The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1873, Page 8

8 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS TO-NORROW EVENING, { UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near jor way. uk GENEVA CRO! WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad Morsp Iv. Afternoon and eve ROOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— /Hlauurr. orner Thictieth st— METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanrery Byrenrainaent. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Gemuax Dona- tion—Daniet Boons. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Justiox PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Vicrims—Sovon Smincie THRATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanisrr ENTRRTALIMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sis.—Rir Vaw Winkie. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Unpxk tur Gasuicut. ' GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third 8t.—Rounp tux ©: \NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and HMlouston sts —Tax Biack Cxoox. \ ACADEMY OF MUS treet and Irving place.— Wrauias Ornna—Exn an * WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Sux Stoors ro Conquer. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery,— Vanuetr Ewterrarsxent. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Bixth av.—Necuo Mimstrecsy, 4c. P. T. BARNUM'S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and (th Byenue. Afternoon and evening. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 3d av., between 6d and Gith sts. Afternoon and evening. STRINWAY HALL, Mth st-~Lecrony—“Taru Brown Bors or Browntows.”” COOPER INSTITUTE.—Laveminc Gas axp Macican Eyreetawment. NEW _VORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No, 613 Broad- Way.—Scikncn amp Art. Qu T. New York, Sunday, November 2, 1873. LE SHEE ADRUP THE NEW OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the | Herald. . “THE BUCHU TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY"— LEADING ARTICLE—EIGHTH PaGE. ‘PROBABLE TUTAL LOSS OF AN AMERICAN BRIG IN THE BAY OF NAPLES! MOVEMENTS OF THE AMERICAN TRADE FLEETS—Nintu Paar. ROUT OF THE CARLISTS UNDER FRISLANY— SPAIN AND HER CULONIES—Ninth Pace. A MESSAGE FROM THE FRENCH PRESIDENT PROMISED THE ASSEMBLY—THE BAZAINE TRIAL—NiINTH PAGE. THE CAUSE OF MONARCHY AMONG THE FRENCH TORAL RIGHTS EN FOR TREASON! A DUNNA—TWELFTH Pace. BISMARCK'S NEW ATTACK UPON THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS—THE SAXON KING'S REMAINS INURNED—NistH Pace. IN. DIS FAVOR DI MUSICAL TRIALS PRIMA THE AUSTRO-TURKISH DIFFICULTY—THE FLOOD IN THE RIVER TIBER ABATING— NInTA PAGE. “YOPULARIZING” GENIUS! ITS HOMOGENEITY MORE FULLY EXEMPLIFIED! THE BUCHU BLACKBOARDER IN A FAIR WAY TO BE PLACED ABOVE THE REACH OF WaNT— SEVENTH PAGE, THE BANK OF ENGLAND DISCOUNT RATE AD- VANCED—A ROYAL MATRIMONIAL AL- LIANCE—NINTE PAGE. PRESENT ASPECT OF OUR FINANCES! THE FAILURE RUMORS! THE RAILWAYS BE- HIND TIME—ELEVENTH Pace, ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITT ATOR | | Becnu Trust and Loan Com- pany. The circumstances connected with the sus- pension of the Buchu Trust and Loan Com- pany have been so persistently misrepresented by a truculent and unreasonable press that it is only due to the eminent men who founded that institution, and with whose embarrass- ments we feel the profoundest sympathy, that @ full explanation should be made. The fact that the Secretary is in prison, the President visiting Europe under heavy bail, while the manager's sudden death may or may not have been from suicide, should not mislead our judgment. Far be it from us to abandon men who are under a clond, who are the victims of circumstances. They are champions of sub- lime principles, and, no matter what befalls them, principles we know are eternal and never die. Those of our readers who have carefull studied the invaluable elucidations of the science and philosophy of Buchuism which have ap- peared in these columns will remember that the one commandment which, as the Scriptures say, embraces all the others, is, that money is common property; that wealth was made for mankind, and that as the possession of money is the highest aim in life, success in gaining it is the noblestform of honesty. The gifted men who founded this lantented in- stitution had not been idle observers of the time. They had seen one success after an- other careering over the financial heavens like meteors over a Mediterranean sky. ‘The Buchu banker who became the gov- ernment agent abroad, the Buchu Savings Bank and the money made out of the poor, the Buchu Railway King and his brilliant theory of watered stocks, the career of the great and good Ghoul Buchu himself, the Buchu Pacific Railway and the Christian statesmen who profited by the subsidies, and the astonishing success of the Buchu Silver Mining Company among the widows and cler- gymen of England—all had been so many temptations to the minds of these gentlemen. So, after studying the field, they resolved that, in imitation of these successful examples, they would found a great Trust and Loan Company. They took the train for Albany, and next week came back with a charter. We do not know how much the instrument cost, but it is noticeable as the only outlay of money necessary to begin the institution. Among those who took the prominent part in the organization was our justly popular friend, the County Treasurer, who was closing his term of office and meant to run for Mayor. Some eminent merchants became interested, or rather their names were printed on the list of directors, and probably most of them now re- gret that their ‘interest was not of a more scru- tinizing character. A large building was rented and was speedily decorated with signs and inscriptions, a gaudy motto ‘Honesty Is the Best Policy’’ and notably one effective work of‘art, representing a vast iron safe covered with bolts and nails and a ferocious mastiff crouched before it. This legend signified that conrage and skill would be exhausted to secure the possessions of the company. It was ob- served, too, that no parade was made about the organization. ‘‘That will do very well for the | bankers and the savings banks and the fellows who have bonds to sell,"’ said the one President; ‘‘but we, we must inspire con- fidence.” So all the public mention made was in ao series of judicious editorial paragraphs in the Buchu press about the safety of the company, its conservative management, its avoidance of speculation, the care shown in its securities, and the astonish- ing amount of respectability (fifty millions, at least,) embodied in the Board of Directors. The same spirit characterized the details of the business. Gray-headed clerks were em- ployed and the cashier was instructed to carry a gold-headed cane, and subscriptions were PRAGUES! | opened to prosecute the work for the conver- sion of the Pope, and the President became a SPRAGUE RETIRES AND TRUSTEES AP- | connoisseur in fine arts, and the religious POINTED—NINTH Pace. DOINGS OF THE BROKERS AND BUSINESS MEN YESTERDAY! THE OPERATIONS IN WALL STREET AND PRICES FOR ALL CLA 3 OF SECURITIES! THE NATIONAL DEBT— ELBVENTH PAGE. BUILDERS’ WAGES REDUCED ! THE ISSUE AND THE UNIONS—ELEVENTH Pack. NORTH POLAR ENTERPRISE—NATIONAL CAP- ITAL IWEMS—Firra Pace. JUDGE FULLERTON WINS THE $4,000 STAKE AT PROSPECT PARK! THE TEAM RACE~— THE LATE JOHN ©. HEENAN—Sgventu PAGE. BREVIARY OF CHURCH SERVICES FOR TO- DAY! COMMUNICATIONS ON GENERAL SUBJECTS ! DENOMINATIONAL DOINGS— THE WEST “AMERICAN” NOVEL—SixTH PAaor. POLITICS IN NEW YORK, KINGS AND WEST- CHESTER COUNTIES! THE JUDICIARY! COMPLEXION OF ‘THE PUOLS! POLICE DUTIES ON ELECTION DAY—FirTH Pace, THE INDUSTRIAL EX¥VOSITION SWINDLE DE- NOU. 2D BY THE MAYOR! THE MATTER BEFORE THE ALDERMEN AGAIN—LEGAL SUMMARIES—TestH PaGE. FROM THE TOMBS TO SING SING! STOKES IN A STRIPED SUIT AT LAST! HIS COMRADE! RECORDER HACKETT’S EVIDENCE—Sgy- ENTH PA LATEST DE OPMENTS IN THE NATHAN, KELSEY AND GOSS HORRORS—INDIAN ATROCITIES—Tenta Pace. AFFAIRS IN THE MUNICIPAL AND FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS—Tuirterntu Pace, Tue Resumption or Spectre Paynents Since Tuesday last the Treasurer's Office at Washington has paid out two thousand one hundred dollars in silver. A Terrie Envetioy or Mount Erna, with attending destructive earthquakes in the surrounding country, is reported. Compared with this great volcanic mountain of Sicily Vesuvius is a molehill, and compared with the many disastrous eruptions of Etna from time to time those of Vesuvius, excepting that which buried the pretty old Roman cities of Hereulanenm and Pompeii, have been small affairs. Among the most disastrous of the eruptions of Etna of the present century were that of 1830, when several villages were destroyed and showers of the volcanic ashes reached even to Rome, and that of 1832, when the town of Bronte was destroyed, No Respy at Aut.—The suggestion that the evils threatened by Cwsarism will be avoided by the adoption of a measure abolish- ing electoral colleges and clecting a President by direct popular vote would be like building a fence around Vesuvius to prevent an eruption. Whatever merit this reform may have, it does Bot reach the question of Castrism, press with great unanimity and in fervent | rhetoric called upon their readers to eschew | the vain and fleeting investments of the hour, to be content with less interest and more se- curity in their investments. As the Bethlehem Buchu Expounder well observed, “How much better for the Christian to have no unneces- sary care about carnal matters, to give a tran- quil mind to his duties, to have in his daily walk and conversation the soothing assurance that his sheaves are garnered in the Buchu trust company, and are watched by godly men.” The eminent merchants whose names were in the direction gave none ot their time to the company. ‘The officers had other cares, and the business was managed by a faithful secre- tary, who was remarkable for his. piety and the fervor of his Sunday School addresses. When the company finally suspended one morning the secretary was nowhere to be seen, and when the depositors came for their money they were met by his Christian father, who addressed them in tears on the domestic virtues of his son. The eminent merchants of the board of direction were astounded when they came to study the affairs of the company. The deposits had been large. Trust funds, estates, subscriptions to chari- ties, the accumulations of cautious and con- servative people, who would run no risk with their all, had been entrusted to the company. Certainly, with a board representing so many millions, and a secretary so exemplary in his personal character, could there be any ques- tion of absolute safety. The first discovery was that our friend the County Treas- urer, who told every one that the public money was safe in the company, had made loans to himself of large sums and given the money to build a railway, which was meant to increase the value of certain landed property. But the railway would not. build, the property did not increase and the money was gone. The unusual liberality of the pious secretary to the church was only partly ex- plained by a deficiency of three hundred thou- sand dollars in his accounts, and, to crown all, a loan of two millions had been made to one of the famous Buchu railway lines to enable it to pay an extra dividend on its watered stock, and so force up the price of shares. The shares had gone up; the men who borrowed the money had made money; but when the recejver of the company demanded the loan the venerable manager of the watered stocks suggested that it was not convenient for the road to pay, and the receiver had better go into the courts, So the company went to smash, and did not psy much more than the receiver's foes. There was some anger and threats of legal proceedings ; bat the matter was forgotten by the people in the excitement of a new murder trial The Buchu mind, however, was supe- rior to the panic of anger and detraction, finally saying ‘that nothing is more popular than injustice. ,Why should the officers of this company be blamed? Did not every- body know the secretary was living on fifty thousand a year and that he could not find that amount of money in the leaves of his prayer book? Did not every railroad man know that the County ‘Treasurer was backing the Wildcat and Red Dog Rail- way, and that he could only find money in one way? Was it not known that the merchants on the director's list had all the advances they wanted by not asking ugly and impertinent questions? And did not old Buchu himself buy up a control of the stock, so that he might clean out the concern? The stock cost a half million—the loan he received was two millions. And if you go to the courts, to make him pay his loan you will see a Buchu judge on the bench, telling indecent stories; who will pocket your papers. Is any one to blame, after all, but ourselves? If we all do business on Buchu principles, why turn and rend our neighbors who happen to be un- fortunate? When a pursuing wolf on the Russian snows is wounded the pack stop until they have devoured him; but they keep up the chase. Just now we are howling and leaping over the body of this poor brother of the Buchu trust; but to-morrow you will find us again on the way.”’ The Nast Fand. Since beautiful feelings are particularly desirable on the Sabbath we cannot allow to-day to pass without expressing our appre- ciation of the heartiness with which our recent appeal in favor of Nast has been responded to. Even as’ we write contributions continue to comein. Now it is a lead pencil and now an old dilapidated coat. This moment it is a ten cent piece, the next it will be a two dollar bill, and afterwards a British shilling. All right ; let them come. We shall apply them all to the purpose for which they are sent, and we only hope that the general bulk will be too generous for Mr. Nast to disdain to accept. Meanwhile the letters which we have pub- lished, and which are selected from an im- mense mass of communications, numerous enough to fill a quadruple sheet of the Hexatp, will evince the feeling of the people towards this repressed Hogarth. The gene- rosity of the American public has been often appealed to, and never in vain. That public is sometimes accused by’ those who do not un- derstand it of being indifferent to deserving merit, but the liberality with which our exor- dium has been responded to ought to silence that accusation forever. It will plainly not be the fault of the American people if it is ever said of Nast that ‘‘chill penury repressed his noble rage."’ A nation of dyspeptics who became cured by laughing over the exquisite lucubrations of his genius will evidently have no occasion for self-upbraiding should it ever be written of him that destiny ‘froze the genial current of his soul.’’ We are sorry to detect in certain quarters, however, a disposition to attribute a satirical un- dercurrent to the sympathy which the Henatp has been the means of eliciting in this great Hogarthian caricaturist’s favor. Our own course of conduct would be our ex- culpation were exculpation necessary. We are not accustomed lightly to yield to merely individiual claims the support which we have so impetuously accorded in the present in- stance. But the regret we cannot help feeling at being hereand there misunderstood is more than compensated by the homogeneousness of sentiment among so many different classes of readers that we have been the medium of giving expression to. That deep feeling should take so practicala shape in an hour when every sphere of society is groaning under financial depression is the highest compli- ment that could be paid to the genius of an artist who, as he plied his wearied round from city to city, must frequently have sighed in anguish as he gazed upon his blackboard and his piece of chalk, and reflected that they were all that the gratitude ofa nation had put it in his power to possess. Tue Last or THe Mopocs are near their destination, which is the northwest corner of the Indian Territory—a perfect paradise com- pared with their desolate lava beds of Oregon. ‘The tribe is thus exterminated, in being ab- sorbed among the numerous remnants gath- ered into the Indian Territory. of various tribes otherwise extinct. So far the retribu- tion against Captain Jack and his warlike band is complete. The places which have known them will know them no more forever. But what shall we say of the preservation and exhibition in a public museum of the head of Captain Jack as a trophy or as a curiosity? We are constrained to say that this thing is a disgrace to the government, bloody, savage and treacherous murderer as was the Modoc chief. How To Bz Revencen on Encianp.—A cor- respondent, referring to the article in the Henaxp yesterday, describing the great suc- cess of the ‘Little Buchu Silver Mining Com- pany (Limited),” calls upon all who love the green island to unite with him and inflict another punishment upon perfidious England for the miseries she has caused Ireland. He proposes that there be established a company to be called ‘The Mullingar Silver Mining Company (Limited),” to dig for silver in the beautiful region of Muflingar. He suggests that John Kelly, Francis Higgins, Michael Connolly, Matthew T. Brennan and Thomas Morphy, ex-Collector of the Port, take it in hand. He strongly advises that inducements be offered to Senator Stewart, of Nevada, and Minister Schenck, to become interested, for, as he adds, “their experience with Little Emma will be of rare valne.”” “Let the money thus raised be devoted to the cause of Ireland,” he adds, ‘and let the British lion roar.” We give the suggestion for what it is worth and have no doubt it will meet the at- tention of the distingnished gentlemen named. Discraceron Rvrriaxism was exhibited on Lake Champlain, in the robbing and burning by a mob, the other evening, of an obnoxious boat plying on the lake as a grog shop, and in the killing of the proprietor with a double discharge from his own shotgun, taken from the vessel. This lawless affair calls for a thorough investigation in osdex that the law way be vigdicated, Tho Position of Parties in France. ‘The desperate chance on which the French monarchists resolved to stake success appears to have gone against them. A week ago the chances were about even that the monarchical coalition in the Assembly could be counted oa for a few days after the opening. The odds were a hundred to one against the coalition remaining intact for a fortnight after the 5th inst, on’ which the Assembly opens, if whatever coup was the object of the combination had not been accomplished before that period. The reason for this in- stability may be stated ina few words. The people, reduced almost to silence as they are, would yet be enabled to bring sufficient pressure on the trimming Deputies of the Right Centre to make them waver before committing France to a Bourbon absolutism with their casting votes. The developments of the past few days give a strange picture of the straits of party in France to-day. They show that out of the five large parties composing the Assembly each one is compromising in some direction to gain in the end a triumph over all the others, while below these the party subdivisions are almost innumerable. Tho legitimists are compromising with the Orleanists on aconstitution and a flag, that through Henry V. they may come to power at once; the Orleanists are compromising with the legitimists on the royal succession, being content to take second place for the present, that their day may come when Henry V. dies ; the Bonapartists are divided between the royal- ists and the republicans—the first coquetting with the monarchy in hope of having a share in the expected power and playlng Fouché's part in a more respectable way, the sec- ond holding on to the old Napoleonic tradition that the proper way to capture the nation is to suddenly gag it when it has thrown off its guards in a republic; the conservative republicans, led by Thiers, apparently certain that time is fighting for them, accept adhesions anywhere, that they may live until their hour arrives; the radical republicans compromise with the conservative ditto, that their time may come when the people have outgrown their more cautious brethren. It is a sad picture, but not without its strong beams of hope. Out- side of all these parties the people wait with wondering eyes and are making strong sign as to where their sympathies are. The late elections have shown yery pointedly that France is republican, and it needed but little to show the monarchists that France, to be made a monarchy, must be so transmuted by sudden work, with the btrong hand and in defiance of the people—a people having a ’93 in its history, as well as an 18th Brumaire, a July, 1830, and a February, 1848, as well as a 2d of December, 1851. It needs no little desperation to face this people—a des- peration that can scarcely be commu- nicated over a party of weathercocks like the Right Centre. The army might be counted on, with MacMahon at its head; the clergy, led by Archbishop Guibert, of Paris, and Bishop Dupanloup, of Orleans, might make an efficient royalist chorus, and the Pre- fects of the Duc de Broglie might gag the out- spoken press, but the coalition would be frail indeed, with all this conceded. Small wonder, then, that it should be shaken down witha piece of paper covered with the divine right pretensions to absolutism, written by the Count de Chambord. ; The announcement that the French Cabinet have resolved to advise the prolongation of MacMahon’s presidency comes just in time to show how hopeless the monarchists’ chances are, That they should adopt the very policy upon which M. Thiers was intent’ is a great tribute to that statesman’s sagacity. If this is carried out the crisis will be deferred, and M. Thiers, with the hands of the monarchists tied, will be free to press for the dissolution of the Assembly, when monarchy will retire to the shades and the people have their chance to speak as loud as they please through the bal- lot box. There is a deep lesson in the change which the late utterance of Chambord has brought about, It is this: When kings, or would-be kings, are honest in stating the full measure Of their pretensions royalty must be detestable; when kingly pretenders make professions of liberality and moderation they must be dishonest. It is well worth the while to have these things taught from royal lips. Let France take it firmly to heart and we shall have an end to the spectacle of national un- steadiness which has made her the type of all that 1s politically fickle. The Financial a: Business Situation. The financial and business situation, though it cannot be considered encouraging, is still sufficiently so to make it possible for the country to tide over a very dangerous crisis without lasting injury. The well-known dry goods house of H. B. Claflin & Co, is reported as on the verge of failure, but its assets aro greatly in excess of its liabilities, and if the worst comes to the worst an extension on the part of the creditors is all that will be re- quired to save it. The same thing is true of the Spragues ; but unfortunately in their case they are said to be pressed by a rival combi- nation, which seeks their ruin at whatever ex- pense to the operatives in their mills and the mills of other manufacturers. The Clearing House statement yesterday was favorable to the banks, which is worth something at an un- favorable moment for business, A number of the Buchu railroads—notably the Kansas Pacific, Burlington and Cedar Rapids and Chesapeake and Ohio—failed to pay their November in- terest yesterday, and they, and others like them, are likely to fall to the level to which Buchu always falls in the end. This was practically the situation at the close of the week. But the danger is not past, and even with the succor of the houses of Claflin & Co. and A. & W. Sprague the danger will not be past. What is required more than anything else is a spirit of mutual helpfulness. In case a few great houses like these we have mentioned are allowed to fail even this may prove of no avail; but at the present time it is still possible to avert a general calamity if oll help to bear each other's burdens. Tae Rat Danorn.—To those who argue that General Grant has done so well in ‘a sec- ond term that he would do well again let us say, that while we do not believe General Grant would be any less efficient and patriotic in future terms than now, that while we do not credit him with the will or the wish to .make himself permanent ruler, his acceptance of the nomination would be the destruction of a tradition of constitutional liberty as wacred as liberty itself. If he can do so now, with no harm to the country, others may come who will do harm. : ‘Between Grant for a third term and Jefferson Davis every true republican should vote for Davis; for it is not men, but a principle. Review of the Religious Press— Its Views on the Appointment of Judges and Other Matters. The principal topic of consideration among our leading religious contemporaries this week is the proposed amendment to the constitution of the State, providing for the appointment by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, of the judiciary officers, instead of their election by the people. Diverse views are given in this connection, some of our pious brethren thinking that just as bad men have been or may be ap- pointed as have been elected by the people. Instances are afforded where such has been the case, and inferences may be drawn accord- ingly. The Christian Intelligencer (Baptist) reviews & pamphlet upon the subject of an elective judiciary, and expresses itself as fully per- suaded that the election of November, 1873, brings before the people of New York one of the most important of all possible civil ques- tions. ‘There is no hope of reform on this point from any political party,” adds. the editor, ‘‘and it is therefore all the more im- portant that they who can and will learn from experience and who desire the welfare of the State shall use their utmost endeavor to secure a return to the better system of former days.’ The Baptist Weekly observes that under both systems (the appointment and the election of the judiciary) ‘political influences have largely determined the appointments ; because the dominant party, whether represented in a Governor or at the polls, has always favored the elevation of men known to be in sympathy with their principles, It is not to be denied that a popular vote in certain districts gen- erally puts unworthy men on the Bench; but the same cause of complaint existed under an appointed judiciary, without the same oppor- tunity of redress. An intelligent and virtuous people are as capable of choosing their judges as their Assemblymen and Representatives in Congress, and it is a grave question whether in anormal republic those who administer our laws, as well as those who make and execute them, should not receive their appointment directly from the people. When, however, we think of the creatures who have been judges in New York city and some that still occupy the position, we could wish most earnestly that the judges were nominated by other than the lords of drinking saloons.” The Independent urges all the people in this State to vote for the judiciary amendment, believing, as it avers it doas, “that appoint- ment, rather than popular election, will, as an average fact, secure better men for judges, and then make them better judges when in office. The abandonment of the system in 1846 has proved to bea mistake, which the people now have the opportunity to correct.’’ The Christian Union takes an unusually strong view of the subject—strong as it usu- ally is whenever it undertakes to advocite or deprecate a religious, social or political move- ment. The editor quotes an ‘“‘honored mem- ber of the New York Bar’’ as affirming that under this system (the elective judiciary) “murders, manslaughters, abortions and other startling crimes have become so much more frequent as to send a thrill of horror and alarm through the community. The greater boldness, frequency and success with which the insidious and suspicious defence of in- sanity has been interposed, and the newly de- veloped art of excluding nearly all men of strong character and definite opinions from the jury box in all cases of the higher crimes, have not escaped general attention. The more frequent conflicts of jurisdiction, the discreditable disputes about injunctions and receiverships, and the multiplied appeals and the increasing rumors of political influence all over the State of late years, none but the most dull and indifferent have failed to ob- serve."” The editor of the Christian Union regards every word of this testimony as trae, and thinks it might be made stronger, and still be within the truth. ‘What,”’ he asks, ‘‘can be plainer than that it is our duty, at the election which is soon to take place, to cast such bal- lots as will rescue us from the longer endur- ance, and the still more costly calamity, of a bad system, which we wedded in haste and have had bitter reason to repent of at leisure ? The judge differs from all other officers, in that he does not represent a constituency— that he is elected to carry out no policy, that he is of no side, of no party. He is removed from all temptations of passion and partisan- ship, that he may determine law and equity with absolute impartiality. Is it likely that a people can, during violent political contro- yersies, select such an officer wisely ?’’ The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) remarks, touching the election on Tuesday next, that there ‘‘are vast agglomerations of American citizens that are firm and set on the basis of the old-fashioned way of doing that has by tradition been called democratic. All honor to them. All good wishes to them. When all comes to all the old party of real liberty that Tom Jefferson wished to represent will be found face to face with the blue-bel- lied Puritans that want to hire a policeman to take our children to school and to tax us for his pay, and to see and know what we eat and drink and keep an account of it, and then tax us for the pay of the policeman that does it.” The Liberal Christian says :— Are the people deliberately willing to eurrender the advantages of learning, weight of character, calmness of mind, indepen lence of action, unpar- tisan and unpolitical impartiality? We have tried the mad experiment, which wise men knew must fail, of electing our judges in New York, We find that thus we have thrown the ermine of justice into the gutter of partisan politics; we have elected several unscrupulous and bribable men to our courts, who have disgraced our city and State, and even brought American institutions into contempt. Are we not content with the humilia~ tion and injury we brave already suffered from this false policy? From this summary of the views of our religious contemporaries of all shades of thinking the conclusion is irre@istible that they are unanimonsly in favor of a judiciary that shall be appointed, instead of an elective one. The Jewish Times puts ina kindly word in favor of the sufferers in Memphis. There is nothing porticularly new in relig- ious themes this week. A few vibrations in connection with the late Evangelical Alliance aro the only agitations observable in the pious meteorological tables of the hour, Prize Associations and Confiding Sub- serlbers, We are constantly in receipt of inquiries regarding the honesty or dishonesty of gift concerts and prize associations which profess to give away tempting sums of money, houses, pianos and valuable articles of jewelry to for- tunate subscribers of small sums varying from twenty-five cents to one dollar. In some instances we are told that the Henarp is offered as a reference by these concerns, or that the proprietors quote the Herarp as having warmly commended their enterprise. A communication of this character, requesting information as to the standing of one of these associations, is published elsewhere in to-day’s paper, and it affords a fair specimen of the simplicity that is to be found in the world in the nineteenth century. It appears that the attention of our correspondent was attracted to an advertisement which set forth that cash gifts to the amount of nine hun- dred and fifty-five thousand dollars, in sums varying from one hundred thousand dollars to one hundred, besides sewing machines, pianos, melodeons, silverware, jewelry, &c., to the value of an additional half million, would be distributed by the Prize Association among subscribers of twenty-five cents who might be fortunate enough to secure a prize. Although he belongs to the wide-awake city of Chicago, famous for monte dealers, conflagra- tiovs and divorces, he ventured his twenty-five cents, and received in return the gratifying information that he.had drawn a piano, valuo three hundred and fifty dollars, which would be forwarded to him on receipt of nine dollars, cash, by the Association, ‘‘no goods being forwarded C. O. D.’’ Our correspondent desires us to inform him whether tho concern is genuine, and whether he will really receive the piano if he complies with the request of the Association. We have no doubt whatever that if he sends his nine dollars he will be fully enlightened on all these points. The laws of the State of New York do not sanction these gift enterprises, and hence any of them which profess to be acting mndor a State law make a false pretence. The Hznaup never approves or recommends such concerns, and hence any of them that may make the stupid assertion that they are endorsed by the Herap are clearly frauds, and a person of comthon sense would so understand them. But these gift enterprises aro, after all, only another branch of the Buchu banking busi- ness and the Buchu railroad business and the Buchu mining business. To be sure ‘they are on a less princely scale than their more pro- tentious brothers, but their object is the same. They endeavor to make money out of the cro- dulity of tho people; they are lies and cheats upon their face; their golden promisos are made for the purpose of imposing upon the unsophisticated; they swindle their victims without scruple or remorse. Do they differ in this from‘the Buchu banker and the Buchu projector? Not at all. Indeed, the latter are the most dangerous and the most criminal of the class; for, while your gift- enterprise fraud only takes a trifle out of the pockets of fools, your Buchu bankers and your Buchu speculators beggar the confiding and make paupers of the widow and the orphan. Our counsel to all who are tempted by the golden promises of the one or the other is to keep their money in their pockets. - We think our Chicago correspondent will be richer, if not wiser, if he follows this advice. Our State Election. Of all the State elections which take place on Tuesday next that of New York is re- garded as the most important, becauso it is considered the most doubtful in its results. According to the pool sales the probabilitios in the city are in favor of the democrats, while on the State ticket the highest bids are for the republicans. A registration in this eity short of that of last year to the extent of twenty-five thousand, and a deficiency in Brooklyn of ten thousand, warrant the pre- sumption that there will be a falling off in the popular vote of the State of perhaps one hundred and fifty thousand. Now, as on a full popular vote the advantages are with the re- publicans, and as on a short popular vote the advantages are with the democrats, the hopes which the democratic politicians now enter- tain, not only in regard to the city but in reference to the State, are not altogether groundless. The official figures of our State elections of 1866 and of 1867 will serve to indicate the chances upon a full vote and upon ashort vote. In 1866, upon a comparatively full vote, Fenton was elected Governor by 13,000 majority ; while in 1867, upon a short popular vote, the democratic State ticket was elected by 47,000 majority. Though it may not be considered probable, it is possible that upon a popular vote less than that of last year by 150,000 the democrats may overcome tho 55,000 majority by which the republicans car- ried their State ticket, headed by Geraral Dix, last year. Toe “Eicuta Junyman” Was Arnestep Last Niaut on a warrant issued by the Dis- trict Attorney. This is Mr. James Delos Cen- ter, to whom so many improper things were attributed during his service as juror in the late Stokes trial. Sroxrs Reacuep His Four Years Homer ox SmvaeSina yesterday, and naturally appeared in good spirits. He liked the cut of his con- vict’s pair of striped pants, and remarked, with an assassin’s bonhomie, that they had no pistol pocket. What a pity! Our young dandies who may have a homicidal inclination will note these things as indicating how serencly a murder will culminate for them in a trip up the river. If they should learn that he is not expected to break stones or make shoes, but is given a snug berth as bookkeeper, it will greatly quiet all the misgivings they might have regarding a cold blooded murder or two when they have no other amusement on hand. Honor to the judge, prosecution and jury in the Stokes trial ! How opp it is, that in the heat of a local campaign Peter B. Sweeny should be absent. Is he at Elba or St. Helena? A Prrastya = Insrance or CHRISTIAN Onanrry.—-A touching and beautiful instance of Christian charity was furnished yesterday by the pastor and members of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. A resolution having been presented to drop Mr. Theodore Tilton from the roll of membership, Mr. Beecher earnestly protested against its adoption. Ho had no qnarrel with Mir. Tilton. He had po qhargom