The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1873, Page 10

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B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— RRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner 6th av.—Nxoro MinstRELs: . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Wauuery Extemraismunt, STEINWAY IRE. HALL, Fourteenth — street.—Musicat NEW, YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— QUINTUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, April 27, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. e-mays Contents of the Herald. *THE INDIANS! THEIR MOVEMENTS ON THE WARPATH! MORE FAILURES OF THE PAMPERING POLICY"—LEADING — EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—TEnTH Page. RUMORS OF SPANISH CABINET CHAN THE CARLISTS LOSING GROUND! ENGLISH RE- PUBLICANS OPPOSING THE BOURBON- ISTS—ELEVENTH PAGE. GENERAL RIQUELME RECALLED FROM CUBA! THE BUKNING OF AURA;-ELEVENTH PAGE. THE M@DOCS AGAIN FOUN BOGUS CHARLEY AND HAW: JIM WO! ED! OUTRAGES BY THE REDSKINS—ELEVENTH PAGE. BANK CASHIER SPECULATES IN WALL STREKT WITH THE USUAL RESULT! ONLY FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS GONE! HIS ARREST AND WHAT HE HAD TO SAY! THE BANK SUSPENDS—Seventa Paar. {NAVAL REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE DUTCH IN SUMATRA! LARGE QUANTITIES OF ARMS. a AND AMMUNITION FOR THE TROOPS—THE BREAK IN THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE—ELEVENTH PAGE. INVESTIGATING THE VIENN SOMMISSION SCANDAL! TWO MORE H¢ LAW- MAKERS! TREASURY AND INTERNAL REVENUE B' GENERAL BUR EXPOSE! VAN BU FOURTEENTH Pace. DE ON THE WORLD'S FAIR THE FACTS IN RE APPOINTME? MEMBERS THEM--Nis SIGNING OF THE BILL FOR A > EMIGRATION! WHAT TH. por ELEVENTH PAGE. READING FOR TH DAY'S SERVICES ! A MYSTERIC INOMENON |! THE SECO} ) RITUALISTS! CLERICAL TH PAGE. + | ! THE EVANGELICAL ! IN THIS CITY IN | UNIFYING CHRIST ALLIANCE Ti OCTOBER | PURPOSES—SixtH Pace. TEACHERS’ SALARIES! IS THE ALhOY gus’ AND AM f’—THE AMUSE, FEATURES—SE' TH PAGE. ART MATTERS—TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK—THE COMING GRAND BILLIARD TOURNAMENT—THE ATLANTIC WRECK— | GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—ELEvENTH PaGE. A GAMBLER H STORY OF TH 3ED IN CALIFORNIA! THE | ENTH PAGE. | OUTLOOK! | MAYOR FAIRS IN THE & SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE CLUBBING OF WILLIAM REHL CHERUBS” THAT PILFE THE MAJORITY tLE ON BAIL! VIEWS OF PROMIN JEMEN ON THE SHIPPING ACT TROUBLES—E:cutTu PaGE. @EPORT OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY ON THE STATUS OF THE FOUNDL ASYLUM! THEY ASK FOR ASSISTANCE FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE—EFionti Pa BE SITUATION IN WALL STREET! GENERAL } APATHY! A GOOD REPORT FROM THE BANKS! THE EXPORTS OF COTTON AND | SPECIE AND THE IMPORTS OF FOREIGN | MERCHANDISE—NINTH PAGE, £EGAL ABSTRACTS—Firreentu Pace. ' ‘we Late Roven Weaturen.—The remark- | aMe spell of weather which has threatened to feinstate Winter over a large belt of the coun- try for some days promises to pass off to-day. | The weather reports and other telegrams show | that a movement of cold air has been progress- ing from the Rocky Monntains towards New York and New England, and its passage over Ohio, Pennsylvania and the lake region has Biven us the strange sight of hail, sleet and pnow squalls, with temperatures that, if not destructive to the crops and the truit, will de- lay them by at least a fortnight beyond their osual time of ripening, and the extreme cold | pf Winter is felt at the more Southern por- tions of the country before it is in Canada and the Northern States, but it is quite extraor- inary to see its power prolonged to the close of April in our latitude. Judging by the latest reports that now reach us we may take vheer and expect the present week to be much | more favorable for shopping and all out of | doors and business avocations than the past two weeks have been. Opentne or THe Inrenion AnTERIES OF THE Srate.—According to the Canal Commission- @he Indians—Their Movements on the Warpath—More Failures of the Pam- pering Poltey. F The Pacific Slope, from Nevada into Oregon, appears to be threatened with a general upris- ing of the Indians. We have information from Washington that in Oregon troubles are anticipated with tho Nez Perces, a powerful tribe of three thousand warriors, and that three families from the Dalles of the Colum- bia river, in flying from their homes, report that their Indian neighbors had become so in- solent and surly that it was not thought safe toremain near them any longer. The In- dians of Nevada, it next appears, are well posted on the Modoc war, and strong suspi- cions prevail that they are inclined to mischief. General Jeff. C. Davis, however, who is en route from San Francisco to the lava beds, we think may be relied upon as a peace- maker who will waste no time in ridiculous negotiations with the wily savages; though now, that they are roaming at large, he may find it difficult to catch them. But what is the meaning of this information from Washington, that ‘there is no dissatisfaction there with iho conduct of this Indian war, and no intima- tions, direct or indirect, from army head- quarters, that now, or in the future, any change is to be made?” Surely there is a necessity for a general overhauling and rectifi- cation of the management of all our Indian tribes west of the Mississippi, if the reports concerning them and their warlike movements are true. Our latest advices from the Modoes go far to justity the conclusion that Captain Jatk, if no longer the lord of the lava beds, is still, from the terror of his name, master of the situa- tion for hundreds of miles around them. On Sunday last the cavalry sent out by General Gillem returned, with the report that they had failed to discover any signs of an Indian trail. Dr. Cabaneso had returned from the lava beds with the report that two squaws had been captured, and Colonel Perry, who had travelled eighty miles in making a circuit of those volcanic upheavals, reported that he saw no Indians. Modocs were seen, however, the same day from the signal station, and Dr. Ticknor, who had started with the express for Linkville, saw a party of Indians and deemed it wise to turn back. Now it is given out that the treacherous Jack and forty of his braves have been tracked to their lair, and that General Gillem will surely bag them. These various reports are perplexing. All that we can make of them is, that the Modoes have baffled and continue to bafile their pursuers. It is feared that Captain Jack may cross over the intervening country to Goose Lake, and there be joined by the Snakes and Piutes, who are said to be vicious customers. In short, it‘appears by no means improbable that the score or two of poor half- naked and half-starved savages from the lava beds will give employment to a thousand United States troops all Summer. So much for those peace conferences with the Modocs for a period of two months after that battle of January, when from that point an uncondi- tional surrender should have been the ulti- matum of the government. The peace pampering policy—the policy of coquetting with the tiger—had been tried for a year or two by General Howard and his humanitarian colleagues in Arizona with the flerce Apaches, and the results should have been sufficient to convince the government of the folly of the same child’s play with the treacheroys Modocs. Under General Howard's Indian pampering policy the Apaches, fed and housed on .their reservations during the Winter and tolerated in an occasional raid on a tempting emigrant train, were in good condition with the return of Spring for an active campaign, according to the time- honored custom of that warlike tribe. So with the return of their war season they aban- doned their reservations by hundreds, and had a savage carnival of blood in the slaughter of emigrants and detached white settlers. There was, then, no other resource for the taming of these outlaws but General Crook and bis mounted carbineers; and after hunting them into their fastnesses among the mountain canyons, and slaughtering them by hundreds, the remnants of the tribe remain- ing on this side of the Mexican boundary have | made peace by a voluntary and unconditional submission with their women and children. They have had enough of fighting, and may now be tamed upon their reservations as the | tiger is tamed by caging him and cutting his claws. A considerable number of Apache | warriors, it appears, however, have meantime been campaigning after their accustomed | fashion over in Sonora; but there the Mexi- cans, encouraged by the good results of General Crook's peace policy, are vigorously pursuing the redskins, and expect materially to diminish the average number of their an- nual depredations. It is probable, therefore, | that when Brigham Young, with his Mormon colony, moves down into Arizona, he will find himself relieved of the difficult task of pacificating the Apaches. Apache chief, Cochise, still roaming about at his own free will, is reported as indulging | occasionally in the Inxury of roasting a white man in his reconnoissances in New Mexico. Passing round by way of our Mexican fron- tier we come next to the hostile Kiowas and | other tribes and parts of tribes that, for many months past, have given a reign of terror to the exposed frontier settlements of Texas. There, it appears, the Indians are keeping up their amusements, even to the capture of insufli- ciently guarded government army trains. But, as the Secretary of War and General Sheridan are engaged ina prospecting tour in that sec- tion of continuous Indian depredations and murders from month to mouth and from January to December, year after year, we pre- sume that effective measures will be adopted for peace in that quarter, notwithstanding the satisfaction at Washington with the existing state of things. The Indian policy of General Sheridan is that of General Crook, the effective policy of first thrashing the re- fractory tribes into submission and then telling them what they are to do, if they desire to be considered good Indians. We shall be disap- pointed iif, in this visit of Secretary Belknap and General Sheridan to Texas, they fail to provide the ways and means for permanently quieting the Indians on the Rio Grande fron- tier. ers the 15th of May will be signalized by the of our interior canals—except the Then look out for a rush of busi- Between Texas and Kansas, and west’ of Arkansas, lies the Indian Territory, originally set apart by the government for the Chero- kees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles and other tribes removed from timo to time from But the famous | the Southern Stites east of the Mississippi. Asplendid Te:r:tory it is, too, in every re- spect. It covers an area of seventy-one thou- sand square miles, being equal to one State of the area of New York and of another of half. its dimensions united. This Territory is, furthermore, liberally watered by living springs and streams, is well wooded, exceed- ingly fertile, and possesses a delightful cli- mate. Itis capable of supporting five mil- lions of people without over-crowding, and its present Indian population is less than seventy thousand. Land speculators, squat- ters, Indian agents and lobby jobbers have fixed their eyes upon this beautiful and in- viting land, and, unless the metes and bounds of the actual cessions to and possessions of the Indians are very soon and distinctly defined, we shall have a bloody Indian war in this Territory before the lapse of many years. On the northern border of this Terri- tory from three to four hundred Indians are now reporte® on the warpath, sur- veying operations have been suspended, and the surveyors have withdrawn from the Indian cofntry until the government affords protec- tioh. The Cheyennes and Osages are away from their reservation, driving off stock and plundering and killing settlers in Southwest- ern Kansas. The red men do not like these white encroachments upon their hunting grounds. In Western Nebraska, where we had supposed the examples of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail had made all the braves of those regions good Indians, it appears they are out on cattle-stealing expeditions, and © would doubtless be only too happy to fall in with some feebly guarded emigrant train. Even as far north as the line of the Northern Pa- cific Railroad, and thence across the Conti- nent to Oregon, the wild Indian, snuffing the Spring air from the reviving grass, feels the old inspiration upon him of the opening of the war season, and instinctively painted, feathered, armed and equipped for battle, takes to the warpath. And among all the wild tribes and the reservations from the Great Plains to the Pacific coast the news of Captain Jack's exploits in his lava beds will be‘apt to operate as an additional stimulant for another campaign against the encroaching pale faces. P Our aggregate Indian population between the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico on the east, and the Pacific coast on the west, ex- cluding the sixty or seventy thousand of the semi-civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, does not exceed one hundred and fifty thou- sand. The tribes not yet reduced to reserva- tions will hardly exceed fifty thousand; but, from the slipshod fashion in which these re- servations are managed, the wild Indians are enough to start the warwhoop in most of the Indian encampments. President Grant, their Great Father, then, in looking over the whole broad ficld on which his red children are dispersed, in peace or war camps, and at the warlike spirit which the Spring season is re- awakening among them, will stftely perceive that his general Indian policy, at least for the next five or six months, is not so much the pampering policy of Howard as the carbine policy of Crook, Sheridan and Sherman. Heavy Defalcation in the Atlantic National Bank. Just as Wall street was about putting up the shutters yesterday a rumor got rapid cir- culation that the Atlantic National Bank, an institution of moderate activity and fair repu- tation, having its counting house in Nassau street, nearly opposite the Post Office, had been compelled to suspend. In this respect the rumor was literally an untruth, at least for the day, as the Bank, desperately defying the fate which circumstances afterward proved must be inevitable, paid every dollar de- mandid of it until the arrival of the hour of three o'clock, when it legally closed its doors, as it could, against all claimants for the day. The trouble is the old story of stock specu- lation by the cashier and a defalcation in his accounts, the amount involved in this instance being nearly half a million, A curious feature of the affair is the deliberate conduct of the cashier in disclosing his ‘misdeeds, With a frankness which, under the circum- stances, would almost argue the loss of the man’s witsp he proceeded to the Clearing House, of which the Bank was a member, and coolly requested an investigation of his books and an examination of the Bank’s affairs, stat- ing at the same time that he was a defaulter in his cash account. A committee of the Clear- ing House acceded to his request, and, as a result of their labors, it was announced last evening that the institution was bankrupt and would not be able to resume on Monday. The facts were telegraphed to the Comptroller of the Currency, who has ordered the appoint- ment of a receiver. In one sense, therefore, the Bank has failed, and in another it has not. It was open and paid all claims up to three o'clock yesterday. But the interval to ten o'clock Monday morning is a legal holiday for the Bank, so that the action of the Comptroller of the Currency looks upon the face of it as if he had appointed a receiver without sufficient legal reason. This controversy aside, the de- falcation of the cashier comes as a sermon tull of point this Spring Sunday, when our several hundred “metropolitan congregations run their eyes over the decalogne at church this morning and read its included command, “Thou shalt not steal.’’ The Atlantic National Bank, as its name implies, was of the national system, and only a few wecks ago made its sworn statement of assets and liabilities. The fact evokes another inquiry, Who was it that broke the other commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false witness,”’ and how many more of the decalogue ¥ broken in this same crime of defaleation ? A Doren Fierr vor tHe Asiatic Coast.— The Hollander’s army in Sumatra requires a powerful support in order to be enabled to renew and continue its operations against the Acheenese on the Asiatic coast. The King’s government at The Hague is acting with great promptitude in the emergency, Fourteen steam vessels-of-war have been ordered to pro- ceed to Sumatra with arms and ammunition. The advent of this expedition will attract the earnest attention of the neighboring govern- ments, more especially that of the British authorities. Tue Boston Transcript thinks the beer ques- tion will prove quite a stimulating topic in the next political campaign in Massa- chusetts. It created considerable fermenta- tion in Frankfort-on-the-Main lately, and o number of people came to their quictus in COnBEqUEDC® NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1873—QUINTUPLE SHEET. S$ The Approaching Conterence of the |The Proposed Reduction of Teachers’ The Volee of the Religious Press, Evangelical Alliance. It is now, we believe, decided that the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alli- ance is to be held in this city in the month of October next. The Conference, according to the present arrangement, will be opened on the 2d of October, and will not adjourn before the 12th. Preparations are being made on a scale of great magnitude; and it is confidently expected that, whether regard be had to the number and great reputation of the delegates, to the lofty themes which will engage their attention, or to the widespread interest which their deliberations will be certain to excite, this Sixth General Conference of the Evan- gelical Alliance will prove to be not only not second to any of its predecessors, but one of the greatest and most important ecclesiastical assemblages in modern times. It will bea sort of Ecumenical Council, although not in- vested with legislative authority; and it is not unreasonable to take it for granted that it will represent, with a certain amount of fair- ness, the ability, the learning and the piety of the Protestant world. The principles of the Evangelicai Alliance are not new. They are, in fact, as oldas Christianity itself, Unhappily, however, like many of the other principles of the Christian religion, it was long before they were properly understood, and the day as yet seems far distant when they will be fully reduced to practice. It is now three hundred years since the Church, one and indivisible, ceaSed to be a fact. The religious revolution of the six- teenth century divided the Christian’ world into two great hostile sections ; but while the old Roman Church has remained during all these years substantially a unit the Protestant section of Christianity has been undergoing the process of continual and apparently unending subdivision. The divided con- dition of the Protestant world has long been felt to be a source of weakness. Sympathy among the various sections there was none, and unity of action was found to be impossible. It is one of the principal objects of the Evangelical Alliance to give something like unity to the Prot- estant world. It was not until 1843 or 1844 that the Alliance took anything like shape. _ Preliminary meetings were held in Edinburgh and Liverpool; and in August, 1846, the first General Conference was held in Freemason’s Hall, London. This meeting was presided over by the late Sir Cul- ling Eardley, and in the proceedings such men as Dr. Baird, of New York; Monod, of Paris; Baptist Noel, of London; Guthrie, of Edinburgh, and some prominent repre- sentatives of the Protestant cburches of Germany, Switzerland and Holland took part. The statistics of that meeting show that some fifty different denominations were represented, and that of the nine hundred and twenty-one delegates there was a large -pro- portion from the United States and the Can- adas. The principles of the Alliance were explained and embodied in a series of articles. It was stated that the Alliance had for its ob- ject the promotion of Christian feeling, loving, friendly intercourse between the different denominations and an effective co-operation in the efforts to repulse the common enemy and danger. Branches were organized—l, Great Britain and Ireland; 2, the United States of North America; 3, France, Belgium and the French portion of Switzerland; 4, North Germany and the German portion of Switzerland; 5, British North America; 6, West Indies. The Alliance was quite a success in Great Britain ; it commanded attention and sym- pathy in France, Switzerland and Belgium, but in Germany it met with some opposition on the part of the Lutherans, who followed the lead of Schleierwacher. The second Gen- eral Conference was held in Paris in 1855, during the time of the Exposition. Meetings have successively been held in Berlin, 1857 ; in Geneva, 1860, and in Amsterdam in the month of August, 1867; and the Alliance must now be regarded as an established insti- tution. The Evangelical Alliance for the United States was organized in New York on the 30th of January, 1867. Of this association Mr. W. E. Dodge lias been President from the outset, The United States Evangelical Alli- ance is substantially the same in principle with that which was established in London in 1846. It is well known that arrangements were made for the holding of this Conference in this city some two years ago. The unhappy war, however, which deluged the plains of France with blood and made it impossible for the representatives of the two contending nations to meet in friendly religious converse, necessarily led to its postponement. As soon, however, as the war was over the American Commissioner revisited Europe and repeated the invitations. The invitations have been cordially accepted, and New York has now the near prospect of seeing and hearing some of the brightest theological teachers and profes- sors of the Old World. In another place in the Heratp of this morning will be found the names of some of those men, as well asa more detailed account of the prospective Confer- ence. We have already in these columns bespoken a kindly welcome to the illustrious strangers, and we have no reason to fear that New York will not heartily respond. With the general principles of the Alliance we are in perfect sympathy. Division has long been a disgrace as well asa cause of weakness to the Church of Christ. So far as the Confer- ence shall aim at making an end of this division, and at restoring to the Church her long lost unity, it will receive our hearty en- couragementand support. We reserve to our- selves, however, full freedom of speech, and we shall be quite as ready to censure as to praise if occasion calls for it. Tur Treasury Conprtion, according to the last official statement, is encouraging. Not- withstanding the large sales of gold recently the balance of coin on hand was over seventy- six millions, Even after deducting the amount of coin certificates, stated to be over twenty- six millions, there will be something more than fifty millions surplus. However much the merchants may be pinched for gold or the pre- mium be kept up, the government remains well supplied with the precious metal, The large importations and vast amounts paid for duties lately keep the Treasury in this plethoric condition, although the outflow may have been great, Stumnt as THe Tomp—Pennsylvania demo- cratic papers on the proposed new free trade role for the democratic party. Salaries in the Public Sehools—Its Dangers. We have had many alluring projects brought before us in the interest of what is called reform. Tho profligate expenditure and wholesale robbery of the Tammany chiefs seem to have suggested that economy was the widest meaning reform could have. The brigand of Tammany, who, while filling his own pockets by jobs and thefts, quartered all his retainers onthe Treasury, became in the eyes of ‘reformers’ the entity with all his belongings to be annihilated. More than this, the victorious reformer had his own retainers to quarter, even if we admit that he had no designs of his own upon the people’s money. The first impulse on all sides was to economize on the original accounts; but we see already that the soft places were not so much warred upon as_ the hard-working situations. We remember, for instance, that the poor women who toil as ‘cleaners’? of the Court House had their wages docked for Christmas Day. The mis- erable charwoman who scrubs the floors that politicians spit upon must not expect to be paid for such an unpolitical feast as Christmas Day. Now, we find that while the booming ward politician can have his place and his monthly check, the reformers appear resolved to cut down the salaries of the school teachers. Before entering further into this matter we wish to impress upon the School Commission- ers that this sham parsimony is not what we or the people meant by reform. To cut down illegitimate expenses is what we all demand ; but in a pretended fury for cheap administra- tion to ran the government and its aids into beggarly meanness 1s something which the Empire City can neither afford nor tolerate. The sufficient education of the young on broad and unsectarian principles is the object for which the public schools have been cre- ated. Quarrels over the matter to be taught have been frequent, because of the warring bigotry of the sects ; and the principal material fact deducible from these quarrels has been the increase of private or denominational schools. It is the wish of every patriotic citi- zen that the schools of the State should pre- sent as few objections as possible to parents sending their children thither. The sectarian question has been hitherto the main battle ground of the objectors; but the proposed action of the Commissioners in reducing the teachers’ salaries would interpose another and,as we believe, graver question. A few words will explain what we mean. While many parents whose children take advantage of the public schools are satisfied to let their offspring get their religion from home or church sources, there are none who would be willing to allow the smallest taint of anything‘that has the suspicion of immorality breathe upon the young minds of that part of the growing generation in which they are most interested. We do not believe it will take much to show that the effect of any re- duction of the salaries of teachers will be otherwise than immoral. The male teachers are not paid too much, but the female teachers are only paid about half of that amount. Thus of the large body of female teachers the wages are little over ten dollars a week. Women of intelligence, education and taste, possessing rare qualities of firmness, tact and patience are required to fill the con- ditions of the lowest ranks. On their small wages it is necessary to feed, lodge and clothe themselves. When they have fulfilled all the conditions of their position, and their present wages are put in the balance, it will be found that the house servant hired at Castle Garden has large pecuniary advantage over her edu- cated and refined sister. The female school teacher must dress decently, that is, well enough to distinguish her from the chamber- maid of her boarding house; and at the present rate of remuneration we must only wonder how it is possible. That it would be impossible with any reduction is much more easy to understand. There is no use, when a social problem is before us, to mince fnatters. To reduce the wages of the poor school teacher (fifteen per cent is the proposition, we believe) is to expose her to every temptation that the world offers to dishonesty, to unchastity. To know a female school teacher would then be to know a young, intelligent, educated woman—most probably a well-favored one, whose legitimate means of support fell far short of her necessities. Does this need com- ment? Is it the wish of the parents of New York that those who are the instructors of their children should oceupy this questionable position? We put it in this light so that the question shall appeal to every parent from its most selfish side. In protecting the honor of these useful women we perform a high act in ‘itself. Will the Commissioners of Education, in pursuance of a picayune policy, be allowed to reduce these women’s wages to create danger not only to them but to those whom they must teach? From the util- ity of the labors of these women we see no reason why they should not be equalized in point of remuneration with the male teachers. The salaries of the latter are not too high, and why should the female teacher who does as much work receive aless amount? Any attempt to reduce the slender wages of the women will meet with a determined resistance from the public. Since the Commissioners have opened the question of payment we should like to know what reason they can asqgn for the disparity as it at present stands, The whole community is interested in the matter. The education of | its children is one of the highest duties of a free State, since liberty can only be peacefully preserved by widespread knowledge. The stream must be pure and the vehicles for its distribution unsullied. We wish to take pride in our educational system, and to do so competent teachers must not be treated and paid like charwomen while expected to perform the duties of a high sphere of intel- lectual work. _ Tar Crvcrynatt (azetle (republican) thinks ‘the republican party has it in its power within the next two years to take all the wind out of the sails of the free traders,"’ But will it have sense enough to apply this pneumatic principle to its political machinery before the next Presidential election ? Tae Cutcaco § Inler-Ocoan (republican) thinks there will be no trouble in making the democratic an “out-and-out” party—it has been one for many years. Whether it will become an ‘‘in-and-in’’ party on the free trade notion is another matter, We find nothing very startling this week in the columns of our religious contemporaries. The pages of several are filled with explana- tory statements in regard to the culpability of ® certain mercantile firm in this city in ts dealings with the government, which state. ments have the appearance of being paid ad.” vertisements, although assuming in part an editorial shape. The cause of religion gete slightly mixed when its newspaper oracles devote the most conspicuous portions of theix columns to such publications, at any rate while the question of guilt or innocence of the accused is still an open one. The Evangelist, in a lengthy article on the Indian question, says ‘there seems no suffi- cient ground for the common idea that the Indian is necessarily doomed to extine- tion,” and asserts “that there are facts which attest not only that he may be civilized, but that his race may even multiply instead of wasting away.’’ The editor proceeds to show that the Cherokees have their own written language, that some of the Sioux have ‘adopted the dress of the whites’’—a weak- ness all Indians have when on the warpath— and that the Pawnees, long noted for their ferocity, have, during the past three years, made rapid progress in education and indus- try. The interest in the subject which has been evinced by the several Christian denomi- nations which jiave their representatives in the Indian field encourages the Hvangelist te hope ‘that, in the elevation and preservation of a race hitherto rapidly wasting away, Christianity may reap one of its most glorious harvests.’’ Pray it may not bea harvest of death, with its untold savage horrors. The Independent wants it to be understoed that “to Captain Jack General Canby wae only the leader of the soldiers who were trying to give them upto their enemies to be put to death.’ After assassinating him, then, why did Jack strip the body of the General of its clothing? Perhaps the red devil is even now flourishing among his black rocks,’ with the uniform of the brave and beloved officer upon his own miserable carcass. The Inde- pendentdoes not believe that three hundred thousand Indians should be exterminated fox the crimes of only two hundred and fifty. It is not likely they will, at least immediately, if the work of extermination does not go on any faster than has marked its course in the case of Captain Jack and his band. The Christian Intelligencer solemnly asks, ‘Does our Christianity teach that Digger Indian babies are a kind of vermin to be stamped on, like a nest of young mice oy young adders?’’ According to our latest ad: vices from the Modoc country the United States troops have not yet exactly reached their proper ‘‘stamping’’ ground. The Christian Union thinks a grave mistake has undoubtedly been committed in the treat- ment of the Modocs. ‘The error of mis- judging the temper of the Modocs,”’ says the editor, ‘‘which. led to the death of the twa Commissioners was pardonable, though ter- rible in its issue; the error of stopping ta consider their temper at all, after they had pul themselves in the attitude of armed resistance, was fundamental.’’ The Union continues :— A friend who conversed the other day on this subject with General Grant informs us that the President, in reply to a query, said he did not see how the Modoc massacre could atfect our general Indian policy. The government would continue hereafter, a8 heretofore, to use all means in its ower—peaceadle or forcible—for the protection of ts citizens. This seems to us the ylew of common sense. Whether the abolition of the reservation system, the breaking up of the tribes, the estab- lishment of Indian citizenship, the abandonment of the connection between Indian agencies and re- ligious denominations, and other measures advo- cated in various quarters, would be feasible or de- sirable, is a question the consideration of which must be postponed, The Golden Age comes to the conclusion, after a careful investigation of the sabject, that ‘Old Trinity—the cathedral of dows town and the lower classes—the rich church of the poor people—the Sunday asylum of the strolling stranger—is, after all, not only the proudest but also the most humble-minded and useful church in all the city and perhaps in all the land."’ i The Examiner and Chronicle complains of the apathy in regard to foreign missions, and as serts that :— While large sums are expended on houses of wor. ship and other instrumentalities tor promoting the religious life at home, the undertakings of the Mis- sionary Union in heathen lands fall far short of the necessities and the opportunities of the work, and these inadequate undertakings fail to be carried out with due efficiency for lack of the men and money needed. ' The Methodist, in an editorial on the subject of ‘Journalism and Religion,” asks:—“Is it a fact that the tone of the American seculaz press has generally become antagonistic te evangelical Christianity ?’’ and remarks:— The secular press is perhaps the greatest power now influencing public opinion in this nation. It is daily reiterating its impressions on us and our families. its indirect moral influence is almost irresistible in continuously moulding the habitual thought of the people. No necessity is more urgent with the American Christian public than a com- eA J Soran caer which shall properly repre- sent religious and ecclesiastical affairs in our prin- cipal communities. And just such a paper the ‘American Christian public’? have in the pages of the Heraup. The Liberal Chrislian discourses profoundly and learnedly on the ‘Antiquity and Persist. ency of the Unitarian Controversy’ and other matters. The Freeman's Journal is’ happy over the restored health of the Pope. In discussing the Modoc murders the Journal considers Cap- tain Jack’s band a “Bad Lot,’’ and in relation to the new charter says: — The thing misnamed a “charter,” in the hands ot the wisest men this city could find, would, from its own intriguing and forecast devices for stealings, prove a failure, It is committed to men of thor- oughly proved incompetency. The result will be that the honest citizens of New York will regret that the “Tweed Ring” was ever upset! The Tablet furnishes an interesting article on “Ireland’s Homage to the Sacred Heart,”’ and adds: — It would at once be 4 consolation and a joy to the hierarchy and the people of Ireland and an ac- ceptable act of homage to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. were the faithful children of Ireland in this and other countries to receive Holy Communion on the first Friday in the Month of Mary, in uaion with the Communions offered in Ireland on the last Sun- day of March. We are sure that very many will do 80, The Catholic Review remarks that ‘people who ‘eat Pope’ are said to ‘die of him,’ and certainly the people whom a kindred taste impels to prey upon the Jesuits seem to be greatly troubled by after digestion.’ It in- stances the fact that when the news of the destruction of San Salvador reached Nicar- agua the unbelievers there set the story down aga ‘Jesuit invention,” in illustration of its position. Itis a singular fact that the only building left uninjured was the ‘Colesio Tri- dentino,"" formerly occupied by the Jesuit fathers. The Pilot (Boston) rejoices that the Holy Father has given hig blessing to the work be