The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1874, Page 8

"NEW YORK HERALD} BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp. oe LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions aud Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘ West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenne.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 8 P. M.; Closes at 0? M. Van Bryant, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 PM TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M SAN FRANCISOO MINSTELS, twenty-ninth street. —NEGRO closes at 0 P.M. Broadway, corner of MINSTRELSY, at 5 P.M. TITUTE, | Third avenne, between -ixty-third aid Sixty-rourtn | s#reeta —INDUSTRIaL l. co. Broadway, corner of thir’ PARIS and MKS. SaHLEN M. and7 4 P.M. 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THEATRE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 OF MUSIC, in Opera—RUY BLAS, at 8 P. Signora Potentini, Miss Cary, | NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between irince and Houston streets.—THE | DELUGE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M, ihe Kirally y- FIFTH AVENE THEATRE, Twenty eighth sireet and Broadway —MOORCROPT: OR THE DOUBLE W<DDING, ats P.M. ; closes at Il P. x Mies Fanny Davenvort, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis ames MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. FRITZ, at P.M. ; cioses at 10:30 P.M. Jos K. Emmet. ROBINSON HALL, ixteentn street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— | Patery ee pecan, teeters aml NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1874.-QUADRUPLE. SHEET.” Religious Conventions, The Convention of Episcopalians has been of marked importance, not only to the people of a single communion, but to the entire religious public. The gentlemen who attended it were men of note from all parts of America, and also from foreign countries. We have watched their proceed- ings with a constant eye, and have faithfully compared their methods and aims with those of other bodies. The questions which have been most freely and excitedly discussed have been those which are intimately connected with the Episcopal Church as a form of religion, and not questions pertaining to the practical work which that Church ought to do among the masses of the people. Ritualism seems to be of more importance just now than missionary labor, and it is easier to stir up an excited | debate about the trimmings of the altar and the right of a rector to interpret the Prayer Book after his own fashion than to rouse the ministry to an appreciation of the fact that thousands are going to the bad who may be saved by spiritual preaching and pastoral labor, but who can never be saved by long talks about boy choirs and the vestments of the priests. These mat- ters should have been settled long ago and put beyond all controversy. One hour spent in the attempt to economize time and to bring | the truths rather than the forms of religion before the people is worth more than whole | days given to the right of Dr. Cummins to do as he pleases or of the ritualist to multiply ceremonies, The difference between the Protestant and Catholic churches has been indicated more notably by this Convention than by any assem- bly lately called together. The Catholic Church has its rules made for it, and it is competent at any time to apply those rules to the ministry of any of its servants. If he is found to bea defaulter the sentence is an inexorable one, and is executed at once. Every one knows those rules by heart, and is aware of the con- sequences when he takes the first step toward rebellion. Complete submission to an estab- lished usage produces unity and harmony among the most numerous ministers of relig- ion in the world. They spend no time in | altering constitutions orn tinkering bylaws, nor yet in the attempt to reinterpret those bylaws, that they may find sanction for their own vagaries. They can devote the whole time appointed for conference in dis- cussing the best working methods of making the bad good and the good better. If it be argued that this is despotism history fur- nishes the evidence of the value of such a des- potism in the work done, and in the proces- sion of missionaries which are marching around the planet. The Episcopal branch of Protestantism seems never toknow where it is exactly, and every once ina while calls a convention of its ablest men that it may take its bearings and settle the important ques- tion whether Cummins is a heretic who ought to be burned, and that other problem, on the NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, | Fulton street —KIT, at § r. closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. | hanfrau. | | ADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, October 18, 1874. | OTICE ‘TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the great pressure on our adver- tising columns, advertisers would favor us by sending in their advertisements early in the day. This course will secure a proper classifi- cation, helping the public and the Heraxp. Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue | may be sent with great advantage in the earlier | days of the week ; it will prevent confusion | and mistakes arising from the immense quantity of work to be done on Saturdays. Advertisements will be re- | eeived daily at this office, the branch office, No. 1,265 Broadway, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, and the Brooklyn | branch office, corner of Fulton and Boerum streets, up to nine P. M., and at the Harlem | branch office, 124th street and Third avenue, | up to half-past seven P. M. Let advertisers emember that the earlier their advertisements are im the Hznaup office the better for them- | selves and for us. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather o-day will be partly cloudy further edge of the body, whether St. Albans and §t. Ignatius have any right to use candles. It has a_ rubric, but no interpreter, and the exist- ence of High, Broad and Low Church- aes. | men sufficiently proves that though there may be a rule of action it is not bind- ing on any one. The result of it all is Con- gregationalism under another name, Though they keep up the pomp and display of a House | of Bishops they have in reality the power to settle just nothing at all. The peculiar vaga- ries of a rector are subject to the judgment of his own congregation, and if he is wise and shrewd enough to keep still about it he can enjoy about as long a tether as he wants. This may be all well enough for simple Con- gregationalism, but it makes Episcopacy a barren farce. If it is well to have rules it is well to keep them; but rules are of no service, neither is the office of a bishop of any value or significance, if those rules can be repeat- edly broken with impunity. One fact which is important in considering the question of religious conventions gener- ally is the difference in the constitutions of the Catholic and Protestant churches. Thus, | in the one authority is an original possession of the head of the Church; in the other it is delegated by the members. The Church of Rome, as we have indicated, imposes as strict a discipline upon her priests as she does upon her laity, and in many respects it is more strict. The limits of discussion are clearly defined and impassable. But the Methodist, Presbyterian or Baptist sects are controlled by no such original power, claiming to exist by the divine authority itself, Wart Sraezr Yzsterpay.—The financial situation was unchanged. Money was freely offered on call loans, without takers, and gold was steady at 110 a 109} a 110. Tae Nevrnaury or France in Spanish | affairs has been established to the satisfaction | of the Serrano government, and the trouble- some question between the two countries may now be considered settled. and strengthened by the traditions and precedents of centuries. The laws by which they are ruled they admit to have been created by themselves, and it necessarily follows | that the creators have the power to change. | It is the difference between divine and human government. For this reason alone it would | be impossible that any ecumenical council | should ever have the characteristics of » Prot- | estant convention, The laity in Protestantism | 7 es. et - “* _—- | | assert rights which are continually embarnss- | to be discussed during the next twenty years is the question of the methods of the two great churches, Protestant and Catholic. Widely different in almost every respect, they cannot fail to excite what we hope will be a fair and impartial criticism when the controversy begins. The Convention that | was held in New Haven and the Epis- copal Convention of this city, though attended by a whole galaxy of intel- lectual stars, and though their sessions fairly corruscated with the scintillations of generous sympathy and mental acumen, can never erase from the consciousness of the American people the feeling that that Church is, after all, nearer right which does tho heartiest work among all classes of society. The object of all church organizations is neither to discuss theological dogmas nor to show to advantage the brilliant parts of the minister, but to labor steadfastly among the masses, to produce right motives and right living. That is the only test of history, and it is the only basis of judgment for a thought- fal and truth-loving people. The Von Arnim Case. The quarrel between Count Von Arnim and Prince Bismarck has assumed an extraordi- nary phase. It is a national and, we may say, an international question. It is always a scandal when two diplomatists, and especially two noblemen as highly placed as the Chan- cellor and his French Minister, have a mis- understanding. The peace of Europe is closely associated with the maintenance of good relations, or what can as nearly ap- proach good relations as possible, between France and Germany. Any event calculated to disturb this cannot be too gravely con- sidered. There were certain features about the quarrel, as reported by cable, that were hard to understand. We could not comprehend how a nobleman and diplomatist who held as important a station as the Ambassador to Paris could be guilty of a crime like stealing. On the other hand it seemed impossible that in a how religious convictions are stifled by worldly ambition and again how simple trust in God can cause the widow's barrel and cruse to fail not, The Methodists begin their fall mission- ary campaign by a public meeting in be- half of city missions and church extension this evening. Mr. Corbitt will fire a colum- biad at the enemies of the cross, and will trace the various processes of disintegration of the human body until its final resurrection. This theme is a special favorite with him. Dr. Deems will give a sketch of a church fair in the wilderness. The Trouble and Its Remedy. American society is suffering a change. The period of steady habits has gone by and the age of hifalutin is at hand. The chief characteristics of the times are an overesti- mate of money and an underestimate of char- acter. Rough gold has little value, while highly burnished gilt is greatly prized. The men are overstimulated by a huge business without capital, and, after forty, walk on the ragged edge of apoplexy, while the women are overstimulated in the imagination by a corrupt literature which has lowered the moral tone of the whole community. Everywhere there exists an insatiable appe- tite for mere sensationalism. Even science and religion must startle in order to attract attention. Plain English does not satisfy any more than old-fashioned morality. The old adage which tells us it is better to live ina wooden honse and have plenty than to live in abrick house and be pinched has been turned upside down and the preference given to the brown stone and constant duns, It is pitiful to see science in the parti-colored pantaloons of the general folly; but the scientist of the day, instead of confining himself to his legitimate sphere, must needs bring the battering ram of his newly-discov- ered facts to bear against the oaken door of the Church, and pound away untila crowd gathers to see what will come of it all. If he narrows his labors to glacial theories, or to country as free as Germany such a man could be suddenly sent to prison and kept there unless there was some grave charge affecting his honor and fidelity. The explanation we elsewhere print, com- ing, as it does, from the highest available sources of information in America so far as upon German affairs, gives an intelligent idea of the trouble. We can understand Von Arnim when we remember Catacazy. It is the old story of a man of fair talents, but with extraordinary vanity and self-conscious- ness, placed by circumstances in a position far beyond his ability, who seeks to supply the paucity of talent by intrigue, deception and strife. Bismarck, naturally sedulous to avoid a scandal, and especially where the relations of Germany were as delicate as they were with France, seems to have petted and coaxed his unruly subordinate. Even this was misunderstood, for it is the nature of men of the Von Arnim stamp to mistake patience and candor for weakness. So the quarrel continued until the vanity of the diplomatist threatened to im- peril the peace of the State. Whereupon Bis- marck crushed him as with his boot heel. This is, in brief, the substance of our narra- |. tive. This narrative is also plausible in all re- spects, Prince Bismarck is playing too high a game, he is matched with too powerful and wary antagonists to lose a point or to permit the great purposes which fate has awarded him to be for a moment set awry by a subordinate. Von Arnim seens to have invited his fate It is ao mistake to magnify his misfortunes into a State quarrel with the Roman Church. It is only a vast and painful scandal—like what we have seen at home in reference to Mr. Beecher and Mr. Colfax—great because of the famous names involved, and painful because it leads us to question human nature. Even giving Von Arnim the benefit of all the explanations his friends have offered, this one fact stands out, that a diplomatist, like a soldier, must re- main at his post until he falls. The reputa- tion of a diplomatist must be forfeited at times as the lives of soldiers are forfeited. Von Arnim’s duty was to silently obey his chief, not to question, remonstrate or complain. He failed in this. His failure led him to repre- hensible transactions, and he now lies under the ban of the law and public opinion as an unworthy servant who had been weighed in Palpit Topics To-Day. The clerical delegates to the Protestant Episcopal Convention are largely distributed throughout the city and vicinity, and to-day they will occupy many of the pulpits of New York and Brooklyn. Their conventional committees and societies, taking advantage of the gathering of deputies from all parts of the country, are promoting their respective inter- ests by public meetings. Their missionary society is particularly active, and to-day will get Drs. Garrett, Twing and others to present the claims of missions before several churches here and in Brooklyn. Dr. Rudder, of Phil- Ir m a Recooxrrion of American letters | ing accepted clerical rule, as was shown in the | adelphia, will enforce the missionary idea in rather than a mere compliment to America | that Ralph Waldo Emerson should be a can- didate for Lord Rector of the Glasgow Uni- versity. If he should be chosen we are sure | earnest attempt to establish a lay dele- gation in the Methodist Episcopal Church—a struggle which extended over | Jew. many years and was resisted by the the direction of the evangelization of the | Jews by discussing the Gentile debt ‘to the The Pyyer monopolized the Book Society has presence and _ the no one would be better pleased than Mr. W. | preachers as though it had been a heresy or | voice of four bishops and a couple of E. Forster, who is also named as a eandidate ; an admitted crime. This war resulted in the | doctors to advance the interests of a public and if Mr. Forster is successful neither Mr. secession of a large body of members, and | meeting in Brooklyn. But besides these Emerson nor his friends will regret it. Tae Free Spezcu of which England so justly boasts is not always permitted in her | colonies. A meeting to celebrate’ the sixth anniversary of the declaration of Cuban inde- | pendence was recently dispersed by order of the under the leadership of such men as Snethen | and Shinn, the Methodist Protestant Church was formed. But now we see the Methodist Episcopal Church itself admitting the justice of the principle of lay representation, and changing the rules which Coke and Asbury had framed. The laity in this historical con- Bishop Lay, of Easton, will show the folly and ingratitude of despair os based on the words of Job’s wife to that patient suffering patriarch—‘‘curse God and die."’ Dr. Thomp- son will also discuss issues that are now betore the Church in the light of truth and | peace, and Dr. Flagg will have something to government, In New York we might as well flict forced their way into the conventions say on modern crime. break up « meeting of Chinese for celebrating the birthday of Confucius. But England has just been paid her Virginius claims, and has reason, no doubt, to be friendly towards and conferences, and did not cease to labor until they had gained their end. Similar innovations will always be pos- | sible in churches in which the government | rests upon the people. Another example The Presbyterian pulpit will make itself heard through Dr. C. S. Robinson, speaking | on half-way piety and wegative sin; through Mr. Rossiter, describing the progress of faith in the soul and the manhood of Jesus Christ; Gmwerat SaeRmaN, when “the gold dis- | mast, sooner or later, be found in Congregation- | through Dr. Sproul, who will give a deliver- coveries in the Biack Hills were first re- alism, in which the question of the degree of ance on dancing, and Mr. Paynter, who will ported, warned the public that it would be | independence possessed by churches will be | expound the symbolic meaning of the court dangerous to attempt to profit by them now. ‘iis advice and the prohibition of the govern- ment were disregarded, and the first result is substituted for that of the powers of the laity among the Methodists. In all these debates | and differences there ought to be but one pur- and the brazen altar of Solomon's temple. The Baptist pulpit will speak through Mr. McArthur, who will draw spiritual lessons that out of s party of seven persons who pose—to establish as well defined and strict a | from the fading autumn leaves and from started to find gold two were killed andtwo church government as is consistent with re- | Paul's conversion; through Mr. Kennard, wounded by the Brule Sionx. The Indians fare determined to protect their territory from these expeditions, and, though the gold may | not be found by reckless invaders, dean cannot bo missed, ligious freedom. All the conventions and conferences which have been held this year prove that Protes- tantism, in all its splits and branches, is tend- ing towards unity, and the question which ia who will contrast the character of Pharisees | and publicans and will try even faintly to set | forth whet is implied in awaking in God's likeness, as it is said His saints will do at the leat arent dav. Tr. Samneon will illustrate | | twenty years from date. All chivalric rela- theories of evolution, he lives amid the ap- plause of the few and dies unknelled, uncof- fined and unknown. To escape this terriblo fate he saddles the hobby horse of induction and rides rough shod over the faiths and convictions of centuries, sending dismay into the camp of the unlearned and inviting everybody to assemble quickly to witness the explosion and the general conflagration. Of all men our scientists should carefully confine themselves to their several departments of re- search. It is not theirs to reckon the religious consequences of a discovery, but to make new discoveries, It is the business of the theo- logian to make inductions from facts ascer- tained, and thereby to modify the religious creeds of the people. The new school of scientists, however, seems determined to leave the theologians nothing to do, but assumes the right to judge not only the facts of the physical but the faiths of the spiritual world. It is still more pitiful to note the tendency to sensational buffoonery which is creeping into the pulpit. If a minister desires to be popular, and has the requisite amount of shrewdness and brass, he begins by a display of rhetorical pyrotechnics which attracts the common eye, and holds his own so long as he has strength and agility to make his audience laugh at his picturesque gymnastics. So mor- bid has the taste of the people become that they actually require a large amount of spirit- ual buncombe in order to keep up their in- terest.” Plain Scripture seems to be flat, stale and unprofitable, and they demand the pepper and salt of eccentric phraseology, and seem to be most delighted when the preacher is most a ranting actor, tearing the air with frantic gesticulations and making sport of things aforetime held sacred. Crowds wait on the ministrations of the clerical comedian who burlesques religion, while the pews of the reverend expounder of Holy Writ remain empty and unrented. Sober-minded men sooner or later become disgusted with the general farce; but while looking upon the current methods of dealing with religion as the equivalent of the counterfeit currency that is afloat feel powerless against the strong tide of public opinion. The trouble begins with American educa- tion and homes. Schoolgirls who should confine their attention to short clothes and arithmetic are fed with the exciting pabulam of a false literature, and are unconsciously stimulated by a style of novel which under- mines the moral nature by unduly heating the imagination. The fiction of the day hides under cover of an interesting story theories of domestic life which honeycom) society, and these theories are absorbed into the moral nature of the young to such an ex- tent that we are almost daily compelled to | record extravagances which show that the common sense of the community is on the ebb. Home education is entirely neglected, and that delicate sense of honor which should be as bright and as dangerous to touch rudely as the edge of a razor, is giving way to a cer- tain waywardness and recklessness, the logical result of which will be ill-assorted marriages, domestic unhappiness and a crop of divorces tions between the sexes are fast fading out, and American society is being given over to the control of boys and girls in their teens. ‘They are the false queens and knights of the chesgboard, while ambitious mammas are convenient pawns, occupying a position in the background, and never appearing unless called for. Every one knows that this political, social and moral bankruptcy comes from the want of | early training, and history is not backward in illustrating the consequences of general cor- ruption, There is an inevitable logic in the life of a people, as in the life of an individual. We must get down on the hardpan of hon- | orable manhood and pure womanhood or we shall meet the fate which has overtaken nations that were stronger than we are. This sickly sentimentalism in religion and this social namby pambyism must be exorcised by a decent literature and by a pulpit that dares to be honest and simple, before our girls will make good wives or our boys honorable mer- chants. Tur Execrion of Mr. Wilson to Congress | from West Virginia will make the next dele- | gation from that State entirely democratic. | see in this another reason why the President should now deny that he is a candidate for re- _¢legtion—that ia, if he can denv if, | and to report. The Voice of the Religious Press. have taken this course only in conséquence of Two principal topics command the atten- | finding it absolutely impossible to secure tion and editorial thought of the religious press this week. They are politics in their relation to the coming election, and ecclesias- ticism, as represented in the Episcopal Gen- eral Convention and in the questions that must naturally and inevitably come before it. On the first of these subjects the Christian Union reviews the several questions of civil rights and State rights, negro oppression and carpet- bagism, finance ard kindred topics, which are likely to come up for settlement, sooner or later, among us. It considers that, while the negroes have in some districts been shame- fully abused and ill-used, yet the stories of their woes have been greatly exaggerated. The Union pleads again for justice to the South and asks the government to withdraw its moral support from the upholders of bad State governments. It demands an immedi- ate change in the case of Louisiana. The Observer hopes that New York and New Jersey will give a full and unanimous vote in favor of the amendments to their respective State constitutions, which are to be submitted to the people at the next election. The Independent expresses a like hope touching this State. The Jewish Times is of opinion that the citizen who votes for nominees of Tammany Hall helps to fasten upon the community a yoke worse than that of slavery. It, therefore, ap- peals to every citizen who can bring any influ- ence to bear to exert it, in order that the op- position to the ring rule may be concentrated in one grand uprising against the nefarious attempt made by political wirepullers. The Freeman's Journal very ably reviews the correspondence that has taken place in the Hxratp between Charles O’Conor and Reverdy Johnson on Louisiana affairs. It does not like and never did like the latter, since he it was who furnished Justice Taney with that extra-judicial comment in the Dred Scott decision, which has been a blot anda byword on the American character and name. The Journal thinks he is much more of a politician than a jurist, and he takes the politician’s view of the Presi- dent’s action in restoring the Kellogg gov- ernment in Louisiana, It believes, with Mr. O'Conor, that the President was wrong in the beginning, and his new act in putting Kellogg back again, against the clear and almost unani- mous will of the outraged people of Louisiana, was an act of wanton and lawless brute power. The Tablet spreads itself over a couple of columns to give its readers some light on the dark subject of choosing honest candidates for office in the next election, and advises its friends not to vote the straight ticket in any case, but to do some independent thinking and scrotching—most excellent advice. On the other chief topic the Christian Union felicitates the Episcopalians on their content- ment with their own Church and their cordial invitation to all others to comein. But it declines to accept the invitation until it is cer- tain that there is room enough in “the Church’’ for those who are already in. It hopes that a clear line will be drawn as the limit of toleration or a broad comprehension be openly avowed. The Evangelist reviews the work of the Church Congress recently held here, and generally applauds the papers that were read. It especially praises Dr. Washburne’s paper and Bishop Whipple's ad- dress. It thinks the Congress will command much more popular interest than the Conven- tion, which is bound down by dockets, canons and precedents. No one expects that it will give very energetic expression to anything original or startling even on the vital issues that shall come before it. Church and State sums up the benefits of the Church Congress in promoting genuine religious faith, guaran- teeing the quiet, orderly working of sucha system of ministrics as the Protestant Epis- copal Church needs, the development of in- dividual self-control and the cultivation of mutual confidence and mutual respect. The same journal very courteously, but decidedly, condemns the secrecy of the Convention, and intimates that in doing so the Convention has ignored the rights of that immense audience waiting without for the issue of debate and action. It adds, on the matters under discussion, that the Chufch is not to be helped by going back to the old fields of controversy, and giving a fresh im- pulse to ancient theories of the sacraments, by reaffirming eucharistic adoration, euchar- istic sacrifice; but it is to find new lite for its work by moving one step nearer the Protes- tant life and interest of this age and nation. The Pacific Railroad. The report of the three commissioners on the Pacific Railroad is wonderfally like the famous defence in the tub case. First, the defendant returned the plaintiff’s tub not damaged in the least, but in a sound condi- tion; second, the tub was in a bad condition when defendant borrowed it; and, third, he “never had the d—d old tub, anyhow.” Ina similar vein this committee proceeds to show that the views of Secretary Cox’s Committee on the Condition of the Road were erroneous— that scarcely any of the things which that committee réquired should be done needed to be done, and that the company has spent $2,215,976 where the former com- mittee called for an expenditure of $1,380,000. Upon the whole we do not like this report. It has a superservicable tone of | friendliness toward the company, which sug- gests that the makers of the report have be- | come advocates, and if they have become ad- | | vocates there can be but one sort of reason for it. Perhaps the very name ot Pacific Railroad suggests unpleasant thoughts of pe- culiar financial relations, when government officials have dealings with this corporation, | and we hope that may be the worst of it. Great deficiencies were reported by Sccretary | | Cox's Commission and definite recommenda- | tions were made as to what should be done. | This committee was appointed to in- quire if these things had been done, Upon the affirmative re- port of this committee will probably be based official action for the issue to the | company of patents for twelve million acres of public land. It is of great consequence to the company, therefore, that an affirmative report should be sent in. One of these three Commissioners is a Mr. John S. Delano, of Ohio, and we understand this is the son of Republicans who are opposed to having their | the Secretary of the Interior. As the com- | party carry the third term load will probably mittee is one of such importance we are sorry that the Secretary appointed his son a mem- ber of it; for, since he thus exposes a near .selative to inavitabla imoutations, he conld three thoroughly honest men in the United States outside of his own family. This dis. courages us as to morality in our beloved country. ‘Tweed’s Case. One more effort in Court to relieve Tweed of the painful necessity of remaining on an island he can scarcely admire is on foot. Alt the proceedings by which Tweed was placed where he is were naturally disputed and ques- tioned step by step by his counsel; so that their opinions of any given act will scarcely be accepted as valid against a process whose results were satisfactory to the public, and as yet we have only their view of the new point, and from that it would be unsafe to form any judgment. But if there were any lapses— even only technical lapses—in the process, if the links that justice has forged against the criminal are defective at any point, we shall surely know it, for the strain will no doubt be continual, and the well paid activity of counsel will never cease till the man is freed or his time has run out. ° And taking things as they are, in all this case, it is quite safe to say that if the lawyers do not get Tweed ont of prison, on one plea ox another, it will be a most uncommon failure on their part, or else our criminal authorities have been greatly misrepresented. If we can keep that man in prison turough his whole term with ‘justice’ among us such as it iq represented to be, and in spite of all the money that must be in reserve to pay lawyers, we are, perhaps, the only people equal to such an achievement. A Srrancz Story.—Wealth is sometimes found in the possession of persons who have all the appearance of poverty, and this is the case with Bryant, the old man who for many years had a stand in front of the old North Dutch church, and was recently arrested for buying stolen postage stamps from boys. Mr. Bryant now claims that his house has been robbed sinco his arrest of one hundred thou- sand dollars, and the detectives are looking tor the money. A man who had seventy thousand dollars in gold, besides greenbacks and silver, ought to have been above the mean- ness of inducing boys to plunder their em- ployers of three cent stamps. Tue American Jockey Cuvps yesterday ended its fall meeting at Jerome Park in the presence of thousands of people and with six capital races. Acrobat was one of the win- ners, and won splendidly; in fact, giving hia competitors an advantage in the middle of the race and then regaining it. At Sea View Park also the inaugural trotting meeting was brilliantly closed; Sweetmeats winning a closely contested race, which altogether re- quired nine heats to decide. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Fourteen thousand persons have had fever thig year at Damascus, Dr. H. M. Wells, United States Navy, is stopping at the New York Hotel. General George W. McCook, of Ohto, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Paymaster Henry P. Tattle, United States Navy, is registered at the Hoffinan House. Senator Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, has apartments at ths Albemarle Hotel. The Governor General of Canada will rematn in the United States for two weeks longer. Berlin is said to be troubled at the good will ex- isting bewween St. Petersburg and Vienna, A centenary edition of the poems of Robert Tannahill, who was born in 1774, 1s published, Commodore Jonn J. Glasson, United States Navy, is quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. James E. Harvey, formerly United States Minister to Portugal, is at the New York Hotel. F, J. Dickens, son of the novelist, is in this city, and will probably take up his residence at Ottawa. Richelieu’s tomb in the Soroonne, Paris, was falling to pieces trom decay and has been restored. General Rufus Saxton, United States Army, is among the recent arrivals atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. fion, Edward Jenkins, M. P., returns to England next week, after an extended tour of the Do- minton, Morris Jenks was fined $500 in Yokohama for keeping a gambling house. Jenks had better come to this city. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in this city last evening from Chicago and isat the Grand Central Hotel. Right Rev. William McCloskey, Roman Catholic Bisnop of Louisville, is temporarily residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. When will the war probably be ended, in Butier’s opinion, if Butier can get a fee of $1,000 now ang then while the war lasts? The Emperor Wiliam will go to Italy on a visit to King Victor Emmanuel next year. So says a cable telegram from Berlin, La Revue Canadienne, a literary monthly of Mon- treal, has published a series of valuable articles om the history of Frenchmen in America. Sherman isin the way of the plans of those people at Washington, because, you see, he is Commander of the Army. But he is not fool enough to resign. “Persia, Ancient and Modern,” by John Piggot, of London, supplies an excellent popular history and descripsion of that notable country up to date. A a Rev. Robert Uollyer has finally decided not to accept the call which he recently received from the Church of the Messian, New York, and will re- main in Chicago. Dr. Freedenthal, German Minister of Agriculture, is the first man of Jewish race who ever became a Cabinet Minister in that country. It was the last post surrendered. And now we hear that nearly everyhody was opposed to the third term all the time, but didn’s think it worth while to say so. Well, why is it worth while now? Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon, who has been making a visit to Philadelphia and Washington, has re-' turned to this city and taken up his residence at the Brevoort House. At Sheffield people drown themselves in the reservoir from which water 1s drawn for public use, and in the time of one keeper ninety bodies have been found in that reservoir. The Paris Figaro says that 45,000 greenfinches are blinded every year in France to make them sing, and that this cruelty is practised generally by the little boys at the primary schools, The Englishman, edited by Kenealy, the claim- ant’s counsel, is libelling right and left smong the witnesses in that case, Was there ever a legak case before which gave origin to a newspaper f Now that every person who contributed toward that tea set is to be dismissed trom the public ser. vice, we wait impatiently to learn what tney pro- pose to do with those who “contributed” to pur. chase gifts for the President. Acomplete edition of the poems and miscel lanies of Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, ie soon to appear in Paisley, Scotland, his birthplace. Wilson arrived in Philadelphia in 1794, and@ wat buried in the old Swedes’ church im 1813, Grant's Washington organ demands that Sher man shall resign his post as Command@er of the Army. Does this mean that they hawe given at the third term since the Western slections ane would like to have Sherman’s placeffor Grant ? Certainly the American people builded betes than they knew when they meMe Grant President and by thus removing him Arom the comman¢ of the army gave that poss to a man who is not in the hands of rogues 4nd intriguers, as Clay th the bands of the potters | | j | | | 0