The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BEOADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. Wood's MU" 'M, Broadway, corner 80th st.— - ances a(terovoa and evening —NOKET OF LEAVE Mase BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,— 5 wienr—Ta DeaD snor, NF TROUGH Br Dar TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — Tue Mourrain Kine— lacs UTORMAN'S GHOST. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—SonxtepER—NRw NGS AND DANCES. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and I%h street.— Erik. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aczoss THs ContI- ENT. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, No, 720 Broadway.—KELLY & Leon's Minerere MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S FARK THEATRE, BrooMlyn,— Cigarerre, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—THEovonx TuoMas’ ‘BuMMEK Nicuts' Concrsrs. New York, Sund July 30, 1871 CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Par. "nO aa waa le aha a Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Rare ven butler: The Sage of Essex on Politics, Past, Present and Future—Runuing Notes, Political and Gencral—News From Washiag- ton—The “Minnie French”? Mystery—Boiler Explosion tn Clinton, Coun,—Newark's Old Story—Saturday Night Assaults—Two Men Carried Over Nfagara Falls—Mavine Surveys. 4—Religious Intelligenee—Propozed international Ming Bureau—Army and Naval Intelit- nce—A Murderer Released. e Crescent and the Cross: Turks and Ameni- cans Keeping the Fourth of July on the Banks of the Bosphoras—The Explosion at Vin- cennes — Yacntin Notes — Aquatics — Long Branch—New York City News—Horse Notes— Brooklyn Affairs—Perjury in Westchester County—A Wide-Awake Policeman—Paterson Brevities—Ballast for Sailboats. G6—Editorials: Leading Article, Mission Work at hath afd Abroad”—Amusement Announce- ments, 7—Eaitorial (continued from sixth page)—France: A Scheme for the Reorganiza‘ion oi the French Army; The Count de Paris Treated With Royal Honors—Spain: The Adininistration of affairs in Cuba to Remain Unchanged—The Stricken Land: Persia, Its Geography. People, Produc- tions and Government—Negro Mob in North Carolina—Miscelianeous Telegratos—Personal Intelligence—Weather Report—Views of the Past—Business Notices. S—Pars Fashions: The Fickle Goddess Back Again to Her Old Quarters—Mosic and the Drama—Literature: Criticisms of New Books ; Literary Chit-Chat ; w Publications ceived—National Academy of Design—A Knotty Question Setried—A Fatal Nocturnal Aventure—The Drowning of \Mrs. DeCoster— The National Game—The Visittug Japs—Ship- Ment of Ores. 9—A Woman’s Kevenge—Department of Pnblic Works—The Sleepy Huilow Assassin—The Apothecaries—Proceedings in the Courts— Jefferson Market Police Court—Rather Cool— Sherii Brennan—The Sing Sing Prison Mur- der—Departures for Europe—Fmancial and (Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths. 10—The Ku Klux Klan: Semi-oMcia! Report of a Congressional Sub-Committce—rhe Murder Mauta: A Wealthy Merchant A’ pis to Kall His Wife. and Failing, Tries t momit Sui- cide—Obituary—A Boy Homicide—The Trade Socieues and the Eight Hour Law—Snipping Inteliigence—Advertisements, S1—Catskill: Gay Gossipping Gems from the Mountain Regions—Foreigu Personal Gossip— Foreign Miscellaneous —Items— Journalistic 5— Notes—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Dr. Dirucer has been elected Rector of the University of Munich. Fifty-four profes- Bors out of sixty voted for him. Dr. Dillinger fhas hitherto occupied the professorship of wanon law, and the honor now conferred mpon him is of the greatest significance and shows that he has risen in popularity. Paris Fasnions.—We publish this morning pletter from the Heracn’s Paris fashion cor- Yespondeat. It is the first since the downfall pf the empire. Regardless of the forms of government under which France will be ruled, fhe fickle Goddess of Fashion resumes her resi- fence in the gay capital. We know what she Jhas done under the empire. Let us see what she can do under the republic. Tur OrrxaNs Prixces—Tae Duc p’AUMALE AND THE Count DE Panis.—How contradictory pre things in France! One day we learn that Bhe Count de Chambord has abandoned France disgust, that the legitimists are broken up asa party, and that the fasion from which so * much was expected has proved a complete failure. Next day the Count de Paris writes ip letter which finds its way into the nowspa- pers declaring it to be his firm conviction that he Count de Chambord is to be the next King pi.France. Then, again, we had been led to Ddlieve that the Orleans Princes had volan- a. y surrendered their seats in the Assembly. low we -arn that D'Aumale contests the Few we of Clermont in the Assembly. WM. Thiers avows it to be his purpose to play Phe rile of George Washington, aad the Duke Broglie, with, it is said, the consent of the 'rench government, dines the Count de Paris. er be the final issue it is not to be that President Thiers acts magnani- ly toward the Princes of the House of eans. | Ban Borurr is making a brave fight for the husetts Gubernatorial chair. The ees professes to have no concealments— tho opinions upon political subjects which jhe does not openly avow, and invites priticism of all his public acts. In an inter- view yesterday with s HeRatp corre- spondent the General takes occasion to place himself right upon the republican record in re- to his conduct in the earlier days of the and shows how the democracy of England were won over to the republi- side. He also makes out a pretty is claim to the support of the labor party of Massachusetis, as well Hips tows allegiance of the woman suffragists, 7 prhose champion he fain would be. Upon one however, the General is somewhat re ; in fact, bis ways rival in darkness Whose of the pagan Orientals. When asked what course he would pursue if defeated in bis pfforte to secure the nomination in the Repub- Convention, the wily warrior parried the with the remark that he was not pre- for such an emergency. Doubtless Ben mischief if he is defeated by any dis- esi manguvres; and in euch a contingency the Old Bay State may feel disposed to ‘kos departure from the republivan lings, than half a century the work of missionary evangelization at home and abroad has been earried on most effectually. There is hardly a Christian denomination in the world to-day that has not its missions in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America and among the islands of the sea; and though sceptics may doubt and infidels may mock at their poor success, there is a real gain and advancement made every year by conversions from heathen- ism to Christianity. the magnificent success of the American their missions in India and China, some six- teen or twenty years ago, they had very little success. missions in Foochow, China, was in that dis- trict for nine years before he could point to the first convert. proved to be just the man for the time and the place, although a “rough” of the Reddy the Blacksmith grade. the fainting spirits of the American mission- aries, and they labored with increased dili- gence and zeal, and God has blessed their labors so abundantly that they have now ap annual conference of eighty-four missiona- ries, native and American, and a membership of more than fifteen hundred, besides large numbers under instruction and on probation, together with Sunday and day schools, or- phanages and other Christian adjuncts. this conference, at its session toward the close of 1870, began a mission career for it- self by sending a native minister of their num- ber to labor among his countrymen in San Francisco. four missionaries, the numerical success is even greater, Ne ee Me SRT SEN ea Ne Se MR LN ee ee NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY. JOLY 30, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, Mission Work at Home apd Abroad. The Saviour’s commission to His disciples to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature has always inspired some men more thoroughly than others, and they have gone forth like their apostolic predeces- sors to carry the message of salvation to dying menin the remotest quarters of the globe. Long before missionary associations and boards were thought of modern Christianity had raised up scores of individual missionaries and sent them forth attired in all the panoply of the Gospel of Christ and equipped for the fight. For a long time a prejudice ex- isted in the mind of the general Church against foreign missions. The heathen were deemed to be so deeply sunk in idolatry and superstition that it was considered folly and madness to attempt to turn them from their idols to the living and true God. But the success of the independent missionaries, partialthough it was, and beset with great and numerous difficulties, neverthe- less inspired the Church with the idea of doing something for the debased millions of heathen- dom. Hence missionary boards and societies were organized, and through these for more Who has not heard of Baptist missions in Burmah and of the English and American Methodists in India and China and Western Africa; of the Presbyterians in Africa, Asia Minor and parts of Europe, and of the Episcopalians in Southern Africa? In 1813 the Rev. Dr. Judson, a most godly, Christian man, established the Baptist mis- sions in Burmab, at Rangoon, and in 1853 him- self and Dr. Mason began their labors among the Karen mountaineers of that empire. secutions fierce and long awaited them, but in spite of all they held fast to their work and to their faith, and to-day two hemispheres bless their names and memory. They lighted a fire in that dark land which will never die out. There does not exist in Europe or America a more simple and godly people than the Karens of Burmah, along whose roads, the mission- aries declare, a man may travel in any given direction for six hundred miles and lodge every night in a Christian home. three hundred and eighty-two founded among them are self-supporting, and some of them‘have become strong enouzh to sead out missions to others. the first fruits of the mission work of one de- nomination of American Christians among the heathen—a result in less than twenty years 60 Magnificent as to be the wonder of Christen- dom. Per- Most of the churches And this is but When the American Methodists started Rev. Dr. Maclay, superintendent of But when the first fruit came he He was enough to revive And In India, with a force of thirty- The membership numbers above 2,000, besides 1,500 scholars taught in thirty-five Sunday schools and 4,443 in one hundred and thirteen day schools. During a recent visit of Rev. William L. Taylor (form- erly of the California Conference, but now an Evangelist) to the different charges of this mission a very remarkable revival was started, by which, in the early part of January, eighty- three professed faith in Christ in Lucknow, twenty in Cawnpore; in Shahjehanpore, Barcily and Budaon forty, and in Moradabad twenty- two. In Liberia, Africa, the Methodists have eleven effective men, four supplies, and four preachers on native stations ; eleven common schools, five teachers of native schools, and thirty native youths educating for the minis- try. They have an annual conference there also and acolored missionary bishop to su- perintend the affairs of the mission. The first missionary society was organized in England in 1701; there are now twenty- five such in thet realm. The Protestants of France have one, the Germans and Swias eleven, the Dutch two, the Norwegians and Swedes three, the Untted States seventeen, British America two and the West Indies tyo. Besides these there are a host of local socie- ties engaged more or less in mission work at home. Nearly all of these societies, foreign and domestic, have sprung into being during the present century. And what is the result of all this organized labor and prayer? It is that 560 European and Ameri- can missionaries, 219 natives and 2,150 catechists have established themselves and the truths of the Gospel so firmly in India that ninety-five thousand natives have so far embraced Christianity as to accept baptism ; twenty-five thousand have professed faith in Jesus Christ and about fifty thousand children are gathered into Sunday schools and taught the way of life; while about a quarter of a million of the thirty million children in that dark land are taught in the day schools, and we can hardly estimate the numbers who have been wholly or in part turned from idolatry, but have not made any special movement toward embracing Christianity. In China the result is two hundred European and American missionaries, four thousand native teachers, and eighty-five thousand converts from paganism. In Africa the regult ig two hundred and twenty-five churches, thirty thousand converts, two hundred and fifty schools, in which forty thougand children are taught, and ten millions of depraved Africans to whom the blessings of the Christian religion in one form or other have come. There are altogether more than fifteen thousand missionaries at work to-day in heathen lands. “And every year the mission work is growing more hopeful. The children are taught the English language in the mission schools, and in China and Japan the State has made provision for having it taught in the public schools as well. It is said that in every village between the Gambia river and the Gamboon in Africa, a distance of two thousand miles, the English language is spoken. By and by the children and youth thus educated and grown up to manhood and womanhood will perpetuate and extend thia language.and the Christianity with which it is so thoroughly identified.’ And mark how literally the prophecy is being fulfllle€d—‘‘With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people, saith the Lord”—in every quarter of the globe. language is peculiarly the language of Chris- tian civilization in this nineteenth century, and heathen nations are recognizing it by having it taught to their children at home and by sending their sons to England and America for a better and more complete education. Truly the Church, looking at these results, may well exclaim, ‘‘What hath God wrought ?” The English But no better mission field could be found than our own broad land. Here Jew and Gentile, Christian and pagan take refuge and find a home, and hence here the several de- nominations have extensive missions among the foreign populations. Since the war closed the South has become also a great mission field for Northern Christians. Though slavery has been crucified, dead and buried so deep that no resurrection tramp can ever again wake its slumbers, the spirit of sectional and religious animosity which it engendered still lives as intense, though not as active, as ever. There is no more affiliation between local branches of the same denomination than there is between distinct sects. Hence the Metho- dists, Baptists, Presbyterians and other Chris- tian churches of the North enter the Southern States somewhat as they would enter India or China. They open their own missions, gather and organize their converts into churches, and, when the numbers are sufficiently large, confer- ences, presbyteries or associations are formed. And in this way the North is gaining the alle- giance of the South. We have the money to build the churches, found the schools and colleges, and to pay the ministers and teachers; and the Southern people, white and black, need the religion and the education which we fur- nish and which they are yet too poor to pay for. the local churches will become self-supporting, but they will have in the meantime become so conciliated by intercourse with their Northern brethren that they will not seek to sever the ties which bind them together, thus gradually the union of denominational branches will take place in this land, and may we not hope the union of sects also? But by and by, as their wealth increases, And The Famine and Pestilence in PersiamAn Opening fer Russia. The desolation of Persia by famine and pes- tilence leaves that country completely at the mercy of its overshadowing and powerful northern neighbor, Russia. In 1813, from a disastrous war with the Czar, the Shah was shorn of extensive territories on the Caspian Sea, and again in 1828 he was despoiled of another large slice of his northern domains. Still Persia isan extensive kingdom, having an area of over five hundred thousand square miles, over which are distributed its ten or twelve millions of people. try is what is called in Holy Writ a ‘howling wilderness” or desert; but much in and near the bordering mountains west and north is very fertile, as also are the numerous oases in the desert portion itself. Much of the coun- All those regions of Western Asia, however, from Persia to the Mediterranean, embracing the cradle and the nurseries of the human race and the most powerful empires and the highest developments of civilization, including the Jews, the Assyrians, the Medes and Per- sians of biblical history, being countries flanked and traversed by burning deserts and subject to severe periodical droughts, abound in records of famines and plagues. Their pop- ulation, especially the peoples of Persia and the Euphrates basin, for the means of sub- sistence from their earliest traditions have been largely dependent upon irrigation; and wars and bad governments, resulting in the rnin or neglect of the irrigating canals, have been fruitfal in these penalties of plagues and famines, Bad government lies at the bottom of this present double calamity of famine and pestilence now desolating Persia, as our special London correspondent has graphically explained it. Here, then, is an inviting opening for Russia to extend her dominion to the western border of British India—first, in the way of charity, and next in the way ofannexation, From the Volga and the Caspian Sea Russia, if so dis- posed, can speedily ship down to a short dis- tance from the Persian frontier any amount of supplies, and the horses and their forage necessary to carry these supplies into the interior. It js probable, too, that the ‘Czar will order all this to be done, fot forget- ting a military escort equal to all emergencies. With all that he can do, however, to arrest the havoc of the famine and the pestilence in Persia, it is hardly possible that he can save a tithe of its suffering people ; for Persia—without navi- gable rivers, without railways, without com- mon roads passable for wagons over her mountains and deserts—is almost as difficult to reach in its interior places‘as the isolated table lands of Abyssinia. We may truly say, therefore, that Persia lies completely at the mercy of Russia; and we may venture the opinion that Russia will im- prove the opportunity to the ultimatum of annexation, And why not? What Power is there that will dare to interfere? The Asiatic possessions of the Sultan border upon Persia on the west; but what can the Sultan do to save Persia if the Czar is resolved to go in and possess the land? The Sultan can only submit, But Persia in the east borders upon British India, and may not England have something to say against this Russian annex- ation of Persia? England may protest; but phat iq all that she ig likely to doin this mat. ter, thing to fear from the appropriation of Persia by the Czar. We think that the annexation of Persia to the Russian Empire would be a great thing for Persia and for Asiatic Turkey, because it would introduce railroads into those countries, and because the introduction of railroads will revive all those regions into a degree of pros- perity and wealth surpassing that of their highest development in ancient times, In this view we rather hope than fear that Russia will not only step forward to save the suffer- ing people of Persia from death as far as pos- sible, but will occupy and annex and stay there to develop the country in the interests of modern civilization. The News from France—Republic or Mou- archy, Which? The reorganization of the French army will certainly not be retarded from any want of schemes. According to our special despatch from Paris a plan has been submitted by M. Gambetta for the remodelling of the army and the civil service. The former is said to be the work of Generals Faidberbe and Chanzy, in conjunction with the Duke d’Aumale and the Prince de Joinville, Gambetta and the Or- leans Princes rowing in the same boat—here is news, indeed! The ex-Dictator of France is getting to be quite conservative. He, to whom Thiers, in one of his famous speeches,+ but lately alluded as a “fou furicuz,” who re- fused to recognize the National Assembly and was accused of sympathies with the Com- mune, is now consorting with the representa- tives of monarchy. General Faidherbe has been quite prolific on the subject of army re- organization. But he, too, is a republican, while his colleague, General Chanzy, has a leaning towards the Orleanists. The Duke d’Aumale, whose name is asso- ciated with the scheme, is also a military man, having distinguished himself in the wars of Africa, and the Prince de Joinville has done good service in the French Navy, where he still enjoys great popularity. Fusions are the order of the day. Is this going to be an Orleanist-republican fusion ? May be the Orleanisis have turned republi- cans, or (which is more likely) Gambetta, Faidherbe and company have turned Orlean- ists. But what shall we think of the news, as announced by our special cable despatch, that he Duke de Broglie, the French Ambassador in London, has given a gala dinner and ten- dered royal honors to the Count de Paris? And those royal honors, adds our despatch, were apparently offered by order of the Thiers gov- ernment, Better and better, or rather worse and worse, The Duke de Broglie is an old servant of the Orleanists, Couple with this news the announcement that M. Favre has left the Ministry, and we have some strange com- plications. M. Favre, who is a republican, did not like to favor the temporal power of the Pope or play into the hands of the mon- archists, so he preferred to resign. M. Thiers, we are told, aspires to become the Washington of France. The chief of the executive is too old to forget and to begin being anything else but M. Thiers. Looking over our foreign files we happen to alight upon a speech delivered by Thiers in the Netional Assembly on June 8. He said :—‘“‘If a monarchy is to be re-estab- lished in this country I desire that it should at least be said that the republic has been given a fair trial, The trial of the republic—I ask pardon of my listeners—has never suc- ceeded in republican hands,” M. Thiers, in spite of his Orleanist. predi- lections—for this ia an undeniable fact—must confess that the republic has not yet been given a fair trial. Indeed, the republic in France is ina good way to become a great and glorious fact. And if M. Thiers attempts to set up the Count de Paris as King Louis Philippe I. he will be sternly told by the republicans that a republic can never succeed in monarchical hands. Norta CAROLINA negroes are by no means its most gentle, placable and law-abiding citi- zens, and when a few barrels of North State rifle whiskey is distributed among a thousand or two of the newly-enfranchised they become almost fiends incarnate. Goldsboro yesterday boasted a riot which for vindictiveness and fury fairly eclipsed the disgraceful scenes in this city on the 12th inst. About five thousand negroes attended a republican mass meeting in Goldsboro. As usual on such occasions whiskey flowed freely and soon a free fight ensued ; the negro police interfered and ar- rested one of the most turbulent Africans, but the prisoner was immediately rescued by his | friends, The police was reinforced and the culprit recaptured and taken to a hotel, fol- lowed by the mob, who vainly attempted to storm the building. Firearms were brought into requisition by both sides, and the dis- turbance was quelled only after two men had been killed and six badly wounded, Trae Royar Famy ANp [revanp.—Ireland is again the object of attention on the part of the royal family of England. Prince Arthur is about to become an Irish landlord and resi- dent. It is not at all unlikely that he may at an early day be appointed Lord Lieutenant. This morning we publish a cable despatch to the effect that preparations are complete for the reception of the Prince of Wales, the Prin- cess of Wales, Prince Arthur and other mem- bers of the royal family. The preparations are said to be on a scale of unparalleled mag- nificence. On Friday next there is to be a grand review in Phoenix Park, The Mayor of Dublin gives a grand ball, for which he has issued some two thousand invitations, It seems to be the determination of the govern- ment to coax the Irish people into loyalty. Tuers—‘‘Tax WASHINGTON OF France.” — One of the Paris papers, the Salut, which is the steady supporter of M. Thiers, declares to the world that “‘it is the ambition of the Presi- dent to be regarded hereafter as the George Washington of France.” We know of no one who has the true welfare of France at heart who will regret this announcement. France's future welfare lies in the republic, and if President Thiers has the will to play the rile of Washington he certainly does seem to have the opportunity. M. Thiers has already won for himself a respectable niche in the temple of fame; but in aiming at the high rél of Washington he is aiming at something much higher than he has yet been able to accom- plish, We hope he will honestly make the effort, and we wish him success. Two points appear to have specially exer- cised our religious contemporaries this week— namely, the probable religious effect of the riot of the 12th instant and the alleged iniqui- ties of Tammany Hall. The Independent asks, ‘Shall we have o Protestant League?” and proceeds to argue the question negatively. In conclusion it says, after quoting an article from the Western Catholic, in which it is declared to be ‘‘the first duty of every citizen of the United States, be he Catholic or Protestant, to obey the law and preserve the peace”:— Upon such men as these a Protestant Teagne would command us to make war. We respectfully decline to enlist In any such campaign. It is neither wise nor Christian to organize a crusade against Catholi- cism. Against ignorance, brutality, lawlessness, by whatever name they are catied, under whatever banner they march, we are ready to do battle; and In this good fight we count not valniy on the help of many good men within the Catholic Church. In another article the Zndependent gives this closing word for the ‘Irish Catholics of New York city and everywhere else” :— ‘That they will be very wise men if they wiil peace- ably enjoy their own rights, mind their own busi- ness and severely let the Orangemen alone. Civil society, while no party to the feuds that exist be- tween different classes of Irishmen, whether Prot- extant or Catholic, will make itself a party to the issue the momeut either class attempts to invade the rights of the other, The Zeangelist, which has latterly been the champion of some of the departments of the city government, refers’ to “charges against the Mayor,” and propounds ‘‘questions that must be answered.” The charges have been fully ventilated in a city contemporary and the auswers called for arein the same connec- tion. The Hvangelist continues :— The Mayor of this city, who 1s entrusted with Its honor, Owes it to those who have placed him where he is to vindicate himself from these scandalous charges. Tne good name of the city is involved in showing that tts highest officer 1s not tainted with Iraud. We certainly hope nis answer will be a com- plete vindication, But if he makes no answer the public will understand that it is because he cannot. His silence will be his condemnation. Wherefore we demand. in common with all honest men, the 7am oxpopare of tnis thing, no matter who is burt vy it, The Observer thinks the real principles of Romanism are avowed in its efforts to keep Church and State together; in insisting on being the soul while the State is only the body; in declaring that Protestantism is only the “synagogue of Satan,” disqualified to in- form or direct the secular order. Says the Observer :-— This is no fancy sketch, If it has any features of caricature the Catholic World is responsible for them. We have not consciously exaggerated a line oraniota. Such claims of supericrity over “the secular order’’ as are here and now put forth in be- half of ‘the Catholic hierarchy” are simply revolu- tionary. They cannot be entertained without the implied surrender of the independence anu autono- my of the State. The Observer is silent on the alleged Tam- many corruptions, which is somewhat singular when one reflects upon the fact that it has such an observing eye. The Methodist takes up the “startling charges” against the city government, and adds :-— The frightful corruptions of the city have been obvious enough for a long time betore these start- ling allegations of the Times. Que fact 18, however, more irighiful than any such particular charge—it is the humiltating fact that American citizens can allow such a state ol things to go on. Is there no power in public opinion, in public justice, in the ballot-box, to rescue the city out of this bottomiess abyss of perdition ? Here is another extract from the AMvtho- dist :— There must be & more satisfactory explanation froin the city authorities, or the public indignation will deepen till wome decisive investigation shall meet its demands. The city authorities got them. selves into a bad plight by their policy in the late mob; but that was a “blunder; tne present disclo- sures charge them with stupendous crimes. The public cannot possibly tolerate evasion now. The Liberal Christian (Rev. Dr. H. W. Bellows) is silent upon the ruling topics of the day, and, in fact, upon everything else of general interest at this time. The Christian Union (H. W. Beecher) re- fers to the City Hall troubles as a ‘‘disease,” and asks:— Why has so little practical effect thus far come of the efforts of reformers against these abuses? That is a grave question, and one part of the answer to it is close at hand. The fault lies very largely in the very papers that are most strenuous for reform. ‘They are too generally 80 reckless in their assaults, so ready to make the worst charges against every opponent, that they destroy their own credit and tmfluence. The Golden Age gives rather an amusing ac- count of what it calls the “earthquake in the Comptrolier’s office.” It advises the Times not to allow this golden opportunity to pass for striking in a court of justice an over- whelming blow against the ‘‘ring.” Adds the Age:— But then tt just occurs to us to ask where, in Heaven’s name, is there an honest court in New York before which such a case could be fairly tried? God pity a city whose courts connive with its crimi- nals and Whose judges are the purchased property of its planderers. Perhaps the press Liseif 18, im this case, the court of last resort. The Jewish Times refers to the “events of the past few weeks,” “‘especially to the orders and counter orders preceding the 12th of July and the agitation of the public mind subsequent tothe events which characterized that day— to the blows aimed by a fanatical mob at the liberties of American citizens, and to the at- tempt to subject the metropolis of the country to the dictates of a partisan and sectarian rabble.” It concludes an anti-Catholic article with the following apostrophes : — An Israelite knows what tt is to be subject to the Moloch of religious intolerance. Beware of the danger ahead. Whatis now an insignificant cloud may in cime become a devastating tornado. The Freeman's Journal still harps on the Orange procession. It is not quite so smooth and dulcet in its tones as the harp of Erin sometimes is—in fact, it might be regarded as playing uqon the “‘harp that once in tearer’s halls,” &c. The Journal still keeps up its noble list of contributions to the Holy Father at Rome. The Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic) has a very elaborate and sensible article on the Orange parade, in the course of which it says :— ifthe Orangemen determine to parade they have a rignt to parade—that 1s, they have as much right w parade with orange scarfs and banners as @ Fenian regiment has with green scarfs and sun- bursts. But it may be that neither party has a right to parade—that they have simply been tolerated by the authorities, The Tablet has a word or two to say about the “‘Bigots of New York,” in which the wood- cuts in an illustrated weekly are referred to in no very complimentary terms, The Hebrew News discusses the subject of the Orange riot under the head of ‘‘Religious Toleration,” saying: — We live in an age of ress, When men should jearn to respect the rights of ochers, especially inthe United States, where the constitution guarantees to us perfect freedom. The events of the 12th of July are iresh in the minds of us all, The affliction 1 has brought to the hearts of many should be an everlasting lesson to the people to ponder well in whom they put their trast and set up as their chief rulers to administer justice and protect the rights of civil and religious liberty. Our country religious contemporaries con- tain no new or novel features this week. They perhaps are waiting until the present warm weather subsides ere they give their follow- ers their opinions as to what may come here- afer, and no other European Power has any- Roview of the Religious Press Orangelom on Its Native Soil—What May Be Expected from Ite Transplantation. As long as the public mind is excited it cam be reasoned with only in a crude way. It will not listen to the cool logic of facts, Riots are always more or less unfavorable to reflection, and that Orange riots form no exception to the rule will be soon acknowledged, even where their peculiar characteristics are least under- stood. But it is now time to admit that the late specimen we have had here was a trifling affair after all. We do not mean that the shedding of so much innocent blood was & trifle, for it was a grave and deplorable calam- ity. It is the Orange part of the work we regard as trifling. We are, however, quite willing to remember that the number of Orangemen who took part in the procession was comparatively small. The bravest band of soldiers that ever fought is apt to be mild and orderly in presence of an enemy fifty times its number. Besides, it should be borne in mind that the Orange So- ciety is yet but of tender age in America, If otherwise, it is a stunted plant; the American soil is not favorable to its growth. Be this ag it may, we think we can satisfy all who are willing to be convinced by undeniable facts, that whether the comparative mildness of the Orange Society in the streets of New York on the 12th of July resulted from the innocence and gentleness of youth or from the character- istic sedateness and prudence of premature age, it were well for the peace of the country that it would be weaker rather than stronger this time twelvemonth, Now, let not American Protestants who have not studied Orangeism be too hasty in arriving at conclusions. We do not prefer Ribbonmento Orangemen; nor do we prefer Catholics to Protestants, as such, any more than we prefer our neighbors to ourselves. The truth is that all the religion either party has is not worth mentioning, nor is the patriotiam of either of @ more genuine type. It is only with the Orangemen we have t® do, however, on the present occasion. Our readers are aware that none were more in favor of allowing them to march and protect- ing them from attack than we. At the same time we were quite aware that the greatest statesmen had again and again prevented them from marching where they had a much better right to do so than in New York. Not only have they been prevented in Ireland, but laws have been enacted by the British Par- liament completely disbanding the Orange Society throughout the empire as dangerous to the public peace. And what are called the anti-Orange acts have ever been regarded by the friends of Ireland as evidence of an honest wish on the part of the British government to treat Protestants and Catholics alike. In other words, those acts are universally ad- mitted by all impartial men who understand them to have been dictated by the same spirit of “fair play” which has granted Catholic emancipation and disendowed the Irish Church. It is needless to inform those acquainte& with the history of Orangeism that it would have been utterly impossible to have prevented annual battles and bloodshed on an exten- sive scale in most of the counties of Ulster, | had not those restrictive laws been enacted to ~ enable the local authorities to call out the troops on the 12th of July and other Orange anniversaries for the protection of life and property. However much whigs, tories and radicals have differed on almost all other sub- jects, they have generally concurred, within the last twenty years, in the opinion that there could be no peace in Ulster if the Orangemen were allowed to march about in armed bodies displaying emblems so offensive to their Roman Catholic neighbors and playing such tunes ag “Croppies Lie Down,” ‘To Hell with the Pope,” ‘‘The Popo in the Pillory and the Devil Tirowing Priests at Him,” &c. It should be remembered that those who had once belonged to the Orange Society them- selves for political purposes found it neces- sary to take an active part in the enactment of those anti-Orange laws. This is true, for example, of the late Sir Robert Peel. Even Lord Castlereagh once admitted in the House of Lords that it would disgrace any govern- ment to enconrage, directly or indirectly, a system at once so absurd and dangerous as Orangeism. As to the Irishmen to whom Treland can be said to owe anything, whether they be Protestant or Catholic, not one of them has ever been found in the ranka of Orangeism. On the contrary, all have opposed the system, denouncing it as a worse calamity than an annual visitation of the plague in its most malignant form. Grattan, Burke, Sheridan, Swift, Smith O’Brien and Planket were all Protestants, but all were as uncompromisingly opposed to Orangeism as O'Connell himself, who was a Catholic. Of all the misfortunes of Ireland there is not one that makes the national Muse shed a more briny tear than the same sentiment which caused the death of so many in our streeta only a few days since. Thus, one of Moore’a most pathetic lyrics is that in which he repre- sents the Genius of Erin as weeping on the banks of the Boyne, having seen Discord drop his loaded quiver in the tide:— But vatn her wish, her weeping vain, As time too well had taught her; Kach year the flend retarns again And dives into that water. Nor has any one portrayed the arrogant, absurd claims of the Orangemen more faith- fully than Moore, who, as everybody knows, was never a bigot in religion or a partisan im politics. There is nothing more characteristic of Orangemen than to regard it as a grievous wrong to be prevented from inflicting all pos- sible mischief on their neighbors. Some of their petitions to Parliament, on being inter. fered with by the authorities in order to pre- vent bloodshed, would seem burlesques of a very gross order were they not attested but too well. Moore has given us a parody of one of those curious documents; a stanza will show how well he has done the work :— ‘That forming one-seventh, within a few fractions, Of Ireland's seven millions of hot neads aud hearts, We hold it the basest of all base transactions ‘To keep us from murd’ring the other six parts, {t must be admitted that there is but toe much truth in this, although those of our American readers who have not given the sub. ject much attention would naturally find it difficult to believe that any party would enter-« tain so odious a sentiment. In England, as woll as in this country, the public is much de~ ceived as to the spirit and tendency of Orange- tam from the fact that, almost overy lodge haa