The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY OCTOBER 25, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ae JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and efter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henraup will be rent free of postage. a THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera, Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL..--.-. eee AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, PASTO! TONY ‘W THEATRE, ‘Nos. 585 and 587 Broadw: RIETY, at 5 P.M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and bighth avenue.—French Opera Bouffle—LE PETIT FAUST, at 4 P.M. THIRD AYEN. ¥ aud VARLE WALLACK’S THEATRE, and Thirteenth street—THR OVERLAND OTE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Mr, John Gilbert, Ada Dyas. THEATRE, nd Thirty frst streets. — PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street and Broudway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Bare yehisd cores’ and Sixth ayenue.—COTTON & REED'S EW YORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, Fe te Brosaway—vanrETY, at P.M; closes at 10:45 | ‘0 MINSTRELS, House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, SAN FRANCIS New as P. BOOTH'S THEATRE, | ‘Twonty-third street and Sixth avenue.—PANTOMIME, at 8 P.M, G. L. Fox. OLYMPIC THEATRE, iam Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 5 P’. M.; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, i be age | and Twenty-second stre ‘THE MIGHTY DOL- | LAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. EAGLE TIHEATRE, Broadway and Thirty-third street.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Pye Fourteenth street.—Open from 10'A. M. toS nwectpgighth rreet A Neat Broedwer HAMLET, at 8 street, near Broadway.— at P.M. ; closes at 10:90 P.M. Mr. Edwin Booth. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—German Opera—THE JEWESS, at 8 P.M. Wachtel BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—HOP PICKERS, at P.M. Mrs, W. ©. Jones, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Twenty-third street and Fighth avenm TOM'S CABIN, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P. M. HOWE & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, East Kiver.—Performances day and evening. UNCLE GLOBE THEATRE, N NSTRELSY and VARIETY, WOOD'S MUSEUM, “ corner of Thirtieth street.—SI SLOCUM, at 8 Matinee at Broadway, P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Miss Kate Fisher. oP. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place—BHRLICHE AR- BEI t8 P.M. TRIPLE KEW YORK, MONDAY. OCTOBI From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, followed, possibly, by rain, Tue Henacp sy Fast Mam, Traws.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hud- son River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tun Henaxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office, Tae Krxcs County Canvass is the theme of ® very interesting review in another column, Bawrsnment is a favorite method of punish- ment under Spanish rule. The last example is that of Sefior Marfori, who has just been sent out of Spain. Tue Servian Determination to keep their | agent at Constantinople would seem to be | another evidence that the revolt in the Chris- tian provinces is paactically at an end. “A New Wax To Pay Oup Dents” is again illustrated by the story, published elsewhere, of Turkish repudiation, which caused the recent panic in the London Stock Exchange, Inriation does not seem to be the issue in Pennsylvania. ‘The democrats have dropped it, but the republicans insist upon urging it. This is the natural effect of the colossal blun- der at Erie. Kiva Axroxso seems determined to dis- courage republicans, but he attempts it in the Spanish fashion. In refusing to allow | the republicans to hold electoral meetings | he is more likely to help them than to help | himself. | Kunoxanp.—The story of the recent at- tempt at revolution in Khokand, and of the journey of the Russians to the capital, is told this morning in a letter which has reached us , from Hodjent. Its inherent interest will be sufficient to commend it to our readers, Tue Ixpian Scmmen is almost more beau- | tiful than the summer of July and August. Yesterday the air was delightfully warm, and tempered with the coolness of mid-October. ‘Thousands of our citizens visited the parks or fonnd pleasant enjoyment in the country. | follow his example. The City Canvw That large proportion of the city democrats who are restive under the domination of Tammany have a better chance of emanci- pation in this canvass than is likely to occur again in some time. They cannot make a successful fight without allies, and there is a larger body of citizens willing to co-operate with them at present than will be found next strengthen party lines. The attempt to crush Recorder Hackett has disclosed so plain a purpose to subject the administration of criminal justice to the will of the Tammany “Boss,” and to degrade it into an instrument of unscrupulous party politics, that multi- tudes of democratic citizens stand ready to revolt and respectable men of all parties will be glad to assist them. break the yoke now, with the power- ful aid of an aroused public senti- ment, than on a future occasion, when party lines are more strictly drawn and the Tam- many chief is not fresh from the commission of such a blunder as so crafty a man will be of the temper of the? public mind. If the democrats of the city wish to recover their freedom they should make a bold use of the present conjuncture. The rebellion against Tammany in the First, Fourth and Seventeenth Assembly | districts, which came to light on Saturday, proves that Mr. Kelly's power is tottering. He has found it necessary to bring the whole force of Tammany discipline into use to quell these mutinies, but as yet with doubt- ful success in the First and Fourth, and no snecess in the Seventeenth. Tammany has attempted to conceal the magnitude of these movements; for so many resig- nations of recalcitrant members of the Tammany General Committee would lead the public to believe that Tammany is tumbling into ruins about the head of its dictatorial chief. Concealment was impossible in the Seventeenth Assembly district, because the recalcitrant committee- men put themselves on record in a forcible letter to Mr. Kelly, signed with their names, and given to the press for publication. There is not an Assembly district in this city where sentiments similar to those em- bodied in this letter are not largely enter- tained, or where they would not be expressed with equal vigor if the dissatisfied demo- crats dared to withstand the formidable dic- tatorship which employs all the resources of party discipline to suppress freedom of opinion and crush out any really democratic action. The eight members of the General Committee of the Seventeenth Assembly dis- trict who signed the letter published in the Henaxp yesterday tell Mr. Kelly some plain truths which every democrat who dares say he has a soul of his own will indorse. »They tell him that it is a fundamental democratic principle that the majority shall rule, and that he has violated that principle by displacing members of the General Committee who were chosen by the majority and substituting his tools in their place. They tell him that his servile Com- mittee on Discipline have undertaken to annul the right of the people to sclect their own representatives. For such violations of democratic principle these eight gentlemen withdraw from the committee and publicly undemocratic tyranny. There have also been indignant resignations in the First and Fourth Assembly districts, but Tammany has made great efforts to hush them up and procure their withdrawal lest the organiza- tion should be shattered to pieces on the eve of an election, If the democrats of the city ‘were as courageous as they are discontented the wile structure of Tammany would be shaken as by an earthquake in this election, and only a heap of shapeless ruins would survive for its monument. The democrats of the city are restrained from a great uprising against the despotism of Tammany only by their misgivings as to its success. They fear that an abortive at- tempt would rivet their chains. They know too well that an unsnecessful opposition to the dictatorship of Mr. John Kelly would practically disfranchise them from holding any place of trust in the city government. The only reason why they hesitate is the fear that they will not have the co-operation of other democrats who share their discontent, and that they would be left outside of the party by the subjugating effect of Tammany discipline on other minds. If the thirty or forty thousand democrats who would gladly join in as movement to demolish the Tam- many despotism would each act on his own impulses, without waiting to be kept in countenance by the others, the Kelly tyranny would dissolve, and, “like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.” Each _hesitat- ing individual, whose judgment is subdued by his fears, should reflect that uncounted multitudes are in precisely the same posi- tion, and that every democrat who boldly throws off the yoke will enconrage others to But if the separate in- dividuals are withheld from action lest they should not be supported the Tammany “Boss” will maintain his ascendancy by the votes of men who abhor his tyranny, but who fear that those who share their senti- ments will prove as timorous as themselves, If all the democrats who detest Tammany knew how weak and rotten a structure it is they would abolish it utterly by one bold onset. Tweed made it odious, and Mr. Kelly's attempts to patch up the falling edifice, com- posed of the same identical materials, have given it a show of strength without the reality. The democrats who groan under its tyranny, to which they submit only be- cause they have a false notion of its strength, might easily emancipate themselves from their degrading thraldom if each knew how many others share his discontent. The open mutiny in the three Assembly districts al- Inded to proves that the democracy of the city are beginning to learn that sympathizing numbers loathe and detest ‘Tammany, though they pay it outward homage from | sheer ignorance of their strength. | . The canvass of Mr. Morrissey against Mr. | Fox in the Fourth Senatorial district prom- ises well. It will not do for the democratic | organs to put on airs of virtue and turn up their respectable noses at Mr. Morrissey. Mr, Morriesey is the superior of Mr, Fox in It will be easier to | | shy of repeating after his recent experience | wash their hands of any complicity in this | year, when the Presidential election will | every attribute of honorable manhood. | Nobody ever accused Mr. Morrissey of breaking his word; nobody ever thought | him capable of selling his vote; no member | of Congress who served with him doubted the immovable firmness of his integrity ac- cording to his ideas of integrity. The strength of his faculties would have made him an important man if his early op- portunities and associations had not been unfortunate. It is a strong proof of the robust honesty of his nature that his early career did not spoil him, Whatever may be his merits or demerits the democracy of this | city have estopped themselves from joining his assailants. They have twice elected him. | to Congress, and no political adversary | can point to any act of his in that | capacity for which his democratic con- stituency has reason to blush. It is a matter of general notoriety that until quite lately he was on a footing of confidential intimacy with Governor Tilden and other party leaders. It was only when he differed with Mr. John Kelly that they turned against him. It does not become any of the organs of Governor Tilden to fling out innuendoes | against Mr. Morrissey when it is publicly known that Governor Tilden courted him and admitted him to his political confidence | In the same way the Agricultural Depart- | in trouble. | the mouths of objectionable people. so long as he would consent to act with Mr. Kelly. It is but a few months since the city organ of Governor Tilden rebuked Mr. Mor- rissey for repeating something which the Goy- ernor had told him in a free conversation ; but such a rebuke was a confession that Goy- ernor Tilden had taken Mr. Morrissey into his confidence, and it precludes the Goy- ernor orany of his supporters from attempt- ing to render Mr. Morrissey odious on ac- count of his early career. That early career did not hurt him in their estimation so long as he would consent to be an ally of Mr. Kelly, and it is as ridiculous as it is base for these same persons to bring it up against him now. He will give Mr. Fox a hard run in the Fourth Senatorial district, and if he succeeds in beating “him it will be a death wound to Tammany. It is Tweed's old district, and the only hope of Mr. Fox is in Tweed’s old supporters. Nobody can doubt that Mr. Morrissey is a better man than either Tweed or Fox, and @very good citizen will desire his election. The republicans are a mere handful in that district, and if Mr. Morrissey succeeds it will be a signal demo- cratic triumph over Tammany. The politics of the city are just now in a chaotic state. Tammany is weakened and alarmed by strong symptoms of democratic rebellion, and the events of the present ex- citing week will determine whether the arro- gant one-man power, which, first under Tweed and now under Mr. Kelly, has so long enslaved the democracy of this city, will be broken and shattered in this can- vass, Indastrial Statistics, As the Centennial Exhibition next year is to be, in a great measure, a celebration of | the growth and progress of the first century of the Republic, it is desirable that all the information which has been gathered on this subject should be made accessible to the people. It is within the reach of the Patent Office to present a succinct history of Ameri- can inventions, illustrated by the most strik- ing models in the possession of the bureau. ment can give a striking view of the progress of agriculture. But what would be even more interesting is not so easily accom- plished—a complete history of the material progress of each of the States of the Union. No country could present a more remarkable story of development and growth in popula- tion, agriculture and manufactures than the State of New York, and yet no country is so barren of statistics relating to its social and industrial history. Even the cen- suses which we have been taking during the last quarter of a century are not within the reach of most of the peo- ple, and the census of 1875 will hardly be printed in time for the Centennial. In an- other column we present a view of the prog- ress of agriculture and the increase of pop- ulation in the Empire State, from which it will be seen how meagre is our knowledge of our own condition and how inadequate our means for adding to the present stock of statistical information. We have geo- graphical and historical societies, which are doing a good work, but we have no statistical society of any kind nor any means of preserving or presenting even such statis- tics as have been gathered under the aus- pices of the State. At least we might have a statistical office at Albany, where full in- formation relating to the industrial condi- tion of the State should be gathered, tabu- lated and preserved; and we hope that one of the fruits of the Centennial will be to prove the utility and necessity of such an office in every State in the Union, Forgra, or Fripentc Hvpson.—At the quiet village of Concord yesterday all that was mortal of Frederic Hudson was laid away. The clouded sky was in strange keeping with the solemnity of the scene | and the recollection of Mr. Hudson's sudden and violent death. Still in the prime of life and in the keenest enj ent of an elegant retirement, earned by years of earnest and faithful labor, a long and happy future seemed vouchsafed to him, In an hour all this was changed, and he was cut off in the full fruition of his manhood. ‘The loss to his family isa bereavement which no one else can share; but the regret at his demise is universal, for he was indeed a man of whom it may be said that none knew him but to love him or named him but to praise his high virtues, his great abilities and his many generous qualities, Da. Keweany, of Tichborne fame, is always He attempted to lecture on } “Magna Charta” in Sunderland the other day, and the result proved that it is one of the inalienable rights of Englishmen to close The meeting broke up in a row. ‘Tne State Campaic growing more bitter | in the interior counties, and both democrats | and reptiblicans are at fever heat. A letter from Geneva, which we print this morning, gives a view of the situation in Ontario county, | the Mr. Moody’s Keynote. Mr. Moody struck the keynote of his re- vival work in this country in his opening address at the Brooklyn Rink yesterday when he appealed in his earnest and peculiar way to his hearers, ‘‘Let us go up and take the land.” If, single handed, he was to meet and overcome an army with banners, his un- dertaking would not be more difficult, In his revival work he must triumph over the depravity and the indifference of men to make his mission successful, and the history of along line of evangelists and reformers shows success in an endeavor of this kind to be almost impossible. Mr. Moody is apparently an exception to the list of equally earnest workers who have little to show for their zeal and devotion except the sense of their own faithfulness, and though the revival is only begun it is already appar- ent that the evangelist is to make a very deep and perhaps a permanent im- pression upon the people. Thousands went to hear him yesterday, and as many as ob- tained admittance to the Rink were turned away because that immense structure was incapable of holding them. The scene was one never before witnessed in any city on this Continent. Not only Brooklyn, but New York and all the adjacent towns and villages, helped to swell the multitude which congre- gated in the building or gathered in the streets about it, Something more than mere idle curiosity was necessary to bring so many earnest men and women together. Evidently the popular heart was prepared for a great outpouring of the divine power, and un- consciously the vast assemblage became an impelling force in making the aspiration a reality. Instinetively the multitude re- sponded to his stirring appeal and be- came a part of the evangelist’s pur- pose. ‘Let us go up and take the land” was as much their ‘desire as it was his. The speaker and his coadjutor, the singer, showed their earnestness, their en- ergy and their peculiar gifts; but these were only one force working upon another, and it is the people who come under the influence of these two men, rather than the men them- selves, who accomplish such surprising re- sults. Moody and Sankey are like the gen- eral of an army and his chief of staff leading the force to victory, but it is the rank and file who do the fighting. This is why the keynote which Mr. Moody struck yesterday is almost certain to lead to the largest re- sults, antl it will be plain to any one who reads our report of the proceedings this morning that a more remarkable work can be accomplished here than was achieved by the evangelists in Great Britain. - The Commercial Value of Equatorial Africa. America was at one time wholly unknown to Europe; the vast plains and rich valleys that are now occupied by the white race and yield of their abundance toward the world’s support were, before the arrival of Columbus, ocenpied by but a very small portion of the human family and contributed only to the wants of the immediate occupants. Hun- dreds of years elapsed before the discovery of gold, silver, coal and iron on this Conti- nent, and yet these precious minerals lay there from the beginning of time. The giant growths of timber that are now entering into the manufactures and structures of civiliza- tion flourished unobserved and unvalued before the white man came. So with many other important productions, such as cotton, rice, sugar and that popular root, the potato, which is recognized in almost every country as a staple article of food. Compared with the productions of America may not those of Africa prove infinitely superior? It is cer- tain that the interior of the Continent is thickly populated, and that alone in- dicates its capacity to support life. The discovery of the great lake sys- tem of Central Africa and its connec- tion with navigable rivers is of the highest importance. They will bear the same rela- tion in the future to the commercial prosper- ity of the community that occupies the coun- try as our own great lakes and rivers do to that of the United States, and there is no reason to doubt that the African of the future will visit his cities by these inland seas as the American of to-day travels to Buffalo or Chicago. The vast plains will reproduce the wheat for which Egypt was so famous in ancient times, and the river bottoms and low- lands will give forth crops that will rival the best in the Mississippi Valley. The desert lands of the Upper Nile in Egypt are barren because the soil never receives the vitalizing and fructifying supplies of water that fertil- ize other lands. It has long been a mystery where and in what manner the Nile was supplied with its waters; if the source of that river’ was as barren as the last fifteen hundred miles of its course, and if fertile, to what extent? Speke, Grant, Livingstone and Stanley have been successively and successfully unveiling this mystery and opening up, as it were, a new department of nature's treasury for the benefit of all mankind. Our ears are as yet unaccustomed to the uncouth names of the | African districts, but we think they can be surpassed for harshness and difficulty of pronunciation by many names quite familiar to us. Apart from all other considerations science demands the solution of numerous problems in geology, botany and meteor- ology, which can only be investigated by an extension of our geographical knowledge. We have seen the face of a continent changed by the discovery of useful minerals ; com- merce and manufactures grow with the corn- stalk and the cotton plant. We are now posting sentinels along our coasts to warn us of approaching storms, and we need the | fullest information on all the phenomena as- sociated with their generation and move- ment. What a wealth of such knowledge may not Henry M. Stanley bring back to us from Equatorial Africa—the mysterions land of gold and ivory, the home of the elephant, rhinoceros and the fifteenth amend- ment! Tue Entrance or Mr. Cuanprer into the Cabinet is likely to produce an effect like that caused at a dinner table when an unwel- come guest sits down, The others get up. ‘There is but one reason why we doubt the re- port that Messrs. Jewell and Bristow intend to resign, and that is, that having endured Mr. Delano #0 long they ought to be able to put up with Mr, Chandler, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Registration and the Prospect in the City Election. The registration this year in the city foots up 144,934, against a total of 146,218 last year, showing a decrease of 1,284. The total vote on Governor last year was 132,344, a loss of 13,874 from the registration, The total votes on Mayor and Register were less, being 131,250 on Mayor and 130,567 on Register. At the same rate of loss we may expect to poll this year less than one hundred and thirty thousand votes on the judicial ticket, Two candidates ran against the Tammany Mayor. This divided the opposition and gave Mr. Wickham the advantage of an almost certain success, which is always as good as ten thousand votes to a candidate in New York. Against Hayes, for Register, however, the opposition was united, and the respective votes stood as follows:— For Wickham for Mayor For tho diviaed oppositi Majority for Tammany. For Jones, united opposition for Registe For Hayes, Tammany........e0cs0++ Majority over Tam: General Jones’ vote Mayor Wickham's United anti-Tammany over Wickham. + 1,036 ‘These figures look encouraging for the suo- cess of the entire anti-Tammany judicial ticket this year over the Tammany ticket, The opposition to John Kelly's candidates is now solidly united, Every element that was in favor of Jones last year is now in favor of the Hackett ticket, and it has in addition on its side the important strength of the local leaders who were with Tammany a year ago, but have since been driven out or have left the organization, The sentiment against the domineering authority of John Kelly is also likely to give to the anti-Tammany side this year many independent votes that were cast for Tammany last year, outside the local politicians, Another element that will tell against Tam- many at the present election is the labor question, on which the Tammany leaders have been playing false with the laborers without gaining the confidence of capital. Then, again, the democratic masses were led last year to vote for the Tammany Mayor in the hope and belief that they would obtain office and employment thereby, and that, with a democratic Mayor and a dem- ocratic Governor, all the patronage of the city departments would be fed out to the faithful. This co- hesive element is now wanting, for the judicial officers have but little patronage to dole out. Yet even last year less votes were cast for Mayor Wickham, as we have seen, than were cast for the united anti-Tammany candidate for Register, General Jones. The prospect for the overthrow of Tammany is, therefore, promising, and there is every en- couragement for those who are well disposed to make a stampede from the organization, The Death of Carruth. Seven months after thé shooting of Mr. Car- ruth, the editor of the Vineland Independent, by Mr. Landis, his death revives all the in- terest in that singular case. When Mr. Car- ruth was shot no one expected him to re- cover, for though men have been known to live with bullets in their brains instances of such vitality are rare. But as day after day passed and he rapidly rallied from the shock there were feeble hopes that he might alto- gether recover. Mr. Carruth was shot with a pistol ball, nearly half an inch in diameter, in the back of the head. On March 20, the day after the shooting, Dr. 8. 8. Gross, one of the ablest surgeons, probed the wound, removed several pieces of bone, and declared it impossible to reach the bullet. Here the surgical treat- ment ended, but that it was complete the medical testimony of Dr. Tuller shows, as ‘mot a single piece of bone or any other foreign substance which could have been removed by the surgeon was discharged.” The patient was thenceforth treated homeopathically. On June 2 Mr. Landis appeared before the Supreme Court of New Jersey and applied to be released from jail at Bridgeton, ‘setting forth that‘ Mr. Carruth had been out of danger for aweek. He was released, and bail was fixed at fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Carruth con- tinned to grow better, sold his paper to Mr. Teall and visited his relatives in New York. This recovery must have given Mr. Landis great satisfaction; for under the New Jersey laws he is subject to trial for murder in the first degree in the event of Sarruth’s death within a year and a day after the shooting. But within afew weeks Mr. Carruth began to fail, and yesterday morning he was seized with convulsions and after- ward fell into a stupor which ended only in death. The wonder is not that this man, who carried a bullet in his brain, died, but that he lived so long. The post-mortem will | be made to-day, and the results will probably be important. The case is not less interest- ing in its social and moral aspects. Both of these men were prominent members of a respectable community. One of them was the founder of the town of Vineland, the other one of its leading journalists. Carruth had made a series of attacks upon Landis, not by name, but in a manner which made it impossible to mistake their object. These assaults were unjustifiable, and we believe that the public of Vineland is generally of that opinion. But Mr. Landis was still more culpable when ho avenged himself by shooting his enemy. | That he repented of his terrible crime hig} | subsequent course has proved. He ordered | | the best surgical aid for his victim and sub- mitted to his imprisonment with patience, But he could not atone for the evil deed, thongh he sought to, and now he is again in jail, and liable tobe tried and punished for murder, unless the post-mortem examination shows that Mr. Carruth did not die from the effects of the wound, but from other and | distinct causes. Upon that point it is nse. less to make any conjecture ; justice requires that we shall wait until the surgeons have reported upon the facts. Two great evils are brought into strong | prominence by this sad termination of the | case. The first is the terrible evil that may be done by the false journalism which makes the power of the press the instrument of per- sonal hate, Landis was goaded to the crime he committed by attacks from which he had no protection. He revenged himself upon the pen with the pistol. But his offence cannot be oxtenuated, He dafiad tha lawa of society.when he shot Carruth, and the death of his victim only emphasizes the hos ror of his deed. De The Spirit of the Churches, Notwithstanding the deep interest that was manifested in the initiatory work at the Rink in Clermont avenue yesterday, the churches both in New York and Brooklyn’ were all well filled with worshippers. While thousands wended their way to assist in the beginning of the Moody and Sankey revival the usual places of worship, instead of suf- fering from this cause, were more crowded than usual on that account. Mr, Hepworth’'s spacious church was filled to overflowing. Allthe people who desired to participate with Mr. Beecher's congregation were unable to gain entrance to Plymouth church, and many were turned away. The same thing is true of the churches in both cities. A. new spirit seems to have taken possession of the people. It is certainly a good sign, and one that augurs well forthe future, that Christian worship should thus be found to possess a new charm, and if the attendance at the Rink should tend still further to increase the attendance at the churches, as was the case yesterday, the indirect fruits of the revival will be a@ important almost as its direct results. ‘ The sermons yesterday were of that plain doctrinal character, replete at the same time with the lesson and injunction of Christian duty, so well suited to this peculiar season. Mr. Hepworth discoursed on free t! ht, and proved man’s responsibility for his own belief, Mr. Beecher taught anew the lesson which the great apostle was first to enforce, that all men are laborers together with God, and in his own felicitous way he pointed out how even the lowliest have a part in glorifying Him. At the Tompkins avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn, Professor Swing, of Chicago, preached a sermon on the spirit which animates a Christian life. Dedicatory services were held in the recon structed St. Luke's Episcopal church, in Hudson street, which were participated in by the Rev. Dr. Tuttle, for twenty-five years the rector, and many other eminent divines, In the other churches the services were in keeping with these more noteworthy ex amples, and the spirit of the pulpits was sup~ plemented by the spirit of the people, All the signs are cheering, and we may expect, as one ofthe results of the reawakening, a higher moral tone in society and greater purity in politics and public affairs. Such a condition is exceedingly desirable, and we look not to Moody and Sankey alone, but to all the churches, for the needed reformation. The Indian Frauds, The utter incompleteness of the report of the commission appointed to investigate the charges of fraud at the Red Cloud Agency was clearly demonstrated by the letter of Mr. Samuel Walker which we printed yes. terday. These charge@ were made by Pros fessor Marsh, and their substantial truth was unquestionable from the beginning, When the testimony was presented the evidence was unmisfikable, and yet the commission acquitted Agent Saville in spite of the clearest proofs. It is the truth of one of these charges against Mr, Saville which was so clearly demonstrated by Mr. Walker. The accusation was that ra~ tions claimed to have been issued November 8, 1874, and charged for by the Red Cloud agent, were never issued at all. The fact was admitted, so far as the date was cons cerned, but it was claimed that the rations were really issued between the Ist and the 8th of November. If this had been true tha date would have been immaterial ; but Mr. Walker shows that during this time no ra« tions were issued, because an attempt was .making to coerce the Indians into being counted. This example not only indicates the complete untrustworthiness of the report, but suggests the truth of all the other charges against tha Indian Ring. If the Commissioners have been false to their trust in one thing it fol- lows that they may have been false in all, The work must be done over again and in a way that will clearly demonstrate the trans- actions of every person connected with this dishonest business. A committee of the House of Representatives is the proper body to make the inquiry, as it is not possible the country will ever know the whole truth unless it is obtained with the sanction and under the authority of Congress. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tho Atlanta Herald has returned to tho usual form of the folio. Young ladies are advised by the Hartford Courant to carry revolvers. General Joe Hooker will spend the winter at the Hot Springs of Virginia, Joe Jefferson has given $500 toward the monument to Washington Irving. Vice President Wilson returned to this city yesterday from Washington, and js at the Grand Central Hotel, A woman in Massachusetts fed a tramp the other day, after which he asked if he might go to bed long enough for her to wash and iron his shirt. A Manchester, England, firm having begun to import calicoes from the United States, the Philadelphia Tele- graph thinks that the fact is a protection triumph. Goneral Lewis Richmond, of Bristol, R. I, has com- menced his duties as Consul of the United States af Queenstown for the port of Cork and its dependencies, The man who wrote the following conundrum ought to be put on the dry dock:—Q If President Grant wanted to know what business it would be good to om. bark in, what advice ought an honest friend to give him? A. Ship Chandler, The negro preacher, H. M. Turner, in a letter to the Savannah News concerning his proposed Afriean coloni- vation scheme, says that he “has already written to three millionnaires, asking them toatd him with means to start the work, bat up to this time they have not responded.” A San Francisco correspondent says that King Alfonso, at eighteen, recently corrupted the daughter of one of his generals, while the Duke of Sexto corrupted the mother. The General, returning, made the discovery and shot at the Duke, but was himself killed, The mattor was hushed up. ‘A London saloon keeper, prosecuted for selling beer without a license lately, contended that, as a member of the “Cook's Company,” incorporated by royal charter in the reign of Edward 1, he was privileged to sell bread, meat and beer in the cities of Westminster and four miles around. The magistrate recognized the | claim and thought it could only be destroyed by special legislation. The Boston Transeript says:—‘It is likely that the larger questions of currency, banking and national finances, requiring for their discussion men of largo culture, practical experionce and natural ability, and this introducing into the politics of the fuiure an ele ment that has been crowded out of our public life in this latver era of small mon, will bring about the reform and elevation of our politics #0 id ole Po Jong and bopelossiy