The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1875, Page 10

0 NEW YORK NERALD | BROADWAY. “AND ANN STREET. JA S GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. + NOVICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yors Hrnarp will be sent free of postage. sa All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yous | Henan. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORIg | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. and Subscriptions received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL ~ AMUS S$ TO-MORROW. ACADEMY OF MUSTO, Fourteenth street.—ENGLISH OPERA, at 82. Ke logy. M Miss STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Oratorio of SAMPSON, at 8 P. M. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. TONY PASTOR'S COMBINATION, at 50. M. RooTH corner of Twenty-thiri MENKY V, ats P- Sixth avenue.— Mr. Rignold. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner Twenty-ninth street —-NEGRO MINSTREUSY, at closes at 1) P. 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No. 301 Bowery. -VAKINTY. at 8 F- M+ closes ay 10:45 eM Twenty 1& BiG BO y Mr, Fisher, Mr, 3 P.M: closes at | AL THEATRE No, 585 Broadway.—VA ats P.M; closes at lots eM BOW 4 Bowery ~AROUND 1 N EIGHTY Days, ats eM GRAND OPERA H Highth avenge and rd -AHMED, at3 ae NTUPLE YOR SHEET. MARCH QUI NEW K, SUNDAY. 875. From nur report morning the probabilities | are that the wer to-day will be clear and cool, Wart Srrzer Y Stocks were bigher. Gold was sold at 116} a 116}. For- eign exchange remained firm. The bank statement showed inc ot $1,700,000, Tae Van Vexson Rospeny.—We have a special report of the arrest of Van Velsor, the young man who robbed the New York Central and Harlem Railroad Company, including his confession and the remarkable details of the crime, Our Axpany Lerrer to-day explains the Governor's position in the canal fight very | clearly. We may be permitted to assure Gov- ernor Tilden that the people are with him in his struggle with the Canal Ring, and that the greater his energy the more decided will be his support. The views of ‘Old Salt’’ on this absorbing topic will also be read with interest. Eprrors are in danger enough from the oe | side public, as the Vineland affair illustrates, without courting risks in their own profes ston. Yet we chronicle to-day the shooting of an editor by a brother journalist in Mississippi, | the assassin evidently having more confidence inthe pistol than inthe pen. The crime has no excuse, and as an innovation on established customs will be regretted by all prudent journalists. Tax Henarp to-day is its own herald annonnces*not only its own unrivalle perity as a newspaper dium, but also the ing revival of business. We publish about eighty columns of advertisements, representing ness interests of the city and country, and in ® quintuple sheet of twenty pages give the news from all parts of the globe. Comment | upon this exhibition would be unnecessary, excepting for the evidence we present of the renewed activity in business circles. Easter Cuvace Mvsic. it bright skies, cheerful prospects and good music. To-day the principal churches, com- mencing with the Cathedral, where the Cardi- nal will officiate, will be aglow with lights, brilliant ceremonies and large congregations, and music will be especially patronized. The | divine art receives particular attention at | Easter, and organists and cboirs exert them- | selves to the utmost to render homage to the great festival. Tbe preparations for to-day | are of the most ample and elaborate kind, and | the various churches announce musical pro- grammes which have every clement of uttrac- Uy ones. It d pros. en advertisements will be | nd an advertising me- | all the busi. | Easter brings with | NEW YOR K HERALD, The Baster Holidays. | If the omens prove true we. shall have a | radiant Easter. After the hard, bleak winter | we shall welcome the sunshine, feeling that | spring, however reluctant and . lingering, should have a gracious welcome. This is a joyous festival to all who accept the story of | | Christianity. Even those who find comfort in sterner forms of theology cannot fail to re- joice in a day that brings with it the budding glory and breezy life of spring, the untolding of a thousand forms of life, the new year of the harvest time and all the hallowed memories that cluster around the resurrection of our Lord and the fulfilment of the holy mission of mediation and salvation. ‘These are the thoughts that crowd upon us on an anni- versary like this, and they come with more than ordinary welcome after the penance of | the Lenten days and the hardships which came with it. Looking at them ina practical light onr | Jaster holidays open with rosier anticipatious | than those which came with Christmas. That season of “peace and good will to all men” | was especially dreary. We had business de- | pression, anarchy in the South, prostration of | the commercial and manufacturing interests, | uneasy rumors on the Continent, a military usurpation in Spain, followed by the long win- | ter, more cruel and harsh than any we have { known for many years. But our Easter finds | the world at peace. There are no clouds pre- | saging immediate war. In France the Re- | public has been proclaimed. If it is not as bination or “corner’’ or violent interference with the natural channels of business. Woe can make a good Easter in a business sense ! by resolving that, no matter what temptations | there may be to seek fortunes in Wall street, we should avoid them as we would avoid a journey into the bandit country of Spain or the homes of the Turcomans of Asia. The Beecher Case. The Beecher trial has closed another week dramatically. The testimony of the three colored witnesses, which occupied the atten- tion of the Court on Thuysday, will, if not contradicted, destroy Mr. Tiltpn’s case. If this is to be believed then Mr. Tilton in many essential parts of his testimony deliberately told what was not true. If his evidence is untrustworthy in one point how can it be believed in others? especially where it con- cerns the alleged confessions of his wife? The letter of Mrs. Woodhull, which we printed yesterday, has made a profound impression. This bold and peculiar woman denies sub- stantially and in detail all the statements made by the colored witnesses, so far as she is concerned. Whatever we may say of Mrs. | Woodhull as a prophetess or a seer, or the “orator inspired by Demosthenes,”’ a Spir- itualist or a teacher of morals or religion, she is certainly a competent witness in this trial. The misfortune of the letter to the HeERaxp, so far as justice is concerned, is that itis not evidence. If her statements are true it is very important that they should be made evidence. The hesitation to call Mrs. Wood- } good a government as we should wish, still it | preserves the germ of democracy, in itself a | precious thing and to be treasured. In England | the government floats along upon the wave of. | «triumphant and emphatic majority; as yet | | one has challenged the supremacy of ; | Disraeli or the integrity of his govern- | ment. His old rival has gone into ecclesi- astical controversies and the- liberals have abandoned the contest to the astute and re- | markable man who now, by the extraordinary | changes of fortune, rules the English nation. The Pope is too good a Catholic not to share the beneficent and peaceful influences of this | blessed time and one day will probably pass without an anathema against Victor Emmannel | and Prince Bismarck. Victor Emmanuel has so far controlled the radical aims of his re- | publican subjects that even General Garibaldi is busy about ditches and canals, and thinks | more of draining the Campagna and opening | | the Tiber than ‘the universal republic” or the “federation of the peoples.’’ ing risen to the supreme height of | German nobility, is about be be invited into the charmed circle of royal dukes and Germany impatiently continues to do the only work she has done for many years—to arm, drill and sharpen her spears | and prime her muskets, ever waiting for war. Congress has adjourned, after doing as isuch mischief as was possible, leaving noth- ing to regret in its absence. Many things have been left undone. Our finances, which should have been put upon a substantial! foun- dation, still drift hither and thither like the masses of ice in the Northern Atlantic seas. | If we were not a sanguine, elastic people, we | | should suffer from this apathy on the part of Congress. We should be even now drifting | into another panic and a season of | hard times. But what our representa- tives will not do we do ourselves. sequently all over the country there | is an awakening, a lifting up of spirit, an evidence of resolute, ambitious, representa- | tive American temper asserting itself at last. | These cheerful, bright prospects represent the | energy of our people and the resolution not | to be utterly cast down and stamped into the | “dust. These may be accepted as the augurs ofa brilliant future. Here in New York all | the signs point toa prosperous spring and ; a busy summer. Our readers can find no bet- | | ter indication of this than the seventy-nine columns of advertisements which to-day fill the New York Heratp. This Easter tide of | prosperity, which marks itself in these col- | umns as accurately as the barometer and ther- | mometer mark the temperature, is a striking | evidence of the change that has come upon us during the last few weeks. We are as a people no richer, perhaps we are no wiser in many | respects ; many of us are doing foolish things, | especially those who buy Big Bonanza stocks | in Wall street, and who clutch gold as though | it had an immortal quality. But all have en- | tered upon this work of business reconstruc- | | tion with zeal. We have seen the worst. Un- | | less we give way to a spirit of madness and | | become victims to stock gamblers and specu- | lators there is no reason why this should not | | | | | } | | no Bismarck, hav- | princes. Con- | | continue in a full, fruitfal tide. | We shall make a good Easter in a business sense if we do not forget the lessons of the past few months. Until December we shall | be free from irritating legislation. The Presi- dent has it in his power to do many mischiev- | | ous things, but we have the gratifying an- | nouncement that he proposes to spend the le |summer in visiting battlefields and | | watering places and his stock farm | on the Mississippi. But what we need im our business life are enterprise, industry, economy, retrenchment and reform. This | | “gold clique,” about which so much is written, is only an illustration of our business folly. If we did our business on sound principles, if our merchants bought and gold shares as they | buy and sel! lamber or oh a hay, if they did not deal in what they could not deliver, and speculate npon what they hope to own a | month hence, there would be no ‘‘corner” in gold or anything else. While we have no words but those of condemnation for the men who would bring upon us another Black Fri- day and all the disasters that came with it, those who suffer from the ‘corner in goid’’ are the men who have been so foolish in their | business adventures as to invite suffering. It | is useless to talk about laws to prevent these “corners” and business combinations. It isin the power of every merchant to avoid them so far as he himself is con- | cerned. Let it be laid down as a rule not to | buy what we do not want and not to sell what we do not own; not to purchase stocks | or real estate upon margins; not, in short, | to speculate upon a feverish and excited mar- ket, and there will be no more combinations | or “corners” like those which now offend our j Commerce. These combinations and ‘‘cor- | ners’’ are not evidences of business activity but symptoms of disease. They are the re- | sults of the speculation and gambling which came with the war, and which has been in- | of the disclosures that now excite the whole | world, as the friend ot Tilton and the corre- | | very many of our city pastors have announced | comments on the great event which the hull to the stand which exists on the part of both plaintiff and defendant should no longer exist. We can understand how her testimony might damage both sides. Mr. Tilton must | see that no matter what injury may come to | | him by her appearance upon the stand, her absence would be acalamity. It is not tor Theodore Tilton to dread Mrs. Woodhull. It is rather a reflection upon the ingenuity of Tilton's counsel that in the cross-examination of the colored witnesses they did not estab- lish what Mrs. Woodhull writes over her own name. We begin to doubt the usefulness of | cross-examination as @ means of establishing justice when we see a colored man, who has been a slave, triumpbantly leaving the stand, | bis testimony practically unchallenged by the acute and brilliant gentlemen who manage Mr. Tilton’s case. We repeat that unless this evidence of the colored witnesses, added to that of Bessie | Turner, is destroyed, Mr. Tilton has virtually | no case for the people, or none even for the jury. This leads us to say, further, that jus- tice in Brooklyn will only be served by the | whole truth of this proceeding coming to light. | We take it that Mr. Beecher will soon go upon | the stand. In addition to Mr. Beecher we should have the evidence of Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. Woodhull and Mr. Bowen. These three per- | | sons have played so prominent a part in the scandal that without their evidence the truth would hardly-be known. Mrs. Tilton is now | in a most cruel position, and, as an act of | justice to her sex, she should be allowed to | tell her story. Mr. Bowen is supposed to know more about | | the relations between Beecher and Tilton | | than any person living. He was a party to the famous covenant. He has been publicly | denounced by Beecher's lawyers as forming has replied in a manner quite as public of his | willingness to go upon the stand and tell all | he knows. Mrs. Woodhull, as the promul- gator of the scandal and the propelling cause spondent of Beecher, should be permitted to tell all she knows. Since we are embarked in this distasteful and paintul business we | might as well go to the end. Let the sun- | light fall upon the whole story and illumine its darkest crevice. Justice demands that after | Beecher is heard we should bear from Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. Woodhull and Mr. Bowen. Pulpit Topics To-Day. To-day is full of inspirations of joy, and themselves to preach Easter sermons, and many more who have not so announced will do the same. Drs. Ewer, Tiffany, Thompson, and many other Episcopal clergymen, will give special attention to this theme. Dr. Thomp- son will look into the broken sepulchre, and, following the risen Christ,’ will find the life | eternal; and Mr. Thomas will, with the micro- | scope of faith, behold the Lamb enthroned. Mr. MacArthur, Mr. King and Mr. Pullman | will preach Easter sermons in the morning, and speak about something else in the even- ing. Mr. Pullman will talk to young people in his course touching the why and wherefore of worship. Mr. Saunders will also address the young on the pleasures of young men, and | the resurrection will receive due share of | consideration from him and other ministers. Mr. Nye will show that the resurrection is o fact, and not a myth, and that it demon- strates the divine origin of Christianity. Mr. Cameron and Dr. Armitage will dwell on the same fact, and Mr. Borel will speak of the “Complices of the Crucifixion.” Mr. Alger will explain in what sense Christ can be truly called the Saviour of men, and Mr. Hawthorne | | will present to his people Mary Magdalene and the other Mary at the door of the sepul- chy6, and from that standpoint demonstrate | the resurrection of Christ. Mr. Hawthorne will also tell us why Paul was willing to | preach the Gospel even*at Rome; and Dr. | Porteous will offer some theo-philosophical | Church celebrates to-da, Mr. Hepworth | | will epeak of a great revival and what came of | it, and thus the day and the event which it commemorates will be remembered and im- | proved, Tue Baooxiyn Detectives have made some extraordinary arrests, and, as will be seen by our reports, have broken up a notorious gang | of thieves. Crime has met with an important check, and the arrest of the culprits is even | more important than the recovery of the property. Toe Panane in honor of John Mitchel | | which was proposed for to-day has been wisely countermanded by the Irish leaders in this city. Any procession of the kind on Sunday | is illegal, and the authorities were compelled | to interfere in this cage. The Iriyh sympa- thizers with Mr, Mitchel’s efforts to redvom | his native land can express their admiration | tensified by our protective policy. In time we shall, no doubt, be too wise to.allow any com- and gratitude in methods more worthy of | Considering, however, the hostility of the ; confer the crown of Spain on. Charles VII. | fortunate claimants beginning in each case to | Moriones’ place, which would of itself be an | | mission of his enemies, is served with a loy- | one of the conspiracy to destroy him. He | | peasant soldier | career as the head of the American stage, as themselves and their cause The Situation in Spain. William of Orange had scarcely been called to the throne of England, amid the acclama- tions of the people, when he wrote to his friend Heinsius that it was hosanna to-day and would be crucify to-morrow, How fleeting is the breath of popular favor most princes have to learn betimes. The reign of Alfonso ‘XIL is not three months old, and he is already well nigh broken hearted. The unreasoning enthusiasm which hailed his accession has vanished, and his government is now as much discredited as was that of Marshal Serrano. It was fondly expected that a lad of seventeen, who was a queen's son, must necessarily dis- play the political sagacity of a Ferdinand of Aragon, combined with the military talents of the Great Captain. The boy meant well, led his army into a trap with the best of inten? tions, and discovered how democratic an in- stitution is warfare, which respects nothing but skill and numbers. So he returned to his palace to weep, to talk of abdication and to send for his sister—perhaps the wisest thing he could do under the circumstances. Moan- while the wave of the Carlist advance threat- ens to roll far southward, and it is thought that the decisive battle of the contest will be fought under tho walls of Madrid. Southern provinces toward reactionary and absolutist doctrines, it may be | doubted whether the possession of the capital would The Spaniards are unlike any other pcople. When their country has been conquered, in a military sense, the real strife generally begins. So Charles of Austria, and after him Joseph Bonaparte, discovered, the causes of those un- decline from the day that their troops entered Madrid in triumph. For the next few weeks there is likely to be alullin military operations, the energies of the generals on both sides being concentrated on the problem, not of moving their troops, but of keeping them alive—a problem daily growing more difficult through the exhaus- tion of the country. At the same time one Tegrets to see King Alfonso is listening to | counsellors who recommend him to try the foolish and dishonest policy of outbidding Don Carlos in concessions to the bigoted | and ultra-conservative party. Moriones, the ablest of Spanish generals and | the most liberal of Spanish states- | men, has been worried into resigning | his command, according to a custom which | has long obtained in the land of Ximones and | Alberoni. A consummate tactician seems to professors of Castilian statecraft the last per- son in the world to put at the head of an | army. Then, somebody is anxious to get | doubt clearly see their interest in its success. excellent reason for removing him. The young monarch is surrounded by intriguers | who consider it the first duty of the new gov- | ernment to reward every disturber of the | peace forthe last six years. The liberalism of | these men is a sham; it is merely the ticket which they show to obtain admission to office. It is painful for lovers of freedom to have | to confess that nearly all the valor, and cer- tainly all the devotion, which this unhappy struggle has evoked are to be found on the side of Don Carlos. That prince, by the ad- alty and zeal worthy of a better cause. The endures hunger, thirst, | wounds and death without any reward but | the consciousness that he is fighting for what he believes to be the sacred rights of his King, | while the officers fulfil the still more difficult task of keeping their allegiance unshaken, even when disgraced or slighted by their royal master. Elio, Dorregaray, Ceballos, though deprived of their posts, and, doubtless, tempted by the most splendid bribes from | Madrid, show no resentment against Don Carlos, and are still ready to serve him with their minds’ best thoughts. Even our own war of independence hardly offers such instances of a self-denying public | spirit, except in the unique figure of Wushing- | ton. The secret of the Pretender’s influence over his followers appears to lie in that charm of manner which was the most precions heri- tage of the exiled Stuarts. But he is also | genuinely kind-hearted and considerate, and knows, like his ancestor, Louis XIV., how, by a few gracious words, to take away the sting of a retusal and to double the value of a favor. According to the German Consul at Bay- onne—probably the most anti-Carlist person- age in Spain—there is no hope of terminating the war except by a convention, as the old | civil war was terminated. But the fortunes of the elder Don Carlos were desperate when he consented thus to abdicate his right, and | there is not the smallest chance that the victor of Lacar will be induced to waive his claims in the very hour of success. It is said that Don Alfonso has requested the Pope to use his good offices with his cousin, and that the Pope has suggested that Don Carlos should accept the Viceroyalty of the Philippine Islands in lieu of the crown—an arrangement regard- ing which the people of the Philippine Islands might entertain views of their own. Another announcement is that Don Alfonso is strongly | disposed to abdicate in favor of the Duke of Montpensier, and his friends anticipate no | little difficulty in inducing him to change his mind, This is, at best, but an Alfonsist | rumor, Epwiy Fornest.—We print this morning a | letter from Philadelphia that wii! be read with | interest by all who care for the memory and fame of Edwin Forrest. This gentleman’s a strongly marked individual character, with the singular adventures - his life, his promi- | nence, genius and fame, together with his en- | dowment of abome for the indigent mem- bers of his profession, make anything con- cerning him of deep interest. Our corre- spondent tells the story of his Philadelphia | life and gives us many anecdotes illustrating hus character and achievements. ‘Tuy Fonenat of the late Mrs. Bingham and | the latest news in relation to Pemberton, her | supposed maurderer, furnish the material of an interesting letter from Boston, which is pub- lished elsewhere. Comprrounen GReKn again appears in oar columns in hia celebrated attitude of detend- ing the treasury of the city against its poor creditors. Tho Mayor has fortunately shown | our neighbors, 8 praiseworthy disposition to have the just | debts of the municipality paid promptly, and his action in the matter will receive the ap- proval of the publia | impression on those who, while they may be | | tive. | believe that there is a duty to the classic past | discharge. | the hope of industrial resources creates will SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1875.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. The Centennial Conference. At the conference held in this city on Wednesday between Governor Bigler, tho financial agent of the Centennial commemora- tion, and some of our leading citizens, an observation was made by one of the latter which we desire especially to emphasize. After the agent had submitted his report of the private contributions that had been made in this city—some of them quite munificent, and aggregating, as near as may be, one hun- dred and twenty thousand dollars—one of the gentlemen present, Mr. William B. Ogden, said:—“Our foremost duty is the raising of money. There has been one avenue followed up pretty well by Governor Bigler, and that avenue has an end. We must enlist the masses of the people. Thus far we have failed in doing so, with all the aid the news- papers have accorded us, because somehow the machinery has been wanting.” We agree to this, but with regret rather than self-com- placency are bound to express something of a doubt as to the aid the newspapers have given. It has been the pleasure and pride (and we shall not relax till the work be done and the victory won) of the Hrnaup to give this great memorial enterprise earnest and persistent support. But with ours journalistic sympathy seems to havé founda limit. We say no more on this head, hoping for a differ- ent expression hereafter on the part of those who ought to feel as we do and have the same interests as we have, for we should be sorry that any word of ours should hinder it. Our duty is to help to put the popular ‘“‘ma- chinery” in motion, without which we con- cede enterprises of such pith and moment are always more or less in danger of mishap. ‘The liberal contributions which haye been made in New York by individuals, when ana- lyzed, make very prominent the material, and what, in the highest and best sense of the word, may be termed the sentimental aspects of this subject. Let us refer to the former first. Of the amount thus far‘ subscribed nearly one-fourth, or twenty-six thousand dollars, in round numbers, is by the proprietors of hotels and express companies, who, with every pos- sible allowance for patriotic impulses, no So palpable is this to our eye, as we have said over and over again, that our wonder rather is that more of this sort of co-operation has not been tendered and secured. We have not at hand the hotel statistics of | this cosmopolitan community, ‘but sure are we that the fifteen first class establishments that have come forward ; leave a large residuum unrepresented. There | is not a hotel in the length and breadth of | this island or in our suburban communities | (including such a one as Newark), be it large or small, modest or ambitious, what is called | first or any other class, that will not be taxed to its utmost capacity by the influx of strangers in the now sure event of Centennial success. ‘The very fact that the large pro- prietors see this so clearly ought to make its able at the outset to contribute less, are sure | to have their share of accruing benefit. The fact, too, seems to be at last well ascer- | tained that Philadelphia will have its hands | full enough without undertaking what we | have always contended would be huge folly— | the construction of special hotel accommoda- | tion for the occasion, What they have may be, | and no doubt will be enlarged, but nothing new and special can be expected. The mass railway facilities to be such as we believe they \ will—must find an abiding place else- | where, and no one doubts that the overflow | will be mainly in this direction. Not meaning in the slightest degree to dis- parage their material motives we turn with | sincere pleasure to the higher impulses which these individual contributions show are opera- Of course we shall not commit the indecorum of specifying names or classes of names which have been given under at high motives. They ure obvious enough to | any one who will look at the list. There are those here who have no conceivable materiai | interest in the matter; men raised far above the influence of any other sentiment than the purest and highest, who love their country and is institutions, not only as they are, after all their trials and agonies, but as they were when the foundations of the Union were Vaid, and the social as well as the political com- munion was perfected, and before the sharpest trial came. They, many of them, are scholars in the history of the better days of the Republic, and old fashioned enough to which it becomes their prosperous present to ‘There are, let us hope—tor if we did not we might despair—hundreds and thou- sands here in New York who feel exactly in | this wise, but shrink from seeming to pro- | trude themselves as voluntary contributors. to | this great work. It is they who constitute the masses—the not insensible though modest masses—who will respond if sought out and properly appealed to. It is in order to reach such as these that | the ‘‘machinery” of popular meetings must be resorted to; and what more opportune time for it than the coming joyous season, when the icy bonds and the commercial perplexities which almost wi eqnal tension have crippled our energies are about to bo dis- solved? Noone donbts that asthe vernal sun, | when it gets a chance, is so sure soon to rid us of one severe restraint, so the great re- cuperative power which the realization and free us from the other. So far as the Centennial is concerned itis | most fortunate that this year of reviving pros- | perity is coincident with the year of prepara- tion, With the actual sympathy and success- | fal work of 1875 we can afford to confront the possible asperitics, such as a Presidential canvass is 80 apt to provoke ; and who shall | say that the grand, conciliatory sentiment to | be generated by a classic commemoration, | | | Texas. from which all parties will be ashamed to stand aloof, may not be the means, under Providence, ot crushing out for a season even those antagonisms ? ? A Mexican Raw. Assuredly we have enough trouble of our own, with the Beecher trial, the Lonisiana question and the third term, without having unlawful invasions from | The Mexicans, however, as will be seen by our telegraphic despatches, are without consideration, and have invaded It is not likely that the United States government will be eeauired to interfere, for | eal” | subject to our law. the Texans are perfoctly competent and quite willing to give their enemies all the military satisfaction they could wish. The Mexicam government does not want a war with this country. It had enough of Zachary Taylor without tackling Ulysses S. Grant. Echoes of the Religious Press. The Hebrew Leader soliloquizes over the blessings of benevolence which the Puriny festival has left behind it, and rejoices that, having kept us waiting so long, spring has come at last. The Christian Leader rings ite: Easter bells because the happiest day in alll the year is at hand. These bells tell of the: triumphant Christ whom the grave could not hold in its cold embrace and of a “better resurrection’ for every believer in Him. The Churchman says it cannot be denied that the’ doctrine of the atonement is losing its hold in many quarters and partly through the popu< lar preaching of the day. It cannot seo much point or meaning in the death of Christ save in its sacrificial aspect, and by keeping Good Friday the Church more offectue ally preaches the atonement than by, pages and tomes of controversy. In an elaborate review of the Methodist Book Cone cern the Christian Advocate sums up its find ing:—‘The Concern is prosperous and healthy and its profits increasing beyond the relative growth of its business. Butit cannot be looked to to support the wornout preache ers nor the Bishops, nor to maintain unprof< itable depositories." The Christian Union thinks the amount of theology given to Sun- day scholars in books and lesson leaves in the study of the International sernes is altogether misplaced, because the average mind of the child cannot comprehend it. The seasom calls the Church Journal to moralize éver the uses of temptation and the various forms im which it comes to men and their final tri- umph over itin Christ. It is designed for. our growth and development in moral power and beauty. The Methodist waxes eloquent: while commenting on the marvellous work of grace now spreading throughout Great Britain under the ministrations of Messrs. Sankey and Moody. The whole people, clergy included, seem to be swept in with it. No such movement among the masses has been witnessed in modern times. The Jewish Mes« senger mourns over the violations of the Jow« ish Sabbath, and at the same time presents @ harrowing picture of the condition of Sab- bath desecrators. They work too hard, take too little rest and banish all joy and sunshing from their lives. Without the Sabbath, says | the Messenger, our whole existence would be a headlong race after the meaner things of life 5 | but with it the soul soars heavenward and{ purifies the body by its flight. Church and State argues ably against either church infal- libility or individual freedom from error in judgment. A more thorough study of tha Word, prosecuted with a deep sense of personal responsibility, will cure any one of the infallie bility idea. So thinks the editor of Church and State. We Rewner to see in some of our contempo= raries the death of a favorite mare belonging to the President. This animal is said to have possessed wonderful propertics of speed, docility, go and fine staying power. If she had lived there is no reason why she should not have been nominated to one of our for- eign missions. Her death deprives us of a possible public servant quite as competent to | protect American interests abroad as some of | the gentlemen who have received the nomina- | of visitors trom a distance—supposing the | tions of the President. IN ts ELL tc iENCE, PERSONAL Judge James A: Bell, of Teak is residing at the Union Square Hotel. Captain Luke Norman, of the British Army, l& quartered at the Windsor Hotel. The skin of a shark recently caught on the Eng- lish coust weighed one ton and a quarter, gressman George M. Beebe, of Monticello, . Y., is sojourning at the Filth Avenue Hotel. "Senator William B, Allison, of lowa, arrived af, the Brevoort House last evening from Washing- ton. Mr. Edward Walford’s “County Farmiltes of the United Kingdom” is issued in its fifteenth annual edition, greatly enlarged. On the 3d of March the Grand Opera Mouse tm Paris was closed for Want of artists. Six leadiag tenors were all disabied with colds, Mr. Ashton W. Dilks has tn Macmillan’s press two volumes on the Russian Power, a subject seriously exercising John Ball of late. Ex-Senator Joln Scott, of Peonsy!vania, with his wife and family, arrived at the Gragd National: Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., on the 24th inst. Schenck’s summary of poker says:—‘The maim elements of success In*the game are (1) good tuck, (2) good cards, (3) plenty of cheek and (4) good. temper.” Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackweil bas nearly ready a@ philosophical treatise on ‘The Kqnivae lence of the Sexes Throughout Nature,” which the Putnams qill print. Senator Richard J. Oglesby, who has heen cam~ paigning for the republican ticket tn Connecticut during the past week, left this city last evening for his home in Iilinoia. Projessors Joseph Pancoast and Samael D. Gross and Dr. William H. Pancoast, of the Jeffer- sun Medical College, of Philadelphia, have apart- ments at the Everett House. Emperor William does not care to annoy nis friend the Czar, and consequently makes afi ex- ception in his favor in the law against the expor- tation of horses from Germany. Mr, Montgomery Schuyler, who has just become managing editor of the New York World, is froma the northwestern part of the State. He is of the originai Schuyler family, and has had eight years? practical experience in journalism. The last days and travels of Henry Thomaa Buckie are to be commemorated vy Mr. Stuart- Giennie ina book entitled “Pilgrim Memories; « Personal Narrative of a Journey in the Birth Goun- tries of Christianity with the Late H. T, Buckle.'? In Switzeriand there was a marriage by proxy. A woman there was married to a mau in Americ the proxy being @ neighbor and 3 man alread \y married. The authorities are discussing whether this much-married man has not committed bigamy. ‘The nooks and corners of literature have beew explored by Mr, Richard John King in big “sketches and Studies, Descriptive and Histori- ‘The book ts fuil of the curiosities of cathe- drals, shrines, sacred trees and flowers, and even the dogs of history and remance, President Grant and Attorney General Willlame are troubied to know wnat they shail do with am Jndian who kills another, a6 the Indians are now Gur opinion ia wnat when they catch an Indian who has andoubdtediy killed an- other Indian, the true course ‘s Lo give him a new gun and $5. Commander Selfridge, who was appointed tm 1870 to make # survey of tne Istomus of Darien for the purpose Of ascertaining the practicability of ™ ship canal between the Atlantic snd Pacific oceans, compieted his report seme time since. It has just been publisied by the Navy vepartmens,, and will prove a valuable work of reference on account of its varied information, minate detati« and statistics, its photographs of the country through wifich the exploration passed sud tte VelUBDLC INiDS ANd COAT the