The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1859, Page 4

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EARNOM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Atter- @002 204 Breaing—Ovn tarsm Cousin. V3 MINSTREL BULLVING, 561 and 563 Brondway— Saar Rreolves vrmiorsad Sones, Daxcxs, £0— eTURN OF THE REGIMENT. AVANCS’ MINSTRELS, MSCH ANICS’ HALL, 427 Browt- ee Songs, &0—CHaw Roast Baer. CLINTON BALL, Astor Place.—Dr- Logp's Lucrure on Cron eu. AND OoNsTITETION AL ~wew Vork, Sunday, April 24,1859, The News. Contrary to general expectation, the Sickles @ta1 was not concluded yesterday. Ex-Senator ®rodbead, of Pennsylvania, was examined touching Lc conduct of Mr. Sickles while at the residence of (Le Attorney General just subsequent to the homi- Cif, Lut his testimony proved to be of little impor- €nce. The legal points on both sides were then @vbmitted, and Mr. Carlisle gave briefly the opinion @f the prosecution on the law applicable to the case. Mr. Stanton followed in an eloquent and fective address of three hours’ duration for the @efence, Full reports of the speeches of @ounsel are given in our columns this morn- -Qg, to which we refer our readers. Mr. Brady address the jury for the defence on Monday. Glo will be followed by the District Attorney, and efter the charge of the Judge the case will be sub- @vitled to the jury. According to our special “@espatch from Washington, it appears that public inion there is anything but unanimous as to the mult of the trial. Some expect a verdict of ac- P Gulttal after brief consultation among the jury, ‘ethers anticipate a prolonged deliberation, while ? ta few are of opinion thet the jury will dis- €gree. We publish in to-day’s e a full account of the reat fight for the English championship between Feyers and Benjamin, likewise the champion’s re- Yy to fhe challenge of Heenan. The latter affair 4; cresting great excitement in both England and @.c United States. The case of Mrs. Mary He @yurdering her husband by @cntence to be hanged at 4 @cxthas been passed, was brought before Judge Wright, of Albany, at Blancard’s Hotel, in this city, yesterday, on an application for a writ of error and @!ey of execution. The Judge will give his deci- 01 in a day or two. According to the report of the City Inspector Gheve were 405 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 4 as compared with the mortali- y of the week previous, and 6 more than occurred @xring the corresponding week of last year. Of @se whole number of deaths 200 were of ten years of age and under, and 62 es of the various @enal and other public institutions. The following @:Ve shows the number of deaths for the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguishing @xe Fexes:— rtung, convicted of Alen. Women. Boys, Girls. Totat. Weck ending Apri36... 75 88 127 116 401 Veck ending April 23... 119 83 «129 83406 Aviong the principal causes of death were the ENowing — Dscases. Apa ot ‘ 63 Gwuvulsions (iatentit ey ey heed, 18 ’ © Asaination of tac 3 fis mation of the lungs. 22 aunation of the bri 8 Wecacmve (wfantile) 20 é ‘Gearla fever... 19 ? There were alco’? deaths of apoplexy, 4 of dis- case of the kidneys, 8 of cancerous affections, 6 of congestion of the brain, 12 of croup, 8 of dysen- tery, 9 of puerperal fever, 7 of disease of the heart, @ of inflammation of the stomach, 5 of measles, 9 of 2 of teething, 4 of scrofula, 5 premature , 20 stillborn, and 18 from violent causes, in- Cuding 4 suicides, 1 murder » lrowned. The @nexed table shows what pertious of the human €; stem have been mos to Ont ag Rew, Bulivorn 35 59 36 1 7 Tota ‘ eevereeves 405 The number of apared with the cor- fesponding wee and 1858, was as fol- lows:— Week cnting Ap Week cudivg Ar Week enoig April The nativity United States, 87 of Ir England, & of Scotland, 5 of Spain, Switzerland, It and British America, anc known, ng the past week there were forty-five ad ms to the Now York Hospital, thirty-seven casce Gischarged as cured, and four deaths, Re- ing on April 16: males, 166; females, 37. al, 208 pany, + Te elon of cotton yesterday embraced 2,000 bales, ehout 70 or 800 of which wero made in transitu. The @k (coutioved to be somewhat unsettied, while mid- €ing vpients were quoted at about 1230, The flour @ bo! continue cull for common grades, whilo the £ Me) | #20 Cholco xtra brands coatinued without change of ws recot ln quotations, aud the sales were moderate, are «Loeb in wheat wore limited, including West err + 1 Mh $1 45; white ditto at g1 55, and white os at $1 7b & $1 80. Com was unchanged ut ‘ox Hmited, at 860. a 860. for Jersey and Bortern yellow; 830, 2 84. for Southern white, out & * 680, for Western mixed. Pork was in good Conan) with tolorably free eaice, including new more €1 O17 TEX 4 B17 25; thin moss at $16 25; prime do. at 4.5 754619, Choice at $17, and primo at $12 6254, with ‘8 fxs deliverable by the Mratand middle of Octo. Beef and lard were in good demand and firm, ing to to inel@mency of the weather the sales of gu. re moderate, being confined to about 400 bhds. at #°¢ prices, Ooffee was firm, with moderato salos © were Cull and engagements moderate, A New City of Londen—A New City of New York. ‘The other day we published a very remarkable article from the London Zimes, in which that paper says, in reference to the British metro- polls, “We wante new ity.” When the lead- ing exponent of British pub fo opinion says thin, it only expresses the sentiments of tae p ople of the great Anglo-Saxon city of the British islands. Tho same observation is true of the otber great Anglo-Saxon city of the world—the Ewpire City of the United States. We too want a new city, We want it now, and in a few years more we will want it tenfold. The occesion which has call d forth this ex- pression of opinion on the part of the London Times is the report of a Committee of th» Metro- politan Board of Works, in which it is proposed to spend one hundred millions of dollars in building ten new streets and widening twenty-two old streets; in drainage, and in embanking the Thames on both sides of the river, from London bridge to Westminster; and, finally, in formiag two entirely new parks for the recreation of the metropolitan community. These are magnificent mprovements, which might well stir us up to emulation; but even these, says the Times, “will ovly make London “jasta little more commodi- ous; and “in the smal! attempts of the citizens ut improvement, they are overtaken by the strong lige of prosperity and population, and cannot even bold their own.” How emphatically and eminently true is all uc of New York—how much more true than it w of London! The 7imes adduces the two facts of the increase of trade aud the increase of population to account for the difficulty of lodg- ing the living London of 1859 in the material London of 1800, It says:— The explanation of the whole embarrassment is to be 1 that table of exports and imports which shows digious progress of British trade, and in that cea- 's which tolls va that the population of the couatry has ince 1811. A honge big enough for a family of all for a family of twenty; and a city which accommodate & million becomes inconvenient to two millions aud a half. is more than twice as great and twice as rich as it was fifty years ugo. Let us measure the progress of the United States and the growth of its commercial metro- polis by the eame tests, and it will be found that we have quadrusled in population and wealth io half the time it has taken the most wealthy and most commercial nation of Earope to double its riches and inhabitants. The following table will exhibit the imports and exports of this country at three different periods:— ear, , Imports. Expyrts. 1832. + $75,527,668 $87 176,943 1847 + 116,257,595 168,648,622 1857.. 833,611,206 362,960,682 Thus, it will be seen that in twenty-five years the imports and exports have more than quad. rupled, and even in the ten years from 1847 to 1857 the imports have nearly trebled, while the than doubled. Our population in 1810 was 7,239,814; in 1850 it was 23,191,876. Now it is more than thirty millions (according to the per centage of former exports have greatly more increase 30,101 for this year, and for 1860 it will be 30,986,851, or nearly thirty-one mil- lions); so that it has quadrupled in less than fifty years. And how is itwith New York city? The following table is taken from the census reports of four different periods:— Population. Year. 96,373 1860. 515,304 371,223 18 629,810 If the increase thould be in the same ratio Population. asin the ten years from 1845 to 1855, in 1860 the population will be upwards of a million; so that in fifty years it has increased more than tenfold, and in the last ten years nearly doubled. The total value of real and per- sonal estate in this city in 1832 was $144,902,328; in 1857 it was $621,175,252; so that in a period of twenty-five years it has nearly quadrupled in value, while in a period of thirly years the in- crease in tonnage to this port was nearly ten- fold (in 1821 171,963, and in 1851 1,624,052) the increase in the American tonnage being more than sevenfold, and the increase in foreign tonnage being nearly thirtyfold. These facts and figures explain why it is the governments of Europe take such an interest in the United States. The growth of England, and of its chief city, in wealth and population, will this republic and its great metropolis in eifaer John Bull is like that of an ordinary man, ampied in the history of the world. busi room. ha rapidity which is amazing. to vill e to Spuyten Duyvel Creek, which is the bound- money can aogomplish for London. Eastern tan Orion or tHe Onnisttan Sone pay.—The origin of the Christian Sabbath or Sunday was the resurrection of Christ on the first day of the week, or the day after the Jewish Sabbath. There is no command in the New Tea- tament to observe Sunday at all; but the early Christians assembled on that day, the Catholic Church has followed the custom, and other Christians have adopted it from that church. But Catholics do not observe it as some of the fanatics observe it—they regard it as a day of recreation, and not asa day of misery and gloom, destroying the original idea of the day, which ‘was one of joy and happiness. These men are * # © The nation, asa whole, not bear any comparison with the progress of of the two elements of power. The growth of though of great rotundity and robust health; the growth of cousin Jonathan is like that of the giants of whom we read in fuble—unex- The London Times calls for a new city on ac- count of the increasing population and increasing iness. Have not we a fourfold right to call city on these grounds? The Zimes says it is a matter of necessity, and it must be done. With us the necessity is not so urgent in point of New York fs not yet eo crowded as Lon- don; but it would soon be so, did not the suburbs of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Staten Island, Jersey City snd other localities afford an outlet ina lateral direction; but even these are not sufficient, he population is extending up the island The London s speaks of Gencrel Ogelthorpe’s story of having flushed a woodcock in Regent street. ‘There are men now living who have shot both woodcock and snipe about a mile north of the southern end of the island where New York bo- gan. Jt is now well peopled for two-thirds of its length, or for eight or nine miles out of the thirteen, A years ago what is now low “down was not only “up town,” but out of town, absolutely in the country. Soon what is now high up town will become down town, and the esent country will be transformed as if by the clan's wand into the heart of the city. Thus northward the Empire City takes its way. It isin the upper end of Manhattan island the new city 4s destined ere long to be, and the elevated plateau known as Washington Heights, from Manhatten- of the city and of the Twelfth ward, will soon | be crowned with beautifal villas, and become the faubourg of the wealth and fashion of the metro- polis of the Union, The new city will cost no- thing for drainage. God has already done that for it which no skill of art and no amount of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1859, Yet, upon Church, they keep Sunday instead of Saturday, while they do not keep it as Catholios and ratiooal Protestants keep it, but as aday of sadness, which hes the disa troas to drunkenness and criminal indulgeaces of every kind. This is the oasein Scotland aad in parts of the United States. Ia Catholic coun- tries, where Sunday is observed as a day of inoo- cent amusement, drunkenness is unknown, aud crime is fur less frequent -of driving mea zc fo those Protes- tant communitics where day is kept with stern rigidity. The labora of our New York “Sabbath Committee,” therefore, only tend to vice and crime Insanity in New York City. We have before us the report of the Resident Physician of the New York City Lunatic Asyluat, which is suggestive of much that comes home to cvery man’s business and bosom. The cure of insanity is still a problem to be solved by medical science. The disease, being mental, though sometimes springing from physical causes, is necessarily subtle in its nature, and extremely difficult to treat, The forms of in sanity are very different, hardly any two cases being precisely alike. It is, therefore, manifest that the treatment cannot be uniform, but must vary with the exact nature of the particular ease. Some progress has been made within the last few years in the treatment of this terrible malady, but it is rather of a negative than of a positive kind. Physicians have discovered what to avoid in order not to aggravate the disease and render it incurable ; but they have found no epecific remedies. It is nature must perform the cure; and the most that can be done is to take care not to obstruct nature, but if possible to assist its operations. “Ten years of my life,” says Guislain, “have been spent in interrogating the living man and |. the dead body; ten more have been given up to reflection upon what I saw; during the latter years only have I learned how to cure the in- sane.” But notwithstanding this individual knowledge, acquired by experience, the medical faculty are still gropingin the durk, and what- ever any man knows on the subject he must gain chiefly by his own observation, As is well ob- served by this report, “Insanity, unlike a geome trical problem, which, once mastered, is fully known, presents in cach patienta psychological study from which only by long and careful at- tention to particulars can auy general principles be drawn. Much is yet to be learned by expe- rience, and much must ever lie hidden from hu- man knowledge.” It is nevertheless true that some asylums are more successful than others in sending out pa- tients cured. But we apprehend that the success very much depends on the inge- nuity ofthe physician in “amusing the pa- tient while nature performs the cure.” The subject is one of great interest and great importance to the community, and deserves all the attention which can be bestowed upon it. No man can tell when such @ disease may seize upon himself or some of his nearest and dearest kindred. It therefore immediately concerns all men in this point of view, to say nothing of the aspect presented by leaving at largo that class of lunatics known as “dangerous.” It appears that there is about one in every four handred persons insane in Massachusetts, and we suppose there is nearly the same proportion in New York. In Connecticut and Masachusetts there is more insanity in proportion to the population than in other States of the Union, which is accounted for by the great mental ac- tivity of these States, and also by the greater number of cases of religious madness where iems and eects abound, and men and women are more enthusiastic on the subject of religion than in other States. On the last day of the year 1858 there were in the City Asylum 655 cases; but the Resident Physician remarks that the num- ber of insane is much greater than appears from the reports of the hospital, and no accurate cen- sus has been taken of the insane in the city or State. In Massachusetts, in accordance witha resolution of the Legislature in 1854, a careful examination was made in every town. The popu- lation was 1,124,676, of whom 230,000 were of foreign birth. There were 2,632 lunatics (2,007 native, 625 foreign)—consequently one lunatic to every 427 persons. The New York report says:— in 1860 there were in this city 501,782 inhabitants, of whom 240,989 wore of foreign birth—a Uttle less than one- half of the whole wamber. Th Massachusetts, tuere would be about 2,000 insane persons in New York city. f ‘The habits of large cities are calculated to pro- duce insanity ina greater degree in proportion to the population than in the rural districts or in smaller towns. The insanity in New York, therefore, ought to be greater than in the propor- tion of its population, The nativity of those admitted last year was 72 of native birth (of which 54 were of this State), while those of fo- reign birth numbered 283, of which the chiet items were as follows:—Ireland, 155; Germany, 71; England, 24. But these numbers do not rep- reeent the actual insanity, for they do not in- clude the persons sent to private asylums, who are, for the most part, born in this country. One great aource of the foreign-born lunatics in the asylum is the fact that the Commiasioners of Emigration have their buildings in this county, and for that reason send to the City Asylum on Blackwell's Island ail of their violent insane, whether from shipboard, from their own hospi- tals, or such a8 are returned directly to them from other counties. The religion of those ad- mitted during 1858 was, of 179 persons Catho- je, of 162 Protestant, and of 14 Jewish. The males were 129, the females 226, The ages at which the insane become inmates of the aeylum vary, but the great majority are admitted between twenty and forty. By far the largeet number in the case of males is from thirty to forty, being double the number of the pre- ceding ten years. In the case of females the number is rather greater from twenty to thirty than from thirty to forty. It is worthy of re- mari, that of ninety-two deaths in the hospital, thirty, or nearly one-third, were of consumption, which shows one of two things—either that the place is very unhealthy, or that there is some thing in ineanity connected with consumption. The causes of the insantty are not given in cach case, as they are in the reports of the State Asylams, The causes cannot always be ascer- tained in this mysterious disease, They ere some- times hereditary, rometimes the passions in ex” cees—love, jealousy, grief, anger; semetimes in- temperance, dissipation, intense application to Iweiness, the overworking of the brain, failures and disappointmenta, and, finally, perversion of religion, and allowing the ming to dwell too long } on one ides, which produges monomania or mad. | Besson a single point But often the cause ts shrouded in mystery, and bafiles the of the physician. Where he caa trace it the i HU ha {s important, and ought to be pub- The report shows that the accommodations are far inferior to what are required; there are one- third more in the hospital than can be properly accommodated. The effect of this crowded state of the building on the sane must be very injuri- rious, but in the case of the insane still woree— increasing the chanors against recovery tenfold, Meantime the foreign insane ought to be sent to the State asylums, and not thrown as a burthen on the inhabitants of this city. The report suggeste that at least two more State asylums should be erected, and that till this is done “jus- tice demands that an appropriation be made from the Legislature to meet the present violation of the city’s rights.” The resident physician, Dr. Ranney, however able he may be in his profes- sion, appears to be very green in politics, when he imagines that there is any use ia asking our State Legislature to do justice to the city ofNew York. Tux Wonesago Dexgoation.—It is a fact worthy of notice that none of the Indian delega- tions that visit New York omit paying a visit to our establishment. The newspaper which pene- trates to the government agents in their remote settlements becomes an object of interest with them, and they naturally feel a curiosity to exa- wine the mechanical contrivances by which it is produced. On Wednesday last one of the W.n- nebago chiefs called upon us with this view, ac- companied by his interpreter, He is a member of the delegation who have just come on to Wash- ington to havea talk with thefr great father. He is a powerfully built man, about five feet ten in height, with an air of great intelligence. He went through all the different departments of our establishment, and appeared to seize inme- diately the explanations given him by the interpreter. It is the characteristic of the Indian not to exhibit surprise or emotion at anything; but our Hoe press fairly (ook our Winnebago off his centre. As soon as he caw the complicated machine in movement and distributing the printed impressions with lightning rapidity, he was compelled to give way to the usual Indian exclamations of astonish- ment, His “Ugh! ugh!” uttered with startling energy and accompanied by violent gesticula- tions, showed how much he was moved. When he goes back to his hunting grounds he will no doubt tell marvellous stories of this wonderful machine. No extremes of language that he may employ, however, will exaggerate its mechanical ingenuity, or its power as an agent ef civiliza- tion, By its aid will not only the remainder of the Indian tribes of the continent be brought within the pale of Christian influences and habits, but democratic theories and principles be diffused throughout the world. The red man might well feel impressed by the lesson taught by that ma- chine. It has compelled races of superior intelli- gence to bow in meek submission before it. Tas HievEr Law Poricr Law.—That plea- sant abstraction, ‘“Crowner’s quest law,” seems likely to be superseded by the legal in- genuity of the Police Commissioners. They have got alaw of their own which they place above the authority of the Court of Appeals, and they therefore consistently set the latter at defiance. About the decision of the Court in the ease of McCune there cannot be two opinions. Thisman was a member of the old police force, and was illegally displaced by the Commissioners; and from the date of his dismissal to that of the de- cision, it is clear that no act of the latter could affect his status. The Court reinstates him, and orders that the full arrears of pay due to him shall be paid. The Commissioners obey the de- cision so fur as the reinstatement is concerned, but serve him with notice of trial on new charges. To crown their contumacy, they ten- der him back pay only to the date of the com- mencement of his suit, some two years since, which, under the advice of his counsel, he very properly refuses. The Court of Appeals has of course the power to enforce its decisions. But that there should be found in our community functionaries ready to dispute them is a fact somewhat new in our history. It has been reserved for the Police Commissioners—a body conceived in the spirit of party, constitated out of the worst political elements, and acting throughout with the ani- mus in which it was engendered—to sigualize ilself by this bold defiance of the highest legal authority in the State. A little more, and it will rival in audocity the Jauissary organization of Turkey. City Intelligence. Potce ComstrssiosEEs.—Noth ing of interest was done at the police headquarters yesterday. The policeman, Mr. MoCune, whose cese was decited by the Court of Appeals, reported bicaseif for duty, and also demanded his back y, Mr. Embree, the chief clerk, tendered him a check for $642; but as this sum was not sufficient to cover his claim, it was refused. Foyrrt or mir Late Senator Donerty.—Tho funoral of the late Secator John Doherty took piace yesterday after. noon, from the residence of his mother, No. 113 West Forty-third street. During the day the Louse was visited and the body viewed by the friends acd acquaintances of the deceazed. The body was enclosed ina neat black walnut coffin with silver ornaments. On tho lid wasa pliver ite with the inscription:—‘“Jobn Doberty, died April 20, 1850, aged thirty three years.” At noon a large bumber Of State Senators, Assembly mea, aud the Common Council, with their staves of office, assembled at the City Ball, ond proceeded ia a body to attend the funeral. The remains of deccagod were interred at Calvary Cemetery. Axomuee Straw Fine Excise ror mma Crrr.—Mesers. Lee & Larned have just completed at the Novelty Worke another steam fire engine, intended for service in this city. It was built for Manhattan Engine Company No. 8. It combineg all the essential improvements introduced into the locomotives “J. G. Storm’? and “J. 0. Cary,” with theee exceptions, that it is much smaller, aud wiil be drawn by the firemon. The loco ive plan for fire engines was deemed the best mode ofpropuieion, as the — could be made heavier, and consequently less lable to get out of order. But the introduction of stoam locomotives for fire purposes was recived with suck op- Position from prominent men in the Fire Department, on the supposition that Othello’s occupation would be gone, the adbption of the eteam engines to be drawn by hand ‘was deemed @ compromise of the mattor, Coneners’ Inquests Yesterpay.—Coroner Gamble held an inquest upon the body of a child named Sulia Newbum, who died from the effects of scatds accidentally roceived by a kettle of boiling water upon her person, Verdict «in accordance with the above facts. An inqueat was also held by the same Coroner upon the body of an unkoown nfant which was found dead in a basket in an open lot in aoe street, between Sixth and Seventh avonuce. The infant bad been born alive, but the cause of doath could not be ascertained. Couwrmnrms.—Counterfeit threes on the Merchants’ e* of Salem, Mass., made their appearance last even- ig. They are badly executed end printed on poor pa. per. No arrests were The Pay of Police Ci SraTe ov New York, kixeourtve rane” Atpany, April 19, 1859. To THe BeNaTE:— f ane The bill entitied “An act in relation to the duties of the fesistant clerks of the New York Police Courts” imposes = therm no new duties, but raises their compensation about four thousand dollars in the aggrogate. The present enlaries were fixed only year since by the Supervisors of the Cine ieee te ay emeanes tall power to increase thom. Without the san or intervention of these local authoritics, an attompt is now made to in- crease the salaries and to place thom hoyond thy control of the Sapervisors. In signing my namo to thia bill, T should be called upon to give my approval to that which I believe to be radically wrong in principle. local authorities neo powers, and i no complaint of any unjust refusal fo aot, and no public ericvence is shown to exist, | cannct eanction with my Figuntore any attempt to overrule or interfere with the pours of local authorities, B.D. MORGAN. Our Special Washington Despatch. ‘Wasumutos, April 23, 1659. Lieutenrnt Renshaw arrived bore this moraing with ‘deepatohes from Commissioner Low! aud Oommodere Sbubrick, of the Paraguay expedition, and immediately de livered them to the Department of State. The latelll: @ence he brings has been sptioipated by the Hsnato's voluminous scoounts, The ‘filcial account of the adjust ‘ment has not yet been wade public. Salling of the Indtan. Porvtanp, April 23, 1869. The steamship Indian wailed af 4:16 this afveraoon for Liverpool. seomawesiigiimeriaentes Noes Fatal Railroad Ace'dent. Bostow, April 28, 1859, This morning the freight train from Portamouth for thie city, over the Eastern Railroad, foll through the bridge at Rowley, killing George Perkins, the ongincer, aad badly emaehing the cars. It was gubsequeatly ascertained that the bridge had been set ca fre aad partially burned through. Markets, Prusapssenma, April 23, 1859. Fiour firm. Whos. gig @uto $168 & $i 66; red $156 & $158. Corn advancing. Bacoa: sides cay 9e.; do, sboulders 43¢0. a Tc. Lard drm at LL %{c. @ 12%K0. Whiskey steady at 2630. Easter Sunday. ‘This is the cod of Lent—the end of the forty deys fasting which began with Ash Wedcnesta7—s fasting in commomo- retion of the forty days and forty nights which Christ: fasted in the wilderness. It is a time of feasting aud jeitity and unbending, after the severity of Lent. As Good Friday was the anniversary of bie death, so ts Exeter Sunday the anniversary of Christ's resurrection from the dead, for, as the Evangelists tell us, he ‘rose agaia the third day.”” Hence, according to some, the word Easter is derived from the Saxon word *‘ oster,’’ to rise ; but the more probable derivatiog is from the gocdeas Exster, who was worebipped at this time by the Saxous, The resur- rection of Christ is considered the grand proof of Chris. tianity, greater than the miraculous ater at bis birth, or even the miracle of darkness whict covered the land from twelve o’clook till three o'clock ox the day of the cruci- fixion (Good Friday), end which caused # heathen philo sopber, at a distance from the scene, to exclaim that ‘the God of nature was suffering ;’ for this darkness bes beeo explained ag ® natural eclipse of the sun. As Christ had declared he would rise again, e large stone was placed at the moutn of the sepulchre, which was hown in stone, ascal wos placed on the stone, and sentiacls were posted in order to prevent his followers from ro moving the body. Yet the body was missing early on the morning of the third day. The chief priests and elders, says Suint Matthew, then assombled together and bribed the soldiers togay that tie body was stolen while they siept, and that asse maintained among the Jews till this cay, Tho resurrection of Christ took place on the first day of the week, the day after the Jewish Sabbath, and though there !s no command in the Scripture to keep that day as a Sabbath, Christians generally, following the Caurch of Rome, do observe Sunday as a Sabbaih, and do not keop Saturday, Some few who call themselves “Seventh day” Christians koep the Jewizh Sabbath. Sunday was cot called the Sabbath day by early Christians, but ‘the Lord’s ¢ay.’’ The day on which we are told the disciples met to break bread—that is, to celebrate “the Lord’s supper,” es that Secramont is some. times called. Among the practices in ancient times among Christians was the ceremony cf putting out ail the fires in churches on Easter eve, and kindiing them over from flint, which seems to be borrowed from the customs of the Druids. It ‘was customary algo to light the churches with what were called pagchal tapers. Coates informs wa that the paschal taper was usually very large, aud that, in 1567, the pas- chal for the Abbey church of Westuluster was 309 pouncs weight. Oa the evening of the day before Easter Sunday, which is sometimes called Hily Ssturday, in tue middle districts of sim ge preparations are made for the finishing of Lent. very poorest of the peopie eat meat only twiee in the year—oue of these oc- casions is Christmas, the other Easter. Mony a fat hen and dainty piece of bacon is put into the pot by the peasent’s wife an Easter ive, about eight or nine o'clock, and woe be to the person who tastes it beforo the cock crows. At twelve is heard the clapping of hands and the joyons laugh mixed with an [ris pareso, which signifies Out with Lent.” All is merriment for a while, when they retire, and rise at daylight to sce the sun dance in honor of the resurreovon. Sir Tuomas Browne, the learned author of “ Vu'gar Errore,” refers to this popular beliet. Iv 9 very old song tn a book pu ed in 1667 we have the following allusion to it:— But Dick, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Kaser day Is nalf so fine a sight, The sun, of course, does not dance on Easter Sunday morning more than on apy other moraing. But itis popc- larly believed, and is a very innocent superstition. In England, in former times, the first dish that was brought on the table wasa red herring riding @vay on horseback; that is a herring fixed by the cook something after dea! Ukeneas of & man on horseback, set in a corn sallad. Connected with Easter is the crstom of cating large quantities of eggs on that day, and presexts of therm cre sent. They are dyed red in Italy, Eogiaad and other countries, and are called ‘ pasche eggs."’ That the Ca. tholic church considers eggs as emb|ozaatical of the resur- rection would appear frota the ritual of Pope Pacl the Fifth for tho use of Eoglacd, [reiand and Scotland:— “Biess, O Lord! we beseech thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholescte susieuance to thy fathful servanis, eating it ir thickfulsess lo thee on account of the resurrection of our Lora.’’ Formerly eggs were blessed by the priests, The Italians, who are very fond of eggs, abstain from them during Lent. In Russia neighbors go to each other’s houses, an selves by saying ‘‘ Jeaue Christ is riteu.’ ‘Yes, he is risen.” Trey then em?race w other eggs, and drink brandy. In Germany, sometimes, Instead of eggs at Easter ax cmblematical Ung! pre- sented. Three hens are represented es boiding up a basket in which ere placed three eggs, ornamented with Mustrations of tbe resurrection. Over the contre egg the Agnus Dei ib of God) with a chalice representing iF the other two oggs bear the embloms of Hope and arity. Bacon and eggs, Or, a8 it Is celled, ‘rashers and exgs,’” aro a celebrated dish for breakfast on Easter Sunday morning. The bacon is to show # derestation of tha Jews. Tansey, & bitter herb, was also eaton st this time, a cus. tom supposed to be borrowed from the Jews, who cat bitter herbs at the Passover; but some oid authors say, tbat the real reason wag “to purge away froin tue 6to mach end bowels the phtegm Szeeutered by eating of fish jn the Lent season.” Easter Monday (/¢-Morrow) has been distinguished for eating of tosey pu: i Fogiand; but that the people might sow a proper of tho Jews, they age ate it with @ gammon of bacon. Lamb, in allusion to the Paschal Lamb and to Chi “the Lamb of God,’’ was also a fe on Feater Sunde; in the oiden time. Ax old writer conjectures that the flowers with which many churches are ornamented on Easter Day are in tended as embiems of tho resurrection, heving just risen again from the earth, whore they were buried during severity of wit Every person also must hayo gomo ‘ow on Euetor day, or be will have no . $2 Poor fo— At Easter let your cloth Or elge be sure you will Fastor Sunday te the grandent [tc uthoitc festival ‘The Pope asaists at high wns, ued gives hia which the Italians gay exteo‘s all over the 8 people lay uside tho sable robes worn ia the previous week, and appear clothed in gay attire. Tae church of St. Poter {s Iined with the 0:1 v their splendid umiformr of gold and Plumes of white ostrich feathers, with ‘heir polished outrages and steal ho’ mete, contre aisle ie kept clear by a double wall of armod for the grand procession, tho approsch of whi prociaimed by the gound of a trumpet priests advance, loaded with still angmunting conce as thay ascend to the higher orders and embroidery of gold and gilver an? crimson velvet, and mantles of epotted ecrinine, and flow.ug trains, and attendant train-bearers, and mitres wad orucilixes spark. ba | with jewels, and pricete a Painarcus, aod DisuOps and cardinals, dazzling the aetonistied visioa, il long length of St. Peter's. Last comes the sovereign Pouttil tm bis crimson chair of State, borne on the shoulders of twenty men. He is arrayed in robes of wiito, and wears the tiara or triple crown of the Trivity, with » canopy of cloth of silver floating over his head “Two men go belure him cerrying enormous fans of ostyich plunace, mounted q ded wande. He stops haif way up to pay his ) Ho vorite dish for digasr ew, ulows Madoan altar, on 8 i, cing takea off, and theo taking eff tholr Little red ecu't oxgs, and all kneeling 2 a row, he praya, after which, amidat clouds of ducente, ba is’ removed to the crimson sxaopiod throne, and High Maes is celebrated by a Cardinal ft bishops. After mags he is borno in the chair of to the balcony, from which he prououncos tue benod tion on the irmenso multitude, amidst the laud cannon from the Castle of St. Augelo and tho pea! o! from a. Poter’s. s On the night of Easter Sunday, and ou tuo evening of the festival of St. Peter, which falls in the guddto of sum mer, there isan filurination of tho church which bears his name, and fireworks from the Castio of St. Angelo which colipse all the pyrotschnice hitherto exnibited in any part of the world. The entire church, Its archos, colutone and cornices are covered with myrivde of globes of light, and the whole ts by f cross of tho most dazzling nature; Sine rae tear shat tg imagi vo are el ip fire, auc the agtaatinn can ee portray hore and 9 explosions from St. Angelo are like the erupt yoleano, Destruction seems to threaten there mighty edifices, but the flood of flamos prove ianuvc.cus, No per- son who sees this exhibition over forgets dis sure to despise ail other flreworks as puny ext '\:tioog. Indeod, for grandeur, the ceremonios of the Catholic church at Rome Jeave far behind all other religious cerwiaouies in ancient or modern times. Necro Sreanens.—The two white men, named George W. Day and Amos Waybright, erceetod moat, in Hampehire county, Va, charred wih ronning off three slaves bolongtng to Mr. Michael timdle, o Poadigton county, aro BOW being tried, BELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Cxy Oburches, The Rev. Dr. Adame, of the Matison equare Presbyetg- rian eburob, te expected to presoh in the Reformed Duteh church, Tweoty-fret street, near Sixth avoaue, (Mr. Vem Neet's,) this evening. To 8 Ann's chureh, for desf mutes, in the Histerionl Svclety buiidiog, corner of Socand avenue and Klevoutt: street, & 8 rmOn with the voice will be delivered this morning, ond by sigue ia the afternoon. In the evening Rev. H. Daua Ward is expected to preach, and his sermon. will be travs'ated into the sign language, The fourth of the series of discourses to young women ou Fema'e Scripture Biography, will be delivered this evening, at Lebanon Hall, 693 Hudson street, 179 Greem- wich ptroet. Subject—Robekah. ‘m the Stanton street Presbyterian church, comer @& Forsyth otrect, the pastor, Rev. J. Sanderson, will deliver the sermon in the morning and afternoon, and Rey. J. R 'W. Bioape in the evening. Rev. P. MoMenamy, D._D., aud other friends of the Bt- ble, without note, comment or othor restriction, will petab out its truths—as they are dis inctty opposed to the errers: of Romaniem—and answer objections, in Spring street Hall, 186 Spring street, this evening. In the Orchard street Universalist church, Dr. Sawyer, pestor, will preach this morning. Subject—The Rewwr- rection. Rev. Mr. Bancroft, missionary of the Seaman's Home, will preach in the evening, The usual divine servico will be held in the Protestant Episcopal Mission church, Clinton Hall, Astor Pince, te charge of the Rev. Robert G. Dickson, this meraing and eveving. The Union religious services at Niblo’s Concert Bossa will be continued this evening. Rev. Elward 0. rector of All Satnt’s church, in Heary street, will preaa, Divine service will be held, as nsual, this morning end afternow, and 4 prayer mecting to the evening, in the North Dutch church, corner of i itou and William streem, Rev. Samael Beswick, of tho Now Jorusalem churek, will preach this morning in Dodworth’s Hall, 137 Monta- gus stroet, between Court and Clinton streets, Brookiya, The society has removed its meetings from Atlantic street Public worship will be held this morning in the New Jerusalem church (Swodenborgian), at Lyrique Hall, 166 Broadway. In the Jobn street Firet Methodist Episcopal churgh the mewly appointed pastor, the Rey. £. L. Janes, wil preach this morning; the newly appoiated presiding elder, Rev. H. Bangs, will preach in the ovening. In the Eighteenth street Baptist church, preaching this morpivg by the Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, of Brooklyn. The Roy. Sidney A. Corey will preach in the evening. Dr. Armitage, pastor of the Norfolk street Baptist church, will preach this afternoon in Trenor’s Academy, in Thirty fourth street, one door weat of Broadway. The congregation (Protestant Kpiscopal) worshipping at 266 Madison atreet will assemble tu the large chapel of the Rutger’s Female Institute, 264 Madison street, this evening, and hold a oboral service. A discourse will be delivered this evening in the Charch of the Puritans, Union square, by the Rev. Dr. Choover, on the Supreme Divine Authority of the Words of Jesus, Rey. 8. f. Aldrich, pastor of the Eastern Congregational church, corner of Madison and Gouverneur streets, will preach in the church this morning and evening. In the Bleecker street Universalist church, cormer of Bloecker and Downing strects, Rov. E. W. Roynolds, ef Jamestown, N. Y., will preach this morning and evening, Rev. Wm. H. Milburn, the blifad preacher, will preach at the Academy of Music this evoning. ‘The Third Unitarian church, northeast corner of Broad- way and Thirty second street (Rev. 0. B, Frothingham), is now regularly catablished, and openod on Sundays, mora- ing and evening, at half past ten and balf past woven, Seats free, The Right Rey. Bish~p Potter will administer the rite of confirmation in the Memorial church, Hammond street, corner of Waverley place, this (Easter Sunday) evening. Services at 10% A. M., 336 P. M. and 734 P.M. Sonus free, The First Independent Society mects at Hope Chapel, 693 Broadway, at 33¢ o’clock. Discourse by Rev. George F. Noyes, on ‘Modern Spiritualism.” Seate free. Too Rey. S, Herbert Lancey, missionary, will preach at Coentics slip at 103¢ A. M.; at Eleventh Avenue Mission church at 8 P. M., and address the Mission Sabbath school, corner of Fifty-eeventh street and Second avenus. at? P.M ‘The question, ‘What is the world coming tof’’ is much more frequently asked than answered. Come and learn the truo answor from the Word of God, to day, at three end balf past seveno’clock P. M., in the Cooper Institute, room No. 23. THE ANNIVERSARIES. ‘Tho religious anniversaries will commence in this clig im the second week of May :— Amrican Baptist Froo Mision Society, in Moti cen . oe Mopar, Mar 9, American Scamen’s Friend Society, 73¢ o'clock P. M. Seminary, in Mercer Unton Theological etreet church, | half past 7 P. Mi, Toxepay, May 10. American Anti Slavery Society, 103, A. M., at the Clty peep 7 Broadway, above Canal street. To com- we two da} merican nd Foreign Christian Union, 10}, A. ML, at Episcopal charch, the corner of Twenty-second street and Fourta avenae. New York Sunday School Union, 74g P. M. American Con, Union, at the Broadway Taber- Preaident Woolsey, of Yale Hatiem and Yorkville Sanday Schools, at Harlem. The annual discourse before the Congregational Usiem will be delivered in the Broadway Tabernaoie churoh im the evening. American Tract Socahy, atthe Academy of Masic, Four ican S asthe A teenth stroct. , wa 7 Business meeting at 9 A. M. Public meeting at 10 A. M. American Homo Missionary Society, at the Church of the Puritans, Union equare, 734 P. M. TnuRspay, May 12. pone vee egy rer - jee 10 A & usiness mecting at . e Society's House, SE sai hive snl aerican 1b Sootety oo blie at tha Church of the Puritans, 10.4. M. Wpecsloe by 5 Kirk, Rov. H. W. Becchor, and others. Sogn ae Coliation, City Assembly Rooms, at 736 o’eiork P.M. National Women’s Rights Convention, !n Mozart Hall, Broadway, st 734 be i Z be is ae bet ip May om mcr con Foard of Commissioners for Foretga Missions, Academy of wunic, 10 A, M. 2 REVIVALS AND CONVERSIONS. ‘Tho Avangelist gives the following list of recent convor- sions owing to prevalent revivals of religion: — Bainbridge, N. 22 Frankfort, Ouio, Tremont, Obio 49 Cleveland’ Ohio, Reedsburg, Wis 20 Wayna, Iowa Lisbon, Ut... 40 Time, oh . Nortit @rrolina Allegan, Mich Dempster, N. 1ith Sewall was ordained at Wareham, inst., a8 pastor of the Orthodox Congre gatioual Church und Sycioty, INVITATIONS. Byron Sunderland, D. D., of Washington City, has panimous call to the Second Presbyteriam eburch, Cineinnath. Scotch (0. S ) Presbyterian churches in Bos- , has given a cali to the Rev. D. Magill, of Phila- INVITATIONS ACCEPTED. Yhe Rev. J. A. Peuniman, who for the twolve months bas bern laboring to eetablish an @eurch and so ty at West Brookfield, Mase. , has recoived: and accoptes a: hy.tation to become associated with Rev. 8, P. Parker, wn ‘oof the parishes of Stockbridge and Lenox, in borkelse county. Mr. 8. Herbert Lancey, Licentiate, of Union Theological Seminary, who has been \aboring for the past yearns » misgionary to the poor aod degraded in our city, has ae- copted a call to become of the Church the Dig- eipios,’” (Baptist,) Jon, Ohio, and will enter upom his dutios during Ube present month, INSTALLATIONS, Rev. J. I. Girardeau was on Sunday cvening lastinatal- ed as pastor of Zion church, Cincinnati. On Wednesday last the installation of Rov. Gilee B. We- “OX a8 pastor over the Second Congregational church it New London wok place. Rev. Mr. Burdett was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Darby, Ponn., april 10. oak ink RRSION ATION, ino Rev, Wm. 8. Gootno pastoral of tho Raptist chureh at La Salle, im and Emaar gr! “4 at the Baptist church of Jacksonville, At an ecclesiastical council the resignation of Rev. Geo. Richards as pastor of Winter street charch, in Boston, and ite acceptance by the society were approved. The rosig- nation will take elfect on the 2d of May, DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY. Rov, George Y. Morebouse, Roctor of St. Chueh, Mount Holly, N. J., for the last forty four years ded on' Sunday evening 1 , aftor an illness of ays. Rev. Mores Fifield, known all over of tho moat dovoted ‘members of vat died at his residence in Warwick, 4, agod nearly seventy yoarr. New England as onw o TL, on NEW ChUROMES. Services wil be hold to-any in connection with the opese ing of the Welsh Calvin etic church on Thirtesntt between Second aud Zire wyences. ‘The dedication ete,