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Religton amd Modern Thought—The Pulpit and the Press. The cosmopolitan character of modern jour- nalisin finds no better illustration than in the interest given to religious matters by the daily press. So long as a journal was a mere news- letter, or postboy's budget, or gazette of facts, | its opinions were idly regarded. Even when THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in Me | journalists began to extend their mission, and veor, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | ty attempt the education of public opinion by Price $12. editorial comments and essays, the natural Al business or news letters and telegraphic | tendency of all discussion was onanerd - dressed New Yorx | Was felt that nothing so much concern e Geopeiphes ast be 94 | people as the strifes of politicians for office or anata. | the debates in legislative assemblies. A | Letters and packages should be properly | jsumnal became the organ of some party or sealed. | sect—-the expression of the policy or ambition Rejected communications will not be re- | of certain public men. It lacked justice and | | impartiality because it spoke with passion and was more or less dependent upon the | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | pleasure of the party whose will it obeyed. | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | But journalism has grown into a profession, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. turned.” oR Rr meen pee cee a ee ee ‘ : san KEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, ‘NEW YORK HERALD | light and inquiry which necessarily results our work ceases. We do not decide between them. But thousands will reflect and decide. So from year to year thore must result silent processes of discussion and elimination, a gradual drifting to one universal church. Fantastic creeds, new phases of devotion, arising from ignorance or fanaticism, or gro- tesque translations of fragmentary chapters of the Bible will become more and more impossible. We shall have no new “religion” offensive to common _ sense; for, with the universal blaze of from this alliance of the pulpit and the press, there can be no more of the mortifying and humiliating, and at times immoral, creeds which once grew up in acorner, fattening upon the miasma of ignorance and superstition, and flourishing into a rank and noisome life. Nothing is harder for a suddenly inspired “prophet” who believes he has seen the Saviour | or tbat he has a revelation about the end of the world, than to find himself face to face MARCH 2%, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Carlists in Spain. The Temperance Movement. Tho ‘‘duloitudes of indifferentiam," 09] Tt is a great while since King Lemuel’s Bulwer phrases it, will no longer serve the | mother advised him to give “wine to them advocates of a Spanish republic to-describe |. that be of heavy heart;’’ and the human heart the state of affairs'in what may now be called | hes been more or less heavy ever since, 80 Carlist Spain. However strong Marshal Ser- | that occasion to act on the advice has never rano may be in the sonth of Spain, he is no | been wanting. Byron was of opinion that more popular, althongh far better known, in | man must necessarily ‘get drunk,” because he the north than his predecessor, the eloquent | ig ‘reasonable; in other words, he must but impracticable Castelar, who tried, in de- | escape sometimes into madness and unreason fiance of General Prim’s warning, to make 4 | and wallow or oat griss like Nebuchadnezzar. republic without republicans, Exactly why he must the poet would have The spark of insurrection was fanned into | been troubled to explain on any more solid flame scarcely three years ago in Catalonia by | ground than that of poetical frenzy; but, fourteen intrepid, devoted adherents of Don | though explanation might be difficult to give, Carlos. Twenty-five thousand men—hardy, | the fact is clear enough that since the flood brave Biscayans and Navarreso—are now humanity has been addicted to an over-free ranged under the royal banner, led by Dorre- bending of the elbow. In Germany they have garay, Marquis of Eraul, a trained and tried | a theory that Noah immediately upon landing soldier, who won his spurs among the Moors. | found the water unpalatable because it tasted An important element of weakness is the dis- | of the drowned sinners, and that this led to cord which rules among the Carlist chiefs on | the invention of wine. This is not to be alto- Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms with recognized duties and responsibilities. Every day its sphere broadens and embraces with the world in the columns of a newspa- newer fields of thought, Some time since the Hrnanp, obeying this law of growth, felt that there should be a closer relation between the people and the ministers of religion. We have a large body of trained and gifted men who have studied as in New York. Volume XXXIX 0, GL MENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING © WOOD'S MUSEUM, s Broadway, corner Thartieth strect SANTIAGO AV! ry the Scriptures and moral laws, and who, \ED, at2 P M.: closes at 4 M. THE BOY DET _under the discipline of | organizations and as teachers of various creeds, are efficient and unselfish agents of civilization. In fact, nothing more | distinctly marks the progress of civiliza- fPivs, at 8 P. M.; closes wt Li P. THEATRE, ¢ —LOVE'S LABOR'S . Mr. Harkins, M: Righth av FUGITIFS, 745. M, nS the sacred calling. In the old comedies and sketches of society and manners no fact is | more marked than the disrespect shown to THEATRE COMIQUR, No, 54 Broadway. —TARTETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 | ¥. M ; closes at 10 30 P.M. | the clergy. The clergyman was little more | | than a servant—a companion to his DEBORAH, at | master in his cups when none better Janauschek. | offered; who left the table when’ the custards | came, and played cards with the butler, and atsP.M.:; | sometimes went to jail for debt, and was fortu- Broadway and Thu EY, mioedneny and Tue ck, Miss Jefireys Goses at UP Lewis. | pare the pictures of clerical lite which we find OLYMPIC THEAT Broadway, between Hor cker streets, — Y ENTERTAINMENT, at digious stride we have taken in our regard for divinity and divines. We cannot help feeling that this advance, this amendment of feeling, really shows a healthier and better religious sentiment, more respect for morals and good works, and consequently a higher tone of civilization. Thackeray, in one of his books (the ‘‘Virginians,”’ if we re- member correctly), noted that he never ob- served more purity of speech among men and PARK THEATRE, EVEN UNTO DEATH, at BOWERY THEA Bowery.-WHITH HAIR, and SWL et P.M. ; closes at 1 P.M, SWAINS. Begins AN THEATRE, ¥ ENTSRIAINMENT, at Xo. 585 Broadway.—VA i 5 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 ARDEN, ri and Houston streets — ING, atS P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth et. ‘osch Italian Opera Troupe— PHONON, st 8 M.; closes at 11 P.M. Mme. Nilsson, ie. Torriani and Miss Cary, Capoul and Nannett. say that this is one phase of the progress of religion in America? We speak of religion in a general, not a de- nominational sense. There isa religion not written in books—which we take to be the GPRMANIA THEATRE, sum and essence of all that bas ever been ier street. —~EPIDEMISCH, at 5 P. M.; closes at printed—a religion based on reverence and honor and truth. We do not mean the special creeds which come from Athanasius or Lu- _ther or Calvin or Knox or Wesley, but a | faith which embraces all of these creeds. The kingdom of creeds is a kingdom without | limits, and the soul may wander in it for ages | only to find barrenness and thirst. We be- | lieve we shall approach a perfect civilization eee | as we eliminate and reject creeds and phrases, Broadway, corner oi Phir “i siiregt Paris BY and accept their divine substance—charity and M.; closesatioP.M |} Frisia *® | Jove. All the tendencies of modern thought S—<— Serer —_——-—-—— | lead to this happy consummation. We do | not fear the spirit of inquiry as the enemy E E aE. | of true religion. True religion finds its — = truest life in inquiry, When a creed | dreads examination, when any church 'z a ea = | shrinks from the sunshine and the air, it THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. becomes a sepulchre and not a temple. | Within it lie buried human hopes, aspira- To-Day’s Contents of the | tions, trustfulness, patience, a belief in Herald. | Christ’s mercy. And if nothing so blesses and strengthens a State as a true religion, so HONOR TO WOLSELEY! THE BRITISH gvEEN | 2thing brings upon it shamg and disaster AND CABINET SEND CONGRATULATORY ™ore rapidly than the religion of lies and TELEGRAMS TO THE VICTORIUUS YouNG | forms and false pretence. While as lovers GENERAL—SEvENTH Pace. | of artand worshippers of the beautiful we may ASHANTEE ROYAL LIFE AND DIPLOMACY! A regret that religion in the United States has tea lg) ee as ed ae not found expression in cathedrals like West- WOLSELEY! THE HAREM! 300 wives. ™inster and Cologne, we have a better and FourTH Pace. more comprehensive faith, which comes from <ps op the diffusion of intelligence and thought, and DT THEATRE, DON JUAN, at P. M.; closes Powery. —Gorman 0 a ue M, Mme. Lu TONY PASTOR'S OPER No. 21 Bowery ~VARLETY ED M. ; closes at li P. M. NT, at 8 P. E BRI- B Twenty-third s ‘ 5 closes GASD>: NEGK at lor. M. BAIN HALL, Great Jones street and Lafayette place.—THE PILGRIM, NES P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. TRIPLE SI New York, Monday, March 2, 1874. rs) theology, the arts of speech and composition, | denominational | tion than the respect and honor paid to | | nate if he married her ladyship’s maid. Com- | in Swift, for instance, with the lives of clergy- | men to-day, and we see at once the pro- | | more virtuous and seemly behavior among | | women than in America. Is it too much to | | per. These prophets appeal only to the cre- dulity and ignorance of mankind. So long as ignorance is unmolested they will live and~ | constantly appear in new forms of life. Igno- | rance grows less from day to day, as the press and the pulpit grow strong, and the religion of the future will be the religion of intelli- gence and common sense. Therefore we are convinced that nothing | does more to aid truth and inquiry than the | publicity given to religious addresses and ser- | mons and the views of devoted and gifted men. We shall do the duties that fall to us with more earnestness and alacrity because of their efforts and their eloquence. None of us are too successful, or too great, or too gifted, or too busy not to think now and then of the old, old story of Divine love and redemption, here recited—so old, and yet always so new. We shall not only be better fitted for the du- ties and responsibilities of life by hearkening to the words here spoken, but be better pre- pared for that destiny which comes to all sooner or later, and the mystery of which is the constant study of so many of our faithful clergymen. | A People’s Park in the Adirondacks. The bill introduced in the State Legisla- | ture to form a public park in the Adirondacks is proper and timely. It provides for a | Board of Commissioners consisting of such names as Horatio Seymour, Verplanck Colvin, Robert B. Roosevelt, &., and it contem- ) Spaniard than a Welshman is an Englishman. | \ | The Basque is no more a | His language is peculiarly his own. The Basques have their own laws, pay only such taxes as they themselves elect, furnish the | plates taking into the area of the park all the | lands owned by the State lying within the counties of Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herki- | mer, Lewis, St. Lawrence and Warren. The | Commissioners are to act without compensa- | tion, but five parkkeepers are to be appointed | at a salary not to exceed five hundred dollars | each per annum. It is time some steps were | taken to arrest the destruction of the splendid | | forests of white pine, birch, maple and ash | that cover the mountains in this region and | give shelter to the game whose extinction has | been so ruthlessly carried on for years past. The Adirondacks now are as favorite a resort | | for New Yorkers as are the moors of Scotland | % the weary Londoners who betake them- | selves in the season from the smoke |= the great Babylon to the wild, ex- | fisherman who will feel an interest in seeing | steps taken to place this singularly attractive j part of the State under some sort of care and | supervision. The ordinary tourist, in quest | of tke wild beauty of mountain scenery | and of the forest primeval, will be glad to _ learn that provision is about being made to | preserve the great woods that make the chief charm of the Adirondacks from destruction. | The parkkeepers are empowered in the bill to | summon a posse from the nearest settlement | to aid in the extinction of any fires that may | happen in the forests. The object of the bill | is excellent, and the Legislature can have no | hesitation in granting it the full sanction of a Ovr ASHANTEE CorresronpENce.—-We print this morning another letter from our corre- spondent at the headquarters of the British army in the land of the Ashanteas. Although we have had later accounts by cable telegraph, this letter will be found full of interest. At the date of our correspondent’s letter the | natural, therefore, that they should object to | BILBAO ABOUT TO FALL INTO THE HA 2 or Which we sometimes think brings us more and | answer to Sir Garnet Wolseley’s third ultima- THE CARLISTS! THE INVESTM TOLOSA AND ANDOAIN—SEvENTH Pace. more together and towards the realization of tum had just been received. Our correspondent State no soldiers except in case of invasion, select their own alcaldes, and, what is even | rarer in priest-ridden Spain, they are free | from ecclesiastical control by having the right | to nominate their own parish priests. It is | surrender these privileges of self-government, | as they will have to do should the federal principle prevail. Don Carlos is solemnly | and publicly sworn to maintain the ancient fueros, or laws, inviolate. Once, however, | “the King’’ is safely placed on the south { bank of the Ebro, the mountaineers of Alava, | Logrofio, Guipuzcoa and Biscay—forming | the Basque provinces—will likely return to | their native hillsides, to which they cling with { the affection of the chamois, leaving Arragon, Catalonia and Navarre to complete the march | to in Don Carlos’ corselet. His strong points | are the friendship of a powerful and clannish | faction of the old nobility—who see in the | success of the Carlist Bourbons protection for their titles, revenues and the support of the | minor clergy, especially the village curés, | whose control over their parishioners is as unquestioned as a decree of despotic royalty. Strongest of all is the friendship of Cath- olic France—a genuine friendship, which finds substantial expression in gifts of money, arms and horses. What seems to be most needed, though, is a seaport through which may be passed with eelerity and economy supplies and munitions of war, and from whose harbor might be ore ont on the high seas the royal standard, | demanding recognition from the Old World monarchies, < | undoubtedly made with this intent; and, from the fact that the Madrid General Moriones | has been defeated in his attempt to relieve the | besieged town, although supported by a large | force of regular troops, it may be inferred that | Bilbao will soon fall into the hands of the a os ee rae id with such help ag they can get from, ,. | citing sport of the Scottish game region. / th. Southern Spaniar ; ~Thede are the flaws | But it is not alone the adventurous fowler or | The investiture of Bilbao by Dorregaray is -|£ the questions of rank nd precedence. | gether relied upon, but the indulgence in The veteran Elio, who has tollowed the fortunes of Don Carlos’ family in the same shadowy quest from earliest boyhood, refuses to serve under Dorregaray, who, although originally promoted from the ranks, happens somehow to win all the great Carlist victories. Saballs, the famous Catalonian, and Cabacilla, an ex-Papal Zouave, obey Don Carlos and the Pope. Don Alfonso, the brother of ‘the King,” as the pretender is loyally termed, although nominally Commander-in-Chief over all the bands, is permitted only to ride in the advance in silence, like the dead Cid, to awe the foe by his princely presence. We have had ample experience in our civil war to know the evil result of these demoralizing dissen- sions. It must be a delicate and distracting puzzlo for Don Carlos to preserve even the semblance of harmony among -his discordant chiefs, and he will be ill-advised if he at- tempts to cross the Ebro until supported by a properly equipped, officered and | disciplined army. The Basques proper | made the Carlist cause their own, purely be- cause they feared to be brought under a gov- ernmental yoke on the same footing with the other provinces of Spain—a reform which has been demanded by the Peninsular Federation for many years. liquors capable of exciting the passing de- lirium of drunkenness ig one of the strictly human acts, and no race of people has been found anywhere that did not possess an in- toxicating beverage and did not excite them- selves to frenzy by its use. An appetite for beverages of this sort, therefore, seems to haye some foundation in the human constitn- tion ; but, like all other appetites, it tends to over-indulgence and becomes a disease, and the deplorable consequences are known to every community. Consequently the en- deavor to restrain the appetite is as old and as widespread as the appetite itself, and temperance movements of one sort or another have attracted attention from time imme- morial. In the movement of this sort now sweeping over the country we see the ciurac- teristics of our time and our people. It starts earnestly with the good purpose of endeavor- ing to restrain an indulgence that desolates many homes, and as it goes on it becomes difficult to say if it is more remarkable for its grotesque honesty or for the number of snivel- ling hypocrites who claim it as their special property. It is a woman’s movement, too, and regards no ordinary conventionality, no sense of propriety, no rights and no seasons—all con- siderations derived from these being set aside by the presumed high morality of the purpose in view. No doubt moral storms of this sort frequently clear the air and do good, if not otherwise, by proving that a people is capable of making in behalf of a good object the most unexpected exertions, even in circumstances that promise no likelihood of success. Little permanent good to temper- ance will probably come from the movement, and in this city it seems likely to assume a form not unlike the agitation in regard to the “wickedest man,’’ and to direct an attention not charged with reprobation to drinking establishments of a peculiar class. Italfan opera and Its Prosperity in America. An effort to elevate Italian opera to the same level in stage representation as that of dramatic works at some of our leading thea- tres and to remove the obloqay 86 long at- tached to operatic performances in this city should be hailed with pleasure by every patron of Yyric art. For many years past operas have been placed on the metropolitan stage in a manner disgraceful to even an east side theatre, and a few venerable scenes have been made to do service in the most incongruous manner. Every habitué of the opera will remember the large, faded Alpine scene which served as a background to Richmond Fair, the Palace of Selika in India, the banks of the Seine, the environs of Seville and other localities. The | production of *‘Aida,” with new and magnifi- cent mise en scéne, was the first serious attempt to lift the lyric drama out of the Slough of Despond in which it had lain so long, and to give a proper setting to the beautiful tone pictures of the singer and composer. The inauguration of such a reform is an encouraging sign, and will go far towards placing Italian opera on a sounder snd more permanent basis than it has ever had before. The promise of the he present management to bring out this sea- son Wagner’s grand opera “Lohengrin’’ on the same scale of scenic excellence as “Aida” shows that the reform in question is not to be merely transitory. Such a managerial policy cannot fail to be financially Gvu0OD WORDS FROM THE PULPITS! BISHOP that perfect time when the lion and the lamb | McQUAID ON THE COMMON SCHOOL SYs- | TEM! MR, BEECHER ON TEMPERANCE— | |. tare § > Chi Sicwie Pie will believe in one Charch. shall lie down together and the sons of men | of the Basle Mission, who had been a prisoner | im the Ashantee capital since June 1869. On was privileged to meet the Rev. Mr. Kuhne, Carlists. They will no doubt attempt to hold | successful. The New York public is DURELL READY TO pRoP ms svLuEp | % this growth what part is taken by the | the 14th of January this man was set at ERMINE! TREASURY GOLD SALE! Dis. PTess! No daily secular journal can achieve liberty, and bis sudden appearance in the TRICT DEBT—SEVENTH Pace. | any special usefulness and have any concern | camp, coupled with the wretched condition of PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS—AMUSEMENT FEA. | With creeds or church discipline. Into the | bodily health to which he had been reduced, TURES—IMPORTANT LATE NEWS—SkvextH thorny paths of such a controversy we have | was the occasion of great excitement. In the Pace. | no wish to penetrate. Bat what the Heraxp | prief interview with our correspondent Mr. it or demand a swingeing ransom to replenish | quick ’ at appreciating : and encouraging the army chest. In cither or any event Mar- | liberality and enterprise on the stage, shal Serrano has thus far proved himself un- | 98 ™ay be seen in the prosperous able to suppress the Carlist rising, which is assuming the proportions of a revolution. What is next in store for this land of riot and ruin is a problem for the study of the world’s best statesmen. PROGRESS OF THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE! CATHOLILUS AND PROTESTANTS A UNIT began to do some time since, what journals | in other parts of Kuhne imparted much valuable information, Ountsttan Cuantty—We select the follow- the country are doing now, and notably what the Tribune is doing, really represents an alliance be- tween the pulpit and the press. In other GOLD FIELDS AND “FINDS? A MORMON WOPdS, the press gives the pulpit an audience SEARCH FOR EL DORADO—TzNTH Pace. | far exceeding the congregations of Wesley or CELEBRATION OF A TURKISH IVAL BY | Whitefield. Eloquence, even under the most FOR TEETOTALISM—Tuigp Pace, } CONCHA, MARQUIS OF HAVANA, THE COMING CAPTAIN RAL! CUBAN AFFAIRS~ LONDON GOSSIP—THIRD Pace. SULTAN AND PEOPLE! FID ES AND | favorable surroundings, has a limited sway. oe EMINENT DE£AD—TENTH | The words of the orator reach a few ‘AGE. RECENT BUOK PUBLICATIONS IN FRANCE! | THEIR FRENCH AND AME ¥ THORS—A DICKENS ANALYSI Page. away with the millions of other words idly spoken from hour to hour. We have little OURTH Tieng more of Whitefield than a tradition, and what THE GRIM SPECTRE IN OUR MIDST! FURTHER | but 4 tradition will remain to our children of | INCIDENTS IN THE SORROW-FILLED REC- | Spurgeon and Beecher? ORD OF THE POOR—Firts Pace. WASHINGTON SOCIAL HISTORY! SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS—THE RACI REVIVAL IN CHARLESTON, 8, O.—JERSEY'S BOULE. VAnb— “Gd West are THE WEEKLY KEVIEW OF THE FINA But now that the truth and morals the words ot fall upon hundreds of thousands of hearts, |The ihagination “tan scarcely conceive the value of this alliance. Paul, on Mars Hill, had CIAL FIELD—THE NATIUNAL EXCHEQU ER &péstolical power? what would have been the , hundreds, at best a thousand or two, and die | press recognizes the pulpit as an agency of | IDEA—NINTH PAGE. | result if be could have nddtessed the World | throngh the columns of a newspaper like the Coomassie, according to Mr. Kubne’s account, | has a population of some ten thousand people. | He confirms the reports of previous travellers that the King is possessed of immense wealth, | At the commencement of the war the Ashantee army comprised forty-eight thousand: men. Like Brigham Young, King Koffee is an ad- mirer of the female sex, and he boasts of a | harem of three hundred wiv | Sr. Domrco.—The arrest of ex-President Baez, of St. Domingo, is an event not very im- portant in itself, but, with some elements of interest. St. Domingo, in the eyes of the ad- ministration, is a question not dead, butsleep- ing, snd any. gircamstance, however trivial, that will give it new interest, may teopen the old sores of the annexation scheme, Mr. Baez will have abundant justice, and if, as his | counsel tend, his arrest is a blackmailing eulhin, 1 Will have speedy deliverance, But St. Domingo is » dena Js6ue. It was badly | handled during life, and Fete guwhole- | my. | | ing sentences from an article in the Liberal Christian :— Nobody who thinks honesty or decency of much importance cares much what the New York | HERALD sass about anything. Wedo not know that this enterprising but sensational and unreli- able newspaper has ever had any character for fairness or courtesy to lose. When a public jour- | nal detiberately and malicionsly undertakes to de- | | most widely trusted and approved of all our public | | charitable associations it is well worth while to | call attention to the fact that the public repudiates the maligner, and gives the very best sort of proof of its confidence in the management of the aoused | institution by increasing its contributions towards its support. Such, we are glad to hear, has been | the happy result of the HERALD’s base attempt to injure the Children’s Aid Society—a result which | shows voy aL BB, dg Tespectabie part i "he reason af this demonstration is becausé | the Herarp thinks Brace should not appro- | priate for ‘‘salaries” the money paid to his society for charity. We should say, further, that the Liberal Christian is a “Christian” | paper—an “independent journal of religious ; literature, science and art.”’ stroy public confidence in one of the very best and | to career of our standard comedy theatres. The cause of the repeated failures in operatic management here has been the narrow-min ded policy which contented itself with a single star and a company of incapable singers. The present Strakosch troupe is an eminently artistic organization, and complete in every detail necessary to give a well balanced, harmonious representation of an opera. will account for the general success which has attended it in every American city in which performances have been given. Although the financial returns have not been in proportion the artistic merits of the season, owing to the disastrous consequences of the late panic, yet they have been sufficiently large to show the popularity of the new reform in opera. Any other company would have been obliged to succumb to the terrible pressure of the times. But liberal management, even under fhe most adverse circumstances, has won sympathy and \_substantial support, It is a fesson that operatic managers should not forget. New York is atiached to opera and liber- ally patronizes it when it possesses attractive elements. A glance at the lyric entertain. ments promised for this week will show that in Ax Istanp Water Rovre from Donaldson- | this city all the operatic features in America Brace asp Bafivanp.—Our readers must Henatp? Our people this morning may read fot let the truth concerning Brace and Bar- | the best thoughts of our clergymen yesterday. nard clond controversy, We have no quarrel | The earnestness, the eloquence and the fervor with these gentlemen, except to direct public of yesterday's preaching are not lost upon opinion to two facts. First, as regards Brace. | those who attended divine service. It be- He expends, as far as we can ascertain, $79,768 tor charity and $94,289 30 for salaries. becond, as regards Barnard. He expends | 518,886 for charity and $21,640 for salaries, | (n other words, it costs more to support | Brace and Barnard than the whole circle of poor they claim to benefit. These indisputa- | sle facts answer volumes of abuse. Brace and éarnard merely subsist on the benefattions of the charitable citizens of New York, and are, perbaps, among the most expensive paupers ot modern times. found again after many days. It will be seen that we do not confine our- selves to any sect or creed in this publication. Let all who have gifts for sacred oratory is most comforting to their souls. The news- paper becomes in this way the forum for general religious discussion. On one column we have the Gospel as it comes from Rome, on the other the Gospel illuminated by 1 Wesley or the Westminster Assembly. Here some and unclean, and died as it should die. T Wille, Miss;-to the mouth of the Rio Grande In another generation we may think of St. | js in conrse.of survey by officers of the United Domingo, but for the present let us settle | States Engineer corps. The surveys are well | comes as bread cast upon the waters, to be | | Speak; let the multitude read and take what Kansas and California before seeking new acres in the Spanish Main. Axornen Pran Fatss.—The ripe judicial pears are falling one by one, We have had our crop in New York, and now the country’s turn comes, Williams fell, before his great- ness ripened, and now Durell. Durell thinks his time has come. He offered to resign some time ago for a mission; now he resigns with- | ont a mission. Evidently Durell’s usefulness as a judge is at an end, and be falls as the leaves fall in the mouth of drear October. Who will come next? | enough, but it iato be hoped Congress is not | tobe called upor\to dig canals through the | sand from one bayovo another. | | eden Tar Inptan Acext for the Piutes, of Ne- | vada, Mr. Bateman, is acctyed of diverting the rations drawn from the Q.'vernment for the Indians to his own private use. It is by no means certain that the agent is ginity, but on investigation is needed to determine the fact, so that if the allegations are true\the thieving Indian agents of the far West may see that there is punishment in store even for them: | are naturally drawn together. Three distinct companies will appear at different theatres, The Strakosch troupe will produce “Mignon,” “Aida’’ ond “Il Trovatore,"”’ atthe Academy of Music; Mme. Pauline Lucca will appear in “Don Juan,"’ “Die Hugnenotten” and Fra | Diavolo,”’ at the Stadt Theatre, witha German company, and Mile. Ima di Murska will make her rentrée at the Lyceum Theatre in “La Sonnambula’ and ‘“Lucia.’’ Next week Mile. Aimée commences an opéra bouffe engagement, and we shall, likely, have another visit of the Kellogg English Opera Company. This is variety enough to satisfy the most exacting lover of music, and proves incontestably the right of New York to be called an operatic centre, “THe United states Bavy, At the very moment when the officers and seamen of the navy are making a combined movement to advance its professional stand- ing Congress appears to be doing everything in its power to produce demoralization and discontent. The establishment at Annapolis of a United States Naval Institute that must ultimately become a rival of the first scientific institutions of Europe; the appointment of Commodore C. R. P. Rodgers, an officer of great general experience and a gentleman of broad and liberal culture, to succeed the bat- tle-scarred Worden, as the Superintendent of the Academy; the retention of Captain Breese as commandant, an officer who has exhibited vigorous, yet wisely tem- pered executive capacity; the revival of naval tactics as taught by Commo- dore Parker and successfully illustrated during the naval drill in the Florida chaunel; the economical administration of the Marine Hospital described in our naval column this morning—these facts certainly do not indicate that the navy is going to the dogs. Yet, with this creditable zeal and pro- fessional advancement before the country, Congress does not hesitate to initiate a tinker- ing and tampering legislation, the effect of which must be to destroy esprit de corps and float the navy off in the direction of our feeble and unwieldy civil service. We think the public will agree with us, that the navy has been a high-minded and successful institution, because its sole function has been professional proficiency. We regard it as almost fortunate that politics bave never pervaded the cabin or the wardroom. They may hamper Mr. Robeson ; partisan obli- gations have undoubtedly had a great deal to do with his administration of his office, Yet we are not disposed to be hypercritical. When Mr. Robeson does right, when he | advances the interests of the navy, which are essentially those of the nation, the Herauvp will applaud him. There is yet time for the Secretary and for Congress to deal with this question from an elevated standpoint, and sooner or later the people will not only cry out for it, but they will remember those who, being guardians of high trusts, were faithless or indifferent to their obligations. Iceland’s Millennial—874-1874. This is the age of national jubilees, and, not to be behind the rest of the world, the remote island of Iceland will this year cele- brate the millennial anniversary of its coloni- zation. At midsummer its scanty population of seventy-five thousand, scattered over an area little less in size than the State of New York, will flock to the old lava plains of Thingvellir, to hold an Althing, or national assembly, on the same site and with the same forms as in the days of the island’s turbulent but independent medixval Republic. The little college and cathedral at Reykjavik, the arctic capital, will witness a series of eccle- siastical and scholastic festivities; while those sons of Iceland who are passing their lives in other parts of Scandinavia or in Great Britain, for the sake of study or an easier livelihood, will doubtless seize the occasion to “revisit the singular land of their birth. Hap- pily for the island the festival occurs in a period of increasing material prosperity. The present century*has been comparatively free from the scourges of volcanic eruptions and pestilential diseases which in the preceding ones more than once threatened to depopulate the land. The re-establishment of representa- tive government in 1845, the abolition in 1855 of the oppressive trade monopoly enjoyed by the Danes, the augmented value of the exporta resulting from the opening of the island’s rockbound harbors to the commerce of the world, and the subsequent development by British capital of its fisheries and its mines, have infused new hope into every farmstead and hamlet. ‘The interest attaching to Iceland is weh known to students of natural history and | ethnology. Physically it is a region in which | nature has delighted to exhibit, in their su- premest development, both her positive force ‘of heat and her negative force of cold, mak- ing a land of contrasts and anomalies, of flame and frost,” OF feystht and glaciers This | | good estate, | fruitful Etlixologically it is the only polar laud ie | habiteth by a member of the great Aryan | Face, and jts fanguage is the oldest spoken | idiom of the*igutonie stock. Historically it | turnishes one of ihe most splendid examples H of the struggle of matt &guinst the destructive | energies of nature, and of a people creating, in the midst of innumerable obstacles, a social system, ® government and a literature. | The story of its colonization is told by one of | the oldest of its literary monuments, the | Landnimabék—a record of early settlement such as no other nation possesses—which gives, with marvellous detail, the name and origin of more than three thousand of the primitive inhabitants. The island was dis- covered and visited between 860 and 870 by several of the roving vikings of the northern | seas, but it was in 874 that Ingolf Arnarson ; and his companion Leif, two Norwegians of made the first formal and efforts at colonization. These pioneers were speedily followed by the fami- lies of other Norwegian chiefs, driven to seek a new home by the loss of their independence | and of their petty dominions, which had | fallen a prey to that centralizing and feudal- izing conqueror, Harold the Fairhaired. The spirit of emigration to the island soon became so strong that it was caught by many of those Norwegian exiles who had latterly won them- | selves residences on the Scottish islands and | mainland and on the Irish coasts, where Harold's fleetg could still reach them, so that fully one-half of the original population of Ice- land was derived from this source. Thus the best blood of Norway, that of its nobility, long accustomed to rule, and that of its mari- time adventurers, long accustomed to enter- prises of boldness, was poured into the newly found isle. The period of colonization ex- tended from 874 to 928. It was marked by the same features which have characterized all the notable migrations of the world. The wave of settlement began on the southwest coast, moving steadily northward and then eastward and southward, until it had encom- pussed the whole island and peopled all its pleasant valley bottoms near the sea. Every new occupier preempted his claim by a peculiar ceremony. As the population of an outlying district increased places of public worship, dedicated to Thos or Frev. were established ond courts were