The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1860, Page 10

THE AGIYATION OF ABOLITIONISM: ANOTHER ANTI-SLAVERY SERMON. WENDELL PHILLIPS APPEALS FOR SEWARD, BROAD HINTS ABOUT THE WHITH HOUS# Popular Enthusiasm Rapidly In- creasing, “ een A GREAT CRY AND NO WOOL, os, &e., Be, Following bard upon his disauion lecture delt the Atheneum on Tuesilay evening, Mr, Wendell Ph again entertained his admirers with @ discourse at th Qooper In:titute at eight o'clock las evening. The bar den of his song on this occasion was ‘‘ Agitation In gable to Reform'’—being nothing more nor Institute was little more than one h werved seats on ‘the platform were fer fairly occupied. As usual with there @ourses the authorities thought 1: force of police to guard against any © fail, and the te rom being incoustiary bat the whole alfair wos dull wml fat, as fares popular | enthusiagm was concerned. ‘At eight o’clock precisely Me. Phillips apnaared on the platform, and was loudly applauded. He was introduc to the audience by Oliver Kohnsion, editer of the Axi Slavery Standard, in u fo appropriate remarks. Mr, ?muurs then came towards tho front of the ris form and said:— Lapies axp GrrtismexcI have bean requested to-night | Beto to speak to you on tee subject of Az It tea proverb in Vu a than a continuation of his former harangues in favor of aboll- | Monism and treason ‘m general. Tho large hull of the | 4), ea | he calcd on leat fo soma up a | thet ¢ fact pce ; ~ NEW YC ems a diced agin our a Epglishers are ausaging praju- ©” (Great laughter.) Now, erves the pamoe of institution, "S and steadily poised by an in- 1 power, able to defy the mistake of vias, the passion of Lue preseat mo: , 1 sm going to allow for a moment re safely moved under ite direo wy ruch, alow me to gay, Do ever. Tam net about to prove, or to stat & Teformer over gan tb popular. yonjcet You might some of you think it how if there toke me, be of any meee ste bar's cowesan ees NY! cform in @ repub Fi bea ra sefor mer it 8 Ret wh all proSauc beaieaen ‘mas a ban, whew he takes Wwe ps y~ by the throat, never will be the object of his regard, (Laughter) — It is ke the old trile y one of you could tell me better than! ) at Punch gave us some years 2g, 0! tho «ti colonel who drew an elephant in ¢ 2 he got home with hie prize, which he had :, he found bis barn was too small to hold bim 1 it «a8 egalvst the Jaw to turn bim into the stress. ‘and ves too poor Lo feed him and too humane to} him. rays Porch, he was in a troubled conditjes of a man E mon humanity the state 4, , = % the ‘ov, when esome jndtyidual 2 ont the existence onal sin, They are pioud to copfers it, t lazy to attempt cure i, smd they content themselves with being mightily ofleméed with the fool that found it out. (Laagh- 7 aud applewe ) 1 om not, theretore, to attempt to ow you that a réformer can be popntar. Pastdge ts: | ‘of appealing to anything thet of representation of the an+ ment of a hundred years go. wil agree with me ution Toust reside | wheter be bad the c stitu | chorea tetra firma te ff be base, ur # which Tam pleat to de- v,as ap Englishman, woud sey, wo dea- cr.) Either to wealth—the wesitluor elast- e press—mbich you might call the educated ¢ parties—the watch words of polities) warfare, ave chsured more or lets Meret for bal a cen- og father and son in the amo battle; or inst ca’ organizations, “est and most facred Phooghts, ‘these would be form cértainty the only pre « of w breakwater against the m*atakes of millions e present imoment. Tam going, with your permicsion, vimine the claim of auy of ‘hese to be anything an incependent copeervative source of opimion, or of Reform.” hotAustrian | Teetstance to the mistakes of the masacs, And let us take sme 9 . 5 well off to-terre s #(-wealth. Wealth must bo potent, everywhere po- ee Taos tatak ih Sanke rer vibes ten jobn Randolph said “God married wealth and such ® prayer a8 tha:, en the coutiary, be al strives and esks to Reiter olf he was yestervay. (A °. But eithor @laim thai our institutiows are practioatiy pert though our sztesmen prortaim that they te morrow almort divme—yet, still, througbout vst the masse bork wil clueses Of tbe MAU, tHErw is a % @eriul reeching ater reform, improvement From very firet inauguration of our history town to th moment, nothing wade ver fluis ys al ne from bauds ana it does not he ta the power of homanity propeunee their divorce. potent im a community xe our | ing nich te fo. Mark almig Wealth must be especially where the sin of not be- y an earnest effort to become findicg fault with the love of the Lamon eMODZ us. I recog- cou lier fepetion which God aeigned to 38 For be has given the hand iv conquer a to det it wid cites. to marry it with routes, to and ccean with civiliad habitations. It needed woh & work tho keenest stimatos of the love of mate- goin. Without it it weuld be almoet imporsible that a community ang cur. | genctaticn comld cevote its energy to the eubduine of na- teetra Ido pot | tr When we have Gnisbeo our Rome ana our Siren Le ow sb vat niifer ae io tg | whep we have Gniehed our Parle and our London, it wi aan rene uceine Le mo thee the coubicrs es ts tue | be tine for the leisure ana the wealth of the next genera aeronl xactanliy of reform 0 S00k8s drother would | Lon to crowd them with statues, to flush them with the de so exceedingty sma'l that a discus, would barc!y be worth the time therefore, Wporeally thinks that capadic of dmendment, we will le faction of his*opinton. Siate of Maceuchueetts who, tn him with the gates: the year 1616, Proceeded as far as Newtown, was not needed apy further. (Laughter ) fm overy community 6 by shat wothod it shall ve | cured—through vbat charnei the retormer eball sail? recollect that lasses of Before you consider that, we may the™ world is necessarily mad munts—the epurs d th and the progr 9 conrervative, who thinks the cobwebs that you will with them. (Laughter) Thom said thoy never as we od sweep looked with rations of rt satisfac ‘one. (Langhter.) Taer is the progress! man who is nover satisted with what be is merely renning Between thee ¢ Oonfitct a8 to the nv duce the result, ab classes are possibly ag to any 0 48 increase of kuowieoge: here is of course @ cou be employed to ro ral oor Wercforo, mucity Nk i y ideas are strongor » talicof the streets i¢ your real tic deed to your property, aud the real police foree that keeps quict “in ihe city; in eueh a community ftatute is worth 1 g, if close behind’ ft there Goes pot press viial, hearty, earnest public opinion—under such sanstanoes,’ what is the best method by which tbo refurmer shall begia to operate. Well, be has two from whieh to choose. He has tho Method of Europe specitically eo to be called, because almost universal there. And he has a method which m De caled partly English and partly American; mora csp cially American. The fret is that timid, cautions, ha way, easy method, which sails under the shadow of institutions — which, taking the Cuurch and Stat sults e¢ a}l along for fear of frighting timidity. are calied institatio tions on the unfetiered nec right which secms to be inherent ia the Hone, that sort which might be said to of the epigrammaiic expression of Talleyrand ‘when be said that every body knows more than anybody (Lapghter.) ta the rave. eations to show you—to be 8 er method of agitation think the But -whether you thivk it’ best or no vernment like ours it is an inevitet There is no other. If ovr fathers a what they were doing on the 4th of July, 1776, the template: and planned it; tb 9 fanatic who from Massachusetts to lowa, ant tt éstablienes a form and sets communities by the ears with his trines and issues, periiiing the present consti the Choreh and the State, is the legitiato born of the ideas ‘of the men who signed tue Peclarasion of Independence; that inptead of being sn abnormal r r,he {g the rule; instead of being the meobenis, he 1 ot the democracy and the revablic gentiemen, is E Will consider t Let us look for a mom waters, because we alwaye © when We look into the gles of a ‘want something (> compare ourselves with. Wes tellirg in Brookiyn # forte: trate my meauing, told by Cob college days. He said be bat been & until ove o’e'ock, when.be came down ta j t ago will perhape illus: were considerably tipey. uestion was, which was drunk? ompara'son. rom the machinery of their c’ vil or sin, what method hat method they mivet thoy That which + qbange it Now, what creates churches—they are the founda’ »forms of public an abroad? on of thejueation | KC there be auydoly, | # ir insiwutions are not | Charses An old rosd commissioner of the | was | employed by the Legizlature to lay out @ road from Boston to ATLany, & distance of about two huntred miles, a small village some Qwo miles to the weet, and then returnea to tae Legisia. | ture with his report, aud added his opivion that the road ntad, | Te therefore, for the time beng that relorm—improvement — fe not a disirablo purpose or object. The next question | own the roof along od | t for 8 e -who bails any change a8 an improvement-—who seems te think that ant \y of which both quesiion ,to night, for granted, amends a little, bends down to authority, con- cation, defers to wealth, cushions its pathway ‘Tne ovher has the technical name of agitation; that which tenores what throws aside breakwaters aud Ith, education and the higher them, flings the gravest ques- vol the masees—trusts ty the average common sense, the instincts, the natural love of | wai gow ont The average common sense of the mi lions | is worth more than the boaviest brain that God ever lent wetween those two methods I want to offer you, in the tixty minutes which you allow me, a fow sog © oply partly —that this I beat. be fiaily bead That, iaciow aud ake, perhaps you Tue etoryi f the Boyhood of bis in a party of his clasemaies who had been drinking to that hour and When he enered the room they Mi voted him drunk, becauae they thought he looked so He was odd; there was drupkesness. Toe only They had a yardstick vith wpich to measure. Let us go across the water for the Tt is evident when the Old Country want 9 charge their jnetitutions, when they want to throw out fl or social life some great havo pursucd, creates vw, that which cregtes pubitc opinion, is alone compotent Wealth, ons out of which al life come. The consequonse ainting and the Sve arts. Itis for us to build wot to nt. That is the reason why the world © wib placing euch an inordinate value upon vio! protperity. Atthe same time our wealth has a ularly suecific ebarscter, The wealth of the Old | Wor ere vast extent. The man who in- | bh aw © deed of which is secured to him, | hoary with a thousand yeare, by the free guaranty of a | whole peeple, who asks bo tocreaae, who does not attempt to pile 2 deilar vpon snower, that man is tno slave | of is bis arma in deflance of the can walt thely redurning reason. of them. He is 50 cap-in-hand ec Woalth is mercayine. It is afloat; bin ; it {5 endeavoring to gather the ebarvost of the world. Now @ merchant never shouts bie costomer with a rifle or an idea, (Laughter. ) He cant dfobe in front of his age. He cannot etbicg Ton per cont @ year ia the Muuct of Wall street. A balance on the ne lecger is @ demonstration. ‘The Jew of caring bot whi he served Tark of he made money, is the repreventative epiritef the + enth century, You li street or to State etraet forfan idea, By re of ovr wealth, therctora, wit colerprive, ready togerve auybody for an honest ? S wenkuess and its strength. vsas the Latin proverb has 4 wealth, lookwg out listen rm upon which ita canvass may phot look to wealth, therefore, to surges of angry egitation. Then, if not the n | eermon en the e of | > us, U for » Bea W float secure): breast the | | | ! | perbajs it is in ike press, m not speaking of y pres t ia a part of agitation. Iwill not regarc r that poor couplet. I think of raine, thovgb little, ave to burden Heaven; se the mob they hide the iittie given. ©, L will take itas itis, the aworn brother of agita- But T am ep ing of tbe press as we ure the word cance, the literature of the age, the eouerted claes, the minus’ prepared to look before’ and after, the eafety valves, the sheet anchors of a maddened republic. Ic Europe ‘they have becn tho leadere in the vap, the eaviours of the Feople, on some cccasions, The time has been when Oxford led te van of popular rights, The savants_ of Yaris bave orce ana again eaid to‘the Bourbone, “Thas far and no farther,” amd the people ranged themselves bebing the svucenis in the most conservative university upon the cortinent. If we need any such hteratare, where shall we go to provide it? yw tball we colonize it? ‘Where does itresi¢h? Bear with mo while Igather up here and there the evidence Shalil take the t oar of our times? Shatl I take the bright consum flower of our literature? Shall] take the American |-echolar, one who reaps trom the dewy classic lora of linenege and every age, whose feet are familiar atuefield from Bunker Hit! to Thermopyiee— I mean, of couree, Edward Frerett? (Applause ) - You know be bas triet to tel! ue the history of Washiogton, IF Woastington bas any {amiliar claim upon tho gratitne of ap hour like thie, itis, that born inthe Old Dorninion, and ay | ing a giaceLolder, Lis roul rose above the temp'ations of | his place and hia condition, and left on record the most | earnest onc elequent protest against tue ain of Virginia. Great applause ) But the worcs which Washington dared | to utter, the scholar of 1860 dares not repeat. (Sensation. ) - | He can go from city to city and from State to Sate and re |-member to torget— (great lsughter)—the bravest words | the Futher of bie Couniry ever uttere1, Well, you will me hy lar. 1 will take another iastance. lips, whose eloquent lips, pou you, I doubt not, delighted, whose brow is covered with tho lanreia of many a well armed, well sopgb 4, compared with whove moral ftreneth Pverett is but as the stubble to the oak—I mean Jobo lt rrepent You know, at least thoze of rou who are famiiar with New England rchools, that thirty years ago he culled for us the cream of the Koglish lteratore gave us not only the first bot the best of New England char: He pablished a second edition of it, dating the p: m the very day that Anthony jown Stat street with two thousand mus of a skin pot colored like yours and mine; and in that preface he boped that the changer he hao male in that edition won! make it more acceptable to the republic. He had omitted every anti slavery line (Sensation) ‘The temptation w tbe next to omnipotent these are only men. Trne ground, and take a publiship and it shail be ono of your princes, counting is wealth by millions, able certainly to alford the luxury of aconse'ence. (Langhter.) I will take the Harpers. Now, a publishing houre stands in the most responsible position of the npinetcenth century, because they stand betwixt the conscionce of one hemisphere ani the intetlect of the other, God, by the mivisiration of commerce, permits Eurepe to know what faturity will think of her, Spoken iv the yoce of America; and for us incthe tame way, ber v: coming ncrovs 3409 miles of bowod Perre sont But perhaps you will gay Emi £9, pon broader Oveab ie Nike that of posterity looking back to ve aoros the lees turiea. r you A pub: con b ipg house, therefore, that se s neo oF the inteliect of Europe, Ke the prophet ot old hotwixt the liviog and the stands si thet when Luther, for instance, wished to change Ger- d. Sortand the Harvers. Yet you bi geen them any from Catholic’ to Protestaut, he did not agitate ia ‘anu cea in tag public press, apol 2 proper and modern gente of the term. He did | ogizing for the accicental virtun of a forgetful bor when t appeal to the peopic. There were no people? He | they happened to publish an Koglish hook whole : and cated the people by tho reformation. ‘paired of the Retormation , he noes throngh German pre}: eptate, agaiuat the Haiien p “wan pride in their nobility against the Italian priest appealed t the German the foreign 4, he sought out the firet battle of the Refermation and Soin the great revolution ured Rome for the peapie 640, Jt was the wealth of the middle classes that un. ‘ook to upreat the Stuarts. ation.of ai’airs, saya we ought not t Mocniog the siegnaut v Lapparently Leflore an ep. oile processicn and a novel,.befere # song and a din- and Louis Philippe wes seen to walk palace with Lis wmbrclia under one his wie uniter other, and the of democracy began, ext men ‘again eaié Teigu of idcas has come Oae uabvrokes of popular supremacy rolled fromthe Bay of Bis © the very joot ef the Czar. But we waited six .3, and dhe jarrete aud towns of of. tations reap above the susiaing wave and capttal, and the Ja- wed back Into that wory palace, @ surone camparod *hioh that of [outs Phillipe was a very shadow In- 93, striking their roots throogh the strata of a ud customs, divided the Keesort storm of pogular (ngs, and the ideas of agoneration dashed them. to pleces against them, like sea birds againat the use 0D 2 rocky coastia a sterm. Now, if wo have euch institutione—tbat is, if we haye got any ma- anchored {u the eonvietions and habite, preju- d magociations of a cent! ago, able t> take tho ent moment by the throat aud bold for arober second thougbt—wait Tgment and common senge,”—if tations, the representative ten'iment of a century ago, strong because it is y, then, conservatism would bave a plausible a which to agitator that he should zeate you into } > got apy euch y at that he should move in old gud mer acknowledged leaters ad ot the word ¢ Tt ig ea Amorican os. Siaver was ‘ut institution, then it no sooner ¢ 2 fashion but we call ita sand rmed to look at the Gibralter > are rather amare! ai the fro fippaney wittt Which we employ the word wo when we forgot {6 bring the article which tt a offanabier and appis.te.) You know Dick grted one of bis cbaracters on the deck of a eamboat in the presence of &@ Yauker, his A nis head and covering half an gore with ex. @¢ aad when the Epglithman /*wonstrates » & wa At first, when he t; and having pitted tae Dryden, ia analyzing the Men ne in Earops go un aeladeama, belere they~al'ed im the edition and reprinted it expurgated Perbap* you will say tha’ ‘s only the morals of the mar- Fetpace. Ikrew it. Shail Igo bigher aod stand npon the very steps of the pulpit and enter the Tract Hovset (Applaure.) Or, avoiding so re. cert. @ wonnd, shail I go back tea years to the American Suncay School Union, representing the dody.of the largest and strongest eects in the Northern : ng iu the confidence of the wealth of eighteen Fourteen years ago they took from thetr archivos old tract writich in 1870. It was the fruit of the hot earnestness of the Missouri debate. It went the wri way; went Sonth, aad it ceme back to them in clouds What ded the direetors say? It was as if clergyman had preached agaivet theft, and there had been a thief in the audience, and the next morning he bad rushed hasty and Stuttering into the study of the clergyman and gaid, “) cannot bear this preaching; the sermon has been against theft." What would the clergyman have said? ‘I preach the gorpel; 4 you don’t like it, stay outeide the door.’ ‘What said the directors? ‘Gentlemen, we never meant you should see that tract (laughter); send it back te us and we will burn & We eill break up the stereotype plates and wo will newer doco again.” And they novor have, {lav hier.) Are not this variety of pregnant instances, familiar to most of you, trite perbaps to most of you, a Tair indication of ahe timid conservatism of what we may call our (ntelleetaal literary, or religious intellectual classes! If they ore, eek not in that camp for the leader of your reform beets, Bat perhaps you will say itis in polues, it is in the parties; itis in the bold, wholesome, cuWoer, manty inteiect of the statesman. It is in these great porty banners that come down to us inberited, and under xbich the mereasots rush to a real battle, There | i a are to Gnd your institutions, your safe, cautious alanced leader thet will eave’ you from tho dangers of the democracy. Let us took at it, I asked x man approaching ninety, whosa political life touched the very Cabinet of Washington, what was his ifea ef & politician, Said he, “I will tall you that ia a lat 0: 4 Politious esi quis homo tt s serviens des ut non offended diabium.” fino [3 8 man who serves Got | the devil. Or, £9 Carlyle bas almost translated it, spoak- ¥ throwing it on the stormy, gasty | ing of the latter <ey politicians, whon be saps, “I know theee politiciane; thy bave eupplacted mottoes by glorious Now, weare | war cries; they Gourlkh in their rignt hand banners written all over with noble legends; and they rash for- ward, f bing the one and shouting the other; but I observe they beep onecye over their shoulders, aud when nobody followe, theyatop.”” (Laughter) Dit you ever know that men lived by whisperifg at Washington bey would not for the world have knowa at home, ering at bome what they would pot for the world hace beard at Wasbiog d were politically dead when equally well known in both places? Lord Joba Rossel! saye thet with parties as with snakes, the tail moves ahead (Great lacguter.) And, says Macanley:—“‘Away with your cthies from (ae arena of polities; the exsenoe of politics is compremice.’ Ie HP? Then thie is pot the spot where row are to fod reform. Some men imegine thas tho loading agh- | ld 'BR to show what is thie ingwitable | ’ embers at Mushingicn a20 ibe eaters of the Ne. = e boy when be got on ‘steamer abd sces wean) ons eave Moving ugand down thinks he gees the power. Oh, no; there is a fanatic down in the bold steaming up there. (Great laughter and a> pleuse.) And he bas wore to do with the motion of the enlisus veseel thap the great iron mass that is most in sight, So it ie in politics. Sir Robert Peel was the ijeal PCatician of the nineteenth century, “the ber ae on ards.” He never came near on org JOU rowed evi frepa those em aim hen “i agi apjcaling to the maggéee yi wan olne t? say without clotbee hy (pomiu" mace | ‘he CuiboMes should bave a vote or the king should have * crown, when Cobden bad made it no lopger doubt ul { to Fealement that bread must be ubtaxed; when Cigrik- rer ea ee bad recorded the verdict of 800,000 son ona Waders of tf Epelana’ wore Abd Men. thas shoes sea id be no more Fetter ne west indien, then Sir Raver Fea and otber® “ike bim stepped out and stereotyped foto atarntce tLe pulses otber men bad stirred. (plane) ‘Tucre be stcod and with exe hand reached unt! he tdok hold of Cobden, and with the other’ fossil tory, (Laughter.) Mr. Seward makes a speech in Wasbington Mest mouth upon the tacties of the republican party, and he phrates it so as to be tute in Wall street. But if he ever enters the While Houre, it will net be Wall street that carries him there. Ivwill be vpon the bayonets of Jobn Brown and tbe men of Kaneag, who took their rifles in deflauce of Walrtreet and the Cabinet, and appealed to God and their rights, (Great epelause) Nathaniel Banks, the Governor of my State, went upon the steps of Fs Ex change ond roace a speech that might have found an echo frou every bank vault; but it waa not the bank sauts ol Wail street; it was the people that had mo“.¢ Noibanie! Parke Speaker of the House oi Reprey nta- tyes. “the politician pavses for the present conte” yatire jower; but that which moulds tho future is the Centiment ol \be mnilions that stand below. Do not imagine from this videtrn (ht 1 am finding any fault with our own inatitn- jovs. I om fincing no fault with democracy or republicon- sw. lacere both. (Laughter ) ‘Tlook upon the world with ‘8 Weal, its Mterature and ite government, as only a cheol. Fvery thing we see ebout us is bat the temporary catoning by which Goa builds up the homan goal. An «ducuten man is the noblest fruit thas the earth offers to Moker. Ail government, therefore, is to be viewed ‘ey in the light of its capacity to educate men. Now regubiiceni tm is Ged’s normal school to teach the masses ethics. They cannot learn it fromthe pulpit. They can? not waitto infer it from books. Ho tings upon them some great question like temperance or slavery, snd bur- Ceps them with the reepon ty of adecision. Respon- uubiity always affects the character, and, out of that de- cision, they become noble r, more intelligent, vir- mous men. It is Got’s nor hoo! for teaching ethics. When the hymacity of St James or of Paris locks down ivto the poor man’s cradle, it interferes to bicas it trom a motive of Christian piety and disinterestedness. But when Wall street looks down into the poor man’s cracle it remembers that these ny Singers are to bold the ballet, ond that ite own life ia not fafe, nor its own le free from peril, unless it hasteus to put upon one of this baby education and upon the other side rality. Thowk God for that republicanism which takee cf the abundance of wealth to educate poverty, and of its ‘ergib to bold up weakness. But let me pass on to my ‘ourtb point, If not in wealth, the prese or pOlitics, por. bape it is in ibe ebnrch. Now, I know I wead on hot ashes when I touch the church—(lavghter)—but I am an Ame- yiceb af Well as you, and my only object to-night is to see the position en which I'stand. Tie cloud remove—the light of heaven restore; Grant me to eee, and Ajax aeks DO more, je the prayer that the great poet put into the mouth of the Grecen Kader. There eon be to more appropriate peti tion for the lips of am American citizen. Graut me to see the port where God bas placcd mo. Now the church is @ potent uiluence. The Roman Catholic church to-day bolsep Napo'eon, When he dedes it bis most sanguine friends tremble for his fate, The Jesuit and the capitalies bave made his twoarms. Mr. Seward eaid, at a time when hie lips were freer than they are now, thatit war capital that kept back the eurges of democracy. It is cnpital and the Jesuit thot lave rolled back into the Tuile- riee wthyone suonger than Fravee bas found for fifty 6 What ccnstitutes the strength ef the Catholic ch? ‘The cesential principte of ait jastionl ma Ty—that is, that the crated resembies the creator— t ihe cbild bears the Hineamenta of his pareot. It is couse there are a milion wills meted imate one that sm is potent. J aro speskivg of it, of course, ee church, not as a feith Whcn the pope puts hand on the brow of a bishop, and 1 with Xavier to the Ganges, or of Fenelon, and sencs him to the snows of Canaca, he say3, “Go ant eent me.” He scoops out bis brain, and faye,“ You Jaugh)—go and represent me.” “And the sents Nome to the end of the The pulpits of the Ej finger just touched come men that stand in them come fiom the cradles of the ark tecracy; aly! in the universities of ub corte tis the recut? Why, a3 Macau! somewhere, “in 150 yearg the Episcopat n never found tte butonce, and thea by accident, on the eide of the peop! It reflects the aristocracy from w ! springs The child bears the feetures of the father, , new come home and analyz our ecclesiastical machinery. We have ¢ a@ voluntary system—the culy system poegible in a republic. Tae pows create the pil Do you wonder tbat the pulpit reflects the yews? (laughter.) It could not be other wise. I know the history of the church as well as you. Iknow the martyrs, the cbampious of liberty ree thought that it has given to the catalogue of our great men. But wartyre never come in regiments—théy come \slone—tail men, with ebing foreheads; you may see them from here to Union square. They only come now endthen. I am speaking of the rule, not tne ex ception. Syduey Smith eaye witha singular ehoice of Macavley's phraser—“The cstence of modern sermons ie s. 1 bave Lo wish to offend the retigious pre- by one, but if be will examioe into the very wature and cesepce of the religious system prevailing Among us he will cee that he is the paid critic, aud not |. Who expects of the clergy of a voluntary system that ‘bey should make briaks without giving them aay straw? Wo cxpecte that they should be poses and vanguard erders, and tbat they should face the storm of a popular excitement when they are necemesriiy bat tho re tio, pot the gun? Well, if in pone of these four, sbal! then have to come to the ion that we have bo insatutious—that we are afloat. Now, you may not uke the fact; but facts don’t ask us whether we like them or net. There the fact stands. You may prefer villercut goverpment; you may profer the terre firma o: ceepctism; you insy prefer the enug, cosy corder of « goveyniment that knows how not to co it; you may prefer the granite—the changeless Alps—the emblem of deapo Usru; but it remains true all the same that we are lauach ed Go the waves of ap unfettered democracy, and thatour culy guarentee of eafetyhs the lawe of God's kingdom—tve eteat petaral Jaws that bind the ocean in ils bec-—that in. stinet of fair play—that gravitating ia the long run lice, which the history of the race shows he million, When, therefore, you accept the h cur fathers bave sent ue to flllewhen we hat sgitation is pot only a good, but St is the iaevi echly method by which a great popular sia can \ev—like Plavery, for instances, or iaterperanco— a preal norma! charge aitemptes in the feelings, habits and principles cf the m —1 sball thea have viadicaied wbal is called the fanaticism of avarchy—the restless and sechlere enihusiesia of the men who took from colleges anks, from stateemen and old fearless palpits, the cetermiuation of grave nations! questions, and ‘lak thera en the unfettered necks of the millions, coeming this certain; that in this way we are coworkere #ih God tn edveating the miliious among whom we live, ¢ that in t #8 we Fecure, if not the best, the beet portible institctions. I know the criticisms which are mado on reform meu by, ‘n the first place, the harsh abguage whieh they allcge ft is necessary to employ when you speak to the people, for you have to speak ‘plain lau guage, plain we: Well, I know words are very harsh, ont words were wade fur use, suppose. The fanit £ to me to be in deserving them. And I know m thet our Sexon tongue is pre eminentiy rich to cecriba @ scounirel (Laoghter.) Bub th thet our Saxon blood will sin itself (langhter.) T What you will and paint it e’re 80 strong, Seme riring gepics sings up to your song. Very besui'ulis the eagte, says Richter, when he goara sioft #bove the cloude and bathes bimeelf in the sunlight bat more br antitul when plunging down through the tem pest, he visius bis youpg ones that cry and ave starving. So ‘ery beamtiful, doubticer, ix the scholar, whoo recluced in the academy, he turns his quaint phrases and balances rs his dainty per but more beautiful when dowered ‘with all ‘that he has gained, he comes down into the street, and joming one band to eachof his brothers, says, “ Com jet us make this old world better than we found it (Applause ) Then again.there is apother criterion. Men ulways charge the reformer with the guilt of the fostita ton he bas found out, as if Garrizon was to blame for ail the trouble mado by the anti slavery enterprize. When the Greenlander wants hot weather, it is said he boils a thermometer. (langhter.) “Aad Thad a funny class mate mn college who wasso very anxious to have a west ind that be climbed up and pal the vane in that di rection. (Laughter.) And I read of a Hindoo, who, whea ‘be missionary showed him in a glas3 of water, that in drinkirg it he devoured animal life as much as if he bad ea ep agacred cow, took the microscope, put it on the ground, and stamped it to pieces, thinking he destroyed the fact by destroying the evidence of it. So with men, of they could cniy strangle Garrison what a happy tine we should have! (Lavgtfer.) But truta has dashed jurtber on the shouts of a mob than the most cloqueat lips ever carried it, and if Gallileo had been answerod, the Mar would never have put him in jail. So 1 thivk it is with Garrison. Then there is wnother class of men who who are exceedingly afraid we are injuring the cruse. (Lavghter.) You will find apatent democrat, and be is very much concerned lest I shou!d injure the anti slavery enterprise. (Lavgbter.) He advises me to save my laitu. ence, to bottle it up—(resewed merriment,)—but, as Sobiller saye, “Pour out the thunder into sicgie notes, and it becomes a iullaby for children; but pour it vut io one quick, royal eoand and the noise shakes the heavens The people never got their rights but by the thunder of artillery demancing them. 1 error is never betts: than be oat teuth. The ruth at any rate. (Ap plavse,) Well, I need not go on turther; the world brings it all right at last; for thé man whore name was a ecofllug and a by-word with the fathere, the children go baif roun | the globe for marble white cuongh to make # monument (Applavec ) The pendulum swings the otber way, aod we do more than justice tothe martyrs that our fatucre made; for, a8 Lowell bas byaaned it far better than my words, Then to side with truth is nobie, ‘When you ehare her wretched ernst, Fie her cause brings (ame and polit And ‘tis preeperous to be just. And then the brave man choases, While the coward stands azi‘e, Doudting in his abject spirit till Bis Lord be crucified, Ard the multitude make merit of The faith they once denied. For humanity sweeps cn ward: Where to cay the metite seats, On the morrow crouches Judas ‘With the silver in his band. Far n front the cross stands ready And svother feggot burns, While the hooting mod of yesterday In silent awe retuore, To gaiber up the scattered ashes lito bistory’? golden urns, (Lond opplaure.) MYSTERIOUS AND BLOODY TRAGEDY, An Oyater Sloop Fouad Abandoned in the Lower Bay—All HangpSupposed to Have beem Murdered—Sivgular Incident—A Second Edition of the Eudora Tragedy— Fali and Interesting Particulars. The sloop E. A. Johnson, commanded by George Burr, wos fornd abandoned yesterday morning about halt past six o'clock, between Sandy Hook and Coney Island po'nt, under ciroumstances which leave no doubt as to a bir tragedy baving occurred on board, The sloop ~ siscovered by the crew of the schooner Tele~ Listare, and gubsequeniiy vy the steam) Downs. 6 sails of the abandoned, xjo- ‘and hanging over the rail, while the by evidently been carried away in ae the water alongside. The firr’ attention of Captains De” soy an Listare, on boarding the E, A. JobBEOd “way the presencs of blood in large Quant og upon the deck. In no leas than thre6 pisces were there extensive pools of gore 8U¢ matks which evidently showed that rome blood” puixtance had been drogged aloug the dock snd thr own overboard, ‘The cabin pregented a still more hor- ‘rible appearance than the deck, the floor and all the fur- niture being covered or spotied with blood, Tiat the sloop had been the scene of some dreaiful ani blooty tragedy there did not seem to be any doubt; £0 it was de- termined to tow her to New York immediately and notify the police of the diecovery. The E A. Jobnson arrived here in tow of tho Ceres about balf-past eight o'clock, and was moored in Filton market slip. Captain Weed, of the Second district poiice, upon being informed of the arrival, immediately proceed- ed on board and (ook possession of the vezre! until the Corover made his appearance. It wae about noon when Coroner Schirmer, Doctors Bouton and Beach, and our reperter proceeded on board the sloop for the purpose of investigating the matter. Tne picr was crowded with fishermen, oyster dealers aad others, who were impatiently awailing the arrival of the Coroner. The sloop certainly had the appearance of hay- ing reecaly been in colligion with some vessel, judging from the damaged condition of her bowsprit and cut water, Her sails, too, were lying loose oa deck, and everything denoted sigue of confusion and violence. Tae Corover’s deputies first proceeded to examine the cabin, which bad evidently been the scene of some eauguinary struggle. ‘The floor, ceiling, benches and furniture were a) stained with blood. A further examination showed that the cabin bad been rausacked by some per- fons, as if in search of plunder, for upon the floor were strowed articles of clothing, papers, beddicg, &c, The Coroner's deputies took notes of everything they found 1o the cabin, among which were the following articles:—A tlate, on which were written the lices:— “I now take my pen im my hand to let you krow that I am well, and I bope you are tho esme. I left Egg Harbor——."’ A coffse-pot, covered with blood and human bair, was found in @ corner near the stove. A broom, which had apparently been used in ewceping the blood from the floor, and a hammer, also emcared with blood, were found near the companion way. Marke of blood were found on the ladder leading to the deck, upon the lockers, upon the sides of the eabin and upon the ceiling. There were four fresh and distinct marke, as if made withthe blade ofa koife or sharp hatchet, upon the beams and ceiling, and one of the in- deptations was stained with blood. A pair of pantaloons, fy the pccketa of which were found twenty-nine cents, were found wrapped up fa a plese of blood stained paper; alco the handle of a carpet bag or valise, which had re- cently been torn off. The runs were, upon examination, found to be filled with blood, which had leaked down from the floor and allowed to remaia there in the cloted state In which it was discovered. All the lockers and clozets were stained with blood, probably by the assassin im search of plunder, as also ihe stove and cooking utensils, ‘The bede and bed clothes, with the exception of a siagle pillowcase, were free from blood marks, but the gore could be traced up to the berths on each side of the cabin in spots and large stains. Two pairs of boots belonging to the captain, several pairs of pantaloons, a numberof coats, bate, a marling spike, two sheath knives, a violin, a plate of raw beef, a portemonnaie, a penknife, valise filled with clothing and a number of other articles were found in the cnbin and examined by the doctors. Search was made for the captain’s papers and money, but although every hole and corner was rangacked, no trace of them ould be discovered. Abou! a quart of blood had proba- bly been spilled upon the floor. In the neighborhooi of the stove and around the wood pile, it was found to be mixed with water, which led the doctors to believe that vome attempt bad been made to wash the floor, but bad probably been abindoned as futile. From the cabin the blood was traced up the companion deck, where marke as if produced by the crag- ging of some bioody substance were observable all along irom the cabin door to the side of the vessel. The rail, too, was emeared with blood, and also the side of the sicop, showing that the assassin concluded his work by throwicg the evidence of his guiltinto the sea. The finger marke of blood on the rail and the indentation of a knife lcacs to the belief that the murderer was compelled to sever the hand of his victim as he clung to this (rail sup- port before he could throw him overboard, Amidehipa on the starboard side, near the centre-board, was found a large pool of blood, which was aleo travea to the sice of the vessel. ‘Tae socond victin had probably been murdered here, dragged to the rail and commitied to the deep. Farther forward, near the main batch, was another pool of blood, connecti: ith a fourth pool around the foremast and forocastle hatchway, and occupying a space cf about six feet square. Io the latter pool was found a lock of brown hair, which bad evi- dently been torn out of the murdered man’s head in tho vp wore down swaprit, which had vilision, was floating ‘a + thing that attracted the ined carefully, but no marks of blood or traccs of truggle could be aiscovered. A quantity of earth, used as ballast probably, some oyster baskets and flrewood, were all that it contained. The hatchcs were secured by order of the Coroner, and the keys placed ip obarge of Captain Weed untii to-day, when a furtoer and more thorough examipation of the premises wml be made. Upon an examination of the stern of the sloop it was discovered that the tackle was lowered to tha wa- ter’s edge, and the small boat which usually hung there had been taken away. Pending the examination of the sloop by the Coroner, the Second-precinct police were ashore makiag diligent in” quiries respecting the vessel, her captain, crew, &¢. They jearned she was cngeged in the oyster business, and Cutharime Market sip on the 15th inst. for Keyport, , With a crew of the following named persoas:— George Burr, captain. Nathaniel Clock, mate, Smith Watts and Oriver Watts, bands. The crew all belopgea to Islip, L. 1, and the sloop proved to be the property of Mr. E. A. Johnson, of tho fame place. The vessel, it appears, reached Keyport in safety, and leftthere on Suncay night bound for Deep Creck, Va.,totake in acargo of oysters. The oysters were intended for Mesere. ‘nes & Simmons, of Key- port, and wero Intended for planting. Capt. Nickereon, of the schooner John B. Mather, of Den- ‘Masg., reports that about half past three ‘or four o'clock yesterday morning, while abreast of the tailof the West Bank, be came in col with the sloop E. A John- von, and was badly demeged. The gloop was standing north as if runping for New York, while bis schooner was ing almeet cuc south. There was only ove man on board of the sloop at the time, and he was at the whee! steering. No words were exchanged between Captain Nickerson ; and tbe man on board the sloop. Immediately after the collision the John B. Mather was found to beso badly dame; that it was deemed n to pat back to New York for repairs. On bis arrival in the Mast river yesterday morning Captain Nickerson eaw the sioop E A Jobrson, and he immeciately recognized her as his acquaintance of the previous night. He says the sloop had boat swingirg from her stern at the time of the coltision, but he did not observe any one getting into it while the two vessels were in sight of each other. He isof opinion that the Collision was caused by the grogs+at igno rance or irighton tbe part of the man who was swering sloop, and that during his sea experience, of over twenty fi os he never saw @ more bungling piece of work than that performed by the steersman in question. There were no calls for agsistance on board the sloop, and pot a word was uttered by any ope on board. The inci- dent parsed off in perfect silence, aad with the exception of afew words epoken by jickereon, a dead si- lence reigned on board of both verseis Such are the facts ting the abandonment, discov- cry, and subsequent examination of the sloop E A Jou! con. What bas become of the crow it is a diflicult thing to,ssy. The presumption is that they have been rourgered, but by whom it is impossible to determine. They may have been assassinated by ove of their own bumber or by river pirates. It is said that in Barr bad over $1,040 in his possession, with which he intented pet armen bis cargo, aud this movey may have been svfiistent incentive for the murderers. The disappearance of the email bost gocs to favor the idea that the butchery Waa committed by one or more ot the crew, or come one who bad concealed himself on board. Ia a day or so, perhaps sufficient will be developed to enable us to arrive atfome conclusion ree] ing the affair, but at present everything is shrouded in mystery. ‘The investigation will be resumed this morning by the Coroner, and no efforts will be spared to sift the matter to the bottom. Captain Weed has several of nis most intel- ligent men engaged on the case, and is sanguine of being able to clucidate matters at an early day. Captain Burr was 84 years old, and leaves a wife and five chil¢ren to lament his untimely end. Information of the sad cflair was sent to Islip yesterday afternoon. Rewarp For A MURDERER—No lese than twenty-five hundred dollars reward is offered in a Fort Smith (Ark ) Paper for the alleged murderer, Jacob Pitman, aud his bafe delivery to the keepers of the State penitentiary at Little Rock. Jacob Pitman is thesame Pi man who, e®ve- ral years since, was concerned in the murder of three fiat beatmen on the Missiesippi river, aud for the crime fied to Tcxae, where it was reported he was concerned in npother murder. He came to Fort Smith several years fince. He bad been there but a ehort time when he kill- ed Mr. Biack, and about eighteen months since killed Blake Thomperon, for which he was ‘ried andjsentenced to the State penitentiary for fifteen years. ; ~ N. Morg: Sener, David Riches the model mp, Thc vgh Solowen built the Temple, yrt munch was due to the energy, skill and piety of bis father and bis never failing trust'io God. By extending bis kingdom and accu- mulating vest treasuree he evabled Solomon to undertake that vast work, which cost the euormous s9m of two han- dred mibions of dcilars,a sum whicn no buildiag, before or since, has ever cost deal to the energy snd wieom of Solomon, but Davi not lees grcat. but his conquests were cot the result of choice, bat of ne ceerity. Jewieh ration ha? nota larger population than six auda half mijlions; and the aumber of fighUeg men he coold bring into the fleld is computed to have been about 100,000 men. Ha adcoed so much to bis posseasions, that at the time of the building of the Temple the number of subjects ts reckcned at twenty millions. graphical position of Ophir, Dr. Rephall spoke of the idea that it was identical with California ae bein, ‘The land of Ophir lay in the southern part of Arabia. As confirmatory carried on no trade by ‘bo landing places along the coast. Joppa wasa place ot fhikina, church, and is finished very elegantiy. and built by Mrs. C. Shade, ata few days ices than thirteen year: port of New Yor Supday by the steamer Do Sot: £29, Soray, Bre Wek a ny, x Jones ree are J Pi utvam, Lewis Rathbone. C Watts, lady and es ‘AY. Poy, Mite Driver ane ft fant, 8 He]i, Rudolph Heil GRA Twehell, ¥ C Wood, Mies Daria, rend Nre O'Grady, Mre Morgan, fout andr ilgence. Sr, Davio’s Socupry.—At the anvval meeting of the St. David's (Weleb) Benevolent Soctety, hold at St. Dayid’# Tran; 93 Cana! street, a, officers viz'—Joh: Vice Preeitene Joby Reese, © Sccretare Powe? zeorge Megan, Second Vice President; atnordliy Secretary; A. Jouge, Correspondin: ; @aplsin, Rov. Wiltain Roberls; Physician, Dr. at; Sooneeitor, Charl fan, 8 Jamer Jones, Danie! 8. Jonee, Thos and Jeg. R. Leo, Committes on Titerataro—Owen Jones, Edward Dobson, and LS. Reverts, FIRE IN GREENWICH STREET—ARR@ST OF A MAN oN Sua PICHON OF ARSON.—Between sevyon and eight o'clock on Tuesday night 4 fire broke out in the crockery store No, 263 Greenwich street, owned by C. Moriggett, The fire ‘wae econ extinguished by the firemene The Fire Marshal was econ at the premires, and discovered (hat camphene bad been used {n firing the store. Subsequently one of the parties wae placed under arrest. The damage done to Mr. Morigeett’s stock will be about $600. Insared for $1,000 jn the Williamsburg City Insvrance Company. Toe flames extended into the crockery ftore of Josep Mor- ton, adjoining, and before the fire waa extinguiahed the stock Was darosged about $500, Tasured for $5,010 1n the City Insurance Company. ‘The building iv damaged about 60. A man named John Larochcile, ia trying to extin- guieh the flames, ect fre to his clothes, aud betore the flames were extinguished he was seriously burned. Ho was taken to tue Now York Hoapital by the police of the Third precinct. Tue Steet CLEANING MacmiNes AGAIN tx ReQuistrion.— In compliance with the request of a number of the leading merchante of Broadway, Mr. City Inspector Delavan has once more called to his aid the services of Smith, the re- powped machine street cleaning general, who has con- sented to go to work again until a proper contract can be made, in accordance with the charter. By the new ar- rangement Mr. Smith is to receive $40 pér day for eweep- ing Broadway once every evening between Fuarteenth strect and the Battery. He commenced opera*ions last evening, and the public are left to judge for themselves relative to the success of bis undertaking. Tuk New Srext Bett ror Saw Francisco —The new steel bell manufactured in Shetlicld, England, for the city of San Francisco, California, was on exhibition yesterday in the Park, and attracted a large number of admirers. ‘The size of the bell is litte less than our City Hail bell, Dut it weighs only about one third of the latter, namely, 5,8CO pounds. It is apout five feet six inches nigh, anc bas a diameter of six feet at the lowest part. ARKEST OF AN ALLEGED Rucerver.—About @ year ago an alleged receiver of stolen goods, named Joseph Dry- fuss, was arrested for purchasing a quantity of handker- chiefe, &c., stolen trom a Mr. Brewner, wholesale mor- chant on Broadway, Dryfuss knowing the eame to be stolen. He was held to bail in the aum of $1,000 to auswer, and just before his trial was to have taXea place he fledfrom the city. Some thirteen months have since lapsed, when he, eboat a week ago, returned, aad was yeetcrday arrested by detectives Smith and Poase, who founo him at bie oli haunts. He was locked up to await the action of the District Attorney. Sr. GxorGr’s Cricket Cicn —The anniversary dinner of this aseociation will take place at Delmonico’s, Chambers street, this evening. Lectare by Rev. Or. Raphall, ‘Tho Rev. Dr. Raphall delivered a lecture on Monday night to a very crowded and intelligent aud ence, in Tem- ple Hall, Ninth etreet,on the history of the Temple of Solomon, a very fine model of which has been on exhibi- tion for some time at the above place. He commenced by observing to his hearers that he did not intend entering on apy description of the Temple. He would speak of the memories which the model before them called to their min¢s, and the impression which ft must necessarily make cn their imaginations. Tne Bible and its history must be impressed on their minés and the force of pro phecy brought home to thom by contemplation of that wonderful structure. He stated that the deaign of was origivated in ihe toind of a wo- paid a glowing tribite to the sex. ard The Jewish nation owed a great He extended his kingcom by the aword, Ib thig, too, a providence ws maaifest, for the Ta regard to the geo erroneous Of this view, he siated the fact that Jadea a, for the reason that there were bo importance in that respect, nor did Cesares either smount to much, notwithstending the treasures that were Javiehed on it. Tyre bad then the maritime trade of the world, while Jerusalem ended on inland trade, which wee 80 considerable that Tyre was jealous of ber; and when the downfall of ber rival was threatened, ex- cluimec—“‘Now hall the earth belong ua. To prove that th» Temple was a work divinely authorized, these facts were mentioned; First, the yisible manifestation of God in the sanctuary, called word derived from the verb which ia Hebrew means to dwell with one. fact was the Tke second descending of fire from Heaven to comsummate the first sacrifice offered in the temple, a miracle which was re acep at Elijah’s sacrifice. Thirdly, the temple was the cme of prophecy. The reverend doctor then spoke very eloquentiy of the prophets and their influeage upon the buman mind in all ages since their time. Ho spoke of the fulGlment of Ezekiel’s prophecy, avd the departure of the Shikiva (Kzekiel, chapters 8, 9 and 10) and of the pro- peer yet to be fulfilled, mentioned in the 41st chapter of fzekiel. He paid a high compliment to Capiain Lyncb, of the United States Navy, for his lecture on the Holy Land, . ‘a lecture to which Bibiical In conciusion he i ol those preeent to embrace the present opportunity which bi scholars were much indebted. examining the model before them, ¢ Said was remarkably correct. The model is quite large, filling the centre of the Tt was projected $6,050, ana took a plote it. Personal Intelligence. The Chicago papers mention a caning affair which took took place in that city on Friday afternoon, in which Dr. Lieb figured as cane-or, and B. H. Mayers, well known in the Presidential campain of 1852, was the cane-e, Mayers is the editor of the Saturday Evening Review, and hai lately alluded to Lieb in no very pleasant terms. Mayeis was passing along the sidewalk where Lieb was Standing. As Mayers approached, or justas he Lieb said in a voice which it was doubticss intendes Mayers should bear, “ There goes Jew eon of a bitch,” ect. Mayers mark was meant for him What reply was made does not appear. replied cnly with a blow of his cane—a he: one—upon the head of Mayers. Another ve! May ere undertook to pull fore the latter struck him. At all events, the blow was given, and was foilowed up by two or threp others ia quick succession, before the bystanders could ceparate them. bead; it is fearod there is some danger that he may not survive the injuries. Mr. Lay hoe pe d——d or words to that of- immediately demanded if the re P One account is that the Judge Advocate hickory a is that '8 nuse be- Judge Advocate’ Mayers was very badly cut and bru'sed about the Chief Juetice Taney was eighty-three years of age on the 17th inst., having been born in Culvert county, Mary. f tang, on the St. Patrick's Day of 1777. ti years he ig in the enjoyment of comparatively good bealth, For a min of bis A morning paper proferges to bave intelligence from Florence that Mrs. Brennan, whose disappearance from Staten Island caused eo much months ago, and who was suppcséd w have been murder- cd, hae late: persons who knew her perfectly. This curious expoee Will doubtlces cause a sensation among the lady’s friends, who have 6) lopg mourned ber as dead. excitement some fifteen jy been even and recognized in Florence, by Lola Montez is in Chicago. Chas F. Bonde: » Avgtrian Consul General at the , arrived in this city from Havana on Soto. Hon. Thos. Corwin, of Osto, is etopping at the Astor Bovse. Ex Governor Holley and lady, of Connecticut; Gor vernor bean of Copnecticnt, and Capt. R. B Coleman, of Eutaw Honee, Baltimore, formerly of the Astor House, are stopping at the St. Nicholas Hot In the Suverior Court at Worcester, Mass, last week, the case of Nancy Burke vs. Thomae Wall was tried. This ‘was an ecilon for breach of promise of marriage, aggra- vated by seduction. The defencant was defaulted, and the jury asscered the damages at $1,035. Hon, P.C. Calhoun, Conn., and Captain Armstrong, U.S. N., are in Washington. There wi “etrike”’ reosntly in the office of the Cin- cinpati Commercial, and three portly gentlemen walked in sod offered their gervices at the case. These were the President of the Cincinnati and Dayton Ratiroad Company, the President of the Cincinnati and Zaneevilie Ratlroad Company, and the Tressurer of the Passe: Company of Cincinuati, nger Railroad Arrivals and Departures. G. St Chrosecians Win Ri Tatnc Mor. ALwAY—Steamehty Cireserian— nolda, Teenc Mor- Waris Worgen, Master Wen Morgan, Jes Morgans t Varcey, P McCormack. Ei Johna—A’ M ir Barron, Mr Dicks, Mr Stabs, Mr AVANNan—-Eteamahip RR Cuyler—C A'S Rillon. DF Rreoks, M ‘Culliman, Mrs 8 R Porter, Miss Warner, F Gray, Mies tarah Gray, F A Lamoson: ASN2n—Steamabip Alabama—Mra J W Roberts, Mies Coburn. Mrs Jennie Twicbell, Mise Corel, are © Bowen, James Cozens, KF Rix’ DO Frank Lathrop iy. in- Mies Pllem Nevill Mr Cburchiil, AJ Hotfeas, WOH Pint, BL vans, Bed Leeols, Joho Dow)ing, A Bessin, A J Bowen, A Nion r, Wherey, k Seixas, Mrsand red T Wiliams, JB vice np. jr WR Alien. DW Beardsley, W Schechirg. H B a. J Phecier, WOH Crane, C Pfeifer, 8 Beally, D © B Swambiey, acd 48 in the steerage se ¥ Ricunonn, &£o~Steamebip Roanoke ~ is Smith, Me Smalthey, W © Martin, # Kauilman, J @ White, Mr Jordon, Kau min, and 2in ihe stee ee. x Naan 5 ~€bip Low Fa nF all~ Mrs Van id cmming— Dr MB enter. breaker 10 the evening of tho 10" 44 1.4 | an effective steam fire engine brigade, notwithstanting the determined opposition that its introduction has en- gencered among & class of men who aro either not keep- ing prée with the progross of the nineteenth century, or - who ¢o so from interested motives, sreedggted 1 ei! ny ensuing year, President; “utiam J. Withams, First | les T. Cromwell, Baq ; Stewards, | Jobn N. Junca, Thomas M James, Thos. It! | Commitice on Benevolence— | ewis, William Mites, | gine ard Americus Stea’ gine and New York Steai and leg merits and b: a lawyer. the Court of Appeals, but strange to say he was not clect- ed. It seemed to him (Mr. Lord) that Mr. Wood did not suit any party—he was unbeading and independent. years, regrette ruff, who bad been the partner of Mr. une time of bis election to the bench of the Common eas, been better able to portray hig many excellent qualities, school citicere of the Sixteenth ©. Peters had resigned his situation @ num, apd no one in any of the female ments a larger yearly salary than $660. creased after the present date, except bj i oe a Pt by 0: Committee on Finance thought that they would of the amount required this Fala: ¢ Brigade in the Metros polis, Yn a short time there will be in operation in this city, Of the steam fire engines that are to oompote the new brigade, four are already in aciive servic, and contracts: for the building of five others have béoh consummated; £0 that when the organization is complete the engines will perform duty as follows:— Seventh and Eighth Districts—Tho Fxompt Steam Fire Fngiue, Kwpire Steam Fire Engine and Southwark Stcam Fire Epgine, Fyfth and Sizth Distvicts—Mavbattan Steam Fire En- Fire Engine. Third and Firth Districte—Guardian Sam Fire Ka- Fire Exgine. Firit and Second’ Districts—Lexington Steam Fire Ea- gine and Valley Forge Sicam Fire Engine. ‘The effectivencas of un organization liko this, and in = city like New York, in which are millions of dollars of Property constantly exposed to the ravages of the de- Vouring clement, cannot be too highly estimated; and we prognosticate for it—judgiog from the perform. ‘ances of the steam fire engines now in serrvico—a long career of usefulncse, ‘The establishment of a steam fire engino brigado will dispense with tho uso of hand engines, reduce the mumerical force of the depertment, and reduce the extinguishment of Ares to a practical system, 80 long a (e- sideratum in this community. ‘The present organization of tho Fire Department has many material defects in it, and our best dremen, who, with a deep regard for the intereste of thé departmeut, have from time to time secured the adoption of refurma- tory laws, which worked charmingly for a while, and then relapsed intothe old estate of things, will hail with celight the inauguration of the new system. ‘We now look to the steam fire brigade, when it shall bave «been fairly put im operation, to enforce the needed reforms which the Board of Fire Com- mireioners and the intelligent members of the department have failed to effect. The fre brigade wil! have leesvex- pense then the present syctem; will require fewer engines; can be operated with decidedly better advantage than the present department, and hundreds of good and inteliigent citizers will volunteer frem the novelty of tha thing to join the ranke of the several companies comporing it. ‘A few weeks ago an ordinance was introduced ivto tho Common Conucil, purporting to be for the governance of the fire brigate. From a careful perueal of tha dvcument, it required no very sagtcious mind to acopt the impression that i's author was po demiecened paren. One eection proposes to give almost entire control to the Chief Kogincer, and employ tho en- gincers and other persoos required to operate the bee Toachines, besides the exclusive power for their repair no alteration. Now, i: 18 no secret that the present Chief and the one elect are etrenuous oppononts to stan fire engines, and the concentration of such power az tha ordinance prescribes would be a death biow, or at least & “ptaggerer,” to the new fire brigade. No, the comaanics having the steamers in charge should have the entire control of their internal economy, subject only to the dic~ tation of the Chief Engineer or bis ‘‘eubs,”’ woea on actug] duty. We-hopo, therefore, that the Common Ooun- cil will pass no such ordinance as we have describet, simply to place the die brigade under the ‘one man power.” A fair field and no favors is all that is required to render it one of the institutions of the age. Death of George Wood, Esq. MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK BAR. A large and respectable meeting of the New York bar was held yesterday in the Supreme Court Cirenit room. Amorg those present we noticed Judges Sutheriand, Pierrepont, Bronson, Bonney, Roosevelt, Ingrabam, Daly, Hogeboom, Moncrief, ex-Surrogate Bradford, ex-Recorior Tallmadge, Hon. Hugh Maxwéll, John MeKeon, D D. Field, Girard, and seyeral other dietinguished memberg of the bar. Ex.Judge Rogervert moyed and Mr. Blunt seconded the nomination of ex-Jucgo Bronson as President ot the. mecting. Judges Pierrepont and Sutherland wore ap pointed Vice Presidents. Messrs. Wilson and Jesup were requested to act a8 Secretarics. Judge Broxson briefly announced to the meeting tho object for which they were convened—to sympathize wilh the family of their deceased brother, Mr. George Wood, and atthe same time to give expression to their oxn feelings. Mr, Bicyt then presented the following resolutions, which embrace the substance of gli that was said of him by the subsequent speakers:— Resolved, That by the death of George Wood the New York bar has been deprived of ono of its most distinguisn- ed orpamente, who by ‘Sity was greatly endeared to us as a man; while his pro- found learning, his uncquaiied powers of argument, ‘united with the higbest sense of professional honor ax justice, commenced our respect and regard as a pro- Jeesional brother. a rare union of dignity and urba- Resolved, That we feel it due to the memory of the de- ceared publicly to exprese our appreciation of those no- bie traits which adorn and dignifs exact and thorough knowledge o! the science of the ia: his tenacity of purpoee in the vindication of princip! firm atta great forensic ability and maesive power of reasoning; his purity, simplicity and virtue—in al! which respects ha waa justly his character; of his nis 18 ment to the institutions of his countr: pride and glory of lis profession. Ketolved, That as evicence of our respect for the de. ceased, we Will attend his funeral with the usual-balgss of mourning. Resolved, Thet es a mark of our sympathy with their great bereavement, a copy of these resolutions, sigaed by the officere of the meeting, be transmitted to the family of the deceased. Mr. Lorn spoke in high evlogistic terms of the learnin, attainments of Mr. Wood; of his iutellectaal undying fame as a jorist and advocate and He was a cardidate at one time for @ seat in ir. Wat. Evaxrs, who knew Mr. Wood from bis first connection with the profession, next bore testimony to tha high standing of the deceased who, twenty yeurs ago, vas atthe head of the profession, and stood as the’ reprason- tative man of the New York bar. to give in glowing terms the estimate he bad formed of the charscter and career of Mr. Wood. Mr. Evarts conttoued Mr. W. C. Noyes made a lengthy and eloquent speech, eulogising Mr. Wood as a man of profound learning, ex- tensive research, united with simplicity of characte in conclusion said he was the foremost member of the profession. and Mr. Goopman, the partner of Mr. Wood for nearly twonty d that illness in the family of Judge Wood- ‘ood from 1841 up compelled him to be abeent, as be would bave . Goodman then mate rome few eloquent remarks on0 ed character of Mr. Wood, the Nestor of the New York The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the meeting adjourned. eee The Board of Edacation. The members of this Board held one of their regular meetings yesterday evening, at their hall, corner of Grand. and Elm streets—Mr. Warren presiding. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and aD. Proved. An application was received from the school officers of the Second ward for an appropriation of $7,475 dees on ace ‘oP 37, for work ferred. the sald ward, which was re- An application was a'so received from officera of tha Twenty eecond ward for an a ‘tation of $11,481 for Plenty &c., on Peboolhouse in, sald ward. bart ferred. Also re. A regolution wae offered authorizing the renswal of the leases of the buildirgs now uscd as schoothouses for cbiléren in the Twenty-fiiet ward. Aleo referred. Mr. Starrorp ® communication trom the. ward, stating that Dewitt as School Commis- fiorer. John De Lamater, ex-Alderman, has been unsrimously nominated by the local board to fill the vacancy. ‘The matter was referred. On motion the election for City Superintendent and as- sistant was set Gown for the next ‘A report was then read fom the Fiance Commalttee, nt which it was recommended that no principal of a female ®chcol should receive more than $750 per an- primary depart- Mr. Warernvny offered a resolution to the effect that the ralaries received for the present month (March) be the standard, and that no local board be allowed to in- the them. This resolution gave rise to some discus- ‘An amen¢ment was offered to allow no salary to be ine of the On the resolution and the amendment there was con- siderable debate. Mr. Bexepict was in favor of it on the ground of eo0- nomy. If they kept on at this rate the funds would fall ehort some $50,((0. Mr. Gnecory thovght the salaries—most of them at Jeast—low, too low for the services rendered; that some who favored the rerolution had secured the desired m= © crease in their own wards, and wished now to Cd in others equally deeerving. bikidnad Mr. TUCKER also favored the resolution, statiog thet the short year some $100,000 If the were not restricted. . The increase was favored by most of the Board. Tne maticr was finally referred to the Committee reek to be reported on at the next meeting. The hour of eig’ bavirg arrived the Board adjourned. Williamsburg City News. Soppin Deatn.—a back driver, named Oliver Hare, ia the employment of Mr. Colyer, livery stable keeper, in Frarktin avenue, fell from his teat on the back, about eleven o’clock, on Tuesday night, while cross’ng tho Houston etreet ferry to Williamsburg. He was taken op in an ingensible cordition, and, on the arrival of tho nv! Dr. North was rent for; bat, before he arrived, the m eied. verdict of death by apoplexy was renders¢. Coroner Murphy belt! an inquost yetterday, and # ”