The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1875, Page 6

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For further particulars see time Persons gowng out of town for ihe summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. ‘Tue Sgnvons published to-day show that a great'deal of religion still remains in New York, notwithstanding the large emigration of the clergy and laity to the sea shore and the springs. The discourses of Dr. Sabine, Rev. Mr. Dickson, Father O’Farrell, Rev. Mr. Ganse, Rev. Mr. Noyes and others. will well repay careful consideration. Isprax Wan.—The Crows and certain of their allies, evidently not satisfied with the slow movement of the exterminating process, are endeavoring to accelerate it by a little fighting with the Sioux. Their success, how- ever, has not been remarkable, as, after a three days’ contest, only one of the combat- ants was killed and three wounded. The pres- ent attitude of the government toward this | portion of its wards is not exactly compre- hensible. Ir Conxum’s ALLEGATION that Michael Ryan was discharged on the accusation of burglary | because he was ordered on post and could not appear on the examination can be sustained, this fact is in itself one of the most damaging and disgraceful charges yet made against police management in.this city; and whether | it is true or not, his story is so plausible as to require a complete investigation into the whole matter. The public have a right to know how the police authorities managed the Nathan case, and the longer an inquiry is de- | layed the more disgraceful will be any ex- posure which may follow. Tue Rawx Szason.—Some remarkable and | very disastrous meteorological conditions are reported from certain portions of the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The heavy rains have caused much damage to the railroads, greatly impeding travel, and the crops are suffering to an extent which causes the greatest apprehensions. Amid it all the army worm has made its appearance, | with the usnal resultant devastation. Ac- cording to the latest reports, as contained in | our news columns, the weather was still gloomy and more rain threatened. Tur INSURRECTION ARY Movemrsr is still maintained, to the evident anxiety, even alarm, of the great Powers who are more immediately interested in the pacific adjustment of what is | of the East—the Otto he Servians are b ruler, Prince Milan, 1) Porte and Austria, oming excited. Their undertaken a jour- ney to Vienna, where he is engaged in con- | sultation with the Austrian Ministry, the Emperor Franz Joseph haying summoned Count Andrassy, tho Prewier, to the capital for that purpose. The Austrians look on the | Mayor will offer in proposing at the banquet | popular movemont with some favor, being of tho cpizion that the Sultan has neglected to do many things which he should have done jn the way of reform in the principalities. The | complication may produce very important ro- sults, even renew the very serious question of the East, a problem which is far from being zolved, own as the question | O'Connell and the Roman Catholic Polley. Daniel O'Connell would have looked with indignant horror upon the error which his countrymen propose to commit. As will be seen by our special cable despatches from London, the celebration of the Centennial an- niversary of the greatest of Irish statesmen | is to become the greatest blunder which | Ireland has made in the last hundred years | of her history. She is about to transform an act of national gratitude and joy to an act of religious aggression, and to make an un- paralleled opportunity for fraternal union the cecasion otf religions feud. The character and the purpose of the man she desires sin- ! cerely to honor are forgotten when it is pro- | posed to make the very day of his birth Dantel tion, and we can imagine the great shade of | the Liberator with mute eloquence appealing to the people he served to forbear, and with | sterner gesture rebuking the Church which he freed, His policy, his acts and his character all | rebuke the service to which the Roman Catho- lic Church in Ireland would yoke the splen- dor of his name. O'Connell was not only de- yoted as an Irish patriot, but he was shrewd, far-seeing, and, beyond all others of his party, successiul as aleader. As @ young man he looked back upon the utter failure of the Trish rebellions, and resolved to secure bythe power of eloquence and wisdom redress for those centuries of wrong which the sword could never right. The Emmets, Fitzgeralds | and other brave men had given their, lives for their country, but O’Connell resolved to make his life one labor in that holy cause. In the methods which he adopted to compel England to yield justice to Ireland he resembled such American slatesmen as Seward and Sumner in their opposition to slavery, just as the attitude of the Fitzgeralds | and Emmets may be said to have resembled that of Wendell Phillips, Garrison and other uncompromising abolitionists. To these men respectively, the constitution of the United States and the connection with England were a league with death and a covenant with hell. | They abjared all allegiance to the enemy. | | But as Seward organized and Sum. | ner championed the irrepressible con- ; fet on the floor of Congress, and | within the limits of the constitution, | so O'Connell fought for Irish union and | Catholic emancipation in the English Parlia- ment. The resemblance goes no further, but it illustrates the important fact in this man’s | character that he was a statesman as well as | patriot. He believed in means as well as in ends; his genius was sagacious and practical, and it seems to us an outrage, instead of an | honor, to make the name which was once the | oriflamme of his whole country now the sig- | nal of its division and strife. Better to have | no celebration of his birth whatever than one which separates the Irish people into religious | factions and alienates from the Irish cause all | its friends who do not believe in the tem- poral power of the Pope. No man of his time in Ireland ever served the Catholic Church more faithfully than | O'Connell, and none did as much for its freedom. It was his genius that conceived the it was his masterly strategy that forced | the British leaders to abandon _ their | defiant attitude to reform. He not only championed the Irish, but he convinced the English. The Roman Catholic Emancipation act was his work, and is an immortal monu- | ment to his memory. In this assertion | of religious rights he revolutionized the policy which had almost un- | interruptedly continued for centuries, | and achieved a moral conquest over England of which the value is beyond esti- thus to emancipate a persecuted religion was glory enough. But’O'Connell, we believe, dearly as he loved his Church, loved his coun- try better. Emancipation of the Church to him was a giant's step toward the political freedom of the nation. What the indepen- dence of the American colonies was to be to the American Republic the breaking of the shackles of religion -should have been to the hberation of Ireland. O'Connell tri- umphed in one of his hereulean labors, but he failed in the other. It was not possible that one man should accomplish two tasks so tre. méndous. Yet he gid not altogether fail in the struggle for the political inde- pendence of Ireland. He prepared the way for a union of his countrymen, the moral force of which should be | irresistible. He bequeathed his great work to this generation, and it is this very work which the Roman Catholic priests and dignitaries in Ireland and the ultramontanists in all countries threaten to ruin by the gigantic blunder they intend to commit in Dublin. This blunder, if We may call by that title something worse, is clearly set forth in our London despatches. Tbe Lord Mayor of | this celebration purely a Roman Catholic | demonstration, by making it impossible for other than those who are | tanists to participate. The invitations, | weare informed, have been principally ad- dressed to Catholics ; have been paid to those German Catholic clergymen who sre at war with the German | government ; the Irish Protestants have been | debarred from active part in the man- agement of the great festival; the frish home rule party is ed in a danger- ons position in respect to the English liberals, | whose co-operation they depen { timate suc in Parliament; the great | English public, which honors O'Con- neil for his labors in the cause of | religious freedom, is forbidden to express ‘ats sympathy; leading English statesmen, both whig and tory—Gladstone, Disraeli, Lord Derby, Earl Russell and Lord Harting- ton—-who would join with Ireland in pay- ing » tribute to her famous champion, dare not take part in « demonstration that is openly aimed at Bismarck and his policy toward Rome. Finally, all British subjects offended by tho insult which the Lord ar the toast to the Pope's health before | terr the quality of that mercy ho offers the toast in honor cf the | which the English govern slaims to pos- | | health of the Queen. What blunders | sess to the very utmost. The members de- could be worse than these? What has | mand the liberation of their associates who | the celebration of Daniel O’Connell’s | ar held in prison in Mogland, One hundred | birth to do with the quarrels between Bis- thousand sympathizers assembled in Hyde marck and the Vatican? Ireland has enough | Park yesterday to support the demand. Mr. | the pretext for an ultramontane demonstra- | first plan of action, and | mate. The purpose was sufficient in itself; | | Dublin and Cardinal Cullen propose to make | ultramon- | particular attentions | upon for ul- | others, and to raise up new enemies to her dearest hopes and interests, while at the same time she offends many of her warmest friends. That the Catholic Church has profound canse to be grateful to O'Connell, and that it could pay him no tribute too splendid for his service, is unquestionable. The | Pope and the cardinals, aud the clergy | and laity throughout the world, might well crown his statue in Dublin with laurels | and his memory with blessings. But when the Church turns what should be wholly vativnal festival intq an ecclesiastical at- tack it is guilty of ingratitude to the man who served it so well, for it then betrays the cause of his country, The | Church is free now, but the country is not. | It needs all the energy and all tne wisdom and unity of the Irish people to secure the ends for which O'Connell labored, and with tnis all the aid and sympathy of liberal men every- where sheuld be joined. Whoever introduces religions strife and bitterness into the coun- cils of the Irish leaders; whoever secks to | alienate from Ireland the friends of her cause in England; whoever would postpone for one day the triumph of Irish freedom is no friend of Daniel O'Connell. His {fame ought to be too dear to his countrymen to be made the slave of any ecclesiastical war, and the purpose of his life is too noble to be sacrificed even to | a great religious aspiration, No one can ob- | ject to the Church making war against Bis- | marck, who has warred upon itso unjustly, but | it is impossible to see without sorrow the memory of a great leader wronged under the pretence of honoring it and the cause of | Irish liberty sacrificed at the very foot of the altar, Have We Any Laws in New York? Ex-Judge Leonard, of the Supreme Bench, makes a contribution to. the discussion be- tween Mr. O’Conor and the Court of Appeals in a letter, in which he reviews Mr. O’Conor’s | position and censures him for his criticisms upon our court of last resort. Into the legal | questions of this caso we do not presume to | | enter; those are matters which the lawyers must decide in the end; but while we are dis- cussing the extraordinary fact that William M. Tweed has succeeded in stealing five aillions of dollars from the public treasury, and by the payment of a halt million to | | leeches, lawyers and blackmailers, has been | permitted to keep it, we discover also that a decision has been rendered by a State court which virtually pats the Canal Ring out of the reach of justice. Here, then, are two facts which have recently come to light—the immunity of the Tammany Ring, through the decision of Judge Donohue, and the im- munity of the Canal Ring, through tbe de- cision of Judges Learned and Westbrook. The effect of these decisions may. in plain words, be stated as follows: —Justice Donohue decides that Mr. Tweed cannot be indicted for stealing money from the city of New York, because after he had stolen the money he pro- cured the destruction of thegvidences of his crime. In other words, Tweed prevents his conviction on the charge of misdemeanor by a successful act of burglary on the part of one ot his retainers. Justices Learned and West- brook decide that the members of the Canal | Ring are not to be compelled:to produce their | books for examination. Jarvis Lord, the | head of the Canal Ring, has won a decision | as important to him as that of Judge Dono- hue to Tweed. The case against him was dis- | missed by Justice Westbrook, consequently the bead of the Canal Ring, Jarvis Lord, end | the head of the Tammany Ring, William M. | ‘Tweed, are free from the operation of the law. Of course, it is said, in answer to this, that | the law is master of us all, and thatit is much | better that Tweed and Lord should escape | than that an innocent man should suffer, and | that there should be no departure from the settled rules of jurisprudence; yet, at the | same time, does it not open a new question? Have we any laws in New York for the pro- ; tection of the poople? And why is it that when a man steals a ham he can be sent to prison for twenty years by Recorder Hackett, | while, if a public officer embezzies funds to the amount of millions, and brings disgrace upon the city and the nation, he can be pro- tected in every step? ‘The result of these | | legal controversies between the friends of | reform, Mr. Tilden and Mr. O’Conor, and | the leaders of the Tammany Ring cannot | well beforeseen. They will go farther toward | implanting in the minds of the people deep | distrust of legislation at Albany and the fear | that justice has been dismissed from our | Bench, and in time, perhaps, the dishearten- | ing suspicion that there is something dan- | gerous in our republican system. Whatever | may be thought of the wisdom of Mr. | | O’Conor’s special attack upon the Court of | Appeals, it is very certain that his general | course meets the commendation of the com- | munity, and the people feel that he is fighting | | monster With many heads, and that in striking down Tweed he wounded but he did | not destroy Be lh ae | Tur Drap Ex-Presrpent.—It was a touch- ing scene, that of yesterday in Greenville, | Tenn., when the remains of him who had | made their little village famous for oll time | | were brought back to his neighbors and | friends to be shronded in the flag of his coun- | try, toward which, when, the strongest grew | weak, bis devotion never wavered; to receive | hand that constitution in de | | in that nerveless fence of which he had sacrificed what to the | public man is dearer than lite, and thus to | wait their removal to the modest resting place | Jong since selected for them. And the feel- ing manifested thore is ref throughout the entire country, from 1 parts of which | muliitudes are ga ing fo take partin the final ceremonies around the grave, where all an- imosities must give plaice to reverence for the memory of one who kne er good than Iu words fit 10sen the prese head of the nation pays a @nal istingnished predecessor and } ance of the usual marks of | respect toward those who have deserved well of the Republic. i | | his county | ent execut tribute to | directs the obse: Sa ‘ IATION is de- | trouble of her own without using an im- | O’Counor Power. Member of Parliament far | most immediate ond earnest support ; proper opportunity to fight the battles of | Mayo, presided, and was energetically sup- | paid was money | ported by some of his liberal colleagues in | should Ingersoll stop in his good work? Why the House of Commons. The popular move- ment for radical reform is evidently progress- ing rapidly in England. The Ohio Canvass—Thurman and Hayes. We printed yesterday two important speeches, the first by General R. B. Hayes, the republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, and the other by Senator A. G. Thur- man. Both deserve attentive perusal by all who take an interest in our general politics, and in the important canvass going on in Ohio, the result of which will, it is generally conceded, have an important effect upon the attitude and fortunes of the two political partie’ next year. General Hayes, whose views on the finan- cial question acquire additional importance | from the tact that he is spoken of in influen- tial Western quarters as a possible republican candidate for tbe Presidency, gives a clear, cogent and intelligent’ summary of reasons why the only true and honorable course for the country is to return as soon as possible to specie payments, and he shows, with an able hand, the disgrace, dishonor and national | calamities which an inflation of the currency would bring upon us. It is certainly a gratifying circumstance that in the opening republican speech of the campaign in this Wes‘ern State anable politician, the candidate of his party for Governor, and one thought of by many in his section foreven a higher office, thus squarely and without circumlocution condemns for himself and for his party all practices or plans looking toward on inflation of the currency, and unequivocally takes ground in favor of a return to an honest cur- rency. It is gratifying, too, to find Senator Thur- man as a democrat, and also and conspicu- ously spoken of as a Presidential candidate, declaring himself unequivocally a hard money man, and boldly asserting, in defiance of Governor Allen and Gene- ral Carey, and to the confusion of Mr. Pendleton, that though there is a division of opinion in the democratic as well as in the republican ranks on this question, he will not be driven away from his well formed opinions in favor of hard money, either by platforms or by party rules. He speaks as a democrat and for the hard money democrats in Ohio. We do not think he is quite happy in his attempt to show that the Ohio demo- cratic platform does not mean inflation. was accepted in that sense by those who made itand by those who have given it the tho candidates nominated upon it have given it unequivocally that meaning, and itis of no use now to say that it means anything else. It was and is a blunder, anda very grave one; but Senator Thurman can do much to rescue his party at large from its consequences | by maintaining, as he does in this speech, his own opinions upon the question in defiance of plattorm and candidates. The country looks to him to carry a hard money delega- tion from his State next year to the National Democratic Convention; it has no particu- lar expectations from any other Ohio demo- erat, and we hope tosce Mr. Thurman in other speeches during tbe present canvass | maintain his financial ground boldly and use his influence and knowledge to crush out within his party the crazy inflation schemers who aim at control. A great point will be gained for the public welfare and the security of our credit and national honor, as well as our prosperity, if both parties can be brought | next year to declare unequivocally for hard money and an honest currency. This ques- tion ought to be removed from national poli- tics. ‘he question whether a nation will deal honestly with its creditors and with itself is one that ought not and cannot with- out serious injury to its best interests be- come one of party dispute. While we applaud, therefore, most heartily General Hayes’ bold and intelligent presen- tation of the financial question, we are no less happy that so eminent an Ohio democrat as Senator Thurman, also, and in spite of the party platform and candidates, declares him- self faithful to a sound currency. General Hayes remarks, very rightly, that the inflation utterances of the Ohio democrats have alarmed and disgusted the country, and we count upon Senator Thurman to complete the demorali- zation of the enemies of a sound currency in the ranks of bis owa party. General Hayes remarks that, when the republican party, in 1861, took the government from the hands of the democrats, the nation was upon the verge of a great civil war, and he contrasts, very effectively, the condition of the country and of the Southern States for some years betore 1861 and now; then hatred, suspicion, hostil- ity, now a growing peace and reunion be- tween the sections. This is true enough. But Senator Thurman's very able exposition of the evils and growing dangers and abuses of that centraliz ed system which the republi- ion has too long maintained, seems to be wedded, presents | the other side ; and that so effectually that it must attract general attention. The Ohio re- publicans bluadered when they inserted \in their platform praises of the ad- ministration of General Grant. has not been snuecessful; it has not | mado the country either happy or pros- | perous; on the contrary, in this particular of the management of the Southern questions, it has been a conspicuons tailure, aud is to- | Sen- | day a constant danger to the country. ator Thurman states this whole question moderately aud truthfully, and he can be met by republicans on this matter only by a con- feseion that their administration, contimuing— as we believe, against the will of the mass of the party and of its most intelligent leaders— a hide-bound and eyen iron-bound. policy, has gravely blundered and greatly injured the | country. “Restrrv forms us that we are mistaken when we ‘say that ex-Court House Commissioner Walsh is | | the only member of the old Taiemany Ring | | who has proposed restitution. ‘Jimmy Inger- | , fon leaving the prison was en- en dollars and fifty cents and good behavior, soll,"’ he sa titled to t for his extra ser money Jimmy promptly lauded over to the warden of the prison, and told him to keep it | So that you must put down twenty-seven dollars and filty cents in | We aro glad to make this correction. more especially as the money for the other prisoners. your restitution fund.” It | tt! Aaatx.—A correspondent in- | This | honestly earned. But why should the intormer Garvey be allow.d to live unmolested in a palace built out of stolen money and not pay one dollar back? It is enough that Garvey is not in prison or in exile or working with his brush and mortar attwo dollars a day, as inthe past. Why Should he be allowed to live in purple and fine linen on money stolen trom the people, while taxes mount higher and higher and laborers are paid reduced wages? Politics and Mineral Waters at the American Spas. Some one of our young and ambitious scientific men ‘ought to turn his attention to a question of popular as well as scientific in- terest, which has heretofore been neglected, but which deserves attention—namely, What 3s the subtle connection between mineral wa- ters and politics? Why do the half dozen men who rule Evrope meet annually at Ems or Wiesbadén or Baden-Baden? Why do our own politicians, both those who rule and those who would like to rule, congregate an- nually at Saratoga and the White Sulphur Springs? What is the relation between Con- gress water and public affairs? , Why should democratic politicians have, for some years aiter the war, preferred a sulphur to a cathar- tic spring? Is it not possible that some brill- iant scientist might immortalize himself and benefit his country and mankind by showing the influence of mineral waters in helping to portance we need not say. Once in posses- sion of the requisite facts, a political party could send its leader to that mineral spring whose waters were best calculated to purify his opinions, to eliminate corruptions from his political body, to give him not merely just sentiments, but courage to maintain them; and thus not only the hotel keepers and cab- men but also the country at largo would be benefited. For the present itis clear that our states- men are seeking purity and righteousness in a purblind and experimental way. One year they congregate at the White Sulphur, and another at Saratoga ; and General Grant and those republicans who follow him scorn all the mineral springs, and go to Long Branch, where the waters are not very good to drink. The President evidently likes salt water better than Vichy or Congress or Sulphur or Blue Lick or Gettysburg, or any other of our numerous mineral waters. Perhaps he is right. Evidently Governor Tilden, who has an inquiring mind, has had his suspicions in this direction, for he has recently spent seme days at Long Branch. We should like to | know what he thinks of the effect of salt water on political theories. For the present | the two opposing ranks of our statesmen ap- | pear to range themselves, the one side at Long Branch, the other at Saratoga, as is clearly | shown by the very interesting correspondence we publish to-day. If any of the minor lights are gathered elsewhere the public attaches little importance to the result. As usual, people are more interested about the move- | ments of the outs than those of the ins. The wisdom assembled and about to assemble at wisdom which makes its summer purification | at Long Branch. | Saratoga, indeed, carries away the palm for | variety. Awhile ago it saw an assembly of liberal republicans, with the illustrious Coch- rane at their head. Then came a convention of bankers, who resolved that banks ought not to be taxed.- And now come Tilden, Hendricks, Thurman and half a dozen more to “arrange” the Ohio campaign, so it is said, not to speak of Vice President Wilson, we do not speak of such permanent boarders as Commodore Vanderbilt Morrissey that is not because we do not think them men of importance, but because they seem to act as audience to the players. As for Morrissey, however, the newspaper corre- spondents make him something more than | audience. If we could believe all they tell | us we should take it for granted that when- | itis because Mr. Morrissey has pulled the | string. If John is really the kingmaker him out of Tammany Hall. One comfort, | howevet, Morrissey undoubtedly bas—he may | benothing in Tammany, but at Saratoga he is | the cynosure of all eyes, No democratic | Statesman goes there to take the waters with- | out also consulting Saratoga John. Tilden is | closeted with him, Hendricks and Thurman | will take their turn when they come, and as | for the lesser lights they make the most of a nod from the enough to get it. These mysterious summer gatherings at the | Springs would give us more uneasiness were { it not that we remember that beside the poli- | ticians there are the people, who are also | thinking, discussing and slowly making up | their minds. Political caneuses and consnl- | tatio: » useful things, but they have little | force or importanée unless they can, after ao while, get th ple to accept their results. } Everything may be lovely at Saratoga or Long Branch, and yet when election day comes the people may scatter and bring to naught the best jaid plans of their masters. Meantime w only hope that sea bathing | may benefit the outside and Congress water | amehorate the mwardness of our rulers as much as they desire. | | | on The Colored Vote in Nortn Carolina. | In a second letter on the condition of North Carolina, which we print this morning, Mr. Nordhoff gives an instructive account of the misused in North Carolina by white and black demagognos, and what means these use to prevent « break of the color line. In- | bo practised freely in those countics where the colored vote is so large as to make its possession valuable to bad and unscrupulous men. It is a matter of course that the blacks, thus ignorant and” misled, should be used to perpetuates misgovernment, that the whites make strenuons efforts to pro- | tect themselves from the asteful and corMypt government, Mr, Nord- | hoff gives an account of the manner in which Wilmington 2nd other towns in North Carolina have attempted to deprive the black vote of its power over property and taxation. | He speaks of the new charters, in which these towns are verrymandered in fayor of the tax- i shape political theories and platforms? ‘That i such a discovery would be of inestimable im- | Saratoga attracts more attention than the | | Mr. Samuel Bowles and Senator Anthony. If | and Mr. John | ever a democratic statesman jumps nowadays | Kelly is surely the rashest of men to turn | reat man, if they are lucky | ner in which the ignorance ot the negroes | | timidation of negroes by negroes appenrs to | and it follows | loss inflicted by | payers, as expedients the necessity for whicl will cease as soon as parties are no longa formed on the color line. In the meantime if would be*wrong to say that they are without excuse, for certainly justics to the colored race does not require that they shall be ale lowed to misgovern and rob the remainder of the community. The Laborers in a New Vineyard. As our readers will have observed, Messrs. | Moody and Sankey are about to return to the United States. These gentlemen have been laboring in England to convert the people of that great Empire, and have met with tremen- dous success in the way of congregations and criticisms in Parliament and articles in the newspapers, As to the number of souls they have saved it would be irreverent for us to inquire. Certainly they have made a greater sensation in England than any ot our Ameri- can citizens who have flourished in that coun- try fur a longtime. They will be received on their return with the highest ecclesiastical honors. Even those who do not belong to the Church over which Moody and Sankey preside, and who would not be amenable to their rhetoric, cannot help feeling proud that it was left for American evangelists to rouse the dormant religious spirit of England, We observe that an invitation has been extended to these clergymen by some of our citizens in Washington to visit the national capital as ‘revivalists,’ and hold a series of meetings. It is proposed to build a suitable hall, and as Messrs. Moody and Sankey will nof arrive until late in the summer operations will scarcely begin before fall. * We need not say that we entirely approve of this invitation to our proselyting fellow countrymen. Wo know of no city where the labors of Christian missionaries would be more useful than in Washington. Let this “revival” movement begin with the opening of Congress, It is a new Congress, largely in the democratic interest, composed of honest, ingenuous and fresh statesmen, who will visit Washington probably for the first time, sub- joct to all the temptations of that attractive city. They come from their homes repre- senting the ‘tidal wave” of last year, anxious to save the nation and bring it back to democratic purity. They will be confronted with Indian rings and ‘Treasury rings, with Sam Ward’s dinners and the gambler’s faro bank, with the over- whelming hospitality of Shepherd and the Apician feasts of Robeson. It does not re- quire a violent stretch of the imagination to see what will be the fate of a couple of hun- . dred innocent Congressmen, fresh from the rural districts, tumbled into a gaudy capital, away from home firesides and social restraint and religious teaching, and left at the mercy of the twenty odd rings whose members swarm around the Capitol. If Moody and Sankey can be induced to visit Washington they may have a saving in- fluence upon these members. The hosts of the devil and the soldiers of the Church will haye a fair stand-up open fight, without quarter and without interference. On one side the gambler’s faro bank, Sam Ward and bis dinners, Bill King and his cat- tle, Delano and his Indian Ring, Boss Shep- herd and his real estate combinations, the President and the various members of his large, interesting and growing family. On the other side Moody and Sankey, the cham- pions of truth and virtue. If these evangel- ists can save the next Congress from the in- fluences which threaten it they will entitle themselves not alone to the thanks of all Christian’ men who delight in seeing sinners led from the error of their ways, but of all honest citizens, without distinction of creed, | who look with hope upon the first dem- ocratic Congress that has assembled for many | years, and not without fear upon the potent influences which the devil-is arranging for its downfall. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Jerome B, Parmenter, of tne Troy Press, is Staying at, the Westminster Hotel. Lieutenant Governor H. G. Knight, of Massachu- setts, has taken up his residence at the Fifth Ave- nus Hotel. Captain G. F. Pengelley, of the Royal (British) Marine Artillery, is registered at the Grand Cen- | tral Hotel. Governdr Tilden bas appointed his nevhew, Mr, Wullam ‘T, Pelton, to be nis military secretary, with the rank of colonel on the stam. The Rey. Dr. Porteous, of All Souls’ church, Brooklyn, 1s sick with gastric fever. He was pros- trated suddenly on Saturday evening, and his parisnioners were not informed of his sickness untill yesterday morning, when bis church was found toebe closed. On Saturday alternoon a large number of prom. inent citizens of Newark went down the Bay on board the revenue cutter Washington to welcome home their pastor, tho Rev. Dr. Sims, of St, Paui’s Methodist Episcopal courch, of Newark, who was a4 passenger on board the Dakota, The Dakota arrived before she was expocted, so that | there was uo wailing, and the pastor was ca corted home joyfully by his parishioners and iriends. In the house where the wooden writing tablets | were lately discovered, in Pompelt, the workmen have found two inkstands and the pen which had, been used in mseriving. ‘rhe pen is of metal and something of the same form as those made from quills, So that the steel pen is not a modern con trivance if this te trae; but what ald they want of inkstands, as the tablets were covered with wax? ‘Ibis pen will probably turn out to bes stylus. ‘The Paris Foundling Mospital has set up a novel olaim lately, One of Its protégés, whose mother wes dead and whose fatnor had abandoned it, in- herited a fortune irom a relative of the mother. At once the father ciaimed the custody of the child, the mother’s relatives claimed 1t ana the hospital claimed the right to hold the chili ai | adminisier its fortune; but the law gave the child to a guardian chosen by the relatives of the mother. There ts a little river in Switzerland which bears the saggestive name of Sucre—tnac is, sugar. In the late inundations that, like every other river, threatened to become cantakeroas, the Mayor of a‘city through whicn it rans received a despaten trom higher up the siream as | fouows:—‘Sudden rise in sugar--take precaue tions.’? He puzzied over this a jitile and replisd, “Enever spreniate. Have given your despatca to a contectioner.”” ‘ M. Garnier, & French physician, gives detans in one of the French medical periodicals of a death from eating too many strawberries, Ho | recommends persons who can cat this fruit in its natoral condition with impunity not to eat many at a time, amt is of opinion that A certain amouat of sugar facilitates their absorption and, still more, their digestion, | M. Garnier thinks it better to sprinkle the strawberries With a qood and strougly alcoholic wine, Debilttared stomachs should not venture on Bordeaux wine—Kirschenwasser, rum or cognac being, ia his opinion, preferable. fis lags recommendation 1% never to cat strawberries alone; they should always bs accompanied oy other food,