The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1874, Page 6

~~ TRIPLE SHEET. 3 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. 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. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GERMANIA THEATRE, eye street—EIN ERFOLG, at8 P. ROBINSON HALL, Sizieent street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— | Y,ats P.M. ‘es renty-t! it ft, ne: cix ave —! WINSTRELSY den ui SPS closes at 10 Psa Di Bryant ROPOLITAN THEATRE, fo,st8 Broadway. Vanier’, at 8 P.M; closes at 10 x OR'S OPERA HOUSE, Be. 201 Bowery -VARIE Y. at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10 P, M, NCIS NSTRELS, B way, Parole ot Iwe inih street.—NEGRO HINSTRELSY, ats PM; closes at 10 P.M. rte i W THEATRE. wevieve DE street and sixth avenue.— SR eeR Te arse. os closes at lis P.M. Mise Binily beldene. 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Tae Wirrer Carnrvat at Washington will | this time not be as gay and brilliant among the ruling powers as they had intended it should be before their eyes were drawn to the handwriting on the wall. Tue Drrricutty between China and Japan has been amicably settled, China agreeing to | pay an indemnity on condition that the Japanese troops are to be withdrawn from Formosa, As tHe Fran of a third term depressed the business of the country, because the move- ment indicated a conflict which could not but result in uncertainty, so the removal of that | fear is followed by increasing confidence in commercial circles. The views of some of our principal merchants on this subject are | presented in our columns. | Great Lawiessness exists in the mining | regions of Pennsylvania, and many outrages | arc committed. ‘he authorities of that State | are certainly strong enough to repress dis- | orders, and they ought to see to it that brig- | ndage and organized outrage are stopped. Unless the ‘Molly Maguires’’ are taught to obey the law in time they may become a very dangerous element in the community. . Recznt Novers.—We present this morning a résumé of some English and American nov- els which have just appeared from the press. These stories are the old tale of life and love, varied with the lights and shades that make them ever new. There are many readers who | are always anxious to learn something in re- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1874,-TRIPLE ‘SHEET. My, Reverdy Johnson’s Third Letter. | enor, thi) President having no power to send | in the South beginning to appear. And here, The cogent production which we lay before our readers this morning has been in our of the ap) >lying State. A fugitive criminal is to be delivered up ‘on demand of the Ex- would not command the attention it merits | ¢cutive a1 thority of the State from which he amid the tumult of an exciting popular elec- | ane D omestie violence is to be suppressed tion, We trust the public mind has so far re- | ‘on appt ication of the Executive when the sumed its wonted quiet that it will again | Legislature cannot be convened. relish the depth, gravity and logic which have | It is, therefore, too evident for dispute that so often imparted dignity to our columns in | 6V°ry Governor of every State in the Union the recent varied discussion of the Louisiana question by the great lights of the American | which Jaiely came before the President, as Bar. his discussion is the newest and not | often as any other Governor makes a requisi- the least instructive development of modern | tion to sliver up an. escaped criminal. If journalism, or rather of that side of journalism | Kellogg b adapphed to»Governor Dix to surren- which seeks to enlighten the public judgment | 1" 4 1ug.live murderer Governor Dix would troops ard the State Executive having no | too, we have again the verification of the old authority to send back a criminal if the per- proverb that ‘the darkest hour is just before | possession since its date, some twelve days son maki: 1g the demand is not the Governor | tue break of day.’’ | ago. Ithas been so long withheld because | # we feared that its weighty juridical reasoning | A National Convention of Defeated Candidates. Our proposition that a national convention of defeated republican candidates shall be held has been received with such hearty ap- proval that there is no doubt that it will be | formally adopted. Some persons have sup- | has to de: side a question of the very same kind | posed that this suggestion was ironical and Satanic in spirit ; but we beg to say that it wos nothing of the kind. We advise the hold- ing of sucha convention with absolute sin- cerity and with the serious conviction that it is a solemn duty the republican party has to M, + closes at | satisfactory and instructive than the new prac- on the great occurrences which it is the | first duty of a newspaper to report. ;@ discussion as is going on in the | Henatp between the ripest legal minds in the | | country is, on some classes of questions, more | | tice of oral interviews, although the value of interviews is not to be underrated. Even the | impromptu haste with which the views ex- | pressed in a newspaper interview are formed | is no disparagement if the subjects are not | such as require elaborate investigation. The | first thoughts of a sharp, expert man, are often useiul as hints and sometgmes as settled | conclusions. Many of the views of journalists themselves are as extemporaneous and unpre- pared as the opinions gathered in interviews, and there is no argument against this form of instruction which is not equally good against | most of the sudden editorial writing done on fresh topics, There is no reason why men engaged in banking, commerce, railroading, | Davigation, diplomacy or other special pur- | suits should not be as competent to form | prompt opinions on sudden occurrences in | their respective lines of activity as journalists | | are expected to be to judge of the same oo | currences when the telegraph reports them at | midnight; and yet no journal can maintain its standing if it does not explain important | news by immediate comments. The advan- | tage of interviewing is that it gives readers | | the different views, all equally sudden, of va- | rious men of capacity, and the means of es timating their soundness by comparison. But questions often arise requiring graver consideration and deeper treatment, like the points of constitutional law involved in the Louisiana controversy. On points so intricate | and difficult the only men whose opinions are | of any value will not hazard them without | | reflection, and the ordinary process of inter- viewing is not available. The Heratp claims the merit of having found a superior substi- tute. It solicited the written views of several of the most distinguished statesmen and lawyers in the United States, and the result is the extremely able discussion which is con- tinued in our columns to-day. When a jour- nal bas become so great, respectable and widely circulated that all the first minds are willing to make it the vehicle of conveying their views to the public such a journal may then be said to subsidize and lay under tribute all the intellectual resources of the country, collecting the brightest rays of intelligence to one powerful focus, whence they are again diffused for the universal enlightenment of the people. Mr. Johnson's present letter is the longest which either he or any other of the eminent disputants has contributed to this discussion; but it is the copi- ousness of a iull mind which has many strong points to present and does not intend to recur again to the subject. He goes into a searching examination of the arguments of Mr. O’Conor, and reviews incisively, but at less length, the letters of Mr. George Ticknor Curtis and Judge Black, both of whom also opposed his opinion. We have so often ex- pressed our concurrence in Mr. Johuson’s main position that we will not take up space with repetition nor impair the force of his new arguments by restating or abridging them. Be- speaking for Mr. Johnson's letter the attention which it will richly repay, we wish to submit to the judgment of the legal profession a view of this subject which has not yet been pre- sented by any of the eminent reasoners who have kandled it. We wish to suggest, with proper diffidence and deference, that the correct standpoint for the discussion of this question is a standpoint taken from the principles of international law, whereas it has been almost exclusively dis- cussed as # question of constitutional author- ity. This suggestion is not intended as o paradox, but as a view susceptible of being | sustained by solid arguments which we will pre- sent with all possible brevity. Most unques- tionably international law has a certain sphere of application to the mutual relations of the States with each other and with the federalgovernment. “The States are foreign to each other in relation to the unsurrendered | part of their sovereignty.” This expression is Madison's, repeated from Jefferson ; but we cannot make it very intelligible without the aid ofan example, and we will select the most pertinent one in American history. Wo refer to the requisition made by the Gov- ernor of Virginia, in 1839, on the Governor of | New York for the surrender of escaped crim- | inals, which led to a protracted and elabor- ate controversy between the Executives of the two States.—(See Seward’s Works, vol. ii., gard to the latest novel—readers whose tastes incline toward some special field in the domain of fiction. To all these our sketches of the new novels will commend themselves. Tur Busrxess or THE APPROACHING SESSION or Coxanzss.—Rumors thicken to the effect that the republicans, at the approaching short session of Congress, will atone for their un- appreciated experimental retrenchments of the late long session in generous appropria- tions and: magnificent jobs of all descriptions. Deficiency bills will be the first thing in order, and then, from increased estimates in the reports of the executive departments, we are to have increased appropriations in the regular bills for the ensuing fiscal year. And then more grants of lands and bonds to North- ern and Southern Pacific railroads are talked of, and steamship and telegraph subsidies on @ grand scale, all to be covered by a new loan and more paper money. It is probable that, as a large proportion of the members of the present Congress will go out on the 4th of March, they will seek to make the most of the brief term of power remaining to them by providing and sharing in s good harvest for the lobby. Such are the conditions of the market and the signs of the times, | pp. 449-518.) In that controversy the two Governors quoted against each other Vattel, Grotius, Kent and other writers on inter- | national law, both being of opinion that the | dispute ought to be determined by its prin- | ciples. ‘In conclusion,”’ said Governor Sew- | ard, “I hope I have not been unsuccessful in showing that the principle I have adopted is in perfect harmony with the law of nations, as laid down by Vattel and expounded by | Chancellor Kent." The law of nations, then, | has a place in regulating the intercourse of our American States with one another. By pursuing that controversy between | Governor Seward and the Executive of Virgi- | nia a step farther we shall discover how close the analogy 1s between it and the Louisiana controversy, in which so many great lawyers are participating. The separate constitu- tional provisions under which the two cases arose have some striking points of identity. In both an application must be made betore assistance can be rendered. In both the ap- | plication proceeds from the State Executive. | In both the responding Executive—the Pres- ident or the State Governor—is under the necessity of deciding whether the person | bave been: under precisely the same necessity of | discharge for itself andthe country. The con- Such | deciding whether Kellogg was Governor of | Vention would be a perfect success, notwith- Louisiana that President Grant was in Sep- standing the fact that every member of it is tember. The advantage of looking atthe sub- | 2 utter failure, for it must be remembered ject in this light is, that: wo get clear of a cer- | that although a man may be defeated tain com*asing notion ‘of superiority, which | for Governor, Senator, Representative or has causi:d the Presidant's action to be dis- | legislator, his usefulness may not only cussed as if he had seme authority to make | survive that defeat, but may actually and unmake State governments, when he has | be increased. There is a dignity in | private life which is often far above the daz- zling honors of mere political success, and no spectacle is nobler than that of men bearing adversity with magnanimity, and finding, perchance, consolation in the sight of each other's distresses. There is no more touching picture in the Bible than that of Job sitting among ashes and bewailing his boils. Solo- | mon in his glory may be admired, but we love Job. It may not be irreverent either to the patriarch or to the republican candidates if we say that their conditions havea certain likeness. Yet Job had no companions in his misfortanes, and was deprived of that sooth- ing consciousness which the republicans pos- sess. Forty or fifty Jobs sitting on the same ash heap and each afflicted with an cqual number of boils would have refreshed him in his misery; but even that privilege, alas! was refused to the aged man. Yet there are considerations connected with such a convention which seem to us to be superior to even the comfort of its members. | Pleasing as it would doubtless be for General Butler to condole with Mr. Sypher, or for Senator Carpenter to sympathize with Senator Chandler, we do not urge the convention simply as a method of relieving their personal suffering. High above the alleviation of in- dividual grief stands the interest of the repub- lican party. It is that interest whica we believe the convention would serve. It is plain that nothing can be expected for the relief of the no more such authority than any Governor of a distant State. The power of recognizing this or that manas the’ Executive of this or that State, for the time being, is a power which the President shiires with every one of the thirty-six other Governors—it being as necessary to decide 1who is Governor before a criminal can be surrendered to him as to decide who is Governor, before troops can be sent to him to put dowr) an insurrection. We venture to think that this question might be simplified and) elucidated by consid- ering the rules which ou\ght to guide the other State Governors in recognizing Kellogg and McEnery. When it is i.ssumed that they are bound by the decision ojf the President it is an assumption without; any legal warrant. Suppose Kellogg had mide no application to | the President in Septesnber, but, after com- mitting a murder, had |fled from the State, leaving McEnery in whl lisputed possession, supposing that McEnery|, in undisturbed pos- session, had made a req) uisition on Governor Dix for the surrender of | the fugitive Kellogg, how would the Governor of New York have decided? It would be ai >surd to say that the last action of the Presijient bound him, for that was the early recogniition of Kellogg. The President could not have Iecognized McEnery, for, by the supposition, he did not,apply for | assistance. But would a ll crimes committed in the State have to ge unpunished, if the criminals could escape, bicause the Governors of other States could noj$ recogiize McEnery under such circumstances| ? We only suggest this liixe of reasoning; we have not space to pursue(it. It would lead us into a very interesting! but too discursive field. As the final upshc\t of the discussion we should find that the authority of the President to make or unmiake Governors in Louisiana is precisely neitl ier greater nor less than it would be to make «or unmake Gover- nors in Cuba, if that island ! were independent and we were bound by treaty to protect it against domestic violence, |*on applicatton of its Executive, when its Le)gislature cannot be assembled.” Mr. Tilden’s Op) portunity. Mr. Tilden. evidently means to bea model Governor, and, should events hold ont, he will not regard the democr atic nomination for | the Presidency as beneath him. He will, no doubt, enter upon his duties with high purposes and a firm pojiicy, so far as the thieves are concerned. 1]He will make short | work of the remnants of the old Tammany Ring, and, we trust, will deal with Mr. Kelly in a firmer spirit than jwhen he consented to some of the Ring ‘nominations during the canvass. We shel have a_high- toned administration iz: Albany, and New York will feel proud of; her Governor. But one duty he owes to sc ciety, and he cannot afford to postpone it. Hie should get married. Mr. Tilden is a great statesman, and he knows that marriage isan hajnorable institution, a sacrament of one Church and especially blessed by God. He knows allso that the efforts of wise men have been toward the encourago- ment of marriage among our people as a means of elevating society, and that marriage | is, perhaps, the highes!; form of modern civili- | zation. Why, then, [should he hesitate to make his own life a conspicuous example of the wisdom and bieauty of the marriage state? He may be» hard to please, but there are ten thousand anxious mothers in New York city aloe who will convince him if he will only give heed. Let him think of the unsecn beaufty and virtue and intelli- gence which would |blush with pride at the opportunity to crowya and round his life. Let him remember the )many dreary hours he has already passed in jponely isolation, and pic- ture, if he can, th’e gloomy condition of a Governor who has 110 one with whom to share his sorrows and hiis joys. So, for his own peace and comfort, os well as for the example to the rising generation, we implore him to think well of his duty in this essential regard. He owes it to the married “men and women of New York to accept tkiis new and honorable rela- tion, and if he iss too busy now to give as much time as he would like to the matter he will find in the |advertising columns of the Henatp an unrivalled opportunity for pre- senting his case tc) his fellow countrywomen. If Mr. Tilden wil] send us his advertisement we will print it it our regular rates, for we can make no deduction from our regular rates, not even for a Governor elect and candi- date for the Preisidency, but we will give him a first class notice free of all expense. We desire to avoid the scandal of having a bachelor in the (sovernor's chair of our great State, and our best efforts are at the disposal of Mr. Tilden jto lead him toa proper and prompt perforirance of a delicate and imme- diate duty. Sovturnn Onions or tHe Recent Exzc- t1ons.—We are gratified to perceive, from the opinions of leading men in the Southern States, concerning the late elections, that while the reptiblicans have evidently a clear | perception off the causes of this great popular reaction, North and South, the Southern con- servatives and democrats are disposed to moderation, conciliation and submission to the powers that be, and to the laws, even to bad laws, watil they can be lawfully repealed or set aside, This is the right spirit for the republican party from the next House of Repre- sentatives. The reason for this, as all these gentlemen must admit, is that the next House will have a democratic majority. Where, then, can relief for the party be found? Clearly only in the convention of defeated can- didates. In the first place it would be an easily organized body; the expense and trouble of electing delegates would not exist, the delegates having been already chosen, and a nonecertificate of elec- tion to the office for which he ran would en- title any man to aseat. Thus all the bother about credentials would be avoided. A simple sum in subtraction would be all that Governor Dix, for instance, would have to do to obtain unchallenged admission. In the second place, it would be composed of leaders of the republican party, representative men, pos- sessed of national influencs. True, it may be said that they led the party to defeat, that they represent ruin, and that their influence was exerted to restore to power the democratic party; but this would be only the taunt of their opponents, not of their friends. Does any one imagine that Job cared what the Tishbites said about his boils? No, it was not what was said, but the boils that hurt him. We trust these gentlemen can forgive a.sneer and will not shrink from holding this solemn con- vention, because it might, to superficial minds, seem an absurd mockery of their splendid meetings in the past. In the third place, no persons are as competent to explain the defeat of the republican party as its candidates. They are experts in the matter, and what they If we wanted to know how it feels to have a leg amputated, would we go to a man with both legs? Certainly we should ask of one who had undergone the operation. So with these candidates. The President gives one explanation, the Vice President another, Mr. Bristow another, Mr. Kellogg another, and so on, till we are puzzled to decide why the re- publican party was beaten. Was it the panic, the third term, or the Civil Rights bill? These are questions the convention might debate, and in so doing discover the reason for its own existence. It must be conceded that not one of the delegates would admit it to be his own fault that he was defeated, but surely none of themare beyond conviction. Mr. Dawes might explain to General Butler the causes of his unpopularity, and General Bntler might do the same service to Mr. Dawes. Thus the convention would be as improving as a Shaker meeting, where every member points out the sins of his companions. Unless this convention of defeated candi- dates is held there is no hope for the republi- can party. We say this frankly and with no other motives than those of kindness, The only objection that seems to have any force is based upon its enormous size. They say that there is no building in America large enough to hold the vast concourse from all parts of the Union. But not only the bulk of the convention but the size of its members is to be considered, and many of them are much smaller men than they appeared to be during the canvasg The Senate chamber and the House of Representatives at Washington will not hold them, we know. It is impossible for them to get into those buildings. Yet outside of the legislative halls and other public edi- fices there is certainly room enough. Let them occupy it. In any case the convention must be held, and if it is we predict that the democracy will be petrified to find the repub- lican party still so large, and will only be able to explain the recent victory on the theory that the defeated republican candidates did not vote. Tue Resvtt ww Tznxesszz is the subject of aletter on the elections, which we print in to-day’s issue of the Heratp. Our corre- spondent gives some insight into the relations which at present exist between whites and blacks in the chief commercial city of that victors an<i the vanquished, and thus good | State, and predicts a better feeling ae sure to making the application is the actual Gov- | feuite fropx,these late elections are already | follow the recent triumphs, would say would be pertinent and practical. | The Prosecution of Count Arnim=The Great Romance of Modern Politics. When Lord Byron said that he ‘awoke one morning and found himself famous’’ he used a form of expression which but faintly repre- sents the sudden and surprising prominence lately given to the name of Von Arnim. To the general public it was, six weeks ago, an utterly unknown name, although it has long been familiar to the students of German literature, from its close association with the history of Goethe, the greatest German poet, and the greatest poet in any language since Shakespeare. The fantastic love of Elizabeth Von Arnim, better known in literature as Bettina Von Arnim, for Goethe, and the singular volumes which she published, giving Goethe's ‘correspondence with a chilad”—meaning ‘herself—has made the name o familiar one in the republic of letters. But in politics and public affairs it first emerged into prominence in connection with the recent affair which attracts the attention of Europe and “the world. There has been no such recent instance of the sudden liftigg of a name into world-wide renown. To be dignified as the opponent of Bismarck, to be made the theme of all tongues and all pens, to excite a more active personal curiosity than has been aroused in European politics for half a century, is at least notoriety, if it be not fame, and may partially compensate Count Armin for all he has suffered in his strange persecution and imprisonment. Nor is Von Arnim less power- fal because of his imprisonment and the | charges that are preferred against him, but, on the contrary, unless he is utterly crushed in the trial, these misfortunes will extend his influence. The pride of the diplomatic ser- vice of Europe has been roused by the rude manner of his arrest, and is cause has been earnestly sustained. The extracts we give to- day from the London Times, tae Kreuz Zeitung andthe Magdeburger Zeitung, show how the case is regarded from the diplomatic point of view. It is obvious, however, that some- thing more important is involved in Count Arnim’s case than a breach of diplomatic discipline. If it were only a question of form and routine, if nothing were involved in it beyond the proper custody of diplomatic documents, it would be a simple question of domestic German politics, and there would be no reason why it should agitate Europe and the world. It probably touches on questions which stir the public mind of Europe to its profoundest depths, Bismarck is engaged in a great struggle with the Papacy. This is, at present, the dominant question in German politics. It is supposed that the abstracted documents bear on this great question, and that if Count Arnim should give them to the public they would seriously compromise Bis- marck in the Catholic controversy. If this conjecture is well founded there is an easy solution of the deep interest which the Ger- man Chancellor takes in the prosecution of Von Arnim. If it were a mere private matter, affecting only the per- sonal standing of Count Arnim as a German diplomat, anxious to protect himself against the censures of his cfiicial chief, it would be too trivial to engage the attention of the civilized world. But instead of that we find that the radical and the conservative parties of Germany are the real combatants, and that not only Europe, but America, recog- nizes the importance of the question which Bis- marck has boldly raised. Sunday Amusements in New York. The Sabbath was instituted as a day of rest and notasa day of idleness. It would be impossible to keep it now asin the old blue law days of Connecticut. To properly rest there must bo recreation, and we welcome every indication that the American Sunday is becoming less of a penance and more of a pleasure tothe people. There are many per- sons, no doubt, whose religious feelings were shocked by the fact that yesterday evening no less than eight sacred concerts, operas or plays were presented to the New York public. Yet few things could be of greater bonefit to a large city. Weadmit that “La Traviata,” which was given at the Grand Opera House, “Barbe Bleue,’’ at the Stadt Theatre, ‘Buffalo Bil,’’ at the Bowery Theatre, and “Ein Erfolg’ at the Germania Theatre, ure not sacred concerts in the strict sénse of the term; butn name is nothing. The manager calls the lyric drama, in which the woes of Violetta aro celebrated, a sacred concert, out of courtesy to the clergy; but in doing so he may speak more truth than he is aware of. Sir Thomas Browne, who ought to be pretty good religious authority, said that all music was sacred to him, and that even the common tavern music, which made one man melan- choly and another mad, would orouse in him feelings of devotion and praise. No doubt there are persons who could not appreciate the Requiem Mass by Verdi, which was sung at St. Stephen’s church last night, who would really be moved to devout sentiments by the Gran Dio in ‘‘La Traviata.”’ Sunday amusements, of a harmless end re- fined character, are absolutely necessary to the morality of a great city. It is far better to spend Sunday evening in a theatre than in a barroom, and husbands would do well to take their wives to the opera, instead of sel- fishly wasting their time and money in the low ginshops which abound in New York. We have seen as yet no evidence that dramatic and musical performances on Sunday inter- fere with more serious devotions, while we aro quite sure that they materially contribute to the sobriety and happiness of the city. ‘Tt Fortunes or tHe Cantists.—The cor- respoadent of the Henaup with the Carlist forcet before Irun telegraphs that the siege has been raised, notwithstanding the troops were ready for the attack and confident of vic- tory. The reason seems to be that the govemment forces wero largely reinforced during the night previous. But by far the mostimportant part of our special despatch is tle denial of any disaffection among the adheents of Don Carlos. After a defeat, or wha is equivalent to a defeat, disaffection, if it etists, is sure to show itself; but our cor- respndent, who is in a position to know the fact, ascribes the very opposite qualities to the Jarlist soldiery. The raising of the siege of kun can scarcely fail, however, to have a military strength and weakness has neveg been presented, and it has particular interest at this time, owing to the pretensions of Ras- sia in Europe and the East. Much has been said of the extravagance and corruptions in our own army during the war, but the Hznann correspondent relates the ‘operations’ of @ Russian general in the Crimea which comm Pletely eclipse the jobbery of American quar termasters and contractors. Our officials were sometimes paid for oxen which were not fur nished, but the Russian government, it seems, . — taxed for getting rid of an imaginary \e1 The Pulpit Yesterday. The unusually large number of sacred come certs given in this city yesterday did not ine terfere in the least with the attendance of the churches, Nor is it likely they will ever do so, for all cultured and intelligent institutions strengthen and aid each other. The drama helps the opera, the opera benefits the Church, especially the musical services, the Church sustains the press and the press upholds them all Theatre goers and church attendants were at one time distinct classes, but now they caunot be separated; the family which has a box at Wallack’s on Saturday, generally occupies a pew at some fashionable church on Sunday. Observation of this truth will probably lead our influential men to disapproveof the bigoted oppo- sition to enlightened amusements, and they will find the wisdom of this policy justified by increased congregations and a deeper interest in religious themes. Experience has in all times shown that bigotry in the Church is vine tually suicide, and that the building canno{ stand firm which is not based upon the broad and imperishable principles of humanity. It may be safely assumed that the clergymen who oppose the theatres are generally actors themselves, and feel a natural jealousy of more popular and accomplished artists, Undisturbed, therefore, by the sacred cone certs of yesterday, our spiritual leaders gave their hearers admirable discourses, many of which we report to-day. Among them will be found Rev. Father McCready’s sermon at St. Stephen’s upon ‘the devil’s tactics, Dr. Darby’s description of the great sacrifice, the exposition which Rev. Dr. Wild made of Christian perfection, Mr. Beecher’s remarka on soul-building, Rev. Mr. Corbitt's argument to show that the recognition of friends in heaven is promised in the Scriptures, the mee morial sermon preached by Bishop Whipple, Mr. Frothingham’s remarks upon the moral of All Souls’ Day, and others of equal interest and value, to which we call the attention of the thoughtful public. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Henry G. Parker, of Boston, is stopping a& the Windsor Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson has apartments ag the Grand Central Hotel. Major White, of the British Army, is registered at the Brevoort House. Jesse R, Grant, son of the President, was in Sy« racuse, N. Y., on Saturday. Congressman Lyman K, Basa, of Buffalo, is so Jourming at the St. James Hotel. Captain George L. Browning, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. Congressman Luke P. Poland, ot Vermont, te among the latest arnmvals at the Grand Central Hotel. Hon. Neil Gilmore, Superintendent of Pubdite Instruction, is severely il of typhoid fever at Albany. The chandelier for the middle of the Parte Opera House will be & marvel in its way. It will cost $8,000. The students of the University of Edinburgh have decided to elect the Earl of Derby to the Lord Rectorship. Mr. Richard Potter, President of the Grand Trank Ratiway, of Canada, is residing at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Caries F. Conant, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. The government of the Corea has promised to send to Japan the heads of all the persons im plicated in the insult to the Japanese government, In the hunt at Eschmont the Prince of Waleg proved the best shot. Of course no Frenchman would be so impolite as to shoot better than @ prince. Mr. Franklin B. Gowen, President of the Phila delphia and Reading Ratlroad Company, arrived from Enrope in the steamship Republic yesterday, and 1s at the Brevoort House, The party of french astronomers in Japan were entertained at the Imperial Guest House in Jeddo, asthe American party had previously been, ace cording to Yokohama advices of Uctober 14, Experiments in the now opera house at Paris seem to show that it 1s acoustically defective; and thatthe echo is 80 well developed that encores need never be called, as they will always come of themselves, The Royal Geographical Society of England in vited Lieutenant Payer, of the Austrian Polat Exe pedition, to read a paper; and the letter was rev tarded several days because the learned geogras phers addressed it ‘Vienna, Prussia.” A new form of Japanese marriage, by which the ceremony becomes a civil contract, has been Intro- duced into the Empire by Mort, formerly Chargé d’Affaires at Washington, The first niarriage ander this system is that of Towita, appointed Consul ag New York, The French government has expressed, through its Minister at Berne, the expectation that the Swiss Federal Council would take steps to put an end to the attacks of M. Henri Rochelort on Mar- shal de MacMahon. But the Swiss government declines, as it believes in the freedom of the press, depessing effect upon the fortunes of the yotng aspirant to the Spanish throne. ‘nz Russtan Anay is the subject of a very intresting letter which we print this morn- im, Amore thorough analysis of Russian Some doctors, not over learned in the line of their profession, have the habit o/ calling nearly every disease in which there is any derangement of the throat diphtheria, and it is just possinie that this nabit may account in some degree for ihe ree markable number of deaths attributed to tnis disease in the city. Different explanations are given of the fire which broxe out in the house of Count VonArnim’s mother-in-law when the police were searching it, One allegation 15 that a policeman threw down the ashes of his pipe on some combustible material, Perhaps, however, the lady, in desperate hurry, burned some important papers herself, Europe is discussing the celebration of one more centennial. This is the centennial of the potatoe, or of its introduction to Europeas tabies, Although the potatoe went to Europe mwh more than a hundred years ago, its introduction to the tanle of Louis XVI., by Parmentier, in 17%, is the date counted as the beginning of ils history be yond the water. Talleyrand died May 20, 1838. His memdrs were to have been published in thirty years. His ex- ecutor, M. de Bancourt, determined to dblay the publication fifteen years longer. But the }xecutor died a few years since—and the executots of the executor are reported to have decided thgt Taliey- rand’s will is of more consequence than Bhucourt’s opinion. Hence an early publication is ldoked ior. Moreau, recently guillotiued iu Paris, jor mur der, petitioned for pardon on the groudd that he was ‘the only support of three orphijus.? No motive had been assigned for bis crue but cus Pidity. It was thought that if he was the only support of three orphans there could.be no cu- Plaity in Lim—and on this ground it was well nigh determined to pardon him. But upon inquiry it Was found there were no orphans in th¢ case, The story was an invention.