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KEW Y0KK. SUS1UY. MAY 2, 1871. 4 j
From our reporii tiiLi mornino the probnhiliti^
V* fhni Ihf rrrathtr to-day iriU be colder and
cl*arini up ln>-r
w\ll Street yesterday,?Stocks were
dull, and prices barely steady. Gold declined
from 115J to 11. Money on call 2? and 3
per cent.
Governor Tildes hap not had time to de
cide whether DeJafteld Smith Khoul i or should
not be Corporation Counsel. The Governor
must be a very busy nitm.
A*d Now William M. Tweed, in irritation
of Beecber, wants a "bill of particulars."
The Attorney Generu^ should send him the
minutes of the Board of Snpervisors.
The Authorities seem to have discovered
a new batch of counterfeiters. We presume
there will be no end of this nefarious trade
until we have j?old as;ain as a currency.
The Fourth avenue Improvement states
men view with alarm the increasing tendency
ot our Mayor to appoint men to office who do
not know whether Mutliogar is in "he north
or the south of Irelan !.
Not So Baj> ah BwW-hented.?The acci
dent on the Atlantic and Great Western Hail
road on Thursday last was not .so serious an
reported. The telegraphic account v?greatly
azagverab 1. Tbe ladies' < ir only was thrown
over into the diH h and but thr<e ladies wi re
injured. fortunately none ot them seriously.
The train resumed its journey aft-r three
hoar*' delay.
Thx Frev h am) English FtsHcsrar are
?aid to be quarrel! n-_- up in thf Nt wfbundlaad
region*. and tbe i rench and English govern
ments propose to wend war vessels to ke?p tbe
peace. It would ne? m that tlier* are fish
enough in the tor Ir<nch ami English
Alike and that there ih no reason for bloodshed
in the matter.
We Hate a rim- r from the coal regions in
Pennsylvania that the quarrels b twe< n the
eoal dealers and nun r ar about to b* com
promised. There was never nny reason for
these dispute*. They aft" -f tr.ide. hurt the 1
best interests of the worktn- n, injure society
and generate feeling* nf ha'reil that will
?ome again to distress and wound us. It
would be a blessing if ' o could have these
difficulties compromised forever. They are
unworthy of our institntiona.
Tbe Bill making the brooklyn Bridges
public work of the twn cities has been passed
to a third rending. We do not k now much
about this particular act, but any measure
that tends to e. mpl> f< the bridge will l>e an
advantage to the city. Give us the tunnel to
Jersey, the bridge and a steam railway from
the Battery to II irlem. These ere the three
point? in the chart of our metropolitan great
ness.
Bt tot? Tr.t v. pt the bill puis* fl by the fk r
mnn farliamt nt in r- !< r nee to the <-equcs?ra
tion of the ecclesiastical properties in Prusdia
all Church ja-operty is tsk? n by th< HtaU. All
monastic orders and societies are dissolved,
with the . xception ot thoee who have rhsrge
Of invalid*. Th ? 1 ust l>c cloti 1 within
four year.*, the I'm sinn raiiwl evidently fecl
lBd that in thai time tl.. inmates should nil
die or rccov* r. Tho?e inmates of the mcMlar
taries who ore too old to v.ork will have pen
sions. In other word?. wr presume U flfcarck
will giv? theui a place in some almshouse.
This Is the policy of "thoroujih" w.th a ven
geance. But bow long will it continue?
Thi Kwl??l
Th? announcement that Henry Varley, the
revivalist, has preached bi? farewell sermon
and sailed for England will be read with in
terest, especially by those who have followe
his movements in New York and elsewhere.
This gentleman came to America to do a wor
like that performed by our fellow citizens,
Moody and Sankev, in Eusfland. I* rom hi* sue
cess in New York, the multitudes who waited
upon hia ministry and the interest ta en in .
religion by those who came under his in u
ence, we presumed that he would continue is
work. It is therefore a surprise that he shonid
have so suddenly abandoned a vineyard that
promised so rich and ripe a harvest >Ve
confess that the spectacle of ? two Ameri
can divines driving to convert Englanc,
while an English divine was aiming
at the same result in America, was
novel and suggestive, and showed a drawing
together of the bonds that unite the two na
tions. In no respect hav^ America and the
mother nation so many ties of harmony as
in religion. Ninety-nine per cent ol our
people profess some faith that has its root* in
the older lands. Our theology is in nearly all
of its aspects a tradition *that runs back to
Rome and Geneva and Worms. With the
exception of the monstrous dogmas of the
Mormons there is no creed professed by any
number of Americans that is not based upon
the decrees of some council of foreign priests
or the teaching of some foreign divine. 1 e
impressions which move the souls of men and
women abroad are sure to make an impres.
sion upon our Christian people at home.
There have been several artificial and ab
normal influences at work upon the minds of
our religious people for the past few months.
Th* elevation of an American citizen to the
rank of a Cardinal in the Roman Church is
an unusual event. Whether as a paeeant,
rich with the pomp and splendor and cere
mony of Rome, or as an ecclesiastical act
bringing the Catholic Church in America more
directly under the Holy See, or as a political
measure, showing the regard entertained lor
America by the Pope, the event has a special
significance. We see in the United States the
growth of a new and sincere spirit in the
Catholic Church?a resolution to sustain the
Pope as the head of the Church
and the creed he teaches in spite of all
the efforts on the part of the Germans
to destroy them. Our esteemed correspond
ent, "Prudentius," calls attention to the spirit
of liberty animating the Catholic prelates
from the time ol Carroll to that of Hushes,
and he emphasizes the absenc? of out Presi
dent by reflecting on the pride which Lincoln
and Seward would have taken in being "cen
tral figures" in the ccremony of "imposing
the berretia." The services of the late Arch
bishop Hughes in behalf of the Union were
entitled to the gratitude of the government
which he served. We have no doubt Cardi
nal McCloskey would do as much for his
country, which he loves with no less a patri
otic fervor because he is a Prince of the
Holy See. But we are glad to think
that the President and no one representing
him took any part in the ceremony. We do not
believe that the representatives of our Church
and State can keep too far apart However
Gratifying it might have been to < atnolics to j
have seen the President first in the congrega
tion which witnessed the conferring of the
brrrttta, the precedent would have been barren
and unfortunate. Neither the Catboljc Church
nor anv other denomination has ever in the <
long run gained by an alliance with the State. I
Religion in England suffers because of the
Established Church. The prominent thought
in this revival movement is that the < hurch
has become enervated and dormant; tLat the
priests care more for the honors of the episco
pate than lor the good cf the people ; that
churches are under the control very fre
quently of ambitious and careless peers, who
nominate curates upon the same principle
wh.cb leads General Grant to name post
masters?that it is all under the control
of a corrupt patronage. The people see
an Established Church floating above them,
with which they have no friendship, no com
munication and no sympathy. It is a dark,
depressing cloud between them and the
blessed light of true religion. They see a
Cnuit h which, so far from bringing Christ to
their homes ana hearts, baries Him in the
cold vaults of a damp cathedral or under the
bishoi >' benches of the Hou*e of Lords.
Therefore the revival movement in England
is as much as anything else a crying out of
the jwopla for bread, for manna, for any
thing that will give them life. It was thia
<-ame crying out for the substance of true re
ligion that gave Luther the opportunity of
the Information. His revival was a protest
against the Papacy of a dizzling age, whe n
the Church was ailied to the Htate. when the
honors of the Holy See were dispensed even
aa the English livings are distributed now,
and ?hen the religion of the Catholic faith
was forgotten in the splendid temptations of
the Established syatem.
The spirit of revival in America, which
now attracts so much attention, Ins not de
veloped it el! so fully as to enable us to com
pletely understand it The influence of the
Beec her case upon religion < annot but be
marked, and in the Hebald of yesterday we
gave a few impressions on that snhj- ct as
communicated to our reporters by some of
our clergymen. One minister fancied that he
Kdscen a tailing off in the attendance at the
church * beomuse of the development* of thia
extraordin try case ; that Christiana lost heart
when they saw a muu of venerable year*,
rare genius and unusual eloquence dragged
into a criminal - urt as a p< rmrer and au
adulterer. We < in well understand how the
lamb* of the flock would go astray nr faint
and fall in the pa<-tr.n * beforetheae sad sight*.
B-.t, as Mr. Fr< thingham aptly ?.nd,
even if Mr. Beecher were convicted,
the effect would he to csubliah a higher
and severer standard of moral*. Tbeenrdinal
error in th^ theology which Mr. Here her
represent* is that bin people have been apt
to forget their adoration of the Crucified in
their adoration of Mr. Be -her. Wli never a
church bases irself upon anything ?lse but
hi# rehgiaaa principles upon the Gospel
aid the creeds whenever the personal
atttibutes or acquirement! or personal graces
of a mere n.an ?r? allowed to supplant ("nri*t,
we invi*. a fall, and w>- must not be surprised
at auy revelation or any catastrophe. We
can well imagine how there woull be a revival
among our people, a protest against the
religion aa taught by Mr. Betcber, a yearning
' for Christ, for something more nourishing
1 than rhapsodies about gardens and horticul
tural rhetoric; for, however much Christian
souls may delight in the graces and gifts of
oratory, eloquenoe and rhetoric do not con- ,
stituto religion. Iu the fall of Mr. Beecher?
and we do not speak of him as one who, what- i
ever the result ot this trial, has survived his
reputation, and never again can preach a
sweet and pure gospel, but one tainted with
acrid memories of the scandal trial?iu the
fall of Mr. Beecher we have an incentive to
the revival which we see around us and which
gave Mr. Varley so much encouragement and
success. There is a crying out in the hearts
of the people for the bread of life. We can
not agree with Mr. Frothingham, for instance,
that this revival is only a series of waves, and
that when they recede they leave darker
deposits of mud. No harm ever came from
these movements any more than harm would
come from the turbulence and agitation of
the sea. Some weak bark will go down in the
waves, some poor soul will be swept ashore
among the breakers, we shall see wrecks and
inundations, but in the end the result will
be a blessing. There will be a purer atmos
phere, brighter skies and a general freshening
and awakening of nature.
In the same way we see in this revival a
freshening and awakening of soul Is it not
time? Atter so much lethargy can we not
have life ? After so much sorrow is there no
peace? After so much shame is there no
purer, higher, nobler duty? After all those
miasmatic vapors that have polluted the
atmosphere may not the Christian soul cry out
for the air and sunshine of Gospel truth ? It
is a good thing to find our people coming
back to the Ten Commandments, and what
ever odd customs the revivalists preach, what
ever their exaggerations and homeliness of
thought, they are generally true to the solemn
laws which the Israelites read on the tablets
of stone. A religion of geometry and the
classics, tempered by backwoods dramas and
the negro minstrels, such as Mr. Froth
ingham would preach, will not in the
long run be of much more benefit
than the floriculture and osculation of Brook
lyn Heights. There is something, after all, in
these old commandments, and so far as the
revival feeling brings them to the hearts of
the people so far it is a blessing to our civil
ization. We are not afraid of the "mud de
posits" which annoy Mr. Frothingham, nor of
the cases of dementia which have attended the
labors of Moody and Sankey in England.
For one poor, rapt, uncertain soul which finds
its way into an iusane asylum to fret and
gibber over effectual calling and eternal pun
ishment there are thousands who fall into the
prisons and workhouses and pauper asylums
because of their gin and shame. There are
mora hearts tainted this morning be
cause of what we have heard and
read of Brooklyn theology; more
fresb, virgin minds polluted because of the
revelations of this pernicious trial ; more real,
irreparable injury to society and good morals
than would result from a thousand years of
the revival efforts of Moody and Sankey and
Varley. Lot our clergymen, therefore, who
mock at the work of plain, humble men, rise
up and preach Christ crucified. Religion
does not want an opera or a hymn, but the
ringing of tocsin, the alarm bell in the night,
the summoning of every agency of truth to
couibat vice and to revive a disheartened and
dying faith.
May Day.
Mao; years bare pas-ed since we have had
so bleak a May Day. We have been hoping
against hope all this time for spring, and now,
when all nature shonld be awake and radiant,
and showering the earth with beanty and
life?when there should be sunshine and
greenness and the opening of the year's
glories, we have only the gray skies and cold,
forbidding rains. We have never had a
drearier winter nor a more disheartening
spring. The trees are afraid to bud and?the
birds refuse to sing, ur.d is it any wonder that
devout people should accept it all as a
chastenraent and pray for their sins? It may
l)c ISi'inarck or the Beceher trial or Cmsarism,
or the corruptions of She administration or
the ('anal Ring?certainly it comes from some
extraordinary cause. But let us not repine
nor look at our damp, misty skies, as those
who hare no hope. The Beocher trial will
come to an en 1, and Bismarck cannot rule
lorcver, and Grant has yet to bo elected to a
third term, and the administration has the
disinfecting influence of Pierrepont in the
Cabinet, aud Tildenwill finish the Canal Ring
before he is through with it. So that, after
all, May will not go without its blessing, and
spring will leave us with waving fielda and
ripening grain.
Sharkey In Apaln.
We l?>om from Havana that the question of
returning Sharkey, the murderer, to the cus
tody of tho American authorities has been
referred to the Captain Gmeral of Cuba and
the Cabinet of Madrid. This will be a disap
pointment to our District Attorney and to the
detectives: but we do not sra how it could well
be otherwfce. We havo no extradition treaty
with Spain and no claim upon Cuba for the
return of Sharkey or any other criminal who
peeks rt fuge from our lawn. Although Eng
land made a request for the return of
the forger dwell?a request which
was granted?it must be remembered
th.it we have not made any request for
the stirrer)der of Sharkey. Mr. Fish has
steadily declined to ask this from the Spanish
government, n;-on the ground that it would
only give the Madrid Cabim ? a preteit for de
manding the return of the many Cuban refu
gee, now in this conntn and under sentence
of death in Cuba. It may be that Mr. Fish
i, right in his learn, and he >* certainly in
spired by the best motives. We shonld
glad to have Sharkey returned to New York
and suffer th" punishment to which he haa
been s< ntcneed, but it is far b< tter that even a
murder r should escape the gallows Mian that
we should ui k Spain to violato her own inde
pendence by granting to Ami rica what we
heve SO right to expect under the law. The
best thing for our Ministef in Spain to do
will be to induce her to enter into a sensible
treaty of extradition.
Now Comes the note of sorrow from Mont
p firr, Vt., telling hoiv twenty stores aud
dwelling* have been burned down. We pre
sume * e shall have this dreary story until our
people East and West learn that the way to
avoid fires is to bnild houses that will stand.
The Law of Hationa.
There will be held at Tho Hague in the
month ot September next a conference of the
"Association for the Reform and Codification
of the Law of Nations." We are glad to
know that a movement is on foot to enable
America to have representation in the de
liberations of this body. The United States
have probably less interest in international
law than any other country in the world, ex
cept, perhap3, China. We are removed so far
from the intricacies and resentments of the
European Powers, both by our geographical
position and by the traditions of
our government, that we have only
a limited interest in international
law. At the same time any movement that
tends to bring the nations together in com
merce, social intercourse, the unification of
weights and measures, the cheapening of post
age and the harmonizing of law, is a stop in
the progress of civilization. While, therefore,
the United States may have less materially to
gain by such action, in the interest of human
ity they have as much at stake as any other
Christian people.
A meeting was held on Thursday evening
for the purpose of arranging a programme for
the representation of America at the Hague
Conference. This meeting was attended
by some of our most distinguished and
gifted citizens, and Mr. David Dudley
Field presented a series of proposi
tions for discussion which will be
read with deep interest. The first branch of
these questions is in reference to the propor
tionate reduction of the armed armaments of
European nations. The second embraces the
formalities and delays that should be re
quired of nations before engaging in offensive
war. The third is about arbitrations for in
ternational disputes. The lourth discusses
the progress made during the last year to
ward the reform and codification of the law
of nations, while the fifth refers to collisions
at sea. Any conference that will exhaust
these branches of thought, particularly if it
is attended by men of the eminence
and character of those who assembled
at the Gramorcy Park Hotel on Thurs
day evening, must have a beneficent result
upon civilization. It would be difficult, wo
think, in the present temper of such countries
as Germany and France and Austria, to effect
any reduction in armaments or to impose any
delay before engaging in offensive war. The
elements of success in modern campaigns
are:?First, the possession of preponderating
force; and, second, swiftness in using it. We
have little to hope in any conference inducing
France and Germany to reduce their armies,
or in imposing upon the generals of tbeir
armies and movements delay alter the time
has come to march. Generally speaking we
welcome these conferences as indications of ,
healthy progress, and we trust that much I
good will result from the deliberations at The
Hague.
Pulptt Topics To-Day.
The revival interest seems not to flag,
though moving time is here and the anniver
saries and camp meetings and other religious
excitements, together with the "dog days,"
will be here by and by. So great, indeed,
is the desire to hear about it that Dr.
Macloskie, of Prnceton College, will tell
what he knows from personal obser
vation in Great Britain and Ireland under
Messrs. Moody and Sankey's preaching. The
Rev. Mr. Bonliam, who belongs to a new
order of preachers very little known in the
church until lately?Evangelists?will im
part his knowledge of it from personal ob
servation in the Church of England. It will
be understood revivals in the sense in which
these gentlemen will speak of them refer al
most, if not altogether, to diiferent phases
and workings of religious life. Mr.
Hepworth, who, with the junior Dr. Tyng,
has been for some weeks working in and
for a revival will to-day offer some suggestions
about the Atonement and remove doubts from
the minds of some who would believe but
cannot. Mr. Hawthorne will show his people
how they may and should forsake all for
Christ, and will present some features ot ritu
alism for their consideration; and Dr. Thomp
son will make prominent the political features
of the English Reformation, while Mr. New
ton will diseun the conflict that appears to
exist between religion and science, with
special reference to the bearings of the latter
upon the Bible. Dr. Osgood will show the
relation of music to Christianity, and Dr.
Ewer will analyze the worship of the Episco
pal Church, exhibiting internal structure and
external phase*. The harried life of which
every one of as knows something by experi
ence will employ Mr. Thomas' thought and
tongue this evening ; and the prccious blood
of Christ will divide with Naaraan, the leper,
the attention of Mr. Lightboura. The work and
greatness of man ere the night of life closes on
bim will be considered by tbe Rev. Mr.
Alger, and the advent at Peniel will receive
tho attention of the Rev. Mr. McCaffrey. The
gain of loss?referring to spiritual gain by
temporal losses?will be illustrated by the
Rev. Mr. Lloyd, who will also analyze and
review Balaam's prayer. The Rev. Oaatr
Hugo, the Hungarian exile, will blaze away
at tbe Roman Catholic attitude toward our
public schools. He is willing, according to
his announcement, to give millions of dollars
for public schools, but not one cent .for
priestly ones. Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, has
laid out for himself a threefold task this morn
ing?to describe the Pope's Church, iU Source
and tbe certainty of its doom, winding up
with general remarks on the peril of evil
doing this evening. And to this he might
add a few words on the danger of evil speak
ing. This is the programme of the pnlpit
ot New York and Brooklyn to-day.
Raitd Transit his beta airain postponed in
the Legislature. The railroad ring are doing
their work well, and it now looks as if the
combined power of Tttlen, Wiekhara and
Keby would not be able to give us a measure
o( rapid transit that would Ihj a blessing to
the city. Nothing ran postpone rapid transit
this session but corruption or imbecility. It
the measure should be lost it vail lie an irre
vocable blow to the prestige of the demoerm v.
The country will say, and with truth, of what
use is a paity which, with all of it.s power in
c ty and State, cannot give the metropolis of
New York the one thing ncccssary to put an
end to the present paralysis ot growth and
enterprise? We want a party that can a*-',
and not simply talk. We have bad too much
talk and too little action in Albany this ??ssioa.
Echo., of the Religions fWtt. .
The religious press this week divides its in
terest between the Cardinal and the Centen
nial. The Freeman's 'Journal, in its wild
joy, thinks the investiture has set the
new Cardinal '-as a hinge of the door that
opens heaven to the faithlul and shuts it
against prevaricators and the profane. I he
Tablet, more rational in its expressions, hopes
"that tne ceremonies of last Tuesday will in
augurate au era of good feeling among all
classes, and that the sectarian bitterness and
animosity which have, at some epochs in our
history, disgraced our country have he on
laid at rest forever." The Tabid utterly dis
cards the idea that this elevation of Cardinal
McCloskey is a blow aimed at republican
institutions, and Bays it has been amused
at the efforts of some of its Protestant
contemporaries to make out such a case. The
Jewish Times eloquently traces the spirit of
the settlers of this Continent back through the
ages and shows that it defied the Roman
power through Martin Luther, and that to
day it defies that power through Bismarck.
A soil like this, therefore, the Times con
cludes, is not congenial to a Church which
has elaimcd superiority over all other creeds,
and wherever it could made its claim good by
whatever means the object could be gained.
The Times has no fear of this new move in
creating an American cardinal. It has faith
in the spirit of progress, but it admonishes its
readers that they should be watchful and con
stantly on guard. Church ami State likens tho.
ceremony of last week to a big show, and
says the Patriarch of the Greek Church in
Russia can beat the new Cardinal altogether
in the style of his dress, which is pure gold
and no tinselry whatever. And it asks the
question, "Why should simple-minded repub
licans jump at a big show just as mackerel do
at a red rag?" and says that it does
not know any reason why, as citi
zens or Christians, we should be caught
with a spectacle, especially when we are
supposed to have left all such things to kings
and courtiers. Tho Philadelphia Catholic
Standard treats the ceremony as a great honor
not only to Catholics but to all classes of
people on this Continent, and says that intel
ligent non-Catholics admit this proposition.
The Golden Age recognizes the goodness and
piety of Cardinal McCloskey, and looks upon
bis elevation to the red-hat dignity as an act
of Papal naturalization of America, which has
been up to this time a foreign country to the
Roman See. If the present Catholic leaders
could havo their way here the Age thinks they
would revolutionize our education, our re
ligion and our government; and so too, it
adds, would the Presbyterians. The real
strength of the Catholic Church is yet to be
tested, and it is a question how she will stand
the steady disintegrations of modern thought
for the next fiity years. The Observer pokes
a little fun at the Tablet for its splurge about
the arrival of the Cardinal's robes. The other
religious papers have either given their voice
on this subject in advance or are reserving .
their fire for a future occasion. They are
silent this week.
The Centennial celebration has a greater
charm for the Christian Union than the Car
dinal' s berretta. But it is the change in the
style of oratory usual on such occasions that
receives its hearty approval. The oratorv of
Lexington and Concord was simply a state
ments of facts, and yet it evoked tho deepest
patriotism. The Union tbeiefore hopes that
this fashion of centennial oratory will never
lade or fail. The Jewish Messenger is afraid
that by July 4, 1876, our patriotic enthusiasm
will so boil over and we shall have so much
to say about our great country and our great
selves that we shall convey a false impression
to our European cousins. It therefore advises
that we keep sober and not go into the spread
en gle business too much on that occasion.
The Evangelist questions the taste that invited
Mr. Gladstone to Lexington and Concord,
but heartily approves of his courteous and
gentlenmnlv reply. The Indepvulmt rejoices
in the signs of reviving patriotism when
South Carolina unites with Massachusetts in
celebrating the Centennial. It urges the
States, North and South, to turn back to the
record* in which we have a common prule
and join hands there rather than over the
bloody chasm of rebellion and revolt
Hhtll IVe Harr a Street Cleaning
Reform I
Hie street cleaning question in the Legisla
i ture is contused by the introduction of a num
ber of independent nropcwitions affecting to
i be reforms. They aro mainly designed to de
1 stroy each other and to prevent the passage
of any bill that will disturb the present abom
inable system. This is an old trick of the
lobby. It is the plan resorted to year aft?r
I year to defeat all propositions for rapid
transit, and is an easy method of proceeding.
The sneaks of legislation, who fear to pnt
1 themselves on record as against a desirable
! law, plansibly support some counter propom- ,
' tion of a similar character in order to defeat
, the original I), il and earn their pay without j
damaging their characters. The passage "Of j
the Street Cleaning bill in the Assembly was
followed by the introduction of a numl>er of
these decoy ducks of legislation in the Senate.
The objtet is to kill the Assembly bill without
compelling the killers to record themselves as
the upholders of a notorious abuse.
Probably these tactics, learned in the lobby,
may prevail. But we should like to see some
| activc Senator or Asfcrnblyiuan make an tru
est effort befi>r< the adjournment takes pise >
to s curs tbe passage of a law striking at the
root of the str< nl cleaning evil by a complete
change in the system of street cleaning hereto
fore in force in the city. Hitherte the city
has been at a heavy expense for this
work, and licit her contractors, superit,
teftricnU nor commissioner* have succeeded
1 in giving us clem streets. We are now in a
worse condition than ever before, with the
summer approacWtag and the danger of disease
from the reeking filth of t!> ? streets staring
us in tbe face. Why not now take a now de
parture and try the experiment of a law com
pelling the property own<rs and householders
to do tuo work of keeping t heir own share
of the streets clean, at their own rxpenee,
nnd< r heavy pcna!t cs for neglect ? Even in tho
matte r of snow, each housf holder no * is com
pelled to cle.ir his sidewalk, and it would b.!
no great hardship, at least in ordinary tails, to
require him to dear the small piece of road
opposite his residence as well. . Such a sys
tem would necossarily require railroads to
i bear their full share of the burden. It is .
questionable whether this plan of coapellioi
the people to be their own street cleaneri
would not be less expensive to each property
owner than the tax they are now called upon
to pay for the support of an anny of political
bummers. It would certainly insure cleaner
street"?, for the money expended on the work
would all be used for the purpose of cleaning
and not to support the adherents of ward
politicians and country legiflatore. At all
events the plan is worth trying. Should i<
fail we should be no worse off than we no?
are as to the condition of the streets, and w<
should save the million dollars a year squa?
dered by the Street Cleaning Bureau.
Justice in Tennessee.?A Nashville negrt
shot a policeman dead. The negro was ar
rested and imprisoned. The people assem
bled and in their anger broke open the jail
and took the negro to the bridge to hflng him.
A rope was put around his neck and the pool
wretch suspended from the bridge. But th?
rope broke, the negro fell over ninety feel
upon the rocks beneath and rolled into th?
waters. Two shots were fired at him, and hi?
body sank. We do not remember to have
rend for a long time of an act more cowardly
and brutal than this killing. The negro was
in custody. There was no chance, no pre
text that he would escape. The laws of Ten
nessee are clear and supreme, and in a city
like Nashville?a Southern city controlled by
the whites?thero was no fear that an indul
gent public opinion would arrest the opera
tion of the law. But the man was a negro,
and the old brutal feeling of the whites to
ward the negro was allowed to bring dis
honor upon justice in Tennessee and upon
the American name.
We are all taking to the water like descend
ants of the Pilgrim Fathers, who would never
have reached here if they had been afraid of
water. We have an interesting report else
where of what our boating clubs arc doing?
the houses they are building and the feats they
propose to achieve on the smooth waters ol
our lakes and streams. We are told of great
contests that arc to be decided, and our truat
is that the young men who are preparing fo*
the strife will remember the acerbity of many
regattas last season, and keep their tempers
even as they stiffen their sinews and develop
their muscles. He that ruleth his temper is
better than even he who can pull first around
the stakeboat on Saratoga Like.
Governor Ket.looo, op Louisiana, in the
interests of peace, it is reported, has
removed eome illogally elected republican
office-holders in that State and appoiuted
democrats. This, the despatch says, he does
in the intereat of peace. Rather, let us say,
in the interest of justice, and pray that hence,
forward in Louisiana peace and justice may
go hand and hand.
The Centennial*?Governor Bigler reporti
that the Centennial work goes on with ala<v
rity and wisdom. There is to be an interest
ing display from Tunis and an observa*
tory in the fair grounds, which will be a
marvel of taste and ingenuity. This Centen*
nial Exhibition is rapidly becoming a national
event and something in which every Americas
feels the highest pride.
We Have tho pleasant news that during
April the government debt was reduced more
than two millions of dollars.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Tba Duke of Argyie has a new book on "Law
and Theology1' to pre?s.
General Dncrot has vial ted the American frlgato
franklin in the narbor or Nice.
mnce Leopold, of England, has shown hts zeal
for Freemasonry by Joining a London ;o ize.
Cardinal Manning i- receiving as many con*
gratuiatory addresses as C rdlnal UcCloskey.
They are ao carelul oi tnelr op$ra house* in Lon.
don Mat they will not allow Moody and sank*? to
pray in them.
The Boston Pott calls Senator Boutwell
"Booty," and, speaking or bia successor, say*
"Bouty is shelved."
The English Court of Arches bas granted a letter
of request requiring an organist to desWt playing
when asked by trie vicar.
Kenealey, of Tichbome fame, calls the English
Premier "that attorney's clerk, Duraell," and
himsclt the "Beroic Doctor."
Concord colds and Lexington aore throats are
very prevalent tn Boston, and the only remedy ta
said to be a Bnnker Qlil sweat.
"Baldy" Smith tuld General Lee he "never sur
rendered." Bnt then HaUly and Lee were a Ions
distance apart when he sod it.
In Liverpool, tb? other day, au old fellow of
seventy accused a young clri of seventeen of
theft because she refused to marry him.
Hood, Longstrcet, and other ret?el leaders are
farming, while the "I nion general/' have adopted
office-holding in New York is a proiession.
A music teacher up town apologized tor her bad
spelling by adding a posi <cript to her letter as fol
lows:?"You must exkeira this letter, as I ola M
noat butt spei oy ear."
Mbjamin J. Losing is writing ".The American
centenary: A History or the Progress of the rnited
States During one Hundred Years," which Porter
A Coatee, or PMkdelpbla, win publish.
And n>?w they sav it was Drayton and not Shake
speare whom Spenser meant vhen he sung:?
Atid there, thonga last n<>t least, la .Etion;
A g'-uilersnepbcrd may nowhere be lound.
At an amateur per;ormauce of a piece called
"jn e ihand Hn Brethren" in London recently.
Po:lpUar wore a black Irock coat, white vea*,
l.lacK trousers and liat, carried a walking cane
and siuoked cigar*.
The extreme shabtilness of uerman home life li
ascribed in Fran* /?'.? Mtvnin* to ilie fact that the
literary, professional and offl lal < :a<s In Germany
is very much larser aod very much p?or?r than
those holding similar positions iu England or
America.
i* H. Willis Baxley. nn American physician in
-earch of heal' :, Bas written the litest b okjon
Spain, whkti Longman A Co., of London, nave
pubHstic!. The .1 ratrmy says that wnile trie IkioH
l< an admirable guide to Spanish art *nd sr.m
tectnre, It *bc nnds too mam tn religious dw
rn~sii>n.
w alt Whitman's letters are as peculiar as hti
poeirv. He iccentlv *!it to a friend In Lonjoi
tn ? lollowim scrap:?"???till unwell an i paralyzed,
bnt mi and aronmi. Post omce add t ess at < am*
urn, N. J., I". A.; shall probably remain there.
Desigi to bring out a volume, nK'hi.nge or prose
r.ud verae, partly iresh mat er, tllis summer.'*
By tne caidf telegram, dated in Con tantinopu
yesterday, wo nre itiforme.! mat on trie Mlnsr.the
saltan ga\e al ri'iveii audience toccorge II.Moker,
who ras recently *?-en transferred iroru 'he office
ni i nitcd Stales Minister in Turkey to the same
oflic* at tne court < ;*t. Petersburg. Mr. BokiM
will leave the Tursnh capital for Kusslft during
the course of the ensuing wee*.
The Itoilandiuf. of Dru-?el.?. ate n llterarv cor*
porstion, Instituted in ttie seventeenth centnry,
lor the ptn po-e of collecting and publishing the
I ves ot ail tne samts of the catiiulic cburch.
?Sixty lodo vontnii < have in en pr.nteii of this Bol?
la&Clst Church niftory, which \v.<i iiuorrupted by
the French Involution, but me work lias oeen re
sumed, and the niontii of October is nsarir com
pleted, though the 11 vos of */)70 saints y#t remain
lunwrttten.