The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1872, Page 4

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New York, Monday, June 17, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pages. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Murder in Flatbush—Continuation of the Reign | of Crime—Rusticating on Roofs—Hoboken | BO ed eae, Warning | to You! fourt Calendars—Marriages and | Deaths—Advertisements. . | 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Geneva Court of Arbitration—Tne Singular Position | of the British Government”—Amusement Announcements. 5—Editorials (continued from Alabama Claim: es neva Conferen h Reports; The Ques- tion in Washington—Cable Telegrams from Fourth Page)—The it News from the Ge- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1872-WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Geneva Court of Arbitration—The Singular Position of the British Gov. ernment, The special cable despatches from our cor- respondent at Geneva published in the Hen- aup to-day continue the important history of the proceedings of the Court of Arbitration under the Treaty of Washington, and will be found extremely graphic and interesting. The scene in the hall of the Hotel de Ville, in which the tribunal assembled on Saturday last, is described in such a manner as to bring it as vividly before the eyes of our readers as if the arbitrators were actually sitting in one of the fine rooms in the new Court House, so elaborately furnished before the downfall of Tammany. The judges of the Court, we are told, were arranged in a semicircle, the desk of the President, Count Sclopis, the representative of Italy, being placed in the middle. At his left sat the Brazilian representative, Baron @’ Itajuba, and beyond the latter the Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Alexander Cockburn. At his right were seated the Swiss member of the Court, Jacob Staempfli, and our own, Charles Francis Adams, On one side of a square tablo, in front of the semicircle, sat Lord Tenterden, with, the Brit- ish counsel behind him, and on the other side Bancroft Davis, with the American counsel at his back. The sketches of the rsonal appearance of these gentlemen, already given in our special despatches, renders it easy to picture the Court in the mind’s eye; and when we add the ‘several octavo volumes’’ of the American case and argumént piled up in front of Bancroft Davis, and the small, lawyer-like bundle of papers lying under the hand of Lord Tenterden, we have the whole scene before us. The doings of the arbitrators and others yesterday have been closely observed by the watchful eyes of the Hzraup correspond- ents, and hence we discover that the British agents went to church in the morning, while the Americans remained at their hotel, prob- ably paying their devotions to their cigars, and that in the afternoon, tempted by the beautiful weather, they all threw Alabama claims, indirect damages, postponements and arguments aside, and enjoyed the splendid drives around the city. Our special report asserts positively that the English argument was not presented to the Court on Saturday, thus setting at rest the ru- mor from London yesterday that the argument on both sides had been formally presented and the requirements of the treaty thus complied with on the part of England. The American argument alone was laid before the Court, ac- companied by a mass of printed matter, which was probably evidence in support of our case, and the fact was duly entered on the records of the tribunal. When the papers had thus been formally placed in possession of the judges the American agent declared himself ready to proceed. The English agent, instead of presenting the argument of his government, asked for an adjournment in order that Her Majesty's government might have a further opportunity to endeavor to reconcile their differences with the United States on one main point at issue, but without fixing any definite date to which he desired | the Court to adjourn. A press report from London puts the position of Lord Ten- | terden more distinctly, asserting that he de- | manded an adjournment until the question of | indirect claims was settled with the United France and Germany—Latest from Mexico— News from Washington—Personal _ Intelli- gence—Weather Report—Miscellaneous Tele- | graph—Busineas Notices. 1 6—Religious: The Summer Solstice and a Signif- | npering of Saints and | Sinners; | jay After Pentec 0. B. Froth- cant Scam} pe ey, Chauncey Giles Describes the Spiritual Honse Not Made | with Hands; Beecher on Religion and Work; | pe ae ea Anniversary Celebration of the | Foundl ng of the Congregation B'Nai Israel; Father McCready on the Work of Life; The Sins of the Age Set Forth by Archbishop McCloskey at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. T—Advertisements. ben The Coming Regattas of the New York, Brooklyn and Atlantic Yacht Clubs; A Lively Week Anticipated—Race Stables at Monmouth Park—Pigeon Shooting—Pedes- trianism—Horse Notes—Sunday at the Park— Art Matters—Indiana: The Political Situation | in the Hoosier State ; Dan Voorhees’ Apology— Opening of the Midland Railway—Visitors to Prospect Park, Brooklyn—The Smallpox in Jersey City—Drownin; ey @=—Indiana (continued from Eighth Page)— Miscellaneous Political _Notes—Presidential Probabilities—Federal Council of Interna- tionals—The Oceanus Opening—Shot in the Head—Sunday Skirmishing—Killed by a Train of Cars—A Boy Burned to Death—Another Homicide Case—Whipping in Virginia: ercise of the Worst Kelic of ral and Slavery—Financial and Commercial: The Summer Solstice in the Markets; The Off Season in Trade and Finance: The Wall Street Fraternity as Tourists Abroad and Health-Seekers at Home—Domestic and Ha- vana Markets. | 10—‘The Long Strike :’’ A Review of the Struggle— | News from St. Domingo and Hayti—The Bos- ton Jubilee—Naval Intelligence—Miscella- | neous = Telegraph—Shipping Advertisements. Intelligence— | isters has States. Our own account goes on to state that the Americans replied to Lord Tenterden’s ap- plication by urging that a request for adjourn- ment without a previous presentation to the Court of the final papers being contrary to the course of procedure required by the treaty and creating a situation not contemplated in their | instructions, obliged them to refer the subject to their government by means of the cable, | and they therefore asked that no decision be | made by the Court until they had received a | reply to their despatches. This statement some- what changes the aspect of the case, as presented by yesterday’s report, in which it was alleged that Lord Tenterden had sud- denly found himself compelled to seek new | instructions from the English government on | | their own secking and their own making. | tracting parties can have the right to demand that they be set aside. But, apart from this view of the question, the application for an adjournment being one-sided only, it would not alone be within the province of the Court, but it would become its duty to inquire whether the request is made in good faith, and whether its concession would be equitable. England asks a postponement in order to enable her to come to an amicable arrangement with the United States on the subject of indi- rect claims. It is on record, and should be placed within the knowledge of the Court, that the American government have declared that they will make no deviation from the supple- mental article as approved by the Senate, and will enter into no further argument or negotia- tion in relation to such article. It rests with England, therefore, to decide whether she will accept the supplemental article as it is or will reject it On what ground does sho ask an adjournment of the Court? Will sho in eight months’ time be pre- pared to accept what she now rejects? If not, then the postponement she requests or demands can have no other object than a profitless and irritating waste of time, is un- just to the other contracting party, and should be denied by the Court. There is another point which seoms to com- plicate this already perplexing question. The American argument, voluminous and elsbo- rate, is already before the Court, and 1ts recep- tion has been noted on the minutes. It isnow the property of the Judges. It must necessa- rily embrace in its scope the whole question of our indirect claims, and hence these claims are now in reality in argument before the tribunal and must be considered. The failure of the supplemental article, through the unfortunate objection of Eng- land to the verbal amendments of the Senate, has left the American case precisely as it was before any exception was taken by England to the indirect claims embraced therein, and be- fore any attempt at compromise was made. The argument of the American counsel, there- fore, could not fail to cover the whole subject of indirect claims, and hence a withdrawal of such claims now would necessitate also the withdrawal and reconstruction of the American argument. The question whether an argument already de jure made before the Court can be withdrawn, will be another of the delicate points to which the singular action of England must give rise. At present it seems to men of common sense that the position of the English government is full of con- tradictions and difficulties, If England is properly in Court she is bound to obey the judgment of the tribunal on the question she has raised in regard to postponement as well as on all other issues. Should the decision be adverse to her wishes, then she appears at once before the Judges as arespondent to the argument based on the indirect claims. Can she honorably make the | plea for postponement and then retire from the Court because its judgment is given against her? It is evident that in reject- ing the Supplemental Treaty as amended by the United States Senate the English Cabi- net have committed a fatal blunder, end it seems inevitable now that the result of the error must be the withdrawal of the British case from the Geneva Court and the destruc- tion by the English government of a treaty of New York’s Yachting Carnival. The present week will witness a return to the beautiful and invigorating sport of yachting, which has grown so won- derfully in public esteem within the past | few years. Although some of the largest schooners are away from our shores, there is every prospect that the three great yachting events immediately before us will not thereby suffer in brilliancy, dash and keen amusement. New York, panting for fresh air, will seize with avidity on the opportunity to witness the glorious sight which our noble bay pre- | sents when these fast-flying, saucy aristocrats of the waves spread their snowy canvas in ® point that had unexpectedly arisen, although it is still asserted that the British agent is also in expectation of special despatches from Lon- don to-day. The conclusion is drawn from these facts that Lord Granville and Secretary Fish have decided to retain control of the case as now before the Geneva Court, and not to | entrust any final step or decision in the hands | of their several agents and counsel—a piece of diplomatic fatuity that is greatly to | be deplored. Neither of those Min- | been particularly happy in | | his treatment of the treaty question, and on Sparx anp Cusa—A Savace Poricy.—Ac- cording to a cable despatch from Madrid, Sefior Gasset, the new Minister for the Colo- nies, has telegraphed the Governor General of Cuba to be firm in his resolution to uphold the integrity of the empire, and to chastise the enemies of the pacification of Cuba in all parts of the island. The present Captain | General of Cuba is the last man to need any such instruction. His policy, from first to last, has been savage in the extreme. Spanish rule in Cuba is an offence to modern civiliza- tion. It needs but a little more severity on the part of the Spanish authorities to make it a | necessity for the United States to give Spain timely but emphatic notice to quit. We can no longer afford to behold with indifference | the barbarities which are practised in Cuba. ‘The carrying out of the above savage instruc- tions cannot fail to have the certain effect of hastening the end. Faran Expioston on A SPANISH PasseNGER Sreamsurp.—The Spanish passenger steam- ship Guadayea exploded her boilers when at anchor in the port of Marseilles, France, yesterday. Her decks and cabins were crowded at the moment. Fifty-five persons were killed instantly and a number of others wounded sadly. The wreck took fire, but the flames were subdued after much difficulty and the loss of valuable prop- erty. This is a very deplorable occurrence. Can science do nothing, or suggest nothing, ag 8 means of preventing deposit incrustations forming on the inside of steam boilers? This is a watter of hourly occurrence, and in which may be found the secret of the main cause of boiler explosions; the lumpy ag- tightening the plates at certain fixed points, and thus, to a very great extent, the uniform expansion of the metal The disaster at Marseilles, like that of ‘the ill-fated Westfield in the waters of New Kt cogesnyd 09, Bunday. the part of America, at least, the situation is | | so plain and the policy so clear that the able | counsel engaged on our side at Geneva | should be prepared to act promptly and deci- | sively on any point that could possibly arise | before the Court. The question involved in the English de- mand for an adjournment of the Court and an extension of the time stipulated in the treaty | for the filing of the arguments is, at least, one | | upon which it would seem that neither the | Court nor the American representatives should need any further enlightenment. The intent of the treaty in fixing positively the | | time for the presentation of the original cases, | | the counter cases, and the final arguments, was clearly to prevent delays and procrastina- | , tions which, if not guarded against, might | have extended the arbitration indefinitely. If one of the contracting parties could demand a | postponement of either of these acts for a | definite time, the other must of necessity enjoy | the same privilege, and could require a still | further adjournment. If England had author- | ity to claim a postponement for eight months | she would be equally entitled to a postpone- | ment for eight years should she desire it. To prevent such an absurdity as this was doubt- | less the object of the restrictions of time in | the treaty. It is fair and reasonable, too, to | | conclude that the Joint High Commissioners | | who framed the treaty understood the Justice and necessity of removing the irritating subject of the Alabama claims out of the way as a preliminary to the settlement of other open questions between the two governments, — and hence purposely provided for their prompt | edjustment by limiting the time within which the several official acts of the contending par- ties were to be done. It seems certain, in this | view of the case, that the Geneva Court | can have no power or authority un- | der the treaty to alter or disregard these | express provisions of limitation, and it must esuredly be conceded that neither of the con- | hope-laden crafts are madly ploughing, one | | rippling sea and looming land—scenes where and on Saturday the Brooklyn Yacht | Club will end the week with |a day of sport which will not company before the healthy breeze. Never can the bay be seen to such advantage as when a fleet of skimming yachts are spread out before a breeze on the quarter with every sail set and the wind singing and the sun smiling in every inch of them. Then the home- ward stretch, as they push for the Narrows, with the sun sinking behind the far- off city, and the waters, through which the | flood of molten gold. There are other scenes of interest beside those busy ones on board the contending yachts and the grandeur of the | the amenities of life come in gleeful | harmony to make a special delight to be folded in the memories of after years. These | belong to the thousands who will throng | that follow | | | the gaily decked steamers the fortunes of the day. On Tues- day the regatta of the Atlantic Yacht Club takes place; on Thursday the New York Yacht Club, in holiday array, will contend for the valuable prizes offered, be the least for being the last. If, then, Old Probabilities will only favor us with a modi- cum of sunshin? and enough of a breeze to make things interesting the result will be joy to city-baked thousands and an additional im- petus to the sport that flourishes In the teeth of the glad, rough weather; In the wet, blown face of the sea, Tur German Occupation or Fraxce—Two Years More.—The Count Von Arnim, German Ambassador to France, has just presented to President Thiers the reply of his government to the proposition for the gradual evacuation of France as the instalments of the war in- | demnity are paid. The German government accepts in principle the proposition of France, but insists that the indemnity shall be fully | paid before the 2d of March, 1874. According | to this piece of news the foot of the invader | is to rest on the soil of France for two years to | come. For two more years the presence of | German soldiers on French territory will re- mind Frenchmen of defeat and humiliation. It isa punishment which it must be hard for a brave people to bear; but itis gratifying to know that Germany is not unwilling to meet France half way, and that after the payment of each instalment the burden of the occupation will be proportionally lightened. The expe- rience of France has been sad and painful; but it will not bea vain experience if Frenchmen are convinoed of the folly apd aip of war, The Mexican Republic—Its Present Cone dition and Inevitable Destiny. Our despatches from the city of Mexico represent that ‘the feeling in the republic towards the citizens and government of the United States is growing very favorable.” This is not surprising, considering the con- dition of Mexico, the utter hopelessness of any permanent peace or stable government there, and the forbearance and generous con- duct of the United States to the Mexicans. The only hope of saving that country from de- struction is in the protecting arm of this great republic, and the intelligent and patriotic Mexicans must begin to see that. The lan- guage quoted from the despatches referred to is something like an appeal for extended for- bearance from the United States. It seems to come both from the Juarez government and the railroad and other speculators who want to perfect their contracts and arrangements be- fore the revolution or interposition of the United States changes the fate of Mexico. It is the language of agony and appeal, like that of a naughty child when afraid of chastise- ment, pleading affection for its parent and praying for mercy. But would not further forbearance of the United States be cruelty and injury to the Mexicans themselves, to say nothing of the duty of our government to protect its citizens and territory on the border from the chronic anarchy that exists there? ‘The varying success and failures of the con- tending factions throughout the struggle in Mexico have been chronicled in the Hrranp through our vigilant correspondents, and our readers, therefore, are better informed than even the mass of the Mexican people of both the current events and the prospect. The news of the battle at Monterey and overwhelming defeat of the Juarist troops by the revolutionists, which was first telegraphed specially to this paper, though questioned by some, has been fully confirmed by the despatch we published recently. The disaster to the Juaristas was greater, indeed, than was supposed at first. General Corella, the commander of the Juarez forces at the battle of Monterey, in an interview with our correspondent, admitted the entire loss of his army and the complete failure of the expedition against the revolu- tionists on the northern border. He lost, be- sides a force of some two thousand men, with the exception of a few under Colonel Revyltas, his guns, trains, and army chest containing sixty thousand dollars. General Trevifio, the commander-in-chief of the revolutionists in that section of the country, has incorporated the cap- tured troops with his army, and they will, no doubt, fight on one side as well as on the other, which gives him now a well-armed force of about fivethousandmen. This, probably, will enable him to capture Matamoros and place the northern frontier entirely under the control of the revolutionists. It will, at least, prolong the war, for it is hardly possible that the Juarez government can find the men and means to overcome the revoiutionists at such a distance from the capital, and with the diffi- culties of transportation that exist in that country. Making due allowance for the un- certainty of Mexican warfare and everything in Mexico, it appears evident now that Juarez is not able to put down the revolution. Though he may retain his power at the city of Mexico, or over the country contiguous to the capital, he cannot exercise authority along the border of the United States or perform the duties of a neighboring government. The rose-colored news sent from time to time from the city of Mexico does not invali- date these general and important facts. A telegram by the way of Havana, dated city of Mexico, June 7, states that ‘peace pre- vailed in the majority of the States;”’ but says, atthe same time, ‘disturbances continue in Jalisco, San Luis Potosi, the Sierra Puebla and the northern provinces.’ This is a mild way of representing the situation of affairs, if the government at the capital had heard of the signal defeat of its forces at Monterey. The truth is the Juaristas are whistling to keep their courage up and to make the most favor- able impression upon the United States. Though it is of little consequence to consider the direct or apparent cause of the civil war— for the Mexicans will always make some cause to keep up their perpetual conflicts—we may notice that Porfirio Diaz, as is reported, has made a proclamation, setting forth the com- plaints and object of the revolutionists. It is the plan of Noria modified, which proposes to make Lerdo, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, President of the republic. Of course it assumes that Juarez is a usurper, and that Lerdo should be President according to the constitution. In other respects this plan proposes some liberal and useful reforms. But, as was said, it matters not what the alleged grievances are, the conflict is simply | one of rival factions and the continuance of that chronic and incurable disorder which can only be remedied by the intervention of the United States. Under this state of things what ought our government to do? Ifthe people and govern- ment of this country had no direct cause of complaint against Mexico beyond that of the perpetual internal disorders there; had no complaint to make of invasion of our territory, of the robbery and murder of our citizens along the border, or of danger to the peaceful maintenance of our laws and institutions, we | might stand still and let the Mexicans destroy each other and ruin their beautiful country. We might carry the idea of conservative non- intervention so far, and leave them to their fate. That is what some of our timid and over- conservative citizens may wish. But this would be a questionable, selfish policy in a great, enlightened, liberal and progressive republic like ours. But it is not a matter of sentiment merely, nor even of ambition only, to intervene in the affairs of Mexico. The protection of our citizens and their property call for intervention. There is a thousand miles or more of conterminous territory, separated only by the narrow stream of the Rio Grande part of the distance and by an imaginary line the remaining part, and along this the Mexi- can government is powerless to prevent dep- redations or to perform any of the duties of good neighborhood. The examples of robbery, murder, invasion, smuggling and defrauding the United States of its revenue are well known and too numerous to recapitulate here. Nor should it be expected that our governinent is to maintain a military force at great cost to defend American soil and to protect Ameri- can citizens and their property. In fact, to do this adequately would require an army, and we gould not think of employing such a force | of the Superintendent himself.”” to watch Mexican anarchists and desperadoes. Our own interests and protection, apart from any sentiment for the welfare of the Mexicans or in the interest of civilization, demand the intervention of our government. Mexico will never be able to perform its duty as a neigh- boring nation to the United States. If there were any hope we might wait patiently, but there is none. It is all very well to talk of international considerations, or of sympathy for a nation struggling to maintain its existence; though really Mexico is, and has been for some time, in a struggle to extinguish its nationality. The United States, as the great Power of America, owes something to the cause of civilization, order and progress in connection with this Mexican question. We refused, and properly, to let European Powers intervene to cure the disorders of Mexico, and stopped them when they made the effort, because that interfered with republican institutions, the dignity of the United States and the policy laid down by the Monroe doctrine. Shall we, then, act like the dog in the manger? Shall wo see Mexico de- voured by intestine wars and not move from our attitude of selfish repose? The civilized world holds us responsible for the perpetua- tion of Mexican anarchy—for this disgrace of our enlightened age. Every one knows, and every intelligent Mexican must know, that the annaxation of Mexico to the United States, or an American protectorate over that country, would be a blessing to the people of all classes and a great advantage to the world. As well might any one say he would not interpose when he sees a man drowning or a house on fire as this country to say so in the case of Mexico. Possibly neither Juarez nor the leaders of the revolutionary faction would venture to open negotiations for an American protecto- rate or annexation; but if our government would send Sheridan or some other capable general, with sufficient force to take posses- sion of the northern border of Mexico, as necessary to protect our own territory, a solu- tion to the whole question would soon be found. It would not be long before the Mexi- cans would hail the Americans as delivorers, and as giving them promise of a bright future. In the course of a few years we should see the vast mineral and agricultural wealth of Mexi- co, that richest country on the globe, surpris- ingly developed by American enterprise. Our commerce WOuld receive such a stimulus as has not been witnessed since the discovery of gold in California, and greater, even, than on that event. Indeed, it would be impossible to an- ticipate the astonishing results to every branch of industry, to our depressed shipping inter- est, and to our national progress generally. Besides adding five millions of laboring people to augment the national wealth, we should have the glory of raising these people from a state of semi-slavery and degradation to free- dom, a higher civilization and a much im- proved condition. Shall we protect our citi- zens and territory? Shall we save Mexico? Shall we bring about the great results referred to? It remains for the government to answer. General Grant has it within his power to take the initiative; the rest would follow, and he would have the glory of doing a great thing and of laying the foundation of a great future both for his own country and Mexico. The House of Refuge—The Duty and Responsibility of the Board of Man- agers. The revolting stories of cruelties practised at the House of Refuge under the administra- tion of Israel O. Jones, Pope of Randall's Island and Grand Inquisitor, have taken deep root of indignation in the public mind, and the subject should not be dismissed until Jones is, and athorough reform inaugurated. There is nothing which so excites contempt as hy- pocrisy and false pretence; there is nothing against which more hearty anathemas can be hurled by society than an institution which blatantly professes to do good while in reality it isa speciously conducted sham, with insid- ious roots of evil. The smirks of a thousand Sleeks will not wash away a single act of inhu- manity, but the world well knows how suc- cessfully they can cover it up under the shadows of their skyward-lifted eyebrows. The pen of Rabelais, Swift or Dickens never laid bare a viler nest of simpering, holy- worded, tiger-hearted cant than that whose description rushed out before the world with the blood of the House of Refuge keeper, Cal- vert. We have previously laid stress on the fact that but for this horrid deed, to which a bad boy was gonded, the system of brutal flogging, fiend- ish thumb-hanging and more fiendish after-taunt might have gone on unheard of, Heaven knows how long. Certainly Joncs would never have disclosed it. His underlings and helpers, Silas Brush, Gildersleeve and Sprole, would doubtless have continued think- ing that thumb-hanging was not very painful and that whipping a boy in a dark closet pro- | duced no more smarting than was agreeable, | and to give a boy a “mild” touch of a club or leer on a whipped boy and ask him “how he | liked his candy’’ were exquisite and justifiable pleasures which nobody had any right to interfere with. The mild Methodist parson would have gone on spreading his narcotizing dish of ‘‘unsecta- rian’’ religion beforea heedless auditory with unconscious complacency for years to come. The annual reports would never tell it, things always look so very rosy and goody-goody in their pages. Taken from the latest encyclical letter of Pope Jones and his patrons, we com- mend the following passage to those who have listened to or read the evidence of barbarities detailed in the trial last week before the City Judge of that luckless scapegrace youth, Justus Dunn:—‘The same benevolent spirit which gave birth to the institution presides over all its arrangements and animates those charged with its superior executive du- ties. Its discipline is not an iron discipline ; it is emphatically a house of refuge, and if, among the large amount of intractable mate- rial submitted to our training to be fashioned into good citizens, there arise sudden ebulli- tions of passions long unused to control, or obstinate resistance to wholesome restraint and counsel, requiring unusual severity, such cases are exceptional to the | rule, ond their treatment committed only to the immediate authority and judgment That ‘same benevolent spirit’? must be of curious grade which countenances thumb-hanging and flog- ging, but wo well know that Pope Jones never intended that the State Legislature and city ‘. corporation, to whom the encyclical is addressed, should ever ‘think it did; for is it mot avorred that “‘its dis- cipline is not an iron discipline?” Wherein and how the many worthy gentlemen of the Board of Managers whose names are on the signboard behind which Jones has erected his ‘whipping closet” were decaived into publishing such specious untruth is for them to tell. In this same report for 1872 we find a report from the chaplain, which, besides puff ing that eminent Christian, Jones, in a respectful way, and ishi: an essay on juvenile reform in gen eral, dashes off the religious result neatly and truthfully as follows :—‘The pecu- liar work of the chaplain has repeated itself throughout the year as heretofore. There have been no special occasions of encourage- ment or the reverse.” Very peculiar work in- deed, reverend sir, but we think there will be @ good deal of ‘tho reverse” in the re- port of the year now rolling away ! This institution is one in which tho State is not only morally but pecuniarily interested. Ona total of one hundred and ten thousand dollars receipts for 1871 nearly forty-five thou- sand dollars are derived from the State or the city government, while nearly eight thou- and: dolleas anh 00 GEE of the children,”’ the balance being placed opposite “temporary loans.’’ When the facts as devel- oped in the trial are Isid beside the figures above given, we are certain that the Board of Managers will see their dual responstbility in the matter and set about uprooting the disgrace, Popa’ Jones, flogging, thumb-hanging, contract-driv- ing ‘‘unsectarian broad truths,’’ and all, and give nsa true reform system, of which there are plenty of examples, wherein a regard for ao- ciety and the hapless, delinquent boys will be happily blended, and no element of moral amelioration thrown away in self-sufficiency, cruelty and ignorance, Sunday Philosophy, Morals and Religion. The leading social question of the day—the labor strikes—was discussed yesterday by Mr. Frothingham, who, if he ever had an aspira- tion toward a political office before, has spoiled his chances of election in the future by what he said on this point yesterday. Looking at the question of a reduction of the hours of labor, he said, what is well known as the true and experimental test of success, that ‘the rule is, work until the work is done, whether it take two or twenty hours, There are many brain workers whose brain sweat stands out on their foreheads. Some- times they work fourteen hours. The true worker estimates his work not by the time it takes but by the success he achieves. Apply the eight-hour rule to New York,”’ he added, ‘and civilization would go back.’’ Ho had watched the procession last week and he saw well-dressed men—men who did not look ill- used or trodden on. If a procession of capi- talists were to go down Broadway he believed they would look more haggard and careworn. The lawyer, the man of letters, the journalist, the physician, do not limit themselves to eight hours. Do the rich improve their leisure hours? and will the laborers? he asked. The assumption is too much. He scouted the In- ternationals’ idea that there is an eternal war- fare between capital and labor. Wealth be- longs to everybody who will labor for it, and none work harder than the capitalists them- selves. Mr. Frothingham then drew a picture of the capitalists getting together and deciding to live without the labor of the poor. The idea is preposterous and the attempt would be sui- cidal. He showed that there is just as much “‘tyranny”’ exercised by the laborers as by the capitalists. We may in passing earnestly com- mend the suggestions of Mr. Frothingham to the consideration of the workingmen of our city. Yesterday was the time appointed for taking up collections in the Catholic churches of this city and diocese for the Pope, and we doubt not the amount received was large. It cer- tainly should be so in St. Stephen’s, where a very suggestive text was taken by Father McCready, who elaborated the Scripture idea of work, work until the allotted task is accom- plished and success crowns our labors. Dr. McCaffrey, of Maryland, speaking in St Andrew's church on the temporal resources of the Pope, remarked that St. Peter and his successors faithfully fulfilled their mission to become fishers of men, for they captured the whole pagan world in their net and made it Christian. And they did it and still do it by the ever-present power of the Saviour, who has. promised to be with His Church even unto the end of the world. The reverend doctor waxed very bitter against ‘‘the prince of robbers,’’ Victor Emmanuel, and assured his hearers that the Italians are ‘‘on the point of rebellion on account of the exactions of the unscru- pulous adventurers who now rule them.” If this were so we should be likely to hear of it in another way and from another correspondent. The statement, how- ever, we presume served to increase the Pon- tifical fund. The Archbishop briefly sketched the growth and power of the Catholic Church from the days of St. Peter, its assumed founder, and claimed that ‘the whole history of the Church is the history of St. Peter and his successors."" He acknowledged that ‘“her- esies and schisms did arise in the early history of the Church,’’ but they don’t compare with the heresies of the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Luther rebelled against the Pope, but held to the Bible and the divinity of Christ. But our modern reformers have dis- carded the Pope and the Bible and religion and the divinity of Christ, and have made and set up for their adoration and worship the idols of science, money, power and reason. There is, therefore, great reason why Christian. faith should be deeper and stronger, and the congregation was asked to show its faith by its works and to subscribe liberally to aid the Pope. Mr. Beecher was very felicitous yesterday in his pulpit, and amused his hearers with apt illustrations and pointed commonplace say- ings. He wanted to convince them that the Christian life is one of growth, and that while God does much for us we have much to do for ourselves ere we can stand up perfect men in Christ Jesus. Dr. Porter, of Brooklyn, made an eloquent plea for the sanctity of the Sabbath, and com- pared it to the mountains in the physical world. It wase well attested fact of sociol- ogy, he said, that those who climbed up the high mountain of the Lord’s Day felt the brac- ing atmosphere and the spicy odors that came