The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK K HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. or JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR PE ae TE ee {HE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription wes $12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hxnarp will be | sent free of — All business or news nee and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henaxp. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- furned. po OE Ee, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX..... AMUSEMENTS TO-NORBOW,. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street_and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE, DE MADAME ANGOT, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 F, M. Miss Emily Soldene, i oom INSTITUTE, Third avenue, between Sixty-third and Sixty-tourth streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtleth street.—UNCLE TOM’S ee at2P. M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. LITTLE RIFLE, atsP. M. , closes at 10:45 P. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Bowery —Germau Opera Boutfe—LES BRIGANDS, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 1030 P.M. Miss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC Lager ro Broadway.—VARIETY, af 8 ¥. closes at 10-45 PARK THEATRE, Broadway. between qweniy first and Twenty. pon streets.—GILDED AGE, at §P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. Mr. John T. peace HEATRE COMIQUE, reg Breadiwes. VARIETY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:30 BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—RIP VAN WINKLE, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Jefferson. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at 2 and 8. WALLACK'S THEATR’ Broadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, até 10 au PB. ‘Mr. Boucicault NIBLO’S GARDEN, . ML; closes at Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—WILD CAT NED, at SP. M.; closes at il ¥. M, Warm Spring FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—MASKS AND PACKS, at 8 P, M. jel josea at ll ¥. M. Miss Fanny Daven- port, Mr. Fisher. ROBINSON HALL, apna bent batereen: Broadway and Fifth svenus.— ARIETY, ats BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty third street. near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO ee sich &c:, at8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M Dan ant TONY PASTOR’ OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—Va RIET 8P. . M. jcloses ato P. M, STEINWAY HALL, be fet eee BEGUNE DULL CARE, ats P. M.; closes at 10 P. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL! NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, | Disraeli in forming » Ministry, and guided President Grant's Ca! Besides his duty to redeem the pledge he volunteered to make on accepting his first nomination there are other reasons why the President should “execute the will of the people” by reconstructing his administration. It is a mistake to suppose that the Executive has no responsibility for the legislation of the | government, and General Grant cannot shield himself against public censure by trying to shift the blame upon Congress. Congress is | not primarily responsible either for Boutwell’s financial policy or Williams’ Southern policy, the fruits of which are the two chief sources of public discontent. The course pursued by Boutwell, with the sanction of the Cabinet, and the course pursued by Williams, with the features of the domestic policy of Grant's administration, a policy which Congress did not originate, but only acquiesced in, The President is as free to change his advisers when a public verdict has been pronounced against them as the Queen of England is to change hers. They hold their offices at his pleasure, and there is no other way by which he can “execute the will of the people,” as expressed in the elections, than by changing his counsellors as the Queen does hers in like circumstances, It is true that the Ministry hold a somewhat different relation to Parliament from that of the Cabinet to Congress. But there are also points of resemblance. In both countries the law-making power is vested in the two houses, and yet in both countries the Executive De- partment is held practically responsible for most of the great measures of legislation. This may be made clear by examples. The first Reform bill was Russ@l’s, the Bank Charter act was Peel's, the second Reform bill was Disraeli’s, the Irish Church and Irish Land bills were Gladstone's, although the technical responsibility rested with the Par- liaments that passed them. It is true that Congress acts with greater independence of the Cabinet than Parliament does of the Min- istry, and yet most of the really great meas- ures in our legislative history are justly attributed to particular members of the Execu- tive Department, either the President him- self or some head of a department. The early fiscal measures of the government, for example—although they, of course, took the form of acts of Congress— have always been credited to Hamilton. When Webster had occasion to allude to these measures he seemed to overlook Congress en- tirely, ascribing them to the genius of Hamil- ton in this splendid burst of eloquence: —‘‘He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit and it sprang upon its fee. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States‘as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.” And yet the four great measures which made up Hamilton’s financial system were only so many acts of Congress, of which he was not a member. We have witnessed a similar instance in ourown time. Our present system of national banks is unquestionably the creation of Secretary Chase. The Na- Broadway, corner of Twenty ae reet.-NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. BROOKLYN ACADEMY UF MUSIC. ROMEO AND JULIET, at8P. M.; closes at I P.M. Miss Neilson. TRIPLE. SHEET. spon York, Maninys Nov. 16, 1874 are that the weather to-day will be clear. A Marrer or No Consequence—Whether General Butler shall determine to return to the democratic fold or to organize a new party on labor reform, temperance, cheap money, inflation and women’s rights. Presrpent Grant's Opportunrry is now be- fore him for a brilliant display of statesman- ship in the preparation of his annual message to Congress, particularly on the currency ques- tion, banks and bonds, and on the tariff, Southern reconstruction, the late-elections and the third term. Tue Trerem.e TyPHoon which destroyed so much property and so many lives in China is described in our letter from Hong Kong. The scenes in the town of Macao were appalling in the extreme, as may be judged from the fact that the dead were numbered by thousands, some accounts estimating the number who perished at twenty thousand. Toe Anxansas GovernorsHrr.—There is a sort of tragic farce in the multiplicity of Gov- ernors in Arkansas, which might be very amusing if it did not indicate so much under- lying evil. And the State is one of those unfortunate Commonwealths which is not more blessed in her United States Senators than in her many Governors. The young man Dorsey, who holds a seat in that body, is, we are told, importuning the administra- tion to sustain the claim of Garland. As we said before, all this would be amusing if it ‘was not sorrowful. Anornzn Lason Stame—Ten thousand "longshoremen, employed on the river fronts of this city, are expected to strike to-day be- cause of insufficient wages. Of their reasons for this measure, and the action taken by the city authorities to prevent any disturbance in executing their purposes, and of the compa- nies which will be affected by the strike, we publish an accurate report. It is to be re- gretted that a strike should happen now, upon the verge of winter, for, no matter who is right or wrong, it cannot but result in | suffering to the laborers and their families. It is a sad story that one of the men tells in our columns to-day. ‘Tue Kuiimann Taran at WURZBURG Was re- markable for two things—first, the gravity of the offence of the prisoner, and, second, the lenity of the government. In ancient times uch crimes as that of Kullmann were pun- ished by torture and death, as Ravaillac and Damien were broken on the wheel or torn epart by horses, for the assassination of great rulers. Kullmann, for his attempt to kill Bismarck, received no harder punishment tional Banking act is indeed an act of Con- gress and derives all its authority from its passage by that body; but it nevertheless owes its existence to Mr. Chase, and history will always regard him as its author. Such examples are too numerous for us to give alist of them. The Embargo act was Jefferson’s, the Sub-Treasary act was Van Buren’s, the annexation of Texas, though by joint resolu- tion, was Calhoun’s (then Tyler's Secretary of State), the Tariff act of 1846 was Robert J. Walker's. Indeed, it is so customary to ascribe important acts of Congress to the Executive that it is often held responsible for acts which neither the President nor any head of a department ever recommended, and the President merely signed. Thus John Adams’ popularity was destroyed by the Alien and Sedition laws and Fillmore’s by the Fugitive Slave act. And there is a great deal of justice in hold- ing the Executive responsible for legislation when he has a majority of his own party in both houses of Congress. In making up his Cabinet the President has his choice among the ablest statesmen of his party. Men ot commanding influence do not so abound in any party that a President may not egsily compose a Cabinet whose joint abilities will outweigh all the political talent in Congress. A Cabinet thus composed of the great lights of the party need seldom have any difficulty in controlling the action of their own party. Their most powerful engine for exerting such influence is their ascendancy over public opinion, by which they can bring o strong pressure to bear on members from their con- stituents. In the next place, a Cabinet ot great ability is more likely than Congress to reach sound and sagacious views, and the force of truth and reason is apt to make an impression. In the third place, the Executive has patron- age for which the constituents of members are applicants, which is — great resource in the bands of a vigorous, united Cabinet which takes an interest in the passage of good laws. The President is not merely the Executive; he is an important part of the legislative power. Itis his duty to examine all bills, and none can become a law without his ap- proval except by a two-thirds vote of both houses. If the two hundred and ninety- two Representatives should be unani- mous for a bill and fifty of the seventy- six Senators should also vote to repass it, the President, with the support of the other twenty-six Senators, can defeat the will of three hundred and forty.two legislators, He has alsoan unlimited power to propose new laws, and can argue their merits to any extent he pleases in his an- nual or special messages, Possessing so large a share of the legislative power, he is more responsible for legislative measures than any hundred men in Congress, and it is accord- ingly his duty to maintain around him a Cab- inet of such mark and influence as will give him efficient aid in the discharge of this great trust, Since the country has passed an emphatic than Recorder Hackett ordinarily inflicts upon | sentence of condemnation on his administra burglars and common homicides, Of the | tion President Grant owes it to himself to in- trial at Wurzburg we give to-day, in our | quire wherein he has failed and try to rectity Bavarian correspondence, # complete report, | his mistakes. Suchan inquiry, if fairly made, including the interesting medical testimony | | will show him that his chief error has con- in support of the theory that the prisoner was | sisted in not composing his Cabinet on the game princivnle which gnides Gladstana or , rible chastisements as ‘blessings in digguise.” really irreaponaible for his act, sanction of the Cabinet, are the two main | our former Presidents in selecting their ad- visers. Nearly all the great men in our political history have served as Cabinet offi- cers, including Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, John Quincy Adams, Clay, Calhoun, Web- ster, Van Buren, Marcy, Seward, Chase, and, indeed, almost every man of great eminence | except Washington, John Adams and Jack- son, Washington and Adams were called to other posts at the very beginning of the gov- ernment, which precluded them from such service. The fact that nearly ali our states- men of the highest class have served as heads of departments is as striking o Proof as could be given of the desire of our former Presidents to make their ad- ministrations strong in political ability and influence. President Grant has proceeded on quite a different principle, and no re-elected President ever before received so humiliating a rebuke from the people. But he can re- trieve the blunder and make the jast two years of his administration respectable. Ho has, indeed, forever forfeited his power to influence legislation except during the next session, as the democrats will control one branch of Congress for¢he rest of his term ; but much could be done before the 4th of March if a new Cabinet should come in between now and December. Secretary Fish ought to be sensible of the heavy debt of gratitude under which he would lay the republican party if he would precipi- tate a change of the Cabinet by a prompt voluntary resignation, which would force all his fellow members to retire. The fact that he has better qualifications to remain than any other on the list would enhance the merit of such a service. It is the truest act of friendship he could render to President Grant. A Cabinet should always consist of able, experienced men ‘‘inside poh- tics.” It is especially necessary now, when the whole policy of the republican party needs to be promptly revised, and the utmost concert is required for that purpose. The Cabinet should be strong enough to insure the confidence of the republican leaders in Congress, and to secure their active co-opera- tion in measures for unloading the party of odium during the short period while it re- tains control of every branch of the govern- ment. Subsequent fo the 4th of March the President and his Cabinet can only execute the laws, and nothing can afterward be done to mend the political situation; but a vigorous and powerful Cabinet during the coming ses- sion, consisting of strong men and recognized political leaders, would be able to put the re- publican ship on a new tack and commit it to favoring winds for the Presidential election. If Mr. Fish would see and use his opportunity he might make himself the most popular and respected man in the republican party. The Centennial Exhibition. It is now settled beyond dispute that the centennial anniversary of American indepen- dence is to be celebrated in Philadelphia, where national independence was proclaimed, and that the international exhibition to be held in that city will be a success. The doubts and the questions relative to the event have had satisfactory answers; the Centen- nial Exhibition will not be a merely local affair, for the especial benefit of Philadelphia, - but one in which the whole country will have a full representation and direct inter- est. It is under the control of a United States Commission, and the management thus far has been so practical and sensible that it has commanded confidence and respect. Asan international exhibition the centen- nial celebration promises to be successful. Colonel John W. Forney, who has been in London for the last three months disinterest- edly working to promote the interests of the exposition, has had the warmest encourage- ment and emphatic assurances that the Eng- lish people will take an important part in the celebration. He has been in communication with John Bright, Dr. W. H. Russell, Sir Ed- ward Thornton and many members of Parlia- ment, who fully understand the commercial advantages of the exhibition to Great Britain. Liberal appropriations are expected from Par- liament to secure for the United Kingdom a proper representation. The American peo- ple are the best customers of England, and English manufacturers appreciate the value of this opportunity for displaying their inventions and improvements. The artists of London take great interest in the event, and Sir Richard Wallace, on his return from the Continent, will perfect arrangements fora complete representation of the English school of painting. The exhibition of Euro- pean artshould certainly be the finest ever seen in this country ; for France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, have all formally accepted the invitation of the United States, and each nation will contribute freely to the gallery of painting and sculpture. Nor will the contributions of manufactures, inven- tions, machinery, rare products, be less in- teresting; and Turkey, India, China, Japan and the “gorgeous East’? may be expected to add to the splendor and novelty of this col- lection of the world’s civilization— From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon. This interest which foreign nations take in our Centennial Exhibition should spur up our own people to renewed exertions, Every State should be fully represented and every Legis- lature should act promptly in the matter. The buildings have been already begun and will be completed in time for the opening in 1876, and the Centennial Board of Finance is now issuing, as empowered by act of Con- gress, ten millions of stock, which are offered tor popular subscription. The terms on which this six per cent stock is issued are fully an- nounced in our advertising columns, and deserve the attention of the public. The exhibition is to be continued for six months, and will afford American manu- facturers, agriculturists, inventors, machin- ists, artiste and all classes of producers an op- portunity hitherto unknown in the history of the country. We believe that as the inter- national aspects of the exposition are so en- couraging its national importance should be fully recognized. Europe and America will compete for the supremacy in all branches of production, and wo owe it to ourselves that we should show what we have achieved ina century of labor and freedom. The Oenten- nial Exposition ought to be made the mirror of American progress, A Heavy Tasz—The task undertaken by the republicans to account for their late ter- . | sunday Amusements for the People. Of the million of people in New York the great majority work during six days of the week to gain a mere living, and on the seventh day their hungry natures crave that food to which the Bible refers when it says that man cannot live by bread alone. The churches give spiritual sustenance, but we think it is conceded, and by none more readily than the intelligent clergy, that the formal exercises of worship do not satisfy the wants of those who have but one day in the week which is not devoted to labor. The Sabbath was originally instituted as a day of rest; the Church very properly made it also a day of worship, and now the necessities of society compel its observance as a day of relaxation. Amusement of some kind must be provided on Sunday for the people, and it is incumbent upon those who possess the power to see that it is not only harmless but beneficial. Experience shows that unless the torrent is guided into proper channels it will force its way over every obstacle and make a path for itself. One of the principal Sunday amusements in New York is rum drinking. Men and women who have no other occupation or ex- citement crowd the taverns and waste their time and money. In the exhilaration of whiskey and gin they find an easy escape from the monotony of the empty, unattractive hours, So powerful is this passion for some- thing to stimulate the mind and body that it has been found impossible to close the taverns on Sunday, and the laws on that subject are dead. The attempts to enforce them have in- variably failed; for, right or wrong, the saloons are sustained by an immense public sentiment which laughs at legislatures and courts, In this whole question facts, not theories, are to be considered. It is useless to argue about the impropriety of keeping taverns open on Sunday in face of the truth that there is no power great enough to close them. What amusement can be substituted on Sunday for that of getting exhilarated by drink is one of our great social problems. The pleasures of the Park and of walks on the boulevards and the Battery are not sufficient, People of the highest intellect and of extraordinary culture may find in attend- ance upon the Rev. Mr. Talmage’s ministry the mental entertainment they need; but then all persons do not possess minds of such an eminent order. Average minds require o plainer pabulum, and even as a substitute for the Hippodrome it is clear that his eloquence will not answer, although he seems to think it will. If this be the case with him, clergy- men who are less sensational cannot expect to supply the want. There is a vast world outside the churches, and it must be wisely dealt with in the interests of order, temper- ance and morality. The experiment of opening the theatres and concert halls on Sunday was repeated last evening, and of the entertainments given we present a full account. With this we also print another sermon by Mr. Talmage, in which theatres are denounced much in the way that he might denounce robbery or mur- der. A number of correspondents also give their views upon the stage, presenting strong argu- ments in defence of its usefulness and good influence on society. This debate can scarcely fail to be of benefit, as it calls attention to the great evil we have defined—that of absolute want in our large cities of simple and improv- ing methods of relaxation and amusement for the people, for the toilers who have but this one day in the week that they can call their own. Of one truth we are firmly convinced, that every public library in New York should be open on Sunday. These are institutions of unquestionable usefalness; they advance intelugeace and sustain morality; religion finds in them its strongest ally and vice one of its most effective foes. % The Winter’s Charity, The citizens of New York have a Fight to be proud of their public charities, Nearly one million dollars is given ungrudgingly in the annual tax levy to asylums, reformafries and charitable institutions. The excise moneys are similarly distributed. The various estab- lished aid and benevolent societies present long lists of liberal donors, who contribute in the aggregate an enormous yearly sum for the relief of suffering and the reclamation of the erring. Probably no city in the world is more open handed in its benevolence than this metropolis. We have less Abject poverty and misery here than may be found in the older capitals, because in @ new country and a nation of workers some employment may generally, at least in ordinary times, be found by those willing to earn a living. Neverthe- leas, in a city with over a million inhabitants there is always certain to be a wide field for charity, and ‘when a commercial pressure comes upon us, when money is scarce and business dull, the dependence of all our people upon labor for the means of sustenance makes the distress the more widespread and severe. But, useful as our established charities are, they are unfitted to meet those special emer- gencies produced by scarcity of employment and severe winter weather combined. For these we needa direct, immediate and suffi- cient relief, simple in its operation, free from the forms and safeguards very properly re- quired in the established institutions, and ready to be applied wherever suffering and death. are to be instantly grappled with and overcome. The evidences of want in the city are undeniable. The present cold weather seems to indicate a hard winter. When men, women and children are found perishing of hunger and cold there should be some means by which they can be immediately fed and warmed without the delay of tickets, registers or testimonials of a year's residence. The surest safeguard against imposition is the establishment of depots where meals can be supplied, and ‘to which the profes- sional beggar, who be referred for relief either for himself or his family. Some undeserving in- dividuals will occasionally obtain food and fuel, no doubt; but this is no excuse for per mitting a single human being to die of want in o Christian community. While depend- ence on charity should not be encouraged we are no advocates of the English system of ‘passing’ a pauper “‘on” to his “parish.” If we have severe enffering among the poor; if whole families are destitute and perishing for the want of the common necessaries of life, we cannot get rid of the duty hum nity im- poses upon as by the plea that some worth- solicits alms, can | NOVEMBER 16, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. - | 7 less creatures would rather live by charity than by labor. We hope to see the subject of the temporary relief of the poor in the winter months taken up in the pulpits of the city. The cold weather warns us that an organiza- tion and a system of relief, controlled by the most prominent of our citizens, should be completed without any further delay. Late Weather Anomalics and Prog- mosties of the Coming Winter. The eccentric weather through which the country has been passing for some months constitutes a memorable meteorologic cycle, of which we have not seen the end. Since the early part of July nearly every section has been visited by thermal extremes and exces- sive droughts, which have lingered into the present month and bid fair to leave their im- press on the approaching winter. That the great continents undergo cyclical changes of climate by no means inappreciable 18 a mat- ter of historic record too familiar to be ignored. In modern times, as. in 1857 and 1858, these non-periodic vicissitudes have been sensibly felt. In the years just named the rainless season was so marked in Central Europe that the Seine, in Paris, shrunk to a mere shadow of its usual self, and portions of the bed of the Rhine, never before dried up, were left uncovered. Strange to say, simultaneously, however, the level of Lake Ontario was two feet higher than its mean level as determined by fourteen years’ observations. In the few years preceding 1840 the rainfall was so large in Pennsylvania that an American geologist showed that, had the same extended to the lake region, the inland waters, in the absence of new outlets, would have risen twenty-nine feet above their normal height. The extraordinary dryness of the summer and autumn of 18740n this Continent has had its compensation apparently in the abnormal rainfall of an opposite continent in the same hemisphefe. While the Obio and Mississippi have been sluggishly coursing their half- emptied channels the Nile has been pouring its torrential roaring floods over the inundated plains of Egypt as it has hardly been known to do from time immemorial. Early in July last the great African river began to rise rapidly (at the very time our American rivers began to fall) and continued so to do till it reached, on the 11th of September, the almost unprecedented height of twenty-nine feet at Alexandria. It continued at this point till the 7th of October, when an increase of three feet would have put all the Delta of Egypt under the rushing, yellow tide. Still farther east the heavy rains in India, the autumnal cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and the terrible typhoons which recently swept over Nagasaki and Hong Kong evidence conditions of excessive humid- ity on the opposite side of the Northern Hem- isphere, balancing the excessive aridity pre- vailing in the United States, Such physical changes appear anomalous enough, especially when we contrast those which caused the Bengal famine in 1873 and the floods in 1874, Are they due to regular cyclical causes, recurring in supra-annual periods? So it would seem; and it also seems likely that these extraordinary phenom- ena travel slowly around the globe, somewhat as the ordinary storm does. ‘The attempt has been made to trace hot and cold years to the variations of sun-spot frequency, and eminent scientists have contended that the sun-spot periods are followed by corresponding climatic changes on the earth. But, however this may be, the abnormal seasons we have experienced are directly traceable to the variations of at- mospheric pressure on the earth. Thus, ac- cording to known laws of the atmosphere, the abnormal prevalence of hot southerly winds on any continent north of the Equator proves that there has been an serial depression of long standing in the ocean west of it; anda similar excess of cold northerly winds argues an excess of pressure. If these long-standing high and low pressures move from west to east, in the middle latitudes, as the transient cyclones and anti-cyclones are known to do, we have an easy and obvious explanation of the contrasts of weather on opposing sides of the Northern Hemisphere in the same year. Without dwelling on the theoretical aspects of these weather anomalies it is evident the present year must close with a great deficiency of moisture in the soil of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. The winter and spring rains of 1875 may restore the water of which the rocks and springs have been exhausted by the summer and autumn droughts and thus prepare the ground for agri- culture. But in the meantime the water- courses must be scantily filled, the wells low and the subterranean fountains but half re- plenished. In word, the Continent is now in the condition of a thoroughly drained field. The effect of such dryness, however, will be to check the chilling evaporation of the soil, and thus, in some measure, to miti- gate the rigors of the approaching winter. The Churches and the Sermons. While the Archbishop of Westminster is de- ploring the evils which may result to the Church and the world from an unnecessary agitation of religious differences and writing to the Hzraxp to deny that there has bern any change in the relations of Catholics toward the civil powers, the Archbishop of New York returns to his archiepiscopal see to deplore the persecutions of the bishops in Germany and Italy and report to his people the great calm- ness of the Supreme Pontiff amid the trials which afflict him. Archbishop McCloskey preached in St, Patrick's Cathedral yesterday for the first time since his return from Rome, and his sermon was an affecting description of the condition of the Holy City as it was presented to his eyes and an expression of his confidence in the speedy triumph of the burch over the persecutions and persecutors who are now warring against it. The discourse of the Archbishop was the principal event in the churches yesterday, and after it in importance was the sermon of the Rev. Dr. Hepworth, which was @ presentation of the Protestant view of the thought underlying the Arch- bishop's theme—namely, the duty of Chris- tians to God and the Church. And as the Archbishop found the enemies of the Church in the kings, princes and potentates united in their powerful opposition against the Pontiff in the see of Peter, so Dr. Hepworth pointed out the enemies of religion in the science which had put itself in antagonism with the Oburch. Both the Catholic Archbishop and the Protestant divine complain of the sneers at religious faith and the ridicule of religious feachers which come from hatred of Catho- \ y and Christianity, 1t » 9 singulat pare allel and seems to show that on all sides there ia astruggle against the claims of old-fashioned religion. Mr. Beecher preached at Plymouth church on the “Fall of Man,"’ disavowing the old- fashioned Presbyterian doctrine on that sub- ject, and enunciating something like the Broad Church notions which Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his novel of “Elsie Venner” to inculcate. Most of the churches’ were well filled yes- terday and the sermons generally were inter- esting and able. The Rev. E. P, Parker, of Hartford, filled the pulpit of the Madison square Presbyterian church; the Rev. E. S. Porter. preached a sermon commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bedford: avenue Reformed church in Brooklyn; Dr. Bellows gave a discourse on the “Old Law and the New” at All Souls’ church, and the Rev. Father McCauley preached at St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church. There were other religious events of unusual importance. Among these was o sermon to the colored people by Bishop Holley,. the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Hayti, re- cently ordained in this city. It was a simplo but fervent discourse on doctrine and duty.. At the Reformed Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, in Brooklyn, Bishop Cummins administered the rite of confirmation, and a new Roman Catholic church in Hoboken was dedicated, Bishop Corrigan preaching the ser~ mon. The day was one of peculiar interest and activity in the churches, and it is seldom so roany evidences of Christian progress and! devotion are presented in a single Sabbath, Bismarck anp Arnim.—The second arrest of Count Arnim seems to have made a deep impression in Germany. As we learn from our despatches, the moderate newspapers criticise the act as severe and unnecessary. Whatever the charge against the Ambassador, there is nx reason for the apparent wantonness and ca- price with which he has been treated. Even if Count Arnim were a criminal, open to the most degrading processes of law, he would be entitled to more consideration than has been shown him. But when we remember that he is a great nobleman, and has held high place. under the Empire, and that the controversy ig really a strife for power, the whole action of Bismarck is extraordinary. We are promised further revelations, but from what we gather it seems that the Chancellor is making a des perate struggle for ascendancy, and that, like Sir Robert Walpole, he makes unsparing war upon all who seem to be in his way. Before the struggle is over we shall probably find that Arnim’s arrest was the beginning of ong of the most important events of the time, not so much in itself as the consequences that seem inevitably to flow from it. Govennon Drx evidently believes that the late elections are bringing about the much de- sired, but long delayed, ‘era of good feeling,’ for he is becoming remarkably gracious in his exercise of the pardoning power. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Parker Gillmore, of London, is sojourn~ ing at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman John Cessna, of Pennsylvania, is fesiding at the Astor House. Secretary Bristow and Senator John S. Hager, of Caltiornia, left this city last night for Wasning- ton. Mr. Joseph Hickson, General Manager of the Grand Trunk Ratiway of Canada, is at the Bree voort House. The Obelisk, on the Place de la Concorde, at Paris, is undergoing 8 constant superficial disin- tegration from the influence of the climate, It ts apprehended that in ten years the hieroglyphs wil have disappeared by decay of the surface down to their depth. Why not cut them deeper, or put the: Obelisk in the Louvre ? Guizot once made a joke—grave and serious, as became him, A lady requested his favor, wnem he was Minister, in behalf of a young gentieman who wanted an embassy. “But,” said the lady nalvely, “it must not be more than twenty-five. leagues from Parts.” “Madame,” said the Minis- ister, “the frst embassy vacant at Paris or the environs shall be given to your friend.” At the festival at Esclimont for the reception of the Prince of Wales a certain Duke “cut”? » Viscount who “votes with the centre gauche” in the Assembly, whereupon the Viscount asked. the Duke “if he did not Know him?” His answer was, “No, sir! and I am astonished to fina sou here in the midat of a society you would destroy.’ Cards were exchanged, but the Duke de Chartres: interfered and smoothed the matter over. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Washington and the Misses. Wasnington were registered on Drexel & Hayes* Paris list for October. Who are they? Some of our adopted citizens, with unpronouncable and. unsavory names, have changed them in this coun- try, and in @ patriotic spirit some such persons have chosen the name of Washington. Are these Washingtons of that sort? in this country the name of Washington should be analagous to the green turban in Mohammedan lands, Professor A. L, Rawson, of the Oriental Topo- graphical Corps, bas just returned from a seven. months’ tour in Cyprus, Egypt, Palestine an@ Moab. He brings several important inscriptions dating from three to fifteen centuries before Christ and confirming Old Testament records. He also completed a geological survey begun by him on & former expediton to the East, and made arrange~- ments for @ coilection of the natural story O¢ Syria. He made drawihgs of persons and places! and topographical sketches in line and color. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Alige-. metne Zeitung of October 25 mentions a trial which ‘was then going on at Moscow which made a greas. sensation throughout Russia. The Abbess Mitro-, fania is charged with forgeries to the amount of $400,000, Before taking the veil she mixed in the first society in the capital, and, placed among nuns with little education, she soon rose to a lead= ing position, Sy means partly of imperial munifl- cence and contributions from all quarters, and partly of jorged bills, she established large facto- ries, dairies, &c., several of which are in full ac- tivity. Myeno Kagenort sailed from Japan for London,, via Suez, on the 13th of October. This oMcer has had considerable foreign experience. First as Commissioner to Honoluio, to investigate the ques» tion of Japanese cooles in Hawall; next as agent in London to superintend the settlement of railway iron difficulty; then, in 1871, as head of the Yokohama Custom House, and afterward in the Treasury and Foreign departments at Jeddo. Re was appointed United States Minister in 1872, to relieve Mori, but was detained by police business. His last position was that of Vice Minister of Fors eign Affairs, Here is another luminary withdrawing himself from sight. Tom Allen, the prize-fighter, who “hes fonght nineteen battles and won fifteen,” requests us to inform the public that he will ‘never more enter the ring again asa principal, and shall not take any notice ofany one.” This appears to be no recent deter- mination on the part of Mr, Allen, but he has de- ferred his purpose for wwelve months out of ro- gard to the conventence of Mr. Joe Coburn, That distinguished athlete does nos appreciate the favor, and, in the opinion of Mr, Allen, has the bad taste and utterly unprofessional fancy to “prefor benefits to fighting,” From a world so depraved, a8 this bad taste would indicate the world to ba ‘Ws do not wonder that Alien retires,