The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1869, Page 10

10 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Judge Edmonds and Spiritaaliow— Interesting Anniversury. To fue Epiror or Tue Herat ‘The weil known propensity of the HERALD to give Both’ sides of every qnesifon, so as to enable its nu- merous readers to judge for themseives, induces me now to intrude upon it, he its notices of the Ist and 2a inst. of the meeting of the Spiritualists on the Sist ult. I am placed tn a false positton, In its article of the Ist my Iotier to the meeting was spoken of as + rather verbose document,” and on the 2d my ab- gence was spoken of thas:—The absence of Mr. (rs) Kane was a big and Reavy blow, but the ab- sence of Judge Fdmonds was a far bigger and hea- vier.” Now, all tis does not convey aa accurate ‘view, and to do (hat, and at the same fime relying upon fhe well Known fairness of the Herarn, [beg the fevor of & pubiteatton in its cotarens of my letter read on that oveatsion, 4d. W. EDMONDs. To THOSP WHO ARE HERE ASSEMBLED TO C , BRATE THE RSARY OF THE ADVENT OF Mopran sMi— Prevented by bodily infirmity, whieh TF hope ts but transient, from participating with you personally on this interesting oceusion, and yet feeling an mterest in the eause which grows more mtense as | advance in age and in a kiowledge of the subject, F hope You will perinit me (o address to you a few worts of cheer and congrgiulation, if not of instraction, it BeeMs to me thet We not be too careful to have the object of our celebrations distinctly understood, We do not mean to claim that Uns era is the first time that an intercourse with the spirit werld has been known ainong men, and we do not evievrate its advent as a now event in the annals of mankind. As far back a5 we have any knowledge of the life of mau we dis ts appearenee. Everywhere, both in sacred and profane tustory, we have accounts of NEW YORK HERALD, SUN DAY, APRIL 1, 1869—QUADRKUPLE SHEET. World a messenger De saw Sefore Him to prepare the way by purchastag a pew, reuting, or otherwise possessing one? Would ths messenger bay the high- €St-priee.! pew in Beeeher’s ebureh, or select the low- est in some secluded chureh, the sermons from whose pulprt are not reported in the fferaup? Or might we expect that those Who buy and sel! these h thugs would cast out, as those who bought and sold doves in the Temple and who were charged with making Cot’s house a house of merchandise? The relationship new ex. isting between Christ’s kinedom and the world is of such an intimate character that it ts im) ble to distinewmn beuween them. The alifance between Ohureli and state, howe: Serrous #&d anti-Cliris- tian and sinful, is serail iv comparison to the eviis resul ing from the atuance of Christ's kingdom with Mam the god of ts werld, Avariee enters so largely rato the composition of the Chureh of thts day that itis impossible to determine in examtuing the cet where the world terminates and the king f Christ bevins; there is no strong line of de- marcation such as in the ay Cyl of tie Oburch separated the followers of ORrist from the followers of Mammon. The deckration of the preacher, when yzed by the amount of his salary, as well as the layinan by the commercial phrase, “it wil pay,” leads the inquirer affer the true state of affairs as they now exist to conclude that for them to live ts gain; to die is Christ. AN things are theirs, and they are all thiags to the partreular audience whose Itching ears are tekled by the cutiar discourses tugentously woven te pleasé and to Pull the Wool over their eyes so that in thetr admira- Hon of the creature they lose sight of the Creator. If Kalaam Knew tie trae God and was a true prophet he became so corrupted by avarice that he was for the sake of mammon all thiags to ail men, and his character as one of God's prophets is so marked by his ambition and avarice that it iseasy to distinguish which he served most, Mammon or Cod; but how- ever eloquent bis carsing discourses for money may have been the ‘ew words uttered by his unpaid ass Werefar more weighty and effectual because theycame direct from the source of all truth, unadulterated by contact with the god of this worid, Avarice was the cause of the downfall of So! splendor and dispiay with whi by mammon intercepted the more glorions aplendors of the true riches and overshadowed the heaven- born sunlight that warmed and burned within him, Antichrist at the present day is triumphant. In all 1s pres very rehgioa ever kaown among men has revelation from (ie spirit World as Hs foun- dation, and we know fail well that our age is not the first in which it has appeared. at this age is the first in which it has been deait with wisely and well. It ts now that for the first time the human race have advanced far enough in wiedge of man and his Yelations to God and in freedom of thought 10 muke tt avaitabdte for our hap- piness and progress; and it if now that for the first ime we are enabled to rise above the ignorance, superstition and fear which have hitherto shut out the itght of heaven from the human soul. It is this emancipation and tts consequences that we erie- brate; for now when [reedom speass to earth again the iteart of bumanity is prepared to recerve, to wel- come and to profit by it, Never tril now has the spirit presence been hailed by an understanding en- lightened enough to comprehend it. At one time 1t Was regarded as @ direct communion with God himse! t another time as the interference of the stars and planets with homan a‘at At one time it was viewed a miracieé, involving a suspension of universal aw, and at another met with 2 dentat of fact as imcompat:ble with the taw of God and of nature. Now, as coming from angels, an order of created Intelligence, aistinct from the human race, and now as emanating from devits or angels fatten from their high estate. Now, tt was astrology usea for the guidance of teman affairs, and anon tt was witcheraft, involvmg a@ compact be- tween the devil and weak mortals, out all for evil. At one time the instruments of its appearance would be worshipped as gods; at another, reverenced as rophets, and at another, hung. drowned and burned yy the thousand as Witches. Now torn to pieces by riotous violence and now canonized into the saint book. Tortured to death by a holy inquisition, tried and executed by courts of justice or revereuced as the founder of some mighty religion, #ti powerful to persecute and to siay, but tmpotent to save or to cievate, Sometimes healing the sick and comforting the mourner, and at other times scattering affright and misery end ruin proadcast over whole communities, Appearing here and there throngh a succession of ages, sometiines in broken fragments of scattered visitattons and some- times with a profuse outpouring and tonz-continuing among men. But at no time do we learn that there was ever a rational, well-sustained effort made to investigate its nature or ascertain the purpose of Its coming. It dispiayed tntettigence, and ofttimes that wich was above anytiing that conid be expected from mortai life. Men actually opened an intercourse wich it; but it rarely seemed to liave entered into their minds that it coutd be made avaliable to reveat what is the Iffe beyond our death; and when that thought did occur it was either confined to the ciois- ter or suppressed by the priestiy denunciation that it was a sin to seek to learn that which God bad kept from our knowledge. And when it came—as it often did—with evidences of identity so strong as {to tend powerfaliy toward conviction, it Was met with the denunciation—found- ed upon a fancied condition of existence beyond the grave—that the wicked could not leave their abiding ;place, and the virtuous would not. ‘Thus it foatea down the stream of time, perveried by ignorance or fear into an instrument of misery to man, or converted by superstition into a despotism over his freedom of thought, until within the last ee ofa century it visited, fora second time, this Continent. Here it found a land where there ‘Was no persecution for opinion’s sake—a people whose education and freedom of thought fitted them to receive and investigate, if not to welcome and embrace ft. Here was no authority to give to unsupported deniat the power to crush out @ proven truth; no auio da fé to burn to death the instruments of its promulgation; but hundreds and thousands of intelligent people as ready to inquire into it as into any other hidden mystery of God’s universe. Hence it was that when it came among us and displayed, as of old, that ft was Intelligent and that we could commune with it, an intercontse with it was opened, and we began to learn Its nature and its purpose. ‘That Is the event that we now commemorate—not fo much the advent of spirits among us as the open- ing of our Intercourse with them—whereby theré can come to us a knowledge of w is the iife in‘o hich we are to pass when we take our departure im this—a revelation, so far as we know, that can come to us onty thus, and if it comes, surely ag im- portant as any that has ever been vouchsafed to man. And well indeed may we célebrate it. in has the stone been rolled away from the month of the sepulchre. Again has the light of beaven invaded the darkness of the tomb, and that which twenty- one years ago was astrange distarbance in single famuy hes swelied upto a magnitude that causes believers In spiritual intercourse to be numbered by iniltions in this country aad to be heard of ail over the world. Let us, then, give thanks to God. Free- dom does speak to earth again, as once it spoke from Calvary. It is the [Divinity that stirs within this movement, and through its beneficent influence man is at length speeding rapidiy on in the path of that progression which is is destiny. é. W. EDMONDS, New York, March 31, 186: The Religions Feeling in Weetfcld, Maas, Wesrrierd, Mass., April 8, 1 ‘This town has a prefly extended bad name, in con- sequence partly from riots which ended in homicide, twoof which have occorred within two years, and partly from the influence of the Springfield Aepub- lican, a paper which for the past eighteen years bas let no opportunity pass to disparage the fair fame of Westfield, it 18 not to be denied that this place has & good many wicked men; bat a pretty extensive acquaintance, gained by personal observation, has convinced us that it 1s no> the wickedest place in the United States. It ts true that we have our snare of bad men, but we also have a larger share of intel- ligent, honest men, who give a good char: to the nace where the t tate of society in Westfleld is nown, and tha character of our town will im- prove abroad when it becomes Known that a great Feligious reformation is in progress here. A few weeks sitiice one of our most prominent bosiness men, Mr. Remben Noble, who was the democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Mawachueetta Jast November, Was converted, and is now oac of the active advocates of the religion of the Great din this or any community. He or mental abilities, and by his na. at power over the minds of through his persttasive » of reifgton, and partly rie of Rev. Henry ilopkins, regattonal chore 1 Rev. Mr. Methodist church, quite a number ti © be foun fs A man of eupert tive eloquenc his fellow tirough the of the First ¢ Maustletd, of th of our prominent re been induced to attend religious ise ‘few have been con- verted. Arnone tl $15 Mr. Luke Bush, who has tone been ishnd for his love of the world, He was once a ta r of our General Court, and @ marr of good nat hintte anton prayer meeting Last Saturday ¢ fo Hall, at whic hi x i a prevent.' It was the larett pra het tn | er mecting ! fo more Iq ce of the World and the Chnrct. ti e editorials and by inday ABRALD are becoming hoped something good i gy papers termed ely appearance, are articles which fo THe F y it Herat. religious appear int water etters aro weaker stills 1 ho the weak things of this world chosen to ¢ nal nein those days when Cr form of mau and few on wi it comes through at by cour and ¢ Chureh or its orga are | e what eh we nd m kn Would it be Episcopal, 1"1¢ i atch? from heaven, saying, C and shal obey that vot solved—then charity and stncerity the question is asked, how far are Protestant conventions, assembiies and synods from the Pope of Rome? Protestant churches dis- card great fundamenta! truths plainly and explicitly Wiltam Remington, formerly Baptist preacher at Sparta, now at Pontiac, Mich, From the posi- tion an character of the bert the case has ex- cised mach feeifne and proc great commotion fm La Crosse and Monroe connties, Larze nombers of clergymen and elurch members have been in con- stant attendance—all eager and interested on one side or {ne otter, After seven dys of most deter- mined contest the brought in a verdict of $1,000 dunvvres jor the plaioti, ‘The verdict falls like a bombshell in the camp of the ministers, ‘The result of the smit is counted a great triumph for Fider Par- shall, and will excite among the Baptrst churches throughout the country, Elder Parshali’s success as a revival acher am ears to have been remarkable both at the: West and -—his list of converts ranging between uve and three thousand. He was born in Otseco county, N. Y., in } He dates his conversion back to the age of nineteen, and tie pezinning of his ministry soon arter. He preached in Otsego county five years, in Sehovarie county seven years and in Washington county four years. He then moved West, to Janesvitle, Wis, preaching five years in the neighhortood of Afton. From tirence he came to West Salem, in 1885, where he has since lived, and buiit wpe church from 70 to 249 members. Soon af‘er his coming to West Salem Mr. larshatl was followed by most dan: ig reports from Sandy Tht! as to his virtue and c er among women. ‘Those were stimulated by fresh scandat at home, fill the air about the village was thick with reports of the erder’s misdoines, To gtve grater zest to the controversy the newspaners at La Crosse were pressed into service, and their cotumns were loaded down with the attacks and replies of Mr. Parshall and his assatin:s., Bat nothmy was settled ant the fight kept on. At the annaal confere ee of Baptist ministers and laymen, held at Tomah, in June, 1863, Mr. Parshall was chosen moderator, At the second day of the conference, a nunrber of leading ministers made a dead break upon Mr. Parshall and his character, and announced that they could fellowsinp him ne longer. A special conference of ministers was calicd at Sparta tn Augnst following, to tm into his cre- dentials and if possible drive htm from the mintstry. He was distinctly charged with berg a “thief? and a “liberiine,” and a committee was appointed to give him speciai hearing ant trial. The Rider, dewy- ing the authority of the conference and commiites, refused to comply with ther eaeeey and tc squarely upon ht accusers, Dy bringing an action of slander against Mr. Remington tn the Circuit Court && Sparta, which has just been decided in his faver taught by Christ himself, apparently because they are strongiy upheld and practised by the Romisn Chureh. To teach that the sacraments are efiicacionus is apostacy among many Protest ants. fhey laim, with upturned eyes and holy Norror:—What wickedness! What a_blas- phemy against the Holy Spirit! What an outrage upun tite Gospel |” ‘It improperly used they are effectuat to damnation,as declared by Paul. Why, if properly used, are they not effectual to salvation } One denomination is arrayet against another on some unimportant potnt. One tas too much cere- mony; the other not cnough. Tits ts all of the world. As Michael, when contending with the devil dis- puted anout the body of Moses, brought no railing accusation against iim, bat said the Lora rebuke thee; so in disputing and contending with the worid about the body of Christ (fis church) afl uncharita- ble and autichristia® railing is ont of place. But the truth must be Known. Chrisv’s body ts no. more spiritual now than Moses’ was thea. ‘Phere is one bedy and one sprrit.” It ts not contended here that this body is represented by any particular denomination among Protestants or by fhe Romish or avy other Church, Dut is represented by in- Gividaals in them ail, out of every nation and kindred and tongue and peopie, He has one visible body and one spirit, neither of which is controiied and governed by Pope, priests, kings, assombiies, conventions or any other worldiy thing; but is controlled, governed, guided and directed only by the one Lord. And wher these people, ont of every vation and Kindred and tongue shail hear a voice @ out of her, my people, then wilt the ailtance between Christ's kingdom and mammon be dis- will Babyion the gre have fatien. This voice is now crymg and is heard by many, but the way to come ont is nov yet opened clearly to their view. [t 13 lamentable to see and hear learned divines display so little Knowledge of the true exegesis of the passages of Seripture de- fining the body of Christ. Christianity is the trae alcheiny sought for m seience. Faith is the philoso. pher’s stone that turns atl things to gold, and if rightly cultivated converts the poorest man of to- day into the richest man of to-morrow; for through it he realizes the declaration of Paul, “All things are yours.’ By faith and ob-dience he becomes the ossessor of all things tn the highest sense in which it is possible for man to be vested in the ownership of things, “having nothing yet possessing ail hey and they only who caa truly realize Christ's (“ye are Cuirist’3"’), and itts they and they only who constitute the body of Curist—iis chureh, His representatives on earth. The klogdom of Clirist is fid from the wise and pradent aad revealed unto babes. A Philosophér Disconraeth on the Subject of Retigtous Light=Verbatim Report. To THe Error of THE Herat. That gentieman who has published that article tn your Sunday piper in which he is desiring more light, totelligence, pefception, knowiedg: and science tn religious matfers, and {3 not surMced with the Intelligence he has recetved from Moses and the otters in fils calling him following men nor from that, he has received from Jesus and the Apostics, is an wondrous man, as | see in his moan- ings all the conslicts of the antitheses of oldea and new times peceably in the anton of an chaos. Precisely. That's What's the matter. An unton Wrought out of chaos would be @ fine theme for some Southern brother who belteves the reveliton not yet over to dwell upon at a barbecite, and our worthy philosophical and theologicat friend should open @ correspoadence with sume Southern patriot upon the subject at once. Dr. Madd might take a band, ag his name ts somewhat typical of the obscurity of our correspondent’s sentences, of which the above is a specimen. The Question of More Spiritaal Light—Who Can Farnish Iet To Tae Eprror of THe HeRALD:— The skiiful geologist can always tell us of the underlying strata of socks by the outcroppiag of a few isolated peaks as well as though the whole sur- face of the rock was exposed to view, So your frat exclamation of “We want something more,” when alluding to the so-called “spiritual manifestations’? tn your issue of the 2d inst., and your reiteration of the same want to-day, secouded as you are by the earnest call of almost every honest inquirer after trath, shows ws all that the great want of the age is more ligat, Not in the natural sciences, for the door to their fall investigation is wide open, and earnest seekers are exploring the hidden mysteries and vringing forth each day some néw and start. ioe fact to be applied to the further en- lightening of the race, Not in the best way of acquiring money, tonor and fame; that path is thronged whit living examples of success. fal explorers ta those directions, Not in the discovery of new. means destruction whereby men can be hnrried into the grave in a shorter space of time; the horrid, im- proved tmplements of warfare and atl the new appliances of death render any farther fe gress {i that direction untueceasary at preset. These are not the subjects te need more light upon. Your call ia for light upon a subject of mach greater im- pertance tons all. Light is wanted upon the soul's erlasting destiny, mpom the darknes# and gtoom that surcounds the grave, upon the lire thet awai us In the shadowy jand beyond the river. That lan to which Harper and Neabitt, and Brady and Cunard, anid hoats of others who ¥ 1 these streets with us but Fes y have gone. are told that we tiave ali ‘the Nght from inspiration we shall ever havé; that the book is closed forever more; that God shall no ore show his face to ma! that enong! is given us to jead us into & perfect knowledge of all we need to know. Isthisso? Has it been of is it suMicient to make mea lore ofe another and God supremely? Let the history of tue lest eighteen hanared years answer. Biood! blood! blood! The stream of biood has never ye ased to flow, shed by Christian na- ttons, too. mote civilized ahd Christian, the greater the carnare, the more nimorons the widows and orphans, the greater the desolation, the ranker the grass and Sowers beneath our reet as ywiy we walk Over the battle elds, where felt the and where their bones repose. Bearen the of the so-called Christian s Beileving as soy In a God of influtte love they give you creeds wribie to contemplate. ‘Take Gatviniain, asee, WAich may be taxen a¢ & fair same. so-called Evangelical chorches, First, f a in Adam; a Saviour the el asting life, econ Of the Welanc®, and a large one, zation, the horrtd eoncla- 1, to a large majority of alt vie of most ehirches eat ell for the masses and sal. we want light, rng t want is felt, and Go > craving for Urata. The babe and the nony ag to time. As tn the yiricdal bave, graiitcd, else aud sniritual wor on if oye A for in pie of the o fall wie | provide and the Look | ihe we for irath, and you op ie than fity pt bined) freely to the stcurging § qT thousaed readers of the Henauo ey sone! rod and tay join you in your cat for ving mor Let us all give treely as we recoive, What furthe? light we have muet come throveh nainral channels. If any one can @ive ficis, hot howons of whic We have had enough, i Cow's name let nim do 40, The world wants niore light, Lotus have it Mintaterin? Slander CaceSuit Rotween Toro Baptht Ministers Verdict for 91,000 Dae wangehs (Sparta, Wis. (April 4), correspondence of Miiwaukee Wiaconein.) nost exciting and extraordinary stander snit wo in this region of the State came too ) inst evening, The suit was brought by Parshatl, the great Paptist preacher and revivalist at West Salem, La Crosee county, against by a verdict for $1,000 damages, Movements in the CathoHe Charch. [From the Tablet (Roman Catholic), Apri! bet ae Drproation.—On Sunday, 4th mst., the Most Rev. Arcabishop blessed the temporary Churci of St. Kernard, West Thirteenth street, and preached on the occasion, next, }ith imst., the CONFIRMATION.—On Saad sacrament of confirmation will be administered by the Most Rev. Archbishep in the Church of our Lady of Sorrows, Pitt sireet. RELIGIOUS PROFESSION AND REeCEPTION.—The solemn and imposmg ceremonies of profession and Peg Es took place in the chapel the Sisters of St. Joseph, Rochester, N. Y., on Friday, Mareh 19. the Feast of St. Joseph, Right Rev. Bishop Meonaid omMciating. The young lady profeased was Sister Mary Pau! Grey. Also on the same day Misa Lizzie Ovrcoran, of Canandaigua, N. Y., In religion Sister Mary de Sales, and Miss Powers, of Canandaigua, in pa Sister Mary Yeresa, received the religious abit. AMERICAN AND Formian Cit Rtsrray UN1oN.—Tnis association 1s organized and sustained for tne pnr- pose of concentrating what remains home ant abroad of Protestant zeal, bigotry, fanaticism, malice, hatred anil hypocrisy, and directing it against the Cathotte Church. It probably has as little princiole and scrupuiousness as any association that exists even among Piotestents, Its managers, having made up thett minds that the Church ts false, or at least in the way of Protestant domination, would seem to act on the principle that ail means and all modes of warfare, the more savare and brutal the petter, are lawfal, that prow to be succeasfal in detaching or keoving tie peopie de- tached from her communion, in destroying or dimin- ishing her indaence. A “Wide Spread National Calamity.” [From the New York Observer (Old School Presbyte- rian), April 8.) The committee of the House of Representatives of the Fortierli Congress on Labor aad £ lucation, in their report, sayi— Up to this time more than one-third of the States have failed to adopt any syste n of common sehool education, The astonding fact appears from the census of 1860 that nearly 3,090,000 of our adult pop- ulation are unable to read and write. Of these 1,126,578 were whites, and 871,413 were native born. Even this alarming agregate, thers are good reasons for believing, 18 below tis fact. These Hiterate whites, over twenty years of axe, were found North and East as well as South and West. Of these three millions 91,726 were free colored adutts and 1,653,809 Were adnit slaves, Since that censas these have become free. That to so large & proportion ef our adult population a written constitution is a blank tie committ:e declare is ‘a wide-spread national catam ‘ol How tach greater a calamity to them tiat they cannot read the “Boox of Life’—the charter of their apiritaal Tights and privileges—abie to wake them wise unto salvation! ‘This calamity the American Sunday Sctiool Union secks to avert frow the comtag genera- tion, and to remove, a3 far as possibie, from tie present. Incidents of the Late Mr. James Harper. (From the reminds At School) Ooserver, prii 8, Several interesting aud some curious facts are worthy of being mentioned ta connection with the sudden death, by accident, of Mr. James Harper, which we noticed last week:— Just before the acctdent he had renewed the policy $10,000) of imsurance on his life against death by aceident, ‘Three houts before the fatal accident he had sat for his photograyhic likeness, which is now precious in the signt of his friends. A few months ago he satd to his family that he would no loner pray. ase had been wont, to be deltyered from éadden death, as he had cease to re- gard It a8 an evil, if we live in a state of habitual Degen And from that time onward fe omitted Soe petitions trom hits prayers tn the famiy. Conversing with one of his cinploy’s, who ex- pressed a fear of being laid aside, ‘satd:—“Well, get a place in St. Luke's Hospitat; if anything hap- pens to me in riding, I would ike to be carried there, His wish was strangely faifiiled by the accident urred in the tnmedtate vicinity of the hos- wo Which be was taken and where he died. Religion In the Administration—Geerge H. Stuart from @ Baptist Standpoint. {From the National Baptist, Philadelphia, April 8.) GROKGR MH, STUART. Whether Mr. Staart was offered a place in Presi- @ent Grant's Cabinet has become a question of no little interest to tia personal friends and tie Chris- tian public, especially because of tne continued ex- pressions of doubt or denial by some persons and Papers, It Is certalnily due to Hoth the President and Mr, Stuart that the exact facts should be known, The facts are fully in accordance with the general impression—that Ciwlnet postiton was at Mr. Stuart's disposal. Besides other post- tive evidence, we have been periiitted to gee an autograph leter from the Prewtear to Mr. Stuart, written @ week before thé inauguration, which fully conirms our asertion, Toe whole transaction is alike honorabie to poih the distin. guished gentiemen concersed, and the only real regret any one can hive is that Mr. Stuart felt com- eng on account Of the precarious condition of hia ealth, to decline the President's overtures. AS Ina frieni4 are aware, Mr, Stuart has for years been amicted with spas ma It is peentiarly sai ieatis a “lover of hearty respects the cy. good men,” Christiua ssatiment of the vo: Progress of Religion in the United Staton. We have to report this week nearly 9,000 acces- Sions and conversions, the result of revivals all over the country. Of these 4,179 arc among the Method- ists, 1.66) among the Baptists, 990 amoag the Con- Mregationaltais, 525 among (he United Brethren and 600 arnong the Preabyverians. Revivais are reported among the Congregationalista in Buxton, Me, where the menibersitp hat been doubled; in Cotlath, Ne H.. where 190 are conver; in Swanton, Weybridee cy onverts), Windsor (33 accessions), aad Vi ag In Stat ridge, 40 converts, and in Holden, Mase., 199 conrverta, Tie remarkable interest in the Presvy- tertan and other chureles of iudato, N, Y., still cons tinnes, was quite a revival interest in Lockport, N. Y., before Mr. Ifa ond went there, and ihta interest is increasing, The Preahrterians are enjoyigg revivels iu. Adams end Union Cor- ners, . it whicn began among the Methodists im North Granville, N. in Troy Con. ferener, its eprett into atjoiming towns, tf over #09 have 1 aviled to the various charches, of whom (00 have joined the Methodists in North Gran- Ville, flity the Mantis and twenty the Preshyterians, in Whitehall the Me*hodiets heve received 499 and in Hartford tir peste and Methodists each 190. In Hamtiton, N.Y. 9 large number of hopeful converts have veea the frat of the preaching of tae Kev. Jacob Knapp, aud union meetings are now kept up by the Coudregationalista and Metnod! lu Cole lamer, Uilo (onvrotational andPresbyterian), We hear of sisty conversi And,100 injWakemany Ohio. Ja Three tivers ved Ui dist claret, ret Religions tee, The consistory of St. Paul's Reformed patch chureh, Rev, Alex, R. The aon, D.U., pastor, who for the past year have occupied Ly purchased the church property in ¥ opp servuit square, at pr the Third Unitarian cnureh, Rev and Will columence their services t Sunday nm M Horatio Lyon, of Monson, has gencroosiy given $10,009 for the ecection of a new Congiegational eburet in that plac ‘he next session of the Barnstable County Confer ence of Congregational churches a w be held at South Dennis in dune 4 nual cunferenge of the Method New Tampahire iain Hon at Lisboa, large attendance of clery mea The Methodiet Recorder is pablishing notes on the Natt, have ortieth street, ‘at occupied by Vrothinghatn, on the { Choreh io ihere is @ rat | Methodist Hymn book. The hymn styled “ 4 The herald § i test cd Wesley, 1 The RAL ever; 4 The Fi bytertan eharcls a lewburgpert, it is said, has never, in more than a hundred years ex- istence, failed to keep the anmual fast by holding meetings morning and afterno ons BROOKLYN CITY. TRE COURTS. SUPREME COURT—SPCCIAL TENN, The Prospect Park Commissioners Present ielr Report for Confrusation. Before Judge Gilbert. Ths Commissioners of Prospect Park presented for confirmation yesterday their report of the awards made for the land taken for the extension of the Park, They were represented by their Codnsel, Mr, Jonn §. Paylor. Mr. Jot G. jumker a on behalf of the properey owners on Ninth street and Ninth avenue, and opposed the report on the following grounds:—First, the estimates by the Commissioners do not show the sums awarded for property on Ninth street or Ninth avenue, and Whether there is any differevee in the vaiua tion of the lots. ‘The Commissioners seem to have assessed the properiy on the two streets equally, and so domg lave estimated the property on Ninth street too tri@h, or on Ninth avenue too low. Seeond, there wat Mo authority in law for the counsel of the Commissioners submitting: the report at all, It should be done either by the Common Council ar by the Corporation Counsel, ‘The appointment of an attorney for the Park Commis- soners im 1863 does not repeal tle terms of the charter directing the Common Council to take charge such matters, Mr. Joba S$ Merrian appeared on behalf of the otter property owners, and op- posed the report on the ground of the disproportion of the awards to the awards for stmilar property in the vicinity. Mr. Taylor claimed that all these ob- jections shouid have been made to the Cominisston+ evs, and that, havnry fatied to do that, they had no nt toappeal, Judge Gilbert took the papers and eved his decisin ERVORLYY IWPELLIGENCE, CRIME.—The records of the police show that 326 persons have been arrested in Brooklyn during the past week. BourGLary.—A burglary was committed at tne residence of Mr. Buckland, No. 124 York street, on Friday afternoon. $190 in Treasury notes were stolen. THe Hupson Avencr Ferry.—The Mudson Ave- nue Ferry Company have a number of mechanics emptoyed in reparring their bridge and boats, and m a short tinie the travel across the ferry will be resuin GRAND LARCENY.—Joshua Sharpe, eighteen years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny yesterday before Justice Voorhies, and was com- Mitte? to the connty jail to await trial. Sharpe siole property at various times, from the store of Artiur Bartlett, Grand streot, BE. D., to the vaine of $230. ATrEMPT TO BURN DowN WASHISGTOY HALIe— An attempt was mate jast ment to barn down Washinzton Hall, corner of Fourth street and Broad- Way, by setting fire to a hewp of tudbisk In che eel Jar, but the flames were discovered and extinguished, In tme to prevent a serious comfagration, by Mrs. Baisley, who occupies the basement of the brtiding. Serious Acctpent.—Mr. David Haynes sustained serious injuries by the explosion of a soda water bottle a day or two avo. ‘The ftarmonts of the shat- tered bottle entered his riche arm near the elbow, soverinz the veins and arieries, and rendering the arm usotess for an indefinite periot. Mr. Haynes re, ceatly lost two borses and nearly alt Mis property by an Incendiary tlre. CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM Farr.—The grand fair which was opened on Monsay last in aid of the tand for the erection of a new orphan asyinm for girls, at the Acadeuy of Music, laa been very suc- ceastul, The fadies representing the diferent ¢ 1 grerations have vied with ereh other in their Chari. tavle amd praiseworthy eiforts in behalf of the object in view, The tables are elexaatly decorated, and one covered vith rich and useful article Among the most attractive departments of the bazaar is the art gallery, witch contains @ very fine collection of paintings, and one witch no connetssour who visits the fair fais to patronize, ‘This atvision of the tatr 18 under the charze of the ialies of St. Stepnen’s congregation. ie fair wilt remain open danng the entire week. Tae BOARD OF Assssz0Rs.—The Board of Asses- sors met yesterday morning. ‘the matter of appro- priating and assessing the expenses of opening Eleventh street from Second to Ninth avennes cane up. Some objections to the assessinent were sub- mitted by Mr. Clark, tut a motion to consirm them Was adopted by the Board. An apprlestion from Mr. James Frothingham, Treasurer of the Trustees of the Mercantile Library Aasociation, was read. Mr. Frothioghama enclosed tax bills for 1867 and 1963 on lot and buliding belonging to the association, amounting to $1,274 65, whict Ne elatmed uader the siatate should he exempt from taxation, a3 were other portions of thetr vy. Assessor Fieid said = that section title 1, of the general laws of the State all real and personal prop- erty belonging to public Ubrarios was exempted Irom taxation. Assessor Ripley thoaght auch a law shonld be repeated. Assessor Fury moved that the matter ve referred to the committes whicit assessed the ward. Adopted. The Hoard then sdjournod. QUTAAGE ON THE Hist ConsvLate Generar Notrii AN Unto, New York, April 9, 1909, f ‘To TiH# Evitor or tie Herato:— ‘The Consut General of the North German Union would respectfally inform you ttatin the case of the alleged outrage committed on board the North German bark Hedwig, during her recont voyage from Fremen to this port, the examination insti- tuted at this oMes has shown the following cireum- stances:—The Hedwig brought no passengers but one couple, the man, by profession @ seaman, working his passage, whilehe had paid for his wife, The latter seems to have been violated by the boatswain while her husband was on duty. No other improper conduct on the part of the oMcers or the crow of the ship toward her has beon shown or complained of. The captain especially, who 14 a kind-hearted yentioman, has done nothing fm. proper (as Js intiinated in some reoort, bat hes done everything to coinfort the won ad atrord her redress. He mntented to hotd the boatswain for putlishnent, Wut the latter effected his escape soon after the arrival of the ship. The capiain, with the assistance of this office, has taken the proper steps for the recovery of the man, whots to be sent Bremen for ial, nelkher the United States authori tes nor the Consul having criminal jurisdiction in the case; nor does the crime come under the ex- tradition treaty. ERWIN STAMMANN, Chanceilor of the Consulate General. END OF A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL CASE, [From the Toledo (Onto) Blade, April 8.) One niga in January, 1863, Samuel Ke‘ehun, then Treasurer of Coshocton county, Vhio, was found im his office, tied ham’ and foot, and consider. ably braised, the safe unlocked and about $20,000 of the county funds gone. Ketcham stated that after Ba bad locked the safe and was about to leave the oifice, he was set upon by robbers, knocked down, the keys taxen from him, the safe unlocked, after which he was bound and gagged sy as to prevent his giving (he alarm uatil the rebbers had made good thei escape, The county oticiais o tout the robbers. A large reward detection; — detectives were employed, and in the vain effort to bring them to justice about $20,000 was spent. But no clue conid be found; they hat covered up their tracks wo weil, ad for nearly ten years the matter re- mattied a toyatery. Bat about 1 1%, “4 rou a snit for borrowed money was agaiont oe the = ex-treasurer, by James Brown, one of the leading | citizens of thal county, aman Spores to be worth over a han. dred thowtand dollars, and this lod to the exposnre of the Whole matier connected with the robbery. Ketchum at once made @ clean breast of it, The pldt to rob the safe was concocted between himself and Brown, Afcer they hut secured the money Hrown, in order to disarm suspicion, bonad and sano’ Keteaum, avd jeit him in the condition in waich he was found in the odlee on the night of the rov! Brown was timediately ariested. He applied fora change of venue, and the triat was transierred to Licking county. At Newark last woek the trial was © ded; ae Was convicted and sentenced to tea years in the Peuitentiary and to pay a fine of $4,000. vortex Pactort IN Gtorota.—The Angusta (Ga) Cheontete and Senctinet gives f list of twelve cotton milis in that region which draw thetr supplies from that cotton market, which aggrega over 70,009 epinidie? and over 1,900 looms, demanding a iminimam average for daily supply of more than ninety bales of raw co All of tucse mills are prosperous and prospering, The Augusta factory pays ity stockaolders regular quarterly dividends of ve per cent, or twenty per cent per annum, The estavlisned dividend of the wranitevilie factory ts Ne tos All profits over and above this sam bs ata reserve fund and set apart ag a banking capital—a policy made necessary by the existing Jimited national bank capita:— a8 been Wiswy and prodwoly pursued. e derive this evidence of {ue properity of those milis from the regular reports, The remutader of the tallia, belag cose corporation, yleid no slalistical Injormation as to their prosperity, The MUNDER IN BarkiAMaren, Ce ~The pre liminary examination of Jona Kvans, for killing Hiscock, resulted in binding htm over for trial be fore ti® Superior Court at Litchfield, whieh meots next Tuesday, The trial will not take place, prob+ abiy, before May. For the prosocuuon, Siate's Ab torney Sedgwick, and Goodwin, of Bark for defence, Merril, of Hateford, and f sted, The ‘killing Was done because TH tatwed beproper relations to Evans’ wi generally harmless and inoffensive man, =, at once wene tothe wore in Barkhameted Cenire and told those prevent that he had “eut the seoundreis throat,” aud then he sat down and waited for an officer to come aud arrest him.—Muryord Tones, April % SUBURBAN INTELLIGENCE KEW JERSEY. Jersey City. Tre Ticker Orrick Rospery.—Superintendent Jackson 16 engaged in investigating the robbery at the ticket offices A tenable case has been made out against acertain young man who ts far from bem; @ stranger on the prentises and who could pass fi and out without attracting any nouce. The pretimt- hary investigation ts stricily private, and the name of the indivi alinded to is withheld for obvious reasons. SUICIDE IN THE ALMSHOUSE.—Anton Alson, Whose attempt to drown himself a few days ago was pub- lished in the Heracp, hanged himself with a piece Of carpet binding to 9 gaspipe projecting from the wall in the Almshouse, yesterday afternoon. The deceased was forty years Of age, a native of Sweden and had a considerable sui of money th his - sion before he died, Coroner Warren will hold an inquest to-morrow. Alson had been for some years in San Francisco, and for some time past he ex- hibited undoubted symptoms of insanity. Tue MAYORALTY QuesTiON.—Mayor O'Neill having resigned, though havinga year to serve, the demo- cratic convention are in @ complete dilemma, ‘I'he opinions of geveral prominent lawyers have been sought in the matter of electing a successor to Mayor O'Neill, aud it appears that the election will devolve on the Common Council. The City Clerk is required by the charter to post up a notice eight days previous to tle election, aud this cannot fone now. ‘The convention nominated H. F. Clark for Mayor. In any case che incuarbent can hold the position only for the unexpired tern Mavor O'Neril has had some doubts, torcover, re- ing the constitutionality of the iaw passed afier fis election, exieudiug his term of olice to two years. Hoboken. ANCIENT ORDER OF HiBERNIANS.—A meeting was heid at Odd FPetlows’ Hait last evening, when & branch of the Ancient Order of Hibermians was es- tabusted, This 13 the po gorse that has kept the Kanucks ina state of continued ferment, partl- ealarly during the Fenian excitement, ACCIDENT ON THE SuoRB ROAD.—AS two men, named Heary Monford and Stephen Dinning, were driving to Hoboken, along the River road, on the Jersey side, from Fort Lee, yesterday after- noon, they were suddenly prectpitaiea down an embankment some tweive feet, near Guttetiberg, and Dinning had one of his legs broken. Workmen are at present empioyed in widening the road, aud i618 in a most filthy and dangerous condition. The horse took fright and dashed of, which caused the wagon to be upset. Dini” was conveyed to Ho- boken and properly care’ Or Morford ‘is severely injured. Both men reside .. “ort Lee. THe LATE RAILROAD ACCIDENT—CORONER’S IN- QueEst.—The inquest on the body of Ricnard Ryan, who was recently killed on the ratlroad near Water- loo junction, was couciuded by Corouer White yes- terday #iternoon. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the circumstances already pub- Insited aad censured the engineer and flagman for gross negligence on their part. It appears that the flugman fell asieop on the utorn- ig of the accident, and the engineer stopped his train on tie line whereon auother train was coming behind. Tie Consequence was that the engine of tae jat-er tram ran inte the eaboose and cut Kyan to pieces, Benjamin F. ilaines, the con- Auetor of the cow train, was according'y cominitted to prison, 1n default of ball, to await trial. Wuar A MAN SUFFERED oN AccouNT oF His Wire.—Between ten and eleven o'clock ou Friday hight @ desperate atfray occurrod in the house No, 402 Newark street, in which John Puliman was staibol, Frederick Leitheiser was terribly clabbed on the nead and Louts Buncke kicked generally. The three were arrested and locked up. Pullman charges Lelineiser with stavbing hin, and the accused re- torts that Polman aad Buacke clubved him til his jaca Was covered with bood. Leitneiser, woo ecanuot speak Enghsh, make ® statement through oMeer Fekel that Pallman had been in the have of going to his house aud k ing Up ais baiti- hincy With Mrs. Leisieiser, which was galling to the feelings of a husband. Letthelser warned Puliman 8 house; but the warning was the bloody aifray oa Fri tay night. appy husband furtier stated that he wet hist ue ara of a man, la Washington ay3 220, Wad tints aliost drove The whole party were beid for ex- Union Hit. ProrOS MATOH FoR $200.—There waa qnite a large githering yesterday afteraoon at Ludiow's, Union Ui, to witness ® pigeon match between John Ryan, of Hoboken, and one Leibier, of New Jersey, for $100 a Pgs lag Fafene i esscom Plead ten birds, Ryan jowing nae! 10 birds, whieh gave Leidler the odds, _ it was neat three ‘o'clock before the game was ealied, and Kyau Winning the frat sead-o, went in and carried of his first bird with but little or no trouble, The odds were ailogetuer on the side of Letoler at the beginning, but it soon ae as he showed (imnself a very poor marksman. Ont of his ten inrds he ouly Killed three, while Ryan kilied seven out of eigot, thas Winaigg the miateh win cotparauvely lite or no effors. Commanipaw. . Tue Srock YaRos —During the past week 233 cars arrived ut the stock yards, containing 1,771 cattle, 8.713 hogs and 8,631 sheep. There were slaughtered during tie week 350 cattle, 3,619 hogs “and 7,250 sheep. Bergen City. ‘The Nomtnatiows.—Mr. J. B, Cleveland having Positively declined to accept the democratic nomtna- tion for Mayor of Bergen, the nomination has been given to Mr, Stephen D. Harrison, The repabiican nowimation was teaderud to Ur. J. M. Cor m. Tae Beroen Squake Ourrkage.—Mr. Thomas, the gentleman who was beaten almost to death by some ruMan on Thursday night, was somewhat improved rday. In addition to the reward offered by ex- iy ‘ornelison a further reward of $500 has been oflered by Mayor Boakerhod for the arres. of the scoundr Detective MeWillians has the case to hand. Stuee the Kogers murder in. \ Ww York there has been ho ca: to Compare Willi tins iL Cacng aoa recklessness ive lo mention the al sence of provuca- Hou. Hudson City. A Stats Prison Biro In Linso.—Jolin Ketber, alls Hucknan, & painter by trade, waa tried before Recorder ilackett, in New York, on the 16th of Octo+ ber, 1865, and sentence! to four years in Sing Sing, fle corresponded froin time to time with Mr. Weitzel, of Htudeon City, whom he earnestly reqnested to uae tus imiluence with the authorities m his oeball, These entreaties were not attended to, and Keiber kept the slight in memory, By goo? conduct and indasiry he mi J to obtain a reiission of #iX montis and ag soon as he left the prison he went to the hoase of Mra. Wetzel, now a widow, and made a fai at tack on her, threatening to take her ilie, Some owwet designs are attrivuied to him, which, if true, stamp him aa @ cousuminate scoundrel. | Chiof of Police Robinson telegrapasd (o Sing Sing and ob- tamed toformation that ber obtained a re- mission as stated. The prisoner was comiitted for trial. tHe Wii Hardly fad Trenton as comfortabie as Sing Sing. wuniualion. Newark. Breviries.—Another victim to an inordinate de- sire for whiskey died in the county jali on Friday night. His name was George West. For fifteen or twenty years he was known to tie authoritics as a dranken vagraut. Despite the tact that any qnantity of “bock” beer (very strong lager) has been floating around for days past the police coutinue to have notoing to do, For twenty-four hours only one arrest was made, Con inuons tramie ts tnterrapted on the horse car line between here and Orange, owing to repairs oa the canal bridge at Roseville, A maitimoth concert and bail takes place at the skating rink to-morrow evening, ‘Theodore Thomas will be there with hts splentid orchestra, Patrick Martin, @ resident of Stone street, had two of lis fingers biowa away on Friday night, aloug with a musket which he was dischargiug, Tue later had veca loaded for montis past. Essex County ROAD Boakp ORGANIZATION. —The first meeting of the co\nmissioners appointed by an act of the recent Legislature constituting @ road board for the county of Essex was held yesterday at the Court House in this city. All the members, five im number, ag follows, were present: -Aaron BR. Baldwin, George Petors, William HM. Mar. phy, dese Williams and Robert M. Hen. ning, After each of them had filed se- cuntiy in the sum of ¢i0,000 with the Finance Committee of the Board of # choldors an organiza tion was effected by the appointing of Mr. Baldwin as preaident and Mr. Peters treasarer. It ia fondly hoped that with this commission come radical tm hgphows Will be made in te roads throughout we County. A Titer Cavour is THe Act.—Barly yeaterday morning Mr, Richard Bond, foreman of Mesars. Biess & Drake's foundry, on Railroad avenue, went to tho office and discovered one off the workmen, nained Matthew Kitteren, ia the place ander cir- cumstances of a vory peculiar character. At sight of Mr. Boul the fellow dashed Off out throach the back Window into the foundry proper aud was Koon lost sight of Subsequently he Was puiled out of a sand head where he iad secrete himself, ie was perfectiy stuf when hauled from hia hiding place and continued apparently unconsctons all day yes. terday, Onexamimation of the office It appeared ‘Wat ihe outer case of the had been broken in by Means of a hammer and cold chisel. The latter were in the hands of the prisoner when he fea, He was brought to the station hoase when he proved to be the same who had caused the arrest of one Lynch some time ago oa a charge of atrocious ay. saul, Lyneh and he had quarréiied and he got badly beaten. He remained in a fit for several days from the effects of the drubbing be got. It js thougns that he, was thrown Into one yesterday tiroagh fear. Another opinion ts Fate W playing remams Though a workman his employers pe- esinat he en per . fie 18 about twenty-nine years of age and a wife, DESTRUCTIVE Fine.—Last evening, between five and six o'clock, considerate excitement was oc- castoned in Gray street, situated in the northwestern end of the city, in consequence of the breaking out of @ fire by which two dwelling houses were eom- pletely destroyed and other property severely damaged. The fire originated in one of the hotises—a new frame one—the property of tta occapant, Mr. Henry Roberta, tt is thought thr ough a kerosene lamp having exploded in the basement. ‘The fire spread rapidly and speetily communicated to the brick building adjacent. winch was oceupl by Mr. Joho Hemmingway. Most of the furniture in the latter building was saved ere it crumbled inta ruins. In this respect Mr, Reberts was less forva- nate, Thisgentieman had barefy suMcieut ume to remove his w'fe, who lay serrously it] mm bed, and afew articles of furniture from the doomed dweiling. the meantime the fire had leaped across the stre and commenced operations on the Methodiat church, By almost superhaman exertions on the part of the citizens this structure was saved. Up to this me no fire alarm had been struck, through some cause yet unknown, but which demands strict Mvestigation. Subsequently a portion of thé fire department arrived on the scene, but too late to ve of any materialuse. A barn in ihe tomer belonging to @ Mr. Mills, was partially .de- stroyed. The loss on the buildings will be about $6,009 or $8,000, partially insured. Mr. Robers seems to have been pecaliatly unfortunate, No sooner had he placed his wife in a house opposite than he was co! to remove her a second tare, thorugh the fire breaking out there also. About the same time a valuabte barn, owned by Mtr. Kanda! bast Orange, Was entirely destroyed Uy the same meut, Elizabeth. Unton County Counrs.—Iin ihe case of the Bonnek estate vs. the Morris and Essex Railroad, a decision was rendered adverse to the latter, and a vere duct rendered against the company for $7,102, ‘bhe particulars are brieity these:—The oration wok a pieces of land at Summit belonging to the a BP and appeaied from the valur~ tion of the cummissioners appointed there‘or, which was $4,700. Tiuat was two years ago. Now that sum, with is deeiarel to be due tie, appeliees, The Grand Jury have found true bills to the number of twenty-five. None of these are in’ cases of any consequence. No action hus yet besa, take. in the case of George Wade. Rahway. HARNESS THIEVES.— Early yesterday morning some maranding radian broke open the place of Mr. Thomas I. Rayner, near Hazlewood Cemetery at, this place and carried off two valuable sets of har- ness. One of tiem, # double set, was handsomely mounted in silver, 1G Madison. Bur@Lary.— Late on Friday night or early yester- day morning the dry goods store of Mr. Henry’ Keep, at this piace, was entered by thieves aud rovbed of a quantity of flac goods, consisting of dress goods, tinen, gaiters, &c. Tne thieves alsu cur- ried oi & horse and wagon belousing to the same rerty. WESICHESTER COUTIY. CaorcH Fatr.—On Tuesday next the ladies of St, Augustine’s Roman Catholic charch, of Morrtsanta, Rev. J. P. Wood pastor, will hold @ fait, the pro- ceeds of which will be applied to liquidate the debt of the church. The exhivitiou will be conimued throughout tie week. SEVERE AOCCIDENT.—A farmor named William Marks, living at Tarrytown, whils attaching a yoxe of oxen to a wagon a day or twosince, unfortunately ailowed the heavy pole of the latter to fall upou bis leg, by Which He Sustained a compound fracture of both bones of the linb, Prompt surgical assistance was rendered iu behalf of the sufferer, Bure.ary.—Daring Friday night last the pre mises of Frederick Beck, at Hastiags, on the Had- son, were broken fnto by unknown parties, who abstracted from the tamliy stores, wine, flour. &c., to the value of seventy-live dollars. From indica. tions {t would appear that the burglars came pre- pared with @ horse and wagoa, tor the better removal of their plunder, TemPeRtna Jvstice witt Mercy.—Hitherto the arrests made by the Metropolitan potice at Youkers, on Satarday evenings and nigtts, have been followed by incarceration of the accused until the ensuing Monday morning, no mater how trivial the oifence charged. Bearing in mind the abstract rmght of an arrested part’ to @ edly fears | on the offence for which his liberty has bee curtatied, as well, perhaps, to save the viliage an unnecessary Cxpense of boarding prisoners on the Sabbath, the Board of Village Trustees, at its lass meeting, had under cunsideratton @ fesvlation re- quiring the cours of the Police Justice to be open for the transaction of criminal business on legal holida; and Sandays, ani Inseracting te Potice Jastice open his court on those days at o git o’clock A. M, and keep open oae hour or auth the cases are dis- posed of. MerHoptst EriscoraL CONPERENCE.—The sevonty- ninth Annual Conference of the New York Methodist Church, in sesaton at Sing Sing during the latter part of the week, has been tolerably weil attended, the average number of clergymen present each day being something Moré than 20v. Bishop Levi Scott, of Delaware, presides during the session. Among the first business transacted by the conference, and when the usual commtiees nad b10n appointed, was we unanimons adopuion of tue fvilowiug preamble ane resolution: — Wherens we have heard with by 2 renret that important: changes in the Exige law of thie Metropoiitan district are now pending in tie Senate of the Sata of New York, having already the Assembly; nat bellevin: civan ey te be in; ire, aa jane and curenaona ie and range with to the comminmity, wey the members ‘of the New Pork Conrer. cor mi i ference 04, ssi tad sara pees Spee pred imeat, and eapeciall, waich ta from ration of this law « porvion hog places Of thls drinking etropolitan disiriet, That thts meciveee tp ee Reeniens ant Secretary, and forwarded to the Seuave at Albany. During the session of the Conference addresses have been delivered by Marvin (ucharison, of Pough- keepsie, whto = considered the ren of the ecclesiastical body, he having ation lad every session of the Conferen uring tuc past sixty years. Bewit the mornig detherations meetings have been he! each eveutng, at which addresses on Sunday sei ovis, church extea-ion aad o her important matters we e male by several of the members, A missionary ser- mon and a Conlerence discourse have also been deliv. ered. At noon yesterday the Comere see adjourned until Monday morning, and to-day tie elders and deacons who are candidates for orlination will be admitted te holy orders by Bishop Mech copal church. RENCONTRE BETWEEN SOUTHERN EDITORS. A Great Denl of Shooting, but Nobody Hart. ("rom the New Orleans Picayune, April 6.) We ave been farnished with the following partie cnlars of a personal rencontre which t ok place at Napoleoavile, Assumption pariah, on Saturday last, and which created the most intease excitement in that town. It appears that some time since the editor of the Advoowe (republican), Mr. Swords, inserted an. art cle in his paper rettecting w Mr. Piotado, Parish Judge, a repudlican, but belonging to a separate wing of the party, in tng article th editor stated that Jadge Pintado had been seen 1 the ofice the Pioneer 9 democratic paver), and that such an ico Was of it refuge for such vermin, or words in swbstance to that effect. ‘The editor of the Pioneer (Mr. Duppaty) therent demanded a re- traction of the article or sa! tion in accord nce with the rules of the cote, The editor of the’ Advocate replicd that he was ov “eg dueling, and would not accept a challenge, ir. Dupast ot then in — ok A ieee Foams t retract ja Satur, own rm or tne, ranoone he woul ange him = on’ sight, At avout eleven o’clock ou last Saturday, forenoon, the Advocate having appeared without any apology, and While the citizens of the town, apprised , oF the expec! diMeulty, were gathered about in groups, Mr. Swords appeared tipon the rireets, armed! with @ revolver, Walking ap and dow), as if awaiting, the coming of Dappaty, Upon being tuformed, ever, that his antagonist iad be double-barrelled gua, he retired peared armed in a similar manner, came in sight of each other, aad when at about 100, yards distant, comme: Urtag at the same tino; Yet, strange to sar, alth mh (he pieces were loaded With buckshot, neither tl g princty is or anyone in the crowd were — injur by the = discharges. Alter eaters both barrels oa bis gun Mr. Swords drew his revolver and Ured once; but before Mr. Dappaty could age his ree voiver ii return fe Waa arrested by tae Sheriil, a brother of Swords, and about the same mowent Swords waa arrested bv a justice of the peace, and the diMcuity for the tne being broaght to a clos ‘The origin of the ditcuicy grew out of A split in & republican ranks, Whjch splits ab preseat seem to furnish material for all une lively dispates now going ob ia Lie South. THE LATE FIRE AT FRANKFOIT, KY. Losses and Insuracce. Kentucky papers give the following partienlars of the destraction of the whiskey bonded warehouse at Frankfort on the 2d inst.:— ‘The total loss tt not for from $350,000. ‘Tho ware house was one of the (nest in the State and newly batit. It waa fully insured, The number of barrels of whiskey des‘royed Was about 9,260, of which the followme were owned by New York partier:— on) of & Holterhoof, 125 barrela; Samue) Hawk, 8 Telay Patterson & Biggs, 100 barrgs; Fred Right, 175 bors rela; Charles Bachman, 202 barrels, Atnong the iney surance companies Which hat risks were the follow. ing:—security, of New York, $10,000; Phentx, off New York, $2.50; North Of Piilade! pita. 000; London and Liverpool, $19,000; Home, of Haven, $10,000; Western, of Hurt, $5,000,