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4 A PAPAL WARNING. Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII. De- nouncing Socialism. FRUITS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. No Security for the Venerable Majesty of Kings and Emperors. TO BLAME? ARE = PRINCES Plea for Law, Order and Su- perior Authority. Yo Ovn Venerapre BretHrey, Patriancas, Pri- MATES, AKCHBISHOPS AND Bishops OF THE WHOLE Catuonic Worn, 18 GRACE AND IN COMMUNION WITH THE Arostotic Ske. Lro XIIL, Porn. VexERADLE BneTeren, Salutation and Apostolical Benediction :-- In obedience to the duty imposed by our apostolical office, we have not failed, from the beginning of our Pontifiente, in the encyclical letters which we have addressed to you, venerable brethren, to point out the deadly poison which is creeping through the in- most members of human society, and places it in ex- “treme danger. At the same time we have pointed out to you the most efficacious remedies to enable society to recover its health and eseape from “the grave perils which threaten it. But the evils which we then deplored have increased so rapidly that we are again obliged to address you, since the prophet cries in our ears, “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trampet!’’ You readily un- derstand, venerable brethren, that we now speak of those sects of men who, under different and almost barbarous names, are called Socialists, Communists or Nihilists, and who, scattered through the whole world und closely bound together by an unholy allii , no longer shelter themselves in the darkness of secret cabals, but boldly advance in full daylight and labcr to achieve their purpose, long since formed, of undermining the foundations of all civil so- ciety. These are assuredly the persons indicated by Holy Scripture, who “defile the flesh, despise do- minion and speak evil of dignities” (or “blaapheme majesty”). They leave whole and intact nothing of all that has been wisely established by Divine and human laws for the safety and honor of life; they refuse obedience to those higher powers to which the apostle teaches us that every soul must be sub- ject, which derive from God the right to rule, and they preach the absolute equality of all men in “rights and dignities; they dishonor the natural union of man and woman, sacred even among bar- “Darous nations, and theyenfeeble and give over to caprice that tie by which human society is chiefly restrained. Seduced by that greed for worldly things which is “the root of all evil, which, while many have coveted, they have erred from the faith,” they attack the right of property sanctioned by natural law, and, by an abominable crime, while they pretend to provide for all the ne- cessities and desires of man, they labor to take from him and render common all that is acquired, either by legitimate inheritance or by labor of mind or body, or by economy. And they proclaim these monstrous errors in their gatherings, they defend them in pamphlets and scatter them among the peo- ple by means of a cloud of newspapers. It results therefrom that the venerable majesty of kings and emperors has become on the part of this seditious populace the object of such hatred that certain abominable traitors, impatient of all restraint, have ‘many times within a brief period turned their arms with impious audacity against the heads of States themselves, ” DREADFUL RESULTS OF FALSE DOCTRINE, Now, this andacity of perfidious men, which threatens civil society with more and more immi- nent ruin and strikes all minds with anxiety and fright, derives its origin and ite cause from those poisonous doctrines which, diffused in former times like germs of corruption in the midst of peoples, have borne in their scason such deleterious fruits. You. weil know, venerable brethren, that the relent- less war which from the sixteenth century the inno- yators excited against the Catholi¢e faith, and which has gone on increasing duily until our time, tends to this result—that, all revelation being discarded and all natural order overthrown, the ih nay be cleared for the inventions, or rather the ravings, of ‘unassisted reason. This crror, which wrongly de- rives its name from reason, stimulates and excites the desire which man naturally has of elevating himselt, and gives loose rein to all the passions, so that it’ spontaneously makes fearful ravages, not only in the minds of pri individuals, but still more in civil society. Wherefore it has happened that, by a new impiety, unknown even by the pagans, States are constituted without taking any account either of God or of the order. established by Him. Public authority has been declared to derive neither its principle, nor its majesty, nor its binding force from God, but to proceed rathor from the multitude, which, considering itself free from all Divine sanc- tion, has refused to be subjected except to the laws which it has itself laid down according to its own caprice. The supernatural truths of the faith being combated and rejected as contrary to reason, the Author Himself and Redeemer ot the human race hus been insensibly and by degrees banished trom the universities, the lyceums and gymnasiums and all public recognition of human life. Finally, tie future rewards and punishments of eternal life being handed over to oblivion, the ardent desire for happi- ness hiss been circumscribed within the limite of the Present time. These doctrines being everywhere ‘widely spread, and this extreme license of thought aud action being introduced into all places, it is not surprising that men of the lowest condition, tired of the wretchedness of their homes and little work shops, manifest their impatience to invade the «palaces and enjoy the fortunes of the rich; it is not surprising that there is no longer tranquillity in pub- lic or private life, and that the human race hae almost arrived at the brink of an abyss. ONLY THE CHURCH CAN SITPLE SOCIALISM, Meauwhile, the supreme pastors of the Church upon whom rests the responsibility of preserving the Lord’s flock from the snares ot the enmy, have undertaken to avert the danger and to provide for the anfety of the faith. In fact, from the time wh the secret socicties began to be formed, in the boxor Of which were al being incubated the germs of the errors which we have pointed ont, the Roman Pontiffe;-Clement X11. and Benedict XIV., did not fail to unveil the impious designs of the sects and to warn the faithful of the whole world of the terrible ringing up; and after hers”? and had begun to invent and divine law what is Pius VIL, of blessed independence, sanction against the natural a called “the new right,” Po} memory, made known by public documents the evil character and the falsehood of the doctrines, and at the same time he predicted with apostolic foresight the ruinous condition into which the people, miser ably deceived, would be plunged, Nevertheless, aa no efficacious measure was adopted to prevent the perverse doctrines of the sects from permeating more and more among the nations, and trom reaching into the public acts of governments, Pope Pius VIL and Leo XU condenmed and atuthematized secret so- © es, and anew warned the public of the peril by which it was threatened. Lastly, all are aware with what weighty words and with what firmness of spirit our glorious predeces- sor, Pius IX., of blessed memory, combated both in his allocutions and his encyclical letters which he ad- dressed to the bishops of the Whole world, the in- iqititous efforts of the sects, and eapecially the scourge of socialism which had already burst forth from their bosom, But it is a deplorable fact that those who are eburyed to watch over the public welfare, being de- evived by the wiles of the impious and frightened by their threats, have always given proofs of suspicion and even of injustice as regards the Choreh, not th- derstanding that all the eforts of the sects would be Werloxs if the doctrines of the Catholic Chareh aid he atithority of the Roman Pontiffs had been al- ways duly respected both by princes and by peoples, For it is “the Cimreh living God, the pillar and ground of the truth,” which teaches the doo- trines and the principles which have the virtne of compl seuring the existence and the tranquillity of socivty and of destroying completely all the deadly germs of sociolism, WECOGRITION OF LAW AND AUTHORITY NECKSRARY, In fact, althongh the soctalists abuse the Gospel Itself in order the more easily to deceive unsuspect- ing souls, and although they habitually torture its to futerpret them in their own sense, the repancy between their depraved doctrines and the pure doctrine of Jeatix Christ could not be Ganon. “For what fellowship hath righ ith unrighteousness? and what comm light with darkness?’ They do hot cease, in fact, to roclaim, as we have said, the equality of all men by nature, and they affirm, in reliance upon this principle, that no one owes hovoft oF respect to authorities or obedicnce to the liwa, tnless it be to Tews extabiivhed by themselv¥és, according t their own pleasure. The Gospel, on the cou! , tonclies Us thut the equality of man cousists in this, that all, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, endowed with the same nature, are called to the same superior dignity a8 children ot God, and that the same ond being allotted to all, all will be jndged by the same law and will receive the rewards or punisli- ments they may have deserved. ut the inequality of rights and power comes from the great author of nature himaelt, “from whom all paternity is derive.l, in the heavens as well as on earth.” As to princes and their subjects, their consciences are bound to- wether, sooonling to the Catholic doctrines and pre- cepis, by mutual rights and duties, in suck a manner that the passion of power is tempered, and obedience becomes easy, constant and noble. Thus the Church inculcates constantly upon her subjects the precept of the apostle, “Kor there is no power but of God, the powers that be are ordained of God, Whosoever therefore resisteth the power re- sixteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation,” And again it enjoins, “ye must neods be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake; render, there- fore, to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due,- custom to whom custom, {ear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.” In effect, He who has created and who governs all things has ordered in His providential wisdom that the lowly by the aid of the middle classes, the middle classes by the aid of the most elevated shall attain each thé end to which they have been assigned, So also, just as in the kingdom of heaven, He willed that the choirs of angels should be distinct and sub- ordinate the one to the other; in the same manner as in the Church He has instituted rees in the orders and the diversity of offic that all cannot be apostles, all doctors or all pastors; in like manver has He ordained that there should be in civil society several orders differing in dignities, in rights and in powers, so that the city should be like the Church, @ single body containing a large number of members more noble the one than the other, but all necessary one to another and careful for the common good, A WORD TO PRINCES. But in order that the rulers of nations may wield the power which is given them to edify and ‘uot te lestroy, the Church of Christ warns them much to the point that the severity of the Supreme Judge menitces also princes, and, borrowing the words of Divine wisdom, she cries to all, iu the name of God:—- “Lend ear, you who govern the multitudes and you who take pleasure in numerous nations, for power lina been given you by the Lord and strength by the Very Highest, who will question you as to your deods and will search your thonghts, For the judy: * ment will be severe for those who command, God, in truth, will except none, will have no ‘regard for the greatness of any one, for he has made the humble and the great, and he has the same care over all. For the great is reserved the greatest punishment.” If, however, it frequently happens that public power is wielded by princes rashly aud unreasonably the doctrine of the Catholic Church does not allow’ indi- vidual resistance for fear that public tranquillity ould be more and more troubled, and that society ould suffer an even greater injury. And when affairs have come to such a pass that there gleams no longer any hope of safety, she teaches that the rem- ody should be hastened by the merits of Christian patience and by earnest prayers to God; that if the actinents of legislators and princes sanction or command anything which is opposed to divine law or to the law of nature, the ‘lignity of the Christian name and duty, as well as apostolic teaching, enjoin to “obey God rather than man.” ‘That saving virtue of the Church which contrib- utes to the t organization and the conservation of civil society, of domestic society, which is the active principle of each city, of each State, confirms this and proves it necossary. You know, in truth, venerable brethren, that the true constitution of this society is based, according to the demands of natural law, first of all on the indissoluble union of man and of woman and that it is made perfect by the mutual duties between parents and children ‘and between masters and servants. You also know that the doc- trines of socialism destroy almost entirely this society, because in losing the stability ‘which is given to it by religious marriages, it sees inevita- bly relaxed to their extreme limits the power of the father over his children and the duties children owe to their parents. The Church, on the contrary, teaches us that “marriage honorable in all,” insti- tuted by God himself, at the commencement of the world, for the propagution and the conservation of the human race, and willed by Him to be indissolu- ble, has been rendered even more lasting and more sacred by Christ who conferred upon it the dignity of a sacrament and has made it the symbol ot His union with the Church. THERE MUST BE PASTORS, MASTERS AND SERVANTS. ‘This is why, according to the teachings of the apostles, as Christ is the head of the Church, so 1s the husband the head of the wife; and in like manner as the Church is subject unto Christ, who embraces it with an eternal love and with the most chaste affection, so must wives be subject unto their hus- bands, who should in return love them with a faith- ful and constant love. The Church tempers also the power of parents and of masters in such a manner that itcan control children and scrvants within the limits of their duties, while on the other hand it does not exceed its own, For according to the Catho- lic teachings the authority of parents and masters is derived from the celestial Father and Master. Con- sequently it derives from it not only its origin and its force, but necessarily borrows of it its essence and character, This is why the apostle ex+ horts children to obey their parents in the Lord, and to honor their father and inother, which is the first commandment with promise. And to the rents he #0; fathers, provoke not your chil: dren to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” And, further on, the game apostle addresses to servants and masters this divine commandinent:—To the former, “Be obedient to them that are masters according to the flesh—ae unto Christ—with good will doing service, as to the Lord;” to the latter, “‘Forbear threatening, knowing that your Master also is in heaven, neither is there respect of persons with him,” If'all these precepte were carefully observed according to the will of God by each one of those to whom they apply, ever family would seem like the image of the celesti home, and the precious benefits which would result would not be confined within the walls of the dom- icile, but would spread abundantly in the States themselves. THIEVES, ADULTERERS AND IDOLATORS EXCLUDED YROM HEAVEN. Catholic wisdom, relying upon the precepts of nat- ural and divine laws, hus iaken ample precaution to watch over public and domestic tranquillity, not only by ite doctrines but by its instruction as to the rights of property and the proper division of those goods which are possessed for the necessities and usefulness of life. While the socialists present the right of property as a human invention, which is re- pugnant to the natural idea of man’s equality, and while aspiring to the common possession of prop- erty, they think they need not patiently tolerate poverty and that théy may violate the possessions and the rights of the rich; the Church, on the con- trary, far more wisely and usefully, recognizes that mon naturally differ as to their physical and spiritual strength, an inequality as to the possession of property, and prescribes that the right of roperty and domain, which is derived from na- ure itself, be kept intact audinviolate. The Church knows, in fact, that theft and rapine are forbidden by God, the author and avenger of every right, in such a inanner that it is not permitted even to covet other People's property, and that thieves and ravish- ers are, like adulterers and idolators, excluded from the kingdom of heaven. Nevertheless, the Church, that tender mother of all, neglects not the care of the poor, and does not forget to look after their ne- ceanities, Far otherwise, she embraces them in her maternel tenderness, well knowing that they repre- sent the person of Christ Himself, who recognizes as done to Himuelf whatever be done to the most in- significant of the poor; the Church, indeed, holds the poor in great honor. Shi nforts thom by all wwible means, takes care that all over the world jomes and hospitals are erected to receive them, to teed them and appease their sufferings, and kevps them under her own protec joes more, she summons the rich by th comtnands to ribute their surplus among the poor, and she reatens them with the judyment of God if they do not come to the aid of the poor, In fine, the Ohurel valiantly lifts up and consoles the heart of the poor, either by showing them the example of Jestts Chris who “being rich has made himself poor tor all of us,” or by reminding them of His words when He declares the poor to be blessed and counnends them to look for their reward in oternal happiness, Who then does not seo that these are the best means to put a limit to the now ancient quarrel between the poor and the rich? Kor evidence itself shows if the means here set forward are rejected that one of the two alternatives must follow:—Kither the greater portion of the human race will fall back ito the ghotuinions condition of slavery which existed for long time among the pagans of human society will be ayitated by continuous troubles and desolated by theits and brigandage, as we have only recently had the misfortune to see. INSTRUCTIONS TO PRELATES, This being so, venerable brethren, we on whom reate at present the governmont of the entire Church, after having shown since the commencement of our Pontifieate to the peoples and the princes, now tosecd by the violence of the tempest, the harbor where they can find a sife refuge, moved as we are by tie extreme peril which menaces society, we are in duty bound to proclaim again and again to all the Apos. tolic word. For their own good and the welfare of our common cause we pray them, we beseech them, to accopt with docility the magistracy of the Church, which has deserved #0 well of the varions States in point of public prosperity, and fully to understand that the imtetests of the State and religion are go in- terwoven that whatever be taken froin the latter diminishes in an eqnal degree the submission of sub- jects and the majesty ot power, And since they know that in order to &vert this pest of socialism the Chuteh of Chtist posrexses a force which neither huinan laws nor tnegtisterial measures nor the arma of soldiers have ever had, they should render to the Church opportunity and the necessary freedom, so that she may exercive her salutary force for the welfare of all haman society, As for you, venerable brethren, who know #o well the origin aud the character of the evils which now afflict us, apply yourselves with all the powet and all the eff of your spirit to spread among your pro- le, and cause to penetrate into their souls the Catho- ie doctrine, Act in sich tanner that all Chris: ‘ven from their most tender years, may ac- thetinelves to love God with a filial love and to revere His power, to bow before the majesty of princes and of the law, to restrain their paast and to guard carefully the order which God tablished in civil and domestic society. It behvoves nit alxo tO see to it that under no pretext what ever the sons of the Catholic Chutch ever | affiliate with @ single one of these abominable societios, nor even favor them. More than this, by thetr honorable actions and the honesty of their conduct they demonstrate how happy human society would be if every one of its mentbers shone by the rectitude of his actions and by his vittues, Lastly since the partivans of socialisin aro chiefly found among the tradespeople, or father ainong those who Work tor their living, aid Wie, impatient at their work, are easily seduced by hopes of riches aud mises of it fortunes, it would seem appropri- = to favor those societies of artisans and working- men founded on religious instruction, and to recom- mend all of these men to content themselves with their situation in life, to endure labor and to per- snade them to lead s calm and tranquil life, CURIST’S COMMAND. May He to whom we are responsible for the princi that guide our deeds and the results of our labor favor our and your enterprises. This very day, when we are celebrating the nativity of our Lord, inspires ns to hope for immediate and tangible help. In tact this new salvation which the new- born Christ brings to the world, already growing old and falling into utter misery, commands us to hope ever, for the ce which He has aimed to the world throngh his angels He has also promised to give ns, “The hand of the Lord has not been shortened so that He cannot save us, nor has his ear become heavy so that He cannot hear nus.” Du these holy days we wish you, venerable brebtren, and to al! the faithful of the Churen, all possible hear ness and joy, and we pray tervently that He who givens ull good things may once more “show to man he goodness and humanity of God, our Saviour.” He, indeed, who after having saved us from the power of our most terrible enemy, has raised us to the noble dignity of sons. And in order that we may enter more quickly and fully upon the enjoyment of these wishes, join your ferven: brethren, and penises to ours, reverend invoke also the patronage of the blessed Virgin Mary, conceived without sin, and of sane her spouse, and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, in whose support we have such full confidence, ‘In the mean- time, us a token of divine gifts, we give you, with all our heart, in the name of the Lord, the apostolic benediction for yourselves, venerable brethren, for your clergy, and for all the faithful people. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, December 28, 1878, the first year of our Pontitivate. LEO XIIL, Pope. LEO THE GREAT. DE. LORD'S LECTURE ON PAPACY AS AN INSTI- TUTION, A bevy of youth and beauty assembled at Chicker- ing Hall, yesterday morning, undaunted by the weight of Dr, Lord’s subject—“The Papacy as an In- stitution”—Leo the Great serving as the text, The pontificate of Rome, said tho lecturer, began in the year 404. The Empire was seeing its wofst days ond demoralization floar- ished on every side. Leo was just the man for such a crisis, He was born in the latter part of the fourth century, of Roman parents, While but a lamp filler in the church he was sent to Africa with Augustine, and was absent on a mission of importance when the Papacy was left without » head. The position was offered him by the clergy and accepted at once. He selected the wisest men he could find to hold office, yet attended to every detail himself, He fought heresies and made ene- mies of the Manicheans, Thus far the intrepid prelate calls out our admiration for his power of ruling—thus far we as Protestants admire his course, but he instituted a claim that ripened into autocracy. Protestants are surprised, and justly,’ that this claim should be allowed, What are the proofs that St. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome? Where do we find that the successors ot St. Peter were entitled to juris- diction over the whole Church? The doctrines of St. Augustine are no more relished by the Roman Catho- lic Church to-day than are the teachings of Martin Luther that were founded on them. Central rule was one of the necessities of the time. We as Protestants may be indignant at subsequent encroachments; but, for the time, I am inclined to think that it was the best government. A govern- ment like ours in the hands ot political rings and a lawless’ democracy would not have suited those times, and we will go to the dogs alto- ether unless there is ao change. (Applause.) make these remarks to show that this great central power at Rome may have been for the it. It is for their Jesuitical interference and op- osition to Protestants that I quarrel with the latter- lay Popes. The early nicl oe were the defenders of justice; they had no small passions to gratify, and were the ablest men ot their time. The Papacy was not a great political power until the time of Hildebrand, It was spiritual before that. To-day the Papacy is not half as corrupt as in the time of Leo X., nor as it was inthe time of Martin Luther. Don’t suppose that I wish to whitewash er bolster up the autocracy of the Popes. {simply wish to do justice, EDUCATION OF THE INDIAN. At the regular weekly mecting of the American In- stitute Farmers’ Club, held at their room in the Cooper Union building yesterday afternoon, General 8. C. Armstrong, of Hampton, Va., spoke on the subject of agriculture among the Indians. He said that he had received much encouragement from the result of his efforts to educate the native in agricultural and mechanical labor during the lnst few months at the institute in Hamp- ton. This place, he said, was supported by the government, the President having referred to it approvingly in his last Message. It costs the government $160 per capita to educate thexe native youths, Tho State of Virginia has appropriated $10,000 for the support of the institute. ‘The speaker did not advocate thé sending in of large numbers of Indian pons. but only #0 many as can be readily handled, He did not believe in cramming the Indian brain «0 much with theological and other ethical studies as in implanting it with enbstantial informa- tion in regard to the practical works of civilization. The speaker said that the Indian pupil should be in- structed in the use of the hoe and other agricultural implements, as well as in the blacksmithing, car- pentering, shoemaking and other mechanical trades, COMPARED WITH NEGROFS, General Armstrong said that, while the negro was horn and brought up with a feeling that his destiny was to labor, the Indian was born and bred with a feeling of independence not to be restrained by the ordinary trammels of civilized life, But, so fat, the educational experiment had succeeded satisfactorily, some three hundred graduates of the Hampton Instic tute having been dispersed into different parts of ‘and North Carolina, where, by theit or practical training, they are prepared at time to earn ther own living. Some any of the Indian boys and girls are children of native chiefs of the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahoes and other hostile tribes, and, said the speaker, hg affiliate with the colored children to a degree that could hardly be expectol. The edneated Indian is fully equal to the negro in intelligence and would be an equally valuable addition to the voting population ot the Republic. General Armstrong referred to the fact that » builder of steam engines had offered an engine for the use of the institute as soon as a suitable building should be erected for its occupation. It was for the Purpose of raising funds to enable the institute to out this object that the present visit to the North was made by its principal DAVIS AND LAMAR. Wasutxaton, D. C., Jan. 26, 1879, To Tux Eprror or 118 HeraLp:— In your issue of yesterday you published the calm, able and statesmanlike letter of the Hon. Jefferson Davis on “The Right of Instruction,” and in doing this you doubtless gratified thousands of your readers, In your editorial criticism accompanying that document you flippantly speak of it as “stilted declamation,” and then gratuitously assume that it was “intended ss an attack on Senator Lamar’ be, caune of a vote given by that gentleman in the Senate nearly a year ago! You had no right to make auy sich assumption. First, because there was no reference in the letter to Colonel Lamar, and, second, because the attempt to array these distinguished gentlemen in antag” onism is grossly unjust to both, Jeffer. son Davis never makes covert sttacks upon any one. One of his most. striking character. istics has ever been his bold and manly directness of purpose. If he had desired to make an attack on Senatot Lamar your sagacity would not have been necessary to discover his design, His purpore would have beon evident to all the world, and your announcement of whit he “in tended” would have been quite superfluous, In the days of is power Jofferson Davis gave to Colon Lainar the highest evidence of his friendship and ¢ fidence, and up te this ur neither has been with- drawn; and now when to your editork: Mr, Davis ie in “melancholy ation,” it is hono: able to our distinguished Senator that he apeaks of the most honored of all Mississippians, living of dead, in terms of grateful affection and undiss nised adinitation. It may be your opinion that the etter of Mr. Davis is only “stilted declamation,” but the reading public will not concur with you ore than sensible men will agree with you Hectual quiver of Jeffer- to the object at which y may be aimed. In ii annor your dictum that the creature is greater than the creator, and that , a Senator knows more than his “misguided constit- tency,” will be whistled down the wind, Your at. tempt to antagonize and Red Mesers, Davis and Lamar will prove a signal failure, and Iam quite at no true friends of the latter gentleman will attempt to place him upon a lottier pedestal then that which the civilized world has assigned to Jetfur- fon Davia. As I know whereof I have written, do Task too much when [ request the publication of this letter in the Hrnaty ? I have the houor to be, sit, respect- fully, &e., Xe, WILLIAM H. McCARDLE, of Mississippi. A SUGGESTIVE IDEA. To tam Eprton of THe Hrnatp:— It looks as if the present agitation in regard tos surtace railway through Broadway, below Union square, would result in granting a charter for such s road, I hope such o franchise will not be given unless the purties who obtain it are willing to pay liberally for it. In Baltimore one of ail the roads Biheh i appeoprisked towned improving aud boc wi 8 a} Lowi roving wi viti+ fying helt Lt ae ER not suo a pina ‘work Well here for our Central Park? DF, JANUARY 29, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. an THE BAPTIST MINISTERS. THR ACTION OF THE CONFERENCE—MB. FULTON'S POSITION DEFINED BY HIMSELF, To Tur Eptror or THe HenaLp:— The article in the Hxratp, of January 28, entitled “Ministerial Discourtesy Rebuked,” is, from its stand- point, an embodiment of a just sentiment. But be- cause I believe you and the ministers of the Confer- ence utterly misapprehend this question I desire the use of your columns to state the case as I viow it. In replying to or in criticising an c#say we are entitled to but five minutes, Other brethren have refuted the positions taken by references to Serip- ture. I sought to call attention to a danger that had been overlooked by them and to a tendency which I thought explained the motive of the course pur- sued, As best I could in abrief way I referred to the fact that despotisma bolster up each other, ‘The ser- vant of one despotism is ever ready to help another. The South sought to build up a despotism whose corner stone should be slavery. The government, at the head of which was Pio Nono, gave the Southern Confederacy its recognition. In spirit and in purpose these governments were in accord, Both sought to build up a central aristocratic power at the expense of the interests and the liberties of the common people. Dr. Samson before the war and during the war was known to be a strong pro-slavery man, He sympathized with the South as against the North. He ministered to the Confederate sick and the prisoners from the South. He was consistent in his conduct. Be it known, then, that a Baptist minister has been sus- pended, unheard, from the Baptist Ministers’ Con- ference, not for recreancy to principle, nor for be- traying a denominational trnst, but for intimating that a member who gave his support to Southern slavery is predisposed therefore to give his support to the despotism of Rome, Dr. Samson admits that he did not speak in behalf of liberty and that ho is in sympathy with Roman Catholics, a8 he is in sympa- thy with the best.men everywhere. In this morn- ing’s Sun I find this language from him, in which he declares his loyalty in 1865:— As to my politics, Iam not and never was an abo- Utionist. Ihave warm friends in the South, and did have during the war, Certainly, I was shut out from some Massachusetts Baptist churches, but not the most prominent. Once I was near being arrested for # apy when crossing the army lines, but it was when, under Secretary Seward’s instructions and in hia confidence, Lwout a8 & missionary among the negro Baptists. It was a shrewd notion of the Sec- retary to increase their religious fervor, as they numbered in Georgia one out of six, in South Carolina the same, and, in North Carolina one in seven, When I explained my mission I was let go. In the beginning of the war, when the Baltimore affair took pluce, it was suspected that I was signal- ling to the Southerners in Alexundria from my col- lege windows with a kerosene lamp. It was abeurd, and Mr. Lincoln saw itso. My interfering with 300 citizens of Virginia who were to be sent South be- cause they would not sweat ‘allegiance to the new State of Wost Virginia, has been misunderstood. I showed the President that they conscientiously clung to the old State of Virginia, and offored for them their oath to go on parole. They, consequently, were allowed to keep their property aud stay at hone, As to my words, I exhorted the Fiftecuth Connecticut Volun- teers on the second Sunday in September, 1865, when. in their camp near Washington, to uphold one of the best governments under the sun. FOR WHAT AM I SUSPENDED? For telling the simple truth, which has been admit- ted by the one of whom I spoke and because I would not stultify myself and take back an utterance founded on fact and on common sense as well, at the request of men who were listeners to and not sharers in the condemnation. For Dr. Samson personally I share with my brethren in their love and in their desire to commend, He is a courteous Christian gentleman. While he was pro-slavery in sentiment, Southern in proclivity, he was the embodituent of the spirit of traternal kindness and good will to all. In the hospitals, in the camp, in the prisons, in the daily prayer meeting, in the college and in his church he was a brother beloved, For him as a man Thave only love. For his principles, as opposed, in my opinion, to the spirit of Christianity and brotherhoo!, I have, as all know, avery different feeling. This I would have been glad to have said in the hearing of my brethren. This being denied ine, I seek to say it in the hearing of the worll. It will surprise many that for such a simple utterance my breuren hed nothing but rebuke. It must be re- membered that this was not the in ning, but the continuance, of a conflict running through years. Oue of the stoutest of my opponents was, until he surrendered to and became the slave of «pen communion, one of my warmest personal friends, Since then he has been a persistent, not always a fair, opponent. It was he who reported in an incorrect manner 4 conversa- tion which occurred between a company of clergy- men in my study and was rebuked for it before the Conference. Yesterday was a field day for my oppo- nent. Backed up by allies kindred in spirit and sen- timent, he prevented my saying what I believed would have shown the Conference that, while I de- sired to be true to truth, I did not desire to be untrue toa man we all hold in high esteem. In being thus treated { am not alone. They cast out my Master as un- reasoningly and raised a clamor about Paul at Ephesus, ‘who was more fortunate than his admirer in bavings town clerk to appease the people, saying, “Seeing then these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashiy.”” ‘The ministers are justified in loving Dr. Samson, but hardly in claim- ing that he is infallible. They should have permit ted me to have made the point which I believe is ‘well taken—that it is legitimate to trace au influence, while character is left unassailed. On the questions of slavery und Romanian Dr. Samson and myself are antagoniats, On almost everything else weare in accord. The time will come when we shall learn to be tolerant toward those who differ from us without tecling no hr to indorse or utterly reject all the opinions which may be entertained. If, then, the Conterence had permitted me to state the difference between my entertaining the opinion “that becanse a member favored slavery he naturally favored despotism,” without wishing to insult or even to injure the feelings of a brother whom I re- spect, as Lrospect thousands more wio believe in human slavery, the Conterence would have yoted more wisely and I chould have been saved tho rebuke administered in the article referred to. Thanking the Henavp for its thirness, I remain, with sincere re- spect, JUSTIN D, FULTON, No. 255 Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, UNITARIAN CONFERENCE, The Unitarian Conference is at present in progress in the Church of the Saviour, corner of Pierrepont street and Monroe place, Brooklyn Heights, It was formally opened last night, at half-past seven o'clock, with appropriate services. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. Janies Freeman Clarke, D. D., who took his text from the second epistle of Pau! to the Corinthians—“Who also hath mado us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter | but of its spirit; for the letter killcth, but the spirit iveth lite.” He announced his snbject as “Phe rheology of the Letter and the Theology of the ”” Phere were some points, hé said, on which The Bible, it would be admitted by all, stood ‘at the head of, the religious literattire of the world. It ‘was tho — be mantal of dovotion for the — human race, There wero two ways of interpreting it—om according to the letter, the other according to ¢ spirit. he speaker said that the writers of the Bible nowhere claimed such an inspiration as was aserib to them by the advocates of literal interpretation, ‘The other system was that the spirit of the Bible was profitable for the soul, not that ite letter was in- spired. According to the preacher all the contradic tions of the Bible only tended to strengthen faith in the essential teuth of the narrative. ‘Ihe theology of the letter arrested the progress of thought cre ated unbelief by a Christian literaliam. The theology ot a held that the Bible was inspired but not infallible, To-day the CSnyention will meet at ten o'clock A, M., and Rev. A. D. Mayo, ot Springfield, Mass., will reed ane on “Iwvivals, Troe and False.” At halt-past one P. M. a te: jon wiil be held in the adjoining chapel, and at half-past three the tion will again assemble in the church to listen to an essay on “Christ's Help to the Relt; Present,” by Kev. Brooke Herford, of Chi the evening & missionary méeting will be held, SNEAK THIEVES. —_—— Sneak thieves, on Monday evening, by means of false keys, gained access to the residence of Theo- dore Haviland, No. 360 Lexington avenue, and while the family were at supper stole a sealskin sacque and other articles of wearing apparel, valued in all at $400. The robbers, while ransacking the burean drawers for more plunder, made considerable noise and the family caused an alarm to be given. An offi- cer of the American District Telegraph Company answered the summons, but when he arti the thieves had made good their escape, taking with them the property, The polive were notified of the robbery, bnt railed to cap’ the thieves, SUED FOR DIVORCE. A suit for limited divorce, on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, has beon bronght in the Brooklyn City Court, by Mra, Helen F. Swan, of No, 068 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn, against her husband, John Swan, J ship broker and owner, of South street, this ity. Plaintiff and defendant wore married September 15, 1873, and have two children, Thomus H, Williams, plaintiff's counsel, oy e ein gad betoge Jeegs M oR A counsel tee tf wee! or ny the trial, ‘The court aiewea the plaintitt 10 pee Hihaeyene the Cha Will be tried 8 the neat term of the Court, before Judge Heynolds, THE STATE CAPITAL. Petition for the Confirmation of Merritt as Collector of Customs. INSURANCE I NTERESTS. Grave Robbers To Be Severely Dealt With in Future. ELEVATED RAILROAD FARES. Remarkable History of the Notorious Guardian Savings Bank. CRIME IN GOTHAM. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Aupany, Jan. 28, 1879, The circulation of a petition asking for the con- firmation of Collector Merritt and the other nomi- nees has excited a good deal of attention here. The petition is eddressed to the Ugited States Sen- ate, and reads:—“The undersigned, members of the Legislature of the State of New York respectfully ask, in the interest of harmony in the republican party, that the nominations now pending before your honorable body for Collector, Surveyor and Naval Officer of the Port of New York be con- firmed.” The paper was brought up here, it is un- derstood, by ex-Assemblyman Foster, and General Palmer and Assemblyman A. B. Hepburn took charge of the affair, and to-night it is stated that some forty- ix republican members of the lower Honse and five or six Senators have already affixed their signatures. The fact that @ large number of legislators havo thus tuken issue with Senator Conkling has given rise to considerable comment. Sanguine politicians here prophesy that the friends of Merritt and ‘bis col- leagues will be able to secure a majority of republi- can signatures in both houses before to-morrow afternoon, and the effect, it is considered, will prove very beneficial to the chances of confirmation for the prosent Custom House incumbents. THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT CONTEST, The Assembly was only three-quarters of an hour in session this morning and the Senate a httle over an hour. The wire pulling in committees will now commence, sessions of the principal bodies being held in the State. Capitol this afternoon, It looks at present as if the main fight of the Legislature must hinge upon insurance legis+ lation. The prospects for passage of Mr. Skinner's bill providing for the abolition of John F. Smytn and his Insurance Department do not to-day appear very encouraging; but the ball of reform may keep on rolling with such rapidity as to carry corpora- tions and other corrupt influences with it in the reat republican struggle between Sloan, Skinner, ‘ish and Company on one side, and Alvord Husted, Strahan and Company on __ the other, Of course, the democrats’ in the House headed by Mr. Erastus Brooks, and in the Senate headed by Mr. John Jacobs, can best oceupy their time by looking on calmly at the interesting situa- tion and occasionally throwing in a firebrand to heip along the battle. One important fact seems clear just now. The Sloan men apparently have right, justice, retrenchment and opposition to ma- chine dictation on their side, while the experienced phalanx led by Husted, Strahan, Alvord, Knowles and some tweuty others fight behind corporation bulwarks and all the peculiar batteries which can be brought forward unker such aconnection. Before many days are over this fight may develop itself into serious proportions, An cvi- dent spirit already manifests itself among a laryo number of independent members of Assembly to stand by their leader, Sloan, in this cffort to purify legislation. STEALING DEAD BODIES, Mr. Fish’s bill providing certain severe pennities for the stealing of dead bodies has been ordered to a third reading in the Assembly. The desecration of Stewart’s graye has evidently awakened tho Logis- lature to the importance of this subject. ‘TRANSFERS FROM RAPID TRANSIT ROADS. Mr. Gelvin’s bill, introduced to-day in the Assem- bly, aims to give the elevated railroail compenies power to make arrangements with horse car cor- porations, so that transfer tickets can be isened to passengers desiring to go across town or ride from one block to another after descending from the steam cars, . INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES, A body of gentlemen with the above peculiar title came to tho Legislature and asked to be incorporated. ‘They state the objects of their incorporation to be for the dissemination of “temperance, fortitude and | seats to secure for its members sympathy and _re- ief in time of sickness and distress, and the priy. ilege of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors,” BUSINESS BEFORE THE COMMITTEES, Mr. Seebacher will go before the Assembly Com- mittee on Cities to-morrow in advocacy of his bill to compel the Police Commissioners to’ pay their em- ployés the same sslary received before the recent twenty per cent reduction, The Ways and Means Committee had a hearing this afternoon on the bill relating to requiring State debts to be paid in gold or its equivalent. Messrs, Williams and Townsend, of this city, were heard in favor of the bill, Mr. Sherman's resolution relative to the re- duction of salaries of State officials was also considered, and the opinion was expressed that the salaries of State officers should not be touched, The Judiciary Committee heard law students of Co- lumbia College against the law of the last session impoeing restrictions upon practitioners of law un- tilthey have passed an examination of the Supreme Court and served s year as clerk in a law office. A hearing was also had on the bill fixing the salaries for county clerka and on Mr. Baker's bill relative to the publication of session laws in two papers in euch county. KNICKEROCRER LIVE INSURANCE COMPANY. ‘The Spoaker presented a communication from the Kuickerbecker Lite Insurance Company in response to aresolution of the House. The report is sigued by the president of the company, John A. Nichols, who, after referring the Assembly to the figures for which the resolution calls, which appeared at the end of the communication, proceeds as follows:—*I deem it proper to add ‘that the facts which aj in the statement are substantially contained in the files of the Insurance Department. In complying with the resotution it is due to. myself to reply to the charges which were made on the floor of the House in connection therewith, that this company’ wis “in contempt for non-com- y similar resolution passed Pisa with @ y the Assembly two years ago. As president of the a@ report to be prepared in answer the same was transmitted by es G. Graham, the chairman of mittee of the House, to whom it waa delivered by the counsel of the company on the QWth day of March, 1877, accompanied by a letter, a copy of which is hereto appended. An. earlier fe- sponse to the resolution referted to would have been made but for the reasons stated in that letter. After its delivery, 1 attended before the Insurance Com- inittes, and was subjected to a rigid and exhaustive examination relative to the matters contained in said report, and to the general management and affairs of the company, ax will more fully appear by reference to Asxembiy document No. 93, of that year. Ithen un- erstood the committee to be entirely s my explanations. Mr, Nichols adds th: pany paid no cotinsel feos to any cc tion With loons, hor have the Officers any intotn tion on the subject, as such fees have been always paid by the mortgagee. METHOD OF ELECTING BROOKLYN CONSTABLES, Mr. Stegman’s bill amending the charter of Brook- lyn provides for electing constables by wards at the general election in 1879, COLLECTING DEBTS FOR WORKINGMEN, Mr. Seebicher’s workingmen’s bill provides that whenever @ workinginan obtains a judg- ment tor services not exceeding the ‘sum of $50, an execution shall be issued to the prover officer to collect the same, and, in de- fault of payment, the defendant shall be confined in the county jail until the debt is paid. In case a jury trial is the jury shall determine whether the defendant shall be subject to arrest and confinement. STATE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS, Mr. Galvin’s bill amending the act relative to rail- road commissioners provides that a majority of said commissioners shall be considered sufficient for the transaction of business. Any of the commissioners may be removed at any time by the power ap- company I cnt to that resolttion. pointing them, but they shall have notice and be given an opportunity of defence, It removed they shail not be appointed again, Tho term of office of a commissioner shall ex pire with the completion of the railroad and its con- nections, In addition to the duties of these com- missioners they ate required to devise @ plan by which transfer tickets issued LR | rail jf organized under the act may used an such tickets shall be taken in payment of fares by any horse railway, and to fix an equitable rate of compensation to be paid by said railway company to said horse railway company for each transfer ticket so issued and used; but the conimissioners shall not alter, extend, change or create any rotite for any Fail- road in the city of New York. ELEVATED RAILROAD PARE AND PERRIAGES, The Senite held w bi }, Wnevonttitl session, Three bills of ininor a1 and a number of new tho itor was Owe. trot 7 ay acl Rs a the erection of any elevated bated Pigom strect or avenue east of the were or Third avenue, It went to the Railrow Committee. ‘he elevated roads now in existence are the aubject of a bill introduced by Senator Koclesine. It extends the periods during which five cents onlyis charged, making the time from five to nine o' ‘clock, in the morning and from four to eight o'clock evening. The. ‘also provides that one car to carry paacenanes ‘at five cents shall be attached to all other rains; and, further, that cars or engines not be stored, re or cleaned over any street or ave- nue, By a bill of Senator Oakley the ferriage for foot paeenee ‘6 on the Thirty-fourth street ferry to Long land City is reduced to two cents. With the exception of some routine work this made up the day’s we of the Senate. THE GUARDIAN SAVINGS BANE, An interesting statement was sent in to-day to the Senate Committee on Banks and also to the Ne Superintendent by Mr. John‘, MeGowan, receiver of the defunct Guardian Savings Bank ot New York city, It will ie recollec: that this is the bank for which Jeremiah Quinlaw was ori; Ny appointed receiver, andl of which William M. Tweed ‘was president and Walter Roche vice president. ‘The bank failed in November, 1871, According to Mr. MeGowan’s return the following are the leading fucts in relation to this notorions institution: io lia bilities at the time of failure were $561,651 71 and the assets $545,492 33, The first dividend was declared in February, 1872, by the receiver, Quin- lan, Between the time of the failure and the declara- tion of the first dividend the liabilities were reduced ~ through the exertions of Walter Roche and his friends $81,105 92, Prior also to this divi- dend Roche conveyed to the three trustecs, of which Quinlan was one, real estate, alm@st unencumbered, and valued at $350,000, to pay the depositors, Quinlan collected out of the assets of the bank $326,191 20, Fifty percent was eee of this amount to the depositors, the small a sitora having $100 and less to their credit, The trust sold the greater portion of Roche’s real estate, to the amount of about $300,000, Out of this nearlr all the depositors were paid an additional forty-five per cent. Owing to Quinian’s misman' ment of his receivership, as alleged. assets of bank still remain, amounting to $287,349 30. Mr. McGowan estimates these assets to be now worth about $75,000. The report also shows that the amounts realized on the sale of Roche's property, together with the actual moveys collected as assets were ample to pay all creditors in full and leave 4 handsome surplus for the ex-Super- visor. The document further shows that when Quinlan resigned, pending the decision of a motion for his removal, Peter J. O’Donohue, brother of his (Quinlan’s) surety, Joseph I. O'Donohue, was appointed receiver, ; QUINLAN’S ACCOUNTS, An examination of Quinlan’s accounts before referee designated by the Court in accepting his Fosignution developed tho fact, that Quinlan owed $35,000 and upward wnaccounted for by him. On the -interference of Peter J. O'Donohue the referee found only about $13,000 due, Judge Brady revived all” the testimony and the referee's report, and found that Quinlon was short $98,403 03, ine stead of $13,000, as found by the referee. Quin- lan’s surety, Joseph J, O"Donohue, appealed trom the order of Judge Brady to the General Term of the Su- preme Court. The order was affirmed by the General ‘Term in December last, less $1,090, bemg a mistake in caloulation. An appeal from this decision is now pending before the Court of Appeals. Mr. Me- Gowan was appointed referee on the toe moval of Peter J. O'Donohue, in July, 19877, with the consent of nearly all the croditors, “All the proceed # against Quinian and his surety, Josep’ _ O'Donohne, have been conducted by Mr. McGowan as counsel tor the creditors, He has ‘collected since his appointment $12,078 90, ‘This sum in- eludes” a Jndgment against Mr. O’Donohue beyond his’ lability as surety tor Mr. Quin- Jan and aclaim against Mr. Rielly, his brothec- in-law, who was clerk for the first receiver, which was settled by order of the Court for $10,467 33. Mr, McGowan has paid out for various disbursementa and to creditors $7,122 43. All the depositors hava received ninety-five per cent, with half a dozen exe ceptions. This extraordinary narrative is now om file here in the Bank Department. BILLS S1GNED BY THE GOVERNOR, The Governor has sigued the following bills:—To enable the trustees of the village of Edgewater, Richmond county, to issue warrants for tho collection of certain taxes; to provide for the lection of a _ trustee-at-lorgo for the village of Edgewater, Richmond county; for the relief of John C. and Silvanus D. Gage; to provide for more completely equipping the National Guard of the State or New York; to uuthorize an extension of time for the collection of taxes. NEW YORK CATHOLIC PROTECTORY REPORT. The sixteenth annual report of the New York Catnolic Protectory was handed in to the Legislatura today. Thix report is signed by Mr. Henry L. Hoguet, president of the institution, who gives a full and creditable account of the workings during the year. During that period large additions have beon made to the buildings on the Protectory, the most important of which is a nursery for the care of littia boys under seven years, who have been placed under the care of the Sisters of Charity. Tne President ceils attention to the want of proper facilities for the teaching of & proper and thorough system of le ture au ax is taught in similar institutiong in European countries. The reverend rector of the bogs’ department reports that thirty various trailex are taught the boys under his cas, ‘Yhe Directress of the female department reports that the girls under her care are engaged in sewing in all its branches, knitting and the various house hold duties that are necessary to make good servants. ‘The sanitary condition of the establishment has been remarkably good, only five deaths having occurred in an average number of 2,234 inmates during the year, The total cost of the institution was $312,505, of which there was contributed from private sources, 392, Average cost per inmate was $132 78, e_carnt of the inmates amounted to $12,612, Mr. Hoguet concludes his report with an appeal io the Legislature and the charitably inclined for means wherewith to build the east wing of the female des partment, a want long felt and now about to be supe licd, i VICK. IN TENEMENT HOUSER, ‘The report of Mr. P. C. Dooley, the Snpervisor of Admissions and Dischurges, treats at length of the gbnormal growth of vice ‘aud crime among the youth of our city; in itself app#rent to any casual observer, but which to any person who has made the matter a subject of even purtial study, has attained proportions of such magnitude as to cause grave teara for the condition of that socicty of which the rising generations ure destined to be the component parts. This growth of crime he attributes to the evils of the tenement house system, and the effects of the trashy literature of the day. On this last subject he says:—*“But, to my mind, not even does the tene- ment house, with its necessarily attendant evils, exer one-tenth of the baueful influence on our youth that the current cheap literature of the day id continuslly and insidiously exercising. It has been denounced again and again, from pulpit and press, but the evil seems to grow apace instead of diminishing. RESULTS OF READING DIME NOVELS, The cheap novel and the cheaper serial are to be found where bread is wanting, and in the pocket of almost every boy and girl who is able to spell out its contents one is sure to find one of these pernicious sheets, ready to be pulled out and its coutents eagerly devoured at intervals of rest between workiig hours, or at any every moment of leisure. In these publications the very worst passions of the hu- man mind are portrayed as virtues, and false ideas of honor, virtue and morality inculeated; dissolute and criminal characters are depicted as worthy exam- ples of manly heroism and womanly honor and devo- tion, and the Jeason clearly and sometimes Carbs 4 conveyed that contentment with honest toil a1 poverty ia slavish degradation, and true morality a myth. Asa fact illustrative of this subject, 1 may ‘state that, of fitty juvenile dolinquents into whose habits and antecedents I have made special inquiry and investigation, I found forty-three who were habitual readers of this class of literature, and all of them read it when they conld get it, and—s fact more terrible in its significance, as showing the. ignorance or criminal carelessness of the parents— twelve of them had the Papers purchased for them, by their mothers, It is difficult to propose a feasi+ bie project for the suppression of this moral poison but it is the duty of every citizen who has the true interests of his country at heart to lend his best energies to the crushing out of an evil that 18 overshadowing the rising generations with a moral pail. Another evil, and one more shocking on account of the depth of the depravity of which it is the cause, is the exposure of girls of tender years, who are eng: in the seomingly in- nocent occupation of peddling or vending small wares, At all hours of the yo when, the children of the well-to-do vo bee ty hours asleep, under the careful protection of a father or a mother, these little ones. are to be found prowl ing round the frequented parts of the city, their prematurely aged faces startling one as much as the incongruity of ther presence in such a place at stel, mena Unfortanately malar 4 LA papas ty cases they ate martyrs to the avarice a — he the hitman brutes that stand to them im the rents. Tu the, tabje of wéatisticn submitted by him it t# shown that there were received during the year aud cared for 3,322 ,children. Of these over 1,200 were discharged, absconded, dicd or were indentured or, adopted in to families. ‘There latter number 366, om over thirty per cont of the entire number of exit In addition over a hundred large hers and © are number of larue gitls have been provided with situas tions by the Brothers and Sisters at trades and occu: pations taught them in the Protectory, NEW YORK COURT CASEA. In the Supreme Court, Special “Term, to-day, ther case of the ple against the Oriental Savings Bank | of New York came up, and an order aul the: receiver to settle certain claims was entered, Alsa, an order of discontinuance was entered in case of John G. White et al. vs. The Meroan' Mutual Insurance Company. In the matter of tition in the auit of The People vs. The ‘Tout wings Bank to compel the receiver, James D, Fisk, to pay to Charles H. Mera money alleged to be a him, Jndge Westbrook to-day appointed Theodore Ky Tomlinson, Jr., referee, to hear and report the NOT SO BAD, Oapenanuna, N. Y¥., Jan, 25, 1879, To THe Eprton or THe HenaL:— 1 noticed in your issue of the 23d inst. the statey mont of & rumor to the effect that my deposits in the Judsons’ Bank, of this city, which has recently suspended payment, would probably amount ta 50,000, Sich @ rumor bas no ti foundation in fact, had less than $1,000 in the bank at the time of ite suspension. By publishing this communi ry your valuable papor you will correct ime