The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1873, Page 6

Se ee ee eee e ere ee a cca ar eee ieai% ayaa eae NEW YORK HERALD SROADWAY AND ANN STREBT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic ‘Wespatches must be addressed New York Timu. * Letters and packages should be properly “sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubditshed every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE CENTs per copy. Annual subscription price :— ferted in the WEEKLY HERALD and the European Edition. JOB PRINTING af every description, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and prompily exe- -No, 187 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets —Cicanerte. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth etreet.—Mun. BOWERY THEATRE, PLCION—JACK AND THE Bowery.—Tux Wirs's Svs- ALK. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bro‘ ‘ay, corner Thirtieth st.— Poxr. Afternoon and evening. UNION TARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Janx Eynx. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Summes Nicuts’ Con- cunts. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st.—Crruian axp Loan Coutections or Ant. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, G18 Broadway.— Science anp Agr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, July 6, ee THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘Ko-Day’s Contents of the Herald. WOUR CITY AND ITS RULERS! SAVING MONEY NOT ALWAYS ECONOMY”—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—Sixtu Page. LIVINGSTONE’S GREAT MISSION AGAIN HONORED—AQUATIO AND YACHTING NEWS—THE FITFUL AND INCONVENIENT LAYING OF OUR “BiG PIPES"—Taimp Pacs. INDIAN ANTIL-RENT RIOTS! DERED AND BURNED! ARMED COL- LISIONS! BRITISH POWER IN HIDOs- TAN—SEVENTH PacE. THE VIENNA AWARDS! A SEVERE STORM DAMAGES THE GOODS ON EXHIBITION— IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SgvENTa ‘DR HOUSES PLUN- PaGE. THE CUBAN SLAVES AND THEIR WORK ON THE TROCHA! COOLIE RUNAWAYS OFFERED AND ACCEPTED AS LABORERS ON PUBLIC WORKS—SzveEntTH Page. SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE LAST AT- LANTIC CABLE—THE CAPTAIN OF THE SPANISH STEAMSHIP MURILLO AGAIN MULCT—SEvVENTH PaGR. GREAT DESTRUCTION BY STORM RAVAGES IN OHIO AND INDIANA—AN INDEPENDENT PRESS EARTHQUAKE IN THE QUAKER CITY—SEVENTH PaGE. FRANK WALWORTH FORMALLY SENTENCED! HIS COOL CONDUCT! JUDGE DAVIS’ RE- MARKS—TuHirD Pace. LAGER OR NO LAGER! GERMAN AND NATIVE \& OPPOSITION TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF ‘FOE SUNDAY LAW ! THE AMBER NECTAR j a POLITICAL LEVER—Firta Paar. <QIR. CASSERLY ON THE WARD'S ISLAND WAR— ‘ COURT PROOSEDINGS—REDUCING MUNICI- PAL OFFICERS ND SALARY OUTGOES— POSTAL MONEY ORDEnS—FirTH Page. “A JAPANESE GOVERNMENTAL. IMBROGLIO! POPULAR TUMULT! REFORMS IN\CABINST RULES—THE YOUNG CHINESE EMPEROR AND HIS VISIT TO THE ROYAD\TOMBS— Fira PacR. (RELIGIOUS NEWS! THE SERVICES AT THE CITY CHURCHES TO-DAY! CORRESPOND- ENTS’ VIEWS ON CURRENT RELIGIOUS TOPICS! THE ROCK OF CASHEL! A POPULAR CHURCH! THE CLERGY—Fovrtu PacE. THE ADIRONDACKS AS A POPULAR PARK! THE PROJECT FOR CONVERSION BY THE STATE! ITS PICTURESQUENESS AND ADVANTAGES—Tuigp Pages. ASCOT, IN MERRY ENGLAND! PRINCELY AND ARISTOCRATIC ATTENDANCE! THE FASB- IONS AND THE WINNING HORSES—AF- FAIRS IN PERU—E1cura Page, OUR PURBLIND COMPTROLLER’S OPPOSITION TO THE APPRECIATED VALUE OF CITY PROPERTY FROM IMPROVED THOROUGH- FARES! REAL ESTATE GOSSIP—E:cuTH PAGE, METROPOLITAN INDUSTRIES! HOW THE WHEELS OF BUSINESS ARE MOVED BY ALL CLASSES AND BOTH SEXES—ErguTA Page. (FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS! SPECIE SHIPMENTS! THE BANKS’ STATUS— BAFETY ON STEAMBOATS—NORTH CARO- ‘pe LINA’S CONDITION—Nintu Page. Bxpoo Revour anp Comarunism ms Inpra.— A telegram from Bombay reports the occur- rence of an agrarian Communist rising, or revolt, by the Hindoo peasantry of the Poonah district. The disaffected people refuse to pay their rent. They have congregated to- gether and proceeded to the commission of overt acts against the constituted authorities “Several houses have been plundered and burned. The police have been engaged with roving parties of the agitators and succeeded in dispersing the bands at different points of collision. That the mindof the Anglo-Indian aativist population is deeply agitated, and that it bas been so during some years past, is patent to the world. That distinguished sol- dier, Lord Napier, of Magdala, has confessed the fact officially, and warned the government in Downing stroet of the danger which attends its existence. Groat Britain has to deal with # most inflammable mind in her Asiatic terri- tory. War statements such as those which must result from the progress of the Bussian sdvance on Khiva are likely to be extensively circulated and vastly and dangerously exeg- gerated in India, a country in which socialism of the most radical class is making great progress. It may be, also, that Russian prop- agandists, of » politico-religious stripe, have been active among the people inst of late, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1873—TRIPLE our City and Its Ruters—saving Money Not Always Economy. The great defect in our municipal authori. ties has always been the lack of a deep inter- est in the welfare and future of the city and the want of a comprehensive idea of its needs and destiny. Under all the many changes of officials, whether we have had reformers, so called, or extravagant, plundering and schem- ing politicians, there has been the same want of that sentiment which is akin to patriotism— pride in and care for the progress, reputation and greatness of the city. Incidentally im- provements have been made from selfish or party motives, but sometimes only when our rulers have been spurred on by incessant ap- peals of the public press and the way clearly pointed out. Rarely has anything been done for the sake of improvement or from regard to the welfare of the city and people, and if the press were not to watch vigilantly, clamor constantly, and enlighten our stupid officials and scheming local politicians, little or nothing would be done in the way of improve- ment, and the city would sink into a disgrace- ful condition. We have found that eternal vigilance is the price not only of liberty but of clean streets, ofa needful water supply, of rea- sonably good police, of salvation from pesti- lential diseases, and of such improvements as have been made to adorn the metropolis; but, with all that watchfulness, how much remains to be done, and how hard it is to make our thick-headed rulers understand what is wanted ! Here we have Comptroller Green, the man who has charge of the city’s money, carrying out to the letter the idea of the old English proverb of being penny wise and pound foolish. If he is not exactly of that avaricious turn of mind which would lead one to rake the gutters for a cent he will allow the gutters to remain unraked and breeding pestilence rather than spend the cents necessary to keep them clean. And so of many other things—of our rotten and disgraceful piers and wharves, the necessary but neglected pavement work on the streets and avenues and work in the parks, with other needful works held in abey- ance through the mistaken parsimony of the man who holds tightly the key of the Treasury. Mr. Green may say he does not legislate on these matters or make appropriations for them; but as the financial agent of the city he has a great deal to say, do and recommend regarding public works. He has not only proved an obstruction to improvements in a negative way—in not suggesting or recom- mending them and providing means for them—but he has withheld the necessary means in certain cases when authorized, or when they should have been used, by some quibble or the assumption of doubtful author- ity. Honest economy does not consist in persecuting honest claimants, like poor washer- women and laboring men, and placing them on a level with scheming and corrupt poli- ticians, whose sole aim is the robbery of the treasury. Honest economy is broad, liberal, just, not narrow, suspicious and tyrannical. “Mr. Green cannot be too arbitrary and exact- ing with the rascally jobbers and swindlers, but it is in his power at the same time to do quite as much damage as the worst of that class by pursuing a mean and contemptible economy unworthy the Comptroller of a great city like this. In fact, his extraordinary course so far will prove, if we mistake not, very nearly as expensive to our city as the plundering of the defunct Ring. The trouble with Mr. Green is that he cannot comprehend the real needs of the city. In the greed to save @ penny now he loses sight of the fact that that penny will swell to the proportions of a pound by and by; he permits his conduct to be controlled by private jealousies and ani- mosities, which wholly unfit him to decide impartially any questions in which his oppo- nents may happen to be interested. Shall we ever find men to govern New York who at the same time are honest and, there- fore, economical, and have liberal views as to the wants and destiny of the metropolis? We almost despair of that, at least until the wealthy and cultivated people show more interest in city affairs and take the control from grogshop and scheming politicians. Economy in expenditures, as was said, is not the only economy. To improve the health, comfort, beauty and wealth of the city by lib- eral expenditures properly applied is the best sort of economy. If fifty millions be spent, and the real estate and commercial business of New York be improved two hundred mil- lions or more thereby, is not that the right sort of economy? When will Mr. Green learn to appreciate this fact? When will our other dull and _ short-sighted city officials learn it? With all the reiterated demands of the press it is hard to awaken these somnolent fogies and over con- servative men. The street paving, street cleaning, pipe laying and other contractors are permitted to do their work in a slipshod and piecemeal fashion, and to plunder the city. The pavements are continually being torn up and then badly laid down again, or left in places for along time unlaid. Piles of dirt and rubbish are allowed to accumulate, not- withstanding occasional spasmodic efforts to uncover a few filthy spots. Pestilential lots and swamps are allowed to remain unfilled year atter year; thé worst descriptions of public nuisances flourish in the very heart of the city without an effort to abate them. The truth is we need o general and comprehensive system to remove dirt, to enforce contracts, for laying pipes without disturbing the pavement so often and for keeping the streets in thorough order. These are some of the reforms and economy, gentlemen of the city government, that we need. The projected works to which we have al- luded ought to be accomplished without delay. ‘The money will be well spent. Foremost among them is that of new and solid piers, wharves and docks. The old, rotten and filthy piers and wharves are a disgrace to the commercial metropolis. We may form some ides of what the new ones would be from the fine work ad- joining the Battery ond pier No. 1; and here let us say that the admirable work oat tho Battery ought not be marred by the Castle Garden emigrant depot. That unsightly and dirty concern ought to be swept away at once and the beau- tiful Battery be finished with a sea wall and greensward and shrubs and flowers all round. The emigrant depot should be else- on. It is shameful that this important work should drag along so slowly. There always has been too much red tape office machinery about it, even when there were funds to be had. If it were pushed vigorously the city might in a year or two begin to draw revenue from valuable leases, There is no reason why magnificent warehouses should not be built on or connected with splendid stone wharves, piers and docks; and from such the city might derive a large revenue. There need be no fear of not obtaining money for the work, or of the interest on it not being forthcoming from the work itself, if properly managed. Then let us have substantial railroads along and to this new system of water side frontage. Another thing the city authorities should have promptly car- ried out is a solid double track elevated rail- road on each side of the island, and from one end to the other, for steam cars, or any other well contrived system of rapid transit that will meet the wants of the public. This would improve property vastly at the upper portion of the island and would bring greater assess- ments for other improvements going on there. In connection with this and the improvement of Hell Gate and the annexation of Lower Westchester, the long spoken of ship canal through Spuyten Duyvil ought to be made, as well as the concentration of the railroad system in that neighborhood to con- nect with the city railroads and shipping. The supply of fresh water should also be liberally augmented for the accommodation of our uptown residents, who are often deprived for hours of this great necessity of life. In fact, there is so much to be done, and that within the means of the city—much that is needed and much that would add to the wealth, health and Labi of the metropo- lis—that we are sufprised at the stipineness and want of foresight on the part of the au- thorities. In a quarter of a century or so the Republic will have a hundred millions of people, and this metropolis, including its suburbs, probably nearly three millions. Will our authorities prepare for this future? Shall New York keep pace with the country or lag behind? The present régime has too much of the old fogy character about it and dreams too much over a mistaken notion of economy. We should never have had our beautiful Cen- tral Park had not the idea been hammered into the dull heads of our rulers, and it will be the same, we suppose, as to other grent im- provements. It is apparent already that the reformers need reforming. Sunday Lager—How the Excise Com- missioners Acquired Their Experience. We had thought that the question “Does lager intoxicate?’’ had taken its place among those unanswerable historical conundrums which the popular mind is fond of refreshing itself with, such os those that relate to the chastity of Mary, Queen of Scots, the pater- nity of the Man in the Iron Mask, and the identity of the individual who struck’ Billy Patterson. But the martyrdom and constancy of Mayor Havemeyer and the Excise Com- missioners forbid our indulging this convic- tion. That lager is intoxicating may be ac- cepted os an unquestionable fact until later and deeper investigations by an equally self- sacrificing body of public officers shall point to a different conclusion. We are sorry that the Commissioners arrived at such a decision, for we can imagine that the experience which seemed to them to justify it must have been painful in its later moments, however pleasant its incipiency may have been. But then, after all, what do the Commissioners mean? Do they mean that the power of lager to intoxi- cate them isto be taken as the exponent of its power to intoxicate everybody else? or do they mean that they mo- nopolize the virtue of self-restraint, and that of the thousands who imbibe lager on Sundays few are able to drink within bounds? Ninon de 1’Enclos used to declare that a beef- steak intoxicated her, and perhaps it did; but it would not be fair on that account to charge drunkenness on every woman who cherished 4 partiality for sirloins and porter-houses, No beer on Sunday! Why, it is like a landscape without foliage or a world without an atmos- phere. The moon is not more naked of life than a beerless Sunday among the New York Germans would be devoid of enjoyment ; and not among the Germans only, but among thousands of our native population, who have helped to acclimatize the drink and to make it almost as much a national beverage here as in the land of the Teutons. And pry how did the Commissioners arrive at their sapient decision? Do they know of their own knowl- edge, as a lawyer would say, that lager beer is intcxicating, or are they trusting to a vague hearsay ? Why shall their reform stop hero? Upon their principle Cowper is altogether wrong when he speaks of a cup of tea as the cup that ‘‘cheers but not inebriates.”” Doubt- less there are hundreds of clergymen and women who habitually get as drunk on tea as the majority of those who limit themselves to lager beer do on that beverage. We are afraid Cowper himself drank too much tea, and perhaps a little good lager would have given him just the tone which he lacked. There is no doubt that some people drink more lager than is good for them, and have to suffer for their indiscretion in various ways. There is no doubt that some of the pleasure parties of Sunday show a tendency to convert that day into one of revelry, and go home on Sunday evening in a demoralized and dis- reputable condition. There is no doubt but that in certain places where Sunday music is announced the beer is the only attraction, and that scenes are sometimes transacted there which justly offend the decent and the orderly. But it is also true that the simultaneous enjoy- ment of good music and good lager—the co- ordination, so to speak, of beer and Meyer- beer—is to thousands of New Yorkers a cheap, refreshing and innocent pleasure, to deprive them of which is to do them a wrong, morally and socially. Let the Mayor and his asso- ciates make their rounds again, in an impartial and untrammelled spirit, and we feel pretty cer- tain they will arrive at a conclusion different from their first. We, for one, do not believe that they did get intoxicated by lager, The bad music they heard may have got into their heads—and we all know how difficult it is to get a tune out of one’s head when it has once got lodged there--or, perhaps, a sunstroke may dently tried their best to put themselves under its influence, and felt a natural, and, on the whole, commendable shame in confessing that their utmost efforts had been unable to effect that result. The Invasion of Asia by the Forces of the West. Our latest news from Europe regarding Asia is startling and strangely suggestive. Russia has centred her thought and her enter- prise on Central Asia; and the presumption is that Russia, by her conquest of Khiva, will, at no distant day, give the world good reason to believe that she is mistress of the better part of Asia, north of the Himalaya range, from the European boundary line to the shores of the Pacific. Great Britain, as our readers have seen, has been watching Russia. The Persian concessions to Baron Reuter are proof of this; but the Chinese railway move- ment revives the old story that English gold is a dangerously aggressive as well as obstructive power in the modern world. English capitalists have an eye on China. The meeting convened at Stafford House is sufficient proof of this. China is a big baby; but the baby is rich; and to get at the baby and so to lay hold of the riches the baby must be humored gnd presents must bé offered, It was William Pitt, with English gold at his back, who killed the First Napo- leon and the first French Empire. Then it was England against France and the revolutionary elements of Europe, and, rightly or wrongly, England won. Now it is England against Russia, and it remains to be seen whether English gold can play the same game and secure the same result. We know no good reason why the game should not, be fought, and fought out, it is a game in which the contestants have each reasonable chances of success, and in which both may exhaust their resources beyond expectation ; but it is undeniable that the contest must re- sult in the interest of what we are in the habit of calling modern civilization. Russia and England on the one hand, and the United States of America on the other, re- present, so far as Asia is concerned, the ag- gressive forces of Western civilization. For Japan we have done much, and promise to do more; and Japan under our tutelage gives fair promise to take her place at no distant day among the civilized nations of the world. Our intercourse with Asia has been brief, but it has been marked and decisive. It is now Hastings ; the names antedate the first French Revolution, and, of course, the first French Empire; but England has held on to India, and Hindostan to-day, according to one of our own greatest statesmen, justifies British pos- session for the last hundred years. Russia is not hindered in taking her course ‘and doing her best. In the conquest and civilization of Northern and Central Asia she has work enough on hand, and it is our belief that both America and England wish her God speed. England's proposal for the present touches China. The proposal may not be free from the taint of selfishness, but if the Chinese authorities assent to the proposal China may in a few years leap into a newness of life which will surprise and startle the nations, We owe much to Asia. All or almost all that we are and have we owe to the East. The East gave us life and art and science. We have improved on their gift, and the time has come when we can offer it back with interest. China, although the largest Empire in the world, is as yet the unknown land. The time has come when China must open her long- closed doors and submit to the aggressive stranger with the railroad and the telegraph. For a time she may resist, but in the long run resistance must be vain. It is an old prophecy that nations will be born in a day. All things indicate that this prophecy is on the eve of fulfilment. The railroad and the telegraph carry with them the cross, not the crescent, and when the teeming millions of China hear the whistle of the one and the click of the other the long-promised day can- not be far off. have blistered their judgments; but to throw where. As to the piers and wharves, the second centenary of American independence will come round before they will be com- pleted at the mate the work is now going the blame upon lager seems ‘at once unwise and ungrateful. Nay, we rather take tho present action of the Commissioners as a proof tbat lager is got intoxicating, They had evi- Casualties On the Fourth. Young doctors anxious to treat gunshot wounds and army surgery cases generally had excellent opportunities in New York on the national birthday. Yesterday’s police returns give the names of victims to the explosive patriotism of the day by scores. In the list we read of many hands torn and eyes injured by premature discharges and bursting of fire- arms; many persons were shot in the legs and trunks by guns and pistols in the hands of their companions or others, and several were injured by careless handling of rockets and other fireworks. Added to these woundings and maimings of persons this element of our celebration must also be charged with some fifty fires of greater or less extent, occasioning a loss, by the official estimate, aggregating over fifty thousand dollars. It will thus be seen that, though we had a very quiet cele- bration, the noise and flash of our joy were very expensive. No doubt it will require many years of progress to educate hot blooded youth up to the wisdom of de- spising cannon, pistols, rockets and pin- wheels; but we still have hope that in the evolution of the ages we shall be brought to the day when such folly will be considered fit only for rude and barbaric epochs. Then shall we testify our grateful joy for the pluck of our forefathers and the independence they achieved by other forms of happy demonstrations, and effect a vast saving of useful hands, arms, legs and heads, as well as largely diminiah the calls upon the funds of the fire insurance com- panies, Then our sisters, who intend long be- fore that to be our active partners at the polls, will, equally with their masculine associates, take part in the festivities of the nation’s nativity without fear of the disagreeable con- sequences to feminine raiment, now so dreaded by them. Their contralto will mingle with our tenor in the improved rendering of ‘Hail Columbia” and the ‘Star-Spangled Banner,” and their soprano mellow the basg of our applause as we commemorate the valor of our Revolutionary sires and the virtues of our Con- tinental mothers. Till that day of auspicious consummation shall arrive we must expect that the annual recurrence of Independence Day will have its happiness modified by pain, its joy saddened ‘by heavy lossea In the meantime let us, as fast as possible, learn and teach that for the purposes of the gala day no bullets are needed in our pistols, and if we must have ‘right-colored pyrotechnics ft is worth while to handle them carefully and to @irect, them towards the zenith, long since the world heard of Clive and |- SHEET. General Butler’s Position on the Tem- Pperance Question. At South Framingham, Mass., where the people have fallen into the habit of celebrating the “glorious Fourth’? as a temperance fes- tival, General Butler, on their celebration of Friday last, was the orator of the day ; but from the badgering which he suffered from the vox populi he left tho scene of his eloquence evidently anything but a happy man. He spoke of the nation’s birthday, of Great Britain, of privileged corporations, of railway monopolies, of the bright idea of making all our railroads common highways free to any man’s locomotive, and finally coming down to the temperance question and the Massachu- setts Prohibitory law, and of the inequality of its operation in excluding it from the poor, while granting ail the privileges of liquor by wholesale to the rich, he told how he would enforce the law, if he were Governor, against the rich as well as the poor; and he was in a fair way to wind up his dis- course in a blaze of glory when he was sud- denly “‘brought to’’ by the main question, ‘Will General Butler tell us whether he is favorable to the friends or the opponents tf the present liquor law?” g. 2%. Ft" The General endeavored to parry the shot by discharging another at his inconsidetate friend. The General asked him, ‘‘Will the gentleman from Milford remember that asking questions of a Fourth of July orator is like whistling at a funeral?’’ Whereupon there was great laughter; but there was no escape for the orator upon a side issue. Mr. God- frey was not to be baffled by badinage, but charged home again upon the General:— “The people want to know where he is in the present campaign. Will General Butler tell the people where ho m+ They have g sigue to know.’”’ Buta round of hissed, and then a temperance song from the Hutchinson Min- strels, saved the General from a reply; and, in the midst of the diversion, folding his tent, or rather his linen duster, “like the Arabs, he silently stole away.’’ But it Mr. Gedfrey does not discover where General Butler is on the Liquor law, in the long interval to No- vember next, it will probably be because the temperance party have some other axes to grind with him of equal impor- tance in their judgment to their Prohibitory law. The Late Rains—A Succession of De- structive Storms in the West. Within the brief period of the last two weeks the Great West, from Kansas and Nebraska to the heart of Ohio, has suffered heavy losses from a succession of storms, including torna- does, water spouts and floods of rain, remark- able for their fury and the resulting disasters to life and property. The catalogue of these destructive storms occurring on the 2d, 3d and 4th insts. within the limits of Indiana and Ohio, as given in our despatches this morning, has, indeed, seldom been exceeded in the tempests of the stormiest seasons in those States, Lines of telegraph poles pros- trated or shivered by lightning, trees for miles along the courses of these hurricanes torn up by the roots, fences scattered over the fields, dwelling houses,’ factories and other buildings destroyed, blown down or unrooted, and fields of wheat and growing corn flattened or flooded with water, are among the many damages reported. These violent storms are but the natu- ral reaction in the elements from the late protracted and somewhat alarmingly dry season in the northern section of the Union east of the Mississippi; but they are more directly due to the intense heats immediately preceding them. After a heated term of three or four days, with the mercury rising high among the nineties, the atmosphere, over the region thus affected, be- comes so rarefied that we may say a vacuum is created, and the denser and vapor-charged air from the Gulf of Mexico drifting in to fill up the vacuum, all such atmospherieal disturb- ances as those occurring out West within the last three days are apt to follow. Wo regret to hear of these heavy damages to the crops and the forests resulting from these late violent storms; but as all these losses are mere trifles compared with the general benefita to the thirsty land from these refreshing rains, we hold them, in a general estimate, as blessings to be thankful for instead of misfortunes to be deplored. A Dreadfal Catastrophe at Falls. A young man and a young woman, engaged to be married, with a boy, a brother of the girl, went out in a boat on the Fourth, from the Canada side, at Chippewa, for a little pleasure cruise on the Niagara River, and nothing more has since been seen or heard of them. Pieces of their boat have been pieked up, and doubtless its occupants from their “Jove’s young dream’’ went down to death into the awful abyss of the Horseshoe Fall, with their boat. Their bodies some days hence will probably rise to the surface in the eddy just below the fall or at the whirlpool farther down the torrent or at the outlet of the river at Lake Ontario. These unfortunate people, ignorant of their danger, were out on the river from Chippewa for the enjoyment of a sail, and were drawn by the smooth,. but treacherous and powerful current into the rapids before they fully comprehended their terrible situation. And hardly a Summer passes away at Niagara without some such terrible misfortune. Surely the inhabitants on both sides of the river should know enough from these oft-repeated disasters not only to avoid on their own part the danger but to prevent strangers from committing themselves to the deceitful stream, which in a moment may have them within its grasp, beyond all hope of haman deliverance. Tue Sentence or Watwortu.—On the open- ing of the Oyer and Terminer yesterday Frank H. Walworth was brought up for sentence. Judge Davis, after endeavoring to impress upon the prisoner the terrible condition in which his rash act had placed him, as under conviction bya jury for the grave crime of murder in the second degree, in takfhg the life of his own father, passed upon him the sentence prescribed by the law—imprisonment for life. During the address and sentence no sign of emotion escaped from the youthful convict, and after parting from his relatives in the Court House he went back to the Tombs with as much apparent composure os though he had been only an uninterested spectates ia the trial just ooncbuded. ‘ Our Religious Contemporartes—Thetr Sayings and Doings. Our contemporaries of the religious press: seem to have made the past a kind of holiday week, so far as any matter of striking impor- tance appearing in their editoral columns ist concerned. Besides, if there are any persons in the world who object to severe mental labor during the heated term it is gentlemen of the clerical profession, both of the pulpit and of the press. Hence, no great degree of liveli- ness, nor of sensation, nor of practical utility in a theological way, nor of criticism upon secular topics, need be expected from them about these days. , The Golden Age has an article on the ‘‘Per- sistence of Force,” in which the most persist- ent is pronounced to be personal force. It is all about the Comtean view of immortality. Personal force is declared to be the ‘enduring element in all literature, art, history and reli- gion. Laws and movements and nations per- ish and are forgotten, but a personality oped by culture and illuminated by geni and inspired by a great faith or noble purpose stamp8 its impress on centuries and civiliza- tions.”” Moses, Mohammed and Jesus of Naza- reth. are mentioned as striking instances of the most persistent and potential of all forces—- the personality of man, : A familiar contributor to the Age sends the’ following among other reminiscences of the late Hiram Powers :— Iremember his chatting one evening in a face- tious vein 01 the failure of several Poles to pay for statues they had ordered of nim. He said he had lost all coniidence in Poles, and that ifa Pole were to come then and order a statue he should require the very best security, He said, moreéver, that he had frequently been fleeced by his own country- meu, but never by an Englishman. He had, per- sonally, always found the English trae to their agreements. He related in the same connection various instances of the manner in which both Poles and Americans liad broken faith, and he’ Clotiied It aff In a serio-come diction that made iF excellent winter evening talk. 2 id In an article on “Southern Pygsbyterian Leaders’’ the Observer, trusts that, inasmuch as the late action inffavor of union of the churches North and South at Baltimore hag been declared unsatisfactory by all the Pres- byterian papers of the South, the Northern Assembly will not go cap in hand to the Southern Assembly with any more ‘‘resolu- tions” or ‘‘declarations,’’ unless they have done wrong and ought to retract. “But while the Southern leaders are thus hostile to union,” adds the Observer, ‘we have belore us evidence that the people—the Southern peop! are longing to be again restored to fellowship and intercourse with their brethren and fathers, from whom they have been long—too long—separated., One letter recently received deplores the cruel severance, portrays the vital necessity of the moral and pecuniary support ofthe North, and ex- presses the fervent hope that the day of restora- tion 18 not far of, Such hearts are many in the South.” The Evangelist has warmed itself intoa new trouble about the Indian missions question. It regrets it, but is not surprised. The follow- ing will explain the cause of this ‘“‘new ele- ment of embarrassment as connected with the: policy of the administration” on the Indiap question: — The Roman Catholic Church 1s loud fn its com- plaints of an unequal distribution of ncies. Although it has received its full share it demanas more, and has set all its enon tind to work to en- force its demand, That demand 1s groundless and impertinent, It threatens to defeat tne Indian Policy of the government, It is calculated to stir up denominationai jealousy in all directions, when that jealousy is once excited, we may wel despatr of attaining those beneficent missionary results which depend upon public opinion sustain- ing the policy of the President. The bencficent results that follow missionary efforts among the Indians are frequently more than counterbalanced by the influence of the Gospel according to St. Monongahela, which generally accompanies the march of civiliza- tion into our wildernesses. The Independent touches on Senator Care penter’s speech in defence of the back-pay grab. The timely and earnest indignation of the people against the grab will, the editor trusts, “‘settle the question that no Congress will hereafter deem it prudent to increase the salary of its own members.’’ The Independent gives the Wisconsin Senator credit for one thing, to wit :—‘‘He faces the music squarely, without dodging or wincing, and boldly avows’ his approbation of what ninety-nine hun- dredths of the American people sternly con- demn. He has thereby established his reputa~ tion for courage, if for nothing else.’’ The Freeman's Journal, speaking of the Col- lege of Cardinals and the next Pope, says:— It 18 by Do means certain that the next Pope will be either an Italian or a member of the present College o: Cardinals. But, however this may prove, the one nationality that presents itself as most impossible to have the next Pope chosem from it is Austria, Joseph Othmar, Cardinal Von Rauscher, is the present Archbishop of Vienna, and has nearly completed his seventy-sixth year. ‘The story that any one out of Austria would men- tion his name as @ probable successor OF Pius IX. 1s @ canard. It is much more probable that Pope Pius IX. may appoint some one to succeed him, after his death, a8 Archbishop of Vienna. The Tablet is inclined to be especially severe upon one of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion, cautioning him to ‘remember the sin of Judas. Charity does not look at sect, and the thirteen or fourteen dollars devoted by the dying woman bs a thanks offering for prayers said for the eternal repose of her soul will not defraud the Emigration Society.’’ The Catholic Review bas an article on “A Shepherd that Takes Up o Purse for His Sheep,”’ referring to the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Wisconsin, Dr. William E. Armi- tage, who, it states, “‘is circulating a rather unique document among those who may be supposed to be at once his well wishers and enemies to those ubiquitous Jesuits who are. the bugbear of so many people.” The Methodist, commenting upon Senator= Parson Brownlow’s reply to one of General Hill's attacks, says it likes the Parson’s pluck, if it cannot always approve his harshness. If there is » conscientious man in the nation the Methodist believes the Parson to be one, but it wishes his conscience had looked more clearly at the back-pay question in Congress, “We did expect,’ adds the editor, ‘to see our old friend stand erect against this abomina-~ tion as agaiust slavery and rebellion; but ha has disappointed us. To be sure, he was: getting less pay in the Senate than when at: home; butit was the stipulated pay. The ranks of reform need the Parson.” Perhaps: the Parson rather needs the ranks of reform. Tho Liberal Christian has the following sea= ‘sonable paragraph: — As ‘‘the heated term” approaches the ardot of the “fair-weather Christians’? to abate, noticeably. Itishard to keep up one’s religious enthusiasm with the mercury about the nineties mm & wholly unprinclpied imanaer. One even tires @ litthe of edifying discourses upom ‘Justification by Faith,” and Charity Toward the Heatben!’’’ One isveven tempted to bay satisied with the “ministry of natare,” and find a “saving grace” in green treea, biue SKY, songs and fresh breezes, It is expected that’ every Christian, to say nothing of the Jews, will take this liberal view: of the subject and govern himself necord~ "iy Jewish Times discusses the subject of Jewish reform in Germany, which, it alleges, hegnot been ao rapid in its application tq