The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. N BENNETT, JAMES GORDON PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youx Hanan. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, DER FREISCHUETZ, at 8 P. M. Mrs. Jaeger, Mr. Berling. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston | streets.— | pauses, ate? M.; closes at Wo P.M. Mr. Joseph | k ‘and Miss Jone Burke. WOOD'S MUSEUM, sie Broadway, corner Thirtieth —WEALTH AND | CRIME, P.M. ; closes at 4:30 PM. ROPED TN, at8 BM. ; closes at 10:0 P.M. Mr, Harry Clitford TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; | closes ai 1u:30 P.M. THRATRE, Dancers, at 8 P. M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and Seventh a —THOMAS’ CON- OsRT, ats P.M. ; closes at 10:30 JONES’ WOOD COLOSSEUM. Concert, at 3 P. M. COLOSSEUM, way, corner of (hirty-titth Street.-LONDON M.; closes at 5 P.M. | Broadway BY | NIGHT, at 1 P.M. M; | pame at7 P. closes at 10 P.M Madison avenue and T PAGHANT=—CONGRESS O at7 PM. street—GRAND | at 130 P, Mand | ‘TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Sunday, July 19, 1874, THE HERALD FOR THE SUNMER RESORTS, To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC:— The New York Hurarp will run a special | train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock | A M,, for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Herarp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Heraup office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities are thai the weather to-day wif be cloudy and warm. Wart Sreeer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were strong at higher fizures, gold higher, and the bank statement favorable. Jounny Buu refuses to be bound altogether by the decisions and decrees of the Peace Con- ference. He reserves the right to sell projec- tiles to all or any who may choose to buy. Johnny will sign any treaty but such as may affect his purse. : Rexesse or Hantuarer.—It is gratifying fews that the priest Hanthaler, who was arrested on the charge of being implicated in the recent attempt to assassinate Prince Bismarck, has been released. The offence of Kullman was in itself sufficiently atrocious without a minister of religion being con- cerned in it. Tue Mayor’s Auma Mater, Columbia Col- lege, having won the great race at Saratoga, the venerable magistrate, it is said, is greatly exercised over it. Perhaps we shall have the bow and stroke oars of the winning crew ap- pointed as Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, or the captain as a Superintendent of Police. Pavisc Firra Avenvx, although a sadly meeded public improvement, has been neg- lected so long that many of the property own- ers despair of seeing it accomplished under the present régime. To those who called upon him yesterday in reference to the subject Mayor Havemeyer gave the highly encourag- ing information that if the property owners wanted the work done he would not oppose it, | and if an Aldermanic ukase to that effect was | passed he would not veto it. Tar Sanpwica Istanps.—The old trouble in the Sandwich Islands is, according to our | latest news, revived. It was thought that the election of King Kalakaua would give domes- tic peace for some years at least. It has not, | however, proved to be so. A petition has for some time been in circulation praying the Legislature to set aside the election in virtue of which the King occupies the throne. Great Britain and Germany are both suspected. One of the suspicious movements of the moment | is an attempt to raise a loan of one million | dollars; rate of interest, six per cent. It will | be well for the government of the United | States to keep an eye on these movements. We cannot afford to allow either Great Britain or Germany, or both united, to rob the King- dom of its independence. In any change | which may become a necessity the govern- | ment of the United States must be consulted, Tue Broopy Worx of the savages goes Pravely on in the West. Colonel Carpenter, | of the Sixth cavalry, wounded and six men | killed in an engagement west of Fort Sill. A | stage keeper killed and horribly mutilated in presence af his wife and the woman reserved for @ {ate worse than death, A party of woodchoppers all killed. A collision with the red men in Texas, with two white men killed and several wounded. Depredations and murders in Wyoming Terri- tory. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes out on the warpath. The Sioux attacking a mining camp; two of the whites killed; the rest cor- | the NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, The Great Regatta—Knickerbockers to the Front. Finally the regatta has taken place amidst the inteuse excitement of the many thousands of spectators and to the eminent satisfaction of the people of this city, both those who were at Saratoga and those who were not. Two disappointments, though they had soft- ened the enthusiasm of some visitors and dis- gusted not a few, had apparently sharpened the appetite for sport on the part of the less immtable and more considerate thousands who People who go so far as Saratoga to see a race would rather, we fancy, wait forty-eight hours in the hope of a thoroughly successful contest than to lose their journey in witnessing an un- satisfactory struggle in rough water. It is easy to say that they ought to have boats fit for rough water, and not racing machines; but | when the boats are chosen they must at least have the sort of water contemplated in their construction. As New Yorkers it is extremely gratifying to us that Columbia has won the race. She has not been one of the noisy ones as to what | was in her. Self-glorification, or even ex- | treme self-assertion, has neither now nor ever and to this was due the fact that she was not heard from as loudly as some others in this new field of academic endeavor. Her decorous modesty of demeanor adds to lustre of her victory. It is to be regretted that events occurred which must give rise to disputes and recrim- inations between some of the crews. Acci- dents of the kind that occurred between Har- vard and Yale are not always to be avoided in the excitement of the struggle. in this case they do not bring in issue the results of the race, which is a clear triumph for the New Yorkers. Doubtless both the other crews will indulge their imaginations as to what might have been “‘if’’ there had been no mischance. Either will believe it could have overhauled and passed the winner if it had had an open course before it; and freedom in such imaginations is always conceded to the losers. Some one must lose, and the losers must always have a theory to explain it. Vic- tory is in these cases too much contemplated as the result solely of the adequate amount of straightforward pulling. On the contrary, it should be contemplated as equally the result of skilful handling, of the cool temper and quick eye and aptness at mancuvre which avoids collisions and broken rudders and damaged oars. If the New Englanders claim that their rate of speed would have won they must show that they had the power to con- tinue it and the akill to keep themselves in the right place in order to continue it, In this latter very important particular they were clearly at fault. Speed may be conceded them, but other elements of equal consequence haye turned the balance against them. On the whole, with a generous allowance for con- tretemps, disappointments and complainings, the race was a fair and satisfactory contest, and in a few days, we have no doubt, all un- pleasant feeling will have passed away, and the defeated crews will be willing to concede the honor and credit that are the rightful due of the victors. To beheve otherwise would be but small encouragement for the future success of those friendly struggles which have grown to be national events in England, but \.} ‘ch are as yet in their infancy with our own universities. There will be some heartburnings, no doubt, at what will be regarded as errors of the judges in the placing of the boats that came atter the winning crew; for next to the great prize of victory comes the honor of po- sition in the beaten list. Upon this point we can only say that the interesting map pub- lished in our columns to-day, in which the exact position of each boat is shown at the moment the winning boat crossed the line, can be relied upon as strictly ac- curate. Before the line was crossed by the defeated boats these positions may have somewhat changed, and the most reliable judges on these points are no doubt the Heratp correspondents, whose ex- perience guarantees the correctness of their decisions. The best advice we can offer to the crews who followed the victorious Columbians is to decide their respective positions for themselves and to insist upon the correctness of their decisions. This may occasion some differences of opinion, it is true, but as Mr. Toots would say, ‘it’s of no conseqnence.”’ The loser of this year, whatever his position at the close of the race, may be the winner in the next contest, Only fifty-four men rowed at Saratoga, but they are the people of the United States for the next generation—just as the Horatii and Curatii of Livy were the people of Rome and her rival in their day, or as the men at Olympus were Greece—the products of a system and of ideas that were universal, though individual- ized for festive occasions of glorious rivalry. Here, in each case, six men stand for all of | Yale, Harvard or Columbia, and the aggre- ate of the college clubs who thus associate \ themselves with the glory or defeat, runs into thousands; while, if we contemplate the still larger circles into which the enthusiasm in- evitably spreads itself-—-the whole number of the alumni and the friends and families of the students—we shall find that the interest will penetrate in some degree to every part of the country, and involve the sympathies and emu- lations of all the men upon whom the country is to depend one of these days for its clear thinkers and its capable rulers; for learned lawyers, for orators, who may make the right seem as attractive as the wrong seems naturally; for legislators and financiers, who may redeem us from the position into which ignorant self-sufficiency and dishonesty have brought us. In short, for a great part of the hope and promise of the future of our country. And a friendly rivalry, which thus involves more or less directly the sympathy ‘and par- ticipation of s0 important o class as the whole educated youth of the country, is of galled, and Captain Wessell’s troop of the Whird cavalry gone to their rescue. This | fs the interesting batch of news we receive to-day, the precursor, no doubt, | tions as they form and develop them. Span- | of yet graver intelligence of massacres | iards are perhaps not all brutal and cruel at the alarming statement that corrupt infiu- and outrages committed by the savages who, very great possible importance; for the much indicate their characters and disposi- birth, or perhaps they were not all so once; figure as the great public of the occasion. | hitherto been in the number of her faults; | Fortunately, | sports and contests of a people do not 50> | almost exclusively by their games and holiday sports. Didactic instruction is like a rivulet that promises delusively and is lost in the | | sands. Even the home examples fade out of the memory, for they are received, as it were, | under protest; but the lesson of the game | | holds on, for it is taken in by all the power of | intellectual absorption, with the mind in its | highest condition of vital fervor. | In their influence educationally the college | regattas have two leading aspects of unequal | importance—the physical and the moral. | Their effect apon physical training is perhaps | exaggerated in the general opinion. We do | not believe they accomplish so much either | for good or for evil in this way as seems to | } be generally thought, They have been de- cried for the cultivation of tastes inconsistent | with the steady pursuit of college studies, and | for the over-exertion by training that leads to | sudden death or early decay. As occasional accidental results these are, perhaps, evils of real occurrence, but they are not necessary consequences of the sport. If an idle fellow | Telinquishes his studies because the boat club | gives an opportunity for the indulgence of | tastes for other pursuits, we may be sure that | some other reason, equally cogent, would have | been found for the same course if he had never seen an oar. Neither is every carly death nor | every sudden decline to be laid to a too ener- | ergetic physical endeavor, though there is a i tendency to assume a relation of cause and effect here just as formerly the same early | death or decline was attributed to too intense | study. On the other hand, neither are | we to expect that the habit of rowing in coliege races will in o few gen- | | erations make giants of all the young | fellows who go to college. Our physical type \ of manhood, which is a result of origin and climate rather than of habits, will remain | over the whole country substantially what it | is despite the regattas. Some good will re- | sult in this direction in cultivating the best | possibility of the type; but the habit of row- | ing will not make us a different, and certainly | not a better, people physically than the farm- | ing and hunting and clearing away the wil- derness made our fathers and grandfathers. Let us hope it may make us strong enough to keep the country as free as they left it. But the moral aspects of sports like this are the best, and of results such as they seem calculated to leave on the mind we have the greatest need. In such a race all is pure chivalry. An unfair advantage is a disgrace, and the attempt to take it has no other effect than to cover the guilty ones with shame. Honor, a fair recognition of the conditions of rivalry, a rigid adherence to those conditions, @ generous recognition of the respective merits—all this, wide as the poles apart from the spirit that has crept into and poisoned the lives of the people, is what we want to culti- vate and encourage. Happy is the country whose sons are so instilled with the spirit of sport like this that they will not lose it, but will govern their conduct in the battle of life by the selfsame spirit. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The custom, so general a few years ago, of closing up the churches during the summer, so that preachers and people might betake themselves to mountain or seashore, does not prevail very largely now. There are compara- tively few churches in this city or vicinity closed altogether, and while many of the preachers are absent, some in Europe, and some among their native hills, their places are supplied, in whole or in part, by country parsons or by theological students who are glad enough to get a chance to talk tocity congregations, however small. A few of our chief pastors, however, remain in their own pulpits on the Sabbath, and take trips to the country between times. For instance, Drs. Wild and Fulton, of Brooklyn? Revs. S. B. Rossiter, J. F. Elder, J. S. Kennard and others of this city will preach to their own congregations to-day. Rev. J. F. Elder has chosen for his morning theme to-day the ‘Resurrection of Lazarus,” and, for his evening discourse, ‘‘Christ, the Morning Star’'’—two excellent topics for a hot July Sabbath, The latter might be so impressively illustrated, too, by Coggia’s comet, whose tail is so soon to enwrap us and, perhaps, create a little dis- turbance, especially among our politicians and sportsmen. Mr. Cross will tell the Taber- nacle Baptists how the multitude took Christ, and why Ehjah was weak and wherein he manifested his frail humanity; for, after all, prophets and apostles were men of like pas- sions with ourselves and they had their weaknesses just as we have ours, But, like them, we may apprehend the divine and make the Holy One our friend by faith and become partakers of His ‘Stainless Life’—the life that was manifested in the flesh by Christ Jesus, and about which Dr. Fulton will speak this evening. Mr. Van Meter, who is about to return to Ttaly in a few days, will speak to the Hanson place (Brooklyn) Baptists this morning about his Bible schools and mission work in Rome. He will tell the same story in Association Hall in this city on Thursday evening, so that New Yorkers will have as good a chance to hear it by waiting a few days as if they should ran over to Brooklyn to-day. Mr. Kennard willde- scribe, faintly though it may be, the ‘Welcome of the Blessed,” and will show how he that is faithful in little will be faithtul also in much. Faithfulness in little or much seews some times to be a rare quality among men. The International Sunday school lesson for this day is the healing of the leper by Christ. It will also be the topic for consideration by Mz. Rossiter this morning. . Saratoga and Round Lake are conveniently near ta each other. They, however, contain two different classes and characters of people, each of whom supply moral lessons to the stu- dent of character and of theology. Dr. Wild, being such a student, will to-day endeavor to extract from the two places and their diverse assemblies such lessons as may be appropri- | ate for tho pulpit and the general pub- | lic. What those lessons are we shall be better able to judge to-morrow than we are to-day. A Communication to THE Mayor makes |The “Incubation” Theory of Rables— A Great Point Settled. While tho most eminent doctors differ on some of the most commonplace diseases of everyday practice it is not strange their views should widely diverge regarding the mysterious malady of rabies. We have re- cently had numerous learned opinions and interesting experiments, leading to one class of theories ; but it is not the least valuable contribution which comes from the eminent surgeon of Baltimore, Dr. N. R. Smith. Dr. Smith, in an able letter to a contem- is immediately communicated to the nervous system of a person bitten. From an immense surgical practice he mentions a hundred in- stances in which, by the speedy ablution and cauterization of the wound made by rabid dogs, all serious consequences were averted. His practice is the earliest possible washing of the wound in goap and water, and burning out the part injured by the dog’s tooth with a small conical piece of caustic potash, fitting into the aperture made by the animal. We are confessedly unable to test theories of hydrophobia, and so are the most advanced physicians of the day. But the facts cited by Dr. Smith are certainly worthy of the utmost confidence and they carry a deep conviction— That, with timely use of his preventive meas- ures, the poison deposited by the mad dog in the wound can be removed by the joint ap- plication of water and the cautery. The length of time elapsing (several weeks often) between the bite and the manifestation of rabies in the human subject proves, we think, that the virus is not transmitted im- mediately to the nerves by the blood. As Dr. Smith urges, were this the case the symptoms would mature almost instantaneously’ or in a few hours. Such, we know, is the case in the bite of poisonous reptiles. But in rabies the seed or seeds of the disease deposited require time, he thinks, to penetrate the system and undergo a process of incubation. Dr. Smith cites the well known fact that if vaccine matter is washed from the arm immediately after it is inserted it does not enter the blood, and no results ensue. So, he contends, if the poison of hydrophobia, which is analogous (though usually requiring a much longer time to take effect), is removed within a few hours by caustic potash and thorough ablution the danger of the bite passes away. Certainly this treatment can now be put to the most crucial test on the canines which roam our streets, and the settlement of this point alone would be an inconceivable bless- ing to humanity. Dr. Smith asserts (and his assertion will carry confidence wherever he is known) that he has tested it “in more than a hundred instances of persons bitten by rabid dogs,’’ and, he adds, “‘in not a single instance have I witnessed the development of the dis- ease in these cases." He cites the similar and high authority of Mr. Youatt, who had, in like manner, treated successfully four hun- dred cases of the same kind. Surely this un- challenged testimony should carry great weight. For if it does not penetrate into the deep mystery of the disease and deal with ths analysis of the poison of rabies it indicate (what is the next best thing to the cure) the prevention of the frighttul malady in hun- dreds of cases. Tue Investication into the Arkansas elec- tion bas commenced, and from the opening proceedings it is evident that a hard fight will be made by both the Baxter and Brooks parties. Charges of fraud are liberally made, and probably the fairest way to decide upon them would be to admit the truth of all of them. The Convention has signified its deter- mination to repudiate all fraudulently con- tracted debts. But how are they to decide what debts are fraudulent in such a sense as to deprive the bond fide creditor of his rights? And will not the action of the Convention take the form of repudiation altogether? Truly, the beauties of “reconstruction” grow more and more striking as time progresses. Coxtision on THE Enme Ratway.—Another railroad collision is reported, but it is at least an eminently fortunate one in the compara- tively inconsiderable injury done. For two Erie express trains to collide while each is moving at the rate of from fifteen to twenty miles an hour, and for every passenger to escape with life, even though some are badly hurt, is an occurrence scarcely less than miraculous. One baggage master is the only person killed, though the engine of one train ploughed its way through the engine, baggage car and smoking car of the other train. Ever since the Erie Railway Company has been in trouble with the conflict of the various parties that claim the property, or that desire to con- trol it, we have expected to seo great dis- organization of its service result, and, as a consequence, to hear of many collisions and similar disasters, But, on the contrary, it has been very free from these calamities, and we hope they are not to begin now. But a collision like this indicates some defect in sig- nalling or in the time table that calls for ex- planation. Docgrar ConpeMneD.—The case of Dock- ray, who has for the last two months been confined in prison at Puerto Principe, is not unknown to our readers, Dockray, regarded as a spy, was charged with infidencia, and, having been brought before a council of war, he has been condemned to death as an insur- gent. The evidence offered by Dockray showed conclusively that he was not in any way conspiring against the Spanish govern- ment in Cuba. His evidence was not received in Court. Dockray is an American citizen, If executed the name of American citizen will become o hissing and byword among the nations, Will Secretary Fish do nothing to preserve the honor of the Republic? Will President Grant. permit this fresh outrage? Surely, we have had enough of Spanish in- solence. i Tue Caripary’s Prowtc.—Yesterday was a bright day for the poor children of the Four- teenth precinct. Some three thousand tickets had been distributed, and the glad little creatures, under the kindly care of George F. Williams and Captain Clinchy, had » magnifi- cent trip up the Hndson on board the barge ences were used in the Legislature to secure Chicago. The barge was beautifully decorated 4m six months’ time, we shall be feeding, pray- but it cannot be conceived that any genera- the passage of the Warchouse bill. We sin- | with colors provided by Mrs. William Butler {ng with and converting, until the summer tion of boys, with only ordinary human cerely trust that such a charge agaanst the | Duncan, who has from the first taken a lively again arrives and tomabawks and scalping depravity in them, could grow up ina representatiyes of the people may be dis- | interost in this movement, These children’s knives once more porary journal, denies that the virus of rabies | Exchange provision has been made for a series of these picnics. Such kindly conwider- ation for the wants of the poor, and especially for the children of the poor, does honor to the Christianity of New York. Wealth can never be turned into healthier channels nor directed to better purpose. The Religious Press on the Latest Phase of the Brooklyn Scandal. Certain of our religious exchanges which have heretofore kept aloof from this great topic or who have touched it lightly, seeing that it has taken on a new phase have this week introduced it under its altered form to their readers. The Golden Age, which longago disclaimed any credit for religious utterances, returns this week to its staple topic “like the dog to his vomit, or the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire,” and in the old strain of innuendo and insinuation tries to dis- credit the motives of Mr. Beecher in appoint- ing the investigating committee and to im- pugn the sincerity and thoroughness of that committee's work. The editor has a sort of hypocritical regret that for three years this terrible scandal has been in circulation, grow- ing by the efforts to suppress it, becoming more serious the more it was pushed aside, until at last it bas assumed proportions that put it beyond individual control. The policy of silence, this writer thinks, was pur- sued too long. The Golden Age insinuates that the committee of investigation isa packed one, and that fact alone should be regarded 9s a confession of guilt. For, says the editor, “Innocent men do not pack juries. The policy that has been pursued is admirably caleulated to make people believe that the worst is true.’’ He talks about “brave and manly confessions” so that these reputations might be saved from irretrievable blight, and one home, if not more, from ruin’’—all of which comes with hypocritical mockery from the source from which it emanates. The Christian Advocate, which last week was anxious for an investigation and clearing up | of the mystery, rejoices this week that the investigation has begun and that it promises to be earnest and thorough. It regrets, how- ever, that Mr. Beecher and his friends did | not see their way clear to have constituted | the committee a little differently, bothas toits personnel and the mode of selection. The Advo- cate reminds Mr. Beecher and his friends that this is not simply a personal and family affair between Mr. Beecher and his church, but stretches out far beyond that andeven beyond the bounds of the Congregational denomina- tion. It suggests, therefore, that six other gentlemen, the peers in Christian character and reputation of those now engaged in the inquiry, be chosen from other denominations and be added to the committee. It adds that an examination and report by such a commit- tee could not afterward be called in question, The Baptist Union, in view of later develop- ments, apologizes for a hasty and unfavorable verdict rendered a few weeks ago in a brief paragraph in its columns. But it contends that it Mr. Beecher has committed offences which would depose an ordinary man from the ministry he should be deposed regardless of his brilliant talents and his great genius. We cannot have one rule for small men and another for great men. ‘It is better,” it says, “to lose every great man in the world from the ministry than to wink at lewdness in their ranks."’ It, however, hopes for an explanation which shall justify Mr. Beecher before the Church and the community. The Liberal Christian hopes that Frank Moulton’s alleged compromise will not be en- tertained by the investigating committee named, that the present issue be settled by Mr. Beecher frankly stating that he had ‘‘com- mitted an offence against Mr. Tilton for which it was necessary to apologize, and for which he did apologize in a letter, part of which has been quoted”’ by Mr. Tilton, and further that ‘4t was necessary for Mr. Tilton to make the defence against Dr. Leonard Bacon which he did make.’ The Liberal Christian thinks the great preacher of Plymouth church has kept silence too long and compromised too much already, and that nothing but a clear and free vindication of his character will now avail. “Nothing,”’ it thinks, ‘‘can be worse for the public morals than the unhealthy excitement which secrecy, innuendoes and apparent fear of investigation have produced.’ The Freeman's Journal has broken the steady silence of the Catholic press on this great scandal, and this week gives a column edito- rial to it as pointing the answer to its ques- tion “What are the products of the godless public schools coming to?” It thinks that Mr. Beecher, being the descendant of an “anti- Popery” preacher, could hardly turn out better than he is now reported to be. The child of Calvinism, thinking for himself there was only one of two goals for him to reach— either to find some other religion or to “strike hard-pan’’ as an apostate from Christianity. Hence his sermons, it says, ‘‘are occupied with blasphemous descriptions of our Lord and Saviour, and on other points make the Gospel the exponent of licentiousness’’—as in the instance which it refers to Mr. Beecher’s published discourse to prove, in which he represents ‘‘the Prodigal Son as the best fel- low of the two, and the only reason the other didn’t waste his living among harlots was that he wasn’t man enough to have his fling!” | The Freeman leaves to the infamous wretch Tilton, who is below the conception of any but Puritan religionists to fathom his pol- troonery, ‘‘to prove up what Mr. Beecher has been at this year or two past in preaching, almost continuously, that rogues are the best Christians and that there is no such thing as honesty or chastity possible among men or women.” Of the other topics of the seligious prees the Christian Union has a merciful word for “poor Tray;"’ the Independent wants to know if we must have an Indian war; the Christian at Work thinks that ‘dogs are not the oaly ani- mals disposed to be snappish” when the-ther- mometer gets above the nineties The Christian Intelligenesr gives ita editorial en- couragement to tho poor children’s excursions, and asks its readers to help the waifs of the city to get at least one day’s recrestion and pure air, The Baptist Weekly is fearful of the claims of authority put forth hy over zealous advocates for couneils in the Ohureh, | and says that our fathers would not bave | given a moment's consideration to such | claims, but would have turned them sum- | marily aside. The Methedist has a few words take the place of rations | country where the bull fight is the sole holi- | proved, as the spotiess reputation of Albany is | picnics must be regarded as a happy sign of | on ministerial support The Hvangelist de- end Bibles, When will the people learn the | day spectacle and be other than semi-savages. at stake and an insult is offered Ao the self | the times. We are glad to learn that throngh | nies the position of a correspondent that the ful) value of Sherman's Indian policy? Impressions are made uvon the minds of boys | pacrificing patrigts we send there. | the liberality of the gentlemen of the Stock | Swing trial was an attompt.to revive a dead | conser of a ee controversy between the Old and New School Presbyterian. The Tablet tells its readers why the Catholie Church condemns the Freemasons, and the Catholic Review argues that the Old Catholie end does not justify its means. The Bostom Pilot calls the expulsion of one bundred amd twenty Catholic children from the publie Schools of Brattleboro, Vt, for the crime of absenting themselves half a day to attend Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi, an out rage. The case has been carried to the courts. The Hebrew Leuder has a word to parents con- cerning the education of their children, and the Jewish Messenger calls upon its readers for more liberal support for the united Hebrew charities of this city and also to furnish free excursions for poor Jewish children. The Mennonites at © le Garden. Among the emigrants now at Castle Garden are about sixhundred Mennonites, If these are 8 fair sample of those who are to follow we may expect the great body of emigrant Mennonites about to come to the United States from Rus- sia to rival their brethren in Pennsylvania an Maryland and the States of the Northwest, whose ancestors came here before the Revolu- tion. Most readers will recall the singular historical fact that even Franklin opposed the emigration of these people to the Province of Pennsylvania, and yet they are to-day the bone and sinew of that great Commonwealth. The so-called Scotch-Irish, though proverbially'a thrifty race, had no chance in contending with the steady industry and economy of the German religionists, and to-day many of the most magnificent farms in the State are owned by the Mennonites. One fact as significant as it is remarkable is that such a thing as poverty is, and always has been, unknown among them. A poor Mennonite is harder to find than a rich gambler. The reason of this is that they teach their children industry and frugality as a religious duty, ond lazi- ness and thriftlessness are, among them, vices to be particularly avoided. They are not what the Yankees call ‘dntelligent,”” neither are they ‘‘cute,” but they are extremely honest, eminently active in caring for their own interests, with- out detriment to those of their neighbors, and so industrious that they not only enrich them- selves, but as they have increased in numbers and wealth they have conferred incalculable blessings upon the whole country. They do not believe in war, but if all men were like them in developing the natural resources of the soil by honest toil the country would soon become so rich that nobody could afford to fight. They are a simple, modest, earnest, industrious and frugal people, and, though opposed to war and taking no part in politics, there are no better or more useful citizens. We have had five or six generations of Men- nonites born in this country, and the stock has proved so satisfactory that we cannot but receive the new supply with a special an@ hearty welcome. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Congressman John Lyuch, of Maine, is at the Windsor Hotel. Senator Reuben E, Fenton is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. J, B. McFerrin, of Nashville, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. ii Ex-Governor P. VU. Hebert, of Louisiana, bas are arived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain W. A. Rafferty, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. Chief Justice W. B. Richards, of Toronto, is so- journing at the Westmoreland Hotel, Mr. A. B, Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, 1s at the Astor House, Mr. Galusha A. Grow, formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A Philadelpoia man {8 reported to have dislo- cated his jaw by laughing at a joke ina New York aper. it may as well ve stated that it wasn’t the ERALD.—Graphic, This was the “loud laughter that showed the vacant mind,” and was naturally excited by the Graphic, “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean.” Messrs. Philip Timpson, Jasper T. Goodwin, Cas. par Griswold, Ed, S. Rapailo, R. ©. Cornell and & Frank Rees, all of this city, recently went to Sara oga. ‘The following advertisement appeared in the Pheniz, of Columbia, 8. C.:— COLUMBIA, § 0. JULY 7, 1874 -HON, RB. BI liott, Meulber to'Congress of the Third Congressional district of the State of south Curoiina, please call at Feux Cardarelli’s and settte your tailor’s bul, which hag been standing since January, 1872. F, CARDARELLL Charleston News and Courier copy times. E\liott is a “callud man, sah,” Another reason in favor of heaven is that There'll be no Parton On that delighttul shore. There are two Classes Of boatmen. These are the fellows who wim and the fellows who explain why they didn’t win, Vice President Wilson, who arrived in Washing- ton on Friday evening, leit for his home yesterday evening. He says that he has so much improved in health that if Congress were to assemple to morrow he would be prepared to resume his post tion as presiding officer of the Senate, Captain Caulfield, who kills tigers for the Madfaa government, extracted from two living cobras eight grains of their poison, which he placed on@ beef bait, which was eaten bya tiger; but the tiger did not suffer from the meat. Captain Caulfela knows now what he might have known before, thas some poisons which are deadly if injected into a wound become harmless in the stomach, where they are apparently decomposed and digested, Home rule thrives splendidly in Irciand. tf Ire. land gets a Parliament separately from England Vister wants a Parliament separately from Ire- land, Every Irishman will presently be his own Parliament. ‘They are investigating their arms in France and have had “a special committee sitting at Pans om the sword bayonet.” A special committee sitting on the sword bayonet is an instructive spectacle. A delinquent clerk, wanted by the Liverpool po» lice, Was known to have a taste for music, and the detectives watched for him with opera glasses, among the four thousand singers at, the Handel festival rehearsal, In that wilderness of faces they: picked him out, Colonel Egerton, in the House of Commons, said; philanthropy 18 80 energetic that “it requiresa good deal of influence nowadays te. get hanged.” In Ceylon the monkeys are eating the cinchona, bark. And now the crosading damsel sings, ‘The lips, that touch liquor shall never touch mine”? Whag kind is hers—old rye or red heart rum, or onlp peppermint cordial? In an Indian court the jadge scolded a lawyer for using the werd ‘disparagement,’ because tt ta Latin, What would hanpen out there to the geniuses Who get on stilts for the World 7 Rev. Father Mareo will sail for France on the Ville de Paris.on the 25th inst, Excellent, In London churches they are giving notice that “five minutes after the bells cease to ring all pews are free.” Lady Odo Russeli—twins. The lion of Northumberland has been taken down. Hail, Columbia! happy iads, Chambord wants F cnohmen to rally confaentiy behind the House of Frauce. In the back yard, io fact. Helen Fauctt may reappear. Donne, the censor of the London stage and im Whe London pubic, has realized his OMOe, ” ,