The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1875, 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 €ditions of the New Yorx Henatp will be | sent free of postage. Fate All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henatp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. STEINWAY Fourteenth street ORATOR! closes at 10 P.M. Dan RMANIA THEATRE Fourteenth st PHE MERRY WIVES OF WIND- SOK, tsi. M.; PARK THEATiE OORLY E closes at 1045 P.M. Matinee at 2 BRI B VARIETY, ats. My PL PARK THEATRE, Broadway. neh Opera Boutte-il sIROFLA, atoP. M. Mile. 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The conduet of the famous Plymouth pastor, outside of the pending legal proceedings, is a logitimate subject of public comment. Leav- ing the question of his guilt or innocence to be decided by the proper tribunal, his remark- able bearing during the pendency of the case challenges attention, as perhaps the most ex- traordinary moral and psychological phenom- enon ever presented in our American life. Mr. Beecher'’s peerless abilities as a pulpit orator have never shone forth with greater splendor than during the last few months, when a weight of care and anxiety sufficient to crush an ordinary man has rested as a bur- den upon his mind. Mr. Beecher might bave excused himself, on grounds which the public and his own congregation would have ac- cepted as valid, from preaching during this trying period of over-burdening solicitude. His defence against the terrible charge on which he is arraigned might be deemed sufficient to occupy his thoughts and exhaust his energies, and it is a marvel, almost a miracle, of intellectual clasticity that, besides attending every day on the exhausting pro- ceedings of the Court, he has appeared each Friday evening at Plymouth prayer meetings and preached in his pulpit every Sunday with even more than his wonted brilliancy. This bright effulgence of intellectual display under circumstances so depressing must be regarded as a great exhibition of genius, It cannot be disputed that Mr. Beecher is one of the most wonderful men that ever at- stand on the result of an impartial investiga- tion, The manner in which a gentleman of a high sense of personal honor acts in similar cir- cumstances is illustrated by several passages in the last published volume of the “Diary of John Quincy Adams.’’ General Jackson visited Washington while charges were pend- ing against him before Congress in relation to his campaign in Florida. During that visit he declined invitations and refused all social civilities on the ground that it was inconsis- tent with his self-respect to receive them while accusations were pending against him. Instead of accepting invitations to dinners given in his honor, and consenting to be lion- ized in social festivities, that proud and self- respecting man refused to take any step which might look as if he were willing to bring social influence and popular favor to bear on the minds of his judges. In‘the investigation of his conduct betore Congress he chose to stand on facts and proofs, and scorned the factitions advantage of a brilliant reception in Washington society. This was the proper attitude of conscious innocence and high honor, which scorned any vindication which might be influenced by personal popularity. Jackson, strong in a sense of his integrity, refused to be lion- ized—refused. to accept even ordinary social civilities, because his just sentiment of personal honor revolted against being in- debted for an acquittal to anytbing extrane- ous to the real merits of the case. Clerical honor should be at least as sensitive as mili- tracted the gaze and observation of an excited public. But the extreme indulgence which literary admires are disposed to accord to the aberra- tions of genius cannot blind the moral per- ceptions of the sober part of the community. The sanctity of moral obligations cannot be set aside in favor of brilliant men. It is too true that moral obliquity is easily pardoned when a seductive blaze of faculties eclipses great faults; - but this extenuating tendency has more commonly been shown toward men who made no preten- sions to@superior moral purity. The licen- like Byron and Goethe, is palliated by the admirers of their genius because their love of pleasure was | never attempted to be concealed under a mask of holiness. Clergymen are judged by a dif- ferent rule from that which is applied to men of fashion and pleasure, whose amours, when detected, do not convict them of hypocrisy, their character as men of truth and honor, taking honor in its customary social sense. A clergyman is judged by stricter rules, and he has no right to ask nor reason to expect the indulgent judgmeat which inconsiderate literary people pass upon the moral cond uct of their favorites. Presuming Mr. Beecher to be innocent, as we are bound to do until he is proved guilty, we must be permitted to say that his recent pulpit displays are as indecorous as his ex- traordinary letters to Moulton and others were unwise. While this scandalous trial is pending it would have become him to sub- ordinate personal considerations to the honor of the Church. No jadicious man can believe that the cause of religion is promoted by the preachizg of a man who stands in the equivocal position of Mr. Beecher. Every man, woman and intelligent child who hstens to him in Plymouth church spends the time devoted to public worship in comparing the well known accusations with the bearing and appearance ot the preacher; and people thus occupied with the problem of his guilt must “have their minds more or less turned away from the proper duties of the place. If the pulpit of Plymouth church were occupied by a clergyman who had no sort of connection with the scandal the congregation would, in- deed, lose the thronging multitudes who go to observe a man who has become the fore- most object of public curiosity, but the regu- lar worshippers would not have their devo. tions disturbed by speculations on the guilt or innocence of the pastor. The appropriate duties of the place would be conducted with Money easy and bonds steady. Tur Hover or Rernesentatives made good | progress yesterday with the Turiff bill, but | adjourned before completing the last section. Ir Turner Is Nor Gorp in the Black Hills there are miners. Thirty of them have been prospecting with success, and without inter- | Tuption from the Indians, since October. Tae German Government estimates the cost of its new Polar expedition at three hun- dred thousand dollars. The plans of explora- tion are stated in our letters from Berlin. pS eae - Ovp Boston Lurrur describes the passing of sentence of death on Jesse Pomeroy, the | boy murderer, who was the only person in court not affected by the solemn ceremony. Tue Metuchen Mcnprr Traat was closed yesterday by the conviction of Michael Sulli- | van of murder in the first degree. The crime of which he was found guilty is another illus- | tration of the proverb, *‘The love of money is the root of all evil.”” Tue Bercuern Case is summarized in our columns to-day, and the last week will be remembered as one of deep and painful inter- | est. The quarrels of the lawyers have ceased to amuse readers and the trial has become profoundly serious. It bids fair to be the saddest of all scandals. Tae Mapem Press is authority for the statement that the Spanish government will pay an indemnity of eighty-four thousand | dollars to the relatives of the victims of the | Virginius massacre. Mr. Cushing cannot too quickly obtain this settlement, which shonld | ‘have been made long ago. | Toe Arym Fawn. recently held their annual reunion in Berlin, and its political and social significance is explained in our corre- spondence from that capital. Appended will | be found an interesting chapter relating to Prince Bismarck’s proposed investigation of ithe Herat and its publication ot the official documents of the Von Arnim trial. Tar Evrect or Tar CENTENNIAL CELEDRA- | I0N upon business generally begins to be ap- | preciated by the public, and our report shows | | of religion if he recognized the wholesome | | principle that no man of questionable moral | that the farmers of Westchester intend that that-fertile county shall be represented fally im the agrieultural department. They will | rests upon Mr. Beecher are equally strong less distraction and in a more devotional spirit if the congregation were not revolving so exciting a problem in their minds, In order to place this subject in a con- vineing light let us suppose that Mr. Beecher, instead of being the long settled pastor of | Piymouth church, were @ candidate for the | ministry, of indisputable theological acquire- ments, applying to a responsible ecclesiastical body for a license. With the present grave charges pending against him we: may safely assume that no ecclesiastical body of any Christian denomination would permit him to gointoa pulpit They would say with vig- | orous unanimity that his innocence must be | established before any church could be edified by his ministrations. The grounds | on which auch a judgment and | decision would rest are quite obvious. The honor of the Church, public respect for reli- gion and a decent regard for morals would alike forbid the entrance into a Christian pulpit of a man whose purity was impugned, however brilliant his talents. The dullest and prosiest sermonizer who ever wearied the patience of a congregation, if his piety and purity were beyond reproach, would be justly deemed a more useful Christian teacher than an eloquent but suspected man. The grounds of such a judgment are equally applicable to the continuance in the pulpit of o preacher whose moral character has fallen under grave snspicions. His usefulness to the great cause of religion is fatally impaired until he can vindicate his character, and 6 true sense of what be owes to the Church and to his own self-respect should make him cautious and | reticent until his innocence is estab- | lished. The reasons against a man enter- ing the ministry under such a cloud as against a discharge of ita functions by a man in the ministry while the purity of his moral character is in litigation. The game interests of the Church which would justify and compel the refusal of a license to a candidate in the position of Mr. Beecher ought to keep him | | out of the pulpit until his reputation is | cleared. His weekly demonstrations that he | is a brilliant and unequalled preacher prove his talents, but not his innocence, and he | would evince a more sincere Zeai for the honor | purity should even enter a pulpit. The splen- tary honor, and we can discover no reason why Beecher should not emulate the laudable example of Jackson and share his lofty scorn of getting clear of accusations by demonstra- tions of his great personal popularity. Nothing is more delusive than the idea that a@ man who makes eloquent discourses on virtue is, therefore, virtuous. That great and acute moralist, Dr. Jobnson, in one of the chapters of ‘‘Rasselas,” exposes this delusion with his customary pungency. The prince, in the course of his adventures, “‘tinds a wise and happy man,” to whom he was willing to make a complete surrender of his judgment. “He speaks and attention watches his lips. He reasons and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide, I will learn his doctrines and imitate his life.” The adviser of the prince cautioned him against such easy credulity. ‘Be not too hasty,” said Imlac, “to trust or to admire the teachers of moral- ity; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.” The prince, as the readers of “‘Rasselas’’ will recollect, very soon found his illusions dispeiled by a visit to the revered teacher at an inopportune hour. Mr. Beecher must be judged by the evidence of facts, and neither his eloquence nor bis popularity can ayail him unless he can confute the testimony of his accusers. He must stand or fall by the proper evidence in the case, and the great dis- play of eloquence which he makes in his pulpit is quite as likely to be interpreted against him as in his favor. If he felt sure of his grounds of defence it would have been a becoming act of dignity and of respect for religion to suspend lis pulpit labors until his character is cleared of an unjust reproach. Washington’s Birthday. When Irving completed his “Life of Wash- ton” every one who read it felt that the repu- tation of the Father of his Country had been perpetuated in a fitting literary monument. Amid all the impulse and recklessness of American life—amid all that superficial jocu- larity which so abounds in this country— there 1s a reverence for the rare unison of vir- tues in that character, and it was proper that the national veneration should be embalmed in so eloquent an expression. The United States is a nation of people who have an in- tense appreciation of wit and humor. One of our faults is that we sometimes jest too much and treat things of gravity and import with flippancy. A steamboat explosion becomes the basis of our repartees, and a railroad col- lision quickens the impulse to jeux d'esprit. There is no grace or charm about this; it is merely the rank efflorescence of keen perception and high ani- mal spirits. It sometimes seems as if; amid such profuseness of humor, no room was lett for respect or veneration. It some- times seems as though time-honored tradi- | tions were on the eve of being elbowed irom | the standing room they have so long occu- pied, and institutions to which a former age looked up with veneration were being sapped by the slow process of our modern cynicism. The annual recurrence of a day of commem- oration like that of to-morrow is a very healthy stay and support to this flippaut dis- integrating process. Oue of the most gracious characteristics a comntry can possess is that of contempiating with a respect which blends into awe the heroes of the past. The charac- ter of Washington 1s the grand central character in the -history of onr country which permits—nay, which necessitates—just sucha teeling as this. His single-hearted- ness was so removed from the venality end selfish ambition of modern leaders that, m all the one hundred years of our existence a8 @ nation, we discover no greener record on which thé tired-eye may repose. His character, indeed, lacked several of those lighter graces which are more at home in the court than in the camp. He was born and bred and had his whole development in times which called for the sterner virtues, and he gave the age all that it needed in this respect. He, more than any man who lived | before or who has lived since, ‘carried Amer- ica in his brain,” and the country owes its dignity to the rich shadow he casts over it | from the sunset of distant years. He had no time to cultivate those accomplishments which amuse and dazzle. He could save a nation, but could not talk in epigrams ; could rule a people, but not glitter in the drawing room. He is one of the very few great men in our history whose dignity has survived unscathed by that relentless Lumor with which we too | reminds us of # great and good example in way we caunot forget. matic gossip form the subject of an entertain- ing letter from Paris to-day. The Italian that taking butter, eggs and poultry to | dor of his abilities is no proof of his inno- | opera has not had mach more snccess in Paris Philadelphia is not altogether like ‘carrying onda to Newcagule.”” Fi conce, and an attempt to make it such would | | seem to betray « cqnacioumens that be cangot than it bad this winter with Mr. Strakosch | in America. often travesty the reputations of the great. | The anniversary of his birthday is, therefore, | valuable, if for no other reason than that it | A False Fimancial Exhibit by Oomp- troller Gr Mr. Green's voluminous reply to the resolu- tions of the Common Council is marked by the deception and concealment for which all his official statements are notorious. It does not give the information sought, and throws but little, if any, additional light on our financial condition. It is full of distortions of truth, which barely escape the character of actual false statements, and the “object of which is transparent. Mr. Green does not intend to allow the facts in regard to his financial man- agement to be known if he can help it, and he seeks by constant reference to the corruptions of the past and by financial stump speeches to raise false issues and to conceal the fatal inca- pacity of the present. He commences his com- munication with a comparative statement of the increase of the city and county debt for three years under the Tammany régime, from December, 1868, to December, 1871, and for three years under his own man- agement, from December, 1871, to December, 1874. His object is to ¢stablish at the start the belief that the debt has not increased so rapidly under him as it did under his prede- cessor, although it seems scarcely consistent that a reform administration should attempt to justify its management by a comparison of its results with those reached under the rule of public robbers. Mr. Green, however, re- sorts to a most contemptible deception in order to obtain a credit to which he is not entifled. Every intelligent citizen of New York knows that “revenue bonds’ are bonds issued by the city, and formorly by the county also, upon which money is obtained for the current expenses of the government before the taxes of the year are due and collectable. The taxes do not come in until the end of the year. The revenue bonds are issued generally between January and September, and are paid and cancelled as soon as the taxes are col- lected. They are nota portion of the debt, but are simply | temporary loan made, not on the eredit of the city, baton the security, of the taxes for the current year. Mr. Green commences his statement of the three years’ increase of the debt under Tammany rulo with 1868, for which year he gives the debt proper, without including any revenue bonds, and ends it with 1871, for which year he adds to the debt proper between six and seven mill- ions of revenue bonds. He then commences his statement of the increase of the debt under his own management with 1871, in which year he includes the seven millions of revenue bonds above stated, and ends it with 1874, for which year he adds to the debt proper only two million seven hundred thousand of revenue bonds, Mr. Green's distorted figures are made to show the following results : — Bonded debt, December 31, 1868 Bonded debt, December 51, 18 $52,205 430 108,551,708 Gross increase in three years under TAMMANY .....- cere eeeeeeeee + $46,346,278 Bonded dept, December 31, 1871 - $108,551, 708 | Boaded debt, December 31, 1874 ~ 141,803, 758 Gross increase in three years under HEGGI see's bindcob un een ne. teeT CIN $33,252,050 Mr. Green is wellaware that no comparison of this kind should include revenue bonds, which do not form any portion of the city's debt. Yet he uses them to swell the apparent increase under Tammany by nearly seven million dollars and to conceal the real in- crease under himself to the amount of about tour millions. The bonded debt of the city and county, on December 31, 1868, was actually as fol- lows: — Bonded debt of the city payable from sinking fund and taxation «+ $20,928,208 Bonded debt of county «+ 14,648,600 ‘Temporary debt payable irom assess TRBIED Ja yeckesecckseseessecs chaphssucnvet OOS $52, 190,480 In this no revenue bonds are included, and, as we have said, Comptroller Green com- mences his comparative statement of the in- crease of the debt with this amount ($52,205,430), omitting all revenue bonds. December 31, 1871, was actually as follows, exclusive of revenue bonds: Bonded debt of the city ‘Temporary devt.... Bonded debt Qf the county + $57,999,308 000 To this amount, as we have said, Comp- troller Green adds revenue bonds to the | amount of $6,319,100 in order to swell the | apparent increase of debt. The true increase between those periods was as follows: — Total bonded debt December 31, 1868.., $52,190,480 Total bonded debt December 51, 1871... 102,282,603 Gross increase tn three years under Tammany $50,042,128 The bonded debt of the city and county on December 31, 1874, was actually as follows: — Funded debt.. 118, 241,557 Temporary debt 20,851,000 Having added $6,319,100 revenue bonds to the debt of the year 1871, Mr. Green cuts down the revenue bonds outstanding on De- cember 31, 1874, to $2,700,000. He thus mis- represents by nearly four million dollars the increase during the three years ot his own rule. The true increase between 1871 and 1874 was as follows: — Total bonded debt Decetnber 31, 1871... $102,232, 608 Total bonded deot December 31, 187: 139,092,557 | Gross increase tn three years ander | Green. $36,859,949 We have thus the following comparative statement between the two régimes:— | Increase in three years fr 1808 to 1871 under Tammany Increase in three years , under Green 36,859,049 | Apparent excess Of inatease under | TAMMANY PULC.... ce ceeeeeeeeeeeees $15,182,171 But for more than three montis of 1871— the whole of which year is charged to the | Tammany account—Mr. Green wns at the | head of the Finance Department, having as- sumed the Comptrollership on September 16, 1871. At that date we find the bonded debt of | the city thus stated in Mayor Havemeyer’s | Message of January 19, 1874, exclusive of | revenue bonds: — Funded debt of city and coun’ $52,119,158 | Assessment bonds ...,......+ 11,824,600 | conan | Total debt when Green took office $93,945,658 | Total debt December 81, 1871 102,232, 608 Increase in three months of 1871, un der GPeet....+4+ Hdkdiad viv vbeone nee $8,288,950 This sum, added crease under Tammany from December 31, | 1868, to September 16, 1871, $41,753,170. We | leave out of question for the present the char- | acter of this enormous increase of the debt | under a reform administration. It is onough | to poink owt the dyogptiqn apd The bonded debt of the city and county on | $50,042,120 | ' to the increase from De- | | cember 31, 1871, to December 31, 1874, makes | | the total increase ander Comptroller Green's | aan | management $45,148,899, and the total in- | Tux Frenga Tararne and the latest dra- | Wickory ta | gyestian of doctrine avowed, mainteined, which the head of the Finance Department resorts in his official statements, and to ask whether such a person is fit to be any longer intrusted with the financial management of a great city? Pulpit Topies To-Day. The topics to be considered by our city pastors to-day are more than usually re- ligious. A few are controversial and one or two are social or political. In the religious line Mr. Phelps leads off with a sermon on heaven, to which Mr, Kennard adds our names written there, which help to constitute the glory of the Church militant and tri- umphant, and these comprise the white-robed multitude before the throne, about whom Dr. Dowling will speak. ‘The Gospel Feast will be spread by Mr. MacArthur, and all will be invited to it. The advantages of church membership will be set forth by Mr. Hawthorne, and Dr. Moran will indicate the religious work of to-day and point out the incentives to Christian labor. And im the same line Mr. Corbit will demonstrate the folly of indecision in religious matters as well as show how the sorrowful may sing for joy. Mr. Kirkus will indicate the true Christian compromise, probably with reference to threat- ened troubles in the Protestant Episcopal Church. And while Dr. Thompson is setting forth the uses of temptation Mr. Alger will set forth the uses of great men. The indict- ment against Christ will be considered by Mr. Hepworth, and the beast and false prophet of the Apocalypse will be sketched by Mr. Terry, while Mr. Andrews will show how God has restored the worship of the one Catholic Church to his communion. Among the controversial social and political topics to be discussed to-day in our pulpits we find Dr. Talmage, having given Messrs. Nye, Pullman and Sweetser a chance to refute his biblical arguments against the doctrine of Universalism, which these preachers will dis- cuss with him, returning to-day to attack Unitarianism and to show its contrariety to the Bible. Mr. MacArthur will tell his people how the Gospel was introduced into Europe ; Mr. Boardman will give some instruction in household government, and.Mr. Alger will draw lessons for Americans from the life and character of Washington, whose birthday an- niversary will be observed throughout the land to-morrow. His life and character seem now to be wholly ignored by political leaders and office-holders, and it is well at least once ayear to burnish them and set them up in the light of the nation, to be seen and admired ofallmen. And this is what Mr. Alger pro- poses to do. é Thurlow Weed on the Third Term. Cesar, who was a prediction when the Hwratp announced his certain entry into American politics, has now become a reality, and our “‘sensation,’”’ which was ridiculed at the time, is painfully felt by the republi- can party. But we did not create Ciesar ; we simply discovered him, and now his existence is admitted. That distinguished republican politician, Thurlow Weed, in his letter in the Tribune of yesterday, says :—‘‘When tho press began to agitate about a ‘third term,’ few, if any (sic), supposed that such an idea was seri- ously entertained.’’ But Mr. Weed adds that the beliof that General Grant. ‘‘seriously enter- tained’’ third term ideas was a more damaging element to the republican party in the can- vass of 1874 than even the back pay grab, the Treasury Department imbccilities, the Sanborn contracts or the Washington govern- ment frauds. ‘No word was spoken, no sign given,” he says, of that canvass, ‘by the only person who could, by the utterance of a sin- gle sentence, have disarmed his opponents and reassured bis friends.” Mr. Weed then declares that ‘if there be anything unaitera- bly fixed and determined in the American mind and heart—if there be any one princi- | ple to which our people have anchored, it is the ‘third term’ example of Washington.”’ The President repudiated this example, and { the party of which he was the acknowledged | leader was deteated. The Tribune regrets that one who sees this so clearly should have seen it so late, and we sympathize wit the lamentation. It is not our fault that the planus of Grant to retain his power were discredited by the politicians and the press until the people affirmed at the polls their convictions of theirexistence. The late elections were the most emphatic proof | that the Henaxp was believedin by the people. In the issue between this journal and the republican leaders the people decided that we were unhappily right, and they voted against the evil we revealed. It is a pity for the republican party that last year Thuriow Weed, Vice President Wilson, Mr. Garfield, General Dix and many otner of its leaders did not make the issue between the party and the President; for they might have saved their | organization from overwhelming defeat. We cannot help their mistake. Like Columbus, | we stood the egg on end, but they said it was ' a bad egg, and ‘few, if any,’’ believed what | they are now compelled to admit. Yet it is not yet too late to look the truth in the face, and we are pleased that a man of | Thurlow Weed’s reputation and influence should speak so plainly to the country. The | third term plot has survived the defeat of the | republican party last fall, and must be fought with even greater resolution, not only in the lines ot that party, but outside of them. Now we may intimate to Mr. Weed, and to all who, | like him, regret the past without showing | alarm for the tuture, that the President has a | new policy and new planus for achieving his ambition, and that if the indifference of last tall is repeated it is not certain but he may succeed. ' | Kehoes of the Religious Press. | | The religions papers this week traverse a | | great variety of topics, but none of them in a | | very brilliant or lively style. The election of | Dr. DeKoven to the bishopric of Llinois is | considered by the Hraminer and Chronicle as | an ecclesiastical slap in the face by that dio- | cese to the General Convention. It is anxious | to know what the result will be should he | accept and his election not be indorsed by the | bishops and the standing committees of the | whole Church. Will Illinois take him whether | or no? Ifso a rupture must be the inevitable | consequence, The Church Journal, while | | calling attention briefly to certain illegalities | | in the election of Dr. DeKoven, does not re- | gret that the issue is fairly and squarcly made between Lilinois and the whole Protestant Epis- copal Church by this ejection, It is a ’ hammer on the top of my head. | 7 fended, and the Journal very, pertinently aske,, Can the Ohuroh afford to atultify herself td her own children and the community byl Granting the request of the Diocese of Illinois and accepting Dr. DeKoven? Tho same ques- tion is asked of the bishops, and the J< thinks there never was so solemn an issue laid before the Church, for on its decisiom rests the tuture well being, not of the Church: in Illinois, but of the Church in this whole land for years to come. The Methodist says these are bad times for bishops. What with elections and refusals of office, curtailment of authority and abuse or want of proper respect, there is abundant evidence that the secular mind has outgrown the ancient reverence for Episcopacy. Even Methodist bishops, who lack the pretensions of others, are not free from these signs of slighting, and it is now seriously proposed either to do away with them altogether in making conference ap- pointments or to give them one vote con- jointly with the elders. Church and Stale puts the Episcopal theories or pretensions ot its Church in as strong a light as Possible, that the contrast between hy- potheses and facts may become more striking. If it be true that, as taught, the bishops are the successors of the apostles and have the power of imparting the Holy Spirit, &c., is it not strange that upon their own theory clergymen should be found so ready to decline this high office, as if it were nothing more than that of a school visitor? The very refusal seems to Church and State a strong evidence of the falseness of the theory; and, taken together with the fact that so many large denominations get along grandly with- out bishops or with bishops of very moderate pretensions, outsiders will be very hkely to determine how far the Episcopacy will be of any use to them, and insiders will judge how far they can be of use to it. The Tublet has a little tilt with the Observer on the question of Papal absolution of allegiance. The ublel insists that if the State requires a Catholic to do his duty the Pope has no right to ask him to do another thing or the opposite. And thus it goes. Tax Terms of the new compromise pro- posed by the Louisiana conservatives are fully stated in our Washington despatches. They certainly concede a great deal to the 're- publicans. Kellogg is to be accepted as Gov- ernor, and even recognition of the Wiltz organization is not insisted upon as a basis. But the conservatives do not recognize the right or legality of the recent military interference with the Legislature, and this, we apprehend, will make the com- promise unwelcome at the White House. But the general opinion appears to be in iavor of its adoption. Tux Tunnen on the Erie Railway, near Jersey City, is well known to many thousands of our citizens, and the accident which oc- curred there yesterday will therefore receive un- usual attention. A collision of the kind should be made impossible by better regulations, Sufety on the Erie line in the vicinity of Now York ought to be guaranteed to the persons living in the towns along the road whose business calls them daily to this city. Ir Is Not Unurkety now that the French Assembly will agree upon the terms on which a Senate is to be permanently constituted. The republican members evidently see the approaching shadow of the young Napoleon, and are anxious that the Republic shall be established. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Matthew Hale, of Albany, is among the late arrivals at the Gilaey House. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connect cut, is staying at the Fifth Avenue: Hotel, Seventy-eight thousand emigrants from the United States landed at Liverpool in 1874. x-Attorney Generat Amos T, Akerman, ot | Georgia, yesterday arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. * . Assistant Naval Jonstructor R. W. Steele, Unitea States Navy, 18 quartered at the Union Square Hotel. Gambetta is reported to have said that he would rather have an armehatr in the new Senate thane hut at Noumea, Genera! James Craig, President of the Hanvibat and St, Joseph Rutlroad Company, 18 residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Prussia will organize for the spring time an enormous camp on the left bank of the Rhine, and will be ready sor emergencies. Mr, Thomas Allen, President of the St. Lous, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, is sojourning as’ the Fifth Avenue Hotel, In Liverpool the manager of a theatre has berua a suit to compe! an old gentlemen in the audience to stop throwing bouquets to the actresses, In Vienna tney have a single word fora fact very common with us now—the bursting of a water pipe. This is the word—Hochanellen wasserleic- ungsrohrenfatalitaten. Maurice Grau went tosee “Henry V.,"" just to see why other people ran there, and he found the house 60 full that he had to sit on Field Marshat | Tooker's private camp stool, Now, as to the kiss that Mrs. Moulton gave Mr. Beecher there 18 this to be satd:—If it was a pure kisa tt cannot hurt the testimony; tf it was an im- pure kiss does it help Mr. Beecher ? In a jubilee ceremony in 1775 two boys who ao companied the cross a8 acolytes quarreiled and fought one another with the golden candlesticks, | One of them became Pope Leo XIL, the other Pius VILL. From Alabama we learn that Mr. Edward Smith, | @negro, on the jury of the City Court tn Mont- gomery, Was put on the city chain gang for 100 davs ior stealing iogs. His place on the jury i vacant, Where are the troops t The pastor of the Church of the Strangers has | returned from bis trip to Florida and will occupy his pulpit as asual. The reception arranged by his people for last evening has been deferrea, on account of the storm, till Tuesday evening next. Mr. Beecner’s exclamation in court alter Mrs Moulton’s testimony was given can only be taken as an evidence that that little woman's story had disturbed tus temper, and yet can It be believed that lis equanimity would be ruffled by one more “ite? The Mémoriat Diptomatique says the Egyptian International Appeliate Court wih consist of Mr, Scott, as the representative of England; Herr Lapenna, of Austria; Signor Giaccone, of Italy; Herr Scaroqua, of Germany; M, Cumassy, of Rus- sta; Baron Anspeld, of Sweden; M. Devos, of Beigium, and Dr. Baringer, of the United States, Tho Frehich member will not be appointed till the ' Convention has ocen ratified by the Assembly, Having attempted to hang himself, but having been prematurely cut down, ® young gentleman ol Paris has survived to give this account ot nis sensations:—As | kicked away tho chair and fell Ihad the sensation of receiving a blow irom a Laid not tee! the rope, and the ouly defined sensation succeeding | that of the blow was 4 sensation of weight in my | head. My head-seemed heavier and vigger than the great peli of Notre Dame. Lt was night ail @bout me, und then there came a@ terrible cold in the lower part of my body, and then a4 sharp pain where the rope wis tearing my neck, and thon motping.!’