The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1875, Page 8

8 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 Yorxk Herarp will be tent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Bena. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly wealed. LONDON OFFICE OF T HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms | es in New York. ens : : AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. corner of $e ROQiist THRATEE JANE SHORE ana B cioses atl P.M. Miss BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Fulton avenue.—VARIEIY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 PM. EATR FIFTH AV Li ar TE BIG BO- M, Twenty-cighth street ANZA, ats P. m; cle CENTRAL PAK! THEODORE THOMAS’ CON M THEATRE, sixth avenue.—CHILP2 METRO POL No. 885 Broadway.—Va. HEATRE, ater. M. TRELS, ath street, NEGRO 10 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE DONOVANS, at = P. M.; closes at 10:10 y. Miss Ada Dyas, Mr, BOWERY OPERA HOUSP, Xo, 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 ROBINSON HALL, ‘West Sixteenth street—English Opera—GIROFLE GIROFLA, ate P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway. corner ot Th —SHERIDAN GRAND VARIETY € ON, at8 P.M; Closes C1040 P.M. Matinee a5 THEATRE COMIQUE Xo. ste Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN MU ‘West Fourteentu sweet —Up PARK THEA Broadway.—EMERSUN'S CALI aco? M uM OF ART, mi0A. M.toS P.M. E. RNIA MINSTRELS, OLYMrI ATRE, Xo, 6% Broadway.—V ARIE? SP. M.; closes at 10 45 QUADRUPLE SHEET. DAY, MAY From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and clear. Watt Street Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket was animated and furthor lower prices were established. Gold remains steady at 116} 116}. Foreign exchange was without change and money as usual. | Tue Brrrsx Ancric Expzpition was to sail yesterday, and we give an interesting account | of its organization. Tre Srurxo Races at Baltimore closed yes- | terday, and all the four events, as our cor- | respondence shows, were brilliantly contested. Tas Eantuqvaxg in Asia Minor was more terrible than the first reports indicated. Two | thousand persons perished and several villages were destroyed. Tae Frexcu Govensuent is earnestly ar- ranging for @ proper representation at our Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. The | Minister of Agriculture has asked for a large sppropriation for the use of the French Com- to1ssion. —The energy with which | the b munity is profiting by the | opportunity of trade is shown in the Hmratp int six rns of adver- ore than is usual upon the -one col ation on Wednesday will be n more imposing by delegations from all parts of the world. Certain changes | in the programme parade are announced elsewhere, with further correspondence rela- tive to the nature and value of the Order. Cuwstyomam, who was accused of a con- | epiracy to murder his been convicted on his second trial in Ne and will proba- bly be sentenced to the State Prison. The crime is comparatively new, and deserves a NEW YO RK HERALD, SUNDAY, The Story of the Social Union. Time was, and within the memory of living men, when statesmen and journalists dis- je d the question of the origin and per- | petual obligation of the federal Union, ad | nauseam, and always with reference to politi- | cal priaciples. Whether its formation was a | matter of “compact of sovereign States,’ ac- | cording to one theory, or ‘fundamental, irrevocable law,’’ according to another, the | question in the abstract remained at the end | as unsettled as at the beginning, and few there were among the doctrinaires of the times who dreamed what a rude and bioody solu- | tion it would receive, One of the wisest and | most philosophic of foreign historians less than | thirty years ago solemnly recorded his convic- tion that, whatever were the defects of the American constitution, one vast merit it had— that it made civil war impossible! But war did come, and the result is to relegate into | “obsoletism” —if we may coina word—all these doctrinal controversies which have as little interest now as who wrote the Eikon Basilike ; or the letters of Phalaris, and to establish as a fact the permanence of the Union for all time, | and the existence of what old-time politicians | never wrote of (it is not alluded to in the Declaration of Independence) a “nation.” Hence is it that now, that the century has nearly run out and the grand commemora- | tion isso near at hand, the angry voice of doctrinal controversy is hushed, and in the actual, and, we trust, glorious present we for- get this unpleasant phase of the past. But there was once, and if there be not now we fondly and proudly trust there will be again, another union which long antedated the political one, and without which, like the | | | | | | eternal hills on which Rome was built, the | political union could not have been raised. Rome is in ruins, but the hills remain. ‘The mountains,"’ in the grand words of Holy Writ, ‘still stand around Jerusalem.” This union is the social union, which existed among the old Thirteen long before anything | political was dreamed of, and on which, in this season of centennial commemoration, it is not amiss to bestow an earnest, reverential thought. John Adams once said that ‘the Revolution was twenty years old when the war began,” and we say that our Union was a century or three-quarters of a century old when it was declared toexist. Without being too didactic let us think of it for a moment. or probable period when the North American colonies began to look upon each other as friends and brethren. There was no original | principle of union, language, in origin, in religion or in interest. | None could then suppose they would ever be one in destiny, The infant settlements on the coast hardly contrived to conjecture what sort of folks lived on the other side of the headJands which jutted out into the ocean, and when they did peep beyond often saw strange and hostile faces and heard the sound of other tongues than their own. Even when | there was common origin there was no sym- | pathy, and the Swede and the Dutchman were better friends far than the Cavaliers and Independents of old England, who seemed to have no dearer use for a common tongue | than to revile each other conveniently, and claimed a common birthplace as giving them the privilege to hate each other the more vio- lently. But yreater causes, higher influences than | of man’s contriving, were soon made manifest to wall out the sure destiny of social sympa- thy. Geographical relations favored it. Looking at the face of the country, and bear- ing in mind that the primal settlements were merely on the coast aud in depth did not ex- tend to the first of the mountain ranges which run lengthwise through the Continent, there | was no physical barrier to divide the colonists from each other. No arm of the ocean was interposed to prevent free intercourse, no bay or river that could not be easily crossed. The inquiry is very curious as to the precise | They were not one in} and encouragement of the Quaker settlements, then thinly scattered over this vast wilder- | ness. The journal of his American pilgrim- age, as every student knows, is still extant, and tells in language of extreme simplicity and beauty its tale of privation and paticnt | endurance—a tale strongly illustrative of | formity has been made, however, the obstacles to social umion which the early settlers encountered and over- | |} come. He landed near the mouth of the Patuxent, on the western shore of Maryland, and travelled as tar eastward as Rhode Island (caretully avoiding Massachusetts, where, but twelve years before, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stephenson had been hung and where there were strict penal laws), and as far south as Carolina, After crossing the Chesa- peake his route northward was by the eastern shore to New Castle. ‘The next day,” says he, ‘we began our journey to New England, and a tedious journeying it was, through the woods and the wilderness, over bogs and across great rivers. We got over the Dela- ware, not without some danger of our lives, and then had that wilderness country to pass through since called West Jersey, not inhabited by any English, so that we travelled a whole day together without see- ing man or woman, house or dwelling place. Sometimes we lay in the woods by a fire and sometimes in Indian wigwams."’ Thus travelling, pausing at occasional feeble settle- ments, this illustrious pilgrim—for such the religious sway he exercised entitled him to be considered—traversed Long Island, and | reached his journey’s end in the Providence | Plantations. Here there was toleration, for | Roger Williams still lived; and here, says he, | using the language of an enthusiastic age, | which somehow sounds pleasantly, ‘Here we hada large meeting, at which, besides Friends, were some hundreds of people, as was sup- | posed. A blessed, heavenly meeting this was; a powerful thundering testimony, for truth was borne therein; a great sense there was among the people and much brokenness and tenderness among them.” ‘When,” he adds, ‘this great meeting was over, it was | somewhat hard for friends to part, for the | glorious power of the Lord was over all, and His blessed truth had knit and united them | altogether. At last, filled with His power and | rejoicing in His truth, they went away with | joyfal heart to their homes in the sevéral colunies where they lived.” Here, reader, pause and observe the active germ of union in the record of this early mis- | sionary. George Fox returned to England, again to feel the scourge of persecution and again to abide in the prison house; but he | left behind him ‘‘joyful hearts in the several colonies,” hearts which beat in unison on the one great topic of what they believed to be religious truth and-were bound together in communion which local or political diversity could not sever. In every colony he visited the apostle of Quakerism found or left a brotherhood, and thus connected by a spiritual chain of union every humble community | from New England to Georgia. Nor must it | be forgotten that, even at that early date, | web of religious communion over the wilder- | ness. While the Jesuit missionary—all honor | to his labors—was planning and executing his | giant scheme of conversion and conquest far away in the Northwest, and at a later day Berkeley saw, in bright and poetic visions, the rise of new Christian empires here, the un- | sandalled feet of two humble but not less am- bitious missionaries of truth were traversing at long intervals portions of this Continent— Fox and Wesley—and their footsteps can now be traced as plainly as when they were first | imprinted on the virgin soil. The influence of Christian communion in varied forms in aiding the growth of the social union is a sub- ject of vast interest and worth minute illustra- tion. Such was colonial America when | George Fox left it in 1671. The germ was planted, but there was no visible union then, | ——————_—_———- MAY 30, 1875.—QUADRUPLE. SHEET. Decoration Day. An attempt was made some years ago to fix one date for the national ceremony of deco- rating the graves of our soldiers, but it failed because cities and States had determined upon | their anniversaries, Some approach to uni- and throughont the United States the last days of | May and the beginning of June are generally | chosen, These slight differences of time are | of little account, The important fact is that the American people do not forget their dead | soldiers and that the gratitude displayed at | the close of the war has not grown cold with the Inpse of years, That which was at first the tribute of fresh and poignant grief bas now become | asolemn duty, discharged, not without pain, Time, which has soothed our sorrow for the | but also with feelings of triumph and pride. | Massachusetts no gentleman will care to ac- dead heroes of the war, has brightened their glory, and they are mourned no less by the nation because it rejoices in the splendor of their deeds. So long asthe war is remem- bered so long will these beautiful cere- monies be observed. We twine the bright laurel with the cypress, and though the flowers laid upon the graves must fade, spring after spring shall they be renewed, and year thus be garlanded with year in unbroken chains of imperishable bloom. These soldiers who maintained the Union so deep sented and extensive as those described by the able correspondent of the Hrraup. Church and State re- views Dr. Dewey’s half century discourse in the Church of the Messiah in this city lately, and deduces therefrom this proposition, that the venerable Doctor has surrendered Chris- tianity virtually into the hands of the Free Religionists, whose name and policy he, how- ever, professes to criticise and dislike. The Hebrew Leader notices certain kind things said in other journals (Christian) in the behoof and praise of Israelites, as showing a kindlier spirit toward the Jewish people than formerly prevailed, And in this it naturally rejoices. New England Hospitality. Tt may be safely laid down as the rule that unless matters are differently managed in cept its hospitality. It seems that President Grant was invited by the committee who had charge of the celebration of the battle of Lex- ington to take part in this festival. He at- tended, and his presence contributed largely to the success of the celebration, as would be natural ina country respecting laws and the magistrates charged with the execution of the laws, Since the celebration there has been a discussion as to the bill incurred at one of the Boston hotels for the entertainment of President Grant and his friends. The points of discussion are, Did the President and his | in war are still powerful to restore the bro-| friends drink wine? How mnch wine did therhood of the people, though they restin | they drink? Did the bill represent more that absolute peace which shall never be | cigars than wine? Was the President at all broken till the last day. ~ The graves which | under the influence of liquor? One of the | other Christian missionaries were weaving the | seemed to divide the North and South have become as trysting places where former foes meet in friendship and reconciliation. But for these quiet mounds we should not fully know how closely the nation, so lately torn apart by hate and wrath, is reunited. The rebel soldier in his tomb speaks with as elo- quent a silence as does the soldier of the United States, Each fought for the cause he believed to be just; each died for his coun- try, and, as they are one in death, so should we be one in life. Every year the silent voice pleads more touchingly for coe ciliation, and not vainly, for the American people long to forget the passions of the war and to remember only the heroism which is | the common possession of Confederates and federals alike. We read how the day was | celebrated yesterday in the South, when Con- federate soldiers carried the flag of the Union and bore with it their old regimental colors reversed, no longer the emblems of rebellion, but the memorials of many a gallant bat- tle never to be renewed. Colored troops and soldiers of the United States Army marched with them on their errand of love and duty. ‘The federal and the Confederate stood beside the same graves, and, with impartial rever- ence, honored alike the ancient friend or enemy. In many cities of both the North and South the soldiers’ cemeteries were decorated | yesterday—as to-morrow they will be decor- | ated in this city and the neighboring | towns—and nowhere were other feelings | manifested than those of generous sympathy | and friendship. It is encouraging to know | that the saddest memories the war bequeathed | are now the inspirations of future brother- hood and peace. | The Voice of the Religious Press. The voice of the religious press this week | utters its many-sided message on religious and | secular affairs in a conservative spirit, as be- | cometh the season and the occasion. The Freeman's Journal defends the sacramental idea of marriage as held by its Church as against the civil or secular marriages recog- nized by the law of the land. It gives the teaching of the Catholic Church on the sub- ject of both kinds, and holds to the validity of civil marriages under certain conditions. The Tablet, which, with its current issue begins a new year of life, the twentieth, reviews the gentlemen taking part in the discussion pub- licly expressed his fear that the President’s habits were such as to give great concern. A discussion of this kind is really beneath contempt, The President of the United States, whatever we may think of him politically, is the first citizen of this country anda gentle- man. He accepts the hospitality accorded to gentlerhen and becomes the guest of a city committee, and is forbidden to make any statement even of the treatment he received. When he finds the hosts of such entertainment deliberately criticising the behavior of their guest, wondering whether he did or did not drink wine, or did or did not smoke cigars, and publicly expressing fears as to the effect of his habits upon his future career, there can be but one feeling, and that is that those who gave this entertainment in New England have insulted President Grant, and not only done so butin the highest form in which insult can be given—namely, by a host to a guest, We should, of course, looking at mat- ters from tho highest point of view, prefer to have those in euthority absolute temperance men, but it is not a sin for gentlemen to drink wine, ‘There are thousands of men in this country of the high- est personal character, eminent, devout, estimable, whose names have never even fallen under criticism, who make the drink- ing of wine a part of their daily life. It would be the highest act of rudeness for a citizen to speak of having given his guest wine, and after he had left bis table to make that gift a basis of fear as to his personal habits. How much higher, then, is the rude- ness when it finds the President of the United States under the operation of such a criti- cism ? ‘The whole business may have a spicy as- pect, but those who do not believe ‘‘anythirg ‘is fair in politics," and that it is proper in making a political point to violate every senti- ment of generosity and good feeling and the better sense of the country, will dexounce this whole business in New England as utterly beneath contempt, as violating the highest instincts of modern society and bringing disgrace upon the hospitality of New England. Presbyterianism, North oud South, One of the most gratifying events that has There were neither Pyrenees nor Alps, and | The Value of Boyton's Experiment. the primitive mail carrier of those days—for ‘As we anticipated yesterday, Paul Boyton’s mails of some sort came early, 60 s00n a8 the | yoyave across the English Channel was a civil and religious revolutions that havetaken | recently attracted our attention is the ten- place in the world during the past nineteen | dency of religious bodies in America to years—all in opposition and hatred to the | obliterate the distinctions that existed before Charch, which still lives and advances, and of | the war. When slavery vas an issue in our which the Tabla is an able advocate. The | politics there was scarcely a denomination— | of free path was cut through the forest and before | the thicket was cleared of the Indian—carried his little budget slowly, but securely, from one end of British North America to the other. Each great river—the Delaware, the Susqne- hanna, the Hudson and the Connecticut—had its source bey colony on wh and the ose shores it reached the ocean, an pri ze which nature gives nm in and out, unquestioned , Made distant settlers on the at that time, same waters feel like n bors. It is not e to ascertain when the first road was ma along the seaboard, In 1677, before the s: ment of Philadelphia, William Edmundson, « public Friend, travelled south- ward from New York to the Delaware, in come pany with a Swede and Indian guide, In attempting to cross trom Middletown Point— somewhere about our South Amboy—they lost their way and were obliged to go back, so as complete success, which has its practical side as well as its physical triumph. The con- | trivance by means of which he was able to | float on the water for twenty-three hours and traverse the whole distance from Cape Gris- nez to Folkestone was a simple dress of india nd the charter limits of the pubber, capable of being inflated at the will | of the wearer. It will thus be seen that it serves all the purposes of a life ratt, while it may be brought within the reach of every person going to sea, We can see no reason why it should not become an indispensable life saving appliance and be a part of the out- fit of every vessel, instead of the clumsy and ineffective life preservers now carried on pas- sengerships. The simplicity of the dress and the ease with which it is adjusted are in them- selves strong arguments in favor of its adop- tion, and Mr. Boyton has proved its practica- bility by the ease with which he made | his long journey across the Channel. If even punishment of more than ordinary severity. | to find the Raritan at any point, and to follow | o part of the expectations which are nata- If death seenss too much to award an impris- onment of but two years certainly seems too little. ‘Tue ARMAMENT OF z.—The assur- ances that the peace of Europe will be pre- served are not made more probable by the demand which General De Cissey, the French Minister of War, has made for fifty-one million franes, to enable him to continue work on the fortifications and to purchase al forthe army. At the same time this seems to justify German fears that may recover her military strength, it does not prove that she intends to nse it to obtain revenge. ce prepare for war? None of the other nations of Europe are making the slightest preparation for peace. Tur Onpeat or Five. — great number of destructive and fatal fires reported of late is rewarkable. The terrible fire at Holyoke, of which we give further details of ful interest, with an account of the funerals of the victims, was followed by those at Worcester, Ma and St. John, N. B., and now by the devastation of Great Bend, Pa., and by the burning of a stable and seven frame houses in this city, by which two men lost their lives, What with wrecks at sea, fires on land, earthquakes and murders, tho Delievers in the end of the world are likely to be encouraged in their de Bat it was always so, and these coincidences seem more startling now, because telegraphs and news- papers report them instantly and make the vews auiversal, Why should not | its margin till they came to a small landing from New York, and thence by a path to the | falls of the Delaware. “By this means only,"’ | says he, “did we find our way, and we saw no tame animals on the route.’’ | Twenty years later, in 1698, one of William Penn's companions, in speaking of the infant prosperity of the Quaker settlement, attributed it to “its vast and | extended trafique and commerce by sea | and land,” and then enumerates the distant | points whither the vast traffle extended; not | Caloutta or Canton or Japan; not Lima or the Amour; but St. Christopher's and Be muda and Barbados and Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New England and New York! | Could this humbie-minded, primitive Quaker | open his eyes ond ears now, revisiting the | glimpses of our moon, and see what we see unmoved every moment of our lives, his agony of surprise would not be less than ours could we see posterity, after the lapse of the same number of years, standing amid the ruins of abandoned railroads and disregarded | steamboats, having relapsed into on oge of barter. But the testimony of a far greater man j than either of these obscure travellers to the | condition of the colonies at that period } | been preserved. Toward the end of is! George Fox, tha founder of the Society « Friends, and one of those great agitators of | “ | the sluggish spirit to whith the Reformation gave full scope, after being scourged and im- prisoned year after year in Great Britain, | landed in America, His errand was mis- rally to be indulged on account of his suc- cess are fulfilled shipwrecks will lose much of their terror in being stripped of a great part | of their dangers. Where a boat or a life raft could not live fora moment it seems quite | possible that a person wearing one of these dresses would float until the fury of the eea should subside sufficiently to allow him to be | rescued. It is not even required that the | wearer should be able to swim, because the | buoyancy of the dress renders the movements | of the swimmer unnecessary. Perhaps the | practical testa to which the contrivance must | be putin less experienced hands than Mr. Boyton’s may not bear out all these anticipa- tions ; but it is so simple, so inexpensive and promises such important results hitherto con- sidered almost unattainable, that we are dis- posed to give it a trial that will test its merits to the fullest extent. if it is found to be as useful in the hands of others os Mr. Boyton | has shown it to be in his own the problem of life saving apparatus for passenger ships may be regarded as solved in a way that will give satisfaction as well as insure safety. Tux Movers ore unfortunate in their strike. Tt is now stated that there is an over-produc- t of coal in the Pennsylvania collieries, iat the men are not likely to obtain if they abandon their domands for Tue Cooran one of onr most L saiusbie educational institutions, yesterday had its sixteenth annual Commencement, and | we give the list of prizes awarded to the suc. iON, «tionary, cad bad for ita obiect the inspection | cessful contestants. Catholic Review gives a portrait and a sketch of the new Bishop of Wheeling, Va., and insists that itis not fair of Protes- tant journals and public teachers of that faith to charge the Catholic Church with po- litical intrigue because one of its chief pas- | tors is elevated to the Cardinalate ; and the Catholic Standard gives testimony from Eng- lish sources designed to show that Bismarck, in striking at the Church, is antagonizing freedom in the sphere of man's civil relations and the independence of the weaker Euro- pean nations. The Baptist Weekly contrasts the address of M. Coudert to the Papal dele- gation a few days ago in favor of the unity of all sects against the materialism and in- fidelity of the age, in which the Catholic Church would be found in the vanguard, with the demand of the Pope for the restoration of Catholio unity in Spain, The latter, the Weekly says, means the driving out of all other Christians and the prohibition of all other forms of worship except the Romish, ‘These phases of Catholicism it characterizes as chameleon. The Examiner and Chronicle | those church trustees who go into church architecture and furnishing as a speculation, and then let out their attractive music and their eloquent oratory to the highest bidders, so that they shall not only make the current ex- penses and reimburse themselves, but also put a pleasing percentage of profit into their own pockets. The Observer drops its teat and plants its flower over the grave of Kentucky's favorite son, who was genial, warm-hearted, generous and readily attracted friends to his side, The Observer calls up delightful memo- ries of the past in the death of John C. Breck- inridge, and in its measure mourns the loss of so many great men of our country within a comparatively brief period. The Christian at York: pathetically laments the death of the anniversary of the Congregational Union, in which formerly men of other forms of faith and government were wont to mingle 60 pleasantly. It hopes the union may be re- puscitated before next year. The Christian Union comments on Mr, Charles Nordhoft’s latest letter from Louisiana to the Henaxp, and concludes from its statement of facts and principles that a more discouraging picture insists strongly on the education of the Baptist laity, because their in- tellectual elevation is favorable to |, Church purity. The Churchman raps Protestant or Cathoho—which did not divide upon slavery. Even the Catholic Church, which is a fold under one supreme shepherd and is supposed to be above all influ- ences of politics, showed how slavery divided its councils by the cor- respondence which took place between Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, and Archbishop Hughes, of New York, during the war. In this correspondence Bishop Lynch took the extreme Southern ground, identifying himself with the Southern people, while Archbishop Hughes took the extreme Northern ground, and not only showed his affection for the Union in the tone of bis reply to Bishop Lynch, but by his course in going to Europe n behalf of Mr. Seward and President Lincoln to endeavor to prevent the intervention of the Spanish government and induce the Pope to show some kindness to the North Nearly all the other churches were divided upon this issue, Presbyterianism has a North- ern and a Southern branch, Tho same is true of the Methodists and the minor denominations. Even the disposition of a large part of the Protestant denominations of the North to recognize slavery as a legal in- | stitution could not perpetuate the Union. The Southern denominations were anxious to have it treated, not as a political, but a divine institation, and upon this point the different secessions took place. But since the war, since slavery is no longer a political or divine institution, but a dark memory of the past, there has been a disposition on the part of these various bodies to draw together. The Presbyterian Church, North and South, have been in conference recently for the purpose of obliterating the geographical distinctions which separated them, and our hope is that this conference will have good results. The great value of these re- ligious bodies as elements of government in society is that they nationalize and harmonize and consolidate public opinion and patriotism, and give tothe country unity and strength, If citizens believe in the Westminster Cate- chism and the Confession of Faith, the teach- ings of Knox and Calvin and all the specified points of theology embraced in the Presby- terian form, there is no reason why they | should separate upon the point that there was a North anda South who differed so widely upon the policy of the Union as to be drawn into @ long, terrible war. Tho sooner we of ignorance, lawlessness, misrule and cor- | ruption in a State can hardly be imagined, | aud that it will take mapy years to cure evils recognize a unity of feeling in this country, far higher than the sentiment that once ex- cited it, it will be better for our future and Enna for the grandeur of the Republic. No ie fluence can contributeso much to this result as the religious denominations. Pulpit Topics To-Day. In view of the grave decoration ceree monies some of our city pastors will to-day infuse a new patriotic life into their hearerd by displaying their own patriotism. Mr. Frothingham will show that itis duty to strew flowers on graves; Mr. Lloyd will draw certain practical lessons from the memories of this day; Mr. Harris will look at it in its joyous as well as its sorrowfu! aspects and Mr, King and General Fisk will view it and review it from both the minister's and the soldier's standpoints. The question of the Bible in the schools, which does not seem to grow tire- some with long discussion, will be considered this morning by Mr. Willis and this evening by Mr. Hugo. The former will show that the measure of success of the Gospel is the measure of the prayers and faithfulness of the ‘Church. And the latter will undertake to show that the Catholic hierarchy have the overthrow of this government and its subserviency to Papal ends in view in their attack upon the public schools. The triumph of Christian workers through entire sanctification will be shown by Dr. Lodge ; and the dying sinner's soliloquy, as well as the backslider’s lament, will be portrayed by Mr. Lightbourn, who és working for a revival in summer as well as in witter. Spiritual mindedness is a quality that should’ be en- couraged, and Dr. Deems will give some sug- gestions in the line of promoting it; and as ho takes his hearers in {imagination around the place which was called Calvary their thought may be freshened with loving mem- ories of the Saviour’s death ; and while ho is thus leading his people on from strength to strength Dr. Armitage will bring: his people to witness the ascension of their risen Lord. And in view of the many miracles connected with the life and teachings of Christ Mr. ’ Hepworth will offer some general suggestions on miracles and show the danger of iatemper- ance by taking tho first glass; while Dr. ‘Thompson will set forth tho basis cf Christian living, and Mr. Alger will illustrate the six great debts of man, and Mr, Newton will answer the inquiry, Are We to Worship the Unknown God? And thus patriotism, intel- lectuality and religion will come in for a share of pastoral attention and consideration to- day. ‘Tur Fronrpa, after aearly eleven years, has been decided by the Distrtct Court at Wash- ington a prize of war. Thus fades that little Brazilian difficulty forever ont of sight, Mux. Tznzss Trmrsens, the greatest dra- matic prima deana in Europe and the only representative to-day of the grandest réles in Italian opera has been engaged by Mr. Max Strakosch oad will appear for the first time in this city ix October. The fame of this artist {4s world wide, and the announcement of her engagement for this country will interest every one who loves music and true art. As Honors to Jovrnatisa.—Mr. John Le. moinne, the editor of the.Journal des Débats, bas been elected to the French Academy. This 1s the highest honor that can be paid to any literary man or politician in France, and the fact that it has been awarded to the boldest journalist in Paris,a man who has been prom- inent in every discussion of political questions, and not in that light spirit of persiflage and badinage characteristic of French journalism, is the highest compliment that has recently been paid to a representative of the press, Tae Hantem Frats,—Additional facts cone cerning the nuisance of the Harlem flats are presented in our columns to-day. One im- portant bit of news is the report of the police surgeons, who visited the scows and dump- ing grounds and survived the ex- perience. They make some useful suggestions, but deal very curiously with the necessity for prompt reform in the manner of filling up the swamps. It ig the duty of the authorities to enforce the laws and deal vigorously with the contractors. We shall never be free from the smells of the Harlem flats till we get rid of the Harlem sharps) ‘Oh! their offence is rank; it smells to heaven." Ove Rirtemen.—The contest for the Leech Cup yesterday tried the mettle of our riflemen, and the work they did showed clearly that the honor of the country may be safely left in their keeping. The scores made by the prin- cipal members of the team have seldom been surpassed and perhaps have never been equalled in the aggregate by four members of any team, Colonel Bodine, whose ekill and nerve secured victory for America, won the Leech Cup with one of the highest scores on record. Messrs. Fulton, Gildersleeve and Cole« man pressed him very closely, and it may be said to have been a neck-and-neck race be- tween the latter gentlemen for the second place, Mr. Coleman’s score is especially honorable, because it was the first time he ever shot on the new target. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Salvint contemplates Macbetn. Colonel Lorenzo Sitgreaves, United States Army, is registered at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. James R. Osgood, of Boston, is among the late arri at the Albemaric Hote}, Lieutenant Governor Hl, G. Knight, of Massacha- setts, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Joaquin Milier, the poet, has arrived in this city and taken up bw residence at the Windsor Hote. The President has appointed Charies P. Lincoin, Of Mississippi, Consul of the Cuited States at Can- ton, China, They are beginning to spell at one another in England. In Leeds the bitterest dose was “Camomile.” Dilemma tn Lngland—They cannot get men for the army, and the government dare not suggest conscription. It is a thousand years this year since the first naval victory of the English was gained by Alired over the Danes. Rev, H. W. Pullen ts the chapiain of the Engiten Arctic Expedition, Le iw the author of “Damo Earopa’s School’? Assistant Iuspector General Absalom Paird, United States Army, 13 residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Crosby 4. Noyes, the witty editor of the Wash. ington Evening Star, 18 now in this city. He prow poses to dish up the beecher trial, wita Columbia sauce, for the benefit of his reaters, Don Alfonso, the brother of Don Carlos, end Donna Bianca, bis wile, have lived at Gratz, to Styria, since their withdrawal from active partic pation in the Uarlist service; but tue people and the students there object to their presence, aad have twice mobbed and grossly inagived them,