The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1874, Page 8

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hapatp. Sia a4 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. No. 74 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenwy-eighth street and Broadway.—CHARITY, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 1030, M. Mr. Fisher, Miss Panny Dayeu- port, —PANTOMIME THEATRE COMI No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY EN + M.; closes at 10 30 P.M. PAINMENT, at 3 NEW YORK HERALD NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Political Re! Austria. Nearly all modern States have moved at least so far in the current of republican ideas that they have freed themselves from the no- tion of divine right. If this figment of the old time statecraft exists in Europe at all it is in Russia only, or in the mountains of Biscay, where the intellectual tenacity is such that the people still retain a language which was spoken by them perhaps before the races of the recent world left their cradle in Asia. It was a severe call upon the popular credulity even in the centuries immediately before the French Revolution to require men to believe that the kings who were then best known were in any sense whatever the representa- | tives of divinity as the world cared to | contemplate and respect it; and the | relic of monarchical moonshine that | was even then losing its hold upon | the general faith has naturally melted away in the fuller light of our own times. Upon | whatever else the monarchs of the modern world base their authority; upon the legiti- mate consent of their subjects, upon their sovereign rights to the crown as a family prop- erty, upon their bayonets or upon the politi. | cal jugglery of universal suffrage, they do not soberly claim, as kings did anciently, that they are descended from gods; nor do they | even adhere to the ecclesiastical copy of that | ancient notion, which replaced the tancy of a | divine descent with the thin simulacrum of a divine designation to the exercise of kingly | Prerogatives. | Hence monarchical States have less need of BOOTH's T! Sixth avenne and iwenty-thi _THE COLLEEN BAWN, at7:45 P. M.; closes at 10 M. Dion Bouci- cault. BROOKLYN THEATRE, | Washington street, Brooklyn —MEDEA, at P.M. ; closes atuiP. M. Mme. Janauschek WALLACK’S THEATRE, Pass Broadway and 7 euth streek—THE RIVALS, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P.M. Mr. John ilbert, Miss Jeifreys | Lewis. Fourteenth n Opera Troupe— | LES HUGUE M. Nils . ENTS, M.: ¢ atl son, Maresi and Cary ; Campanini, Maurel, Del Puente. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between fiouston aud Bleecker. streets.— VAUDEVILLE a Y eNTERTAINMENT, at BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Ziv, ats P.M; opposite City Hall, Broo kly u. closes at LPM. Lotta. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—REVEN..E, and VARIETY ENTERTAIN. | MENT. begins at 8 P! M.; closes at LI P.M. THBATR: TY ENTERTAINMENT, at | Miss Jennie Hugnes. METROPOLI 585 Broadway — POM. ; closes at 10 NIBLO'S RDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets —DAYY | CROCKETI, at3 P.M; ciuses at 0:30 FM. Mr, Frank Mayo. LYCEUM THEATRE | Fourteenth street, ne Boufle—LA FLLLE D cloges at 1045 PM.) Wood's MU. Broadway, corner Thirtiett sti ICK WHIFFLES, | at 2 P.M: closes at 4:0 P ¢ MAN FROM | AMERICA, at SP. M, ; closes at 10:30 P.M. THEATRE, | IL TROVATORE, at 8 P.M; | STAD’ Bowery.—German Over closes at 1 P.M. Mine. Lui TONY PASTUR’S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Rowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. ML. ; closes at If P.M. BRYANT Twenty-third s rect, STRELSY, &c., at P, a ERA HOU: xth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- ses at 10 P.M, COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of ‘hirt\-fifth street.—PARIS BY MOONLIGHT, at iP. M.; closes at 51’. M.; sume at7 P. BL; closes at 10 QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, March 15, 1874. are that the weather to-da ; will be cold and partly cloudy. Tue Openine or Sprinc.—The anticipa- tions recently expressed by the Heraup in | reference to an active and forward spring, so far as business is concerned, are being rapidly realized. The country seems to throb with new life. From all sections we have evi- dences of renewed business activity. The panic has lost its force. Our people have shown their natural elasticity and resolution, and bid fair to redeem all they have lost. New enterprises are being planned in most of the States, and in New York we seem really to be determined to have rapid transit. With twenty bills in Albany we should have one railroad in time. New York is a type of the country’s business resurrection, and the Herarp, as the type of New York, shows this morning, in its sixty-three columns of advertisements, an unerring indication of the situation and most gratifying indications of what the season will bring. Mr. Sumyznr’s Remarns Annivep mx Boston at half-past seven o'clock last evening, and were immediately conveyed to Doric Hall, in | the Capitol building, on Beacon Hill. A full report of the journey will be found elsewhere, with the proceedings in Faneuil Hail. Tse Grarn REeEcEIVERS anD THE Rau- rnoaps.—Yesterday a conference was held in the Produce Exchange, in this city, between the grain receivers and the representatives of | the railroad companies. The meeting has been looked forward to with some interest, and, as was to be expected, both interests were well represented. The new rules of the Board of Managers of the Produce Exchange were Giscussed at length, and so far have, with some modifications, been approved. The conference adjourned until the 28th of the present month, when it is hoped that all the differences between the receivers and the railroads will be satisfactorily adjusted. The rapid and easy transport of grain to the East is one of the leading questions of the hour. If the receivers and the railroads come to o satisfactory agreement the community, as well as themselves, will reap the benefit. Toe Crry Hatt Liquor Dearer mm a Fr.—The temperance ladies besieged the City Hall yesterday and tried their persuasive powers upon the keeper, who has a liquor establishment in this piece of city property. The keeper confessed it was not a paying business, and said he had stopped it. ‘The boys,” he remarked, ‘didn’t pony up.”” They drank his pony brandy pretty lively, but did not pay. who were Charlie’s customers—who of the City Council or different departments con- sumed in such a lively manner his liquor without paying for it. The keeper was evidently a little staggered by the earnest and lady-like manner of the besiegers, and offered to sell out the liqnor he had left at cost. Though Charlie did not seem to have any qualms of conscience about selling liquor his unprofitable customers and the appeal of the ladies put him in a fix. Sr. Parricn’s Day.—The programme of the order of the civic procession which will | parade in New York on the anniversary of | the patron saint of Ireland is given in our columns to-day. It will, no doubt, be a very | not palatable to royalty. “ | the Church than they had once. Some of the | consequences of this change, may be seen in | the fact now before the world of an open rup- ture of the German Empire with the Pope, | though William has Catholic subjects; anda | threatened rupture of the Austrian Empire, | whose people at large are Catholics. All the struggle between Rome and Berlin is matter | of common history; and now, as our news de- spatches show, that between Rome and Vienna | is becoming active by the direct action of the Pope in a letter to the Emperor, and in a pro- test against the repeal of the Concordat. Denial of its divine authority was at first It was altogether a notion of the naughty people. It came from below. It was cast at the kings as a re- proach—and they resisted and repressed the | notion with what they conceived to be appro- priate severity, for it seemed to them that the denial of their divine right was, as it may have been, only part of a propaganda that meant to proceed and deny them every other right. They perceived with unconscious self- condemnation that, judged by strictly human standards, the majority of them might have very little to say for themselves. But the world, viewing political relations more accu- rately, sees now that the position and right of the king as an organic element of certain States is none the Jess thoroughly sound and legitimate for the want of the ecclesiastical sanction ; and since this has been observed the owners of sceptres have discovered that there is another side to divine right and that as viewed from this other side it might be an advantage to them to be absolutely rid of it. From this new point of view the subject bears upon a very | old conflict, and relates directly to the inde- pendence of kings; to their freedom from re- straint and even dictation in the administra- tion cf such very important parts of the pub- lic service as the education of the people and the appointments to all the high ecclesiastical offices. In the times of divine right there was an interchange of good offices between the Church and royalty, the practical result of which was that every State was divided between the eccle- siastical and the political authorities. None could ascend the throne nor hold it against the will vf the head of the Church; and very unpleasant consequences were experienced by several who, in notable instances, endeavored to defy in this matter what was then virtually | | the common law of Christendom; and thus the Pope's consent was indispensable for the comfortable occupancy of any throne. This consent was only given where the Church was sure that the spiritual welfare of the people was properly provided for, and it was only sure of | this generally where it had control of the pop- ular education and the appointment of the bishops, and where, through the bishops or other functionaries devoted to it, it had con- | trol of the ecclesiastical revenues. Now, kings | are not very much unlike other executives in regard to appointments to good places. Even | authority is excessively fond of having its own way in filling the offices, and is impatient of restraints and even of criticism, especially when the appointments are particularly bad or made for reasons that will scarcely bear the light. This is one of the points in which kings and presidents have a family likeness to one another. Royalty therefore generally made many grimaces over what it always looked upon as the hard conditions exacted by the Church, never failing to forget that the Church was in the States of those days a more legitimate and better founded power than itself. All the conflicts with the Papal power arose in this difference, and the Church gen- erally proved the legitimacy of its claim by the demonstration of its moral and physical su- premacy, and, quietly or otherwise, the kings always came to terms, In every European State in which the | Church of Rome has power the relations of | Church and State have crystallized in the | forms given by that old struggle; but now | some vigorous spirits propose a rearrangement. | rule and stand before the people just as well without it, and that therefore they will not re- | tion linquish their control of a vast witronage only | burning of settlers’ houses, | part of the political machinery ; ¢hat they can | It clearly precipitates in Germany a conflict that was not necessary in this generation, and the basis of which might have passed away with the century. But to endeavor to retain a failing allegiance by a more absolute asser- tion of authority has been the mistake of all sovereigns, spiritual and political, and Rome was no wiser than other capitals when by this error she supplied her enemies in Ger- many with the most effective weapon they wield against her. Charity from a Lyric Point of View. The noble response of the managers and artists in the dramatic world to the calls of the destitute in this city, as exemplified in the colossal entertainment projected by Messrs. Wallack and Daly, has not been with- out weight in musical circles. In an inter- view with Mme. Christine Nilsson, which we publish to-day, that renowned artist and es- timable lady announces her desire and inten- tion to give one grand musical entertainment for the benefit of the poor before her departure tor Europe. In this laudable undertaking she will be assisted by the principal members of the Strakosch Italian opera company and other eminent artists in this city, Mme. Pauline Lucca, the reigning queen of German opera, and for many years one of the brightest stars on the Italian stage, is also desirous of contributing her talents to tho cause of charity. The appearance of these two incomparable artists in the same opera would be sure to attract the entire musical public of the metropolis and would reflect un- dying fame on their illustrious names. Then Mr. P. 8. Gilmore, of Peace Jubilee renown, who has organized and carried forward toa state of efficiency the best military band in this country, the one attached to the Twenty-sec- ond regiment, is anxious, too, to take part in such a grand musical entertainment as we have indicated. The leading vocal organiza- tion in America, the New York Liederkranz Society, which can place on the stage a chorus of two hundred skilled voices, will be another prominent feature. Everything, therefore, conduces to give the forthcoming entertain- ment the fairest outlook possible, To-Day’s Pulpit Topics. Two great themes attract the attention of the preachers to-day—the death of Mr. Sum- ner and the great temperance movement. Always the friend of the oppressed, and since their enfranchisement the fast friend of the colored people, they naturally feel that the nation’s loss is peculiarly their loss. This evening, therefore, the colored people purpose to meet in Republican Hall with the Shiloh Presbyterian church, where Dr. Garnet, who has known Mr. Sumner more intimately perhaps than any other colored minister in the city, will tell his congregation how true a friend they have lost, and how much, uncon- sciously, perhaps, they owe of liberty and equal rights to the great heart and broad intellect and supreme eloquence of the deccased states- man. Other ministers, too, will doubtless give expression to the sense of grief and loss which the colored people of the country must now feel. “The Crusade of the Women” is a fruitful topic just now for the pulpit, and will be for weeks to come. It will be the theme ot Mr. Underwood's discourse to-day in Bethany chapel, and will, most likely, receive also the attention of many other pastors beside. By a resolution of the Methodist ministers, at their meeting last Monday, one part of this day’s service is to be devoted in all their churches to the discussion of this subject and to prayer for the success of the crusaders. Paul preached a gospel which, whether it dif- fered from that now preached or not, will probably be explained in the Catholic Apos- tolic church this evening; but why a doubt of its similarity should thus be thrown out by the preacher we are at a lossto know. We believe a gospel as pure as that which Paul preached is ministered to-day in thousands of Christian pulpits throughout the world. Like the temperance movement, the ques- tion of popular amusements has occupied the attention of pastors and church peopie for some time. The relation of the Church to this question will be discussed by Dr. Rylance, in St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal church, this evening. A couple of months ago the Doctor read an essay on this subject before the Church Conference of Ministers, in which he took very liberal and advanced ground in favor of, and not against, amusements. He does not think it is the Church’s business to in republics we have seen that the central | say what kind of music he shall hear, what books he shall read or how he shall enjoy himself. A correct religious sentiment is the only cure for the degraded forms of amuse- ment now prevailing among us. The Church should create this sentiment first, and the other will follow of necessity. Rev. Fathers Damen and Garcsché, the elo- quent missionaries, will preach, the latter to-day and both during the week, in the Church of the Holy Innocents, and Dr. Edward Beecher will make his début in the pulpit of the Bleecker street Universalist church. The Real Indian Drama. The red-skinned pets of Congress gathered on the reservation at Fort Hill are suffering from ennui. The gentle savages are sighing for a little excitement, and as there are no sensation theatres on the Plains the poor Indian has to get up a real drama, spiced according to his fancy. Being ina playful mood, the braves are thinking of getting up a performance on a large scale for their own It would be interesting to know | Their ene) CaP rsvon of all its disguises, is | profit and amusement, as well as the sutistac- | | simply that divine right is no longer any | tion of their Washington patrons, The scene will open with the taking of | some Texan scalps, and a grand senga- effect will be produced by the The chief | ened its position by an extreme assertion of to keep on terms with a Church of which fhey | interest of the performance will lie in its haps it is unfortunate for the Church that just | taken and real farmhouses be burned down. as the time had come when its old conflict |The effect will be heightened by burning the with the political authorities was about to be | inhabitants itfhey are fools enough to remain | reopened on this issue, it should have weak- in the theatre of opetations, When the play its authority, to which monarchs cannot as- | amusement Uncle Sam will send down a body sent without a moral abdication. x | of troops to escort them back to the reserva- “Councils,” said St. Gregory of Nazianzen, | tion, where they will receive a new supply of “are never without danger; and I have never | ammunition and be thanked in the name of known an assemblage of priests and bishops | their Congressional friends and admirers, As fine affair, particularly if the weather goddess | that ended happily, nor that has not served | soon as the savages have recuperated and life prove propitious, Can she frown on such gal- | rather to increase than to dissipate evils.’’ dant devotees? becomes dull at Fort Sill the performance Perhaps the future historian of the Church | will be renewed, is over and the braves are tired ont with their | The Temperance Movement—Persecut- fing the Beersellers. It is not easy to separate the wheat from the chaff in the temperance movement. The methods of this new crusade were in the be- ginning entirely phenomenal and exceptional, Against law, and apparently against reason, the women in a number of Ohio towns went into the beerhouses and dramshops seeking to sing and pray intemperance out of the world. In the smaller towns few men can withstand the concentrated public opinion of the better part of the community. Accord- ingly the ramsellers found themselves as badly off as the witches of Salem, and so far as their business was concerned met with as cruel a fate. It was public scorn crushing them in the name of religion. When the new method came to be applied to the larger towns and cities, where the effects of intemperance are most disastrous, it proved a complete failure. A few men, like the keeper of a notorious den in this city, were willing to ad- vertise their business by allowing a prayer meeting to be held in one room of their capacious ‘‘establishments’’ while they dealt out quick damnation in another. It was discovered, too, that the inventor and chief apostle of the movement was only help- ing the Lord when the Lord caused him to be fed, not with manna as of old, but with fifty dollar greenbacks. All these things help to bring the movement into utter dis- repute, to expose its sensational character, to prove its inconsistencies and show its tyran- nous folly. It is the persecuting spirit of the seventeenth century ina new form—godly women treading ungodly men to the earth. Its philosophy is that the wicked have no rights which the good are bound to respect. Who can tell where the ardor of the new reformers may stop? Already they have taken an important step in advance, when they assume the aggressive and pretend to become, not a moral force party, but a sect appealing to penal laws to compel compliance with their peculiar views. The Grand Jury of Pomeroy, Ohio, have found two hundred indictments against liquor dealers, and it is evident that the crusaders in that district do not mean to confine themselves to the comparatively harmless tactics of psalm singing. But if a man can be indicted for selling beer or wine, articles recognized as legal commodities of traffic, why not for selling Eau de Cologne or buttermilk? Ifa mob of temperance crusaders can invade a man's premises and interrupt his business, and, in case he refuses to be converted, indict him, then the foundations of personal liberty are shaken and society is at the mercy of fanatics just as much as it was in the Mid- dle Ages. Who will say that the Ohio reformers, in their ardor to suppress the liquor traffic, may not propose to burn the beersellers, if the indictments should fail of their effect? History may repeat itself, and, though this is a material age, there is no reason why men should not be prepared to die for beer, which, in its way, is a substantial, comprehensible blessing to the poor. Men have died for ideas they liked but did not comprehend, and why should not martyrs be found ready to suffer in the cause of beer, which they both like and understand? We have it on good authority that Of all cookeries most ‘The saints love @ roast, and it is quite within the range of possibility that Dio Lewis may yet preside at an auto-da- Jfé tor the conversion of beersellers. But the hosts of the Evil One are never over- come in this way, for no wrong was ever righted by another wrong. The temperance crusade in its original shape is a failure; but out of it has come another movement, Chris- tian in character, which will do much good. This is simply to reclaim the fallen, to reform the drunkard and succor his family. One drunkard restored to his wife and children and putin the way of supporting them is a greater achievement than a hundred beer- shops closed for a day or a week or a month, The Merchant and the Traveiler. Dr. I. I. Hayes, the Arctic traveller, in one of the most effective passages ix recent plat- form oratory, has stated a truth little known or appreciated. It is a fact, as he says, that the merchant has been, and is, the pioneer in geographical exploration. We cannot better present the idea than by quoting the striking paragraph itself :— The merchant has, jadeed, always been the pioneer in geographical exploration. 1t is some- times supposed tuat conquering armies have been the jeaders iu civilized progress; but it is not so. ‘The merchant has invariably been the pioneer. It is the spirit ol adventure inspirea by the spirit or desire of gain that has throughvut all vime ied men into untrodden fieids. Men willgo further and dare more in pursut: of gain than in the cnase of glory—more even than iu support of their religion, The merchant is vot ohne Who merely buys and sells. In ancient times he commanded stips and fought battles; in later days he was the trusted counsellor of kings; iu our own time he 1s the musier of empires. He was 1n Persia and India long be.ore the conquering armies of Alexander the Great; ne was in Tartary and China belore tne priest. It was a party of merchants travelling irom the base of Moant Ararat to trade with the Roman merchants at Antioch who, learning by the way thata King of the Jews had been bornin Bethlehem of Judea, turned aside trom their course to do Him homage and to make Him a rich present of spices and of myrrh, * Long before Speke and Grant looked over the broad expanse of the Victoria Nyanza for the first time the merchant traders from Khartoom knew that in that basin was one of the fountain-heads of the Nile. The Arabs and Dongolawee of Aboo Sout, a famous slavedealer of the Soudan, had often visited not only the shores of the Victoria, but were familiar with a long reach of the Albert Nyanza, first seen by a white man on Sir Samuel Baker's journey of discovery when he was accompanied by Lady Baker. The traders who annually descended the Nile did not think it of sufficient importance to make any permanent record of what they saw, but accounts of tolerable accuracy describing the entire lake region of Equatorial Africa have been current in the Soudan since the expedition of Mahomet Ali in 1824. If we turn to India is it not the merchant who has pushed everywhere before the explorer? | Central Asia furnishes a like example of this suppose they have no longer any need. Per- | vividness, and in reality real scalps will be | truth, Caravais routes now intersect coun- tries never trod by @ professional explorer. It is well known that any traveller who wishes to be successful, and above all to prosecute scientific researches unharmed by semi-bar- barians, is much better off when he goes with | goods to barter than when, notebook in hand, he invades a mysterious country to gather a harvest of hasty impressions. Dr. Schwein- furth owes all of his eminent achievements to the fact that he was attached to a trading party; and it is t the members of Poncet’s | gang that he owes the greater part of the imnortant iofdrmation wpigh be is about to publish to the world, In our own country the merchant “in pursuit of gain” has wandered everywhere as the avant-courier of science. The Holland Land Purchase and the Hudson Bay Com- pany have done more to bring to light mys- terious tracts of territory than all the ex- plorers who were active during the time that these companies held powerful sway. What has been true in this regard is true now; the merchant to-day precedes the explorer. Should we not, then, utilize his knowledge gained in close contact with unknown peo- ples? Should not every man who goes out “in pursuit of gain’? do something also for geographical knowledge? We think so. It would bs an easy matter for the Geographical Society to put itself in communication with all this class of travellers, and thus reveal valuable information concerning the one- seventeenth portion of the world remaining unknown. If Maury could utilize the mer- chant seamen the Geographical Socicty should be able to utilize the merchant traveller. Condensed Religious Press Opinions. The Christian Union indulges in a homily for Lent, and then with due gravity passes to the consideration of a question of the day— the sin of being funny, as it has been illus- trated by Dr. Porteous and the two bishops. Nothing could be more out of character in a clergyman, the Union sarcastically remarks, than wit and humor. If Dr. Porteous had been dull he might have found very ancient precedent to justify him and many modern examples to keep him company. No olergy- man ever had his license revoked because he was dull, Such men: are “‘safe’’ in any de- nomination. But itis a grievous sin to be in- teresting, and to be funny is dreadful, as Dr. Porteous has discovered by this time. The Independent is absorbed in the temper- ance crusade in Ohio, which has demonstrated one truth above all others—namely, that moral forces are the mightiest. Every successful popular movement, it says, develops more or less of fanaticiam, and it expects as much from this movement. But so, too, is every great awakening of public sentiment sure to be followed by a reaction, and it anticipates nothing less from this. But the net results of the campaign will be large and good. The sentiment of the community with regard to liquor selling will be elevated, and this, the Independent thinks, is no small result of itself. The Evangelist comes out unmistakably in favor of the passage of the Compulsory Educa- tion bill, now before the Legislature of this State. The State is bound to repress crime, and as crime springs from ignorance it is therefore the imperative duty of the State not only to provide its children and youth with the means and opportunities for education, but to see also that they avail themselves of these facilities. The proposed union between the Presbyterians and the Reformed and also between the former and the Cumberland branch of the family receives attention from the Evangelist and from others of our religious exchanges. The Methodist takes pleasure in the steps already taken towards consummating such an important union. It also has some reflections on ‘“‘The Tichborne Caso,’’ which presented so many strange features for Court and jury, Bench and Bar; and it groups some of Mr. Beecher’s thoughts in his Yale lectures on the substance of preaching, from which it deduces the belief that Mr. Beecher is thoroughly orthodox in his religious faith. The Observer says ‘‘Amen” to the almost completed union of the Presbyterian and Re- formed churches, and heartily commends a re- duction in the machinery of church and other charities. The efficiency with which any work is done will depend largely upon the energy of the head of the department. Where the work is divided up among many the responsibility is diminished, the service ren- dered is enfeebled and the directness of opera- tion scattered. It therefore favors a concen- tration of power and of effort. The Christian at Work has some sensible and practical thoughts on family religion and minding one’s own affairs. It opposes the scheme to put God in the constitution, deem- ing it of much greater value to place the trath of Christ in the hearts and souls of men, and the legislating of Christianity may with safety then be left to the habitual constitution tinkers. The Christian Intelligencer rejoices in the work of the conference committees which met here lately to prepare a platform upon which Southern and Northern Presbyterians may come together. The Baptist Weelly reviews the religious field and exults over the extent and thorough- ness of the revival spirit which is sweeping over the land. And the Examiner and Chronicle steps in with some timely advice ‘To Those Now Putting on Christ.” Constancy in seeking the truth, humility in receiving it and perse- verance in obeying it are necessities in a Christian life because it is a life, and as such must have nourishment and expression. One of the boldest and most fearless edi- torial comments on the Potter-Porteous cor- respondence that have yet appeared we find in The Working Church, evidently written by Dr. Tyng, Jr., who once felt the force of High Church authority on his Low Church head. This journal declares that Bishop Potter can- not be permitted to strike a blow at the Low Church clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church over the shoulders of Dr. Porteous; that he has taken a position on this matter which is absolutely without foundation and opposed to the universal usage of the Church, | and which he must sustain or recede from | either by a pastoral letter or an ecclesiastical | trial. This savors of fight by the Low Church | clergy and party. The Tablet looks over the ground of ‘The Refigious Orders and Their Work,’’ and takes pleasure in the position of Catholic Ireland to-day, so like the Ireland of St. Patrick's | time that, should he come to earth next Tues- day and join in tite procession, he could hardly see any difference. The Catholic Review is taken up with the pilgrimage and with cer- tain school matters in New Jersey, and the Freeman's Journal has an elaborate obituary of the Chevalier Murray, for whom it puts its editorial page in mourning. The Jewish papers, like some of our other local and out-of-town exchanges, present noth- ing very noteworthy this week in their edi- torial columns. —— en Tammany Hawt, as will be seen from our columns this morning, is putting on new life gad giving other signa ofa senwakening, The nn ner msninenaceiasmemncmmenmemenssazsuammmmmumaieecmaacaT ia gam i na 0 a I RR” ea a ee ons of Divine Right— | may be compelled to assent that to this the Church and State im Germany ana | last Ecumenical Council was no exception. Organizing Committee mot yesterday, the Hon. Jobn Kelly in the chair, A committes was appointed to draft resolutions on the deaths of President Fillmore and Senator Sumner. The delegates from the two new wards—the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth— were present, After all her misfortune old Tammany may yet be a power in the midst ofus, If she has benefited by her bitter ex- perience it will be all the better for herself. Our Surrznma Poor anp Taxrr Frienps.— “The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always,’’ were the words of the Saviour of men on a deeply interesting occa- { sion. The poor, in seasons of prosperity, are too liable to be forgotten. In these testing ‘| times, however, they have been forced upon our attention; and it is pleasing to think that, if now we have the poor with us in a very em- phatio sense, the spirit of the Master still re- mains in the hearts of His followers. Our pictures of poverty are painful, but the out- flow of charity gives to the dark cloud tha silver lining. Our columns this morning show that the suffering is as severe and aa widely spread as ever. They also show that the public mind is fully alive to tho situation, and that great and laudable efforts are being made to relieve the oxisting distress. The police captains have become as fully alive to their ability as to their responsibilities, and ag the result of their special efforts some of the wards of the city are nobly responding to the call of duty. Let the good work go on, and let it not be forgotten that whatsoever we do to a disciple in the name of a disciple shall have a disciple’s reward. Victor Huvco.—Our Paris correspondent sends us an admirable letter, which we print elsewhere, giving a synopsis of Victor Hugo’a new novel. ‘This book, entitled ‘‘’Ninety- Three,’’ has long been anticipated with interest by all classes of public opinion; for, no matter what may be thought of the views of Victor Hugo on the politics of the Revolution, he is a master of color and style and expression, and cannot but throw new light upon that tremendous time. We infer, from what our correspondent says, that the book is marked with many traces of the author's exaggeratiom But, notwithstanding, its publication is a literary event; for when Hugo writea the world is an audience. Rarner Duw. wm ‘Warn Srrezt.—The brokers and stock speculators complain of business being dull in consequence of the currency question being held so long in abey- ance in Congress. They do not know what the final action of Congress may be, and are unwilling to make contracts. If this were the only evil of Congressional inaction upon the currency question it would be little loss to the country, for stock and gold gambling adds nothing to the legitimate business or the wealth of the country. But, for other reasons and for the general welfare, it is to be hoped Congress will soon dispose of the matters per- taining to the currency and national finances, PERSONAL INIELLIGENCE, pb ae Ex-Congressman J, M. Warren, of Troy, 8 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Surgeon G. W. Wood, United States Navy, tr registered at the Hoffman House. State Senator D. P. Wood, of Syracuse, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. President Andrew D. White, of Cornell Unt- versity, has apartinents at the Hoffman House. Sothern sent ten barrels of four to as many Chicago widows, and it wasn’t Dundrearily eitner. One Gail has asked the Mississippi Legislature to change his name, as he married a Miss Breeze and is afraid of squalls. And now it 1s discovered that Butler's Collector (Simmons) won his title of ‘The Poor Soldier Boy” behind a sutler’s counter. Mary Kane, of New Haven, before eloping with amarried man, showed her filial devotion to her mother by getting ber into tne almshouse, There are four ex-Lord Chancellors in Engiand— Lords st. Leonards, Chelmsford, Hatherley and Selborne. Each draws a pension of £5,000. Miss Nellie Grapt’s Sartorious owns a farm im Wisconsin, whicn he tilled until the death of his brother made him heir to an Englisn estate. At Lawrenceburg, Ind., on the 10th, little Flora Boothold skipped a rope 351 times, fell to the ground, and the angels skipped away with her, Miss Belle Murray, deputy clerk of McLean county (Iuinois) Circuit Court, is being tried for embes, ziement, Bad news tor the women’s rights party, truly! The Earl of Dunraven, Viscount Parker and Dr. Kingsley, of England, who have been on an ex- cursion to Florida, are staying at the Brevoort House, Baron de Bussi@re, of France, was @ passenger on the steamsuip Baitic, which sailed yesterday, He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Ben Holliday, Jr., son of the Pacific coast millionnaire, Captain Nolan was a candidate for the repre- sentation of Galway, Ireland, in Parliament, at the recent election. He said he was a home ruler, and was accepted as such on all hands; but the county newspapers soon found that his election address was not printed in Galway and denounced him as a sham. One editor declared that the Captain had attempted ‘to prop up the metropolis of England at the expense of the printars of Gal- way.” Declaring that Irish type had done his printing, Captain Nolan stvod up against the entire Galway press and fought his way to Par- lament. Aman who is said to be neither an adventurer nor lunatic, and who lives in a smali town of Tuscany, Italy, declares that he is the Duke de Reichstadt, the son of Napoleon I. He ts said to resemble the Emperor as he was late in life. He says thatin 1814 the chiid, who was afterward known as the Duke de Reichstadt, was substituted for him, aud that he was first confided to # Dominican and afterward to a Knight of Malta, For sixty years this claimant has lived in Tuscany on & modest income provided mysteriously, and although he has always declared himself the Duke de Reicustadt he bas never attempted to have his claim authorized. When he was fat he was very, very fat, and when he was lean, a skeleton. In these two alter. nating conditions of being William Dubury lived for a long time in London, England. Once, when he was lean, he exnibited himself as @ curiosity. But success, strange as 1t may seem, spoiled his businesa, He got money enough to procure food with which to gorge nimself, and soon he rounded with flesh the bones that had been curiously ob- trusive, Having spentall his money, Dubury had no resource but to again become @ skeleton, Nas ture had made too many changes, however, and when he reached the only state in which he could live by the monetary contributions of sight-seers he died from exhaustion. EXTENDING MANITOBA TERRITORY, Orrawa, Maren 14, 1874. The Manitoba delegates, Messrs, Howard and Royal, of the provincial government, are here pur- suing negotiations with the Dominion government for extended territorial boundary and improved relations in other respects with the Dominion. The members o1 the House of Commons from that region Will shortly be here to assist in promoting the views of the delegates, According to the plan submitted by the Execu- tive Council of Manitoba, the province as extended would embrace an area of about 109,000,000 acres, instead of 9,000,000 as at present, and would ex- tend to the west, north and east, and be made tq has: . Mah (he WAMLELE LOLUer Of UBparlds