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Valume XXXV No. 137
AMUSEMENTS THIS EViNINS.
' THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street?(jit and Vabiett
entjerct ainmknt.
OLTMPlr THEATRE, Broadway?Thk FaibO.ne with
BI.omde Win.
WOOD'S museum AND MENAGERIE, Rro?<1way. corner
Thirtieth at Mittiuue dally- Perf or .nance every evening.
OB AND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and
93d St.?1 dc '1'wfci.vk Tkmptationb.
NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway?Ixion-TiIR Military
Dkama or Nut Guilty.
BOWERY THEATRL, Bowery.?Till Coiwioan BrothIks?Tom
Ckinole.
BOOTH'S THEATRE, BSd at., between Alb an;t 6th an.?
TaKIMI THK CUANOBft.
WALLACK'3 THEATRE, Broadway and 13th itrcet.?
TUK red iiloht.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth It.?TllB
Oooi> Natured Man.
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF Ml SIC.-W allack'8 COMpany?Thk
Lancebo.
MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRK, Broolclyn.Minnik'b
Look.
THEATRE comiqub, 614 Broadway?comio VooALIBM,
NBOKO ACTb. 40.
BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. Timm#nT Building, 14tb
t Al.l.KN & I'ETTINOILL'B MlNBTUlii.S.
TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bjwenr.-COJilO
VOCAI.ISN, N KG no M INBTRKLBT, AC.
KELLY A LEON'S MINSTRELS. No. 750 Broadway?
Gay Youno Swill?Bai? Dickey?PiiKsTiDmiTATiow.
HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn Hjoi.ky'b Min tbklb?The
Kat Mbk's Ball, Ac.
CENTRAL PARK HARDEN, 7th ar., b?"we?n 58th and
6S*th iu?Theodore Tumi am' Popular Cuncss'm.
NEW YORK MI'SEtTM OP ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.Bcikhce
and Attr.
Til IP LE SHE E T.
New Yorkt IHondar, June 6. 1870.
C0RB919 OF TO-DAY's DERILD.
Page.
1?Advertisements.
'.I?Advertisements.
3? Religious: Celebration of the Feast of the
Pentecost: T!ie Workings and Teachings of
the Holy Spirit as Manifested in the Churches
II're and Elsewhere: Pastoral Praises for the
Victorious Volunieers and Episcopal Excoriation
of the Fenian Filibusters; The* Birthday
of Judaism Commemorated by the Jews;
cnarity and Charlatanism as Practised in the
Puipit; Infallibility Admitted by the Ritualists;
The Centenary of Unlversallsm in America.
41?Religious (continued from Third Page).
5?Europe: Napoleon's Reception of the Result of
the Plebiscitum; Grand Scene at the Tulleries
ami Speech of the Emperor; The English
Protestant Conference in America; The Woman's
Rights ?mcstion In Great Britain; Revolutionary
Agitation In Naples and IrelandCongress
and Cuba: General Banks Needing a
Spur: Dangers of Further Delay in Recognizing
Cuba; Why Secretary Fish Need Not
Resign.
6? Editorials: Leading Article on The Financial
Legislation and Jobs of congress?Amusement
Announcements.
7?Editorial (continued)?'Tele;rrap:c News from all
Parts of the World: Tne Ri ported Massacre of
the .lews in Roumanla Denied: Release of the
English Captives in Spain; Violent Scenes
iu the Papal Council; the Uet manAmerican
Naturalization Question?'Washington:
Tennessee Threatened with Another Reconstruction;
Letter from Governor Geary
on the Decline <>r American Commerce;
Reorgantzaii n of she Revenue Marine?Musical
and Theatrical Notes?Brooklyn
city News? "ho on shipboard?The Relief
of Broadwa V >! < in Assault in Williamsburg?Sin:;
, Against a Newark
Saloon K? ? ? i of a prominent Politician
Alt ??r Homicide?Old
Wo! ,.l ||. Ml :v 'lee-.
8? Ml - v: . -i , , . >i! of l?70 at the
While Mo i.i >m. ngo Question?
Our ship, ''tie Whereabouts of
Gcncni .) i.*i s. ? v i ? .-it Th'i Tnumphal
March < f m / . ' i nil-: Interesting st.at.
cs of in. Lag 'l '.? Traffic?Political*and
General .v c* ? <o nti.m of the Passenger Act.
9?The Kmc At Kr i^htenmcnt lroin ihe Old
v\ o I<1 to tin- N'e- . Th Paris Imbibition?Rutoeisi
Keneiie coileu ?Personal intelll-'ence?
Vanderiiiit and His New Span ?Ktnjf Coal Dethroned?Keal
t>tate Transfers?Court Calendars
for To-Day? Remarkable Fecundity?Finan<
lal and Commercial Reports?Marriages
and Deaths.
10?New York City News?now the Excise Law
Works?An Alleited Jersey Fiftifl Incarnate? ]
Wails for Knrope?Shipping Intelligence?Advertisements.
11? News from the West Coast of Africa?Divorces
liy Wholesale?Advertisements.
12?Advertisements.
The English Channel Yacht Raoe
Match terminated on the 4th inst. The vessels
ran from the Nore to Dover. The American
yachts declined to enter for the occasion. Fifteen
stnrted. The Cambria reached Dover
third among the first arrivals.
A IIist to tne Dominion.?The General
Court of Massachusetts proposes to resolve
"that it will cordially sympathize with all
those who favor the union of the British North
American provinces with the government and
people of the United States." This is perhaps
too late to comfort the Fenians, who no doubt
would have adopted such a purpose for the
sake of sympathy, but it may be taken in
Canada as indicating a tendency.
TnE FRSNcn Postal Trottijle.?The want
Of proper postal facilities between the United
States and France is much complained of in
Paris?and that is where the complaint ought
to be, as all the difficulty is due to the mulishD6bs
of certain of the French authorities. Proper
efforts from this side were made in time
for the establishment of postal regulations by
treaty; but the French ministry would not
accept our propositions in regard to rates, believing
that the government income would bo
greater without a treaty, and having little regard
to the convenience of the Deoolo.
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NEW Y
Tho' Fiuuocial LrgUUlloa and Job* of
Cwiinw
The curse of this country is the incapacity
and indisposition of Congress to legislate on
great national principles and interests. Little
thought is given to the general welfare of the
people or of the republic in Its entirety, and
we see no statesmanlike grasp of questions
bearing upon the mighty destiny of the nation.
That body is composed for the most part of
local politicians, whose vision does not reach
beyond the narrow limits of their districts or
States, who look only to what affects them
personally and who have no idea of the growing
wants and grand future of the country.
Statemen look to the future and lay the foundations
for it in their policy, but these men can
see only the present and that merely in small
things. It is true there are gigantic jobs
brought before Congress and members understand
these well enough. They are sharp
business men, so far as their own interests go,
though not statesmen. They seem to have an
idea that while they are taking care of themselves
the country can take care of itself.
Fortunately this is so to some extent; for the
wonderful resources of the republic and
industry ot the people overcome, in a great
measure, bad legislation or the want of good
legislation. Still, the corruption, incapacity
and contracted views of our national legislators
are demoralizing and must in the end lead
to serious consequences.
We look over the proceedings of Congress
from day to day, and And that nearly every
question that comes up has a job in it?some
political and party job, some sectional or local
job in favor of a particular locality or class, or
some job to put money into the pockets of the
members themselves and of their friends.
Hardly any question, as was said before, is
considered with regard to the country at large
or the general welfare. Take, for example,
the subjects of internal taxation and the tariff,
which have been discussed long enough to
wear them threadbare, and there are no large
views expressed?none of a broad national
character. Each member advocates or
opposes propositions made according to
the effect they may have upon some particular
interest with which he is identified or supposes
he represents. There is no party policy,
even, on these subjects or any others?noue,
except on the dead issues of the war and the
everlasting negro. But these last are about
played out. The people are tired with the
continual harping upon the war, for the issues
of it have been settled. As to the negro,
nothing more can be made out of him politically,
unless the ultra negrophobists can
propose a method to scrub the black man into
a white one, and to change his cranium, heels
and all his conformation, so as to give him
equality, physically, with the Caucasian raco.
On the subjects of the tariff, taxation, funding
the debt, currency, national banks, foreign
policy, and many others, there is no party
platform nor unity of action. There is even no
concert of views nor action between the socalled
administration party in Congress and
the administration itself.
The proceedings in Congress and of the administration
for some time past, but particularly
within the last few days, show this want
of concert and unity and the selfish, narrowminded
conduct of members. The Sandwich
Islands treaty was rejected in the Senate on
Wednesday by radical Senators because it
opened reciprocity of trade and was against
the high tariff notions of these men, though it
was eloquently advocated by another leading
radical Senator, Mr. Sumner, who, as chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, is
supposed to have most to say and the most
influence on all such questions. No regard
was paid to the action or wish of the administration
in the matter. The development of
our commerce on the Pacific side of the continent
and the great interests that are opening
to us there had no weight with these high
tariff Senators and local politicians. The
debate on the Taj? bill in the House on Saturday
and the fight over Mr. Schenck's attempt
to tack on a tariff amendment to that bill
brought out in a strong light the narrow sectional
views of members and the difficulty of
legislating on anything in a broad national
manner. In former times there was a defined
party policy as well as party action on public
questions; but now there is none, oxcept, as
was said, on the dead issues of the war and
the negro. Look at the conduct of
the Senate, which is overwhelmingly
republican, on the St. Domingo question.
The administration, which was the choice of
and belongs to that dominant party, pleads
earnestly for the ratification of the St. Domingo
treaty, but has pleaded in vain. Then
again, on the other hand, the majority in Congress
are no doubt favorable to some sympathetic
and decided action in favor of the
Cubans, but this has been doggedly resisted
by the administration. Take also, for example,
the Funding bill, a very imporlant measure,
and there is a perfect chaos of opinions.
On that neither parties nor sections unite, and
the policy of the administration, or rather of
tho Secretary of the Treasury, is utterly disregarded.
It is only where there is some grand scheme
to plunder the Treasury or the people, and
where a combination of interests are made,
that measures Blip through Congress easily.
When some gigantic railroad job, calling for
enormous grants of land or subsidies, under a
powerful combination of railroad interests,
and direct interests of Congressmen them
selves, is presented there is little difficulty
in passing a bill. It is much the
same with the stupendous national bank
jobs. Two bills to increase the bonus to
or profits of the national bank associations
have passed the Senate this session. One was
to increase the circulation of these institutions
forty-five millions. The other was in the
Senate Funding bill, and that proposes to give
the banks the whole currency of the country.
That is, they are to receive, in addition
to the three hundred millions they now
have, about three hundred and fifty millions
more in place of the legal tender greenbacks,
and as fast as these can be withdrawn. A
clear gift of eighteen millions a year in gold ia
now made to the banks, and when the greenbacks
are pushed out of existence and the
banks absorb all the currency of the country
this gratuity will be increased to near forty
millions. This is the profit on circulation, and
comes out of the Tr??sury and pockets of the
people. It ia the same as if the ?overnwenl
OllK HERALD, MONDAY,
gave tbo bank* six hundred millions and
upwards of capital; for they draw interest
from their, bonds deposited, which iB capital,
and at* the same time the government issues
over six hundred millions of circulating money
to them. In a word, the government gratuitously
doubles their capital without any
consideration in return. Such measures as
these have little difficulty in passing Congress;
for half the members, or more,
probably, are interested, directly or indirectly,
in the national banks. We might go on to
show how In other things the legislation of
Congress is controlled by private and local
interests, and to demonstrate, what was said
before, that members have no large national
or patriotic views; but these examples are
sufficient for the present. Whether there is
any remedy for this deplorable state of things
or not time alone will show. It remains with
the people to decide. Nothing but the power
of enlightened public opinion can cure the
evil.
The Nnawcn of the Jewa Denifd.
Our cable telegrams from Europe, dated in
London yosterday evening, convey the highly
important and very consoling intelligence that
the report of the massacre of the Jews in
Rnumnnia win without fminrintinn InmiiriOH
from New York aa to the truth or falsity of the
detail had reached London. The cable replies
to-day that no such advices bad been received
there, and that the continental news agencies
deny that there have been any outrages perpetrated
recently upon the Jews in Roumania.
Telegrams from Bucharest state that an election
riot occurred in one of the villages of
the principality lately, but the disturbance
was quelled almost immediately. The "Jews'
massacre" telegram, as it was published by
parties in New York, was dated in Constantinople
on the 1st of June. The frightful
events which it purported to narrate would
certainly have been heard of in London, Paris,
Vienna, Brussels and St. Petersburg, some
time before yesterday evening, the 5th mat.,
had they occurred; the latter a very important
consideration in all that concerns news
despatches.
A Now Auiericuu Newspaper in Paris.
We understand that an American newspaper,
to be called "2Vte Paris Americanwill soon
be published in the gay capital of Europe.
Looking at the vast number of Americans in
Paris?not loss than forty thousand, probably,
and continually increasing?there is, no doubt,
an inviting prospect for such an enterprise.
Indeed, it is surprising that an American newspaper
has not been established there before.
The English have had a paper in Paris many
years. It has become a permanent institution
and is very profitable to the proprietors. Why
should it not be so with an American papor?
Considering the rapidly increasing wealth of
this country, the facilities for crossing the
ocean and travelling, and the taste of our people
for luxury and sight-seeing, the time is not
distant when hundreds of thousands will go
over to Europe yearly, and, of course, Paris
will be the great attraction and centre of all
their movements. In a short time the Americans
in Paris will far outnumber the English
and other foreigners. A thorough American
newspaper thero is a necessity, and there never
was a more opportune time to establish such
an one. If properly conducted it may do great
good, too, in reflecting and diffusing American
ideas. Mr. Oscar G. Sawyer originated and is
the bead of this enterprise. He has had great
experience in connection with the press, has
undoubted ability a3 a journalist, and his
travels and experience in many parts of the
world and in all the capitals of Europe, give
him that comprehensive view of things and
that cosmopolitan character of mind which
make him just the man for such an undertaking.
The project, we understand, is favored
by the bankers, capitalists and leading Americans
in Paris and connected with business
there. It is the intention of Mr. Sawyer to
employ the best talents in every department of
journalism, and to make an able, a lively,
comprehensive and a truly American newspaper.
With such views and with proper means
there can be no doubt The Paris American
will be successful.
Captain Eyre, by whose reckless inhumanity
or stupidity, it mutters not which, the
whole crew of the Oneida w.vb sent to the bottom,
thought it cruel that he was punished by
six months' " leave of absence "?for that, after
all, was about the amount of his sentence. He
has been appealing against it, therefore, ever
since, and fiually induced the directors of the
company to which his steamer belonged to say
a good word for him, in an address to the
Lords of the Admiralty, through the Board of
Trade. The Board of Trade replied to Mr.
Eyre that his sentence, " so far from being too
severe, is more lenient than the gravity of the
offence required." Eyre will understand,
therefore, by this time, that he did not perform
an altogether praiseworthy act in " cutting
down a damned Yankee frigate."
The Fourth Ward Tragedy.?The promotion
of Burke, the policeman, who shot a
man in a fracas in the Fourth ward the other
night, is a pretty clear expression on the part
of the Commissioners of their opinion that the
act was one of praiseworthy readiness, and
not of precipitate brutality. The whole character
of the act depends upon what sort of
man it was that was killed. He is represented
on one hand as a peaceful, if not a sober
citizen, and an the other as a ruffian of the
worst sort. On a point of this kind the word
of the police may safely be taken, and this
fully justifies the shooting.
Immigration.?The cry of "Still they come"
does not adequately express the overflow of
the people of Europe on our shores : for they
come more freely than ever. Two thousand a
day was the average of last week, making for
six days a fair figure over twelve thousand.
Two incoming ships brought upward of fifteen
hundred each,
i
Art in the Old World.?Our special correspondence
from Paris embraces an able
i analysis of the chief works of art which were
presented at the Exhibition in the French
i capital. The writer takes a very ennobling
view of the subject, treating the Fine Arts
' generally as a means of international enlightl
enment: particularly so at the present mo>
i ment, when the peoples are approaching to the
t perfection of a cosmopolitan intercommunion.
JUNE G, 1870?TRIPLE SI
ltolitfioun Service* Yesterday.
Yesterday was one of those rare Sundays
when Jews as well as Christians meet to pray, d'
The feast of Pentecost assembled the Israel- r<
ites in their synagogues, and the same feast L
was celebrated in many of the Christian fr
churches. At the Catholic houses of worship ai
the attendance was large, as is always the v<
case on Whitsunday, and the sermons, which A
were all devoted to the subject of the feast, p
were listened to with all the attention they 1?
deserved. It was announced from the pulpit h
that next Sunday these would be a collection a
in aid of the Papal treasury, which was at a T
very low ebb. In advance we must express w
the hopo that the subscriptions will be liberal, w
In spite of his infallibility Pope Pius cannot si
get along without funds. Falliblo mortals, li
who deal in dry goods and groceries, Bome- C
how expect his Holiness to pay the cash after p
a moderate period has elapsed from the time of 1
the purchase. Following close upon the ri
Catholic religious rites were those at St. ti
Albans, whore Rev. Mr. Noycs preached tl
a sermon in which he claimed infalli- o
bility for the successors of the Apostles il
and maintained the doctrine of the I
presence of Christ in the eucharist. On the o
other hand, at Lyric Ilall, Mr. Frothingham J
condemned the discussion or questions reiating ?
to rites and ceremonies. The same clergyman
also declared that in all his life he had seen a
but two or threo persons whom ho believed C
"to have been Christians through and t
through." This unfortunate experience of Mr. J
Frothingham has not been without effect, if
we may judge by his peculiar religious views.
On the whole, however, Mr. Frothingham was
unusually dull. There was a little sensation
at Berean Baptist church, caused by some
rascally infidels exploding a package
of Chinese firecrackers under one of the windows,
much to the horror of a part of the congregation
not yet propared to go to heaven.
As soon as order was restored the pastor discoursed
on "Christ and Public Opinion," a
topic well treated. At the Church of the Messiah
Rev. Mr. Hepworth preachod on the rite of
the Communion, explaining its origin and sig- .
nificancc in eloquent and convincing language.
At the American Free Church Rev. Mr. Smyth
discoursed on the afflictions of life, which are
undoubtedly many and hard to bear. In
connection with life afflictions was the treatment
of Fenianism from a religious point of
view by an Episcopal bishop in Montreal. The
reverend gentleman actually returned thanks
to God for aiding and protecting the Canadian
forces during the recent excitement along the
border. It is possible that the Lord smote the
Fenians, but we do not believe it. We have
no idea that tho Lord was troubling himself
about the Canada frontier while the Fenians
were in the vicinity.
Whether it was the warm weather or something
elso wo are unable to determine, but it
is certain that Brother Beecher was unusually
sedate and sober yesterday. He appeared in
church for the first time this season in summer
costume, opened the proceedings by advertising
and giving a quiet puff to a "floral
concert," and then delivering a discourse on
the infirmities of mankind, dealing charitably
with them and imparting hope to those whose
idiosyncrasies often lead them astray. At the
Central Presbyterian church, in Brooklyn, Rev.
Mr. Talmadge vigorously attacked the villanies
of the day, exposing many of them in plain
English and, altogether, delivering a very senA
t *?w? A?I.An t? 41.
Oll/iu OiriUIUU. AV IUC Wlilfl UUIUVUUS, 1U UllO 1
city, Brooklyn, Washington, and Jersey City, i
there were the usual services and the usual ]
sermons. The day was a successful one. <
Everywhere the attendance was good, and as
there was more praying than usual, because <
of the Jewish feast, we have reason to hope <
that the amount of forgiveness and charity i
showered down upon us was proportionally j
increased. j
Hobnobbing With Ibe Indian*. j
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, the two antago- '
nistic chiefs of the Sioux tribes, have had a '
long talk and smoked a good many pipes with
j the authorities at Washington. Of course, as
in most Indian councils, the talk was all of
peace. Commissioner l'arker and Secretary
Cox gave the red men some good advice; but
Mr. Cox epoke to them as if he were addressing
so many babies in the nursery, whereas
there was not a blanketed chieftain present
who could not buy and sell the Secretary of the
Interior in cunning and sagacity. It was amusing
to notice how curtly all this flummery was
responded to by lied Cloud. He laid his hand
firmly upon the table and said:?"When I
hoard the words of the Great Father permitting
me to come I came right away, and left
my women and children. I want you to give
them rations, and a load of ammunition to kill
game with." That is the ultimatum of all powwows
with the Indians. The red man never
talk9 civilly until he wants ammunition "to
kill game withbut it is pretty well known
that he seldom wastes bullets on a buffalo. The
arrow answers that purpose. The ammunition
is kept for the benefit of our soldiers and white
settlers.
Not much good can come out of all this
interviewing at Washington. It has been
going on now these fifty years, and, with the
exception of a few tribes on our proximate
border, the Indian is as savage as ever. It is
evident that white civilization on the distant
frontier must depend for protection on a well
organized military system, and plenty of troops
to carry it out. We are disposed to think,
however, that the system is far from perfect,
when we rend such news as that from Dacotah
a day or two ago, to the effect that a band of
some three or five hundred Indians were preparing
to make an attack on Fprt Mum ford,
and the commanding officer reports that he
had only fifty available soldiers to protect it. If
our garrisoQ .posts are left so thinly guarded
how can the unprotected farmers escape ? We
opine that Itted Cloud and Spatted Tail and
their acconraririing braves will have a good
laugh with tHm squaws when they get back
to their lodges at their Washington experience,
especially if they find the rations and
ammunition there?provided they do not come
across Sheridan "on a ride."
Servant Fiends.?Another case has occurred
in Brooklyn where a servant woman is
charged, on pretty good evidence, with setting
Are to the house to avenge herself for being
dismissed from her place. Shall we have an
i example which will teach that sort of servants
that setting fire to houses is a crime ?
IEET.
Tlie Knropeati Mull.
The European mail of the 24th of May was
slivered yesterday evening. Hy special cor- Is
jspondence from Paris, Naples, Rome, tl
ondon and Ireland, and newspaper reports tj
om the various cities of the Old World, we ri
re enabled to present to our readers to-day a c;
ery ample retmine illustrative of the trans- is
.tlantic situation as it presented at that b
eriod. Napoleon's reception of the French a
igislative deputations, which announced to t<
lm the result of the plebiacitum, constituted C
very grand and imposing occasion at the tl
'uileries. His MajoBty's speech in reply, v
rhich we publish in extenso and verbatim, h
ras able and patriotic and but slightly?con- p
idering the excitcmont of the movemont? S
sudatory of his dynasty and personal rule, r
>ur special letter from Paris treats of the e
ouition of his Majesty after the plebiscitum. r
'he writer expresses the opinion that the t
ndical "Reds" and quasi would-be revolu- C
lonists have been effectually extinguished by t
tie unanimous voice of the nation in support e
f law and order and the constitution as I
; is. Preparations hud been commenced in 1
jondon for the organization and arrangement I
f the great Protestant Conference mission to i
few York. The programme was outlined <
y the speakers, and Mr. Disraeli's book, 1
'Lothair," endorsed at the meeting as "the 1
blest anti-Romanist publication of the age." >
)ur special writers in Italy and Ireland report '
ho progress of the revolutionary agitation in '
faples and the Green Isle. Tbe recent at- '
cmpt at insurrection in FiladelQa, Italy, which <
/as briefly noticad in the cable telegrams, is
letailed as it occurred; while from Ireland 1
ioines the rather extraordinary and very i
itrange announcement that the Fenians and 1
Orangemen of that country are being rapidly 1
illied in a political union looking to the resto ation
of the nationality. The Latin peojles
are evidently deeply agitated near the
buntain head centres of their race. The
llussiun assertion of toleration?encouragement
it may be called?of Protestantism, as it
appears in our columns, is very significant
iust now, in view of the general aspect of the
religious question. Naples forwards to us a
special statement of the position which is sustained
by some of the American prelates in
Rome against infallibility. The woman's
rights question agitation in England is noted
in our special letter from London.
Our European mail despatches are thus not
3nly of great importance, but quite interestiug
at all points of the budget contents.
"ho Israelite Mamacre in Koiirnania?A
Rabbi'a Opinion.
It was natural to suppose that the Israelites
of this city would have made the late rumored
massacre of their co-religionists by the
Christians in Roumania the subject of their
religious discourses in the synagogues. The
remarks of Senator Sprague in the Senate have
greatly exasperated them. On the Jewish
Sabbath the Rabbi Gutheim took occasion to
condemn the Senator's language with great
severity in the synagogue of Emanu-El. He
was unusually severe, too, upon the Christian
priesthood, whom he credited with very little
iharitv. desisnatinc their mission us an "odious.
hypocritical priestcraft, which even in our day
infests the high roads and sneaks through the
byways of mankind." Perhaps the preacher
had some particular class of men in his mind
when he spoke thus ; for, even under the irritation
of this sad news from Roumania of the
wholesale butchery of his people, he could not
liavc meant to involve the whole Christian
Church in such a sweeping condemnation.
With regard to the remarks of Senator
Sprague that the Jews in Roumania had acquired
all the wealth, bnsiness and property,
by their trade-monopolizing and grasping propensities,
while the Christian population was
in poverty, the Rabbi inferred that the Senator
justiGod the massacre and would not be unwilling
to see wealthy Israelites similarly treated
elsewhere. This was, perhaps, straining an
inference, though many people interpret the
Rhode Island Senator's language somewhat in
the same direction. The Rabbi Gutheim's
words were:?
He takes occasion to hold out a warning to the Senate
and the country, from wliich every true American
will shrink with horror. What: (Iocs he think that free
American citizens, ltubucd with the true principles
of liberty, will ever be tempted to imitate those
fiendish proceedings, which are contrary to the law
of (Jod ana man ? But the wor Is of the Senator do
contain a warning most solemn and ominous. It. Is
this, that even in our free ami enlightened country
there aie yet men lo be found wlio are actuated by
bigotry and fanaticism, who do not blush to extenuate
the most horrid ci miss inspired by religious persecution.
They suggest the warning that the
air in which the Senator has been reared,
that the principles which he ha^ imbibed, require to
be purified and revised. They contain the lesson for
the American people to be careful in the selection ol'
their representatives in order to preserve Hie blessing
of civil and religious liberty in ail Its purity and
grandeur.
Th'13 latter is not an untimely rebuke to New
England puritanism. However, the Christian
world must not be held responsible either for
the massacre in Roumania or for Mr.
Sprague's sentiments thereupon.
Teknksee Threatened.?An effort is being
made by Representatives Stokes and Maynard,
of Tennessee, to have Congress pass a law
declaring the Legislature of that State an illegal
body because a majority of its members
were disqualified on account of their participation
in the rebellion, llappily, the days of
the present session of Congress are drawing to
a close, and too little time is left in which to
manipulate a job of sucb magnitude as legislating
a State out of the Union. As the reelection
of Messrs. Stokes and Maynard is
more than doubtful their desire to reconstruct
Tennessee is easily accounted for.
Relieving tiie Border.?It will be a nice
Doint for discussion in Canada, and even in
London, that a person so potent in our city
government as Mr. Tweed, whose word is an
good as the law, is the friend and patron of
the Fenians?in so far that he spent upward
of Ave thousand dollars paying their homeward
fares. Perhaps this, however, was also
an act of prime friendship for the sadly
afflicted border people on either side the lines.
Railroad Carelessness.?The other day a
coal train on a down grade of tbe Morris and
Essex road was permitted to got such headway
that it could not be stopped, and there
was only a narrow escape from the demolition
by it of a train loaded with passengers. This
was gross carelessness. Would not the
management do well to devote to the prevention
of such events the time it gives to fighting
I the commuters?
Cnbuu I'roupei'ta Drialitcnlnv*
Dawn appears to be breaking upon Cuh&
ist, and tbut noble struggle of the people of
lut beautiful island against injustice and j
granny is drawing to a happy close. History
ttcords no revolution more just, nor one which
ailed forth greater sacrifices, lofliej- pntriotim
or sterner courage than has been evincd
y the Cuban patriots, and it would seem
Imost questioning the justice of Provldenco
3 doubt the ultimate success of such a people. ^
)ur own government, instead of extending to
hem the active sympathy, if not practical aid,
rhich a people struggling for indopendenco
ave a right to expect, has pursued a sulinely
indifferent course, rather assisting
Ipain to perpetuate her tyrannical
ule upon the Western Continent than j
xtending a helping hand to establish another ]
epublic upon our borders. It is safe to say
bat had the United States extended to the
'ubans the same privileges as were awarded
o Spain, Cuba to-day would bo an independmt
sovereign Power acknowledged by moBt of ?
he nations of the civilizcd world. But those '
nivileges were withheld, and the struggle was
>rolonged until the hearts of the patriots well
ligh failed them. The American people, how;ver,
becoming tired of the timorous policy
Mirsued by our government, are moving in this
natter, and their influence is seen in the reaewed
interest evinced in Cuban affairs by
50th the President and Congress. General
Banks' report, published exclusively in the
Herald, was the first full official insight
into the Cuban revolution which
lias been laid before the public. Its
lisclosures have aroused all classes,
und Congress itself has been forced to
abandon its indifference and to take some action
upon the subject. The President has
always sympathized with the Cuban patriots,
but prudential motives heretofore prevented
bis moving in the matter. Now, however, ho
leeis in uueriy <>u jjuiouu u utuciuui> vuursH,
and wo are assured (bat both he and his Cahl- s
act will warmly support any policy that Congress
inay initiate. Upon Congress, therefore,
rests the responsibility of Cuban Independence.
General Banks has plucked up
courage enough t<5 offer his long-withheld report
to the House to-day, and be will be ably
seconded by leading members whose activo
sympathy for the Cuban cause has been many
times expressed. The House will doubtless take
favorable action upon the report at once, and
send the matter to the Senate, where it must
uot 1)3 suffered to "sleep the sleep that knows
no waking." Mr. Sumner has doubtless ere
this modified his views upon the Cuban war,
and has learned that the patriots were in
earnest when they emancipated their slaves
and that Spain is equally in earnest in her
efforts to perpetuate slavery. The Senate is
to be the battle ground of Cuba; that body
will determine the fate of the Queen of the
Antilles?whether she is to be made a desert
and a waste or take her place among the independent
republics of the western world.
Austrian Recount ruction.
Amid the recent profound excitem ent in
France, which has engrossed nearly the whole
attention of Europe and America, followed, as
it was, immediately, by the crown movement
in Spain and the Saldanha revolution in Portugal,
the great political change progressing in
Austria has been comparatively unobserved.
It now looms up, however, into very distinct
relief and importance. As we foreshadowed
in our article commenting, a few weeks since,
upon the formation of the Potocki Ministry at
Vienna, the Emperor has been compelled to
dissolve the Reichsrath or General Assembly
of the empire and also the provincial Diets.
New elections tor the latter have been ordered,
and in case these reconstructed provincial
councils should refuse to send fresh deputies
for another Reichsrath more in unison wi tb
the sympathies and views of his Majesty h<
will appeal to a popular vote. In other words,
there will be an Austrian plebiseilum to decide
whether tho monarch a views, as represented
by his Cabinet, shall be sustained.
The Potocki Ministry has very recently been
modified and reinforced by the admission ol
popular members. Ilerr Tsohabuschnigg, who
is regarded as a very "strong" man in his
place, retains tho control of the Departments
of Justice, Public Worship and Public Instruction.
Herr llolzgethan, formerly a councillor
of State, has tho administration of finance,
Herr Distler being compelled by ill health to
decline it. Baron Widmann, a heavy Moravian
land owner and a Deputy, takes tho
direction of the Ministry of National Defonce.
The most important selection is that of Baron
Petrino for the Ministry of Agriculturo.
The Baron is President of the Federalist
Club and head of the semi-autonomist
party of the Slowenes, the Istrians, the Bukovinians
and the people of Trieste, and it was
he who in the last session of the Reichsratli
asked, on behalf of those populations, the same
rights that are claimed by the Poles and Gallicians?viz.,
a sort of separate sovereignty
within the empire. In fine, he is a State
rights man, in the Austrian point of view.
This fact, of course, gives the appointment of
Baron Petrino pecnliar and agreeable significance
in the eyes of the Gallicians and Bohemians,
but for the same reason he will be
distasteful to the Germans. Herr Depretis
will remain Minister of Comtnorce, and Count
Taafe retains the Ministry of the Interior.
Meanwhile, the rumors of a serious quarrel
between the Grand Chancellor Von Beust and
Count Potockl are emphatically denied, although,
at the same moment, the Austrian
journals hint that the former will take the.
special mission to the Court of St. James and
be succeeded in office by Count Andrassy.
This gentleman bad, certainly, at our latest
mail dates, been visiting Vienna, and had held
close conferences with Von Beust. A Ministry
composed of the elements thus set forth
must in its very nature be ephemeral. The
Emperor Francis Josoph suddenly finds himself
confronted, in the midst of his reforms, by
"jarring and discordant" States subordinate to
his crown, yet claiming separate local governments,
in default of which they may becoran
"belligerent." He therefore doos the best
he can with his horses while swimming the
torreut. But onr latest telegrams induce ua
to bolieve that, cheered by the result of the
plebiscilum in France, he has taken heart ot
grace to appeal directly, if needs be, to his
people. Our wishes, and those of all
, considerate men who look at the situa