The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1873, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. Volume XXXVIII...... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Tux Gexeva Cross. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Davy Cxockert. Afternoon and evening. BOOTHS THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st.— Pancnon, Tax Crickrr. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th av— Norry Daur. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniety ‘ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vaniery | Enrertauvaent. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gincer Sxars—Tue ‘Torr Diccer’s Doon. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 Max, Tux Murry Swiss Bor. GRAND OPERA HOU: st—Unper mr Gastia! OLYMPIC THEATRE, and Bleecker sts.—Mons. and 730 Broadway.— Bighth ay. and Twenty-third oadway, between Houston DHONFLEURI. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tur Biack Croox. 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Rorat To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION’—TITLE OF THE LEADING ARTIOLE—SixTH Pace. INSURGENT FRIGATE SUNK BY HER CONSORT AT CARTAGENA, AND OVER HALF OF HER CREW DROWNED! A RUMOR THAT IT WAS A _ HOSTILE ACT, THE VESSEL REFUSING TU OBEY ORDERS—SEVENTH PaGE. SPANISH DEFEATS IN CUBA ACKNOWLEDGED! OPERATIONS OF THE INSURGENTS—TuirD PAGE. BISMARCK AND HIS ROYAL MASTER LAYING THEIR HEADS TOGETHER IN THE AUS- TRIAN CAPITAL—THE FRENCH POLITICAL FERMENTERS IN CAUCUS—SEVENTH PaGez. TRYING A MARSHAL OF THE EMPIRE! BAZAINE BEFORE THE COURT MARTIAL AT THE TRIANON! WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF— THIRD Pace. CHURCH AND STATE IN SWITZERLAND—IM- PORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SgveEntu Pact. THE RADICAL NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA DEBARKED FROM RUNNING BY INVOLVEMENT IN AN AFFAIR OF HONOR! FULL SPECIAL REPORT OF THE CASE— SEVENTH PaGE. ANOTHER ASSAULT UPON THE ALLIANCE FROM CATHOLIC AND FREE RELIGION PULPITS! BEECHER CHARGED HOME BY DR. Mo- GLYNN! STOKES’ FATE AS A WARNING TO YOUNG MEN! EFFICACY OF PRAYER— E1gutTH PaGR. NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES! STRONG EVIDENCE AS TO THEIR VERITY! PAPAL BRIEFS AND INDULGENCES! THE FRENCH LEGITIMIST MOVEMENT! THE FINALE OF THE GREAT RELIGIOUS FERVOR—FocrTa Pacs. VACANT CHAIR IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT! THE MAN TO FILL IT, IN THE OPINION OF WASHINGTON LAW- YERS! SOUTHERN CLAIMS TO CONSIDERA- TION—TeNTH Pace. HOLLAND'S WAR UPON ACHEEN! THIRTY SAIL AND 15,000 SOLDIERS TO ENFORCE DUTCH AUTHORITY IN THE EAST INDIES— * SEVENTH PAGE. AN EXECRABLE FORM OF SLAVERY! KIDNAP. PING SAILORS IN NEW YORK! A BOY TAKEN AT NOONDAY IN THE STREETS— Tutnp Pace. INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE COURSE OF THE FINANCIAL CURRENT! WHITHER IT 18 TENDING! CURRENCY PAYMENTS BY THE BANKS—FirTH Pace. AWARDS TO AMERICANS AT VIENNA! NAMES OF THE FORTUNATES—Tentu Pace. DARING THIEVERY UP THE HUDSON—THE PARK AND THE AVENUE—PROGRESS OF THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE—AN IMPEACH- MENT FIZZLE—Turmp Pace. THE Tue Bazarve Tran commands more and more interest as it advances, The cross-ex- ‘mination to which the Marshal has been sub- jected has been searching and severe. The Marshal is in a tight place, and he is evidently aware of it. Still it cannot be said that the evidence yet produced is sufficient to justify conviction. Bazaine might certainly have done better; but it has not yet been proven that he played the part of traitor. Romorep Monmon Exopvs.—The San Fran- cisco Chronicle has made the important dis- covery that, in consequence of apprehended unfriendly legislation by the next Congress towards the Mormons, that sect is preparing for agrand exodus from Utah. The new “promised land’’ is said to be located among the islands of the Pacific,and that a Bohemian missionary has been sent by the Mormons to Polynesia on matters connected with the pro- posed exodus. The whole story has a Bo- hemian savor. Brigham Young has fought and defied Congressional legislation too long ‘to pay much attention to it now, unless he has Gn idea of propaganding Latter Day Saintism and finds the Territory of Utah too contracted for his purposes. If there is a being in the ‘world likely to adhere to Sumner’s advice to Btayton, “stick,” that boing is Prosident Young, head of the Mormon sainta, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Election of President and Vice President of the United States—The Proposed Amendment of the Consti- tation, In the brief interval last year between the day of the popular vote and the confirmatory action of the Electoral Colleges in the election of the President and Vice President of the United States an unexpected event occurred, which, in its immediate consequences, startled the whole country with the uncertainties, irreg- ularities and dangers involved in the existing methods of electing those two important public officers, This unexpected event was the death of Horace Greeley, the Presidential candidate of the anti-administration elements of the country in opposition to General Grant, re- nominated as the standard bearer of the party in power; and the immediate consequences, the half dozen electoral bodies chosen in be- half of Greeley and Brown, were such as to bring the danger into bold relief that in the chapter of accidents a President, by the Elec- toral Colleges might be chosen, not voted for and never dreamed of by any consider- able portion of the people in thelr suf- frages. From the profound impression thus made upon the public mind in favor of a change in the present method of choosing our President and Vice President the subject was brought #0 the attention of Congress more emphatically than ever before, and in view of « constitutional amendment on the subject in season for our next Presidential election. In deference to the general public opinion of the country, the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate at the last session of Congress were instructed during the recess to the meeting of the next Congress to consider the subject of the con- stitutional amendment suggested, and to report their views and conclusions thereon to the Senate at their earliest convenience after the reassembling of that body. In obedience to these instructions Messrs. Morton, of Indiana ; Carpenter, of Wisconsin ; Anthony, of Rhode Island, and Bayard, of Delaware, of said committee, recently met in this city, and after numerous conferences from day to day they agreed upon the following propositions as expedient to be embodied in a new amend- ment of the constitution :— 1. To abolish the Electoral Colleges. 2. That the President and Vice President be elected by the people voting directly for the candi- dates. 8, That each State shall be divided into as many districts as the State is entitled to Representatives in Congress, to be composed of contiguous terri- tory, compact in form, and as nearly equal in popu- lation as may be, and the person having the high- est number of votes for President in each district shall receive the vote of that district, which shall count one Presidential vote; that each State shail be entitled to two Presidential voters at large, which shall be counted for the person having the highest number of votes in the whole State. 4. The person having the highest number of such Presidential votes in the United States shall be President. 5. These provisions to be applicable to the elec- tion of Vice President. 6. Congress shall have power to provide for hold- ing and conducting the election for President and Vice President, and to establish a tribunal for the decision of contests as to the vote in any district or State, and make regulations governing the pro- ceedings of these tribunals. The essential point in the popular demand for a change is here embodied in the proposi- tion to abolish the Electoral Colleges. With the fathers of the constitution popular sove- reignty was an untried experiment, and so to guard against apprehended popular disturb- ances and possible revolutions in our Presi- dential elections the framers of our organic laws interposed these electoral colleges or commissions, giving to the people, in each State, the election of a number of electors equal to the representation of the State in the two houses of Congress, and giving to these electors the election of President and Vice President, but requiring a majority of the electoral votes cast for an election, or, in the absence of such majority, an election by the House of Representatives. But originally the constitution provided that the electors should vote for two candidates for President and that the person having the highest number of votes cast, if a majority of all, should be the Presi- dent, and the person having tho next highest vote cast, if a majority, should be the Vice President. In the election of 1800 the Presi- dential electors voted 73 for Thomas Jefferson and @73 tor Aaron Burr, the republican ticket, against 65 for John Adams, and 64 for C. O. Pinckney, the federal ticket, the federalists thus leaving no room for a controversy as to their first choice for President, in giving one vote le&s for Pinckney than for Adams. The republican electors, however, thought no such distinction was necessary in reference to their ticket, and hence the trouble which followed. The tie between Jefferson and Burr, both be- ing voted for for President, carried the election into the House of Representatives, and there so sharp, violent, doubtful and protracted was the struggle that a revolutionary settlement began to be apprehended, when some patriotic federalists interposed and tarned the scale in favor of Jefferson. But as the great danger which had been escaped might under similar conditions again occur the republican party of that day lost no time in the work of secur- ing an amendment of the constitution, pro- viding that the Presidential electors should vote for a President and a Vice President, and as thus amended, under Jefferson’s adminis- tration, the constitution now stands, And yet in our day the unexpected death of Horace Greeley has warned us of Presidential election dangers quite as alarming incident to the constitution as amended as were the perils of the pre-existing ordinance under which a revolutionary cutting of the Gordian knot was threatened in the unexpected contest between Jefferson and Burr. And thus, from time to time since the beginning, every wholesome re- form, every valuable law of communities and nations, has been purchased by dear expe- rience in other courses of action. But, although the constitution, in the rales and regulations of our Presidential elections, has not been amended since the time of Jef- ferson, a law of Congress, passed in 1845, in consequence of certain developments and com- plaints connected with the Presidential elec- tion of 1844, marks a very important reform. Down to and including that election of 1844 many of the States voted for their Presidential electors on different days, and thus, in the transfer by scheming political cliques of gangs of voters from one State to another, it was charged that intolerable frauds and corrup- tions had been practised, and that the only remedy against their repetition was in a law designating and establishing the dav, and the same day, for the Presidential election in Paris may retire in favor of the Republic. The every State of the Union. Hence tho law of French people may then “crown the edifice” one and the same day now in force. The various other laws of Congress and of most of the States passed for the regulation of the right of suffrage and of our elections since our late civil war we need not here reproduce. They have contributed, in many things, to purify our elections; but, nevertheless, in the continuance of the Electoral Colleges, our Presidential contests have been little better than a game of cards between two or three gambling party conventions. In the constitutional amendment proposed by Mr. Morton and his Senatorial committee it is believed that this evil will be checked and that several much-desired reforms will be gained—first in the abolition of the Elec- toral Colleges and in the substitution of a di- rect popular vote by Congressional districts, and next in providing that by a plurality vote the President and Vice President may be elected. Itis held that these elections will be 80 far simplified as to be substantially under the control of the people, and yet so far complicated as to be absolutely beyond the grasp of party conventions or cliques of juggling politicians. Again, it is thought that a satisfactory concession of respect to State lines, State rights and Stato pride is submitted in the proposition that the two Senatorial votes of each State for President and Vice President shall be determined by the majority or plurality of the popular vote of the State. We apprehend, however, that between this proposed compromise and the alternative of massing the electoral vote of the State in its aggregate popular vote there will be # lengthy discussion in the two houses ot Congress, though, for the purpose of thwarting the de- signs of scheming politicians and of giving the minority party in each State its Congressional representative vote, if any, for President, the proposed district system is a reform which, in default of anything better, should be adopted. We presume that Senator Morton and his committee have duly considered the simple proposition of the election of our President and Vice President by a majority or plurality of the aggregate popular vote of the United States, States and Territories included; for why, it may be asked, should the people of the Territories be denied the privilege of a voice in these national elections? We pre- sume that the committee, looking to the in- dividuality and the rights of the States and to the subordinate apprenticeship condition of the Territories, have found this French system of a national plébiscite a centralizing idea utterly impracticable. We infer from their protracted labors that the results reported are deemed by the committee as embodying the constitutional changes in the matter of electing our President and Vice President, which, as far as practicable, are most to be desired. We suppose that the committee .intend to urge the earliest con- sideration of their report upon the Senate, in view of the adoption of the amendment pro- posed in season for our national centennial year, 1876, and that the President will call the attention of the two houses to the importance of the subject in his annual Message to Congress in December next. We are satisfied that three-fourths of the States are prepared to ratify the abolition of the Electoral Colleges and the election of our President and Vice President directly by the people. The task of a constitutional amendment, however, in this direction, which can be passed, and which will shut the door against frauds and corruptions, is a difficult one. If we abolish the Electoral Colleges and substi- tute the Congressional district system of elect- ing our President we only transfer to each party in Congress the king-making power now exercised by our party Presidential conven- tions. If, to avoid an appeal to the House of Representatives for the election of a Presi- dent, we adopt the plurality rule in the elec- toral vote by Congressional districts we may have, in a scrub race, a President elected by less than one-fifth of the popular vote of the country. To avoid all these and other com- plications and embarrassments, notwithstand- ing the objections and difficulties suggested against the proposition ofan election of the President and Vice President by a majority or plurality of the people of the Union voting en masse, States and Territories included, we cannot believe that the rights of the States, or the individuality of the States, would be dis- turbed by this grand national reunion of the people of the United States once in four or six years, But, in any event, the incidents, acci- dents and developments of our last Presi- dential election imperiously call for the abolition of the Electoral Colleges and for the election of our Chief Magistrate and his alter- nate in some way directly by the vote of tho people. In this view their attention cannot be too soon or too closely directed to the propo- sition of Mr. Morton and his Senatorial com- mittee. France=The Restoration of the Bour- bons. It does now begin to seem certain that France is once more to take her place among the monarchies of Europe. The “fasion” of Bourbon interests so often re- ported and so often contradicted seems to be an accomplished fact. The monarchists have agreed upon a platform, and the platform has been accepted by the Count de Chambord, who, in a few days from now, will, unless some unforeseen difficulty arises, be King of France. The Count, it seems, has been singularly liberal. All persons not disquali- fied by crime are to be cligible to civil em- ployment. The suffrage is to be universal. Within certain limits the liberty of the press is to be guaranteed. The tri-color, it is said, is to be the national flag. On this last point, it is stated, there is some little difficulty, and mutual concessions are expected. It is quite manifest that De Chambord is not altogether indifferent to the throne. This programme, if it tums out to be correct, shows that the Count has made consid- erable sacrifices rather than lose bis chance of sitting in the chair of St, Louis. It is not our opinion that France will be satisfied with any concessions which De Chambord can make. For the present, . however, the majority in the Assembly are in favor of the monarchy, and the Assembly is strong enough to give effect to its wishes. The restoration of the monarchy does not mean peace, It will not be at all wonderful if somo of us should live to seo the old political circle repeated. De Chambord may giva place te De Peris. Do by electing an Emperor. On the 27th of the present month the Assembly, it is expected, will meet, and the strength of parties will be tested at once. Are We to Have a New Arctic Ex- Pedition!—The Behring Strait Polar Gateway. The restless spirit of geographic research is again agitating a new Polar expedition. Mr. Herbert Spencer tells us it is a law of human nature that a man caught once ina trap has @ strange infatuation to be caught in it a second time; and certainly the history of Arctic adventure affords strong confirmation of Mr. Spencer’s remark. When the great German explorer, Adolph Schlagintweit, who, with his accomplished brothers, scaled the loftiest pinnacles of the Thibetan Himalayas, was seized by a robber chief and beheaded in front of Kashgar, the tragedy seemed to paralyze the many schemes of Central Asian exploration. The sufferings of Mungo Park did not recruit the army of African explorers. But it seems ghat every fresh failure to find the Pole has provoked renewed zeal in that long tried undertaking. We are told that, under the pressure of those who desire new discoveries in the unconquered and mysterious land, where ‘The earth is rock—-the heaven ‘The dome of a greater palace of Ice, the Navy Department is considering the pro- ject of a new Arctic expedition. What this may come to, in the present state of finances, does not now appear certain, although it is known that the most sagacious, practical and judicious officers of the navy favor the send- ing out of such an expedition. While it is idle to oppose or thwart such an enterprise, since sooner or later it will be ro- vived, it may be well to suggest anything likely to vary the disastrous experience of such re- search, and especially, if possible, to indicate safer lines of investigation than those which are already thick strewn with ruin and loss, The choice of a new route to the Pole seems now to be reduced to the route via Smith’s Sound, or that which it is understood the Navy Department strongly favors, via Behring Strait. It seems hardly possible, after Mr. Leigh Smith's experience of the past summer, that future exploration will seek a Polar gate- way through the icy seas and ice islands which cluster around Spitzbergen, so that, for the present, attention is riveted on the two first named lines. The first has been so much dis- cussed recently that we need not dwell upon it, except to say that no other avenue has led the geographer to so high a latitude. But as the English government will doubtless have a powerful expedition to test that route in the spring of 1874, if the United States is then sending out a similar expeditionary party, it may be well to consider the Behring Strait route. i Although the mass of warm water which enters the circumpolar ocean through the channel of Behring Strait is not very large, it may be sufficient to destroy the summer ices north of that strait and open a partial way to- wards the Pole. It was said by Captain Sherrard Osborn, not long since, when speak- ing of the voyage of Captain McClure, that he had shown how “itis possible to set sail from Liverpool, and so, leaving Greenland on the right, skirt the great American Continent, leave Kamtchatka on the right and cast anchor in the waters of the Mikado.”” McClure’s discovery of this open communication was undoubtedly proof that the warm waters of the Japan stream entering the Arctic Ocean through Behring Strait combined with melted ices of the continent to liquify and loosen the coast ice; and Judge Daly, of the Geo- graphical Society, has expressed his convic- tion that it is this same body of water through Behring Strait which is found flowing east- ward through Melville and Lancaster Sound, and finally emerging into Davis Strait. So far no researches have explained the absence of the Gulf Stream influence in the scene of Mr. Leigh Smith’s recent voyage, and it is hard to explain it, The body of warm water drifted into the Polar basin by this Atlantic current must be many times as large as the Behring Straitcurrent. What be- comes of the former? Is it lostin the mid Arctic Ocean, oris it diverted, as Dr. Peter- mann and others contend, over towards the Siberian seas? If the latter be the true solu-, tion of the mysterious disappearance of the Gulf Stream in these high latitudes, then we may suspect its thermal effects would be most powerfully felt to the north of Behring Strait, Where it would also combine with the Behring Strait warm stream. Exploration alone can solve this problem, and as a geographical problem it has deeply interested some of the first minds of the world. The French government, just prior to the Prussian war, after hearing the gifted Gustave Lambert’s reasoning, decided to test the Bebring Strait route and, but for the sud- den collapse of the Empire, in one of whose battles he fell, the experiment would doubtless have been made. It must be confessed that very strong reasons remain for giving prefer- ence to the Smith Sound route, if the mere object be to discover and reach the Pole. But the great ocean north of Behring Strait pre- sents a more attractive field for new investiga- tions of o scientific nature, and is, as yet, a mare incognitum, which has never been fur- rowed by any keel. Fatat CaTastnopHe IN THE Spanish Navy.— By telegram from Madrid, under date of yes- terday, we are informed that a very serious and fatal accident, or action as it may be, has occurred between two of the best known ves- sels of the Spanish navy engaged in insurrec- tion against the Madrid government. The frigate Numancia ran into the war ship Fer- nando el Catolico and sunk her, Half of the crew, at least, of the unfortunate ship were drowned. A British despatch boat from Car- tagena brought the news of the disaster to Alicante on Saturday, the 18th instant. It was stated in the Spanish capital that the Numancia fired into the Fernando el Catolico and sunk ber as an act of disciplinary pun- ishment for the latter having parted company and refused to obey signals ordering her to rejoin. This latter statement is not by any moans improbable, in face of the fact that both vessels are just at’ present manned to a very great extent by convicts from the prisons of Spain, and that the men have been, naturally and from their previous course of life, ox- ceedingly suspicious and distrustful of each othar, Walking. There are many men in this city and throughout the land who, tired and over- worked from a business too sedentary and exacting, either feel no benefit from the brief apology for a vacation they took in the sum- mer, or who have had no vacation at all. None know better than these that their heads and bodies will do more and better work in eleven months if they can rest them the twelfth than they will in the whole twelve, with no rest at all; but circumstances have seemed to conspire to keep them forever at their tread- mills. We wouldcall the attention of all so situated to the fact that an excellent remedy yet remains—one very easy to be had—by which they may, even before the new year, get themselves into excellent condition. We mean simply walking. Of. all the months in the twelve, October and November are the best fitted for this exercise. The roads are for most of | the time in good order, the weather is bracing and invigorating, and the scenery in the country beautiful and variegated even as at no other season. A man could walk six miles any day last week, for instance, with scarcely more effort and more fatigue than three would have brought in the summer. Let every one who when evening comes finds himself fatigued and exhausted, either break away from his work an hour and a half or two hours before supper time, and spend it in vigorous walking wherever he likes, or, if he cannot do that, let him eat heartily at supper and take the same walk afterwards. For the first two or three days he may only seem to tire more, and to get but little benefit; but if he will stick to it only a day or two longer it will soon become less difficult, and the pleasant feeling of increasing strength which it brings will make him loath to stop what is plainly bringing him much good. Indeed, he will soon find that food he hardly cared for at all before goes uncommonly well now; that he goes to sleep immediately on re- tiring, and, sleeping throughout the night, awakens thoroughly refreshed and ready for the new day’s work; that, somehow, it is easy to be agreeable and cheery; in short, that his whole system is quite toned up and strength- ened. If nothing better than brick pavements can be had let him take brick pavements; but if he can reach the country road then all the better. The mere walk to and from work will not do, fora man’s mind during such exercise is too likely to be on his work; but afterdt is over let him start away at such a pace that his legs will take the extra blood from his brain and make it so difficult to think pro- tractedly that at last his brain will get a little of the rest it so much needs, while anything like nervousness and fever must shortly give way to healthy calm and quiet. And if besides this daily constitutional he can capture an occasional Saturday, or, better yet, a Friday too, and stretch his legs over twenty-five, thirty or forty miles he will find Sunday such a day of rest as he had not before known and himself wondrously fresh and vigorous on Monday morning. That Americans need not be less rugged and sturdy than Englishmen each can bring instances from his own circle of acquaintance to prove; and if the life of these favored ones is looked into it will usually be found that sensible and syste- matic effort has had much to do with this valuable vigor. ‘The first wealth is health,’’ says Emerson, and here, by the great majority of the overworked, it is to be had for the try- ing. All will recall how Dickens would have his six to ten miles daily, and see from this that the remark of the writer already quoted, that “for performance of great work it requires extraordinary health,” holds good more broadly then he had thought. Every man under a hundred should have a pair of capital walking shoes, broad, stout and com- fortable, and should use them until once he finds what true friends they are, and when he has once found that there is nothing more to fear, they will not stand all the day idle. All, both rich and poor, can afford our remedy, and if they fail to use it and benefit by it they need blame no one but themselves. One-Sided Croquet im the Park. Between the management of Central and Prospect Park there is tho difference that the former is cared for in the light of a costly and delicate ornament, to be looked at and ad- mired, but not to be touched or handled familiarly; while the latter, with an equal care bestowed upon rendering all its features pleasant and attractive to the eye, is also made available for purposes of healthful recreation— in other words is made useful and ornamental at one and the same time. Until the Hzratp drew attention to the fact the game of croquet was prohibited on the lawns of Central Park, as though the grass were as delicate as the nap ofa velvet carpet, and if once trodden upon would never lift its hed of emerald bright- ness again. We are rejoiged to find that the Commissioners have seen fit to permit croquet on the lawns, and now the eye is gratified to see groups of fair young ladies, mallet in hand, enjoying themselves at this favorite outdoor pastime. This gives additional color and animation to the picture our beautifut Park presents at this season of the year. But the question one is tempted to ask in looking at these parties of sprightly young ladies scattered over the green is, Where are the gentlemen? Croquet was happily devised to bring both the sexes to- gether. It is one of the few outdoor games at which they may play in partnership, and the ladies are sufficiently convinced that it means real amusement only when it is played in that fashion. The ladies certainly do not desire a monopoly of the sport, and the fair young players who may be seen these pleasant after- noons in the Park all alone at croquet would be the first to protest against the exclusion of gentlemen from a share in their enjoyment. We cannot believe there is any such ab- surd regulation in force as that cro- quet in tho grounds of tho Central Park must be confined 40 the indies, If there be, it must be inferred that the Com- missioners haye an alarming idea of the size and weight of gentlemen's feet, or that the grass is of such a tender nature that none but sylphs—light and fairy-footed—can trample it with impunity. It might bo said that gon- tlemen are not to be had, that they are ag scarce as currency in the banks, and that the ladies aro forced in consequence to arnuse themselves alone. This can hardly be, Tho visitor to Pfospect Park will see any of these days scores of both aantlemon and Indios en gaged at croquet and having a very enjoyabl¢ enough in New York, and you can whistle off a regiment of fivem to the Park any day if the prospect of being: invited to join « croquet party be given them If the Commissioners are apprehensive that’ the» grass may suffer from the style of boots now in use by the male sex they might modify*the regulation, if there be any, and stipulate that the male players step out upon the grecm im carpet slippers. Much as the liberal concession of allowing croquet in the Park is prized, it will be considered but a half-hearted mvasure if both sexes are not permitted to share it. Christian and Scctarian Sermons It is surprising how quickly the odor of the Evangelical Alliance has passed away and how ready the bloodhounds of sectarianism are to follow the trail and run it even to the death. We have to-day a Unitarian, a Methodist and a Rationalist agreeing that the Alliance wag narrow and bigoted and did not measure up te the spirit or the letter of the Gospel. How easy it would have been for these critics to organize and “run” an Alliance that should embrace rationalists and free thinkers and Spiritualists and Mormons, and every other kind and class of creed or superstition or false faith! We al} understand very well how much easier it is te run organizations and societies in theory than in fact, and how much better every man is fitted for this work than every other man to whom it may be entrusted. And in this faith men have tried to run newspapers, churches, political parties and many other things, and have met with what they least expected—autter foilure., Mr. Clarke, of Harlem, finds fault with the Alliance because it failed sadly in its treat ment of science. The theologians were in- competent to deal with it. They feared it, for- sooth, because every article in science clashea with every article in theology. ‘‘Geology can not be harmonized with Genesis, and Darwin« ism explodes the tradition of the fall, and the doctrine of evolution annihilates the old idea of creative art out of nothing.” These are, indeed, fine sounding phrases and may perhaps deceive the unwary. But if Genesis and geology will not harmonize (which has not yet been demonstrated), Gen- esis and Revelation do harmonize, and show that one Spirit guided the writers of the re- vealed Word from the beginning to the end. And this is the harmony which the Scripture teach, and not that of Genesis and geology. And as we have read Darwinism and its treat- ment by Christian scholars it seems to us that Darwinism itself, and not the tradition of the fall, has been exploded. And Mr. Clarke, deal- ing with such a grave subject, should hardly have fallen into such an error as to call the theory or hypothesis of evolution a doc- trine. It lacks every element of doctrine in its character. However much we might like ta get rid of the ugly facts involved in the fall, we have fearful exemplifications of its ex- istence in history and in daily life, and to those who deny the fall should be left the difficulty of solving the origin and existence of sin. What the Alliance failed to do, and what Christianity has hitherto failed to do, Mr. Clarke has faith to believe the Free Religion Association and Rationalism will ac- complish. We admire his faith, but do not share it, and, judging by the gatherings at that association here last week, it will take eighteen thousand, instead of eighteen hundred, years ere it can accomplish a tithe of what Christianity has already accomplished in the world. A religion that can call forth no mora enthusiasm than was there manifested cam hardly have in it the vitality needed to make it a proselytizing power in the world. Other points contained in Mr. Clarke’s dis- course were also treated by Dr. Wild, of Brooklyn. He asks the question, so ably an- swered last week by Dr. John Hall, What good has the Alliance done? And he finds that the good it has produced in the better understand- of its members and the increased charity among those who came together is counterbal- anced by the narrowing of its door of entrance, by which many were excluded who were as good as those admitted. ‘Law, not love, was the door, and it would have been a much happier conference had they more faith and less big- otry.” But it may be pertinent to ask, Would ‘the admission of the excluded sects and indi- viduals have increased the faith and lessened the bigotry of the Alliance? As this claim for a broader platform seems to us, it would bring in men of no faith and of no creed, and consequently men of a greater tendency to bigotry, to say the least, than the men who were in and who are acknowl- edged to have been men of faith, And, be- sides, the weight of historic evidence as well as of experience is in favor of creed organizations and against creedless ones. So that, ignoring the fact that the outsiders made no demand for admission or recognition, which they ought to have done ere they took up stones to stone the Alliance, the logic of their reasoning is at fault. » If the “religion of humanity” be what Mr. Frothingham represented it yesterday how absurd it would be for the Evangelical Alli- ance, which professes a religion for humanity not of humanity, to admit to its ranks and ita deliberations leaders and representatives of the former! It consists in patriotism, love of family, love of forefathers, and is so “simple a thing that it requires no creed, no theology, no church, no prayers.’’ And hence the con- ference of its representatives in Cooper Insti- tute last week began and ended every session. without prayer and without tho least evidence whatever that it was a religious gathering at all, Every special religion, Mr. Frothingham thinks, is an idolatry—a worship of tools, the honor paid to ropes and pulleys. But amid all his theorizing Mr. Frothingham did not lose sight of his practical point, which he puta’ in the form of a query—‘‘What is Protestant- ism doing for New York?’’- Let Protestantism answer, if it can, Last Sabbath it was Mr. Beecher's turn to accuse Catholics with robbing God of his at-. tributes and giving some to the Virgin and others to the Pontiff. Yesterday it was Dr. McGilynn’s turn to denounce Mr. Beecher’ langwage “as a horrid calumny against the fair spouse of Obrist,’’ ‘The Doctor thinks Catholics simply follow God and honor her whom Ho has honored, But the imputation that they give Johovah’s prerogative to the Pope the characterizes as a “monstrous calumny,” he is vory strongly of opinion that “(God is in more denger of being robbed of ‘ais attri