The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1875, Page 17

——_——___—— THR ACAPULCO MASSACRE Details of the Assassination of the Protestants. Liberalism and Reform Struggling Bigotry and Intolerance. with HUTCHINSON CHURCH DESCRIBED. The Assassins Congregated—Murderous | Assault on the Missionaries. aan Names of the Killed and *¥ounded—The Scene of Slaughter. ia The Surviving Protestants Deported to the United States, ACAPULCO, Mexico, Feb. 20, 1 The readers of the HERALD have doubtless been already informed of the principal facts connected with the reiigious massacre which, on the night of The 26th ult., diagraced this generaliy pacitic town and sent a thrill of horror through the whole Re- public. It now becomes my duty to place betore the American people an impartial statement of she whole cas2, 80 that they may be able to form. their own unbiassed opinion of this most deplora- ble event. THE STRUGGLE AT ACAPULCO, This well known port, the late scene of another St. Bartholomew’s Night, 1s situated on the beau- tiful and nearly land-locked bay wnich bears its name. The town of Acapuico itself is built close ‘to the water's edge, at the foot of a chain of high kills of volcanic origin, rising back in toward the country onthe east and north, These hills, wich aimost deserve to be classed ay mountains, ate generally clothed with verdure and covered py patches of light woodiand, giving them a pleas- Ing, picturesque appearance. The place contains & population of about 5,000, is extremely hot—ag | many Of our Caliiornia fellow citizens and others ‘who have visited it can testify—and to mend mat- ters, Occasionally suffers from earthquakes. The old fortress of San Diego Castle, butit by the Span jlards, but now of little value as a de/ensive work, is situated on an eminence at ubout hall a mile to the east of the plaza, and on the Atreet leading from the public square to the ‘fortress, called Tercera Halle de San Diego. At the Outskirts of the houses and just above the sea 1s situated the old, recently unoccupied churea of San Jos¢, where the religious murders, of which I | am about to speak, took place. fhe parisz church, situated in the plaza, and which until within three months ago bore sad evidence of abandon- Taent and neglect, is the only other place of wor- ship in the town. It has received a new coat of whitewash and undergone a les Of minor re- pairs that augured a revival of religious zeal on | These re- | the part of priest and parishioners. pars were made soon alter the arrival of a Catn- | ollc missionary, Who reached Acapulco some tima 1m last November. THE CHURCH OF Jost itgelf, lately loaced by the Protesiant congrega- | tion, of which the Rev. Mr. M,N. Hutchinson was Pastor, had also been whitewashed and otuerwise put in order by the new converts to Calvinism, ‘Who appeared anxious to imitate the nota‘le ex- ample set on the side of Rome, the rival churenes could not obitterate or at least whitewash inborn sectarian prejudices ay easily a3 they transferred a new coat of unstained hue upon the wails of their respective teimpiss. REY. MR. HUTCHINSO: was the pastor of tue Presbyterian congregation of the city Of Mexico, where it seers that tor we, considerable period he had exerc’sed his minis: terial Junctions without let or bindrauce ot any sort. this piace called Procopio Diaz, a man tlerrera and others to come organize @ new congregation, a nucieus for which had @iready existed — for nearly @ year back, Hutchinsoi DO one suitable to send as a substitute, deter- mined to come down himself (which he did in last December) and take temporary charge o! the new cnurch, He is believed tw have found alt ogcinar, betweon men, Women and catldren, some eighty or ninety souis Who were destrous of cimoracio the uew doctrine. A portion of these he addrosrod on several occasions at praser meetings, in the Rouse of Diaz and one of two vlhecs, ‘Lhe old Vacan! Catuoiic chuici Was rented at tie reason. able figure of $17 a month, and p:eparatto made to have regul r service there, fut Up, small here chairs and benches ranged im order, and organ purchased aud set in its aiiotced Place, In the mean wolie, between the time of | Hutchinson’s arriva! on the 18th of December and | that Of the massacre on the 261) of January, oml- nous warnoiugs and deeply muttered threats had deen thrown out by the eduerents of Cathoucliy ad to What was soon bout to sappen to their reiig- ious Opponents. Whether the tdea wae entertained 6r not, that violence would be reaorted to, docs not appear; neither is it clear if the respective pastors participated in the denunciations of eaca other's preachings, that were bandicd about amcoag both sects. The Catholics allege that they were systematically insulted by the Protestants, who, nowevel, had a sinail organ in the shape of a local pheet published by suuevudy on thetr side of the question. ‘The Protestants energetically deny Paving done anythlug more than enter into a fair discussion of scccarian dogmas, On the 24th of January the new cburen Was opened in jorm, Service Was had in it twice that day, and Huten- ingon preacied both times. Itigs admitted tual pretty fair audiences, compused of converts «ni Spectators, greeted tue new Protestant divine. Monday evening, January the 25tn, a prayer meet- ing, at which Huteminson was present, took place, 4 similar gathering was agreed upon for iues- ening. On Tuerday during the day Ete felt ‘unwell trom the effects of medict: ily for himsel!, Was unable to attend tng planned jor that mght, Had he wnother victim to the fury of fanaticism Ww ave swelled tue Number of those wio met ¢ date on that terrible iisht. THE AS N3 CONGREGATED. The Provestant church has only two doors, both opening on the strect, One was closed, aud the other, that nearcr to the town, open. In tront of the door, between it and the street, an um- brageous tree grows. It was nnder the shaite cf this tree, and at either side of Lie door, watching Wwe procesdings within the chured, that the asans- sibs, humberiug sume thitty-live or forty men, took ‘their stand, Procopio Diaz was engaged in the service, He had addressed the congregation in place of their absent minister, and they w singing a hymu, when eight or ten of the c 0) duek! thioais outside ‘entered, and, divicing along | ie of | Without avy sign of warnirg what. | mseives, Occupied stands near eith puiptt. ever these incarnate devils bared their MURDEROUS MACHETES, and commenced an indiscrimimate slaughter of tue peaceful inmates of tae church—not eniicely imdtscilminate, iur the leader of whe murderers una one of his men marked out Diaz as tietr Special victim, A couple of machete blows were r aimed at his Head, whica Wf received in their full | jorce must have terminated his existence at voce, As it happened, he had soMmcient presence ‘of mind to dodge his bead beltind the pulpit, ana @ portion Of tue board Was cut through beiore the Weapon rerched its mark. tried to fire, but the assullants were too quick tor him, and tne ieader iniicved @ ghasuly gash ou his Pisvol bund. A HEROINE. Widle this was passing whe leroio wife of Diaz ivked Up a chan, rushed upon one of her hus- and’s would-ve murderers, pinned hin to the wali, and, by main force, wrenched the machete tom bis bloody hands, With this she deiended herself like @ ieroine and bastened to the atd of Diaz. Perceiving & favorable opportunity she sald ty her hasoand, “Now tire |! he did #0, and fatally siot the leader through the mouth and bide of the face, Wivtin the churen a bloedy and turderous hand-to hand fight was waged for the space OF six or eight minutes, The deadly machete was wielded witu fcariul etfeci, human flesh out aud gashed like bullock meat, while blood eamned in torrents over the gory floor, now umvered by dying oy wounded men and wouen. TUR DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS. Tek or S4ozen shots were fired, a tew from tho Hoeatled, some OF Whom had revolvers With them, At the commencement of the onslaught those Who were hear tue door attempted to eacape, This Was (acat misiake, for as the aMfrignted wor. eulppers pained the streot they were deitberately vutdoawn by the ambushed rutians stationed on both Fi ‘es of UG door outside, HENRY MORRIE Im this woy the American citizen Henry Morris Woot his death. Ais head Was Learly severed from tue body by a chete blOW abd his Chest was cut open ata singie stioke, deop tnto the ribs. Ho snd tWo olver men and a Wotan were killed ous Jgbbaud cleyen Wounded, more or less MeVOrCLF, Itis# pity that | He was invited last year by a lawyer of | tamed | and | ‘Anding | A pulpit was | He drew a pistol aud | NEW YORK HERALD, SUND#Y, MARCH 21, 1875.—QUIN of whom several have since died. Morris was & colored man, (rom Kosten. He leaves a wife and several children, He had been in Acapulco some eighteen years or tore, having come to this town in the capacity of body servant to Mr. Van Brunt, formeriy agent of the Paciiic Mau Steam:hip Com- vay. fin DURATION OF THE MASSACRE. The Massacre commenced avout ten minutes alter cight o'clock, and, ag already stated, lasted only s!X or eignt minutes. The first news which the authorities uhd ol it Was Irom a wounded man, celled Juan el Negro, who made his way to the piazw, and at the drug store there, was met by ajor Francisco Mejia, commander of tne few fed- eral troops stationed about Acapulco, Mejia at once started ou arun to the scene of action, some | 400 yurds off, aud @ Jew minutes later tie | town police, followed soon atter by the federal troops {rom the Castle, were on tbe ground. More than five minutes could not have elapsed trom tue | closing of the battle to tne time when the authorities reached their posts, As tisaal insucn | cases the police and their aliies came too late; | they got to tna tatal field only in time to pick up | | the dead and wounded, but not early enough to arrest upon the spot, or follow up any one who could be Immediateiy recognized a8 & participant in (iis Greadsul tragedy, ARRESTS, Incidentally it may be mentioned that one of the assassins, Who Was desperately wounded and could not get out of tle way, was taken Into | custody and placed iu close confinement (incom- | munaicadoe). tis deposition has been taken, in which, o: course, It appeard thas he figured asa spectator oniy. ‘A couple of other wounded men were apprehended, but a3 nopody has appeared to implicate them, the prosecution may be looked upon a8 abandoned, ACTION OF THE MILITARY. The federal troops in garrison, about elghty men (& Commissioned ofmcer of whom is oue of the wounded), w eager to follow and track the assassins. Major Mejia would bot consent | to this energetic measure, He argued that with the hanaful of men at his disposal | nothing conid thus be done and that if they pursued them the whole number might be slain in an ainbush and the town thus left with: out any protection, Mejis telegraphed the main facts to tis government, asking 300 additional | troops, and the Minister of War, without di trauxmitied the message to General Alvarez, Gi eruor of tins State, Who Without logs of time put himself at the head of 250 men, and arrived in Acapuico about a day and a half after the feartul sed, On the way down Irom La Prov- » OG Of the soldiers under Alvarez, meeting & chance travetler, askea him if he were a Protestant. ‘the interrogated party, as if to | humor tae joke, laugbingiy replied that he was; whereupon the represen'ative of law and order levelled his rife at the unfortunate m:n and shot him dead! ‘tus flue speciinen of ite troops wio were seat down by the government to protect we Protestants in the iree exercise of their undoubted right to practise their reitgion 13 DoW @ prisoner awatting crial lor murder, From this incident the triends of the American Foreign Mission can judaze for themselves how sale it 1s lor enterprising mis- | sionaries to pioneer their way in the land of God and liber CHARGES AGAINST A CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN, It ts generally beueved in {mpartial circies that the pr.est Of the parish, if not directly concerned In the Massacre, Knew that something of the kind was being planed, and that if desirous of | have visited In company with Judge Bonilla and | pooia of blood, hurd dried in a hot sun, mark the domg so could have preveuted tis perpetration. Al any rate a lost sigeificant fact 1s that in his | sermon delivered on tne Sunday tollowing he | never even remotely alluded to what had hap- | pened, so that iu the presence of a heartrendiug Cal Which bad been wrought wholly y under pre t of religious zeal, nie not a word condemnatory | of the depiorable act, nor gave a sentence oi ad- | vice c: iliag muderauon or toleration, Com. neonduet of this kind seems unneccs- Justo Pastor Nava is not tue Bay for the opinions of the civilized | or, indeed, any other portion of mankind, p: vided he can serve God even vy offering up heca- | tonios OL martyrs in the name of religion. — In 1359 | His Revercnce was taken prisoner by Don Juan | 4 e% ina battle ought against che liberals at hica. Pastor Nava nad then earsed for an unenviable — reputation had fim tried and sentenced to be mierence o1 some iD fluential Ineads: lite and he was baaished the country. Pp ais abode in Caitiornia, where, it is ed, he mace bimeeli usefui in teach- | ing ho! ion to the young Americans of San Francisco. ‘The temporary establisnment of Maxt- | milau’s Empire vrought this nored ecciesiastic ck again to Mexicy, Where the greap liberal party, since thetr final triuaiph, have allowed him to reiuain upon his good bevayior., Behold the | traits which nis presence in Acapulco has brought | forth. | binseit that Alvares shot. ‘The int saved bis | He took w to be THE STORY STATED. When Genera! Doo Diego Alvarez came here after tae mourniul scenes above taintiy descrived, | # sort OL pubile procession, composed Of about 150 woinen and heacly as many men, went to see him, ‘They stated thei entire approval of the Padro’s cauree since be came to the parish and asserted j that ti he were made prisoner they and tue peuple | j aud up and deena him. Mion Was presented to the over 200 signers demanded 1 Protestants be at once expelicd irom the ho action taken against the priest and” sumuary proceedings On account of the late ont: Tage at once suspended. ‘lo tis extraordiaary | dem ind tue Goyervor 1s expected to reply to-day or to-morrow. Tuose best posted in locai politics Say that Wolle Alvarez cannot, in an open aud undsaiised maouer, gr the — conditions of tis) remarkabie petiton, yet be will | substantiaiy comply wita tue request contained | in the document. Those whoin | have luterviewed | @ sudject Ve assured me that to com: | Tez Wiil probably soon offer ey und weans ior a lew promincas and vi. + Protestants to depsrt tor parts anknown. Nberal government and disgraceiul for civilized ColmmMunity, | A TAUSFUL INCIDENT, | _ Another remarkable inctuent occurs to me. | Wounded prisouer who gave ts deposition ay mie roney) expressed a Geslie to rec of Tue i ve he Church, and the priest was seat + the for, but te of the prisom guard at once ssel his actermivation not to allow | y Nova inside the walls of the jal, | | saylng to t:e Disirict Jutge, “You can’t | play thal game off on me. You want to put | the priest in prison, and iy he is arrested we, a3 | poopie of the town, will de eud hin to The wounded man was, thereiore, the pastoral residence, where spiritual consvlation Was administered to him. This shows nh What stud tae federal authorities can rely to thew lu executing the laws aud punisumg e TAR BAYONET AS A MEANS OF CURE, truinis that neither tue nauonal nor State 3 governments are suficiently strong to carry out | the tawa of reform, At the present moment it | woull require not less than 3,000 additional | federal bayonets in (iuerrero to arrest tue perpe- trators, alters and bettors of (20 late Massacre. Canuol ayare, and tats cry- ‘obably renin unchastised un- States press mutiers very the resident — ot Mexico, «1 States, let me sug gest UHat on ceeastonal Visit Of AN American man WAY would be very acceptavile to cur citizens in $ Part oi the world. People with whom i have coaversed € tne beltei thapit Juage Bonilia aud Major Mejia had such forces at their command as could enavle them to aer, they wouid do 80 vi entialty informed tnat if troops to back him ho al eighty persona, nearly one- third of whom there is no doubt could be con- visted of being conceraed in this terrivie act; but Under present circumstances nothing can be the warmly Aud, Speaking of ihe Uar be wita done, | | CHRISTIAN CHARITY. | | In justice to the Rey. Mr. fiutchinson, it must be recorded that upon ring Of the cruel butchery he at once w to tne house of Procopio Visa, Who 1s very dangerously wounded, and gave ailthe aid that lay in his power to assuage the poor man’s suderings, From tue complex.on ef effairgs next day it was thouzht well for the minis. tor to go ou Hoard the Ida Lilly, Whieh he did, aud | remained there until the Sist ult, When he went To Sam Francisey om the Pacific Mall Steamsnip Company's steamer Montana, | OFFICIAL ACLION—PROTESTANTS DEPORTED CALIFORNL The American Consul in A constant communication with Minister Foster, ron | and doublless Our representative in Moxico | has gre NOW received [uli statemonits of | Ail the maerial facts fh tie cate. Like | many other tuternational matters of equal, if not greater Waportance, it will be deposited in some aipiomatic pigeon hole and allowed to rest there, Un yesterday's steamer, the Caroliua, Consul Sat- | ter sent up to San Francisco the following named Mexican Protestants, wio eitaer voluntarily nad | prescuted themseives or been sent to him fur pro- tection, viz.;—Vaustin Davalos, Pascual Sotelo, Soiccad Silva (a Woman), Benigno Reyes Galindo, G Franco and Francisco Geleano, the last hamed a boy of about iuteen years old. The Consul | @8sumed the power of sending them to the United Sates, & country Which none of them had ever see, In the character of destitute seamen. ‘This oMctal if not ofic.ious aciton be reported to Minister Foster, but | have been unable to ascer- tain if this tunctionary has approved of the act | Certainly it ig the duty of all Amertcuns | to extend @ protecting hand to the oppressed of any country. We = should aiways be humane and liberal. At the same time it becomes a question of ah different complexion When onr consular agent takes wpon himsol! the Somewhat weighty respousihility of sending upon & long Voyage, at the expense vi bis government, a numer of people who have no moro right to such treatment thaa ioe & other portion of the 9,000,000 of inhabitants who make Up this Ropub- lic. In @ pecuniary sense the outlay ig not worth talking about; but if our consuls aré to throw the | tegis Of American protection over the citizens of ibose countries ty which they may be accredited, just because their own governments are unable to | | protect them, then the United States will soon tind enough such business to do, In our great Ke- public we have no State religion; e | churoh, very moetaltly takes care of iis | own followers, Certain! Mr. Hutehinson, be- ing @n american, jad ever, Tight to rutection uud@y the flag, and the death of poor Henry Morris is @ case which our government must have investigated; but it by no means fol- lows that the coreligiontsts of Hutchinson or Morris, being the citizens of another Power, had any claim which would entitie them to American pro-~ tection 1rou the wrath of their own countrymen, | Mr, Sutter bas greatly exceoded his duties as @ Cousul, wad Lae VERY MUCH Mistaken i the Mox- | embroidered in threads o! the precious metals; | Whea they surprise their enemy and Iiterally , “smite iim with the edge of the sword," | from | evening when 1 saw the pla | the District Judge, can government does not very soon tell Minister Foater 80, CITIZEN OPINION. Some respectabie toreigners have intimated to me that Procopio Diaz got up the new congroga- tion, not because he is areligionist o1 any particu- lar faith, but simply that he might make money out of the speculation. nis may be either true or false; but, even if | true, it does not alter the case at | au. The sincerity of @ man’s faith lies | with his own conselence ; the practice of his creed | 18 & right guaranteed him by ail the laws that oind | society logetner; and it is, therefore, of the most | vital Importance that the beral government of | Mexico should now pat furth the most strennous eflorts to bring to justice Uae murderers of Henry | Morris and his fellow victims, Waen the fight had nearly ended the Protes- tants were abie to shut the churen door, and kept it closed until the soldiers, to the number of twenty, arrived, THE PROTESTANTS KILLED follow. Euseblo Zavala, Henry Morris, Encarnacion de la Craz and Maria Margarita Abarcon, killed upon | tne spot, Feuciano Basillo died on January 23, ASSASSINS KILLED, Of the assasains the following uamed persons were kulled Augustin Calvoz, fellin the church, died on the Way {o town prison; Memecio Jacintoand Fran- cisto Pielago died since—making altogether a total of seven men and women, and ten wounded ou both sides, who nave fallen Victims to the tury ol religious fanaticism, FIRST IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES. Jndge Bonilia wili probably get the iederal rein- forcements be has asked fur, and then energetic mesures will be adopted enabiing lim to prose- cute vigorously suspected persons; of whom there are many hore. [tis thougnt that if a sumMicient number of federal soidiers were present numvers of persons who now hold their peace would make depositions against the parish priest of this place. Bisoop Serrano, of the Diocese of Chilapa, em- bracing the territory of Guerrero, died In Puebla on the 7th inst. at the age of filty-five years. Zealous Catholics ot this district will probably ask for the appoiatment of Padre Pastor Nava, but those of contrary opinion think this clergyman Wul be removed through governmental influeace from Acaputco, 1 have just seen a piece of the spinal coiumn of Henry Morris, One of the joints just below the neck Was struck out by a macnete blow. I alzo f£aw 0-e@ Of the literally blood-stained machetes used in the onslaught, [is tough biade 1s twisted and warped from the force oO! rhe strokes inflicted by it. Tne blade ts covered with drops and clots of blood, ‘The edge is still almost sharp cnoug to sbave a man, The scene of the massacre Consul sutter. On the street in front of the church dark clotted places where the several victims feil covered with their gore. THE CHURCH AS SEEN AFTER THE SLAUGHIER— IMPORTANT INTERVIEWS ON THE MATTER— BLOODY STRUGGLES IN THE COUNTRY DIS- TRICTS, ACAPULCO, Mexico, Feb, 22, 1375. ‘the machete, when wielded by the hands of a powerful Mexican, is just as much to ve dreaded in this country as the Spaniards havo found it In Cuba. Itisiike tho Irishman’s siilellan—an arm that never misses fire. And then, the maltiplicity of uses to which the Mexican dedicates his Miachete are something wonderful to the unint- tiated, It serves a3 nis weapon offensive and de- fensive; it clears the ground of drush wood and the forests of timber for him; in the streams, rivers and arms of the sea he fishes with iv; it helps to build bis jaca/, or hut; aids him itn nu- merous details of his duties as a muleteer, serves in the capacity ol a udiversal tool in carpentering about the houses; cuts his umbilical cord when he 1s ushered into the world; occasionally snavea him when his razor (if he has one) is dull, and is his closest companion at all hours of the day and night. How that macneto, with its sadre-llke curve, horn handle, broad biade and keen edge ts hugged by the owner can only be understood by those who for years have seen the terrivie instrument of many purposes wielded im every imaginabie way! Some of the people manicest ® good deal of tasve in the manner of keeping tneir favorite machete. Tie blade is fre- quenily well poiishea and inlaid with initials or designs in gold and silver; the leathern sheath and belt are ornamented with quaint chasings or while tne buckie fastening it to the Waist is usually of massive silver, But tie more numerous portion of the men, being those who cannot reach the elegancies just mentioned, are content to sneathe their machetes in a home-made scabbara or let it rest, barey Witn the hilt tn their hand and the badge embraced in the hollow of the arm. Over the steely surtace of the sharp and trusty cleaver a Wing of the omni- | present serape is thrown, and your Mexican gen- | Veman of the unpolisued classes is ready for any- thing from cock-lighting to manslaughter, The tough worsted folds of his weli-worn serape afford an excellent substitute jor a shield; and thua | armed toe halt liditan peasant of Mexico is as | tough a customer as one would wish to encoun- ter. His machete and serape remind me strongly of the targe and claymore that once made old Scotland famous, THK PROTESTANTS HACKED TO PcucEs. With these hints before the reader, it will bo easy for hm to Imagine the dreadful scene of havoc | jud bloodsned fhat must result whea a number of Machee-urmed Mexicans meet in confict, or It was, therefore, not 60 much \o be wondered at that tne people who perished in the massacre of the 26th uit. Were hacked, hewed ard cut to pieces. The body of Henry Mo:ris presented a sight frightful to pehoid, His head was split by a single blow; another stroke divided the arteries on the right side of the neck and chipped outa juinto! the spinal column, clean as the carpenter's adze | would a knot of timber.. This joint of bone, | devoid of flesh, sinew or muscie, was shown to me by District Judge Boniila, her of the wounds above iudicated woula have been | fatal; but the uualortunate Morris received a Iuachete cut across the breast, wich went through a portion of his rivs and peneirated the | church property), lungs and heart. Another such stroke denvered in the same place would have sumiced to divide the body intwe, Morris was found lying dead in the st.eet, about one hundred yards from the Protestant church, swoiteriug im blovd. The pavement and adjacent walis are red with tne | locd of the victim, which flowed or was dashed his wounds. At a short distance Morris !ay the bedy of the lad Encamacion de la Cruz, servant of Procopio macheted ara shot to deuth, Between the body of Morris and the cuiursh the remains of E. Zanala were jound, The unfortunate man received | ten machete and guashot wounds, Hs left hand had been s ruck ot by al blow, ad was tound ata disiance of five yards | Irom the body. The povis of blood which marked the spot where these bodies were jound had been partially covered witn sand to conceal the horrid sight when 1 visited the place. Around the door of the church itself, under the tree in front of it, everywhere, blood, vioud is to be seen. INSIDE THe PLACE OF Wors the scene is periectly appalling. The interior of the edifice consis‘'s of a singie long, loftily-ceilea room, which had been lately waitewasnéd, The place could contain 609 Or $00 wor ppers. At one end of the room was a low jlaiiorm upon which a plain, unpainted cedarwood pulpit nad been placed, and to the right of this was little organ, There were some eight or te benches and a dozen or 80 of rush-hottomed chairs for the accommodation of the congre- | gauion, Seven common kerosene oi lampa, | With reflectors, were placed on either | side wail, and un attempt at a chandelier ap- | peared suspended above the pulpit, On the . in company with United States Consul suiter, Mr. Gerecke, German Consul, Counseiior Gonza- lez and & number Of other yenticmen, it was in precisely the condition in which tt was fouud aiter the massacre. The door, marked with several | bullet holes and machete cuts, readily yielded vo | the hey, and a dank sineil was (ell, While alow ecio vibrated on the ear as we entered upon the eventiul scene, Entering into tue body of the room we foand ourselves about a dozen feet in front of the pulpit, and close upon a dark, dried ap | ool or bicod more than & yard wie, over which Tre never-dying woim had begua to trace lis loathsome Way. It was in this spot where the dead woman, Maria Margarita .garcan, was found im (iat re- pulsive lake of goYe, with her binins seattered avout by the murderous machcte. Near where she lay broken chairs that nad been wielded in the terribie fray and upset benches marked tie des- parateness or the fight, Wading through blood marks—which also disfigured tae walls io many parts—over the débris of chairs and benches that blocked the floor, we reacted another sea of blood, about thirty feet from the pulpit. It marked the Dlace where the reputed leader of the assavsins, Augustin Calvo, lay. This worthy met a richly merited fate at the hauds of the omiciating iin ister, Procupio Diaz. He was shot through the | head, and received othef injuries that caused the | hemorrhage which of Itseli Would have been tatal. The man died while being conveyed from the church to the town prison. Upon inding them~- Selves vesaulted the Protestants AVTEMPTED TO BARRICADE THEIR CHURCH DOORS. Une of these was most efictentiy shut by three or four benches thrust against its cross bars In & very effective way, ese benches, the floor under and walls about them were marked by a shower 0! blood drops, pny testified to the wounded condition of those wao barricaded this | entranve. An old broad orimmed felt hat wai found on one of the benches, and a siraw som. brero is still to be seen hold, as ifin a vice, be- tween the door and doorsteps. The pulpit was nding where it originally had been placed, but ms desk Was knocked to pieces. The Jeft side o! the pulpit showed a couple 01 desperaio machete cuts, which had been aimed at the veacher, Diaz, but jell short of their mark, One of Piem clot into the partially green cedar iach and @ half plank, three or four inches, leaving the tm. | Pressiqn hat 16 pad bem abruck by @ woouman’s | irom | P! | to the house of that no axe. Another stroke caught the return wing the paipit, toward the preacher’ person, shaved te heavy hoard down for a distance of five or six inches, leaving a smooth euge as though the cut had beem passed over by a car- penter’s plane, INSIDE THE PULPIT, keyboard downward and utterly wrecked, was or md found the eile crgan that bad been purchased for | the use of the churen. Up against tie wall, atthe pulpit’s right bond, pear Where the instrument Must have stood, we found tue bellows and pedals that had communicated musie-giving alr to the Protestants’ simple choir, The whole scene within the church presents move the appearance ofa charnel house (hav any thing else, aod the en- tire party, who, through the kindness of Judge Bonilla, had v sited tae sad temple were glad to get away ‘roin it. Leaving the church we proceeded across the Street in front of it, over turougn a navi sage Way between two liouses, on to a ¥ where an umbrageous syeuu leafy arms to the uzare heavens. pointed out as those where the chnvassed their bloody crime, o1 perpetration nd marched to execu VIEWS OF THE GOVERNOR AND O1DERS. 1 bave haa mterviews ou the subject o1 the mas- sacre with General Don Diego Alvarez, Governor Of this Stite; the District Judze, You Augusto Dina de Bontila; Mr, J, Suttar, United States Cone ant 106, re tree spreads its Localities were MSigiNs met, sul for Acapu Mr. Gerecke, Consul for 4: inany ; Le Lennox, agent of the | Pacilic Mail Steamship . Cumpany, and a pumber of other" notavle nitemen | living here. condemning the sangainary act; while, at the same time, much digerence of opinion 13 mau ested as to the means by which it wai Tied out; tne popular opiuion — (how: ever erroueousiy), nelining to the that bis reverence, Py or J, Nava, is at the bottom of the plot, Be tals a3 it may, the fact re- mains undisputed that up to this writing no one has come forward to accuse bin of the crime, In my letter of the 201k inst. I moationed the fact that Padre Nava bad not even alluded to the massa- cre in bis sermon delivered the wext Sunday alter the fatal 26th of January. 113, perhaps, unjust to consirno bis siledoe into any presumption of guilt; Dut at the Saino time it 13d very remarkable cir- cumstance, I tried yesterday to see Padre Naya, but ne deciined being interviewed, saying tuat the public Knew all about what had happened, and he cou'd throw no additiongl light upsu the catas- trophe. GOVERNOR ALVAREZ ON TOR MASSACRE Governor Alvarez looks upon the recent relig- ious murders rather in the light of a local fead emanating from the infloumed passions of personal aruisans taan @ hostile attempt to put down rotestantism, The advocates of this new faith had been provoking, insolent and insulting. They had usod indecent language coupled with the Most sacred things known to Catholics; had pub. lished sthametul articles in the newspapers and otherwise enraged the followers of the old faith, ‘There could be no doubt that a plot for vengeance had been laia, and, unfortunately, executed beiore the autuorities could intervene to pro- tect. the Protestants. But tne thing was gone now and could not be remedied, ‘The last of the aggressors had died in prison, and no one remained to say who had been concerned in the murders. Rumor nad been basy with the priest's (Naya) naine, and even be & (the Governor) had entertamed suspicions—per- | haps upjust—against bim. But a more careful etudy of fie case had convinced him that such suspicions were not well founded. The deed must be looked upon as a thing of the past, an event to be lumented, but which cannot now be helped, A petition for the expulsion of the Protestants had been sent to the Stale government, but he one Governor) had, of course, replied that such a demand could not be complied with, spoken privately to some of those who had seat the peution, telling tiem bow impossible 1+ was | to accede to their Views, and they appeared to ac- qalesce in bis decision, Many of the obnoasious Protestants had takeu themselves out of the way. and the practice of tretr particular tensts hav- ing ceased, there would no longer be any danger | Oi @ repetition of past outrages. ‘The government thought that the enforcement of the new consti- tutional amencments, wheredy the Sisters of Onarity, among other religious orders, had been expelied the republic, might lead to serious up- risings and even armea rebellion; but the su- preme government is strong and amply able to pat down al! such disorders, no matter what might be their origin, And as for the State of Guerrero, it at all events is on tne hizh road to prosperity, being now in the enjoyment of an oc- tavian peace. JUDGE BONILLA'S STATEMENT. In an interview had with the District Judge, Mr, Bonilla tniormed mo that if there were more federal troops about Acapulco no doubt people would come up aud give their depositions against certain arties WhO, he had po doubt, were concerned ‘0 the late murders. He had heard people express pretty decided opinions as to who the guilty par- ties are, bus no one dared to come forward and mako 4 sworn statement of what they said. He applied to tne municipal authorities, the foreign consuls and others jor information upon which to base further proceedings, but had not succeeded in getting any. The Judge thought that it 1s weil known ‘Who instigated the grave assussina- tious which have horrified this town, but without the protection of @ greatly in- creased number ot federal troops, those who do Know aua would come forward will keep their mouths closed. He thought government would 800n send Lew detachments oi troops to strength. en present garrisous, when, doubtless, Nght might be thrown upon the mystery and the guilty brought to justice, Juage Bonilla looks upen the moura‘ul event as the first, but by D0 means the last, of 1ts kind that may put Acapaico into mourning for the best blood of her children. His Honor tears that in the tuture. if one man entertains a grudge against another, all that is necessary to bring down the vengeance of mob law upon him wili be to denounce the hated party as a Protestant. This will suftice to have his house pelted with stones or himself riddled by bullets—and all, too, for the | Donor of God and the glory of Christ, It isa sin- qular re:igion, this Christian doctrine of ours, that requires so much bloudshed to make its dogmas | Clear, even among beilevers themseives, THE ALVO TROUBLE. The Monttor Republicano, published in Mexico city, on the 13:h inst, contains an oficial account of the Guavagnate émeute, from which I condense the following particulars: On the dist of January some {solated meetings Of people took place nimong those Who wished to make hostile Gemonstrations against Juilan Alyo, | thinking him to be the owner ol two lots (formerly purchased by S. Ortega trom the muntcipaiity, The police dissolved the meet- ings. Notice was brought on tho Ist ol February | to the Chief of Volice that some people | Were met in the house of Vicente @amarripa, with the object of inciting the people to rise against Aivo and the authori- ties, on account of selitng the lots alreaay aliudea to hended by Hie police on the sane night, but when these went to discharge tueir duty, news reached the Chief that a crowd of people were on the road outside the town, for the purpose of invading it, The day aud night police were then ordered to take possession of the best points around the Niza, 80 as to resist any attack that might bo They romained there until three o'clock mule, | next Morniag, When the watchers were allowed when called that on the lace, to relire, but with orcers to be ey! lor, Duting the day rumors were rife 4th the rising against the law would take | It must be nOled that on the evening of the Ist of | Febraary the Chief of Police called & Meeting Of the principal people jiving about | the place and told them the news which ho had received concerning the intended rising, and asked their co-operation in aid of the authorities. They oniy sald that jheir arms wouid ve employed in case an attack lor the pur pose of robbery should be attempted, 9 THE PIGNTING, At halfpast eight o'clock on the morning of February 2, when many people were coming out olcuurch alter hearing mass, @ number of un- Known perseps commenced to destray the stores that were being batit upon ube lots above named. | They shouted, “L ng live religion, and death to | jhe Protestauts;" aud toe people in « crowd went Julian Alyo, applied words ty him aud stoned the doors oi his store, Seeing this, some of tho Hels Who werg preseat got upon the tog of tid *Cliy Hail and commenced firing, with the odject of sciring away tie rioters. At this ume a man named Larrinud, in company with two others, approached to tell the Chief oi Police that the pevpie only wanted to have two prisoners liberated, who nad the day before been senienced to bard labor on the pubdile works tor having shouted “Long live religion.” In view of this petition, and seemg that very few Of the citizens assisted the autaorities in putting down the dis- turvance, and that possibiy these could not pro- tect the life of Avale, the Cuiet of Police made out en order for the release of the prisonérs asked lor, Larrinud went in the direction of tue jail; as did aiso the crowd of people who bad congregated in {vont of Avalo's hotse. The coramanier of thi prison guard, seeeing the crowd approach and thinking that he was about to be attacked, fred among the people. This discharge irom the guard sent the people to the rigbt about, but they kept in crowds through other parts of the city, The report goes on vo add that had it’ not been for tho | epergy of the oMicer of the guard doubtless the town would have sutlerea ‘a horrivie cataa- trophe.”” ‘The volley from the guard kiiled three men and mortally wounded two, who have since diced; and Dive men aud two women were wounded more or less severely. So that sixteen people nave suffered, five losing their lives, by this litte affair. Upon finding the town threatened the au- thorities gent word to Rincan, La Venta ana La Gallineroe for agsistance from the mounted police stationed in these places. ‘The oficer at Rin- can would give no aid, and he at tho Venta made skickness aa excuse, while the one im Gallinero would have marched to San Miguel Allende; but the people about him, upon whom he relied, retused to lend any support to the authorities, A'l this, says the report, makes it apporent that the priests have been working beforehand among the people of toe mus Dicipality, trying to seduee them from their aliegiance to the civil authorities, News had reached the Chief of Police’s oMce that the curate, Don Jos¢ Maria Gomez, when work was com- menced on the stores belonging to Avalo, told bim building should go up thore, for he (the priest) commanded the people, and this fact would soon be proved. From this it must be ap- parent that the clergy have taken @ prominent partin the disorders which have just veen wit. essed in San Miguel Allende. To-day being @ national holiday we Americans expected tosee the old fag given to the breeze; but Const Sutter has tought well to aeciind brit i the Stars and Stripes (o kiss the sun 1 neea not aay that aif unite in | idea | He had also | The conspirators would have been appre- | insulting | TUPLE SHEET. DUR PUBLIC. S008, ladignant Profest of a Pious Pastor Against Father Walker's Fanaticiom. + INTERVIEW WITH A DIS! NGUISKED PRIEST Father Walker in speaking of the pubiile Schools of this etty has caused much pata and sor- row anioog the laity and clergy of the Catholic | Church, and has, it is said, done more injury to | Catholicity than the combined utterances of al the anti-Catholic preacaces could effect, Catholics feel thas they and the teachings of their religion Lave been misrepresented, and the priests of New York condemn Father Walker's fanaticism. The writer, Im the interests of the readers of the HeRa.p, has hed several interviews with promi- | nent priests of New York, and, without exception, they bave branded Father Walker's sermon as rash, dangerous and bordering on heresy, if not actually heretical. During ao interview with a scholarly pastor, who has proved himself a most zealous and consistent advocate of Gathoilc educa- tion, the following conversation took plac Reporte ay | ask youif you nave seen the report of Father Walker's sermon, published ia the HERALD, and aisu what you think of it? FatueR—Yes, [have read it; and never inan expericnce of many yeers has any act or apeec ofa brother priest caused me so much pain, Io speaking of the false premises from which Father Walker draws his borrible conclusions I find it diMeult to repress my indignation. The editorial comments in the HERALD fully express my opin- ion of that unfortunate exhibition of ignorance, imtolerance and fanaticism. And I may add that ; the Jesuit Fathers are indignant that a member of their Order shouid bring discredit on them by ad- vocating the refusal] of the sacraments to parents who send their obildren to the public schools. Icannot believe that Father Walker is fully alive to the consequences of nis teuching. Ac- of Common Senools tn this city there were last year on the register 215,545 scaolars, with an av- erage atienadance of 117,230, Of these more than filty per cent are the cnildren of Catholic parents, and Father Walker would, if he could, retuse the sacraments to those 100,000 Catholic fathers and mothers during life and after death relegate them to “the Mansions of the damned,” parochial schools, according to last year’s dik rectory, had on the register 27,000 pupils, Tae average Attendance is mot given, but it will be fouod to be about 15,000, Now, it Father Walker's views are correct, out of 600,000 Catholics whom we claim in this clty there are not 100,000 in guod standing. This isa MONSTROUS LIBEL ON THE CATHOLICS of New York, and I have reason to hope that the Jesuits will punish the libelier, and send him to the gloomy solitude of Sault au Recollet, in Can- ada, to revise bis theology and learn at the feet of the saintly Master of Novices, Father Perron, that humility and charity should be ths characteris- ties of the Catholic priest, and that it is his duty todraw peope to the sacraments, not to drive them from tiem, ReropTeR—But, Father, it is said that Father Walker hag only preached what the bishops have taught and the Pope defined. FaTurR—I am aware that some Catholic news- | papers are in the habit of asserting that tne public school system has beon condemned, and I have ; even heard that @ few pricsts in this city look on ‘is with horror, it is utterly taise to say that tne public senooia have been oondemned, for the very simple reason that there is notuing In the system deserving of condemnation. If it ve sinful for arents to send theirchildren to the public schools tis either because the system of education is bad in itself, or because they (the schools) are the roximate occasion of sin, or because they are forbidden by the Pope. Now, tt is almost an an- sult to any Inteliigent man to adduce arguments to show that the public schools are not, as Father Walker gratnitously and lalsely asserts “nurseries of vice,” that they are not bad In themselves and that they do not prove to be the proximate occa- | ston of gin. Tne only proof whica lather Walker | brings forward to sustain his ATROCIOUS ATTACK 1s founded on some information gained as a priest, He aliudes, of course, to the knowledge obtained in the coniessional at the tribunal of penance, Now, I also have had years of experience in bear- ing the confessions of children who attend public and parochial schools, and, in the interests of truth, 1am compelled to say that the moraiso! the [soe school chiidren are of as ngnh—if not of a higher—standard as those ot the boys and girls ‘who attend parochial schools. | Asa matter of course, inevery school and COl- lege and seminary—I had aimogt said famtly— there is more or less yictousness, and it is the province and duty of educators to erad Ask the Christian Brothers if there are no vile scrioblings and matkings on the walls in their scnools; ask the Rey. Father Hudon, of Sixteenth street college, if the assoctation of, large muambers Of hoys and young men tm the nhalis of St. Francis Xavier's does not require constaut watching; ask the reverend rector of St. d+hn’s, Fordham, if there are no “black sheep’ In that seat of learning ; ask the Mesdames of the Sacred Hoart uw tne | young ladies at Manhattanville are, without ex Ception, spotless; ask the Sisters at Moant St. Vincent the same questuioa, and you will get syb- Stantially the same answer from every one otf these eXperienced teackers:—“Human nature ts prone to evil; there ts no flock without a black sheep—no family without @ scapegoat.’’ Is tt any found corrapt and vicious? In my parish about 600 public school children come 0 confession once @ month, andi assure you that iuliy two- thirds of these have never, in thought, word or deed soiled the spotless robe of baptismal in- Nocence. Ljear that the same cunnot be sald of the children who attend the parucnial schools. While I strongly advocate Catholic education | woula be sorry tO See anything done to impair the eMlctency of our public scvools; and, a3 far as My experience | goes, Thave found tne moral training of the chil- dion all that could be expecied, und where the Teligious education Is imperiect the fauit lica pri- marily with the priests, whose duty it isto gatner the little ones of his Mock on sundays, and, if pos- | sible, on the aiterncons of other days, within the sacred preciucts of the Church and there provide them with the spiritual food of religious instruc. ion. Father Walker amd those who toink with him should remember that when bog hemseives or they attack Dubie schools as being bad tn | the proximate occasion of sin, | the morat teaching 01 our beloved and yenorabl Cardiaal, who has never spokea a harsh wor agaiuet the system, aud has to a great extent recruited his priesthood from its scholars. Nay, they go further, and condemn — the wisdom of tha Fathers of the Baltimore Council, wid, Fecogalzing the benefits of the education giveh in th | cording to the last report of the Superintendent | Tne Catholic | te it. | ATHER WALKER CONDRMNS CARDINAL M’CLOSREY, | | ae wonder, then, that out ofan average attendance | of 117,239 children at the pablic schools some are | 5) \F 17 the word of the Pope. We cannot accept tt Jide, & dogmatic document. the yilabus’? ties in us references; if we wish to sec the nature and exe tent of the condemnation passed on a Proposition of the *Syliabus’ it 18 absulutely necessary to refer to the aliocntion, Eneyclical or other document in which the condemnation ts found. The Syllabus, then, has no dogmatic force, It is to be rece:ved by an act of obedience, not of fa ih, that obedieace being shown by having re. course to the original documents to which ¢ “Syllabus” pointedly refers, So far I have giv you Dr, Newman's understanding of this compita. tion; if you are not in a hurry | Would wisn te direct vour attention to some extracts Irom Bishop Pessier’s great work, “THE TRUK AND FALSE INPALLIBILITY OP THM POPES.” Reron7ver—Many thanks, Favirk 3 Dr. Newman remarks fa his famous answer to Gladstone, “first class toeologians are Very rare nowadays,"’and | fear they aie not to be found on the staf of our religious papers or eriodicals, The tact that they treated tae “Syl- abus" as a doziatic document shows that their knowledge o! dogmatic theology is very limited, Listen to what Bisiop Fessier, the Secretary Gene eral of the Vatican Council says on this subject. Bewore quoting from him | may add that the work from which [am abour to read has been approved by the Sovereign Pontil, who wrote a letter of as Tee value thanks and congratuiation to the author, Toe following nas, thereiore, in & certain sense, the personal iudorsement of the Holy Father:—“The form of the ‘syiiaous’ is quire different irom that which the Pope usually adopta when he delivers solemn dedinition de fide, in the Papal Encyclical, December 8, 1864, woich was promulgated with the ‘Syllabus’ there is nothing to show absolutely feat tae Pp pe in any single word thougut of she “Sylla Again, the Secretary Genera: of the Vatican Council says :—"'I assert that the well Known brie mulliplices tmter of Pius 1X., one of the most im- portant soarces of the ‘Syllabus,’ is not a dog- matic definition.” The fact of the matter is, the atierauces of the Pontut, of which the proposi- tions condemned Im the “Syllabus” are the io- dices, are hot ex catiedra teachings. They are yidently intended for the standpoint of European. cals and infidels. It 18, there/ore, unfair and unjust to siretcu them 30 as to make them include the state of thiogs established in this couctry by stitution, Wo glory tn the wisdom and of our fathers in adopting as an amends ment to the constitution the organic article that “Congress shail make Ro law respecting the estab» lishment of religion or prohibiting the tree exere cise thereof,” It 18 because of that article that the Holy Father bas den able to prociaim to the world that ‘in no country [s the Catholic Churea as free ug in these United States.” The tundamentat principle of our public schools is but the applica- tion of the organic articie to the department of education, and yet there are men who say that the State ia Wroag ip carrying Out that principle and trespas-es on the sphere of spiritual jurisdic. tion. To prove that absurdity they have recourse to the letter, Quum non sine, addressed by the Pope to the Archbishop of Friburg July 14, 1864, and with a perversity that passes comprehension they apply to our public achools the strictures passed by the Pope on the state of education in Baden, There is not the least simlarity between the two cases, us the very Words of the Papal lete ter ah Toere the infidel party had seizea on the schools, which were the property of the Catt olics, had placed infidel teachers over them and forced parents to send their children to these tnfidel schoois to ve TAUGHT BY INFIDEL TRACHERS, The following wouid be a perfectly purallel case here:—If the State appropriated our parochtal scnoois, placea imfidel teachers in them and force Catholic parents to send their children to them, then, and thea only, woud te letter to the Arche biskup of Friburg be applicable to this city. 1, and every priest with wom Lam acquaiated, ad- here ex tofo corde to the principles enunciated tw the “syi'abus;? but look on them as Archbishor spaiding expressed it, in concrelo et in subject materia, not generalizing what 18 speoial and confinug the meaning of the propo- sitions to the circumstances to — which they were expressealy applied. If any Papal legisiat.on be required here you may depead on tue wisdom and prudence or our Care dinal to seccure it. If any or a0 very anxlous avout tho faith or vals of the clildren who attend the pablic schools he can casily supplement the secular mstruction gi the schoois by inviting (ie little ones to assemble in his church on stated afternoons, and on these occasions he or one of his assistant priest could teach them more religion in a week than they could learn trom the “Brothers” or “Sisters’® in months.’? This would, to my mind, solve the entire reigious difficulty about our conimon S:hools, Ilaving thanked (he reverend gentleman for hig courtesy the teporter took bis leave, fully con- vinced that with Cardinal MoCloskey at the head ol the Church in tila country aad suca pastora as the one he had just interviewed, the public acuools had nothing to fear from Fapal legislation, A CHAMPION FOR FATHER WALKER. To THE Epivor oF THE HERALD:— Ju claiming a place in your paper for a few ob servations on the question raised by your attack upon Fatner Walker 1 staud npon my right of fair play, aright whitch, [ presume, will not be aenied by you. Surely you Go not expect your readers to believe that the HERALD influences in any way the action of the Holy Father, Cardinal McCloskey, Father Walker or any inteliugent Catholic layman in matters pertaining to their duty as Christiana! Surely you are mistaken tf you think anything emanating from you can In the least affect taem,- even though you have been dubbed by some name less individual as the “Angel Guardian of Equw Rights,” Aud now let me proceed to show the indignant HERALD, “effended’’ Catholics and | “outraged” Protestants that there is nothing new or startling in the statements Father Walker ia reported as naving made. If these sensitive peo, ple had kept pace wita events they would havo known that these State institutions have been condemned as dangerous to faite and morals, and that no Catholic consistently with his duty to his Ciurch caa permit his onil- dren to attend them. See sections 46, 45,47 and 48 of the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX. (1864), and then reckon the numoer of parochial schools, every one of whion is in itself an emphatic condemnie tion of your cherished sysivm, Surely you must expect sensible people to laugh at your expense when you attempt to control tne utterances and mark the limits of condemnation be- yond which the reooguized aud fattnful teachers of the Catholic peopie must not pass. Are you serious when you call upon the reverend speaker to “apologize”? “Apologize”? for whatt ‘or telling his own people what he knows to be | thot duty, and pointing out to them the punish. ment which, If bia words are unheeded, their crim inality wil invoke! Sir, neither the order to which Father Walker belongs nor his brethren in the min- istry are in the habit of begging favors when it must be doue at the sacrifice ol right, of truth apd of duty, Be not surprised, therefore, if the “apology” | is withheld, even at the risk of provoking the arraign tie | he pudlic schoois, exboris bishops and | pastors to be on their guard lest text pooks Ol ant | Christian or anti-Cathoite tendencies be introuced | Ge the public schools, In @ word, Hager alker did right in denouncing the public scuou: system Cardinal McvUloskey and the entire American hierarchy have been grossiy remiss 1a | thelr duties, and are to-day guiity of the enor: mous crime Of suffering “the littie ones, for whom Carist died,” to eater forbiaden pastures, and per- mitting priests ‘'to administer the sacraments to | Catholics who are as litte deserving o1 tuem as aogs.”” A TICKLESOME QUESTION, RerorrER—It is well known that some priosis this city are hostile to Lhe public schools, Lecanse, ag they say, they have been condemned by the Pope. May 1 ask you, iLevere has been Papal legislation on the subjec public scnvols ? FATHER—Well, ucklesume one, sir, the quostion is rather @ and at first thought 1 was in- but Lfeel that | would be unworthy of my nussion to presch the truth did f not shed what hgnt can on this perplexed and perplexing question, 1 feel that the fHenaLd is doing a uovie work in tying to set Catholics right with their feilow citle eos in our giorious Republic; and | candidiy con- fess that [feel honored in having a share in such a truly Christian and patriotic work. ‘therefore [ shall /eei much pleasure in giving through you to tho readers of the HERALD What | consider the true teaching of tue Catuolic Church on this sud- ect. The opponents of the public school system say that it has been condenmed by the Pope in the y.. XLVIL and XLVIL. propositions of the yilavus,’? In order to estimate at ite true value this assertion of the enemies of the common schools, it will be necessary to examine the famous compilation called the “Syllabus,” and see what claims it nas to the submission of our intellect, | As Dr. Newman remarks, the “Syllabus” is @ col- leetton, a résums of propositions, which the Pope, in bis various allocutions, encyclicals and lk documents, since he has been Pope, has pro- nounced to be errors, cally, and viewed in itself, it t8 nothing More than a digest made Db; some select theologian. 1t is not au oficial because it is not signed, for in “Datum st Mi Piscatoris.” It doos not address his os “Dilecto Filo,” or speak as “Pius Episcopas."” ishops only through thu Cardinal Minister of Baten ty maukes owlatia tana acknowiod@ed aa | Statistics of prostitution im this city; clined to give it a general answer in the negative; | It is not an “Immediate,” for It comes to the | i enouty of such an organ as yours—the “Angel Guardian o¢ Equal Rignis,’’ Be not surprised if the usefuiness of tms “Irish Jesuit, recent, transferred irom the South,” is recognized an appreciated, if his zeal is encouraged, his ability gdmired, hls teaching believed, and Ins commands Obeyed by the intelligent Catholics of tho metrop: olis, the opinion of the HeRany to the conirgry notwithstanding. Be wot the lant ever Father Walker continues to denounce the evils of & system of education wuich ig undermining the very pillars of society and inirioging upon the most sacred rights of the individual-—a system which has called forth the condemnation of the ableat And best of every creed and class, With yeur permission [ siall adduce one of these :— In October, 1871, tne twent venth annual Meeting Of the Massachiisetts Siaie Teachers’ As. cociation was heid in Boston. A paper was read by Proiessor Aguseiz beiore this meeting, the com cluding part of which will be found embodied ta the Boston Herald of October 20, 1871, a3 follows :— “Year atter year the Ciel of Police publishes bis ut how few of the citizens bestow more thin @ passing thought upon the misery which t.ey resent. Although these figures are large hots | 0 make every lover of humantt, a | his head with feeu ings of sortow ahd sikme At the picture, we assured that they represent but a lita as it were of the actual iiceattousness that prevails among 41i classes o1 soctetys Within | & jew mootns a gentleman (Professor Agassiz), 't hose scientific attainments have made his name Bousspon word in all Jandy, has personaily in. vestigated Fre subject, and the result has filled him with dismay, Whom he sees the depth o: degradation to which men and women have failen he lias almost Jost faith ti the boasted ctvilization of the nineteenth century, In the course of Wis inquiries be has visited both the well-known houses of pleasure and — the ‘private establishments,’ scattered all over the city. He states that he has a jist of both, with the street and numbor, the number of inmates and imany other facta which would perfectly astonish the people If made public, ile treely con- versed with the inmates, and the ite histories that were revealed were very sad indeed. To his utter surprise a large proportion oi the soiled doves traced their fail to influences which met them in tae pudlic schociz; and, a! yh Koston is justly proud of its schools, it would his story that thoy eed @ od fem thbrough purification, In too maay of thom the most ovscene and sou'-poliuiing books and pictures circulate among both sexes. The very Secrecy with which it Is done turows almost Irresistiblé charm about it, and to such an extent has the ovil gone that we icar that a large propor. tion of the boys and girls possess somo of tha articles which thoy Riodty () lend each oth The natural resuite jollow and revolting practices are tadniged the evil Is not confined alone to Boston, Other cities suifer in the same way. is but a few years ago since the second city io the Commonwealth was stirred almont to its foundations by the discovery of an-asaooia: oly 0 jd girle who were wont to im Pp none of the KcHOvIhONSES Ol FI and not long ago another somewhat similar a! Was discuvered by the authorities but hushed up for fear of depopulating the svhools.!" Now let me ask if the Professor bas been called on to apologize. Yours, Xe, JOTIN MoLAUGU LIM, ORANG NJ. March 10 1575