The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1872, Page 4

_— —— ———— 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic lespatches must be addressed New Your Appar. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Sen eaten? THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the ‘year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. No, 172 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—On tux Jupy. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Soanerper: or, Tax Ov House on tax Rune. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Serarare Mairex- 4ncu—Swaur ANGELS. | THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Cntcaco Brrone jeus Fine, During tie Fine ano Arren tux Fine. ¢ ata \ BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Javenue.—Enocu ARDEN. ),UNION SQUARE THEATR: Foatusio aNp His Gurren §) / ith st. aud Broadway.— VANTS. \. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth at.— (Rep Mazerra. \ LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Groraia MinstReis. 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Stokes for the Murder of James Fisk, Jr.; A Challenge to the Jury Panel Dente Only Two Jurors Secured atthe Adjournn of the Court—The Lowden Abortion Case: Con- tinuatien of the Trial of Dr, Gyles Charged with Abortion—Alleged Wife Murder in Thirty- third Street—Mysterious Shooting Affair— Proceedings in the New York Courts—The Jumel Ejectment Suit—A Desperate Thiet, S—The Strikes: Further Progress of the Move- ment; Reports from Other Cities—Yachting: The Aquatic Carnival To-Day quatic Notes— Trotting at Fleetwood Park—The Military at Prospect Park—Nullification in Washington— A Revolting Recital: Horrible Case ot Inhu- manity an Amusement Announcements, | 7—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—The | Alabama Claims: A Bricf Session Yesterday; | The Question of a Temporary Adjournment | Decided in Favor of Separation; The Court to | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. Progress and Power of the Eight-Hour Labor Movement. Seven weeks ago the journeymen painters of New York demanded of their employers the adoption of the eight-hour system, without any decrease in the existing rate of pay for a day’s work. The employers resisted the de- mand and the men struck. Their example was speedily followed by the carpenters, brick- layers, plasterers, masons and others in the building business, and the strike gradually spread until it embraced nearly every trade and calling in tho city. The German cabinet makers formed an eight-hour league, and, as they had command of a large amount of money, they managed to draw a vast number of men into the movement, although their organization lacked energy and ability to head a general rising. The strikers met with vary- ing fortune. The carpenters, masons, paint- ers, bricklayers and plasterers succeeded and returned to work under the eight-hour system. The pianoforte makers and coachmakers gavo way before the firmness of their employers and abandoned the strike. A large num- ber of trades remained in the movement, hut the prospect for a general concession of their demand did not look very promising until about two weoks ago, when the iron and metal workers took the field. Mainly through the efforts of one man, who commenced by getting small groups of workmen together and talking over the matter, this new element in the movement grew with wonderful rapidity. Agents were sent out among the iron men all over the State of New York and along the line of the Erie Railway into other States, organizing strikes; and the effect of the energy of the leaders soon mado itself apparent. To-day the Iron and Metal Workers’ Eight-Hour League numbers over ten thousand enrolled mombers. It has been joined by a branch of the English Society of Steam Engineers, a branch of the Interna- tional Machinists and Blacksmiths’ Society and other foreign organizations. The Amal- gamated Society of Engineers of Eng- land have paid half a million dol- lars to the credit of the League for the use and benefit of the strikers; the Inter- national Machinists and Blacksmiths have subscribed one hundred thousand dollars for the same purpose, and other Eu- ropean societies have followed with smaller donations, ® To-day this Iron Workers’ League has a capital of three-quarters of a million dollars and a weekly income from sub- scriptions of their own men who are working on the eight-hour principle and from other societies reaching seven thousand dollars. The leaders declare that the strike is now self-sup- porting—that is to say, that they have funds enough to take care of all the men who may quit work. The consequence is that the move- ment is spreading in all directions, a new im- pulse has been given to the strike in every trade, and the trouble already experienced se- riously in some quarters is likely to extend to the railroads and into every manufacturing district. We give this brief outline of the seven weeks’ strike and its present condition in order to impress upon our readers the critical char- acter of the situation and tho danger that threatens the country if the turmoil and disaf- fection now prevailing among be laboring classes be not speedily allayed. “It is useless to close our eyes to the fact that labor every- Reassemble on Wednesday, June 26; The Question in Waslington—Cable Telegrams from foot ert France, Spain, Germany and | Rome—News from Japan and China—Miscel- laneous Telegrams—Business Notices. S—Brazil: Abrupt Dissolution of the Chambers After a Short Session; Want of Confidence in the Ministry palllng Cost of the Para. | eg War. Argentine Confederation: ‘he President's Message at the Opening of | Congress—Alexis in Bazil: His Reception by the Dons and Donnas—Municipal Afairs—The | Board of Education—Class ay at Rutgers | College—The Burial of the Dead: Dangerous | Gases Arising from City Churchyards—The | Juvenile Guardian Society—A Conilict in the | City Department—Highwaymen in the Eighth | Ward—Locusts on Long Island—Taking an | Over Dose of Hydrate of Choral. | S—eFinancial and Commercial: A Lively Day in Erie; Brisk Mutations in the Price of the | Stock; Down to 51 and up to 5644; The Ex- | Feet of the Rally; The London Erie Panic verted andthe United States Accepting a | Postponement at Geneva; Gold Recedes Two | Points More; The Money Market Easy at Four | Por Cent; Governments “Of” @ ‘Fraction with the Lower Ruling of Gold; The State | Credit; The Canal Bonds to be Redeemed in Coin—Brooklyn Budget for 1873—Another ‘atal Explosion Casualty—Shotin the Head— | larriages and Deaths—Advertisements. | 10—Washington : How Greeley Will Stand at Balti- | more: Savings Banks Taxable on Their Sur- | lus; The Bratton Extradition ( Regula- ions for Free Importation of Shipbuilding | Materials—Polsoning at Newburg-—Shipping | Intelligence—Advertisements. | 31—Advertisements. | iv—Advertisemen' | | | Awrur Disasters In Japan AND CutNa,— The very latest advices from Asia, by way of | San Francisco, inform us that two most terri- | ble and fatal visitations had occurred in the | East; the one in Japan, the other near to | China, at sea. One of the insular ports of | Japan experienced a shock of earthquake by | which five hundred people were killed. Sixty- | one persons, foreigners and Chinese, were drowned by the sinking of a steamship, after collision with another vessel, off Shimaghae, China. The names of a few of the victims of | cally felt on the instant; and hence we have | trade in every nation on the European Conti- | nent. It is immaterial to inquire whether the where is learning its own power, and that the new appliances of science which have brought the whole world closely together have served to swell these labor strikes into a magnitude and importance they never before assumed. With railroads and telegraphs at their command the workingmen, not of one country alone, but of the civilized world, form a mighty and united | army; their movements can be made simulta- | neously in Europe and America as effectually as though they were gathered in one compact body, obeying the word of command of a single leader. The sympathy always felt by those of a trade in everything that interests their fellow workers, in whatever land they may be, is no longer a sentimentality, but a reality, that makes itself known and practi- the engineers and machinists of England, France and Germany to-day pouring their hard-earned wages to the amount of nearly a million of dollars into the lap of the iron men of New York, to support those who are striking for a principle that interests labor all over the world. The struggle is no longer one between capital and labor alone, but be- tween capital ond labor enforced by cap- ital drawn from the industry of every country. Let the machinists, engineers | and the whole body of iron and metal workers of America be kept out of employment for a year through this quarrel with capital, and they will be supported by men in the same | present demand of labor {s just or unjust; it | seems at least not to be unreasonable, and as | it enlists the active and self-sacrificing sym- prompts it mischievous. It should be borne in mind, in considering the present movement, that the eight-hour principlo has been recognized by the national Government and by the government of the State of New York, and has thus received legislative endorsemont and eanction. This certainly affords some justification of the posi- tion taken by tho laboring classes; for thoy, no doubt, argue to themselves that a system fair and proper for the national and State govern- ments to endorse and adopt ought not to be ob- jectionable or unjust to other employers, It is impossible to refute this reasoning, unless on the plea that Congress and the State Legisla- ture have enacted improper laws for the sake of gaining popularity with the working classes. Besides, in many trades, where hard labor is performed or intense heat has to bo endured, eight hours’ steady work every day during tho year appears to be as much as human beings ought to be required to perform. The sugar refiners, who now work from thirteen to fourteen hours a day, with the thermometer from eighty to ninety, and recoive one dollar and sixty cents a day, strike for ten hours’ work and two dollars and a half a day, and few will deom the double demand preposterous. It is a question whether an honest workman will not perform more labor at the end of a year at eight hours’ a day steady employ- ment than at ten hours, in consequence of the advantage of greater rest and relaxa- tion and improved health, But however this may be, it is clearly the part of wisdom and prudence to listen patiently and indulgently to the complaints of the laboring men, and to extend to them such concessions as can be granted without actual injus- tice to the employers. To keep labor in a turmoil and agitation for any length of time has been a dangerous experiment in all ages of the world, and is doubly hazard- ous in these days of railroads and telegraphs, which draw the immense power of the work- ingmen of the universe into concentration and unity. Tho struggles betweon rich and .poor, between capital and labor, have sown the seeds of all the great revolutions of history. If wealth and aristocracy had been less overbearing, and if the wants of the people had been satisfied in the bread riots of Paris, we might never haye had the French Revolution, and the patient virtue of Louis tho Sixteenth and the grand heroism of Maric Antoinette might never have been discovered. These labor agitations are the life-blood of demagogism. They nourish the natural revo- lutionists of the Carl Schurz school, who would starve and die in atime of peace and har- mony betwoen rich and poor, capital and labor. But they aro perils that are wisely avoided, for every act which drives labor to a change of masters, which transfers its interests and allegiance from capital to societies, strikes a blow at the safety of property, and casts over us the shadow of anarchy and agrarianism. For these reasons we counsel prudence, moderation, liberality, even generosity, on the part of employers toward the employed at this critical moment. Woe have only to watch the cable reports to find that the labor strikes we are now experiencing are not local in their character. Thoy aro spreading in Germany and are threatening all Europe. If the time should come when they should be universal—and the telegraph might at to be inconsiderate and ambassadors of foreign Powers to the Holy See havo not played a very admirable part for us Catholios. Whether Hohenléhe will be more fortunate, especially if he undertakes to represent the policy of Bismarck against the German Catholics and their bishops, need not be asked of those who haveany real knowledge of the subject.” In the meantime His Majesty of Italy does not occupy a very enviable posi- tion in the eyes of the members of the Sacred College. The Fifth Avenue Hotel Conference Mr. Oarl Schurz. In pursuance of the call signed by Carl Schurz, of Missouri; Jacob D. Cox, of Ohio; William O. Bryant and Oswald Ottendorfer, of Now York; David A. Wells, of Connecticut, and Jacob Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, there will be a conference this day, atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel, “of gentlemen who are opposed to the present administration and its continuance in office, and who deem it necessary that all the ele- ments of the opposition should be united for 4 common effort at the Presidential election." The signers of this call, however, are not satis- fied with the Cincinnati Presidential ticket, and the general inquiry is, “What are they going to do about it?’’ Ono of them says that, the Cincinnati Convention having ‘turned out an impudent imposition and a monstrous fraud,"’ these gentlemen of this day's confer- ence, whatever they may do, will not make fools of themselves by ratifying the Cincin- nati ticket. But there are other parties con- nected with this conference who, it is confi- dently declared, have joined in ‘the movement for the purpose of uniting upon Mr. Greeley. Some surpriseand much curiosity have been expressed among the party journals as to the position and the object of Senator Schurz in calling for this conference. Some say that his object is another bolt; some, that he only wants to try a diversion against Greeley for the ap- proaching Democratic Convention, and there are some who profess the fullest confidence in tho idea that the real object of Mr. Schurz is to harmonize all these disaffected free traders upon Mr. Greeley. But, as Mr. Toots would say, “it’s matter of no consequence’ what the object or the efforts of Mr. Schurz may be in this Fifth avenue meeting. If it is his object to arrest the movement of the opposition ele- ments upon Mr. Greeley, he comes too late, and if his meeting is intended to give a helping hand to the Cincinnati ticket at Baltimore it is a superfluous affair. In any event, this Fifth Avenue Hotel conference has ceased, since the call for it was issued, to be a matter of any im- portance, insomuch as in the interval prob- ably a two-third vote has been secured for Mr. Greeley in the approaching Democratic Na- tional Convention. As President of the Cincinnati Convention, and as a member of that body, assisting in its proceedings from the beginning to the end, Mr. Schurz, as a signer ot the call for this Fifth Avenue conference, places himself in a very equivocal position. In expressing his desire for a union of all the opposition elements he inevitably leads us to the conclusion that he is not satisfied with the Cincinnati ticket, to the nomination of which he was in the Con- vention a consenting party. In other words, after participating so far in the acts of that Convention as to be morally bound thereby, he has no right to sit in judgment against it. And whatever may have been his personal in- fluence asa republican bolter against the con- any moment make them so—there would then be a period of suffering, growing out of a ces- sation of work in every country which might make the world the theatre of Communism and bring about general ruin and destruc- tion, At all events it is well for capital and labor to remember that their interests are identical—a truth which both are too aptto forget. Each is dependent on the other, and, like partners in a common business or like members of the same family, their efforts should be directed towards harmony and con- fidence for the good of both. It is only un- thinking or designing men who endeavor to breed discord between them. Prospects of the Papacy—German In- terests in the Vatican. His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth has ad- dressed a letter to the Vatican Secretary of State, in which he protests against the enforce- ment of the Italian law for the suppression of convents in the kingdom in the very strongest terms. He designites the act asa violation not only of international law, but of morality and justice also. A conflict between the Holy See and the Italian government is inovitable, says the Pope, and reconciliation impossible. This circular to Antonelli is really a Papal pro- test to the foreign Cabinets against the lay policy of Italy with regard to the Church. It will have the gffect of attracting a consider- able amount of ministerial attention to the subject in Europe, if not something more. The truth is, the Church of St. Peter is about to be rehabilitated, not in the matter of faith, but in its external relations to the great gov- eraments. Some powerful monarch must always carry the sword of Peter, and we this last disuster are given in our dospatch, | pathy of workingmen all over the world it | think that we can perceive indications that and go to show that they must have been | must be deserving of serious and fair consid- | the rulers of united Germany will—as Prussia Americans or Europeans. Aspvotton From CanaDa—TueE Case or Brat- . tox.—The Canadian government and press are | eration on the part of employers. Capital | | can afford to be liberal, and even generous, in its contests with labor, and when a movement | among the working classes is so universal apd | and other of her monarchs have in ages past— undertake the duty for a period in the future. The legislation which is being conducted against the Jesuits in Berlin may be, is, per- just now greatly excited over the circumstances | widespread as is that for the eight-hour sys- | haps, intended to show that the multitudinous under which a refugee from American justice | tem the chances are that it has some justifica- | Panslavist Roman Catholics of Germany are was, as alleged, forcibly abducted from Lon- | tion. There are good workmen as well aa bad | not bigoted or pledged to monasticism, but don, Ontario, by American officials, and carried | workmen in every trade and calling, and we | that they revere a Church which is tolerant, to Detroit. The name under which the man | believe the former to be very largely inthe ma- | always new and ever being renewed in nc- was known in London is Rufus Bratton, and jority. Much has been said about the tyranny | cordance with the spirit of age. It is in- the officials arrested him on charges under the | of labor organizations; but it is not probable | timated by Bismarck’s organ in Berlin that Ku-Klux laws. The British Minister natu- rally made a demand for his return to the | place whence he was carried off, stating that that honest, industrious, capable members would be so scarce or so powerless in any | trades union as to be unable to resist an unjus- | “Germany will make her influence felt in the election of the next Pope."’ This is exactly the American view of the case. Pope Pius the Ninth under the Extradition Treaty regular legal | tifiable and preposterous demand upon em- | is now eighty years of age. He will be called proceedings could then be instituted against him. The State Department, of course, under- took to comply with the demand, if the facts were as stated; but the first difficulty pre- sented itself when the attempt was made to find the whereabouts of Bratton and his cap- tors. This element of mystery in the case tended greatly to complicate the matter, as it was impossible to say whether the whole | matter was not a trick gotten up by the man and his friends the more thoroughly to throw dust in the eyes of his pursuers. It now ap- pears that Bratton has been discovered in the | custody of the North Carolina United States Marsbal. A regular extradition warrant had been seoured for the capture of a man named Avery. The Canadian officials delivered up Brat- ton instead, and hence the mistake, Brat- ton will be indemnified and returned to Can- QA and ao ends the matur. ployers, and it is unreasonable to suppose that | | thousands of steady men would consent to | abandon work at the risk of seeing their fami- | | lies suffer unless they at least believed that there was good reason for such an extreme course. Under these circumstances we deém | it to be the duty, as well as the interest, | of capital to carefully and impartially con- sider the present demands of the laboring classes, with a view to a fair adjustment of the | were a German ecclesiastic. differences that have arisen between the em- ployer and the employed. There are rumors afloat of a “Jockout’’ for the summer in order to resist to the bitter end the general adoption of the eight-hour system, and some employers to his eternal reward, in all human probability, soon. After his decease the Roman Catholic Church will reconstruct in the matter of its lay alliances, and it is not unlikely that it will rely for its most powerful earthly sustention on the independent millions of the faithful in free yet imperial Germany, and in democratic America during centuries to come. It would not be at all surprising to us if the next Pope The Jesuit organ | of Bonn, the Deutsche Reichszeitung, speaking on the subject of Emperor William's relations to the Holy See, says:—‘‘The Hohenlihes and their Catholicism are too well known to inspire confidence at the Vatican. All the have been severe in their denunciation of the movement, and have endeavored to persuade capital to adopt the watchword of ‘No surren- | der.” We believe such a policy to apostles were not saints, nor are all the car- dinals, and that there may be cardinals whose worldly interests come into collision with their religious sentiments is proved by history. tinuance of General Grant's administration, he will surely sacrifice this influence as a bolter against Mr. Grecley. It is charged by the Grant republicans against Mr. Schurz that, had he been given all, or the greater portion of the offices and spoils demanded by him of the administration, he would not have turned against it; and now, should he appear as a leader in a free trade diversion against the candidate of the anti-Grant republicans, to whom he was fully committed in the Cincinnati Convention, he will find himself without a party and reduced at last to the alternative of Grant or Greeley. : We understand that there will be a largo proportion of anti-Greeley republicans and democrats in this anti-Grant conference, and that the object of the callers of this meeting is a diversion in favor of a new opposition fusion ticket at Baltimore in the place of Greeley and Brown. It is probable, however, that the spontaneous movement of the rank and file of the democratic party in favor of the Cincin- nati ticket will lead the men of this Fifth Avenue consultation to the wise conclusion that they are too late to resist the heavy tide which has set in for Baltimore in favor of Greeley and Brown ; for now it is only in this direction that Mr. Schurz and his mysterious little tea party, as anti-Grant politicians, can recover the ground they have lost. The Alabama Claims Arbitration in Geneva. A Heratp special telegram from Geneva, dated in the Swiss city yesterday, re- ports the proceedings of the Alabama Claims Arbitration Court during the day. The progress was exceedingly agreeable and pleasing to the very point of an important crisis in the history of the nego- tiations—that of adjournment. Even this was tided over gracefully. The Court decided to adjourn for a week, in order to afford the two contracting arbitrating governments time for the conduct of official communi- cations, the subject and intent of which will, it is hoped, have an important bearing on the arrangement of a final settlement of the difficulty. The meeting yesterday is regarded as having been of a most favorable character for the perpetuity of the bond of international friendship between Great Britain and the United States, The weather was delightful, and the diplo- mats yielded themselves to the enjoyment of its soothing influences with all that feeling of healthy Christian abandon which ever at- tends on our poor humanity when it struggles in the interest of good fellowship and quiet and public content. The arbitrators pre- served their first rule of reticence towards the members of the newspaper press during the hours of the sessional assemblage, but appeared to be relaxing in their resolve of non-communication to the outer world after the moment of official dispersion. All parties enjoy a good time in Geneva—the inhabitants of the old town by a very perceptible increase in the amount of their business receipta, and the gentlemen who are supplying matter for future Livy’s to tell about and make history from by an arrangement for trips and excursions all of physical recuperation, even if they do not Teoeive any additional force of mental inspira- tion. Woe must wait patiently for the advent and opening of Wednesday, the 26th of June. ——— A Ploture of the Herald’s Colaumns— The Dainty Dishes spread Before King Public. The aim of the perfect newspaper to reflect from its pages daily the doings, the hopes, the wishings and the wonderings of the world is one that requires a widespread system, con- stant forethought, liberal means and able execution in every particular. Accordingto the degree in which it possesses these necessaries it approaches or recedes from a realization of that aim. System alone enables the journal to seize and transmit tho fresh news which crops out all over the globe and which would shrivel and withor in a day if the hand was not ready to pluck it and send it to market. The forethought necessary requires as nice a calculation of circumstances as that which furnishes us with our weather reports from the Sig- nal Bureau. There must be as careful a calcu- lation as to whither the currents of news are tending as the Meteorological Department exercises in regard to the course of storms. Tho lack of means is, unfortunately for nu- merous excessively well-intentioned journals, a serious drawback to prosecuting their ideas. The matter, however, of selecting the ablest heads and hands for particular classes of work depends so completely on the possession of tif other throe great requi- sites that it will only tell in the livo newspaper in combination with them. The difficulties in the way of triumphing over all the stumbling blocks which lie everywhere before the struggling journal are things which the public can but dimly appreciate, and, sooth to say, do not care much about studying. The citizen who devours his paper with his broak- fast no more troubles himself about how the news was collected than he does about the his- tory of his box of sardines, He relishes both without question. If, however, for a moment he were to look metaphorically behind the words he is reading, and follow each item back to its starting point, he would, doubtless, be repaid for the trouble it cost him. To glance in this way through the columns of the Herarp would astonish him in the variety of intelligent labor dis- played in every separate paragraph. Words lie before him penned under the burning African sun, far up the windings of Old Nile, amid savage, barbarous hordes, Let him follow these words on their way to the Hzraup, and think for-an instant of what lies between the correspondent and the headquarters of the journal. As sung of Bruce, he would see in fancy, The Arab’s lance, the desert’s gloom, The whirling sands, the red simoom. Or further South, on that mysterious Conti- nent, where the unconquerable Living- stone wanders in all the glory of his heroic research among the wonders of the chain of lakes, or piling up observation upon observation of the primitive peoples that in- habit the vast countries that surround them. It is not an easy junketing journey that the Heraup's standard bearer enjoys in pushing from Zanzibar to distant Ujiji, the path over which the welcome news of Living- stone’s safety has already come back to us, and over which the full details of his travels and discoveries are being borne by our correspondent to an expectant civiliza- tion, You can change the scene with a@ glance of the eye over continents and oceans, and, looking on another column, ~see the natural marvels of the South American Continent spread out, as the mind drinks in the history of the Agassiz expedition. The bare shores of Patagonia tell the story of their rocks; Juan Fernandez, the famed island home of Alex- ander Selkirk, is sketched; the empire of the Incas lies before the eye of to-day; the great domes of the Andes‘rear their snowy heads to heaven. A mere naming of the lead- ing scenes will not, however, tell the applica- tion of the four essentials of news collection to laying them in print before the reader. Besides this comes the regular news of every impor- tant event over the wide reaches of South America; republics in revolution, an empire in peace, the tide of trade and _ the shiftings of commerce. With just- @ glance of the eye the reader is by Lake Leman, with the Alps rising far into the sky, and the home of Calvin, the retreats of Rousseau, Voltaire or De Staél almost in sight. But it is not to think of these more than in suggestion that the reader finds himself there, for the words aro in his ears of men in whose keeping is the friendship, perhaps the pence, of his own great -coun- try, and another which styles her- self the ‘Empress of the Sens.” These are the strong points that will attract him, Yet they are only the more brilliant flowers in his bouquet of news. There are a hundred things of interest beside, without which he would feel like a botanist who had nothing but passion flowers to study— rare, indeed, but only one line to the volume of Linneus. He must hear by the Heratp special what Maryland thinks of Greeley, what Massachusetts thinks of Grant. He is all impatience with diplomatic secrecy until he reads the treaty correspondence in full in thé Heraup, He must know Brigham Young’s last cunning move; he would bo unhappy if he heard not an echo from Bos- ton’s big drum and Gilmore’s cannon accompaniment to the “Star Spangled Ban- ner.’ He is piqued to find out the chances of the conference at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day, and the Heratp tells him. He shud- | ders agreeably over some Indian outrage on the Plains. He smiles at the “Swamp Angels’ in the Bowery Theatre, as his blood ran cold when he read their bloody doings as told by the Hxzranp men, who dragged the unavenged crimes of the Lowerys into day through the columns of the journal. Things nearer at home interest him—the Courts, the Wall street article—and he thanks tho Heratp for the warning which saves him some thousand dollars in Erie. He glances down the ship news, and dives into the police courts and finds himself plunged into the horrors of prison life; and when everything else is exhausted he turns to the advertise. ments, whero we shall leave him as he wonders how so many diverse businesses, activities, speculations and desires could possibly be rolled together in a day in o profitable invita- be dangerous aad the adviog that | Thowg oasdinala who in former times acted as | sound, from Which they will draw any amouat | toy to the public to teat the mesita of gon thing or another. This is bus the merest aketoly of what the Hunaup provides fix’m day to day, and all we can say now in addxtion is that the question with the paper is not what tha a tgs cost i how difficult it is tépbtain, but whether it is worth Getting. That settled, the Heranp'’s special news parse will satisfactorily tell the rest, ‘ The Twelfth of July—Is There To Be an Orange Procession? Arumor has been circulated to the effect that the Orange societies of this city have resolved to parade on the 12th of July next, to the number of several thousands, and that it is their intention to am themselves with revolvers for the oe casion. We do not credit the latter part of this report, believing it to be of a sensational character, set afloat without regard to truth. At the same time it is calculated to do mis- chiof if not contradicted, and hence it may be well for the Orange societies, if they have really determined on a procession, to promptly and authoritatively deny that they have any inten- tion to go armed, and at the same time to cau- tion all persons who may belong to the socie- ties to avoid carrying any weapons of any de- scription on the day of the parade. But why should the Orangemen parade at all? By what right or reason do they transplant their seoret political society from the soil of the British empire to the free land of the repub- lic of the United States, and give us the trouble and scandal of its em- bittered fruit? Do they need now, as Amorican citizens, to defend the reigning monarch of Great Britain from the intrigues and plots of the wicked Papists—to protect the Protestant religion, the laws of England, the legislative union of Great Britain and Treland, and the succession to the throne in o Protestant royal family? Do they suppose that American citizens care any more for William of Orange and the Battle of the Boyne than for Daniel O’Con- nell and Donnybrook Fair? Do they imagine that the people of New York desire to witness the scenes of Clare, Armagh and Fermanagh re- enacted in the metropolis? What good cam they derive from the display of their banners and the playing of ‘Croppies Lie Down” in the streets of the city they have adopted as their home?) * Every citizen of the United States is a free agent, and is entitled to be tho keeper of his own conscience and the controller of his own acts, so long as they are decent and law- ful. But we beliove that the spirited and en- terprising mon who have abandoned the old country and voluntarily become citizens of our republic commit a grave error when they seek to keep alive in their now home the enmities and hatreds that grew out of the sys- tem of government they have repudiated and disowned. Catholics can reverence the Pope to their heart’s content; Orangemen can pray to be protected against Papistry as fervently aa they may desire; every person may worship any divinity he pleases on American soil, and follow any faith his conscience may dictate. But it would be better if naturalized citizens would cast off with their allegiance all those projudices and passions to which, had they been born under republican — institu- tions, they would have always been strangers. Last year the Orange procession nearly produced a bloody riot in our streeta, although on a matter of principle the Orange- men were protected in their right to parade. The triumph was not the triumph of the Orangemen, but of the free institu- tions of the country. The threatened riot was not averted through the bravery of the processionists, but through the firmness of the press and the steady courage and admira- ble conduct of the police. This year, if the parade should take place, it will be regulated by the law of the last Legislature, which prohib- its the interruption of traffic on any railroad track; requires due notice of the time, object and route of the procession to be given to the police authorities; authorizes the said authori- ties to designate how much in width of the streets it can occupy, and re- quires them to furnish a sufficient escort for the protection of persons and property and the preservation of peace and order. As the law still authorizes such proces- sions as the Orangemen propose, under those restrictions, they, of course, have a right to parade if they think proper. If they do we do not believe they will be interfered with by the Catholic portion of the Irish- American population. The latter will have sense enough to mind their own business. But we believe the procession, and every demonstration of the kind, to be in bad taste and in bad spirit, unworthy of our free insti- tutions and unbecoming adopted citizens; and we hope to see the time when Oranga parades, St. Patrick’s parades and evory other imported parade will be voluntarily abandoned. The Fourth of July and Washington's Birth- day ought to be celebrations good enough for every Anierican, whether of native or foreign birth. Whe Seizures of City Property. The necessity to levy on the property of the city in satisfaction of judgments obtained against the city treasury furnishes a strange commentary on the administration of Mr. Green. We assume that the claimants who have caused the Deputy Sheriff to attach the portraits of our deceased Governors have right on their side, as otherwise it would be diffi- cult to account for their having obtained judg- ment ina court of law. This being 60, it ia manifestly unjust that they should be refused payment of the sums due to them when there are funds enough in the treasury to meet alk demands. There is a loss of dignity in adopting ao dilatory and haraas- ing mode of meeting the just liabilities of the city, no matter how contracted; and unless the claims in question are held to be fraudulent it is difficult to understand why the treasury department refuses to sat- isfy the judgments obtained against it, If the principle be once adopted that no moneys shall be paid until the claim- ants levy on the fire engines, pictures, safea and other movable city property, the govern- ment will soon become unbearably vexatious, as well as ridiculous. The attachmont of the fire engines is reprehensible and ought not to be permitted by the law, because such action endangers the lives and property | of the citizens. Nor from a moral point of view can the sale of the portraits of our Gov- ernors be regarded as a whit moro defensible. The inducements to accept the offica of Gov- stuor are giroady sufficiently jnongro and thd