The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1872, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD _—__—_»+——_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, © IN SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth phy Fourteenth tereeta hone” OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sta.—La PeRICHOLE, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Everyaopy’s Prien, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st.— Tux Sivan Demon. Atternoon and Evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—Itaniay Orzea—La Favorit. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Ix1on: on, Tas Man at Tax Waren, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth, sireet.—PYGMALION AND GALATEA, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Kexry—Jessiz Brown. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—A New War 10 Par Oxy Dests—His Finst Peccapit.o. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth ay.—Ror Canorre. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner 6th av.—Nxaxo Minsrretsy, Eccentnicity, &c, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Anpan Na Pooux. WHITE'S ATHENAUM, 585 Broadway.—Nrcro Mrm- STRELSY, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. Granp Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT, £0. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, corner of 28th st. and Broadway.—Etaiorian MINSTRELSY. BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston street, East River. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 684 and 64th streets, " NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Screnck AND ART, QUADRUPLE SHERT. New York, Sunday, Nov. 3, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. BASS Nerve Oneractartiey “CHURCH AND STATE IN THE OLD WORLD! THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL AND OIVIL POWERS”—EDITORIAL LEAD- ER—EicuTH Pace. PERILOUS MISSION OF THE HERALD’'S CUBAN COMMISSIONER ! INTERVIEW WITH FAJARDO: BRAVERY OF A CUBAN LADY: SPANISH COURTESY: PREPARING TO EN- TER THE CUBAN LINES—NINTH Page. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN A LIQUOR SALOON! THE ASSASSIN ARRESTED: A FEUD AND ITS CULMINATION: EXCITEMENT IN THE OITY—TwELrTH PaGE. NAPHTHA EXPLOSION ON BOARD TWO BARKS IN ST. THOMAS HARBOR! THE VESSELS CONSUMED! SCENES AND SUFFERERS— TWELFTH PAGE. CABLE NEWS FROM EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA—MEXICAN NEWS—NinTH Pace. THE MUNICIPAL BATTLEFIELD! THE MAYOR- _ ALTY: THE PARTY CANDIDATES AND THEIR CLAIMS—FirtH Page. BROOKLYN ALIVE FOR GREELEY! GRAND MASS DEMONSTRATIONS: THE REFORM- ERS’ FAILURE—FiFTH PaGE. THE MAYORALTY AND LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS— THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY — MEETING OF THE DEMOCRACY IN BROAD STREET— Firra Paae. COURT PROCEEDINGS! THE WOODHULL-CLAF- LIN-BLOOD ARRESTS: INCARCERATION OF THE PRISONERS AND SUPPRESSION OF THE “WEEKLY”—SixtTa Pace. THE FRENCH MECCA AT LOURDES! FINALE OF THE PILGRIMAGE: THE MIRACLES AND INTENDED CHARITY—SEVENTH PAGE. ABATEMENT OF THE EQUINE PESTILENCE! BERGH DECREES A SABBATH HOLIDAY FOR THE SUFFERING HORSES—TsxTa Pack PRESENTING THE SCOTT MONUMENT TO THE CITY! INTERESTING CEREMONIES: THE STATUE—TENTH PaGE. BRUTALITIES OF WARD'S ISLAND OFFICIALS! CORONER'S INQUEST IN THE CASE OF SAMUELS: OTHER OUTRAGES: MALAD- MINISTRATION IN THE ASYLUM—ELEVENTH Page. {THE BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS ON ‘CHANGE! GOLD SALES AND BOND PURCHASES DUR- ING NOVEMBER: GOLD AND GUVERN- MENTS LOWER—ELEVENTH Pace. TOURING THROUGH THE STATE! HUMORS AND HOROSCOPE OF THE CANVASS: FEMININE SUPPORT FOR GREELEY—SEvVENTH Paar. VIRGINIA POLITICIANS ANXIOUSLY AWAITING ELECTION DAY: THE NEGROES UNITED FOR GRANT—TENTH PaGE. #IGHT WITH PIRATES—LUCCA’S ZERLINA— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC PARAGRAPHS— OBITUARY—SixTH Pace. RELIGIOUS! THE SERVICES TO-DAY AND IN- TERESTING CORRESPONDENVUE: CLERICAL CHANGES—THIRTEENTH PAGE. SERVICES AT THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNA- GOGUE—LAYING A CORNER STONE—Tuir- TEENTH PaGE. MIDDLE PARK (ENGLAND) RACES—LITERARY GOSSIP—SEVENTH PGB. THE HARTFORD OFF FOR CHINA—GREEN AND THE FIRE CUMMISSIONERS—TEnta Page. THE Tae Scaxnett-Dononve Venvetta, which has from time to time excited the disgust of our city, last night added a second murder to the one which previously stained its pages when Florence Scannell, in December, 1869, received the wound in Donohue’s saloon, up town, from which he afterwards died. It will be recollected that Florence Scannell was opposed to Tammany Hall and Donohue supported that body at the time, the former bejng subsequently to the shooting elected Alderman. Since then the feud has existed in ill-suppressed bitterness. Last evening, at Johnson’s pool room, in the midst of the excitement, John Scannell, a brother of Florence, deliberately shot and killed Thomas Donohue. It is said that he attempted the same crime some months ago. Is hanging for murder “played out?” Tax Weex m Wart Sraeer wound up quietly in the stock market and with an easy money market, the closing quotation in the latter having been 3.0 4 per cent. Gold went off to 111, but closed at a reaction to 111§. It was rumored that the Treasury would sell an extra amount of gold during the current month, and a number of bankers, supposed to have the run of Treasury intentions,’ were sellers all day. Last year at this time gold was 112.0 112}, but declined to 108% on the 23d of December. The bank statement was favorable. tury. It is well known, the wide @orld over, that the majority of the population of Switzer- land is now, as it has been since the Reforma- tion, Protestant. At the same time there are in Switzerland a large number of Catholics. ‘The present trouble is not difficult to explain. Some years ago M. Mermillod was appointed Roman Catholic Curé of Geneva on the recom- mendation of the bishop of the diocese, the Bishop of Lausanne, Whon M. Mermillod became curé he took the oath ‘“‘to obey and preach obedience to the laws of the land.” Later, this same Mermillod received from the Pope the title and dignity of Bishop of Hebron, auxiliary of Geneva. According to the laws of Switzerland no such appoint- ment can be made without the consent of the civil government. On being notified that the Council of State could not recognize his epis- copal authority, M. Mermillod gave for an- swer that ‘he held his authority from the Pope, and that he would exercise it despite the authority of the Council of State."’ After a somewhat lengthened conflict the Bishop has finally been forbidden the exercise of his episcopal functions within Swiss territory. It was natural in the circumstances for the Bishop and his friends to make an appeal to |. the Holy Father. The Holy Father has given his decision, and declares it to be his fixed de- termination to sustain his own appointment and to defend the cause of the Church in Geneva against the decree of the Swiss gov- ernment. Such is the aspect of the Church and State question, of the spiritual and civil conflict as now presented in Switzerland. The contest between Rome and the civil au- thorities is not confined to Switzerland alone. It rages all over the European Continent. The Holy See is at war with Italy, with Spain, with Austria, and between spiritual Rome and each of those once devoted Catholic countries friendly relations are suspended. Rome and Russia have long been estranged, and the day of reconciliation seems as far distant as ever. All the world is familiar with the situation as between Rome and the German Empire. There are many who thought that the restora- tion of the Empire of Charlemagne, of Otho, of Frederick of the Red Beard, while it would not fail to revive ancient and hallowed mem- ories, might bring about a happy readjust- ment of the long-disturbed relations of the civil and religious powers. This hoped-for result has not been attained. The restoration of the Empire, so far from being a gain, has proved ruinous to the Holy See. The German Chancellor is too much bent on his own par- ticular work of reconstructing the Fatherland to have any consideration for the interests of the Chair of St. Peter. Harsh laws have been enacted in North Germany against the Jesuits and other brotherhoods of the Roman Catho- lic Church, and these laws are being rigor- ously executed. Nor is this antipathy to what is called Ultramontanism con- fined to North ‘Germany alone. Bava- ria is almost as hard on the Jesuits as is Prussia, and such is the influence of Germany on her immediate neighbors that the govern- ment of Holland has broken up some Jesuit institutions. The case of the Bishop of Ermeland still commands attention. It seems that, according to the Prussian law, no bishop can excommunicate his subordinates without the consent of the government. This law Dr. Krementz ignored when he excommu- nicated Doctors Hollman and Michaelis because they refused to accept the dogma of infallibility. The government has taken its revenge by depriving the Bishop of his emoluments. The Bishop chooses to obey the Pope rather than the King, and so for the present the matter stands. Meanwhile the Old Catholics are vigorous and full of hope. They are showing no signs of a willingness to abandon their position or to conciliate Rome. Prince Bis- marek finds them useful, and it is believed by many, that he secretly encourages the Old Catholic movement for his own ends. It has been recently stated, on good authority, that the Old Catholics have been encouraged to believe that Prince Bismarck is pre- pared, in the event of Rome refusing to yield, to recognize them: as the true representatives of Catholicism in North Germany. Such recognition might have the effect of bringing about a revolu- tion similar to that which took place in England when Henry the Eighth broke with Rome. . The struggle between Church and State which now in so many shapes commands the attention of the Christian world is not new. It is almost as old as the Chair of St. Peter. When Constantine abandoned Rome and estab- lished the seat of imperial power in Constanti- nople the Bishop of the ancient city of the ,Cosars found himself to be the one well established and generally recognized authority; and whether the Isidore Decretals be true or false, he did claim to have temporal as well as spiritual authority over a large section of the ‘Western Empire. His claims, it is true, were called in question; but after the lapse and the conflicts of many centuries they were in a qualified form confirmed, first by Pepin, after- wards by Charlemagne, and later by Otho the Great. At the festival of Christmas the last year of the eighth century, in the Church of St. Peter, Leo the Third placed on the head of Charlemagne the imperial crown and hailed him Emperor of the Romans. Then the large grants of territory made to the Chair of St. Peter by Pepin were confirmed; and while the Roman Empire was estab- lished the Pope took his place among the temporal rulers of the world. Many years later, when Italy was in wreck and ruin, and when the Holy Father was in serious trouble, the Great Otho came to the rescue of the Holy Father; the corona- tion act was repeated; the Pope gave away the Empire and was reinstated in his posses- sions; the compact was renewed between the Pope and the Cwsar, and thus was estab- lished that Holy Roman Empire which, with varying fortune, lasted until the times of the First Napoleon. Over i E Ht : I | : i | i Li | i i i { fi , [ tf Zé i E i i E ; it fi | i if i [ [ be | 5 Hatt Freri rf belie steed & teily i : rf F E Ht FE to the garrote, but, on the contrary, re- leased him, and, presenting him with i ltr y il i : : i Hie 5 Ea it Fl at 264 Fe ments for insisting that they are and must be supreme in their own territory and over their own subjects. The recognition of the claims of Rome, as these claims are now would virtually imply the an imperium in imperio, and to this not one the Continental Powers is at all likely to av! mit. So long as the State pays the State in the last resort mi nth i ll ? Lis 3$ 3F aL { i i ; i | fi ft it Tae <, j it calls its own. The Holy Father claims to be the head of the Holy Catholic Church. of recognition and the willing homage of mil- lions of faithful followers encourage if they do not justify his claim, and the Holy Father, in doing what he is doing, is but fulfilling what he regards as the behests of Heaven. It is possible, however, that some little blame attaches to both parties in the contest. The Roman Curia might do better than provoke conflict where defeat is certain and where con- ciliation is not only possible but easy. The civil governments are, we think, unneces- sarily sensitive. Itis not our opinion that any good can come from the harsh policy of Prince Bismarck. The presumption is that his expul- sion of the Jesuits will strengthen rather than weaken the Catholic catise through- out the Empire. The situation in Switz erland recalls the memory of the excitemant which prevailed in England when Cardinal Wiseman was appointed Arch- bishop of Westminster. Most of us remember Lord John Russell's Ecclesiastical Titles bill, how easily it was passed through both houses, but how ineffective it was in accomplishing its purpose. Cardinal Wiseman lived and died Archbishop of Westminster, and his successor wears and honors the title. The Pope appoints bishops and archbishops to vacant sees in the United States; but what harm has come to us from the right which the Holy Father claims and exercises? It might be well if there was a little less of hierarchical parade and preten- sion, and if things were brought more near to the original simplicities of the Master and His immediate disciples. A little less of ostenta- tious show and a little more of the Sermon on the Mount would be a gain to all the churches. With things as they are, however, we must en- deavor to content ourselves. By and by, no doubt, will come the millennium. Meanwhile it must be admitted that the Pope, by his vigorous protests, is not permitting the world to forget the chair of St. Peter. He is stilla live man and a force in the midst of us, and while the Holy Father so vigorously represents the spiritual power and Bismarck so forcibly represents the physical power, we have our choice to follow which banner we please. i Z : , ! | The feats in this line of our attachés have evi- dently of late much bewildered that great British journal of pooh-pooh, the Saturday Review. Referring to our report of the late Arkansas troubles it says, as dazed before the enterprise of a journal which goes beyond Whitechapel for its murders: — Hy 3 Glad always to notice a keen apprecia- tion of modest worth, we are, never- theless, equally rejoiced to help out our admiring friends in their struggles with “reached, is part of the secret of Hunaup Mr. Bergh and the Herald. A Bohemian contemporary, with some of the audacity which springs from limited under- standing and large self-conceit, takes the Bergh in his recent action in regard to horses suffering from the prevalent disease. Because, for- Hepaxp to task for supporting Mr. sooth, we have condemned and ridi- culed some of that philozooic gen- tleman’s notions and actions, we are expected to ridicule and condemn them all. Notso. Weapplaud Mr. Bergh in his late efforts on behalf of ‘the poor dumb brute,"’ because they were conducted in a rational ‘and practical manner, without the vexatious interferences and arbitrary arrests which have at times marked his otherwise just crusade on cruelty to animals. When he ar- rayed himself in Don Quixote’s armor and tilted at turtle-flippers and pigeon per- secution we laughed heartily at him, be- cause we saw that the good man’s heart had run away with his head and dragged himself and his cause into some very fantastic positions. Now, however, that he does what he can to alleviate the suffering of a.noble and useful animal, and with a proper regard for his own suffering fellow creatures, he has our best wishes and will continue to receive our support so long as he perseveres in the course he has recently taken. One of the evils which the partisan press has wrought upon itself is moral myopia which makes it fail to recognize the virtue of independence in others any more than its own lack of that quality. Out of the domain of politics this thick-and-thin, sink-or-swim spirit is carried into affairs which are or should be matters on which all men may express an opinion with- out being abused therefor. The fact that man’s cause is just should not be a bar to fairly criticising his efforts in its behalf, and condemning them where they are calcu- lated to injure it. There are many things in which Mr. Bergh can fitly exercise his benevo- lent disposition in the amelioration of the ani- mal kingdom. Man should have’ some in- terest for him, not to say woman. If it is cruelty to animals to overload a car with pas-. sengers it would be an equal blessing to half the passengers as to the horses in not allow- ing the former to ride. Here is a chance for Mr. Bergh to exercise his astute faculties upon when he has finished with the home disease, the question of newspaper enterprise. The fact is that the Hznanp, by méans of the tele- graph and its reportorial corps, has brought the world—civilized and barbarous—into as close telations with its readers as the of twenty-five years ago could place them en rapport with ‘‘the ordinary details of crime at the Police Courts,"’ which circle of information would seem to cover the extent of English newspaper enterprise to-day. To the tele- graph we are primarily indebted for this in- 4 5 | cipline and esprit de hold the writer in the service of Hanaip, évér ready at @ momenta’ notice to proceed upon any mission, no matter how far it may tarry him, and no matter what the dif- ficulties in the way, can only be appreciated by witnessing its operation. It is a discipline which makes every writer on its staff prepared to work in any groove assigned him, and not to trouble himself with any other con- sideration than performing his duty and doing it promptly and well. It may be simply an order to a blocks, or it may be one to travel a rfl hl tity ils gee i duel in Tennessee cost just as prevision as either sending a correspondent to Abyssinia or making arrangements which the awards of the Geneva tribunal and Emperor William's San Juan arbitration were if ‘respectively announced in America twenty- four hours before our own government, and in the former case the English, were aware of the and difficult. An able corps ready to start any- where at a moment's notice, and able to per- success, which we recommend to our contem- Poraries gratuitously. The Beecher Scandal—A Public Danger. Yesterday at noon two notorious women were arrested in this city by two United States Marshals on the charge of sending obscene Publications through the Post Office. Far different were these two brazen creatures from the miserable class that generally falls under the operation of this law, and whose guilty trade of written and pictorial filth is carried on with all the secrecy that befits its nefariousness. The dark trade we refer to is carried on by men, and men often who shiver and shrink from the light of day. when their occupation is made known ; men occasionally who are glad to hide their shame in the recesses of a prison rather than bo pointed at as the malignant corrupters of the nation’s youth or panderers to its viciousness of every age. But these are women of bold, | unabashed front who have flaunted their degra- dation and lived upon it, Not even with the ‘‘unfortunates” who are a sad blot upon our civilization can these women be classed; it is a greater depth of infamy to which they glory to belong. For some time they have published a paper in whose pages, fortunately little read, they have hurled defiance at decency and virtue, as would the worst tongued. strumpet in her hours of bitterness at the world’s war upon her. With this, too, it is alleged, they com- bined a system of blackmail more odious than any known to history. It is stated to have been their custom to threaten respected citi- zens, men and women, with the publication of charges against .their honor unless heavy sums were paid ; and many weak persons are said to have complied with their villanous de- mands rather than face, what most people would shrink from, a war with beings whose motto is that of the vagabond in Burns’ beg- gar’s cantata ;-— Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose. Instances are put forward in which proof sheets containing these unseemly libels have been forwarded to the intended victims. In last week's number of the infamous publica- tion over which these two women preside, and in which certain male wretches are also said to play their dishonorable part, an unclean libel upon the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was published, ac- cusing him, with every accompaniment of Billingsgate, of a foul crime. It was, perhaps, in the great final interest of truth that this popular man should be % Yo whose t the whole community would rally ra than that the arrows should be aimed at one less noble and less likely to draw forth the denunciation which has justly burst upon the fortress of beastliness tenanted by these harpies—‘‘the gods first madden whom they would destroy." If the esteemed pastor has to bear this load, as a greater Sufforer bore His, let him be consoled in the fact that he will be an instrument through which the community will be rid of a satanic scourge. The two women at latest ac- counts were in jail, and we understand that other complaints against them are pending should bail be secured to give them even a stern grasp of the law and ask for them only fair trial. But there are presented in this relation some that reach into the very recesses of our tocracy in all ite forms, but how to prevent them from being the protectors of a vicious license equally ruinous. Montesquieu has said that a republic must always act on the defensive ; it cannot afford to lose a principle press, make the journal a vehicle not only for their retailers are from the standard of honest or virtuous men and women. Madame Roland, turning to the statue on her way to the EF _ i Hell et i ihe HE | i i | H lif il by laying Fg it 7 i = i ¥ f F ii f Pa i a i i these | ! i i 3 ! er . af E F E & F | F charges ‘that the committee's action is incited by the opposition of his father to the cumulative voting charter of the Seventy last Winter. This opposition the rejected candi- date justifies, and he tells the members of the committee in plain terms that they are a set of impudent and impracticable blockheads. “In my judgment,”’ he says, “it has happened — that the wisdom of the committee's action has not been in proportion to the excellence of its intentions, and I await the final judgment of the citizens of New York as to the infalli- bility of its. decisions.” The pet charter of the Seventy he pronounces a miserable hum- bug, and he reminds the committece that ita selection of candidates last year for municipal offices ‘‘was not such, in all cases, as to make its approval a trustworthy guide to the friends of reform.” The abuse of the wrathful candidate is not the limit of the unhappy Committee's grief. The republican organ adds its rebuke to the personal assault of the’ angry aspirant to Assembly honors, and sharply tells the Committee that in two As sembly districts it has ‘rejected the best can- didates and endorsed the worst;” or, in other words, that it has dared to reject two repub- licans and endorse two democrats, This, after the nomination of the venerable Mr. Havemeyer for Mayor by the republicans, is regarded as an unpardonable rebellion against partisan discipline which the Committee is imperiously ordered to “explain.” At the same moment comes forward an O’Brien politician, Mr. William C. Barrett, who has been heretofore a member of the Committee of Seventy, and assails his associates of the Committee for their criticism of the Apolio Hall nominee. The Seventy, alluding to O’Brien’s candidacy, have said:— x le of this cit familiar with Mr. Sond Maa aad AGA ahd hed enol we believe, one intelligent citizen who does not know pertectly well that he ds in every respect unfit for the exalted office to which he aspires and into which he is being pressed by all the dangerous elements of society. We appeal, therefore, with confidence to all who have the honor of the city at heart, and who really wish to save it from the disgrace which Mr. O’Brien’s election would necessarily bring upon it, to prevent such a possible calamity.’ Now, this Mr. Barrett regards as ‘‘an abandon- ment of the principles and objects for the support of which the Committee had been organized,” and hence he repudiates all further connection with it. The nomination of Havemeyer he denounces ‘as a betrayal’’ of O’Brien, and he regards the seventy Solons as ‘‘no longer impartial, but partisan.” So it is plain that the Committee is destined to get “more kicks than ha’pence’’ on all sides, The whole difficulty arises from the depar- ture of the Seventy from their original and legitimate province as a reform association. Assuming to speak for those of our citizens who are in favor of ignoring politics in municipal offices and selecting the best men put in nomination, independent of political considerations, they had no business either to lend themselves to any political organization or to seek the spoils of office for themselves. The moment they commenced bargaining, trading and intriguing, that moment they lost all title to be considered a reform organization and placed themselves on a level with other politi- cal schemers and wirepullers. The repub- lican politicans nominated their asso- ciate, the venerable Mr. Havemeyer, for Mayor only as a dummy, through whom thy could trade for Grant and Dix yotes with, the O’Brien party in for their own support of O'Brien for Mayor. The friends of O’Brien are naturally indignant at any serious assault on their candidate emanating’ from the Committee of Seventy. At the same time the republicans claim the allegiance of the Seventy for all their nominees, and assail that badly victimized body of fossilized poli- ticians whenever it presumes to set up an opinion of its own. Between the two the Committee has an uncomfortable experience ; but its sorrows are of its own creation. If the sacrifice of the venerable Mr. Havemeyer should be completed, and should end in the election of James O'Brien it would be the end of the Committee of Seventy and its fraudu- lent pretences ; and thus far at least it would prove a public advantage. Margucs or Taz Empzeor or Camva.—His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China was married to the bride elect, Alute, in Pekin, on the 16th of October. The lady was escorted to foreigners. That little is not, it is said, encouraging for a contimuance of friendly relations between China and the great Christian Powers; but it may be that the Comprsouizn Guzen At Ir Aoar.—The Comptroller bas managed now to get at log- consequence will be a delay'in the payment of the salaries of the members of that important he refuses to vlace the sppropriations in tha