The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1876, Page 10

10 ALLEN AND JOE GOSS, The Coming Great Fight for the World’s Championship. HOW IT WAS ARRANGED. To Be Fought Within One Hun- dred Miles of Cincinnati. A Purse of Five Thousand Dollars To Go to the Winner, a Wasmixerox, June 10, 1876, Tom Allen has arrived in Wastington to keep an ap- Pointment and to give a sparring exhibition, The sport. Ing world takes unusual interest iu his movements just bow on account of the great battle he is to fight next eptember. In fact, the contest between Allen, who is the fistic champion of America, and Joe Goss, the hampion of England, has ina great measure revived public interest 1n the art of self defence. Of jate years most of the “prize fights” have been arranged for the tole purpose of taking in the public and the gate mon the proceeds of excursion uekets, &c., and seldom have any of the encounters occurred, although in sev- eral notable instances scrub fights have taken place, and more than one bloody nose and darkened optic has been the result, Allen, who is the hero of twenty batties in the twen- ty-four foot ring, was waited upon this evening by a representative of the Henan desirous of learning the latest news about the match, Mr, Allen expressed him- Self as willing to be interviewed, saying that he had often been put through tho process and always came out unharmed, ‘How eame you to be the Champion of America?” inquired the correspondent. “By hard fighting for it,” answered he, “and if you have time and are anxious to hear about them I will tell you of the battles in which I have participated, “My first fight,” said he, settling down to the task and wiping the copious sweat from his forehead, * with Jack White, in Birminghaw district, Old England. Istood 5 teet 424 inches then in my st feet and was made up in proportion. I beat Jack in 10 rounds, the finht lasting 39 minutes, for £5 aside, It was in April, 1861, I fighting at 482 pounds. ‘Then in the June follow.ng I met and defeated Morris Connor, alias Wag- ner, forastuke of £5. The fight lasted 60 minutes, and we fought 25 rourds, my weight then being 140 pounds—ten stone six, “My next encounter was with Jack Gold for £15 a Side, and was also in Birmingham district, England, ‘The tight was on January 10, 1862, and we had it tor 1 hour and 5 minutes, fighting rounds, I defeated bim in @ very vretty fight. Then 1 whipped Bill Rail, for £10 a side, in 11 rounds, occupy- ing 40 minutes, So tar Lhad a pretty successtul run, but in the next fight I was beaten. 1 met Posh P: Ma: 02, and was Whipped by bim in 16 rounds, covering 50 minutes. This wis for £10 a sides Follow. lowing this 1 by Bingy Rose on January 24, 1864, £50 being the stake. The tight lasted but minutes, 10 rounds being fought beaten so badly by Price in 1862 that J was laid on the ehoif until then, Then I met with another defeat, Lemg beaten by Bob Smith, “the black,” near Livers pool, on May 12 of the same year, hard fight, lasting 3 hours and 110 rounds. Farkerson, £50 a side stake, 0 minutes. Then, on November near Birmingham, in 70 rounds, minutes, On June 13, 1866, 1 beat George Isles, “the giant,” Jor 4 in a 50-minute fight of 17 rounds, This was exwctly one year trom the time 1 whipped Jack Parkerson, and ® made three fights that I won in twelve mouths, My next tight was with Joe Goss, the man Tam to fight with again in September, This wag forthe championship of the middle weights of kug- land. The fight was for £200 a side, We fought 37 was beate minutes, We fought ting 9 rounds in 21 1 beat Posh Price, ting 2 hours and 5 rounds in 1 hour and 57 minutes, but it was declared a | “draw,”’ darkness having set in and neither beiug able to finish, This wason Maret 4, 1867. was then Jou twenty-seven years of age and fought at 10 stone 6 Ibs, | My height had increased from my first tight to tive feet ten inches and a half, ‘Ihe battle was in Wales, near Cardi. 1 never met him again ia England, as J lett te country poxpest—When did y ALLEN—I landed bere on Ju 1m this country was with Bulb rst. Louis, Mo., tor $1,000 it Aso7. My first lhe 8, Ou January He, We tou 'y li, ts » hear Sh de. L was inutes, beat him Mgbu i met and was b This Ngut was w y Whipped im the second round, 1 thre You sce he got in achance viow anu completely knocked meoutot time. Lt wasa quick Ught, and altogether too quick ior me. ‘hen f tought Mike MeCool tor the championship of A 4, for 32,000 a side, on June 15, Ise. We had jou but emht rounds, in (oui minutes, when some of MeCuol’s friends broke m the Ting and stopped the fight. This was near St. Louts, 1 next beat Charley Gallagher in \wenty minutes, . for $1,000 asive, on August 24, 1860, wll the thus 1 was next iy, Jor $2,000, but he for- m fered the $1,000 tha On May 10,"1S70, 1 was beats ns in eleven round He put my snoule 1 pad to stop This wa router was waen L whipped Jim Gi Louis, ou Nov. 10, 1870, Pstaking $1,000 Toe bgut lasted twenty-three minuies, twelve rounds neing fought. Then, 1 beat Mike McCool, near St . We jougut nineteen rounds in Then | went to Oinaba, where 1 whipped $1,000 a side, thn bu nm im two He had pien 1 was ing forty-lour min- e tenth’ round and My next en- gher, near st. ‘ohe fou; 0 Rourke tor r Pittsburg, on an appearance to take p ourke did not put y rug and claimed tie in jed the gammbler’s act aud sued for his money, 1 got what 1 put up CORRESPONDENT —By winning the above batties, 4, You clulin to be the enawplon of America Y kx—Yes It was et © oue champion, Soon alter that 1 yssueu 4 ci ught any man in England, and that was the ¢ Joe Goss accepted nt and ‘April last, We met in Cineinn $1,000 each with Blacky ris, of tuat city. ‘The tight isto be jor $3,006 500 a sitte—and 18 10 tuke piace September 7. Jack Madden, who has trained me for ail of ny fights, Will (rain me, and y e posited with me. Jem Mace will handle Goss,” Lam ia bust. | tess in St. Louis, bat under the laws of Missouri will | pot be allowed to train there, Lwil, thereiure, train n Cinemnati. [have been engaged of iate m the » eral cities m the theatres, and) ain under engagement now at Philadel, kK. The evening | will this city, to Providence Madden im then xh. bition wit York, , and tbe bard w I want to show mys pext—Willa fight ensue in this mateh! AtLax—Ob, yes; you see there is no back out and we are bound to fgh if whea we getto the ripg we can’tagree pon reierees in half an hour the stake- ke the selections. Connesroxpest—W bat do you think your chances of tietory are! AL.tky—1 have confidence in my ability to get away with bom. He could ck me ween | was a bo: du it now. My chances are good, barring wie le will on this ne My fg Was looned oF many ny , on my puly way 1 coped and side with his superior 1 have beaten every man | ever met except that was the ptreagih, Iwo, atid that is about as muc As auy mon can say. CORRESPONDENT — is your weight now, Mr, Allen? ‘ALLEN—At present | weigh about 200 pounds, but by the end of next month, alter 1 have been tamed a little, #t will come off. 1 expect by & nber to Weigh tbout 170 pounds naked. Joe wiil Nght at about 160 or \66 pounds, The champiow: world i= in eoived Mm Lhe Contest, and bo" to got it , Connesvospest—How doe: bers of the prize ring im F ALLEN—Very good, He is the acknowledged cham- pion of England. Me fought Jem Mace threo times and licked him twice, the other being declared a draw, He has fought fourteen batties and has won eleven of them, He stands weil, and is an adim)\tod good man. Twere ts no diliy-daliping about bi He is bound to fight, and there are ho ticks about “him, He wants, up and dows thing. You can make up if mind, as We have done, that {t wl be a stubborn, weil contested battle, and that we will have it nip and tuck for some tine before it will be settled The en pionship of the world is a big thing, and worts fight "6 unesvonvest—-Would it be asking too much where the fight will take piace t ‘ALLEN (iaughing)—Oh, no; it will take place at—well “somewhere within one hundred mies of Cincinnati, the artiows of agreement say. Ii will be the Conten nial fight, and I hope to meet a Henain correspondent there, as L know L will, Joe Goss will train in Cinein natt, too, We will bot Pad mio active training about maddie of next month. bart qparring exhibition given by Alien and bis of the stand with the mem- ——- saul I had been | This was a long, | On June 13, 1865, 1 met and defeated Jack | n come to this country ? | his $500. | oF reputation, | ; but he | ho ts now | 4 us wili do all we can | traincr, Madden, this evening, was well attended, | and was imall respects a successiul affair. » Alien ts njoying the best of health, and says he never had better Beaith or prospects in Lis lite, THE HARLEM REGATTA, PROSPECTS OF A SPLENDID DISPLAY—FIFTY- | SEVEN OARSMEN ENTERED FOR THE VARIOUS RACES On next Saturday the Harlem boat clubs will hold their annual regatta under the auspices of the Harlem Regatta Association, The clubs at present forming the Assochition are Columbia College, Nassau, Nautilus, New York Rowing, Dauntless, Athletic, Atalanta and 3 Exchange, All the clubs in the Association have made entries except the New York Stock Exchange, which club, although it bulled a six-oared gig race on the Regatta Association, now find it is unable to beat it, and have made no entry, The Atalantas enter their | two best men for the Diamond seulls, Ackerman and Losee will work hard, no doubt, to capture | the diamonds for the Atalantas, James Wilson, of the Nassau, will seall for the honor of his colors, and MeCready, & good man, of the Athletics For the en entries:—Fooe and Rob: ; Hernon, of the Nautilus; of the Athletics, and Mills, Scanlon and Rodgers, of the Atalantas.’ This race promises to be well contested. Fer pair oars there are five entries. The Nassau puts in its famous pair, the present holders of the prize, Brown and Walker; the New York Rowing has @ good pair in the two Lelands; the Athletio’s pair, Stowe and Newton, are rowing in, fine form, and will make hot work for somebody; Eustis and Downs, Wesleyan College men, the Atalanta’s pair, are most id Roach — acd Walsh, " of the t weights of the river, are rowing ‘n or the four-oared race’ Col lumpia College makes an entry. of its University six—Sprague, Sage, Boyd and Guod- win—it will try hard to maintain the past reputation of | the college oarsmen. | be the Atalanta crew, consisting of Blake, Downs, Rodgers and Eustis, and the Athletic tour, comprising | Rathborne, Mack, West and Cone, The winners of this race will have to row hard, as all three crews are weil trained, strong and determined on victory. In regard to preparation the Atalantas are ahead’of their com- petitors and have advantages the other crews cannot boust of ‘The Athletics are excellently disciplined, row well together and ure in excellent to ‘The Colwmbias will yo mto the race under th disadvantage:—-Goodwin has been — rowig his men in a six tor the University three-mile race, and all his practice has been for a long distance as compared with the mile straight away dash of the Harlem course, will be the representatr for next Saturday's event as their compentors. ‘The six-oared gig race will bring out crews from tho Nassau, | New York Rowing, Dauntless and Athletics, and much | interest centres in the result, Four of the Atbletic | men row in the six and some of the Nassaus also row | | in some of the other races. From the list of entries st will be seen that titty-seven oarsmen will be engaged in | the several races enumerated, more than twice as inany as Were ever brought together on the Harlem | River at any one time. CHLING NOTES, ‘The following yachts passed Whitestone yesterday :— Charlotte, International Yacht Club, of Detroit, Mr. 3, from New York for Greenwich, Conn. ; G, Mn Kane, New York, cruising .C., Mr, Edgar, from } ‘A Manbanset House, at Shelter Island, are the yachts Dreadnaught and Mystic. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, | THE DARIEN ISTHMUS CANAL PROJECT—IN- DYANS’ GRAVES—-COLOMBIAN TROUBLE ON THE QUESTION OF EDUCATION—THE REMAINS OF AN AMERICAN ADMIRAL SHIPPED FOR NEW PAaxawA, June 1, 1876, ‘The President of the Republic of Colombia has asked Congress for authority to contract with Mr. Anthoine | de Gogorza for the exploration of a route, id, it pos- sible, the construction of an interoceanic ship canal across the Darien Isthmus, The idea is popular and granted, | | york. | | | the authority will be | } | GOLD FROM INDIANS’ GRAVES. | More Indian graves (iwacas) have been found in | Chiriqui, an this State. y golden trinkets and | relics have been extracted of great value, The exea' tions in the next dry season will be extensive. QUESTIONS OF KDUCATION AND THR CHURCH, | _ A war cloud looms in the Cauca, one of the States of | this Union, ‘The conservative Catholic party, with the Bishop of Popayan at its head, has made the educational policy | of the government ‘the pretext for disaffection, An outbreak is predicted, and itis intimated that a gen- eral war may ensue for conservative supremacy, HONOR TO THE DRAD. The remains of the late Rear Adm Napoleon Col- Jins were conveyed to-day from this cily to Aspinwall to be embarked on the Acapulco for New York, A party of residents and a Colombian guard of honor ac- company the remains. COSTA RICA AND NICARAGUA, | ‘Congress has empowered the Exccutive to settle the disputes with Nicaragua soon, and in any way possi- bie. The Costa Rican army on the frontier, 2 strong, under Geueral Guardie, 1s ready for action. OPPICIAL CHANGES. Mr, William Nanne has resigned his post of Superin- | tendent of the Costa Rier Railroad, disgusted by the prevalent official and financial improvidence. Mr. Frederick Latinan, the German Consul, a mer- chant, and brother-in-law of the President, 1s now the Superintendent, HONDURAS. Internal peace is not yet restored in Honduras. Medina and Loiva are sill contending for the mastery. Seiior Leiva still occupies the Departments of Olancho and Tegucizalpa, Prosident Medina must have arrived and Colonel Manucl Cuellar awaited bim, NICARAGUA, A state of siege was declared on the 11th of May and martial law proclaimed on the 13th. Invasion is expected, Mr. Wiilamson, the United States Minister, who went to Costa Rica as a mediator, had returned. SALVADOR. Ex-President Falle has gone to California. Gonzales, Brioso and others are in Nicaragua, ‘The definitive treaty of peace with Guatemala was ratified on the Sth of ¥ Jt provides for the unitica- | tion of their foreign poll on all general matters, offensive and defensive alliance, | extradition of criminals and the expuision of tho Jesuits, | PERU. | An extraordinary meeting of Congress for the 15th inst. has been called to merease the export duty on nitrates, BOLIVIA, | paza has been proclaimed President by the army, | The revolution was effected on the 4th ult., on which date President Frias and bis Ministers were imprisoned, whieh cil cheerme D It is said t mitted. the troops were continually passing and atall kinds of excesses have been com- | MEETING OF COMPOSITORS. | Yesterday afternoon, at Germania Hall, No, 201 Bow- ery, assembled a very large and somewhat demonstra- tive representation of the Typographical Union, A vory long session was held, durmg which there was a great deal of discussion, but at adjournment all par- tios seemed satisiled with the aspeet of affairs and dis- posed to make the action of the organization unant- mous. The oceasion of the meeting Was a recent con- ference between a committee from the union with one from the employers engaged in the book and job trade, m which the latter made certarn pro tending to compromise the differences betwe and calenlated to put an end to the strikes occurring from tine to time, Yesterday these propositions were submitted to the raion, and aiter some opposition re. ecived its sanction, the organization's rules was then transacted, and the meeting adjourned. A NEW FAGIN, Two boys, named Mortimer Sullivan, aged thirteen | years, of No. 55 Park street, and Archibald White, aged seventeen, of No, 63 James street, were arraigned | at the Tombs yosterday for stealing a gold watch and chain value $160 from Mr, Jonas Silver, of No. 144 Fast Sixty-fifth street. Louis Brown, of No, 182 Eliza- beth sireet, was charged with receiving the property, knowing it to have been stolen, The evidence given in the case showed that the watch was sold to Brown for $15, Subsequently the boys became frightened and asked Brown to give them the watch back m order that | they might return it to the owner, Brown saia that he could not return the watch but wonld become bail for themin the event of their being arrested, and would see that U were not punished. Brown was com- mitted in 000 bail, which he furnished. The boys Wereheld for trial FIRE 1 CHRYSTIE STREET. At half-past five o'clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out on the first floor of No, 17 Chrystie street, | occupied by Pauliae Quach as & fancy goids store, The | dhmage to stock will amount (o $1,200 and to building | Slow “Insured in the West Chester Company for $1,400, | Daring the fire Charles Quach was severely burned, | ile was vent to Bellevue Hospital Taking four men out | Opposed to the Columbias will | The Columbias will not, therelore, be us well prepared | at La Paz with his forces, in which city General Bardona | 'Y, common accord in action | Much aiarm reigns in La Paz, through the streets of | S| covetousness.” But the language of the Chiet € Some special business touching | THE VIENNA RECORD. CALL BY CONGRESS ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE—DELAY IN FURNISHING THE PAPERS— | THEIR DISCLOSURE OF THE THEORIES AND PRACTICE VIRTUALLY SANCTIONED BY THE GOVERNMENT ‘TOUCHING APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE AND THE TAKING OF MONEYS—THE DUTY OF CONGRESS, To THR Ero ov Tux Henatn:— On the 20th of March the House of Representatives, with no dissenting voice, called upon the Secretary of State for the papers relating to the Vienna scandal, and the country 1s not yet advised of the honorable Secre- tary’s respouse, The apology heretofore made by the | department for the deliberate résolve to withhold the papers from the country was that “the whole subject | Was painful to the President,” and itis rumored that | personal influences have been employed to persuade | the House not to give them tothe country, Why the government should desire their suppression seems plain. By the report the management of the Chief Commis sioner was scrutinized and condewned, noton disputed charges, but on admitted facts, and especially on cer- tain theories and practices stated by the Chief Commis- sioner himself as clearly as if he had spoken in answer to-a supreme command, “Speak, that 1 may know thee,”” By the reappointment of the Chief Commissioner tho government recalled the scandal to the attention of the world and announced 1s reversal of its earlier policy and of the judgment of the Special Commission; and it thus invoked the maxim, ‘espondeat superior” —let the principal answer, The government by that act gave tothe record a new character and a new impor- tance, It is now more than a record of what the Chief Commissioner to Vienna said and did there; it is the record of what tho government at Washington approves | to-day, The record will develop its views of the qualifications | essential tor high appointments, and its ideas of moral- | ity in the granting of concessions and the taking of moneys, It will show by precept and tn practice the degree of honesty avd efficiency which are held to be suflicient in our foreign service. It is essential to vindicate the truth of history and to fix the responsibility of the official corruption at Vienna. It was sad of Louis Napoleon, “it ne parle | jamais—it ment toujours,” and the champions and | ‘apologists of the Vieona scandal might safely claim a | share in the unstinted tribute to the French monarch— “Ho never speaks; ne always lies.”” The publication is especially due to the gentlemen to whom the government appealed when the irregu- larities of the commission compelled 1s suspension, and to whom it has been attempted to transfer the | responsibility for the corruption whose evil they wero | called to correct, Colonel Cannon and Mr, Theodore | Roosevelt, with Mr, Schultz, who was the friend and | bondsman of Chief Commissioner Van Buren, and Mr. Garretson, the successor of Mr, Schultz, all united m y'| the memorial to Congress on which General Ward | | moved for the production of the papers, | Mr. Garretson, of Obio, has died since the petition was preseated, and I cannotallude to that gentleman without paying a passing but heartfelt tribute to his ability, fidelity and exactness as aCommissioner and to his integrity and amiability as aman, Tc-day the call for the papers comes not ouly from the living but from the deaa, as from the fresh grave at Cleycland the last Chief Commissioner protests ‘against the mutilation of the record and demands the truth, The resolution offered by General Ward by unani- mous consent was as follows:— Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to communicate to this House the report ot the special co.nmission appointed to supervise the commission to the Vienna Exposition, together with the correspond- ence of Mr. Jay, late Minisier to Austria, with the Chief Commissioner and with the Department of State, ow the subject of the American department, together with | such other papers and accounts relating to that busi ness as may be necessary for a complete understanding thereof; and that the Sccretary of State be turther re | quested'to advise the House What papers and reports | connected with the Vienna Exposition are now prepar- ing for publication under the direction of the depart- ment, and what amount, if any, remains unexpended of the $200,000 appropriated by Congress for the repre- sentation of the United States at the Vienna Exposition. ‘The petition showed ‘that an event so unprecedented ‘as the suspension by the President of a national com- mission representing Jn an international exposition the art, industay, science, and culture of the American people did not pass unnoticed at home or avroad; that the result of the governmental investigation into the cauees and extent of the irregularities demandiug the suspension has not beeu made known, excepting by ex parte statements and mutilated extracts, which have not enabled the country to judge where lay the respon- sibility for this national disaster; and that it seems due to the country at large, to the mass of exhibitors, and to officers of the government concerned in the mauer, including the suspended commissioners, that the eatire record should be submitted to public scrutiny; | that it is believed that the accounts will show a large | unexpended balance of the $200,000 appropriated by Congress for the representation of American industries at Vienna; that should it be intended to submit to Congress and the country special reports of screntists upon particular branches of the exposition, such re | ports, if unaccompanied by the correspondence and re- ports now asked for, would give no idea of the adminis- | tration and operation of tke American department”? | Congress can see at a glance that in the theories and practice which, after they bad been condemned by the Spectal Commission, wore revived and sanctioned by the government, may be found the key to the loose and unseemly policy which bas tainted our civil ser- vico and brought disgrace upon our national name, | and which still seeks lo suppress records, to conceal guilt, to shield criminals, and to excuse and dogmatize the crimes which they have committed, It is said that Dr, Sam Jolinson on one occasion, when Mr, Windham, who had been appointed secretary | to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, modestly expressed | a virtuous doubt whether he could bring himself to practise the acts which were supposed to be employed in that position, replied encouragingly, “Don't be | afraid, sir; you will soon make a very pretty rascal”? Were there occasion for mavutacturmg rascals, great or small, Jor our civil service, foreign or domestic— men to verify the remark that in America there 15 nothing too high to be aimed at and nothing 100 low to be done—it would be difficult to conceive a plan more | simp'e and effective than the two rules which the Chief | Commissioner practised m his selection and instruc. tion for the acting assistants who were to represent at Vienna to the assembie nations the highest civilization of the American people. TUE THEORY OF APPOINTMENTS, “L have repeatedly stated,” said the Chief Commis« siongr, “to different Assistant Commissioners when I | have appointed them, that 1 held in my hand the power of suspension, which I should not {ail 10 exer- | ese at Vienna if 1 had good reason to believe them | guilty of any impropriety.” Various rates have been | given by statesmen in ancient and in modern times for guidance in the responsible duty of official appoint. ments, Jefferson, the dest enief under the constitution, of the Department of State, which commissioned the agents who were thus cautioned on their appointment, was accustomed to ask the simple questions, ‘Is he honest? ts he capable? is. he fathfa An older authority bas said, “Thon shalt provide out of ali the people able mon, such as fear God, men of trath, nang minis | sioner to his assistamts indicates smali faith m their honesty, capability and fidelity, their fear of God and | their hate of covetonsness, but it implies, on the other | | hand, a clear conviction that their characters, so far | from commanding confidence, inspired tim with | anxiety and justified his threats, Ot the theory of appointments thus expounded by the Chie Commissioner the Special Commission remarked in thesr report:— “The language which General Van Buren says he hold toward tho Commissioners to whom he alludes in_ dicated unmistakably bis opinion of their character, his fears of their misconduct and bis estimate ot their selt-respect."” And tho report found “no apology for his not having selected in every instance gentiemen representing the best culture and tho noblest traits of the American people, with whom Genera! Van Buren would have peen spared all fears of national dishonor from their conduct." THR TAKING OF MONRYS, Having, under his theory of appointments, secured certain assistants whom he neither trusted nor re- epected, the Chief Commissioner laid down a rule of conduct fitted to pervert a saint. He said: “@eneral Mayer asked me if there would be any im- propriety in borrowing $500 from Mr. Hitzel, who had expressed a readiness to Joan it to him. 1 rephed that I could not see any impropriety in his borrowing from Hitzel any more than from any onecisn. * * * T | thooght at the time that it was a pure'y commercial i NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1876:-TRIPLE SHEET. f transaction, like borrowing from a bank or any indi- vidual, ’? He subsequently in his pampniet (page 22) referred again to the parallel between Hitzel and a bank, which the Special Commission had failed to recognize. Hitzet had been objected to by Mayer and Stiasny as an improper person to go to Vienna. He was once a waiter in Mayer's camp at New York, “an industrious, hard-working man, but very rough.” But the objections to Hitzel_ vanished when he was looked upon as “a bank,’ and, on the advice thus given, $500 was obtained trom him by General Mayer, who handed 1t over to his chief, and subsequently Hit- vel paid in three checks $500 more. Hitzel, in his tes. timony, all reference to which is omitted in the so- called “abstract of evidence’ prepared im the State Department and prefixed to the lithographed volume of the evidence and report, denied that be had offered to make any loan, or that it had been asked for as a loan, He said, “The only thing Mayer said was that he was short of money; never said it was a loan or would be returned.” a From the remark of Hitzel to another witness, “I’ve paid those suckers $1,000 ond they wanied another $1,000 out of me,’ it seems that he derived but small satisfaction from the argument that it was a logiti- mate business operation, Mayer clearly approved the rule, and Mr, Jewett, who was asked by General Van Buren to become the partner of Hutzel, testified that General Mayer had suggested “that we should pay esomething on the ground that we were going to make money, and that anything we chose to do Jor General Van Buren and himself would be accepted.” Messrs, Boehm & Wiebl, who had secured concessions for three bars, contributed in larger measure, and their last loan, according to General Van Buren, was obtained by Mayer witbout his knowledge and quietly pocketed by er alone. This General Mayer denied, insisting that his chief had been coguizant of the whole aflair and had taken away Stiasny, the third acting Commissioner, while it was being arranged, and that General Van Buren nad bad a part of this very money to pay his expenses at Wasuington, General Van Buren admitted having received, while at Washington, from Mayer moneys for which he bad written, but of the amount he had no recollection, and while he was in debt to Mayor for moneys advanced by hin he said, “1 do not know where General Mayer got bis money; I had hard work to get my own;” and the only thing that seemed clear was that if Hitzel and the rest served as involuntary “banks” to Mayer, Mayer was, in turn, a bank to the chief of the commiasion, Into the question of veracity between the chief and his first assistant the Special Commission declined to enter, rest- ing their report upon undisputed facts and ad- mitted theories, It is difficult to understand the attra.tion which led the government to pity and em- brace the vice it had condemned; for even if we could believe, with Burke, that **Vice itself loses half its evil by losing all 1ts grossness,” the corruption in our com- mission to Vienna had a grossness peculiarly its own, | and one made more repulsive by contrast with the re- spectubiity and culture by which it was surrounded. Mr. Stiasny, the youngest of the three acting Com- each, while thoir associates received but $1,500, aud who having volunteered to act without pay, said,, “1 don’t know why they gave me the same salary with General Van Buren,” gives in another part of his testimony a glimpse of the Commissioners in council, which, cu- riously enough, recails, although with a difference, Dickens’ sketch of the den of Fagin, with his sharp boys, giving lessens to the perplexed Olver. He said, “General Mayer one day hada quarrel with Hitzel, 1 don’t know what it was all about, for in all the matter with tho restaurant men I was kept in the dark. It was.always done with closed doors or when I was not present. That day, when Hitsel had gone, General Mayer told me avout it, Me eaid Hitzel had Joaned or paid $1,000 and wanted it back. TI told him such things would take the prestige off the commission, and that if 1 had $1,000 to give away I would pay the man out of my own pocket. * * * General Mayersaid to me that I bad better be out of the way when the restaurant matters were up, as it might cost my head,” ‘The policy of concealment exhibited by the govern- ment in suppressing the record, misrepresenting it by an inexact and imperfect abstract, with omissions of evidence and perversions of the report, and the publica- tion of a truthless charge against members of the Special and Temporary Commissions, have combined, ‘wyh the sanction given to the management, to strengthen tho idea that the government dislikes the exposure of official irregularities, and that an jadiscrect knowledge and disclosure on the part of government agents of official extortion and corruption may, in tho language of General Mayer, cost them their heads, As exhibiting the grounds on which the extortions at Vienna were submitted to and the light in which they. were viewed by the parties who paid the money, tho testimony of Mr. Boehm is suggestive, and its philo- sophic and contemptuous tone touching the integrity of government officials is not without its lesson, He was asked, “Why, when you paid the last thou- sand dollars and was assured by General Mayer that it would be repaid, did you think that it never would be repaid?” Mr, Boehm said, “in the liquor business wo used to make contributions to government officials, We never got them: back, and that is the reason why we did not expect to get this money back. There was an arbitrary law by which any wholesale or retail liquor dealer could be closed up, on the score of irregularity, for ten or twenty days, when, no chargo being made, they were released, but without redress. We were under perpet- ual threat of having our business disturbed.” Q. What analogy was there between such a case and this? A. Simply that I believe very little in the integrity of government officiais in New York—that is, concern- ing money. Some hght, perhaps, 18 thrown upon the analogy be- tween the two cases by a remark of General Van Buren when he said, “I told’ him (Hitzel), as Thad told Bochm, that l intended their places to be under the strictest surveiliance, and that if any disorder or irreg- ularity should oceur there should not hesitate to recommend their being closed. I repeated this to them several times, T impressed it upon them.’” Thus in our Republic, ander such theories, does official corruption create a set of potty despots, who, under the pretence of authority and trusting for im- punity to political inflaence, practise their extortions upon American citizens, as the agent of the State De- partment likened to “banks” the concessiopaires at Vienna, and as the late head of the War Department, following that bad ¢ ple, levied trijute through his post traders at the West u, on the soldiers on the fron- tier and the Indians on the Platns, The Special Commisston in their report declared “the inherent and absolute impropriety of national officers, representing the dignity and honor of the country, either demanding or accepting money under the name of a Joan, or for whatever purpose or pretence, trom the grantee of a restaurant already indevied to them for his permit, and who, daring the term of the Expo- sition, would be more or less dependent on their favor,”” In the principle and practice thus denounced by the report aud rewarded by the government, lies the seed of the corraption which at Vienna dishonored the Depart- ment of State, which has since disgraced the Depart- ment of War at Washington, and whieh has marked our centennial year as one when the telegraph, distancing tho sun and anticipating the houra, has circled the earth with one continuous strain of the official villa mies of America. As cvery principle contains withia itself the germ of a propheey, it is not difficult to fore- see the eflect on the purity and fame of the Republic if these vicious theories shall continue to infect its civil service. No degree of personal respectability in the high executive oflicers of State can in the least exten- uate the guilt or diminish the danger attendant upon ‘the toleration and approval of practices so disreputable | and immoral, Burke onve said, ‘The Minister comes | down in state, attended by creatures of all denomina- | Uons—beasts clean and unclean,” and no American | Prosident nor head of a department can reasonably expect his agents to have clean hands and to com- Mana the confidence and regard of the people at home andthe respect of the world beyond, so long as it is understood that the extortion practised at Vienna, on the theory that each offictal may borrow from a subor- dinate as if he were “a bank,” is approved, recom- pensed and protected at Washington. Does the Vresident rightly understand that this. thing has been covered ap on the plea that it is pain- ful to himse And is he ready to leave as his legacy | to his countrymen the theories and practices exposed | by the record? Whatever the resolve of the Presi- | dent or of the department, the duty of Congress is cleat. Tho printing of the report ef the Commission of Investiga the cost of which will be inconstder- | Able, 8 Que alike to the gentlemen who ask it, to the truth of history, to the honor of the government, to tho right of the people and to the public morals, J am, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN JAY, Nail, N. ¥., gun 6, 187 missioners at New York, to whoin was allotted $5,000 | THE EXHIBITION. The Centennial Commission Declared a Merely Supervisory Body. TH ECONFLICT OF AUTHORITY Opinions of Charles O’Conor, Abraham Brown- ing, W. L. Hirst and Others. EVILS OF DIVIDED POWER. Purnapsurasa, June 11, 1876. Tho.most important event that has occurred since the opening of the Exhibition is the conflict of au- thority between the United states Centenpiat Com- mission and the Centennial Board of Finance, The Commisstoners, who wore appointed under act of Con- gress by the Governors of the different States, had very little todo with the preliminary arrangements of the | Exhibition and almost nothing to do with she raising of the necessary funds, Some of them represent Statep which did not contribute $20 and did not display any interest whatever in the matter, So the Board of Finance did the hard work, and has - still the responsibility of success or failure. This was all very satistactory to tho Commissioners, who when they came to Philadelphia at the opening of the Exhibition generously sanctioned what had been done and signified their readiness to take charge of the celebration at once. This they did by attempting to appoint all the officers and by voting themselves salaries, which the Board of Finance was called upon to pay. That body was weak enough to yield in part to this demand, and has probab’y paid.saluries without any authority in’ law, However, the Board became rebellious under the ,atrogance of the Commis- sioners, and determined to resist. The natural course would have been to have appealed to the law, but thero was a well founded reluctance to disgrace the centennial celebration by dragging its business af- fairs through tbe courts, The Board of Finance, there- fore, resulved to submit. the disputed points to some of the ablest lawyers in. the couutry, among whom are Charles O'Conor, of New York; Abraham Browning, of Camden; ex-Chaneellor B. Williamson and Cort: land Parker, of New Jersey; John C. Bullitt, Henry Wuarton, William Henry Rawle, Richard L. Ashhursi, Richard ‘C, MeMurtrie ‘and William L. Hirst, of this city. To these gentlemen the following questions were submitted :— First—Is the Centennial Board of Finance bound to pa: salaries tothe ident other officers of the United State Ceutennial O mr ond—Hax the Centennial Commission the right to ap- tthe police force required to k ny 1 pi py order, take care of and protect the persons and property on the grounds duriug the Exbivition or to fix their compensation ? WAT THE LAWYERS DECIDE, ‘The opinions have just been delivered, and are unani- mous in declarmg that the Board of Finance is the ecutive body, and that the Commissioners are not titled to salaties of compensation, and possess no im- mediate authority. Charles 0’Conor says:— Tam of opinion that, as its exes ive body, the Board o Fiuance hus the sole powar of appointment to office in. ref erence to the conduct tad management of that Exhibition, except wx to judges and examiners. The laborers, servants. policemen and all higher agents, as, tor inst the Di recto: General, if such icer be needful, are’ appoints hole by the Board of Finance, It alo se hax ihe titleto and enstody of the buildings and other property employed in the enterprise. Mr. Hirst declares :— T have no donbt whatever that the office of Centennial c i norary office, conterrey upon. the fa toark of distinction by the Govetnor of the Sta:e President of the United States, and the officer enn 0 pay of compensation whatever, citherdur his ex- enses or support, from the Board of Finance, If that Boned has heretofore, to promote harmony, submitted to such an action, their high character justifies the belief th they will be anxious to correct the abuse in future, think that the Commissioners have no control whatever over the trust moneys in the hands of t 1 Boxed of Finance. who aire under a duty to account, and that the Board has a it the number and to regulate the appointment Finally Mr. Browning, after an elaborate revicw of the act of Congress, says:— he Con did not, therefore, provide any compen: lon for che Commiasioners of thelf oficers, tus, on tle cat teary, prohibited its being paid out of the ofly treasury ov which Congress had control. Consequently it inten ved that their services should be gratuitous or honorary, The Com- missioners uccepted their appointment on such terms and are bound by them. The powers of the Comibissioners, in my view, ate those of a supervisory character. Tuey are a kind of national committee to see that the proceedin, conducted with the propriety and dignity befitting 1 nation. They are neither mercenury nor fiscal, THE EPFRCT ON THR COMMISSIONERS. , What will be the effect 0: these opinions upon the Comuuissioners it 18 Loo soon to say, but 1 do not under- stand that they formally agreed to refer the dispute to arbitration. Some oithem may have the good sense to accept the voice of the lawyers as the voice of the law and abandon their age ns untenable position, But the great majority will not yield therr claims nt the bidding of Mr. Charles ©’'Conor or Mr. Browning. They have been anticipating a nice time this summer at the Exhibition, which is not only an attraction in itself, but so conveniently near to Cape May, Long Branch, New York, Atlantic City and other popular seaside resorts, As Cominissioners with salaries and “compensation,” these delights could be cheaply ob- tained by drafts upon the treasury, but, as Commussion- ers without salaries, the six? months’ junketing would bo rather expensive for - some of them, That they expected to be supported in virtual idleness by the stockholders of the Exhibition is well known, aud has caused considerable indignation, What service they render to the grand show is one of those things which, as Duudreary says, “Nobody can find ou.” The only thing they have done of the siighest importance is to close the Exhibi- tion on Sunday, and for that very Christian act they expect their reward hereafter. They do not get many thanks fn this world, and itis dubious whether they will receive crowns of glory in the next, POSSIBLY AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONPLICT. These legul opinions ivstoad ot settling the dispute, are likely to revive it with even more bitterness, ‘There aro lawyers and lawyers, and it would be very hard if General Hawley and his companion Cominission- ers could not find Jegal authorities to sustain tbeir claim to the right to dip their hanes in the general fund, and perform their “supervisory duties’? at some: Dody else’s expense than ther own Thus, there is danger of an unso-mly aud ai-creditable tignt the control of the Excrbittion. ali the fauits and shortcomings of the stow ure to be ex- cused on the ground that they ought to be accepted as roots of the culiure and progress ot the country. That 18,03 4 understand it, that & bad painting or statue should be exhibited, to prove that American painters and sculptors are not yet quite as great as Raffaelie or Michael Angelo, and that there should be a piteh pavement to represent ihe imperfection of the streets of our great cities. Upon this theory the dis- graceful contest between the two beards may be justi- fied, as it exemplifies the natioual thirst for office and power which is attributed to Americans. From any other pomt of view, however, the prospect that the Exhibition is to be turned into @ Donnybrook Fair mast be deeply regretted. THE DOUNLE HBADED GIANT, ; Tt has been said that the Centennial Extibition ts without a head. This is a mistake; for, from the facts already given, it18 plein that it has two heads, each vl which clatms to be the superior of the other, The conflict of these gigantic brains distracts the body and limbs, and is one of the principal reasons why the ex- hibition ts not better monaged ant has not made greater progress. A two headed child at a fair is a curious sight, It never agrees with itself, One bi wants the feet to ove way, and the other to take a different way. Lf one head is sleepy, the other insistson singing, and if one has signed the pledge the other will go ou drinkiag till ine common bedy becomes intoxicated, is aclear rejutation of the ancient saw that “two heads are bet- Ler than one,” and the Exhibition furnishes an excel- dent oxal the fallacy, There is a divided respon- sibility, ana the exhibitors and employés hive no one established acknowledged authority to which to look for advice or direction, There ts chaos in this condi- tion. Itis well known that it has caused a great deal of discontent, and that complamts, of which the pablic seldom hears, are continually beng made, Individual cases of wrong are remedied often, bat that is all, There is ng general rule enforced. The two-headed giant canuet make up his minds, and there will be no retorin until one of the heads 18 offectuaily muzzled or permanently put in a bag. ‘THK PECUNIARY LOS# INPLICTED Another effect of this divided authority is directly injurious to the finances of the Extibivion, The num- ber of non-paying Visitors has. increased rapidly sineo the opening, till now tt averages 13.000, O tu:s num- ber a large proportion docs not represent exhibitor officials, laborers, members of the press and other pe sons who are entitled to free admittance, There is lnttle doubt but that the Commissioners have caused passes to be issued to many people who have no other Fights than those of the public. The partiality thus shown will result in a serious loss to the revenues of the Exhibition, and will no doubt at some future time recetve investigation. A SUNDAY AT <THE GROUNDS, To-day & great many people wandered around the Centennial grounds, jooking through the gates and wishing they could get in. It was a charming day to visit the great display, for though it threatened a thanderstorm in the afternoon the clouds passed over and wero succeeded by a fine coo! breeze. Upon what Just principle these thousands of well dressed, orderly, caltured citizens were excluded from the grounds, it would be hard to discover. There may be some terri- ble crime in the art gallery on Sunday, which on seca. Jar days 18 unseen, or pertaps there is sin in tho main building Some peopio say that the Chinese roe. Joss there and that the Japanese per- form holy mghts to Boodha on Sundays, and that the managers fear that the Christian ple of Phi'aieiphia might be perverted by these fet oo ceremonies, But the visitors seemed quite ready to ruu the risk, and the complaints were nu- merous, They retired im good order, however, to break the Sabbath in the Park by looking at ungodly ‘There is a theory bere that | cally limits their week to tive days, Commigsioners about saan © gne of the blows to the popularity of the Exhibition, ana will be recognized hereafter as the pfincipal element or its predestined Hnancial failure. TRE HUNGARIAN OPALS. After the visitor to the main Exhibition building has Jooked in vain in the American departments jor any- thing very striking in the way of artistic work let bin go to the Austrian-Hungarian section and look al beautiful display of opals from the governmet in Hangaty—the only mines in the world, by the way, where really tine opals are found. The collection o these singuitr jews im the Hungarian section unique and one of the most notable exhibits in the building, Several cases are with — speci- mens of these recious stones, no two of which are alike, in all conditions, from the stone in the rough to two exquisite cameo likenesses of the Em- peror and Empress of Austria, These latter specimens are realiy triumphs of art work, as it was formerly deemed impossiole to engrave successfully upon as soit a stone us the opal. The likeness of the Emperor is cut upon a fine opal, set in a bracelet ting the ress! with emeralds, rubies und brilliants, re} national colors of Hungary. ie =—Emp face’ 18 engraved upon a similar jewel, set in a locket. 'n both heads the lines are aa clearly cut as in tho Ouest cameos. They were accomplished after the grentest care and patience by ono of the beat artiste in Austria, who occupied over two years in his task. | can well believe what { was told by the officials, that these two engraved opals are the finest specimens of their kina 1p the world, The largest opai known is con. tained in another case, It weighs 602 carats and is the Koh-t-noor of opals, but, like the Koh-i-noor, there wre smaller gems that have as much ‘Tiere 13 also @ gorgeous collection of rough opais, unequalled in any museum, in which the curious may trace the formation of these wonderiul products of nature from their beginning, up through their growth im crystal form until vhe time when decay begins, a period of time covering myriads of years, bere are many other gems in this collec tion worth calling attention to; but one must see this exhibit to appreciate it, 17 is becoming known as on6 of the most interesting in the department, WHENCE THE OPALS COME, Carpathian Mountaws, in the ‘most picturesque part of Hungary, a region now 3,500 feet above water lovel, but whose formation shows it to have been thrown up from far below the sea, The opal mines aro from six to eight miles in extent, and about 1,000 feet deep at their greatest depth. They are owned by the goverrment and have been worked tor 500 years. Their grea‘est yield has been within the last thirty years or since they bave been under the di- rection of the family of Libanka, Ludwig Ritter Gold. schmidt von Libanka being at present in charge of them. ‘The opal is.a water product, but in what manner and by what subtle alchemy its beautiful colors are devol- oped is a mystery that is one of nature’s secrets, All that screnusts cau tellus ig that the water in which the opals form runs through rocks holding gold, silver, nickel, sulphur, iron, antimony, ciunabar and other minerals. The getting out of the opals is performed by 400 men, laboring alternuely day and night under the superintendence of Mr. Lib- anka. Like many other luxurious and beautiful trink- ets enjoyed by the rich, the wearer little knows the patient labor, the perils, the time and the refined skill by the miner, the lapidury aud the engraver necessary to the preparation of every single beautiful stone belire it is ready to be set by the jeweler, Some curious things might be written about the prejudice often cn- tertained against wearing opals by people who ought to know better, but who believe in the superstition that they bring ill luck upon the wearer, This singular notion is said to have originated in ges some tweniy years ago and to bate culminated in France under the st Napoleon. It is a compliment to the Iigence of Americans to know that it 18 not so olen heard of in this country. This superstition, however, must be dying out, as the opal is suid to be the favorite jewel of the ladies of the English court, Queen Victoria hersuit rarcly wearing other jewels in public. England is now the best market for tue product of the opal mines, next to which are Germany and Austria; and ag the domand: is suid to be increasmg yearly, while the supply 18 diminishing, the merchantable value of the Jewels is on the increase. THE CENTENNIAL AND THE SAB- BATH. To The Epiror or Tun HERaup:— We have formally invited the whole world to the double diamond wedding of America and Liberty, Our guests at this Centennial feast are invited to observe the progress made by the youngest of tho nations, and to compare the product of our institutions with those oftheir own. The invitation so frankly given has been as frankly accepted. The civilized world bas tor tho time pianted litle colonies around the hall where the Declaration of Independence was first published to the world by those who risked a felon’sdeath to give freedom to acontinent. There is no occasion to apologize for our just priae in what has been accomplished by usin the first hun dred years of our national existence, nor is there auy ‘arrogance in our invitation to the natrons to come dnd compare with us, But the offer involves acc. essurily a willingness \o sutmit to a capdid judgment upon our comparative achievements nut ‘only in inausiral and mechanical pursuits, but in science, art, wsthetics and civil and religious hbety. ‘Tuis field of the cloth of aud bounded but by the great round globe itseliy At our great birthday testival all peoples are invit@l. to exhibit the resuits of iheir laws, creecs and cugoms with those of ours. To our own peop.e Wo assupe to offer an opportunity exceptional, unique, for mital, moral and material improvement, Not to forane’s favorites, Who cad at Will traverse their contineits to develop their taste and cultivate ther minds, orcrost the ocvan lor the gratification of a whim or the pur: chase of a picture or a tipestry, but for the groaumast of the peopie, who labor at the desk, im the jorun, at | the loom, m= the factory or in the fteld— | everywhere, indeed, where improvement 1s most needed or where the thirst and aspiratian for culture are most ardent and most repressed by ‘iron fortune” —was the promise of the Centennial given, is our race progressive? Shatlit progress? Who assist it iu its onward, upward march and who oppose it? ‘Tueso are the questions suggested by the title given to this article, and Which Must receive some answer, 80 far as we are concerned, befure the Centennial Exhi- bition fiuaily closes its doors. We bave imvited the whole worid to our feast, but it is not necessary in the discussion of the subject proposed to consider the jeelings, predilections or prejudices of any one outswe Of the folu of Curisuanity. We have, however, inyicd all of our own people, and they have coniributed trey and cordially from the public treasury and from weir private purses, and they have rights which must be consulted, > ‘The Centennial Commission has decided to clo the Exhibition and the grounds on Sunday, and the order has so far been rigidiy enforced, the Presbyterian As- sembly, just held in Brookiyn, has, as a matter of course, passed resolutions encouraging the commission to maintain this decision against the emphatic pro- ol jarge and respectable meetin; nuously hinted at the propriet iree tickets to the Exhibion for themselves, by doubtless, of further improving the tinancial pros of the enterprise, vservance of the seventh day of the week was made binding upon the Jews, to whom it was espectaliy directed. Christians, however, are nowhere commanded in the gospels or episties to ob- serve tuat or any otuer day Of the week, hor is the Sabbuth mentioned in the New Testament except ta show the enue disregard of 1t by the Saviour and the osties, The claim ot tho Sabbaturlan churches of to-day to the title of “Evangelical” must strike us as rather bold in view of this undeniabie fact, ‘The earliest enactment of a legal distinction be- tween this day and tne rest of the week was made by the Emperor Constantine. The early pfactice of the Caurch was, and the modern practice of by far the large: portion of it still is, to observe Sunday usa holiday; a day of reereation, in which religious observances oc- cupy @ portion of the timo and inaocent amusements the remainder, It was reserved for the Britisa re- formers, aided by the hosuiity of feeling against the Church and State, Kettler 4 in the great civil war, to anchrisuianze Sunday, They substitated for tha festival a gloomy Jewish Sabbath, and their ideas, transplanted to this country by the Puritans, have taken such a firm bold upon many Americans that Sab- hath breaking and blasphemy, Sabbath breaking and infidelity, Sabbath breaki and immorality, are as- sined as sytonymons terms. We have among us u largo number of Christians edu- cated ww Europe, mavy of them belonging to parent churches of the same Provestant \ orapongpratiey aban he in America, by a process of assimilation, have me violently Sabbatarian, To them this enforced solemn idleness on Sanday, which they have been taught to consider as Judaical and ant-Christian, is simply a tyranny and an odious invasion of that right to be re- ligions according to the dictates of their own con. sciences, which we pretend to gnarantee to all, and | which none clam more loudly for themseives than our Puritan friends, who are, in fact, 80 vociferous in the cause of religious liberty U hey cannot hear the voice Of those Who do mot entirely agree with them. That the enforced observance of days or forms of worship apon a large portion of the community, im de- fiance of tueir feclings and religioua teachings, at the behest of a most overwhelming majority, is likely nuconstitational, 18 a proposition too plain to require argoment. the holiday afforded on Decoration Day showed how eager our busy working people are to avail them. selves of their Fare opportunities tor improvement Thousands of clerks aud others, to wnom the Conten- Aial has been but us the feast of ‘Tantalus, crowded the cars from this city alone, and the receipts at the Exhi- bition indicated the extent of the deprivation to which the workingmen have been subjected by this latter day robbery of their ancient holiday. If it be contended that those employed iu the Exhibition need rest, their Places could eas:iy be filled on Sundays by others who, in these hard times, have only too littic labor; or the Mey mabe be. dete only such force retains as necessary for the ‘the articles on exhibition. If moral rire Nod the good of society ts the object really sought the practice of the whole Chrisian world ontside of Great Bntain and Amer. ica points out tho obvious course to be pursued at the Exhibition and throaghout the country for the next SIX Months and for aii time, Lncreage the facilities tor imHocent and healthful recreation and improvement ot the workingmun's only holiday, Seek to reform hit tastes by surrounding him on that day with opporta nities to cultivate music and the kindred arta Open your galleries and your libraries, aud in proportion at you retine bis nature you will purify his morals and elevate his standard of religious thought Yours truly, ‘BRISK, PuLavsrraa, June 6, 1876 ats ‘The mines from which these jewels come are inthe — to improve pablic morals as itis clearly’ arbitrary and * ae