The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. — JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CORNEX OF NA*SAU AND FULTOY @TS, NIRLO*S GARDEN, Broadway—Tiae Rore Paats—B.- A00, O# THE Magic Bw :copRMDS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery - Usroxrexare Cosusa— Lapa, Tue Sacas Gi: —Mose s Dri ant BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Brontwny, oppoatic Bond— nism Liox—Tanice MAciieD—M:SOMIRY OOS AN aE. WALLACK’S THRATRE, Broadway —Baiza's Stuatacea One Coaz rox Two Sx :tas. LAURA KEENF’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Lirs's Txov- Bugn TipKs—VaRtery, BARNUMS AMERICAN MUSRUM, Brosdway—Afternsoa Two Gaus Staves Kvening—FRavo anp is VicriMs. GEO. CHRISTY AND WOO 0'S MINSTRELS. 44 way—Eratoria® Paxroum sxoxs—Biick BLUNDERS, BUCKLEY'S SERENA DERS, AOL OF ALADDIR—NFGRO Sone! 472 Rroadwe, Wavant's FaNO MaLonies, &e. STRMES. Sunday, June 14, ‘The News. two years; Henry J Petkeier, convicted ofan attempt et rape on Eliza Faber, State prison two years; Patrick Gerrity pleaded guilty to assanit and battery on James ment suspended; and Ma- thew Conlin to forgery in the fourth degree, State prison two years. This prisoner was e very respect: No. 164 | able looking man, and had fought in several battles in Mexico. Recorder Smith passed sentence on the folowing prisoners:—Samuel Jones alias Moore, convicted of grand larceny, State prison five years; Charles Macomber, of forgery in the second degree, State priaon five years; Christopher Bramer pleaded guilty to assault and battery—judgment suspended; and Ann Smith and Eliza McCarty to petit larceny, discharged. The ales of cotton yerterday embraced about 5,090 baler, about 8,000 of which were in transitu, The market Closed at about '/c. advance. We now quote middling uplands at about 14c, Fiour was leas baoyant and activer especially for common brands of State and Western’ BSS Creiwar—Cumrass while prices were unchanged. Sales of wheat were lights including mixed Genesce at $1 $1, and Missouri white at $1 974;, Corn was less buoyant amd the market heavy. The sales were Jight, including Western and Southern yel low at 8c. a $1, while Western mixed was unzettled and Pomiual at Sie, @ 97¢, Pork was firm, with sales of mees at $25 50, and retail lots at a higher figure. Sugars ‘The steamship North America arrived in the St. | were quiet and prices unchanged, A sale of some 8,000 Lawrence gesterday. She will be due at Quebec early | bags Sian were reported, but we could not trace it. Cof- this morning, acd ber news, which is four days later fhan that reveived by the Cauada at this probably reach us in time for publication in Monuay » paper. ‘The steamship Vanderbilt is now due at this port with European news to the 2d inst., three days later than previous advices. ‘The steamships Washington and Ariel sailed from this port yesterday for Sonthampton and Bremen, ‘The first named carried out seventy-five passengers aad $509,000 in specie, while the last named had 150 passengers and $280,000 in specie. The Ariel also touches at Havre. Amongst the passengers by the Waabington, en route for Vienna, were Charles F. Loosey, Esq, Consul General of Austria at New York, and bis danghters. One of the principal ob- jects of Mr. Loosey’s visit to bis government is to mature « project of which he is the originator— namely, the establishment of a line of steamers be- tween New York and Trieste, touching at some of the most important poiats on the Mediterranean west of Trieste. ‘his line will prove of great inte rest and advantage to the commercial and mercan- tile community of this country, as weil as to the Many populons manufacturing districta bordering on the Mediterranean. We have news from Havana to the 16th instant. ‘The sugar market was quiet, but prices were firmly maintained. We bave news from Liberia to the Sth ult. The troubies with the natives had heen settled. The ex- perses of the war had somewhat deranged the nations! Gnances, and the goverament had been anabdle to meet its bills. So strong, however, was the confidence of the citizens in their currency that | the bills could not be bought at any discount, but were in general circulation. There was a temporary of food, owing partly to the dronght. The Presidextial election was heldon the 5th ult. The present incambent, Mr. Benson, was to receive the vote | fee was more-active, and the sales embraced about 10,850 port, may | bags of Kio at 101c. a 11\c, about 6,000 bags of whica we oe td mere sla {or export. The market showed ax advance of Neo. @ 34¢.; 600 Dage.. 7.0 BOld for export at 10%c. cash. A private despatch, da“! at New Orleans, June 12 reported eales of 28,000 bags at 10c, a 10340. cash, and mostly for export, Prime was held at lic. Freights continued'inactive and without alteration of moment in raies. Health of the City-Yellow Fever—Prema. ture Attempt to Raise a Panic. One of our city journals yesterday, ambitious, perhaps, of the distinctidn of raising a panic, published the startling news that “the yellow fever is at our very doors; that “an infected ship is at the Atlantic docks,” and that while ‘we do not know that there are any cases of the sickness in the city,” “we do know that sailors from infected vessels have got here.” ‘This was on Saturdoy morning, June 15—the very day appointed for the comet to strike the earth aud knock our dirty little planet into flin- ders, But, as we have escaped the comet, so let us hope we shall escape the yellow fever. The aforesaid news about the ‘infected ship,” and “sailors from infected vessels being in the city,” rests upon the following facts, as faras we have heen enabled to ascertain them—The bark Mary, from Trinidad, with a cargo of sugar, and several passengers, arrived at the Atlantic docks, Brook- lyn, on Friday, with a sick man on beard, supposed by the cook to be a ease of yellow fever. We have set on foot, meantime, a careful inquiry into all the facts in the case, and shall probably be enabled te pub- lich a conclusive report on the subject to-morrow. For the present, we have only the opinion of the cook that this cas: low fever “ ‘ of all forthe Presidency, but the “Te Liberians” supported Col. B. P, Yates for the Vice Presidency, while the “whigs” had nominated Gea. Lewis. z ‘These parties aifer mainly in their foreign policy, | TRC® among t: pical vessels arriving at this the whigs being less liberal towards those whose | PO't at this seasou of the year; and there is no gorernmeats have no treaties with Liberia. They } Uecestity for any panic about it. The “brotherly had passed a bill forbidding trade by the citizens of | love” of our neighbors of Philadelphia, and ech nations,exceptthrongh brokers, This operates | other provincial cities, would cause them to re- agains! Americans, and though merely a matter of | joice and jump at anything calculated to damage five pez cent commission, is @ retaliation upon usfor | the commercial and business interests of this me- not haviag recognized the republic. It was not, | tropolis; but we would affictionately admonish however, popular measure, meny of the our inland and fresh water neighbors that there —it may be tome oth But even if it should be the fever, it is a very common occur- not approving of it; among whom is ex-Presideat Roberts; and the general impression was that it would be repealed at the uext session of the Legis. lature. Favorable accousts had been received from the new settlement under Rev. Mr. Seys, and also | trom Rebertaport. Cape Palmas had been admitted | asa county of the republic A telegraphic despatch from Albany stotes that Governor King bas appointed Mr. D. D. Conover, formerly Chairman of tae Board of Councilmen, to the office of Street Commissioner, made vacant by the death of Joseph S. Taylor, Haq. As tne new city , charter provides that the vacancy sha'l be filled by the Mayor, by aud with the advice and consent of the Board of rmen, this proceeding of the Go- | vernor is likely to lead to some trouble and an ap- peal to the low courts. The Hoard of Aldermen met dsy to consider the subject; but as the majori- | not definitely set-led as to the course of ac: | d, nothing was done with regard to | Gon, Walker had an interview with the President | yesterdsy. The President will, it is said, order an inquiry into the facts connected with the action of Capt. Davis, of the sloop-of-war St. Maryr, while in Nicaragus. Gen, Walker isexpected to reach New York on Monday. Tk roceedings in the Lurdell estate case con- tinue t ract crowds of spectators. Yesterday | the Surrogate was compclied to place chains around the bulaing where the investigation is beld in or- der to restrain the throng of people. A full report of the testimeny is given im to-day's paper. Dominick Ragan, who is charged with violating the laws by communicating with vessels nuder quar- aative, was hold to bail to answer in the sum of $200 each 7pon three separate complaints, withstanding the indiderence of our muanici- 0 sanitary condition of the | metropolis, the pubiic health continues good. The | City Inspector reports 45: deatie daring the past | woeek-—a decrease of 1" as compared with the mor- tality of tue week previous. The followiy state | ment exhibits the number of deatba during the past two weeks amorg adulte and children, distingnish- | ing the seze.:— | ta Poy Week enting Tore 6 #8 t Week ending Jane 18... 6 oe on Among the princips! causes of death were the folowing: — | Coaraiions (imiaot is i To*amamation of th . a 12 iet fever : : 20 6 Maraemus (alan ie wt i] Promy ia the bead is | M ° 1 4! hom e sevesee . “ : Cro; 6 5 There a.so 4 deaths of cholera infantum, 1 of cho- | lera morbus, 2 of Ciarrhea, 4 of dysentery, Ll o inflammation of the brain, 6 of intemperance, 13 Prematare births, 25 stillorn, and 15 from violen: | causes, including 6 by drowning, 1 suicide and 1 | murdered. Of the whole no-uber 200 were under ten years of age aud |: inmates of the pubiic insti- tutona, | The following is a classification of the d'senses and the oumber of deaths ‘1 eack class of disease during the week — ” f 1 te “9 nS re) organ: & 4 e i 6 ‘Tae number of deaths, .ompared with the corres pending weeks in 1955 and 1850, waa aa follows: Week ending Jone 16, ‘ We Lag Jane is ¥ ing June 13, 1 ‘The oativity table gives 5 natives of the Unived States, 50 of Ireland, 26 of Germany, 15 of Dnglan4, a> the balance of various foreign countries, ude Rose’) passed the flowing sentences res- ry 53 terdey mo the Court of General Sessions: ‘ames a , rw the Sta vom for | Comptroller Mlagg. The old ' of some 4) ot this expedient we must truet to luck. The is as yet no oceasion for any alarm or clapping of hands in reference to the yellow fever in New York. Last season the disease did make a de- structive lodgment on both sides of our great outlet, from Governor's Ieland opposite the Bat- tery down to Fort Hamiltea, which looks out upon the main ocean, There were even some straggling cases introduced into the heart of our city; and yet, by wise and vigilant precautions we escaped the epidemic. The saccess of these precautions sgeinst the imminent peril of las year aflords a reasonable ground of security for the future. For the present, our danger from filt' streets is not so much the introduction of the yellow fever, as the generation and reproduction of the cholera, in the form of a raging epidemic. With anything like the elements of cholera in the | atmosphere, a few days with a broiling sun operat- ing upon the frightful masses of filth and gar- Wage that have been accumulating since Inst full in many of onr filthiest localities, will be suficient to reproduce this Arintic pestilence amongst us, Aud here the weight of the respec entleman is evi- for a sort of monomania dently in his appears to bay be detccte a design to plunder the treasury in some of the cimplest, tairest, clearest and small- eet ills for ectual eervices to the city. Men may contract to clean the etreets, but whether they will be paid or not is the great difficulty to any contract Oxber men may actually clean the streets, bat they | may lave to whistle for taeit money. A poor | mau, the other day, in satiefaction of at honest ch (the payment of which Master Flagg re- fused in auy shape), was compelled to seize upon the ofice furniture of the Comptroiler, and to take the very desk from under bis elbows, Thus to this dotage, or monomania, of our Muster Flagg, we are mainly indebted for the horribly | filthy condition of our streets. and the chanovs of au carly visitatton of the cholera. On the other hand, if we are in any danger of baving the yellow fever introduced into this land as an epidemic this summer. it ie from the } speculating schemes of our black republican «poilsmen at Albany, of the rapacious school of Thurlow Weed, Mattison and company. They have bought a piece of land for @ Quarantine station at Seguine’s Point, Staten Idand, and to that point they have removed the Quarantine, with a view to the sale of town lote, &c. Their | boildings have been once destroyed by fire, how- ever, and it is exceedingly probable that, when. least apprebended, they will be again destroyed by the people of the neighborhood, who, we un- derstand, are sworn, even to death, to expel this Qrarantine ocuisance from BSeguine’s Point. Should the yellow fever be introduced there, the authorities, with their patients, may thus be driven away without previous warning; and then, without any Quarantine whatever, and with the Norfolk epidemic, driven from point to point | at our very doors, how are we to escape’ ‘The shortest way to secure clean streets would removal of Flagg and the appointment competent man in his place. in default readies. cheapest and most satisfactory Queran- tine would be a Quarantine ship or two under the protecting breakwater of the Sand Spit of Sandy Hook; but here, alko, we are at the merey of conflicting anthorities and unserupalous spoils men. But while we cas give no positive security against deadly epidemics or populer revolts in thie and our surrounding islandeduting the sum- mer, we can at least agsure our readers that at present there is no occasion for a panic concern- } lug the yellow fever. The comet has graciousty spared vs this tim let us at least few Gays cf comparative security. Noy a en hold of bim, under which | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1857. Results of the Four Months Labers of the Naval Courts of Inquiry—Pore Blunders. ‘The Naval Courts of Inquiry, appointed under the law of January 16, 1857, have been engaged about sixteen weeks in investigating the claims to reinstatement of the officers or retired by the late Naval Board. Judgment has been rendered and the record transmitted to the Navy Department, in the gaees of only twenty-three ap- plicants, in rank as follows:—Six captains, two commanders, eleven lieutenants, two masters and two paseed midshipmen. No stronger commen- tary caa be offered on the conduct of the Naval Retiring Board than the bare statement of the time ewployed in the investigation of these few cases, Whilet in four months, the new courts have only been able to examine into the qualifications of twenty-three officers, the Naval Retiring Boerd in about « fortaight investigated the merits of over six hundred, galloppiag throagh the entire navy list with almost as little delibera- tion as they would through a ehip’s rol! call. It was no wonder that under such circumstances their decisions should be tainted with suspicion, and that the general veice of the country shoald call for their revision, They have confirmed the unfavorable opinions which their precipi- tation created by their subsequent — con- ~MI-thm te Joaua their 2 duck gemiug Brogyedings to the unbiassed judgment of the new boards, they are playing the part of public pro- secutors, and even offering their testimony ic sup- port of their own decisions, This is hardly de- cent, and we question whether it is consistent with the rules of law. We lately had occasion to point out the laxity of principle in regard to the reception of evidence which prevails ia these newcourta. The fact we have just stated is an additional proof of the correctness ot the conclu- sion which is rapidly gaining ground —that naval and military men are not fitted to exercise judi- cial functions, and that it would conduee more to the interests of justice if courts martial and courts of inquiry, as at present constitated, were abolished altogether, and properly qualified tri- bunals substituted ia their place. It seems to be the fate of all these efforts to weed the navy of its useless members, that they should be accompanied by such an amount of bungling and mystification as always to enlist the sympathies of the public on the side of the persons whose quali- fications are impugned. Whatever may be the character of the decisions of these new tribunals—however just and well fouaded they may prove—they will be subjected to suspicion, from the fact that they have admitted evidence opposed to the rules of civil and military law, and inflicted punishment twice for the same offence. This is to bedeplored; but it is the in evitable consequence of a departure from the principles which shoald guide the proceedings of judicial bodies; and the members of the new courts, as well as the Naval Retiring Board, must bear the odiu:n of their own carelessness, It is nonsense to tell us that they are bound to follow the instructions of the government autho- rities. The obligation only holds good so far as these instructions are consistent with the rules of law. Mr. Cushing’s or Mr. Dobbin’s opinions are not to be regarded as infallible on points aiready decided by higher authorities and sanctioned by numerous civil and mititary precedents. The Department, since its new organization, bas had time to revise these instructions, and it ulpa- ble for not having already done so, seeing the mischief likely to result from them. But if we informed, it has added to this sin of mn on another mistake, which cannot fail to swell the complaints to which the first has given | rise. {t hae determined, we understand, to with- after rendered, until the meeting of Congress; thereby protrecting for six months longer the twenty months of suffering and forced idleness inflicted on the retired and dropped officers by the action of the Ni | the government will take a more just view of the intentions of Congress in the law of January last is reeolution would indicate. Instead of e arbitrary precedents of the Ecgiieh | aad French naval systems, they should give to this aot the widest and most liberal construction | possible. Enough injustice has been done to the | retired officers to Justify a more generous and bu- } maue wetation of its provisions, Putting | the cas owever, we maintain that the gov otight to subject these parties v x months’ further time. in addition to the cos which Lave alromiy been imposed m them. From whal we have stated, there isiat too much reason te fear that the decisions of these | tribunals will not givea much Integer amount of » the public and to the profession of theit predecessors, ‘They can- not repair (bc mischiet that hae been siready i fouds that have been created in the i idered, corrupt and partial to it the cfficiency that is des 7 of Uae whole of the exieting organiza- reconstruct it anew, De. Beasoneri avo Me. Cacronert rorrine ory tae Wasnisctos Mosement.—The national chimney stack monument to Washington at the Federal Oity, having at last come toa dead stand still for want of “the mocish.” we are informed that Dr. Brandreth, with his aloes and gamboge, has come to the rescue. The Native Americans, or Know Nothings, took it in band afew yeara ago, and commenced operations py demolishing the block of stone sent over by the Pope. They next «pent all the driblets of money they could raise; but with the defeat of Fillmore for the Presi- deney they shut up shop for the lack of supplies. The Native Americans thus failing, perhaps the best thing that can be done is to accept the forty thousand dollars a year offered by Dr. Brandeth — @ native of Eogland if we are not mistaken. The monument thus topped out, ft would not be inap- propriate to surmount it with a mammoth piil box, duly labellea “Brandreth’s Pills.” We are farther informed that another public spirited adopted citizen—a resident of Washing- ton, of the name cf Cratchett—has lately pur- chased all the standing timber around the tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon, with a view of | converting it into money for this eame Washing- ton monument. His plan is to convert this tim- ber into Mount Vernon walking sticks at a factory to be erected for the purpose, and these sticks, duly certified. are to be sold, wholesale and retetl. as memorials of Mount Vernon. Some people may think this wholesale destruction of the forests and groves aroned Mount Vernon, un- der the shades of which George Washington was wont to ramble, a proceeding worthy only the Goths and Vandals; but euch old fogy critics should not forget the patriotic object in view. If Mr. Crutchett is thus enabled to give Dr. Bran- dreth o Snishing lift (or the monument, we may forget the loss of the trees at Mount Vernon in the gain of the marble obelisk at Washington. This monumental association of Brandreth and Crutchett is mighty apropos in another view. Brandreth’s pills are rather » weakening article of diet, and the consumption necessary to ralse forty thousand dollars a year will probably create amerke: for at least forty thousand walking sticks. And thus, in the final completion of the monument, the surmounting pill box should be crossed with two corresponding walking sticks, just as the coffin of a soldier is crossed with two swords, or after the fashion of that impressive symbol of the skull crossed with the two thigh bones, It was the pirouetting of Fadny Elssler that, topped out tbe Buoker Hill monument, Why, then, should not the netional monument to Wash- ington be topped out with Brandreth’s pills and Crutchett’s walking sticks? If these shonld fail, try a little of Ayer'’s cherry pectoral, or Town- send’s, not the young Doctor, but old Dr. Jacob Townsend's sarsapariila. ‘The Religious Press, The late Reverend Jouas Wild used to say that it was hard to foresee what would become of religion in New York, for though the Lord had }. Churches to logk out for Him, the evil had re- ligious newspapers to do his work, and there was no knowing which would prevail. Our late Jamented brother koew well the subject of which he spoke. Aseuredly, if the devil have any agents in this commuoity doing his. work, Griving people from God, nurturing them in hate, envy, malice and all ‘uncharitableness, teaching the young that religion is a bore, and the old that it is an imposture—those agents are the re- ligious newspapers. There are a Gozen of them or thereabouts al- together. and they circulate from 6,000 to 20,000 sheets apiece—giving perhaps 150,000 as the aggregate weekly iesue of the whole. We doubt whether even 150,000 copies of those publications which are seized by the police and excluded by the customs tariff would exercise a more general- ly baneful effect on the minds of the community than these 150,000 “ religious” sheets do. Until latterly, the staple material of these sheets was squabbles with their neighbors on two- penny points of theological doctrine. Such dis- putes were invariably conducted with the acerbity peculiar to the ecclesiastical pro- fession, While profuse in such unctuous ex- pressions as “our dear brother,” “our love and charity,” “poor strayed sheep,” “the grace and love of God,” &e., the polemical method of our pious cotemporaries usually con- THE LATEST NEWS. Wour Vays Later from Kurope, ABRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP NORTH AMETIOA AT QUBBEO. Qvenwc, June 13, 1857. We have just received (9 o'clock P. M.,) information from the eperator at River du Loup, that the ecrew steam. ship sorth America’s guns wore heard a: she passed that Point, but owing to unavoitable causes it was not possible to obiain her news. She will be due ot this port at an early hour to-morrow (Sunday) morning, and her news, which is four days later, will, if posbibie, be transmitted to ‘New York in season for publication on Monday morning, —_—_—— Non-Arrival of the Vanderbilt, Sanpr Hoox, June 18—10 P. M. The steamship Vanderbilt, now in her eleventh day from Havre via Southa:apton, has not, ‘up to the present hour, been sigualied ofthis sialtow, Woather pleasant, Wind south, —_————_—. Interesting from Washington. GENFRAL WALKEB’S INTERVIEW WITA THR PREST- DENT—CAPT. DAVIS’ CONDUCT VO BE INQUIRED IN TO—RUSSIAN CO-OPERATION WITH ENGLAND IN CHINA—THE RECOKTED PROTECTORATE OF TAL OBINOHA 1SLANDS--THE CASE OF COM. MOORE, OF THE TEXAS NAVY, EC. Wasiixcton, June 18, 1857. General Walker bad an interviow with the President last evening. He announced himself a citizen of Nicaragua, and complained ef the iliegal and hostile interfereace of Capt. Davis against him. An investigation into the facts will be ordered, The eonyersation was general and in- formal. General Walker has concluded to remain here ou\e-marrow afternoon, and will reach New York on Monday morning. Capt. Fayseoux, one of General Walker's stal, who was @ midshipman in thé TéRAs hav¥, App{led at the Navy De- partment to day for his allowance of Uncle Sam's cash; ‘but the draft was not houored,as he waa never com- missionéd, and the law inclydes only “officers holding regular commissions.”’ ‘The Russian government has signified its readiness to act in concert with the British government in China in all matters except its quarrel at Canton. The offer has been accepted. The Minnesota bas been ordered to sai! on the 25th inst., as Mr. Toucey now considers it important to makean early demonstration before Cauton. The Waterwitch ar- rived to-day, with the crew and guns for the Plymouth, ‘The statement that the Chiucha Islands are to be placed under the protectorate of England and France is untrue, as England has disavowed tLe treaty made in its uame. ‘The War Department learns that there are but one hun- dred and fifty Seminole warriors under Billy Bowlegs in Florida, oppoeed to whom we have a regiment of men. The Navy Department decides that Gen. Houston had no power to dismiss Com. Moore from the Texas ayy, and al- lows him his pay under the act of Congress. President Buchanan appesred on the public grounds this afernoon, and was soon surrounded by the ladies, one of whom openly expressed to him her regrets at being mar- ied. In Naval Court No. 1 the case of ex-Lieut, Abner Read was continued; and Capt. Long, Parser Stockton and Lieut. Gibeon were recalled and examined. Capt. Sbaw, Capt. Van Brunt, Dr. Burt, Lieut. Daviels and Lieut. Renshaw were a!so examined this mornirg on the part of the appli- cant. Mr. Blount is attending to the case for Lieut. R. In Court No. 2 the case ef Lieut. Gibson is still progress. sisted in insinuating that all who differed from | ing tne deposition of Dr. Thomas Dillard, of the nayy, them were liars, cheats, and villains, and would | and that of Dr. J, Sullivan Taorne, of Brooklyn, N. ¥., be roasted in a particularly thorough manner in | were read in behalf of the applicant, and the testimony of hell. Where thie did not suffice, the ecclesiasti- Capt. W. K. Latimer and Mir. B. Shepard, late Lieutenant | hold the decisions already rendered, or to be here- | val Board. We trust that | cal combatant withdrew into his dignity, and quoted the parable about turning the left cheek to him who smote the right. They first tried to buily, then to seeak; proving that Bobadil may bave worn a surplice as well as a sword. Latterly, these sheets have emerged somewhat from the pious retreat of mutual abuse and re- ciprocal blackguardism. They have got far enough inte the world to read the secular papers, and to comprehensively damn them. They have likewise extended their anathemas to the theatre, and have swept into Gehenna the entire tribe of actors, actresses, managers, dramatic authors, playgoers and their friends generally. With a stroke of the pen these pious editors have settled the eternal damnation of this large class of their fellow creatures, When one of their own con- frees, @ learned, acute, and pious clergymaa ventured to intercede on behalf of the thestre, they swept him in too. Some ot them insulted him, and said it was no wonder he took the side of the theatre: didn’t he belong to a sect which diebelieved this and that impossible point of doc- trine? Others wouldn't stop to criticies; actors were sinners—that was established—ergo, any- body who took their part wasa sinner too, However they went about ft, they all argued that hell was the only place for Dr. Bellows, the actors, and the sinners of the secular press, We have had eome experience of journalism, and have seen some very sorry specimens of newspapers; but we do moet solemnly aver that, in reepect of tselessnesa, meanness and maligni- ty, we bave never known any periodicals that can compare with the religious press of New York. How it comes about we know not; the tendency of Christianity is to humanize the mind; whether the religious papers are uni- formly edited by men of soared and diappoint- ed temper; whether they think they will sell their papers by making them bitter, and sneak- ing, and vulgar; or whether there be something #0 arid in the field of religious journalism that thoee who cultivate it full back for excitement | sake on personalitics: we cannot tell. Nor can we undertake to apportion among the various religious papers the share which belongs to each in the cdiam which their course deserves, We | sre not blind—when we speak of meannees aud | maligoity—to the eminent claims of euch papers | as the Churchmen and the Oberrer; but they have emulous and progressive ri n the cultivation of these pecutiar virtnes: aod perbaps we ought not to advertiee any, where ull deserve the same treatment. One thing is certain: if the religious papers of New York continue to prosper, as they have | done, the cause of true religion will decline. | Christianity cannot gain adherents when its out- | ward and visible signs, as developed in its or- | gans, are the unfettered indulgence of the basest pasaions of human nature. Pavrentsm ayo Crnte.—We have Dr, Sanger’s annual report from Blackwell's Island. From the tables it appears that the class from which the Penitentiary Hospital is recruited is rather on the decline than the increase. The total ad- missions during 1856, foot up 1,758, agaiost 2,158 the year before. Of these as usual over 70 per cont were of foreign birth, being distributed as follows:—Ireland 75 per cent, England 7, Scotland 4, Canada 2, Germany 7, other coun- tries 2 per cent. We see with great sorrow the steady increase of venereal disease, among the unfortunate inmates of the hospital, as shown by the following table :— In 1804 patients treated for yevoreal the whole number treated per cent. Tn 1855 do. “ In 1866 do, do. « ‘That is to eny noarly three-fourths of the 1,738 persons who were admitted to the Penitentiary Hospital in the year 1856 had contracted vene~ real diseaee. We need not enlarge apon this in the navy, was taken ou the same eide.. The case will probably be concluded to-day. Sr. Phillips is attending to Lieut. G."s case, The case of Capt. Tatimer ts still before Court No, 3. Commander Hazard, Licut. Place and Dr. Terrell, late of of the pavy, were exam!ned on the part of the applicant. Mr. Reverdy Johneon is attending to Cant. L.’s ease, Scoretary Floyd will return to bis post on Tuesday next. Appointment of a Street Commlsstoner for New York City. Avourt, June 15, 1587, Governor King, construing the law to give him power to appoint a successor to the late Joseph © Taylor, Street Commiseioner for New York city, Las conferred the vacant office upoa Daniel D. Conover. News from Havana, New e 12, 1357, The steamship Philadelphia, from New York via Ha. vana, bas arrived bere with the California mails an! Ha- ‘vane dates of the ih instant. The news from Havana is upimportaat. Scgars were inactive. Cuaatwroy, June 18, 1867. The steamsh!> Isabel has jarrived here with Havana dates to the 10th inst. Toe cvgar market was quiet and frm. The stock at Tiavana and Matanzas amounted to three hundred and ‘thirty thoasant boxes. Molasses was quiet, and the stock was reduced to six thourant hogebeads. Freights aud exchange were < nd was generally bealihy, OnIRA Arrest of Fngitive Slaves i SHOOTING OF ONE OF THK MARS Coxeunnat ‘This forenoon, as four of the{Uolted States deputy mar- shais were arresting a fugitive slave and his wife, the slave stabbed one of thom, Mr, J, C. Flllott, with a long word knife, upon which another of the marshals shot the slave in the abdomen four times. The nevroes were thea taken (nto custody. The marehal’s wound is aangerous, fund the negro’s is consideret tobe mortal. The atray oc- curred in a room ‘n Vine street, near the Post office, where the negroes were srerote: Quarantine at New Ortenns, &. Wasuuseroy, June ‘The mails from al'}points South, as late as dre, bat. ‘The New Orleans Board of Health bave issued a notice for (be evtabushment of a ve -y rigid quarantine after the 15th tntt, All vessels coming from porte beyond the United States, s0.th of New Orleans, where fever prevails, are to be detained int Mr. Garrison, the contracts: tween New Orlgans and Vera ©. Department that the eer vice w the Ist of Joly carrying the malls sasures the Po. poritively be. e General Scott ant tne Buoker 1110 Celebra tton. A letter from ( enera! that on account of @ eritic ¢ waable to be provemt at the Beuker In@ian Tronbles. Sr. Lorts, Tune 10, 1907 Sir Geo. Gore and aulte returned here yesterday frora a year’s honting expedition at the beat waters of the Mie sour!, They report that the country war never fn a worse condition respecting the Indians. The Sautees and Sioux were committing atrocities against the whites, and since | the removal f° the troope from Forts Kendall and Lookout the Lnd'ans ia tho neighborhood have assemed a hostile ett'tede. A party of troops had marched agains: the San. tece Execution of a Murderer, Torso, June 12, 1867, ted of the murder of ‘7 last, wae bung io He confessed to the murder of two men Retera J. M. Ward, who was cc hie wife, at Sylvania, Ohio, in Febr this city to day, and his wife. The Erte Can: ‘at ‘The break in the canal a: Knowles ed and the boate will pase to-day. At Macedon the crowd of boais have passed east ani weet. BuTale boats are loo% Par wos, fe A fire broke ont t's morning, about 2 o'ck the steam saw ard planing estebiistment belonging to Messrs. Van Winkle & Johuson, and totally consumed !t. Ths loss is eatimated at $20,000, and there |e no insurance ‘The fire is suppored to nated from the furaace, Cotton sales of the week 9,000 week 0) baler, against 1,000 bales last year, Decreased receipts at t Bay with the ame time last year 1.,000 bales, ® compared fact. As the report well observes, it indicates a state of society, a state of morale, and a state of law truly appailing. Unless we have some law for the regulation of prostitution, we shall not see the end of this mischief soon. ‘The other departments of the report are in- teresting and are marked by the lucidity. can- dor nd directness which are De. Sanger’s characteristics. }sT Stoek in thie nie i Arnast, Jane c 181 P.M, ‘There te a fair demand for %o: tales to-day 1500 bile. Corn meal $1 60a $1 ia scarce; white nie worth $1 908 St ot it have been srapl. There have been eome amall corn and rye, The receipts to-day are light, - ager! . te bat P.M. Flour quict. Sales 200 Dbie extra Ohio at $7 2, Warat Steady; rates 12,000 buchels Chicago spring at $1 8. Corn dull, o At Toc., without sale. Oate nominal at Béc, Whiskey 81:0, Frolghts fem. 10¢. for wheat to Albany, and 11%j¢. for corn to New York. Lake !m yesterday :—60 bbls, four, £,000 biahels wheat, 27,000 do. corn, 18,000 do. oats, Canal experte 51,000 bushes whent, 11,000 do. cora Religious Intelligence, Rey. J.¥. Walkor, formerly ofthe Methodist ch will preach to-day im the Sixth Universatis; obcrch, . Twenty-fourth street, near Ninth avenue, aad Rev. Sprague, also late of the Methodist chureh, will preach 8 o’ciook in the evening. Roy. Mr. Burnet will preach in Beventeenth street ci! Pel, immediately west of Sixth avenue, this morning ai evening. Subject of the evening discourse—Deiam foil Christianity true Philosophy.” ‘There wil! be divine services to-day in the Stanton stre Presbyterian church, corner of Forsyth Rey. Jeaey, Young, from Haddington, Scotiand, will preach tp the for noon, The Rey. Charles EF, Harris, pastor, will deliver aa a dress to young men, this morning. Subject—‘The Rei gion of Revelation.’ Preaching in the evening at 7. o'clock, by Rev. J. B, Wakeley. Rev. Dr. Dyer, assistant minister of St. George's churci will preach this evening in the Memoria! church corm of Hemmond street and Waverley place, one biock fro! the junction of Eleventh street, Greenwich and Sevau!! avenues. The Rey. T. L. Harris will preach to-day at Acé Hall, 693 Broadway, opposite Bond street. The Rey. Edward H. will deliver @ disco the close of the ¢ftieth os of his labers in the geet ministry, this morning, iv the Reformed Dutob church || ‘Twonty. ffret street, between the Fifth and Sixth ayense| of which be was formerly the pasior, ‘This is the com posed to illustrate and prove in |, fair and free discuil siop, in the Hali, 187 Bowery, near Delancey stroet, th] aes when diseentients can state objections or ask quay ORDINATIONS, Mr. Hermann C, , Of the Union Th nary, New York, be ordained as an F ist by Thir, ‘of New York this evening, in the steturch on Wasbingtoa square, Strmon Rev. M.S Hutton, D.D. Charge by the Rey. Samiei Bareberd, D. D, Ordaining prayer by the Rey. Daniel Melaughliu. Rey. James Robertson, member of the High atroet tist church of Baltimore, has been duly ordained to Christian ministry. The Presbytery of Harmony recently ordained Mr. Small, and instalied him pastor of Liverty Hill chureh, 5. Mr. John §. Harris has been ordained and instalied tor of the Bethesda church, York district, South Carolina! y. ©. B, Boynton, formerly hy Cinstwnati, bas Teceived a call to a Congregational c in Miwansie. Rev Thomas B. Thayer, of Lowell, has acc unaniunous invitation to become pastor of the Fifth versalist Society of Boston (Warren street), His Isvor wi!l begin the frst Sunday of October. Mr. Stephen Parker, a member of the last graduat. class 0! the Cambridge Diviaity achool, has beou tnyited become the minister of ihe First Congregational Sosie (Unitarian) in Leominster, Mass, Rey. Ira Pettibone has accepted a call from the Congt gational church in Winchester Centre, Conn. Rey. Hiram Gregg, of Youngstown, N. Y., has accept a cal from the First Presbyterian churclt, Baraboo, Sar county, Wis. Rey. Amos G. Baman, of New Haven, Conn., has be invited to the pastorate of a Presbyterian church at Was iogton, D. C. Rev. Oliver Crane, of Huron, Warne covaty, N. ¥.,b accepted a call to become pastor of the Presbytery church in Waverley, Tioga county, N. ¥. Rev. Ransford Wells, |). D., bas received a cali from t Reformed Dutch church of Fulionville, Moutzome county, N Y, Rev. Wm. Kier has accepted a cat! to eupply the chur in Dunleith, Hi. Rey. Jesse Wimpy, late a member of the Richia: Presbytery, has accepted an Invitation of the Wala Grove church, Ark. INSTALLATIONS, Rey. Mr. Hyde, of Hartford, was installed in the Midd bury Congregational church on Wednesday, Jane 19. Rey. W. M. Blackburn was installed pastor of the Pa Presbyteriag church, Erie, Pa., om the 27th ult, Rey. Samuel Findley, Jr., was installed Pastor ort Sixth Presbyterian church, Pittsburg, oa the 2d of May Rev, Wastin; was Ned ibis, ohio, 0a the Bid of _— oe Truzo chureh, ry: Rey. F, N. Ewing was installed pastor of the First Pr byterian church, Bioomington, Ill., om the 10th of May. Rey. John H. Brown, 1. D., late of Lexington, Ky. | been instailed pastor of the First Presbyterian church | Springfield, Mi, Rev. Lewis ©. Lockwood, lately of the city of Nv | York, was installed pastor of the Coatre Congragatior church, Meriden, Copa., June 3, The Hresbytery cf Tndianapolia, on the Tth ult. install © Rov, T. dL. Cu bam as pastor of the First churca that city. DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY. Rey. Henry Lines 10 has lived retired at Nanwuek Mass _for inisty year died on thoraday last, at ¢ H . Dr. Phelan, Bishop of the Roman Cathe vgson, Canada, died on the 6th inst. Bian born ia Ireland, in the diocess of Ossory, ' 6, aud Was Consequently, at the time Sd year of his age. He emigrated Cauada at a very early age, and was educated at the ¢ lege of Montreal, being cailed to the ia 13: He was made a member of the College of St. Suipice November of the same year, and was appoiuted coadju! Bisbop of Carsha (a 1848. Subsequently he became 5 ministrator of the diocess of Kingston in 1862, On ¢ death of Bishop Ganlin be was appointed in May last the titer Bishopric of that diocess, but had oaly be that olfice one month and two days when be died. | Caughi a severe cod wBen atteadiog to the grave the : mains of bis f:lend and predecessor, the late Bishop Kingston. This dnaily settled upon his lungs, ani result in deal. NEW CHIROHES. ‘er Archbishop Hughes wil! lay and bless t r stone of the new church of St Vincent d i, b tween tbe Sixth and seventh avenues, on Tw street, to-day. The First Reformed Presbyterian church, corner of « Jantic and Roud streets, in the city of Brooklyn, will pile worship to-day. Distinguished mia! York city will assist on the occas on On the 11th of May. the corner stone of the First Bapt church was laid ou Washingt a strect, oear Stocaton, G fornia new Methodist Episcopal church at Faston, Mi., © cated on Sunday last. The edifice which has just been erected for the acco: odat on of the Second Keformed 'uteh chureh, of Tiac N. J. (James Demarest, » the worship of Alm On Scnday, the 7th inet., the Corner stone of the chur of the Hoty Trini (Geruian Catholic), in Pittsburg, © laid with the waval \mposiug ceremon! _ orders, clothed with appropriate rogalia, and w acre, part.ctpated ig the ceremontes. ‘The Westera 'resdyterian church, pear the corner of and Nineteenth streets, ia Washington ciy, was dedicat on Sunday , the 716 inet. | . Alarge pomber of families of the Unitarian persvasio Uving at the South bind, Boston, bare been for some tir past taking 7 tety woured the Co-operation of a a gltg to the Reve rolent Charebes, ia Shawmut avenue, whtel will be fitted up { their Gre. Tar now Me ‘thodist church tn Portland, Me., will be of the tnost covtly aad veautifl in that city, “Its arcbite tere ts gothic, {t8 walls frestoed, wood work in (mital of oak, w ndows of stained and ground glass, and ite per Vned with crimson damask, MISCKLLANEOUS. Tho Protestant Episcopal Convention tn goasion at Av tn, has elected Nev. DraAlexander V{utua, of Boston, | thop of tue diocese ot Texas, ‘The last oficial returns show that there is one chum for every St7 free inhabitant {a the Ualled Sates, of { every 649 of the entire population. The a " these charches are found to accommodate is acdt average hay oe J on bane a y . population, tn ma, tere Eotonio: ana bee wemerets ta Galifortia, ‘Leu! dune a jowa Those in Massachosctts are the iargest, and ha Abe greatest average value, % On Sunday evening last, the Rey Mr. Conway (“alt rian), of Cincinoat:, gave fo hie hearers a d.scourse up the theatre, in this reepect following the erample of y Mr. Bellows, whore recent lecture mpon the same au! i has been the occasion of sach general romark. | Rev. Me. Bronson, of Kinderhook, N. ¥., hae be competied to relinguish bis charge, because of Lis d clining healt’. Rev. D. Stock, of Pottsville, Pa., has been c'ected past: | of the Lutheran church at liagerstown, Maryland. MORMONS IN CHEMUNG COUNTY, N.Y. . The Horecheads Acprbiicon states that in the towns Frin ant Veteran there is a branch of the Mormon chure having about thirty adherents, and a minister wi claims to be oréaine Sad ats Glass weet feato 3 3 feta, fis will to tee of the Aa the sick, cast out the devil, Ke. LT. 1 ‘ous instances he hae speedily restored ick, aert In eome instances caused almost ag immed.s restoration. Those in the church recover sconer ua: the (astramentality than those out of it. THE RPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE CNITRD STATES. The Journal ot the General Convention of 186% bas in been published, From the aummarr of statistics we @ tract the chief Wweme/—Cor: Fy 1 diceeses, 18% mupicacta, 110,540, in 10 dioreses, 706% perihen to 20% , 1,886; Sunday achoo! cnotare, Luh ajoceses, 82,014: Sumiay @chool teachers .n 30 diocese O25: im 22 diocenes, 63 The varior contr! butions Ly png <a yoy 8 the eee, conve en ba > Is word reported 1,661 cloray, 1 wore r anteant-, baptieme, 1,160 parishes, 6% 7) Suaday eohclars at Gul teachers. In 1508 the clergy wore O61, the comm pieante 46,080, the baptisms 1, ‘about the Samo proportion JOINING A PASH TON Cone CHR, The Methodiat rey’ saye.—One of the tast roascr fow Ago for leaving the Methodist Eptse A more lonable songrognt! towing S, aad ovher things conciated te go # eats oO old Eutaw are / NT nN a aT |