The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD ‘BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Herat. Letters an@ packeges should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned, ——- LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—NO. 61 AVENUE DE LIOPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms ‘as in New York. VOLUME XL.. es AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, LYCEUM THEATRE, fourteenth street. Opera Bouffe~MADAME Freneh /ARCHIDUC, wt 8 P.M. HOWE & CUSHI circus, foot of Houston street, Eust River.—Afteruoon and evening performances. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place and Fourteenth _stree WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYs, at 8 P. M. ROUND THE closes at 11 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Hoy Quase House, Broadway, corner of Tweuty-uinth street, arsP, BOOTH'S THEATRE Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—THE GAMESTER, ats M. Mr. Barry Sullivan. PE! USE, ‘ixth avenue.—OOTTON & REED'S MIN: loses at 10 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, rs 624 Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 3 ¥. M.; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnam's Hippodrome. ‘AND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 F METROPOLITAN ) aa a West Fourteenth stree TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenu ARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE; ‘Twenty-cichth street, near Broadway.—SARATOGA, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport and ir. James Lewis. GLOBE THEATRE, oy ae Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-secomi street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- Lak, at 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. COLONEL SIN ARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARJETY, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 P. M, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 5 P.M WALLACK’S TH and Thirteenth street -GIROFLA, at 8 P. M. RE English Comic Opera— ss Julia Mathews, Mr, B GIROFL GL Macdermott. THEATRE COMIQUE, eee Broadway.—VAKIETY, at oP. M. Woop's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street! LIFE, at BP. BM; closes at 10:45 P. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fighth avenue, corner of Twenty third street.—PIONEER ATRIOTS, wt 8 FP. M.; closes at dl P.M. Mr, Hurry atiins. METROPOLY Kos. 585 and 587 Broadway; QUADRUP From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and partly cloudy. elaine Warn Sraeer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were steady and the market unexcited. Gold ad- vanced to 117 1-8 and closed at 116 1-2. Foreign exchange lower. The weekly bank Statement shows a loss. Tar Horse Rarcnoans are seeking to carry out Mr. Phillips’ foolish threat, and it is said three millions of dollars are to be raised by the companies to defeat rapid transit. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. isi ins Tne Spanish Ministey, having disagreed, has resigned, and a new Cabinet is to be formed. The only significance of this crisis seems to be the utter impossibility of hold- Ing diverse influences together in Spain, even where a common political interest is exerted. ey Prince Bismarce’s Davauter shows the reckless disregard of consequences so char- acteristic of her father. She has been be- trothed toa man with a name 80 long that limited space will not admit of its being printed twice in the same paper, and so un- pronounceable that only Aztec nomenclature can rival it. Moopy axp Sankey yesterday continued thetr war upon sin and iniquity at North. | field, and it is asserted that the entire Con necticut Valley is moved by the revival influ ence, In the Henaxp this morning we print | a full report of their sayings and doings, and commend it not only as excellent Sunday reading, but asa@ fair reflex of the character | of Mr. Moody's discourses. For Syracuse.—Democratic eyes just now are turning toward Syracuse with longing looks, and even Kelly’s stanchest warriors fear that there Tammany’s troubles are only | to begin. The hayloft and cheesepress democracy is likely to be troublesome, and may go so far as to put the Tammany dele- | gation out in the cold, The situation is « | critical one, sod there is much anxious talk | both within and without the Wigwam. Restwrrios 1x Avstrma.—Anustria, which | has long had an inconvertible paper cur- | | rency, has at ast, it is reported, brought her finances into such order that, at least, there remains no appreciable premium on silver compared with her paper, and with good management resumption is said to be ible. It will distress Allen, Pendleton | and W. D. Kelley to know that, according to Austrian journals, this recovery from infla- tion “has been, on the whole, accompanied by a.steady and healthful growth of manu- factures and vommerce.” Of course the Austrians ought to be at starvation point to- | day and howling for ‘more money.” Unt | | govern as The Eastern Question. An Italian comie paper touches the trouble in Turkey in a recent cartoon. Five noisy little rascals—Bosnia, Servia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania—are kicking and pounding and raising a shindy generally at the door (Porte) of the Grand Signior. But the old Lady Diplomacy stops their fun te point out to them a giant ogre sleep- ing with one eye open in a darkened corner, his frightful scaly hand loosely grasping a badly hacked but dangerous looking sword of enormous proportions. She tells the youngsters that that fellow is called the Eastern Question, and warns them that if they continue their rumpus they will wake him up—a contingency that she evi- dently contemplates with dismay. In the common opinion of Europe this is the salient feature of the insurrection of the subjects of the Sultan in the Illyfan triangle. Its most obvious and most dreaded consequence is that it may call up the Eastern question, No difference between government and people that occurs in that district can be examined or settled on the merits of the case; but it must be settled on the merits of quite another case. If the people rise against horrible misrule they must not be permitted to fight out their quarrel till they either secure their inde- pendence or compel authority to con- cede the reforms they demand. Other people, it is true, may do this. In all the quarters of the globe this is a recognized method of national progress, and in some countries this right of resistance is even sup- posed to be sacred; but in the country be- tween the crest of the Balkan, the Danube and the Adriatic this must not happen. Not but what the oppressions there are great ; not but what the revolt is pre-eminently just ; not but what the people can fight the government so effectually as to force it to terms. Their struggle is neither unjust nor hopeless ; only it is inconvenient to some persons in some other countries ; and all the right and justice and political morality of the case, as regards the people in the prov- inces, must give way to this convenience, political, diplomatic or commercial, of the great Powers at a distance. Once upon a time a man fell down in the street in London with apoplexy. Two great men near by instantly made his fate the subject of a wager. One bet he would live, die. Somebody called a surgeon to tend the afilicted mortal; but the man who had bet that he would die objected to any application of the surgeon's art as likely to affect the result, and therefore to havea prejudicial effect on his interest in the man’s fate. This is just the position of the great Powers in Europe toward the stricken people in the Herzegovina. In the Eastern question slumbers the possibility of a gigantic war, involving at once the revival of the conflict between Christianity and Islamism, closed in favor of Islam at Varna in 1444, and the set- tlement of the supremacy of European nations in the East. Turkey in Europe is an original part of Christendom. Its people | are Greeks, Sclavs and Roumans ; but it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and has remained in their hands ever since. That tide of barbaric invasion, which swept to the gates of Vienna and which taxed the warlike capacity of the German nations even more severely than Rome had done, never com- pletely ebbed. Sweeping from time to time further into the Christian countries and driven from them again by such victories as that which Montecucnli gained at St. Gotthard in 1664, it held as its permanent advanced stronghold the Servian mountains, and all the Turkish armies that went into Hungary or Germany marched by Belgrade. And that country remains now, with little change, es it was at the end of those wars, and its Christian people are under the foot of an Asiatic conqueror. In the mere fact that a Christian people were subject to Mo- hammedan rulers there might be no fair cause of complaint politically ; for in these days there is no religion in politics, and it is ivable that Mohammedans might well as Russians or Ger- mans. But the real grievance is more tangible. It is that these conquerors remain politically just what they were when they went into the country, and they go out and conquer it every year when the taxes are due. Moslem political ideas are just what they were in the fourteenth century and earlier centuries. ‘God is God and Mo- hammed is His prophet.” That is the whole of their political science, as itis of every other science. But the people in the provinces have grown side by side with other Christian peoples. They have conceptions of political rights, of justice order, and their and | thoughts move in sympathy with the prog- ress of the world ; and that they should rise against their barbaric masters is as natural as for the sun to rise in the East. »w these barbarous Asiaties do not hold dominion over their Christian subjects in virtue of their strength, for the people can drive them out. It is, moreover, the natural impulse of the neighboring Christian nations to help them, and Russia, which is most in sympathy with the subject races, could, act- ing with the people, move the Turks out of | the country in any six mouths of any year. Her traditional policy, moreover, impels her in that direction, aud contemplates her as the proper person to administer the effects and estates of this moribund Power. If the Turks should be driven out by Russian as- sistance the government of the country would fall practically into the hands of the people, under a Russian protectorate. They would be governed on the general principles of European polities and with ge honesty wnd justice—as much, at least, as other countries —and tranquillity would take | the place of regularly recurring revolt and | butchery. Would not this be for the general advan- Ah, but ‘Varry a }ittle—there is something more. There is the British policy ; there is the Aus- trian jealousy of Russian dominion. With Russia as the protector of the Christian people in all that great and magniticent country; with Russia, perhaps, in possession of ¢ tantinople, the Continent of Europe tage ? would not only threaten to tip up with her | the other that he would | ral | British love of virtne and commerce, might | pass out of British hands, and Russian power | | would acquire in Asia a prestige that British humanity could never endure. How im- | portant England deems it to prevent such an | increase of Russian power may be seen by the fact that in 1853 the Emperor Nicholas offered her Egypt and the whole northern coast of Africa to the Algerian frontier as her part of the spoil if she would consent to such | a dismemberment of Turkey as would induce | this Russian preponderance. But she refused | the proffer. Austrio, again, is jealous of every | step of Russian advance toward the Danube, ' and considers that any such advance menaces | her own growth in that direction, It is the | policy in Vienna to rejuvenate the old Aus- trian Empire as the Empire of the Danube | Valley. But Austria will find there other ob- stacles than those of Russian might ; and the worst will be her own historic relations with Rome. Ranke tells of a Servian song in which a native patriot asked John Hunyad what he wonld do if he conquered the country, and he said he would make it Catholic. Then | the same query was put to the Sultan, who | said he would build a Christian church be- side every mosque and the people should | bow in the mosque or in the church as they chose. Andon these terms the people pre- ferred the dominion of the Sultan, All that | country received its Christianity from Con- stantinople and adheres tenaciously to the Eastern Church, and consequently to Rus- sia; and thongh it might not now prefer the Sultan to the Pope, it would oppose vigor- ously all relationship that tended toward Rome. It is this rivalry of national prestige, this mutual desire and jealousy with regard to dominion, this.commercial spirit that covers its projects with the pretext of supporting the weaker, though a barbarian, against the stronger, who is a Christian—all these to- gether have constituted the formidable com- plication of the Eastern question, which statesmen have feared to touch because of the great war, the spectre of which seemed to loom beyond. But we believe the time has gone by when a great’ war could arise from this complication, and that it may be all un- ravelled and the case determined now with very little disturbance of the surface of European life. In other words, we believe that the Eastern question proper is a dead issue. Russia and Germany will settle between them by treaty at the right moment the relations of the for- mer with Turkey, and Turkey must swallow the pill they prescribe. England has no standing in the case. She could not have interfered alone even in 1854; but France was dragged in to help her—not because France had any real interest there, but because her sovereign was ready to play on the French madness for glory in the hope to establish firmly an unsteady throne. France‘ has lately been interrogated from St. Petersburg as to her position, and has expressed formally her faith in the Treaty of Paris as a grand panacea ; but of course she did not need to say that she could not fight for it. It is possible that the insurrection may be suppressed or may die out without a definite settlement of the position of the insurgent people; but if Russia permits this to happen it will be unlike her, and will indicate that English influence is greater diplomatically at St. Petersburg than English power is else- where, It seems scarcely probable that the Power which occupied Moldavia in 1853 on a trivial dispute, and so brought about the war that ended disastrously in the Crimea, should now fail to encourage a revolt that needs but little more than encouragement to accomplish the very purpose she then had in view, or that she should fail to see the impos- sibility of anybody making against her now such a combination as was made then, Since Messrs. Moody and Sankey are now or very soon will be the lions of the hour in the religious world Mr. Harris takes the ear- liest opportunity to give some running com- ments on their lives and labors. He spent a little time in England with them and sailed to this port in their company, and is prob- ably as capable as many of our city pastors to undertake the task which he has laid out for himself to-day. The life and character of the late Dr. Charles G. Finney, in his day avery famous evangelist both in England and America, will be presented by Dr. Fulton, who has had some experience with anda general observation of the methods and manners, the labors and results of this class of preachers. The Gospel’s con- quest, which has been so wonderfully demon- strated in the lives and labors of these mefi and of many others, will be considered by Mr. Kennard, and that none may be dis- couraged Mr. Loutrel will give his people some reasons why they should not be, while Mr. Taylor will encourage his congregation in growth in Christian grace. Mr. Light- bourn will insist that the people are the na- tion’s real and true wealth, and that the development of manhood should be the aim, as it is the duty of govern- ment; that political economy shonld rest on this theory, and here is the true ground for temperance reformers to stand on, The truth as it is in Jesus will be presented by Mr. McCarthy, who has no faith in hell, and will, therefore, refute the orthodox no- tion that the wicked shall be turned into hell. Bishop tell his little flock what the Bible says concerning the | special herald of the coming Saviour and | His work. And since the Bishop claims | to be the messenger and forerunner of the Snow will | Saviour the prophecies will, with bis inter- | pretation, probably settle around himself, He ought then to be happy, however misera- | ble others may feel. Joper Cexrts, of the Superior Court, seems | to be playing with the copyright question in the Michel” Itis difi- | ewlt to understand how there can be any right of property in a work by a foreign author in a country which bas no interna- | tional copyright enactments, and if the | | courts will only boldly declare that foreign authors have no rights which American pub- lishers and managers are bound to respect Congress may be shamed into doing them ls | justice. ‘Tae Sixkine ov tun Equrxox is one of ‘the most terrible disasters of the kind on record, Entirely without warning the pros Michael Angelo, While the sculptured marvels of Michael Angelo’s genius delight and extisfy more and more the oftener they are seen, the more attentively they are studied, still they do not AU ws with that admiration which the records of his noble character, his sterling piety, his civie virtues excite. We are accustomed to look to Italy for great poets, artists, musi- cians, statesmen, men of science and of letters, victorious generals and audacious voyagers ; but it searcely oceurs to us to turn to her for models showing virtue and morality in uni- son with heroism and genius. Michael Angelo’s life supplies us with this ideal com- bination, rare in every country, and in the Italy of the sixteenth century unique. All the annals of that century concur in por- traying Italy at the summit of her intel- lectual grandeur, her industrial and com- mercial prosperity, her trebly refined luxury, her artistic perfection. No other natton can boast such a constellation of stars of the first magnitude as shone in the sky that overarched Michael Angelo’s earthly career. Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Raphael, Titian, Benvenuto Cellini, Ariosto, Correggio, Guicciardini, to make no mention of minor planets and of men who owed even a portion of their lustre to accidents of rank and wealth ; Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius IL, Leo X., and on and on. It is difficult to say whether vice or genius attained in this age to the greater height, In this age Michael Angelo sculptured his “Pieta,” his ‘David” and his **Moses,” his “Night and Morning,” his ‘Dawn and Twi- light ;” painted his frescoes, penned his po- ems and illustrated the ‘‘Dante,” and lived in the sight of all men that independent, honest, pure afid pious life which would have rendered him worthy of esteem in any age, and which distinguished him from all the men of mark in his own. ‘Gold takes no stain” is a proverb whose truth his life exemplifies, for if ever a young life was ex- posed to corrupting influences of every kind it was this syoung genius at the Court of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Treated like the princes of the blood at the critical age of sixteen, beloved as a son and favored as an honored guest, educated by that Poli- ziano who so successfully corrupted Loren- zo's own children, despite the despairing efforts of their mother to save them, the self- respecting sculptor not only maintained a rigid independence, but dared all in order to compel others to respect it. He quitted the service of the fiery Julius, and only after months of entreaty, only when Florence names him her Ambassador, met him once more at Bologna The detractors of this great character re proach Michael Angelo with his ‘‘flight” from Florence during the siege as an act of cowardice, not to say treachery; but that withdrawal from a post where his services were neither utilized nor appreciated was due to the same impetuous independence that led to his rupture with Julius. That he fulfilled all the duties of a son and brother, of a true, devout Christian, the letters in the British Museum give ample proof. To-day in his native city, in that ingrate patria which he apostrophised as such for her persecutions of Dante, United Italy cele- brates the birth of her greatest sculptor—one of her greatest architects and painters. She will do well to recount to the young gener- ation that will assemble around his tomb in Santa Croce the private virtues and civic grandeur of the man who in no age was excelled, and who in his own had no equal. Government Pastry. In London a tradesman has on his sign “Boxing Glove Maker to Her Majesty.” That sort of sign is not uncommon there. It is even reported that the sign ‘Hatter by Ap- pointment to the President of the United States” figures in the number of queer in- scriptions that tend to enliven a London ramble. Hitherto, however, there has not been in this country any such recognized connection between exalted station and the retail trade. Politics and peanuts have been kept scrupulously apart. But the times are mending in this respect if we may believe the thrifty citizen who was lately tumbled out of a corner in the Post Office, where he had established himself in apple pie order. The pieman of the administration has de- fined his position, and has informed the nations that if the editors of this city were not grossly ignorant of the law they could not have supposed he was a member of Con- gress, for otherwise they must have known that he could not have held the two places at once, From which it plainly appears that he understands that the man who is author- ized to sell pies in a post office holds an official position under the government, and is, in plain terms, “‘Pieman to their Excellencies the President and Members of the Cabinet.” ‘This shows how we are aping the effete mon- archies and how the purity of our republi- can institutions is passing away. Altogether we do not see that a pieman with these ex- alted fancies is to be pitied for the loss of a corner. He will do well enough on any cor- ner, and if he sells honest, virtuous and strictly republican pie over the way we can assure him that the advertising he has got by his expulsion will make his fortune. In the meantime the telegraph office that is to be put where he was will fill the place more ap- propriately, and a stationery stand with ma- terial for letters and a handy pen and ink for the public would be useful in the other corner, Prorysson Mansa deserves the thanks of all right-minded men for the persistent cour- age he has shown in keeping his compact with Red Cloud. In the beginning he was sneered at by the Interior Department as an | insigniticant enemy, but he stood his ground so manfully and established his charges so sfactorily that even Mr. Delano is no longer in doubt about his personality. His courage also gave courage to others, and his plain speaking is bearing the best of fruits, Yesterday printed the testimony of Bishop I which corroborated Professor Marsh, and this morning we have we | the further evidence of Mr. Walker, which proves the main points of his charges. The exposure has been one of the completest made in many years, and the Indian Bureau and the Inter or Department have no longer they are a deluded set and have no Kelley to | weight but an enormous trade in the Danube | peller was overturned and sunk in an ins | a peg lefton which to hang an argument in enlighten them, and the Black Sea, a trade dear to the stant, carrying down with it all on board, theirown behalf. Even the latest sneer of that of | late election, and says that not one citizen }of that State out of ten thousand | has even a vague idea of the bear- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. the Secretary of the Interior and the India H Commissioner at Professor Marsh, as a “paleontologist,” is turned, for he has found in them two wicked old fossils more remark- able than anything in the Yale collection. The “Noiseless Panic” in Real Estate and the Savings Banks. The unusually interesting situation of af- fairs in the real estate market is the subject of a further article in our news columns to- day. The investigations of our reporter in his search for the materials upon which the article is based were confined to no one sec- tion of the city, but were extended to every portion of the metropolis. Recent influences affecting values in various localities, such as the fixing of the Post Office and the selection of rapid transit routes, are duly considered among the causes which are now at work ar- resting shrinkage in the regions benefited by these improvements, if they have not turned the tide of prices therein. The fact remains, however, that a vast amount of indebtedness, secured by, mort- gage upon real estate, is undergoing liquida- tion through foreclosure sales of the hypoth- ecated property, prices of which, compared with those current in the flush days of the speculation in real estate, show a reduction averaging fully thirty-three and athird per cent. The effect of local improvements is constantly seen in the returns from these sales, the reduction for parcels in the heart of the city being as little as only twenty to fifteen per cent, while in the outlying and unbuilt portions the decline bas been as much as fifty to forty per cent. This shrinkage from the prices prevailing or quoted three or four years ago has induced some of the more conservative savings banks to resurvey the property upon which they hold mortgages executed before the decline took place—a movement not only significant of the condition of the real estate market, but indicative of the admirable management of these popular institutions, The prudence of this step cannot be questioned with any show of reason, but, as confessed by the bank officers themselves, it is taken in the exercise of a technical and “iron-clad” system of pre- caution, which puts all contingencies of loss beyond peradventure. As the savings banks lend only about forty per cent upon the as- sessed valuation of improyed real estate, which, in turn, is usually only sixty to seve enty per cent of the market value, it is easy to see that their advances are, under any but extraordinary circumstances, covered @y awide margin of security. The life insur- ance companies, and to a less extent the fire insurance companies, are also deeply interested in the current “noiseless panic” in real estate. The total mort- gages of the savings banks and insurance corporations in the city are for nearly two hundred million dollars—asum large in itself, but bearing the proportion of only about twenty per cent to the property pledged for its repayment, the bonds accompanying mort- gages being, as is well understood, a lien on the personal as well as real estate of the bor- rowers. While there can be little cause for alarm about these popular corporations the ‘‘noise- less panic” in real estate must run its course like a fever in the human body begotten of familiarity with a malarious atmosphere. The unhealthy elements of the market are coming to the surface and being expelled by the sudorific operation of foreclosure sales. The speculators, who are the sufferers, may congratulate themselves that, unlike the great real estate smash in 1837, the panic nowadays has been so gradual and noise- less. On the other hand, the very fact of the prevailing panic is proof of excessive depre- ciation in some of the property knocked down at the Real Estate Exchange, and it is a fair question whether, aftera scrutiny of the whole range of the stock list and the quota- tions of the merchandise markets, the capi- talist can find anything just now more prom- ising as an investment than the ‘shrunken and mrttilated” pieces of property which are disposed of daily under the auctioneer's hammer. The Religious Press on the Question. The recent election in New Jersey, the campaign in Ohio and the late Evangelical Conference at Sea Grove, Cape May, have called especial attention to the disagreements between Catholics and non-Catholies on the school question and kindred topics, and some of our religious exchanges this week have differing opinions thereon. The Boston -Pilol fully agrees with the Heravp that. ‘the popular heart is with popular education,” and adds, so is the Catholic heart. But it says unquestionably Catholics distrust the public schools; and they cannot do other- wise, since there is hardly a Catholic child educated in the public schools who has not heard a teacher sneer at ‘‘Romanists” and their priests. We venture to doubt and dispute this statement of the Pilot—at least so far as New York is con- cerned, for the number of Catholic teachers in our public schools and their recognized ability and demeanor preclude the praba- bility of any such sneers as indicated. The Pilot thinks there are two settlements of this school questiof to be made, the one theolog- ical and the other political ;-and to carry the former into the latteris a mistake ; thy must be settled separately—-the former by the Church and the latter by the people at the polls. Tho Independent cries out for fair treatment for Catholics on this great ques- tion, and insists that they are right in op- posing any political party or clique that is inimical to their interests and what they be- lievo to be their rights. The Independent prow fesses to see clearly enough the gradual amelioration and Christianization of Roman- ism in America in the very considerable en- feeblement of its public insistance on the corruptions in its theology and the general Christian temper of the sermons preached by its priests. The editor is convinced that Romanism has learned a great deal of Protes- tantism, and that it is approximating toward it—not in its historical dogmas, but in its actual teaching and worship—quite as fast as could be expected. The Freeman's Jour- nal sneers at the New Jersey hurrah over the School ing and meaning of any one of the twenty- eight proposed amendments to theft constitu- tion or can give any better reason for tho You veqnirea ot him than that it is a vot against Catholics, in which they make, ac- cording to the Journal, a great mistake. The Journal calls this persecution, and declares that those who persecute Catholies are doing the most good. The Golden Aye gives two reasons why it thinks the discussion of this question at all is superfluous, and is merely the trick of the politicians. In the first place, it says, the more sensible Catholics, like Father Malone, regard the parochial schools as a mistake, and support them under protest. If they had their way they would send every Catholic child to the pub- lic schools and keep him there till he gradu- ated, teaching him the Catholic religion at home and in the Sunday schools of their church. In the second place, the Protes- tants so outnumber the Catholics, and are sa thoroughly committed to the support of the present school system, that no party would dare to divide tlie school fund with any sect, much less with the Catholics. The Christian Union declares itself not among those who regard Catholics as alien to the Republio and who accuse either the priesthood or the laity of the Roman Church of a design to overthrow our free institutions. Taxing Church Property. The letter from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark to the priests in his diocese, recommending them to “instruct” their peo ple to vote against a clause in the New Jer. sey constitutional amendments which would subject Church property to taxation, has had a result directly opposed to the Bishop's wishes; for it seems to have aroused a storm of indignation among the Protestants, who, in almost every locality so far heard from, have cast heavy majorities for this and most of the other amendments, Bishop Corrigan is- evidently not a poli- tician. If he had been he might have carried his point by the help of Protestants. It is a fact that, while the Constitutional Commis- sion was in session, and when it was con- sidering this article of the amendments, several Methodist preachers’ meetings in different parts of New Jersey uttered public protests against the taxation of Church property, and there was a good deal of Protestant opposition to this clause. It is as well not to forget this now. The Roman Catholic Bishop blundered in the manner of his interference ; for Americans do not like to see the clergy of any denomi- nation “‘instructing” their people how to vote, We are glad the amendment has been car- ried, forit is right that all property should bear its share of taxation, and there is no more reason for exempting a church or eleemosy- nary building than a club house or a theatre, Of course we mean no disrespect to religion in this comparison ; but churches are the property of private corporations, and are the legitimate subjects of taxation. What it is useful to remember just now is, that the Roman Catholic clergy have not been, by any means, the only clergy who have, in New Jersey, opposed the taxation of Church prop- erty, There are hundreds of churches, the property of Protestants, all over the State, whose members will groan when they find themselves taxed ; and many of whom, if it had not been for this sudden alarm at Bishop Corrigan’s letter, would have gone quietly and voted against this amendment. As it is, they have voted for it, and put into the con. stitution an excellent provision. Vicz Present Wison has written a let ter on the political situation, and he calls his platitudes a policy. Whatever there js of policy in the Vice President's létter is in his pressing anxiety for the party to rely on ita tried and trained leaders. Evidently Mr, Wilson feels that he has been out in the cold long enough. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor Peter 8. Michje, of West Point, is registered at the Westminster Hotel. ‘The President and family are expected to return to Washington about the 20th inst. “Kelly's Cup; or, the Poisoned Pugilist.’? theme for a great American drama, Mustapha Fazil Pacha, brother of the Egyptian Khe dive, is very ill at Constantinople. General Benjamin F. Butler was in this city yesten day on his way from Boston to Washington, Senator George 8. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, ar rived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Signor A. M. Gianelli, Italian Consul at Montreal, te among the late arrivals at tho St. Donis Hotel, Fing Rey. D. Playfair and Rey, R. H. Muir, of Scotland, , have taken up their residence at the Fifth Avenue * Hotel. Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Roberts, United States Army, is residing temporarily at the Gilsey House, ; Some people in England propose that Webb, the great swimmer, be made a knight. They forget that he was benighted on his first attempt, John Morrissey left Poughkeepsie for Saratoga on the half-past ten o'clock train yesterday morning. His con- pition was somewhat improved, but he stated that he felt bad yet and was anxious to get home, There is a case in the Massachusetts courts between parts of a Hebrew congregation. The majority want to put family pews in the synagogue and the minority op- pose this as a forbidden commingling of the sexes, It is a wonderful spectacle to see thé Dollinger and other theological giants chafling about Filioque, when they absolutely refused to be imposed upon by infallt- bility; but they thought evidently that they must draw the line somewhere. Discussing the great increase of labor due to tho in- creased complication of life, the Sanitary Record says:—'The one day’s rest in seven is not now sum. cient for our needs.’ Here's a chance for a reformer to give the people two Sundays a week, ‘They thought there was “millions in it,” but when they called at the bank Colonel Sellers Ralston only smiled and said, ‘There's nothing in it;”’ and then they went, and Ralston went out and drowned himself, and his funeral was ‘perfectly lovely.”’—Zichmond En quirer, Another argument for cremation—the Guibord caso, And go if that poor unburied Guibord gets into hia grave and is once snug and comfortable there, they will romove the consecration from the ground. The only hope for him lies, therefore, in the faint probability that this may not change the ground much, Isabella of Spain must appear personally in Parie court to answer the demand of the butcher and the baker, They want pay for snpplies; but the Queen's board was contracted for, and the defenco will be that the contractor must pay, as he was paid, Mr. Yates, of the Charlotte Democrat, has been - informed that the late Edwin M,. Stanton, Secretary of War under President Lincoln, was a native of North Carolina, having first seen the light near Beantort, N. ,, and left that locality when he was seven or eight years of age. M. Bullet says that the French government and the pressare on the same terms as Molidro was with his doctor, Moliére never took the medicine and alwayg got well; so the editors are so many doctors, whe prescribe for disorders they find in the government, but “we throw the medicine out of the window, an& when Wo suspend a journal it is only @ prescription tore up”