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4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. IMPORTANT FROW ROME. The Archbishop of Baltimore ‘and Mon- signor Dupanloup Dispute. American Tactics on the Infallibility Question— ‘What the Prelates of St. Louis and Cincinnati Say—The Canvass for Soarlet Hats and Stockings—English Ecclesiastical Di- plomacy Against American Western Vigor and Manliness—The Amer- ican Protest—Defence of the Rights of Sovereigns and the Liberties of the Democracies. Romy, May 4, 1870. In my former letters I communicated to you the fact of a dispute having arisen between the arch- bishop of Baltimore and Bishop Dupanioup. The letter of the former has called forth a withering and masterly review of the “blow hot, blow cold”’ tactics of Dr. Spalding since he came to Rome. The Bishop of Orleans shows that before he was ap- pointed a member of two conciliatory deputations The was dead against the dogma of infallibility. Since his election to the deputations a change has come over the illustrious Archbishop—chargeable to the Holy Spirit, of course—but the most important fact for the American reader ts the joint letter of the Archbishops of St, Louts and Cincinnati on behalf of several of the American bishops. They not only endorse Bishop Dupanioup but they charge, in the softest phrases imaginable, Archbishop Spalding ‘with conduct not exactly what people would expect from a man of his status in the church, That there may be no mistake in the matter I extract from the letter, which is printed in French, the following sen- tence, but I enclose a translation of the entire letter, because it 1s one of the boldest documents that has ever been seen in Rome from the per of an eccles:- asuc:—“Plusieurs d’enwre nous pourvorent au besoin déclarer Varoir entendu plus d'une fois exhorter et engager ses coll¢gues dans )’épiscopat, ds’opposer 4 une défenition souverainement tnop- Portune, nous crogeres méme que la lecture seule du Postutatum met suiisamment en evdence tes trats désirs de Vauteur.”” The italics are the Arch- bishop's. Had the prospect of a red hat and a patr of stock- ings to match anything to do with the Archbishop's change of base? They may have and they may not. I am inclined to think that Archbishop Manning drew the wool over his eyes, The school mate of the English Premier couldn’t humbug the old gentlemen, ‘who have seen wonders out West; they are fond of converts when they say their prayers and give alms to the poor, but they can’t stomach them when they run around Rome like one-horse politicians on ‘the eve of a local election, asking for signatures in favor of adogma which, as well expressed by the archbishops, is only an opinion théologique. Here's Weletter in extenso:— hee ‘The Letter. FROM ARCHBISHOPS KENRICK AND PURCELL IN BEHALF OF SEVERAL AMERICAN BISHOPS 1N { OPPOSITION TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE AND IN DEFENCE OF THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS:— To the Right Rev. ANTHONY FELIX F. DUPANLOUP, Bishop of Orleans, France. MonsEIGNEUR—We believe we perform a duty of honor, and we will say justice, in manifesitng to Phir our sentiments in relation to the letter which lonseigneur the Archbishop of saltimore has addressed to you, and which we have read in the public journals. is letter, which seems to speak in the name of the prelates of America, solely repre- sents the voice of its author, and at the most the names Of those whp have been able to concur with him in the compilation of a project of detiniuon Wuich is now being discussed; it has appearea with- out our knowledge, and we believe we do not exag- gerate in sayipg thatit appeared among—lombee— us like a bombshell, to the astonishment of all and the afliction of several. It is a cusiom among us, civil a8 religious, to determine all that relates to the ag imterest in assembly—in meeting, as we call it. There has been no assembly.or deliberation on the subject of the letter which has been addressed to you, and consequently it has no ofticta! authority ‘to represent the views and convictions of the Ameri- can prelates. We are far from wishing to condemn or censure the motives which have influenced the Jearned Archbishop to publish his letter; but we be- Lieve, at the same time, that it 1s @ propos to inform you that several among us do not enter at all in the proceeding which he has beileved 1t to be his duty Wo take, and we do not hesitate to consent that our sentiments be made public, seeing that tt is a matter of duty towards the Catholic Church, in which we are established by our Lord himself the judges of the faith, and that we are satisiied that it 1s an attack against the liberty of souls to act so violently in order to estabiish a theological opinion as a dogma of Catholic faith, You have believed, Monsiegneur, that that was the expressed and settled opinion—vien prononcee—of the author of the Postutatum, of which tt 13 the qusetion: in this letter that It was not opportune to define the pontifical infallibility. From the present declarations of the author himself it would appear that you yourself were deceived, but we believe we are abie to assure you that you are not the only one who has been deceived on this subject. ‘Those who have the lionor to enjoy the company of the amiabie Archbishop failed themselves as much as Votre Grandeur, and they did not perceive any change in his opinion to have taken place until the venerable prelate found himself a member of two conciliary deputations. Several among us would be able to de- clare, if needed, to hitve heard him more than once exhort and induce his colleagues in the episcopacy to oppose themselves to a definition absolutely in- opportune. We belleve, even, that the leading alone ol the Postutatum piaces sufiiciently in evidence the true desires of the author. We have not the least doubt or suspicion that the un- looked for change of opinion since may not be accoin- plished under tie influence of solid ltrinsic rea- sous. Bui these reasons are a3 unknown to us as to You, and so it is easy to explain the lamentable mis- takes which have taken piace on this subject, It appears to us, however, that the blame, if there is any, ought not to rest entirely and exclusively upon Votre Grandeur. We don’t wish to enter in the discussion of the dif- ferent points raised by the lever. We must, never- theless, inform you thai it was not the intention of the Fathers of the Plenary Council! held at Baitimore in 1866 to define the pontifical intallibility, as without doubt yourself would be able to affirm that it was not, no more than the bishops assembled in 1867 to make @ similar definition, Inferiors owe always a respect and obedience without limits to their superior, especially to their superior of Divine authority—droit divin—and they love to renew the assurance of their sentiments, which must always be understood in the sense of the holy canons. But aii the world knows that the dogmas are only drawn up In ex- press and precise terms and formally announced, ‘We do not hazard any opinion upon the true French translation of the word devout, to know if i faut is farther from the sense than w seratt déstrable, even with what the author calls all sorts of alterations, st Hert te But we believe that we ought to observe that the theory which asks a moral unanimity for the defini- tion of a dogma is not quite so new as the author of the letter seems to believe it; so will it appear to those who have read the history of the Council of Trent. Moreover, Melchior Camos, ‘and =cham- pica of the pontifical infallibilty, asks himself if the ope must decide after the majority of the Council, or if it is permissible to follow the minority, and upon that (to our surprise we are obliged to agree in that) he does not hesitate to make the following assertions, which we leave in the language of the author, so that we will incur no risks in making a false translation:— Nego, cum de fide agitur, sequi plurimorum Judicium opartere, Nec hic, ut in humanis vel elec- tiorubus vel judicils, ex numero sul lorum sen- tentiam metimur, scimus frequenter usu venise, ut Major pars vineat meliorem, scimus nore ea semper esse De Nee oe placent pluribus, scimus in velus qu ad doctrinam portinent, sapientum sensum esse preforendum, et sapients, Transilation:—I deny when it is a question of faith that he is bound to follow the majority. In that case we do not value the decree according to the number of votes, as it happens in human judgments and elections, We are aware that it usually hap- pens that the majority triumphs over the better party; we know that not always the best things are those which please the majority; we know that with re- gard to docirine we mus! prefer the sense of wise aaa wise men are very tew. It is necessary to see the entire article—De Auct. Conetl., Lib. v., cap. v., quirs 2. Melchier Covnus says there are several things which are at least strange. But be had assisted at the Council of Trent, and itis permissible to us to sup- pose that at least before the finat definitions he had Nad occasion to verify what at least in part he says. ‘We willingly acknowledge that among the preiates of the new Church of the United States the majority admit the Pontifical infailibility; but they admit it asan lon. That opinion is now more probabil ex! lc—that is to say, by the exterior authorl- ties; but that extrmsic probability is apt to o because the faith alone is invariable. mreere ae Speed Spel is ex. trinsic, the only, probabie one before the great revo- lution. Things have since changed, all the world knows why. At Rome they do what they did foy- merly in France. It is really astonishing that those who have pursued their studies in times do not resent them more ri ely We are far from condemning that. But we tf ourselves tae lil which othegs enjoy, *“In necessarits unt tas, in dubs lberlan, aH Smanious earttas.” (In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all men 8010, infaliidilis .) (Yet we do not like that’ w Of speaxtng by which the Pope infailiols by bimseif ‘even alone.) Assuredly the author of that theological work 0) the defenders one modern arqameds oF the sonal and separate infallibility of the Sovereign The American prelates have a special reason to hesitate ng this question of Pontifi- cal infalltbility, Netther Catholics nor Pro- Pon pat in = We ae that the opes have the #8 sovereigns, to release subjects from their ‘ath of allogiance, and to transfer, w! they please, the jom of one prince to another. Gur citizens of Irish birt been io are the Gragg and chiet support of the inited States, will have much diill- Churoh in the cuity, de ea peine, in admitting that Pope Adrian 1V., who was ap ‘lishman, was infallible when he gave Ireland to Henry IL, of England. On the other hand the bulls of the pape. upon this sub- ject are so clear and itive that the defenders of Pontifical tnfalltbility in general believe themselves forced to admit the temporal sovereignty of the Pope over the universe. Adnan IV. sald most specially, “Ad cujus (Romane ecclesia) jus cam msulam, allasque omnes que sacumenta fidet cepissent, pers hemini dublum esset.” (To which—the an Church—belong that island and all others which have received the faith, as no one will ever doubt.) ‘That donation of Adrian IV, was confirmed by his successor, Alexander ILL It is also remarkable that the modern authors who talk so loud—parient si haut—of the privilege of Pon- tifical infallibility preserve at present a proeia silence upon the other privjiege which their prede- Cessors estimated as important and as well Until now we have been permitted to say Catholic Church has nothing to do with these trans- actions, and that it is not responsible for all that the Popes nave done or may do, But if these Pontifical decisions become articles of faith, the Archoishop of Baltimore will be placed tn an empat tion 48 well as us all, a3 he has happened lately in the matter of liberty of worship—de la liberté des cultes—the explanations which Voire Grandeur be- lieved yourself obliged to give have calmed and ap- pot @ small tempest which threatened the Church. if our memory does not deceive us the documents are in the manuscript. It appears to us that the Archbishop of Baltimore esteemed himself happy to be able to subscribe by new explanations when adopting them, Tne Archbishop of Baltimore telis us in nis letter that he has never doubted the general belief of the Church relative to the infalli- biitty of the vicars of Jesus Christ. In that case will it not be best to ask nothing more and to leave Spings where they are and where they have always en Why does he ask for new definitions which do violence to the conscience of several of his colleagues in the episcopater Because several among us be- Neve that ecclesiastical history, the history of the Popes, the history of the councils and the tradition of the Church are not in barmony with the new dogina, and that is why we believe that it 1s very In- opportune to wish to define as an article of faith an opinion which appears to us to lack any solid foun- dation in Scripture and tradition, while it is contra- dicted by many trrefragible monuments. It would be out of Pores to continue any longer a discussion which is the business of the Council, But before concluding we cannot refrain from expressing our profound regret that the iriends so devoted in ap- pearance to the Holy See have raised by their indis- creet zeal many pataful questions where religion has nothing to gain, But we have firm contidence that the Holy Spirit will illummate all minds and direct all hearts, We are convinced that the pro- mises made to the Church and to the Chair of Peter wil not fail, and that neither such or such a party or such or such @ man will triumph, but that the truth alone will obtain the victory. Deeply re- greiting the circumstances which have obliged us to address you this letter, we remain no less the sincere friends and admirers of your antagonist, as the hum- bie servants of Votre Grandeur, tn behaif and in the name of several Bishops of the United States of Norih America, PETER RICHARD KENRIOK, Archbishop of St. Louis. JOHN BAPTIST PURCELL, Archbishop of Cincinnati, THE ANIMUS AND EFFECT. ‘The above fully corroborates my former letters, if any were needed. Your readers will not fail to note, and particularly the sons of the Emerald Isle, the force and unan- swerable reference to good Adrain of holy memory. It is a grim joke for two archbishops to unearth the donation of Nicholas Breakspeare at this time, but the fact is there are many, very many, eminent bishops heartsick of this manceuvre to place more power in the hands of the Vatican clique, and if the said faction continue to persist m their schemes of infallibility there will be more musty old documents brought out that will do Rome no good. ANGLO-IRISH INFLUENCE. ‘The Irish are good Catholics, as a class, and all the Irish bishops, With a few exceptions, are under the thumb of ‘aul Cardinal Quillen,” of Dublin, and “Henry Edward,” of Westminister; but there are Sew of them who believe that Adrian was infallible or inspired by the Holy Spirit or any other spirit but that which influences men to do something for them- selves, when he gave Ireland to Henry. THE IRISH “REDS” IN NEW YORK AND ELSEWHERE. Late New York journals state that Very Reverend Fatier Starrs, Vicar General of the diocese of New York, has announced that the Pope has not con- demned the Fentans. The reverend gentleman is mistaken. The holy office has condemned both the Irish and American Fenians. The document was 1s- sued alter an antinated discussion on the part of the American bishops, but Cardinal Cullen and Dr. Man- ning defeated unem, and both are condemned. ARMY INTELLIGENCZ, The following order concerning paymasters has been issued by the War Department:— ’ Major T. H. Stanton, Paymaster, is assigned to the Department of whe East, and will continue on duty at Richmond, Va. In addition to his reconstruction duties, he will pay the troops employed in the De- partment of Virginia. Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel David Taggart will, as soon as relicved of the duties of Chief Paymaster in the Department of the South, by Major A. H. Seward, report not later than the Ist of July for duty as Chief Paymaster of the tes in of Columbia, relieving Major Gibson. Major Gibson, upon being relieved, wili report for duty in the Department oi the Platte. Major Brantz Mayer, of the late Department of Virginia, will, by the 26th of June, report to the Com- manding General of the Department of Texas, to relieve Major Nicholas Vedder, who, upon being relieved, will report in person to the Paymaster General, Major F. M. Elting, of the late Department of the es aa ig assigned to the Department of the uth. Major H. B. Burnham, Judge Advocate, will, as Soon as he has finished his duties connected with the late Department of Virginia, proceed to Atlanta, Ga., and report in person to the Commanding General of the Department of the South, to relieve Major Henry Goodfellow, as Judge Advocate of the department, who is to report in person to the Judge Advocate General for duty in the Bureau of Military Justice. Captain W. A. Elderkin, Commissary of Subsist- ence, is assigned to duty at Fort Lyons, Colorado, to perform such duties as are required, First Lieutenant and Brevet Colonei A. G. Mulley, unassigned, is relieved from duty in the Department of Texas and wiil, at his own request, proceed home and await orders, Captain Robert Chandler, Thirteenth infantry, has been trausferred to the Seventh infantry. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States steamship Jamestown sailed from Honolulu on the 80th ult. for the South Pacific islands, Lieutenant John 8, Newell has been detached from the Miantonomoh and granted leave of absence. Lieutenant Edward S. Trowbridge, from the Ver- mont, @nd ordered to the Ohio. ‘The orders of Lieutenant Charles A. Schetky to the Oluo are revoked, and he 13 ordered to the Vermont, The cpap. and decision of the naval court marttal lately held in Washington, in the case of Com- mander Upshur, have been referred by the Secretary of the Navy for examination to General Bolles, Solicitor of the Navy Department, who will give them his immediate attention. The Untied States monitor Terror, accompanied by her convoy, the tug Pilgrim, arrived at Savannah, Ga., on sateen May 17, four days from Fortress Monroe. The Terror averaged six knots ina per- fectly smooth sea. On the 15th she passed the upper works of @ wreck, painted white, covered with sea gulls. The oficers of the Terror are:—Captain Ran- som; Lieutenants Nichols and Barker; Bnsigns, Cut- ler, Lisle, Senger, Tremain and Derby; Surgeons Scofield and Scott; Paymaster Tuttle; Engineers Kellogg, Sellman, Hannum, Rose, Knowlton and Kelley; Masters, Green, Cleaveland and Kui. ” PACKING THE JERSEY STATE PRISON. Sigismond Schaffel, who was lately sentenced in the Hudson county courts to ten years at hard labor for committing an unmentionable outrage on a little girl at Hoboken, N. J., was yesterday confined in the State Prison at Trenton, While in the county jail at Hudson City his fellow prigoners manifested toward him the utmost hatred and contempt, and on Friday evening an attempt was made to have the fellow lynched, but the prompt interference of the jail offi- Clais saved his life, The wretch appeared rather netvous yesterday. The following culprits from Hudson county also arrived with Schaffel:—Wiiliam Peller and James Lewis, both committed for three years on a charge of grand bree a Robert Wade, for indecent expo- sore,committed for six months and Jacob Shovelry,an old offender, on a charge of petit larceny, sentenced for six months, The man Peller made several at- tempts to escape from Deputy Sheriff Onslow while on the cars, but the vigilance of that officer ren- ‘things, charity.) re We believe We guabt to add that the theologtan of a deved an escave Impractioabia. HOWARD'S CASE AND BAILROAD MATTERS. The Howard Lnvestigation—Stretching the Authority of Congress to Cover Frauds—A Thousand Million Dollars Wanted—A Cool ReayestPaper Railroad Managers and Real Railread Managers—Senater Casser- Speech. bg th Wasainoton, May 19, 1870, ‘The Howard investigation nas gone far enough now for every one here to seo ita approximate re- sults. General Howard was authorized by Congress to do certain things. There 1s little doubt that ho Stretched his authority to the utmost, but proba- bly not far enough to lay himself liable to criminal law. Itis quite likely that ‘authority of Congress” will be found for every act of the Bureau ring, whether fraudulent or otherwise. ‘The following is submitted as authority for certain very questionable transactlons:— SPECIAL ORDERS—NO, 36, is runeo ee DELARTMENT, ; RAD REFUGERS, FRRRDMEN AND ABANDON ‘he LanpI a pad March 12, 1869. xtract, W, Balloch, chie? First Brevet Brigadier ch of vet eral f this bureau, will $12A00 tS Howard University, an educational insuitusion tn corporated rel 3 cones freed der an act o! entitled *an act to incorvoratesHoward University ‘the ‘of Columbia,” approved March 2, 1867; sald sum to be paid out of the balance on hand on March 9, 1867, of the refugees and Freedmen’s fund. This order is based upon the sual of an 998 of Conurons on “An act umaking ap- Foe a lithjend for sther purposes," epproved March, 187; ‘shall be made upon receipt ror said sum, signed by some person duly aut! by said corporation to re- ceive and receipt for the same. By order of Brevet Major General 0. 0. Howard, Commis- ganar order, Mo. Sat ATT Ta, Hah: (astfoted Mand anotber duted December 12, 186%, transferred Seta vs ‘the University fuad. . We all know that Congress did not intend to authorize the construction of a regular university when it passed “an act for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1868, and for other pur- poses.” HON. FERNANDO WOOD A FLY ON THE WHEEL. Itis unfortunate that Mr. Wood should see fit to thrust himself forward in this business, The inves- tigation would have taken place all the same if no sucn man as Hon. F, Wood had ever been in exist- ence. Leading republicans in and out of Congress had decided to go on with the work when Mr. Wood stepped forward and assumed the leadership. It would have been well if some one who enjoyed a larger amount of public confidence had taken the lead. However, the lesson will be valuable if Con- gress will only learn hereafter to be very chary of nting any body, politic or corporate, ‘authority’? for any kind of business transaction, whether to butid railroads, estabiisn national banks or issue bonds secured by mortgage of public lands or other government property. A THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS WANTED. Bills have been introduced during the last and present sessions asking Congress to “authorize” cer- tain corporations to issue bonds to an unlimited extent. One thousand million dollars would not supply the demand. ‘An advocate of one of these corporate benefictaries, in presenting the claims of his patron on the floor of Congress, sald:— Tho company ja not here to-day to ask for money or en- larged subsidies in lands. It seeks by this legislation three things. First, {t wants to put the national impress upon its mortgage by recording und fling it in the oflice of the Secre- 7, % nd interior. ‘his makes ‘the bends. more deairable in 1e eatimation of forelgn ca) who have great respec for Uncle Sam's sign manual. m4 “4 The perfect coolness of this advocate is refreshing, even in the month of May. The company nave not yet built a mile of railroad, bui nevertheless have the unparalleled effronicry to come before Congress and ask to have “the national impress put upon its mortgage.”’ CORPORATIONS THAT DO NOT ASK TO HAVE UNCLE SAM'S SIGN MANUAL ON ay BONDS. The New York Central, New York and Z#rie, Atlantic and Great Western, Pennsylvania Central, Baltumore and Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio Companies, and hundreds of others that might be named, are well known corporations, owning and controlling thousands of miles of raliroad; yet we do not find any of their managers on the floor of demanding authority to have the -national impress put upon their mortgages,” or “Uncle Sam’s sign manual on their bonds.” A large amount of these corporations’ bonds are in the market at very much beiow par rates. t authority to have If hig De would only “Uncle Sam’s sign manual” put upon them they would, doubtless, be found far ‘‘more desirable in the estimation of foreign capitalists,” and might Approximate to par 93 soon as the destred “author. ity” could be obtained. I do not find, however, that it has been asked in @ single instance in benalf of either of the above named well known and well es- tablished companies, It 1s only corporations that own and control paper railroads, without a mile of Teal track laid, who ask tt. PAPER RAILROADS. ‘The sublime effroniery of our modern paper railroad adventurers is almost ee the power of language to describe. In demanding government aid to carry out their schemes they boldly ask a free gift of a sum bares to the entire cost of constructing a first class raliroad over their proposed route, and a bunus of one hundred per cent or go in addition to divide among themselves. In too many instances they have been enabled to get it. SENATOR CASSERLY, fo his admirable speech of April 20, characterized this excess of national generosity as follows :— ‘What is necessary to build a road complete, to equip it and open it ready for business to the public ¥ one thing. What is called for in the way of substantial, efficient ald toward the same result 1s quite another thing. It is a perversion, allow moto say, of ail sound. poliey as” between the government and its citizens to hold or for Congress to admit by legisla- tion that the government shall in any case put into the hands of @ railroad company all the means required to comp! the road, in its rond bed, in its fron, in its equipments, #0 as to give the road, substantially, when finished to the company as roperty out and out. This is not aiding the company to build the road. It4s building the road for it, It is a par- alysis of all individual energy; {t is m stifling of the whole- some free action of private e 2. If the extent of the aid, as it i called, mode of giving it is much worse. Under the policy hereto- fore and still pursued the grant of ald {s limited in each case to one private corporation. Congress has not only failed to pursue a sound policy, but it has industriously chosen the worst policy possible. In the tirst place, Congress should have begun by ascertaining asnearly as might be the propa- ble cost of building any given road. It should then have bestowed its ald with liberality, or even munificence; but always so that the private enterprise of the country should be set in motion and should farnish its full part, while gov- ernment should supply the rest. It shovid always hi insisted on the obvious provision that no more at least of afd in money should be used than was required. In the next place Congress shouid never have restricted its ant to the one companp which first asked it. It should ave ascertained whether among the extensive railroad in- terests of the Union there were not other companies or indl- }iduale abTo and wiliing to build the road on better terms for e country. Allof these features were necessary. Every one of them was studiously ignored. It would be difficult to imagine a system for the constraction of mense public subsidies more utter! essential elements. THR WORST FEATURE OF IT, The lavish gffts of the government to most of the paper raliroad adventurers is worse than thrown away. The fellows rarely bui:d a raliroad. They manage to get possession of the franchise and hold it for five or ten years, or until they can find a com- pany of capitalists who desire to construct a road over the route, when @ sale of the franchise and grant, encumbered with mortgages, contracts and other débris, is made. ‘Thus it happens that the capitalists who build the roads have to bear, first, the expense of clearing the franchise and gtant of all its nancial débris, and of afterwards building their road, making the enter- prise about twice or three times as expen- sive as it should be, On the other hand the lobby- ists, or paper railroad dealers, mauage to get one or two prices for the charter, without doing any work whatever except to load it down with the usual accumulation of financial débris; for as soon as the bill is through Congress the franchise 18 at once mortgaged or in some way entangled with con- tracts. In one case—the Memphis and El Paso—the evidence in the be he of Senators Howard, Stewart and Rice shows that the bonds were put'upon the market before the passage of the bill in the Senate. In order that 1 may not misrepresent I will quote the exact language of the United States Senate sub- committee’s report, page 50, as follows:— It was known in France that for several sessions the bills of the Memphis and Ei Paso Company had been before Gon- ress, naking for subsidy and extension to the Pacific, unaer the name of the Southern ‘ranscontinental. Copies of this bill were in the hands of these gentlemen in Paris. During the sessions of Inst year repeated changes wero made tm the Dill, and finally in the shape of a grant for the nght.of way it was twice passed by the House of Representatives, Infor- mation of the fact of the passage of the bill by the House reached Paris about the time when the bonds were adver- ised, and, In ignorance of any changes In the character of the bill, it was understood as the final passage of the subsidy measure. The Senate sub-committees’ report, as will be seen, shows that ‘information of the fact of the pas- sage of the bill by the House reached Paris about the time when tue bonds were advertised;” but Il do not learn that information that the bill failed in the Senate reached Paris at ail until our Minister, Mr. Washburne, learned what was going on and called public attention to it. THE PROPER METHOD, National railroad franchises should only be granted HY Congress to responsible corporations, composed of men who desire the charter for the purpose of building the road, and not to manipulate the stock market or to sell again. The offer of a charter for sale in any form should at once work its forfeiture. In cases where Pen ald accompanies the charter it should be in all cases given to the com- pany that will undertake to construct the road within a reasonable time for the least amount of government ald. Let us have free competition and no more trading In national raliroad franchises, THE LATE CASE OF CIGAR SMUGGLING. The further hearing of the case of Powers, who ‘was brought before Commissioner Osborn on Thurs- day last, was resumed yesterday. The officers of the seoret service were examined, who proved the arrest of Powers, with the cigars in his possession, on Washington street, between Liberty and Cedar streets, on the 27th of April last. To enable Mr, Purdy, the Assistant District Attorney, to complete his evidence for the prosecution the case was ad- journed to Tuesday, at twoo'clock. The prisoner ‘Tad held in $2,000 bail. demoralizing, the at public works by im- void of its most obvious Wasuinoton, May 19, 1870. To THs EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— The raHroad acccident in Greenwich street, of which I read the account in your paper, is worthy of the special consideration of engineers as to the effect of accumulated pressure on iron girders. With your permission I will state a case in point, for your use, which occurred under my immediate ob- servation, more than thirty years ago on one of the old-fashioned “Adams printing presses.” The pres- sure of the power rested on the centre of a cast iron bar immediately under the press, In course of the firat three hours of operation the bar parted at the centre and broke down. A thicker bar was forth- with substituted, which, in ike manner, broke down ino few days, A third bar, of twice the thickness of the first, was next supplied, and the pressmen were directed to watch the under surface of the bar. After working two weeks a small transverse fissure was not in the middie of the under sur- face of the bar, which continued gradualiy to 0) and deepen from day to day for another week, when it broke down as before, On con- guitation it was then to apply an three as iron bar as | thick previor used, and it proved sufficient an endured for years without further breach. This was very simple experiment, and satisfied me and omners concerned that the tendency of iron to break y poems however efficient it may appear on bri mary tests. The ‘Inelancholy accident on the Uni States ship Princeton, When the celeorated Stgckton gun bu; with such deadly effect, near Ge in- stantly killing six distinguished perso! including two members of the Cabinet, is im fr memory. ‘This happened to be a wrought fron uD, of the largest then existing calibre, It had of course un- dergone the usual xa tests of the largest charges, and thus proved an sparered. It had been dis- charged many times and was deemed perfectly safe. But on this impressive on, in presence of President Tyler and his Cabinet, many members of both houses of Congress ai ge assemblage of ladies aud gentlemen, invited to witness the range of this powerful mi and after many sale di charges had been made it exploded foul, with such disastrous effects. It wasa sad surprise and shock to the gallant and distinguished naval oficer who had peneien the gun, and who stood very near it at the time, and who had invited the distinguished social party to witness the experiment, The theory 1s that at each consecutive discharge, with such @ ponderous ball, the internal surface of the gun began to yleid gradually, and continued to expand and to debilitate the gun until, after oft re- peated discharges, the vast force of the powder and the resisting ball caused the explosion at the breach. As this gun had repeatedly been discharged with impunity’ 1t is difficult to come to any other conclu- sion than that the weakening effect was progressive. On such te ray we may account for the conseca- tive breaks in the printing press above referred to. On these simple principles, suppose that the iron girdier in Greenwich street had Hae sufficient and the train had gone saiely with the ten tons o! pig iron, what security would have been left for subsequent passazes with the same weight? One, two or twenty of such burdens might pass safe, an the twenty-first might break down. Nor is this all. After oft repeated strains a light train of passengers might become the victims. It 1s the last feather which breaks the camel's back. Lrespectfully submit these views and facts for the consideration ‘of engineers, ratiroad adventurers and more intelligent readers generally, on a subject of much interest te the whole community, Yours, very respectfully, JOSEPH THORNTON ADAMS. THE NATIONS DEAD. Preparations for the Deceratien of the Graves of the Union Soldiers and Sailors. The annual ceremonies of decorating the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who died during the late rebellion will take place on Monday, the 30th in- stant, at Cypress ius Cemetery. The Grand Army of the Republic, under whose auspices the decorat- ing is to be done, have issued notices to the friends and others interested in keeping sacred the memory of those who gaye up therr lives for the preservation of the Union, to unite with them in the ceremonies, For this purpose they solicit FLORAL CONTRIBUTIONS, and ask that they be sent to the headquarters of the Memorial Executive Committee, 31 Union square, on the 28th instant, and until nine A. M. of the 30th. ‘The Finance Committee in oharge of the affair is as foliows:—Alfred Pleasanton, 83 Cedar street; Franz Sigel, Morrisania, Westchester county; George F. Hopper, New York Post Office; H. H. Connolly, 269 Bleecker street; William Hudson oP ele United States Pension 1 ae ron Pl and Hanover Bireet; Joseph OC. Pinckney, Seventh street; Charles Lempsey, 220 Broome it; Edward G. Vanderpoel, 133 Macdougal strect; Yohn A. Meek, Custom House; Henry el 83 Cedar street, THE BURNING OF MRS, GEHRLING, She Was Jetlous of Her Husband—Pro- bable Suicide. Coroner Flynn yesterday examined two witnesses 1m the case of Mrs. Martha Gehriing, late of No. 150 Crosby street, who was burned to death two or three days ago, as aiready reported in the HERALD. Sarah Arthur, of No. 105 Eldridge street, was at work with deceased as dressmaker at the time of the burning; asked deceased how it occurred and she replied that she had set her clothes on fire; she had acted very strangely and often wished herself dead; she was JEALOUS OF HER HUSBAND concerning @ woman named Mrs. Brown, and on that account Gehrling and his wife did not live happily together. There was no fire in the stove at the time deceased was burned, Julia Lawless, of 130 Crosby street, saw deceased when her clothes were on fire, and afterwards heard her say that she had done 16 herself; three or tour days previously Mrs. Gehrling had acted strangely, as if she was out of her mind, As there were other witnesses (not present) to ex- amine, the investigation was postponed till Monday. Deceased was thirty-three years of age, and was born in Ireland. Gehrling is a German by birth. A WORD TO THE WiVvzs, A Little Misunderstanding About Carpet “Beating”—A Decidedly New Dodge. On Friday morning John Thompson, a negro, six- teen years of agé, residing in Paterson, visited the house of Mrs, Sarah Dodge, No. 9 Van Nest place (Charles street), with a truck, and represented ner husband had sent him for the parlor carpets, valued at $260, for the purpose of having themshaken, Be- Heving the statements of the negro Mrs. Dodge or- derod the corn taken up, and giving them into the custody of Thompson the latter placed them on a cart and drove off, Upon Mr. Dodge's return to the house his wife informed him what had tran- spired, when he told her he had sent no person for the property and surmised she had been imposed upon. A description of the negro was given to de- tective Brackwood, of the Ninth procings, who sub- sequently succeeded in bein | ‘im and recovering the property from a second hand dealer in the Eighth ward, where they had been disposed of. hile confined in the station house Thompson gave such information as led to the arrest of an accomplice of the same age, residing at No. 49 ‘Watts street, named Thomas Trusty, when they ad- mitted robbing D. Stockton, of No. 355 West Four- teenth street, of a similar amount in the same man- ner, which was also recovered and restored to the owner. They were arraigned before Justice Shand- ley, at Jefferson Market, yesterday morning, and re- manded to the station house, in order to enabie the ane to find additional complainants against them, YOUNG THIEVES IN JERSEY. Is Kleptomania Confined to Certain Fami- lies ?—A Juvenile Retormatory Needed. Ten days ago the HeRaLD announced @ remark- able Instance of youthful depravity on the part of two little girls namea Maggie McGuire and Sarah Long, who for the last three or four years had re- aed victimized the honest citizens of Trenton, . J., by & series of petty larcenies and a regular and systematic course of tlltapping. The icorrigible nature of their thieving propensities has been such that they Were indicted by the Grand Jury and their trial is to come off in a few days. On Friday evening a younger sister of the farl Long was locked up in the Trenton jail, charged with having on that day stolen &@ watch Valued at thirty dollars. On the watch being missed the parties remembered having seen little Annie prowling around the place; but upon being arrested she stoutly denied the charge. Threats and promises were alternately used to extract a confes- sion of the suspected theft; but all in She was then given in charge to Mrs. Cooke, at the station house, and that lady very skilfully played the detec- tive’s part, succeeding finally in_mducing the hittie thief to make the confession. She had concealed the watch in an open lot, and when it was found the article was Immediately returned to its owner, while little Annie was locked up to await the sen- tence of the court. ‘She belongs to a gang of young thieves, of which the two mentioned above are the peaders. . THE RAILROAD FROM PIERMONT TO NYACK, The extension of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey from Piermont to Nyack is at last completed. ‘The opening took place yesterday, when a select arty left the Erie Railway depot at ten o’clock and ravelled or ae fe aetna j — aes fs wi igh a section of count hs f Nyack is now likely to become a ver; popular resort. The excursionists were entertained to a sumptuous collation at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Nyack, after whioh they returned ta New York, METROPOLITAN NUISANCES, The Fat Melters--Vile Stenches-—- “Poison in the Air.” The District of Death--The Offal Docks---The Grease Stewers--- The Vileness We Inhale. Hog Killing Yards on the West Side— A Vessel of Destruction. Hint to the Grand Jury—Suuken Lots—Gut Cleaners and Tripe Boilers. — The HERALD has ever been firat to advocate & vigorous campaign upon the unprincipled men who disregard the health laws, defy the Health Board and the public, and jeopardize the lives and health of our people by stenching the city with vile and polsonous smells that their establishments throw out into the atmosphere dally. The old Board of Health did much good in reducing the number of these vile enirepots of impure filth, but ita course was. 80 vacillating, its action so timid, its backbone 80 tender, that the fatmen twisted them about their fingers like a string, and defled them, Driven todo something the Board finally revoked all the permits and ordered sults commenced against the nuisance creators. They were arrested, gave bail and that is the last heard of the suits, The establishments in the district bounded by Eleventh avenue, North river, Thirty-seventh and Forty-eighth streets, are to-day in full blast in defiance of law or permit (with the single exception of Toble & Both), and grinding out into the atmosphere nauseous smells, sickly and death-dealing odors, that in any other city south of New York would subject them to the violence of a mob and the torches of an outraged populace. With a view of making a personal examination of all the alleged nuisances in the stench district of the west sidea HERALD reporter some two weeks ago attempted to gain an entrance to the establishments without betraying his object to the parties engaged in impregnating the city with vile smells. Finding that many of them refused access to citizens he re- tired from the fleld bafiled for the time. But he was not to be beaten finally. On Thursday he secured 9 carriage, drove to the Board of Health Department and invited two health inspectors to take aride. Turning the carriage in the direction of Thirty-eighth street and North river they soon drew up in front of THORPE’S GREASE QOLLING ESTABLISHMENT, situated on the north side of West Thirty-eighth street, between Eleventh avenue ar.d the river. This establishment is a very small one—a mere shed, with very inferior machinery, used exclusively for boiling soap and grease and applying it to alkalis. The fat boiling part of the business is exceedingly offensive, the nauseous smells being almost in- sufferable. In the soap branch there 1s not the slightest offence. This institution has very little regard for cleanliness, there isno proper means employed to condense the foul odors which escape ito the air whenever the tanks are treated to steam pplication.. There is an spology for an odor con- denser in the shape of an iron tank filled with cold water, but it is @ useless appendage. The scrap is drawn off under the floor, and when the hatch is opened the foulest, rankest and unheaithiest of Odors ascends into the air. Bad as it 1s now, 1t was even worse before Mr. Thorpe put in tight boilers, MICHABL DONOHUB & CO. ‘This firm occupy premises of a similar character, adjacent, for melting tallow and other fat boiling. ‘The surroundings of the place at once strike the visitor favorably and no unpleasant odors are dis- coverable. They condense the odors by the samo process as does Mr. Thorpe, but exercise so much care that they avoid all offensiveness. It is one of the best conducted establishments in the district, and although ranning without a permit from the Board of Health, the inspectors speak tn terms of praise of the efforts of the proprietors to comply ‘with the heaith laws and prevent a nuisance. ALLEN, HAY & 00. onan extensive candle and soap This firm manufactory, It isa two story struciure, the lower floor being used for making candles by machinery and the upper one for soap. All the floors are re- markably clean. There are no odors that are not carefully obliterated by disinfectants, and as there 1s no fat boiling on the premises the business is en- tirely inoffensive in all its ramifications. The fact that the firm keep their doors caretully locked, ad- mit no-one but health officers, has given rise to the suspicion that they were carrying on come business of an offensive nature. Our reporter fatied to find anything objectionable about the building, and could not understand why they should have refused him admission on a previous visit, when not backed by the health officers. GAMBLE AND M’NEIL. This firm are just below Allan Hay & Co., on Thiriy-eighth street. They carry on an immense busi- ness in boiling fat, guts, the manufacture of bladder“ and ior covers, and run their tanks nearly ail the time. @ machinery is very inferior; the con- densers are simply two wooden tanks, by no means air-tight—mere Beolges. for condensers. The fat tanks are not air-tight, and on both occasions of examination by the reporter foul and sickiy smeils, such as impregnate the air of the entire west side from Thirty-sixth to Fiftleth street, according to the direction of the wind, were plainly prevalent. Mr. Gamble apologized Thursday for the smell and ex- plained that it was caused by the bursting of one of the condensers, which had not occurred before for twelve months; but one of tne gentle- men to whom this information was given a few days previous found the smelis much more vbjec- tionable. With the exception of the escape of the foul and unhealthy gases from the fat tanks the establishment is unexceptionable. With slight alter. ations and the addition of a furnace for cons the Daecrionalis odors, the business could be con- ducted without offence, As it is now conducted it is one of if not the worst visited, THE OFFAL DOCKS of the New York Rendering pontpany ere, next visited. They are located at the footof West Thirty- eighth street. The business embraces the cuttin up and rendering of dead animals, the boiling of butchers’ scrap and offal from the slaughter house: &c. The business is done on two boats, supplit with air-tight tanks of large capacity. The dead animals are received, promptly cut up, thrown into the tanks, which are closed tightly and the process of stewing goes on. When neces- sary the tanks are opened, the scrap taken out on lighters and run out of the city as soon as possible.” In the operation of boiling there is very little offence, as the company have the most approved mavchinery—a furnace that consumes ail the gases and prevents its escape. Of course there is soine- thing offensive in the cuttiug up of the animals, but when it 18 remembered that a horse ts cut up and consigned to the tanks 1n three minutes alter his re- ception this offence is of short duration. ‘There is an offence also in the discharge of the scrap from the tanks, but this is also of short duration. It would be dificult to tell how the business of dispos- ing of the dead animals and offal of the city could be conducted with less oifence, except by the erec- tion of a large air-tight building, such as the company propose to construct, so soon as they caa secure a site for it, These works have been credited with the creation of all the foul stenches that the west side residents complain of, but a close examination of the neigh- borhood when the wind 'is from ve north west will show tiat on the windward side of the otal docks there is very little offensive odor, THE MANURE DUMPING GROUNDS. Between Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eightn streets, from Eleventh avenue to the river, 1s an intolerable nuisance, that should be abated at once. The stencn is intolerable, and an eyesore to the neighborhood. Itis the receptacle for all the filth collected irom the stables that lies there in low lots, fermented by the hot rays of the sun, filling the air with the most oftensive smells. ‘The model establishment of the kind in the city is H. WEIL’S FAT BOILING HOUSE, NO. 9 ABATTOIR PLACE (THIRTY-NINTH STREET), Mr. Weil does an extensive tallow boiling business, has improved begs, ike i tanks, one of 6,00 and another of 10,000 pounds capacity, boils every day, and to all cata his factory is as unojectionable as a wel Colpabsy es stable, ‘The secret of this is that he has an improved furnace for the consumption of the foul gases which pass from the tanks ugh 11,000 feet of coil in a con- denser, and all the gases are consequently effectually destroyed and prevented from pi ig into the air to poison, sicken and kti H. H. SALMONS, No. 5 Abattoir place, is a manufacturer of all kinds of soaps. There is no offence created by the busi- ness, J, B. COLOMBIN, No, 7 Abattoir place, has a smail establishment for the manufacture of glue. The place ts exceedingly filthy. The glue is boiled in open ketttes and no care is taken to prevent the nuisance that certainly results from it. GRORGE BELZE! No. 17 Abattoir place, carries one small fat-melting basiness. He boils but three times per week and Condenses the qdoi by the cold water Rrocess, 80 odor escapes from one tiias not yet boon fully broken in, A litle uae ri the and render it i £88 Bek z ie =e 2 z Fi 5 i i aE i & 00.'8 HOG YARDS, lace visited was Allerton & Co.'s pig ards, which cover an entire block, bounded jeventh avenue, Fortieth and Forty-first streets the North river. They are the most extensive in the State, laid out with special attention to cleanliness and prevention of smell, Through the pens system of sew exists that enables them to be daily with water. The excrements of the are carried out in Wheelbarrows daily, when the pens areempty. Each night the stock trains are em into the mare er animals say oe @ pens, e butchers appear during the night "aud convey the swine to. their slaughter houses. By morning the yards are empty, and they are at once cleaned and flushed. ‘The business can- not be conducted without some offensiveness, as the pig is at best the most filthy of animals, 01 e @ nel hood. ‘The business is weil conducted; the ane are tight, the condenser is a tank of cold water and there ts little or no smell escapes. Sionacher & Lippincott’s lard boiling establishment is very clean and inof- fensive, They also slaughter on ® small scale. An inspection was made of the Hudson River sheep sheds, which are the most extensive and complete in the country. They have all the appliances for c.eaniiness and the facility of receiving trom cara and transferring to carts. arrangements for feeding and watering are also very complete. A CRYING NUISANCE. ‘The most alarming nuisance discovered is a dirty schooner, lying at the foot of Fortieth street, reeking with filth. “It is owned by one McNeil, whe uses it for the reception of pari decomposed entralis trom the slaughter houses. The guts are piled into barrels and loaded on this schooner, which is sup- eg to convey them away to the faltsades fe ‘ne boat is parilally loaded and for days the mass of bi stinking, decomposing filth remains in the barrels on the deck without any attempt to disinfect it. The stench arising from the deathly craft is sick- ening, and the Grand Jury should at once indict the owner for so flagrant an outrage upon the laws and ive the people that relief that the oid Board of lealth so long denied them and that the new Board nave not yet jad time to consider. OTHER INSPECTIONS. Visits were made to many other minor establish- ments where tri bouting, and other objectionable on without permits and in direct violation of the law. The scenes and smells encountered would sicken any one bus a health inspector and @ HERALD reporter, Who are accustomed to such excursions, At the corner of Eleventh avenue and Fiftieth street a vile stagnant pool on the Astor estate was found, from which abominable odors impregnated the air. Another vacant lot was found between Ninth and Tenth avenues, running from Forty-ninth to Fifdeth (Street, that requires sanitary attention, and has al- Teady been reported upon, as well as have the filthy cow stables in the same neighborhood occupied by Mrs. Lp ep and ped who dety the laws and the Board of Heail To describe all the establishments wouid aire req several columns space. Enough, it is hoped, has been said to call the attention of the Board of Health to the necessity for immediate action in running out all the objectionable establishments, and giving the residents of the west siae some relief, The HERALD inspector will make frequent visits to district this summer, and see that the fat melters who disregard public heaith and the laws shall have no rest until they improve their premises or aban- don the scene of the business for the suburbs. There is @ probability that the new Board, which adopted its revised code of health ordinances, and elected @ fearless and able Sanitary Inspector and counsel and attorney, will, before many weeks, make tneir power felt. We are now on the eve of a hot summer, It cannot move too quickly nor too boldly upon the works of the fat melters, PREVALENCE OF ODORS. One of the sanitary ins) made & careful ex- amination of these establishments in June of year, with a view of tracing the odors to their foun- i heads, He gives the result in the following able:— Preoailed. Tune 8 8:30 A. M.|100 June 8,11 A. M...|10th Tune 8, 6:30 P. June 10, 8:15 A. Tune 10, 9 P. June 11,10 A. M. June 12, 11:30 A. M. Tune 18, 9:15 P. M. There are many minor nuisances in this locality that the Board of Health should devote some atten- tion to after driving these out of pusiness or forcing their owners to put in improved machinery. BROOKLYN CITY NEWS. During the past week the Brooklyn police arrested 815 persons, Seth Tucker, an interesting boy, nearly three years of age, last evening fell out of a roar window in his parents’ residence, 361 Graham avenue, E. D., and was instantly Killed. Extabli Point From Which ~ Traced. 87th st. and 1th ay} N94 'g8th st. and 10th av|Gamble & MoNell’s, 9th st., e. of 11th av| Turner's. Carlotta Patt, assisted bya number of other first class artists, will give a grand concert this evening at St. Mary’s (Father McDonald’s) church, Williams- burg, for benefit ofthe church. 4, To-morrow, by the order of Comptroller Johnson, ‘all the fire apparatus of the city will be sold at public auction, at the corporation yard, at the corner of Myrtle avenue and Hampden street. Philip Grogan, the proprietor of tne Bank Oyster House, who was arrested on a charge of violating the Excise law in keeping open house on Sunday, ap- peared before Justice Welsh yesterday afternoon, when his case was dismissed. Ball throwing in the public streets, now that the season is opened, is becoming a great nuisance. Several accidents have occurred lately in the vicinity of Taylor street and Lee avenue, E. D., and the ser- vices of the police in checking it would be exceed- ingly. well appreciated by the residents of the locality, During the past week Surrogate Veeder admitted to probate the wills of Gilbert Cornwell, of Brook- lyn, and Garret Hultz, of Fairfax, Va. Letters of administration were granted the estates of Dan- lel Stillwell, Margaret Ryan, Mary H. Payne, Anson A. Brewer, Francisca Herzog, Eleanor} Bernard. Patrick Lovell, Claus Butt, Ann &, Brush, Peter Moaklee,, aud Phoebe A. Chase. A body, recognized as that of John Robinson, who fell overboard at Prentice’s wharf, in January last, was found at the foot of Amity street, South Brook- lyn, yesterday. The deceased was drowned, to- gether with his wife and a sallor, while attempting to get on board a vessel lying at the wharf, The hotties of the satlor and Mrs, Robinson were re- covered shortly after the casualty. Highwaymen appear to have abandoned the road and taken the city asa field of operations, Friday night Mrs, Dunnie, a resident of Camden, N. J., while passing the corner of Poplar and Henry streets, being on the way to visit her sister in Harrison street, was knocked down by a rufflan, who stole her gold watch and fled. The assault and robbery were ‘witnessed by two gentlemen, who pursued the thief and captured him in Washington street. Mrs. Dunnie did not wait to see if the fellow was caught, and passed on through Henry street, congratulating herself that her portemonnale, containing sixty-five dollars, was not taken. When reaching the corner of Henry and Remsen streets she was waylaid by two more thieves, who garroted her dragged her into the new addition of tne Pligrim church and:robbed her of her satchel and money. Roundsman Granger of the Forty-first precinct, met the unfortunate woman crying in the street shortly after the outrage, and escorted her to her sister’s The fellow who stole her watch gave his name as Timothy McCarty. He was taken before Justice Walsh and committed to jail. THE COBEL ALLEGED MALPRAGTICE CASE, The case of Dr. Cobel, a New York physictan, charged with malpractice, is at length disposed of. ‘The Grand Jury of Hudson county, N. J., threw out the bill of indictment on the ground thai the offence was committed m New York, aithough the girl Catharine Shields died in Jersey City and had rae sided there singe her arrival i the country.