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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your Hapawp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX, = -No. 265 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. —— FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, at 8P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Miss Fanny Vavenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis James, Charles Master. ROBIN-O¥ HALL, Stxteenth street, between Broadway aad Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, at 6 P.M. ' BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at6 P.M. Dan Bryant METROP! No. 58 Broadway.—Pi TAN THEATRE, wn Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M. 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From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy or clear. Wat Sreezr Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | ket was active and closed strong. Gold, 109} a 1095." ‘Tue Races at Freetwoop Pang YesTerpay ; were decidedly interesting, Gloster winning | the ten thousand dollar race and making fine time, considering the state of the track. George B. Daniels won the second race. Tue Jrish Times has informed its readers | that Mrs. Woodhull leads the free love wing | of Plymouth church. This is only a Hibernian method of expressing a lamentable fact. Tue Money Onver Department of the Post Office is one of the most useful, and the extent | to which it is employed is shown by the fact | that last year nearly $75,000,000 of orders | were issued. Tue Eicureents Excursion of the Floating Hospital took place yesterday, and four hun- | dred and fifty-four invalids enjoyed the trip. Among the affecting incidents of the day was the death of a baby, who was brought on board | in an almost hopeless condition. Women who advertise tor employment ought to be secure from insult, anda step towards | their security has been made by the arrest, of | an Italian who has been sending indecent | answers to advertisements. Cases of the kind are rare, we believe, and the punishment of the scamp will make them rarer still. Tue Govenxment investigating committee | bas begun its labors in New Orleans, but is | anlikely to report anything the newspapers | haye npt already made known. General | Emory bears testimony to the good faith of the surrender of the McEnery party. Tux Pourom—A general order has been issued for the better regulation of the police, One rule is‘for the management of the station honses, and another requires policemen to wear the uniform when not upon duty. As | many of the recent outrages of policemen have + been committed when they were in plain | clothes this change is likely to be a reform, he YTar Parapenpuuays are disturbed by mysterious escape of two prisoners who were accused of robbing the United States of $180,000. These men had been in prison for five or six months and were discharged by an order of Judge Paxson, the order being served between the prison van and the court, con- trary to rule, After this event it was dis- covered that detainers had been lodged against them by the authorities of another city, and it is believed that they owe their liberty to some improper connivance. Tho | Philadelphia papers speak with considerable | ion on the subject, but with more | caution, the State having a libel law which, | except in unusual cases, acts as aa effective muzzle to journalism. For this reason it is | unlikely that the responsibility for the escape of the” prisoners from justice will be fixed npon atly partivular person, especially as the officers of the Court have been acquitted, The Ledger thinks there should have been a full hearing ; but this, upon some technicality, was anual a ae. LA PRINCESSE | | the Hznatp showed when presenting this case | the validity of Kellogg’s election, the Presi- | the United States.” This logic is unanswera- | \,of people could overthrow a government the f the misfortune of democracy in France. We i should fall by a process of disintegration worse | even than secession into anarchy. We should The Problem in Louisiana—Mr. Rev- erdy Johnson's Opinion. We print elsewhere a statesmanlike letter from the venerable and distinguished Reverdy Jobnson, in which he discusses the Louisiana question. In the ancient times the State was well served when the elder men, or the | “‘Alder’-men as they came to be called, were summoned to give counsel in affairs of State. | In the advice of the aged there is safety. Time, experience, opportunity, responsibility ripen the intellect, and teach that calmness which is in many respects the truest states- manship. Reverdy Jchuson is now an old man, long past the time assigned by the | Psalmist as the measure of human life. It is more than fifty years since he entered the + Maryland Senate, and ho may, therefore, be said to have celebrated the golden wedding of his public career. Thirty years ago he was a | Senator in Congress, when Webster, Calhoun, Clay and Crittenden were Senators. A quar- ter of a century since he was a member of a Cabinet in which Clayton and Collamer held seats. Serving the Union, as he did, during the larger part of his life, as the representa- tive of a slave State, he had the felicitous courage to give his earnest support to the Union. We owe to Reverdy Johnson more, perhaps, than to any other citizen of Mary- land the fact that we were enabled to keep | that restless and reluctant State within the limits of the federation. Upon a question like this of Louisiana it is eminently proper that Reverdy Johnson should | | be heard, and at a time especially when, in | the honors we are paying to John A. Dix, | Havemeyer, Tilden, Governor Allen, of Ohio; | Thurlow Weed and other centennial statesmen, we show a disposition to listen to our ‘‘Alder’’- | ; men and not run heedlessly off into wild ways | | of the younger heads, that so often lead to | misery and disappointment, Mr. Johnson, with the calm precision of a lawyer, looks at the Louisiana case from three points of view. | First, he asks, Was the President right in | recognizing the Kellogg government? Second, if he was not, had the people the right to | drive Kellogg from power by force of arms? And, thirdly, has the President the right to " restore Kellogg and the government of which | he is the head? son makes an argument singularly like the view of the case presented by the Heraxp | when the revolution first took place in Louisi- | ‘ana. The President certainly committed an error when he recognized Kellogg as the legit- imate Governor. He apparently adopted this | | course in obedience to a decree of the United States District Court of Louisiana, But, as Me. Johnson shows, the question whether | a State government has been legitimately | established is political, not judicial, and does | not come within the authority of a federal tribunal, the inquiries neces- | sary to establish the claim are of such a character that it must be obvious no federal | court can have appropriate jurisdiction, In the case of Arkansas, where two contestants came to the verge of civil war, the President interfered against Brooks, who claimed the | bffice by virtue of a process of the court, and in behalf of Baxter, who rested his claim solely | npon political grounds. Mr. Johnson cites | the well known decision of Chief Justice | Taney in the ‘Dorr rebellion’ case in Rhode | Island, to which the Heraxp called attention the other day. In this decision, rendered by Chief Justice Taney and unanimously con- | curred in by the Court, it was expressly held | that the inquiry whether a government exists | in any State is political, and not judicial, or, to use the exact language of the Court, the question “belonged to the political power and not to the judicial.’’ In such a decision, as | to the President as a guide of action, the de- | termination of the Executive is conclusive. Therefore, as Mr. Johnson so cogently reasons, | if Judge Durell had no authority to pass upon | dent, likewise, had no authority to accept his “decision” as binding upon his own executive action. The responsibility was the President's in the first place, and he cannot now undo or escape its consequences. The question as to how far the President's | error ia the recognition of Kellogg should | affect his action in dealing with the Pena rev- | olution is answered by Mr. Johnson upon pre- cisely the grounds advanced by the Hznaxp. The Penn party had no right but that of revo- lution. ‘A right of revolution,” as Mr. John- son truly says, ‘can never be supposed to exist under an established government. Such a right, indeed, supposes no existing legal | authority, but asserts itself upon natural and | elementary principles, such as are stated in the Declaration ot Independence.’’ However praiseworthy and undeniable these principles may be, they cannot enter into the sovereignty of the Union. As Mr. Johnson so clearly puts it: ‘Each State is bound to the other States | and to the United States, and the obligation is such that a right by force to change her form of government is not possessed by her, as its exercise might interfere with the relation she bears to her sister States as to the paramount authority of | ble. the As we showed during the progress of | Penn revolution, if any combination legal in form and in the unchallenged exercise | of authority, no matter how grievously it op- | pressed the people, there would be an end of | this Republic. It would be that appeal from | the ballot to the barricade which has been | become, like those Central American or Mexi- can republics, governed by pronunciamen- toes-—volcanic in their formation and con- stantly breaking into fire, flame, smoke and massacre. Mr. Johnson, with duo and marked cour- tesy, disclaims any apprehension that the President can have a personal wish to tyran- nize, or to permit others to tyrannize, over | any State in the Union. ‘His past renown,’’ whicn ne can constitutionally adopt that} The Trae Indian Policy—The Army | President might will dissolve the Kellogg rule. We can understand how, in the event of continual commotion, turmoil, the persecution of the freedmen in the interior parishes of the State, or the manifest inability of the government to exercise its natural necessary functions, the interfere and proclaim martial law. This, however, would be an un- constitutional, and, without extreme cause, an unjustifiable act, akin to President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus in 1861, Mr. Lincoln violated the constitution and incur- red the risk of impeachment, Public danger j demanded his act. Public opinion approved it and Congress sustained him when it came together. But the perils which invited from Mr. Lincoln this arbitrary exercise of power do not exist in Louisiana. The touairy is at peace, and what we 4 must be done within the Government. The Eastern States have ceased to under- stand the Indians, because they have been for many years deprived of their society. They have become greater curiosities than the Chi- nese, who were once marvels but are now commonplace laundrymen; and when a tribe of chiefs, squaws and from the far ue Be ne Poe pests splendid collection the Duke has done a grace- in charge by the government or the Young ; Men's Christian Association and exhibited as a wonderful novelty, An Indian in full cos- tume on Broadway would attract nearly as { much attention as a bull in a china shop, | though he would probably do less damage. Indians, in fact, are more common in the spirit than in the flesh, for no good spiritual Only Effective Agent of the the forms of the constitution. medium would be without some dead chief or medicine man to tell us the secrets of the There is, therefore, no constitutional solu- tion of this problem but that which the Henratp has proposed and which Mr. John- son cordially accepts—namely, the resigna- tion by Kellogg and McEnery and all their subordinates of all power or pretence to power and a new election by the people. “If,"" says Mr. Johnson, with eloquent truth, “they are governed by patriotic motives, and desire to restore tranquillity to their State, | they will not hesitate to take such a step. That Kellogg can desire to retain a position which is so adverge to the feeling of the State, and which it is obvious he would not be able | to hold a day without the aid of federal troops, seems to me to be equally unpatriotic and dis- honorable. But upon such a question the man Kellogg is the judge, and as he may judge it will he meet with the applause or con- demnation of the country.’’ In expressing the country, without distinction of party. Mr. Kellogg and his friends can give no bet- ter evidence of their fealty to the Union, of their patriotic regard for the people of Lou- isiana and their desire for the happiness of all classes, black and white, than to hearken to this appeal from one of the most honored world beyond the grave. Indian of to-day exists for us only by the tele- graph and the correspondent. This actual ignorance of the Indian nature is increased by the traditions we have of the ; great tribes which long ago disappeared. We confound the Indian of to-day with the Indian of the past. Uncas and Mohegan, the chiefs of fact and fiction, are to us the same as Red Cloud, Little Swan, Cochise, Big Bear and other warriors of the prairie. | are, to a great extent, derived from the novels of Cooper and poems hke Campbell's ‘‘Ger- trude of Wyoming.’ man of the West to be noble, chivalrous, hospitable ; something like the Arab of the desert, or the ideal Italian bandit, the romantic | Fra Diavolo of the opera. This is as great But the real living King Philip, Tecumseh, Osceola, Our ideas of the Indian nature We imagine the red these views this venerable statesman gives eng Ore Oat 5 moma p . fe bea voice to the honest conservative sentiment of OS TORR) Dyan anh, COPeN Bl tea bloody, murderous Greek brigands who have made the Plain of Marathon as in- famous in modern times as it is glorious in history. There were two races of Indians when America was first settled, and those of | the East were certainly the far superior. admit the truthfulness of Cooper's novels. We | In discussing these propositions Mr. John-‘ and illustrious of the nation’s ‘‘Alder’’-men. The Republican State Convention. terest. manner a political convention which gives promise of a great row causes the public to prick up its ears with expectation. The Charleston Convention of 1860, which broke up the democratic party, was watched with deep interest, as the recent Convention at Syracuse was in a smaller way. If, as seemed probable last Tuesday, Judge Church had given, if not his consent, his connivance, As a nation is deemed fortunate in periods when its annals are dull, so a political party has reason to congratulate itself when its nominating conventions excite but little in- Wars, revolutions and civil convul- | sions furnish materials to the historian and | impart animation to his pages, and in like There was something noble in the Pequots, the Mohicans and the Lenni Lenapes. And as these historic Indians were cruel in war they were capable of noble actions in peace. Even John Randolph, of Roanoke, one of the proudest of Virginians, boasted of his descent from the Indian Princess, Pocahontas, Cap- tain Rolfe married her and took her to England, but he would probably have made different arrangements had he met one of the dusky heroines of New Mexico or Colo- rado. There are no Indian princesses now ; | there are only squaws. ‘Tho Indians of the Atlantic States seem to have been a race of savages who had honorable traits. They were intellectual, self-respecting and faithful to their pledges. Our forefathers dealt with the Six Nations, whose rule ex- tended from Massachusetts to the lakes, and with the Lenni Lenapes, whose dominion his friends would have presented a strong array and have enlisted most of the unpledged | delegates. Tilden’s opponents failed only because they had no candidate, and atter Church failed them it was too late to extem- porize one on whom they could unite. On | the assembling of the delegates there was un- | certainty enough to excite the kind of interest | which attends a game of chance, and pas- sionate animosity enough to divide the sym- pathies of the spectators. The play did not come up to the promise of the bills, but it reached from the Delaware far beyond the Susquehanna, upon almost equal terms. Treaties were made with great chiefs which | were as often kept as treaties are now in Europe, and the savage was sometimes nobler than the white man. These aboriginal tribes | were far superior to those which now exist. The Six Nations and the Delawares should not | be compared with the Comanches, the Sioux ; and the Pawnees of the Plains. The differ- ences between the Atlantic and what may be kept attention awake till the dénoucment. The Convention which meets at Utica to- morrow will be comparatively flat and tame, the course. cusing in the Utica hotels to-night, no watch- the arriving delegates. So far as relates to the Governorship the Convention will be a erence of the republican voters. The pro- than a ratification meeting. curely packed. didature of Dix. even a show of resistance. pulling clique. Governor Dix. tion of last week. Toe MisER AND TH Queen Victoria a miser. taken the settlement of his debts to the exten of three millions. to the extent of three millions! says the great jurist, “would be nothing to any such motives.” | 2, be, | ground that the President in recognizing the lvenia, Dhara is, thercfora mo act like a race in which only one horse is en- tered and it is known that he will waik over There will be no strenuous cau- ing the trains to see who will first get hold of mere registering body to authenticate the se- lection already made by the spontaneous pref- ceedings will not excite much more interest Nor is this by any means a factitious unanimity or false ap- | pearance of unanimity, like that soretimes produced by an active clique which steals a march on rivals and gets a convention se- The universal agreement to | nominate Dix is a necessity imposed on the delegates by the unconstrained choice of the party. The most powerful republican clique Its leaders would have preferred one of their own confederates, but the will of the people was too manifest for If the Utica Con- vention is a mere registering body its office is to register the well known preference of the republican masses, not the decree of a wire- A great body of soured and disgusted delegates will not return to their homes to render heartless lip service to the ticket. No republican journals will have to face about, as some of the democratic organs have done, and support a nomination which they had publicly deprecated. Unless some wholly unlooked for change should take place in the relations of the republican factions there will be no quarrel to be composed or insults to be pocketed by the supporters of The harmonioas action of the Convention, in obedience to the united wishes of the republican voters, will make the repub- lican canvass an easy launch in smooth water, and present a striking contrast to the Conven- Spenptmnirt.— | Radical agitators in England have reported It appears on the other hand that the Prince of Wales is a spendthrift and that his mother has under- How tortunate for the Prince it is that the Queen can save him even Tre Bartirsa Cuamants under the Treaty of Washington were yesterday paid, through | him if he permitted himself to be governed by | their agents, $1,929,819, in gold, less two and | He then asks how far | a half per cent allowed for expenses, and the | the President can interpose to give relief | country is well pleased that they will get their to the people of Louisiana, He takes the | money. But the claims of American citizens called the Pacific tribes were not merely social, but, to a certain extent, ethnological. The superior tribes are now almost entirely extinct. Thus, as our ideas of the Indian may be said to be derived from Cooper, our Indian policy is derived from Penn. The Quakers of Pennsylvania imagine that they can deal with a Modoc as William Penn did with a | Delaware, and they have tried the experiment out West. But General Canby lost his life in the lava beds, and some of the commissioners Quaker philanthropists not only forget the difference of race, the marked distinction between the Indians of the Alleghany Moun- tains and New England and those of the Plains, but they also fail to consider the influ- ence of time upon the latter. It is nearly three hundred years since William Pena bought an empire for a few beads, and since then the Indians have learned to hate the whites. Persecution, whiskey and war have made them revengeful, treacherous and cruel, is that which centres in the Cus- and Penn’s scalp would be taken by a Pawnee Le Riouses bak s Siese) cee Ess ce now as coolly as a glass of rum. No longer are lifted a finger to promote the can- the friendly counsels of ‘the children of Miquon” listened to by the Indian. He be- lieves in rations and rum, getting drunk all winter and hunting the buffalo and stealing horses in the summer. The forest child of to-day is generally pretty much of a thief and a good deal of a rowdy, and has acquired all the vices of the whites without even one of their virtues. As our conceptions of the In- dian character and our Indian policy are both founded upon traditions, and not upon the facts of the present, it is not surprising that we should have an Indian war every summer, and that the government should spend mill- ions of dollars without any useful results. It is certainly full time for the country to ask William Penn to retire from a task he is unable to perform. He cannot civilize the Indians, and they are simply becoming more The true way for the government to deal with these savages of the Plains is by the army. The army, in fact, is depended upon to manage them in every emergency, and it alone stands between the frontier set- ever the Indians have enough of war they sur- render and make their own terms, They de- mand the protection of peace commissioners t | bounty of the government. As the army is, in fact, responsible for the Indians in time of war, we think it should have the full control of them in peace. It could then maintain by its moral influence the peace it annually has to enforce by arms, instead of seeing all the good it has accomplished undone by divided rule, The army is the only power the Indians know and respect, and it ought to have full control of them, and be held responsible for the result, This is General Sheridan’s idea upon the $15,000,000 awarded by the Geneva | of the true Indian policy, and the sooner the Kellogg contrivance exhausted his jurisdic- arbitrators have not been paid. Atits next | tion over the subject and made it a legal gov- session Congress cannot neglect this act of | ernment, and as much entitled to federal pro- | justice without incurring heavier censure than tection as the government of New York or of | its past quibbling and indifference bave re- ceived from the impartial nublia. country adopts it the better will it be for both the Indians and the whites. Tre Annivat om Amentéa of the well known collection of Syanish paintings belonwing to | hissing with leather and prundla, The narrowly escaped with their scalps. Theso | barbarous under his failure to manage them. | tlers and devastation and death. But when- | and agents, and live on the rations and the | NEW YUKK HEKALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, the Duc do Montpensier is an art event of unusual importance, As will be seen from tho critical review which we publish in another column the works composing it cover the grandest period of Spanish art. Only in o few European galleries could any- thing like the same facilities to study the de- velopment of this remarkable school be en- | joyed as this collection now presents to tho | American public. In consenting to Ican his ful act, which cannot fail to be properly appreciated. Though the collection is not large it is very valuable, and affords students and amateurs ample opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the character- istics of Spanish painting in its various de- velopments. The occasion ought not to be neglected, for it may be long before a similar opportunity will occur again. Boston will enjoy the educational benefits to be derived from the presence of the paintings for one year, and we hope the directors of our Art Museum will take steps to procure for the citizens of New York an opportunity of ex- amining this representative collection of the best Spanish art. The Lesson of the Scandal, The printing of Mr. Tilton’s statement brings to a close what may be called the “Trial by Newspaper” of the present contro- versy. It is nearly four months since Mr. Tilton, by the publication of his letter to Dr. Bacon, began this extraordinary scandal. During these four months the country has suffered from a worse than Egyptian plague. Better that the waters had turned into blood, so that the fishes in the rivers had died; bet- ter the plague of frogs and of flies corrupting the land; better the murrain, the locusts or the horrible darkness; we might even say better that last awful blow which fell upon Pharaoh’s people before they would let God's chosen people go, than this dreadful visitation which for four months has fallen upon the American people. No event of this gene- ration has brought more evil in its train. We can well respect, even if we do not in strict justice approve, of the efforts of men like General Tracy, General Butler, Mr. Kinsella, and even of Mr. Moulton, before the mania for publishing the ill-spelled letters of a foolish old wgman came upon him, to suppress this scandal and prevent all the evil that bas been done to Christianity, public | morality, social order and good faith between | map and man. The scandal remains, although the ‘Trial | by Newspaper’’ ends. We enter upon the un- | certain chances of a trial by jury. What the | result of that trial may be, or whether there will be a trial, which many doubt, it would be vain to speculate. But certain moral | issues have been settled, and upon | these we can dwell now. There is an end | of what may be called the Religion of Gush. For many years Plymouth church, under the | ministrations of a clergyman cf incomparable eloquence, has been worshipping sentiment | rather than revelation, generosity in place of truth, kindness in the place of taith, the elo- quenee of one man, rather than the teachings of the Master, Henry Ward Beecher in the place of Jesus Christ. Religion has not been a matter of discipline or duty, with rewards | and punishments—only a day's picnic in the woods. No matter what deviation from the codes that, written on the tables of stone at | Sinai, have been the granite foundations of | every Christian Church, no matter how far we might stray from these unalterable laws, all was bright on Sunday morning, all our sins were forgotten in the eloquence of Henry Ward Beecher. There was no punishment, no discipline! Life had no necessary duties, Sin as we might, there was always a welcome and a blessing at the altar of Plymouth church. The fruit of this religion may be seen in the men and women who have contributed to this scandal. Mr. Moulton has informed us | that he is a heathen, and we may except him | from any ecclesiastical responsibilities. But what a strange phenomenon is this *‘Christian charity’ of Plymouth church! What tides ot hatred, slander, defamation, have been ever sweeping under the placid surface of | Brooklyn Christianity! Lay aside the su- | preme question at issue and look at the reve- | lations which come to us in side flashes. Bowen on Beecher, Moulton on Eowen, | Moulton on Shearman, Tilton degrading his | wife, defaming Mrs. Beecher and attacking | Kingsley and Kinsella, with the poor old | stricken Mrs. Morse commenting on the whole party and the world in general! This | | sad, stricken old woman comes into the play as a tragi-comic chorus, a kind of Meg Merri- les, evidently insane, but with a capacity for | direct and honest speech. We do not know | but that as a juryman we should accept her as the most credible witness that has ap- peared. Think also of the cruel, infamous | slander on Miss Procter, which makes us | marvel if men have really forgotten their } manhood. Think of the incredible baseness | of dragging Mrs. Beecher into the public prints merely to insult her husband. Then we have the ravens and unclean birds, and base, creeping things, headed by | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who cannot remain | away from the carcass, It isa sad sight to | see these women, some gray in years and with | honored ripening lives, making theinsolves | | carrion birds; such a woman as Mrs. Stan- ton, for instance, apostrophizing the up- roarious Frank Moulton as a Christ, because he went to Plymouth church with a kind of fireman’s instinct fora row, and was satisfied. | | But, after all, it is for the best, Ifthe buzzard | | is a buzzard it is better that we know it before we proceed to do itturkey honors. And it this woman's suffrage movement is really the pre- tence for a war upon every tradition and | teaching that men call holy, upon marriage, | home, virtue—then blessed be the day that | the truth became known! Mrs, Stanton's _ work is atanend. Mrs. Woodhull was right. | She has seen the meaning of the ‘‘reform,” | and is henceforth its true queen and leader. Mrs. Stanton becomes simply a patient, will- | | ing, efficient, we may say officious follower | | of Mrs, Woodhull in the scavenger business | of “suffrage” and “reform.” There is also the end of many things. When Carlyle comes to the close of his French Revolution he makes a grotesque | apostrophe to the destroying angels who brought that terrible catastrophe: ‘‘Im- posture is in flames. Impostmre is burnt up.’ ‘Higher, higher yet flames the fire | sea; crackling with new dislocated timber; ee metal images are molten, the marble images! become mortar-lime; the stone moun- tains sulkily explode.” “Tho imagos all run into amorphous Corinthian brass,’”’ “for it is the end of the dominion of Imposture."’ Something like this we have seen in Brooklyn. Tho fire has been intense, and from it have come nauseating odors; vileness and sin have covered the land; sorrows, mis- ery, distress have come upon thousands: who will no longer have that confiding trust in religion and professions of faith. But better the fire. Sentiment the religion of gush, cant, hypocrisy, affinities ; Beecherism, which is the worship of phrases and personal gratification; Tiltonism, which is the worship of selfishness, woman's suffrage, gossip; Bowenism, which is the reducing the Ten Commandments and all the Gospels into a stock list—all have fallen into the fire and are destroyed. Many, many years will pass before we shall cease to see the black ashes that are strewn over Ply- mouth church, the crumbling ruins and the ghastly crumbling walls. Many, many years will pass before the thousands wko loved Henry Ward Beecher will cease to mourn over his fate. This is the sorrow of the Brooklyn scandal. The value of it is the burning up of the imposture which has long reigned there, and which has been falsely called ‘‘religion’® and “reform.” The Third Term at Utica, It is widely believed that the ruling man- agers of the republican party of the State are at the bottom of the movement looking to the election of General Grant for o third term. It is the prevailing opinion, apparently, that the Republican State Convention, whick | meets at Utica to-morrow, will be as reticent as General Grant himself upon this question of a third term. The liberals of this Com- monwealth have pronounced against any de~ parture from the Presidential limitation of two terms, as established from the example of Washington; the democrats have emphati- cally seconded the liberal protest; and now, if the republicans of the Empire State, like their brethren of Pennsylvania, Kansas and Michigan, proclaim their adhe- sion to the two-term limitation, the question will be settled. Otherwise Messrs. Blaine, Conkling, Morton, Logan, But | ler and other hopeful republican aspirants | for the succession may take it easy and re- sign themselves to the necessity of waiting yet a little longer. Tho issue depends very much upon the action of the impending Re- | publican Convention at Utica. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. E. L. Davenport 1s among the recent arrivais at the Sturtevant House, Ex-Cougressman Dennis McCarthy, of Syracuse, is stopping at the Gilsey House, Captain John H. Upshur, United States Navy, 1s quartered at the Everett House. Assemblyman F, A. Alverger, of Budalo, has ar- rived at the Metropolitan Hotel, “Voluntary and responsible insanity” ts Gerrit | Smith’s analysis of drunkenness. © Mr. A. T. Stewart aad Judge Hilton sailed for home on the Scotia September 5, Ex-Congressman 0. B. Matteson, of Utica, ts staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The proportionate yield of wheat in France ts nearly double that of ordinary years. John Heath not only bita piece of the ear of Robert Dunro, but be “‘swailowed it.” Commodore D. McN. Fairfax, United States Navy, is registered at the New York Hotel. At Marseilles the police nave in their hands @ man who kidnaps young giris ‘for exportation.” Ex-Governor H.C. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has returned to his old quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain C. P. Patterson, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is at the Kverect House. General Butler arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel from boston yesterday, and left last evening for Washington. Judge William A. Richardson, of the United States Court of Claims, has apartments at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. It is not profitable to have 4 princess for a wife. Perkins will be kept in jail till he pays that39,000f, but the Princess goes free. General Sherman has returned to Washington from Columbus, Ohio, where he went to attend the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland. Paris correspondents of foreign papers have been requested by the French government, through the Ambassadurs of their several countries, to speak more poiitety of the French army. ‘That British reformer who was in favor of crema- tion and opposed to buying any new burying ground in his town, has been mobbed by 2,000 women, who proposed to “burn him.’? In the experiments made by the Austrian War Department to tetermiue whether to bay Krupp | cannon, these guns made 170 marks to every seven marks made by the Austrian bronze guns, | Practically, thereiore, Austria finds herself without artillery. Marshal MacMahon has sent as a wedding pres- ent to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh twe handsome vases of Sevres china, manulactured especially for their Koyal Highnesses, They are said to be marvels of ornamentation, and are decorated witn copies of pictures by Boucher and Watteau, executed by some of the first artists ia Paris. THB LORD MAYOR OF DoBLIN, A meeting of the joint committee of the Com- mon Council, appointed to make arraugements ior the entertainment of the Lord Mayor of Dubitn and the Irish team, met yesterday in the City Hall, bat did not arrive at a final decision. It was disposed, however, to omer these Irish gentlemen atrip onthe North and East rivers on Thursday next, starting from the foot of Thirty-fourtn street, North River, at ten o'clock A. M., a colla- tion, to be served on board the steamer, a band accompanying tue party. There will be also a re- ception tn the Governor's room on a subsequen& day, the invited guests to be limited to 200, ILLNESS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. SALT Lake Crry, Sept. 21, 1874, Brigham Young ts sick and considerable uneast- ness has been feit m town to-day in regard to his condition. It is reported that some astrologer ithat he wouid die on the 7th of becem- ARMY INTELLIGENCS, WASHINGTON, Sept, 21, 1874, Major H. ©. Hodger, Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Gulf, has been ordered to re. turn to his station at New Orleans, having been ordered to this city some weeks ago to settic lis Pe i 7 a a NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Change in the Command of the Portes mouth Navy Yard, PortsMoOUTH, N. H., Sept, 21, 1874, Commodore Howell to-day turned over the come mand of tne Naval Station here to Rear Admirat Bryson. Commodore Howéll proceeds to Wash- ; ington to assume the charge of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CEURCH. Bishop Cummins Preaching at Bing- hamton. Brvanamtoy, N, Y., Sept. 21, 1874. Bishop Cummins, of the Reformed Kpiscopat Church, preached im the First Presbyterian church last evening. The congregation was very large. To better enable the many to tear the Bishop no terian churches not” in ype. Vougregstioual 80d Wantist churcags, 0 — — ee eee