The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-19

and we hope not before. The law is certainly
loose enough, and the Courts are lenient
enough and there are pleas innumerable and
lawyers sufficient to urge them in favor of the
criminal who has ten chances of escape to one
OF conviction, while his victim has barely one
cnance of escape from the deadly bullet, the
dagger or the slungshot 1t is therefore time
70 drop the sentimentality which values the
lie OF a murderer SO highly and estimates the
me OF the murdered as of little or no account
10 the eye of the State, at least both lives
shon.d be equally valuable, and to the COM
munity very often the murdered is of much
more worth than the murderer.
The Catholics of the Twenty-second ward
opened mission in the Church Of the Holy
Name, on Broadway and Ninety-seventh street,
yesterday. A mission in st. Francis Xavier
church was closed yesterday, and several con-
verts are reported.
At the opening of st. Stephens Protestant
Episcopal church yesterday DIR. Dix preached
against the materialism of the age, and
showed how man, being more than animal,
needs nourishment for the soul as well as for
the body; that philosophy and science cannot
give him this, and that it must be obtained
from divine truth
Rev. DR.. Anderson proclaimed the doctrine
of our dependence one upon another, and
hence of the life necessity of doing good.
Where all interest and efforts for others cease
existence is intolerable. We are to do good
as we have opportunity, and that invites us
through its open doors at every footstep; and
we are to do good unto all men, especially to
those who are Of the household of faith.
Mr.. Beecher expressed greater fear of in
difference than Of scephcism. He has great
expectations for the future spread of Bible
truth While there may be changes in the
letter of the word the spirit will abide the
same forever. But men must be spiritually
minded to understand the things of the spirit
of God
Rev. Mr.. Corbitt preached in DeKalb ave-
nue. Methodist Episcopal church on Christ's
love for His mother as an emblem and exam
pie of what our love for the Church should be-
and, by way of practical application, he asked
for five thousand five hundred dollars to carry
on the church for the current year.
DR.. Wild exhorted to punctuality in spiritual
as well as in temporal things, as being as
necessary to success in one as in the other.
The WAR IN CENTRAL As1A-IMpoRrANT
NEWS FROM KHIvA.-A HERALD special tele-
gram from Tiflis, the capital of the territory of
Russian Transcaucasia, forwarded from Lon
don by cable, announces positive information
of the fact that Khiva has been taken by the
Russian army and that His Highness the
Khan Of Khiva has been made prisoner to the
imperialists, the forces Of the Gar having sus-
tanned only slight loss during the operations.
This intelligence is of the very highest impor-
lance in view of its bearing on the Eastern
question generally when that very delicate sub
ject is again presented to the nations of the Old
World, as it will be soon after the arrival of
the Shah of Persia in Europe Russia has
obtained q vast present advantage. Her sol
diers have secured solid central foothold on
the line of an imperialist Muscovite route
Gulf. England, India, Persia and Turkey
become Immediately and directly interested
in the consequences of the Russian campaign
in Khiva, as will be seen by the facts which are
published in our columns.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER has forwarded dispatches
to the British Foreign Office, which have
reached London, in which he announces the
fact that Lady Baker and himself were in
good health in Africa on the 18th of March,
and that reinforcements had reached him;
thus confirming the accuracy of the news
which was specially telegraphed to the HERALD