The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1869, Page 4

4 — HUMAN PROGRESS. Twenty-first Anniversary of the Friends of Human Progress, at Water- loo, New York. THE NEW ISMS OF THE AGE. Christianity, Our Social System and Our Moral and Physical Lives a Fail- ure and Deception. The New Platform of Civil, Moral, Po- litical and Social Government and Welfare. WATERLOO, SENECA County, June 13, 1869, A few miles outside this curious lite town, which nestles among the hills and lakes that dot this pic- turesque region, and within about thirty miles of Lake Ontario “as the crow files,” stands an old meeting house, used for many years by the Hicksite Society of Friends, It ts a large frame butlding, just om the dirt-road running through the town of Junius, aud is situated upon an eminence within a fenced area, which encloses also a smali whilom Quaker cemetery, comprising, perhaps, fifty graves. ‘The house is probably thirty or forty years old, and its interior arrangement is in accordance with the rales of construction adopted by the Friends for their places of meeting. There are doors on three sides, or, more properly, at the front and both ends, A narrow platform, about two feet. high, with a railing along the front and a low seat behind it, occupies the back interior of the meeting house, and a primitive gallery runs arou:fa three of the walls and is furnished with rude, straight-backed benches, The house has a front of about fifty feet and a depth of twenty-five, and may be divided inside into two compartments by elevating trom the floor and lowering from the cetling by pulleys a plank partition, built in sections, which slides in grooves, and which, when adjusted, as effectually separates each apartuent from the other as a good panelled partition built stationary would do. This was used in former times to separate the males and females. The ground floor also is supplied with @ number ol wooden benches of a similar pattern to those in the gallery, and the walls are plastered and whitened. Nota square inch of painted surface is to be seen in that quaint building, but the galleries, the floor, the uprigut posts and beams, the platform, the benches are almost white, being of plain pine wood and bearing marks of frequent scrubbing, which gives the plaaks the appearance of the inside of a newly ded churn or a dairy table. Every- thing about it is plain, neat, simpie, clean, Quakerish in fact. A large sycamore tree stands in front of the building, a rich grassy turf, cut only by a narrow, dusty wagon track leading to the road, surrounds it, and at its eastern end are sttuated two large wagon sheds, beneath which those who attend services here shelter their horses and vehicles. n Afine rolling country stretches away on either hand from this particular scene, and by dint of good farming yields fair returns of potatoes, corn, wheat, barley and rye to the agriculturist. Some parts of the territory, however, are rather poor tn soil, or, a3 ove of the residents of the locality put it, when in- terrogat da: io the quality of the land, “There is plenty to do, and iittie to get.” The people as a Class throughout the region are intelligent, “well to do” farmers, and, together with the Quakerish pro- clivities which adhere to them from the existence of the old soctety among them, and their nearness to Roches the home of the Fox sisters, and the scene of marvellous spirit rapping, spook seeing and ghost mvoking exploits, nave originaiea and evolved some very remarkable reiigious and psy- el ai beliefs and theories. host antic body of these q disuinctive appeliation of « gress,” and this society to-d. annual meeting, celebrated by services occupying . at the old meeting house above described. ns of the ety may perhaps be best expis nd most briedy, by an extract from thetr circular ¢ ig the meeting, as follows:— This me ecks to know no fellowship but the fellow. arch but the church of humanit 5 who do or would belong to this ns of ehe p- nis for work are greau is hoped there will be a lar, in this Deaaif for mutual joas will dwell especially upon the religious its practic: ng upon the relations and ife and ac J es D. B. Mills, William J. Lin- yiia A. Strowbridge, Charles § W. Taylor are ex- J address the meeting. = avowed object about 150 persons assem- bled on y¥ moruing, @ large proportion of tie number being men Of more than middie age, and a goouiy suare of young and good looking women, most of whom seemed well ecquatated and were very fricadly in their greetings. The remainder of asscunl ‘as colaposed of young men, rang- ‘on tween to twenty-five years, a wubby, grimming boys and girls, and, yen reserved strangers. Of rty there were about two or three from aif a dozen from Rochester, two or e and & few from local towns, the th rest be sof the immediate vicinity. In the afern company Was reinforced uy the ar- rival of t ran Fred Dongiass, an old associate of the Friends, by the Way, and apparently m excel- jent ad Spirits. le looked the same identi- cat ti he las appeared for ten years past, with the exception that his crown of bushy, frizziea, kinky, grayish-vlack hair was less ample than usual, he having but revently submutted himself to a vigor- ous tonsorial operation, with a@ view to comfort during the approaching dog days. Among other persons prominently noticeabie, from the peculiarity of her attire, was Mrs. Dr. Lydia A. Strowbridge, a dark-compiexioned, thin-featured lagy, about thirty years of age, with sharp brown eyes, a pleasant demeanor, and intel- ligent expression of features. She was ciad in bioomer costume of gray, trimmed with a narrow cord or gimp of biack silk, her trousers being \oose and hanging well, aud ler skirt Cescending an inch or two below the knee. The body of her coat fitted tightly, and the collar and lapels were rolled back; her hands were encased in black kid gloves, and a jockey hat crowned the complete person. There ‘Were noue of the stereotyped ciass of lank, long- haired men, and acute, incisive, short-haired frater- ity of women present; the women as a body were jump, healthy, good-natured farmers’ wives and jaughiers, andl the men a& a rale were strong, burly farmers and farmers’ sons, afew professional men merely serving to make @ contrast. The meetings were some years ago attended by Susan 6. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Par- ker Pilsbury and other persons of eminence tn their peculiar sphere, but latterly they have not been among the namber of parucipauts, Gites B. SRSBINS, & Modest thongh finent speaker, froin Kochester, calied the moeting to order Saturday morning, and suggested the propriety Jonaittee of Arrangements preparing a list of officers to conduct the meeting. The com- mittee, composed of men and women, retired to the Jawn in front of the building, and during their absence Mr. Stebvins said that inasmuch as he had not attenled for several years past he was not in- formed as to the present precise method of organiz- ing the meeting. Tie present attendance of the Friends was rather thin; but, if the rale of former years couid be accepted as an omen, a sparse open- Jng audience Was the promise of augimented num- bers as the proceedings progressed. It was in fact a trait of all these meetings tha they went on the interest in them awakened and increased up to the close. While the cotamittee were in deliveration, however, he would suggest that i! any Friend pi ent were “moved” he or she might, perhaps, pro bly address the necting. ir. PowrtsL, of New York, shortly arose and after some brief introductory remarks said that the aim of the friends here was the advocacy and exten- sion of the simple, ungretending message of truth ae which this meeting had always promnigaied, Among the useiul, etic hing we public mind he | this Waterloo meeting as a centre of spiritual aud moral infuence. Of course it had had its aggressive the principles by which It was actos highest tidewater mark pf Americe ‘po faras the question Of agares ‘he did not himself always agree with every ining “heard here. Among the aggressors were at one ti those who prociaimed the dommation slavery, but where was chattel] slavery now one, and the same spirit which had overthrown t Fina been heard tg gt the world @ now active in Cuba. He did not regai of war for the accomplishment of such ob) the best, but it seemed to be the only and in the land, and the fifteenth amendinent to tution, When adopted, as It would be at ne day, Was destined to work the brightest revo- Jution the world has ever seen and to lift the EW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1869.—TRIPLE standara of government higher than the word has ever beheld it, ‘and’ when, in addttion to that, the proposed sixteenth amendment shall be ratified, and the ballot box thrown open, here aud everywhere, to women and to men, the whole aspect of our political life would be changed for the prighter and the better. He remembered the time when tere was a sunile of ridicule evoked when the idea of women voting Was menuoned; but today it was the earnest, practical provlem of the our, At this juncture the committee returned the fol- lowing nomimations tor oiticers:—President, G. B, Stebbins; Vice Presidents, Mra, J. C. Bowdish, of Waterloo; Mrs. Dr. L. A. Strowbridge, of Cortland; Secretaries, Mary Bowdish and William Barnes, of Waterloo, The nominations were then adopted unaninoosly and (ue oficers took their seats on the platform. It was then announcedjthat{the Busines Committee would retire to draft resolutions, and that in view of the fact that other prominent speakers were ex- pected by the afternoon train the morning would be devoted ‘to informal discussions, and that after the noon recess the meeting would proceed to the regular business before tt. 183 MARIETTA Bowen, of Clyde, N. Y.,@ young lady. of prepossessing manvers and appearance, and possessing a fine, sympathetic contralto voice, played a yoluntary on a mielodeon, and afterwards sang a pan inusic Of the ‘progressive’? order with good ect Mr. Gro, W. TAYLOR, a tall, gentlemanly appear- ing man and a reputed trance speaker, Was then 1n- vited to say a few words If he felt so “moved,” and made, 1 response, a brief address, expressing the opinion that “all the eiements tm force in the spirit- ual world were now combined to eilininate us from aay creat superstitions which should keep back our progress and power.” When we were talking of universal emancipation and suftrage we were taking the first necessary right step towards the accom- plishment of the Inghest attainable object towards mankind; aud as he thoughe of these things he could not but expresd hts admiration of the ines of the song they had just heara:— It is coming up the steep of time, And our old world is growing brighter; Yo may not see its dawn sublime, But it makes the heart to feel the Ughter. “BINS, in the course of some remarks made by Qun when Mr. Taylor had concluded, said that our society Was NOW on tue eve of the most complete and ampte and necessary reformatton—reform among Ue churches, in politics, in the goverment, in the social cirele. The influence of truth and justice and freedom was asserting itself among bumanity, and it must prevail; the truth was never rmanently vanquished by wrong; error and superstition and evil were ever sure to fall before the power of truth and pasOn, as asserted by the dictates and aspirations of the soul atter purity, freedom and vrath. error in the system of Christianity that the devil was made immortal, and theology thereby showed tts lack of philosophical priuciple in a fundamental point. The devil should have been morial instead of immortal. ‘The good always bad and always would prevail over the bad, and, if theology was consistent in 118 reasoning, God should be longer lived than tue devil. it was a sign of the pro- gress of humanity in the path of right and truth that the late orthodox meeting at Boston awakened the inquiry and attention of a large num- ber of clergymen to the new religious society. After alluding to the gratifying resuits of the Farmington meeting of a year ago, and stating that no one could foresee the grand resulls which these awakenings would produce, he referred briefly to the question of woman sutfrage, and said that le belleved that he would live to see women exercise the rignt to use the ballot. A recess of one hour was taken, during which the meeting partook of junch on the sward in front of the building, and watch had been brougiit in baskets: by the neighbors, who participated. Aiternoon Proceedings. bout asi two o'clock the meeting reassem- vied and ietters were read from Rey. Witham J, Linton and Alfred H, Love, of Philadelphia, ex- pressing their regret at not being present, and assuring the tricads of the lvely terest they felt in the cause of progress. In the letter of Mr. Love some allusion was made to the efforts of the various Christian churches to secure “what the ministers call the recognition ot God m the constitution of the United States.”’ Mr. STEBBINS expressed the opinion in regard to the matter that there was “about as much lkeli- hood of inserting the clause in the constitutio! which these gentlemen wish, as there was of vuild- ing a railroad to the moon. Just as likely.’ CuaRLes D. B. MULLS, of Syracuse, next addressed the meeting and said there 13 at the preseut time any ecclesiastical establishment m which re hot existing some schisms and diiferences jon. There is a great deal of idolatry in the ch. The Old ana New Schools of Presbyterians have professed recently a reamion and propose to do their work together, bat he thought the government of that Church had not vitality enough m it to do anything. This was simply a stroke of policy that had brought them to unite. It pleased him, how- e to find in all these eccleslastical organizations young men whose souls were becoming too big for their bodies under their system, and = ail these things only augured a grand and giorious future for the great Church of Pro- gress which was destined to found a religion brighter and more poweriul than the Christianity of the sixteenth century. It would be, mdeed, @ Church as broad as humanity and as free as the stand air, ‘These instances of disruption and re- yolution in the Protestant Clurch were the Baptist’s cry in the wilderness, Mr. STEBBINS agatn spoke at some | ‘h in refer- y of the principies of spiritualism, conciud- ggesting that uf any of the friends were anoved” Lo something they should do so, They were here sure to be welcomed, whether strangers or not, and, whatever their views, they were ly invited to express them, even though in antagonism to all that had been si ‘This wag a iree platform, free to all who chose to use it for the expression of his or her honest, earnest views, with- out reference to What those views might be, PRED DOUGLAaS= took the opportunity of express- ing a bit of his mind, and said that he did pot know what Was meant by this talk of getting “moved.” He thought that if @ man Wished to say anytuing or ng to say he would say it without being moved" by anybody or anytung. It was a iree, voluntary act, the impulse of his own mind. Men were never heard of as being “moved” to take din- ner, or beg “moved” to go out and hoe potatoes, There was no power in the universe which com- peiled us to do anything or could control we—no power of any sort higuer than our own soul's con- victions. FoOWELL, on behalf of the Commities, then «1 the following resolution Resolved, That we recognize as an unirmited capacity for growth a Resolved, That eneered and en: dences of progress since the origin y renew and emphasize our past testimonies in favor forms of the day, and we deem it o/ vital impor ndation work for character and attainment of true ma1- 201 and womanhood, that freedom of the soul be as: ‘and maintained, such freedom as is loyal to the truths of the spirit within, truths immortal and to grow in power and beauty as superstitions and decay as, creeds, we put aside, and us books are used as helpers, got necepted an masters. herent in human natare Resoived, That since the real ixaue fs between the authority of the Church and the truths of the soul, we accept and hail the rise wth of Progressive Frienia, true religious the spiritual and kindred movements, wita the vital power in a compromising so-called Protest- ‘ntism, aa signs of the times, prophetic of the {nal victory of itual (ree, " ‘ "pesolved, That we bail with satisfaction the adop- tion by Congress of the pending fifteenth constitutional amendment; and we urge all friends of freedom, especiall; Of the States wherein ithas not yet been acted upon, to do all in their power to secure ite certain and y Fatifica- tion. ¥o the end that political proscription an sccouat Of rece Or colar may be at ance and forever abolished. olved, That we urge Congress promptly to adopt and submit. lo the State Legisiatures. the etrteenth constitutsonal amendment, offered by Hon. George W. Julian, guaranteein the right to vote and to hold oflice to all women ‘pon equal terms with men; and we also urge immediate legislation for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Colum- bia and of the Territories. Resoived, That we renew our testimony against the unjust, cruel and unnatural prejudice against color, boru of the tai: quitous slave system. <= & true Christianity are incom- Thureh, business ond the State uch recognition as charac: of complexional distinctions. worthy action of women tor merita, irrespectiv Resolved, That we rejoice in t praises Prosident Grant in the appointment of colored men to re- sponsible positions of oilclal trust, and we hail giadly the day fn which the nation may be represented abroad by men hitherto identified with the enslaved race. Resolved, That we see with much satisfaction the innu ration of the more buma with the I diana; that the Presigen of the society of Friends ‘table altke to thi and to the Society, and we earnestly hope that it may trlhute largely to hasten the day of equal citizenshio (or the indian, LJ Resolve, That as intemperance ia one of the great enemies of soctety and the human soul, we express our abhorrence of the trafic tn intoxicating beverages; and we urge the adop- tion of ail practical means, moral, soclai and civil, for its avatement, Kesoived, That we congratulate the friends of freetom and civiization in Spain upon their great victory over tyranny, ption and bigotry, in the successful and peaceful dle ‘a dissolute Queen, the estaliniiment of a lih- 4 ‘tice of enlightened toeration to of no religios vo abticaniem. Resoived, That our aympatuies are with the eause of free. y uhout the world, and especially with those who are or their lives in ita de ident prophetic of now and maintenance, 4 natiafaction the freedom ant ins and personal eafety, Inde. of the Lundiess peopies men, it fs important them to " of oy pendence, influence and f'pro of the Sonth, and especially hey #hould become | freeimen and others in that section. wlvel, That the fearful inseourity, the r nnd assassinations of loyal men me, and the as of rebels In for speedy ! prote n, and that no delay in res) the ery of our outraged people, ved, That we hail with eatiefaction the researches snow being m. ying the relat health of the body, the occasion and ext 1 their remedy; inquiries already richly fraitfy) in result, and we look confidently for the hour hail bring each light and fllamination, such enfranchisement ne shall lift man physically, and, In consequence, aptritually, to full majority and perfection #8 a human oreature, ‘That we com: nd earnestly to all, or for the bod; revirant and rel ap rebip of spiritual une, as airong the prim’ ordinances of religion, among the most and benign of human obligations: ie resolutions were accepted by the méeting and debate invited preparatory to their adoption, Mr, DOUOLAS® then rose, and after ezpressing his hearty concurrence in tne terms of the resolutions relating to the proposed amendtnents to the conatl- Wuticu and to compicxioned disuactions, Bald he | desired to say a few words regarding Spain, He believed that the right and truth had to a certain extent been victorious in thelr first struggle with the errors of that dark and eruei government. Spain had been the darkest iand on the earth, buc there was now at ieast some hope for future light, for the abolishment of slavery under ber rale, for religious toleration and a greater breadth of freecom--the freedom of truth and jus- luce, which were the 1oundation and source of a true and happy existence as nature intended for us. The time, however, was fast coming when men should know very little of religion in their relations with each other—when they would be governed by some other law than that of Christianity, and not by & human law, either. There was, in very little to help us along in this world, except we exert our- selves to tind out what and where we are and what is Intended for us. A PROGRESSIVE EPISTLE, Mr, MILLS then read and submitied to the meeting the following document tor their action, asa circular of the Friends of Progress :— Yo THE FRIENDS OF HUMAN PROGRESS, THR LOOKERS AND WORKERS FOR ENLIGHTENMENT AND LiGERTY SCATTERED ABROAD;— Deak BeeTHREN—It seems to us fitting that in this hour we should send you greeting. Never was there suck an one before. The signs of our time indicate plainly changes, great changes, at hand; @ pew era dawns, a uew page is turning in the history of man, All the omens and portents that have foretold the great epochs that have marked signai steps in the growth and aavance of the race are essentially present to-day, and with an added emphasis. Christianity came, proclaimed and prepared by heralds and harbingers, uamistakable preachers in the wilderness, anuouncing the advent of a new kingdom, ‘The world seemed ripened and stood waiting for its coming, thought and culture, quickened by fresh contact with the gorgeous fast, 1 weaith of meditation, ijusignt and repose, had taken on new life and in- spiration; there was intense mental activity all abroad, the od forms and beliefs had become eilete juggie, revolting to the worshipper. ‘There was ave of luspiraion upon the world, deep soul- longing and prophecy (or a larger, higher lie, Jesus was the birth of his century, the Caild of the | the spirit, with qualities th Age, while also Son of Heuven, and the finest ripeness of Jewish thought and love. He had pareut- 7 ruaning back not only to Jerusatem but also to Alexandria and Athens. The weaith of the world was poured into His soul; He met and fulfilled the wants aud aspirations of His age—came for them and came of them. Christianity had its origin and found its reception because humanity travailed and humanity expected it. Circumstances not dissimilar obtained in Europe, tn the fourteeuth and fil- teenth ceaturies, and proclaimed the reformation. Great improvements in the material condition, tmereased protection and comforts to physt- Ife and weil-veing, the enlargement of dividual and social freedom, invention of printing, the compass, maritime discovery, Copernican astronomy, revival of learning and of thought, awakening tn all ways of men’s consciousneis— tuese Were the parentage from which sprung Luther and the ninety-five theses. He was in the lois of Faust and Guttenberg. Like facts, doubtless, we should find could we penetrate the history of that period in India, in the sixth century before Christ, paving the way for and necessitating the great re- form of Buddha. These epochs of human enfran- chisement ali come througi aueliorations and Bap- tist munisters making the paths straight aud tae rough places smooth for the advent of the Most High. Not leas but more distinct are the omens that mark our time. The old Hebrew word foretold that iw the latter day many shouid run to and fro and knowledge be increased. Never was there suc ful- tilment as now. The mental aciivity of to. day is upexampled, wide-ranging, and, what is of far more worth thau all, largciy charged with prac- tical cendency aud fruitiulin resuit. ‘he improve- ments in the material arts astonish the eye; day by day they stride on, outstripping ail anticipation. ‘Tney bear tor man, go to lighten labor, to elevate physical condttion, to reduce or abolish the rough tous, and bripg liberation, New light is constantly being poured on the relations of man to the earth, the laws of his physical life and weil being, the causes Oi disease, Its prevention or cure. Religion is seen more @ practical affair, concerned with the human creature here and now, seeking his redemp- tion from tue bondage of present evils, respecting and reyerencing the buman body as the appointed shrine and temple for the soul, and so reilzion, taking the word in Its just sense, clasps hands with science and warmiy welcomes it to this hallowed vowain, ‘The telegraph and the steam car are drawing the ends of the earth together, comming- lng the nations, bringing closest intercommunica- tion, and must unspeakably hasten the hour of uni versal eniranciisement and union. Physical science is tree and dauniess, breaks ut- teriy with the popular theology, pushes tts explora- tions on every side, and the eartu and the icavens are successively and surely yielding up their secrets to its hand. There are uo barriers it shall not sur- mount, 10 depths of knowledge tt shull not pene- trave aud possess, and all the discoveries snali be laid—ay, are being laid—as votive offerings upou the altar of humanity, made free ior the appropria- tion and enjoyment und exaltation of the race, ‘The treasures of wisdom from the fleids of litera- ture, especially in past ages, i being renewedly sought aud cherished, There unprecedented de- sire to form acquaintance with the ancient thinkers, the philosophers of the olden time—espectaily tnose, as some of them were, who had genume elevation and insight—earnestly and also successfully seeking to soar Lo the realin Of substance and rest alone in the worship of being. The hints, maxims aad Scrip- tures they have Jeit are being gathered up as pre- cious legacies, profitable for the enrictinent and quickening of the spirit. There ts now more of a true Worsiip of the le and inspiration of tie past in tlus regard than our world has ever be- fore seco. ‘The ethnic Seriptures, too, the ancient sacred books of the Gentile world, are becoming objects of careful study. These records of the religious consciousness and beliefs of the olden time have for the most part lain unknown and uuregarded, deemed unworthy the notice of those who of all men had the sole and final revelation. ‘The very existence of some of thein was until lately unheard of, and it 1s only within a recent period tat the sacred books of the Zoroastrians, of the Brahmins and the Buddhists have been evea partially Known to a few scholars in Europe, At no previous time bas there been to any extent in Chris- tendom the liberaiity that would approach them with candor and treat them fairly. The prejudices fall away and these books are now being studied and elucidated with great care, and the day ig not dis- tant when we may each read them in our own tongue wherein we were born. It Ls, perhaps, not to be expected that when fairly interpreted and brougnt near they wiil enrich our religious literature to the extent that some antictpate; they will douyt- e383 be found partial! and unsatisfying, overiald here and there with darknes# and superstitions, mainly, bowever, the growth of ages subsequent to their fret writing, but thew study will go far towards infusing catholicity into the minds of Christendom and breaking the chains of its haughty narrowness and exclusive assumption. Gleams of divinest wisdom, priceless gems of truth shail be found, which mast go towards making up the volume of Inspiration and Lite that is some day to be gathered for man- kind. As the broken fragments come more and more to light genuine scriptures shall be seen in all the records, in the oracles of sybils and priestesses in Greece and Kome, in the liturgies and burial ser- vices of the Egyptians, the macriptions upon their tempics and their tombs, And coupled with this ts the freest examination and criticism of the Christian records, hot now un- friendly or in the interest of denial, but of a larger affirmation, a determination to pu away all the dross, eliminate everything partial, temporary or unworthy, and rest in the fact and verity alone. Never were such questions asked, never such atera, searching catechism as now. It is not destructive, but constructive, in its character and tendency. Con- tributions are constantly c jong be successfully treated, the genetic development of the rekgious idea among wen showa, and the relations of dewish and Christian religton to others and theirs to tt exhibited. Within the last quarter of a century— we may, indeed, within the last decade—the languages of the world have been subjected to far more fruitful examination than ever before, and new principles of classification ascertained, deep lines of aMinity, bituerto ui |, unt tongnes re- motest in place and frequently im time togetuer in one sinzie stem, discovered. I. has been made towards reaching a fundamental science of speecti, the laws of its origin and entire growth, and this shall quite probably eventuate in the devising of ® single uotversal tongue, which, #0 far at least as writing is concerned, shail serve as a medium of communication for all throughout the globe. Per. haps tt will be finally realized again that the whole eurtn shal: be of one Iip and one speech. How much a universal written language will facilitate the ad- vancement of man, the difusion of light and know- Jedge, and the blending of the race into one brother. hood of humanity, ail may somewhat anticipate, but none can forsee, Besides these facts we name here one other, which to us seems not least signiticant—the faith that has found Ite expression in the vellefs of #6-calied Spirit. ualsm. As a tung of to-day, an historic resuit, Spiritualism is parval and poor enough, crave and eartiy, needing lo become more ethereal and unsen- suous, In al! senses jnore spiritual, Under tluston it may be in its impressiona of the nature and source of the phenoinena it dwells so upon, Still we may accopt it as @ testimony, ® dec aration, of the quencuiess faith of the soul, @ confession of the increasing louging to penetrate vo that Hin of sub- stance where is unbroken possession, where no death interpose and no change Withdraw. ila pro y—lim, perhaps, and unconscious to itself of & \arger life, @ deeper and more inward cota:nu- niou anc that man shall have with the ion that shall reach all the real nt, shail feel the throb of human- Thout the ages, the warm breath of soul4 upon him and shail jeave the spirit, im the midat of Whatever soitiudes, never alone, It shall be more a communion with the substance than the form, with the person, and shail be coextensive with time and history. ‘The last leath—shail be destroyed, for such is Mie int. y of poate | find possession that no blight removal can touch it. Then shall be no nyt, for the light of the perpetual presence shail yield’ one unbroken day. There shall be constant stay and ra- pose: no withdrawal, no separation, no sorrow. Ag the dim intimation of this the child's groping and unarticulsted. prophecy, we assign its piace and Value to Spiritualism, Little as yet historically. tm. portant potentially, the forecast shadow of some thing yet to be. We note also that in the preaching of many of our ped ey 5 od been of late years a great trans formation. Ttis made indéfiniteiy more practical, home-coming and natur@l than formerly, emphasiz: ing the present and every day duties, respecting the ecause he had asked me a question | couldn’t answer! | his violin until they seemed as thoug! intelligence and the reason, addressing the true reverenve of man, that@we and love in one Which always arises in presence of the great commanding laws, the divine ideal of the soul. These thi we view a3 omens of @ new day, harbingers of the dispensation that is to be. Coming latest it must be the best of all lustory, @ retorma- tion greater than Protestant, greater than Christian. All the t shall pale before it, the highest pro- hecy hitherto pe found but its faintest intimation, it must be the finest bloom ot all civilizations, the ripe fulfilment and fruttage of every culture and piety. It shall plant upon nothing ouier, no historic name or any Or institution, but rest in the ther and living, worstupping the ideal possibilities. It shall recognize gud use gratefully the symbolic, drawing from it its full worth and inspirauion, but holding ail subordinate to the higher—soaring from shadow to substance, from time to the eternal. It shall sanctify existence, make every hour hallowed, every work an inspiration and @ song. What shall be the mode of this Iie, what specific organization gud institutions tt shall take ou, none can foretell. ‘This belougs to the sealed volume, to be opened only by time. It must be large as liberty, spontaneous as love, natural as speech, practical as charavter, high as (rnth and grand as excellence. ‘Tho spirit taketh on such form as pleaseth it, We may well leave the details and specitic adjustments to the hour, to the spontancous inspirations and promptings of the mind. We do uot flatter ourselves that this kingdom of light aud redemption bas already come, or is at the door. Long reaches of time may stretch between us and it; wearisome marches of humanity must needs be made ere the approach is possible. Arduous con- ficts are yet to be fought; preachings there must be in the wilderness and ministries of manifold re- pentance. Great questions of labor, of social order, Of the apportionment of the tasks of lite, adjustment of the sanctions and rewards, the arranging of all the relations 80 that existence shail, for each indi- vidual, net the utmost for use, freedom, blessedness. These are looming up among us and lie un- solved. Many groan under the Inequalities, and the full deliverance, however slowly and pain- ful, is to be Wrougat out, Our country, to abolish- ing siavery, moved thereto in large pact by the di- vine necessities, seems but to have just opened the questions that are to agitate, and pea to rock and convulse it for yearaund ages. ‘Tae main patile remains yet to be fought; we have only thus far seen the Urst’ shots of the skirmish. A higiter fidelity, a loitier devotion to truth and the absolute right 15a pressing need, even among the Friends of Progress. Work, Work, stern, unremitting, 13 and must be our allotment here. 11s ever the same old world to live in, with its trials and pressures, and the advances marvellous, seen at intervals, as they may appear, are ali wrought gradually through individual effort, often lone and unrewarded, through continuous sweat and toil. There are ever stakes to be contended for, and the amelioration 13 couditioned upon a steadfast fidelity of the true and chosen. Friends of Progress have quite other business to do than repens their lives singing pwans to progress and glorifying and exuiting in the time coming. We may lall in our armor; we and our children after us may all die, not laving received the promises, But, sure as there is faith on the earth ana hands and hearts to labor and to sulfer, the destiny shall not fail. The prophecy upon the iron leaf shall all be fulfilled. In tue fulness of time it shall visit apd ilumine the worid. We, therefore, take to ourselves and we bid you, our brothers, trust and cheer. The salvation 13 nearer than when first we believed. We will look and wait for the hour of man’s majori- ty, the full enfranchisemeut and peace. We will took for the religion that shall be perfect freedom and perfect faithfulness, the dispensation of truth and grace, that shall enrich, biess and hallow ali our life—for the Church that shati be the church of humanity, with its communtons and its sacraments of blessing, deep as the soul, broad as tle world and rich as history. It muss have the universe (or its temple, normal human life for its orison, its psalm of worship, its incense offering to the Most High, In the plenitude of that enrichment perhaps the name religion will pass away, aud ing age lind no word to describe a fact so large aud ail-suilicing, Save it be the life, the beatitude of the soul. SPISITUALISTIC TESTIMONY. Discussion of this circular was Unen invited, upon which Mr. PoweELt proceeded to remark that while he greatiy admu the theory and principles enunci- ated in the letter of Mr, Mulls, which it had been suggested by the president should go forth, if adopted, as the address or circular of the meeting, sill he felt constrained to say that he could not en- dorse the expressions contained 1n it with reference to Spiritualism, Spiritualism was not the creation of aday, nor was it unreal, a thing without substance, He {eit that there was before him a worid of unex- plored mystery and of beartude, which lus spirit would expiore and in which it would linger, and that after this lite there was a personal imuwortality be- yond. That hope of personal immortality was the sublimest hope he enjoyed, the anticipation of a realization of the purest aspirations of tue soul. Mr. DOUGLASS, at the Close of Mr. Poweil’s re- marks, which were somewhat lengthy and delivered with Ex iluency and clear and e.egant expression, said he “didn’t see” this idea of Spiritualism. It wasn’t by any means saitsiactory to him. He had nothing to Say agaist the views of other persons on the subject, but merely wishea to record his testimony against the theory as at present advanced. He wasn’t going to say that other people had aot good reason to believe in it; they must be different to him, though. Perhaps they could see imore or see clearer. He would admit, however, that whatever a man believed was true— true to the man who believed it just a8 much as any fact, however apparent, to otner individuals. But that was no reason why it was true to those who did not believe it. Of course tf aman who believes in Spiritualism says that he hus actuaily seen the spirit, or does now see the spirit of a person who 1s really and honestly dead, 1t was hard to dispute that asser- ton. But he did not see it for all that and never had. People had (oid him some things about spirits and had asked him some things he could not auswer when he denied their assertions, but it was easy to ask @ question another man could not answer. A person once calied up a spirit and claimed to hoid intercourse with itm his presence, and sald it was the spirit of his (Douglass’) grandimotier, Mr, Dougiass ere broke out into a good-natured giggle, which set the meeting folk titvering, and con- tinued:—Well, | said it wasn't my grandmother, and he (this person who “called up’? the spirit) finished me off by sayin’, “Well, if it isn’t your grandmother who 18 it?’ Of course he had me there—(iaughter)- All tuat {can say 18 that I have never known of a case where Any person who was honestly dead ever came back again. | own up that once | saw @ ghost, It was the ghost of a person)I had been ac- urinied with aud who had been dead for some ime. But | was in a place that was mtimately asso- ciated with recollections of him, and my mind was on him, and i had been thinking very deeply about him, when ali at once he appeared to me, Weil, I know what tnat was. I saw him in my mind and believed it was him; but it was all owing to time and place, and coincidence and condition. Tuere- fore 1 say that whatever @ man veileves rue, just as true as anyihing can be to him, whether it 1s real or unreal, and however real @ thing may be in fact tt 13 not true to any one who does not believe it, be- cause he has no faith in tt under the condition in which it may be presented. Mr. MILLS argued that we were in the midst of a world of mystery—tmysteries which tt was not in the power of human imagination to fathom, But sci- ence was now making such rapid atrides that there ‘was some promise of these mysterics being unveiled to usin time. He was not prepared to accept or to admit Spiritualism. He simpiy knew that he was here, but could say nothing about the infinite life beyond the grave, and he took it that beyond that we shouid not get much further, and while doing the duties of tue hour we shall do well to trust in the infinite Father for what lies without and beyond. Mr. POWELL said that there were plenty of high evi- dences of the reality of the substantial existence of spirivaalism, Wendell Philiips, it was well known, had been confined in the of the Davenport Brothers, and had actually felt the hands and arms which had been presented. So he himself had stated; and he had stated further, tht there was no dupli- city abou: it. Professor Denton also asserted that he bad taken modeis of “appearances,” of actual lias im clay. The PRESIDENT that while concurring in the tone and sentiment of Mr. Mills’ letter, he it that he couid not accept its princivies regarding spiritualism. The letter was here, however, for discussion and fur the action of the meeting to adopt or amend it. Several persons expressed themselves as of the opinion that the document should rather be pro- mulgated as the address of Mi is than amend- ed by the Insertion of views which were not his, In opposition to this the ind was taken that the document having been accepted by the meeting, was the perty of the meeting and was no longer in Mr, Milis’ hands, After some turtner discussion the meeting adjourn- ed til Sunday (this) morning, alter the singing of a song by Miss Bowen, assisted by Mr, James S. Boughton. The Last Day's Meeting, to-day, was somewhat more largely attended, not less than two hundred persons beng present. In former years the last of the meeting, usually occurring on the Sabbath, was generally marked by the attendance of large crowds of visitors, many of whom undoubtealy attended (rom mere idle cui ity, sometimes leading to slight confusion, and i not only the buliding but the space surround- i i) he proceedings this morning were opened b; singing, after which Mr. Stebbins made a brief au dress in response to some Of the views advanced in the discussion of the previous day. He took the ground that there were some things in the world which dia not iré argument to prove their existence, and yet they were as substances intan- uinle, They were great vital powers and infinences which underlie out natures, our very being, our ex- istence. No one would attempt to argue against the existence of the essential existence of justice, a principle without tangtbie existence, save as it is developed tn the exercise of the quality, not made manifest by itself but manifested by its effects, He remembered hearttg thst grand performer Ole Bull, when by the power, the inspiration of his ns, he swayed an immense auatence con- trolled their sympathies by the music he evoked from fh they would burst, and fnaily gave way to the magnetic emotion he had exetted Within thom by repeated and thun- dering echoes Of applause, Again, he had known of an instance Where a sick girl had, under the aid of a subtle spiritual tonuence, described the local appearance and furniture, and the persons who were ee at her home, which was d e thousand miles from where she was then lying. Two weeks afterwards intelligence was received from that home sustaining in every par- ticular the details given by that girl, when, under the influence of the magnetic touch of the hand of the physician, who was gently smoothing her brow to ward off impend- furth Wes ig A" del alee 45s SHEET, friend, an official in a high government position, at Waslungton, who in the nA aby of the speaker and his wife had had an interview with a medium, in the course of which that medium had advised cer- tain measures on the of that oMcial; and, by watching the aul juent course of that officer, Mr. Stebbins claimed he seen in his official acts the evidence of the counsels given by that medium, and some of those acts were of the most vital import to the country at large. Some turther ion ensued on the subject of the resolutions and the circular, when they were finally put to the vote of tue meeting and carried, though not unanimously, Jt was then resolved that the next annual meeting of this body shall take place here, at the old meet- ing house, on the Friday preceding the first Sunday in June, 1870, and be continued Liroughout Saturday and Sunday following, At the afternoon session addresses were made by Fred Douglass, Mra, Strowbridge, Mr. Powell, Mr. D, ‘Taylor and others, and at about five o'clock the meeting rned, and the friends of Human Pro- gress dispersed to thelr rural homes. THE CASE OF THEODORE ALLEN. The Examination Yesterday. The examination in the case of Theodore Allen, more familiarly known as The. Allen, proprietor of the notorious St. Bernard Hotel, at the corner of Prince and Mercer streets, was continued before Justice Ledwith, at the Jefferson Market Police Court. There were not as many of the prisoner's friends present as at the former examinations, ow- ing to the fact that many of them have made their exitto Boston for the purpose of attending the Peace Jubilee to be held theré to-day, as we under- stand several of them had very important engage: ments there of a peculiar nature. The prisoner is charged by Robert F. Townley, of No. 68 Exchange place, in the employ of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, with rescuing a prisoner from him on the 27th of March Jast at the corner of Broadway and Prince streets, named William Forrester, an es- caped convict from the penitentiary at Joliet, LL, who was in his custody, and who had been sen- tenced to the above prison for a term of thirteen years on @ charge of burglary committed in that State. Mr. Charles M. De Costa appeared for the prosecution and W, F. Howe for the defence. The only witness examined was David L. Price, a carman, residing at No. 316 West Twenty-first street, for the prosecution, who testified as fol- lows:—I am a truckman in the employ of Ball, Black & Co, and others; | saw the disturbance on the cor- ner cf Prince and Mercer streets, between Allen and Townley; Townley had hold of Forrester and asked tor help while he could put handcuffs on him; I saw Allen come up, take hold of Townley ana Forrester and separate them; Forrester ran towards the St. Bernard Hotel; Townley had a death grip on For- rester; I have seen persons die under the same grip: don’t remember who they were, where they died or when it occurred. (Here the witness began giving a very interesting account of what the death grip was, which was objected to by the counsel for the pri ution, when the counsel on the other side stated that, from the contradiciory manner in which the witness was testifying tt was ‘about time he was choked off.) I was first spoken to in reference to the case about three weeks ago, at the corner of Prince street and Broadway, by the complainant, when I first became acquainted with him; this was the first time 1 ever spoke to him; it was a short time after the occurrence happened; don’t know whether it was two mouths ago or not; it mighhaveybeon; Townley introduced himself at the corner, where I was attending to my business; don’t recoilect whether I had @ coat ou or not; was aware he first asked me if I was Mr. Price; I informed him I was; he then asked me if 1 wiinessed the oc- currence between Alien and himseif; | informed him 1 did; he then asked me what I kuew about it; don’t remember whether he made memorandum; he asked me where I lived; I did not make any appointment to meet or sec nimsywe talked a short time, when he left; I next saw fm when he subpanaed me, about fifteen days ago, on the corner of Prince street and Broadway; don’t know whether 1 was alone; I read the Bubporna to come to this court; don’t Know the day; I saw policemen just after the affray oc- curred, but dia not go with them to Alien’s; Allen went {ato his place after the occurrence; 1 stood on the opposite side of the street; 1 told the engineer employed at Ball, Black & Co,’s the same afveraoun there had been a muss around the corner between Allen and aman idid not know; told him that an escaped convict from Michigan had escaped from the man who had @ muss with Allen; Townley was a stranger to me; before Alien came heard Townley say, “For God’s sake, let some person take hold of the man,” so that he could yet the hand- cuffs on him, a8 he was an escaped convict from filinois; never saw Mr. Bangs or Mr. Pinkerton, nor any of Towuley’s friends; Allen was on the left hand side coming down Broadway; Townley was also on the same side; Forrester was standing; did not see him on the ground; [ did not see the commence- ment of the aifray, but learned that tt commenced at the corner of Houston street; did not see Townley strike Forrester; there were forty or fifty persons around them at the time of the aifray; 1 was close to them; Townley and Forrester were leaning up against the raving when Townley cried for assist- ance, but did not assist him; think Allen said some- thing, but don’t know what it was; wheu Allen came up did not hear Townley gay anything; when Allen came up, he came up with a crowd; I got out of the way; did not hear anything said between the parties; something was said; 1 don’t know what it was, ‘The counsel for the prosecution here stated that one of their witnesses Who was present at the begin- ning of the examination had been taken sick and compeiled to go home, and that two other witnesses who had been summoned had failed to attend, and that 1g further eXamtnation in the case be posl- poued. Mr, Howe, counsel for Allen, at the suggestion of Mr, De Costa, admitted the fact that his client on the day of the occurrence was owner and proprietor of the St. Bernard Hotel, The case was then adjourned uatil Thursday next, at oue o'clock P. M. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. Board of Aldermen. Notwithstanding the oppressive heat which suc- ceeded the storm yesterday the City Fathers assem- bied at two o’ciock rather Qushed with the heat, the Weight of their diamonds and fashionable hats, but did not look as if inclined to do much business. The lobby was crowded with members of the gentry Whose personal appearance is rot at all preposseas- ing, and who certainly did not aid in any way to reduce or sweeten the atmosphere of the room. The usual prelimtoaries were disposed of anda number of resolutions and ordinances for paving, grading and such like introduced and laid over. Alderman Farley obtained permission to put @ bay window on a house tn fiity-ctghth street, ‘Then eral orders were taken up. The Comptroller was authorized to issue certificates for | $30,000 wortn of City Lunatic Asylum stock; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was awarded, as @ donation, $750; a paper styled the Jerish wenger Was placed on the list of corpo- ration newspapers; the Dutch Reformed church of Harlem was awarded $522, and the sisters of Mercy $457, ‘The veto of the ordinance making the @ corporation newspaper was called rd to opening stree grading, paving and lighting wero Adopeed, after Alderman Coulter called up the resojution rescind- ing the authority granted to the Second Avenue iroad Company to lay switches, turnouts, &c., Sixty-third street. The Alderman said his nam ‘was given as nem introduced it, but he had never — tt vette snd wished to have It indefinitely . Fis ‘a8 Wrougiully given and ‘wanted it corrected, eargda = Alderman Moore explained that the error was undoubtedly a clerical error, as he was the “pa- rient” of the resolution, Ald ‘arley then found ont that the street jerman ‘Was in his district and he knew nothing about it. He wanted it made the special order for the next meeting. ‘the Board agreed to grant his wish and soon alter adjourned until Thursday, at two P.M. Board of Assistant Aldermen, ‘The Board met yesterday alternvon, the President, Mr, Monaghan, presiding. A resolution was adopted directing the Street Com- missioner to Inform the Board whether he nas given permission to any persons to erect buildings on Hamiiton square, A resolution was adopted inquiring of the Comp- troller why the Auditor's reports for September and January have not been prinved, DONATIONS, The Comptroller was directed to draw his warrant in favor of the tollowint churches :— St. Clement's Protestant Episcopal Church. Washington Heignts Presvyterian chur . CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY. The resolution providing for the celebration of the approaching anniversary of our national independ ence, at YF gr? expense of $30,000, was called up, when Mr. Pinckney stated that tere was no ap- propriation for that purpose, Al a short debate the resolution was adopted, EXTENSION OF LAFAYETTE PLACK. ‘The svbjoined resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the Counsel to the Corporatio is hereby authorized and directed. Uo take the meceseany test measures to exterid Lafayette place southerly, from {ta pre- rent termination at Great Jones street, to the northerly. line or ide Of Bivecker street, ne shown by the red lines and "1 accompanying map, ma kore MSE ap ourepur alt Petia, ae 8 PELGIAN PAVEMENTS, The Croton Aqueduct Department was directed to have the following streets and avenues paved with Belgian pavement:—Forty-seventn street, from Third to Fifth avenue; Thirty-iith street, from Broadway to the Tenth avenue; Kighty-fourth street, from Third avenue to avenue A; Hoboken street, from Washing- ton to West street; Willett street, ‘from Grand to Rivington; Cond street, from bowery to Broadway; ion street, between Fourth aud Madison A HORRID NUISANCE ON TESTH AVENUE. A Hotbed of Disease—Necessity for Immediate Relief. About two years ago the HERALD called the atten- tion of the authorities to the horrible condition ta which the sunken lot on Tenth avenue, between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets, was at the time, @ huge receptacle for dead cats, dogs, goats and all kinds of carrion and filth, The miasmatic efluvia from the putrefying carcasses and from the accumu- lated mith and garbage infected the atmosphere of the whole neighborhood and created and spread disease. The inhabitants of that portion of the city aiso applied to the police and health authorities at the time, and it seemed, for a while, as if something would be done to abate that postiferous nuisance, But what was done nas made matters not only not better, but far worse to-day than they were two years ago. Garbage carts began to dump all the refuse picked up around the city into the lot, increasing its horrid outflow of pestilent alr, The natural outlet of the accumu- lating stagnant and filthy water was obstructed, and thus the offenstveness of the nuisance increased. The dumping of these carts was stopped once or twice by orders from the police, but quickly re- sumed, and has since gone on uninterruptedly, filling nearly eight-tenths of the whole lot, extend- ing over half of the block, with such repulsive mat ter, from which, on any warm day, an unbearable stench arises, Water still accumulates there, and, as if it were done by a refined system of cruelty to the mhabitants of Fifty-fourtiP street, a sort of essed canal was left through nearly the centre of fiich, which carries the black, murky fluid, impregnated with odors such as no subter- rauean sewer could excel, over the sidewalk into Fifty-fourth street and down that street and tts side gutters and into the cellars of the houses. Une oi tue residents of that street but a snort time ago made complaint of it to the Sanitary Police, where © was referred to the Superintendent of the Sant- tary Department. Here he explained the condition of the piace and stated, in addition and as an aggra- vating fact, that no garbage cart had passed reouge the biock on Fifty-lourth street, from Tenth to Kle- venth avenues, for the last two years. When the re- porter of the HERALD visiied and examined the place yesterday he found that neither this statement nor any of the many complaints made were exagger- ated. But the complaitant referred to above was sumply told that the Board of Health were just then “consulting” with the Cfoton Board avout this very mater, and ‘3omething” would be done as soon a8 possine, Thus the confusion of our municipal gor ernment shows ttseif again. Whiie one “board! wastes time by “consulting” another “board” noth- ing is done, and through the ineiticiency of these ereaneonnge) “boards” the people are made to sufer, Still there was achange. While the two “boards”? were “consulting,” aad undoubtedly with proper gravity, dignity and earnestness, matters have grown from bad to worse; for even in tiis case a worse condition was yet possible. For about taree years a contractor is building @ sewer from the North river up Fifty-iifth street to Hieventh avenue aud along that avenue to Fulty-fourta stresi, in which street it is to be continued to Tenth avenue, Weeks ago he reached the corner of Filty-fourth sireet and Eleventh avenue aad began to dig up some hundred feet or thereabouts to tue east. Doi this he blocked up the strect entirely by the dams earth he threw up, and not pools, periect lakes of the filthy water coining from mounds of decomposed: garbage and other vegetable and animal matter oa tae vacant lot on Tentn avenue, were formed, ren- dering the whole neighborhood one immense Lotbed of infectious and coutagious discases. Our reporter visited several houses and found the cellars tiled to the depth of trom three to four feet with black, murky water, emitting a stench deiying description, all coming from the street, owing to tie negligence of the proper autioritics. One of these houses wuus aimlicted ts a four story brick duubie tenement house, having four families on each iloor, where hardiy a day passes that the services of a pilysician are not required, Im faci, taking the number of persons residing here, it 1s safe to say that tnts is che uu- healthiest spot in the city, lor the rate of disease to tue number of population ts nowWuere greatgr, alter @ rain like that of yesterday imorning @ view of that street is actually fearful. The black, oXensive sedi- ment trom the filthy canal is washed inv aud de- posited on its surlace; the street 13 torn into deep ruts, Where the carcassea of cats, dogs aud other repulsive auiimal matter are caught and ieft, and towards the jiead of te sewer there forms a jake of that sickening stwif, in which but the olier day @ child was nearly drowned while trying to cross from one side of the street to the other. And work on Us sewer 13 delayed, If not yl ad Why? The reason may perhaps ve found in this:— Some of the owners of dweilings in tis sirect, Mna- ing it imposstbie to obtain redress by their remon- strances to Uats or that “board,”’ conciuded to make Up @ purse, @ sort of stimulating present vo the con- tracior, of $800, to induce ML to hasten with the work, The owner of No, 546 - ‘birty dollars; he of No, 550 paid ten dollars, ani twenty dollars toward that obje tractor thus privately stimulated may proceed a little Taster; and one house owner promised to pay hun $10) extra if he showd succeed m passing west of his house with the sewer by July. Why i this? is the stipulated contract price insuMicient, or is it intended that the propery holders may ‘get out of patience and become willing to add pri- vately to the amount of taxes assessed them forthe building of the sewer’ Tie people in the neighborhood are at least very much incensed at tue Way in Which they are treated aua even maltreated, and they are excusable if they charge ali manner of sins and maipractices upom those from Whom they siould be eulitied to provec- tion and redress. They charge, among other tuings, that certain oficers oi the Health Board have been levying a private tax upon them; that ail along it has been willingly paid in the hope that ihe porrid complication of nuisances would quickly and tinally be abated. And ali in vain. They are now tired of itand wiil, they.say, no ionger stand tt. Itis time that the “consulting” of the “Health Board” with the “Croton Board” should cease, aud that energetic measures be takca ip hand at once to cure tlis Sore spoi, for with the approaching not days the scorching sun may here breed disease to overrun, like an epidemic, tae whole city and bring disease and death to thousands of households, upoa THE BRUST MALPRACT CZ CASE, Verdict Agninst the Prisoner—She is Released on Bai Coroner Keenan yesterday concluded the inquist- Uon in the case of Mrs. Therese Brust, late of No. 73 Eldridge street, whose death, it is alleged, was the result of malpractice at the hands of Mrs. Ecker, alias Ann Burns, & midwife, of No. 116 Ciintoa street, as heretofore reported in the Hera, Henrietta Trochelmane, of No. 45 Market street, deposed to having been acquainted with deceased, whom she considered to be a woman of bad reputa- tion; deceased toid the witness she wanted an opera- tion performed upon her, aud knew a woman who wouid do it for twenty dollars. Dr. Eugene Schoening testified to having been ealled to attend deceased, and found her in a very weak and exhausted condition; she told the doctor What was the matter, but utterly refused to submit we Katey she iy te leeding ay bh ana emorrhage 8 ; in the opimion of the doc- tor death was Danses, ite Lomweraage from @ miscar- ‘ooster Beach, M. D., made a post-mortem examt- nation on the body of deceased, and tn his opinion Fao hemorrhage from miscarriage was the cause leath, This closed the case, and the jury found “that de- ceased came to her death by hemorrhage from @ mimoarriegy probably produced at the hauds of Ana ‘The accused, who is fifty years of age and a native of New Jersey, denies all Knowledge of the case in which she has figured so conspicuously as defend- ant. She ts the mother of sixteen children, only one of whom, itis said, is now living. Coroner Keenan conciuded to release Mra. Burns on ball of $1,000, which was mptly given by Mr. Francis Hawkins, of No. 121 Weat ‘Tenth street. The deceased left a bright, intelligent littie gitt of two years of age, whom the friends having it im ¢ ure desirous to adopt out. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Field Day of the Eleventh Brignde. To-day the Eleventh brigade, National Guard, commanded py Brigadier General Meserole, will parade at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, for bat- falion drill and exercises gn evolutions of the line, The Twenty-third ment, Colonel Ward; Forty-seventh regiment, Colonel Austin; Fifty- sixth regiment, Colonel Chapman; Thirty-second regiment battalion, Major Rovhr, and the Howtt- zer battery, Captain Bebee, which constitute the brigade, are all uniformed in gray. The brigade exercises commence at two P.M. It is ex; that Governor Hoffman and start wiil be present and review the troops at four 0" k. A parade through the principal streets of brookiyn will be made o@ ther return. The Seventh Regiment Excursion. ‘The members of the Seventh regiment are ac- tively engaged in preparing for the July excursion. ‘The route to be taken has not yet been definitely decided upon, but it will probably be up the Nortie river by special boat to ‘Atbany end ‘Troy and thence to Saratoga. Colonel Clark to-day recetved the tol- lowing official invitation for the Seventh to visit Troy:— Mavon's Orrror, TROY, N. ¥., June 11, 1969, COLON RL EMMONS CLARK = Drag Sin—It atords me great pleasure to extend to the ¥.8.N. Gy cordial myitation to visit noe with & resolution nicl, & certitied copy of wh hat Very respectfully, your obedient servant, y * MILES BEACH, Mayor, Ac of the resolutions of the city counoti the natyeet, certified to by F. B, Hubbell, cit: clerk ‘was enol in the letter of invitation.’ Letters Invitation from Saratoga have also been received. If the regiment should choose the northern route It ‘will certamly visit Troy, where their reception, n@ doubt, Will Le of the must quihuMiANtio charagter.