The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1875, Page 10

; ' 10 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Youx Hznaxp will be sent free of postage. —_-—_——_ All business or news letters and telegraphic fespatehes must be addressed New Youx Henaw. 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 snd forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ——————————————————— ne VOLUME XLe-sersersenseesseeesserneesereneeNO, 108 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Simth avenue— BeBe. TST ‘Mj closes at LLP, M. Mr, Rignold. CEUM THEATRE, street nese sixth avenue,—LA JOLIE PAR- foK,atsP. M. Mile. Aimee. N FRANCISUO MINSTRELS, \way. mer ot twenty-ninth street—NEGRO MTRELSY, ac 8? M.; closes at 10 P. M. 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Tae Orraons of judges and lawyers upon the proposition to reorganize the Court of Special Sessions are given in our columns elsewhere, and it appears to be the general belief that the measure is a much needed re- form in the administration of justice. Tae Mrvens suffer enough trouble, and are wafficiently disposed to give trouble, without prejudices of race being added asa cause of | strife. The letter of our Wilkesbarre cor- | respondent, however, shows that there is ap- prehension of quarrels be'ween the Welsh and Irish miners in the Wyoming region. Waer Saati Trosr Tunes Mert Acarx ?— The affection between Emperors has always been touching. They sometimes seem to love tach other better than they do their people. The delight which William expresses because Francis embraced Victor will, therefore, give great joy to Tom, Dick and Harry. Tre Locrstana Leotstatcne has completed its organizaticn, both houses having indorsed the proposed compromise. This 1s a fair be ginning to what all the North trusts will be an era of prosperity and peace. Now let the administration keep its hands off a State which is nobly struggling to redeem its past errors and to forget and forgive the wrongs from which it has suffered. The worst evil that could happen to Louisiana now would be federal interference. Ova Lerten rnom Rome informs us that there are about twenty painters and fifteen Paintees residing in that city, some of whom have achieved greatness, while others have their reputations yet to win. Of their tecent productions and present occupations dur correspondent gives a full report. Our artists abroad are certainiy doing their native | sountry much credit, and now we learn that Mr. James Hamilton, the marine painter, is to be nambered among the voluntary exiles who peek new glory in foreign lands. Tux Tammasy Pourricians find it is q@uch easier to win the city patronage than to distribute it. Yesterday the Committee | on Organization were to have had another dis- @ussion of the subject, but failed to meet. The Revival Spirit in England and America, The foreign journals are discussing the revival movement introduced by American clergymen in London, while at the same time, by an odd coincidence, our own journals are interested in the mission of Mr. Varley, the English evangelist. Mr. Varley has left New York, but the impression of his work re- mains. Whatever we may think of his efforts as matter of faith, we cannot fail to commend them asa moral influence. So long as these | driving, zealous men who have a mission do | not offend us by advocating polygamy, and socialism in its coarse, sensual aspects; 60 long as they do not wander into wild fancies about the coming of the Messiah and the ne- cessity of awaiting Him in robes of white muslin, their labors must necessarily be good. The true preacher, whatever his faith, will tell enough truth to reform any society, how- ever debased. In this sense we look with | interest and kindness upon the movement of Moody and Sankey inLondon. All we know of them is that they are Americans who left their country humble and unknown and who | have shouted themselves into a world-wide fame. In this Centennial year, when we celebrate all manner of patriotic achievements over the mother race, we might find a new | pleasure in the thought that American divines | were about to drive tne devil out of a com- | munity which was our enemy a hundred years | ago. But this felicity will be limited by the thought that if the Yankees are converting England one Englishman is doing a large share of the same work in the United States. It would be interesting to discover the | causes of these phenomena ot revivals which | now and then come so suddenly. What is it | | that will in a night, as it were, stir a commu- | nity to its profoundest depths, like an earth- quake, or a storm at sea? People who have been quietly digging and weaving, living their | plain life in the calmest moods, will suddenly fall into excitement and grief and abject con- | the greatest spiritual and temporal powers | why should not humbler people turn to a rolling wave. The fact that ladies Rnd gen- tlemen of high degree, peers and princesses, do not disdain to honor Moody and Sankey with their countenance, shows that they are not merely iiliterate street preachers speaking to the winds. This is something, for religion, even in a process ot revival, is not unmindful of the dignities of life, When oncea preacher can induce a princess to look upon him he will, we are afraid, bave a comelier presence to the multitude. Certainly the revival in London and in New York is assuming prodigious proportions, Events of the recent | years have tended to make men thoughtful. Wars in Europe and America, business panics and distress and widespread misery, famine in Asia Minor and in India, thesudden awalténing of Japan to the duties of our more | practical civilization, strange phenomena in| nature, the oscillation of ancient kingdoms and dye unrest of more ancient forms of law and society, the ever-increasing strife between in Europe—is it any wonder that in a time | like this the minds of men should turn to holier things? Mr. Disraeli professes to see the coming of a great crisis. Prince Bismarck and Cardinal Manning prophesy a gigantic struggle. When these princes of church and State become so anxious about coming events closer contemplation of Christ the Lord, who died to save us all? Mr. Beecher’s Position in the Trial. How important Mr. Beecher is to the Brook- lyn trial is shown by the tedium which at- tended # during the examination of Mr. Til- ton and other witnesses both for the defend- ant and plaintiff, and the renewed interest, now that Mr. Beecher himself has taken tho | stand. It became clear that even Oliver | Jobnson or Samuel Wiikeson could not satisfy | the public. Intense as was the desire to see | these witnesses, there was something wanting | which they might have had the genius but | trition, They find that they have been great | sinners—that they have been worldly, selfish, | bard, neglecting the ordinances of the Lord. They seek reef in prayer and singing peni- | tential psalms. Churches are formed, socie- ties are organized, missions are established, | and for a season there is an awakening of spirit and general enthusiasm for Christ. | Sometimes the movement falls into the con- | trol of men and women of more than ordinary | ability, and we have a new sect like the Wes- | leyans and Baptists. Sometimes it attains a | higher significance, and we have a reformation | like that of Luther. Sometimes we have the development of a new faith like that of Mo- hammed. But they all are ot the same class. | Varley in his methods follows out the plan of | Luther and Mohammed. He does not pro- pose to exterminate all heretics, but this is | because the evangelization of the world is under better police regulations than in earlier | times. But there is the same earnestness, the | same energy ot invective, the same solici- | tude and entreaty to repent while there is | time, the same inciting to nobler sims and | | better deeds. | In this aspect these revival movements, no | matter what magnitude they assume, are an | | advantage. If a man will only bea sincere | Mohammedan and obey the prophet in letter | and spirit he will regard more of the moral | | laws than are now obeyed in Wall street. The | | Jesus of Calvin or Luther or Wesley or Ig- | natius Loyola is not a Jesus the preaching of | | whom can do any one harm. Now and then | | we have frenzies of dissent between sects on | questions of baptism and the eucharist, but | | this does not affect the great good that comes | | from any religion honestly practised. Moody | and Sankey, in London, may not be men of | | the highest intellectual quality; they may | lack the eloquence of Beecher, the pure scholarship of Storrs, the erudition of Hall ; | they may not answer the severest taste or the requirements of the best society; tashionable | Christians who pay pew rents may despise them, but they tell a plain story with zeal and kindness. They feel the Gospel they preach, They have as much claim to our respect as Xavier in the East or De Smet among our | wild Indian tribes. We question if their field | of labor is not more difficuit than the shrewd and civilized communities of Japan or the ingenuous savage Sioux. Our cities show us the highest and the lowest forms of civiliza- tion, and no city so much as London. When, therefore, we see honest and, to some extent, gifted men, going into the depths of London | society and calling upon the ignorant and | | poor and lonely to repent, we cannot but | honor them and wish them God-speed. And when we see thousands rise up in a crowded | assembly and profess Christ and His service we feel that a good work is doing. For even if these emotions die away and the eloquence of the clergyman loses its power and the revival runs its course, and the | world to ali appearance is as wayward and | sinful as before, we must not feel that it isa vain proceeding. In all movements of this nature much good is done that does not come to light. The effect of a revival is not always seen in banners and singing and miscellane- | | ous enthusiasm. The influence of religion is | felt in many unseen ways. The light that falls from fervid proselytes never utterly dies out. Education comes with conversion, | When the penitent searches the Scriptures he | finds many thimgs besides the moral laws, A world 1s opened to him—ot science and art, of enterprise, history and industrial attain- ment. He learns self-reliance and duty. He sees the loftier world that before was dark to him. It is the opening of a new life and a | new opportunity. Civilization always begins | with light—it is light. Any influence that throws light upon the gloom of humanity, “upon the sorrow and stupor and ignorance | and crime that underlie so much of the world, should be welcomed. A revival is | therefore only a means of education, only a | step toward education and social advance- ment. The men who teach the Indian the commandments teach him the use of the | needle, the plongh and the shuttle. The men who summon London from the depths of its ignorance and despair to look to the cross summon it to manlier aims and a nobler am- bition. ‘These are the natural and social aspects of such a movement as is now seen in London, and, as such, we prefer to study it. We do | candidate for the Presidency. The unterrified voters are disputing the pos- | not kuow whether the enthusiasm which our session of the spoils with increasing hunger | Yankee exhorters has invoked is genuine or for a settlement. We are atraid the Tammany | not—whether it bids fair to be lasting or to leaders have promised more than they can | blow away in the presence of some Tichborne perform or suffrage excitement, like the foam from the apparently had not the crime tosupply. So with Bessie Turner and the negro who re- buked Mr. Fullerton for wasting ‘‘annecessary time’’ in asking ridiculous questions in his cross-examination. Mr. Moulton was a sop to Cerberus, yet did not stop the appe- tite, which, like Oliver Twist’s, is | always asking for more. The demand for excitement could not be satisfied | with the sensational fragments these witnesses supplied. Perhaps Mrs. Morse, if she had testified, might have stopped the trial, or Mr. | | Bowen might have put an end to it with the | | thunderbolt he is supposed to have in reserve. But Mr. Tilton could not take the place of | defendant. While he was on trial the public | became impatient and yawned. Nobody | seemed to care much whether he cursed the | burned beefsteaks which the cook was ac- cused of serving for breaktast or whether he kissed Bessie or knocked her down in one of | his military moods—being born for war—or how he behaved at Winsted, Conn. There | was a certain degree of indifference as to Mr. | Tilton’s innocence or guilt. He might have | burned down a barn, or carried a banner in a | Communistic parade, or embraced Mrs. Woodhull, or murdered Mr. Shearman, and nobody would have cared. Under the | circumstances, therefore, theattempt to make | Mr. Tilton the defendant was a failure. The public would not accept him in that capacity, and has repudiated him with anger, as when at the theatre it drives from the stage an in- ferior actor who attempts to take the réle for which a great tragedian is announced. It must therefore be plain to all that with- out Mr. Beecher this trial would have no in- terest whatever. He is really the principal character, and no one can fill his place. We think further argument to this effect 1s super- fluons, and trvst that the attempt to substi- tute Mr. Tilton as the defendant will be aban- doned, out of respect to the public, which, having been invited to see a melodrama, will not consent to be spectators of a burlesque. Palpit Topics To-Day. What with the delay of spring and the many ministerial changes that are taking | place here and around us, and the anxiety | and care of an annual hegira ina couple of weeks, many of the ministers seem to have scarcely time to announce their topics beforehand. Last Sunday Dr. Deems introduced Christ to the politicians, and | to-day he will introduce Him to the | sceptics, and will press upon their attention the importance of avoiding even the appeararce of evil. This, hcwever, may be hard to do with our present ideas of religious convention- alism and the general lack of truthfulness | among men, which themes will absorb Mr. Pullman's attention. Apropos of certain events now transpiring in this vicinity, the duty of Christians in regard to social evils may be regarded as a topic of some impor- tance. The measure of this importance will be given this morning by Mr. Alger, who will also show that the chief cause, not only of these evils but of all sin, is the Iack of moral memory. There is a luxury in doing good, as many benevo- lent persons have realized ere this, but it is well to be reminded of these old truths once and again, and Mr. Hawthorne will perform this pleasant duty to-day. The Shepherd and | the Sheep will occupy Mr. Terry's attention, | and Dr. Ewer will continue his course on the H internal structure and external aspect of his church's worship. What the conditions of obedience to the Lord are will be explained | by Mr. Brigham. Dr. Thompson will present | some facts connected with the Reformation, j and Mr. Hepworth will show the relation bee tween belief in God and royal sonship. The | Devil's Suicide is a strange theme, but Mr. | Partridge has chosen it for his meditation, and Mr. Nye, of Brooklyn, will tell us what sort of revival we need, which ought to bea subject of interest in this time of revivals. Dr. Porteous, who, with his congregation, | will shortly leave their present cosey quarters in Elm place, Brooklyn, will point out some of the faults, failings and falls of religious | men, on which he should be an authority, for | he, too, is a misunderstood man, and in his | | treatment of this class to-day will doubtless show his sympathy. Tae Uniontown (Pa.) Standard fears that | | an “ex-rebel” will be the next democratic We are not agitated by the prophecy; but there is some comfort in remembering that Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Jackson were ex-rebels, and that we have a country yet, | fact, bright spots in the calendar for all of | us—as we shall find if we consider the cal- | has found this rule apply. | security and perhaps in peace. | half the history of the great conflict dropped | out by the way in other States from mere neg- The Day We Colebrate, This day there is as lively a movement of patriots in the neighborhood of two of the holy places of Middlesex county, Massachu- setts, as there was this day one hundred years ago; and to-morrow the event to which those movements led will be appropriately appreci- ated by orators and poets, and tbe gratitude of a free people will be freshly registered in bronze. One of the natural results of this sort of glorying in good deeds is apparently to provoke a comparison of dates on the part of the uncelebrating sections of the country. Jugt as Massachusetts brings out the guns and drums and begins to burn the powder of glorification some other States brash up their old almanacs and dispute the precedence of the Bay State. North Carolina claims her day ; Virginia has an event of the same date with that in Massachusetts, and there are, in endar curiously enough. But there is one point in which Mansachusetts leads all. She celebrates her days. If any man dies for that Commonwealth or strikes a stout blow for her honor or her rights, her people have the habit of remembering it, of chronicling and treasuring up the fact and taking care that the world shall know the circumstances of the case as recorded in orations and poems or in granite or bronze, Alexander is said to have observed that ‘the happiness of Achilles, as compared with other heroes, was that he had a Homer. Visere fortes ante Aga- memnonen; but they had no Homer, and that is why comparison goes no further than Aga- memnon in its retrospections. Every man who has done good service for Massachusetts | There are lots of little Homers down there who keep the story | afloat and spread good seed. Who would not | be Paul Revere? And as the hundred farm- ers from Acton who stood by the old North Bridge “at the right of the line” have all been dead this many a day, it requires no special perception to see that the three who were killed and whose names are on the monument had the better of their comrades who went away and died in ob- The prizes of that day were bloody deaths, and all be- cause of the chroniclers and the poets; but what has the world heard of the men who were slain in North Carolina—and ‘has not lect? There is a fashion of arguing that other States are move modest and lees | inspired with the spirit of self-assertion, but | the line may be sharply drawn between vain- | glory and neglect of the memory of men who died in the public cause, and we believe the latter offence is the more common with ua, Perhaps the occurrence of our Centennial dates may change this and may instruct the people very largely in the achievements of their ancestors. From now till 1883 we sball have the recurrence of the sequence of revoe lutionary dates in due order, and it is a con- venient time for the people to brush up their local beroes and celebrate the glories of their. neighborhood, and the occasion should not | be lost. Proposed Street Cleaning Commission. Our legislators are busy trying to solve the difficult problem how to keep the streets of New York clean. It is somewhat fortunate that the elements lend the departments con- siderable help, or we should despair of any official machinery accomplishing this impor- | tant duty. In the vain nope of making the | police force useful the broom was intrusted to the hands of that magnificent torce, but with- out securing the desired results. The fact of the matter is the average policeman rather scorns the idea of being a public servant, and prefers to play the master. It was, therefore, natural for the police officers quietly to throw the broom intrusted | to them into a corner, and asaresult the | streets have been in a state of filth more dis- | gusting than ever before since they have been | placed under the care of the Police Commis | sioners. It would seem more logical to have an independent Street Cleaning Bureau ree | sponsible for the work of keeping the city clean. The police could then be used with effect to report any negligence or failure of duty on the part of the Street Cleaning De- | partment. This system is found to work admirably in Europe, and there is no euffi- | cient reason why it should not be tried here, Masox, THe Countenrerren, who was con- victed in the criminal branch of the United States Circuit Court on Friday, did not like | the evidence given against him by two of the | witnesses. He signified his objection to their evidence by attacking one of them in the jail | with a knite, but was fortunately disarmed be- | fore be had succeeded in leaving serious marks of his displeasure upon him. It seems a little | careless on the part of the jail authorities to | have suffered a convicted prisoner to carry a knife and to have access to the witnesses who | had assured his conviction. Tue Hosts Orrenep tothe Mayor by the Henratp in relation to the correction of petty abuses have not been unheeded. Last week several cab licenses were revoked on account of extortion. One driver chargeda stranger nearly seven dollars from the Cortlandt street | ferry to the corner of Washington and Watts | streets. There should be some punishment | for such cases of gross swindling besides the | revocation of the licenses. A continuance of these examples will enable citizens and visit- ors to hire cabs without the certainty of being | imposed upon, and abused in case of resist. | ance. Ractxe on tar Rrver.—There is no racing | on the Harlem River between the rival steam- | boats which run from Peck slip to Harlem bridge, if we toay trust the word of the off- cers whose statements are given in the Henaxp | to-day. But it is admitted by one of these gentlemen that “when we are a little ahead | we won't let them pass us if we can help it, and they won't let us pass if they can help it.”’ This distinction would make little dif- ference to the passengers in case of a collision or an explosion, either ‘of which might occur under the present system. The steamboat | rivalry on the Harlem River recalls the old- | fashioned races on the Mississippi, and is | almost as exciting and desperate. The officials | excuse their course on the ground that the | public patronizes the fastest boat, but we think the danger is more apt to trighten than to attract passengers, | for this great honor conferred upon American | hope that the people throughout this land may Passing Thoughts of the Religious > Press. The Rev. Henry Varley, whose labors here for the past few weeks the Hznaup has com- mented on, is this week passed around very pleasantly among the religious papers of the city. The Christian Intelligencer, while giving him praise for his work and labor of love and his zeal therein, tells the gyangelist that “he teaches his doctrines, both of faith and renewal, with a dangerous extravagance equally unwarranted by Scripture and by ex- perience.’? And the Intelligencer proceeds to demonstrate its proposition, and to give there- in a color of excuse for the evangelical ministers of the city not giving him such a cordial reception as Messrs. Moody and Sankey have received in Great Britain. But notwithstanding these drawbacks the Baptist Weekly thinks Mr. Varley’s visit to the city has been a great blessing to many of the churches. The Examiner and Chronicle takes the Rev. Dr. Elder's opinions concerning Mr. Var- ley. Tho latter preached for him three times, so that he had an opportunity of study- ing both the matter and the manner of the evangelist, He says he was struck with Mr. Varley's manliness and impressed with his moral carnestness, and illustrates his style as contrasted # ith that of our local pastors by say- ing that while the latter crack the nuts for the people, Mr. Varley not only cracks, but picks out the meat and puts it into the months of his hearers and helps them to eat it. But Mr. Elder fears that this style will lead to an in- tellectual assent to the truths of religion, rather than a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Observer admits that Mr. Varley is not a man of large and liberal culture ; but says he brings to his work great earnestness, ardent love for Christ and the souls of men, remaikably simple and strong Saxon English, fluency of words, and a voice of unusual sweetness and compass. The two ideas which he makes the greatest use of are the lost con- dition of the unregenerate sinner and the atonement of Jesus Christ, to be accepted as the condition of salvation. His preaching is marred, the Observer thinks, by his frequent presentation of some peculiar religious tenets which he holds, and which are not acceptable to the great body of Christians. His trivial and laughter-provoking stylo of illzstrating great Gospel truths, and the frequent illus- trations of those truths by reference to him- self, are, the Observer thinks, objectionable, and have turned many away from him. The Christian Union, speaking of Mr. Varley’s style in the pulpit, says he tells more stories in the course of a sermon than were ever told by any of those American divines who have horrified some religious people by provoking smiles during Sabbath services. The Union thinks the secret of his popularity lies in his temperament and manner more than in his doctrine or his logic. He is a master at per- | sistent, good-natured coaxing, and is un- doubtedly doing a great deal of good among all classes of people who listen to him, Of our other exchanges the Jewish press gives more or less space and thought to the great festival of Passover, which begins to- morrow among their people; the Freeman's Journal devotes its editorial space to the Car- dinal and the Papal envoys; the Catholic Re- view thinks it would be an excellent thing if | Catholics they should now organize a pilgrim- | age of gratitude tothe Pope ; and the Zublet reviews the past Lenten season, and takes courage for the future from the general ob- | servance of this festival this spring. The Christian Leader flings out the Stars and Stripes for Lexington and Concord, and expresees the strive to make the future at least as glorious as the past has been. The Methodist labors to show that the itinerancy of the Methodist | Episcopal Church might be modified | without injury to the cause. It | gives historical proofs that Wesley's | system of ititnerancy does not now exist in | that Church, and that not all the early Metho- dists were itinerants; that considerations of utility have already led to modifications of | the itinerancy, and that the people already in- | dicate the directions in which they are to go | into the two forms of ministerial labor, evan- | gelism and the pastorate. The Rev. Alfred | Taylor, in the Christian at Work, touches up “trial sermons”’ in bis usual spicy style. He had a recent experience as critic on a couple of these productions, and he comes to the con- | clusion that they are very poor tests of a man’s subsequent fitness to preach the Gospel. The Independent is not greatly pleased with the result of the Connecticut election, and it labors hard to drown its sorrow in applause of the | republicans, who ‘‘are not mere partisans and office-seekers, but sober, thinking men.” The | Church Journal is very much afraid that the | floral decorations of its churches at Easter will become a temptation to frivolity and | wandering thoughts, and rectors should care- fully guard against this sequence. Tae Present Manacens of the Erie Rail- | way are paying special attention to the accom- | modation of the residents along the Jersey | line of their road both in regard to the cone | veyance of passengers and freight. The fact should stimulate the citizens of New York in their efforts to secure rapid transit. We | must soon have some means of reaching the Westchester border in halt an hour, unless we wish to drive a yet greater percentage of the business people of New York into another | State to find residences, “Root, Hoa, on Drn!"'—The Indian Com- missioner has issued a circular that will bo | found interesting as the beginning of a new policy in dealing with the Indians. Congress | has passed an act requiring all able-bodied Indians on reservations to perform work enough to pay for the supplies they receive from the government. Wherever there are whites intermarried with Indians they must | have the marriage legally recorded. No sup- plies will@be granted to any Indians unless they earn them by labor. They will been- | couraged to select land and erect houses upon it, and to conform as far as possible to the amenities, duties | and responsibilities of civilaation, This cir- | cular, our correspondent informs us, has been communicated to the Sioux. The experiment isa bold one. If by any process the Sioux can be brought within the range of civiliza- tion, it will go far toward solving this pain- ful Indian problem. We never could see why Indians should not work like negroes, China- men and white people, If they will not, then they must not complain of hunger or diseoms fort, The supreme commandment of modern civilization is, ‘Root, hog, or die!” Our Relations with Mexico As there is no doubt that Mr. Washburne has had a conference in Paris with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs on the relations of France to Mexico, it may become a matter of some interest to know the precise attitude in which we stand with regard to the two repub- lics. Are we Mexico's first friend, and do we become by taking up her cause in any de- gree, or even constructively, sponsors for her good conduct financially? Mr. Washburne is reported as having urged upon the Duke Decazes the warm wish of General Grant that France should reopen diplomatic relations with our neighbor. Now all the difficulties of France with Mexico are ostensibly finan- cial. Aside from the ‘Latin race” nonsense which the Emperor Napoleon wrote to Mar- shal Forey, the basis of the expedition to Mexico was to collect a claim; and the charge of the later difficulties is that the French government by keeping open its rela tions with the Republic encouraged French merchants in ventures of trade out of which no money ever came, Do we then merely urge France to change the opinion she haa formed of Mexico on evidence satisfactory ta her, or do we pledge ourselves in any way that the facts will be different in the future? Two Pans or Wurrewasn.—The commit tee appointed by the State Senate to investi- gate the mysterious insertion of a ten thow sand dollar appropriation for the Superin- tendent of the new Capitol in the Supply bill of last year after it bad left the hands of the Conference Committee has made two reports, Both of the reports, as a matter of course, whitewash Senator Dan Wood, the skilful friend of the Superintendent, and declare his innocence; but one of them, in addition, deprecates any such action in the future ag results in the change of a bill without con- sultation with and action by the committee, This is very much like the famous verdict rendered by an intelligent jury—‘‘We find the prisoner not guilty, and caution him never to do it again.”’ Ticunorne Acary.—It is evident the Tick borne case is not destined soon to disappear. lt crops up at seasonable and unseasonable hours and seems destined to become a kind of chronic nightmare to the British public, There has been a lively debate in the House of Commons over a petition to dismiss the judges who sat in the case for partiality and corruption. The impeachment of the Speaker of the House of Commons was also urged on similar grounds. The conduct of the case was certainly not very creditable to the Enge lish law courts, and there is some prospect that the agitation of the question will do much to shake the power and influence of the aristocratic class in England. Tur Arnut Fine Lapper Jos was par tially ventilated before the Law Committee of the Board of Aldermen yesterday. It was stated that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, paid by the Comptroller nominally for the patentee, was received by a person | connected with the Fire Department, who paid the patentee only fifteen thousand dollars of the amount. There is a history in con- nection with this affair that has yet to be written. ‘Tue Baltimore Sun ably defends the propo» sition that Mecklenburg county, North Caro. lina, is “the real cradle of American liberty.”* | Furthermore, it advances the interesting fact that the Scotch whig bloo® which flowed in the veins of these North Carolina people was ‘the first in this country to boil over in the tide of independence.”” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator J. H. Mitchell, of Oregon, 1s registered at the St. James Hotel, Professor O. U. Marsh, of Yale College, ts staying at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant Colonel Mollan, ©, B., of Ireland, is at the Fi th Avenue Hotel. Dr. Azel Ames, Jr., will publish, through Osgooo & Co., a 900k on “Sex in Industry.” Mr, Henry G. Parker, of Boston, is among tne jate arrivais at the St, Cloud Hotel. M. Bartholdi, French Minister at Washington, has apartments at the Brevoort House, sx-Governor Horatio Seymour, of Ctica, 1s re siding temporarily at the Windsor Hotel, colonel Joseph C. Aucenried, of General Sher- man’s staff, is quartered at the Fifin Avenue Motel. Mr. George Buckley-Matnew, C. B., British Mim ister to Brazil, is sojourning at tne Wessmorelana Horel. Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, bas taken up his quarters at the St. Jamer Hotel. Count Montalembert’s unpublished work en titled ‘Les Papes Moines” will appe*r next Octo- ber. A valuable work is Mr, James Picciatto's “sketenes of Anglo-Jewish History,” just out tm London. Harper & Brothers have nearly ready Mr. Samuel A. Drake's “Nooks and Corners of the New Enge land Coast.” Compted Statement of the Lumber Trade ana Manufacture for 1874. Cnicago: Northwestern Lumberman. General Benjamin F, Batler, of Massachusetta, arrived from Wasnington yesterday at the Fitp Avenue Hotel. Senator Jarvis Lord, of Rochester, and Assembiy- man James Fanikner, Jt., of Danvstile, N. Y., are | at the Metr »potitan Hotel. Mr. Godlove 8. Orth, United States Minister te Turkey, arrived in this city last evening with nis family, and took ap his resiaence at the Piits Avenue Hotel. ohrist and Mumanity; with a Review, Historicat and Critical, of the Doctrines of Corist’s Person, By lenry M. Gooawin, New York: Harper & Brothers. On the 10th of April, the hundredth anniversary of the battle of Lexington, Roberts Brothers puo+ lish Mr, Edwerd Abbott’s “Paragraph History of the United States.” The completion of Merle d’Aubigne’s “History of the Reformation in ths Time of Calvin,” being volumes six and seven of the work, is promised this spring by Longman & Co. Vand Book of the Kiver Plate Republics; Com. prising Baenos Ayres ad the Provinces of the Argentine Repabue and the Republics of Urugnay and Paraguay. By M.G. & B. T. Muthall, propria. tors of the Buenos Ayres S'andard, London and Buenos Ayres: Edward Stanford, ana M. G. & B T. Mulhall. There has been a fair share of annoyance at 8 Petersvurg over the publicatioa by our govern. ment of Mr. Sconyler’s wecoaat of his trip tu Asiag bat itis likely to blow over, Icis wortn conside eration, however, wheter our vepartment of State, in giving a portion of its diplomatic docu ments to the pubite printer, should not seleet them with some regard to the possible effect of their contents on the susceptidilities of foreign governments,