The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1873, Page 6

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NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— eTY ENTERTAINMENT. “BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner ‘@ixth av.—Nxcuo Mivstxisy, ste. ~ COOPER INSTITUTE.—Lavai TERTAINMENT. inc Gas anp Macicat \— _ROBINSON HALL, sixteenth street—Caanrrr Con- ‘W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- —Sc1eNCE AND ARr. ite New York, Monday, Nov. 17, 1873. /@HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. o-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ‘THE TICHBORNE CASE AND THE DIAMOND NECKLACE! SHALL WE HAVE A HIS- TORICAL PARALLEL?”—TITLE OF THE LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SixTH Paag. ‘THE SPANISH SLAVEOWNERS PREPARING FOR ANOTHER BUTCHERY IN CUBA! MANY ARREST OF SUSPECTED PARTIES! “THE UTMOST SEVERITY OF THE LAW” IN- VOKED! THE CABINET CRISIS IN SPALN! OUR WAR STATUS—Tuirp Pace. THE PULPIT ON THE SPANISH OUTRAGE! MR. TALMAGE TRAVERSES THE CASE! THE BEST THOUGHTS OF THE DIVINES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS—EIGHTH PaGE, (PRESIDENT MAcMAHON’S TERM! A NEW COALITION! REPUBLICAN ELECTION SUC- CESS—SEVENTH PaGE. WGENERAL DORREGARAY IN POSSESSION OF 4 LOs ARCOS, SPAIN! THE CABINET CRISIS IN MADRID—SzyenTH PaaE. WENZEL'S DAY IN PRAGUE! THE ZECH’S NATIONAL FESTIVAL! HIS- RICAL AND LEGENDARY GLIMPSES INTO BOHEMIA—Fourtu Pack » |THE GERMAN EMPEROK AND HIS PRIME MIN- ISTER IN VIENNA! THEIR VISITS TO THE EXPOSITION! FRENCH DISCOURTESY— FourtH PaGe. uaLe-nasry TOM! FURTHER APPRECIATION OF GENIUS BY THE PUBLIC—Fovrra Page. ‘ST. THE PRESIDENT AND HIS MOTHER ATTEND CHURCH TOGETHE 3NAL SERVICE STATISTICS AND SUGG LONS—SEVENTH Page. PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH WAR UPON THE ASHANTEES—COLONEL STOFFEL’S TESTI- MONY ON THE BAZAINE TRIAL—BIS- | MARCK AND THE CHURCH—SEvENTH Pace. FEDERAL CAPITAL NEWS—THE POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT—SeventH Pace. WHE BANKS AND THE FINANCIAL SITUATION! THE PUBLIC DEMAND FOR AN OFFICIAL | EXHIBIT OF THEIR CONDITION! THE AD- VANCE IN STOCKS, GOLD AND BONDS— NINTH Pace, @acK OF EMPLOYMENT! DITION OF BUSIN AND MIDDLE STAT IN BRAZiL—AN IN FIFTH PAGE. “THERE’S ECONOMY FOR YOU!) THE COMP- TROLLER’S EXPENDITURES AND “FINAN- CIAL POLIC’ H PaGE. Tue Avevusta (Ga.) Chronicle indignantly asks ‘‘What reparation shall the United States | receive for this insult to her sovereignty?” Hypocritical regrets, it opines, will not be sat- ‘Asfactory to the American people. Moveration Svccrstep.—The Richmond Whig remarks that every good citizen should support the government in a judicious course upon this question, and ‘‘we should be careful not to imitate the haste and passion which we ‘have condemned in the Spanish officials.”’ Tae Activity or THe AsHANTEES will sur- ‘prise no one familiar with their warlike habits end military skill. It will take other qualities than English courage and stubbornness to re- Guce these formidable African warriors. They have already made important movements towards the coast and, if we understand the Bituation, the English military forces of operation are in great danger. The King is determined to triumph and, although it does @otappear that he can maintain a protracted re- sistance, it looks very much as if the war will cost England more blood and treasure than did the Abyssinian expedition. “An AnmeD Occupation or Copan Warens,”’ | affirms the Boston Jranscript, ‘by a United States fleet will at once rebuke the testiness | ‘and savagery of Spanish officials exercising suthority on the island.” A Pura m Apatement.—Now that the Spanish butchers in Cuba have gratified their thirst for blood and their hatred of America, they begin to tremble for the consequences. Their organs are attempting to concoct a story of an intended rising in various parts of ‘the island simultaneously with the landing of ‘the Virginius. This is done to give a color- ang of excuse for the murders at Santiago. It will not avail. The crime that has been ‘committed must be fully atoned; and the ©uban slave drivers will find that the Spanish overnment, whose authority they have falready defied, dare not be inconsistent Jenough to uphold their savage and illegal acts. “Ty Spam Br a Rervs.ic,”’ declares the Now Times (democratic), ‘‘she should not be NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1873.—TRIPLE SHKET. The Tichborne Case and the mond Necklace—Shail We Historical Parallel t The trial of the Tichborne case is to be resumed in London to-day, but it is supposed that a further postponement may be needed to await the arrival of some twenty witnesses from this city. The readers of the Hzzaup have not taken a deep interest in this singular case. Probably, unlike the English, and in some respects like the French, we have not the power to sustain a continuous excitement running through a period of years, which 50 large a part of the English people have bestowed upon the history of the ancient house of Tichborne and the adventures of the extraordinary person who claims to be its heir. What promised to be only a romance to be remembered in legal chronicles and Dia- Have a their stand. Somehow they seem to say, if this is Tichborne then of what use are lands and titles and our ancestral claims to honor? The fact that a man of this wretched character should make a claim to be a nobleman is, in some respects, a reflection upon the order of nobility. We have men like Mr. Whalley, who tell reporters of the Herarp that Lord Chief Justice Cockburn is worse than Jefferies, and who, upon the wit- ness stand, swear that they believe Mr. Glad- stone and the General of the Jesuits are in a conspiracy to persecute this man. Mr. Whal- ley, remember, is a member of Parliament and a magistrate for three counties, Other members of Parliament take as prominent ground. Behind them isa rade but resolute and mighty public opinion, with a keen sense of fair play, not easily moved te anger; but “historical novels founded on fact” now pre- sents itself as one of the gravest political questions that ever threatened the peace of the British government. It is strange to see the importance given to the simple question, whether an Australian adventurer—by his own confession a scoun- drel—has been guilty of perjury. Ten thou- sand men have been tried for thatand other offences, and undergo trial from day to day, who are worthy of more respect and have higher claims to the quality of a gentleman than this hero of millions of Englishmen, who claims to be Sir Roger Tichborna We have seen many cases in all countries of a morbid sympathy on the part of the people for a conspicuous criminal. In those good old times of great and merry England, when the gallows os an institution was as well estab- lished as the throne, and as many, almost, were executed yearly for trivial crimes as in France during the Reign of Terror, criminals were idealized and had a literature, and were celebrated in operas and comedies and romances. They lived like heroes and died surrounded by sympathizing thousands. We all know the morbid, foolish interest attaching to Dr. Dodd, the fashionable preacher, who was hanged for forgery, and Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and Claude Duval, and others who are better known to-day by a majority of English- speaking people than the kings who reigned or the lords who sat in Parliament. They died a glorious death on Tyburn Hill. We could understand any feeling of this kind on the part of the English people toward the claimant of the Tichborne estates. It would bea sentiment, quickly fading away, spring- ing from that fondness the badly educated mind entertains for the grotesque or the hor- rible or the adventurous. But the Tichborne case is not a sentiment to be dismissed to the comedians and those who write ballads. Beginning as an action of law, it has grown to be a question of grave public policy, and in this respect reminds us forcibly of the famous ‘diamond necklace case," which had so large a share in bringing about the French Revolution. The ‘diamond necklace case” was an instance of swindling. A cardinal desired to be restored to the favor of the Queen, Marie Antoinette. He had enormous wealth, and was willing to pay largely for readmission to the sunlight of royal eyes. He was willing to believe that if he would purchase a certain diamond neck- lace, valued at about half a million of dollars in our present money, and give it to Marie Antoinette, his peace would be made, and he night again float in the radiant glories of Versailles. Out of this anticipation and by ordinary swindling tricks—such, for instance, as a lady in waiting forging the Queen’s name to a bill of sale and passing herself off as the Queen in a midnight interview granted to the Cardinal in the groves of Versailles—posses sion was obtained of the necklace, which was carried to England and sold and the money parcelled among the thieves. Jewellers be- lieved they had sold the necklace to the Queen, and brought suit against her for its value, It was proved in the trial that the Queen had never bought the jewels; that the whole busi- ness Was an ordinary swindling trick. Scan- dals arose, the good name of the Queen was tarnished by a suspicion, and suspicion to a queen is almost worse than crime. From the social emotions that arose from these scandals came that public opinion which culminated in the Reign of Terror. ‘We do not believe that there was anything in the diamond necklace scandal to bring about a revolution. Greater scandals had been known before—in the time ot the Regency, for instance. We have seen them in our own day in reference to the last of the Condés who was supposed by many people to have been hanged by Louis Philippe in order that his money might pass to the Duke d’Aumale. But the condition of society was such in France that the ‘diamond necklace case’’ acted as the fire to the fagot. We can build a fire on the prairie, in spring time or fall. It will live its life and die into ashes. Build the same fire in midsummer under the pitiless burning skies of our torrid days and the flame will sweep like the waves of the sea for miles and miles, carrying forests and houses and living beasts and men and women before it in a desolating tide. France was ready for any flame, and when we speak, as our historians always do, of the Revolution taking its life from this pitiful and absurd scandal, we forget that it would have come in any event. France had been ripening for it since the time of Louis XIV. While con- summate wisdom and virtue on the part of the rulers of the House of Bourbon might have controlled and fashioned it to the good of France and the glory of their own dynasty, it was inevitable. The ‘diamond necklace case’’ was only 8 symptom and not a cause. The prairie does not burn because we build the fire. It only burns when nature has made it ready for the flames, oT Even as the ‘diamond necklace case” was @ symptom of France, so this Tichborne affair is ao symptom ofthe present condition of | English society. Were ho an ordinary swindler on trial for an attempt to take pos- session of the estates of pu ancient baronctcy this claimant might, at the utmost, have the sympathy which attended Dr. Dodd and Jack Sheppard, aud go to prison only to be remem- bered in a ballad or a comedy. But in England to-day we find one class who believe him to be an impostor and another class who think that he is really a baronet deprived of his title and his lands by o conspiracy of noblemen and Jesuits. It is extraordimry to ited by the greatest Republic in the world | notice the widely differing public opinions 0 tyrannize over the republican patriots in | coming out of this case. On one side the aris- ‘Dube tocracy and gentlemen of England have taken when angry, terrible beyond belief. They think that this claimant is Sir Roger Tich- borne, and that the Crown, Parliament, the courts, the aristocracy and the Church have combined to dishonor him, because he is not good enough to be a gentleman. So we have the two classes antagonistic. On one side my lord Plantagenet, whose garment is purple, who has a coronet upon his brows, and who lives upon the lands that came from William the Conqueror. On the other side is Hodge, the collier, who lives in a hut on twenty shillings a week, and, although the land upon which he lives has been the home and the grave of his ancestors since the time of the Saxons, the Hodges have never risen above misery and poverty. What will be the end? They are in battle array upon the case of Tichborne. Will it be only a three days’ wonder—a charge or two of cavalry, perhaps suspension of habeas corpus, as we see in Ire- land now and then, and postponed issue, or will it be fought to the end by the English- men of this generation? Sooner or later the fight myst come. It would be a strange repetition of history, and one not altogether surprising, to see the Tichborne case in England assume the extra- ordinary and terrible proportions of ‘the diamond necklace case’’ in France. The Conflict in the French Assembly. To-day will witness the opening of an im- portant debate in the French Assembly at Versailles. This will be on the report of the committee on the prolongation of President MacMahon’s powers. The committee appear to have been unable to arrive at any very dis- tinct conclusion. The character of incom- pleteness which tinges every result arrived at is one of the remarkable features of the session thus far. When the report dwells upon the difficulty of prolonging the tenure of office of the President, without any organic basis forthe rest of the government, itis like stating gravely asa fact that to build lofty column from the head downwards is a troublesome thing to undertake. General Changarnier will move the Assembly for a vote of unconditional prolongation of Mac- Mshon’s powers during ten years. The moderate section of the Left is inclined to unite with the republicans with the view of defeating this movement. The royalists are willing to render themselves ridiculons, illogi- cal or anything else to preserve for themselves the semblance af a chance for fature success. In spite of the Comte de Chambord’s letter to M. Chesnelong they are unwilling to con- cede their failure, but in France a coup manqué is more difficult to repair than anywhere else. The republicans of the committee have fought the irresponsible prolongation of MacMahon’s power with the effective argument that this would establish a dictatorship—something which France has always good reason to fear, even from the hands of a man as pure as MacMahon. The debate to-day will test the strength of all parties severely, and will indi- cate pretty accurately the immediate future of politics in France. “Ler Us Have War,"’ cries the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier. ‘Apologies are notenough. They will not bring Ryan to life or restore Fry to his weeping widow and orphan children. Swift and decisive action is what the people now demand." Tae Prestpent’'s Movemenrs.—President Grant's visit to New Jersey was quite an event to the good people of the suburbs of New York. On Saturday evening the Presi- dent attended a reception and supper at ex- Congressman Halsey’s residence, and spent the night at Senator Frelinghuysen’s house. On Sunday he drove to Elizabeth, and passed @ quiet Sabbath with his mother. He attended service at the Presbyterian church, and no doubt joined fervently in spirit in the prayer of the minister that the highest wisdom might be vouchsafed to the administration in this important epoch in our national affairs, President Grant lett for Washington last night. No one will begrudge him this peace- ful Sunday snatched from’ the momentous duties that press upon him, and to be fol- lowed, perhaps, by many days of excitement and anxiety. “Against THE Assauuts of these blood- thirsty wretches,” declares the Albany Journal (administration), ‘our government itself will have to protect its rights—and it will do this it it has to cover the Cuban waters with Amer- ican men-of-war.”” Tue Navy Department.—The energy dis- played by Secretary Robeson speaks well for the management of our Navy Department it the Cuban complications should untortnnately lead to war. The Secretary has not suffered the grass to grow under his feet since the out- rages committed by the Spanish butchers at Santiago de Cuba first became known to our government. The people may feel confident that his share of the work will be done promptly and efficiently, and that we shall soon be in a position to protect the lives of the survivors of the Virginius, to secure the return of the vessel, and to compel the surrender of the murderers of those who have Been slaughtered, provided the government is ready to enforce our national rights and defend our national honor. Seeretary Robeson, accompanied by the Chief Officer of Construction, arrived in Philadelphia yesterday, and leaves this morn- ing for League Island to personally supervise the preparations for active service. He has accomplished much valuable work in the last two or three days, and, considering the means that have been at his disposal, the con- dition in which our vessels and yards are found, now that an emergency has arisen, is deserving of the highest commendation, The Virginius Outrages—The Activity of the Navy Department—The Voice of the Country. While the exact purposes of the President and the action of the Secretary of State looking to redress for the intolerable outrages connected with the seizure of the Virginius, and the hurried and lawless massacres of her passengers, officers and crew, remain undis- closed, the country is encouraged to believe trom the activity of the Navy De- partment, in view of possible contin- gencies, that the administration has resolutely abandoned the policy of temporiz- ing or of half-way measures touching the atrocities of the Spaniards of Cuba on the land and sea. Secretary Robeson, evidently in full accord with the awakened indignation of the country, has, since the first intelligence of the late outrageous insult to our national flag on the high seas, exhibited a degree of activity in the preparation of his available ships for active service which challenges the approbation of the American people. Two iron-clads, fully equipped and; ready for action, are already on their way to the Gulf of Mexico ; several others in the course of the present week will be heading in the same direction, and doubtless on or before the day of the meeting of Congress (first Monday in December) we shall have a powerful fleet within easy range of the Island of Cuba. A thousand men, we understand, will this day be added to the work- men in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and similar vigorous preparations are afoot in other places in the repairs and equipment of ships-of-war for immediate duty. These preparations are a grateful response to the demands of the general public sentiment of the United States, of all sections and all parties, because they are accepted as' evidences that decisive end satisfactory action by the govern- ment will shortly follow. This action, in giving us indemnity for the past and security for the future, in reference to the honor of our flag and the rights of our citizens, does not necessarily involve 8 war with Spain, or bel- ligerent rights to the Cubans, or a protecto- rate over the island; but it does involve a set- tlement not alone with Spain, but first and directly with the contumacious Spanish authorities of Cuba. Now, in settling with these provincial au- thorities, is the President so restricted in his constitutional powers that he must await the meeting and the action of Congress on the subject? A demand under the guns of a fleet of iron-clads at Santiago de Cuba for the de- livery of the ship Virginius, if not destroyed, or for an equivalent if she is destroyed, with ademand for the surviving men taken from the ship, will not be war, or a cause of war, with Spain, even if enforced by the bombardment and _ destruction of the town. On the part of the President it will be simply a proceeding in the fulfilment of his official duty, which is to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, for this em- byaces the duty of seeing to it that the rights of our flag and our citizens are duly respected. In other words, no special authority from Congress is needed for a settlement with Captain Castillo and General Burriel and their Spanish confederates who constitute the actual government of Cuba; for in dealing with them we deal with the only parties that can be held responsible for these recent outrages. The governing authorities, de facto, of Cuba pursue their own course regardless of instruc- tions from Spain, and apologies from Spain for their offences neither redress the wrong nor serve as a check to its repetition. Tho Republic of Spain, struggling for existence against Carlists, intransigentes and other in- surgent factions, is utterly unsble to enforce its authority over the slaveholding oli- garchy of Cuba. We shall, therefore, be rendering a friendly service to the Spanish Republic in dealing directly with its refrac- tory provincials of Cuba and in holding them directly responsible for their crimes, for which otherwise there is no atonement. The course of our government in reference to the Spanish Republic has from the begin- ning been that of a friendly and sympathizing Power. So far has this respect for that experimental Republic been carried in relation to Cuba, in the pursuit of filibusters, in the building of Spanish gun- boats and in the gentle treatment of Spain for various outrages committed by her Cuban provincials from time to time that Mr. Secro- tary Fish has lost, toa great extent, the con- fidence of our people in regard to the impor- tant questions now before him. He cannot, however, be insensible to the voice of the country; he is, we are inclined to believe, anxious in this business to meet the just expectations of the country. As the authority and the responsibility, however, rest not with him, but with the President, we enter- tain the hope that, heedful of the general voice of the country, the President will have some- thing better to report in his forthcoming message to Congress on these outrages con- nected with the Virginius than the inter- change of preliminary diplomatic despatches between Washington and Madrid. Tue Errect at Mapr.—The effect of the Cuban outrages is beginning to be felt at Madrid. The Spanish Colonial Club, which is probably an offshoot of the infamous Casino Espafiol at Havana, has sent a delegation to the Minister of War to ask—perhaps to de- mand —that Captain General Jovellar shall be keptin Cuba. This movement was no doubt incited by the rumor that Jovellar had re- signed, which is likely to have been construed into a forced resignation, The Minister of War wisely declined to give any decisive answer until the whole story of the events in Cuba shall be known, This looks as if the Madrid government does not feel disposed to be dictated to at home by the cutthroats who rule inCuba. There is nothing at present to connect Jovellar with the butcheries at Santia- g0, and unless there shonld be the United States will have no charges to make against him, A Cabinet crisis was reported to be im- pending in Madrid, but this has been officially denied. ache “Lirrix Ruopy’’ i THe Breacn.—The war feeling is ranning very high among the Rhode Island veterans. Many of them are singing, according to the Providence Press, “We are coming, Uncle Samuel, three hundred thou- sand strong.” This will include all the men, women and children in the State, besides about a bundred and fifty Indians ‘not taxed.” The Clty Expenditures—Ouriows Dével- opments in Reform Finance Man- agement. Woe publish in to-day’s Heraup some cu- rious developments of the shiftless, illegal and extravagant management of the ‘re- formed” Finance Department of the city gov- ernment From this statement it appears that the expenses of that department are much greater now than under the corrupt Tammany Ring rule in its most infamous days, while the Comptroller asks for half a million dollars more next year than he receives the present year. It also appears that a large amount of money is paid out by the Comp- troller to secret emissaries and occasional employés for the most singular services, in addition to the sum legally appropriated for salaries in the Finance Department, and in violation of the charter. Thus, wo find that one person who is regularly em- ployed in a city department has been paid over $2,000 as “examiner” and for “expenses to Albany.” One fortunate employé is paid by the Comptroller for ‘professional services” from April 14 to April 30, 1873, over $525, and for ‘“pro- fessional services’’ from May 1 to May 31, nearly $870, or at the rate of about $11,000 ayear. Another person is paid for ‘searches and examining bills’ $2,285 and for “‘profes- sional services” $1,460. For preparing an estimate of work under the head of ‘‘legisla- tive inquiries,’ one man is paid nearly $2,000, and another for ‘examining the amount and condition of the city debt,” a labor which Mr. Green and his clerks are supposed to be paid for performing, draws out of the treasury $845. Several warrants for ‘‘examiners” have been paid amounting to thousands of dollars, and one ‘examiner of claims” gets $1,800. Two of these unearthed warrants are for the services, we should judge, of amateur detectives; one containing such items as “4nvestigating accounts in banks,”’ “‘investiga- tion of frauds,’’ “procuring evidence” and ‘travelling expenses,” amounting to between $6,000 and $7,000, and the other being for similar ‘‘professional services,” reaching over $4,500. Probably the most curious of these singular expenditures of the Comptroller is embraced in two warrants, each payable to the same man, one for ‘‘examining street lamps,"’ $50, and the other for ‘examining books and accounts in the Comptroller’s office,’ $250. It is evident that in this employé the Comp- troller discovered a genius, The man who can earn $50 to-day in examining street lamps ‘and $250 to-morrow in examining the books and papers of a city Finance Department must necessarily possess remarkable qualities. Per- haps it was hoped that his familiarity with lamps might throw some light on the dark mysteries of the muddled accounts and books in the Comptroller's office and aid in discov- ering the $94,000 worth of bonds or receipts which the Commissioners of Accounts were unable to unearth. These expenditures are made by the Comp- troller outside of and in addition to the regular amount for the salaries of the Finance Department, as legally fixed and allowed. They are for services which pertain to the Comptroller's department and should be per- formed by his regular employés, except where they are for work not legitimately belonging to his department, and which he has no legal right to pay for out of the public treasury. Like the employment of his Albany counsel, his employment of amateur detectives is a wilful violation of the law. We call the attention of Mayor Havemeyer to the following provision of the city charter, article 4, section 28:— ‘The number and duties of all officers and clerks, employés and subordinates in every department, with their respective salaries, whether now fixed by special law or otherwise, shail be such as the heads of the respective departments shall desig- nate and approve, but subject also to the revision of the Board of Apporttonment; provided, how- ever, that the aggregate expense thereof shall not exceed the total amount duly appropriated to the respective departments for such purposes, And also to the following provision in sec- tion 112, article 16: — For the purpose of making said provisional esti- mate the heads of departments shall * * * send to the Board of Apportionment an estimate in writing, herein called a departmental estimate, of the amount of expenditure, specilying in detail the objects thereoi, required in their respective de- partments, including # statement of each of their officers, clerks, employés and subordinates, Several of these illegal warrants are for ser- vices in the Comptroller's office, rendered after May 1, 1873, when the new charter became law. The persons drawing the amounts were never reported to the Board of Estimate as “officers, clerks, employés or subordinates’’ of the Finance Department. The money they have drawn has been paid from appropria- tions other than that for ‘salaries in the Comptroller's office,” and has been illegally taken from such appropriations. The amount paid to these employés exceeds the amount duly appropriated for the payment of officers, clerks, employés and subordinates in . the Comptroller's office. Such services as the persons named in the warrants profess to have rendered come within the clerical duties of the Finance Department and have no right to be paid for out of a ‘‘contingent” fund or a “Board of Audit” fund. If they could legally beso paid the provision of law which re- quires every department to present an estimate of the whole amount required for clerks, employés and subordinates, and which prohibits every department from expending any more for such purposes than the amount ap- propriated therefor, would be a mere farce. Any department under the head of ‘‘contin- gencies” might double its clerical force. Besides the questionable character of the ser- vices professed in some instances to have been rendered—the services of secret detectives— this system of paying unknown employés for “professional” work is as open to frand and license as any ever adopted by the Tammany Ring, and is in direct violation of the law. Will Mayor Havemeyer take action on this gross violation of the charter when he passes upon the charges brought against the Comp- troller by the Reform Association? “We Cannot Disourse tie Fact," avers the Lynchburg Virginian, ‘that the peace of the two countries is menaced by the status in Cuba, and that intervention of some kind, on the part of the United States, cannot long be postponed.” Tux Sr. Lovts Democrat advocates modora- tion and recommends that measures which might be misconstrued into acts of hostility actinic a Sammary of Yesterday’s Sermons, Another weekly cycle of time has brought tous again the Sabbath’s services and ser- mons, and as we present them to-day to our readers they will find some good and some better, with perhaps some that are not so good, But as truth is large and many-sided we pre- sume that some minds who to-day may read the pulpit products of yesterday will be benefited, as it is to be hoped those who heard them delivered in the sanctuaries wero encouraged and comforted, At such o time as this the inculcation of principles of charity is and should be considered an abso lute and imperative duty for churches and ministers. Sorrow and distress brood over many cities and communities of our land, and, while there are some streaks of sunlight in the financial and commercial horizons, there may yet be much suffering and many disap- pointments ere the day dawnsand the shadows flee away. Bishop Bowman, of the Mcthodist Church, yesterday presented the bright, the blessed side of charity. Man, he declared, is a bundle of wants, and experience shows that this statement is not exaggerated. If, there- fore, we desire enlargement of heart and de- velopment of our moral faculties and nature, we must give largely and liberally. The Bishop's view of life in the better land is far less sentimental, but we think, therefore, the more scripturally and rationally true than that commonly held by ministers and Chris- tian people. Woearo not likely to spend our days there merely in psalm singing, but we shall doubtless find there active mental em- ployment; and, for aught the Bishop knows, he may there bear.again the messages of love and sympathy to men out of the flesh, as he has borne them here to men in the body. Some reasons why we should exercise charity in its broader and truer sense, as well as in its more limited meaning, will be found in the Bishop's discourse. Rev. Mr. Hepworth took the incident of the restoration of (Fight to Bartimeus as an illus- tration of the’moral condition of mankind by nature. We areall born blind, and we cannot discern spiritual things until our eyes are opened by the same power that gave sight to the darkened eyeballs of this Judean wayside beggar. We should, therefore, as Mr. Hep- worth thinks, grope our way to Christ. But, in our blindness, we need a guide, and that guide is at hand—the Bible and the Holy Spirit. “Any truth,:to be perfect, must become in- carnate,”” said Mr, Frothingham yesterday. And he cited Carlyle, Mazzini, Abraham Lin- coln and James Fisk, Jr., as illustrations of the incarnation of truth. To the vision of a great many persons something else than truth was incarnate in these men. We dare say Jesus Christ, who is classed in the same list os am incarnation of truth, will feel Himself com- plimented by even the mild recognition by this modern prophet that He (Jesus) may have been a_ perfect specimen of a man.” But what of the possibility the other way?” There have been men,” says Mr. Frothingham, ‘‘who, as far as personal quali- ties are concerned, were as good as Christ.’” It is very evident that when Mr. Frothingham tries to get on the roadway where Jesus has to pass he is spiritually in the condition of old Bartimenus, and his first care should be to have. his eyes opened that he may discern spiritual truths. He accounts for the popularity of Jesus Christ when on earth on the ground of His sincerity. But by parity of reasoning the popularity of the other incarnations named should depend on the same element, whereas it is too palpable that other, if not entirely opposite elements, actuated them. The popularity of Christ as a preacher and teacher, we take it, lay in the perfect sym- pathy of His mind and thought with the mind and thought of His audiences. He never broke in abruptly upon the thoughts of the people as other teachers, ancient and modern, have done and are doing. When he saw men fishing and wanted disciples He tells them He will make them fishers of men. When He met a woman at a well He talked about water, and thus led her mind along in its natural train of thought to the higher and the spiritual object which He had everin view. And if some of our modern preachers would imitate Christ more fully in this aspect of his ministry we have no doubt their'success would measurably increase. Dr. McGlynn applied the parable of the wasted seed to a “mission” about to be opened next week in his church, and very faithfully urged his congregation to set their homes and their hearts in order to attend the ministrations of the missionaries. When we pray, even the Lord's Prayer, our hearts, he said, should be in unison with the will of God, that we may be ready and able to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven. And if the seed truths. of the Gospel in our hearts are so tender that the Saviour likened them toa grain of mus-~ tard seed we ought to be very careful of the beginnings of grace in our souls. Christian liberty was Mr. Beecher’s theme yesterday, and in its treatment he gave the congregational committees, who are said to be examining the discipline of their church, some points to start with. Rules ond regulations, he thinks, are good for a man when he is.low down at the bottom, but after men have put forth roots and branches then the less they are put under institutions the more thoroughly tho church is working out the true idea of manhood. And, of course, on this principle Mr. Beecher would make the door of ingross or egress to the Church as large as humanity and free to all. Professor Hitchcock drew from the text. Matthew, x. 39, two great laws of life— namely, that it is commonly required of \ us to sacrifice a lower good that we may'' gain a higher good, and that, having secured this higher good, we are prepared to obtain and enjoy the Christian state. Hence he who’ would save his life must lose it. Rev. John Ashworth, of Englan’, gave an interesting sketch of his conversion in boy- hood and of his sabsequent career as o preacher, philanthropist and reformer, to the , West Presbyterian Church. At the opening of St. Patrick’s Roman. Catholic church, Jersey City, Dean Byrne! discoursed about the importance of religious. education for Catholics. “Wr Owe Lr to Ounsetves,”’ asserts the Hart- ford Times (democratic), ‘to our oft insulted by Spgin be deferred until the meeting of Congress, when the voice of the nation can be heard through the chosen represoptatives of the people, flag, to humanity itself, to go at once to the brutal ruffiana in Cuba who perpetrate these crimes and teach them one such lesson ag neither they nor the world gball forget.”