The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1873, Page 6

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DON CARLOS AND HIS PROS- PECTS—TuiRp PaGe. PERILS OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC! THE ELECTION OF THE NEW LEGISLATIVE cH ! PRUDENT PREPARATIONS FOR THE COMING STORM! GLIMPSES AT THE LEADERS OF PUBLIC OPINION—Tuirp PAGE. POLAR PERILS! RESULTS OF THE INQUIRY INTO CAPTAIN TYSONS SEPARATION FROM THE POLARIS! CAPTAIN HALL BE- D TO HAVE DIED A NATURAL i! CHARGES OF DRUNKENNESS AND NY! ALD FOR THE MISSING VESSEL— SEVENTH Pace. WMAPTAIN JACK AND THE OTHER RED-SKIN! FIENDS DOOMED! THE AUTHORIT WORKING TOGETHER FOR SPEEDY JUS- ) CONVICTED MURDERERS—SEVENTO THE TOUR OF THE PERSIAN RULER IN EU- ROPE! A GRAND RE' AND GOR- GEOUS TRAPPINGS! HIS PURPOSES—Szv- ENTH PAGE. SUPERS STS ON THE FRENCH TURF! THE FOR E G PRIZE OF PAK 1s | ‘ON BY BOIARD. NTH PAGE. MEETING OF THE MUDA LEGISLATCRE— IMPORTANT CABL. iD GENERAL NEWS— NTH PAGE. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE LOSSES IN SI Pace. pa se IN GOTHAM! SEVERE LLIVAN STREET—Turrp THE GOSPEL! SALIENT POINTS RDAY’S SERMONS! DR. HALL PPY MARRIAGES! THE COLLEC- THE POPE! BISHOP LYNCH ON OLERANCE! THE COLORED ME NEW MISSION—Fovurtn Pace LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF DR. TYNG’S NEW ‘CH! IMPRESSIVE CEREMO- NIES—NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL—Tentit Pace. ‘ ® METRUPOLITAN SUNDAY ENJOYMENTS! WHERE AND HOW CRIME IN VTENDED EXECUTIONS ov TRAGES—-REAL 1TH Pace, FOR ESTATE SOUTH A VIAN PROGR LOAN—LITERARY Ci THE List "DANE WALT RE! Tunez Farmens’ Gnanozs have just been established in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. Considerably more than ‘three far- mers,’’ however, comprise the organizations, France, to Aut APPEARANCE, is doing well under MacMahon.—The indemnity money is being paid, and Germany expresses satisfaction, By September all the money will be paid and France will be free. Mac- Mahon has skilfully disposed of General Chanzy by appointing him Civil Governor of Algeria, Chanzy might have been dangerous at home, in the event of a general election. Whatever MacMahon intends—whether to re- store the Empire, or to recall the Bourbons, or to establish the Republic—he is evidently, by skilful and cautious movements, strengthening his position, At 4 Fanwexs’ Convention in Livingston county, Llinois, last week, something practi- ealwasdone. A polit from all political parties, was organized, with ® platform that opposes stealing, holds the railroads subject to State law, stamps on pro- fective tariffs and land grants, and advocates ® free banking system and civil service reform, ‘hie iw the proper way of pushing forward ie popular movement. Now let the movers Se ad ical organization, distinct | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 9; 1873.—TKIPLE SHEET. The Anglo-American Telegraph Com- pany end Its Extortions— Minister Schenck’s Important Disclosures. The letter which we published in yester- day’s Hznarp from General Schenck, our Minister at London, to the Secretary of State, on the extortionate charges made on telegrams sent to the United States by the Anglo-Ameri- can Telegraph Company, we hail as a formal declaration of war against this grasping mo- nopoly—the formal opening of a war, in short, which must inevitably bring all our telegraph lines, by sea and by land, under government control. In this view of the subject, such is the importance we attach to this letter of General Schenck, that we believe it will be held here- after as the distinguishing achievement of his publie life in the estimation of a gratefuy people. It is an arraignment of this cable monopoly before the government and before the bar of public opinion from which, in our judgment, there is no escape, as it is an expo- sition of the grasping designs of the monopoly ; monopolies, by sea and land, | know, imperatively demanding decisive action by the governments concerned. General Schenck had been thinking for some time of writing to Mr. Fish on this mat- ter, in having discovered that the company owning the cable between England and the United States ‘have an arrangement with the Western Union Telegraph Company, in our country, through which a systematic impo- sition is practised which ought to be exposed.”’ “Systematic imposition”’ is a strong expression; but the charge is well sustained. The es- pecial reason for our Minister's official inter- ference in this business, however, lies in the fact that ‘‘communications transmitted by ocean cable on government business are sub jocted to the same overcharges as are the mes- sages of individuals,’ and because ‘‘the public and private persons are equally concerned in having what is done known, with a view to some correction of the wrong.’ Thus it appears that the cable companies in question “have some contract between them by which itis agreed and arranged that messages sent- from England by the Anglo-American to all points in the United States shall be received and transmitted by the Western Union to their destinations.” Prima facie this is a con- veniont business arrangement; but the ob- jection is that ‘it gives to the Western Union Company a monopoly of the business coming through the cable,’’ for which they can afford to pay something, and, according to General Schenck, the amount which they do pay for this exclusivo business ‘is one-third of what is charged for transmission over the wires in the United States.’’ Of course this one-third of the land charges on this side for cable despatches is not drawn from the Western Union, but from the public, through said com- pany, as extra compensation to both companies, as will presently appear. We thus find from General Schenck’s re- searches that the English cable company have a tariff of prices—four English shillings, or one dollar, per word, date and signature in- cluded, from London to New York or to points east of New York, although after this month they promise a reduction to three shil- lings, or seventy-five cents,a word. They could not resist 2 special raid on the Vienna Exhibition. The Western Union has also its schedule of charges, which we need not here reproduce, But mark how neatly these two companies work together, and then tell us if you can, inquiring reader, ‘under which thimble lies the little joker ?'’ A message is sent by cable from London to Washington, Chicago or San Francisco, and thus General Schenck explains the modus operandi :—The office in London collects for ench word four shillings, which pays for transmission to New York, and threepence (six cents) more for each word to Washington, ninepence more for each word to Chicago (date and address included) and fifteen pence more for each word to San Francisco, which is more than double the regular home charges of the West- ern Union, and is so far a Crédit Mobilicr dividend, shared between the two companies. Our Minister gives a number of illustrations of the working of this beautiful combination of monopolies, and of the profits accruing to each of the two companies on long and short despatches, and then he expresses the opinion “that the percentage of these unjustifiable charges is no small thing as affecting the cost of sending intelligence between the two coun- tries, and that, go far as the government of the United States is concerned, it must have made a large difference during the past ycar.”” This exposure is submitted to the Secretary of State for such use as he may deem it proper to make of the information. We are gratified that the first use he has made of it is the pub- lication of the letter; but we are encouraged from this publication to beliove that there is a design in it on the part of the admiuistration looking to the reduction of the telegraph to government control, The Postmaster General for several years has been laboring zealously, and with still enlarging hopes of success, for an act of Congress placing our land telegraphs under tu. | the control of the Post Offico Department, as properly belonging to that Department. We too, that the Postmaster General is cordially supported in this great enterprise by the President, and we infer, accordingly, that this significant letter of our Minister at Lon- dou on the “systematic imposition” perpe- this unholy alliance between the English cable company and our Western Union monopoly covers a design of active governmental inter- vention against those telegraysh monopolies of the land and sca. We expect that the facts disclosed by General Schenck upon this sub- ject will be reproduced in the next annual Message of the President to Congress, and with a recommendation for some comprehen- sive legislative measures of reform placing our land and ocean telegraphs in the hands of the government or governments concerned. The subject is but a question of time, and the time is fast approaching when it can no longer be evaded or postponed by Con- gress. Our railway kings and telegraph com- binations aspire to the control of the com- merce and the exchanges of tho civilized world. Give them a few years more of the powers and special privileges which thoy now possess, and they will at least be the ruling oligarchy in tho United States, and‘ an oli- garchy compared with which the old slave- holding oligarchy of the South, backed by King Cotton and in the height of its power, Was a merciful dispensation, The farmers of the great West, in their awakened wrath against our railway cxtortions in the tramapor- | tation of their products to market, are band- ing themselves together by hundreds of thou- sands for their general protection; but, so far a3 made known, their programme of relicf is only a plan of half-way measures. Their relief lies in Congress and in the power of Congress ‘¢o regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States and with the In- dian tribes;"’ and the way of relief lies through the election of a Congress pledged to the regulation of commerce among the States, in the regulation of our railways under a gen- eral law. So with the telegraph monopolies by land und sea, Properly they should be under gov- ernmental eontrol and direction, and soon or late they must be. Among the numerous ex- press powers given in the constitution to Con- Gress are not only the power ‘to regulate commerce” and the power ‘‘to establish post officesand post roads’’ and the power “‘to levy and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises,” but the power “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for conveying into execution the foregoing powers."’ The tele- graph, we contend, properly belongs to our postal system and to the control of the Post Office Department. But, on the broader grounds of public rights against private mo- nopolies, it has become ‘‘necessary and proper” that the telegraph should become the property of the public under the direction of the gov- ernment. An instrument which, by an ocean telegraph company combined with a land com- pany, may be wielded to regulate the trade and the exchanges between Europe and the United States, and the tone of the press and the currents of public opinion, is utterly out of place in private hands. Nor is there any remedy against sucha coalition as this of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company and the Western Union but the remedy of the as- sumption, control and direction of their lines by the government or governments directly in- terested. Opposition lines, under the existing system of private companies, may be estab- lished, but they are almost certain to be absorbed by the powerful coali- tion awaiting its opportunity to buy them or crush them. The English cable com- pany and the Western Union have risen to the proportions of a gigantic and grasping mo- nopoly, which can only-be reached and super- seded through the intervention of the govern- ment, and we are glad to believe that General Schenck's exposures of the “systematic impo- sition’ practised upon the public by this joint stock telegraph monopoly foreshadows a deci- sive intervention of the government. The Federal Republic in Spain—An Interview with Figueras. The Constituent Cortes, by an almost unanimous vote, has declared definitively for the federal Republic. This places the attitude of the republican party clearly before Spain and the world, and will doubtless tend to hasten events. The Powers of Europe will now be called upon to make their declarations for or against the present government. It is to be feared that the centralizing tendency of the Powers will form one of tho greatest obstacles to a republic on the American plan. The dons of the Quixote order will find in it a danger to the dry skeleton of their old national glory, and the monarchists will take every opportunity to stimulate this hidal- gic sentiment. The Republic, on the other hand, will now be put upon its mettle. It has been allowed to complete the revolution legally, according to its own plan. It has the great advantage of being in possession, and if its followers can only agree among themselves in adopting a temperate but firm course it can yet command its future. In another place in these columns, this morning, will be found an elaborate report of an interview which one of our correspondents in the Spanish capital has had with Sefior Figueras, President, until within the last two days, of the Spanish Republic. We are pleased to be able to present the views of so prominent and able a man as Figueras before the American public. The late President of the Spanish Republic, as will be seen from our reported interview, is an ardent admirer of the republican institutions of the United States. His hopes of the final success of the Republic in Spain are based upon our success and upon the sympathy and succor which, he feels satisfied, republican America must yet extend to her elder, yet, in another sense, younger, sister in the Old World. Figueras recognizes the immense power and widely extended influence of the Hzratp. His treat- ment of our correspondent was courteous in the extreme; and he was all the more willing to express to him his opinions because, as he said, “talking to a Heranp representative was the same as talking to several millions of American citizens.” Read in the light of presont events—of events which have taken place since the inter- view—the views of the ex-President will be found to be invaluable. Of the ultimate suc- cess of the Republic in Spain Figueras has no doubt. It was not his opinion, however, so faras our correspondent eould gather from his remarks, that the present Republic would be an assured success. The late elections, although apparently favorable to the Republic, were really less a victory than they seemed, and for the simple reason that the conserva- trated upon the government and the public by 4 tives stood aloof. He trankly admitted that the best statesmen in Spain were anti-repub- lican, The leading men of the Republic are strangers to office and to all the routine duties of government, and, what is even worse, they are strangers to each other. Of Don Carlos Figueras thinks little and of his cause even less. Carlism, according to him, cannot by any possibility succeed. It has not the shadow of a chance. With the population of the Northern provinces Carlism is strong, but the leaders of the Carl- ist cause are really fighting for Isabella’s son, the young Prince of the Asturias, “I would not,” he says, “be astonished at all if—should they be successful and the Republic overthrown—they would find themselves at the head of troops bringing to Madrid Don Alfonso in- stead of Don Carlos."”" As if confident of some such result, the known adherents of Alfonso throughout the country lend to the Carlist cause much active sympathy. Although fear- ful for the Republic, considering the number and power of its enemies, Figueras does not admit that the cause is wholly desperate. It is much, he thinks, to be able to say that hence- forth only two forms of government are possi- ble in Spain—“either a federal republic or a constitutional monarchy with Don Alfonso.’’ Tho restoration of the monarchy would not destroy the hopes of the republicans. The re- stored monarchy, he thinks, will be but short- lived, and, after its fall, the Republic will be found stronger than ever. Speaking of Cuba, Figueras was willing to admit that ultimately it would become with the United States ; but for the present, he said, no Span- ish government could stand an hour which would attempt in any way the dismemberment of Spain or the disturbance of her ‘‘territorial integrity."* The interview which we publish this morn- ing stamps Sefior Figueras as a clear-headed and far-seeing statesman. Never before since the advent of the Republic has the compli- cated skein of Spanish politics been so com- pletely unravelled. His resignation of the Presidency into the hands of the Cortes shows how loyal he is to his trust. There are those, doubtless, who see in this an attempted eva- sion of the responsibility, but it is an unfair deduction to draw from an act which was morally obligatory. A few days will develop whether he acted wisely or weakly. In the avowed sense of the resignation it is a proof of his confidence in the Republic. His views are not of the brightest on its fature being untroubled; but his opinion, that if the mon- archy reappears at all it will be for a short period, will be widely shared by those who have studied the drift of thought in Spain. The Dramatic Season of 1872-3, The dramatic season of 1872-3 may now be said to be closed—no novelties except Summer pieces being offered at any of the theatres, Without being a notably brilliant or success- ful one, the season has been enlivened by so many episodes that it will not soon be for- gotten. The appearance of Mr. Charles Fechter in ‘Monte Cristo,’”’ and other charac- ters at the Grand Opera House, and of Miss Neilson at Booth’s, will long be among its treasured recollections. In the former we have an actor of great reputation and great ability, whose impersonations become a memory. The latter came to us as tho accepted Juliet of the modern stage, and though she fell short of the force and pathos we expected from her in great tragic parts and failed to please us in sentimental love- making, she showed herself a thoroughly trained and skilful artist, and captivated by her art quite as much as by her beauty. These are the only persons we may regard as strangers among us, if, indeed, we may still regard Mr. Fechter as a stranger. Mr. Boucicault is too much a citizen of the world to be looked upon in that light, and Mr. Sothern laid the very foundations of his fame in this city, Speaking of Mr. Boucicault reminds us that the plays produced last Win- ter—‘Daddy O'Dowd,” at Booth’s, and ‘Mora,”’ at Wallack’s, by the author of “London Assurance’ and ‘Old Heads and Young Hearts,” had little merit in compari- son with the pieces of his youth. His artistic successes now are as an actor, Mr. Boucicault being compelled to go back thirty years for the pillar of his fame as a dramatist. In “Kerry’’ he gave us a very frail and not a very original dramatic sketch ; but his acting in the part of the honest, faithful and loving old Irish servafit was developed with such wonderful richness and sweetness that it makes one of the episodes to which we have referred. It would have lifted a younger and less prom- inent actor into an enduring fame at a single bound. But Mr. Sothern’s success at Wal- lack’s was even more remarkable, for he made eccentric comedy prosper for a whole Winter. Though ably supported by a company which has for its leading ‘old man” an actor of such rare ability as Mr. John Gilbert, it was toa great extent owing to Mr. Sothern’s unusual gifts that the season ran through from Novem- ber till June with the production of only four pieces, none of them being new to the New York stage, and as plays, a part of the world’s dramatic history for the year. In the production of new plays the season was remarkably barren of success. Mr. Howard's “‘Diamonts,”’ at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, was the only American play which can claim even fair good fortune. Miss Olive Logan's ‘Business Woman,” at the Union Square, expired without o struggle. Mrs, Sheridan Shook’s “Without a Heart’ could not have been called an American play, even if it had been a success. Neither were Mr. John Brougham’s two failures American in any sense of the term. ‘Tho Lily of France," which Miss Helen Temple travestied at Booth’s, was only a rehash of tho old story of Joan of Arc, the mythical heroine being allowed to die instead of being burned at the stake, while ‘‘Atherly Court’? was as full of lordsasan American novel, A number of new foreign pieces were produced for the first time in this country, but only one of these will be especially remembered as worthy of dramatic art—Mr. Frank Marshall's ‘Falso Shame.’’ Owing to the misfortine which befell the Fitth Avenue Theatre on the first day of the year the popularity of this delightful little comedy could not be fully tested. This is all the more to be regretted because a great triumph for a piece so swect and pure would have been a better tribute to the taste of our theatre-going population than the success which attended the production of ‘Agnes’ and “Alixe’ and ‘“Madelein Morel."’ With- out at all entering upon the question of morality which is involved in these plays, wo could wish that French comedy, like French opera, had seen the days of its prosperity, It is about time that the new Magdalens be allowed to suffer their few years of wretched- ness and misery without their griefs and strug- gles being so frequently portrayed for the public delectation. No one carea to be con- stantly reminded that there is salivation in the strawberry and that the peach once was poison, Most of the standard plays, it is true, are quite as indelicate and immodest. The screen scene in “The School for Scandal’ is broadly suggestive'of impurity. What is now wanted are plays full of action and lit up by the sunshine instead of being darkened by the shadows of human experience, When we come to discugs the claims of par- ticular artists for recognition on account of work performed during the season, we open up a very wide field. Actors and actresses of established reputation cannot expect us to dwell particularly upon their achievements, and, though they were no better and no worse than before, repeat the praises of years past. Mr. Edwin Booth, for example, might have established fresh claims upon our gratitude if he had created some more modern character as great as his father’s Brutus. We hear that Mz, G. Jn Fos, after having given pantomime an almost classic consideration as dramatic art, is about to re-enter the domain of comedy, and we shall expect from him, before the next season closes, a creation as much his own as Mr. Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle or Miss Cush- man’s Meg Merrilies. Outside of the artists we have already noticed, none have gained ®@ more thorough triumph than Miss Clara Morris. Both as Alixe and Pervenche she has chown singular powers as an emotional actress, and if she has patience and true am- bition she msy wear the mantle that, in the course of nature, must soon fall from Miss Cushman’s shoulders. Miss Agnes Ethel’s creation of Agnes has added largely to her fame, but she owed more for the success of the drama to Mr. Mackay’s rendering of the Prefect of Police, in the third act, than an ambitious woman would be naturally pleased to ac- knowledge. It wasin ‘shits’’ like this of Mr. Mackay that most of the successes of the season were’ made, as, for instance, Mr. George Clarke's skill in rendering the inertness in the character of Lord Chilton ; Mr. Louis James’ easy assurance as the Duke, in ‘‘Alixe;’’ Miss Fanny Davenport's hoydenish, and for that very reason true, conception of Lady Teazle ; Mr. Orisp'’s Snorkey and Mr. Chega switchtender, in ‘Under the Gaslight ;” Charles Fisher's Abbe, in ‘“Madelein a: rat Mr. John Gilbert's Ingot, in “David Garrick;”’ Mr. Pateman’s Joey Ladle, in ‘No Thor- oughfare,”” and Miss Mary Cary’s extravagant humor in “A Bold Stroke for a Husband.” There were other special successes which we fail to recall at the moment, and much good acting on every stage in the metropolis. With actors and actresses of such well-known and approved merit as Mr. Harkins, Mr. Lemoyne, Mr. Stoddard, Mr. Wheelock, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Sheil Barry and Misses Fanny Morant, Mary Wells, Katherine Rogers and Effie Germon, this was to be assumed. And we must not forget that in the early part of the scason Miss Agnes Robertson repeated the triumphs of former years, and that Mrs, John Wood showed nearly all of her old-time fire in many of the parts she assumed during the Winter. It was a season of more than average merit as regards acting, and many poor pieces were made measurably successful by the skill of the artists who interpreted them. In regard to stage decoration there never was 60 much progress before. Beginning with ‘Le Roi Carotte,"" which was the perfection of stage appointments, there was no failure in scenic effects anywhere throughout the Winter. Wallack’s, the Fifth Avenue and the Union Square theatres mounted their comedies with extreme skill and beauty. At the Olympic the fine touch of the late Mr. Hayes was observed in many of the scenes, The mounting of “Leo and Lotus,”’ at Niblo’s, was not only dazzling, but superb. ‘Amy Robsart,” which closes the season and Miss Neilson’s engage- ment at Booth’s, is a fine example of stage decoration. So it will be seen that in putting pieces upon the stage and in acting them, with occasional shortcomings which we pointed out at the time, we have had comparatively little to complain of. The dramatists were our plagues, and we suppose they will continue to torture us for some time longer. Trinity Sunday Sermons. Yesterday was the day on which the Church delights particularly to dwell upon the doc- trine of the Trinity and to present to the world in bolder relief the characteristics of the triune God. The weather was delightful and the churches were well filled, some of them even crowded. Mr, Beecher had exchanged with Mr. Murray, of Boston, so that Plymouth church yesterday had the pleasure of hearing the latter gentleman tell them some things about God’s justice, which many of them, probably, had never thonght of before. He showed how inflexible that justice is; how the angels which kept not their first estate were turned into hell; how the penalty attached to Adam’s transgression was also inflicted, and how the incarnation of Christ had raised man from the level of tae beasts of the field, to which he was fast tending, to a rank above that of the angels, Then the very nature of God re- quires this inflexibility of justice, and this being true, who, he asked, is so insane as to imagine that God, at this late day, will revoke His decision or cease to act in accordance with His strict rules? The justice of God is a cir- cumference around about sin, and no man can possibly save himself from the wrath of God. Hence we must flee to Christ. Dr. John Hall sought to teach his people that the perpetual round ef change in this life should lead us to cultivate courage and con- stancy and to be steadfast to the end. The result of ill-advised marriages, he considered, is seen in such bloody tragedies as that enacted in this city last week. The parental relation is equally important and is enough to test the best qualities of men and women. The politicians who have been re- cently appointed to office, some of whom are prominent churchmen, were encouraged to seek guidance from Him who can make them mighty to repress venality and to uphold that which is good and true. Dr. Vincent held up the Apostle Paul as a model Christian for the imitation of his Pres- byterian congregation. He was grasped and seized by Christ. A chosen vessel he was, filled to the brim. Christ was his all in all. Then, as to the design of the Lord's Supper, the Doctor said it was not instituted for perfect people, but for poor and erring men. It was instituted because of our weakness, because Christ knew that, try as we should, we would forget His face. Hence the remembrance of Him in this sacrament. “Strong consolation’ is something that every man feels the need of at some time or another in his life. Where shall he find it? Not in the possession of worldly goods and pleasures. It is a fallacy mado evident every day by extraordinary examples that nothing beyond these can make happiness more com- plete or give the consolation needed. This can be obtained only by an assured hope of eternal life. So Dr. Bellows counselled his congregation. He bade them also in prayer not to address a particular body or shape, so to speak, of Jesus Christ, for in so doing they lose sight of the Father in the contemplation of the form of the Son. At the dedication of a Methodist church for colored people yesterday Bishop Janes out- lined the excellences of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose life and person and atoning sacrifice are the true subjects of preaching. The Bishop thinks wo make a great mistake in adhe: fae dying in their guilt and being 3 bl The — should also be warned of: — beset him, and the middle. joary-headed sinner should be ad- monished he peers to accept the offers of the Gospel; and the reason for this should be assigned by the minister—namely, the imminent peril in which mankind is Placed because of our violation of God's law. “The salvation of a human soul from the ruin of perdition is the grandest manifestation of the power of the Almighty. This power is analogous to that which brought the Lord: Jesus from the grave and raiséd Him to eter- nal glory." So spake Dr. Ormiston, truly and well, And the salvation of millions in Ohris- tian and in heathen lands, from age to age, is the very best evidence that we could have that there isa God and @ Saviour Jesus Obrist, His Son. The noiseless advance of the kingdom of God is s theme upon which poets and preachers might dwell with admiration and with profit. It received some notice yester- day from Rev. Mr. Mitchell. It comes withe out observation. It is not confined by so many acres of soil, Itis to be found in all’ lands from the Arctic regions to the South: Pole. Mr. Mitchell is evidently too sanguine when he thinks the time will come when all’ nations will be one family worshipping God. So long as diversities of mind and character exist we shall not all conceive alike of God nor worship Him alike. Hence the family idea will hardly be introduced into His worship in this life, if, indeed, it may be even in the life to come. Dr. Foss, drawing an analogy from archi- tecture, indicated the requisites for the build- ing up ofa substantial and rounded character. The plan must be made, the location, the foundation and the materials must be care- fully considered. The Doctor believes that! we have come toa point when we are called upon to build up more perfect characters than some we have built heretofore. And woe think there can be no question about it. Dr. McGlynn considers the mystery of the Trinity to be the supreme object of our end- less adoration, and its contemplation the source of our perfect happiness in heaven. This mystery, which was hidden from the wisest and the best of old, is now revealed to every little child; and faith in a mystery that is incomprehensible to the brightest seraph in heaven is required even of the little child as a condition of the trae membership in the mystic body of Christ. .The Doctor indi- catéd how there could be a distinction of per- sons and still unity in the Godhead exist, The annual collections for the Pope being taken up on Trinity Sunday, Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, deemed a historic sketch of the struggles and the victories of the Catholic Church more important than a sermon on the festival of the day. He therefore told the Cathedral worshippers what the present Pontiff and his predecessors had endured for the truth’s sake, and he predicted the triumph of the papal cause in the end. At the dedication of the Church of the Holy Cross, in Flatbush, Bishop Loughlin preached an able sermon on sanctification and the means by which it may be perfected in us. Tue Harnispunc Patriot thinks that the’ farmers’ movementin the West threatens to de- stroy both of the great political organizations in fiat section. Not unless the leaders in it exhibit more wisdom than they did at the late Indianapolis National Congress. + e danger of forever. the aged and Tsx Latest Taunper-Gust rrom Ex-Gov-' Ennok Wisz.—Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, has written a letter to the editor of the Norfolk Virginian—on political topics—of such extreme length as to prevent the Lynchburg Republican from republishing it on the day of its recep- tion, The venerable ex-Governor nover was famous for brevity, and was never much in- clined to be witty. The editor of the Virginian asserts that he publishes the ex-Governor’s declarations with pain, particularly where he declares that “there is reason to believe that’ their (the conservative leaders) present design isto declare a war of races—of white men against black.” The Norfolk editor avers that ‘nothing could be more preposterous. than this,” and proceeds to arraign the ‘Sage of Only’’ as an enthusiast. Moreover, the idea he expresses of ‘giving a cordial support, on certain conditions, to General Grant,’’ horri- fies the conservative editor of the Virginian, who, in addition to the ‘Lost Cause,” has now to lament the loss of one who was once! ‘Our Harry.” But the’ ex-Governor has had a great deal of experience in his day and gen- eration, and he certainly ought to know at this late day how the political cat jumps, as well outside as within the limits of the Com- monwealth of Virginia. Hence his views are entitled to no little weight. Grxenat Joun T. Avextur, M. C, from Mine nesota, writes to the St. Paul Press explaining his action in Fegard to the back-pay steal. Better let it alone. People are forgetting almost all about it, so swift does ono official steal follow upon another's heels, ‘Tarety Tuovsanp PEOPLE ‘visited Concord, N. HL, last week to witness the inauguration of Governor Straw. This shows which way the political wind blows in the Granite State, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Judge B, 8. Compton, of Michigan, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Captain Merryman, of the United States Revenue Marine Corps, has quarters at the Everett House, Assistant Paymaster William C, McGowan, of the United States Navy, yesterday arrived at the Hoff- man House, Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister at Washington, is expected in this city in a few days. Lady Thornton and daughter are stopping at the Westmoreland Hotel. A clergyman ts reported to be authority for the statement that a convention of baldheaded men 1s soon to be held in Boston for the purpose of re- viving the old wig party. General Giles A. Smith, formerly assistant post- master at Washington, proposes to locate at San José, California, where he has purchased a large tract of land, Hozay for Smith! “putler Clubs” are increasing in Massachusetts, _ according to the Boston Post, When that paper | gays a favorable Word about General Butler tt wilt! certainly be strange tidings from the East. The editor Of the Fredericksburg (Va) News was asked by a stranger, “if it was possible that little, town kept up four newspapers,” and the reply was, “No, it takes four newspapers to keep up the: town.” At the anniversary meeting of the London Royal Geographical Society on the 26th ult., Major General Rawlinson, before bidding farewell to the members ag their President, explained that the Victoria ‘Medal bad been forwarded to Mr. Stanley ia Amer RES ee Le ae RIE \ i in, i is ee cn i I