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8 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHERT. sW YORK HERALD ieiaecaieran BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, oe Rejected communications will not be re- turned. N All business or despatches must Heprawp. Volume XXXVI news letter and telegraphic be addressed New York AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tne Baier Pay. TOMIME OF Humpty Duspry. BOOTHS THENTRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ay.—ENocn AnpEen UNION SQUARE THE. way.—Naval. ExGaceme: WALLAC! Lonpon A; FIFTH AV Anticix 47. ‘ourteenth st. and Bread- ELLES OF THK KiTcukn. S THEATRE, roadway and 13th street.— cK, NUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Four FoR Goop Naturr—Tue Dean § enth strect.—Too Mucor or, &¢, Twenty-elghth street and HipKuNicoN. SEUM, Bi corner 30th st.—Per- formances a!ternoon’ and eve ON Hanv, LINA EDWIN'’S THEATH tHe Fawiiy—Wanten a Fatn THIRTY-FOURTH STR THEATRE, noar Third av.—Damon ano Prraia BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY.—My Saran Trms— Fexave Derxeriy MRS. F. B. CONWA Frou Fuov. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— PARK THEATRE, opposite City Boy Derective, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway’—Comso Vocaz- sms, Nxoro Ac Hall, Brooklyn.— PAVILION, No. 688 Broadw: Concent, ear Fourth st.—Granp NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sorence any An. QUADRUPLE SHEET. conve York, iaaiinays May 19, 1872. aa CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'’S HERALD. PAGE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisemes B—Advertisem 4—Advertisem S—The Tr etary Fish Consulting with the Fore lations Committee; Reporting : Backdown Attack; he Majority Woodcho} ley ‘Tal y Recreation—Obituary—Art Matters— Decoration Day. G—Religious Intellygence: Whit Religious Corr len sunday; HERALD i To-Day; e; Methodist n Presbyterian Commissioners jon—Libbie Garrabrant ne in Court Island Atrocit Winain; To Be Longfellow r ptting at Fleetwood and Pacing in California— te Water We Drink: How to Remedy Its Contessed Impurity; Suggestions ny from the Pe om tiiication from atic Notes— Amer —i'he Rights of Wom joboken’s New Chure B—Editorias Problem— Necessitie ment Ann De Edite W: gran ws from W. rest The Arkansas Grant Republicaus—Business Notices. 20—Financial and Commercial: Wall Street ina Questionable Condition; Stocks Dull and ady aud the General Markets Quiet—P: dings in the Courts—Prospect Pa TOOK- 8—Fire in Leroy pd Malpractice, \—Marviages and Deaths—Ad- vertiseme:! UeeElght Hours : Strikes; The Beginning of th stings of M nics; All t id and Mutual Assistance Guaranteed; ses Backing Down—Shipping Inteuli: Advertisements. lents, ments. The Progress of the Labor ; Mass 2 TICLE TO THE Treaty or WasHINGTON Wa terday amended by the Committee on Forcign Relations and reported to the Senate, when a debate of an hour’s duration on the question of ratification took place in executive session, Mr. Sumner leading off in opposition, followed by others in the same line of argument. The exact character of the amendment to the article has not been ascertained, but it is believed that the comiittee’s report does not invalidate the tenor of the British demand for our surrender, Tar SurPLemeNtAL Tue Ararayta’s Ractnxa Boar from Amer- ica was delivered in England in a condition of utter ruin, as will be seen by our special telegram from London, in which the injuries the small craft sustained during its transit across the Atlantic are fully described and the causes which produced them set forth. The American oarsmen still entertain a hope of being able to contest the match, but in an English built boat if at all. Tue Latest New rrom Mexico by our special despatches from Mier and Matamoras, show that the Jui government is in a fair may of suppressing the revolution, Saltillo has been reoceupicd by the government troops, and although Trevifio still threatens to cap. dure Matamoros, yet the superior force of Cevallos is able not only to protect the city but to make the revolutionists pay down for puch an attempt. , Tue Drovent anp Forest Fmrs,—From Port Jecvis we have a special report of the ravages which have ensued to property in that portion of the State of New York in conse- quence of fire incident to the protracted drought. The flame wag carried over the Delaware into Pike county, Pennsylvania, where it caused the most serious and ara losses; dwellings, mills, lumber, gricultural implemehts and farm track of every description being swept away, to the amount of over a million of dollars value. Bussex county, New Jersey, was included in the range of the destroying clement. Terrified and houscless people who fled towards the mountains were met at the very base by the flames rolling down the sides, Its effects Benerally are described in a very graphic and Becurate manner by the writer of the corre: pondence which we publish in the Hrnaup to- day, The Great Water Problem—Subterra- mean Supplies—Our Own Necessities and How to Meet Them. Our recent articles on the scarcity of water, and the danger which, from this source, threatens this city, have awakened, as our numerous communications day after day prove, a lively interest and even anxicty in the community. Our foresight has been noticed and approved, and our interest in the welfare of the public has been commended. An ounce of prevention, it has been said, is worth a pound of cure. Prevention of the evil ought to be the natural and certain fruit of anxiety, and we shall rejoice, feeling that we have not spoken to the public in vain, when the work of prevention is fairly begun; for work well begun is work half done. ‘To insure success, however, we must again return to the charge, It is our determination that our people shall not be permitted to plead ignorance of the possible, and even probable, evils which, in regard to this matter of water supply, lie before them. The early and in- tense heats have given us timely warning to prepare for the worst, and we naturally cast around us to find some. means of satisfying the thirsty and sun-scorched earth, Ascending above the earth’s surface into the region of clouds and amid the vast upper currents of moist air from the tropics, we find there an abundance of water, if it could only be con- densed and abundantly distilled upon the soil. This, however, in the present over-heated con- dition of the United States east of the Mis- sissippi River, seems impossible, so that, even on the shores of the ocean and beneath tho ever-moving strata of vapor-laden air, we seem doomed to the fate of the Ancient Mariner— Water, water everywhere, > 4 And not a drop to drink, But before the worst can como to the worst, and before our present supplies of the precious liquid are exhausted by the blaze of the sum- mer sun, we have it in our power greatly to increase them by a few simple and com- paratively inexpensive means. We have already spoken of the necessity of economizing the ordinary amount of water in this city and in all our larger towns and cities. But, to be on the safe side, and to secure the greatest abundance of the cleansing and health-giving agent, we should at once begin to make large requisitions on the subterranean reservoirs of nature, ever full and free in their crystal dis- charge. The most recent and scientific exami- nation of the subject has demonstrated the danger of using common well water for drink- | idea, ‘The returns from the Windward Islands for last December reveal a deficiency in the rain- fall greater than has been known in twenty- four years. For the month of January the re- turns, so far as known, are even more dis- couraging. All our own experience is in har- mony more or less perfeot with these facts and predictions. Director Draper, of the Central Park Observatory, informs us that his records show that the rainfall of 1871, as compared with 1872, is as 16.76 inches is to 8.98 inches, while the snow fall in 1871 was 30.11 inches, and in 1872 but 9.87 inches. These figures are alarming. We areas yet in the early sum- mer, and the woods are blazing; and accord- ing to all accounts the water in reserve is com- paratively small, and quite unequal to the de- mand if, as it promises to be, the summer is more than usually hot. It has not been denied that the burning of the Western prairies had to do with the Chicago conflagration of last year, and, if we would not have blazing cities this summer or fall all over the Union, we had bet- ter be upon our guard. These, however, are more or less general questions, and to general questions we are too liable to be indifferent. The threatened scarcity of water for New York city is not a general question. It comes home to all of us, and we must think of itand provide against it. Our Croton supply is manifestly insufficient. We need a larger central reservoir, or rather we need many such central reservoirs. The time must come when New York will have no need to fear a scarcity of water during the strong heat of summer. But we must look at things as they are. Complaints are common and have been common for many summers past. What we have to do until we have larger supplies, and what we have especially to do this summer, is to husband what supplies we have. It is a fact deserving of notice that New York, with a population little over one million two hundred thousand, consumes over fifty millions of gallons of water, while Lon- don, with a population considerably over three millions, consumes only sixty millions of gal- lons of water. The excessive heat of New York, as compared with that of London, does not explain the difference. With us there must be waste, and excessive waste. Our: plain duty is toeconomize. A most interesting and instructive communication from ‘Pro Bono Publico,”’ published in the Hrraxp of Sun- day last, gave most convincing proof that the waste of water in New York city was enor- mous. Thousands of gallons of water are wasted daily. In prospect of a water ing and cooking purposes. Cteologists have lately shown, in the most conclusive manner, that the strata from which our wells are fed have been most seriously polluted by the sewage escape, not only in our large centres of population, but in villages, and often in country seats. Scarcely a county or district in the land is exempt from this plague spot. Sparkling and bright as the water may appear, it has been contaminated by the most poisonous and filthy excretions, and the draught of it, under favoring conditions, if slow in its operations, is as deadly as the dose of hemlock, and is quickly followed by the outbreak of pestilential epidemics. In the opinion recently expressed by an experienced physicist of the Royal Commission on the Water Supply of London, ‘‘the sources even of our deep well-water supply in the lower ter- tiary sands and in the chalk are thus to some extent polluted and injured ; nor do the great and perennial springs supplying our rivers altogether escape the evil.”” But without the multiplication of ordinary wells the unlimited increase of water supply by the construction of artesian wells isan acknowledged possibility. In the city of Londou more than seven mil- lion gallons ‘sre now daily obtained from the profound chalk strata on the southeast of the metropolis, and there is no sign of any abatement in the gushing floods from these artesian bores. London, however, has been very scanty and parsimonious in its provision for such work, and nature has not done as much for her as for many other cities an the Continent of Europe and in America. The well of Grenclle, in Paris, is very large and seventeen hundred feet in depth; the well of Passy, over nineteen hundred feet deep, with a diameter of four fect at the surface and two feet at the bottom, yields above five million gallons daily. Still third artificial bore in the north of Paris, La Chapelle, St. ‘Denis, penetrating the earth to the depth of over two thousand feet, with a diameter averaging twice that of the well of Passy, will yield over ten million gallons daily, and would, by itself, supply a city of three hundred thousand inhabitants. These valuable structures are being rapidly multiplied in Paris and other cities of Europe, and there are no reasons why they would not prove equally successful in our country. If these subterrancan waters are tepid, as at Passy and Grenelle, from the inter- nal heat of the globe, they are pure and peren- nial. Allowed to fill spacious reservoirs and to cool to surrounding temperatures, they would doubtless prove invaluable auxiliaries to the water supply in dry and rainless districts and greatly relieve the distress of both man and beast. It is also highly probable that such waters would be much less exposed to contamination than even our Croton, some of whose springs are liable to be fouled by the presence of matter drained from small vil- lages or farm yards contiguous to them. The experiment of such wells as we suggest, if ex- periment it can be called, should be made im- mediately. These suggestions, one and all, with the ac- companying facts, have a special bearing on our own actual situation to-day. Recently we entered, with some minnteness, into details which in themselves were satisfactory proof that the ‘cold wave” through which we passed last winter, and the subsequent indica- tions, were sufficient to make us prepared for ® great scarcity of water during the present summer. It is notorious that last winter, though cold, was not rainy, and that in com- parison with many previous years the snow- fall was light. As we stated on that occasion, all tho estimates from all official quarters showed a deficient rainfall. The Astronomer Royal of Scotland prepared us last year for such a state of things. Mr. Glaisher, who has carefully collected the returns for England, has proved that the rainfall for the last year has averaged only twenty-two inches, whereas the proper mean rainfall for England is thirty inches. When we mention that the deficiency of eight inches means a deficiency of over a million gallons of water for every square mile of territory covered by the estimate, our readers famine cannot American ingenuity invent a self-closing faucet which will be useful and convenient, yet economical? On both sides over the whole extent of the city we have large bodies of water. For street cleaning purposes and for the extinction of fires our supply is inexhaustible as the ocean. Let us for these purposes organize a system which will utilize the North and East Rivers. By this means we shall save millions upon millions of gallons of pure water, indispensable for domestic pur- poses, all of which, as things now are, is un- mistakably wasted. Let our water inspectors be multiplied, and let the inspection be car- ried out in good faith. Let us also make the experiment of the Artesian wells, which have worked such wonders in our own country and in Europe. Let everything be done which can be done to prevent a water famine. If, in circumstances which are not by any means im- possible, our authorities fail, the blame will not be the blame of the Hrraup. Poor Pay, Poor Preach—A_ Strike Among the Laborers in the Vine- yard. The attention of the members of the Metho- dist Episcopal Conference, now in session in Brooklyn, was diverted few days ago from the contemplation of the delightful subjects of the book swindle, the duties and exact power of bishops, and the most feasible means of curing the Fijis of their fondness for cooked missionary, to a very timely and sensible memorial on ministerial support sent from the Old Dominion. This document sets forth that some ministers receive their thousands of dollars in the year, and others scarcely enough to support themselves and their families. The petitioners want the magnates in council as- sembled to hit upon some plan to equalize pecuniary matters among the pastors of the fold, and to induce the incumbent of a wealthy, liberal, fashionable parish in the city to extend a helping hand towards the poor, hard worked, ill paid and much harassed country parson. The laborers in the vineyard are by no means placed upon the same footing in a pecuniary point of view, and we fear very much that the drones in the ecclesiastical hive constitute a large body and fatten on the toil of the work- ing bees, The sleek, contented, luxurious pastor, who weaves together pretty sentences and mildly refers to the possible existence of such a naughty thing as sin before a congrega- tion of elegant toilets and immaculate bank accounts, cannot be considered as an energetic follower of Him who cast the money changers out of the Temple. How strangely the voice of the auctioneer, knocking down pews to the highest bidders, contrasts with the words of the Gospel so will the more easily be able to lay hold of the blandly and trippingly spoken by the portly gentleman who employs the auctioneer and pockets the proceeds! If one wishes to meet the true, faithful, conscientious shepherd, the country is the proper place to look for him. Here is the real worker, disregarding the political pantomimes, the condition of stocks, the changes in the value of real estate and the latest fashionable intelligence, and only intent upon the great work before him in his capacity as preacher of the Gospel. His coat may be threadbare, his table frugal in the extreme, and his family compelled to labor in every possible way to earn a bare subsistence, but he has more of the zeal of an apostle, and is a more successful sower of good seed than a dozen of his pampered city brethren. Yet there are times when one of those poor parsons finds the hard circumstances of his lot too many for him, and nature succumbs to poverty, noglect and overwork. The Methodist Episcopal Conference should act with judg- ment and promptness upon the Virginia memorial, and compel the rich parsons to con- tribute to the support of their mendicant brethren. To change places, for instance, would be a self-sacrificing act, and would, no doubt, be calculated to bring out many hidden treasures of goodness and charity. Of course the wealthy pastors of city churches would be only delighted at the opportunity of testifying their zeal and disinterested love for their voca- tion, Their delight will be all the greater at the thought of having the poor country min- isters as their successors in the fashionable world. Only try them, Messrs. Delegates, and test the sincerity of their professions. Review of the Religious Press. Last week we exposed the melancholy state of affairs existing at the House of Refuge on Randall's Island, and we are glad to see that our efforts in the cause of humanity and re- ligious toleration are appreciated. ‘The Catho- lic Review says: — No journalist alive to the credit of his profession can Withhold his testimony of praise from the New YorK HERALD for its notable enterprise in search- ing for and discovering Dr. Livingstone in the mid- die of Africa, but to us it seems that its great ener- gies and wonderful resources are best employed in exploring the hidden mysteries of some of our accomplish in American institutions. What it can that way was shown in last Sunday's Herap, which thoroughly exposed the “unsectarian” working of the Randail’s Island House of Refuge, where six hundred Catholics, of a peculiarly in need of the moral influences of rel , are, in the first place, deprived of the instruction of a Catholic priest for whom they might have respect, and, in the next place, are led to detest all religion by the religious persecution to which they are subjected, The Tablet also thinks that our article will open the eyes of the drowsy and indifferent among New York Catholics, and Will attract the attention of fair-minded and right-thinking people of all religious persuasions to the illegal and most tyrannical conduct of the officials of the Refuge, with the connivance, or, more probably, by the direct authority, of the managers. Good men of all denominations cheerfully concur in the doctrine of ‘freedom of wor- ship,’’ and so flagrant a violation of it as is now being perpetrated on Randall's Island deserves prompt and marked rebuke. ‘he time has gone by for religious persecution, no matter how specious the guise it may assume, The question of “open” and ‘close’ com- munion is agitating the Baptist press, and is being discussed occasionally with excessive warmth. One published letter on the subject by a close communionist—that is, one who disbelieves in admitting unimmersed Chris- tians to the Lord’s table—stigmatized his op- ponents as guilty of ‘fraud,’ “hypocrisy” and ‘infamous conduct,’ and for this the Baptist Union very properly takes him to task. Such language would not be tolerated ina social gathering of gentlemen, and how sadly improper, then, must it be when applied by one brother in Christ to another, upon the simple provocation of a difference of doctrinal opinion? We wonder that any religious editor should have published such a communi- cation. The Union also protests against the truth of some of the facts of the case as stated by its opponents. On the other hand, the “strict’’ communionists show no symptom of retreating from their most extreme position. For example, the Zxaminer and Chronicle says: — This very exclusiveness, with its plain intimation of rebuke to those who are in error ona point of vital importance to the future well being of the ‘hurch, is one of our chief means of winning all ans to an acceptance of the doctrine of be- ers’ baptism, To this the whole visible Church vill ultimately come, Perhaps the Hraminer is right; but we think that it should never forget that the vast major- ity of ‘those who profess and call themselves Christians’ dissent from the practice—or doc- trine, whichever word may be thought the bet- ter—of baptism by immersion. An error, if it be an error, so tremendously important from a simply numerical point of view should at least be treated with respect. Church and State has a somewhat despondent artiave about “Education for the Ministry,” and says: The danger to the influence of the clergy in our day is twofold, It is to be found in the higher cul- ture of the laity and in a tendency to a lower cul- tire asa Wyeth for the ministr; is not cer- tain bat that God may need human learning in the that may be, ‘that He has no ministry of His Chureh; but, howeve it is clear. as Robert South says, need of human ignorance.” There have been very common complaints of late on this subject in most of the religious’ papers, and there must, therefore, be some ground for the charged facts that the ministry is not a popular profession with men of ability, and that the clergy of all denominations are gradually losing the influence which they once exercised over their congregations. But we think that the Church to-day presents as splen- did an array of piety and genius as in most other epochs of its recent history. The mass of the clergy in all ages have been necessarily men of a very common order of intellectual ability. But among divines, as among actors and lawyers, it is the fashion, apparently, to exalt the past at the expense of the present. The Jewish Times, in an eloquent article on “Reform at Home,” attacks the materialism of the age we live in, and especially with re- gard to the change it has worked in the habits of the Israelite. Formerly, it says, that the Jew was always a student, whereas now “the young men prefer the billiard and card room of the elub to the seclusion of the study.” Then it asks :— Have we given up our venerable customs, our soul-stirring ceremonies, in exchange for debasin, rofligacy ? Have we given up the worship of God for the worship of the “Golden Calf’? Where is that refinement of heart, that elevation of mind, that noblesse of thought which distinguished our fathers, steeled them with courage to withstand the tide of corruption, superstition and persecu- tion, and carried our people aloft, placing them at the head of European civilization? Is the sun of liberty blasting our energies instead of invigor- ating them ? The Independent denounces the resolution of the Cincinnati Convention on the tariff ques- tion as “a juyglery of words,’’ and wants to “hear Mr, Greeley over his own signature on this point as a needed supplement to the time- serving, incoherent, ambiguous and palpably dishonest muddle with which the Cincinnati Convention has attempted to befool the public."’ There is, however, comparatively but little politics this week in the religious press, and there is not much of anything else. Rarely have we found our batch of papers such ter- ribly barren reading. And if the editors are already lazy in May, what will they be in August ? The Trade Strikes. Strikes for higher wages have become the order of the day. Not in many years have combinations of the workingmen assumed such proportions and revealed so much power. In former generations the battle was wont to be fought by the people and the aristocracy; now the people are lost in the workingmen, and the aristocracy are forgotten in presence of the capitalists. The trade strikes are quite as much a fact in the New World as in the Old. Itis one of the great facts of the period that the workingmen have learned how to combine and make their scattered forces a unit of power. Their strength in combination has taught tho capitalists o lesson, and mas- ters’ or bosses’ unions are now becoming as familiar to us as unions of ‘the trades. For the present all over the workingmen are win- ning; the masters are giving way. We are not deceived, however, by the facts of the mo- ment. The laborer is always worthy of his hire, but the hire, which must be determined by the general exigency of the moment, canngt cI be always the same, Thero is work td be done now, and the masters can afford to pay for it; hence the victory of the workingmen. The time must come when the demand for labor will be less, when the masters can afford to be indifferent, and when that time comes the masters will combine, and they will win. So long as both parties keep the peace and con- form to the requirements of reason we cannot object to recurring fights and alternating victory. Pope Jones, of Randall’s Island. Mr. Jones, Superintendent of the House of Refuge on Randall's Island, is certainly a man of most rare assurance and Polarie coolness. He is a theologian, likewise, after the fashion of Jones, and believes that “the Sermon on the Mount embodies all that is necessary for salvation,’ and that only Methodist clergymen know how to preach that sermon in the nine- teenth century. Mr. Jones is very frank in his profession of faith—a little too much so, some people think—and rather indiscreet and over-zealous in enforcing his own dogmas. We gave Mr. Jones last Sunday ample opportunity to explain’ the Jonesian theology, devoting some two columns to the subject. Mr. Jones, therefore, cannot complain that ho has not had fair play, and it is to be hoped he will not object to having the cardinal points of his creed summed up editorially. As we un- derstand Jones he believes— First—That Jones is a sort of Pope of Ran- dall’s Island, whose infallible authority is to be supreme thereon. Second—Ho believes ‘sectarian’ preaching to be an abomination in the sight of God and Jones. Third—He believes that Catholic children have no rights which Jones is bound to re- spect. Fourth—He believes that a Catholic chaplain in an institution three-fourths of whose in- mates are Catholics is a ‘‘sectarian’’ principle not to be sanctioned. Hifth—He believes a Methodist chaplain for five hundred or six hundred unfortunate Catholic children is the unsectarian thing of all unsectarian things most fit and proper for the House of Refuge on Randall's Island under the dominion of Jones. Here is what Mr. Jones confessed to our re- porter, as published last Sunday :— REPORTER—I presume, sir, that you recognize re- ligion as being a most potent reforming agent ? Mr. Jones—Most certainly we do. We have re- ligions services every Sabbath, both in the morning and afternoon. REPORTER—HOow many chaplains come to your aid on Sundays ? Mr. JoNES—Only one, sir. ReEPORTER—Then, are all your inmates of one re- ligious belief ? ti r. JoNES—Oh, not at all; most of them are Cath- olics. ReporteR—Then I suppose a Catholic priest per- forms the services ? Mr. JoNEs—By no means. We are not at all sec- tarian in this institution. We allow nothing which any sect can take umbrage at. REPORTER—Is your chaplain, then, a non-sectarian clergyman ? Mr. Jones—Oh no; he is @ Methodist minister, Dr. Plerce is, é 9. ep haan 8 ee ReEPORTER—Are all the Catholic inmates compelled to attend these religious services ? Mr, Jones—Certainly they are. teaches anything sectarian, a ee Mss Wee Re OR. ome REPORTER—But would you not let a priest say mass or hear confessions here ? hi Mr. Jones—Certainly not. Iam not permitted to 0 80. RErorTER—But don't you think that Catholic children ought to have Catholic service, and would be benefited thereby ? Mr. JonEs—Well, you see, in this institution we believe the Sermon on the Mount to embody all that is necessary for salvation. All we wish is that our boys may become good citizens—that they may not lie or cheat. Some malicious and scandalizing chroniclers aver that a certain woman, under the title of Pope Joan, filled the chair of the Pontifex Max- imus about the middle of the ninth century. The pious children of the Roman Church scout Dr. Pierce never ‘the statement as a weak invention of the enemy; but the most inveterate modern sceptic need not doubt that in the nineteenth century, and on Randall's Island, Pope Jones is a vigorous entity, and that ‘ Pope he leads a happy life.’’ It is, however, a matter of grave doubt that as much can be said for the juvenile delinquents whose shepherd and Pontiff he is. Scriptu- rally speaking, it would seem that all his flock of lambs are so many young goats; yet, strange to say, these sad ‘‘kids’’ do not ex- hibit the sportiveness of the little animal with the budding horns. Pope Jones has a curious crozier; it is made of cane and has three leather straps at the end of it. In the inter- ests of his ‘‘unsectarian’’ creed this he oc- casionally substitutes for a club, and the fleshy parts of the flock can testify that this crozier has no sinecure. At the last day, when the sheep are separated from the goats, the latter will doubtless be handed over to some sulphurous Jones, and it remains. to be seen whether these hardened old goats in the midst of the roasting process will be much worse off than the sinful young kids in this world of ours who are under the spiritual tutelage of Jones, the Pope. A vigorous appli- cation of the crozier appears to satisfy the majority in keeping their sectarian predilec- tions within bounds; but revolts against the temporal authority of Pope Jones are becom- ing alarmingly frequent. Pope Jones seems as unsuccessful as poor old Pio Nono in this respect. It often happened under the old régime that the bodies of prying members of the Roman sbirri were found floating in the yellow Tiber with ugly stiletto wounds under the left breast; and, on the whole, it could not be said that the Papalini were popular. The Papalini of Pope Jones seem equally unfor- tunate in dealing with the young goats of Randall's Island. One was stabbed to death not long since; two others were wounded not long after, and on Friday last a young goat named McDonald stabbed Assistant Foreman Buchanan, cutting off part of his nose, and inflicted two punctured wounds in the left arm of Foreman Adams. Sad work, Pope Jones! Twenty-six of the young goats were brought before the Police Justice yesterday, and bleated piteously about their food, material and spiritual. They complain of harsh treat- ment and uncommonly short commons. Bad, you know, Pope Jones, for little kids to browse upon, even if they are sinful young goats ! Is there not something wrong about all this? If the food for the body be no better than the food for the soul, of which we present Popo Jones’ sample above, it must be bad indeed. If the refusal to sing the hymns of a stranger creed be punishable with flogging, then, in- deed, the scale of corporeal punishment for graver offences must be something astonish- ing. Has Pope Jones a rack or a thumbscrew, we wonder? A reformation is needed for this Pope Jones, and in the endeavor to bring it about we have stout Martin Luther's excuse— “Tt is not safe to go against the conscience,” ‘We believe that if the moral and religions training of the young’ goats were better ate tended to, and in such a Way that the teach- ing would be a work of love, Sd not beaten in with clubs and leather straps, thés» bloody Scenes would not be enacted, and some of the little goats might come ont of the House of Refuge as little lambs. Six hundred Catholic children should no more be compelled to at- tend Protestant worship than the two hun- dred Protestant boys should be forced to hear mass. We have no doubt the Catholics of New York would gladly undertake the work of having the religious wants of their young co- religionists attended to, delinquents though they be. The present management of the institution, judged by its results, is not at all creditable, and its sectarian unsectarianism is & piece of absurdity which could only finda defender in the shape of some individual of the candid order, with as huge an iceberg of “cheek’’ as His Holiness Pope Jones, of Ran- dall’s Island. Venerable General Conference Delegates, While the number of hoary heads on the floor of the Methodist General Conference is not very large, there are yet enough of them to impart wisdom and steadiness to tho entire body. The progressiveness of the young men is thus kept properly in check by the conser- vatism of the aged. And though the former may not always adopt the views and accept the measures of the latter, they never fail torespect _ them. This has been repeatedly manifested during the progress of different discussions that have taken place in Conference. The Western Conferences send the greatest propor- tion of venerable delegates of any section of our country, and among the oldest and moat — prominent of those may be named Rev. Peter Akers, D. D., a veteran of more than fourscore years, fifty-two of which he has spent in the Methodist ministry, chiefly in the Western States, doing pioneer work. Even though ad- vanced in life he is still in the active work of the Church, and aside from his years he is in many respects as young and vigorous as a man of forty. Dr. Akers is now present at the eighth Quadrennial Conference to which he has been elected, and which is evi- dence of the esteem and favor which his West- ern brethren have for him. The fact that he had been kept so long on the frontiers endur- ing hardness _as a good soldier of Jesus Christ is in itself & guarantee of his ability as a preacher. As a writer ho has also made his mark, for which he was offered an editorship here in 1832, but he declined it. He was also for many years engaged in the educational work of the Church in McKendree College, and having served the Kentucky and Minnesota Conferences ably and well, he is now spend- ing the closing years of his prolonged life among his friends in Llinois, whom he repre- sents at this time. The Rey. Alfred Brunson, D. D., of the West Wisconsin Conference, is in his eightieth year. © He, too, is in vigorous health, and, for his © years, has a voice of great compass and power. He entered the Methodist itinerancy at the age | of twenty-five, in the Ohio Conference, and has spent the larger part of his life on the frontiers of our country. He is a native of Connecticut, and unites in his composition Yankee shrewdness and love of fair play with Western pluck and power. Asa theologian he is both lucid and profound. As a preacher he is still good, [ though lacking much of the fire of his early | ministerial life. keen appreciation of the ridiculous, and in debate can make a point on an adversary with great aptness andadvantage. He isa thorough radical in politics, and was a captain in the anti-slavery ranks long ago. This is the fourth General Conference that Dr. Brunson has at- tended, and here he has presented for the con- sideration of the Conference a series of twenty- five additional Articles of Religion designed to meet and offset the prevailing infidelity and scepticism of the present day. Dr. George Peck is now seventy-five years of | age, fifty-six of which he has spent in the min- istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He As a writer he displays a |) i | is a New York man, and has represented four \ of the Annual Conferences of this State in the General Conferences, to every one of which he has been elected for the last half century, or since 1824, when he was first chosen. He has been blest with a remarkably vigorous consti- tution, and is still strong and active, perform- ing the duties of presiding elder in the Wyo- ming Conference. He has never failed during his long ministerial life to attend the sessions of his Annual Conference. The Doctor is, or was, in his younger days, an able preacher, and had few superiors as a scholar and a writer. with the publishing interests of the Church as editor, in which position he displayed great ability. He has also taken deep interest in the educational work of the Church, which his brother, Rev. Jesse T. Peck, D. D., seems to have taken up with a zeal and enthusiasm which have already met with unusual success, Dr. William Nast, the father and founder of German Methodism in the United States and in- directly of Methodism in Germany and Switzer- land, is in the Conference, in the seventy-second year of hisage. He was born in South Germany in the year 1800, and was educated for the evangelical ministry. But he preferred a lit- erary life and connected himself with the presse of his own country. He came to the United States in his young manhood, and began to teach at West Point, and subsequently in Ken- yon College, Ohio. While at the last named place he was brought under Methodist influ ences and was converted, and soon after entered the ministry. He established in Cincinnati the first German Methodist mission that this country had known, and from this seed has sprung the four German Conferences whose representatives are among the ablest now on the floor of the General Conference. Nast represents the Central German Confex- ence and is at present connected with Drew Theological Seminary. He is in his own tongue @ powerful preacher, and is a deep thinker, » sound reasoner and a forcible writer. While Dr. Nast was preaching in Cincinnati young man, then in mercantile life went to hear him and to scoff. He, however, remained to pray. That young man was the now re- nowned Dr. Ludwig 8. Jacoby, the founder and superintendent of Methodist missions in Germany and Switzerland, whose Annual Conference, grown up under his able ministra- tions, he now represents in the General ference. He is about sixty-eight years of ngey but looks more aged and venerable. He hag given to Methodism in Germany an impetu which will cary it forward (@ ultimate For twelve years he was connected ‘ Dr. | | |