The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD AND BROADWAY ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hrnarp will be vent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New Yonx Hema. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL--.-+++ eNO. 74 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM CF ART. West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. tod P. M. 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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, & —= -. a From our reports this morning the probabilities sre that the weather to-day will be clearing. 1875, Wart Srerer Yestrrpay.—Gold advanced to 116. Stocks were firm. Money on call ranged from 3 to 4 per cent. Forcign ex- thange was steady. Ir Tats Mrup Wearuer in the day with cool temperature at night continues the ice gorges in the smaller rivers will gradually disappear. perience in several sections, but at Port Jer- vis the ice is still formidable and almost im- | pregnable to assault. Now raat tHe Rev. De. Newmax, of the Metropolitan Methodist church, in Washing- ton, and Chaplain to His Excellency, has re- turned home after a long foreign tour at the expense of his admiring countrymen, it would be well to adopt a previous suggestion of the Hematp and appoint him inspector ot Hell Gate. Vice Presmpent Wrson’s Lerrez explan- atory of his casting vote in favor of the Bounty bill is straightforward and full. He considers the bill an act of justice to the veterans who entered the ranks at the breaking ont of the war, and who served longer and were paid less than the reernits who were at later periods ob- tained by large bounties. Mr. Wilson was Mhairman of the Military Committee of the Renate for twelve years and his knowledge of the army and the obligations the government nndertook entitle his views to respect. As Eaxrugvuaxe 1x Mextco.—Our corre- spondence from Guadalajara contains an ac- count of an earthquake of more than nsual force, which, on the 11th of February, shook a large portion of Northern Mexico. The little town of San Cristobal was almost entirely destroyed, and seventy dead bodies were taken from the ruins. The centre of this dis- turbance appears to have been the voleano of Cebornuco. The earthquake occurred at night and the terror of the people was tn- creased by the darkness. Tre Prvcnpack Case.—The ground taken by Mr. Ferry, in his argument yesterday, can- not be disputed. The Senate is certainly not bound to admit a person claiming to be a vember because the President has rec- vanized ihe legality of the Legisla- ure which clected him. There is noth- mg im the constitution which thus binds the Senate to obedience to the will of the Kixecutive. Mr. Morton and Mr. West, in their appeals for Pinchback’s admission, yes- terday wisely evaded this issue, seeing that the Senate could not be browbeaten inio ubject submission. = | guiding principle, and complaisance has no Bo- Mar. Fisher, Mr. | avenue,—LUCREZIA | This has been the fortunate ex- | Creation of the New Cardinals—The Pope’s Allecution. We must not measure the proceedings at Rome yesterday by any such petty scale as the accidental interest which they happen to excite in this country by the novel circum- stance that among the cardinals created on this occasion one isan American. The lively interest of our large Catholic population in | the elevation of Archbishop McCloskey to the cardinalate is legitimate and natural, and we {can appreciate their sentiment of grateful recognition of the considerate treatment they receive from the head of their Church. But | the occasion has larger aspects and relations. | We sincerely congratulate Cardinal McClos- | key and the Catholics of the United States on | this high honor which His Holiness has be- | | stowed upon him and upon them, and they must not regard it as an exhibition of churlish | | feeling if we express our opinion that | the American aspect of the proceed- | | ings at Rome yesterday is of slight | consequence as compared with its Euro- | aspects. The Pope looks, as his | responsible position requires him to look, | | only to the general interests of the Church, | and he is above the weakness of paying a | mere compliment, however grateful it may | be to the recipients. He doubtless loves and | cherishes every part of his extensive flock ; but in the exercise of his high prerogative of | dispensing ecclesiastical honors duty is his pean | place except so far as it may conduce to the | great ends of his administration. | The creation of an American cardinal at this japcture is as wise and politic as it is | gracious and pleasing. Since the occupation of Rome by the Italian government, in 1870, the Papacy has been in a state of depression and humiliation. In stripping the Pope of | histemporal dominions King Victor Emmanuel deprived him of his ordinary sources of | revenne and forced him to rely on the con- | tributions of the faithful in all parts of the world for maintaining the dignity of his office. It is true, indeed, that the Italian gov- ernment offered him an annual stipend equal in amount to the average revenue of the States of the Church; but the Pope scorned to compromise his rights and weaken his posi- | tion by accepting it or any part of it, Accord- | ing to present appearances and prospects the | Papacy will have to depend for a long time to come, as it has for the last three or four years, | curity, and the present aged Pope sims at an | Governor Tilden'’s Inactti added guarantee in the personal character of bis successor. He is as wise and prudent as he is firm and indomitable, and has, of | course, selected no cardinal in reference to an event which he regards as so near without having fully satisfied himself of his invincible fidelity to the claims and interests of the Papacy. terday, and the five announced in petto un- doubtedly secure an attitude of vigorous re- sistance to the enemies of the Holy See on the part of the Pontiff in whose election they will participate. What was done yesterday is an event of great European importance in a merely political view, quite aside from its ecclesiastical interest to the largest and, geographically, the most widely spread of all Christian denominations, The Pope's allocution in preconizing the new cardinals is pitched in a key which evinces his sense of the great importance to the Church of the duty which he has now dis- charged. He dwells with profound sorrow on the troubles which encompass the Church, on the invasions of its rights, on the efforts in foreign countries to bring it into discredit, on the interested attempts which will be made to control the choice of his successor, show- ing that these are the considerations which the new cardinals. He indeed pays a warm personal tribute to the virtues, learning, fidelity and distinguished usefulness of the appointees; but the deep coloring of sadness which is spread over hia allocution and the fervid earnestness with which he alludes to the dangers which beset the Church from many quarters show how entirely his heart is enlisted in the choice of a successor who will be true to his policy and will surrender none of those claims of the Papacy which he has steadily maintained in these recent days of darkness and tribulation. To descend from these grave topics and revert again to the minor American aspect of the subject, we call attention to the interesting interviews with the Archbishop of Baltimore and the Bishop of Virginia, which are printed in our news columns. These interviews may be accepted as proofs of the grateful appreci- ation of American Catholics of the honor which has been conferred on their Church in this country, and their cordial indorsement of the eminent fitness of the selection. Archbishop Bayley throws out a suggestion on pecuniary aid freely sent to it from all parts of the world by Catholics on whom it | | has no authority to levy a tax. The Papal | | treasury and finances are therefore in a pecu- | | liar condition, and in the long struggle | which Pope Pius and his successors are likely | | to maintain in asserting the former claims of | the Roman See to civil jurisdiction—claims which there is no intention ever to rclin- | | quish—it is of importance to cultivate the zeal | and affection of every branch of the Church. | | There is no part of it which has contributed | | so liberally as the American Catholics have | | done since the Pope was deprived of his terri- | torial revenues. When this country shall have | the effects of the re-| recovered from | cent panic there is no part of the | | world in which the body of Catholic | | communicants will have so much abil- | ity to strengthen the Papal tressury in | proportion to therr numbers. Ths wages of labor are higher here than in any other part of the globe, and the race which forms a ma- jority of the American Catholics is perhaps the most free-hearted and open-handed in the world in any cause which enlists their sympa- thies. The generous liberality of the Amer- ican Catholics did not depend at all on the bestowal of this recent honor, but it will strengthen their loving attachment and de- voted loyalty, and is therefore as wise and | politic as it is just and appreciative. It will | infuse new zeal into the strong moral support which the Pope has received in his troubles from the faithful Catholies of the United States, and, as an incidental consequence, it will quicken their sense of his fiscal necessities | | in his great and persistent struggle for his | | ancient prerogatives. | But the merely American view includes but a small and very subordinate part of the in- terests to be affected by the interesting eccle- | siasticel transaction yesterday, which is so | fully reported in our cable despatches from | Rome. The creation of new cardinals at this | juncture is an event which may largely influ- | ence the future politics of Europe. | regards the Papacy, everything is staked on the election of a successor to Pope Pius IX. who will continue and carry out his unyield- | ing policy. The six new cardinals whom he | created and publicly announced yesterday, | and the five others in pelto (which means that | he keeps their names a personal secret) will | be entitled to participate in the choice of his snecessor. He has, of course, satisfied him- self that every one of the eleven will be inflex- ibly true to the policy which he has deliber- | ately adopted as indispensable to the interests | of the Church. This is a sagacions provision against the probable intrigues of two or three European governments to control the choice of his successor. There are two govern- ments—that of Germany and that of Italy— that will leave no stone unturned to prevent the election otf 2 new Pope who will inherit uncompromising policy of Pius IX. Emmanuel wants a Pope So far as | the King Victor who will consent to abdicate his claims as a temporal sovereign, and the Em- peror William desires that the office shall be filled by a Pontiff with whom his | government can arrange a concordat recog- | nizing his claim to control ecclesiastical mat- tersin his own dominions. France, also, will | have a preference, though resting on different grounds. It is the chief sim of Pope Pius, in | selecting the new cardinals he has created, to forestall the intrigues of interested govern- ments and insure a snecessor who will stand resolutel r the rig f the Church, IX., after his long and checkered 4 i tr mit the tiara to a snecessor who will need great vigor, firmness, nerve and sagaci » moet the requirements of the situation. new Pope, whoever he may be, will ec into an inheritance of trouble. Before t ege of Cardinals meet in con- clave for the ehe f a new Pope each mem- ber is reqnired to take an oath that, if the choice should fall upon him, he will faithfully observe certain conditions, ‘he firstin the list being a solemn pledge that he will never sur- | render or alienate the territorial jurisdic tion over the States of the Church. But when circumstances have so greatly changed ! the oaths even of ecclesiastics are a frail so- | lows: to which he himself attaches no importance, that the Pope may possibly call Cardinal Mc- Closkey to Rome. We regard this as wholly improbable. It would deprive the American Catholics of the great satisfaction they feel in having a resident cardinal and in the dig- | nity it sheds on the American branch of their Church. If Cardinal McCloskey were taken | to Rome there would be really no American cardinal after all. Weare confident this is not the intention of the Pope, especially as the Papacy has so deep an interest in stimu- lating the zeal and strengthening the loyal attechment of the American Catholics. A Business Question. We print the following, one of many letters of the kind that we are in the habit of re- ceiving: — . ‘YO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Enclosed I send you circular, with advertisement annexed, which I'this day received irom Messrs. Brown & Pulverman, aavertising* agents. ‘'ne advertisement 1s one which I nad inserted in the Heratp a day or two since. You will perceive that the agents propose to insert the same a3ver- usement in the ****"* six successive Cays lor $1, and they promise to advertise in any of the New York papers at their lowest rates, Now, what lL want to find out is, should I adver- tise through the aioresaid agents in the HERALD, would there be asaving, or does the HERALD charge the Same rates when treating directly With the advertiser as it docs when the same advertisement comes through ao agentor agents? By a yours &¢,, New YorK, March 12, 1875, To this we answer that our business is gov- erned by asimple and inexorable rule. We allow no commissions to advertising agents or toany one else. Wo arrange the best rates that our business will permit, and deal with the people on that basis. From these rules we make no exception. They govern our re- lations with the largest business houses who insert a thousand lines, as well as the plain laborer who asks for employment in three lines. We have no ‘‘thighest,’’ no ‘lowest’’ rates—only one price. This is the rule at our main office as wellas at our branch cftices, Our branch offices—we may as well say for dG. the information of our readers—are as fol | No. 1,265 Broadway and No. 530 Sixth ‘avenue, between Thirty-first and Thirty-sec- ond streets; No. 2,281 Third avenue, corner of 124th street, and corner of Fulton and Boerum streets, Byooklyn. Mrs. Truron axp tHe Rest or ToEem.—A | bill is before the State Legislature which, it The six new cardinals created yes- | have chiefly influenced him in his selection of | ering the above you will much oblige | is said, will enable Mrs. Tilton to appear as a | witness in the great trial (if it becomes law), | provided any one wants her evidence. Why | should she not be allowed to testify? Why | should not every male or female who really | knows anything about the scandal undergo | examination and cross-examination? Neither from this universal unbosoming of the whole school, from the Woodhull down to the Bowen. The disciples are so sensational and | side can caleulate on any certdin advantage | emotional that when they stand up before the | Court they are as likely to turn up trumps for one side as for the other. Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others have been talked of flippantly by many | of the witnesses, including the thrifty partner in the speculative publication of the ‘Life of Christ."’ Their names have been freely used in the scandal, and now they should come forward, in the cause of truth, and tell all they know about it. ——3— Crrmpace in tHe Warrre Hovsr.-—Tbree | thousand men waited on the President Inst night to ask his help in their efforts to get the money they had earned, but which the District of Columbia refused to pay, and the result was a scene vividly described — in our Washington cor reapondence. The Presidest could not vive a hearing to bis suffering fellow citizens, the game of eribba weupying his attention, It is no wonder t tne worki yen wer) in dignant at his refusal to hear them, for it would have been gerely an vet oof cour esy to have at least Jis d to their complaints. Unless he exploin this act to the satisfaction of the people he will have to abundon his offieial eri in 1876 without doubt. At that time he will have the satisfaction of “pegging out’ ond making speedy preparations for a ‘‘go."’ on the Mayor’s Removals. As the New York city charter imposes on the Governor the duty of approving or veto- ing the removal from office of heads of the municipal departments no reasonable per- son can censure Governor Tilden for taking such precautions as he may deem necessary to enable him to arrive at a just decision in the exercise of this power. Governor Dix construed the law as requiring him to decide orly as to the sufficiency or insufficiency of the causes of removal officially stated by the Mayor, accepting the decision reached by the Mayor in his investigation of the charges as final. Governor Tilden interprets the law as imposing upon him far more comprehensive obligations, He believes that he is made a judge not only of the sufficiency of the causes assigned for removal, but of the correctness of the decision reached by the Mayor, and as such is entitled and required to scruti- nize the evidence and practically to re- open the case and try it on its merits over again. If these are his honest convictions, whatever may be thought of them, they certainly warrant him in taking a reasonable time to satisfy himself as to what action a faithful discharge of his duty de- mands, But some consideration is due to the city and its interests. However grave may be the responsibilities attaching to the Governor under the charter he cannot be justified in needlessly or vexatiously delaying his .de- cisions on the removals made by the Mayor. Heads of municipal departments are removed from office on charges, after an investigation by the Mayor. It is therefore to be presumed that, in the judgment of the Mayor, such as are removed are deemed improper or unde- sirable persons to hold office under him. The charges against them may be of a character seriously affecting the public interests. The removal by the Mayor must necessarily occasion a sort of suspension of their official usefulness and create a breach between them and the Executive. On every consideration a prompt decision by the Governor in such cases is not only desirable, but is absolutely necessary to the proper working of the city government. No one will deny that the certificates of the removal of the Corporation Counsel and the Fire Commissioners have been in the Execu- tive chamber at Albany a sufficient length of time to enable the Governor to make himself entirely familiar with the facts in each case, end it is not unreasonable to insist that his decision should be no longer delayed. The dilatoriness of the Governor. is calculated to encourage unpleasant suspicions, and is an injustice to himself as wel) as to the city. The Moral of the Centennial. We look with solicitade to the coming Centennial, as around it all that is left of patriotic and reverential sentiment must | crystallize. Thackeray somewhere says that looking at the snowy ridges and giant peaks of the Bernese Alps is like keep- ing company with the great and good of the heroic past. It inspired grand thoughts and high imaginings in the present. So say we, and so will every right-minded man, native or stranger, say of this Centennial. The con- templation of it is utterly inconsistent with low thoughts and base imaginings. It is no mere figure of speech, no such tawdry rheto- | rie as Mr. Beecher and his school rejoice in, to say that like some gigantic tree, venerable in age and majestic in form, it tells us not | only of growth, which, in our case, is almost “marvellous, but it tells of innate strength and that the roots of our institutions are deeply set; and, though there have been superficial scars, and branches and boughs have been twisted and torn, the sap flows freely and healthtally and the great trunk is as sound as when a century ago it started heavenward from the soil. It tells of permanence and, we are assured, of perpetuity. It is typical of republicanism in its highest and best sense—not of the antique republi- canis of former days, with patrician Senates and spasmodic tribunes (of the people we mean) and consuls who, absit omen, occasion- ally on emergencies were made dictators, and conld do as they plsased—not of minute | San Marinos long since faded away, a Po- land or even Switzerland, existing only by permission, but constitutional republicanism, administered not directly by the people but | for the people through their representatives, It tells, too, of a century completed more wonderful in its results, more impressive in its events, than any since the momentous one nineteen huudred years ago. ‘Vhink what it has comprised and of the share which we, who were nothing a hundred years ago, have had in allof it. In 1776, on the 4th of July, there was but one government, one set of political insti- tutions of those at present existing, which 1s now, even measurably, what it was, and that is the English-speaking community from whose loins we sprang, and perhaps one other—Austria, what she was when the ery went up, “Mori- anur pro rege nostra!” France has been every- thing by turnsand nothing long. Spain is in her normal state of self-disturbance. revolutionized, and hardly anything is left as it was except the purely ecclesiastical Papac: Iu 1776 thirteen meagre, feeble colonial de- pendencies which, but for absolute lmacy, | might have been kept dependencies no one can say how much longer, took it into their heads to set up for themselves, and, binding themselves together by the fecblest possible political tie, to declare themselves indepen- dent and take position among the nations of | the world. They did so. their declaratia They fought for pressor, It is this event, not the recognition, but the heroie declaration mule when the chances of in maintaining it were few and feeble, , their grateful descendants, are called on to commemorate, and there are hesitation and t whether it ought to be done, and relue- » to co-operate to secure its sue veare driven to advocate nud urge it on the low ground of material intore In what we vince to say with fecling and emphasis to-day no such baser considerations weigh. ‘The Centennial failing, which it certaiuly will hall feel that our past has been in The Centennial succeeding, in homely phrase, we feel it in our bones it will, not, we there will be an assurance for the century | ‘about to dawn that the great experiment of | Austria, after convulsions | and revolutions and absorptions, is not unlike | Italy is | , and, after seven years’ con- | flict, they wrung recognition from the op- | nence—a finality. Revised Statutes of the United States. This enormous book is at length accessible to the public. Its preposterous dimensions are absolutely appalling. It weighs eight and one-half pounds; measuring outside of the binding it is twelve inches long, eight and a half inches wide and three and one-quarter mehes thick, The printed page measures eight and one-quarter inches by four and a half, not including the side notes. In the un- necessarily broad margins there must be about two pounds of utterly superfluous paper in each copy. If the purpose in making this mammoth volume was to illustrate the wealth and dignity of the government whose laws it embraces, by the production of a book that was to lie on tables for show or for an occasional consultation, the execution of the work might be said to havo | some fitness of relation to the object. If it was gotten up as a monument of the legislation ot the United States, as an editor with abundant pecuniary means would set forth in print the Corpus Juris Civilis of the Roman law, or the Siete Partidas of the old kings of Castile, with no other object than splendid preservation, one could under- stand what the Department of State had been about in preparing this volume. But if the object of the publication was to put the text of the written code of the United States into a shape for practical use by the people whose daily business and interests require them to have it in the most convenient form the whole expenditure has been thrown away. Imagine a lawyer or a member of a legislative body standing up and reading from a book that weighs eight and one-half pounds! Men must grow to be Brobdingnags before they can hold such a book in their hands, Every copy of it that is used in public must be placed ona “lecturn,”” that will move about on casters; and as to use in private, it never can be taken off the table or the desk. With regard to the other features of the mechanical execution, we find that the type is excellent, clearly and sharply cut, and the electrotyping is admirably done. The paper is of a good quality, and we should judge it to be durable, The test of the binding will of course be in the use. But we cannot praise the literary part of the execution without some qualification. For example, we think the bulk of the volume has keen unnecessarily swelled by a cumbrous citation of the ad- judicated cases on the construction of the former statutes now codified into the new text of the revision. It is certainly necessary, sometimes, for Iawyers and jndges and legis- | lators, in construing and applying the text | of a revised and re-enacted law, to look at the | old statute and at the judicial decisions under it. But in editing a new statute which revises and enacts into a code the whole body of the existing statute law there is | such a thing as overloading the page | with unnecessary citations. But if the | necessary or expedient to cite, as in some in- | stances they have, a whole page of cases in | fine type, measuring eight and one quarter by | four and one-half inches, why, in the name of | common sense, did they not make two vol- umes of the size of Little, Brown & Co.'s | edition? or three yolumes, which would have | been better still, with a special index for each volume, and a general index for the whole at the end of the third? Something will have to be done by somebody in the way of fur- nishing the public with the text of the Revised | Statutes of the United States in a form that | can be handled by the present race of man- | kind. If in the progress of the woman's rights movement ladies shall come to be admitted to the Bar the physical impossibility of manag- | ing this huge tome as a handbook will stand j seriously in the way of their practice in the | federal courts. | Rapid Transit, The problem of rapid transit we understand | | to be this:—How to go from the Battery or | the City Hall to Harlem River in the quickest | space of time. ‘This is all that interests the | people in discussing the thousand proposals that are made to us from time to time as to the best means of securing this result. Un- derground, overground, elevated, arcade— | we do not care which plan is adopted. The the city as accessible to the business men of New York—the merchants, mechanics and laboring men—2s Brooklyn or Jersey are now, or, at least, will be in the summer. achieve rapid transit, therefore, we should take what we have and utilize it. We havea road running from Forty-second street to Harlen—the Vanderbilt line—as fine a bit of enginecring as there is in the world. Then we heave another road running from the Battery to Thirty-fourth street—at least a railway, that has been managed suc- cessfully, and grows from day to day in the acceptance of the people. Now, first step in solving the problem of rapid transit is to connect these two lines. could be done by extending the elevated read | to Forty-fourth street, along Ninth avenuc; | thence running down to the Grand Central depot; or it might rau down Thirty-second street or Thirty-third, and connect with the | tunnel, which could be used for steam. The or, if necessary third street might be arcaded. Hither pro- cess could be done cheaply, promptly and efticiently, and the result would be almost an immediate realization of the problem which | | for so many years has perplexed the minds of ail who wish well to the prosperity of Now York. This as a beginning. Does Ant More Forvexare than other ani- ails in the work they are given by man. | Horses and oxen are subjected to real toil, but dogs generally are given the labor they delight in. Watch dogs are proud of the trast reposed in their fidelity, and pointers and setters have as much pleasure as their maste n hunting game. But whon a dog is put upon a treadmill we consider him ill need, That employment is not suited to his physical , or mental organizition, He cannot perrorm with any satis! on to himself the weary, endless rogressive tramp in a mill, which an ox would undertake with patience. We | think the nature of the ani should be taken into consideration in deciding such a case as that which Mr. Bergh has brought betore the courts, end that it would be unfair ‘o determine upon the mere facts of actual cruelty, | self-government is, at least here, @ permas | editors of this stupendous volume thought it | only question is how to make the upper part of | To | the | This | avenues could be crossed by graceful bridges, | , Thirty-second or Thirty- | Germany end Spain, The-telegraph publishes a strange rumor te the effect that the Emperor of Germany it much dissatisfied with the reign of Prince Alfonso, so tarss it has gone. His Majesty is angered about the Gustav affuir. He is alse disposed to censure the clerical tendency of Alfonso’s Ministry. It seems that the new government, anxious to deprive the Carlists of the sympathy shown them by the Catholic Churcb, made an extreme endeavor to con- ciliate the religious element in Spain. Thie was seen in the orders suppressing the Prot estant papers of Madrid and in the raising the subyention to the clergy to the extent, if we remember correctly, of about eight millions of dollars. It is diffi cult to understand upon what pretext the Emperor of Germany can attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of Spain. Ever since a German Prince in the person of Charles V. occupied the Spanish throne there has been a “hankerirg after Spain in the traditions of German policy. This has largely arisen from the diplomatic idea, shared by the English and the French, that the true way to limit the power of France is to establish the Eng- lish or the German power in Spain and the Low Countries. Our readers will remember that the last war between France and Germany arose from the attempt toenthrone a German in Madrid. And now that the German Em peror has become the champion of Protestant ism and the enemy of the Roman Church, Spam will furnish him as good a pretext tor in viting the sympathies of the Protestant world as any other. This rumor only strengthens the conviction that the complications on the Continent will assume more and more a religious character. Everything seems to point to the next war as a religious war. It isa cruel comment upon our civilization that the religion of Christ has developed these national animosities, and that because Christian men havo different opiniens about the ordinances and sacraments of the faith they should necessarily plunge into a cruel strife. The solution of the prob lem may be found in the fact that religion is not a purpose, but a pretext, and that behind the fulminations of the Pope and the intrigues of the German Emperor there is a high politi- cal ambition, which is the same now as it waa when Luther, as the representative of the German nation, made upon the Roman power the same war that Bismarck is waging now. Tax Brack Hi1s.—Again El Dorado has been discovered in the Black Hills, and the only obstacle to an immense rush for the gold fields this year is the prohibitory orders of the government. The possession of the Biack Hills is secured to the Indians by treaty, and the government is bound to protect them in their rights. If it be true that the Indians are anxious ta sell their title to the region there will be little trouble, but there is no evidence that they do, except the statement of an interested miner. We are glad to seo that Mr. Ingalls’ resolution asking the President for information as to the threatened invasion of | the Black Hillsand the measures to prevent it was adopted by the Senate yesterday. It is the duty of the government to maintain its treaty, and to prevent the raid which is threatened by lawless men who are equally regardless of the rights of the Indians and the honor of the nation. i Tre Active Mremprrs of the St. Mary's Guild have hit upon a novel and attractive entertainment to aid their treasury. They give a grand billiard exhibition on Thursday next, in which all the champion players will take part. Concerts have been exhausted, and as ladies seldom enjoy the opportunity of see | ing the performances of experts in the now universal game the change of entertainment! wasa happy thought. Governor Dix, Mra Pierre Lorillard, Mr. Samuel L. M. Barlow, Mrs. Clarence Collins and others have al- ready secured boxes, and there will no doubt be a fashionable attendance. The St. Mary’s Guild, an uptown charity, embraces three orphanages and a burial ground for the poor, | and it relieves all denominations and creeds. The charity, therefore, deserves a liberal sup- port. Tue Vinorsivs Inpemnrry.—We publish to day the official correspondence between the | United States government and Spain in re- | spect to the Virginius indemnity, It will be read with interest, and the letter of Mr. Fish will give particular satisfaction by its em- phatic definition of the Santiago executions as “barbarous and cruel acts,” and his re fusal to admit the Spanish pretence that they could be justified by law. The dispute has now been finally settled by the agreement of Spain to pay eighty thousand dollars as in demnity; but we fail to see that the United States government has gained much glory in the prolonged negotiations which were re- quired to obtain even this inadequate com. pensation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, | Where Jay Gould ought to be—in the stocks, Bill King didn’t Know what the abolition of the Civil Service meant, | The constitution just adopted in France ts the nineteenth since 1793, Eneke’s comet has become so faint that astrono mers believe it is going out. Btate Senator W. P. Wallace, of Ohio, ts sojourn. ing ut tie St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Vermont, is stopping at the Windsor Hotel, Ex-Congressman &. 0, Stapard, of Missouri, te staying at the litth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, is among tne late arrivals at the New York Hotel. The retention of capttal punishment was voted in the n Senate vy 75 to 36 voices. Congressman Join O. Whitehouse, of Pough- keepste, 1s registered at the Albemarle Hotel. Secretary Delano has returned to Washington nd bad an interview with the President yester- Rov. Dr, ft. A. daggar and Rev, J. H. Eccleston, of Philadelphia, have apartments at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Sonator Alexander G. Cattell, of New Jor- bas taken up his residence at the St, Nicholas Lieutenant Colonel Stephen ©. Lyford, of the Ordnauee Department, United States Army, ts at the St. dames Hotel, grand nelee of Henri Heine, bas juss married the barquts de Jumtinac, of the tumby of Cardinal Ricnelien. Ibis understood that Hon. Moteoim Cameron will Teuton rhor of the North ol ey Vue Malian Consul at Yokolama has sent to the @ bOX of tea seed from tna PA WH Le dine stitutions fe Trahan goverament province of Yamasciro, This s tributed to the diferent farming the purpose of experimenting on th \ the plant in Italy, Why vot try it here