The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1875, Page 8

NEW YORK 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 York Henarp will be sent free of postage. ° All business or news letters and telegraphic _ despatches must be addressed New York Henarp. RK HERALD NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1875.—QUAVRUPLE SHEET. A Spotless Ministry. The last few months have been so produc- | | tive of scandals against the clergy that the relation of the Church to the people has be- come a common topic of thought and conver- sation. A certain class in the community has seized upon this moral garbage and devoured it with an appetite singularly suggestive of total depravity. It is their delight to see others fall to their own level, and to reiterate | the stale truism which they have mouthed Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly | } | the religious class alone, but made up of all | right-minded and honest-hearted men, sealed. Petals “oa me LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, — = VOLUME XLeve AMUSEMENTS ‘TO-MORROW, oe saeus srvsereosseeseesNO, 187 PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 1045 ¥. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of Iwenty-ninth street. NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at SP. M.; closes ati0 P.M. SKATRE, WALLAC . 5 P.M. ; closes at 10240 t Broadway.—TH DONOVAS P. ad, Messra, darrigan and BOWERY OPE. RA HOUSE, ag Bowery.—Va. ts P. a M.; ‘closes at 10:45 ROBINSON HAL! West Sixteenth | street.—knglish GiKOPLA, ats P.M. woon’s MUSEUM, roadway, corner of Thirtieth street. SHERIDAN & ACK'S GRAND VARIELY COMBINATION, at8 P. M,; closes at 1045 P.M. Matinee at2 P. 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Weil, it must be confessed that these crows have had a hearty meal of late, and seem to have attained to something like satiety. They have scented the polluted air ffom afar, and had complete enjoyment in the | overthrow of a variety of reputations, There | * another class, however, and not necessarily to whom the lapse of reputation on the part of | a beloved teacher is regarded as a personal | The moral mereury drops a few degrees with every such misfortune, | | and the entire community is conscious of | | fluence he cannot disgrace it without affecting | | weaknesses Warn Srnzet Yesterpay.—Prices of stocks | tended upward. Gold was firm at 117. Foreign exchange was stealy and money without change. ‘Tex Argest of two notorious forgers—the ast of an influential and skilful gang—is re- vorded iu our ¢ Me. Green's Ixpictwent.— uznns to-day. | easily excuse in themselves, ‘he opinions | of those prominent citizens who are interested | in the indictments against Mr. Green are pub- | lished elsewhere, and contain much that is in- teresting and valuable to the public. Tae Ayxvat Recatta of the New York Yacht Club will be one of the important events of the season, and we give in another column a list of the prizes, with the general sailing directions, which differ in several par- | ; | exemplified in the lives of the preachers they | ticulars from the rules of last year. Tue Vassan Grats, who recently visited West Point, have given our correspondent at Ponghkeepsie on entertaining account of their reception by the heroes of the next wars—if wars we are to bave again this cen. tary. If the young ladies were terribly frightened by s sham battle what would they think of a real one? Perhaps they were the true victors in this engagement and ronquered the cadets’ hearts as they fled. Porrcze Ovrraces.—Three policemen are aow in joil in Philadelphia charged with mur- dering a citizen under circumstances of cow- wrdiy brutality, and some members of our police force will be wise to profit by that ex- wople. We give another instance of the ufMianly conduct of a police captain else- where. These servants of the public ought not to assume the airs of its masters, and if they do the law should teach them their grave mistake. eee ‘Tae Ispran Farivar.—The visit of the In- dians to the capital has been a farce in many respects. The chiefs have been greedy and cunning, but bave had justice on their side, while the government has been trying to drive the bargain which the civilized man generally makes with the savage. We do not think this negotiation at Washington is likely to keep peace in the Black Hills this summer, and shall be glad if it does not lead to war. Tax Berenen Trrar.—To-morrow Mr. Evarts will resume his argument in the Beecher trial and is expected to complete it on ‘Tuesday, and then will have occupied eight | He is endeavoring to | Gays in the defence. establish that Mr. Beecher’s offences were the procuring of Mr. Tilton’s discharge from employment and counselling the separation of Mrs. Tilton from her hnsband. Taxew Ovr a Parent ron It.-~General Hayes, whom the Ohio republicans have just nominated for Governor, is not only a brave soldier anda capable statesman, he is alsoa nan of a very delicate sense of humor. He was not at the Convention but at home, play- ng foot ball with his boys, when the nominae tion and platform reached him. His gray eyes must have twinkled when he read that plank which imperatively demands a change in the patent laws. patent laws are changed, we suggest to the Ubio tepablicans to take out a patent for their pull of the President as a ‘capable and judi- eious wintesman.” We should hike them to Bave monopoly of that phrase, for if it should be generally and freely used by other répnbiiean conventions it might lose the party the nest P’residential election. | with refined tastes. a loss. It a clergyman could tumble from his pedestal and simply break himself to pieces that would be one thing; but since he cannot totter from his uncertain position and | fall to infamy without dragging others with | him, and without, to a certain extent, para- | lyzing public opinion, that is quite another thing. As his place is one of very large in- | the general faith of the péople. A minister and a woman are judged by the same rules. Their robes must be perfectly white, without spot or blemish, or they are irredeemably lost. ‘The man of business may stumble and recover himselt; his neighbors | and friends look on and simply laugh at bis | awkwardness, He may even fall to the ground | foot. The kindly offices of all are tendered, and he is gently lifted to his feet again and received into the best society, and encouraged | to ask for the hand and fortune of the purest | woman of his acquaintance. He looks back | on the season ot his folly and weakness without any particular compunctions ot conscience, and sometimes counts his vic- tories with the complacent pride with which | an Indian exhibits the scalps which attest his prowess and cunning. He not only sows his wild cats in profusion in his youth, but casts them on the wayside at a later and steadier * period without so much as a thought of blame or criticism or loss of reputation as the result. The world is very curiously con- stituted. They who make public opinion make it capable of covering the sins and | to which they are themselves subject. While the man of business, however, wears | a sable suit on which an ordinary spot is not | visible. the clergyman wears a robe of white | on which the slightest stain is seen. He is permitted to fall but not to rise again. If he stumbles his neighbors, instead of laughing and helping him in the awkward predicament, start back with horror and hurl their exe- erations at him. There is no mercy in the | public heart tora clergyman who leads the life which some of his parishioners would | And all this is as it should be. Clergymen represent in their own persons and lives the moral purity and faith the Christian religion. Their sermons are appeals to the public to aim at truer thingy. The Church is the spiritual energy that keeps | the world trom falling back into barbarism. ‘The services at the altar constitute the electric | impulse of the gezeral progress. Amid the hush of the Sabbath the preacher's voice is heard, like the trumpet tones of John the Baptist, calling on men to repent of their sins and reminding them that the kingdom of | heaven is at hand. Unless these truths are | ot ! | | are practically worthless. Eloquent words | must have a white life bebind them in order to be effective. Lips may utter sounds which | charm the ear and are then forgotten; but lips | which speak from a consecrated and self- | denying life are like the thunders which make the earth tremble. | The people are right in demanding spotless | purity in the persons of their clergy. While | they are merciful when o grave accusation is | made they should remember that Roman .jus- | tice is indicative of Roman strength. If it be excusable or possible for a man in the ordi- | nary pursuits of life to drive with a loose rein, | it is neither possible nor excusable for the | clergyman to follow his example. Let the | Churen be right if everything else is wrong. | It is a sad fact, however, that the very class | of men of whom we demand this special purity of character are absolutely surrounded by an investing army of temptations. Many women are simply fools wherever a minister is con- cerned. They fling themselves at the head of a clergyman with a recklessness which is astonishing. What there is peculiarly fasci- nating about ministers we have never yet been able to discover. Asa class they are scholars That is something. Without doubt they are polite, kind hearted and very usetul as recipients of ali the family secrets, reservoirs, kept full of all sorts of un- pleasant stories which flow in streamlets from « hundred different directions. They | have, however, no more grace ot manner than By the way, before the | \ ordinary folk, but are, on the contrary, sometimes tnaccountably awkward. They | are not more comely than the average North Americai citizen, but are apt to be rugged of face and careworn, as though they needed sympathy, instead of giving it. And yet, in spite of everything, as honey bees rush for a flower garden, so the ladies rush for the minister, if he be a bachelor his life is rendered miser- able by the snares that are laid for his feet. And, even if he be married, he is beset, be- sieged, tormented, until suicide assumes the shape of a duty or an immediate necessity. We bave said that we have never been able to discover anything peculiarly fascinating about clergymen, and appreciation, if it is ever well founded, should be so in the case of Mr. Beecher. There is the minister in his metaphorical surplice, of which the whiteness is bespattered with the mud of years. Yet Mr. Beecher is the most popular preacher of whom Brooklyn boasts. He sits in court on seetlar days as the de- fendant in a case of adultery, avd on Sunday preaches the sacred Word, with nobody to object to the singular example. In dact, bis | altar should be without tarnish and the oflici- | ating clergyman should be ‘in white robes."’ | with the whole Continent to wish them a safe | festive proceedings on the steamers Hopkins | ORR | the contest before them. We do not really | genins, who failed only because of the pre- | interest, and it is probable that the score will | | rounded. Tbe good news of God, which pro- Lucky it is @ he is married; for | certainly this lack of | tive in the pulpit. This is one of the anoma- | lies of popular Christianity, and we do not pretend to criticise it. It is no doubt per- fectly consistent with Mr. Beecher’s faith in his own moral condition that he should con- tinue to preach now as he has done tor forty years, and certainly it he had ceased to exer- ; cise his sacred functions during the last five months humanity would have been the sufferer. Supposing that Mr. Beecher con- verts but one soul a month, which is a mod- erate estimate for a man of his ability, his continuance in the pulpit bas resulted in the saving of five human beings. Neverthe- | less, as a general rule, Mr. Beecher ex- cepted, duty is plain, Not even one | | of the tribe of Levi could serve in the tnber- nacle unless he passed a thorough examina- | tion physically, morally and spiritually, and was pronounced without spot or blemish. | We cannot be too careful of our ministry or too rigid in our demand that they come up to | the proper standard in every respect. The Heaven help the minister! we say; but he | must certainly practise as well as preach. | The Oeparture of the American Riflemen. The American rifle team yesterday sailed for Ireland, in the steamer City of Chester, voyage and a successful contest. They were accompanied down the bay by their triends, and the wharves were crowded with those who know these great marksmen and are anxious that they should sustain their reputations on the field of Dolly- mount. Our reporters give an account of the and Neversink, and the speeches made by Colonel Wingate and Colonel Gildersleeve, which show the modesty which is almost always the accompaniment of superior courage | and skill. They have to meet some of the | finest marksmen in the world, and, no | doubt, tully appreciate the serious nature of | care so much whether they win as whether they deserve to win. The closeness of the match at Creedmoor gave to it its principal | not be very different at Dollymount. It our | riflemen shoot as accurately and brill- iantly in Ireland as they did at home | the American people willbe content. If they should be beaten when they equal that score it will hardly be 80 much that the Americans have been defeated as that the Irish team has triumphed, and the result of the last match | will be repeated, when honors were literally | divided. Jerome Park Races. The ninth spring meeting of the American | Jockey Club commenced yesterday at Jerome Park, in presence of one of the largest and most fashionable assemblages ever congre- gated at a race course in this coun'ry. There were five events, in which many horses of ; renown took part, and a description of which | will be found elsewhere in ouscolumns. The | American Jockey Club, atter nine years of | labor, has built up for itself a reputation second to no racing association in this coun- try. All those objectionable features which at one time disgraced equine sports in this country are carefully excluded from the pre- cinets of Jerome Park, and the genuine enjoy- ment, attended with that flavor of bonton which | is the distinguishing mark of the association, ivsures permanent success. The drive to Jerome Park from the city is delightful in it- | self, except so far as the streets and avenues leading to Central Park are concerned. Some measures should be adopted by the powers that be to provide at least one decent drive to the Park, in place of the broken pave- ments that exist below Fifty-ninth street. Many owners of valuable horses have been compelled, on, account of the horrible | condition of our avenues, to remove their | stables to the immediate vicinity of Central Park. Palpit Topics To-Day. There is at this time a closer attention to the simple truths of the Gospel and less to sensa- tionalism of any sort than has been noticed at this season in other years. The impor- tance of religion seems to be felt by our city pastors to an extent greater than is their wont, and hence their topics and sermons bear upon | practical religious life. Mr. Hawthorne will | start out to-day to show that there is profit in | godliness, and that it leads to a pertect state, while Mr. Lloyd will set forth Christ's great mission and illustrate the spiritnalism of the | Bible by scenes from Paul's great cloud of | witnesses by which the Christian athlete run- ning for the prize of life eternal is sur- | duces healthfulness of mind and spirit, will | receive Mr. Pullman's careful attention, and | | the good news from a far country, which acts like cooling water to a thirsty soul, will | | be commended by Mr. Saunders, whilg Mr. | | Ganse will show his people why they should | | fear the Lord of Hosts Himself, and Mr. | Lightbourn will give a reason why we should | | love the unseen Christ and show how we | | should manifest that love and the relations of | that unseen Christ to the Godhead. Mr. King | | will speak, though he says he will write, unto | | fathers, and wiil of course give them some | apostolic advice, end Mr. Hepworth will pre- | | sent Christ in His character as a prophet. The | | fortunes of an emigrant may contain much j more spiritual food and comfort under the | | treatment of Mr. Harris than the title imports, } | and ¢o aleo we doubt not will the ideal home asit shall be painted and portrayed by Mr. | Kennard. Mr. Willis will show how much | more valuable is gold that is tried in the fire | | than the metal which will not stand fire, and | how much better Christian one may become | through suffering than if the world goes | smoothly to one here. The community of | Ijving is perhaps another form of describing | Bible communism, which Mr, Willis will | treat also. Mr. Hugo will give another dis- course on the fublic schools and arouse his | hearers to watchfulness of these insti¢ations from the real or pretended attacks of the | Roman Catholics. Tur Mrstxe Reotoss were comparatively | quiet yesterday, though there are still indtca- | tions of trouble at Mahanoy and other towns, | The troops will probably awe the disorderly tary rule will never settle the questions im dis- } d labor. | pute between capital au | error in writing these ‘‘Memoirs."’ | too much cant about our recent war and the | and their defeats, it would be better for the | body as much merit, as much real duty and | actors in this great conflict their true position, | gives to their lieutenants, Sidney Johnston, | public communication. These roads are pro- | vlee versa, | tate paid on the great railway lines; but they men into respect for public order, but mili- | We priut this morning an interesting and | valuable interview with General Sherman in | reference to the excitement aroused by his | recent memoirs of the war. Tho General speaks with the frankness and courage per- | taining to his character. He denies the im- putation that he intends in any way to | cast reflection upon the velunteers who car- | ried the war to a successful: issue, or that he denies to Bai:, Logan and other commanders the honor they justly won. He contends that his work will have value, not so much asa history of the war as a contri- bution to it, based upon his recollections of his own part in so many brilliant and sne- cessful campaigns. The temper in which the General speaks is admirable, and will secure him reuewed respect trom the country. There 18 one point, however, in consider- ing General Sherman’s position and the real value of his work that cannot be overlooked. We are far from sharing in the opinion that he has committed an There is achievements of its captains. It is much bet- ter that General Sherman should print his book now, and in doing so follow examples as illustrious as those of Cwsar and Frederick and Napoleon and Scott, than to wait until the lapse of time, when the actors have passed away. General Sherman certainly has nothing to tear for his own fame. | We cannot believe that he thinks of challenging the fame of any of his comrades, Even if it could be demon- strated that, as the General contends, he is entitled to the sole credit of the march to the sen and of other achievements, there re- mains glory enough for the other commanders. | We are too apt in this country to award our praise and our blame without reserva- tion. Already commanders like Lee and Stonewall Jackson and Sidney John- ston are passing into fable. Men who achieved great successes are depreciated ; men who fought with the “lost cause’’ are held up as commanders of unexampled | ponderance of Northern power. It is much better that we should know Grant and Sher- man and Thomas and Shefidan as they really are than to have them surrounded by the mists of romance which envelop Washington and Lee. There is something unsatisfactory | to our modern, practical mind to see Washington as a sacred, almost | impossible, character, with none of the | weaknesses of humanity—a shade and nota | man. Itis destructive to the hones'y and useful- ness of the military calling to surround our generals with thisatmosphere of unalloyed ad- miration. Ii General Sherman can contribute to the truth of history, even at the risk of in- curring the anger of men like Biair and | Logan and Hooker, if he can enable us and | our children to know the exact manner of the | men who fonght our battles, their victories | truth ot history and better for tbe country, | Nor do we see that the effect of these “Memoirs’’ will be to take anything from the fame of the meritorious generals of the war. It isa bard and coarse rule that every career should be vindicated by success. We some- times think that the failures of history em- heroism and suffermg as the successes. The world is ioo apt to make up its mind that all success is meritorious, but itis reflection upon our enlightenment avd our desire tor justice and fair play to always accept this arbitrament. History has awarded to the It gives to Grant tbe glory of having con- quered the rebellion; it gives to Lee the fame of having made for the “lost cause’’ a | gallant, patient and self-denying struggle. It | Stonewall Jackson and Longstreet and Gordon on the one side, to Sheridan and Sherman and Thomas and McPherson on the other, the merit of having zealously sustained their chiefs, of baving honestly won their title to an enduring fame. The gust of criticism and disappointment which has arisen out of the publication of General Sherman's “Memoirs” will pass away, and time will vindicate his honesty in printing ghis book, his trank- ness in telling what he believed to be true, and that he has told the truth without fear or favor, without envy and with a sincere desire to contribute as earnestly to the real knowl- edge of the waras by his sword he contrib- uted to its triumph. Rapid Transit on Country Roads. Railroads on the common highways of the country have been projected for some years | in France. If the Empire had endured they would probably have been in operation by this time. But all the troubles of the war and the political disorganization have not swept the project quite away, and it is again on the surface in the form of a bill in the hands of | the National Assembly. If the bill pass such roads will be constructed by private cap- ital, of course ; but the government will prac- | tically prepare the roadbed by changing, | wherever necessary, the level and the grades, the assumed reason for this liberality on the part of the government being that it will thus only be doing a few years in advance the reg- uler labor required of it upon the lines of posed, not as rivals or opponents of the great railway routes, but as rivals of the country diligenees and the persons engaged in the porterage of goods from the rural districts into all the towns, and They will be entitled to tequire of passengers a rate of fare much above the will then carry passengers for one-half what they pay by diligence. In short, these lines will supply and are intended to supply just that want that has hitherto agitated here and in England the practicability of the narrow gauge railways, They will be cneap and good lines of local communication in districts that, because they do not lie between great cities, are far removed from the railways built and | operated on the ordinary plan #s gigantic enterprises stretching across & continent of a § 3y this methola little town twenty mules from a great city will no longer remain | in the isolation of the Mddle Ages, but will | build for itself a railroad at the trivial outlay ot ten thousand dollars. It is even estimated that the expenditure will be considerably une | | der five hundred dollars a mile. Onee estab. « lish the fact that roads can be built withous | a | position in court makes him still more attrac- | General Sherman and His “Memoirs.” | the embarksiiou or such enormous sums as enter into railroad calculations geuerally and the example will be widely followed. Not only will France be filled with such local roads, but England also, and they will tend to counteract the tendency to which the railway system, as now in operation, leads. Out of this city filty such roads might be operated with profit, aud one of these days we hope to see the map of our environs cut with the straight lines of local traffic tili the famous circle of “thirty miles around’’ shall look like the pic- ture of the wheel of a‘sulky when the trotter isinahurry. For the true territory of this metropolis extends to the Great South Bay on oue hand and the Passaic River on the other; but we cannot build on the unoccupied lots | | till we get more rapid local communication. Leng Branch and Summer SOM. We print this morning an interesting letter from Long Branch, giving our readers an idea of the preparations now making to welcome the summer visitors to our seaside metrop- olis. The tardy-tooted spring has thrown back our summer seavon, ‘the tired citizen hesitates to leave the familiar highways while we have the cool evening breezes from the river and the bay. least until the thermometer dwells away up among the nineties, New York is the most desirable summer resort on the Atlantic coast. Nor would our fastidious ladies care to trust their midsummer drapery and decora- tions with weather as uncertain as that we have had for the past three months. But summer is coming, and as many of us as care to retain any pretence to respectability are surely going. A few more days and the exodus will begin. Our busy avenues will become silent and deserted, gray, dusty and sombre. Faces that we know will be known no more until the falling leaves and changing hues and cold autumnal airs hurry them home again. The summer season promises to be unusually bright, Saratoga is putting forth all her charms. The northern lakes and rivers are burdeued with fish which impatiently await the angler’s skill, while the wary deer skirt the Adirondack woods with their own thoughts about the pitiless citizens who lie in | wait for them with tbe rifl The question in most minds is, ‘‘Where shall we go?’ The steamers carry off more than their usnal colonies of Americans to stroll along the boulevards and dream on the banks of the Mediterranean. Every year this tide in- creases, and political economists sigh as they think of the millions thus poured into the | laps of skilled French and English tradesmen. | quiescence in a great wrong, and they bave We wonder if our wandering brethren know what they leave behind wnen they essay these errands—Niagara, Saratoga, the seaside, the thousand nooks, giens, hills, rivers and springs | that stud our beautiful land trom the Thousand Isiands on the St. Lawrence to the Sulphur | Springs of Virginia. As our Long Branch | correspondent shows us, the seaside will pos- | sess unusual attractions. But the greatest is | be tomteceiaaiihae te aap nse One of the comtorts of New | 1s registered at the Homfman House. the sea itself. York is that we have such a resort so close to our doors; and we are glad that our people show such a disposition to take advantage of it. Echoes of the Religious Press. The Jewish Times is jubilant over the grand Masonic procession and dedication the other day, and thinks that the highest praise be- stowed upon the fraternity is found in the unqualified depunciation and condemnation | of it by iftolerant sects who shut their eyes against the enlightenment and progress of achievement and think the sun does not shine because their eyelids are closed. The Church Journal is exercised over the fact that two trials have lately taken place, one in England and one here, in which the issue is the sacramental idea of marriage as held by the Church of Rome, And the Journal quotes from Gladstone's pamphlef and from Papal documents in proof of its assertion that that Church treats Protestant marriage as no mar- riage at all, and that thoss who contract it or who are married under civil law live in concubinage and their children are illegiti- mate. And under the operation of this view it says Cardinal Manning left his wife and took orders in the Church of Rome, and thus | “made himself infinitely contemptible as a low sneak in the eyes of all gentlemen.” The Catholic Review is indignantly sarcastic at what it calls Bismarck’s plot to entrap the | Archbishop of Paris into the semblance of heading a plot to assassinate the Prussian Chancellor. And because the Belgian govern- ment refused to advance the scheme Bis- marck has been bullying and threatening it and giving vent to his rage. He greatly de. sired to have another excuse to increase tne persecutions of the Church. The Hebrew Leader, while regretting that a Jewish con- gregation in this city (B'nai Jeshurun) should be the first to take advantage of a law which passed the last Legislature, and to enter the civil courts with an ecclesiastical contro- versy, does, nevertheless, justify appeals to the civil courts by citing incidents which illustrate the powerlessness of ecclesiastical courts to enforce their own discipline and or- dinances. Plymouth churcb, Brooklyn, and Glendenning, in Jersey City, are notable ex- amples. The Tablet looks upon Mr. Beecher as & psendo great man, but having no real moral, spiritual or intellectual greatness. It classes him with Moody and Sankey and Varley and Spurgeon, none of called great except in a Barnum sense. ‘The Christian at Work has o caustic and humorous article on the sale of pews in | heaven, designed as a caricature on the cus- tom of selling pews in churches here. The tich and the noble of earth get the best pews in heaven, as they do here, and Jesus and Paul and James and Baxter and Wesley and Doddridge and others are driven into corners, up in galleries or out into missions. And yet this is not alladream. There is too much reality in the picture to make light of it; and it isan evil that grows and strengthens year by year. that Moody and Sankey, one an uneducated lay preacher and the other an uneul- tivated singer, should be able to stir the heart of the metropolis of the world as they have done, but that there are so few Moodys and Sankeys and that such a revival has been delayed so long. ‘This is the strange thing aboutit. But they believe in God and in His word, and they preach and sing the Gospel they have learned with the downright earnest- ness of absolute conviction. This is the secret of their success. The (Churchman accounts In many respects, and at | whom can be | The Independent is surprised, not | | tor the uneasiness in the public mind on the sghool question by the fear that any conces: sion to the Catholic party is simply an enter ing wedge, and that the end sought for tt nothing short of Romanist schools, supportec by Protestant taxpayers and the des{:uotion of the Protestant schools alicgethor. Bullied Into Ite—The Police Surgeome aud Harlem Flats. All that we have charged aguinst the cou- tractors who have turned Harlem flats into a metropolitan pest bed is supported by the evidence we have recently printed, supple- mented by the proceedings before the Police Board yesterday. The testimony of Dr. Fet- ter that the flats have been filled up with at least twenty per cent of decaying organic mat- tery, and that the stench thereirom is inju- rious and nauseous, will be believed by the public, forhe had no motive whatever to ex- eggerate this report, but, on the contrary, many reasons to soften its odious and odorous facts. Itis clearly established by this im portant testimony that improper coercive influences were brought to bear upon the surgeons of the Police Board, and that they were expected to approve the work of the contractors without regard te its nature. But the exposure made defeated this scheme. Dr. Fetter has been released from any imaginary obligation, and his state- ment does credit to his manliness. He signed the rose-colored report with the rest of his colleagues as a matter of form ; he repudiates it now as a matter of conscience, and while he should have taken this attitude of defiance earlier it would be well it the other physicians would imitate his example and emancipate themselves trom the intolerable tyranny ot the cheating contractors and their official confed- erates. This exposé has setiled the question, and the surgeons need be no longer afraid that the Police Commissioners wiil punish them with removal for the crime of merely telling what they saw and smelt when they visited Harlem flats, and what they know of that infected region, where the corrupt contractor stands upon a monument of corruption which has been raised by his own recklessness and avarice. The Police Commissioners will not dare to punish a surgeon who speaks the truth. The | resolutions of Commissioner Voorhis, which the Board was obliged in respect to the pub- lic to adopt, set their lips free to speak, and we warn each and all that they are expected to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth at the meeting of the Board next Toesday. They were bullied before into ac- now the opportunity to redeem that pardon- able mistake by fulfilling a great duty. aaa eT ERS PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General B. Bloomfield, of New Orleans, is stop- ping at Barnum’s Hotel. Colonel Clermont L. Best, United States Army, Chief Engineer H. W. Fitch, United States Navy, Another primitive substance has veen discow ered by aFrenon chemist, which is named Lu tecinm. From Paris we learn that General Grant is kilb log himself by excessive indulgence in the use of— tobacco! Captain ©. P. Patterson, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is sojourning at the Everett House. Junius never knew & rogue who was not un- happy. Dut there are two or three rogues that Junius never knew. After all, it is Rot SO easy as some people fancy to Syphera fortune out of carpet-bagging poor reporters into Congress. It’s a bad year for expensive cattle. Tne Duke of Gen has just died in Kentucky, valued at $10,000 shortiy before this occurrence. If the London Times should some fine day appear simultaneously im every city of Great Britalu what a mortality there will be among local jour- nals. M. Escandon, ® Mexican billionaire, has had a cotossal statue of Christopher Columbus, by Cor- dier, erected in front of the Palais de *industrie, in Paris. Joaquin Miller would rather write poetry than steal; Dut everybody else wouid rather he'd steal | than write poetry, and ifthe State Prison spoald yawn for bim toey would endure it, Journalistic—Matt H. Carpenter bas retired from the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Atianta News hax been rrerged in the Constitution of the same city, and Dr.’ F.C, Bronek bas retirea from the Bula Demokrat and Weltbuerger. It is reported that the ‘Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne Will visit Canada and the United States this summer. This Princess bas an ambi- and spends several hours every day in conscientions work im the South Kensington Art School. In a French penal colony male and female convict wisned to marry a8 the laws allow; but the authorities required first the production from France of acertificate of the death of the man’s first wife, thouga he wasin the colony for com. plicity in causing her death. One of the few surviving noch vetel whe toox part in tue battie of Waterioo, the Marquir de Biagne, died lately. He was one o: Cam- bronne’s guard, and always denied that his com. mander bad made use of the well known phrase, “La Gard meart, wi se rend pas.” Figaro indicates & pi by which a rich man, who has | ecom: ngaged,”’ may yet save himseit and appearances also. It isto iniorm the laay’s father, in the strictest confidence, that he expecta in afew days to be ten times richer than he ac tually he has invesred all his money tn the new enterprise for colonizing the moon, Mr, Wenjukow has laid before the Geographica/ Boctety of St. Petersburg a project for making the Asiatic steppes arable. He proposes to tarn the waters of the Don into the Voiga. In the country of the Don Cossacks these rivers are onty ity miles apart. He expects that the great increase of waiter thus tarown into the Caspian will cor respondingly increase evaporation and rain, M. Lebeau, & Veterimiry surgeon of Paris, claims to have discovered a care ‘or hydrophobia, and submits the cure to an experiment, as fo! tows:—On the 23d of May be inoculated wits hydropnobia virus sixteen dogs in & hospital Eight of these dogs will ve kept securely withow treatment, the other eight will be treated with the remedy, and the practitioner is confident tha his eight will remain sound, waile the others wii die. Dr. Maurin recommends placing tn the oper | windows of invalids canvas well wetted. As 11 known, Water, in passing from a iiquid to a gase. ous stare, absorbs calorre, That che nical process will lower in a few minates the tewperature of a room by five or six degrees, and the humidity dis. tributed in the ait makes the heat more suppore able. By that system the patients tind themselves, even in the height of summer, i an atmosphere reireshed, analogous to that which prevails ater a storm. . ‘Tao Celestial Empire of April 8 says:—«puring | the eclipse of Thesday the sun, except at inter. vals, as totally concealed by clouds, We ate in. formed, however, that the sun was observed almos; immediately afivr first cantact, certuiniy Within @ minute of that time, and that the observed time eofrespouded with the caleuiaed time, Some photograps were obtained, out owing ta the ever-changing light aod clond they wer neither numerous nor woud. ‘The temperature aurina the eclivae fell seven degrees Palreuwein”