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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR (HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- gual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heavp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX Fourteenth street Sixth avenué.—LA TIMBALE DARGENT, at P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mile. Aimee, Wile. Minelly FIFTH ® THEATRE, WHAT SHOULD sHE DO? OR, JEALOUSY, at 8 P, m.: closes at 1 P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Mr. C. Fisher and Mr. Jaines Lewis, THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P, PM. BOOTA'S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth BELLE LAMAR, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:3) P.M. McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolpy, avenue.— Joun NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston streets.— THE BRID F ABYDOS, at 8 P. M.:; closes at lU:45 P. M. Joseph lock and Miss fone Burke. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—PAUL PRY, and OFF THE LINE, at 8 P. | M.; closes at ll P.M. J. woop's UM, Broadwa; orner ot ‘Thirtieth streeL—BLOW FOR BLOW, M. THE LAST NAIL, at 8 F. M.; closes WW. N. “Louis Alarich and Miss Sophie Miles, NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, - BABES 1X THE WOOD, at8 P.M. E. Lamb. OLYMPIC THEATRE, gm Broadway,—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—~NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ats P.M. “Dan Bryant. GLOBE THEATRE, Hops Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8'P. M.; closes at 10 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 685 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8P. M. | CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, and venth avenue, —THOMAS’ CON- at 10:30 P.M. inth street atsP. M | New York, Monday, August 31, 1874. | THE HERALD FOR THE SUIMIER RESORTS. | To NEWsDEALERS AND THE Prnzic: — The New Yorx Hexatp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | and arriving at Saratoga at nine o’clock | A. M, for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Henatp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hznatp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabililies are that the weather to-day will be clear or parily cloudy. A Werx Aco the Plymouth congregation offered up prayers for Mr. Tilton. On Thurs- day night it wanted ‘to knock hell out of Mr. Moulton.”’ The old Adam is still strong in these charming specimens of liberal Chris- tianity. Dreromatists are often epigrammatic in private, but rarely so in public. An ex- ception is found in Russia’s note upon Spain, in which she declines ‘‘to recognize a gov- ernment which is unrecognized in its own country.”” Tue Froattya Hosprran.—This beautiful charity, which has already taken ten thousand mothers and children into a pure atmosphere and relieved incalculable suffering, has ex- hausted its funds. Prompt contributions will enable it to do more good before the season ends. Tue Lapies claim a share in all outdoor amusements, and even swimming is a popular sport with the fair sex. Yesterday four young ladies had a swimming match at Fort Hamilton, and their speed and grace in the | water was justly envied by many of the gentlemen who timorously remained on shore. Tue Brack Hriis.—More information about the wonderful discoveries of gold in the Black Hills is furnished in our Rocky Mountain cor- respondence to-day, and some strange stories are told of the ease with which it has been se- cured. There is little doubt of the wealth in that region, but prudent gold seekers will wait for more information before risking the dan- gers of a search. Tae Great Anxcat Event among the ama- | teur oarsmen of this country will take place | on Saratoga Lake to-day. The letter in our news columns furnishes much interesting data regarding the crews which will participate in | the “American Henley.’’ All have taken their | final practice pull, and each oarsman is now awaiting, with bated breath, the signal of the referee which shall summon him to enter his boat, Faexcn Exections.—The Marshal President of the French Republic has signed a decree ordering elections to be held early in October to fill the seven vacancies that exist in the Chamber. The result of the poll will farnish & very fair indication of the state of popular feeling. All parties are likely to put forth their full strength to clect their candidates. We shall then be able to judge whether the pretended reaction in favor of the Bonapartes has in reality set in. It would be a curious example of the instability so often charged against the French people to find them want- ing to get back the dynasty whose tinsel glo- ries ended so disastrously at Sedan. We are not inclined to overrate the importance of this apparent reaction in certain localities, because the result may have been influenced by per- sonal or local feelings outside the general question of party. Seven elections held in different districts will, however, show pretty goto zero. Brown, if he sees that Jones has failed, immediately wonders how it will be , with Robinson, who is a heavy creditor of Jones; and as he in turn holds notes from | mercial activities, and what is the promise NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3 1, 1874.—TRIP LE SHEET. Commercial Aspects and the Fall Trade. At present the most characteristic feature of our markets in every species of traffic is the reduction of prices. All commodities are | offered cheaply, and the temptation to the | speculative spirit of small dealers from all parts of the couniry would seem to becor- respondingly great; but the condition of trade does not indicate as yet any faith on their part in the immediate future, or, more accurately perhaps, it indicates that large | dealers here have not that confidence that | leads to credit transactions, while the country merchants have but little cash. If the un- | favorable reports of the cotton crop that we hear in connestion with the results of drought and the ravages of the caterpillar shall be realized, and if the bad reports trom some sections of corn and other important staples shall be echoed generally, these facts may serve still further to depress the spirits of country dealers, and it is not possible to see how the declarations of several political con- ventions can have any but a disastrous effect on confidence—a plant that is just now pre- eminently sensitive to such influences. In seasons that succeed to commercial crises the effect on prices, as now observed, is a | natural sequence. As credit disappears prices | | Robinson he is eager to get the money. If he then hears a whisper that Robinson must necessarily go the panic fear comes over him, | and, forgetful of all consequences, he rushes | about for his money as a man in a burning house rushes for the doors or windows. With | this repeated in every little circle of a com- | mercial centre the one demand is money. | Money is called for to liquidate all the out- standing obligations hitherto represented by | paper and faith, and there is not enough for the purpose. In the markets of civilized na- tions there is never at the outside a volume of money greater than ten per cent of the whole | sum of financial operations, With the sup- ply, therefore, necessarily insufficient and the demand growing hourly and momently | greater the price of money goes up. Mer- | chants, eager to save their solvency, to rescue from an impending cataclysm that | credit which is ninety per cent of their capi- | tal, will give “any price for money.” But what will they buy it with? With goods, with raw material, with manufactured arti- cles, with petroleum, coal, grain, dry goods, cotton—with whatever men can be found to take. If money in such circumstances is bought for goods, to say that money is high in price is only to say that goods are low. More goods are given for the same amount of money. And this is the first effect of commercial trouble on prices. But an even greater effect follows. Panic and its consequences destroy the market for every article that does not seem immediately necessary for the support of life, both be- cause there is no demand and because the credit upon which trade was operated is for | the time destroyed. Nobody will supply goods on notes when nobody knows who will be a bankrupt in thirty, sixty or ninety days, and the great warehouses become solitudes. Even the small trade of daily demands is smaller, because the people are warned against the rainy day, and the commodities already in the hands of the retail dealers suffi- ciently meet this restricted call. Yet pro- duction continues, both in raw materials and | manufactured articles. Farmers and producers of raw material generally are in a kind of economical treadmill and dare not stand still; for though they see no immediate prom- ise they necessarily hope for the future, and must be prepared for the opportunities it may offer. It is the same in a smaller degree with manufacturers. Nobody, moreover, knows | just how deeply credit has been wounded, and | all hope, and perhaps believe, in an early res- toration; and thus keep on from week to week and month to month. Crops accumu- late, therefore, at the depots and manufac- tured articles in the warehouses, and still there is no demand; and just in proportion as the stores increase the prices fall—fall— | fall. And it is obvious that this is one of the in- evitable steps in the process toward restora- tion; for excessive cheapness in the price of commodities becomes a cogent incentive to buyers, and the lessened earnings and smaller remuneration for all sorts of services are found to bear to the reduced prices of the necessities and comforts of life nearly the same relation that inflated wages bore to inflated prices, and as high wages encouraged the people with the notion of prosperity so low prices lead them on to what seem great opportunities; and thus all the steps of trade follow again in their reg- ular order on a lower plane. Whereabouts do we stand in this process now—at what point are we in this natural career toward the restoration of all our com- of the indications? Reduced consumption and continued pro- duction have filled our magazines and ware- houses with enormous stores of commodities of every description, and the point to which prices have fallen indicates how great is the | superfluity. Our importations, especially in dry goods, are lessened, but are sufficient to keep the supply very considerably above the present demand and to keep prices down proportionately. Prices are certainly not at their worst, but they are at such @ stage as to excite alarm with many dealers. On the other hand we have a good though nota great harvest. Though in manufacturing districts the times are dull and the people are poor and apprehensive of the chances of the winter, yet with the farmers and all who depend upon the farmers and in all the varied industries related to the marketing of crops there is a good share of the confidence and elastic spirit that attend upon a good season ; and as all the processes of legitimate trade begin with the producer, who sells what he has and buys what he needs, there is in the ele- mentary facts of our condition good reason | for hopefulness, and if the case were to be | viewed strictly on its economical features we | should esteem it full of promise. But the political possibilities complicate our position very seriously. Are we yet done with | the lunacy of inflation? It is pretty certain that we are done with the lunacy of it; that is to say, all those who really believed that what they called ‘cheap money’’ would afford a clearly ihe drift of publig opinions remedy for our financial difficulties are aither | dition we believe he will be beaten, for the | hension of a depreciated currency still casts | which there can of course be no thorough | tivities. From this shadow we shall not be | the bars of the rampart gutter. convinced or silenced, and their delusion has given place to knowledge and sounder views. But the jobbery of inflation we assuredly are not yet done with. There are enormous so-called enterprises, enormous schemes of corrupt speculation still on foot, which rightly regard a sound state of money as their ruin and the stimulant effect of an inflated currency a8 the breath of life; and the promoters of these, not only indifferent to the general welfare, but utterly reckless of any interest save their | own, will still make a desperate battle in Con- | gress, by bribery and intrigue and the compli- cations of political bargains. Will they suc- | ceed? It depends upon the views that party leaders may take of party interests. Last ses- sion measures that in operation would have been utterly ruinous to public and private credit, and that must have destroyed all hope of a solution of our difficulties, save by the process of general and universal bankruptcy, received a majority in both houses, | and only failedto become laws because the | vigilant press awakened the country to the fact that its interests were betrayed and sold ; out by a venal Congress, and because the Ex- ecntive was found amenable to the influence | of public opinion thus awakened. Similar | measures are just as likely to pass again, and im new political complications it is not certain that the Executive will again comé to the rescue. It is evident this spirit of jobbery | has possession of the party organizations in several States on both sides of the line. Republican conventions are declaring them- selves freely against sound economical prin- ciples, and democratic conventions are doing | the samie; but it isto be hoped that in these | respects the people are far wiser than their self-appointed leaders. Whenever a candidate | stands on a platform distinctly inimical to public honesty and a sound commercial con- people will recognize him as a political sharper, a rogue who is seeking some private interest, and not the public welfare. Naturally bad political possibilities depress the vigor with which commerce might revive if the future were sure in this respect. Appre- | its shadow over the growing confidence and | limits credit, without the full exercise of restoration of commercial and industrial ac- permanently free, at least till we have a new Congress fresh from the people; but in the meantime trade will become prosperous toa certain degree, and as the commercial indica- tions are so fair for the autumn we may anti- cipate as good a season as is possible where enterprise is crippled by the necessity of basing transactions on absolute certainties. Bazaine’s Escape. It seems that Bazaine wishes to make a doubting world believe the romance which was first published in reference to his escape from the Isle cf Sainte Marguerite. We printed yesterday an interview with the escaped prisoner, taken from the Cowogne Gazette, from which it will be seen that the ex-Marshal reiterates the rope story, with new details. Unfortunately for Buazaine, his inventive genius is very meagre, and one must be astonished that a man with so little percep- tion could ever have risen to high command in the army ofa great nation. He asks the public to believe that he had no accomplices in his flight, and at the same time tells us that he was obliged to use a knotted rope eighty feet long, fastened with an iron ring to Admitting, for sake of argument, that the prisoner did escape by this means, we should be curious to know how he obtained that heavy iron ring and knotted rope if they were not furnished him with the connivance of many persons in the fort. Thetale is too absurd tor a dime novel, and the Metz Marshal must have as little intelligence as honesty if he expects the world to believe him. The letter of the prisoner's wife is probably true so far as she relates her personal knowledge, but it does not touch the main question. It matters little whether Bazaine got morg or less wet getting on board the yacht which was in waiting to re- ceive him, but it matters a great deal how he managed to pass the guards of the fort. His escape could only have been effected by the guilty connivance of many men to whom their country had given an important trust. France has suffered so much from crimes of this nature that she cannot with safety allow this last treachery to go unpunished. Indeed, the security of the country demands an example, for the escape of the betrayer of Metz is the best proof how dangerous it is to be lenient with traitors. Had Bazaine been wise he would have preserved silence at least until he had learned by heart some romance which the public could accept without a sacrifice of com- mon sense. - Benevolence in the Five Points. It is strange to find benevolence up to the elbows in the slaughter of its subjects, and still stranger to find that it has friends who in cool blood can endeavor to belittle offences of such a nature and to impede the penalties of justice. An attempt is made to show that the boy whose life was violently taken in the Five Points charity establishment died from the effects of a bath, but fortunately the Coro- ner and his advisers are not disposed to be- come accessories to homicide by assenting to any such gratuitous science. This defence gives, however, an instructive side glimpse of this kind of care for vagrant children. It seems that slaughter is not only to be looked for as an exceptional result of the fury of the benevolent men in charge of the place, but that when a boy is killed it may perhaps be @ consequence of the regular daily discipline. In short, the regular treatment is such that the managers deem it more likely that death may ensue from that treatment than from a savage assault. Boys sick or well,with- out regard to their condition or the possible effect on their health, must take the cold bath when it suits @ savage and ignorant person in charge, and undoubtedly: this may, in many cases, be fatal. Wedo not doubt it has fre- quently been fatal in this charity shambles, but the boy Vandriche was not killed by it. He was beaten to death, and we trust the fact may lead to a thorough official examination of this establishment and its doings, as well as of the doings of the kindred “charity,”’ the “Children’s Aid Society.” In what ia already shown of this case the tender hearted old gen- tlemen who bequeath money to public charities can see what use is made of it, but if these two establishments are thoroughly investigated they will see and hear things even more startlingly instructive. Mr. Beecher’s Sermon Yesterday. Mr. Beecher is upon » mountain in more than a literal sense. Scandal has seized his name and borne it with her vulture wings to heights to which his eloquence and intelli- gence could not raise him. Never was his preaching of more interest to the world than now, when the question demands an answer whether he should be allowed to preach at all. Every word that he now utters has a new significance with the public, and many per- sons who have only heard of him as a cele- brated name are now anxious to know him as a man. One principal effect of the scandal has been to concentrate attention upon Mr. Beecher’s doctrines. People wish to under- stand what is the religious belief of this cler- gyman, who stands accused—and, thus far, untried—ot crime, as if knowledge of his opinions would throw a new light upon his actions. For these reasons the sermon which Mr. Beecher preached yesterday at the Twin Mountain House, and of which we give a full | report, will be read with unusual interest, though a few months ago it would not have commanded more than ordinary attention. There is no logical connection between what @ man preaches and what he does, Tho stern Calvinistic doctrines may be taught by a man of the tenderest heart, And the infidel in religion may be implacable as a moralist, Mr. Beecher’s creed has never been very clearly defined—in fact, it is doubtful whether he has any creed such as is formally embodied in the thirty-nine articles or in the Presbyte- rian catechism. Precisely what he be- lieves in respect to salvation by works or faith, predestination and free will, the | plenary inspiration of the Old Testament, eternal punishment and other great religious questions we presume no member of his con- gregation can tell. He avoids the public dis- cussion of these matters, and his opinions of somo of them are only to be impertectly sur- mised from his silence. But he has none the less strongly marked tendencies of thought and feeling. He likes to dwell upon the bright side of religion, the promises which are made to the righteous, the mercy that endures for the sinner, the blissfulness of praise and prayer, and the inexhaustible love of God for the world. He turns away from the contemplation of the anathemas in the Bible ond the ~ pains which | are reserved hereafter for the wicked. Re- ligion to him is always something beautiful and bright; sweet spirit of rest and joy, typified by stars and flowers and birds. When Plymouth pulpit is embowered in roses its pastor could hardly preach upon the text, “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting | fire."’ The devil to him is not the awful per- sonal being that he was to Martin Luther. Mr. Beecher would never throw an inkstand at the devil; he would save the ink to write a charming description of Paradise or Eden. Satan is vague to him; something unpleasant, a being that is supposed to wander on the out- skirts of the congregation, like Moulton, and to be expelled from the church, when he enters, by the imprecations and blows of the faithful, The sermon of Mr. Beecher yesterday had much of this spirit, There was hardly a word | in it that could make the sinner uncomfort- able. The theme is not new, for that tho ideal condition of mankind is perfect unity is | the favorite doctrine of all humanitarians. But Mr. Beecher differs from many of the clergy in his conviction that this perfect brotherhood must not be sought in one Church. As a community is strong not by the similarity of its members but by organized variety, so the Church is strong not by likeness but by differences. Unity of be- lief he holds to be impossible because of the structure of the human mind, but unity of spirit in the bonds of sympathy must be the ultimate end of our aspirations, From this conclusion Mr. Beecher passes on to a characteristic contrast. Conscience he describes as a despot, which seldom smiles | but always frowns; whose duty is not to re- | ward but to punish. But love suffereth long and is inexhaustible in its pity and consola- tion. The sermon must have produced a | strong impression, for at its close Mr. Beecher | without difficulty collected enough money to relieve a widow with five children, whose little farm was ‘burdened with a mortgage she was unable to lift. It will be natural for many who read this sermon to conjecture from it the probability of Mr. Beecher’s innocence. But they will err in so doing. He may believe all that he has said, may have had not a particle of hypoc- risy in his heart or thought, may have done a noble deed in his practical appeal for the poor widow, yet the question of his guilt or innocence in the Tilton matter re- mains unaffected. There seems a certain amount of effrontery in a clergyman preach- ing the Gospel, or what he supposes to be the Gospel, at a time when he is on trial for immorality, and yet we are not sure that Mr. Beecher is entirely to be blamed. He is just what he was two yearsago. If he should de- cline to preach now it would be taken asa confession of guilt, and that he cannot be. expected to make. We publish this sermon,’ therefore, just 3 we have printed Mr. Beecher's sermons years ago. We know he is good preacher, but the public has yet to decide whether he is a good man. If that decision is rendered against him then the question as to whether he should preach will | have a new importance. All men are sinners, it must be admitted; but there are some kinds of sinners who are not to be trusted in the pulpit. Tue Brussets Conrenencs.—The peace council at Brussels has come to an end, but the progress made appears to be slight. Four propositions relative to reprisals made by Russia were rejected by the Congress, but the meeting came toa peaceful ending. Neither the English nor Turkish representatives signed the protocol, and those that did will not respect any more of it than they find con- venient. The great sim of these conferences | seems to be to tie up the hands of the people as much as possible, so that the military bul- lies of Europe may have only the small, regu- lar armies of the free States to deal with. England is not likely to allow herself to be hampered by treaties that may lessen her de- | fensive or offensive power. In this she shows | @ wisdom America might imitate to advan. | tages ‘ trary, the prospects of the fall trade are ex- j they contained of importers, jobbers and Ex-Secretary McCallgch. om the Fi- nances. No matter what may be thought of the theories advanced in the letter of the Hon. Hugh McCulloch, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, which we publish to-day, there can be butone opinion of the clearness with which they are stated. A clear statement is generally a correct one, and this is an advantage which Mr. McCulloch has over his opponents in financial matters, for we have yet to read an argument in favor of the inflation of the cur- rency that was not in some of its essential parts obscure. But the letter of this dis- tinguished financier cannot be misunder- stood, except by those who are resolved upon misrepresenting. The opinions of Mr. MoCulloch upon the currency question are well known, it is true, yet their utterance now is timely. The ques- tion is not sectional, as it was feared it would become, nor will it dominate politics, yet it mustenter largely into the present Congres- sional canvass. Especially in the West this will be the case, where the inflationists are still busy, and not ready to despair because they have utterly failed to array the Western States against the Eastern. They will in certain districts make the main issue a financial one, and Mr. McCulloch’s splendid appeal to the honesty and practicul business intelligence of the American people ought to hayo 4 | good effect upon their votes. He has given strong reasons for his belief that ‘the restoration of the specie standard should be the end and aim of all legislation bearing upon the subject of the currency,” and that to expand our irredeemable paper would be only to extend our misfortunes. His plan for resumption does not differ in its impor- tant features from that recommended by the President. He would fix December, 1876, as the time after which United States notes: should cease to be a legal tender; he would retire at least fifty million dollars of United States notes per annum until all should be retired, and prohibit their reissue; he would issue an equal amount, if required, to na- tional banks, and after the specie standard has been established by these means he would make banking free. These we believe to be the best and quickest methods of obtaining ® paper circulation that shell be to the full value of its promises convertible into gold or silver. If there isa better way than that of the withdrawal of the legal tenders it has not yet been found. Of the proposition of the Democratic Convention of | Indiana to pay the five-twenty bonds in depre~ ciated greenbacks Mr. McCulloch speaks in fitting terms, and shows how falsely the law ; under which they were issued has been inter- preted by these financiers of the prairies. ‘To repudiate all these promises now,” the ex-Sec- retary emphatically says, ‘‘the people of the United States would reach a depth of degrada- tion and dishonor to which no nation has yet descended."’ Happily, there is no danger of such an act of suicide. Repudiation is by both political parties repudiated. Even the Indiana Convention passed its resolution for the payment of the bonds in greenbacks be- cause it was ignorant of what it was doing. | The views of Mr. McCulloch upon the tariff are given with considerable fulness, and, of course, incline to free trade—toward “‘a tariff in which revenue should be the object and not the-incident.’’ But that which gives to his letter its greatest value is the positive, manly manner in which he has advocated sound measures for the speedy resumption of specie payments and for free banking, and the power- ful arguments with which he has demolished the theory that inflation can create wealth and prosperity, and, in his own words, proved that “the value of property is not dependent upon a fiction.” | The Fall Trade. The panic of last year so deeply disturbed the condition of the country and was made re- markable by the fall of so many great houses that its importance has been unconsciously exaggerated. It was a sensational panic, and ite events were dramatic. Buta corresponding depression of the commercial interests has not followed. The fears that were felt by j many of our merchants that this fall would find their stores full of goods but empty of buyers have not been realized. On the con- ! 1 cellent, and all the indications are of a season ot usual prosperity. The report elsewhere ot | the impressions of leading merchants in the principal branches of trade shows that con- fidence is the prevailing feeling, and that for ary goods, grain, produce, lumber, groceries, &c., large orders have already been reccived from the West and South. That there will be economy this season in all parts of the coun- try is generally believed; but we have yet to learn that extravagance is ever a benefit, even to those who seem to directly profit by its follies. In the end it is sure to injure both | the buyer and seller, and if the people are disposed to be economical now we shall not doubt that the season will be intrinsically prosperous, and that the losses which always must result from an extended credit will this year fall below the average. A sound indication of the prosperity of the season, and one whith has never yet failed, is found in the columns of the Henatp, Yesterday the number of advertisements tradesmen in all branches of business was almost unprecedented for the time of the yeor. It seldom happens that in August—be- fore the summer holidays are ended—business activity is so generally resumed. There could be no more encouraging sign than the eager- ness of merchants to advertise their goods, It is to the fall trade what the return of the swallows is to the spring. Tue Prestpent’s Pronmacr.—The Presi- dent ig apparently enjoying a season of quiet, old-fashfened pleasure while pursuing his | short Eastern tour. He has gone into the very paradise of radicals of the old-time school, and such simple but earnest welcomes as he has encountered from the common | people must reassure his spirit, if the | discussion of the third term question has’ se- | cretly inflicted upon it annoyance or uneasi- ness. It would bea brilliant and potent stroke of policy for any popular leader who wished to perpetuate or extend his power to bind to his interests through vanity, pride and fraternity of feeling a great religious organization whose influence is almost un- measured. The part which the Church so long played in politios might thus be revived. | ( | | L | tion of the verb ‘‘to damn.” in a modified form, even in our wonderful, free Republic. Pulpit Discourses Yesterday. The most plausible objection we have ever heard made to our custom of publishing on Monday full reports of the sermons preached on Sunday is that it tends to keep people from church. It is argued that the man who ™may read fourteen sermons is likely to dispense with listening to one, But this is a fallacy. Quite the con- trary is the effect; for the reader of a fine sermon by Dr. Tyng, Dr. McGlynn, Dr. Deems or any of our eminent divines, will naturally desire to hear its author. Thus the Hzraxp does not attempt to supplant the pulpit in the estimation of the religious pab- lic, as superficial minds have supposed, but rather aims to uphold the pulpit. Besides, no man can attend fourteen churches in one day, and our purpose is to concentrate the eloquent preaching of the whole city, and thus to add to its influence upon the public. This is signally the case to-day, when we have the pleasure of publishing the remarks of eminent clergymen of nearly all of the principal denominations. There is Rey. Frank Hallam, of Georgia, who gives his’ views upon the future of the Episcopal Church in the United States; the Rev. Dr. Tyng and Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, the Rev. Eugene Cassidy, the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the Rev. Dr. Hurst, the Rev. Dr. Cornell, the Rev. Dr. Deems, the Rev. Dr. Lockwood, Dr. Robinson at Plymouth church, and others. Here is surely a galaxy of illustrious names, such as, perhaps no other city than New York could group together on one Sabbath. Most of these sermons are upon Christian doctrines and duties, but two clergymen deal directly with the great scandal of the day. The Rev. Mr. Hageman compares Mr. Beecher with Abelard in all but guilt, and expresses unqualified faith in his innocence. The Rev. Mr. G. 0. Ezra, who is also an editor, goes further, and likens Mr. Beecher in his despondency to the prophet Elijah when he prayed that the Lord would take away his life. And like the prophet, Mr. Ezra thinks, Mr. Beecher will return from the wilderness, stronger for his trials and with renewed zeal and usefulness. Wz Wovr Arorocize for spelling ‘the | noun “‘hell’’ in full instead of giving it deli- cately, as “h—Ill.’’ But as it is considered proper for Christians to say ‘‘hell’’ we do not | know why we should not print it ‘‘thell.”” The new Christian vocabulary at Plymouth might even justify the members in a new conjuga- Thus: — We damn Motiton. ‘Thou damnest. You damu Moulton. Moulton is damned, Moulton damns us. Altogether these words seem to be getting quite popular in Brooklyn. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. + A Japanese Punch nas just been started. In Ceylon they found a mushroom six feet in cire cumference. Bishop John F. Young, of Florida, is residing at the Coleman House. ul Have Mr. Bowen’s chestnuts been suficiently taken out of the fire? General E. F, Winslow, of St, Louts, is sojourning atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Mist, of the British Navy, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. How bitterly Beecher must cry out to himself, “Save me from my friends!’? Mr. Eawin L. Stanton, of Washington, ts among the recent arrivals at the Gilsey House. The man who drew the plan for the elevation of the new Post Office didn’t fnow when to stop. A bronze statue of the late Lord Palmerston is shortly to be unvelled in Parliament square, bon- don, Dr. Anthony Ruppaner arrived yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Europe, per steamship City of Richmond. Eleven Jurisconsuits, designated by the German imperial government to prepare a civil code, have accepted the duty. The Sultan of Turkey has conferred the insignia of the Order of the Osmanic, in brilliants, upon the mother of the Khédive, Beecher probably believes that Moulton Is the only man in his congregation possessed of the spirit of downright manhood. Mr. Charles F. Conant. As! i damn. tant Secretary of | the Treasury, arrived in the city yesterday and is staying at the Piftn Avenue Hotel. In the Bohmerwold, in Bohemia, not less than 100,000 acres cf very valuable wood nave been destroyed by the ravages of a boring worm. Dr. Linderman, Director of the Mint, contem- plates visiting the Pacific Coast in about six weeks, on business connected with the mints, Above all the applause of the Plymouth congre- gation somebody heard the hollow. mocking, ter- | Tible laugh of Mephistophiles, What a joke for him! M. Tisserand left to the city of Paris 2,000,000 francs on the condition that the authorities build in a specified neighborhood an asylum for aged persons. “We believe we can affirm,” says the Constttu- ttonnel, “that the French government has no thought of demanding the extradition of Marshal Bazaine.”” “Can you do the Landlord in the ‘Lady of Lyons ? said a manager to a seedy actor, “I should think 1 might,” was the answer, “I have done a great many landlords.” The Austrians say that the reason Kallman fired at Bismarck’s face is that the Prince ts known to wear a shirt of mali on his body, with. out which, indeed, he would have been killed by young Blind. Some German workmen have written to Bis- marck that for every bullet shot at him which misses him they will kill a Roman Catholio bishop; for every one that hits him two bishops; while if he {s kilied they will kill the Pope. It tg ramored 10 Europe that one of the motives of the German Intervention in Spain ts that Ger- many wishes to reopen to Herr Krupp, the gune Maker, a famous tron mine tn Spain, access to which is closed because the district in which It ts situated is held by the Carlists, ? Mr. Hepworth Dixon ts spending some weeks im Germany previous to his American journey, study- ing the latest facts of those current politics on which he has been invited Co lecture in the United States, Mr. Dixon will open in New York with two discourses, “The New German Empire! ana “Russia Under Emancipation.” Twenty iashes with the ‘cat’? were given in Nottingham Prison s few days since to aman named Burrows, who has been convicted torty | two times.pf various offences, and was again sen- tenced to seven years’ pena! servitude and a» fogging for a highway robbery. The prisoner fainted when the punisnment was finished, Mr. Stanton, who backed himself to ride from Bath to London on nis bicycle tn eight hours and & half, won his wager on August 17, accomplishing the 106 miles in two minntes under the time. The jast part of the journey was performed under great difficulties. Through an accident hts iefe arm and shoulder were disabled, ana for the last twenty-six miles he could only use his nght ‘hand. Recently @ swimming match was arranged to take place at Eastbourne, England, between a (sherman and a mastif dog. But there was no race, because the dog, once in the water with the man, Supposed his duty there was to save the ist- ter’s life, and persisted in his endeavors to keep the man afoat by thrusting nis head ander his op ONANWA chit, iy