The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1874, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY sND ANN STREET. es JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic | addressed New York | despatches must be Hen. Letters and packages shoald be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. SBR a 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. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. A I ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Strakosch Italian MIGNON, at 3 POM; closes at UP Bille. Torriani and Miss Cary, Capoul and Naunetti. SANTIAGO AVE ik BOY DE’ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty. vet and Broadway.—LOVE’S LABORS | LOST eat ee: Mercloses at lu: P.M. Nr. Larkins, Miss Ada Dyas. os GRAND OP’ HOUSE, A stre WRTALNS Mr. G. S DEUX Eighth avenue ond hag FUGITIFS, and VARIETY bS at745 P.M. ; closes at 1045 P.M. THEATRE COME UR, No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY E. 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M, BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—THE BRI- GANDs: NEGEO MINSTRELSY, &c., at ® P. M.; closes a P.M. Broadway, MOONLIGHT, M.; closes —PARIS BY same at7 P, New York, Sunday, March 1, 1874. NEWS OF YESTERDAY. THE To-Day’s Contents of the | Herald. THE TICHBORNE éLarmant DECLARED GUILTY OF PERJURY! FOURTEEN YEARS’ PENAL SERVITUDE THE SENTENCE! BEARING OF THE PRISONER! LONDON AGITATED— FirTH Pace, SERRANO DECLARED PRESIDENT OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIC! RUMORED CARLIST SUCCESSES—Ninti Pag. 4 PARIS JOURNAL THROTTLED BY THE GOV- ERNMENT—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— NINTH PaGE. FOREIGNERS’ PERILS IN CHINA! TRE GOV- | ERNMENT DECLAR PROTECT AND R 0 TO BE SENT TO TIED CENTRAL AND SOUTH INABILITY TO WAR VESSELS NINTH PaGE. AMERICA—ANOTHER MASKING VILLAIN PUNISHED—TWELFTH | PaGE. THE IRON WILL CONTROLLING GERMAN POLI- TICS! BISMARCK’S “WINGED WORDS!” | PRESS PERSECUTIONS—SixTH PaGE. DETECTIVE LEAHY ON TRIAL FOR THE MUR DER OF MICHAEL MCNAMARA! MITTED WITHOUT BAIL—TestTH PAGE. EIGHT JURORS OBTAINED IN THE KING- O'NEILL MURDER CASE! THE DEFENCE! GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—LOCAL ITEMS—TENTH PAGE. THE CITY CHURCH SERVICE TEMPERANCE! DOT BREVIARY! IN THE DIFFER- ENT DENOMINATIONS—THE PURIM FESTI- | VAL—SIXTH PAGE. CHARITY'S KALEIDOSCOPE! SADDENING TURES OF LIFE AMONG THE D ITUTE POOR—ASPIRANTS FOR THE POLICE COM- MISSIO; SHIP—SEVENTH PAGE. UGLY FACTS LEAKING OUT ABOUT STREET- CLEANING ABUSES! WHAT MR, CHARLICK GETS GRATIS—TentH PAGE. PIO- THE DRAMA IN FRANCE—THE LABOR TROU- | BLES—Firtu Pace, THE FINANCIAL AND COMMERUIAL STATUS— | ELEVENTH Pace. Tue Taeratestsc Revexrs.—The Indians on the Nebraska and Texas irontiers are sadly in want of a lesson. The young braves are affected with the scalp-taking fever, and we may hear any day of a general raid on the frontier settlements. Many persons have already abandoned their homes because the government has failed to send forward suffi- | cient troops to protect them. As is usual, the authorities will bestir themselves when it is too late. The question that naturally sug- gests itself in connection with these Indian troubles is--why are not the Indians dis- armed? Tue Dertsrttox or Brrsery is one that seems not to be clearly understood even by the best of men, There is Mr. W. 8, Groes- beck, of Cincinnati, who bas been a sort of | democratic oracle because of his political | purity, Yet Mr. Groesbeck testifies in the Burnet-Woods investigation that he allowed | twenty-five thousand dollars of his money to be used in negotiating a highly favorable lease r property belonging to tie to [= city of Cincinnati, with the understanding that it was not to be “‘misapplied.”’ It was not as wicked as the Crédit Mobilier frauds, for instance, but it will greatly horrify General Garfield and others like him, and will’ pain many of Mr. Groesbeck’s sincerest friendsr No, 60 | "Opera Troupe— | Mme, Nilsson, | NTERTAINMENT, at 3 | The End of the Great Tichborne CasemA Historic Verdict. The most extraordinary trial in the history of English jurisprudence came to an end yes- terday. After one hundred and cighty days | of investigation of the most elaborate and | painful character the jury promptly rendered | | a verdict that the claimant to the Tichborne estates had been guilty of perjury in swearing that he was Sir Roger Tichborne. The Court immediately passed upon the prisoner the | sentence of fourteen years of penal servitude. He was taken out of the Court and driven to Newgate. There was an immense but quiet 4 crowd in attendance in Palace Yard. The prisoner was removed from the Court by an ‘unusual and unknown door of exit, and his | friends had no opportunity of making any demonstration. So ends a trial the result of which will be read with interest in every part of the globe. ‘When we consider the romantic life of the real baronet, his quarrel with his family, his casm, the severity of epithets applied to the | result of his research to-day will be interest- ] prisoner, seem more intended for the drawing rooms and clubs of London than for the actual purposes of justice. To crown all, althongh the Court would not permit a London newspaper to make any comments on the case, yet Luie, the witness charged with perjury, | was arraigned at Bow street and allowed to make statements calculated to influence the opinion of the jury more emphatically than any possible comments of the press, Untortunately, therefore, the case from the very beginning was so handled that persons at all critical were disposed to look upon the claimant as a hardly used man. Ho was certainly not a gentleman, and all the gentlemen of England were against him, with the Lord Chief Justice at their head. But, however natural the publio opinion that believed in the claimant, and however unfor- tunate the procedure of the Court and the Crown, this verdict decides the case forever. Nor do we see any reason for doubting the separation from the lady of his love, his wan- = | derings in South America, his wild, madcap | land advenfures and ‘seafaring, his death at | sea and tha, long; years. of, mourning which | came—when ' we? consider’ the ‘life ‘of the prisoner as admitted to be true, his adventures ' in Australia, his final return to England as a claimant to one of the richest estates and most ancient titles in England, his recognition by Lady Tichborne, his years of effort and con- troversy, his final trial, and the interest be excited, an interest so intense and unbroken that millions of Englishmen will see him enter prison convinced that he is a persecuted and | deeply wronged man—when we consider any and every phase and step of the case, we have a drama which has no parallel for continued and perplexing interest in the history of fic- tion or real life. And, indeed, there were many reasons for public opinion in favor of the claimant. Lady Tichborne, the admitted mother of the real Sir Roger, accepted and cherished him as her son. This was an emphatic fact which ad- dressed itself to the popular imagination; for if a mother cannot be believed when she rec- | ognizes her son what probability is there in | human evidence? ‘The tenderest and most | sacred tie in nature is that which binds the | child to the mother, and Lady Tichborne not | only welcomed this man as her son but so treated him until the hour of her death. It | was averred and evidently believed by the | jury that Lady Tichborne was laboring under | a hallucination, coming from grief over her son’s continued absence, her constant brood- ing over his memory, her persistent resolution | not to believe in his death, and her ill-feeling | toward the Tichborne family, and that this | grew into a menomania which made her anxious to discover her son, and thus prevent the estates from passing to those whom she did notlove. If Lady Tichborne had been un- | supported in her recognition the hallucina- tion theory might have been satisfactory to the | people. But there were others who accepted | him to be the heir, and who swore to that belief. There were officers who had served with | Sir Roger in the army, soldiers who had been | | under his command, servants in the house- | hold of Tichborne, men and women of all classes, from noblemen and members of Parliament like Lord Rivers, Mr. Whalley and | Mr. Onslow down to humble tenants and laborers on the ancient estates. The sincerity | of this sapport no one can doubt, going, as | Mr. Whalley did, to the extent of imprison- ment in his behalf. Public opinion was strengthened by an- other circumstance. The procedure of the | | courts was_so managed that the claimant was compelled to pay the expenses of the defence. Had the ordinary course been taken—a hear- | ing before s magistrate and commitment for trial—the witnesses for the defence would | have been paid by the Crown; but it so hap- | pened that the claimant appeared before the people as a man in whom his mother believed | | and who was yet compelled to fight the whole | power of the British government. Although | | the Court finally consented to allow certain | | witnesses for the defence to be paid their ex- | penses, yet it was done so tardily, so | ungraciously and with so much reluctance that | it irritated rather than svothed the people. In addition to this, the manner of Lord Chief | Justice Cockburn was unfortunate. That | most eminent and gifted man has infirmities | of temper, which he showed at Geneva as one | | | | | | justice of the verdict, It would be impossible for a jury to consider a case for one hundred and eighty days:and‘ngt' reach an honest opinion, So 3 ‘prison, practically,’ for ; As ither-most ex- ;traordinary and’ most, successful impostor because, while failing to win the name and estates of Tichborne, he has exhausted the resources of English law to defeat his claim. Even accepting this verdict, as we do accept it, and admitting that the prisoner has received the just punishment of his crimes, we are still confronted by the extraordinary fact that two hundred witnesses, and among them Lady Tichborne, were guilty of perjury in swearing to his identity or under a delusion which has no parallel in history. We presume we shall hear more of the caso in many ways—in fiction and ballads, in the press and Parliament. However griev- ous the punishment, the claimant has won en- during memory as one of the popular heroes of England. Long after he has passed away, and with him judge and jury and counsel, his name will -be remembered like that of Mon- mouth, who was believed to be the real suo- cessor of Charles II., or the half dozen French- men who have appeared at intervals since 1793 as the heir of the unfortunate Louis and Marie Antoinette. {te modern times. “Woe” say successful, The McNamara Case—Verdict Coroner’s Jury. After the evidence was carefully taken and well scrutinized by counsel in the case of the killing of McNamara by the detective Leahy, before Coroner Woltman and a jury, the jury, in fifteen minutes, returned a verdict “that Michael McNamara came to his death from the effects of a pistol shot wound in the abdo- men at the hands of Patrick J. Lealhy,’’ whereupon Leahy was committed to the Tombs, without bail, to await the action of the Grand Jury. The verdict is mild enough in terms, and the precise nature of the crime is left for the decision of the Grand Jury. We have no wish to prejudge the case, but of the we may express the hope that mere | legal technicalities shall not either stand in the way of justice to | the prisoner or leave our citizens in their | domiciles unprotected by the law. From the expressions of Leahy to the Coroner we pre- sume his defence will be that the killjng of McNamara was an accident by the explosion of the pistol, without any intention on his part of firing. We should be glad to know it was | so, but the circumstances, as far as they have been revealed, present the case in a different light. The police have been accustomed to | such arbitrary acts in dealing with citizens, and sometimes have committed such brutal outrages, that Leahy might have thought he was hardly exceeding his duty. The breaking into the domicile of a citizen, however hum- ble his abode, in the manner Leahy and the other detectives with him broke into McNamara’s apartment, was a great crime. What would one of our rich men have thought if his residence had been at- tacked in that way? A poor man’s home should be as sacred as that of the rich. It was natural for McNamara to resist and de- fend his home and family. The conduct of | the detectives was unlawful and brutal. There is at the bottom of this case an important principle involved. Independent of the poor victim and his bereaved tamily, or of the con- Olaimant # goes. to” CONFLICT | IN THE EVIDENCE! THE VERDICT! COM- | | of the arbitrators, and which have weakened | sequences to the prisoner himself, it is neces- his moral influence as a judge. We cannot | sary for the public good and to give security | to the homes of our citizens that the true | help thinking that there were speeches made and decisions rendered by the Lord Chief | Justice which, when they come to be examined | | by the cold and formal historians, will be re- | gretted. His treatment of the press seems to us to be inconsistent with the freedom of the press. His language toward Dr. Kenealy, time and again, would have justified the utmost anger of that talented counsellor. When he interrupted the ad- dresses, as he did constantly, his observations seemed to be in the nature of an | | address of the prosecuting attorney ; so that | the moral weight of the Court, which, under ordinary circumstances, and more especially with a judge as profound as Lord Cockburn, would have gone far to crystallize and calm the public opinion of England, was dead. Lord Cockburn was denounced as an unjust | Judge, who had made up his mind and ex- | pressed an opinion in advance. Soin time a very large portion of the English people came to believe that the claimant was an unfortu- nate man demanding his own, and opposed | by a conspiracy of the Crown, the aristocracy, | the wealth and the public spirit of the nation. Every day added to the trial only strength- ened this feeling; for it was said that if the | daimant were only an ignorant, brutal butcher, who had lived the life of a vagabond | in the Australian bush, he should have been | 80 overwhelmed,in his perjuries by the trained | and subtle minds of the English Bar that his guilt would have become as obvious as the sunshine. Surely, in a contest between Arthur Orton and Sir John Coleridge there would have been no question as to the victory. But Sir John Coleridge cross-examined the claimant for weeks, and it was a drawn battle. The first trial was elaborate enough ; the second trial lasted for one hundred and eighty days. The Lord Chief Justice, who complained of the unusual length of the speech of Dr. Kenealy, himself found it neces- sary to speak forsome weeks when the time eame to sim’ tip. This summing up, so far as we have read it, is a severe assault upon the claimant. The whole tone of the charge, | the criticiama noon counsel. the wit, the sar- nature of the crime should not be obscured by legal technicalities, that justice should be done and that an example should be made to restrain the arbitrary and brutal conduct of men vested with official power. What the Preachers Will Taik About. The number or variety of topics announced by the city pastors for pulpit thought is not very large to-day. While the panic has made men chary of investing in any kind of mate- rial property, it is well to know that there is yet one place where a man can make “‘a good investment.”’ give the Berean Baptists some idea how they may thus invest and the return that they should expect from their investments. Where there are so many false and faithless lives a “gure life’ is something to be admired and sought after. Mr. Hoyt will tell the people in Steinway Hall this evening how to make their lives sure and true. Such a life is valuable, but no man can purchase it himself. It has, however, been “bought with a price,” tue character and extent of which Mr. Sweetser will give some conception of this morning in | the Bleecker Street Universalist church. Who in such a time as this does not need encouragement? For all such Mr. Pullman will have a word this evening. Even the Church needs an encouraging word some- times, for she, too, is tempted and tried. But she must have three peculiar temptations, else Mr. Andrews would hardly undertake to select this number from the many that seem to encompass her around on every side. He will tell us what they are to-day, and, of conrse, will indicate how they may be resisted or overcome by the Church. Mr, Giles will inform us as to what particular place the Church of the New Jerusalem has occupied or will oceupy in the progress of humanity. The world would hardly have thought of assigning @ particular place to any separate branch of the Church of Christ, and, least of all, to one so comparatively young and insignificant. But if any one can define its place in history Mr. Giles is the man to do it, and no doubt the Mr. Davies will this evening | ing to all who may hear him. Playing with Fire. We had occasion some days ago to lament the deplorable train of thought into which Mr. Brace had been led by his frequent trips to Europe at the expense of the Children’s Aid Society. We pointed out to him that associa- tion with a certain class of fanatical English- men of a low order of culture, who represented the passions and strifes of three centuries ago and believed that the duty of one religious de- nomination was to exterminate all others, had induced him to feel that there was no appeal more effective in stimulating public anger than an invocation of religious rancor. We admon- ished Mr. Brace to give some attention to the institutions of his country, and especially to learn that no privilege was more sacredly cherished by the American citizen than abso- lute liberty of conscience. Notwithstanding this Mr. Brace, in the col- -umns of a newspaper owned mainly by E. B. | Morgan, of Auburn, N. Y., attempts to fire the hearts of the religious denominations of this city.’ Ho tiolds the Haraxp up to soctarian animosity’ as‘a Catholic organ, engaged in Na “base attempt’? to sustain Catholic charities at the expense of Protestant charities. As we have had occasion to say before, our columns show, when occasion offers, our ab- solute impartiality in all religious matters. Wo believe, with the fathers of the Republic, that liberty of conscience is a right too sacred even to be questioned. We know of nothing more deplorable in English history than those sad and bloody scenes which attended the reigns of Mary and Henry, the persecution of the Covenanters, and the wars of Cromwell in Ireland. There is nothing we would be more glad to forget than the early persecution of the Baptists and Quakers during our own colonial period. So far, therefore, as we have had any influence in teaching the American peo- ple, we have insisted upon the sacred preroga- tives of conscience. We should feel that our constitution and government had been se- verely, if not fatally, wounded, if any ques- tion of religious belief entered into the duties of citizenship or the administration of gov- ernment. Wherever in any one of the older countries we find religion affecting politics there are animosities and rancors which, with all our frankness and plain speaking and breadth of criticism, are never known in America. New York especially has reason to dread the revival of the dark and pitiless fires of extinct persecutions. Within the memories of men much younger than Mr. Brace people have been murdered, riot has become rampant, and the streets of this splendid and stately metrop- olis have run with blood, because of religious animosity. The Orange riots three years ago were a painful, memorable example. And now that we are upon this question of the Herary’s ‘Roman Catholic tendencies” it is well to remember that on that lamentable oc- casion we insisted, with all the power we | could command, upon the right of the Orange- other emblems, so long as they did not disturb | the peace. New Yorkisa peculiarly inflamma- ple city. | Ireland and Scotland and Germany who— | before they become, as it wére, acclimated to | our institutions—carry into their social and’ | domestic and business relations intense | religious convictions. A native of Kerry will not have any relations with a native of Donegal, because of the Battle of the Boyne, and men who have grown to manhood in America, who are as‘ American as Pocahontas, will drink with quivering and angry lip ‘The pious, im- | mortal and glorious memory of King William” —a Dutch Prince who died a century anda half ago. We cannot expect these mem- ories to be forgotten, at least in the minds of the generation who cherish them when they come to live with us. With their children it isa different thing, and the Prince of Orange has no more power as a religious spell over what might be called the second generation of our | citizens than Nimrod or Melchisedec. But | with this earnestness of belief, this fanaticism coming from ignorance and stimulated by passion and prejudice, we have classes in New York that are peculiarly inflammable. It has been the aim of good men, no matter what their religious feelings, to eradicate this to make our people, no matter what their religion, friends. And so successful have been these efforts that we have felt that there would be no more religious riots, no fnore of the heartburning and bigotry which have cast such a gloom upon the older nations. Now and then some irresponsible person like Brace wishes an appeal to Protestantism, but gener- ally to be heard with contempt. Now and then we have an attempt to revive the Know Nothing or Native American feeling, but it passes away like a summer cloud, without our special wonder. But such appeals should not be heard with contempt. Mr. Brace, as we have said, is an irresponsible person, whose words would be of no more value asaffecting public opinion than those of a street pedler announcing his wares, But Mr. Brace has access to a newspaper be- longing to Mr. E. B. Morgan, and here comes the calamity of his position. For if honest, worthy country gentlemen like Mr. Morgan insist on printing newspapers appealing to the passions of the unreasoning classes, there is no knowing what danger maycome. We have too often gone through the fire not to dread it now, and this playing with fire is the most dangerous pastime that partisans or fanatics or designing politicians can enjoy. Mr. Morgan has the advantage of being an American, ond he knows how base and un- patriotic and perilous these innovations are. If he is a good citizen he will do his duty and interfere. Religious fervor is like prairie fire, When it begins to burn no human foresight can anticipate the misery that will ensue, Present or Sparn.—Serrano has been formally declared President of the Spanish Republic, from which it is to be inferred that the men in Madrid regard the republicans in Spain as having strength enough to entitle them to respect. They will not, therefore, stamp the Republic out immediately, nor try to, lest they provoke revolt; but they will have their President Serrano as in France they have their President MacMahon; and, as time does not press particularly, they will go slong quietly and give the Republic an eventual quietus by a juggle of official machinery, men to parade our streets with Protestant or | Thousands of people come here from | prejudice, to labor with patience and wisdom | Church and State in + Our letter from Berlin, published elsewhere, gossips pleasantly over an illustrated volume made up, as to text, of the pithy, orisp, signifi- cant sayings of Prince Bismarck. In the namber of these we find none more notable than his “Wir gehen nicht nach Canossa.”" Our readers will understand this as a bitter reference toa shameful page in German his- tory—the story of an Emperor who, having defied the Pope, eventually saw his error and was compelled to stand barefoot in the snow at the Pope's gate, at the castle of Canossa, and pitifully appeal for authority to retain his throne. Bismarck, therefore, when he says “We will not go to Canossa” declares in the the Prussian State and the authority of the Church of Rome in Germany, is to be waged to an ultimate vic- tory for one or the other in virtue of its power to employ every other means than that of compromise or appeal; in other words the Emperor will fight it out, and will fall in the ‘fight if need be, but will never call for mercy ,from the Pope, The bills on the relation of i Church and State now before the Reichstag, and which we printed yesterday, indicate tho intense earnestness with which the govern- ment pursues the subject. Ono of these is general in its terms and relates to the educa- tion and appointment of ecclesiastics, and is supplementary to a previous act, the meaning of which it more precisely declares; while the other relates especially to the appointments of bishops, and has been drawn out apparently by the case of Bishop Ledochowski. By this latter it is assumed that bishoprics under the action of a previous law may become vacant by judicial decree; and in caso of such va- cancy, or vacancy from any other cause, it be- comes the duty of the civil authorities of the province to invite the Grand Chapter to elect a vicar. If the Chapter does not act within four- teen days the government appoints a commis- sary to administer the temporalities of the see, and until the proper appointment of a bishop this commissary has the same power as to all church revenues that the bishop would have. But if an election takes place the person pro- posing to actas bishop can only perform the religious functions of that office after having notified the local authorities of his election, and that he has fulfilled all the requirements allegiance.- He must then, before acting, wait ten days, that the authorities may protest against him, if they see any reason. The penalty of violation is imprisonment for from six months to two years. In the other law the points are substantially the same, only directed minor appointments. By these laws it will be seen the government proposes to assume a vig- its own supremacy by requiring fealty to itself as a primary necessity even of admission to the priesthood, or of the exercise of the priestly function within its limits. Politically, it the things that belong to Cwsar; but the ad- herents of infallibility argue from a different standpoint, and, of course, agreement is quite impossible; so force only can determine the issue, and the force, certainly, is on the side of the State. Charity and the Poor. Our columns this morning reveal the wants | of the suffering poor. They show also, we are pleased to think, that the people of New York are not by any means indifferent to the duty which in the circumstances is laid upon them. That the wants of the poor are great almost beyond parallel is proved by the fact that yesterday, at the different soup houses, over two thousand gallons of soup were distributed We need no higher proof than this that genuine poverty is widespread among our industrial classes. It is a sad and painful fact, as the record of this morning shows. On the dark cloud, however, there is the silver lining. The heart of this great city beats warm with human sympathy. From the churches, from the theatres, from all the great industrial establishments and from private individuals, come pouring in the gifts of charity. Great cities, it must be admitted, are the seats of wickedness; but after this outflow of charity it can no longer be denied that they are also the centres in which humanity, and Christianized humanity, finds its highest and noblest development. In the days of the Master there was the Mary and there was the Martha. After the lapse of cen- turies, and far away from the cradle land of Christianity, it is pleasing to know that the Marys and the Marthas still live. We still need the Marys to sit at the Master’s feet and listen ; but we also need the Marthas to be “cumbered about’ much serving.’? The present is a time when the Marthas are most needed, and our columns show that the Marthas are not wanting. Big Frank’s Philosophy. The interview of our correspondent with Big Frank, the escaped and recaptured pris- oner from Newcastle, Del., as published yesterday, shows that this man was no ordi- nary character. He manifested a great deal of intelligence and some culture; but he is a fatalist, as many greater men have been. In fact, he. referred to Napoleon at Waterloo wishing for either “night or Grouchy’ as a parallel to his case when he was trying to escape the police in Philadelphia, and then added, in a philosophic mood, ‘‘the fates are against me.’’ It is said there was a notorious criminal in France who was so confirmed a fatalist that he had his name branded con- spicuously on his forehead, believing that he would not be taken and punished until ‘his time had come as fate had decreed. Frank discussed his adventures after he escaped and the way in which he was caught with the same fatalist idea. If it had not been for this or that delay, for certain un- accountable difficulties, and particularly for that keen eyo of a private citizen from “qnother city,” which detected him and led him to a cell, he might, he said, have been still free. “My arrest is fate,”’ he said earnestly; “fate, fate; simply fate and nothing else.” Frank appears to have a mean opinion of the Delaware people. “Those people down there’ (at Newcastle), he remarked, ‘are peculiar, and I really do not suppose that they are at all anxious to get me back. You ought to hear how they discuss taxes and all such things. The jail seems to be a burden upon the community, and I have no doubt our escape relieved them of a somewhat heavy most downright terms that the issue between | of the law, and is willing to take the oath of | to the different purpose of regulating the | orous hold on the control of all appointments | to ecclesiastical position, and to guarantee | may certainly be said, it seems only to require | burden.” This desperado is evidently a sim gular character and has» good deal of shrewd- Ness, We rather think the Newoastle people will hold him to his fate now, notwithstand- ing the vost, ‘the taxes and such things.”’ Religious Press Vopics. Our religious exchanges arenot, editorially, very brilliant this week. Ther are occupied largely with the temperance movement iz Ohio and here. The Independent, usually spicy, devotes two and a half cohmns to Sen: ator Carpenter's Louisiana bill, vhose theory and facts it fully endorses, and asig Congress to turn out Kellogg and his assodates from the government of that State. It also calls for a gossip and slander bureau, and indicates the range and character of its wor. And who so fit to take charge of such a bureau as he in whose brain the scheme has ber con- ceived ? The Christian Union, while bidding Yoda. apeed to the Ohio temperance movemunt, thinks moral appeals must fail of success tn- less sanitary restrictions supplement then, The ranks of habitual drunkards are filled for the most part by poor men, who live in un- ventilated and ill-contrived rooms, What ever prayer may do it cannot recompose the corpuscles of a man’s blood or break the chain of cause and effect. If this movement shall lead to sanitary reforms it will therein have its chief value, The Christian at Work hopes this temperance work will prove permanent, and it hopes for the day when this country shall witness the ceasation of the liquor traffic. The Christian Intelligencer thinks the world to-day, for the first time in its history, is lis- tening to the outspoken protest of suffering society against the organized and destructive temptations of the tippling house. The evil is very old, and utterly intolerable. Every good man has wondered that it should be suf- fered to last on, and yet has not seen the effectual way of extirpating it. The Intellgencer | cautions against the danger that may arise to the movement from the brood of manipulators: ambitious of fame or political profit. It begs the friends of temperance to force nothing, but to watch and wait. The Methodist gleans from the Washingto~ nian movement of thirty years ago some facta that may help to make this present temper< ance movement permanent. It united the community ; it lifted those most despised to recognized place in society, associated them in good work and put them on a rivalry of good behavior as before each other ; it placed them in sympathy with the better part of the | community, and made them leaders of the ref- ormation and cultivated in them p pride and self-respect Bs Fig So ‘them wake Reading’ rooms, books and proper amusements must supplement the present movement, whose ef- fects must be made permanent by the lifting up of public sentiment to a higher plane om this important question. The Evangelist varies the theme by giving its editorial attention to the American Catho- lic pilgrimage, which, it thinks, is part of a scheme to prepare the way for campaigns which shall humiliate Germany and Italy, and restore to the Pope his temporal power. |, In other times the pilgrims prepared the way for the Crusaders, and a similar result is ex- pected now. _ E tha weet The Baptist Weekly calls for earnestness im religion, for hitherto, it says, the instances of intense devotion and earnestness in the cause of Christ have been only exceptional and rare. The Observer sees in this temperance moves ment an evidence of the power of prayer, which, it thinks, is as mighty to save the drunkard as the rumseller, and should be so directed. The Observer fears, however, that prayer will be used as a power with man and not with God. It thinks this matter of prayer is the most solemn thing that a Christian can be engaged in. The Catholic Review backs up the Catholic charities’ exhibit with some Protestant tes- timony to their efficiency and cheapness, and puts a pertinent question to Mr. Brace and the Times on their pet societies. The Tablet is extra-religious, and devotes ita editorial pen to some meditations on the ‘‘Me- morial Days of the Passion.” The Jewish Times begins its sixth volume with this week’s number, and it is justly proud of the triumph of reform, for which it has bat- tled so faithfully and so long. The Jewish Messenger discourses ably on the Feast of Purim, which occurs among its people to-morrow. It also ridicules the latest efforta of the constitution Christianizers. Our out-of-town exchanges have little of interest to present. Tueatrica Tactics or THE Dock Com- massion.—Whenever the Empress Catha- tine of Russia took it into her head to take a look around her do- minions her Prime Minister had a way of tickling the imperial fancy by running up sham towns on the route, to represent a con- dition of great progress and population within the realm. The Department of Docks, like the artful Prime Minister, has been play- ing a somewhat similar game on the Joint Committee of the Common Coun- cil, who took a notion the other day to examine the vast enterprise under the care of the Commission. The chairman of the committee, the simple-minded Alderman McCafferty, said yesterday, according to our report, that a delegation had called upon him to say that immediately after the committee left the dock at the foot of Christopher street the magnificent but delusive display of sixty laborers run up by the Dock Commission wag withdrawn, and the laborers, the ‘‘supes” in the play, discharged, Smmons.—Whoever in Washington is re sponsible for Simmons in Boston has had hia way; but it is not so clear whether he has counted the cost. But if a clique get the advantage and a party has to pay the cost the clique probably will not care. So it seems to come to the point that a party power is used to accomplish the objects of a clique; but the clique cares wonderfully little what may be the consequences to the party. How much will the people regret the eventual downfall of aparty of this sort? Simmons will secure the patronage in Boston to one rather than to another clique in the republican party, but he will alienate from the party ah enormous moral capital and a heavy vote. If a republi- can Pregident has his nominations confirmed 4 by democratic votes, that are so cast because they mean to commit to a bad appointment the party they oppose, that party is already badly avtit, { | |