The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1874, Page 8

8 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. — JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henarp will be went free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx ‘Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Pate ee ee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TO-MORROW. AMUSEMENT NIBLO'S ee oa pane en Prince an jouston \— Pree tazy WP LYONS and CUSTOMS OF THE COU TRY. atSP.M, Mass Lilue sidridee and Mrs. Baruey Williams BROOKLYN ATHENAUM. BEGONE DULL CAKE. Mr. Frederick Maccabe. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Rroadway.--fHE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, aC 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Migs *anny Davenport, Mr. Fisher. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Wect Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, dc., at 8 FP. M.; clowesatlOP. M. Dan Bryant. STADT THEATRE, Howery.— DIB FLEDERMAUSS, at 8P.M. Lina Mayr. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. M1 Bowery.—VARIET SP. M.; closes at 10P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of iwenty-ninth street.—NEGRO MINSTRSLSY, at P.M. ; clos wr. mM, GLOLE TH TRE, Sroadway.—VABLETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1030 P. M. Lost THEATRE, ee eae Fonrteenth street and Sixth avemue.— 2 DUCHESS. ats P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss Smily doldene. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteonth street ULTIMO, at 8 P. M. wen y strect-QUARRY DELL Away, corner of Th fh strevt. Al RM Sves oc Wis PM Matinee at 2 P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No._085 Broauway.—VASIb1¥, at 8 P. M.; closes at W230 P.M. OLYMPIC THPATRE, Ee, 6% Broadway.—VARIE(Y, at8 P.M ; closes at 10:43 a. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street and Kighit avenue.—THE BLACK CROOK, acs P. M.; closes at ll P.M. PARK THEATRE, | Broadway. between Twenty-first and Twenty-second | streets GILDED AGE, at 82. Mj Closes at 10:3) P. M. Mr. Joha T. Raymond. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Fourteenth stree.—Opeus at 10 A. M.; cioses at 5 P. M, | QUE, | . M. ; closes at 10:30 | No, 5i4 Broadway.—V a: PM BOOTH ATRE, corner Twenty-third stre: sixth avenue.—RED | TAPS and 1Hs WiDt ac 8 P.M; closes at | WO P.M. Miss Julia Si ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twonty-sixth stree and Fourth avenue.—FETE AT | PEKIN, afternoon and evening, at 2and & | WALLA THEATRE, Broadway.—THE SiAUGHRALN, at8 P.M; W@0. Mr. Boncicault, TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty-eighta street and Lexington avenue.—VARIETY, arse. M closes at ASSOCIATION HALL, PROFESSOR RUBERTS’ READINGS, at 8 P.M, NEW PARK T! 4 BROOKLYN, MARY WARNER. M ATR QUADRUPLE SHEET, | New York, Sunday, Nov. 29, 1874 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler, with | | | | ‘The feature of | the day was the speculation in two or three low priced Western stocks, which advanced. Gold moved up to 112}. Money was easy at | 2}, 3 and 4 per cent on call loans. | | ever, must remember that he is Mayor of | must be reformed rigidly and at once, and | retrieve all they have lost. NEW fORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. Mr. Wieckham’s Duties and Opporta- nmitios. There is nothing thata really great man needs in this world but opportunity. If Mr. Wickham, our new Mayor, has it in him to realize the hopes of his friends, now is the time. He will come into office with the gen- eral acceptance of the people. The canvass dealt gently with him. No serious assault was made upon his character. Some opposed him because he was a democrat, others from the fear that he would be the simple instru- ment of Mr. Kelly and Mr. Morrissey. No one questioned his honor, or that he would if he could be a good Mayor. He has told us in expressive phrase that he is no man’s man, but the man of the people. We are certainly disposed to believe him and to support his ad- ministration so far as it will give us good government. We have as high an interest as Mr. Wickham himself in his success. It was not the most gratifying thing in the world to see him lobbying around a Coroner's jury in the interest of Croker; but we can. pardon even more than that to the spirit of friendship. It never does a man harm to stand by his friends, even when they are in jail, This isa Scriptural injunction. Mr. Wickham, how- New York, and must be jealous of his public acts and appearances. . We do not expect everything from Mr. Wickham, but we expect a great deal. He has everything his own way. The Governor is with him, and, as a citizen of New York, is perfectly conversant with the wants of the metropolis, He has every interest in the success of the new Mayor, for the city has a representative political position. Here the democratic party is in unquestioned power, and the country will determine by the manner in which the metropolis is governed how far that party may be trusted in the govern- ment of the country. The way to the Presi- dency lies through New York, and if Mr. Tilden nurses any lofty ambitions he must make his record here. Tammany under Tweed did as much to defeat the democracy in 1872 as any other influence. Now what will Tammany under Wickham do to retrieve that defeat? These are the most serious questions that Mr. Tilden, who is really re- sponsible for Mr. Wickham, can answer. An | honest government, liberality and public spirit, economy in the city, mean the same things in the federal administration. Civil service here will be a good augury of civil service in Washington. How could Mr. Tilden go before the country as a Presidential candi. date on a civil service issue denouncing Grant for nepotism, unfit political appointments and improper removals, wiih such a shameless record of nepotism, disgraceful extravagance and unfitness in appointments as may be seen in New York city? There hag never been so much corruption in the matier of patronage as in the civil service of New York. Lads have been put on payrolls as men; the worst elements of ruffiapism and ignorance have been given important trusts; clerks, marshals, aids, auditors have been selected from political adventurers, who had no fitness for the work; efforts have been made to bribe the press by the appointment of newspaper writers to sine- cure positions. Men have held their positions not from fitness, but to please one ‘‘hall’’ or another—this ‘‘ring’’ or the other. This Mr. Wickham cannot neglect it without giving the republicans a terrible opportunity to Beginning with an honest, efficient civil | service, Mr. Wickham’s future is rich with | splendid opportunities. He enters upon the | administration of the worst governed city in | the laborer at the Battery to have his cottage at New Rochelle or Yonkers, and reach home in half an hour, like the laborer in London and Paris. Make Fifth avenue as inviting as the avenue of the Champs Elysées or Piccadilly. Deal as liberally with the Central Park as the English with Hyde Park and the Erench with the Bois de Boulogne. Build us a City Hall like the Hotel de Ville and a court house like the new law edifices near Temple Bar. In other words, give us something fur our money—give us 8 city worthy to be the metropolis and queen of this royal Continent, and we shall say nothing about the debt. But here hes New York, dor- mant, neglected, covered with rags and bruises, and no effort to build her up. Other cities press forward in new directions and challenge our supremacy. Baltimore boasts that she has robbed us of our trade in coffee. Boston threatens, with new tunnels and shorter lines of travel, to deprive us of our foreign trade. Chicago talks of sending grain in bulk to Liverpool It seems as if every puny whip- ster of a village mocks at our forlorn, decay- ing condition, and counts the hours when the sceptre shall depart from our metropolitan hands. We believe in New York and its future, and we are anxious to believe in Mr. Wickham. Disraeli somewhere says that every man hasan opportunity once in his life, and, as we before remarked, the great man only needs an op- portunity. This hour lies before Mr. Wick- ham. He can be either one of the best or one of the worst of Mayors. If not one he will surely be the other. Matters have come to such a condition that an indifferent ruler will be worse than Tweed. There are times when helplessness and indecision are worse than crimes. Mr. Wickham comes into power in such a crisis. How will he meet it? He is sustained and honored by the whole people. How will he justify these hopes? Advent Pulpit Topics. The Advent season opens to-day, yet not many of our city pastors will make special reference in their pulpit discourses to it. Dr. Rylance will introduce the ritual year and indicate the preparation that is taking place in the world for the advent of Christ. Dr. Washburn will take occasion to-day and on successive Sundays to present some reflections, religious and historical, on primitive and present Christianity. The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain, from which, as the Catholic Apostolic preacher declares, it can be delivered only by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose conception by the Virgin Mary Dr. Preston maintains and will endeavor to show this evening, was im- miaculate. In the gift of Christ to the world God the Father showed His abounding generosity and His eternal purpose to save, as Mr. Kennard will demonstrate and as Mr. Hepworth will show, by the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. We have been taught how to live and how to die, and in the intermediate period how to fight the battle of. life by trusting in God and triumphing in Christ over the bondage of sin, as Mr. Sweet- ser, Mrs. Hanaford and Dr. Fulton will set forth, If, as some persons maintain, hell is filled or filling up with lost souls, it is well to know how to empty that place. Mr. Ware will this evening offer Robert Falconer’s plan for empty- ing hell, in lieu of a better plan by any one else. It seems to us it would be better not to get there at all than to be emptied out aiter | one goes there. And the way to escape hell and the terrors of the Judgment Day is to be perfect, and Mr. Corbit will tell us how we can be s0. | But can an imperfect man show us the way to the world. Behind him is the record of the crimes of Tweed and the follies of Havemeyer and Green. The city has been slipping from | one slough to another. Tweed and his gang | robbed it of eight millions; no one knows | | how many millions Havemeyer and Green have frittered away. A policy of highway robbery has been followed by the policy of suffocation. The one ring threw the city ! down and plundered it; the other holds its | heel upon the throat. So we have a city with- Tue AprraraNce of the smallpox in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum on the Boulevards is described elsewhere. The isolation of the dis- | ease is believed to be perfect. Tae Kine or rae Sanpwicu Istanps has ar- | rived in San Francisco and will soon begin | hhis triumphal march to the capital. An in- out wharves or docks, without easy, comfort- able transit, without paved streets, without decent public buildings, without drainage. Diphtheria and typhus have become our daily guests, bidden here by the city rulers. unsightly. Our new Court House is a monu- perfection? There are many perils in the path of the young, some of which Mr. Phelps will point out. Escape from those perils will bring not only present but permanent satisfaction in this life, about which Mr. Pullman will speak. In the midst of our un- holy Sabbath amusements Dr. Deems will suggest holy play for us whereby we need not offend God or man, and, if we do, we can pray for forgiveness, as David did, and con- cerning which Mr. Hawthorne will discourse to-day. The Lost Interest on the City De- Posits. The decision rendered by Judge Van Brunt, | Our avenues and sireets are unsafe and | in the suit brought in the name of a taxpayer of the city against ex-City Chamberlain | mentof shame in contrast to the new Post | Palmer and the city deposit banks, to compel teresting sketch of the potent monarch and | Ofice at its side which marks the enterprise | the payment into the public treasury of cer- his reasons for visiting this country will be found in another column. and thrift of the general government. Popu- lation is driven over the rivers into other States and counties. In the meartime, while | tain moneys accruing from interest on the | city deposits during Mr. Palmer's term of office, embraces some interesting points, al- Avormen Wax IN ARKANSAS is to be appre- the city has been sinking, taxes have been ris- | though it settles only a side issue in the case. hended, if we may judge from the warlike ing. Our government grows worse and worse, | From 1867 until December, 1872, interest Preparations of Governor Garland for a final and at the same time more and more costly. | on the city deposits was collected of the settlement with Mr. Smith, who claims to be | Our city debt is said to be from one hundred | banks by the Chamberlain and paid into the Governor. There appears to be no end to | and fifty to one hundred and sixty millions of | city treasury. At that time Comptroller the complications of Southern reconstructiou. | dollars, But this is only an estimate, as no | Green addressed a letter to the banks of ‘Tue Ixcenurry with which men attempt to cheat their employers, especially in these days of mechanical invention, is exemplified in the “punch beaters” used by car conductors on some of the roads in this city. By means of a concealed bell the conductor was enabled to avoid registering the fare paid, while pre- tending to use the ‘‘punch’’ provided for the purpose. The discovery of these methods of embezzling money from the companies was not made without trouble, but itis likely to put a stop to the practice. Our CornesponpENT iN Sparn.—Happily weare able to chronicle the release trom a Spanish prison of our correspondent, Mr. MacGahan, who, as previously reported, was taken by the Spanish soldiery at Fontarabia, and, though released by them, was subse- quently thrown into prison by some super- | serviceable official flunky at Santander. MacGahan has, in the service of this jour- nal, passed through more than the usual perils that beset the steps of correspondents in their generally difficult and often danger- ons attendance on great enterprises, but has always come handsomely through at last, and the star of his good fortune is evidently not dimmed yet. He passed through the Khivan expedition, as our readers may remember, and was alone in the desert, with two or three plundering savages, for many days, and ap- prehension was naturally excited for his wel- fore then. But savage though they were, the desert wild men were human after all, and apprehension was naturaly far graver when this gentleman was in the hands of the Span- ish and it was known to them that he was an American, | one really knows what we do owe. Taxation | has been steadily mounting. We pay more for the follies of Havemeyer than for the crimes of Tweed. If the estimate for 1875 is not reduced the rate will be three percent. In | other words, taxation in New York will be as large as revenue from consols in England, and, according to English rates, it would be confis- | cation. In fact, taxation drives rapidly to- | wards confiscation, Although the debt falls due and we have been renewing our stocks | and bonds for the last three years, we have | | Bot reduced this debt. It fs a fair estimate to | say that we have added twenty millions to | our indebtedness, and have only paid a mill- | | ion anda half. It is believed that eighteen | millions will fall due next year, and we shall | be fortunate if we pay two millions. Like a | | wild young spendthrift in the hands of the | | usurers New York has renewed bill after bill, paying high usury and squandering the pro- ceeds, and caring nothing for the morrow. | But to-morrow will come! Nothing is surer, not alone to men, but to municipalities. Now if Mr. Wickham is a really able man he will anticipate to-morrow and do his party, the city and his own fame great credit. He | must not begin upon the theory that because | the thieves once robbed the city all enter- | prise and growth must cease. Large as our | municipal debt now is that of Paris is larger, | Soaring up into the neighborhood of about | two hundred and fifty millions. New York would gladly assume a debt as large if not | larger if we could only have Paris. Build us | docks like those of Liverpool. Span the East | River with as many bridges as cross the Seine. Give us an underground, or over- deposit, notifying them that the payment of interest to the Chamberlain was illegal, for- bidding such payment and claiming that any interest allowed by them on deposits must be credited directly to the city and paid only to the city and county on a regular warrant. Mr. Palmer became Chamberlain immediately after this action had been taken by the Comp- troller. He was also President of the Broad- way Bank and his deputy was President of the Tenth National Bank, both bavks of deposit. The objection interposed by Comptroller Green was a mere technicality, induced by personal motives, but it stopped the payment ot interest on the deposits, The present suit was brought to compel both ex-Chamberlain Palmer and | the banks of deposit to pay over to the city the interest on the daily balances unpaid during Mr. Palmer's official term. The complaint sets forth the facts and alleges that the interest was paid or credited to Mr. Palmer by the deposit banks. The defendant, Palmer, without answering as to the facts, demurred to the complaint that it did not set forth sufficient ground for action. It is on this demurrer that Judge Van Brunt’s decision is given. The demurrer is overruled and the following important points | are involved in the decision. First—The | Chamberlain of the city and not the banks of | deposit are liable to the city. The Comp- | troller's claim, on which all the trouble was based, that the banks were bound to pay the interest moneys directly to the city and county, is unsound and inadmissible, Action cannot be maintained against the banks, but may be brought against the city official. Second—The Chamberlain is a trustee, and ground, or surface railroad. that will enable must account for all the vrofits he may make out of moneys committed to his keeping. The law prior to 1873 did not provide for securing interest on the city deposits, hence the Cham- berlain could not probably have been com- pelled to secure interest from the banks. But if he did secure and receive such interest, then he was bound to pay it over to the city, after deducting his office ex- penses; for “it would be a monstrous doctrine, and one which is contrary to all principles of equity, that the Chamber- lain should be allowed to make bargains in respect to the fands in his hands as trustee which should inure solely to his own personal benefit.” Third—Under the act of 1872 any taxpayer of the city has the same right as the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty would have to maintain an action to prevent the loss of any property belonging to the city. The demurrer interposed by the defendant Palmer being overruled, he is required and has leave to answer the complaint. The re- sult of the suit will then probably turn on the evidence as to whether the Chamberlain did or did not receive interest on the city balances after the service of Mr. Green's notice on the banks of deposit. As Mr. Palmer was both banker and Chamberlain this will involve a nice point of law. Un- fortunately it is yet uncertain whether the city will finally recover the amount which, but for the Comptroller's stubbornness and rancor, would have long since been paid into the city treasury. Is Faith Dead? ‘The eccentricities of modern scientists are very interesting as signs of the times and as illustrations of the absolute freedom of thought in the nineteenth century. With no restraint whatever these intellectual free lances roam the planet, ready to tilt with any adver- sary,and so eager to draw the sword of an undaunted logic that it makes little difference whether their opponent is a superannuated superstition, which is unhorsed at tho firat onset, or a mature faith, against whose coat of mail they dull the edge of their Damascus blades. Science is like Admirable Crichton in the comeliness and fascination of its person and in the reckless willingness with which it enters a controversy or a tournament. Strong in its confidence in its own logic and power it has become of late years fanatical and im- patient of all tradition, and s0 completely iconoclastic that it would clear the Church universal of its present objects of faith and substitute facts for God. Taken in all their baldness, and without that circumlocution which covers their shoulders with the purple of eloquent thetoric, the facts which we are expected to receive in the stead of religion are exceed- ingly amusing. Mr. Tyndall, for instance, having tried to weigh the mystery of prayer in his balances end found it imponderable, con- cludes that it has mo more value than a dream ; that it is, at best, only an act of self- magnetism, and, therefore, practically a myth, a delusion, which ought to be exploded in the name of scientific truth, If the world is unwilling to discontinue its daily petitions on the strength of his ipse dizit he proposes to try an experiment—namely, to open the sluiceway of the world’s vocabulary and see whether the stream will or will not turn God’s mill In a word, he proposes to summon the Almighty to the bar of a scientific cross- examination, and, unless the questions put are answered promptly and according to the technical knowledge of the counsel, the func- tion of prayer is to be denounced as a de- lusion, and the act of prayer is, in legal phrase, to cease and determine. In like manner Mr. Huxley disposes of hu- man accountability as being simply the dif- ferent phases of a disease. A manisa con- course of fortuitous atoms, and is virtuous or vicious according to the degree of internal inflammation. He is a very cunningly con- trived —no, not contrived, because contrivance proves personal authorship—a very curious conjunction of particles, a sort of chemical compound that takes its only color and com- plexion from surrounding circumstances, a kind of chameleon, which, clinging toa church steeple, becomes religious, and, living in a shanty, becomes brutal That is the sum total of manhood. Such a statement as this involves a change in the whole economy of society of course. Instead of prisons we ought to have hospitals, in which the molecu- lar forces can be coaxed into that conjunc- tion which is virtue, and instead of sermons we ought to have medicine. Paregoric, and not theology, is the moving energy of the world. A murderer is a clock with the main- spring broken, anda drunkard isan engine whose regulator is out of order. Both should be sent to the mechanic for repair, and not to the Protestant or Catholic confessional for help. As though these two were not enough to effect the general destruction of faith Mr. Mill, in s work on religion, which, for good and sufficient reasons, he did not care to have published until he had been laid under the sod, opens a running fire along the whole line of popular belief, as if he expected that all the creeds of history would soon follow him to the grave. It is avery sad fact that mankind has ever built a church, and has been so weak, intellectually, as to be tempted into credence in a revelation, a miracle or a personal God. But he consoles himself with the fervent hope that the spirit of progress, like the India-rubber end of a pencil, will erase such follies, and fill up the blank thus caused with science, metaphysics and psy- chology. That a small class of the community will be affected by these vagaries none will deny. There is in every generation a certain propor- tion who know just enough to doubt who will grow robust on this sort of pabulum, and who will make these wholesale denials the excuse and the basis of social insanities, of disrupt- ing and disintegrating theories of domestic life. They will rush to all sorts of unheard of extremes, and, after painful parturition, give birth to matrimonial and communal deformities which a healthy political economy can never adopt. But so far as that religious faith is con- cerned which has woven the marvellous fabric of history it remains and will remain undis- turbed. The pulpit of all lands will speak long after eternal silence shall be set as a seal on the lips of doubt. Man’s consciousness of personal accountability is not an accretion which may be removed by the surgeon's knife, but is as inseparable from his nature as its perfume is inseparable from the rose. A stately ship on her voyage to distant lands may sometimes take the top of & wave on board, but it does not follow thence that the ocean is winning the victory. On the con- trary she is built with special reference to this probability, and like a giant dashes the large waves aside and through clouds of foam and cataracts of spray drives on in gale and storm. Such is the religious faith of mankind. Men have always believed in certain spiritual verities, and the probability is that they will continue to believe in them until the planet bursts, and Tyndall, Huxley, Mill and all the rest of us ascertain the truth or falsehood of our pet theoriés by actual vision. The Sunday Law. A petition, bearing the names of a large number of our most eminent and influential citizens, has been addressed to the Board of Police Commissioners, calling their attention to “the flagrant and increasing violations of the law of the State which prohibits theatrical and other entertainments of the stage on Sundays,"’ and asking that this law ‘“‘may be promptly and impartially enforced against all offenders." Under the statute in question, passed in 1860, it is ‘not lawful to exhibit on the first day of the week, called Sunday, to, the public in any building, garden, grounds, concert room, or other room or place, within the city and county of New York, any inter- Inde, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro or other dancing or other entertainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein; or any equestrian, circus or dramatio performance, or any performance of jugglers, acrobats or rope dancing.” This law further provides that for the viola- tion of it the offending party shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in addition to the punishment therefor, shall be subject toa fine of five hundred dollars, which the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents. are authorized to sue for and recover for the use of said society; and any violation of this law forfeits the license of the building of every party consenting to such violation. Such is the law relating to Sunday amuse- ments within the cityand coucvty of New York. In practically becoming a dead letter—by con- sent of the authorities charged with its enforce- ment—the idea seems to prevail that the law has lost its vitality, But thisis a mistake; and now that the Police Commissioners have been so forcibly reminded of their duty in the premises the execution of the law may be looked for. The Police Commis- sioners, however, say they are restrained by legal injunctions from taking action in many cases; but this does not entirely relieve them of their duty. We either have laws or we have not, and there can be no choice for the authorities charged with enforcing them. Many of the acts passed at Albany seem to have been made expressly to be broken; but it must be remembered that when one law is habitually violated it brings the others into contempt. This shows the evils of too much government and the folly of legislative med- dling; but these evils are not to be removed by insubordination. President Grant ex- pressed the true policy in his first Message, when he said, ‘All laws will be faith- fully executed, whether they meet my approval or not. Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed to as well as those in favor of them, I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execation.’’ No reasonable objection can be made to this argu- ment, and we are glad to see among the sign- ers to the petition the names of Lester Wal- lack and Dion Boucicault. The opinions of these eminent representatives of the drama upon the value of the law have been fully expressed in our columns, but they deserve all credit for urging its execution, Let us have the law enforced strictly and the President’s policy carried out, and then we shall be en- abled to judge better of its effect upon the public interests. Thoughts of the Religious Press. A few of our exchanges keep up the changes on Mr. Gladstone’s attack on the Papacy. The Observer thinks he has proved very clearly that the infallibility dogma necessitates the claim of supreme authority over the members of the Church of Rome, so thatif the will of the Pope conflicts with the will of the govern- ment—that is, with the laws of the land—the Pope must be obeyed. Archbishop Manning has tried to explain this away, but the Observer believes he has left it just where he found it, or rather has made it worse. The Boston Pilot, quoting Mr. Gladstone’s assertion that the change in Catholic citizenship and loyalty dates to the decrees of the Vatican Council in July, 1870, asks why he did not then speak out and deliver himself of the great thought which struggled within him. He allowed those years to pass away, and not only uttered no protest, but bore himself toward Catholics and Catholicism with so much friendliness as to excite the rage and anger of English bigots against himself. The Pilot says that so long as Mr. Gladstone could obtain the Catholic vote he was the friend of Catholicity, but when he saw that his rival was winning popu- larity by posing as the Protestant hero he un- furled the “No Popery” flag. The Baptist Weekly thinks that it will require more than a mere denial of the charge of disloyalty to convince those familiar with Romanism that its adherents are not resting under presump- tive obligations to the Pope utterly incon- sistent with true citizenship. The Pope, adds the Weekly, claims to be more than a prelate, and Romanism is not simply a religion. All civil government is held, by the decrees of.the Vatican, to be subordinate to the authority of the Church, and the Weekly cites instances of the pretensions of the Pope to the exercise of this supreme authority. The Methodist is delighted because the ex-Premier of Eng- land has reiterated its own utterances regarding the Papacy in perhaps more forcible language than its own. It quotes from Lord Acton and Sir George Bowyer to show that they differ in their interpretation of the Vatican decrees from Archbishop Man- ning. They discard the decrees that they may maintain loyal citizenship, and the Methodist thinks that this will lead toa division in the ranks of English Roman Catholics. The Catholic Review denies that ‘Rome is re- | furbishing every rusty weapon of her ar- mory,’’ and adds that her weapons are work and prayer, which she never allows to grow rusty. She calls to-day to her service more warriors than ever in the reformation of the intemperate, in the relief of the emigrant and the travelling workingman, in the suste- the creation and support of employment agencies and of homes for the homeless, and in the distribution of Catholic charities in a thousand channels. The Baptist Union discourses learnedly on revivals, which are usually in full blast about this season of the year. A common mistake, the Union thinks, is to protract such meetings for the conversion of sinners rather than for the quickening of saints, which should be the primary object, The Independent hopes the gov- ernment will see ita way clear to reduce the let- ter postage toa penny, which, it thinks, would at no distant day become a source of increased revenue, Tho Hebrew Leader has a sharp article on “Mr. American Judaism,” who is said to be very sick. It shows that while it would be nothing remarkable, owing to his great age and the many rebuffs he has had and the weary journeyings he has undergone, if the old gentleman was indeed sick nigh unto death, that, nevertheless, he is quite hale and hearty, and that all he wants is not to be plied with German nostrums, Parat, Invartrpizry.—The Bishop of Rich- mond, in a letter to the Henan, compactly, but fully, gives his views upon the the Glad- stone-Manning controversy. The eminent Prelate affirms that the declaration of the Pope's infallibility by the Ecumenical Council does not in the slightest degree alter the rela- tions existing between the temporal and spir- ‘itual powers, but is merely a formal affirma- tion of adoctrine which has been admitted during the whole existence of the Church, The definition of infallibility, according to Bishop Gibbons, strictly confines the Papal prerogative to faith and morals, and he de clares that Catholics have suffered too much in the sacred cause of liberty to raise their’ hands against it. He thinks it strange that, while Mr. Gladstone trembles at the imaginary authority of the Pope over the State, he should be indifferent to the actual tyranny of Bismarck over religion, and this surprise most persons are obliged to share. A Massacuuserts Lorrery.— Massachusetts seta up as an exceptionally moral State. The records of immorality in great*cities might militate against her claim to superiority over her sisters in this respect, if any person felt disposed to raise the issue. But Massachusetts is, at all events, severe against lotteries and games of chance. Notwithstanding this her Governor plays the rile of the Goddess of Fortune once a year, and draws the gift of liberty for a certain number of convicts each Thanksgiving Day. This year the chance fell to three lucky individuals, all of whom were under sentence of imprisonment for life— one for burglary, another for murder and the third for rape. The winners were liberated, leaving their fellow worthies to hope for better success at the Governor's roulette table next year. Whata funny State Massachusetts is! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Investigation will be the strong point with the next Congress. Rev. Jonn F. W. Ware, of Boston, is staying as the St. Denis Hotel. Senator Henry R. Pease, of Mississippi, is resia- ing at the St. Denis Hotel. Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsia, is sojourning at the Hofman House. Commodore D. M. Fairfax, United States Navy, is quartered at the New York Hotel. Mr. Josiah Quincy, of Boston, is among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mendelssohn's “Letters and Recvllections,"” by Dr. ¥. Hiller, have appeared in London, Mr, 8. B, Elkins, De‘egate to Congress from New Mexico, is registered at the Hoffman House, The Grosvenor Club, for women as well as mem, wilt probably be opened in London in January, Room for the sang azur. Tue Duke de Pen- thievre is to be made Captain in the French Navy. Mr. Charles Bradlaugh arrived in this city yea terday from Boston and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis, United States Minister, returned to Berlin from Paris, where ne was on a visit for several days, on the 27th inst, On French railways there is sensibly less traved on Fridays than on other days. Receipts for that day by comparison with other days are as six to ten. Colonel Thomas A. Scott denies that he or the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is interested in the Philadelphia Press under ita new manage- ment. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the Grand Central Hotel yesterday from tis home in Mascachusetts. He will leave for Washington on ‘tuesday, and will preside at the opening session of the Senate on the following Monday. Now come forth the heavy republican prints with arguments that there should be no legisla tion but that of the “indispensable” sort. Demo- cratg will probably agree t9 this, but standards will differ as to what sort is indispensable, It makes all the difference in the world whether ® manis up or down. In 1870 Von Arnim was Ambassador at Rome, and a German sculptor named Schaffer had a grievance against him, but not a court in Germany would hear Schamer's story. Now he is officially invited to make his complaint. Mad dog on the Champs Elyseés in Paris at three o'clock on @ sunny afternoon, with seven pulice- men, sword in hand, in pursuit. What a whip- ping up of horses! What ascrambling and scat- tering and panic of women and children! And before the dog was killed nine other dogs and two children were bitten. ‘The Journal des Débdats gives some statistics of the French commerce with India and China, which, it is claimed, has been mainly developed by the subvention of tne lines of *“‘Messageries Mart- times.” In tweive years the imports have in- creased from 85,000,000f. to 300,000, 000f., ana the ex ports from 17,000,001 to 68,000, 000f, At the present moment the democratic party stands toward the negro and the negro vote just ag the various opposition parties always stood toward the Irish vote, It was the boast of whigs and republicans that. their programme was to “keep the Irishman in his place,” and they cannot complain if the democrats put the negro in his place. f M. Panelli, an Italian, has made appitcation at St. Petersburg for admission into the Russian Church. In early life he was @ Roman Catholic. At Jerusalem he was converted to the orthodoxy of the East, but upon his return to Rome was tried by the Inquisition and sentenced to seven years’ usprisonment. He was liberated by Gart- baldi. AROAIEPISOOPAL COURT ESIES. It was rumored in certain circles yesterday that the recent visit of Archdishop Bayley to Arch- bishop McCloskey was more than a social one— that !n fact 1t was nothing more nor less than an official conlerence as to the advisability of sending aletter to Archbishop Manning, congratulating him, in the name of the Cathoiics of the Wnitea States, upon the stand he had taken in upposition to the British ex-Premier’s “exposvulation.”» A HERALD reporter paid a visit tu the archiepiscopad residence last evening to ascertain What foundae tion there was, if any, for the rumor, Archbishop Mcvloskey smiled good-naturealy when the re« porter told him the purport of nis visit and said there was no trath whatever as to the visit being aconference or anything else regarding the ex+ postulation, As the reporter waa leaving the Archbishop quietly remarked, Gladstone dosante nance of orphan and Magdalen asylums, in | trouble usin the Least,”