The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. JUNE 29, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW’ EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.— Mint. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Two ix Ons Room— Ata—Weppev, Yet No Wire. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 614 Eroadway.—Tue Dawa or ScaNeipER. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwa' Suin Fane. Afternoon and e corner Thirtieth st— ng NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broi y, petween Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Bears o1 Youx. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near way.—Jans Eyre. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Hoaston and Bleecker streets. —Cicanettr. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Summen Nicuts’ Con- crnts. AMERICAN INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., between 63d “pnd 64th sts.—Mrirany Concert. - METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st—Orrnian anv Loan CouLections Or Ant. NBW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— _TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, June 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. *“EMASCULATED THEOLOGY IN THE PULPITS! FEELING THE PULSES, THE WANTS AND THE YEARNINGS OF THE TIME”—EDI- TORIAL LEADER—SixTH PAGE. TURKISH ANARCHY AND MURDEROUS INTOLER- ANCE! TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY CHRISTIANS BUTCHERED BY THE MA- HOMETAN DOGS! NO _EFFORTS*MADE BY THE AUTHORITIES 10 PUNISH THE FIENDS! FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES DEMAND SATISFACTION—SEVENTH PAGE. SPAIN’S CABINET UPHEAVAL! THE MINIS- TRIES A COMPROMISE AND THE LIST IN- COMPLETE! A CARLIST AND A GOVERN- MENT VICTORY! “DEATH TO NOUVIL- LAS !"—SEVENTH PAGE. THE DREADED CHOLERA MAKES ITS APPEAR- ANCE IN THE PRUSSIAN CAPITAL! TWO DEATHS YESTERDAY ! GENERAL ALARM— SEVENTH PaGE. AN AWFUL CONFLAGRATION IN MASSACHU SETTS! THE FORESTS OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY BEING CONSUMED, AND THE ADJACENT VILLAGES IN MOST IMMINENT PERIL! A WALL OF FLAME EIGHT MILES IN LENGTH! THE PEOPLE FIGHT- ING THE FIRE—Turep Pace. UNSURPASSED BILLIARD PLAYING! THE GREAT MATCH FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP UNDECIDED ! GARNIER, DALY AND CYRILLE DION TO DECIDE IT TO-MORROW! THAT GREAT RUN—SEVENTH PAGE. HOLLAND WANTS PEACE WITH ACHEEN! THE CONCESSIONS GRANTED AND ASKED— SEVENTH PaGE. LIBERAL VICTORY AT A SCOTTISH PARLIA- MENTARY ELECTION—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. READING MATTER FOR THE PIOUS MINDED! WHERE AND BY WHOM SERVICES WILL BE HELD TO-DAY! VIEWS OF CORRE- SPONDENTS ! DENOMINATIONAL AND CLERICAL ITEMS—DR. HUEBSCH ON GOV- ERNMENT AND EDUCATION—FourTH PaGE, AL FRESCO METHODISM! WHAT THE CAMP MEETING CHIEFS INTEND FOR THE DE- LECTATION OF THE DEVOUT DURING THE PRESENT YEAR—/ HIRD PGE. TROTTING EVENTS—AN “ATLANTIC” VICTORY— PRIZE SWIMMING—TeNtH PAGE. DAME FASHION DESERTS THE METROPOLIS! THE FERVID PILES OF BRICK AND MOR- TAR ABANDONED FOR FRESH FIELDS AND COOLING BREEZES! WHERE HER VOTARIES HAVE GONE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING—-Tairp Pace. MAYOR'S VIEWS ON THE MUNICIPAL “AMUDDLE—THE JACKSON MURDER IN- QUEST—TuEp Page. & PROBABLE MURDER IN HOBOKEN—THE NEW ST. STEPHEN'S, IN SOUTH BROOKLYN— THIRD PaGE. BUSINESS IN REALTY LAST WEEK! A HEAVY DEMAND AND PLENTIFUL SUPPLY! THE JUBILEE AUCTIONS AND THEIR UTILITY! NO DEMAND FOR BROOKLYN PROPERTY— TENTH PAGE. AMBRICAN AND EUROPEAN MARKET NEWS! THE WEEKLY REPORT OF THE BANKS— Fourti PGE. PROCEEDINGS IN THE VARIOUS LEGAL TRI- BUNALS—FIFTH PaGE. Our Crrzx Dents anp Exprnses.—It appears from the Comptroller’s statement and esti- mates of the debt and necessities of the city and State for the coming year that on this island— The amount to be raised by tax is. Of which the State tax is.... The interest on the city debt And the principal of debt due And that, deducting these y items from the general sum, $27,000,000, we have the remain- der of $16,333,000 as the actual expenses of our city government. ‘This indicates some appreciable retrenchments, but as they may all be frittered away before the end of the year we are not inclined to indulge at present in any extravagant exultations over the progress and prospects of city reform. Specta, Cornesponpence From Mexico Crry, addressed to the Heraup, under date of June 16, confirms our telegraph news report in the fact that the affair of the expulsion of two Americans as foreigners has not been settled. Mr. Nelson, United States Minister, protested against the act of forcing them from the territory without a trial and the legal establishment of a charge of having violated some law of the Republic. Mr. Nelson’ does not touch the question of religion or of clerical profession. The Tehuantepec Canal and Rail- road treaty had been refused by the Mexican government. Tue Mopocs.—We have no intelligence as get of any verdict from the military commis- sion ordered to try the cases of Captain Jack and his treacherous confederates in the mur- der of Canby and Thomas. Captain Jack has probably been embarrassing the court ,with bills of exception, motions for a new trial, and other devices of that sort. Governor Drx has been putting |his veto upon a number of bills passed by the late Legislature, and on the ground, in most cases, * that the object sought can be attained under existing laws. When a Governor is left with thousand bills before him for his signature he is doubtless safe in a liberal application of the rata, Emasculated Theology in the Pul- Pite—Feeling the Pulses, the Wants and the Yearnings of the Time. If the thing described in this title eould assume form and shape and appear to men they would start back in affright at the appari- tion. Emascnlated theology! What is it? It is a theology without the theos, Christianity without Christ, religion without beauty or form—a mass of dry bones. It is, in short, the exact thing which we see every Sabbath in perhaps one-half or two-thirds of the pulpits of this and other cities. It is sensationalism, pure and simple. The pulpits are not slow to charge the press with treating every subject in a sensational manner, thereby, they say, en- couraging crime and looseness in society and pandering to the baser passions of the multi- tude. But the pulpits are not a whit behind the press in sensationalism, as our columns will amply testify. Why is this? Is there anything in the tendency of tho times or in the ideas which pervade the minds of men 9:74. the wants of this age that calls for sensational- ism or emasculated theology in the pulpits? It seems to us that this might be made a fitting subject of inquiry by some of our ministerial associations, Afew weeks ago the Methodist Preachers’ Association started a discussion on the rela- tion of Methodism in the cities of New-York and Brooklyn to other denominations and to the populations of those cities, The statistics showed a lamentable falling off in the first instance, though subsequent inquiry presented the facts ina much more favorable light for Methodism. In accounting for the decline here of a denomfnation which largely outnum- bers any other single sect in the United States some things were said or intimated which have, by their publication through the press, stirred up atleast one of the most eminent ministers of the land. Mr. Beecher was charged with preaching an emasculated the- ology—a theology without Christ—and the decline of Methodism was said to be due to so many ministers of this denomination trying tocopy him. Mr. Beecher, who knows how to defend himself and his theology both in the pulpit and through the press, made this charge the topic of his lecture room talk on Friday evening. He, of course, denied the specifications, and in doing so gave utterance to what is undoubtedly the secret of his success, “Tam,” said he, ‘in sympathy with mankind. I feel the pulses, the wants, the yearnings of the time in which I live.” This was what gave the Lord Jesus Christ His power to sway the masses in His day, and because He was in sympathy with them and felt their pulses and the yearnings of the time in which He lived “the common people heard Him gladly’ and followed Him by thousands out of all’ the cities of Judea. The cause, therefore, of the decline of Methodism here is, according to Mr. Beecher, to be attributed to a lack of adaptability, and not to an imitation of his style of preaching. But what is the object of preaching at all? And why are hundreds of churches built annually and millions of dollars spent for the promotion of Christianity? Is it that a par- ticular class of men may make a living by teaching the other classes a system of dogmas or doctrines? Is it to add a little lustre to our denominational literature, to exalt par- ticular creeds and to make converts to special forms of church polity? Notatall. It is to lead men to be better husbands, fathers, brothers, sons—to make them living epistles of Christ, known and read of ll. This result cannot be attained by any one set of rules or systems of theology. Jesus Christ himself recognized this truth in His reply to the Disciple, who found fault with one who cast out devils in the Lord’s name, but did not follow in their train. “He that is not against us is for us. * * * No man can doa miracle in my name and lightly speak evil of me.”” The work of the: pulpit and the work of the press run in par- allel lines. They supplement and aid one an- other in many things, while in many others their paths diverge and their duties differ; and no man, in the pulpit or out of it, recog- nizes this fact more clearly or fully than Mr. Beecher himself. He understands very well the double office of the press—to gather up and chronicle the events of the world as they transpire from day to day, and to so shape and mouid public opinion that the result may be the greatest good accruing to the greatest number. In this double capacity of chron- icler and critic the Heratpy has had occa- sion more than once to criticise the sayings and doings of Mr. Beecher as well as other public men, both in the pulpit and out of it; and we reserve the right to do so hereatter as heretofore. The fairness of our reports, and of our criticisms, too, has been acknowledged by Mr. Beecher oft and again, and in no less‘con- spicuous a gathering than the recent Editorial Convention which met in Poughkeepsie. But, as we have already remarked, while there are points of agreement between the work, re- spectively, of the pulpit and the press, there are points of divergence equally marked and strik- ing; and here, we think, is where ministers make their great mistake. They are not called upon to chronicle or to criticise the latest suicide or murder, the last explosion or ship- wreck or railroad disaster or such like event. Theirs is to teach men to live such lives that suicides and murders shall be few and far between ; to be sober and watch unto prayer that disasters by sea and land may be avoided, to fear God and keep His commandments, which is the whole duty of man, that they may be accounted worthy to inherit eternal life by and by; and if disasters will come, that they may be prepared for the worst. This a grand and noble work for the pulpit, and one that should demand the entire time and talents of every man who calls himself a minister of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Obrist. Men may differ as to the best methods of preaching or doing this work. The habits of thought and the early educa- tion and social life of different communities will be favorably or unfavorably affected by the classes of truth which may be brought to bear upon them. Hence all truths will not have equal weight and influence upon all communities, nor, indeed, will the samo truths equally affect the same community at different times. But there is a kind of preach- ing which carries power with it wherever it goes and at all times, and that is the preaching of a consistent religious life. There is in the history of Christianity, indeed, we may say in the history of the world, but one model life, and that was lived by Jesus of Nazareth. (Blanes 0 arate of ouloit abing, whether it be theological or otherwise, that. aims to make men lead holy lives, and yet fails to show them the model man and the model life, is false and deceptive.’ And this is the character of very much of the pulpit preaching of this day. It is substantially as Dr. Curry characterized it, ‘emasculated theology” —a theology of dry bones. It.can neither live nor walk before men. It needs the breath of the Lord to put life into it and to clothe it with flesh and sinews and to send the vital blood coursing through its veins, Such a theology will attract men to-day, as it did eighteen centuries ago, and it will save them, too. Where, then, shall we look for this theology? Is it locked up in the iron box of Calvinism, to be doled out in small doses to the elect and predestinated few? Is it to be found only in the writings of Arminius and of Wesley? Or must we look for it through the long line of apostolical successors and patriarchal legends ? Facn anc at answer, lt is nct with us. Itis ; a6t ip the newspapers, whether secular or re- ligtous ; itis not contained in creeds or dogmas or denominational systems. It is contained in these two Commandments, upon which hang all the law and the prophets, namely: —Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul and mind and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself. And no man can love God without loving his brother also. Nor can he love his neighbor as himself without putting himself in closest sympathy with all mankind, and feeling their pulges, their wants and the yearnings of the soul of the age. And what does the world want most to-day? It wants not particular dogmas or doctrines taught by any man, howsoever eloquent, so much as the pure and_ self-denying jife of the Lord Jesus Christ incorporated into its daily life. This is what men are yearning for everywhere. This is what India and China and Japan are to-day feeling after, and this is what is to revolutionize, not only this age and country, but every other age and land. And the minister of the Gospel who thinks that he is fulfilling his mission by seeking to attract the masses by sensational appeals has utterly mistaken his calling. It is true spiritually as it is physically, that wheresoever the carcass is thither will the eagles be gathered together. A hungry man will go where he thinks he can get bread without any special or particular invita- tion tode so, And the Lord has said by the Seer of Patmos that He would send a famine upon the land, not a famine of bread and water, but of hearing the Word of the Lord. Have we fallen on this time? Has the spirit- ual famine come upon us? The complaints which we hear on every hand of religious decline would seem to indicate that it has, Let, therefore, those whose especial business it is to teach the people the Word of the Lord and to feed them with spiritual food conven- ient for them see to it that they no longer offer them husks or stones, but give them the pure bread and water of life, Then shall we see a vigorous, manly Christianity prevailing everywhere, and holy lives shall be the rule and not the exception among men. Mansfield Tracy Walworth’s Letters. The letters of Mansfield Tracy Walworth, offered in evidence on the trial now in prog- ress, show one of two things—a bad heart or a diseased mind. It is not easy to understand | why a man of talent, culture and education should write such letters. They are full of sentiments that are both heathenish and bru- tal. Every one of his relations, his wife and children, his father, his brother and his sisters, comes in for a share of his contempt and de- nunciation. By every word that he utters he shows himself in a most odious light. There are apparently too much malice and frensy in all that he says to be entirely accounted for upon the mere hypothesis that he was a very bad man. Brooding over his family relations seems to have rendered him a madman as well. But though these epistles were the threatenings of a madman it is not possible to separate from them moral responsibility for his words and acts; nor is it easy to determine, without a more thorough analysis of the deceased man’s character, the meaning and danger attached to his threats. At all events he appears to havo lived two lives—that of an amiable man of the world in the eyes of the world, and the domes- tic tyrant in his own family. The dual character-of men, as it is often developed in cases like this, is among the most remarkable revelations of human nature. Mansfield Tracy Walworth’s conduct in writing these unmanly letters may be partially explained on this dual character hypothesis. Other men have led lives before the world which the world ap- proved till some circumstance occurred to lay bare a secret life which no one suspected. Men, among the @ayest and most openhanded, have left their wives and children to starve in obscurity. Philanthropists are sometimes found who have not learned that charity be- gins at home. Many thresholds are the bar- riers to domestic secrets which it is best the world should never know. It was so in this ease, and the direful tragedy which sprang from Walworth’s letters—none of those threatened in these terrible epistles— tells a story which amazes us. It is a story which reveals a sad social condition—a story which shows want of heart and of family affec- tion in the domestic relations of the American people. But, heartless as it is, it has a pathos of its own, and this wild man, breathing only fearful threatenings and uttering base epithets, evidently had his own griefs to bear. Whether they were real or fancied makes little dif- ference, As regards this trial, however, these letters have little significance. What bearing they have upon the case of the unfortunate young man who took his father’s life the jury will determine, though it is scarcely possible that any jury could find in them alone justi- fication for parricide. It is in their socia aspects, as revealing the terrible condition of our society, that they have importance, and in this respect they reveal a plot darker and gloomier and more forbidding than anything in Walworth’s books, and more vivid than the forebodings of Poe's imagination. Tue Crotera is reported in Berlin. In Europe and America the pestilence seems to be breaking out in various places, to the con- sternation of the inhabitants. It no longer travels from point to point along a given line by regular approaches; but from its previous invasions it appears here and there to have left its seeds behind, which need only filth and fermentation to develop them into the ac- tive disease. Are our city health authorities quite ready for it? That is now the important sath, The Poor Persian. It has now been about a fortnight since the public eye began to be dazzled with the re- ports which accompanied the progress of the Shah of Persia from his dominions. During that time he has been feasted in St. Pefers- burg, Vienna and London; and is now on 'the eve of crossing over into Paris, He has been confronted with armaments, received by em- perors, and he dined at the tables of some of the most powerful and accomplished princes of the age. Description has exhausted itself upon his demands, the severe majesty of his countenance and his frozen. indifference to adulation, It was feared at first that the number of wives who accompanied him during the first stages of his travels would stand in the way of his being received at the various European Courts as cordially as he could desire; but at an early date His Majesty had the tact to perceive the complications to which the matter would inevitably give rise, and to avoid them by send- ing the ladies summarily home. It seemsa pity that -a prince who began his visits to civilized monarchs, by thus pecuring the good opinion of his critics should not be equally successful in maintaining it It is sad to be reminded that in several important points of etiquette His Majesty is failure; that he is unfamiliar with the virtue of punctuality ; 4 that he prefers his fingers to the knife and fork ; that he can scarcely be prevailed upon ¢ with a bow the “salutations of ahd that he is at no pains to imi- tate the respect which, at the European coutts, he everywhere sees paid to woman. Let us hope that these little peculiarities will be forsaken by him in time, and when he has seen all that St. Petersburg and Vienna and London and Paris have to offer, and learned all the lessons of morality and intellect which Europe has to teach, that he will return a wiser and happier man to his own country, cherishing a deeper affection for the railroad and telegraph, a profounder respect for the iron-clad steamer, and a more comprehensive faith in the institutions of civilization, than ever before. For several reasons it is to be regretted that His Majesty could not visit the United States. There is no reason why he and his wives should not have rested at Salt Lake City and reassumed all the dignity and prestige of which the bigotry and prejudice of European civilization temporarily deprived them. The lessons in stirpiculture which he might have acknoy! eo ‘People, 4 | imbibed here would have been of incalculable | advantage to him in replenishing the deci- mated population of Persia. The contempla- tion of emotional insanity and of the influence which it exercises ovet our sympathetic com- munity would have invigoratingly salted a mind steeped in the traditions of Eastern des- potism, and the moral and physical cleanliness of New York could scarcely have failed to amelioraté ultimately the condition of Teheran. ‘The professional interviewer would have gently insinuated the wedge of democratic equality into the gnarled and knotted fibre of Per- sian prejudice, and the spectacle of our women’s rights women would have opened his eyes even wider than the courtesy paid by our Enuropean relations to the sex. Possibly he might have sneered at Central Park and drawn invidious compari- sons between itand his native rose gardens, and we hardly think he could have so bent his royal disdain as to visit our public baths and acknowledge a single feeling in unison with the soiled humanity disporting there. It is uncertain whether our churches could teach him anything excepting that the formal observance of religion is not the thing for Summer, just as the drama might suggest that good plays were never intended for the dog~ days. But on the whole, perhaps, it is preferable for his. comfort as well as ours that he should not come hither until he has become soaked and sodden with European civilization. When he drips with that, and the convention- alisms of his native land pre washed away from him, it will be quite time enough for him to begin to absorb the fresher inspirations of the New World. The Monmouth Park Races. On the next glorious anniversary of Ameri- can Independence the lovers of turf sports will be able to enjoy themselves to their ut- most bent at the beautiful and commodious course which lies at a convenient distance from the American Biarritz—Long Branch. The Monmouth Park races have had for sea- sons past a host of ardent patrons and .ad- mirers in this city. Their attractive qualities will be considerably enhanced on this occa- sion by the welcome announcement that the gates of the Park will be thrown open to all free of charge, and that all the barriers of exclusiveness will be for once thrown down. Henceforth we may regard the Mon- mouth Park races in the same light as the Londoner thinks of the world-wide known Derby. The profanum vulgus, of which avenue aristocracy have such a horror, and which, in a country like ours, should hold a prominent place, will have a hearty welcome on the Fourth of July at Monmouth Park. Turf sports are now, for the first time in this country, made truly popular, and the experi- ment deserves a fair trial. The opening of the meeting at this popular course is bound to be successful in the fullest extent of the word. There has been long a persistent demand for an American Derby, and the management of Monmouth Park now supplies the desired article. The Crescent and the Cross in Su- matra. Ps The Achconese have been giving the Dutch authorities in Sumatra much more trouble than was at one time deemed possible. Acheen proper covers but a small portion of the island, and of the four millions of population the Acheenese scarcely exceed six hundred thou- sand. The Acheenese are Mussulmans, and are under the government of a man who is honored with the title of Sultan. It has al- ways been understood that outside of Acheen proper the Mohammedans had little influence. It would seem, however, that the Sultan of the little territory puts himself at the head of a powerful organization, whose principal object it is to drive the Dutch from the island. The Dutch traders on the island and the Dutch troops together have not found themselves strong enough to subjugate the Sultan or to force him to terms. On the other hand, the Sultan is not strong enough to put down the Dutch. What is the result? The Dutch Gov- ernor sends home asking more troops. The ‘A Sultan senda imploring notes to Conatanti- nople asking assistance. The government at would have confidence—men chosen from the The Hague has sent out reinforcements. The moderate party of both sections in Israel, Ottoman Porte, according to our latest news, has sent out twelve war vessels to assist the Acheenese against the Dutch. It would be a strange thing in these times if Holland and Turkey went to war. It is undeniable, how- ever, that the Crescent and the Cross are now contending for supremacy in Sumatra. The Mussulman perhaps takes more interest in this out-of-the-way fight than the Christian. But the Christian must not be indifferent, for the triumph of the Mussulman in Acheen might kindle the war torch in Hindostan and wrap Asia in flames. We can hardly believe that even in Sumatra the Cross will yield to the Crescent. According to a despatch from Penang which we print this morning proposals have been “made by the Dutch government to the Sultan of Acheen, which may possibly make an end of the war. The are reasonably fair, and the Sultan might do worse than ac- cept them. The Dutch offer to pay the ex- penses of the war so far, torebuild the mosque destroyed by their troops and to recognize the independence of the Sultan. In return Holland asks that certain privileges be ac- corded to Dutch traders in Acheenese ports. Review of the Religious Press. There is nothing of startling interest in the columns of our religious contemporaries this week, They seem to be wilting under the Sumer solstice, and many of our cleri- cal brethren of the quill have betaken them- selves to the watering places or to the coun- try to refresh themselves for the coming Fall campaign against wickedness, The Independent discusses tho case of Miss Anthony, and hopes she will bring it before the Supreme Court of the United States, in order that the elementary question involved in the suit may be settled by the highest ju- dicial authority in the land. The ‘Ethics of Church Building” is also a subject of consid- eration with our Independent brother, who, it seems, does not object to beauty or elegance or costliness in church architecture, but in- sists that snobbishness is not one of the Chris- tian graces, The Evangelist publishes letter from & Southern divine, who contends that he was not guilty of any sin in sustuining the late rebellion ; but, on thecontrary, “believes and always expects to believe that he was per- forming a duty which he owed to his country, to truth and to right.” The Evangelist .ob- jects to this view, and says that ‘‘secession was an act of folly and madness which has no name, and that those who plunged a whole people into such misery took upon their souls the responsibility of a nation’s teara and blood. How can we reconcile it with a Chris- tian character that men professing, and even preaching, the Gospel of peace took part in it?’’ This does not look much like an imme- diate or very cordial reunion between the Presbyterian Church North and the Presby- terian Church South. The Christian Union discusses the Miss An- thony question, saying: — It is not in the interest of good government that Courts should bave power, in the name Of justice and against the well-settled interpretation of the constitution and the conscious purpose and intent of the people, to make such a revolution as the women-suffragists seek. It will be far better for all concerned, and for the cause itself, that it should triumph by the force of a public opinion working its way through a careful observance of all legal forms, and making the necessary changes in constitutions and laws, That it will, at no very distant day, achieve sucha triumph we entertain no doubt. The Observer gives a chapter on Christians and Pagans, in which the following is re- lated: — We once attended a Chinese Sabbath school in San Francisco, and as some of the scholars were leaving the church in which it was held they were assaulted with stones in open day bya band of young Tuffians and one of them seriously injured. juch assaults and other outrages, judging from the papers, are becoming more and more common, and they are not to be attributed to the rabble alone. The Observer proceeds: — In behalf of the Christian® name we have dis- claimed all responsibility for this persecution of the Chinese on our shores, but it is not 80 easy to set aside the responsibility of our nation and our government. ‘The honor of our country is involved. The good iaith of the govern- ment is at stake. The voice of the people of the. whole land should be heard in rotest: inst a persecution more worthy of bar- arians than ofa civilizea community, should it be needful, the power of the general government must be interposed fer the protection of those who have as much right to unmolested residence and traMic in this country as has any American in China. The Methodist, like the Independent and Christian Union, has some words on the sub- ject of Miss Anthony’s trial :— We do not wish, says the editor, to see Miss Anthony made a martyr. She is a woman of too many virtues-to be dealt with as a criminal. Her worst offence is an excess of zeal; but her earnest- ness and her integrity entitle her to be treated with the kindest consideration, Technically, as the Court held, her intent is presumed to be crimt- nal, and she is, therefore, subject to legal penalty, Probably the case will be appealed; but, in any event, the government will know how to deal with it. The Freeman's Journal dissects Dr. Ham- mond’s pamphlet on the question of insanity in its relations to. medical jurisprudence, and comes to the conclusion that— The disease of society, bursting out in people killing others and killing themselves, is not, as represented by Dr. Hammond, to be cured by puni- tive laws. In a condition of society like ours the more the hangings the more the murders, The disease must be cured at its source. It can never be dried up in the fulness of its food. asks the “Ought women to preach?’ Christian Leader, ond takes Dr. Clarke for authority in saying that “ifa woman is called to preach—that is, if the influence of the spirit of God is too strong to be resisted, she has in this nineteenth century as good a right to preach, to obey the call of the Divinity within her, as has her husband or brother, or son or friend. It is the feeling within that must dictate, not the surroundings outside, The true preacher preaches because he can't help preaching, and the law of obe- dience to the voice of the soul holds good without regard to sex.” The Liberal Christian replies to the Rev. E. C. Towne on the subject of ‘Unitarian and Free Religious Prospects,’’ remarking that “if Unitarianism is dying, let it die just in the way it is now dying. A few more decades of such dying would show how much more vital death is than life !’* The Jewish Times belabors a Syracuse law- yer for denouncing the whole Jewish race, and adds : — Such outrages are only possible in a community" where the grossest ignorance ae and we may well leave to Judge Hardin and to His Honor the Mayor of Syracuse the laurels of having piaced such @ My ye upon the Jews—their record is inscribed in history with letters of fire, beyond the contaminating touch of these gentlemen—but upon their community, upon the Bar of the State of New York. We are certain that neither in England, in France nor in Germany could such @ disgrace happen. In those countries it is the rabble that has the unenviable privilege of giving vent to the wrath of bigotry. ph and attorneys have too much self-respect to julge im such an unwar- ranted outrage. The Jewish Messenger calls for ‘religious supervision,"’ and suggests that there be or- men who will decide according to Jewish law. This once effected, says the editor, ‘‘we would be in a state to discountenance those who make a trade of their religion, and, inde- pendent of that consideration, we would be in 8 condition to keep the laws of Israel as they were handed down to us, pure and un- tarnished.”’ The Catholic Review touches up some of its Presbyterian contemporaries in quite a lively manner, and furnishes an editorial on ‘“‘Cath- olic Schools in America.’’ Chureh and State in Both Hemi spheres. Church and State questions continue to command the attention and to tax the skill of statesmen the wide world over. In Italy they have brought about a ministerial crisis, the issue of which it is not easy to predict. In Germany the recent legislation on ecclesiasti- cal affairs begins to bring forth fruit. A new Ecclesiastical Court has been appointed. This Court, which consists of eleven judges, of whom five are Catholic and the rest Protes- tant, will be charged with the judicial manage- + ment of the entire ecclesiastical affairs of the Empire. Then, again, in Brazil the Council of State has just decided that Papal bulls must have the placet of the government before they can be promulgated, and that sentences of excommunication hall be without civil effect in the Brazils. In Germany, in addition to the establish- ment of the new court, proceedings have becn instituted against the Archbishop of Cologne and his suffragans, who have been summoned to explain their reasons for excommunicating two priests for joining the Old Catholic organi- zation. It is not difficult to understand why such a course should have been adopted in Germany. The ruling power is Protestant, and it is believed, rightly or wrongly, that the Catholic hierarchy is opposed to the union and consolidation of the Empire. What Bis- marck has won by the sword he is determined not to lose by the crozier. Italy and Brazil, however, are Catholic countries, and so their antagonism to Vatican authority is ‘all the more wonderful. Brighter days may yet return to the Papacy ; but, for the present, it is un- deniable that the days are dark, and that her own children are quite as rebellious as the alien and the outcast. Evidently a new de- parture on the part of the Papacy is necessary, if, in the future, it is deemed desirable to avoid collision and conflict with the civil power, PersEcurion or CurisTians IN Bosnta.— According to our news of this morning a fierce persecution of the Christian population has broken out in-Bosnia. The Mohamme- dans, it is said, have risen against their Christian neighbors. Within the past six weeks, it is alleged, some two hundred and seventy Christians have been murdered, and the perpetrators remain unpunished. As is most natural great excitement prevails in the province, and many of the Christians are emigrating. Such persecution should not be possible on the European side of the Bos- phorus. 4 PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J. P. O'Sullivan, of St. Domingo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Saunders, of Nebraska, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. A.P, Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, Ind., is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Louis Frazer, of Louisiana, has been appointed Consul at Boulogne, France. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Secretary Richardson, with Senator Boutwell, left the Fifth Avenue Hotel for Washington yester. day. Charlie Kimball declines being again the demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Maine. This standing up tobe knocked down is not a very pleasant thing, at best. Collector of Customs Clark, at Charleston, 8. C., will be superseded by Mr. Worthington, a friend of Senator Patterson, of that State, on the return of the Secretary of the Treasury to Washington. The Cincinnati Enquirer will be satisfied with Mr. Ewing as the democratic candidate for Gov- ernor of Ohio, but confesses that Mr. Pendleton is its first choice. Itis ‘Hobson's choice,” after all. William H. Bell, who was Mr. Seward’s attendant at the time of the attempted assassination by Payne, and who resisted the latter’s entrance to the house, has just graduated from Lincoln Univer- versity. The President, accompanied by General Bap- cock, left Long Branch last night for Cincinnati, whence he will proceed without delay to Voving- ton, Ky., to visit his father, who is said to be at the point of death. There is something in dreams, after all. A West- -ern man dreamed that his brother's head was cut off without losing a drop of blood, and the next day he learned that his brother had been removed from a Postmastership. ' Among the passengers from Jamaica, W.L, by the steamer Claribel, ‘that arrived on Friday, waa Sir Bryan Edwards, late Chief Justice of the island. Sir Bryan 1s an octogenarian, and, though not really unwell, thinks that a residence in this coun- try until September would increase his vigor. He is reckoned a very sound lawyer, and during the administration of Governor Eyre sturdily opposed the policy of that oficial. He is now residing at the Stevens House. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Correspondence from Montevideo, under date ot May 16, special tothe HERALD, reports as fol- lows:—The United States frigate Lancaster left Montevideo May 5, for a cruise, and would then proceed to Rio Janeiro, The United States steam sloop Ticonderoga and gunboat Wasp were still at that port, May 16, all wellon board. The Ticon- deroga would sail for Rio Janeiro on the 18th or 19th of May. First Assistant Engineer EB. A. ya arrived by the last packet from the United States and relieved First Assistant Engineer B. 0, Gowing, of the Wasp. The latter has been granted leave to return to his home, Naval Orders. Lieutenant A. H. Fletcher is ordered to ordnance duty at the Washington Navy Yard; Ensign Nathan Sargent, Jr., to the Coast Survey steamer A. D. Bache; Lieutenant Commander Felix McCarley is detached from the Hpdrographic Office and placed on waiting orders; Lieutenant Commander Henry F. Pickering from ordnance duty at the Washing- ton Navy Yard and granted leave of absence, THE ARKANSAS GOVEBNORSHIP. Determination of the Honorable Out to Oust the Honorable In. LittLe Rook, June 28, 1873. Hon, Joseph Brooks at the close of his speech last night stated that he had mo doubt the Circuit Court, before whom,he had brought suit for the office of Governor, would decide in his favor, and tas soon as it did he should qualify and take prseusion of the office, if he had toulo it by force. WAGNER, THE MURDERER. Boston, June 28, 1873. Adespatch from Springfield, York county, Me., states that three men, supposed to be Wagner and his companions, were seen in that town on Wednesday. The next morning the party was seen at Sanford Corner, where they obtained some crackers @nd cheese and hastily re-entered the goniged 9 body of ayperyigors in whom qll | woods, One of the mon had @ revolver. eee 4 ——™@ - 4