The Morning herald., 1875-10-01

AAo CoIClh-llSIlt pTOceSSlOnS, 100, nave lOS
the patriotic force which once characterized
them the lights burn dimly and shed nc
lustre; the transparencies are noticed with
dwelling imbecility, and such disturbance
Of the atmosphere as used to be created by
the hearty hip, hip, hurrahs p hasn't oc.
Cured since the days of Mcclellan. Thia
apathy, though lamentable, and diametri.
cally opposite to the "snip-snap-snorum'
goaheadedness of
| ..'.' THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
isn't to be wondered at when on every hand
the public plunderer is rifing the pockets OF
the citizens, and almost every man in Office
has for his purpose not the effective dis
charge of his duties, but the advancement
Of his own aggrandizement; and what mar
vel can there be at the depression which has
laid its chilling hand upon the marts of
trade, causing patriotic emotions to languish
for the need Of some untried system of re-
form which will encourage the belief that
our little particle of righteousness is still
alive. When, therefore, the people of Phil
adelphia turn out en- naasse, at the call of a
ratification meeting, their purpose isn't so
much to participate in the tets of the office
holders and expectants, but to witness the
waste of their money on fre-work exhibit
tions of anxious candidates and American
eagles. OF this class of spectators was the
Republican ratification meeting of last Sat-
urday night made up, and unles street
fight should occur at the rival demonstra-
tions between "the ins and the outs" which
have been advertised to take place next Sat
urday night, the same result may be ex-
pected.
You see, my dea HERALD, the party line
CT demarcation up here, is decidedly indis-
tinct-the clamor override contraction, intla-
tion controversy having been introduced
for the want of something better; and the
net work Of entanglements which have been
manufactured by the ignorant political
stump speakers, who know no more of IL
nances than they do of anything else that
requires the exercise Of common sense win
have the effect ofmaking the duties of a GER
tain class on election day, about i'.i" ,''
AS CLEAR As MUD. ''"' .''
The engineers of the political machine
have discovered this, and have, come to the |
very naturally that if some |
other trap isn't soon sprung, the Haunting |
of the bloody shirt on the one hand, and the
retort of dead issues on the other, there will
be decisive smash hupsomewhere. Accord
ingly the question of sectarianism in the
public schools has been introduced, and Ex-
priest Gerdemann was engaged last Tues
day on the subject, with instructions proba-
bly,, to offer such insult to the Roman Cath
olic element of the city, as would cause in
and possibly, superinduce riot.
The Academy, on the evening of the lecture
Vas but half filled, and despite the fact that
Mayor Stokley'S police force, or rather a
PORTION thereof, was disposed about the
building, and sccreted behind the scenes, not
he slightest difficulty could be detected. E
10y Morris, of Republican notoriety was Q
resent, but whether he was displeased that $
he lecturer in his bitter TRADE uponR oman '
SIN, was not interrupted that his next effort q
ould be favored with an appeal in behalf s
f free speech, was not learned. But enough +,
f politics, and Gerdemann too. The interest y
4 the former is dying; the interest in the y y
after is dead. ....
One of the sensations of the week is the a
evelopement Of the House Of Correction r
ruelties as perpetrated by Superintendent n
attell. How the shocking barbarity of c
his man towards the helpless Inmates of a
his reformatory(O institution crept into /,
ublic notice will tell you: Two months n
go, a man named Gibbons, one of the O.
yards employed at the Institution, indtcd =,
letter to Mr.. Taylor, chairman of "the
ommittee OF House" of the board of man Il
gers, in which he complained of the tyran. n
al conduct of Cattell, AMI his hardhearted II
eatment of the prisoners. This letter was n
reserved by Taylor until the following III
Getting Of the board, when it was read to st
e members. Mr.. Barlow, oIe of the II
'ard- was present, and vowed lie would "
# the matter to the bottom. and the mem ~,
RS generally, following the example set =
em by Fitzpatrick their president, made
ghly denunciatory speeches against Cat ;.
ell and determined to kick him out of the di
lice he disgraced, should the charges prove
ue. TO the satisfaction of every one in the j.,
ard, the guilt of Cattell was at length ~
owed, Gibbons having testified to the in H.
,tion, OF tmost heart rendering cruelties; and or
executive meeting of the board was Or nc
red and, about two weeks ago tsok place, M
ttell sat in an adjoining room liz
tn his ear to the keyhole, and heard the n