The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1871, Page 8

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New York, Sunday, July 16, 1871. = es === CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, PaAGR, ‘GierBEnereneceas 1 Advertisements, 2—Advertiscments. 3—Finale of the Fusillade: bo: Restlug Afler the Re- cent Riots: § Silence Surrounds the ens TULL Particulars; Mayor Hail on “The Riot Ai His Letter of Last Year to Superintendent Jourdan; Expressions of Pub- Ue Opmion; Communications from Militlamen, Civillans, Spectators of the Mcice aud Others— Sad Drowning Accident in Newark, 4—Religious Intelligence—Our Colleges—Literary gut Jhat—Foreign Personal Gossip -A Bad or, 5—Death: Public Execution of Fr rence at Easton, Taibot coun Hung for the Murder of His M \C- count of the Terrible Crime—Ou nmer Re- sorts—Cleney and Ting—Jersey’s Last Tragedy: Terrible Termination of a Boatman’s Battle About a Boy—Heaith Matters —Ieliel for {he Bilna—Probable Homicide—Crops on Lon, sland, @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Riots and the Indepencent Press—A Lesson for Bigoted People and Bigoted Journa!s"—Amusement Announcements, ‘9—Spain aud Cuba: Proceedings in she Cortes: Excited Debate on Sickels’ Alleged Propos tion for the Sale of Cuba—EKvangelizatiot The Czar and the American Deputation— Corea: Further Fighting Between tie United Star ‘avy and the Coreans; the Nava De+ ton Repulsed—France: The Powder Law- le is 1 AC. erick Mi ag iumists and the Count is-ellaneous Telegram: the Past—Business Ni e Fourth Day of tne First Sum- | Music and the Drama—Musical | Review—The Coming of tie King: The Palaces | of the Pope and the Courts of the King: The | Dipiowats and the Vatican; Preparations for the New kulers—Naval and Army Intelll- gevee—The Storm at Labrador—The Balti- more Potsoning Case—A Floating Wail O—The Presidenti.} Question: A Tak with John Quincy Adams; His Views on the Pi al Sit- uation and the New Departure—Th ew De- | arture’’ of the Harlem Democr A Well erited Compliment—Robbery jn Flushing— Departures Yesterday—Proceedings in the Courts—Jefterson Market Police Court—The | Mayor's Oflee—brookivn Aijiairs—Fivanclal and Commercial Report—Marriages and Deaths. 1@—News from Washington—Explozion in Sixth Avenue: Policemen and Firemen ously reet, tp. Murderous = Knife ts. nse Iniquities: Horrible Disclosures; Ten Years in a Slave Pastile—london Theatri- cals—Aquatics—Colored Parade in the South— AQ—Auvertisements. A Boston Post roprescutative has inter- viewed John Quincy Adams on the political situation, A graphic account thereof will be ‘The Riots aud the Independent rress—A Lesson for Bigoted People and Bigoted Joursals. The fierce conflict which raged in the streets of our city a few days ago has ndt passed out of the minds of the people. Even if we could forget the trivial quarrel between the Orange- men and the Ribbonmen, the sad funeral pro- cessions of yesterday and to-day would not allow the remembrance of the consequences of the quarrel to pass away. But we all have had time to think calmly on the event of the week, and on this Sunday morning we may speak a few calm words to the public on the lesson which it teaches. During the excite- ment of Monday and Tuesday, while we hoped that disorder might be prevented and blood- shed averted, we spoke boldly in favor of en- forcing the laws at every hazard against avy violence which should be attempted. In like circumstances we would again follow a like course. But while doing so we did not un- fairly condemn those who differed with us in opinion, or seek to give to the occasion a false and unworthy importance. We contented ourselves with performing what we considered our duty and the duty of every good citizen. That our work was well appreciated we have abundant evidence ; but it will not be finished till we shall have exposed the purposes of those who would make the triumph of peace and order an element for promoting discord among the people. Our prompt action, when prompt action was required, demonstrated most signally the great power of the Hrratp and of an independent press. But, unlike some of our contempora- ries, we stopped jast where our duty ceased. We did not fan the flame for unworthy pur- poses or seek to make capital of any kind out of the lives of the people. When the autho- rities did their duty we gave them due credit, praising the Mayor, the police and the mili- tary in fitting terms for their co-operation with Governor Hoffman. When the riotera were subdued we ceased our attacks upon the | unruly element which we had so sternly and severely rebuked. To us the occasion seemed one where it was necessary to attack wisely, and then wisely to let well enongh alone, If our contemporaries had seen tieir duty in the same way we would not be required now to recall any part of the hearty praise we accorded them in the outset, But they have mistaken their mission. They cannot become magnanimous when magnanimity is a virtue. They seem to snatch at the tragic results of the riot as so much political capital. Like avaricious children rushing hastily from a father’s grave to examine into the provisions of his will, they count their gains and losses till they turn into blood money in their bands. If they did no worse than this we might be constrained to let our praises stand, and not to utter a word of reproach, But in addition to their effort at making political capital out of disorder and riot, which sprung from prejy- dice and bigotry, some of them are seeking to evoke the terrible spirit of religious fanati- cism, A war is being made upon our Catho- lic population as a body, which is as unjust as itis reprehensible. We can have no sympa- thy with such a movement, and the sensi- blo people of New York, whatever may be their religious convictions, cannot sympathize with it. We want no religious wars in this country, and no bickerings springing out of religious antipathies. Those who incite these new disor- ! ders defeat their own argument—they forget that they opposed the misguided attacks of the found in another column. Goop News.—John Morrissey and Jobn C. fleenan were amony the recent visitors at | Round Lake Camp Meeting. ‘‘And while the lamp holds out to burn tae vilest siz return.” Tne Fonerat or rue Dean of the Ninth ¢egiment will take plac? to-day, with the cus- tomary military obsequies, from Calvary church, on Fourth avenue and Twenty-first strect. Our Bonps in Lonpon are reported a shade lower than at the beginning of the week. This is probably due to the warlike events in our city on Wedoesday last; but John Bull is sometimes too ea hitened. TakinG INro ConstperaTion the amount of the indemnity bonds of the draft riots in 1863 and the amounts incurred in the riots of the bloody 12th we begin to be of opinion that the Irish exotic that we have introduced into this country is a Tar-us Hibernica. Anp Now We Snaut Have the opinions of our parsons on the Orange procession, Order No. 57, the Governor's proclamation, the people’s rights, r tion, and ail that. In short, this will be an in the churches. sresting day ‘ew Jensey, by Governor RaNDoLpa, town, of all partie. his neighbors of Morr was honored with a serenade on 5 t last, in recognition of his late manly procle- mation in behalf of equal rights, and he made a nice little speeca on the occasion, too, He and our neighbors of Jersey are all right on the constitution. Toe War in tue Corra.—By special despatch from Yokohama wo are informed that the war in the Corea is again progress- ing. A reconnoissance up the river was made last month by a portion of the fleets. and two Corean forts were attacked, After a slight fire on both sides the vessels returned to their anchorage, enriched mainiy by the possession of a note from the Coreans, full of defiance, intimating that they wanted no inter- course with outside barbarians, and stating that the crew of the General Sherman were put to death because of piratical acts in Corean territory. The Admiral is yet waiting for further orders. Tuk New Coxsvt Gexerat To CuBa.— The appointment of General Torbert to be Consul General of the United States to Havana is not only a wrong to Vice Consul Hall, but a wrong tothe public service. In Spanish countries American diplomacy ought to avail itself of our best and most experienced men, as a peculiar fitness is required for filling any station with acceptability. Of all Americans in Cuba or out of it Mr. Hall is best fitted for the position of Consul General; and, without reflecting on General Torbert, it is due to him that we should acknowledge the merit which the administration bas failed to recognize, Hibernians on the Orange element out of love for civil and religious liberty. Toey are as un- reasonable as the poor rioters themselves, and they are more culpable, because they are more intelligent. Let us do simple justice in this matter. The respectable Irish and Catho- lic popuiation will probably suffer much from the late riots, though most of the Iris) and most of the Catholics were as much opposed to these hostile demonstrations against the Orangem as the American Protestants, This is shown ia the address of Archbishop McCloskey, the counsels of the Catholic the Fenian proclamation and the reso- lutions of respectable Irish societies, Only unscrupulous demagozues and the vulgar, un- reasoping crowd, which conld be swayed by the harangues of unprincipled leaders, are to blame. But even were it true that the whole Catholic community was in sympathy with the rioters, their mistake wouid be no excuse for preaching a religious warfare. The American people are as much opposed lo religious per- secution as tor eligious bigotry. They have bo sympathy waste either way, and care nothing for Orangemen as Orangemen, Neither King William nor King James bas any erest for anybody outside of Macaulay's Histor Everybody despises the malevo- lence which prompts one body of men to play “Croppies, Lie Down” as a taunt to another part of the community, Bat all are de'er- mined that the rigits of all shall be preserved inviolate. We have shown that we can pre- to ‘serve order without yielding to either side, J 3 and this is all that we ever desired. Our po- lice and military, in which there are huadreda of Catholics as well as Protestants, have de- monstrated that they are always ready to do their duty. The gallant Sixty-ninth regiment proved itself gallant as ever. The Higaty- fourth regiment, composed mostly of Irish- men, bas even been censured [or the alacrity with which it undertook the work of subduing the mob. There was no holding back any- where, bat promp!, steady, energetic action on the part of all. These things should be borne in mind, and, while pointing out the errors of both sides in this unfortunate quarrel, we should not do injustice to any one, but rather seek to inculcate moderation and to promote brotherly feeling. The American people have no interest in Old World quarrels; they have no patience with those who would plant alien animosities in our soil, And this is the lesson which both sides to the recent disturbances ought to take to their hearts, If the Germans in New York wish to celebrate the victories of Fatherland over France, or the Italians to glory in the unity of Italy, we would protect them just as we protected the Orangemen on Wednesday. Bat at the same time we would seek to dis- courage animosities of every kind and to keep all European feuds as far away from us as possible. This is not cowardice, it is follow- ing the impulse of the highest and noblest civilization, and pointing mankind to a more perfect practice of the principles of freedom NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. than man bas yet seen, And we have only to look to our own history to find evidences that we should not deal too harshly with those who forget that moderation we are trying to inculcate, Even now a part of the press is committing the same error which the Irish committed on Wednesday, and arraying one part of the population against another, It is an effort to arouse the class bitterness of the Know Nothing days—an attempt toincite one part of the Christian community against Chris- tians of another name, It cannot prove suc- cessful; but if persisted in its failure will not make it any the less discreditable. We want to practise that perfect freedom which we all preach, and show to the world that magna- pimity and moderation are exclusively repub- lican virtues, The Hera.p has always been opposed to religious persecution and religioas bigotry. When a few modern iconoclasts were buraing Roman Catholic churches and committing fear- ful outrages upon defenceless Catholic citizens we condemned their acts asa crime worse than sacrilege and more inexcusable than murder and pillage. When the Know Noth- ings were proscribing men on account of their religious convictions or the chance of their birthplace we opposed them with as much boldness as characterized our opposition to the hostility against the Orangemen. This is the mission of the independent press, and it is a mission which requires nerve against one party of men to-day and another party of men to-morrow. We led in gaining a great victory over Old World feuds and antipathies on Wednesday. That victory must not now be used to foster religious bigotry and animosity. Let the Orangemen learn the lesson of this riot. They were not protected because they were Orangemen, but because a great principle was involved in the question of their parade. And the partisan press must also take the same lesson to heart, If they use this victory to stir up religious strife a better sentiment will rebuke them. The American people are too good, too wise, too free, to countenance a policy so short-sighted and so disastrous, Episcopal Church Scapegonts, In another column will bo found the result of an interview with the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., regarding a highly sensational par- agraph from a Western paper, charging him and Mr, Cheney, of Chicago, with a settled purpose to secede from the Episcopal Church and set up an independent Protestant Episco- pal Church for themselves. We frequently receive kindred statements, which we pass by without noticing, as we should have doue with this one had it not opened with the statement that Mr. Tyng bad “‘announced his intention” to do so and so. This seemed positive enough to lead us to inquire of Mr. Tyng as to iis truth or falsity, and he has given it and all such sensational stories bis most unqualified denial. Bat we have no hope that this denial nor a similar one, if made every week, will alter the purpose of certain men and ceriain papers to keep the High and Low Church controversy of the Episcopal Church before the country. They demand, as Mr. Tyng pertinently declares, scapegoats; and himself and Messrs. Cheney and Hibbard have been selected, and they must bear the sins of the Church without the camp. No doubt there is a great deal of truth iu this idea, and it may account in a measure for the very frequent referencea which we flod in the secular and religious papers to those re¢- erend gentlemen. But it will be seen that Mr. Tyng has given two of the very best reasons why he will not and cannot secede trom the Episcopal Church. The first is that it is the Church of h's birth, edacation and present minig- try, and he loves it as he would a parent, The second is that he is too busy with real Christian work to waste the moments in any schemes of secession, however beautiful they might appear or however much they might promise in the future. We can readily understand this when we consider that during his comparatively brief minisiry here be bas gathered a congregation—one of the largest in the city—and built a church where before there was none; that bis people sustain six mission chapels, a dispensary ia the rear of the church, a House of the Evangelists or college for the education of young men as cily missionaries, and a certain number of patients in St. Lake’s Hospital, together with attending to the wants of the poor in the parish and its protég/s the while. And all this work requires the raising of over thirty thousand dollars a year, which the people give cheerfully, And besides this, until within a few months past, Mr. Tyng has had a‘l his spare moments occupied in the editorial chair, A minister who in eight or ten years could accomplish such a work as this and aitend to the pastoral duties of Lis parish as well, could not have had much time to devote to schemes of sepa- ration from his Church. It is only for idle hands and idie brains that Satan flads mischief, and if we would search out the real seceders and schemers in the Episcopal Church we must look beyond Cheney and Tyng. Mr. Cheney, like Mr. Tyng, has gathered his own congregation and built his own chure), and, like the latter, is sustainedto the utmost by his people. And we musi look deeper, also, for the causes of the present agitation than the omission of a word from the ritual by one or the preaching in a Metiod'st church by another. These are but the out- ward expressions of thought which are widespread in the Episcopal Church and which will continue to agi.ate the people until one or other of the two classes of thought shall give way and a separation ensue. And we notice in the Catholic Ciurch and in the Baptist Church similar agitations, though arising from different causes. Such agitations must go on until, as the Apostle Paul declares, that which is old and ready to perish shall vanish away, and that which is young and strong and in con- formity to the active and progressive spirit of the age shall take its place. We may not see it, but it will surely come, and the only question which should be considered by Church people everywhere is, How shall we best prepare to receive the change, so that there shall be no concussion and no splitting up of Churches and sects? The Heratp has foreseen, it and warned the Churches of its coming, and wo again renew the warning; but, like Ephraim, they are all joined to their idols, and we fear we ghall have to let them alone, Is Man Immortal? The Heratp claims and is conceded to be the most cosmopolitan religious journal in the world, Ittreatsall subjects in an unsectarian spirit, for which it bas been abundantly ap- plauded if not flattered. Butin this regard we have done nothing more than our duty according to the measure of our ability and as we conceive the interests of religion and hu- manity demand. Our editorial comments on social and religious topics have frequently called forth responses from our readers, which we are always glad to receive, whether they coincide with our views or not. We want it to be understood that we are not against truth in any form, but for it, and if we have some- times severely consured opinions and religious dozmas it was because we believed them to be opposed to truth, not only as that truth ap- pears to us in Revelation, but as it is in nature also. And in this spirit we have criticised the teachings of the Free Relizion Association and the utterances of its apologists, for which we have been very kindly and geatly called to account by a correspondent, who pertinently raises the question which we have placed at the head of this article, and which, by the way, has been repeatedly raised before, whether or not man is immortal. Our correspondent has looked through the scriptural references which we made in an editorial in our issue of June 25 and is satisfied that there is not a single declaration of the soul's immortality among them, We admit there is no such declaration in words in any part of the Bible. But when facts are stated which prasuppose and which rest upon the immortality of the soul, we can- not see what additional force a verbal declara- tion would give to them. For instance, St. Paul, in his great argument to prove the resurrection ([. Corinthians, xv.), as- sumes all through that man is immortal, and in verse forty-four he makes an assertion which has very little force upon any other hypothesis than that of an independent existence of the soul: So also in If. Corin- thians, v., he speaks of the dissolution of the body as an introduction into the presence of Christ, being confident, as ho says, that “whilst we are at home in the body wo are absent from the Lord,” implying, as we con- ceive, the reverse, that when absent from the the body he should be present with the Lord. In his letter to the Philippians, ii., 23, Paul declares that he is ‘‘in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which was far better” for himself, and ‘‘to abide in the flesh,” which was more needful for them, The inference can hardly be plainer that death would have been to him the open- ing of a better life rather than an unconscious sleep for ages until the last trumpat shall sound. There are many other passages in which this apostle bases either an argument or an aspiration and hope upon the assumed fact of tae soul’s immortality and its inde- pendent existence. But two are as good as twenty, The Apostle Peter, in his firat epistle, iii,, 18, 20, and iv., 6, makes a deliberate state- ment which amouats almost to blasphemy upon any other assumption than that of the soul’s immortality and consequent independent existence. St. Matthew's Gospel, xvii., con- tains an account of the transfiguratioa of the Saviour, on which occasion Moses, who had been dead for one thousand four hundred and seventy years, and Elias or Elijah, who had been translated to heaven more than nine hun- dred and twenty years before, appeared with Jesus. We assumed, in our reference on a former occasion, that the fact of their appear- ing at this time was evidence enou ch of their existence during the interim without a decla- ration thereof in words, The same fact is substantially declared of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by the Saviour, who in Mark xii., 27, quotes from Moses, thereby implying that the Old Testament scriptures, as well as the New, teach the doctrine of the soul's immor- tality. And another of our correspondents claims that this doctrine is peculiarly Jewish rather than Christian, which we readily admit. Luke xx., 38, is but a repetition of the preceding reference, and, as we have stated before, the book of Revelations is writ- ten as if this truth was universally admitted. And if it can be successfully denied very much of what mankind now believes and has for ages believed must be cast aside as worse than worthless—as positively mischievous, So much, in brief, for our Scriptura proofs of the immortality of max. We agree with our correspondent that the teaching of Paul on this snbject is the teaching of the Word of God from Genesis to Revelations, And if, as our correspondent declares, Plato and Socra- tes and other heathen writers taught this doc- trine, the fact has no force against its belief now, but rather shows that it is not a pecu- liarly Christian dogma, but is, as we contend it is, as universal as the race. And we find it so at the present time as well as in past ages, But our correspondent, very properly, does not content himself with disposing ‘sunimarily of our references. He presents some in sup- port of bis own assertion that ‘man in his present state is purely morial, with nothing within or about him that ia not perishable.” He quotes Ecclesiastes iii., 19, 20, wherein Solomon declares that ‘‘man hath no pre- eminence above a beast; as the one dioth, so dieth the other; both go to the same place; both are of the dust, and both return to dust.” But he forgets to cite the very next verse, wherein the same writer asks, ‘‘Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” And any one who will read the context carefully must perceive that Solomon is not try- ing to prove either the resurrection of the body or the immortality of the soul. This verse, like many of Solomon's writiags, is as full and complete alone as with any of its connections, and the very form of the question shows that the writer believed both in the immortality of the soul and inits existence independent of the body. But, again, ‘‘of the wicked it is said ‘they shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth upon them,’ awfully conflicting state- ments,” our correspondent thinks. If any of our readers will tura to John iii., 36, and ex- amine this quotation in its proper connection, he will see that it relates wholly to the “life” of faith in the soul, and not at all to the future life. And every Christian, as well as every sinner, who has given the matter a moment's serious consideration, must be fully aware that in his unconverted state ‘“‘the wrath of God abideth on him,” There is no coafliction of the statemonts in their proper connection, and it is the experience of Christians every- where that “the that believeth on the Sou hath”—not shall have—“‘everlasting life.” Men really begin to live when they begin to have faith in the Son of God, who hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel; for, as Paul declares, ‘‘if in this life only we have hope wo are of all men most miserable,” and the best thing we can do is, as Solomon and Paul both declare, to eat and drink and enjoy the good of our labor all the days of this life. But these Hebrew philoso- phers did not so believe; neither did they 50 teach. The other Scriptures quoted by our correspondent do not bear upon the issue which we raised between the ‘‘Free Religion Association” and the ‘‘Hebrew philosopher” and ourselves, and we pass them by. The argument from nature adduced by our correspondent proves too much, and hence defeata its purpose. Seience, is properly, the collation of facts and their appropriate group- ing to make out a given case; but a hypothesis is not a fact, and where all is guesswork one man’s guess may be as good as another's. The fact that ‘the elements of which all the bodies in the universe are composed are eternal and indestructible” does not begin to prove the soul's immortality. Nor does it reflect the attributes of Deity, ‘“‘save, as the Apostle Paul declares, it sets forth His eternal power and godhead.” ‘‘All the creation there is,” says our correspondent, “consists in making one thing out of another, so that if we make a chair or a table out of a tree it is as much a creation as to make the earth out of materials already in existence. But as we could not make the chair or table without the tree, so no more could the earth or any of the celestial bodies have been made without the elements of which they are composed, and which are eternal and indestructible in their nature.” So then God is a mere mechanic, and “‘the invisible thinzs of Him being understood by the things made,” donot after all prove ‘‘His eternal power and godhead.” If thisis the theory of our Free Religionists and their Hebrew and Chris- tian defenders, and if science can put no other or better facts into the case than this, we still contend that “‘it can never change the common belief of mankind in the immortality of the soul and in its necessary independence of the body.” And in this faith we live and hope to die ; and we have noreason to doubt that it accords with the universal belief of the human race. It harmonizes fully with human con- sciousness, and is, therefore, universally ac- cepted and believed. It is worthy of the utmost credence by every intelligent mind, Latest News FRoM Paris.—Paris still continues under a state of siege and will so continue for some time longer. Arrests of persons charged with grave offences are of daily occurrence. So numerous have they become of late that a deputation of the mem- bers of the left in the National Assembly waited upon President Thiers yesterday re- garding the matter, but received little con- solation, The law must take its course and evildoers must be punished, This in sub- stance was the verdic! of the executive. The legitimist party in the Assembly have signified their determination to adhere to their princi- ples, and, notwithstanding the late manifesto of the Count de Chambord, a number of the members are preparing a circular which will announce their adherence to the Count, There are no further particulars regarding the ex- plosion in the powder magazine of St. Maur. We are glad, however, to learn that the loss of life is not so serious as was at first re- ported. ben Butier has uncorked himself, Mas- sachusetts is to elect a Governor next fall, and to the discomfiture of the political ring of the Hub the Essex statesman announces himself a candidate for the office. Some of the General's admirers, not fully understanding his position regard- ing national and local affairs, pro- pounded a series of questions in regard to these matters, which interrogatories he an- swers in his usual shrewd manner. His po- litical bias is not very clearly defined, but in regard to State affairs he is as explicit as words can define, In reply to the question, should the prohibitory liquor law be enforced? the General, with- out attempt at evasion, says yes, and that no law on the statute book affecting the general welfare should be permitted to remain unexe- cuted, The Bay State politicians will find it hard work to head off Butler. He will make a hard fight for the nomination, ‘and possibly may succeed in carrying his point, Tne Spanisn Corres has reaffirmed its for- mer resolution never to part with Cuba, The government was severely attacked for what one of the speakers termed its ‘‘vacillating conduct” in the suppression of the insurrec- tion, Of high-flowing phrases, in which Span- ish orators are wont to delight, there was no lack. The Ministry was likewise bitterly up- braided for having even listened to the propo- sitions for the sale of the island, which Gen- eral Sickles is alleged to have made to the Spanish government. Has General Sickles really made such propositions? If so, Secre- tary Fish owes the American peoople some ex- planations, Tat Petition oF THE AM&RIOAN EVAN- GELICAL ALLIANOR to the Emperor Alexander is aneloquent appeal for religious liberty in Russia, The Protestant subjects of the Ozar are at present only tolerated and their rights curtailed by oppressive laws. We are sure that the Czar will heed the voice of the representatives of the American nation, Behold, Czar, the fruits of religions equality in our great republic! See how well it works! say the petitioners. And, in truth, there can be found nowhere a better illustration of what liberty of conscience can do If untrammelled by the interference of the State. Tue Two INpian Criers, Satanta and Big Tree, who were captured in Texas some time ago while raiding, are now being tried by the regular authorities there for murder, This is an improvement on the old method of dealing with these savages. Usually when taken prisoners they had rations and clothing given them and were set at liberty again, The idea of trying them for murder is a good and effec- tual one, Doubtless every Indian in the coun- try can be convicted of murder withont any false sweariag, Spirit or we Meligious Press on the Day Before the Rian. Most of the city religious papers were pubs lished on the 12th, and although they, of course, contain no mention of the sad occur- rences on that day, yet they had time to com- ment upon the action of the Mayor and the order torbidding the Orange procession. Under the head of ‘Surrendering to the Mob,” the Observer (Presbyterian) says :— As we are making ready for the press we learn that the Superintendent of Police, instead of making ar- rangements to protect the Orange Assoctation in ita posceante procession in this cily on the 1%th, has issued @ general order forbidding the procession and directing the potlce force to preventit. ‘There was not the slightest apprehension that they would com- mit any breach of the peace, but Irish Roman Catho- \tcs threavened to break up the procession by killtog. MW need be, those engaged in it. The Superintende: of Police, acting, of course, in concert with Mayor Hall, has surrendered to the mob instead of protect- ing peaceable citizens in 4 customary privilege The Hvangelist (Presbyterian), under ths heading of ‘‘Disgraceful Cowardice,” proceeds to say:— The police of this city bas surrendered to the threats of the Irish, and Superintendent Kelso has issued an order that the parade of Urangemen, which was appointed for yesterday, the 12th of July, the anuiversary of the Batile of the Boyne, shall not be permitted to take place. ‘he reason alieged ts that it will create a riot and lead to bioodshed. ‘The order 13 therefore a virtual coniession that our Jormidable police are not abie to protect peaceapie citizens holding a public meeting or passing in pro- c.ssion through tie streets, This is the most di graceful confession we have ever seen made, Are We then to hold the right of public meetings at the dictation of the Cathotic Irish of this city? If 80, &6 is time to know it, that we may act accordingly. * * We may as well figit the battle here aud now as in any piace, or at any me. Let us Know if we hold our privilege of assembling peaceably at the dicta tion of an Irish mob, or if Protestants have any Tights which Catholics are bound to respecu? The Independent (Coagrezatioarlist) pros claims ‘‘New York is no longer free!” and goos on to say:— In the rlots of 1863 the government gained a vio- tory over the mob. But in 1871 this same Trish Catholic mob which hung negroes and Killed babies and burned orphan asylums had but to threaten. The city surrendered. Mayor Hall might nave called out the militia; he might have put a phalaux of liberty-loving Americans on one side the Orange- men and & phalanx of liberty-ioviug Germans on the other side, with loaded muskets and bayonets glis- tening in the sun. He might have done this and his name would have descenied to future generations along with those of illustrious heroes. it woald have been said that he saved the liberty of the city. ut now, waen he dies, the newspapers witch mike up history will hand him down to infamy by writ- ing, “This was the cowardly Mayor who surrea- dered the livertles of his city on tae lah day oF July, 1871." The Methodist declares that ‘‘New York has been unconditionally surrendered by its authorities to an Irish Catholic mob,” and pro- ceeds: — We have no personal interest in Orangeism or Orangemen; we doubt the wisdom of such a dem- onstration as they designed to make, but their night to assemble for such a peaceable purpose unquestioned and should have been maitamed. Least of all shoutd the city authorities have yielded to the threats of excited and foolish Irish Catholics, It was a good occasion to teach that class of our population that they must respect the rights of others, as well as clarm rights for themselves. The Catholic Archbishop of New York aad others of the clergy have shown a proper appreciation of the rights of American adopted citizens and have warned their flocks against interference with the intended parade. They have inculcated earnestly the duty of all men to obey the law. Tho HERALD, whose proclivities are Roman Catholic, has de- nounced the pusillanimity of the Mayor and head of police with the utmost energy. Z’udite opinion ts unanimous against the city authorities. * * * As We go to press it 18 announced that the order has been revoked and that the Orangemen will be rotected. Even as it 13, New York has been ¢eeply umitiated, The Christian Union—Honry Ward Beecher—declares that it is ‘‘aot because the Orangemen are Protestants and their oppo- nents Catholics that It approves the action of the Mayor” (in forbidding the. procession), and adds :— In this city processions of all sorts nave for years been freely alowed, Heretofore threats ot violence have, when of sufficient moment, been promptly met by the police. If the plan of forbidding speciat celebrations had been adopted because ihey coauced To be offepsive to certain Classes of citizens what would have been the condition of the statute book at this time, and what will i be if this thing goes on, unless, indeed, one particular set or party always receives the ‘benefit of any doubt? We be- lieve that if the whole police force had been on daty and a@ few of the best city regiments had been ordered to hold themselves in readivess, no serious riot would have occurred, or, If tt had occurred, would have been checked so promptly as to teach ® lesson to the rioters such as they would not Lave tor- gotten tor a generation or tivo. The Yablet—Catholic organ—after deaig- nating New York as a ‘‘semi-Catholic city,” proceeds :— We sincerely hope that no Catholic, even a nominal one, will wantonly put himself in the way of a coilt- sion with these firebrands of mischief (the Orange- men), whose object ia, as it ever has been, the De- tuation of strile and religious dissension. very Catholic ought to remember that he 13 bound in con- Science to refrain from acts of violence, and to bear all things rather than disturb the public peace and Ceo loss of tife, whether bis own or that of others, The editor of the usually demonstrative Catholic organ—the Mreeman’s Journal—is overwhelmed with a crushing domestic grief, and his columns this week make no allusion to the occurrences of the 12:h, From the above extracts from the most prom. inent of our religious city contemporaries it will be seen what the temper of the Protestant portion of the community was at the time of the promulgation of the order proh biting the procession, Next weck, probably, they will congratulate Governor Hoffman for the moral heroism he exhibited in allowing tho parade to go on, notwithstanding the sorrowing events accompanying it. A Fire Occurrep in a four story building on Sixth avenue, near Forty-fourth street, yesterday, followed by an explosion, appa- rently of a barrel partly filled with benzine, and as there were a number of firemen and policemen in the immediate vicinity at the time the casualiles were numerous, Thirteea firemen and policemen are reporied severely burned, one of them fatally. The unparalleled carelessness of a workman in cleaning gloves with benzine near a gaslight waa the cause of the fire and the subsequent explosion, Toe New Hampsnire Senate has had a com tinuous sensation ever since its extraordinary organization in pursuance of an extraordinary democratic victory. Senator Smith, the ra- publican member who has been charged with bribery and corruption, ‘‘rose to explain” yea- terday, but made rather a lame defence, and being met on all sides by reiteration of dema- cratic charges, he subsided without having “maintained” his point very satisfactorily. After this display the Legislature adjourned sine die, and the republicans cordially en- dorsed Smith for his courage and patriotism. annals Minister SougNok has made another speech to the Britons on the incalculable benofits of the new treaty. This time he addressed the merchant tailors of London at their annual banquet, He intimated his belief that the present treaty was one that would not shrink with wearing or washing, but being admirably cut to order, out of the very best of goods, would fit well, suit all and never go out of fashion. el Lrrtie “Tap” Linco, the youngest som of President Lincoln, died in Chicago yester- day. He will be remembered by all who were in Washington during tho war as tho bright life and light of the White House during those gloomy days,