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—-1 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New York Hxnatp will be | pent free of postage. | AND ANN STREET, THE DAILY HERALD, published evéry | day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Yonx | Herma. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly ecaled. : LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD--NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Hubscriptions and advertisements will be | received snd forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. | POLUME XL.-..cecesseosesovccorencsesesneees NO, 95. | AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. COLOSSECM, | Thirty-iourih street =PARIS BY NIGHT. Mritions gully, idaho P.M. Bree THEATRE, . CONWAY'S BROOKLYN para t8 P.M; closes at a—BOH MIAN GIRL, at Faas Kellogg. WoOoD’s MU“EUM, it Thirtic street—THE BLACK pe wt a°Pws; ‘closes ar 10:3. M. Matinee at 2 THEATRE, COM | on ad Broadway.—VABIETY, at 8 TE, M.'s closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth sireet.—Open trom 10 A. M. to's P.M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, ripe avenue.—VARIETY, at SP.M.; cioses at 1045 Bae GERMANIA TBEATRE, Fourteenth street —GIROFLE. gieortia, ater M.; | eloses at 10:45 P.M. Miss BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, | third street, near Sixth avenue, NEGRO , 4c.,at SP. M.; closes at 10 P. ATRE | eS P. MM; closes at 10:45 | ROMAN HIPPODROME, | venue and Twentvseventh, sirset. VISIONS | eine HOO saz eM. and 8 P. M.; Menagerie ppen at 1 P. M. and 6-30 | BOWERY OPER« HOUSE, elaine meni at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | (FITTS AVENUE THFATRE | treet and Broadway. —THE BIG BO. | iin M K THEATRE, Brssry-spayr, CHOCKUTT at's P.3.; closes at roa RAND CENTRAL ENTRAL THEATRE, ATS Ms closes wt 03 ier YM. Mr. Fisher, Mr. Broafway-— VARIETY, ats P.M; closes at 10:45 | STEINWAY HALL, Pye street.—HCNGARIAN ORCHESTRA, at 8 ‘Miss Davenport, Bowsry, AROUND THE WORLD 18 EIGHTY DAYS, ase GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fg". preane ap and a reregtr tales street AHMED, at 8 _ Twentycoiel street, aod Sixth, aven street a1 ue, ate Ps ck closesa ilP.M. Mr. Rignoid. Saxe. LYCEUM THEATRE, it ya Sixth avenue—LA JOLIE | FSaSC tose rs it 8 P. Mile. Aimee. SAN FRANC t teren iaae t—Nzcno | r of Twenty-ninth srreet.—! SISSiReLs ion ‘At 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. | poo THEATRE, between “econs and Third avenues— P.M. “Closes at 12 P- M. PARE ETY at at TWENTY-SEC D REGIMENT ARMORY, Rerrpere th street and sixth avenue.—GRAND PROM- ADE CONCERT. es WALLACK’S THEATRE, ROMANCE OF 4 Pook YOUNG MAN, at P.M. ; closes at 10:0) P.M. Mr. Montague. TRIPLE s Ss HEET. EW TORE, MosDAr. APRIL b 1875, ~~ NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the pressure of advertisements on the columns of our Sunday editions we are obliged to request advertisers to send in ad- vertisements intended for the Sunday Hznarp during the week and early on Saturdays, thereby insuring a proper classification. From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy end cool. We Prrvr To-Dax the opinion of Corpora- tion Counsel De Witt, of Brooklyn, upon the effect of the new amendments to the State constitution upon the question of public aid to private charities. Tur Pavsstay Goversoent has complained im a note to Belgium of the encouragement given by the Belgian clergy to recaicitrant German Catholics, and aiso of the alleged complicity of Belgians in the plot to assassi- nate Bismarck. As Ecurss or tae Scv.—To-day there | will be a total eclipse of the sun. If it had happened on the first instead of the fifth of the month, the astronomers niight have amused themselves with the excitement of the unscientific public, but it is too late for either toon hoaxes or sun scares now. This total telipse will be seen only on the other side of the globe, the Kingdom of Siam being fa- | vored with a front seat. It will bea grand Bpectacle, and will be observed by European expeditions and probably by some of the American astronomers. ‘Trmaxsy Is Mane. —When shall we ever have good news from Spain? It is “‘the most enhappy country that ever yet was scen,’’ and there are no signs that it is getting better. The submissions of Carlisi officers and troops to the Alfonso government are no indications of returning peace, and are even to be re- gretted when we find the young King making such barbaric use of his power. ‘he arrest of Professor Perier for merely petitioning the King in behalf of educational rights would be onwortby of an Asiatic tyrant, and is another step toward the donfall ot the ‘present rale, - | Sedan, | important issues of the next century. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1875,-TRIPUR SHEET, The Centennial and the Governors. If this proposed centennial celebration of the independence of the Republic were to be merely an exhibition of the industries and products of the nation and of what our people | can do as artificers and hushbandmen there | would still be an eminent fitness in making it | a national affair. Many of the principal na- | tions have had such exhibitions, beginning | | with that Hyde Park fair in London, over twenty years ago, which was opeved under the auspices of the illustrious Wellington, and | ending with the Exposition at Vienna, which was opened by, among others, the hero of We have seen what England, France and Austria have been able to do in the way of an international fair; now we propose to thow what the United States can do. One of the youngest, we are wmong the strongest and perhaps the most pretentious of nations, Our strength and youth have long been the wonder of statesmen and philosophers. Why is it that here in the wilderness discovered by the mariners of a modera Spanish monarch there has grown up a power far exceeding that of Ferdinand and Isabella? What are the sources of this strength, the causes of this growth? Upon what do these United States rest for supremacy and greatness? Are we really as powerful as we claim or as our | critics fear? How have we gained a wealth surpassing that of Ormus and of Ind? How far is this to be attributed to the institutions of democracy ? or does it happen from causes altogether irrespective of politics and govern- ment forms? These are the questions we propose to answer at the Centennial Exhibi- | tion in Philadelphia, when we ask the world to come and see what we have done in the first century of our independent existence. Taken in the highest sense, there could be no more interesting display ; for the growth of the United States is a problem more inter- esting even to ourselves than to our friends from abroad. Would this country be as pros- perous as it is now had the colonisl condition remained? Would we be as powerful asa member of the British Empire as we are in our independence? Would we be as great had North America remained under French | and Spanish rule and not surrendered to tbe Saxon? How far have religion and govern- | ment contributed to our success? These are questions as interesting to us as to others, and their answer may be said to involve the most The events that will make the Centennial attrac- tive to our people are, after all, the events | about which we should care the least. Who dwells on the glory of Bunker Hill and Saratoga and Yorktown? They are butas the memory of a childhood dream. If the Cen- tennial were alone the celebration of battles | and strife we could wish it overas a noisy and | | unwholesome affair, cherishing memories of anger, war and struggles and hatred that should have long since perished. The fact | | that England fought seven years to preserve her colonies over the ocean, and continued | the combat against the odds of sea and dis- tance and difficult transportation and the alliance of a French king, who, if the truth must be told, cared more for the downfall of | British than the exaltation of American power ; | the fact that George IIL, fool as he was, | clung with desperation to his plantations across the sea, has always made us respect the tough and stubborn sovereign and the gallant | people he ruled. The Revolutionary War was | no more a disgrace to the English after they embarked upon it than was our own war with | the South. We gave the Southern States as many provocations as England gave her colo- | nies; and when we began to fight we fought as resolately as Burgoyne and Howe. We do | not think that Cornwallis was as severe with us as Sheridan was in the Valley or Sherman in his march to the sea. The memories of that war have remained, even with us, the conquerors, | for generations. Even now we teach our chil- dren to regard as cold historical truth the fervid rhetor:e of the Revolutionary orators | and journalists and to speak of George IIL as | another Pharaoh who would not let the chosen | people go. So far as the Centennial would be a revival of these memories and a celebration of our triumph over England, it would be a trivial and not a wise exhibition. The war memories of the Revolution should sleep un- der the harvests of Yorktown and Brandy- wine, for the political thought of the next century is the closer union of the English- speaking nations. In the strife among the nations which seems inevitable, and which wiil embrace the most tremendous issues and con- sequences, the English-speaking nations must be found side by side. The political meaning of the Centennial, so far as politics will enter into it, will be the better understanding of | America with foreign nations, and especially | with England. We are, therefore, pleased to see, from the communications addressed to us by so many of the Governors of our States, and from the opinions they express in their messages, that so much interest is taken in the Centennial. If any feelings of rivalry as to the celebration taking place in Philadelphia had existed they bave passed away. Philadelphia, for every reason, should be the city of the celebration. | Philadelphia is the home of the Declaration, It was the first capital of the Republic, and | so far as New York is concerned Philadelphia is so near to it by railway, and so closely in, terwoven with our prosperity, that we feel as much interest in the Exhibition as though it were to be opened in our own Even if any of the States or cities cherished another feeling it is now too late to display it. The failuse of the Centeunial would disgrace us all, except Philadelpia and Pennsylvania. Notwithstanding the apathy of the govern- | ment, the adverse votes of Congress and the | coldness ot States like New York, in spite of | obstacles of a cruel and dishe artening nature, the people of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia lave pressed the work on, practically unaided | | settled another has arisen ‘in the way of | and alone. The citizens of Philadelphia have subseribed two millions of dollars toward the Exhibition. The State and city have added to this large appropriations. Practically, there- fore, the Centennial has been made a success by Pennsylvania, and if untoward cireum- | stances should defeat it now the honor of having done a noble, patriotic and national | work would still rest with Pennsylvania. Now the duty becomes a national one. What has New York done? What action has been taken by the Governor and the Legisla- ture on behalf of the State, and what on bebalf of the city? | aggregate more than one hundred thousand Jentral Park. | Many of our business men have | subscribed liberally, but these sums do not | dollars—a beggarly sum, indeed, compared with the two millions ot Philadelphia. And of every dollar of material advautage gained | by the Centennial in the way of travel, trade, | freights and passage money, New York will | have the better share. New York is, to nine- tenths of the States and to all the foreign | countries, the doorway to the Centennial. Here all the travel must come, and here will be | most of the trade. To all intents the Exhi- were held in Newburg or Albany. There- tore, for our own interests, we should take | hold and give the movement our active sup- | port. The State as a Commonwealth, the city as a metropolis, should be represented. We should make ample appropriations to enable our people to make a fine display. It would | be a sad blunder indeed for our people to sit idly by while the golden hours are slipping take partin the Centennial to find that we were too late. Wehave only a little time in which to make our preparations, for next spring has been arranged for the opening, This only gives usa year in which to work. A year is a short time in which to do such a multitude of things. A small city has to be built ; a city composed ot all nationalities and representing the world in miniature. Those who have any of the experience of Vienna and Paris and London will appreciate the value of time and promptitude in a work of this kind, New York, therefore, a laggard among the | States, and, not having done as much as Nevada, should begin at once, and our first work should be to appoint State and city commissions to represent us in Philadelphia, and to make adequate appropriations. New | York does not certainly want to depend upon the kindness ot Philadelphia for her oppor- tunities tor display. She means to pay her own way inthe Centennial. There should, therefore, be appropriations ample enough to enable us to show our resources. If we did as much as Delaware we should appropriate a half million of dollars; but a million would be httle enough, considering how much we have at stake. Our main desire is to see the Centennial a success worthy of the event and worthy of the nation. We desire to see New York take the most prominent part in the dis- | play—the part to which we think she is en- titled by her supremacy in wealth, enterprise and population. We desire to see such a manifestation of our Commonwealth's great- ness that all the world will see it, and taat | even our sister States, when they come within the palace halls, will concede it. We desire to behave handsomely and liberally with the Centennial, as New York never tails to behave when either her honor or her interests are in- | volved. For this reason, therefore, we regret that in publishing the opinions and recom- | mendations of the Governors of the various States we cannot say more of New York. But we trast that when our people, and more es- | pecially those in authority, see what is doing | by the other States, they will hasten to place | our noble old Commonwealth in the van. | Similia Similibus Curantur. The Senatorial expedition to Mexico has been abandoned at New Orleans, The expla- nation of this painful disaster is given in our special telegrams from that city, and will | | cause general regret throughout the country. | bition is as much a New York affair as if it | from us, and when the time came for us to | | and we were in hopes that last season would | would be cameo it not precively what His Eminence would fancy. But what is to be | | done? The horses cannot be found. Mr. Bonner refuses to open his stables, because he | isa Presbyterian and will have no dealings | | with tbe Mother Church. Mr. Vanderbilt bas | some fine animals, but the Commodore is a | faithful Methodiet and no believer in the superstitions of Rome. Mr. Belmont unfor- tunately has no black horses in his stables and President Grant has resisted the en- treaties of his faithful and pious henchman, Thomas Murphy, because he also is a Methodist. The only man who ean solve this problem is Bergh. If any man knows where to find a pair of black horses it is our beloved Bergh. Let the Catholic committee call upon His Excellency, the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They will find him above any petty jealousy | ot the Church and filled with the knowledge of what is necessary to draw the Cardinal's coach, The University Race-Where Ought It To Be Held This Year? The final meeting of the Association of American Colleges, preparatory to their as- sembling in July, is to take place day after to- morrow at Springfield, Mass, where, doubt- less, all questions connected with the great event itself—the University race—will be dis- cussed and settled. We took occasion, immediately after the race Jast summer, to impress upon those hay- ing these matters in charye, not merely the expediency, but, in the interests of fair play and good racing, the necessity of having the course allotted to each boat marked off by a row of flags on each side throughout the whole three miles, and we are glad to see that they have adopted the suggestion, and, under the superintendence of Mr. John Eustis, who, as winner of the students’ seven-mile walking race, captain of the Wesleyan crews of 1873 and 1874, and at present captain of the Atalanta Club of this city, is too well known to need further introduction, have taken advantage of the winter's ice and indicated the thirteen courses by some three hundred buoys, on which flags are tobe put. This plan places the buoys some seven hundred feet apart, and even in ordinary practice, but especially in the excite- ment of the struggle itself, we submit that they are not near enough together. They should be at most two hundred feet apart, while one hundred would be better yet. Then, with the flags qn each row of the color of the college whose crew is to have them on their right or left, as the case may be, the matter of keeping each boat in its own water is reduced to as great a certainty as keeping it ina creek a hundred feet wide, and the position of the bow oarsman, instead of being, as now, a most onerous one, becomes at once almost a sinecure, while such an unlortunate event as last July threw away the whole year’s work of two of the principal compecitors and very greatly marred the whole affair would become next to impossible. But afar more important question to be settled this week is where the race itself shall be. Twenty-two years have not decided it, have ended this groping about and have Senator Morton returns home; Senators O:m- | | eron and Anthony go to Pensacola, and will | | there take the first trams for Pennsylvania and | | Rhode Island. Colonel Scott, Governor Brown | and General Poore alone persevered, and | sailed yesterday for Vera Cruz. Yellow Jack | | flaunted his flag on the Mexican shores and the invaders ignomimiously retreated. | When Dr. Jenner discovered the value of | vaccination and prevented smallpox by an- ticipating its presence in the human system | | best, and hence the national one | the international races in September, 1871— | had proved this course in many respects ex- fixed and determined on ons course as the As all will remember, the place selected then was Sara- toga Lake. Previous contests there—notably | cellent. But for the competing coll:ges it is manifestly not central, and at the first trial proved so exposed to even the gentle breezes | of an ordinary summer afternoon that the great race had to go over from Thursday to Friday, and then till Saturday morning, and by introducing a similar yet milder dis- | ease, he established a useful precedent. | ‘The Mexican government has clearly profited | by this wonderful discovery, and has intro- | duced into polities the principles Dr. Jenner | proclaimed in medicine. Desperate diseases require desperate remedies, and as soon as the Mexican government heard of the approach of its visitors the yellow fever patients were turned out of the hospitals and concentrated as a picket guard along the tnreatened shores. The vomito became a proof of patriotism, and the yellow flag was nailed in feverish dclirium | to the mast. Mexico wasinoculated with the yellow fever to prevent the more dangerous attack of American Senators. While we can- | not approve altogether of this method of treatment, we must admit that it has been completely successful. The Mexicans have repelled the Senatorial expedition and may now cure themselves of the fever at their | | leisure. | A Sixteen Hands High Problem. | All of our Catholic world is in a flutter in reference to the new Cardinal. The fact that we are to have a prince among us, areal prince, blessed and exalted by the successor of St. Peter, and: a Yankee prince also, is exciting the most ingenious theories and fancies. In a few days the Papal officers with the berretia will arrive, and then we shail have the most noted ceremony ever seen in a Catholic church. The robes have been made. The proper tint of scarlet has been | happily found, and all the ladies are as anxious to see how His Eminence looks in his new gown as they would be to see a new style of bonnet. It was atone time feared, in the absences of the proper tint, that | the services of Mr. Booth the tragedian would be invoked, as Mr. Booth is kuown to have real cardinal’s robes for his part of Richelieu, but happily this necessity has been overcome, for with all of our respect for the character and genius of Mr. Booth, it would have been a painful thing to con- | template a real cardinal walking up the cathedral aisle in the robes of @ tra- | gedian. Now that this difficulty has been horses. The carriage has been found, the arms of His Eminence have been painted on the doors and the robes await his pleasure. But it is said the horses cannot be obtained. We believe that there must be a pair of jet black horses sixteen hands high, which know howto | draw a cordinal. A committee of Catholic | gentlemen have been in search of a proper | | pair, bat with no success. The unpleasant fact now awaits His Eminence that he mnst either stay at home or have his carriage puiled | by relays of the faithful. A cardinal’s coach drawn up Madison avenue by a delegation of the loyal statesmen who now earn a hard living on the Fourth avenue improvement was finally rowed in the presence of an as sembly much thinned by these vexatious | postponements. | i But another objection to Saratoga de- veloped itself then, more formidable than either—one which, regarded in its best light, did the place no sort of good, and which was, as it was at the time very freely character- | | ized, an outrageous swindle. | This was the extortion practised in carrying passengers over the four miles between the town and the lake by every man who had an apology fora vehicle, from the regular hackmen with their customary diffidence to the gentle grangers from the whole country twenty miles around with the rig ordinarily de- voted to the hauling of that which enriches the soil. A contract had been signed and generally publisbed, by which, under a penalty, the price of a ride cither way should be but fifty cents. When the crash | came, and a crowd greater than Saratoga ever j before knew was there and must be trans- ported, the poor contract was found a delu- | sion anda snare. Several dollars were needed | to secure a seat in anything at all, the father of the captain of one of the principal crews, for instance, paying fifty-five dollars for a carriage for, we think, one day, and hun- | dreds of people were forced to remain at the | lake long after dark, from being simply un- | able to procure conveyance at any price. | And how is it proposed to remedy this mat- ter in the coming July? Why, by having the penalty in the contract considerably enlarged! | Well, if the good people of Saratoga think | | that this will restore public confidence it | | does little credit to their sagacity. This stip- | ulation, like its predecessor, will not be worth | the time it took to write it. What right, in- deed, have the authorities there to say that any man may not drive over a public high- | way at his own free will, and with any such freight as he likes, be it living or dead, and | impose exactly such a tariff as be can prevail on any one to pay? There must be some bet- | | ter guarantee than this of comfortable convey: | ance and ata reasonable rate, and that guar- | | antee, and the only one at all adequate, was | suggested last year by Captain Reese, of the | | winning Columbia crew, when, shortly after the race, in response to the question whether | | he would vote to go to Saratoga again, he | | said, ‘‘No, not unless they have a railroad!" Saratoga has yet thres months and one week to work in. All intelligent men know that | this is abundant time to bnild over a very | easy grade three or four miles of railroad. | They know, too, if, as was generally | conceded, the regatta drew nearly or quite | | twenty thousand people to Saratoga last year, that if her people, out of the two or three | hundred thousand dollars these visitors must have left there, did not net at any ratea hun dred thousand dollars, they bad at least better | of the highways obstructs travel in all the | Bristol. | New Hampshire. | election will serve as a gauge to mark the | active, and enterprising sections of our com- | New England industries hold wider relations | full time. | dustries of Massachusetts are thus about the not mention it, Less than balf that sum would build a suitable railroad. The gauge | need not be wide, thirty-pound iron ought to | suflice, and the farmers along the road could well afford to give the right of way, so nar- row would be the strip of land required. For three days in the year—that of the Freshman race, that of the University the day following and that of the annual meeting of the National Amateur Rowing Association a month later—from the twenty or twenty-five thousand people who would gladly pay a dol- lar apiece for the round trip, it does not require a profound knowledge of arithaetic to determine what the receinta would be, or of railroading to get at what dividends such a road ought to pay, while the daily short trains throughout the season and the brilliant assemblies which gather annually at the trot- ting course, which would be very near the line of such a road, would serve to make it even yet more profitable. IfSaratoga, seeing this her opportunity, hesi- tates, from inability or otherwise, to improve it, let a half dozen of our citizens take hold of the matter with their usual energy and deter- mination, and the work would be accom- plished at once. The Connecticut Election. The weather counts for something and the state of the roads for a great deal in elections outside of paved cities. This was strikingly exemplified in New Hampshire last month. The second Tuesday of March happened to be a bright day, and, as the severe winter had not begun to soften, the sleighing was excel- lent on every highway apd every byway throughout the State. In consequence of the exhilarating bright weather and the capital sleighing there was a larger aggregate vote than was ever before polled in the Granite State; and it happened there, as it commonly happens in our elections, that a very full vote is favorable to the republicans, Whatever the weather may be in Connecticut to-duy the roads are certain to be bad. The frost is just coming out of the ground, and the deep mud rural towns. This should be an advantage to the democrats, who last year had considerable majorities in all the cities of the State except Norwich, which gave a small republican ma- jority. We insert last year’s vote for Gov- ernor in the principal cities: — Dem. Rep. Hartiord., 4,087 2,880 New Have’ 4,111 3,549 Bridgepor: 1,988 1,718 Norwich.. 1,259 1,089 New Loudon, 690 the cities, that party should fail to carry the State in the present state of the roads in the rural towns, the result would be a greater check than was experienced last month in If Governor Ingersoll should be re-elected by a diminished majority from last year, the loss of strength and pres ,tige would also have a depressing effect upon democratic hopes. The democrats entered this contest with some great advantages. With the exception of Mr. William H. Barnum for Congress, they have a better set of candidates than the re- publicans, for although Mr. Landers is not as well known to the country as General Hawley he is quite as popular in the Hartford district, where they are both run- ning. For the Governorship and the other two Congressional districts the democratic can- didates are personally much superior to their re- publican competitors. Moreover, Mr. Greene, the republican candidate for Governor, isa thick-and-thin supporter of Grant, and was nominated on a platform which strongly indorsed the President, just after his Louisiana message. When we add to these advantages the state of the roads, which, owing to the lateness of the spring, present the deepest mud this year just at the time of the election, it musi be evident, if the democrats suffer losses in Connecticut, that the ‘tidal wave’’ has spent its force. The returns of this degree of its ebb. As an index of public senti- ment the news to-morrow morning will be scanned with interest in all parts of the country reached by telegraph wires. Brightening B ess Prospects, We print this morning a second instalment of the letters and interviews from correspond- ents and reporters in the principal cities of the United States, describing the condition of business and the hopes and opinions of busi- ness men in various commercial centres. Among the various things of this sort which we publish to-day we single out the Boston letter, and direct attention to it as specially noteworthy. The trade of Boston may be reviewed gnder two aspects. In the first place Boston is the commercial capital of the New England States, and indicates the prosperity or depression of one of the most populous, mon country. As an interesting part of the great whole it deserves the same kind atten- tion and study which we bestow on Richmond or Wilmington or other cities which are merely emporiums of trade for limited areas of # few hundred miles in extent. In the second place the Massachusetts aud other with the whole business of the country than those of any other locality, with the single exception of New York. Massa- chusetis is therefore a better barometer or business gauge than almost any other State in the Union. The cotton and woollen goods, the boots and shoes, the ready-made clothing, which she has facilities for manufacturing in immense quantities, are prodigiously out of proportion to the wants of the New England market. Her capital has been invested in ex- | tensive mills and machinery with reference to the consumption of certain classes of goods by the whole country. Her cottons and | woollens, her calicoes and cassimeres, her boots and shoes, her ready-made coats, trou- sers and undergarments, must be manufac- tured on a scale large enough ,to supply the | wants of a great part of the country besides New England in order to keep the machinery all running and the operatives employed on Activity in the Massachusetts mills | is, accordingly, a sure symptom of a present or prospective demand for manufactured goods throughout the United States. The in- best gauge we have of the general prosperity of the country. In this view, rather than as an indication of rising prosperity in New England, we feel great | satisfaction {n the encouraging fects set forth by our Boston correspondent. After a long period of depression, during which many of the mills and manufavtories were ruvning on half time and some of them entirely stopped, * they are nearly all once more in full activity, This is rot merely a good local symptom but most hopeful general symptom. It betokens @ reviving ability to purchase goods in all parts of the country, because full time in the mills will turn out six or eight times the amount of goods that can find a market in the New England States, Certain it is, therefore, that the shrewd, vigilant business men of Mas- sachussetts see their way clear to a full recovery of the markets which have been lost during the eighteen months of staguation which followed the great panic of 1873. To people who take a comprehensive view of tha business interdependence of all parts ot tha country, this part of our Boston letter will seem more full of hope and promise than any other symptom which bas yet come to the public knowledge, But whilo the country has reason to anticipate a fair revival of prow perity, 1t must not indulge in extravagant ex pectations, or embark in wild adventures. The recuperation, though sure, is likely to be gradual, and its healthy progress depends on & continuance of the habits of thrift and economy which are the most valuable lesson enforced by the panic. Sin and Religion. There is a plausible theory often advanced by sceptical minds which we do not remem- ber to have been answered in a thoroughly effective way. It is, that the building of splendid churches, the employment of grand organs, orchestras and choirs, the system of expensive pew rents and all the methods adopted to make religion popular and fash- ionable are really the enemies of the true and simple religion taught in the Bible. It is claimed that the disposal of pews by auction annually tends to excite jealousy and ambi- tion among church members and encourages the distinctions between the rich and poor, The lady who owns a five hundred’ dollar pew 18 likely to feel an un christian pride in the possession, and her neighbor, who has a ten dollar pew, is probably tortured with an en- vious disposition. Wealthy church members are said to be proud of their choirs, their organs and all the pomp and magnificence of worship, while the poorer congregations are often humiliated by the comparisons they are obliged to make. This may be admitted, and yet the objec tion can only be made by superficial mirds, and is easily disposed of. What is the ob- ject of the Church? Plainly to convert sil ners of allkinds. The primal duty of the pulpit is to eradicate or subdue such evil passions as pride, envy, jealousy, covetousness, vainglory and delight in the transitory pleasures of this deceitful world. This can certainly best be done by bringing these vices directly under the control of the pulpit, A system which promotes envy in the Church enables the clergymen to preach against it with powerful effect. Sin is in this way developed only that it may be the more effectually destroyed, and a person who is converted from the talse pride of meme bership in a fashionable church is certain to be forever afterward humble in everything else. For these reasons we can- not agree with those who attack fashionable. religion, but consider it to be, under wise: management, the most successful means of inducing worldly individuals to attend church, ‘That object once secured, their vices ot pride, jealousy, envy, &c., can be attended to in de tail, and finally extirpated altogether. This plan has been successfully tried in Plymouth church, membership of which is in the opinion of the members equivalent toa title ot nobility. Our sermons, from churches | both fashionable and unfashionable, will be found to illustrate in some degree this pro found philosophy. Aw Exrraonprxany Cast or Deata by poison- ing is given in our columns to-day. The sub- ject was Professor F. W. Walker, of Brooklyn, whvu took hemlock for a disease ot the nerves, and when he found himself sinking from an overdose of the drug, dictated to his wife, in the interest of science, a dying state- ment of the effects. Poisoning by hemlock was frequently used by the Athenians as a State method of execution, and by the de scription Professor Walker gave of his suffer ings we know the last agony of Socrates. Tre Moee Troveres.—The proclamation of Governor Hartranft to the disorderly Penn slvania miners has had, we think, a good effect. The disturbances have not yet been suppressed, but the rioters will hardly dare te come into conflict witn the military, to whom the preservation of the peace will be intrasted. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Francis Kernan and family have apart ments at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman H. H. Hathoro, of Saratoga, ff staying at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. His Excellency, tue President, has returned & the magisterial palace in Washington. Henry Hoit & Co. are seiling their “Family Record Album” as a subscription book, Colone! Dickinson Woodruff, United States Army, 18 quartered at the Everett House. Lieutenant Governor H. G. Knight, of Massa chusetts, ts sojourning at the Filth Avenue Hotel “The Great South” will be repudiished in Eng- lJand under the title of “The Soutnern States of North America.”’ In Kngiand the persons opposed to vivisection are endeavoring to secure the passage of a jaw te regulate this mode of interviewing nature. Taere has been published at Gottingen a cotlee tion of the letters of English refugees tx Switzerland, containing unpudasnea letic:s o Ludiow and orhers of the Engiish regiciaes, ‘The Augsburg Gazette says that the rumo™whiet spreac through Paris, March 4, of an imperia coup @état was not altogether without founda | tion, and arose from the discovery of a “military conspiracy” at Nancy. Diplomatic gossips in Europe say that Francis Joseph will mention to Victor Emmanuel at their coming imterview the subject of the Bncycitcal and hint that Pruss views in the case are worthy of consideration. What great libraries are to ao for space in tw | great future is a conondrum only matched by th question what the writers of books are todo fu; uties, Every good title will inevitably come to be used over many times. Toe Pepe “censures” the Swiss authoritics for not suppressing 4% religious demunstration hq disiines; yet people say that Bismarck and Giad stone are wrong in arguing that tae Pope; revenda to supervise secular affairs. Sheldon & Uo, Will publish during this monthe story calied “Love Afloat: a Story of the Amoricag Navy,’ by Lieutenant Commander J. U. Saeppard This firm will also pubiisn a novel by Just MeCarthy calied “Paul Massey.’’

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