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6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and efter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Your Hxaarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12 Rejected communications will not be re- turned. NDON F THE Ww YORK | sete bh TECH One a | as if the bill had been passed in its original HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. — Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME KLe+se+eeeeee sseeeeNO, 60 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. HUMPTY OMPTY, atéP.M. George L. Fox COLOSSEUM, Boats, and Thirty-fourth strget PARIS Ina ORM, “Two exhipitions da: daily, at 2 and er. M, | BOOTH" corner of ey soe weg HENRY V., at $Y. et ue Sixth avenue.— P.M. Mr. Rignold. SAN FRANCISCO ELS, ‘oadway, corner of lwenty- aig greet. NEGRO | HINSTRELSY, ar8P. M.: closes at 10 P. M. ORLY® ATHEN ECM FAMILIE HOEESER, ROB: IN HAL! sixteenth sreet—Br GONE DULL CARE, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. M jaccabe. ‘TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, between ~econd and apie avenues.— | Pantene ati P.M. j closes at 2:3 A. HE, /-THE ATAUGHRAUSS ry Be, ‘M.; closes at | Broad wa} Mr. Boucicauit. 10st F. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATE Brookiya.—KOSEDALE, a: 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. Nr. Lester Wallack. ite WoOOD’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtle BP. M.; closes at 10 oLyMPIC THEATRE, Poyfes Broadway.—VaRIETY, at P ML; closes at 10:45 | omy 3 Se ee at nee at 1 ROMAN HIPPODROME, | nty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—PEDES- | Fria ish Protessors Judd and Weston. THEATRE COMIQUE, Feu Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, and Broadw: phe De BIG. BO. wis, Miss Davenport, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, | Sy aad Bowery.—VARIE1Y, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 ea yee PARK THEATRI Fulton avenue.—VARIETY, at 2 P.M., and at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 Fr. M. | | ed /PERA HOUSE, West Twenty thi reet,near Sixth avenue.-NEGRO Rea STRELSY, in, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M Ds GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, at8P. M.; sloses at 1/45 P.M. afiss Lina Mayr. PARK THEATRE, Broadway.—French Opera Boufle-—viROFLE. GIROFLA, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Mile. Coralie Geoffroy. ere AND Ci » tS P. M.; choses at TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1875. | | | as repugnant to the constitution as the crea- | innocence. Now, the constitution is very | strict and emphatic in forbidding the suspen- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1875.—TRIPLF SHEET. | Passage of the Force | House—A Midnight As | Liberty. The evering session on Saturday continued | until midnight, when the House adjourned immediately after passing the literticide meas- | ure called in common parlance the Force bill. The effect of the bill as first introduced, and as it stood at the beginning of the de>ate on Saturday, was to make the President a Casar and clothe him with absolute despotic author- | ity throughout the United States. It was, however, so amended before its passage as to make him the irresponsible Cesar of only the four States of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana | and Mississippi—the authority to suspend the | writ of habeas corpus being finally limited to | those States. But this limitation of area | in no wise changes the principle of the bill The violation of the constitution is as flagrant Bill by the ssination of form. Congress has no more right to suspend the constitution and subvert public liberty in four States or one State than it has to install a Cwsar over the whole Union. The bili was also amended by a limitation of time as well as of area. It is to continue in force only for two years and until the end of the next ensuing session of Congress. But neither does this limit of time at all change the principle of the bill. Thecreationof a Cesar or absolute dictator for two or three years is tion of @ perpetual dictator ora hereditary Cesar. Every constitutional interdict, every | objection of principle, every protest in behalf of liberty, applies with the same force to the bill as amended that applied to the bill as first agreed on in caucus. The only effect of the amendments is to sharpen the wedge and facilitate its being finally driven in up to the | thickest part of its butt. If the principle is | admitted, if this precedent is set, every bar- rier against Cwsarism and arbitrary power will be broken down. The whole bill is bad from beginning to end in all its thirteen sections, but the climax is reached in the last section, which author- izes the President to suspend the habeas cor- pus in certain exigencies, of which he is made the sole judge. His mere discretion, his irre- sponsible will, is to be the supreme law in four States whenever it suits his caprice, pleasure | or ambition to make itso. Hecanarrest any | citizens he pleases, shut them up in prison as | long as he pleases without a judicial warrant, without a sworn accuser, without a particle of evidence which he is required to produce, without informing them of the charges or giving them any opportunity to prove their sion of the habeas corpus except as a last re- sort in cases of extreme public danger. It | mentions invasion and mentions rebellion as | the only cases of the kind. This bold and execrable bill, in order to bring its au- | thority to suspend the habeas corpus under | one or the other of these two heads, invents a new and absurd definition of invasion and of rebellion. In the title of the bill the word ‘in- vasion’’ holds the foremost place, and dis- | closes the sophistry and false pretences on which it wes framed. The title is, ‘‘A bill | to provide against the invasion of States, to prevent the subversion of their suthority and | to maintain the security of elections.’’ From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be warm and | doudy, with possibly in or snow. | | Tae Porrrics oF THE STATE AND THE Crry | receive considerable attention in our columns to-day, but no more than their present unsatis- | factory condition justifies—indeed, demands. | The delay in the reconstruction of the city departments and its political causes are exam- | ined; the defence of Mr. Delafield Smith, in a letter addressed by him to the Governor, | and a review of the legislation at Albany are | the principal chapters of our article. | Tae Cextenntat Exursrrtox.—We publish in another column the law passed by Congress exempting from duty goods intended merely for exhibition. The terms of this law are very hberal, and ought to encourage foreign manulacturers to send their wares to our great world’s fair. The precautions against fraud will probably suffice to protect the gov- ernment from loss through dishonest entries, Tae Last Days or Concress.—It is proba- ble that Congress will adjourn leaving a number of important questions undevided. Among those which, according to our Wash- ington correspondent, it is impossible for the Serfate to dispose of in the short time remain- ing, is the Force bill, over which no tears need be shed. The Tax bill, it is thought, will also be defeated in the Senate. Arkansas and Louisiana are likely to receive little atten- tion, and Mr. Pinchback will not be admitted. No news in most of these cases may be consid- ered good news, and we hope both houses will content themselves with absolutely neces- sary legislation. It is rather late in the ses- sion to attempt anything more. Spary.—Poor little Alfonso must have a pleasant time of it. The Carlists, who were to be dispersed as soon as Spain was fur- nished with a brand new king, seem to be as lively as ever and in no hurry to subside. By the latest accounts they made a desperate assault on Bilbao and were repulsed only by a vigorous application of the bayonet. An attack on the Carlist intrench- ments by the garrison of Rilbao was repulsed with vigor, and now the two sides are even again. In this little display the Alfonsist troops lost three or four hundred men killed and wounded, and as the Carlist loss must have been equally heavy some seven hundred tall fellows had the pleasure of being shot down for the honor and profit of the two pre- tenders to the Spanish throne. Rexictovs An Is Muxico, —It is not surprising that a people so much ad- dicted to settling political disputes by the sword should imagine that religious differ- ences ought to be dealt with in a similar man- ner. Some enthusiastic missionaries are en- gaged in the work of Protestantizing the Mex- can Indians, which that section of the Mexican population which looks upon an un- veliever as in some way or another in- jimately connected with the father of ul evil, cuts their heads off. Religious liberty is guaranteed by the law in Mexico, so far as law in that unhappy country can guarantee anything; but practi- | cally only the popular form of religion is tol- erated outside the principal cities, The reason for thus putting invasion in the forefront and making it the basis of the bill, | though not touched upon by any of the speakers in the debate, is quite evident. That part of “the constitution known as the guarantee section relates to three different | exigencies—namely, invasion, domestic vio- | lence and the subversion of a republican form of government. We lay the last out of | consideration, as having no relation to the | | present question. The two other guarantees— | that against invasion and that against do- | mestic violence—differ in this important particolar—namely, that whereas the federal government cannot interfere in a case of domestic violence, except upon an application from the State gov- ernment, it can execute the guarantee against invasion without any request from State au- thorities. If, therefore, under the fiction or false pretence of an invasion the President can inter/ere in the affairs of a State, he may circumvent and defeat that provision of the constitution which compels him to keep his hands off until the State government applies to him for help. This absurd bill accordingly makes a new definition of invasion, and ap- plies that formidable word to the consent of two individuals to take part in the political controversies of an adjoining State. Was there ever anything so preposterous as the idea that ‘two persons” can ‘‘invade” a State? Invasion, as the word has always been under- stood, implies the approach or entrance of a formidable armed force; but this ridiculous | bill magnifies the efforts of two individuals to | the formidable dimensions of an ‘invasion !” We quote the beginning of the first section of this strange bill:—‘Be it enacted, &c., that if two or more persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall in- vade any of the States of this Union for the purpose of overthrowing the existing govern- ment of said State or any constituted au- thority of the same, or for the purpose of in- terfering in any forcible or unlawful manner with the due execution of the laws of such State or of the United States,” &c. When has absurdity ever before gone to so gro- tesque a pitch as to make the ‘invasion’ of | a State by “two persons” a case of public | danger which justifies the suspension of the habeas corpus? Since the ‘three tailors of Tooley street’’ styled themselves ‘“‘We, the people,’ there has been no such wonderful political magnifying glass. An invasion of a State by two persons ! When plotters commit themselves to so ridiculous an absurdity they do not stake their reputations for common sense without an object. The object in this case is to fabricate a protest for federal interference in a State withont an application from ita goverrment. The pretence of “domestic violence” therefore gives place to a pretence of “dnvasion,”’ and when the efforts of two persons are brought within the definition of an invasion there never need be any obstacle to federal interference in State affairs. A President who is bent on suspending the habeas corpus in a State must be very poor in resources if he cannot get an invasion of two persons manufactured to order in some oue of the neighboring States. And as sobn as he can get up such a pretext of invasion his hands are untied, because he can send the | | State authorities, if they are strong enough; | the degeneracy of the times and of the decay | have been subverted by stealthy and gradual | have of late years been submitted to by our | constitutional guarantees of freedom would | an insurrection, only good fortune has since | of the Civil Rights bill and the threatened | army of the United States to repel en invasion ‘Without the consent of the invaded State. * Certain it is that the founders of the constitution at- tached no such ridiculous meaning to the word ‘‘invasion.” At an early period of the government, when the most influential mem- ers of the Convention were serving in Con- gress, laws were passed for fulfilling two of the federal guarantees—that against invasion and that against domestic violence. We refer to the act of 1792 and the subsequent act of 1795, both passed during the administration of our first President. On the subject of invasion the act of 1795 isa word for word transcript of that of 1792, Both acts begin with this language:—‘‘Be it enacted, &., that whenever the United States shall be invaded or be in imminent danger of inva- sion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President,” &. It will be observed that this language assumes that invasion can come only from an exterior source, and that Congress contemplated no invasion except by a foreign nation or some of the Indian tribes on our frontier. But even conceding that the constitutional pro- vision includes the invasion of one State by the inhabitants of another, the gross absurdity still remains of considering two persons as an “‘invasion.”” It can easily be proved, however, that an irruption into one State by the inhabitants of another was regarded by the framers of the constitution as a case of domestic violence, to be put down by the and if not, by federal assistance duly applied for. It is not probable that this bill will get through the Senate; but the fact that it has passed the House is an alarming symptom of of the spirit of liberty. All free governments approaches, and the most portentous feature of the present situation is the apathy with which encroachments on the constitution people. This lowering of the popular tone and this torpor of the jealous regard for free- dom which was so active and vigilant in the earlier periods of the Republic, justified the vigorous notes of warning raised by the Heratp on the subject of Cmsarism. When vigilance for liberty is quietly laid asleep some usurper will soon see and seize his opportunity. The public apathy under so many assaults on the soon create a Cesar if there were not one already in training. The spirit of abject sub- | mission and servility to power, so unworthy | of freemen, soon ceases to be odious if the people permit themselves to get inured to ite Yet seen too oft, familiar witn her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Encroachments on liberty must be met on | | bills have notyet been passed. Weareconfident Shall We Have a North Pole Expe- ditiont=—An Appeal to Congress. The President of the Geographical Society, Chief Justice Daly, has favored us to-day with his views upon the subject of a new expedi- tion to the North Pole. Like Admiral Porter, Secretary Robeson and Dr. Hayes, he thinks the scheme entirely practicable, and indorses the Smith Sound, or ‘‘American route,’’ which was pursued by our countrymen, Kane, Hayes and Hall. As might be expected from one of his liberal and enlightened views, without exhibiting jealousy of any other country, he urges upon the government and the nation the propriety of America stepping forward to claim precedence in a field which she has made peculiarly her own. His letter contains many valuable suggestions, and we cordially recommend his views to the consideration of Congress, and renew our hope that Congress will not adjourn with- out passing a bill authorizing an expedition and providing the funds. It isa matter in which our national honor is involved. To leave such an undertaking to be prosecuted merely by private means is unworthy of o country so rich in resources and so sensitive of its spirit and enterprise. We should act promptly and in unison with England and Germany. Immediate action must be taken, for there is no time to lose. The expedition should leave the country by the Ist of June, which gives three months for preparation, This is ample time if it is not wasted in delay, But, as Congress adjourns on Thursday, the delay of a day becomes a serious matter. Let it be done at once. The Secretary of the Navy assures our correspondent that there is a vessel in the service entirely suitable and which can be spared, and he favors the ap- propriation of a sum of fifty thousand dollars by Congress, contingent upon twenty-five thousand being raised by private subscrip- tion. Our Geographical Society is not like similar societies in Europe, endowed by gov- ernment, and has no funds, but it has great influence since its new departure of a year ago, and will doubtless bestir itself in concert with other societies of the country, who should come together and act in harmony. The sum proposed is not large, but this is for contingent expenses, the vessel being already in commission and the officers and men already under pay. The amount appropriated by the British govern- ment is much greater, being ninety-eight thousand pounds, nearly five hundred thousand dollars, which includes the purchase of the ships and three years’ stores. The navy has at present comparatively little to do, and there are plenty of excellent officers and seamen who would jump at the chance of such a voyage. The appropriation the country would gladly see the expenditure made, for there is a general feeling that when the frontier at their earliest approaches, or else public feeling becomes so deadened that | | it cannot be roused to resistance until the | weight of oppression becomes intolerable. | It is mortifying and lamentable that, while | republican sentiments have been making | great progress in the Old World, the spirit of liberty is sinking into decay and gives signs | of approaching death in this country. We trust it is not yet too late to arouse the people | to a sense of their danger. The fact that so | many of the republicans of the House voted | against the Force bill is a good symptom, and | if they and the press of their party would | assume a bolder tone, and denounce the new tendencies toward arbitrary power with the true spirit of freemen, the seductive cup which is presented to the lips of our Cesar might easily be dashed to the ground. Ms. Srantey’s Marcu Inro Arrica.— We print this morning a short but ex- tremely interesting letter from Mr. Henry M. Stanley, giving an account of what may be termed the first stage in the march of the Herarp and Telegraph Expedition into Africa. Leaving Bagamoyo under unfavorable condi- tions for a fortunate journey, being compelled at the outset to suppress what was very like attended the expedition. A journey which took Lieutenant Cameron four months, and Mr. Stanley himself fifty-seven days on his previous expediiiop, was accomplished in the remark- ably brief period of twenty-five days. None | of the delays and difficulties which are almost | unavoidable in Central Africa had occurred, | and already one-half of the journey to Un- | yanyembe is achieved. Our readers will join us in the hope that no serious obstacles may retard the expedition on the rest of the way, and that the exploration of the Nile sources | may result in revealing all those mysteries of | Central Africa which geographers have been anxious to unlock ever since the revival of | learning in Europe. Tue Lovisitsna Compromise.—The passage passage of the Force bill have had the effect to lessen the chances of a compromise in Louisiana. Our despatches from New Or- leans show that there is still a strong desire to carry the compromise through, but that | prominent conservatives are unwilling to sub- | mit to what they consider a Congressional | threat, and an alteration of the conditions on | which their compromise was originally founded. The matter will probably come to an issue to-day, and we sincerely trust that | an agreement can be made. Frexca Poxrrics.—Our Paris letter gives an extended account of the struggle in the | French Assembly over the constitutional | bills. At the date it was written there seemed little hope that the power of the Republic | would be definitely organized, but in | spite of the unscrupulous’ intrigues of the Bonapartist and Bourbon factions the work of laying the foundation of consti- tutional government in France goes bravely | on. It,is now just possible that when the Septennate comes to an end France may be in | a position to control her destinies without caring for the intrigues of the selfish politi- cians who seek to re-establish some form of monarchy for their own profit. Rar Transit.—The important question of rapid transit is ably treated in a communica- publish in another column. The writer, & practical engineer, is in favor of the | loop system, and puts his views clearly be- fore the public. The necessity of providing that the fares on the proposed line should be reasonable is properly insisted on, as the road ought to be built for the benefit of the citizens and not alone for that of the speculators. tion we | the most perfect discipline no such undertak- | tious young men, thoroughly skilled | for sledge travel, can and should be procured. we have come so near to reaching the North Pole it is a shame that we are not going ahead | to do it actually before some other nation slips in and jostles us aside, giving us no hand in it and robbing us of the glory we have already acquired. We must follow up | the brilliant record of the past. Should the | | expedition be under the control of the Navy Department, for which its organization and discipline are eminently adapted, every neces- sary provision for the scientific representation can be made in season, so that the expedition | will go out in no way inferior to those of England and Germany. In England the matter has been most thoroughly discussed and the best provision made. The ablest scientists of the country are now en- gaged, under the chairmanship of the Secre- tary of the Royal Society, in drawing up de- tailed instructions, covering every department ot scientific inquiry, which fact alone shows the great importance attached to the enter- prise. Captain Nares, a most accomplished and popular officer, has been brought all the way from Hong Kong, where he was in command | of the Challenger, now on her brilliant and | successful cruise around the world, to take | charge, and it certainly is a most wise | choice. Captain Markham, another naval offi- cer of large experience, and who has been in the Arctic seas, commands the second vessel. They will sail in season to enter the ice with the first break-up. Chief Justice Daly furnishes some valuable information, and will give earnest co-opera- | tion, both in his own behalf and that of the Geographical Society, in the event of an ex- pedition being determined upon. Dr. Hayes, whose large Arctic experience peculiarly fits him for the task, promises his hearty support and assistance, and he strongly favors a naval expedition, in which, under all circumstances, discipline will be guaranteed; and without ing can fail to prove disastrous. Some men | are born to command and such men always | maintairt authority, but the systematic disci- pline of the navy is always reliable. Admiral Blake, who whipped the Dutch, was not a sailor, but he was a man of genius, which | supplied the deficiency. From the Coast | Survey, the Smithsonian Institution in Wash- | ington and our colleges any number of ambi- | in | scientific investigation could be. had at al day’s notice, to join their fortunes with the new attempt to reach the Pole. The thing should be done thoroughly if at | all, and there should be a sufficient force of men for any emergency and to make success | certain. Valuable aid can always be had in Greenland, where there are hunters of long experience and thoroughly hardened by ex- posure. Here also Esquimau dogs, invaluable The region of Smith Sound, and as farbeyond | as known, abounds in game at certain seasons— a fact which should not be lost sight of. All of our explorers found great quantities of ous. Dr. Hayes fed his party at Port Foulke | mainly on reindeer, and Captain Hall's party sbot musk oxen as far up as latitude 82. deg. There is one other point not to be lost sight of. The present season is likely | A cold winter in the | to prove an open one. temperate regions is usually a mild one in the Arctic. Iv this we find another argument for haste in passing the appropriation and getting the expedition off. Let us not wait another | year but go to work at once. | | To-Dax THE , Brrcuen ‘TRtaL. "will begin its | eighth week, and wo briefly review elsewhere | its course, giving particular attention to the effect of Mr. Tracy's speech, in bringing Mr. Bowen into the case. Appended are some ; and constant readers. The Church Doors of Now York, When we are told by the Scriptures that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church it seems unfortunate that church gates should sometimes cause the destruction of a believer. It is with the hope of safety that most of us enter a holy temple, and the expression “as safe as a church’’ has become one of the household phrases of the language. No doubt this popular phrase is derived from the cus- tom that anciently existed by which churches were made sanctuaries, and in which the fugitive, whether criminal or innocent, was safe at the foot of the altar, and could only be dragged thence against the will of the Church by an impious and defiant hand. But though this custom no longer prevails we still retain the expressive phrase. We seek spiritual safety in our churches, and sinners are especially invited to attend them. But it would be no benefit to a church- attending sinner to be suddenly cut off in his sins before his conver- sion was completed. In such a case, bya singular paradox, religion itself might seem to be the causé of his destruction. The church should be made physically strong, 80 that it should be spirituully secure, and so that people who seek safety in the next world may not meet with sudden annihilation in this one. “As safe as a church” could not be said of St Andrew's, in which the recent terrible disaster occurred. It had been for six weeks in continual danger—danger known but disregarded. How many other churches in the city are in similar condition? There are other dangers than those of falling walls, and one of the most common is that of fire. The panic which fire almost invariably causes in a crowded place of assembly results in a _ reck- less, senseless, fierce rush for the doors, in which men struggle like brutes with each other, and women and children are trampled upon and crushed. There have been instances enough, both in theatres and churches, and we need only state that the loss of life has been often increased by the criminal error of making the doors open in- wardly instead of outwardly. This method of construction resembles that of the mousetrap, and, in fact, frequently re- sults in a mantrap. This was the case in the Richmond Theatre fire, and it may be so at any time in our New York churches, The first effect of a crowd struggling for egress in buildings with doors opening inwardly is to make the opening of the doors impossible. The weight of hundreds pressing upon them makes them immovable, and if they are strong enough to resist the pressure they become like parts of | the walls. For this reason, and because in- wardly opening doors are impediments to egress at all times and in all cases, we hold such construction in public buildings to be almost equivalent to a criminal offence. We give to-day the results of a thorough survey of the churches in New York, which was made by the Heratp with special refer- ence to this question of ingress and egress. It will be seen with surprise that a very + large number are supplied with doors inwardly opening, and with indignation that a few are even equipped with sliding doors. If there should ever be loss of life resulting from this recklessness we pity those who, after the warning of St. Andrew’s, are guilty of continued neglect. If the city authorities do not take action upon the facts we lay before them we trust the people will, for it is their business, after all, to consider whether, when they enter the house of the Lord, they are not really trusting them- selves in a human trap. The Herald’s Value to General Grant. A good many envious and malignant people still pretend to doubt that the Heraup is the trusted organ of the President, and some are evon malignant enouga to add that they do not believe he is among its regular We might, no doubt, easily have settled this question long ago by asking His Excellency for a certificate show- ing his appreciation of our journal. But in doing so we might have seemed boastful or vainglorious, and we have, therefore, been content with offering to the President, besides the news of the world, a great quantity of sound advice, which we do not doubt will bear fruit in good time. We are not impa- tient. If a farmer must wait many months for a crop after he has sown his wheat, and if he contentedly waits even years for the apple trees to bear which he plants in his or- chard, why should we be in haste? Grant has not a quick mind, and his habit of eating heavy dinners, and so forth, makes him no doubt even slower to move than when he was in camp before Vicksburg or about | Richmond. That our expectations of good results are | not in vain, however, begins to be seen just | | now, in his selection of a batch of new office- holders. Last October we took the trouble to ascertain the opinions then held by members ot both houses of Congress on the question of athird term. We did not think it neces- sary to ask the cousins and nephews of the family what they thought, for they naturally are faithful. But on the 13th of October we printed the third term opinions of all the Congressmen; and it is plain to the meanest comprehension that General Grant has care- fully preserved this invaluable record, and is now using it to guide him in the selection of now ambassadors, postmasters, andsoon. We proudly present to our detractors this proof | that the President now, as always, reads his | Huraxp with confidence and attention. Horace Maynard is to receive the mission {o Constantinople. He “thinks the subject of a third term will take care of itself. | He could tell better when he was re- | birds and bears. Seal and walrus are numer- | quired to decide whether he would support Grant for a third term’’—which is almost as oracular as His Excel- | lency’s own utterances upon the great ques- | tion, and what everybody expected of the eminent Tennessecan, who has long been | known as the Jack Bunsby of the House. Godlove §. Orth is to be Ambassador to | Austria. He “is in principle opposed to a third term, but does not know what circum- stances may beset the republican party two years hence which would make 1t necessary, perhaps, to run Grant for the success of the | party; in that event he would support the nomination.’ Just so, Mr. Orth stands on his principles, and is glad that his feet are big enough to cover them all out of sight. i} curious and amusing statistics of the trial. | William G. Donnan is tosucceed Mr. Jones General | | a8 Minister to Belgium. Te “believes in the | | | master. eligibility of Grant for a third term, and though he cannot predict what the party may do, yet he would heartily support Grant if renominated.”” That may be called a square and manly utterance, and Donnan deserved something better, and would have got it, no doubt, if anybody had ever heard of him. Henry R. Pease is to be Postmaster at Vicksburg. He ‘did not see any serious ob- jection at present to saying that Grant would have his support it he needed it.” Pease’s modesty leads him to the retirement of Vicks- burg. Perhaps he expects to be made Pro visional Governor some day. But we are confident he might have got a third class consulship if he had wanted it, and tbue obtained a full recognition of his merits and abilities. As the new nominees are announced we shall advise our readers of their opinions on the third term; but we do not hesitate to ex- press our belief, beforehand, that no one will receivé an office who has not declared that, however he may be fixed in principle against third terms in general, he yet can imagine a case in which he would recklessly violate hia most cherished convictions by supporting General Grant for another four years. The Pulpit Yesterday. The practical side of religion received the principal consideration of the pulpit yester- day. We make an obvious and important dis. tinction, for there is no doubt that there is a theoretical side of religion, which is only re motely related to direct influence upon men, The philosophical and metaphysical investiga. tions of Scriptural doctrines have their value to clergymen and theologians, but are of very little use in the actual conversion of sinners, Nor are inquiries into the relative importance of faith and works, the right methods of baptism, the reconciliation of predestination with free will, the mysterious nature of the Trinity, even comprehended by the majority of Christian churchgoers, But Christian morality, Christian duties and the clear and simple scheme of Christian redemption can be made plain to the ordinary mind; and it is upon these great truths that we are pleased to see our clergymen preach. Thus Mr. Hepworth devoted his eloquence to illustrating the life of Christ, showing the conspiracy which resulted in His death, and teaching a great morallesson. In this sermon Mr. Hepworth pleaded the cause of Jesus, with the congregation fora jury. The Rev, Dr. Moran pointed out the greatness and the insignificance of man, and how his eternal exaltation can be achieved. Dr. Deems vin- dicated an all-absorbing devotion to salvation by an ingenious argument, and Dr. Wild selected redemption for his subject. Excellent discourses were also preached by Mr. Froth- ingham, the Rev. Father Horgan, Father McGlynn and others, and Father Bjerring gave an interesting account of the introduc. tion of Christianity into Russia. These ser mons will repay the thoughtful public, to whose attention they are respectfully com- mended, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bishop John Sharp, of Salt Lake City, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mile. Marie Heilbron is among the late arrivale at the Union Square Hotel. Mr. George L. Fox, the pantomimist, is rezia tered at the Grand Central dotel. Gola in smail qudnuties is found in the bed of the Rhone when the water ts low. Dr. Blum, of the Austrian Legation at Washing: ton, is staying at (he St. Nichoias Hotel. Mr. Max Strakosch and Signor E. Muzio arrived at the Everett House yesterday from Washington, Congressman elect George A, Bagicy, of Watere town, N. Y., 18 sojourning at the Union Square Hotel. Sir Arthur Helps wrote the obituary of Canon Kingsley in the February number of Macmillans Magazine. An advertiser called for a small boy in want ofa Place and the same night found a baby in a basket on his doorstep. Charivart pictures France as a lady lately para- lyzed, who begins to get about on crutches called constitutional laws, On the 15th of January it snowed for two hours at Bellianen, in Upper Kbgypt—somevning that tt ts supposed never happened there before. Mr. John M. Wilson, Untied States Consul at Bremen, arrivea from Europe in the steamship Mosel yesterday and is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Miss Addie Lake, of Hamilton, called 1t “cow. cumber” and her enraged mother hit her with “The History of Canada” and broke her collar OR Locke (Nasby) has disposed of his interest in the Toledo Blade to his tormer partner, Mr. J. Pp. Jones, “Nasby” will continue to edit the Weekly Blade. Proiessor Newcomb, who went to £urope last December on scientific business “connected with the new astronomical observatory in California, 1s expected to return next Saturday. Five shots from hts revolver, a resolute gentlee man of Paris, intent on suicide, fired into bis heads but being unable to find bis bratns with that num. ber, ne gave it up and went to the hospital. Garibaldt’s plan for improving the Campagna ine volves the construction of @ canal, and he pro poses that the 20,000,000 francs wanted for the for- tification of Rome should be spent on this canal, Mr.George Smith has discovered, among the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum, the legend of the building of tne tower of Babel. This die covery is quite as important as that of the tablet relating to the deluge, made known last year by the same gentleman. Asan English major was cutting the cards in the Mediterranean Ciub at Nice some persons au. thorized py the committee requested as a special favor that he would permit them to examine the cards—and they found twenty. More than wae polite or fair, So there was @ scandal, and the major was expelled. An Enghsn picture collector bought an enor- mously valuable “oid master’ on the Continent andinorder to get it into Engiand under tight duty had a modern “daub” painted over the old When they washed off the daub the old master went with it ana left behind a portrait of George III, ; 80 it wasn’t a very old master. Alfonso writes amiably both to the Pope and to Victor Emmanuel, and this is not liked at the Vatican, They compare him to Lows, who said to Ctaldini, at Chambéry, “Courage, General! Invade the Marches and deliver me from Lamoriciére," and wrote the same day to ihe Duc de Grammont, “Assure the Pope that if his States are invaded | shall oppose It.” Charies Joseph, Communist, escaped, and was condemned in his absence to transportation Nevertheless he returned and lived secretly in Paris in the house of a friend. But the friend had a wife, and Charles ventured too near to the “ragged edge” of her affections, which the huss band came to understand, and now Charles is in the hands of the police. Love and gunpowder. Paris papers tell of a “peauttiul American lady” who bougnt a revolver ‘on the boulevard, drove to the Bois de Boulogne in a cab and shot herself, Sie had left letters for some iriends, telling what sne intended to do and where her body would be foand. It was nigne when the letters were opened; but she was sought for as indicated, and was found stili alive, Indeed, she may not die, as the bullet, fred into her rigne side, glanced on # rib, and was found in her back, Rot having penetrated the chest