The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-23

uAuiiiuCi Va cuo popOLo, SpCooHy h0uoioscu toA
the HERALD. The translations appear in our
issue to-day. The American public can Judge
for itself as to the merits of the question as it ia
thus briefed between the Catholic Church and
the German theologians and Eastern and
European peoples. 1t looks to us as If there
were too much wordy logic, too much theolo-
gical word-splitting in the present illusions.
The words of the Sermon on the Mount shine
gloriously in their simplicity above the whole.
The nearer that the Roman Catholic, or the
Universal Church, either one of them, keeps
to the principle embodied in this grand dis
course, the more firmly will Christianity be
secured against the sectional dissenting efforts
of single-handed professors, no matter how
eminent they may be individually.
Tho Glorious Reception Of tho Honorable
Mike Norton.
The quiet, non-poltical citizens resident in
the Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth
wards were reused from their early beds on
Friday night by terrible sound, part of
revelry and more of battle; cannon were
blazing, torches were faring and confused
noise as of Partisan mob in the ancient days
of terror came from the streets. The quiet
citizens asked themselves, in fear and
trembling, what it could be-; whether it was
renewal of the riots of 1868, or whether the
adjourned democratic Legislature and the ad-
journed radical Congress had met in deadly
partisan conflict at our doors. Some thought
that the Russian Prince had come; others
that the High Commission had concluded
treaty of peace between Ireland and Canada
others that Mace and Coburn were departing
to the scene Of their coming combat, and
yet others supposed that the Gus
tom House gentry were receiving the
President. The quiet citizens, how
ever, were in error. It was none
of these. 1t was The reception of the Hon.
Mike Norton, the Thunderbolt, by his constitu-
ENJOY. The honorable Mike has a numerous
and q variegated constituency. He numbers
the highest and the lowest of the city classes
among them. There are wealthy and con-
servative merchants aud bosses, aud straight
laced Christians and liberal-minded sports
among them and, alas that i: should be so.
there are the gutter snipes of rascalty, the
bunglers in the science of fraud, the gentry
who substitute the jimmy and the crowbar for
the more elegant device Of forgery aud earn
an honest penny by filching pocketbooks,
instead of making their thousands by altering
checks, among them. There are also among
them gentlemen of the prize ring, those bun
glers of etiquette, who substitute the fists for
the weapons Of q higher toned duelo; and
with such medley of constituency de-
termined to do honor TO their chosen repre-
sentative, it is no matter of wonder that their
manner of operating reception" should have
startled the quiet, non-political citizens of the
wards through which they took their winding
way. Three barges full of them emptied
upon our streets in body at any time of day
or night, even when uninhnerced by the high
priced whiskey which tempted them on board,
would brighten, not only our quiet citizens,
but even our guardians of the peace. The
fact that vigilance committee was improvised
on the trip illustrates very forcibly some of
the features of the Eighth ward constituency.
1t seems that many of them combined bust
ness with pleasure on the trip, and event
through" some of their best political friends
during the excursion, even going SO far as to
threaten the bars, those time-honored places of
rendezvous of political New York, with 'sgut-
ting" II is sad to think that the example of our
late Legislature should have borne such early
fruit; but in justice to the honorable Mikes
constituency we must hold him and his asso-
ciates in the Senate and in the lower
House responsible for the doings of the
Eighth warders on the Sleepy Hollow The
latter were merely humble imitators of a great
original. The little jobs by which pocket
books surreptitiously changed locations and
eatables disappeared from stewards larters
and spectators stalls without correspondent
income, were mere miniatures of the big Jobs
of the session. The knockdowns of the ex-
the knockdown between Irving and Weed the
disorders and confusion of the excursion were
modelled directly after some of the scenes in
the Assembly, and the vigilance committee on
the Sleepy Hollow was cut after the pattern
Of the secret caucus Of republicans at Albany
Altogether, we cannot say but that the reflex
OF the State Legislature on the Sleepy Hollow
was an improvement upon the original, and
we wish that there had been no greater mis-
chief done by the gathering at Albany than
there was by the gathering on the Sleepy
Hollow.
HoosAo TUNNEL, Massachusetts. which has
heretofore been 80 fruitful In accidents, was
yesterday afternoon the scene of a most fright