The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD|™, “sr, Stent & merepent Shaped Like a Camel or a Whale? BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, It is not pleasant in these days of enlighten- ment and progress to be constrained to be- lieve that a general European war is probable; that the gay summer robes of the fields may before long be trampled and torn by the tread of armed troops; that the hot breath of battle JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIE ror ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henaxp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. perrene ek 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. enne.— | . John Rats P, McCuilough and Miss K. i Broadway, TINGYON ‘AND POOR at 10:30 NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘fouston streets — Broadway, between Prince and 45 P.M. GRIFFITH GAUNT, at 8 P. closes at 10: Joseph Wheelock and Miss Henrietta Irving. OLYMPIC No. 64 Broadway.—VARIE P.M. 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From our regorts this morning the probabilities are thai the weather to-day will be generally clear. Wau Srreer Yestrrpay.—The specie ship- ment was larger than anticipated, and ex- ceeded two million dollars. Gold advanced to 110}, but receded: to and closed at 110. May soon pass over the land, withering the fruits of peace. We are getting more and more accustomed to regard war as one of the maddest follies of a barbarous age, to look upon a nation that would disturb the peace of the world as a wild beast that should be caged or killed, and we ask ourselves, How can war be possible when the people know their strength and understand their rights? Yet nearly every day brings us proof that the ambition of rulers is not dead; that intrigues for power still go busily on; that the gamo on the great checker-board of European politics is being played as despe- rately as ever; that rival interests clash as fiercely now as they have ever clashed from the days of Rome and Carthage down to the field of Waterloo. Wars cannot be made as readily as they could when vassals and serfs could be driven to battle at the caprice of an absolute ruler, for the people are fast adopt- ing the philosophy of Jeannette— If kings must show their might, Why let those wno make the battle the only mep to fight. But the pride and passions of nationalities and of creeds are cunningly played upon by those who desire to use them for their own ends, and nations may now plunge or drift into war against their judgment and will Germans and Frenchmen did not desire war; yet the doctrine of the ‘‘inevita- ble conflict” had so impregnated the popular mind that when the leaders were prepared it was an easy matter to hurl the hostile armies against each other and to make the terrible chapter of modern history that tells the story of suffering and slaughter trom Woerth to Paris. While the roar of the cannon still seems to fill our ears the notes of preparation for a new conflict are sounded. There is an evident desire to persuade the people that the contest between France and Germany must be renewed; that Church and State, Protestantism and Catholicism, aristoc- racy and democracy must inevitably meet in a death struggle ; that beneath the surface agen- cies are working that must, sooner or later, burst forth and pour their stream of hot blood overall Europe. Why is this? Are we to believe that the rulers and leaders of Euro- pean governments desire war; that there are ambitions that cannot be satisfied and inter- ests that cannot be saved without an appeal to arms; that the game of France and Germany is to be played over again on a grander scale, and the people so trained into a belief in tho inevitability of waras to be drifted or driven to their own destruction ? Or can we find a reason for believing that a false alarm is sounded to subserve other and more peaceful ends? It is not difficult to interpret the warlike tone of Germany in accordance with the latter theory. The rule of the Empire is not free from peril The glories of the victory won by Stocks were active and strong in the fore- noon, but heavy in the afternoon, and left off | at the lowest point of the day. Anp Now Two Wirnusses have sailed for Europe ! Tae Exection Riot 1v Mempmis cost four lives, all white men. Among them were the Sheriff and his two brothers. Fortunately an attempt to induce the negroes to arm was un- successful, and peace was restored. These be the beauties of reconstruction. Tae Pzortz or Porrsmovrn demonstrated against English municipal authority in an alarmingly riotous manner yesterday, and the agitation continues. Corporate officials can- not carry affairs with a high hand over the citizen rights of Mr. Bull. Owe or Tuosz Preasanr Lirrue A¥Fvars incidental to travel on the Mississippi occurred yesterday. The steamer Henry Ames struck snag and went down. Only four lives lost. Well, her going down in the water saved her from going up in the air, when the loss of life would have doubtless been greater. Ex-Preswent Tuirxs is seriously ill. Tho venerable French statesman has passed the seventy-cighth year of his age. His death— an event which may be looked for at any mo- ment—would revive many exciting memories in France, dating away back to the time of the great Revolution, of which he is the grand historian. Tae Lovistana Rerverican State Conven- Tron at New Orleans yesterday adopted a reso- lution declaring that duty and sound policy constrain them to nominate and support for office only honest and capable men who are mindfal of the interests of the State and whose records are not a reproach to the party. But where, then, will they find their candidates without a fresh importation? Feom Pani Ir Is Ruporren that the Ger- man government has notified its representa- tives abroad that the time has arrived for | recognizing the Spanish government, Well, | why not? The Queen of England, in her speech from the throne, regrets the disturbed | condition of Spain, but thinks the best aid to peace is non-interference. Germany, if the | report is correct, thinks differently ; but gov- | ernments may differ as well as doctors, Tue Errorts oy true Purmaperpma detec- tives to discover little Charley Ross are still unsuccessful, and there is naturaily some grumbling at their alleged inefficiency. But this is always the case when the police are foiled in their attempts to detect a criminal, wherever he may be. The Ross case is a mys- terious one, but it is to be sincerely hoped united Germany in the late war were sufficient to overshadow the old jealousies of the German States ; but as the excitement and enthusiasm of the conflict die away it is seen that the laurel crowns encircle Prussian brows and that the fruits of victory are mainly grasped by Prus- sian hands. What more natural than that the petty jealousies should return, to tue risk of German unity? The democratic movement in Germany was, before the war, looming up in threatening proportions. It was prostrated by the war, for when the sword was drawn against invasion democracy was treason. But few who know the German character will doubt that the democratic movement must soon spring up anew with increased vigor. The German mind is the most promising soil in Europe tor republicanism, and when the people have time to reflect on the cost of the grand Empire and on the severe military ser- vice essential to its existence it will not be sur- prising if they compare it with a simpler form of government and ask themselves if united republican Germany would not be better than a united Empire. These are dangers to the government, and they cannot be more effectu- ally averted than by keeping the war spirit alive among the people and flourishing con- stantly before their eyes the red rag of French invasion and French revenge. So it is not without plausibility to associate the assumed suspicion of French movements, the vague ramors of Spanish complications and even the dangerous intermeddling-of Prince Bismarck with Church questions, with a desire to occupy the German mind and to impress it with the idea that the peril of foreign war still threat- ens the nation. Oa a similar theory it may be reasoned that the war agitation is a policy of precaution with the French government, and that hints of retribution, of Spanish complications and of renewed German ag- gression are thrown out to amuse the popular mind. But what are we to think when the English Premier, in his place in the British Parlia- | ment, during the discussion of the Public Worship Regulatiom bill, expresses his con- viction that, “however tranquil may seem the general state of Europe, there are agencies at work preparing a period of great disturb- ance?”” Mr. Disraeli surely cannot be an alarmist—at least while in power and at the head of the government. The Prime Minister of England is cautious | in his utterances; he does not offer a remark of this significance without a meaning and an object. Nor is it the first time since his accession to power that Mr. Disraeli has sounded the same note of alarm. Two or three weeks ago, referring to the strife be- tween Church and State on the Continent, he alluded to these same dark agencies and to that the child may be eventually restored. Tue Orvise or tHe New Yorx Yacut Crus has thus far been successful and pleas- ant. The run from anchor to anchor on Fri- the danger threatened to the peace of Europe by their influences. It is impossible to at- tribute to England, as we may to Germany and France, the policy of shouting danger to day was a spirited Tace, and was only | insure safety, for the agitation that might marked by one mishap, which partially | be a protection to the latter States disabled the Dauntless. The weather yes- | would be a peril to the former. It would terday, however, was storm raged along unpropitious, the const A postponed until to-morrow. The handicap | be more reasonable even to suspect that the and | author of “Lothair’ had become a mono- shut up the fleet in Newport Harbor; so the | maniac on the subject of the intrigues of the | Corinthian race set down for Sqturday was Romish Church, and went about the per- | | formance of the duties of his high office im- | race will be sailed on Tuesday, and the pigeon | pregnated with the spirit of his famous novel. shooting takes place on Wednesday. It is to | be hoped that the weather will be more favorable to-morrow tor the display of the any principle could take so firm a hold of Disraeli’s mind as to render him its slave? okill and seamanshiv of the amateurs We must conclude, then, that Envland’s But who could believe that any sentiment or | Premier sees through the murky atmosphere such evidences of a gathering war cloud as to prompt him to utter the words of warning he has twice spoken in the British Parliament. The ‘dark agen- cies’? to which os a Minister be alludes aro explained by his less guarded utterances as an aspirant to power. During the last Parlia- mentary canvass he predicted that the Church ot Rome would unite with the democracies of Europe to overthrow the established govern- ments; that in England, as well as on the Continent of Europe, the influence and power and wealth of the Church would be thrown on the side of the people to topple over tottering thrones and to build up republics on their ruins. The disestablish- ment of the Church in Ireland was to be fol- lowed by disestablishment in England. Rome, stripped of her temporalities, was to seek from the Italian Republic s restoration of those rights of which she had been robbed by the Italian King. Germany, with its eighteen millions of good Catholics, was to bury the unprincipled intrigues of Bismarck beneath the ruins of the profligate and oppressive Empire. Europe was to be democratic, and the Church of Rome was to be rehabilitated in her temporal powers and strengthened in her spiritual influence. Is the author of “Lothair” a dreamer, or is the Prime Minister of England a prophet? Is the danger to the thrones of Europe, already undermined by the increasing intelli- gence of the people, a figment of a disturbed brain, or is republicanism really to gain an ally powerful enough to make monarchies tremble? Many will find plausibility in Dis- raeli’s theory from the fact that the Church of Rome must have learned the wisdom of the caution, “Put not your trust in princes.” But, whether the English Premier be right or wrong, his significant words will cause people to reflect and are likely to create the belief that the war cloud so many see in the Euro- pean sky is not looming. The Religious Press on Other Phases of the Brooklyn Trouble. The religious press, realizing that topics of interest in these hot summer days are rare, and having caught one of uncommon interest, they hold on to it as a drowning man is said to cling to a straw. There have been so many and varied developments of this strange scan- dal the religious press of city or country can hardly afford to keep silence concerning it, even for one week at a time. Hence the Golden Age, taking the latest phase of the in- vestigation, concludes that the committee are trying Mr. Tilton instead of Mr. Beecher, and are sparing no pains to break the force of his statement and cover his name with obloquy. ‘They have done their utmost, it says, to save the accused by crushing the accuser; and this has been so conspicuous in some respects as to excite general comment and lead Mr. Tilton to refuse further intercourse with the commit- tee. Tho Age is certain that ‘No report the Investigating Committee can possibly make exonerating Mr. Beecher will restore him to public confidence or dissipate the terrible suspicion of his guilt from the public mind.’’ The Examiner and Chronicle thinks that the most formidable witness against Mr. Beecher is Mr. Beecher himself. Six of his letters, the genuineness of which has not been denied, express the same anguish of remorse. Dis- pose of this testimony tg! him, says the Examiner, and the essential thing is done for the suppression of a daily instalment of nasti- ness and for Mr. Beecher’s acquittal in public judgment. Too much stress, says the editor, cannot be given to the fact that the man on trial is Mr. Beecher, and not Mr. Tilton, and that the trial is before the bar of publio opinion—in the end the most exacting and just of human tribunals. What it waits for and will have is not the decision which the Plymouth committee may reach. It demands, with imperative emphasis, that cause be shown why Mr. Beecher's own words are not to be accepted as confessing a grievous moral offence of some kind on his part in connec- tion with this scandal, The Buplist Weekiy, commenting on the case, says :—‘‘Mr. Beecher is on trial by the whole country. The jurors are in every odi- torial room, every railway train, every hotel, every shop and every home in the land. The ordeal is one of the most severe that a man could possibly be subjected to. With so much of prejudice and passion and partisan- ship to encounter a calm and candid judg- ment of the facts involved will be exceedingly difficult. And yet an evident disposition exists to exercise the largest charity that the circumstances of the case will admit, and the public pulse generally beats strongly in Mr. Beecher’s favor.” Dr. Falton, in the midst of a glowing eulogy of Mr. Beecher in the Christian in the World, says:—‘'The best people deplore that he has ever mixed with tho Philistines. Thoy shud- dered in the past when he spoke of Paul as not being infallible authority on the woman question, and when he became a law to him- self. They now see that he made more than & mistake. Poul was authority, and the women and the men who flattered him and who made him their leader now turn and rend him.” The Doctor thinks that Mr. Tilton’s published cross-examination reveals him as outdoing » Spanish inquisitor in the cruelties he inflicted upon his patient wife. ‘If Brook- lyn were not a Christian city,’’ adds Dr. Ful- ton, ‘‘an exasperated populace would drive from their midst such @ monster of heartless- ness, if they did not visit upon him a more condign punishment. He may thank the humane and Christianizing influence of the very man whom he has been moving earth and hell to ruin irretrievably that he is not gibbeted during the next twenty-four hours.” The Christian Union, whose editor is the moat interested party in this unfortunate con- troversy, has not yet given the least inkling of the revelations made or anticipated in this case, But perhaps this was unnecessary since its readers have been so thoroughly posted by other journals. The Union takes hold this week of a new subject—‘The New America” — of which it predicts that ‘the Americans of the future are to be a very different people from the Americans of the past.” And this it predicates upon the changes now taking place in our population, and the tenacity with which foreigners cling to their national habits and Prejudices instead of assimilating themselves to American habits, The balance of our religious exchanges deal with topics either of a purely religions and doctrinal character or touch upon something that is of mere local or denominational in- terest. Mr. Ryan’s Farm. There are a good many gentlemen in differ- ent parts of the country who have great rea- son to be proud of the excellence of their farms. But as New York is superior to the rest of the United States in many other things it need surprise no one that a gentleman in this city is in possession of the most magnifi- cent farm in the country. The name of this fortunate, succeasful and wsthetic farmer is Ryan. His farm has been somewhat widely celebrated as the Central Park. It is against this nomenclature that we protest, in the first place; but after it is clearly understood that what has been so long misnamed is in reality Ryan's farm, we may proceed to point out a few of ita beauties, In the matter of walks and drives it is unsurpassed. These are spanned by beantiful bridges, be- neath which are elogant arches, and the sides of the roads and pathways are en- riched by rare plants and fragrant flowers. At every shady spot there is a bench and at almost every turn in the winding ways a sum- mer house. There are wide lawns and pleas- ant pastures and a miniature woodlawn and a lake as poetic as any poet ever sung. And there are the Terrace and the Mall and the Cave and many a nameless but romantic nook as full of rapture as the pathless woods. All this is the property of Mr. Ryan. This is Ryan’s farm. It is Ryan who catches all the fish in the lake. It is for Ryan that the fowls lay their eggs in the solitary, secluded corners of the Ramble. Cows graze in the pastures, but Ryan gets the milk. The grass is cut down, but the hay is Ryan's, Even the ice crop belongs to Ryan. In many ways both small and great his profits are enormous. But it must not be supposed that Ryan is o selfish sort of person. He is exactly the contrary. Some time ago we were corstrained to praise Mr, William Butler Duncan because he opened his beautiful grounds for a single day to a thousand or two of the poor children of the metropolis. Mr. Ryan’s farm is open day and night to the entire people of New York and of the world. It is free to all to come and go at their pleas- ure in both summer and winter. The gates to the farm are always open. There is even a children’s playground, where the youngsters from the town gambol with Mr. Ryan’s kids in the very sight of the ‘‘cops."" In the summer people may sail on the lake for a considera- tion, and in the winter they may skate on Mr. Ryan’s ice fields. But nobody must touch Mr. Ryan’s flowers. Neither must anybody tread upon the grass, else Mr. Ryan would have no hay. Mr. Ryan gives all his visitors to understand that they are at liberty to enjoy, but not to abuse. And it is seldom his confidence is abused. On one occasion, we believe, a very bad young man was found pulling the tails of Mr. Ryan’s cows for amusement. Another young man was detected in the act of sucking one of Mr. Ryan’s eggs. Beyond these two offences and the surreptitious introduction of some fishing tackle into a quiet part of the Ramble, indi- cating a design upon Mr. Ryan’s fish, no harm was ever done to his estate. On the contrary everybody seems anxious to reward Mr. Ryan for his magnanimous conduct. People are so much pleased with Mr. Ryan’s lake, from which his ice is gathered, and with the pleas- ent picture of his cows grazing in the pastures, that they are only too happy to pay double price for his ice cream. We have seen men almost in tears because Mr. Ryan can- not raise as a part of his vegetable produce the carbonic acid gas for the manufacturo of his soda water. Indeed we were not sur- prised to learn within a few days that Mr. Comptroller Green, who is an admirer of Mr. Ryan's generous behavior, proposes bringing the Hathorn, Geyser, High Rock and Congress Springs all the way from Saratoga, at the expense of the city, and placing them on Mr. Ryan’s farm, that he may also have his own mineral waters on his estate. We hope Mr. Green will succeed in this enterprise. Mr. Ryan’s estate would then be equipped with everything necessary for the summer garden business. It would be a proper testi- monial to Mr. Ryan’s greatness of soul. Hith- erto, we fear the public have not been aware ot the debt of gratitude they owe him. A singu- lar notion got abroad that his farm belonged to the city—o notion that was owing to the nicknme of Central Park which some people conferred upon the estate. Had this been true the cows and the milk, the chickens and the eggs, the fish and the ice, the grass and the hay, indeed all the produce of Mr. Ryan’s farm, would belong to the city. Such a thing is preposterous. i Pulpit Topics To-Day. Few and simple are the topics announced for pulpit meditation to-day. The two or three faithful pastors who hold on to their flocks during these sultry days deserve more than ordinary praise. Here, amid the heat and din of the city, Dr. Deems finds his first duty and chiefest joy in ministering, Sabbath after Sabbath, to the Church of the Strangers, before whom this morning he will hold up Christ as the Alpha and Omega of all their hopes in the life beyond the present. Rev. James Kennedy, another faithful shepherd, who will not trust his Presbyterian flock to strangers nor let them wander alone while he enjoys himself on mountain or seashore, has promised this evening to let them seo some of the glory of “The Rainbow About the Throne’ and show them its spiritual meaning for their encouragement in faith and hope and love. Dr. Lockwood will help some of his Brooklyn Congregational hearers this morning to solve ‘Ihe Great Problem,’’ and to solve it in such a way, wo trust, that they shall never want to go over the same ground again. The problem of this | life is a great one, but that of the heroafter is much greater one, tho solving of which should receive, as it demands, our best thought and most precious moments. Heaven and hell are terms and places that men of imaginative minds especial'y like to speculate about. Men of sober thought, too, are some- times called oway to their contemplation. Elder Bishop, of Greencastle, Pa., will this morning portray ‘The Inheritance of the Saints,"’ and this afternoon will start the in- quiry, ‘Is Hello Place of Torment?” If it be a place at all, and not a state or condition of mind, as some contend, it must be one of torment, for 1t stands related to sin and evil throughout the sacred Scriptures, But we NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, will let the Elder speak. The University Boat Race—How to Render Collision Impossible. Bofore the University rowing race of 1874 passes entirely out of notice there are one or two suggestions which those who will have the conduct of the race next year might do well to note. That which alone prevented the recent contest from being a great success was a diffl- culty the like of which need not come again. It is no easy matter on a broad sheet of water to steer @ very long and narrow keelless boat on a straight line even for one mile, let alone three, and this, though the helmsmen has nothing to divert his attention ; but when the task is added of rowing an oar at one’s best over the whole distance, and this in the midet of intense excitement, and when not a hun- dred feet away to either side ore other similar boats, with long projecting oars, even the coolest and most practised eye is likely to err. The English ex-champion, Kelly, and his companions, for instance, on this very Saratoga Lake, when beaten by the Wards, worked out of their course in toward the east shore, above Point Breezo, thereby losing very valuable ground. Two plans have been laid before us for averting this danger for the fature. One is to adopt that in vogue almost universally abroad of carrying @ cox- swain. This would let the bow oarsman de- vote his whole attention to his rowing, while the coxswain would have the single duty of keeping the boat diractly on her course. Besides strong judgment and much experience he would be worse than useless without steady nerves; yet this combination is always hard to find in one who would be about sure to be chosen—namely, some student weighing less then a hundred pounds—while in bow oars- men it is so common that the chances are that the coxswain would steer no better course than is row obtained. But o far more serious objection to an extra man is that our students have not yet shown themselves good at carrying weight. Thoy have for years averaged ten pounds — man lighter than the members of the Oxford and Cambridge University eights, and this deficit of trained bone, muscle and sinew is sure to tell, and the more especially when the man carried is quite as heavy, is carried by six men instead of eight, and by six men trained in high midsummer instead of cool March or early April. Tobe suro eight could perhaps be had here, but the rule has been that even in the best sixes there was always at least one man noticeably weak. The other plan is that of an able patent lawyer of Boston, and seems to us to meet the case exactly. Marking the eastern edge of the track the other day there stretched a line of buoys, flagged and easily visible for a long distance. As is well known, the lake is very wide, over o mile in most places, Instead of a hundred feet to each boat there might be a hundred and fifty, or even two hundred, and still enough to go around, yet converging the lines enough to bring them all within the thirteen hundred feet at the finish. By marking off each boat's lane by a line of floats and flags parallel for most of the way with that on the eastern side, and making each line of flags of the cclor worn by the crew to be guided by it, these. lanes could be as clearly defined almost as the banks of o canal, and each bow oarsman could keep in his own course without ever once turning his head—a very great advantage over the present helter-skelter system. Then the referee, following in his steam launch, could seo in a moment whether poy boat was out of het rightful cotttaé, dad, in cass of collision, could fix the blame at once and absolutely on the real offender. In very many ways the management of the recent race far surpassed that of any previous year, and if as long a stride forward as that suggested above can be taken next summer, we will soon be in a fair way to havea race that all may know in ad- vance will prove a fine one. But while this exceedingly important step can snd ought to be taken, there are several other changes almost equally imparative. In- stead of putting off tho meeting at which the arrangements are made until far on into next year, let it take place this fall, Then there would be far more time in which to at- tend to all there may be todo. Graduates of years and business experience could be found who would both see to it that all preliminaries were attended to and that the race was de- spatched with promptness—a quality seemingly new to the undergraduate mind; there would be no public discussion, or private either, as to whether a tardy boat should be waited for; proper arrangements could be made for getting all the crews up to the start beforehand, and also their boats; official time could be taken ; @ railroad track could be run from Saratoga to the lake, and adequate cars made ready to co away with the swindling which must either be made imposs{ble or the race should not again be rowed there, And with such a throng as that the other day almost the entire expense of sucha branch road might by good management be met in one year alone ; the double track could be completed between Troy and Saratoga; decent tele- graphic facilities had; the hotel proprietors could have every boarding house in town on their lists, prepared to af onco take up the bundreds they themselves have no room for, and the few other steps taken which can readily make this raco fhe grand- est aquatic contest in the world. And chief among these, and one it is simply the duty of the students to take, is to have the race rowed as early as nine o'clock in the morning. To got a suitable tide the English university race has taken place soon after seven o'clock, and surely to avoid a wind ours might come two hours later. A summer day without a breeze is too much to hope for, and when there is a portion of the day pretty sure to be calm, and one which, if not, still leaves all the rest to draw on, it is great folly to delay until, at a later hour, quiet water is often out of the question. This year has taught that lesson, and we trust it will never need to be learned again. Tae Acorzssive Inpians.—From the do- spatches published elsewhere it will appear that the present trouble with the Sioux is very far from approaching an advantageous termi- nation. They only wait upon opportunity be- fore they repeat again and again their savage depredations, and the absence of an adequate military force in the country which tlmy are now ovorrunning embcldens them to indulge in unlicensed effrontory and cruelty. Friendly tribes have lent some protection tothe settlers, but their aid is somewhat erratic and often treacherous. and it is not to be fully relied on The Chippewas are now not only fighting the Sioux, but are also negotiating o treaty with them, the object of which we do not know. ‘Whatever it may be there can be no lasting peace on the frontier until enough cavalry is there posted to administer sound punishment to every uncouth violater of civilized law, whether he be red, white or black. The Fall Dramatic Season. The fall dramatic season promises to be one of the most brilliant we have witnessed in America. On all sides the note of managerial preparation is heard, with now and then a characteristic sounding of trumpets, in order that the public may be ‘kept well posted as to what is going forward. Perhaps the most noteworthy event of the season is the production at Booth’s of Mr. Boucicault’s new military drama dealing with incidents in the civil war whose traces are happily becoming rapidly effaced, Whether this work prove as suo- cessful as the author expects Mr. Boucicault will have done some service to the stage in purifying its atmosphere from the taint of the over-sentimental society drama, even if the service should prove but temporary. Daly, too, promiseso new sensation, which, if wo may judgo from the title, “Jealousy,” belongs to the emotional school to which the Fitth Avenue has been so long and so profitably devoted. In the department of opéra bouffe most liberal provision has been made in the interests of the lovers of this class of amusement by Grau and Chizzola. We are not only to have Aimée back with a reinforced troups, but the English imitation, under the command of Emily Soldene, will also appear on the field and do battle for pub lic favor. Toole, the great English comedian, takes possession of Wallack’s stage for a briot period, and those who are familiar with the eccentricities of English life are sure to enjoy his admirable acting. It is to be feared, however, that this artist will not ‘appeal to a very large public, as his best character parts are so thoroughly English that their fun can only be fully appreciated by people well acquainted with English peculiarities, The variety theatres are not behind their . more pretentious neighbors in their provision for the amusement of the populace, and if the cit- izens of New York do not laugh during the fall months it certainly will not be the fault of the variety managers. Neither have the provincial theatres been idle. We devote con- siderable space to-day to giving an outline of their enterprises, which show that they are not to be outdone even by the metropolitan theatres in the work ofamusing their patrons, Tae Roman Carsoric Bisnops or GERMANY have, it is said, forwarded to the Berlin gov- ernment a protest, in which they declare that they cannot submit to the Church Regulation laws, and claim that the legislative power concerning the Church belongs to the Pope alone. If the prelates have used the words ‘legislative power” they have made themselves simply ridiculous; but if they have said canonical power they are perhaps right. The English penal laws against the Catholic Church were based on the mo- narchical dictum: —‘‘The Pope has no power, civil or ecclesiastical, within the realm.” Monarchs, members of Parliament, Judges and other high officers swore to it during cen- turies. When the oath was tendered to a great Irish agitator at the bar of the House 6f Commons, i 1829, he refused to take ft” saying, ‘I rojeot this oath; one part of it I believe to be untrue and the remainder I know to be false.” Tho English poople were awakened from a political delusion and the Cathohe Emancipation bill was passed. Tue Frey Sports iv Enauanp between the members of the international clubs, Ameri- cans and Englishmen, continue to progress with great animation. The games are con- ducted in an excellently good spirit, and the play is witnessed daily by a large crowd of spectators. The game at base ball was won by the Athletics yesterday. The Red Stock- ings appeared to be overmatched. The cricket match between Englishmen and Americans was suspended at the hour of five o'clock, the Englishmen being ahead on the score at the close. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Marquis de Argudin, cf Madrid, is residing at the New York Hotel. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, has apart ments at the Hoffman House, Commander H. A. Adams, United states Navy, is quartered at the Holman House. Congressman Richard ©. Parsons, of Ohio, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. General Benjamin F, Butler arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General William Ff. Bartlett, of Massachusetts, ts among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel, All the boys ooro in Massachusotts this year have been called Charles Sumner, ‘‘wituout dis- tinction of color.” Attorney Geoeral Williams left Washington last evening (or Atiantic City. He will return on Mom day or Tuesday next. Secretary Delano and Mr. Edward P. Smita, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, afzived at the Hloffman House from Washington yexteraay mora- ing, and left im the afternoon for Long Branch. At Avignon they celebrated the certvennial of Petrarch in punch. All the Latin nations wore'twere, Spanish, Italians and French, and such ts the’ pov- erty of their combined languages that they-were compelled to say “an punch.” Paris has 68,000 dogs, and they added to the ety income for 1873 the sum of 635,000 francs, oF $127,000 This would’ not be large sum in Green's banda, but think how it would keep down the number of dogs. All our comforts and luxuries are taxed; why not tax nutsances? \ . Pablic investigation in France shows that in- fants “nursed out” in that country are nursed ous ot the world at the rate of eighty-two to cighty- seven ina hundred, The implement used in this slaughter is an ordinary bavy’s bottle, which the ““aru.ers” scrupulously avoid washing. At Limbourg, near Verviers, Belgium, M. Davia, an honest man and ® good citizen, d*#d and was buried as he desired, civilly—that is, without » priest. Next Sunday the priest indulged in severe observations from the pulpit and the subject be camo a painiul scandal, On still another Sunday the priest repeated his extravagant language, and when the services were Over the son of the de. fanct horsewhipped his reverence in the pubite street amid general applause, Schmidt, the correspondent shot by the Carlista, ‘was formerly captain in the Prussian Eleventh ar- tillery, He had the iron cross of the first and sece ona classes and the Decoration of Honor. The correspondent of the Kreuz Zettung believes he would have been spared if he could have proved that he was a correspondent, but he had left his Papers with his biggage, and his baggage was lost during the operations at Muro. Thus, although it 1s certain he was @ correspondent, he was shot aa. aspy .