The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1874, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD! ; BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | 2ROPRIETOR. | All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yous Hznawp. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | Teceived and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. } =e | Volume ‘XXxIx ..No. 137 | AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. ——— WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—SCHOOL, at 8 P. M.; closes at ll P. M. Mr, Lester Watlack, Miss Jetreys Lewis. | Broadway, between Houston, and. Bicecker street way, and Bleecker streets — VAUDEVILLE und NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:45 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. a BROADWAY FHEATE oadway, opposit asbing' DUMPTY AT WOME. dc, ats P G. L. Fox. Pisce CMPTY |; closes at ll P.M, Bix mOOrES TRE ATES etarier avenue, corner of Twenty-third street. —| | atbP. Mo; closes atlv45P-M. Mr. Jobn McCullough. 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Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street.—ANNUAL EX. | HIbITION. Open day and evening. coLos Broadway, corner of Thirt Js74, at 1) ator. M. street.—LONDON IN M. ; closes at 5 ¥. me at7 V. M.; closes ROMAN HIPPODROME, avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘street.—GRAND | JONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P. BM. and | NTUPLE New York, Sunday, NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1874.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. ‘The Calamity in Massachusetts. This seems to have been an appalling and unaccountable disaster in Massachusetts. We can understand and with patience bow be- fore calamities that in the old phrase of pious resignation are “visitations of God.” It may be that the theology which sees in every event, from the desolating earthquake to the failing sparrow, the special act of Provi- dence, is the most consoling in the presence of a disaster like this. But we have no such consolation. When the famine began its ter- | rible journey into India, and humane, honest Englishmen were compelled to read of the assured starvation of thousands of men, with their wives and children, the terror of the thonght was tempered by the conscious- ness that the resources of the British Empire had been strained to relieve their sufferings, | and that but for the efforts of the rulers of India the ravages would bave increased | in a tenfold degree, When Chicago was almost destroyed by a fire we all felt that much of the misfortune was owing to our heedless, foolish way of building barns and shells for houses and calling a multitude of these houses a city. But although the fire in Chicago arose trom the improvidence of our modern enterprise which we call civiliza- tion, nature did so much to fan the flames with tempest and hurricane that we attri- buted it largely to ‘the visitation of God,"’ and joined hands from all sections of the Union to rebuild the desolated metropolis of the Iakes. And so with the floods in the Southwest. We may feel that had our gov- ernment after the war, instead of concentrat- ing its energies on a Freedman’s Bureau, established also a Reconstraction Bureau, its levees, dredging out rivers, replacing rail- ways and encouraging a conquered people in the pursuit of wealth and industry, there would not have been these broken levees, which have invited the rush of the waters and the destruction of so much life and property. The disaster in Massachusetts is as terrible in its way as any that we have known fora long time. Its cruelty seems to recall the eruption of Vesuvius and the overwhelming of Pompeii. Then it was the burning lava and the ashes from the implacable mountain; now it is the water. But in either case it came with fury, without warning, incapable of | control, doing its fearful will even to de- struction and death. At an early hour yester- day morning three reservoirs, which had been ton—the towns of Williamsburg, Leeds and Haydenville—suddenly burst and swept down upon the surrounding villoges with a volame of water that nothing could resist, covering houses From our reports this morning thi are that the weather to-day will be occasionally | rainy, with clearing weather in the afternoon. | Wan Sraxer Yesterpay.—Gold opened at | 112}, declined to 112 and closed at 112}. | Stocks dull and lower. ‘Tae Bureau or Commence.—lIt is proposed | branch of the Treasury Department. bureau will take charge of the national indus- tries, comprehending those of manufacturing, mining, agriculture and commerce. Agxansas.—The civil tumu!t in Arkansas is atanend. The President's decision has had more moral effect than an army. Brooks has submitted to the President’s proclamation, his | followers are going home, business seeks its natural channels, industry brightens into new life, and the State will rejoice in the fulness | destroying large manufacturing establish- ments as though they had been made of cards, carrying houses, railway stations, fences, mills, bridges, men, women and chil- | dren in its terrible and destructive eddies. ‘The telegraph adds, with cruel brevity, ‘‘The damage to property must be hundreds of thousands of dollars, while it is impossible to accurately estimate the loss of life.’’ Our to .establich « Burean of Commerce as a | correspondents, whose reports will be found This | elsewhere, give us all the information that can be obtained, but we suppose much time must elapse before the extent of the disaster | is accurately known. The details are as painful as the imagination can conceive. One | conductor of a railway train passed just ahead of the flood which carried away his wife and child. In one factory several women who were at work beginning the day's employment were instantly borne to death. A savings bank, with all of its deposits, was destroyed. In many cases whole families were drowned in- and the opportunities of the springtime. | we; Ar Tuts Szason, for several years past, have been able to say, when commenting | upon the departure of numbers of our citizens | for Europe, that the summer outflow had | begun. For some time back we have been | apprehensive that we should get no chance to | repeat the phrase, but fourteen steamers left this port yesterday for European ports ; and each vessel had a sufficient number of pas- sengers to please the company managers. Now we say, emphatically, the summer out- flow has begun. If such disasters at sea as those recently recorded cannot daunt Euro- pean tourists they are perfectly fearless. | Kerioce’s Convicts at Larcr.—A few weeks ago Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, pardoned out of prison a large number of convicts, including several consicted of mur- der and robbery, and what at that time was predicted by the State press has come to pass. New Orleans and all the principal cities of the State are overrun with thieves, burglars and highwaymen, and rarely paper comes to us that does not show a state of crime really alarming. to have the freedom of every city in the State, where before the general jail delivery bur- glaries were of rare occurrence. Sream on tae Enre Canatr.—The steam canal boat City of New York has made the trip between this city and Buffalo in six and # half days, including stoppages at Utica and Syracuse to discharge and receive freight. The boat left New York on Saturday, the 9th inst., at half-past five o'clock P. M., and arrived at six o'clock yesterday morning. ‘This marks an important era in canal navi- gation between the Western lakes and tide- water. There is no reason why the through trip from Buffalo should not be made in five days, and then the old canal boat drawn by horses will speedily disappear. It will be in- teresting to learn from the canal authorities whether the new steamers threaten any dan- ger to the barks. Tax Awenicas Cataouic Puonmace. —The first American pilgrimage to the shrine of Burglars and highwaymen seem | | stantaneously. One family of six children was swept away. The first despatch an- | nounces the number of lives lost as sixty; but, as we have said, it will be impossible for a day or two to know how many poor souls really met their fate in this astounding calamity. We believe that the cause of the disaster was only another illustration of the heedless, care- | less spirit ot the present age. Weare told | | that the reservoir which broke its bounds had | been carefully built and only recently examined, and that upon examination its condition had been found perfectly stanch. But the disaster shows that it badly built and had been badly examined, and that this most appalling and irremediable visitation really came from | the dishonest doing of a work that should have been honestly done. There is no excuse for building a reservoir that will burst into a death-dealing, desolating tide under the im- pulse of the first spring rains. Every engi- neer and capitalist knows the fearful power was locked up in a volume of water embosomed in | an artificial embankmant, There is no force so terrible in nature—no force capable of such | wide spread destruction, Neither ice, nor | snow, nor the rolling floods, nor the earth- | quake, nor the volcanic lava stream can do | | such fearful damage as a vast volume of | | water suddenly released from its keeping. | Knowing this, the building of a reservoir, | which was not as strong and as compactly | guarded as science could make it, was a | crime, and should be so regarded. But the | truth is that in this case, as in many others, | we have permitted custom to become a crime. | | We build a city like Chicago as a temptation | to the flames. We hurriedly erect houses— sent us the pases of eminent prelates aud cler- | vast carayansaries intended to be the homes of women and childrei--and they suddenly | crack and fall, and we feel there has been a | blessed deliverance when no one is buried in the ruins, Sometimes the result is not s0 for- | tunate, and we are called upon to drag the | remains of mangled women and children ont | of the ruins of what, they called their “homes.”’ Our greed for wealth, our desire to have im- | mediate and lucrative results from every in- | vestment, the speculative, the gambling, the duties those of actual reconstruction, building | | built for the purpose of supplying the wants | of three manufacturing towns near Northamp- | the roses were beginning to creep—lie in irre- trievable ruins, Surely no sadder picture was ever seen in Massachusetts on a sunny summer morning than the scene of desolation that lies spreading this Sabbath morning under her famous old mountains. In the | meantime let us not forget another duty that this disaster imposes on us, one that especially should not be forgotten on this Sabbath morning. Hundreds will be thrown | out of employment and are homeless now, all their little possessions gone, Let us give them all the succor they need. Contributions sent at once into this district, either in money or in the shape of clothing and provisions or means of comfort and shelter, would prevent much suffering. Let New York send a hun- dred thousand dollars at once to the local authorities. Our people could do no better Sabbath work than to raise this sum, and we commend it to them this m , as they raise their thoughts to the Divinity who never failed to succor those who were hungry and weary laden and atricken with sore distress. Te-Day’s Pulpit Topics. The event of the past week’ in the calendar of the Church has been the commemoration of our Lord’s ascension to heaven. While it is yet fresh in the minds of the people the Rev. Dr. Ganse will give it prominence in his dis- course this morning, and will attempt to de- | scribe the glory of that event. He will con- tinue his series of typical sermons in the evening on “Giving Speech to the Dumb.” The parable of the lost sheep is one of the oldest and best preached themes in the Book, j and yet a great many new and good things | may be said on it, Mr. Cross, of England, | will tell his Baptist hearers what lessons he has drawn from it, and will also illustrate to them how they may and why they should be- come epistles of Christ. The Rev. George O. Phelps, who will be | installed pastor of the Allen street church, will | this morning state and enforce ‘‘The Law of | Christian Serving ;” while the Rev. S. H | Platt, of Brooklyn, will present the Lord as a | stronghold in the day of trouble, and will | also show why the race is not to the swift. | The Rev. Mr. Elder believes infant baptism is such a heresy that it needs a Christian and | constant protest, and close communion alone | | furnishes that protest. He therefore proposes to add to the momentum and force of the pro- | | test by his treatment of it this morning. All | | men have a goal in life, but comparatively | few have a guide. Mr. Elder will indicate what the true goal is and where the true guide may be found. Moses was so interested in his interview | with the Almighty on Mount Sinai and ap- | proached so close to the divine glory that his own face shone with the reflection of that‘ glory, so that when he descended from the | mount the Israelites feared to approach him until he had put a veil over his face. But “he wist not that his face shone.’’ Dr. Briggs will have some explanation of this phenome- non to give to the Church of the Messiah this morning. Mr. Frothingham will speak on the | religion of the soul, and will describe its i coming and going, its growth and develop- ment, and, of course, also its ultimate results. Church Music in New York. We publish to-day an article giving many | interesting facts and figures about metropoli- | tan choirs. It will be seen that our principal churches have Jong since quitted the dreary desert of the pitch pipe and the precentor and have entered the promised land of true art and devotion. Instead of the tough old tanes that found their way over hero in the Mayflower and were alone calculated to exasperate Cromwell's saints into fighting or the elders of Salem into witch-burning, the works of great composers may be heard in the leading temples of wor- ship, interpreted by persons acquainted at least with music. The barriers of fanaticism and ignorance have been pretty generally beaten down in this direction by the progres- sive spirit of the age, and few ministers, un- less they happily fall across some benighted | congregations, venture nowadays to oppose | | the introduction of the divine art into the ; temple dedicated to the worship of the Divin- | ity. Trained choirs, with professional artists | for the solo parts, may frequently be found in | the metropolitan churches. The only evil to be guarded against is the proneness of an in- | competent organist to foist upon the congre- | gation his crude, puerile compositions. When the maiériel of a choir is good and the selec- tions are in accordance with the spirit of reli- | gion the most powerful incentive to devotion, | generally more efficient than a prosy sermon, is secured. The Boston Pilot, a careful and dignified Catholic journal, suggests that the Heraup should nominate some prelate for the rank of cardinal, and intimates that His Holiness would be apt to look favorably upon the nomi- nation. The Cincinnati Commercial has named Archbishop Purcell, while the Vicks- burg Herald suggests the Rev. William HL Elder, the able and faithful Bishop of | Natchez, The nomination of Bishop Elder, | | the Herald assures us, would be gratifying to “the people of Mississippi, Protestant and | Catholic alike.’’ Many correspondents have | gymen in our own city, with the request that | we should bring their virtues and piety to the ‘ attention of the Pope, in the assurance that he would elevate them to the rank of cardi- nal, But we bave no proferonce. Our only point is that thé Catholie Church in America is too strong and bas been too loyal to the | Holy See, to be longer neglected in the distri- bution of the supreme honors of the Church. The Pope could pay American Catholics no higher compliment than to reward their devo- Lourdes and the Eternal City sailed yesterday | adventurous spint which pervades modern |!" © the Church by elevating one or two, pn board the Pereire for Europe. Sympn- | theije crowds attended their embarkation to | society, only yield another result in the destruction of these Massachusetts towns. | or, perhaps, three, of their revered pastors to the dignity of cardinal. If he could appoint wish them @ safe voyage. The demonstra- | We sce the cupidity of capital, which would | * Y°C"8 Priest of forty to this dignity, merely tion was more than a gathering of friends to | bid Godspeed. It was rather on expres- | sion of sympathy and unity of thought | in the devotional act of the new pilgrims. Nothing in modern times is more noticeable than the sudden revival of religious enthu- not spend an additional dollar to insure safety; the carelessness of labor, which only builds to confirm the contract; the dishonesty | of those whose duty was to keep watch and ward in not exposing the crime. The result is that many men, women and children lie dead; | because he was the consin of the Emperor | Napoleon, he might appoint, also, some of | our venerable and learned prelates, | ‘Prarexiry Unper tue Rosrs,"’—The | suggestion of the Henarp that all distinction | between the federal and Confederate soldiers siasm among Catholics, It has not been con- | that fathers and mothers mourn for those who | should be forgotten on Decoration Day, that fined to Vendée or Brittany, but seems to were torn from them in an instant, never to j the graves of both should be honored alike have swept over the Catholie world, making | return until that union from which there is | and that “our brothers should find peace and its influence felt in England as well as in America. It is evident that, though fallen from bis temporal state, the Roman Pontiff still reigns suprome over the hearts of the faithful. years—homes where love reposed yesterday in no parting. Many fair homes typifying the hopes, the labors and the accumulations of fraternity under the roses’’ seems to be gen- erally approved in the South. One Southern | although the dischirge of what each rogarded as a solemn duty. This “is an approximation to that Divine love which passeth all understanding, and isa decoration direct from the hands of God Himself.” These are noble words, breathing the spirit of true Christianity and patriotism. We are glad to hear them spoken in the South, and we trust the time will soon come when nothing will be remembered of the war but the valor and devotion it inspired on both sides, and when North and South will vie with each other in doing honor to the patriot- ism and valor of Reynolds and Jackson, Meade and Lee. New York Politics and Politicians The Troubles of Reform. Although it is yet too early to form an intel- ligent idea of what the fall campaign will bring forth, we give elsewhere in the Hznanp to-day such gossip as is current among our local politicians. The democratic aspirants are likely to be numerous this year, in view of the prevailing belief in o ‘revival’ on that side of the fence, and we find many of the veteran office-seekers already pushing their long neglected claims with a vigor worthy of more youthful adventurers, But New York politicians are seldom very sagacious, and so far as the State is concerned it is likely that the opponent of Governor Dix, who is almost certain to be again the republican candidate, will be taken from some other locality than the metropolis. The question of the most immediate interest to our own citizens will be the selection of municipal officers. It seems singular that after less than two years’ trial of “reform’’ there should be such a univer- sal sentiment in favor of a new revolu- tion in the city government. But the reformers who took charge of the mu- nicipal affairs of New York on the overthrow of the old Tammany politicians, and from whose disinterested efforts in the cause of honest government such beneficial results were anticipated, have not been without their share of trouble. Their first difficulties were experienced in framing a charter which should give them all they wanted and secure them against cheating among themselves. The question was how to arrange the distri- | bution of the city offices so that the Com- mittee of Seventy should not get the better of the outside reformers, so that the Mayor and his old democratic friends should not cheat the republicans and so that the Custom House republicans should not crowd out their anti-Custom House brethren. The Legisla- ture of 1873 was divided into cliques, one en- joying patronage under Comptroller Green, one under Commissioner Van Nort, one under the late Police Commissioner Smith, one ex- pecting favors from the new Mayor and another looking to a profitable trade with the. Aldermen. These varied interests gave rise to a variety of schemes for a solution of the important question of how to divide up the spoils among the victors. It was proposed to give the Mayor the sole and uncontrolled authority to distribute the offices, but the Custom House republicans would not hear of. this “arbitrary power’’ policy. They could not trust the Mayor. It was next pro- posed that the Aldermen should make nomi- nations for office and the Mayor should have the power to appoint or reject the nominees, but this did not suit the republicans, They could not trust the Aldermen. It was sug- | gested to give the city patronage into the hands of the Mayor, the President of the Board of Aldermen and the President of the Board of Taxes and Assessments; but there were difficulties of a legal character in the way, and, besides, the two Presidents were Custom House republicans and did not satisfy any others. The next plan was to make the Mayor and the Presidents of the two Aldermanic bodies the appointing power ; but this did not answer, because, Aldermanic heads were republican, they might have been changed three minutes before the signing of the law. Eventually the nomination of city officers was given to the Mayor and the confirming power to the Aldermen, and three republicans and one democrat, heads of departments, wero kept in office by special provision in the charter. All this time there was no thought of what the people of New York desired, or what might be beneficial to the interests of the city. Il was simply a scramble for the spoils among men embarrassed by the diffi- culty of guarding against cheating among themselves. After all the trouble, anxiety and trickery it had caused the charter was not a success, and the Aldermen set up in business for them- selves. Before the new law had been in oper- publicans were denouncing the Mayor as a corruptionist ond an imbecile, and the Mayor was returning the compliment by branding the republican leaders as gamblers and cheats. When the session of the Legisla- ture of 1874 commenced, with a large repub- lican majority, a new bargain was made be- tween the Mayor and the republican leaders, | the result of which was the nomination of Cus- tom House republicans to important city offices | then vacant, the passage of a law depriving the Aldermen of the power of confirmation in the filling of vacancies and giving the uncon- trolled appointment to the Mayor, and the suppression of all unpleasant investigations in regard to the management of municipal de- partments. After the adjournment of the Legislature, however, there was a renewal of the ‘‘cheating round the board,” and to-day | the republican leaders who passed the law giving the sole power of appointment to Mr. Havemeyer are again abusing that remarkable veteran with all the vigor they possess. But these internal squabbles are not the only troubles of the reformers. The city finances are in such a state of confusion that no person ean tell what to make of them, and the Mayor predicts terrible embarrassments in the future, Th? city creditors are unpaid; the public improvements have been stopped, | | and the upper part of the island is fast becom. | ing a wilderness, The departments are all | snarling at and biting each other. The courte | are filled with suits against the city, The Po- lice Department is undergoing investigation by two committees. The Street Cleaning Bu- reau has been pronounced corrupt and incom- petent by a Legislative committee. The De- | partment @ Charities and Correction, branded | by the presentment of a Grand Jury, is known | to be rotten to the core, The public debt has | | Journal speaks of Nature, our common | increased over thirty million dollars in three companionship with hope and peace, modest | mother, kindly prodigal of her gifts, decorat- | years. The rate of taxation is $3 40 per cent. eattages, where labor dwelt and around which | ing the graves of dead heroes who fell in the | With such a picture of “reform” rule betore The Mayor did not live up to his bargains | ation two months the Custom House re- | them it is not surprising that the people of New York should look for a change of rulers next year as anxiously as they looked for the overthrow of Tweed and his legions two years ago. ‘Woman's Wrongs and Rights. Women have at last taken their destiny into their own hands, and propose to fight it out if it takes allsummer. They are no longer satisfied to rock the cradle and administer household affairs, but have entered the arena of literature, business and politics. They have been oppressed with the galling chains of drudgery long enough, and have mounted the rostrum to proclaim their policy for the future, and even knocked at the door of our legislative halls, hoping to obtain a seat, a salary, a vote and, possibly, the opportunity to receive a bribe. The time has come when the masculine gender is to be ruled out of order, while the feminine gender takes the floor, arranges its toilet with the help of a hand glass and settles the affairs of the nation. Lord Lyttleton, who in an hour of weakness said— One only care, zouy gentle breasts should move, The important business of your life is love— is voted a fodasil of the first magnitude, a kind of sentimental monstrosity, who would en- circle a woman with devotion and poetry, and put her on a pedestal to be worshipped as the refining element of society. She prefers a coarser condition, and has grown ambitious to enter the law, to fill some political position, or to engage in the competitions of trade. Dr. Clarke, the author of ‘Sex in Educa- tion,"’ has set the whole of New England by the ears. He is apparently the most uncom- fortable man east of the Hudson River, and life has long since ceased to have any value in his sight. He held smoking flax under the wasps’ nest, and the denizens of the paper palace came tumbling out in myriads, each determined to be revenged on the rash in- truder, with such an angry buzz that the Doctor's only refuge is the madhouse or the grave. He only said that a woman is a wo- man ; but the air is so thick with arrows that the very sun seems darkened, and we are forced to conclude that if the time has not already arrived it is close at hand when those who are now women will be so no more forever. This mild-mannered physician argued that coeducation of the sexes is inju- rious ; that besides the minor impediments of necessary flirtations and consequent distrac- tion from legitimate work, the feminine mind is not adapted to that particular course and method of study with which young men grapple. He evidently did not intend to offer an insult to the other gender, or to inti- mate any intellectual inferiority. Far from it He has the utmost reverenco even for the most antiquated of the other sex, and lifts his hat to those whose general make-up indicates the presence of the latest modern improvements. He has only words of com- pliment for, anda noble appreciation of the ancient but still ambitious damsel even, whose cheeks would vie with the rose if they were painted a little more artistically, and who heaves her love-sick sighs by means of one of the “patent palpitating bosoms,’’ warranted to keep up their peculiar action for a whole evening, lately advertised in the journals of Paris. But no sooner was the book published than a scream of horror and affright rose from the intellectual streets of Boston, Rev. Mrs, Jones and Sarah Smith, Esq., and Dorothy Dexter, M. D., backed by a few old ladies in men’s clothes, emptied their pepper boxes in the Doctor's eyes, and raised such o pother over his head that he is in imminent danger of swallowing some of his own medicines in sheer despair. His friends are watching him with a tender solicitude chief among them is the undertaker, who rings the door bell every morning, and goes away with a down- cast look of regret not unmingled with hope. Life is no longer a boon. Death is robbed of half its dread, and he looks forward to the grave for that rest and peace which the women deny him in this world. The terrors which may perchance loom up in the possible future, even to one who was born in Boston, have lost their sting, and he feels that he can be quite resigned to any change of heat or cold after having suffered from the tongues of the angular maidens who have beset him. Among the foremost in the ranks of the army that invaded the Doctor's repose was | Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, 2 Roman matron of the sternest sort and a direct descendant of the Sabine women who read Caudle lectures to their warrior husbands, She had no sooner finished the treasonable document than she tushed with headlong speed to the Athenwum | to consult the dictionary of opprobrious epi- thets, many of which she noted down with such violence that she was compelled to hire an underling to whittle pencil ends. The angry fever spread over her entire system, and when she sat down to deliver herself by means of the ink bottle of her pent-up fury her hand fairly scorched the paper, and it was impossible to proceed without binding , about her throbbing head a quantity of pounded ice carefully confined within the narrow limits of a red flannel bag. She went for that Heathen Chinee of a Doctor in a way that was wondrous to be- hold. The printers’ ink that recorded her verdict on his audacity sputtered and hissed | ag though loaned for the occasion by the gentlemanly proprietor of the under world. When her essay was finished she had not only vindicated her oppressed and calumni- ated sex, but she had cremated the Doctor to such an extent that there were not cinders enough left to give nourishment to a languid tea rose plant. To say that ke was killed is to very feebly express what occurred. Indeed, death would be a kind of benediction to any one who should wake the ire of Boston’s lioness, The next most formidable opponent of Dr. Clarke was Mrs. Dall, ‘renowned in our earliest childhood as a redoubtable intel- | lectual knight-ess. Age has neither sweet- ened her temper nor diminished her satire. She sharpened her lance, dulled by many | a conflict, and, setting it in rest, rushed at the now doubly doomed Doctor. She proves at great length, and with arguments ab- | solutely conclusive, that women are not women, but only men with chignon and num- ber two boots, It is simply preposterous in the Doctor to assert in the presence of an enlightened community that women ought not to turn summersaults in the gymnasium, and are not fitted to bold administrative offices under government with. the unlimited power which is accorded to every masculine specie men in the Legislature to rob the treasury, The truth is this has been a man’s world long enough, and in a few generations the descend- ants of the Dalls and Howes will show us a trick or two in political economy of which the ordinary North American male citizen has ne conception. Our champion was not satisfied with unhorsing her opponent, but drew from her belt a formidable pair of shears and pro- ceeded to perform a rather clumsy and very unpleasant surgical operation on his scalp. The Resignation of the French Mim istry. The debate in the French Assembly yester. day resulted, as will be seen from this morm ing’s news, in the defeat of the De Broglie Ministry by a majority vote of sixty-four. The question was as to whether the Electoral law, which was made a Cabinet question, should have, in the Assembly, priority over the Municipal bill. It was demanded by the Duke do Broglie that the Electoral law should be first discussed. The excitement was great, and the debate was long continued. At the close the vote was in favor of the Municipal bill. The Duke Decazes thereafter offered a motion for the approval of the postal convention between France and the United States, an- nouncing it as his last act as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Ministers then pro- ceeded to President MacMahon and tendered their resignations. Paris was eagerly await- ing the result of the debate, and when the tacts were made public the wildest excitement prevailed on the boulevards. The vote against the Ministry included three hundred and thirty-one members of the Lett, twenty Bona- partists and thirty legitimists. President ‘Thiers, who occupied his accustomed seat, and who took no part in the debate, voted with the opposition. This is precisely the result which was an~ ticipated in Tae Hepaxp yesterday morning. We felt that the Ministry of De Broglie was at the mercy of the Bonapartists. The policy of that small but admirably drilled party has been to create chaos and precipitate revolu- tion. This they have done, President Thiers took no active part in the overthrow of the Ministry. The position in which this crisis leaves Mare shal MacMahon is one of extreme cruelty. We do not ses how it is possible for him to save his government, or even to save the Assembly. For if the Assembly will not support De Broglie, whom will it support? It took M. Thiers and overthrew him. It made De Broglie Minister because of his con- servatism; now it destroyshim. The proposal is to make a hybrid Cabinet, composed of four republicans, two Bonapartists and two legitimists. This would be impossible. As well might our President take two confederates and two democrats into his Cabinet and call it harmony. The majority which overthrew the present Ministry is the majority which intends to destroy the Republic and not build it up. There is no party that really wants the Septennate, while there are parties who want everybody else. It seems to us that the cause of honest boldness is the true one for the Marshal President. Let him dissolve the Assembly, appeal to the country and make a government representing the hopes of . France, and net its ambitions, its remorse and its despair. The republicans will trust MacMahon if he will protect the Republic. He must either dissolve the Assembly or call in the Count de Chambord. The one course means peace; the other a revolution within ten years. MacMahon may now become the Washington or the Monk of France, and our hope is that patriotism will purify his ambi- tion and lead him to a decision worthy of the noblest fame. The Religious Press on the Swing Trial, The attention of the religious press this week is divided between the Swing trial in Chicago and the Arkansas muddle, with a little sandwiching of minor topics between. Thus the Christian Union cites parts of the Westminster Confession for the purpose of showing that they are unchristian and self- contradictory, and that the Presbyterian | Church has actually gone a long way beyond, those doctrines, as Professor Swing declared it | had. That presbyter’s teaching is, therefore, consistent with modern Presbyterianism. The Union declares that itis he and not his oppo- | nent who represents the best genius of Ameri- can Presbyterianism—a genius thatis one of Christian liberty. The Union asks, Shall we put the brand of heresy on men who teach a | gospel of faith and love and duty because | their eyes are not our eyes? And gives an em- | phatic No to the inquiry. | The Independent is satisfied that there can be but one result to tho trial of Professor | Swing—his acquittal. The basis of fact on | which the charges rested was so ridiculously | small that the Presbytery smiled at the energy | with which the prosecutor pressed them. The flimsiness of the evidence produced by Profes- sor Patton, too, weakened the respect of his brethren, for his judgment and his efforts to secure a postponement were denied by the Presbytery with indignation. The Independent thanks Professor Swing for assisting, very much against his will, in establishing the fact that New School men with liberal tendencies have a good standing within the Presbyterian Church. The Independent has also a review of the Arkansas muddle, and gives its verdict im favor of Baxter. The Methodist reviews the Swing case, which, it declares, is a renewal of the conflict between the old and new schools of opinion, which, it proves, was only suspended, not ex- tinguished, by the union. The case, says the Methodist, involves the important question of the attitude that should be observed by ortho- dox men towards those who differ from them on points of doctrine, but who, by their ex- emplary life and zeal in good works show themselves to be sincerely pious according to their light. It recommends the Saviour’s rule of judging by the fruits rather than by the doctrines. The Christian Leader is sotisfied from the Swing case that such trials for heresy are growing disrelishable, and Professor Pattom has found himself rowing against wind and tide. The sympathies not only of the people but of the clergy have been plainly with the heretic Swing. THE OORNELL UNIVERSITY. 1THAca, N. ¥., May 16, 1874. ‘Tne Comeil-Woodtord College prize of $100 wae awarded last evening to Jemes reser Cluok. Of lagara Folie. ai ——