Year: 1872

Gossip OF the holI8lOOS


The Observer wants to know how many pau
pers and criminals there are in New York, and
quotes contemporary who states that there
sswere ninety thousand men and women ar
rested and sent to prison in one year-that Is,
ene-tenth of the entire population Of the city
were in prison" At the same time there
s'were two hundred and fifty thousand men
and women who received public or private
charity during the year-that is, moro than
one-fourth Of the population are either in
or on their way to the poorhouse. The o.
esvver regards such statements as only the
careless and exaggerated utterances of sensa-
tionalists, and proceeds to expose the fallacy
Of some Of the popular impressions in relation
TO this subject These impressions, it asserts,
chiefly arise from q confusion of terms. It is
p serious mistake to confound arrests and
commitments. OF the arrests not more than
sixty per cent become commitments. Accord
ing to this New York is not so bad q place
after all |; but this is no reason why the philan-
thropists and pious people generally should
cease in the noble efforts to keep the city as
free from vice and pauperism as possible.


The Golden Age tells all about ''What it
asks of the Republican party" which may be
enumerated briefly as follows:-1. A regime
Of honesty in all departments of the Federal
government; 2. That the party in power
shall express itself definitely concerning the
one torn doctrine; 8. That the new Congress
shall devise proper, wise, and final demarca-
tion between the military and civil power; 4
The establishing of sharp boundary line be-
tween national and State rights and last, but
not least, woman suffrage This is very
neat little programme. What pity it is the
Golden Age is not in position to carry it out.
! The Evangelist discourses upon the late cleo
tion, and exclaims: ."Let US give to our re-
elected President hearty, generous conf
dence, and trust that the four years to come
will be like the past, and much more abun-
dainty years Of peace and prosperity


The Independent descants upon Parson
Brownlows third term letter. and although it
thinks it altogether too soon to discuss the
question which refers to General Grant sue
Cessor until after the close Of his second term,
but says:-


Ifhis second term should be what we expect and
Judgment should ut the proper time point to him
as the best man for the place for any reasons aris
ing from his official conduct, from the peculiar
condition OF the country then the fact that he had
twice acceptably filled the Presidential Office would
be no objection to his reelection for third term


1t is pretty clear that the way the Presi-
dental cat will jump in 1876 is a question
already being mooted in pious as well as in
political circles.


The Christian Union is not dt all startling
this week, although the talismanic name of
Henry Ward Beecher still flies at its masthead


The Catholic Revieo (Brooklyn) reminds its
readers that at this period the annual collec-
tion for the seminaries of Brooklyn is taken up
In the churches of the diocese hint that no
doubt will be improved by all the benevolent
members of the churches.


The Je,oish Messenger is naturally indignant
because at the tail Of some advertisements in
the daily papers the insulting phrase is
attached, 'Jews need not apply


The FTeemon's journal treats of the canoni-
cation Of blessed Nicholas Won Flue, Devotion
to the Vicar Of Christ" ''The Folly of Falsifi-
cation and other matters, in its usual vigor-
GUS strain.


The Je,oish Times defends the Hebrew faith
with its accustomed ability.


The Tablet (Catholic) warns itself into quite
q pleasant mood while discussing some theo-
logical points with the HERALD which both
courts and accepts any challenge to argue i'm
portant topics in friendly spirit


Our country religious contemporaries pre-
sent no unusually interesting features this
week.