The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1869, Page 6

Memoria! Service of the Di 8 RELIGIOUS SERVICES YESTERDAY. CANAL STREEY PRESPYTERLAN CHURCH, Sermou on the French Onble, Yesterday afternoon the services in this churci ‘were conducted by the pastor, Rey. David Miteheil. After devotional exercises he announced as his text Pealm xxix, 3:—"The voice of the Lord is upon the waters.” He said it was well known that during tie past week another cabie had been successiutiy jaid on the beds of the Atiantic, connecting (his tettiieaetanhedl 4 Romans, and based upom the passage a very excellent resumé of the cardinal doctrines of Christianity, God, the preacher sald, had created man im paradise, and lookjyg apon him had said Umit all was good, but the serpent tempted him and | ne canned, ‘The seed of sinners were sinners too, and so brother coon rose against brother and Cam | Dicame the firs! rderer, Eden was now but a memory so our race, and to fill up the outime of ruin which bad been made in the garden ail that 0 sesafy was the littie word death Death oi by sm, and it was tmpoasibie to expiiim away the relation of the two orot Adam’s sing and ours. Somenow or other sin had come into the world, and had brought its pun- country with Imperial France, We have become £0 | Mic The lable was uot writteD. to prove. tie familiar with the Wea of Amitic cavies tual no One | there wasa God or tO teach the natural sciences; it ix surprised to hear of this sn¢ . This sl ed | wae inpones to tell hor gee he mee nner, io he wonderful progres ance aa show by history and biography that he hac the wonsel ul brogre ry which science had made. | Prone , and to. unfold ie mae thas: Gea we should lear nov to make a boast of | though indnitely just, could pardon, sanc- woventific progress. What cal) our triumphs | Wiy and save a | sinter, God never anid 2 att sign bs oid 4 op. | 0 UNNecessary Word or made a useless sageestion. bin cttedpe He ba oie Of the ‘weakness and \imipes A class of phuosophers caliing themselves Christians feotton of man, This ¢ © thread, connecting | did not admit inuerited gait and denied recovery two countries separated Db; nds of miles, hy the virtue f ume Pee eee Ley of ag the voice of God upon the wa Christ; but this was @ creed which explained no- Was ie eof Sed Now sey it was Rot | tying, only denying everything, leaving everything His voice of thunder and lightoingand storm. It | ynanswered and teaching nothing. It. cried peace Ws His still, small voice, Tata cable was speaking | when there was no peace—as there coula be no to us of God’s induite power and wisdom tn ES | peace where there Was not peace with God. The Works of creation, Tie material of which iC waa | Pipie proved the necessity of the personal applica- not man’s making. It had beea } tion of tae truth of personal gin, God says every ia the laboratories Of the earth. | one is under the curse of violated law, aud those ich @ashed from poie to poie of te cable and wi. eyistered the thoughts of men was Mecreation of God. Such a work, then, ought to M) us wito reverential wonder before the vast forces ‘The lightulng w and jaws of wwe, Ab the same time (he cabie Aveaks 10 us of human progress, Compared with olden tames, when mestages were Kent from staion Ww station by men on horse- back, aid when many mouths had to elapse before the most meagre news could each @ distant country, What progress was this that in @ few Keconde We could conmmunicarve with other coptigeuts | Man is but a litue iower than the ang He has dominion over tho torces of navare, Ke ia God's vicegereut on earth. The vast conse- quences of such triumphs of science Were next de scribed. The telegraph was bringing the na gether, It stimulated the Inquiring spirit ol 1 quickened Nis thought. It voted long, heavy. ing speeches a nuisa brings the events of eur guidance and reile mWustnes. In & Word, it raises man to a higher Platform of civilization, and 14 will yet beovme the Bervous system of Ubristian society, by which we will be brought into living sympathy with our brethren of every . Thie speaker thon said Vnat the attainments of the pass only pointed to higher attainments yet to de. “We had ad vaiced from slow, euinorous mi Uon to subtie and were still wonder(al < es of communi Almost invisible that say that they have not sinned deceive them selves, and the truth is not in them. The wadie system of vicissitude to which the hamao race was subjected proved that God had been disobeyed. The imperfections and aing of the ‘physical life, and death itgelf— ail proved the same thing. It would ne said that Christ suffered ail the pains of mortai lite; but it must be remembered that he suifered voluntarily, while men suffered involaniariy. The ane sven have no diseases ay devers, and that was because nothing sinful «© anything that defiles cza enter heaven. The reverend ; mtlemaa then applied hie teach- ings, bow to the converted and the unconverted, closiag with an ¢ srnest appeal to all his hearers to seek and oblain - ace Wita God through the atone- ment of Jesus Ch ist. } MOUTH CHURCH Sermon by Rev. weary Ward Deocher=llepe aw the Anchor of the Soul. ‘There i¢ & perceptivie decrease m* the namber of attendanis of Plymouth Courch on each successive Sabbath of late, owing, no doubt, to the absence ef a portion of the regular congregation at their favor- ite summer retreats, Yesterday the church was weil but not uncomfortably Med. The reverena pastor material universe, Possibly the day was coming when men would communicate witnouc the media of wire and electrfcity, This thought opened ap an anconcetvable _—- for man even on this earth; but as a spiritual boing, transforied at th, he was entering upon a ile uatrammelled by physical jaw, in which the influite distances of space migit mot be felt, in which, With @ speed incuaceivably greater than that of the eieciric f e could mount up to the heavens aud co: a view of the Vasiness and glory of God's crea BROADWAY TABERNACLE. Sermon by Rev. E. Hawee—Trinle of Rey. Edward Bawes, of Philadelphia, preac yesterday morning at the Broadway Tabernacie, corner of Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, on the subject of “The government of the heart and the trials of the soul.” The speaker alluded to the phy- sicai suffering which invariably attended any viola- tion of the natural laws, aud argued that just in uke proportion does injury and suffering afiict the soul when any moral precepts are infringed upon. The health of the soul, like that of the body, is only to be preserved by observance of the fundamental laws Wwajen govern its nature; for the soul is as serisitive to moral wrong and outrage as the body is to abuse of any Kind. en Who would Keep their souls pare should, therefore, study to avoid the temptations to corruption, or if tuey cannot be avoided, to struggle bravely ‘agamst them. Fresh and fadelesa as the laureis are which are twimed around the brow of bim who conducts hia warriors to triumph the individual who conquers meart and sways the sceptre of reason over his own teelings ia, in the view of God and man, infinitely more honorable. No one can more effectually aegrade himself than to ons, for the feelings and dispositions of the heart are the elements of happiness or misery. Language cannot describe the agony and bitterness of im whieh result from the want of sell-government. Envy piuing at the prosperity of otiers—malice forming 1s mazy plans for the ruin of its hated ob- Jects—anger, like the fire of @ burning mountain, a upon its own substance—pride, irritated and mortified in not receiving its dewanded homage— ambition, tn ils restless efforts, puluag down dis- grace upon its own head, and avarice, seeking, ob- taining and never satistied, constitute the very essence and prejude of hetl, Butin governing the heart with all diligence we realize that the work of righteousness is peace, and the edect of riguteous- ness ls quietnesss and assurance forever, that ail the weapons of our enemies fall harmiess at our feet, be- cause We are armed with the panoply of God. it is the pure heart, the sou! regulated in its perceptions, aifeclions and volitions by the gospel of Jesus Christ that renders our outward conduct acceptavie in the sight of God. In the day of Snai judgment the in- quiry will not be what profession we had made, nor What name we had borne, but what purity of heart we had acquired and what measure of the divine mature we had possessed. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Sermon by Rev, Father Starrs, V. G. A report having gained circulation that the Most Rey. Archbishop McCloskey would preach his fare- well sermon to his flock im this church yesterday, previous to his departure for the Eternal City to par- ticipate in the deliberations of the Ecumenical Coun- cul, there was a large congregation assembled in the cathedral, but they were destined to disappoint- ment, a8 the Archbisnop will not preach the ser- mon alluded to until next Sunday week. Very key. Yathber Starrs, Vicar General of the diocese, preached @ very brief sermon, which was stricuy confined to doctrines or the Church, the principal pommt in it being a recommendation to all Catholics to avail tiemselves more generally of the sacraments. ‘The po Fe mime, under the jeadership of that accomplished organist, Mr. Gustay Schmidt, as carried out with the usual excell grendenr ofexecution. The mass eung was Mene’s mass in KR minor. At the offerory an dingly pretty and soul-inepiring duet, for basso and tenor, entitied Bene Fasior Panis Perum, was rendered | Wilh ihetiing effect. TEMPLE ADATH JESHUAUN, ructhon of Jeru- salem—Lecture by Mr. M. Elinger. At the temple Adath Jesburun, on Thirty-niath atreet, near Seven! avenue, commemorating ser- vices of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Ro mans, were held on che 9th day of the Jewish monta of Abh, which correaponds with the 17th day of July. Inthe sbsence of the Rabbi of the congrega- tion, the Rev. Dr. born, Mr. M. Eliinger, editor of the Jewish Times, a lay delegate of the vestry of the temple, wae invited te take the pvlpit, a sign that this congregation is far advanced on the road to re- formed Judawm. The text of the sermon was from Genesis, eleventh chapter, wherein the confasion of janguages at the bulding of the Tower of Babel is reated. The Jecturer stated that diversity and variety 18 @ Jaw of natnre in the moral as weil a8 im the physical world, and that the intelectual acquisition obtained by the ancient nations became the property of the world by the forcible expnision of these nations from the places of their settlement. A)l hmman ereation is rubject to the law of change and dissointion. Mon- uments crumble to dust, cities are laid in ruins. Oniy the Mntellectual resuits are imperishable. ‘The migration of peoples was the storm which swept | over the nations of higher cuitnre and disseminated their civilization into all corners of the earth, The such a nation, which was fer in advance | otier nations in thelr recognition aud | knowledge of the spiritual God, and in the posses. sion of special and moral laws resulting therefrom. With Jernsalem as scentral point, with the Temple as a nations! sanctuary, they becaine loo haughty the owners of such @ treasure-—they forgot thetr | mission as teachers of civilization, It was not a de- struction which the Romana effected, but a delivers from the marrow confines which | chained the truth of Judaism to a tiny country and to & amali pation, it was natural that @pring the many years’ of suffer ing the Jews saw their deliverance ony in a restored nationality, bat the revelation of God in bistory teaches them thelr crue mission, and they would be unfaithful to their trust if they would keep up a re- | ligious show of auflering and grief which in reality does not exist. The Jews have become part of the nations in whose midst they live and with whose | fate they are aMilated, and Palestine bas no oiner value to them ‘han as & mere historical relic. The civilization of man can only become completed when | the temples and churches, which are the artifical | creations of man, are demolished; when truth, In Darmony With reason, takes the place of faith dic- tated by eelf-styled representatives of God. The Jerusalem of the Jews is civilization, the Temple they wish to be restored is the perfect eqnaitty of all men, and the destraction of the tempi¢ is a simple estastropne to be followed by the demolition of all | temples which divide mankind in classes, castes and | eonsosions. SOUTH REFORMED CHUNCH, } Dincourse by Rov. Joseph Milliken. ‘The Rev. Josepn Milliken, of Olio, conducted the services at the South Reformed Church, corner of | Fifth avenne and Twenty-first street, yesterday | morning and evening. At the latter service the | church was very thinly attended, The reverend gentleman took as bis text the eleventh verse of dhe Afth chapter of St, Paui’s Kpiatie to the | | ehurch $25, took for the text of his discourse the #ixth chapter of Hebrews and nineteenth verse:—“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stead- fast, and whica entereth intojthatgwithin the veil.’ ‘The Apostle Paul in his epistie to the Hebrews, from which the text Js taken, refers at length to the dan- ger of seeking after new doctrines, This was an evil which ne wisely foresaw and against which he has left behind him a solemo warning. The spostie knew it was @ much easier thing to destroy than to build up. And in this the Apostle was right ‘The reconstructive tal- ent is the rarest vouchsafed toman. In areligious point of view this is more essentially true. For When @ Man becomes unsettled in his religions be- lief, when he drifts away from the landmarks of the soul, the power to reconstruct the religious system 18 one of tue rarest powers that has been revegied in man. The danger, and, in fact, the occurrence of the thing is more imminent and far more frequent than generally supposed. Jt is now somewhat fashion- able to decry the doctrines of our fathers, to discard the anchor and the other sateguards which re- ligion” bas given us toe be our guide through life. Men are now given to the discussion of the supertority of reason over the beliefs which hitherto the soul clung to in every point and in every adversity. Men are pow too.ape a say that “reason is great and shall prevail." | pore! among young men, 1s one of the great evils and periis of the Umes. It {s contended that there is no diMculty in every young man standing forth and drawing up a code Of moralities for himself, But man in thie re- spect is like four year old children going tothe seaside and taking the boat from ita moorings, and, discarding’ the custom of their elders, throw over- board the oars, the satis and the , by which ‘the boat waa navi . aud pushing off, are help- less before the powers of the gurrounding elements, ‘The tide bears them @ way, further and turther from the shore; the wind ere the night draws near, the sea becomes more and more turbulent, and now, without oars and without a sail, without 9 rudder to guide them, they are encompassed with periis on every side. So it is with the man who, denouncing the tenets and the teachings of the faith inculcated in fim, seeks for new dogmas and new doctrines on which to baild bis hopes of salva- tiop. The power to settle definitely the modes of sanctification, to fashion beliefs, to form an anchor- age of the soul, 1 the rarest quality ever vouchsated toman. There is much more likelihood for there being another Homer than another Augustine; another Shakespeare than a Calvin; another Milton than an Armenius; another Dante than a Knox. This philosophical and —. constractiveness of moral and religious things 18 the rarest of all gifts; so that when @ man cute away from the be- Hef he had ip the past and seeks new doctrines he ig a mere experimentizer, working in the dark, utterly ignorant of the dark guif that yawns before him—the most cavernous and dangerous gulf that ever man Fee paee himself into. Things are like words, and words are men’s souls journs What is the word mother but the registry whereon every man has left the dearest souvenirs of bis youthfal life? What is in the words wife, father, sister or brother, the memories of home, of all things that are pure and fresh in the soals of men? Man must not, therefore, lightly or untkinkingly discard from his soul the religious and moral teachings he has received. The doctrines, the ceremonies ana the usages he has been accustomed to and trained up to observe and reverence, though they seem to be even absolutely false, are better than to have no anchorat aii on which the soul can reat. It ts not an easy thing, and it iw never a@ safe thing, to take away from @ man those usages, those doctrines and those customs and observan how- ever erroneous they may even be, but which long education has sanctified to him, without being firat assured that he has found & safer anchorage for his hopes and longings after a higher and better life. Take, for example, the sacrifice of Christ, as we have been educated to regard and reverence it. What is there sweeter than the thought of Christ's dying and atoning for the stns of the world? What is there that so touches the soul with the potency of effect that such acontemplation calls forth? Take away this belief and ali love and reverence, the soul’s emotions, are destroyed, and life becomes a blank and death Itself an unconceivable terror. A noble nation cannot be happy without religion—without food from the in- visible and the infintte~and the moment that a man drifts away from ihe settled anchorage of the faith m whieh he has been brought up, from that moment he ceases to be happy. Tho moment aman attempts to found a new system of morals for himself—the moment he attempts to solve the great probiem—he wili find himself overtasked, he will find himself going forth to combat Goli: epvased in the vast and crushing armor of Saul. Take from @ man his belief in the doctrines of bis faith, and you take from him the very elements of his saivation, Man must have positive belief, When the ground of faith is settied the transition to another belief is dificult, and when well directed is noble and pratseworth but @ transition from @ lie to nothing is worse than living up to the lie. Christianity Ia the hope spokea of by St. Paul, which hope we have ag ou ancuor of the soul, both eure and steadfast, and which entereti. into that wituin the vell, The reverend gentieman was listened to with great attention throughout nia eloquent discourse. QEDICATION OF A FRENCY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. ‘The first edifice ever erected in Brooklyn for French Roman Cathélic worship was dedicated yes- verday forenoon by the Right Rev. John Loughiin, Bishop of the diocese of Brooklyn, assisted by several eminent clergymen. Among these were no- ticea the Rev. John R. McDonald, pastor of st. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kem- sen and Leonard streets; the Rev. Sylvester Malone, pastor of ‘the Church of Saints Peter and Vaul, second stree the Key. Father Jollon, the Kev, | Father &. Lebevel, the Rev. Father Sciwarts others. THE BDINICR | is situated on McKibben street, vetween Leonard and Ewen streets, Lastern District, [tis a substan: tially finished frame structure, seventy-five by forty- five, and will seat nearly 600 persons. ‘The butiding and surroundings, Including @ commodious resi- dence for the pastor and assistants, will coat (he 100, THE CONGREGATION formerly worshipped in @ schoo! house in Leonard atreet. [tembraces nearly all the ieading Preach residents of Williamsburg, and is 2uder the pastoral care of the Key. Father J 5 THE DEDICATION proved to be av affair of no ordinary interest with the foreign residents, and aithongh the price of ad mission 1 the edifice during the ceremuny was fifty cents it was Crowded to suffocation, and two coi Jections having also been taken up ‘during the ser- vices a large amount of money was voliected accordance with Continental custom a wilitar pany, with fixed bayonets, preceded by a bi m0 . Marched to the caurch, with banners and mottoes. During the services, which continued for several hours, the military stood covered before the altar, while the band assisted the choir in the gai- jery.. The novelty of glittering bayonets and mill- tary uniforms in church on sued an occasion some- what astonished the natives, put itis auid to be the fashion on the European Continent, ‘A large number Of citizens of different denominse tions attended the ceremony in expectation of hear- ing an address by the learaed and eloquent Bishop Laughiin, but they were disappointed, tue Bishop thinking it more appropriate that a Frencnman should deliver the dedication address in the vernaca- lar, and this service was well rendered ner Lelievel, who held the attention of the congrt for over an hour. At the conclusion of this sermon the Bishop offered a few remarks, He expressed nis graufica- Hop that the French romdepts took fo jively an ine NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY W, 1869, terest in religions matters, and congratulated them upon the completion of their frst churen in Brook- lyn, He also expressed (he hope that Father Jollon, the first pastor of the church, would live lopg to ada ‘to ite gioxy. Vather Jollon offered a few remarks in French, thanking the Bishop tor his good wisnes and pledg- ing himself to a faithful performance of the sacred duties entrusted to him, The Bishop having pronovnced the beneaic*ion the large congsegauion retired, “The new church was deaicated to st. Louts, a King of France. GREENPOINT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. © ¢ Dedication Sermon by Rev. W, B, Lee, A temporary house of worship has been erecied at Greenpoint for the Presbyterian society of that place. ‘The building, just completed, is a low woolen strueture, without pretence ta archi- tectural beauty or ornament, but yet is a neat and commodious church, The dedicatory services (ook place yesterday under very favorable auspices, the room being densely packed by a zeaious congregation. The singing was excellent, and so far ag the choir has been. organ- ized it promises well, Mr. Edward Kleine and other well knoyn amateurs taking part. ‘The Rev. W. B. Lee preached the dedication ser- mon, selecting his text from Exodus xxv, 8:—“And jet them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.” The first chureh, said the reverend gentleman, was built 2,500 yeare after the creation aud 1,600 years before the coming of Christ, It was estabilshed to bring about @ spiritual intercourse between God and his children, that He might come down among the wicked and sinful in the fulness of His power and the majesty of His might to succor and protect and to visit Elia chosen people with the blessings of His wisdom. His word was the command, “And let them make mea sanc- that I may dwell among: them.” The! The people round about went to wor! | with a wil, the tribes of Israel built the temple to their Jehovah, and the material that was gathered together was superabundapt for the garaoee, Then God appears on earth, the Shure, the early primitive Charch of that day, was the first intermediary between Him and His péo] And heres seen the foreshadowing of the n event gince the creation—the coming of Christ on earth, Hia representation of the Godhead in the flesh, The temple has a great history; in it were per- formed the first Jewish rites; in it was bad tho dispensation from God, even as in the beginning of the Christian ¢ra Jesus first spoke to men as the Son of God. The design and use of the holy Charch of that hig Beker bearsa brief review.) Ti sorgenca temple, holy tn all ‘ite parts, yet had a room holier than the rest; In it was the Covepant—the law of God—in a vox of smal! compass. Covering these divine precepts was a slab called the Mercy Seat, without which the sins, the abominations and the of men would have been visited by the rity Boe muerring band of jomioes but Ghd Tames ‘this incomparabie Seat of Mercy, and in it the hope, the primeval redemption of sinners. there were the cherubims, typitying redemption and surroundéd by & cloud of glory and a halo of or ht. With these evidences of His ue, ess He gilded all future ages with the lustre of His The speaker Jewish sacrame! their absolution, ther ene of = rewi and punishment and their wonderful identity with the coming, the deatn and the ascension of Christ, who “When two or three are gach- cer ee name I am with them.” He asked the pro! of the new society to Prise their zealous 0-0) justaining tne Church, in ous co-operation in 6 ing , making it a temple to Christ, and to sangeet not the wondrous purity and glory of His life. He read the dedication service, according to the forms of the Westminster Confegsion, and after the concluding exercises the large congregation retired. LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF A CATHOLIC CHURCH AT WEST HOBOKEN, N. J. Yesterday afternoon the corner stone of a new Catholic church was laid, adjacent to the monastery of the Passionista at West Hoboken. About three o'clock people began to assemble from the sur- rounding districts, and ip @ short time the immense square in front of the monastery was thronged. At the foot of the hill a procession, con- sisting of the temperance societies of Jersey City, Hoboken, Hudson City and Guttenberg, was formed, and these were joined by companies from New Vork, Brooklyn and Staten Island. They marched to the music of their brass bands and halted before the en- trance tothe monastery, where they were cordially welcomed by the rector, Father John. At the southeast corner of the foundation of the new build! atem- wary altar was erected and decorat by the Fathers, At five o'clock Bishop Bayley, in pontiti- cals, accom| by Father Anthony, om deacon, F: r Guido as sub-deacon, and Father An- gelo, master of ceremonies, and several clergymen who had come from various neighboring parishes, walked in solemn procession to the altar, and the ceremony of blessing the corner stone commenced. At the Close box was placed in the stone contain- ing copies of the New York Heap and the local papers wish several coins, Among these was rolled @ parchment on which was written in Latin the fol- jowing:—‘‘In the year of our Lord 1869, on the ninth Sunday after lye ihre Nono, Ke the grace of Goa, being Bishop of Catholic Church, Ulysses 8. Grant President of the United States, Theodore ¥F. Randolph Governor of New Jersey, and Dominick Provincial of the Con- gregation of the Passion, in the presence of a large concourse of peopie, thi stone of a church was blessed an with due solemnity, in honor of Saint Michael the rcpt and to the greater go. of the Supreme God, by the Most Rev. James of New waa ley, Bi jersey.” When the box sited the bishop moved the stone to its position and the choir of priests chanted a hymn of The Rev. Dr. Anderson then ascended @ pulpit and preached a sermon to the multitude, taking bis text from the second epistie of St. Paul to the Corinthtans:—“Always bearing about in the body, the dying of Jesus, that Lhe life of Jesus also may be made manifest in our bodies.” He pad ‘@ fitting tribute to the energy of the Irish race in fulfil e mandate of the text by raising up @ monument of the power which they have received from God to dispel evil from the world. Passing over for want of time the noble ex- ertions of Catholics in every clime, he would con. sider the labors of one order alone—that of pe Pas- sionists. Their exertions have been unt ng 70 promote the religion of the true God. » The preacher amused his audience by a variety of anecdotes, and at the close of his discourse proposed a collection to aid in completing the new edifice. Hia appeal was heartily responded to, after which the vast crowd to Msperse, mach pleased with what they had seen and heard. As they were departing the bishop 7% them his benediction. The new church will be 90 feet long and 100 feet in width. DEDICATION OF A GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT UNION HILL, fed Bishop Bayley dedigatea a church yesterday fore- noon at Union Hill, and afterwards ad ministered the sacrament of confirmation to fifty-nine children. The pastor of this church is Father Vincent, and it is chiefly needed by the large Ger- man population in and around Cnion Hill, which ‘Will Boon become a city. The name bestowed in the dedication was the “Church of the Holy re Bishop Bayley delivered an exhortation to the dren on the importance of the sacrament of con- firmation, which would impose on them the obliga- ton of becoming good soldiers of Christ, always ready to do battle with their spiritual enemies. The entire ceremontes were very imposing. SUNDAY AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND. Taken al in all, though rather too strict in its regulations for comfort, tne embattled edifice at Biackweil’s Island 1s, of a summer's day, the coolest retreat within tweuty miles of the city. Besides, siripes are the mania for pantaloous this season; and, stripes being the uniform of petty larceny, for Jost once the immates of the Penitentiary are habited to the mode, and can really put in claim to something akin to styiishness, Visitors of a Sunday, however, are few—visitors, Unless armed with special credenuals, not belng received on that day. The clergyman ts taken off from the foot of Sixty-first street at ten im the morning; and thenceforth, except you exhibit un- avewerable credentials to the gentleman tn the litte stationary caboose, Wat gentieman refases to ring his bell, and you must remain on thia | side of the ribbon of the Rast river or adjourn to the (oot of Fifty-second street and engage @ amall boat on you Own account. Your credential, being vised you are ‘permitted to land, and find | yourself in @ new world, ov rather, im # sort of cemetery and hospital in one, of the morally | dead or morally sick of the great city adjacent, It | iss sort Of miniatare city, whore everybouy is regu- | lar in his habits, and whence the metropolis maroons anybody and everybody who has been found too tr regular for purposes of business, ‘The services for yesterday were onducter by the Methodiats, under the supervision o: the Rey, Mr. Searles, and were rather interesting in their sur: roandings than in themvelves—tuat is, in the novelty of the cirenmstances and of | the audience, A spectator wonld bave been apt to have forgotten the vermon and the tracts, The om. clating clergyman, having been landed at the Penic tentiury landing, reported to the assiatunt warden, Mr. Muieo, aud Was escoried up the winding stair, Similar to that in the baliad of *'M Fiy,”” to the very top of the he ments have been made ior the a mohley-visaged audience, ab ' Spider and Miss . Here arrange: mmodation of the it 400 in number. AG & given signal, trom hy to @ bundred iron doors fy open simultaneousiy, and 48 many spectre suddenly appear in an equa) number of doorwa: Taking the gloomy solidity of the walls, It iv ay ita hail Nundred wen eprang inio ealsteuce wt the signal of the wand from solid masonry where has seemed to be no trace of men av instant previous, At asecond signalthey emerge aod move up stairs with the preciston of military evolution. A third ciang of the. iron gong and a hundred doors on a second tier fly open, as if every one of them, managed by some mvisible clockwork, was actuated by the same impulse, A hundred figures appear again as suddenly As in the | Jirst Instance; and af & second signal move up stairs With the Same monotonous precision of step. Again ihe signal Js repeated, and again from itty to a hun- dred iron doors etart open, aud from fiity to & hun- cred men stand out tn relief from tne solid ma- soury, A fourth anda fittn ume; and the capacity of ule gloomy stone walls for human production las obviously been exhausted, and you may peer if you ike into little celi# in the masonry therec!, which put you tn mind, saving the whitewash. which is not Vevpttan, of nothing so vividly aa the hypowies of the mummies of Egypt. You cannot be in two places at the same time, otherwise you Would have. an opportunity of seelug tbe same phenomenon repeated im the goutnera wing of the embattied castle of penance; only in the lalter case you would see women start forth from the masonry and stand in relief in the jow, narrow doorways, Instead of men. You may take it for granted that at least’ three hundred and avs sons have passed up the iron stairs during tive miuutes ju waich you have been an observer of the process of evoking people from stone or mumies in ntaloons, from their very carefully whitewashed by; in the wails. You tramp up stairs you , Weary coon when you get to the ae and find yourself a-mis With threee hundred and every one of which arty eyes. you furtively when thekeeperis not looking, eying the minisler most inteatiy when that tane- tionary 13 on the qui vive. ‘There is an odd uniformity abont them, and yet an odd sort of individuality. They are not bad faces, al) of them—not even most of them, Bullen some of them are, hideous and repulsive a few of them are; sad, ~ very sad, most of them are, and there is @ wonderiui preponderance of pug noses, taking the audience together; but, after ail, yon may meet worse faces than the av of them, more hi edly criminal faces, on tie si every day, which only proves that the worst villains are not standing boarders at the castle of pepsnge- ‘There 1s one strangely subtle feature adout the man- ner of them all, as if every one had lost his identity, was looki for it; aa sf, in fact, every one of them had been No. — 80 long that he was not quite sure whetuer he ever had been or ever would be again, anything more than one or two or three Arabic numerals, Aman is booked ina cemetery Or a hotel, or an in- stitution, and, after that he eg int —, and can only recover hia identity by looking at the books and fla out woo he isqnpposed wo ay oniy in the former case he is general, gound asleep even to take that trouble, and the authorities tai a ni For peoy who had Re, identity, and had some- thing in their manner as if they were looking for one, the audience werday morning were remarkably ned Most respectfully, tor where &@ pergon has lost his identity very lMtue can be ex- pected of him until he has found ii The sermon was a brevity, and cousisted moro of exhortation than of exposition. Singing. in which the poor human numerals of the coi ton were permitted to join, preceded; and having thus opened the services, the minister went on with a simple and appropriate prayer. The feature of the services, however, was the distribution of tracts, which were received with avidity and often with a look of fecipint proving tat anough the. lveatity tay Tecipient, pro ugh the may be lost, the humanity bas not utterly taken leave therewith. A simple nymn preceded the benediction, which was, of co received stand: ing. It is strange indeed, the mathemat- teal and au mM movement engendered in the to] convict. The individual, the nerve of personality, 1g ag if loat in the application of @ certain alo. work simultaneousness to the mass. Ali were on their feet at the same instant, All started in the di- rection of the upright at the samo instant. Every head of the whole 350 ceased its upward mo- the ae epee it pe Fro} if all parte aD organ grinder’s wax- work accompaniments; aud again, the motion with which the heads came up was as if every one of the 360 was being leisurely pulled up, instead of getting up of bis own accord. The individuality of motion ip all gone; your subject isin motion as mere auto- maton, duly Dumbered and ticketed to remain an automaton for #0 Many Months or go Many years, as ‘the case may be, and yet some half a di after the benediction was pronounced, passed their sleeves furtively across the! res, to the slight eat perhaps, of the sleeves in question, Grind, grind, grind ue the inexorable grindstone of ere are some out of whom all the humanity cannot be ground. Grind, grind, grind at the grindstone of the n-house till the is with stooping at the inexorable wheel and the world is weary with turning the crank, still there is enough of the man left to secrete a tear and beget a atrange pathos in the eye. ‘The signal given the mass moves, no individual moving first—moves in @ strange sort of unison from the hall, every one with tract in hand; every one with a strange longing to be more than No.—, in the mute appeal of eyes that look straight ahead and neither to the right nor to the left. Down the iron stairs they wind, like tongueless automatons; as suddenly as they sprang forth 360 figures sink into the solid masonry of ters, one, two, three, four and five; as sagdenly as they sprang open 350 doors clang to Uj evanished figures, Three hun- dred ana filty hypogees are again tenanted, and the building 2s as silent as if 1t were nothing but @ vast mausolenm, Ten minutes or so elapse; the gong sounds and the old phenomenon is repeated; but this time the descend to the Fenne floor, and in long procession move in the direction of the mess room, where, for automatons, they manifest a remarkabie liking for salt junk and Dolled rice, the inevitable constituents of the Sunday dinner. Here you may take leave of them, for in less than sixty minutes they will all leave, melted into invisi- bility again, and iron doors with No. — upon them Will have shut to npon their evanished figures. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. ‘The theatres and the weather during the past week have been diametricully opposed the one to the other, and our duty as ‘faithful chroniclers of pass- ing events” compels usin truthful candor to admit that the theatres came off only ‘second best” in the fiery tussle. The scorching heat, espectally during the latter part of the week, proved too much foreven old playgoers, who, after wrestling all day with the “red hot” elements, were in no mood to face the enemy again in the evening, cooped up in a sweat box of a theatre. Some few of the theatres, how- ever, despite the sultriness of the atmosphere, man- aged to have quite a respectable “‘show" in the way of admiring audiences, but by far the larger number of plays were given to a “beggarly account of empty benches.” The heat, in sending down histrionic talent so far below appreciation, took the vim out of actors, and gave enterprising managers qnite enough to do in trying to keep cool, instead of dish- ing up dramatic novelties to their perspiring patrons, ‘The present week certainly opens somewhat cooler, but in no other respect can tt be regarded as an im- provement upon the one which has just been con- signed to the shades of “the time-honored past.” With bat three exceptions—Wood’s Museum, the Bowery and the Waverley theatres—the programmes of last week, at all of the other theatres now open In this city, are again announced for repetition. At Wallack’s theatre the charming three act drama of “Dora” and the mirth-provoking bur- lJesque of “Black-Eyed Susan” still hoid possession of the boards, and are, if anything, more enjoyable than ever.’ Mr. J. F, Cathcart, who #0 ably sas- tamed Miss Marriott at the Museuin last season, makes his first appearance at this establishment this evening in the role of Farmer Alten, tn place of Mr. Frederick Robinson, who is compelled to leave the city to fuifl an engagement ewhere, The cast in both pieces, with this exception, remains unchanged. . “Enoch Arden,’’ at Hooth’s, continues to attract large and fashionable audiences. Mr. Edwin Adams has achieved a brilliant success in the title réle, and personates the shipwrecked sailor and easy-going busband to perfection. He is strongly supported by Miss Blanche de Bar, as the too much married Annie, and Miss Fannie Morant, as Miriam Lane, the hostess of the village inn, “The Chiid Stealer,” one of the most highly apleed of sensational dramas of the day, 1s stil the attrac: on at the Grand Opera House. Miss Luctile Western makes @ very acceptabic female ktdnapper, and never fails to evoke from her auditors the of intense excitement. ‘The Lydia Thompson troupe of blonde burlesquers have reached the last week but one of their success ful engagement Nibio’s, ‘Sinbad,’ with the tumbling Laurt reinforcement, remains pon the bilis, and i atill vigorousty applauded by the poorly drilled claquevrs, who invariably give vent to their pent up sensations and enthusiasm at the wrong me. ‘The plece is now made still further enjoyable by a corps de ballet of twenty young jadies, Who do the “light fantastic’ in the “Diaimond Valley,’ and by the grotesque Clodocle troupe, whe wind up the burlesque with a new quadrilie. ‘d Eady, the popular east alde tragedian, has e Es also reached the last week but one of lis engage- ment at Wood's Museum, where afternoon and even- ing performances, despite the continue to be the order of the daj The Kag Picker of Paris” has usurped the piace o1 the “Cor- sican Brothers’? at the mating doing so, no doubt, by the “Police Spy” who holds forth in the evening. Mr. Bddy, supported by a good, company, appears in both picies, Pantomime still holas sway at the Olympic. Tic cory Diceory Fox has reached the ninth week of his nisehievous career, and as yet evinces no syimp- tome of weakness. The supple and mgh-kicking Kiralry troupe of sensational dancers will, beyond @ doubt, turnish him with legs enough to stand upon until poor “Uncie Tom sends both the pan- behind his log cabin. The Bowery Theatre varies ita usnal programme of heavy tragedy and sensational dramas this even- ing, with “Mazeppa,”’ the ‘iiying Men of Ajr,’’ and “Our Boy from Limerick.’ Miss Kate Fisner wii) rife the “‘fery, untamed steed,” and Messrs. Hawley and Miaco Will do the aerial gymnastica, “Caaght 1," has met with a decided success at the Comiqne, Where it this evening entors upon ity eecong Week, with Mr, and Mrs, Watkins in (ho leading réles, “It takes Two to Quarrel,” te the Ute Of a farce Which concludes the evenmg’s enter- tainment at this house, The Waverley theatre, which of late has been sub- fected to the delectable game of “open and shut,” ‘opens again this eventng, under the inanagement of Mr, KE. L, Worden, for a stort season of burlesque. “the Moon Chara,” a new burlesque seusation, 1s promised, with a “powerful cast.’ ‘The present is tue last week of the suntmer season at Bryant’s Minstrel Hall, im the great \ am of Tammany. ‘The troupe of dusky favorites after closing in this city go to Philadelphia for three weeks, at the termination of which they retura to their beadquarters in Fourteenth street, with new attractions and additions, A grand musical und varieties enterta be given this evening at the Acade: under the auspices of (ne Cuban Jun! iit of sudering patriois in tie “ever faithiul | A @o0d programme 1s offered and @ “host of talent? has volunteered for the ovcasion. ‘The Central Park Garden is nightly thronged with the lovers of good music, Theodore Tuouas’ two orchestras proving quite suMicicnt to dispel dull care, if not Whe heat. At Hooley’s Opera Mouse, Brooklyn, 1 min- strelsy and the Ethiopian burlesque of Peace Jubtiee” are tie attractions for the presen: week. nt will Mus! ro THE FAR ROCKAWAY OUIRAGE, How the Affair Happened and Who Were heartiest rounds of applause for the great pains | which she evidently takes to work (hem up Coa state rightened into | tomime ana the Kiralfys into the shades of oviivion | the Perpetrators of the QOutroge=The Excitement in the Village—The Sheriff and Hie Officers on Hand to Prevent a Die turbance. The murderons assault which was made upon Rev. Father Owen, of Newark, N. J., a few days ago, at Far Rockaway, by a hotel keeper and his bar- Keoper, still continues to be the theme of conversa- tion and discussion at that place. For some reason or another, best known to the parties concerned in the affray—the avsailed ag well as the assailants— knowledge of the outrage was.carefully concealed from the public until the condition of one of the in- jured parties had reached such a critical point that further concealment would have been criminal. In- deed, up to the present time no true version of the affair has as yet been published, and the real facts concerning the whole iamentable occurrence may, therefore, not be without @ certain degree of interest to the public in gencral, ‘and may algo serve to set aside a good many pre- Indices that have been stirred up by the one-sided statements of the aseault which have been already dragged into light. The facts can be briefly stated:— On the night of the affray, about ten o'clock, Fathers Fagin, of Williamsburg, and Owen, of Newark (who bad arrived in the company of two other priests but a few hours previous to the assault and had put ‘up at Caffrey’s Hotel), went down on the beach to take a stroll. While walking along an unfrequented part of the shore Father Fagin suggested that a good bath would be rather refreshing than otherwise, ‘when the two priests, after assuring themeelves that there was no other person in their vicinity, quietly proceeded to divest themselves of their clothing. ‘They had scarcely began this very orainary opera- tion when two girls, afterwards ascertained to be a Migs Carroll, a niece of Benjamin Mott, and @ Miss Ella Rice, em< from a sort of shrubbery ork at once addressed her- bathing on the beach was not allowed, especially when ladies a vere prevent and that the gentlemen should act ingly. it was so dark at the time that the priests were unable to discern who their interlocutors were, but one of them replet that if ic ‘was improper for them to bathe without bathing clothes at go late an hour it was entirely improper for young ladies to be out in go lonesome a place as they were at so late an hour. The girls, thus rebuked, immediately left the spot, murmuring something which the priests did not hear and to which the; paid no attention. About a half an hour after this occurrence the latter left the beach and walked leisurely towards their hotel. When just opposite enjamin Mott’s house they heard some verson say, ‘here go the men who insulted us,” and in an in- afterward they were set upon by and bis keeper, Louis Corser. Mott was the firat to strike 8 blow. and Fatner Fagin, who happened to be a few steps ahead of Father Owen, was unfortunate enough to be the objective point. He was felled and partially stunned the force of the blow, but quickly re- covered himself and attempted to rise to his feet when Mott struck him down with his foot, Not know! who his assailant wi he cried ont, “I am a8 tholic priest,” when ne received another blow and a ick, | his assailant exclaiming at the same me, “I'll drive the heel of my boot into the head of the Papist priest.” Father.Owen had, meanwhile, hurried up to where the scuffing waa going on, and had no sooner reached Father Fagin's side than he was seized by the hair by Corser, who struck him in the vempie with some instrument, He fell from the vio- lence of the biow, while the blood gushed protusely from the wound caused by the weapon in the hands of Corser, He cried out, “Im stabbed,’”’ as he fell, when the two men ceased their onsiaught, but not until after a gentleman who lives in Mott's immediate vicinity had done all in his power to keep Mott and his barkeeper from doing the ta further injary. tleman, Who waa an eye-witness of the , tates that his attention was attracted to the row hearing Mrs. Mott cry out, “Stop it! Stony it, Ben! ana another voice, “For God's sake stop!” He also states but that for him- self ana Corser Mott would have murdered Father Fagin—that 1s, he judges so from the savage man- ner 19 which Mott was belaboring the priest while was lying on the ground. How this state- ment can be reconciled with the fact of Corser's brutality toward Father Owen is rather mysterious, ie least, but as the gel ting the mystery may not be go deep that it cannot be unravelled by proper investigation. It was rumored a day or two ago that Father Fagin was under the impression that Mott had nothing whatever to do with the attack on him, and that he felt certain that he and his fellow priest had been assaulted by New York rowdies, Mott, however, has made no secret thing of his participation in the attack, and has spoken to several persons on the subject even as late as yesterday, and seemed to consider the thing a very trivial affair after all. 1vis neediess to state that the excitement over the outrage is running very high just now in Far Rockaway. Inded, threats of mobbing Mott and tearing down his house over bis head have been Teqnentiy made, and yesterday eapeciaily the indi- cations pomted very strongly toward such aconsum- mation. In several prominent piaces in the village notices were posted up, purporting to be signed by “vigilance committee,” ordering all the guests at Mott’s hotel to leave before noon, and during the day all the servants attached to the house, it is said, ‘were ordered by the same authority to consider Mott no jonger their “boss.” The few guests who were at his house did not comply with the order of the “vigilance committee” before noon, and up to tour o'clock no disturbance lagers taken place in the vil- jage. The Shert of Quéens county, accompanied by three of his officers, arrived at the piace late in the day to prevent any breach of the peace. It ts contended by many persons that the “vigilance committee” order was but an ingenious dodge of Mott to gun the sympathy of the public, and asa proof of thia surmise they point to the fact that after the prescribed hoar forthe departure of the guests—twelve o’clock—had arrived there was no aistarbance whatever. This, however, is only given ag a surmise and can be taken for what it 1s worth. The man Corser, it may be added, has disappeared from the village and ho person seems to know any- | thing of bis whereabouts, In conclusion it should be satd that of late Far Rockaway has, like Coney Island, falien from grace as a watering place. It is undoubtedly true that there are many persons of the highest respectabil- ity who have cottages m the village, but it is now frequented altogeticr too much by low characters trom this city to make It a pleasant resort for season sojourners Who have a liking for peace and quiet- ide. ‘The respectable residents of the place deplore this fact more than anybody else, and they have food reason to, for there was a tune when Far Rockaway had & very good name, But the sooner decent people understand that its old reputation is no more the better jor themseives, WORRIBLE CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. (Rochester (Ming.)—July il—correapondence of the Milwaukee Sentiuel.} On laat Thureday a wan Known here by the nawe of John Callahan, but whose right name Is believed to be John McElligat, showed signa of that tertiuie disease known to the medical faculty as hydro- phobia. For several days previous he had shown symptoms of the disease and had been watched closely. Ho as had several terrible raving fits or Spasins, the first of which lasted some four hours, and, though @ small-sized man, it required four men to hold him while they Jasted, so Violent were thoy. He has several tines begged his attendants to put an end to his sufferings by taking his tife, Lie has such @ horror of the occurrence of the raving fits that he tries to bite all Who approach him. Doctors Mayo, Cross, Gailoway and Alten have visited the unfortu- nite man, and all agree Mm pronouncing it hydropno- Ita, and, of course, incurable, The disease Is traced to a bile the victim received at Owatonna, a tow forty miles of Rochester, on the Winona and St, Peter Railroad, about @ year ago, from & dog that was owned by the propriétor of a fast nag known a@ the Belle of Owatonna, The mau was bivten on the heel, but the wound was sight and soon healed over, and the afar was thougul no more of Ulla lew days ago, when signs of hydre ph appeared. “There are conileting storie afloat concerning Un tion at the me the man was biden. One story 18 Vhat the animal Was rapid and was soon alter killed, | wud anovber that the canine that caused the misehiel is stil alive at Owatouna Dr, Mayo informs ine that the matter is being investggted by the physt- cians of this city, 80. the wrath of te whole atair will De developed. Callahan ia a young man of trish exiracton, & painter by irade, 8 Unmarried and has resided in this city a year or more. ie is sald to have a slater living at St. Paul, He is about twenty~ five years of ave. At last accounts (he patient was yet alive, bot in a weak anv extausted condition | | und hikely to die i the nextapasin, The young man | i* stopping with a family named Lesheur, who i reside in the southers part of the city, condition. of the doi In ques: | es THE GREAT UNWASHED. The Cuticular Cenaition of che People—The Rivers as Bathing Tubs—Duties of Poltece men~The Battery—Public Baths and “More of Them,” In arriving at something like a satisfactory esti- mate of the sanitary condition of the metropolis the members of the Board of Health could not fail to “apprehend the situation” if tey were to institute: an inquiry into the cuticular state of its nhabitants— numbering not less than 1,500,009, of which atleast 1,000,000 may he credited to New York, Now, on the island of Manhattan, 9 smail ocean of very excellent fresh water 18 permitted to run through {ts huadreds of miles of ptpe daily, and if not to ve, nally into the rivers and bay, But, it may be asked, mm its passage from the reservoirs m the Park to tidewater, how many thousand enticles are cleansed by it? It is safe to sey that not to exceed one in ten wash their bodies in the heelth-giving futd once. in every twenty-four hours. This is a Mberal estimaie:—One hundred thousand people wash daily, two hundred thousand weekly, one hundred thousand monthly, one hun- dred thousand at irregular periods, aud fully half @. million never permit water, salt or fresh, to tonch other than their hands, arms, necks and faces, We are serious. in this statement. Wheu {ft 1s remem- bered tuat fully one-half of the inhabitants live im tenement houses—that 1s, dwellings in which the families range from four to twenty—without bathing accommodations Na unfrequently without offices sumicientiy liberal for purposes more tm) can we wonder at the a ora condition so many are to be seen, that deaths exceed births, that children born and nurtured in’ the terriple pes- tilence breeding holes with which the city 18 crowded are so Wan, 80 sickly, 80 quickiy given W tne grave? ‘Yo the disgrace of New York, liberally su) as tt ia with water, salt and fresh, It has ne hom | bath house into which the people can go, without money or question, and purity themselves of the filth which 80 Cred cuvers their bodies an ie. structs the healthful flow of the biood which velus in the epidermis carry almogi to oe Itis well that the streets of our ¢ity shoul f + fled daily, but it is better that the entire popu tion should have the opportunity of being made clean in their persons—that 1s, their outsides daily washed, go that they millions of pores or mouths may be duly refreshed with that which is so necessary for them during the reign of the dog star—namely, water, There should be at this hour on the of Manhattan bathing accommodations for at I @ moiety of its inhabitants; but instead, those of a private character are Femembered, 7 18 not @ batbing,tub that @ poor Man or woman Gan enter unleas an admission price is asked at the doorway. ‘Tn Germany and in most of the countries of con- tinental Europe public baths are provided for the residents of almost every town aud village; but here a “swimming academy’ .owes its 6x! to individual enterprise, and, like any other business ip which capital 1s invested, proiite are looked tor. A Wanting these baths, and destrous of removi from their persons the accretions of dirt Wl labor, dust and prespiration gather thereon, some few hundreds of men and boys, bolder of more philosophical than thelr fellows, resort daily to the rivers and there seek that refreshment and sense of manliness which tue Board of Healta refuse to i vide for all, and which should be freely given rather asan act of sanitary necessity than from feelings of humanity. Strolling along the ddcks yesterday the Llp wad might have seen at almost any pier, particularly on the East river side of the city, dozens of boys and men, entirely nude, ready to biunge into the tide, who, in sight of ferry and other boats on which were ladies, young and old, would shout wildly ag if de- atrous OF attracting thelr attention; and not the slightest attempt was made by the police to regulate their conduct or the character of their exclam. On the North river there were very iew who sought the water. The Hudson on the west side of the island, below Thirty-tourth gtreet, is rarely visited by bathers. Above tt, on particularly warm SNe 1 ie eet in largely. Along the line of the Battery and, indeed, as far on the East river side to Coenties slip or Old slip, Where the caual and Jake boats find bertha, few bathe, and yet they will meet with less onstruction and purer water in that vicinity than further up. On Sunday the Battery is quite a resort for those who are desirous of fring at targets with spring guns, at two cents @ shot. A fair show is assured those who indulge in she time, as the policemen on that beat appear to deeply inter- ested in the Lo Pd of the game. At the foot of Cedar street a half dozen of * "7? thought would indulge in a wash under the pier, but an M. P. pounced upon them, chased them valiantly across South street, and crying as they and he ran thas “‘ne’d put ’em in the station 'us if they tried to come that dodge again.” A favorive resort for bathers 1s off the dock north of Fulton ferry. ‘the fish cars floating in the silj afford those anxious to indulge in a muddy was! an opportunity of undressing in @ more pri' man- ner than can those who plunge into the “briny ele- ment” from off the manure and offal scows which “aromatize” the air near the foot of James strees, in the immediate vicinity of the Williamsburg ferry- boat slips. . vorite resorts algo further up the wap ‘There are far In the vicinity of the balance dry docks water freely used by bathers at all hours of the day and night. Indeed, eo frequently were the floating docks themselves used for thus purpose that on the largest of them a painted sign is nailed, on which, in white characters, the public is informed that the huge structure was originally built for the use of ships and not of persons. Corlear’s Hook, that is the stone yard fronting the East river, and which has @ water extension of many hundred feet, 1s very frequent ited by health seekers. Above Grand street ferry, almost ‘up to Biackwell’s Island, wherever it is possible to yt into the atning bpp ees inivairgeds reat of jrownli ig largely indu e “an washed. ‘There are two or three Crdinanges which pronibit persons from enterig the river within the limite of the city between sunrise and sunset. If these were enforced very much injury to the public health would result. It is weil, therefore, that the olice are permitted to wink at their frequent intrac- ion, Exposure of the person on these slips is cer- tainly reprehensible; but thié cannot be wholly avoided. If itcould, we would desire the passage of @ law compelling every man, woman and child in the city to bathe In the invigorating waters of the North and East rivers at least once iu every twenty- four hours during the summer months. The fact Is, if the people were encouraged to “moisten” their skins externally daily there would ‘be leas haere of them iniernaliy with benzine and other body- estroving Cisulintlods, and there would be more births and fewer deaths, less misery, and as a corollary more happiness in and out of the family, whether 1! vegetated in @ tweive story tene- ment house, or did tue “ gorgeous" in a Fifth ave- nue palace, 2, MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE IN WEST VIRGINIA. Six Persons Burned to Death. {From tue Buckhannon (W. Va.) News, July 7,} © One of the most terrible and heartrending acol- dents which has ever Or tee m_ our nog Re curred on the night of July 2. The house of Mr. John Quick was destroyed by fire, and, most sad to relate, his wife and three children and two children of a near neighbor, Mr. Kimball—six in all—perishod in s poy ‘The following are the particulars of the 8 affair:— On the night of the 2d inst., in Washington town- ship, near the mouth of Triby's Run, on the east bank of the Buckhannon river, Cpshur county, the house known as the Berlin property was d ed by fire and mx ‘sons burned death—Mra. uick and her three children two girls of ball, the elder about thirteen years, the et years of Mr. Jolin Quick, the husband aud father, one to Huttonavilie, ay the mai! from that place 0. ie wife being afraid to stay oe ir, imball’a ehil- dren were called in to ui They were alt tying in a back room in the lower part of the house— three ina bed. farrived at the place about atx, o'clock A. M. (shall never forget the awful acene— the house in rains, the six bodies burning; three lying side by side, and the others in the same way at another place, apparently just aa they were lying in bed. My first conclusion wag that they all suffocated belore the fire reached them, Mr, Kimball, father of the oldest girls, hac got there a few mtoutes before. ‘The poor man was almost frantic with grief and sor- row. He met me a few rods from the amoking ral exclaiming, ‘Oh, Low can I atand this | “Oh, that | had died with my chtiaren!” I tried to comfort him, but in vain. He went back into the hot ashes over | the remains of one of his children and tried to raise it. | advised him to let them be ull Mr. Quick would come. Ina short ime a person was. sent to meet nim on his way back to Huttonsville, He arrived in the evening overwhelmed with griof. 1t was surely heartrending to eee the poor old man. A coffin having been made the remains that could be fuund were placed in tt and buried on Sunday, at eleven A. M. How the fire originated 1s not known. as none of the neighbors discovered ft until the next morning, and of those in the house not one was left to tell the sad tale. On the morning of July 3 some of the neighbors, seeing the house no longer oecn- pying ite site, crossed tne river to see What jad hap- pened, and, to thelr horror, discovered the roasting # of the victims in the ruins, It 18 certainly great mystery that none escaped, and there are 1ous theories in regard to it One 18 that the r ‘was struck by lightning and all either killed or stunned #0 a8 to be unable to escape by the same bolt that fired the house. Another that they had been murdered, and the house fired in order to cou- ceal the crime. Buteither surmise 18, we believe, vntenable, and the (rue facts an the case will, per- haps, never be known, ) ARRwST IN THe NEW ORLEANS SDGAR A warrant was issued yesterday by United plates Commissioner Urban for the arrest of Peter Holton, a sampler of sugar, Who 18 charged by Col- lector Casey wit false sampling of a shipment of 1,000 boxes of sugar by schooner Andromeda, from Havana, May 27, consigned to Mossrs. Aug, Con- voorie & Co.” it i alleged that 866 boxes of this wugar Was of the finest grade, Upon Which the duties are five cents per ind, While it Was returned as being of the Jowest grade, upon Which the auies are uhree cents per pound, The penaity for the offenc alleged ina fine of $6,000 and two years im) We learn that the charge 18 only one of @ made dgainst Holton by the Collector, jooks like action, a& though the govern: This ate ment meant something, and was {a carnest.—Vew Orleans Peayune, July de