Zion's Herald calls attention to a paper recently prepared for and published in one of the New York weeklies, respecting the rapid and threatening advancement of the Roman Catholics, or rather of the Jesuitical body, in New York city, in the erection of sectarian schools with the public funds. It says: Readers will be astonished at the immense amounts which have been wrung from the public treasury during the years of the domination of the “Ring”—amounting to many millions—for the erection of imposing Catholic school and reformatory edifices. These buildings have been placed by the side of the common-school structures, and, by the vigilance of priests, have been crowded with pupils, while the adjoining public schools have been depleted—and all this at the public expense. The School Board has been changed by this covert priestly hand, and been made to operate in the interest of the Roman body. It is easy now, as the eye glances over these imposing edifices, one of them the Catholic Reformatory—drawing between one and two hundred thousand dollars a year from the city treasury—to see the dangerous character of the movement, perpetuating sectarian controversies and segregating one portion of the community from the other; but it is not so easy, now that the mischief is done, to remove the cause. One institution, fifty years of age—the House of refuge—which has been a perpetual blessing to the exposed children of the city of New York, has been nearly shorn of its moral and reformatory power by the persistent and malignant attacks upon it of the Jesuit body. The public school, defended from a sectarian bias, is the great nursery of a common and intelligent patriotism. The hand that touches it, seriously affects a vital interest of the Republic.