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4 — HUMANITY. Whe Hungry and the Naked Seek. | a1, ing equally unsuccessful. The sell two tm number and her sketches invariably re- | teers. This play ts substituted for the play oF turned, with the brief notice that “no more read- ing matter would be required for some time to come,"’ every effort to obtain other employment bel ling and pawu- ing of every available articie, including her wed- ding ring, followed, and she is now the victim of which renders Bed “school,” formerly announced. 5. A. RABORG, M. D., secretary of Central pispensary. Coneert in Aid of Be my Institute. Broadway Tabernacle will be open this evening for a vocal and instrumental concert im ald of re ber bed the dace aaa with, buss | Bethany institute for Woman's Christian Work. a e @ door, w y ‘oman’s Chris orl ing Food and Shelter. scanty supply of quilt or covering, Nothing, | 4 mong tne artists who will take part Mrs. she gays, but the fact that her lit J e in it are ones ‘are’ on. the ‘verge of illness through | Emma Watson Doty, Miss Kate Stark, Miss Toedt | Want could have tnduced ter to solicit eee n es and. Mie 2 Wal ares Wy. Gomge Slack: The Dying Englishman | ¢\en the fag. Young, nenative snd refined as | Parry, vocalists Miss Matilda &. Toedt, soto violin ; Sent Home. she is, the visitor who called could not bas respect | Mrs. Christopher, organist, of the ‘Tadernaci her request in withholding ner name {rom the pub- Messrs. Wernle, ner, Diller and Wernig, instru- lic, but trusts that the geperous bearted will pot | mental quarte' | Toaacls sbeky AIDE ot arty and modlnes THIRD WARD. rary 0 8 of groce! “ Noble Gifts of Merchants, Mechanics | fears orenered, rough Be on Gulla; are sadly needed to meet her absolute needs. Donations for the Downtown Poor. and Working Girls. ‘A MUNIPICENT GIFT. One of the most acceptable dona' reached the Guild came yesterday mornin} shape of orders tor ir — = aa as Practical Suggestions for Work | 3 etndursichnel Gmurpit, and Emigration. | MRS. WORSTBLL'S VISIT 70 THE PROVISION in her visit to rh tor Mrs. Worstell’s use to | downtown merchants, The following is @ fwelve Thousand Five Hundred People Ped | me ace sone ret of rice, at the Soup Kitehens. Voige, one bag of coffee. 8. J. Willetts, rice. Baker, Sanford & Co., hominy. Howell & Overton, provisiona. Maynern & Schenck, provisions, Ferguson & Lott, one barrel of tarnips. Hajschizer & Buckman, one bag of meal. ¥. H. Bennett, one box of onions, S. Wing & Bro.. twenty dozen of eggs. Myers & Underhill, oat meal. | | THE SOUP KITCHENS. | Delmontco’s cook yesterday aduzinistered beef | soup to about 12,500 persons, of which number | gearly 10,000 were women and children. The soup furnished was of the most excellent quality, fresh, good vegetables adding a fine favor to the juices of the beef In the Sixth and Fourth wards tnere was a very at demand for soup, as on previous days, and many hard cases of suffering were relieved, which could hardly be realized by those who know not the sorrows of she poor. In the Eighth ward there is a daily increase in the Dumber of the applicants jor relief, and private Citizens are beginning to donate bread in large quantities to some of the soup houses, In the | Thirteenth precinct Mr. Jobn Gray bas donated | 1,000 loaves of bread to the soup Kitchen at No. 244 Delancey street. At the soup kitchen in Sec- Ond street, under the supervision of Captain Mur- phy, of the Eleventh precinct, the arrabgements fare really excellent and deserve credit, PICTURES OF POVERTY. Wiliam Hodadon, one Dox 01 cheese. F. L. Meaigh, ten dozen eggs. Abner Osburn & son, provis.ons, J. R. Bartholomew, provisions. J. A. North, one box of clothing. L. B, Miller & Son. one box of cheese. Cc, M. Howard & Co., provisions, William L. Allen & Oo., dried fruits. C. H. Benedict & Co., provisions, Miles & Holman, one barrel of oatmeal. Hicks & Higiey, one barrel of oatmeal. | To THe Eprror or THE HERALD:— Three Thousand Hungry People at the Doors of St. John’s Guild Yesterday— | Eight Hundred and Twenty-one Gar- | ments Given to the Poor in Six Hours— The Clothing Bureau Again Empty— Scenes at the Chapel—Old and Poor— A Fireman of 1819—-Oir For Merry Eng- | land.” { Each succeeding day seems to open up new | and hitherto unsuspected depths of poverty | everywhere in our midst. Children § with- | put clothes; babes without covering of any kina; mothers without food aud yet ex- pected to nourish their unfortunate offspring— these are among the commonest facts whica , and not previously acknowledged :— crowd and jostle each other in every visitor’s G. Wios, to start @ liquor dealers’ fund for | shilling out.” lines of Pope, the poet:— In faith and hope the world may disagree, But all mankind's coucera is THE RELIEF FUND. UNE POOT ...- +e -eee eee sescsecess 96 notebook. Vid men, feeble from exhaustion, from | Collection ithe Olympic ‘Theatre for Mrs. exposure and lack of jood, and emaciated by the | uck, No. 305 East Ninth gtreet........... 0 381 disease these have bred, come and go. It 1s well | baie oe Richard Stoaks to go back . 0 EDGIROG. oo... o cece cs cscneccseres oe that the mask that covered all this misery and J.Q, jor Mrs, Beckwith, No. 192’ Bleecker wretchedness was torn away. It is well that New | PORES cae naneee vances steasete ihaee, © York was preparea to keep its reputation as the a Srglieresgerar rucner, oeeeee a ‘or’ an, 10} a * city of charities, No one who has not witnessed | A poor Irishman, for Richard Sioa 1 the appalling extent of the destitution about us | ¢,G, M., for Richard Stoaks... 1 cam give credence to the stories its victims tell, | E. B. and R. W., Forty-fifth st: but those who have passed days in ita atmosphere | Richard Stoaks.- By feel how powerless is the tongue or pen to even | pwenty-fourth Ward 1 outline its many horrors. Think of the bare fact | One who wishes to do more 10! . Hu $2 wat | eo) who wishes to do more jor Mrs. Schror- * THREE THOUSAND PERSONS | elen........ pieced carers Sa = One who wishes to do more tor John Hodg- came to St. John’s Guild yesterday for food, and | gon, No. 508 Kast Fourteenth street....... 2 & police officer nad to be stationed at the door to | se rae wena do more for Mrs. Baber, p e 0. 200 avenu seeseeeee Dette ee eeeeenseee prevent little children from being run over and to Oue who wishes to do more for Mrs. Stanley, sce that the aged and feeble had an equal chance No. 431 East Fourteenth street. 2 In the struggle of the hungry crowd. 1 No wonder | T. H. H. for Kichard S\oaks... that when rich lady visitors saw these half-clad | unfortunates, whose hungry eyes cried for bread before their husky voices could be heard, tneir | hearts sickened and their eyes filled with tears. | Tt was one of those scenes that leave an impress onthe mind that time hardly dims. Feebie old | Poor of the Fitn and Eighth wards, and handed men with their gray hair and wrinklea ‘He Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Heary C. De Witt faces clutched the jutting stones of the wall | _(fhose desiring to visls en OF Se Jor support in the generai crush, and, once in the vestibule, sunk down on the benches and hid their faces in their wan hands. Little pare-legged and | Poor, Laight and Beach streets.) THROUGH MRS, WORSTELL, bare-iooted girls peeped anxiously up the stair- | Carlos Cobb...... sh deh SER SiE oh LOTIIe eeeece!o GS case towards the clothing bureau, and in thetr thin } . THROUGH JOBN P. FAUBB. cotton gowns hugged themselves to keep warm. f William L. Chamberlain. trees $10 becredh paicomanage choy bck | Miss M. 3. Aluwicn..--.+- + $10 At four o’clock tbe writer went up to the cloth- | THROUGH THE bad ing department. One hundred or more women | George Wultuey..... a J and children were crowded together in the ante- | 52,01 Richaré ptoale A room, and a police officer with some diMcuity | Lucy Blake, for R. Stoaks. . 1 is Was & wife entieth street, yesterday sent ® car- list of Maxfield & Co., one box of oranges (for the sick). MR. BRACE AND HIS NEWSPAPER. New Yorx, Suoday, March 1, 1874 A newspaper endeavoring to belittle a noble and generous bounty to the suffering poor like that | recently bestowed strikes the public as manifest- | ing one of the meanest and most pitiful phases of | human nature that can possibly be found. In fact, 4 fully, it resemb!es the type of the hypocrite of whom it has been said, “With one hand be puts a penny in the plate of charity, and with the other steals a No man nor no paper, through envy, jealousy or ill ieelings of any sort, snould try to slur such an act of benevolence; and ull should remember the philanthropic and beautiful CHARITY. Donations for the poor received by the Hexatp, | St. John’s Gaild and the Downtown The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswail jor the will remember tnat it is in the school buildings at- tachea to St. John’s chape!, Varick street, between the the 00 % 00 3 $8 8 8 8 $888 esse to id | 00 00 00 50 00 tions that has | To THs Epiror or THE HERALD :— The following donations for the downtown re- Net of the the New York Juvenile Guardian Society, No. 14 Dey street, have been received since last re- port:— From 8S. B. Clark, No. 496 Grand street, 150 loaves of bread. ¥rom Mayor & Lane, No, 42 Mott street, 150 loaves of bread. From Heyman & Mack, corner of Hudson and Houston streets, 150 loaves of bread, From Hartwig & Co., No. 449 Washington street, lot ot split peas, From a {riend, bundie of clothing, From J. D. Gilmore & Co., No, 206 Greenwich street, fifty loaves of bread, From Ferguson & Lott, No. 87 Dey street, two barrels of potatoes, two barrels of turnips and one barrél of onions and carrots, From Henry W. Baldwin, No. 160 Broadway, 4 barrel potatoes, 3 barrels turnips, 30 heads cab- ages, fhe Relief is feeding over 1,000 daily, men, women and chiloren, people who have notuing in their pockets, no credit and whose hopes are blighted, courage nearly gone from hunger, cold and utter destitution. nations may be sent to No. 14 Dey street, ur to J. E. oe A Eromcans FFICER. FOURTH WARD. Donations to the Water Street Soup House. New YORK, Feb. 28, 1874. To rag Epiror OF THE HERALD:— The foliowing contributions were made to-day to the Bennett Soup Kitchen of this precinct :— Twenty-four loaves of bread from 0. C. S.; one barre! pilot bread, trom several pilots; an order from an anonymous contributor for 100 loaves each week as long as the Kitchen remains. Respect- CHARLES ULMAN, Captain Fourth precinct Police. NINTH WARD. The Relief Association Prepared to En- _ ter on Their Charitable Work. The following letter was yesterday secured at St. John’s Guild office :— Hxeapquarrers, Nivra Warp Ratrar Associanon, ‘areh 2, 1874. } Rey. A. Wisw. Master of St John’s Guild :— REV. AND DEK Sin—I beg to express to you the appre- ciation with which we acknowledge your kindness in re- ieving so many cases of snifering in our ward previous 1o the organization 0: our local relief, We are now pre- pared to care tor all the poor of this ward; and we send you a package of tickets which you will please use in di- recting all persons, residents of the Ninth ward, who May fereatter call upon you for assistance, to our head- quarters, Very sincerely, JOHN P, FAULL, Secretary Executive Committee. NINTH AND SIXTEENTH WARDS. Donation ef Bread for the Famishing by an Eighth Avenue Baker. New Yor«, March 2, 1874. To Tux Eprror Gr THE HERALD:— G Iwill give filty loaves of bread each week the | next six weeks to the worthy poor of the Ninth and Sixteenth wards, without regard to nationality or creea, The loaves are to be given out on the presenta- tion of a ticket, which may drug store o1 Dr. C. s Jewett, No. 91 Etzhth ave- nue. . L. WATSON, baker, No, 103 Eighth avenue, TWELFTH WARD. corner of Fitteeath atreet, Relief at the Uptown Soup House, Man- hattanviile, To rae Epiror oF THE HERALD:— The Uptown Soup House, although humble in its pretensions, can take its rankin the list of charl- ties, An experience of two weeks gives it a record of having given 2,312 meals to 2,312 hangry men, women and children. This little kitchen is supported entirely by the charity of the ladies of 01 the neighborhood, not only by contributions put by their actual labor in cooking and serving out hundreds ot bowls of coffee in the morning and soup at noon, with bread. They have so arran, it tnat each of the ladies have their rei days of work. We are particalarly indeot to Mr. Thomas Loughran for one quarter of beet, Mr. George Agg ior one barre! of turnips. Mr. Thos, Reed ior 30 pounds of coffee. US Market Association ior 150 pounds of meat. Messrs. Babcock & Co. for 200 loaves of bread. Messrs. Acker, Merrel! & Co. for groceries, ive Mr. Charles Borst for meat. Mr. Jose urchill for meat, r. H. ner Jor meat. Mr. Hugh McCormack for meat, Mr. Robert Prior for 200 loaves of bread. Mr. John Inglehard for 75 loaves 0! bread. Mr. Lamboare tor 75 loaves of bread. one Doyie & Heuston for cheese, and many others. Respectfully yours, Mmes. Vernon Brown, Alfred Whitman, 0. F. Alvord, D. L. Baker, L. A. Roden- stein, Colonel Vose, A. Smith, D. F. Tiemann, M. | T. Brennan, T, M. Peters, Colonel Porter and David Bonner and Dr. L. A. Kodenstein, Executive Com- mittee. FIFTEENTH WARD. Donations of Food for the Soup House. and entrance to the hall. Inside all | «4 3 ard S ¥ Was desolate, the tables, 80 well stocked in the | Chaties Dray, for Richard Stoaks. ote) morning, lying bare, aud only the shreds and frag- | RUG ot, ior Hichar’ Bret Steaks 100 mente of @ fon orm and Worthless garments visi; | §° Rovingon, for Richard Stosks ; 400 i 8 e centre of the room : ard Stoa crying, and holding her empty basket with botn | McGown (or Richard Stoaks i” her hahds. One, of the ladies who volunteered to | § ag fe soem 100 sew for the Guild, and who comes early and works | 2 YT Richard Stc tll dark daily, patcaing up old coats and dresses | B Webb tor sicuard Stoaks aie and making new wrappings, was sitting sad Cyn ee eee reeks 1 Qud dejected in o distant corner. "Just etn Ot ten took oe be then the ‘lady in charge made known to | 3; Lorimler for Richard stoa| beg the anxious ones without that ner supplies Bryon for Ikicuard stoaks.... 2 Were wholly exiausted. sne lad given out | Vash for Richard stoaks 10 S21 garments during tue day. Some still lingerea | Parker jor Richa 1 00 in the hall tll the doors were closed, but most Bresee for Richard 1.0 | went back to their homes with downcast faces, aud | Bauxow for Ricuar 50 tmuny of the children cried and sobbed pitifuily, ee Md one leta te 50 SEVENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD AND HOMELESS. | Conn for Richard Stosks.. : ed At noon there came an old man thinly clad and | O'Sullivan ior Kichard stoak 60 | carrying a cheap Vase hall filled. He was stary- W- H. Bishop for Rict si ing, not having eaten anything jor many bours, aga for Richard Sto: 50 aud clulled through, not having been near astove FR for Kichard 50 | lor many more. He was given $1, with which to | JV: Marshall ior kai $0 | et some warm food, and told to return, | &. Quinton jor Richard Stoaks 2d hen be came back he sat down on a Pe ee erat ote oak $0 bench and waited, His name is Alired Tillotson, | Burges lor Richard Stoaks. .... : # and he has lived in New York ail nis life, He 13 Fitzpatrick iot Kichard Stouk: . 25 now, as he was perhaps fiity years ago, a poor | Cle!lnd Jor lichard Stoaks...... . 25 | journeyman shoemaker. Only fifty years ago tie | THROUGH J. L, DAVIS. | city Was not paved beyond Broome street, and in | W. Furness.......... f + $5 00 tts narrow limits he Was familiar with hundreds of | pant tees people, Now, as be has been sbrinking away, year F. L.- $1 00 | by Year into’ the little, shrivelled old man, tii it | Mr. Kere. + 100 seems as though he wished to lose himself trom | 4. 0. W + 100) Sight as he has been lost trom recollection, the city | lk. ©--- + 5000) hus grown beyond and away from bim, He was in | William + 150 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN 131) For car 100 Sitting on vue bench he covered iis face, hishead | §. 5 Chatverton, 12 00 beut iorward. Who can teil what scenes Were pic- | Van Sicler 5 00 tu ed on his mind's eye, what memories were 400 evoked a8 he sat there? Perhaps he thonght of 10 00 days when success courted and fortune smiled upon | 5 00 him; wien men since grown millioanaires would | Money iound by J. w. Ss. » 680 have been giad to exchange places with him, And | Devon, lor Richard steaks Ea 1 this was the end of ail bis imaginings and all bis | labors; to sit old, sick and but lately starving on a | _ Total. +++ $156 45 luctle bench in the entry of the schoolroom of St. | + 7,063 06 John’s chapel. At five o'clock a messenger came in and an- nounced that he had securea @ temporary room | . Contributions to this fund ‘be sent to the for the old man and thither he was conducted. A | HERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; 0. V. | fire was built, coal and wood left him in abun- | B. Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire [n- | dance, and he Sat over the stove warming his poor, | 8Uramce Company, No, chilled and wasted boay till the room! grew dark | Leggat, Collector of and he tell gently to sleep in his chair. | House; George Wilkes, WARM-HEABTED ENGLISHMEN AND ENGLISH wo- | {ngton square; G. 149 Broadway; Andrew W. | Assessments, New Court M. D., No. 16 North Wash- K. Lansing, Barle’s Hotel; G. J. | Rev. S. H, Weston, | same; but as v. | MEN N. ina Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of came In large numbers yesterday to inquire into | Canal aud Thompson strevts; J. L. Davis, Sheldon the cage of Richard Stoaka, who wili sail to-day for | & Co. No. 677 roadway, and England. He came to the Guild in the afternoon, , D. re Bast Forty-fiith street. or to the Re and, accompanied by Dr. William F. Tho: calied | Alvab Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, St. to see several ladies and gentlemen who had left | Jobn's chapel, Varick street, cards and wished to aid him. Dr. Tuoms made | | Packages o! clotuing, groceries, &¢., should be up @ small selection, with which he stocked Bent to st, Jonn'y chapei, Varick street, between ' pounds of meat, FUrTEENtH Warp Soup House, No, 219 MEKCER STREE?, New You, Marcu 2, 1874 To THE EprTor OF THE HEALD :— We take pleasure in acknowledging the follow- ing contributions :— Messrs. Bailey & Beakes, No. 205 Mercer street, eight quarts of milk per day, Charles Beekman, No. 324 East Twenty-fourth street, fifteen loaves of bread. Washington Market Association, sixty-two ©. Harrison & Co., corner of Fourth and Mercer streets, 100 loaves of bread, J. M. HEATHEKTON, Chairman, ALFRED E. LOZIER, Secretary. THOS. HASTINGS, Treasurer. E. J, HEATHERTON, Superintendent, TWENTY-FiRST WARD. Farther Necessity for Charitable Relief— Donations Received. The Reform Association for the Relief of the Aged ..$7,219 51 | 80d Destitute Poor again appeals to the benevo. lent of this city for aid. Money, clothing, pro- visions, coal, &c., 18 needed to supply the wants of the numerous Worthy, destitute poor whom daily apply for help. Last week we made a propo- sition m the HERALD to give lodging room to twenty-five respectable, homeless women, If some one would donate coal, beds and bedding for the et no one has responded to this Propodaba. @ hope the kind-hearted will not ‘orget that there are many worthy women in this city who have not where to lay their heads, Great destitution prevais in the Twenty-first ward. Let any one who takes an interest small medicine chest for the poor fellow, anda | Laight and Beacn streets, or {fan order be sent a | in the poor go through thia ward and he wil Gnd gentieman of Warren street made arrang: to get him a first class passage out at reduced rates and to present him with a@ £5 nove lor use on his arrival in England. A lady sented him with some warm clotuing and a note, and in the ‘ementa | Messenger wiil cali for any pac’ { Mrs. Judge Brady, Nee ip street; Mrs. Joseph Delafield, and Mrs. F. P. Karle, No. 34 West Fifty-seco! evening a delegation of printers irom Appietou’s | tous. ar a house visited him and gave him # purse | , | CHARITY ENTERTAINMENTS. ———— “I WANT MY MONEY OR MY ROOM.’ faveonh oftenest heard now, and it is Be, great n ement on that of Sheil Barry’s, “1 only | The Twenty-Second regiment Conce: Twenty ances.” Mf. Denny reparts “among the | 4 tony crowded house at the Armory in Fo! y-three worthy lamnilies I visited to-day 1 e orders lor beel amounting to 6554 ry a large amount of groveries at the Guild office.’ He found at No. 60 West Broadway, room No, 8, & tailor and his wife (who is a dressmaker), with two little children. ‘They are tn arrears for rent, aud the landiord will turn them out, he says, if he 18 not paid by Saturday. They are destitute of Jood, neither having had employment jor some ume. In No. 143 Hudson street, in the rear basement, | lives or renee pecnyes ie. Donohue, she has | :wo children, one only thirteen months enceine. Denny says she ‘owes $1 with tier | ceum Yheatre this (Tuesday) evening, March yeene tanh vee pet pees fo. $6, they charg- | for the benefit of the Central Dispensary, situa! 0 onth ior thay @ mud hole |"? 34 E ' oot Woh, WaeWr aE Oroee She, too, | at 934 Eighth avenue—an institution that gi of povert, on ACCIDENTAL REVELATION erty and the sufferings O14 talented woman | grat. Owing to the great demand Reece ee to one of the visitors, ‘This jady, | Charity this ‘winter they are in w ¢ ens beard her name and address may not be | tunds to meet the demand for medicine. made iA ic. has ior the past two years | this occasion Mr, f. ©. King, the great Engl support herselt and two little daughters | actor, bas kindly volunteered his services to Py Metbadides act: Wik es sketches Master Waiter in Sheridan Knowies’ pi apers; but by the | Hunchback,! supported by Miss P tate panic ber music vuviis vecam reducea wo i in dS boworial cas or under direction of Mr. Gilmore, iast might, full band of the Twenty-second took part in the tertamment, which produced a handsome sum the beneficiaries. Evening. A charity performance will be given at the Ly- | medical attendauce and medicines to the poor | ‘Giover, Hover, the composer's piece, and # Doweriul cast af valnn. 28. West Thirty-third No. 475 Fifth arenas | nd | street, have kindly consented to receive subsurip- rt. are | en- | for ‘arious charitable associations who are the | Benefit of the Central Dispensary This h 3, ted ves for need of | M,N. Baker, No. On | isn | ay | 2 | many worthy people lamisting and almost broken- hearted, who would rather lie down and die than | go begging for the necessaries of life. Wil not the benevolent still continue to aid the good work 80 well bogun? Besides giving a lodging room, we will furnish meals free to those women who may lodge here. From ten A, M, to five P, M. the soup house of the association is open, where hundreds are daily fed with soup, bread, coifee, meat and vegetables. Every Saturday, from five to seven M., 18 distributed & weekiy allowance of pro- Visions to Gestitute famnities, also delicacies for the sick. We thank the following persons for their do- teenth street, responded to the charity concert | natlons:— The | BHoope & Coit, 200 pounds sardines, ttt A. Smith, sugur, potatoes, parsnips and meat, A Friend, 2 barrels potatoes, Mrs. Jaylor, 1 bundie clothing, 2 bedquilts, Paul Gantaret, 200 quarts kerosene. 8. Baidwin, 1 buldie Ting. Strasberger & Plever, No. 34 broadway $5 00 | Perkins & Goodwin, No. 8 Duane street ... 6 00 Through P, Talbert. . + 8000 Cast... . oe « 9700 Joba H, Hasbuck, No. 260 Fifth avenu: « 1000 Mrs. D. H, Turner, No, $26 Mith avenae.... 6 00 Mrs. Dr. Lewis, No. 285 Filth avenue, . . 600 Packages of clotuing, groceries, &c., should be sent to the Association buliding, No. 823 Bast Thirty-third street; money to the Treasurer, Dr. 3 Kast Kghtecnin street. Warden Brennan, of Bellevue Hospital, and other members of the E. J. Flynn Association, have been actively at work making a collection of mouey and ciothing for the poor, and last evening commenced tne distribution to tue needy of tne wat ” poste be obtained | ue ee | terference with their religious convictions. Mr | | Prussian government had acted with great cir- | cumspection, and that the measures they had | Oppose them. Under no circumstances could they, GERMANY. The War of Bismarck Against the Papacy. THE EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. A Catholic View of the Situation. BERLIN, Feb. 15, 1874, It appeared to me, aa I sat yesterday in Mr. Ban- croft’s study at the United States Legation, in Berlin, that republican institations make a very fine kind of gentleman, The American Minister had eeceived me as correspondent of the Nsw YoRK H&RaLD with great kindness and cordiality, and there, face to face with me, with the grasp of his friendly hand still ingering on mine, | saw a type of diplomatists as frank as Palmerston, as Pleasant as Granville, Mr. Bancroft ls a quiet, dis- tinguished looking man, very upright, very straightforward in manner, with a well modulated Voice and s certain easy grace about him which ts extremely winning. I found the American Min- ister bard at work with his secretary, yet quite willing to spare enough time to give me every information I could require as & represefitative of the American press, | and in so doing he showed the wide distinction which exists between an able man who is thor- oughly up to his work and s weak man who is overwhelmed by weighty business, and kicks about as though he were being crushed beneath tt. I have seen too many diplomatists of the latter sort not to have felt some admiration for Mr. Bancroft when he paused good humoredly over his despatches and talked fully, without halt or hesita- tion, upon subjects which were not, perhaps, juss then uppermost in his thoughts, MR, NICHOLAS FISH. Before I had been long with him a handsome youngster came into the room with some official document for the Minister's signature. I gathered that it had reference to the case of an American: subject who had applied to the United States Lega- tion for help in some dificulty, and had got it in @ prompt and hearty manner, which he certainly would mot have got from the representative of any other country. Mr. Bancroft, im acordance with American custom, which has fallen into disuse in England, introduced the young gentleman above mentioned as Mr. Fish, He seemed a model of strength, health, good spirits and good breeding. I write this because he must have many friends in Amer- ica, who will be glad to hear that he is well, on good terms with his chief and is much liked av | Berlin, both personally and as a prominent mem- ber of the American Legation. MR. BANCROFT'S VIBWS ON GERMAN AFFAIRS, The unguarded utterances of astatesman so high in office as Mr. Bancroit cannot properly be re- ported to # newspaper; but I may say, I trust with- outany breach ef confidence, that Mr. Bancroft is of opinion that the Prussian government will suc- ceed in establishing its supremacy over the Church in this country. I ventured to remind him, as I had previously reminded Prince Bismarck, that an attempt to bring about the complete sub- ordination of the Church to the State is an experiment which has been oiten tried in history, but never with permanent success, and that a sense of not unreasonable alarm would al- ways be produced on the minds of men by any in- Bancroft replied that the endeavor to put down the authority of the Catholic Church had been re- peatedly made in various countries and had suc- ceeded. asked him if he thougat it had been per- maunently successful, and observed that the Pope certainly continued to exercise considerable au- thority in the British dominions? I did not clearly comprehend the Minister’a reply to this ques- tion, and I could not presume to repeat it. I submitted to him, however, that Archbishop Ledochowski was under trial before @ new tribunal jor & new offence never. contem- plated by the Prussian constitution, and I ex- pressed a strong doubt whether the proceedings taken against him were not altogether illegal. Mr. Banucroit said that he had reason to believe the taken were strictly legal. Be tunis as it may, it is | clear to my mind that Archbishop Ledochowski can only be condemned by ex post facto legisia- tion, and that i! auy man can be judged by a new law, baving a retrospective effect, it is a bad pusi- ness for him and ior his country. Now Prince Bismarck has himself stated to me that “the new ecclesiastical laws are the turning point of the whole question.” It remains, therefore, tor thoughtful persons to decide whetner new laws can fairly be made to try actions which refer to past events. ‘ THR LAWS OF GOD OB MAN? The question which 1s now agitatung Germany, and which threatens more than any other to break up the Empire into divisions passionately hostile to each other, is not @ question of party civil or ecclesiastical in any country, por ia it one of government and policy. It is @ question whether the law of God is superior to the law of man, and whetier nations snail be ruled by human or divine authority. 1t is a question whether there shall be a spiritual power in the midst of a temporal power and apart from it. Macaulay has a very fine argu- ment upon tills subject, and he explains, although he was not a Roman Catholic, that the Papal authority offered tie only reiuge always open to the oppressed under tue military despotism of the Middle Ages. A militury despotism now exists in Prussia, little differing, in many respects, from the overnment of ieudal times, and so, should Prince jismarck for a time contrive to suppress the Roman Catholic priesthood in Prussia there will be no asylum opeo to the victims of arbitrary power during that period. MODERN CIVILIZATION, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 38, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. when we come to look carefully {nto the adminis- trauon of modern countries and discover the | ring juity of the thing, reasonable oe be manga to thunk that Shartiina fh Goan +0 insist thas there is too littie interference of the priesthood in secular affairs rather than too much of it. What are secular affairs, that they should be kept so far from the ken and cognizance of heaven? Can there be any temporal businces greater than men’s eternal welfare; and if not why should secular affairs be conducted in # man- ner contrary to the divine commandments Most Christian peoples admit that they wil have to give account of their actions hereafter. They say 80 on their knees in their churches, and, having done this, some of then coolly add ‘Now let us put the law of God altogether aside, and :bow down to the Ged of parties and majorities, likewise to the giit calf which stock jobvers have set up. Jehovah, the King of kings, | Am, is aneternal being who bas nothing to do with the government of the worid which He made.” An odd argament is put lor- ward by the adherents of the Prussian government, They i—“‘Have no fear that the King of Prussia wil prove @ persecutor 11 extraordinary powers over the souls of his subjects sre con- fided to him apd he is raised higher than the Almighty, He isa very good man. So be tt.’ There is, indeed, no more respectable person on & throne than tnia William the Conqueror. But how about his successorst Where 18 the guarantee that these powers will not be awiully abused by them? 1t is a bard task to contro! men’s religion without cruelty. They will consent not only to be fined and imprisoned, but to be aiso burned alive for their iaith, as history often shows; and perhaps some day a Prussian potentate may take a faucy for maniesting his power over the souls of his subjects by the cogent argument of famiug lagots. THE JBSUITS, Respecting the expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany, it ts really a blander of the grosseat de- scription. It was charged against them that the; were active political couspiracora who entertaine correspondence with the enemy. This was & very vague charge, and it was oot proved. But if it had “peen proved what then? 1fany Jesuit was a traitor, and maphiion information in war time to the ene- mies of his country, there were laws enough to punish him. He was amenabdie to those laws, yhe: aga It OF Not, and to despoll and banish the whole Order of Jesuits for this reason would be luke driving out the profession because some doctors had been accused of malepractices. THE PROSSIAN LAW OF RIOT. On the 10th December, 1871, a Prussian law was promuigated making it “s penal offence for cler- ymer to incite riots or otherwise endanger the ‘public peace."’ So far so good. But why thw law should have been followed by an Act of Parliament, dated July 4, 187, the Jesuits from ali the territories of the German Brapire, is utterly inexplicable upon any grounds of reason or justice. They were ex) untied ana unheard for no offence. Ifitcoaid have been proved that they had offended against the laws it would bave been proved, and they would then have been punishable, not as Jesuits, but as law breakers, and punishable only by intelligible sen- fences according to law for offences known to the law. But to puntsha whole community because of absurd rumors 18 a procee against which periect innocence has no deience. jtiy, | may mention belore Sone ator aus letter that a queer mistake prevails among 01 fina ine at Berlin— that the clergy should be subordinate to the civil ower because they are paid by the State. That is a very strange notion, The stipend of the priest has been fixed by divine authority. The clergy have @ divine right to a tenth of the goods of man- kind, and they seldom get it punctually paid. They would not get it at all but that there is some- thing in God’s law which cannot be evaded by human perve! FRANCE. ISM. THE RISE OF NAPOLEOD The Coming Fete Day of| Napoleon IV. A PROBABLE CRISIS. Panis, Fed, 1, 1874. Americans will probably hear soon that another great change has come over French affairs, and there are symptoms that this change will consist in a restoration of the Empire, Next month, on the 16th, the Prince Imperial, called by the faithful Napoleon IV., will attain his eighteenth year, and will consequentiy be of age togovern. It is said that the Empress Eugénieis actually in Paris at this moment plotting a Bonapartist ‘manifesta- tion,” and whether this be the case or not, it is certain there will be Bonapartist doings of im- portance on the 16th. For several months past the Post Office has been showering millions upon mil- lions of Bonapartist tracts, handbills and songs over the country. Provincial electors, both in town and country, nave received visiting cards bearing the Prince Imperial’s photograph, and underneath the words :—“16 Mars, 1874, Appel au Peuple,” and one cannot travel twenty miles out of Paris with- out hearing of Bonapartist agents at work in every Village, as patiently and tenaciously as New Worid pioneers. Their efforts are partially visible in the recent election of the Department of the Pas de Calais, where a SBonapartist was returned by 10,000 electors, his repubii- can opponent being in a minorty of 3,000, In ——— Marshal had been raised to s Pro Presidency im May; in November be Pl aged his powers for a fixed term of seven Sota the secret underatanding of the royalists wast ie aa perenne te should simply act as @ CONSPIRACIES. In other words, the ro; fa Srgmod that if Mao- Mahon occupied the Presidency he would defend it , publi while, on the other al c. against re; ican aspirants, hand, he would keep the Bonapartists from at- tempting any coup d'état to restore Napoleon IV., sad they-counted thas.as soon as they could, by hook oF crook, muster @ wor! rity in the Chamber, MacMahon would have she good grace te retire before @ royahst nominge—probably the Count of Paris act, as Regent of the kingdom during Henry V.'s lifetime, Such was their plap, and S dimple plan it was. Unfortunately, the Mar’ shal’s ters, Onding how thoroughly’ anti-roy- alist was 6! ey tion, have beeh con- tending that the te is the only régime he; possible under present circumstances, de- between the republican- ism wileh the royalists dread m whic yalists dread and th which they hate, Plausibly enougn they’ erases that institutions ate of more tm) oreance than per- sons or than mere forms, and that 8o long as the country 18 governed under conservative princi- ples by @ system which bears the name of repubite and thos contents the m: order will be saier than under a king who would Rave jour-filths of the people in sullen or overt hostility to him. There can be no doubt of the truth of this nor of 1ts sound policy from the conservative point of view, and if tne royalists held to measures instead of to men they might govern the country for an indefinite period, supporting MacMahon till his term was ended, and then re-electing him or ap- pointing a conservative of the same stamp to suc- ceed him, Bat French royalists are destitute of alk itica!l astuteness. Names, trappings and sym ia are the things to which they pin their {ait and what they want is a king, aman who shall have a court and give them the comfort and tne feeling that they are “His Majesty’s subjects’? again. Accordingly MacMahon's isters, and especially the Duke de Broglie, the prime cham- pion of the septennate, are getting into very bad odor with the royalists. ‘These restless hankerers after monarchy accuse them of having committed @ breach ol contract. Some of them go the length of MacMahon with being personally am- bitious and with having deceived them, and a re- cent division, in which the Cabinet was actually beaten, proved that the Duke de Broglie had lost all control over the majority. When matters have Teached this condition evgats may at any Moment hasten ‘ CRISIS, and to all appearances this crisis will come upom us very soon. Already the Duke de Broglie has hinted that if the royalist pawapepere continue te attack the septennate as they have been doing he i be obluged, for the sake of the President's aig- to prosecute them; and socertainly as he lays a finger on one of the royatist prints, with the avowed intention of gagging tue party, the Right will drive him trom power. They can do this withdrawing from the house on & party vote leav.ng him to the mercies of the republicans, by whom he is detested, or they can coalesce wit the moderate republicans on one of the clauses of she constitutional bills now pending and get rid ofhim bya formal vote. After this two courses would be open to the President. He might recon- stitute the Cabinet, with the Duke Decazes at ite head, in which case the new Minisiers would have to pledge themselves to let the royausts alone— that ts, allow them to plot against the President with impunity; or he might summon a Cabinet from the liberal Leit, just as a coustita tional monarch does when the conservative party is beaten. But both these courses would ba equally repugnant to MacMahon. The former would be contrary to his dignity, the latt®r to bia principles for even the most moderate of French republicans are liberals of the Thiers type, aud MacMahon couid not get on with them for any length of time. Thus pressed he will in all proba- bility have recourse to the alternative already in- dicated, that ts, order a plebiscitum, The mant- festations which the Bonapartists will stir ap on the 16th of March will give him a welcome pretext for doing this. He will say that as the members of the Assembly cannot agree it is better THE COUNTRY SHOULD PRONOUNCR ON ITS OWN DESTINIES once and for all, and then we shall have 4 revival of the agitation which marked the plebiscitary pe- riod of 1870, ‘The electors will be asked to choose between One of three things—Republic, King of Emperor. And the plediscitum will probably be aa ordained that neither of the parties will be able te complain of pot having had a fair chance. On the first day of the voting the electors will have three rhiogs, ‘a8 above said, to select from. On the sec ond day, a iortmight afterwards, the two institu- tions Which will have obtained the greatest num- ber of votes, will fight out a final battle. But how will that battle end? There can scarcely be a doubt that it must end in imperialist victory. The republican sentiment is very deep m cities, but ia the country districts no one has forgotten the security and prosperity which the nation enjoyed under Napoleon LIL, and it is in the country die tricts that the Bonapartists are now most actively engaged in pro; nda, It is not likely that the imperialists will obtain sucd a triumpa as they did in 1870, when the Emperor polled 7,000,000 votes te 1,500,000 recorded ainst him, But the votes would in ali probability stand on the first day empire, 3,500,000; republic, 3,500,000, and royalty, 1,500,000—this is, Of course, & round number gtven—and on the second day the imperialists would gain sufficient of the royalist votes to carry @ majority. It must always be remembered that in attempting to forecast French events one fa Propheaying about a people as suiting as quicksile ver, and, thereiore, it may happen that none of the prognostications made in this letter will be justi- fled by the events. But it is allowable to dra logical inferepces even from such illogical prem- ises as those which French affairs afford, and the political compass in France does certalaly point at this moment towards Bonapartism. SALE OF JAY COOKE’S FURNITURE. ——— The Auction at the Former Offices of the Bankrupt Firm Yesterday—Ihe Pro- ceeds Not Over $1,000—A Large Crowd. the same day another election was taking place in the Haute Saone, where a royalist duke of con- siderable wealth, local infuence and popularity — was arrayed against a republican comparatively unknown; but here the republican triumphed by a | crushing majority. These two elections point a significant moral. It is impossible not to infer from them, when taken with other elections of the past six months, that the French electorate ts vir- tually divided into no more than two parties—the Bonapartists and republicans. The royalists, though influential in the aggregate, are an aristo- cratical and middle ciass body, scattered over the land and preponderant in no single constituency. As to Marshal MacMahon, his rule ia go littie un- derstood or appreciated that, although a dozen elections have been held since he came to office, no candidate patronized by his government has been returned. And yet he flatters himseli that he can hold power for seven years! Bearing this fact in mind, 1 am uot writing from an American or a German point of view. I am going to con-ider the question in the interests of modern Christian civilization. If the laws recently introduced to the Landiag by the Prussian gov- ernment were proposed in the Unitea States every upright man would feel bound by his conscience to or ought they, to be seduced into connivance with arbitrary power or into giving their countenance to an apology for persecution, A CATHOLIC COALITION. I am well informed that no large body of either | Catholics or Protestants desires any change in the relations which have hitherto existed between Church and State 10 Prussia, and it would have been well if Prince Bismarck had taken to heart the Latin proverb, “Quieta non ” or the shrewd advice ol Lord Melbourne to @ meddie- some colleague who wished todo something which did not want doing, “Can't you jet it alone?” Unfortuoateiy the German mind lacks the sharp common sense which characterizes the Anglo- Saxon races. it is right now to mention that the warfare upon which the Prussian government has entered against the Catholic Uhurch is not a crusade forthe | overthrow of the Papal power in Germany. it is an effort to put allchurches under official domina- tion, In dealing so harshly as he has done with the Catholic clergy Prince Bismarck has had but one object in view, viz., the establishment of the supremacy of the State—that 1s to say, of some half dozen oMicial persous—over all forms of re- ligion and the consolidation of the military power of the Empire tnto an irresistibie force. In judg- ing the new eociesiastical laws now before the Diet their supporters, who rather shrink from the re- sponsibility they have incurred, require all persons to take note that Germany is in 4 state of transi- tion, and that legisiation in great emergencies is necessarily de.ective in tts details. This plea does not appear to me to hold good. Every nation is always in @ state of transition, and emergencies do not justily bad laws, Moreover, I have already suown that there was no emergency which required the paasing of the new ecclesiasti- cal laws; but irom the moment they come into effect serious difficulties will arise everywhere. France, Bavaria, Austria, Poland, a large part of the popu- lution of the United States and of Italy, Engiand, Span, Portugal and Russia wilt be united in a bit- | ter and uncompromising hostility to them. ould Prussia dnd herseif drawn again into foreign wars sne will have @ coalition of the Catholic States against her abroad and a Catholic population up in arms at home. PRINCE BISMARCK’S PLATFORM. It {s true that Prince Bismarck puts forward the old Protestant platitudes in the usual way. He | complains of the ‘sovereignty of a loreign poten- tate.’ This kind of outcry, stale and taise ag it ts, addresses liseif very strongly to @ certain class of unthinking people, They do not stop to consider that it 18 nonsensical; tor when and where did the | Catholic clergy interiere with the administration of any country? When did it distribute the com- mands of the army or navy, the principal offices in the State, or pretend to decide suits at law ve- fore the Civil tribunals? The objection made by shallow politicians in all times and in all nations since the Reformation to the spirtcual power of the Roman Catholic clergy has really meant this, that ‘they Verily stood up against ail forme of official oppression and found ways and means tp put it down or to proiect its victims. Tue ‘Foreign Potenate”’ whose authority ts put MACMAHON CANNOT LAST SEVEN YEARS; and, however confident he may feel now, facts must before long force him to change bis opinion. He will not be overthrewn by a revolution nor even by a vote of the Assembly levelled personally against him, a8 was that of the 24th of May, 1573, against M. Thiers. He will fall as an overripe fruit does from a tree, because it will be impossible for him to hold on. From the first his situation was a | false one, and it has been growing more equivocal and precarious day by day. Ina very little time he will find arrayed against him both royalists and | imperialists, and: be supported only by those very republicans whom he was commissioned to snub and bully. The republicans will support him from hostility to the monarchisis; and if MacMahon chooses to join their party, his rule will, no doubt, continue to its full time. But he is not the man to do this, He is no politician in the sense of know- ing how to shift his policy and even to recant his opinions for the sake of his personal interests. He declared at starting that he was. @ conservative and would rule only on conservative principles and by the help of conservatives. When his party deserts him or becomes 40 split up by internal dissensions ag to be powerless against the compact mass of | republicans then MacMahon will grow tired and | disgusted. He will retire with a show ol aignity by ordering @ plébiscitum, and this will almost in- evitably lead to the establishment of @ third em- Pire. Let us see how MacMahon has come to | these straits a0 soon after nis election, for tt must | be remembered the septennate is not yet three months old, The fault is partly his own, for he ‘Was put up asatemporary stop-gap by the cow | lesced royalists, and to their surprise and annoy- ance he has announced that he considers himself a permanency, This isas if a man dressed up in the king’s clotnes and seated for fun on the throne were to insist on wearing the ciothes and keeping the seat when the fun was over, and when the King was clamoring for his own. MacMahon has chosen to cousider himself a necessity when he was only an expedient, and a party leader when he Was but the tool of a party, and that @ most divided one, Aiter the jail o tue Commune France was nominally marsiailed into four parties, which, by and by, on the reconciliation of the Bourbon and Orleans houses, became three—the repubil- cans, royalists and imperialists. M. Thiers, as the leader of the first iaction, was the only statesman ‘who could be said to represent republican princi- les, and when @ coalition of monarchists drove him from omice it was evident that monarchy in some shape must soon be restored, The royalists, being @ majority tn the Assembly, strove hard to euthrone the Count of Chambord, succeeded but for that Priace’s scruples about the tricolor flag. Having failed, they were not strong enough to institute a royalty with the Count of Paris as its nead, nor even & regenc) down in Latsagely is neither more aor tess than tue Yicegereat oi God uoop earth; pod xeally. | they had recourse to Dake of Aumaie or the Prince of Joinville; so MacNab OD a8 & temooy = | small umbreila stand, and would have | under the | The oMces formerly occnpied by Jay Cooke & | Co.. at No. 2 Nassau street, presented a curioas spectacle yesterday morning. Mr. Archibaid Jobn- ston, the auctioneer, had announced that tae bang- Tuptcy sale of the furniture formerly belonging ta the firm would take place at half-past ten o'clock A. M. At eleven o'clock the sale began, and at twelve o'clock it was over. A ‘ew hours iater the ofice Was @ mere jumble of empty drawers and chairs, which were scattered here ani there, aud the floor was littered with hundreds of cancelled checks, Brokers and bankers came to pick up the checks, and pocketed them as eagerly as thougn they still represented the amounts for whict they were originally drawn. The offices were in @ very dirty condition. The | desk and fixtures were all covered with dast, which at the first glance looked wo be at least an inch thick. Ever siuce the firm lad sus- | pended business and the place was clused, the eie- gant black walnut furniture had been leit to mildew. When the auctioneer left the scene was one of desolation. More, a fanciful looker-oa mi,ht have thought ali hummed once with activity and bustle, and thousauds of duilars were paid over these counters, the contents of which are now so rudely scattered over the floor. {he reigu of the almighty dollar was brought to a close bere, aud the heaps of worthless draits and décumenta tormed a vivid commentary on the mutability ot fortunes and the instavility of wealth, The crowd which attended the sale was a very large one, and wedged in between the various partitions in @ most uncom/ortable manner, Some crawled upon the desks, fearful of tueir tender toes, and others, who were probably mere idl@ lookers on, withdrew altogether frum this un- Pleasant crush. One gentleman, who eageily pressed forward, knocked his head against @ chandelier, which elicited much laughter. A lew pickpockets were also present; but as they were watched by @ post office detective their operauons were necessarily limited and their harvest not so large a8 they expected. At least three-lourths of the multitude were idle spectators, who had come from mere curiosity. The remainder was largely composed of Wall street men and speculators, Wha had probably, in this very office, once concluded prottable or ruinous transactions, as the case may be. As the trustee had disposed of the greater part of the furniture by private sale and ordered the safes, worth about $1,000, to be retained, the catalogue embraced only thirty-two pieces, and the proceeds, as stated by the auctioneer, wer@ not over $1,000, The eatire /urnivure once belong: | tng to Jay Cooke & Co. was estimated at about plored Ce per eek must have been pre viously disposed o1, The catalogue which was distributed yesterday morning among the spectators enumerated the following ,pleces:—Black walnut stationery cuse, two large Black walnut desks, table, witn pigeou holes; large desk, bookcase ana fetter closet, cylinder desks, ten chairs and stools, telegraph tavle, screen, two fre extinguishers, Wardrobe, desks, table,’ small desk, desk and pigeoa holes, mantel mirror, arge desk, partitions, stationery, desk, awnings, mats, calendar block, gas fAxturea, th case with pigeon holes, read id water cooler. tng lamp an the first case wnat a bg ding was very lively, frat cared” for $10 and finally knocked down $20. The black walnut partitions excited the patest competition, Some were first oifered at 50, and dollar by dollar the bid ran up to $215. the desks fetched from $50 to $80, the chairs §30, wardrobes $30 and bookcases also $30, A rather melaucholy ieature oj the sale was the presence of many Of che old employés of the bank rupt firm, who saw the desks over witch they had ouce presided pass into the possession of indiffer ent resem But such is tue glory of Wad atree! A DBOWNED MAN WITH $130 IN BD POCKET, The unknown man found in the dock of pter No 87 North river wore a blue sack coat, pants ané vest, white musiin shirt, red fannel undershirt an¢ drawers, white socks and Congress gaiters. La possession of deceased was found $130 in Treas Ury notes, of various denominauons, & silver watch, with chain attached, and otier articies @ | less value, The body was sent to che Morgue fo identification, Deceased ts aapposed to have bees #man who few weeks age committed suicide by | Jumping overboard from,’one al tue North Kivi Uterrvboata