The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1874, Page 10

10 NEW YORK NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR <a ; All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | HERALD. Letters avd packages should be properly sealed. Mi hukscmie at 1h LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions ond Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.... Broadway, co MINSTKELSY, ats P.M, AMER INSTITUTE, Third avenuy, between Sixty-third abd Sixty-fourth streets INU US: KIAL EXHIBITION, BAILEY’S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, Kast River, atl P. M. and 8P. M, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.—VARLaTY, at 8 P. M. COLOSSEUM, Hroadway, corner ot Thir.y-tth street.—PARIS BY NIGH, at 745 P.M. WALLA THEATRE, Broadway and thirteenth stree.—DEARER THAN LIFE, at BP. M.; c.oses at LLP. M. JL. Toole. Mo Mr. Letting at 10:30 P.M. Mr. ; OLYMPIC THEATRE. 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Tae New York Aruteric Civp yesterday held its annual fall mecting, and we give a | fall description of the events. | ‘Tuere was an energetic cleansing of Ann | street yesterday, ‘Who would have thought | the old street had so much mud in it?’’ Tar Arremprep Mvrper by Congressman Sloss, of Alabama, of his son-in-law, and the | story of revenge which accompanies it is a singular phase of Southern society. Waar Arr tHe Commissioners of Charities and Correction going to do about it? We have more facts about their mismanagement | for the public consideration. | the dread of France changed into a fear of ® | the limitations of the moor and fen, the | America, in S.anley’s search tor Livingstone, | might have said, had he lived to see the volun- | teers march past on their review day: ‘This is | English. There has been no hovering French | eagle screaming Waterloo, no ravenous Ger- | axe and gun. Our frontier has been for | soldiers in the process of perfection. Our Olymp Games. . | When the late more or less lamented Em- peror of the French was supposed to be look- ing with hungry eyes for an opportunity to avenge Waterloo, and was belioved to bo | arming his legions fora descent upon Eng- land, Tennyson, as Poet Laureate, sounded the alarm, calling upon the riflemen to form, and ‘ever be ready to meet the storm.” It was about this time, if our mcmory serves, when the English mind turned its attention towards rifle shooting and field practice, toa reorganization of its militia and the forming of a large reserved volunteer army. When Sadowa postponed, for a generation at least, any projects of Waterloo ven- geance and Sedan virtually destroyed them, Germany. he placid English mind heard with alarm that in the German military schools students were planning how best to transport and land sn army on English coasts. This | gave a new impulse to the volunteer move- ment, and accordingly there is no amusement and no outdoor occupation more popular in the United Kingdom to-day than military movements and reviews and contests with the rifle. We could understand how natural this would be in a country where people cherish all manner of outdoor sports. The Saxon, and for that matter the Celtic, nature in even a higher degree, seems to yearn for the earth, the air, the sunshine and the sea. To chase a dirty worthless fox over miles of country, to follow a timid hare over field and valley, to ride in full chase after a bounding stag, these are royal joys. We never tire ot them. We associate them with the manliest nature. When our novelists de- scribe an English gentleman, they tell us how well he rides to hounds. Young noblemen and the heirs to large estates grow weary of highlands and the forests, and seek fresh conquesis in Albania and Bohemia. Wo find them in India, huuting the tiger and the ele- phant, on our broad plains pursuing the ante- lope and the buffalo, in the Sierra Nevada challenging the terrible prowess of the grizzly bear. Nor can this be called a vulgar, craven yearning for mere butchery and the taking of life. Tae hunt summons forth the best qualities of the man—the keen eye, the iron nerve, endurance, courage, patience. We see these qualities in the high- est degree in Livingstone’s lonely venture into Africa, in the wonderful tramp of Major Butler through the ‘wild lone land” of British in MacGahan’s ride across the steppes of Cen- tral Asia, in the voyages of Hayes into the Arctic zone, in O’Kelly’s marvellous adven- tures in the Mambi land and in a hundred other ways. Modern history tells story after story of these achievements. They culminate in Waterloos and Gettysburgs. The Duke of Wellington said wisely when he stood over- looking some Eton boys at play: ‘This is where we learned to beat Bonaparte.”” He why we need not fear Moltke.’ Our people at home have no French or Ger- | man emulation to deeds of skill or daring in the open field. But the interest which attends ; the meeting at Creedmoor shows how strong | the instinct isin our American nature. Wo have not made as much show in the way of rifle shvoting and scientific sports as the man eagle still unsatisfied with Sedan, to bid our riflemen to form. But we have had for all the generations of our national growth the pioneer’s necessity of conquering nature with more than two centuries the school for all soldierly qualities. Accordingly there has never been a time since Miles Siandish went out with his gun to defend the worshipping Puritans trom the Indians when we have not had a large body of ready made soldiers and | Our home legends, those that have been s0 quaintly told by Cooper, dwell upon the con- tests of the pioneers with the Indians, and our fiction has produced no character that vies with Leatherstocking. He is to America Froops in Spars have destroyed much | property and many lives in the province of | Lerida, where the River Segre has overflowed | its banks. | Tue InternationaL Sccitu Race at St. John, New Brunswick, yesterday, for four thousand dollars in gold and the champion- ship, was won by Brown, who rowed over the five-mile course in thirty-seven minutes. | Rectrrocrry with the United States is again | urged earnestly by the press of the Sandwich Islands, and will no doubt be, before many months, arranged to the profit of both coun- , tries. | Tne Two Portcemen who are accused of shooting young Bagley, in Jersey City, have | been held to await the action of the Coroner's | jury. The revolver is too readily used by officers, and this should be made a test case. | Governor. Moses informs the President that | ho has exhausted the legal means at his com- mand to preserve order in Sonth Carolina, and calls for troops to destroy an existing | reign of terror. He might have added that he has exhausted all his means—legal and illegal—to produce this situation. The country does not like this demand for soldiers the eve of an election, but it is compelled to concede that their pres- ence may be necessary. But who are respon- tible for this necessity? To Governor Moses tore than to any official in South Carolina it may be said, “Thon art the man.” on _ Tue Tump Term ms Nevapa.—The repub- licans of Nevada, in their recent State Con- vention, adopted a strong party platform, em- bracing a declaration against the re-clection of | the President for a third term, and another in opposition to subsidies or grants of land to railroads 6r other corporations. Now, when it is considered that Senator Jones, of 0 is widely believed to be in favor of P: _ Grant for a third term, and that Senator Stew- art, of Nevada, engincered through the Senate at the last session of Congress a general Ter- | ritorial railway bill of subsidies and land | grants, it would appear that the Nevada re- | publicans, in framing their party platform, are | | cipline is an advantage to our people and con- | cannot be too much manliness in our amuse- what Robin Hood and all his successors ave been toEn sland. Wesee him in the early French wars, when the valor of our colonial ancestors won for Great Britain her Canadian Empire. We see him in the Revolutionary war, when the raw ievies from New England and | Virginia compelled the surrender of Bur- goyne’s trained soldiery. We see himat New Orleans, whea a general of militia, who had | fought Indians all his life, destroyed an army which had come from the Napoleonic wars to meet its fate at the hands of Andrew Jackson and his sharpshooters. The value of this pioneer training was-seen in our late war, more especially in the early successes of the Southern fcrces, in whose ranks this elemert was largely to be found. Whatever encourages and develops this dis- tributes to the welfare of the nation. There ments. Let us encourage those meetings on that we read of in the days of Eclipse and Lexington, the boat races between our college youths, the contests like those seen at Creed- moor. Pagilism has died out becanse of its brutality, and we suppose no one will deny that there could be no baser use to which we could put the human face than to batter it in a prize ring. Let us cherish those events as the Olympian games, The peril of our civilization, like civilization generally, is that it is apt to ener- vate. We huddle around the opera, the play, | the billiard table, the coal fire.* We war upon nature and do not look upon her as our comrade and our friend. There is no truer life than that which comes from the breezy mountains and the cold, enfolding snow. Emerson once said, where the snow fails men children are born. We do not deprecate the calmer efforts, the cultivation ot the mind, the finer, gentler achievements, the graces, the accomplishments, the scholarship | of life. Bat no boat ever sailed | without a breeze, no orator ever thrilled an audience who did not have the ife-blood uuder all, and we question if | Demosthenes could have spoken if he had | not skilled himself ou the seashore, finding | HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET, his nature on the icy surface of tho Main. | Nerth Pole. It appears that England will | correspondents, and his story is told | ignited at any po’nt under one of thes dry Honor to the inventcr of geometry, but we woull rather see a company of youths | scampering from base to base after a hard ball, than poring in a heated rcom over the problems ot Euclid. “Take away his gun !"" exclaimed Mr. Pick- wick, when the unhappy marksman, Mr. Winkle, shot at the rooks and hit the game- keeper, but no one sympathized with this alarm yesterday at Creedmoor, nor could have repeated the ancient sarcasm of Diogenes, abcut the safest place to escape the arrows of the archers being in front of the target. The shooting was superb and the good feeling of the international rivals perfect. The close- ness of the contest was remarkable. The Trish team was victorious at the ranges of nine hundred and a thousand yards, but they were defeated by the majority of nine | points which the Americans made at the range of eight hundred. But that the latter should win by only three points in a total of eighteen hun- dred and sixty-five is an astonishing proof of equal skill. The closeness of the contest makes the victory all the more glcrious for the Americans, but from another point of view it makes even defeat an actual tri- umph for our distinguished guests. One shot might have changed the result, and, as will be seen by the account elsewhere printed, no more determined struggle was ever made with the rifle. The losers have lost no laurels, while the victors must wear their crowns with becoming modesty. No finer contest than that at Creedmoor is re- corded in the annals of rifle shooting. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles is now celebrated here, and as appropriate to the oc- casion Rev. R. S. MacArthur will speak about that great feast-day in old Jerusalem, when Jesus lifted up his voice in the Temple and in- vited all men to Him to drink of salvation’s wells that they might have in themselves o perpetual life spring of joy and peace. Mr. MacArthur will also make some suggestions on the boyhood of St. Paul, the greatest of the Nazarene’s disciples. How Christ was tempted and why, might be made a fruitful theme for speculative thought, but we presume Dr. Pat- ton will not indulge in speculation but will draw from this experience of the Saviour such lessons as shall be of use to his hearers when- ever they, too, shall be tempted. These les- sons may comprise some of the checring news for Christians which Mr. Hepworth, while about his Father's business to-day, shall ex- tract from the sacred Word. Dr. John Dowling has laid out for himself @ very comprehensive task in discussing the question whether of the twain, Christ or Peter, is head of the Christian Church. He intends to answer the query according to patristic, Romanist and Protestant authority. And such an investigation and discussicn involves a great deal of previous thought and study, which no doubt Dr. Dowling has given to it. Mr. Corbit, who ought atter thirly-five years ministry to know the road himself, will to-day indicate the infallible road to heaven, and also speak of the soul harvest which he expects to reap during the coming winter. But this harvest will require fidelity in little things as well as in great, of which Dr. Holme will speak. God's Fatherhood and the discipline under which He puts His people is a profitable thems when it is well treated, as we have no doubt it will be to-day, by Mr. Kennard; who will also speak of the fishermen disciples mending their nets. Dr. Deems will illustrate the malice which controlled the hearts of those who set Barabbas free and condemned Jesus Christ to be crucified. Dr. Rylance will dis- cuss the theme of priestly absolution, on which his denomination is so sharply divided. The Catholic apostolic preachers will speculate on the gift, loss and restoration of the apos- tolic order to the Church. If such an order has been restored, the knowledge of that fact ought to be far and widely known, and those brethren who have the order and its accom- panying power and miracles are to blame if they put their light under a bushel instead of ona hill where all can see it. The Rev. Mr. Fishbangh will show those who have got into the slough of materialism the way out again. And thus the Sabbath hours will be spent in feeding human thought and imagination. The Shakespearian Controversy. Some of our pictorial contemporaries have taken with the pencil nearly as interesting a part in the Shakespearian controversy as our many eminent correspondents have done with the pen. Harper's Weekiy not only publishes a very picturesque engraving of Shakespeare asa poacher, brought before Sir Thomas Lucy by the gamekeepers, with the deer as proot, but it adds an imaginary picture of iconoclasts trying to drag from its pedes- tal the bust of the great dramatist. To have completed the picture the throng of those who would maintain the bust in its place should have been represented, The Graphic, the other day, had a large picture of Shakespeare and Bacon discussing the ques- tion of authorship, and we understood it to | mean that Shakesp-are had the best of the ar- | turf and stream, those splendid trials of speed | gument. These are evidences of the interest which the public takes in the subject, and the statement of one of our correspondents to-day that the booksellers have already felt the effects of the discussion in an increased demand for Shakespearian literature is cer- tainly important. When we revived this question by publishing the article from Fraser's Magazine it was not at all with the intention of creating a sensation, but because | we believed it demanded from the public the attention it had previously received only from a few students of literature. It had been confined to a few book makers; through the newspaper we wished to place it before the people. The result has fully answered our expectations. Volumes of admirable criticism, of which it has been | as yet impossible to print more than a portion, have reached us, aud we can only regret that | the Baconians have not been more energetic in the deience of their theory. The ‘Cork- ovians’’ to-day do their best, however, to aid the solution, and we add other contributions of a more serious nature to the effort. Dr. Hayes ox Arctic Expionations, in a letter to the Jribune, with the enthusiasm of a genuine explorer and with o strong array of not led by the nose by either of ther United | health when he was searching for pebbles, or | facts and conclusions, pleads for another States Senators. We can hardly say as much | that Goethe could have written his immortal | American Polar expedition by way of Buaflin's | this works if he had not ourified and strengthened | Bay and Smith's Sound for the prige of the | cently for the republicans of New Yorks NAc PEL OHO ere MURA NN TSC RUA ROL RE RR RIDE Eee Tithe GREE STEM EON OMG E NEL CONST CHAS OMT rs? CMR gT Man ce eM TaN MHS Re PENS MRO | take it if we decline it, and by the only route shown to be feasible; but it will be discredit- | able to our own government if, after opening the way toand beyond the grave of Captain Hall, it shall abandon the enterprise, when, awaiting only a call for this service, we have the most skilful and experienced navigators of the Arctic seas which the world can produce. General Sherman on the American Army. ‘Whatever General Sherman has to say upon the art of war will be received with marked respect, for tho country is aware that with him the largest experience in the field is united with unusual intelligence. The publication in the Army and Navy Journal of the current week of the concluding chapter of his unpub- | therefore, in itself an important contribution to modern military literature. After record- ing the war, “all of which he saw and part of which he was," he has sammed up with much force and candor some of the useful lessons to be derived therefrom. The first point General Sherman makes is the necessity of providing in time of peace an army organization which can be made promptly effective in war. The illustra- tion of this must be evident to all The beginning of the late war found the United | States with an army tied up by red tape ond badly organized, and nine years after the end of the war Congress proposes to make the army even feebler than Mr. Lincoln found it. The two great practical suggestions of General Sherman for the future may be said to be:— First, the reorganization of the army system, by dividing infantry regiments into three bat- talions and giving each regiment a war strength of a thousand men, and adopting, in recruiting, the German method. The modes of recruiting and promotion were, he says, the greatest mistakes of the war. Reduced regiments wera not filled up from the bottom, but were left to dwindle into skeletons, while new regiments, with new colonels, captains and men, were called into the field Wisconsin kept her regiments fillel with recruits, ‘and the result was,’’ says General Sherman, ‘‘that we estimated a "Wisconsin regiment equal to an ordinary bri- gade.’"” The German method of recruiting he describes as simply perfect, and thinks there is no good reason why we should not follow it substantially. The second main point of the chapter is in reference to the divided responsibility and authority in the army. The proposed re- moval of headquarters to St. Louis by Gen- eral Sherman in October, because as General of the Army he is not comfortable in Washington, gives to his remarks on this point especial interest. ‘With us to-day,” he says, ‘the law and regulations are, thet no matter what may be the emergency, the commanding general in Texas, New Mexico and the remote frontiers, cannot draw from the arsenals a pistol car- tridge or any sort of ordnance stores without first procuring an order of the Secretary of War in Washington. The commanding gen- eral, though intrusted with the lives of his soldiers and with the safety of a frontier in a condition of chronic war, cannot touch or be trusted with ordnance stores or property, and that is declared to be the law!” He then re- fers to the fact that the French, from whom we copied the system, have utterly proscribed it, and urges Congress to profit by that example and our own experience. ‘I admit,’’ General Sherman says, and these strong words ought to be heeded, ‘‘in its fullest force, the strength of the maxim that the civil law should be su- | perior to the military in time of peace; that the army should be at all times subject to the direct control of Congress, and I assert that from the formation of our government to the present day the regular army has set the highest example of obedience to law and authority; but, forthe very reason that our army is comparatively so very small, I hold that it should be the best possible, organized and governed on true military principles, and | that in time of peace we should preserve the ‘habits and usages of war,’ so that when war does come we may not again be compelled to suffer the disgrace, contusion and disorder of 1861.” These are the views of Generat Sher- man that are likely to be most warmly opposed. Congress will not be particularly anxious to dispute with him upon the proper method of organizing an infantry regiment, with him on the principles of the government of the military establishment. But the coun- try must hope that the President and the Gen- eral will in time direct the army, and that the ten distinct bureaux of the Secretary of War will cease to be a perpetual cause of embar- rassment and dissatisfaction. We agree with the Army and Navy Journal in the hope that General Sherman may be in- duced to give this memoir to the world, and not withhold it for posthumous publication. The concluding chapter deals with general subjects, it is true, while the record of events must deal to some extent with persons; yet we cannot see that any one could reasonably object to General Sherman’s candid and in- telligent criticism. But, in any case, this chapter can stand alone as a practical, simple analysis of deficiencies and reforms, and asa compendium of suggestions which ought not to be neglected by all who have | the interests of the United States Army at heart. The Giave of Aaron Burr, The history of the United States passes almost into the domain of romance when it tells the legend of Aaron Burr. One of the | most brilliant of our early statesmen, one of | the most ambitious of politicians, unscrupu- | lous in society, determined as a duellist, Burr | stands alone, as Arnold did, conspicuous for | glory and shame. He killed Hamil- ton in the famous duel near Hobo- | ken, and thus possibly changed the | financial policy of the government; he aimed to establish an empire in the West, and thus, by his disgraceful failure, helped to build more strongly the foundations of the Re- | public. He passes from our history like a comet which once illuminated the whole sky, but is now only a fierce and lurid memory, while Washington and Jefferson and Adams revolve as eternal orbs, whose steadfast splen- | dors shed their benignant influence on the na- tion. | 'To the forgotten and dishonored grave of great man 4 pilgrimage has re- been made by one of our lished ‘Memoir of Events of the War” is, | but it has members who are certain to differ | | to-day. A strange legend exists of the grave of Aaron Burr at Princeton, how | he was buried at midnight and how even | the tombstone was secretly placed above his | resting place at night by unknown hands. | Even as accurate a biographer as Mr. Parton has preserved a portion of this dramatic legend, and it has perhaps been too thoroughly incorporated in our literature ever to cease to be a matter of popular belief. Yet we think the testimony we publish effectually disposes of the story as one of those extravagances which unaccountably obtain credence to which they have not tho smallest right. Professor John §. Hart, who attended the funeral of Burr, in 1836, as a student, de- clares that it took place in the daylight, with- out any attending mystery; and the old man, John Murphy, who put up with his own hands the stone, survives to tell the plain facts of that unromantio work. ‘The true story of the burial of Aaron Burr is, therefore, we think, given for the first time, but the destruction of these delusive traditions does not affect the wild and gloomy romance of his life. The Religious Press on Louisiana, Beecher and Tyndall. The religious press, having for the time being @ breathing spell from the Brooklyn scandal, directs its attention this week in part to the troubles in Louisiana. The Ob- server thinks the recent outbreak in New Or- leans is important in many of its character- istics and bearings. It shows a deplorable state of hostility existing between those living in the same communities and under the same State government. And this hostility, the Observer says, has its origin to a great extent in diversities of race. It commends a spirit of forbearance and conciliation to- ward the South, and protection from rob- bers who have come in upon it from the outside. The grand blunder of statesmanship, the editor thinks, was in giving suffrage to the colored masses irrespective of intelligence. Hence the power of the South is in the hands of ignorance and is led by crafty and selfish men tothe great injury and suffering of the people. The Methodist, while censuring the people of New Orleans for resorting to force and endan- gering the peace of the Union, declares, nev- ertheless, that Congress is more guilty than they, for it lacked the courage to do justice when it had the power and the case was before it, because the party would be injured. But, as the Methodist observes, ‘‘Whatever stands in the way of justice and right must yield, whoever is hurt, else we shall never have peace.” The Christian Age declares that when Mc- Enery aud Penn marched out of the State House of Louisiana last week they wer grander than when they marched in. In the latter case they had conquered their foes, in the former they had subdued themselves. The great demand of the times, the editor thinks, is a clear-headed politician to dexterously pick out from the political snarl the threads of separate interests, The Freeman's Journal is found in company with its Protestant contemporaries on this question. Instead of the peace that was needed in the South destruction has fol- lowed in the wake of the war. In place of confidence it is the present evidence and tho future prospect that no bounds to coming | troubles are in sight’ There is a logic in po- litical acts, says the Journal, that causes what is wrongly begun to be worse done. The Boston Pilot, in a bricf review of the trouble in Louisiana for the past two years, concludes that the difficulty now before the administration is to find some way of getting rid of the inefficient but ambitious coward, Kellogg. But there is little hope of success in this. The Christian Union comes to the inevitable conclusion that there is no immediate and radical cure for Southern troubles. The Sup- | plementary Civil Rights bill will do infinitely | more harm than good. The Penn movement it characterizes as a rebellion, and it thinks the entire proceedings show the existence of | an organization trained to oppose by force the | existing government of Louisiana, and that it | is restrained by the most despotic discipline. | The Union would, however, have the govern- ment recognize the pressure of the motives under which they acted, and, having main- tained legal forms, it should now maintain | justice and give the people of that State an | Kellogg influences. | ther notice from the Liberal Christian, which calls on Mr. Beecher to take the offensive and | prosecute Tilton and Moulton for libel. Un- itably settle upon the brightest name which has been cherished in people's hearts, Mr. Moulton’s second statement, it thinks, con- tains much matter that apparently strengthens the case against Mr. Beecher. And both Tilton «and Moulton have published the blackest charges against Mr. Beecher's honor. And they are not insignificant men whose statements can be stantially the opinion of the Christian Leader. Tilton’s latest statement it thinks produces evidence which demands a reply. The Eram- not rashness—in the treatment of the case, affirms that we need not be troubled in mind for the success of Christianity because clouds gather about a lofty Christian reputa- testimony and thinks that the public will no more believe his portraiture of Mr. Beecher than that of himself. | Chicago to look into the situation of its Fire against another disastrous conflagration. | General Shaler is fully competent to suggest | the required reforms; but to carry them out | the authorities of Chicago must be prepared | to raise a vastamount of money. Exposed to the strong prairie winds, as no other city {on the Continent is exposed, the precautions | demanded for tho protection of Chicago against a sweeping fire are extraordinary and exceptional. They embrace not only an effi- cient Fire Department, with plentiful and con- venient supplies of water at numerous points, city of numerons combustible buildings and opportunity to elect their own rulers free from | The Brooklyn scandal receives a little fur- | | less he does this it thinks a cloud will inev- | brushed aside as of no account. This is sub- | iner and Chronicle, while counselling courage— | tion. The Christian Union disparages Ti ton’s | Tae Cutcaco Fire Derarrment.—It ap- | pears that General Shaler is to be invited to | Department and to report such reforms therein | as he may think necessary to secure the city | hurricanes trom the prairies, will again sweep the city. The clearing away ot these com- bustibles from the most dangerous side of the city is the first thing demanded for its safety, and doubtless upon a professional recon- noissance of the city this will be the judgment ot General Shaler. The Appreciation of Religious Jour nalism. That the labors of the Hznaxp in behalf of religion—not of any sect, but of all forms of earnest, active faith—are appreciated by the religious public we have many evidences, But it is gratifying to us to note the growing interest of the secular press in this deport- ment of our labors. Tho Evening Post yes- terday, in its leading editorial, remarked that “one of the most distinctive features of the New Yor Henatp is its Sunday morning summary of the sayings of the relie gious press, in which it shows its sagacity by recognizing what some of its contemporaries ignore, but what is a great power in influencing public opinion." The Post is not a religious paper, and therefore can have no special reasons for making this acknowledgment. We do not quote from the Post in our Sunday morning summary. Nothing from itis published to- day in the article which it compliments so kindly. But it shall be a necessity on our part to quote the Post hereafter, if it continues to print articles as able as the review of the religious papers of America which appeared yesterday. It is true, as the Post observes, that “the religious press of this country is a department of journalism quite by itself,” and that its ‘parallel docs not exist elsewhere." The four religious papers which our con- temporary considers the Icaders are the Observer, the Lvangelist, the Independen and the Christian Union, the latter owing its vast popularity to Mr. Beecher’s sermons and the chromo-lithographs which are given to the subscribers. But it admits that the organs of other denominations are also able and important, as the Examiner, the Advocate, the Methodist, the Church Journal, the Liberal Christian and others. We should also particularize the Freeman's Journal, the Christian Intelligencer, the Boston Pilot, the Tablet, the Examiner and Chronicle, the Christian at Work, the Methodist Protestant, the Bap- tist Union, and possibly the Golden Age— } though to this paper the pious peo- ple of Plymcuth might object We must also include the Post, and if we do not include the Hznaxp itself it is because religion. to us, in its countless forms of creed and work, cannot be a particular course, but must remain a universal theme. Religious journalism is truly ‘a natural outgrowth of our national character.” Here are all these great papers, as the Post points out, not merely the apologists and champions of different faiths, but newspapers which are “pot so occupied with the affairs of another world as to have slight concern with this one.” They deal with the realities of this hfe as well as with those of the life to come, and exercise a vast influence upon the political, the social and the intellectual tendencies of the American people. On the whole it is exercised for good, and it is a pity that the Satanic press, which does not print sermons, should ignore its usefulness. There are one or two papers in New York whose only church is the Custom House, and who worship at that altar alone. We sorrow because of their error, and pray for their speedy conversion. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Emilio Castelar is at Milan. It’s never too late to mend or to marry. Bergh feels badly cut up about vivisection, Henry Heine’s aunt, aged eighty-four, has just died in Paris. Ex-Governor William Aiken and wife, of Charles- ton, are at the Spingler Hcuse. Now that the two-heade: nightingale ts married there 18a woman with three heads, Who will marry her? Prince Gortschakoff is named Russian Ambassa- dor at Berlin, Butit isa junior prince—a son of the other. Bonapartist journals in Paris are furious at a report that the Prince imperial has had an inter- view with Bazaine, J. W. Merchant, Director and General Agent ot | the New York and Oswego Midland Railway, is at | the Spingler House, Chambord requests his friends to hold them- selves in readiness for “any event.’? He evidently intends to march up a hil th’s time, Politics are dreadiuily dullin France. John Le- motnne finds time to give a leader to the conver- sion to Rome of the Marqa's ol Ripon, That retainer of $5,000 from Kellogg explains at once the readiness with which Butler in Massa- chusetts has come out for “putting down rebel- lion.” Sano Taunataml, of Japan, has taken a great | fancy to Pilsener beer, and will send some | Japanese youths to Pilsen to be taught how to make it. Another argument for cremation, The plague has broken out tn Egypt in a village where ali the water in use was filtered through.an old grave yard, Pillotel, of the Paris Commune, has been invited to leave Augsburg. Since his escape from Paris he has had to leave Geneva, Milan and Brussels also. Now he is at Liverpool, As Liverpool is the | jumping off place for America, of course he will | come hither. “pat down the insurrection—report afterward.” ‘This ig thought to be beroic; but as Kmory had 400 men and his opponents several thousands, wasn’t ita little nonsensical? Suppose the people haa fought Emory, where would the “put down” prob. ably have come int Ducrot was supposed to have announced to Paris, touching a certain sortie, that ne would re- turn dead or victorious, In fact he returned alive and beaten, It now appears his proclamation was | written by Jules Favre, and be knew nothing ot 16 tll he saw it in print. | rhe marriage of Mr, Carl Buat to Miss Moore, daughter of Bloomfletd Moore, of Philadeipnia, will take place shortly in Parts. Mr. Bildtis the eldest son of Baron de Bildt, late Governor Gsn- eral of Stockholm, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary trom Sweden to Prussia,— Paris American Register. Henry Crowgie and Mary Davey loved each other dcarly, and Were in the train o1 the way to get their photographs taken, They quarrelled. Henry couldn't bear unkindness from one he loved so much, and so he staboed her wiih his little knite— | diving it deep in her tender bosom, It was on the edge of the wood. They had come thither from diferent poiuts in pursuit of the sea- sonable partridge; but in the shrabbery one stare tled bouter discovered that the other nad drawn & bead on him. “Don't shoot,” he sald, “fam not & partridge.” “I must shoot,” was the response, ‘sor Lhave sworn that ti ever Isaw a man home~ Her than tam I would Kill him? ‘The intended victim gazed curiously for a moment, and then but the removal from the south side of the | stacks of inflammable Inmber. which, if once | | gatd, piacidiv, “ire away; 1 Lam nomelior than you are Leven wish that I were deau.” They ad- | Journed to get ® statement trom a competent witness. |