The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1873, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volame XXXVIII, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston st —Cuiuduivw 1x tax Wood. WALLAOR'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth streot.—A Man or Honon. ONION SQUARE THEATRE, Union squste, near Broadway.—Lup Astnax, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth sti— uae, Afternoon dnd evening. BROADWAY THEATRE, 73 and 730 Broadway.— Taw Woman ix Wars. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third st.—Homerxs Dumrrr Asxoan. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 28th st. and Broadway.— Pangicrpg, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— Kit; O8 tax Agkansas TRAVELLER, PARK THE, Ek, Bi Ci Ball.— one Gua » Brooklyn, opposite City Hal METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—V artery ENTERTALNMENT. ’ BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Kiss 1x tux Danx— PmARL OF Savor. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tux Wickap Worup. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Lapy or Lyons. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 5i4 Broadway.—Vanierr Ewreerarnwent. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vagiery Ewreertainaxnt. x BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nacro Mixstaxisy, &c, BAIN HALL, Great Jones street, between Broadway and Bowery.—Tax Prari, THE RINK, 34 avenue and 64th street.—Muyacsnre anp Museum. Afternoon and evening. ROBINSON HALL, sixteenth street.—Mactcan Enrer- ALN MENT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—Sorencx anp Ant. wit qT, New York, Monday, Dec. 22, 15873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE PINOHBACK OASE AND THE CONSTITU- TION”—LEADER—FourtH Pack, SPAIN FISHING FOR THE VIRGINIUS IN THE MUDDY WATERS OF DIPLOMACY! EXULT- ING OVER MR. FISH'S DENIAL OF HER RIGHT TO AMERICAN COLORS! MINISTER SICKLES URGES ACCEPTANCE OF HIS RESIGNATION! AMERICAN OFFICIAL DE- CISION AGAINST THE VIRGINIUS’ RIGHT TO CARRY THE FLAG—FirtH Paar. ‘TH@ AMERICAN IRON-CLAD MANHATTAN SAFE AT KEY WEST, AFTER A ROUGH, ALMOST DISASTROUS PASSAGE! SHE PASSES THE | VIRGINIUS, BOUND FOR NEW YORK— Fiera Paas. CUBAN SLAVERY ABOLITIUN, THE PROS- PECTS OF THE INSURRECTION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE VOLUNTEERS! SENOR ZULUETA, PRESIDENT OF THE CASINO BSPANOL, INTERVIEWED! GRADUAL EMANCIPATION FAVORED—FrrtH Pace. | our constitutional difficulties thore is no point NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘ine Pinchback Case and the Con- stitution, One of those men who have kept up the political hurly-burly in Louisiana is before the Senate claiming a seat in that body. Ho comes with a certificate’ of election from a government which a commitiee of the Senate has declared to be ‘in existence only by federal usurpation," yet the friends of the administration are of opinion that that certifi- cate should secure his admission. They take issue with the Senate committee on the im- portant point of the existence and character of the Louisiana State government, which they hold exists de factoand de jure, and is, for all the goneral purposes of a government, regular and sufficient—having the consent and support of a majority of the people of the State, and which, they seem also to hold, cannot be called in question on this certifi- cate; that, in short, Congress cannot go be- hind a paper received from a State govern- ment which is recognized as valid by s federal attorney general, a federal executive and a federal district judge, even though Congress may deem that the transaction of the Judge in the points of the case that led to his action was outrageously improper. It is a case between constitutional right anda political adventurer; and, while the administration favors the political adven- turer and argues that the constitutional right is sufficiently with him to satisfy ordinary consciences, the Senate seems disposed to halt on the point, and to examine the constitutional right somewhat strictly before it touches the political adventurer; and especially seems not disposed to accept the notion that there is any authority outside of Coggress more competent than Congress to determine the delicate and very doubtful points of the relations of State governments to the general government, or any divine right in the Executive, as apart from the laws, to make a State government by declaration so indefeasibly valid as to put it beyond the review of Congress, In the whole range of is & good sign. of greater delicacy than the one of the re- lations of the States and the general govern- ment that comes up on this caso, and there is no point where the encroachments of the Ex- ecutive may lead to greater evil; and the fact that the Senate is disposed to insist upon its competency in the premises is creditable to the sense it has of its obligations to the country. By the constitution ‘the United States” is required to guarantee a republican form of government to every State, and this is held as implying the previous competency to determine in any given case and in dis- puted authority which is the established or legal government. The constitution simply gives this power to the United States, and Con- gress, not the constitution, has given to the Executive the power to take the initiatory steps in any case calling for action under this head. In the statute of 1795, in regard to calling out the militia, it is provided that ‘in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United BRITISH MOVEMENT FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE CURSE IN CUBA~AN- OTHER ENGLISH NORTH POLAR EF- FURT—Surre Page. ‘THE GERMAN EMPEROR STRICKEN WITH APO- PLEXY! THE ATTACK SAID TO BE SLIGHT, AND ENDEAVORS MADE TO SUP- PRESS THE TRUTH OF HIS ILLNESS— Firra Paog. SKIRMISHING BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND THE NATIVES IN ASHANTEE! THE EX- PEDITION INERT! DESERTION OF THE CREW OF A BRITISH VESSEL ORDERED TO AFRICA—TENT H Pace, (A GERMAN ARCHBISHOP DECLINES A CANDI- DAOY FOR THE R&ICHSTAG—BRITISH PRO- MOTION TO THE PEERAGE—TENTH Pace. MINCEPTION OF ANOTHER MEXICAN REVOLU- TION! THE MAYOR AND 14 CITIZENS OF MATAMORAS WOUNDED AND THE ELEC- TION JUDGES DISPERSED—TextH Pace. \A BOSEATE REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL FI- NANCIAL STATUS! SPECIAL WASHINGTON ITEMS—Texrs Pace. WOCTRINAL DISSERTATIONS FROM THE PUL- PITS YESTERDAY ON THE GREAT WORK } AND PROUD RECOMPENSE OF THE DEAD SCIENTIST, AGASSIZ, AND ON CUBAN SLAVERY AND PURITAN TIMES AND MAN- NERS! SAVAGE ATTACK UPON THE PAPACY—EicuTa Pace. WOME RULE! THE IRISH NATIONAL AGITA- TION REVIEWED—A GHASTLY INQUISI- y TION—THIRD Pace. MATTAN RULE! WHICH SHALL BE SPARED, THE ROD OR THE CHILD? THE BARBAR- OUS PRACTICE FAWORED BY 1,200 TEACHERS—THE “SATURDAY REVILER” ON NEW YORK POLITICS AND MORALS— THIRD PaGE. pacirto SLOPE POLITICS! THE NEW CALI- " FORNIA SENATOR! THE DOLLY VAR- DENS! GOLDEN REASONS FOR SUCCESS a USED BY THE RAILWAY MONOPOLISTS, va BUT WITHOUT AVAIL—SrxTH PaGE. {NDIA’S FOOD SUPPLY AND THE IMPENDING FAMINE—THE NEW AMERICAN SATIRICAL STORY—MORE FACTS ABOUT THE MID- OCEAN HORROR—SIXTH PAGE. bay, Somm Rewer ror THE SrcRETaRY oF THE x seems to be coming from the foreign olders of the loan of 1868. According the report from Washington the holders of bonds abroad have signified their readi- t accept the new five per cents in e for what they hold of the loan of If this be so Mr. Richardson will be ble to hold corresponding amount of gold hich he would have been called upon to pay it for the redemption of this loan. Besides, it would be a cheap transaction, no syndicate Jooing necessary to make the exchange and to 8 profit out of ity ‘Phe Secretory of the ry, after all, may not be in such straightened circumstances as he se) 1 to Fear, ‘ Truwmes oy rue Kaiser or GEermany.—A special despatch to the Henaup from States, on applitation of the Legislature of such State—or of the Executive, if the Legislature cannot be convened—to call forth j his mind than his notion of his public duty, we do not see but what he may at almost any time get up a disturbance sufficient to enable him to call out troops and upset the government of any State in the Union in the name of the law. And what would happen then? Could ho get representatives accepted in Congress from a State government of his own creation? This would depend altogether upon the extent to which he had been able to secure to his inter- ests a Congress of salary stealers by an adroit use of the public plunder. If the majority of a legislative body values itself only at the sum of the salary grab it is not beyond the reach of an Executive who has the spending of our present enormous estimates. But the case then might fall into the Supreme Court—and the issue there would probably depend upon whether the Executive had previously secured the place of Chief Justice for one of his Cabi- net officers—the one, say, that had conceived all the legal operations for the onslaught in the first place on the State government. This is a speculation that is somewhat suggestive and, unfortunately—in these times of enormous corruption aud general official indifference to everything but personal aggrandizement—the possibilities it. contemplates do not seem remote. The principles of the constitutional argument on this subject are, of course, the same, whoever and whatever may be the per- son in whose case they apply; but, though it does not change the principles, it must neces- sarily provoke reflection on the moral degrada- tion of the subject that the endeavor to per- vert constitutional right and propriety, ina partisan sense, is made in the interest of a negro sharper of the worst imaginable stamp—clearly one of the most pitiful creatures brought to the surface in our South- ern troubles—one of the nameless reptiles cast in to make thick and slab the infernal cal- dron of reconstruction politics, It is bad | enough that the President should, for any man or any party, sustain a case against Con- gress outside of the powers of his office ; but that ho should do this in the interest of such a creature as the oge before the Senate is shameful and infamous. The Virginius—Conflicting Reports. ‘We have the news from Washington (Asso- ciated Press) that upon evidence furnished by "On Bucha Decisions in ‘Court. It is impossible tq, overestimate the value of Buchu decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States. Twenty years ago the famous Buchu case of Dred Scott came before that august tribunal, and the opinion of the Court will be found an excellent model for Chief Justice Buchu. It will be a long time before men can forget the underlying principle of that famous decision—the black man has no rights which his white brother is bound to re- spect. And history will never allow the annals of its consequences to fail of repetition. White freemen were turned into pursuers of every black bondman who tried to escape from his master, so that even men who cared not whether alavery existed were made its bitter foes by means of their own humiliation. Thus the two sections of the country were brought into conflict, and, after a terrible war, which raged for five years, the Buchu judg- ment was overturned in the conquest of the South, and all the chaos and Ku Klux and misrule and federal tyranny which followed were only the corollary of the agitation and se- cession and civil war and fearful agonies which had gone before. A single Buchu de- cision did what a thousand abolition conven- tions could not accomplish. When Chief Justice Buchu takes his place at the head of the Court we may expect some equally blessed judgments. In a sphere less distinguished than the one he is about to occupy he has already given ample proofs of his capabilities in this direction. He will not ‘be long on the Bench before we may expect him to declare that democratic State govern- ments, chosen by & majority of the people, have no rights which republican ‘politicians are bound to respect. Whata noble judg- ment this will be, and how the country will receive it with acclaim! No more trouble from democratic politicians, but safety in Buchu judgments and Buchu courts. This will, indeed, be the height of glory of the Buchu age when the Buchu. principle in law, in finance, in politics and in government shall have its full fruition. Everybody -will be the Supreme happy and Chief Justice Buchu will become the idol of his country, for his labors will not stop with his enunciation of this beneficent principle. | the Spanish government, submitted by the President to the Attorney General for his opin- ion, Mr. Williams has given the opinion that | the steamer Virginius, at the time of her cap- ture, had forfeited the right to carry the flag of the United Stateg; that accordingly our government will institute an inquiry and enter into proceedings against the Virginius and against the parties deemed to be guilty of illegal acts in reference to the nation- ality of the ship. It appears further that as, in the opinion of the Attorney General, the Virginius at the time of her cap- ture had no right to carry the United States flag, the special salute provided to be given it on the 25th inst. by Spain will be dispensed with; but our government will expect a dis- claimer from Madrid of any intentional in- dignity to our flag in the Spanish outrages connected with the Virginius. It further appears that from the evidence submitted by Spain the clearance papers of the Virginius such number of the militia of any other State or States as he may judge sufficient to sup- press such insurrection.’’ Here the President is authorized to ‘‘call out the militia” in a certain contingency and for a certain purpose, which scarcely gives him that liberal author- ity for the setting up and knocking down of governments and determining their legal exis- tence which appears to be claimed. It, in- deed, merely authorizes him to put in motion the machinery for applying military force to the settlement of domestic troubles, and does not even declare that he shall direct the use of the force. Congress seems, however, to have given to the President just such a vague antecedent right as the constitution gave to Congress; for, in authorizing him to act on the application of a State Execu- tive, it leaves him to determine where were obtained by perjury. Per contra, we have a special Henatp de- spatch from Washington, from which it ap- pears that the right of the Virginius to carry the flag of the United States is fully estab- lished, and that such is the judgment of the administration. Our special correspondent, too, submits the evidence required to support his case, and presents it with an array of facts and specifications which seem to be eonelusive. However, as there is no knowing what may be the conclusions of Mr. Fish from one hour to another, we submit these conflicting reports without further re- mark, until we learn whether he or the Attor- ney General has decided the question of the nationality of the Virginius. ‘Tae Castrmas Poon.—The poor ye have always. with ye. Yes; and that is the the executive power resides in any given case. | reason we think we can attend to them But it was doubtless assumed that this power | at any time. Consequently they seldom could always be limited and controlled, as it | get attended to at all. Yet there is some- must practically be exercised in the presence | thing particularly graceful in remembering of Congress, which could, if needful, with- draw the authority it had bestowed. Congress is the competent judge of the validity of a State government, and it reaches the subject by its action on the credentials of members, If Congress accepts Representa- tives and Senators the State from which they come has the sanction and guarantee of the nation to the existence of its government ; and so long as Congress refuses to admit mem- bers from any particular State, with, the cer- tificates of any particular so-called govern- ment, all other recognitions are without con- stitutional value. Congress has a double authority in its action on credentials. It may reject members absolutely, and simply as the expression of its opinion that only a usurped or fraudulent power exists in the States from which they come. In this case it does not scrutinize an election or similar proceeding; it simply refuses to countenance some notorious transaction like the employment of troops to put in power an obnoxious faction. It denies that there is any legal government, and therefore logically refuses to contemplate the possibility of cer- tificates, since whatever papers may be put forth by a knot of usurpers those papers are not certificates of election. In another sense the poor at such an hour as this, when the evergreen is adorning every parlor. It is to be doubted whether a large proportion of the gay shoppers who throng our stores and streets realize how much wretchedness and want abound. Behind each of these dazzling edifices, somewhere in the background, rises a phantom-like tenement house, thronged with an impoverished host. Fraud, lies, violence, imposture of all kinds there may be; but at the bottom we come to much human misery unalleviated by hope. It would be well to bear these facts in mind at a season when all the world is supposed to be gay. There is no fear that a sensitiveness to poor people’s sor- rows will interfere too much with our pleas- tres. Prosperous human beings are not con- structed upon that principle. It will do no gift-maker harm to temper his generosity with | charity, and, while he gives to those who are able to make a handsome return, to give even more freely to those from whom he can expect nothing. A Cuance Propasty ror Our Gratx Grow- Ens and Surppers.—The telegraphic news from Calcutta represents a great want of food in Bengal. One-half the supply in the prov- ince had been exhausted, and itis believed a famine cannot be averted. ‘The Bengalese Congress acts on credentials in the authority of each Honse to judge of the qualifications of its members—by which authority it may go into the case and review the action of the Executive. It is, therefore, fully in the exer- cise of its right that the Senate refuses to ac- knowledge the prima facie validity of the cer- tifieate from New Orleans, and it is to be Werlin announces the illness of the Em- peror William, which, to judge from the ports at Court to conceal its true extent, Ynust be of an alarming character. A stroke pf apoplexy at the verge of eighty years of age, ino matter how slight it may be, cannot fail bo shake even the stalwart form of this re- Suarkabie soldiermonarch. The consequences of his death at this time would likely be _ Berious, as the antipathy of the old Jencker party, with whom the Crown Prince is @ffiliated, to Bismarck is well known, A hange of policy in respect to the Church might be expected, and the unrelent- course of the great statesman who has ided the destinies of the Empire under its present chief would probably give way to more ‘moderate views. hoped that it will thoroughly sift tho subject. That seems to be our only chance to get at it, for though perhaps the validity of one live, it is trne, mostly upon rice or other cheap food, and have little means with which to purchase high priced food ;. still, from our abundance of flour, corn and corn meal, we might find a market in India for a portion of these products. Outgoing vessels in the China and India trade might carry such freight cheaply. We throw out the hint to onr mer- chants for their consideration. Mextoan Riot wMatamonas.—The officiat or another government in a State might | declaration of the mayoralty election poll for be tried by the Supreme Court, on the refusal | the office of chief magistrate of Matamoras, of the citizen of another State to acknowledge | which was to have been pronounced yesterday, the action with regard to his property of a | was prevented by the sudden inception of a pretended government, there secms little like- | regular old time Mexican political muss, lihood of our reaching any definite principles | which terminated in o free fight and the on this subject in that direction. wounding of some fifteen persons. Huh- Altogether this part of our constitutional | dreds of shots were exchanged between the law is not very satisfactory, seeing what | partisans of the rival candidates, General queer results it may have in operation | Cortina and J. Trevifio Canales. ‘The present and how lightly the obligations of official | Mayor appears to have run off with the duty seem to sit on some minds, If | ballots, without announcing the decision of our national Executive should ever hap- | the tering ay yom troops hold to be a whose disposition to serve | possession the town i! is feast. or hist ola sty influence over | national government is not friendly ” He will have equally splendid opportunities in other directions. For instance, he can become the protector of Christian soldiers like General Howard and Christian statesmen like Schuyler Colfax by the application of his peculiar principle to all questions arising out of the ‘Buchu Bureau for Freedmen and Free Funds” and the ‘Crédit Mobilier of the Buchu Pacific Railroad.’ What a noble Christmas and Other Sermon.’ Tho inspiration of this holy season seen. 8 to havo filled Mr. Beecher with o grand co’ ception of Christ as a personal Saviour, in’ which light he presented the Lord Jesus yes- terday to his congregation. Recognizing that ® personal God and Saviour is the great need of mankind, and individual contact with Him the promise and the completeness of our faith and hope, the great preacher asked some very practical questions and suggested partial explanations of religious decline, which is so’ much deplored in these days. Intense per- sonal love of the Lord Jesus Christ is not, Mr. Beecher thinks, » characteristic of our Christianity to-day. To o great many Christ is a neighbor, but an abiding guest with comparatively few. And Mr. Beecher thinks this relationship is due, im great measure, if not wholly due, to the legal and philo- sophical teaching of Ohrist which is so constantly kept before the people. What men really want is not so much Christ in His relation to government, to history or to theology as in his relation to each individual soul, As Mr. Beecher very characteristically put it:—‘When Christ is presented to me I want Him—not a multiplication table. I won't say how can three be one, and one three?” That is the case in a nutshell. If men would take Christ first this ‘‘multiplica- tion table’ might be learned afterward without much difficulty. What Christ is to each in- dividual is the starting point in each one’s career, and while men are starving: for this spiritual nourishment Mr. Beecher thinks, as wo think, that it is cruel to offer them our creeds and theories and forms of Church gov- ernment instead of that personal Saviour who alone can satisfy the longings of their souls. And what a grand thing it would be if Mr. Beecher’s own ministry had more of the personal Christ in- it than it has! And the same remark may apply to too many of our preachers of to-day. The Rev. H. D. Northrop saw, as it wore in a vision, the expanding and incoming king- dom of Christ, and, as he beheld, the world seemed too small for the King or His kingdom, and we have but a faint realization of the wonderful influence that Christ exerts in the world. The metropolis stands in the street when Jesus of Nazareth passes by. Princes go out to meet Him, and kings of the earth come to see the brightness of His rising. This Christ, whose coming into the world eighteen hundred years ago we now commemorate, has shown more power here than all of earth's heroes, conquerors or poets. He overtops them all,,and we must bury history before we can call the Bible a fable. The Impending Famine in Bengal. From a general failure of the crops, partiou- larly of the rice crop, in the province of Ben- gal, in the heart of British India, forty mille Nons of people aro on the verge of a terrible fagine, according to a letter from a Hunan corriependent at Calcutta. It will bo seen, however; that the British authorities, fully apprised of the impending calamity, era actively preparing to meet it, and though it is feared that hundreds of thousands of destitute people must perish, and that a destrastive pestilence, as im Persian, may accomp&ny the famine, it is Ianily possible that the fatality from these causes avn be so frightfal in the basin of the Gangesas it was in the scattered arable districts of théPersian deserts, With- out navigable rivers, without railromds, and hemmed in on all gides by lofty mountains; without any foreign trade to speak of, with ita inhabited patches widely sepasated from \each other by burning deserts, with its prodi'ving classes, in the best of seasons,, living frm hand to mouth, under the pressure of perhaps the worst govertiment in the world, and undin the terrors of countless roving bands of bers, the wonder is, not that Persia from its late famine and pestilence lost two or three millions? of its ten millions of people, but that half ites population was not swept away. That vast> and populous region now known as British’ India, on the othor hand, famous in all ages’ as ono of the most fertile and fruitful regions of the globe, intersected by navigable stteams and by railways, and, under the rule of Eng- land, made more productive than ever before, unless visited by 9 famine covering mont of the rice-producing area of the country, cannot suffer as Persia has suffered from » failure of the crops for one or two seasons. ‘The dis- tricts which have a surplus of rico or wheat - at good prices will come to the relief of those which have exhausted their short supplies; and yet an exhausted province, which con- sumes twenty thousand tons of rice every day, will require immense shipments and’ skilful distribution to prevent a fearful mortality among its people. The London Economist says that the reports of this impending famine in Bengal which have been coming in since the first alarm was sounded “havo crystallized into a convi¢tion that a calamity without a parallel in thehis- tory of British India must fall upon the most populous and most helpless-province’’ of that Empire, and that it may seriously affect the revenues of England. It is well that the British authorities on the ground are prepar- ing for the emergency, for otherwise famine and pestilence in Bengal may be followed by The joy and happiness that came into th meatiny pnd-anon Aaah ear judicial aphorism he can announce if Con- gress should undertake to punish the one- armed hero,of a thousand prayer meetings for setting free one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars of the public money in the name of the freedmen! And Oakes Ames’ bungling remark about putting the C. M. stock where it would do most good would get a new significance if Chief Justice Buchu should de- cide that the first duty of a public corporation is to organize a sub-corporation for the purpose of buying Congresses and Congressmen. Yet all these grand achievements may be looked upon, even after their accomplishment, as only the beginning of the good time coming. Other results more grand and glorious than any that have ever been attained may be in store for the country from the hands of Chief Justice Buchu. If he had been in office when Andrew Johnson was impeached for opposing the dominant party a factious President would have been punished for daring to have views of public policy not sanctioned by the leading republican politicians. Ifa democrat should ever again be President Chief Justice Buchu will see to it that the necessary High Court of Impeachment shall not be presided over by a man at all favorable to the accused. Chief Justice Buchu will himself preside, and he can see no virtue in any except republican officials. This distinguished man sustained the repub- lican usurpers in Louisiana upon his own in- spiration. There is no need that he should listen to demoeratic lies in order to arrive at ® fair judgment; and, not being much of a lawyer, it is unnecessary, asa judge, that he should hear much law. All that will be req- uisite in a Chief Justice of such exceptional intuitions will be the knowledge as to which side of a controversy is most strongly impreg- nated with Buchu, and a fair and honorable , Buchu decision will settle the matter. We! congratulate the country upon the prospects , of the coming judicial rulings and respect- 4 fully suggest that the new volumes of deci--( sions be called ‘‘The Buchu Reporte of the Su- preme Conrt.’’ Organized Charity, Everybody who wants to de good “ae the poor will. be glad to learn that a. wise Sand earnest attempt has heen mode A= organize private charity and give its practical appli- cation, outside of the jurisdiction of the Com- missioners of Public Charities and Correc- tion., A committee of nine, of vihom Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is chairman, and who: were appointed by the Bureau of, Charity, , recently accepted the task of organizing the charities of this city and’ of compiling and publishing a charity directory. That com- mittee have already succeeded in establishing a Bureau of Charities at No. 66.Third avenue, at the headquarters of the Commissioners of Public Charities. From this point they pro- pose to give information. upon all matters re- lating to the proper channels for benevolence in this city. The committee request every charitable association in this city, of whatever name or nature, to give the full name and resi- dence of every person receiving relief, and.to give full and exact information in regard: to the title of such association, the date of its foundation, its locality, the names of its officers, the fact of its being incorporated or not, its object, the kind of sid given, which sex it supports or whether it snpporta both, what age it favors in those whom it relieves, its discriminations in regard to nationality, religion or color, its aceommoda- tions, the number of its actual inmates, the number of families it has relieved at their homes, the amount of relief given, the num- ber of friendless and homeless aided, the re- sources of the institution, its annual receipts and its annual expenditures. The object of this committee isa very noble one. Its ex- istence is its own best advertisement, and the strongest words we can apeak in its favor are those in ita intentions and ‘ero hs rey oboe it world when Jesus came, and the joy that Tae Cupan Stave-Owners AND THE Ingvi- comes-to every Christian home and heart on | raszz.—A Henatp correspondent telegraphe « every returning anniversary of His birth—these | from Havana the points of an interview he were the special thoughts to which the Rev. | had with Sefior Zulucta, the great slave lord Mr. Cheney directed attention yesterday. | of the island of Ouba, who has browbeaten so Everybody feels better at Christmas: time. | many Captains Genoral in his day. Tho sub- Even the storm seems beautiful, and the | ject discussed was the abolition of slavery, snow flakes strike one’s face with a thrill. | and the President of the Casino was found Christmas forces us to recognize the fact that | raising his voice in apceptance of the wish of there are others in the world beside ourselves. | the home government. Naturally the slave- There is more jcy and music and content- | owners desire a ‘‘gradual plan,’ which means ment in this season than in any other, and | thatthe slave labor may be secured to them old and young can hail Jesus as the harbinger | for yet a fow years. They are well aware that of peace and hope. e the sentiment of civilization is strongly Bishop Potter took up similar train of | against them, but if they can defer the actual thought and exhorted his hearers to. ‘rejoice | fact of abolition fora year -or two they will in the Lord always,” and in the language of St. | have:all that time to work for the overthrow Paul assured them that if they did this the | of the Republic, which is the only Spanish peace of God would keep their hearts. The | govesmment that would interfere with prop- Church at this season puts on her robes of | erty in human flesh. Castelar holds the slave- rejoicing and repeats the apostle’s suggestion— | uwners now between 'a cross fire and should “Rejoice alwaya:’’ But the strength and en- } compel abolition before he leta them go, couragement necessary toenable us to do this ian eae BE a oe mast come fee, Con Seay, Cemestt, BOE | see atieae we. publish ad cetinieeeiel ama tained in nature. They do not reside in our + surroundings ; we must have help from above. number of the Saturday Review on our muni- : . aii cipal.misgovernment. The enterprise of this pre read rected the minds of Bel will be: sppreciatedwiiaa qe’ ane ‘ae fathers’ > bered r, | nOunce that it is the first to publish the intel- Priam fl "Vistorical pido gence of the suicide.of the late Judge George the Puritan spirit, which he was glad had ina | 9 measure passed away, so that instead of the Way rae Viz pv Havar Was Lost—Be- sternness of the Mosaic law which they mani- | cange she put her helm to starboard instead of fested in their lives we have the Gospel law of to port. love. The Rev. W. T. Clarke also touched on ROMER MEMES the same thing, but went a little more into the PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. historic details than Mr. Frothingham. The :] lifted Agassiz to 9 plane with thinkers, but it General N. P. Banks yesterday arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Indge E. C. Billings, of New Orleans, is at the lesson that he gathered from the career of “the Puritans in America” was a lesson of ‘Yoith in ideas and fidelity to truth. Fitth Avenue Hotel. Dr. Fulton drew from the life and labors of | Congressman H. H. Hathors, of Saratoga, is stay- pada nipricsead paca elie Pos Boddy, of Alabama, is registered. £ ., 3 ner: De G for parents in regard to the training of chil- ka the Pith Avene Hotel, dren and for young men in respect to the pur- | “surveyor General A. J. Smith, of Montana, ta suit of knowledge, and for all the truth that | quartered at the Hoffman House. unto those who strive to develop that which is State Senator ©. H. Adams, of Cohoes, N. Y., im within them God will increase and multiply registered at the Coleman House. i sae. Congressman W. H. H. Stowell, of Virginia, haw . mental and moral gifts. It was thinking that afrived at the Fifth Avenae Hotel, United States Senator 8. W. Dorsey, of Arkangas, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel., Congressman Lyman Tremain, of Albany, has arrived at the Gilsey Honse from Washington. Congressman Isaac RB. Sherwood is at the St. was the self-sacrifice, the economy and the self-denial practised in the parsonage at Ober. that gave him his start. He wee loyel.to God and God was true to him. | xscnoias Hotel, on the way to his.nome in Ohi And hence Dr. Fulton concludes that “it Nreehaser James Harlan, of Iowa, now aie! ‘ pays to love and honor God." Dr. Wild also | dent of Washington, is sgain at the Windsor Hotel. eulogized the deceased scientist—‘‘one of our Congressional Delegate George Q. Cannen, of, . greatest benefactors.’’ Dr. Wild was personally reg among the “big guns” at the St, Nicholas 4 sequainted with the late Professor, and knew Sefior-Piedrahita has been appointed by Prest him to be “a true, brave-hearted, honest- | qent Garcia Moreno Minister Plenipotentiary of” minded Christian gentleman, who worked. his | Ecuadgr to Peru. izeligion into every scientific exploration and | _Mesérs. James G. De Forest and F. 11. Davies, of \discovery.”” this city, have Esti at the Grand National Hotels! ‘ ‘ ' jacksonville, Fla, ’ The Rev. Mr. Miel, an ex-priest, while mepalted States Senaton: A. H.,Cragia, of New denouncing Romanism and pleading ‘or aid | fampshtre, has returned to the Westmoreland y ifor his Episcopal mission in this city, admit- | Hotel, where his family have been residing during ‘ted the ability of the Jesuits, against whom | the session of Congress. ‘ his arrows were directed. ‘The Ohinese teacher, Liu, has beon engaged ta, Py atone tay 1 RN sep Ren proceed to, Paris to draw up and classify a cates Eunorran Man, Conrracts.—A hearing | logue ratsonnée of the our soe and MSS, im lati j] | the library of the University o! ris, Hace ai bat bir ene sin be paseo ie pr Rapier of Valparaiso invites all Chileana, service ig term of fifteen months and foreigners residing in the Repubiic to get up’ took place before the Postmaster General at a snbecription for the purposo of erecting a statue Washington on Saturday last. The rival lines | ot, pronze to Mr. William Wheelwright, the frst wore heard by counsel and petitions in favor | trojector Lose came piitevrkon 7 rey . lerbert Spencer ve of the several, companies were Tread. It ap- heen tilting. Herbert says that William has made ‘ pearing that prominent parties had signed for himself the “champion (or exponent) of ant *y the same service for different companies, the { geenttfic views,” referring most particularly to the theory of evolution. William replies that he has Postmaster General only “took the papers” and reserved his decision. The contracts wild, therefore, not be made forthe present, In the meantime, and in the absence of any rygu- lar lines of fast American steamers, it iv to be hoped that the Postmaster General will select for the transmission of our Europear, mails “no repugnance to any conclusions whatever legit imately arising upon well ascertuined facts or wel tested reasonings,” but only complains that the fonctions of the Almighty are denied upon grounda which appear to him utterly end manifestly insui-) cient to warrant auch denial. Mr. Kdward Brown, of Nottingham, Fngland, recently took the pledge, A pawnbroker’s clerk bys eracsteanciés a ye helped towards ‘the good end,” and #0 did two to the requirements of the law—that: is, those mysterious men. These mon entéred the pawn which best falfil the required conditions—to | omce, and having put a large bundle on the wit, speed, seourity and certairity. The less | counter ran away. Tho pasate fan to the @oor shown 8 importa and moaned. This was remarkadle tor a bundle, en ms Taare ~ ee and Mr, Cox became inquisitive. He opened the. eos Redibipe sn: 4 package and found Mr. Brown in it and drank, better it will be for the public generally on both gides of the Atlantic, — protection against practical jokers, - Brown the next morning tOOK the vietge ae