The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1869, Page 4

4 EUROPE. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. Lists of Candidates Elected and Defeated. The Alabama Controversy in England. fhe North German Lioyd steamship Weser, Captain ‘Wenke, from Bremen May 22 and Southampton the 25th, arrived here yesterday morning. She brings details of our cable telegrams up to date of sailing. The Protestant clergy of South Germany have ad- dressed a letter to the Pope, containing @ formal re- fusal Co assist at the coming council. Mazzini has published a manifesto stating that the late disturbances were caused by the poiice of the city of Milan. The island of Symi, one of the Sporades, has been Tecently destroyed by an earthquake. Many people Were injured and a few killed. A quel has taken place near Paris, between Mr. Baudeuf, of the Jegation of Hayti and Mr. Lenormand de Villeneuve, One exchange of shots took place, but netther of the combatants were injured. Itis reported in Paris that Cardinal Bonaparte will preside over the religious ceremonies to be held at Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, in celebration of ‘the centenary of Napoleon I. + The clergy and sehoolmasters of Lorraine nave pe- : NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. RIGRTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION—(tncomplete). M. Jules Simon 1s eleoved. NINTH C1RCUMSORIPTION, ot Bestn Pelletan (democratic opposition) is . LYONS, DEPARTMENT OF THR RHONE—FIRST OIR- CUMSCRIPTION, M. Raspail (radical opposition) 18 elected. SECOND CLRCUMSORIPTION, M. Bancel (radical opposition)... ~ 16,953 M. Henon (democratic opposition) vee 6036 Majority for Bancel............0ee00eeeeeeeeeLOOLT LILLE. M. Jules Braine and M. des Rotours are elected. ROURN, M. Corneilie (oMcial) is elected. The Military Vote Influenced by the Govern- meat. The Opinion Nationale of Paris, under date of May 24, states that the men or the gendarmes of the guard of that city were oficially ordered to vote in battalions, headed by their officers, and that all cases of voting contrary to instructions would be punished by the culprits being sent to the regiments of the line. For general information it is perhaps well to refer to article thirty-nine of the decree dated February 2, 1852, which runs as follows:— “Those who by arts, violence or menaces against an elector, whether by making him fear the loss of his position,” &c., “may have caused him to abstain from voting or may have influenced his vote, shall be punished by imprisonment varying in duration from one month to one year and to a fine of from 100f. to 1,000f, The English Press on the French Electious. The London Times, May 25, says:— The French elections are over, and the results, as faras Parts and Lyons are concerned, are known with sufticient exactness, — ve beyond all controversy thatthe capital of the has gone over to the opposition, and not simply amen te- Ty opposition, but to dynastic opposition. The temper of Lyons is even more deci The system of personal government has thus failed 1n concil- lane he inhabitanis of these cil even be inferred that it has some ei 4m provok- them to increased hostility. titioned the Emperor of the French, begging him to revoke the decree forbidding the practice of the Ger- man language in scvools. » The Indépendance Belge says that the French gov- ernment have received no confirmation of the report that the French Ambassador at Pekin had been tn- suited by a Chinese official. Accounts from Athens state that the Messageries Imperiales steamers Tamuise and Copernic, freighted by the Ottoman goverument to convey the Cretan emigrants back to the island, were about to make their last trip, only about 8,000 of those people re- maining in Greece. By the way of proof that property 1s not depre- ciated in value in Ireland it is mentioned thata nobleman has just purchased a demesne on the banks of the Suir, in Tipperary, for £30,000, which ‘was bought fourteen years ago for £17,v00, and had been in the interval resold tor £24,500. The emigration from giverpool to the United States, immense as It has lately been, continues to increase instead of exh.biting any signs of slacken- ing. The number of emigrants leaving the port the week before last largely exceeded that of the pre- vious week. A meeting of German schoolmasters has just been ‘hela at Berlin. Resolutions were adopted by a large majority in favor of the freedom and independence of teaching. France was represented by a dele- mate, The new Austrian Red Book will contain the cor- Tespondence concerning the additional commercial treaty with Great Britain. The submarine cabie between Corfu and the Con- tinent has been laid. Greece can pow by such means communicate with all the Ionian islands, hatever may be the weight to be attached to the fact, itis plata that Paris and Lyons have declared against the empire. There were, indeed, but four out of the nine circumscriptions into which the capi- tal 1s divided where an official candidate so much as presented , and even these four government candidates were far trom satisfying the standard of subservience to the empire which prevailed in the last chamber, Paris and Lyons have thus declared against the empire, and the more energetic the opposition of the candidate the more assured, on the whole, has been his success. — The candidates who are ab- solutely elected in Paris—MM. Bancel, Picard, Pel- letan, Simon and Gambetta, belong, more or less definitely, to the sextreme Leit, and Raspail, failing in Paris, is returned at Lyons. On the other hand, MM. Thiers and Garnier Pagés have to undergo a second election betore tuay can be returned, and but for his election at Lyons M. jules Favre would be in the same situation. What ene ought to be attributed to these facts? It woud be premature to torm a decisive judgment upon them now, although it Must be observed that they can scarcely be af- fected by the returns trom other towns whose smaller size has permitted the government to manip- ulate them by the exercise of the singular power it possesses of prescribing at pleasure the boundaries of each constituency. The returns show that the chief cities of the empire repudiate the idea of the empire, This must be ndrnleer an gislaniacans fact. it 13, Indeed, the fashion to say that Paris is no longer France, and to deride the influence of the capital of the empire; but we believe this fashion springs from @ very short-sighted view of the state of aftairs. Paris Was never more ant the expression of French inteliect and ability than it is at this moment. The increase of railways has added to the drain of energy and power towards the capital. The cities whic! so long retained the mdependent character they possessed as the capitals of the ancient pro- Vinces have relatively degenerated. In politics, in letters, in arts, in sclences, even in business, the prominent men in Paris are immigrants from the country. Paris, thus drawing to itself ali that con- tributes to form the opinion of the future, cannot be contemptuously thrown aside. ‘The revival of poli- cal energy, which has first become manifested there, bas resulted ina verdict which must be re- ‘The proposed financial measures of the Portuguese Ministry cause great agitation wbroughout the country. The /talia Militaire announces that a new journal is about lo be publisned under the name of J2 Punto @oOnore. It is w be the official organ of a society established last year in Florence for the purpose of putting down duelling by instituting a tribuna: of honor for the adjustment of disputes at present set- fled by arms. The Patrie publishes extracts from a pamphlet issued in Brussels on the 30th of April by M. Ro- geard, inciting French electors to resist tie govern- Ment by revolutionary means, to overthrow the em- pire and to assassinate the Emperor, and draws a comparison between this pamphlet and the news- paper Le Rappel, recently started in Paris by MM. Victor Hugo and Henri Rochefort. Civita Vecchia has just been lighted with gas; but there are still in the Papal States only two towns, Rome and Civita Vecchia, that have abandoned the old of] lamp, and even in these last gas has only been introduced into the aristocratic quarters. At Ville- tri, Viterbo, Frosinone, &c., the streets are still Lighted with oii and by candles burning before the images of the Madonna. FRANCE. The Elections Thro ut the Empire—Scenes and Incidente—Names of Successful and De- feated Candidates—Reform not Revolation— Comments of the English Press. (From Galignani, May 24.) The electoral struggle commenced yesterday morn- ing at eight o'clock all over France, and will termi- nate this afternoon at four. In Paris everything passed over in the most tranquil manner and with- out the slightest symptom of agitation, Th¢ voting places in the nime circumscriptions of the capi- tal were established in the halls of the maires or in _conventent buildings aggre ig $ either to the city of Paris or the State; and were multiplied as much as possible, in order to facilitate the delivery of tickets and obviate any inconvenience resulting from too great an aggiomeration. In each bureau were seated a president and two assessors on his right and left, and before the latter were placed registers containing the names of the electors. The urn stood in the centre of the table, being tn fact a wooden box with double padiocks, having a slit in the lid through which the voting ticket is mtroduced. As each bulletin was deposited the President, after @ verification in the registers, tore off the corner of the card which had b banded to him and said, “M.s0 and so has voted.” In general very few groups were formed, the voters departing at once after depositing their bulletins. The number of sergentsde-vilie standing about was quite insignifi- cant, and served rather to answer a question and give’ information tuan to preserve order. The movément of electors was considerable for about an hour after the doors were opened, but as s00n as the first body had passed away the aspect of the voting places changed in a very marked manner. in the centre of Paris the number of voters, without being by any means as large as at the outset, re- mained rather imposing, but in the more distant gostters the sections were In a measure deserted. ‘bat circumstance does not by any means imply that there will be fewer votes than at preceding elections; it simply shows that the second day is preferred to the first, and we may remark that the very same fact was observed in the two previous contests. The Returns. The elections proceeded in a very orderly manner on the 23d ult., and the same condition of things was observed on the following day. Everywhere the number of voters was very large. In Paris fully one- half the electors recorded their votes on the first day. A® a rule, very few abstained from casting their ballots. In Marsetiles joud cries of “Long live the republic” were shouted by numbers of citizens parading the streets. Great excitement prevailed. ‘Timid people felt nervous; the shops and other places of business were closed, but no disturbance oceurred. ‘The following are the resulta of the voting, which ‘were known tn Paris late on the night of the 24th wumo:— PARIS—PIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Gambetta (radical opposition) is elected. SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION.” Result indecisive, A second ballot will probably be necessary between M. Thiers (parliamentary op- os M. Devinck (supporter of the govern- ent). THIRD CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Bancel (radical opposition). M. Emile Oilivier (third party)... Majority for M. Bancel... qooRTA crncumscRtrrio: e » Ernest Picard (democratic opposition! i Deniére (omcial) me Majority for M. Pie, FIFTH CIRCUMSC Garnier-Pages (democratic opposition). . F. Ras} eal oy M Freaerlor fovy omelay nt) M. George Baudin (radical 6 ) GIXTH CIROUMSCHIPTION—(compiete wit jon of one section). ‘the ‘excep. M. A Coéhin (oMeial).... + 11,600 M. Jules Ferry (democratic oppositior » 11,200 M, A. Guéroult (democratic oppomtion) 4,300 ~ Second Ld hecessary. 4 anit CIROUMSCRIPTION—(complete with t » ception of one section). me Jaies Favre (democratic opposition) 11,900 i: garded as condemnatory of the system of personal government. That system has been tried under every conaition favorable to its success, and the end has been that Paris, in utter repudiation, is seen violently fying to the other extreme. It has pro- voked an unmistakable reaction. The London Daily News, same date, bas the fol- lowing:— The manner in which the elections have been con- ducted reflects credit upon France. The universal right of suifrage has been exercised with a near ap- proach to universality. Perfect order has been ol served. We have seen a people too often | ae scribed as ‘“ungovernabie’ traversing this brief paroxysm of permitted agitation with a calmness aud a prudence acknowledged even by those who professed to dread the unwanted absence of re- straint, and with less noise and turbulence than every Lorough in England might desplay at # nomt- nation. With two or three unimportant exceptions, where the calculated violence of the agents of authority siacceeded in creating a disturbance barely sufficient to alarm the most timorous middle class in the civil- ized world, the whole country has preserved its peace and ‘its sense, unshaken alike by the vehemence of @ few revuiutionary fanatics and by the provocations of the secret police, 50 emphatic- ally and so decidedly has it manifested its deter- mination to make a change in the administrative system under which it has labored for seventeen years, and to resume the direction of its own affairs, that even the candidates most agreeable to the government have been obliged to decline, or to disavow its patronage, and to declare their personal allegiances to public liberty. Even the sovereign himself, in his electo: Tmanifesto at Chartres, was fain to taentity ia own cause with that of freedom as much as witn that of order, National self-government, as opposed to autocratic caprice; parliamentary control, a3 op- posed to administrative extravagance and an arbi- trary wili—sucah has ‘en the dominant note of io- telligent and serious pxblic opinion throughout France during the recent constitutional crisis; and even the oficial candidates have been reduced, for decency’s sake, to respond to it in their speeches and addresses, combining devotion to the Emperor and gratitude for all the great things he has done with the homage of lip-service at least to the principles of an independent opposition. Had the Emperor continued to be a8 uniformly and universally successful in his undertakings at home and abroad, and in the resuits of his undisputed supremacy in the State, as he appeared to be during the first seven yearsof his rule, he mignt, perbaps, have remained in secure possession of an almost nominal legislature and bave serenely defied une clamors of an almost imperceptible group of malcon- tents. But the history of the last ten years has con- vinced all Freuchmen who Lave families and fortunes to Jose, however desirous they might be of closing the era of revolutions or of preserving the Napoleonic dynasty, that personal and arbitrary powers are the worst of all securities for the permanence of national wellare and prosperity, and that to be forever at the mercy of one man’s will is to treat their country like & gambling table, where hundreds are beggared daily, and the bank wins always—tl it breaks. The London Telegraph comments on the elections in these terms:— We cannot doubt that the virulence with which the opposition in Parts attacked every liberal re- former who was not prepared to jom a crusade agaiust the established government told strongly in favor of the administration throughout the provinces. We would not attach mach weight to the notion that the existence of the empire is guaranteed by the ex- tent to which the French nowadays invest their money in government speculations, The value of breeches-pocket loyalty Was shown at the downfall of the Bourgeois monarchy in 1848; and though the holders of government securities are not likely wo Le barricades they are still less likely to stol barricades when once erected. But ali accounts agree in representing the vast mass of Frenchmen to have an almost servile horror of revolution. There is no alternative which they woald not accept sooner than a repetition of 1789 or 184%; and the mere rumor that the ‘Marseillaise”’ has been sung in Paris recalls the fears which led to the coup a’éat, The nation may not be satisfied with the existing government, but it has no wish to change it for another at the cost of an interval of anarciy; and, therefore, the Liberal opposition weakened its hold upon the constituencies 0 soon as the leaders of the imap showed their colors and al- lowed it to be known that they desired reform only as a stepping stone to revolution. How far Paris ™may stil be synopymous with France for any political purpose is @ point not yet as- certall but we do know that the whole tendency of the Imperial policy has been to apna the independence of the Rrovinces; and thus mucl is clear, that under household suffrage the provincial constituencies are but little influenced by the exam- ple of the metropolis. On the contrary, the revival of agitation in Paris appears to have impeded the success Of the liberal candidates throughout tne country. In the absence of detailed intelligence we cannot state more concerning the total result of the elections than that the government, as was expect- ed, has secured a numerical majority litte, if at all, short of that wpich it wielded in the late Chamber, The compositioN, however, both of the majority and the blockade. We assert, therefore, and we must resolutely maintain, that the ciauns resulting from the Alabama depredations are identical, in aii but degree, with those originating in any other posaibiy wrougiul captures. e erties ‘ ty spirit’ led the groun an “ui Ly 8] preced escape of the depredator, and that such spirit must be atoned for. it is of another character aitogether. We resist it, and on this plain ground, that whatever direction our sympathies may have taken, we owe no accounton such a point to any international tribune, Let us, by way of putting the case in the light least favorabie to ourselves, assume that the Americans might have expected better things of us, and are now expressing @ Natural soreness at the treatment they received. ‘us suppose that, either forgetung their own demeanor in such cases or with a con- sciousness of substantial innocence, they looked for our active sympathies in @ struggle tor territorial integrity, @ free soll and @ grand destiny. Well, what they thus looked for they did not find, and they now resent the disappointment as a wrong. We are sometimes toid, and not quite untruly, that this is the great fact of the whole dispute, Be it 30; we only repiy that never before in the history of the world was sucb & matter made the subject of an international claim or _ international menace, What would the Americans have sald, or what would the world have thought of us, if, aiter the Crimean war, we had presented to the gov- ernmens of Washington’a demand for reparation or acknowledgment in consequence of the misdirected sympathies of the American pean t And yet the Americans did sympathize with our enemies at least as overtly ag we sympathized with theirs. If they reply that Bert sympathies were not Lede ae any overt led, We answer—Separate one from the other. Les the misdirection of sympathy be settled by quiet reflection and cool communings with conscience on both sides; let the alleged in- juries be measured and appraised before the proper tribunals. That course would open a way out of the dimouity, and we sincerely rejoice to find there are Americans who have discovered it. The London Standard thus debates the Alabama claims:— It ts preposterous to expect that England, in any future dealings with the United States, 13 to forget that such # speech as Mr. Sumner’s has been deliv- ered—to continue to act and to speak as though she believed the friendly inventions of her neighbor as sincere as she knows her own to be. it certainly cannot be conceded to the United States that they are at liberty to “bang +e any claim against us for any unlimited period. Of course they may elect to stand aloot from us altogether, and, without abso- lutely quarreiling, decline to hold any friendly rela- tions with us. We do not say that such @ line of conduct would be inconsistent with the view which they entertain of their own case. , if the American people are really in earnest in thinking that Mr. Sumner’s ‘speech is an honest statement of the question as be- tween England and America, we can hardly under- stand their caring to maintain even the semblance of friendship with us. If Mr. Sumner's position is a sound one, then our fault 13 so great that it cannot be possibly repaired without either war or an abject apology and full compensation. We are either guilty to the letter of the indictment or we are inno- cent, We are le for the $1,200,000,000 or we are liable for nothing. To keep up even the appearance of triendly relauions with us under the circumstances is someth! ip bevond courtesy—it is hypocrisy. 1t1s @ policy which cannot benefit either nation, and which offers the worst possibie assurance of peace. To suppose that Engiand will consent to postpone the matier until it is convenient for the Americans to press it is an insult to the national intelligence, which 1s in itself a very bad preparative to friend- ship. Mr. Summer's claim. if good in equity, in in- ternational law, even vy that indefinite and some- what vague rule of conduct calied the ‘comity of na- tions,” 1 18 as good now as it will be twenty years hence. If it is seriousiy Made we cannot permit it to remain in suspense, at the pleasure of the nation which assumes to be our creditor. Is is tndispensabie, before any further steps are taken im the renewal of friendly reiations between the two countries, that we should be in- formed precisely whether this is a claim which the Americans iniead to press or not; and it 1s prema- ture to talk of peace before we have come to a clear understanding on this point. The London Star takes the occasion of the publica- tion of Mr. Forster’s speech to open again on the subject:— The Americans alate learn a lesson of modesty and moderation if vhey were to reflect that even those who were unfriendly to the North mitigated their hostility as soon as the North showed by their emancipation policy that they had really risen to the height of the great occasion that was upon them. Mr. Sumner’s sec- ond thoughts ought to be especially critical, and he may find in Mr. Forster’s speech the mate- rials for the scrutiny to which he is bound, as a re- sponsible statesman, to subject the intemperate and ill-argued speech which he lately made. He has never concealed his knowledge that American inter- ests were ably advocated in this country aeHne the war by several of our liberal statesmen; but he 1s bound to admit bees ipiny | what is exceedingly ma- terial in the question of damages, that these defend- ers of American interests succeeded. It 18 a curi- ous fact that, though society was almost entirely Opposed to the North, and th the fee! of Parliament was sup] to be same as that of society, no overt advantage was ever gained in England for*the South, even though the Emperor of the French—who 1s strangely shielded from Mr. Sumner’s wrath—threw his influence into the ad- verse scale. The House cheered Mr. Laird, but dare not support the cause he favored by a vote. It was leit to such stranded eccentrics as Mr. Peacock and Mr. Roebuck to propose the re ition of the Southern Confederacy; and as to the recognition of beiligereucy, not only was it, as Mr. Forster says, the recognition of a fact, which the recognition of the Southern Confederacy could never have been, but ft is now most earnestly declared to have been sought in the interest of the North by Mr. Forster him- self, who on questions of international law always spoke throughout the war in the interest of the North. Undoubtedly this argument ought not to be Casa too far. Mr. Forster himself admits that it ould have been better had the proclamation not been issued till Mr. Adams arrived, and it must be remembered that it was an act that might easily be interpreted in two ways. Practical friends of the North, such as Mr. Forstef, no doubt desired that it should be issued because the South had sent letters of mar.ue into this country, and without a proclama- tion of neutrality as between belligerents British subjects could not have been prevented from engaging in the service of the seceded States. But there were other friends of the North less practical, perhaps, but, as the result has shown, hardly less wise, who believed that 80 early a recog- nition of belligerency would encourage the Sout and offend the Washingtop government. It is enough for the present discusston that the case of Mr. Forster is most plausible and complete, and that, from his point of view, the issuing of the prociama- tion, which is now so bitterly complained of, was in effect an act of friendship and protection to the gov- ernment assailed. The neutrality established by the eg was not broken by anything that could construed into a national act except the escape of the Alabama, and that, while we have o(fered to bear its consequences, we have a right to contend was the result of misadventure, or, at worst, of local In- uilgue, in no Way countenanced by the government. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, Tne Limerick Board of Guardians having a drawn their account £4,000, the local bank has Te- fused to give further credit until the interest due is paid. The London Morning Herald thinks that Napoleon will avail himself of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birthday of Napoleon I. to revive the idea of an European political congress, in order to insure @ lasting peace. in his journey to Hanover and Hesse the King of Prussia will be accompanied by the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Admiral Prince Adaihert, Prince A tus, of Wurtemburg, Count von Bis- marck, and General de Roon, Minister of War. The Marshal Minister of the Emperor's Household ‘has sent @ circular to the Prefects throughout France requesting them to take steps ior carrying out the provisions of the law of the 6th of May, which creates pensions for the old soldiers of the republic and the empire. Vhile the relations between the Papal government and Austria are daily becoming more distant, those between the Pope and the King of Prussia are getting more friendly. By a recent decree men who are serving in the Prussian Landwehr can join the Pontifical army without losing their rights as Prus- sian citizens, The military and political circles of St. Petersbu: have experienced a sensation in the suicide of a we known officer attached to the Ministry of War. Re- port states that he made regular reports to the Prus- sian government of all dispositions taken in rd to the new armaments in the Russian empire, fi a ing reason to suspect that he was ducovered was probably the cause of his rash act. hal JG AND SELF-MURDER, {From the Columbus (Ohio) Journal, June 1.) The first suicide was that of James Wise, who hanged himeeif in the 1cehouse on Thursday, May 27. He was evidently insane, and had attempted self-destruction before, He had been under treat- ment in the asylum of the prison, and as the me or his decease was employed at light duty in tne yard, this position being assigned to him that he might have every advantage of air and comparative free- dom to improve, James Riley hanged himself in the minority, is seriously modified; ana it 1s to be hoped that the statesman now on the throne will taxe into his serious consideration the lesson to be drawn from the appeal to the country. That jesson is, that France does not desire revolution and does desire reform. ENGLAND. Further Comments of the English Press on the Alabama Claims, ‘The London Times of the 24th reviews the matter in this manner:— Whatever may have been our speculations on the result of the civil war we never intended to affect it by our conduct. We could not ibly ignore the exisvence of the war itself, and so the neutrality one ‘was necessarily issued; but after that, hough much more was hoped from us by the Con- federates and pressed upon us by our allies, we per- sisted through the severest triais in that non- intervention which the Federais so earnestly desired. Whatever wrong actually happened under Henri Rochefort (radical)... #900 Pe (democratic opposi 7,000 BAVALDs.ccseccee ses okie 4,100 ‘Wose cirenmstances happened as purely through sheer accident or private reepase a eny thoident of his cell quite early on sunday evening, Mi 30, He had been @ had man and a reckleam character before iis imprisonment, weeks since an old confederate of his was discharged from prison. This man learned that efforts were being made to fasten a murder on Riley and that recent developments seemed to make it quite certain that Kiley was guilty of murder as well as perjury and burgiary. The orien convict had his brother seek an interview with Kiley, and this brother suc- ceoded by some means in corfveying the above in- formation to him. Riley was much agitated, had an interview with the warden, in which he wish arrangements made for the arrest of certain parties in New York, whom he knew to. be guilty of the’ murder in question, He brooded over this subject antl Sunday evening, when he banged himself, attaching to the gas fixture in his cell a short pece of roy that he had evidently secreted for the purpose, i" S. Brown hanged himself in his cell in the e manner on Monday night, May gi. His cell was in the same hall as was Riley's, but in @ different tier. Prisoners by some means always succeed in learn- g ing of the th of @ fellow prisoner, or of any accl- dent. The of Wise was known soon after its occurrence, a8 was that of Kiley, and these undoubty edly had an influence in the of Brown. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Presbyterian Reunion. The Obdserver has the following remarks to relation to the recent action of the Old and New Schoo! Pres- byterian Assemblies in thia city in regard to re- union:— With prayerful and patient deliberation, through long years, the Church has been approaching this gubject. Successive General Assembiles have cau- tiously and anxiously discussed it Large, learned, wise and excellent committees of ministers and lay- men have given to the question long sessions of most careful 5 the ning it has been maey of the most val nani me. io os that the w C00 inion must be ra mp ine Obi wi branches of the amily in one. It now goes to. the presbyteries for their appmral. If the votes tn the General Assembly are an indication of tne views of the poorer the pproved with Ff rl it becomes all the friends of wruth and of Zion to give themselves diligently to prayer labor, that the good work may be consummated, and at Pittsburg, in Novem- ber next, the headstone shall be it forth with shoutmys of “Grace, grace unto it.”? American Bible Society. The stated meeting of the managers was held at the Bible House on the 3d inst., Mr, William Whit- lock, Jr., President, in the chair. Six new auxilia- ries wera recognized, of which one was in each of the States of Tennessee, Nebraska and Kansas, two in Texas and one in the new Territory of Wyoming. Interesting communications were received from Mr. T. M. Westrup, as to the extension of his work in Mexico; from Rey. W. Clark, Mil with inform a- tion as to the result of a grant of funds for Bible work in the Valley of Engadina; from Rev. I. G. Bliss, with account of Bible distribution in the re- gion of Sivas; from Rev. P. E. Ey aing, Copenhagen, stating the effects of distribution of books granted to him; from Rev. W. L. Judd, Port au Prince, with thanks for a grant of boo! ing the need of Scriptures in Hay; from Rev. H. Blodget, Peking, showing progress in the Bible work in Unina; from Mr. Henry C. Haul, Seville, stating the admission into the Spanish port of our books by the authorities, and others. Grants of books were made to the American Tract Society, to the American and Foreign Bible Society, to the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, to the Presbyterian Committee of Home Missions, with numerous ts to poor and feeble auxiliaries at the South; to Holland immigrants in Virginia, and nine volumes in raised letters for the blind. The entire number of volumes granted is 6,810, besides which others were granted to the amount of $513 70. Divisions ot English Baptists. A cofrespondent of the Examiner and Chronicle describes some of the divisions that exist among the English Baptists. Leaving out the class of churches described by Mr. Spurgeon as ‘too high in Calvinis- tic doctrines and too low in Christian practice” for the good name of the denomination, the question of communion divides the Baptists into four ranks— first, the union churches, composed of Baptists and Pedo-Baptists united on the same footing. Such churches employ a Baptist pastor when the Baptists are in the majority, and vice versa. Such @ pastor declared at tne last meeting in London that this plan would fnaily heal all divisions, tor he had already immersed 100 Pedo-Baptist members in his church, John Bunyan’s church was always a union church, and at this time the Pedo-Baptists are in the majority and have the pastor, who tizes the in- fant children. Another class are the Open Membership Baptist churches, where persons are adwmitted to member- ship of a Baptist church on a simple basis of personal piety, and are afterwards baptized if they wish, as it 18 said two-thirds of them do. To this class belong the churches under such leading pastors as Dr. Landels, towell Brown, &c. Chureh, ant order and the mennety Dr. Brock, Baptiste Noel, ‘The Pulpit teaching is zealousiy Baptist. The third ciass are Open Communion, with re- stricted membership, like that of Mr. Spurgeon, who holds that adult immersion is the indispensable requisite for church membership, but that all Chris- tian believers may be invited to the communion. ‘There remain the regular Strict Communion Bap- tists, one of which 1s that of Dr. Stork, weil known in this country, who exciude the unimmersed, both from the Lord’s table and from membership. The “hard shells” all belong to this class, and a consid- erable number of others, but they are understood to be @ minority of the denomination. The open mem- bership men, such as Landeis aud Brock, are evi- dently the leaders of the English Baptists. The Centennial of Dartmouth College. This summer will complete a hundred years from the founding of this venerable College, and the Alumni are preparing to celebrate the interesting occasion In @ becoming manner. This‘ celebration will take the place of the usual society exercises of Commencement week. The Baccalaureate discourse will be on the Sabbath, July 18. Prize speaking Monday evening, and Class Day exercises on Tues- day. Wednesday and Thursday (with the exception of the Commencement on the latter day) will be mainly devoted to the Centennial exercises. Wednesday forenoon President Smith will give an address of weicome to the returning Alumni, and br. Brown, President of Hamilton Coliege, an his- torical address. The afternoon will be devoted to addresses by Chief Justice Chase and several other gentlemen of the Alumnot. On Thursday, after the Commencement exercises, will come the Alumni dinner, at which Chief Justice Chase, President of the Alumuni Association, will preside. Roman Catholic Notes. The Westminster Gazette publishes the subjoined items:— The Pope continues in the most excellent health, notwithstanding that various Italian journals have again been amusing their readers with false reports of his serious illness, and that the same have re- ceived serious mention in the Senate. Monsignor Patterson while on a visit to France has been summoned to Rome, whither he bas just started. The accounts of Monsiguor Talbot's state of health give littie hope of speedy recovery. The Pious Association of Brussels for the Assist- ance of Poor Churches is engaged in preparing 500 complete outfits for as many missions, comprising all the linen and vestments necessary for the service of the allar. They are to be presented to the Holy Father on occasion of the Council, that he may dis- tribate them to missionary priests. The Tablet says the arrears of the Pontifical debt, deiitand {or the last time by the Nyucio in Paris on the 15th of April, are not yét and are not likely to be. the feast of St. Peter and St. Paui. it certain that neither Mgrs, Chigi nor Falcinel, the Nuncios at Paris and Vienna, will be named to the Purple till September, as their recall from their posts would be attended with grave in- convenience, We copy the following in relation to Dr. Man- ning’s advent from an articié, entitled “Progress of the Church of Rome” :— in Engiand at this time the Romish Church has undergone an important change. One of the mod- ern perverted has been noticed for his ability. His acuteness, dexterity and address were observed; he had been distinguished in the Church of England by eminent qualifications. When he joined the Church Tee! will, it is belleved, be held in June, er of Rome his lon. of intellect at the will of the Pope showed an edifying obedience. There was no fable, however that he did not swallow if his Church decl: in reason it; there was no outrage or morals which staggered him if only his Church ropounded itt. Such a recruit was invaluable. He faa none of the fastidious independence and morbid scruples of Dr. Newman. He was welcomed and idly advanced, and on the death of Cardinal Wiseman Dr. Manning was promoted to the Arch- bishopric of Westminster. Up to that time some proms of division had shown themselves among the Roman Catholics in England, Dr. Newman, @ man of ‘ad drawn round himself @ smali but able party. A periodical had been started by some of them, and that periodical haa ventured on liberat sentiments which had annoyed and startled Rome. ‘The Papal encyclical was launched as a thunderbolt against these rebels. They were to be taught on the highest authority that the darkest idolatries of the Middle and the most extravagant clatms of Papal ambition were held as firmly and must be obeyed ag implicitly under Pins IX. as under a Leo or a Borgia. Therefore the periodical was givén up and the men of geatas were put down. When br. Manoing mount his throne he ruled over @ sub- missive though in Church A Singular Act of Benevolence. ‘The Jewish Messenger of this city relates the fol- Towing: Some time since Mr. Benjamin Lilienthal, of Jera- salem, proceeded on a mission from Palestine to re- ceive some contributions from his old friends in the United States, where he formerly resided. On his passage from Liverpool to New York he was wrecked, and returned by another vessel to London. On his arrival there, sick at heart and poor in purse, he resolved to abandon his intention of going to America, anxious to return to his family in Jerusa- Jem. There was, however, one drawback—the want of means, Being a stranger in London, he was ldok- ing about for some of his coreligionists to assist him, when a gentieman, seeing him in his Turkish garb, asked bim whom he was looking f conversant with the English langu he related his misfortune. The stranger soothed hia anxiety by the offer to pay for his return comnts to Pales- ine, amounting to £17, accompanied him toa ship. As he was ing house to obtain tickets, and in addition took fine to abanker, purchased a draft for £75, addressed il to the British ui at Jerusalem, payable to the order of B. Lilienthal, The whole affair so per- plexed the mind of the reci) tthat he could not realize the truth. On asking the generous donor his name or his he could obtain no satisiac- tion, SuMice it to say he embarked, arrived safely in the city of holiness, the draft was honored, but ne could not discover to whom be was indebted for such muntificent liberality. The utmost gratification is afforded us in publishing this singular benevo- lence, showing, as it does, that angels yet visit the earth occasionally in the garb of human beings. Catholicity in the South. The question of missionary labor in the South is one which attracts 9 great deal of attention in Catholic circles, especially as the Church is alive to the spiritual wants of the colored people, whose range snes the terisinuuiou of tae war. the eforts e e ina war. of the priesthood have, so far, checked by the of ulstion ag compared with the extent of territory, and the olic organization in the Southern from ' chi “Phe South; Cathol roceeds are to be ‘evoted to the work of erecting and Sunday school in connection with the cht Call for a Rabbinical Conference. Jewish religious life nas, in the past years, under the blessings of liberty, very auspictously advanced. Reformed Judaism has become s power from which even the so-called orthodox congregations cannot exclude themselves any logget, and the maintenance of and the soiution of various practical rellgio espe- cially marital questions, which concern life go deeply, and which, ina are decided in most measure, itive contradiction against the principles of re- form, and aecording to the Schulchan Aruch. ane ina oF beg. Sioretare, 60 Cre seer eologically educated col es, who fav. religious p! “ toa Hagblnioral Conference, to rogress, eld some time after the coming holidays, with the request to comimanicate their decision a8 8000 ag practicable to one of the undersigned, and in the affirmative case to designate thelr wishes as to the time and place of the conference. Dr. 8. ADLER, Rabbi of the Emanuel Temple Vongregation, 226 East Thirty-third street. Dr. D. EINHORN, Rabbi of the Congregation Temple Adath Jeshurun, 202 West Forueth street. New York, June 1, 1869. Religious Notes. Rev. G. M. McCampbell, tormerly of Alexandria, Va., has d@plined the call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church, Perth Amboy, N. J., and ac- cepted an invitation to supply the chapel of the Brick Presbyterian church, Thirty-fiftn street, New York city, in the temporary absence of the pastor, Rev. Mr. Lampe. Rev. James Baird, D. D., late of St. John Presby- tery, N. B., formerly of Belfast Presbytery, Ireland, was installed in Patterson Presbyterian church, Put- nam county, N. Y., on the 11th ultimo, On the 18th ultimo the new Presbyterian church at Islip, L. I., was dedicated to the worship and service of God, Dr. S. D. Alexander, of New York, pre- sided, and offered the dedicatory prayer. Rev. W. G. Barnes, of Sag Harbor (the tormer pastor), preached the sermon. In the afternoon Rev. John Murdock, @ graduate of the last class of Princeton bsg? was ordained and installed as pastor of the church. The Greenpoint Presbyterian church was organized by a committee from the Presbytery of Nassau on Tuesday orenieg ey ll. Rev. B. F. Stead. D. D., presided. Rev. H.J. Van Dyke preached the ser- mon, from Acts it., 47—‘‘And the Lord’added to the Church daily such asshould be saved.” Rev. C. 5. Pomeroy delivered the charge to elders and deacon, and Rev. Dr. Stead the charge to the peopie. The church was nized with sixteen members, in the presence of Congregation, At present they are Lape) in the onic Hall, corner of Meserole ana Union avenues. Rev. Mr. Buckbee, of California, lately took a con- tribution in the Baptist church in Madison avenue to estaplish @ prin ress in China for the Baptist mission. He wanted Bibles for the Chinese in Cali- fornia to be printed in Ningpo and then sent to America. At he said, there are 100,000 resent, Chinese in Caufornia and there is not ascrap of a Bible—no possible means of givit them a Bible; they gh praying 10 idols to-day, and no Bible can be ven them. oT eceae accounts from Jerusalem speak of the br progress and important results of Lieutenant War- Ten’s explorations in the Sacred City. More than ‘Aft; have been sunk, revealing archways, gal- Jerios, buried halls, reservoirs and water courses, thus getting glim) Of the city as it was. The revival in Richmond, Ind., continues to be of figerg have beet, sdded during the past sixty days 101 ve been added dui past sixty days to Gfase Methodist church. The interest ong the Friends 1s very their meetings being very simi- lar to those of the other denominations. The Reformed Presbyterian Synod (0. S.) has been meeting in Newburg, N. Y. Notning of special in- terest Was done. ‘The Lutheran General bg has been holding a meeting in Washington. They asked for ald to the foorconay of $26,000 fora memorial church in Wash- n. « ~ Ae fhe Cincinnati Advocate denies the assertion of the Bapust Bible Union that Methodist scholars are en- a = aiding in the translation of the immersion- lon. . Bishop Rosecrans offers to have Led ie i mass raid uli the end of the world for ali per- sons who shall contribute twenty-five dollars for St. Joseph cathedral, Columbus, Obio, The Young Men's Christian Association Conven- tion held in San Francisco during the second week in Cneng was significant as being the first held on that Cc oas Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., of Brooklyn, wili deliver the address before the Literary Societies of Williams College at the Commencement, June 22. Rey. Pliny F. Sanborn, of West Bloomfeld, N. Y., has accepted a cali from the First Presbyterian church in a eld, Otsego county, N. Y. On Saturday, May 16, forty-eight persons were re- ceived into the Presbyterian church of New York Mills, the Rev. V. Le Roy Lockwood, pastor, Rev. R. 8. Feagles has resigned his pastoral charge of the Second Presbvtertan church of Mendham, N. J. Dr. Strebel, of Wurtemberg, has a book against Methodisin, in which he styles it “spiritual brandy: A writer in the Advance, commenting upon ao ar- ticle in @ Baptist publication, say: ‘We take ex- ception to the statement that Pedo-Baptists will not commune with ‘ansprinkled Quakers,’ It was hardly a month ago that a Quaker was reecived by letter into the full fellowship of Rey. T. L. Cuyler’s church, and there is scarcely a respectable Pedo-Bap- tist church that would not endorse such an action.” The third National camp meeting will be held at Round Lake, Saratoga county, N.Y. It will com- mence ay 6 and continue ten days. The grounds will be ready for the erection of tents by June 25. ‘The grove which has been selected for this purpose is situated on the line of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, about twelve miles from Saratoga Springs. It is owned by the Camp Meeting Association of the Troy Conference. @ New York Conference of the African Metho- dist Episcopal Zion Church met in Newburg re- centt; Among other business the following was ben ‘That no person be admitted ito this conference, either on trial or into full connection, who habitually uses tobacco in any form.’ THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY. Marriage Not Recognized—Free Love and Free Indulgence Between the Sexes Curious Detats of the Progress and Wealth of Cor inityHistory of the Establish- ment—A Disgusting Meral Ulcer in the Midst of a Christian and Civilized People. OngtDa, N. Y., June 1, 1860. The association of communists at Oneida, N. Y., sometimes called Perfectionista, but more generally known as the Oneida Community, has, in the midst ofa civilized and Christian people, succeeded in throwing off the principles and restraints of our social and domestic life and defying public senti- ment, Itis communism in the broadest sense; for the men and women are common to each other as the property is common to all, Marriage is de- nounced as @ selfish institution and an obstacle to that perfection of individual character and perfection of society which these communists profess to aim at. Of course, then, there is no marriage among them, in the ordinary sense of that term, and any married parties entering the community become unmarried. The woman be- comes as much the wife of other men as of her former husband, and the man is free in the same way. Not that the sexes are kept apart, as with the Shakers. On the contrary, intercourse is encouraged as condu- cive to Christian and family love. That family love, however, which we recognize as existing among blood relations or in the domestic circle is not meant by these communists; for such love 1s repu- diated as selfish and opposed to Christian perfection, but it extends to the whole body of their society, ‘The community ts the family, and they use the term constantly in that sense. In fact, under the pre- tence of spiritual influence and of a higher moral law than the world had known before, thoy set at defiance all the laws of nature and society, and are guilty of the most indiscriminate and grossest libidl- nous pi I shall refer to this further on, but Will first notice the community as seen ordinarily by the outside world, This family, as they like to call themselves, or Christian Perfectionints, ax they wish to be calle have their parent settiement @ mile or #0 from the | old Oneida village and about three or fonr mites from Queida sation, On we New Yurk Ceuiral Rail- road. It is ia Madison county and bordering oB Oneida county, Thero are 500 acres of the choicest land belonging to the comimuuity, A more beauil- ful location could hardly be found, The whoie coun- try round is wellcultvated and settled. ‘There is an &ppearance of comort, plenty aud thrifty industry everywhere, and sometimes of luxury and e'egance. ‘The property of the Oneida Comm inity is thus sur- rounded aud lies in a amphitheatre formed. by gently rising hills nearly all round. The ground is undulating, and with its sweiling Knolls, slopes and dales, covered by rich méadows, highly cultivated fields, and in spots by clusters of forest trees, forma succession of charming landscape views. Lt is, i deed, the choicest spot—a sort of Arcadia—in @ country that is in general both rich and beautiful. The chief buiiding, whica 1a the residence of the community, numbering now over two bundred members, 18 built of brick and 18 three stories high, with @ tower altording an extensive v.ew of the Bur rounding country. In this buliding are the oie. reception room, sleeping apartments, library an ing Tous, Museum and a general hail or sore of theatre Where the members assembie every even- ing for business, conversation or amusement. Ab these gatherings everything relating to the luverests of the association, to religious maiters, to social af- fairs and even ‘o the intercourse uf the sexes 13 did cussed. Meminally, cis assembiy of the whule com- munity governs the association and directs the ac- tion of every individwal member; but really the wer is in the hands of @ few leaders, and chiely Erte hands of the founder, J. H. Noyes, He is tne geknowiedged head to whom all yield obedience. nds a( The yu joining the main building are taste- fully laid out with flower gardens, suudber ea, vari- ous kinds of evergreens, hedges, shaded walks, bow- ers, summer hol and are rather extensive, 1 saw several of the you women aud ah with books in their ‘shady See teidines, ol oe dining bail and the rest for b mn Vaious industrial uses, Besides these there are stables for over 100 horses and cattle, extensive barns, cott and other Susans ail well con- structed and kept in exceiient ler. There are large apple and pear orchards, acres of viueyards, strawberries, raspberries and otuer snail fruite. The diet of the community consists chietly of trult and vegetavies, though meat is occas.onully eaten, and, thereiore, special attention i# paid to tne oultt- vation of these. Still they have such an abundance that they can most kinds of iruit and make jeilies for sale, and from this business alone they have realized over $20,000 a year. They Keep fif\y cows, of improved stock, but seli no dairy produce, Latterly the community bave paid wore attention to mant turing, thou; Hani, 8 and rawing of fruits are still kept up. ‘There is a branch of the ew tabiishment at Willow Place, on a detached portion of the domain, about @ mile and a quarter from the present titution. Here there are living thirty-five of the members. Tne connection vetween the two, however, 1s complete. At thus place mostof the manufacturing 13 doue by the use of water power. Steel traps of ditfetent sizes, from the rat trap to formidabie looking ones tor catching black and grizzly bears, are made here, A large force of laborers and mechanics not belonging to the community is employed on wages, but the manager and heads or each division of the manutad- tory belong to it. To use acommon expression, they boss everything. An extensive business is done in these traps. ‘They are shipped to many ant even distant parts of the world. Some are sent to Russia, but the largest trade is with the far West and California, where they are used by (rappers. More than bali a million of steel traps have beea made here in ten years, There is also at Willow Place ® foundry where all Kinds of agricultural, macaine and light castings are made. Then there ure asaw and planing mill and a manufactory of travelling satchels. ‘the community has entered largely into the manufacture of sewing silk also. {here wre probably eighty persons or more employed ab this work and, most of them are girls, hired by the community from the village of Onelda or the neighborhood. veral immense omnibuses are kept by the community for the purpose of bringing these girls out to the manufactory in the morning and taking them home again in the evening. But the bossing, a3 was said before about the other factories, 1s done by the communist proprietors. Altogether the society 18 extending its works ana business and is becoming rich. The object in paviuy so much attention to profitavie manufacturing, as was told by one of the community, 1s to relieve their own people as much as possible trom hard work or drudgery. They want to labor only just as much as may be agreeabie or conducive to health ana to have ample time for enjoyment and the cultivation of their minds. It was said, nowever, that they did not want to make siaves of others, and thatthey had been considering whether they could not give the benefit of co-operative labor to their outside em- pioyés. There 13 an educational institution connected Lan the Oneida settlement, and preparations are being made to estadlisn one of @ high order and on a large scale, The community sends some of its most ising youths to outside coll for the higher branches of eau- cation, Three have just fraguated at Yale Colle; and returned tothe settlement. There 1s an oif- shoot of the Oneida Community at Wallingford,Conn. It was established in 1851, has forty members, and owns 228 acres of laud. It is petncipelly occupied in horticulture and with printing an lucational en- terprises. There is afamliy established at New Haven for the purpose of affording a place and home for the young men of the community studying at Yale College, and there is an agency in New York for attending to the business of the society. All these are,in close affiliation, and though separated by distance belong, in fact, to one com- munity. F The Oneida Community was established in March, 1848; a part of the original members were from the village of Putney, Vermont. They were compelled to leave that place in consequence of the new, start- ling doctrines of society which they advocated and attempted to carry out, and found a refuge ac Oneida in conuection with some other Perfectionists of the aame faith. This was the foundation of the comnid- nity. From tie first Mr. J. H. Noyes has been the leading spirit—a sort of prop! et, priest and king—of the society, and holds that position How. In the 4 book of the Oneida Community, Prepared, under y Mr. Noyes thé autpor: 1 probably himself, the fol owt Tasaage ae ca oe community organization began a family, and mere vn aaa family, with this important digerence (to the ord: nary meaning of the word family), that in the origi- nal compact between Mr. Noyes and his wife they mutually serena not to be exclusively devoted to each other, but to receive others into their unity. Unaer this compact the original duality bas been gradually increased until it embraces three hundrea souls.’ In plain words, Mr. Noyes was free to co- habit with other women and Mrs. Noyes with otheg men whenever they chose to believe they foun what is called spirityal aminity or those who were emancipated and perfected above the prejudice and tramimels of ordinary social life. From such @ be- ginning have flourishiog communities, embracing three hundred persons, grown up, holding the same views and following the same practice. The older members evidently have the advantage in this free love arrangement; for ‘1t is regarded as better for the young of both sexes to associate in love with persons older than themselves.’ Such is the dictum of the chiefs of the association, wio for the most part are people advanced in years. A very pleasant doctrine for such old, libidinous fanatics, whatever it may be for the young folks. — In a book called Bible Communism, published by the association tn 1353, and which is regarded bf these people as @ sort of gospel, their whole soctal theory 1s laid down. I gota copy, with much dim- culty, from @ geatieman at Oneida station, for it cre- ated such disgust among the citizens of the netgh- vorhood that the community withdrew from circula- tion every copy that could be got hold of, and the book ia rarely to be seen now outside of the commu- nist settiement. A large portion of this work te devoted to the discussion of the sexual question from the Oneida Community’s point of view, and, under the prevext of treating the matter scientifi- geity, morally and religiously, 1s full of filthy detatia. It shows that with all the pretence of religion and reaching after perfection the minds of these people are filled with the one idea of gratifying their lust through free and indiscriminate intercourse. 1s the foundation of the whole superstruction; for they pretend that this sexual freedom is conducive to spiricual love and moral improvement, as well as to love generally, among il the members of the community. Thetwo or three ns Who have léft or been expelled from the society give disgust ing accounts of the secret practices; but there . be some prejudice or malice in the statements. Stall it js evident from the publications of these ple, and from their avowed theories that astate of things exists shocking to a Christian and civilized country. If we cannot lift the curtains of night and secrecy which hide their practices we may know what they are from their doctrines and avowals. All the wo- men wear the bloomer costume, and for the most part look broken down. The men dress tn the ordi- nary way, and generally look strong and bealthful, This different appearance of the females | attributed to the fact that girls of very tender age—of fourteen years or under—are as women. The society Make a point of restraining the increase of numbers Wh births, and discuss this question very fully with jalthus, Robert Dale Owen, the Shakers and others Who have written upon or studied it, and they appear to succeed; for not m children are born among them. Those that are born, they are weaned are taken from the mothers and piaced in the general nursery or children’s depart. ment. They are then regarded as tue children of the comufunity, and not belonging to any individual members. A weekly paper Is published by the com- munity, and is chiefly devoted to disc social questions In the jast number, now before me, ere is a long art on American socialism, which shows the connection of Horace Greeley, A. Bris- bane, E. P. Grant and others with the socialist ex- periments in this country, and which gives reasons why they failed. Of course the tenor of the argu. ment is that these sootaliats or communists did not strike upon the right pian, as the Oneida Community as. ‘Che people around the settlement seem to trouble themselves but little now about thia free love establishment in the midst of them, For atime they showed their disgust, and several attempts were inade to Fe", the community or the Jeaders of it indicted by the Grand Jury; but nothing came of these efforta. The members of the commu- nity act prudently im their conduct to the outsiae id, are very polite, deal fairly and no longer a parade of their offensive theories, Still 1s among the respectaple citmens of Oneida and the neighborhood dissatisfaction at the extst- ence of such an institution near them, The moral sense of that portion of tie people revolts at the spectacle. How long tt will exist or how far apread is a problem that time alone can solve, After seein, Mormonism flourish to the proportions of a State I would not be safe to ny. what will be the future of Oneida communiam. At any rate, it is Nourishiny at present, and notwithstanding the repugnance oF its neighbors, it seems to be firmly established sa the beautiful Oneida valley. mak there