The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1870, Page 8

bd : NORTH CAROLINA. The Reign of Terror in Caswell County. ‘Whole Familios Without a Male Protector—The Town of Yanoayville Picketed by Kirk’s Jay- hawkers—The Court Martial Postponed— Kirk Reports Fresh Outrages in tho County — Another Side of the Case—Peculiar Position of the United States Troops. Yanoervitve, July 23, 1870, Last evening a lady standing in the doorway of one of the residences here, appealing to a gentle- Man named Withers, said:—“Do pray, Colonel, come and sleep here to-night, for 1 am terrified and don’t know what may happen. There is no- body here but myself and the children, and we are nearly scared to death.’ “Indeed, Mrs. John- fon,” said the gentleman, ‘I would do so with pleasure, but I have already promised Mrs, —— that I would stay there to-night. You know she has a large family of daughters, and they require, more than you do, some male protector.” “God help us!’ said the lady, ‘“‘what will become of us?” This brief conversation took place between the wife of one of Kirk’s prisoners and a citizen, not yet arrested, who now employs himself affording pro- tection to the families of the gentlemen who are confined in the Court House. When the citizens still at large are distributed, there is scarcely a eufficient number to allow one to each house, and in consequence of the roving and depredat- ing propensities of the jayhawkers the greatest alarmand insecurity are experienced by the help- Jess women and children, A town occupied by ‘an invading foe scarcely ever underwent a more trying ordeal than does the village of Yanceyville at present, for here there is a horde of ruffians ‘who seem to be impressed with the idea that their express mission is one of persecution and outrage. At night the village is PICKETED by the jayhawkers, and every traveller not having ‘the countersign is marched before one of Kirk’s officers, who subjects him to a cross-examination as to his residence, where he is going, and his po- litical proclivities; and if the responses are all sat- isfactory he is allowed to pass; if not he is hospi- tably huddled into the Court House, where he finds ‘time for calm reflection, if not repose. In the morning the persons so arrested are brought into the august presence of Colonel Kirk, who again examines them, and either disposes of them by a continuation of the hospitality of the Court House, or permits them to depart. The officers comprising the court martial ap- appointed by his Excellency Governor Holden to try the prisoners not having arrived yet, 1 called on Colonel Kirk this morning, and, being lucky enough to meet him at the gate in front of the Court House, had quite an interesting though BRIEF INTERVIEW. Correspondent—Colonel, 1 understand Officers of the court have not arrived. any news of them? Colonel—Yes. The court martial is postponed on account of the sickness of some of the officers. Correspondent—Are you in receipt of any in- structions as to the disposition of ihe prisoners ? Colonel—No. I am waiting for despatches now. My Lieutenant Colonel is at one of the stations on the railroad waiting for the d Correspondent—Do you an bring the prisoners to Raleigh? | saw a civil officer here yesterday with ameteen writs from the Chief Justice for the bodies of the prisoners, which he failed to serve oa you. Colonel—-No, I don’t expect any orders to carry them to Raleigh. I think they will be tried here afier the elections, and I see uo use in the Chief Justice sending his writs here, for he knows as weilasIdo that the prisoners will not be given up. Idon't wantto be bothered any more with writs, and I don’t intend to a!low any more of them to be served on me. [| have got a bundle of them now in my pocket, snd the man who brought them isin the Court Honse. Ten thousand men could not get the prisoners without a fight. Tam acting under Governor [folden’s orders, and {ll be damned if J don’t obey them. Correspondent—How long do you expect to re- miin here? Colonel—I_ will be here six months at least. There is plenty to do in this very county for that Jength of time, Correspondent—What is there to be done that will take you six months? the Jlave you Colonel—Why, suppressing these outrages. I ani not a political partisan, but I want every man to have a free and untrampled vote. (This wa: the Colonel’s exact language.) Correspondent—You do not mean to say there has been any outrage committed in the county since you arrived here? Colonel—Yes, fdo. [have three pages of tes- timony now of outrages committed withia the last week. Correspondent-—What is the nature of these outrages? Colonel—Whipping and scourging white Union men and colored men because they voted the republican ticket. And those outrages are not committed by poor men, becanse they have horses, and the horses are disgt 1 as weil as the men to prevent them from 5 mn, bat the Ku Klux themselve is the wealthy men who are they do not murder and whip themselv furnish the me Them very pri i have marder in their hearts, avd if this thing was stopped right here at this stage every Union man and uegro in the county would fiave fo get ap and Correspondent—Who do yoa get your mforma- tion of outrages from, for ] have been asking both neeroes and white men aud have failed yeu to dis- y who know of a recent case of whipping on? who are whipp fied many of t Whivped the want to see of these ou vic o Mrs. Step 3, and s¢ ‘ying for their i red father. these prizouers knew well that day that Stephens was to be taurdered, and tue only way to stop auch doings is to retaliate, and hang aud whip the men who wre found guilty of committ ug such out- rages. the Colonel showed himself in his true colors in this little conversation. Le is tutored to perfec tion in the role he has to pley, and Holden could not have possibly procured a more willing and able tool to carry out his infamous designs. That his allegations of fresh and that the respected and elderly gentiemex fined him were coguizaut of the Stephens murd is a foul and malicious slander. Whe officers commanding the United t vs troops here, }e- aides two Northern gentlemen who visited Yancey- ville recently, lieged outrages a most thorough and impartial investigatios, and all ayreo in stating J tifcation for the unparal ople here than : uty in New York or any other ihe murderers of Stephens wiil one of be ferreted out; aud it is really believed by many that it can ‘be traced directly to Governor Holden himself, who told the negroes that Stephens “must be got rid of.” POSITION OF THY UNITSD STATE Ors. Battery D. Fourth United States Heavy Artil- lery, uow doing daty here as infantry, under tha command of Major Rodney and Captcin Field, oc- cupies a singular position in relation to the exist- ing troubles. They arrived here about a week rior to Kirk and his band of jayhawkers, with fostrachaus from the headquarters of Genera’ MeDowell, Department Commander, to aid the civil authorities in the enforcement of the the officer in charge, however, diseretionary powers. Making the case a suppos- able one, the sheriff of the county was the civil official the officer in command of these troops instrneted to aid, and whose orders he was y bound to obey. But the sheriif was one rst persons arrested and imprisoned by er the invasion with loaded muskets and cocked — pistol: All he offices of the remainng ficials with their books 1 taken possession of by ayhawkers in the oflices, tho incumipentp aduaiasions _, Th 1 | Rowse opposite looked on tn blan woude mean, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1870.—TRIPLE civil officials to M: Rodney for sid— for the protection, atleast, of the. recurdn of the court and the archives of the county, besides the mass of documentary matter in their charge; but, however that officer’s convictions of right were, he exercised his discretionary powers and refused to interfere, Since then there have been no civil officials to aid as the instructions indicated, and the position of the United States feoaes here 13a negative one, unless possibly they might interfere to quell a conflict between Kirk’s troops and the citizens, if such took place, though perhaps the discretionary powers would be more judiciously exercised if they aided Kirk. A similar complica- tion to this arose yesterday, when the deputy of the marshal of the State Supreme Court attempted to serve the writs of habeas corpus on Kirk, but was prevented by @ quiet intimation from that indivi- dual that he would be fired on if he oid not make himself scarce in Yanceyville. Was not Major Rodney and his troops bound to aid this officer in executing the writs—the sacred privilege of the y citizen at all hazards—particularly when the habeas corpus had not been suspended by the President of the United States? The Deputy Marsbal did not appeal to him for aid, and even if he did, under the circumstances, the officer would, in all probability, have again exercised his discretion, and, in the absence of more definite instructions, refused to interfere where it might have resuited in a serions collision between the jayhawkers and the United States troops. The marked contrast between the soldiers of this command, in point of physical development, healthy appearance, soldierly bearing and strict discipline, tells terribly against Kirk's slim, sickiy, saffron-colored, slovenly samples of East Tennes- see jayhawkers, and intellectually the privates in the United States battery are the superiors of Kirk’s officers. On the 25th a detective of Holden’s, whose name is L. H. Mowers, but who has alf a dozen aliases—viz., Hamilton, Burnham and others—de- coyed & young man named Gun, of this county, from Dasville, Va., and ARRESTED TIM, lodged him in the Court House with the remainder of Kirk’s prisoners, where he still remains in custody. This is an outrage on the State of Virgmia that should at once be looked into y Governor Walker. Gun was no fugitive from justice; there were no charges preferred against him; and even had there been Holden’s minions had no shadow of authority for decoying aman from Virginia for the purpose of arrest. The arrest was, in fact, made in Virginia, and is therefore a violation of the territory of that State. Kirk, who is to be one o! the members of the court to try the prisoners, has repeatedly ex- pressed his opinion of the guilt of some of shem, and is therefore disqualified to act. Arrival of a Deputy With the Hnbeas Corpus Writs—Kirk Shuns the Ofticer-Tue Court House Parricaded—Threat to Fire on Four Citizens—Kirk’s Influence en the Elections Kirk’s Program: YANOEYVILLE, July 29, 1870, The few remaining citizens, the two straugers here, the Company of United States Arullery, and the women and children, were thrown into a state of intense excitement and consternation this morn- ing by what threatened for a few moments to result in bloodshed. About ten A, M. Mr, George William- son, acitizen of this county, accompanied by Mr. Pace, a Virginian, arrived here, the former being deputized by the Marshal of the Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina to serve the nineteen writs oF habeas corpus, issued in the cases of the Cas- well prisoners, on Colonel Geo. W. Kirk, commanding the State troops, who has them in custody at the Court House, The following 1s a copy of ove of the writs :— STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. To Georce W. KIRK, GREYTING:—We command you that the body of Jol Kerr, being coaflued and de‘amed in your cusiody, a3 it is sald, together wii tue day and cause Of his capture and @eiention, by whatever name he may ve calied, you have before Ie, Richard M, Peaison, Chief sustice of tie Supreme Court of the State aforesaid, at. tue Cham- ber of the Supreme Court in the city of Raliegh, im- mediately alter the receipt of this wra, to do and receive Wilat shall be then cousidered in his behali. Witnes RICHARD M, PEAKSON, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, this zed day of duly, 1870, Armed with nineteen of these peremptory docu- ments Mr. Williamson presented himself at the tront gate of the Court House and requested to see Colonel Kuk Ob Umporlant business. One of the East Ten- nessee orderiles carried te message into the Court House, and shortly afterwards Major Yates, of Kirk’s command, appeared and demanded of Williamson the nature of his mission, ‘The latter ex- plained that it was to serve upon Colonel Kirk nine- teen writs of habeas corpus in the cases of the prisoners, Issued by Chief Justice Pearson, This information was at once conveyed to Kirk, who re- turned an answer that he would give Wililamson a reply in half an hour. At the expiration of that time Williamson reappeared, and, seeing Kirk at one of the windows of the Court House, called to him to come forth, at the same time exhibiting the bundle of documents aloftin his haud. Kirk quickly disappeared from the wiudow, and the Major again advanced from the Court House to the railings, whea he informed Williamson:— “Colonel Kirk will hold no communication with midnight assassins.”” Wiilamson replied:— “tain no midnight assassin, sir, I am merely de- puted to perform a auty, and { wish to do so in the most peaceable manner possible.” Major YaTes—olonel Kirk refuses to see you and will have nothing todo with you.” Failing in these repeated edlorts to obtain an audt- ence with the notorious East Tennessee bush- whacker, Williamson then retired to the piazza of a house on tie opposite side of the strect to await the first opportunity that presented itself of serving the writs when Kirk would make bis appearance outside the lines of his sentinels. While here three or four ofthe citizens yet at large waited to him to earn the result of his visti, which they had ali observed. bie in the camp around the Court Honse. $ and couriers Hew from headquariers in wll tious ; drums beat the long rol! ; the jay hawk ers in g As" SIOWLY DUCKIE on thelr barric for mus lower story of tie Gourl dou id the entire command Was oF tered to fall in, v ihe prisoners above in the upper story Jooked down upon thelr Warkke demonstrations with amazement anda just dread of some Impending danger. | oor aiter Uus the order was a hawkers? ram ang © lar aad de- sultory sort of way » clumsily ram- med home; caps W » adjusted principal by the offers, and in probably ha'f an how the frst and to load that miliary feat was | complisi 2 The four citizens ou Ur ng What this extraordinary dispiay could ut they Lad not long to wa.t for soon @ de- ent imder command of the Major, with arms atthe “right shoulder shift? fled intd the public square aud advanced towards tke house, on the piazza of which they were standing. Haltins tie jay hawkers directly in front of the tour citizens, the most unmilitary-like attitude, ihe valiaut Majox wh 1, then said:— Ku Klux caucussing must be Colonel Will not allow any of your ‘ations here. If you have homes go to , and if you don’t I wil FIRE ON YOU.” Without even waiting to assure the gallant Mejor } that they were not Ku Klux that they were maki no revel demonstrations, and that they had hous, the jour unarmed ettizens then immediately took their obnoxious presences away from the sight of the terrifed jay hawkers. The Aquad then retired Within thelr fortified lines, where the command is now under arms in antictpation of an atiack irom a possee, whic they suppose Mr, Willhamson may suimmon to ust him in serving the writs of habeas corpus. But that gentleman, having found 1t on im- possibility to get within ity yards, at least, of Kirk, has quiviiy leit the place and proceeded to Raleigh w make areturn in accordance with tie eireuin- stances, In the meautime the officers tnat constitute THE COURT MARTIAL are looked for every mome:t, and the greatest anxiety 1s evinced to know how tuey will proceed with the trial, Witnesses, counsel and all ‘he ad- Junets of a great State political tial, will doubticss ligure here, and this farce will probably be pro- longed for mouths, during which time the y tin a constant State of excit ‘fect of Kirk’s presence in th 8 section ndoubtedly influcnce the August elections in favor of them at on ND HIS PARTY, from the fact that areign of terror pr and the ounding couaties. In this cot whites |. notregis «i generaily, and the few that have registered are afraid to leave (heir howies for fear Of arrest and imprisonment. A great many have fied to Virginia, and to-day Tlearn’ th is a general stampede of the c'tizens iro. in; counties of Rocking! Alam: y Guilford and other border pues across to Vir- qinia, Which now seems vo be a place oi reiuge tor the terror-stricken North Carolinians, THE PRO! as announced by Kirk and his officers. ia to demor- alize by his despotic measures a:l the conservauive voters In tiils section, and to Jead the negroes to believe they will be severely pnaisaed ii they do not go to the polls and vote early and often on the 4th prosiiny, wad Ae bas peou Bubaally aucygassul La care hired | Hzigg it ous, Should the elections go tn favor of the party, Holden, it te believed, will then cease hie perseounon of the white people of the State and withdraw the Tennessee jay hawkers under Kirk: but if radicalism 1s defeated the Governor will continue his arrests, drumhead trials, and, if possible, cause @ bloody civil conflict, Looking at the entire pro- ceeding with the unprejudiced eye of an impartial Northern observer, it 1s manifest that a more gross. and unqualified outrage upon the rights and liberties: of & people never was purpetrated in a time of ace. AS for the pretext that clvil-law is not en- forced, it is the fMimsiest sham imagipavle, There are now under bonds tn the county, to appear at the next term of Judge Fourzee’s court, SIX YOUNG M who were arrested by the She on the charge of being meiubers of a secret organization Known as the Ku Kinx Kian, and with perpetrating outrages on the citizens of the county. Notwithstanding the fact that the nature of the charges were publicly known, the Sherif found no difficulty in arresting these alleged Ku Klux, and so it is in every instance, ‘There has not been a single criminal, against whom A civil process was tssued, that escaped arrest, and rarely has any of them attempted to evade arrest, ‘The latest ot KIRK'S BXPLOITS occurred about an hour after the scare he experl- enced upon the arrival of Mr, Willlawson with the writs of habeas corpus from Kaleigh, A squad of ten, under command of an officer, visited a store, the'proprietor of which ts @ prisoner, bat his son stil kept it open and dispensed the wares and me chandise to hig customers, Tue oMfcer demanded i pistol or pistols alleged to be in possession of the youth, who 1s only fourteen years old, and upon be- jug informed he had no pistols, he was ordered to close up and “get ready,’ which meant to take up quarters in the Court House. Tne boy was al once incarcerated. ‘The people are in a fearful state of alarin and excitement, and the magnificent crops in the county are being allowed to rot in the i elds, All the harvest work commeced before Kirk make his ap earance has been suspended, and the loss can be estimated at hundreds of thousands, RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Services To-Dny. The subject of the Rev. Charles B. Smyth’s ser- mon before the American Free Church, at Mason- ic Hall, is “The Franco-Prussian War, Viewed in the Light of Prophecy.” . Rev. Moses Hull delivers his closing discourses before the Society of Spiritualists, at both ser- vices, at Apollo Hall. The Prophet Snow will speak on ‘Christ Com- ing from Edom,” this afternoon, at the University. Rev. David Mitchell preaches on “Signs of the Times,” at the Canal street church, this morning. Rev. Abbott Brown will deliver a sermon this forenoon, at the Church of the Reformation. Professor W. H. Green, of Princeton, preaches at both services, at the Forty-Second street Pres- byterian Church. The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new church of St. Rose of Lima, in Cannon street, Rev. M. McKenna, pastor, takes place at half-past five o’clock this evening. Revival of a Baptist Church in Hackensack. Recently a few Baptists assembled at the resi- dence of Mr. Wm. DeWolfe, Hackensack, N. J., and uniting with him and his wife, revived the First Baptist Church of that place, of which they were the only surviving fepresentatives, Es- tablished thirty-five years ago, in a community at that time hostile to such an enterprise, after struggling a few yeara, the unchristian conduct of an evil man who occupied the position of pastor, effectually scattered them. Without a house of worship, pastor, or money, this small band of twenty-five or thirty have undertaken to hold up in that town those principles which are so dear to every Baptist. Henry Ward Beecher on His Reported Ser- mons. Mr. Beecher presided at the usual weekly prayer meeting and lecture room talk on Friday night for the last time for the season. Before next Friday he will have left the city for his annual six weeks’ Test. it is usual on the annual recurrence of this special Friday evening for Mr. Beecher to say something in the shape of a retrospect of the pro- gress of the Church during the year. In the course of this talk he said that the past year was remarkable for the increased number of hearers who had gathered in the church to listen to the truth, No year had exceeded or even equalled the number. In_ this con- nection, he said, he could not but feel ver; grateful, nay, truly thankful, for the multi- plication of himself by the printing press. In this respect the year bad been remarkable. Never before had he been so faithfally and so extensive- ly reported; he was followed as it were by a sha- low of himself, and not only throughout this country but in England were his spoken words reproduced to an incalculable number of readers. His father had during his ministerial career always been anxious to write something that should live after he was gone. But with the burden of the present duty always weighing him down, that was not accomplished. He (Mr. Beecher) had seen his father’s mistake, and though inheriting the same constitutional difficulty, and surrounded by cir- cumsti that were unfavorable to this kind of reproduction, he was thankful to have the reflec- tion that when he died there would be left behind him words of truth that might be blest to many an erring one. Remarkable Excitement in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Attica, N. ¥. Artica, N, Y., July 29, 1870. For some six weeks or two months past this usually quiet village has been under a very un- usual end peculiar state of excitement, certainly peculiar to a Christian community in a Christian land, under a free government and in the nine- teeuth century. It is an attempt of a few bad men—tess than ten—to turn a church and people, with the minister of their choice, out of their own house of worship, and they so far succeeded as to swear outan injanction forbidding the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Attica to preach or attempt to preach or lead worship therein, and to forbid one of the trustees of the soci orshipping there to “execute” the duties of his office; and, this not accomplishing the de- sired end, these bad men, who had several of them contrived to get elected trustees, and then hold on to their office by neglecting to call a new election when their terms expired, they roughs from abroad to break into the church edifice and hold it over a Sabbath, that they might be able to swear they had posses- sion of the church and held services therein, But our citizens drove out the intruders, and they, after testifying that they were hired and did not know the nature of the job they had under- taken, were permitted to return to their homes. Perhaps, to give your readers any correct idea of this war, it may be necessary to tell them how t commenced, At the request of the congrega- tion the pastor discharged the chorister—possibly without good reason—and these would-be trustees commenced a series of threats and persecutions that compelled the young pastor to resign his charge. His place was supplied by Rev. J. Watts, and the new pastor refused to reinstate the old chorister. This turned their vindictiveness against him, and these bad trustees tried to get posses- sion of the church, and enlisted with them the presiding elder (who had a grudge to pay the astor), and the elder undertook to supersede Watts. But the congregation were for Watts, more than ten to one—nay fully 100 to one, and, in the face of the elder, they voted without a dis- senting veice that their pastor should occupy ai control their pulpit, and that no one should oc- it without invitation from him, resolution was followed ina week or two y the injuaction r red to. Butin the mean a final election had been held and new trus- tees were chosen in place of those whose time had expired. The trustees resolved that until the injunction was raised they would close their house and guard it against intruders. They held the keys, the books and records, the communion service, &c., aud continued their possession, and respected the unparalleled court proceedings that put the gospel under injanction, holding the church services in a public hall. Last Sabbath, the injunction being raised, the Methodist Episcopal church and its pastor en- joyed a free gospel; and as their church pro- perty is held independent of the conference, they propose to continue “freedom to worship God.’ Revision of the Bible. In England the Old Testament company of re- visers have followed in the footsteps of their fel- low-workers of the New Testament in taking prompt action in the task assigned to them. Eleven members of their body met on Thursday morning in Henry VII. Chapel and received the Holy Communion at the hands of the Dean of Westmingter, those who were present, including three bishops of the Church of England, and scholars representing Presbyterian and Noncon- formist so: , as well as those of our English colleges and universities. A larger meeting was held afterwards at the rooms of the Society for Pro- moting Christian Knowledge,the Bishop of Llandaff in the chair,at which seventeen members attended. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who has taken throughout so large a part in the movement which has nowadvanced some wayto a successful is- sue, was present as representing the NewTestament oe and reported the aeckione which ei had made and the rules they had adopted in deal- ing with the preliminary questions which attach to works of this nature. When these were dis- posed of the company, having appointed two secre- taries and a finance committee, entered at once on their work, and proceeded to revise the author- ized vers on of the first chapter of Genesis. The. more to meet again yesterday to coptinue their ors. A Presbyterian Growl Over the Death of the Late Florence Scannel. The Observer (Presbyterian organ) of last week has the following remarks upon the death and obsequies of the late Alderman Florence Scannel :— Florence Scannel, a young man of twenty-three, was emphatically a representative of the ‘“dan- gerous classes’” in New York city. And, after rioting through the streets one night in last De- cember with a party of desperadoes like himself, he burst into @ liquor shop and was shot ina dranken brawl. After Lngasing paralyzed for several months, he died a few days since. This man was an alderman of the city. The Board of Aldermen passed resolutions of respect for his memory. Municipal officers and judges attended his funeral. Various clubs appeared as mourners. Some of the newspapers contained long details of the ceremony, and Rev. Dr. Henry, a Roman Catholic clergyman, preached a faneral discourse, in which he said that the congregation had as- sembled to offer prayers for one endeared to them “by virtuous actions and deeds which will live long after him;” and the reverend gentleman bade them to be Samatpeten OF, the remembrance ‘that there isa home beyond the skies where such as he live in ba ep for eternity.’ What more than this did the Greek priests do for the brigands inGreece? Scannel was a New York brigand and alderman, and the Rev. Dr. Henry, a Romish priest, sends him safe to heaven with the odor of sanctity all around him. The Divine Call and Gift of Preaching. To Tue Eprror or tHe Heap :— The greatest sermon that was ever preached to mortal ears—so full of kindly admonition, holy and sweet eloquence, going over the whole ground of a man’s duty, with the truest lessons in virtue and morals, appealing to the intellect of the philosopher and the simple comprehension of the child—was the Sermon on the Mount. We may go back and peruse the rude manuscripts of Soc- rates, Aristotle and Pluto; the traditional moral teachings of Confucius, the most elegant pas- sages from Cicero, the best maxims on morality, justice and truth from the Koran, and all the writings of the Latin and Greek fathers, Irentens, Polycarp, Aquines, Chrysostom, &c.; and, coming down to the modern ages, select the best thoughts of Mossillon, Bourduloe, Fenelon, Chalmer, Robert Hall, Wesley, Channing, Wiseman, Adam Clark and Vevtura, make the choicest selections from all these authorities, all these writers, all these learned and gifted men, and arrange them in syllabic order, and they cannot for a mo- ment compare in beauty, simplicity and power with that extraordinary sermon. And who was the preacher? It was Jesus Christ. And how did he appear to the people of Judea? He appeared to the eyes of men as a simple, earnest, pious young man, who belonged to a world better than this. He was the livin ve of what He taught. If He told men to be pious He was pious himself. If He preached morality He was also moral. And He did notask men to receive Him alone in His name. but in the name of “Him who sent me.’’ So it should be with our modern preachers. They should have a “call” and “gift” from Jesus Christ, and then they will be tari and earnest, and their preaching will be efficacious in savin; souls, When a man enters the profession oi arms, law, medicine, civil engineering, he enters it for the purpose of making a living or gaining fame; but when a man enters the Christian minis- try in the true Church of Christ the saving of souls should always outweigh all human interests. He must obey the ‘‘call,” and when he once puts his hand to the plough he must never look back, but work ‘in season and out of season’? unto the end. In these sorry degenerate days there never was greater need for learned, earnest, pious, heroic evangelists, like the Apostles. It isnot so much the priest as the preacher. The man in the re- peeson in Christian churches of the great sacri- ice on Calvary is the highest form of religious worship ; but the Gospel was originally spread and must be retained in the world mainly by preaching. He alone who receives his call and charge from Christ and not from men is the true preacher. Such was St. Patrick; such was Huvier ; such was Father de Smet. There is much preaching done in these days, but little is done with the simple, earnest, P ous attention of Jesus. The prevailing infidelity of the day is partly caused by corrupt or inefficient clergymen. The two requisites for successful preaching and pastoral duty are earnestness and piety. If a priest is earnest and pious, with his whole heart given to the work of Christ, his people will love him and be like himself. Drunkerness and all immorality will soon leave that congregation. And, if in ad- dressing his people in the name of Jesus Christi he does not possess the golden rhetoric of Chrysos- tom nor the imptetuous power and vehement unction of Ventura, yet if be is earnest and does his best, leaves no stone unturned, his preaching will go to the heart and bear good fruit. 1a the Epis- copal, or Anglican Church, the sermons are zen- erally read or preached from manuscript. ‘This is not preaching, and, therefore, there never has been a preacher in that Church. In the Presby- terian and Congregationalist and Baptist they are generally dull and too long, and in the Methodist rambling but earnest, and in the Catholic very scriptural, but generally too superticial. To combat modern rationalista sermons must be earnest, ar- gumentive, logical and fu'l of the holy sweet elo- quence ofthe Gospel. Such sermons preached by men who show by their works that they aro true ambassadors of Christ will roll back the waves of intidelity which would seem to over- whelm the house of God. The true teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, if only brought to bear earnestly on men, will prevail, and infidelity and irreligion will be kept down. It is only by strictly following Him who is the “way the truth and the life” that sin can be overturned and the reign of Christ be established on the earth. V RN CATHOLIC, A Tiit Berween a Western Catholic and an Eastern Protestant. To rue Epitor or re HERALD :— Your correspondeut (“Western Catholic’’) pro- fesses to hope that the United States will become Catholic, and thinks that the whole world will become Catholic also. Let us see how flimsy his hopes and how he is doomed to be disappointed. Itis known that the population of the United States doubles every twenty-three years, and that the increase of Catholics is wholly made up by emigration chiefly from Ireland, there being no additions to Catholicism from the natives of the country, nor is there any danger or prospect tliat the natives of the country wiil ever be proselyted toRome, Itis also well known that more than one-half of the emigrants to this country are anti- Catholic or Protestants, and will doubtless be so for all time to come. As to the world becoming Catholic the prospect appears to be equally slim and remote and im- probable, as Rome will always be confronted by the Protestant nations and the Greek Church. As for the five or six hundred millions of reading, in- telligent Chinese, the only way that they will ever be converted to Christianity will be by print- ing the Scriptures in the Chinese language in a cheap form and placing them in the hand of ever: Chinaman, and he will judge rightly for himseli with a free conscience, and surely they will then never become Catholics any more tian Scripture reading Protestants will. In conclusion, from an honest and unbiassed survey of the world without prejudice or any selfish motives whatever, the world appears to be receding from Rome as it has been doing for the last three or four hundred years, and wili assuredly continue to do so for all time to come until the restitution of all things shall be consummated. EASTERN PROTESTANT. Family and Prison Discipline from a Religions Point of View—The Forthcoming Reforma. tory Congress. [From the Independent (non-conformist), July 29.] There is to be a most important meeting in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, in October next, called a National Congress for the consideration of Penitentiary and Reformatory discipline. It will not be strictly national, because papers are to be contributed from England, France, Italy, Prussia, Denmark and Canada. ‘Men, and women too, who have the authority which comes from experience to speak on these great questions, are to give of what has been done, and to explain at the best theories of what ought to be done, that great body of our fellow-beings whom we call “criminals,” and find it needful and right to shut up in prisons. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this work; it is pra im- possible fully to realize it. nly divine ¢omprehension and divine love divine patience can know and devise and bear all that is involved in thg trae idea of setpenatory punishment; bat only in so far a§ we approac the divine comprehepsion, love and patience are we fit to oa . The oft quoted maxim that punishment is to be inflicted for the protection of society is shallow and selfish by the side of the higher motive which proposes first the reform and salvation of the offender tor his soul’s sake, and second, the saving of the world from the possi- ble inconvenience of his continued crime. ‘The committee of arrangements of this national congress have prepared a paper called ‘A Plat- form of Prison Discipline.” Tt is a most remarkable paper, containing for- ty-one propositions, beginning with this state- ment:—*Crime is an intentional violation of duties imposed by law. Criminals are persons convicted of crime by competent courts. Punishment is suffering inflicted on the criminal with a special view to prevent his relapse, by reformation;” and closing with this:—‘‘As a principle that crowns all, and is essential to all, it is our conviction that no prison syatem can be perfect, or even success- ful to the most desirable degree, without some central authority to sit at the helm, guiding, controlling, unifying and vitalizing the whole. We ardently hope yet to see all the de- partments of our preventive, reformatory and nul institutions in each State moulded into o1e nious and effective system; its parts mutu- ally answering to and supporting each other, and the whole animated by the same spirit, aiming at the same objects and subject to the same control, yet without loss of the jadvantages of voluntary aid and effort wherever they are attainable.” As we read over one after another of those pro- positions we are greatly impressed with their ex- cellence and wisdom; but we are more and more impressed with their applicability to children as well a3 to criminals, to families as well as to risons. . If children were governed from their first days on the principles laid down in these forty-one pro- positions we should have no criminals. If families were ordered as this “platform”’ proposes to order prisons prisons would be dono awsy with in a generation, How much better to begin earlier?—to prevent than to cure? Why cannot. we have a national congress on discipline of children, which shall publish a “Platform of Family Discipline,” embodying the best thoughts and suggestions of the wisest and most earnest fathers and mothers and teachers In the land? We believe that such a movement as this, rightly and effectively carried out, would be a greater blessing than words can state or fancy conceive. There is concerted action, common in- terchange of knowledge and experience, on al- most every other subject ander the sun, from agricultural societies and cattle shows, with their prize cabbages and cattle, up to scientific acade- mies, with their honors for formulas and eclipse reckonings. But children are reared on as many different plans as there are fathers and mothers. Not only is there no acknowledged authority; there is not the slightest reverence in anybody’s mind for any authority in the matter, Nothing is commoner than to hear shallow minded girls of twenty, handling their first baby with no more care than a few months before they handled their dolls, say, “Oh! I don’t be- lieve in any of those notions. At any rate everybody must bring up their own children on their own plan.” Seeing the results in the mor- tality tables of cities, and in the lists of insane asylums and state prisons, of everybody’s bring- ing up’their children on ‘‘their own plau,’’ one is often tempted to wish for a trial of Plato’s plan of having children brought upin public narseries, officered and supported by the State. Of course reckless and unthinking mothers and fathers would not be reached nor bettered by the results of any such congress as we propose—not even if its platform of discipline were printed and circu- lated in every county and village. Nothing can reacn the reokless and unthinking. God forgive them, and help the poor children who are born to them. But there are thousands and tens of thou- sands of parents who make shipwreck of their children’s souls or bodies, or both, simply from ignorance—simply because they are wedded to old forms of error, old prejudices and supersti- tions of routine which their parents &nd their grandparents held before them, and from which no new gospel of light has set them (ree. Who does not believe, for instance, that if such a Congress as we speak of were to give emphatic and detailed reiteration of the opinions of the best medical authorities as to the injurious effect of even little blows—‘‘ligut whippings” as they are called—on the nervous system of children, and still more the belief of many of the wisest and most earnest men and women of the day that the possible injury to the body is of sma!l account by side of the certain injury to the character— who does not believe that such published state- ments as these might banish the cruel and debas- ing rod from many households where it is now used by weeping and distressed mothers, who honestly believe it is the only way, if into every house in theland could go this sentence, which was the close of an eloquent article by M. D. Con- way:—‘Oh ! how melancholy that the age which has learned that even its horse 1s better trained without a blow should still whip its children!” Would not the satire and the pathos and the truth of it rouse in parental hearts sudden echoes, which would never cease until the law Lad been written in their lives? In the fifth proposition of the “Platform of Prison Discipline” we read:—‘Hope, being a more potent agent than fear, should be made an ever-present force in the minds of prisoners.’’ In the fourteenth: —“No system can hope to succeed which does nét secure such a harmony of wills that the prisoner shail choose for himself what his officer chooses for him. But to this end the officer must really choose the good of the prisoner.” And in the sixteenth:—“The prisoner's self-re- spect should be cultivated to the utmost, and every effort made to give him back his manhood. There is no greater mistake in the whole compass of prison discipline than its studied imposition of degradation as a partof punishment. Such de- gradation destroys every better impulse and as- piration. It is trampling where we ought to raise, and is, therefore, as unchristian in principle as it is unwise in policy.” Who that has observed and suffered with little children under the hap-hazard penalties and prohi- bitions and humiliations of average family gov- ernment can read these paragraphs without an intense realization of the greater need of incul- cating such principles in homes than in prisons? Tho twenty-fifth proposition is as follows : “ Preventive institutions, such as public nurseries, truant homes, industrial schools, &o., for the re- ception of children not yet criminal, but in dan- ger of becoming so, constitute the true field of promise in which to labor for the repression of crime.” “ Children not yet criminal, but in dan- ger of becoming so,” stand round the knee of every mother to-day; and homes, if they are what they should be, will be all the ‘“ preventive inztitutions ” that we need. Teligious Notes and Observations. Brigham Young has one wife less, “Gusebius” has returned. Prime. A correspondent wants Colonel Jim Fisk to establish a place of worship for the benefit of the workiogmen on the Erie Railroad. A good idea. Brother Guppy can fill a pulpit. The author of “The Discovery of the Origin of the Devil’ can have his manuscript returved. The report that the late heated terms were merely a change of base by Satan is denied by good Presbyterian brimstone authority. The Observer editorially advocates “‘a national eeneany on a reformatory Congress.” Let it ¢ held in Washington. Hint to Preachers—Kind advice is better than a sharp lecture. Spurgeon is a popular speaker at other than Baptist congregations. The Congregationalist insists that Congrega- tionalism is not dying out in New England. The Rev, Mr. Bradley, the English Eucharist, has returned to this country. His devotees are not required to go it on all fours. “Rest of the World.” Sr. Tuomas, July 16, 1870. The United States steamer Swatara, from St. Domingo the 13th instant, leaves to-day for New York. The object of her visit was to sell some exchange. The floating dock sank by the hnrri- cane that passed over this city and harbor was raised this morning and weut down again for some reason unknown to outsiders. Mr. Murphy, the man in charge, is confident he can float and repair it, an item of news not disagreeable to the shareholders. We are having the usual quantum of sickness this summer, though fever cases are, erhaps, not yet so fatal as in some years past. We are all anxiously waiting the submerging of the cable hence to Jamaica and the “rest of the world.” the OUBA. Spanish Bank Notes—Indemniflcation—+ West Indian Cable—Improvements on Sugar Estates—Panelty of War News—Sickness. Havana, July 23, 1870, Notice of the declaration of war between France and Prussia reached here yesterday, and set people thinking about the possible complica~ tions that may result therefrom. Henceforth the insurrection in Cuba will probably receive less attention from readers of Northern journals. The war of the giants will throw it into the shade. The extreme heat with its lethargic tendency and’ attendant diseases causes stagnation in busines® asin war. No news, either official or otherwise, has been received in this city bringing to public notice important movements in the field. The! Havana journals are, with special pleading, doing their utmost to induce all classes to com- bine and keep at par the Spanish bank notes in circulation in the island, and are likely to suc- ceed. Wednesday of this week they were at five per cent discount for gold, by reason of the ad- vicesfrom Europe, while to-day but three per cent discount is paid, and the rate will no doubt within a few days be as heretofore, one and a half to two per cent discount. Spaniards, sufferers by the insurrection, and they are legion, are puttin; forth great efforts to induce government to adop' some step—authorize some act of indemnification of properties destroyed by the insurgents since the beginning of the rebellionat Yara, The plan most in vogue seems to be, using the proceeds of the embargoed estates to that effect. Should this take place, the insurgents will have but a poor show of ever seeing their own, no matter which way the war ends, for the Sp: will hasten to make hay while they can. Telegrams from Cienfuegos note that the steamer Dacia, of the West India Cable Company, had left that port to begin her work of laying the cable that is to connect hence to. Jamaica. Sir Charles Bright was in town yesterday, and left this morn- ing for the south side of the Island. There is @ certain animation apparent among planters in the Vuelta Abajo to chee the’ estates, at least to supply the most urgent wants,. such as machinery and facilities for transportation to and from the contiguous railroad. stations. Boilers are being forwarded, besides labor-saving machmery, and on several estates located at con- siderable distances from existing railroads branch: lines oftrack,with narrow gauge and light rails, are. being built in such a manner as to admit of operat- ing them economically. General Amppsia, formerly military governor of Manzanillo, left town yester- fe HT with the command of the districta of Bayamo Jiguani and Mi lo. Colonel For- tun, with a part of the volunteer battalion at his: command, rised a party of twenty-five insur- gents at Caibejes, killing six—thanks to the offices of a prisoner who acted as guide to the Spamards, Some foraging parties of soldiers in Cinco Villas district met in their forays small bands of msur- gents. Extent of damage, one or two killed im each encounter on both sides. Mr. Ferrer de Cauto, of the Cronista of New York, comes out with a tiery article recommending a committee of volunteers to be sent to Madrid asking the expul- sion of the deputies in the Cortes who spoke against or disparaging! of the volunteer organi- zation of Cuba, and that they, the deputies, be proceeded against. Yellow fever and smallpox prevail in Havana, though, perhaps, not more than usual during the summer months. The weather is hot and dry, the rainy season not hav- ing made its appearance, a rarity within the tropics in July, Progress of the InsurrectionSickness. ‘Tinmap be Cosa, July 19, 1870, The insurrection drags as ever, with no prose: pect of coming to a termination. The troops scattered about among the hills, enervated by the climate, more hostile to them than the Cuban partisans, lack the energy to pursue the insur- gents, while the latter seem to be in no better condition, for they fail to harass, as usual, their enemies, Sickness is near’ throughout the: country. Vomito, cholera and smallpox claim their own in some of the small towns adjoining at the rate of thirty to fifty daily. Three North aeloe barks are discharging at the port of Ca- silda. PORTO RICO. Crops—Molasses—Sugars. Sr. Tomas, July 16, 1870. 5 The crop season has passed, and the sugars have lcen nearly all shipped. Molasses is scarco and high at $27 and $28 per hogshead of 110 gal- lons. The sickly season has not yet made its ap- | cceapeat but it is likely we will not have to wait jong, as the weather is hot and dry. HAYTI. Cabinet Minister Resigned—Paper Money. Sr. Tuomas, July 16, 1870. The Finance Minister hae resigned, much against the wishes of a mafority of merchants, and Mr.. Win.V. Leporte is appointed in his stead. The 4th) of July was celebrated here by the United States Consul in an appropriate manner. Business is stagnant and no hopes of improvement. Much trouble exists with the ake, money, on account of its depreciation and the large quantities of counterfeits afloat. JAMAICA. Micawber-like ‘Turn Up?—Cable Steamers. Sr. Tuomas, July 16, 1870, Summer months in the West Indies aro adverso to business and one’s harvest in collecting news is meagre, for news in Jamaica there is abso~ lutely none, save everybody Is expecting the cable steamers, and hoping something may turm up to enliven the dulness of the island, though with all its dulness we have thus far escaped our usual quota of vomito incidental to the hot season. POLIT|CAL NOTES AND COMMENTS, Montgomery Blair wants to go to Congress from’ the Frederick City (Fifth Maryland) district. There are several other aspirants for the nomina- tion, to wit:—William M. Merrick, of Howard; E. J. Hinkle, of Anne Arunde!; J.T. Briscoe, of Cal- vert; John Withered, of Baltimore county; B. G. Harris and Thomas Martin, of St. Mary’s; S. H.. Berry and Daniel Clarke, of Prince George, E. B. Prettyman and George Peter. A Frederick City democratic paper suggests:—The 65,000 negro re- publicans in the State certainly ought to have one out of the five Congressmen, in order that the rights and interests of the ‘‘race” in the distri- bution of the spoils may be properly cared for at the federal capital. Colonel Black (appropriate name), C. C. Fuiton, Peter Negley and Lowder- milk, and their file leader, secession Creswell,. and Judge Bond ought to see to this. The republican convention at Hillsboro, Ohlo, has renominated John 4. Smith, the present member of Congress, for the Sixth district. Tho Indians republicans have opened their campaign. Senator Morton, in referring to the foreign war, said that during tho late rebellion in! this country Germany etretched forth her hands! in sympathy with us, and thus a large portion of our armies were Germans; and that now the republican party sympathized with Prussia. Andy Johnson is in favor of the three hour law for speeches. Hoar is proposed as a candidate for the republi- can nomination for Governor of Massachusetts. The negro residents of Indianapolis have petitioned to have German taught in public schools, The women juries of Wyoming are not popular, because their sense of justice is too strong, and’ allrognes who pass under their jurisdiction are nial ly or not. ong _ Tho South Carolina Republican State Conven- tion, which met at Coles is Wednesdey evening, nominated Governor Scott for re-election. Ran- cier (colored) was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. A large majority of the delegates were colored. Two rival delegations presented) themselves from Charleston, causing a bitter dis- cussion of their respective claims. “Waiting for Something ta: