The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 8

PAPACY. The Pope’s Contest with the Secular Powers. —_—_--—— THE LOGIC OF EVENTS. a The Charch in a State of Bondage. ROME, April 7. 187% When Italy, pursning the path of mational aspi- ration, which a truly wonderful combination of cir- eumstances now for the first time, alter so many generations of waiting and of’ hope deferred, opened to her, Look violent possession of the States ofthe Church, of course ghe, of all the nations of the earth, was, in the eyes of the Papacy, the worst and most dangerous enemy with which the Churen had to contend. That the nation should nave seized the vpportuulty of delivering herself from eue yoke of the joreigner, thatit should have thrown down the barriers which parcelled out the soll into half a dozen petty principalities and forbade the name of Italy to be aught save a “geographical ex- pression”’—this was to have been expected and might have been tolerasd by @ Ponti? among whose predecessors there were some, at least, who would have regarded such an enterprise with no hostile eve. Ii, of late years and centuries, the Churen bad deen found on the side of the stronger and the oppressor and had been seen to throw its Jot in with the petty tyrants whose main life and ob- Ject it was to mage the scoffof the Austrian states- man a permanent truth, it was because the Apos- tolic Court, with that unerring instimct that has always warned it of the approach of danger and given it the power ot unmistakably judging the direction of human tendencies, saw that this national course boded no gool to Papal pretensions, Butit was thought that the rising tide, which swept away the barriers of lay prince- lings, would have stopped short at the frontiers of the sacred dominions of the Church, And there is good reason to believe that if the matter had been in the hands of the leaders of the nation, whether | King or Ministers, such would have been the case, The hesitation and doubt that characterized the last decisive step, which made Rome itself a part of the new Italian State, have been spoken of ina former letter. A similar hesitation, arising, in- deed, not from any religious scruples, but from a fear of what might arise out cf the religious scru- Ples of others, marked every step In the progress of the invasion of the Papai dominions. But the tide swept on, becanse it was a tide, and it was beyond the power of kings or’statesmen to stop it. THE LOGIC OF NATIONAL EVENTS, That so irresistible a tide should have existed is a very remarkable and nationally characteristic fact, which those who speculate on the probable future of Statea and Churches may consider with instruction, This thing happened in a nation | Yar excellence Catholic. Every individual, civil Or military, who was implicated directly or in- | directly, by act or by wish, in the overthrowing of the Papal frontiers and the invasion of the Papal State was bound to believe by the religion | he professed to noid that he was thereby forfeiting his hopes of eternal salvation and incurring an ¢ternity of punishment. | Yet these consiferations availed absolutely j Bothing to prevent the entire nation from rushing forward on the course which promised to realize its national wishes, Surely a very singu- Jar circumstance! There are other bations noid. ing similar religious tenets who would surely | | evidently be the most likely to be thus ex. bate tn ARS NeW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, was first published some weeas since by the Co- logne Gazette, had probably tn reality less meaning than the lay world was inclined to attribute to it. Despite the pertinacious denials of its authenticity which the Papal organs in all parts of Europe put forth with so much insistance there is very good reason to believe that, if not absolutely textually accurate, the sense of the document was correctly given by the Cologne paper. The amount of non- | sense talked about this famous bull in many of the papers of Europe, especially those of England and Germany, was amazing, aud the amount ignorance displayed was a curious indi- cation of the degree in which the education of | | ordimary cultivated laymen has severed ttself in | these latter days irom ecclesiastical matters and ecclesiastical teaching. It was supposed that this boil was proposing to make unprecedented inno- vations in the mode of election to the Papacy, that if sought to deprive other Powers of rights Which were supposed to belong to them in the matter, and thatit furnished good ground to the statesmen of Europe to determine and declare that they would not recognize a Pope who should be chosen otherwise than according to the regular and usnai method. The newspapers wrote as if the Pope nad been caught out in attempting privily to steal a march upon the world in the mat- ter of the next Papal election, and that by means of the surreptitious publication of this bull the plot bad been discovered aad must be resisted and baMed accordingly. VATICAN RIGHTS IN THE PAPAL ELECTION. Now, all this talk was based upon an ignorance of the whole subject truly extraordinary. The bull in question did mot propose or affect to do anything which it was not periectly competent to the Pope to do without the smallest violation of | the canons or of the complete integrity of the election. The ceremonious and picturesque para- phernalia of a conclave, the shutting up and isolation of the Cardinals, together witn @ host of traditional observances, have been described too often and are too generally known for it to be necessary to occupy time and space by retelling such an often-tokl tale, Suffice it tosay that the essential conditions of @ canonical election are these, and these only—that the election should be made vacante sede—that is, after the death of the Pope whose successor is being chosen; that the cardinals should come to the business of the election unprepared for it by any previous accord or even discussion of the subject; that their votes should be given in perfect freedom, and that the new Pope should be named by the requisite ma- jority of the cardinals present, With none of these conditions can any Pope dispense canon- ically; and there would be fair ground tor main- taining, and plenty of churchmen would be found to maintain, that @ Pope chosen or pre‘erring to be chosen in contravention of any of these rules was not in fact Pope, and ought not to be recog- nized by the Church and the world as such. But all beyond these rules is mere matter of ceremonial with which the Pope can unquestionably dispense at his pleasure. And what makes the prevailing ignorance upon the subject the more strange is that there are very recent Papal precedents for such @ course. It was adopted by both Ping Vi., and Pius VI. It is perfectly competent to the Pope thus to declare that the election may be held immediately after his death, instead of the usual time being allowed toelapse. This provision is doubtless an important one, because it may have the effect of excluding from the election cardinals who may not be present in Rome at the moment of the Pontifrsdecease. The foreign eardinals would cluded. Nevertheless, there !s no doubt what- ever that @ canonical election may be thus made; and the phrase weil known in ecclesiastical history of au election made presente cadavere— 4, é,, In the presence of the corpse of the deceased Pope—tesuifies to the recognition of the practice. As for the rights of foreign Powers, which it 1s supposed that the recent bul! invades or sets at _penaces of their faith, Upon this peopig these had Bimpiy ho effect at all. And thé people of relig- fous nations, American and English, began forth- | With to say, as they looked at the strange phe- | ,Pomebon mm question, “Evidently these people are | not Catholics, Evidently they must be ready to Tenounce a creed which they clearly care nothing | about, and we have only to distribute a sumicient aquantity of Bibles and ‘gaching among them to make thgm into Protestants, like _Sfiyes.”” A signal error, as I am sorry to | have to warn our well-meaning friends ou either | shore of the Atiantic they will in time ver. | Tray the inference, that begwasé this peopie is very litvle amenable to the doctrines of Vatholicism they must surely be ready to become Provestants, js very much akin to that of the would-be actor ‘who, when Garrick assured him that he had no talent for tragedy, replied that it was clearly, then, in comedy that nis genius mnst lie! The truth 1s that the Itallan peopie are probably the beast religious on the face of the earth—by which I mean that they are less actuated by any reveren- | tial thought of the Invisible or care about any world save that in which they now live. But this (3 a digression ; though it touches a very curious sn dject, which would wel! repay more detailed ex- amination, and whieh has to be considered by who- soever would understand rightly the present situa- tion of affairs in Iialy. The Malian people, then, | throwing their Catholic teaching and Cathoue pro- fessions to the winas, invaded the Pope's territory, Set at naught his authority and bis threats, and | nally dethroned him in his own city, And of | course they were Jooked upon, as Ihave said, as | the worst and most dangerous enemies of the Church and the Papacy. But matters have con- considerably changed in that respect in Europe | wince that time. Probably the feelings of the Pon- tag and of his Court are still more sore on the subject of Italy's defection than on that of | their other troubles. For there tsa sort of “Et tu Brute!” feeling, which embitters tne Pope’s resent- | ment against italy. But the real truth is, that | other defections which Rave declared themselves since Italy's revellion was consummated are more deadly and more dangerous to ‘the future of the | Cherch than that is or is likely to ve. Italy, if | @nly toe Courch would not give ber too much tronbie in temporal matters, would be content to | So O@ ‘or many a generation to come allowing tue | Pope to be undisputed jord on his own side of the hedge, calling themseives devout Vatholics, and paying bishops ana priests of the Pope's appoint- | ment. But it is a very different sort of spirit that | bas been evoked on tue other side of the Alps. | The people there take religion au serieur! The | chances really are there, that if the population find | that they have no talent for Catholicizm they will | show themselves (o have a'genius ior Protestantism. And now, still more recently, Austria, too, is fail- ing away, rejecting her eoncordat, and in every | way declining to give the Pontiff any support, Whether moral or other, towards the maintenance Of nis pretensions, And those South Germans, With their tender nature and emotional sentie | Mave been held in check by the monitions and our- | Mentalisms, will assuredly believe one thing if they don’t believe the other. But believe, you Know, realiy in earnest, after a quite diferent fashion from the easy-going practical Saduceeiam | ‘Whieb prevails to the south of the Alpine barrier. | The rulers of tue Church may be sure that the | Jowering of the sky in the North portends much more dangerously stormy weather than the squalis | wi have laabed Italy, even though they have | been Immediate agents in the pulling down of | the Papal temporal power, POLICY OF THR PAPACY. It is probable that this may be recognized to be | u trath im the councils of the Vatican to a wreater degree than is allowed to become apparent. | It ix probable that the Ponti and the members of | the Sacred Ooliege of Cardinais continue to protess that they live in a state of durance, that their in- dependence of action 18 menaced and impeded rather from a sense of consistency and the neces. wity Of maintaining the truth and accuracy of all the complaints and accusations which they have | been making jor the last six or seven years than from any teal apprehension of interferenee, ‘Iney probably are well aware that no other Power in FEprope, not even France herself, would treat them ‘With so much Indulgence and allow them so much real liberty as Italy does and is disposed to oo. For even France would avowedly not suffer @ conclave for the election of the suecessor of the present Pontiff to be held on French soil without taking means for exercising controlling influence | Writers if they will only abstain from dogmatizing | such is the case. | allowed, | tiff had been elected. | future Pope may not be recognized, as the present | deny you to be the Pope,” the result is practically | ment so saying would be guilty of an absurdity. | | Probably the writers who have said so much about | that is not properly within the Pope’s power todo, naught, the notion arises from an ignorance of ecietigstical hugtory ery excusarie in lay on the subject. There exists one case only in which any Power or person outside the College of Cardinals has any right to interfere in the elec- tion. And most persons will doubtless be surprised at being told that this right is vested in the King of Portugi but, strange as it seems, Portugal has the right of | | “veto.” That is tosay, she may oWect to the | Weduesday belonged to tne trade, | election of SBF One “glven cardinal. No King of Portugal has ever in the course of history exer- cised this right. But the Kings of Portugal pos- | sess it by virtue of a Papal ball, The right of veto” which is generally supposed to be vested in the crowns of Austria and Spain and France is in fact no rignt. It has often been assumed, often but also orten disallowed and disre- garded. It was natural at a time when the Papacy exercised great influence on the general course of European politics that the great Catho- lic Powers should take a very eager interest in the Papal elections. Aud gradually the custom grew into the form Of an institntion, that each of the tnree Powers named should be allowed to “veto” | Ward of $1,000 jor the conviction of cach and every , dropped, but it was found from his record that he breezes! The breezes have been, it is true, neither gentle nor favoring as regards all matvers con- nected with the temporalities of the Church. But there is not an ecclesiasticin the Vatican who ts not perfectly well @ware that there is not the remot est chance of any interference whatever with the periect treedom and independence of the Conclave being attempted or permitted by the Itahan gov- ernment, And there can be po doubt that the Pope and the members of the Sacred College are perfectly well aware Of this, There has, as your readers are, of course, perfectly well aware, been @ great deal of talk In political and clerical circies aed a great deal of discussion in the newspapers as to the expediency and probability of holding the elect.on, which must be expected to ensue at no distant date, elsewhere than in Rome. Pan, or some other city Of France, bas been suggested. But Toeir Emimences know very well that, though they might there consider themselves to be in the house of @ friend, and the irtend would eagerly beg of them to “make themselves at home” there, the intend would be apt to push his hospitable attentions tothe point of by no means leaving them to themselves, In fact, an election made in Frauce would have to be made altogether in a Freneh sense; and, though this would be betier in their eyes than making it in a German or an Austrian cr an Italian sense, it is not what the College wiil desire, The election will be made more emphatically and entirely than has been the case for @ long while, tm @ Church sense. Then, again, it was asserted that had been determined that the Conclave stiould be heid at Malta. Certainly the business tw be done might be transacted there in periect freedom and without the smaliest interierence from any- vody. Whether some thirty or forty elderly gen- tlemen should arrive in the island for the purpose of dining together or eiecting a Pope, or waiting for the next Peninsular and Oriental boat, would be @ matter of periect indifference to the English | government. iutto send these poor old porporati on a voyage to Malta! You might as well send them to Hong Kong. A voyage round the world would be to many eyes a far smaller affair than a | voyage to Malta in the eyes of Their Eminences of | the Sacred College—and what, too, for no reason | ou earth save to play out @ comedy—to act consistently with their declarations that the Church 18 in a state of bondage at Rome. It would | be lar more pleasant and serve the purpose every | whit ag well to hold their Conciave comfortably at | Rome, and protest they were compelled to do so | by the tyranny of Victor: Emmanuel and his wicked government. Besides that, it would grate against | the feelings of Their Eminences to declare in the | jace of all the world that the only place on tue earth in which they could find freedom and | disinterested protection was in the dominions of a heretic sovereign. A CONCLAVE might, no doubt, be heid with perfect comfort and convenience in the Aster House, and the manager might be persuaded to undertake the duty of | sticking a bodkin into every Canvas-back duck as | it was passed into the “cell” of eack of nis eminent | guests, to ascertain that there was no written note or communication under it, and all this with- out causing the sligntest rise or fall in the delicate barometer of Wall street. But that terrible At- lantic! Not to be thought of! In short, the Con- clave will be held at Rome. It cannot be held, as has recentiy been the case,im the Quirinal Palace, for the “ugurper” has taken possession of that; but it can be held, as in old times, at the Vatican, or, if Their Eminences prefer it, in the huge and almost abandoned Laterar Palace, which also belongs to the Pope, and is, like the Vatican, inviolable, And it will be held, as the Pope and every member of the Sacred | College 1s perfectly well aware, not only in entire ireedom, but with less tuterference from any Powers, principalities or other extrane- ous influence than any Conclave which has beon held for very many years. NEW YORK CITY. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment will meet at one o'clock this afternoon to act on the | newly revised estimates of the varions depart- ments, The President of the United Order of American Plasterers contradicts the report that the parties | to the distarbance in Seventy-filth street on | At a meeting of the Board of Police, held yester- day afternoon, the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth precincts were determined upon as being the Thirteenth surgical district, Dr. Looms Was appointed surgeon of the district, The Committee on Incendiarism and Arson of the National Board of Fire Underwriters at their meeting to be held in this city on the 18th inst. will recommend the Board to offer a standing re- | incendiary, 4 James 8. Mead, the roundsman of the Second precinct who so gallantly rescued a Mr. Robertson from drowning on Thursday, was promoted on the 9th inst. He had been one of the tuirty recently bad never been Hned a day since his appointment, any one particular cardinal whom it deemed | | specially hostile to its interests. THE POWER OF VETO. | It is to be understood that this “veto” was ex- | ercised during the Conclave, never after the Pon- | It was exercised in the Conclave by some Cardinal acting on behalf of the | Power in question. Thus Cardinal Gagsruck, the | Austrian, was speeding up to Rome, bringing the | “veto” of Austria against the election of Cardinai | Mastri, the present Pope. But he was too late. | When he arrived at Rome the Conclave was over and the new Pope elected, and there was no more | to be said. But precedents in pleuty are not wanting of the Sacred College having elected a Pope tn disregard of @ “veto’’ irom each of the three crowned heads who were accustomed to ex- ercise it. And the Church has never admitted this interference im the election as a matter of right. Inthe case of Portugal alone itiss0, But | Portugal, as it happens, has never used it, LAY RECOGNITION. All the talk about this, that or the other govern- | ment not recognizing the Pope who shall be daly | chosen by the Cardinals present at his election is nonsense. In one seuse of the word, indeed, the Pope may be said not to be recognized by the Ger- man government—that is to say, that his autnority may be entirely set at naught ana disregarded, And what can any government do more than this? Whether a foreign government may, by Its acts, say, “Pope as you are, I do not allow your injunc- tion or advice or wishes to influence my course in the smallest degree,” or whether it may say, “I | the same, save that in the latter case the govern- | the non-recognition of the successor of Pius tue Ninth have got in their heads the story of the days when, the College of Cardinals having disagreed in | the election of a Supreme Pontiff, two Popes were in the field, each calling his rival anti-Pope. Under suck circumstances, Of course, it was open to the | different princes of Europe ta “recognize” either or neither as the true Pope. But, given a College of Cardinals agreed in declaring AB or © D to be Pope, it is impossible for anybody, Catholic or heretic, to deny the fact that the person so des! nated is the Pope. THE BULL OF STOCRSSION, It is, then, abundantly clear that the Wall which has made so much noise professes to do nothing and that the person chosen in accordance with that bull will be to all intents and purposes, and must be acknowledged to be, the Pope, But still I am aisposed to think that tne making of the buil im question was rather a mere expression of anger and ill-temper and a part of a rdle to be consist entiy acted than anything else, It isa renewed | protestation that the Church ts not iree, that it is in thraidom and the victim of terrible oppression. | “The position of the Charch, let all men take Dotiee,”’ says in effect the Pontif by this bull, “is Such that the strong and unusual provisions for the holding Of a due election, which have hereto- | fore heen resorted to in times of great danger and trouble, are necessary now.” ‘Lhe conduct of the Holy Father is that of the skipper who, having stated ln the ship log that he experienced dreadful sivrms, Insists opon making the hands reef sails over the chyicg, ‘The reyent bull tuerchare, Which, du all baste Wo the mudat of genug and savoring | ated. | position, was yesterday found foating in the water | to the | pianist, and Mr. Robert Elder, ‘organist, The annual meeting of the Womens’ Foreign Missionary Society was held, yesterday afternoon at the Washington square Methodist Episcopal church. There was batasiim attendance present to listen to an address on the Work of iuissiona: by Mrs, W. ©, Skidmore. Im the evening a straw. berry lestival Was given for the benefit of the so- ciety. Sergeant Christie, 01 the Fifteenth precinct, yes- terday reported to Coroner Woltman that Jobn Charles Houge, a child three years of age, whose parents live at 45 Clinton place, had been run over by a vehicle driven by some person unknown and kulied, The police will make an effort to secure we gatlty party, Wao Was in such hasie to mal his escape. b dite John Donohue, 4 man seventy-two years of age and born in Ireland, who lived at No, 466 Third avenue, yesterday alternoon was knockea down and trampled upon by @ horse belonging to James Feeley, o, No. 690 Third avenue, thus receiving in- juries from the effects of which he subsequently | Coroner Eickhom will liold an inquest over the remains. The Commencement programme of Rutgers Fe- male College will occur next week as follows:— Sunday evening, at a quarter to eight, Bacealan- reate sermon in the Filth avenue Baptist church, by Rev. Thomas Armitage, D. D.; Tuesday even- ing, alumni meeting in the chapel; Wednesday afternoon, class day exercise in the chapel; Thurs- day, Commencement exercises 1m the Church of thé Disciples. i The body of an unknown man, near five feet eight inches in height and far advanced in decom- off the !oot of 145th street, North River. Deceased had on black pants, white musiio undershirt and drawers, brown plaid oversturt, white cotton socks and Drogan suoes. The remains were sent Morgue and Coroner £ickhof notified to bold an inquest. Alderman Morris and Assistant Alderman Healy, Of Lhe joint committee on Fourth of July celebration of the Common Council, yesterday catled on Colonel Stebbins, president of the Park Commis- sioners, and were informed that the newly annexed dist: had inade application for an appropriation. He recommended that $5,000 be placed to their | credit for this purpose, aad he would recommend this action to the Board of Apportionment. The June reception of the New York School Teachers’ Association was held yesterday after- noon at Association Hall. The President, Mr. B. D, L. Southerland, presided, and the attendance was very jarge. The programme consisted of readings by Charles Roberts, Jr., aud music by Miss Antonia Henne, contraito; Mr. Cary! Florio, The en- tertaintnent passed off pleasantly and was thor- oughly enjoyed, Captain Gunner, of the Nineteenth precinct, yes- terday morning brought before Coroner Woltman, Louis Schiessenger, the member of his command ‘who was charged with clubbing and dangerously wounding Patrick Lyncn, now lying at his resiaence in Filty-ninth street. The accused oMcer was ree leased on $2,000 bail, Frederick W. Habn, of No. 43 | Avenue B, becoming his bondsman. Several men who witnessed the difficulty between Lyncn and the officer aiso appeared at the Coroner's office and expressed the opinion that the former commenced the assault and said he was clutching the oMeer v: the throat, When the latter used ihe club in se! deience, In Friday’s HERALD there appeared an exclusive ship pany, obtamed yesterday. to the Old Colony Railroad Com- acme Lie a com jo Wg _ vessels :—Providen: Bristol, OM Colony, Newport, Empire State, Metropolis. In addition to this tl has been ceded the real estate, Workshops, tools, tmpiements, good will, &<., and Be total amount paid for same eure coe to = Steamahy, mpany. e SUM Of $750,000 hag been furnished by Yine Old Ceara Railroad, and the remaider by outside sub- The regular monthly meeting of the Methodist City Church Bxtenston and Missionary Society took place yesterday afternoon at No. 805 Broad- bring The report of the East Side Conference for the past month showed that 25,000 tracts and pages had been distributed, isan attend- ance of scholars at the different missions on the east side was 1.500, On the west side it was reported that 8,224 tracts had been given out and that the average attendance was 858 Brother Wheatley said that the attendance at Grace mis- sion had decreased because all the scholars had not a8 yet got their new bonnets; so soon as they did his schoo! would show its usual attendance, The Treasurer reported that for the month past the expenditure had reached the sum of $22,970 50, leaving & balance of $141 44. LONG ISLAND. Andrew McKewan, arrested at Greenport for burglary, made his escape from the Suifolk County Jail at Riverhead yesterday. Patrick Broderick, residing in Long Island City, employed by the Thirty-fourth street Ferry Com- pany a8 a bridgeman, arose yesterday morning, apparently In his usual health, and, while dress- ing, fell to the door ana expired almest instantly. Huet disease 1s supposed to be the cause of his eat Samuel Peck was almost instantly killed on Thursday evening whue engaged in backing nis truck up to the store door. He had the team by the head, when the pole struck him in the face, knocking him down, and, the horses taking frignt, ran away, trampling upon him and crushing tn nts ribs, He was removed to his house, where he lived but a short time. The special election in the village of Flusning, hetd on Thursday, to determine whether the Board of Trustees, in their capacity as the Board of Water Commissioners, should have $75,000 in ad- dition to the $125,000 criginally voted jor the con- struction of the village water works, resulted ina very moderate trrumph for the Water Board—the addivional amount being voted by a bare majority of 6, There was much excitement in the village and a very strong vote was the consequence, There were 408 votes cast jor the appropriation and 402 against it—s10 in all. The result, while it empowers the Board to proceed with the works in accordance With the present plans, pretty clearly indicates a belief on the part of a large proportion of the citizeus that the charges of reckless and ill- considered expenditure, 80 ireely made against the Board, are well grounded. STATEN ISLAND. Mr. Robert Christie, ex-State Senator from Richmond, had a severe stroke of apoplexy about a@month ago, During the last four days he has been suvering with an attack of diphtherta, and now lies sertously il] at his residence on New York avenue, Clifton. Aspectal committee of the Richmond county Board of Supervisors nave reported in consequence of the crowded state of the County Clerk's omice, they deemed an extension necessary, and a com. Mittee of two has been appointed to procure plans and sp3ctiications, for a one story extension, to be entirely fireproof, and to cost about $3,000, The committee ure expected to make a repors at a meeting of the Board to-day. Mr. David A. Edgar, Superintendent of the Sea- men’s Retreat at Stapleton, Staten Island, has re- ceived the following communication from A, B. Fravies, of the Illinois :— SiTKa, May 17, 1874 * * * On our return to Sitka we picked up the crew of the United States schooner Marga- retta, and brought them to Sitka, with those por- tions of the wreck which the Indians did not steal, such as anchors, chains, windlass, &c, The Indians in Sitka are now fighting with one another. The fighting has lasted for three days. They have thrown up barricades of rocks, &c. In the fight this morning three men were killed and two wounded, Our steamer ts anchored between the two parties, who are fighting within fliity yards of the beach. They only fight when the tide is out. ‘This morning { watched them from our steamer with our glass and saw them carry of the dead, and at noon | saw them burn the es, It being customary among these Indiana to burn their dead. In their tighting they use princtpally knives and spears. There 1s no telling when they will stop. The United States troops do not interfere to stop tuem for fear of tronple from them. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. The smallpox, in a somewhat mild form, still ex- istsin North Tarrytown, and also at Portchester. Four cases of the disease were reported at the for- mer place yesterday. A ladies’ fair and festival, in aid of Zion church, Greenburg, is announced to take place in Min- turn’s Grove, at Hastings, on Wednesday and Thursday of the ensuing week. A monster sturgeon, weighing two hundred and fifty poands, was captured in the Hudson River, opposite Sing Sing, by one of the Ward brothers, a day or two ago, The event created quite a furore in the village. Rev. John A. Canfield has been appointed chap- Jain of Sing Sing Prison, to fill the vacancy occa- sioned by the involuntary resignation of his imme- diate predecessor. Mr. Canfield has had several re. experience ina similar capacity at Clinton ‘Tison. The new steam ferry between Yonkers and Closter, N.J., chartered by the last Legislature, was formally opened on Thursday alternoon by a trip on the Hudson and a banquet at Excelsior Grove. The residents on both sides of the river are jubilant over the innovation, The number of convicts in Sing Sing Prison is stil! daly diminishing under the operation of the new Commutation law. nus far 121 male and nine female jailbirds have peen set at liberty since the 1st of the present month, while some twenty-five additional will be discharged within the next two weeks. It is understood that, owing to this large exodus from the prison, a considera- ble reduction wil immediately be made in the force of keepers at that institution. NEW JERSEY. A fire broke ont last evening in Watson’s bleach- ing house at Passaic, but it was extinguished be- fore any serious loss was sustained, The property purchased by Bishop Bailey in Secaucus for a Catholic Protectory and cemetery, having proved unavailable for those purposes, now to be sold, fides In the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City yesterday Panl Sweetzer was sentenced to seven ars for highway robbery, and Thomas Sullivan Was sentenced to five years tor tapping a money drawer. The democracy of Hudson county intend to nold @ convention early next month to make prepara- tions for the coming campaign. The candidaces for Governor are J. Daggett Hunt, John R. McPuer- son and Jndge Bedle. tal A respectable looking female was caught yester- day picking a lady’s pocket on a Hoboken ferry- boat. The money was found with her, and she ‘was conveyed to the Hoboken police station, where she gave her name as Kiizabeth Poliock, re siding in Amity sireet, New York. A special committee of ten of the Board of in investigating the jobs at Snake Hill for six years past, in which one member of the Board was fo deeply interested, A report will be made at the next meeting of the Board. The testimony taken thus far is so damaging that the case is likely to go to the Grand Jury. A KENTUCKY ORATION, Dick Lucas, candidate for jailer at Bowling Green, recently made the following appeal in a speech :— FELLow-CirizeNs—Where are my opponents? | Why, gentiemen, they are nowhe: I feel myself asmucn above my opponents as @ possam ina persimmon tree dues above the ground he crawls | Hon, which whtpped the American eagie; 1 call on | you tn the name ofthe peacock of liberty, which flewed over the Rocky Mountings—to come to a f rescue. Come on Monday next ene necator Die) to the oMce to which he perspires, When youshall have been dead, and the green briers shall have entwined themselves around your graves, then will your sons come tome and say, Dick, some ears ago Our fathers voted for you for the office of Jattersnip of Warren. county; then will I ay, Roll account of the transfer of the steamships, &c., ‘on thou silver moon, J will be with thee tli the Jast ANAL Jaisly the promexby of the Narregenwes) Syeapy J GAY ub Whe ev Chosen Freeholders, of Hudson county, is engagea | on. I call on you im the name or the snaggy-headed | THE BOND FORCERIES. Opening of the Case for the Defence. THE ADDRESS TO THE JURY. Testunony of the Defendant’s Sister-in-Law. ‘The trial of Andrew J. Roberts for forging bonds of the Central Railway Company was continued yesterday, ex-Recorder Smith, ex-Mayor Hall and Mr. Purdy appearing for the prisoner and District Attorney Phelps for the prosecution. United States Assistant District Atvorney A. H. Purdy opened the case for the defence in an ex- cecdingly able address, occupying over an nour anda half Mr, Purdy stigmatized the prosecation a3 a deliberate conspiracy which had been formed t send his client to the State Prison. Ale entered at length into the details of the plan by which, ne declared, this purpose was to be accomplished, ‘showing how Pettus, who was now confined in a prison in Massachusetts, and others concocted this scheme of forgery, and that the seais were made and the bonds put upon the market tong belore the time when Roberts became acquainted with the engraver Olmstead, the witness who swore at this trial that he made the seals for the prisoner. He claimed that these bonds and sea's were in the possession of Pettus on the 3d of January, 1873, long before Olmstead had ever seen Roberts. He closely analyzed the testimony which had been given in regard to Roberts’ conviction in Connecti- cut, 2 1861, chaiming that HIS ENTIRE INNOOBNCK WAS PROVED by the fact that he was pardoned by the Legisla- ture of Connecticut on the certificate of the Dis- trict Attorney declaring nim to have been per- fectiy innocent of the charge on which he was sent tothe State Prison, The jury would never convict this prisoner on the testimony of men who were self-confessed perjurers, burglars and forgers, but would undoubtedly give him an op- portunity to-retrieve hts character, tf he had pre- viously erred, and triumphantly acqnit him. When the tearned counsel had tnished a recess Was taken till twenty minutes after one. Tne first witness called was Mrs, Lydia J. Roberts, sister- in-law of the defendant, a rather stout, well built lady of pleasing appearance, dressed in black,” with dark hair and eyes, and with a perfectly seli- possessed manner. She swore that she had known the defendant for twenty-five years; he always resided with her and her husband when they lived in Tenth avenue and in Twenty-first street; in July, 1872, when she and her husband boarded, the defendant was in Europe; she recol- lected Roberts’ conviction in Connecticut at the time OF THE ADAMS EXPRESS ROBBERY, and was present at the proceedings of the com- mittee of the Legislature of Connecticut who heard the application for pardon. Mr. Purdy said he would prove by Mrs. Roberts, who heard the testimony, on what ground tho deiendant was pardoned at that time, and that be was periectly INNOCENT OF THE CHARGE. District Attorney Phelps repited, that as long as. the defenaaut was convicted and pardoned, it was immaterial under what particular circum- stances it Was done and why the pardon was granted. Mr. Purdy submitted it to the Court as a merct- fl consideration to allow the prisoner to relieve himself of this taint on his character, as long as he had been tunocent. * Judge Brady said the defence could prove it by competent evidence. They could call a member of the committee. Ex-Recorder Smith, who came in, resumed the examination of Mrs. Roberts. She said that her husband at his death leit her government bonds and property; the defendant transacted ber busi- ness ior her aiter hisceath; he collected the coupons on her bonds; her husband leit no will, and she took out no lettersof admintstration; he leit $25,000 m United States bonds and $21,000 or $28,000 in other bonds, -Recorder Suuth, in answer to an objection raisea by Mr. Phelps, said these bonds WERE SOLD AT VARIOUS PERIODS, The attachments in the civil suits claimed that $45,000 were the penscens of forgeries, and he conld show that these very bonds were the pro- ceeds of the estate left by the defendant’s brother. In regard to the bonds found in uer box at the e Deposit Company the witness stated that they re the bonds lef by her husbcnd; she rented a separate box because she did not wish to have her and her brother-in-law’s property mixed up; her husband was in the liquor business and was tn the habit of loaning vut money; she knew Mrs, “Spence” Pettus, with whom she first became ac- quainted in the early part of 1871; Mrs. Pettus came to the house two weeks belore Mr. Roberts’ death ; it was true that Mrs, Pettus stayed one night at the house, but not that sbe was intimate with her; Mrs. Pettus came to make a nat for her and it got to be so late that she stayed over night; she never went shopping with Mrs. Pettus. Judge Brady said it would not be competent to go again over ali the evidence in regard to these unimportant circumstances. Ex-RKecorder Smith urged that Mrs. Pettus had stated that she was intimate with Mrs. Roberts, and gave the jury the idea that she was on famil- jar terms witn respectable people, which of itself was calculated to sustain ner reputation. If Mrs, Pettus had sworn that she was A MEMBER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, in full communion and on good terms with the most respectable people, would Hts Honor allow the jury to be affected by such testimony? They would show that Mrs. Pettus was bad woman and one of the chie plotters in this conspiracy. District Attorney Puelps read the testimony of Mrs. Pettus, showing that she never said she was on intimate terms with Mrs, Roberts. Mrs. Pettus said that ste called on Mrs. Roberts several times “on business.’? To the question of the learned counsel (ex-Recorder Smith) whether she was “pretty intimate with Mrs. Roberts’ she had dis- tinctly answered “No.” The learned counsel had struggted very bard to make Mrs. Pettus swear that she was intimate with Mrs. Roberts, but lad failed, Judge Brady decided that the evidence was ir- relevant. ‘the proceedings were here interrupted for the purpose of examining Mr. Joseph A. Hurlburt, a Member of the committee of the Connecticut Legislature who heard the application ior the pardon of Roberts—an elderly gentleman, with sharp features and of dignified bearing. He said that he hud no copy of the resolution ine Legis- lature by which Roberts was pardoned, and was going On to state the reasons for which the pardon ‘was granted. The District Attorney renewed his objection that the grounds jor granting the pardon were quite immaterial, His Honor, when charging the jury, would surely not enter into the question vi tie Teusons FOR WHICH THE DEFENDANT WAS PARDONED in telling them how the ous conviction might affect their verdict in this case. &x-Mayor Hall said, in the course of an elaborate argument, his learned iriend was the guardian of bis own conscience and humanity, but he (Mr. Hall) had heard, in his early days, of district attor- neys who would even aliow certificates of good character when a prisoner had previously been convicted, not only technically, but morally. In this case his learned friend had only @ technical conviction, and sull he wished to inflict a double punishment upon the defendant. Mr, Hall quoted a number of authorities in support of his position that this testimony was perfectly admisainle. Judge Brady said the question was @ very em- barrassing one, This course would imply the as- sailing of the record of the Court of Connecticut by an ex parte proceeding, This was the reason why he feit great doubts as to the propriety of ad- mitting this testimony. The District Attorney asked if Hts Honor couid Insiruct the jury to acMuit the prisoner of the charge of having been previously convicted if they were satisfied that he was pardoned as an inno- cent man’ They must siop atthe record oi the Court, and be satisfied with the presumption that if a pardon was granted IT WAS ALSO PROPERLY GRANTED. Ex-Recorder Smith made an impassioned ap- peal to the Court, declaring that if there was no | precedent for this wiping ont the taint of a pre- vious unjust conviction he now asked His Honor to set it, in the name of humanity and justice, Judge Brady said he had been extremely im- pressed by ail these arguments, but must exclude the evidence. The precedent which it was sought ‘to establish, he was sorry to say, would be fraught with danger. admit the evidence, he was, nevertheless, com- pelled by the teachings of the law to exciude it, Mrs. Roberts’ examination was then resumed. | She testified that Mrs. Pettus’ statements in re- gard to certain bonds which she (the witness) had dropped were untrne; the conversations between her and the deiendant, as detailed by Mrs. Pettus, in regard to certain sums of money, were purel: fictitious; she remembered the occaston on whic! the defendant and she went to Olmstead’s house, " On Staten Island; she aid not know Olmstead, but saw & nan Who showed the defendant through the mous hey #imply went to look at the house, with @ View to Its purcha: she remembered an article in the HERALD in reference to these forgeries; she was in Boston, in @ jot, and when she opened the HBRALD the first tl jhe saw wae the name of her brother-in-law; he remained im her house up to thé ume of his arres it. The Curt here adjouracd thi Mondpy Meyning, Although his instinct told him to | | MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, Marrted. BisseLt—OonxLix.—on Wednesday, June } the Rev. Noah H. Schenck, D. De iaako F, pee to HELEN K, CONKLIN, di Henry N. - lin, all of Brooklyn. ip cerae. isd Te G, HARRINGTON.—On Wednesday, June | ANDOLFO—| 10, by the Rev. W. N. McVicar, JosurH UANDOLPO, of Brooklyn, to HELEN JoserHing, daughter of v. Joseph Harrington, Boston and Chicago papers please copy. GiLBERT—McCay.—Iin Brooklyn, on Weanesday, June 10, by the Rev. O. KR Howard Dy De of Bath, N. Y., Mrs. Sapa ELLSWORTH MCCaYy 10 Pe B. GILpERxt, Esq., of Grand Rapids, sich, HoxToN—SrRincnaM.—On Wednesday evening, June 10, at Grace church, City Isiand, by the Rev. Mr. Howell, Jawes Hogrox, Hell Gate ptlot and secretary, to Harrie E., daughter of Charles H. Stringham, ali of City Island, Leg—LockWoop.—On Wedne: 43, September 1, 1878, in this city, by the Rev. J. J. White, WitLiaM H. LEE to AGNES L. LOCKWooD. PakKB- CamrsELL.—On Wednesday, June 10, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by the Ri J. B, Campbell, Mr. HENRY 8S. PARK to Miss ANN M. OAMPBELL, daughter of the oiliciating clergye man. Bosh oj Brooklyn, QUINN—DONNELLY.—On Wednesday, June 10, mm the Church of the Eptphany, by the Rev. R, L. Burtsell, D, D., J. CAMPBELL QUINN, M. D., to Miss Sarau J. DONNELLY, both of this cit: June 11, SanpPOKD—CLARKK.—On Thursuay, 1874, at St, Ann’s church, by Rev. Thomas Ganau- det, Harrie W. Clarks and CLAaRENC’ H. Sanp- FORD, ail of this city. SHERWOOD—McDOvGaLL.—On Wednesday, June 10, by Rev. Thomas Gallandet, D. D., DANIEL SHER woop to CHARLOTTE A., eldest daughter of Duncan. McDougal, all of this city. SuiPson—PowstL.—In Brooklyn, on Wemneatere June 10, 1874, at the vesidence of the brides brother, by Rev. Theodore L, Cuyler, D. D., J. W. Simpson, Of Moscow, Pa, to FLora A., danguter Of the late Rey. A. VY. H. Powell, SxirF—ELy.—On Wednesday, June 10, in Brook- lyn, N. ¥., at the residence of the bride’s oe father, A. H, Ritchie, by the Rev. David Ingiis, D,, and Rey. George F. Pentecost, PAUL GC, SKIPP, M. D., of New Haven, Conn., to Emma MOG. ELy, daughter of the late Jonn M.’Ely. ‘TREDWELL—HEWLETT.—On Wednesday, June 10, at the residence of the bride’s parents, » L. L, by the Rev. Dr. Homans, T1MoTHY TREDWELL to ANN M., daughter of Henry T, Hewett, aq. Died. ALLISON.—At Guantanamo, Cuba, on sunday, May 8, Marta DoLORES CAULA DE ALLISON, wife ol William F, Allison, United states Cousular Agent at that place, Phat iphia papers please copy. ANDERSON.—On Thursday, June 11, FREDDIE, gon . or Wa and Mary Anderson, aged 6 years and. 6 months, Relatives and friends of the family are réspect- folly invited tu attend the juneral, trom the resi- dence of his parents. No. 735 Washington strees, on Saturday, at one o’ciock P, M. ANTON.—In this city, on Friday, June 12, Many ANN LoUIsA ANTON, aged 11 years, § mouths and 19 days, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiuily invited to attend tue funeral, from her late residence, northwest corner Thirty-ninttt street and First avenue, on Sunday, at two P. M. BgaM.—in London, on Sanday, May 17, Joun VY. Bwas, Jr., in his 43d year, Panerai services at St. James’ church, Goshen, on Saturday, the 13th inst., at twelve o'clock. Train, via Erie Railway, ieaves ‘Twenty-tnird street at 6:45 A. M., and Chambers street at nino A. M., returning at 1:45 and 5:45 P. M. CuRist.—On Thursday, June 11, EGBERTINA Cunisz, beloved wile of Samuel Christ, in the 3?tm year of ber age. Relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, on Saturday: morning, Jane 13, ai eleven o’ciock, {rom her late residence, No. 43 East Tenth street. The remains will ite taken to Greenwood Cemetery for inter men OoLTon.—At Princeton, N. J., on Thursday, June Ti, 1874, ALLEN S., youngest son of Danield, and . W, Colton, aged 16 years and 6 montus, Notice of funeral in Sunday’s Herald. OONNOLLY.—On Friday, June 12, OATHARINE, the, betoved wife of Michael’ Connolly and daughter of Hanorab and the late Charles Jagve, in the 44th year of her age. ‘The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the tuneral, from her late residence, 24 Ramon street, on Sunday, the 14th inst., at two o'clock. Dennetr.—On Friday morning, June 12, at South Framingham, Mass,, @. WaALKeR DENNETT. DE PEYSTER.—On Friday, June 12, James FP, Dm PEYSTEL, of this city. The relatives ana iriends of the family are re- spectiully invited wo attend his funeral, at Trinity charch, on Monday. June 15, at four o’clock P. M, without lurther invitation. DonoxvE.—Suddenly, on Friday, June 12, 1874, Joun Dononvk, & native of Donard, county Wick- jow, Ireland, in the 49th year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfally invited to attend the funeral, from his laie residence, No. 466 Third avenue, on Sunday, June 14, at one o'clock, FLANAGAN.—FRANpIS T, FLANAGAN, only son ef P.J. and Ellen Flanagan, aged 1 year, 5 months and 10 days, Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, June 14, at two P. M., trom the residence of his parents, 112 Broad~ way. Goopwrx.—On Wednesday, June 10, CATHERINE, beloved wile of James Goodwin, in the 39th year 0! ler age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No, 26 Sixth avenue, on Saturday, the T3th inst., at one o’ciock P. M. GRantT.—On Friday, June 12, at 221 Fourth street Jersey City, Captain NaTHaNn B, Grant, aged years. Funerai on Sunday, the 14th, at Sag Harbor. Haypock.—On Friday, June 12, JaMrs HaYDOCK in the 49th year ot his age. Relatives and fricuds are invited to attend the funeral, at the Bedford street Methodist Episcopak church, on Sunday, the 14th inst., at one o'clock. Hyer.—In Brookiyn, on Thursday, June 11, StLag Davip HyzrR, beloved son of Oscar and May Hyer, aged 1 year, 4 months and % d: ‘The relatives and friends are respecttully invited to attend the funeral, trom the residence of his are 94 Tillary street, Brooklyn, un Sunday, ‘ane F Newark papers please copy. Krgy.—In Brooklyn, E.D., on Friday, June 12, BENNIE, youngest son of Harm and Catnarine Krey, Faneral this day (oe at two P.M. Rela- tives and friends are invited to attend, from the residence of nis parents, No. 183 Division avenue, corner Sixth street. LEAZENBEL.—On Friday, Jume 12, MARY, infant daughter of Mary A. and the late Walter T. Lea- zenbee. LEppY.—At hisfresidence, on Thufsday, June 11,. 1874, LAWRENCE LEDDY, aged 38 yeurs and months. The funeral will take place Sunday at one o’clock, from his late residence, No. 89 Baxter street. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. LoupENn.—On Friday, June 12, 1874, SAMUEL R. Lovpgy, JT,. youngest son of Samuel R. and Char- otte Louden, aged 5 yea months and 27 days. Notice of funera) in 81 paper. MILLER.—On Friday, June Sgt 0. Min son of James and the late Esther Miller, aged 10 years, 5 months and 13 days. The relatives and iriends,of the family are re spectfally invited to attend the faneral, from the residence of his father, 43 Kast Kighty-third street, on Sunday, at one o'clock P.M. MCNAMARA.—On Thursday, June 11, 1874, of cone gestion of the brain, at the residence of his mother, 367 DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn, HENRY PATRICK, the dearly beloved chiid of Margaret and the late Thomas McNamara. His remains will be removed for interment, to~ Flatbush Cemetery, on Saturday, at three o'clock. Dublin and Irish papers please copy. PEC! suddenly, at Long isiand City, on Thurs day, June 11, 1874, SAMUgL POOLE PECK, son of Jona- than Peck, aged 23 years, Relatives and friends of the famity are invited to attend the funeral, from St. Geerge’s church, Flushing, L. L, on sunday, June 14, at taree o'clock .M. Cars leave Hunter’s Point at 2:30 P. M., re- turning at 5:10 P. M. RovutH.—On Friday, Jane 12, Mary A., wife of Os- wald Routh. The friends ana relatives of the, family are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 212 Madison street, on Sunday, 14th inst., at one o'clock P. M. RYAN.—Of congestion of the brain, on Thursday, June 11, 1874, THOMAS RYAN. 8 ihe relatives and friends of the famliy are re- Spectfully invited to attend the 1uneral, on Monda, morning, June 15, at ten o’clock, from his tate resie dence 261 West, Forty-first street, to the Church of St. FraiisXavier, West Sixteenth street, betweer Fifth and sixth avennan eee * poterr highs mass of requiem will be o! ie Fepose of his soul? thence to Calvary Cemetery for. intere men SPMICKLAND.—On Friday, June 12, Sinyr A. STRICKLAND, widow of the late John Strickland, of Holliston, Mass., aged 86 years and 11 days, Funeral will take place at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. M. A. G. Frore, No. 159 Bergen, street, Brooklyn, on Sunday, June 14, at twa. o'clock P. M. Friends of the family are thvited to Loi The tla will be conveyed to Hollise ton sor intermen' Massachussetts and Rhode Island papers please: copy. Winp.—Cnana Louisk, daughter of George He. and Elten G. Webb, aged 3 years, 2 months and 16° days. Paneral from her parents’ residence, 208 Living- ston street, on Saturday, the 13th inst, at two o'clock. WiLp.—Suddeniy, at nis late residence, Loeus® Poin’ J., HORATIO N. Winp, of apoplexy. Relatives and friends of the jamily are respect fully invited to attend the funeral. New Jersey Southern Raiiroad nine A. M, Saturday, return a6 six P. M. Oars to Highlands, where carriages Will be in readiness, Boston papers please copy. Wi.son.—On Wednesday, the 10th inst., SARAB) wite of Jotham Wilson, aged 4 years and months, Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, the 14th inst., a6 two P. M., from her ‘late residence, Bighty-fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. Wooprorr,—Suddenly, at Woodbury, Conn., on Friday, June 12, OLana Sugar, wife of ft. 8. Wood- uff, rr Funeral on Monday, Juno 15, at Woodbars.