The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ‘JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Harry Max— Aua—Oor aT Sea. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Tux Sensa- roma Duama or Dixpaicn. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Wuoune Hany. Afternoon and evening. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston sts.—Koomer. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Janx Erne, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Fipxuia. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and Thirteenth | street.—Mona. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Maprie Moxsi. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner @th av.—Necro Minstaxisy, Sc. AMERICAN INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., 634 and 66th stu. —Summer Nicuts’ Concerss. IRVING HALL, corner of Irving place and 15th st.— Biutiarp Exutmition. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Svumxn Nicuts’ Con- exerts. is ory METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four. teenth st.—Cyraian axp Loan Coutections or Art. NW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScmNce AND Art. TRIPLE HEET. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “OUR WLSTERN INDIANS AND THEIR RESER- VATIONS! WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THEM?”—TITLE OF THE LEADER—SixTH Pace. THE INDIANS ON THE RESERVATIONS AND ON THE WARPATH! THEIR LOCATION AND CONDITION! HOW SOME OF THE SAVAGES ARE KEPT WITHIN BOUNDS—Tuirp Page. CAMPAIGN AGAINST AND COLD- BLOODED MASSACRE OF THE MODOCS! DEMORALIZATION OF THE WHITE TROOPS! A FEARLESS REVIEW—Erauta Pace. CROWDING THE WINNEBAGOES OUT OF WIS- CONSIN! GOVERNOR WASHBURN URGING THE BRAVES TO “GO WEST !"! SORROWS OF THE RED MEN—ErcuTH PaGE. THE STANLEY EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH- WEST ! CUSTER AND FRED GRANT WITH THE VAN! SURVEYING THE NORTH- ERN PACIFIC RAILWAY ROUTE—EicuTa PaGE. GENERAL GRANT ILL AT LONG BRANCH! EX- COLLECTOR. MURPHY’S SON SHOT—SEv- “BNTH PAGE. * PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF THE SPANISH CABINET CRISIS! THE TROUBLES AT BARCELONA—IMPORTANT TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—SeEvVENTH Pace. CUBAN AID TO DON CARLOS! LARGE SUMS FORWARDED TO SPAIN—MEXICAN CATHO- LIC PERSECUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS— SEVENTH PAGE. ¢é, STEAMSHIP BROKEN TO PIECES ON THE ROCKS OFF HOLYHEAD, WALES! FIFTEEN PERSONS PERISH—SEVENTH Pace. THE KILLING OF MRS. LAMPLEY, IN BALTI- MORE! A SINGULAR HISTORY OF ORIM THE MURDERERS CONVICTED AND TO BE EXECUTED—TEnNra Pace. DETAILS OF THE PASSAIC FIRE—BOOKS RE- CENTLY PUBLISHED—TzgntH PaGeE. BISHOP ODENHEIMER ON THE PROPOSED CHAN IN THE SEE OF NEW JERSEY! THE PRIMITIVE SYSTEM OPPOSED—TentH THE Pace. YELLOW FEVER DIMINISHING IN BRAZIL—CON- TRADVICTION OF THE YELLOW FEVER RU- MORS BY THE BROOKLYN HEALTH OFFI- CIALS—SEVENTH PAGE. CARLIST WARFARE! DC PARISIAN ¥ VRE OF MODERN ART AT A FAIR—ELEVENTH PAGE. GOSPEL PUBLISHMENT! THE DIVINES PIC- y CHRIST'S NATURE AND HELP- THE SOUL AS A PLANT, THE OF TRIFLING WITH CRIMINALS HAPS OF YOUTH IN THE CITY! INTERESTING INSTALLATION — Fourra PAG THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS DISCUSSED! WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED—Nintu Pace. TOURING IN EUROPE! HOW IT IS DONE BY AMERICANS, ARTISTS AND OTHERS! AN EX-COURIER DIVULGES THINGS—Firta PacE. E IN CHICAGO! PREPARATIONS TO REVIVE THE SPORT BY A GRAND JULY MEETING AT DEXTER PARK—E1cuTa Page. TO-DAY'S REGATTA OF THE JERSEY CITY YACHT CLUB—FLEETWOOD PARK—ITEMS FROM THE SUMMER RESORTS—REAL ES TATE—EIGHTH PAGE. 4 BRITISH SHIP, WITH A CARGO OF COOLIES, PUTS INTO A JAPANESE PORT~THE CLARK OBSEQUIES—Firta Pace. SOME CURIOUS TURF ‘Tae Wetcome Ratn.—Since yesterday morn- ing, in the thickening clouds and “areas of tain’ over the Northern States, we have had cheering signs of a general deliverance from a dry season, which threatened a continuance into a general drought, with a still increas- ing budget of destructive fires in town and country, fields and forests, from day to day. Welcome, then, thrice welcome, the blessed tain, with the promise of general relief which it brings to the thirsty land! Tux Suan or Pensia is expected to gladden the gay city of Paris with his presence on the 5th of July, from which, we infer, he will re- main till the “glorious Fourth" in the enjoy- ment of the hospitalities of England. Mean- time, in the inspection of Her Majesty's dock- yards, arsenals, military academies, iron foun- dries, &., it is evident that the Shah, upon this excursion, is combining business with pleasure. Ay Internationan Cuess Tovryament, for $2,000 in gold (to begin on the g0th July), has been resolved upon as one of the special attractions of the Vienna Fair. Very good; but if the managers of the Exhibition desire to draw ‘‘full houses"’ they will get upaschedule of international horse races, Something of that sort is needed to relieve the Exhibition of its monotony, and to make it pay. Ex-Senaton Geronrce BE. Pvor, democrat, of Ohio, speaking as a partisan, wants a ‘new deal,” There has beenso much double-deal- ing on the part of Ohio democrats for several years in national conventions that a new sbuffling of the cards would probably only Our Western Indians and Their Res- ervationsWhat Shall We Do with Them? For the information and gratification of our readers we give them this morning a carefully prepared and handsomely executed map of the numerous Indian reservations of that great western division of the United States over which (with some few exceptions eastward) all our Indian tribes and frag- ments of tribes are now distributed. On the same page a summing up and explanation of the various tribes and reservations repre- sented are’ given, which, together with the general bird’s-eye view of the map, will be found extremely interesting and valuable, not only to the philanthropist and the inquiring historical student, but to every reader in search of knowledge concerning these Indians and Indian reservations of the Great West. With the pacification of the Kickapoos in Mexico, with the complete subjugation of the Apaches in Arizona, and with the uncondi- tional surrender of Captain Jack and his ter- rible Modocs of Oregon and California, there is now that favorable condition of general peace among our Indifhs which invites us to a review of the whole field embraced within our illustrative map. From the archives of the Indian Bureau it appears that there are (excluding the estimated force of seventy thousand in our Arctic territory of Alaska) three hundred thousand of the original na- tive American race remaining within’ the limits of the United States, and that, upon the important question of subsistence, they may thus be divided: — Of seif-supporting tribes 180,000 Partly supported by the $4,000 Entirely supported by the government «+ 81,000 Living by hunting and marauding.... ++ 55,000 The masses of the self-supporting tribes are those civilized and semi-civilized Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Seminoles, &c., of the Indian Territory, one of the most beau- tiful, fertile and inviting agricultural districts of the Union. The tribes partly and those wholly supported by the government aro those on the reservations outside the Indian Territory, and the marauders are the tribes and fragments of tribes still roaming at large, and mostly along the range of the Rocky Mountains, between the British Possessions and our Mexican frontier. Touching their political relations to the government, it ap- pears that of our red brethren there are: — Living’ under treaties... ++ 180,000 On reservations, without treati ++ 40,000 The treaty Indians embrace all the tribes of the Indian Territory and numerous others, conspicuous amgpg them being the late war- like Sioux of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail. In the scale of civilization our Indians are thus classified: — Civilized... Semi-civilized Wholly savag The main body of the civilized tribes are in the Indian Territory, and of the semi-civilized among the best deserving tribes are the Pimos and Coco Moricopas of the Gila River, in Arizona. The general distribution of our aborigines may thus be given: — In Minnesota and east of the Mississippi. . In Nebraska, Kansas and Indian Territory. In Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. In Nevad h, Colorado, New Mexico Arizona In Califor ington. . 47,850 We find, next,” that our Indian population occupy reservations of land amounting, in the aggregate, to 137,846,971 acres, or about four hundred and sixty acres for every man, woman and child of them. Here we touch the important questions, How long, even under the protection of the govgrnient, will our poor Indians be permitted to hold in peace the vast tracts of country which they now occupy as reservations ?—and, What is the best policy of the government for the maintenance of peace between whites and Indians and for the protection and civiliza- tion of the latter? The extensive general reservation of the Sioux in Dakota, and the reserve of the assembled tribes on the north- ern ffontier of Montana, for examples, are great hunting grounds over which the tribes concerned have the privilege of following the buffalo herds in their southern and northern migrations over the Great Plains. The gen- eral reserve for different bands of the Utes in Colorado is also a mere hunting ground, from which they will soon be dis- placed by the encroaching white-settlements of the Territory. The same fate awaits the several reservations contiguous to the line of the Northern Pacific Railway. In short, the time is fast approaching when the government will be compelled materially to reduce the proportions of these great reservations and to abolish many of the smaller ones, and what, then, will be done with the dispossessed Indians ? Let us briefly look into this matter. In- of all the country westward to the great chain of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains, which look down upon the inviting valleys of California and Oregon, is analagous to that of Central Asia— dry, timberless and barren. It can be densely populated only in districts which can be extensively and _ liberally gated, as in the basin of the Great Salt Lake, and where the numerous head streams of great rivers, as in Wyoming and Colorado, afford the supplies and the channels for extensive systems of irrigation. Montana, embracing the numerous head streams of the Missouri, and possessing advantages of cli mate, situation and fertile valleys peculiarly its own, has prospered, and can prosper, otherwise, from the Great Plains to the Sierra Nevada, and in large districts of California to the seaboard, the soil is fruitless without irri- gation. Our map, in this view, will serve to show how limited are the means for irriga- tion from a glance at the vast waterless regions of this great Asiatic section of our Continent. The Great Plains, in ceasing to be a range for the wild buffalo, will become—are now be- coming—a range for domestic cattle; for their Summer droughts and the want of flowing streams forbid the cultivation of those arid table lands. From the Rocky Mountains, then westward to the Sierra Nevada, the re- maining available valleys and basins for culti- with the completion of the Northern Pacifig Railroad and the Southern jine there will be no resting place between these roads for the Indian, under the present Quaker system, in any considerable reservation where he can live by tilling the soil, In the cause of cluding the western half of Nebraska and of | Kansas and of Texas, the general character | irri- | without any general irmgating system ; but | vation will be taken up by the white man, and | | then, one of three courses for the government to pursue—the entire support of these scattered Indians in small reservations or their re- moval into the Indian Territory, or their col- lection into a mew general reservation, where they can support or partially support them- selves under the protection of the United States army. A contracted reservation, in which the In- dian has nothing to do but to eat, drink and be merry, and to sing hymns and listen to the stated preaching of the Gospel, will not do. The dull monotony, the humiliating imprison- ment of such a life to the ‘‘noble savage," is intolerable. He cannot endure it—he will in- evitably revolt against it at length, and in his desperation he will sing his war song of “lib- erty or death'’ and strike for the warpath. As it is, with the comparatively wide range and government rations of the reservations, a fort and a detachment of troops for each re- serve ore required to withhold our disgusted red men from the passing emigrant train. The suppression ef Captain Jack and the whole- some chastisement administered to the Apaches may serve for a season to hold the warriors of the reserves and the roaming bands in an encouraging condition as “good Indians," but there is n® security against the chapter of accidents which, here or there, may lead to murder and bloody retaliation between whites and Indians, from Dakota to Texas and from Arizona to Oregon. Millions of money upon Indian Commis- missioners, agents, contractors and traders are now wasted apon these numerous reserva- tions which could be saved to the Treasury with the gathering of all these scattered tribes into the Indian Territory. And, again, emi- gration to and settlements in our new States and Territories are checked by apprehensions of Indian disturbances. Remove the Indians and these dangers will cease. We have shown that within a few years there will be no avail- able abiding place for any great body of them anywhere west of Kansas upon a self-support- ing basis. We understand that the idea of ultimately settling all our scattered tribes and roaming bands in the Indian Territory is entertained by General Grant, with the view of advancing them by careful cultivation:to the usages, industry and enjoyments of civil- ized life, and to the capabilities of a State gov- ernment. This, too, may be a’ wild Utopian scheme; but, considering the embarrassments resulting to all the States and Territories con- cerned from these numerous and widely scattered Indian reservations and wandering bands, and considering the dangers from en- croaching white speculators and adventurers which menace the Indian Territory itself, it strikes us that this idea of gathering into that Territory all the outside tribes approaches nearer to a practical solution of the whole Indian problem than any other settlement so far suggested by speculator, missionary, poli- tician or statesman. The Sanitary Condition of the City. When the Summer approaches the most im- portant subject which can engage the atten- tion of the authorities is the sanitary con- dition of the city. In comparison with this one question of the public health all others sink into insignificance. Unfortunately our rulers in the city of New York seem to have forgotten this duty entirely, and while they are quarrelling over the spoils and fighting for the miserable drippings which come from this or that little official position the streets and other spots where pestilence is bred are neglected. The Board of Health, so far as we can see, is taking no active measures against the approach of cholera and yellow fever. The Police Department is apparently gathering no information in regard to the plague spots*scattered all over the metropolis, and has, so far, failed to warn our citizens to guard against disease. Therg seem to be eagy confidence and glaring neglect everywhere, while the streets are in a worse condition than was ever before known in the history of New York. All of the streets and avenues are dirty, and most of them are still filled with the garbage and offal thrown into them last Winter. Many of the most important thoroughfares in the most densely populated parts are badly paved, and foul and stagnant water remains in the streets day after day. There is scarcely a block up- town or down that has fewer than half ao dozen wagon holes filled with water, to poison the atmosphere and generate disease. Every- where disagreeable odors infect the air. The condition of the sewers may be even more de- plorable than the condition of the streets. Cellars and sub-cellars, and other places liable to infection, are mysteries to the police, but full of dangers to the people. And all this while a fitful Summer, hot to-day and cool to- morrow, seems to utter threatenings of disease and death. We would not alarm the people unnecessa- rily, for to create fear in the public mind is bad policy, Aside from the filthy condition of the city, there is no reason now for undue fear or alarm among our citizens that yellow fever or cholera will come. But these terrible seourges may come, and it is best to be pre- pared. Cleanliness is the best preventive, and it is upon this that we insist. We must guard every avenue of approach and sweep away every cause likely to breed pestilence or to produce a condition of things likely to ex- pose the people to danger and make them sus- ceptible to contagion or infection. If a plague of any kind should fall upon the city at this time its ravages would be awful. If the chol- era should reach New York what a rich har- vest of death it would reap, and what a splendid showing its ravages would make for the reformers who forgot or neglected their duty! What a fearful reckoning would be demanded by the people! Men who disre- gard the most sacred duty of authority can find no words to excuse themselves before the overwhelming wrath of the community. It is time that the officials whose duty it is to take sanitary measures against the approach of disease learned the responsibility which attaches to their exercise of authority, lest they also suffer with the innocent. It is crim- inal in them that we are compelled to address these appeals to them. Weeks ago all de- | mands we are now making should have been already past the demanding. Then the city would have been spared this necessity, and people of weak nerves would have been saved a danger whieh even the imagination might develop into disease. If we conld re- frain from pointing out the danger and in- sisting upon proper sanitary measures we close our eyes to probable calamity, and this is why we insist that our authorities in the dif- ferent ents shall no longer fail in their duty, but set about their work at once and perform it earnestly and efficiently. M We print in another column this morning’ some directions for guarding against the ap- proach of disease, which we commend to all householders for practice and to the police for enforcement. It is too late to dally longer with danger. Even the ruinated drain pipe must be rendered pure and wholesome. Throwing offal into the streets must cease. There must be much earnest street sweeping and the use of disinfectants everywhere. The waterholes in the streets must be closed up, if necessary at the expense of new pavements. No stone should be left unturned where pesti- lence may lurk. Unless all this, and more, is speedily accomplished the plague may pounce down upon us before we are aware of its com- ing, and the Destroyer show his presence in every house. Precaution is all that is neces- sary, and if proper precautionary measures had been already taken there would be no danger of approaching calamity. The Carlist War and the Cure of Santa Cruz. The letter which we print this morning from our special correspondent in the Carlist camp is valuable as disclosing the real empti- ness of the reactionary movement. The de- scription of the base of operations at Urdax, and the scenes that struck the eye of the Henaxrp correspondent while there, certainly do not reveal any high order of military en- ergy. In fine, as far as we are able to per- ceive, the Carlist army consists of the Curé of Santa Cruz. This grotesque ecclesiastic is the only distinct character, the only resolute man, that all these months of civil war have brought to the surface. He is monarch of all he sur- veys, and he is as much feared by the Carlists as he is opposed by the republicans. He ac- knowledges no subordination, will attach him- self to the army only on conditions, and replies to a message of distress from the retreating forces of Don Carlos by a threat to shoot the parlamentario if he renews his appeals for succor. Hardly has our correspondent time to record this little eccentricity before the Curé falls upon the republicans at the Bridge of Ender- laza and they hoist a gag of truce in token of surrender ; but as the Curé advances to re- ceive the prisoners he is greeted with a volley of musketry, whereupon the little garrison is put to death as the recompense of treachery, and the ‘flower’ of the Carlist army are re- leased from danger. The Curé has displayed qualities whicli indicate that the olive-branch profession is less suited to his natural capacity than the occupation of a bold and successful guerilla chieftain, The prestige which he has already acquired throughout Spain will un- doubtedly make him a formidable competitor of the leading generals of the Carlist move- - ment for the favor of the pretender and the ap- plause of the monarchists. The Conservation of Wood. One of the most important economic prob- lems of the age, the conservation of wood, has recently been undergoing experimental solution among French and Belgian en- gineers, with very interesting results. Chief among these is the discovery of the rates of decay of the various woods, similarly exposed and similarly defended, by the aid of sub- stances insoluble in water and unaffected by the atmosphere. Instances are mentioned by one of the experimenters, M. Melsenns, in which prepared blocks, into the sinuosities of whose woody fibres the tarry preparation had penetrated, after exposure to alternate steam baths and frosty weather and to burial in wet or marshy soil, were perfectly sound and un- injured after twenty years’ trial. A section of a piece of timber impregnated with tar shows that the conserving substance has followed the lines of the longitudinal fibres, and often the microscope reveals the complete filling of the pores, and every channel which might give entrance to deleterious agents is plugged by the tar, which, in many cases, is also found a perfect preserver of bolts, screws and nails. It is said thata railway sleeper thus care- fully coated and injected with the solution ought t@ hold together as long as an Egyptian mummy, and it is easy to see that with proper attention to this one item of railroad expendi- ture millions of dollars might be annually saved to the companies and the disastrous de- foresting of the country be measurably ar- rested. The experiments show that the oaken blocks superficially prepared are capable of outliving the roughest exposure to weather for many years without internal or external disso- lution of the fibres. The enormous extension of the American railway systems and the ever multiplying demands for the forest oak for mining, shipbuilding and street pave- ment purposes, in all of which the tim- ber is exposed to rapid’ decay, establish the necessity for great economy in the use of wood and the expediency of using every means to preserve it when once put in use. The railways, the great timber-consumers, have usually taken little trouble to make known the ascertained durability of the wood used in their tracks and bridges ; but enough is known to demonstrate the great economy of preparing timber for track use before it is put down. In Belgium more than two-thirds of the sleepers on all the railroads have been chemically prepared since 1863; and there can be little question that the experiment so suc- cessful and satisfactory in that climate would be still more so in the United States. Tue CHorena mx Evrorg.—This dreadful pestilence is reported in various places in Eastern and Central Europe, from Turkey to the Peninsula of Italy, and thence northward to the Baltic. Leaving the United States, then, for the tour of Europe, will be no security this season to our pleasure seckers against the cholera, Woman Surrrace—Tue Cananparaua Farce Enpep.—District Attorney Crowley on Satur- day last entered a nol. pros. in each of the cases of the fourteen women indicted with Miss Anthony for illegal voting, and the Court adjourned sine die, all parties apparently sat- isfied with their tempest in a teapot, Gnogsprcr, of Ohio, according to the Cin- cinnati Enquirer, is believed to be in favor of & new democratic departure. There have been so many departares of that party within the last few years that its remains might be sup- posed to rest quietly at this time in the “lend Nosumanity ig the Laden tore wil roam Luhowld do im hui if mould be madueas ta oh departed snixite.”” ) Yesterday's Sernions. Notwithstanding all our hopes and expecta- tions of rain as indicated by the overhanging clouds and the occasional droppings yester- day, the weather held up very pleasantly, so } that the prayerful were able to spend their ac- customed morning and evening hours in the house of the Lord, The sermons, with hardly 4n exception, are practical or doctrinal, simple and Scriptural, so that they can be easily read, marked and inwardly digested both by those who heard them yesterday and by those who shall read them to-day. Those who may be curious to know what Unitarianism teaches regarding the way of holiness will find in Dr. Bellows’ discourse as thorough orthodoxy as many of the most “evangelical” divines could furnish to their congregations. He tells us that holiness is merely a holy-hearted simplicity of purpose, a singloness of eye to see the right, a strong love of goodness and a resolute will to seek and possess it. It needs not education or cul- tivation to secure a holy heart. While all this is true, it does not tell the whole of what holiness as a state of heart or of life is. We do not agree, save conditionally, with the Doctor's statement that it does not matter what direction a man's feet take if his heart be turned the right way. If the feet always followed the heart this might do, but not otherwise. A firmeresolution and a strong will are good things if they are sanctified; but they cannot keep the heart pure nor the feet in the way of holiness. And there the completeness of this discourse is lacking in that it leaves the divino factor altogether out of this attainment. Is it true that without this holiness of heart nine out of every ten of the young men who leave country homes for city life are wrecked every year on the shoals and quicksands of this great city? If it be it is a terrible fact, and one that cannot be too gravely considered. The story of the Saviour’s trial before Pilate was plainly and briefly commented upon by Dr. Foss, but no new thought was evolved therefrom, according to our synopsis. As St. Paul taught his pupil, Titus, so Dr. Imbrie taught the’ Fifth avenue Presbyterian church yesterday, that Christianity was not a new philosophy or a humanly devised scheme of renovation, but an entirely new heaven- sent principle ; and that it is distinguished from the philosophies in that Christian moral. ity is superior to the morality of the world; that it is sustained by a peculiar hope of the appearing of the great God our Saviour, and in that the source of this moral life and hope is not in man, but in God. The proof and illustration of this Jatter point will be found in detail in the sermon. The rewards of selfishness and of abnega- tion respectively formed the theme of Mr. McArthur’s discourse. Society, he declared, is suspicious of the man who proposes self as the object of worship. It shuns him and de- feats his projects. God also withdraws from him and allows him to fall into his own snares, When sin is reduced to its last analysis it becomes selfishness, the opposite of which is abnegation, of which Jesus and Paul are shining examples, as Judas and Pilate are of selfishness. Most of us realize that this life is a warfare, but very few of us go into the conflict pre- pared to do battle with the world, the flesh and the devil, the soul’s greatest enemies. The world is constantly alluring us, and the flesh is more than ready to be allured, and if we escape from these we have the devil as a roaring lion going about secking whom he may devour. Father Power tells us that we have little chance of escaping this last enemy unless we take St. Peter’s advice and “be sober and watch unto prayer,’’ which is un- doubtedly true. With prayer as a weapon we can defy and defeat all our enemies and arrive at heaven, our final and proper resting place. Father Kearney, using the parables of the lost sheep and the lost piece of money, illus- trated God’s care for His erring children and His anxiety to bring them back to His fold. He isnow as ever scouring the wilderness after the lost sheep or sweeping the house after the lost coin, and when they are found, when the sinners are brought back to God, there is rejoicing not only in the heavenly household, but in the earthly one also. Dr. Holme charges our fearful criminal calendar to the late war, to the character of our foreign immigration, to the publicity given by the press to records of crime. It familiarizes the public with deeds of vio- lence and thus aids greatly in their propaga- tion. Intemperance he considers the parent of all vice, and the antidote to all these evils is the cultivation of the love faculties among men. Butwe can hardly wait for the ripened fruit of that sowing. We must make the punishment as short, sharp and decisive as is the crime itself. There is no other remedy half so effective for clearing our criminal calendar as that. Mr. Beecher explained the nature of belicf and of man’s responsibility for what he be- lieves. As belief, according to Mr. Beecher, is partly voluntary and partly involuntary, our responsibility is therefore equally divided. Every man who has the ability and oppor- tunity to investigate truth is responsible for failing to investigate. The character of a man’s mind wiil determine the way in which he will see truth. It is possible for truth to be so large that ten men may believe in it, and the whole ten sections may be the whole truth, and yet not one of the ten men may have the whole truth. But the responsibility rests with every man to do his best to know what trath is. Taking the analogy of nature, Dr. Scudder pointed out to his people the characteristics of growth in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the elements necessary to @ successful and steady | growth in spiritual life. Christ is the typical man, and we are to grow in knowledge and grace until we resemble Christ; and this growth is promoted by the Spirit of God dwelling in our hearts, and who, if we seek it, will make us flowers for His own paradise. We bave a couple of country sketches to- day—one from Closter, N. J., where a sorrow- ing congregation lamented the sudden death of a beloved pastor who had lately gone to Colorado asa missionary and fallen a victim to disease there; and the other from Hewlett’s for country readers who have the time and can give them the necessary study. But let faith be mixed with what vou read as well as With what you hear. SUNDAY RECREATIONS. Shall the Masses Have Healthy Moral Relaza« tion Visit of the Excise Commission- ers to the Beer Gardens Yester- day—The Way People En- joy | Themselves. The problem of rational Sunday recreation is on@ that has become a very important and serious one in nearly all large cities of America and Europe and appears at least to be approaching a practical solution in New York. London: has insisted om having popular open air music in: her parks, and the followers of Odger and Bradlaugh, finding that their wishes in this respect were likely to be con- travened, djd not hesitate to remove the railings of Hyde Park as an intimation of the general up- rooting of the political destinies of their op- ponents that would follow a persistence in the policy of prohibition. The question of allowing the sale of intoxicating drinks.on the Sabbath has been repeatedly brought to the mo- tice of the Legislature of this State, and variong provisions have been enacted either to restrict, Tegulate or prohibit the trafic. There has, how- ever, always hitherto been a peculidr influence brought to bear on the question, chiefy arising from the fact that metropolitan politics have for many years been of the “pothouse” order, and that the retailers of “rifle whiskey, that would KILL AT FIVE HUNDRED YARDS on Creedmoor Range, have wielded an inestimable Strength at all the caucuses, conventions and elections. The reform struggles of the past twe years have very materially altered this state of atfairs, and have brought the people to the surface. so that it need no longer be what the gin-mill keepers demand, but what the masses desire shall prevail, And in this mild and conservative sort of way the Sunday drinking question has again been brought up for consideration and settlement. Recently, with a view to soiving the vexed ques- tion, at least ina great degree, Alderman Kehr, one of the German legislative representatives of the municipality, extended an invitation to the Commissioners of the Board of Excise, Superin- tendent Matsell and Captain Mount, of the Seven- teenth Police precinct, to accompany him on a Sunday tour of the lager beer “gardens” of the city, and by personal inspection to judge for them- selves whether these resorts were detrimental te the MORAL HEALTH OF THE CITY, and whether the physical and mental recreations of their patrons was not largely contributed to by allowing such establishments to keep open on the Sabbath. The Alderman intimated that all he ‘desired was that the Commissionerg should “gee for themselves,” and if after such an inspecaes they came to the conclusion that the maintenance of such methods of Sunday enjoyment were either im- moral, prejudicial to the public peace, or in any way calculated to impair the well-being of the com- munity, he was content to abide by their judg. ment. The invitation was accepted, and by con- sent of the parties invited yesterday was fixed upon as THE TIME FOR THE TOUR, Accordingly, at two o'clock yesterday, Excise Com missioners Marshall and Voorhees, Aldermen Keho and Koch, Major Sgner, Paul ‘Falk, Daniel Schneider and a number of other well-known gen< tlemen assembled at Germania Assembly Rooms, im the Bowery, aud, embarking in carriages, pro- ceeded on the tour of observation, Superin- tendent Matsell was prevented from being present, as was also Captain Mount. Driving rap- idly up Third avenue the tad visited, first, Hamilton Park, at Sixty-third street, whera apparently drawn from all the better elements of the community, enjoying themselves in the most orderly and unostentatious manner. There wi ofcourse, a large preponderance of husbands ani wives with their families of jittle ones, attired in “Sunday CH and tucker,” and their whole pastime consletee in pleasant conversational intercourse, sitting, or walking on the promenading platforms, or beneath >t . ay PREADING SHADOWS OF THE TREES, listening fo the music of the orchestra and slaking their thirst with crystal measures of Rhine wine and the gratefully cool and retreshing the amber nectar of Gambrinus’ jovial court. There was no loud conversation or boisterousness in- dulged in by a single individual present, and it it is fair to judge by what one sees it is fair to pre- sume that the visit to Hamilton ark yesterday will form a fund of pleasant reminiscence during all the week of labor ta many, a0 industrious and -frugal father and his family of wife and little beer-quaffers. After nearly half an hour spent in this establishment the party. proceeded to Jones’ Wood, a more extensive con- cern of the same general type, where @ much larger gathering of people were assembled, Here, there was the additional pastime get shooting and the band of the Ninth Tegiment. The same general social freedom and enjoyment were indulged in by those present, and after halfan hour’s observation here, during which nothing was observed to shock the sensibilities of the most sensitive | in the land, the party again proceeded on their ‘Way. One very striking incl- dent at the “Wood” was the presence of a woman, who from her garb pede to be a widow, ac: companied by her orphaned children. they found assembled several hundred dents ol : 1T WAS COMMENTED UPON by many of the gentlemen who witnessed it that there was probably no other resort in the city save_ those of this class where that widow with her little brood could have obtained popular relaxation and at the same time be as free from the possibility of insult or molestation as in her own home. Leaving Jones’ Wood the party drove. to, Sulzer’s Mast River Park, and here, to was assembled a Very, orderly ‘atid, it anything, more social assemblage than at the other, places. There was the shooting gallery, the awings, the whirligig and other physical sports, and a new. feature of the gathering was the presence of a Ger- man singing society, with the wives, families,, sisters and sweethearts of the members. These associations, it appears, are in the habit of voting’ to attend various resorts en masse with their fam- ilies and BUYING THEIR LAGER BY THE KEG, ’ indulge in a rational and not impoverishing form of pleasure. yee | here the pS proceeded to Bellevue Garden, and then, driving across Centrat Park, visited Elm Park, at Ninety-second street and Eighth avenue. Here there was the same Kind of gathering, including also the visit- ing Saengerrunde, Thence the carriages wero, driven to the rock ceilar lime cave, at 122d, street, near Mount Morris Park, where the grateful’ Rhine wine that cheers but rarely inebriates was indulged in, Then away in a whirl of dust to Lion; Park, where a magnificent scene was presented and where the party visited the mammoth brewery and partook of an elegant collation. It was now quite dark, and, embarking once more, the dele; tion were whisked through Central Park and Fifth. avenue down the Bowery to Atlantic Garden, in the Bowery. Here the largest ASHEMBLAGE OF PEOPLE + seen was gathered, men, wives, sweethearte children, listening to the music of the Vienn: orchestra. From here the party went to tl National Garden, Bowery Garden and Pacific. Garden, and thence to Falk’s Tivoli Garden, in St., Mark's place, Here there was gathered a! superb assemblage of people in the main music hall and the galleries, and it was noticeable that the decorum and etiquette ob- served Was equal to that of any first class theatre, The music was excellent, and, after a full survey of the attractions, the party dispersed. It was a iact worthy of special remark that in all the places visited the HERALD reporter did not see an intoxt- cated individual, nor did he hear a single profane remark during the aiternoon and evening. WEATHER REPORT. Wank DEPARTMENT, OF THR CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, June 23—1 A. M: Probabilities, ¥ For New England light to fresh northeasterly to southeasterly winds and increasing clondi- ness; for the Middle States gentle to fresh easterly winds aad increasing cloudi- ness; for the lower lake regiow fresh and occasionally brisk easterly to southerly winds, cloudy weather and rain; for the Atlantic States, light to fresh southeast and southwest winds and partly cloudy from Missouri and = the Onio the upper lakes fresh and brisk southerly to easter, winds, gen- erally cloudy weather an rain circles. Midnight telegraphic reports from the Guif Stat upper lake region and all of the stations west the Mississippi have not yet been received, OFFICE . weatuer; Valley to The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘rhe tollowing record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, a6 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Station, L. L, where the joy of beaven over tho repentant sinner was held up to the con- gregation that the sight might win some hearts from death into life and from the power of Satan unto God. All of these Sabbath dis- yal fapp an. excellgns literacy | Pharmacy, Herald Building :— 1872, 1873, ‘Average temperature (or corresponding date seuanye pomererrirtttii. 4) +) — ;