The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD . BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, YROPRIETOR, pe sno x tcc THE DAILY HERALD, published very day im the yar, ‘Ditee ceuts per copy (Rutday excluded). Ten doilars por ot one dollay per month for any period jens or five doilars tor six montis, Sunday ee of postace, etter or telegraphic despatches must Hirao. should be properly seaied, ious will not be returned. Ali o Ai addressed New Letters und pucks Rejected eonmun DE LOPERA. STRADA PAE, i be’ eceived and EE PARIS OPFIC NAPLES OFFIC Rubscriptions and advertisements. w te " a FIFTH AVENUE THE. BROADWAY THEATER BOWERY THEATRE TONY PASTOI’S—Vanver COLUMBIA OPLRA HOU GILMORE'S CONC! NEW YORK AQUARIU! CENTRAL PARK GARD TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Freee tener ae oneal NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. In future all advertisements presented for pub- Yeation asler eight o'clock P. M, will be charged louvie rates, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be tloudy or parlly cloudy and cooler, probally with Bhowers, A Summary of General Miles’ winter opera- dons against the Sioux Indians is given in our correspondence from the Indian count: Hump, the Cheyenne chief, in surrendering, suid he did not know what the war was about. The soldiers began to chase him and his people from point to point, aud he was compelled to fight. The re mark is suggestive. With an honest, intelligent and humane management of our Indian attairs nunberless wars, as they are called, might have been averted and thousands of lives and millions of dollars sa to the country. Iva Breezy Lerrer trom the base of the Roeky Mountains, printed in other columns this morning, we can almost feel the cool current of the prairies and the canyons of Wyoming and Colorado. With the thermometer away up in the nineties it is refreshing to read about the snowy mountain peaks and the black erests of the cliffs streaking their white cones. Our cor- respondent, only forty miles away from the Arc- tic scenery he describes, is really to be envied, and we have no doubt thousands of our readers will wish they were with him on the Hayden nurveying expedition, the plans and purposes of which he fully se ing « contradiction to the uceuracy of the wtly published letter from the President to rd to the Obio Senatorship and the hip of the next Congr That such a letter was able. Tt was shown to several gentlemen in Washington, one of whom, Mr. William E. Chandler, had a short- aand copy of it made. priety in the I kee Se No one suw any impro- erat the time, and no one will ot) xcept the dis- who are catching at the smallest straw in order to break down the Pre: dent and his policy, That is the secret of the whole th g. Cartan Hat's Polar expedition will live for- wer in the history of American scientitic ex- plovation. vegion of darkness and ice there is not, except the meluneholy fate of Franklin, anything sosad is the story of the death of the stout idventurer whose grave was made almost it the entrance to the region whose weerets it was the dream and purpose of his life to nulock. The official history of the expedition his just been compiled from the journals and other y rs of Captain and his officers, and will be issned ina few days from the govern- ment presses at Washington. From advance sheets we enabled this morning to give an a of the contents of the forthcoming interest- olume. Senmons in the different churches pina great measure full of the f and beauty of the first of the summer Sundays, Mr. Beecher eloquently depicted the influence of God on man; told of the ideal he had set ont for himself, and, with pardonable p poiuted to the unity and harmony of Plymouth Church at the end of its great couflict as the fruit of his preaching. Mr. Hepworth laid down the truth, old as Christianity itselt, that no bad man can ne bappy, and declared that the only way to lighten the burdens of life lies in obedicnce to God and submission to His will, Mr. Talmage drew some moral leasons from the passage of the Jordan, and Mr. Frothingham delivered a fic philippie against the Pope. In the Catholi churches the fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of Pius IX. to the episcopacy was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies and sermons. Ovr New J Y Reavers will be interested In an article printed this morning conceruing the birth, history and general characteristics of the seventeen year locust whose arrivul is announced in our sister State, It may be some consolation to the Jersey farmers to kuow that the prophet Joel had bin in mind some thousands of years ago, aud wrote a vivid description of tue locust and its destructive habits for bis especial bene- fit, all of which he will tind set forth in our cok wmns. We are not entirely certain that Joel's locust and the Jersey animal or insect ave one | and the same. Joel does uot say a word about a W on the back of his locust, and we are as- sured that eyery one across the river is so marked, portending war and all manner of dis- asters. We hope our Jersey friends will not be alarined, W may mean ork” aa well as “war,” and if they will accept the omen in that light they will be all the richer and happier seventeen years hence when the locust again comes to visit them. Tne Wearurr.—The heat area is drifting Hlowly eastward over the Atlantic, and a yeneral fall of temperature’ has taken place from the coast westward. The pressure thronghout the country is low, except at extreme southerly points. Cloudy and threaten- ing weather prevaiia throngh the central scetion, with more favorable indications in the North, West and South. The winds on the lakes have moderated to brisk and will continue so for a day or two and antil the prevailing low pressure pusses away. Heavy rains have oceurred along the lake shores and on the Atlantic coast although locally the fall has been moderate. ‘The weather to-day will bo cloudy or partly eloudy and cooler, probably. with showers, In the annals of that impenetrable | Business Cronkers and Hypoehon- | lias maden healthy beginning, The facts driacs. We incline to think that the incessant talk abont “business depression” is a good deal overdone, and that an intelligent sur- vey of the situation will show that the coun- try is in a state of hopeful convalescence, ‘The croakers would have us think that the city of New York is in a worse condition than any other part of our stricken and paralyzed country, inasmuch as we are rapidly losing the export trade in grain by diversion to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bos- ton and Montreal, and as discriminations against us in ocean ireights, conjoined with railroad combinations, cause imported goods to. be delivered in Chicago at cheaper rates than in New York. Ac- cording to this representation New York is j in a rapid decline and has greater reason for despondency than cither the country at large or the rival commercial cities. Let us takea glanee, then, at this chief seat of busi- ness depression. It is at least certain that grass is not growing in our streets, They are in an unpleasant state of dilapidation and filth—so well manured, in fact, that grass would grow with great luxuriatce if it were given a chance, But the very causes of this dilapidation and filth are the reasons why grass cannot grow in our streets, Our streets are horribly out of repair ‘becanse thero is such a constant weight of heavily laden wheels in motion upon them; they are 60 disgustingly iilthy by the droppings of the tens of thousands jof horses that draw the carts and vehicles which so rapidly wear out the pavements, There is, to be sure, a great | want of efficiency in the Street Cleaning Department; but that kind of efficiency would not be needed in streets which traffic had deserted. ‘The ever increasing demand for rapid transit is another proof that New York is not a declining city. Rapid transit has become so urgent and imperative a want because our population has over- flowed the limits within which horse cars can serye the public convenience. Never were there so many horse cars moving on all the various lines, and never were these vehicles more uncomfortably jammed and overcrowded as they now are during the busy parts of each day. We are as far re- moved as possible from the condition of a deserted or declining city in whose streets grass is beginping to grow. If it be true that the other commercial cities are draw- ing away our trade they must be still fur- ther from losing their population than we are. : It is an unquestionable and unquestioned fact that the population of the country was never before so large as it is to-day. Is it a starving population? Is it a population in rags? Does it dwell in hovels or decaying, tumble-down tenements? A walk or drive through this city, or through any American city or village, suffices to show the absurdity implied in such questions, Our people have not only food, raimont and shelter, but surplus means for every good and every bad indulgence. As examples of the good, our common schools and higher institutions of learning were never so thronged with pupils and students, who are all decently clothed and bear no marks in their physique of deficient nourishment. As examples of | surplus means for bad or doubtfal purposes consider the truly enormous consumption of distilled liquors, beer and tobacco in the | United states. ‘hen consider the square miles of carpets that are sold every year, the quantities of elegant furniture, of ex- pensive jewelry, of fine carriages, and superb harness. During the hours of shop- ping the streets on which our fashionable stores are situated were never more thronged with well-dressed ladies than they have been this spring, and theSunday excursions of the working classes exhibit abundance of kid gloves, neat shoes, new bonnets, bright ribbons, artificial flowers and other frippery, If we are an impoverished, suffering people | it is difficult to detect the signs of it in our ordinary life as presented to the eyes of ob- servers, Beef and mutton and hams and an occasional chicken and fresh vegetables find their way to every table, and our people aro consuming the tons of delicious strawberries which are daily poured into our markets, Taking the community as a whole we are a more than comfortable--we are a luxurious people. And yet the lugubrious cry greets onr ears on all sides that there is no trade or none worth mention! By what mysterious process, then, is so vast a population fed and clothed? Do the innumerable oxen, sheep, calves, swine and chickens get from the farms, where they are rused, into the butchers’ shops and from the butchers’ shops into the kitchens of consumers without trade? There is not any daily want of our forty millions of people which is not supplied by trade except that part of the farm products which is consumed by the growers. It is the chief office of trade to supply these con- | stant wants, and tho fact that most of our people are so well ted and clothed is a proof which no amount of croaking can refute that trade is not in a state of wretched collapse. It is true that individuals are not getting rich as rapidly as they were or fancied that they were in the brisk, speculative period which preceded the great panic. But it is as absurd to make such a period the stand- | ard of comparison for a healthy state of trade as it would be to make the exhilaration and high spirits which attend intoxication the standard of good health, Instead of hoping for the return of such a period we ought to depre- cate it. A renewal of that kind of activi would be the sure precursor of another | vulsive panic. It was caused by the inda tion of our currency, and was as unhealthy, as the bloat in a human body caused by éx- cessive use of alcohol. Inflation carried up all kinds of property to fictitious and fabulous prices, and hundreds of thousands of people were deluded into the fancy that they were growing rich because the nominal value of their property had been increased by afalse and lying currency. We must not expectand ought not to desire that kind of jubilant, deceitful prosperity, any more than a reformed inebriate should expect or desire that re-established health will put him in the same carousing elation of spirits which was burning up his constitution. Of course business admits of much im- | provement, but we believe that the country most dwelt upon by the croakers are either inisinterpreted or exaggerated. When they point to the great amount of money which lies unemployed in the banks they do not allow tor the great fall in the prices of most commodities. It requires less money to handle’ the same amount of merchandise than it did when prices were measured by the old standard. The volume of business as measured by the bushel, the scales and the yardstick, may be nearly or quite as large and yet be a great deal smaller as measured by money. If the banks were full of idle money with prices at their former level the unem- ployed money would doubtless show a dimi- nution of business; but when two yards of cotton prints can be bought for the former price of one it requires only half the money to transfer the same amount of that species of goods, and so of other kinds of merchan- dise in proportion to the fall in their prices. The other facts relied on by the croakers might betaken up and analyzed, and tbe result would show an equal amount of ex- aggeration or misconception. We shall recur to this subject, and expect to prove that all the busines: sured convalescence, which may be made more rapid by wise measures on the part of the government. General Grant in London, General Grant passed a quiet Sunday in London, where Sundays can be kept as quietly as in any New England village, and heard a sermon from Dean Stanley in West- minster Abbey. It was perhaps the pleas- antest speech he has heard yet in the great capital, because he was able to listen with the certainty that he would not presently be called upon to respond. He heard, in what was said of Mr. Mot- ley, opinions rather different from what he has held himself of the same man unless in that particular he has been misrepresented; but as death smooths asperities in the minds of even commonplace people it is not to be supposed that it can have done less with a great and generous soldier. The subject of the Dean’s sermon was the visit of the ex-President, and his text was drawn from the story of Isauc and Esau. ‘Lhis text was used mainly to point the brotherly relation of two great peoples without regard to the decidedly unbrotherly conduct that was manifested on one side, Iron-Clads and Torpedoes. It is pretty certain now that the contest between monster guns and armor plates is drawing near its end, and that victory will declare for the guns. While the limit of size for cannon has not yet been reached that of the thickness and consequent weight of armor for seagoing war vessels certainly has. In the course of time it will be found that the tremendous shock transmitted toa ship by the firing of her enormous gun or guns will compel a new system of construction adapted to withstand it. Considering this and the immense penetrative power of projectiles over the resistance offered by armor and the new models necessary for the carriage of great guns the iron-clads of to-day will soon be as obsolete as the Roman galley propelled by oars. With this prospect in the near future the nations like the United States that now have no irdn-clad fleets must be congratulated, for their money will be ex- pended, when necessary, on the floating gun carriages that will supersede the war ships of to-day. We do not hesitate to pre- dict that naval warfare must in time be con- ducted practically acvording to the same tactics as now govern field artillery in action. The gun ships must be detached, and what may be termed caisson, or ammunition ships, employed to supply them. But another element of destruction in war threatens the whole iron-clad system and must revolutionize naval construction, The torpedo is now the recognized weapon for the attack and defence of harbors and blockading squadrons. These invisible mines dot the channels or shoot beneath the surface toward the doomed vessel, guided with unerring accuracy from the shore or the torpedo ship, ‘Lhe effect of such terrible engines, when fired under the side of a great irou-clad, is to insure her de- siruction beyond the shadow of a doubt. ‘Lhe greater the draught and displacement and armor weight of » war ship the greater resistance does she olfer to the upward ex- plosion of atorpedo, As an offsct to this resistance the energy of the explosion is inereased by sinking the -torpedo to a greater depth, where it comes in contact with the ship’s bottom, which is unprotected, At the depth of fifteen to twenty feet below the water line the direct force of the explosion is concentrated 'in the line of least resistance, a ver- tical cylindrical space of comparatively sinall diameter, like a great gun barrel. It is as if a large cannon pointed upward against the ship's bottom was fired into her at contact with the muzzle, but the destruc. tive effects aro far greater, Her armor ‘ weight alone bears her dowa when the waters pour in through the rent in her sides, her deck timbers aad bulkheads are shaitered, and she sinks an irreclaimable wreck ina few minutes, Pradent govern- ments like our own will theretore wait until the ships of the future are designed, and, in the meantime, so long as we have torpe- does we can laugh at the iron-clads of Eu- rope, Ohio Politics. Messys. Garfield, Charles Foster and Townsend, all Ohio Congressmen, have been in Washington recently, and, our correspond- nt reports, do not confirm the dolorous tales of dissatisfaction in Ohio with the President's Southern policy which have been circulated. My. Foster is reported to have put the case thus:—If the democratic rulers in the South should show themselves intolerant and inclined to favor lawlessness, this will inevitably arouse aud strengthen the republican party in Ohio and bring out a full vote; if, on the other hand, the South behaves well, then there may be some lack of interest and perhaps some opposition among the republicans, but independent democrats, seeing the President wrongfully attacked, will give bim their support. Bat politics are ‘‘a little mixed” just now, and it will be casier to prophesy after ymptoms betoken as- | JUNE 4, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT theelection. The President does not seem to trouble himsclf much about “running the party.” He thinks ‘‘who serves his country best will serve his party best;” and there are people who do not believe the republican party so prosperous that it can afford to throw over the President. He can probably get along without the party better than it can do without him. The Pope’s Jubiice. Rome had a great festival yesterday for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the day on which Pius IX. was made a bishop. It was evidently a festival for the city more than for the Pope himself, and its public character seems to have been recog- nized by the authorities, as the King re- viewed twelve thousand troops. It is a necessary consequence of the Pope's great age and physical condition that the fatigue and excitement inseparable from the fact of muking him the centro of a festival of this sort is hazardous to the little that remains of his life; and this peril seems to have ! been properly considered in the Vatican rather later than it should have been, Our special tells of the great exhaustion that carly in the day compelled the discontinuance of those attentions of the devout which may really be called assaults ; compelled the withdrawal of the Pope from the gaze of those who came to see him. As athletic a man as Lincgln was exhausted by the terrible handshakings of the White House levees, and that, as it is only an expense to muscle, is the least trying of all the ordeals of so-called honor. But if the throng and horde of admirers come in cir- cumstances which muke their coming take a strong hold upon the emotional nature, and the victim of the excitement is a man tottering at the verge of the graye, it is obvious that he may be hurried torward un- necessarily, It is to be anticipated’ that Pius IX. will yet be ‘‘demonstrated” to death. A Great Rapid Trausit Meeting, No call for a public meeting in this city was ever issued to which so many promi- nent names were attached as are signed to the call for the meeting in favor of rapid transit to be held in Chickering Hall to- morrow evening. All the solid men of the city, all business firms of any prominence or importance, have joined in this invila- tion to citizens who believo with them that “the means of rapid transit between the upper and lower parts of the city and be- tween the city and country are indispensa- ble to the prosperity of the city,” to assem- ble at the time and place designated. We judge from the language of the call that one purpose of the meeting is to arraign and ex- pose the recreant moimbers from this city who spent the session in obstructing the legislation demanded by their constituents. Jitizens are invited to attend the meeting “te hear from some of their representatives in the Legislature an account of the impedi- ments thrown in the way of rapid transit during the last session.” Of course tho members who are to give this account are those who were faithful to their constitu- ents ; not those who bétrayed them. It 1s not expected that the latter will appear on the platform to make their‘‘dying speech and confession,” nor even that they will attend the meeting to hear themselves exposed and hissed. It is too late for repentance, and no confession they could make would arrest the sentence of political death which an in- jured constituency will pronounce aguinst them. It is not our fault that they are to be held up to public scorn, From the day they entered on a wrong course we did not cease to warn them and expostulate with them, until we were at last compelled to give them over as irreclauimable. We would gladly have saved them from what they must now meet, It is no light thing for repre- sentatives to face the indignation of their be- | trayed and indignant constituents. But it is necessary that such an example be made in order that their successors may take warning. i The Arlington Estate. We published in our news columns a few days ago an interesting account, with full details and copies of papers drawn up and served by the lawyers, of the suit which has been commenced in one of the Virginia courts by the son of General Robert E. Lee for the recovery of the Arlington property, which has been for many years tho most important of our national cemeteries and contains some sixteen thousand graves. The case is to be tried at the present term of the court sitting in Alexandria, " Whatever may be the result of this suit nothing is more absolutely certain than that the Arlington grounds will remain forever in possession of the United States and of the dead who repose inthem, The act of Congress relating io national cemeteries, passed in 1867, authorizes the Secretary of War to select for that’purpose such sites as he deems suitable, and acquire them by purchase, If the Secretary and the owners cannot agree on a price he is authorized to take the property without their consent, and provision is made for tho ap- pointment of appraisers, and on payment of the sum awarded the fee’ simple vests in the United States, E if Mr. Lee should gain his suit he will never recover possession of Arlington. In that event the Secretary of War will exercise the power conferred on him by statute, and if he and the heir cannot ugree as to a proper compensation for the property the United States will continue to hold it, and he can apply for the appointment of praisers, If tho appellate courts decide that he is legally entitled to the estate he will recover not it, but a reasonable com- pensation. The repose of the dend, the patriotism of the people and the dignity of the nation will not be disturbed by any possible result of this suit. But we doubt if Mr. Lee has any claim which ‘a court of law will sanction, In the early years of the war, when that part of Virginia was in military possession of the government, the military authoritics admin- istered therein the laws of Virginia, col- lecting and confiscating such {axes as were due on the property. When taxes were not paid the lands were linble to sale, and the Arlington property was actually offered for sale, finding no bidders who were willing to pay the amount of the taxes, It was accord- ingly bid in by the government, which acquived o title in accordance with the statutes of ‘Virginia relating to tax sales. ~This title seemed so unquestion- able that neither General Lee during his life, nor Mrs. Lee after his death, made any attempt to recover the property. The es- tate was willed by. its prior owner to Mrs. Lee for life and to her eldest son on her de- cease. He now asserts his claim chiefly on the ground that his roversionary interest could not be impaired by a tax sale. He maintains that a8 no tax was ever levied on him he never failed to pay one, and that his rights were not subject to forfeiture by the neglect of temporary possessors of the property. If the tax laws of Vir- ginia resemble those of New York this is an utterly untenable position. Prop- erty is sold for taxes without regard to com- plications of ownership, but mortgagees and persons having a future contingent interest are permitted to redeem it within a limited time. By failure to do so they forteit all their pre-existing rights. Supposing this to be the law of Virginia, as it certainly is of most of the States, we do not see that Mr. Lee has a shred of legal title to the Arling- ton estate, Progress’ of the War. Two important facts appear in to-day's despatches. It is now for the first time positively stated that Kars is invested and that the army lately commanded by Mukhtar Pacha is in danger of destruction or cap- ture. These statements are entitled to full credit. As we pointed out some weeks ago only a rapid retreat from the Souganlu range to Erzeroum could save the Turkish army in Armenia from capture, simply be- cause the Russians had fuil command of toads that led to the rear of that force. It was then supposed the Turks had anywhere from sixty to a hundred thousand men in that country, but since it turns out that thoy have only about thirty thousand it is evident that their capacity to help themselves out of a tight place is all the less by reason of that great difference in number, From the loss of the intrenchments in front of Kars, two or three days ago, it was to be presumed that the lines would be drawn so: closely about Kars as to cut all communi- eation, Already we hear from Turkish sources that the garrison of Kars is on half rations, which is said to be a “precaution- ary measure ;” a precaution taken, perhaps, to prevent the soldiers from being too strong and fighting too desperately. Another important statement of the news is as to Prince Bismarck’s activity in negotiations between England and Russia to prevent a collision of interests, His mediation is likely tobe effected. As the Czar is toreach the camps on the Danube by Wednesday it is probable that events there will move rap- idly from that date. Free Trade in Ships. We publish elsewhere an interview with Mr. frederick C. Schmidt, an extensive ship- owner, in which he expresses strong opposi- tion to the popular demand for free trade in ships. The kind of free trade in ships which Mr. Schmidt denounces is not the kind which intelligent people advocate. The only relaxation of the navigation laws which we desire to see at present is an ‘act permitting Americans to purchase in the cheapest market iron steamships of pot less than (say) two thousand tons burden, giving them the full protection of the American flag. This would not cross the interests or interfere with the property of the present American owners of shipping. ‘They do not own property of this description. All the great steamship lines between this city and the ports of Europe belong exclusively to for. eigners, who monopolize the most profitable part of the carrying trade. Free trade in this class of ships would be no injury to American shipbuilders, because they do not supply the market for this kind of vessels, It would work no detriment to American shipowners, because they have no vessels which compete with the great European lines. Why shoald our country- men be deprived of the profits of navigating such ships if they cannot profitably build them? It is as absurd as it would be to re- fuse draymen an opportunity to earn their living because they are not skilfal wheel- wrights. Mr, Schmidt contends that the time has come when we can build iron ships as cheaply 2s they can be buiit abroad. If this is so our shipyards have nothing to fear from foreign competition. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Morton will jecture in Indianapolis, Goslings are dressed in the fashionable color, ‘The Vice President has got some fish on a string. ‘fhe base-burner is busy in Texas, Ae is branding cattle, Ben Wade loves to chop trevs. That's the kind of feller he ia. Georgia poisons ber dozs and permits her polltt clans to live. Are you a poor man or are you tho treasurer of an insurance company ? Mra. Jones was yesterday morning banging up pic- tures with a high band, Moucure D. Conway says that the Loadon Sabba- king snob, Count de Suzannet, Secretary of the French Lega- tion at Washingtoa, !3 ut the Clarendon, Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, of Eugiund, returned to the city yesterday, und ie at the Clarendon, If you lived 19 Georgia you could boiet half a water- meion to your head aud look iko a man falling out of a canoe, The American govoro ment occasionally takes a com- monplace man and wakes him a Minister and a enob at a foreign court, Mr. Wallace, the best of recevt authorities on Russia, tells of a so-called agent who tried to introdace Ameri- ean agricaltural implementa into Rus and it was discovered that the implements and ihe introducer were the worst of frauds, Baltimore (ungrammatical) American:—“And so your funny man singles out soine solitary porson in a crowd, and through long gazing upon him every other person in the assetnbly teoms a reflex of that parucu- latone, The eye is taught only to look for deformities aud extravagances, und the existence of anything other than these 1a persistently ignored.” Scranton Repubivan:—"Tho fertile minded Herano P. L suys:—'When you stand at a gate with a pretty girl, aad the moon is shining too Uright jor kissing, | ask her to fix your necktie, which will require you to to stoop and her to stand on tiptoes.’ That's all very Well, Dut sappose a fellow’s girl is taller than he, what then?!” Weil, that’s so. 0, come, now, There aro two Parkers in Nop Jersey, one republic can wud one democrat, If the republicans nominate thotr Parker for Governor they will win the election Inside of all possibilities; aod they must not nomi Nate another mere moneyed, voiceless politician like Halsey, vor so young a man as Hobart, for bis own sake. Hillis au honest man ond knows how to lug tho storekeeper into nolition. POPE PIUS IX: Celebrating the Golden Jubilee ot the Holy Father, —-—-———_. ROME ILLUMINATED Reception of the Pilgrims at the Vatican. KING AND POPE The Italian Catholics Gathered Around the Throne of Peter. — (BY caBLE TO THE HERALD.) Losxvon, June 4, 1877, The HERALD correspondent at Rome telegraphs that the demonstrations yesterday, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the episcopacy of Pope Pius, were most imposing. Immense crowds of pil- grims thronged the Vatican and an immense con- course of people tilled the streets of Rome. The ex citement and fatigue of the reception greatly ex- hausted the Pope, and indeed tried the endurance of all present. HE YAPAL RECEPTION, In the morning His Holiness received the Aus trian Envoy and the different foreign deputations, Audience was granted to the Italian pilgrims at noon, when over two thousand persons crowded the ducal ball and the adjacent saloons. Several ade dresses were read from the taithiul Italian children and rich gifts onéred to the successor of Peter. ILLNESS OF HIS HOLINESS, Owing to the state of exhaustion to which the unusual effort and the ex¢itement had reduced him His Holiness was unable to reply nnd was obliged temporarily to withdraw from the audience, On his re-entry he was received with enthustastic cheers, and the heartiness with which they were given was the best proof of the love und devotion with which Pope Pius is regarted by the Italian Catholics, When the audience was over His Holi ness partook of a slight repast, und attera short repose was sufficiently recovered to enable him to take his usua! evening promenade. FUTURE PRECAUTIONS. The doctors fear the effect of over excitement and fatigue and have strongly advised the suspen- sion of the receptions as causing His Holiness great and unnecessary fatigne. It has, therefore, been resolved to assemble simultaneously a number of deputations In future tn the various hails, when the Pope can be carried through aud so avoid the prolonged exertion of receiving the deputations in detail, St, Peter's was allied with a dense crowd during the ceremonies, who were delighted by the magniticent music under the direction of Signor Vincolt. A: COUNTER DEMONSTRATION, King Victor Kiainanuel held an imposing review of the troops of the garrison, to the number of 12,000, On bis return to the Qutrinal Palace he re- ceived the congratulations of the Scnators, Depu- tues, the diplomatic body and the manicipality, There was a jong file of over two hundred care riages blocking the approach to the Quirinal. , The city was tluminated at night, und the streets were thronged with dense crowds of excited sightseers, who moved about from point to point up toa late hour. THE CELEBRATION IN NEW YORK. SPECIAL SERVICES IN THE CATHOLIO CHURCHES—MUSIC AND PBAYER—THE TRIALS OF THE HOLY FATHER AND THE DUTY OF THE PAITHFUL—COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES AT FORDHAM AND MANHATTAN COLLEGES. - The day was well observed among the Catholics of New York, and the attenaauce at the charches where special services were held in honor of the evont was unasually large. The trials of the Holy Father were dwelt upon in the midst of the joy which surrounded the occusion, and while pra:ses wore sung to God for ‘His gooduess to the Holy See in leaving him go long at the head of the Charch, earnest prayers were offered that he might be relieved from the distresses attending bin and live triumphaut over the chomies of the Ro-, man Catholic Church, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, At St. Patrick’s Cathedral the high mass was cclee brated by the Rey. Fathér Aborn, ono of the recently ordained priests. Very Reverend Vicar Genoral Quiua, after the usual annouucements, read the gospel of the Sunday, which was taken from the fourteenth chapter of St. Luke, The Vicar General then procecded to say that it was known to the congregation that the Cathe olics in different parts of the world were celebrating the fifticth unmiversary of the episcopal cousecration of Pas 1X., the goiden jubilee of his elevation to the episcopate, We loarn from the public prints, said the preacher, that large numvers hayo been assembling in Rome for some time past for the purpose of celubruting there the vent, carrying with them the congratulations of their brethren and their offerings to meet tho nezessities of the Poutitical court. Our sympathies are with these and Uhough fur distant our hearts are united with them in all the expressions of grateful acknowledgments to the providence of God which has spared tor go long atime a life so precious. 1t isan extraordinary thing to tind any person fillivg the office of bishop for haif century, but it is excinsively the glory of Pius IX. that im the pontifical throne eceded the periods all those who preceded him, includ jug the prince of the aposties. His life has not only been very Joug but has also been # very eventfal Jile, After his clevation, wo all remember with what joy was received in this country the announcement that the political prisoners in the Pope’s dominions were to be set at liberty, In the generosity of his heart the Holy Father thought that @ boou of this Kind would be gratetully received by this class of pe but he soon learned that he was mistaken, The assassination of bis Prime Minister, Count Rossi, .as also of his own private chaplain and the threats that were uttered against bimself and againat bis care Is by the leud- ers of the revolution soou taught him tbat oo conil- dence could be placed in thoxe who were guided and directed by secret societies and were under the rule of Mazzint aud bis swora adherenta, In a short time, as you know, continued the preacher, be was vbliged to leave Rome asa secular priest to save himself trom further out- Fago and be free to make to the world u protest, as be did, against the unlawful and sacrilegious seizare of the property belonging to the Church, Aiter u snort Hime, through the interposition of France, to the great Joy of the Roman people, he was aguin restored to he city of Rome and a part of bi minions, Since them his 1110, all bie public actions, aro known to yoo ull, Ln 1854 he invited bishops to assist at the promalgation of the decreo of the immaculate conception. 63 he again mvited them to assist at the canonization of the martyrs of Japan, and on both occasions over two hundred bishops were present, In 1867 ho again we Vited the bishops of any command—to assist at the celebration of the cen~ tenary of St. Peter over tho tomb of that apostle, Avda, lastly, he ‘en InVited the bishops to usaiet ab tue Counc! of the Vatican. The de f this coun. cil, its numbers decroes which it has passed are less or wore tamiliar to you. ‘Tho very reverend preacher thou said that be did pot wish to dotain the congregation longer by reterrin further to the details connected with the history 0 Pius 1X, It is remarkable, ho satd, jo te @ source of pleasure to Catholics, that a man #0 tar ad- | Vauced im years can receive di da; delegas tions from different nations; addresses, und that without apparent preparation oF forethought be can make such eloquent responses 10 | these various addresses, and, not satisfed with this, | become acquainted by « word lor one and another with the personality of those who ¢ome betore bim, so that the pilgrims approaching bir are pertoctly astonished as well asdelighied. Tue Vicar Goueral continued to give some (urther particulars of the Pope's wonderful mental