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

6 NEW. YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR urned. pena Te MN PRERS THE DAILY HERALD, pubdtished every day in the gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. —_ —— Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniety EWrertainuent. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lirx; Irs Morn ann Sunset. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near jway.—Beiixs or tux Kitcurn. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orgra Bourre—Asoor Town. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, betw: He Bloecker st. —Mabaux Ancors Ounip en NOUR THEATRE COMI N — RIBEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanterr NIBLO'S GARDEN, B: 5 Pri Houston sta-—Tux Btack Guopes” tween Prince and RAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third #.—Hauwrep Houses, ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 14th streot and Irving place.— Tran Orema—La Traviata. ARG. FB. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— ‘Tum New Madparey, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broaiw: Sam Fane Afternoon and . corner Thirtieth st.— ing. 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The Evangelical Alliance and Its Approaching World’s Comvention in New York. : During the present week there will be a world’s convention in this city, compared with the objects and far-reaching. conse- quences of which all the contemporaneous Gatherings in Wall street may be numbered among the fleeting trifles of the passing hour. We refer to the sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, which on Thursday next, to continue for ten days, will be opened in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association. Considering the time, place and circumstances, the various races and nations of men and the numerous religious sects that will be represented on this occasion, and bear- ing in mind, notwithstanding its Protestant limitations, the grand idea of Christian unity which brings all these diverse elements into this fraternal reunion, it will’ be widely recog- nized as one of the most interesting and im- portant religious convocations of modern times. In the page of valuable information published in our issue of Saturday last touch- ing the history, the character and the objects of this extraordinary assemblage it was not inaptly designated ‘‘a Protestant ecumenical council”—a grand cosmopolitan conclave of Christian captains, a congress of delegates from every continent and the islands of the sea, whose broad designs are to utilize the united power of Christendom, to repress in- Gospel of Christ and to avoid those scandals which have heretofore arisen, and so much to the prejudice of the general cause, from the dissensions and persecutions among Christian sects against each other. The articles of faith, or the dogmas which may be called the platform of this universal alliance, embrace the divine inspiration, au- thority and sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures; the right and duty of private judgment in thejr interpretation; the unity and trinity of Old Catholicism; Catholicism in Switzerland since the last Council; Evangelization of Ro- man Catholics in France; Protestantism and Romanism compared in reference to Modern Civilization; the German Empire and Modern Ultramontanism; Roman and Reformed Doc- trine of Justification; Religious Liberty; Rome's Appeal to Educated Protestants; the Training required to enable Protestant Minis- ters effectually to meet the Intellectual De- mands of the Age—from all which it appears that the prosecution of the war upon the ‘mother church” of Rome is to be # prominent feature of the proceed- itigs of the Conference. This is » country of religious liberty, and as “error ceases to be dangerous when truth is left free to combat it,” and as the Roman Catholic Church, quite as sincerely as any of the Protestant sects, be- lieves that it teaches the true religion, we leave this subject of Protestantism and Ro- manism to the rival churches concerned. There is room enough, and there is work enough, in spreading the Gospel and in dif- fasing throughout the world the blessings of Christianity for Protestants and Catholics. We hail this Protcstant Evangelical Alliance as a liberalizing movement among the Prot- estant sects, which cannot fail to soften, and, in the end, to dissipate the existing antago- nisms between Protestants and Catholics. In the general harmony which prevails betwoen Catholics and Protestanta in this country of The Movement of Bullion from Eng- land to the United States. According to the report telegraphed from London up to six o'clock P. M. Saturday there was @ considerable movement to ship bullion from England to the United States. The amount withdrawn from the Bank of England for this purpose on Saturday was not very large, it is true, being in value only forty thousand dollars, but we are told that all the available gold in the street was being bought up for shipment to America, The Bank’s rising of the rate of discount with a view to check the outflow of specie had no doubt produced some effect, but outside of that institution the law of demand and supply was operating in spite of its pre- cautionary action. There - are business obligations to meet here to and through the banking houses connected with Eng- land. Besides, our crops of cotton and grain are wanted, and if sufficient money can- not be obtained on this side to move them the means, to some extent, at least, will prob- ably be furnished. Of course, in all this great profits are expected. We may have to lose something through our immediate and press- ing necessities, just as all people in distress have; but the relief afforded will, nevertheless, be very acceptable. We would rather take the specie of England just now than the dry goods, There is at the present day always a tendency between and among nations to religious freedom, and in the expansion of this great American doctrine, and from its harmonizing iafluences, we are confident that a better day is coming throughont the world to both the great divisions of the Christian faith It is enough for our present purpose that Christian unity and charity, though confined within the pale of Protestantism, are the objects of this Evangelical Alliance. It is a movement in the right direction. It is o great advance towards the Sermon on the the Godhead; the utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall; the incar- nation of the Son of God; justification by faith; the work of the Holy Spirit; the im- mortality of the soul; the resurrection of the body; the final judgment, and the divine in- stitutions of the Christian ministry. It is to be understood, however, that this is not to be required as a creed or confession of’ faith, but DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Sciexcr arp Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, Sept. 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “TRE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND ITS AP- _ PROACHING WORLD'S CONVENTION IN NeW YORK” —LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC— SIxTH PaGs. FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF ALICANTE, SPAIN, BY THE INSURGENT IRON-CLADS! THE BRITISH, GERMAN AND FRENCH FLEETS 48 SPECTATORS! 500 PETROLEUM AND OTHER PROJECTILES FIRED iNTO THE CITY! VIGOROUS AND EFFECTIVE RE- TURN FIRE! THE VITTORIA AND ALMANSA TO THE RESCUE—Ssvenu Paap. SPANISH STRIFE! THE CARLISTS ADVANCING THEIR BANNERS UNDER THE WANING STAK OF HE REPUBLIC! GUERILLA FIGHTING! HIDALGO’S ARBITRARY AR- RESTS! THE MILITARY RESERVE—TuIRp Pacu. (HE WAR IN CUBA! SEVERAL SKIRMISHES— SEVENTH Pas. PRESIDENT GRANT DEFINES HIS POSITION IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS! A LIBERAL AND LEGAL voOLICY OUTLINED! PRE. PAYING THE NOVEMBER INTEREST! THE WEST MOVING—SEVENTH Pas. HE FINANCIAL RETROSPECT! SPLENDID RE- SULTS OF THE EFFORTS FOR A RESTORA- TION OF TONE! THE STOCK EXCHANGE BANK PROPOSITION—SEVENTH Page. THE WAY OUT OF THE WUODS! SAFE BUSI- NESS PROSPECTS FOR THE PRESENT WEEK! ACTION OF THE BANKS! DUTY OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE—Eicutu Page. (MPORTANT SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE NA- TIONAL CAPITAL—GENERAL NEWS— TENTH ‘PAGB. WORDS OF GRACE FOR THE MILLION! DIS- COURSES IN THE PULPITS YESTERDAY! “OLD HUNDRED” ON THE STOCK EX- CHANGE! LESSUNS OF THE PANIC FROM A RELIGIOUS STANDPOINT—FourtH Paces. & POLITICU-SOCIAL REUNION AT THE RESI- DENCE OF THE GERMAN PRINCE PRE- MIER! ITS VALUE! BISMARCK AND HIS FAMILY! PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS! BEER ON THE SIDEBOARD! BISMARCK'S RELIGIOUS BELIEF—Firtu PaGR. YELLOW FEVER SPREADING IN THE SOUTH- WEST! A MODIFIED YET FATAL TYPE OF THE EPIDEMIC IN ILLINOIS! TWENTY- TWO INTERMENTS YESTERDAY IN MEM- PHIS-SRVENTH PAGE, TARRED HUNTINGTON! THE GUILTY PARTIES IN THE KELSEY HORROR TRYING TO CLEANSE THEMSELVES OF THE “DAMNED SPOTS"—Tainp Pace. THE PEARL RIVER CESSION TO THE UNITED STATES—AN INGENIOUS CONVICT—Turkp Page. In Tae Fovanctat Srrvation there is nothing new, and we need say nothing beyond express- ing the hope that business of all kinds has again found its ordinary channels. Ramroap Accmpents 1s ENGLAND.—We learn by telegram that there were nine rail- road accidents on English railways in one day—that is, on last Friday. Fortunately no one was killed, though a number of persons were injured. British press writers open their, eyes with horror whenever railroad accidents occur in this country, and they comment ominously on the dangers of travelling here. John Bull never fails to see the mote in the eye of America. Not that we are invulnerable to comments for our recklessness of life, or that we have not far too many railroad acci- dents. True, it is to be expected there will be in the aggregate more accidents on the sixty thougand giles and more in this country than on the twenty to thirty thousand miles in Great Britain; but the point we make is that our self-satisfied cousins across the At- lantic should look upon the evils at home as well a8 abroad. “Cuagvorre Stanvs Free in the tremendous ¢rash now prevailing,”’ affirms a North Carolina paper. The reference is probably to cotton, and not to the famons representative of “Meg Merrilies.”” Another thing—so long as ‘Char- lotte stands firm’’ there is no danger of her being locked up for unsteadiness, as simply an-indication of the class of persons whom it is desirable to embrace within the Alliance. It assumes no disciplinary author- ity. It is a voluntary confederation of Chris- tians and Christian sects, on the basis of unity and harmony, for the propagation of the faith. In brief, the fundamental rules of this Alli- ance, within the pale preseribed, may be ex- pressed in the words of a distinguished Catho- lic teacher—‘‘In non-essentials, hberty; in essentials, unity, and in all things, charity.” | Upon this broad foundation the grand de- sign is a Christian fabric, which shall ulti- mately cover the earth as the waters cover the great deep. From the numbers of delegates to this Conference already in the city from various churches classed as Protestant, and from Europe, Asia and Africa, and from all parts of our own Continent, we cannot doubt that this will be the most imposing representa- tive body ever assembled on this hemisphere. The five preceding general conferences of the Alliance, in the order named, have been held in London, Paris, Berlin, Geneva and Am- sterdam; but, under all the favoring condi- tions of the time, we may confidently antici- pate from this meeting in New York the most gratifying results in the history of the enter- prise. The American members of the body, in those practical currents of thought which in everything distinguish our progressive peo- ple, will here for the first time have the oppor- tunity for giving shape and direction to the ap- pointed work of the Alliance, and accordingly we expect that its labors in the cause of Chris- tianity, in every form and in every land, will be hereafter more positive and active than at any period heretofore and more productive of good fruit than any preceding general conference of this evangelical league. Under our existing financial excitements there are .croakers who will pronounce this opinion a delusion and a snare—who will point the bewildered stranger to the confusion of Babel in Wall street as disclosing our con- dition for evangelical enterprises. There are doubting Thomases, we fear, who will whisper to the Dean of Canterbury that we will do the best we can for the spread of the Gospel, but that just now we are mainly interested in banks and bonds, and stocks and gold, and greenbacks. The distinguished native East Indian delegate from Bombay, the accom- plished and polished Christian, Narayan Sheshadri, may be as much perplexed here with the many divisions and subdivisions of our Christian sects as was in England— That learn’d Hindoo—that prince of men, Baboo Uhesub Chunder Sen. There are cross-grained Puritans, perhaps, who will admonish their Christian colaborer, the Rev. M. D. Kalopathakes, from Athens, that we are as far from the true faith as were Mount, from the time when Calhoun in the Senate declared the separation of tye Metho- dist Church South from that church North on the slavery question as the snapping of one of the cords which held the union of the States together. “How beautiful,” says Isaiah, that most eloquent of the divinely inspired prophets of Israel, “how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that ‘bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth.” Such, we understand, are the good tidings to+be brought before this general conference of the Evangelical Alliance, from the four quarters of the globe, and in this light we recognize this union of the Protestant churches as one of the most important and encouraging relig- ious convocations of the age. The Bombardment of Alicante—The Spanish Presidency. The threatened bombardment of Alicante by the insurgent iron-clads Mendez Nunez and Numancia was commenced on Saturday with a salute of five hundred projectiles, some of them charged with+ petroleum, under o return fire from the forts and shore batteries, which obliged’ the assailants to retire disabled. We are gratified to record this latter fact, for it indicates that the power in the hands of the intransigentes is utterly incapable of offering any permanent stop to the government. The vessels cap- tured by the British from the insurgents and handed over to the Spanish government are now, it is said, on their way to the relief of Ali- cante. The injury to the latter city is reported to be very great materially, but if the insurrection is proved by the result of Saturday's engage- ment to have no far-reaching arms, the sacri- fice will not be too great for the future safety of Spain. The neutral attitude of the foreign vessels of war present at the bombardment is amply accounted for by the lead of England in the matter. Strong as is that power at sea, and anxious as gushing Britons may be to see their ragged schoolboy seamen at Spanish throats, the government are not at all willing to help the Spanish republic. The want of good grace in the surrender of the Vittoria and Almansa to the Republic makes this pretty evident. The desire of the German commander to prevent the bombard- ment would not, we imagine, receive high commendation at Berlin if it went so far as to bring about an engagement, creditable as it would have been to German pluck and human- ity, and popular, as it must have been, with the German masses. We believe, however, tiat the Republic, if properly directed, will be able to settle with all the insurgent bodies single handed. On the reassembling of the Cortes an elec- tion for President of the Republic will take place, with Castelar and Salmeron as the most prominent candidates. The energy and directness which Sefior Castelar has recently exhibited and the successes he has achieved, will, we imagine, weigh strongly in his favor, and it is difficult to see how they cap do bet- the ancient Greeks when the faithful Paul preached to them ‘the unknown God;” that we have set up the idol, and have established in all our high places the worship of the Golden Calf, and that the day is still far in the future when we may look for the descent of another Moses from Mount Sinai who will cast this idol down. So widely, however, have the evils of our political demoralization been pro- claimed abroad, so extravagantly have our reckless financial ventures and our amazing monetary corruptions and collapses been pic- tured to a credulous world, that we are con- fident that the delegates from Europe, Asia and Africa to this Evangelical Conference will find from their observations here that the people of this highly-favored country are in the faith, and, in practical Christianity, en- titled to the front rank among the nations— that in the enduring beliefs which underlie our social, political and religious institutions, we are founded upon the Rock of Ages; and that the chiefs of the Protestant sects of the United States are qualified to lead in the great work of this Evangelical Alliance, The published progtamme for this impend- ing Conference embraces a great number of discourses and @ comprehensive variety of theories. The general subjects which will be discussed are—Christian Union; Christianity and its Antagonisms; Christian Life; Protes- tantism and Ronianism; Christianity and Civil Government; Christian Missions, Foreign and Domestic; Christianity and Social Reforms. The division of Protestantism and Romanism will embrace—The Dogma of Infallibility; Nominal Protestantism; Papal Infallibility and ter than retain him. Tue Camraton 1x Onto.—The Ohio papers state that the political campaign in that State progresses very quietly. The mass meetings are few and far between, and not largely at- tended at that, Mass meetings in the open air are said to be decidedly unpopular among the democrats. The Ohio farmers are probably busy husbanding their fall crops preparatory to mowing down acres of rank political weeds when the proper time comes. Tue Democratic Stare Convention.—The Utica Observer states that the democrats of Delaware county have chosen one liberal re- publican and one democrat to represent them in the Democratic State Convention, to be held at Utica on Wednesday next. The democrat is Colonel John R. Fellows, a resident of New York city, but well known throughout the State. Is this not introducing the rotten bor- ough system of England into our politics? Delaware county instructs its representatives to ugge the adoption of o resolution by the Con- yention providing hereafter for three delegates from each Assembly district, In Rochester a similar course was adopted. In these instances the Democratic State Central Committee re- ceives a rap over the knuckles for limiting the delegation from each Assembly district to a single person, Non-Awenrties or AstaTic RELIGIONISTS.— There are one hundred and _ twenty-four Hindoo religious castes in Madras, India, who will not eat together or intermarry. did field for our missionary men! Splen- restore the financial and commercial equilib- rium, so closely do the bonds of commerce make them and their interests connected. Peter Funk at Pittsburg—The Thomas Statue Fiasco. If half the accounts which come to us from Pitteburg are correct, a piece of artistic hum- bug was recently perpetrated there which will find few parallels in the history of art in the United States. Last January a committee ap- pointed by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland issued circulars, addressed to all the principal sculptors in the country, and inviting them’to forward to Pittsburg, by Sep- tember 18, models of the late General Thomas, representing him on horseback. These models were to undergo a competitive examination, | the idea being to have cast a bronze equestrian statue of the General for erection in one of the public squares of Washington city. To this invitation a number of sculptors and of persons who are not sculptors responded. Among the aspirants were Macdonald, Turini, Bailey, Hess, Warner, Miss Ream and General Price. There are varying ru- mors with respect to the expedients, outside of art considerations, employed by more than one of the competitors to insure success. With these, at present; we have little to do, All who know anything about sculpture and who have a reasonable de- ficiency of prejudice are pretty fairly informed of the standing of each of the aspirants, and do not need to be regaled with the history of mu- tual envies and’ comparative qualifications. We have reason to believe in the integrity and ability of most of the sculptors. All that we are concerned with is whether the competitors were fairly treated by the committee, and, if not, whether the committee was capable of treating fairly any competition of this kind. All the accounts that we have seen coincide in the statement that the competitors above mentioned had their work ready and on hand in Pittsburg on the 18th. As to whom pipe was laid by and how much of it was laid we have neither the inclination nor the right, just at present, to make affidavit. Itis certain that nearly all the competitors had expended much time, a good deal of money and some talent. What did the examining committee do? It did one thing, and it did it to such perfection that we can never hope to see it excelled. It split and came to no decision whatever. It failed even to give the candi- dates official notice of its action until after the matter had become notorious through the Pitts- burg newspapers ; it failed to observe even the poor formality of thanking them for going thither ; it failed to act either as gentlemen, as business men or as connoisseurs in art; and in its total want of common sense, kindly feeling, delicacy, tact and knowledge of the principles of art it gave to the world as dis- gusting a specimen of Peter Funkism as, per- haps, that world has ever seen. We understand that a ‘‘model’’ was offered by General Price, of Lexington, Ky., and that the ‘‘model’’ consisted of a charcoal sketch of General Thomas on horseback at the summit of a rock at Chattanooga. Perhaps some grains of salt are to be allowed for the heat of excited controversialists; but if Gen- eral Price seriously offered a model he appears in the interesting light of being at once candidate and judge. As chairman of the committee which was to decide, he could scarcely have been expected to neglect the interests of his own artistic offspring, and we know not at which to stand most amazed, his enterprise in entering the lists of competi- tion or the moral grandeur of his coadjutors who could so unceremoniously ignore such pre- tensions. At any rate, if report speaks truth, General Price’s ‘‘model” must have been in strange contrast to the models of the other competitors, whose principal inferiority to him seems to have been that they had at least endeavored to comply with the conditions im- posed by the committee of which he was chair- man. It is almost incredible that he should have exerted himself strenuously to gain the award so long as a chance remained, and have then exerted himself with equal pertinacity to withdraw directly the committee began to evince its incapability of arriving at an intelli- gent decision. But, whatever perplexing sha- dows prejudice and rivalry may shed over its interpretations of the affair, there can be little doubt that the committee appointed by the has failed to erect a monument to General ‘Thomas, has erected one to its own fatuity and ignorance, and that even where compassion will diluted with greatly deserved contempt. Tue Continvep Ravaces or tHe YELLOW Fever at Shreveport are appalling to contem- plate. In proportion to its population its suf- ferings and losses from this epidemic are without a parallel. Twenty-two interments in one day for a city reduced to less than three the worst of it is that while the disease shows no abatément the sufferings and destitution of the citizens still surviving are daily increased. Movements for the relief of those unfortunate neovle have been undertaken in various cities, Society of the Army of the Cumberland, if it | be felt for it that compassion will be liberally | thousand inhabitants is a fearful record, and | and we believe there are some gentlemen from Shreveport in this city who have been raising a few subscriptions among their friends; but we think that some such movement in Wall street at this time would be a profitable diver- sion to bulls and bears and would prove a godsend to Shreveport that would not soon be forgotten. A word ‘on 'Change” and the thing is done. The Panic and Its Lessons. Confidence having been practically restored to the financial community during the week just ended the ministers yesterday sought to gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost, and to draw from the panic its most important and wholesome lessons. It has lessons which we all may profitably study. Rev. Henry Powers thinks the crisis was the conséquence of impatience to be- come rich, because wealth alone in this land gives a platform upon which happiness can be established. Men are not content to make money slowly, but they must embark in wild-cat speculations. The ability and the desire to do this, Mr. Pow- ers thinks, reveals the fact that there is too much faith among us. A hundred years ago it was not possible for such a panic to come upon a people, because they had not faith enough in one another to allow of such ex- tensive business intercourse and transactions as exist to-day between-man and man, Yet faith ina large measure is necessary to the carrying out of the great enterprises of the day. Mr. Powers’ recipe for the full restora- tion of confidence is a very simple one— namely, honest dealing man with man and the fulfilment of every obligation, and thus give to every dealing a solid basis of integrity. These are very simple principles and within regch of every man, and they should at least have a fair trial before they shall be con- demned. While fortunes have been lost during the panic a great deal beside has been saved. The only insupportable loss, as Dr. Bellows declared, is not capital or immediate credit, but reputation, and what is better than reputation—character—that is, a right to repu- tation, whether one has it or not. When men of solid and sober business habits are involved in calamities which do not touch their own honor and conscience they have the best part of the interests left—self-respect, a conscious claim on the sympathy and consideration of their peers and an un- broken spirit and the heart to begin again. But thé only principle that can make us cautious, moderate, self-respectful, tender in conscience und shrinking from inward blame is the sense of duty. Itis the pilot and the goal and the anchor of life’s voyage. Idol worship is, without doubt, the most popular, as it is the most natural to every man. But, according to Mr. Frothingham, the greatest idol, and that which is the symbol of deity in this age, is wealth. Idolatry, he declared, is abominable, and yet this idol, Wealth, builds railroads, erects the telegraph, subdues the ocean and brings every point of the world together. If the common people will only believe that wealth can be shaken, that nothing in this world succeeds but justice, and that no one can enter into vast speculations beyond their depth but will be drowned, » man or a clique of men or a whole nation may defraud for a while, but in the end perfect justice will be established. Mr. Frothingham would like the power to strike this idol, Wealth, on the forehead and dash it to pieces, that with it its com- panion, Show, might also fall. These. two idols are building magnificent churches in New York, not because religion is growing simple or purer—oh, no! for it is decaying— but that it may appear there is a God where there is none. .It is all for effect. These aro serious charges, and the churches should look well to their standing if the charges are in any sense true or well founded. Rev. Mr. Rogers, in the North Dutch church, prayed that those men and families who had suffered by the panic might learn from it the lesson that there is wealth which endureth forever, and that they should seek that rather than the riches which take to themselves wings and fly away. Dr. Talmage believes in the power of Chris- tian song, andif the ‘Old Hundred’ and “The Doxology’’ could be rolled through Wall street it would put an end to the panic. There is an excellent opportunity now to try it. Indeed, it might have been tried any day during the week past if only the suggestion had been made and some one had had the boldness to start the tunes and send them rolling on. And then if some of the half score ministers who are daily in the‘street dabbling in stocks should hear the good old song at some time when there is no panic it might remind them also of the true riches which they too oft forget exist. There may possibly be some connection, and doubtless there is, between the secularizing of the clergy and the lay type of piety in the churches to-day. So poor in- deed is it that, as Dr. Talmage says, men actually caricature the idea that there is any such thing as a higher life. He thinks we might trade off some of our stale prayers and whip out our temptations and then march onward toward a higher state of Christian character. This is undoubtedly the only refuge from storms—financial, commercial, national or spiritual. This is pre-eminently a fast age, so Dr. White, of Brooklyn, tells us, and we have every reason to believe him and every evi- dence of its truth about us. The driving is like the driving of Jehu—furious. Reason, God, morality and religion are alike disre- garded in the purpose to gratify human de- sire. Popularity and display are paramount to all other considerations, and sometimes the Church of God exhibits the same spirit. This crash in Wall street the Doctor believes was due to the furious driving of commercial gamblers with speculative stocks in railroads on paper, who, deluding the unawary with promises of speedy wealth, had upset the car of speculation, and it had gone to pieces in the crash. The lesson that he would draw from it is that men should take stock in the bank of heaven, which never suspends pay- ment, because God, its Founder, is the million- naire of the universe. These are the sermons that refer directly or remotely to the panic, But that our readers may have an equal share of steady as of panicky reading for their meditation, we have a few sermons also of another sort. In Plymouth church Rev. Dr. Parker, of London, preached a sermon full of thought and unanswerable argument on the divinity of Christ. The topic was “The Unknown Quantity in Christ” and its treatment was worthy of the eminent author of ‘Ecce Deus.” That unknown quantity which continually cropped out in the life and teachings of Christ was in its manifestations beneficial, spiritual, self-sacrificing and inde pendent. It was, in short, His divinity—His deity; and there is in every man an unknown quantity, which only Christianity can meet and develop. ‘ Dr. Dillar preached a very practical sermon on the necessity of immediate repentance, in the Clinton avenue Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn. Rev. David Mitchell instituted a comparison between the late Ecumenical Council at Rome and the approaching gathering of the Evangelical Alliance, and presented what he considered the most striking point of diffor- ence between the two—a point which is sug- gestive of the radical and fundamental features of Romanism and Protestantism—namely, that, whereas the Council of Rome was con- ducted with closed doors, the Conference of the Evangelical Alliance opens its doors to the* community and invites public sympathy and co-operation. Rey. Monsieur Laurriaux, a French dele- gate to the Alliance, preached an able and practical discourse in Association Hall yester- day on the intense earnestness of Zaccheus to see Jesus and the happy results of his efforts toward that end. Rev. Dr. Fisch, another French delegate to the Alliance. also preached in the chapel in University place on the awakening of the spirit of love and faith, that Christians may be able to combat their enemies’ unbelief, worldliness and superstition. Dr. Fisch is anxious for the return of the religious awaken- ing which followed the crash of 1857, and which brought the Fulton street prayer meet- ing into existence, through whose instrumen- tality so many souls have been saved and so much good accomplished in the world. Bismarck at Home. A Henaxp correspondent ably describes in this morning’s issue an evening party at Prince Bismarck’s mansion, where the chief men of the German Empire were assembled as guests. We have seldom had the good for- tune to present a picture of Parliamentary life in any country revealing so much that is ele- vating, so much that is serious. These re- unions of the cultivated men of the Empire give o fashion, if we can so speak, to the statesmanship which has made Germany great and powerful. Unlike tho flippant as- semblages that gather around the Premiers of minor courte, these evening parties induce the discussion of the gravest questions—not with all Parliamentary formula, but in a pleasant, conversational way. The subtle Bismarck is their parent, and he understands well their importance in giving direction to the makers of public sentiment. But these social gather- ings of the great do not differ in their character from those of lesser individuals in Germany. If the army be taken as an example it will be found that the officers never assem- ble ina café to discuss wine and women, but to talk “shop,” and it is because the German is always talking ‘shop’ that he understands his business, whether it be in war, diplomacy or literature. The Latin races are not so prone to keep the main chance always in view, even inthe midst of festivity. Hence, when they come in contact with the Teuton, they despise the minnteness of his learning and the closeness of his logic, and fly to poetry and opéra bouffe. Wemight in republican America imitate these German reunions, without their aristocratic paraphernalia, and perhaps gain what our official society needs most—culture, refinement and candor. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge C. C. Banks, of Ohio, is at the New York Hotel. The Shah will probably revisit Constantinople next year. Parke Godwin has hung up his shingle as a law- yer in Omaha. Lord and Lady Churchill, of England, are among the late arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel. Rear Admiral Charles S. Boggs, of the United States Navy, is staying at the Everett House. Chief Engineer E. Lawton, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Union Square Hotel. Joseph Arch is to be “received” by the labor re- formers of Boston whem he arrives there from Canada. Alexander Martin, of St. Louis, having married a Miss Southern, a Western paper suggests that it is almost time for such birds a8 Martins to take a Southern trip. Anna Dickinson has made a tramp to the sum- mit of Long’s Peak, Colorado. If is nothing un- usual for Miss D. to speak long, hence why make a noise about her “doing” Long’s Peak ? ‘That “Misa E. Ree loves company” was exempll- fied the other day, in Omaha, when a young lady of that name ran off with a gambler and married him, much to the chagrin of her family, Dr. E. J. Sears, of the National Quarterly Review, has been go ill that ke has been unable to attend to his editorial duties, He is convalescing, and ex- pects to bring himself and the Review out in a week oF 80. People get dangerousty sick in Davenport, lowa, in consequence of the free use of cholera pre- ventives when they were not necessary. “An ounce of prevention” is not worth a pound of cure in this case. Joshua Owings, aged eighty-one, married s Mra. Reagan, aged thirty-two, in Lexington, Ky., the other day. There was to have beena grand wed- ding, but the gaandchildren threatened to shoot the parson who married them, and the affair did not come off. F; A distinguished operator in stocks in this city having become one of the corporators in a stock breeders’ association out West, @ local paper thinks that if the other corporgtors can feed stock as wellas the Wall street magnate can water it the enterprise. will prove most successful. ‘The O'Donohue is not liked by the Irish nation- alists, whom he deserted for whigism. One of thetr journals, speaking of his advent in Tralee to fight for the representation of the borough, says :— “py stealth he came to Tralee; well will it be if even stealth enables him to quit it again.” Luctus Ciaff, of Menasha, Wis., took a drink of carbolic acid the other day, supposing it to be brandy. After ascertaining what he had done he threw his arms around his wife's neck and ex- claimed, “My God, I nave been poisoned,” and wae a dead man in two minutes, It required a lever to remove his arms, e Count Troutmansdorf, Grand Equerry to the Emperor Charles Vi., purchased trom the cele- brated Jacob Steiner a violin under the lollowing conditions :—He paid down in coin seventy goiden caroluses, undertook to provide Steiner as long as he lived with @ good diuner every day, as well as 100 florins @ month im cash, and yearly a new coat, two ‘casks of beer, lighting and uel, and, in case he should marry, as many hares asrhe might require, with twelve baskers of iruit annually for timsel! and as many for his old nurse. Steiner lived sixteen years aiterwards, and the instrument cost the ‘Count 20,000 florins, and it has just been sold at auction in Dresden tor 2,500 thalers, about $1,900, 7