispose of opposition. The security of the public can only be rendered certain by the acquisition of the cable by the two governments, guarded by a suitable international treaty. Let the states- men of England and America turn their at- tention to this subject, for its importance to the nations, to the people and to the press cannot be overestimated, Stories from Assyria—The Press and Scientific Research. The enterprise of the press in taking the place of governments for the prosecution of scientific and archwological research is one of the great signs of the times. It is but the other day that Mr. Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, refused a body of English scientists who asked an appropria- tion to settle some topographical questions re- garding the plain of Homer’s Troy, He wanted his surplus at the end of the year, as a necessary tribute to John Bull's ‘national bumptiousness,”’ and, besides, he had no power to tax the grumbling British rate- payer for the purpose of locating the ashes of the sulky Achilles. There is no necessity to characterize this action of the British official. His apologists in the heavy English weeklies plead that Mr. Lowe is a passionate lover of Greece himself ; but they tacitly admit that he is, above all, a Chancellor—a ‘Treasury watchdog.”” This is sufficient, in all conscience. Private mu- nificence was long the offset of governmental carelessness or parsimony on these points, and now the press, with its matchless ability to disseminate what the savant has toiled to learn, steps in and becomes the friend, the patron, The long-buried story of the Troad will be told from the mute but eloquent débris and stones that lie where stood Neptane’s wall and Pergamus of Troy, whether govern- ments aid or not ; and Homer's verse will be read with awakened interest by the supple- mented aid. Our English contemporary, the London Daily Telegraph, has taken up the subject of the cuneiform writings in the ruins of the ancient cities of Assyria. The excavations of M. Botta and Mr. Layard in the mounds of Nimrood and Kouyunjik laid bare magnificent glimpses of the departed glory of Nineveh; but to the decipherers of the strange arrow- head hieroglyphics remained the greater task of bringing distinctly to our imaginations the life that circulated so many centuries ago around the great palaces guarded by the strange winged bulls. The work in this de- partment of Sir Henry Rawlinson has won its meed of praise, and a worldwide applause has greeted the labors of Mr. George Smith. This gentleman's translation of a cuneiform inscription in the British Museum detailing | the Assyrian story of the Deluge is fresh in the minds of all antiquarians. The tablets | from which he made the translations were | merely specimens of the strange characters, and it was known that thousands yet remained untouched in the mound tombs wherein lay | buried the sun-dried brick and alabaster | palaces of Assyrin and Babylonia, in fact, all through Mesopotamia or the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. Our London contem- porary chivalrously came to the reseue of the scientist, and Mr. George Smith became its special achmological commissioner to Assyria. In last December he read his paper on the Deluge before the Biblical | Achwological Society, and to-day we | learn through a brief special despatch from London that Mr. Smith has already unearthed | eighty tablets throwing valuable light on the chronology and names of the Assyrian kings, many of them hitherto unknown. A book of Assyrian rovers, too. has been found. aud the past, so long hidden, begins to speak in its colloquial homeliness to the busy minds of to-day. Matter-of-fact as the age may be, it will find time to listen to the quaint legends; and the journal that proves itself the liberal friend of science will reap its share of the reward as well as the studious decipherer of the inscriptions. Tae Last Exursrtion of greed on the part of the Atlantic cable directors, in attempting to double the rates for messages because of the increased business growing out of the Vienna Exposition, calls to mind the suggestion made in England when the word ‘‘ cablegram ” was under discussion as a proper designation for a cable message. It was proposed that ‘ cable- grab” would be a more appropriate expres- sion, Spain's Agon vinltoglan*" The news from Madrid shows decidedly dangerous symptoms of the anarchical fever. While the Carlists in the North appear to be receiving a series of wholesome whippings, the ultra republicans are playing with the shadow of the red spectre and frightening moderate souls out of their equanimity. Their anger is especially directed against the members of the late Permament Committee of the Assembly, and a vigorous hunt for them is the order of the day. Arrests have been made of prominent parliamentarians, and Sefior Sagasta was surrounded and threat- ened bya mob of the Reds. The volunteers in sympathy with the monarchy are also objects of the mob’s anger, and the attempt to disarm them will probably lend to bloodshed and massacre if they are beaten after a fight. The position of the government is not very clear through all this, but we see a justification of our fears that the Reds once bowed to would force the Ministry forward in the path of the revolution at an ever-accelerating pace. In the passion- ate anxiety of ‘the Reds to make as- surance doubly sure in the May elec- tions may be found a key to their present threatening front. If it goes no further Spain will, indeed, be fortunate; but the white heat of all parties in Spain gives assurance that little will be necessary to cause a lurid blaze of civil war to sweep over the Peninsul The disconcerted attitude of the monarchists is fast giving way to the dangerous energy that is born of desperation, and the new-fledged republicans are setting their teeth against the possibilities of reaction. The elections are the only means of ending the dangers of the situation. Should a large republi- can majority be obtained, the path will be comparatively easy, but if the rural districts swamp the republican towns in the next con- stituent Cortes, a Terror is almost inevitable. The republican government will need a firm hand and an iron nerve to con- trol the seething nation. They are now playing on a desperate hazard, and our only hope is that the end may be reached without chaos and all its horrors supervening. Is it an axiom of revolutions that a people ruled by the edge of the sword can only regain its liberty by turning the weapon against its oppressors? The bloodless birth of the Spanish Republic gave all the friends of liberty cause for joy; but the end has not been reached, and the festering Centaur’s blood of the monarchy once shed, who can tell where the madness it will engender can be stayed? Tue Puortts of the Atlantic cable have been enormous enough to enrich all its original stockholders and managers, so they now pro- pose to impose double rates on the people as a recompense for their liberal patronage. The Paris City Election. The Paris electors of the Department of the Seine were called on to choose, yesterday, a Deputy to the National Assembly. They per- formed the citizen duty with attention and energy. Three hundred and eighteen thou- sand votes were cast. Of these M. Barodet, the radical candidate, obtained one hundred and sixty-six thousand, defeating Baron Stoffel, the conservative, by a large majority, and routing Count de Remusat, President Thiers’ nomineeand intimate friend, most disastrously. M. de Remusat obtained only twenty-five thousand five hundred votes, despite the fact that he assured the electors of his fifty years’ friendship for and support of Thiers, and of his infallible adherence to the principles which have been set forth in the many messages and executive manifestoes of the aged Chief of State. The French capital was vastly excited over the result of the con- test, and the agitation was heightened by the knowledge of the facts that the munici- palities of Marseilles and Bordeaux had also had elections, and that the radical candidates were successful in both instances, as in Paris. These French elections go to affirm the desire of France for progress. They affirm also that there exists a sense of national irritation in France which may develop its tendency in a very distinct manner at an early moment, and justify by its mode of expression the accuracy of the asser- tion of the Liberté, pronounced just previous tothe taking of the city vote, thus:—‘‘The most well disposed people question each other to know exactly what they must do—in what sense they should act.’’ Atlantic Six Hundred Thousand Short. The facts which we published yesterday from the defaulting cashier and other officers of the collapsed Atlantic Bank form an alarming exposition of the management of that unfortunate establishment. Mr. F. L. Taintor, the cashier, had been for months dabbling in the stock gambling operations of Wall street, and, at length, on Saturday last, finding he was short to the figure of some four hundred thousand dollars, more or less,, in his personal accounts with the bank, he sought out Mr. Tappen, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Clearing House, and, as pleasantly as he would discuss the merits of an oyster stew, acknowledged him- self a defaulter to the amount indicated. The scenes which followed at the bank and the consequences of the explosion will be amply ventilated ‘on 'Change’’ to-day. The condi- tion of the suspended bank is reported to be as follows:—Realizable assets, $549,000; lia- bilities to depositors, $615,000; stolen securi- ties from the bank, $162,000 (the actual value of which in market is $228,000); capital of bank, $300,000; surplus, $76,000, making an actual deficit of $604.000. This lands same ta The Bank Embezzlement— | suppose that the real losses of Tainto:r are much larger than he stated. A deficit of six hundred thousand upon @. capital of three hundred thousand is rather startling, and naturally gives rise to such per- plexing questions as these:—‘How could this thing have happened unless the absolute control of the bank was left in the hands of this young and dashing cashier?’ ‘What were the president and directors doing ‘through all this period in which these em- bezzlements were going on?" ‘What chance is there for the. depositors whose funds have been sunk in his stock speculations by this fast young man?” ‘What are they going to do about it?’’ The case in all its aspects is so astounding and alarming that we shall unquestionably have a searching and thorough examination and disclosure of the facts. Meantime we await the developments which day is expected to bring forth. “The Seandal at Vienna, “~ Startling as were the first announcements of corruption among the American Commission- ers to Vienna, we are sorry to say that as they take tangible shape the worst suspicions be- come confirmed. Our special despatches from Vienna show that the matter is being discussed by the journals of the Austrian capital and by the distinguished people from all nations assembling there. This is indeed humiliating, but as a people we never shrink from any fact which calls for prompt settle- ment, Wo cannot afford to cover up sores that need the surgeon’s knife for the sake of the time-serving plan which saves present ap- pearances. The Neue Freie Press roundly asserts, on the authority of Minister Jay, that the Commissioners received large sums from extensive firms before leaving this country. The sums paid, and for which equivalent ad- vantages were expected, were given, says the Press, under several pretexts, one being the erection of a model American schoolhouse. What sort of type of American educational institutions it was to be is shadowed in the fact that two German restaurant keepers have obtained “privileges” therein for one thousand doilars paid to the Commission. We may for the information of foreigners at once say that lager beer stands sublet to Germans by the School Trustees are not by any means common appendages to our public schools. Our A, B, C is not taught by the initial letters of Ale, Beer and Cider. We hope to see these facts duly noted by our Viennese contem- poraries, An unscrupulous assistant of the Commission is represented as levying what a Mexican bandit and pronunciador would call a ‘forced loan”’ upon the contract-begging res- taurant keepers. The new Commission, composed of better men than the first, has commenced work, but finds itself impeded by the absence of certain plans which are said to have mysteriously dis- appeared. Whether they have been lost or are concealed by the recalcitrant members of the late Commission is among the mysteries. To aid the mixed state of affairs, it is related that Minister Jay and General Van Buren have not had the most friendly relations from the be- ginning. The latter has appealed to President Grant, remonstrating against his suspension and clamoring for his pay. The money seems, indeed, to be at the root of all the evil, and we are not sorry to see the official axe laid keenly there, The desire of the public is to see jus- tice done in the end, but even General Van Buren should see clearly that the representa- tives of the United States in such an affair must be above suspicion. Through the Henratp came the first public intimation to this country of the scandal, and we shall watch its development closely for an all-sufficient reason. As an independent journal the Herat is anxious to expound one lesson— namely, that villany and corruption shall meet their due under whatever circumstances committed. Men who do disreputable or dis- honest acts in the dark must be taught that the day will soon find them and that they will inevitably be held up to the scorn and con- tempt of mankind. Tue Honornastz Rutz in business is to make liberal concessions to steady and good customers and to be contented with smaller profits in proportion as trade increases. The business morality of the Atlantic cable monopoly is to take advantage of the neces- sity of customers and to fleece them tho’ more the greater their patronage. Because the press is the best customer of the cable, and because the Vienna Exposition promises to make the press increase its patron- age of the cable, the cable directors exact double rates. Isit not time that such a sys- tem of imposition should be swept away and that the English and American nations should possess a cable of their own for the protection of the people and of the press? Tae Rosso-German Imrenta.ist ENrexte.— His Majesty Emperor William of Germany made his entry to St. Petersburg yesterday, on his visit to the Czar Alexander, monarch was received with extraordinary honor by the Russian Court and people. The Emperor Alexander, accompanied by the Grand Dukes of his family, advanced a dis- tance of thirty miles to meet him and escort him to the capital. Here there was a grand military review, a public ovation, reception at the Winter Palace and decoration with crosses of honor. The Iron Cross, which wos con- ferred on Kaiser William, bears the addi- tional inscription, ‘for valor,”’ a compliment justly due to the personal gallantry of the Prussian veteran. The entire scene was mag- nificent in an imperialist dynastic sense, and its consequences may be fruitful in the devel- opment of grave interests, particularly East- ward. Gevenat Garrievp is out in another letter to his constituents explanatory of his course in regard to the back-pay steal. The Cincin- nati Times suggests that after he gets through with his explanations upon this point he try his hand at his connection with the Crédit Mobilier rascality. Better “give it up” alto- gether, like a hard conundrum, Tux St. Lovis Democrat (republican) avers that Connecticut would not have gone demoe cratic at the last election had free trade been made the party shibboleth. Perhaps no State in the Union would gain more by free trade than Connecticut. Her productions and “notions” are in the main purely indigenous, even down to the little family matter of nutmegs. Isron Marton. ‘Waxtap—In regard to the “pomp and circumstance’ of the Modoo wat The German | i Voices of the Prophets. There is a little sign of improvement in the tones and topics of the pulpits and the prophets to-day, though some of them are ex- ceedingly meagre still. While Infidelity is endeavoring to persuade its votaries that Chris- tianity is a cunningly devised fable and the future life a myth, it is encouraging to some of us who have learned to believe the fable and to live for the myth to know, as Mr, Hepworth assures us, that “Christianity proves itself.” And he thinks it proves its faithfal- ness and its intrinsic value by its age. It has stood the test of eighteen hundred years, and instead of showing signs of decay it is grow- ing higher, deeper and broader in its power. It proves itself also by its accordance with all of God’s works. It is a Gulf Stream that starts from the tropics of God’s warm love and flows across the ocean of our lives, making flowing waters where otherwise would be snowand ice. He is ready to accept the sceptic’s objection that Christianity is not wholly original, but thinks that a very poor excusé indeed for its rejection, as undoubtedly it is, All great things and truths come in pieces and particles, and the man who gathers them up and concretes them into useful forms or formulas we call the inventor, discoverer or founder. The same thing is true also of Christianity. Love is the basis of the Christian relig- ion, and the man who would be ‘rooted and grounded in love’? must strike his roots down into the heart of Jesus— down into the heart of the New Testament— where he will lead a life as sweet and peaceful as is ever seen in the world. So said Mr. Frothingham, truly and well, Andif he had said nothing more we should not object. But when he, having cut himself aloof from every Church and creed, undertakes to charac- terize our churches as ‘‘a bundle of sects,” he proves himself an incompetent witness. We do not consider it a sign of Christian radicalism that a man shall not be content within the limits of @ Ohurch. On the contrary, it is a surer sign of ‘itching ears’ and instability of Christian character. And we have never heard of a man who felt himself confined as in @ straight-jacket while connected with a Church who was not unstable as water and ready to be tossed about with every wind of doctrine and cunning craftiness of men who seek to deceive. Ohurch organizations are as necessary for the furtherance of Christ's king- dom as financial, commercial or manufactur- ing associations are for the advancement of their purposes, And the Christian man who keeps aloof from the Church, if a radical at all, is most certainly one whose aim is to pull down and not to build up. Such a one can never become rooted and grounded in the love of the Gospel. Rev. Dr. Prentiss preached his farewell sermon in the Church of the Covenant yester- day, and gave a brief history of the origin and continuance of that enterprise. He has ac- cepted a professorship in the Theological Seminary, and will make teaching henceforth his life work; for he told his people yester- day that when he left them he intended never to return to the pulpit. Rev. Dr. Quinn, now Vicar General of this (Roman Catholic) diocese, also preached his farewell sermon in St. Peter's church yesterday. His text and his theme related to the duties of a Good Shepherd, and these were presented in striking contrast to the careless character of the hireling. The former has been faithfully exemplified in the tender care of Father Quinn over St. Peter’s church for nearly a quarter of acentury. He passes the church over to hia successor comparatively free of debt and in every sense prosperous, and he carries with him to his higher position the prayers and good wishes of those to whom he has so long and so faithfully ministered. Mr. Beecher, by his own peculiar illustra, tions, sought to inspire hope in the hearts of those who are perpetually digging in the graveyards of their sins, trying to find the skeletons, He would give them such an im- petus that they should leave behind their past and go forward. It is the duty, he snid, of every one to hide the sins that he has been guilty of, and the same of the regrets over lost opportunities. But the most startling declara- tion that Mr. Beecher has made for some time was that made yesterday, that he hag seen purgatory, and therefore believes in it. The reader of his discourse will perceive» however, a marked difference between the purgatory of the Roman Church and that of the Brooklyn church. Mr. Talmage had another tilt yesterday with the public school Bible expulsioniste. He would not have that book put out of the schools because it is the only means whereby two-thirds of the children of this land now or in the ages to come can obtain moral and religious culture. He would keep it in the schools because it interferes with no man’s right. Itis the most unsectarian of books, and to expel it from our schools would be to make war upon the consciences of men, and, to his mind, the right to take the Bible out implied the right to take out every other book that acknowledges God. Mr. Talmage re- ceived what he sought—the repeated applause of a large audience. Dr. Storrs inculeated truthfulness, moral honesty, sincerity ot character, so that men shall act as well as speak the truth, To speak, to act, to live the truth in love to God and to man, he considered the highest maxim of human ethics. A truthful life is certainly a grand, a sublime thing, and happy is the man of whom it can be said that he lived such a life, In the “Outline of o Social Danger” given last evening by Dr. Conrad we have some startling truths presented, which should wake up the churches to a keener sense of their duty and responsibility toward the masses, In & population of less than a million it isa sad fact to record that fifty thousand live by crime, and that the casual or tem- porary criminals from whom the ranks of the fifty thousand are recruited number thirty-six thousand more, There is, therefore, need for something more than our civil reformatory institutions. A power that will plant honesty in the soul will make the actions honest also. But if theft and murder are in the heart all our prisons and peniten- tiaries will but postpone the manifestation of these principles of evil, which will, sooner or later, assert themselves to the great injury and scandal of the community. Neverthelese reformatories perform a very important funo tion in the suppression of crime and should be 4