The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-19


but there very warm discussion both sessions
the subject OF Sunday School union The Convention
adjourned to meet on Thursday next at two O'Clock In
the Afternoon ut the Tabernacle Baptist church.
Last evening Bishop Simpson delivered an interesting
lecture In st. Pauls Methodist Episcopal church,
Fourth avenue, his subject being sNew York as Mis-
sion Field" He indicated the means whereby large
cities should be evangelical such as the study Of
population, the erecting of large and commodious
churches and the active employment of Christian men
and women
The sixty seventh annual report Of the Trustees Of the
Fire Department Fund Of this city, paper Of much
interest To arsmen and nremen's widows and
orphans, is given in our Supplement Of this
morning The receipts for the year 1866 were
$64,ASl %, and the disbursements $64, S64 4s.
leaving balance at present In the National Butchers
and Drovers Bank Of four hundred and ninety eight
dollArA The permanent fund of the association
hundred thousand dollars remains untouched, over
sevsntyhree thousand dollars of it being invested in
bonds and mortgages, and twenty-sx thousand gov
eminent securities
Charles and Lewis lindaur were arrested in this city
yesterday and sent to Newark N. j. for examination
on charge Of having been in the robbery
the 9th Of last month"; Of nine thousand dollars worth Of
jewery from the establishment of Baldwin Co., In the
latter place.
The annual election Of Officers Of the New York Prison
Association took place yesterday at No 1: Centre street
The claims Of Minnesota to being the most favorable
region for the residence Of persons with pulmonary
affections having been advanced in very able manner
by st. Paul correspondent in his previous letters he
devotes himself in the which publish this morn
ing to showing the great advantages which it offers to
emigrants Of all classes especially those intending
gage in agricultural pursuits, and gives colonsts i'm
porant information regarding the proper and the
Ac.s~
fifty four millions Of Of land which the state con.
tans, nearly twenty millions unoccuped and open to
settlers under the provisions Of the national Homestead
law and farms in good localities and with excellent soil
can therefore be secured very low figures Though
st. Paul about three hundred miles further
New York, the winter there has been very moderate
and while we having ten degrees below zero,
on the 9Th inst, with the Mnnesotans the mercury
stood about twenty degrees above.
The Lowell Mass papers s%ate that the loss by the
fire in that city the morning Of the 18th
fully quarter Of million dollars. Tho property was
insured for two hundred and thousand Ave
hundred dollars ninety thousand Of which in New
York Offices.
Mr.. T.. A. Sothern, the actor, better known Lord
Drndrsary, has lately had verdict for hundred
fifty dollars damages rendered against him. in the Court
OF Queens Bench, London, in suit brought by the
lessee Of the Prince Of Wales theatre The action was
brought for failure the part Of M sothern comply
with his engagement to act in plaintiffs theatre and the
damages were laid at two thousand pounds Sickness
was pleaded by defendant the justification Of his
breach Of contract report Of the testimony and pro-
ccedngs in the case which OF an amusing and enter
tanning character, appears in this mornings HEnAtD.
Rufus Choase Jr. the only OF the late celebrated
Boston lawyer or that name. died tho 18th inst,
Dcrohsater MASSACHUSETTS, FROM the effects Of wounds
rsesivsd In eiate war. iysas, A r.apft ,a,Hss
me stock market Dpsned arm and CLOSED STEADY but
dull Yesterday Governmens were inactive. Geld
weakened At the close TO I3sx. . .tss.ssg.. s4,
The depression in gold accustomed corresponding
feeling In business circles yesterday and 10 some kinds
Of domestic produce prices ruled decidedly In favor Of
tho purchaser Foreign goods were generally quiet.
Groceries were quiet but steady. Cotton was steady.
Petroleum was heavy and lower. On Change -four was
lower. Wheat was Domlnally tribe lower Cor common
grades Prime was steady. Corn was weaker Pork
was irregular aud closed lower Lard was heavy. Wits
key was dull but steady
The Prssadent's D~ty-sasnsral Grant
and Secretary Stanton. ~
National convulsions, unfortunately, seldom
end in the reformation Of the abuses in whieft
they began. Behind the patriot reformer
comes . revolutionist Of the worst type
Behind Bailly, the President of the National
Assembly, came Robespierre, who sent Ba;!ly
to the guillotine Behind Lafayette, with his
love of law and justice, came Danton and Marat,
the incarnations Of revcngeful cruelty and dia-
bolical hate Behind the Parliament OF Paris,
demanding the convocation OF the States Gene
raj, came the Committee of Public Safety and
prescription. II Is the same always when
national necessity and justice are forgotten in
mere savage, partisan spirit; when extremist
the most violent men Of the communicate
control by means OF their appeals to popular
passion, and when the great movement of the
people is urged beyond its natural, proper OBJ
ject and made TO perform the selfish purposes
Of ambitious politicians. 1t ia this that has
m,de the world afraid OF revolutions. and dis
posed men to submit for ages to unjust laws
and kings rather than TO invoke that most fear
full tyranny which tramples people down in
the name of freedom.
We stand in danger Of having our grea. war
degenerate into just such tyranny. We have
gained all lite legitimate objects. We have
purged the ma ional system Of the gigantic evil
which made the war necessary. And now the
country wants peace and rest-an opportunity
to recuperate-- to repair its damages and poy
the bills. But the violent elements are not
satisfied. The war has not yet accomplished
their objects, and they protest against peace.
Disorder has not become anarchy, and they say
IL has done nothing. II has not carried them
high enough, and there must he other victims;
and, full Of wild fanatcal fury, drunken with
Their passions, they clamor in Congress, in the
press AID in the Cabinet, against the restora-
ton Of order, against the reconstruclion of the
Southern States, against all the acts and propo-
stions Of the wiser men who can see that Il ia
patriotic duty TO be moderate and to have
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