The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1875, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOVICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly } editions of the New York Heraup will be cent’ free of postage. Ea Ali business or news letters and telegraphic @espatcies must be addressed New Yor« Henap. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. [ Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. EMENTS TO-MORROW. ERIE GERMANIA THY ATRE, Fourteenth streot- INDIGO, at 8. M-; closes at 10:45 P.M: Miss Lina Mayr, OLYMPIC THEATRE, yh 62% Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. At; closes af,10:45 | M.; closes at wis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. dlibert. BOWERY OPERA HOUSE. ot 20! Bowery.—VAKIETY, at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 Brostway.—DAVY CHOORE 20:3u P.M. Afr. — WERY THEATR ,-AROUND THE WORLD iN’ EIGHTY Days, ', at 3 P. M.; closes at GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fighth avenue und Twenty-third sweet—AHMED, at 8 M., closes at 10:45 P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, gorner of Tweuty-thira street and Sixth avenue.— HENRY V., ats P.M; closes at P.M. Mr. Riguold. LYCEUM THEATRE, irr. street, near Sixth avenue —ELIZABETH, at | YM. Mme. Kistorl. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, | Broadway, corner of Jwen'y-ninth street —NEGRO MINS? , at3 P.M. ; closes at 10 P. be pe MVOUL THEATER. | | hth street. between Second and’ Third avenues. — VanlElY, at8 P.M; closes atl? P.M. CONW. nue TWO ‘ORPHAD BROOKLYN THEATRE, | t8P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M WALLACK’s TH ATRE, Broadway. —RAFALL, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P.M. | our Catholie citizens, contrasts in marked, | view he sees only the unity ot the Roman , Catholié Church on earth, | See and democracy. | Pennsylvania, Missouri, moderately in Cali- COLOSSEUM, way and Thirty-fourth street:—PARIs BY NIGHT. 9 exhibitions daily, at 2 and 6 P.M WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street.—5EN MeOUL- eee". = 5 Pal; Closes at 10:65 1M, Matinee at 2 THEATRE COMIQUE, ZA, S4 Brosaway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. it 4; closes at lu:46 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ‘West Fourteeuth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. BROOKLY aveaue.—V ARK THEATRE, t8 P.M; closes at 10-45 SHEET. Some eer il IL u. 185, From ‘our teseels this ssornieg the} prebabl ities | are that the weather to-day wil be weormer | and clowly with rain. Wax. Stazet Yrstenpar.—The stock mar- ket was without feature. Money is freely offered on call loans at tour and five per cent. Gold closed at 1154. Tax Joun Auten Prayrn Mrerives are still remembered in New York, and it will be seen by our reports that the work is renewed in Water street. It isa loeality in which there is infinite room for the earnest work of ener- getic Christians. Tse Hosprepv-Mizz Wax was completed yesterday, Mr. O'Leary beating his competi- tor, Mr. De Witt, by forty miles. The trial ‘was an interesting one, and the men displayed more endurance and honesty than we have been used to in recent matches of the kind. Tue Pewnsyivanta Mrvixc Recions re- mained quiet yesterday, and we can see no signs of any serious disturbance. Governor | Hartranft is evidently desirous to withdraw the troops as soon as there is sufficient assur- ance that such action would be sate. Ma. Bristow is said to be anxious to re- sume specie payments. But what can he do in the matter? We do not see that Congress conferred upon him the power to make any | appreciable contraction of the currency. The government bas allowed the finances of the | country ‘o take care of themselves. | | Tae Cusnmtno Weatner we have recentiy had bas its dangers. The sudden change of dress to which people arc tempted by the warm noons is likely to cause coids at night. In- deed, there is no season of the year more pro- ductive of disease than spring, especiaily to the imprudent an@ careless. There is no gra- dation in our climate; the change is from ‘winter to summer. Tae Quinturte Henatp.—Tie prophesied | Tevival ot business this spring has its fulfil- | ment in the Hrnatp to-day. Eighty-four columns @ advertisements, representing all the branches of trade, tell ther own story of renewed activity and prosperity. We publish twenty pages to-day, as itis our rule not to to let the business pressure on our columns diminish the amount of reading matter and pews. Tae Mrrome, Paravr.Some turbulent spirits of the Hibernian Society are unwilling to abandon the proposed Sunday parade fin honor of John Mitchel. We notice among the turbulent some names that ‘were unpleasantly conspicuous previous to — | the uniortunate July riots. By pur- | suing « course similar to that now urged by these demagogues hundreds of innocent lives were lost and a stigma attached to the Irish nam The Irish workingmen of this ci: will do well to weigh the risk of attempting to override the law. They also do well to examine closely the of professional demagogues who urge | forget their duties as ciuzens, | a | humbiest walks of lite. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APKIL LI, Pit ananassae le pyran Tne Catholie Charch and Its Politi« eal Futa The pleasant and tranquil speech of Car- dinal McCloskey, elsewhere printed, in re- sponse to the eloquent address of Judge Bed- ford, in presenting His Eminence with a pair of horses and a carriage on behalf of certain of degree with the speech of Cardinal Manning, delivered in London and reported in the Heraxp of Saturday, ‘Chis speech ot the Eng- lish Cardinal will gather a new value from the interview with him, which we print this | morning from our correspondent in Rome. | The American Cardinal sees only tran- | quillity, affection and kiudness, and his | words breathe the spirit of Christian peace, which 18 so especially becoming in a minister of religion. ‘The English Cardinal sees only a strife surpassing in fury any that has been known for centuries. In his inter, | See and the ultimate triumph of the Roman | It is impossi- ble not to understand the emotions which sway these venerable prelates. Cardinal McCloskey is as brave and vigilant a defender of the Holy See as Cardinal Manning, and he would not hesitate, if he saw danger, to give the note of alarm. But, as we have had occa- sion on many occasions to show, the Catholic Church in America is free from any danger. That religion, like all religions, finds peace under democracy. When we see how the Catholie Church, as represented by the Pope, draws nearer and nearer to the people, we can appreciate the magnitude of the alliance between the Roman In this aspect the Catholic Church in America has a most im- portant work todo, This Church simply repre- sents a powerful denomination of Christians. It in no way controls the policy of this country, which is ag Protestant as England or Germany. In certain sections of the country, however, Catholicism is a dominant influence. In New York, where it is largely recruited by the emigration from Ireland and South Ger- many; in Maryland, where it represents an old Catholic settlement; in St. Louis and New Orleans, cities founded by the French, there is a large population animated by a paramount devotion to Rome. The last census shows that in Louisiana, Maryland, New York, fornia, Massachusetts and Ohio, the Catholic influence is strong. But elsewhere the country is overwhelmingly Protestant. The census report of 1870 shows nearly two million ‘‘sittings,’”’ two thousand churches and the possession of nearly sixty million dollars | of property. One-sixth is in New York. This is less numerically than the Presbyterians; the Methodists and the Baptists, all of which denowinations are larger than the Catholic. In property, however, according to the re- turns, the Catholics are richer than any otber Church but the Methodisi, and, although not one-fifth as numerous in churches, have nearly as much money. Taking the value of church property in the United States, the Catholics own nearly one-fifth of it. The increase in the Catholic Church has been much larger than any other denomination, rising from six hundred and seventy thousand “church in 1850 to nearly two million in 1870. The only Church which shows a larger per- centage of increase is the Mormon, which is a new organization and represents not simply the growth of a religious body, but the erca- tion of a new one. We content ourselves with the census re- sittings’ turns for the purposes of*comment, and to show that the Catholic Church in America is simply a powerful institution awong other institutions. It in no way affects the rument or the policy of the coun- try. This is Protestant, and must natu- rally remain so. But the Catholic Church vut- side of America and England is the most influential body in the world. Here its in- finence has been practically religious. In other countries it has been political. There has never been a time, for a thousand years, at least, when the political jndgments of nearly every nation of Europe bave not been swayed by the wisdom or the am- bition of the Churcb. Hyt this influence is over. At the end of this ten cen- turies of political sympathy between the Church and the princes the Pope is to-day abandoned by the ralers and is compelled ®o depend upon the people. The Roman Church is nowhere more respected than in Catholic France, a republic, and nowhere as free as in Protestant America, @ republic. It is no- where under more duress than in Catholic Italy, a monarchy, and in Protestant Ger- many,a monarchy. So that the inference is inevitable that the time has come for the Catholic Church to separate itself from that monarchical system which it has sustained for a thousand years, and of which its chief has for centuries been a member—a prince with tem poral power. The anxiety expressed by Cardinal Manning as to the future of the Church and his fears prince, reigning over the lives and property | of men, with the power of making peace and war, in all respects a temporal master, as absolute as the Czar of Russia ; now that he is simply a priest living in a Roman palace, with no more political status than a Dominican friar or a country curate, it | | some impressions of the cathedrals of Europe, is logical that he should throw the influence of his station with the republican senti- ment that is now marching over the world. We can understand how the history of republi- capism, in France especially, should have deterred the Pontiff from sympathizing with a movement which generally began by shoot- ing his faithful priests, But republicanism bas gone beyond that, The Pope must see that if his Church ix to stand it must stand upon the affections of the people, without leaning upon prince or soldier. It will be then strong with that strength which no political be irresistible in every country in Europe. Even Germany would hesitate to make war upon a country announcing with an infallible voice that crowns are no longer held “by the grace of God."" The Pope, no matter what we may think of his religious position, has as much right to speak asthe intalliple representative of divinity as the kings who claim to derive their authority direet from God. It may be that His Holiness hes re- solved to meet the enmity of some of the Powers and the apathy of others by accepting the friendship of the people. Certainly, the gracious courtesy he has shown to America— his words of approbation of the American peo- ple, bis friendship to a country which he knows to be Protestant beyond peradventure, and Protestant, perhaps, for all time; his elevation of venerable citizen of this coun- try to the highest office in the gift of the Ro- man See ; his recent allocution, in which, for the first time in a century, he omitted to pray for the princes, and prayed alone for the peo- ple—all this shows, if we read the Roman policy aright, a resolution to take a new de- parture in temporal affairs, and to accept as the highest maxim of political wisdom the principle that all men are created free aud equal, and that in the eyes of infallibility itself the simplest citizen is the peor of the loftiest king. Paul Boynton. In ancient times Leander swam the Helle- spont, and that feat poetry has immortalized and man envied, until at last it was again per- formed by Lord Byron, whose inspiration was not another Hero, but glory. But modern science puts mythology to the blush. Paul Boynton yesterday eclipsed the performances of Leander, by almost crossing the English Channel, from Dover to Boulogne, a distance of forty miles, in about fifteen hours, Al- though the darkness interfered with the effort it may be regarded as being virtually success- ful. . In this country Paul Boynton is principally known as an expert swimmer, who, at At- lantic City, during the summer season of pleasure, has rescued many persons from drowning by his unsurpassed strength and skill as aswimmer. He was possibly born on land, but water appears to be his natural element. Not satisfied with showing what human ingenuity could do un- assisted in that element, Mr. Boynton in- vented a life-saving dress, which he has tried with complete success upon several occasions, but never under more remarkable circum- stances than in his passage from Dover to Boulogne. Mr. Boynton has proved that, with proper equipments, a man can live in the open sea almost as safely as upon land ; that he can not only float in thorough security, but that he can propel himself through the water with greater speed than any unassisted swimmer could rival ; that he can have the comforts of rest, of leisure, of change of position, of din- ing when he desires (soup not included in the menu), and can enjoy a good cigar while float- ing on the waves. ‘To demonstrate all this is by no means a small matter to the world. Mr. Boynton’s experiments have not been attempted under ordinary conditions, as when the sea was calm, And on the levei brine, Sleek Panope and aii Ler sisters played, but have been accomplished when the waves and winds were high, though not so high as the spirit and ambition of the boid voyager of the seas. Yesterday he seems to have had a smooth sea, and to have enjoyed his cigar and his dinner as well as if he had been quictly seated in a London coffee house or a café at Paris. We give in other columns a full account of the great swimmer and of his latest triumph over the ocean. Neptune is conquered in his own realm. The map which we present shows the direction in which Mr. Boynton paddled himself from the English shore nearly to that of France, and the result of the attempt should certainly be of much use in the appli- cation of life-saving apparatus to ocean travel hereafter. that we are on the verge of a perilous and | cruel struggle only show the wisdom of the | policy which seems to inspire Rome. There is no reason n why the Roman Church should niify itself with institutions which be- more and more obsolete. The head of that Charch is more of a democrat than an aristocrat. The policy of the Church is based npon auiversal rage. A cardinalate and even the Papacy is within the h of the bumbiesi priest. So far as their sacred and exalted offices may be anid to excite the am- bition of the ci every pr 7 the private sc T under carries a marshal’s baton in his knap Cardinal Manning and Cardinal McCloskey their own persons ilinstrate this. They are princes, and have risen from the plainest and A church which per- mits and invites this emulation has within it the kernel of democracy. So with the sacra- ments and ordinances of the Church. Rich and poor, black and white, lofty and lowly, are the same before its aitar, The time has been when kings were proud to wait upon the popes in the discharge of humble offices. $0 jar as dignity, lineage and age are con- cerned, there is no monarch in Europe that can vie with the Pontificute. So (hat the alliance of the Roman See with the demo- ic sentiment of the world is natural. More than all, it will solve the dangerous and painful problem that alarms Cardinal Man- | ning; tor democracy means peuce, aud with- out it we do not see how there can be peace. Now that the Pope is no longer « sovereign ta Puipit Topics To-Day. ‘The topics announced by our city pastors to-day are few and simple. Bartimeus, the prototype of spiritually blind men during the ages of Christianity, will stand again as an example, to whom Mr. Borel will point his French congregation to-day. The translation of Elijah, which has also served to inspire in human hearts a hope of the better life beyond, will be brought before his Baptist congrega- tion we evening by Dr. Hawthorne, who will aiso show them the folly of trifling with am. Mr. Pullman wants a revival of righteous- ness, and will preach for it and about it, and will show his hearers how this Paradise lost may be regained. And, marvel of marvels, Dr. Deems will present Christ among the politicians. What scattering and consterna- tion there would be among this class if Christ should come among them in very deed to call them to account for their misdeeds and mischievous plottings! The Good Shepherd will be presented as bringing present salvation to Dr. Thompson's people, and Mr. Nye will set forth the yalue or lack of worth of revivel mens- ures and preaching, ond Mr. Hep worth will show how common sense and religion harmonize. Bishop Lee, ot Dela- ware, will speak of lis recent visit to the missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Mexico, and Dr. Ewer will continue his dis- courses on the internal structure and external sspects of the worship of the Protestant Episcopal Oburch. Mr. | Partridge will expose the infidelity which power can destroy. ‘The influence of the Roman | | See, once openly allied to democracy, would | exists in the Church to-day, which, while | giving a theoretical assent to Christian traths, | practically doubts everything like experimen- tal rehgion. Church-going infidelity is the worst phase of infidelity, if there be any | phase worse than another; for it adds hy- pocrisy to unbelief. Mr. Alger will give which must be interesting to many persons, and will then show the freshness and gran- deur of the experiences of men. These ex- periences are manifold and various, and it is | not likely that Mr. Alger will go over a tithe of the list. But his hearers can best tell. Revive the Revival. The religious world has been enjoying a new sensation during the last few weeks in listening to the exhortations of the various evangelists whose purpose it is to organize a revival. So far as New York is concerned the surface only has been moved, while the depths are still sluggish and untroubled. We look with some degree of curiosity on the career of a man hke Henry Varley, who ought to be labelled a spiritual stimulant. He seems to be regarded as a sort of incarnated thunderstorm, which moves about the country at the request of the properly authorized com- mittees and clears the atmosphere of each dis- trict by a well arranged apparatus of thunder and lightning. We have watched this movement as it has developed itself in this city, and are some- what surprised at its failure and at the cause of its failure. hat it will not produce the results anticipated is perfectly evident. As Old Probabilities can watch a hurricane that comes driving northward from the Gulf of Mexico, and predict with something like cer- tainty the degree of longitude beyond which it will not pass, so the expert in social forces can risk the assertion that the crisis of religious enthusiasm has been reached in this city and that this present spasm of zeal will soon die away into the old indifference. The masses of the people have not taken readily to the excitement, It is being pumped into them with great effort, but it is vas{ly like pouring water into a sieve—the leakage is very dis- couraging. The revival did not come of itself, and in spite of adverse circumstances, but is the result of certain Inecbanical | con- trivances. It will ‘last as Ton as long as “Varley stays in this country, but when he goes home he will pack it up, stow it in one of bis trunks and take it with him. Our memory runs back to the religions ex- citement of 1837, The scenes of those days can hardly be repeated. A dead earnestness pervaded the whole commuuity, to which this present stir is not even a shadow. At that time men, women and children were alike moved and terrified. The enthusiasm spread over the country with the rapidity and resist- less power of an epidemic, and theology and the knotty question of the probable destiny of certain New York officials unless they changed their course were discussed in the stage, the counting room and on the street. Those were rousing times. The ordinary methods of business were interfered with and well estab- lished usages and customs broken into. Brokers and bankers forgot to discuss the peculiarities of bulls and the eccoutricities of bears, and, strange to say, began to talk as thongh they had souls. They lost sight of the quotations of the stock market and meditated ‘upon quotations from the New Testament. Men who knew how to appreciate the tra- ditional morning doze, that blissful ten min- utes in which waking and sleeping seem to be inextricably interwoven and which just pre- cede the direful necessity of getting up, so far forgot themselves as to crowd our churches at the mystic and unhealthy hour of five A. M. That which is the universal custom of the Catholic Church and of which it has never dreamed of boasting, an early morning ser- vice, was justly regarded as a sign of unusual awakening. This present movement is only a mountain rill by the side of that Niagura. Without doubt the need of revival is as great now as then. The millennium has not yet swept New York with 1ts skirts, and though we listen ever so carefully we cannot hear the rustle of her garments ; and without doubt the opportu- nity, to rouse the masses ot .the country to unusual thoughtfulness is as good now as -it ever was. We are treading on the ragged edge of a panic, when men are thrown out of employment, when capitalists find it hard to keep what they bave, and when fortunes and reputations are changing hands every day. ‘The trouble lies in a lack of unity in the Prot- estant body. Diversity of thought has pro- duced diversity of method, and unless a re- vival comes like a consuming fire and burns down all the fences each denomination sits still within its own borders, a little bit un- willing to help any man on the road to heaven, unless he goes through their toll gate. The Evangelical Alliance gave usa vast deal of information sbout arms, and legs, and hands, and about there being one body to which these all belonged, but,so far as the Protestantism of the day is concerned, the Evangelical Alliance was a prophecy but not a present reality. The multifarious sects are like the little and big stones in a wall; they help to support each other, but they are not cemented, and when trouble comes they fall apart. The Protestant Church has yet to learn the one only secret of power—a living unity proof positive of what esn be done when real unity exists, while Protestantism shows plainly enough that diversity of purpose and | weakness are interchangeable terms. We have just a grain of suspicion, too, that the churches of New York are getting to be too dignified and respectable for a genuine revival. Think of some of our classic clergy- men shouting “Amen !'’ as some ragged fellow fells that he is saved, and tells it in bad gram- mar. Heat and respectability are not ex- actly Siamese twins. They are apt to live apart. Even the Methodists are getting over their shouting propensities, and after they have built a few more freestone churches will | be as cold and indifferent as the rest of us. As for the other sects, they have long re- garded it as a breach of good taste anda | symptom of low breedimg to do more than sigh plaintively and decorously, and not too loudly, when some patetio story is told. It is a delightful thing to have good taste and to | be governed by it at all times. - There is something very fanny, to onr minds, about the present condition of re- ligious affairs. The people want what they call a revival, but they have not yet made up their minds whether or not it is auite digni- Catholicism, in its history, affords | 1875.—_QUINTU PLE SHEET. nea. ff it aes 2am made the fashion how it would rage! If some preacher can only draw out Fifth avenue all the side streets will surely follow. Let us be dignified or die. Assuredly that kind of religion is fear- fully and wonderfully made. As the matter stands now the religious ex- citoment is at its last gap. Mr. Varley came, saw and is going to Boston. That the Hub really needs him we never doubted ; but that the Hub should ever be so humiliated as to confess it is very surprising. Unless, how- ever, the ministers of that provincial town shall stand by Mr. Varley better than the clergy of this vity have done the great evan- gelist may as well start for London st once. It is well enough for him to blow the bellows in the forge and to heat the iron to a white heat ; unless the workmen stand by to beat it into shape it is simply a waste of coal and muscle, The religious people of this city have given him everything except co- operation. He has talked to crowds in the Rink and to hosts in the Hippodrome. He has prayed for a long catalogue of sins, which, like a trae Englishman, he fondly dreams to be purely American, and he has done some good, honest, sturdy work. But he is going away, and the tepid water of our religious life will probably freeze over again in a couple of weeks, Goodby, Varley ; goodby, revival. Mr. Green’s Lobbying. Mr. Green’s lobbying has taken the effect of inducing Mr. Miller, of Orange, to intro- duce a bill into the Legislature the nature of which is known to our readers, The effect of this bill is to abolish the influence and authority of the Mayor, not to speak of the duties of the heads of depart- ments like that of the Public Works. This patronage is to be transferred to the Comp- troller’s Department, and Mr. Green, who already has a great deal more to do than he, could perform if he sufficiently did his work, is to have the control of other bureaus. Tho result of this measure will be to deprive the Mayor of any responsibility whatever in the government of the city of New York, and to add to the already imperial powers pos- sessed by the Comptroller. This, at least, is our understanding of the bill, based upon the information of the corresporfdents. We do not know, upon reflection, whether this is not really a step in the right direction ! The ‘home rule’’ principle, solemnly passed in the democratic Convention, has died away like a summer cloud without our special wonder. Comptroller Green, whose removal was demanded at the last election if ever a vote meant anything, is still Comptroller popular. As for the Mayor, he has ample power to review fire- men’s processions and St. Patrick's Day parades, but he has not tie power to remove the Corporation Counsel, whom he has pub- licly charged with being an ally and defender of the Tammany Ring thieves. Why not, we say, make this work thorough, and abolish New York altogether? What is the use of having a municipal goyernment in this city if we can be controlled by Albany? Why not give Albany a chance to do the work thoroughly and _ properly? Let Mr. Miller amend. his _ bill so as to abolish the Mayoralty and the de- partments and give all the power to Andrew H. Green. This would save the Governor a good deal of trouble. Mr. Green could remove to Albany and remain in constant communica- tion and consultation with the Governor, and this city might be left in the charge of the police and fire brigade. r The government of this city is now a simple pretence, and the Legislature might in common honesty abolish it alto- gether. In fact, we have been told by many crities since the last election that New York city is unfit to govern itself, and that it should be controlled from Albany. The three privileges that remain to the people are to vote, to pay taxes and to work on the Fourth avenue improvement, under the supervision of distinguished citizens of New Jersey like Fitz John Porter. Give us the fourth privilege of being solely under the control’of Andrew H. Green | Let him become the Mayor of the Palace to the Governor, Prefect of the Seine, like Baron Haussmann, to tbe Emperor Napoleon. Thon, at least, we shall know ‘where we stant. Echoes of the Religious Press. The Observer, noticing the “progress ot the fight’’ between the Catholic School Committee and the Board of Education as well as the more general fight between Catholics and Protestants throughout the country on the Bible and school questions, deciares that the demand to take and appropriate public moneys for sectarian purposes—to support Catholic institutions—will be resisted to the extreme end of civil revolution if necessary. The Tablet, in an elaborate review of the rela- tion of the press to education, pays the Hzzanp the merited compliment of “tact in detecting what would be most acceptable to the general public,” and giving the general public the news thereof; and, instead of blaming, the Tablet cordially admires the interest that this education question has inspired. The Christian Intelligencer defends the Indian Commission from newspaper attacks upon its honesty and integrity, and sets the mem- bers up as models of these virtues. The Church Journal exalta faith as the victory by | which we overcome the world. Sight and senses cheat and Jead into ambush, defect and slavery. The Examiner and Chronicle, alluding to evangelists who travel around in | revival times, says they should never be per- | mitted to supersede the pastor, and if they demand the entire oversight and direction of | the meetings their services should be promptly | dispensed with. The Freeman's Journal cor- | rects @ biographical blunder which it copied | last week concerning the parentage and carly lives of Charles O’Conor and Hon. Francis Kernan. The Evangelist demonstrates that there is little or no sympathy of doctrines or morals between Unitarians and Evangelical | Christians, and -that the tendencies of the former are to produce less apparent atten- tion to religion. The reasons strongly against any organic union of the Methodist churches North and South. The very mention of such union it considers to be franght with evil to both parties. The North would have to give up itsthree hundred thousand colored members to the tender mer- cies of their late masters, and that, the editor thinks, his Church never will do. The Christian Union, in a very pungent and somewhat sarcastic article on “Tending a Christian Advocate | Hand," Maeas the value of that social os Christian help which each may give to the other in a church or in a community, and how much more meritorious it is in the sight of God and of mén than our long-winded pro- fessions of creed unity and church unity can ever be. The Baptist Union gives a portrait of Mr. Varley and a sketch of his labors here andin London. The Churchman cannot be- lieve that any good thing would come out of Nazareth. It is satisfied, therefore, that Mr. Varley nas said nothing but very meagre com- monplace if it excepts some singular misin- terpretations of Scripture. The crowds who have attended his ministry in the Hippo- drome and the Rink have been attracted, the Churchman thinks, rather by the place than by the preacher or what he had to say. And yet it has no doubt that a tame elephant who should be taught to hold a hymn book in bis proboscis and make some solemn noises would gather a crowd that would eclipse Mr. Varley'’s congregations. All of which, itseems to us, is exceedingly un- dignified in the mouthpiece of ‘the Church” toward a visiting stranger who, seeks only the good of his fellow men, The Jewish Messen- ger is satisfied, from the neglect of the byna- gognes and of the Sabbath, from the neglect of tamily devotion and respect for the re- mains of the dead, that Israelites are retro- grading rather than progressing, no matter how grand and costly their temples and syna- gogues may be. Good Friday's collections in the Episcopal churches of thisland are usually, devoted to missions among th® Jews. The Jewish Times looks upon the idea as absurd, and, with much more truth than poetry, adds that if a Christ were to come to-day he would have to begin in the rum holes, dram shops, houses of prostitution, &c., supported by so-called members of the Christian Church, and then he might turn toward his Jewish kinsmen, and there he could take some rest. Tar Hox. B. F. Wane has declined to be the republican candidate for the Governor~ ship of Ohio, His first reason, as given in his letter, is that his voice is not strong enough to make a speech, and the second reason that he would sooner beg for old clothes than ask any mortal man for, office. hy third reason is that he cannot afford to take ition. It seems cruel, yet we cannot jet stating the fourth reason, which Mr. Wade does not give. It is that the democratic majority in Ohio is about forty thousand. This reason makes all his other excuses seem unnecessary. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, Is stag+ ing at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Congressman William M. Springer, of Lilinots, is registered at the Sturtevant House, Assemblyman George West, of Ballston, N. Y., i stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Governor John T. Hoffman arrived from Al- bany yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel. Congressman George M. Beebe, of Monticello, N. Y., 1s sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ascembiyman James Faulkner, Jr., of Danville, N. Y., is residing at the Metropolitan Hote}. Fifty-two names have within the past year been erased from the rolls of the Legion of Honor. In Italy they have found the keys of Ugolino’s tower, but too late to be of any use to Ugolino. Mr. flenry A. Tilden, brother of the Governor, is among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Judge Lafayette S. Foster, of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Henry S. Sanford, of Florida, tormeriy United States Minister to Beigiam, arrived last evening at the Brevoort House. Mr. George 5. Bangs, Superintendent of the Rallway Postal Service, has taken up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotei. Proudhon, who used to give soirces at Passy, re° fresbed bis friends with “a great deal of philoso- phy and a little piam pie.” The President has appointed Richard Gibbs, ot New York, to be Knvoy Extraordinary and Minw ter Plenipotentiary to Pera. Otvilization slowly but certeinly elevates the mean duration of human life, As many live now to seventy as lived to forty-three 309 years ago. Cham has a very happy sketch of Mr. Walion, the new Minister of Public Instruction, teaching bis httle girl, “La République,” to spell the word, “moderation.” The keeper of a Paris restaurant went into his celiar where he bad a moment’s vertigo and jainted, and before he was discovered he was half eaten up by rate. Governor General and Countess Dufferin and family jeave Ottawa, Canada, for Engiand on the gad inst. Dr. Grant, of that city, accompanies them as family physician. “Mr, Forney said he was in communication with the Duke vecazes and the Viscount de Meaux;’’ but 1t does not appear that he is in communica- tion with the Pacific Mall committee. Just as we thougnt! Now the English papers come to the rescue in the spelling madness, and ‘ney say that the jndges iu our matches don’s know how to spell so well as their untortunate victims. A cable telegram from London reports that the Hon, John Jay, late United States Minister to Aus- tria, is a passenger on the steamship Bothnia, which sailed irom Liverpool yesterday, 10sn inét., tor New York, Senators Cameron, Anthony, Dennis and Pat- terson, ex-Senator Chandler, Colone! McVeagh and others of the Senatorial excarsionists, arrived at the Grand National Hote! at Jacksonville, Fia,, yesterday. ‘hey intend remaining there several days. Diazy waen't thinking any more about Bis marck “than about Rory O’More’ when he made that reference to the want of freedom of even noblemen in some countries, so that’ right; bus we are waiting to hear what Bertin will say avout tt. Fiorentino, an Italian, who once fonght a duel with Amedée Achard an‘ wounded him, said that on the morning of the duel he had prayed to the Holy Virgin that be might wound his adversary, | and that “bis success was, DO doubt, due to that circumstanee.”” It is estimated that there are in the country parts of France 6,000,000 cats which the peas ants do not feed, and that these kill in the course of a year not less than 2,190,000,000 birds, of Which 100,000,000 are game birds; but there is no tax on cats and no game law against them. So Robeson has @ sideboard to match Williams? landaulet. How proud we ought to feel that our government is in the hands of men superior to any small prejudices as to what belongs to them and what is public property—ready to give the overnment what is thetrs or to take from it what is not—especially the latter. Beecher, in his Friday night address, had a word to say about the editors of religious papers. He represented them as very contemptible creatures and their piety as hypocrisy. Several religious editors appear in the great trial, and their record sustains bis opinion. Beecher, perbaps, regrets that he himself ever wrote for the religious press. ‘There is a British literary theory that Tennyson inspired Poe with the idea of “The Raven,” be- cause the laureate wrote in his youth two short poems, in one of which the wora “more” occara, aud the ovher bas init the name “Lenore.” For our part, we hav Nt, recollection of hav- ing seen the word “more” somewhere in Shakes- peare’s plays and also in Johuson's dictionary, and Poe may bave read botu. But if Tennyson did inspire “The Raven” is a pity he bas not im svired more and written lesa,