The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1874, Page 10

W NEW YORK HERALD) BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Ali business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Hrnaxp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly ealed. sa 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,. No. 109 | ” aMUSEMEN TO-HORBOW, ee OLYMPIC VHLAT Proadw. tween Houston surceta.— 1 MORMILEE und, NOVELTY is MLN TMG P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. at GRAND OPERA HOUSE ’ 4 Figuth avenge and twenty-t eL—THE TICKET OeLEAYE MAN, at mses at LLM, Myr. and | Mrs. Florence. ADW LATRE, Broadway, opposite |W zion pace, HUMPTY DUMPTY AT £ & M.; closes at Li P.M. G. Le Fox. BOOTHS THEATRE, Sixth avenue, corner of Twenty third street,—ROMEO ASD JCLLST, avo PL M.; Closes at 10nd YM, Miss Reitvon BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, gpposite City Hall, Brooklyn —OPEKA BOUNFE, at 8 P. di, ; closes aril PL DOWBRY 7 earner Yowery.—OLD Si KE, and VARI ‘“Negine ac SP. M5 closes at th Bry ent METAINMO NT THEN ¥ ENTERTAINMENT, at NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broaaway, berween Prince and Houston streets. — USED at 2PM. VARIETY BNTERTAISMENT, at 8 7. Mf closes at i030 PM LYOFUM THEATER, Fourwenth street, near Sixth avenue.—LA MARJO- LAIN, at 8 P.M. ; closes at UU P.M. Woop's MU Proecmey. commer of Thirtieth i st GAM- Mr. om imick Murray. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty- eenont a cape —LOVE)S PEN- ANCE, at P.M. ; closes at GERMANIA THEATRE gee ng street, near Irving piace. .; closes at ll P.M. Mme. Janauseh DALY'S FIFTH A’ THEATRE. Twenty-eighth street way. MONSIEUR ALPHONSE, at8 P.M; closes at 10:30 PM. Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny Davenport Mr. . My. Clark. THEATRE Sout No. 5M Broadway.’ P.M. | closes av 1080 RTAINMENT, at 8 WALLACK’s THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteentn street — C15 ‘VETERAN, at 8 M.. closes at P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack,’ Miss sates Lewis. ACADEMY OF Irving place. corner of fo Gvera—LOHENGRIN, at 8 P. M.: closes at 11 P.M. Nils eon, Cary, Campanini, Del Puente. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washineton street. near Fulton street. Bracklyn.— ARTICLE 47, at 8°P.M.: closes at ll P.M. Miss Clara lorris. TONY P No, 2M Bowery,—V A , at 8 P, M. closes at LP.» BRYANDS OPERA HOUSE Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue. —NEGRO MIN- DBIRELSY, &e., ats P. joses at WW P.M q ROB ALL, Sixteenth street. —AnT LAINMENT, at 8 P, M, SHEET. Quid NTUPLE New York, igsmend April 19, 1874, “From our rao this monion the probabili- ties are that the weather to-day will be clear or partly cloudy. CavcuT oN THE FLy. —General Butler, on his passage to Boston yesterday, caught o Heratp reporter's attention for a sufficient length of time to give his views upon recent and prospective political events in his charac- teristic style. They will be found elsewhere. Tue Conriicr mm Arkansas still retains a belligerent aspect. Yesterday Brooks com- menced to store provisions at the State House, preparatory to the threatened siege by Bax- ter's large force of militia. Uncle Sam, how- ever, proniines £ that no blo od shall be shed. Tux Ticapouye Case Acar. —It will be seen from our news this morning that a fresh attempt has been made to secure for the claim- anta new tral, On the two points which have been raised the Court has reserved judgment. the judgment will be final. Tae Inpmn Famrez. —According to de- spatches which have been received in London from Calcutta, the condition of the famine- | afflicted districts is improving. It is to be | desired that the canses of this distress, which at first was so alarming, and the disastrous effects of which we but impertectly knew, will | seriously engage the attention of British states- men and lead to the adoption of such meas- ures as shall prevent the occurrence of so great | @ calamity in the future. Porrrican ‘SPRING Frrsaer.—The Nashville Banner, in commenting upon the corruption | that has impregnated the republican party, declares that ‘the country is surging with in- dignation at the disgraceiul state of affairs Drought to light’ by the Sanborn investiga tion. “That the country is making a note of woat is going on,” says the Banner, ‘is evi- denced by the spring political treshets we re- ferred to the other day, and all the indications are that the fall freshets will be simply irresist- ible in their impetuous sweep in the same di- rection.” Tae Mississrer: Fioop has alarmed the planters, but according to the latest news the wiver had fallen in many places. The large erevasses have, no doubt, drawn off a great quantity of the surplus water. The damage ‘has been so serious and was so threatening that ‘the Governor of Louisiana appealed to Presi- dent Grant for relief to the suffering people. Let us hope the worst is over. It is unfortu- nate that the impoverished condition of the South since the war prevents the necessary ex- penditure of money to keep the banks of the Mississippi in good repair. The Mayor of New Orleans has appealed also to Mayor Havemeyer for aid. This indicates that there is great distress. Our wealthy citizens, who are ever ready to afford relief to the suffering, should not neglect the appeal ‘or the distressed poole of Louisiana, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, Burfed or Burned—Which ! Whether we are to burn in this world or in the next, or in both, is the question which at present agitates the public mind. A few gon- tlemen, who have never yet been warm enough, are determined that some one shall oven after death. They are extremely anxious to have their assertions concerning cremation practically exem- plified, and are quite williug to sacrifice all their country cousins to the cause. They are, at present, on the very tiptoe of excitement, and looking hopefully towards the death of one of their own number, who will be imme- diately subjected to the ordeal and reduced toa fine white powder. They have examined the mortuary tables of our life insur- ‘ourtcenth street.—ttalian | It is to be hoped, however, that | ance companies through gold-bowed spectacles, and then looked over the rim inquiringly at the oldest members of the Cinder Society. A severe casc of neuralgia or chronic rheumatism wou!d be regarded just now with uncommon interest, and a possibly | fatal case of dyspepsia would be looked upon | | with calm resignation if not with suppressed glee. One enthusiast has already kindled his fire. Finding all his neighbors in good health, » chased a mouse several times round a ten-acre | lot, and at last gallantly and perspiringly ran | him down. He invited him to die for the | good of his country, and in a few hours triumphantly exhibited him, properly calcined, | and ready to add his weight in ashes to the | agricultural interests of America. Not content | with this act of prowess, and bent on mightier ; deeds ‘of valor, his eye fell on the family cat. He enticed her to his side by triendly and treacherous words, and atthe very moment when her confiding purr and lovingly arched | back bore witness to her trust in human kind he struck the fatal blow in the interest of science and stretched her dead at his feet. He then hurried with his trophy to the cellar, where the hissing turnace gave him a warm welcome, and promised to hide the crime from the children, whose pet had been basely murdered. Silently he watched the fire, flit- | ting only from the woodpile to the furnace, and from the furnace back to the woodpile, until the lapse of time assured him that five ounces and a quarter of ashes composed the gross residuum of what was once a six-pound Tabby. Who will say, after this, that the heroic days are gone, or that the spirit of martyrdom has died out? Such deeds as these have roused the ad- mination of all the Heranp’s contemporaries. They are imbedded in oratory, like a wasp in ‘ amber, and sung in verse all over the coun- try. Indeed, we have of late been so flooded and drenched with the literature of death that it has become almost im- possible to look even at one’s poor relations without making a rough guess | happy fate to put them on the blazing pile. | One would think, to hear these cremutionists talk, that the burial of the dead is one of our | modern ecceatricities, and that in the golden age of history fire and death were twins. | According to our reading, however, the burn- ing of the dead was an exceptional custom, | lasting at best only a few generations, and even then rebelled against as profane and un- worthy. The Greeks, a people who delighted in a new sensation, borrowed the custom from ‘the East, and inurned their dead in costly vases. Itwas by no means a universal practice, | for in the palmiest days of incineration the | noble as well as the humble were laid in tombs. | As a matter of course the Romans, who were under the impression that anything, froma | brought from Athens | was en régle, imitated their neighbors, their | coffin to an earring, captives and their teachers. Both these peo- | ples yielded at length to the pressure of a com- mon instinct and gave up the custom. They did not care to change The two-oared boat, the Stygian barge, into a steamer, and supply the firewood that | hurried their demigods over the sluggish river. If white-bearded Charon insisted upon his full | list of passengers he must pull them across | wita the laborious oar. The Romans never dreamed of a funeral pyre until a cor- rupt court and people came to regard fire as the only effectual purgation. When the State was at its lowest political ebb, and its fre- quent quarrels strewed every plain with un- numbered and unburied dead, then the burn- ing of the slain became the cross road to | forgetfulness of historic defeats; but when | the sun of a new religion and a better patriot- ism shone on the seven hills the fires died in their ashes and the bodies of the departed | were reverently buried. The scorn with which the people of Athens and Rome would have greeted the proposition to use the cinders of their generals, their heroes and their philoso- phers to raise a corn crop withal can be | better imagined than described. These new-born theorisis must go to less cultivated nations and tribes to find a parallel ‘for their audacions economy. The Parsces | were accustomed to expose their dead to be devoured by vultures and wild beasts. They had no sentimental notions about funeral | fires and urns, but economized the defunct after a fashion which it would be well for these cremationists to imitate. If the end is to utilize the dead the way to do so is sug- gested by the people we have named. We could save all funeral expenses, and, thongh we might deprive ourselves of a*thousand tons of compost every year, we could, at any rate, attract to this part of the country the innumerable birds of the air and beasts of the forest, which would supply the market with game of all kinds. Besides this it would develop a love of manly sports and add health and long life to this stipercerebrated people. A lion or two, half a dozen hyenas and a few wild cats could be purchased of any menagerie to begin the work with. Looking at the matter from the stand- point of economy only, we are inclined to think that no better use could be made of those obstinate fanatics who refuse to be buried like decent folk. ; The Orinocos indulge in another pleasant , pastime which is equally suggestive. They suspend their dead from the branches of a tree that overhangs a river, and, waiting patiently until the fish have nibbled away everything except the skeleton, gather the bones and bury them. Now, if these cinderites feel that meat is too stronga stimulant, perbaps they will ad- mit the claims of ichthyophagy. They may be willing to be suspended from a huge float in the Bast River, and thus adda large qnan- | tity of phogwhorus or brain food to the cal & try the tropical atmosphere of a baker's | as tothe avoirdupois of bone dust the dear | people will make when it shall be our un- | to be resolved into their monts, to becpme compost for a potato patch, which at length becomes pliysical vigor in him who eats; bat how much better to feel that at one’s death he is to be changed come food for the fishes, which, in turn, will beeome food for a poet, for instance, and to feel that you will add to the sparkle of that “eye in a fine frenzy rolling’’ is, indeed, worth living for. You may not be able to write 4 single verse in your present coarse condition, | but by this process you may become pure | | phosphorus and burn in the brain of some fu- | tare Longfellow. What a delight to carry some immortal poem like the ‘Psalm of Life” in your celestial vest pocket, and to fee! that you fed the fish that fed the poet who wrote | those lines! This matter is worth thinking of. This wild waste of burial should be stopped at once. One method of economy is not enough for such a versatile people as we are. Let all three be adopted, for then we can suit all tastes and temperaments. For ourselves, however, if we must be eaten, let it be in the id fashioned way, in the quiet graveyard, by the traditional worm. The Funerzl of Dr. Livingstone. A cable despatch, special to the H»saLp, gives some interesting details regarding the funeral of Dr. Livingstone, which took place | | yesterday morning in Westminster Abbey. The funeral was conducted with great pomp and solemnity ; and, according to our corre- spondent, it was the grandest and most im- | posing ceremony of the kind witnessed during | The remains of the | great missionary have been deposited in the | | the present generation. centre of the west part of the nave of the son, the celebrated engineer. In Glasgow and other of the large cities of Great Britain the public buildings were draped in mourn- ing, and there were many other indications that the nation mourned the loss of a great | anda good man. It is but seldom that a man in his particular calling is so honored. | Livingstone's, however, was an exceptional life, spent in very peculiar circumstances. It cannot be said that he was the greatest of missionaries or that he was the greatest of Other missionaries, in so far as so- | explorers. | called conversion is concerned, have accom- | plished even greater work than he ; and other | explorers have added more largely to the | treasures of science. In him, however, more perhaps than in any man who ever lived, the | missionary and the explorer, the Gospel mes- senger and the man of science were combined. | It was this combination which made him the | most popular missionary of his day. During | the later years of his life he was an object of interest to the entire civilized world. His death was felt to bea public calamity. And shed tears of sorrow. His life was one long- continued self-sacrifice. | the true Christian hero of the modern stamp. | He rests from his labors, but his works do | | follow him. His example remains as a legacy | to humanity; and he, being dead, speaketh, | Pulpit Topics for To-Day. Prayer and providence have been disputed | | Booth and Davenport a genius that has not | and denied as much, perhaps, it not more, Christian Church. whether these avail whether, indeed, they do not connect them- selves chietly, if not solely, with the great | affairs of human life and destiny. And asa man thinketh in his heart so is he, and asa man believeth concerning prayer and provi- dence so will he act. Now, Dr. Ganse will enlighten his hearers to-day on the nature and | influence of “Prayer and Providence in Little | Things’’ as well as great, and will set forth, also, what is their ‘Duty in Little Things.’ By attending to these we may “grow in grace,’ of which process Mr. Kennard will tell us something, as also of the nature, bene- fits and relations of ‘‘baptism” to our religious faith and life. tion, without which our Christian life must be faint and feeble, Mr. Sweetser will set forth | the doctrine of the Trinity, or his understand- ing of it, this morning. “Straightforwardness” is something that we all admire. It will claim consideration to- day at the lips and hands of Dr. Magoon, of Philadelphia, who will also show us how life | is or may be evolved out of death, so that ifa man die he shall live again; if aman die unto sin he shall live unto righteousness. Death | simply changes a man’s relations and sphere | of existence. Hence the great and the good of | earth are not dead. David Livingstone, about | whose grave the Rev. David Mitchell will strew the flowers of tender memories to-day, and | concerning whose life work he will speak this morning, is not dead. His name and his me- morial will continue forever. So much for matters spiritucl or theological. Ot matters moral or material we find among the topies of thought tor the pulpits to-day the old yet new story of temperance, which claims to have not only two sides but a body. These have been already pretty well rubbed or drabbed, but Mr. Goss will take a tarn at them to-day, and will show from the New Testa- ment that total abstinence is the only con- sistent and intelligent temperance. This the Methodist Preachers’ Association, first, aud the New York Eas*Conference later, have, by resolution, declared to be their position. “Moral Diseipline in Common Schools’ will be looked afver this evening by the Rev. Mr. Mayo; the ‘‘Hopes of the Jews’’ will be set forth by the Rev. Mr. Baker; tions in the After Life’’ will Le speculated on by Mr. Lyman C. Howe, and the Rev. ©. R. Beal, of Missouri, will recite some incidents | in the past history of the colored race on this what their Continent, by way of future prospects may be. showing Tux Sreamsuie Nepersann is afloat again, aud it is believed she has not sustained any perhaps in the loss of serions damage, except her rudder and screw. According to the latest news she was being towed to Philadelphia, The recent wousual disasters to shipping, and to steamships especially, have been serious APRIL diot of the city. They seem to be quite ready constituent ele- into brain power for the succeeding generation! | | To know that when you are dead yuu will be- grand old Abbey, near the grave of Stephen- | now over his newly covered grave nations | In his career we see | yet | than any other Gospel truths held by the over Clown Fox's adventures with a police- Even the believers in | man. prayer and providence are sometimes in doubt | sad and silent people. Our amusement world for little things, or And that our faith in the | Trinity may have a strong and sure founda- | our ‘‘Occupa- , 19, The Map of the Busy World. The eighty columns of advertisements which compel ne again this morning to print a twenty-page Flezaup are an exceedingly interesting and varied inap of this busy New York world. It used to be the fashion to despise the advertisement as an intruder in the newspaper, an offence to the ‘constant reader,” who grndged the space not given to cookery reecipts and the poet's corner. We can well understand how the old- fashioned advertisement was an unwelcome | gneat. He came in a grotesque shape, with | large, staring, straggling types, and an en- graving certifying that a wretched human \ | being was in a dying state, or that some in- | | comprehensible heathen god or wild American Indian had become a trademark | for tonics and opiates. We can comprehend its depressing effect upon the home circle. Then it remained so long, coming in every issue for months and months, until it became a worbid, dreadful memory. But the old ad- vertisement has died away from the columns ot the living newspaper, with many other things old and worn out. To-day in a jonrnal like the Heraxp the advertisement is a part of | our duily life Thus a great metropolis speaks its wants, hopes and desires. | This is the voice of New York ad- | dressed to the American people. The | stranger who wants an abiding place, the merchant who craves a market, the wise man | who wonld have us go and see him read the | stars, he who has a house to sell, as well as his neighbor who desires a home, steamships | awaiting passengers, the servant who seeks a place and the master who needs a ser- vant—all find speech and opportunity in our eighty printed columns. Each para- graph is fresh, new and necessary, represent- | ing the hope or purpose of some anxious human soul. What a world it is! Whata mighiy, vast, palpitating world! Surely, journalism has no more necessary duty. The philosopher will here read his annals of this | | day's active New York life, and our people will rejoice in these teeming columns, which come as the floodtides of rushing spring busi- ness, and are welcome as signs of a general and genuine prosperity. The World of Amusements. A correspondent writes to say that the Heratp does injustice to the amusement- loving people of England by asserting that there are more theatres in New York than in London. But the Herarp made no such statement. We simply compared the bulletin of dramatic and operatic announcements under the editorial head of the Henan with a similar bulletin under the head of the London | Times, and the comparison was to our own ad- vantage. We simply commented upon an im- pression we have observed abroad to the effect | that the Americans were a sombre race. We think it was Thomas Hughes who said as much | when he returned to London after his visit to ' this country. Mr. Hughes, we fear, lost him- self in tho solitude of the Cambridge cloisters, | | among damp and musty professors. He should have studied the amusement column | of the Henanp and made himself at home in | this great, breezy metropolis, and have gone | the grand round from the Academy to Bryant's, and looked in upon the wonderful art shown | on Wallack’s and Daly’s stage, or seen in | been surpassed since Kean, or grown merry He surely would not have called us a | is a world of its own, in its way a suggestive | Panorama of our modern American life, and | showing, we trust, higher and higher evi- | dences of culture, refinement and taste. | Here we have another season of opera—not | to speak of lighter and more amusing forms | of amusement, also, which show the variety of American taste. Mr. Fox, perhaps the best clown in the world, delights the children with | his pranks and grimaces as Humpty Dumpty. | We suppose a tragedian or a comedian repre- | sents a higher school of art than a clown ; but | a good clown is a good thing—what Mr. Tup- | | per would be apt to call “a wellspring of pleas- | ure’’—and we would much rather see a good clown than a bad tragedian. Then we have another national institution much beloved by | the children and sporting young men in Bry- ant’s. We tremble to think of the melodies | and dances and refrains and jigs and break- | downs and appeals to Charleston girls and | | Old Virginia for which Mr. Bryant is respon- | | sible. “Shoo-Fly,’’ for instance, was like | | discovering a new planet in the universe of amusements, and nothing is more attractive in | Offenbach’s opera than the extravaganza of the | “Mulligan Guards.” These are revelations | of the real tenderness and expression un- | | derlying African melody, and are as much shied of genius in their way as ‘‘Lohen- grin.” Mr. Bryant and his band of | singers and dancers will always succeed | when they content themselves with the purely | African and sentimental styles of minstrelsy. Young men want to hear about other young | men falling in love and about the pranks of Old Kentucky. As we study this list we see how cosmo- politan New York is, for here we may have a French theatre, with a company fresh from Paris, and on the other side a German theatre, where our German fellow citizens may see the masterpieces of Schiller and drink their beer in peace, and fear no conscription nor any other danger except that of inflation, if the President will do what no honest German , in New York would think of doing sign the pernicious Senate bill. namely, European Lite. Our European correspondence this morning will be found of unusual interest and value. We print letters from England, France, Italy and Germany. Mr. Edmund Yates writes a | chronicle of the busy London world, while his brother novelist, Mr. T. A. Trollope, gives us a philosophical and interesting pic- ture of the effurts of the Italians to fuse and bind their new Italy, ' Our Ddrilliont Paris correspondent sketches , another scene in the wonderful and ever- changing comedy society and politics which never reaches the final act in France, We see how American industry and enterprise are taking root in Germany, and learn the pleasing fact that we make ploughs and harrows for Saxony. Our = faithtal ot enough, and it will be gratifying to know the German correspondent gives us a picturesque Nederland has escaped the danger of being a complete wreck, wich at one time was appre- hemed. interview with the Catholic bishops who rep- , resent Alsace in the German Parliament, while from Gerla we bave a uarrative of | whose character 1874. —QUINTUPLE SHEET. the "dete and sayings he Bismarck, makes him a topic of never ceasing interest to Americans, The variety and ability of this correspondence will attract the thoughtful reader, who will be glad to pause for a moment in his busy American career to study life, letters and politics in the nations beyond Sha sea, Street Car Amonttioe—sneil Ladies Stand While Gentlemen Are Seated? An advovate of woman's rights, in the en- thusiasm of the peroration to a great speech, declared herself in favor of women sharing every privilege with men, even to standing up in the street cars. Indeed, the sireet cars enter very largely into this class of literature, for another writer has supplemented the | claim of the suffrage orator by the complaint that even here there is inequality, since it is plain from the height of the straps that they were intended solely for men. Woe believe both of these talking ladies are right, and so under ordinary circumstances the only ques- tion to be settled would be whether the straps should be let down ; but as the managers of street railways, like their understrappers gen- erally, are the natural enemies of mankind, there is no hope in that direction. It is thus the argument takes a new form, and the question arises whether a lady should be allowed to stand up while gentlemen are seated. Weare rather inclined to say yes, | especially if she is young and pretty. It would not hurt the old and ugly ones to be offered a seat ; but we fear for a sad misinter- | pretation of the law of courtesy if the same principle should be applicd to the handsome women who crowd the street cars. ‘They— that is to say, the young ones—must not be encouraged in this matter, or the look of beauty will be equal to the voice of command, and wretched young fellows who exchange a seat for a strap will be embittered in their wretchedness by the want of a ‘‘thank you’’ for the courtesy. Spanish women thank every passing admirer fora word of compli- ment to their beauty; but American women demand an introdnetion before they can even be grateful for a favor. When they are offered a seat in a street car they fall into it with the dulness of a wooden image, and they need not wonder if, after a time, men grow tired of being kind to such ill-mannered god- desses. Politeness to ladies in public con- veyances has gone out of fashion, and, high | straps or low straps, it is not likely to come in again till the ladies themselves learn better manners. The worst featare about the street car busi- ness is that anybody at all should be required to stand. ‘At two dollars a day conductors and drivers are certainly cheap enough to afford a full supply of this part of the outfit of 8 strect railway. A few new cars would be a splendid advertisement for most of the lines, and more cars are required on every line in the city. Overcrowding bas become unen- durable. Fifty or sixty people are packed into | asingle car like so many sausages in a barrel. Thanks to Mr. Bergh’s law for the prevention of cruelty to animals, sheep are transported | on the great highways of the State with greater care than is shown to men and women in the city. In_consequence the street cars have become simply abominable. If managers gave halt as much attention to the comfort of their passengers as to watching their employés a better state of things would soon appear; but, with ‘ every few blocks, and unsightly clocks and noisy bells and other contrivances to detect theft, they are too busy for anything else. The | want of proper returns is an offence, but con- ductors laugh at the complaints of passengers, knowing that such small matters are never are heeded. It is thus that street car amenities | left entirely to the passengers, and the women compelled to fight their battle with the men unaided. In one respect, apart from the strap question, the contest is an unequal one. The cars at ihe downtown starting places, every | evening, are crowded with men before a single woman—or a married one either, matter—can get intothem. This is an evil tor which there seems to be no adequate remedy, and we suppose we shall have to wait for a reform uutil the happy time that ushers in the Bloomer costume, when ladies may take | part in the gentle exercise of rushing intoa street car without being impeded by their skirts. And in that glorious age it will be | scarcely necessary to discuss the subject. ous Press. The Pi ‘The religious press of the city, having used up the Congregational Council and the Con- gressional inflationists and other topics of more or less interest to the general public, have come down to more matter-of-fact themes within their own special province. The Chris- ian Union leads off with an article on “Christ the Saviour,’ which contains many sound and sensible thoughts, though it is not likely to be accepted wholly by every orthodox Christian. It maintains that the truth that Christ is a Saviour from sin has mever been lost from the wind of the Church, and that, though sometimes obscured, dis- guised, perverted, it has still had vitality enough to keep Christianity alive in spite of a thonsund errors. | ‘The Independent supplies “A Strange Chap- | ter in the History of Missions,”’ which exhibits in an unenviable light the spirit of sectarian- ism which has been thrust into mission fields by the mission boards at home rather than carried there by the missionaries. In 1872, it appears, the missionaries in Japan organized their converts into ® native Christian Church without the usual — sectarian label. They sent home the results of their action and the favor with which it was received by the Japenese. But instead of being praised they were blamed by their several mission boards, and ordered forthwith to label their respective converts with the gen- nine sectarian labels. It was argued that, as the churches here had expended so much money, they must have something to show for it; and ot course, unless they could call the converts by their own sectarian names, there would be nothing to show, no matter how many unsectarmn native Christian charches there might be. But the “First Native Christian Chureh in Japan,’’ refused to be disbanded at the beck of the sects, en- tered its protest, and eontinnes to maintain its integrity. The Methodist squares up a little account | between itaclf and the Tablet on the question | of the relation of Church and State as set forth in the new “Encyclopwdia” now going | ‘Lhe throu dhe ress of the Applotuas. ‘spotters’ getting on and off | for that | Methodist bas also some sensib'e remarks and suggestions on ‘Ministerial Reading’ which may be utilized by ministers. ‘The Christian Intelligencer ulso devotes ite editorial pen to a criticism and condemnation of the “Cyclopwdia,”’ which, it reasserts, has been toned down to suit prospective Catholic patrons. It has an editorial on ‘The Mexi- can Martyrs’ and another on ‘Missions in Papal Countries,” so that a fair share of } attention and of its space this week has been given to Catholic interests. The Eeaminer and Chronicle indicates great | jealousy, or something else, because Dr. Tal- ; mage has had a baptistry erected in his new church and recently immersed converts therein. He should have let them go to a | regular Baptist church, and for a man who does not believe in it to administer immersion | as baptism merely to keep a convert from joining a Baptist church, the Heaminer con- siders, ‘és contemptible in principle and hardly falls short of profanoness.’’ The Freeman's Journal divides its editorial time, space and thought between the pilgrim- age and a discussion with the Washington Chronicle, which it has kept up for several weeks, on the public school question and Catholics. It contains nothing worthy of re- | producing. ‘The Boston Pilot contains an interesting and valuable statistical article on ‘The Creeds of the Chief Countries,” compiled from the latest and best sources. The Tablet is grieved that the Catholic press is not what it should be and that it allows personalities in its colum#s. The Christian Leader talks about “Ohurch Extension, Fellowship and Discipline, and Bible Studies ;” the Jewish Times about ‘‘Cre- mation’’ and the Messenger about ‘‘Roumania and Mr. Peixotto’s Work There." And | further there is little to say. The Amertque Strange | Our special despatches from Paris, Londen and Brest tell a thrilling story of the aban- donment of the Amérique off the French coast, of the well nigh miraculous escape | from death of every person but one on board, and, most startling of all, the report that the great castaway had been picked up and taken in tow for so long a space as thirty-six hours, again apparently to be cast adrift. It is a | fortune that does not commonly hap- pen to ships compelled to lay to in a storm a hundred miles from port that they should have neighbors as the Amérique had, but it is to this circumstance alone that the friends of the Amérique’s passengers are in- debted for the fact that they are not now com- pelled to deplore the dreadful fate of a whole | ship’s company swallowed up by the sea with- out a word or a record of any sort to tell their story. For if the Amérique’s boats had been sufficient to contain the persons on the ship they could scarcely have brought them to land in such a sea. In the story of the loss of the Amérique we see a commentary on the discussions that | have been in progress in our journals for some days, excited by the circumstances attending | the loss of the Europe. Attention was at- tracted from these points by the charges so un- generously made against Captain Thomas, of the Greece, and the public was treated toa singular experience in the fact that the only man whom the persons most concerned in that event could say a word against was the | one who had saved the lives of all the passen- gers and crew and had taken some practical | steps toward saving the ship. Perhaps that discussion, so adroitly led up to, and ap- | Parently intended to cover misconduct .that | otherwise might have been more sharply | touched, would still have been amusing to | the public mind but that the falsehoods upon which it rested were so completely and ex- | plicitly exposed by the clear, honest and | manly letters of Dr. Burridge and Mr. Lloyd Phoenix, which must end in any impartial mind all doubt as to the rights of the case. It now appears that both the Europe and the Amérique, after having been abandoned by all on board as about to founder, are found | fully able to float after two days at the sea’s | mercy, and both waterlogged only in the en- gine compartments. The coincidence is very curious. It suggests grave deficiencies of judgment on the one hand in those who com- | manded, and grave detects in construction om the other. Why were both vessels abandoned | by their officers when there was a large margin | of hope that they could be saved? Why is it | that the strain of the storm finds out the weak place of the hull in each ship to be the engine compartment? These are suggestive queries. | Sprina Fasutons, although they have been kept back for # long time through the fickle- ness of the weather and the occasional raids made by old Winter into the realms of spring, are now in full bloom on the avenue and Broadway. Nearly all the leading modistes have held their annual ‘expositions,’ and the new styles and materials have been abun- dantly crilicised and discussed. In another column we give an account of a stroll through the principal establishments where Dame | Fashion reigns supreme. Picked Up at Sea= Coincidence. Doy'r Want ro Be Lert Our wx THE Cop. — The people of Long Island City have peti- tioned the Legislature to be included in the proposed annexation of Brooklyn to New York. Why not? These suburbs just across the river are really a part of the metropolis, most of the people having business connec- tions with and being dependent upon New ‘York. Let us be impartial when we are about rounding off our boundaries and in- clude all the suburbs immediately connected with the city. Were it not for the restriction of State limits Jersey City and Hoboken ought to be included, for they, too, are but offshoots of New York, - THE WAOHITA FLOODS, Orncrnnatt, Obto, April 18, 1874, A special despatch from Memphis says the ‘Wachita has overflowed tho entire valley througt: | which it fows. The towns of Trenton, Monroe, ) Columbia, Harrisonburg and Trinity and aeariy every plantation on the river have suffered se- verely. The river and tts tributaries ara ettlt rising. The loss by the overflow will react $1,000,000. ot FOUND 1 THe Woods. | The police of the Thirty fourth precinct found @ man named Cari Brumen, a Swede, in the woods in Westchester last night, who has been lying | there since Thursday last. He was Mil and woabdle ; tomove toa place of safety. He was carried te the statioa house, where proper attention waa \ given ava.