The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1858, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8129. MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. — Second Session of the Thirty- fifth Congress. Estimates for the Fiscal Year of 1859-60, Analysis of the Estimates—Apportionment Among the Various Departments of the Government—Expenditures of the War, Navy and Post Office De- partments—Of Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary and the Territories, &., be. &e., ‘The second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress meets in Washington at noon to-day, and will open with a praye from the Rev. D. Bail. The President’s Message wil) le delivered soon after, and published in this afterno u's edition of the HEnaLp. It was stated in an editorial article in yesterday's ‘Berap that the amount of appropriations which the Secretary of the Treasury will call upon Congress to make for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860, wi’ be $62,241,315 68; while the total expenditures of the government for the year are estimated at $73,217,947 46. ‘The difference between the appropriations to be asked for, ‘and the whole cost of the general government, is made up, first, of $8,497,724 50, which has to be paid under general appropriation bills or other acts of former years (includ- twg Custom House expences, anc the interest on the public debt, &c.); and, secondiy, of $12,478,907 28, which, it is ‘estimated, will remain unpaid on the 30th of June, 1859, ‘out of the sum appropriated last year, and will be carried ever to the service of the next year. Mr. Cobb, however, does not state what portion of this Jeter sum is to be applicd to the service of the next fiscal year. He only says that some portion of it will be. There ‘fare no means, therefore, of flading out from these estimates the exact sum which it is supposed will be needed for the general expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860. The only way to get at it is to as- sume that the whole of this estimated balance of twelve millions odd ig to be applied to the expenses of the next year. On that assumption it is possible to apportion the amount to the various brauches of the public service. Otherwise it is impossible, for in the recapitulation given fm the estimates the figures are only made to meet the lesser sum of fifty-two millions, instead of the greater sum of seventy-three millions. . ‘Thus we find that the portion of the new appropria- tions asked for that is to be applied by the expenses of the civil list for the year 1859-60, is $6,570,842 42; and under the head of “recapitulation” this sam would appear to be ‘the total cost of that department for the year, But then again we find that out of moneys already appropriated, Dut not spent, there will be on the 30th of June, 1859— which is the last day of the fiscal year—an item of $4,270,- 967 24, also applicable, or a portion of it at least, to the ‘expenses of the civil list for the next year; and the aggre- gate of these figures would show that instead of six mil- ions and a half, tle civil list—under which head are com- prised the Lerisiature, the Executive, the management of the public lands, the Territorial governments and the Ju- diciary—will actually cost $10,841,799 60. But then, again, there is this little discrepancy: that whereas the first item of $6,570,842 42 is exclusive of the cost of foreign intercourse, the second item of $4,270,967 24 is inclusive of it, and is also inclusive of that very Jooee phrase, “ mixcellaneous.”” If the estimate for the ‘cont of intercourse with foreign nations be added ($1,076,- 870), then the cost of the civil list for the year will ap- pear to be $11,918,669 66. If this Agure be above the mark, the fault lies not with us, but with those who pre pared the statement for Congress, which we think might ‘and ougbt to be made, in many respects, more clear and Intehigivie. In Mr, Cobb’s summary, published lower down in this article, he gives the estimated cost of the civil list as $11,620,635 11; but he mixes ap in it this same “miscella- neous, including expenses of collecting the revenue from sales of the public lands, and expenses of courts.” What part of the sum comes in under this denomination there is Bo means, out of the estimates in our hands, of ascertain- ing with any degree of preciseness. If we carry out this plan of adding to the new appro- priations asked for the sums remaining unexpended from the present year, and applicable to the same departments of the government for the next year, we may arrive at some- thing like an approximation to the real expenses of these various departments. Accuracy i@ altogether out of the question, for these estimates so vary and mix up the diffe- rent items under various heads that it is next to impossi- Die to make anything out of them. The following, bow- ever, will be found approximately correct: — ‘Thus we will have for the— Daserent on ine public debt... Miscelancout, including expenses of col- lecting the revenue from sales of public lands and from customs, fay..........+ ‘Total catimated expenditores of the go- vernment for the year ending June 30, 1860. . 10,794,367 38 ‘This aggregate corresponds with that of the Secretary of the Treasury. How the apportionment of it, under the several beads, tallies with his, may be seen from the fol lowing table, which he submits to Congress as the sum- maary of the estimatcs — vil hist, foreign intercourse, and miscel- ba neluding expense of collecting the revenue from sales of public lands and expenses of courts, vee $11,620,596 11 ‘To supply deficiencies in of the General Post Office Between the current and the next year there is a slight diminution of the estimates in favor of the next, 8, for ipetance— ‘The aggregate estimated expenditures for the service of fiscal year to June 30, 1859, were: 74,064,755 97 do, June 80, 1860, are, 2°78,217,947 48 Diminution,.,.....0++0+000006 + $846,808 51 This is particularly satisfactory , when we recollect. the increased expenditures to which both the Army and Navy departments have been subjected by the Utah and Para- guay expeditions, and by movements against hostile In- dians, while besides these sources of expense there has also to be paid an additional sum of $1,324,607 50 for in- terest on the public debt contracted under the acts of December 8, 1857, and June 14, 1858, The demands of the Post Office Department are also considerably larger than they have ever been before— owing, in part, to the opening up of overland routes to the Pac:fic—and this helps to swell the aggregate expen- ditures of the government. Vor the yoar ending June 80, 1859, there was appropriated for the service of tha’ department $14,035,520, Most of this is defrayed out of the receipts for postage; but there is annually appro. priated out of the Treasury two or three millions of dol- lars to meet the deficit—the expenses usually exceeding the receipts to that amount. For the present fiscal year $3,600,000 was appropriated for such deficit. The Post- master General now asks for $6,382,900, The increase is accounted for in this way—that as Congress, at its long sesicns, does not usually pass the appropriations till the close of the session, and"s that might possibly not take place till the end of the year, it is desirable to have funds to continue the service from the 30th of June, 1860, forward through the year. That is true; but is not more true of the Post Oflice Department than it is of every opher department of the government. Here is the Postmaster General’s own memorandum on the subject: Tn relation to the last item ($6,000,000, to enable the Post Office Department to continue its service in the year 1860 until Congress shall have farther provided) the Postmaster General remarke—On submitting the fore- going I deem it proper bere to state that, since the reduc- tion of postage and the consequent depression of the reve- nue below the point of paying expenses, it has been the practice of the department to estimate ‘only for such a sum in each fiscal year as would enable it to continue its operations until Congress should provide such further amount as would complete the service of the year. Thus, for example, Congress was asked for $3,530,000 to sapply deficiencies in the postal revenue for 1859, because the amount was deemed sufficient to meet the engagements of the cepartment until Congress should, at its approaching session, to terminate on the 4th of March oext, provide the additional means required for the remainder of the year 1869. But it will be seen in the foregoing estimate the sum of $6,000,000 is asked for in aid of the Post Office revenue in 1860, and, as that is an increase of $2,500,000 over the suin asked for to commence the fiscal year 1859, an explanation is deemed proper. The first or long se sion of the Thirty-sixth Congress may not di-pose of the usual appropriation bills until near the close of the fiscal year 18€0,and therefore it is indispensable to procure an appropriation at the next session nearly sufficient to carr; the department throvgh the year. This, it is believed, cannot be accomplished with a less sum than $6,000,000 in addition to the revenue from postages AARON V. BROWN, Postmaster General. Tt might be interesting to go through these estimates of the departments and select items of interest to the gene- ral public; but that is somewhat outside of the scope of the present article. We may say, however, that the ex- perses of the Senate of the United States are estimated thus — For compensation of sixty-four Senators. . Mileage of the same, Compensation of employ: Contingent expenses... . For the Senate... soeseaees 6 8686,021 70 For compensation of members of the House, inciuding delegates Mileage of same........ Compensation of employes. . Contingent expenses... For the House. teeees Total for both branches of Congress. This is inclusive of the cost of reporting the debates and furnishing members with copies of the Congressional Globe, but does not include the printing for Congress, which is estimated at the ridiculously modest sum of $184,617 60. ‘The Court of Claims is debited with $31,200, the Execa- tive Department with $39,450, the Department of State ‘with $87,126, and 0 on. The government of Oregon Ter- ritory is charged with $34,000 (for salaries of Governor, Judges, &c., and legislative expenses); that of New Mex- ico with $33,000; that of Utah with $13,600 (there being no estimate for legislative expenses); that of Washingtaa with $34,000; that of Nebraska with $31,500, and that of Kansas with $82,000. Of course, these are all exclusive of appropriations for public works. The Supreme Court of the United States is debited with $54,500, and the dis- trict and circuit Judges with $116,750. The judiciary of Washington. costs $15,760, and the Attorney General's department $74,000, of which $40,000 is for special ex. penses of California land claims. The Mistrict Attorneys of the United States cost, in salaries, $11,700, and the Mar ehals $10,400, ‘These estimates contain a great deal of information, and would be very interesting public documents if there was more care bestowed in systematizing and simplifying them. We have done this for the estimates to be pro- sented to Congress today. We hope that the same work will not be thrown upon our shoulders in future. MEETING OF CONGRESS. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Wasmxarton, Deo, 8, 1853. The Rush to the Political Metropolis—Arrivals of Con- greesmen—The Crowds of Lobyites, dic., de. Persons residing at a distance from the capital, who bave never witnessed similar scenes, can have no ade. quate idea of the effect of the assembling of Congress up- ‘on all classes in this city, The transformation attending it is complete, sudden, magical—from the quict of a Sun day morning to the noise, bustle and hurry of the gala day. First comes the renovations, including houses, fur- niture, lardere, liveries, dresses, costames, and faces. The latter are just made to assume their most winning and at tractive smiles upon the arrival of the honorable Senators and members of the House, Among the arrivals at the National Hotel (which, by 6,382,900 00 | the way, is entirely rejuvenated), is Vice President Breck Indian Departinent.... 1,500419 % inridge. He was warmly greeted by a very numerous Army proper, &c., including miscellaneous multitade of friende who “happened” in during the even- sees ese “ —— 28 | ing, apd it is more than probable that an imprompta sere. , ordnance, ke. a8 2.168 108 00 nade will extend the greeting far into the night. Naval establishment .. 13/600/370 80 | His arrival was quite unexpected, no notice hay ntti Re BL foning Sommer of reurving trienée, sad’ bis Gem 1. The appropropriations for the fiscal year ending Jono 36, 1860, made by former lacte of Congress, of a specific and indefinite character, an follows, vin Miusceilancous, including expenses of collect. ing revenue from customs... $6,624,410 14 Compensation to the General Port Office for mail servicer... 700,000 00 Arming and equipping the mili- ua 2 The exieting appropriations, of which are required Ror'ine yiment of the habil- fuen of the present. fiscal year, but which will not be @rawn from the treasury un- til after June 90, 1869, and the balance applied to the Bervice of the fiscal year ond. June 30, 1860, viz. — Civil list, foreign intercourse And miseeliancons . $4,270,067 24 Interior Department, (pensions nd Indian)... . 1,909,002 83 War Department. see S861 001 76 Navy Deportment. . 8,248,256 46 12,478,007 23 f If any person will take the paind of analysing the esti mates as we have done, he will (ind that our summary t ‘the correct one, Indeed, an analysis of the Secretary's fable itself will prove it. The only difference between his and ours js that in the one there is @ want of clearness and perapieacity as to the real cost of the various branches of the government, while in the other the exact and simple truth ie shown, and the total cost of the government is charged tothe different branches of it. Thus it might bo supposed from the Seoretary’s recapitulation that the ex penne of the army for the your 1850.60 would be but $16,056,986 28, and of the navy but $13,500,370 80, whereas the fact is that the expenditures of the War De partment will be actually, according to the estimates, 921,372,182 04, and of the Navy Department $16,748,426 26. It ie assurediy desirable, as well to Congress as to the country, that these things whould be made as explicit o& pereible; and it is in that view that wo have thus analyzed the estimates, innit open way of secoviating with them in public, make him universally popular with the young democracy. There are many bere to-night who are ready unhesitatingly to declare him their fret choiwe for the next candidate, hut, alas! bow fleeting are all things earthly, aod what more so than first preferences of partizan politicians! Imagine a city containing some five large hotels and reveral thousand clerks in the different departments of the government, each one of the latter of whom are depen dent upon a tor or member for the place they hold, and you will bave a slight idea of the crowds which con: ‘at the hotels upon the arrival of the trains to pay pects to their friends. Here is a Georgia man, titarly—*Has Alex. Stephens comet ‘stoo bad. Twant to gee him.” And hore is an anxious Pennsylvanian who timidly inquires of above his breath. if Governor Bigler is the elerk herd in. He is evidently not yet initiated into the boiling cauldron of metropolitan politics, where so many email men boast of carrying so many large men in their breeches pocket; and tie voice in which the clerk orders the a card_up to No. 47 quite starties him out of bis propriety. The republican members are met by their particuiar personal friends; but as they have no finger in the public pie at present, their greetings are not so warm as are received by those who are supposed to be ai] powerful with the administration. The ever ubiquitoas ‘Beau Hickman,” with his carefully trimmed mustache, and the inevitable eyeglags dangling at his button, is con. gratulating all the new comers at Brown's and the Na Lional, not forgetting to tell them that ‘we don't take any but red checks now."’ But the ‘Third House’ i# also re ceiving accessions quite as numerous as those of the two upper houses, and the more prominent members seem to think themselves of far greater uence than a mere member of Congtees from @ roral district. Don't = give better dinners, and smoke better segars, and drini choicer liquors? And is not the stomach deemed tho moet accessible point in all men? Where is Matteson ? The orgenization of both howtes is complete, with the exception of the choice of a doorkeeper in the Senate, and, therefore, the Message will probably be received vhortly after noon on Monday. [tis in print, and is said to be @ very sensible, statesmanlike and effective produc tion. ‘hief point will be the review of our foreign re- Jations and the recommendations it contains regarding Mexico and Central America, These will be of a very definite and positive character, it is anid, and will take ground for @ protectorate and the carrying out of the Mon. roe doctrine, of Which we have beard gs much and seen #0 little of practical enforcement. However, | need not anticipate, e& you will doubtless print the docamont in the evening edition of Monday's Hrrarp, There is much anxiety manifested here to learn the re. suit of the Virginia Convention, ‘The Wise and Hanter factione have both many frienda inthe capital who are ready to ‘‘stake their pile” upon their fayorite’s carrying the day THE BIBLE IN OUR SCHOOLS, The Charter Election in the Pulpit—Sermons Yos- terday Relative to the Bible in the Public Schools—Suggestions to Voters— The Election of School Officers. &e., &e., de. SERMON BY REV. DR. ARMITAGE. The Norfolk street Baptist Church was crowded last evening to listen to an address by the Rev. Dr. Armitage, on the all-absorbing topic of excitement among t the re- ligious public at the present time, namely, the attempt to exclude the Bible from the public schools. ‘The exercises were commenced by the choir singing the 1,088d hymn, two verses of which are subjoined:— Judges, who rule the world by laws, Will _ye despise the righteous cause, ‘When the oppressed before you stands? Dare ye condemn the righteous poor, ‘And Jet rich sinners go secure, While gold and greatness bribe your hands? Have ye forgot or never knew, That God will judge the judges too? High in the beavens Hlis justice reigns; Yet you invade the rights of Gol, And send your bold desires abroad, To bind the conscience in your chains. ‘A young divine then offered up an appropriate prayer, after which the congregation sang a national and patriotic song of praise, commencing “My native country.” The reverend gentleman said his text would be found in the 78th Psalm, from the dth’to the 8th verse, which reads as follows:— For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appoint- ed a law in Israel, which he commanded onr tathers that they should make them known to their ehiliren: that the generation to come might know them. even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children: that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep bis commandments; and might not be as their futhers, a stubborn and rebellious generation—a genera- tion that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was hot steadfast with God. He said: I propose taking these words us a sort of cen- tre, around which I will throw a few remarks this evening upon the subject of the use of the Bible in our public echools, And it is right, before we proceed to dis- cuss the question, that we should understand it—then may We hope to treat it with some degree of intelligence and acceptability. What is the question before us? It does not relate to the moral and religious educatioa of children as an abstract question. It does not relate to the moral and intellectual education of children by the church, nor by the parents of these children, nor by the Sunday school, nor in any other place, hor in any other way tban that laid down and practised in the Jaw relating to the intellectual and moral development of children in the public schools. And the question before us if not as to the admission of the Bible into the public schools. The Bibie is there; the Bible has been there years, with limited exceptions, in the schools of this city, ‘The question 1s, shall itstay there? Ought itto remain there? Shall it be driven out of the schools? Shall 50,- 000 children aseemble in the echools every morning in the year without a word of instruction from the sacred volume, which is a Divine authority from heaven address. ed to them? Gur question is not whether we shall put the Bible into the banés of every scholar iu those schools, It is pot whether the Bible shal be made a text book in those schoo!s, but whether the teacher opening the schools in the morning Shat! take in his hand the precious Word of God, and read a portion of it for the editication and in- struction of those children. Thatis all. Nothing more; nothing less. And I suppose we are to decide at our elec: tion on Tuesday next, perhaps not in the wisest way, perhaps not in the best way, but yet to decide this question once more, as to whether the School Commissioners of the city of New York shal! use one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars paid in taxes for tho education of the ehilsren, in driving the Bible out of the ward schools. I think we are prepared to settle that, My chiloren attend the common schools ; your children attend the common schools; you are graduates of thare echeols; you are indebted to those schools for many of the vrivileges and for many of the abilities which you possess, You will be called upon to decide whether your children shall walk in your footsteps aud inherit those privileges. We are not ready, then, to bauish the Bible from the common echoois, for these reagona—first, the Bible is the Corner stoue of Cur commouwealth, We do not, coutinued the speaker, speak of the Bible as a piece of magic oF a charm, nor as ifthe very presence of the book, or the mere reading of ite chapters, would in themselves, ab. wtraet! ‘conaidered, accomplixh all that we claim for the lable. thie Nothing of Une sort, The that we take ia * the commonwealth is upon the great moral principles of the Bible, upon the common law of the Bible, upon the majestic doctrines of tho Bible, upoa the holy morality of the Bible, upon the legal and civil Tights conceded by the Bible ; nerve, the divinity, the spirit, the powor, truth, the energy of the Bible, and not ite mere letter, We take the ground of SirWiltlam Jones, the great jurist, “that there i8 no poetry, no philosophy, bo history ho morality, ho intellectual education competent to com pete with the word of the living Ged for a moment,’ ani it is for this vitality for which we coutend in the public schools. In the history of the world there bad uever been a nation nor a people who bad so thoroughly, fully ana clearly embodied these four principles into the sub-strata of the foundation on which their liberties reat as the American people, viz—the popular franchise, a defimte constitution, @ fraternal confederacy, and an en- dand equitabe jodeiary. If was out of those principles that the common schools had grown. And would you bave, inquired the reverend gentlenman, the commen schools arise in their might, tarn traitors to Wanted the Bible excluded from the pubsie schools? Haptists, tbe Netvodiews, nor all the other denominations: nor did the moralist and the patriot want it removed. 1 not know, said he, any man who insists on panishing Bible from the commoa schools, as democrat, as publican, #8 politician. 1 do nut know any man who insists on banishing the Bible from the common schools, a8 lawyer, a8 mechanic, as tradesman, sailor, doctor or minister. The only man that attempta the banishment of the Bible from the common schools is the man, a8 Romanisi, as Catholic, as the man who pays alle- glance to the Pope of Rome—God's vicegerent, God's representative—-the man who claims that the haw command of bis conscience. The bishop binds the pricet to allegiance, and the bishop is boond in allegiance to the r and every stream from the fountain gy Popish ambition runs contrary to nature, liberty aad right, and, if permitted, would inundate the world with fury, wrath and wo, the Romanist want? The apeaker insisted that the ques. tion was not one of reli translation nor of 1 tation, and thought that Mr. Ketchum committed a blun- der the other night at the Cooper Institute in giving the revisors a thrust, for if be had looked at the subject care- fully he would bave seen that the question of transiation did not enter into the controversy at all. The Romanist, raid Dr Armitage, does not want our Bible in the schools, he doce not wart bis own Bible in the schovia, and he does not wi any other Bible in the schools, He does not want the echools at all. (This sentence was delivered with great force, and produced a thrill effect upon the an dienee.| The speaker continned in thie strain, and said that be would have vo objection to allow the Catholic children to read the Douay Bible in the schools, but ae serted that it was the desire of the Romaniste to have the Bibie entirely excluded from the commen schools. In conclusion, he exborted his hearers to exert their utmost Sweet to prevent the Catholics from accomplishing their object. After singing and prayer the Congregation were dis missed with the benediction. SERMON OF, THE REV, SC. KEELER. ROMANISM AGAINST OUR SCHOOLS AND BIBLE. ‘The Rev. 8. C. Kester preached a very instructive ser. mon on the above subject in the Ninth street M. K. ehureh, corner of avenue B, yesterday morning. The attendance ‘was very large, and the congregation paid marked atten tim to the discourse. The reverend genticman took his text from the 20h chapter of Deuteronomy, 20th verse — The secret things belong anto the Lord our God; but these things which are revealed be! unto us and to our children forever, that we migy do all the words of this law. He commenced by showing the value of the Bibie to all men, and how its influence Wns felt by all classes, There was no book to be compared to the Moly Bible, nor could we attempt to compare it. The preacher then referred wo the attempt made to exeinde it from the pablic schools, and blamed the Roman Catholic church for endeavoring to keep it from the ehih The Reman Catholics, in spite of all law to the contrary, had seoured—what no other sect however true and loyal to their to Vigion, bad the meanness or desire to secure—up- wards of six thousand dollars out of the School Fand Even a few years ago the Roman Catholic charch procured from the government of Protestant England Against the desire of the people, the large endowment of $120.000 annually to sustaifi a Roman Catholic college in Treland, He contended that Popery in its principles was to ali education or Improvement, and he trusted that the important interests ox these schools woald not be placed in their hands. After speaking of the Roman church in early timer, and tracing ite history ap, the Rev. gentleman remarked that Popery was exactly the same now as it was in its early days. The Inquisition had been supprested, was the same to thie day when the Pope ordered a jubilee after the slanghter on St. Bartholomew's Day, when fifty thousand Protestant were stain in the st of Paris The attempt of w Roman Cathoties to exclude the Bible from the public slows Would Oply serve to awaken public Opinion ang multiply the readers of the “Word of Lite Not withstanding the of Pope Aloxamier, that America wae 0) ty the Roman Catholics, they had not made v siderable prog on this ye axle of the Athopty we Methodist ebarch tad i America cleven ‘bw for the one that Popery had. He argued that it would be treason to our chidred, to our religion and to our country, Wy exclude the Bible or suffer it to be Vanished from the presence of our children. Tt was the chiid’s book be the man that would deprive them of such « children should have the ut and that they should read it, and he addressed it () Siem aw well as to us, The at tempt to exclude it trom our selools should be promptly and energetically met, ad God would crown with st at the exertions of man. TY. preacher altaded at length to the teachings of the Kormoh Churel, and concluded a very uent Bermon by impr sing on his hearers the necessity of their supporting al) mea that opposed the exclusion of the Bible from the public schools, At the conclusion of thy sermon, Mr. Keeler announced that there would be a meeting in the schoolhouse on Mon day (this evening) at o'clock, for the election of a Trustee. SERMON OF THE REV. C. C. NORTON. Rev, ©. C. Norton repeated last eveniog, m the Sixth street Baptist church, the sermon delivered by him on the previous Sabbath evening on “The Bible in Public Schools.’” After the usual preliminary exercises, the reverend gentleman stated that he had been induced to repeat the sermon by a numerously eigned request from the most honored citizens of the Eleventh ward. His text was in the 29th chapter of Deuteronomy, and 29th verse: — The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revenied belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. The revorend gentleman energetically endorsed the text, and announced bis propositions as follows. He should consider:— First. The Bible as an important book in our public schools. Second. The actual necessity and demand for the Bible in our public schoo's ‘Third, Our obligations as citizens, as men, and as Christians, to see that the Bible is kept and read in our public schools, He proceeded to show that the consideration of the aub ject was by no means “dragging politics mto ihe pulpit”? and declared that be ‘eprecated that as mach as any man. But he denied that this was a political question. He be. lieved that any infide! would acknowledge that the book was a good history, It was the greatest of biatories, from which all others had emanated, and as such had a right to a place in our public schools Tt was a book of postry— containing more rea! poetry than all the other books’ of poetry that were ever published, and as sich claimed a place in the public schools. Tt was a book of rhetoric uni versally quoted, and c ning the most perfect descrip. tions ever read.” It was a logical book of Sound arguinent and sound reasoning. It had to be logical to stand the attacks of infidels, wicked men, flends and devils for ages, and the tearing asunder by swarms of selfish dirty critics” it would endure forever, and as a logical book, onght to be read in the schools, It was urged that it was a sectarian book—if 60, ail who believed in it were sectarians, and it war an honor to belong to sneha eect. But it was pot sectarian, It was urged that there was no use in reading it in the schools without note or comment, because that it would not he understood by the children, but the stories of Moses, Joseph, Elijah, David and Daniel, were of great interest to children, and would be all whe while slowly impressing religious traths on their minds. It was urged thut if the Bible were read in all the schools tens of thousands of children would be kept away; but thie was a nominal objection, a8 there existed a hatred of tue public institutions of America. The Bible was demanded as a disefplinarian book, for it was found to be the case that thore children who did not read it were dunces and listless blockheads. while those who did were the best scholars, It should beeead in the schools, because many children bad no otber opportunity of hearing it. Tae Bible was the best rule of morals the world ever saw, and as such, should be read in the public schools. It would be the rain of America, as it was of France, to reject the Bible, while to accept it would ensure advancement asa vation, He urged them in the coming crisis to see ta it, that they elected such men to our public school offices as would guard these rights and privileges. The crisis was upon them, and it was time to act, and he bed no doubt that by proper action they could ‘secure the favor of God and the saying of our glorious country from ruin. SERMON BY THE REV. DR. CHEEVER. A large and appreciative audience assembled yesterday morping in the Eleventh Presbyterian church, corner of Fourth street aud avenue ©, to hear the Rey. Dr. Cheever deliver bis discourse upon “The Bible in our Public Schools.” The reverend speaker besed his remarks upon the following words:— auso forgot thy childrens =-Hlowea, ive Bor oY Godt wil A child, said be, left to himself bringeth his mother to shame, It is an inevitable consequence of euch neglect— fuch abandonment of the child’s heart, nature, habits—to run wild and wanton in the ways of ein. The exclusion of the Bible from tue common schools ig sought upon a pretended plea of liberality—that of compelling no one to endure a course of Christian instruction which may be contrary to bis faith or conscience. This tree of death at firet parades the fair-eeeming blossoms of a universal in- difference and liberality, which, in ‘act, is a positive ex. clusion and intolerance of the worst kind; for what can be worte than, on the plea of the iargest liberty, to have all positive religion forbidden and persecuted, aod under etence of regard to parental and sectarian prejadiee, to oy the children forced to take their lessons under a sya tem where every breath of heaven's truth is drawn otf by infidelity and polities? Dr. Cheever then cousidered the subject under the fol- Jowing heads. — 1, Our educational responsibility under supremacy of the Word of Goa, 2 The of the Word to childhood, and the necessity Of @ faith im it, inwrought as an early principle. 3. The duty of carrying out these principles effectively in pubsie 3 2 the right of the ment 1, Now, it is among the first responsibilities of a Chris. Van State $0 step in and prevent the continaance con sequence of the heglect aad abandonment of cafffren, to tale charge of these immortal beings in their orphanage, end to bring them under that divine tuition ‘which wilt turn away from themselves and from society the threat: ened curse. And We astert the right and supremacy of the Word of God everywhere, we assert its right of free. dom in al! places, for all ages, all classes, ali conditions, in ail human relations and parsuits ‘2. One of the first impressions that should surround a child ¢ mind—one of the first elements it should be made familiar with, the reality it should enter into the sense of — should be the atmosphere of faith in God and rexponst- bility te Bh The senee, the assurance, the feeling that there is « Divine revelation, should be round about him, as & Nervous tissue—round about lis intellectual and mo- wth, ae the bark of a living tree, that each year enters into the Wood, it should be as the medivm th which the nerves of hie moral boing lay hold upon conscience, and make their report there. 3, These principles are indisputable, and if they are good for one man’s housebold, or achool, they are equal y excellent and important as ruling elements in the best porsible school system. So far as the use of the Bible is concerned, as 4 fountain and a fature in the system, ought to be carried out; it too often happens that they are dropped out. Tho trus. tees and executors of the = ecem afraid of them. 4. If the claim of the Pible in schools is a just one, it ie scticable, it is the right of the people, abd it ought to ave a foll and fair trial. It is the right of the people, which if left to themselves, disentangled from polities in the eyriem of their own yey schools, they would cer- twinly make eure of; it cou! . And shen in good faith they give over this right to the government, he government are bound to do all that, in the judgment of the , and of the best and wisest among them, a ti requires, 6. it canpet be comtroverted that ia the city, more especially, the moral and religious iaduence ix Bere ee by of all permic.ous and infernal whirled round from yas", neive, and at im. pe = ow! ae aomenloe as thie bentre, axa oo devouring F roar Our youth 7 the seas meet, Lere the roo, ich ood egeel pees cier, secare an infinite wealth of shatte nue of wrecks for the Destroy, ac sly vs Mig) enlightening, rit frtane\ement of terap the irreligion, World! tude, and the exi i Bible ought to be tic of religions truth, motives air, SERMON BY REV. J. R. W. SLOANE. Ascormonon the subject of “the Bibie in owe Pablic Rchools * was delivered last evening by Rov. J. R. W. Sloane, in the Third Reformed Presbyterian church, Wa verley place. The reverend gentioman took bis text from Denteronomy, 11th chapter, 18th to the 224 vorse, in elusive, The topic, said he, on which I prop se to apeak is bot a branch of the grant sobject, whore importance it is impossible to magnify or over estitnate—the supreme and universal authority of the Word of God, as the only tule of faith and practice. He then remarked that t was unnecessary to state that he spoke in the intorest of ho political party, and wholly without reference ty any political action. At the samo time, he had no her. taney in saying that the professing Christian who fave his vote to any one who is not a known amd professed friend of the Rible commits a heinous ain and ie recreant to his higher obligations and profeesions Tho speaker here cred years the reformed P ded for the 01 the Brble be, Wot omy in tbe public revools, buy God designed that the | nt instead of being carried out, | DECEMBER 6, 1858. | i 1 | | | | | danger. | young countrymen. PRICE TWO CENTS. in the hails of legislation, the courts of justice and wher ever the mtcresis of humapity were conessn: d or trans. acted. ‘This fundamental principle of Christianity em Yeaed In thelr creed bas been maintained, if not success at last fitbfully, and by an entire separation frau | systems that either theoretically or practically deulo’ it, Webave hears mueb, be proceeded, of late in eur own country of obedience to a bigher law; but he, the peaker, remarkea that, in his estimation, these profes stone in the mouths of men who make them are no: < More nor fess than & migerabie ruse Ww serect elves from the binding obligations of oaths w know to b just and immoral. ‘This great principle 's sometimes miserably perverted by fanatics andl enthusiasts, who ignore all goveramont nan, civibor ecclesiastical, and who desire and atiempt thos Lo free themselves froin those wholereme restraints which it impores, How often in the world’s istory bas it been made the ples both of civil and ecclesiastical ty rante in the infliction of the most grievous and enormour wrongs upon those who are the objects of their bigotry aud bat? To opposition to all auch Jesuitieal, fanatical ane intolerant applications of this great principle upon the one band, as well as to all infidelity aud indiflerentisin on the other, peaker, maintain that the Se tures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of Got and the higher jaw of man in ail relations, personal, social civiland ccetesiastical. Entertaining such views,we mast no cessarily take a profound interest in any question counected with this fundanw ntal principle, which so yitally concerts our common humanity, the progress and ultimate triumph of our common Christianity and the highest weifare of our country—in the language of the great Roman orator, the common mother of us all. The speaker dwelt here with much force upon the importance which be attached to the restoration of the Bible in our common schools, and re gretted that it wus not towards the attainment of this ob ject tbat any one ig at pre community, Ip thirteen of the pablic schools the rea liane of the Seriptures, or a stnall portion of thera, in the morn. ing, by the teacher, has been forbidden: ‘and it is this which has called the attention of the public miad to the subject. The restoration of the Bible to these thirteen rehools in this sense is the only object proposed, wh ali appear to be indifferent to the more appalling fuet that the Bible is virtually banwghed from all the publ schools in the city and mort of thore throughout the ba ‘The causes to which this result was to be traced were that we commenced wrong a8 a nation with reference to this whole matter of Christianity and the Bible. We started opot our Hational voyage without the Word of God as au: chart and compays, and therefore it is that the national ship is now in the deep waters of national corruption, if notalready dashing upon the rocks of-national ruin. ‘The second cause to found in the fet that those to whom the revelation of God was committed have proved re creant to their trust; while the enemies of truth have been bold and deflant, they have been too often timid aud vaccilating. Why are we 80 anxious our children should be taught the Bible in our public schools? Because this is the very period in which they are wost susceptible of religious influences, avi tit it should be done in the schools, where their minds are most active, and which is the very time when they would be most Hable to ieovive religious instruction of this Kut The speaker scouted at the idea of there being any danger of entrusting the teachers of the public sehools with tu) important duty. The Bible, said he, iu conctusion, ia the very fountain of all true culture and’ lies at the very basis of all knowledge, anc, therefore, should not is the only power which can roll back this f ekedness aud shat the gates upon it fore: " the only security we have for our national existence an) poopetnity. In proof of this, the speaker referred to thy foct that all the mighty nations of the past har been Drought in seme way in couneeton with the Word of God, and*in proportion as they had received it they had boou prosperous apd succersful. DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, By request of the members of his congregation, the Rev. A. R. Van Nest repeated his discourse on the necessi- ty of admitting the Bible to our schools, at the Twenty- first street Duteh Reformed Church, yesterday afternoon. ‘The reverend geutieman selected his text from the 119 Psalm, 9th verse:— Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy word. This Peal, be said, was the largest chapter in the Bible, and it treated of the Bible in every verse but one. It may well be called a psalm of praise over the Bible—the precious Word of the ternal God, The question waa, how Was a young man to cleanse his way?—that is, how bali be avoid those dangers which surround him in the world? To do this he must receive @ religious education to relieve him from that depravity to which he is natural- ly prone. There was no book #0 good for instilling vir- ‘uous ideas into the young mind ag the Bible. The young man might well ray of it, “Thy book is a lamp unto my feet end a hight unto my path.’ Shall the Bible be a chained book o our youth, as it was inthe dark days of Lather? Is this the end to which we are being ven tebonre bereattor bo become chsens of this, Peak conte ‘therewith tia Holy Bible, book divine, Precious treasure—thou art mine, After reviewing the claims of the Bible ina Iiterary sense, and showing that the present travslation was a monument of clastic beauty, the reverend gentleman pro- ceeded to dincourre on the morality of the Holy Writings. There was no higher standard of morals th to man by God in this volume of inspi 4 only instructions given by God to his people, ‘and the only one that would ever be gi They ought, therefore, to be doubly careful how they trifled with it. ’ Already bad it been driven out of twelve sebools; but be trusted that such an occurrence would pever again take place. Tho opponents of the admission of the Bible to the public echools were a borly of people who of late years have emi- erated from foreign countries, and aiter they bave been generously received bere and made citizens, now demand that we should give up the pious institutions left us by our anecttors, jt is in the wards where the Roman- iste have power and political influence that the Bible has been expelled, Shoult @ religious pect Lorene | one-tenth of the rite Serving & foreign potentate bound toa foreign all , be Kewomtaphed dyed our country? Never, unless Americans are to their — to their God. The Romanists are afraid of the Bible. and there is no better proof than their efforts to exclude it from the schools, But we have nothing to fear from them, with their gorgeous altars and dazzling vestments, (be magnificent cathedrals and their sweet: eet of earthly music. A® long as Protestants had their Bible they would be roady for them, and they will go om exporing the cursed old woman who sits on the Seven Hills. Let not Americans be afraid. Rome knows her ‘There aco 207 schools, and of these only twelve have been as yet disturbed; but no harm will come if the Seriptares be not turned away from the hearts of our Cbdtat pi is an old Latin maxim Which ought to be observed, Let the electors, | then, meet the diMeuity at the poll—that place where the ht | lesely, not for party men, but for good men and r people have so much power—and Ly voting for none but good God fearing men twey will preserve the Bible to the rising geberabon, SERMON OF THE REV. MR. STRYKER. Rev. Dr. SteYKER, Of the Reformed Dutch chnrch, cor- ner of Broome and Greene streets, preached yoxterday af. ternoon , according to advertisement, on “The Bible in our Schools.” The preliminary prayers alluted to the subject | of the discourse, invoking Divine aid in gecuring the per manent reading of the Seriptures in all the schools. Of the paalms sung, two were very appropriate. The fourth part of the nineteenth pealm commences — Liove the volume of thy word; What tight and joy ite loaves afford. The first verse of the fourth part of the 119th pealm was sung, af follows — How shall the young secure their hearts, ‘To guard their lives from sin? word the choiceet cules imparts, Keep the conserence cienn. The reverend gentleman took his text from the 6th chapter of Deuteronomy, and 7th verse — « And thou ebalt teach them unto thy children.”* ‘The words “and (how ehalt teach,” he eaid, were trans. lated from a Hebrew word whose derivative signified “to puncture.’ Moses evidently intended that the precepts Teraelites, and baaded down, for the future, to pow terity. He impresset the great resyonsibility rest! on & nation (0 — properly educate ite chil . and contended that as the ephere narrowed the fr wblity Wecame greater, until the inarvidual pares ao reached. Or the 207 schools in this city, there were twelve now without the Hible reat jn thein, and leven that never bad it. What a spectacle for a Christian He would argno that the Bible should be read in every school, It waa indispensable asa work of litera. tare, and oS eaeee, apenas —tarenting the ouly record of the creation of world, It was of setence and poetry and the fine arts, and who should my such a book was tot necemsary to the education wf children? Tt was indi le ag & book of law, because upon it all legisia- foanded for ali time. This government was Principles of the Bible, on acconat of forefathers had been brought to these shores Tt was a so < bennaty— the only book showing man as he really is, revealing his duty t his feliow man, to bimeeif and to his God. It was the mariner’s chart, the traveller's book, without which man could do nothing. It was the book of life, pointing out to man the way here below and the means of immortal happiness. If man was fmmortal, eurely his eariy education should com prise the knowledge of Bible truths. ft was God's book; 8 book for Tittle children, and one in whieh they would take mech interest, [et children be interested with Bible stories, properly told, and they would never ask any other, They ld sor to keep this book from children, Some would say, ‘ But our schools should be open to all.” He believed infidels had as much to do with thie objection ae Romaniste, and that in this land of the Uible especially the Bible had aright everywhere, This effort to keep it out was butan entering wedge of the hie areby which had already gone ton far. But, how was the evil to be prevented hey bad choo! offlvers a to elect. Let them elect men of intelligence and morality € Let them vote f iable men. He spoke thus plamly because the necessities of ent stirring or agitating the. the casa demanded it. They were told not to be agite- tore, but were pot all reformers, even Martin Lather and Christ binself, alko agitators? Let them do their duty an- shrinkingly and they would do away with the necessty of agitation, They should see thst the Bible was replaced in these schools, and that it waa never taken from tuose where it was at present read. In couclusion, ne urged his bearers while attending to secure the Bible tor wer children, not to forget to profit by its truths themselves, SERMON BY REV. DR. DOWLING. Last evening asermon was delivered by Rev. Dr, Dow ling, in the Bedford street Baptist chureh, on * Popory and the Bible in Public Schools,” to a very large conve gation, The text chosen by the preaches was tbe Ttlr verse of the 6th chapter of the Book of Deut voaemy — And theee words which [command thee this day shall be in thine heart, and thou shall teach them diligentiy to thy children, Ho then proceeded to show thatthe “words? mentioned in the pareage meant the law which contained the words of the Divine Belog himself, and to impress that they were to be taught to the children of his people. He then wenton toshow that the Bible teaches that it is to be read by all, without making any distinction between priests and other individuals. Our Savior commanded bis disciples to ‘search the Seripturc ot St. Paul, in weiting to Timothy, eays:—" From a child thou hast known the holy Seriptures, which are able to make thee wike unto salvation.” He also quoted other texts to prove that we are taught by God himself to read aud = study his sacred werd, and then undertook to show that the chureh of Rome is opposed to te circutation and reading of the Scriptures, and that she aims at the de- struction of our public gchool system. In proof of the first point he spoke of the persecution of Wickliffe for Wapelating the Bible into the English language, and the subsequent persecution of Tindel, who gave the ‘Bible to the Dutch in their vulgar tongue. He next spoke on the history of the Reformation, quoting instances where ible was burned, at Arx in orp in Belgi~ um, and other places.” He also quoted instances of where iptures were burned recently, by Roman Catholies, plain, hear Cana, in Getober, 1842, and Chile, ceotly. He showed from iL of Trent, which ass caching of the Romish chureh pro- nof the Roman Catholic version es in the language understood by the peo- . He quoted bulls issued by Pope Pius the Seventh, im 1816, and Pope Gregory the Sixteenth, in 1844, agains the reading of the Scriptures, except on auch conaitions as made it impossible for the people to read them at all. He showed from Doctors Murray aud Ciarke, Professor Ackworth and others, who have travelled in Italy, that. it wimporsible for the people t preeure the Bible, and in South that it is so lite known in the “Papal headquarters’’ that there are millions of the populace whom heard of such @ book, He concluded his argument on this head by showing that Catholic bishops and priests, wherever they are, labor whenever they have an oppor. tunity to probit the reading of the and to exclude it from pluces of education. Roman Catholics desire tho. destruction of oor pubhe schoul system. After excluding the Bible from it they will not be satistied, they will then pronounce our schools Godless, and aim at destroying them altogether. ‘The ignorance of the people is the oaly strength of the church of Ro: Seuth America, s France, Portugal, and every Roman Catholw eoun evidence of this, and it has always been an obje Homanism to throw obstacles in. the way of e ‘The countries whi erty of the press doce nut ex- ‘et are Roman Catholic countries. It is an invasion of the rights of American citizens to probibit the reading of the Bible in our schools. The Bible is the political and reli- pious ark of liberty to our enlightened lund. The discourse was concluded by an appeal to the congregation to prevent the Roman Catholics in New York from driving the Biblo from the public schools where it is now read. A WARM AND EXCITED DISCUSSION. The Rev. Dr. MaéMenamy and other friends of a freo an’ unrestricted use of the Bible, met last evening at Webster Hall, Bowery, for the purpose of unfolding the preciousness of the truths contained iu that sacred volume, and answering any objections which might be urged against them by Roman Catholics, or any of those who objected to their universal and unlimited dissemina- tion. ‘The exercises were opened in the usual manner, after which ‘The Reverend gentleman stated the object of the meet- ing to be to show their veneration and attachment to the Bible, which they looked upon as God's Word, given as @ revelation by himself, to be used on all occasions and in all manners, and the attempt to exclude it from the public schools was unwarranted. It originated with the Roman Catholics, who would like to take it out of the hands o the people, and to raiso a spirit of opposition amongst parties, 0 that Protestant children might not bave an of reading it. It was a injure = eae school system, which allowed the free use of the Bible. Wo as believe, aa Paul and all tho Apostles believed, that all Seript ie is of God, and that there can be no sound education without the Bible. Romapiem may havea pen of education of its own, but must not interfere with ours. In allnding to the cage of the child Mortara, he said that such outrages could nob have been enacted’ in this country, and that these en- croachments of the Roman church should and mast be firmly and perristingly reristed. Rey. Mr. Jacont, a Christian convert, gave his opinion of the church of Rome, aud its reasons for resisting tie Bible. He did not come to declare war against the Roman Catho- ie, but againet the church of Rome, which st way sho ‘ained the conddence of the people, but her dogmas were, same, abd n necordanee with the Word of by ‘ne quel hole world as to u jortara ca ily in Bologna have a Koman Catholic servant who assumes @ she has no right; and the pag! wo whieh jew, who disbolioves everything Christian, fooks on this with the greatest horror; and how would’ any one look on it—was it not enough to raise the opposition of « man? Yet this bad been the course of the ( athole chu for centuries. It behooved every man, ly Ame- ricans, to stand up it, The liberty of this counuy was obtained th prayer, not by images or mass; and he would earnest ‘call upou Christians every deromnaton to resist outrages upoo Weir common rights and. privileges, Dr, MeM: pamy then invited all dissenters to these views. to come forward and give expression to their opinions, A GENTLEMAN bere rose and commenced speaking, and n being asked for his name and denomination, ro- sted to know if this were an inquisition, that he should be so questioned? He understood that the meeting was convened for the purpose of a free expression of opinion, His object was to oppose what the Doctor had said, Me scruples as to the whole extent of any belief. Bony Memasy—A liberal Rotman Catholic, then? wer.) SrkaKer—As you please. If American people wish to have the Bible in the public schools, they can and do have it, and be could not wee any reason for this excitement, The Scriptures can be read to our children, but were they to be read to Roman Catholic chiidren or those who did not require it? The great principle of this country waa freedom, and interference and bigotry was an imported thi youl set going here by foreigners. In the north or south of Ireland they knew nothing of |, Oaty of Digotry and animosity, and he hoped that a religion would never find its Way to America, as he believed it to be an unboly and wicked thing, and ‘the only thing which kept that country wh: war. He dissented from the opinion exprersed ata recent meeting to put the Bidle in the common schools, peaceably if they could, but forcibly if they must, as unworthy of the people of a free and in- be gr ‘country. or, Mac Mamasy said the meeting was not called to forca the Bibie down the throat of amy person, but that they had the right to put it in the pubile schools, and if the Roman Catholies olyeeted to it, they ehould keep their children to schools established under their own au- spices. Tie disagreed with the gentieman as to tho cause of the bigotry of the peopie in Ireland, attributing it lumeelf to Roman Catholicism, whieh would whip the child for reading the Bible, or even whip the women. This was the cause of ail Ireland's migery, and so it was Jn all countries, Ireland being better off or Italy or Spain” They could not tke away the noble heartedness of the Irish peopie, who were not such as they bad been deseribed by the last speaker. (Applause. ) Another person in the audience thea arose and ex- preeeed his belief that there was nh superstition of bigotry coppecty ith the Roman Cathoie church. Dr. MacMieaaxy understood by the that he was a mem. ber of that questionable sceity called Jesuits (laughter = a scciety opposed directly to Chrietianity The Sr¥akem disclaimed being @ Jesuit, although he would be but too proud to be such, as that society had numbered some of the most illustrious men amongst ite members. He contended that the Bible they wished to introduce into the common schools was perverted apd changed to enit their own views, and that its introduction be productive of great lagary t the unedu- and unthinking classes. lies under- ry the fhible more perfectly and thoroughly than most of the Protestants. The aume made against Koman Catholics by the Protestant gentioman were » and be appealed to bis hearers to judge between them, It was Protestantism which gave rise to Mormon- ism, Fpiritualism and free loveism, and all the other wsins concocted for the gratification Of men’s unballowed passions. Dr. MacMENAMY considered that these isms might bo more jurty laid to the door of the Rowah Catholics, He iMstanced the immoralit, firmatory of bis views, y wou He never saw a hh Sof age, when he had a and to that he adtribe iz; aod be totally rep of that volame being perverted, except by the Roman Catholies, er reiterated bis former opmiogs, and ins ced the changes hein, made in the wew translation of the Bible; which: was promptly respon ted to by another gentle ms contended that those changes were not of only wade to sit (he times, nged to alate hour, and A scene ecribable confusion and disa yt, wh never fun w give a rreatest tantil teat beep it tia, after wh ed to a future ovcasion, wity of borrowme ce bere this even- wily domed {ite way inte Ca- t proof te the ty that arder reonaiities tact 0 was adjourn Tible offered the dise