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6 NEW YORK HE sh aT ORES BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | aual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Anat. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —_—--_—_ 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 XXXEX, | No. 236 eee AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and sixth avenue.—LA TIMBALE D’ ARGENT, a8 P.M. Mile. Aimee, Mile, Mimelly. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of : t and’ Sixth avenue,— BELLE LAMAR, at §P. M.; closes at 10:90PM. John McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and flouston streets.— THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45P. M. Joseph Wheelock and Miss lone Burke. 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M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A.M, for the purpose of supplying the Sounpar Henarp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hzratn office as early as possible. From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and cool, with brisk northerly to easteriy winds. Ma. Bexcuer preached at Twin Mouttain | devotion NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, Our Educationa: Institutions—What They Are and What They Should Be. It is a sign of the healthful state of the pub- lic mind that all the excitement produced by the Beecher-Tilton controversy has not diverted the attention of serious men from the question of a national university and the re- quirements of higher education in the United States. Leaving to a future occasion to dis- cuss thoroughly the whole matter of seoondary | education, and for both sexes, we shall state here that there is one respect in which the seemingly antagonistic views of Presidents Eliot and White can be reconciled. For, un- questionably, there are certain great central schools, which Congress alone can and ought | to establish, to endow and to encourage by every | mans in its power. It is the duty and the | interest, as we conceive it, of both the fed- eral and the State governments to encourage | local and individual zeal, liberality and | in founding and carrying on higher education, interfering only to check abuses and perfect and develop the precious elements of good that exist in every State in | the Union. How this encouragement is to be dealt out and this interference wisely tem- | pered we shall soon have occasion to show. We now come to the pressing need of the | hour, demanding the action of Congress and | the co-operation of the State Legislatures. We do not want a national university in the strict sense of the word ‘‘university,"” and | embracing the universality of science and art, | theology, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, | pure and applied mathematics, history, litera- ture, philology, &c. Such an institution, em- bracing such a range of knowledge, ina country like ours, witha population differing so widely | in religious belief, would not be possible. But what is possible, what is most urgent, is the foundation of great central schools of science and art, such as exist in France. Our country opens to engineering, mining, archi- tecture, agriculture, manufacture and all the useful arts a field so illimitable that it is marvellous that the thought of founding pre- paratory schools for these various pursuits has never entered into the heads of our legislators. Surely it is time that we had institutions like the Polytechnic School in Paris, like the Central School of Mining (Ecole Centrale des Mines), of Engineering (Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées), and of Arts and Trades (cole Centrale des Arts et Métiers), as well as one which corresponded with the Ecole Normale } Supérieure, where masters and mistresses and directors for all the most efficient schools in France are trained to perfection, without re- gard to expense. Congress wisely takes care of its naval and military academies. We could wish that the conditions of admission to these were made far more stringent, so as to secure a higher grade both of talent and proficiency, and that the final examinations were such as to secure an incomparable superiority for every officer wearing the uniform of the United States. But that is not now our concern. We are concerned with the great central schools from which our engineers, our miners and chemists, our architects and builders, our manufacturers, machinists and artisans should go forth to develop the splendid resources of yesterday to a large congregation, but not at Tilton nor Moulton. He confined his observa- tions to sinners generally, without autobiog- raphical notes or obituaries of individuals. Katz Sropparp demands her personal property from the District Attorney of Brook- lyn in such a peremptory manner that we presume it will be instantly surrendered. If she had had both her revolvers she could not have written a more defiant letter. Tae Recarra Weex at Cowes was more successful than was anticipated, and on both sides of the Atlantic the yachting season has | been brilliant. The incidents of the race for the Queen’s Cup are tully described in our correspondence. Tse Srovx, the Cheyennes and the Ara- pahoes have been alarmed by the military preparations to punish them, and are anxious to make peace. The Indian war may be con- sidered as nearly over, and that is a blessing for which Sheridan and Custer are to be thanked, and not the Quaker commissioners, ‘who have in vain tried to play the part of William Penn. Arrer Eicut Yzans of effort at reconcilia- dion the enmity of the negroes and whites in the South is worse than it was at the time of the New Orleans massacre. It is tending toa war of races. To-day we have the news of a terrible conflict in Lancaster, Ky., with loss of life, which has required Governor Leslie to call out the militia, and in Ridge Springs, 8. ©., a riot was only suppressed by the | prompt energy of the whites. These are bad signs for the South, but not for a third term. Tae Spanmu Government has taken measures to stop a filibustering expedition against Porto Rico, of which It has informa- our country. In these, too, our scientific men in every department would be thoroughly trained, and in their well endowed professor- ships there would be a sure reward for su- perior scientific genius and culture. Who does not see that such institutions are urgently needed, and that they ought to be national? Their establishment would not interfere with Cornell or Harvard or Yale. On the con- trary, to these central schools of theoretical and applied science Yale and Harvard and Cornell would be the first to send the élite of their own young professors, who would thence return to their Alma Maters with tenfold power for inculeating knowledge and advanc- ing it. It is not the province of a public journal to sketch in detail the measures necessary for realizing the above national schools one and all. Wecan only point out their necessity and their possibility and urge the subject on the attention of the representatives of the people in Congress. Nor should we separate from the idea of these national schools of science and useful art that of a national school of fine arts. In every part of the Union new cities are springing up yearly, and the old cities are enlarging their limits. Bat it is notorious that we are the prey of architects who know nothing of the true theory of their art, and of builders who care nothing about the solidity or the safety of what they construct. It is high time, then, that the national government should open a central school of the fine arts in which true architects would be formed, not servile copy- ists of Old World designs and edifices, but men educated to look to the purpose for which every building is reared, and who, uniting the knowledge of the hgineer with that of the builder, will have « practical acquaint- ance with the materials they use as well as with the requirements of our varied climate. tion, and the intended cession of the island to Germany is indignantly denied at Madrid. | But this denial we were told to expect, and | referred to Admiral Polo for the confirmation | of the report. If some Marco Polo would find his namesake this interesting question might be settled. Our Lowpon Gossre ranges to-day from grave to gay, from the last days of the Par- liamentary session to the base ball players and the theatres. The American ball clubs have, undoubtedly, been well received by the English, and haye been successful at the game in which they were expected to fail— cricket. England is full of royal crowns this « summer—some of them hardly being worth half a sovereign. The removal of Temple Bar is announced, and with it will fall many literary and political associations. Tae Canwists have won a victory, not by force of arms, but by the influence of religion. Seo de Urgel, a small city in Catalonia, con- taining less than three thousand inhabitants, hhas been surrendered by the treachery of friends of the Bishop of Urgel, the chaplain of Don Carlos. It was garrisoned by only four hundred and eighty-five men, and was not a point of strategic importance. The Carlists shot the commandant of the citadel, with no other cause than their new | apparently policy of terror. If they are shooting repub- lican prisoners so freely now what will they do when they enter Madrid, as the Abbé Mc- Master promises us they will do before six monthy are past? It will be time when such schools are in operation for the various State. Legislatures to enact laws preventing any man from prac- ticing the public profession of engineer, or | architect, or builder, or superintendent of buildings, who has not taken out his degree | in the national school. We say nothing of painting and sculpture—they are subsidiary to architecture, What is here said of architects should also | be made true of the liberal professions of law, | medicine, surgery, as well as of the trades. | It is time that Congress and the State legisla- tures should come to an understanding about some effectual means of suppressing the deluge of fraudulent or cheap diplomas with which the country is at present disgraced. Congress | should see to it that no office within its gift, in the civil and diplomatic service, should be given to any but the bearer of a diploma well authenticated and well earned. Every State in the Union ought to make it penal to use a diploma that has not been legitimately obtained and deserved. And no penalty can be too heavy for the granting of such unlawfully or unworthily. The legal profession should be closed to all who have not graduated in a pub- lic law school; and so with the medical pro- fession. It should also be the aim of the | clergy, of every religious denomination, to educated men, If ever there was an epoch or a country in which a great need was univer- sally felt that religion should be defended and explained and confirmed in the intelligence of the oequle by superior learning united to su- exclude from their ranks any but thoroughly | perior piety, surely it is ours. Moreover, both the tederal and State governments could existing institutions of higher learning, as well as in preventing interior institutions from disgracing the name of college or university. Let the federal authorities be liberal in facilitating the introduction of books and sci- entific materials by the establishment pre- viously authorized by their respective States to do so, and by these alone. And let the local legislatures revise the charters granted to collegiate establishments, and recall them when they are not justified by the working of the institutions themselves. At any rate it is infinitely to be desired that the denomina- tion of university and coMege in every State should be restricted to a very, very select few. There was a time, in our own State of New York, when the Legislature generously aided collegiate education by annual grants. With the growing influence of the democratic party | in the Legislature these grants yearly dimin- ished. At length, when Tammany became omnipotent, they ceased altogether, and for the last twenty years and more no aid has been iven to any but the common schools. This is founded on a wrong principle. In a country like the United States the highest university and scientific education, just like that imparted in the lowest primary school, is for the people and by the people. It is the interest of every man, woman and child in the community that there should be schools for the teaching of the highest knowledge in every conceivable form advantageous to society. ‘The great universities, where statesmen, minis- ters of religion, lawyers, physicians and scholars are formed, work just as much for the benefit of the people as the schools which turn out skilled engineers, mechanics and manufacturers. Awfyl Revelations from a Veiled Female. Mr. Beecher must be in a bad way if such testimony as that of Bessie Turner is needed for his defence. The Investigating Committee furnished this for publigation in answer to Mr. Moulton’s statement that the girl had been sent to boarding school because she had overheard conversations between *Mr. and Mrs. Tilton concerning the criminal intimacy of the latter with Mr. Beecher, and had gossiped about it to friends of the family. Mr. Moulton also included in his statement a letter from this girl to Mrs. Tilton denying that Mr. Tilton had attempted her seduction, and affirming, ‘I do not want to be made use of by Mrs. Morse or any one else to bring trouble on my two best friends, you and your husband.’”” The committee summoned her, first, to disprove Mr. Moulton’s assertion, and second, that she might repudiate her letter and explain how she was induced to write it. The ultimate object was to discredit Mr. Tilton’s story, by proving him guilty of immoral conduct. This is well intended, but useless. Nothing that mysterious Bessie has to say can affect the main issue, and it is to be regretted, therefore, that her foolish gossip should have been dignified with the title of evidence. Certainly the committee should, at least, have confined her strictly to the points it ex- pected her to establish, but, instead, her little tongue was allowed to run on about matters and persons entirely unconnected with the question of Mr. Beecher’s innocence, We must do Bessie the justice to admit that she perfectly appreciated the situation and cleverly put herself in the position of a heroine. She looked ‘‘Mr. Tilton square in the eye, and he changed countenance.” ‘He probably saw that he was treading on danger- ous ground when he talked to me about Mrs. Tilton.” ‘Leave the room,’’ said Mr. T. “I won't,” responded the noble girl. “Damn you, leave the room,” repeated Mr. «T., and then he knocked her down. Although ‘fearfully hurt” she rose, and went to shield Mrs. Tilton from his possible attack. This heroic conduct touched Mr. Tilton’s cruel breast, and he tried to make her believe he was crying. Then, to quote Bessie’s expressive reiteration, “he talked, and talked, and talked, and talked, and talked, and talked.” She thinks he has ‘‘the idea that he is some Apollo, some god, that everybody ought to look up to and worship.” So the story goes on, and if the committee imagines that such gossip will be considered evidence in favor of Mr. Beecher it is welcome to the harmless delu- sion. But we consider it an outrage that it should have allowed Bessie to say that she saw Susan B. Anthony sitting on Mr. Tilton’s lap as she was going into the parlor, and that the old lady jumped up pretty quick. The committee also might have spared the public the startling information that, although Bessie “never saw Mr. Tilton caress- ing Mrs. Stanton,” he used to be alone with her in his study a great deal, and they actually ‘‘used to play chess till two or three o'clock in the morning; after the family had gone to bed—quite late.’’ Whose reputa- tion is safein these days, when even Mrs. Stan- tons egnne’ spree sovpicion? When ‘oven Miss Susan B. Anthony Is said to illustrate Goldsmith’s lines, “When lovely woman’— but no, no! no more of that; that way mad- ness lies. Let us still strive to preserve some faith in virtue, which we cannot do if Susan B. Anthony is frail. Ah! Bessie! Bessie t Mr. Tilton’s loquacity may be great, but cer- tainly you have ‘‘talked, and talked, and talked, and talked, and talked, and talked,” with a freedom which only a Plymouth church committee would bave been kind enough to indulge. Crush Theodore with your scorn, if you wish, but, oh! spare us the reputation of Susan. “i Bazarxe’s Escare.—New and unexpected facts concerning Bazaine are given in one of our letters from Paris to-day, and reasons are given for the conjecture that his escape was not without the connivance of the govern- ment—indeed, that he was not really im- prisoned. The political condition of France, especially in regard to the theory that a strong democratic empire is better than a weak repub- lie, is ably analyzed, and the necessity that any government must maintain the present system of land tenure is clearly shown, These are some results of the first French Revolu- tion that no changes can now destroy, and the land system is one of the principal. Mn. Jous L Davexronr does not intond tobe removed from office and insists upon being let alone. His correspondence else- where on that subject is not of a nature to in- duce his onponente to comply with his desires, join hands in promoting and perfecting the | The. Great Indian Problem—lnappli- eable and Delusive Precedents. It is impossible to arrest the current of events which will force upon our government ! an early and radical change of its Indian pol- icy, and the subject is of such magnitude as to challenge the ripest reflection of our ablest statesmen. Amid the difficulties which sur- round it one great point stands out in perfect distinctnéss. There can be no sectional dif- ference of opinion as to the final aim and ul- timate result toward which all the efforts of our government must be directed. The mighty tide of enterprise and emigration, which in the lifetime of people who are not yet old has redeeemed from the state of nature the fertile region on this side of the Missis- sippi—creating great cities and important marts of commerce and dotting the whole country with thriving towns and villages—is destined to move on and work similar mira- cles in the vast region between the Mississippi River and the Pacifi: coast. The rich mineral resources and great agricultural capabilities of that wide section of the national domain beckon the hardy pioneers of civiliza- tion to come and take possession, and since the opening of the trans-Mississippi railroads the only obstacle to the speedy set- tlement of the country is’ the roaming tribes of predatory savages, who are the terror of peaceful emigrants. Cost what it may, this obstruction must be removed. If the exter- mination of the marauding Indians were necessary even that cruel necessity would have to be faced, precisely as we would not hesitate to clear a valuable section of country of bandits and robbers, or to drive out intrud- ing, warlike foreigners. Happily, we are not reduced to so shocking a resort. By assign- ing limited reservations to the Indians and compelling them by force to accept such agri- eultural occupancy as we choose to give them, we can insure safety to our settlers without proceeding to the revolting extremity of ex- terminating the native tribes. But this is the only alternative. When this cardinal point in our future Indian policy is accepted as fixed we have a sure criterion for judging of the wisdom or expediency of intermediate measures. They must be regarded as means to this paramount end, and be accepted or rejected according to their tendency to pro- mote or defeat it. It is always a great advan- tage to know precisely what we aim at and to adapt our measures to our object. Two prominent sources of instruction have been suggested in reference to the Indian problem, neither of which is applicable if we accept the reservation policy as the main key of the situation. We allude to the Canadian management, which has escaped our perpet- ual Indian wars, and to the measures taken with the Sepoys in British India. A very few words will suffice to show how inapplicable to our situation is each of these fancied prece- dents, We will begin with the uniformly peaceful demeanor of the Indians of British North America. Here the analogy fails in the im- portant respect that it was never in contem- plation to open the vast territory occupied by the British North American Indians for agri- cultural settlement by the white race. The greater part of it is forbidden by the climate to be converted to such uses. It extends from the settled portions of Canada to the Arctic Ocean, an inhospitable and frozen region, which nature has surrendered forever to the trapper and hunter. The escape from Indian wars in that desolate wilderness is chiefly owing to the long monopoly of the Hudson Bay Company, only recently terminated. That great corporation, organized for the sole purpose of prosecuting the fur trade, -man- aged the British Indians with consummate skill during the long period of its existence, Never intending to settle any part of the country, but only to prosecute a lucrative trade with the Indians, the Hudson Bay Com- pany did not excite their jealousy by fears of white encroachment. We fear the Sepoy precedent will as little bear the ordeal of a close examination. The points of resemblance between the Sepoys and our Western Indians are merely superficial. The Sepoys, when aroused by the great mutiny of 1857, showed themselves as treacherous and bloodthirsty as our Indians or the wild beasts in their own jungles; but in every ordinary particular the analogy com- pletely fails. Our great task is to transform the Indian tribes from hunters to agricul- turists and give them settled homes. But the people of Bengal, from whom the mutinous Sepoys were enlisted, had been for ages in the condition of a settled peasantry, with fixed places of abode. They were not marauding tribes of savage hunters like our Indians; they did not need to be reclaimed from a roaming to a settled life; they were not sparsely scat- tered over a vast territory, but formed a dense agricultural population, and the management of the soldiers enlisted from among them bore no resemblance to the great problem with . which we are confronted of reducing fierce, savage tribes to habits of steady labor and civilization. ite as We are convinced that little is to be gained by the study of foreign precedents. The task before us is unique and peculiar, and we must depend upon the original and unborrowed wisdom of our statesmen applying strong commun sense to the facts of a situation which is too new to derive much aid from prece- dents. The few precedents which are appli- cable must be drawn from our own past history in dealing with the Indians. The reservation policy is not new, being forty years old in practice, dating from Jackson, and sixty years old in theory, dating from Calhoun’s reports on Indian affairs, when he was Secretary of War, and the Indians were under the exclusive control of that department. The policy which the opening of the whole trans-Missis- sippi country to settlement will inevitably compel us to adopt requires the reinstatement of the War Department in its former control of the Indians, since it necessitates so much purely military work. But this will be merely the beginning and first stage of a great re- form which will call for a higher exercise of sagacity and humanity in its progress than any duty which has ever been laid upon the government. Tae Search For Cuartry Ross has re- sulted in many strange mistakes of identity, but nothing stranger than the story of a sham detective, which we publish to-day. There is no evidence that the right clew has yct been found, notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts that have been made in all parts of the countrys Am attempted Violation of Law—The Fimance Appropriation. At the last meeting of the Board of Appor- tionment Comptroller Green offered a resolu- tion authorizing him to transfer tho whole or any part of any excess of appropriation re~ maining to the credit of ‘Salaries, Depart- ment of Finance, of any previous year or years, to any insufficient appropriation for the same purpose in any other year or years.” Inquiry elicits the fact that an unexpended amount of $50,000 remains to the credit of such salaries from the year 1872, and that a further smaller balance of $1,400 remains from 1873. When the estimates for the expenses of the government for the present year were first passed the Comptroller asked for $303,000 for salaries for the Finance Department. This was regarded as an_ exorbitant amount. The Finance Department, under these large appropriations, had been accus- tomed to support an army of unclean Bo- hemians and spies, with whose services the city could very well dispense; so the Board of Apportionment, through the firm action of Messrs. Vance and Wheeler, cut down the sum to $270,000. The following comparative statement of the number of employés and the ‘appropriations for salaries under tour Comp- trollers shows that the Board of Apportion- ment were by no means excessive in their economy: — ° 1860,—R. T, Hawes, Comptroller, City oMcers, 72; county officers, ¢ Amount of approprtation $93,758 1864.—M, Brennan, Comptro! City officers, 77; county officers, 6, AMOUNE O1 AppropriatiONn.........eseeeeee 1868,—K. B, Connoily, Comptrolier. City officers, 106; county oificers, 9% Amount of appropriation.........6..++0++ 1874, -A. H. Green, Comptroiier. City and county officers, 147. Amount of appropriation...............++ 270,000 The Comptroller now asks the Board of Ap- portionment virtually to nullify its economy in reducing the estimate for the Finance De- partment by adding tothe salary list of the present year $51,400 of unexpended appropri- ations of former years, thus increasing the amount to $321,400, or $18,000 more than he originally demanded for his whole salary list, including his ragged army of Bohemians and informers. The Board of Apportionment, by adopting such a resolution, would not only stultify their former action, but would commit an act of very questionable legality. The charter pro- vides that the ‘Board of Apportionment may from time to time, on the application of the head of any department, authorize the trans- fer from one bureau or purpose to another in the same department of any sum thereto- fore appropriated for the purpose of such department or bureau, but no department or officer shall incur any expense in excess of the sum appropriated.’’ It also provides that ‘any balances of appropria- tions remaining unexpended, after allowing sufficient to satisfy all claims payable there- from, may, at any time after the expiration of the year for which they were made, be trans- ferred by the Comptroller, with the approval of said Board of Estimate and Apportionment, to the general fund of the city and applied to the reduction of taxation.’’ The charter is thus clear on two points—first, that, while un- expended balances may be transferred from one bureau to another in the same depart- ment, the total sum appropriated for the ex- penses of any department for the year must not in any case be exceeded in the total ex- penditure of that department; and next, that unexpended appropriations must go to the credit of the general fund and be applied to the reduction of taxation. The law of last session authorizing the re- opening of the estimates for 1874 gives the Board of Apportionment the power ‘‘to trans- fer any appropriation for any year which may be found by the head of a department to be in excess ot the amount required or deemed to be necessary for the purposes or objects thereof, to such other purposes or objects for which the appropriations are insufficient or such ag may require the same; and if it is found at the time when the estimate is made of the expenses of conducting the public busi- ness of the county (sic) of New York for the next succeeding fiscal year, that there will be a surplus or balance remaining unexpended of any appropriation then existing at the end of the current fiscal year, such surplus may be applied to like purposes in the next succeed- ing year.” It is under this clause that the Comptroller seeks to add on to his present year’s salary list between fifty and sixty thousand dollars of former years’ unexpended balances. But the law above quoted does not in any degree modify or alter the provision of the charter which provides that no department shall expend more than the total amount set apart and ap- propriated for its expenses for the year. The act which Mr. Green asks the Board of Appor- tionment to do is, then, clearly an evasion of the charter. If thé Comptroller has had in his hands or in the City Treasury for two years an unexpended balance of fifty thou- sand dollars it was his duty to have had it transferred to the general fund, to be applied to the decrease of taxation. He has been singularly remiss in his duty by suffering so large a sum to lie idle when the burden of taxation has been so heavy. By now seeking to appropriate it to his own salary list for the present year, after the estimate is finally closed, he disregards the limitations of the charter and seeks indirectly to increase his already large appropriation to over three hun- dred and twenty-one thonsan® dollars. Will the Board of Apportionment lend itself to so clear a violation of the law? El Dorado in the Biack Hills. El Dorado has often been sought and some- times found, aud the far West is undoubt- edly the place to look for it. Now in the Black Hills a region has been discovered which is probably as rich in mineral wealth as California, and will become another promised land for the gold hunters, The evidence that the Black Hills and the surrounding country are filled with the precious metals docs not rest upon the assertions of land specula- tors, who wish to encourage emigration, but upon the official report of General Custer, 148,373, 207,632 which we printed yesterday. The General found no hostile Indians, but he found gold in small but paying quan- tities in the water courses, and indications that it exists in large quantities in the hills, Iron, silver, plumbago and gypsum were also dis- covered. There is likely, therefore, to be a tush of enterprising spirits to tlt new gold fields, and this is likely to result im a speedy and permanent settlement of the region, as General Custer says that no portion of the United States has a richer or purer water, and that the build. ing stone is inexhaustible, with plenty of wood for centuries. The country is well adapted for agricultural uses, and grain, especially wheat, can be largely produced, These advantages will be ultimately even more important than the immense stores of mineral wealth. Taken as a rule, next to custom house, El Dorado is most often found in a well conducted farm. The Sermons of Yesterday. The sermons which were delivered in our churches yesterday and ars transferred to our pages to-day deal with many of the principal phases of Christian life with much power and intelligence. That nothing can be done with- out Christ; that as we make our bed we must lie in it; that faith is necessary to victory; that conversion is the chief end of man; that God has prescribed the course of every man; that Christianity is not theoretical, but a life and a process; that religion is not a mere training of certain faculties toward God, but a yielding of the whole being to His will—these are some of the truths set forth. The Rev. Dr. Deems, Rev. John W. Jackson, Rev. George D. Matthews, Rev. Richard Fuller, Rev. Dr. Porteous, Rey. Dr. Cornell, and Rev. J. Robert Love, of Georgia (a colored clergyman, who preached in the Church of the Transfiguration), were some of the eminent divires who treated of these im- portant subjects, too often neglected for the trifles of a transitory life. Plymouth church was reopened after three weeks’ painting and cleaning, entirely distinct from that done by the committee, but only a brief allusion was made to Mr. Beecher by Dr. Robinson in his sermon upon the power of faith. At tha Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. W. H. Boole treated of the question ‘Whether religion is lost because ita professors fail?’’ There was a small congregation at what is called the ‘Church of the Scandal,’’ at Jer- sey City. Rev. Dr. Wiggins preached upom the spreading of the Gospel, and his words had pointed application to the case of the Rev. Mr. Glendenning. But the memory of poor Mary Pomeroy must have been even more effective in the minds of her friends who were present. The Prospect avenue church has met with a severe blow in the re- cent calamity, but it is to be fervently hoped that it is not true that the Rev. Mr. Glonden. ning has shaken the faith of many members in the truth of Christianity itself. New French Literature. Of French plays we know nearly everything by going to the New York theatres, but of French literature, other than the dramatic, our information is not so easily obtained. Tha long and interesting account of recent Paria publications by our correspondent does the French novelist the same service our theatrical managers render to the play writer. One of the principal novels of the season is “La Conquéte de Plassans,” in which M. Zola haa flercely attacked the interference of priests im the affairs of the family. A clear idea of the character of this book is given in the abstract of the plot. A posthumous volume of stories by Prosper Mérimée, whose ‘Letters of am Unknown” made a sensation recently, has just been published. Champfleury and Adolphe Bélot have also brought out new novels, and the former has contributed to the history of caricature a new volume, treating of the subject from the year 1789 to 1815. But a more remarkable book is ‘Les Promenades de Paris,’ magnificently illustrated, written by M. A. Alphand, ard published at the cost of $140,000. This work will soon become rare, as many of the engrav- ings were destroyed during the late revolu- tion. War is always the enemy of art, and it is strange that Paris did not lose more of her treasures during the reign of the Com- mune. The intelligent heroism displayed in their defence is one of the redeeming elements of that bloody period. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Stockholm has a “prehistoric Congress.” Castelar is in Paris, but it is denied that he hag any official mission, Thiers, at Cauterets, does not leave his rooms, and his state is looked upon as serious. Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City of Chester; is quartered at the New York. Hotel. Two cats bitten by mad dogs went mad ing village of Savoy, and catastrophe was no name tor it. Dr. H, R. sinderman, Director of tne United States Mint, arrived from Washington yesterday at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Dr. Jougla, of Toulouse, has discovered am acarus that feeds on tobacco and likes to live im the middle of the best cigars, Madame Doche, of the Paris stage, was stung or bitten by an insecton the beach at Etretat, and may lose her arm, or even her life. Generai George A, Sheridan, the claimant for the contested seat of Congressman at large from Louisiana, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Paris laughs at the notion that the Prince Impe- rial, at Woolwich, took the first prize for horse-, manship and an English boy the first prize for pro- ficiency in the French language. ‘tne Germania, having said that Emperor Wil- liam had spoken of the attempted assassination at Kissingen as merely “the act of @ madman,” Wil- liam compelled them to publish that that state- ment was their own Invention. Baron Rothschild, just dead at Vienna, leaves no part of his fortune to his daughters, though each was already rich, Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, the eldest son, fares jar better than his brothers; but the greater part of the fortune ts lett txed as the capital of tne bank tn which Nathaniel, Ferdi- nand and Albert are partners. Great excitement the other day in @ little Bel- gian town. ‘The proprietor of the hotel received despatch as follows:—"The Court will arrive to- morrow; prepare dinner.’ The whole districe was turned inside out to get up the grandest poa- sible dinner sor their majesties,and when the Court came it was composed of pat a dozen rusty, fusty old judges. ‘Tae Geneva Journal des Etrangers 1s responsible for the statement that at the shooting match at St. Gail in the year 1838 six marksmen from the Grisons carried away as prizes of honor a young chamois and an eagle, that Louls Napoleon pur- chased that eagle, and that it was the very same bird with which he made a famous experiment, Pleasant to bappen on the history of so old an acs quaintance as that eagle, Schliemann has been condemned hy the Areops agus to pay to the Turkish government the value of those Trojan treasures, which have disappeared, and three projessors of the Athenian University have been appointed asexperts to estimate the amount to be paid by examination of the photos graphs taken before the treasures were “iost.’ ‘This is @ sharp trade ou Schltemann’s part, a8 the arcnwological element of value will scarcely enter into the estimate, though 14 ts certainly ten Wine greater than the gold value