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The New York herald., 1875-08-29
The Church In Germany.

The German Catholics evidently do not
take very kindly to the voluntary support of
the Church. Weare informed that the result
stipends hitherto paid by the government to
the priests has scarcely amounted to fifty
per cent of the grants withdrawn. Either the
Catholic Germans have not become accus-
toned to the idea of paying for religious SER
vices directly out of their pockets or the re-
ligious enthusiasm of the people must be very
lukewarm 1t is just possible, too, that an
appreciable number of good Catholics do not
approve of the attempt made by the priest
hood to set themselves up against the laws
of the Fatherland The Church in
this age has shown itself peculiarly
militant and inclined to be aggressive
Catholics think too much so-and this may
be one of the causes why the collections for
the support of the priesthood gave such a
poor return. In any case, it will have ten
dency to check the disposition shown by
clerics to defy the civil law where it happens
to interfere with their privileges or ideas Of
right. No doubt religion is a very good thing
and church discipline is necessary but,
after all, people were put in this world for
something else besides praying, and it is
necessary that the priesthood everywhere
should keep this fact well in mind. If the
religious element were allowed to control the
destinies of mankind this world would soon
present very strange spectacle But intel
ligent people intend to keep religion and
government strictly apart, and in the end
this arrangement will be found the best for
all concerned
The New York herald., 1875-08-29
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Pay Director John s Cunningham United States
Navy, is staying at the Hotel Brunswick
Mr.. Henry 7. Blow, Commissioner OF the District OF
Columbia, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Mr.. Leland Stanford President or the Central Pacific
Railway OF California has arrived at the Windsor Hotel
1t is singular circumstance that everybody who has
the wonderful snake" compares its diameter
70 barrel
Captain otho E Miehaes OF the Ordnance Depart
ment United States Army quartered at the Sturte
want House
The Chrstian Register that Beechers best friends
wish him 10 secludo himself for time, that people
''may forget"
Mr. John Bigelow. chairman of the Canal Investi-
last evening from Albany
sehor Don Carlos Erenchun and sehor Don Luis Polo
de Bernabe, of the Spanish Legation at Washington,
al the Albemarie HOTEL
Peter Cooper designed the first locomotive that
ever turned out on this Continent and the arst
beans that were ever boiled in Boston.
Senior Don Antonio Manta Spanish Minister at
washington and Count Romero and family OF Spain,
arrived in this city last evening from Saratoga and are
at tho Clarendon Hotel
Among the distinguished arrivals yesterday at Long
Branch was Congressman Richard ScheL He enter
tanned Mr. Hugh Hastings, Dr. Henry and Mr. Tiffany,
OF New York, AT dinner at the West End Hotel
Mr. Beecher, being introduced 70 Quaker gentleman
at the White Mountains said " him:-'l understand
your belief deprves you OF OF pleasures Of this
life" The other replied cit shields US from some OF
It's temptations, also"
at is remarkable that the only high American Office
which has in late years been almost always reserved for
gentlemen, is that Of Minister In England" SO says
the Saturday Review, and England hope is duly
grathed at the distinction made in her favor in this re-
spect But II is just possible that IL Engishmen wero
well acquainted with other OF high officers
they naturally become With our Minister Va London
they might form different oDinions
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The Coming OF the Players.

Our amusement columns show signs of the
opening of the fall season. We have at some
of the theatres the light, pleasant pieces
which round off the summer. The greater
events will come as the days grow shorter
Our summer musical gardens have been q
success and have gone far toward establish
ing the argument which we have urged so
frequently in the HERALD, that New York
can be made during the summer as attractive
as any of the great capitals of Europe, to
which our people flock in such numbers for
health and recreation. Gilmore's Garden
has done much to popularize music in New
York and to show that the American people
are a music loving community. Mr.. Thomas,
in his garden, has kept the standard of classic
music high. He has been in many respects
a benefactor of the people. He has made
popular the best works of Beethoven. Mozart,
Wagner and the other great masters of har-
mony. We should have as many of these
gardens in New York as they have in Paris.
The Battery, the Park in Harlem, the upper
and lower ends of Central Park, Madison
square, Washington and Gramercy parks,
and even our modest, almost abolished little
park opposite the Post Office, should be
given over to just such amusement as we
have at Gilmores and Thomas.
The abandonment of New York during the
summer season is great blunder. We un-
derstand why our citizens should desire in
the warm days tp seek change of scene and
rest and recreation, but in country like this
there is no reason why New York should not
be made an attractive place to visit and why
our fellow citizens of the other States when
they seek summer holiday should not
come to New York. This could be done
by utilizing our great advantages, by giving
rapid transit, by putting our excursion boats
under severe discipline, by opening our
theatres for light comedy and for minor
operas, by keeping open our churches and
libraries and public places. There is no rea-
son why students or pleasure seekers or tired
merchants should not find an August month
in New York as full of attractions as they
find it in Paris OF London. We do not mean
to say that we have the advantages in the
way of libraries public buildings and his
toricsl associations, because these other
cities have centuries the advantage of US, but
we have o great deal in ourselves, and we
should so use our resources as to attract visi-
tors and make New York city not an aban-
boned, desolate, surrendered metropolis dur
ing the pleasantest part of the year, but q
summer capital as well as winter capital.
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The Sound Currency Convention.

The failure of the Imitation Convention at
Detroit will perhaps induce Mr.. w. d. Kelley
to think that the American people do not
want "more money" But he would be in
error. They do want ''more money" but it
begins to be seen that they do not want more
rags more shinplasters, more irredeemable
promises to pay money; more stuff which
pretends TO be dollar, but may 60 down
from eighty to seventy cents in the MECHANICS
pocket while he sleeps; which varies in value
q: the bidding Of any speculator who chooses
to make corner in gold or create panic of
any kind What the people want is real
money, and we suspect that the Sound Cur
rencv Convention, to be held at Cincinnati in
October, will be as great success as Mr..
Kelley's Convention has been failure. The
New York delegates to this Convention have
issued an address, urging the people in all
parts of the country to take part in the meet
ing by sending delegates, in order that q
method may be agreed upon by which we
may be brought back to sound and redeem
able currency, the equivalent of gold, and of
constant value They rightly remark that
the country has suffered long enough from a
currency of constantly variable value, which
has brought upon us repeated panics, gen.
eral DISCRIMINATION and prostration Of in
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Opinions OF tho Religious Press.

The ,Je,oish Times has tilt with its con-
of central ecclesiastical authority which
should henceforth settle all conflicting ques-
tions between differing congregations or
members Of the same. The Times deprecates
any such authority, and cites instances from
contemporary Jewish history in Europe to
show its evil effects. The present freedom
of the Jews in this country to settle their
own disputes in their own way-and they
have no more of them than Christians have-is
due to the absence of central power in
their communion. But the Times has no
fear that any such ecclesiastical head centre
The Messenger, in the meantime, grows
eloquently irate over the changes now
going forward in the Thirty-fourth street syn
agogue. 1t draws terrible picture of the
degeneracy of Judaism because the sexes are
permitted to sit together in the synagogues,
because the men are throwing off their hats,
and female singers are admitted to the choir
lofts. These dissertations Of old time Judaism
ought to wake the patriarchs out of their
graves and bring them down to New York
But, seriously, if there is nothing more sub
stantial in Judaism than these traditionary
customs, it would be as good time now as
ever to bury it out of sight. But we don't
so read the Mosaic law nor the prophets nor
the Psalms There is Judaism, as there
is a Christianity, that is found in the
heart and not in the hat, that worships God
in the spirit without much regard to form
or ritual. That is worth preserving; the
other is not. Men do not honor God any
more by taking off than by putting on hats.
They may honor Him by both acts. The
Independent has a Characteristic four column
article from the pen of the Methodist
Bishop Gilbert Haven, in which he ad-
vocates most vigorously the doctrine Of ANAL
gamation of the races on this continent
The Bishop thinks Garrison and Phillips did
very unwise thing when they dissolved the
old Anti-Slavery Society. He calls for its
restoration, that it may "ding-dong' in this
behalf until equal rights are, in fact and not
in name, secured to all the people Of this
land. The Christian at Work. exults over the
novelty and the pleasure of pastor sitting
in pew instead of preaching in pulpit of
being prayed for instead of praying for Others
and Of singing hymn that he does not know
where it is until it is given out DR.. Talmage
thinks that ministers who preach forty-four
Sabbaths in the year have right during six
or eight Sabbaths to listen. The Cltholic
ReUie,O says President Moreno's great fault
md the one for which he was assassinated
was that he was Catholic and tried to build
up Christian Republic and not ''progres-
sive" one. The olive oil which the Fre1nan's 8
Journal Is supplying to the American lamp at
Pafay-lc-Monial being in danger of freezing
or giving out, the editor is now anxious to
know at what point such oil, Of the best quail
ity, will cease TO burn. small theme for
large paper
The New York herald., 1875-08-29
The Case of Lord.

One of the great wants of the century has
been clear case against member of our
State Legislature 1t has been known for at
least one generation, and suspected for two
or three, that our honorable representatives
went to Albany every year, not 80 much be-
cause we wanted laws as because they
wanted money. It has been known to every
one but the authorities just how they made
their want and its extent known to the
people who desired notifications of laws in
existence or wholesale additions to the
printed volumes. How they operated
through the lobbymen, at what hotel the
agents of this or that financial magnate put
up, how much money he had with him,
whether it was a dear year or cheap year in
Assembly or Senate-all this has been readily
accessible knowledge at the capital and in
the metropolis (; but placid Justice stood on
all the cupolas and never saw the wink Of
the'knowing ones-partly because she stood
so high and partly because her eyes were
tied up. Now, however, the case is before
u.s. and, strangely enough, there seems to be
as yet no lobbyman compromised in it. Can
such things be? Is it possible to flch the
public treasury without the aid of the lobby?
All the world has heard of the case in which
every poet was to be his own Aristotle ; and
have we now come to that wretched condition
when every member of the Assembly must
be his own lobbyman and black his moral
boots with his own official hand? Sixty
thousand dollars was fraudulently obtained
from the State treasury to ''relieve" one of
our suffering contractors. Forty thousand
went to Lord-and what did he do with it {?
Bennett, Hands partner, got twelve thousand
dollars, and Hand perhaps, got the other
eight thousand dollars of the twenty thou
sand dollars that Lord did not get. But q
canal appraiser is already arrested on the
charge of getting sixteen thousand dollars
and this must have come out of what Lord
received. Who else did he divide with
This inquiry is the more pertinent because
the case is so clear that it seems to promise
convictions, and clean sweep of every man
whose fingers were defled with that money
would wonderfully purify the Albany air.
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Pulpit Topics To-Day.

The brevity of life is topic not new, bat
it is not the less important on that account,
and because of its increased Importance in
the warm season Mr.. Hiscox will expend
some ministerial thought upon it to-day.
But if life is so short is there time
to consider what we shall be Mr.. Clark
thinks there is, and he, therefore, will
engage to answer the question satisfac-
torily this morning. What we think of
Christ will greatly modify and control our
behavior toward Him and our affection or
dislike Of His moral principles. Professor
Loutrel will, therefore, ask his hearers that
important question, and while he shall at
make the like inquiry of his own heart and
give a conscientious answer thereto The
Church universal will be Mr.. Haskell's theme,
and akin to it in thought, though probably
not in treatment, is that on which Mr.. Tay-
lor will discourse salvation for everybody.
With such a salvation we ought to have
Church universal, and with right bearing
Of the soul toward Christ honor Is assured US
for any service rendered to .9.IJ Him. This Dr.,
Hartzell assures as, and this be will declare
to his congregation this morning The i'm
mortality of character is, perhaps, admitted
by all except the few who deny the immor-
tality of the soul. But for the benefit of
these and all others Mr. Lightbourn will rea-
son and demonstrate the proposition this
evening. Spiritualism will be kept before the
public by Professor Hume, and Mr.. Platt, of
Brooklyn, will tell the story of his semi
miraculous cure of lameness, suddenly and
completely, in answer to prayer. We can
count SO far, at least, on one Methodist
miracle.
The New York herald., 1875-08-29

A Posr OFFICE worthy of the metropolis
and commensurate with the business wants
of our citizens has been obtained at last. The
removal from the old rookery in Nassau
street to the new building was all but COM
pleted last night, and when business opens
tomorrow morning the new Post Office will
open with it.
The New York herald., 1875-08-29

RAPID TRANSIT is a problem fruitful in
suggestions, but if half the plans already
submitted are to be considered by the Com
rnissioners we shall not obtain either an
underground or an elevated road. What the
people of New York want are q practicable
route and practical plan, and these it is the
duty of the Commission to afford them.
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any such scheme as is now defended with
such blatant pertinacity by men like Carey,
of Ohio, and Kelley, of Pennsylvania, and
Butler, of Massachusetts,. We are now on
the straight road. Let us keep to it with
ienlous care
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at least, were the promises of the official
Spanish journals but somehow the chop
ping up never took place, and Maxine
Gomez and his lieutenants move about the
Villas much as they please and make it rather
hot now and then for Valmaseda and his val
liant men. Like other famous warriors, VAL
maseda "S'en Ua-t-en guare;" but the differ
ence is that he comes back with great fire.
quency and always in need of pocket money.
We wonder how long the Spanish merchants
of Havana will submit to this farce 1t is
bad enough to be governed by tyrant, but
it requires some patience to submit to the
exactions of poltroon and brigand
Mr. Davenport informs us in our advertis-
ing columns that ''the New York public will
be afforded an opportunity to judge whether
American actors can render Shakespeare's
masterpiece on Monday night at the Grand
Opera House, when Mr.. Davenport and an
American company will appear in Hamlet :"
This advertisement is published as a response
to our expression of opinion that there was
no danger of Mr.. Davenport's attempt ''to
play Hamlet with American artists resulting
in anything more than burlesque." This
will be the probable result Of Mr.. Daven-
ports adventure. He is a good actor-in
some parts we have none better. He can
play Hamlet well, no doubt as well as Mr..
Sullivan. An actor so accomplished degrades
his art when, instead of asking public
attention to his work as an express
sion of. the genius of Shakespeare,
he ostentatiously announces that it will be
an american" performance with "Ameri-
can" artists This he does as a challenge to
Mr.. Sullivan, who is foreigner and who re-
turns to America after fifteen years of alb
sence Mr.. Davenport appeals to the same
feeling which was invoked by Forrest against
Macready nearly thirty years ago, resulting
in painful and bloody tragedy and in
every respect disgrace to our city He
should remember that that brutal enter
prise was the beginning of Mr.. Forests de-
cline. He drove Macready from the coun-
try, but in so doing committed the suicide
of his own fame. These passions live only
for day. Behind them there is common
sense and love of fair play on the part of the
people
There is no reason why Mr.. Davenport
should not play Hamlet-none whatever.
There is every reason why we should protest
against his playing it-not as a creation Of
Shakespeare, but as q mere rowdy endeavor
to revive old animosities. 1t comes with bad
grace from Mr.. Davenport, who has never
received anything but courtesy when in
England. It comes with especially bad grace
now, when we have Miss Bateman, Mr..
Clarke, Mr.. Jefferson and we may say Mr..
Boucicault and Mr.. Sothern, five distin-
guished artists, Americans by birth or
naturalization, enjoying the hospitalities of
the London stage. This american" busi-
ness is altogether unworthy of an actor as
eminent as Mr. Davenport Before he is
through he will be heartily ashamed of the
business.
The New York herald., 1875-08-29

CAR1IsM IN SPAIN seems once more doomed
to defeat The fall of SEQ de Urgel and the
capture of General Lizzaraga cannot fail to
be q terrible blow to the cause of Don Carlos.
Our dispatches this morning confirm the
previous reports and inform us that Lizzaraga
and the Bishop of Urgel have been i'm
prisoned in fortress near Barcelona.
The New York herald., 1875-08-29

THE INsURREcTIoN IN HEhzEoovINA con-
tinues, and owing to the illness Of the Rus
sian Consul at Ragusa little is hoped from
the mediation of the Powers between the in
surgents and the Turkish government 1t is
not likely the Porte will be able to suppress
the revolt unless the great Powers intervene
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dustry and poverty. 1t is time to make a
change. Irredeemable paper money has had
fair trial and does not answer Tons Of it
are now lying idle in the banks, while in
dustry languishes and poverty increases.
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Persons going ont of to,cn for the summer can
havc the daily and Sunday HERALD mailed TO
them, free Of postage, for 81 per month
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EVEN New JERSEY does not escape, and it
is said the State Treasurer is defaulter to
the amount Of fifty thousand dollars. There
is one consolation, however, and that is that
Jersey Justice is almost certain.
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From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the toedther to-day ,oiA be clearing.
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THE EXTRA MEETING at Monmouth Park,
Long Branch, closed yesterday, after three
days of successful racing. Though not
marked by any startling events, the season
has been one of unusual good fortune, and
we can look forward to the fall meeting at
Jerome Park as to one Of much promise.
The New York herald., 1875-08-29

SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELS
New Opera House. Broadway Of Twenty ninth street
atSP.M.
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LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue.-FRENCH OPERA
BOUFFE, at p. NJ.
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BOOTHS THEATRE,
Twenty-third street and Sixth ayenue.-HAMLET, at s
7. NJ. Mr. Barry sullivan.
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BOARD OF ALDERMEN Nothing could be
more pernicious than the course Of the
republican Aldermen in staying away from
the meetings Of the Boatd when any matter
that is distasteful to them is TO be considered.
Such was their course yesterday, when the
Croton main ordinance was TO come up for
action, and, in consequence, nothing could
be done. This kind Of opposition will soon
bring minority rule into disrepute.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
Irving place and Fourteenth street-AROUND TIL
WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, At r. NJ closes at IL p.
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BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIEToR
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TRIPLE S HE E T.

NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30. 1875.
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DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE,
Twenty-thrd street and Sixth avenue-COTrON REEDS
MINSfRELS at 3 r. NJ. closes at 10 80 7. NJ
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GILMORE'S SUMNER GARDEN,
to Barnums Hippodrome.-GRAND POPULAR CON-
ERT At s z. NJ closes at IL 7. NJ.
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All business or news letters and telegraphic
dispatches must be addressed NEW YoRK'
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OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No ga 4Broadway-yARIErY at P. NJ closes al 10 AS
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VOLUME XL........................" 24l
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COLONEL Sims PARK THEATRE,
at 5 p. NJ. closes at 10 :45 p. n.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty ighth street near way.-MEAICAN JCVEN
LIE OPERA TROUPE, at 2. NJ closes at 10 80 p. NJ
SoledAd linda Moron
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HOWE 4 CUSHINGiS CIRCUS,
foot Of Houston street. East RiveAernoon and evening
performances
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TIvOLI THEATRE.
Eighth street, Third avenue.-VARIETY, at P. u.
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THE MURDEEEB OF Mn Noe has not yet
been found, although the police have arrested
O number of persons without any good or
apparent reason. 1t is not likely, however,
that the guilty man will be brought to pun
ishment That would be expecting too much
from Police Department which has not
made single important arrest in month.
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ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.
BOOTHS THEATRE,
Twentythird street and Sixth avenue.-HAMLET, at
=. NJ. Mr. Barry sullivan
DARIING's OPERA HOUSE.
Twenty third and Sixth avenueCOTrON REEDS
MINsfRELs, at IS r. NJ closes al 10 80 r. A
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No ga Broadway-yARIErY at p NJ; closes at 10 '4o
G1LMoREs SUMMER GARDEN, DEN, COW
late s1 BaTnuPs + POPULAR CON-
TIvoLI THEATRE.
Eighth street, Third aysnue.-yARIETY, ats NJ
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
TIE E1h rPE EeA6 At Sses a. 10
SoIedad linda Moron.
COLONEL Sims PARK rHEATRR,
Brooklyn-vARIErY at 5 r. NJ closes at 10 As P. N.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN
THEODORE THOMAS CONCERT, at P NJ
wALLAcKs THEATRE,
BoGLofTE, at s p A. Miss Julia Mathews, Mr.. c. Il.
MAcdermOtt
ROBINSON HALL
West Sixteenth gsh opera-PRINCESS OF
TREBIZONDE, At 7. NJ
THEATRE coMIouE,
No 5i4 4Broadway-yARlErY at P. NJ; closes at 10 As
WOODS MUSEUM,
Broadway of Thirtieth street-ZYKES THE SHOW
MAN, at p NJ closes at 10 45 P. NJ Matinee at ?. NJ
GRAND OPERA HOUSE,,
Eighth avenue Twenty third street-HAMLET at
i. NJ closes ii p NJ
METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
Nos 5S5 and 5S7 Broadway.-VARIETY, At p NJ
HOWE 4 CUSHING'S CIRCUS,
foot OF Houston East RverAernoon and evening
performances
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Irving place and Fourteenth streeL-AROUND THE
WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. At F. NJ closes at III T. N.
LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue.-FRENCH OPERA
BOUFFE, at p NJ.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
New Opera House Broadway Of Twenty ninth street.
atSP.M.
TT ~ " ~ y IN
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