The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1874, Page 8

| 8 ' NEW NEW YORK TERALD The Soctal Intercourse of Ciergymen. ANN. STREET. We are not quite prepared to indorse the lachrymose regret with which Mr. Beecher concluded his written statement before the Plymouth church committee at the great pub- licity given to the Brooklyn scandal. We en- tirely disagree with him that the effect of this publicity is demoralizing. This remarkable case is free from the prurient details which too generally accompany divorce suits and trials for seduction, and we can recollect no case so fully reported which had less tendency to present sexual impurity in a seductive light. The impressive pictures of torturing wretched- ness and ruin brought upon the alleged par- ticipants in this alleged violation of conjugal vows, the dread of exposure and Shame, the | skulking artifices of concealment which have made four years a long agony of remorse, | suspense and cowardly subterfuges to avoid concealment, the blaze of public indignation ready to flash out as a consuming fire agninst the chief actor if the evidence should’ prove | him guilty, cannot but operate as a whole- some lesson and fearful warning to peo- Mile Aunce, | ple whose passions would prompt them to 4 this destructive sin. The public press in the discharge of its daily duties is under the ne- cessity of publishing much revolting matter at which virtue recoils and stands aghast; but such information is a necessary protection to the unwary. The confidence games, mock auc- tions, panol thefts, fraudulent advertisements, | gambling honse decoys and other disgusting BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ePROPRIE ror, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre” Tienavp. RSS LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms bel in New York. ie Vv rolume XXXIX OLYMPIC THEATRE, (B02 Broad way.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. ; Yu LYC! THEATRE, street and Sixth avenu: ats P. M.; closes at i ye at 3 P Miss Sara, at 4 ewe, Mr. C. Fisher and Mr. James Lewis, THEATRE COMIQUE, FR’, 514 Broadway.—VARLETY, at SP, M.; Mw. closes at 100 | BOOTHS THE erner *, Twenty -third str Bele TAMAR acs hw: Biccuilough and Mla i. ad Sixth avenue= at 1030 Pa. John Randolpa, NIBLO'S | records which the press cannot ignore, serve to DPOF SBYDOS a Hee IOUS | put inexperienced people on their guard «nd + closes at dr Wheviock and Miss fou save them from dangers and pitfalls into which WALLAG 3 THEATRE, they might stumble without these warnings. bo PRY, am Pr THE LINE, at SP. | ee x | Tt unfaithful pastors seduce the female mem- eds bers of their flocks the publication of the facts Broadway S | w Fe R is Si 4 f calli: i ice pa ee bir gy eetry ead FOR | isa necessary means of calling the attention 0 103) P.M.“ Louis Alarich and Miss Sophie Miles. | of unsuspecting heads of families to social | perils against which they may take proper and | timely precautions. Minds which gloat over | _BRYANT!S OPERA Seer e | such disclosures are already corrypt and past YatoP. M. ‘Dan Bryaut, Sag the possibility of moral injury. The virtuohs | NEW PARK 1 BARES IN THE WooD, ats BROOKLYN, M. E. Laub. are inspired with horror and alarm, and those who stand on the doubtful confines between virtue and vice have opened before them the dreadful abyss of ruin and shame into which sexual irregularities plunge their victims. GLOB ATRE, PRS Broadway VARIETY, at 3°P, Mo; closes att0 u METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 58 Broadway.—Parisian Caneau Danvers, atsP. M, CENTRAL P ARK GARDEN, ere a THOMAS’ CON- This shocking Beecher scandal will call | attention to some grave dangers to which a + + confiding community have been too insensi- Q U ADRU P L E Ss H E E bys ble. We cannot doubt that a majority of | War! Sask. Sunday, PERL 3 "30, 1874. | clergymen of all denominations are pure, | pious, faithful, God-fearing men, who could | be safely trusted in any situation, But as little can it be doubted that there is a sprink- ling of libertines in that sacred profession, | and there is no other profession which affords yo many opportunities to men of lewd inclina- George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | Tone Hap. pretence of pastoral ae | Hing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | Bey cam visit the female members of their | aud arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock | CBgtegations at all hours of the day, when VA. M, for the purpose of supplying the fathers, husbands and brothers are necessarily | Boxpay Henarp along the line. Newsdealers | gaged in their business. Men of other pro- | wend others are notified to send in their orders | fSsions are engaged during basiness hours, | and make their social calls in the evening, when the male members of the family are at THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. | ‘To Newspearers anp tHE Pupric:— ‘The New York Heratp will run a special train between New. York, Saratoga and Lake | t | tons, to the Heraxp office as early as possible, Prom our reports this morning the probabiliti hat the weather to-day will be cloudy. | in this respect is not often abused; but the | door it opens for sexual intrigues by the black | | \ sheep of the profession cught to be securely | TERDAY.—Stocks were Gold 109§ a 1093. Srrger ya quiet mark we Exrutes of Beecher are far Jess dan- jferous to him than his friends. If the Tilton | preventive to scandals whose publication yerposé knocked “the ‘Life of Christ’ higher | brings distrust upon the whole profession. han a kite,” the riot at Plymouth church has } Affairs like this of Beecher and so many nocked the report of the committee higher | others, whose exposure shocks and disgusts | an the “Life of Christ."’ the public, should be rendered impossible by a Me Mirae’ pact) id dite: public puts a | Code of pastoral intercourse which would pro- | fdifferent color upon his part in the riot of | tect alike the reputation of clergymen and the friday night. He says that he knew he virtue of weak, gushing women, whose ill- Swas to be misrepresented in the report of the | Tegubited emotional susceptibilities make | wommittee in regurd to the cross-examination, | them the easy prey of clerical seducers. —* @nd attended the mecting to justify himself in | Among the Protestant denominations it he opinion of the congregation, of which he | Should be an easy matter to establish such a f a member. | code of pastoral intercourse. Protestant | = | clergymen ure permitted to marry, and nearl teeliapinsi oe | all of them avs ail themselves of the vilatlogs | When they call at the houses of their parish. | | jonars at hours when husbands and fathers | ri 7 2 . | are necessarily absent there would be pertect | Marewell dinner to Mr. Stanley previous to his | safety and protection to all parties if they | (departure on his -new African expedition, and | made it an invariable rule to be accompanied | Whe efforts made by the cable monopolists to | by their wives. ‘There would be an eminent ble | ‘ ere: the new cable company, are all fitness in this rwe, aside from its precaution- ” ed on. Vi ed upon. Virtuons ymen would | Although London is supposed | oO de: od at se | flo bo deserted at this season there can be no be freed from the coldness and constraint | | which a sense of propriety imposes on them- Wearth of interesting topics in that human | | when making their visits alone, and their | wives are fitter and more sympathetic advisers | | than any man can be in the religions and do- | mestic trials of their sex. If Mr. Beecher had Ovr Lospon Letter. fondon correspondent will be found full of Bnteresting gossip about men and events. The proposed royal residence in Yreland, the | 1 Ps u Tar Vatvr or Exrraprr —A en- rious exemplification of the value of extradi- | ition laws was furnished in the courts yester- | yay by the arrest of a merchant charged with | never called on Mrs, Tilton in the absence of urglary committed at Stockholm in July last. | her husband without being accompanied | M@he man confessed his crime and will prob- by Mrs. Beecher he would have es- | mbly be sent back to Sweden to stand his trial. | caped this crushing weight of remorse and | AWVith the progress of enlightenment dishonest misery, and the | _— may probably discover that roguery spared the painful shock and loo: | joes not pay. Nothing ix more likely to ex- | confidence which cause so Toany hearts to lercise a restraining influence on the dishonest ; bleed. It this rule were adopted as the eti- | han the knowledge that wherever qnette of the profession as respects married ey rem ain subject to capture. clergymen, the unmarried would be con- | strained to a near approach to it by either | making their calls when the male members of the family were at home or taking with them some favorite Sunday school scholar or ening of | they go Tue Sanatooa Recarrs. he second day tf the grand international aquatic tournament won the beautiful lake of Saratoga was quite an Wvent at that fashionable resort. Tho shores jand waters of the Inke were crowded wilh try. public would have been | wi other person of them own sex in their pastoral ager sightseers, who were not disappointed their expectations of sport. «The senior Weullers’ contest was won by William B. this, of the New Vork Athletics, aud Eldred ana Bunith, of the Argonautas, came out first in Bue pair-oared race. On Mi wontest between thirteen four- Mhe United States and Canada tukes place. The Catholie Church is protected a this danger hy its more efficient eccle discipline. If Mr, Beecher had been a mein- | ber of that communion he conld not have successfully fought off an investigation tor the | long period of four years. As soon as the damaging romors got afloat his astioal superiors would have brougat him to w swift account, The attachment of his congy would not have availed to sh bishop charged with the supe conduct would have been superior to Jocal in- | fluences and haye looked only to the credit and purity of the Church. In the Co! grega- tional communion, to which Mr, Beecher be longs, there is less wnthority and discipline | than in any other of the Protestant nominations, and to screen these charges from investigation at the time of the ¢ wre. gatioyal Council, last winter, Plymouth eharch stretched the principle of Congregational in- | dependence to a defiant and pr “posterous ex- treme, The exemption from inquiry claimed by Mr, Beecher and his sapporters was not admitted as sanctioned by denominational ugh the council tarned a con- 3 the accusations against the Plymouth pastor. But the charges have sumed such « shape that the denomina- It isa mistake to ecclesiastical consequences | end w Cur- Disrartt's Visrr ro [renanp. Jn London that the English Premier will go Re Ireland on @ pro ng tour. His chief Dusiness will be to find a suitable’ spot for the Frm royal residence, which is the latest It is ramored on i him, for the | ision of his anacea for Irish discontent. It may be also hat Mr. Disraeli wants to take a peep at the élancholy ocean which he bas « so feclingly | lescribed, though he never saw it. Whata range commentary it is on the relations # the two countries that Mr. Disraoli, thongh has governed Ireland, has never visited it! | is reception is not likely to be ve ry warm, | pnd unless he happens to find the four-leayed | Bhamrock his royal residence scheme will | Beareely be productive of any very remark. | BPlle revolutions in Lrish opinion, de- Prymoern Cacvrcn appears to hove a new oxology, An old gentleman proposed it Bhouwld be sung, when the prayer meeting im- Rrediately began the chorus of “Give lim hell!” his ix surety not the way in which it is usual Ss praise God; out Ply: mn book, tion cannot ignore them, wuth svems to havea 9 @ that th wasted will ith the a¢ - elise wordlist of Plymouth eharch. meee Congregational clergyman of the country will anxiously examine the evidence with a feeling of deep responsibility for the credit of the denomination. If any considerable number of them shall be of opinion that Mr. Beecber’s defence is not satisfactory a new council will be called and he will be put on a formal trial. The sentiment of Plymouth church will weigh nothing against the evidence; and it is clearly within the authority of the religious denomina- tion which ordained him and commissioned him to preach to revoke his credentials and degrade him from the minis- If Plymouth church should. choose to uphold him after that it san et the indelible disgrace which will have been Vronght upon his name. However weak may be the authority and loose the discipline of the Congregational denomination it is at least equal to caghiering 9 clergyman whom it } commissioned and withdrawing its fellowship -from a church that maintains such a clergy- man in its pulpit, Ina trial before a council of ministers Mr. Beecher will not be per- mitted to select his own judges, and an acquittal, if the council should acquit bim, will have some moral value. Bat whatever may be the ultimate result of this investigation, when trahsferred to an impartial tribunal not selected by the accused, the lesson as to clerical intercourse and pas- toral visits must remain the same. The new code which ought to be adopted is as neces- sary for the security and protection of inno- cence as for the prevention of guilt. For the same reason that a virtuous woman, swhose character exempts her from all suspicion, would ayoid the indecorum of allowing a gentleman in her bedchamber with the door closed, pious and faithful clergymen should favor a code of manners which wonld insure their profession against the possibNity of false accusations, General Davidson's Victory. None of our iroops in the Indian country have been in a tighter place this sammer than were those under the command of General | Davidson, at the Wachita Agency, in their last battle. The fight was between the Kiowas and Naconees and four companies of the Tenth cavalry. The object of the Indians was to | destroy the agency and snuihilate the garri- son, and for this purpose they fired the prairie, and, as our despatches show, came | very close to success. General Davidson's soldiers, however, were equal to the work, and not only with great difficulty extinguished the fires but repulsed the Indians, heavy punishment. The charge of Captain Corpenter's company appears to have been the | His gallant men routed a massed column of more than one hundred and fitty red warriors, who were about to take up a commanding position in | the rear of Had promptly ordered by General Davidson and | gallantly executed, our troops would proba- bly have not escaped so well. home. The freedom enjoyed by clergymen | was large, but its extent is not ascertained, decisive feature of the action. the it not been United States forces, for this mpvement, The Indian loss owing to their well known habit of carrying their wounded and dead from the field. It would have been much larger had not friendly shut, both as a guard to the reputation of sin- | Indians been mingled with the hostile tribes | cerely pious men and more especially as a at the beginning of the engagement. These well-behaved red men General Davidson has succeeded in bringing into his camp, and fifteen or sixteen hundred Caddos, Wachitas, Comanches, Tawacouies and others, have | agreed to return to their former quarters. This victory places the Wachita Agency in entire safety, and General Davidson has fol- | lowed it up with energy by sending a flying column in pursuit of the scattered foe. Severe punishment will be inflicted upon those who | ate captured, and this is the only way in which the threatened hostilities near Fort Cobb and McClellan Creek, later in the season, can be | averted, The Althongh the fall and winter season of music presents little variety outside the opera, yet the quality is so good that one may be inclined to accept the paucity of the material without 4 murmur. We are assured of the presence of Thomas’ orchestra, which alone is a sufficient guarantee of the highest standard of music, and as that indefatigable director is in con- stant receipt of strange and interesting manu- seripts from Germany there is every reason to expect that the programmes of his sym- phony concerts this winter will contain gems of inestimable value. The Philharmonic Musical Prospect. | Society has been recently reorganized and placed on a sounder musical basis than ever, and the new Oratorio Society will likely be heard in some of those snblime works left to s by Handel, Bach, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Miss Kellogg has assembled around her an | English opera company of rare merit, but her efforts will be confined to the provinces until the Italian opera season is over in this city. The Di Marska Concert Troupe is the only ization of the kind ag yet announced for son, althongh numerous little parties may be expected to spring up as the season progresses. Unlike the dramatic managers, who generally complete their arrangements for the entire season before the opening of their houses, the musical entrepreneurs are | often obliged to depend npon the uncertain- ties of negotiations with great artists in Earope, which are sometimes concluded in the middle of the season. The Italian Opera | Company i is now complete, and the promise of | the production of such works as “The Flying Dutchman,” by Wagner; “Ruy Blas," by Marchetti; “Romeo and Juliet,” by Gounod, and the Missa di Requiem, by Verdi, will create much interest in it. The French opéra bouffe is already at the height of its sea- son at the Lyceum ‘Theatre, and will have as # musical successor the same kind of enter- tainment in English. It is @ pity that our German singing socicties, some of which are ; Composed of the best musical material, should | | absemt themselves so persistenily from publie entertainments, Grand concerts, in which the best choral works might be given, would | lend additional lustre to the musical season and would make those socicties more popular. The military bands attached to certain regi- ments of the State National Guard will essay a series of concerts at their respective armories, but as yet their armngements are in a chaotic state. Such is the musical prospect at the present date, but the nnexpected arrival of some European celebrity (and an event of | this kind is not at all wolikely) may alter ma- teriully the arrangements of some of the man- O- eel inflicting | YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1874.— —QUADRUPLE SHEET. Religious Press Toptes. The Brooklyn scandal is commented upon egain this week by some of our religious ex- changes, Mr. Moulton’s statement being the latest phase of it on which the editors could write. The Golden Age, the Christian Intelli- gencer, the Methodist, the Christian Leader and the Evangelist refer to the case in terms more or less favorable to Mr. Beecher save the first named, which thinks that Mr. Beecher's perfidy in trying to break down the reputation of Frank Moulton and destroy his testimony has no parallel in the annals of history. The Intelligencer tells its readers why it has hither- o’refrained from publishing the details of the case, and then reads Mr. Beecher a lesson in moral proprieties. It thinks it is in bad taste for him to continue publicly to perform the functions of a religious teacher or minis| if as he has done,’ pes Se the awe Moulin, 7 while the Seiitlon his “gull It or | remains undetermined bys compete ‘authoritative tribunal. But a cessation on those conditions might be for life, Who can tell | tast gompetent, court will ever decide the issue? The Methodist admires the devotion of Plymouth charch to Mr. Beecher, but it warns them that they cannot carry him through by main force nor vindicate him by clamor and: partisanship. They may hurrah for him till they are hoarse, but they will not thereby affect public opinion. But while say- eae ing all this the Methodist gives its sympathies to Mr. Beecher. The Christian Leader has o careful and coucise editorial analysis of Mr. Moulton's statement, in which it shows that gentleman contradicting himself, and until he can reconcile his own opposing utterances it cannot give him any credence whatever. And besides, for his efforts to befool the public on this matter, the Leader thiuks he richly merits the contempt that has been heaped upon him. The Evangelist queries the Lord to tell it how long the scandal is to continue. Its editor says as he read Monlton's statement he ; was tempted to exclaim with the Psalmist, ‘*All men are liars!” He thinks it is very evident that somebody lies in a wholesale and quite terrific manner. The Evangelist notifies Messrs. Tilton and Moulton that the American Christian public will not receive an evil aceu- sation against Mr. Beecher from their ps un- less it is well fortified by the most convincing testimony. It, therefore, they cannot sustain | the charges which they purpose to bring against him ina court of law, they must ex- pect to sink under a weight of odium such as has rested upon few men in this country. The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist, true to its instinct of contempt for such a prominent abolitionist, has no faith whatever in Mr. Beecher's statement, which it characterizes as a specious subterfuge to cover up more than it has revealed. Thus tar on the scandal. The Christian Union, which has preserved the silence of the grave on this all-absorbing theme from the beginning, speaks historically and chronologically of party making and party makers—a subject which, if not now, very soon will be, of more than ordinary in- terest to the voting population of the United | States. It bids the friends of reform to be- | ware of the demoralizing entanglements of | | partyism and to content themselves with the . slow but sure results of moral 1 agita: ion, The In Independent ‘publishes an “Open letter to President Grant, cailing upon him to protect the Indians in their own territory from the incursions of the white people, who are already organizing expeditions, and, if not prevented by military force, will be digging tor gold in the recently-discovered auriferous regious before another year rolls round. Treaty stipulations with the Indians secure them in undisturbed possession of this terri- | tory, and the obligations should be kept. The Liberal Christian has a felicitous article ‘on “The Constant Presence’ of the Divine Creator in beauty, art, poetry, music, flowers, &e. The Christian at Work talks pleasantly about ‘The Flight of Summer,” and thinks that its departure should not now be re- gretted. The Christian Age soliloquizes on “A Street Collision,’’ the moral of which it sums up in two lines:—‘Do not dash heed- lessly along the highways of life; keep out of other people's way.” The Observer calls for honest men rather than for politicians for office, The Christian Advocate thinks the con- flict of races in the South can be settled only by Christian forbearance and charity on both sides. The Baptist Weekly discusses Dr. Hol- land’s last article on the average prayer meet- ing, which, it thinks, is rather overdrawn. The Boptist Union, whose editor (Rev. Dr. Ball) saw some laying on of hands at Ocean Grove and felt some also on his own head, gives a | Scriptural review of this ancient custom, and | comes to the conclusion that it is heresy to | believe that the Holy Spirit can be thus im- parted. The Jewish Times treats of cthereal religion and Jewish laws; the Jerish Mes- senger thinks the experiment in the free schools shows that the pupils are anxious to advance in Hebrew study beyond reading and | that they should be encouraged; the Hebrew Leader thinks it is the intellectual wealth of Israel's toachers that has enriched the world, | The Tablet continues its sketches of the growth | of Catholicism in the State of New York, and | the Boston Pilot discourses on church music | and other matters. And thus the readers of the religious press are catered to this week, to orrespondents in Poeun Sarat American journalism was wélt represented at the celebration of the thousandth anniver- Tecland, | ing the | the history of labor. | inquired, Why if the times were so bad the | That question shows the existence of a dan- new spirit of American journalism. Hore is the greatest of living travellers, one of the best of modern writers and the leading Arctic explorer of the time, uniting in a friendly rivalry to describe an event which is only im- portant because of its historical and moral significance, This duty they have discharged— not as scientific men nor as mere authors of books, but as journalists, and journalism de- mands peculiar faculties of readiness and energy, which ate not always found united with eminence in science and art. The Glory of Old Tammany in Plymouth Chureh. In the good old times beforo the war a ratification meeting in Tammany Hall was a spectacle which. excited the admiration of “the big Indians’ the utmost terror and consternation to the straggling Puritan within the walls of the Wigwam. It was a scene of indescribable enthusiazm and confusion, of strong patriotic outeries, fierce imprecations and of terrible profanities, grim jokes, “cracked crowns’ and bloody noses.” For many years. we we have had nothing in these parts to compare with those glorious jubilecs of the Empire Club ; but now let the alumni of the Pewter Mug rejoice, for has not the lofty inspiration of Old Tammany, and to the soul-stirring music of ‘Old Hundred,’’ been revived in a grand ratification meeting of Plymouth church ? At this ratification of tho lofty, aniiustantic and incomprehensible report of Mr. Beecher’s committee, exalting their immaculate pastor to Mahomet's seventh heaven, there were all the elements of a regular old time Tammany ‘jamborce.”’ But there was something more, and something better caleulated to warm up the whirling dervishes at this Plymouth rati- fication than anything in the proud record of Old Tammany, There was the religious ele- ment, all alive with the holy fire and fervor of a high revival, and this inspiring clement Old Tammany never possessed or professed, and seldom respected. Nevertheless, at this Plymouth love-feast there were outbreaks of rnfianism and manifestations of ruftianly in- tolerance worthy,the best days of the Wigwam. There was one man in an assemblage of two thousand who had the hardihood to object to the committee’s report and the temerity to stand ap against it, as in the midst of an ex- cited mob, and unmoved by the hostile clamor around him, and, perhaps, the only perfectly cool and self-possessed man in the house. But bis opinions were not wanted, for he had come, perhaps, “to bury Cwsir, not to praise him;”’ and the presence ol this daring intrader, like an unwelcome aud unexpected guest at a wedding, was offensive, and “Put him out!” and “Give him hell!”’ were the cries which warned him of the danger of per- sonal violence from the latter day congrega- tional saints around him. They had assem- bled for thanksgiving and praise for the tri- umphant vindication of their exalted pastor, by a committee of his own church and of his own choosing, and they were not in the mood for listening to disagrecable objections. And so, to the dying echoes of ‘Old Hundred,” and in the midst of a hostile uproar like that of a nest of contraband whiskey distillers invaded by a revenue official, and un under the protection 4 Marine Corps, of the police, ‘this is obudxtous 11 intruder retired. And this was called by the saints “the peace of God which passeth all understanding.” Was there ever such mockery of sacred things? Was there ever such shocking pro- fanity as this in the wildest diabolisms of Tammany Hall? Call you this a triumphant vindication of Mr. Beecher? Is it anything better than a senseless mockery, a wild and roaring extravaganza, which would be exceed- ingly laughable if it were not so seriously de- plarable? In short, the vindication of Mr. Beecher from his church committee and by his church goes not beyond the boundaries of his church. To stand approved, clear and | Spotless before the outside world, he needs a broader and stronger vindication. The Labor Question in England, The relutious between capital and labor in England are evidently not satisfactory to the mass of workingmen in that country, Forty thousand miners assembled in the old cathe- dral town of Durham, nominally to protest against a proposed reduction of their wages, but in reality to denounce the system under which they live, is an incident of singular sig- nificance. The English are essentially a slow moving race, not much subject to those sudden excitements which lead to revolutions in Con- tinental countries, but they have ever ex- hibited a dogged resolution in redress of their grievances. Discontent has smouldered during many years in the north of England, and seems likely to be fanned into a flame by the straggle which the capitalists have unwisely chal- lenged. In the past generation the discon- | tent of the workingmen was easily suppressed because they were ignorant and possessed no | organization, but the power to-day wielded by the trade organizations has no example in | It is uot reassuring for | | the domestic peace of England when forly thousand of the hardiest workingmen in one county assemble and publicly denounce the system of class governiient under which they have hitherto lived, Even | the throne was not respected, and | these forty thousand toil- -strengthened men | wages of royalty should not be cut down? sary of Iceland—not in numbers, it is trae, but if intellect and reputation, The long letter of Mr, Bayard Taylor in tho 7ripuneisa model | of picturesque description, and our admira- | tion of it is increased when the difficulties which attended its production are considered. | To write such an account as this, after under- | going extreme fatigue in the inland journey | | through Iceland and during the exposure of a rough voyage in the Northern Sea, could not | have been an easy task; yet Mr. Taylor's bril- | liant style is unaffected by these unusual hard- [2 ships. His descriptions of the voyage to Ice- land, of the King’s reception at Reikia- | vik, of the celebration at that capital, | of the inland journey and of the na- tional festival at Thingvalla, are worthy of a | place among his best literary works, while his analysis of the political changes which the new constitution has created is thorough, and, we believe, just. Of the splendid letters of | Dr. LL Hayes to the Heranp we need to say | little more. His correspondence differs in marked Characteristics from that of Mr. Tay- Jor, but is not less interesting and accurate, LLwve vince shame together gs oxgmyugs of tiya | | archy have lost their sanctity, and they must | That puerile document, it seems; was enough | | to make any one swear- Brooklyn. i gerous spirit. ‘I'he old traditions of the mon- now expect to be weighed and examined, and if found faulty to be cast aside. The evident drift of this labor movement is toward repub- licanism. The people want to exercise their | legitimate influence in the government of the country, and have come to the conclusion that the absorption of the land by a few noble families is an infringement of the nataral right of man—that is, England is approach- ing the French Revolution. The people want back their share of the national domain. ‘Tax Prorantry at the Plymouth prayer meeting is explained by the fact that the re- port of the committee had just been read. even the elect of | seck- | | Mr. Oliver Montagu, | dress of } of homespun, the benefit of the healthful breezes onthe Sound. It would be difficult to over. estimate the value of these excursions on the health of the children. During the season some twenty-four thousand children have en- joyed the benefits of a trip into the country. Pulpit Topics To-Day. If any light can be thrown upon the brief statement in the Bible of Michael’s contention with the devil about the body of Moses, we hope Mr. Hallam will be able to let the fullest blaze possible shine upon it this morning in St. John the Evangelist’s church, He prom- ises algo to speak of the Christian race, but from the way in which many Christians ran this race it is hardly deserving of the name, Paul recommends that it should be run with patience, looking unto Jesus, but they walk or crawl along pettishly and censoriously and never lift their eyes above their black mantle of trouble or disappointment or woe. Such Christians need hardly expect ever to stand where Mr, Kennedy will take hi earers this evening TS eee twenty elders around the throne of God. Nor can they form part of the true Christian comity ot wh y of which the Rev. Mr. Bennett will speak, because they live not by every word of God. Their life is 9 materia rather than a spiritual life, EMEA While there is a sense in which Ch: stinnity. is a popular religion there is alsoa wide dia- tinction between it and popular religion, which distinction Mr. Buckley will point ous this evening. Dr. Lockwood will show the relation existing between man and his Sa~ viour, and Rev. H. O. Pentecost will hold up John the Baptist asa preacher ahd a reformer, The Sunday school lesson for to-day will’ be expounded this morning by Rev. S. HL Platt under the style of ‘The Living Christ Touching the Dead Maiden”—that is, the daughter of Jairus raised, He will show also how the foolish things of the world confound the wise as illustrated in the advance of Chrise tianity against all opposing forces. The altar on Mount Moriah will be described by Rey. Mr. Steel, and those who hear the knock at the door of their hearts will be invited to let the Saviour come in and become a perma- nent guest with them. These are some of the topics on which the pastors have bestowed thought during the week and which they will preaent to-day to their respective congrega- tions in New York and Brooklyn. s PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Blindman’s bufl is the fashionable color. Oh, the ruManly intolerance of the saints! Was Bazaine’s “sortie” better late thun never} Brooklyn believes that Sodom and Gomorrah were naught places. Sir Bruce M. Seton, of England, has apartments at the Brevoort House. General Jonn N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staf, has arrived at the Windsor Horel. Ex-Governor J, N, Goodwin, of Arizona, is regia tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, R. 1. P, is written on the stone over Piymouth, and no wonder the Kind of peace tt appreciates us one “that paaseth understanding.” Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Sefor Don Antonio Manulla, the Spanish Minis ter, lett tuis city last eveniag for Washington. Colonel C. G. McCawiey, of the United states Rev, Lord Charles Hervey aad Mt. A. Avitou ot Late, e residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, ‘Fenator William P. Wallac of Ohio, ia amoug the recent arrivals it ti Hotel, Dr. C. F. McDonald, Superintendent of the Postat Money Order Department, is stopping at the Wiad- sor Hotel. Deputy Quartermaster General Rufus Saxtom and Colonel W. W. Sanders, United States Army, | are at the Gilsey House. Professor Silvestri, who has mace a special study of the phenomenon of Mount Ktna, announces thas. an eruption may be expected shortly. And bow Profesaor Eugene Aloys Wiener noml- nates Henry Ward Beecher for the Presidency, And who is Wiener? The great providential me- dium, infallible oracle and intellectual miracle, The Chamber of Indictment has sent Moreag, the herbalist of St. Denis, before the Assizes of the Seine on a charge of murdering, vy poison, hia | two wives, Félicie-Hortease Aubry and Adélaide Louise Lanneau. | A boy of about seventeen years of age, the nepbew of one of the guides whom the American party engaged to make the trip to the Geysers during the Jate millennial celebration in Iceland, Was found abie to speak Danian, English, German and French. We had likewise a very fair acquainte | ance with such writers as Byron, Schiller and Garthe, The regatta of the Royal Yacht Squadron Club at Cowes, England, commenced Tuesday, the 4th inst, A large number of yachts had collected, and the steamers from Southampton were crowded with visitors, The race for the Queen’s Cup wae won by the Egeria (Mr. Muinolland). His Royal | Highness the Prince of Wales took an active part | in tue racing oo board Count Batthyany'’s yachts, the Kriemtiida, Rain and a gale of wind on Tues day prevented the usual crowd of elegantly dressed women from assembling on the green to watch the proceedings; but, as it cleared a littie toward sunset, a few of the Visitors seized the | Opportunity to meet on the club lawn. Among was His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Priuce Teck, + the Duke aud Duchess of Marlborough, Lavy Randolpa Churchill and Lady Rosamond Churctuill, the Vice Commodore Karl of Wilton, Duke of Rutland, Lady Stradbroke, Lord Calthorpe, Sir Frederick Arthur, c. Serge and cloth costames were the most appropriate ior this stormy Weather, and when well made they prove ex- tremely vecoming. Two young American ladies were dressed in navy blue serge dresses and poto, haises, trimmed with Scariet bands braided with white, which had a very good efect; three broad tucks of red were placed on the skirt, aud a trim- Ming of the same came straiwht down the front of the polonaise, edged with white braid; hats, with scarlet and white foulards knotted om one side, completed the ‘ne, Anotner lady Wore 4 dress of rough gray cloth, checked with biue; a deep gathered donuee was placed on the skirt; the tuuicysimply stiiched at the edge, wae Lcaugnt up to the back of the skirt, and a y double-breasted jacket, opening over @ Waistcoat of dark blue stik aud ormamented wisit liny pockets, stowed the figure off to advantage, tem | Auotier dark blue serge tunic Was caught back knois of ro with a pale blue sasi, and pale bine ornamented wie lor cot bine and white Galatea § was trimmed with revers of navy blue serge, pockete and deep cud, embroidered with anchors in white sik; a large straw hat, turned up on one st and trimmed with bine and white striped ( d, was worn with the costume, The hats were ant cformly worn at the back of the uead, but cits te hardiy a becoming fashion, Noriolk Jackets, made looked Very sevsonable, As the evening cleared up the fireworks, which ind beem a proved a very ordiwat sticcess, the yachts in te adding much to the beauty of the spectacle by sending up showers of rockets aad burning blue the Qneen’ steam yacht Aivert and being partic larly conspicuous, shooting Hind houquet prt om, were given, up Tam Carppres’s Proxtcs.—The last of those admirable pienics for the be poor children of thy city was out yesterday. Over — two thousand Witde ones varticivated and obteinad sit of the | carried | of colored higits and scars, Among the yachts collected We notwed the Sarprise, Marqnia of stord; sit atine, Lord ae Wilton; the, Ate a fiayae; the Fair Rosamond, Katelin “leks, A, Keanara; Snark, vat Ketiand: (he Ashorne Price OC Wales &ty Nicholag* littie straw rd