The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1874, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —————: Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ene ES OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston, and | Hlegeker streets — OXBRIEL GRUB at 8PM; closes ot LP. M. Majilton- Raynor Family. arian BROOKLYN PARK THBATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—JOBN GARTH, at 8 P. MM. ; closes at 11 P.M, Mass Annie Firmin, Mr. John Jack. BOWERY THEATRE, ] ony e-_upeia a: SP. M.; closes at 11:15. Miss ae METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 885 Broadway. —V AR. ENTRAINMENT, at 7:45 P.M; closes at 10:50 2. M. NIBLO'S GARDE! Prince and Houston streets. — JENKINS and THE BELLES OF Opens at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. . Letingwell ROMBO JA: THE KIie Voues Family, ‘Broadway, Rage ER Nat HUSBAND TO “Bre er ie street. —| § S CRORE, Bt 2PM; cloves at 430 PM, STREGTS OF ANEW YORK, ar 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P. ai. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Bi avenue and Twenty-third street—HUMPTY D by — at 7:45 PO M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. ‘Ok. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—MAN AND WIFE, ers POM. 5c ati P.M. Mr. Harkins, Miss Ada Dyas, MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, “Washington street, Brooklyn.—LITTLK SUNSHINE, at 8 P.M; closes at 1] P. Mo Miss Lilian Conway. WALLACK’S THEATRE, _ Broadway and Thirteenth stree.—A MAN OF HONOR, at8 P. M.; closes at 1050 P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Annie Del: BOOTH’S THEATRE, ‘Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street —KIT; OR, THE “ARKANSAS TRAVELLER, at 7:45 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. F. S Chanfrau, Miss Bella Pateman. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Yo. 20 Bowery. VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. . 5 closes at 11 P, M. BRYANT'S OPERA biped CINDER. third street, corner of Sixth aventue.—CINDER- gieain BLACK, NBGRO MINSTRELSY, ac., at 8 P. + closes at 10 P.M. a ROBINSON BALL, ‘ixteenth street.—MAGICAL ENTERTAINMENT AND AUGHING GAS, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. meer Fatays Ni THE PIL- Great Jones street, corner fayette place. —' P) Ghia, Avs. Moy closes at 9:30PM. ‘No. 68 Brosdway.- El a THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY ‘To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN! REACTION AGAINST THE REPUBLIC"’—LEADER— Fourra Pace. BPAIN’'S REVOLUTIONARY UPHEAVAL! THE OVERTHROW OF THE CASTELAR PEACE GOVERNMENT AND SUBSTITUTION OF MILITARY RULE IN MARSHAL SERRANO AND GENERAL PAVIA! PERSONNEL OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION ! DESPERATE ASSAULT UPON CARTAGENA BY THE GOVERNMENT FORCES! FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS AND THE ISSUE DOUBT- FUL—FirTH Pace. x FISH'S FUOLING! THE DIPLOMATIC HUMILIA- TION TO WHICH AMERICA WAS SUB- JBCTED IN THE VIRGINIUS CASE! WHAT WAS DEMANDED AND CONCEDED IN MADRID, BUT LOST THROUGH STATE DE- PARTMENT SHUFFLING! HERALD ENTER- PRISE FULLY ESTABLISHED! GENERAL SICKLES’ RESIGNATION—FIFTH Pace. BUTCHER BURRIEL ON “SPANISH HONOR"— SAVED FROM THE SEA—SixTH PacE. AMINE IN A RUSSIAN PROVINCE ON THE VOLGA! THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT THE RESIDENCE OF HIS FIANCEE—FirTu PaGE. THE SINKING OF THE VILLE DU HAVRE DE- CLARED BY THE FRENCH COURT OF IN- QUIRY TO HAVE BEEN OWING TO BAD MANAGEMENT ON THE LOCH EARN! CAP- TAIN SURMONT EULOGIZED—Firru Pas. SUPREME COURT CIRCUS! WILLIAMS, THE CLOWN, DECLARED TO BE THE GREATEST JUMPER TO CONCLUSIONS AND SURMOUNTER OF ADVERSE FACTS THAT THE AGE HAS PRODUCED! MORE RED-HOT BOLTS FRUM THE AMERICAN PRESS—TuIRD Pac. NEWEST “NEW DEPARTURE” POLITICAL- LY! COMPENSATING THE SOUTH FOR ITS 2 FREED SLAVES! GRAND NAVAL MUSTER OFF KEY WEST—TENtTuw Pace. 4& REMARKABLE MURDER TRIAL IN POMERA- NIA! PECULIAR MODE OF TRACING THE CRIMINAL! TORTURING GYPSY HAGS INTO CONFESSIONS AND THEN WHIPPING THEM FOR LYING—SixTH Pace. CHURCH SERVICES YESTERDAY! BISHOP CUM- MINS INAUGURATES THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL PUBLIC WORSHIP! EMINENT CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT DIVINES PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF THE NEW YEAR—EiGHTH Pace, SPICY DISHES OF LONDON NEWS GOSSIP! THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND MR. PAD- WICK! THE GREAT FOG SEASON! VAN- TTY FAIR—THiRD PaGE. THE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN WALL STREET! PERILS OF INFLATION! SOUTH- ERN SECURITIES—OLD CATHOLIC BISHOP REINKINS’ PASTORAL—NINTH PaGE. Tae Rereencement Tarx at WasnIncton has set all the office-holders, lobby agents and others who went to raid upon the Treasury in @ flutter. Cutting down estimates and expen- ditares is always unpopular in that locality. Tho swarms of employés of the government are alarmed, and the heads of depart- ments. do not like to give up their patronage. Then Congressmen cannot en- Gure the idea of an empty Treasury, for almost every one has some scheme to draw ‘pon it Nothing but a deficiency in the reve- nue and the fear of imposing fresh taxes and consequent displeasure of the people would force » reduction of estimates and expendi- tures. _ A New Daxorr Anmp—In the various schemes projected for financial relief to the Southern States. If we may credit the rumor from Washington there is the danger that some one of these relief schemes may enter a @ew Presidential movement for the Southern ‘vote. “If wo have such things in the green tree what shall we have in the dry?" Dom Qurrore anp Sancho Panza—Don Emilio Castelar and Mr. Fish, The knight bas lost his fight with the windmills, and the squire is in a quandary. A Bros Frew ror Rernencument—In he expenses of oar Indian peace eatablish- | canism HERALD The Revolution in Spain—Reaction Against the Republic. It will be seen by the despatches from Ma- rid, published in another part of the paper, that the revolution in Spain, which com- menced by the deposition of Castelar and the dissolution of the Cortes on Saturday, has resulted so far in the formation of a new Min- istry, with Serrano as President. , The two separate votes in the Cortes on Saturday against the Castelar government, as published yesterday in our despatches from Madrid, show the fixed purpose of the opposition to set aside the brilliant victor and to effect a revolution. The majority on the final vote sgainst Castelar was twenty— that is, one hundred and twenty to a hundred. This was decisive enough. Seldom in that land of revolutions has one been carried out more promptly and thoroughly. Immediately the vote was an- nounced a military dictator, General Pavia, sent an officer to the Chamber witha letter demanding the immediate dissolution of the Cortes, Oertain Deputies, and principally Salmeron, urged the continuance of Castelar’s power, but this was impracticable and in- effectual. The revolution was a foregone conclusion. General Pavia, in true Crom- wellian style, caused the municipal guards to enter the palace of the Cortes and to expel the members. He with his staff at the same time held a position outside, and had cannon pointed at the building. Of course there was no constitutional authority for such action. Tt was simply military dictatorship, It has been said that General Pavia was the friend of Castelar. If so, he might have thought that he would uphold Castelar by such a military coup d'élat, But Castelar is not made of the stuff to defy the Cortes and to become a dictator. Indeed, looking at the difficulties of his position and the hostile feel- ing he entertained, in common with Serrano and others, to the intransigentes, he may have welcomed the change. Liberal as his views are he is an intense Spaniard and patriot, and would, no doubt, rather see a moderate reaction than the success of either the intransigentes or Carlists. If republican- ism, according to his theory, be not possible he would ;probably rather have the monarchy under Alfonso than Don Carlos or the extreme federal republicans. In any other country the dissolution of the supreme elective body by a general of the army and the organization of a new Ministry at the point of the sword, or the assumption of power by eight or nine men calling them- selves the government, would be considered an extraordinary revolution; but in Spain all that is regarded simply asa game of politics and asa matter of course. This improvised or self-constituted Ministry of Serrano— for he is the President and controlling man—has some liberal elements in it as lib- eralism is understood in Spain. Some of the members have been even called radicals. Spanish radicalism is different, however, from that of some other countries. It is not even anti-monarchicel. A radical in Spain is not necessarily a republican, and generally is not one. We must not suppose, therefore, that any assurance is given of the perpetuation of the Republic, or that any efforts will be made to perpetuate it. Serrano is an astute politician, and has been prudent enough in the composition of a Ministry not to shock the public by too great and too sudden a change. He begins the teaction against republicaniam and for the monarchy in a temporizing and moderate way. Should this Ministry not be subservient to his purpose he can remodel or change it alto- gether. He, in fact, is the real power, and has both ability and courage to accomplish his object. * It may be said that we are anticipating events, and that Serrano possibly may en- deavor to establish the Republic. There is nothing in the antecedents and well-known views of this chief to justify such an opinion. Though he has been a revolutionist in over- turning a government in which he had no part and to which he was inimical, he was not a tepublican and has been at heart always a@ monarchist. He has ambition enough to aspire to supreme power himself, and might prefer holding on to that to placing Alfonso on the throne; but he may not venture so far. The chances are that Serrano will be another Warwick—will be the kingmaker and the power behind the throne. It is generally un- derstood that he favors the ascendancy of Alfonso, the son of Isabella. In view of the formidable rebellion of the intransigentes, Car- lists and Cubans, the terrible disorganization of Spain and the necessity of a vigorous military power, the re-establishment of the monarchy may be deemed necessary. Some evidence of this is given in the telegrams from Madrid, if anything from that place can be relied upon just now, for it is said the chief civil and military authorities of most of the provinces in communication with the capital have telegraphed their approval of the coup d'éat of Gen- eral Pavia. True, the transmission of private telegrams has been suspended and the government reports only what it pleases, and every point in Madrid is occupied by the military. The revolution, though complete so far, has only commenced as regards the future of Spain. Undoubtedly the restoration of monarchy is contemplated, but that may be accomplished only through much bloodshed and @ prolonged civil war. Nor is it likely that could last long. Spain, from one end to the other, is upheaved bya political and moral earthquake. With regard to this revolution in Spain we have a despatch from Washington ‘showing that the administration is diplomatically sor- rowful, or pretends to be so, at the fall of Castelar. It was not supposed, it is said, that the Castelar government would be of long duration, and s change was expected, but not in the manner shown by the news from Madrid) How won- derfally sagacious our government is! How far-seeing our State Department! The American people cannot have forgotten that it is only s few days since confidence was expressed in the Castelar gov- ernment and since Secretary Fish sacrificed the honor of the country and claims of hu- manity in order, ds pretended, to sustain Coatelar andy the Spanish Republic. That was the whole argument used to justify the most shamefal surrender in the Virginius affair. The Republic of Ouba, republi- on American soil, the slavery the imsult to our fing, tho History ef the Virgintus Herald Despatches. Now that the case of the Virginius ia added to the contents of that limbo of diplomatic fail- ures which our government has done so much to fill, ita history, so far as known, presents one point of no little interest to the readers of newspapers. It will be generally remembered by the public that every important point in the progress of the remarkable negotiation with Spain was first given to the public in the Hesaxp special despatches either from Madrid or Washington ; and, farther, that the de- spatches on this subject, as soon as published by us, were denied by other papers, the denials being commonly given out as made upon the seizure of a vessel bearing that, and, no doubt, Case—The entitled to bear it, the horrible murder of our citizens, and all the other outrages of Spanish power of which we had to complain, were a8 nothing compared with Castelar’s claims to the sympathy and support of Secretary Fish. What hypocrisy! What a disgraceful at- tempt to deceive the American people! There was no prospect of Castelar es- tablishing a republic in Spain, and the administration must have known it Of course an effort will be made now to smooth over the diplomatic fraud. We shall hear now, no doubt, of great hope in whatever government may be established in Spain, even if it be a monarchy—shall hear a great deal of friendly relations, of expectations and the like, simply and only because the adminis- tration has not the courage to demand what is right and to face the Cuban question. We learn that the friends of the government in Congressional and Executive circles express fear that the events in Spain may delay promised reforms in Cuba and prevent nego- tiations for the pacification of the island and | false, that they never were received over the the protection of American interests. . This we | wires, that they never came frém Madrid, regard as merely a sop for the public. Serrano, | and that they were invented in this office. Alfonso or whoever else may be at the helm} Ever since the newspaper press bas given of affairs in Spain can humbug the govern- ment at Washington as easily as it has been humbugged. We fear the American Republic will be cheated and humiliated to the end, or, at least, as long as Mr. Fish is kept in the State Department. None are go blind as those who will not see. It is to be feared our Seo- retary of State has wilfully shut his eyes against Cuban affairs, Spanish duplicity and arrogance. Information Wanted. Amid the festivities of the new year quite a number of worthy gentlemen have quite dis- appeared from the surface of public thought, and we doubt not they would be only too happy if the public would consent to forget them altogether. While we admire modesty there are some men whose qualities so entitle them to a prominent place in the public atten- tion that we cannot allow them to disappear from the stage where they were wont to strat and play their many sided parts without pro- test. In Albany a vacant chair waits for the genial Genet, but he answers not the kindly invitation to take his place among the fathers of the State. He has left his poor ward, and Jean- nette may pine in vain for her lover’s return, for “he is going far away,’’ like his conscript projenitor, and not even the blandishments of the Patres Conscripti can induce him to come home again. The Court House looks deserted while Walsh and Miller are away, and the City Fathers weep over Coman; but they give no sigh, and the people whom they took in and did for are left to breathe their sighs to the idle winds. Inthe meantime we wonder what the police are doing. It is too bed that the city should be robbed of the presence of such distinguished citizens without even hav- ing the melancholy certainty that they ‘have gone from our gaze like a beautiful dream,"’ and that we shall never see them more. Such a termination to careers so brilliant may ap- pear quite satisfactory to the police author- ities, but the public, who are, after all, the most nearly interested, are not content that matters should remain so. It seems perhaps unreasonable to the worthy preservers of the of the peace that they should be expected to know something of the whereabouts of the missing men ; but we live in an exacting age, when people expect something for their money. In the case of Sharkey, also, the sapient detectors of crime seem to be com- pletely at fault, though, of course, we are con- stantly assured that some eagle-eyed detec- tive is ‘‘shadowing’’ some one or other. We fear that in most cases ‘“‘the shadow’ leads directly toa “gin mill” or disappears in smoke. It is too dad that our police should suffer so much from mirage, and we fear it is the result of a disease in the eye contracted in the vi- cinity of Headquarters. We have never heard of any other class of citizens suffering from this ‘shadow’ in the eye, and unless ‘some radical cure is found by the authorities for this dangerous affliction we shall feel our- selves called upon to demand that an opera- tion be performed on the department which will remove all the afflicted eyes and replace them by new ones, We are suf- fering too much from official blindness, and want men who can see through Broome street mysteries and Sharkey tactics, so that the community may feel a little more at ease under the shadow of the law. The Reassembling of Congress. The two houses of Congress (the members, from their Christmas holiday recess, being re- freshed like giants with new wine, hard cider or good old whiskey) will meet again for business to-day. As most of the members have been enjoying the holiday season at home and among their constituents it is sup- posed that they will return to duty pretty well informed as to the wants of the country and the general expectations of the people, particu- larly‘upon the subjects of inflation, taxation and retrenchment and reform. Nevertheless, we presume that another deluge of new bills and resolutions, generally calling for appro- priations of money, will be poured in upon the table of the House to-day, calculated to discourage the Committees on Ways and Means and Appropriations in their efforts to |. reduce the estimates of the executive depart- ments to the resources of the Treasury with- out farther taxation. In the Senate we may have some im- portant or interesting proceedings ; for there is a mass of business matters awaiting the action of the two houses, and they know, or ought to know, that the country is not in the mood for any further trifling upon back pay, or inflation, or taxation, or retrenchment, or reform. with themselves in their chimney to prove to all comers that the news never was sent from the place where the events occurred, but that it was all sheer in- vention and written in the office of the paper which printed it. Indeed, this charming old trait of human simplicity comes around so steadily and regularly as to provoke at once the mirth of practical people and the despair of those who like to believe that there is They were denied in terms of peculiar malig- nity. We were held up to public reprobation as having not merely invented and published what was not accurate in point of fact, but as having done it all in a wicked and malicious intention to excite the public mind and pro- voke war. Much of this was due to the fact of ordinary rivalry and disappointment on the part of other papers who have no despatches of their own or had very poor ones that came a day after the fair; for, whenever the other papers are in bad straits and can scarcely money to pay their printers, they are terribly fierce against the Hxenarp. For many years we have been able to gauge the financial condition of the other papers by the fury with which they have assailed us, their bitterness being in exact proportion to their impecunious state. In the cases to which we refer, however, there was a lofty rage against us, quite superior in its atyle to the tearful morality of disap- pointed speculators ‘in journalism, and its origin in the State Department is explained by the history of the negotiation. Our despatch from Madrid announcing the way in which the Spanish government had received the communications that our representative in Madrid was instructed to make, and the con- sequently threatening appearance of our rela- tions there; the despatch in which we gave with almost literal exactness the demands made by the United States government against Spain, and finally, not to cata- logue particularly the whole series, the despatch which announced the resig- nation of General Sickles; all these de- spatches, which were all denied by the State De- partment, were all exactly true. We were giv- ing, therefore, while the negotiation was actually in progress, an accurate history of its every step. Thanks to the energy and intelli- gence of our correspondents, the negotiation ‘was going on in broad daylight, and Mr. Fish had upon him not only, like the famous Sena- tor, the eyes of Delaware, but the eyes of the whole American people. Now the Secretary has perhaps vanity enough to hage enjoyed the opportunity thus given to strut in view of the people if he had felt that his position in the negotiation was one in which he conld take pride; but he discovered very early that it was not of that sort, and there- fore he naturally preferred to have as little as possible of the public attention. It would have pleased him to keep the proceedings in the deepest possible obscurity, and thus every new despatch was a thorn in the side of his intent, and he roared accordingly his magnif- icent wrath, while his little dogs all around re-echoed him with a ludicrous chorus of small yelps against our veracity. It turns out now, a3 shown in our despatch elsewhere, that General Sickles in Madrid would heve secured every point of our demand 90 dio- tated by General Grant, but his hands were tied at the critical moment by instructions from Washington, and before he was per- mitted to continue Mr. Fish had concluded his famous protocol by which he had aban- doned every position taken by our govern- ment, save the mere surrender of the ship and the survivors, and even this was qualified. Altogether we believe no eyent in the history of the administration will reflect less credit upon its sincerity or its capacity, and we trust that the whole correspondence will be given to the public without mutilation. The Senate nd the Chief Justiceship. To-day the United States Senate mets, and the disgraceful nomination for the Chief Jus- ticeship will still be before that body. It isa question of more than ordinary interest whether the creature who at present occupies the position of Attorney General shall or shall not be made Chief Justice of thg Supreme Court of the United States. The attempt to reduce the exalted position to the level of a country postmastership would be resisted by an honest majority, and if there isa spark of manhood in the Senate it will be resisted and defeated. A painful consciousness of the ab- solute unfitness of Mr. Williams for the posi- tion is one of the most galling sensations which the country has been made to feel under the present administration. If the President, in nominating a rank partisan, had selected a map of great ability there would still have bean some cause for complaint; but that the sglection should be one which insults the intelligence of the republican party, as well as defies the opinion of the nation at large, is almost the worst which could come. In the time when favorite horses were created consuls nominations like Mr. Williams’ were in order. Now, during the recess, the Sen- ators have bad ample opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the preasure of qninion on the matter. Every renub- Tae Viewna Exarerrion Prize Awanps.— Those who, at great expense and considerable personal inconvenience, sent their goods to Vienna, in order to obtain the recognition of the International Jury, and actually received its endorsement by being bulletined for the usual gold, silver and bronze medals, are clamoring for information as to how they are to obtain their prizes. The State Department is silent, the official charged with the matter for this city knows nothing about it, and, in blissful ignorance, the recipients of the dis- tinguished favors wait. Is not the State De- partment aware of the fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent simply to compete for these medals, that those who might obtain them could use tham for public effect and buafnesg purposes? lican paper which is not of the meanest office- holding type hes either spoken against the nomination or held its peace on the subject. There is ag much chagrin among honest re- publicans as any other class. Will the Senate overlook all these indications of national dis- sent? They have grave personal charges against Mr. Williams before them, but the greatest of all is his unfimess, his incapacity. The Senate has an opportunity to proclaim itself honest and independent by rejecting a nomination unworthy of the greatest judicial office in the country. The Financial Troubles in Cuba. | The want of money is beginning to be severely felt by our lively friends in Havana, and should the premium on gold continue to rise we may look for considerable confusion in the trade centres. In spite of the loud professions of the Spanish authorities the ex- penses of the war are exhausting the resources, not alone of Spain, but even of the “Pearl of the Antilles.’ Gold is at a ruinous premium, and the terms upon which the government has hitherto borrowed have been so unfavorable for the Treasury that there is danger of a total collapse. Some- thing over one hundred million dollars in paper has been confessedly issued by the Bank of Havana without the shadow of security. It is generally believed that other large issues of paper have been made without any warning to the public, as the government and the bank work hand in hand; so that.as long ss paper lasts there will be plenty of shinplaster currency; but no one can tell what its exact value is. In cane of the collapse of Spanish power, which, in view of the disorder growing daily worse in the Peninusula and ‘the recent triumphs of the insurgents, be- comes every day more probable, the paper millions will have no more value than the paper of St. Domingo. Curious people will be able to buy Spanish shinplasters at so many cents @ bushel. If the Cubans would only take heart and make a vigorous and united effort they might easily succeed in overthrowing the tottering Spanish power in their island. The New Year's Pulpit Thoughts. As might naturally be suggested by the departed year and the entrance of the new, Dr. Talmage yesterday tried to get his people to measure time and their own lives by a higher and truer standard than that which we generally adopt. He would not have men measure life by the groans and tears and sor- rows and misfortunes that overtake them, nor by the joys and pleasures that lie in their pathway. Neither would he have them measure life by the amount of money they can acoumulate. Rather should men measure life by their moral and spiritaal development and by the amount of good they can do; by the” chains they can break ; by the garments they put upon nakedness ; by the miles they travel to alleviate suffering. The length of lives so spent cannot be calculated by any human arithmetic. The man of eighty out of Christ has not begun to live, while the man of thirty in the service of God may have lived one thousand years in the good that he has done. Dr. Morgan, in view of the new year and its obligations, called upon his people to con- sider their ways—to consider the wantonness of worldly pursuits ; to let sin pass away with the year that has gone, and repentance, joined to good works, come in with the new year. They should not allow this year to find them loitering on the way to salvation ; but they should rather gird themselves and approach the struggle of faith in the Gospel with a firm resolution to triumph against the evil one. Death and judgment were brought vividly before the Clinton avenue (Brooklyn) Congre- gational church by its pastor. The death of the body, he showed, is a comparatively small matter; but eternal death or eternal separation from the presence of God and from the glory of His power isa thing to be escaped if we can escape it. The Doctor could and did assure his people that the Gospel of the grace of God abolishes death and empties it of its terror; so that the believer in Jesus triumphs over it; but the unbeliever has not only the terrors of the grave, but of the judg- ment also hanging over him. The Doctor, therefore, called upon this class of his hearers to have faith in Him who is to be the final Judge, and to believe now if they would have @ happy new year. The Rev. John Parker called on his people to give an account of their stewardship for the year that has departed. Some there are who have rendered such an account, and they have been adjudged defaulters. Two yearsago, Mr. Parker remarked, bold, bad, licentions men rode and ruled over this city; but where are they to-day ? The measure of our responsibilities, as Mr. Parker showed, is coequal with the extent of our opportunities. We are responsible not only for what we know, but for what we might have known also. Preachers of an emascu- lated theology received no countenance from Mr. Parker, but the contrary. - Some months ago Mr. Beecher preached a sermon strongly oppoged to emotional re- ligion. But his opinion has evidently changed since that time ; for yesterday he preached in ita favor, gave some solid and humorous illustrations ofits gffect upon men. That it has ite uses, and that thay arg _peither little nor unimportant, is amply illustral 9 the fact of Methodism in the world to-day. But while it is discarding emotional preaching other denominations are adopting it as far and as fast as they can. Bishop Cummins inaugurated his Réformed Episcopal Church services yesterday in Stein- way Hall under favorable auspices. The foundation upon which he laid his church enterprise is strong enough and broad enough to insure success, provided the super- structure is properly reared. The neg- ative side of this foundation appears in marked contrast to its positive side. Philosophy, science, ecclesiastical authority and church necrology are of small account in the Bishop’s new enterprise. But the God- head of Christ—His divinity and humanity united, His lamb-like character, His mediatorial these sre the doctrines upon which the Reformed Episcopal Church is to rest ; and on this foundation will its temples be reared. Strong faith and weak faith, faith of the head and faith of the heart, were ably pre- sented and illustrated by Mr. Hepworth. It was a theme for the new year. But in order that there shall be no regrets and no heart- burnings next December we must build strong, and build to endure, on a larger and deeper faith in God and o broader sense of our inti- mate relationship to the King of Heaven. Mr. Hepworth admitted his inability to sound the mysterious depths of faith, and to explain the whole nature and being of Christ ; but ho could take Jesus as his Saviour and leave the solution of the mystery to others. And such a simple acceptance of Christ as this Mr. Hepworth urged upon his hearers. important discovery, to which we give free circulation to-day. It ig that the petition in the “Lord's Prayer’’—forgive us our sins, is proof positive that Jesus was a sinner like any one of us. Such a discovery, even in this in- ventive age, should secure the fortune of any man. Archbishop McCloskey called to remem- brance the promises of the past year unful- filled, the pledges broken, and asked his peo- ple to seek ® larger measure of divine aid for the coming year to keep the new resolutions that they have made Casrize mv Sparv.—Mr. Fish sacrificed the cause of Cuba to the cause of Castelar. But where now is Castelar? Where is the Repub- lio in Spain? Where is Mr, Fish? And what now is to be the programme for Mr. Cushing? Who can tell? Or who oan restore to Mr. Fish his beautifal castles in Spain? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General A. 8. Diven, of Elmira, is staying at the Hoffman House, Captain Poole, of the British Army, has quarters at the New York Hotel. ‘W. Oswald Chariton, of the British Legation, has arrived at the Brevoort House. Ex-Governor Thomas Talbot, of Massachusetts, is among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Lieutenant Commander D. 0. Kells, United States Navy, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. General George J. Magee, formerly of Governor Hoffman’s staf, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. General S, B, Maxey is referred to as Senater Flanagan’s successor in the United States Senate from Texas. The Jackson (Miss.) Pilot complains of the irreg- ularity of the Northern mails. It evidently has some personal interest in the matter. Mr. George Anderson, member of Parliament for Glasgow, ‘arrived from Europe in the steamship Oalabria yesterday and is staying at the Brevoort House. Samuel Hooper, member of Congress from the Fourth Masaachusetts aistrict, it seems, does not tntend to resign. So much the worse for Collector Russell. Says the Susquehanna Journal (Erie Rattroad), January 4:—“Two months’ pay, about $80,000, ts due the Erie shopmen at this place, and yet nosigns of the paymaster. Truly these be hard times.” Tne Springfleld (Mass.) Repudiican probably mesns something when it says:—“How some dis- tinguished gentlemen at Washington, Gloucester and way stations would enjoy larruping Joe Haw- ley with the butt end of a reformed civil servicet How unkind it would be inJoe not to give them tue chance !"" General Crawford arrived in town yesterday on the Calabria, after a nine months' tour of Europe, He left last night for Washington, bearing impor- tant despatches, it is said, from Minister Sickies to Secretary Fish. Perhaps the General has the long promised verified Simon Pure official corre- spondence about the Virginius, which Mr, Fiah might now give to the public. AMUSEMENTS. Stadt Theatre—Lohengrin. ‘Wagner’s grand opera—probably the best and most sensible of all his lyric works—was revived at the German opera house last night before an overwhelming audience. Three years ago it was first brought out by Mr. Neuendorf, with Mme. Lichtmay, Mme. Himmer and Messrs, Habelman, Vierling, Franosch and Formes in the cast, Inadequate as the representatives in both cases are to do anything like justice to an opera that would tax to the fullest extent the resources of any opera company in the world, yet enough was shown to testify to the colossal proportions in which Wagner has cast this wild legend of chivairy, The principal rdles were dis- tributed last night as follows:—Elsa, Mme, Lichtmay; Ortrud, Mme. Clara Perl; Lohengrin, Mr. Pfueger; Telramund, Mr. Vierling; the Emperor, Mr. Weinlich; Herald, Mr. Slume, Mire. Lichtmay sang the dificult music of her role correctly and intelligently, notwithstanding the severe strain at times on the upper notes of her voice, which have evidently deteriorated within the last three years. Mme. Peri was a far better Ortrud in both singing and acting than her needs cessor in the same r In the second act, in the opening scene with Telramund, where she taunts nim with yiel to bis rival after a single com- bat, Mme, Perl exhibited high dramatic quali- ties, which, united to @ contralto voice ol rare emotional power and excellent cultivation, saved the scene, which, owing to the inability of the barytone to sing without shouting, would other- wise have been @ failure. Both ladies—Mme. Lichtmay and Mme. Perl—interpretea ine. yevely ne in the same act, commencing wi iga’s aria on the balcony, “Euch Liiften, die mein Klagen, 80 trauig oft erfuilt,” and ending with the duet ‘Kehr’ bei ein!” the gem of the opera, with passion and effect worthy of better surroun! The tenor is, at most, a correct singer, and Se 7 in tune and in time; but his voice ix not agree ing to the fact that he is too Shere Arent open: nis mouth. The cient ontiet, is fashion. Neither the baritone nor the basso call for a word of commendation, bat Mr, Blum, who undertook & comparatively small part, created a favorable impression. He hasa good voice and muons pow. to use it. , it wha Me pete one third smaller than’ the exigencies of such a work would require, was fair enough, making no mistakes, and innocent of expression or ‘ei 3 ‘The trumpeters on the stage, insisted w four in number, mn always coming in at the wrong place, which laudable undertaking they were prompted and ably assisted by the chorus, which was not as one could desire. The dresses of the principal charac- ters were really gorgeous, and yet in koorm: with the author’s idea, aud the mise en scene the same as the Stadt Thea always affords, Taking into consideration fue Mculties in the path ot a man- r attempting to oresent opera in such & house, ir, Herman Grau ceserves much credit for the bold enterprise he \entered into last night. ‘ene will be 1ppeated on Wednesday even- Masica) and Dramatie Notes. resentation of ‘+ valuable dress of Irish lace is made to Mile. Titiens by her Dublin admir- ers onthe occasion of \her. ext viait to that city, This is better than bouquets. ae EE A travelling showmat jn England had redovered £10 and costs from a raliay company for negtect- ing to forward @ carlopa of his “properties” om time, thereby preventing/a performance. A banquet hag been /eiven at Bologna to M. Gobatti, the author of the opera of “uoti.” The composer, who is only 23, isa native of that city, and only finished hij studies at the Academy of Music there @ year af’ Ms Miss Rose Vail, an\ English actress, recovered recently, in a Londo} court, £100 from a Mr. Her- bert Merriman for bretch of promise of marriage. He called the young Inilies’ mother “ ms,” and her father “pa,” and then varied a Miss Pike. Sorve him right. Hans Christian Andersen, we hear, has a couple of comedies in the press, which are to be published about Christmas. He thinks, according to a state- ment in Goldschmiat's Danish Magazine, that he has the necessary material for making a good dramatist. Perhaps he has been telling a fairy story to himself. The two act comedy entitied ‘The Main Chance,” which was brought out anonymously at the Liver- pool Prince of Wales’ Theatre, created a good deal of local exciteiuent. The stage manager professed ignorance of the author's identity, and called upon him, if present, to come forward; but mobody came. After a fortnight or three weeks’ mystifica- tion the looked-for individual proved to be no aco- lyte, but the practised dramatist, Mr. H. B, Farnie. ‘This js an instance of an author who will stoop te any olaptrap ip igoking aiver the “main chancel?