The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1870, Page 11

RED RIVER. LIFE AT FORT GARRY. AFFAIRS IN THE SETTLEMENTS. What the Canadian Expedition | Has to Eueounter, AN INDIAN WAR IMPENDING. Forr Ganry, July 1, 1870. “Grim visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front” in the Northwest Territory, and the excites ment of the past six months at Fort Garry bas been Succeeded by the utmost quiet, Winnipeg 1s just how the dullest piace imaginable. Not even the ghost of a warlike rumor fits through the Red River Tegion nowadays, and everyboay has subsided into @ sort of apathy, awaiting the walvanism of the Ca- Median expedition and Governor Archibold'’s new régime. All talk of resistance to Canadian autho- Bity has ceased, and to-day, the anniversary of Do- Minton confederation, is being celebrated tn Winni- Peg by the display of the Union Jack and reckless constmption of needie-gun whiskey, A PEN PICTURE, Perhaps the reader can be enabled to picture in his Yntnd's eye the scene to-day in this remote country, ® scene which has been repeated daily for some time and which will characterize this section for Many hot, weary weeks to come. Imagine q turbid, crooked stream, about three hundred feet. wide and flowing northward between steep clay banks from thirty to fifty feet high for Red river, The Assmntboine river, not quite as large, but a great deal muddier, flows into Red river from the west, and ateng both streams @ thin strip of Bmall peplar and wiliow trees marks thetr winding Course through the broad flat prairie. On the bluff, At the junction of the two rivers, stands Fort Garry, ita ycllow walls shining im the sun, its cracked Yount bastions leaning tipsily over, threatening to {all in the next storm that softens ther clayey foun- Gations, and the Provisional government's white Nag, with its shamrock gnd fleur de ls, and the Union Jack flying from separate staits above the Dlack-reofed buildings within the fort. A sun- burned French half-preed, in double brensted blue frock coat with brass butions, blue pantaloons, Beeured at the waist by a gaudy red and yellow Bash; low, bhick felt hat and moccasins, Btands guard at the gateway of the fort with 6D ott masket, and divides his time between loung- Gag against tue old rouna peaked top sentry box, @nd discussing the sitnation with his comrades, Gquatted upon a few square stones om the opposite pide of theentrance. Down the bank, in front of Yre fort, is an old rope ferry across the Assiniboine, nd a few rods below is a similar ferry across Red Tiver. A few battered scows and large, sharp bowed Portage boats lie high and dry om the steep, muddy Blope of the river bank, affording shade and com- to ® dozen wallowing, snorting hogs, and Eapldly going to pieces im the flerce summer sun, Across Red river, opposite the fort, stand the catne- Gra), the convent, the bishop's residence and other @difices belonging to the Catholic Mission of jt. Boniface. The butidings are of stone, Bome are paimted white, with green blinds, nd with numerous shade trees, neat fences, d flower gardens, the mission forms a very pretty Looking back peyond the tort, the white jouses Of Winnipeg make a neat village, apparently if amie outom the plain, but really touched by te river, witich winds around that way. Still rther on the tower of the Episcopal cathedral and the roofs of the English settlers are visible among the treetops:aleng the river, while east, west, north fnd south there stretches the vast prairte, dotted herve and there, close at hana, with the conical tents, pad carts, aud:cattle of traders:fvom the Saskatche- ‘Wan, the buffalo plains and the golit fields of the Rocky Mountains, A scorching sua pours its flery jheat.upon all, and the thermometer mounts to over hundred Fahrenheit in the shade, while the plains, the Not, rarlfed atmosphere, asaume all the Zemsastic Ulusions of the mirage. INSIDE OF FORT GARRY there is an appearance of military rule. Six brasa Qeld pieces, three and six pounders, and a few @wall cohorn mortars stand just inside the gateway, with a few piles of old rusty shot and unloaded shell tween them. The Grat building approached 1s wo stories high, and ts occupied by the provisional government. Hal€ @ dozen orderles, all dressed ike the sentry at the gate, stand or sit on the little SPorch: aud in the hall, and over tffe door @ family of Swallows peer down from their nest of mud under the eaves. The public apartments of the estab- (Miehment are elegantly furnished with Governor McDougal’s farniture, and the dint room and cull- = department are abundantly supplied with Hud- n Bay Compeny’s property, There is,considerable formality observed in the re- ~peption of visttors, the President being difficult of ‘Access to most.persons, and interviews being gene- lily conducted by his subordinates. The other Within the walls are used principally as ee and quarters for the g ards, At one of the headquarters is the Hudson Bay Com- Ysstore, @ sort of sutler’s establishment, and ck of headquarters is the two story building used a prison during the winter. Passing about fifty rds lo the rear, among humerous buildings, the isitor comes to a high plank fence, which he has -probably mistaken for gn outer wall, but which is ally & partition through the centre of the fort. A loor in the fence admits liim ito the private grounds the fort, where the families of tne Hudson Bay 's ofticers lived. ‘The houses gre large, airy: id very cool this hot weather, and the gardens are il of flowers and flourising vegetabies. Stil fur- jther on, back of the gardens, are the walis of the Fort, with a platform extending around for wroops to itand on, and cannon in the bastions. There re not. many visitors at the fort. Few having business with the provisional vernment make brief calls upon President Riet r upon Mr. Donoghue, and Gyre two or | Phree gentlemen pay a visit to the Hudson Bay Com- i " back in their private quagters, where Texcellens wines, rare old brandy and good cigars ‘form a feature of the hospitality. Here, with great ‘y chairs, fine English pictures on the walls, a ary and numerous. late publications, includii ‘the iifustrated and daily journals of New York a ene can while away many a pleasant yur, sefreshed by the cool breeze that comes in rough the shaded windows, and forgetful of the eat and ennui outside, ‘ THE TOWN OF WINNIPRG Js indescribably dull. Its three stores, two hotels pnd half a dozem restaurants, with one tatlor, one Phoemaker, one tinsmith, one insmith, one care nter shop and half a blacksmith monepolize the usiness, ali of which might at the present time be ‘very copfortably conducted. by. one able-bodied:man, excepting perhaps that of the saloons. During the jay the place ts very quiet, Everybody keeps within loors, out of the gcgrch un, and vainly endeavors to keep the blood from emulal rid condi- ion of the thermometer. Towards evening, as the the cool night wind of these northern Jatitudes relieves the oppressive heat, the sireets be- to. with Indians, half-breeds and doga, ind the cattle and horses come in by ba? prairie, raging myriads of mosquitoes, The saloons aro Browee adit a tate hour, and the piace resoundg with boisterous drunken jargon of the plain hunters and river freighters. Daylight lasts v2 wl nine P. M., and if the wind is stiff one can sit gat- doors without being devoured by mosqul but erally people are driven early to the shelter of fe and mosquito bars. One of the most comi- cal scenes to be witnessed is the spectacle of haif a persons in the biiltard saloon, dividing their time. between drinks into punching the bails about And fighting the mosquitoes. A man will have what he conceives to be rather a dificult carrom to exe. cute, Just as he ts on the, point of makin; the oe: and iis eye has caught the exac' angle, his cue will up with an oe. and slap—slap—slap goes his hand, nnihilating two or tnree insects at each blow. gain he bends down over the table, to be instantly Attacked as soon as his face is exposed, and the slap- ping process is renewed. Ifa person who had never en Dittiards or mosquitoes were to witness one of games at a little distance he would pro- jounoe the bilitardists to be madmen, and think iat some Tanatic asylum in the vicinity had broken Joose. ‘The waterworks of Winnipeg are quite a Hoticeable institution. Wells, however deap, haye erg Rig teta tanare’ here, owing to the brack- My Sn ingly all the water i din town has to be carted ae trom the river. re Must be some great superstition about vg capt axles; for I have never yet seen a iver cart that did not squeak and screech tn the most. Sgonizing manner. ‘The Ailing of a fine-tooth saw is circumstance to their noise. Every family here (ds its water catt to the river from “one to three if the new comer are ip Tease a day; aud when the Wi om, be will think an J Bia sp urcae he within & mile of the. vale o.above constitute the Inain features of Hike San take oare of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, ae ———— a in Winnipeg. hong Uttle bealdes the creaking of carta, the autie “sat 4runken half-breeds and the mosquito plague to oco the toution, and Hatlewsn+as becomes such a hi to that semt-weekly mall can soarcely arouse t from their indolent indifference. Once a week the New Nation appears, occastoning a slight ripple on the surface of the sluggian town, but tte contents navng been all previously discussed with the editor in front of Rearnerlinge Hotel the epnarae lente | pare. no jada anything net i a sort or patriotic duty, rather than for information or diversion, et each of the Red River region are confined to the imme- diate vicinity ot the rivera, where timber and good water can be had. The Assinipoin ts settled prin- cipally by English and Frencn descendants, Wiite Horse Plans being composed almost entirely of the latter nationality. Red River, above Fort Garry, 1s almost wholly settled by French, the Scotch settiers occupying Red River below, ‘rhe English and Scotch cultivate con:{derable ter- ritory and raise more wheat aud barley than tie settlements require for consumption, there now borne ® great quanty of last yoar's wheat still ing in stacks, All three nationalities are engaged in trading for furs and _ pbutfulo robes with the Indians, but this business ig rapidly decreasing, the English and Scoteh annually devort more attention’ to agricul. ture and the French to freighting on the river and for the Hudson Bay Company in the North. Tho Pepe idea of the Red River halt-breed 1s that he is iterally walf Indian, @nd possesses all the habits and vices of that mixture of races. This le very wide of the fact. The term ‘half-breed” ts applied to peo- ple here who have not more than one-eighth or one- atxteenth of Indian blood in their veins, and one- half the people of the Red Kiver country might pass up B way Without attracting any notice, either m phystognomy, dress or manners. Good schools are well patronized in all the settements, the churches are large and generally attended, and the opie, 8S @ class aro as in- telligent and well tmformed as any frontier settlement anywhere, ‘The mail always comes heavily laden with letters and ener, and the Post Office at Winnipeg is quite an important establish- ment. The Canadian newspapers, 1 observe, are sil harping on the tong since refuted reports that the provisional government exercises an esplon: upon Correspondence and tampers with private let- ters. Suck statements aro false In every par- The matt bag 1s a regular United States pouch, and 18 opened only by the post- masters at Pembina and Winnipeg, It does not 0 hear Fort Garry, but passes to and fro direct tween the respective post offices as uninterrupt- edly as ne Mat in the United States or Canada. Parties mailing laters to the Red River sett ements should be careiul to address their correspondence to “Winnipeg, Red River, via Pembina,” a8 many let- ters are received here after having bes: forwarded tw the Red River of the South. The ordinary letter rates of the Unitea States apply to letiers jor this place, but a small come 1s collected here to defray aH expenses of the matt this side of the boundary ie. 4 THB CANADIAN BXPEDITION, as may be well sapposed, forms the principal topic of ctiscusston In the settlements, though the certainty that there is to be no dghting deprives the subject of much of the relish which 1t has hitherto had to bel- Ngevent and “loi” Canadians here. There is a small Glass of men here who are really sorry Mat the ques- tion 1s to. be amicably settled, and who get indignant und moutn fiercely at the bare ged that the whole provisional goverament will not be hung as soon as the expeditioa oan here and arrange the noses, To them the prospect of amacsty for Riel and bis Cabinet 1s a constant torment, and about the drat thang Governor Arehibold wil find to de when he arrives will bo to put his foot these owe and mash them, The great majority of the ‘ng lish and Scotch settlers are glad of the amicable adjustment that has been effected and are willing to let tho mistakes excesses of the past year be forgotten, and if the tncoming Governor properly estimates. the few fawning Canadian sycophants who are hanging about the settlements walting to cringe betore him m quest of vengeance and “pap”? he willsave himself a yread deal of tuture annoy- ance and embarassment. According to the latest accounts from Canada the expedition Will not be able to leave Fort William be- fore the i0th or 15th of Juty. No one here expects it to get here before the Ist of September, aud those Inost familar with the route to_be traversed preatct that the troops will not reach Fort Garry before the muddle of the latter mouth, With the thermometer ae it has been hers for several days, the passage of the expedition through the swamps and around the portages must be an ex- coediagly slow and painful work. At least one- half of the men are li ible to become useless on the march, such unusual exposure, fatigue and sufferings from mosqnitoes. My frequen! to fron! he nega mba to the Eastern the fevers of the Pemméula co MecClelian’s army. As I have before stated in one of my _ letters, the mosquitoes of these water-souked ‘les are | tn such dense swarms, and are so flerce m their attacks, that they sontetimes kill teams between hero and Fort Abercrombie, and our army surgeons state that @ man bound and exposed naked to their — would not survive two hours, The Indians ve | A CURIOUS LEGEND , respecting the origi of this insect. They say that ; ence upon atime there Was a great famine, aud the could get no game. Hundrets hail died rom hunger, and desolation had flied ther country. All kinds of oerings were made to the Great Spirit without avail, until one day two hunters came upon & White wolverine, @ very: rare animal. Upon shoot- the wilte wolverine an old woman sprang uj out of the skin, and, saying thatshe was a “Manito,”? proposed to go and live with the Indians, promising them uty of game as long as they treated her well and gave her the first choice of all the game that. should be brought io. ‘The twu Indians assenied to this, aud took the old woman home with them, which event was imme:liately succeeded by an abu of game, When the sharpness of the famine bad passed in the prosperity which the oid woman had brought to the tribes, the iudians. hecame dainty in thelr appetities, and complained of the manner in which the old woman took to her- self all the choice bits; and this feeling became so intense that, notwithstanding her warning that if they violated thetr promise a terrible calamity woula come upon the Indians, they one day killed her as she was seizing her share of @ fat remdeer which the | hunters had broughtin, Great consternation tin- mediately struck the witnesses of the deed, aud the Indians, to escape the predicted calamity, bodily struck their tents and moved away toa great dis- vance, Time passed on without any catastrophe oc- curring, and, game becommg even more plentifal, the Indians began to laugh at their being decetved by the old woman Finaily, a hunting party on a jung. chase of a reindeer, which bad led them back to tle spot where the old women was killed, came upon. ber sKelcton, and one of them in derision keke: the skull with bis foot. In am instant a aniull, spiiat, vapor-like body arose from the eyes and ears of the skull, which proved to be insects, that at- tacked the hunters with great fury and drove them to the river for protection. The skull continued to pour out Ws litle stream, and the air becaine iull of avengers of the old woman’s death, The hunter Upon returning to Camp, found all the Iudians suf- fering terribly from the plague, and ever since that time the Inthuns have beea punished by the mos- Peete for their wickedness to their preserver, the LILO. QUARTERS Will be rather diMenit of emecnt tuigyear. There is nota foot of lum- ber for sale in the sostloments, and theve will be the alternative of huddling the men together in the lim- ited quarters of Fort Garry and tae lower fort, A | twenty miles below, or constructing log buts along the river bank. Or course the men can be made comfortable, but with no lumber to be had (it can- not be procured this year alter the expedition gets here), both officers and men will tind Red River win- ter COMDRIERIIE a8 hard as anthing they ever expe- rienced ti thew lives. Next year there wil probably be @ great deal of building, as there are government houses, barracks, a court house, jail, &c., to be erected. This season nothing more cao be done than to construct rude huts and secure shelter from the intense cold of the Red River winter, Headquarters wili of course be estabiished at Fort Garry until spring. INDIAN DIPFICULTIEG, ‘The Indians living in the Red River region are all gzict, with no apprehension of any trouble from them, but the news from the Sioux country is not very cheering for Americans. ‘To those familiar wd the character and present condition of tne | 10Ux the late Lmiian chiel pow-wow at Washington |, has deep. and terrible significance, It would have see incredible that the government at Washing- ton showld manifest so litte unconcern at the ate tude of those chiefs, and the jocose manner in which the newspapers treated thé ice cream and straw- berry feasts given to the Indians appears like a mockery. ror we igst months there Ud aus constazt recital of shocking outrages committed by the indians in Montana, Wyommg and Ne- vada, and, notwithstanding thé increase of the so-litary force in that country, General Hancock, in ait his official communications upon this subject, manifests serious apprehensions of a general ‘out- break, and, as far as military propriety will admit, intimates his inability to protect the settlements tn such an event, His recent letier referring to the condition of Forts Abercrombie, Totten, Wadsworth and others in Dacotah, is pregnant with alarm. Re- liavle men arriving here at Fort Garry from the Sioux country say that the Indians are preparing for war; that they are holding war dances; that they are all taiking about vengeance for their puishment for the Minnesota massacre of 1862; that their young men just grown up have had no fighting, and are vlamorous for war in order to establish their claim to the title of warriors, and that they do not expect their chiefs to make peace at Washington, Are the people of the Eastern States still so biina, after all the terrible experience of the past, as not to under- stand the reason for the Indian chiefs’ hanghtiness at Washington? Those chiefs made the most extra- ordinary demand that has ever been made by an Indian delegation upon the government. Does any intelligent man believe that they wanted improved arms and ammunition merely to hunt buiuloes? Has any Indian delegation ever talked so insolently at Washington before, or conducted themselves m such an independent manner? Is it atall probable that they would have been so dicta- torlal it they had not known their tribes were ripe for @ united outbreak and meant war? Would they ha,e objected to visiting New York and demanded to be sent directly home, and that on horseback from the terminus of the railroad, if they had not some important object in view i doing so? They went to Washington early in the season go as to enable them to get back to their tribes in time for war, ay when the Indian eenies aro me capable of making long marc! hen th aus is ulgh ana thé squaws hq children ts not @ fon JULY 24, 1870.—TRIPLE tlersman on the border favailiar with the present stale of Indian = affurs who does not expect war this and the circus that Indian chiefs Bast season, waa made of those te cause of anger and alarm to every getiler. It 19 the ‘ef of many intelligent miners who have com from the Stoux county, and with whom I have freely couversed, that the return of Spotted Tail, Red Oloud and the reat of the ch.efs to thelr trioes will be followed by outrages and massacre all along the Northwestern frontier, ‘The Minnesota mas- #acre hal far less to indicate ite approaeh, and the commlaints of the Indians at that time sink ito in- Significance compared with the late demands of Red Cloud and his asvoctates, The latter aemanded arms and ammunition, refused to promise peace, jerked themselves into and out of the presence of the President with: irritating insolence, and with malice and murder in their hearts they have has- toned back to thelr tribes to tell new stories of the White man's deference to Indian warriors, Let us hope that ine curtain in the next act of this singular drama may not rise upon a scene of murder, torture and pillage. . RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Services To-Day, Rev, Charles B, Smyth preaches at both services before the American Free Church at Masonic Hall. Rev. Moses Hull speaks before the Sptritualists at Apollo Hall at both services. Bishop Snow will tell all about the impending War at the Uuiversity. Rev, ©, O. Foote will hold forth at the Christian chureh, Rev. Charles F, Loe preaches at Piimpton’s Butld- ing. Rev, Dr. Edward, of London, and Rev. u. D. Mat- thews preach at the Jane street United Presbyterian church, i Rev. J. W. Shackelford speaks at Memorial churo! of Bishop Wainwright, Mr. O. Dyer preaches at the Thirty-firth street Swe- denborgian house of worship, The Evangelical Alliance Not to be Past- poned. ‘We have authority for stating that the Executtve Committee of the Evangelical Alliance have unant. mously decided that the General Conference, to be held In this city In September next, shall not be postponed on account of the present war in Barope, Some of the delegates from the Continent who are expected may possibly be unable to attend; but if so they will send the papers which they have pro- pared, to be read at the Conference, We doubt not that this mformation will be gladly received by the nyultitude of felends of the Alltance, who are anticl pating with the deepest interest the grand convoca- ton of next autumn, Conference of Rabbies in Cleveland, Obio— Liberal Rosatations Passed. Ata meeting of the rabbies of various cities of the Union. heid in the etty of Clevetand, Ohio, the Rev. Dr. Lilienthal, from Cincinnati, latd before them the following preamble and resolutions, whieh, having been approved by the Comtmittee on Resolutions, were unanimously adupted, ordered to be engrossed and signed by the members present. They read as foliows:— At a meeting of the rabbtes, of vartous cities of the Tnion, heldin the etty of Cleveland, Onio, from ani after July 13, in consideration of the rengious com- motion now agitating the public mind in both hem- ispheres, In accordance with the principles of Juda- ism, it was unantmously declared:— Because, with unshaken faith and firmness, we befleve In one, indivisibie and etermal God; we also belteve in the common fatherhood of God and the common brotherhood of man. ‘The glory in the sublime doctrine of our religion, Which teaches that the righteous of all nations, without distinction of creed, will enjoy eternal lite and everlasting happiness, The divine command, the most sublime passage of the Bible, “Thou shalt love thy fellow man ay thyself,” extends to the entire human family with- out distinction of exther race or creed. Civil and religious liberty, and hence the sepa- ration of Church and State, are’ the inatienable rights of man, and we consider them to be the niga gems in the constitulion of the United ates. We love an revere this country as our home and fatherland for us and our children; and, ferefore, constler it our paramount duty to sustain and sup- port the government; to favor, by all means, the system of free education, leaving religious instruc- tion to the care of the dierent denominations. We expect the universal clevation and traterniza tion of the human family to be achieved by the nat-- ‘ural means ofscience, morality, freedom, justice and truth, Signed—Dr. J. Mayer, President, Cleveland; Dr. M. Lilienthal, Cmemnatt; Dr. ad. Huehsch, New York; J. M. Wise, Uincinnatl; Dr. S, M. Sonneschein, St. Louls; Dr. L, Kleeberg, Louisville; Dr, L. Adier, Chicagos Dr. 8. Tuska, Memphis; br. J. Kalish, New York; Dr. M. Fluegel, Quincy; G. M. Cohen, Cleveland; A. L. Mayer, Richmond, Va.; Dr. Gold- hammer, Cincianati. CLEVELAND, July 15, 1870, On motion of Rev. Dr. Sonnescheia, a vote df thanks Was unanimously given to the Kev. Dr. Lijien- thai, for having brought mm these resolutions, which so clearly express the sentiments of the conference and the religious and political creed of Judaism. VERITAS, The Frreveronce of Henry Ward Beecher. ArHEns, Ga., June, 1370, To rug Epiror or THE HERBAL Whatever Henry Ward Beecher may say concern- ng his fanittess, ptoua bringing up at Litchiteld, Conn., he exhibits, in his manhood, an audacity of irreverence towards God which escapes every obser- vation but the eye of true philosophy and intense devotion, Fwill, owt of no doubt many instanees, enumerate two; and they are sufficient, being, you will perceive, what no true Christian heart will utter. In one of his sermons, not long ago, he held that, ‘If it was wrong for man to boast, it was wrong for God to boast.” What a fool |—and how mous! God hath the right, as universal cre- ator and upholder of existences, to say or boast many things it would be wrong in man to do, will not illustrate by logical argumentation; it 1s opvions, Again, In remarking how much he was be- holden to his parents for his early training, this bold and audacious fellow sald, “lf I were to raise a monument of gold higher than heaven. it would be no expression of gratitude I owe them,” &c. How resuinptuous! Higher than heaven! Why, heaven is the highes: enttiy, and to talk of a monument of gold higher than heaven ts to transcend a)l mabrial space and to exceed calculation! Yet this man, who pretends to be a missionary of the Gospel and @ pattern for the gnidance of men, could tlk 50! it is blasphemous irreverence, and notes Beecher as a dire sinner at heart, utteriy Incorrtgible so long as the people, with mentally distorted eyes hallow him for a saint, all profound in love to God and man. No matter what you and all New York and Brook- lyn, especiully Plymouth church, think of all this, It is irreverence toward’God, and will be sure—un- Jess this bad man repeuts and reforms—to consign him among the rabbish of eternity. “God Is not mocked”—and it is direfully awful to die His solemnities with audacity. Ihave in my varied readings observed this disposition to be handling sacred things, the adoration due the Su- reme Boing, by New England divines, or mon in oly orders hailing from New England, with down- right irreverence, to be almost habitual. And, sir, these are the persons who assume to set_ themselves up for light to the country. These are the men who, foremost in the beginning, and with contumacy, with a hardihood that ought wo demark them piraves in the cowl, have prostrated from the Bible every idea that God did or had any right to give the three races descended from Noah’s three sous, Shem, Ham and Japhet, the several destinies which characterae thetr position. And where Scripture records the fact they have Ignored the same. And the villain Beecher, has shown, in a speech somewhere, that “we must bait the black man with the white Woman.’’ ‘Thus Henry Ward Beechter ts, for wild, indiscrimt- nate amalgamation. He understinas, or seems to, notiiNg about the standard of periection God hath bestowed on .one or two races above thé~third, which Christ did not alter, for the Saviour left the hysical and mental condition of men tn state quo. Witat is this pertidy to God’s inscratable will but a blasphemous arrogation of the Northern clergy, wo- men and mulattoes to set aside the words of Scripture in this case? Hon, Seuator James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, being @ classical man, sent Dr. Beecher a letter proving that Paul, alluding to “servants,” meant as well “slaves.’? But this infer- nal confounder of Diyine Trath, when it militates with his own willand ideas, handed the letter di- rectly to @ Iniend, at the Post Office of Brookiyn, a8 a curiosity, without studying the same, Here is a parson serving the devil bya subtle trick of dispar- aging those portions of Scripture adverse from his onitheare If his breeding made such a callous em- bodiment of audacity God save us from having any more such, SCHOLASTICUS. Reception to Bishop McIntyre. ‘We learn from the Charlottetown (N. B.) Herald that his lordship the Right Rev. Dr. McIntyre, the esteemed and popular Roman Catholic Bishop of Prince Edward Isiand, received a magnificent ova- tion on his arrival home last Friday from Rome, where he had been attending the Ecumenical Coun- cil. The 1st of July, 1870, should be a day carefully chronicled tn the Catholic annals of Prince Edward Island. Ithas every reason to be 80, for on that day, after haying atiended one of the most impor- tant general Councils ever held in the Church, re- turned to his see and his home among us the Bishop of Charlottetown, In the history of European clues tt is deemed of great moment to notice if thelr bishops held seats in-any of u fone Reeek Coun- cils, and to say that the bishop such & place sat in Council of Nice, or aD, OF t, 16 to ho recall not the least tof its claums to. 1m Jortance. ‘The Catholics of Kwara a an DOW boast of @ Nike aad leave thow tory adorned with the fact that their reverend bishop gat in the great Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. talegram to the Very Rev. Dr. meDonald, V. G., announced that his Lordship would arrive by the Princess on Friday, Soon, therefore, as the steamer ‘was signalled, the Cathedral bel! rang out and eager crowds hurried forward to Pope’s wharf, The Irisa volunteers, under the command of Captain Quirk, and the members of the Benevolent Irish Society, headed by the Rustico Band, marched down and drew up in line at the landing, where his Lordship's carriage was in waiting, The ay Rey. Dr. MeDonata, V. 3; the Rev, J, McDonald, rector of St Dunstan’s; the Rey. Father Phelan, of Vernon river, and tho Bev. Father McPhee, of Rustico, re- ceived his Lordship on board the 8t. Lawrenes through which the passengers by thePrincess ha to pass, When his Lordship appeared upon the wharf he was eied with a hearty cheer, aud the vast crowd falling in bettina the carriage, followed up to the Cathedral, The route on both sides was lined with spectators. ‘The Methodists of Saratoga are about to erect @ new eilifice, to cost $60,000, of which $35,000 have been subscribed, A Child’s Idea. Children hear new words, and often use (hem with Nttle idea of their true meaning. They are frequently blamed for dotug or not doing. things when their little minds have by no means compre- hended the words employed in giving them direc- tons. “Mama,” said a wee child one Sunday evening, after having sat sulll in the house all day, “dike & good child,” “have | honored you to-day? “I don't know," replied the mother, wonderingly; “why do you ask??? “Because, said the little one, shaking her head, “the Bible says, ‘Honor thy futher and thy mother, that thy days may be long}! and this has been the Jongest day I ever saw,"? A Millennial Spot. : That the millennium will come sooner in some places than in others 1s quite probable, but that any piace in the oil regions had already reached the happy state where it is unnecessary for one to say to his neighbor “Know the Lord,” we did not supposq. Yet a chance paragraph informs us that the Young Men’s Christian Association in Warren, Pa,, has been sorely tried by finding Eewsry | todo, They had resoived to visit the prisoners In the jail, but when they applied for admittance on their merciful errand they found the jail was empty. They inen resolved wo relieve the distressed, but When they ad- vertised for applicants for their charity none re- sponded, The town has a popul: mn Of 2,500 and seven churches. Grog shops are unknown, and all the inhabitants are ejiher Clrisuans or church-going peopie, The Method! and the Negroes. The New Orleans Preachers’ Meeting of the Metho- dist Church have passed the following resolution:— Resolved, That the plan of forming a “Colored” Church for the “South” bas our hearty condemna- tlon, Becatise (1), 118 unehrisfan “ovtor” is the badge of heathenish custe. Because (2), its “South’? line of boundary 18 an unuatural, anti-American and unciristian division, Which originated With slavery, and t# full of future mischief to the nation and the Chuyeh of Christ. Because (3), such a Church 18 at enmity with the fundamental principle of republican @overament, a8 that 14 most perfectly set fort in the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. Because, Snally, it 1s, in fact, oni, building 4 small back-kitchen church so as to prevent “colored” Methodisis frum getting into the iront parlor of the house of God, A Chinese Wedding im California by a © eyman, The Sacramento Unton gives an account of a Chi- nese wedding im that city. The bridegroom, Som Hing, ts @ well-to-do Chinaman, and a member of one of the Chinese Sunday schools, The bride, Miss Gut Quill, had been betrothed to him since chitd- hood, end arrived by the last steamer. Two or Miree American families accorded her protection beiore marriage, as it Was not safe 1or her to reside on the Chinese street; aud the wedding, which was to take place in the Congregational church, was celebraied the day before, at the residence of Rev. S.C. Dwmell, as the parties were afraid she might be kidnapped. This 1s the first case in Oahfornia of a Chinese inartlage by a clergyman, Phe Woman Question and the Methedist Ministry. A {From the badependent, July 21.) The Metaouist Church bas always accorded to its women members an equal right to participate in secret meeangs. Infact it has, in country and vil- lage churches, carefully trained them vo believe it @ duty to participate by 5) i and vocal prayer in the meetings of the church, be w nice question to westle in how far the superiority of the jolhodist social meetings is due to we purt taken by women. We certainly know that any other “social” gathering wouid be dutl enonagh if the wo- men present were required to sit in silence, like Taedivative auchorites. Buc the resuit of this state of things in the Metnodist Churelt fs that it is among tie first to Fei the wave of the profound movement going on in all civilized lands in behwit of Women. The Methodist Church has put the ballot into the bunds of women, and im one case at Least ic has licensed @ Woman to preach, A fact worthy of remark 18 that but two of all the Methodist papers, so far a’ we Know, have been found to utter @ protest against the womau’s move ment, The only article against women preaching that we have seen recently appeared in the Western istian Advocate, of Cincmuatl, The article bases self, Of course, on the popular misapprehension that takes the local, the temporary, the prudential regulation of the early Oriental churches to be ual- versal and binding on the Churches ta the nineteen! gentury and in this widely aliferent slate of societ: ‘The same modes of thougut which rendered 1t pos: ble to lav the Bible iu the path of the anti-siavery reformation makes it possibie to use It as an obstruc- tion to every other benelicent measure. It is history eaung itself, Men huve always used the lever as a cudgel with whieh to fight agaist the spirit of the Bibie, But Methodism woula have to fight agatast her own history if she refused to allow the wouwen of the Church, ike the four virgta bee page of Philip, to prophesy. Methodism originated in the preaching ofa woman, Not Juln Wesley, but his mother, was the reat founder of Wesleyanism. When her good, impractical, poetic High Cuurch husband was oif in London, she read sermons, conducted g service and held religious conversations with the people, and soou bad larger audiences than the recior had ever been abie vo gather in the Church liself hn tact she preaehed, When her husband's stupid and jealous eurate called i a “conventicie,” aud the rector wrote her advising her to desist, she yet defended her course by pointing to the marked tmprovement in the lives of the peuple, And that is the true test of @ Wolnan’s as of & man’s work. Next to Susannah Wesley, the chiof female saint of Methodisin is Miss Bosanquet, atterward Mrs. Fietcher. Like Mra, Wesicy, she was @ woman of rank, and i saintiiness she never had a Superior, unless it was In her husband, the ‘good vicar” of the wicked inining and manufacturing town of Madeley. She wasa preacher of the choicest and rarest sort, Wesley could not wholly Iree himself from tne lite- Tailsin of bis day, but he dare not oppose so beauti- ful and so blesse¢ a ministry as that of Mrs, Mary Fletcher, and so he excused her and other Methodist women preachers, on the ground that they were ex- ceptionally called to the work. But he excused bis lay preaciers on the sume score, and so made his exception wide enough to drive a coach and four through it, In fact, bis noble common sense always got the better of his High Cuurch prejudices and of the literalism ot his uge, which applied to alt time regulations that were local and temporary in their very nature. CLAIMS AGAIRST VENEZUELA, New York, July 23, 1970. To vue Epiror of Tuk HExALD:— Sir—In your issue of to-day you say that “from present appearances it looks very like as if our government was about to take definite action in re- gard to our claims against the republic of Vene- suela,”” adding, “If such should prove to be the case the sooner the step is taken the better.” Sinee you seem to pe in earnest upon the subject, why do you not urge upon your government the publication of the correspondence, hitherto withheld, including the deposition of Mr. Foster, an officer of the Amert- can Legation tu Caracas; that the puliic may know all the facts in the case, and the caus¢s which led the administration at Washington to make war upon a sister republic now engaged in putting down @ most wicked rebeilion within her own borders, and ata time, Loo, when, 1a consequence of the re- cent death of her late Minister, Paul, she 1s unrepresented at Washington? Don’t you think if your government has a good claim it would ae it in a better position before the world? you and the public were made aware of the partiomars of thia shameful transace tion I don’t think you would give the powerful ald of your influential journat to the support of some of the most iniquitous and disgr. ul proceedings that the most depraved could guilty of. Vene- auela, in consequence of her revolutionary troubies at home, 18 not now in a position to defend herself; bat she can and will expose those corrupt parues who would fain enrich uremseives at the expense of her blood and weasure, A VENEZUELAN, RELIGIOUS SERVICES INTERRUPTED BY A MAD Dog.—On Sunday evenin; Ape meeting was held in the vestry of Rev. W. H. Cadworin’s church, under the superintendence of Mr. Prin when a small black and tan terrier jumped through a wins dow, snapping and yelping among tho congregation. A panic at once occurred, and the ladica rushed screammg from the vicinity of the maddened crea- ture. Inthe midst of the turmoil officers arrived from staloa No. 7, which adjoins the church, and the noisy dog having been driven into a side apart ment, hé was quickly disposed of by the police. The ere owned by Mr. John Weston, and although he had been very restiess and noisy all throug the day it Was not until the evening that he became manifestly mad, The scare created by the presence of the dog Was so great that it was diiicult to re- store order sod allow the meeting to Brogeed yer yy considera exertion was continued, yu two-thirds of the B cea tion had retired terror to thew Louen—Boston Adveritser, July 19 SHEET. AMERICA’S NAVAL DEFENCES, The Iron-elad Fleet’ of the United States. P ‘Where They Are at the Present Time—Desorip- tion of Thoir Armament-Tho Condition of the Vessels—Their Officers and Crews— The Great Iron-clad Station at League Anand -~New Distribution of Mont. tors on the Atlantic Coast. PUWADELPHOIA, July 21, 1870, ‘The serious complications in political affairs in Europe and the great danger of a general European War turn men’s minds tothe contempla ion of the position in which the United States are at this moment in regard to their defensive and o‘fensive resources. Acritical survey of the fleld at home ts not at all encouraging. From a great naval Power we have 80 deteriorated in vigor and effective force that it ts very doubtful whether we could compete on the high seas even witn Spain; and as for sustaining a marine conflict with France, England or Prussia, We should require millions of money and time to create a navy for the object. OUR NAVY AT THE CLOSH OF THE WAR. At the close of tho war our navy was strong in fron-clad vessels of various styles, heavily armed and adimtrably adapted for coast de- fence, We had only one broadside iron- clad, tho New Ironsides, fit to go to sea 88 & cruiser, and she is now a wreck off League Island in the Delaware river. The double turreted mont- tors, such as the Monadnock, Miantonomol and Ter- ror, had made voyages to foreign lands, and had clearly shown themselves capable of taking care of themselves in stormy weather at sea, altnough no one claimed that they could conduct a conflict in a heavy sea-way. Our cruisers are now, and have always been, wooden ships, satisfactory enough in their way, but quite unfit to mest the foreiga tron- Clad broadside ships, which are mow seen as regu- lar cruisers in all ports of the globe. In case Of @ war with any of the leading European Powers, or in case of leas serious complications, when it became necessary to display a naval force of the greatest effeetive strength to meet any emer- gency, it will be Interesting to know exactly what we would be able to do, THE GREAT IRON-CLAD STATION. League Island, the great tron-clad station of the United States, Iles six miles below this city, on the Delaware river, and to the popular eye, so much having been written about it, #t must be a grand and magnificent naval arsenal, with immense dry docks, huge machine shops, splendid storehouses and all the other necessary buildings on a scale commen- surate with the demands of @ first class navy. Leay- Ing the Philadelphia Navy Yard on one of its tus, the enthusiastic visitor to League Island, filed with splendid visions of a second Toulon, would find bis fe fancies rudely dispelied when lis eye first caught sight of the long, low, marshy and unim- pressive isiand, around whose shores ara mvuored nearly half of the iron-clad navy of the United States, resting aud rneting “in ordinary.’ AN ISLAND SOMBTIMES UNDER WATER, ‘The island lays so low that spring freshets over- flow it ond enable adventurous satiors to Tow over a better part of it In @ small boat, Former proprietors, either as_a protection to their crops, or to save the isiand itself from the cious and consuming sweep of the Delaware, buill a slight stone wall on the river side, which has, except in two or three mstances, tolerably well protected the istand from floods, Before the Navy Department can attempt to make any expenditures on Works of @ permanent nature on the Island it niust construct a first class sea wall, lest @ raging flood might some day sweep off the light sandy soil, and carry off with tt the entire na- val station forever. On the island there are two or three houses now occupied by the boatswamn and carpenter of the Station. Such of the officers of the statton a9 are compelled to reside there find gnarters on the o!d satiing sloop-of-war St. Louis, whien has been honsed over and fitted up to accommoaate a few officers and men, ‘The St, Lous ts moored alongside the tsland, and by her 1 the tremendous tron-clad vessel the Purt- tan, desigied by Bricksson, but yet in an incompiete state, THR PURITAN is a single turreted monitor, to carry two twenty- inch guns, with a long, sharp, wedge-like ram, eal- culated to rum through amy ship anoat if her engines could drive her at the speed intended, Her tmrmense engines are already aboard and in place, but her turret 1 still laying in her hold, ready to be put up at any time, Tt would require more than six months to make the Puritan ready for sea. Lying ahead of the colossal iron-clad {9 thnt mag- nificently costly failure, the Ohattanooga, & wooden ship, designed for a swift ocean cruiser, but now thoroughly and hopelessly rotten, ere she ever breasted or plunged through tue seas of the Atlantic, Her engines, costing more than eight hundred thousand dollars, are to be taken out and placed in the Connecticut, a larger craft now building m the Boston yard. The only rewurn the government will ever receive for its outlay of nearly eight handred thousand dojlars on her hull will be Tor the old trou, copper and decayed timber which May come out of her when she is broken up, Astern of the Puritan, with her turret and smokestack properly covered, lies the single turreted monitor Canonicus, carrying one fifteen-inch and one eleven- inch gun. She has seen servies during the war, and bears in many places Honorable scars gamed in the hot conflict, The Canonicus is the only iron-clad at League Island which is ready for sem She can be coaiel and sent to the front, if that be not too far distant, In one week, She has been recently repaired and made ready to reapond ata moment's call, and 1s, for that class of vessels, very eMcient and valuabie. TUB INSIDE CHAKNEL, On the inside of the island, snugly bundled away, with turrets and smokestacks covered, and every- thing carefully arranged to prevent unnatural detee nioration and decay, lie fifteen monitors of various styles and sizes, Some of them were originally of the frmnous Nght dranght desoription—so light, in- deed, that they could not carry their armor, A LUbe- Tal expenditure of money applied to building up thetr decks obviated that trifling defect in their orl- ginal plan, THE MONITOR TRON-CLADS thus laid up in ordinary on the inside channel of the island are the Algoma, 2 guns; Catskill, 2; Co- hoes, light draught, 2; Jason, 2; Lehigh, 2; Koka, 25 Nahant, 2; Nantucket, 2; Napa, light draught, 1; Nansett, 2; Niobe, 2; Otsego, 2; Passaic, 2; Suncook, 2, and Yazoo, 2, Several of them did long and splendid service in. Charleston harbor and of Wilmington, and would doubtless be as equally efficient, did opportunity offer, in the fortress, The batteries of all these vessels are laid away at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, as there is as yet no ord- nance yard established at League Isjand. The en- gines are carefully covered with a coating of bees wax and black ledd, wiich protects the iron and steel and prevents rust, Not one of these iron-clads could be got ready for sea in several montha, but eventually could be put in excellent condition. All, of course, are designed for home defence and could aid our forts and the torpedo force in keeping out of harbors an enemy's fleet’ of iron-clads, but they are in no sense fitted for offensive watfare to be carried on in foreign seas Our navy for that purpose has not yet been designed, much less built. While Congress wil not appropriate money for what purpose the Department manages by strict economy to prevent in @ measure the destruction of what force wo already possens, built up as it was for home uses, and Is very slowly adding to our stall force of wooden ocean cruisers. Especially has it exhibited commendable care in pre- aerving a3 weil a8 may be our fleet of tron-clads, THR PERSONNEL AT LEAGUE ISLAND. At Leaguo Isiand a strong staff of our cleverest Qnd most experienced engineers are retained on duty, to keep a constant watch on the vessels lying there, and W& do all in their power to see that they suffer no more than the usual depreciation causea. by time and non-usage in their halls and machinery, T am coundent from @ careful examination that } nothing could be better managed than the work en- trusted to our officers at. League Island, THE NAVAL STATION Ov THM FUTURE, Some of these days in the far distant future a great naval station may be laid out and constructed at League Island. Tt does not seem to me to be juat the spot, but | presume with an expenditure of from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a first class nava! arsenal, with splendid dry docks aad appropriate work houses, could be placed there, which would be ot Immense service to our Davy and @ credit to the nation. THE NEW ORLEANS STATION BROKEN UP. AS you are doubtless already informed, the denart- ment hi iven ordérs to break up the iron-clad station at New Oricais and to send to League Island all the seagoing iron-clads to be permanentiy laid up with their rusty brethren for the day of need, ‘The iron-clads built for river service in the West will probably be sent to Mound City to be laid up. The ‘Island will thas become the sole station for seagoing Iron-clads not in use or stationed at various navy yards lor barvor defence, THE IKON-OLADS CRUISING. At present the iron-clads im commission are tho Terror and Miantonomoh, double turreted monitors, 4 guns each, and the Ercsason monitor Saugus, 2 guns, ‘Lhe double-turreted Amphiirtie, 4 guns, is lying off the Naval School at Annapolis, and, with some repairs and a proper crew, can ve sent to sea in @ short time, LIST OF OFFICERS, The following is a correct list of the oMcers con- nected with the League Isiand Station; — Commodore—J. Madison Fralley. Commander—E. W. Henry. Lieutenant Comma: —J. M, Quackenbush, rt, Frat Potts, Biles, RW. Mitigan, 7. J. i. tery—which could be of tié harbor, 9 conjanction with the guns of the for In the lower bay and the torpedges which would ob- struct the channels to the city. tice ship, is the doubie-tu pertsfied miserably by fire of the war, alter making #sptendid reputation for ber- self in Charleston harbor, as bet, u Assistant Engincers—David Hardio, R. 8, H. D. MoBwen, D. W. q . “ ‘on, Edward Seoond Assistinis—James ee ‘tion, valsvain—E, Kenndy. Commodore's Seoretary—Wiliiam J. Manning. It will be interesting to know where the balance of Our iron-ctad fleet are now stationed, and the condl- ‘Uon in which they ave to-day, THE IRON CLAD! THR PACIFIC IDB, Mm » 4 guna, and Camanche, 2 guns. The latter vessel was sent out to San kranetsco ta pieces during the late war, aud after suiferiog all sorts of mistortunes, one of which was being sunk im tho bay, was finally Pal put together, and suveessfully made ready for wort vice, She 13 In excellent condition, and prepared im every way to perform efictent duty at a few weexa® notice, The Monadnock, a vessel butitin the Bos- ton Navy Navy Yard, on a plan better adapted for seagoing purposes than Captain Ertesson's, altl the turret system invented by that gentieman wae retained, was the first tureted ship that made » long sea voyage. It will be remembered tnat under the command of Lieutenant Commander Frano! Bunce she accompantea Rear Admiral John squadron around Cape Horn into the Pacifie Uceaan, aud fually to San Francisco, wien sie was put owt of commission, The Monadnock first demonstrated the fact thas turreted ships of that class could be sent to dtatant Seas with safety, and the subsequent cruise of the Miantonomon to the ports of Europe satisfactority confirined the faith of the Navy Department tn thelr seagoing qualitie® The Monadnock carrtes four ftteen-theh guns, and, with her smaller consort, the Camanche, Would adord afiple protecuon to San Francisco against any enemy's vessels ever likety to be found in the Pacitic, ON THA ATLANTIC COAST we find the mouth of the Mtssissippt ana the @att ports protected by the river iron-ciads now at Mound City and the monitors at New Orleans. That ron consists of the monitors Ajax, 2 guus; Ecab, 2 gus; Iris, 2 guns; Klamath, 2 guns; Manvattan, 2 guns; 2 guns, and the irun-clads’ Chickasaw, 4 guns; Ke- Jmpqua, 2 guns; Wyandotte, 2 guns; Yuma, Waydin, 4 guns, aud Winnebago, 4 guns, at New Orleans, and the Marietta, 2 guns; Osceola, 2 guns, and Sandusky, 2 guns, at Mound City, Aa we have before remarked, the monitors are to be sent to League Island; the oalance will remain ta the Missiasippl. Cruising in the Gulf at this mo- ment are the doubie-turreted monitor Terror, 4 guna; the Dictator, 2 guns, and the Saugus, 2 guns, with headquarters at hey West. At Wasulngton, cover- ing the Chesapeake and James river, are the mont- tors Mahopac, 2 guns; Montauk, 2 guns, and the ght draught monitors Hero and Piscataqua, each armed with one gua. League Isiaad covers the Delaware; and for NEW YORK DEFENCES we find ouly at this ime the three-turreted monitor Roauoke, 6 guns—an excellent steam floating bate great service in defendtn, AT BOSTON there are the Mtantonomoh, double-turreted mon{- tor, 4 guns; the Shawnee, 2 guns, and the light draught monitor Wassuc, clads at the Portsmout ttoned on the Eastern coast, be distributed among the Eastern ports for hi 1 gun. ‘Shere are no trone Navy Yard and none sta- A squadron could defence in case of necessity. At the Naval Academy, Annapolis, used as a q ted monitor Amph nearly esas for sea service, and at the Brook! Navy Yard Is the mysterious, quaint and odd-lodit- ing monster, THE TORPEDO BOAT SPUYTAN DUYVIE, an offensive engine of great power, and one hat reckoned on to blow up and Cog ony irou-ctads that may attempt to enter New Yor Ii bor on @ hostile errand, ‘These vessels that been enumerated constitute the tron-clad na the United States. They earry lof guns, more two-thirds of which are of fifteen-inch catibre. balance are elvven-mnch smooth bores or two iemited pounder rifles. For home defence this 4 would undoubtedly prove amply strong, i distributed. Besides these there are on the a well advanced, at the New York Navy Yard, the Oo, Jossns, 10 guns; Massachusetts, doubie- monttor, 4 guns, at Portsmouth Navy Yard; Mee braska, two turrets, 4 guns, Philadelpig ard, and the Oregon, two turrets, 4 guts, The armor and torrets of these sips are att ready to be put on, though it would require # your or more to get them ready for sea. THRE GRAVE OF THE NEW IRONSTORY, ‘The only iron broadside frigate we ever posseqiet League Isiand atree one of the most efficient and terrific engines of destraction we placed afloat. The wreckers are now at work af her, sdving her pisting and éngin-s pieces of ovate the shore of the isiand, sad mementoes of one of tae noblest ighting vessels that ever flew a THE NAVY POR THe FeTURS. Unfortunately the Navy Departinent has never adopted any other than'the turret system for tom clads, and’ to-day we cannot send abroad « ahygty Crait that can compere with the heavy Iron-chets of foreign Powers. Unul the country i# ready to adopt the broadside system and be alyte to build Arat claw frigates, AT An Immense cost, We uNUst Pe~ain setts fed always to do our Ogbting in our own por, aid never to dy our Mag in foreign waters sett doubtless be the cheapost plan, even {0 a eceedtiny destroys our wuthuence abroad. TRE ttist Brot, To THE Eprron or Tir MeKaLy:— ‘There ! searcely au inhabitant of New York att neighboring cities to day that is notaware of a biovay and disgracerul riot having takem place tn thre vieint- ty of Elm Park, on 12; but how few will form a correct Idea of its cause, and how few are linpressed with the certatuty of i recurring again year by year until a bloody mas#acré wipes.out etther of the contending elements, leavitig time, under the present laxity of laws, to renew thé” feud, Itia the ralersof this city who should ba hal responsible for the lives taken or endangered, th avenue, on Tuesday, Joly The laws.of this country are not to be made subservient to the rights and ceremonies of any kingly flunkies, or any class of religious bigota when they wish parade like assassins, with concealed weapons, or any party, who in God and religion’s name, thing more of the old catch words of feudalism or the badged insignia of pope or king than they. do of tae well-being of this repubitc. Wat is it to wa ié Wile li Prince of Orange, or any other Hanoverian, married the daughter of an old Scoten pigoted king and chose to Tek his father-in-law, and in his usurpations went with lis hungry Hessians to the Boyne, and, with the thieves. that followed him and the traitors he found there, managed to curse the world ever since with a spawn of bigotry, disunton, @ drivelling memory of and a slavish reva- rence for old monarchies, that even now, nearly 3) yeara ago, those tainted with tt cannot be re cans? But it is something to us if the lunatics who foster this feeling can name the frenzy religion, and have us drawn in py elther party, when all true men should know it means murder, intolerance and trained hatred, by ignorant tools, who look wpom thetr fellow countrymen with aversion, if their pow- ers of thought are not blighted with the same base- ness as their own, What is tt to us if a certain clase of Irishmen chose to make themselves the meauest things human that crawl the earth by celebral the day when a foreigner came over and whip) and ruled them in their own country, and that are proud to be even now the dogs (hat he found them then? But tt is something to us when tila de. radation 18 carried by them to this country, and, falling to see It themselves in the light of freedom, Would brand the thing religion, aud tempt us to loolk kindly on the monster that has Cursed themselves and their country for centuries. The tawa of this State and ow, should secure us against bands of or- ganizea fotelgners meeting to nurse and foster, for the spite it gives, the evils that cured them at home, When J say foreigners | mean those who are 80 wedded to monarchy and tha petted sect upheld by it that, no matter ow long they my live here, they never become oftt- zens, and if they do it is not that their naturce have undergone any change to make them worihy of the title, but that their votes may help to atd the old tion and feed the ola fancies which spill gov them, Now, I say, let the laws of the e govern thom, that no bwlyof men Who are not citizens showd be uilowed to walk in procession under tence whatever. That before teaving thetr ° Ing rooms an officer should examine every Man pres vious to joining his procession tm the streets abd take away ali weapons, And every soctety, or organization should be subject to this scrutiny, ox cept those of @ military nature. If those under the name of religion carry the concealed weapons of the assassin Who else can be trusted t itis a well known fact that many of the organiz4- tions known as Gea tong and who turned ous yesterday, the 12th of Juiy, to eclebrate the memory of an old Dutchman because he was @ king, and @ bigot among bigots—as all were #o in his Cay—and about whose memory our more sensible and more Tepublican Dutchmen who frequent Elim Pack don’t care a button—yes it is well known that many ot those men are not citizens: that many of tiem were enemies to the country during the rebellion, and thele sympathies on the side of the rebels were siowm in the same slang used by them in their convivial moments, and which geveraliy comes from thetr mouths with the smack of the lodge on tt. Let the eltiz whatever his creed may be, have protection; crush out by enactments all remnants of feudalis! all the barbarism of chieftainry and clausiip ai kiegworship that may lit its head vo spread disaen- sion Mong us. The majority of this country want @republican form of government. We want no bands of unnaturalized foreigners parading through our streets calling themselves Catholic or Provestant, as I have seen them in New Orleans, eo yaugly flags and mottoes of the Seat oe ta seas banners and revolvers and stillette 4 “OAL to republicanism and Ai > dontees to their own, to mine and every think! man’s freedom, Let us have no more of this, It politicians flud use for tt let us have no uso for the politicians. Let it be seen tu our laws that tiie country 1s not the parade ground for the evil pad- sions that grew too rank even for where they wi first nuinsed, and that the laws of @ free count req Matin i ain, Se eae eae Brice, aac ra am, sir, an Am : divided by sectarianism: