The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1876, Page 8

“ ta? }acivil warin the Pacific Mail camp, for wo NEW YORK ‘K HERALD| atte Eastorn Question, + BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters ‘or telegraphic | but because several Powers were prepared to | ore must be addressed New Yonx | PRALD, TREET. | \ OFF rORK HERALD- 4 PATS CFFICE-, AVEN Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. _ VARIETY, ut 8 P.M woop’ UNDER THE GALLO’ BROOKL BRASS, at 8 P. M. SAN FRAN Fawcett Rowe, CO MINSTRELS, ats P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, VARIETY, at 81’. M. CENTRAL PARK “GARDEN, oncHEstRay QUART! ND CHORUS, at 8 P.M, GILMORE'S. GARDEN, GRAND CONCERT, at 5 P.M. Offenbach, THEATRE, M. Lester Wallack, W THEATRE. WALLA! HOW SHE LOVES HI TONY Past VARIETY, ut 8 P.M, UNION z, UARE T THEATRE. CONSCIENCE, av & P, R. Thorne, Je kaGLe THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 ie YOUR CHRISTMAS CHATRAU at8P.M. PARIBIAN VARIETIEB, “OPERA HOUSE, MINSTRELS, BOOTIES LATRE. SULTS CASAR, ac 8PM. Lawronee ‘Barrett. = repo ing the obabili are that the weather to-day will be dy, with, perhaps, rein. Notice to Country Nkwsprauers.—For one and requar delivery of the Henaup by fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Wana Srexer Yustrerpaxy.—The stock mar- ket was generally depressed. Coal securi- ties continne weak, Money loaned on call at 3 per cent. Government and railway bonds were quiet and firm. Gold opened at 112 5-8 and closed at 1121-2. The bank statement shows an increase in surplus re- serve of $2,541,400. Trax Univenstry or Camprines has paid us the compliment of awarding the Chancellor's medal for the best English poem by a resi- dent undergraduate to one who took for his theme the Centenary of American Indepen- dence. With such oa subject we are not astonished at Mr, Dale's success, but still we recognize in the award a graceful compliment ‘to the United States, ‘Tur Latest Dirricunty promises to cause }find two sets of the directors using their utmost efforts to thwart each other in every ‘particular. It is alleged that, notwithstand- »ing the fact that a regular meeting was called, in accordance with the company’s “bylaws, for the election of a new Board to *fill the place of that of which the term expires on the 31st of May, several large stockholders, who were also directors, purposely absented themselves from the meeting and by this ameans endeavor to hold over. ‘The com- ‘plaint, as published in to-day's Hzraup, -sets forth the grievances of the opposition ‘party, the main object being to prevent the mortgaging of the company’s steamships ix 2 5S gf s 1 the great Powers of Europe guar- | lute war against the hordes that might be | anteed the integrity of the Turkish Empire— | pacify the country, and they who do not be- j not ont of regard to the Padishah or his | | E J DE L'OPERA. | surface. for two million dollars, which was re- cently resolved on. Tuxx Weaturr Inpications promise a thange by this evening or to-morrow morn- ing in the conditions prevailing in New York tate, and a little later in New England. The | barometric depression which has manifested _ Ateelf in the Northwestern States has pro- duced a great variation in the wind directions ovor acomparatively limited area of territory, and we may therefore look for local changes ps itmoves eastward. We again announce the existence of steep thermal gradients in the upper lake district, which are very likely to be followed by cyclonic storms or tor- nadoes in that region and in the Western States. Detached areas of high temper- ature existed yesterday in the Lower Mis- souri and Ohio valleys and in the eastern Gulf States. These are usually the originat- } ing causes of tornadoes, and we shall not be surprised to learn that the latter have been regions named. It is probable that the Upper Mississippi Valley and the lakes may be again visited by one of these destructive whirlwinds, for the atmospheric conditions In those regions are favorable for their gen- | ‘eration. ‘Tur East River Brice has already begun to give employment to the men of law. An fnjunction has been applied for in the United States Circuit Court to restrain the ‘cities of New York and Brooklyn from com- pleting the bridge, on the grounds that it will be injurious to commerce generally and particularly so to the applicant. It is #trange that a question like this should arise ‘after the expenditure of so much money on the great piers that have been orected on both sides of the East River. Long before the foundation stones were laid it was publicly announced that tho bridge was | " , to be built of certain dimensions, the height ‘of the roadway platform above the water was | _ given, and, indeed,;tho fullest information | g the propesed work that could be “flesired by the public. A mistako has either whose interests will be affected by the ridge. If by the former it is not too Inte even now to remedy it by raising the bridge el, uid if by the latter they have only elyes to blame for not objecting We hope that the arguments on the will bring out all the facta bear- a the better. been made by the engineers or by those | ! million one hundred thou: | parts of his dominion. felt in a greater or lesser degree in the | subjects or to the beneficent influences of Moslemism on the progress of humanity, | deny themselves a small advantage in order | that they might all agree in denying to Rus- LPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH | sia auch an opportunity for aggrandizement as would give her an overwhelming impor- | tance at certain critical points of the earth's They had done then os they are | | likely to do now, and as nations will per- haps always do in the same circumstances, ---: | they had quarrelled over the division of that “NO, 148 | which would become their plunder at any | moment that they could agree how to divide it. Thero were other difficulties beside the control of Russia inthe case, meal, and agreement was impossible. ‘They therefore “guaranteed the integrity” of the property in the hands of the Sultan. In other words, they signed a mutual obligation not to divide this property between themselves and not to permit any one of the number to vio- lently help himself to any one or more of the valuable corner Jots or water fronts. Russia's repudiation of this obligation brought about the Crimean war, the result of which proved that the Emperor Nicholas did net judgo happily of the propitious moment for frecing himself from international obligations, and that ho was not so well advised in that par- | ticular as was the Emperor who tore up the Treaty of Paris. | For thirty-five years, therefore, the Sultan's house has admittedly stood upon that very treacherous quicksand, the balance of power in Europe. His guarantee was the appre- hension that each Power had of every other. In so far as certain governments saw their own safety in his safety, and feared for themselves that others would attain a dan- gerous greatness which could only be at- tained at his expense, so far, no doubt, the guarantee thus given to the Ottoman sov- ereignty was a substantial one and was vigilantly guarded. But the balance of power in Europe is subject to many acci- dents, and the Power whose continued ex- istence depends only upon the preservation of that balance in the condition in which it stood at any given date in the century is pre- cariously placed. Asa matter of fact the balance of power in Europe is now so widely | different from what it was at the time of the Crimean war that if Russia should repeat the provocation to that conflict she would find herself confronted by different adversaries from those that opposed her then, or by none capable of arresting her advance. France cannot be counted as on the scene for any warlike contingency so remote from her own frontiers; and England, much the wiser for her experience in that struggle, cannot be launched into another war like it, either as a financial speculation for the res- cue of Turkey or through the Russophobia of Oriental traders, How much the balance of power must be changed when England and France are taken out of the scale on one side let the history of those countries tell. Has the Ottoman government any more hope to stand by its own strength now than it had when it was only guaranteed as a condition to the balance of 1841? On the contrary, it is in every respect more helpless, It was the penetration of the barbarous Asiatic system by European ideas that first impaired its vigor, and this operation has not only been continuous but far more effective within the years since 1841 than for centuries before. In some of the great rivers of Siberia which run toward the Polar seas— but which are rather glaciers than rivers— there are found, as the ice breaks up at the sea, the gigantic remains of a species of elephant that once flourished on the upper waters of those rivers, but which has been extinct for ages. Those carcasses have been kept in the ice indefinitely, and ivory hunt- ers now utilize the product. And the Turkish Power, founded on superstition and the sword—the product of the Asiatic wilder- ness—could only persist in circumstances as remote from every inimical influence as those that thus preserved the ancient deni- zens of the Asiatic forests. Brought into Europe, exposed to the blaze of a constantly advancing civilization, put side by side and face to face with nations in which all actions are under the influence of contemporary thonght, the Turkish Power is in much the samo position that one of those elephant car. casses would be in if exposed to the rays of a tropicai sun. It promises to disappear with much offence to the uostrils of humanity. From the tables of the Turkish Maliie or | Minister of Financo, which are only approxi- mations to satisfactory statistics, there are forty-one million Turkish subjects, which count includes the twelve millions of popu- lation in the countries that are tributary to the Padishab, but cannot be called integral Twenty-nine mill- ions is, therefore, properly the population of the Empire. Twelve millions of these inhabit Turkey in Europe. Taken on the whole count for all the countries called Turkish there are only three Mussulmans to two Christians—the number of Mussul- | mans of all races, Ottomans, Slavs, Kurds, Tartars, &c., being twenty-four millions and the number of Christians of the Eastern | Church being fifteen and a half millions, with about one million of Roman Catholics. But this proportion, in which the Christians are not so overwhelmingly outnumbered as might be thought, is found on a count that includes countries in which a Christian is never secn and could not live. In the Eu- ropean part of the Empire a return of eight \d of the popu- lation gives four million seven hundred thousand Christians to three’ million six hundred thousand Mohammedans. These numbers aro from tho Almanach of Gotha, and may be taken as a fair statement of the proportions in which the population is di- vided as to religion. European Turkey is, therefore, a country in which a semi-barbarous minority of Asiatic people hold in subjection many millions of Christians of the first races of the world, and a portion of these Christian people is in revolt against their oppressors. Turkey cannot suppress the revolt, and with en- | couragement and assistance, with the oppor- tanity to obtain arms, the Christian subjects important question. The sooner | of tho Sultan could overpower his supporters in their own country and oven wage a reso. for every } | Power wished the daintier morsels of the | preservation of the integrity of Turkey, | shall make the effort. She was intrusted | with the preparation of a bill of reform, be- | cause it was understood that she would make its terms as easy for Turkey as her | own responsibility to European opinion | would permit. She has certainly in that bill demanded the least that could satisfy the mountaineers in revolt. , But what is the result? The least that can be demanded is too much for the Sultan to give and preserve his relations with nople. Such reforms must be conceded at he capital as will pacify the provinces and induce the rayahs to lay down their arms. Otherwise the war will continue and there | will be a summer of butchery or an armed oceupation, But the indication of any dis- | position to concede these reforms provokes revolt from the other side of the religious division, Revolt of the Christians, if there are no reforms ; if reforms are conceded, re- volt of the Mchammedans. Between these elqnents, therefore, the conflict is neces- savily irrepressible, and tho inevitable consequence must be the expulsion of the Sultan from Europe. ‘This fact may be { smothered for a time yet in the negotiations, but no other can permanently pacify the ; country. Oar London Cable Letter. When the capital of England seriously puts on its garments of pomp tbe resulting exhibition is likely to be very brilliant and impressive, and of late years apt to be grace- ful. Half a century of imported msthetic culture has, indeed, done more to make the enormous wealth of England tell in this direction than seven centuries of insular development would lead to, Without either the warm sky or warm natures of the peoples of Southern Europe Englishmen struggle the effect of foreign travel, now so com- mon, it is not, however, surprising that the most worshipful city magnates, just for the Bar, should build a palace of Aladdin around the structure over which hovers the story of Dick Whittington and which enshrines rep- resentative English ugliness in the per- sons of Gog and Magog. Perhaps the Lord Mayor's ambition was inflamed by tho pictures in the illustrated papers of the Prince's progress in the gorgeous East, and he was resolved not to be outdone by heathen Hindoos. At any rate, the fu- ture Emperor of India had 4 magnificent civic pageant prepared for his delectation, | and if his royal mother makes Lord Mayor Cotton a baronet, as our despatch hints is probable, all hands will be satisfied. The parade of the Coaching Club by the banks of the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, was a pub- lic display of another kind, and, unlike the semi-Oriental city celebration, thor- oughly English. A procession of thirty coaches, horsed by magnificent — ani- mals and driven with faultless skill, is surely a sight that the great god | Apollo himself could look down on from his heavenly chariot with a throb of pleasure. It was certainly worthy of the “subdued applause” discriminatingly bestowed by the fashionable loungers who looked up at the drivers as the cavalcade whirled past. The success of the American artistes, who are either making their débuts in London or reaping fresh lyric honors, will be read with pleasure here, Our Paris Cable Letter. The amnesty debate having been wound up ina feu de joie of oratorical firecrackers Paris finds plenty besides to amuse itself with in the varied announcements of new plays and operas, which: are faithfully de- scribed in our letter. offered in the efforts of the Parisian students to organize an International Congress of students, to which we suppose America will be asked to contribute her quéta. In this favored land, where the convention is a terri- ble instrument within the reach of every- body, this congress would not excite sur- prise ; but before we pass any very profound comment on its advisability we would ik to know what the boys of the Latin Quarter will lay betore their fellow students from beyond the Rhine, the Po and Thames as fit subjects for discussion, The most pressing needs cf the pays latin are generally understood to be, how to make @ month's paternal allowance last over ten days; how to live during the remaining twenty; how to dance from night till | morning and come up fresh at class; how to make professors teitch them according to their own pet prejudices ; how to bamboozle parents by getting ! extra money for books, and, ally. how to keep up the war on that enemy of culture, the creditor class. With theso subjects to start on, and some philosophic treatises from the German students on harm- less duelling and meerschaum pipes, Europo might reap some benefit through parents and guardians reading the reports, Our cor- respondent thinks they will turn out to be a body of self-conscious young prigs, This is very likely. ‘Tne Wan ix Cua progresses with un- abated vigor on the part of the insurgents, According to the latest despatches from Ha- vana the scene of active operations against tho Spaniards ha’ been transferred from the Eastern to the Central Department of the | island, and we may therofore safely assume that success has crowned the patriot arms during the past few months. Taking the ae. } count coming from Spanish sources as a re- liable basis of opinicn we find that the in- surgent leaders have abandoned the defen- siveand have assumed the offensive along their entire line of operations. ‘The finan- cial necessities of the Havana govern- ment are shown by the rumored inten- tion to increase the duticson the’ ex- port of sugar and leaf tobacco, With burn- tion of the Spaniards in Cuba is rapidly be coming untenable. |i owing to revenue exactions, the posi- brought up from Asia. But it is hoped to | | lieve in patched up peaces have assented | | that Austria, which is most interested in the | Islam, as is shown by the revolt at Constanti- | somewhat against Providence in at- | tempting sensuous ostentation in pub- lic display. With money-power and | occasion of a prince coming east of Temple | Another amusementis | goner- | ing plantations around them and decreasing | The Centennial as Far ss It Goes. We print this morning a letter from.a cor- respondent in Philadelphia sketching the | Centennial as faras it has gone, It is now ten days since the opening, and our corre- | Bpondent discusses the question, “ What is the result of its ten days’ existence?” | We begin to see, now that the flush of the opening excitement is over, how this Cen- tennial Exhibition fails to realize the antici- | pations of its founders. Although ten days have elapsed since it was all to be in order— since those who were not in their place were to forfeit their spsce—the show is crude, un- finished and unsatisfactory. Some im- | portant countries, Russia especially, in | whose exhibit we take) so deep an interest, make no display. It will be the first of j June before Russia, Turkey, Portugal, | Mexico, Italy and France are quite ready. Philadelphia, which insisted upon having the Centennial for historical, sentimental reasons, is unablo to handle it. All the promises of metropolitan energy are fading. Rapid and frequent transit is a dream. The street cars have gone back to the old plan of taking their timo and run- ning when they are in the humor. As a consequence, as our correspondent shows, the Exposition is no longer in Philadelphia, brt ina suburban city ran up in a week like Fort Hays or Sheridan or some of our frontier railway towns, and which he eolls Centennialville, This town of Centennial- ville is not the safest place at night, on ac- count of bad sidewalksand unpaved streets. ‘The tearing up of the earth and the unfor- tunate rains have generated malaria, and we hear of fever and agne. Soif an enterpris- ing druggist craves fortune and fame he should open a quinine exhibit. Aiter sun- down Centennialville is cnt off from the Ex- position by the closing of the gates, and from the eity by the wretched, slow, uncertain transit. As if to make matters worse, the Puritans i in Philadelphia on Sunday close up their | Exhibition—buildings, grounds and all. | i The churches are open in the morning and evening, After church hours everything is | closed but the rum shops, ‘This fact ac- counts for the fact that the keepers of the hundred rum shops and beer suloons around the Exhibition, in Centennialville, are zealous advocates of the ‘sanctity of the Lord's day.” If the Exhibition were to be open the chances are that on @ fine day, a day like Friday or Saturday, fifty thousand people would spend | the day in the grounds and keep away from the rum shops. This would conduce to virtue, sobriety, purity of life, domestic en- joyment and aon intelligent knowledge of this vast display. It would enable the poor man to give the only day which he can claim as his own, without injustice to him- | self and his family, to the Exposition. Ac- cording to Philadelphia canons this would | be “breaking the Sabbath.” So the saints and the rumsellers ‘protect the Sabbath” and stimulate the sale of intoxicating liquors, Complaints still come to us about the extor- tions and narrowness of the Centennial management, ‘A German,” in commend- ing the Henaxp’s article of yesterday, asks .us to send a reporter with him to the prin- cipal beer saloon on the grounds to see how the poor German is swindled in his beer, He ordered, he says, three or four glasses, and no one was more than half full of beer, all the rest was froth, We do not mention the name of the establishment, bécause we do not care to do injustice ; but unless these griev- ances are remedied we shall have to nail up these petty swindlers by the ears. They are petty swindlers and no more, The gener- osity of the people has provided a great ex- hibition—the greatest ever seen on this con- tinent. Foreign nations have sent commis- sioners, displays and articles of merit. The world is asked to come and see the show. Yet when the world does come it is to be swindled, improperly accommodated, over- charged, narrowed down to prim Philadel- phia ways. In other words, a lot of tavern keepers who have “concessions” and rail- way owners who have control of the transit, and speculators generally, mean when they get hold of the world to make all the money they can, The consequence is that what, in its inception, in the energy of its projectors and in the enthusiasm of the good people of Philadelphia, was to be an exposition worthy of the Republic and worthy of the centen- nial of its existence is becoming little more than a county fair. We agree with all that our correspondent says of the hospitality of Philadelphia; of the desire of its people to make all welcome who come ; of their pride in this Exhibition’ and their efforts for its success. But now is the time to insure success. We see the mis- take of having opened an international expo- sition in any city but New York. Such an undertaking required the metropalis to give it success, and men with metropolitan ideas to handle it. As it is it neods a head. Unless some strong, able man takes hold of it, and roots out these abuses; unless the national and international character of the fair is appreciated and respected, the Centennial meanness and folly. The Centennial Rifle Matches. Our riflemen having now secured accept- ances to their invitations for a Centennial first class foreign teams to their long range contest, should now lose no time in getting teams from Ireland, Scotlnnd and Canada, and this alone will sensibly lessen our rifle- men’s chances of retaining the victory which has hitherto fillen to them. The spirit with which the Irish riflemen have entered into the work of selecting their team at this early | a leaf irom our American book, and make the organization and discipline of their team as much a matter of study as the excellence of the individual marksmen. They count some wonderful shots in their number, and with the mutual help which comes from work- ing in practice exactly as in‘a match we may expect the best results. The Scotch team will organize a tritlo later, but they number somo very strong shots, and in their de- at Creedmoor, and so adapt their shooting to our atmospheric conditions. evince a spirit Exposition of our national greatness will be- | come a Centennial Exposition of national | rifle match which will bring at least three | solidly to work themselves. We shall have | termination to bo carly in America, to.camp | _property by her husband's relations. | as seeing Him who is invisible, and so doing | there is a promise and a prospect that they that will cadoubandly be hard to overcome. | The Canadians are hard at work, and have, we understand, in many instances adopted an American breech-loader in preference to the English muzale-loading weapons they used in former contests. Of our American | shots we hope to'see most of the names fu- | mous at Creedmoor and Dollymount reap- pear in the coming contests for places on | the American team. Judge Gildersleeve, | we believe, has stated that he will not com- | pete, but with this exception we have heard | of no others likely to desert the victorious | standard. It is searcely worth saying at | this late day that long range riflemen are | not to be produced in a month, but among | our aspirants to long range honors who have | not appeared on the American team or re- serves we expect to see such arduous stu- dents of the rifle as Messrs, Farwell, Jewell, Rathbone, Geiger, Webber and Hyde yee the veterans «close push in the contests for | places on the team. Fancy Pauperism. Starvation is a horrible fate, and the hor- ror of it is so commonly recognized that acts committed to prevent a death of this sort are universaliy regarded as removed from the category of crimes in virtue of their cause. All laws, all moralities, almost—the deepest prejudices, even of society—are set nside in favor of a human creature who can plead the terrible pangs of hunger as the impulse that led to offences against laws, moralities | or prejudices. There is no doubt that in the midst of plenty men and women and children have died from this cause ; but they have had very little to say about it, pride generally having led them to scorn, in the battle for life, to acknowledge the great de- feat that is involved in the call for help. But thero is another “starving class,” one that makes an uncommon noise about it, endures a tremendous amount of starvation and does not die, but keeps on forever in an interminable series of begging letters, bullies all public men in station and criti- cises with bitter severity every charity that cannot be perverted toa machinery for the cultivation of fancy pauperism. It is some- times a man, oftenera woman, that repre- sents this class. There have been misfor- tunes ; his health has broken down, if it is a man; her husband is dead, if it is a woman, and she has been robbed of her Some consideration ‘is claimed for her former sta- tion, and the assistance given is expected to | be gilt-edged. Employment is not precisely what she wants; yet sympathy does not ap- pease her appetige. in fact, the letter she has brought from a distinguished man, who vouches for the truth of her statements, ought to secure a liberal contribution in ready money, she fancies; and if it fails woe to those who refuse her—that is, if they care for offensive statements of the case made to their prejudice in print or other- wise. Parasites of this sort will be found and will flourish in every society where the peo- ple are generously charitable and cannot always take time to discriminate nicely the subjects of their charity ; and thus these pauper adventurers and adventuresses tap and thrive upon the streams that are nourished for the really needy and hungry. Pulpit Toptes To-Dayt This is the Centennial season, not only with the nation but with the churches, and to-day Willett street Methodist Episcopal church will commemorate one half century of its existence ; the New England Congroga- tional church of Brooklyn, E. D., will glory in its quarter century life, and Dr. Dowling will review in o general way a century's growth of the Baptist Church in this city. Of course it will not be supposed that the Doctor will speak from oxperience. Though one of the oldest Baptist ministers in New York he is yet a young man in heart and thought and one of the most acceptable preachers in the denomination. In this centennial year, and while so many representatives of hoary nations of the Old World are here, it is eminently fitting that the brotherhood of humanity should be recognized; and as it is a demand of Christ that this should be done Mr, Leavell will consider both to-day. Here, too, woman's true sphere and influence are felt and recog- nized, and Mr. Lightbourn will have some- thing of interest to women tosay on the sub- ject. But neither the nation nor the indi- vidual could have attained to their present position of eminence and glory except through suffering, and Dr. Hatfield and Mr. Seitz will show how all glory comes thus. But this suffering must be made profitable by Christian ac- tivity, as Mr. Rowell will demonstrate, and not by supinencss and being ashamed of the Gospel. Nations and individuals should live shall be changed into His image, and this Mr. Thomas will encourago his church to do. This was Paul's anticipation as he looked back in his old age over his busy and useful life, and this is the theme that will occupy Mr. Lioyd’s thought this morning. It has often been a question with thoughtful stu- dents of the Bible why it was that Jesus always spoke in parables. Mr. Ager will explain the reason, and will de- monstrate that by no other means could spiritual truths have been preserved among | the people. Mr. Alger will present the claims of liberal Christianity to support in this city, and Mr. J. M. Pullman wil! show the influence that church work exerts on social order. Mr. Herr will describe a model home, and Mr. Selleck will expand God's thoughts to show their preciousness, and will condemn slander and evil-speaking. Dr. Armitage notifies his congregation that | there's a knocking at their doors, and he will | advise them to open and let the visi | day shows thut they are determined to take | ‘é yp Praka in. Mr. Moment will rear his discourse upon thecorner stone, and Mr. R, H. Pull- man will base his upon the spring songs of the birds and the blossoms, Mr. Johns will vindicate the character of Queen Mary, and Bishop Snow and Mrs, Schertz will expound prophecies. News yrom Matamonos informs us that’ the revolution is ended in that city. The city is now in the hands of the officer second in command to Escobedo, the government general. It is some satisfaction to those who really desire the prosperity of Mexico that /on the ‘protensions of adventurers who for selfish purposes would sacrifice the interests of their country. corrupt public men than any other influ- ence in the country. They are contin ual applicants for legislation, and as they need immense sums of money and vast con- cessions of land they are willing to pay lib erally. It is a sad reflection that the devel- | opment of the country by such enter | prises has been attended with so much corruption in Congress‘and the State govern- ments, Ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, who is soon to be tried on the charges of cheating and larceny after trust, may be an | example of this evil. He is accused of paying to an imaginary Tennessee car company forty. thousand dollars for cars that never were delivered while he was Governor. His flight from Georgia in 1871, his resignation of his office, written from New York, on the poor excuse that the political persecution to which he was exposed deprived him of usefulness ta the State, and his escape to Canada when a detective was sent after him, are suspicious circumstances. Mr. Bullock now claims that he has been ready to go to Georgia at any time during the past two years, yet he does not explain why he did not earlier seek his vindication. The people of Atlanta seem to have confidence in his ability to prove that he is innocent of the offences with which he is charged, and it is said that he could have secured bail to the amount of a million of dollars. But whether he is in- nocent or guilty the very fact that he is ae cused is a mortification to the American people. For the first time in our history the Senate is engaged in trying. an officer of the Cabinet for criminal offences and a State court has an ex-Governor under arrest for fraud. The Religious Press and the Exhi<« bition, The Centehnial Exhibition is a living and fruitful topic of thought for our re- ligious contemporaries, The Christian Leader is delighted with the ‘send off’ which the big show received ten days ago. It thinks nothing was lacking to add to the interest and glory of the day, and it contrasts the oc- casion with what might have been witnessed a* century ago. The Jewish Messenger is opposed to the absolute closing of the Centennial grounds and buildings on the Lord’s Day, and thinks that on this point the popular sentiment will make itself understood. The Messenger thinks the Art Gallery, Main and Horticultural Halls might very profitably be opened on Sunday, and the working people thus given an opportunity which they may not have at any other time. It would, how- ever, have the machinery quiet, the liquor stands and the showcases closed, and such other marks of respect shown to the day aa are fitting; but it isopposed to this much recognition of Christianity as the law of the land. The Jewish Times holds a similar view, and adds that if the great mass of our population had the Sunday free to them and access to all sources of instructive as well as refreshing amusement, most of the people who are, now complained of as Sabbath breakers would lose all desire for riotous dissipation’ on that or on any other day. The sources of education and rational pleasure in the Exhibition should be opened to the hundreds of thousands on Sundays who have no other day for them, and it would promote the spirit of a pure re- ligion, an elevated morality and a higher social refinement, and would materially ad- vanee the cause of true temperance. How - differently the same thing strikes other minds may be inferred from what the Bap- tist Weekly says on the subject. In connec- tion with the Centennial the Weekly saya that that of which we, as a Chfistian nation, have most reason to congratulate ourselves is, that we have shown to the nations that we have a Sabbath—a day of sacred rest, To shat the Exhibition on Sunday has caused a hard battle, It isnot over yet ; but we believe it will be done, and this will be worth more to the world than all it has cost, The Tablet seconds the proposition that the sixty thousand ministers in the United States gather in Philadelphia during the summer, as the old Councils of the Church gathered, and decide by vote the truth and falsity of doctrines, and that until it is de cided what truth is no more churches be built nor preachers employed. ‘Che moral is a contrast with the fixity of truth in the Roe man Catholic Church, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Queen likes the appearance of her troops. Mr. Blaine is still suffering from fever and ague The Nevaga democratic delegates will vote first for Tilden aud then for Thurinan, Carlyle thinks that doctors who practise surgery on Itve animals should be indicted, jh essayists m Jate periodicals agroe that the Eastern question is one that cannot be settied by dip- lqmatic pressure, Vinnie Ream seldom appears in the Congressional lobbies nowadays, She i# hard at work on a bast of Senator Lamar, Stanley Waterman Waterloo, ono of the editors of the” St. Louis Republican, will run for Alderman in the Seventh ward of that city. ‘ Grace Greenwood is bitterly opposed to Indigps. She says the finest thing sho saw about a squaw's embroid- | ered petticoat was a ballet hole. President Grant is # good walker. He may bo seen on pleasamt evenings walking up tho avenue toward Rabcock’s row, in sombre meditation. =~ London young ladies prove to shopkeepe °s what the amount of their allowance Is, and then tho shopkeepers show every consideration as regards teruts and prices, ‘The Erio Railway claims tn a circular that it did not, in one year, kit s single man whose life might not have been saved if he Dad taken ordinary caro of him. self Sonator Thurmen has at Washington a library largot ‘by far than that of any usually owned by a Congross- man, Yet his library at Columbus, Onto, is moro ex. tensive. ‘The day before Scaator Christancy was married to his young bride he stepped into the Senate clevatH and tried to put five cents in the registor box. He thougts he was In a street car, Notwithstanding his misadvontures Senator Spence: still holds the reins of federal power in the State whied ho politically represcuts. His mean influence his ox tended into States neighbor to Mississippi, = A high toned Congressman got angry in a committer Toom tho other day because the chairman demoustratet ‘Shat a momber could live on $4,000 a year, They foally compromised by adding $400, Volonel Jamoson, an editor of the St Louis Globe- Democrat, has been converted and has entered the ministry, We aro sorry for the Globe- Democrat, but % ‘May gO On just the same with its seissora. ;