The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1872, Page 8

AL FRESCO PIETY. Deseriptive View of the Greatest Camp Meeting of the Age. ——— Routine of Daily Life—“Experiones”’ Stories of the Saints—An Original Form of Private De- votion—snatching Brands from the Burn- ing—Brother Inskip in His Glory— Clandestine Exercises—“Laying Out” a Darkey Penitent. FINALE AND DISPERSION OF THE SAINTS. Sea Curr Grove, July 11, 1872. To a man with a religious turn of mind the permanence of the camp meeting, as an American institution, ts, of course, singularly retreshing. Originally hit upon as a temporary expedient wo supply the spiritual needs of the pioneers of civili- zation, who were necessarily too widely scattered in the heart of the border wilderness to afford the Iuxury of a meeting house and a pastor, it has taken firm and lasting root among us, and now threatens to be as long lived as the republic itself, For, except on this theory, how can any one ex- plain the enormous extent and evident popu- larity of the colossal gathering now being heid at the place from which this letter 1s dated? Three mdnths ago Sea Cliff was for the Most part an uncleared wilderness, and had but slender prospects for the fature, for it was belteved that there was a great deal of trouble in getting water, while two or three unsavory factories on the other side of the creek that separates it from Glen Cove village apparently precluded the idea of ita ever being appropriated for country residences, But some saints of the National Camp Meeting As- sociation came here and saw and have conquered. They bought, for the sum of $106,600, the entire site of the future town of Beulah or Sea Clif, comprising some hundreds of acres, and early in the present spring set to work vigorously to im- prove their property. Admirable roads were spread over the face of the huge bluff of bare gray earth that has given the place its name; a town was laid out on its summit, with avenues and streets, and several wooden structures, some of them of portentous size, were built to serve as meeting hall, loaging house, dining saloons, Post OmMce and other neceesary buildings. Then the greatest camp meeting ever held in America was announced and the sale of lotsa was begun. And if all the lots are sold at the present ruling rates, and they are going off pretty briskly, a gen- tleman of some arithmetical attainments has cal- culated that a profit of half a million dollars will be made over and above all preliminary expenses. CHRISTIAN CLIQUES. ‘The camp meeting now being held was opened, ‘as stated in a former letter to the HERALD, on the 84 of July. About four hundred tents have been put up and two thirds of them are now occupied. True to the spirit of brotherly love, the different congregations seem to prefer to keep together, and as you go about through the lanes of the little canvas dweil- ings that line the streets, or are hidden away in lit- tle gleaming suburbs among the trees, you every now and then come across a painted notice indi- cating the church whose members have there tem- porarily taken up their aboaé. These belong to the Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, New York; the next clump is filled with the disct- ples of the Rev. Mr. Boole, and so on to the end of the chapter. This plan has its own advantages, however; for the pastor or deacon in charge 4s thus enabled to secure ‘the orthodoxy of his flock from being blurred and confused by the errors that must necessarily now and then break out in promiscuous preaching: 118 MORALS GooD, In some of its features the present gathering is cer, tainly far ahead of any of its predecessors. The tents are almost exclusively occupied by families, or by persons beyond all suspicion of taint and blemish, and guards and policemen patrol the grounds all night, and keep their eyes wide open for the detec- tion of irregularities. Young people, unattached to families and liable to be tempted astray, are housed in an immense lodging house, the gentle- men on one floor and the ladies on another, The hall in which the meetings are held, too, has seats enough for all, 80 that there is no _tmgpoen of the saints together in an undistinguishable mass at the height of the excitement. And last of all there is a stringently observed regulation that everybody must go to bed at ten o'clock. Before that hour the public exercises are concluded, and ‘any one canghit taking a stroll abroad through the village aiterwards is liable to summary arrest and expuision from the camp. MODIFIED STARVATION. It 1s unfortunate, however, that the saints have not exercised a Ittle salutary control over the people to whom they have rented out the peyiege of feeding the two or three thousand people—more or jess—that nave been collected together. The loaves and fishes that were served to the waiting multitude in the New Testament were a somewhat spare diet, but heh were, doubtless, good of their kind, and there is the best authority for saying that they were dispensed without stint. But the fare at the dining halls of tho Camp Meeting Associa- tion—and no one is permitted to Keep a rival restaurant on the grounds—is simply a modified form of starvation. It is true that you get six meals for $3, but surely it ought to be possible to provide @ reasonaole quantity of plain, whole- some, decently cooked food at $150 a day. The only show you have of being even tolerably fed ts to squeeze into a piace at some table where there are two or three preachers or distinguisned brethren, ‘Then, perhaps, you may et an abundance of ice water and ® sufficiency of bread and biscuit and crackers, and possibly even a glass of milk, But of course the meal will still be tasteless, stringy and tough, and the other features of a civilized repast remain painfully absent. “GEITING THE STRAM UP.? And now the religious features of the camp meet- ing can briefly be referred to. Changed as it is in certain material respects, from tts prototypes, the thering at Sea Clill is marked by the same reck- feos exuberance of spiritual enthusiasm. Ite Jeaders have but one view of what constl- tutes piety, and that i to exeite the emotional feclings to a pitch approaching frenzy, to “get the steam up,” if the phrase may be used, and luxurtate in the agonies of religious mania. In the morning, atter au ordinary service at five o’clock, there is what ts called an “expert- ence meeting,” at which all the saints in turn rise and describe what the Lord is doing for them. Most of the saints tell their story in one or two short, pithy foaun or perhaps in an apposite te. “The Lord is my. ate 54 and my strength,” gaysone. ‘My soul is full of love for Jesus; I ieel that { cowid give up my life for Him,” tremulously cries some youthful sister. “I have found rest and peace and joy in Christ,” testifies an aged matron. And 80 runs the st sometimes for nearly a couple of hours. Some of the more conspicuous saints, however, occasionally break out into lengthier rhapsodies. Perhaps the most note- ‘worthy chtiracter in this regard presentis an old ne- gro woman, Whose testimony would fill an ordinarily gized tract, and who generally says in some part of ft that years ago she was 4 cook, with very heavy responaipilties, in a family at Lancaster, and that the spirit came upon her with sanctifying power one memorable day when she was in the cellar. ‘This old lady fairly goes frenzied with excitement, and when she finds the religious intoxication wan: in its influence stimulates her flagging ener- es by wildly clapping her hands and stamping er feet. At every specially vivid flash of expe- rience, no matter from whom, the brethren and sistera break out in loud cries of “Glory, ory |? “Blessing to the Lord!’’ “Amen!” “Halle- Fajah and similar pithy ejaculations. A favorite it may be re- rather into the way of closing up a testimony, too, marked, is to lapse into a hyma, or chorus vo @ hymn, “PRIVATE” DEVOTIONS. ‘There are regular morning, afternoon and evenin, services, and between the two former are sand- wiched “private devotions in the tents.” The rinted programme suggests that these should be offered up with the canvas drawn closely together, so aa to veil the work- ings of the spirit from curious spectators. But meed it be added that this regulation is commonly, almost systematically set at naught? Pass through the settlement at the hour of these private bag Maced and you will be met on every side with affecting views of tent floors, sprinkled with kneeling saints, whose cries, ascending to the throne of grace, ring See the air in tones loud as those of a roaring bull of Bashan, AN FARNEST REVIVAL. The evening service is the one which Is most re- markable for its earnestness. It seems, indeed, almost impoasibie to get up a very “powerful” in- fluence upon the human soul in broad daylight. But when the evening shadows have fallen upon the tabernacle, and through its open sides the con- gregation see only the black Bight, the natural syinbol of the awful deep into which we must all sooner or later plunge, then, indeed, a few adroit allusions to bell and Satan and the Ce tM of sin and the need of a Saviour fall with crushing and electrical effect. The audience soon lapses into a terrible earnestness, apd @ brother experienced in revivals—such a brother, for instance, as the Rev. Mr. little difficulty in fanning the flame into s glow. “How many are there here whe have found raged im Jesus 1” asks he. “Let all who have hold up their right hand.” he There 1s at once a great show of sleeves and arms and ungloved hands, while sobs and crics pd — heard—the anguish of souls in sore “I see many hands still down,” remarks Brother math and at once plunges Into 8 vivid picture of the ultimate consequences of sin, concluding by call- ing upon all who feel the need of salvation to stand up. A dozen sinners rise at once, the tears rolling down their checks and their heads bent forward in penitent humbleness. Then slowly, and as tho they succeeded only with diMicaity in conquer: af their pride and confessing publicly their utter fpr tual worthlessness, others, one by one, also . ‘The. floor is at last dotted all over with the awakened souls, the brethren meanwhile eagerl; looking on and ejaculating, “Glory! glory!” and “Hallelujah!” “Now, step forward to the front seats,” says Brother Inskip, “and pray that you may find Christ. Come here and pray, and pray to yourselves, and don’t expect that there is to be much singing; for this is not a (ge feet Party, but serious business.’’ A couple of minutes later the penitents are on the benches immediately beneath the platform, and the pastors assemble at the front oi the stage and ople, penitents and pastors fall down on thetr knees and wrestle with the Lord for the salva- tion of these souis pierced with a sense of sin. Five minutes pasa by In a silence only broken by the sobs of the penitents and the subdued ex- clamations of the saints. Then one of the peni- tents, overcome with emotion and no longer able to keep silence, bursts forth into a passionate cry, “Help, Lord, or I perish!” “That's right!” cries Brother Inskip. “Let any Repent now who wishes to, pray, but make it shor The invitation is accepted, and one by one the penitents give voice to the need they feel of pardon and salvation, “And now,” says Brother Inskip, “let us sing eoue verse of a hymn,” and immediately leads The blood, the blood, the prectous blood, ‘That Jesus shed for me ‘Upon the cross, in crimson flood, just now by Jaith I see, “Let us now be done with agonizing,” continues Brother Inskip, “I want you now to realize that Jesus loves you and died to save you.” Upon this the enthusiasm takes on # milder form, ands 800n subsides into the ecstasy of conscious sal- vation, One by one the returning sinners avow that they have found peace and joy and rest, the declarations being followed with salvos of joyous cries from the main body of the congregation. Hymns are sung with growing frequency, and a heavenly light glows in every face, and. the onete gation seem to feel that it “has becn good for them to be here.” The exercises, however, conclude early, for, as Brother Inskip says, “the brethren need rest after the fatigues of the day, and plenty of it, or they will not be equal to the duties of the morrow.” A NPGRO INSURRECTION. On Sunday night the oa to bed at ten o'clock” rule was, however, sadly infringed. After the ex- ercises at the Tabernacle the colored waiters got to- gether in dining hall No. 2, and started a meeting on their own account. A white brother soon ar- rived and “bossed ”’ the exercises, a crowd of spec- tators thronged into the hall, and the tmprovised congregation plunged at once into the exercises of a Southern darky camp meeting. Negroes and negresses told their experience with African vague- ness and African enthusiasm, The spiritual tempe- rature speedily reached fever heat, and unmeaning negro hymns Were struck up to blow the fame toa white heat. We'll cross the River Jordan; Honor the Lamb! honor the Lamb! And take nothing for our journey; Honor the Lamb! honor the Lamb! is a specimen of these incoherent m lodies, The audience would doubtless have contentediy Pie longed the singing all night had not the white leader suddenly said :— “ But we have met here for business, Just let us look for a moment at this serious thought, ‘Am I fit to die ? Am J living as I would like to die ?””” “LAID OUT’? BY EMOTION, There was a dead pause of a minute, and then a stalwart negro, on the outer fringe of the crowd, who had been looking on with fixed eyes that glit- tered with a dangerous light, began to gurglie inar- ticulately, as though trying to say something, but failing fell backwards in @ fit, foaming at the mouth and with hands and limbs rigidiy fixed. Nearly all the audience rushed to minister to the stricken man; but the white master of the cere- monies impatiently cried out, “There’s oniy one man hurt; two or three are enough to attend to him; come back and let us go on with the exer- cises!” and struck up another hymn. This, however, was in fact the end of the meet- ing. Before the hymn had fairly got under way the superintendent of the (yet appeared on the scene and represented that he had no option about allowing them to hold a meeting after the forbidden hour-—that his orders were strict, and that the con- peaaan must at once disperse. There was a fee- le protest to the effect that the Lord was workin, powerfully and ao forth, but the order was obeye ‘and the people slowly dispersed. Breaking Camp—Departure of the Sanc- tified Ones. SEa OLIFF GRovE, July 13, 1872. After nine days of shouting and praying, and singing and eating, and drinking and sleeping, the sanctified hosts of the Lord and of the Methodist Church struck their tents to-day and left for parts known and unknown. Asa pecuniary enterprise the camp was a failure. Thousands who had booked themselves toattend this meeting from Baltimore, Philadelphia and regions east, west, north and south received evil reports of the land, and atthe last moment backed out of their ar- rangements. Several persons who had come here to stay till the close were obliged to go away after two or three days, because of sickness superinduced by an intemperate use of the spring water with which the encampment Is supplied. The well from which, by meane of a steam force pump, the reser- voir and the grounds are supplied is, it appears, an old one, but of almost inexhaustible supply. It has not been used for many years, nor has it had an outfow to keep it as pure and good as it should be, The water works, too, are all new, ond the water necessarily tastes of the iron. THE SEA CLIFF ASSOCIATION are doing all that they can to make the encamp- ment the finest in the country, aud with avery good prospect of succeeding. They now propose, either tn the fall or next apring, to plant out full grown shade trees along the several walks and avenues of the village ground. It is said also that tne railroad company have promised to build a spur from their main track to the camp ground, a distance of one mile and 3 halfin one direction, or four miles in another. Yesterday and the day before and to-day the workmen have beep taxing down and packing away the unused tents, Next month, when the Home camp meeting is held, doubtless the mem- bers presenton the ground wil! be greater than during the meeting just closed. The association have been literal enough to allow the present pos- sessors of tents to retain and occupy them free of charge from this time until August 20, when the other meeting will open, They have also cut down the price of board to $1 per day,,and of lodging (in separate rooms) to aity cents a night—just enough, as they say, tocover expenses. They have lost, It is said, about $100 day on the boat which the: hired to run between the city and the camp ground, Rey. Mr. Boole, wo, as President of the Sea Clit Association, has been “serving tables” during this encampment, and has taken very little part in the religious exercises, did on Thursday night make a full confession of his errors, and declared before ail the people his purpose to resign his position and all active participation in the secularities of the enter- prise. He at the same time asserted that no member of the association had made a single doliar by their connection with it, nor was {t their purpose, so far as he knew, to do so, The enterprise was origi- nated solely to secure SOCIAL AND CHRISTIAN ENJOYMENT to the churches of the metropolis. But, notwith- standing this disclaimer from so high a source, there are lees things which indicate the scheme to be a magnificent land speculation, Mr. Booie in his confession also freely admitted that the great need of the Christian Church to-day is spirituality condensed. It has more religion than ever, but itis too much diffused and the power is wanting. He particularly cited the Methodist Church, whose numbers, Weaith and influence exceed those of any other denomination in this country, but yet whose | churches are not half filled,, nor ite jae ht or peo- | pic half as userul ue they should be. Tt was, therefore, in the words of the pro het Zechariah, “not by might nor by power, but by the spirit of the Lord’? ‘that the salvation of the world is to be accomplish- ed, While Christian people are wasting their time and energies praying that God would make an opening for usefulness for them God is calling them to go into the thickly populated districts of our great cities and make openings for themselves. He might, he said, shoot a rife from the Five Points or Water street and not strike a Methodist church or mission within range of either. This lack of wer in the Church he believed was due to a con- formity of the world in dress. This was a feeler for the ladies, and it was immediately followed by the suggestion that with the superfluous jewelr, nd =6gewgaws = which gt wear he could send 200 missionaries into the hovels and tene- ments of this city and yet leave the Indies as well dressed as the best Christian taste could demand, Evidently the doctrine of holiness and full conse- cration Christ has not yet taken hold of the pockets of the sanctified ones, for it took the best parts of the services of two days to raise $2,000 te the three or four thousand persons present or REVS, INSKIP AND M'DONALD, who are the evangelists of this new faith, or rather of an old apostolic faith revived. They have given up their pastoral relations and travel all over the country preaching and teaching this doctrine, To a hen the; of their tual condition it is with clenched teeth and as if it required a struggle S may some things in while others were allowed out. ir, Inskip, who is President of the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holt rules as with a rod of tron under the of led by the Holy Spirit, and during his encampment he has been greatly annoyed by a je of unruly Co eod who would hot obey. One er Was perpetually atriking out his hands and at the top of his voice shouting “Amen!” regard- Jess of the appropriateness of the interjection in Brame, experience or exhortation. Another would in singing the “Doxology” at unseasonable times in the service, to the annoyance of Kev. Inskip, and though called to order frequently he kept his ground and finished his song each time alone, He blessed the Lord he was free, and was not going to be in bondage to any man. Social meetings in tents or groves were out ofthe question, for a8 soon as one was in good condition Mr _Inskip put a quietus on it either by a personal prohibition or by a ringing of the bell for some stated service, And hence, thongh he ceclared it was the best meeting of the series this year that his association hagl attended, there were others who did not talk much in its praise, According to Parson Inskip himself, a presiding elaer who visited them leit the ground in disgust, asserting that they were “A PACK OF FOOLS,”? ‘The genius of advertising was plainly visible in several of the services, In exhortations to holiness Rev, Mr. Inskip would take occasion to appland certain books, papers and magazines and commend them to the pockets and sympathies of the people. In the requests for prayer presented and read were some for a New York penny paper, that it might be made an evangelistic organ, and also for business men in straits, 4c. This, of course, was aneasy way of making known one’s business or troubles to a eres and miscellaneous audience from different parts of the country. The preaching was not confined exclusively to Methodists. Presbyterian and Baptist ministers also held forth ana advocated this doctrine of holi- ness. The best and miost scriptural sermon preached by a minister on the ground, from a lay- man’s standpoint, was that by Rev. Charles Munger, on Thuraday afternoon, *It was a practical exposi- tion of the third verse of the third chapter of Malachi; but in its application to the doctrine of holiness the preacher became @ little too diffuse and tedious. The Rev. J. W. Horne also preached very acceptably, But the sermon delivered in the encampment from its opening to Its close was one by Mrs. Smith, a Presbyterian lady from Phila- del na on Wednesday morning. Her text was certainly extensive enough to draft a good dis- course She took the five books of Moses and the book of Joshua, and illustrated therefrom the lessons of man’s efforts for holiness and his com- plete failure; his enslavement and deiiverance ; his acceptance and submission to God’s law; the es- tablishment of worship; the Christian constitution and the entrance into the promised land, The career of the Israelites portrayed the wanderings and the experience of the. soul until it attains the blessedness of entire sanc tification and holiness of heart which she offered to the people, The discourse was very freely spoken of and pr: d afterward, and the male preachers acknowledged that they had been fairly beaten. There were from fifty to seventy-five ministers present nearly all the time of the encampment, but only a chosen few were allowed to speak, and one of them, a Mr. Foote, from the western part of this State, had two chances to the others’ one to present his theory. It was amusing, critically, to notice’ how the sanctified doctors ‘iigered in their expo- sitions of this doctrine. While one woud contend atone time that the weeds of sin which continue to grow in the human heart after justification by faith is experienced should be plucked up and cast out, another at another service would declare that plucking up weeds and cutting off branches did not amount to anything, And, under the plea of being “led by the spirit,’ these contradictions were man- ifest in every service. THE “EXPERIENCES” WERE GEMS in their way. A reformed drunkard told how the Lord had cured him suddenly and forever of his appetite for tobacco and rum. Another, who had used tobacco for fifty-two years, had his appetite for the weed also suddenly taken away. He had kept a temperance pledge for thirty years, but two years before his conversion, at the age of sixty, he had begun to imbibe lager bier and was on the way again to the rumshop when the Lord arrested and saved him. He nada most pitiable looking face, which he declared was the effect of the sins of his life, A reiormed prize fighter and comic singer was now Pghting the Lord's batties and using his powerfal lungs and voice in singing “I am so glad that Jesus loves me.”” A sanctified sister with a croaking voice was pc that she had been “washed in the blood of the mb’? A brother wished that Father Inskip had been sent to Libby Prison years ago, when he (the speaker) might have known and received this blessed experience. Two conversions were au- nounced, so that pecuniarily and spiritually the camping did not meet expectation, To-day the National Association start for Urbana, Ohio. ey have yet four more meetings to hold before the season closes. ign have already held ten, and their last meeting will come off September 21, {n Knoxville, Tenn. The Sea Cliff Association have given them the free use of all the tents and fixtures they may want for that meeting—about seventy- five of them. About the middle of October Messrs. Inskip and McDonald and their brethren will be settled down for their winter's work, and may then recuperate themselves for the campaign of 1873. EXILED PRIESTS IN CALIFORNIA. Thirty-nine Friars Ariivc from Guate- mala—Their Distressed Condition—A Hasty Departure Compelled—The Gra- mados Government and the United States Minister. Among the passengers that arrived on the steam- ship Sacramento at San Francisco on the Ist of July inst. were thirty-nine Dominican and Franciscan fmars of the Capuchin order, who were banished from Guatemala by the Granados revolutionary government of that country. The treatment re- ceived by these clergymen, as described by them- selves, and judging by the account given of their condition after landing, was certainly unworthy any government claiming to be civilized. For enter- taining supposed designs against the existing order of affairs they were, without a moment’s notice, hurried away from their houses and placed on board the Sacramento. The singular appearance of this body of men in their religious garb attracted marked attention in San Francisco, where they were hospitably received by Archbishop Alemany and the priests of their orders established in the metropolis of the Pacific. Among them is one clergyman who was the original founder of the missions in Guatemala, and who is now seventy- two years old. Six of the party were very sick and had to be removed to hospital. The grief and dis- tress brought on by the sudden rupture of all the ties which bound thein to the land to which they had devoted their lives so seriously affected their health that the physictans called to attend the sufferers are of the opinion that several of them would not survive many days, THE ARREST AND BANISHMENT. It appears that on the evening of the 7th of Jane last the convents in which they were quartered were entered by a body of soldiers, while the friars were engaged at their usual vocations, and they were taken into custody, The troops were commanded by General Rufino Barrios, Commander-in-Chief of the army. The (riars were not permitted to make any preparatious sor their departure, and, with the ex- ception of afew blankets, hastily gathered up by some ol them, took nothing. They were then con- veyed into the street, just as they were found, and there placed in line between files of soldicrs, who had orders to fire upon any one attempting to leave, or upon any citizen attempting to succor them. Thus situated they were marched to Cham- perico amid the tears and lamentations of the peo- ple. The picture drawn by the exiled priests of the consternation of the citizens upon being thus rutilessly deprived of their spiritual advisers, and the outeries against their banishment, is one of deep interest. But despite these protests they were placed on board the steamer, and in one hour from the time of their arrest were being carried away from their homes and their people. They speak in warm commendation of the treatment they received on board the Sacramento. CONTENDING POLITICAL PARTIES. As may be supposed, the causes that led to this harsh treatment of the fathers rise out of political matters. Guatemala, in common with all Spanish American countries, has suffered and continues to suffer from violent changes in the personnel of its government. Revolutions occur almost each succeeding aks causing ruin to the republic and fratricidai slaughter among the prone. The issues seem to be. as far as they can pe understood, between a moderate and orderly government and one called progressive, which is about another name, it 1s said, for rank red repub- licanism, President Cena was at the head of affairs = to May, 1471, when a revolution broke out which placed in power Granados, who the year before made a similar attempt, which failed. “He fell into the hands of Cena, who spared his life and ordered him out of the country. He retired to Mexico. Cena was conservative. Grenados, the present President, is progressive. The first Act of the lat- ter on attaining power was to banish the Arch- bishop of Guatemala and a large number of clergy- men irom the republic. UNITED STATES MINISTER HU! There are some circumstances conn affairs which possess more or less intere , United States. Mr. Silas A. Hudson ts our Minister to et og on the defeat of Granados the Jatter asked for refuge in the American legation, which was the only one hg Sie by the govern- ment, which was refused. Mr. Corbett, the Eng- lish representative, interceded on behalf of the then outiaw, but our Minister remained firm, as he believed it to be his “duty to sustain the constitu- tional government in ail its Phe efforts to preserve its authority,” and stigmatized in nis despatches Granados, the present President, a3 a “cousum- An angry aie te between Mr. Hudson and Mr. ett, who, ina short time, left the country. GOVERNMENT OF GRANADOS, Granados is on good terms with Juarez, to the north; but it narneee that in the small republic of San Salvador, to the south, Medina, a conservative, is in power. he latter, according to recent ane, is threatened with war by Guatamala. Before 187 Granados occupied himself on the Isthmus of Tehuantanee in collecting a force for the prapere of rar stern the government of Cena. le was aided by jarrios, before mentioned, and one of Maximillan's gene! named Peron, The Mexican authorities afforded every assistance in men, money and arms to Barrios, notwithstanding the protests of Guatemala, the government of which sent a strong force to the frontier to engage the in- surgents should they cross the boundary line, Mr. Hudson was requested to send a remonstrance against this conduct to the city of Mexico in the interests of peace. The resuit may be seen in the second attempt of Granados last year, when he succeeded in estab- lishin himselt in power in place of Cena, whois now in exile. Strange as it may appear, this change was warmly welcomed by Mr. Hudson, our minister, who did not entertain, in 1570, a’ very elevated opinion ot the present ruler of Guatemala, In speaking of his government, the priests recently arrived at San ncisco compare it to the Com- mune at Paris, stating that in all essentiaj particu. lars it is the same in spirit and act, and look upon its triumph as that of the worst spegies of infidelity. These gentlemen deny emphatically that they were engaged in any intrigues against Granados, but, on the contrary, were employed solely in the discha of their religious putes, in accordance with their vows and obligations. It is needless to state that Mr. Hudson could not have done anything in the matter of the banishment of the priests. It is not likely the government would have consulted him concerning its action in the premises. ‘W YORK CITY. The police last week arrested 1,685 persons. Marshal Hart during the past week granted 272 licenses and renewals, receiving for the same $2,157 60, The total value of the importations of general merchandise at this port for the week ending the 12th of July was $4,841,937. The Ordinance Bureau received for the week ending July 13, 143 complaints of violations of various corporation ordinances, ‘There were in this city last week twenty-five fires, the estimated loss of which was $20,065, upon which there was an insurance of $61,000. The vita) statistics for the week ending yesterday at noon were as follows:—Deaths, 1,056; mar- riages, 183; births, 495, and still births, 60. The book printing presses are still idle, neither employers nor employed showing any signs of con- cession. It is the dull season, and employers are confident of success, Valentine Martinez, a wealthy Cuban, was com- mitted for examination at the Tombs yesterday by Alderman Coman on a charge of seducing Lulu and and Nettie Hillins, sisters, aged respectively twelve and fifteen. The alleged seduction occurred some months ago, A political club in the interest of Mr. William R. Roberts was organized by the citizens of the Fifth ward at 167 Hudson street on Friday evening. There were 100 people present. Denis Dermothy was unanimously elected President ot the club, Robert P. Leonard Vice President, James MclIner- ney Secretary, and John Blackeney Treasurer, James Donahue, Superintendent of the Free Labor Bureau, Nos. 8 and 10 Clinton place, maxes the following report of business for the week end- ing July 13:—Applications for employment, 1,186; of these there were 346 males and 840 females; male help required, 205; female, 952; situations rocured for 264 males and 740 females; whole num- r of situations procured for the weck, 1,004, The carpenters held a very large meeting last evening in Demilt Hall, at which were present a great many members of the amalgamated trades. The proceedings were conducted in secrecy. They referred, however, in the only important part of them, to the proposed parade of all the eight-hour organizations on the Ist of August. The carpenters desire a postponement of the appointed day, and as their chairman, Mr. Pardy, is treasurer of the movement they will doubtless have their day. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. Arrests in Brooklyn. The number of arrests reported by the police of Brooklyn last week was Brooklyn Taxcs. The taxes collected in Brooklyn last week amounted to $82,371 86. The amount of water taxes paid was $15,600. Bonds to Answer a Charge of Libel. Edward Clark, offal contractor, of Brooklyn, gave security yesterday, to the amount of $1,000, to answer to a charge of libel made against him in the Supreme Court by Frank Swift. The Donahue Homicide. The inquest in regard to the murder of OfMicer Donahue, in Williamsburg, will take place on Mon- day, at the Brooklyn Morgue. The body of Dona- hue will be buried to-day, from the church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Second street, E. D. The Water Supply. Notwithstanding the assertions of the Committce of Fifty that there is plenty of water, the citizens find some days that the flow is very weak, and it is almost impossible to get it in the upper parts of their houses. The citizens are cautioned against wasting it. OPINIONS OF THE PARADE. No Foreign Celebrations—America Our Home. To THE EDITOR OF THE H&RALD:— The Orangemen having vindicated their right, under the present law, to proclaim their continued adherence to the British government in our princl- pal streets, by an exhibition to that effect, I would inquire, through the columns of your paper, if it is not time that Americans, in a kindly spirit, re- quested all their adopted brethren to forego public demonstrations of this character? These re- minders of incidents that do not concern this couutry in any way whatever are not productive of any beneficial results, but, on the contrary, are causes of agitation, and serve to re- call, on tne pl of our foreign population, some ancient feud that should have been left on their native soil. It seems as if it was the duty of every citizen, no matter whether he be one by birth or adoption, to honor and celebrate only those events that are made worthy of reverence by the history of the nation that supplies his family with food and shelter and protects him in the enjoyment of his rights, When all of us, foreigners as well as natives, can unite upon this essential point—which would be nothing more than an expression of ‘atitude—no more confusion and ill feeling would fe experienced, and, naturally, we should become one allegiance, one AN AMERICAN, a unanimous people, with but flag and one country. A View of the Orange Procession. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— Iamalover and constant reader of the great HERALD, and make bold to ask 1t where the police were conducting that great lot of prisoners they marched down Fifth avenue on the 12th of July? What did they do, sir? Did they burn any houses? ‘They did not look like men who had had a fight; nor did they look like men who had any fight in them. And one in_ front on horseback, dressed like a clown—and, oh, what a color he had; it was an ugly one—I think was in dread of falling. Icould bet imy life he was in dread of odes. ‘They reminded me of the way I saw the convicts in Portsmouth, England, marched through the streets, arded by their keepers, from the prison to the avy Yard, to do their hard labor. 1 have asked several, out no one could tell me; so I have come to the great Heras, that finds out everything—as it did Dr, Livingstone, and everything else worth kaowing—to know what these unfortunates were made prisoners for. Please find ong gad enlighten THE TWENTY-THIRD STREET RAILROAD, It was rumored yesterday that the Twenty-third Street Ratlroad Company had obtained their certi- ficate to the right of their road from the Comp- troller, and had completed their organization. It is understood that they have secured the requisite amount of capital and are to proceed immediately in constructing the road. The following are the dl- rectors of the road :—Jacob Sharp, James Flanagan, F. E. Ballin, John T. Conover, L. J. Phillti Charles G. Shaw, Lewis May, Robert White, B. B. Hoekman, David J. King, Thomas P. Wallace, James A. Rich- mond and J, R. Flanagan. It is understood that Mr. Jacob Sharp, well known in city railroad enter- rise, is to be "President of the road, and Mr. Lewis May treasurer, A Case of Asiatic Cholera That Was Not Cholera—What the Result of a Post- Mortem Did to Scare People, and What the Health Authorities Know About it. Coroner Marsh succeeded yesterday in a 18 @ decided sensation by oMicially announc- ing that a ease of downright, unmistakable case of Asiatic cholera had at last occurred in this city. The smallpox scare has already done so much toward frightening the timorous portion of the community half out of their wits that, of course, this additional burden to the general scare—viz., of a season of cholera—as a sort of change, threw the shaky ones into indescribable agonics of fear and trepidation. Up to yesterday the cholera question, for this sum- mer at least, was considered to be among those things which, though they may do good im some incomprehensible way of their own, are generally more agreeable ta distance than otherwise. But to Dr. Marsh and how he managed to get up the excitement. Providence, whose ways are inscrutable, saw fit on on Thursday to remove from the scenes of his busy life in the shanty region of Sixty-seventh street and the Boulevard one Martin Elgir, a German, who, early in life, had chosen the profession of a ‘scissor grinder as the best means wherewith, if not to build ap a colossal fortune, at least to keep the wolf from the door. The poor man was taken ill in the afternoon, and, “after showing all THE INDICATIONS OF ASIATIC CHOLERA,” fell into @ comatose state, and died in a few hours. Dr. Marsh was notified, and, as in duty ‘bound, he went straightway’ to Elgir’s cabin and there performed a post-mortem examination. Here is what the Doctor officially wrote as the result of the examination :—‘The face was of a dusky hue, the features very much suri Be eyes sunken and giassy. The fingers were con! |, of a bluish color and very much wrinkled, The stomach and intestines contained @ whit! turbid fluid, containing whitish flakes, ‘The tluid in the amalier intestines was whitish, but in the larger ones sii ays elhoweiab: The mucus membrane of the whole alimentary canal was cov- ered with a grayish mucus, and the mucus follicles were very much enlarged. The bladder wus con- tracted andempty. ‘The liver, ate and spleen were gorged with blood. The right side of the heart was filled with thick, black blood. ‘The larger vessels of the lungs also contained thick, black blood. Death in my opinion was the result of Asiatic cholera.” When this decision of the Doctor was made Public, as it was soon after it was rendered, the excitement in the neighborhood where the man had died was, of course, of a very decided, as well as of a Toby vablossant character. But the Boule- vard neighborhood was not the only portion of the city affected by the scare. The fact is, no one about town has any especial “hankering,” as the Yankee says, after the cholera, so everybody who heard the news felt rather less comfortable than he had felt before he had heard it. A HERALD reporter, anxious to fina out what THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES thought about the matter, paid a visit to the Health Bureau during the afternoon, and ascertained that “the first case of cholera’? was pooh-poohed all round. On hearing of it they that they had acted just as though they were certain that the man had died of cholera. The disinfect- ing wagon was sent up to the shanty region, and the cabin’ in which the man-nad died was thoroughly disinfected, as well as the entire neighborhood, This done, the in- spector went to work to find out if there were any other “cases” of the same kind Elgir had fallen a victim to, but he was unable to find a single “p monitory symptom’ even in the vicinity. ‘The health atthorities state that the man died simply of aggravated cholera morbus—in other words, sporadic cholera—many cases of which have al- ready been reported to the Board, Elgir’s being the ont he one. They state, moreover, that Asiatic cholera 18 NECESSARILY EPIDEMIC, and the fact that no other case or anything like a case was discovered in the neighborhood where the death occurred 1s proof positive that the man did not die of Asiatic cholera. As to the condition of the intestines, &c., as described by Dr. Marsh, they say it was not by an; means a8 certain indication of deatl haying resulted from Asiatic cholera, and they as- sert that no positive conclusion could be come to as to whether the man did die of the disease or not (taking the condition of the intestines as a test), unless a thorough microscopic examination were made. This kind of an examination Dr. Marsh did not make, and the health authorities, therefore, seem to know what they are talking about. It is an everyday occurrence, they say, for the bureau to be startled py announcements of a case of cholera here and there throughout the city, which on in- vestigation turns out to be either a bad case of diarrhea or cholera morbus, The official report of the inspector who was sent to examine into Kigir’s case will be made on Monday; but as it will show that the case was not a case of Asiatic cholera peo- ple may in the meanwhile keep cool and not get scared at cholera in phantom or in any other ques- tionable shape. AFFAIRS AT QUARANTINE. APs Be What the Officials Think of the Cholera and the Chances of an Epidemic. Yesterday afternoon a HERALD reporter called on Dr. Mosher, at Quarantine, and had a long conversa- tion with him in reference to New York's chances for an Asiatic cholera epidemic. The Doctor said that he did not think the city would be necessitated to entertain such an unwelcome visitor this year, and he added, “If indications are to be taken as prophetic, we are not at all likely to have an im- ported epidemic of any kind this year; for thus far there has been Jess sickness on board ship than we have noticed for some years past.” There is but one ship detained at Quarantine at present, the Wanderer, and she has no sickness aboard, but had some cases of yellow fever on the passage from Manzaniila; when she arrived all on board were well and the patients had recovered. No cases of ‘Yellow Jack” could be found when the Health Oficers boarded her. 80 it is safe to con- clude that they were thrown overboard. The Doc- tor states that the authorities down the Bay have been unusually vigilant in their lookout for cholera this year, but have thus far seen nothing to raise the slightest suspicion of its presence. e cholera is very scarce this year even in Europe, as it has developed itself in but a small section of Southern Russia, where its ravages have not been of a very alarming nature. In reference to the case of Martin Elgir, the Ger- man, who it was reported had died of Asiatic cholera, he said:—‘I have my doubts as to whether the man died of Asiatic cholera, although the indi- cations exhibited in the patient and manifested in the post-mortem examination are those of Asiatic cholera, Many of these symptoms are exhibited in cholera morbus, and this case may be morbus or Asiatic, for sometimes we have exceptional cases of Asiatic cholera—say one or more every summer; but it is the cholera epidemic and not the Asiatic— between which there is @ technical difference— which makes such ravages, The Quarantine officials have taken Lagi pre- caution ist the importation of this disease, although t have no cause to expect it; but if it should come they will do all in their power to pre- vent it from reaching the city, THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS. + Extracts from the Forthcoming Annual Report of Superintendent Macgregor. Superintendent Macgregor, of the Department of Buildings, has sent to Mayor Hall a report of the working of the department for the past ten years, This report will be sent to the Common Council to- morrow, f In it he speaks of the efficiency of the present Building law, and says the first important step was taken in 1860, when the Legislature enacted a bill which, being found when reduced to practice to be inefMctent, was replaced by a second improved Building law in 1862. At that time there were over twelve thousand tenement houses, of every ossible style and in every imaginable condition of ‘ith and dilapidation. In these houses over three hundred and eighty thousand persons were crowded, and a fire occurring in one building be- came, from the absence of safeguards, a disaster to an entire neighborhood, as_ fearfully exemplified in the great fires of 1835 and 1845, and. more recently, from analogous causes, in the terrible calamity at Chicago. During the first year A and since the in- auguration of the department 374 dangerous build. ings have been taken down, and 2,892 rendered safe and secure. The estimated amount of money p' d to be expended in new buildings Tropose from January 1, 1869, to April 5, 1872, was $121,123,877, and in the alteration of buildings $1 rate making a total of $134,370,076, an average of $44,790,025 a year. The number of buildings, he reports, embraced in the plans and specifications submitted for new build! from April 5, 1871, to April, 1872, was 2,518, being 117 less than the previous twelve months. ese buildings are classified as follows :— First class dwellings, 89; second class dwellings, 167; third class dwellings (tenements), 1,101; first Glass stores, 60; second class stores, 26; third class stores, 24; factories and worksho| houses, 8; stabies, 122; tae | ings, 2i—making a total of 2,518. In the report the recent attempt to effect legislative bhanges in the building laws are commented upon as follow: It is a source of satisfaction to the department to be able to announce, afer go Many vears of experience, that upon the whole the Sighs Mad havo “ig an unequivocal suc and such is verdict of all who have mi ieee aeea ak aurea 7 n So provi Nad be die with with 24; school- pubitc build- No provi that could be dispensed out more or less vantage to the public welfare. Jt is due the inte! ce of our citizens to repeat that she opposi- tion to the enforcement of the Satates chiefly ema- sted the ignorance, envy of avarice of cheap peo- ple, pretended arch’ aad whet are sermed Jers” have jered to the weakness a) Tas Ween competed yt gompliance or stare wa. com| Ing under penaites incurred, they have Fegarded then aalven ae bl injured persons OUR APACHE VISITORS. The Indian Delegation from Arizona—Their Mise sion—What They Think of the Sighte— Miguel, of the Glass Eye—Their Return Home To-Morrow. The city is being favored for a day or two with @ delegation of our old friends the Indians, This time they come from Arizona, They left their na- tive wilds early in June last and travelled on steadily to New Mexico, thence to Colorado, where they took the cars en route for Washington. After sojourning at Washington for some weeks they have come to New York, on their way homeward, While at the capital they had the “privilege of having a talk with the President and Secretary of the Interior, and though they did not get many presents worth speaking of, yet they left Washing- ton tolerably well satisfied with themselves and everything they had seen, The object of their visit was to ratify the peace entered into between their tribes and the United States authorities on the 23d of May last, The delegation consists of the following chiefs:— Apaches—Miguel, Pedro and Ess-sal-te-se-le, repre- senting 1,500 Indians; Pinal Apache—Santos, representing 1,200 Indians; Penas tribe—Antonito (son of Antionio, chief), and Louis Morago (who acts as interpreter in Spanish), representing 6,000 Indians; Paphago tribe—Ascencion, representing 10,000 Indians; Mojaves tribe—José Pakota and Charles Avathaw. All of the tribes are now at peace. The delegation is in charge of General Howard, and Dr. Bendell, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, with Messrs. May and Buttser as interpreter. A Mexican, called Asgencicn, who, when seven years: of age, was captured by the Indians, and wno has been with them now over thirty years, also acts as. interpreter. General Howard yesterday took the delegation to see the sights of the city. They visited Central Park, walked up Broadway, went in to see some of the largest business houses, took a good long view at Washington's statue in Union wate and went to see the Academy of Design Twenty-third street. The chiefs express themselves as being much edified with what they saw. Many objects in the streets met their gaze which it was impossible for them even to begin to comprehend, but they had had some experience of this already in Phila- delpbia and other cities, so that their admiration and wonder here called forth no extraordinary whoops of astonishment. With the Park especially they were delighted. Their greatest object of bewilder- ment, however, has been the mode of travel- ling which the ‘white faces’ have devel- oped. Locomotion by means of steam has caused them great surprise and big ships and steamers are objects of stupefying aston- ishment. Before they left Arizona they felt assured that Uncle Sam’s dominion was but a very small affair, and that the States all combined had not in themselves a greater force than the Indians could conquer. It was their belief that the army of the country consisted of the handful of troops which they themselves had seen around them, and that if they could only whip these they were then safe from all further intrusion. As their journey ad- vanced toward Washington, however, and as Te be- gan to dawn upon their minds that tlie greatness of the power of the Big Father at Washington was even more than their minds could grasp, they be- came reconciled to the peace which they had made, and were eager to be allowed an easy protection without resistance in requital. These nine Indians composing the delegation are not by any means extraordinary looking red men. They are nothing at all like those of their race who, sometime since, had a pow-wow at Cooper Insti- tute. Ofabout middle height, and with rather reg- ular features, they are not at all repulsive in ap- arance, as are those huge-headed animals who ave been sometimes visitors here on their way to or from the Great Father. Except the Apaches, the chiefs wear tneir hair long, even half way down their backs. They are now dressed in civilized costume, the Great Father.having given them a uni- form, something in the military style, with showy braid on their coats and a bright colored stripe on their pantaloons. It is said they are the most in- telligent of all the chiefs of the Indians. So far as their appearance in their rooms in the Astor House goes they must be credited with the merit of not stretching themselves on the floor instead of sit- ting on the chairs and with looking as if they nad thoughts in their heads instead of displaying a stolid stupor, which is the predominant character- istic of the red man in a New York hotel. The roudest man of the delegation yesterday was sacar the Apaches, who hada bran new glass eye in his head, which was put in pen cerney. morn- ing. This chief is one of the most notorious war- riors of the Arizonians and lost his eye when quite @ youth, at the hands of some pale face who missed killing him outright, ‘The delegation goes to church to-day to look at a preacher in some fashionable uptown church, and: to admire and be admired by some hundreds of pretty pale faces. In the afternoon they will visit many of the churches in the city and be shown some more of the curiosities. It is intended that the delegation will visit New York on Monday morning next, the Apaches re- turning with Generel Howard by way of Colorado: and New Mexico, the others gol by way of San: Francisco with Dr. Beudell. SING SING PRISON MATTERS. Another Chance for “Dutch Heinrichs”. Insane at Last—His Probable Removal to an Asylum—An Epidemic of Boy Convicts from New York. The notorious Henry Newman, alias ‘Dutch Heine richs,” who was sentenced to Sing Sing Prison on a conviction for burglary a short time since, has now 4 fair prospect of shaking the dust of that in- stitution from his shoeleather and of bid- ding @ long farewell to his associates therein congregated. Within the past few days this somewhat noted criminal has evinced signs of mental hallucination which have converted the prison authorities to the belief that he is actually insane. When first received at the prison Newman was confident of an early liberation, as it was known that his friends were making extra- ordinary efforts to effect that object; but of late those efforts have been apparently wholly abandoned, and, whether feigned or other- wise, the gloom of despair seems to have settled ground the convict to such an extent as to war- rant the assurance that his mental faculties aro materially impaired. His maiady assumes the form of @ suspicion that those around him have formed a conspiracy to poison him, and arsenic is the deadly drug which, he asserts, is being administered to him daily. While the Board of State Prison In- spectors were in session a day or two ago New- man, regardless of the prison rules, rushed into the room and assured the embers that his entire sys- tem was permeated with arsenic, and endeay- ored to demonstrate the correctness of his assertion by exhibiting his finger nails, from which, he said, the poison was then exuding, The impression lett on the minds of the inspectors was that the man was absolutely crazy, and, a8 a consequence, Warden Nelson intends transierring him to the State Asylum for the Insane, at Utica, atan early day. uring an interview with the Warden yesterday a HERALD representative learned that there was considerable dissatistaction felt at the prison owing toa late influx of exceedingly youtsful convicts from New York. These, it is said, are \argely com- posed of mere boys, who are absolutely useless to the State, and who, from their extreme youth, are only calculated te foment disturbance among the older and more sedate in- mates of the prison, Before leaving the insiitution named yesterday the writer witnessed the recep- tion of some fifteen candidates for prison honors, whose ages seemed to vary from fifteen or sixteen up to perhaps nineteen or twenty years. Thede- linguents were all from New Yor! UNFORTUNATE FITCH! A Broadway Merchant Robbed While Lying Drunk in a Hallway in the Bowery. Abraham Meyers, of Bayard street; James McDonald, of Hester street; Aaron L. Kirk and Charles Miller were brought before Judge Shandley, at Essex Market Police Court, yesterday afternoon, charged with grand larceny. It seems that on Wednesday night last a Mr. Fitch, doing business in Broadway, m the effects of the heat and too much strong liquor feli insensible in the hallway of 41 Bowery. Abraham Meyers, a young man hardly eighteen years of age, saw the prostrate body and at once went to secure a prize. Aaron L. Kirk, in police lance, “piped off” the officer on the cor- rs took from Mr. Fitch his gold watch and lued at $250, a set of valuable studs and two heavy Tio rings. and $40,000 in railroad bonds and securities which were in an inside vest pocket. When Mr. Fitch came to his senses he missed his valuables, and at once went to the Tenth precinct § station house, The case was placed in the hands of Detectives Lyon and King. On Friday they arrested Meyers, who was induced to tell the whole story. He said the watch was given to James McDonald, who pawned i er ing him $13 of the proceeds, The railroad bonds were placed in the hands of Charles Miller, who, it was ascertained, had burned them on bests = aware of Meyers’ arrest. Judge Shandley committe the whole party to await the appearance of the complainant, who is at present confined to his bed from the effects of his spree. K GAPTAIN WOODS NOT LOST. The report that Captain Woods, Chief of the Long: Island City Police, had been missing since Wednes- day is unfounded. On Thursday evening, after leaving the station house, he was taken sick, hav- eens time, He ia at his home im