The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1874, Page 5

THE AMERICAN PILGRIMS. > Reception of the Transatlantic Devotees. HOW THE PONTIFF APPEARED. Offerings, Speeches and Benediction. Rome, June 13, 1874, ‘The American pilgrims’ week in the Eternal city 4s approaching its conclusion, and the members ef the pious caravan express great satisfaction at having accomplished their object under the most wnexceptionably favorable circumstances, Per- haps the only really unpleasant accompaniment to their visit has been the great heat of the ‘weather, thirty-three degrees centigrade in the shade, woich one of the pilgrims told me that, al- though accustomed to the climate of a Southern Btate, that of Tennessee, he had never found 80 oppressive in America, especially at this time of ‘the year. OUMMENT BY A PORTION OF THE ITALIAN LIBERAL PRESS, Before the arrival of the pilgrims in Rome, sev- eral of the leading liberal Italian journals com- mented upon their mission in disparaging terms, which called forth a rejoinder from the Osservatore Romano, That journal published a leader on the 10th instant, in which it defended the pilgrims irom the accusation brought against many of them of being “mere hbirelings, paid to perform a part in the demonstration, and therefore not represent- ing any rea! devotional feeling.’ The writer gave an extract irom the Archbishop of New York's Speech and quoted the New York HERALD of May 17, describing the enthusiasm of the spectators who crowded to witness the departure of the Peretre with the first caravan of American pil- grims aboard. He asserted that the caravan com- prised a bishop, several vicars-general, many cler- gymen and distinguished professional men and naval officers, all of whom paid for their expenses beforehand the sum of $300, and tnat if some few individuals whose personal means did not aliow of their paying for themselves were provided with the necessary funds by richer and equally pious Catholics, that circumstance did them infinite honor, inasmuch as “poverty is merit in the sight of Christ,” who chose, by preference, poor fisher- men to preach his gospel, leaving w the Pharisees the task of opposing it. The Osservatore stated that its information on this subject was of un- doubted correctness, as it nad been supplied by Dr. Ohatard, rector of the American College in Rome. THE CONDITION OF THE POPE'S HEALTH—CHEERING PACTS. A favorable circumstance, or, I ought to say, the chief of the mipy favorable circumstances ‘which have attended the Americans’ pilgrimage to Rome, has been the Pope’s recovery from the in- disposition which assailed bim a few days before their arrival, and which was announced by tele- grams and newspapers in @ very alarming form. This news reached the pilgrims at Paris, so that when they got here and were admitted to the presence of his Holiness, they were greatly and agreeably surprised to find him looking so com- paratively well. The fact is that the Pope was vy no Meads So il] a8 was represented, for on the 4th inst., the very day that the papers announced that he was in a most dangerous state, he gave several audiences, and went up to the large hall above the vestibule of St, Peter’s, where there are windows commanding a view of the interior of the church, Qnd witnessed irom that position the procossion of the Corpus Doméint, headed by Cardinal Borromeo. Some of the pilgrims have informed me that the impression made upon their minds by the benevo- lent appearance and manner of Pius IX., by the clearness of nia voice, the power of his enunci- ation and the general display of vigor and vitality ’m his person and demeanor far surpassed their utmost expeciutions., They were also astonished to find that His Holiness had sufficient memory and readiness to retain and reply extempore to the principal points in the two addresses—one in Latin and the other in French—read before his throne by the Bishop of Fort Wayne and Judge Théard. As | know that it is customary, and I may add necessary, for the Pope to be made aware of the contents of public addresses before their presenta- tion, in order that His Holiness may be ready with @ suitable reply, I ventured to suggest that per- Daps Pius LX. did not answer so much on the spur of the moment as my interlocutors supposed; but they told me that the contents of the addresses were not previously known, or at any rate that of Judge Théard had been Kept absolutely secret, even from his fellow travellers, I am sure that my informants in the present were pertectly en bonne Joi, but I am obliged, as a veracious correspondent, to repeat that the cus. tom of the Pontifical Court is to be in possession of the text of all addresses to be read to His Holi- ness before they are actually so read on public oc- casions. é HOW THEY CAME. The arrival of the pligrims was not entirely simultaneous, some few having come by land, ab though the majority disembarked on Sunday eve- ning, the festival of the Itajian constitution, at Civita Vecchia, and came on to Rome on Monday morning. Those who came by rail were able to witness the pyrotechnic display of the girandola from the Castle of St. Angelo, and were surprised at the wonderiul order with which an immense crowd collected to enjoy that spectacle and dis- persed at its conclusion. There were, of course, similar festivities on a minor scale at Civita Vec- chia, but the American pilgrims did not fall into the ludicrous error of the members of a German Catholic deputation, who, arriving in Rome to re- vere the Pope on the recurrence of a national Italian festival, took all the music, illuminations and public festivities as demonstrations in honor of thetr own arrival. BECEPTION ON THE PART OF THE HOLY SEE. At the Roman ratlway station the pilgrims were received by Mgr. Nardi, one of the most energetic prelates of the Pontifical court, editor of the Vooé Della Verita, speaking very good English, a judge Of the International (ex) Tribunal of the Rota, and altogether a man of considerable intellectual re- sources and of great merit as a Pontifical partisan, Mgr. Mardi “coached” tne pilgrims and got them | ton, lodged in the Hotel de Rome, the Hotel de la Min- erve and the English Pension in the Via Condotti, FUN FOR THE RADICALISTS AND LEVELLERS, Before proceeding to any more serious narra- tion I must beg to amuse your readers with an ex- tract from the Fan/fwila of the 9th inst., entitled “THE PILGRIMS AT THE VATICAN.” The eighty Irish-Americans went to bed last might in a baa humor. They expected as soon as they arrived to be able to run to the Vatican with the same freedom with which they ran to Aragno’s vo refresh themselves with brandy. But Mgr. Nardi, who bothers them greatly, told them that the Pope could not receive them yet. Two packets of pO arrived late at the Hotei de Kome and Holiness will deign to recetve Mr. So-and-s0 to- morrow, &c., &c.’ to be blessed, counted over for the last time the @ollars sale and sound, and, with @ great red heart at their buttonnole, presented themselves at the Vatican. All the members of the American College were there to recetye them. and several foreign prelates. You should have seen these pll- ga looking astounded at the “prison” of the Holv anette me bia Sait Found to a lest snd J 4 rison en the} arrived in the consiatorial” halt they began t ry low, trembling with emotion. A door 18 rown open; general movement. His Holine: dressed white, appears in the hall. The p! = see @ cloud of cardinals, prelates, noble and latine guards, They pay nO attention to them, but kneel down and wait. Dwenger takes courage and approaches th ly Father. A perchnent | in his trembitny d, and his still more trembling voice reads a long adari Irish-American Latin. x pecs Mgr. Nardi rs his face and murmurs, “Im. macul Virgio, what Latin!’ Another gentleman takes the Bishop's place and reads another address in rather more Christian French, M. Théard, be just. Now that you have: Been the prison and the prisoner, you would not certainly write such another speech. His Holiness is not so bilarious as usual, He replies in French, with @ certain degree of emo- Sion, to the two addresses, The vilgrims, who masticate Latin better than | 3 case | Hotel de la Minerve, in the usual form—“His | This morning early all the irish-Americans prepared the chaplets they wanted | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. 5 om the bey ry of Borsuet and Voltaire, gue fied on His Holiness, It isa pity that they could not enjoy hearing that America ts 4 of the triumphant grandeur of the Obureb, 10 ane of ambitious maarpere, who, although near tne See of St. Pever, wage dire war it the Vicar of Christ, Let us come to the solid part. The Vatl- can 18 repaid for tne blessings it sends to all the Yankees, Grant included. The piigrima depose at the feet of His Holiness nice sums of gold and precious gifts. Among other er some niggers: sept a beautiful stick with a ric! chased gold handle. The hollow stick 1s full of gold coins. A splendid support! Tne Holy Father admires the presents, passes them over to the prelates near him and then in- vites the pilgrims to hand him their chaplets and images to be blessed. After the biessing, which is not a long affair, the Pontif® takes a turn up and | down the hail, distributing to the pilgrims ag sou- venirs silver Madonnas and crucifixes. ie pil- grims leave the Vatican more stupefied than blessed. Poor people! they came badly of. reriously expected to see a prisoner, and they saw @ supreme Pontiff instead. On the stairs a Yan- kee made a grimace at a gendarme, thinking that stupl- to prevent the Pope irom escaping. The oficial guide, Mgr. Nardi, immediately undeceived the tn- genuous Irish-American. DEMOCRATIO COMPENSATION. With the exception of this sort of quizzing in the liberal journals, which is compensated by the laudatory comments of the clerical papers, the American pilgrims have not met with the slight est annoyance in Rome, and they are surprised at the entire liberty granted to religious demonstra- tions and the ‘ive and let live” kind of feeling which seems to regulate the conduct of the an- thorities and the citizens on occasions like the present, SEEING THE OUTDOOR SIGHTS. After their interview witn the Holy Father, on Tuesday, the pilgrims broke up into small parties and went about sightseeing as vigorously as the weather would allow. There is not much time to be lost when people only stop a few days in the Eternal City, for although there is a guideboox en- titled “Rome Seen ip a Week,’’ he must be a very untiring traveller who would engage to carry out the programme contained in it. Of course the sa- cred edifices in Rome and extra muros have at- tracted the chief part of tne pilgrims’ attention, and such of them as have desired to examine the mirabdilia of the ancient city in a profitable man- ner have been enabied to do so by listening to the erudite explanations of the Commendatore De Rossi, one of the first archeological authorities in Rome and unique in sacred archeology, who has been requested by Pius IX. to accompany the ex- curstonists to some of the principal ruins of Rome. AT CHURCH, On Thursday morning the pilgrims suspended their liopizing labors in order to return to the Vatican, at the Pope’s express invitation, to near him celebrate mass and to receive the sacrament from his own bands in the Consistorial Hall. The ceremony was performed at the early hour of hal!- past seven o’clock, and it speaks well for the Pope’s health that he should have been able to go through it fasting, and communicating upwards of 100 persons, witnout being over-fatigued. I was at the Vatican in the course of the morning to pay a visit to a prelate who resides in the palace and | who had been present at the solemnity. He told | me that it was a very touching sight, inasmuch as among the pilgrims there were all the grades of society represented, from the highest to the lowest, | but that the same devotional spirit evidently am- | mated them all. It was expected that the Pope would offer his visitors @ collation after mass, as he occasionally does to distinguished communi- cants, but Monsignore told me that the idea haa | been abandoned, perhaps to avoid uncharttable | criticisms; and so the pilgrims got back quite | early to breakfast at their hotels. MEDALS IN COMMEMORATION. In the course of the morning the President of the Primary Roman Society for Oatholic Interests had the honor of offering to His Holiness specimens | of the silver and bronze medals expressly coined | by the society in commemoration of the first | American Catholic pilgrimage to Rome, to be ais- | tributed to the members of the pious caravan. This distribution was made on the same evening at the Altieri Palace, where Uardinal Borromeo, president of the society, gave the pilgrims a mag- nificent reception, at which several hundreds of guests were present. Propositions were made in the course of the evening for the organization of Catholic societies on a vast scale in America. The apartments tn the Aitieri Palace are splendid. ‘The Cardinal received his guests in the first hall. Behind His Emtnence were Prince Aldobrandint |, and thirty prefects of different sections of the society. Most of these gentlemen are members of aristocratic Roman {amilies—traditionally attached | to the Papal throne—and as such they are accus- tomed to the refinements of society, and smiled rather supercitiously upon their simply dressed | republican visitors. Still they respect the solid argument of money, and as the pilgrims are said | to have offered the Pope somewhere about $100,000, the Princes, Marquises and Counts could not but be polite, Cardinal Borromeo made a speech in favor of | the development of Catholic societies in America, and was followed by Prince Aldobrandini, who | spoke for Prince Mario Chigi, he peing prevented by a family liction from attending. (Prince | Chigi has just lost a beautiful daughter, thirteen years old, by diphtheria.) These speeches were | sealed books for most of the pilgrims, of course, | but they appreciated the medal and the copy of a Pontifical bul! which accompanied the gift. Bishop Dwenger spoke next, when the case was reversed, he being perfectly comprehended by the pilgrims, but not by the Roman members of the so- clety. | | BANQUETING. The meeting concluded in the practical form of a banquet. The Cardinal assumed the seat of honor and placed Bishop Dwenger on his right and Judge ‘Théard on his left. Opposite the Cardinal was Prince Aidobrandini, surrounded by fourteen lady pilgrims. ADDRESS OF THE CATHOLIC UNION OF NEW YORK. The following address was presented to the Pope by Father Dealy, a few days ago. It is the address of the Catholic Union of New York, and was accom- panied with a very large offering in gola from the members of the Catholic Union, and another from the Xavier Alumni Sodality of New York :— To His Houingss Pore Pivs IX. :— Most HOLY FaTHER—The Catholic Union of New York, in the United States of America, consolidated agreeably to the inspired words of Your Holiness, recommending union and organization of the | Cutholic laity throughout the world to meet, con- sult and act in deience of Catholic interests, to maintain a spirit of devotion to your august per- son and to unite in unceasing efforts for your de- liverance from the designs of your enemies and for the speedy restoration of Your Hoiiness to the plenitude of your sovereign power, most rever- ently ask permission to lay at the foot of your | throne the tender of their sincere love and affec- their profound respect ior your sacred per- son and their devoted attachment and unalterable loyalty to the Holy See, whose rights Your Holiness bas asserted with unparal- leled fortitude and unshaken resolution, Encouraged by the illustrious example which Your Holiness has given, this union, in their hum- ble and limited sphere, have raised ‘their voices in protest and prayer against the indignities offered to your sacred Rereet against the persecutions inflicted on prelates, priests and holy men and women in Europe, and against the wrongs and spoliations which the patrimony of St. Peter bas suffered at the hands of the enemies of the Church, who, in the indignant words of the prophet, have ‘given Jacob ag @ spoil and Israel to robbers.” Tsaiab, xitt To strengthen and fortify us in our labors we crave, Most Holy Father, your parental \d apos- tolic benediction, and ask that, with this expres- sion of our devotion and loyalty, Your Holiness would be pleased to honor us by accepting thi accompanying offering, which out of our povert we lay, by the hands of our reverend spiritual viser, at Your Holiness’ feet, THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE. To-morrow morning the pilgrims are invited by Mgr. de Mérode to visit an ancient basilica, which has been excavated on his estate of Tor Marancia, outside the gate of San Sebastiano. I will give you the details of this entertainment and @ notice of the discovery, so interesting for Chris- tian archwology, of the extramural basilica of the saints Nereus and Achilleus, in my next letter, which will also contain an account of the depar- ture of the American Catholic pligrims from Rome, THE WORDS OF PIO NONO. — (From the special correspondent of the Catholic Review.) Judge Theard addressed His Holiness on the 9th insg., in the name of the pilgrims, in the following words :— Most Hoty Fatirer:—Yon behold at your feet the Alericap pilgrims irom difereat dioceses af the | They | he was one of the usurper’s rumMans, placed there | | her | of | good seed even Cae 4 in ; bus metant,” | yoor homes, which, being diffusive, make your relations, your | now be in order. United States of America and Canada. We nave come from @ iree country where true liberty 16 thoroughly understood, for there we suffer no per- secution, but on the contrary enjoy full liberty of conscience, We have leit our country, our homes, our families ana our temporal affairs to come ae kneel at your feet, to offer you our hearts, our sor- tunes and, need be, our lives, It has been our fervent desire to benold, face to face, that glory which 1# not of earth, bub ts a reflection of God himself, and that cross whica sheds @ halo of glory around your a@ugusi head. Our tongues iail to give utterance to the sentiments of our hearts whieh throb in unison, expressive of our submission, respect and love for Your Holiness, The greater your alict- tions the stronger waxes our love for you. But our consolation is in the fact that you are suffering the lot of the just, for only the just suifer persecu- tion. We pray God, nevertheless, that your chaius May soon removed, that the eyes of your perse- cutore may be opened, and that seeing their error they may restore to you the States o! the Cuurch to which the Holy See has an Lied ggg right and title, established by the sword of a Pepin and a Chariemagne. Since our country 1s especially con- secrated to the Immaculate Virgin, we bave thought it meet, as a preparation for our visit to Your Holl- uess, to prostrate ourseives, frst. at the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, who deigned not to call her- self as “conceived immaculate” until your defini- tlon went jorth th the world. Our Blessed Mother, in cailing herseif ‘conceived immaculate” secms to have nad in view three objects—to confound un- behevers, to have homage rendered to the truto of the immaculate conception and to prove to sceptics your own infallibility as head of the Church, since it is in consequence of our definition that this dogma is now an article of your “Credo.” In that conunent, which has lately sprung up, a: 1¢ were, trom the ocean, and from which we come, the Catholic religion has increased wonderfuily— Day, miraculously. Let not our love ior you be a matter of surprise, You are the frst and ‘only Pope whose sacred feet ever touched our soil. Where from every quarter of the earih such demonstrations of love and obedience are being made, let us hope that the hour is not far away when there shailbe put one flock and one shep- heid. We, the first pilgrims of America, have come to this holy city, Bot to oder you rich gilts, but sentiments of love and obedience, which are infinitely more precious. We are ready to make every sacrifice ior you and our holy religion. May God preserve you longas tae head of the holy Church. You haye seen the years of Peter; may God preserve you to witness the triamph of our holy Church; aud now, Holy Father, prostrate at your feet, we ask your love apd humbly beg you to bless our country, our families and ourselves, and humbly pray you to accept the small presents which we lay at your feet, THE ANSWER OF HIS HOLINESS. At a moment when the Church of Jesus Christ is assailed by 80 many differant enemies—at a mo- ment in which the world would wish to cover the Church with mist and @arkness—at that very mo- ment God, with His omnipotent breath, dispels the darkness and the mist, and shows to the world the beacon which guides us pilgrims on tuis earth and points out the course which leads to the haven. scure this Church in various ways. There are those wao obscure it with deceit and hypocrisy, and they are an impious sect, who intrude them- selves into the very sanctuary, and pretend not only to regulate rites and discipline but perhaps even the dogmas of this spouse of Jesus Christ. There are those who use contempt, mock- | ery and sarcasm in order toridicule all that in’ the Church of God which they know not and understand not. There are those, finally, wh boider still, raise the hand and the sword an make themselves cruel persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ. But this Church; no, it will never fail, because built upon a rock, firm and immov- able. And it is for this reason that to-day it 1s an object of wonder to the world, to angels and to men. She 1s persecuted everywhere. She is per- secuted in her clergy; persecuted in her people. But her strength causes even her enemies to say, “We did not think of finding so great faith in israel.” Do I speak the truth? You yourselves bear magnificent testimony to this truth. repeat with the prophet Isaias, thy eyes and see! Ail these are asseinbled; they have to come to thee; thy sons have come irom afar.” These sons aud these cata are have come from distanv lanas, ‘“oearing gold and singing praises to God,.’’ Yes, you have leared neither the hardships of the voyage nor the distance of your destination towards which you were bound, crossing the wide ocean to prostrate yourselves at the feet of Most Holy Mary in one of | her sanctuaries in France, and thence direct your steps towards this Rome, destined by God as the See of His Vicar, and for that reason made @ mark for the anger of unbelievers and their blaephe- mous prolanities. But, notwithstanding this, God, with His omnipotent right hand, points her out in most nobie form as truth and of God biess Lord, turn His gaze towards your country, anew Jand, @ new and vigorous nation, where the prod- ucts .of nature and industry Nourish wonderiuily, and where the Catholic religion enjoys unbounde: liberty. ‘there the true believers are multiplied, and numerous conversions have necessitated the erection of many new dioceses. But, while we beseech God to turn gaze on this His new vineyard, let us beseech Him also that He may deign to remove from His vineyard all that does the faith. teacher nourisher May | not belong to it, and that while the Lutherans. the | Calvinists, the Anglicans, the Methodists and so | many other sects are wande! over the immense superfices of the United States, it may please God to bring the light of truth to so many millions of souls, that they also may enjoy the fruita of divine redemption. May God confirm irom the high heaven these few words which Bis unworthy Vicar addresses to you. And you, who for a short time left your country to come tu Eu- | rope and receivein Rome the blessing of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, unite with me in prayer to obtain from God the multiplication of taborers for tne cultivation of auch a harvest, 10 order that sow! diMculties may | time reap the fruit benedictions—« lachrymis seminant in exultatione et May God _ reconduct you to in the foll spirit of charity, iriends and your fellow citizens participators of it. Let mothers be consoled in seeing their children eer up in the holy fear of God: fathers in be- ‘olding the fruits of their honest trafic and com- merce ragltiply. Let this benediction extend over the whole ot that great yest dele and make it more worthy of heavenly favors. Finally, may it accompany you on the voyage to your country, on the voyage Of life, and may it be with you at the hour of death, in that moment when you will yield your souls into the hands of God, to praise Him and bless Him all ages Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti descendat super vos et maneat semper. en. A LETTER OF THE POPE [From the London Times.) Un June 16 the twenty-eighth year passed away since the election of Pius {X. as Pope. The follow- ing letter, which he sent to his brother at Sinigag- lia on the day of his election, June 16, 1846, may be of interest at this time:—‘June 16, 1846,—Most dearly beloved brothers, Clase e and Gaetano— God, tne biessed one, who humbieth and exalteth, hath been pga? to raise me, Who am 80 base, to the highest dignity on earth, His most holy will be evermore done. I knowin some measure the almost boundless weight of such @ charge and know equally my poverty, not to speak of the uiter nothingness of my spirit. Cause prayer to be offered up and pray tor me yourself. The con- clave has lasted forty-eight hours. If the city of Binigaglia should like to go to some expense in the way of demonstrations endeavor, I expressly de- sire it also, that the sum to be expended be ai jaid out in things useful for the a in the judg- ment of the Mayor and the Council. As to you, my dear brothers, [ embrace you both heartily in Jesus Christ. Faritrom exulting, rather compas- sionate your brother, who gives the Siig: au blessing to all. PIUS IX.” 18 IT ANOTBER FENIAN RAID? (From the Minneapolis Tribune, June 25.) ‘ The St. Paul Pioneer of yesterday contained the following significant call:— Ho, for the Northern frontier! All able-bodied Irishmen desirous of joining the ‘Northern Ex- ploring Expedition” that is now forming are re- quested to meet at No. 204 Kast Seventh Street. Office will be open from seven A. M. until nine P. M. every day for three a By order of the Committee of Exploring Expedition. J. W. K., Secretary, ir. J. C, Kennedy, an Irish citizen of St. Paul, was arrested and thrown into jall at Fort Garry a few days ago on @ charge of conspiracy in the Fenian raid in 1871, The Irish blood 1s up and they evidently mean business, But what does the “Northern Exploring Expedition” mean’ Will some one kindly elucidate the cause of the pres- ence of the milk in the cocoanut ? {From the Omaha Bee.) A memorandum on third term and Cesarism will Where ts Jones? ECONOMISE THE OROTO! To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD: To avoid the present great waste of Croton water and ice, let the Croton Water department, or indi, viduals, require all houses to have a pipe connected with the supply pipe at and the kiveuen in rising to the next purposes could then be draw at the temperature of the water in the main pipe and before it became heated and insipid by contact with the heating or Cooking ranged. ‘waste in order to from the suffered thus to run to waste for fifteen minutes snd pivehere full of ice are wasted in the effort to coo! int between the street and remote {rom the range, loor, The water for drinking @pparatas of the house as at present ar- fais of water are suffered to run to what is called fresh water pitchers. It is sometimes pes to fill ti MOVING ON, (From the Natchez New South.) Several of our Natchez boys left home this week to carve out fortunes for themselves in Texas, Others are soon to go; canse—uttes stagnation of business ip Najchez All the dimerent enemies endeavor to ob- | ou, beloved souls, and may He, the | THE WAR ON DOGS. Ninety Curs Impounded Yesterday— They Come In Slowly. Seven Mad Dogs Killed and Four Persons Bitten. THE PEOPLE CRY FOR RELIEF, Fifty cents is not a large bribe to offer a New York boy. Our young street loungers pat too high an estimate on the value of their services and un- derstand too weil the small purchasing power of the national currency to be very effectually tempted by the municipal reward of half a dollar for each dog delivered at the canine pound in Thirty-seventh street, near the public school, west of Tenth avenue. Few men will go into the busi- ness of cur-hunting, except so far as to bring to the pound their own animals, of whose inclination to rabies they have cause to suspect. This throws the business of ridding the streets upon the Juve- niles Who, as a generai rule, do not in the summer 80 stringently need food as to require any great exertions to earn it except by regular empioy- ment. Thus the process of collecting at the pound all the homeless and uniriended dogs of the street 1s @ siowand partial measure of relief from the startling danger of hydrophobia which sur- rounds us at every hand, These loose whelps are estimated to number 12,000, living im the city upon such food as good luck and canine sagacity enables them to secure. They lurk about all places where unwholesome flesh is likely to be exposed, Feeding on such diet they cannot fail to be un- healthy, and when they lack food they are more or less ferocious from hunger. In any case, fed or starving, they are a constant menace to the com- munity, as is proved by the frequency with which the police are called upon to give the dreaded brutes their quietus with clubor revolver. Witbin @ dozen blocks from the pound the streets are reasonably clear of curs; but in all other portions of the city they are to be found in undiminished numbers. They swarm about the markets, the dumping docks and | similar places where there 1s a chance to pick up stray portions of putrid food. No dogs were kept over Sunday at the pound, all on hand Saturday having been despatched by the carbonic gas of slow science, supplemented by the more ready, more rapid and more efficient club in the hands of Captain Marriott, RESUMING WORK FOR THE WEEK. Yesterday morning the pound was reopened, and through the day dogs were brougut slowly by boys, women, girls, aud occasionally one by a man, ‘When the door closed at five o'clock the purchases of the day footed up ninety as sad looking canine specimens as could be collected this side of Con- stautinople. Half a dozen who presented dan- gerous symptoms were sent out of this world | Without unnecessary delay or ceremony, and ere this are cremated and turned into gloves and other articles o1 use or luxury. The rest of the batch must await the law’s delay till Wednesday belore tasting the sweets of asphyxiation. A SWIPTER PROCESS NEEDED, At this slow rate of relief it would take months to rid the cityfrom the curse of the curs, and meanwhile scores of citizens may meet a fate Mr. McCormick. If the fears of hydrophobia are not mere groundless fictions, springing from ignor- ance and cowardly apprehension, it 1s desirable that some more efficient means should be devised to gather the dogs and bring them to the pound, 4 HINT FOR ENTERPRISE. Mr. Marriott thinksit would be found a fairly paying business for two or three resolute, active young men to patrol the city with a wagon like those used for hauling sawdust, into which the dogs could be thrown and bronght to the pound by fifues ata trip. Such carts passing through the districts most thickly populated by dogs could readily gather fifty in a short circuit, and the bringing the entire load to the pound would occupy nO more time than would be required for one. lt is to be hoped if the killing is to con- tinue it may by some means be made more general | and wholesale, and to emorace the whole city, not | @ narrow district. For all the brutes | mere! brought to pound no sane man would pay a cent except {n reference to their value afver death. DOG KILLING NINETEEN YEARS AGO. In 1855, or Fernando Wood asked Enzincer Haswell to design bim # construction for the ready killing of the dogs which were brought to the pound, and in compliance he designed and had constructed a large box or Sep taogulas, cistern of suficient dimensions to hold fifty dogs, having a hinged grating, set about four inches below its upper edge. Into this box the dogs to be de- stroyed were placed, the grating set down and fastened. Water was then let into the vox irom a hydrant, until tt filled the tank to the top, and as it ‘was wholly impracticable for the dogs to breathe any air alter the water reached the grating mney were immedately drowned and as effectively as if @ heavy weight had been attached to them and then thrown into deep water, A DANGEROUS BITE, Jaceb Burnett, aged iorty-eight, of No, 34 James street, was bitten oe mad dog at No. 6 Baxter street yesterday. @ wound was pronounced a apagerons one by the pbysicians at the Park Hos- ital ” 4 BABY IN DANGER. Eliza F, Graham, aged three years, of No, 401 West Eighteenth street, was bitten bya mad dog yesterday. TWO CHILDREN BITTEN. William Talion, aged six years, of Robbins ave- nue, near 148tn street, and Frederick Weirage, aged seven years, of Grove avenue and 156th street, were bitten by @ mad dog belonging to Martin Nolan, STILL ANOTHER, Thomas Regan, of No. 249 First avenue, was bit- ten by & mad dog last evening while passing No. rH Great Jones street. Ofticer McGuire shot the KILLED BY THR POLICE. Seven mad dogs were killed in the streets yes- terday by the police. 1,4 mad dog was killed last evening by Oficér lerrick, of the Tenth precinct. A Saxon Doctor's Prescription. | To THE Epiror OF THE HERALD:— As cases of bydrophobia are now so frequent and fatal [send you herewith a remedy which was given me many years ago by an aged German physician, who informed me that he obtained it from an aged Saxon doctor, and that he had used it with success both in Leipsic and this country. Ihave recommended it to persons who have been bitten by dogs in several instances and no evil Ci) has been caused where tt has been used. I ho; tollows:— Wash the bite thoroughly with warm vinegar, then pour on it a few drops of muriatic acid, NEW YORK, June 29, 1874. Dv. O. Be Immediate Cauterization for Wounds. To THE Epitok o¢ Tak HERALD :— Dogs, especially in hot weather, should be given ‘a8 much water as they desire. If the owners of dogs would fx a@ drinking vessel where they, could find it whenever thirsty the condition of the animals would be more healthy and rabies would not be invited, as it va is. The prevention of iyarophobia depends upon energetic messufes, promptly taken. Every per- gon that receives a bite or scratch, however trivial, ‘om & domestic animal, should immediately con- sult some medical man and nave the wound effec- tually cauterized. The after treatment of the con- vuision seizures 18 unsatisfactory and, as far as, we know, useless, bot there is hardly @ case on* record where cauterigation has not abated the disease, A PHYSICIAN, New Youx, June 27, 1874 An Effective Preventive of Hydrophobia. To ras Epiror oF Tus Herat “* Regarding hydrophobia the simplest and [it fact the only effective cure to insure one’s life from the bite or scratch of ® dog or animal of any kina,! whether mad or not mad, is instantly on receiving the wound apply your lips to 1% and draw out the venom; if yon are unable let some one else do it for you. 1s mast be done immediately; by so doing you draw out whatever poison there is in the wound as you would had you carelessly cut your finger with a knife, Those, who are bitten, in nine cases out of ten, send or go for the doctor. There is the tata! delay, for the poison, if there be any, 1s doing its work and it will have spread turough the system lohg betore the doctor can react: It; on see- ing the wound he seta to work using caustic, he burns out the wound, but he does not reach the poison. My father, when a boy, was bitten in company with two playmates; it was on a hot d: in July, When they were in ie yard playing wit! tne dog; he became mad ana bit ali three. gen- tleman standing by saw it all and immediately sola them to “suck it out and spit it out.” Father did as he was told; the two boys went home and to doctor's; one died two days alter in horrible ony, the other the following week. ‘The survivor still carries the murk of the bite. was uiso bitten in @ very similar manner and like circumstances as the two others, and again fol- lowed the advice given him, Which has twice been she means of saving his life. 1 have myscif been bitten, and were I to be bitten again during the next hour Ly @ dog ever so mad, 1 would resort to the means of cure I have mentioned above, were - all the most prominent and ablest doctors beside 1 Mo, 50 sivong is my OLD 1D what T haye herein simular to the harrowing ones of Dr, Butler and | | | will never interfere with men. In these times a | it may prove beneficial to others. Itisas | stated, although I wonld not hesitate to call the doctor for almost anything else that ailed me, New Yors, June 29, 1874. COMMON SENSE. The Dog Census Corrected. New Yor, June 28, 1876, To Tus EDITOR or THE HERALD:— In this morning’s HERALD there is mention of 10,000 dogs in thie city. The truth is that there is nearly that number in the Tenth and Seventeenth wards alone, golng around without iog or muzzle. CITIZEN. Humanity for Men—Death for Dogs. To THE EpiToB OF THE HERALD:— 1am astonished at the apathy of people generally in allowing 80 many miserable curs to run around in the streets. Cannot something be done by the city guthorities to take the matter in hand? Rely- ing on boys to pick them up for fifty cents a head does not do the business effectually. In walking a short distance last night through Second, Tuird and Lexington avenues, I counted over sixty dogs Ppa 1oose, and only one of all these was muz- je It seems there are more dogs running around on the east side than on the west side. I suppose this is owing to tke fact that the boys find it tuo hard work to carry them over 80 lar as the pound. Why do not the city authorities take the Matter in hand? Tne best way would be to in- struct the police to kill all dogs running around unmuzzied, Hydropnobia 18 more prevalent in summer than in winter. An eminent physician, Wuo 18 @ friend of mine, has treated several cases, ana he gays “There is no known cure for it;” and he ad one case where the disease broke out filty- four days alter the person wag bitten. He telis me of being called yesterday in three places in tae Nineteenth ward where children were bitten. I noticed none of these reported in the papers, and there are any number of cases which do not find their way into the papers. Nowhere else would people submit to such dangers, But we owe much of this to the sentimentality of some of our would be philanthropists, whose motto seems to be, “Humanity to dogs, and humanity to the hogs.” New YoRK, June 29, 1874, LW. Energy Required in the Dog Slaughter. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— ‘The decided position the HERALD takes in favor of exterminating street dogs finds a hearty in- dorsement with the public generally, and is in happy contrast with the silly sentimentality ut- tered by one or two of the New York dailies, who would have us believe that vagrant curs are dear, harmless creatures, and should. be allowed the largest liberty in the public bighways, Your cor- respondent, “Citizen,” of June 27, bits the nail aren on the head, and with him I say, “Kill all the dogs.” It is too late for Mr. Bergh and his agentate waste time by trying to find a way by which dogs may expire pleasantly. We want to be rid of them summarily and at once. The method of extermination is of but little consequence just now, 80 that they be hustled off; nor need we stand upon the order of their going, Unless the authorities proceed energetically in this matter our citizens will do the work on their own re- | sponsibility, revolverin hand. Perhaps this will prove the effectual method after ai New Yorx, June 29, 1874, SAFETY. A Plea for the Dogs. To THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— I think it 1s a miserable thing to destroy life— life, which God gave to all, even to plants. To be a Christian, to be the image of God, to be the near- est to our Creator, no religion ts required, only the study of God’s grand creation, which will make a man perfect and similar to Him; but only through the study of our Oreator’s works we will be kind to the dumb, innocent animals. A poor dog, he reads the eye of @ man as well as a man would, and I tuink It no use to destroy a part of God’s work. Only treat those animals kindly and they | good washing twice 4 day with plenty of sulphur water would be the best thing for a dog; but kill- ing those poor animals for just only enjoyment jor those who kill them, and for raising such thieves as will steal more than dogs by and by, is acruelty and a sin Porare one Creator, ERMAN CHEMIST. New Yorx, June 29, 1874. Punish Mr. Bergh. To tum Eprror or tax HenaLp:— Sin—The report of Mr. Bergh’s heartless, stabborn and assivine torture of the dogs at the pound yesterday calls vociferousiy for redress. Mr. Marriott has had his trial. Why doesn't some one arrest Bergh for cruelty todumb animals? I would also suggest serving the warrant too Jate in the day t obtain bail. “Such protection! Yes, the protection that vultures give to lambs, covering and devouring them! It surpasses conjecture why Bergh punishes every one else, and yet is permitted to exercise with impunity all the powers of his gigantic (1) mind in discovering or inventing new methods of dog torture. HL Naw Yous, June 28, 1874, FROM LIVERPOOL TO CHICAGO FOR SEVEN- TEEN DOLLARS. pa Ee The disruption of the British North Atlantic Steamship Conierence has brought about the low- est fares across the Atlantic that have ever been known. Yesterday afternoon a HERALD reporter called upon Mr. John McDonald, of No. 8 Battery place, agent of the Belgian line of mail steamers, plying to this port and Philadelphia, and likewise | ofthe American line, of Philadelphia, to give his | views on the subject. Mr. McDonald stated sub- stantially that the fight was a bitter one and that he was carrying passengers at the lowest rates by both lines, out declined to make public what his rates were. For the American line he gave free pas- sages to Philadelphia, and that at whatever rates the lines lately belonging to the North Atlantic steamship companies were carrying steerage pas- sengers, he was prepared to undersell them, and to give as good if not better facilities. “We are giving the same 100d as when Our rates were | doubled,” said he, ‘and the consequence is that we have no lack of human freight. Hundreds, I | may say thousands, of men are out of work and | are glad to embrace the opportanity to get back | to the Old Country at nominal rates. In addition | to this emigrant passengers are being taken out FOR FIVE DOLLARS TO CHICAGO from New York, by the Pennsylvania Rauiro: reach that city in about eight or ten bours than if they went by express trains. But back to the ocean steamship question, I am unable | to say where competition will end. The imme- diate result, however, coupled with ratiroad com- petition in this country, is that passengers are now being carried irom Liverpool to Chicago for $17." WHAT A TICKET AGENT SAYS. “The competition 1s becoming more cutting day by day. The lowest rates yet are of the Anchor line, Who geil tickets to agents at $12, which are in many instances retalied to the public at $12 50. Large reductions are made to tamilies. It Is im- possible to obtain an account of these reductions; the lowest rate thas far made ($11), is, | believe, the lowest price yet charged. The White Star line, the Cunard line, the National line, the Wil- Nams & Guion line, are ali each, Return or excursion tickets are being given at about $30 to $32, 1am told that the quality of the food given the emigrants has greatly iallen off since the low rates have ruled. The police officers patrolling Broadway from the Battery to Cedar | street are said to be making handsome commis- sions for piloting men to certaim steamship offices, where they make purchases of tickets, and, in fact, | are sensibly interfering in this respect with the regular steamship ronners, The most bitter oppo- sition between any two lines has been that be- tween the National and Williams & Guion.” “TEARS, IDLE TEABS!”’ {From the Tribune.) Recently the venerable and kind-hearted Thar- low Weed, while rammaging about some of the old | book stores and print shops oi Nassau street. acci- dentally fell upon a lithographic portrait of Horace Greeley. It had been taken in the earlier davs of the great editor, and thongh crude, was an excel- | lent likeness. Mr. Weed purchased it at once and carried it over to the Astor House, where he’showed it to his old friena, Colonel Charles A. Stetson, After azing at it for some minutes, with so much emo- ‘ion that the tears came to nis eyes and ran down | his cheeks, the veteran said, wit & broken voice, “That ig exactly bis look as it was when I knew him thirvy years ago, If I had not forgiven bim in my heart and to be forgiven before he died, 1 should forget all the differences that nave been between us, as 1 100K on this sweet, honest, noble face of the man whom | have so sincerely honored and traly loved. That face calls back all the past \d makes me see, as I have never seen belore, that a genuine friendship for a good and true man 1s Worth all the empty glory the world can give,"’ Mr. Weed has taken the portrait home, had it handsomely framed, and put in his library, Itis one of the things nothing would induce him to art with. He regards it as a treasure, delights in it u8 @ vivid feminiscence of kis and Mr. Greeley’s long and cordial, eventful, and now historic mti- nger coming | | | | ving tickets at $15 | Burglary Doomed To Become Unpopular. A Safe in a Diamond Store Cracked, but Very Few Valoables Found. There is little doubt but that bank and safe burglary is doomed to become exceedingly unpopa- lar. Two cases of disappointment in one week are too much for the “profession” to thrive under, The latest afair of the kind came to public notice yesterday, The establishment of Zimmermann & Weill, dia- mond setters, at No. 87 Prince street, has for some tme been commanding the attention of enter- prising burglars. The sign over the door would have deceived even more experi- enced cracksmen into the belief that inside the large fireproof safe, clearly seen through the door, were to be found several thousand dollars’ worth of the valuable gems, This rather natural hallucination has for several days past possessed the minds of the Eighth ward gang of safe- breakers, The proprietors did not place much reliance in the strength of tne safe, and recent events have made them more cautious than usual, So no longer ago than Saturday the firm removed thetr valuable stock from their own store to a vault in a safe deposit company. Some tew small jewels and gotd clippings alone remained in the safe, The unfortunate burglars were not in- formed—as they should have been—by the police of the recent removal of the articles of virtu from Zimmermann & Weill’s safe, and on Sunday night took the trouble to ascertain by actual observation what they might readily have learned by asking either of the members of the firm. HOW TO CRACK A SAFE. The principal workroom of the establishment is located in the vasement of No. 87 Prince street and 13 entered Irom the sidewalk by descending a short flight of steys. A hall, with an entrance under the stoop, runs the entire length of the basement, but this did not cause any apprehension, as the doors Jeading from it into the office were kept carefally barred. Through this hall door the burgiars ef- fected an entrance to the house during Sunday afternoon or night. They carefully closed the door alter them, in order that the policeman on the beat might not follow themin. With a “jimmy,’” scientifically applied, the door leading from the hall into the office was readily forced and the connoisseurs of precious stones stood before the safe. Having ascertained to their satisfaction that the large wooden shut- ters had been so caretully adjusted by the pro- prietors that light from within could not be seen on the street, the burglars lighted the gas and be- gan work. A heavy cold cnisel was driven in each side of the door aiter the cuter layer of tron had been pried of and a half hour’s hammering, which must have caused considerable annvyance to the entire sleeping population of the block, forced back tne bolts and left the contents of the saie at the mercy of the burglars. ROBBERS ARE CHOOSERS. They carried a large table out of a rear room and quietly sat down to mspect the saie’s con- tents, The discomfiture of the men, on finding that about $10,000 worth of diamonds, which they had the very best reasons for expecting to secure, had been removed to a place or safety, may be imagined. Not entirely disgusted, however, they picked over all the old goid and selected what they wanted, Several packages of gold cilppings and filings, valued at about $200, were pocketed. Then the Alaska diamond department was thor- oughly overhauled and such as seemed desirable were tasen. The papers in which the stones were folded up were laid out on the table in perfect order, so that the proprietor should have as little trouble as possivbie in replacing them. Several stray emeralds, rubies and garnets were selected, not so much for their , perhaps, for an assortment. Avery fine set of diam weights, graduated from one ounce to the ax fourth part of a pennyweigut, were accepted. “They were handy to have about” was the thought which prompted this capture, no doubt. “aU REVOIR,”? Finding nothing else of value, after smoking a couple of cigars, the burglars put out the gas, and at about four o'clock took tueir departure in & very orderly manuer {from the hall coor under the stoop, locking \t after them as they came out. They were seen to leave by a young man in @ ven- der’s cart who was passing at the time. They were not seen by the police. The loss will aggre gate only about $500, too trifing, as may be 1 erred, lor the police to give the case much atten- tion. 183 BURGLARY A ORIME? A HERALD reporter, who calied at the Eighth recinuct station house, on the adjoining block, to Fearn the more recent developments, had his ideas regarding burglary considerably modified ty a con- versation which he there had with tne sergeant in charge. The HERALD man had been Joolish enough to suppose that the act of breaking ato a | hoage was in itself a gf but be did not find his opinion confirmed. Thi conversation :— HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—Have any arrests been made for the burglary at No. 87 in this street? SEKGBANT—No, That safe wasn't of no account, It ts hard to do much in such a case. The reporter actually leit, regretting that the burglars had been put tothe troubie of opening the sale for nothing. BURGLARY AND BRANDY. That the “best laid plans of mice and men” don’t always prove successful, was demonstrated again yesterday. On Sunday night Martin Duty secreted himself in the liquor store or Mr. War- ren, at No. 234 West street, evidently with the intention of robbing the place, The store was closed, and Martin went from his corner to the tilland emptied it of $14. The object of his visit | accomplished, ne thought he would regale him- self with a little Hennessey brandy. | bottie and drank until his thirst was appeased, then caromed his head on several of the barrels and went to rest in the middle of the sawdust, where he was found yesterday morning, with the | empty bottle in his hand. ANOTHER BROOKLYN SOANDAL {From the Brooklyn Eagle.) It should be added that sundry of the letters are grossly obscene and vulgar, and that Mitchell is @ family man, over sixty years of age. He has been citea for trial before the session. He responded to the citation by going West. The trial, by Presby- terian regulation, ts being conducted in contuma- clam, this alternoon. The final result is hardly to be doubted. We don’t know that anything needs to be added to this case other than tue statement of it. The malignity, indeceacy, tnexcusableness and meanness of tne attack are almost incompre- hensible, I! it were as easy to prove the lelldw insane as tle proves litmself both illiterate and tniamous, not merely charity, out @ common desire to_vindi- cate human nature from being insulted by having him as ite representative, would rush to the con- clusion of bis junacy. (From the Brooklyn Union.) Is Dr. Talmage aware that “in putting his foot down” against tue arrest of Mr. Mitchell heis com- pounding a felony and rendering himself amena- le to the laws? The church and its pastor are not superior to the laws of the State, Yet it has been the practice of churches for years to so act as if they were. To “treat him in a brotherly way” is a vory fine sentiment, but to treat the sneak thiet and the highway robber “in a brotherly way” would be to overrun the city with smeak thieves and highwaymen, The people of this pe cannot af- ford to treat men oy of such crimes as Mr. Mitchell 18 charged with “in a brotherly way.’? Too many families in this city to-day are suffering from the effects of anonymous and obscene let- ters to aliow & guilty man when caught to escape with the slight pumishmeut of expulsion from church membership. ANOTHER INSULTING POLICEMAN To THE EDITOR OF THE HRRALD:— Is was charming in Oentral Park on Saturday fiternoon and the music was enjoyable, but the Beata in the vicinity of the music stand were, as usual, totally inadequate to accommodate tnose visitors who wished to listen to it, and there uot being one vacant I seated my wile and self on & ledge of rock adjacent to where boards bearing the word “Common” are piaced. We 20d only been seated afew minutes when one of the Irish e iollowing was the He took the macy and association. ruMflans employed by the Park Commissioners came up, and in a tone far more coarse and Dru FREE GERMANY, than auf saveowner in former mee, OUP Dee spoken in “} (From the Pall Mall Gazette.] tay with sundry expierives, co rmove outer dat.t? Dr, Ewald, the learned author of “The History of Now I would suggest to the Commissioners vis Of placing dierent colored boards at va- Israel,” has jast been tried at Hanover /or a libel on Prince Bismarck. The libel was contained in an article written by the Professor in @ partioalarist magazine, in which the Chancellor was compared to Frederick Il. and Napoleon I11.—with the former in “his unrighteous war with Austria and bis ruin- ation of reiigioa and morality,” and with the lat ter in “picking Out the best time possible for roo. and pinader.” The Doctor has been sentencea to three weeks’ are ponmnans, Dr. Behrens, tor publishing the article, has been fined twenty-ave thalers. ich i# and is not sacre Grote whisk woalt wrevent visitors from ren- Sering ‘themselves to be vsuited by tose “Jacks in office.” ui 4 ‘gHADOWS BEFORE” [From the St. Louts Glove.} | Bogy ts vo be panquetted, [f he is mot on the mocratic ticket for Vice President—per- nesioe Tor Preaident—it will not be from luck of eperay Op the part of bis inends aud vdmirers,