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The Japanese Ambassadors I'm Eu-
rope and the Christian Religion.

The Japanese AmD4SS0OOrs IN Eu-
rope and the Christian Religion.
It appears from our special despatch from
Europe, published to-day, that the Japanese
Ambassadors had returned from st. Peters
burg to Berlin, and ut this Inter city had a
lengthy conference with an eminent German
professor of jurisprudence as to the propriety
of endeavoring to establish Christianity as the
State religion Of japan. These Ambassadors
have seen how fur Christian Europe is ad-
vanced in civilization over other parts of the
world and reasoned, no doubt, that their own
country would make greater progress if Chris
tianity were made the religion of the State.
Such reasoning is natural. But the German
professor dssuaded them from entertaining
such project He argued from facts in the
history of Christendom to show that this re-
igion cannot be enforced by government; that
it is only vital when it grows up among
and from people, and that it should be en-
couraged rather than enforced. AS conse-
quence he advised the japanese to grant full
religious liberty. The Ambassadors seemed to
regard the change of religion in Japan as
interest to the arguments of the professor and
expressed satisfaction for the advice he had
given. What curious fact in our nineteenth
century civilization is this One of the oldest
nations on the globe actually contemplating
discarding its paganism Of thousands of years
standing and adopting the Christian religion
Hardly less curious is the advice Of great
thinker of Christian Europe not to attempt to
force this religion upon the people. How
broadly liberal the world is becoming 1t is
not long since Christian nations deemed it q
duty to force their religion, and by fire and
sword, if necessary. upon unbelievers Japan
appears to be making rapid progress in
Western civilization, and no doubt the liberal
and philosophical views expressed by the
German professor will have good influence
upon the people and government Of that
country
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and cotton mills? The answer to this question
will be required Of the next Democratic Ma
tional Convention; and If the party shall prove
30 tightly bound hand and foot by railway and
manufacturing corporation bonds as to be in
capable of independent motion q third party
on this new departure will supersede it and
scatter it to the winds. As surely as We shall
have the continued rising and setting OF the
sun this inevitable conflict between our rail
way monopolies and the people is coming. and
will be upon us in 1876 as a national issue for
President and for Congress; and as surely as
this conflict is coming so certain is it that the
triumph Of the people will be the end of 1t,
and the fruits Of their victory will be drawn
from Congress. Some of the State Legisla-
lures have been and are bravely endeavoring
to put some wholesome checks upon the rapac-
ity and extortions of these railway monopo-
lies and combinations; but these halfway and
discordant State remedies do not reach the
general disease.
The remedy lies in Congress, with its ex-
the States !" but Congress, as we have seen
at the late session, can be SO demoraliZed by
Credit Mobilier stock and dividends as to be
powerless against these railway briberies and
corruptions The issue will go to the people,
ard only in the election OF Congress pledged
to the work can we expect Congress SO to regu-
late our commerce between the States as to
give the people cheap and uniform rates Of
railway transportation.
Here, then, is an opening for the resusci-
tation of the democratic party and its restora-
ton to power-frst, in pronouncing for free
trade, or strictly revenue tariff, and in cut
ting loose from Pennsylvania next, in o
coalition with these farmers Oranges of the
West and Southwest for cheap transportation
and for Congressional legislation to secure it
in general law for the regulation Of commerce
between the States. If the leaders of the de-
mocracy are equal to these acquisitions the
party may rise again and flourish. Other
wise from all the teachings Of the past, all
the events of the present day and all its signs
for the future, third party, in 1876. will
come into the foreground on these new issues,
and, among the consequences Of the approach
ing conflict, the democratic party will simply
cease to be-
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Affairs mt Albany.

Both branches of the Legislature were hard
at work yesterday crowding the public business
under the stimulant of the hurry to bring their
term of unpaid labor to close. In the Senate
the most important action was the passage of
the Usury law. In the Assembly bill was
passed increasing the amount payable by the
steamships for head money on immigrants from
the present rate of dollar and half for each
person to two dollars and half This action
the Commissioners of Emigration to pay the
expenses of the Bureau. If this is SO
we owe it to the poor immigrants to
be sure there is no unnecessary leak in
this sacred fund. Though collected from
the ships which bring them over this
money comes with heavy additions Of COM
mission from the immigrants themselves, and
this severe increase Of the tax will either pre-
vent many from leaving lands where labor is
i'll paid and not respected, or the difference
must be raised by strict economy and cruel
pinching. Parties dissatisfied with the loca-
ton of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad are to
be allowed time and opportunity for q change
on the decision of special commission. Prize
package nuisances are to be stopped by law.
The Assembly recommitted the bill relative to
the opening of streets above the lower end of
Central Park, placing the matter in charge of
the Department of Parks instead of the De-
partment Of Works. Mr. Murphy, in the
Senate, introduced bill to extend the term
of the Brooklyn Park Commissioners two
years. No date for adjournment has yet been
fixed.
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GU ADRUPLE SHEET.
New York, Thursday, April ~, 1879.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
TO.Day's Contents OF the
Herald.

"FREE TRADE AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY |
THE WESTERN FARMERS AND CHEAP
FRE1GHTS THE GREAT POLITICAL Is
SUES FOR 1S76n-EDITORlAL LEADER
EIGHTH PAGE.
FURTHER SOUL-SICKENING BUTCHERIES OF
WHITE PEOPLE BY THE SAvAGESl
FIENDISH ATROCITIES In KANSAS. Me-
BKASKA AND ARIZONA! FAILURE OF
THE MODOC CAvALLY SCOUT A GEN
ERAL INDIAN WAR IMMINENT-FIFTH
PAGE
ANOTHER ACCOUNTABLE MOBILIER SCHEME |
VIRGINIA THE SCENE OF THIS LATER
SHAME THE STATE SUPREME COURT
RESCUES A $4,000 ESTATE FROM THE
HANDS OF THE GREAT "PLACER" AND
HIS ACCOMPllCES-FIFTu PAGE
SAFETY OF SIR SAMUEL BAKER AND HIS
PARITY BAKERS AGENT AT CONDO
KORO TROOPS SENT FORwARD-NINTH
PAGE.
WIFE SHOT BY A DRUNKEN HUSBAND IN
MASSACHUSETTS,! DEATH OF THE VICTIM
AND ESCAPE OF THE MURDERER! HE Is
PURSUED, CAPTURED AND FULLY COM
MTTTEDi DETAILS OF THE HORRIBLE
DEED-NNTH PAGE.
THE SLAUGHTER ON THE SHORE LINE RAIL-
ROAD CONCLUSION OF THE OFFICIAL
INQUIRYi NO DECISION-FIFTH PAGE.
CHRISTIANITY IN THE ORIENT THE JAPANESE
AMBASSADORS SEEK TO ESTABLISH A
STATE RELIGIONi AN EMINENT GERMAN
CoUNSELS COMPLETE TOLERATION-NINTH
PAGE.
PASSAGE OF THE USURY BILL BY THE STATE
SENATE PER CAPITA TAX FOR IMMI-
GRANTS GILBERT ELEVATED TRANSIT
THE ERIE INQUIRY THINKING OF AID
JOURNMENTi BOSS TwEED'S HEGIRA-
TWELFTH PAGE
YOUNG MOTHER DESTROYS TWO OF HER
OWN OFFSPRiNGi A SICKENING HoR-
ROR = EUROPEAN CABLE NEwS-NNTH
PAGE.
ADVANCE IN THE CABLE TARIFFsl ONE DOL
LAR AND HALF GOLD PER WORD BY
THE ATLANTIC LINES-NINTH PAGE
POSTAL CAR sERvICEl THE COMPENSATION
DEMANDED AND THAT PAID BY GOVERN
MENT THE FACTS ADVANCED BY BOTH
SIDES-TENTH PAGE.
PLUNDERING THE POST ARRANGEMENT OF A
JERSEY POST OFFICE CLERK A VERY
INTERESTING CASE-SEvENTn PAGE
FISH FOOD FOR THE PEOPLEi MIR. SETH
GREEN INTERVIEWED HOW FISH ARE
PROPAGATED, AND WHY AN ENTHUSI.
AsTIC PISCICULTURISTl THE STATE
NURSERY-SixTH PAGE.
SOllON AND CEhEAlS IN The SOUTH AND
SOUTHWEST, LARGE CROPS ANTICIPATEDI
THE "GooD TINE CoMINGn-SEvESrH PAGE
UNEARTHTNG CRIMEi DETECTIVES BURROwING
AMONG THE HAUNTS OF COUNTERFEIT
Frs, PILFERING DOMESTICS, SHoPLIFTERS
AND THIEVES OF ALL GRADES-TENrH
PAGE.
SINGULAR CAREER OF A MULATTo OUTLAW
AFTER CONVICTION FOR STEALING
HORSES HE JUMPS FROM A RAILROAD
TRAIN WHILE EN- ROUTE AND ESCAPES
SEVENTH PAGE.
THE DESPERADOES THREATENING THE
JUDGES TWENTY.YEAR SENTENCES Elk
CEpTED TO BY THE vIRTUOUS CRACKS
MEN-SEvENTH PAGE.
ADVERSE DECISION ON Stokes --LATEST
PLEAi ARGUMENTS IN THE CASEl GEN
ERAL LEGAL BUSNESS-THIRrRKNrH PAGE
GRAND CUBAN BANNER TO BE THROWN
ACROSS THE FOOT OF MURRAY STREET
NEW BoOKS-MUsIC AND THE DRAMA
SIXTH PAGE.
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SPANISH CoNsrITUTIoNALIsM AND CIVIC
EXCITEMENT. Spain remains agitated, par
ticularly in Madrid, by the question of Par
liamentary right as against the power of
executive assumption. 1t is hoped, however,
that the Permanent Committee of tne National
Assembly will be able to effect on amicabfe
arrangement with the members of the Ministry
on this very delicate, but really essential,
constitutional point The capital is excited,
as will be seen by our telegram report, and
the government has taken military precaution
for the maintenance Of order The Spaniards
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NEW THURSDAY, S73-QU

appear to be really anxious for the preserva-
ton of the democratic system; but although
they just now enjoy much of liberty they
seem to lack the feeling Of cordial, trusting
fraternity which is absolutely necessary for its
preservation.
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WNsLow's UsuRY BnE.-Since the State
Legislature passed the city charter it has
shown commendable desire to attend seri-
ously to the mass Of bills that had beep al
lowed to accumulate during the lengthy
wrangles over the New York city spoils.
Among some important bills just passed
by the Senate Ia Senator Wipslow's
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Usury bill, which 30 far back as
February was introduced, but then de-
feated. and which lay on the table until yes
terday morning, when, as the best resource
that could be availed of to meet the demand
for some legislation relative to the Usury laws,
it was passed. This bill fxes the legal rate of
interest at seven per cent and makes the prin-
cipal and legal interest recoverable In the
courts, the costs to come from the borrower
refusing to pay; while it provides also that in
cases in which more than the legal rate has
been charged and the lender seeks to recover
the principal and interest in the courts the
lender forfeits all interest and has to pay the
costs of the suit besides The essential point
in Senator Winslow's bill: is that by the pro-
posed law the principal OF loans is always re-
coverable in the courts, whereas heretofore
the charge of interest higher thar the legal
rate disqualified the lender from recovering
either principal or interest.
The Indian Massacre I'm Kansas.
Another Indian massacre is reported, and
this time in Kansas, within q few miles of
the Indian Territory over which Friend
Enoch Hoag exercises authority. Thirteen
citizens, engaged in prospecting were ruth
lessly murdered at Medicine Lodge Creek, and
one, who Witnessed the butchery Of four of his
companions, was taken prisoner and robbed Of
all he had. What further massacres were
committed by the savages, of whom the
special despatch to the HERALD states there
were from three to four hundred, we win
probably learn in day or two, for it is not at
all likely that war party of that strength viii
bury the Ratchet in hurry. The Osages
and Cheyennes are credited with this massacre,
but it is highly probable that other tribes are
also concerned. Last year raiding parties Of
Indians committed outrages in Southern Kan
sas and the Osages were blamed for them. e
was afterwards discovered, however, that sew
eral tribes were represented in the plundering
and scalping expeditions. The Indians are
now out in such strength that their inten-
ton to make war on the settlers this
Spring, recently stated by General Sher-
man and Mr.. Robinson, can be no
longer concealed. The war, in fact, has
commenced, and it behooves the government
to make immediate preparations to meet the
savage toe with troops, and plenty of them.
An Indian war in the Southwest just now will
be no child's play. But, pending the action
of the government let the Pat em-on-the
back-policy people cease their clamor for tha
release from prison of Santanta and Big Tree.
and interfere no more with the action Of the
troops. The Indians know full we'll that the
so-called humanitarian policy has paralyxed
accordingly. Sheridan is wanted in the
Indian Territory, and his policy Of punish
ment must have sway. The citizens Of Kansas,
Tems and New Mexico are as deserving of
protection as the citizens Of Massachusetts, OF
New York.
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GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Thi.c
avenue.-DIs TocnTER DIR HoKLLE.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Twenty. third st. and Eighth
av.-uNpRR GAsLIGHr.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

wALLACKs THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteen,
street-DAvID GARRicE.
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BoorHs THEATRE Twenty .ti.ird street, corner Sixth
avenue.-ARRAH Ma PoGuk.
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But if the dividend was really earned it
foreigners while the necessary repairs and
equipment Of the road were neglected, to the
damage Of the American public. The testi-
of MIR. Archer, an ex-Vice President of the
road and now its freight contractor, proves
conclusively that the road, locomotives and
cars have not been properly repaired and are
not now in efficient condition. AS to the Eng
lish scheme of consolidating the Erie and
Atlantic and Great Western roads, or Of rails
ing the latter into some value ct the expense
of the former, it is openly and boldly avowed
by the agents Of the English operators.
The committee dare not ignore these facts
or fail to report bill to protect American
interests against the avarice of foreign specu-
lators Even President Watson, in his testi-
mony, admitted the greed of the English bro
kers, Bischoffsheim & Goldschmidt, who have
been the prime movers in the project of fasten-
ing the Atlantic and Great Western road on to
the Erie; and the committee have seen by the
figures that, taking the Erie bonds at fixed
igure-ninety- three-and receiving besides
two and half per cent commission on their
negotiation, that speculative firm have already
made nearly ten per cent out of their friendly
aid in putting the Erie loan on the London
market. They now desire to saddle Erie with
the Atlantic and Great Western concern, in
order to unload themselves OF the worthless
stock of the latter, amounting in the aggre-
gate, stock and bonds, to one hundred and
nine million dollars. That done, they
are Indifferent as to the future tate Of Erie.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-03-05
USEFUL FACTS WORTH KNOW
ING!

rHURSTON'S IvOR PEARL TOOTH. POW
DER will keep the teeth clean, sound and
white. Price rs and 80 cents per bottle.
rHOMPSON'S POMADE UPTIMEw will cleanse
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Price Is and 90 cents per bottle.
fOUvEN'S NOTORIOUS KID GLOVE
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SHERMAN'S COUGH LOZENGES will Civ.
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Price 25 cents per box
SHERMAN'S WORM LOZENGES will expe
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Price 20 cents Der box
WELLS MACHINE-SPREAD STRENGTH
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cents each
CHINESE TOOTH-ACHE DROPS will instant
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10 cents per bottle
BEDFORD INDICATED GINGER BREAD
NUTS FOR WORMS are readily eaten BY
children, and are efficacious. Price rs cents
per box.
All for sale by druggists, &c.
+. O. WELLS & CO.,
Wholesale Agents,
in 2n-dAw1v No 1872 Fulton street. "
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d 4nxAo nNAAN Ava 1AE
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a Few sheep on a Farm.

We find these sensible suggestions in
The American Rural Home, and commend
them to our readers. The advantages of
keeping few sheep are well stated, and
the views put forth are correct:
The relative profit is much greater from
small flock than large one. The grain
farmer, no matter how few his acres, can
make money by keeping few sheep.
There is always room for them some
where, and they consume and turn into
money food that otherwise would waste.
But he must be careful not to over
stock. To illustrate, suppose the farmer
cultivates only eighty acres, raising grain
chiefly. He keeps few cows, and the
necessary teams. One-tilth of his farm
is in pasture, one-ftth meadow, one
planted, one spring grain, and one wheat.
He thinks he has as much stock as he eau
profitably keep, but if he puts on one
shee p to every five acres, he will find their
products clear gain. In the spring, early,
they can run on the sod which is to be
planted, and one sheep to each acre
will not hurt the land, yet they will live
well. After that they can go into the
pasture, and will clean after cows TO
advantage. A run on the stubbes after
harvest will not be felt where each
sheep has two acres, and in the fail there
is plenty of feed. Through the winter
they can be kept well on what the other
stock would not consume, with the addi-
ton of little grain. Probably the most
profitable are some Of the coarser. wooded,
mutton breed. The lambs sell to the
butchers for high prices, and when fat, the
sheep brings as much as a yearlins steer.
Sixteen mutton sheep, well managed,
would produce yearly income of 800,
where, if none were kept, nothing would
be realized. The greatest drawback is
liability to loss by dogs and it is dis
grace to any state to protect its ours SO we'll
that they expel to certain extent, the only
animal which it can cheaper the meat and
clothing of the people.
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Greming State gollrtal.
WEDNE DAYEN ENG, MARCH 5, 1878
The Dinner.

The dinner is the principal meal Of the
day, and the one that restores the waste oil
the system the most, because generally
taken after the days tasks are done, and
being composed OF more nutritious and
more numerous dishes than the other
meals. As the mind and stomach cannot
both work well at once, it is certainly ac-
cording to hygienic laws not to eat much
or heavy food at breakfast and lunch. 1t
is different at dinner; besides having no
work to perform after it, the enjoyment of
having the whole family assembled is one
of the best condiments that can accom-
pany the meal. Wives and mothers
have flowers on the dinner-table: :
nave attractive-looking dishes; have pala-
table food /; have cheerfuness have a cup
of warm coffee or tea alter the dinner.
You are then pretty sure to have warm
hearts around you. Do not freeze the
stomachs of the members of your family
at the dinner-table, and then run the risk
of freezing their hearts. Keep the ice
cream for the evening, to refresh the pal
ates that may have been parched by con-
versation or singing. Another important
thing, and which, like nearly all other
domestic duties, devolves on the wife and
mother, is the selection of the daily food.
We have explained what to serve, and how
to serve it; we will add few directions as
aguide: First, understand that by good and
proper food we do not mean costly food.
Many have poor food, and consequently
poor dinners, though they have paid high
price for it, while others have good and
properly-prepared food for reasonable
price, the difference between the two being
only in its selection and preparation.
Cookery is branch of chemistry as well
as an art. Soups, sauces, graves, stews,
&C., are compounded as carefully as
chemical preparation. They act on the
system according to preparation-that is,
il well prepared. they do good; if not,
the opposite. Cookery is the science that
keeps in order the animal mechanism of
humanity. The physician is only called in
when, through causes entirely independent
of cookery, that mechanism is out of
order.-Pyofessor Blot in Ha,per's Bazaar.
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Farm and Observation-Disclosures In
ParyO.


The following twelve paragraphs are
worthy of place among the most valued
rules that should govern weil-regulated
farm
l. When fruit trees occupy the ground,
nothing else should-except very short
grass.
2. Fruitfulness ard growth of the tree
cannot be expected the same year.
5. There is no plum that the curculio
will not take, though any kind may
sometimes escape for one year in one
place.
4. The best time to prune fruit trees is
in the month of June.
s. Pear blight still puzzles the greatest
men. The best remedy known is to plant
two for every one that dies.
6. If you don't know how to prune,
don't hire man from the other side of the
sea who knows less than you do.
7. Don't cut off big lower limb unless
you are renter and don't care what be.
comes of it when your time is out.
8. A tree with the limbs coming out
near the ground is worth two trees trim
med up five feet, and is worth four trees
trimmed up ten feet, and so until they are
not worth anything.
0. Trim down, not up.
10. Shorten in, not lengthen out.
IL. If you had your arm cut off, you
would feel it at your heart-a tree will not
feel but rot to the heart.
IL. When anybody tells you Of gar
dener that understands all about horticul-
ture and agriculture, and can be hired,
don't believe word of it for there are
none such to be hired. Such man can
make more than you can afford to give him,
and if he has sense enough to understand
the business, he will also have enough to
know this.