The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1875, Page 6

. don had its foundation stone laid by the Duke 6 NEW Y ORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. - . JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and efter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Herarp will be sent free of postage. BROADWAY 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 Yorg Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Se ae OP 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 NO, 351 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, Mr. Randall's Proposed Amenament, ‘The amendment for limiting the President to a single term and extending the term from four to six years is offered ata time when we would fain believe that there may be a chance of its adoption. A sim- ilar amendment has been several times proposed within the last fifty years, but popular interest in the subject has heretofore been too languid to carry it through Congress, to say nothing of the necessity for its ratification by three- fourths of the States. But the deep public interest excited by the third term agitation makes it possible to secure now a change which has so often been attempted in vain. The public mind is at last alive to the great importance of the stibject, and it would be @ misfortune not to utilize the anxiety and fears aroused by the third term controversy for the removal of future danger by an amendment of which our wisest statesmen long ago pointed out the necessity. The action of the House of Representa- tives, day before yesterday, on Mr. Springer's resolution relating to the third term, is chiefly valuable as proving the deep hold this question has taken on public feeling. Nothing could have pro- duced a more lively sensation; and a large majority of the republicans, as well as all the democrats, recorded their votes against the third term. But the squirming of the republicans, and their vain efforts to post- pone and dodge the question, prove that they voted under constraint. The repub- licans would have shirked the question if PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- VAR, atS P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Plorence, GERMANIA THEATRE, Yourteenth street, near Irving place.—EIN PELICAN, at P.M. BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery.—WILD BILL, P.M. Mir. Julian Kent, DEN, . Madison avenue aud -sixth street.-HEBREW SUARITY Falk. THEATRE, Wroadway and Th third stree.—VARLETY, at 8 P. M. CHICKERING HALL, fifth avenne and Eighteenth street.—CONCERT, at 8 P. M. hite-Cervuntes. SAN FRA ) MINSTRELS, Kew Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, at 3 % GLOBE THEATRE, ‘Nos. 728 and 730 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. MUSEUM, b street.—SAM, at 8 P.M; 2PM. FS, Chanfrau, closes at L045 P.M. Matin BOOTH'S THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—COONIE SOOGAH, acoPM. Mr. and Mrs, Barney Williams. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—German Opera—LOHENGRIN, at 8 P. M. Wachtel. TONY PASTOR'S Nos. 85 and 587 Broadway. bee at 22. M. W THEATRE. RIETY, at 8 P.M. Mati- THEATRE, . -CAMILLE, at 8 P. M. Bese THIRD ay ES E THEATRE, i ind avenue. between Thirtieth and Thirty-Grst streets,— MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 8 P.M. ss LYCE) Fonrteenth street and § ‘echter. cod Thies fourth street and Broadway ‘ARIS, Open from 1 P.M. to 4 to10 Pw.” WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—B0: YM. ; closes at 1045 P.M. Mr. John FRIENDS, at 8 ert. STEINWAY HALL Eonrteonth street.—Lecture—THE WORLDS, at SPM. Richard A. Pro AND DEATH OF r. PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street, near Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P. M, BROOKLYN Ti on street, Brooklyn. Vullack. RE, ats P.M. Mr. T Washin, OUR: Resier UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway and Fourteenth street —ROSE MICHEL, at 8 AMERICAN INSTITUTE BUILDING, hird avenue and Sixty third street.—VELOCIPEDE ACE, at 9 P.M. Messenger-Harding. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Erxentyieichth street, near Broadway.—PIQUE, at P.M, Fanuy Davenport. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue,—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M. TWENTY-THIRD STREET THEATRE, Ewrenty third street and Sixth avenue.—THE FLATTEXKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17, — — From our reports this morning the probabilities are thut the weather to-day will be cloudy, with snow. et te ables Tre Henarp py Fast Maw, Trains.— Nets. | dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Paciyic Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tue Henatp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wau Srreer Yestermy.—Tie stock mar- ket was dull and heavy. The total transac- tions were only 56,000 shares. Money shows astiffening tendency. Gold was steady at 114 3-8. Jvuues Snson, the French statesman, re- ceived yesterday the double honor of being elected to the French Senate and to the French Academy. Tue New “Narn 1 Opera Hovse in Lon- of Edinburgh yesterday. How long before New York can have a good Italian opera to support in the building it already possesses ? Tur Rertcustac seems in an economical mood, and will probably bring Bismarck down upon it with all sorts of threats be- cause of its rejection of the new taxes to pro- vide for an increased army estimate. One | would imagine they had soldiers enough thore already. they could, but when forced to vote upon it the power of public opinion and fear of their constituents compelled a large majority of them to vote on the right side. The singular scene in the House on Wednesday proves that the republican members recognize the force of an awakened public sentiment on this subject powerful enough to control their yotes when they found they could not evade the question. We care nothing for the democratic triumph and republican humiliation exgept as an index of an aroused public sentiment. The republicans struggled to avoid a vote, but when forced to ‘face the music” they voted against the third term to escape the wrath of their constituents. This compulsory vote illustrates both the strength and the weakness of the third term move- ment. The spasmodic reluctance of the re- publicans to meet the question attests the influence of the White House, but the fact that, when forced to show their colors, they recorded their votes against the third term, proves that the pressure of public opinion is an overmatch for Presidential influence. When compelled to decide be- tween President Grant and popular sen- timent the republieans of the House ranged themselves on the side of the people; but their struggle to avoid a vote proves the strength of the third term movement in offi- eial quarters. If the republicans of the House had believed President Grant sincere in his pretended renunciation of a third term they would have been too glad to meet the question and relieve their party from the third term incubus. Their vain attempt to put off the subject is a virtual admission that the White House influence, as they under- stand it, is opposed to republican committals against the third term. The republicans of the House preferred to leave’ the question open, and thereby attested their belief that there is no sincerity in President Grant's disavowals. If they thought him sincere they would have been glad and eager to meet the third term question and put it out of politics. Their attempt to stave it off and escape a vote upon it was a_ virtual admission that in their belief President Grant has set his heart upon a third term. But when they were forced to choose between allegiance to the White House and respect for the popular voice they ranged themselves on the side of the people, con- scious that the public sentiment of the coun- try is opposed to a third term. It is too evi- dent that popular sentiment and republican official sentiment are in conflict on this ques- tion. The republican attempt to dodge it in the House must be regarded as a bad omen, because it indicates a sharp*collision between popular and official sentiment. While it is satisfactory to know that the republican members were constrained to vote against the third term, in obedience to the views of their constituents, it is, on the other hand, a ground of apprehension that they strove to avoid a committal on the subject lest they should fall under the displeasure of the White House. It was their evident wish to keep themselves free to support President Grant's third term aspirations, and such a wish betrays a lurking support of the third term. In this state of senti- ment nothing could be more timely or opportune than Mr. Randall's pro- | posed amendment to the constitution. When it comes to a vote in the House it will compel every member to declare his views ona question of the first magnitude, The vote on Mr. Springer’s anti-third term reso- lution virtually commits the House on the main question, and the republicans will “turn their backs upon themselves” if they yote against Mr. Randall's amendment. But we cannot disguise our fears that so important a change cannot be engrafted in the constitution without large con- cessions by its advocates. The limita- tion of the Presidential office to a single term would be worth great conces- sions. There is no temporary price at which it would not be cheaply purchased. The | country could afford to concede almost any- thing to President Grant and his friends to secure their co-operation in a constitutional power is competent to defer the next Presi- dential election for two years, and two additional years of the Presidency of Gen- eral Grant would be a moderate price to pay of the Presidential office to a single term. If the change can be made without paying this price so much the better; but we can- not doubt that President Grant has power enough to defeat such an amendment, and we think it wiser to gain his support by con- cessions than to put so great a reform in peril by provoking his opposition. Anamend- ment forbidding the re-election of a President would guarantee the success of our institu- tions for centuries, and the country can afford to pay so great a price as the exten- sion of President Grant’s term for two years for so valuable a change. “If h’s patronage and influence are powerful enough to secure his renomination by the republican party | they are powerful enough to prevent the rati- fication of a constitutional amendment limiting the Presidential office to one term. But if the adoption or rejec- tion of so important an amendment depends upon him it is better to secure its success by concessions than to risk the de- feat of so vital a measure. Two additional years of such an administration as President Grant's would be a cheap price for security during a long and indefinite future. The great importance of a change for limit- ing the re-eligibility of our Presidents is attested by the highest authority. The most admired statesmen of the last generation were Andrew Jackson, on the democratic side, and Henry Clay, on the whig side, and these two great political leaders were equally zealous for such a change in the constitution as is now in con- templation. General Jackson recommended an amendment of the constitution limiting the President to a term of four or six years, and Mr. Clay, who was General Jackson's most violent political opponent, zealously advocated a limitation to one term without raising the question of its extension beyond the period of four years. The voices of Jackson and Clay fell upon inattentive ears ; the great reform they recommended failed for want of popular support. But, at present, the third term question has awakened popular apathy, and the deep interest excited is favorable to the amendment. Jackson failed and Clay failed, in spite of their strong convictions, be- cause popular sentgment was not sufficiently aroused ; but at present the third term con- troversy has so agitated the public heart asto justify a hope that such an amendment can be carried by skilful management. Its friends must not undervalue the power of the opposition, and it would be better to have their support than their hostility. It would be wise and politic to buy off the op- position of President Grant's supporters by extending his term of office for two years | rather than to have so important a measure | defeated. The practicability of this great | reform cannot be doubted if the people indorse it. Nothing could be easier than to postpone the next Presidential elec- tion from 1876 to 1878, if such be the popular will, An amendment of the constitution does not necessarily require more than three or four months. A majority of the State Leg- isfatures meet in January, .and it is in the power of the State Governors to assemble any of them in extra session. There is nothing which the country could better afford than the extension of President Grant's term for four additional years if it could thereby secure the support of his friends for a consti- tutional amendment forbidding the re-elec- tion of any future President. Take Him at His Word, Ex-Speaker Blaine has‘ introduced an amendment to the constitution embodying the suggestions in his recent letter. This amendment proposes ‘‘that no State shall make any law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that no moncy raised by taxa- tion in any State for the support of the pub- lic schools, or derived from any public funds therefor, or any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under’ the control of any reli- gious sect, and that no money or land so devoted shali be divided among religious sects or denominations.” We think it would be wise for thg¢ demo- crats to take Mr. Blaine at his word and pass his amendment to the constitution. Of course the motive which prompts the ex- Speaker is clear. He is in charge of the in- terests of the republican party and about to open a new campaign for the Presidency. He wants what Mr. Schurz happily called it the other day, ‘‘an emotional question.” As we have got through with slavery the ex- Speaker would like to conduct the canvass upon the platform of free schools and no Popery. Now it is always wise in war to do the very thing which your opponents dread. The one thing that would annoy the repnb- licans beyond measure would be the adop- } tion of this amendment by the democrats. If they do not adopt it we shall have the ery of ‘“‘no Popery” ringing through every State in the Union during the coming campaign. | The wise plan for the democracy is to pass | this amendment, and in doing so spike the most important gun in the republican camp. Tar Dyxamite Pior.—Death has removed the wretch Thompson from the punishment of man. He is said to have fully confessed his crime and to have disclosed the names of his accomplices, which, for the present, are | prudently held in reserve. We hope our police authorities will work actively to ferret | out any of the criminals who may be upon | the soil of the United States. An affrighting p owl only prevented one still greater, | but it at the same time providentially made Tax “New Taxnnazvsen” was, on its first | 9) ondment which would take the re-election | it possible to detect what looks like the most production at Vienna, the cause of great ex- | of a President in office out of politics. | awful conspiracy against human life ever de- citement in musical circles in Europe, and | There is no temporary sacrifice which would } vised by the depraved ingenuity of man, the hum of preparation for the great festival | 5 4+ be justified if it could secure so valuable | at Baireuth next year already tickles the aresult. We are convinced that this impor- Mn. Bercner last! night moved that Ply- Wagnerites. Both subjects are fully treated | 1... ,mendment cannot be carried against the | mouth Church call an advisory council to ‘pn an interesting European letter elsewhere, Tor Ancric—Captain. Young, who com- * manded the Pandora in her late voyage in the Polar region, will be sent by the British Admiralty next year to communicate wi the British expedition in the Alert and Dis- covery, which is aiming to reach the North Pole via Smith's Sound. By this arrange- ment the world will have news of the gal- Jant band under Captain Markham as soon as vossibie | opposition of President Grant, and are ready | to concede a great deal to secure his support. | If he wants a third term as a mere mark of | honor he can have the substantial part of the th | honor by the method which we propose. It has already assented, is only necessary that the proposed amend- ment to the constitution limiting the Presi- | dent to asingle term of six years shall ad- journ the next Presidential election for two years to reconcile and harmonize all inter- Nobody can dispute that the amending | consider its case against the members who | decline to leave and will not attend it. It is a bold flank movement on the call for a mutnal council, to which Plymouth The pastor de- sires to meet advisors who will greet him knuckles thereof. His enemies, he says, have been pelting him with ‘fry ice’ “coldness that burned like | fire.” thoveht he had been kent in “hot water.” for so important a reform as the limitation | | with the palms of their hands, and not the We |The Light and ¢ The Murder of Sara Alexander. SI The murder of Abel must have been in- As the season advances the theatresof New | tensely interesting at the time because of ita York become more interesting and more in- | absolute novelty; but since then, and dispensable to the winter's enjoyment ; but | especially of late in New York, the crime has the drama itself does not seem to keep pace | become so common that unless it is sur- with the stage. There is no city wherein | rounded by peculiar circumstances it attracts more intelligent and earnest work is devoted | little attention. Now we have a murder, to the production of plays.. Mr. Wallack's | not so mysterious as others recorded, yet Shadow of Our theatre is in this respect a model. The actors are at the head of their profession, and the scenery is always a frame which makes the moving picture more delightful. Yet this company, which is equal to the performance of the finest comedy, is not always engaged in work adequate to its powers. ‘Bosom Friends,” now upon Mr. Wallack’s stage, is a good play ; but it drags | at times, notwithstanding that it is produced with a remarkable cast. Of “Rose Michel,” at the Union Square Theatre, we might give a similar judgment, Both the scenery and the acting are of a high order, and Miss Rose Eytinge plays the touching part of the heroine as well as it was played upon the Parisian stage. Yet this forcible melodrama does not give the artists full op- portunity. ‘Pique,” which Mr. Daly has brought out at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, is effective, but the company is better than the play. ‘Crucible’ we have yet to see at the Park Theatre; but, let its merits be what they may, we do not expect it to be as attractive as Mr. Oakey Hall himself. We must confess that our leading the- atres do not originate enough. They are too dependent upon Europe for dramatic literature, while they are independent in all the other essentials of success. A pleasing play ought not to be sufficient, but the am- bition of a manager should be to present dramas which shall bear. the stamp of the New York stage and pass current all over the world, like a silver trade dollar. This was the case of the ‘“‘Shaughraun” last win- ter, which was created here, and is now and has been for months one of the most brilliant of London successes, If our managers could oftener do this—if they could make great dramatic sensations as well as copy them— we think our standard drama would soon be- come fully equal in value to our standard acting, which is, certainly at our leading theatres, not surpassed by that of any of the capitals of Europe, with the exception of Paris. That the New York stage has not yet real- ized its own powers and duties is, however, no disgrace. Time alone can develop the unfolding flower of art. But the stage has | evils which are blots upon its fair fame. When we see on the one hand managers and actors striving to elevate the theatre and make it purer and brighter, and on the other hand see the effort made to drag it down into the depths, we can understand how easily religion and morality can be arrayed against the drama. It is like the shield— sable on one side and white on the other— which caused the two knights to fight upon the question of its color. The people who go to our leading theatres, where morality is respected, see the white side of the shield; but those who judge of the stage by Matt. Morgan’s pictures see only its blackness, Such exhibitions as these justify all the tirades against the obscenity of the theatre, from Jeremy Taylor down to Dr. Talmage. They are falsely defended on the ground that they are artistic representations of na- ture, but they are supported because they are indecent. The police, we believe, have not yet closed this demoralizing show, which at once defies and destroys the sense of pub- lic decency in New York. It is time that the authorities should interfere for the pro- tection of the morality of society, and it is time for all who love art to protect it from its enemies. What is the use of seeking to crown the head of the fair statue of the Muse with flowers and laurel if we permit her feet to be set in the mire of detestable filth? We Are Gap ro Sex that the authorities have taken steps to apply the hygienic prin= ciples, laid down in General Viele’s Baltimore address, to buildings hereafter to be erected in New York. It is high time that sanitary requirements should be enforced in this respect. The plumbing of our houses will cost but a trifle more than it does in the present unscientific manner in which it is generally applied. The noxious gases which fill our houses and eat away the lives of in- mates will in buildings scientifically drained | escape into the air without, where they will be absorbed and carried away without danger to health. This isa great step forward, and if the power existed to have the gas-escape pipe applied to all dwellings within the city limits we should expect to see the heavy death rate of New York considerably lessened. Ovr Avexvr.—We trust that the disposi- tion to make the Fifth avenue worthy of its | fame as the great highway of New York will | not be arrested. We can appreciate what the | avenue might be.in this glorious winter weather, which lingers with us now almost to the verge of Christmas. This avenue should be macadamized without delay, to make it truly the avenue of the Champs Elysées of New York, It would cost but very little money, and at the same time add largely to the comfort of all classes of people. Tur Kaepive begins already to feel that he is a suzerain of England instead of | strange enough to be one of those dramas of crime which the public never tires of studying. The circumstantial evidence thus far points to Pesach Nathan Rubenstein as the murderer of Sara Alexander, the young girl who was found with her throat cut in a corn field on the outskirts of East New York, Many facts inevitably make him the object of suspicion. He was intimate with his cousin. She nursed him in an illness in April last. At the time of her death she was pregnant. About this time his wife and child are ex- pected to arrive from Europe. He has been identified as the man who rode in the same car with her on Sunday evening, and the two were seen walking together when they left the car toward the place where the body of the girl was found. On Monday night Rubenstein rose from his bed and told his father of a dream he had, in which Sara came to himand cried, “Papa! Papa! See me! Seeme! Ihave been killed. I have been taken ten miles from New York and killed. Come to me!” Footprints were found in the field which correspond to the size and the shape of his boots, even toabroken place in one of the soles, and some of the dirt which remains on the boots resembles the soil of the field. Upon these facts a plausible theory of his guilt may be constructed. The motive and the method of the crime may be inferred from them. And yet Rubenstein may be innocent. He may have seduced Sara Alexander and have ac- companied her to the corn field and still have had no share in her death. On stronger circumstantial evidence than that we have collated many an innocent man has been convicted, condemned and hung. If Rubenstein did kill the girl he will probably confess. He apparently loved her, and his seems to be the kind of mind which, from the consciousness of such guilt, would suffer agonies of terror and remorse, As- suming that he is guilty, we have another example of the gigantic folly, as well as crime, which almost always is involved in murder. He was afraid that his sin would be known to his family and his sect ; he was probably disturbed by the reproaches of the young woman and alarmed at the expected return of his wife. Life seemed easy and the future plain if he could only get rid of this exposure and disgrace, and to do that he must rid Kimself of the girl. Her death would be attributed to others, to one of those vile gangs of ontlaws which infest the suburbs of the city. No one would suspect him. If Rubenstein is guilty, it was thus, no doubt, that he reasoned. But what stupendous folly! To escape from a little shame he rushes into a horrible crime. He kills the girl, and she is silent to others, but forever eloquent to him. In the stillness of the ‘night she calls to him trom the field where she lies on her bloody bed Not only | is remorse forever on his track, but the law joins in the hunt. Like most criminals he is unable to conceal tho traces of his deed. The dead body always remains, and starting from that mute witness the bloodhounds of the law unerringly pursue the fugitive mur- derer through all the labyrinths in which he vainly hopes to hide. There is a lesson in this to all who ignorantly fancy that security from the consequences of one crime can be established on the foundations of another. Bishop Haven's Position. bers of the Methodist Church which throw new light upon thasituation. | The Death Penalty and the Death Sentence. The anomalous feature\of our law which allows the fate of the maw condemned to die to remain undecided untt! he is at the foot of the gallows should be changed to such an extent as to fix a definite time before the execution at which all hope shonld cease,’ It is also desirable that the authority to stave off the punishment should not be diffused: as it now is. To-day the three colored murderers will walk forth to the death they have merited. Dolan, whe is under sentence also, and who was respited a week since, obtained a writ of error yester- day through one of the Supreme Court judges, and thus has his hope of escape re- newed, although the Governor had decided not to interfere further with the course of the law. With the life of ahuman being at stake, ewen though-it be that of a professional thiet and outlaw like Dolan, we do not desire that anything should be left undone to make sure that the sentence is just, but the machinery of our law has so many loopholes for delay that it is often ob- tained for the deluded wretch without sav- ing him finally from the gallows. We recall . a case in London, where an Italian who lay under sentence of death was rescued from his fate by the real murderers presenting themselves for punishment. It was a case, too, of direct evidence, not circumstantial, the error being one of identity. In Dolan’s case the ‘new evidence” is merely an asser- tion of the prisoner that he obtained Mr. Noe’s watch from a thief, whose existence, under the alias of ‘Diamond Jim,” is the solitary fact to support it. But the writ of error was granted by Judge Donohue upon technical grounds, while we learn additional evidence of Dolan’s guilt was in the hands of the District Attorney. The whole affair is a farce upon justice, and the blame appears to lie upon the loose state of the law. ‘The death sentence is only the beginning of the real fight for the life of the condemned, -when it should end it, except in such an extraordinary case as that above alluded to. It is impossible, as the law~ now stands, for a wretch awaiting death to give any time or any thought to the duties of religion, which our humanity teaches belongs to all, no matter how depraved or unfortunate. In England and in France these things are done better. The execution in France generally follows in a very few days after the sentence. The execution in England is supposed to come within twenty days. We like the English plan better than the French plan; but we should have a plan of our own, humane and firm. In all cases of murder there should be prompt trials, and, when guilty, prompt punishment. -We can imagine no torture more agonizing than that of the condemned men in the Tombs who, like Dolan, hang between life and death, expecting pardon or reprieve or some inter- ference, and who, like the negro murderers, only know that they are really to die within afew short hours of the dread moment ot execution. Tax Inprcrep Bascock has not appeared at St. Lonis yet. Meanwhile his friends are busy writing letters to prove to the Presi- | dent that Babcock did not influence him in his suspension of the order of Douglass. The rumors attempting to connect General Grant personally with the doings of the Ring by connivance at the frauds are, we trust, utterly unfounded. No such crimi- nality could square with his war upon the Ring, which was unflinching up to the point of Babcock's implication. Bishop Haven has made his official state- ment of what took place at the Boston con- vention, and we do not see that it differs ma- terially from the reports that were pub- lished previously. It is admitted in | this statement that he, a prelate of the | Methodist Church, addressed a Methodist | Convention, and asked them to “pray for | the renomination of President Grant.” The | difference between this request for prayer | and the formal nomination of the President is not essential. The fact remains that this Methodist demonstration in favor of the re-election of the President begins with | the Bishop, and is indorsed by a conven- tion of clergymen ‘nd laymen. Bishop Haven is, of course, entitled to his own opinions as to who should be President, and to pray for whatever candidate he | pleases. He has probably learned by this | time, however, that nothing could do his | Church more harm or could do more injury | totrue religion than for the priest of any | denomination to interfere in politics. The | prayers which good men offered for the suc- cess of the country during our Revolutionary | war and the struggle with the rebellion were far ‘different from this praying for | the success of o President who could | only assume the office by a violation | of a sacred tradition of the constitution. | Bishop Haven must know—for he is anintel- | ligent man and before the war belonged to | the radical element of the country—that nothing could do’ more violence to the ele- mentary principles of republicanism than to elect any President for a third term. He | must know that this would be the beginning | of Cwsarism. He must feel that if it is “necessary” to elect President Grant fora | Turkey. His designs on Abyssinia are shorn | of their vaguengss, which might have in- | cluded conquest and occupation, and limited by an English demand to exacting satisfac- | tion, He is quietly told to give up an- | nexation in that direction and keep at his | work of making the Nile Valley a back garden | | for Manchester. To this end English capital White Nile Railroad, to bring the Soudan cotton to market. Tae Forvre or tan Frexca Repvsric is | the old slaveholders in favor of State rights — well assured in the result of the elections to the Senate. Ten more republican life sembly, leaving it certain that out of the seventy-five to be chosen by that body there will scarce be a dozen not in sympathy with the conservative Republic. Tho effect of this upon the country will be immense, and insures an overwhelming republican majority in the Senate when the balance is elected ly the veovle and in the new As- | aembly, Senators were elected yesterday by the As- | | third term it would be just as necessary to | electgeim for a fourth or fifth. His mind is | logieal enongh to see that such an election | means the permanent occupancy of the Pres- | idential office by the President. Bishop Haven was a radical before the war-— among those men who believed in anti- Yet we find him now following the emotions of-religious association and taking ground compared to which the extremest doctrines of | were conservative, We are rejoiced to find | that the Methodist Church has so promptly repudiated the mad venture of its Bishop, | We trust that this will be the end of the \‘effort to make the Presidential campaign | upon the platform of ‘No Popery and the protection of the Protestant religion.” Such a platform would be the basest kind of | demagogism, and its support is altogether | unworthy of the sacred office which Bishop Haven holds. To-day we print a series of | interesting interviews with prominent mem- | Belgium. Tae Satany Question.—Mr. Buckner, ot Missouri, proposes to reduce the satary ot the President. There has been a great deal of cant on this subject in the last few months, but the common sense of the coun- try has taken no part in it. he salary of the President is not more than it should he. The democrats will make no capital by. this agitation. Tar Coat Mine Horror this time: is in The fire-damp was again ex- ploded, donbtiess throagh the negligence ot one of the unfortunate men who lost their lives. It is the old story of contempt of danger, begotten by familiarity, with the danger taking its fearful revenge. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Judge Van Brunt has taken his seat again. Assistant Postmaster H, G. Pearson, of New York, is to wed Ella, daughter of Postmaster James, im April next The result of the Boston municipal election: is that the victorious School Committee is largely composed of women. Mr, Charles E. Lewis, M. P., of London, retarned to this city yesterday from a trip to the West, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mayor Cobb, of Boston, notwithstanding tte cry ov “<aristocrat,"’ was re-elected by the * respectable” ele ment against the loaters. Addison A. Keyes, editor of the Albany Morning Ba press, was yosterday appointed Deputy State Superin- tendent of Public lustruction. The petition filed by Congresaman Randall for tha repeal of the Check Stamp act was signed with 30,218 names, and was an cighth of a mile long, George H. Pendleton left Augusta, Ga, yesterday afternoon, and will spend Friday in Columbia in at. terdance at the Legislature of South Caroliaa, Governor Gaston has nominated Otis Phillips Lord, of Salcm, Mass., for Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in place of Justice John Wells, decvasea. La Liberté, of Paris, is deeply interested in the Con tennial tower, which it calls ‘Tho Tower of Babel" “Fancy 1,000 fect high!” says the writer, “tha biggest thing in the world by 600 feet." Mr. John C. Middleton, business manager of the Meth. oilist Book Concern, of this city, has been appointed by the Directors of the Centennial Exhibition os Superin- tendent of the Sunday School Department, | Gagier said, “Now, in my opinion, when, Tweed took will help build his Alexandria, Khartoum and | Slavery and in absolute freedom for all men, | qu», Sir," said Mrs. Gaglor, who graduated at Vassar, ‘that is vile slang.” “Ob, T mean,’ said Gag. ler, “that be jumped—pshaw, fired himself off. I moan skipped, waltaed—thunder, Jane, you kaow he lit out.* The Norristown Herald seasonably says:— “Young | maa, if you should see your girl gazing inteatly at yous | foet don’t shift them about uneasily, or draw them ug | ond sit upon them, under the Impression that sho it _ overwhelmed by their immense size. Sho is merely taking their measure mentally fora pair of stippers, on the toes of which she intends te work » blue dog with | a green tail and scarlet ears." | In discussing the spread of diphtheria tho Prost | dent of the Newark Scientific Association said tha | a parasitic fungus was always in tho diphthoriti. membrane. Ho could not say positively that tht fungus, although 6 Applications that destroyes fungal life cured diphtheria, one of which, salicylie actd, used puro, had always becn successful | disease proceeded from the | gproads the disease,