The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1874, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ges should be properly —+ —— LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 VLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume MXXIX..... ccc ceceree ceseeeNOe OD VWUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. santo ACAD OMY OF MUSIC. ' ‘ tree! i i ng place.—Italian Opera— TRON NANDLL Closes abil’. M, luma K THEATRE, he IMAN'S WRONGS, Chanfrau. BROOKLY) opposite City Hall, Brooklyn. — atyP. M.; closes ate, M. | Mrs. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.-BUFFALO BILL, and VARIETY ENTER TAINMENT. Begins ats P.M. ¢ atl P.M. METROPOL THEATRE, No, 58 Broadway.—VARI 7:46 P.M. ; closes at L080 B.D street DAVY 4 Mir, Frank CROCKETT, ayo. Fourteenth sixth avenue,—Grand Parisian Polly, at 5 P. IP. —IDLEWILD, at 2 P. PED FROM SING DING, FIFTH AVENUE nd Broa M. Mis v No. 514 Broadway.— P.M. ; closes at use MANIA THEATRE, ear Irving place.-LOMENGELB, at Fourteenth stre 3B. M. ; closes ai BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and (wenty-tirdstreet, ZIP, at7 46 P.M; closes at tut P.M. Lotta, ACK’S THEATRE, é VETERAN, atS ster Wallack, Miss L, © OLYMPIC THEATRE, between Houston and Bleecker streets — & and NOVELIY £NTERLAINMENT, at pses at 10:15 P.M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, avenue end Twenty-third street.—EILEEN OGE, PM. ; cloves at P.M. Mr. and airs. Florence. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, oppose New York Hotel. HUMPTY DUMPTY AT HOO, &e., at § P.M; closes ar LP. M. G. L, Box. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. &.; closes atl P.M, BRYANT’S OPERA HOU “NEGRO MIN- TWENTY. ‘OND Fourteenth st i REGIMENT ARMORY, xth we.—Concert ‘of Gil- COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-filth street.—PARI MOONLIGHT. at TP. M.; closes at SP Me Some at 7 F i closes at Ty P.M QUINTUPL New York, Sunday, April ees From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold and Tae Easter Music mv THE CHURCHES, as amay be seen in another part of the paper, will be unnsually brilliant to-day. Everything that the divine art is capable of, in doing honor to the grand mystery of the Resurrec- tion, will be brought into requisition on this occasion. The various altars in the Catholic churches will be decorated in the most sump- ‘tuous manner, and chorus and orchestra will ibe added to the ordinary choir attractions. Ox Gora Wrone.—And now comes Mr. John A. Bingham, American Minister to Japan, to illustrate the evil consequences of the first wrong step. “A year ago he was.ac- wused of taking stock in the Crédit Mobilier, and he answered that he got the stock, but he was “not guilty.’’ Now he is castigated for mriting a letter he says he never wrote. When a good dog gets a bad name it is a terrible in- centive to kick the animal, whether he deserves at or not. 5, 1874. AusTRIA aND THE Paracy—Tue Laresr ‘Encycxican.—Some two weeks ago we an- nounced that the Holy Father had issued another encyclical, in which he commented upon the condition of the Catholic ‘Church throughout the world, but particularly on the condition of that Church, at the present anoment, in the German and Austrian em- ‘pires, and gave to the different bishops, in their various spheres, sound and sober advice. We print this morning the full text of the encyclical. It will be eagerly read by many ; and some, no doubt, will derive from it profit snd instruction. Sia 8 Tas Leak Nor Yur Ex- PLaIneD.—We print this morning further de- tails regarding the escape of prisoners from Sing Sing. The mystery, it will be seen, is not yet explained. The buried tools have not ‘been found. It will be strange if it turns out to be true that the prison harbors skilful mechanics, who are able, in spite of the mnthorities, to manufacture implements capa- ‘ble of wrenching out bars of iron and burst- ‘ing open doors, Our fear is that the right men are not in charge, and that there is too auch sympathy between the keepers and the yprisoners. It might be better if politics bad jess to do with our prisons and their manage. ment. Our Eastyn Hensty.—The spring has a | practical welcome in the rush of business which compels us to print this morning a twenty-page sheet of the Henarp. The world finds a voice in these seventy odd columns of advertisements, and if old Herr "Teufelsdroch had lived in our city and in ‘this generation, instead of climbing to his tower to study the great town beneath, the would have taken the advertising pages | of thes Henaup, What woe, rapture, ‘hope, expectancy, ambition, effort, pride, sorrow, success, failure—what dreams and achievements here find a voice! It is the metropolis seeking speech—the man speak- Y ENTERTAINMENT, at | Waster. The spring comes with an Easter weleorhe. We have had a tedious winter, and we rejoice in the anniversary which may be called the new year's day of growth and sunshine. ‘The season, with its privations aud unusual | business cares, has been exacting. The panic came on the threshold of the winter and darkened with its gloom what might have | been a cheerful time. The panic was not | without its blessings in many ways. It was like an awakening from a feverish dream. We | had been dazzled by visions of false pros- | perity. We had been living beyond our | means, We bad conquered the South, and in | the impulse arising trom victory we felt that | we could do in a few years what calmer na- ‘ tions would be content to achieve in a cen- | tury. We began to build railways, to open canuls, to civilize the desert long before we could inhabit it; to make, plication of capital or some sort of ma- chinery, Colorado and Nevada as prosperous | ee, a8 Pennsylvania. We borrowed ;moury te do all this, and, under | the delusion that debt is ‘a blessing, fancied that the more we borrowed | the richer we became.” The panic was the awakening from this delusion, from other de- | lusions, perhaps; but it fell with especial | severity upon the poor. So, while we could be eagily reconciled to any circumstances that | dispelied the illusions under which we bad | been resting since the war, the sudden with- | drawal of capital from business, and the con- sequent paralysis of indastry, brought disasters upon many worthy and deserving classes. | The winter which has now left us came | with a double duty. We had to “recover from | the panic” and put our business affairs in | order, on a sounder basis. We had also to aid ; Our unfortunate fellow citizens. As to our | business success we cannot say. We have re- | formed in many respects. The spirit of specu- ' lation seems to have been tamed. The news- papers are no longer filled with columns of | eloquent appeals to invest in the Wildcat ; Railway bonds and Cagliostro Silver Mining | shares. Foreign financial capitals are no | longer overrun. with glib and shifty Ameri- cans trying to borrow money to build railways by the ap- | from Alaska to Behring Straits, to domesti- | | cate the buffalo and run canals over the + Rocky Mountains. We are no longer beg- ging in every pawnbroker’s shop of the Old | World for capital to “develop our country.’’ As all such money was gencrally obtained at | usurious rates of interest and had to be | paid we have ceased to repudiate and ran in ; debt. This is a great deal, and if we keep on | in the path thus laid down we may be able | to thoroughly redecm gnd re-create our credit. At all events, if business does not apparently | prosper as before the war, our successes will be less noisy and more substantial, and we | Shall have a surer prosperity, less fever and uncertainty, fewer Black Fridays and ‘cor- | ners,” and our money kings will become real | monarchs find not gaudy phantoms, like many _ | late lamented shadows of Erie and Tammany | Holl. The indignant protest now arising-from | all parts of the country against the spirit of inflation in Washington; the resolution to oppose these various plans for relieving the country ut the expense of its honor; the anger inspired by sectional legislation ; the rigid criticism visited upon our public ser- vants and all who are in authority, show an awakening and a quickening of the public conscience that is ‘one of the most gratifying phenomena of the time. We welcome it as an Easter blessing in its way, charged, we trust, with many blessings in the future. While we have partly set our business in order | and lifted ourselves into a clearer financial and commercial atmosphere, we have also nobly responded to the sudden demand made | upon us by the poor. In our Easter medita- tions let us not forget this as one among many | good works. New York has shown, and never with more promptitude. and humanity, the magnificence of her charity. But while we dwell upon this let us also not forget the lesson which it brings. We are in the posi- | tion of Lord Salisbury on the Indian famine question, as he explained it the other day in the House of Lords. The immediate duty is | to raise money, buy food and feed the starv- | ing Hindoo. That will be performed with- | ont limit or stint, taking no ‘fine chances” in | the way of economy. But the ultimate duty, | the way to make future famines impossible | is to build railways and open works of irriga- i | | tion. This is what the English Minister pro- poses. We should imitate him. Our im- | mediate duty has been performed. We have | averted any want or privation. In our | various capacities, as mere private citi- zens, as churches and _ socicties and “guilds” and ‘thomes,” we have worked with s steady and beautiful zeal—-all classes in unison, poor and rich, and none more than i our players, whose hands are ever open with } melting and fruitful charity. Let us, however, learn and apply the lesson of the winter. We | must reorganize our whole system of charities, | or, in other words, we must have a real system, It is not wise or moral, or calculated to afford | veal relief to have a haphazard distribu- tion of charities. The thoughtless bestowal of money, or even of food, is generally an in- ecntive to idleness, and can only be justified by an unexpected calamity springing from unavoidable and unforeseen causes, like the famine in India or the threatened privation in New York. What we want is a careful and perfect organization of the whole charity sys- tem, avoiding, on the one hand, the indis- criminate gifts which come from promiscuous \ efforts in behalf of the poor, and, on the other hand, the selfish and avaricious schemes of | men like Brace and Barnard, who live on the subscriptions of the humane, as the most | expensive paupers of the age. Our charities | should be so serutinized that none should be | aided except those who could not sid them- | selves. Some honest and necessary industry | should accompany all almsgiving, and, if pos- | | sible, we should have a central House of In- dustry on a large scale, so that honest men ip | poor circumstances requiring aid should at once obtain the relief whieh comes from com- pensated labor. We know of nothing more important than a careful study of our chari- ties, and the maturing of a plan which will enable us in the inture to do our duty without ing to his fellow men, and asking the worl? to his council. As an evidence of tho busi- | ness prospects of spring, these seventy odd | columns will beas weleome to the merchant as | the blossoms to the busbandman, and we | therefore note them as among the gratifying | looking over the world we have many reasons tokens of what we trust will be to all of our | for congratulation apon the harmonious readers a happy Easter time, | prospect that comes with Kuster, incurring the risks now attending any hu- mane effort. Let us do this, and we shall have made a bencficent Easter work, indeed, Extending the field of observation and | 1 | | \ i | | | } | flower-burdened altar to celebrate in joyful tween his physicians and the Pope, and wo have no doubt the venerable Pontiff, in this season of peneral rejoicing, will find it in bis heart to pray for peace to the suffering and mighty heretic of Varzin. As for the Pontiff, the festival of so mach rejoicing in the Chris- | tian world finds him a prisoner in his “‘one, lone, only, ever-living Rome.” But in all re- speets he is a cheerful and emphatic prisoner, prompt with an admonition as with a blessing, strengthening the hands of persecuted saints like Louis Veuillot, following the eccen- tric arms of Don Carlos with his prayers, and endeavoring to coax Austria not to join heretic Prussia in abandoning the Papacy. ‘The Father of the Faithful must have strange | thoughts to-day as he slowly ascends the strains the Resurrection, thinking of the many events of his venerable and extraordinary career, and of the perils that now surround | the Pontificate. But may it not be seen before auother Easter comes that these griefs are but | -osaugid man’s ncies ; that he dreads simply imaginary peril that the Roman Church will be stronger when she is really -a Church and freed from the oppressive fardel of an unnatural and incongruous sovereignty? Even as priest or bishop the head of the Roman Catholic communion is one of tho most poweriul men on the earth, and this power will not be weakened by the departure of the embloms of a teasing end ineflicient temporal dominion. England begins her Easter with a new Min- ister in power, and everybody seems flushed with those happy anticipations that always attend the advent of a new party; Whether | Mr. Disraeli will make the pint pot contain a quart, or see that every peasant has cakes and ale, and make England once more the merry England of rhymés and comedies, remains to be seen. Certainly no Minister ever had a | happier Easter than this extraordinary man, | who, through the patient years of a long life, | has surmounted cvery invidious circumstance | and become the ruler of anempire. Let us not believe that the spirit of democracy and | equality is altogether dead or even dormant in a country which permits Benjamin Disracli to preside over a Cabinet of Derby and Salisbury and give orders to the proudest peers of Eng- land. Let us trust that all his Easters will be as happy ! France will honor this day with French | fervor, for it has not eseaped notice that | for two or three years the proud, glori- | ous nation has been in a religions | frame of mind, with a tendency to sack- cloth and ashes, and preferring, we should | say, the solemn feasts to theso days | of rejoicing. But even France may rejoice, | for the violets and the lilies begih to bloom | again, and promise restorations of the ancicnt | monarchical splendor. We do not know, in | the trembling condition of French politics, that | there is much to pray for; but on festival days we must needs pray for something, and | what more innocent subjects of devotion than the lilies and the violets? Francis Joseph has domestic vexations that are not quite clear to us; but we hope he will have a ministry to suit him as he walks up the gray and vener- able aisles of St. Stepnen’s. There are troubles in Turkey; but we, as Christians, on this most Christian day, cannpt be expected to concern ourselves | with the Turk and the infidel. What we es- pecially note is that peace reigns, and that the nations of the world are coming nearer and nearer; that science and commerce and human achievement are eradicating those vague legends and geographical differences which engendered so much bitterness and strife. Muy we not feel, in this happy Easter mood, that we in America have done some- thing in the way of moral culture and self- improvement; that, afterall, we are not as bad as we seem; that we are bound together by those tender and invisible chords of love and humanity whose divine expression we see in Him whose highest praise will be sung in the anthem which proclaims this morning to mill- ions of hearts that Christ has risen from the grave to bless and save the world? Affairs in Japan. The news received by the steamship Alaska from Japan is interesting. The Mikado con- tinues his liberal policy, for on the Ist of March the palace belonging to him and where he tormerly resided was opened for the first time to the public, The third annaal exhibi- tion at Kioto was held within its walls. This exhibition or fair shows the progress Japan is making under his rule, and the opening of the imperial palace, which used to be consid- ered too sacred for vulgar eyes, is evidence of his enlightened views and the great strides he has made in approximating our Western civ- ilization. There was an eruption of the vol- cano Foosiyama, about twenty miles from the new capital, on the 5th of February. This was about the time when the earthquake shocks were first noticed in North Carolina. Whether there was any connection or not between these disturbances at such a great distance from each other may be doubted, but the coincidence is curious, to say the least, and affords a subject for the speculation of natural | philosophers. The discontent exhibited lately among the old military classes seems to have been caused chiefly by the action of the gov- | ernment regarding pensions, a definite sum | having been substituted in place of annual pensions. There had been no fresh trouble, however, about this maiter. Tae Trape Srnixrs.-A few days ago we called the attention of our readers to the threatening attitnde of the trade anions. In spite of the tightness of the moncy market strikes were general ang the prospect was not cheering. Already our worst fears begin to be realized. At the Astral Oil Works, Brooklyn, where the men are out, the non-society men have but narrowly escaped; and but for the activity of the police it might, have been our duty this morning to reeord bloodshed and mardem The eight-hour system seems to be somewhat in danger. A prominent builder, who has contracts for new buildings in vari- ous parts of the city—contracts amounting in | yvalne to one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars—threatens to break bis contracts unless | | agents seem alone to be requisite to the preser- the men consent to return to the ten-hour system. The Empire Lodge ot American Car- penters has decided to hold » mass inceting, at Masonic Halli, on Monday, to consider the proposed change from eight to ten hours, | The contagion is spreading, and New England operatives seem as determined as New York ‘The | tradesmen, The ptrugele thrgstens to be se- | prevent the city government fram, making « | that the situation, already alarming, will not | phemy of Dr. | take a look at the political pamphlets and | prose romances on the French Revolution. | cannot but look forward to such a series with | battle of Waterloo, like the ‘Morte d’Arthur,”’ | Livingstone’s researches in the regious about | blasphemy if the blasphemy is merely intended | from scene to scene he cannot fail to be NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1874—QUINTUPLE. SHEET, ut . pee tel ian er peeeeniahteatn world is at peace. Bismarck is divided be- | vero and bitter ns well as general. It 1s to be | contract with the Mutual hoped that peaceful counsels will prevail and | be aggravated by the dissensions of masters and workmen, A Pictare of the World of Letters. We surronder a large part of our space this morning to what is, in tact, a résumé of the literary history of the-month. Nothing could be more interesting than this stereoscopic glance at the world of letters. Starting with Victor Hugo's latest novel we view in succes- sion Simpson's and Schwoinfurth’s books on Asia and Africa, consider the alleged blas- Paul Lindan, the German dramatist and editor; spend a pleasant half hour with Baron Tauchnitz in Leipsic, and new publications which have just appeared in Paris, The great novelist’s “Ninety-three,” it is hinted, is tho first of an idyllic series of Remembering the wonderful chapter on the battle of Waterloo in ‘Les Miserables,"’ wi great antictpations, and consequently the new novel is doubly welcomed. If this hint of our correspondent should be realized it would make a striking coincidence with the comple- tion of Tennyson's “Idylls of the King." The which should have been last, came first, and in each case may have suggested the grand works which followed. In Mr. Simpson's book on China we have some of the ripe work which is about to be evoked by the progres- sive journalism of the day, and it is owing to the interest the newspapers have inspired in Africa that the work of the German traveller will receive the attention its merits demand. | Schwein‘urth’s book is a scarcely less valua- ble contribution to our knowledge of that terra incognita than the great results of Dr. the sources of the Nile. Our Berlin letter is exceedingly interesting because it raises the point whether heathenism is a defence against | ds satire. Lindau, who was not the author of the article printed in his paper, was punished for its publication partly because the author was not at hand, but more especially because the frequent punishment of Catholics for blas- phemy in Germany required some show of even-handed justice when a Protestant victim so conveniently offered himself. The gossip | about Baron Tauchnitz—whose English edi- tions of favorite authors, so convenient for the pocket or the lounging attitude of Sunday after- noon reading, have become legion since he first issued “Pelham” in the now familiar shape, in 1842—is quite as interesting as a book with the Tauchnitz imprint. ‘The chapter on the French pamphleteers; the youth of the holy brigade, relieved from guard duty at the Vati- can, turned into the political writers of the hoped tor Henri Cing restoration; Trochu’s pamphlet in answer to the charges preferred against him in its report of the com- | mittee to investigate the acts of the Govern- ment of the National Defence; M. Grévy, the republican, discussing ‘(Monarchy or Repub- lic,” and M. Cassagnac, the imperialist, on “Republic or Empire;’’ last of all, an anony- | mous author, inspired by the Orleans princes, | gives us a curious insight into the condition of French politics. It is the literary history of England in the time of Charles II and James IL all over again in France, but the brochures come just two centuries too late. All this makes a singular showing of the con- dition of the world of letters, the quaint being | curiously intermingled with the earnest and the stupid with the highest results of intellectual endeavor. It is a literary panorama such as is seldom presented, and as the reader skips pleased with the changing picture. Observations of Accidents on Differ- ent Pavements. From observations made at certain points in London, the results of which are given else- where, it will be seen that a horse travels on asphalt pavement 191 miles before he falls; on granite pavement, 132 miles, and on wood, 330 miles. From these experiments, there- fore, granite appears the worst and wood the best in the single element of a pavement—-that is, its fitness to afford a sure foothold. These results were obtained from a total of 2,327 falls which occurred within fifty days at given points of observation, and which are classified as complete falls, falls on the haunches and falls on the knees. Rather more than half are | falls on the knees, 13 in 100 falls on the haunches and 34 in 100 complete falls. Wood pavement had the greatest number of falls on the knees and asphalt the greatest number on the haunches. Granite had the greatest and wood the smallest number of complete falls. Falls on wood pavements obstructed the traffic less than the others; the horses recov- ered their feet more readily and the falls were less hurtful to them. In a second point, there- fore—that of doing less injury to the horses than other, pavements—the advantage as be- tween these three was in favor of wood in this series of experiments. But the conditions of the respective pavements would tend to greatly vary the results. In this case the wood and asphalt pavements were in good condition, the granite was not, and it is acknowledged by the observer that holes in the pavement tended to aggravate every bad feature. As the wood pavement is far more perishable than the granite, certainly the mere fact of bad condi- tion mightgyuite reverse the results found if the experimental observations were made through a more extended period. Although those observations do not go far in elucidating the relative points of pavement, they are in- structive and useful so far as they go. ‘Tar $Inprays.—Mr. Saville, the Indian agent, writes trom Red Cloud Agency, Da- kota, under date March 24, giving encouraging news as to the progress of enrolment. He | has already enrolled over four thousand Sioux. Since the arrival of the soldiers the Indians have been quiet and obedient, and Red Clond seems penitent and anxious to atone for his Inte offences. A better spirit seems to be growing among the hostile tribes. Firmness | and good faith on the part of the government | vation of peace with the red men. Gas Monopory.—-Mr. Justice Donohue seems to have given a just and equitable. de- | cision in the suit of Mr. Metropolitan Gas Company, undertaken to | selection was quite appsront, and that its | rather than advice on matters of discipline. Zollicoffer, of the | Gaslight Company for lighting street lamps, Itis a good thing to find that the law accords with public inter- est, Tho public interest demands competi- tion in the gaslight business, for there is no other possible restraint on our old gas monop- olies, Regulation by law, which is the only relianco in the absence of competition, is, of course, not available in a State whose Legis- lature is so ridiculously cheap as ours; and 80, in the name of the people, give us compe- tition. The Religious Press on the Council. The Congregational Council, whose adjourn- ment last Sunday morning came too late for the religious press last week, receives its due share of attention from them in their latest issue. It divides the honors with Easter, but takes to itself the largest half of the editors’ pens. Tho Christian Unidn, whose editor was or ought to have been more interested in the deliberations and results of the Council than anybody else, writes that after wrestling two days with the questien of its own status, the Council settled practically upon the ground that it was advisory. But it nevertheless played back and forth between advisory and ex parte, and was from the beginning adverse to Plymouth church by a large working ma- jority, which, however, weakened in tho inten- sity of their demands during the sessions of the body. ‘The net result is,"’ says the Union, “that, by a vote of 87 yeas, 8 nays and 23 abstainimg, the Council indorsed the stringent view of the covenant, but accepted as Congregational the state- ments of Plymouth church as to both disci- pline and fellowship. On the whdle, the his- tory and -result of the Council constitute a rractical vindication of Plymouth church as a Congregational church. The declared pur- pose was toexcommunicate that church. ‘The fact of failure is more significant than all the explanations of it that can be offered.’ The Union is quite safe in asserting that the expe- rience of these brethren in Brooklyn was such as to discourage all further attempts like that in which they were entangled. ‘The Independent looks at the Council and its results differently. It thinks the Council was about evenly balanced between both par- ties to the controversy; that its impartial spirit was simply grand. Ii is sure that throughout the country Congregationalism will be more honored for the wisdom of its representatives. The Independent applauds Dr. Storrs’ address for its tender references to his intimacy with Mr. Beecher, so free from personal feeling that no man could doubt his sincerity. The secular press failed to ‘dis- cover any such tender references, but, on the contrary, a shaving so close to the old slander against Mr. Beecher as to give pretty clear indication that that was the thing sought after “There is no doubt,’ the Independent thinks, “that the churches inviting the Council will accept its results, Their principles are adopted by it as correct.’’ 4 The Methodist sums up the results of the Council in this way: —‘‘The decision is mixed in its character. On the principle it sustains the churches which called the Council, and it justifies them in secking advice. On the par- ticular case it impliedly admits that there may have been circumstances to excuse the irreg- ular proceedings of Plymouth church.” The Christian Intelligencer was certain, in ad- vance, that no other decision could have been reached by so competent and candid a Coun- cil than that rendered, which reflects so se- verely, it thinks, on Plymouth church and its pastor, and leaves an ‘impression behind that that church would not have arrested the inves- tigation of its own member at the cost of such an infringement of Congregational law had the case been less difficult and the adventure less rugged. The Keaminer and Chronicle teels sure that to the great body of Congregationalists the results of the Council will appear wise and satisfactory. To the editor it appears emi- nently Scriptural and in accordance with that sanctified common sense which Congregation- alists have claimed to be characteristic of their system. The Evangelist gives a very complete and fair editorial summary of the whole case from its first beginnings to the conclusion of the Council’s finding, and adds that ‘‘on every question of discipline the two churches are fully sustained. Theirs is held to be the true doctrine of Congregationalism, and the con- trary to be disorganizing and destructive to anything like Church anthorify or order. Tae only point on which the decision is made more easy and indulgent to Plymouth church is that the other churches are not rec- ommended to withdraw their fellowship from it. It is a victory for conservative Congrega- tionalism as distinguished from independency, and from all those forms of radicalism and come-outerism which both in Church and State tend to disintegration.” Thus far the opinions of the leading denomi- national organs in this city—Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist—on the great ecclesiastical event, probably, of this year 1874. Others of our religious exchanges, as, for instance, the Christian at Work ond the Chris- tian Leader, have commendable articles on Easter. The Catholic journals deal with mat- ters that relate purely to their own Church. The Boston Pilot, one of the newsiest and best arranged religious papers that come to us, has a thoroughly readable article insisting on the right and duty of the State to give religioud education to its children. Such an education, | it says, is absolutely necessary to make good | citizens. The Freeman's Jowrnal recommends the pilgrims to take a money offering to the Pope and a banner to the chapel at Lourdes. The Tablet is only half in favor of the Pilgrim- age. The enterprise does not come at ali up to its ideal of a Pilgriraage, representative of the United States. The Tablet bas a depreca- tory article concerning the seizure and secu- larization of the Colosseum at Rome, The Catholic Review takes Dr. Newman (late Chap- | lain to Congress) to account for certain state- ments of his communicated to the Christian Advocate of this city concerning the state of religion (Catholic) in China. Boston Acarxst Inruatron.—The Hubbites assombled last night in Faneuil Hall to give expression to their condemnation of the un- wise course which Congress has pursued in tampering with the currency. These | expressions of opinion from tho chief com- mercial centres ov “t to convince General . / Gront of the wisdom of placing his veto aguinst a measure that will inflict great bard. ship on the vast majority of the citizens of these United States, The Past Season of Opera. Mr. Strakosch closed yesterday a very ree markable season of Italian opera at the Acad- emy of Music. The penitential season of Lent seems to have had no depressing effect on the acknowledged tast> of the New York public for everything that is excellent in music, Formerly the term of sackcloth and ashes was regarded with a decidedly doubtful eye by the musical manager, and opera and concert during that terrible time were entertainments to be stealthily patronized, and Mrs, Grundy would frown at any of her subjecta daring enough to visit tho Academy or Stoinway’s between Mardi Gras and Easter, Mais, nous avons changé tout cela, Never iu the history of the metropolitan musical stage has such = brilliant season been known as the one which closed yesterday. Six weeks of Italian opera, with the best company which has ever ap- peared in this country, culminating in a mag- nificent representation of the opera of the future, par excellence, ‘Lohengrin,” in which Nilsson and Campanini have reached the highest pinnacle of lyric art; a brilliant sea- son of opéra bouffe, during which Mlle, Aimée was the bright, particular star; a Teutonio furor over Mme. Lucea in the Bowery, ® v@ry clever parody on Wagner's opera at the. Germania, an exceptional attraction in the concerts of Mr. Theodore Thomas, the six “Stabat Maters” at St. Ann's church by Mr. Dachaouer, and myriad small affairs, testify to the intense love of the New York public for the divine art of music. And Easter brings new attractions, especially Di Marska, who will appear to-morrow evening, No other city in the world can exhibit such a fecundity of musical attractions. The production of Wagner's opera, “Loe hengrin,”’ which may be regarded as the chief representative of the new school, gonerally known as the school “‘of the future,” has excited considerable discussion among the musicians. of this city. All agre¢ upon the wonderful genius shown by the composer in the instru- mentation of this work. The opera of ‘‘Lohen- grin’’ is a magnificent symphony, and, as faras the instrumentation is concerned, it deservea the titlesublime. But it is entirely faulty ina vocal point of view, and is founded on a per- nicious principle. It tends toward the utter annihilation ot the individuality of the vocal artist, although Nilsson and Campanini have successfully asserted theirs in the teeth of Wagner's theory, and it makes the orchestra a despot, which is contrary to the first prin- ciples of opera. Wagner is egotistic to such a degree that he ignores all who achieved success before he was known. For singing Wagner substitutes declama- tion; for melody, chaos. The fierce on- slaught which the admirers of this modern Messiah make on all who do not agree with them cannot help his cause here. Elaborate theories, with impracticable results, wild never make a school of opera. There is more real music in the quartet of ‘Rigoletto,” the quintet of ‘“Ernani,” the sextet of ‘Lucia’ and the many magnificent ensembles of Meyers beer than in anything Richard Wagner bas ever written. We are willing to grant all that ig in justice due to Wagner for his wonderful instrumentation, but we de- cidedly object to his making an abattoir of voices in his operas, Individuality in vocal as well as instrumental art is necessary for @ complete opera. Pulpit Topics for Easter. With most of our city pastors the oven. shadowing topic for meditation and thought to-day will be that which is most prominent in the minds of Christians throughout the world—namely, the resurrection of Christ. This theme and its accompaniments are joy- ous in the extreme. The choicest music and the choicest flowers stimulate the preachers to put forth their choicest rhetoric or logic im illustration of this greatevent. ‘The Fact an@ Symbol of the Resurrection’’ will be the sub- ject of Mr. Pullman’s contemplation this mora- ing in the Church of Our Saviour. A topic akin to it, and depending upon this event for its fulfilment, will be treated by Rev. Mr. Sweetser in the Bleecker street Universalist church this morning. ‘‘Heavenly Mansions” are promised to the faithful because Christ Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and Mr. Sweetser will tell us some- thing about those mansions and how to secure them. y There are other topics to be treated by our city pastors also. For instance, Dr. Ladlow will tell the Collegiate Reformed church this evening what the Prophet Daniel has said about “The Persians’ in his remarkable and mysterious prophecies. The Doctor has given * some study to this book, and will bring ripe scholarship as well as close thinking to bear in the elucidation of his subject. The recent decease of Elder Jacob Knapp, the great Baptist evangelist and revivalist, has marked an era in the Baptist denomination. When evangelists were scarce in any denomi- nation and were unknown among the Baptists Elder Knapp struck out on this line for him- self, and created a sensation such as few men. have created in his denomination or in any other for half a century. The Tabernacle Bap- tist church of this city, when it was located im Mulberry street, became his earliest ‘‘stamping ground.’ Itis, therefore, eminently proper that this church should honor the memory of a man to whom it owes so much, and that Dr. Fulton, who was intimately acquainted with the deceased evangelist in his work in Boston for many years, should pronounce his me- morial oration. This, therefore, will be Dr. | Fulton’s pleasing task to-night in this church, | Wnuo Is ro Bramu?—In our news colamns this morning will be found a report of a curious case, which seems to cast a strange light on the doings of our police courts. A poor man, by the name of Docherty, was, om the 30th of March last, brought before Judge Otterbourg, on a charge of drunkenness. The old man was discharged. Yesterday a friend came to the Court begging that the old man, | who, according to all accounts, is quiet amd! inoffensive out of his cups, and who has bee haved wall in prison, be released. It was the first intimation that the Court had of the fact of the man’s imprisonment. Had this mam been rich or had he many friends this could not have happened. Bad management some- where, gentlemen! Who is to blame? od