The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1872, Page 3

@t the othér cenieteries about the city were decorated this morning, and the task will be com- ted in the others this afternoon, The soldiers’ rir beecdeirnge i ape decorated the wgraves of Lieut Greble, Genéral Leech and one of their comrades at Woodlands, The colored regiments also paraded and deco- Fated the graves in Lebanon Cewetery, General Burnside and His Comrades of the Grand ny of the Republic at Providence, R, I, LAA Leet ‘enttee ““PROvinENcr, R. 1.9May 30, 1872. Memorial Day 1s observed here by a pretty gen- eral suspension of business. Four posts of the Grand Army. of the Republic, and nine com- ” panies of the State militia paraded, and the comrades of the Grand Army. visited every cemetery and decorated every soldiers Ve. ane, BUEN Coramandar-tn-Culet ol ~ rand Army of the Republic his staff, were the line. Bervices were held'at the soldiers? Monu- ment, and other memorial exercises will be held in Music Hall to-night. The Day in New England. Boston, May 30, 1872, Decoration Day was more generally observed in Boston and vicinity than ever before. The sev- eral organizations of the Grand Army of the Republic paraded with full ranks, some of them escorted by the volunteer militia, and, laden with flowers, visited the different ceme, teries, where, with appropriate religious exer- elses, they laid their floral offerings upon the graves of the fallen. In most places a brief memorial address was delivered = Re wet phates a) pr curiae singing. hoon at easterly fain set iy) "ng the after- % Despatches from panos ryance of the da; €e exe! unusually Interesting. a6 general and Im the Western States. CINCINNATI, Ohlo, May 30, 1872, Decoration Day was apprepriately observed at Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolii Cleveland, ‘Terre Haute, Toledo, ‘Nashville, Dayton, and throughout the West generally. ‘Virginia Honors the Departed. RrcnmonD, Va., May 30, 1872, Decoration Day was appropriately observed here to-day. The Grand Army of the Repubilc, the col- ored military companies and the stonecutters em- ployed on the work for the new State Deparianent od Washington, with bands of music, besides a large number of citizens, white and colored, pay- Ucipated im the ceremonies, All the government offices were closed and the weatler was fine. DR. VAUGHAN ON THE COLORED RACE. Whe Natural Virtues of the Blacks and Wheilr Capacity for the Supernatural— Black Men the Future Pocts, Orators and Saints of the South—The Duty of the Charches—An Appeal for Catholic Help—Liberty Necessury for Evangeli- zation. The great capacity of St. Stephen’s church was testcd to its fullest extent last evening by a large and resectable audience attracted by the announce- ment that the Rev, Dr. Vaughan would deliver his farewell lecture for the benefit of his mission in behalf of the colored race, He chose for his sub- ject the ‘Mission of the Catholic Church to the Colored People of America.” 1t will be remem- bered that a lecture for the benefit of Father Vanghan’s mission was recently delivered in this game church by the Very Rev. Father Burke. It would seem from the tenor of some portions of Father Burke's lecture that, instead of taking coun- sel with his own Christian heart and the glori- ous history of the suinted heroes of the Uhurch, he ventured on a subject that ho did not understand, Dr. Vaughan's discourse was throughout intended to correct the utterances of Father ‘Tom Burke. He took a broad, philanthropic and Christian grasp of the whole subject, and cordially rejoiced in the emancipation of the slave and paid the highest compliment to the emancipated and emancipating races, Dr. Vaughan began by showing how men are de- dent upon one another, and how it is in the rovidence of God that they should be so. Men and Nations are raised up to co-operate with God's i§ Of mercy and salvation. He described the Irish Lee's as being the leaven of true Christianity in the midst of the English speaking nations of the carth. Having spoken ofthe stron, natural virtucs which he had noticed in the Ameri- ean peoplc—virtues through which they will ac- pe Lis! great results in the world—he described it. Joseph's Apostolic Society, and entered upon the sabject of ite mission to the colored people of the United States. He rejoiced in the freedom accorded to the colored people, and said that the Trish people were above all others bound to rejoice in it, since,they had themselves for centuries striven for freedom. No former Catholic slaveholders whom he had met in the South did otherwise than gladly accept the emancipation of the colored people. In this they were consistent with the instinct of the Catholic Uburch. Dr. Vaughan showed that the Church had always shown herself the friend of the oppressed and the advocate of freedom. Casting aside Bll other tesfimony he took that of Lord Macaulay. England had carried on slavery at home for some ten centuries, and, | according to this historian, “so successfully had the Church used her formidable machinery that, before the Reformation came, she had en- franchised almost all the bondsmen in the king- flom.”? It was reserved for the Protestant Queen Elizabeth to license her subjects in the African slave trade, and to another Protestant sovereign to saddle the plantations of America with that pdious trafic in spite of the protests of the colony | of Virginia in 1772. Dr. Vaughan regarded liberty for the colored peo- ple as essential to their evangelization. Having spoken of their numbers and of his visit to the Southern States he described the condition of those who are given up to Voodooism and of those who have no religion, of those who belong.| to the various sects and the Catho- | lics. He charged many teachers with being | political demagogues and with using religion | | as a cloak for worldly gains. Many were actuated fap by bigotry, A certain sect appeared to be far more zealous in endeavoring to prevent Catho- lics from producing religious impressions upon the or colored people than they were in reclaiming om Voodovism and the lowest degradation the thousands who were sunk in it. sta In New England |- He observed that many of the official reports Jald far greater stress upon Popery than upon infi- delity, and that they boasted of the number of Catholics they were gaining an influence over. Epttin aside the politicy! matives and the bigotry hich Influeficed many, Dr. Vaaghan was willing to admit that these were not the full account of the sacrifices and efforts made by the sects to spread | their opinions. They lad heard of the command of | Christ to teach ali nations, and many were sivecrely | endeavoring in spite of their imperfect lights to carry out What they believed to be right. They | had established, with aid from the Treedmen’s Rurean, some seventy colleges and high schools, bout sixty Industrial schools and somé thrée thou- gand primary schools for colored people, Asa rule these are nearly all sectarian, The consideration of these voluntary efforts should stimulate the zeal of Catholics. Catholics had hitherto done but little for the colored people, There had been reasons for this. The Archbishop of New Orleans had written to Dr. Vaughan describing his interest in the colored people and his efforts to heip them, but alle; poverty had paralyzed his esfort: Di then described the character of t) While admitting their faults, character consequent upon their former sad | condition of servitude, he showed that these very defects afforded the strongest grounds for charity and compassion from those whose dition had been more fortunate, and who were m blessed with the gifts of wealth, culture and edu- cation. Dr. Vanghan then gave a glowing and enthusi- astic account of the favorable impressions he had | everywhere received of the excellent traits of char- acter, the natural virtues and mental capacity of the colored race. While some ef the former siave- holders were still harping upon their unfltness for eny other condition than one of servitude, which they prociaimed to be their natural and di- | vinely appointed state, yet many others, even of the more favored race, give far different testimony. Many of these admit their thrift, thelr intense eagerness for education and their great capacity | and desire for religious and moral culture. One in- telligent observer prediy ted that in another gener: ation or two the blacks will be the poets and | orators of the South, And there is testimony from | every quarter of their remarkable capacity and | eagerness not only for ordinary picty, but even for | exalted sanctity. THE TARIFF ON ALPACA UMBRELLAS, New York, May 39, 1872. To THE Ep!ToR OF THE HERALD: — We beg to call your attention to a blunder, a8 we consider it, in the last clause of section 2 of the Tari! and Tax bill, which we are notified by the appraisers will, as interprefed by them, advance the duty on all alpaca umbrel@s from fifty per cent, as now, to at least 150 per cent. The present duty on alpaca cloths is fifty cents per pound weight and thirty-five per cent ad valorem. The appraisers propose to weigh all umbrellas, sticks, frames, han- dies and covers, thus practically advancing the «uty to 160 per cent. We have been led to hope for a reduction of duties, not sucha fearfal advance. ‘We beg you to call the attention of our Represent: tives to this startling error, We are over-protected now, avd 16 Manufacturers and importers of over weventy years’ standing, can testify that the high duty fills our market with smuggled goods and dis. their | | | | i courages the honest importer and mannfacturer, Youre reepectfuby, ISAAC SMITHS SONS & CO, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE. A Colored Episcopal Disoussion—Election of Ed- itors—Report of the Special Committee on Book * Concern—The Financial Management En- Dr. Phelps, of Virginia, led the devotions yester- day. Bishop Wiley presided. General Albright, of Philadelphia, presented appropriate resolutions in regard to Decoration Day, which were adopted by a ristag vete of the Conference, Dr. MATLACK, of Louisiana, presented a memorial from some colored people of the South asking for the election of a colored bishop, One congregation haa already gone over to the Methodist Episcopal Church South because a similar request hereto- fore made had not been acquiesced in, The me- mortal represents that 100,000 colored members gathered into the Methodist Episcopal Church under the promise of equality in all respects. He moved its reference to a special committee, Rev. Dr. Love was elected editor of the Northern Christian Advocate by acclamation. Dr. William Hunter was elected editor of the Pittsburg Onris- tlan Advocate by & vote of 213 ont of 363, Mr. B. St. James Fry was chosen editor of the Centrat Christian Advocate by a vote of 226, Dr. H. 0. Ben- son was elected editor of the California Christian Advocate by acclamation. Dr, Déllon was chosen in the same way for the Pacific Christian Advocate in Pertiand, Oregon. The Atlanta Methodist Advocate was recognized by the Gencral Conference, and Dr. N. E. Cobleigh was elected editor by a vote of 247 out of a total of 372, Rev. Mr. Waring made an explanation in regard toone ballot for editor of the Ladtes’ Repository, which, after the count had been made up, was taken off his head by another delegate and was afterwards included in the aggregate, whereby Dr. McAuley was defeated, A special committee of five was appointed to investigate and report what should be done in the matter. THE SPECIAL REPORT ON BOOK CONCERN. Mr. B. R. BONNER moved to suspend the rules to admit of the reception of the report of the Special Committee on Book Concern. The report sets out with a restatement of the organization of the com- mittee, its division into sub-committees, and the duties assigned to those sub-committees severally. One of those sub-committees was deputed to find the points of agreement and disagreement between the majority and minorfty reports of tho Book Committee, Another undertook the same task in Messrs. Kilbreth and Gunn's reports, and others took up the several accusations or statements of Dr. Lanahan, as contained in his personal report. The Investigation then ranged itself around a series of questions :— 1, Have frauds been practised in the printing, bindery, or any other department, by which the Book Concern has sustained loss? If 80, be whom? How much loss was sustained, and at what time or times were said frauds committed? 2. Have there been any irregularities in the man- agement of the business of the Concern by which losses have been or might have been sustained? 3. Have losses, if any, been of such magnitude as to ondanger the financlal strength of the Concern or to inaterially impatr its capital? 4. Were the business relations of the departments such that opportunities for frauds and peculations by subordinates could exist, and is it reasonable to presume that such frauds (or peculations), if com- mitted, could have been prevented by the enforce- ment of more thorough and business-like methods? 6, Are there reasonable grounds to presume that any agent or assistant agent is or has been impli- cated or interested in any frauds that may have been practised on the Concern. 6 Are the present methods of accounts and modes of conducting the business such as to insure reasonable and ordinary protection against frauds and irregularities, 7. Is the report of the ents to this Gencral Conference a fair exhibit of the assets and liabili- ties of the Concern, THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. On the first clause of question one, the committee voted yeas 7, nays 50; on the second clause, yeas 49, nays 6; on the third, yeas 7, nays 47. On question two the committee voted yeas 46, nays 7. ‘On question three the vote was 48 nays, 8 yeas. On question four the vote was 49 yeas,1luay on oa first clause, and on the second clause 31 yeas, nays. On question five there was but 1 nayin the committee of 59—the average attendance, Question six was decided in the afirmative by 42 yeas to 12 nays. Question seven was answered in the affirmative by a’vote of 44 yeas to 3 nays. THE CONCLUSIONS to which the committee therefore came are :—That repeated frauds have been practised upon the Book hose frauds are found in the manufac- artment and are located chiefly, if not wholly, in the bindery. Mr. Hoffman was superi. tendent of this department at the time of the per- petration of those frauds, and the evidence indi- cates that for a series of years he carried en @ sys- tem of frauds by which the Coneern sustained very considerable losses, the amount of which it is im- possible to indicate with accuracy. The committee are of opinion that the business methods of this department were formerly such as to afford opp ‘tunities for frauds and peculations by subordinates, which these investigations show have been taken advantage of. The committee ayice with Mr. Kilbreth that ‘the business entries of the years 1862 and 1864, including also the bind- ing and periodical account of 1861) are totally inex- cnsable as specimens of account.” The losses sus- tained to the Concern by those frauds are not of such magnitude as to endanger the financial strength of the Book Concern nor to materially im- pair its capital. The committee further say that there are no reasonable grounds or proofs to justify an assump- tion that any agent or assistant agent is or has been implicated or interested in any frauds which have been practised on the Book Concern, The present methods of account and modes of conduct- ing the business are such as to insure reasonable and ordinary protection against frauds and irregularities, yet they are not altogether perfect. They think it was ‘decidedly improper to have purchased paper for the Concern through ir. J. F, Porter. The loan to the panentey Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sout! | through Brown Brothers the Committee think was an unauthorized use of Concern moneys, given to outside parties, and they call attention to it now as an error which asa@ precedent should not be sanctioned, ‘The committee had no evidence to show that the annual exhibits of the agents should be different from what they are. The committee say they have labored hard to come toa just con- clusion on this matter, and on the question of adoption, the committee adopted the report unani- tots! a rising vote, ‘The vepor't was laid on the table, to be printed, oo Was made the special order for ten o'clock to- day smuch as the Conference bad adopted resolu- tions in regard to decorating soldiers’ graves, Dr. WALDEN nght it wouid be proper at this time to hear the report of the Committee on the National Centennial Celebration, and he moved to suspend the rules therefor. Opposed and withdrawn. On Dr. Eppy’s motion the rules were suspended and the report (No, 7) of the STANDING COMMITTEE ON BOOK CONCERN was read and discussed and certain sections of it adopted before the hour for adjournment of the morning session. The report substantially leaves the chief publishing houses of the Concern where they are, qt New York and Cincinnati; the agents are to be elected as usual by the General Confer- ence, and the office is thrown open to laymen as well as to ministers, and the agents are to have equal powers and equal responsibility. The New York agents may supply the Western agents with printed sheets at fifty per cent, and bound books at forty per cent discount from retail prices and vice versa; and the agents at Cincinnati are to remit to New York argely and as frequently as their funds will allow. «The agents of each publishing house are re- quired to keep @ separate account with each de- partment of the business and with each periodical published under thelr supervision, and the result 1s to be set forth in the reports to the Annual and ey are to take annually an account of stock, &c., witha full and detailed statement of all their liabilities, profits and losses. ‘the report recommends the appointment of ao Book Committee of eighteen members, twelve of whom shall pe chosen from as many districts into the General Conference: | which the Annual Conferences are Frege: and and three from New York and vicinity, three from Cincinnati or vicinity, This Book Committee is then divided into two sections of nine men each, and the three East and West are constituted sub- committees, whose duty it is made to make MONTHLY EXAMINATIONS OF THE BUSINESS, and accounts of the Concern, and to report the same to the larger sections semi-annually and to the full committee at its annual meeting on the second Wednesday of February. The Rev. Mr. HUGHEY opposed making the agents equal and also throwing the offices open to laymen. He wanted a minister at the head, and had no ob- jection to a lay assistant. He moved to retain the section in the discipline in this matter, Drs. Eppy and PERRINE argued ably for the re- port and for the admission of laymen as book agents. Hnghey’s motion was laid on the table and the first six sections of the report were adopted, On the seventh a discussion arose upon & prop- osition by Dr. Nelson, that in lieu of an annual va- luation of the real estate by the nts the Book Committee shali ix the value of the same at the beginning of the quadennium, and that the same shall nor be changed for four years. Dr. Reid of- fered an amendment that the agents’ reports shail give the actual cash value at the time o| purchase, and ina foot note its present estimated value, Mr. Buckley agreed to Dr. Nelson's amendment. Dr. Curry did the same, because, as he said, the nearer Wwe come to transparent truth the better. AU THR AFTERNOON SESSION Dr. Nelson's amendment wae adopted inated of Dr. Reid's, and the section as amended was adopted. Section 8 was adopted by a rising vote, When sections 9 and 10 were yead Dr. Ives moved to strike out all in those sections which relaves to the Risho) Drs. Queal, Bddy, Haven, Stevenson, Judgo ynolds and Bisho} Simpson spoke on the ene and offered amend- ments, substitutes and suggestions, all looking to a division of the suspending and removing power; to lodging (ea separate pouies, and that one Bishop presidé in-all proceedings before those bodies, but without vote or veto power. The whole matter was referred to a 8) commistee of five, vo reconsider and combine all those suggest ‘gid to report as soon as possible. The Grand Lodge of Good Tempiars in session at Madison, Wis., sent their grectings by telegram to the General Conference on its action on whiskey drinking, and the prea Bishop and Secretary C4 Or zs ference were authorized to make @ suita- le reply. THE COMMISSION ON CONFERENCE BOUNDARIES in Western New York reported that they had agreed to make four out of present five Confer ences, as nearly of equal size as may be, and when necessar; (changed the old names. Hence Black River has assumed the name of Ontario. The others are named, respectively, Western New York, Central New York and Wyoming. rs. Bingham, of Black River; Queal and Tousey, ke in favor of the report, and Dra, Hibbard and juntington, of East Genessee, and Ivea, of Central New York, and others, against the report, after which it was adopted, and so much of the action of the General Conference the other day as fixed the boundaries of Black River was rescinued, after which at twenty-five minutes to six o’ciock P. M. Conference adjourned. THE QUAKER CONFERENCES. ER Fourth Day’s Proceedings of the Unitarian Friends—Proposed Prohibition—Interesting Battles Among the Peacemakers— The Orthodox Yearly Meeting. Yesterday morning, althongh at ten o'clock it began to rain plentiful floods from the sky, the meeting at Rutherfurd place was as large as on the day before. The morning hour in the men’s session was almost wholly consumed with the reading of last year’s record of the proceedings of the Confer- ence. Aaron M. Powell, however, unburdened him- self further on the question of intemperance and the Indians, which was also brought up ina more decided manner in the afternoon, The women, more quietly industriousand less argumentative, employed the time in hastening their routine vust- ness, among which was the preparation of separate epistles for cach of the correspondent yearly meet- ings. The essays which the committee reported were accepted in the cases of the Genesee, Balti- more and Iowa Quakers, AFTERNOON PROCEEDINGS, Intemperance was the theme of a lengthy discus- sion, in which it was clearly demonstrated that the peaceful “Friends” were never, through a mistake of creation, made quite exempt from human pas- sions, The mild faces of one or two irascible mem- bers waxed red, their tones waxed hasty and em- phatic, and they themselves, to deacend to John Hay’s patots, waxed each other most unmercifully in one or two isolated but cuttingly sarcastic at- tacks, But the grave decorum of the body ever re- mained dominant and the majority of the debaters maintained the careful composure of men who studied their own natures at every step. The report of the Committee on Intemperance ‘Was read, and the particular instance of an appeal upon the subject from a subordinate conference ‘was referred back to the minor meetings with ex- pressions of sympathy, interest and advice. Through Aaron M. Powell memorials were pre- sented, which it was proposed to send to the State and National Legislatures. A synopsis of that to Congress is as follows:— The importation, sale and manufacture ofintoxi- cating liquors having engaged our consideration, we wish seriously to call your attention to it. It is eae unnecessary as @ trafic, and it supplies more inmates of insane asylums at stated pensions than any other cause of evil. Even were it otherwise, would Ned Naa eG have the right to Neense this fruitful source of crimef On the Western frontier, in those Territories in which Indian civilization is struggling for life, the power of whiskey is what kindles flames of passions and ex- cites the terrible spilling of blood. We believe the Magnitude of this evil to be such that it was second to none which could engage their attention. He asked, in the consideration of this ees ‘by ap- propriate legislation, the prohibition of the use, manulacture, sale and importation of all intoxicat- ing liquors; but they would hail with joy any modi- fication of the laws of the land approaching this end. For the State ra ene he had prepared sepa- rate memorials, with slight changes in the phrase- ology, more adapted to the manner of address, which is essential in such a document. At this moment Friends from the women’s mect- ing were announced. Two elderly ladies walked up the aisle to the clerk’s desk, and handing him some documents, withdrew in silence, IS PROHIBITION CONSTITUTIONAL ? The memorial for Congress was then discussed, Tuomas B. HAYNES opposed the “prohibition law” out of consideration for the medical profession, say- ing that its passage would but lead to its evasion. EFFINGHAM Cock liked the memorial, but thought it was asking the law-makers too much—to do something which was impracticable, AARON M. POWELL said that it was as nearly as possible a copy of the memorial sent by the Phil- adelphia Yearly Meeting to the Legislature of its State, a document Drepered by William Dorsey. They planted their position, and as a people it was fundamentally right. They needed no amendment of the discipline to put themselves on the ground of thorough prohibition. They were on the most stringent ground of any religious denomination. He thought that his position could not be shaken. He asked that the statutes of the nation and of the States should conform to the requirements of ane He was positive that Congress had jurisdiction in the matter. It was precisely the same as a short decade ago the prediction was made that slavery cowd never be abolished. If the memorial came before the Legislature now, he thought that it would make a sensation, but that it would be denied consideration. But he believed that the voice of truth, which asks that the trafic be made illegal, is not asking for what was impracticable. One more point he had to dis- cnss. It was in behalf of that far distant region, where ‘THE INDIAN SUFFERS FROM MANY CAUSES, that he was then speaking. They were the victims of great wrongs, but there was none 80 inimical to their civilization and progress as the presence and influences of intoxicating spirits. The experiment of Indian redemption would fail largely if this measure is not favored and seconded, and if Con- gress do not go forward with it. The German Quaker, RUDOLF GorRcR, said that there was but one religion Bicone ene to over- come this evil. Jn this memorial he thought they had aeparted somewhat from the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and had made themselves more like foliow- fe of Mahomet, to whom wine was a forbidden thing. EYtINatrAM Cock said:—Friends are very much concerned in relation to the movements in the churches of other denominations to have inserted into the constitution a recognition of the Christian religion. He did not oppose this, because he did not recognize the Christian faith before; if the recedent were established it would follow hat there would ensue more encroachments upon liberties by organized bodies of religious people, This movement had the same character as that which attempted to place a limit on what one should drink. Butitis easy to control an action in some things which in other things would en- croach on liberty. AaKon C, Macy saw no parallel in the cases. There then ensued the expression of much oppo- sition, after whicn the favorable party would again come up winning. THoMAS FouLke thought the memorial asked for something that was impracticable and unconsti- tutional. NATHANIEL 8S. MERRITT opposed the sending of the memorials, which would be attended by not the slightest hope of success, ‘A gray-headed Friend said that the memorial ap- eared to him to be the true sentiment of the meet- ing, to be expressed to the Legislature, asking that nation and State both pass laws of prohibition. He did not understand why Friends would go out of the way to bri iB, up such arguments as the uncon- stitutionality of the law, which even the children of the world would not find. ‘The discussion of the memorial still continued with some excitement. At length Aaron C. Macy arose and sald:—He knew intemperance to be the atest evil in the country; war, even with all its jorrors, comes not near it, constantly contaminat- ing with her influence the len; and breadth of the world. He wanted peace rest ever in their counsels, as it had often done before, and not to be disturbed by foolish love of their errors. Still there were differences, and the arguments continued until about six o'clock, when the whole matter was again referred, this time to the Committee of Repre- sentatives, ‘and the session adjourned. THE “ORTHODOX” FRIENDS. Yesterday was the first day of the yearly meeting of the Orthodox Quakers at the Gramercy Park meeting house, in Twentieth street. The sessions yesterday were those of the minis- ters and elders, whose business was entircly secret and of no public importance. To-day the regular business of the Conference be- ey and on Sunday will be held a large meeting for public religious service. The prominent minis- ters arrived In the city are Lindley N, Hoag, of iowa al Gamer and Phebe Hathaway, of Mich- igan, and Deborah Thomas, of Baltimore. | Caroline ‘albot is expected to make her appearance bosore the close of the meeting. CHURCH AND STATE IN GERMANY. The Appointment of Cardinal Hohenlohe as Ger- man Ambassador tothe Holy See and His Subsequent Rejection by the Pope—Im- portant Speech of Prince Bis-. marck—His Holiness’ Course Defended. + Berm, May 15, 1872, The appointment of Cardinal Hohenluhe by Prince Bismarck as German Ambassador to the Pope and the subsequent rejection of the nomination by His Holiness have at length been brought up for discus- sion in the Reichstag. The estimates of the For- eign OMice were yesterday under discussion, and, when the House came to the item for the exvenses of an ambassador to the Pope, at Rome, a liberal, Herr von Bennegsen, proposed a reduction of the Embassy to a Consulate. The Pope, he said, had so msulted Germany by rejecting Cardinal Hohenlihe that Germany was bound to show its resentment by refusing to appoint another ambassador, There- ‘upon the Chancellor stood up and delivered the fol- lowing speech :— SPEECH OF PRINCE BISMARCK. 1am giad that @ proposal to abolish this estimate has not been put forward, for it would have been unwelcome to the government. The duty of an embi consists, on the one hand, in the ‘protec. tion of thelr countrymen, and, on the other hand, in bethy the means of communication for the political relations on which the Imperial government stands to the courts at which an ambassador is accredited, Now, there is no foreign sovereign who, seeing the nature of our legislation up to this, has been ealled upon to exercise within the German empire powers 80 extensive—so nearly approaching sovereignty, and covered by no constitutional responsibility, as His Holiness the Pope. It is therefore of essential interest to the German empire what. attitude it as- sumes to the head of the Romish Church, 1 hardly believe there is an ambassador in the German em- ire who, seeing what are the predominant feelings in the Cathotic Church at this moment, would suc- ceed by clever diplom: by persuasion, in exer- cising an influence which would induce a modifica- tion of THE ATTITUDE ASSUMED BY HIS HOLINESS the Pope towards temporal affairs, I do not regard it as possible, after the dogmas which have lately been promulgated by the Catholic Chureh, that 2 concordat can be arrived at with any temporal power, unless that temporal power to a ‘certain ex- nt abdicated, which is a position the Geman empire at least cannot accept; for, gentlemen, have no anxiety on this point. We will not act the Be of men hopelessly conquered either in the | tate or the Church, Noone can avoid the con- clusion that the feelings of the German empire on the domain of religious peace are troubled, ‘The government of the German empire seek indus- -triously, seek with all the care which they owe to their Catholic as well as Protestant subjects, to ar- rive at @ position more agreeable than the present. in a manner as peaceable, and as little changeful of the present relations of the empire as possible. * * For this, we require above all things that the Roman Curia should be as well instructed as possi- ble with regard to the institutions of the German empire; that itshould be better instructed than has hitherto been the case, I regard as one of the principal causes of the present distu: bances on the religious question the incorrect representations, either unintentionally misinterpreted or malt- ciously falsified, which have reached His Holiness the Pope with regard to the state of things in masny and to the intentions of the German gove ment. WHY HOWENLONE WAS APPORTED. I had hoped that the choice of an A who had the confidence of both sides—tirs erence to his love of truth and trustworthiness, and second, In reference to his conciliatory dispo- sition and position—that the choice of such an Am- bassador as had been made by His Majesty the Em- peror, in the person of a well known Prince of the Church, would have been welcome in Rome; that it would be interpreted asa pienas of our friendly, conciliatory feelings; that It would be used as a bridge for reconciliation, I had hoped that the assurance therein would be recognized that we would not demand from His Holin: the Pope any- thing which could not be expressed and carried ont by a Prince of the Church, who was conn: with the Pope by the tenderest and most intimate rela- tions; that the results would be always the same as those in which one prince of the Church meets another; that thus all possible col- lisions would be avoided. This nomination has excited in Protestant and liberal ¢ircles many apprehensions, which, in my optnion, rest on an incorrect estimate of the position of an ambassador or envoy. An ambassador or envoy is after all ut @ vessel, who first gains his importance when filled with the instructions of his sovereign. That the vessel should be an agreeable, a complete one; that by its constitution, as used to be said of the old crystals, it could not take poison, or full into it without showing it. This is in a high degree desira. ble, Alas! these INTENTIONS OF THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT have been nullified, from reasons that have not been laid before me, by a curt refusal on the part of the temporal Curia, I may fairly say that such @ case does not often occur, It is usual, when a sovereign has made a_cheice of an ambassador or envoy that he should then ask the sovereign to whow éhe person is accredited whether this person is agreeable. It is, however, very rarely indeed the case that negative answer is returned, since such an answer would necessita the withdrawal of a nomination alr badly what the Emperor can do with regard to such a nomination that he has done before he puts the | question, The answer in the ‘ative is there! a demand to undo what has b done—a di tion, “Thou hast acted imp nn Foreign Minister for ten years, and for twenty- one years engaged on higher diplomacy; do not believe I am wrong in saying that this is the first and only case in which such @ question has been akswered in the negative, I have often seen complaints ¢x- pressed against ambassadors who had previously ofticiated for along period; I have seen the wish coniideutially expressed that such @ person should be replaced; but then the Courtin question had had several years’ experience in intercourse with this person, and had arrived at the conviction tnat this person was not suitable for securing the good rela- tions desired by this Court, and it then gave in the most confidential form, usually by an autograph letter from the one sovereign to the other, expla- | nations why this was so; and the demand was then put forward very cautiously, but neverdefinitely, My regret at this refusal is extraordinarily lively, but 1am not justified in transforming this regret into the guise of an offence, for the government owes it to our Catholic fellow subjects that it should not tire in seeking out the ways in which the regaia- tions of the boundaries between the temporal and spiritual power, Which we absolutely need in the interest of peace, may be found in the manner most Dl agi and jeast offensive on religious grounds. 7 NOT, THEREFORE, ALLOW MYSELF TO BE DISHEART- NED ENE by what has taken place, but will continue to strive by the side of His Majesty the Emperor that a repre- sentative of the empire may be found for Rome who will enjoy the confidence of both Powers, if not in equal at least in a suficient degree for discharg- ing his duties, That this task is rendered more dif- ficult in @ material degree by what has occurred I can by no means conceal. WHY CARDINAL HOHENLONE WAS REJECTED, Deputy Windthorst, the leader of the Catholic party, made a short speech, in which he succeeded in showing that the rejection of Cardinal Hohenléhe | by the Holy See was not wholly without ground, In the first place, the Cardinal, he maintained, as such was the confidential servant of the Pope, from whose treasury he received salary; and he was thus bound to ask permission from His Holiness be- fore bag de § any appointment, “ What,” asked Deputy Windthorst, “would be thought if His Holt- ness appointed the General Adjutant of the Empe- | roras his Nuncio? And what is @ cardinal but a | general adjutant’ Ifthe Cardinal in question thus accepted the office offered to him without asking his master, he showed a misconception of his posi- tion in a manner which makes it doubtful tome whether he is the Mt man for so delicate and dim- cult an office,’? ANOTHER POINT, which Depnty Windthorst rather enggested than ly said, was that Cardinal Hohenlohe was not | t peculiar type of Catholic who was most likely sg | of sixteenth stree to obtain the confidence of the great body of the ‘holic Church, And as the Cardinal was @ vio- t opponent of infallibility, and is the brother of Prince Hohen|ohe, who is well known to be a bitter enemy of the Catholic hd in Bavaria, the sug- estion of Deputy, Windthorst is probably not far | ‘om the truth. The tact of the case seems to be | that Prince Bismarck attempted rather a clever | dodge on the Holy See and has been defeated. The proposition of Deputy von Bennigsen on | being put to vote was rejected by a large majority; | and an ambassador will, accordingly, a8 hitherto, | represent Germany at the Holy See, CORPUS CHRISTI. The Greatest Catholic Festival of the Year=—Grand Services in the Charches— Processions and Decorations=The Ser- vice at Stephen's. The Catholic Church considers the festival of Corpus Christi the greatest which occurs in all the year. The festival is of ancient observance, having been instituted so far back as 1264 by Pope Urban IV. In all Catholic countries the day is one of great jubilation, and the churches vie with each other in adorning the altars and the fuiness of the ceremonies, In this city the day Is observed with more than ordinary splendor. Solemn high masses were yesterday celebrated in most of the churches inthe city. Pr tions had been made in many of them for pr *sions, which usually occur on this day, and in many instances these were carried out with much of interesting display, At the cathedral the services were yerv solcmu and Twenty-eighth street, the proces alon were bo renee grand. my was cele- brated by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the the Rew Father McCready, the sub-deacon the Rev, Father Hickie and the master of the ceremonies the Rev. Father Lynch, ‘The altars were beautifully decorated with flow- ers and candelabra were tastefully fixed in grada- tion. The special feature of the ration Was a white dove, on @ red cushion, looking down from the pinnacte of the beautiful marble altar. Al the people’s communion fifty little girls in white, with beautiful veils and wreaths, emerged from the bapdatey door, marched down the side aisle and up the middle aisle to the sanctuary steps, where they separated and knelt on either side to await the procession of the blessed sacrament, which took place immediately after mass, The order of procession bearer, with acolytes on elther side, Next came twenty-six boys in red and purple cassocks, carry- ing tapers, Then followed twenty little girls with baskets of natural flowers in thelr hands, and twenty-four Httle girls throwing white rose leaves before the blessed sacrament, ‘Then came thurifers and boys carrying processional lamps on either side ofthe canopy, which was supported by eight men. The canopy was of rich white satin, and beneath was carried the blessed — sacra. | ment, by the celebrant of the mass, the deacon and sub-deacon assisting on either side, The procession went down the middle aisle, around the large space at the doors and up the middie aisle again to the altar, The turning of the proces- sion at the door presented a beautiful appearance, On arriving at the altar the boys and girls se; rated on either side and knelt as the Blessed Sacra- ment was carried by, The girls then formed a cordon around the altar rails, the boys being inside the sanctuary, and the priests, in their rich robes, on the altar,” The appearance of the sanctuary at this time was extremely imposing, After the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament the procession retired by the Reptinbey, door, In the Episcopal and Ritualistic churches solemn services Were also held yesterday, Corpus Christi in Newark. In Newark yesterday morning, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, the feast of Corpus Christi was cele- brated with the usual impressive ceremonies. Anumber of prettily dressed children were con- firmed by Bishop Bayioy, after which he celebrated maas, assisted by Rev, Fathers Fleming and Steets. Rev, Father Doane also participated, THE BROKEN SHAFT. Gaal. Steen et New York, May 29, 1872, To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— DEAR Sin—F'rom my earliest boyhood I have been a constant reader of the IlkraLp, and always feel lost when any circumsiance deprives me of this pleasure, You may judge from this fact what my disappointment was on yesterday morning upon not finding the Herap upon my breakfast table. [have since ascertained the cause, and sympathize deeply with youin the uniooked for trouble which the breaking of your engine shaft naturally induced, I agsure you when the fact became generally known it was like the shock of an earthquake to your le- ion of readers, I firmly believe that if any serious | disaster befel the HeRALD establishment which would prevent its daily publication, the circum- stance would affect the people of the metropolis more than a mighty conflagration or a political re- volution, Tam delighted to see that the World, Tribune, Sunday Dispatch and Standard came to your as- sistance in the hour ef need, and in consideration | thercof will take the trouble to read them. In humble appreciation of their kindness { cannot do better than to subscribe for them through you, Enclosed please find my cheek for $33 for the ment of a year’s subscription to each, which ya will have the kindness to appropriate accord. aud oblige, vours, very truiy AGAN, ou dy, . He ‘0. 5 Beekman street. To THE Epitor or THE HEraLy: Sin—As a constant reader and observer of pass- ing events as chronicled in your valuable paper, imposing; but at St. Stephen’s charch, in ue or | “IgG ‘as as follows :—Cross 1 may I be permitted to ask your opinion, now that | your shaft has been repulred, relative to the proba- bilities, in case the British government reject “the as reconstructed by the Jonvention of aination of L dreeley, be the result if Gene ea? CURIOSITY, Senate, anc Baltimore ¢ would war hi wishes to be re-e An Accident to the Herald, {From the Adore ite Every Evening, May 20. Tuesday's New YORK IERALD reached us a little Jate, with an unusual heading and in a smaller form, 80 that we scarcely recognized its ever welcome face, It states that an accident to its press ma- chinery on Monday nieht delayed its pubtiestion and prevented the issue of more than a double sheet, An accident in the wonderfully systematized HERALD establishment is hard to realize, and the fact that a serious one has happened there makes us feel as though it were quite possible that some- thing should produce a hitch in the working of the planetary system. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. SE The Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aidermen net at noon yesterday, | Numerous papers were submitted from the Board of Assistant Aldermen, which were referred to the appropriate committees. There not being a sum- cient humber of members in attendan general orders the Board took an ment. The Dock Commissioners, The Commissioners of Docks met yesterday, John T. Agnew In the chair. man of the Executive Committee, reported that the Superintendent of Police had stated his want of au- Grant | \ Commissioner Hunt, chair- | thority to arrest persons using horses on the piers , for hoisting cargo without having laida platform, and advised that the Poli ested to pas’ an ordinance giving this power. Jn motion this was adopted. On the report of Superintendent Westervelt it was ordered that a pier on piles be built at the foot North River, at a cost of $6,500, instead of Jane street. P, Smith, of the Union Ferry Company, was granted leave to fill up bulk- head foot of Wall street if owner of pier No, 16 East River consented, Isaa Hatl’s petition to piace afioating bath foot of Thi ighth street, t River, was placed on file pmmunication of Dannatt and others re: by the Grand Street M side of pier No. 58, East River, was filed, Commis- sioner Woon, of the Auditing Commit reported sixty-one bills for p nt, amounting inthe ag- which were ordered to be The ynstrating against the use ry Company of the south Payments by the Comptroller. Comptroller Green paid yesterday the Department of Public Parks $75,000, for the wages of laborers, key City Economy. Commissioner Van Nort, of the Public Works, has sent the following communication to the Judges of the Police and Civil courts:— DEPARTMENT OF Punic Works, COMMISSIONERS’ OFFICE, 237 BROADWAY, New York, May 30, 1872. Sm-—In consequence of the reduced amount of the appropriation for “stationery and blank books for departments, Civil and Police courts”? set apart for the year 1872, it is required that requisitions for the smallest amount of stationery and blanks pos- sible, consistent with the duties of the several courts be called for, In order that the amount of appro) year. Very respectfully. GE Commissioner of Public Works, The Janitorship of the Court House. Ropert Flanigan, who some time since was pointed Janitor of the Court House, has been mak- ing every endeavor to obtain possession of the apartments occupied by Haggerty, who held that position, There is some dificulty, it seems, in re- moving Haggerty, who holds possession by virtue of a resolution of the old Board of Supervisors. The | § Chamberlain las requested the Corporation Counsel totake action, Yesterday Flanigan made an attempt to ent him to retire. An officer of the Twenty-sixth pre- now Haggerty will effect a peaceful removal. SAD DEATH OF A NEW YORK BROKER IN JERSEY, In Elizabeth yesterday a report prevailed that Mr. Edward Wolf,a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and son-in-law of Mr. A.M. W. Ball, reputed author of “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” had committed suicide in Plainfleld by shooting himself through the heart. This report was afterwards denied, and the statement made that the death of the deceased was the result of an accident. — STRUCK WITH AN AXE. John and Mary Mason, man and wife, residing in the rear of 211 Wooster street, yesterday morning quarrelled and were taken to the I’rince partes olice station. Ag they refused to prefer charge Peainet each other they were discharged by the ey returned to their sergeant in command. “They, returnes fa ihity | pla They we iywed before Justice lercer street pouee, and? Yommissioners be re- | | miles from Cape M | peach and apple trees on his fine farm. | men, Isaa |) infinite w | § ING FOR GOLD.” The Everlasting Captain Kydd and His Bags of Treasure. A GIGANTIC JOKE ON JERSEY. How the Farmers of Cape May Sought the Pis rate’s Plunder and Did Not Find It. Care May, N. J., May 28, 1872, The money-finding fever has found its way even to this far-off, out of the way spot—this strip of sand and cedar shrub, washed by the waves of the wild Atlantic Ocean, Captain Kydd and his money have been fruitful topiesin every person's mouth in this locality for weeks past, and still they are no& happy. As every one knows, Cape May, the watering place proper, or Cape Island (the narrow shelf of sand being enclosed by @ creek’of some depth, im which schooners find shelter at high tide), as it ta called of late days, is but an extended suburb of Philadelphta, though it is elghty-two miles south of that godly city, The way to it at present is by way of Philadelphia from New York city, and then by rail through a dismal sandy bottom, the rails ran- ning in an annoying straight line for forty or fifty tiles down the peninsula of cedar shrub until they end on the point of beach known as Cape May. . There are here nearly a score of hotels, empty and desolate at this time of the yar, capable of pro- viding for five ov six thousand persons in the dog- days, notably among them being the Atlantic Hotel and the Stockton House, At present it 1s too cold to enter the water, and anecdotes are told of men who were rash enough to go in the surf in May, and come out only to be packed in ice and sent for final deposit to Laurel Hill Cemetery, in the City of Brotherly Love, And the society here at present is of a desultory nature. For compantons you have the®sharks and king crabs, who come tumbling in from the waves,” and the only music is the thunder roar of the breake ers as they dash in with rythmlc melody eternally, on the smoothed beach, Out at sea, to the south- east, the light of Cape Henlopen burns dimly by night, and the long outline of the Delaware Breakwater Is seen shadowy-like by day. Ships go by slowly on the {av otf fat surface, scarcely fa6v- ing, as it seems, and schooners, their canvas ex- panded, rock lazily to and fro, bent on their coast- ing business to the swamps of Florida and the mossy bayous of Louisiana, But the sea, the seenery or the breakers, are not of those things which I wish to speak, Rather of the joke which has been perpetrated on the tnhabitants € portion of southwestern New y, and which was developed and had its being during the last week. The joke, at first only the size of a man’s hand, grew to monstrous pro- portions under a careful nursing and judicious training. Along the Atlantic tled a race of thrifty ist of Jersey there are set- and industrious farmers, | whose lands are Irrigated by the many creeks, inlets and “sounds,” as they are called, that have issue jn the ocean. Corn, wheat, garden truck, such as onions, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages and fruit of all kinds are raised here in plentiful quan- tities to supply the New York and Philadelphia markets. To keep these lands fit for tillage there is much necessary drainage, consequent upon the overfow of the ocean, which comes betimes rather flercely upon the farmers, and to drain it it ts neces. sary to dig a good deal, ‘rhe farmers down here are principally natives of the soil, and, like all country people, are fond of money and superstitious in regard to legends and traditions that have any connection with lost or concealed treasures. Along the beach in Cape May county, New Jersey, there have been many at- | tempts anring the past fifteen or twenty years to | find moneys said to have been buried by the ubiqui- tous Captain Kydd, the black avenger of the Span- ish Main. If the unfortunate Kydd, by the way, buried one quarter of the money that he has been accredited with, he must bave labored half a cen- tury in the work of digging up and covering down. Well, it is needless to say that this part ot Jersey | has had its money disco rs and its money finders | i 7 as other places along the coast of the United States, One tala ed mortal some years ago, who resided in Philadelphia, and was sure of a competency in the hardware business, had a “lucky dream,” and hing would do him bat that he should come n to Atlantic county, and there, after biting his nails ia an unsatisfactory way for some days—hav- u the meantime traversed miles of the beach in a sSemi-somnolent state—at last purchased an nere of salt meadow on the ocean and commenced forthwith to dig by the light ofa lantern into the porus and soggy marsh, His dream had told him that the spot on which he dug was the identical spot in which Kydd had buried four large’ bags of gold, For some weeks this unknown individual ais on digging and digging until he had made holes enough to bury a company of soldiers, and one morning—he was Pr known to speak to an: one five minutes consecutively—he disappeared, never again heard of in these parts. Since has had various imitators, and the belief is nt that Kydd’s money will oon be found, or f not, some blood vessels will certainly break in the bodies of Jerseymen, About two weeks since a rumor gained ground that Kydd’s money had been found at a place called Fishing Creek, ov Green's Creek, some ten Island, along. the ps in Cape May, house keepers, have nothing todo asit is too early for summer lounge bathing, and consequently the rumor gained ground, and became stronger, dd Towns- piece of Jand on | bewet The town ge tson, who x, had found v poasess- 500 apple and 1,500. pe counsel and said nowhing. f it indamed the in mind and body, Garrettson’s good fortune was | envied by every one in his ighborhood, many of | whom did not like him because he had so many His two c und Jim—Jita, by the way, is a stout young fellow, who looks aa if he could’ inake a ter- rible hole in a chunk of beef—kept their mouths shut, and to all questions as to whether they had found any money or not, they only put on a look of pia and teness. People taik of buying Garrettson’s land at exorbitant prices; but the old farmer, who values his property at $100 on acre, and who emigrated from “Tuckyhoe” to —_ California, where he re- mained eighteen sears, and from whence he returned to buy his present farm three years ago, does not want to sell his land, and no good came of their offers, In the meantime the local editors of the little six by nine sheets in this vicinity and got hold of the story of the finding of the gold, and from j thom It had gone forth all over the United States, | And now comes the joke w , and Haggerty drew a pistol and caused | | cinct was placed in charge, and it is possiple that | house and resumed tie fyht, the wom Ma wo | | axe and splitting I hse a Sificgr Harty, of the | ket, Who committed them | amining. copied from and enlarged upon, mn the Jerseymen. Happening to be out in the vicinity of Farmer Gar- rettson's—wiho, by the way, is firmly resolved to | wait for and abide by the decision of the Baltimore Convention—L ‘asked the old gentleman if he had found any of the so-called Kydd’s money. The old fariner Linghed all over his tace before he replied hi | and i thought he would suffocate with sheer mirt “Why,” said he, “there ain't no truth im it what Tnever found any of the gosh derned mone; sre Want no truth in any bags 'o gold raound here. | You see, the way it was, Jim here (Jim grins from | ear to ear) and Isaac (here Isaac, who was whittling astick, grinned too) were digging a drain out to the beach, in the salt meady, aud a boy—young Will Finntmore, who lives down the road pg sna asked what we were digging for, a - _ ‘Gold.’ Jim 1s a joker, he is—(laugh, —and the boy sez, “how much you faound?”” an Jim he is a joker he {s, sez, ‘about two thousand dollars, more or less, and got-deened If the boy didn’t go off and tell it all round until the $2,000 t as big: 4 $30,000, {and we found it in @ pot, we di \— (horse | langh) —and it got inter the Papers, and there’s the | whole joke, and its aa awta sell on the people around here—on ali west Jersey, infact. “Then there was no money found, in fact? ON cent; and my Opinion is, young man, thaynever be any found on the Jersey Seno, This aint Sacramento nk fhe year 1849, by along - . That's sure enou 5 By tT #0 ends the joke about Captain Kydd’s money at Cape May. It is needless to say that the eymen in this section who believed the reports py ‘awful mad at being bamboozled so grossly, and it !g not likely that they will go prospecting again on the beach by the “sad sea waves.” fan aeereennatinns ACUIDBNTALLY SHOT. ‘A tew minates after five o'clock last night Wiliam Flannery, aged nineteen, of No, 403 East Fifteenth stree hile In Jones’ Wood, accidentally shot hii self in'the left leg with a pistol which he was ¢ Tie was attended by Dr, Swan, at the Nineteenth precinct station house, and seat home,