The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1873, Page 4

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES, GORDON BENNETT, ~ x PROPRIETOR jame XXXVIII.. ‘a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, . 0M THEATRE, Fourteenth st—Norrr Dame— tre Daoranre BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— frewer ov Luave Mam If we could join the jubilee shout of the ad- ministration sheeta and the administration hangers-on over what has been variously styled Rr, mernet “peace with Spain,” ‘triumph of diplomacy,” &c., é&c., weshould be rejoiced -...Wo. 333 | UNleed. Not one of the inconsequent fry of party criers should outshout us if we saw that peace was secured—peace with honor, peace with dignity, peace with fature security. But what kind of lame and impotent conclusion are we invited to celebrate? Rose-cdlored despatches from Washington, reeking with 4 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vancerr | enthusiastic congratulations and rumpled all NTRUTALN MENT. eee MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ii fiunnva Cross. Garewrainarst. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, {aud Bivecker sts—Exoch Anpes. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Broadway, betweon Prince and nd ouston sts —Tus Biick Cuoox, ) qarDAck’s THEATRE et—Tax Lian, Broadway and Thirteentn UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near roadway.—Tux Wickev Woar.n, ACADEMY OF MUS! Arauian Orwna—Les Hi WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Wreursopr's Fusexn, &c. Afteruoon and evening. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—A wes Dusan, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Kighth av. and Twenty-third bot —Humery Doxerr Asxodn. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF" MUSIC, Montague st— vis BoNGs oF TH SOUTH. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— iy. Praw Macpaen. d TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— y "Nanuere BTERTALNMENT. ~ BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner “Sixth av.—Nxcro Minstreusy, &c BAIN HALL. Great Jones street, between Broadway ‘and Bowery.—Tas Picrim. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th avenge.— ‘Duamatio Reavines. THR RINK, 84 avenue and 6tth street.—M cnaGneum AND useum. Afternoon and evening, . NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- Pway.—Souence axp Arr. ITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, Dec. 1, 1873. c— over with official hand-shakings, fail to blind us to the fact that the ‘‘settlement’’ is no set- , TRRATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanuerr | tlement, that the ‘“‘peace” is no peace, that the ‘triumph’ is national disgrace, that between Houston | +)» «concessions’’ are the authorization of ro- newed insults. In discussing this matter we treat it with a high impartiality; with an un- selfishness which has no private end to sub- serve, Unfettered by anything but justice, unhampered by Hessianism on one side or party slavery on the other, we devote our en- lath streot and Irving place | erey to the cause of America because it is right and because it is American. Not even the most distempered administration organ could lavish more praise upon the dignity, wisdom, firmness and presence of mind of the State Department, if an honorable peace was about to be secured, than we would shower upon him. If we condemn an official to-day because he has shown his lack of patriot- ism or efficiency, we will praise him to-mor- row if we find him deserving. The mere party organs cannot comprehend the treat- ment of men and measures from the stand- point of independence, and it seems a hopeless task to drag them above the grovelling of party subserviency or the mire of that pitiful personal warfare in which the community have no concern or interest. This latest Spanish outrage in Cuba—one only of a long series of outrages upon the American flag and Ameri- can citizens—we have handled from day to day, as the facts and developments warranted, and always on the high, uncompromising ground of national honor. Admonished by a past of feebleness on the part of the State De- ‘= THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. (Lo-Day’s Contents of the | Herald. FTHE ‘SETTLEMENT’ WITH SPAIN! ‘A most | ‘i BASE AND VILE-CUNCLUDED PEACE’"— LEADING ARTICLE—FourTH Pace. Hs SPANISH SLAVOCRACY IN CUBA HIGHLY EXCITED OVER THE PROTOCOL BEFWEEN AMERICA AND SPAIN EAT DISSATIS- FACTION! THE FEELING IN WASHING- TON—FirTH Pack. ONDON PRESS COMMENTS ON THE CUBAN | TROUBLES ! CUBA OULD BE MADE ONE OF THE UNITED 3! BRITISH | INTERESTS DO NOT CLASH WITH THOSE OF AMEKICA—TENTH Pace. WHE MARTIAL RULER OF FRANCE! HIS" SUC- | ah CESSFUL CA WHY HE HAS Nt’ A “PLAIN, BLUNT MAN,” WHO DOES HIS DUTY WELL! HOW HE CAME TO SUPREME CONTROL—Firra Pack. GENERAL DUCROT RESIGNS HIS SEAT IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY! RUMORED CHANGES IN THE LEGATION AT WASHINGTON—GEN- ERAL MANTEUFFEL SERIOUSLY WOUNDS i COUNT GOEBER IN A DUEL—Firra Paar, WMARSHAL BAZAINE’S TRIAL ABOUT {O CLOSE—!MPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— FIrvit 2'AGk. ‘CONSTITUTION MAKING IN FRANCE! 13 ¥ CHANGES IN THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS IN 84 YEARS! WHAT ENDL REVOLU- TIONS HAVE CULMINATEI IN—SEXxTH Page. "THE ASHANTEE WAR! A BATTLE AND 40 OF SIR GARNET’S FURCES KILLED AND WOUNDED! GALLANT ATTACK UPON A BRITISH FIELD WORK BY THE SAVAGES! | THEY ARE REPULSED, LOSING 30 MEN— Firta Pace. OUR NAVAL POWER! SECRETAR ¥ ROBESON'S REPORT OF THE OPERATI OF THE YEAR AND THE PRESENT CONDITION OF : OUR WAR VE: —A DARING OUT- om RAGE IN THE BAY—Sixtn Pace. a4 MUNICIPAL AND VONGRESSIONAL STEALS DE- ie NOUNCED FROM THE PULPITS! THE BEST THOUGHTS OF THE LEADING DIVINES OF THE METROPOLIS AND OF BROOKLYN— . Eiguta Pace. ee NO FAVORS! TWEED GIVEN PRISON FARE AND CONFINED IN HIS LL AS OTHER CRIM- INALS ARE! HIS SICKNESS! SPECULA- TIONS AS TO ITS RESULT—EigHTH Pacr. THE EQUINE BE NOIRE! EPIZOOTY APPEAR- a ING AGAL IN A MILD FORM—SHIP- WRECK—TENTH PaGs. ‘YOUNG IRELAND AND THE ACT OF UNION! THE STEADY MARCH OF LIBERTY! NOTABLE STRUGGLES IN IRISH PARTY BISTORY—SixTa PaGe. PROGRESS AND PROBABLE COST OF THE NEW f NEW. YORK POST OFFICE! A NEW CUSTOM ‘ HOUSE BUILDING PROPOSED! THE EIGHT- HOUR ENACTMENT—Tuirp Pace. A Sovrnernen FoR THE PrrsmENcy.— Some of the Southern papers are discussing the propriety of having the next President come from their part of the country, and Aloxzander H. Stephens, of Georgia, seems to have been mutually agreed upon as a suitable Candidate, There are not bones enough in the body of the dauntless little Southern _ @iant—and he has nothing else except skin and brains upon his frame and headwork—to _makea respectable rattle in the contribution box of a country church. But his friends "will have their say, nevertheless; and it will not be the first time, if they succeed, that he has been offered similar distinction, and that too, by regular democratic national | convention, @ fact not generally known in our political history. Severe Ficutine mm THE AsHANTEE Covn- wny.—The British military undertaking for the conquest of the Ashantees is likely to prove a very troublesome, if not a positively hazardous, affair, Telegrams from Cape Coast Castle report the occurrence of severe engage- ments between the European royalists and tucir native auxiliaries and the soldiers of His Majesty King Coffee Caleali. During a battle, which was fought near Danquah, forty Eng- Jismen and natives were killed and wounded. ‘The Ashantees attacked the European position ft Abbracrampta with great impetuosity, but were repulsed, after fighting an hour, with a partment—which we should call inanity but for the cunning and blatant pretence that con- spired therein to degrade us nationally—we expressed a fear that, in the case of the Vir- ginius, dishonor was again in store for us by a repetition of the same begging diplomacy. We remembered the case of the unfortunate Consul Phillips, hunted through the streets of Santiago, with our flag affording its officer no shelter and a mob of howling cutthroats at his heels, who were backed in turn by the ‘‘authorities’’ who con- fiscated his estates. We recalled the case of the shipwrecked American seamen, Speakman and Wyeth, murdered like dogs at Santiago because alone they were Americans. We had in mind the case of the Lloyd Aspinwall seized upon the high seas by a Spanish man-of-war when she was carrying government despatches addressed to our Consuls and Ministers abroad. Though there was not the slightest color of excuse for this outrage she was allowed to lie in a Cuban harbor for ninety-eight days under Spanish guns, while the halting and paltering diplomacy of our Secretary of State wound its snail-like way along. With these cases and many others before us to illustrate the want of courage, firmness and promptitude in our State Department, was it not reasonable to fear that like wants would manifest them- selves in the case of the Virginius? Was it extravagant to warn the government that the people would submit to no more of this dila- toriness and inefficiency? Could we do other than assert that such an outrage to the nation could only be cancelled bya reparation as swift as unmistakable—reparation such as England demands and enforces, which Ger- many, young as anaval Power, compels? And what have we got? Let us look dispassion- ately at what is set down by the anthorities at Washington as the settlement. For all the insult, all the outrage, all the brutal bloodshed, what does the settle- ment repair? The return of the Vir- ginius and ‘the surviving captives. This is all. There are other things muffled up in conditions and politely choked in diplomatic phrase. The other ‘‘concessions” depend on contingencies which seem especially provided for their evasion. If, after an investigation— which may extend indefinitely—the Virginius proves to be an American vessel, Spain will salute our flag ‘‘on Christmas Day ;’’ if not, no salute. Indeed, so far from being asked to burn gunpowder in our honor, if the State Department declares that the Vir- ginius had no, right to carry our flag, the protocol pledges that America will fall on its knees before Spain, and then rise up to con- demn the vessel and punish the surviving captives who have been rotting in Spanish dungeons with the fate of their murdered brethren before their eyes and the shouts of the Spanish rabble in their ears. It is well that the full ignominy of this condition should be seen by the nation it dishonors. Then, as to the murdered. Satisfaction for them, it logically follows, must wait upon the diplomatic adjustment of the points above. If the State Department, after its investigation, decides against the nationality of the Virgin- ‘jus, the murders must go absolutely un- atoned. At the very best, American blood is promised to be paid for at s0 much the ounce. We have not heard the terms, but suppose that as'a delicate com- pliment to the flag of Spain it would be symbolically put at two Spanish ounces of gold for one ounce of American blood. It might as well be that as anything, for under the protocol Spain could not be forced to pay a cent, and we may here emphasize that there is not an iota of such a thing as guarantee that Spain is acting in good faith. The recla- mations for damages, in any case, will not cover the murders of those who were not American citizens. The lives of these victims, matched from under our flag, are handed over to Spain as legitimate prey. We are not prepared to allow this shameful fact to be glozed over. One other point and we shall leave the paltering protocol for the present. The butchers escape all trial or punishment for the murders, Spain guarantees to “‘institute proceedings’ against _ loss of thirty men. ‘The foreigners were in this instance protected by earthworks, a fact which speaks still more decisively as evidence of the gallantry of the Ashantees, The War U in London is likely to be convinced that them, but not for murder—it reads against any ‘‘who may have violated either law or treaty sti " That is to say against the law of the Casino Espafiol and the treaty stipulations which that body’ of Shogse te poanach Such ia Slaughter House. All the rest of the case goes to the dogs. Truly, betweon Mr. Fish and the sea lawyer, Polo, a plain case has been muddled beyond recognition. It looked to all the world that we had a clear case against Spain, but the Quaker City has not educated @ lawyer who could honestly swear, after ex- amining the Polo-Fish protocol, that America was not the gross offender, and that all the contingent homages and damages wero not due to Spain. Yet this is the latest triumph of American diplomacy—a hollow, barren, bun- gled thing. Like the echo of a satanic laugh at all this Washington diplomacy comes the news from Havana. It is the ribald cachinnation of the volunteers at the announcement that tho Vir- ginius is to be surrendered. The chief author- ities of the island have sent a manifesto bid- ding the Spanish government wait until the slave owners’ protocol, which justifies tho seizure and butchery, reaches Madrid. They are manning the forts and creating resources “to resist any aggressive act,"" Where be your guarantees now, Mr. Fish? Is it not a mock- ery of sympathy and an insult to common sense to say that the guarantees are in the honor of Sefior Castelar at Madrid? There is little need to question his honor. His honor, we can see now, as we have always seen, és noth- ing unless it means force. He must depend upon monarchical slave owners for his force in Cuba, and for him or for America to.rely upon their support to execute measures so hateful to them would be to “hold a serpent by the tongue, a fasting tiger by the tooth.'’ On every side we hear of “grave doubts in the highest administration circles’ as to the ability of Spain to force even the pitiful measure ‘of redress whi Mr. Fish and Mr. Polo have agreed on. ie President in his Message, if he presents it to-day, will give his views of the situation, and if he enters into the question of guarantees for future protection of our flag, our commerce and our citizens in the Spanish West Indies he must reach a conclusion which will make the Fish-Polo inchoate production very ridiculous indeed. If he does so he will strip the last presumptuous shred of lion’s hide from off the Secretary of State, and ‘hang a calfskin on the recreant limbs’’ it should adorn. We have before stated, and we now affirm, that these stopgap measures of so-called redress —a ship, some unslain captives, a possi- ble flash in the pan and the very remote chance ot a few dollars—do not touch the need of this case. We want the entire Cuban ques- tion settled fully and completely. We want the measures of reparatioh to be such as will rehabilitate our national honor, not leaving a single flaw. We want the island reduced to a state of peace and order, so that our citizens and our vessels can come and go without let or hindrance. We want the aboli- tion of slavery, without which all other meas- the dominant party if it shall fail to. the American people in its measures upon our foreign and domestic affairs. The session may be prolonged into midsummer, and work which will extend through several seasions will, we oxpect, be cut out in the President's Message, SEO eg The Comptroller of the Currency on the Panto and the Circulating Medium. Mr. Knox, in the report he has prepared for Congress on the operation of his depart- ment and the monetary affairs of the country, has struck the right note with regard to the late panic and its causes. ‘Ihe money mar- ket,” he says, ‘had become overloaded with debt, the cost of railroad construction for the five years past being estimated at $1,700,000,000, or $340,000,000 annually, while debt based upon almost every species of property—State, city, town, manufacturing corporationsand mining companies—had been sold in the market. Such bonds and stock had been disposed of to a considerable extent in foreign markets, and as long as this con- tinued the sale of similar securities was stima- lated and additional amounts offered. When the sales of such securities could no longer be effected abroad the bonds of railroads and other enterprises were forced upon the home market until their negotiation became almost impossible. The bankers of the city of New York who were burdened with the load could not respond to the demands of their creditors. Tho numer- ous holders of similar securities became alarmed, and the panic soon extended throughout the country.’’ All this is true; but it is not the whole truth, Farther on in the report the Comptroller explains more fully. He shows that the relations of the banks with stock operations and speculations did more to bring about the trouble than any- thing else. ‘More than one-fourth, and in many cases one-third,’ he says, ‘‘of the bills receivable of the banks since the late civil war have consisted of demand loans to brokers and members of the Stock Board.’’ In other words, the banks went into the stock-jobbing business, indirectly or directly, in their grasp- ing at large profits, and thus damaged the legitimate business interests of the country. He adds: —‘‘The quotations of the Stock Board are known to be frequently fictions of specu- lation, and yet these fictions control the busi- ness and commerce of a great country.” He calls the attention of Congress to this matter, and asks if a law cannot be enacted to restrain such an evil In order to show what we have repeatedly said in our columns, that there was nothing in the industrial condition of the country to cause a panic, and that it sprang entirely from fictitious causes connected with unsub- stantial speculations and stock gambling, the Comptroller notices the marketable products of industry of 1873 over those of 1868, as based upon the census returns. In 1868 they ures of guarantee must be vain. It is absurdity drawn to its utmost tension to go before the country and pretend that Spain can force any of these measures or that the Spaniards in Cuba will do it of themselves. If it is done, we must dé it. The Meeting of Congress. The two houses of the Forty-third Congress, first session, assemble in their respective chambers in the national Capitol to-day. The Senate, Vice President Wilson in the chair, organized at its extra session in March last, will at once be ready for business. The or- ganization of the House was agreed upon in the republican caucus of Saturday night last, and the work of electing the Speaker, Clerk and other officers of the body will, perhaps, be so readily accomplished as to secure the read- ing of the President’s Annual Message before the close of the day’s proceedings, although it is possible that the Message may not be sent in before to-morrow. Mr. Blaine, having been renominated for Speaker by the republicans without serious opposition, will doubtless be re-elected upon the «first ballet without a break in the republican column, and throughout, as usual, the election of the officers will be only the formal ratification of the nominations of the governing party caucus. ‘The democrats, in their caucus, nominated Fernando Wood as their candidate for Speaker, in recognition of his abilities as a party leader and of his lengthened term of active service to the party in and out of Congress ; and this, too, in spite of his posi- tion as a defender of the increased salary and back pay bill of the last, or Forty-second Congress. From this proceeding of the first democratic caucus of the Forty-third Con- gress, notwithstanding the indignation of Mr. Cox, we think it may be safely assumed that the aforesaid increased and back pay bill will not be seriously disturbed for at least a year or two to come. In a word, the agitation of the seandalous and intolerable wickedness of this “back pay grab,” having served its purpose in the elections of the last summer and autumn, the democratic chiefs in Con- gress have given notice that they are willing to drop the subject, and as ‘‘a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind,” the republicans, being in the same boat, will cordially agree to drop the subject. We expect the reading of the Message in the two houses to-day, and from its budget of recommendations on our foreign and domestic affairs, including our difficulties with Spain and Cuba and our financial embarrassinents, we shall have the programme of the leading legislative measures of the session, and of the acts, viows and purposes of the administra- tion. For good or for evil, in its general re sults, this will doubtless be one in a half dozen of the most important sessions of Con- gress since the annexation of Texas. Upon the good or evil fruits of this session will largely depend the success or failure of the republican party in the elections of 1874 for the next Congress, and the strengthening or weakening of this party for the Presidential campaign of 1876. With this Congress and the administration is the power to maintain the honor and dignity of the country‘abroad and to relieve the country of its financial em- barrassments at home; and upon the adminis- tration and this present session of Congress, if they fail to meet the just expectations of the country, will rest fearful responsibility. With a two-thirds vote in the House, and with & majority of twenty in the seventy-four mem- bara of tha Renate. and samounted to $4,036,000,000. In 1873 the amount was $1,788,000,000 greater. When the panic came, he remarks, there were, in almost every direction, evidences of pros- perity. Yet the railroad speculators and stock gamblers, in connection with the banks, brought upon the country the trouble we are passing through. . The amount of currency outstanding on the 1st of November was $759,161,239. Of this there were national bank notes, $350,332,884; legal tenders, $360,952,206, and fractional currency, $47,876,149, which was in excess of that a fortnight previous a little less than $3,000,000. ‘The Treasury and the banks held $128,140,727. Then a large allowance must be made for the currency held by savings banks, trust companies and private bankers. The currency actually afloat and in the pockets of private individuals could scarcely have exceeded $500,000,000. Con- sidering the active enterprise and vast amount of trade in this country this volume of circu- lating medium can hardly be more than is required. The Comptroller makes some useful suggestions with regard to bank deposits, savings banks and other matters, and on the whole the report contains much valuable in- formation and is a creditable document. The London Press on the Annexation of Cuba to the United States. It is clear that the English journals have had a keener appreciation of the opportuni- ties offered by the Santiago butchery than the larger portion of the American press. There are reasons for this which are very potent. England has o strong interest in the com- merce of the West Indian main, and she knows that under the government of the United States Cuba would speedily become a tranquil island. It is a feeling of this nature which the Daily Telegraph to say that “this country (England) can afford to take a perfectly impartial ottitude. * * * The Pearl of the Antilles as a slave State of the Union would have been a formidable competi- tor and dangerous neighbor to our own free possessions in the West Indian main. But as things now ore considerations of policy as well as humanity would lead us to look with a favorable eye on the transfer of Cuba from the rule of Madrid to that of Washington.” Nor are the other leading newspapers leas emphatic, as will be found in our columns this morning. We might inquire, then, if the Eng- lish people without distinction of party favor the annexation of the richest island in the world—one containing one million five hun- dred thousand people—to the sovereign States of a Power always considered her rival, and often her enemy, as & mere measure of compensation for the perpetration of a horrible crime, what should be the sentiment, of the United States in the matter? If from timidity or the obsequious attitude of contrite Spain we do not realize annexation now, is ita wild fancy to assume that some flagrant ontrage of another Burriel will not end the dominion of the Dons in the Archipelago ? Democratic Back Down on THE Back Par.—The democratic caucus in Washington on Saturday night was notable for its egre- gions back down upon the question of the back-pay gtab. If the democrats do not take care the republicans will manufacture politi- cal thunder for themselves out of that delicate little financial transaction. How Pen Butler ‘must laugh in his sleeve! , Dr Sronerany Fon make his Thanksgiv- of “bumble fet” was one of thanksgiving by Rev. O. B. Froth- ingham, in which he makes the statement, as reported, that “God gives us nothing unless we earn it.’’ He never gave a finished imple- ment, it is true ; but God has given us life and health, and fruitful seasons, and a thousand other blessings that we never earned. Again, Mr. Frothingham tells us that ‘a few people have all the brains that are used in human affairs,” and that is, porhaps, the reason why there are so many mental as well as physical paupers, A ray of hope shoots through the gloom which overhangs the present and im- mediate future of the toiling masses, as they hear from this oracle’s lips that “the time is coming when all people will be sure they shall not starve.” It is pleasantto contem- plate, but is it true, “that the number of the poor in modern society is rapidly diminish- ing?” That the poor now cry for work is no evidence that they will not by and by cry for bread, unless their ery for work is heeded. So that these are at best doubtful reasons for congratulation and thanksgiving; and while we are coworkers together with God our modesty, if nothimg else, should forbid us taking all the honor and thanks and praise of our prosperity and position to ourselves, Something is due, also, to our partner. Rev. Honry Powers had some advice to give to Congress which it is hardly probable that body of collective legislative wisdom will take. He would have it purge itself of even the sus- picion of corruption, restore the back pay of its members and clear its halls of all schemes for public plunder, give back seats to its Crédit Mobilier members, remove the ban from Charles Sumner, settle promptly the Cuban matter, give the country a currency in harmony with the rest of the world and re- form the civil service, All of which is too good to be received by one average Congress. Rev. George H. Hepworth tried to make his people believe that this world is a dream and the invisible world a reality. To some the former is a hard fact; the latter, a dim, shadowy possibility. The province of relig- ion and of religious teachers is to draw men's thoughts away from earth to heaven and to present to them God as a teacher who instructs gladly and without money or price ; whose laws have no element of tyranny in them; from whom we deserve nothing, yet may receive everything, and whose smiles, like a halo, shine all around us. Even at the last moment God stands ready to stretch out his hand and to take the criminal to heaven. “No result comes by chance in a man’s life,”’ said Mr. Boole yesterday, and he found a very pointed and practical illustration in the conviction of the man who; ‘‘in all the arro- gance of his power, sneeringly said, ‘What are you going to do about it?’’’ He rejoiced that as we had seen the rise so also had wo seen the overthrow of the ‘‘Ring’’ who were banded together to plunder the city, and by whom political offices were bought and sold. In the recent action of our courts Mr. Boole recognizes the hand of the Almighty in the conviction of Walworth, Stokes, Tweed and others. He gave the press also its due share of credit for the conviction of the latter. The season of Advent, which now opens, was duly brought to mind yesterday by Rev. Mr. Carter, in the Church of the Holy Saviour (Protestant Episcopal). The certainty of the Saviour’s coming and the uncertainty of the time of that event were used as motives to induce the people to prepare for His appear- ance; for whether He comes at midnight or at cock-crowing or in the morning, it will make very little difference to those who are ready and waiting. The secession of Bishop Cummins from the Episcopal fold and the proposed action of his late Episcopal associates to-expel him received some attention from the Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., who looked upon the proposed action as an outrage. He regretted that Bishop Cummins did not remain in the Church and fight the battle within its walls, but he sees success before the seceding Bishop. Like Paul on his journey toward Rome, Dr. Tyng thinks the Protestant Episcopal Church is travelling the road to Rome also, but it stops to rest awhile at Putioli. By and by it will resume the march. The ‘Mystery of the Incarnation” was the theme of Archbishop McCloskey, who,sees in the daily sacrifice of the altar the constant manifestation of this mystery. Therein the Lord is really present, not only in His divine nature, but in His humanity also, the Arch- bishop says. And He is present to receive our homage and our prayers, our love and affection; and, since. the two natures ot Christ cannot be separated, therefore in honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholics honor God himself; The archdio- cese is to be dedicated to the Sacred Heart next week, and hence the bearing of the prel- ate’s remarks, . Rev. Father Tissot, §. J., gave currency to the idea of weekly sacramental communions in the Catholic churches, because young people require this spiritual food very often. He saw @ necessity for this also in the tendency of the present age to go back to the vices of the ante-Christian age. But it would not be necessary for the communicants to go every week to confession—once a month would be enough for that, unless, indeed, they had in the meantime committed mortal sins. Mr. Beecher varied his course of topics con- cerning the love and mercy and fatherhood of God by tracing in some measure the purposes and methods of ecclesiastical organization. “The excessive organization of the Romish Charch has brought the world to look upon the Church as really and literally an empire.” He called it, according to our report, “the marvel and the infernal miracle of time.” It has gone beyond the domain of kings and has not only taken away men’s substance, fortune and even their lives, but ‘it has blinded the faith, entered the domain of conscience and hurled the black terrors of the future as no other hero could do, and has beggared the material man as no outward despotism could do.” Such is Mr. Beecher’s arraignment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A new movement was inangarated in Brook- lyn yesterday under bright auspices. Rev. H. O. Pentecost, who, following the lead of bis brother and the promptings of his own heart to commune with believers who are not exclu- sively of the Baptist sect, has been practically drivon from that fold, was yesterday installed aa pastor of the Church of the Peoplo., Short addresies were delivered by Dr. Decms, Rev. J. Pratt Smith. Baw, Genres &. Rautooust ond public. i In another column we print a letter from our Paris correspondent giving an admirable sketch of the career and character of the soldier who has just been made President of tho French Republic for seven years, Re- publics have always had a more or less marked tendency to close the cycle of their glories, . great or small, under the auspices of fortunate soldiers ; and it seems a disheartening reflec- tion that in the elevation of Marshal Mac- Mahon by-an Assembly that does not repre- sent the public will, and that yet bestows on an individual a power practically without con- trol, there is so likely to be once more in the history of France a miscarriage of the national aspiration toward free government. But it is suid that MacMahon’s fidelity is so far above reproach that this itself is a guaran- tee. It is a pity whon any man’s fidelity is put toward the nation in the place that should be occupied by more substantial sureties. No one can speculate what may be the outcome of this reliance on fidelity, nor even toward whom the Marshal may conceive his fidelity is due, If ho be faithfal to the Republic, very well; but-if he be faithful to the Assembly, and to that majority of the Assembly that has given him power, the case may be very differ- ent, for on the one side is the nation’s hope and on the other side the tradition of Bour- bon royalty. Toward which of these the in- stincts and the education of the Duke of Magenta may incline the reader will know better when he has read the excellent and in- structive letter to which we refer. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pay Inspector W. W. Williams, United States Navy, 18 quartered at the Astor House. Colonel John K. Gowen, the eminent civil ene gineer, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan, with his chief of staff, General George A. Forayth, arrived atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, trom Wash- ington. They left this city last evening for Chicago. James F. Joy, President of the Michiga« Central Ratlway Company, and J, M. Walker, President of -the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com- © pany, are among tho ratlroad magnates at the Windsor Hotel. At the Church of St. John the Baptist, West Thirtieth street, yesterday, immediately after @ most impressive and eloquent sermon preached by the Very Rey. Father Bonaventure, Pray O. & F.0., during high mass, the Rev. Frederick Donner, formerly pastor of St. John’s Protes- tant church, of Baltimore, was received, after the usual solemn profession of faith, into the fold of the Catholic Church, The motives leading to his change of religion will be given to the public in a few months in pamphlet form, WEATHER REPORT. Wak DEPARTMENT, Orrice or TOE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFIORR, WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—1 A, M, Probabilities. . For the Northwest and upper lakes falling barometer, easterly winds, veering to westerly, with cloudy weather and occasional light snow. For the lower lakes and thence to the Ohio Val- ley northeasterly and southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and occasional snow and rain. For Kentucky and Tennessee, southeasterly winds and cloudy weather. For the Southern States, northeasterly winds, rising temperature and partly cloudy weather. FoR THE MIDDLE AND EaST@RN STATES NORTH ERLY AND WESTERLY WINDS, INCREASINGLY CLOUDY WEATHER AND OCCASIONAL BAIN IN THR FORMER SECTION. Reports are missing {rom the Southwest. After the 10th inst. the display of cautionary signals will be suspended at the lake ports for the winter. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes ia the temperatare for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last eat as tate Ka ae ere at Hudnut’s armac, RALD Butiding :— mney OS STa, 1873, 1872, 1813. 27 32 at 3 ¥ 26 20 30 2M 22 33 12 P. M. 18 2 Average temperature yesterday.. bya Average temperature for corresponding date last year. atoverecteseaevessaeese RECEPTION BY THE PALETTE OLUB TO-HIGHT. This evening the popular Palette Clad will hold An artand musical reception at their club rooms, No. 126 Second avenue, There will be & fine dis- play of company and of pictures, THE SPRAGUE TRUST DEED, The Trustees Named in the Deed Decline to Act Without a Guarantee of Pro- tection, PROVIDENCE, R, L, Nov. 30, 1873. The trustees named in the Sprague trust deed have notified the committee appointed at the creditors’ meeting that, under advice of counsel, they feel compelled to decline the tment: unless they can have some guarantee protect them from personal liability. The t: ace, however, to have another conference with the committee to-morrow aiternoon, the result of which will doubtless be promptly announced, ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY BANK OP- FIOIALS, The OfMicers of the Pittsburg (Pa.) Mo= chanics’ Savings Bank Charged With Misappropriating Over $84,000. PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 30, 1873, Informations were made last evening again#) the President, Vice President and Treasurer of the Mechanics’ Savings Bank of this city, which suspended some days ago, chi them with con- spiracy to deiraud the stockholders and a of the bank and with embezzlement and [epee eed Phen ete 4! apts as-. seta Of the bank rol l- ties, although the joss yo the depositors will not be heavy. It supears the officers loaned nearly all its money to themselves and Immediate friends, a8 over $84,000, or. four-fliths of the entire amount, pe is a fag ne ae” Vice Ce nee and others Ww! whom ? business enterprises, without sufficient security being given. nasil THE NEW BRA OF BEFORM Rey, Henry Morgan, of Boston, delivered last night his fiftn lectare in Tammany Halt. His sub ject was, “Fast Young Men.” In the course of a very able discourse he held up the fate of Tweed jas a warning example to young ra attention to the new era of honesty Tung great She “permeated wreck of sin, and ag could possibly do so. Up with temperance! ieee: claimed, Up with the capstone of religion! Up and complete the temple of reform until from cornerstone to capstone and shouting go up, “Or hy unto it! Kxcelstor! now and jor- ever.” The audience was very larg: and the house frequently rang with applause, THE MAHOPAC AND OSSIPER SAVANNA, aa SavaNNan, Nov. 30, 1873. ‘The iron-clads Mahopac and Ossipeo arrived at this port to-day and sailed again. BEN HOGAN WILL FIGHT. Sr. Lovrs, Nov. 90, 1873,’ Ben Hogan replies to Tom Allen’s card, saytog that a8 soon as his health improves he will fight dim or anybody else tor $1,000 to $2,500, MURDER Where Are the Police? John Bulger was shot on Saturday night and) removed to Believue tloapttal, whore et The poune salted to revue auto the . TOUCH AT