The New York herald., 1873-10-09

| France, Italy and Austria are somewhere
about the time of the deluga Paradoxically
beside these stigmas of antiquity it will be
found that the only good words for Catholics
are for those who call themselves "Old." On
i much more struck with the roseate
| glow Of things for Professionalism in
this anti-Catholic field Rev. Mr. Lorriaux,
of Paris, reports the admirable success OF
| evangelization in France; but he must have
| looked at the matter through Popish mag
nifcat, or he would not have missed the dis
couraging signs detected by the eyes of Rev.
Mr. Fisch, of Paris also, who told about
the successful Vaccinations Of the Jesuits
and the Bourbons in getting up pill
grimages. Professor Pronier gave great
encouragement by depicting the "Catholic
but not Roman" character Of belief which
Father Hyacinthe was working for in Switzer-
land, and the good ''Old'' revolving Catholics
were put down as five thousand strong, with
fifty-nine congregations and forty priests
They evidently have left His Holiness
the Pope something in the way of a
following. DR.. Storrs, while depicting
the repulsive nature of Catholic law and doc
trines dwelt on the seductive and attractive
influences Of its mysterious ceremonies The
point out of it all to which we would call the
attention of the Conference is that no plan
was laid down for the conversion of Catholics
such result held out To encourage
weakening of the Catholic Church, to call it
superstitious and class it as an enemy beside
atheism, argued DR.. McGlynn, q Catholic
pastor, in q sermon published in the HERALD
last Monday, is not Christian. With Catholics
Church. The very effort of the Alliance
toward a union of sects, with all its incom-
pleteness, places Professionalism on the very
ground of unified church, which, in its log
ical form of complete unity, it combats. So
the great fight was fought yesterday. What
effect 1t will have on Protestants we cannot yet
say. If it makes them love their Catholic
neighbors and causes the latter to reciprocate
we shall be pleased, if disappointed But we
still cannot help thinking that those who look
on from the outside will be saddened, and
that if there is laugh on any side it will be
the metallic cachinnation of the infdel.
The Liberal Republican state Conven-
tion and It's Results.
The Liberal Republican State Convention at
Elmira was a more imposing affair than was
anticipated by either the republican or demo-
cratic politicians. The impression widely
&bo< 1a
''beggarly account of empty boxes" but it
turned out an assemblage of nearly two hun
dred intelligent delegates. The State ticket
however, is the mixed ticket that was
generally expected, and the resolutions, COM
ing as they do from body of anti Grant
republicans would have disappointed all
sides had they not been particularly pungent
upon the alleged manifold corruptions and
denominations of the national administration.
The liberal State ticket. made up from the
republican and democratic tickets, is as fol
lows:-
For Secretary OF State-Diedrick willers, demo-
| crat
For comprouer-Neson K. Hopkins. republican.
For Atto1ney Generdi-David Pratt, democrat.
For state 7reasurer-Thomas H. Raines, demo-
| crat and liberal.
ocrat.
For state Engneer-Sylvanus IL Sweet, demo.
crat.
For state Prison baspector-Moss <. Platt, repub-
! lican.
Mr. Ranes, as State Treasurer, was elected
as a regular republican, but having in the late
Presidential campaign supported the opposi-
ton ticket and cause of Greeley and Brown,
he was thrown out by the republicans at Utica,
and being thrown out by them, he was adopted
by the democrats, and being liberal repub-
lican, he was of course at Elmira the favorite
for State Treasurer He constitutes, in fact,
the liberal State ticket, the others, democrats
and republicans, being adopted as make
weights for Mr. Raines.
The Elmira platform, like the Elmira
ticket is made up of republican and demo-
cratic timber but as the deserters from q
church or party, being always in earnest are
always its most inveterate enemies, we find
these anti-Grant republicans more eloquent
in the expressions Of their wrath and hostility
against the national administration and the
party supporting it than the democrats, sworn
enemies of the dominant party from the
beginning The question recurs, What will be
the effect Of this liberal movement in our COM
ing State election? party which, on a COM
paratively short notice, can muster State
Convention of two hundred delegates, must
have considerable body of followers scat
tered through the State. They were not
visible in the results of our last November
elections, because for every republican gained
by the democratic party in the Greeley move
ment perhaps two or three democratic Bour-
bons were lost. But now we have these hbe-
rails in position in which their strength OF
weakness will be disclosed, and they may,
thus posted in the battle, bring about some
surprising results.