The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1874, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the | aear, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price $12. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. 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.. SEMENTS THIS EVENING. —+——_—_ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty eighth street and Broadway.—CHARITY, at $ P. M. ; closes at 10:30. Ml. iaher, Miss Fanny Daven port. Mr. Fi | ) GRAND OPERA HO 3 Fighth avenue and Twenty-third st PANTOMIME | aud VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. Begins at 745 2. M.; closes at 10:45. M. The Martuuetti Family. E. TAINMENT, at 8 THEATRE COMIQU! No, 54 Broadway. —VARIETY ENIER’ #7 M.; clogs at 1030 P. M. h a ecniy thied street -THE COLLEEN Sixth avenue and twenty-third street.— 3 BAWN, at 745 P, M.; closes at 1045 P. M. Dion Bouci- cault. 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Mr. Frank | Mayo. i} Ly’ THEATRE, Fourteenth street, n . —French Opera Boufle—LA FILLE DE T, ats P.M; closes at l0 45 P.M. Mile. WOOD'S MUSEUM, orner Thirtieth street—N closes at 4:30 P M. THE MAN 8 P. M.; closes at 10:20 P. M. 1 | Broadway, c | Pon: ICK WHIFFLES, ai 5 AMERICA, af FROM STADT THEATRE, Bowery.—German Opera—IL TROVATORE, at 8 P. M.; closes at ll P.M. Mme. Lucca. TONY PASTUR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P, M. ; closes at Lf P.M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third sireet, m th avenue.—NEGRO MIN. STRBLSY, &c.,at8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of ihirty-firth street.—PARIS BY MMONLIGHT, ati P. M.; closes atS ¥. M.; same at7 P. Mz; closes at 10 P, M. TRIPLE SHE ET. New York, Monday, March 16, 1574, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy with rain, Szrrano Reapy to Sramz—And now Marshal Serrano has gathered his forces around the Carlists and we may expect a battle which will test the strength of both parties. A great victory would crush the Carlist cause, but a great defeat, while it might not destroy the Republic, would greatly prolong the war. Tae Fine m Panama, which we report in eur columns this morning, was a most exten- sive and serious conflagration, entailing very heavy losses on property owners in the Isthmus City, and also on some foreign in- surance companies. The local appliances for combating the devouring element were ex- ceedingly defective. Trrevres To Sumner.—While the remains of Charles Sumner await sepulture many feel- ing tributes are paid to the memory of the dead scholar and statesman. Faneuil Hall re- sounds with his praises, as it is fitting it should, this historic building being the scene of his first political address. His neighbors of Boston and his countrymen all over the land, in testifying to his virtues as a man and his services as a Senator, but proclaim the re- ward that is accorded to the man who is honest and earnest in public life. Music and Cuanity.—The noble response of Mme. Christine Nilsson and Mme. Pauline Lucca, when requested to give their views on the question of charity, sheds additional lustre on two names already enshrined in the temple of fame. With such artists at the head of the proposed musical entertainment for the benefit of the suffering poor there can be no doubt of its entire success. It is proposed to give a concert and operatic performance at the Acad- emy of Music on Satarday evening, March 28, with such @ combination of talent as has been rarely drawn together in Europe or America. The worthy example shown by Mr. Wallack and Mr. Daly in dramatic charity has already borne fruit, and the leading representatives of the musical world are determined not to be behindhand in the prosecution of the good work, An Ivorensr Mzetine was held yesterday in Hyde Park, London, the object of which was to agitate the question of the release of the Fenian prisoners. There is no reason | why the British government should keep up this vexatious cause of popular excite- ment and bitterness of feeling. Better to re- lease those men whose powers of harm have long ago been withdrawn than to give a pre- text to demagogues and Communists to as- semble and agitate. Although the meeting yesterday is said to have been quite orderly yet such assemblages may lead to dangerous consequences. Bismarck’s Hratta Inpnovinc.—By cable telegram from Berlin we are informed that the severity of Prince Bismarck’s attack of ill- ness was abating, and that the health of the German Chancellor commenced to im- prove yesterday. The great statesman has been generally successful in his combats with powerful enemies, and he may, by the exer- cise of his mighty will, defy even the assault of pallida mors for a lone season. | These received the honor on the occasions NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, Napoleonism—What Is the Future of France t will assemble to-day at Chiselhurst. What- ever spell may linger in the name of Napoleon will there find expression. In this little Kentish town will gather the chiefs of the Empire, the leaders of a party that not long since was master of France, the old and faithful servants of the Emperor, those who come to show respect to his memory and their appreciation of past honors and opportuni- ties, and, we may feel assured, those also who see in the strange complications of the present political situation the sure hopes of a Third Empire. To-day the Imperial Prince and heir to the illustrious name of Napoleon will be eighteen years old. By the laws of the Em- pire he enters upon his majority, and could to-morrow ascend the throne as Napoleon the | Fourth, should reluctant France offer him a welcome. Nor is the anniversary without observance from others than the French followers of Napoleon. Our London correspondent tele- graphs that the Queen has sent the Windsor flag and a brass plate for the sarcophagus of the Emperor. These are courtesies that we can understand. But, in addition, she is re- ported to have conferred upon the Prince the Order of the Garter. This, it true, is a pro- ceeding of grave moment. The Order of the Garter is the highest Order in England and among the loftiest dignities inthe world. It is only conferred upon the greatest noblemen in the kingdom, the members of the royal fam- ily and reigning princes of other nations. The three exceptions, as at present constituted, are the Crown Prince of Germany, the Prince of Hesse and the Prince Christian of Holstein. of their marriage to the daughters of the Queen. The Prince Napoleon does not claim to be reigning prince. He does not even claim imperial title. He avows himself as a candidate for empire, and not Emperor “by the grace of God.” As a nobleman of a royal house he does not rank as high as the Count de Paris or the Count de Chambord. The latter princes are at the head of the ancient families of Orleans and Bourbon, whose an- cestors were kings and mighty rulers when the ancestral ser one were living in Corsi- can obscurity. ore than all, the ruler of France is a nobleman of high rank, a duke and marshal, and quite entitled tothe garter under the laws of the Order. Why should the Queen ignore the representatives of the two oldest houses in France and the Marshal-Duke who is President of the Republic to confer the gar- ter upon a lad who is simply a candidate for imperial suffrages. We can only account for the unusual proceeding by a belief on the part of the Disraeli government that the Empire is inevitable; and it may be that in paying the Imperial Prince this conspicuous and extraordinary and unusual honor the intention is to give his cause the moral assist- ‘ance of England, and at the same time estab- | lish a claim upon the new dynasty that may4 | result in a renewal of the old alliances. If it means anything it is that we are to have a | beginning of the “vigorous policy’ which | Mr. Disraeli so much desired in the manage- | ment of English foreign affairs. It does strike us as a most “‘vigorous”’ proceeding to ally the English Crown with the cause of a prince who is only a pretender to the throne. Our correspondence from France shows that | there is great activity among the partisans of Napoleonism. This is confirmed by the news | | we have already printed of the efforts of the government to prevent any pilgrimage of the officers of the French army to Chiselhurst. According to the French official circular it was held that there could be no impropriety in the | | The followers of the House of Bonaparte | | vards. But in every case we saw a knowledge of dramatic effect and an attempt to influence the imagination. No one knows better than M. Rouher how largely Frenchmen are in- fluenced by the imagination. And when, in addition to these tricks and expedients and arrangement of machinery, we have the mar- llous name of Napoleon—the most splendid that the world has seen since Casar—and all the legends of genius and victory that sur- round it, we can well understand that any politician or party who invokes that wondrous spell will always find a response in the hearts of Frenchmen. It may be answered that Napoleonism brought Sedan, and this France can never forgive. Again we answer, Napoleonism brought Waterloo, and this France forgave long, long ago. Sedan was a gigantic disas- ter; but Waterloo far exceeded it; for at Waterloo France lost all the material results of the Revolution, all that she had won in a quarter of a century of war. When Napoleon rode from that bloody Belgian field France was weaker, poorer, more circumscribed in territory, more severely wounded than she had ever been beforé or has been since. Sedan lost Alsace and Lorraine; but Waterloo lost that magnificent Empire which at one time ex- tended from the Elbe to the Adriatic. All of this France forgave, and it would not surprise us if, in a new spirit ot magnanimity, she summoned to the throne the prince whose name, whatever misfortunes it may repre- sent, represents also the most glorious period of French history. We see nothing in France but the Republic or the Empire. We trust the Republic may live. If not ripe enough now, it will be in another generation. In the meantime France will prepare herself for that time which must come sooner or later, when she will see that, great as amy house or name or legend may be, France is greater than all. Our Statesmen in History and Biog- raphy. We print in another column a full analysis of the methods adopted by the two biogra- be seen from this that the work of neither writer will be entirely satisfactory to Mr. Chase’s countrymen; but it is perhaps too early to expect a comprehensive biography of any member of Mr. Lincoln’s administration. In fifty or a hundred years—when Chase's phers of the late Chief Justice Chase. It will | The Vanderbilt Rapid Transit Prop- osition—How to Test Its Sincerity, One of the latest and most pretentious propositions to supply New York with rapid | transit comes from Commodore Vanderbilt, whose wealth, experience and power to com- mand outside capital seem to point him out as just the individual to undertake and success- fully carry out the construction of steam railroads through the city. No one can know better than the Commodore the promising character of the investment and no one is in a better position to do the work advanta- geously and promptly. But we must not for- get that with all these recommendations in his favor there are good reasons why his pro- fessed friendliness to rapid transit should be looked upon with suspicion. Ho stands at the head of those corporations which are making enormous profits out of the present condition of transportation in the city. ‘Things are well enough for him as they are. Like the stockholders of the Third avenue railroad line he is amassing wealth out of the inconveniences of the people. So long as he can keep others from building steam rail- roads through the city so long will he enjoy a practical monopoly of the travel. It is true he may, be a philanthropic and public spirited gentleman, who, having done a great deal for himself, is now willing to do some- thing for others; but, unfortunately, this is not his first proposition to give the people of New York rapid transit. Everybody remem- bers the suspicious esse and rapidity with which the Vanderbilt Underground Railroad bill slipped through a recent Legislature, to the exclusion of all other projects, and how ‘we were assured after its passage that the question of rapid transit was at last finally settled. The law proved to be all there was or all there was ever likely to be of the road. The legislators were satisfied and the people were fooled. Mr. Vanderbilt cannot be sur- prised if after this experience there should be some doubt of the good faith of his present proposition. It may even be regarded by some persons as a bold defiance of public sen- timent; a sort of proclamation that Mr. Van- derbilt can have the Legislature whenever he wants it ; a revival of the “‘Whatare you going to do about it’ policy so rampant two or three years ago. Such suspicions may do injustice to Mr. diaries can be scanned without prejudice or | Vanderbilt. They certainly wrong him if it passion, when Mr. Gideon Welles’ good _ be his intention to construct the proposed ele- natured but perhaps somewhat perverse | vated road in good faith, and to use it not prattle about Seward and his other colleagues merely as a freight and passenger extension of can be estimated at its real worth, and when | his through lines but for the convenience of a fair judgment can be accorded to all the | city travel at low rates of fare. Happily there leading spirits in the war for the Union—a | isacertain and easy method of testing the complete life of our great statesmen can be | sincerity of his proposition. The creation of written, Then Lincoln and Seward and 4 rapid transit commission, composed of such Chase will each find his real biographer. | citizens as the Governor would be certain to _ beicass bre aes, peer, eae 8 | rapaksy just ~ Mr. Bie aerigus pata a ry of the Republic during the era of sire if he intends to build his roa the slavery agitation and the struggle which | commission would possess the power and followed in the field that will be priceless in | authority to consider and decide upon all comparison with ty single biography. There | propositions for rapid transit, and would be will be the erain which Clay and Calhoun | certain to recognize the feasibility and advan- and Webster and Benton and Fillmore took | tages of Mr. Vanderbilt’s plan. At the same the leading parts, the era of conciliation and | time, having control over the work, the com- compromise, and the era of agitation and war | missioners would protect the interests of the | amount of ornamental masonry and very little promise, in which Lincoln and Seward and Chase and Stanton and Douglas and Sumner were the active spirits, each claiming » master for its delineation. The narratives of sieges and marches and battles, from Bull Run to Appomattox, will not have any stories as stirring as the descriptions of the contests over principles in the national forum both be- fore and after the war. These are eras for a pen as brilliant as Macaulay's and as pains- taking as the severest old annalists. Their desire of military and civil servants of the | Empire to attend his funeral. Accordingly, leave was granted, to all who cared, to pay the last honors to their dead master. But there is a great difference between burying a dead | Napoleon and honoring a live one. The first | was an act of respect; the second | is a political demonstration, and that, | too, against by the sovereign Assembly. So the pilgrim- age has been placed under a ban, and the | gathering to-day has the stronger significance | that it is in defiance of the government of | historian will come with time, and to him these biographers of Chase and the biogra- phers of the other statesmen of the age may contribute but a grain of gold for the precious statues he will carve, a tint of color in the living canvas he will paint. Toe Massacucsetts Srenatorsurp.—The | election of a United States Senator to fill the the government established | vacancy occasioned by the death of Charles | Sumner will take place on Tuesday of next week. The disease known as Butlerism is en- tering into the contest to an alarming extent. It seems that even Dawes is to be sacrificed to subsequent to the repeal of the Missouri Com- , citizens and take care that the road, when | built, should be run for the convenience of | the residents of New York, and not merely as | a freight line for the profit of Mr. Vanderbilt. | What the people desire is that the whole sub- ject of steam railroads in New York shall be | taken out of the hands of the Legislature | and placed under the supreme control of a commission like that to which we are indebted | for the Central Park; that the commissioners, | appointed by the Governor of the State, shall possess full power to build roads with the city’s credit, or to allow private capital to con- struct them, and that all rapid transit lines | shall be under their supervisory authority. | This solution of the question would cover the Gardner proposition, the new water front | project introduced by Senator Booth, and all the schemes that have been or are likely to be agitated. The genuine undertakings would | be benefited by it; the fraudulent lobby jobs | | | rapid transit would be disposed of, and this is precisely what the people desire. Our representatives at Albany, and especially France. We learn that there are anticipated | Butlerism—to be defeated because he was not | those from the city, must not suppose that the “demonstrations” in Paris and that there is | “anusual suffering among the poor.”” We do not think the demonstrations in Paris will go | beyond large assemblies, mainly of women, in | , the churches to pray for the Prince, and an occasional stroller on the boulevard, with well | waxed mustache, wearing the violets in his | coat lappel. Napoleonism never ‘demon- strated’’ largely in Paris except when it was | in command of armed soldiers, nor is the French metropolis the place where any spon- taneous affection for the Empire would be apt to appear. The stories about the distress in- | dicate, we presume, that the Bonapartists are arguing that if Napoleon the Fourth were in the palace of his ancestors there would be no | poor; that somehow poverty comes from the Republic, and that the workman will never be sure of his bread and bouillon until the imperial | eagles are quartered in the Elysée. We are | familiar with arguments of this character | mearer home, But it should be remembered | that the suffering in Paris—quite exceptional | a8 it is at the present—is among the unhappy consequences of the war, and that the war was ® wanton and desperate chance for his | dynasty on the part of Napoleon IIL | But will France welcome Napoleon IV. ? | All our advices show a steady activity, if not a steady growth, among the Bonapartists. But we must remember always that the Bonapart- ists are the busiest and shrewdest politicians | of France; that their chief, Rouher, is as cunning as the most accomplished sachem in | Tammany Hall; that there is nota trick or | expedient that will not be tried to create an | imperialist public opinion. Napoleonism was always melodramatic in its movements, quite versed in stage effects. Sometimes it took the shape of an intense republi- canism and simplicity of character and love of science—as when Napoleon I. returned from the East; sometimes it appealed directly to the imagination and valor of the French soldiers—as when he walked up to the gun muzzies of his old soldiers at Grenoble; some- times it appeared as o timid young man, | dressed in Napoleonic costume and carrying a | tame bird resting on a pole, followed by a group of excited adventurers—as when the Third Emperor landed at Boulogne; and some- times, too, it assumed the terrible attitude of armed soldiers sbooting idlers on the boule- sufficiently zealous against the confirmation of Simmons. A despatch from Butler to Sim- mons favorable to Dawes is published, which | instructs the Collector to ‘‘give the boys the cue.” The anti-Butler press, almost without exception, takes up the cry, even the staid old Advertiser adverting to it, and saying in a | mild way, that must do harm to the Berkshire | candidate, that Dawes’ mistaken judgment in standing aloof in the Butler fight ought not to | have any weight in the present case. If Butler is supporting Dawes it can only be to defeat Judge Hoar, and we suspect Butler’s enemies are pressing Hoar only because his election would be distasteful to Butler. The fight for the Senatorship has become, let us say unbecoming over the open grave of the dead statesman. Tue Eastern Question Acarn.—Since the | visit made recently by the Emperor Francis Joseph to St. Petersburg the German press has been freely discussing the Eastern ques- tion, A leading German journal, the Allge- meine Zeitung, tells us that the interests of Germany on the upper Danube are identical with those of Russia on the lower. Austria | is warned that if she stands in the way of the development of Germany or Russi& she will be smothered in their embrace. ‘The main- tenance of Turkey is no dogma in Germany. The crystallizing process of the Christian minor States of Turkey is the common inter- est of Germany and Russia.” This is plain speaking. Is Austriathe only Power to be consulted in the premises? In the event of such ideas taking practical shape France and | even England might have something to say. Germany and Russia united could no doubt do much as they liked with Austria and Tur- key. But if Austria and Turkey were backed up by France and England the fate of battle might not be in harmony with the ambition | of the German and Slavonic Powers, | Jonxyy Comes Marcuina Homwe.—According to the latest news from Cape Coast Castle the British troops are now on their way home. Johnny has marched home many times from | greater victories and often with greater pride, but seldom, perhaps, with gladder heart than on this occasion. All's well that ends well; andif Johnny is pleased we have no reason to complain. | people do not fully understand this question. | Rapid transit is the great need of the city. To the poorer classes it is an absolute necessity, | for they cannot much longer exist without it, | except at the sacrifice of health, comfort and\ self-respect. At the same time, by raising valu- ations, bringing into use real estate that now lies idle, improving all property, uptown | and downtown, and bringing back to the city the half million of business men now driven into the suburbs for residences, it will benefit prosperity. The Legislature is approached by ‘make money out of a rapid transit franchise | to get the franchise into their hands for the purpose of preventing any steam railroads from being constructed in the city. Dishonest representatives will vote in the interests of one or other of these corruptionists, because they will be bribed, directly or indirectly, to do so. No honest legislator can vote against @ proposition to place the whole subject in the hands of an unexceptionable commission, which will select the good projects from the bad and insure the construction of steam rail- roads. Mr. Vanderbilt's friends, if honestly desirous that he should have the opportunity to build his proposed road, can ask nothing better than such a commission. If they should refuse to accept it as a substitute for their special bill it will be difficult to remove the impression that they are voting corruptly in | the interests of a bold and impudent fraud. Governor Kewper’s Veto.—There is great excitement in Virginia over Governor Kemper’s veto of the Petersburg charter. That policy and expediency are the attainment of ends sought after seems to be the rule with all political organizations. Because the negroes are in power in Petersburg and do not always use it wisely it was intended to put the mu- nicipal government into the hands of a com- mission, modelled after the New York repub- lican commissions of 1856. The democrats all over the country denounced the New York commissions with such great severity and so much justice that we are surprised their conservative brethren in Virginia should be angry with a conservative Governor for en- forcing democratic vrincivles. | rather a special charity than the general resort | of the poor recognize as their place, is not so and bogus propositions designed to defeat all | | the tax payers and largely increase the general | two sets of corruptionists—those who want to | | without building the road and those who want | Public Hospitals for the City. Much will certainly be done to improve the condition of our public hospitals if the ladies who have formed visiting committees under the auspices of the State Charities Aid Association persist in their philanthropic and praiseworthy labors. All our public charities, a8 the people perhaps scarcely need to be told, were at one time affected by the same system of jobbery that contaminated every other part of the municipal administra- tion. Appropriations were made, and made perhaps all the more freely and liberally, because it was never intended that the money should be spent for hospital stores or services, and while it went to enrich rogues in office the wretched occupants of the hospital wards were the sufferers. Not only was it often, and even commonly the case, 4 meals were provided for only two-thirds or half the number of occupants, but in many instances what was furnished was of such a quality as to be,absolutely unfit for use. And in every other department as well as the kitchen there were the same defects—defects of quantity and quality. In these respects there have been great improvements; but that the administration is still far from what it should be is evident from some facts pre- sented in the last report of the ladies’ com- mittee, as, for instance, that in Bellevue this winter three persons have often slept on two beds and many on the floor, without even sheets or blankets, while at one period the whole hospital was two entire weeks without soap. Details of this sort simply indicate an inexcusably bad management or a mistaken economy practised at the expense of life. Against evils of this nature the ladies’ com- mittees will prove an_adequate remedy, for what is needed in such cases is to have the light let im on the subject by re- ports that will reach the public—the real root of the evil being ao fancy on the part of those responsible that nobody knows or cares what happens to pau- per patients. No doubt there is a great indif- ference, and there is likely less known by the people at large of the condition of such estab- lishments as Bellevue and the island hospitals than of almost any other conceivable thing; but the people assent to large appropriations for the care of the sick poor, and that gives them, if not a humane, at least a financial in- terest in that class, andif their attention is properly called to the subject they will see that the poor get the.benefit of what the State gives, and the ladies’ services will attract to the subject the degree of attention necessary to secure this end. Already what has been done in this way has provoked once more the very natural reflection in regard to the inade- quacy of hospital accommodation for the city, and seems even to have stimu- lated movement directly aimed to remove the reproach that in this great city there is not a single large first class hospital open to the general public. Since the great public wrong was committed of tearing down the New York Hospital there has been no hospital whatever in the lower part of the city and only Bellevue for the upper part. In Roosevelt Hospital there isan uncommon else. St. Luke’s is admirably managed and excellent in every respect. It owes this character, of course, to the personal super- vision of its benevolent founder, Dr. Muhlen- berg; and such supervision isan advantage that few institutions have. It is, however, like the German and some other hospitals, | of the public poor. Bellevue, which the mass much a hospital as an antechamber to the trenches of Potter's Field. Atleast one great, well constructed and well administered public hospital is.an urgent necessity for this city, and, if there is not publig money enough to build it, it should be done by private contribu- tions. M. Renan anp tHE Cuurco DirFicunty iN Germany.—The author of the ‘Vie de Jésus’’ ‘has just published in the Revue des Deux Mondes his opinions on the Church and State question in Germany. M. Rénan, as might be expected, attacks with great violence the | German religious laws. Bismarck, he thinks, made too much of the Old Catholic movement. It was his hope that it would spread over the whole mass of German Catholicism and ina short time leaven the whole lump. In this, Rénan says, Bismarck has been disappointed. The Old Catholic movement, he thinks, will | last, but it will not decide the future of Ger- | man Catholicism. Time will tell. Bismarck | | may be right in his calculations and Rénan wrong. Rénan makes one most important admission—an admission which covets the ground taken again and again by this paper— that the Ecumenical Council brought about | the schism, and in this resembles all previous | i | | councils mentioned in history. | Tue Temperance Crusape still continues | with unabated vigor, and the strongholds of | Bacchus are being assaulted on all sides. A | | prayer meeting was held at a notorious dance- house last night, and singing, praying and earnest exhortations replaced the clinking of glasses and bottles. In many of the churches ;.committees have been organized, and there is | a strong disposition to wage as uncompro- | mising a warfare against King Alcohol here | | as in Ohio, where the ladies have carried all before them. The difficulties of the situation | here, however, so far surpass anything that | may be encountered in ao Western village | that it will need all the courage of the cru- | saders to make any headway in their enter- prise. Tue Currency Depate.—It seems that General Logan is to lead off in the renewal of | the currency debate on Tuesday, and that he | is to be followed by Sherman, Schurz, Morton | and other Senators. It is the same old round of pleasure. We hope, however, that the | intimation that a vote will be reached by Fri- | day will prove true, for the country is suffering | by the uncertainty of Congressional action. A Revoutine Tracepy occurred in Brooklyn yesterday morning, in which an insane man | attacked his wife with a hatchet, inflicting several wounds on her face, and afterwards cut his own throat, producing instantaneous death. The most extraordinary feature of this | tragedy is that rum has had nothing to do | | with it, and that the domestic relations of both victims were for years of the most satisfactory character. Insanity seldom assumes such a frightful asvect as when it arms a husband | Pearl stree’ against a wifo for whom In rational’moments he entertains feclings of affection and tender- ness, The Spirit of the Pulpit. The general tone of the sermons preached yesterday was cheerful and catholic. The brightness of the day, the activity of business and all the tokens of opening spring were probably not without their effect upon the ministers of the Gospel. Mr. Beecher de- livered a generous discourse upon the sugges- tive point that ‘the memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.” It was natural that men should desire to be honored and loved, and nothing was more significant to the mind of the orator than the “golden Gulf Stream of love’’ which annually carries the hard earnings of thousands of Bridgets in this country across the ocean to friends and families. We blessed Francis Xavier for one of his hymns as we blessed Bunyan for his “Pilgrim's Progress.” We find theexample of honest industry in men like Goodyear, the benefactor of the whole world; Pallissy and Wedgwood, who added beauty to utility, and Watt, who made the steam engine. Asa rule, too, Mr. Beecher honored the Bench, for the time had come when we could speak well of our judges os honest men, administering justice and equity. The death of Sumner was the subject of many reflections. Mr. Talmage saw in the life of Sumner the hollowness and uncertainty of all worldly honors. Look how we honor him, and yet remember how we attacked, con- sured, caricatured him. Remember how he was driven across the sea by his maligners, “pursued by the hounds of the political kennels,” Better, Mr. Talmage thinks, “geek the honors of heaven’ than such a life as this. The reverend gentleman forgets, as we may remind him in passing, that Sumner’s trade was war; that for every blow he received he gave one, and that he never was assailed during his life as vindictively as he himself assailed President Grant. The Rev. Dr. Haven felt that if there had not been a Sumner there would never have been a Lincoln. Rev. Dr. Chapin be- lieved that never had a crusader done his duty as faithfally as Sumner. He was a man whose power was consecrated to the solid splendor of conviction, Bishop Potter re- minded his hearers of the insignificance of fame—that not one man in a hundred millions would be remembered by posterity, and that there was no true fame except that laid up in heaven. Rev. Mr. Morris, of the colored Bethel church, saw in Sumner the one name which would be written ‘‘in lines of gold, in ink of immortal excellency’’ as the greatest man in America. The temperance crusade attracted much attention. In the West, said one clergyman, we were having an Austerlitz, and the women were compelling the ram dealers to surrender. The only reason that we didnot have a similar ‘grand demonstration’ in Brooklyn and New York was that we had no woman like Deborah with faith and courage to lead the crusade. Rev. Dr. Ferris ad- monished his hearers of the destruc- tive vice of intemperance, while the Rev. Father Rielly, at St. James’ Cathedral, showed: how there were Agars and Ismaels around us, rendered so by intemperance, and de- | manding our urgent prayers and aid. Rev. Dr. Chapin argued that if every place where liquor was sold was closed the real spring would not be touched until the insatiable spring in man had ceased to flow. Rev. C. A. | Harris preached on faith, hope and charity, reviewing at length the women’s movement in the West, and believing it could not help be a success; that no ridicule could destroy it. The remainder of the sermons, elsewhere graphically reported, were devoted to points of faith, morals and doctrine. As we before remarked, the general tone of the pulpit was cheerful, breezy, hopeful, and marked with a broad and geperous Christian spirit, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. J. Lewis Farley, Tarkish vonsul at Bristol, England, has resigned his post on account of the non-payment of his salary. In effect Mr. Farley adopted the Americanism—‘‘No money, no .Tur- key!”” vistoniy Bury, eldest son of the Earl of Albe+ marie, has seceded from the liberals to the con- servative party, in opposition to his father. He formerly sat in Parliament and supported Premier Gladstone. Senator Hannibal Hamlin and Representatives Horace Maynard and Lyman K. Bass, members of | the Congressional committee who attended the | Fimore obsequies in Buffalo are at the Windsor Hotel on their way to Washington. General Della Marmora, the Italian statesman whose revelations of diplomacy lately got Bismarck into a snarl with the ultramontanes in the Reichstag, recently wanted to challenge Count Usedom, and Victor Emmanuel was forced to interfere to prevent the despatch of a hostile note. 5 Miss Mary Jane Severance, of Montgomery county, Ry, destroyed all her chances for matri- mony a few days ago, at a party, by devouring (on a wager of $20) the whole of a roast pig, an entire stuffed turkey, all of an opossum and ten large corn dodgers, besides drinking a gallon of hard cider. SUICIDE OF A GERMAN PROFESSOR. Atan early hour yesterday the Oak street police station notified the Park Hospital that a German had poisoned himself at the “Hotel Maisch," situ- ated at No. 384 Pearl street. A few minutes later Dr. McKown was at the house in question, with the ambulance, and found his way up to the sutcide’s room. ‘Ihe man was found in an insensible condt- tion, and died three minutes after he had reached the hospital. The name of the deceased was Charles Busing. He was about twenty-six years of burg, Germany. He was age and a native of Olden! nen college entered the Ppt 4 as honor the war, after obtalning considerable dis- tinction, he came to this country. He had a terrible struggle to Lg his bread, and finally was employed a8 ‘clerk in @ quilting manufactory in between Oak and Dover. He was em- ployed by Unit & Co., at $6 a week. He was re- markably intelligent, and spoke English fairly, ABBEST OF A HORSE THIEF. About three weeks ago a horse and phaeton, valued at $250, were stolen from the stable of Bryan Smith, Barrow street, Jersey City. A de- scription of the missing property was forwarded to the Brooklyn police, and Detectives Beggett and Butts discovered the horse and phacton on Satur- day at a livery stable in Navy street, where they had been left for sale Py, @ young man named Ed- win Wordsworth. The latter visited the stable last evening and was arrested by Officer Barr, of the Central squad. Wordsworth made a determined effort to escape, but was captured alter an exciting chase. When searched @ pistol, dirk knife and slung-shot were found in his pt sion. LARGE SAFE ROBBERY. New Haven, Conn., March 15, 1874. ‘The value of the property in the Adams Express Company’s safe, stolen On Saturday moruing, was about $10,000,