The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD|™ ™“ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Ricuanp Ill.-Fre8 GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.-.Tur Constcan Bwornree—THe AVENGER. FIFTA AVENUK THEAT! Twenty-fourth street.— DeLuontoo’s, 20 | OLYMPIC THEATRK, Broadway.—UNnDrz TWO FLAGS; on, TroppEn Down, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d st, between Sth and 6th avs. Tux Man 0° ALRLIE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — Tar Were or THE Witton Wiser ke WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Ith street.— Tur LONG STRiKE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Draws or THE COLLEEN Bawn, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwar, corner 3éth at. —-Perform- ances afternoon and even!ug—THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT. HOOLBY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Greav PAN- Toute Tnovrx. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Taxovorr Taomas’ Sumure Nigurs' Concerts. New York, Sunday, July 2, 1871. we = seeeesios hee CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, ae STRRR Mes ad 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Washington Irving: Unveiling of the Colossal Bust in Prospect Park—Art Matters— Iiterary Chit-Cnat—Long ich: Par- don by the President of Biga- mist Bowen—Catholic Church Troubles— News from the Pacific Coast—Natioral Camp Meeting at Round Lake—The Powell Family Fead—New Tariff on Coal—Brookiyn Affairs. @—The Darien Canal: Overations of the Exploring Expedition Entirely Completed—News from Central America—A' in Colombia—Trot- Ung at Prospect Fair Grounds—Horse Notes—Saucy Schwartz—The Tale of a Fish— Departures for a tae Another Rail road Slaughter—The Golden Necklace. S—Religious Inte/lgence—Twenty-fourth Street Synagogue—The Jews’ Riots in Odessa~ Reli- Stn in Germany—News from North Carolina— icked to Death. G—Editorinis: Leading Article, “Italy and Rome— France, Germany and the Pope”—Amuse- ment Announcements. 9—Editoriais (Coutinuea from Sixth Page)—The Situation in France—Miscelianeous Tele- ins—Yachting—The National Game—The lic Debt - Personal Intelligence—The Leary Homicide—Business Notices. 8—Coll Ceremonies—Riverside}Park: Tne Con- test Between the City OMcials and West Side Property Owners—Fighufor Farm—Smalipox in Orange, N. J.—More *‘New De; ures’ —A Would-be Bourbon Suicide—The Nineteenth Ward Murder and Suicide—Naval Inteili- gence—Charges Against Army Officers Mur- dering with Impunity in the south—The Domb Beli Assault—Another Wife Stabbing Case. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Tombs Police Court—Libel Suit in Jersey—Mar- rtages, Birth and peatha—Advertisements. 10—Preparations for the Celebration of the Fourth of July—News from Washington—The Missis- sippi Ku Klux—Shipping intelugence—Adver- tsements. 31—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, Tar Propre oF Boston have voted to allow the licensing of beer shops in their saintly city. To beer or not to beer is no longer the question: Tue Preswwent Has Parvonep Bowes, the bigamist. He signed the document necessary to relexse him at Long Branch yesterday. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Bowen (Pettigru-King) seemed to have brought the pardon about be- tween them. Toe Darien Exprprrion.— We publish else- where this morninz another of our interesting letters from Panama in relatioa to the Darien Canal Expedition. The results of the survey have been so far satisfactory that the Napipi route is considered a sne:ess. Commodore Selfridge was awaiting tbe arrival of the sur- veying party that ascended (hs Atrato and for the storeship Gnard, when the party wilt all start homeward. Gamperta Lert Ocr—Suame on Repvs- ica France.—<As wil! be seen from the news of this morning M. Gambetta is not on the list of republican candidates. If this proves to be trne the republican cause in France is either less wise or more wicked than we thought it. After Napoleon Gambetta is the last man in France to be insulted. Republican France must find a place for the only man whom the wzony of the last nine months has brought to the surface. Tak Brsr or Wasnineton Irvinc was unveiled yesterday in Prospect Park. Thou- sands of people witnessed the homage rendered to America’s famous son, whose great achieve- ments in the field of literature have been ad- mired wherever the English tongue is spoken. Addresses were delivered by Henry Ward Beecher, Mr. A. A. Low and othera, who paid a fitting tribute to the worth of Wasbin:- ton Irving. Tae QueEN or ENGLAND reviewed yester- day six thousand of her troops. The stalwart men of the guard presented a very fine appear- wace. Whata pity that there are not many more of them! This is the reflection that probably suggested itself to the Queen at the sight of the small army. By a trick of fortune the Prince Imperial—te of the baptism of fire—and the Duke de Nemours, of the rival House of Orleans, were present at the review. Were they near enough to converse? If so, what did they have to say to one another ? Tar Frenon Evections.—To-day the sup- plementary elections will be beld in France, and occupants for the vacant seats in the National Assembly will be chosen. All three parties—the monarchists, imperialists and republicans—tave been for weeks past work- ing hard to secure the success of their respec- tive candidates. The English and French journals yesterday, ‘n discussing the question, expressed the belief that the result would be favorable to Thiers and the republic. We hope so. France has had enough to convince her that her future success rests in the permanent establishment of the republic. Tae HericoLranp Question.—There has been a good deal of talk on this subject, one way or ihe other, of late. Rumors of trouble between England and Germany, in consequence of the latter's desire to obtain possession of the island, very ofien make their way into the papers. The latest accounts we have from there state that the recent German attempt to stir up dissatisfaction among the inhabitants with the British government has failed. The Heligolanders are ‘‘not willin’” just yet to shake off John Bull for Kaiser William. [rity of the Freach yeovle. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEKT. the Pope. Monday, July 8 (to-morrow), is the day appointed for the transfer of the Italian gov- ernment from Florence to Rome, as the capi- tal of united and consolidated Italy. The Mayor of Florence on Friday last waited upon the foreign Ambassadors residing in that city to bid them a respectful adieu, from which we think it probable that yesterday his beautiful city was officially vacated as the headquarters of the King and kingdom. The King meantime on Friday last was welcomed with an enthusiastic popular reception in Naples, en route to the ‘Eternal City,” but whether he will be there to-morrow or the next day, or the day following or some other day, we are not exactly informed. It appears to us that he shrinks from the decisive step of extinguishing, by a formal settling down in Rome, the last glimmerings of the Pope’s tem- poral power. As a temporal sovereign the reign of Pio Nono practically came to an end with the departure of the protecting French army and the entrée of the Italian army of occupation last summer ; ‘but still down to this time, with the Italian King and government at Florence, the Holy Father has had at least the shadow of sovereignty over Rome, though limited to the Vatican and the Leonine City. Now, assuming that King Victor Emmanuel and his Ministry and central State subordi- nates of all descriptions, and the diplomatic corps, are about to enter Rome as the Italian capital, it is evident that the Pope, resting upon hig protests, will be constrained to sub- mit to his temporal displacement, will yield to the necessities of the situation, in the hope by-and-by of some outside intervention in his favor sufficiently powerful to reinstate him in his temporal kingdom. We have heard nothing for a week past of his rumored inten- tion of retiring to the Island of Corsica on the approach of the Italian government, and so we think that ramor may be regarded as an invention. The latest official statement of his position and his purposes in reference to the occupation of his little kingdom and his capital by Italy is in the Encyclical which we pub- lished the other day, from which it appears that he has no consent to give to this ‘‘sub- Alpine” usurpation, and no compromise to make with the robbers of the ‘“sub-Alpine government.” In adbering to these declara- tions the Holy Father in Rome, in the presence of King Victor Emmanuel as his temporal sovereign, will te in a novel and unpleasant position, and the King, who professes to be a good Catholic, will also be in an unpleasant predicament. This state of things cannot last long. From all our latest despatches on the subject we conclude that the Pope, having defined his opinions and his position, will quietly submit to the strong hand for the time being, and will avoid as far as possible, all causes of offence to the Italian King and government, but will not be inactive meantime in casting about for a rescue. Some of his faithful clergy in France have already patitioned the National Assembly to intervene for his rein- statement in his temporalities, and there are two possible contingercies upon which this reinstatement may be attempted. It may be attempted in the event of the restoration of the Bourbons, and it may be attempted in the event of the restoration of the Bonapartes. The late hideous Paris Commune, in all iis remorseless hostilities, was most remorseless in its wrath against the Catuolic clergy; and while this levelling Commune was distrustful of everything in the shape of established principles of law and society, it was most venomously distrustful of the Catholic peas- antry of France. And here we have the explanation not only of the popular strength of Napoleon the Third in his plébisciter and of the recent reaction in France in favor of the Bourbons, but also of the hopes of the French clergy of French intervention in behalf of the Pope and his restoration to the patrimony of St. Peter. The Catholic peasantry of France are a law- abiding, conservative people. They constitute the commanding strength of the French pro- vinces in bebalf of religion, law and order against the revolutionary “‘reds” of the cities. The strenzth of this conzervatiye class of the provinces against the “reds” is apparent in the present National Assembly, and its anti-social- istic spirit has been very effectively displayed in the terrible suppressioa of the Paris Com- mune. Hence these memorials to this National Assembly from the French clergy for interven- tion in behalf of the Pope. Doubtless, too, the Pope expects, after the re-establisiment of the French government in regular form, king- dom, empire or republic, a helping hand from France, even, perhaps, if necessary, to the ex- tent of armed intervention, as in 1849, against the Roman republic of Garibaldi and company. We apprehend, however, that in regard to the fulfilment of any such expectations the Pope will be disappointed. We think so, for while, wiih a regular establishment of a French republic there will be no interference with the occupation of Rome by Italy, we do not see how there can be anything beyond diplomatic experiments with the restoration of the Bourbons or the Bonapartes. Germany has taken the place of France as the arbiter of Europe, and Germany, with her fifteen millions of Catholics, will hardly con- sent that France shall assume again the office of special defender and protector of the Holy See, certainly not to the extremity of armed intervention to restore the temporal power of the Supreme Pontiff. Nor can we suppose that France, through a European conference, look- ing to the general rectification of Continental affairs, can effect the removal of the Italian government from Rome; for in this enter- prise there can be no doubi that, excepting Belgium, France would stand alone. Austria was, but is no more the devoted champion of the Pope as a temporal sovereign; Spain has be- come an ally of Italy ; the new German empire, while wisely disposed to support the Pope in his spiritual independence as the head of the Catholic world, is not disposed in the temporal affairs of Rome and the late States of the Church to dispute the will of the lialian people. Prince Bismarck has conclusively shown in his dealings with France that non- intervention in the domestic affairs of its neighbors is a fixed principle of the German empire, His first condition precedent to a treaty of peace with France was a National Assembly representing the sovereign autho- Reme~france, Germany sed ) great chanve in treaty-making since the days of the Holy Alliance. There appears, thon, no alternative to the Pope but acquiescence to the existing condi- tion of things, Rome as the capital of united Ttaly is the will of the Italian people, includ- ing those of Rome and the Church States, and there are so few Protestanis among that peo- ple that we may say they are all Catholics. Victor Emmanuel, against ihe will of this peo- ple, with the departure of the French troops from Rome, was threatened with a revolution and a republic in the event of his refusal to take possession of the city and its temporal dependencies in the name of united aly. The Italian people would have it so, and they be- lieve that under their unification, with Rome as their capital, they will make it rival in its splendors and attractions the imperial city of the Cesare, And why not? With their beau- tifal country and its great resources they may, we think, reasonably, on their ‘‘new depar- ture” of enterprise and harmonious activity, entertain these high hopes of te future. Meantime, in the bill of Papal guarantees— recently published in full in the Heratp— there is unquostionably a desire manifested on the part of the Italian government to reconcile the Pope, if possible, to the loss of his temporal power, in the recognition and protection of his spiritual supremacy. He has earnestly pro- tested against any compromise; but still, as there appears to be no way of escape, he must yield to circumstances which he cannot con- trol. And though shorn of his temporal king- dom, he will still have the greut consolation of knowing that as the visible Head of the Catholic Church he has the prayers and the hearts of two hundred and fifty millions of the faithful on earth, and represents as the Vicar of St. Peter the everlasting kingdom of heaven and “ew house not made with hands,” Mr. Beecher on His Coming ‘Jabilee. The world of Catholicism has, as everybody knows, lately had a first class sensation in the celebration of the twenty-five years’ jubilee of the regnant Pope. It was so natural the de- voted chi'dren of that Church should orate and illuminate in honor of their spiritual father that even those opposed to his creed had nothing to say in derision, There are very few who could be hardy enough to accuse Brother Beecher of Romish tendencies, yet he is eclectic enough to glean a profitable grain in whatsoever field it may be scattered. In such a case as the celebration of his jubilee he would no doubt speak with becoming modesty, leaving to bis hearers the task of inflating a hint into a full blown plan. Some few months ago, at an Evangelical breakfast at the Astor FH , he said, in the course of his remarks :—‘‘I am the only Pope on Columbia street.” This was understood to be figurative at the time ; but, taken in con- junction with his ‘‘talk” in the Plymouth lec- ture room on Friday night, it contains the germ of a hint which should be acted on. He said :—“‘If I live till a year from next October I shall have been pastor of this church a quar- ter of a century.” The connection is manifest, If he is the Pope of Plymouth, and holds out fifteen months longer, Pio Nono_ will have to look out for his laurels of ministerial longevity. To be sure the wise Brooklyn pastor looks well forward, so that his beloved children will not be taken by sur- prise, and it gives us great pleasure tg connect these two links in the p!@asant preacher's aspirations, When such ae occasion ‘arrives, of course the newspapers, religious and secular, will devote columns to a review of the veteran brother's ministry, and it is so like Mr. Beecher delicately and humbly to antici- pate them even in this. He has relied on the Holy Book, and attempted ‘to keep abreast of the scientific thought of the day and of all the schools, both at home and abroad.” This is hard work enough ; but that on which he relies most is his inculcation of love and sympathy iu preference to conscience aud fear. He re- joices that it has developed a courageous type of Christianity which banishes asceticism, so that in their meetings incessant declarations of their owa or their neighbors’ siufulness were not heard. This is an improvement on the Pharisee, since his brethren only glorify themselves, without blaming the publicans of the flock. He does not believe in a man forever chewing the cud of his criminality, and is satisfied he is on the right track. Well done, brother! And yet he approves of a member's sentiment that he might preach to advantage more on justice and conscience. Truly here is modesty of that sort which does good by stealth and blushes to find it fame, for he was sure that others thought more of his preaching than he did himself. He hopes that his teaching sweetens men in their business and makes the machinery of life work on the love principle, He wants profits in the spirit, for ‘‘preaching means business,” he says, and in another and more worldiy sense many will agree with him. But out of all this it isa happy thought to look forward to his jubilee and millennium, coming next October twelve months, with his whole congregation of ‘‘bulls” and ‘‘bears,” saints and sinners, flowing with the milk of human kindness and models of holy pleasan- try, like the mild curate of the ballad, who Plays the airy flute, And looks 80 meek and blighted That doves around him soot And tatubkins dance delighted. Some USReasonaBLe Presupiok seems to have taken possession of the Treasury clerks in regard to paying the claim of Kentucky of five hundred thonsand dollars for equipping troops during the war. They seem to have the impression that so democratic a State as Kentacky could never bave raised any Union troops at all. But the fact is that Kentucky not only furnished about sixty regiments of Union infantry, twenty reziments of Union cavalry and five batteries of Union artiliery— an aggrega'e which, being all white and mostly native, exceeds similar recruitment io each one of the more loudly patriotic Eastern States, including Massachnsetts; but she also furnished the chief man of all, President Lin- coln. These popinjay Treasury clerks must not allow their intense loyalty to run away with them. Tae Bask or France.—The Bank of France has in its vaults five hundred and fifty millions of francs, and the Treasury balance is one hundred and forty millions of francs, This, after the loan, is not indicative of despuir on the part of France. Will France ever know This marks a | her strength t Popular Education. The subject of popular education, in which every American is or ought to be interested, is brought prominently before us about this time every year. The colleges and seminaries and educational institutions of our land hold their annual commencements in June and July, and turn out, so far as they may, accomplished and scholarly young men and young women. Already several of our most popular colleges have passed through those interesting moments and have sent out each its batch of graduates, who, thongh thoir minds may be stored with book knowledge, have still to learn the most important lessons of life, and to unlearn or to forget much of what seemed to them and to their instructors of the first importance in their college course. Yale and Harvard and Brown and Amherst; Princeton and Union, Columbia and the City College, together with Williams, St. John's (Fordham), St. Xavier's, anda number of others of less prominence, have presented us with the resulis of their last three or four years’ training. They have sent forth between four and five hundred young men armed with the certificate of scholarship from the trustees and faculty of those institutions. Rutgers Insiitute, here in our own city; Packer Institu'e, in Brooklya ; Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, and Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, and our own Cooper Union have graduated a less nnmber of young women. They, too, have now to begin the real education of life—an education which cannot be obtained from books or in colleges, but only by the keonest observation of manners and men—of the different phases and thoughts of our everyday life. Americans are presumed to be an educated people. They are intuitively lovers of learn- ing, and the facilities extended for a thorough common school education all over our land are so liberal that there is barely an excuse for any lad of ten years not knowing how to read ; and we venture to say that of Americans there is not one in a thousand so lacking. But while this fact must bo admitted it is quite pertinent to ask, Are we really an educated people? Taking the term education in its broadest sense we must decidedly answer, No. There is not among us that intense love of learning, and especially of scientific learning, for its own sake, which the universities and savans of England, France and Germany manifest. Our kuowledge is mach more dif- fused than theirs, We have a great many more men of medium culture and learning, but comparatively few, if any, who could take the places of Muxley or Tyndal, or Darwin or Leverrier, and others of this class of scholars. It is a disgrace to our national intelligence and love of learning that the choicest profes- sorships in our colleges and universities are filled by foreigners, We have certainly brains enough among our people to constitute more of them good and excellent teachers; but they don’t seem to take kindly to teaching. There must be a cause for this. What is it? One reason we believe to be the general haste of Americans to amass wealth, and as college professorships do not present immediate pros- pects of realizing this the chairs must remain vacant unless we can get foreigners to fill them; and where the endowments are very small, orare perbaps wanting altogether, the prospect of obtaining even a foreign professor is not very flattering. The highest degree of culture is not generally appreciated by Americans, else we should not be inclined to offer such meagre salaries to our college professors. The groundwork of our college and common school education is also at fault. We offer premiums for numbers rather than for intelli- gence, and the public school principal or the college professor who can show the largest number of students will receive the highest salary. This gradation is unfair and destruc- tive to the first principles of education, which should make it sought after for its own intrin- sic worth, And not until we can make school and college instruction a pleasure rather than a task shall we succeed in turning the attention of our young men to the art of teaching for its own worth. As it is now, graduating classes are only too glad to escape beyond the college walls, and scores of them rarely visit those institutions during the remainder of their existence. Scientific education, too, is practically, if not wholly, ignored in our colleges and universi- ties. We have a few men among us—so few, indeed, that a child might count them—men like Draper and Doremus, Agassiz and Silli- man—who have writien and can write intelli- gently and interestingly on scientific subjects ; but with our ample facilities and boundless wealth we ought to have a score such where we now have one. And instead of sending our students ont to scan the domain of know- ledge they ought to be set down to that branch of learning for which they may have the greatest fondness and aptitude. It must be known to many of our readers that nearly all our scientific text books, and especially the latest works, arethe productions of foreigners, reprinted for our use, The tendency of this age more than of any other is toward special- isms in education. Ia the medical profession, for instance, we have men devoted specially to treating diseases of the eye and ear; others treat diseases of the nervous system; others, again, give attention to eruptions of the skin, to wounds and fractures of the limbs and such like. These all have their specialty in which they excel, and their opinion on any point which they may have studied is accepted as final. In the legal profession we find specialties also; so that we have criminal lawyers and civil and ecclesias- tical lawyers—men who make these subjects their principal, though not their only study. And when cases arise in which their peculiar acumen is needed we find them brought from | every part of the country to defend or to prose- cute such suits, This rule holds good also in | the ministry, where we find some men follow- ing oat the adaptations of their own nature, as | editors or missionaries among children as well aa being preachers or pastors. And if we ana- lyze the mercantile profession or the banking systems of our country we shall find that the leading men in any branch or department are the men who have studied the subject specially and made it, at least to their own conception, a acience. Why, then, in our college and com- mon school studies, should we continue to ig- nore this tendency of the age and of the human mind? It is impossible to produce a perfect scbolar whose mind shall be thoroughly stored with the facts of knowledge in every depart- ment: bul it is not imooasible, but perfectly feasible, to produce men of superior excellence in given departments, We can, if we will, turn out good astronomers, geologists, bota- nists, natoralists, &c.; but we cannot send forth any one man well versed in all of those sciences, It becomes us, then, if we desire to place the education of American youth in the hands of American teachers, to look well to our present systems, and to reform them where we believe they need reforming, in the direc- tions we have herewith indicated. Review of Religious Press. We must again complain of the lack of a suitable degree of spirit and enterprise among our religious contemporaries, They furnish elaborate articles upon current topics, but do not reach the hearts of the heathen or the true religionists, The Presbyterian Observer talks about the “dangers to which our benevolent societies are exposed,” and refers to the great impor- tance of watchfulness in the guardianship of religious and charitable trusts. It avers that this guardianship has had some recent formi- dablo illustrations, and continues :— Our benevolent institutions are, 1p ine main, con- ducted with wisdom, integrity and success, Scarcely one of them has suitered by the defalcauon Ol 1s officers, While some of the soundest and best banks Of the city and country have been robbed by lsbonest oicers, and while collectors and receivers appoinved by government have run away with thousanas of dollars, we can now recall but a single instance in which one of our benevclent institutions has suffered by dishonesty ot its agents, This 18 & tact which men who affect to despise religion and to undervalue Cnristian character would do weil to consider The Observer continues to say :— Ttis not Welend known how far a conspiracy Was carried last winter against one of our largest and best benevolent iastitutions, but the following statement is literally true, and will be read wita surprise by the Christiau public. Witnout the knowledge of any of the officers or directors of the Institution, @ bill was introduced in the Legislature of the State of New York, and smuzgted through the Assembiy, giving the right of voting by proxy to the members Of the society; and this ing granted, it Would bave been easy, with a few hun- dred dollars, to muanfacture voters and proxies enough to make a@ perfect revolution in the institue tion, and almost without the knowledge of the men who nave been the longest and most faithful in its service. As the b.Jl was about to be passed by the Senaze, it was discovered by the iriends of the society and killed, In these remarks the Observer says it ‘has no furiher ends to pursue than the general good.” “Good men are not always wise.” “We do not refer,” it continues, ‘To the Methodist Book Concern scandal. But we give expression to the general senuiment of the Teligious community When We say that the ma ment of that case is thus far the saddest exemplid- cation of human inflrinity that the Chureh of God has been called to witness in our times, We cannot undertake to measure the wrong so us to say where the blame lies; but it does seem, to those outside of the partios concerned, that three intelligent and ‘upright mea could have discovered long betore tins What was the rigut aud wrong of the matier. Aud the sense of the public 18 that the subject ought to be disposed of and taken gut of sight, The Loangelist discourses on the ‘ Papal Jeremiad,” remarking that It the Pope can do nothing else, he can write and pubiish Encyclicals, which are sure to challenge at- tention and invite comment, 1§ seems impossible for him to open Ins lips without saymg something that illustrates nis anomalous position or absurd claims, ‘The whole spirit of the acy if 80 ICON. gruous with the literalism of the age, und the civili- zation of the nineteenth century, that its utlerauces are unconsciously deflant and the disproportion be- tween their pretensions and tue reality contributes to make them as ludicrous as a Beau Brummell of the last century tn @ modern drawing room. A ‘Change in the Policy of the. Turkish Empire” is also discussed by the Hvangelist, and says ‘the importance of such a measure can scarcely be over-estimated.” Here we find evidence that the troubles of our Turkish Christian friends are entertained in lively remembrance by their Christian brethren at home. The Rev. Dr. R. S, Storrs writes to the Heangelist an interesting letter from Florence, dated June 11. He says :— The future of the world is pivoted on the question whether the Protestant churcies im ‘america cun hold, enlighten, purify, the peoples born or gathered into its great compass, Let us hear with attention and obedieut hearts God's voice in Providence as well as His word. The Independent gives an article upon “An English Proacher in America,” and remarks :— To a lover of fine contrasts there conld be none Miner than the sermons of Kev. Wiliam M. Taylor, of Liverpool—serimons rock-ribved with sturdiest Saxon speech and full of a noble simplicity—de- livered in the Chureh of the Pilgrims, on Brooklyn Heights, a church che lavish and prilliant adorn- ment of which gives It more the air of a palace than ofatemple. Ana how is oratory outsile and above all eeneralization! The Hebrew Leader discourses as follows in regard to the Cincinnati Jewish Confer- ence :— Much ado about nothing. Our judgment about the Cincinvai Conference -and we believe ourselves entitied to form # judgment in the matter—es- pecially about the utterances indulged in by one or more members thereof, which are complevely foreign to posiuve Judaism, is suull the same as that emitted by us in onr last issue. We need not waste time in condemn.ng these utterances, for they con- demn themselves. Toraise protests or to issue bulla of excommunication against them appears to us quite preposterous, as the right of contradiction be- longs only to sonnd science aud honest experience, to which the cause of true, rational Judaism is en- deared, We do not see the use of protesting after learning—what we had already suspected—that the protocols which are lying before us are neither otticral nor true, Orticial German protocois secm not to exist at all. The Hebrew Leader—we repeat the adjce- tive because there is published another Leader in this city—furnishes an additional article on the “Great Doctrine of Belief of Micah, con- densed into three words—Justice, Faithfulness, Humility.” It is a good article, but would be better without Hebrew characters. Their in- troduction is simple pedantry. The Church Weekly wants to know about “Our Discords.” That is a weakly subject for discussion so fur as the discords in the Protestant Church are concerned. The Ro- man Catholics have not so many discords, and, politically, have a vote nearly harmonious. The Christian Union gives a leader on the “Unity of the Spirit,” and, singularly enough, has nothing to say about the Excise law or the Fourth of July. The same paper, edited by Henry Ward Beecher (his name as a preacher and writer is patented in the Patent Office, at Washington, and can only be used by suffrance or indulgence), gives 2 commenda- tory article in regard to ‘‘Vassar College and its Commencement Week,” and goes for Greeley for next President, a8 follows :— Has General Grant’s name been as much assn- ciated in the South with the causes which develuped the war as Mr. Greeley’s? Was General Grant more active in the field during the war than Mr. Greeley was 1n his paper in securing victory to the Union arma? Is not Mr. Greeley associated in the mind of every child in this nation with the cause of freedoin and the abolition of slavery? 1s there another name that could be tendered to the South more disancuy Northern than Mr. Greeley’s? The Wreeman's Journal, the St. Peter, the Boston Pilot, the Tablet and other pro-Catho- lic papers, have their usual amount of inter- esting ecclesiastical intelligence, with a fair digest of political questions. That the Pope should continue to reign in temporal anthority in Rome is their grand effort. We must repeat our injunction to our conn- try religious press to put the spur to their invention, and give something lively to the pious movements in their vicinity. The Amer- icans are s people of pious inclinations, and in these preliminary hours of the ninety-fifts they should demand from their preachers anw pastors a proper recognition of the ‘day we celebrate.” The Snaengerfest as . Cosmopolitan Ine stitution. One of the most genial and pleasing features of the German character is their love for music and the admirable manner in which they unite it with their domestic and social life. The magic influence of the divine art pervades all their actions and makes them the most peaceable, industrious and law-abiding members of the community, Their love for music strengthens and renders still more attractive their intense patriotism, their earnestness in thought and action and their devotion to their homes and firesides. The Saengerfest is the most noticeable expression of this affection for art, and its influence can hardly be over-estimated. At the recent fes- tival held in this city our German fellow citi- zens furnished an example which might bo profitably followed by the representatives of other nationalities, A contemporary, in an article on this subject, passes a very high and deserved eulogium on the German-Americans for the order, enjoyment and ennobling spirit that characterized their musical festival. But we cannot agree in the opinion that “‘no other nationality could furnish such a multitude for such an object at once so remote from prac- tical life and so elevated,” or in the sugges- tion that order and harmony, at a festival of this kind, can only bs obtained from the repre- sentatives of Fatherland, We need only refer to the great success of the Boston Peace Jubilee a couple of years since, and the entire absence of any disorder or unpleasant fecling among the thousands present. This was essentially an American festival, with an Irish- man as conductor and projecior. There is mo reason, then, why all other nationalities should not take lessons from these social and musical gatherings of the Germans, and the Saen- gerfest become cosmopolitan, like the art of which it is the exponent. Let the Celt aud the Teuton meet on this common platform, and the moral atmosphere of the city will become healthier and purer. Music, as a preacher, is eloquent in the highest degree ; as a reformer it aims at the noblest standard of thought and action, and as a social agent it promotes universal brotherhood. Were it as essential « branch of education here as it is 1 Germany its influence would lessen the onerous duties of our police to no small extent, Thea, instead of a target company we should have a liederkravz or a magnnerchor, and for a poli- tical procession an assemblage of the consti- tuents of Apollo. The various nationalities that compose our population might then meet in friendly rivalry, and prize singing take the place of politics. We have seen what the Germans can accomplizh with the aid of music. Representatives of every trade and profession are drawn together from every part of the country, exchange assurances of friendship and good willand sing dowa all those local prejudices and dissensions that often exist between members of various communities. But we strenuously object to the remarks of our contemporary in mixing up music with politics and religion. The province of music will not admit of any principles except those of harmony and friends'tp, aud on that account it appeals alike to all classes, Politics and religion have no more to do with it than has the particular trade or profossion of the singer. We trust we may see ere long sing- ing societies established in every ward in this city and a cosmopolitan sacngerfest every year. Recorder Huckett’s Sentence of Gillespie. The sentence of ten years’ imprisonment at hard labor which Recorder Hackett pro- nounced on Gillespie, the policeman who attempted to murder a brother officer after assaulting two other persons, is one of those sovere lessons which cannot fail to havea good effect. The case was one of a peculiarly unprovoked and inexcusable outrage, the severe and prompt punishmett of which can alone prevent similar crimes in the future. It is doubly a policeman’s duty to obey the law. While the force as a whole are efficient and active in the discharge of their duties, it some- times happens that the officers whose duty it is to keep the peace are most to blame in its violation. There is a tendency to use the club or the pistol on too slight provocation, and something of a vain spirit among officers ofien impels them’ to résent imaginary indig- nities. If this is permitted to continue any person who is unfortunate enongh to fall into the bands of the police may be brutally treated, as was the case with the boy clubbed to death not long ago in the Fourth ward; and outrage after outrage may be committed by those whose duty it is to prevent wrong and arrest the wrongdoer. In view of these facts, while commending the severity of Recorder Hackett’s sentence of Gillespie, we would call the attention of the Police Commis- sioners to the reckless use of their weapons which makes offences like Gillespie's easy among the officers of the force. The efficiency of the Police Department can only be main- tained by such stern sentences as that inflicted by Recorder Hackett. If policemen play with their weapons without regard to consequencea or justification they must expect, sooner or later, to meet a fate like that of the frenzied officer who has just taken up his long abode im the State Prison. Tur Man Wno Kritep Cats ror Tres. PASSING upon bis gardens and was charged with it by Mr. Bergh before the Court of Spe- cial Sessions has been acquitted. It is judi- cially decided, therefore, that killing cats for trespass is no crime, and we suppose the de- cision also covers cases of catterwauling upon adjoining roofs at night. If so, the Toms” have lively times in prospect. Naporzon iN ENe@LaNp.—The Emperee Napoleon III. is to all appearance happy and honored in his present home. “Have not I been a good friend to England?” was a skilful question which he put to bis unex- pected visitors two days ago. It is not to be denied that Great Britain regrets the fall of Napoleon to-day. He did not revenge, he condoned Waterloo, A second time an exile and not unhappy in England, equally sharing the honors which England gladly gives to two exiled families, why should Napo- , com complain? At the review at Bushy anniversary of their pational tndegendence | Park on Friday last the Prince Imperial waa