The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1875, Page 6

6 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 Youk Hunarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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 X. AMUSEMENTS i Woops MUSEUM. | Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street ACROSS THE CONTIN at 8 P.M; closes al 10:0 P.M HELD | AY BAY, a 2'P. M. | GILMORE?S 81 Jate karnum’s Hippodrom CEBT, at Sr. M.; closes at OLYMPT ¥e. 624 Broadway.—VARIET! MER GARDEN, GRAND POPULAR CON- M. TH TRE, Br. loses at 10 45 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at8¥. M, RO! 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From our reports this morning the probabililies are that the weather to-day will be a lilile cooler and clear or parfy cloudy. R RESORTS, Persons going out of toun for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Heratp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srnzerr Yesrrapay.—Stocks were firm and higher upon a restricted business. | Gold declined to 114}, closing at 114]. | Cagpivst McCuosxey has been compli- | mented with an address of congratulation | from the Catholic Union of Ireland, who seem to regard his promotion to the Cardi- nalate as an important event for the Church. Tae Cvnan Inscrcents have captured two forts. We also learn that a Spanish man-of- | war has chased a British schooner, having H on board a contraband cargo, into a Haytian | port. Even better than half a dozen victories | for the Cubans is the chance trouble between Spain and Englond. ot Tae Cancists appear to be still in retreat, but they have reireated and advanced go | often that these retrograde movements do not | indicate a speedy ending of the war. ‘There | would be more importance attached to the recent victories of Jovellar and Quesada i! the government at Madrid had the confidence ot Spain and the respect of foreign nations. But who places faith ina monarchy nominally goverued by a boy, yet really under trol of a di the con- Tee Drgiccu: TION of what happens when an irret fe meets an im- movable body will be slied to many persons by the recent collision of whale with the Cunntd steamer Scythia. The = conditi in th encounter ‘were not like those of the celebrated b morning we are able to « x irresistible force, the steamer, p verpool for repairs to hor propeller, and that the immov- able body of the whal port of Batlycotion—dead. An OvtBacxovs Foraray.—The letter pub- lished yesterday purporting to be written by Mr. Mewzo Diefendor to the Tammany troubles in the Eleventh Assembly distriet turns ont forgery. ‘The hoax was a poor one, whoever may have been its author. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. Diefendorf knew very well tnat a gentleman of his cretion could not have writteu such’a letter. They saw through the trick at once, and Mr. was towed inco the ve been m relation to have been a e and dis- Diefendorf's communication, which we pub- | lish to-day, shows that their conclusions were correct. Wrerrepos is a famous name in modern rifle shooting annals. It likely to become even more illustrious because of the part the American riflemen are taking in the contests this year. The St. Leger Sweepstakes were shot for yesterday. The range in this celebrated match is two hundred yards. The highest score was made hy Major Fulton, who made thirty-five out of a possible thirty- | five, and those who know bis remarkable noores at Creedmoor at short range shooting | tion from it, or that a people who witnessed to be very large additions to the number of | and endured it should fail to be degraded by | stay-at-homes in the metropolis this summer, will hardly be surprised at this total. Colonel Gildersleeve followed him | with thirty-four, and Mr. Yale with thirty- | three, so that even if Major Fulton’s score should be tied the American rifle team has fally sustained the reputation which it won at Creedmoor last year and maintained so nobly at Dallymount, Police Orimes—The Duty of the Press end the Public. While the testimony adduced before the | Assembly Committee on Crime reveals nothing | that was not known before a peculiar value attaches to it on account of its official solem- | nity. What was previously only a suaspi- cion or belief is’ now an established truth. ‘The Police Department is proved beyond all doubt to be honeycombed with corruption, and more dangerous to the peace and well | being of the community than the criminal | classes against whiehiit was organized to pro- | tect the people, So nt has this influence for evil become 1 official biackmailer practically deties every effort at punishment and boldly pursues his policy of oppression and fraud without any sense of danger from detection and exposure. ‘Thieves and burg- lars may be seen in the open day on terms of | intimacy with policemen and police captains. The station house and the police court have become a certain protection against crime. The officers of the law are the partners in guilt with the keepers of panel houses and dens of prostitution. The miserable crea- tures who walk the streets selling their bodies for bread are taxed by uniformed ruffians, who grow rich on the wages of vice. Only the innocent are in danger from police supervision, and so terrible bas this abuse become that the word ‘‘railroad- ing,” in thieves’*parlance, now means the conviction of innocent persons for the secu- mty of the real criminals and their official protectors. We rogret the necessity which compels these avowals, but no right-minded man who has read the testimony already brought out by the legislative committee or who keeps in mind the repeated exposures in the cotumns of the Humanp can fail to reach the conclusion that our police management is infamous—that the department itself is an in- famy. It grieves us to say this, because the fair fame of our city is involved in the decla- ration, but the duty is one which cannot be longer disregarded. Further concealment or supineness is death. No community which is held at the mercy of a class of ignorant and unscrupulous men such as compose the ma- jority of the metropolitan police can expect to continue prosperous and happy, and the duty of destroying botb the corrupt officers and their vicious practices is Paramount and immediate. The partnership between the criminal classes and the police was slow in growth, but it has acquired such strength that it is dangerous | for any innocent man to know the guilty secrets of the one or the other; and unless it is suppressed now by the complete reorganiza- tion of the department and the punishment of the men who have brought such infinite discredit and disgrace upon the community, life, liberty and property in New York will be less secure than among the brigands of Italy and Spain. We should fail in our duty in this crisis if we contented ourselves with denouncing the bad men under whose authority so much evil has been accomplished. The McCulloughs and Burdens and Williamses are only the scum which comes to the surface in times of moral deadness. These men, if they have committed the crimes charged against them, were guilty only because both public and private virtue are dormant and inoperative. ‘Was there any high purpose among the people to prevent or to punish crime not one of them could face an indignant community with the brazen effrontery they now exhibit. It is disgraceful that any of them should have been allowed to perform his official functions for a single day after the sworn testimony against them. Martinot’s charges against Captain Bufden were so clear and circum- stantial that only in a city lost to all public decency and virtue would the Police Board have dared to keep him in office after the accu- sations were known. Captain McCullough’s case is more recent, but no less scandalous, | while the conduct of Captain Williams has been for a year or two an open and running | sore. It is absurd to treat these officials as | innocent men, fit to be trusted with the great power they are allowed to exercise, Suspen- sion from duty and an impartial and speedy trial is the utmost they can ask, and it is dis- graceful to every member of the Police Board that more was granted them. We do not Delieve they are any worse than the majority of the captains on the force, but they bave | been accused on sworn testimony ot the high- est crimes of which a police officer can be guilty in his official capacity, and this calls | tor the legal determination of their guilt and their punishment if it is legally established, If the people of New York were as impatient of wrongdoing as they ought to be such charges even would be impossible; for if they ane true no public officer would have the courage to commit such bare- faced offences ti the face of an indignant pub- lic virtue, and if they are not true no accuser would have dared to make the accusations. Look at this subject as we may—from the side of the accusers or the accused, from a belief cr a disbelief in the accusations—we are alike compelled té deprecate ihe fatal supine- ness which has seized and paralyzed the body politic and leaves the city at the mercy of of- ficial or unofficial vultures. In bringing these charges home to our people we do not wish to imply that the moral tense which seems dead to the community is utterly annihilated or destroyed. We believe there is still as much public and private virtue in the metropolis as there ever was, but famil- iurity with malversation and corruption has putittosieep. It would be strange, indeed, were this otherwise. During the last twenty years there has scarcely been a time when some of our police justices were not the associates of thieves or worse. In the higher courts it is not long since impeachment of some of the judges was found necessary 2s a partial remedy against judical corruption. In both city and State justice has been systematically de- nied to suitors, and in many criminal cases it has been more dangerous to be the complainant than the accused. False swearing is a com- modity that is bought and sold in the market. Perjury is the certain protection of rogues. Under such circumstances it would be won- derful if the police should escape contamina- it. No man who has suffered a wrong now goes to Mr. Walling or Mr. Phelps for re- dress. Robbery in pancl houses is a common offence; but what protection is there against thieves of this character when police captains share in the profits of the business? Murder- eraand barelars go uadetected and unouo- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEKT, | ishod, and it is oftener the dupe than the real | criminal who is convicted. Police Headquar- ters is practically an exchange office for | | thieves, Eminent gentlemen whose watchcs | have been taken obtain them again, and | | the felonies are compounded to save trouble. | There is rottenness everywhere, and only the | base and the powerful escape. Virtuous people | | are shocked at the terrible revelations which | from time to time are brought to their notice, | but they fold their hands idly and say, “We can do notving.” The churches are too busy | fighting the mystical devil to contend with | the actual one. There is no hope unless it sball come out of the aroused conscience of a great people who have too long submitted to so much that is bratal and unworthy. We can | | hope for the day when all these wretches shall be swept from the paths of honest men, even | though as yet we fail to see its down. There is some hope for the future in the in- vestigation that is now going forward. The city is full of men familiar with the history of police crime. Some of these have already ap- peared before the Assembly Committee, and, startling as their testimony is, in the majority of cases it is entitled to the fullest credence. | An effort will be made—indeed, is now mak- | | ing—to break it down and destroy it. This | | must not be permitted, In this matter | | the press and the public have a high and solemn duty to perform—a duty that is not second in importance to the war onthe Ring which relieved us from tie rob- | beries of Tweed and his associates. These | | police thieves are even more dangerous than | | the thieves of old Tammany. Tho Tweed | | gang were only public plunderers. The po- | lice thieves and partners of thieves are not | only public plunderers, but private dealers in vice—men who enrich themselves with the wages of sin and swear away virtuous inno- cence to cloak their own crimes. At this time police faith is less worthy than Panic | faith in the days of old, and a policeman’s | oath is a thing of derision and reproach. Until the Assembly Committee began its work few men had the courage to tell what they knew of these abuses. Now that the truth is in part revealed they must be sustained and upheld by public opinion, and every officer who is shown to have participated in the | abuses now laid to his door must be steruly and severely punished. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Among the few topics that will be dis- | cussed to-day by city pastors is that of the Christian race, by Rev. RB. S. MacArthur, who will show what its requisites are and what its | rewards. Dr. Porteous will tell us why so | few people go to church. This is a question cf great moment to every lover of his race and of the truth; it is the question of the ‘hour, And akin to it is another which will ocetipy the Doctor's attention—namely, the | hold that popular religion has on women. | Two-thirds of all the church members in the land, we are told, are women. Professor Lou- trel will present the perfect remedy for all the sorrows and sins of mankind, and Mr. Ken- | | nard will prove that the company one | | keeps is the best test of one’s character in the race for life. Mr. Lloyd will | hold up Christ as the believer's life and | will draw from the ascension of Elijah such | | lessons as will profit his people. Mr. Leavell | will make Peter's defection the basis of warn- | ing to careless followers of the Master, and | will caution them against rejecting Him as | their king. Mr. Lightbourn will compare | unstable Christians to water, and show them | how utterly impossible it is for them to hope | or expect to excel. The great revival in Eng- | land, under Messrs, Moody and Sankey, who | are expected here in tho fall, will be pre- | sented by the Rev. Stuart Dodge, and the | temperance cause, which has been advocated | during the week st Sea Cliff, will receive the | | attention of Mr. Boole and others to-day. Tue Croton Warer.—No point is of greater interest to the people at any t'me nor at this season of more importance to public health than the condition of our water supply, and it is bad news to hear that the Croton Lake is in astate more like what we might look for | in some litile stagnant dam behind an aban- | doned mill, or some ill-cared-for pool in the corner of a stable yard, than that in which we should expect to find the source from which is quenched the thirst of a million of | well taxed people. On every body of watgr not in such rapid movement 4s constantly to change its volume at short intervals the | green deposit at the surface is found in sum- mer, just as it is now described to exist in the Croton Lake, and whether that deposit be dead vegetable matter or vegetable matter in | which there is vitality and growth, it is an unpleasant feature. If it is dead vegetable matter its presence in such quantity turns the clear fluid we desire into an unpleasant solution, and if there be living plants in the mass it is because they find in the state of the water and in the matter accumulated near the surface such a basis of support as renders the use of the fluid unsafe. Evidently the Croton supply and its sources need attention. Tae Ivunpations iv France.—Farther ex- tracts from our files add some details to the | full accounts hitherto published by us of tho | unparalleled calamity in the south of France, | One of the admirable points in the case is the | | readiness and spirit with which the whole na- | tion enters into sympathy with the afflicted | district, and the efficient way in which the | President has given the alleviation of the mis- eries of the people his personal attention.« Present personally on the spot, seeing and knowing the necessities of the case, and di- | reeting the organied national force to such | purposes as burying the dead, caring for the injured and clearing away the wreck, the old Marshal gives an effective example of his sim- ple and practical ideas of the duties of the Chief of State that will long avail him with | the nation against many party theories and many adverse yotes in the Assembly, | | Oon Suman Resorts. —The letter we pub- lish iu another column from Long Branch | presents an intercsting picture of life at the | seaside. The arrival of the “young prince’ is the chief feature of comment. ‘There seem | | a6 the watering places are by no means pa- | tronized to the extent of former seasons, New | York has so many elements of attraction | during the dogdays in its beautiful Park and picturesque environs that it is uot surprising to find persons who prefer it to the manifold discomforts of fashionable summer raanrta, The Indian Quest: ‘The detailed and accurate narrative of our special correspondent in the Sioux country has produced a profound impression in Wash- ington, This narrative contained, as our readers will remember, addresses to the Henraup from several prominent chiefs of the | Indian tribes, showing that they had been | robbed by agents and keepers of trading | stores; that the solemn promises of the government had been broxen ; that they were | compelled irom sliver starvation to eat their | ponies and dogs; that the beef and pork, | flour, coffee and tobacco distributed to them were unfit for use, and that the farming uten- sils they were to use for agricultural purposes to learn how to tiil the soil were valueless. In brief, the whole story was that the Indians | were robbed. The agents and traders grew rich while the Indians starved. Those who robbed them were protected by a strong influ- ence at Washington, This influence could be understood when it was known that the prin- cipal trader was the brother of the President. ‘These complaints of our correspondent, circumstantial, accurate and calmly told, are confirmed by the narrative of Professor Marsh, of New Haven. ‘This gentleman, a man of science and learning, found himself in the Indian country on an errand of science. He there saw the manner in which the govern- ment authorities treated Red Cloud and the Indians, He showed that at a time when the Indians were suffering from hunger they were reported at the Indian Department to have received over two hundred and seventy thou- sand pounds of beef, and that the government paid for this beef, which was never delivered. He'showed frauds in cattle, blankets and in the quality of the provisions furnished. He showed also that the authorities in Washing- ton knew of these facts and sustained the criminals, Professor Marsh's evidence amply confirms that of the Henaup’s commissioner. In answer we have carefully prepared de- spatches from Washington, evidently in- spired by the Indian Ring and intended to break the force of our exposures. There is a gleam of hope in the fact that the President has taken alarm, and has summoned Pro- fessor Marsh to Long Branch to communicate with him personally. We have no doubt the end will be the dismissal of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. We do not desire to have these officers dis- missed without a hearing ; but the country will not tamely witness the wrongs that have been perpetrated by the government upon these helpless tribes. ‘The Indian Ring is one of the ablest, most skilfully organized and un- scrupulous around the government. It has flourished for years. It was strong under Buchanan and Lincoln. It had political power enough to save Andrew Johnson from | impeachment. It has always had a dominant influence in Congress. It has named its own committees and arranged its own appropria- tions. It drove General Cox out of the Inte- rior Department, and appointed the facile Delano to succeed him. It defeated Grant by compelling him to abandon his wise and humane policy. It has confirmed this victory by taking the President’s own brother into its circle and giving him the most profitdble store in the Sioux country. All the time the | Ring has been discreet, silent and wary, It | has handled the telegraph with masterly skill, and has thus far defied an honest inquiry. But its rule must come to an end. Facts like these furnished by our correspond- ent, who, at great danger to himself and large expense to us, pushed into the Indian country | with his own servants and interpreters and | saw the truth for himself, cannot be explained | away. Nor can their perpetrators be allowed to go unpunishe}. The time has come | to press this matter. has been for too many generations a cancer in the system. It is the dark- | est stain upon car history—darker even | than slavery, for we freed the negro, while we have only robbed the Indian and propose | to exterminate him. We found the Indian tribes om this Continent, where they had lived for centuries, on lands that had been given them by God. We drove them out of their homes by our superior civilization. In- stead of striving (o lead them to our own level we have robbed and murdered them. | Extermination has become the seitled policy | of the frontier. Between the pioncers and | the indians there is incessant, pitiless warfare, and as we move on and on we drive the Indian away or destroy him. He may resist and | strike back some cruel, startling blow; but it | is only for an hour. His revenge is barren, and he surely dies. This is not a noble outlook for a free, civil- ized, generous, humane people, as we claim | to be. It is not pleasant to think that we can only plant an empire here by murdering our | predecessors. Yet this we have done, and this we are doing every day. ‘he exposures | ot the Sioux country, exposures which show the President's own brother at the head of a ring of traders, are only a new chapter in the melancholy and disgraceful history. ‘Tue German Government, it is said, guar- antees to keep secret the submission of Catholic priests to German laws, in order to secure them from ultramontane per- secution. Certainly Bismarck is shrewd in this flonk movement upon Rome; but Rome is a match for him in strategy of that kind, or history has grossly mis- | represented her... Bismarck should un- derstand that the priests who submit | are dikely to profit by the .opportu- | nities they obtain, and for this reason we | are disposed to think that the rumor of the Pall Mall Gazetle is merely one of those London sensations which are published on one day to be denied the next, But whether the report be true or talse the policy can have no important result. Toe Lona Braxce Racks.—Yesterday | closed the second meeting at Monmonth Park, and the large attendance showed the appreciation of this sport by the public. There were five races, the winners being | Parole, Ozark, Lelaps, Deadhead and Ver- nango. | Tur Tweep Dectstoyx.—The opinions of | leading members of the Bar upon Mr. Charles O'Conor’s letter to Judge Davis are given elsewhere, and will attract deserved attention. The issue between Mr, O'Conor and the Court of Appeals is important, and wo wish to put the whole question in regard to Mr, Tweed fally and fairly before the pubic, | this late day, to do him honor. for the American people that we shall be glad | {his Peekskill friends the other day. | Piymouth church he was (defiant. | Weekly, \ The Statue to Byron. Some time since a movement was made to- ward erecting a statue to Lord Byron. We ob- serve that a public meeting has been held to subscribe funds for the purpose. Mr. Disraeli was in the chair. Among the speakers wo note a fellow-countryman, ‘General Wilson."” ‘The telegraph is so vague that we are left in doubt as to which of our distinguished soldiers bearing that name was gallant enough to represent us. But, whoever he was, we are sure that his assurance that the United States would pay one-fourth of the ten thousand dollars necessary was not ill judged. The presence ot Disraeli at the meet- ing was becoming. Disraeli, the most suc- cesstul literary man of the century, so far as rising to power is concerned, is the proper person to honor the most celebrated English writer of the century. Disraeli may be said to be a liter- ary contemporary of Lord Byron. He was thinking of ‘Vivian Grey” while the other was writing “Don Juan.’ He came into literature in some senses his pupil or follower. One of his most charming novels is based upon the life of Lord Byron and his daughter. Disraeli has manliness and appreciation enough to rise above the cant which has so long clouded the feme of Byron and to insist that justice should be done to his genius in the capital of the nation which cherishes that genius among its glorios. i One of the greatest of English critics, shortly after Byron’s death, in discussing his genius, said: —‘‘A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of the magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. | To us be is still a man, young, noble and un- happy. ‘To our children he will be merely a writer, and their impartial judgment will appoint his place among writers without re- gard to his rank or his private history.” More than a half century has passed since Lord Byron died, but ‘the magical potency | of his name” still remains. It is as fresh now as it was in the time of our fathers. ‘The sin- gular ancestral and personal history, the sed domestic life, the sudden rise to a supreme rank in the republic of letters, to-day the | darling of society, to-morrow its execration, Prince and exile before he was thirty, the wild lite in Italy and the glorious death in Greece— these are incidents that do not enter into all literary lives. Byron, like Chatterton, Burns and Poe, has become a romantic name in liter- | ature. Young men and young ladies also have tbeir Byron fever, generally when tarning the corner of their teens. The world grows dark to them. No more, no, never more, on | them the freshness of the heart will fall like dew. If piracy were not a capital offence and tae isles of Greece were less accessible many of them would turn pirate like Conrad. They go through the fever with lacerated hearis and scowling lips, and cynical smiles, and not the most exalted idea of the Command- ments. But the fever goes and in time thoy come to rightly estimate Byron. The ‘‘magi- cal potency” of his name rarely affects a cul- tivated person over thirty. We see the faults of Byron, the mischief of much of his philos- ophy, his wantonness, his egotism and selfish- ness. But we see alsoagenius so daring, so sweeping, sorich, so thoroughly masculine and Saxon that we must go back to Shakespeare to find its superior. There are those who will place Milton and Wordsworth and even Shelley on a higher plane than Byron. It would uot be profitable to enter into this controversy. Wordaworth, Milton and Shelley were men of a puror gonins than Byron, and of loftier soul. Byron comes near to the heart of England, just as Burns touches that ci Scotland and Goethe that of Germany. Ho is the most English poet since Shakespeare—the one who is ac- The Indian question | cepted by foreign nations as the best type of | modern English poetic thought. In France | we find Lamartine ss his commentator; in Germany the illustrious Goethe performs the | same office; while in Spain his life has boan written by Custelar. ‘We question if any writer since Shakespeare has made the same impression upon American thought as Byron. In many respects Byron isas much American as English, He approaches more nearly to that type of the Saxon character which has devel- oped in America. Nor should we forget that he never failed to do justice to our country, | and that from his pen came the most eloquent tribute to Washington in the English tongue. We are glad to see this tendency, even at to do our share toward the Byron monument in London. We should hke also to see one in our Central Park. That would bea double honor and one that Americans could gracefully pay tothe memory of the poet who died in the service of treedom aud never hesitated to do honor to America. Spirit of the Religious Press. The Golden Age, having last week, as was | supposed, sufliciently disposed of Mr. Beecher and Plymouth church, under the aspect of the latter regilding their idol by increasing his salary, returns to the charge anew this week. often persists in coming to the front again and again. This time he has given the Age great offence by his rampant, impious talk to At Age could stand well enough. But on his farm be was exultant and broke into bragga- docio. But he lifts the mask from himself, and everything he does, says the Golden Age, shows what no mask can conceal. Judged by any worthy standard of morals he is an unconvicted crime—a liv- ing lie. ‘The only answer that Mr. Beecher’s Christian Union wakes to all that bas been said against bim is to state briefly the action ot Plymouth church, republish the congratu- latory despatches from England and Prussia, and give, with a kind of gleeful chuckle, Dis- trict Attorney Britton’s reply to Moulton’s demand for trial for libel, The Baptist having heretofore expressed its confidence in Mr, Beecher’s integrity and purity, advises Mr. Bowen that his connec- tion with the scandal has placed him in such | an ignominious position that his editorial | opinions in the matter, as expressed in the Independent, are not of the smailest value, and that the best thing he can do now is to keep his mouth shut, and that Piymouth church will doserve the full measure of adverse criticism that has been heaped upon it by a portion of the press if it any longer delays to compel Mr, Bowen to explain bis treatment of bis We can say | ‘The man whom it has put down 50 | This the | pastor or cast him ont ot its fellowship asa defamer of the innocent. The Methodist holds up in striking contrast the impression that we, as a nation of ‘‘rings,” actually make upon Europeans with what we hope and expect to make by our national jubilee and centennial celebrations. There ix a wide margin between our pretensions te | reform and our real efforts and experience, The Churchman, referring to certain adverse comments of the Opinion Nationale on the laying of the corner stone of the Church of the Sacred Heart at Montmartre, longs for the restoration of the old Gallican Church—-the | true Catholicism ; for, of all forms of Prot- estantism which have obtained on the Conti- nent, French Protestantism seems the most unlovely. No now Church would or could do what the old Ohurch, purified and elevated, could do for the lifting up of the people. All the troubles of the Church and of Franco the Churchman traces to ultramontane in- fluence, which must continue to be a disturbing element. The Christian Advocate gives expression to the alarm, well grounded, no doubt, that existe in Germany at the dearth of theologians. The Germans have for years made biblical investi- gation their special study; but now the col- leges, universities and theological schools are almost deserted by this class of students. And the reason assigned is that the ecclesiasticat laws against Rome are operating against other clergy also, and that the ministry, being | thus placed, as it were, between the upper | and the nether millstones, there is no induce- | ment io young men to enter that profession. Besides, the tendency is toward disintegra- tion and the separation of Church and State, and in that event the ministry in Germany has a very poor prospect of a living. This being the season for ministerial vacations the | Christian Leader says emphatically that ‘they ought to hava these respites, for no class in the community is harder worked than ministers. Their vocation is the most ! taxing of apy, and they must toil incessantly to prepare new sermons for their congrega- tions, to visit the sick and bury the dead, and attend to many other duties that tax the nervous system and bear heavily upon the emotional nature. The Christian at Worle wants Mocdy and Sankey, and Pearsall | Smith and Hammond, and Earl and Whittle, , and Bliss and all the other revivalists on this and the other"side of the Atlantic to come here next fall and surround New York and capture it tor Christ. If New York and its surroundings can be taken for God the editor thinks the whole country is thereby captured. And the land needs to be washed from its pollution, We want a revival that will shut up the dramshops and empty the ‘theatres and rouse up the dead churches’ and set the flames of Christian zeal sweeping on | swift as the fire on the Illinois prairies. The Jewish Times is justly proud of the part that its coreligionists are to take in the Centennial celebration in 1876. But it wants its people to emphasize the idea of religious liberty, -be- . © cause it fears that we may wake up some morning and finda large combination in favor of a State religion. But we may add, for the comfort of the Times, that whenever it wakes up it will find a larger combination against it. | So that it need not lose steep at all on this account, Church and State gives eleven rules for the clergy to observe in vacation. They are to travol on horseback or in a carriage, instead of walking; take the full measure of sleep every day, and not go fishing or rowing boats at three o'clock in the morning ; avoid con- troyersics on moral subjects ; have noanxiety about the eucroachments of the Papacy nor pother tho mind with a course of reading om | divinity or anything else; write no lectures for winter campaigns, ‘preach short sermons not more than an hour and forty minutes long, lny aside clerical appurtenances, talk freely | with everybody and muse on the beauties of roral life, and be attentive to wife and chil- | dren, langh much and ery none, read the | Bible aud say prayers, and health and enjoy- ‘ ment willensue. Be virtmous and you will be i happy, for godliness with contentment is great gain. ‘Taw Aarentc.s Cxuesration In ENGLAND. The celebration of the Fourth of July in London was an event which moved the Stan- dard of that city to wrath and lamentation. The English people, however, did not regret | the commemoration of the proclamation of American Independence even in their owt capital, and the description in our correspond, | ence of the banquet at the Crystal Palacé | shows that the best of feeling prevailed. The English might with just as much reason moura over the Wars of the Roses as over the Revolution of the American colonies, almost one hundred years ago. 4 PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ADSEANGISN Stet | ‘They are tearing down Cuancer’s Tabard [no, in London. | General Joun &. Smith, United States Army, is quartered at the Grand Central Motel. colonel Loreazo Sitgreaves, United States Army, \s among the Inte arrivals at the Clarendon hoiel. Judge John Erskine, of the United States District Court for Georgia, arrived last evening at the Giisey How Chevailer Ernest von Tavera, Chargé 4’Affatres of Austria at Washington, has apartments at the Alvemarie ‘Hotel. It is said. that Mérimée’s “Autre Inconnue” is tne Countess Lise Przedrzerska, sister to the Marquise de Noailies. General Rufus logails, of the Quartermaster's Department, United States Army, is registered at the Fiith Avenne Hotel, | They have bad greasy fan at Chinon in France in alesiival in honor of Rabelais, The feature of the occasion was @ procession of men and women made upin the characters of ‘Tue Chronicles of Pantagrue!.” An “insect” bit a lady at Reading while she woe gathering pareley im tue garden and she died from the bite in four days. That insect was probably a snake bidden in thi raley bed. Disraeli proposes & new verb for membership of the English langnage. Me said in the House or | Commons, “There is no one whom I should like more to convenience than my honorabie iriend,” Butler velieves (vat a former officer on nis stag, who is now dead, bas “gone to heaven; but as the inquiry in regard to the oMcer’s whereabouts was made On account of the discovery that his ac- counts were “irregular,” there is room for doubt, Butler's generosity, however, 18 none the less commendable, Right Rey. Dr, Croke, Who has been appointed , Archbishop of Casuel, Ireland, by the Pope, was inforwed of His Clovation when in London, on the 28th ult. He at the same time received a summons to repair at once to Rome, in order to receive at the hands of tae Pope himseif che pallium. ‘This 18 AN honor almost UNeXampled in the case oF @ prelate not actualy m Rome at the dave of bis promotion,