The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1868, Page 7

» RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. . The Week of Prayer, Union meetings, in accordauce with the recom: Mendation for the week of prayer, will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- day, at the Fifth avenue church (Rey, Dr. Hall's), corner of Nineteenth street, commencing at hall- Past three o’clock P.M. On Tuesday evening & Meoting will be held, under the auspices of the Evangelical Alliance, at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, Fourth avenue, corver of ‘Twenty-second street, and on Friday evening at ‘the Church of the Ascension, Episcopal (Rev. Dr, ‘Smith’s), Fifth avenue and Tenth street, Another Old Church Gotng. 8t. George's chapel, or Dr. Milnor’s old church, ‘da Beckman street, is going the way of all down ‘town churches. It is to give place to store houses, s@nd the spot will soon be unmarked by anything €6 cherish its hallowed associations. ‘i The Observer gives the following brief history @ the edifice:—It was first built in 1748, and its dite d Chapel hill, and Beekman street was then Chapel street, and Cliff street, on the of which the building stands, was Van firs street. The chapel was part of the col- jegiate charge of Trivity church. The building was consecrated in 1752, and stood for sixty years, fe in 1814, it was burued. With the same alls it was rebuiltas it now stands. After its aration from ‘Trinity Rev. Dr. Kewley, as- vaisted by Rev. Mr. Brady, was the rector until 1816 when ey resigned, and Dr. Milnor, of blesse memory, became its pastor. On the death of Dr. Milnor the Rey. Stephen H. rand se called from Philadelphia to St. in 1845, In Tes Peter G. Stuyvesant gave the lotson ‘Stuyvesant square for the new St. George’s, which built immediately—one of the noblest edifices the city. That was burned two years ago, and, rebuilt, was reconsecrated by the bishop of the ese December 19, 1867. This is one of the moat sumptuous Christian churches in the world, American je Society, The atated meeting of the Board of Managers ‘was held at the Bible House, Astor place, on the ‘2d inst., Mr. James Lenox in the chair. Four Qew auxiliaries were recognized, one in each of the Btates of Ohio, Michigan and Missouri and one 4m the Cherokee Nation. Communications were geoeived from Rev. E. W. Clark, of the Hawaiian lon, now in this country, and from the Rev. L. Gulick, secretary of the Hawaiian Board at Hon- @lulu, in reference to publishing a pocket Testa- ment for the Sandwich Islands, and the Book of Acta in the language of Marshall’s Island, one of the Mioronesian group. Several other communi- @ations were also received. * Grants of books were made to the Pennsylvania Golonization Society for Africa, to Friends” Freed- mers Commie of New York, to the American Foreiga Bible Society, Russian ‘iestaments for » ior distribution in vessels sailing from w York to foreign ports, to the Missionary So- ‘iety of the Protesiant Episcopal Church for ios, to the Rev. A. G. Simonton for distribu- in Brazil, with a large number for distribution the South. The entire number granted is 4,972. yy wore chiefly in English, Spanish, Portu- and Russian. The committee appointed at 6 previous meeting presented their memorial paper on the death of Reuben Hyde Walworth, rh was adopted. Phe Earthquake in Northern New York and : Its Effects on the Irreligious, ” A correspondent of the Zvangelist—a clergyman residing in Ellsworth, Lawrence county, N. Y.— Gives the following description of the earthquake of the 18th ultimo in that region, together with its salutary effects upon irreligious people there:— It is no exaggeration to say the impression by it -here was overwhelming. It came in — of the night and asin an instant. Very few Wore awake to hear its approach, and those few bog dhe noise of its coming was terrific. The at body of the people being in sound sleep had 10 gtr until the mighty power was upon them, ing their houses as if they were strack ry @ rosistiess tornado. Connected with this were fearful crashings and bellowings in the bow- # the earth, such as one may feel but cannot jesoribe. The people in ail this region were greatly socpeec. sincé the visitation in so violent a was altogether a new experience to them. shock lasted for more than @ minute. No bt tens of thousands sprang instantly from beds in great alarm. No doubt great multi- uttered oud wails onj screams. Some say aha Sra th 1t Was all but teal ace to eir feet. is nei; re idme fafnted away. I vat Loa a @ the wicked to feel it was the voice of God to them. before exceedingly profane have not been own to utter an oath since the shock. A new soletan awe has rested down upon the com- mind. I will add, we have had light shocks time to time since =~ heavy one, some of them in all, Aud now a word of the power of the agents God has to use when eases. My impressions are new on this sub- ‘. pecai ey are not theoretical actical. From east to west the must have been shaken to the [t of eome four hundred miles, and probabl; $0 8 sme extent from south to north, and at ail e shaking was felt nearly the same mo- three A.M. If there is reason to suppose ist of the earth is about forty miles thick to the melting point of iron, and the power tossed about so easily the superincumbent Thave named exists at that depth, then com- iaidie. I can only sit in silence, aud wonder adore. A Charch of E: id University in the United States. ‘The Church of England has set on foot a project for the establishment of a Southern University in + he United States, and the assistance of English en in attaining that object has been sought Py ® published circular. It is stated by the Lon- don Advertiser that the ‘movement is not a sec- tional one. It is intended as an offering to the le American Church, and not to the Southern as against the Northern. Nor does it pro- 4 from any single party in England ; both High faroh and Low Church arc associated in it. All Nyeveg cee approve of it = a = their willi eas to co-operate. vel f samen statesm a bok conservative and liberal, ‘have promised to it. Among the subscribers ‘are Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Gaythorne Hardy, Earl #tanhope, the Earl of Shai ury and Lord Jown Upon the committee are the Earl of ron, Lord Cranbourne, Earl Nelson, the bishop of York, the Bishep of Oxiord, Mr. Baveutord Hope and ite~ Gladstone, = A Bogus Clergyman—A Curlouy Case. A clergyman of the Churcjs of Epgtand was left \by the doath of his relativds tb6 last of his family, , resolving to emigrays to America, took ship, his worldly eff“ts, to end his days with E the Gosp’,) here. A convict, leaving his country for W”. conntry’s good, in the same hip, paride cade character, became inti- ite with tl¥, clergyman. On the passage, how- Be lof er took sick, was parsed assiduously 6 ot or, and, dying, left all his effects, in- «Slading.? jis sermons, letters and testimonials, to v snown nurse, Upon arriving safe in this ) ‘ “ty the convict assumed the name of the Mi, @e4/ ed, and, presenting tne letters and credenti departed to the bishop, was invited to » Which he did, one of the sermons he ied toa church, where he officiated acceptably for several years. The truth would not have been discovered bad not the wretched impostor divulged it on his death bed. Baptist Seminary for Colored Preachers< “Africa on the Heart.’? Rey. 8. B. Gregory, Instructor in Theology of the Wayland Seminary for colored preachers, which was founded in Washington, D. C., a year , ago, writes to the Hzaminer:—‘On my arrival here, the 7th day of last January, I found the walls 9 house built for the society by the ‘s Bureau scarcely dry enough be and three Mudents on the ground waiting for semebody to come and lead them into 6 promised land, During the year just closi ‘ty men have been connected with our school, enty-two of whom are now in attendance. Our t clase is composed mostly of promi men. Our aim hes been to give thorough tion in the common English branches, juctoty to @ knowledge of the Holy Sci ofr can, Moy a Mga” — ments, as a 0 to jr Quy of infuence and & . They seem evi- inspired Borders ) and some of them end have determin. d te ge} such reat com- ica on the an educa. George B. Bacon dedication of a Congregational chapel recently Connecticut hay Pp street cuurch, of New Haven. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1868, tion as will fit them for foreign missionary ser- vice. Mra. Van Meter, who has been ona visit to this country after an absence of twenty years asa missionary to Barmah, sailed for that country from Boston on the Lith ult. Accompanying her were Misses Watson, De Wolf aod Higby. ‘These ladies will be employed as teachers in the pro- Posed normal school ia the Karen country. “ Religious Buffoonery.”? Under this head the Observer (Presbyterian) re- fers in the following rp manner to certain ridiculous operations carried on in the name of religion :— We noticed recently a masquerade at a church sociable somewhere in Indiana, and, commenting upou the farce as disgusting and well fitted to bring religion itself into ridicule and contempt, we asked, What next? “What next’ has come ‘This time not away in the barbarous regions of the benighted West, nor even in the Orient, where the Gospel is breakiog in on the darkness of heathen- ism, but here at home, in the midst of the central blaze of urban civiliza- tion and full developed Christianity. On Christ- mas Day, the good people of one of the Churches not far frum this, desiring to make their minister @ present, bit upon the following expedient which, for originality and novelty is not likely to be excelled. At the close of the service a live turkey was driven up the aisle of the church, with a purse containing a sum of money attached to the back of the bird. The fowl and the money were thus presented to the minister. ‘This is sutliciently ridiculous, and yet lees reprehensible than what is to to.low. One of our city congregations assembled ite Sabbath school tor the Curistmas celebration. A tree loaded with gifts greeted the delighted eyes of the c! en, The superintendent Procee ed to open the exercises. ‘Children,’ he said, “yon have all heard of Santa Claus. Do you suppose that these presents have come from Santa Claus, or have your good friends, the people given them to you?” ‘Our friends |"? be all cried out. ‘Well, now,” cried he, with a loud voice, “if there is any sach personas Santa Claus let him make his appearance.’ Up through a trap-door, with a great clatter, rose a man rigged out as Santa Claus; the children shrieked, many of peg regener oe of foglbe ae in among them; pounding some ving toys to others, and finally ran up & re and out upon the roof and disappeared. And this in a Sabbuth school, whose object is to teach children to love the only true God and Christ, his Son. The children had right ideas of the source of their good things, and it was very easy to instruct and amuse them without actually teaching them a falsehood and frightening them by a ridiculous imposture. But the serious side of such affairs as the masquerade, the turkey show and Santa Claus is that they brin, ter of religion into the realms of folly and frolic. ‘They show that the performers have no just sense of the sublimity and sacredness of the subject; that they are fast destroying all reverence for divine things and provoking the Master to come snatonly, to his temple with a scourge of small cords. ig the whole mat- Congregationaltst. In Buckingham, Conn., December 18, a new church, recently erected by the forty-eight Con- gregational families of the place, at a cost of $10,000, was dedicated to the worship of God. The dedication was accompanied by the installa- tion of Rev. James Ordway a3 pastor of the church, Rey. E. P. Parker, of Hartiord, preached the sermon. Onthe same day in Newburyport, Mass., the “Belleville church was dedicated, Proiessor Park, of Andover, preaching the sermon. At East Orange, N. J., the 18th inst., Rev. preached the sermon at the erected at that place at a cost of $15,000. ‘Three of the leading Congregational churches in been for a long time without church, of Norwich; Pearl farttord, and Centre church, of The first has called three times without success, and the others each once. ors :—Broad' Episcopal. The following statement is given as the true statistics of the Methodigt Episcopal Ghurch for 1867:— Increase This Year, Over 1886. 8,004 428 Travelling chers. oy x Local preachers. 9,469 867 ‘Total preachers 17,478 1,295 ‘Total members. 1,148,081, 118,897 Tofant baptisms. 101,741 18,736 Number of cuure! 11,12 059 Number of parsonages. 3,570 256 Sunday schools... 16,341 1,296 Sunday school teachers. 174,945, 12,754 Sunday school scholars. 1,081,891 101,269 ya mes in Library 2,784,395 149,004 j@ of churches. $35,585,439 $6,291,435 Vaiue of parsonages, 6,861,295 940, 33' Valup of church and parsonage. 41,246,734 7,231,772 Benevolent collections, + "935,818 Fx Friends. The Society of Friends held a convention in Chicago, Ill., whose meetings continued from December 18 to Sunday evening, the 22d. prominent men and women of that Society were present and delivered addresses and lectures on their peculiar doctrines. .The sessions were har- monious, and members often appeared at the noon prayer meeting, where they were hear:ily wel- comed, aud took part in its exercises. Many Jewish. The representatives of one hundred thousand Jews, officers and meinbers of the Hebrew Benevo- lent and Orphan Asylum Society, met on Christ- mas night under the hospitable roof of Mr. T. M. Cohen, the retiring President, to testify their ap- preciation of his labors as presiding oflicer of the society. Several very pleasant hours were passed with speeches, toasts and an edible entertainment of rare excellenee. Le 0. The pastor of the Jersey Shore charge, Pa., Rev. H. B. Winten, writes to the Lutheran Observer toward the close of last ye ‘Nearly six months of the twelve have been devoted to revival meet-- ings, and over 300 have professed conversion to God, of which number 213 have been received into church fellowship. It is due my people to say that they have manfully stood by their pastor, giving him their sympathies, aiding him by their prayers and co-wor' nobly with him in all the work pertaining to harge.”” In Altoona and Danville, Pa., and Saugertfes, N. Y., and Woodsboro, Md., seasons of religious interest are enjoyed by the Lutheran churches. At Altoona 100 have been confirmed during the past year and sixty-five are now inquiring the way of life. i Daaville fifty conversions have already taken place. he! Lutheran Observer speaks of St. Peter's ‘church in Pikeland, Ps., asa remarkable church, and says:—‘The pastor, Rey. N. H. Cornell, in giving an account of the state of piety im his charge, states that the church numbers 170 mem- bers, that the heads of all its families had erected the family altar, and that every one of its mem- bers, both male and female, was ready, when called upon, to take part in public pra; this there was scarcely half a dozen exceptions. We have never heard,” adds the Observer, ‘of such a congregation in our church before, and doubt whether the same can be said of mnany con- gregatious in all the denominations of our coun. try. “ Presbyterian. ‘The adjourned meeting to respond to the Phila- deiphia Convention in behalf of s union of the Presbyterian churches will be held on this (Sun- dey) ere at the Madison square Presbyterian church. One hundred years ago the Brick Presbyterian church, of this city, was founded. This (Sunday) morning the anniversary will be celebrated in the church on Murray Hill. The first Presbyterian church in this city was organized in 1716, and the eons worshipped in the City Hall thi i 5 in 1719 they built their first house of worship in Wail street, and it was afterwards removed, stone by stone, to Jersey City, where it stan to-day, and Dr. Imbrie is the minister, When the Wall street house was full and the city ‘grew up town another house was necessary, ‘The First Presb; church of Williamsburg, under the pastoral co of Rev. Samuel Carlile, has been much blessed the past two years, its numbers increased and usefulness extended. The have two mission Sabbath schools, which, wit! the home school, are well attended and doing great good. They have lately had a new organ jut in the church, which adds greatly to the Beauty of the building. Last week the on ee tion surprised the pastor by | ohm gon! him with ae number of elegantly bound books for his Blair Hall, the residence of the Principal, and the main building connected with the Blairatown bo Jersey) Presbyterian amarerbe was entirely jeatroyed by fire on the evening of December 18. There is at present interesting work of grace in progress in the Fifth Presbyterian church, Cincinnati, of which Rev. J. B. Stewart is Par. John N. Freeman, of the Senior Class in Prinaeton College, has received @ call to the s < church at Peekskill, lately uncer the pastoral care of the Rey, Dr. lliday. Mr. Free: is a son of one of the missionaries of the Presbyterian Board (ia India) whe were massacred at Luck- now. of Rock River Presby- At the recent meetin; tery (0. 8.), held at Sterling, UL, Mr. Alexander F, Morrison was ordained to the full work of the ministry, sine titulo. ‘ Mr. H. CG, Pringle, at a late meeting of the Presbytery of St. Clairsville, was ordained to the full work of the ministry, and installed pastor of the church at Morristown, Ohio. The Congregation of the First Presbyterian church, East Boston, Mass., presented their pastor, Rev, M. Ayres Depue, with a purse of $200 as a Christmas gift. The Second Presbytery of New York at a re- cent meeting unanimously adopted resolutions in favor of @ union of the several Presbyterian churches, Rey. George D. Baker, late of Watertown, N. Y., has been installed pastor of the Presbyte- rian church of Oneida, Madison county,N Y. The minister and one elder from each church of the several branches of the Presbyterian church— including German Reformed, within the following counties of Ohio, viz: Richland, Ashland, Wayne, Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, Carroll and Colum: bisna—inclusive of any ministers who may reside in other counties who are connected with Presby- teries within those counties, are invited to meet in the Presbyterian church in Wooster, on the 29th of January, 1868, at two o'clock P. M. A Church Union Convention was held at Jobns- town, Pa., on the 23d and 24th ult. The Conven- tion was one of deep interest, being characterized by the same spirit of union and brotherly love which pervaded the Philadelphia Convention and other local conventions since held. The following Was among the resolutions adopted:— Resolved, In view of the prominence given in the Prayers and Cyn of our Lord to the unity of His People and of its supreme importance, both to the church sad tbe wrarid, this Convention. cordially unites viog w wing spirit of union mut ssa a et which is drawing together C! of united oncperaiien im the cause of their 2 love and common Roman Cai lee The semi-annual ordination of the Roman Cath- olic Provincial Seminary, Troy, N. Y., occurred December 21. The service was conducted by the Right Rev. John J. Conroy, D. D., Bishop of Albany. The following New Yorkers were pro- moted to orders, ranked according to their respec- tive dioceses :— To the priesthood, Rev. Messrs, Michael Brennan, Patrick J. Daly, James J. Dougherty, Terence’ Early, John Quinn—Archdiocese of New York; to the deacon- ship, Rev. Messra, James M. Galligan, James Keenan, Patrick Loughran, Poter McCourt, George C, Murphy— Archdiocese of New York; to the sub-deaoonahip, Rev. Messrs, Thomas J. Ducey, Edward A. Dunphy, 10~ lomew’ Galligan, Francis Martin, Michael O'Farrell— Archdiocese of New York; to minor orders, Messrs, Henry P. Baxter, Michael Callaghan, John (. Henry, Lawrence H, Hennedy, John P. McUlancy, T. H. Mc- Cuddin, Thomas F, Welch—Arehdiocose of New York; totonsure, John McNamee—Archdiocese of New York. The Most Rev. Archbishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmatiqn on Tuesday, December 17, in the chapel of the Convent of the Good Shep- herd, to eighty persons. Religious Matters Generally. This (Sunday) evening the Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith, D. D., will preach in St. George’s church (Dr. Tyng’s), on “‘Liberal Principles in the Episco- al Church.’ It is supposed that the sermon will ave reference to the approaching trial of the Rev. Mr. Tyng and other questions at issue at the present time in the Episcopal Church. The building on Wentworth street, between Anson and Meeting streets, Charleston, 8. C., for- merly a Jewish synagogue, will be dedicated as a Catholic church ‘for colored people on Monday, January 6. Lhe American Presbyterian, of Philadelphia, contains a letter from Joseph Barker, once a famous travelling infidel lecturer and céntrover- sialist, but now an humble worker for Christ in England. This letter settles the matter of his con- version, which has been doubted by some of his old associates in this country. Rev. Samuel J. McCullough,” for tarenty-five years the minister of the Presbyterian church of Tioga, Pa., was, on Tuesday, the 19th day of De- cember, suddenly stricken down by paralyaii, and died withont recovering his consciousness. The Boston Young Women’s Christian Associa- tion has bought a large home, consisting of two four story houses, and offering accommoda- tions for seventy women lodgers. ‘The society is doing a noble work in an energetic spirit. The Hvangelist states that at the Presbyterian Union meeting in Rochester a little conversation was related which will be appreciated by the many bans ereegagsee of the veteran pastors con- cerned. Inthe course of remark the Rev. Dr. Shaw (N. 8.) said that he had known and loved the Rey. Dr. Hall (0. 8.) for twenty-seven years, but had never exchanged pulpite with him, An exchange was now arranged, and Dr. Hall had said to him:—“You can’t trot around in my pulpit as you do on your own platform in the ‘Brick,’ but you have my full permission to run up and down the pulpit stairs.” He had said to Dr, Hall:—“Vil excuse you from trotting around the whole plat- form, but you'd better move about a little, or the children will think you don’t amount to much.’? Rey. George Lewis, on account of ill health, has been recently dismissed from the Congregational church in Bedford. Rev. A. Judson Sage, late of Shelburne Falls, Mass., has accepted the call of the Fourth Baptist church, Philadelphia. Rev. David Peck has been installed pastor of the Congregational church at Sunderland, Mass. Rev. Ira Pettibone, late of Winchester Centre, Conn., has accepted a call from the Congrega- tional church in West Stafford. Rey. J. B. Cleaveland has been installed pastor of the Congregational church at Bloomfield, Conn. Rev. E. H. Curtis, son of the late Harvey Cur- tis, D. D., has accepted a call to the church at Lacon, Ill, Rey. John Dodge, of Middlefield, has accepted a unanimous call to the Umon Congregational church, North Brookfield, Mass. An old lady, named Mary Beebee, has died at Bilston, England, aged ninety-four. She received her first religious impressions from the preachiug of John Wesley. Rev, William J. Alger, of Paris, New York, has ere call to the rectorship of Brinity church, CO. Rev. J. T. Pam on D. D., was installed, Decem- ber 21, pastor of the Classon avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn. Rev. Wm. A. Ferguson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has accepted the call of the First Presbyterian church, Dubuque, lowa. The High street Googregstionsl church, Auburn, has extended acall to Rev. Henry L. |, of Rockville, Conn., to become their pastor. The ministers of Richmond refused to extend Christian courtesy to Rev. Newman Hall, for ‘foul slanders uttered by him in the English papers.” We are told, says the North Wilts (England) Herald, that in @ certain religious community in the neighborhood of Swindon, on Sunday last, a lay preacher described the happy state of the first man and woman in Paradise until the devil, at Fenian of hell,” entered and destroyed their happiness. Governor’ Marshall, of Minnesota; has been elected President of the Minnesota Association of the New Jorugalem (Swedgnborgian). A revival of rel ia ig held at Te- h. Large numbers are being converted, and cause moves gloriously on. A large number attend these meetings. E. P. Tenney, of Manchester, Mass., has ao- cepted an invitation to supply the Congregational church in Central City, Colorado. Salary $2,500. Rev. 0. H. True has resigned the pastorate of the church in West Lebanon, Me. Rev. Mr. West has resigned the oare of the Reformed (late Dutch) church in Kast Brooklyn. Rev. H. B. Starr, of San Francisco, has received a call to become pastor in the new settlement of Satacoy, in Santa Barbara county. A tract of land has been art for his use, aud @ horse and cow provided for the new pastor. At the meeting of Cincinnati Presb: the pastoral relation between Rev. Wilbur McKaig and the Third church was dissolved. Rev. J. Lyman Morton, pastor of the First Pres- es church of Waukegan, Ill., died on the 8th ult., aged thirty-four, Mr. M. was great-grandson of the late distinguished Dr. Lyman, pastor for fifty-six ere of the Congregational church at Hatfield, Mass. Rev. A. F. Monn has accepted a call from the Second Reformed (late Dutch) church of Cox- sackie, Rey. J. J. Owen, D. D., of New York Pree Col- lege, who was severely injared at Burlington last fall, is slowly recovering and hopes soon to resume his duties, The Bishopric of New Zealand, vacant by the resigoation of Dr. Selwyn, will be conferred upon the Right Rev, J. C. Patteson, D, the Melanesian or South Pacific Isles. Rev. B. P. Payson, of New York, has stalled pastor of the Congrevational chure Kout, Conn. 7 THE PARK BANK BUILDING. Banking Rooms, Unstrpassed by the World—The Whole Structure a Spleni'id Monument to Architectural Art. Of the my splendid monuments to arehitectural art im this city which the immense and rapidly cumulative wealth of the .n¢tropolis finds necessary for the grow- ing expansion of business, the magoificent marble struc- ture to be occupied by the National Park Bank, in course of erection next tothe Heraup building, promises to be one of the finest, ae it will be one of the largest and most imposing, as well as costliest, edificas in this the great commercial. emporium of the Western World. ‘With such pushing energy, characteristic of metropolitan enterprise, tho work has been hurried forward to com- Pletion, that where a short time ago were only tobe seen a hugo, frightful and unsightly excavation into the hidden domains of mother earth, and incongruous mingling of stono and mortar aad seaffolds aud brick and marble and busy workmen, wo now behold a ———= structure As from a stroke of the exchanter’s wand, It is true, the structure is not yet wholly completed, and it will bo some time before it is occupied; but its grand and colossal proportions are clear to the passors- by—and no one can pass by without looking at it—and the fact is evident to all that when finished it will be not only a great additional ornament to this portion of the town, but in its admirable design and the rare and skilled workmanship shown on it, exem- plify as strikingly and pointedly as any building in the clty those three chief and indispensable essentials to perfoct architecture—utility, strength and beauty. In our description, based on a careful inspoction and study of the elaborate plans inthe hands of its architect, we shall speak of the building as completed as the only clear and intelligible way of describing it, ‘The Park Bank building—for such is the name by which it has beon christened and will doubtless always go by, even beyond the remote contingency of the bank going into insolvency({and ceasing to exist—has a frontage on Broadway of ifty-nine feet four inches, a depth of one hundred and fifty-nine feos and an Lon Ann street of nine feet six inches, The front portion facing on Broadway is five stories high above the cellar and basement, making @ total height of one’ hundred and four feet from the cellar floor to the highest part of ‘the roof. These five stories, together with the cellar and basement, extend back fifty-five fee. On Anno street the building has threo stories with a collar and basement. The remainder of the structure is only one story in height, besides a cellar and basement underneath, This central or one story Portion of the building is to be occupied as the grand banking room, and, as will be socn as our de- scription progresses, not alone the uniqueness, but the imcomparable utility and porfectness of the plan of the building, in reference to its leading and special feature as a great banking institution, develop and reveal them- selves, We will commence at the foundations, which begin thirty feet below the curb of Broad. way. Here rests the main pressure of the vast superincumbent structure; but in the thick and massive underlying walls are embodied all the required elements of strength, From the dopih of thirty foot to the height of fourteon feet below tho curb the wally are of solid blue stone masonry, averaging e'ght feet thick, The foundation of the front wail is cleven foot in thickness, Under the safety deposit vault the found- ation is of sohd masonry, twonty-four by forty-nine foot and twenty-four feet in height. ‘ino vault itself is of solid granite walls, two feet thick, and, with all the concomitants of safes and iron doors and massive locks and bolts, a sufficient terror to burglars without more detailed description. We certainly give taem the bene- Ot of knowing where the vaults are, without much risk, we imagine, of incurring the displeasure of the bank officers, With the exception of two front rooms in the basemont on Broadway—the one thirty-four by fifty feet and the othet seventeen by fifty feet in size—the residue of this portion of the building is to be occupied by the bank. In addition to rooms for the safes, books and valuables of the bank, thero are to be a fine dressing room here, and a@ rather novel feature in connection with banking institutions—a kitchen and dining room. Tae chief of this department has net been selected yet, so as to throw light on the intended bill of fare, but if it is in keeping with everything else, only a second Soyer can bo chosen to wield the culinary baton, Below the curb fourteen feet begins the main structure, with brick walls averaging five feet in thickness to the collar aud three feet to the basement, and thence two feet to the roof. The front part of the building on Broad. way has eight fect depth of cellar and basoment tem foot, deep, while the first story is seventeen foet high, the second siory seventeen, the third aixteen, the fourth fitteen and the upper story to the roof twenty-one foct high. Ou Ann street the cellar is eight feet deep, the base- Tent ten feot, the first story thirteen, the second story twelve and the third story fourteen feet high, All the Tequisites of harmony and order as well as adaptability to the purposes for which they are intended, and per- fect unity im proportions, are observed throughout the lower part of the building. Thoro are two offices on the first story on Broadway, each twenty by fifty feet, and fitted up with fireproof si In tho second, third, four:h and lifth stories are large rooms, fifty-six by fitty feet in dimensions, Each of the three stories on Ann street have also large and coramodious rooms, adapted, like those of the Broadway part of the building, to the multifarious wants of ail classes of business men, either aa private oificcs, insurance offices, corporation or department offices, stores or warerooms. The rooms are ail superbly lighted, and that sspnichral gloom which pervades so many of our large buiidings and seem- ing air of dampnees, which gives one a chill to look mto them, are effectually banished, Most of the walls are frescoed, the iacilities for ventilation and heating are perfect, and a most ploasme and comforting elegance, combined with more tasteful and exquisite simplicity, are their universal characteristics. A grand staircase twelve feet wide leads up from the first stories, nd those labyrinthian passages and dark and intricate windings, which ome architects in their incapacity to achieve the combination of utility and simplicity strive to palin off as the utmost profundity of design, are utterly wanting, And now, having traversed the whole building under- neath and around and above that portion devoted to the Special occupation of the bank, we will euter the bank~ ing rooms aad notice here the effects of the potent touch of the god Midas, Unqualifiedly it may be stated in the outset that they are the finest panking rooms on this Continent, if not in the world. Architectural in- vention, with powerful anxiliaries, gold and green- backs, ‘have beon taxed to their utmost to Produce the resulis accomplished. As stated above this portion of the building is only one story high, ‘The banking room itself is ninoty feet long by fifty-six foot wide aud uas @ height of forty feet, Tho most curious feature, perhaps, of all, and what cer- tainly will bo the first to attract the stranger's attention, ig the roof, It isan elongated dome, gracefully rising and swolling from the base into an area of vast and imposing oxtent [tis wholly made of iron and thick plate giass, and down through it there comes pouring such a splendid flood of light that on the darkest day no gas is required. ‘Ihe artistic combination of the exquisitely moulded iron work and plate glass gives a most pleasing effect, At the corners of the dome are bronze medallions of incomparable beauty and work- manship, representing respect Scionoe, Art, Indus- try and Justice, Across the east ond south’ sides of the room there extends a balcony ight foct wide, supported by irom beams and ornamental brackets. But the other features of this the marble counters, and ~~7] and wainscoting and carpets, and all its manifok rich appointments, and the tasteful harmony of every- ‘thing, and the grand and beautiful effect of the whoi no words can adequately describo. ‘The fact shoul not be omitted that the banking room is Gtted with a burgiar and fireproof safe, seven by twenty feot and thirteen feet high, divided into two compartments, cach seven by ten feet, with doors In each. Besides the. room doacribed, the banking department will probably uso the southerly front room of the first story on roadway as a reception and oflicors’ room. The directors’ room is in the rear, on the second story. The building is constracted of pure white marble from 's qi ‘Westchester who elso do ail the cuttin, The the architecture of the way of the Roman Corinth to front {e that the first ‘and thenoe to the top of Grecian Corin. ‘thian, win aooard roof, Seaeta eee dormer windows with circular pediments and cornices, supported by caryatide figures, The grand entrance to the building is in the centro, by a flight of ee leading to a bali twelve foot wide. These steps age under a portico eS Jocting four feet beyond the line of street front, This yh, with double columns on each ‘portico ts two stortes hi sido and with broken pediments surmounted by statuary. qT up of statuary consists of three figures. The con- trai figure jast above the main entrance represents Justice, who is in @ sitting posture, holding the scales ot justice in her lof and In ber right the sword of justice, This figure is ton foot in height, and each piece weighs some fifteon tons, The Coy hy the loft represents Abun- dance, who stands with arm on a sboaf of whont aud holding im the hand a sickle, and in her right hand holding @ Cornucopia, The companion figure on the right represents tho Genius of Fin: Sho is holding a he of pleuty im ber right hand, from her coin, her right arm is resting is seatterin iy ing, 80) ported inches from th: of equal size, of like manstv these latter dyures nta Industry, are ail full length and standing, and most artistically wrought from the finest white marble. 1 B - artist, Po * ke @ sculptor. As there ts ct ing 0 ing such artistic, tastofal and ex; exterior decorations, Though the front is very massive and or- nameutal, abundant Hane ts admitted through five tm- mense Windows, each fourteen fect high and six foet windows on either sido the grand entrance ore fifteen feet Lo and eleven feet wide, and divided by ornamental maltiona Plate glass is weed th: shout the buiidiog for windows and doors, Tho entire build~ tog is repro’, with brick arches, ‘and the beams, doors and shutiora aro nil of iron, All the rooms aro heated by steam, Mr, Grifith Thomas, whose fame hed gone before him as the architeot of the now Astor L1- Paciio, Mecropotitan, Importers and Traders’, , Lronawey, Bleecker Sirect Savings, Bow- r banks and commercial edifices, wis bunding, The viae is verlege Taunits, of this city, be soon from the in the city hay- ee. Every requisite that’can be possibly demanded and though} of has been accomplished, The perfection shows itaolf in the perfect arrangement of the several parts, an appropriate adjumment of the materials employed in the work, the symmetry and true proporthons of the different subdhwions, and their harmony with the work, as a whole, no jess than with each other. Everything shroughout shows archi- fectural art in its highest degree of cultivation Mr, J. 1, Smith is the coméracting builder, the carpenter work is done by Messrs. Smith & True, and the non work by J. B. & W. W. Cornell, Messrs. William K. Kitchen, Wilitam T, Blodgett, Oliver Hoyt and Joseph E. Bulkley constitute the bank building committee. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Saturpay, Jan. 4—6 P.M. ‘The gold market was strong and active to.day, the extrome range having been from 133% to 13434, vith the closing transactions prior to the adjouroment of tse Doard at 12434, following which the demand quickencd gud the price advansed to 135, the clowing quotatiom having beom 134% o 135, Cash gold was in supera- bundant supply, owing to the disbursements of the Sub- Treasury, which, up to the close of business yesterday, amounted to about six militons, three-quarters of a million only being in redemption of the bonds of 1847, which matured on the Ist inst, Loans were made at three, four, tive, six, ten, eleven and twelve per cent pey aunum for carryimg, the interval between Saturday aod Monday being coucted as one day. The groze clearings amounted to $54,007,000, the gold balances to $2,207,672, and the currency balances to $3,656,258. The slight declingjin five-twenties in London, and the shipment to-day of $1,182,000 in specie by the City of ‘London and $300,000 by the Chicago, making a total export for the week of $2,787,143, had some effect in stimulating the upward tendency of the promium, which derives atrength from the large “‘short’’ interest outstanding. ‘The temper of the market is rapidiy becoming as‘ Dallish ag it was before bearish, now that the operaters seo that the effect of the Treasury dubursements was over-discounted, ‘Tho daily range of the market during the week was as subjoined:— Lowest. 134 183, bas 13336 low Year's Day. 183% 183%. 124, 18336 SiN iasasg 183%. ie during the last thirty-four weeks. has been as under stated :— samennver st, $170,202 “eptember oe 7? September 28... 657,047 143 October 5....... 207,303 2,787,143 September 7. ——~— September 14... Total ........$42,437,062 ‘The money market was well supplied with capital, and although seven per cont was generally asked for loans on miscellanoous collaterals, first class houses were enabled to borrow all they required at six per oent, and this was the almost invariable rate for advances om government securitica, The Western exchanges are in favor of this city, and the pork crop is nearly all packed, ‘so that the requirements of this branch of trade have been almost entirely met, The drain of currency gouth- ward is at the same time inconsiderable, In the dis- count line there is a very moderate movement, and the best grade of commercial paper passes at 7 a 8 per cont. ‘The statement of the associated banks for tho week ending to-day shows that their average reserve of legal tonder notes is $1,453,269 largor than it was at the date of the last previous return, while the deposits have increased $8,357,596, the loans $4,879,015 and the specie $1,752,645, the only decrease being in the circu- lation to the amonnt of $9 only. ‘The totala of the statements for the weeks ending om the 28th of Decem- bor and the 4th of January respectively are as follows: — December 28, January 4, seeee es $2H4, 620,512 $249,499,327 10,971,969 12,724,014 34,400 Cireuiation.... $4, 134,391 187,070,736 62,111,201 ‘The admission of Mr, Williston B, Loekwood, a mem- ber of the open board, to the firm of Lockwood & Co., which belongs to the rogular board, has created a sen- sation among the members of tho latter, who took ac- tion upon the matter soon after the fact was announced by appointing a committee to report whether Mr. W, B, Lockwood had attended any meeting of the opem board afver he became a member of the frm. The committee reported that he had, and the rulo of the Stock Ex- change being that any member who associates himself or transacts business im any way with the open beard shall forfeit his seat at the board, it was decided by the presiding officer that the representatives of the firm at the board, Mr. Le Grand Lockwood and Mr, Van Buskirk, should cease to be members of that association, which decision, on boing appealed from, was sustained by a voto of 107 to 26. It is a pretty quarrel as it stands, and it remains to be scen what action Mezsrs. Lockwood & Co. will tako in the matter, as they evidently invited this resalt when they admitted Mr. W, B. Lockwood to thor firm, At the samo time the policy of the Stock Exchange is evi- dontly a very narrow one, which requires to be liberal- ized tn order to prevent it from becoming euicidal, At the commencement of business the stock market was firm at the advanced quotations of yesterday, audat the early session of the open board the tendency of prices was upward, whilo Northwostern preferred was the most active of tne railway shares, Now York Cen- Erle, 72% a 72%; Michigan Southern, 85% 985%; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 89 a 8034; Rock Island, 94% a 94%; Northwestern, 69)¢; do, preferred, 71% 072; Pacific Mall, 113% a 113%; Western Union ‘Telegraph, 373;. At tho first regular board the market was strong, and Erie, New York Central and Northwest+ ern preferred were active, while Northwestern common advanced to 60%. Sales of Erie were made as high as 73. New York Central closed 254 higher than at the same time yesterday, Erie , Roading 1%, Michigan South- erm 4%, Cleveland and Pittsburg 1s, Cleveland and Toledo 4, Rock Island %, Northwestern proforred 1%, Fort Wayne %, Milwaukee and St Paul 4, do, pre- ferred %{, Western Union Telegraph 34, Pacific Mail was 1 lower, Atlantic Mail 4%, Government securities were firm. Coupon five-twenties, of 1867, new issue, were 3¢ higher, Tennossee sixes declined }¢, and expross shares Were neglected. At the open board at one o'clock the market was shghtly lower, Erie selling at 75. At the second regular board the market was dull ats further slight decline, New York Central closed 34 lower than. at tho first regular board, Erie 34, Northwestern 134, do. preferred 34, Milwaukee and St, Paul 1, do. preferred 44, Pacifie Mail 154, Cumberiand Coal 1, Western Union Telegraph 1. Fort Wayne was % higher. At the open board at half-past three prices were without any material change, and the volume of business was light. New York Central sold at 11814; Erie, 725; Michigan Southern, 85% ; Rock Island, 9434 9 945; Clevoland and Pitteburg, 8834; Northwostern proferred, 72; Pacfe Mail, 111%; Western Union Tolograph, 3794. During the remainder of the afternoon the market was firm and moderately active, and at the close of business soon after balf-past five the following were the quotations:—New York Central, 118% a 118%; Ene, 125 07274; Reading, 93 a 0334; Michigan Southern, 8634 2 86/4; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 8855 @ 89; Cievoland and Toledo, 9644; Rock Isiand, 95% @ 9514; Fort Wayne, 075 a 97%; Northwestern, 69% 060; do, preferred, 7234 a 72 Pacific Mail, 111% @ 112, Wostemm Union Tolograpb, BT% a 3TH. The following table presents @ comparison of the prices of the leading stocks at the first board today with those current at the same time in October lass, ‘without allowing for dividends paid ta the meantime:— Oct, 4, Jan, 4. Higher, Lower, New York Contral. .109: 1a sg 9 a Bete ...s e006 of 13 1 Hudson River......128 132 “% Reading... % 3 - ay Michigan Southern. $1. 88 4% - Clovel'd & Pitisbarg 70 BON ”% = Cleveland & Toledo.128 05 adiy, — wo% Rook Island. 102% 054 pet tl a4 - ay 60 1% = Aes 5 - us - 31% \ oo ‘There was @ moderate investment demand for govern- mont securities as the counters of the leading doalers, sud the market was sieady, with a firm undortone, Five- twention of 1862 wore firm, and some of the'foroign bankers who were sellers yesterday were buyers to-day, the margin for profit at present prices for gold aud bonds here and abrhad being (00 stuall to enoourago shipments: from tho ather cide, 41 the Goss ihe quotajous wore arr 7 _ Msubjoined :—Registered, 1881, 108% a 10814; coupon, a “31, 10894 a 103%; 5-20's registered, 1862, 1051 » 105, fi 5-20’scoupon, 1862, 107% a 108; 5 20's coupon, tees, 19536 910555; 5-20's coupon, 1865, 1053 a 105% ; 5.20%, ‘O4poM, 1365, January and July, 101% a iss 6-20's ep “POM, 1867, 10434 @ LOLS; ; 10-40's registered, 1015 a 19, % i 10-40"a coupon, 10134 a 10174; June 7.208, 1043, m 104), (: July 7.90’, 10434 a 104%; May com. pounds, 1864, 1173¢ a 11754; August compounds, 1864, 116% 9 11654 ; 8, "ptember compounds, 1844, 116 a 1164; October compoun 'S, 1864, 115% a 116. ‘Mining shares we '¢ dull, At fae first board Consoli- Gated Gregory Gold a (80d So, highsr than at tho same time yesterday, selling at $4.95; Waticlil Lend 4c., sell ing at 60c.; Smith & Par, Melee gold at $3 15; Corydon, 30c, ; La Crosse Gold, 28¢, The foreign exchange mar.ket was firm on the basis of 190% for prime bankers’ sterling at si vty days, bus inactive, ag usual on Saturday. Cotton end produce bills cantinue scarce, and thore ism prospect’ of further considerate exports of coin during the next Www woeks, Bankers’ bills on England at sixty deys wero. yaoted at 110 a MOK; at threo days, 110% a Mss; couwmercial bills, 10034 a 1907(. Bilis om Paris at sizty- days, (\ 15% @ 5.1234; at Yareo days, 5.11%, 5.10, On Aorlin—WPank. ors’, 72 #7214; commercial, 7136 a TI%. On Brou\en— Pankers’, 193; 795; commercial, 734 @ 79%. On Prankiort~Bankws’, 413¢ @ 4114; commenvial, 407% a 41, On Amsterdsra—Bankers’, 41% a 4136; comm cial, 40% a 41%, On Hataburg—Bankew’, 28%; com> mervial, 36 @ 3644, On Antwerp—Dankers’, 6.13% a’ 5.1234; commercial, 5.171 a 5.15, Consuls and Americea secuntics were quoted thus in Londom to-day and on peerious dateas— h Console. 92 92g United 8 2 74, Erie.. 4956 485 Innols Central 8955 8: ‘The length and cost of constructivof the railwaya im the New Dominion are thus show: Coleburg and Petorboro. 14 184,084 London and Port Staniey. 24g 212229 Welland......... 253g 383,460 13 19,686 12 11,116 “ 249,868 133 1/809, 008 214 1,700,000 A bill has passed tho Tennessee Legislatare "which ap- propriates in State bonds to the yurious rallro.tds of the ‘State now in oporation or projected $4,652,000, n.tmely :— Knoxville and Kentucky, $800,000; Nashvilie'i\ad 'Alae bama, $300,000; Cincinnati, Culberland Gag, and) Charleston, $200,000; Nashville and Decatur; $3(0,000; Southwestern, $300,000; Memphis and Chariaston, $300,000; Mississippi Central, $200,000; Mississippi smd Tennessee, $100,000; Tonnesseo and) Pacific, $800,000; Knoxville and Charleston, $150,000; East Teanceses and North Carolina, $100,000; Nashville and Nerth- western, $550,000; Edgefield and Kentucky, $300,000; East Tennessee and Virginia, $50,000, ‘The transactions for the week at the Custom: House~ and Sub-Treasury in this city have been as follows: Cusiom House —+Sub-Treasut Paymen's, 2,727,005 2,155,463 Totals. $1,158,836 $19,267,464 $12 552,646 Bal in Sub-Treas, on morning ¢f Deo, 30. . 104,240,548 ¢ 664,723 Decrease 6,044,818 * SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. Saturday, Jan. 4—10:15 A. M. 1eov ety Brio RE. 2 0. $10000 US 6'a,'81, r, 12M 108: 2000 US 2 oy 189 LONE oy" ee 20000 US 6's, 5.20, ¢ 65 1057 1000 di lock 10975 500 6000 od xe LEG 600 Fludsor 7000 US b.,c°O7 NIM 1044 SYS Reading RR. 0000 US 3 do, 10 sh Ninth Nat Bank 101 22 Fourth National Bic 123g 500 100 Cum Coal prof. 560 Western U: Fs 0. 8735 96 100 Pacifit M. nike $a) Adntic Mail 38 Co 112% 2% (00 do... «= LB a7 . 6f oe 81 97! 130 1s he a Half-past Two o’Clock P. M. 15000 Tenn 6's, new... 200 shs Mich S ANI RE 86 be re 09 Mar ae Cim ik pret. NB in 98 cy fal Wit: SSTPSET! we, rweé 40" do. 890 Ohio & 3 +. ows 209 Hos, Har & Erie BK 12} WITTICISMS. [From the Evening Tolegram.] A silent partnor—General Grant, The sheriff's religion—Writ-ualism. ‘Tho “yard arm’’—Thirty-six inches, A “tight” placo—A drinking saloon, Only Gt for a cat’s concert—The tom-tom, How can a night watchman get bis per diem? Tho best dramatic story on the stago—Risiori, The dancing master’s paradiso— A hop garden. ‘What is the best color tor a good action ?—Dur. . Soward’s title will horeafter be Secretary of Vote ‘he Voices of the night’’—Those blessed babica They don’t use perfumes at the mint for making cents, ‘ 0 best material for soldiers’ boots—The "Ides of March, rponters should be looked after; many of ‘hom are Car counter fitters, ‘The reason wo admire. pretty feet—Lecause all's wolb that onds well. . Does a cow become real estate when she ‘s turned into a meadow? The ‘lasses candy wedding is when the frt-baby get> big enough to lick. If “Beauty draws us by «single hair,” who can with. stand a modern waterfall? Some one calls the time of squeezing girls’ hands the palmy season of life, It may be paradoxical, but ® generous hatel landior@ is an inn-bospitabie man, Twenty-four grains make one pennywoight Cne dram makes fifteen pennice go Accompany formed for the production. of tar may with propriety be called a target company. ‘Thero wera not righteous people enough in Sodam to Savo it, but there was a pretiy good Lot. “Charley, what makes you so sweet?’ Dod made me of dust ho put a little thugor Brigham. Young conducts his conauvial adair.on the Principle of “large busicess and sraal! prophets.” Aman who had a scolding wife. being asked what be did for a living, replied that he kept a not houe. A husband, on being told the other evening that Lue wife bad lost her tempor, repiied.that he was.giad of ih for it was a wary bad one, Why are tho radicals puffing and blowing so (re mendously just now? Becausmthey are hewing & loug> winded Cl after the Presidency, ‘The frantic Julia, in the Hunchback,” exsiaims, Gul-lolef-cord, why don’t you to ma?” Tae radi- cals are now exclaiming, “G-r-r-s-ant, why Gout Jou speak to us?” “Never listen to flatterers,” said a mother to, hep “1 doss when” daughter, “Why, mothes, how shail / know thas th flatter without I listen?’ was the quick sespomse young Sites. Tt ts anid of a fashionable dy who weal to a party not tong e that she arrived there about the fine of the evening, but the lasi of her dress, did not arsivo uncil after we o'clock. If the humane Prosident of the Society for the Pre- vention of Crueitg to Animals should emixrate to our Russian Amorican he would be ro ded by the seals, walruges and bears as a nice Bergh, eller to bring s house, aieued the road footed guest to go (urtner and use the fork in the road just beyoad, Asmall having been cur-tailed of his “fair toa" presented Hoty at the Brokers’ ioard tur dite ant, being troubled with the “shorty”? but wea refused Vecausc Re wud Unalne t@ Broduce cobanerse 7