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NEW YORK HERALD
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
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Hbbald.
Volume XXXV No. 164
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEKINL
bowbry THEATRE, Bow?ry.?Bad Diozxy?Tub
Blind muie ______
WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway ud ISth itreet.?
Tib Ebb Liubt.
fifth avenue theatre, Tvutr-rourth n
nabob.
THB TAMMANY, Fourteenth alreel?oiand vabibty
EmTBBTAINMB.NT.
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Braadwar.-THE Dakowo Babbii?Didcbiu
or tub kiojuimt.
WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MBNAQBRIR, Broadway, eorBar
Thirtieth Matinee daiiy. Performance erary area inc.
OR AN I) OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and
ttd au?Tuk i wilti Tkmptationb.
NIBLO'S OARDEN. Breadirar-IxiOJf-Tu* Militabt
Drama or Not Guilt*.
MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S FAKE THEATRE, Brooklyn.?
Mimmib's Look.
THEATRE COMIQTE. 114 Broadway.?comio Vocal*
iut, mlttbo acts, ac.
BRYANT'S OPERA BOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th
at Allbn & Pettinqill'b Minbtbelb.
TONY PASTOR'8 OPERA-Kfyi^R "W Row*rr._COMIO
KELLY A LEON'S MINSTRELS. No. 730 Broadway.-Mr
Bpibit Stab?Hunting a Fbinob Down, Ac.
COLLISSIUM BUILDING, Slxtr-tblrd atreet aad Third
Bvenue.?Bbbthovbb Cmtmhui. Festival.
HOOLBY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.?H00lxt'a Miltbtbbls?Tub
Fat Mbji'b ball, Ac.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th at., between Mth and
CGth eta.?Thkodobb Tuomab' Popular Comcbbtb.
TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth street and Third aranue.?
Ubamd Opbba.
MEW YORK MJ SEUX OF ANATOMY, 618 Bro*dw?r?
SOIKMOB AtiD Aar.
TRIPLE SHEET.
New York. Monday* June 13i 1870.
C0\TE.YrS OF TO-DAY'S HEKALD.
PAOB.
1?Advertisements.
Q?Advertisements.
3?Hciiit'ous : Observance of Trinity Sunday; The
Mystery of the Trinity, the Doctrine of Infallibility
and the Memory ol Dickens in the I'ulpits:
Sermons, Ceremonies aua Services in the
Metropolis and Elsewhere; Discourses by
llenry Ward Boecher, Charles B. Smyth, Rev,
Drs. Mellows, Uoiden and Tallmadge, Fathers
Preston, Morrill and Others.
4?ReiiRious (Continued from Third Page)?Chinese
Emigrants at New Orleans?Art Notes?The
Suez canal.
5*Europe : f^orth German Expression of Papal
Infallibility ; Special History of the Recent
'Rising" lu Italy und French Interests fli the
Outbreak; Disraeli's Continuation of "Lothalr"
us Sketched in Blackwood?Political
Notes?News lrom Cuba and the West IndiesRank
Injustice : The Proponed Reduction in
the Pay oXNaval Officers?The Brooklyn Navy
Yurd.
6?Editorials: Leading article on The Irrepressible
Conflict In Europe, Old Idoas and Modern Progress?Amusement
Announcements.
7?Telegraphic News irom all Parts of the
World: The Fire Losses lu Constantinople;
Turkish Charity towards tlie Houseless
Christians; Italian Revolutionism and
Austrian Conservatism; Monarclilsiu and
Absolutism in Spaim; DliKens' Religion
and Will; Brilliant Scene on the French Turf?
wasiuugton; i no snipping interest in
France: Secretary Fish Defending General
Babcock's jkctimi in St% Domingo).
Release of the Cuban Privateer Hornet;
our Discourtesy Towards Denmark?
Skin Game"?New V'ork Olty Intelligence?
New Jersey ana Brooklyn Olty News?Another
Fatal Railroad Accident on Long Inland?fixclue
Law on Staten Island?Business Notices.
S??Jjie Red Men: They Viait Central lJark;
Their Future Movements; The Indians In
Washington?Musical and Theatrical Notes?
Chess Matters?'Tne Jamaica Outrage?The
Week In Congress: An Unusually Lively
Budget?President Grant's Fishing TourMexico:
The Guatemalan Invasion; The Destruction
of the City of Oaxaca?The Skilful
Cues?Obituary?A Young Dare-Devil.
9?.The National Bank Ring: Attempted Ooup
d'Etat; The Secret Disclosed and Consplrltors
Foiled?News from Costa Klca?Court Calendars
for To-day?Yachiing?Local Government
In New York and Brooklyn?Personal Intelligence?New
Y6rk Ortheopoedlc DispensaryFinancial
and Commercial Reports?statistics
of Commerce and Navigation?A $10,700 Bond
Robbery?Another Big Whiskey Suit?Marriages
and Deaths.
JO?The Quarantine War: Cochran and Brooklyn
Versus Carnochan and the Laws?Death "of
W lltam Gllmore Slmms?Shipping intelligence?
A d vertlsemeni a.
Jl?Social Science: Second and Closing Day's Proceedings
of the Convention of the Western
Social Science Association?Livingston, the
Perambulating Fraud ?Emigration ? Marine
transfers? Mrs. Vreeland at the Tom 1)8?Old
World Items?Adverusemeurs.
V2?Advertisements.
Why tiie Grand Tbouting Party so
SnDDHXLY Broke Up?Too much water and
too little flsli.
Trrw Trrwira tv P.AViJTiVTTK'nm v liavro thrnmn
open their bouses to the extent of about one
thousand for the shelter and relief of Christians
who were ''burned out'' during the late
fire. A noble example. Christianity, "pure and
uudefiled," must have been firmly planted in
the East.
Disraeli's Next Novel.?Blackwood?8
Magazine tor June sketches the outline of the
next novel which will come from the pen of the
author of "Lothair." It will'form a continuation
of that famous work, and, according to the
writer in Blackwood, be more wonderful than
"The Wonders of Alroy," as will be seen in
our columns to-day.
The Social Science Savans in Chicago.?The
social science people have had a
meeting in Chicago. Not a bad place. Much
need there for all their wisdom and all their experience.
It will be a long time before vague
theories and long-winded speeches reform
either Chicago or New York. What is wanted
is more work and less talk.
The Beethoven Festival opens this
vening at the Rink. Day and evening the
grand musical exercises of the programme w ill
be continued to the crowning and closing
grand chorus of Saturday afternoon. We
expect that, quietly as this magnificent
Saengerfest has been organized and prepared
for business, it will eclipse in good music on a
gigantic scale the grand panjandrum or
hubbub of the Hub known as the Peace
Jubilee. The Rink will hold twenty odd
thousand people, and this evening, we doubt
sot, they will all be there.
The Suez Canal.?It is reported by cable
that the obstructions in the Suez Canal, near
Lake Timsah, have been effectually removed.
It is now manifest to all the world that the
Suez Canal is a complete success. It has
opened up a new channel of prosperity to all
the peoples that border on the Mediterranean.
It is the interest of all the nations to keep it
open; and we may rest assured that it will j
become more and more the highway of commerce
between Europe and the far East. The
Sues Canal promises to restore Egypt to something
of her ancient importance.
NKW Y
Tto Irrepreeelble Conflict Id Kur?pe?Old
Ideas u4 Modera Progrew.
Europe is agitated from one end to the other
with conflicting idea* of the past and present.
There U throughout the length and breadth
of that Continent an irrepressible conflict |
between old ideas, privileges, dogmas and
institutions, on one side, and the enlightened
views, general intelligence, progress and aspirations
of the people on the other. This is
true, too, of the whole world to some extent?
of America, Asia, Africa and Australia as well
as of Europe. But, with the exception of this
great American country, Europe is far more
advanced in civilisation than any other part
of the world, and it is there mainly that the
battle between the past and present has to be
j fought out.
1 The American republio has passed
through the conflict to a certain point
and is for in advanoe of Europe.
Though it has not solved all the problems
of political and social life, and has yet
much to learn and do, it continues to maroh
in tbe way or progress and to lead oiner
nations. Tbe American republic is the pioneer
of nations in breaking down tbe prejudices
and barriers of the past, and in elevating the
masses of mankind from the. political and
social degradation they have been in to independence,
equality and prosperity. In 1775
the people of this country laid the axe at the
root of monarchv anil established th? principle
of self-government and political equality.
Insignificant as the new republican confederation
was then, compared to the grandeur and
power of'European nations, the success of the
war for independence and the principles involved,
it was the jfj-eatest event lu the history
of mankind since the commencement of the
Christian era. Its effect upon Europe has
been very groat. It was the leaven which,
working silently but unceasingly, has permeated
the mass of European society. That
great political and social upheaval, the flrBt
French Revolution, received its impulse from
the American republic, as, in fact, have most
of the other revolutions and reforms in Europe
since. In the war of 1812 we established
the principle of commercial independence
and equality. The assumption, brute force
and domination of maritime Powers bad
to yield to the principle of freedom and
equal rights on the seas. In this case, too,
the United States battled for the rights of mankind
and laid the solid foundation for the independence
and equality of nations. Our great
civil war that ended in 1865 gave the deathblow
to domestic slavery. After bringing the
negro race for the first time in history within
the pale of civilization through the process of
domestic servitude under a superior race, we
have given them equal political rights and an
equal chance in the race of life with ourselves.
Indeed, we have solemnly proclaimed equality
of rights to all races and conditions of mankind.
We have no hereditary governors or
masters and no privileged classes or orders.
Thus, as was said, this republic has passed
through the first and most important stages of
the political and social contest of modern
times. Europe has entered upon the struggle
ana 13 hi tne uncut 01 it. we nave leu the
way, and now from our advanced position look
down as hopefnl spectators upon the conflict
in the Old World.
Burns happily expressed in one of' hi3
poems the sentiment twhich underlies all the
political and social movements of the age when
he said "A main's a man for a'that." Tiio
revolutions, agitations and combinations
of the people have for their object
the emancipation of the masses from political
degradation and exclusion, and from social
misery. Until within a recent period the mass
of the people in nearly all the countries of
Europe have been in political slavery. The
lawg &ayS *?eeQ m*de by a few composing a
privileged class. The people h^ve bad no
voice in making or ex&iuttng them. The
people were but the slaves of the aristocracies
or oligarchies, and in some cases of a single
despot. If they were governed wisely or with
moderation that was an accident, and was
oaly because the rulers found it safe or to their
own interest to govern so. Centuries of such
despotism and exclusion from political rights
steeped the people in ignorance and degradation.
Yet there was no law, moral, philosophical
or divine, which justified the political
slavery of the bulk of mankind to a few who
had usurped the privilege of governing. The
consequences of this state of things are seen
in the stupendous debts, overwhelming taxation,
enormous standing armies feeding upon
the industry of the people, the extravagance
of governments, the sacrifice of millions of
lives on battle fields to sustain the dynasties or
their ambition and the fever of excitement
among rival nations that is kept up. In fact,
the masses ot the people have been ignored
until lately as if they were a herd of cattle,
to be used or slaughtered at the pleasure of,
rlwilt* mufnra
IUV.11 lUUOU^IO*
The press, the telegraph, railroads, steam
power and other wonderful inventions of the
age are rapidly changing all this. Intelligence
is diffused now with lightning speed. It pen-*
etrates the remotest villages and settlements.
The people everywhere are becoming educated
in principles and facts through these agencies
more than through the schools. Very many
workingmen to-day know aB much as statesmen
in former times. As a consequence the
monarchies, aristocracies and oligarchies of
Europe are shaken to their foundations. Emperors
and kings no longer claim the divine
right of governing, but appeal to the people.
Ifapoleon the Third asks for a plebiscite to sustain
bim on the throne. Ministers of State
argue the policy of their measures through the
press. Even the prejudices of race or nationality
can no longer be used as formerly for
aggressive or ambitious purposes. England,
the strongest of all nations in her conservatism
and in adhering to the privileges of rank and
caste, is yielding to the democratic principles
of equality and universal suffrage. Spain is
deeply imbued with republican ideas. Austria,
the old empire of the Cffisara, has made astonishing
strides in the concession of political
rights and to the popular will. Russia, more
isolated than any of the other great
nations, and less under the influence of modern
ideas of progress, has found it necessary to
emancipate her serfs and to make concessions
to the people. All the nations of Europe, in
fact, are undergoing a great change, are
marohing in the way of democratic and republican
ideas through the quickening influence of
OKK. IlKItALD, MONDAY,
the press, the telegraph, steam power and
the other agencies of modern civilisation.
Still, the struggle between the past and
present has only commenced in Europe. Much
has yet to be accomplished, and this may only
be through revolutions, wars and great bloodshed.
The First Napoleon said fifty years ago
that Europe was destined to becoma either
republican or Cossack. He did not foresee
the mighty agencios that were going to enlighten
tho world. The period has gono by
when that Continent could be Cossack or under
a military despotism. That remarkable book,
' 'Lothair," has shown the ideas that are fermenting
in the Old World?the conflict of
monarohy, aristocracy and priestly assumption
and dogmatism with democracy, equality, freedom
in religion and rationalism. With all the
apparent bias of the author, Disraeli, for aristocracy,
as exhibited in the refinement, Intelligence
and fine character of his hero and the
other nobles he introduces, the great character
of the work, after all. is Theodora, who repre
sonts the impulses and progressive ideas of
the age. Rationalism, invested with a sort of
respoct for religion, but not believing
in Christianity, as generally understood, is
not, however, the only motive power of democratic
progross. In America the basis of
democratic freedom and institutions is Christianity
; at least the connection is very close.
An established and privileged Church, or a
hierarchy, even though Protestant, is not
necessary for the maintenance of pur* Christianity
; nor is rationalism, in the accepted
sense of that term now, necessary to establish
and perpetuate republican freedom. Religious
independence and pure Christianity is compatible
with republican freedom. We have
solved that problem in this country. Mr.
Disraeli might have learned that fact if he bad
studied America aB thoroughly as he has
Europe. In this matter, too, the republic of
the United States is destined to exercise great
influence upon Europe and the world. The
Ecumenical Council at Rome may do what it
thinks proper; priests, ardent converts and
Jesuits may plot; the high aristocratic Church
of JSugland may agitated tjbout hairsplitting
dogmas dhd ceremonies, but we shall
cherish the Christian religion and religious
independence. In this, as in political matters,
we have fought the battle and established
the true principle. Europe, as was said, has
now entered upon tbo struggle. We liave
no doubt that in the end she will follow our
example.
General Gram's Fishing Excursion.
One of the most serious drawbacks to an
inland fishing excursion ig too much water,
and this is the very drawback which compelled
General Grant and party on Friday last
to beat a retreat from his trout fishing excursion
among the trout Btreams of the Pennsylvania
Alleghanies tributary to the west branch
of the Susquehanna river, in the neighborhood
of Westport. "The rains descended and the
floods came," as they come in the rainy season
in the Alleghanies?heavy outpourings from
the lowering clouds, in rapid succession, night
and day. The mountain brooks swollen into
roaring torrents, the larger streams into rushing
rivers, and the Susquehanna itself expanded
into an inland sea, simply flooded ont
tor the time being all the fishermen in those
regions. Bo it was that the President and
party did beat a retreat back to Harrisburg;
but even in his retreat he was temporarily, at
one point, headed off by an avalanche of mud
and rocks swept down from the mountains upon
the railway track. The excursionists, however,
after some detention, got under way
again, the rain pouring down, and towards the
sunset of the eventful day were safely housed
in Harrisburg, under the hospitable roof of
General Cameron. And thus ended the trout
fishing excursion of the President and party to
the lovely Alleghany regions of Central Pennsylvania,
for the President and party will return
this morning to Washington.
It is understood, however, that, though General
Grant caught very few trout by hook and
line on this adventure, the executive railway
car kitchen and dining room was well supplied
with "the speckled beauties" on the upward
journey, and likewise with the best of Pennsylvania
beefsteaks and biscuits and butter
and ham and eggs (schinben und oyer), and also
with coffee and strawberries and cream. But
still the great fact remains fixed that trout
fishing, with all the modern improvements,
including steam power and palace cars, is a
sport which can't be commanded even by
General Cameron for the President of the
United States in the Pennsylvania AUeghanies
when old Jupiter Pluvius is washing them
down.
tne Land Gkabbeus?Cutting It Too
Fat.?On Saturday last Senator Pomeroy
(immense on railroad land jobs) called up the
bill relating to the Central Division of the Union
Pacific Railroad, making a land grant. Sena
tor snerman, on me spot, opposed tae DiU as
an extraordinary violation of the land grant
policy of CongresB, which had always been the
reservation to the government of the alternate
sections; but this bill proposed to give to one of
the branches of the road concerned one-half the
lands for ten miles in width on both sides of
the road for three hundred miles, and to the
other branch the other half of these lands,
thus leaving not a solitary acre to the government
in a session along the road twenty miles
wide and three hundred miles long. This
demand is the height of impudence; but it
shows the degree of impudence to which a
compliant Congress has encouraged these railway
land grabbers.
Thk Coopers iu Philadelphia, are on a
strike, and numerous cooper shops, some of
them quite extensive establishments, have
been buried, the natural inference being that
the strikers were the incendiaries. If such is
actually the case it would appear that the
coopers on strike have lost all discretion in a
wild hope of vengeance. They certainly do
not expect to get the privileges they are
striking for any sooner by thus reducing the
number of shops where they could be employed
and thus necessarily reducing the demand
for their labor.
Facts and Figures for Taxpayers in
Brooklyn.?The attention of the property
owners of Brooklyn is specially directed to an
article in another column which we copy from
a Sunday journal. Perhaps the copperhead
ring organ over the river will insert it for the
benefit of the taxpayers.
JUNE 13, 1870.--TR1PLK
Father PrMUi on PumI Infallibility.
From the numerous sermons delivered yesterday,
of which we give respectively a brief report
this morning, that of the Rev. Father Preston,
of St. Ann's Roman Gatholio churoh, is, we
think, entitled to our special consideration.
First, we think so because the question of
Papal infallibility now under discussion before
the great Church Council at Rome is agltatiug
the whole Christian world, Church and State,
and especially the leading Christian States of
Europe, Catholic and Protestant. Secondly,
because a number of American bishops in the
Roman Counoil are opposed to the proclamation
of Papal infallibility as a dogma. Thirdly,
because a very considerable portion of the
enlightened and liberal Catholics of the United
States are believed to be opposed to the
proclamation of the dogma; and lastly, because
the learned and eloquent Father Preston,
a native American, and formerly a minister of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, may be considered
as faithfully reflecting the general
sentiment of American Catholics and Catholios
in America in reference to the spiritual
authority of the visible head of the Church.
And what sayB Father Preston? He contends
that Mother Church is of necessity the
teacher of the mysteries of the Christian faith,
looking to harmony and unity among its
followers; that the Bible is full of mysteries
which otherwise interpreted result in heresies,
scepticism, divisions and confusion; that the
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will, therefore, be right in pronouncing the
Pope as the head of the Church infallible?that
is, that his decrees in religious matters are
and are to be authoritative and final. And
why not, for if his teachings are false where is
the stability of the Church ? Father Preston
says, too, that he has for a long time been expecting
this decision, and that he will rejoice
in the consummation of the great truth which
he doubts not will Boon be promulgated.
The American Catholic view, then, of Papal
infallibility is strictly spiritual and has nothing
to do with temporal affairs. Among the ruler?
of the great Powers of the European Continent,
however, the apprehensiQn is entertained
that the Pope clothed with this dogma of
infallibility may possibly assume to teach
the Catholics of France, Prussia, Austria
or Italy, for instance, at some polii
tical crisis, their political duties as
Catholics, and that yery (jerioua consequences
may follow from the conflict of
authority thus likely to be raised between
Church and State. We, however, apprehend
no such dangers from this alarming dogma in
Europe, and certainly we have no fears of any
political difficulty from it in this country of
free thought, free speech, free schools and
universal toleration. Father Preston gives ua
that which will be at least the American
Catholic interpretation of Papal infallibility in
confining it absolutely to matters of religious
faith and instruction. Nor do we suppose
that the Holy Father, under this dogma, has
the remotest idea of reviving those bloody
European conflicts of titfes Ions: P&st between
Church and State, or those terrible struggles
hotvpnn P.nthnlir* PU.nt.AQ anH Prnfpmfcnnt.
States which culminated in the thirty years'
war in Germany. Such things, in this age of
general progress and enlightenment, cannot
be revived. Let the Iloly Father, then, have
his dogma; yea, let him have all the dogmas
he may ask. lie is, indeed, a good man, and
we may trust him and his successors too.
The great controlling, progressive and liberalizing
Christian spirit of the age will still hold
the balance of power," even at flomtJ.
European Null Despatches.
The European mail of the 31st of May, at
this port yesterday, supplies a very interesting
exhibit of the progress and tendency of Old
World affairs to that day. By a special correspondence
from Rome we have a full report
of the initiation and conduct of the latest
attempt at Italian revolution. The movement
was a miserable farce, conceived and undertaken
in parody of the recent "risings" of the
French "reds." It was under the command of
a male cook who bad b*en employed in pre
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panug buo iuuu ui ouiuc ui tut: uvjutiurntai ruuical
leaders, and who,< jtaviog thrown aside bis
apron and spoons, took to the task of toasting?or
roasting, as it may be?the ruling
members of the illustrious house of Savoy.
His revolutionary dish wanted spice, and
appears to have been a very sorry
hash. The North German government note
to Cardinal Antonelli on the subject
ot the coming proclamation of Papal
infallibility and its probable consequences
appears, as will be seen, to have been an able,
temperate and Christian-like document?a
state paper prepared in complete accordance,
both in spirit and tone, with Napoleon's missive
on the same subject. Premier Gladstone
was vindicating the law against secret societies
in Ireland, a bench of magistrates in the
North having summoned the Grand Master and
Secretary of the Orange Society to produce
all the documents connected with that organization
in court for judicial examination. The
Royal Astronomical Society of England was
employed in making arrangements for the
despatch of the eolipse observation expedition
com London. Thus, as usual, have religion
and politics, heaven and earth, the heavenly
bodies and carnal humanity been brought into
a temporary union in the columns of the
Herald.
Our Mexican Correspondence, published
on another page, gives the full particulars of
the two leading events In the republic of
Mexico since the date of our last correspondence?one
the invasion of the republic by
Guatemalan filibusters, and the other the destruction
of the city of Oaxaca by an earthquake.
The loss of life occasioncd by this
dreadful disaster in Oaxaca is-fearful to contemplate.
Over one hundred lives were lost,
and the persons injured by falling buildings
and other causes had not at the date of writing
been ascertained.
Another "Boston Notion."?Charles Levi
Woodburj has introduced into the Massachusetts
Legislature a resolution favoring the
annexation of the British North American
provinces to the United States. It seems to
us that this is a little matter which has
attracted the attention of greater powers than
that possessed by a one-horse concern like the
Massachusetts "Gineral Coort." Judge Woodbury
is, no doubt, honest and sincere in his
desire to have New BrunswiQk aad Nora
SHKKT,
Scotia annexed, as he Is supposed to know a
thing or two about the private sentiment of
influential citizens in both provinces. But the
subject is one that demands higher consideration
and more potentiui influences than can be
brought to bear upon it when it is put forward
as only another "Boston notion."
The Red Men ! Tewa.
"Spotted Tail" and his delegation of the Brule
tribe of Sioux and Dacotahs, including Swift
Bear, Fast Bear, and Yellow Hair, reached this
city on Saturday last, and were "put up" at the
Astor House. In the evening they were regaled
with the bewildering military spectacle at Niblo's,
aud they eqjoyed it hngely. Yesterday
they were taken to our great Park, and to-day
they will probably go shopping. Red Cloud and
his party will leave Washington in a few days,
and they will be brought here, notwithstanding
his protest against the route via New York
and his "wish to so home by a straight line.''
The special object of the government in bringing
these Indians from the base of the Rocky
Mountains on this excursion, is to impress
them with the power of their Great Father and
his white children, and with the comforts and
advantages of civilized life; but this experiment
from timo* to time has been tried over
and over again with various tribes of our red
brethren, and never with much success. We
dare say, however, that even the intractable
, Red Cloud and his party will be sufficiently impressed
by the sights and wonders of this trip
to settle down quietly upon their reservation
and go to work; and we think, too, that Red
Cloud's revelations of the outrageous frauds
and atrocities practised upon him and his people
by rascally whites, will have a good effeot
in establishing henceforward something like
honest dealings with these Indians.
In fact the plain rhetoric of Red Cloud has
already aifeoted the sensibilities of some members
of Congress. Senator Morrill, who has
charge of the Igdia^ Appropriation bill^ called
upoft MSa yesterday ?nd tath6r entliusiastically
sympathized with his wrongs and the
wrongs of his race. He even suggested that
if Red Cloud came North he would find
> multitudes of white friends who would take
him by the hand and staad by kirn and his
nation long after be had Iqft, Red Cloud apparently
did not take to that advice very
cordially. He doesn't care much for this
lip servlcp. He wants bis lands, and
lie probably comprehended on this occasion
that Senator Morrill, who was talking to
him, was a great chief of that very "council''
that has been in the habit of giving away his
lands to white speculators for a song. His big
Indian heart could not take sympathy from
any such source. Delegate Hooper, the Mormon,
who was present at the conversation,
spoke a good word for the Indians and said
the Mormons had never been troubled by
them. Red Cloud thanked hitn and said the
Mormons dealt fairly and talked straight with
his people. It may be that herein is the true
solution of the Indian problem after all.
Wlio is tUe Health Officer ??C'oulliet of
Authority.
The gentleman in Brooklyn who has been
appointed by the local Health Board of that
city to look after the sewers and cesspools
saems to have been seized with the idea, probably
because of a similarity of names, that
the Governor of the State, with the consent of
the Senate, made him the Health Officer of the
port of New York, or at least gave htm
coequal powers with that important official.
Dr. Cochran seems not to Tae aware
that the jurisdiction of the Health
Officer extends over all the waters and
everything that floats thereon in what is
termed "the port of New York," which em'braces
an area, according to the acts of Congress,
thirty miles distant in all directions
from the Custom House building. Dr. Cochran
contends that when a vessel leaves the
Quarantine ground and lands at a Brooklyn
wharf she is beyond the jurisdiction of the
Health Officer of the port, and becomes thereafter
subjeot to bis orders, which is a sad
blunder. As a sanitary measure the Health
Officer of Brooklyn has the authority to order
a vessel away from any of the piers of that
city in order to abate a nuisance, but beyond
this he has no more right to control a vessel's
movements than a stevedore possesses.
It would be advisable for Dr. Cochran to
make himself familiar with these facts, as any
further conflict of authority between the two
Health Officers may result in the Brooklyn
gentleman being sentenced to ten days confinement
in the hospital ship on the West
Bank, which would afford him ample time to
study the Quarantine laws and the acts of
Congress relating to ports of entry.
Cooue Shoemakers for Massachusetts.?
A gang of seventy-five Chinamen are cu route
from Chicago for North Adams, Mass.,
where they are to be employed in a boot and
shoe factory. They are under the direction
of Koopmanachap, and are the first gang sent
East. We fear there is mischief for Massachusetts
in this experiment. It is manifestly
an experiment against the shoemakers' unions
of that State, and, if succcssful, it may lead to
an overwhelming invasion and occupation of
Lynn and all the other shoemaking towns in
the State by the Chinese. Then Lowell and
all the other cotton and woollen manufacturing
cities and villages in the State will be supplied
with Chinese operatives, and the Yankee factory
boys and girls, bag and baggage, will
have to clear out; and so Massachusetts, in the
course of twenty years or less, may become a
Chinese settlement, with the Puritans subject
to th? Mongolian balance of power and the
Puritan religion overshadowed by the worship
of Buddha. This, we fear, is what Koopmanschap
is preparing for poor old Massachusetts
with this gang of coolies for the boot aDd shoe
factory at North Adams. Descendants of tbj
old tea party, what think ye Sf this thing'{
The Slavery Question in the Spanish
Cortes?Castbllar's Proposal.?It is said
that Castellar, the eloquent republican deputy
in the Spanish Cortes, intendB to bring forward
a motion for the complete and immediate
abolition of slavery in the colonies, with indemnity
to the present owners. This is the
right thing to do. As we have said again and
again, Spain can never look for the sympathy
of the nations until she wipes out this accursed
thing called slavery. In this matter she was
one of the first to sin; she is the last to repent.
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Itollfftoaa maeonr**.' *"???'Mtay?Pel|?U KrfaBlM
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Yesterday was bo beav'^u' and gave ?o ?
few signs of an approaching v'u'ttmity that the
congregation at tlm Catholic Apy5'?''c church
must have been rather startled wJ'ea their
preacher announced that the end of the .world
was near at hand. Similar announcement*
' have been frequently made during the past
ten centuries; but that awful day?
When wrapped tn fire the realms ol ether (flow,
Aui) Heaven's la?t thuuJei' slia*e-. t/ie worlJ below,
has not yet dawned. We think the public cau
rest assured that the universal collapse will
not be bo Budden as not to give them time in
which to prepare for the other world. Besides,
the practice of attempting to scare
ainners into repentahce by gloomy prediction*
of the destruction of the eartb seldom results in
good. It is calculated to make one desperate
to think that he is likely to wake up some fine
morning and find himself converted into?a part
of the tail end of a meteor. In all seriousness,
though, this end-of-the-world business, if it
makes Christians at all, can make none but
very nervous ones. The man who desires to
go to heaven only because it is likely to be
too warm in the other place has about
as much religion in him as the man who is
frightened into seeking the aid of God. There
are other ways of warning sinners to repent
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ence. Ul course mere is a vast ucai ui iiidligion
in the world, and with Dr. Diz, who
preached at Trinity yesterday on the subject,
we deeply deplore it. People are too
absorbed in "accumulating yellow dross," no
doubt; many worship only when the day is
fine, and others indulge bo much in pleasure
that they never think of worshipping at all.
This is what Dr. Diz thinks, and he is right.
And are not the preachers to blamo ? "The
best preaching," said Her. Mr. Taloiago at the
Central Presbyterian church, "is that
which makes m?h sick of Binning,"
wbifib ib very true. Unfortunately, we 11
have not a great deal of first clasa
preaching nowadays. The same clergyman,
who seems to be a keen observer and a man of
Bound sense, also stated that all the sanctimonious
people he had known had turned out
badly. We shall not go as far as Mr. Talmage,
but we admit that over pious mortals need
watching, which is something we would never
think of doing with the members ot Mr.
Beechor's congregation, ezcessive sanctimoniousness
not being one of their characteristics.
This doubtless is because of the
moral certainty they hare of salvation.
Mr, Beecher's discourse yesterday, by the
way, was a quiet, sober one on Christian discipline,
a subject which tho hearers of the
pastor of Plymouth church ought to have felt
interested in. The title of the sermon
preached by Rev. Mr. Morrill at St. Alban'a
church, 4'The Christian's Warfare," would
have been quite applicable to the act of the
conservative Episcopalians connected with the
Church of the Transfiguration, who prevented
the ordination of the graduating class of tho
General Theological Seminary bacause the
members are belie vod to have imbibi'd ritualistic
doctrines.
In several of the churches allusions were
. made to the death of Dickens and eulogies
pronounced on his genius and works. I)r.
Bellows, at the Church of the Messiah, in -an
eloquent discourse, declared that the end for
which the great novelist worked "was invariably
exalted, noble and high," and that ''his
words reached hearts Dreachers could nf>v?r
touch." In a sermon on joy and love,
delivered at the Church of the Divine
Paternity, Dr. Chapin referred to Dickens as
one who had been instrumental by his writings
in Boftening our bard human hearts toward the
numberless poor, and who had been the means
of bringing light and cheerfulness to many a
dull and dreary abode. Even Mr. Froth ingham
was moved to speak of the lamented "Boz"
as an artist drawing *'from all ranks of life
and all fields of industry pictures which will
never cease to touch the heart by their wondrous
individuality, truth and warmth of life."
From the references we have made m the
foregoing sentences to the sermons delivered
yesterday and from a perusal of the sermons
themselves the reader will learn that the Sabbath
was spent by preachers and congregations
in an earnest effort to exalt and purify
humanity and to strengthen in the hearts of
man the tenets of Christianity.
Tbe ."if. Thomas Treaty.
Denmark, it appears, feels aggrieved at the
discourteous indifference with which our Senate
has treated the negotiations for the purchase
of St. Thomas. As our Executive
Department originally proposed the treaty and
urged Denmark to consent to it, rather against
her wishes than otherwise; and as the people
of St. Thomas voted rather enthusiastically in.
favor of the annexation ; and as our govern
merit, in view of the dilatoriness of the Senate,
asked for and obtained several extensions of
the time for exchanging ratifications of the
treaty; and as the Senate finally let the date
of the last extension go by in seeming ignorance
without any action in the matter, we
cannot deny that we have been discourteous
to a friendly nation and a cordial well-wisher,
and that it is due to our dignity and to Denmark's
wounded sensibilities that we apologize.
The fact is that we are somewhat of a
boor in the society of the well bred and high
born nations anyhow. We are disposed to pay
too little attention to the courtesies due at
times, as much between nations as between
individuals, while, on the other hand, we are
also disposed, at times, to truckle too much to
other and less friendly nations of high and
haughty prestige. Both these faults are
inconsistent with the honest republican simplicity
that should be ours. We can and
ought to be honest and candid in our foreign
policy, without being either a boor or a sycophant.
Not Sportsmanlikb.?The English horses
which contended yesterday in France in the
mc.fi for thft firand Prize of Paris were hissed
by the crowd when they came to the stand
and frequently during the running. Thla took
place in the presence of the Emperor, tho
Empress and Prince Imperial. In bad taste
and not sportsmanlike.
Charity at the Hub.?The charitable
organization in Boston, known as the Discharged
Soldiers' Home has been dissolved.
Boston charity is evanescent. The difference
between New York and Boston benevolence
, is that one sticks and the other does not.
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