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Tue Cxaracter of the portions of Spain held by the Carlist troops, the manner in which they collect duties on commerce, the feeling of the soldiers and the people, the strange and picturesque experiences of a cor- respondent in the wild regions of Biscay, form the principal subjects af our letter from Estella to-day. The account shows that Don Carlos is still copfdent of suecess, and that the condition. of his army is excellent. Mrz. Bercu preached his farewell sermon to ! his Twin Mountain congregation yesterday, and took occasion to explain why he had avoided doctrinal points in his recent addresses. His sermon deals with ideal manhood, and, as usual, deprecates the excitements which were of old considered indispensable to con- version, and advoc: toleration and charity, On Tuesday cher is to address an agri- Tur Pecctian Doctrines of Mrs. Woodhull are to have a practical trial in a new free love society which is to be established on the Island of Valeour, in Lake Champlain. Our correspondent at Winooski, Vt., who has talked with the manazers of the association, gives a full account of the enterprise. There appears to be, however, some financial trouble, which may end in disaster to the tree and save the island from th ecration of such an experiment. lovers Tur New York Przots.—U pon the capacity, the fidelity and the zeal of the New York pilots depend not only the safety of millions of doilars, but also the good condition of our harbor. The character and Rabits of these remarkable zen and the laws under which they engage in such perilous and responsible service are described in an interesting article to-day, Their life is a ragged romance of the sea, and yet its thrilling events are scarcely known to the public. Mr. Avexanper A. Srernens, in his conver- | sation reported to-day by our correspondent at | Greensborough, Ga., has expressed views which will in great part receive the approval of good | citizens everywhere. He is opposed to the | appeals to passion made by somo of the | Southern papers, and denies that they express | the feelings of the people. One point which he makes is expressed with unusual terseness, | viz.:—That the South does not want recon- | struction, but restoration. This is what the | whole nation is beginning to believe. The | 4 Civil Rights bill Mr. Stephens holds to be a | shape of re-election such as has been given to | invitation, and a better plan for advancing principal cause of the present excit tion of the Southern States ed condi | \ | India or the bandits of Greece. The Lesson of Louisiana—Justice to the South Will Give Peace and Reconstruction. General Butler and Senator Morton have given us their views upon events in Louisi- ana, and respectful attention. They are represen- tative men in the republican party. To that party we must look for immediate justice to Louisiana and the South. They give us an idea of what its extreme thinkers will be apt to advise as a further measure of reconstruc- tion. It may be useful for us to consider how adequate their advice may be for the peace and reconstruction of the South. In the light of this advice we may consider the proposition that seems to be acceptable to the country, that Kellogg and his concern should resign and permit an honest election. According to Senator Morton the whole difficulty in the South arises from the ‘conduct | of the enemies of reconstruction,’’ ‘‘not be- cause of any intrinsic defects in the system.’’ Reconstruction is resisted *‘because of oppo- tion to the abolition of slavery and. the ele- | vation of the negroes to civil and political rights.” There has been ‘a high carnival of crime” in the South for the past two months. This ‘carnival’ has not become known to the Northern people, and has even escaped the daring and almost omnipotent omniscience of the press. This is because the news agents of the press are either ‘‘democrats”’ or “‘sym- pathizers with these crimes—sometimes par- ticipators."" There has been no ‘war of races," simply a war against ‘republicans of the South, black and white,’’ meaning to ‘‘re- duce the negroes as nearly as possible to slaves."" The McEnery movement ‘was of the nature of a Mexican pronunciamento.” And there would be no reconstruction until we had a cessation of murder. General Butler, in an interview accorded to our corre- spondent, which appeared in yesterday's Henatp, speaks of ‘information which he had received two weeks ago” to the effect ‘‘that even then there was a rebellion all | over ihe State, and Kellogg’s government was /as good as overthrown. makes the significant admission that the Kel- | | logg party “have no rights whatever by law, | tor we have no evidence that there has even General Butler been an actual election according to the pro- visions of the constitution.’’ He does not ) think that General Grant has any right to say | “whether Kellogg or McEnery shall assume to be Governor.'’ ‘The people,’’ he says, “must, sooner or later, decide in the manner of an election.” In other words, General Butler sees in the present condition of Louisi- ana something more than a ‘Mexican pro- nunciamento’’ or ‘a high carnival of crime,” | and the logic of his argument is that Kellogg, | as in no way representative or legal, should retire his ‘government’’ and permit a free | expression of the people's will. The fact that these two gifted men, each high in the confidence and authority of the republican party, and belonging to its extreme shade of policy, should differ so widely upon | Church annals \ a question like that of Louisiana, shows that the republican party does not comprehend the duties and the perils of reconstruction. Sen- | | ator Morton simply appeals to the ignorant | passions of the war, madly invoking the spirit of rapine, with which we became so familiar during the dreadful days of strife. There are none so blind as they who will close their eyes and not see. But it is mournful to find a statesman as ential as Senator Morton deliberately | ignoring the actual state of affairs in Louisi- | ana and speaking of the McEnery movement as though it were the work of the Thugs of This is sim- ply demagoguery, passion, ill-considered in- vective. The McEnery movement, illegal as it was in every way, and introducing as it did into our republican government that appeal from the ballot to the barricades which has been the dismay and misfortune of democracy in France, was nevertheless the protest of a | people against misgovernment and tyranny— a brave, temperate, wisely handled protest, and none the less worthy of our wise consid- eration because it assumed the phases of revo- | lution. General Butler reaches the heart of the matter when he says that the Kellogg govern- | ment has no actual, legitimate authority. | Practically he agrees with the solution ad- vanced by the Heraup that peace can come | | by the resignation of the rival factions and | the submission ot the question to the will of | the people of Louisiana. This admission | | from a man disposed to immoderate and | unusual views of public affairs is of the gravest importance in the controversy. If | | Governor Kellogg has no actual authority in | | Louisiana, and will not yield to the démand that he should retire and ask a new expres- | sion from the people, should not the Presi- | dent undo the wrong which he, and he alone, | committed when he forced the contrivance | called the Kellogg administration upon that | State? The proposition to submit the whole | question to a vote by the people 1s, as our | readers will remember, identical with the | proposition accepted by McEnery in a letter | from New Orleans we printed on Friday. We therefore find Mr. McEnery, who | represents the people of Louisiana, and who | | is certainly supported by all that remains of Confederate sentiment in that State, and Gen- | eral Butler, who is the extreme of the extreme | among radical prophets, standing on the same ground. Surely the platform, which is broad | enough to sustain General Butler and Mr. Me- | Enery, the conqueror of New Orleans and the first successful insurgent since the surren- der of Lee, should have room enough for General Grant. It is not possible that General Grant can continue in the degrading alliance he has accepted and welcomed, with Kellogg in Louisiana and Kelloggism throughout the South. He must see that public opinion, even as represented by Senator Carpenter and Gen- eral Butler, condemns his policy as regards the South. He must see that honest men through the North, without distinction of party, regard it as an idle, frivolous, corrupt and barren policy, resulting thus far in scan- | dal and bloodshed, and threateniog measure- less calamities in the future. The nation expects from the President a manly and magnanimons course. have never been disposed to visit harshly upon the President any of his shortcomings. It followed four years of administration marked with many errors by an indorsement in the no President since Washington, This was because the country believed that behind What they say is worthy of patient | influ- | This people | his tendency to error was the soldier's honest sincerity of purpose to maintain the right. If General Grant would not forfeit this esteem, and he bears nothing riper in the full sheaves of his fame, let Lim be just to Louisiana. Let him be just to the South. Let him remember the burdens that rest upon that people—burdens which even under the brightest auspices make re- construction a sad and weary labor. Let him give the freeman of Louisiana & freeman’s right in the choice of his rulers. And having done this let him throw the weight of his office and his name in favor of a national convention of peace and recon- struction, representing all the States, to assemble in our centennial year, to consider the grave and burning problems resulting | from the war, which have brought us scandals in Louisiana, that may to-morrow bring us scandals in Wisconsin, California and Massa- chusetts—problems of reconstruction, rights of labor, race, railway and class monopolies, State rights and finance. We cannot ignore these problems. We cannot settle them by the sword. The revolution in Louisiana is only a despairing prayer for their settlement. Public opinion points the way, and it is for the President to lead it. { The Murder of the Innocents. The fuller accounts of the Fall River disas- ter, though they show that the loss of life was not as great as was at first feared, must in- crease the pity and indignation ot the public. The details of the agony in the mill, the leaping of the children from the windows, others suf- focated in smoke and burned beyond recogni- tion, form a picture of horror upon which it is not wise to let the imagination dwell. In all of the Fall River churches yesterday sermons were preached upon the calamity, and what spiritual consolation could do for the sur- vivors was done with tender sympathy. ‘The civil authorities have also given all possible aid to the sufferers and the families who have been bereaved. The story of Matthew Dillon who first dis- covered the fire, shows that the managers and owners of the mill are to a great extent re- sponsible for the result. Fires, it appears, | are not uncommon, and are pro- | duced by the fricdon of the belting {amid so much oil and inflammable’ | material. There was no water to quench | the flames, and they spread through the room | with extreme rapidity. In a few moments escape from the upper story was cut | off, and then the panic followed. This | | testimony, to the effect that proper provision | | for extinguishing fires was not made, is of the | utmost importance, and the Coroner's in- | quest, which is to be held to-day, should leave | | nothing undone to discover the whole truth. | It is time that somebody should be made an } example of. | Two Important Religious Gatherings. Next month will be remarkable in for two important reli- | | gious gatherings that will take place—one in this city and the other in Brooklyn. The | Triennial Convention of the Protestant Epis- copal Church will assemble here on the 7th prox. It will bring together between forty | and fifty bishops who will have a constitu- | | tional voice in the House of Bishops, and a | | few others who will not, together with a large | | delegation of clerics and laymen from all parts | of the country. The wisdom and prudence of this body will be put to the test as never | before in the history of this Church; for | there is upon it at present a crisis such as | has never overtaken it, and the least devia- tion or turning aside from the old paths and exact truth will necessarily prove disastrous | to the body. Any perceptible leaning | ; toward ritualism will give offence to | and probably drive out of the fold | a large army of low churchmen who sympathize with Bishop Cummins and | his Reformed Church; while, on the other | hand, should the Convention seek to placate the radicals by a sturdy opposition to the High Church party, it will hasten the march of that party toward Rome. This is the dilemma in which the Episcopal Convention, _ for the first time in its history, tinds itself. The importance of its position is apparent, and we can only hope that its wisdom and prudence may be equal to the occasion. But, whether intentionally or not, it must be some- what embarrassed by the meeting of the Church Congress in this city about the same time. The leaders in this movement dis- claim any idea or attempt to influence the ac- | tion of the Convention in any matter; but it must necessarily exercise an influence over it for weal or woe; and the more so since the bishops have not given it countenance and the promoters of the Congress will gather here in defianze of their authority and protest. If, as Dr. Rylance declares, they meet to dis- cuss the relation of capital and labor, they could do that at any other time as well, and perhaps better a little later. Neverthe- less, they have a right to meet and to dis- cuss any subject that may come before them, whether it affects the Convention or not ; | and this they will do. The gathering of Baptists in Brooklyn next month will be important also. At the last | meeting of the Long Island Association an effort was made to drive out Lee Avenue church and its pastor because of their open communion sentiments. But better counsels prevailed. This effort may be renewed next | month, and, perhaps, with success, though we doubt it. The party opposed to this church | have lately taken advice of friends in this city, who bave counselled liberty of opinion and liberality of treatment, and this may be their policy. Any attempt now to proscribe open communion sentiments would drive outa very large party from the Baptist Church and add to | our already large list of petty sects, It is said that opposition is to be made to the admission | of Marcy Avenue Baptist church into the Asso- | ciation on account of the liberal views and ten- dencies of its pastor, Dr. Jeffrey, on the com- munion question, The day for repressive measures in any and every church has passed, and what cannot now be accomplished by | | kindness persecution will fail to do, Toe Women's Temperance Unton held a meeting last evening in this city, at which a proposal was made that the praying movement | of the West should be adopted by the ladies present. Only six, however, responded to the the cause was adopted. Praying in private is more efficient than praying in barroomm Keelesiastical Discipline of the Con- gregationslists. The revolting clerical scandal which has filled so much space in the newspapers is n0 longer a fit subject of popular discussion as a question of personal guilt or innocence. Leaving that to be settled by the proper tri- bunals, the bungling and evasive way in which the church investigation was conducted suggests a topic of great interest to the relig- ious community, and especially to the re- spectable Christian denomination with which the Plymouth church is ranked. It is impos- sible to suppose that a communion of so much social respectability, moral worth and real piety will leave this deplorable affair in its present state without formal ecclesiastical action. Ifthe Plymouth church investigation is in accordance with the usages and discipline of the denomination there is evident need of a great work of revision. If the Plymouth method of dealing with this case is irregular and in violation of denominational usage, the denomination needs to vindicate its character by proper inquiry and a public rebuke in the most solemn and authoritative form permitted by its modes of procednre. Mr. Beecher’s ecclesiastical rola- tions as a Congregational minister ought to be reviewed and passed upon by those possessing competent authority. He did not ordain him- self as a minister; he was ordained by others in accordance with the rules of the denom- ination. There must be authority somewhere to revoke his commission and degrade him from the ministry, and, as preliminary to this, a right to put him on trial and to constitute an ecclesiastical tribunal for that purpose. This authority, as we understand, is a council of | ministers called for that purpose. Of course the great body of Congregational ministers are never going to accept the verdict of the Plymouth Committee without further investigation. A person under indictment might be perfectly sure of gequittal if he were permitted to go among the people of the vi- cinage and pick out his own jury, to have able counsel for himself but no attorney for the prosecution, and no witnesses against him but such as bis friends were pleased to sum- mon. This is, perhaps, a somewhat overdrawn parallel, and we will substitute one which tallies perfectly in all its parts, When the | Tammany Ring was pushed to the last extrem- | ity by the publication of the accusing figures from the Comptroller's books it hit upon the same exculpatory expedient which has since been adopted by Mr. Beecher—that is to say, the selection of a committee of the highest respectability to investigate the truth of the accusations. We will not recite the names of that famous committee, for they | have no reason to be proud of their exploit. | They were gentlemen of the most eminent financial and social standing that could be culled from the old residents and highest | business circles of New York, men whose in- | | tegrity was above suspicion and whose pe: etration was reputed to be of the highest or- der. They spent several days in their exami- nation. Finance Department were put freely at their disposal, with the assistance of the Comptrol- Jer and his subordinates to furnish explana- | tions. The result was as rosy and satisfactory as the verdict of the Brooklyn committee. Those highly respectable gentlemen, so expe- rienced in matters of finance, signed and pub- lished a report or certificate stating that the Comptroller's accounts were honestly kept and lin a perfectly satis‘actory state. We recall this curious piece of municipal history to show how utterly delusive an investiga- tion may be when conducted by a committee selected by accused par- ties and to whom nobody else has free access during the progress of their inquiry. The personal respectability of the gentlemen so appointed cannot for any length of time shield guilt from exposure or allay public suspicion, The pursuit of the Tammany Ring went on in spite of that certificate of innocence, resulting soon after in a ruinous explosion, which brought out all the facts. Mr. Beecher followed an ominous precedent, but we should be glod to see grounds for believ- ing that he is not destined to be overtaken by a similar ruin. The Congregational denomination evince dignity and prudence in delaying ecclesiasti- cal action until the current tide of scandal shall have run past. It is possible that the courts of justice may relieve them of the most | difficult and repulsive part of their labor, and the prospect of a legal trial is a good reason why the denomination should wait until all the facts have been elicited. But even ifa court of justice should satisfy the public of Mr. Beecher's innocence there will still remain a necessity for revising the dis- cipline of the Congregational denomination. Whether an approximation to the Presby- terian form of church government would be advisable for the Congregationalists is of course a question for themselves to decide. The weakness of their discipline was signally illustrated last winter when a council was called for inquiring into the lax practices of Plymouth church in permitting an accused member to withdraw without trial or censure. The ostensible object of that council was to investigate the case of Mr. Tilton, accused of slander. Its real object was to bring in, under cover of the slander case, the conduct of Mr. Beecher, which had long been assailed by damaging rumors. But the council was bade, almost in so many words, to mind its own business, and that body of eminent ministers, assembled from all parts of the United States, was not strong enough to pun- ish such contumacy. Their labors terminated in a mild and feeble censure, and they sepa- rated, retaining in full fellowship a church whose pastor was covered with aspersions into whose truth they were not permitted to in- quire in their organized ecclesiastical capacity, although that was the real business for which they had come together. The Congregational ministry cannot avoid assembling again in relation to this dreadful case, and if they find | their powers insufficient to deal with it as the credit of the denomination and the purity of Christian morals require they ought to begin a movement for strengthening ecclesiastical authority in their important communion, Tue Froatixe Hosprran will to-morrow make its eighteenth excursion, and additional contributions are reported in our columns to- day, But more money is needed to carry out the benevolent purposes of St. John’s Guild, and it is to be hoped that our citizens will re- spond promptly. All the books and accounts of the | | to thrilling conversations concerning subjects i | singular that people The Late Lake Storm and Weather Intelligence. The lake storm which has just passed over the northern portion of the country seems to have been the inaugural of the regular autum- nal gales, which chase each other in fierce and rapid succession at this season. In its ample sweep it has doubtless watered the region ex- tending from Kansas northeastward to the New England coast, extinguishing the forest fires and quenching the thirst of the parched soil. It was announced in the telegraphic reports of Friday as then present in Kansas, and the lake ports were in receipt of timely warning to no- tify shippers and seamen. The arrival of the equinox calls for special care and cautious attention to the weather warnings by those responsible for the life and property embarked on the lakes and sea coast. Woe are apt to undervalue what we have freely furnished to us every dey, and the storm fore- casts are not an exception to this remark. On the other side of the Atlantic public at- tention has recently been called to the utility of the American weather reports by Mr. Rich- ard H. Proctor, the well-known astronomer. In a late communication to the London Times this scientist speaks in high terms of the suc- cess of the United States weather predictions, and states, from his own observation, while making his extensive lecturing tour in this country, that the announcements were ‘‘singu- larly accurate.” During three months of al- most incessant travel, in which he scanned the press reports with considerable personal inter- est, he can remember, he says, only two occa- sions in which the announcements were not justified; and, consequently, he urges on his the | countrymen the résiinptign of similar fore- casts, which, since Admiral Fitzroy’s death, had been discontinued in Great Britain. This testimony from a foreigner should have its weight with our own seamen in stim- ulating them to greater diligence in studying the weather reports, now so necessary for safe navigation in the stormy period which has set in, The French and American Theatres. The influence of Camille” is still felt in French drawatic literature, as will be, clearly seen in the letter from Paris which we pub- lish to-day, descriptive of the latest plays. It is difficult to find a new drama which does not deal with those evils which are usually forbidden topics in respectable society. M. Louis Leroy, in “La Chute,’’ has “much of sorrow and more of sin, and horror the soul of the plot,’’ and these phases of adultery are not made less disagreeable b; the reconciliation of the husband and eo just before the curtain falls. Mme. Louis Figuicr contributes a sensational play entitled “L’Enfant,’’ which is of the same nature as “La Caute,” only a little more tragic and illogical. The particular importance of such dramas to the American public is that if they succeed in Paris they are certain to be brought out in our large cities. It is will sit coolly in a theatre and observe actions and listen which they are bound not to discuss in their parlors. When clergymen go to Puris they do not consider it unclerical or improper to go to Mabille to see the cancan, but we do not wish our theatres to become similar places of in- this dulgence. A startling example of tendency to look upon stage morality as something entirely distinct from social mo- tality was lately furnished duction of ‘La ‘Timbale d’Argent’”’ the opéra bouffe Ladies and gentlemen were invited in this piece to look upon inde- cencies of plot and action which no person could refer to in a drawing room in the pro- without risking the danger of being put out of the window or kicked into the street. For- tunately, the good sense of the management caused its withdrawal after the press had pro- tested against the outrage on good so- ciety. But did good society protest suf- ficiently? We think not. It is an affectation, | which is becoming a dangerous hypocrisy, to consider indecency in public amusement harmless, while in private life it would not be tolerated for a moment. Society cannot | successfully make these delicate distinctions; if it encourages and sustains vulgarity in art it will suffer trom it in reality. The Sermons of Yesterday. There is considerable variety in the ser- mons we print to-day, and nearly all grades of intellect are represented, for clergymen are not always equally eminent either in ability or education. One of the most thoughttul of the arguments is that of the Rev. Robert | Collyer, of Chicago, who preached upon ‘the Church of the Living God.” His purpose was to show the distinction between religion and religious systems, taking the broad catholic ground that forms of worship were one thing, but religious trust quite another, and that ordinances and doctrines long held sacred might be altered or even destroyed, but that the religion of God would survive. Science Mr. Collyer spoke of as the younger sister of religion, and he affirmed that the | two could not be enemies, coming from the Divine source and being engaged common work of light. An eloquent sermon, treating of an entirely different subject, was delivered at St. Stephen’s church by the Rev. | Father Patterson, of Dublin. His theme was the inexhaustible influence of Mary with her Divine Son, and this favorite doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church was ably expounded , and with a wealth of historical illustration. Going to the opposite extreme of belief we find the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage’s sermon based on the miraculous feeding of the Israel- ites in the desert by manna. In his peculiar phraseology he tells us that manna was sup- plied from the ‘heavenly bakeries,’ and he | argues that if the Jews had not got it “there | would have been a long lino of dead children, women and men buried in the sand.” He points out with acuteness that it was nothing to them that “there was corn in Canaan or plenty of meat in Egypt. | What they wanted was something to eat right there.”’ need of the right kind of ‘soul food” or “porridge,’’ which he denies to be the ‘‘tele- scopes, crucibles and protoplasms of the ine fidel scientists.’’ He has been investigating what these men have been doing, and is con- vinced that ‘it means that they want to kill God," and his ‘only wonder is that God has not killed them.”’ It will be interesting to compare this argument of Mr. Talmage with that of Dr, Collyer, the Rev, Dr. Rylance, at in a; From these premises he shows the | the Rev. Mr, Frothingham, Rev. D. D. Miner, Rey. Father Macdonald, the Rev. Dr. Holme, Dr. Quint, Dr. Conrad, Rev. Mr. W. HL Thomas and other distinguished clergymen. It is only by such comparisons that the great differences of thought and feeling in the modern religious world can be appreciated, The Religious Press on Scandal, Sef- ence, Politics, Religion and Educa- tion, Onur religious exchanges have of late hardly time to complete a review of one ‘‘statement’” concerning the Plymouth scandal ere another one, fresh from some morbid brain, makes its appearance. Hence, while the Christian Union, the Eraminer and Chronicle and the Christian Leader of this week were discussing Mr. Moul- ton’s latest addition to the scandal literature, Mr. Tilton has given them another morceau for next week’s editions, The first named pre- sents in striking contrast Mr. Beecher and Mr. Moulton as two very unlike men. It quotes Moulton’s own words from the state- ment which he pretends to have drawn up for, Mr. Beecher, and in which the Plymouth pastor is made to say, “I have committed no crime,"’ whereas Mr. Moulton know that. Beecher was au adulturer, Again Mr. Beecher is represented as drawing up a paper in which’ he denied all guilt and with.which Moulton declares he ‘‘was very much pleased.” ‘The Union sees no reason to suppose that Mr. Moulton ever tried to tell the truth in this matter, and it judges him to be utterly in- capable of understanding the truth. It thinks Mr. Beecher's efforts to soothe and conciliate” such a man as Tilton was like “‘tryin’ squirt- guns on the internal pit.’’ But while it con- demns Mr. Beecher’s judgment in thus trying to repress or suppress a scandal for the sake of others, his efforts in this direction, it says, bespeak a disposition not one jot less noble than his friends have always known his to be. The Union also devotes o couple of columns to Professor Tyndall, and it thinks the Qhris-_ tian Church is falsely alarmed by his address. The Examiner and Chronicle treats Mr. Moul- ton’s statement as if it was confirmation of a guilty secret held by the parties in this con- troversy, and it asks, What was the secret the suppression of which was deemed s0 vital? It will not admit Mr. Beecher’s innocence until it shall be proved in a court of law, and it thinks Mr. Moulton is as worthy of credence as Mr. Beecher. And if the secret ig what Moulton says it is Beecher should get out of Plymouth pulpit and out of Brook. fyn. The Christian Leader, which has from the beginning been the sturdy champion of Mr, Begeher’s innocence, onolyzeg_M Soa slatement, which it declares contains ngt & particle of evidence to support the charge of adultery except what rests ou Moulton’s self- contradicted and doubly blackened word. His statement is puerile, unclean and blas- phemous. It calls Moulton’s attention to Mr. Halliday’s testimony, which he (Moul- | ton) “passes over altogether in silence. The | Leader also fires some hot shot at Professor | Tyndall. It is disappointed with his address. | It is not worthy of him. It is weak, obscure, | vain and boastful. The Leader would rather | know him for an atheist—if such a thing be | veally possible—than suspect that he is a | coward and a hypocrite. The Baptist Weekly has an obituary on | Guizot; the Baptist Union an article on the | attempt to exclude the Lee avenue Baptist | church from the Long Island Association; the | Freeman's Journal a leader on ‘‘Political Prin- ciples in the United States;"’ the Tablet one on “Mary and the Cross.’’ Though in its head- ing Mary comes first yet it declares that after | the cross of Christ in the name of Mary is | the hope of the Church. The Boston Pulot | thinks it is high time that the Irish voters in | America were something more than hewers of | wood and drawers of water to the democratio | party, and that hereafter they must demand | places on State tickets. The Chicago Stand- ard, a stanch aud well conducted Baptist | journal, felicitates itself on having attained sta majorily this week. But, like many young | men and enterprises, it sees its twenty-first year with a heavy burden of debt resting on it and nothing to pay it off with. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General J. E. Wilder, of Tennessee, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. Dr. Daizell, of Shreveport, La., 18 stopping at the New York Hotel. Congressman Hiester Clymer, of Pennsy!vania, ig staying at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. J. K. Emmet, the actor, 1s among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Speaker James G. Blaine and family have apart» ments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, has arrived at the Hoffman House, Commodore T. fi. Patterson, United States Navy, is quartered at the New York Hotel. Madame Natali Testa, of the Strakosch Opera Company, is at the Union Square Hotel. Mr. Bernard Eckelmann, German Consul at Porto Rico, 1s sojourning at the Everett House, Mr. Weston Flint, United States Consul at Chin | Kiang, China, yesterday arrived at tne Hofman House. M. Emile Sauret and Mme. Teresa Carrefia Sauret arrived from Europe in the steamship Calabria yesterday and are at the Everett stouse. That swindling case tried in Paris against a Spanish princess and her American husband, C. A. Perkins, was tor the sum Of 39,000 francs—all for board. In running up such a bill the culprita played on the vanity and credulity of their poor landiady, They entered her house in 1871, paid their bourd for a month and have lived on her ever since, constantly telling of the money they were to get frum the Queen of Spain, &. Previous to the late Duke of Buccleuch quitting | nis princely mansion he had occasion to visit a certain burgh iying some ten or twelve niles ta | the northwest, On this occasion he preferred riding on horsedack, and unattended. He camo to the toligate, “The toll sir, gin ye please” dis Grace immediately pulled up, and While searching for the neeatui to satisfy so just ademand he was | unus accosted by the gatekeeper:—“Heurd ye ony word o’ the Duke comin’ this way the day, siry “Yes,” was tne reply; ‘he will be this way to day.” “Will he be ina coach an’ four, or only im a coach and twa, think ye?” “In all probabihes on horseback,” was the brief rejoinder, “in that case do you think ne wad be offended git Lofered him back the change should he gae mea saxpence ora shilling to pay Wi’ as he passed?’ ‘The Duke stretched forth his hand to receive his balance, and with an arch and know ing look, replied, “fry him, friend, try him," and pocketed the coppers, muttering to himself, “Not to be done in that way."—Court Journal. OBITUARY, James Arthur Dease, Intelligence was received in Cork on the 9th on Septemoer, of the death of James Arthur Dease, who has for a long period taken an active part in public affairs tn Ireland, Mr. Dease was a member of the National board ot Education, and itts ru mored phat Aur, Justice Keowa is to huve tue vacant BED