The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

million people in Cincinnati, probably not
"ver forty thousand attend Sunday services
in any of the churches or places of moral
instruction on Sunday. Why is it. then
that four-ifths of this people habitually
neglect these places; that two hundred
thousand people of Cincinnati are never
seen inside any place where moral instruc
tion may be hadp There is no Disgusting
the fact that the average citizen, unaccus-
toned to church-gOing, does not feel Ell.
tirely welcome in the average church, and
that the average preacher does moi
satisfy him. There are few
Beechers or Spurge0ns, it is
true, yet when there are two hundred thou
sand people waiting to be ministered to, il
seems that there surely must be somewhere
minister 1t is reasonable to suppose that
of this number ten per cent. would fill
Music Hall. A grand peoples church. with
peoples preacher, both appealing to the
popular heart, its services at popular hours
and upon popular principles, would meet
an &C ual want with the masses. Let them
join hands in this great popular enterprise
for the good OF the people. Let each de.
nomination furnish its quota of speakers
from the best of its material in or out
of the city. Such men as Archbishop
Purcell, Bishop Jaggar, Bishop Wiley, Rev.
DR.. Wendie Rev. DR.. Skinner, Rev. DIR.
Duncan and othersof Cincinnati, preaching
to the people in peoples place, at popu.
lar hour and in popular manner, would
fill Music Hall to overflowing Cesar took
hand in the politics of his time, and what
fist he made OF it! Does any one believe
for q moment that our own Robinson OF
Thompson would have been taken at such
disadvantage? Even Mckinney would
have done better. Caesar lacked that divine
what-vou-may- -call.it which is so largely de
veloped in Messrs. Robinson, Thompson
and Mckinney 1t may be urged that he
was not an Ohio man. This we believe il
true; but it is also true that he was moi
Robinson. Thompson or Mckinney, but
only Cesar.
The Commercial says: After a careful
survey of the field, the New York Herald
is of the opinion that "the chances prepon
derate in favor of Republican victory in
the State next year." The Republicans
have the Governor and the Legislature. and
some. if not all, the State officers; and the
patronage which Gov. Robinson employed
to defeat them this year will be used to de-
feat the Democrats in 1880. Everything
depends. however, Oh the nominee of the
Republican party. Probably Ex-Governor
Hendricks would say. were he to pronounce
upon Kelly, that he was guilty of treason,
for he seems to regard any detection from
the party in that light. Farther South i,
is punished, as treason against the
Government of the United States
was not, with death, and had John
Kelly lived in Yazoo instead of New York
City, the shotgun would have cut short his
reasonable career; nor is it likely any
Democratic politician or Convention in the
North would have had the courage to con
denim his punishment Treason, not treach
cry, Mr.. Blackhurn.-At Pittsburg last
night indications we're favorable for a coal
boat rise III the Ohio River. 1t is expected
that about four hundred thousand bushel.
will start this evening, and that within the
next forty-eight hours there will be water
sufficient to float the heaviest barges
and that within the week our mar
ket will be bountifully supplied
The specie in the Bank of France de
creased 100000 francs last week. The
decline is in the gold reserve, already in the
bank less than $l00000 000.-There is 9
movement on foot for the establishment o.
museum in Cincinnati. If the scheme
contenplates something after the manner
of the Kensington Museum, it should bt
encouraged, but we don't want a mere
houseful of old and curious objects. bric-a
brac and such stuff The aim should be tc
bring together such things as will be in
structive in living industry and art.-We
have to remark to the Missouri Republican
tat Abraham Lincoln's power and respon
sibility asan "agent" were greatly increased
by the peculiar circumstances around HIM
Some foolish persons seceded-ran away
from majority of both Houses of Congress.
played the bloody idiot before high
Heaven-tried to destroy the Nation-ant
had to be whipped.
The Gazette says: Many are the devices
to capture General Grant. Most of then
have been designed to keep him out of {
third and fourth terms, and so on, but lat
terly Southern device has been broacheC
to capture him and the Presidency, by thu
simple process. of having the Solid Soutl
Join the stalwarts of the North, mot as
political party. but as section, offering
him enlarged powers to suit his ambition
and the desires of those who are at presen
engaged in an attempt to revolutionize tn,
government by obliterating State lines. y
| ulS UlC W. CiS n "a SOuoO1tuIiOI
puts it, and it says "a serious movement il
on foot in the South to stop the mouth O
sectionalsm" by this stratagem. The At
Atlanta Co stitution's Southern scheme il
the most brilliant, next to the CONNER
cal's peacemaker; but it has the in
completeness of all the res
in that it is a reckoning without the host
And it is the more brilliant in that its only
ground is that the Republicans will cleo
Grant without the aid of the 'uth There
fore, as the South can not offer him an elec
ton, and as he does not need its aid, they
propose to take the wind out of the Repub
licans by offering to General Grant thei
permission to roll up the Constitution ant
chuck it away ina pigeon-hole.-Our Wash
ington' special states rumor as to the re
turn of General Noyes some time next sea
son to take part in the Presidential cam
paign, and of the appointment of Mr.. Hal
stead in his place. Tie repor: as to Genera
Nuyes accords with what might be expect
ed of his desire to resume active life in pol
itics, and to take part in the coming grea
contest.-The Government evidently mean
to suppress the lottery business, so ia
as it is carried on through tn
mails. The gentlemen who pre-.
upon the credulous classes in tn
large cities will find themselves considers
bly, embarrassed by the orders issued yes
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