The New York Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK 1 HER: ALD BROADWAY aAND 1D ANN STREET. ApS a JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. LONDON OFFICE OF ‘THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. “ ie All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ..No, 3% NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broad tween Prince and Hous Fethnras in NOTHING, THis WRON A closes ut 10:30 P.M. Vokes GHT PLACE, at 8 P.M. ; Family. gener Pulstisth sirose IN BOOTS corner Thirtieth street. —P'USS IN a. | Pry ba 4 iptlgses at 4:90 POM. TRUMPS, at 9 Fa GRAND OPERA HOUSE. avenue and Twenty-third street HUMPTY MPTY A ab at 745 P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. ar. aL F Twenty-tnird street wil Li E, at 8 P. street and Bri Eat 8 | closes at 10:30 P.M. M Ada Dyas. GERMANIA THEAT! Fourteenth street.—BARBE BLEU, pouffe, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 1 P.M. EATRE COMIQUE, St Broadway ENT DAY, on Vv Aniery ENTER- RINMENT. at P. Joses at 10:30 F BOOTHS THEATR! pSixth avenue and Twenty-third LA FE Ki Bu, et 70 2. Mr clsecs at 1090 P. M. Mrs. J. WALLACK’S THEATRE, feos roadway and Thirteenth sireet—MONEY, at$P. M.; Aoitenbach’s opera jones at 1. M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys cm oarMetO THEATRE, en Honston and Bleecker streets.— PROGEVILE nnd NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT aug (Hoiman Opera Troupe, at 5 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. ROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Hall, Brooklyn.—0UR AMERIVAN COU- opposite city jeloses at 11:45 P.M. Mr. E. A. Sothern. BLY, at 8 P. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THRATRE, ‘ashington street, Brooklyn.—LADY AUDLEY'S SE- Pifr at 8 P.M. ; Closes at fl Mrs. Bowers. OWERY THEA’ ‘TRowery.—THE STAM ESE TWINS, TBASSION, ats P.M; tloses at 11 P.M. Miss Laura Alberta. METROPOLITAN THEAT! Xo, $86 Broadway. VARIETY ENTE AINMENT, at 7:45 P. M. ; closes at 10:3) P. TONY PASTOR ERA HOU: SE, ‘No. 21 Bowery.—VARLETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M1; cloves at UP. M. S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sixth ayenue —CIN NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at VAL; closes at 10 P. ‘ourteenth stgeet—CHARLUTEE CUSHMAN’S READ- INGS, at? P.M, COLOSSEUM, Broadway corner of Thirty-fith street.—PARIS = IGHT, at 1 P. M.; closes at 50. M.; same at7 P.M scloses at 10 P. ——- few York, Sunday, February 1, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. | To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. INCREASING ELECTION EXCITE! MENT INE LAND! CONSERVA’ ASSAILED BY Mons ANCES FEARED! OTHER DISTURB- ADSTONE’S FAILURE TO STAND FOR & ‘TION TO THE LAST PARLIAMENT—SevENTH Pat GENERAL WOULSELEY PUSHING FORWARD TO COOMASSIE! THE BRITISH V. ARD BEYOND THE RIVER PRAH—: Th Pace. @HE CARLIST SIEGE OF BILBAO! THE CITY OFFICIALS DESIRE A WEEK'S P TION TO SURRENDER! FOUR DAYS OD GRANTED—SEVENTH PaGE. ‘NASSR-ED-DIN “RISES TO EXPLAIN!” HIS MAJESTY COULD NOT RELY UPON EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CPPORT IN THE REUTER PUBLIC WORKS CONCESSIUN— SEVENTH PAGE. ‘LITERARY NOVELTIES AT “THE HUB!” THE LATEST BOOK ISSUES! THE THEODORE PARKER AND MRS, BARBAULD BIOG- RAPIES! THE RADICAL CLUB AND THE THEATRES—TuIrD Pace. THE AMERICAN PRIZE CUP CONTEST COMMEM- ORATED IN VERSE—WARMOTH ON LOU- ISIANA AFFAIRS—TuHirp Pace. SPECIAL FEDERAL PITAL ITEMS—AMUSE- MENT FEATURE! NTH PAGE, THE IMPORTANT CONCE ON ‘0 THE FERRY COMPANIES — COR( RS’ CA —THE TROUBLES AMONG THE, CAPMAKERS— TENTH PAGE. PUBLIC WORSHIP IN TE METROPOLIS TO- DAY! LIGIOUS NEWS AND CORRE- SPOND: RABBI HUEBSCH ON Ma- TERIALISM—THind PAGE. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OF THE WALL STRE XCHAY z DAY! EXPORTS AND IMPORTS—FrrTH Paar. THE MINING STOCK EXCHANGE DISSOLVED ! HEAVY DAMAG AGAINST AN ANCE COMPAN ‘ SUK ASKED TO “WALK UP THE CAP- TAIN’S OFFICE”—RAPID TRANSIT—FourtH Pace. Tax Exectioxs i Encianp.—Onr news this morning shows that the election contest in England is being carried on with great spirit and energy. The two great political parties are evidently putting forth their whole strength. As announced yesterday, Birming- ham has made no change. Messrs. Bright, Dixon and Muntz have been returned without Opposition. Sir Stafford Northcote, a liberal conservative and supporter of Mr. Disraeli, spoke yesterday at Barnstaple, making a point on the differences known to exist in the late Gladstone Cabinet. Mr. Gladstone, at Green- wich, addressed some thirty thousand people. There were unmistakable signs of opposition to the Premier, but the precautions taken by the authorities rendered rioting impossible. Election times in England have always been lively; and this general election, so far as it has gone, conclusively proves that John Bull has not given up his ancient propensity for a cow. Tar Cansasrs still maintain the struggle in the North. A despatch from Bayonne informs os that the municipality of Bilbao have offered | fo surrender that city ina week. The Carlists thave granted them four days before making he attack on the town. It will not be won- erful if ina few days this report is flatly eguicadicted, France=The Political Conflict—The Republic or the Empire. Our recent letters from France have shown cogent reasons why the present so-called republican form of government in that coun- try is not likely much longer to last. The undisguised affection for the House of Bonaparte which was revealed on the Oceasion of the anniversary of the death of Napoleon UI. ought not to be mis- taken or misinterpreted. Our sympathy with the French Republic bas never been concealed. We rejoiced with France, as we had formerly rejoiced with Spain, when tho Republic was proclaimed ; and we wished the one, as we wished the other, godspeed. The French people, however, must be allowed to be the best judges in matters of government which specially concern them- selves. If they prefer the monarchy to the Republic or the Empire to both, that is their affair, not ours. France is not a unit on political questions; but the tendency of the moment seems adverse to the Republic and inclining towards the Empire. It is not the fault of the French government nor of the French people if Henry the Fifth is not now King. It is as little their fault if the throne is not now occupied by Louis Philippe the Second. The Bourbons, younger and older, have had their opportunity; but they -| have foolishly flung it away; and if France desires still to be ranked among the mon- archies of Europe and Paris demands a court, there is but one available house from which to select their idol, and that is the House of Bonaparte. Failure seems again to have attended the republican experiment in Europe. France and Spain are republics, at least in name ; but in neither can the cause of republicanism be said to have triumphed. The tendency, how- ever, towards liberalism among the masses in both countries has been most marked, and constitutes the chief gain to re- publican ideas. But with the outgrowth of | liberal ideas among the people and their striving after political freedom there has flowed a counter current of conservatism in- creasing yearly in violence. The conservative current is due to two causes—the effort of the privileged classes to grasp more firmly a power they feel slipping from their hands, and a desire of the clerical party to stem the tor- rent of free thought which threatens to sweep away the foundations of Christianity. Two extreme parties have been formed by the struggle between progress and conservatism— the red democraey, represented by the Com- mune and the intransigentes, and the white or reactionary party, represented in France by the royalists, the visionary Henri Cing and his faded white flag ; in Spain | and the { the gross receipts for running expenses. by the adventurer, Don Carlos, notorious Curé of Santa Cruz. The one appeals ; to the conservative instincts of the propertied classes to save society from the popular deluge, | which rises with alarming rapidity ; the other to the oppressed masses and the principles of the Revolution as the salvation ot the poor. In the minds of the reactionary party the idea of popular government is associated with massacre and pillage, the overthrow of religion and the subversion of all order and good government. They are firmly convinced that it means anarchy and spoliation, as well as the loss of privilege and power to themselves. Hence they would tarn back the wheels of progress and restore the world to the feudal or pre-revolutionary state, and so put an end to the evils of modern society. Such a programme is, no doubt, visionary and impracticable. At least it,appears so to the dispassionate onlooker who considers the growth and resistless development of modern ideas. But there are men, neither ignorant nor visionary, who believe the march of progress may be stopped, and who labor constantly and untiringly to that end. They are the white reactionists ; the men who teach that kings reign by divine right ; that Church and State should work together to restrain the people. For success they depeud on the funat- icism of the religious, the dread of change or revolution of the propertied classes, (he haired of the aristocracy to a system of government that strips them of their privileges and reduces them to the level of mere citizens. The strength of the white or aristocratic party lies in the organized support of the Church, the anity of interest of the wealthy and the gen- Governments out of sympathy with the age cannot last, and the triumph of the reaction- ary party in France will only lead to fresh sorrow. The lesson taught by the overthrow of the extreme red democracy, represented by the Sommune, ought not to be lost on their ex- treme opponents. It points out clearly that unless a government is in sympathy with the nation it cannot long continue to exist. The Commune outraged the sense of the people by an effort to force the acceptance of political and social ideas which were not in accord with the views of the majority of the nation, and France rose and crushed the Commune. How far the present French government represents the thoughts and sentiments of the French people is one of the really difficult questions of the hour. The conduct of the Communists convinced the world that all the horrors of the first French Revolution were still possible in the later years of the nine- teenth century; and France, like all other nations, felt and confessed that strong govern- ments were at times necessary. It is possible that the men now in power in France have abused their privileges and done many things which they ought not to have done with- out consulting the wishes of the Freuch people—but if their action is conservative it 1s, no doubt, because they believe that such action France needs and demands. If, however, they trample upon the rights of the people, ignore public senti- ment and force on the country a form-of gov- ernment with which Frenchmen in the mass have no sympathy, they will create an oppo- sition before which they must ultimately suc- cumb. But while the present government must bear the odium of the reaction, it is undeniable that the tide, to all appearance, has turned in favor of that house which, in spite of all its faults, the French people dearly love. If, as we have already said, the Republic should prove a failure, the next ruler of France will be, not Henry the Fifth or Louis Philippe the Second, but Napo- leon the Fourth, Rapid Transit for New York. There can be no doubt that two railroads for steam locomotion through the city of New York would pay a handsome profit on the in- vestment necessary for their construction and equipment. Even with our present population the statistics of travel on the through city lines reduce this to a certainty. Allowing the lib- eral outlay of one million dollars a mile, and calculating only on the basis of last year's horse car travel, thirty miles of ‘rapid tran- sit’’ roads, costing thirty million dollars, would realize twenty per cent on the capital stock, after deducting fifty per cent from These facts are so clear that it would seem difficult to understand why moneyed men have not availed themselves long ago of such a desirable investment, but for the knowledge that bond fide propositions for the construction of steam railroads have stood no chance of favorable consideration in the Legis- lature, simply because they have not been able to offer sufficient inducements to enlist legislation in their favor. Lobby schemes, which have had for their object’ either the defeat of rapid transit or the procurement of franchises for the purpose of making money out of them, without any intention to con- struct the proposed railroads, have been en- abled to distribute legislatives ‘‘bones,” and hence have received the support of the Legis- lature to the exclusion of legitimate projects. There is some indication that the same policy will prevail this session, despite the urgent necessity for rapid transit. Already bills have been introduced in the Legislature which bear the unmistakable impress of lobby jobs. We know that last year the delusive hope of rapid transit was held out to the people for the purpose of covering upa merce- nary scheme in the interest of a corporation which desired to defeat any proposition for steam railroad in the city. This session the principal rapid transit scheme yet introduced is one con- cocted by a city horse car railroad company, which is now realizing fifty per cent of its capital in net annual profits, and which is bound to kill all propositions for steam locomotion if it possesses the power to doso. If our legislators honestly desire to eral intelligence of the men affiliated to their ideas by self-interest. They are neither more scrupulous nor less daring than their oppo- nents. Though they denounce red dema- gogism they are themselves demagogues whenever it suits the purpose of their party. The men who rule France in the name of the Republic are the leaders of this reactionary party. In a moment of national weakness and misfortune the French people intrusted to their hands the honor and safety of the country. Once in power the reactionists re- solved to keep their hold on the country and establish a form of government in accordance with their own views. France desired internal repose under a government liberal in its ten- dencies but conservative in its mode of action; @ government that would hold firmly but evenly the scale of Justice, repress disorder, but respond to the liberal aspirations of the popular mind; in a word, the conservatite Republic. The men now in power are evi- dently not in favor of the Republic. The cause of the Republic, however, will not be easily killed. The republicans carry the elections even in the old strongholds of reaction. In order to put an end to the return of republican members it is pro- posed to limit the suffrage; that is to say, the members of the Versailles Assembly pro- pone to disfranchise the people to whom they owe their authority. It is not even pre- tended that France desires any modifi- cation of the suffrage, but only that the limitation is necessary to prevent a true expression of the popular will. Popu- lar opposition to this illegal tampering with a fundamental law will be repressed by the army. Thus it would seem as if a mere handful of men were abusing the trust ro- posed in them, and seeking, by a straining of technical right, to force a hateful form of gov- ernment on an unwilling people. In order to achieve their ends they are ready to provoke resistance, secure in their hold on the army. Should they succeed in imposing on France a form of government opposed to the instincts and aspirations of the people they would pro- claim themselves saviors of society. But what- ever temporary success may attend monarchical mancuvres in France there can be no doubt in thoughtful minds as to the ultimate result. give New York the greatest improvement of which it stands in need, without reference to their own interests, they should pass a bill at once, giving to the city the right to raise bonds and build a railroad, or railroads, run- ning the whole length of the island. A rail- road built with the people’s money and hon- estly conducted would be run for the people’s benefit. A railroad built by a speculative cor- poration would be run for the stockholders’ advantage. The latter, in order to secure large dividends, would exact heavy fares from its passengers, and would thus debar the masses of the people from the advantages of rapid transit. The former would give the people the benefit of large profits in reduced fares. Let us see whether there is disinterest- edness and honesty enough in the present Legislature to create an unexceptionable rail- road commission and provide for the construc- tion of steam railroads by the city, indepen- dently of the schemes of thelobby. Which of our representatives will be the first to move in this matter? ‘NEWSPAPERS FOR THE Sick IN THE Hospi- tats.”—The following placard has been posted at the different railway stations :— A box has been placed in the Thirtieth street station for the reception of newspapers and other reading matter for daily distribution in the hospt- tals. ssengers will confer a great kindness on those who are passing weary hours of sickness and pain by daily re their morning, evening and weekly papers in this box, from 1 ppc they will be daily distributed in the bospitais, The idea is a good one, and we commend it to the public consideration. Tae Svpsect or THE Ferry Leases is before the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and a report has been made by the Comptroller and Chamberlain, which shows that these franchises, which should yield a large revenue to the city, have been dealt out without regard to the public interests. It is certain that the ferry franchises, which yield enormous fortunes to their possessors, should be made to pay a fair income to the public treasury; but exactly how the wrong that has been done to the city in the granting of the leases can be remedied does not appear. Probably the Legislature can afford a remedy. If so there should be no hesitation about its poniication, The Muddied and Unsolved Currency Problem. There was nothing done on Friday in Con- gress with regard to the currency or national finances. This, however, is only a temporary lull. Next week, and long after, we fear, there will be a continued and not very profit- able debate, as well as any number of incon- gruous propositions. The truth is, our national legislators are beyond their depth on these questions. In the numerous schemes for reg- ulating the currency there is professedly, with most of the authors, an idea of bringing about specie payments, True, they differ greatly as to the means. And there are some so wedded to a paper currency that they see only disaster in anyother. Taking the ground that a specie basis is desirable—because that would give a steady, fixed value to everything and conform to the solid currency and standard of value among great commercial nations—the ques- tion to decide is how and when we are to reach specie payments. Nearly all who urge resumption argue that the only obstacle in the way is the legal tender currency, and that the first and neces- sary step is to remove this impediment. Very strong epithets are used against the legal tenders. They are said to be broken promises to pay, a pretence for money, and demoralizing changes are rung continually on the word ‘irredeemable.’’ That is the ' monstrous spectre that frightens resumptionists. Every effort, consequently, is made to have these notes redeemed as the sine qua non of resump- tion. Well, we will go as far as anybody to bring about specie payments, and admit even that the increased burden of eighteen or twenty millions a year to pay interest on the funded greenbacks might well be borne for the sake of having a gold currency. And to reach that end there is not, perhaps, any better plan than to fund the four hundred millions of legal tenders in gold bonds having a long time to run. A four per cent fifty years’ bond would readily be taken, no doubt, by trust companies, other institutions and in- dividuals that are more for permanent or long time securities than for the difference of one or two per cent interest. To avoid disturb- ance in the money market, to business and of values, the process of funding might be made gradual. The proposition in Mr. Maynard's bill to redeem the legal tenders at the rate of two millions a month in two-year gold notes, not bearing interest, is not so good. It would be a slow operation, thking twenty-five years to redeem the four hundred millions. Still the effect would be probably to bring the greenbacks to par with gold long before all would be redeemed—that is, if the gold notes issued should be taken up by the government. This will depend, of course, upon the specie resources of the Treasury. The funding plan would not be subject to such a contingency, would not prove as heavy a burden upon the people and would leave a portion of the debt to be paid by a future generation and when the country would be better able to pay. But we must keep in mind that the object is to reach specie payments. Now, it is evident the country will not bear any diminu- tion of the circulating medium ; at least, it could not be reduced much without disastrous consequences. That experiment was tried and had to be abandoned. Indeed, the dispo- sition of Congress is rather to increase, in some form or other, the circulation. Admit- ting, however, that there will be no inflation, and that the volume of currency will remain much as it is, what is to take the place of thagreenbacks when withdrawn ? The national bank currency, evidently. This is what is meant by free banking. Mr. May- nard’s muddled and ambiguous bill squints at that, though it is far from being explicit. We are to have, then, a circulation of national bank notes to the amount of six or seven hun- dred millions, and probably more. Well, what provision is hkely to be made, or can be made, to compel these banks to redeem their notes in specie? There is the rub. It is use less to talk of specie payments unless they be compelled to redeem their notes in gold. We have a national bank Congress—that is, many of the members are interested in these institutions, and the greater part are in favor of extending their privileges. The profits on circulating notes amount in this country to six per cent per annum, less the specie or money held as reserve in the vaults of banks. At present the bonds deposited to secure circu- lation draw interest, and thus the produc- tive capital of the banks is almost doubled by the generosity of the gov- ernment. All legislation is in favor of the national banks. Even the Bank of England, which has ever been of great service to the British government, and which does a great deal of the Exchequer and Treasury business, pays for its circulation in excess of the gold held in its vaults. Why should our banks have all the profits of a national circu- lation? What do they give in return? Of what service are they to the government? In order to reach and maintain specie payments it is not alone necessary for government to redeem the legal tenders, but the banks must be forced to redeem their notesin gold. Then, to bear their share in the support of govern- ment and to make some compensation for the great privileges they enjoy, these institutions ought to pay a portion of the profits, at least, on their circulation which may not be repre- sented by gold held in their vaults. There should be no legislation that does not secure these objects. Wanmora and Kettoce.—Ex-Governor Warmoth expresses much contempt for ‘‘Gov- ernor’ Kellogg, and designates his usurp- ing administration a horrible nightmare. In an interview with a Heratp reporter he de- clares that he ison his way to Louisiana to meet certain civil suits which Kellogg has in- stituted against him, and denies that there are any criminal proceedings against him. Prob- ably if the people of Louisiana could be heard Warmoth would not be so fortunate, and Kellogg, instead of being his prosecutor, would be his s companion in misfortune. ‘THERE Is T TROUBLE aT Pouice Heapquar- Ters.—Somebody has written an anonymous letter to Comptroller Green, charging certain malpractices upon three of the Police Commis- sioners, who are said to compose a “‘ring,’’ The writing of this letter is charged by the three maligned Commissioners upon one of their associates, Commissioner Russell, and they allege that there is every reason to be- lieve that he is the offending party. The only point gpvears to be that there ia more anxiety manifested to discover the writer of the anonymous communication than to ascertain the truth of the charges which it makes. If the accused Commissioners are guilty of the alleged malpractices it matters not from whom the accusations come; the charges should be fully investigated. At the same time, 1f Commissioner Russell possessed the knowledgo of improper conduct on the part of his associates, it was his duty to make the facts known in his official capacity. His failure to do 50 would prove that he is unfitted for his office. Topics of Press. Among the topics which this week command the attention of the religious press is that of the Christian life, upon which the Christian Union has some advice for beginners. It as- sures all such that the act by which the soul firstapprehends Christ as a personal Saviour must be repeated every moment to retain Him as such Saviour. But in his effort to prove that the Christian life corresponds with the natural life in its gradual development the editor belittles the doetrine of instant regener- ‘ation. “A person beljeves that he has ex- perienced a change of heart, and looks to find himself’ a new creature ‘at once,’’ says Mr. Beecher; ‘but to his dismay he finds the same old self, hardly changed a whit.” Now, the Scriptures teach that he who is born of God is ‘a new creature” in Christ Jesus, and the evidence of this new birth is the Divine Spirit witnessing with the human spirit. And no man can have this witness within him without being from the first moment of its entrance into his heart a new creature. To every birth, whether natu- ral or spiritual, there is an ante-natal period as well as a subsequent growth. And as soon as Christ is formed within a man he is neces- sarily a new man, and not “the same old self,"’ for he has the life eternal within him which a moment before he had not. It is therefore proper and Scriptural for every con- verted person to ‘ook to find himself a new creature’ from and after the very moment he has received the evidence of the new birth. The development of the new lite and growth in grace follows. And here the convert needs the momentary faith which the Union recom- mends, and which now comes so readily and easily that the young Christian can believe without any apparent effort of his mind or will. The Methodist lays its tribute of respect upon the grave of the liberator of Africa— Livingstone—whose life ‘‘will long be remem- bered as one of rare and unselfish consecra- tion to the highest good of his fellow men.” The Methodist also hopes to see the proposed Pan-Presbyterian council an accomplished fact, and thinks it will lead also to a Pan- Methodist council, which the editor has long advocated. This journal has a timely and well considered article also on ‘‘The Day of Opportunity’’—meaning thereby the crisis in every man’s life when he is called upon to decide for Christ or against Him. ‘There are points in human experience,” it says, ‘“‘beyond which it is next to impossible to make a change.” It therefore advises taking the tide ! of conviction and salvation at its flood. The Baptist Weekly controverts the Inde- | pendent’s arguments in favor of taxing church property and thinks the State might, with equal propriety, tax a philanthropic individual or society for the drinking fountains they erect and keep in repair for the benefit of the thirsty wayfarer. The Weekly has also an article on revivals, in which it expresses the fear that “too often insufficient and selfish motives are the inspiration of work which ought to be prosecuted with the purest and highest mo- tives.” And churches, it thinks, cannot es- cape the temptation of unworthy motives. The Independent deprecates the Congressional Judiciary Committee's bill disfranchising the women of Utah, and thinks the act is not only un-American but thoroughly French. Con- gress has the same right to disfranchise one class of citizens as another. It should there- tore distranchise the too-much-married men as well as the polygamous women. On the topic of revivals, which seems to be a favorite one with all the religious papers this week, the Independent says very truly that ‘‘when a number of believers unite together ina new and real consecration of themselves to the work of their Master a revival has already begun.” It does not, however, admit that a revival of religion is purely a result of human volition, or any more so, indeed, than the growing of corn or the turning of a mill wheel. The Observer thinks nothing is now needed to insure the union of the Reformed and Pres- byterian churches save more love. ‘The pre- liminaries have been considered on both sides. Church and State bas an argument indirectly in favor of Bishop Cummins’ schismatic acts, since it labors to prove, and does so very clearly to non-Episcopalians, that canonical irregularity or church discipline cannot inval- idate episcopal orders or destroy the apostolic succession. It, however, regards a rival Epis- copal Church as an unmixed evil. The Jewish Messenger thinks the failure of missionaries to the Jews in Jerusalenr should be enough to deter any society or individual from continuing such an apparently bopeless task. Treating of creeds, it thinks the true test of a creed is its working power. On the question of long or short pastorntes Dr. Talmage, in the Christian at Work, thinks a minister ought to stay in a place till he gets done and has nothing more to say or do, whether it takes three months or twenty-five years. The Freeman's Journal has an ill-tempered article on the godless schools, to which it charges all the social, political and other crimes of society. It contrasts the present time with a period forty years ago, very much, of course, to the disparagement of to-day. All its talk about the importance of religious education for the children of the State resolves itself into Catholic education—a thing which the majority of the people of this State have not full faith in. The Tablet directs its editorial arrows both at the government of Brazil and the Rio Janeiro correspondent of the Heratp—the former for its “persecution” of the Bishop of Olinda, and the latter for his “‘un-Catholic and anti-Catholic” correspondence touching this matter. Notice to ‘Bexorum. v.—The intimation of the North German Gazelle that every nation is under obligation to restrain revolutionary agitations within its jurisdiction against a friendly Rowgr bas # peculiar gignificance in Carrent the Religious its application to the only free country of the Continent whose people are Catholics. Pras sia has on hand against the Belgians several grievances of more or less solidity. Their religion is one; their sympathy with France is another ; their freedom is a third; and it will go hard if out of some one of these, or out of all together, she cannot satisfy her- self with a substantial cause of war when the day comes upon which the Belgian territory will seem to her imperatively necessary for her comfort and convenience. Because this is the real ground of the relations an intimation to the Powers from the German wolf that the Belgian lamb spoils his drink by making the river muddy is to be regarded as either trivial or accidental. Many of the Jesuit refugees from Germany are in Belgium, and Prussia will require her to keep them quiet or pay the penalty. Lovistana IN THE SENaTE.—Some of the Washington correspondents venture the con- jecture that the Senate will not sustain the proposition for a new election in Louisiana, and say that the only way in which the legal- ity of the Kellogg government will be reached will be by a vote for or against the admission of Pinchback. But in view of recent facts they seem to be in error as to the vote on Pinchback touching Kellogg. If Pinchback’s case had reached a vote in the Senate while Mr. Morton was supporting him as a candidate with regular credentials the vote would have been effectively for or against the Kellogg government; but even Mr. Morton has retired from that ground, and a vote may now be had on Pinchback that will not touch the legality of the government that gives his credentials, He may be voted down on the corrupt prac- tices by which he is reported to have secured his election. Tue Rerortep Arxocrtmes or THE Stour Inp1ans, near Fort Rice, in Dakota Territory, should be immediately investigated by the government; and if these treacherous savagea have been guilty of the twenty murders charged to their account they should be Sheri- danized—@hat is, punished with a severity which will prevent a recurrence of their pecu- liar pastimes. Crry Vira Sratistics—Wxexty Report.— For the week ending yesterday there are re- ported for this city 518 deaths and 31 still- births, 451 births and 137 marriages. This death report is heavier for this season of the year than it should be. The number of births, on the other hand, is encouraging ; and, considering the ‘‘hard times," the mar- riage roll shows that our young people are not to be frightened by shadows. Doubtless the deaths have been increased beyond the aver- age for the season from the increased numbers of destitute persons crowded into this city from all quarters in search of employment. The lodgers at the station houses during the week—6,991 in number, including 1,643 des- titute females—go far to explain the weekly death report. But this terrible suffering among the poor will soon now be over, as the winter is passing away. Meantime our benevolent institutions and philanthropic citi- zens should not flag in their good work of relief. Posrax Faciurr1es.—The petition presented to Congress for the extension of the money order system to all the post offices in the country is one that ought to be granted. The plan bas proved such a general convenience that its benefits should be extended to the whole people. But the Post Office Depart- ment is generally slow in furnishing facilities to the public. An instance of this is found in the fact that three cents are still charged for letters from other parts of this city to Morris- ania and the post offices in the annexed dis- tricts of Westchester county. The depart- ment should show more readiness to serve the people. Tue Boston Post is demanding a license Jaw for Massachusetts. This would certainly be better than the pretence of prohibition, for the law would then be enforced. It is a Bos- ton notion that people should be reminded, while drinking in public houses, that ‘thie bar is closed;’’ but it would be more salutary for the community if the sale of liquor was regulated by law, instead of being nominally prohibited. PERSONAL "INTELLIGENCE. Albert Bierstadt, the acariee is at the Brevoort House. Judge Marcus P. Norton, of Troy, is at the Metro- politan Hotel. Seth Green, the fish breeder, is going into the frog business. Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House. Judge Harry Bingham, of New Hampshire, ts staying at the New York Hotel. Captain Hains, of the steamship Abyssinia, is registered at the New York Hotel. Jet Davisand Henry S. Foote are a long time ar- ranging the preliminaries for that duel. ‘The sister of Edgar A. Poe, Miss Rosalie M. Poe, now poor, aged and helpless, resides in Baltimore, Washington McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. C. P, Hannaford, chief engineer of the Grand ‘Trunk Railway of Canada, is stopping at the Wind- sor Hotel. General Spinner, whose name {s so prominent om the face of all the greenbacks, is hunting alliga- tors in Florida, Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, arrived at the Hoffman House yesterday morning trom Washington, William D. Bishop, President of tne New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, is living at the Windsor Hotel. Lat Yong, Yang Kay, A Yup, Lai Foon and Chung Leong have issued an address to the people of the United States in behalf of the Chinese in California. One of the candidates for the United States Sen- ate before the Kansas Legislature is named Snoddy. Snoddy got one vote in the Senate and one in the House. Another of those old ante-bellum statesmen hag turned up. Ex-United states Senator Lewis T, Wigfail recently exhibited himself in the streeta of Galveston, Texas. Hon, Rufus King, who was elected President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in place of Chief Justice Waite, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1817. He graduated at Harvard University, Rev. Seth A. Clark, an itinerant preacher of Kan- sas, carries his church witn him, It consists of a canvas capable of covering 700 persons, and ia transported on a wagon drawn by two mules. John Bright is rather @ queer member of the Gladstone Cabinet. Having always been in con- flict with his fellow Minister, Mr, Forster, om tho education question, he has now opposed himseit to all his colleagues by writing that the war (Ash- antee) “1s the consequence of ® wrong policy and of years of neglect. [hope no manin tngland Wiqhes & to continue.”