The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1868, Page 8

8 <a mispmsinmieeaiianiiaanig, RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, | porreds«,, The Pith church, of Cincinnt, at NEW CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, verts on profession of their faith, In Jefferson- ville, Ind., twenty-five have joined the Presbyte- rian church. Seven out of the thi churches of this * The consecration of the new Church of Mes- | city have lately been we Twelve have been ; siah (Dr. Osgood’s) will take place on the even- fog of April 2. The sermon will be preached by fhe pastor, and the prayer of consecration will be offered by Dr. Gannett, of Boston, the coWeague and added to the church in Brooklyn, of which Rev. Mr. Barrelle is pastor, and the churches in Wood- | hull, Geneva, Saugerties and Amsterdam, have | received large accesions of new _ converts. Seventy have just united with the High street ™: Se! A NEW RELIGIOUS CRAZE IN ENGLAND. Rev, Speke’s “Insight” into the “Principles” ef the Bible—His Dread of Hie Fiends uud Fear of the Telegraph. {Bodinin (February ‘Sey oorenapangence of Lendon nes, ch i Mr. W. Speke, brother of the long missed clersy- an, Mr. urdoch, his brother-in-law, and Detective rgeant Williamson arrived at Bodmin this moraing | by the London mail, They had ap interview with the Chief Constable, Colonel Gilbert, and subse pac 5 . church in Baltimore. From five Baptist | quently left with Mr. Speke for London. paca Chang Titaarpacian tasihare churches in Chicago aceounts of s fruit- | Wire Cneke ives a full account of his pr 38 ‘ge attenda‘nce of the clergy from New ful religions interest reach us. In ten ; since leaving London, Onthe night of bis departuye 1 Fagland and this vicinity, When finished it will be | towns of Indiana, three of Iilmois, four of | he went to Basingstoke, and next day wi ned Je of the handsome'st churches of which this city | Pennsylvania, four of Connecticut and two of Mas- | poh eet Bre iS es h Pe ebcnca ek | The front ‘of the edifice m of brown stone, | @achusetts, the Baptist churches have been re- | following he proconded to lishapmiate, tnt tks Oo vived. At Blanchester, Ohio, and at Danville, = Ky., one hundred converts have been baptised. A | new church was organized at Union Mills, Iowa, | in February, by forty penone: recently converted under the ministry of Rev, 8. G. Nelson. In five other towms of the same State mich religious in- ‘with Cleveland sf.one trimmit and the style ‘ef the architecture Rhenish. PT he face of the eharch is to be bysautifally carved and ornamented, and in the centr’, of it is a handsome rose window ‘of stained glass, with the painting of a dove in the entre. There will be three entrances, and the caps ‘ef the main | pill: i i ir | terest prevails. Within the last fortnight, in all, architecture, Tho oat aymbolicat 2.2 yd fifty Baptist churches have been heard from, and | the ceiling is fifty feet, and the interior is | report an aggregate accession of 1,240 members. to be furnist ed in accerdance with the exterior. evivals have taken place in twenty more Con- | gregational churches. churda has received fifty, and chureh thirteen new members. In Chicago seventy have joined the Tabernacle, New England and the First churches. The Vine et society, Cincin- | nati, have just admitted cighteen converts to mem- | bership. At five towns in Vermont; at Keene, N. H.; Little Compton, 8. 1.; Mystic and Seymour, Conn.; Holliston and Sandwich, Mase,; New Balti: | more and St. Joseph, Mich., revi' are now | enjoyed, and many have been added ¢o the | k ae The tewn of North Hampton, Minn, a3 There will ’ Je side galteries in the building, which Will rest er .tirely upon brackets, doing away alto- ge with pillars, Behind the pulpit isa very andsom¢ , chancel piece, upon the four pillars of which ar e represented the Evangelists, and in beau- tiful sere 11 work over all, appropriate inscriptions. There ¥ /ill be two organs, or mere properly speak- iS, OW @ an divided into twe parts, one part at each € nd of the Mery. When finished ‘fhe church, toclud ing the elation will seat about fifteen hun- red’ persons. There is also a handsame lecture Foew ; attached’to the rear of the main ‘building. TROUBLES OF ‘THE MISSIONARY IN ATHENS. e State street | 1 interest prevailing there that at a recent meet- | © ing iifty rose to aak for the prayers of Christiens. | ™ A correspondest writes from Nerwalk, Ohio: “The revival in this vicinity has resulted in over eighty hopeful conversions.” Thus from twenty Congregational churches we receive reports of more than 500 conversions. Rev. Mr. Schenck, pastor of the Reformed church of Pempton Plains, N. J., writes:—“‘At ‘our communion on the Ist inst., we received forty ! Rev. Jonas King, D. D., ‘has written the foltew- wag letter, fram which it appears that on bis re- ‘yarn to Athems he has been subject:d to peraeeu- tion by the ecclesiastical and @vil authorities combined. | Dr. King in all his drials will enjoy the warmer it sympathy of his numerous friends in this and of her lands, and if need be, he wil feel the protecting arm of his own government, ef which he has himself beew a noble repre- sentative :— be AveeEns, Greece, Jan. 28, 1868. Messu s. Eprrors:--You'witl be surprised, per- haps, to hear that I have aga‘n been cited to ap- pear b/:fore a court of justice in this place, te answer to an accesation brought against me by the “H oly Synod” of Greece. The citation I re- ceived lest Friday morning, and went immedi- ately € o the courtto be examined according to the order’ thereiu contained. The cjrder wes as follows:—“Having in view artitl 25 187, 189 and 190 of the penal code, we cite Jonas Leiag, an inhabitant of Athens, te appear befor e ns immediately on the reception of this prest snt citation, to be examined on a certain pees 1 subject; and we inform him that in case of ony ayspearance he will be condemned to a fine and an order during the past two months. Sixteen of this number | 1 are heads of families.” The seme ed thirty-eight were added to the Reformed church at Greenpoint, Long Island. Twetve Lutheran churches report an accession of £16 members. Five of tl churches are in Ohio and three in Pennsylva: The Lombard street church, in Baltimore, Mé has admitted twenty-six new converts. At Loc! ort, N. Y., Ritchwood, Ind., and Zion, Ill., the religious interest. ORDINATION OF MISSIONARIES. i Three members of the last class in the Union HY Theological Seminary, of this city, have been re- cently ordained as foreign missionaries and expect to sail next month for Turkey, under the care of i to bring hit fe Fad seco POG AUN 7 roe. the American Board. T' sis was signed by the examining judge, who, on wy appearance, and after asking the usual Mr. Alpheus N. Andrus was ordained last month que siions—What is your name? at is your | in the First Presbyterian church of Poukeepsie. | r ege * Where were you born and what is your us fassion!—read me the following accusation— # t in the little book (which I wrote in The sermon was preached by Dr. N. G. Clark, Foreign Secretary of the American Board. Rev. Gy eek and published in 1863), entitled, attain ivered the charge and offered the cg {pimercf Jonas King, to s pamphlet.enutied |r "Sys Band was ordained. Taseday oven ing @ siystia Macarios Kealliarchow,” you reviled the | of last week by the First Presbytery of New | three inches. York, in the church on Fifth avenue, corner of | g) Nineteenth street. Rev. Dr. James 0. Murray sristian religion ; that zou blasphemed against led. Rev. Dr. John Hall preached vt Holy Mother of God and ever-Virgin Mary, gainst the worship of the Holy Images, against i pe tnaniceion of the sacred councils, against the vi 8 Apes + @ivine transubstantiation. What have you to livered the change to the newly ordained mission- auswer! * T replied that in my ttle book mentioned there was no blasphemy or reviling, and that { would | gre him a copy of the same for him to examine, | at he might judge for himself as to the truth or falsehood of the accusation. The accusation was signed by the Metropolitan Bishop of Athens, Theophilus, who is President of the Synod, and three other bishops, namely—Kal- Tinieus of Phthiotis, Procopius of Octylus, and ccnamece of Hydra, the 3d of August (léth N. , 1863. But the Council of the Criminal Court, before whom I am now to be tried, did not, as it seems, take up the subject till the 20th of September (2d Oct., N.8.), 1866, at which time the order was given by that body for my examination. But ae I was then in the United States nothing further was done till I received the citation above men- tioned. This is, I believe, the sixth time that I have been elted to appear before the courts of justice here to answer to nearly the same accusations. The ey is essentially the same as that brought 28 SQ: sermol date, offered the prayer of ordination, und Rev. ry. Mr. William B. Locke was ordained at the Broadway Tabernacle, in this city, on Sunday evening last. ‘The introductory services. were | conducted by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Joseph P. Thompson and Professor H. B. Sinith, D. D. The sermon was preached by Rev. W. I. Budington, D. D.; ordaining prayer hy Milton Badger, D. D. charge by Rev. Sar Clark, D. D., Secretary of the A. B.C. F.M., end right hand of fellowship by Rev. A. B. Kittredge. M . Bond and Locke are to join the Bulga- riau Mission, Western Turkey, and Mr. Andrus the Eastern Turkey Mission at Mardin. INDIANA BAPTISTS. Indiana has @ population of 1,500,000. Among these are 30,397 Baptists, gathered in 457 churches, which have only 196 pastors. Only forty-one churches in the State have settled pastors, who preach every Sunday, these are sustained in part by the State Con- veution and Home Mission Society, Last Con- vention year the denomination in this State em- loyed 21 missionaries, and contributed $8,441 79 | i wards their support, a sum which is perhaps twice as large as was ever betore contributed by the same people in the same length of time. This is one of the most encouraging signs of the times. PRESBYTERIAN REUNION, The joint committee of the two schools of Pres- byterians, at their recent meeting in Philadelp! unanimously adopted the following plan of anion. It will be submitted to the two General Assem- blies this year for final ratification:— 1, The Philadelphia basis as to doctrine, with the addition of a brief explanatory clause. 2. The two Boards of Publication shall continue their separate catalogues of publications until the united Assembly shall organize its first Board of Pablication, wlien the two catalogues shall be re- ferred to it for revision, it being understood that only invidious references to the late division shall | ¢ be erased. 3. The right of presbyteries to examine minis- ters applying for ac ion was agreed to, the Old School yielding the imperative rule, and’ leaving each presbytery to examine as disposed. 4. Theological seminaries are all to be advised to put themselves under assembly or synodical | control, and upon such submission’ is conditioned | their recoguition and recommendation by the as- sembly. 5. Ail imperfectly organized (plan of union) era | churches are to be advised to perfect their organi- zations presbyterially within five years, or oiher- wise be dropped from the rolls. No new churches organized upon the old “plaa of union’ are to be at inst me in 1861, and for which I was tried me and condemned to imprisonment and exile. When the accusation was sent to the court by the “Holy Synod,” in 1863, I was here, but knew gothing of it. Had I known itI should not have ne to the United States the year after. And it well thatI came back to meet the trial; for had remained in America, as Pay 4 of my friends urged me to do, it might have been thought by ~ae that I remained through fear of being brought q trial. To several of the judges before whom | am to be tried in the criminal court, and whom I met at the court house the day after my examination, and to cach of whom I gave a copy of my “Answer to the Bishop of Carystia,” J sai “As an American lam for the keeping of the law. If Ihave trans- gressed any law condemn me; but if not pro- Bounce me innocent.” This will be, I think, the last drama in my mis- sionary life at Athens. If I am tried aud pro- Bounced by the court not guilty, it will put a stop forever to the courts giving heed to such aceusa- tions as the “ Hol tees has often brought against me. And hou id I, as in 1852, be con- @emned to risonme: ind exile, I shall then, Lage ag) consider ita plain duty to pay Kit to my friends in the United States. JONAS KI SEASOY OF REVIVALS. truly, During the last fortnight intelligence has reached us of revivals in more than 120 churches not be- fore heard from. The number of new converts is 8,930, of whom 2,843 have become imex ef the church, From many revivals already reported in onr columns additional and cheering 29th of January, occupying himself ‘by vis! various places ti the locality. a | Mouth by steamboat on the 30th, aya stayed there till February 16, during which time ‘he visited Salt- ash, Cotehele, Egu-Bucktand, St, Germans, Tamer- | ton, Roborough, Ivy neighborhood. @itended church at St. proceeded to Fowey, a smait ‘port on the South coast, ‘e Purita: and thence to Lostwithiel au the 20th, In Brooklyn the Puritan | podiin, and put up at asécond rate tpn, the Queen’s he was arrested, Bodmin. His tucgage was in several smali bays en- closed in one large Dag. ‘The money found in his gives views, and 101 t | did not go abroad at once, abeut the country, he said he knew it would have been of no use to attempt it, for the telegraph would have been set to work and detectives placed on the watch to stop him, He hoped by moving about the country from place to place to keep them om the scent, and that after a time he would be | able to embark from a seaport without being sus- amateur dramatic exhibition of David and Goliah, Tay | inthe for a rn © | of the Philistine borne from the are Rev. Dr. Bond, the father of the candi- | graclites in dress coats, lies secret societies of all sor may pro of this kind. movement for a general to adopt measures to counters jurions influences of secret societies, Wilson and sev the heads of various colie masonry, agi waged ‘centur apecial object of attack, societies will be included in the crusade. Chaldean just arrived Sulpice Cl the Chaldean rite that has visited France. nearly thirty of w and, during brated siege of Sebastopol and at the battles of Magenta and Solferino, ministering to the soldiers that he was called upo: another deadly and protract every sold ven the most appalling dangers and his God-like eharity at all times and to all peoples. Christ ¢ rett Van Horn, wh te ister in the Methodist F) been appointed to a men. for Christian work (excels for the alned in the neighborhood of Portsmoufh tit me He arrived at bridge and other places in the On Sunday, the 16th of February, he Gerovans; the pext day he He weut to jead. On the 2ist ke went to Padsiow, where having left ‘hts lugeage at jon. amounted to £200 in notes and gold. Ile ‘Was somewhat excited when breught to Bodmin, but talked quive rationally to the Chief Constabie. He appears, however, to entertain peculiar relt- said his great object in leaving to some country where nobody so that he might me was to new anything about him, work for his living and preach the Gospel to opulstion of about 200 adults and a church | his fellow laborers. He had obtained, he said, with thirty members. So general is the religions | much greater insight than heretofore into the prin- iples of the Bible by his lonely study of It on the ‘ocks by the sea shore. When asked why he instead ef roaming wcted. His plans for the future were to return to Bodmin and attend church there on Sunday, and | Members on-confession of their fuith, as the fruit | then to visit various places of Interest on the’ Cor- of the Ereckons revival we have been enjoying | nish coast; after which he proposed to proceed to ‘Ufracombe and cross by steamboat thence to Swan- sea. With that view he had ascertained the times of sailing of the steamers. he intended to walk through pool, On getting to Swansea Wales to Liver- and there embark for America, He ad- mitted having read the newspapers dally, but said the excitement cansed in the country by his disappearance had no etfect in altering his determi- nation to carr: a however, to his¢rother that he was now ashamed of Lutheran churches are rejoicing in a season of what he had done, and seemed affected by his posi- tion, composed, but appeared dejected, out his scheme, He acknowledged, On leaving Bodmin for town he was calm and From the Western Morning News we learn that Mr. Speke’s friends attribute the freak to his unwill- ineness to marry. He is perfectly sane, The Cornish police are to have the reward promised by his friends for his discovery. MISCELLANEOUS RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The young people of Colebrook, Conn., gave an in their church in they presented the tragedy Goliah could readily be ecently, whe: distinguished from David by his first lieutenant’s uniform, while David could in turn be recognized | by being taller than the Philistine giant by about The curtain was drawn to allow the to sling his antagonist, but receded spectators to see the prostrate form a by sundry hepherd’s A religious crusade has been started against 3, Which it is to be hoped more success(ul than former attempts Prominent clergymen and laymen of 10 less than ten Protestant sects have united in a Christian convention, to e held at Pittsburg during the first week in May, t the alleged in- Senator wether with omised to ttend and take part in the pre za. Pree t which the Church of Rome has of war, will of course be the but all kinds of secret 1 Congre: Mgr. Mill , sent to Rome to represent the acopate at the centenary frites, has Paris. He is staying ut ‘the Saint al School, and is the first bishop of The New Orleans papers of the 5th instant con- tain lengthy memoirs of the late Abbe Francois Isidore Turgis, pastor Anthony, commonly known as w and twelve of | Chapel,” who died on Tuesday morning, the 3d, ot cancer of the stomach, supposed to have been superinduced or aggravated by the great labors he underwent and the privations be suffered charch of St. “Mortuary of the in ministering to the sick during the terrible epidemic of last summer, Father Torgis was a native of Curauply, canton igny, department of Manche, France, and sy rat years of age at the time of bis uth. He had been: thirty-eight years a priest, h were spent performing the duties of chaplain in the army and navy of France, that period te was at the cele laced under his spiritual care. He came to New Irleans in 1860, and it bat two years after » be a spectator of strife, in whic! rinagreat ariy learned to love and rate him for his calm, heroic edurage amid Odenheimer conferred ors rch, Newark, yesterday ont was admitted to. the Bi He) hw deacon. Mr. Van Horn had recently been a min- iscopal church. He has ize wear Newton, N. J. The River Mersey Missions for Seamen Society, 1 ed that uid conversed wi ipture readers paid 6,898 visite, conversed with 16,000 men and distributed 000 tracts, The society was formed for bring: religion “ home’ to seamen, either on ship- doronshore. The results at satisfactory. Fifteen Old School churches have contributed e of contributions and “congrega- vie On shore the S ” “contingent fy intelligence has Ween received; and we can | received. tional purposes”) $407,000, Add to these nine Snnounce that since January 1 accounts have { Ali the indications point to the approval of this | others, that have each contributed from reached us of 700 revivals, 13,500 conversions and | $5,000 to $8,000. We find then ths plan by the assemblies and the speedy consolida- $,540 additions to the different evangelical | tion of the Presbyterian Church. churches, excluding the Methodista, of whom we Tp have kept no accnrate record. A good work is IRRELIGIOUS REPORTERS. four churches contributed & ehnrehes, with 23 tributed $553,000, t twenty. 9,000 communicants, e ond the remaining 2,598 7,000 communicants, have con- The average for each of the also going on among our ieee of this persua- : bd tw abet sen ' $19,250, and for lon, and an exchange states that 8,201 cases of s is each communuicant $51. In the remaining 2,598 Bonet conversions bave been lutely reported in | _ The London Star of the 3d of March reports :— | Churches the average. ia $225 for each church and ® single week by Methodist pastors. At a meeting of the clergymen of Durham and | $2 46 for each communicant. The first four of these The most remarkable, perhaps, of the revivals reported the past fortnight is taking place at New Albany, ind. All evangelical Christians share in the blessing. Daily meetings are well attended in the churches. A correspondent of Northuinberland, held at Newcastle on Thursd: relative to the Bishop of Datham’s fund for church building in the diocese, the proceedings were opened with prayer, and when it waa over the “the Christian Herald saya:—Religion is the chief i and everywhere. Business men had rather talk | Wick, rose aad complained to the presi- about the conversion of eouls than the sale of goods. The work exceeds enything that has been Witnessed here for many years.” It is stated in the secwar papers that more than one hundred ined the various cherches of the city the week efore last, aod in all three hundred conversions ‘have taken place since the beginning of the year. The same reviving aud converting spirit is bless- fps the city of Stockton, in California, The San Tancisco Occident says of the gracious work:— dent of what he termed the indecent and irre- verent conduct of the gentlemen of the press | in retaining their seats during the devotional exer- cies, instead of kneeling upon the floor of the vestry jn common with the rest of the Med The reporters were displeased at the juterference. The reverend gentleman added that he hoped the chairman next time would see that the re- porters conformed with the rest of the persons at “ The Ot ened German, Methodist, Epis- | the meetin, in oing «down upon their opal and Presbyterian churebes are united | knees. Neither the chairman nor the archdeacon io the services which are held inthe st Pres | of Durham (Mr. Prest), or other dyterian church. The attendance is very large, | dignitaries had a word to say on the subject, and ‘many goiog away for want of room/o accommo | Mr. Gate them. The interest is unusual. Forty have | Chariesworth, one of the reporters, at the request ready been hopefully converted andgnany more | of his colleagues, Mr. Charlesworth said that Mr. ere anxiously seeking the Saviour, The tone of fe, ie ty never more harmonious. of the Episcopal church are .in- terested workers in the meetings and give theta their hearty support. Forty of the churches most recently revived are wanting in respect to the chairman, to the meeting, and that they were not only guilty | p, God. They liad to protest publicly against t seer tions, hose nd to express the opinion that Mr. open handed churches are ehurch on the corner of Fifth ave teenth street heads the list with stands the University place chareh the Brick church, $57, corner of Fifth avenue and Twelfth street, $54,500. elected F pastor of the Forty- church, having fail visit to Europe. of the | sity at Del ated inthiscity. ‘The and Nine- 56,000; next 10,800; third, and fourth, the chureh 700, The Rev. H. B, Paddock, of Detroit, who was piscopal Missionary Bishop for the State nd Washington Territory, has declined. ck waa elected bya majority of one in doubiful quorum of bishops. The health of the Rev. William A. Scott, D. D., econd street Presbyterian d, his congregation have given leave of absence, and besides continuing his and supplying the pulpit have presented with the sum of $3,000 for the expense of a He sails this week. The Board of Trustees of the Wesleyan Univer- ire, Ohio, have decided that the: was nothing in the charter or laws of the Univer- Richards was therefore replied to by Mr. | sity against the admission of colored persons. Rev, Robert Grattan, of unmixed African descent, has been admitted into the senior preparatory Richards’ remarks implied that the reporters were | class. Many of the Methodist families in Philadelphia ave requested that during the next session of of ialecency but of irreverence to Almighty | Conference no preachers be sent to them who use tobacco. Presbyterian, The Cohocksink church, Philadel- hards, on reflection, would regret what he had | , 1” self-denying effort no branch of the Church \\phia, has lately received to its communion seventy- | said in the liberty which he had taken, He (ir, | $xoveds the "Moravians,Thele missiouaries sven members on profession of their faith, Ag | Charlesworth) felt that the gentlemen of the preas | 9° Feds seek out the most civilized and srysville and Milford Centre forty-three ‘have | had been greatly wronged. If it was any watts. | @¢veloped among the unbelieving | nations, «on received, while six other towns of Pennaylva- } faction to the Rev. Mr. Richards, he might tell but the most ignorant and degraded. They send nia have been blessed with similar tokens of the pe \'s presence. Eleven churches in Illinois, five in diana, and three in Missouri are enjoying fruit. ful seasons of religious interest. At the last com. manion jn the church of Stanton, Va., tweuty. three fessed their faith in Christ. Forty con. hat when he engaged in prayer ot bome it was ns custom to kneel; but in the public mecting the renroval of the chaira would have created noise, courusion, and disturbance far more irreverent | * than the retention of the seats was alleged to o e. Purther, Mr. Richards had no right te assume ‘erta were Added the present month to the Second | as to the opinions of the reporters and the attitude | fa nee church in St. Louis, of which Rev. | which aay one ought to adopt in public prayer » Nicoolls is pastor. In San Franciseo the First | Mr. Richaess explained that (+4 saw one oft eres resbyterian church, under the pastoral care of porters leaning back in his chair and seeming v. Dr. Hells, has reccived an accession of twelve | indifferent dayin, prayer, 1 he was mistaken he members, and the Central chureh one of eight | was glad. Hes'mply judged from appearances, ame At ee Th rg, EY — Obio; | and felt the indifference keenly» One of the cler- rant Vem an logan, 9 ‘roy, Cl gymen expressed the hope thet the reporters fows, the opirit has been 4 i fu Gi tinda and Montezuma, would overlook the Rev. Mr. Richatds’ remarks, are the nissionary pioneers of the Charch. acres in Ma, wll! coun! beaa thin ye.*. bean was racsed Buccessfujly and protitavty ta Pontotoc county's a4 a inl was established frou | missionaries to the Bxquimaux of Lebrador and reentand, to the negroes of the West Indies and of Surinam, to Central Asia, to the Huttentots, nd to those most degraded of all humau beings, ¢ inhabitants of the interior of Avetratia. ms heir ith and devotion to God's hardest and most an- promiainrg work is sublime. The Hon Springs (ies) “Reporter says several Ly wil, be planted in the castor It states that vefore the war tue nich @ large supY!¥ Of cold pressed castor oll Was furnished. a OUR FEQRIES AND THEIB, wayaceuENT. Third Day ef the Seasi a of the Legislative Committee on Cow oreo and Navigution— Interesting Stat’ ...nt5 Made by: Directors, Employees 0” Rerries, Outsiders, Editors, Reporters" 4g Guns and Little Guns—Every~ thing Sar t ry ™ 1 gaiative Commiteee on Commerce and Navig?'doa, of which Lawrence D, Kiernan 4g, cha) coaan, held ite third and probably final session ‘ip ‘te city yesterday, at the Metropolitan Hotel, lisren- ‘ng ‘to the testimony of parties interested in the ferries ‘pecuniarily and otherwise. The session was pro- ‘tracted until seven o'clock P, M, and all the evidence that was offered patiently taken. Below will be found the material points in the stateme.nts of the stand was the great raliroad king mow 7.t war with different witnesses, The first gentleman ‘ylaced on the Danie! Drew for the control of the stod’x market and the great railroads leading northwafd from this city, the Hudson, the Harlem and Erie), ‘and competitor with Robert Bonner in the matter of owning the fastest trotters that ever went at lightning pace through Harlem lane. Cornelius Vanderdilé sworm--I reside in New York; am not interested in the @erries; do not cross the ferries; interested in nothing in the shape of a steam vessel afloat, Roland Johnson, of Orange, N. J., sworn—Am & merchant in this city; am not interested in any of the ferries; know little of the workings of the fer- ries except the one which plies to Hoboken; the im- provements on this ferry since last year have been very great; new ferry houses and bridges with floate have been constructed; have dou- Died their slips; the modes of egress and in- gress are now admirably arranged; a new ferry house and slip at the foot of Christopher street have also been erected; at Barclay street a new slip has been erocted additional to the one which was there; witness considered these improvements due to the investigations of the committee of last year; the class of employs have improved; Captain, Chase, the new ferry superintendent, is exceed- ingly efMcient; the residents of Hoboken, being mostly German, were in” the habit of smoking on the ladies’ side ef the boat and in the ladies’ cabins; the boats are teo small for the travel, there being only two boats; there has been much detention owing to ice the past season; there ought to be four boats; at a signal from the pilot of the boat the gates are closed and the people pre- vented from risking their lives by jumping on the boats when leaving the slips; the boats are long and narrow, and were built with a view to speed; _ there are six boats on the Barclay and Ohristo- pher street ferries; I appear here voluntarily; no one interested pecuniarjly in the ferries invited me to cat! here; I am a*stockholder in the Morris and Essex Ratlroad; two, sometimes three boats are rnn on the Barclay street ferry; they make fifteen-minute trips; there has been some complaint this winter about the irregularity of the boats, not much, cansed by the tce obstructing the river and navigation; in life-saving appliances the company have complied with the law; do not know whether, in case of collision, any of the boats would snik; they are lined with tin boxes and efforts have been made by scuttling a boat to sink it, but it was found im- possible; we have not boats enough; the improv ments have been mainly opposed by Mr, Stephen the ferry houses are not properly ventilated; the waiting house at Barclay street is built directly over a sewer, and is, doubtless, injurious to health; the approaches to the Barclay street slips are very bad the strects are muddy; the Barclay street house is being tmproved; the ferry ts part of the property of the Hoboken Land and Improve it Company, the stock of which is nearly all owned by dir. Stephens. Joseph J. O'Ponohine sworn—Reside in New York; formerly resided in Williamsburg; am a merchant; am interested and a director in the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company; the boats are in good condition; think the boats are suricient to meet the sts of the community; the fare is three cents: last ur the dividend was ten per cent.; have received nothing; have paid for losses; there {3 no sur- the company owns land on the otier side of the it is worth from $490,000 to $509,000; the river river; frontage is about 1,000 feet; [have seen as man: 800 passengers on board a boat; in the event of an td run into a stip; in the event ed in by the ice the passengers would have to depend on the buoyancy of the boat; the reason why we charge but two cents on the Bridge street ferry ts because we have to compete with the Catharine street ferry; found the cabins of the boats in good condition; have not examined the never heard of complaints in regard to the ; have heard of no complaints of late; ladies’ waiting rooms are now exclusive to ladies; no smok- ing is permitted in the ladies? cabins; we have a superintendent of the ferry; there are two superintendents: the dnties of these oficers 1s to Bee that the boats run regularly, to crap toy and discharge the pilots, deck hands, &c.; there are women employed to keep the boats clean; do not know whether boats could be built so as to be fire- proof; de vot think it would be an Improvement to build boxts of tron; contd not say whether boats could be built with watertight compartments; one year the dividend exceeded ten per cent; it might have been twelve per cent; ft has been greater than twelve per cent; cannot say how large its greatest dividend has been; cannot say how much the com- any Nas ie or is making this have only been a dl! fr one rear; do not know where Mr. Hunt, treasurer of the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Cou ny, can be seen; we charge more for a light wagon than for a business vehic CG Baxter, sworn—Resides tn W accident the boat ea of a boat being hem engaged ferries as nuisances tof them, are oid; the without cane tn them; the once a week; one be waited tn tine weather fora boat twet the waiting houses are dirty aad broken down: the wailing rooms are t safe from fire in the winter time; the approaches are fair; the life preservers are zh that no man out of Barnum’s Museum could get at them; the lifeboats are ta hold two, not more with z will save, pertiaps, one KO 10-140 the boats, bins have cane seats aned about ti each? m a nit carries bé- 100 a » preservers; in case of a sudden awenlent no one could be saved except he could wim the traitic on the ferry 1s ood; the company is | fuanctatly good; the rea! estate of the compa worta $200 ie running foot; the hands are civil; we never get into the sip st + generaily get in skteways, by squeezing; don't know about the ability of the ptiots; on Roosevelt street the company ought ve five good boats run ning; they now have from three to five run- ning; have heard of aceients; have heard of steamers sinking and beta picked up again; there ougit to be new houses and a means adopted by w be prevented from geting wz the crowds from jumping y re on board hese boat the only ni waving Ife would be to jump over. board; 2 life-saving apparatus could be put on board each boat that would save every soul; such a one was offered the company and deciined, although cheaper than life preservers; the water closeis are exceedingly filthy; the bridges on the Roosevelt street ferry are good; on the Grand street ferry they are vot so good, being old fashioned; the ferry has frequently been’ complained of through the press; the Idaho has been refitted and is the only boat that is in good order on the ferry. Richard Poillon sworn:—Reside in New York; am & director and stockholder ‘n the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Compan, onsider the boats of the com- ay in good condition; tie company contemplate improvements; it is proposed to reilt the ferryhouses on the New York side; the boats are kept clean; the directors desire to accommodate the trav ci pud- lic; Messrs. Chapel and Coie are the superintendents; Tam a director in the company; Lown about $75, worth of stock; the capital stock is $1,000,000; can’t remember the dividends of last year; for four’ years he dividends have averaged eight and one-half per cent; one year we declared tweive per cent; the ‘assets “last year wees greater than ever before; could not tell how much was paid for my st ck; no land has been purchased since | became @ stockholder; the boats cannot snk below the guards; the Nebraska did not sink below the guards; cannot how much of the stock 1s owned in Kings county; the interest, however, is large. Thomas Buland sworn—Azn a pilot on the Green- point el reside at Greenpotnt; ain not interested gee ly In auy of the bouts; the Greenpoint and enth street ferry is good; is so in every er] have made great improvements of late; have had four new bridges and floats Lg all the boats are in good condition and fit to run; they are large enough to mect the public de- mand; boats run in favorable weather evéry fifteen minutes; the cabins are suificient to accommodate the pubile; the company endeavor to do everytning possible for the passenzers; they fully comply wit the law; one of the a get yy jp as many as can get on It; the ¢ regulary nave no pilots under me; boats could be yuilt of iron, and be fire-proof if the bottlers were Jett onshore; do not think them practicable; boats could be built with water-tight compartinents; It would be a greatimprovement; have se oe into ladies’ cabins aud smoke, but passengers help the hands to put such out; | have never seen any- thing improper on the boat 1 navigated; have seen = young men and young ladies hug each ot this was usually prevented by th kK bi have heard ‘complaints; have never h saying: she had veen insulted in the water closets; in the morning we often carry across asscngers al & time; have 100 life preservers om each boat; am net @ licensed pilot at present; have been; in the event of tire on a beat, 4u the midst of ice, the passengers would have to get on the ice and with life preservers rust to fortune; the bridges ave excellent oa both sides; are new; they Will sua. tain eighty tons per foot; canuot say anything about gates or bridices; the signe! for starting is one whia- te front the boat, or one bell from ferrymaster; men are not kept at ail times on the bridges to look out for the passengers’ wellare, fovert U. sworh—Am general superin- tendent of Mast iver Perry Compan: trend to al the wants of tie compat dof passeuvers, alten fo complaints rectily [a bay wod stn fact, do everyuuns «appertaining to aul for tue ferry; nave acted a8 general superin- ‘tendent one Near: a8 chief engineer. kc. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1868.—",p1pLE -SHEET. | eight years; “ave heard complaints made | Point are in good con*‘aion; 1am gateman; the by passengers about musicians, £c., there | ferry houses are i: 9 onth; are Tour Boa a: fare “our tie ‘Thirty-fOurth ‘street | have been connected gy) # Pala $55 per months 3 i ferry is four cents; the fare has been increased | ferry master on the Y A frou thre “to four gents; had. to Increase It or | am acquainted with, feoklyn aud New York ferry; sop the, ferry; the company has never made a | dlschatged recat’e’ Lattended to my own business dividersd; they have run boats eleven years; know | instead of to tat of the company; { was usually notb’ng of the financial condition of the company; | statloned one niznt on Roosevelt street and one ty, boats ran crors Siicen planus from four. Is Feet agate; Bever had a serious complaints ve morning unl Fol 4 a a the fithy ition rir one ever complained ‘the James street boats run every haif hour; these 4 f bouta run in comnectton with the Flushing | and ovliect for two comp: ae ined train; it stops at halfpast six at night; | rooms of the ferry houses as. being kept clean on the iron boats would not comfortable = for Kiywn and New York sides, . passengers; boats could be built with water-tight Joha Groulich sworu—l' am a bridgeman on the compartments; would, however, be of no benefit; the | Houston street ferry; the fei belongs to Mr. brides are good—safe; intend to put up new ones | Winsnts; | have been on the ferry between five and this spring; the passenger from the carriage way 1a | SX years; the houses and ferry! are kept clean; divided by an A rail; gates are useless; men will go | take drunken inen on the boats if they Pay the fare as they please; the boats have not water-tight bulk- | @ad behave themselves; boats ran usta about heads—do not see the utility of them; there is no | every fifteen minutes; the-fare has been for provision im the lease regulating the charge of fares, | three cents for foot passengers; the bridges’ and Gideon L. Knapp 8worh—Am interested in-ferries; | Water closets are in good order; the boats run Town two, Twenty-third and Tenth streets; these | night, at stated periods of time; a8 a deckhand, I am are not companies; one beat runs on Twenty-third | paid $50 per month, street ferry every fitteqn minutes; ceases to run at Frank Benner sworn—! am a bridgeman on the: nine o'clock; in the morning, ‘in winter, it com- | Houston street ferry; have been acting in that eapa- meuces its’ trips at six; in summer at five | city for thirteen months; the bridges are in o'clock; the boat is tn pee condition; the | Condition; there ts n0 means of preventing an acci- Martha is the principal boat; it was built im 1853, I | dent; the passengers, however, leave the boat before think; I bought the ferry from Archbishop Hughe: vehicles are permitted to go on or off; never heard: in 1853; I have a lease; the original lease P obtain cea one compiuttn about the state of the cabins; the. frem the Archbishop; 1 paid $600 for the present | ladies’ calms are generally clean; never heard lease; the accounts of the two ferries are kept | cattle getting into the cabins; 1 look after the Dri together; the Martha has never been permanently | and keep it clean; the boats have run very regul disabied; has never been damaged msieriallys her | during the past winter; the route is short and the- Machinery has never been pronounced unit for ser- | boats run every fifteen Spite aR is my belief; 3. vice; couiplainis have never been made about the | ] cannot swear that they run every fiftten minutes: eendition of the boats, that is, of a special character; | 1 am on duty from seven o'clock in the morning: beets the.cabins of the Martha are in comfortable condi- | 8ix o’ciock at night; William Bennett is bridgeman tion; I cross the Twenty-third street ferry as often as | at night; | think they have about one hundred life once every day; have never received any profits; have | preservers o: run the boats at a serious loss, a loss of thousands of | event’of an accident the life preservers would have dollars; the present lease dates from December, 1860; | to be distributed among the passengers; there are up to that tine had the lease from the late Areh- | four persons employed on each boat. bishop; have held it since 1353; there has not been a | _ Mathias C. Baulser sworn—Am a gateman in. the- ceat of profit; I think the ferries one of these days | service of the New York and Brooklyn Ferry Com- will improve; anybody can have them for cost and | pany; the boats are in gvod condition, quite equal to interest; cannot give the number of persons that | the Union Ferry Compihy’s boats; I think they are cross on my ferries daily; we roughly guess at these | kept in a very clean condition; the water closets are things; annually we carry about 1,500,000 persons; | im a neat condition; never raised the cane seats to- fare for foot passengers is four cents; it is diseretion- | see if there was filth underneath; when I say that the ary with me as to charges; when | iirst obtained the lease the charge on Twenty-third street was four, and on the other three cents; the boats are and sound; they are not 80 tine looking as some; the ferry is kept in good con- dition; two boats run on the Tenth street ferry; there are life preservers on each boat; think about one hundred on each; I could run a greater number bouts, I say so On supposition, not from Knowk Joseph ©. R. Poier sworn—This witness stated that he had resided’ im Williamsburg since 1848; had occasion recently to visit and inquire into the condl- tion of the various ferries See} between New York and the Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey shores, aud it was his opinion that the ferries» of boats, but it would not be convenient for my | Of the New York and Brooklyn Company were poorly pocket; there was @ meeting held at Greenpoint | Managed; that the cabins were not Kept as clean as against the ferry, but never kuew what it was all | they ought to be and that the ferry houses were about; it fs not necessary to put on another boat; we | nuisances: the genticjen’s waiting room on both e sides of the river were Unfit for any one who loved cleanliness J pure air lo enter; the boats were run at alow speed; the pilots at night seemed to have full control of the vessels and left the slips when it suited their couvenience; the en dangerously can do three times the ‘business we are now doing with our present boats; sometimes when a funeral cortege, with. one hundred carriages or so comes along they have to wait a little; a boat can be loaded tn eight to twelve Sarge th hee carriages: us were O} are thirty and funeral carriages twenty-five | crowded in the evening; the gentlemen’s cabins» cents both ways; my pilots have been most | Were not places for those to whom tobacco was ob- of them on other ferries; I have made | Ovxious to sit in; the fare was altogether too highs. two or three from deck hands; the prices | if they could run a ferry to Bridge street, Brookly for two cents, they certainly could to Grand street, New York, from Williamsburg for the same sum; the ferries of the company are run to make money;. the accomimodation of their customers was @ aec- ondary consideration. ‘The committee, having exhausted its list of wit-. esses that were present, here rose, adjourning te- vene at Albany on Wednesday next to review juny already received, Should it be deemed the Sergeant-at-Arms will be authorized: other parties, and due notice, through. the ptblic journals, will be given of the day and place the fourth session in this city will be bh KEAL ESTATE MATTERS. ‘The storm yesterday had a rather depressing effect ‘Op the real estate ‘ket—that is, so far as attend- nce was concerned. There were only two sales:— have been made as near right as possible; we keep a woman on each boat; they are usuaily clean; can’t — tobacco juice from Epcos on the floor; ught an immense quantity of spittoons, but it was not a week before they were thrown out at the win- dows; do not believe water-tight compartments would be of any use; do not think ferry boats as the; are now constructed would sink; have never lost life by accident, as near as I can find out; but four lives have been lost on all the ferries in four years; my bridges are new and in siperior condition. A. P. Sandien, sworn—Am connected with the Kast river ferry; am a pilot; am nat licensed; the ferry boats are in order; the boats are reasonably large; large enough tor the ferry; could pack two thousand people on one of the boais if necessary; run every iifteen minutes; run regularly; never heard of uints; occasionally have had accidents; pilots vollect fare; have no pilots under me; kuow ing of the financial condition of the company; can't give the dimensions of the cabins: the bouis are not old; have been a pilot eight E81 fears; know > motning of the terms “or | NEW YORK SALES—BY CALENDER, LAURENCE &.CO. the lease; there was a time when it was Four story brown stone high stoop house, 20x60x 100, for $40,000, $12,000 on bond and mortgage, om: West Forty-sixth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues; possession May 1, 1868, . Three story brown stone high. stoop house, 26x60% $8,000 on bond and mortgage, on East ireet, between First and Secoud avenues; May 1, 186%, necessary for pilots to take cut licenses; they were required at one time to have @ national license; pilots are not held responsible for damages; license pilots are not responsibie; have met with accidents; accidents often bappen when it is not possible to avoid the ‘George ©. Bennett sworn—Am the editor and pro- prietor of the Brooklyn Daily Times; am not inter- ested in ferries; cross usually on the Roosevelt street ferry; ever since [ could remember I have heard of | y7x44x 100.5, for $15,160 each, $8,000 on bond and& complaints; the boats on the Roosevelt mortgage, ou Bast Forly-sixth street, between Lex strect’ ferry are in good condition; the | inyiou and Fourth avenues; subject to one year'e objections to the ferry are the high rates | jeave at $30 per annum. of fare and slowness of speed; the latter arises from Tiree story brick house, 25x50X75, in Prince street, near Sullivan, for $12,000, one-half cash, balance om. ion May 1, 1868, 20x50x70, for $12,500, No.. 103 Macdougai street, near Bleecker, $3,000 on bond and worigage at six per cent, balance cash. BROOKLYN SALES. Madison street, near Franklin avenue, thnee story brick house, 20X40Xx 100; price $8,000, one half cash, Madison street, near Franklin avenue, three story frai tiled tu with brick, $6,000, one cash, excessive and unwise economy; another complaint is that while residents in Wiillamsburg pay tree cents the company run the Bridge street ferry for two cents; this is at the expense of the Williamsburg eop'e; the ladies’ cabins are clean; people are soime- ines reckless; the great cause of complaint is the high rates of fare on fovt aud other passengers aud vehicles, being nearly double that of the Union ferry rates; have been compelled to wait fifteen miuntes often for @ boat; the boats are all supplied with life preserving apparatus; in the evening the boats are very much overloaded; have read | “Franklin avenue, Madison street, three th: the leases of the company; the value of near Madison street, three three- the company’s land on the Wilhamsburg | Syuy ‘ame, dlied In with rick, $6,600 each, 20x36 side 1s worth about $1,000,000, The extent of frout- age ts considerable, as the land is most valuable in the Eastern District of Brooklyn; have heard that fourteen per cent had been declared us the dividend of last year; by absorbing other companies they ave run their capital stock up from $200,000 to $1,000,000; next, to the Union the Brooklyn. is the best ferry ou the Bast river; [know of but one person living in Williamsburg who is a stockholder; the ferries are a subject at my office of constant complaint, maint: for excess of fare, for irregularity of time and speed, condition of the boats, &c.; it would be dif ficult’ to find a person ‘who had. not a compiaint to make; my impression is that the capi- ta! stock has all been paid in—that it has never been watered; the stock of the Brookiyn and New York any has been suld at public auction at $150 share, originally costing $109; the people of Willi burg are unanimously ‘a to the high cha &c., of the company; T have seen the ts tied time and again from siei to stern with ple; the ferry housesare poor, tue bridges are fn Nostrand avenue, three story frame, filled in wi! brick, near Pacitle’ street, 20x86; lot 35x100, $8,000, oue hall cash. jostrand avenue, three story frame, filled in with, b near Pacilic street, 20x36; lot 80100; $7,6005 one half cash. i hues rand avenue, three story frame, filled in with: rick, near Paclic’ street, 20X86x100; one hull casi, an State street, near Nevins, three story brick honse,. WX45X90, $9,000, lralf cash, Subject to one year's hana . per anounm, ‘our lols on ive corner of Bond and Warren streets, 23x80 euch; price $4,700 for the four. é a bares 80NS. DO irregular plot of iand having @ frontage of 144 fect and 6 inches on Navy street and 56 fect on Catharine street. It coniains a store 45x50x25, trian- gular siuped, & house adjoiming, 40,.7X25, and @ store 22X0UX.UXHL; sold to Elien Kelly for $5,700, No. 22 Navy street, 126 feet from Prospect street, lot 25x75, fair aud | three story’ aud cellar frame hot the” slips bed in poor heroes gf owuers aver In yurd, tw Mtehaet Elitt, for $8°100. No. 201. do not care for the interests of street, 69 feet from Navy street; lot 25x225, there has been little loss of life al i one siory attic basement wud cellar fraine, six rooins, has one story extension tn rear, sold to G. Keun for $1,805. Pi lois on Sktilman street, 188.8 reek ib av ferries: gates are unimportant; the Houston street ferry 18 not connected with the Brooklyn company; do not think George Law is interested in the Lous. ton street ferry; tue scale of prices should be re- duced one-third and Give boats run on the Roosevelt street ferry; the owners are hearly all non-residents; jue, 10X19, with stone cellars to Join Dorrian for $1,100, on Skillman gtreet, 238 feet - avenne, lot 100x23.6, house two little attention is paid to the terry; it is managed tu nd basemes h & penny wise and pound foolish manner; the plots | tours, “Zixosh sol” io unt nn eevee stor are good, experienced men; tue ferry houses are in poor eonditi A. G, Bens ,60. One house und lot on Pacific street, 60 feet W Boeruin, lot S3.1UxX25, house 22.4Xx20, two story 7 frame, and containg worn—This witness merely testified to propriety of having the lav of 1845 re-enacted, appotuting a” board of ferry commissioners Hot o Yenltd. pinab; oolner oF Court to reguiate the ferries. “He — matutained ivux40x10, house has court yard in front, and tat eee out go Totlung,, An the event | \s woxioxioe10, marble front, three story. basemens. ol an acct " pre ‘al Buc. evel ei a Sees ct tier bh wes tx tee OE Wan beaies and sub-cellar, teu rooms, marble mantels, hot an@ cold water, bath aud gas, sold to James Campbell for there were tines when if an accident happened | $9 soy, assistance could not be rendered by other boats; all would be over with the majority of passenge before the boat in danger could te approached; the was originaily & Board of Macagement that con- ducted the brookiyn ferries up to 160; but most of the meubers of this bard retired, and @he Union Ferry Company gradually grew up in its place; forty million passengers, at two cents each, ‘would give $800,000; the i come of the Union Company certainly amounts w that sum; on the Fulton ferry tere should be two abie boats to carry passengers ale; there ouzit to be watertizht coinpartments buit in all the boa as fo cleanliness, the boats of the Union Ferry Con pany are kept in order; the ferric would pay at one cent per passenger, in gold; they wuld be maintained in perfect order at that price. Te gentleman here inade suggestions as to the best neans of increasing the facilities for and rapidity of tavel within the cor- THE RAILROAD WAR. Sn eee Rumors and Scares—Reported Arrest of One: of the Directors. ‘There ts not a business man in our midst who does hot realize the moral of that most excellent of fabies, “Turuing the Grindstone.” From the wealthiest. merchant t the meauest corner loafer we meet every day sumebvody who has an axe to grind. Old Daniel Drew may be what 1s termed exceedingly world w but it ts plain he has not a clear comprehension the extent to which desivning men, who have an axe: to grind, may victimize him, Last evening came the « oid story (a scare of course) that armed men were porate linits of Brooklyn. Fremecics to wove ou his camp from New York, Win, HH. Corwaith, sworn; live t Greenpoint; am a | Present; the police force is doubied, and ferry master on the Tenth and ‘wenty-third street | the old mau very naturally feels troubled. ferries; four cents for passenges ls the fare on our | Im any case, scare or no scare, the guard will be continued, for there isa vast amount at stake, and men uever feel so comfortable as when they are ou the wiuning side, There is an additional boats; we have, from thine totime, altered the prices as to vehicles; our fares vere altered by the combination of other ferries; ou rate for foot pas- sengers was inc in consquence of the in- | Safeguard for Drew in tie promptness with whic: crease of wages, from three to fur cents; the boats | the New Jersey Legisiatare have jent themselves. of our ferry are in good ondition; they are | to him at tus crisis, Citizens and legislators alike are seusible of the Iinportauce it is to the State that men secking protection on its soil should Ml as all haz , and that, according to- #t principles of political economy, the free suM-ciently large to meet te wants of the Population; are kept clean as possible; are cleaned every day; the ferr houses are in good order; a single horse busirss wagon is fifteen cents; driver extra; have chrged for loaded | and unrestricted development of the resources of vehicles as high as $1 60; runevery fifteen ou the 4 corporation as the Erie Ratiway Company ‘Tenth street and every thirty mintes on the Twenty- | Will add tinmensely to the wealth the 18. Hence aaything tat may be denied to the refugees in. third street ferry; there are noboats run between | H New York will be granted ungrudgingly at the twelve at night and four in themorning; on extra occasions put on another boatwe run regularly, | other side of the river. The bill which was accidents excepted; the populaon, apart from the | deemed of such importance to the directors that 1 funeral patronage, {s not suiicht to maintain the | Was pui through both houses of the re and Placed to the ferry; knew of the meeting at Grenpoint; think the objéct was political; the complalt against the ferry was ‘ostensible; the pretended ¢ject was a genesal Onslaugit on the ferry, but th jutions passed were of an intangible character was nothing specific in their charges; the clrter of Mr. Knapp calls for one boat only; frivohis complaints are rnor’s room all within .wo cE pany ‘all the privil which the; Possessed in New York, bvesilles the issue of new stock. The forcible remark of one of the that they would transfer their houscholde eurly in the coming month, appears to have More truth inte than at first sup) . the scare of another invasion, made every day—mainly about t time; complainis Stmultaneously wi hve also-been made aguinst te condition of the | last eveutn ‘eport that Heury Thompson, boas; re! of a fault i aracter are heard | one of the ninitted to the fortunes of Mr, all the time; the water closeta a) sometimes offen. | Drew, was arrested ae deputy sheriff in the Astor ai the night watchman attds to the water | House, New York. e bail for each of the abscond- closets at night and a woman Inhe day time; have | Ing parties whom the Sheri! may Wgnt upon has never heard of improper provedngs on the'boats; | been fixed at $600,000 cash down, all appear- laughable incidents have been tacted and related; | auce the sheriifs are likely to have a long vigil. intoxicated people have exposl their persons an have been removed for so doig by the police; no WEW JERSEY. ‘ lady has ever complained that st had been insulted on board of the boats; no compint has been made Hoboken. About tobacco juice on the foo of the cabins; our ferry has been compared with ose of others to its injury; boats could not be rumore frequently, for the reason that it would not pay O. KR. Ingeraot orn—Haveio interest in any ferry company; am @ boatbutld; the object of my testimony Is to show that the feyboats can of them- selves be made perfect life-saag apparatus; the under side of the main deck ould be lined with copper air cylinders, or there ould be placed on the upper deck an es ‘athat would sustain | munity, Passengers In the event of acciat; Ifevoats are of Trenton. ho service wiatever; the ferryhts could Ld -¥-4 OPENING OF THE DELAWARR OANAL.—The Det. perfect Iifevonis at @ small expse: It is postiiin ( | ware and Raritan Canal will be open for navigatian make the ferryboats safe agai inary ea Arms sme to ted in | to-morrow. The water will be kept six James Armstrong @worn. Best h bt 4 {aches below the ferries; the James slip forboate to Hunter's the ugual full head ual ALLEGED SWINDLING UNDER GOISB OF RELIGION.—. Aman, giving his name as McCormick, has been collecting donations through Hudson county durti the past two weeks tp the name of the Pussioniat Fathers at West Hoboken. He is about twenty-three. ears of age and of respectable ap) earanee, Durtny he early part of the past week he made Greenviil the fleld of his operations, This man has no authority to collect any funds on behalf of the aforesaid com. i. bout; ninety certainly; in the» boats are kept ascleau as the Union Ferry Company’s: °