The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1874, Page 6

9 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, Phe Snare BOWERY THEAT Bowery. SCOUTS OF THE SIKKRAS, at8 P.M. ; closes aie M. Mr. 1 Prank Payne. ETROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 eroedeay VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at [M6 P.M. ; closes at 10:90 YM. MBLO'S GARDEN, ween Prince aud Houston stree ROMEO TAPTL ENKINS, at8 P.M; THE Bis DF THE KITC at 9 P.M.; closes at 10:30 P Vokes Faauly, Mr. Lefliagwell, WOOD'S MUSEUM, y, corner Thirtieth street JACK ROB at 2f. M.; Closes ata:3o P.M. ACR( Tat S?.'M.; closes at P.M. 0. D, MONKEY, a CONTINEN GRAND OPERA HOUSE, n «d Twenty-third “street —4UMPTY B closes at 1045 P. My _ | FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty eighth street and Broadway. —M r oP M.; choses at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Harkin: Dyas, MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street, Brooklyn.—LED ASTRAY, atS PM; closes at LP. M. "Mr, Frank Roche, Mrs. F. B, Conway WALLACK’S Broadway and Thirteenth s closes at 1:20". M. Mr. Le: Lewis. BOOTHS THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street FEU, at 745 2. M.; closes at LIP. -LA FEMME DE Mrs. J. B. Booth. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, ppposite City Hall, Brooklyn, —KIT; OR, THE ARKAN- SAS TRAVELLER, ats 2, Dhantrau. closes at 1045 P. MSF. S, TONY PASTOR’ No. 91 Bowery.—V ni Mj closes ac il P.M. RRYAN Twenty-third suet, CLLA TN BLACK 1. ; closes at 10 P.M. LOUSR, INMENT, at 3 P. Deny BAIN # Great Jones street and La: PROGRESS, ats P. M.; clos TRIPLE LL, ette place.—PILGRIMS P.M. HEE janday, January 15, 1874. New York, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE GREAT WANT OF THE CITY! RAPID TRANSIT AN IMMEDIATE CESSITY— LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC—SixTH PaGR. SPANISH ACCOUNT OF THt RECENT CUBAN VICTORY NEAR PUERTO PRINCIPE ! HOW , MANY “ROGUES IN BUCKRAM LET DRIVE At” THEM! ARREST OF ALLEGED CAR LIST AGENTS—SEVENTH Pace. THE FRENCH MAYORAL NOMINATIONS STILL DISTURBING THE ASSEMBLY ! THE LEFT TWICE DEFEATED—ENGLISH BULLION IN BANK—SEVENTH Pace. & STORM BREWING! THE POLICE AUTHORI- TIES DETERMINED TO ENFORCK THE SUNDAY LAW! CENSORS OVER THE VARIOUS SOURCES OF AMUSEMENT! TEUTONIC MUTTERINGS—‘‘NO LAGER” IN NEWARK—Turkp Pace. THE COMMUNIST SNAKE “SOOTCHED” Nor KILLED! AN ALARMID PRUNOUNCE- MENT! THEY “WILL HAVE BREAD’— ‘TENTH PacE. THE LABOR TROUBLES AT THE COAL, IRON AND GLASS CENTRES—THE VETERANS’ CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON—SeveNtTH PaGE. MOVING THE IMMENSE PRODUCTS OF THE WEST TO TIDEWATER! ‘THE UNLY WAY TO “MAKE IT PAY!’ THE NATIONAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS MUST AID IN ES- TABLISHING THROUGH LINES — Fourta Pace. PASTORAL APPOINTMENTS AND SUBJ! FOR TO-DAY! RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS! CHANGES AMONG THE WEEK—Fovrti Pace. ON “THE RUNNERS” ON THE ROAD! MAGNIFI- CENT SPURT YESTERDAY! H N NO- TABLES AND NOTED SPEEDERS IN THE PARK—TaiRp Pace. LONDON LITERARY NOVELTIES—METHOD IN THE SCIENCE OF METAPHYSICS—ART GLIMPSES—Tairp Page. (MPORTANT TO SHIPMASTERS ! SHIPPING CON- TRACTS! ARMY ENLISTMENTS AND DIS- ED OVERCHARGES N—TENTH PAGE. WEEN AMERICA INDUCEMENTS TO FOR- OUR SECURITIES! THE BANKS—Firra CLERGY LAST CHARGES | THE ALL! OF EX-SHERIFF BREN. FINANCIAL RELATIONS AND EUROPE! EIGN INVESTORS IN THE EXHIBIT OF PaGE. THE SUBVERSION OF SPAIN! AN GLISH RE- PORT OF THE EXCITING SO IN MAD- RID—CATHOLIC CARE OF THE ORPHANS— E1énru Pace. MAYOR HAVEMEYER TO SEND IN HIS MES- SAGE ON MONDAY- INCREASED COST OF THE STATE PRISONS—MODERN SCEPTI- CISM FROM A JEWISH STANDPOINT— Fourti Pace. Bos Turner, or Potost, a Munprrovs Rurrtan.—Grant county, Wisconsin, has been startled by the discovery of a citizen who has been in the habit of amusing himself mur- dering such people as ill-luck threw in his | _ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1874.—TKIPLE SHEET, ‘The Great Want of the City—Rapid | localities and allow otr population to pour | agents of the same sssociation are to accumu- | The Communists of New York—Thetr ‘Transit an Immediate Necessity. The city of New York is not at present in a condition creditable to the metropolis of the United States. It stands in need of many im- provements before it can take rank with the great cities of Europe. The docks are old and insufficient for the proper accommodation of the commerce of the port; the southern section of the city is in want of widened streets to relieve the lower portion of Broad- way; the uptown avenues and boulevards are lying unfinished, leaving a large amount of valuable property a burden on the hands of its owners; the roads everywhere, with few | exceptions, are a disgrace to civilization. But | the first and most pressing necessity—im- measurably more important to the people than all other public works put together—is that of | “tapid transit;’’ of steam railroads that will carry passengers from the Battery to the ex- treme limit of the newly annexed territory in less time than it now takes to go | by horse cars from the City Hall Park to Fourteenth street. We may be able to live for the next five or ten years with- out newand improved docks; to submit to the delays and annoyances attendant upon the choking up of our one great thoroughfare ; to put up with roads that can only be trav- | elled at the serious risk of life and limb. But the people who find employment in the city, and who are compelled to live in the city, cannot be for two years longer deprived of some means of rapid transit which will enable them to find residences in the upper part of the island and in the new territory without serious damage to their pecuniary in- terests, their health and their morals. For the past five or ten years, during which period wo have really needed steam transportation in the city, each successive State Legislature has trifed with this vital'question. The object of our legislators has been to make money ont of a great public necessity. Enormous fortunes are believed to be in reserve for those who may be lucky enough to obtain the charter for a steam railroad or railroads in New York city; hence the varions schemes proposed from time to time have been simply jobs, and have secured sup- port or encountered opposition according as our trading Senators and Assemblymen have been admitted into or excluded from the Ring to be profited by the success of the adventure. | A law was passed a few sessions ago which | had the appearance of honesty and which | authorized the construction of a road by the | aid of the city’s credit; but this project, although at one time promising fairly, was destroyed by the overthrow of the old city government og the poralyziDe Pee of, the | “fammany frauds. With this exception thé: “rapid transit’? schemes concocted by the Albany lobby have been mainly schemes of plunder, and the few practical propositions that have been placed betore the Legislature ; have found no favor because they did not promise to enrich those who might enlist in their behalf. This disgraceful traffic must now cease. aur citizens find that they can no longer exist in New York without steam travel, and they demand that the present Legislature shall take the matter in hand in an honest, business-like manner, and give them a law which will secure the desired object. It will be dangerous to trifle with the people on this subject any longer. The public works and improvements of the city have not kept pace with its growth. The last census, in 1870, showed our population to be a little under a million; but this was no- toriously incorrect, and we then, no doubt, had at least one million one hundred thousand inhabitants. Taking our population at the present time, including the newly annexed territory, to be one million and a quarter, we find that we have increased in fifty years more than a million ; that in the last twenty years our population has more than doubled, and that we have added nearly half a million to our numbers in the last thirteen years, or since the census of 1860. The shape of the island, as has been repeatedly said, forces our population in one direction away from the business part of the city. The consequence is that so long as we have no means of rapid travel the poorer classes must be wedged into a small space, and there compelled to find such accommodation as they may in the unhealthful and degrading tenement house, crowded with human beings of both sexes, constantly in danger of spreading disease through the city, and always conducive to sickness, immorality and crime. Clerks, shopmen and all who live by work on small salaries are driven to seek homes at Yorkville, Harlem or far up town on the west side, where rents are somewhat within their means, and where the horse cars are within reach; but the time they lose in getting to and from their places of occupation is a serious damage to them as well as a constant wear upon their health. A man of family, who lives in York- ville or Harlem, cannot travel four times a day between the City Hall Park and his resi- dence withont wasting from four to six hours on the cars. This destroys a large portion of the working day and leaves him no time for | rest or relaxation at home. Even those who are better off, men in business for themselves or enjoying more liberal salaries, are seriously incommoded by the waut of rapid conveyance. Honses within way in lonely places. The scoundrel seems absolutely to have had a thirst for blood and to have derived infinite pleasure from the | slaying of his fellow man. For some unex- plained reason he slew his own brother, and this murder led to his arrest and the dis- covery of several other cowardly murders he had perpetrated. Since his arrest he has at- tempted the life of his keepers; but in his softer hours he whiles away the time relating how he slew his unsuspecting victims and | concealed their bodies. He claims to have killed something like forty persons, more or | Jess. Such a string of victims deserves a rope, and we hope that no humbugging in- sanity plea will prevent him receiving his due. For his own sake jt is better that he | should go out of this world as soon as possible. Pavu's Cour.—From our London files of the 6th inst. we have some additional particn- Jars of the last coup d'état in Madrid. This fashionable pastime of Spanish generals and) who do business in New York have statesmen is becoming decidedly more agreea- heen ithin that period driven to ble, because infinitely less bloodless, than on | Brooklyn, to New Jersey or elsewhere former ‘State occasions."’ ‘A few shots fired | on lines of railroad to find homes within in the air by the troops in the lobby of the | their means, Accessible in less time than it House’’ were sufficient to disperse the National Serrano’s tura will Legislature of Spain. come nex i reasonable distance of the business parts of | the city command rents which are beyond the means of by far the greater portion of the population; yet the inconveniences and dis- | comforts of a home that can only be reached by inconvenient and comfortless horse cars in an hour or an hour and a half are so numer- ous and so serious that in order to avoid them many persons induced to ineur re- sponsibilities for house rent which they are | | unable to meet. As we have said, our public orks have not kept pace with our growth in | | population, and hence the large and rapid | | increase in our numbers has hitherto been | in spite of these drawbacks. If we had | | secured good roads, cheap public conveyances | and steam railroads, overground or under- | ground, through the whole length of the city ten years ago, we should now number n¢ arly | two million inhabitants; for from half a mil- | lion to three-quarters of a million of people | are | out into the upper parts of the island and into the new territory. If we do not secure “rapid transit’ at once, without further delay, we shall check our onward progress and risk the destruction of the prosperity of the city. We are entirely indifferent as to what plan of steam travel may be adopted or to whom the franchise for a railroad may be given. We believe that the most practical project, the one most certain of success and which promises the most speedy completion, is that of two viaduct roads running the whole length of the city—one on the east and one on the west side—with cross roads where needed, from river to river. We believe that such roads, honestly built by the city under the supervision of an unexceptionable commission, would pay their running expenses and the interest on their cost, besides accumulating a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds issued for their con- struction, But we are just as willing that an elevated road, or an underground road, or any other shall be built, and built by private en- terprise, provided’ the work is certain to be done, If practical men and men of capital will undertake to give us a railroad we are ready to bestow all the benefits of a franchise upon them. All that we insist upon is that no jobbers, lobbyists, legislators or other speculative adventurers shall be allowed to in- terfere with or become interested in this great public work, for they would either defeat it altogether or make it so costly by their steal- ings as to deprive the masses of our citizens of its real benefits. A road must not only be built, but it must be built so honestly and economically as to secure to the people the advantage of a low rate of fare. It would only be a mockery to the working classes and to all men of small in- comes to run a railroad from the City Hall to Harlem for fifteen or twenty cents. The people must be provided with ‘rapid transit’ at rates but little, if any, higher than those charged on the present horse cars. If any passengers desire extra luxuries or special accommodations let them be provided and paid foron the plan now adopted in the “drawing room cars’’ seen at rare intervals on one of our city lines. But the laboring man and the poor clerk must be thought of in this matter. The great bulk of our popula- tion is composed of men of moderate means, and they are compelled to sacrifice the health and morals of their families, to forego all the comforts of a home, and to acquire loose and dissipated habits, while hordes of greedy speculators are struggling for the prize of a. valpable franchise. f There is ‘no good reason why the progress of the city should be checked, why real estate should b be locked up in unproductiveness, why the expenditures already made in the upper part of the island should be thrown away, and why the main advantages of the annexation of the Westchester towns should be sacrificed, when a steam railroad, which scores of hon- est, practical men and capitalists are prepared to construct, and which the city might profit- ably build, would at once remove the cause of such evils, All classes of our citizens are in- terested in this important subject, and we shall not cease to urge immediate action on the State Legislature. Onur city Senators and Assemblymen in especial will be held re- sponsible tor the passage of a law which shall be free from all taint or suspicion of jobbery, and which will secure to the people without further delay the means of rapid transit through the city, so that they may be liber- ated from the extortions of landlords and enabled to live as civilized men ought to live, in decency and comfort. Sabbatarians and Music. An attempt to make people pious, and pious in a specific way, by statute would seem at the first glance to be as hopeless an under- taking now as it was found to be in the days when the Smithfield fires furnished regularly their fragrant offering for the nostrils of intol- erance; but, nevertheless, there are intelligent persons among us who propose to continue the strange experiment. Our laws certainly are in their favor, and the habits of some of our citizens of foreign birth are in open defiance of those laws. It has been judicially held that the Christian religion is part of the common law, and consequently that the dese- eration of Sunday is a punishable offence. But further than this, a statute made in 1860 forbids the performance on Sunday in any public place of plays or dramatic shows of any sort, or of operatic or other music not sacred. All this was to secure, of course, that strict observance of a day of worship that was so striking a characteristic of our earlier times, and that has come down to us with many pleasant and some gloomy memo- ries; but this observance of Sunday bas al- ways been felt as a restraint by a portion of our people, and constantly more and more felt in that way as that portion of our popula- tion grew more numerous which was of foreign birth or foreign parentage. Our German citi- zens especially, accustomed in the fatherland to regard Sunday as a day of recreation rather than of severe quiet, have always been restive under this exercise of authority, and have sometimes struggled with effect against it. We even had riots and hard fighting in the streets when the Sunday laws first assumed the form of depriving the Germans for one day in seven of their customary beer—for the Teuton seems to feel most that limitation of his freedom that touches his chosen beverage, But the Sunday laws appear to have slept for a while, and the result was the same as when the husbandman slept and the enemy sowed tares—for the jovial amused themselves tremendously, and mostly with music. As the drama itself grew from the cart of Thespis to Booth’s Theatre, so the Sunday entertain. ments, repeating in little the famous history, grew from a song or a concert of bugles at some gathering place to the full-blown pre- sentation of Offenbach behind a regular row of footlights. Then the Sabbatarians, espe- The the Sunday with more or less might, and repression began j again. For two or three Sundays arrests have been made at places of entertainment—on the east side mostly—for violation of the Sunday jaws, and in one case over two hundred per- sons were seized at one place and incarcerated for the night. To-day and to-night a regular takes to reach Yorkville by the horse cars. We have now grown as much as we can grow, unless we give relief to our densely crowded campaign is to be begun, and the police, at the instance of the Young’ Men's Christian Association, are to do what they can, while | that Germans | cial champions of the Sunday laws, arose | late evidence to be used presumably in obtain- ing indictments. Doubtless the consequence of this revival of oatward shows in religion will be an agitation for the repeal at Albany of all the Sunday laws ; but in the meantime it will be surprising if the Germans do not meet the case in the courts. The clause in the State constitutiog under which people might claim immunity from sectarian dictation and control is as follows :—‘‘The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind, and no person shall be rendered in- competent to be a witness on account of his | opinions on matters of religious belief ; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licen- tiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.’ Here the only restriction placed upon absolute freedom in regard to liberty of conscience—which would be likely-to disregard Sunday as a relig- ious season—is a restriction forbidding acts of licentiousness or ‘practices, inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State.’ Do the musical recreations of our German citizens come under the ban of these clauses? We do not believe it, and if they do not the law under which they are repressed is in evident con- flict with the constitution of the State. The Texas Troublese—An Extinguisher to Governor, Davis. A few days ago Governor Davis, of Texas, republican, appealed to President Grant for the services of a detachment of United States troops to maintain him in his office, notwith- standing his defeat in the recent State elec- tion by an adverse majority of forty thousand. The ground of his application was that the Supreme Court of the State had pronounced said election a departure upon a technicality from the State constitution, and, therefore, null and void. The President replied, sub- stantially, that, after signing the bill provid- ing for said election, and after participating in the canvass as a candidate for re-elec- tion, Governor Davis had no case justi- fying the employment in his behalf of the United States army, and _ that his request, therefore, could not be granted. Nine hundred and ninety men out of every thousand outside of Texas, on read- ing this application of Davis and the answer of the President, concluded, no doubt, that without farther trouble Dayis would make a virtue of necessity and retire, particularly in deference to the President's closing sugges- _tion, “Would it not be prudent, as well as right, to yield to the will of the people ex- pressed by their ballots?” But failing upon one constitutional qnibble, Governor Davis flies to another. He says that according to the constitution of Texas his term of four years as Governor does not ex- pire till the 28th of April next; but that meantime the Hon. Richard Coke, (elected Governor in the late State election) has been inaugurated, and will attempt to seize the Governor’s office and _ buildings, and accordingly he, the outgoing Governor Davis, is constrained to call upon the President for military assistance. The President, through Attorney General Williams, replies, in substance, that this second consti- tutional plea of Davis is not good, “‘that your right to the office of Governor at this time is at least so doubtful that he (the President) does not feel warranted in furnishing United States troops to aid you in holding further possession of it, and he therefore declines to comply with your request.’’ Surely this will serve as an extinguisher to Davis. Had he been a wise man he would have gracefully given up the contest with the first broad hint he received from Washington ; but he was, perhaps, the only man in the country who did not discover in that first sig- nificant despatch on the subject from General Grant a decisive abandonment of the trouble- some, dangerous and profitless policy of fed- eral intervention adopted in behalf of Gover- nor Kellogg, of Louisiana. More Pensions. It appears by a despatch from Washington that the convention of Mexican veterans had something more in view than a social reunion and to make speeches over their deeds in the war with Mexico, At a meeting yesterday they agreed to memorialize Congress for pen- sions for those who were engaged in the war, or for their surviving widows and children. While no citizen would object to granting pen- sions to those who were digabled in the Mexi- can war, or in any of our wars, or to the fami- Jies of soldiers who have been made destitute in consequence of service rendered to the country by the brave fellows, we should not forget that the pension roll already calls for the enormous sum of over thirty millions a year, and that, instead of being reduced as time advances and pensioners die off, a larger sum is demanded every year. Then, where is our boasted patriotism if citizens are not willing to fight for their country without enormous bounties in the first instance and a remunera- tion drawn from the taxpayers afterwards? In this remark we except, of course, the poor fellows who have been disabled, and their families who suffer in conseguence. It is somewhat strange, too, that after a quarter of a century has passed since the brief war with Mexico and when the people are borne down with heavy taxes this claim should be pre- sented. If anything is to be done, let those who fought be rewarded by a grant of home- steads from the public lands. Few of the sol- diers or sailors get much benefit from pen- sions. Agents and schemers get most of the money. It is time that some limit should be set to sucha vast drain upon the Treasury and the taxpayers. American Securirres Aproap.—The large profits offered by American securities as com- the certainty that attaches to the payment of interest on the same, is evidently attracting the attention of Eurcy investors, activity has of late been manifested in this department in London, Amsterdam and else- where. Recalling the fact that there is an ex- cess of capital on the other side which secks safe investment, and that there has been dis. foreign securities there placed, it is a reason- World will seek investment in our government and railroad bonds, and thus secure a protit which nowhere else in Christendom has been more surely or regularly realized. | pared with those of some other countries, and | Unusual | appointment and default in many of the other | able prediction that the capitalists of the Old | | revealed the feelings of Germany. Secret Meetings and Movements. That there exists in the city of New York a disturbing element known as the “Com- munists’’ was demonstrated on Tuesday last in Tompkins square, and again last night in Cosmopolitan Hall. Although frustrated in Tuesday's open attempt to defy the lawful authorities which forbade their assembling, or at least their parading the streets in proces- sion, there is no knowing at what hour or by what preconcerted and secret action they may commit some overt act and cause widespread consternation among the commuvity. These dangerous conspirators against so- ciety are not confined to New York nor to Paris; they are spread the world over. They declare, as one of the prisoners arrested on Tuesday last did, that the red flag is their only flag; that they spit upon all other flags; that they demand equal rights in all things, the equalization of property, the apportionment of “good things,” and “free love,"’ as it is commonly known, in its broad- est sense. They have no religion and no respect for person or station. In Now York the body is controlled in a mysterious manner by an unseen so-called ‘“Com- mittee of Safety,” only a few of whom have appeared upon the surface. ‘The movements of this committee are as secrot and mystical as those of any known secret organization. Their leaders attempt to cover their owp peculiar objects and schemes by advocating—nay, ‘‘demanding’’—the em- ployment of laborers upon the public works, These laborers, it is generally known, are mostly Irish Catholics, and if by their demands they succeed in securing employ- ment for this class of people they take all the credit therefor, and hope thereby to win the Catholic laboring element to their side and ob- tain their assistance in their machinations. In these ridiculons demands, However, they have thus far failed. And when the Irish Catholic laborers are made to realize the hideous con- duct of these Communists during their reign of carnage and terror in Paris, when the highest prelate in their Church in that un- fortunate metropolis—the beloved Arch- bishop Darboy—together with other ven- erated and venerable magnates of the Church, was savagely butchered by these frenzied semi-barbarians, dnd the sacred shrines of their churches ruthlessly robbed of their precious jewels and treasures, they shun, as they would a pestilence, all affiliation with these foes of Christianity and civilization as wellas of law and order. Evidence of this may be gleaned from the fact that of the large number of arrests at Tompkins square on Tuesday not a single Irish Catholic was found among the number. And another significant fact may be mentioned here—that of all those arrested, with only two or three exceptions, | none were either native born or adopted citi- zens or foreigners who had declared their in- tentions of becoming citizens ; in short, the great majority were men who recognized only the ‘‘red flag’’ as the flag of their nationality, and who ‘‘spat upon all others.’’ The Com- munists attempt to cajole the German laborers the same way they have the Irish; but they to almost as great an extent have failed with them as with the Irish. It is even intimated that the Communists have threatened to burn schoolhouses in order to give employment in their reconstruction to both Irish and Ger- man laborers. It may be asked, where does all the money come from to support the extraordinary operations of these men—men who work like machines, or as an engineer moves his loco- motive, with people’s passions for tramways ? They must have money, though professedly poor and starving, for if allowed to appear in procession they are ready to make a gorgeous display of banners and legends, of regalia, gold shields ond other paraphernalia that must have cost thousands of dollars. At their meetings, which are seldom held twice in the same place or at the same hour when the places are changed, they have a free lunch at which many poor fellow, out of work and outof money, is glad to get the wherewith to appease the pangs of hunger. These cost money, and it is the best possible way for them to spend it. The leaders—the engineers of the ‘Committee of Safety’’—do- not seem to be very impecunious, one of them (if not of this, of some other similar, if not so. radical an organization) exhibiting in his shirt bosom on a certain occasion a thousand dollar breastpin while shrieking for ‘bread or blood.” The money to support all these things, we say, must come from some source, or may it not be here already? May not the booty of the plundered churches of Paris be now furnishing the material aid to carry on these nefarious projects—projects so menacing to the peace and safety of this whole commu- nity? It is known, as has been before infi- mated in this paper, that large amounts of precious stones, without setting, and concealed in balls of wax, together with numerous other treasures, the spoils of the Paris churches we refer to, were secretly conveyed to this country during the temporary but sanguinary régime of the Communists in Paris. Hence is it not reasonable to suppose that the product of these treasures of the sanctuaries is em- ployed in the work of these incendiaries, con- spirators and revolutionists? We do not think that there is any imme- diate cause for serious alarm in regard to the operations of these desperate people; but it | manitestly behooves the authorities to take | such steps as will prevent their obtaining the | upper hand in any single demonstrative movement they may undertake. Tae Cuorch Question IN RMANY. —Since the close of the late Franco-German war Ger- , many has had some trouble with the Roman | Church, ‘The late Encyclical revealed the feelings ot Rome, just as the late elections The an- tagonism is complete, The Pope speaks plainly to Emperor William and Emperor William | writes plainly to the Pope. Both are old men and the one and the other must soon pass away from that stage on which neither Em- perors nor Popes can resist the willof Heaven, ‘The strife is painful. Germany and Rome were wont to be a unit. The Holy Roman Empire was once the world’s pride, It was long the dream of Rome, as it has long been the dream of Germany, that the unity which so long existed and which has been inter- rupted shonld be restored, ‘The question is of world-wide interest. It is not a question that concerns Germany alone or Rome alone. It islivein Englsad, It is live iu America, ‘Tt recondilistion is not soon effected it may lead to trouble which will convulse the world. ——_—-—- The Religions Prese—Their Views om the Topies of the Day. Our =zeligious contemporaries this week take novone particular subject as their theme for editorial remark ; but while ranging over the wide fields of their different theological tenets they here and there express their views upon the general current topics of the day. The Methodist thinks that “Econowy is the cure for financial distress ;" that the wealth of a nation is not in its paper currency, which is so much defaced paper, nothing more, unless it rests on a substantial basis, “A government note,” says the editor, “is merely a promise to pay, and varies in value as public faith in that promise increases or dimin- ishes. Neither is it in the abundance of gold. Tf all the gold now in circulation in the world were to become the property of the nation, and it had nothing else, it would be poor indeed. National wealth consists mainly in these three things: in the crops which are gathered, in the coal and ore taken from the mines and in manufactured goods, which enhance thirty, sixty and a hundred fold the value of the raw material.”’ In regard to an in- teresting subject the Methodist says: —‘Very: slowly, yet steadily, the public opinion of the: country grows up to the idea of compulsory education,” and hopes that before long it will be the accepted policy of every State in the Union. The Christian at Worle (Rev. T. De Witt Tal- mage) sees in a recentarticle that there is some doubt about the Darwinian theory of our origin. ‘Just as we who have given up the Bible,’* says the editor, ‘were getting ourselves recon~ ciled to the monkey theory some one comes im and shows that the real origin of our race wag the soft-shell clam. We confess,” he continues, “that this last theory is the more agreeable. We like the habits of the soft-shell clam better than the monkey.” It has been said that “there is no accounting for taste.’’ All this may be very amusing, but is it really digni- fied? Thesame paper affirms that ‘an un- mitigated nuisance to God and man is a half- and-half church, with piety tepid.’’ Does the editor desire all pious people to be in hot water continually, or would he have them adopt the ‘noble Briton’s” alternative in a certain emergency and take it ‘‘half-and-half’’ without a grimace ? The Baptist Weekly, touching upon the theme of ‘Praying Pastors,” remarks that, “‘to- be an'able minister of the New Testament, a man must live in constant communication with Heaven, maintaining unbroken inter- course with the Throne of Grace, having a consciousness of Divine power working within him and making him increasingly earnest in prayer, and by consequence increasingly effective in preaching.’’ It is a very pretty— nay, an electric—figure, but suppose the wires should break; what then ? The Observer discusses the subject of the “Universe Without God, or the Attempt of the Philosophy of Evolution to Destroy the Soul’s Relief in a Divine Designer,” remark- ing that “‘it is difficult to set forth adequately the absurdity of the attempt to drive the doctrine of design out of the rational universe. Yet,” asserts the editor, ‘‘this is what those philosophers are attempting who seek, by the system of evolution, to exclude the presence and intervention of God as the Creator and, consequently, the Redeemer of our race.’’ The Independent demands a thorough over- hauling of the petty thefts in Washington. Why not take cognizance of the big ones first? The little ones will naturally fall in in due course. The Independent positively denies that it has been sold out. It is the people who think so who have been sold. The Evangelist, discoursing upon the subject of “Science Recognizing God,’’ quotes the tes- timony of Agassiz, as given in the last of his series of lectures delivered after his return from Brazil, adding that ‘Agassiz is a true successor of Newton, and though both are gone from earth the race of intellectal giants who were at the same time believers ina divine Reality is not, and, we trust, never will be, extinct.”’ The Christian Intelligencer announces that its accounts of the observance of the week of prayer indicate that it has been attended with many blessings. The Christian Union declares that the upper- most political topics of the day are financial “Here,” it says, ‘‘we suffer extremely from the low state among us of the higher political education. If there is one earthly subject on which the average Congressman is ignorant it is political economy.’”” The ‘ignorance of the average Congressman’ might form the text of an excellent lecture by the editor of the Union. The Liberal Christian preaches upon the sub- ject of ‘Moral Independence,”’ the Jewish Messenger wpon the “United Charities,”’ the Hebrew Leader upon the “One Hundred and Twentieth Psalm,” the Freeman's Journal upon the “Baltimore Plenary Council and the God- less Schools,” the New York Tablet on the “Catholic Union in Ireland,” the Catholic Re- view on “Unchristian Marriage,’ the Jewish Times on extending the freedom of religious organizations to the Jewish Church in Ger- many, the Christian Leader on ‘‘Adding to the Church,’ and Church and State on the ques- tion, ‘What Is To Be the Future of Protes- tantism in This Country?’ the latter con | eluding that “everything may be so ordered in the merciful Providence of God that thase who are now in separation from us may, by the exhibition of a chastened Christian spirit and by a wise and generous policy, be ere long won back to us.’” NAL CHEAP TRANSPORTATION which assembled the other day in Washington, closed its labors yesterday and adjourned and dispersed. We publish a report of its closing proceedings in auother part of this paper, from which it, will be seen that this cheap transportation league intends to urge the improvement of all the water lines of commmnication between the Mississippi Valley and the seaboard, and the regulation of our railways by Congress, under the power to regulate commerce among the States. This, defines a regular programme of action, and the agitation will now systematically go on, As We Exrecrep, not satisfied with losing over one hundred passengers and a valuable cargo, the French Transatlantic Steamship Company now refuse to indemnify those who have lost property or friends, Comment would be an insult to the readers