The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1868, Page 8

@ay the Rev. H. W. Beecher ¢oox as his text the pas- sage of Scripture contail’ .q 1p the nineteenth chap- ter of Acts, fromthe elg” y¢n to the twentieth verse, more particula’ » attention to the nineteenth engine story ‘night verve. After illustt? sing the points contained in the | Bow for his kindness 4) te his various verses 12 "4 somewhat general manner, the preacher procee’ geq to enforce the truth that when | law of water courses enabled him to & penan Prem penence for, part condnet | Se tung si i urang eh had ie at we Caer that some proof should | vision of Moses were represented, where- be giver @ change of mind had set | jpon followed a digression on etymology, with rej im, cvea a8 in the text the men who had | resentations of the Hebrew, and used, arts had shown the sincerity of their | modern Roman or all canveraion by burning Sew nooks. Different men | was next introduced and that by astronomical cal- thal them to testify to the genuineness of their conver- gion by destroying the in which they had if, in effect, said gentleman fur- ther, a New York ju that he wished to be understood 1o mean a New Yom city judge, and an elective judge too, not a federal one—were to to bim gay that he felt at Jast that it was time for him to turn from his evil way and to seek rele. he should not let him slip through easily without lal ex: tion, He should say to Where is the bribe of $10,000. you wok last week; what have you done with it? hat about the wicked, rowdy, your friends? How ts it that you have made wicked- safe in his shoes? If the very gate of Heaven.was in his hands the preacher would close it against such a maa. If such a judge should say that he was the chief oi sinners, admit that he had taken bribes directly and indirectly, admit that he With bad men and bad kept choicest criminals about him; if he should admit that bis sing had been agrant aud confess that he had been exceedingly siniul and that he wondered God’s lightning had not consumed him, then the speaker would tell him that be had soiled the purest thing on earth—the ju- diciai ermine—and tell him to he had received and to show by his actions that bad alvered hig course. All the robes of all the good judges that had ever lived would not make a cover- ing large enough to cover up one such corrupt judge. ‘There could be no words too fiery, no thunder too mighty, no lightning too for such men; aud if one such would enter the lom of God he must be born again, and even then he would not be More Wan @ hall-sized infant, WHY | AM A CHRISTIAN; OR, AN ANSWER TO ABIERICAN POSITIVISM. & Sermon by Rev. Dr. Scott at the Fortyesecond | thou hast destroyed thysclf, but in me is thine Street Presbyterian Charch, ‘There was a very respectable and deeply attentive | he hadjin view in commenting from the pulpit on congregation last evening at the Forty-second strect Presbyterian church, near Eighth avenue, to hear a discourse by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Scott, upon the subject, “Why Lam a Christian; or, An Answer to American Positivism.” The reverend speaker took as the basis of his sermon the text, I. Peter, lil, 15—"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you @ reason of the hope that ig in you with meekness and fear.” His attention, he stated, as introductory to his discourse, had been alied to a confession of faith occupying ten close columns in a newspaper of a sect calling itseif American Positivists. In proceeding to show by the fatsity of this sect claiming to be the advance re- sgious sect of the Nineteenth century, he would ive, first, that while id denounce the dogmas, catechisms and creeds Evangelical Churches they go on to announce di of their own. in ‘the second place, this sect Was no new religious body Christians, as it claimed tobe. The same uid be traced back to six hundred years before the Christian era, through the infidelity of the dark and middle ages, though the atheism in ‘the ume of Voltaire so prevalent in France, ‘the free-thinking philosophy now becoming so wide- spread in this country. He next took up the leading articles of faith of the Positivists are, and showed how ant.-religious they are and how utterly opposed to the teachings of the Bible, These Positivists make science the basis of their creed; they would do away with all the present systems of theology and churches, and they would annul marriage and adopt a course of iiie ike that of the saints of Salt Lake. While he did not believe that this sect would ever obtain a very strong foothold in this country, he still felt it to their duiy to show the reason of the faith that is in them. ‘True Christians, he claimed, could always give this rcason, and through the strength of tis reason they Would not be led away by any such teachers of false doctrines, The proper name that Positivists should have taken would be Apologists,for not being Chrs- tians, According .o the text it Was evident ihat the Christian religion was founded on reason. Pursuing | trom the Executive of the nation to the lowest In the the argument on this point, he then urged that every Caristian had need of the hope that is in him. There ‘Was no hope mm the religion of the Positivists—no hope of the glorious immortality that supports the Christian through his troubles in this world, and at the close of his earthly career takes from death its Sting and irom the grave its victory. These scien- cists could trace the pathway of the stars and comets, but taey could not trace out the future pathway of ‘the immortat soul, He asked his audience togo with him into some splendid abode, where every appliance of luxury could be found. and where there was the highest cuiture in science and arts and literature; but there, in place of the Bible and morning and evening prayer and faith in Christ, lived devotees to the faith of Positivists. Let death enter that abode he religion of science would not be iound the git die by, Here was the strongest answer against Positivism—tue strongest reason that need be given for being a Christian. Next in order he entered into an elaborate defence of the divine mispiration of the sacred Scriptures. He cited refer- pes by the oldest writers to the existen of the contained in the Old Testainent, and showed how in profane hisiory was estabiished the exisi- ence of the leading Claracters of this portion of the More positive evidence he adduced with re- to the New Testament. In this connection also gave an able position of the miracles set forth im the Scriptures. Lastly he referred to human reasons which could be brought forth answers to the question “Why am I a jan’? to the abundant evidences of Chris- tianity pot oaly deeply seated in the soul's conscious- and intellect, but everywhere manifest in ali the beautiful harmoules of God's creation. Persoual consciousness of the immortality of the soul was a Teason that could always be given. the human soul wheuce it came, what it was and it was bound. No other reigion did this. d the soul, it gave satisfaction in the last ped over the barriers of the grave inte a gicrious wud blessed mmmortality. REVELATION AND SCIENCE. are by Dr. J. F. Boynton=| tration veuts from the Oid and New Tesiue ments. The large hall of Cooper Institute was well filled last night by an atientive audience to listen to @ “lecture” of Dr. Boynton on “Revelation and Science.” Properly speaking it was not a lecture, but a sermon illustrated by a series of panoramic ‘The Gospel tells wine paintings, magnified through a stereopticon and | qoex pot fear God. itis weil known L | of Grove and North } and abstracting | ‘thrown upon a large sheet of canvas illuminated by | dent elect left West Point on a Sabu money from @ box therein. ie was comm lo Drur ° "i rome Lime BinCE al me to New k, where tiaon % a aH abies calcium, light. rt the text was pot op ste hotel. ‘The conmitution was’ the foun- prison to awatt trial. i entirely biblical, the Doctor confining himeelf to | tain of life in the nat but it was impure. It saya Hadsen Ye sacred history, with occasional refereaces by is test,” whic! A Mas KILLep ON rH RAILBDAD. vut way of example to other matters, he may an. We will have to amend | hve o'clock yesterday morning a passenger on one claim the distinction of having introduced dunder foot and totally destroyed. In tis | Of the trains bound for Jersey City fell through the @ new form of religious worship, in which | plac there will then be a free, broad and Christian | bridge over the Morris ond Essex Railroad, Scriptural events are pictorially represented, thus Gegeg true freedom wi Hype yt Ay fo and was mangled #0 fearfully that he died rendering !t not only more varied and entertaining, | piessings which God will give to a people who ac- | Shortly afterwards, He stepped from the but also aiding the mind and heart of the prously | knowledge Hiui as Wie supreme Ruler and King. tra in company wit passengers, to look disposed through the sense of vision. Some of these by ing the | North Star ‘and & distiller, and fas oxpained. men he should expect | was narrated, and every wicked man to stand solid and | temple bey been in collusion | illustrated in succession and with a di give back the nore the tune o! | for the peopl farther to show what might for in @ temple 3 know! of the mountaips E i culations thetage of the how this is done Ly calc certain openings in the pyramids exodus of the Jews Trou Egypt that on reaching the shores of the Red Sea Moses tmstituted a democratic republican | the soul and eae form of government, the first in the world. A snort | a mortal sin. When those who eee the idea— reference to the river Jordan brought out a song by perasiorsapeak of sin make no distinction a lady, accom} on the piano, and the chorus tween mortal and venial , and as any sin de- was sung by the whole assembly:— files ee sud nOSeae erage can enter pune Shall acco reasoning those who are iy oe Grint aratiteal were'tred, only of some slight venial sip must suffer the same ‘With its cr, cr peat endless tortures of hell as tl who are guilty of By Flowing by the throne of God ed te meee bet sins. God in ee OnUE—Yes, we at the ri of fection, eo a vi jestinction a ‘The Tea emitter, between morta ay . Hay Ae a, z ie stands jather riv morta! sin ani reeR it ‘That flows by the throne of God! Fae ee ee, aR mt The Biblical story of Ruth and Boaz claimed some attention, followed by the building of Solomon’s } soul can enter into that kingdom wi all is pure. and the Masonic relation of Hiram, the | To say otherwise wouid be to pi ih blasphemy. ‘Tyran, sending the cedars of Lebanon on floats to | The general impression regarding sinis that it is a Joppa. Nazareth and the annunciation to ,Virgin | misfortune—a mania—and until we have a better we. Bethichem and the birth of Christ, the signs | appreciation of the magnitude of sin we cannot have in the heavens, the Magi from the East were ail | a proper appreciation of Burgers The souls in ion into | purgatory have not been crushed by the hand of the astronomy, giving a description of the planetary | Lord—they have only been touched by His hand, state of the heavens at the time. The flight into | and the prayers of the faithful on earth can lighten Egypt was shown by the picture critcised above. | that touch. An opportunity tojintroduce Pompeii and Hercu- In regard to indulgences, we are each taught to laneum was availed of and the lecture closed with | believe that the power of ting indulgences has the ret pe by all present of the following bymn to | been left by Christ to his Church and that their use “Old Hundred”;— is most wholesome to Christian people. ‘There are From all that dwell below the skies intelligent people in this cere a of the nine- ‘Let the Creator’ 0 writ teenth century who, despite that has been said ‘Let the Redeemer’s name be sung regarding the enormity of sin, despite all the lessons ‘Through every land, by every tongue. that have been taught, all the books that have been ua NATION FAILS ANDRSAFETY. et anan eevee somber ein mote en PERI § exist of obtaining information on subject, seem a AA. seriously and deuberately to believe that we teach Discourse by Rev. J. C, K. Milligan. ‘The above was the subject of the Rev. J. C. K. Mil- that indulgences are permits tocommit sin. Just after we have stated that sin isthe greatest of afl * evils can we ‘teach such a doctrine? if I, by an, ligan’s discourse last night in the Twenty-eighth | means, knew that every one of you were to die 7g street Presbyterian church. Taking for his text | night by some sudden and terrible disaster and that by the commission of one little venial sin—a little harmess lie, for instance, I could save you, I must not do it; I should be doing a greater evil to avert the lesser. If 1 coe re aa of oe Lee roan oe jeath by pestilence; if i coutd relieve all tie souls in current political questions, Corruption prevailed purgatory; if I could save the people of the whole everywhere in the republic, morality was at a dis- | wor! Boa Sine into aie of ae by pling count and the fountain of justice was filled with im- | # Simple lie, I must not do it. 1 must do no evil that good may come. This is the law of the Church and purities, ‘The country was ruled by men of no | {isis what we teach, Who will tell us that any one integrity or principle, and honest men were becom- | of the teachers would so diverge from the teachings ing alarmed at the fearful condition of affairs, of ee CaN ret to aire cient te on sin? ave known educated men who believi er- bad government by unchristian men had produced. | mission to commjt sin could be bonght Deforehand, An unhealthy tone prevailed in the community and now a pera Hag gain an indulgence musi be free the Bible was disregarded by those who siiould be its m mortal si The reverend orator then told an anecdote of a defenders. It was therefore the duty of Christian | traveller who went from England travelling over the pastors to raise their voices in behalf of morality and | Continent to find out the evils of Popery, and finding Justice. Only the other day the school trustees of a | in one of the churches which he visited a table of section of Ohio inhabited by New Englanders voted | items with certain amounts of money named after to exclude the Bible from the schools, which proves, | each item; in his ignorance of the language in which if proof were needed, the deep hostility of the | the tablet was written actually jotted down in his ris igs to the Sacred Scriptures. And not only in | note book the statement that the list named cértain Ohio, but all over the country the religious educa- | crimes for permission to commit which these prices tion of children was totaliy neglected. The fear- | were asked. An inquiry revealed the fact that he Hosea, thirteenth chapter and ninth verse—‘‘O Israel, help’’—the reverend gentleman explained the object demoratization which prevails in this | had copied the price list of chairs in different parts city is due in a great measure to waiter | of the church. 1s saloons, gambling houses and _ licen- Explaining the nature of indulgences the speaker Housness. The Roman republic fell through | said, ‘Indulgences are only remission by authority the very same causes that now threaten the de- | of the Caurch ofa portion of the temporal punish- struction of this country. Theatres and other places | ment due to sin. A plenary indulgence is a remis- of amusement and idleness are sapping the energies and sion of the entire bodily punishment, of the people and destroying morality. The Ohris- this, we all know, is not easy ob- tian, honest, steadfast spirit which made this coun- | tain. A partial induigence remits only try has disappeared, and in its place are licentious- | a portion of the punishment. The whole doctrine ness, drunkenness and dishonesty. Marri is | rests on charity which unites the Charch militant neglected, In the olden time “the sons of men looked { with the Church suffering, and which is frequently on the daughters of women and saw that they were | mentioned in the episties of St, Paul. The conclu- fair,” and hence came sin and all the evils which | sion to be derived from a firm belief in the exist- trouble the community from negiect of the laws of | ence of purgatory and the power of the Church to nature and of God. ie ease with which divorces | grant and the ellicacy of indulgences is taat we be obtained accounts for bad_ mar: should endeavor to gain by prayer an increased It is a singular fact that the New York | devotion to the soulsin purgatory. They yearn for Times, which pretends to represent the respectable | our help; they see now the lolly of their career on | sod eg of the city, publishes an advertisement of a | earth, their former sins and imperfections, and long use of sin in Filth avenue. Licentiousness is en- | to be ransomed and obtain the reward which awaits couraged by public teachers and consequently flour- | them on their release from bondage—the love and ishes and rages in the land. sight of God. Lhe reverend orator closed his dis- ‘Turning to the consideration of national politics | course by hoping that the effect of wnat he had been Mr. Milligan said 1..¢ the politica! world was so cor- | saying would enter into the hearts of his hearers Tupt that bad men only could obtam positions of | and generate greater devotion to the souls in pur- trust and honor. Judges were bought and sold; | gatory, and assuring thet thai if by their assistance one soul should be relieved + atelul prayer of that soul would be more eMicucious pan ail the prayers given on earth, DEDICATION OF A NEW METHODIST CHURCH. The new Methodist Episcopal church in Berry street, near Greenwich, which has been erected by the New York City Methodist Episcopal Sunday School and Missionary Si » Was formally dedi- cated to the service of God yesterday. The church, which is a piain but convenient and commodionsone, is intended for the use of the Bank street church congregation. The cost of the site and the building 18 $59,000, of Which sum all but about $10,000 has aiready been subscrived. At the moruing service Bishop Janes preached the sermon, selectins as his text the eighteenth verse of the fourth cha alatians, But it is good to be office ail was fraud and corruption. government were ilk many will o’ the wisps con- trolled by secret cabais and unbiushing bribery. The body politic had become so very corrapt that there seemed to be some justification for Lynch law, that foe ibe! Wi a people were iIncapabe of securing ood government by peaceful means they were justi- jed in rising in revolt. But no one should undertake a revolution without counting the cost and making success certain. Revolution sould never be in the interests of anarchy. Returning to the sunject of the city government he said that there were only fifteen nominal Protestants in office in New York, except in the Department of Education, and that these were neariy al! liquor dealers. We have a gov- ernment of common scoundrels, most of Whom write their names with a cross. We are standing like houses in San Francisco suaken by earthquakes, and are ready to fall. The foundation oa which we ouilt proves to have been saad, Christian complicity mm the corruption of the hour is a scandal and OMecers of the reproach. A few good men banded together | 2edlously atte sim a geod thing.” The to fight the battle of the good against | Bishop's serm y appropriate to the occa- evil Would soon alter the complexion of the city goy- | Sten and was istened to by a congrega ernment. There 1s some activity in the charches | ton which fille now, but it is not for Christ. Not zeal for God, but | Close of the dis of the trastees, shop fur ded it) Dr. ambition, greed and party spirit animate most of the | Peytort and James | ministers in New York churches, and all were work- | Preseuted the churc ing for personal ends. Free mission churcies are | After tormally 1% established apparently to show the poor whut afine | ceeded to the dedication, usu thing it is to be rich. Wealthy peovle would not | Purpose the form preseribed by t Methodist allow their children to sit in pews with those of the | Episcopal Churen. A collection was taken np at the poor, and the unchrisitan spirit which actuat close of the service which amounted Lo $6, congregations t# suown by the fact thai negro of the trust nounved that it w leries a: ats for poor people are in nearly every | Would be raised during the day church, Just as if was a respectable man’s | to have the ¢ mreh free o heaven and an humbi we for the less iortunate the afterno in worldly w h. D. Fors, of Trinity Methodist i} Antictpatin 2 Mr. Milligan said that as and ip the evening the discourse W. “righteousness exaltcih a neiion” it should | livered by Dr. W. 4, the presiding el f be the business of every teacher of the Word | the New York dist the opening portions of to do his best to P YANOUS SeFViCes Some scieeicd and appropriate y the choi urd w testant Bp'scopal Chureh in'good standing | after some catile, Which he was conveying to New ERS RO 1 Hine York, ana the darkness of the mornt endert ‘ eu i] ng rendering consusertog, a ea HS ST. PETER'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, | his footing uncertain, he feli between two of square inches In size, and 80 magnified as to cover | Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Anderdon—Purgatory | Vets with which the vrilve is comstructed, & canvas more than @ thousand times larger. and ind ‘ 7 | which afford no safety to ‘hose croasing On foot. ie Among these must be reckoned a splendid copy of se ae was ility ye 1a 1 ina remote part Rafuel's “Mudonna and Child,” “A Pray Youth’? At the venerable church of St. Peter, in Barclay | Of York State, where es a wife and four and several landscapes in Arabia Petrea, Mount He- bron, Egyptian ruins of temples and cities. But a little more care in the selection of some of the tures might not have been amiss, however, as their application tw Biblical events appears anachronistic, a8, for instance, the one claimed ¥, the lecturer to represent the fight of oly Family and others, with their infants, from bethlehem to escape the pow. execu- tion of the — edict of Herod, ere could wn be seen the of Bethichem in the dis tance, with Mc mosques and ‘and not Jews fleeing, but @ caravan of Arabs and Hedouins, with Mint-iock muskets in their hands and ols in their belts—a scene the correctness of which r the time of Herod may well be questioned, to say | Selected ap subjects for his discourse * ‘the least. The lecture Was not @ connected logical dis- course, but adapted itself to the series of illus trations present with occasional references to learned man mighty in words and in deeds, and, as ‘bis jearning, ‘were clothed ‘the loins of Abraham, and according to sacred his- tutta by ae the pigeage, an found by one mi am charge of & Hebrew nurve and educated at the ptian Court in all the Jectarer ed science then prevatlin Bric ee , Telics and Us back archmol to ® 8,738 years before the Gitiation ore. ie ex. sciences: to explain the state of minarets, | ‘TY bis reputation a# being 4 clear, began with Moses, whom he } spoken of by those beyond the in ail the wisdom of Egypt. @ | Church—the inducement to be present was no doubt then known. | mercy upon i 3 that car U in Baypts syphical children in indigent cirewms Al inquest will be held by Coroner Warren to- _ : street, there was congregated last evening a large assemblage, called thither despite the unpropitious te Hoboken. state of the weather by a ene of powerful causes— Darinc Rossery.—An unknown burglar yester- forced and | to assist at the vesper service of the church and the | qay entered the house Of John Klis, at No. 17 Hud- solemn benediction, to listen to discourse by the Rev. Dr. Anderdon and to contribute to the relief of the, poor people of the parish. ‘The reverend orator of the evening has already established in this coun- concise, logical and therefore most forcible expounder of the great Christian truths, and the fact that he had ‘urgatory and Indulgences,” two of the peculiar doctrines of the Catholic Church which are by no means under- stood, #0 slightly appreciated and so siightingly le of the Catholic son street, and stole several silver spoons and other articles valued at $100, He made his eseape unno- Liced, and has uot been arrested, Paterson, PP sr —The Paterson Curling Club play the histle Club of Ne' yi with the Terwey chy Club vitae comeoll rampage Passaic COUNTY COURTS.—An interesting case between Richard Van Houten and the Socicty for Establishing Useful Manufactures terminated on Saturday afternoon. By raising the dam above the city Van Houten’s lands were oyerfo and he sued the society for tres) ‘The sult voted several Gays and created much excitement ag @ test case, ented. The regular evening service, | A Verdict of $3,150 in favor of the plaintiff was ren- an ex! man, whose 2 : with power, "He was & descendant of | consieting of the chanting ef the appropriate hymns | eres:,,,1Me erliminal calendar wilt ne taken tp to- jay. have already ti - an@ pealme, having been gone through with, the | four bills of indictment and have. peg 4 Jonge reverend orator entered the pulpit and commenced | ‘Heit business. ‘ his discourse by quoting the words of Job:—“Have ” bee ** Ime; have merey upon me, at least you CommirrED.—Yesterday morning John W. Pecy, who are my enda, because the hand of the Lord | whostands charged with complicity in the recent hath touched me.” “These,” he said, “are th oy " words Of one who eriés out ib ‘aotrens robbery of Mr, Charles Ripley's residendée, was com- those who are his friends, knowing | mitted by Justice Mills to await trial with Wilson, to that they are able to help nim, and are the words | Warren and Smith, Peck is said to be the person the sublimity with which the mighty works of | qhich are appropriated by ‘our holy mother | Who, in company with a dishonest domestic, carried that generation still gaze down on man: how, in- The Church to the souls in purgatory and ‘are used in | Off from the sumo » Some months ago, $100 stead of bullding, they pares temples out of moun: eae ofice in which she teaches the Church worth of sliver piate. $ they e nt with geol an pray for the Church suffering. ‘The souls THR SToRM.—L. mineralogy, Laide the qpaiities of each kind of | in prirgatory are friends of the souls in the grace of n a ety dlinehne ce, ea ae rock aud pesreety % elt purposes; how they | Godenearth, and, conversely, the souls of tie Churcn | 788 4B exceedingly dangerous place for foot pas- worsbipped te : peowertel Betag of the universe | militait Which are in 4 etate of rrace, are friends of | sengers ali day yesterday. The disagreeably silp- pera. Le nea ‘apene of ee iinet creative | the souls in puryatory.’? The reverend gentieman | pery condition of the sidewaiks was @ source ete OF We earth's | maid be WOU COMULE Wiimeel ly prove Wede lacie | sess@us wuDYyanTe LO ull Loose Who dariDuly at clergymen in politics was + Sgt \ a ag et t ity Sunday ‘ountry on ¢ , | ani Missionary Society of the Methodist bpiscopal be cast | Charen during the past two years | govern. ‘The demoratiz aaa gress and inthe State Le verywiere elie, ow 3x Congress not long since Sabah day 10 | NEW Ju consider the tari? ques } ced us ID a dile’ tt Seinen es we had to vote fora very dangerous ee . oh ene ‘ at the head of the democracy, or for aa un Brrctany,—Ye ay von Charles Hog!and, man, at the head of the republican party. Se > | aged forty years, was ar 1 ou a charge of having though a dangerons person, is a member of the Pro: | purglarously ent ot MENS, Core? serious accidents were reported. ‘THE Lavon Casz.—In the matter of accepting bail for the liberation of Thomas Lafon, the young man now confined in the county jail, awaiting trial on 8 cl of murder in the second Judge De- poe ka not yet rendered any decision. che 1 of the Ji the limit of the mex pired and the mn has not yet been repewed a3 in cases, ALLEGED BRUTAL ASSAULT ON & Woman.—Yes- terday, @)poor Irish woman named Catharine Ford appeared before Justice Mills and made com- nem against oe peer ay the Sigg thet ina a partially induced juor, struc! her a violent biow on the tie with @ hammer, in flicting a deep wound, from which the blood nowed in stream down her back, She was properly cared for by the Chief of Police and her case looked al- ter by the Magistrate, ORGANIZATION OF a New Councit, 0. U. A. M.— On Saturday night, at Temperance Hall, there was organized @ new council of the Order of United American Mechanics. The new councll is named Jane. No. 28, The principal oMicers elected at the same time are:—Ohairman, James E, Collord; Vice Chairman, Charies W, Collora; Trustees, J. B. Jaco- bus, , M. Collord and W. W. Gardner. ‘The pro- ceedings wound up with a pleasant reunion, in which BUmErONe delegates from other councils partici- MALICIOUS OPPosiTION TO THE NEWARK AND NEW York RaILRoaD.—For some time past there has ex- isted @ strong feeling of opposition against the building of the new railroad between this city and New York among parties in the Fifth and Twelfth wards, the chief source of grievance being the put- ting ‘9 of bridges in certain streets, which struc- tures the company claim are only intended as tem- porary affairs, On last Thursday night one of these, in Frederick street—one that had not yet been com- pleted—was cut down and levelled to the ground. There were twelve massive beams, each of which must have cost an axeman several hours’ labor to fell. The police are yet in ignorance of the matter. AccipeNTs.—An elderly lady named Cummings had a narrow escape from falling under the cars at the Market street depot yesterday forenoon. She owes hier life to a six year old son, who dragged her from danger by strength far beyond his years. Alonzo Hudson, &@ young man, son of Mr, John P. Hudson, fell recently from the first floor to the. cellar of Garthwait’s new building on Spruce street, and sustained injuries of a serious character, He struck head foremost on the frozen ground, and be- sides Being rendered insensible had one of his ribs fe only became consctous yesi » alter being three days insensible. This is the same build- ing trom the third story of which a young carpenter named Loder fell, two or three days previous, and narrowly escaped being killed. FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC NOTES. ‘The Viceroy of Egypt s organizing a police for ce on a similar footing to those in the European cities. It is calculated that Mount Vesuvius emitted dur- ing the recent eruption about 20,000,000 of cubic feet of lava. ‘The Italian Minister of Finance has discovered a new feature relating to the Church property b which he can ratse $90,000,090 and thereby ‘abolish the compulsory paper currency. It is reported that the Turkish government has sent Oksza Bey, @ Polish insurgent, to Austria, for the purpose of promoting the interests of Turkey among the Deputies of Vienna and Pesth. The Prussian Minister in Paris has been most sin- cerely congratulated by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs respecting the attitude maintained by the Prussian Cabinet in respect to Roumania. ‘The celebrated French Beologtst, the Abbé Lom- bard, has lately discovered in the valley which sepa- rates Yvetot from Auzebose, France, a point where two sources of water cross each other at about thirty five yards beneath the surface, and on boring have been found capable of furnishing nearly 200,000 gaitons every four and twenty hours, Passina COUNTERFEIT MONEY.—A fifty. dollar counterfeit bil! was passed in Westville yesterday, and the police arrested in Rowe's dining saloon a person identified as the one who P aang the bill and & man who was with him. The first gave his name as J. Dennett, the other as J. B, Edgar. Dennett had upon his person $556 in good bills, a certificate of deposit from a New York trust company of $1,700 in the name of Edgar Buckingham, a de- posit book upon a New York savings bank indi- cating. a deposit of $500, $100 in United States coupons, and several notes for amounts ranging below $200, besides a gold watch and goid currency. Tia friend had but twenty dol- lars in money, a part of that received in change for the counterfeit, Neither had any counterfeits about them. They gave conflicting stories to the police, who deem thei slippery customers. Dennett said he obtained the money as aduiinistrator in settling Up his mother’s estate. Both are young men and well dressed, They hired a team at Barker & Ran- som’s, to go, a8 they said, to ¥ ville, Centrevilie and West Haven, but returned it after passing the bul tn Westvigé. It was passed upon the Riges brothers, in piyment for a couple of cigars. Both were Jocked up fora hearing thts moraing.—New Haven Palladium, Dec, 19. SHIPPING NEWS, 2uac tor New Yerkes-This Day. . 721 | Moon sets... morn 11 58 > ; High water.morn 1 07 n rises Sun sets. | PORT OF NEW VORA, DECENSLR 20, 1868, Herald Packages. port wilt ALDto our s who are gttached to our Steam ted Press do not now the follow! nonthly meeting held M $ on and after April 1, 186 he Associated ‘nue the collection of ship news in the Passed unapi:nousty, ¢ Horald steam ite AN coi proceedings JaMRS and one from d buund ves owner asignee! a oy seis will be forwarded free of charg. ARRIVALS. kD BY THE HERALD STRAM YACHTS. Watson, Liverpool, via Boston Gunard. ), Winater, Palern My With frait, to Chamberlain, Pb ant NW winds during the last 10 d skiiy Santiavo de Cuba, Macdfurmi 3, SW 8 550 with mdse an dp 52:15 PM amship Rapl is miles SW Nov 2, and ps & Col Had New 1» Fox 4 signals with Dn ES rt Light, ne: ny 11380 A! Fthar, bouu | ertaan, Henry, New Or'eans and SW Pass, Dec 13, with mdve and passeagers, to Samuel Stevens, Ex: | perience: head winds and heavy weather in the ¢ . c Sandy Hook on account of fog. Dearborn, Savannah, 65 hours, with mdse encers, to Murray, Ferris & Co. shnet, Keliz, Kew Bedford, with mdse and & Co, Tia we Nk and NW wince; G Suiton, bound & )» Camnina, agin, 14 days, with sugar and . Minturn & Co. Hiad'a auce Ni W, and was blown of King Bird, Wyman, for orton (Br), Gardner, Grand Turk, TI, 21 days, with sail, to order. Has been 10 days north of Hatteras; spiit sails, ac. rig Village Belle (Br), Corbett, Santa Cruz, 93 days, with augars mo! , ¢, to Crandall, Umphray & Co, Had heavy ufos the eusice passage: spilt galls, ec. Trig Alexander (of Sydney. CB), Thompson, Salt Oay, TT, 20 dnge, with salt, to CE Knox.’ Had heavy weather; ‘lost aod opllt a tue walla Tsth inst, Balng abort of provisions, tc, ® tot boat Fannie, who supplied us fons, reer ke mi her and towed 10 froatbitten. s, with lumber, to Holyoke Hart Island, Schr Jesse Carll ig tend days, with rubber, to B ach N hr St Marys, Hark 8 water and fuel, and was taken in tow “4 the entire H Helen Frances (of Bangor), A marie for New York. Ketorna (Mex), Orboth, Tobasco, 17 days, with Schr Retorny ecg thebaad! Tad midersie wealbers = "m % Vau Gilder, Young, Cape May. ‘A. Coombs, Cooinbs, Calais, 8 days, with lumber, Shera Light, Plummer, Machias via Providence, f Latian Kin, Floyd, Buckeport, 7 days, with lumber, Pi meee Hendricks, Bangor vin New Haven, where rber, Portland for Philadelphi rt et hinge, Boston or Vindinte, $ lor, Bridy eh ee Fite Doughty ‘Boston tor Philadelphia. ta. iestenanen ate River, ler Kalin ad se, mat @ short of water and fuel, an Shes ieaiire i ee ph ight lowt wight of here Wore, weather mod ‘wind N, steered different courses in search of her; 1 PM, fell in with Ler ogain, anu supplied her with provieione, waler-and fuel ; NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1868. | sagt Se metres StS favor i i a : a Hl E, i z E oF 4 af # e i i Barx AerEeRtas—Pass a!'Outre, Dec bark Asterias off shore at Northeast Pass, and will eround to Southwest Pass, Wind blowing half a Sou Mary E BANKS, reported wrecked at Atwood 's Key, bound to Baltimore with 's cargo of guano, was an ve of 112 tons, bullt at eee 1853, owned in Norfolk and jasurea (where not known); ners insured in Baltimore. Sonn FRranors Hatow, Grogory, from Rockland, at Rich mond, Va, 17th inst, had ‘heavy weather the entire passag having lost deck load of 50 carried away bobstay, and sust No damage to cargo in hold, TuR CavouR, Jensen, which sailed from Liverpool 27th ult tor ialtimore, put back’to Liverpool Sth inst leaky, and would discharge cargo, Miscellaneous. STRAMSHIP AUSTRALIAN (Br) cleared at Mobile 15th inst for Liverpoo! with 5720 bales cotton, valued at 034,199 98. BARK Prarere Brep cleared at New Urleans 1éth inst for Havre with 1066 bales cotton. VALUABLE CARGO OF CoTTON FoR LIvERPOOL—Messrs Edmonds, Gardner & Co yesterday cleared the American ship Othello, $88 tone, Capt Tinkkham, for Liverpool with a cag consisting of 3,78 bales of upland cotton, weighing, ahs ounds, valued at |. Average we ale,—Savannah Republican, Dee 17- Foreign Ports. DeMARARA, Nov 26—In port briga J Leighton, Leighton, from NYork, same day; Suwannee, Simpson, from do, arrived 24th; schrs Ellen Perkins, Perkins, from Parna- ae for Pia eg; ‘Annie Whiting, Hutchinson, from New ‘ork, arrives ith. Eabr HaRcor, TI, Nov 60—In port brig J W Shaw, Laird, for Boston Dec 3, GRAND TURK, TI, Nov 28—In port brig Maud, O’Brien, for NYork. HALIFAX, Dec Voge paekan steamship City of New York, ‘Moller, from Port Talbot for Tibbetts, NYork for Live (and proceeded), * Teh, bark Runeberg, Mole and loading. ‘B—Put back, Cavour, Jensen, for Balt!- more (see ©, Adare, barrels of herrings, split Torenailt, tained other ig damage. Tn port Ist! None, refittln Livi : ers). ‘MONTEVIDEO, Oct 28—Arrived, bark Adeline SON 5 gilegeengedia rk Jus B Bradley, Bradley, do. Sailed MBth (oelore feported in port 25th), brig Maurice, Carlson (from . Buenos Ares 19 load for Antwerp: 19th, steamer Kalorama, Palmer (rom NVork via Janeiro), San Francisco ; 26th, ship Granite State, Gardner, Callao. "Para, Noy 26—1n port brig Queen of Beauty (Br), for New York, to sail ina few days; schrs Louisa, C Knight, and Grasmere, for do do. “PONCE, PR, Nov %6—In port brig Echo, Terhune, from Baltimore, just arrived, American Ports. BOSTON, Dec 19, AM--Arrived, ship Ivanhoe, Herriman, Liverpool; kchra T J Trafton, King, Georgetown, DC; M Dra- wr, Chase, Rondout. P Gieared “Steamshi nsington, Babson, New Orleans; Saxon, Bo: iphia; Glaucus, Walden, NYork. CHARLESTON, Dec l7—Arrived, schrs. Thomas Jefferson, Briggs, NYork; Rosalie (Br), Albury, Harbor Ising. Clonted— Brig Eva N Jobnson, Jolinson, Providence. ONROE, Dec '30—Arrived, schr Sparkling FORTRESS wed, Sea, —. Sailed, steamer Bibb, Key West; bark Edwin, Boston. HOLMES? HOLE, Dec 18, PM—Arrived, brigs Nathaniel Stevens, Saunders, Newburg for Porismsnth; Whitaker, Look, Hoboken for Boston; schra begs Clark, Philadel- na for do: Franconia, Treworgy, for do; Lizzie faul, Bewlah, do for Salem. 198, AM—Axrived, bark Scotland, Marshall, New Orleans for Hostonz brig Fer}, Gole, Bonatre. for ‘lor nenre tosh, N twood, Cole, Tangier for do; Teaser, Henley, Richmond for Portland; E G Willard, Parsons, Miglin for do. NEW ORLEANS, Bec 15—Arrived, ships Kelvin, McFee, St Thomas ; Jane Ri Brown, Mobile; bark Martha A Mc- Neil (new), Watts, NYork ; brig Fiout (Sp), Albert, St Jago de Cuba; sehr. oe. Ward, Ruatan Island. Below, coming up, ship Beila Juana, Boniiasso, from Havana, barks Camp- bell, McBride, from Greenock; Hernan Cortes, Carro, from Hi Asterias, ee from Boston; schr Kate Brigham, Cleared—Bark Thomas Fletcher, Pendieton, Havre. Souruwest Pass, Dec 15—A d, achra Montrose, Knnd- son, Boston; M E Gray, Pillsbury, Havre. Safled, steamship George Cromwell. PHILADELPHIA, Dec 19, AM—Arrived, schr R W Dillon, Ludlam, Poston, Below, barks Busy, from Bnenos Ayres} Antelope, from ———, at Breakwater, wtg orders; one, st Doted the Meaco, from Clenfneyos, at anchor of Cape, May; and brig Henry Perkins, irom Jamaica, below the Brandy: ‘leared—Bark Jenny, Henrici, Bremen: brig Lizzie Troop Newell, Barbados: achr J Kieardo Jova, Little, Cienfue- Ros’ George Fales, Nickerson, Providence; Lady Isabel, Sook; Wm Wilson, Bacon, and Rawin, Ronan, Salem. B Patterson, for Lagu: and schr W H Tiers, for 08, went to rea 11 AM Tél iy Del, Dec 17, 6 PM—Bark Sam Shepherd, for Cien- fuecos: briga GV Willams, for Trinidad; Fanny Butler, for Georgetown, SC; M Louise Miller, for Segua, and schr Jona- than Moy, for do, all from Philadelphia, went to eea 16th inst. Bark R OW Dodge, from Philadelphia for Marseilies; brigs Marianna IV, from do for Liebon, and schr D Babcook, from NYork for Wilmington, NC, remain at the Breakwater. PORTLAND, Dec 1S—Arrived, schrs Empress, Keanedy, nnd May Queen, Gott, NYork. ‘Cleared--Rark Tremont (new, of Boston, 43% tons), Carlisle, Galveston: brig J Poiledo (Br), Plammer, Matanzas. Sailed—Bark Atlantic; brigs Frontier, Elsinore ; schrs Ster- Ime, Gertie Lewis, Dexuio, Ocean Star. RICHMOND, Dec 18 Arrived, steamship Albemarle, Couch, NYork ; sehr Memento, Todd, Albany. SAN FRANCISCO, Dee 20—Arrived, bark Powhatan, Pat- ten, Hong Kong. SAVANNAH, Dec 16—Cleared, ship Othello, Tinkham, Liverpool. Saile¢—Ship Screamer, Young, Liverpool; schr Carrie Heyer, Polapi, NYork. FISCELLANEOUS, UTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED IN rent States, No publicity. No charge ull divoree ned. Advice free, Also Notary Pubic and Comm! + of Nerds for every State, F.1, KING, Couaseilor at Law, 261 Broadway. ‘A. BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT A OF PARIS FANCY GOODS FOR S, HOLIDAY PRESEN’ NDE KE ATU RY, ARTIFIC CAR SMIAN ERT § ' ERT & IN ROSE, WHIT! 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