The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1869, Page 8

ot £ ey a *, en ye RELIGIOUS. Churches and Services Yesterday, Sermons by Ienry Ward Beecher, Rew. Drs. Hepworth, Chapin and, McSweeney, * Revs, Channeey Giles aad William Aikman. The Whether inspired by associations of the holiday weason, or actuated %y an increased piety, tho cbureh-gemg citizens of the metropolis yesterday attended divine service in goodly numbers. The melemency Of the weather did not deter them, and they were rewarded in most instances by practical, interesting and entertaining discourses, the cream ‘of which Will be found in the following reports, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. fermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher— An Advertising Burenu—Newsprper Men De- nounced, and Their Conversion Doubttul— Sermon en Christian Meeknes#. Before the singing of the hymn that precedes the Rermon the pastor of Plymouth charch converted the rostrum into a great advertising bureau by an- nouncing, in true auctioneer style, a number of per- formances for next week, including oratorio, con- eerts, “tableaux,” ladies’ sewing circies, lectures— including lecture on “Cirls,” by Miss Logan—Ply Mouth church prayer meeting and a personal that he (Mr. Beecher) would not be at home on New Year's Day, but thai he was golng to be a caller himn- self on that day, and see how bi Jooked. He should then be able to ascertain whether “it was more blessed to give than recerv He had found “giving” on former New Years’ day? very pleasant, ke hoped he should find rec lug munch more so, After delivering himself to the extent of about a eolumn of the HERALD of Wiese very secular notices, he made the greatest and most important hut of them all by the advertising of that which Is euphonously termed in the placards “Annual Renting of Pews and Alsle Seats? but which is in reality ap auction of the pews of the church, Not coutenting himself with this parade and selling, he feil foul of newspaper men paper offices. Mr. Beecher said that after ese, for probably s1X months they would ual abuse in the Was an outburst of rent unless some- thing was going on to provoke avase. There were great protestations of purity where purity had cer- tainly never been suspected beiore. So long as the Old-fashioned doctrines were proclaimed, all these men rested satisfied and Jet Wie church alone; aud tt Beemed Lo them very faultless. But let someuing be done that excites tl and they were very valiant. Well, Le could aiford to be a victim. and it was worth while being one if he excited to virtue bewspaper men Whom nooody had ever suspected before hat they possessed any. Plymouth church Was 3 kind of family, not to be ruthlessly invaded, certaniy; but when it sought to give light and knowledge to those around tt, in its own way, there ‘as a burst of disinterestedness poured forth by these men, newspaper men, wlio certainly could not have been’ in the church for the last twenty years. We. hat sort of thing did good, and he hoped ‘Wat Wiis kind of excitement and abuse might resale , even In newspaper oilices. cn then proceeded to preach. He se- Jected for his text the filth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel ana the tifth verse essed are tire meeX, Jor they shall inbertt the earth.’ When our Lord spoke ‘these words the whole world w: unelere” Of all the wildest doctrines that of individual gévercignty was the wildest and most absurd. Mah was a mere creature of obligation. Advertigg to the follies of following fashions, he observed that, although many of the present ones Vigiated {taste, convenience and cleaniiness, at courts there mignt be some excuse for tie custom of wearing tong trains, where the doners had pages to hift them up; but where was the gracefainess of dragging wiree yards of silk through the er, full, it was the jashion, aud by @ large number it was deemed an obligation to pursue it in all its fan- tigies, Having referred to the subject of individuat rignts, which he showed could be sausfactorily dis- pensed with im favor of mankind, they should he Joughi lor and maintained, bat yielded when the pubic good required tt, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, The Young Man’s Religion—Serwon by the Rev. George Hepworth. Last evening, to the usual crowded congregation, composed very sargely of young men, Rev. George H. Lepworth delivered the sixth of his course of Sunday evening sermons to young men at the Churvh of ihe Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty- fourth street. His subject was, “The Young Man’s Religion,” and his text, St. Mark, x., 17:—‘Good Master, what snailIdo that I may inherit eternal life??? In previous lectures he had spoken to them of their possibilities and their designs, He came now Wo speak of their religion. ‘Their religion was to their life what the film is to the oat; their religion the sap to the film, Religion was something very simple and very easily understood. If wey went to the creeds of Christendom they would be- come bewildered. If they went to Christ the patn- way would be clear, God taxes up bis abode in every willing heart and steys there until ne is ex- belied by ambition, passion or lust. Above all, bet- ter than the Mosaic jaw, be not selfish, love your neighbor, If the young man to-day looks over Christendom and asks what is religion he ts lost in a maze of doubt, There are thousands of banners and ihe supporters of each are brave and y. Each thioks itself the only right re- and that 18 course 18 the narrow path, and that all ways jead to ruin aud death. Joe truta is, God resides within the limits of no de- nominauon. He resides with equal benignity in all. God 18 ta the midst of every people that seek hin aud pray to him, no matter What their doctrinal ban- ner. Séctarian divisions are only lor couvenience, The Western pioueer fences In his 500 acres of land because itis lus. iis neighbor's jand is just as good. ‘The result 1s the golden sheaves. There is not oue rehgious denomination that is not doing some good. it made no attiereuce what four walis incioaed thew worsiip, Who was the minister and what the choir, It was not church or pulpit or music at made worship of God, t was the it carrying liseli to God, There was the Roman jic Caureh, Its symbois, its splendors had no ton hun. He was not so uniettered or bigotted he could fail to see what it has accomplished, rei HOt WhO Wore a White gown or Who a black Ii he thougat he was doing God’s service let him do it, and if any of those listening to him could worsuip God better here, let him worship Ty Paratively em that He there, The great thing was to be true, maniy, God- like, Pursuing Us thought, he referred to Method. ism. He invoked God’s blessing on Methodism be- cause of the good it Was doing. Next he reviewed ortiodoxy. Its Influence was extended. It was Mosaic in tts power. 1t was hardly filled with the Spirit of the Sermon on the Mount; but the decalogue was the bullet it fired. It held with wondrous eio- quence the sinner over the pit, until frigitened out of his badness be sought to be good. It was easy to gee, HOLWILUStandIng Lis, that orthodoxy was doing deal of good. Nexi he spoke of the Unitarian arch, Which loves God and teaches men to love God, because He tirst loved us, These Churches stood side by side. Each made its claim. They Were all needed tn our civilization. Each was dong good. It was the duty of all young men to seiect their church aud then worship there. He now proceeded to speak of general princi ples underlying all Churches, and then urged ing men that it was their duty to ke use of the talents given to them. They should rything to God, a3 He was everything to them, Goud aud wey were working together 1n every day’s toil. Lf they built a ship they did not think it finished When the tunbers were all adjusted, when the masts pointed to the stars, when the rich argosy was re- ceived on bourd, ‘there must be the tons ot Iron nestling by the keel to keep her right and vo protect her against storm and roughing waves. Every man ueeded ballast—the ballast of principle, the ballast of truth. The Oriental monarchies in an almost continual war. W was that which had belonged to o! The Persian armies held sway over the lands of the East; and then came the overthrow of the Persians. Roman ambition, In the form of a Roman government at tue time of Christ, was the supreme power of the Pates: e was the prey Of factions, and at qaed that if there was anything sure 1 control it was cunning and violence re Was one thing more tan another that to be trodden down it was meekness. was sure What, then, was the full truth of this singular an- Bouncement? Meeknes# was not a faculty; 1t was not a single atiribute of the soul; it was the state Qnd condition of the whole mind, a5 tue siate and condition of a man who cultivated the le sensual nature Was a man Who lived rand by the force of @ material organization, A man who kept those passions under and who allowed himeelf to live sub- to the influences and behests of lls higher o G iff , there were outbursts very srequently on that nature of a conflict between the higher and the lower. Now the greater part of men lived m tis In- termittent condition. ‘There was a higher state for a ™man than this intermittent condition; it was that con- dition where the morai septiment completely ruled, where the whole uature was perfecuy saturated, flied up With a iove for the tru Where that was the case there Was given to man a courage based on meekness, an activity that was very tranquil and a sel!-confidence that Was without conceit. Meexness ‘Was tue strongest element in man. It gave to man greater courage than the man possessed whose baser Instincts guided his life. hat was what he understood was the scope and d: auion of Carist, that when men had so controlled their lower natures asto be ruied and governed by the higher then Meekuess would control the world, No nauon had, however, been controlled by it yet; no department in any nation had. ‘There were some families that had and there were some exceptionai churches that had. The question then arose, Was it likely that these words would ever become true’ There were those who thought taat religion had gone backward in the world. ie was not one of those. ts claims were never more Widely spread than now, and this was owing to otier influences than those which were only eeclesiastical. Mr. Beecher then traced at considerabis length and with considerable abUity the growth of te human race through its physical, social, mtelectual and moral reiations, as developed in the develop- ment of the ife of man aad im that of nations. There were certain incidents in the life of each Laas brought out the moral sentiment aud made it part of the individual and national ilfe. Le gave seve- Yal llustrations of tais, Men taiked about tae beauty ‘Of holiness, but they did not see it so as to Impress them. They saw it only in the ore, notin the burs, Where the image and sterling impress of God was upon it. Nothing vut goodness aud moral worl survived the influence of time. Menu who developed ‘he highest that was within them attained @ kind of meridian spiendor, and there was,a sort of rough Judgment day always going on in which the name of the wicked should rot out aud the name of the just should flourish. Now men conid not become Christian without Christ any more than the apple could become sweet without the sun. At the time Christ spoke these words there was no European development. Es- agha (Spain) was heathen; Italy was heathen; ome Was the empire of power; Gaul was a wood and wilderness, and Britain was sunk beneath the horizon, and this Continent was not known. Now Where Was it that properly was most secure; Which country was the best governeay Why the nations ‘that were the most intelligent and Christian. Air. Beecher bore testimony to Ue virtue shown by America during her recent great struggle, to the virtue and endurance of her people during that time. He paid a passing tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Stanton which provoked @ hearty “Amen” from one of lis congregation, and said that when as Secretary of War le was ahead even ‘of the people in their determination to be tree, and bis memory would by and by be side and side by the greatest men of his ume. There were incidents that developed the Christianity of 4 bation and it was this unselfishness that Would briug rgiteousneas into an ie earth, Individual Sovereignty a Myth—Follies, Fash. fons and Foibles, In the evening the Rev. Mr. Beecher took the text Sor his discourse from the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, vi., 20—“For ye are bought with a price; therefore glortfy God in your body and tn your spirit, which is God's.” The reverand gentieman luded at some length to the question of ipdividual sovereignty and argued that the tendency of the last fifty years was unbroken iu its Low away from dynas- Uc power and towards the power of the whole soci- ety, or, it was styled, a democratic tendency was apparent, Thrones and ecclesiastical governments ‘were losing power. For a long time alliances had Bought to recuperate political governments to bind and keep down the democratic tendency. Their success was very poor, and Mf restrained it finally broke ontin revolution and violence. she days of Gespotism were numbered. Iudlviduai sovereignty ‘was stupid and arbitrary, There was now being assembled the greatest ecclesiastical council of modern times to enforce ecclesiastical government. But he thought it was too Jae, as ihe people reigned to-day. All those great changes involved much ‘waste. No great event took place without @ squan- dering of forces. But this tendency towards the rights of the masses was running into excessive doctrines in regard to the rights of individuais. In this country @ great change was taking piace in the family relations, Children ripen earil Children should be taught to go' themselves, and acnild that never made a mistake was a biock! . The rinciples of self-respect end self-control should be matiiied into them and they would be safe accord- ingly. Individual sovereignty, however, was taise bgp tn A Now no man was free trom the law of i@ Material globe. Afier contending at some Jength that individuais owed more to society than bociety to ipdiviguais, he_proceeded to point out the Unwritten lawe Of social , the penalties for the ‘volation of Which were more dreaded and more em. cent than regniar statutes themaeives. The iolated M@yidual was a were ytd, and of himseM Wae com- reigious belef—to keep him aright on the broad oceun ol life, The evils that come were but teachers. They should learn how to mect them, how to over- come tuem, how to robe the grave with something pure aud nobie and high. A man makes his fortune of haifa million, He has given his energies, his soul to making it, Te has it in the savings bank and in his lands, He has laid up no treasure in heaven. agit comes the panic. His fortune ts swept away. He iw old and gray-haived ana poor. He turbs is thoughts to heaven. His loss proves his gain. it cost him half a million to become religious, and he counts it smali payment, He illustrated this thought further by the edfect of a mother’s death or @ daughter's an illustration elaborated into eloqueat aud forcible beauty. He aid noi care to wnat de nomination they belunged. The main uwunyj was the motive. ‘This was a@ question ol great moment. Gratitude and love should be their motive—nothing eise. Never dread God. Always love him. Could he say any better word than this? Was tere aay other religion than love? It was the ouly pats that leads to God—the only path that leads to heaven. He illustrated by portraying the ditfer- ence between the negro as a slave ana as a freeman, and the aiffereace in households ruled by love and by fear, He woul then regard God as Fatner and tiemselves 4s His cniidren, God's heart would al- Ways beat warmly for them. The worid might turn upon them—God never, He did noc care What religion they professed, what their ism or oxy. He did not care for sect or de- ‘nominauion, The principles he had aimed to unfold underlay true religion. ‘This was a crooked world. There woula come griefs, misfor- tunes, losses, God's Providence was over them, around them and in them, ‘They were no accidents. They were part of God’s plan. There being here proved that there was work for them to do. They should put this thought in thelr lives and thank God, As each wheel and cog has something to do in @ Watch, so they each had a work to do in the world, Great responsibilities rested on them. God led them alwaye. Believe that all things He does is done for your good. The eternal and unsiumber- ing care of Him who is the Father of All is watchful over all. Attend the church; where they get the best Christian life, Go where they could find Corist and Ubrow Lis spirit in their work. CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. Christianity and Its Triamphe—Sermon by Rev. Doctor Chapin. There was an exceedingly small congregation yes- terday morning at this charch, ewing, no doubt, to the miserable state of tbe weather, Rev. Dr. Cha- pin took the text of his discourse from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians tv., 4 ,5-—"Bot when the fulness of tne time had come, tod sent fortn His Son, made of a woman, made under the law to re- deem them that were under the law and receive tne adoption of the Son.” The preacher said that the Apostle Pan! in this text proclaimed the deliverence of mankind by Christ, from all the weak and arbitrary elements of the world imto the glorious liberty of the children of God. In the passage be- fore us the Apostle argued against the Church of Gaiatia in which Jews and Gentiles were intermixed; but in domg this although his argu- ment had a'specific point he proclaimed a universal truth. He spoke, not only to the Jews and the Gen- tiles, but emphatically to all mankind, Before the coming of Jesus Christ, in one sense, not only the Jews were under the law, but the Gentiles also. Paul proceeded to illustrate this by allusion to the hope of adoption. He (the preacher) said, then, that while the text referred to @ particular Case, It also referred to tue state of Mankind at large. In the first place the Apostle Paul spoke of ‘the fulness of the Ume.” This phrase possessed a twofold signin- cunce of human preparation and of divine appoint- ment. No event, noteven an event in what was termed sacred ‘history, was absolutely isolated, There Was preparation for Christianity in the world before Christianity. The Jews and the Gentiles were led up to It, and not witustanding ail the opposition that stood up against it the Gospel triumphed as @ witness of ite truth. ‘The Jew prophesied about it, The welding of many Nations into oue great society, the evangelization of the world by physical agencies, the advance of © lization, the reign of peace—all these conditions made ready for |, so that when Christ came into the world it was tue ruinesa of time from a state of humad preparaiion, Bat we should, after ali, dis- tinguish between the conditions in which the fact appeared aud the fact itself, Preparations that brought down the mountain and filled up the valley did not produce the advent. The soil ploughed up did not create the mustard seed aud make ib grow into @ tree under whose ample folde the fowls of the «ir ynight find shelter. The uiness of the time had come when, by God’s own appointment, Christianity was consummated by His decree. it grew from ho form of Greek philosophy or Roman ators It came only when God sent forth His Son, That fact was not @ development; it was a revelation, Bat this revelation came not an abstract system, but a8 person. It was not the utterance of a truth or the frst promulgation of a system that we claimed for this event, but the birth of @ person. Christianity, then, was Christ, and Christ was Christianity. No ovier system was #0 identified with a person as itsfounder, In any other system we might take away the founder of the struc- ture and yet the system would remain; but remove Jesus Christ from the and it was no- where; the peculiarity of @ personal, redeeming force would be lost, No abstract truth ‘would naye sent the Aposties into the world to prociaim the Gospel to every creature, It was no mere system of theology that nade Paul go into the midst of perse- cutions and pass over stormy seus. It was none of this. It was the fresn realty of One who was born 4nd who lived among men, and who suffered and died for them. No system of Py hy, nO elo- quent literature could move the heart of man in its deepest pulses like Christianity, We never conid orgauize society; WO Never could regenerate it Dy & NEW YORK, mere philoréphy, There was nothing ever known that was calculated to redecm man except the jiv- Came of Jeaus Christ, ua set forth in His 308) ST. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Life and Virtues of St. Stephen—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. E. McSweeney. Avery large congregation attended high mass at this church yesterday. The mass was celebrated with ali the impreessive solemnity aud “pomp and gold” uswal in the Catholic Church during this sea- sop, The procession of acolytes, headed by the master of ceremomies, and followed by the Sub- Deacon, Rev. Dr. MoGiynn; the Deacon, Father Grodin, and the celebrant, Father enry, was very grand end imposing. The Rev. Dr. Edward Mc- Sweeney delivered a very interesting sermon, be- ginning by saying:—‘‘Our churches are each desig- nated by some particular name; that 1s, they are dedicated to God under the special protection of some saint, or in commemoration of some miracie or mystery of the Churen, The reason that we honor the saints thus is that we may honor those whom God honors, and that a remembrance of themselves ,And the teacuings of their hyes may be kept aiive. He then said he imtended to speak ef the “character and martyrdom of st Stephen,” the patron of the church they then worshipping‘{n, a3 shown in the sixth and sev- euth chapters of the Acts, 8t. Stephen, said the reverend doctor, Is called the “first witness,” he having been the first to seal with bis blood the traths of the religion of Christ. The most striking quality of the character of St. Stephen was his indomitable courage—that quality which inspires in men such # regurd for its possessor a8 chastity in Woman, The reverend doctor defined tne different kinds of courage, moral, physical and the headlong courage, which 1s the attribute of the brute, and said that St. Stephen possessed moral and physical courage in the nighest degree, Stepen, after lus appomtment as deacon, being full of grace and forutude, did wonders in the conversion of the people, and van- quished by the subtie powers of his reasoning those who opposed lim, at which those whom he hi; beaten suborned certain men to charge him wi blasphemy against Moses and vring nim before the council, St. stephen was aware that, even though the accusation of blasphemy was not proved against bim, bis preaching of the doctrines of Christ would certulnly resuit in his death. In his discourse, or raiuer that of the Holy Ghost through him, in reply to the accusation, he proved that the Jews had al- Ways resisted the workings of the Holy Ghost, and, although this was received 1D great anger, he continued, and, being full of the Holy Ghost, he looked up to the hea- vens sud cried out, “Behold, I see the hea- vens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”” This was received as sufficient proof of Liasphemy, and he was immediately cast out of the city and stoned, as they did which he cried,jsaying, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge,” and he fell asleep in the Lord, ‘There never was a Saint that possessed the attribute of faithin a greater degree, having 1t stronger eyen than St. Peter or St. Paul. But the great glory of the saint was in having been the first to lay down his life lor the doctrines of tue Nazarene. It may be stated that there were mar- tyre for the Jewish law, but how great was the duf- ference between tne wide spread religion for whieb they died and the almost unknown doctrines of a “condemned malefactor” for which he yielded his life and, in the blessed hope these doctrines taught, ‘rst tried the “journey over the tempestuous seus of eternity. The cholr during the service sang Malllard’s mass In G to the end of the Gloria and Weber's mass in G from the Credo, in the manner the choir of this church hag ever been noted for. CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, The Incarnation—Sermon by the Rev. Chauncey Giles. Rey. Chauncey Giles, yesterday forenoon, in view Of the festive season in commemoration of the natiy- ity of Christ, preached a sermon on the incarnation, as understood and imterpreted py the followers of Swedenborg, composing the Church of the New Jerusalem. The reverend speaker took for his text St. Luke bi, 31, 34, 35—‘* ‘And behold, thou shall con- ceive in thy womb and oring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.’ Then said Mary unto the angel, ‘How shail this be, seeing J Know not a man?’ And the angel answered and said unto her, ‘The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee ana the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore, also, that Holy Thing which shall be born shall be called the Son of God.’”? In her question, said Mr. Giles, Mary expressed the doubt of the world. Froma natural point of view the {incarnation is the most improbable, not to say impossible, of events, The navural mind is ready to doubt what comes not Wein the limits of its knowledge and cannot be explained by natural laws. But its Knowiedge is limited to tne earth; it sees but one link, and imagines to see the Whole chain. It forgets that indnite wisdom has many ways of producing the fame effects in accordance with divine order, If @ hendred years ago an angel irom heaven hea foretold the telegraph and iis wondrous working over the earth and under the ocean he would not have been believed, and so with our present means of communication. ‘These would have been miracles to tie wisest men of the past, and hence we should hesitate vo pro- nounce impossible what the Lord has announced. The reverend speaker then referred to the aid the Lord sought to accomplish by the incarnation, that He might become Immanuel, God with man, that He might save men from their sing. It was a divine work and required a divine being to perform it, who must be the Son of God as well as the son of man. ‘This thougit was very elaborately explained and foi- lowed by means of numerous illustrations, The New Church doctrines show the necessity of incarnation. The child inherits the soul, or the interior plane of its being, trom the father, and the exterior from tne mother; hence, that Jesus Christ might be the Son of God, his interior plane, the soul, should be divine, ‘This doctrine of the New Church had an important bearing upon the question of incarnation. The ‘words of the angel were then dwelt upon and the force of the words, ‘Therefore shall be cailed the Son of God, because He is begotten by the power of the Highest.’ This follows from the law that the divine cannot be divided. It is life itself, infinite, uncreated life, and to create a divine being wouid be @ contradiction in terms. A human son is per- sonaily distinct from bis father; but Jehovah clothes himseif with a@haman nature. Jesus was not per- sonally distinct from the Father. He was not, as the ‘Trinitarians hold, of the same substance as the Father, His material exterior form he took from Mary, The New Church teaches that Father and Son were personally one, like a man’s soul and boay, the distinction being a difer- ence of substance and degree of Ife. The human nature vf Christ nad every human quality and form compiete, and could will and think from Itself, en- tirely distinct from the divine nature within it, [t was human nature which was begotten and born, and owing to which Christ often addresses the Father as aaother person, and declares His own in- feriority to Him, But He speaks His Divine nature rs “Tbe Father.”’ But Jehovah was not changed in- to the Son. There was no ohange in the Father. The Divine was not changed into the duman. Thonght 1s not changed by speech and action, it is More fully one’s own after expressing it. The Most High flowed forth with all His creative energy as be- fore into all the creation; He only exerted a new power to reach a new condition in human iife. The speaker referred at leugth to the relation of the in- fant Christ to the Father and the fulness of inflate perfection, Through the nature le derived trom Mary Le could be tempted, and the powers of evil could approach Him. Here man’s enemies were overcome and his redemption achieved. Through tuis He was again brougnt into perfect union with the Father, the Divine within him, so that He could say, “I and my Father are one.” After explaining that Jesus saved man, not by His physical death but by the death of that nature He received from Mary, he concluded, thatin the New Church they had this comforting and giorions truth, that Jehovah assumed oar falien nature trom pure love and mercy that fe might get access to our enemies and overcome tnem, that He might restore a wanting link in the chain of comimunicauon between us. SPRING STREET PRESBYTEBIAN CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. William Aikman—“Em- ployers and Employed?—“You ™ vt Expect to Have the Angel Ciubriel on Five Dollars a Month.” Notwithstanding the rain and wind the Spring street Presbyterian church was comfortably full yes- terday morning, on the oocasion of the Rev. William Aikman’s discourse, the last of a series, on “Em- ployers and Employed,’’ The reverend gen- tleman took bis text from I. Peter, ii, 17-—~ Jonor all Men.’ There has always been two ‘classes of men since the world began, the employers and the employed, They are necessary to human society, and wili always continue to be #0 long a8 man remains the same. Their interests are identical and cannot be separated. However much they may vary In degree, they are crossed ana inter- laced with each other. No new social structure can change this condition of things. So mutually ao they rest each on the other that the millionnaire may be destroyed by bis cook or the wealthy mer- chant impoverished by his cierk, to Whose try salary he gives no atiention, It will seen, then, that the employer and tne employed must exist together; they are the hi and foot of the same body, It 18 well that this is so. Every one cannot ve an architect; the sailor cannot monopolize the quarter- deck. Neither can domestics and housenoiders alike ocoupy the parlor, or else there would be hungry months at home, 1 would not be desirable to have everything equalin work. For instance, the jour- neyman who works forty years has too good sense to be betrayed into accepting @ higher position out of his iine of employ which, whon the glitter ta one, Might sink him inwo rum. Were society re- versed, and the poor the rich, no new reiation of things would be estabiisued. Capital id labor must be matoally perpetual. Lavor is not degrad- ing. “In the sweat of thy brow shait thon eat bread.’ Rome believe, erroncouriy, that onc spbere of labor fs honorable; that another is pot. What a vou! do with her needle she spurns to su le DY Work in the Kitghep, a clerk Will totl and enervate Lis system, When, by labor tn a sho} he couja lead an easy and pledsant life. Act wel your part, there all the honor lies."’ In all labor there should be a good disposition, contentment and satisfaction, happy nature dignities work. The same principles employed working for Christ shoula extend to all human toils. There gehould be patience, forbearance and good nature. ‘The spirit of whitling, sing- ing and merrymaking should prevail, Iduug should be avoided, You steal your employer's time, and no feeling should exist that there is the antagon- ism between capital and labor it 13 the work of the ignoramus or demagogue to inculcate, Each builds up the other and both contain the vital principles necessary to @ healthy advancement. In labor the employed should make himself indispensable and he should aspire to a higher place. You reach a loftier station only when you have more than filled the one you occupy. The employer also has duties towards his help, He should pay them good wages, ade- quately remunerate them for their service, and re- roember the text, ‘Honor all men,” It is mean and dishonest not to pay for ability, skill, integrity and worth at their value. People should not expect gvod labor for poor wages, There was much phi- josopby in what the colored servant said to his mas- ter-—-You mustn’t expect to have the angel Gabriol on five dollars a month.” (Laughter.) Prompt pay- mient of the employed is necessary, and kindliness and eharitable actions shiguld be the'rule of conduct: towards our servants, Religion should be taught and all the self-sacrificing attributes of Christ embo- died in looking for their welfare, TRAIN IN TAMMANY. The Irrepressible George Francis as a “Reverend Gentleman.” A Characteristic Rhetorical Jumbio on Everybody, Bverything and Nothing At All. Tammany Fall was Niled to overflowing last night by an audience vastly diferent from any ever gath- ered there at the call of democratic leaders or to witness Shakspeare burlesqued. People dtstin- guished in public life and widely known were there in pumbers, while the body of the hall was crowded with intellectual men and women. The audience was worthy the occasion. The great traveller, the Nourredin of the universe, the self-appointed teacher of mankind, the social and political fMying machine of America, the patent renovator of modern tnstitu- tions, boss babbler of the Crédit Mobilter, his own candidate for the Presidency of the United States, George Francis Train, the irrepressibly desp erate Bad Dickey, made his first appearance on any stage as an expounder of the Gospel. No wonder that the audience was large, no wonder that it was impa- tient for the exhibition and clamorous for the intel- lectual freworks to go off. There was no band to play “Yankee Doodic,” no choir to sing “Shoo, Fly,’’ or chant the “Old Hundred,” bat a smali table supported @ swect bouquet of fowers, and the Star Spangled banner covered the weak legs of the emaciated furniture, The rest of the stage was leit free for the bounding orator to ramble over at his own sweet will, and a large force of railroad people haunted the flats for the purpose of picking up the little bits should Train blow up and scatter among the audience. Sunset Cox, M. C., crouched on the second seat from the platform, behind the burly form of Dr. Nealis. Henry Bergh smiled lugubriously on the expectant audience, and everybody else waited with mouths wide open—individual representations of Garrick between tragedy and comedy, ready to laugh or cry. Hutchinson, the inveterate singer of incomprehensi- ble songs at woman’s rights meetings, siook his flowing locks in the hot air and looked unutterably mysterious. Once he was unaccountably moved to scale tne orchestra railing, and the audience ap- plaudea heartily. The carpet-bagger Congressman with the liabie-to-be-puaned cognomen went into convulsions in his hat. The stern features of the Benevoient Bergh extended {nto a weary smile; ali the ladies present—and there were quite a number— checked hysterics 1n their handkerchieis; irreverent boys in the galleries laughed aloud, ana the repre sentative of the Hutchinson Family shot himseif back to his seat and sunk his splendid curls beneath the ample folds or his big brown coat. Audiences are as iinperious as was the Grand Mon- arch. They cannot wait. When the time for the com- mencement of the performance had arrived and the old time bine coat and brags buttons were nowhere seen hammering and thumping were heard every- where and peopie were found wicked enough to vio- late the sanctity of the place and time by whistling loudly and irreverently. When patience haa ceased to be @ virme with everybody and whispers ran around the hall that Train had run off the track a second time @ confused.sound was heard at the door, 4 large force of small boys gave themselves up to yelling with all their might, hands were cl: pped, hats thrown up, handkerchiefs waved, h@&ghter, cries and hurrahs swept towards the front, and there, before all men, the gorgeous coat tatls and glistening buttons of ihe Rev. George Francis Basti! Train, D. D., met the astonished eyes of the audien: for a second and then disappeared in a jifly into a stage box. if any person entertained a doubt that the natives Wouid be astonished that doubt was immediately dis- the footiights. Before he spoke a word astonish- pelied when the reverend gentleman gitded out before ment took possession of everybody. His Reverence’s hair seemed to stand on end as with lion- like tread he strode round the platform in spected the situation and made sure that he was safe on ail sides from sudden attack. He did not speak a word until this business was attended to; then, however, he successfully resisted an evident desire to take a standing jump and swallow himself, and proceeded with his discourse. The audience cheered enthusiastically as he proceeded; faugned at him and with him; voted as early and often ashe submitted questions, gloated over ts epigrams, shouted at his witticisms and roared at his hits at ublic men. Fierce in invective, great in couplet, umorous in descriptive, he was simpiy immense m legs and arms, The way he rounded a period with a box, annibliated @ non-believer with a kick and smashed @ theory with @ quotation was fearful and wonderful to beno\wl. The terrified little Congress- man shrunk into his coat collar before the terrivle assaults of this Pever the Hermit of modern politics, who called Congress a den of thieves, hintea at the prospect of an early ging of intractable M. C's, and judges, and rowed his intention of blowing everybody “higher than a kite,’? To report Train and to do him justice ts an impos- eMility. Easrer would it be to sketch the — Borealis race ‘That Hit ere you can point their place, And for that reason he must remain unreported. He Taust be heard to be admired and seen to be under- stood. In the noise, uproar and gymnastics of an evening 1t 18 only possiole to grasp @ few of the say- ings of Mr. Train. in the whirlwind of chaff last night these grains of genuine wheat fell on good ground:—“We are a proud people, &c. This is poeay; it is buncombe. We are @ nation of flunkles and cowards. Engiand insults us by sending over to us a leading secession- ist (Peabody) 10 a British man-of-war. if 1 tell the trath—what all think, but few dare express—I am calied @ lunatic and fool. It was said that Knowl- edge is power, it isn’t; ignorance 18 power. It rules in the White House, in Congress, in Albany, in New York. Action, action, action. said tne Gre- ian; honesty, honesty, honesty, says Train. ‘Tho people are either fools or Knaves; a bright thought would split their heads, as lightning would a pump- kin. I was educated to be a Methodist preacher; my Sabbath commenced on Friday night and end on ‘Tuesday morning. I saw that religion of that sort was useless and abandoned it, Epigram ia volled thunder and lightning. I wrote a histor: of world in twenty lines. Englan loowed ~=—sher grip) of death when we set free the slave. I was at Jerusalem. Hotel ranners met me forty miles outside. Notning there but sand and fleas, That story about the Ola Boy isa humbug. Taik about his offer to give away real estate for nothing, When the poor devil didn’t own a cabbage garden! In the Holy of Holies 1 nad to keep my hands on my watch and purse, just ae If 1 had been in Congress, The Deluge was a humbug. Grant 18 @ humbug. Colfax 18 doing the biggest business on the smallest steam engine of any mau in the country, The pressisahumbug. The obstinacy of Je! Davis emancipated the alaves. Woman in the Bible 1s only mentioned as concubine and 8) My motto is “Pationce, perseverance and pluck. have a larger audience than all the preachers In New York combined, The pew renw were paid at the door, Everything ishumbug. Everybody 18 a hun bug. The people nave had demagogues before me, but they never bad a live demagogue. I have been on the defensive before, Now Ll am aggressive, and will make the hair fly, for 1 am proof agalast praise, blaine, wine and woinen, ‘The “reverend” gentieman wound up tn @ perora- tion in which every Known subject was discussed and jlustrated on a black board, after which he re- tired autd @ storui of applause. ‘ A PANIC IN ST. JAMES CHURCH, Ateleven o’ciock yesterday morning & panic oc- curred in St. James Roman Catholic church, in James street, which fortunately resulted ip no serfous in- Juy to life or property. At the above houra quan- tity of evergreens injthe gallery, near the organ, took fre from a gas jet, which being observed by some timid person the alarm of fire was raised. The wild- eat confusion for a ahort time prevailed, the congre- ation | ing their seats, besides many jumping rom the galieries to the aisies beneath, in their effort to escape from the edifice. Detective Mahoney, of the poe pecnr being in the church, mounted @ railing and warned the people to keep their geate as there Was no immediate danger, which had the effect of restoring tne panic stricken audience to their senses, nove of whom were red, The Ore Mody ont immediately extinguished by the fre HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1869. nee a BROOKLYN CITY. Glowing Accounts of the Youth of the City of Churches—A Son Stabs His Father— Another Son Robs His Father—An- other Plays “Confidence Man.” Mr, A. Lainey, of No. 30 Flatbush avenue, caused the arrest of his son Eugene, eighteen years of age, and Alfred Hall, on ® charge of grand larceny. Tho youths named stole $160 from the complainant on Christmas Eve and repaired to New York, where they visited a house of ill repute in Greene street, and therein lavished the stolen funds in a reckless Inanner, They were arrested upon their return home, and are now under lock and key at the York street station house, awaiting an examination, Officer Holiday, of the Forty-third precinct, arrested James Millber, between one and two oclock yesterday morning upon suspicion of burglary. The prisoner was in the act of ‘crossing the Hamilton avegue ferry to» Naw Yori, * carrying a bag marked “0, & HL,’ when he was taken into custody. There were several boxes of cigars in the bag, and, as he could not account satis- factorily for the possesston of the property, he was held for trial, Thomas Kelly and Joseph Holt, aged twelve nd sixteen years respectively, visited Mr. J, & Coitin, of 221 Clinton street, on Christmas Day, and related a lamentable tale of impecuniosity, which appealed to the generous sympathies of the com- plainant, Mr. Coffin, ‘They stated that they had been sent to borrow five dollars, with which to pay the rent for Mra, Kelly. The money was given to the urchins, but as it Was subsequentiy ascertained that Thomas had not been at his home for two days previous, and that the borrowing mission in ques- tion was unauthorized, both boys were taken into custody aud locked up at the Butler strect station Ouse, Thomas McG@rain, Jr., thirty.one years of age, & hard looking customer, who cannot cither read or write, resides with his father, Thomas McGratn, Sr., in Steuven street, near Flushing avenue. The old gentleman took occasion yesterday afternoon to rea- son Witn his illiterate, intoxicated and undutiful son, and to advise him against the evil of intemper- ance, Thomas, Jr., bemg under the influence of liquor at the time. The latter grew coraged, and, seizing a knife, stabbed his father in the left breast. A physician, who was immediately summoned, de- clared the wound not dangerous, but found that the victim had a very narrow escape, as the parricidal thruet was fortunately parried from the infliction of @ mortal wound through the blade’s striking on a rib and giancing off, inflicting only & sligut flesh wound, The accused was taken into custody by rouudsman Baker,and locked up, to awztt examina- uuon, at the Forty-fourth precinct station house, SUBURBAN INTELLIGENCE. NEW JERSEY. Sersey City. FataL RESULT OF INJURIES.—Yesterday after- noon a young clerk named Ricker expired at the City Hospital from the eifects of wounds sustained on Friday evening by falling down a fight of stairs at his home, in Hudson street. An inquest will be held by Coroner Burns this afternoon. A SHOOTING AFFRAY took place on Saturday morning between a gentleman named Colagan and the owner of a saloon in Grove strect. Mr. Colagan received two shot wounds, and was removed for medical treatment; but he refused to preier any charge against his antagonist. Newark. PAINFUL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, while @ workman named George Schmidt, residing at No. 18 Nevada street, was placing some lumber In order in the factory of Mr. Sommers, a large picve of seantiing fell on his left leg, fracturing it severely in two places. The injured man was reinoved to his house and attended by a Broad street surgeon, A RovGu Gets RovuGuly HANDLED.—Uu Saturday afternoon the police were notified that one William Quail, a notorious character, residing in Tom Webb's house, on the corner of River street and Railroad avenue, had been murderously assaulted. Captain Rogers at on despatched detective Smith and another officer to the scene of the reported occur- rence, when it was ascertained that Quail had been“ cut on the head with # boot key by one Winter, a shoemaker, in Canal street, but that be was more dead from whiskey than the beating he had received. {t further appeared on investigation that Quai! had all the after- noon been quarrelling and raising the dickens gen- erally with the good people of Canal street. one peaceabie man, Whodeclined giving him a chew of tobacco, whereupon he beat him shametuily. Quail next assailed Winter, but soon quailed be- neath the boot Key. The police say be is a hard character. Trenton. COLLISION ON THR NEW JERSEY RAILROAD—For- TUNATE EscaPe.—Shortly before twelve o'clock on Saturday night a “smash-up” took place at the depot which was very near proving disastrous to the passengers, The Washington express train from New York was approaching the station when the Western express, sweeping rapidly in the opposite direction, rushed by the depot, and in afew mo- ments the collision occurred. The locomotives be- came imbedded in each other, and the tive forward cars of each Wain “telescoped”? and were smashed up at the ends. A brakeman had his leg almost severed from his body, but beyond this no accident occurred, The passengers were more alarmed than hurt, but their escape may be attributed to the re- tarding motion of one of the trains. A special train Was immediately made up, and the passengers con- tinued their respective routes. Thi gligence of an official is said to be the prime occasion of the collision, LONG ISLAND, Tue PuBLIC ScHooL BuinpING at [stip has re- cently been raised and a new story formed. Maay needed improvements have also been cifect SuppeN DEeaTu.—Carl Valentine, an old and respected resident of Huntington, was seized with an apoplectic fit while sitting at the supper tabie Satur- day night and dicd aimost immediately. RAILROAD MATTERS.—The committee appointed by the meeting recently held at Moriches, in favor of the extension of the Southside Railroad, to confer with President Fox, of that road, report that the directors of the road will extend it to Seatuck, eighteen miles east of Patchogue, the present ter- minus of the line, provided the residents along the proposed extension will subscribe for $140,000 of the first mortgage bonds of the railroad, Mr. Fox has ordered @ survey of the road the present week. Seatuck village 1s located on the eastern boundary of the town of Brookhaven. The extepsion will pasa through the villages of Belleport, Firepiace, South Haven, Mastic, Moriches and Seatuck, A meeting of the residents of the towns of Hunt- ington, Smithtown and Brookhaven was veld at the hotel of B. B, Newton, Smithtown, on Friday, to take action in reference to an extension of the Northport branch of the Long Island Kailroad from Northport to Port Jefferson. The BD exten- sion Will run through the villages of Smithtown, St. James, Stony Brook, Setauket and Port Jeifersou. NEWRURE, CLOSE OF NAVIGATION.—The barge Susquehanna, in tow of the propeller Hasbrouck, was the last boat to leave this city in the season of navigation just closed, departing on Friday night for New York, The river at this point is full of heavy floating ice and the ferryboat plying between Newburg and Fishkill makes her trips with difficulty. platelet SHIPPING NEWS, Almanac for New York=This Day, Sun rises......, 728 | Moonrises...norn 112 Sun sets........ 4.39 | High water....eve 3 28 PORT OF YEW YORK, DECEMBER 26, 1869, ARRIVALS, sear tat BY THK HERALD STEAM YACHT?. Steamship Helvetia (Br), Thompson, Liverpool Dec & and lem, with head }, ton 11 47, exe tng the pt A Tee V1, int 5) a, with @ ated Meamer bound BE, wth, lat 47 44, fon assed & Cunard steamer co, 24th, 90 lat, &o, passed mer do; 26th, an tuman weather do} ibe a Nar amar do. Steamship Arizona, Maury, Aspinwall Dec 1 with mdse, ¢ Mail Steamship malls, pamvengers and treasure, to the Pact Steamship Cortes, Nelson, New Orleans Dec 18, with mdse to HBO MM & Co. PM'isth 2600 inst, a4 PM, off Barneger,eewe ain He met | pat? roegat, ‘boat No 4 towing in a disinasted wreck. ps aidhoutelh gad Steamabip Minaisa! Orleans Dec, 19, with mdse and passen, er, Dee Jat 83, lon 77, panved steam Orleans for N York, Steams), aliory, Sa Dee 93, with teres, echr rigged steamers, supposed the Span a Ringers, Biakom iD, Ri mond, Ci yotnt aad ol madre aud passenger we ton Bleamabip Ue, . af Steamship Hatteras, Blackwood, Norfolx, with mdse, to the Old Dominion Stapinahtp Co; Steamnabty Brunette, Tonalin, Pitadelptia, with maveped pansenrars, to ‘ Steamsh| CBichester, Poilegelphie, im bglinat, to Wm P Hy aisecd > opt 12 arith Passed Anji Jape Hupe Nov 7; had light SE trades’ croaed Eatator Deo t jo ion $9 W bad the NE trades very sant He; w del( NG), from B for NYork. methip. Constantine, Greevey, Lonton and Tile of Wight, Nov Game Gock, Sherburne, Hong. Koni Bnd Bact. ia Heme o * the northward of Hatteras 4 days, ri ight Rebs. we northward of Ha mh . Beek lat 1 80 N, lon 4420 W, spoke ache dexbie Carll, eae edna, iat 83 40M ton 73 18'W, bark’ Frie- nt with mdse and 42 passengers to Grinnell, Minturn & Co. Wad nue weather, Dec 30, a0? M, while iutow of steamer Yankee, weut ashore on Romer Shoals and was got off at 11:30 P'M witho rr amaxe. Bark Oceana (Nor), Asiakeen, Cadiz Nov 12, with mdse, to order. (Is unchored at the W Spit.) Bark John Boulton (Br), Lindsay, Ragged Island Dee 16, with 19,000 buabels salt and 5 passengers to Montell & Bar- tow, vessel to Dallett, Bliss & Co. Had heavy weather on the assage and was detained at Ragged Isinnd 28 days wind youn ith bark Ane Elfzabeth, Mor- salied in company wit rave, for New York; loft no vessels Jn port. yres via Barbados, D Fish & Co. Crossed the Brig France Faviad Lewey, Buenos ~~ in bails 4 In ion 88.30; encountered the NE trades in lat 1) 80 id them quite lighft A Deg 18, while beating through the a Passnge, spoke brig J Howland, from St Domingo for Boston, 18 days out. Sehr Kate Brigham, McLean, Genoa Oct 91, passed Gib- braltar Oct 31, with marble, <¢, to J B Phillips & Sons, Had, light 8 aad E to Bermuda; since pirong. weater! Jes, and Jost and split salle Nov 17, lat 36 85, long 70 54 W, saw abip je . Ateering E. ; . ‘Schr bel, aii San Blas, 27 days,” with” mde” to” ‘master—vease) to Miller & Houghton. ' Passed Through Hell Gates BOUND SOUTH. Steamahip Wamsutta, Fish, New Bedford for New York, with mdse and passengers. to Fexeuson & Wood. Schr Crescent Lodge, Batch, Pembroke for Harlem, with lumber, to Chase, Talbot & Co, Schr Congress, York, Portland for New York, with lumber to John Boynton’s Son’ & Co. Schr Fed Lamneyer, Gohan, Newburyport for New Yorks Schr LG Hickwan, Kelly, Boston for Philadelphia, Sehr Mary P Hudagny Vauizhn, Boston for New York, Schr John Fuller, Fuller, Yarmouth for New York, Schr Niantic, Deering, Taunton for New York. Schr Mycoote, Leighton, Providence for Philadelphia. Schr M B Mahoney, Davis, Providence for New York. Schr Sarah EF Nash) Nash, Westerly for New York, Schr Henrietta, Kenyon, Norwich for New York. Schr Deborah, Selsey, Norwich for New York, Fehr Elizabeth B, Hogan, New London for New Yor. Sour Joua H Buckalew, Robbing, New Maven for Bout Jane, Haggerty, New Haven for New York, h Warwick, New’Haven for New York, Schr Mary E Coyne, Facemire, New Haven for New York, Schr Win P Cox, Bateman, New Haven for New York, Schr Eureka, Mayo, New Haven for New York. Schr Annte Murchie, Merrell, New Haven for New York. Scbr Fashion, Carberry; New Haven for New York. Schr Escort, Small, Bridgeport for New York. Sobr Renaiig RR No 64, Holmen, Norwalk for New York. Schr Sharpshooter, Flyun, Norwalk for New York. BELOW. Brig Dundee (Br), Turks Islands (by pilot boat Charlotte Webb, No 5). Wind at sunset NE, Marine Disasters. Bria J L Bowen, from Savannah for Havre, put into Boston 26th inst torepalr leak. SouR SaxoN—The pilot boat Mary E Fish, No 4, Captain Richer Brown, came up to the city yesterday Pal and re- Deo 22,.79 miles S of Sandy Hook, fell in with tho tly run into by ‘steamship Leo); and arrived up to the Erle Basin at 4 PM; was assisted from the buoy of the Middle y steamiug Wm'A Hennessy, Captain A Hennessey, Tho Suxon haa « cargo of yellow pfue lumber, Miscellaneous. STRAMSITIP CrnCABSTAN—Squan Beach, Dec 21, 1869, on board steamahip Circassian—Captain Israel I Merritt, general agent New York Board of Uunderwriters—Dear Sir:—Justico, to those who are deserving demands from me a statement of the treatment I recetved when wrecked @n Squan Beach, near the station and residence of William P Chadwick, agent! Of the Coast Wrecking Company, station No ¥, on the night of the 14th Inst. In less than one hour after I struck, hat thrown up a rocket and blue light, {t was answered at station, and he, with Mr Charies' W Maxson, agent of the Underwiters, was ready with their life-saving apparatus to take us off if required. ‘The first ball was thrown over top- snilyards with great precision, the line attached to a haw and the Hfe-car sent off, Mr Chadwick in the car, taking of my wife and all who desired to be sent ashore. She was kindly cared for by Mrs Chadwick and every attention shown her. My prayers are should any unfortunate persons be wrecked they may find such friends as Chadwick and Max- son. God bless them. Yours, truly, ELLIS, Master steamship Circassian. The oflicers of the ship desire to subscribe to the teatimo- nialofthe captain, as set forth in his statement, 8 W ‘Adams, first ofl W Frederickson, second officer; F W Schutz, chief steward; George K Ashby, chief engineer; F H Rickera, first assistant engineer; John W Wall, third assist ant engineer. Spoken. Ship Winged Hunter, from New York for Boston, Dee 25, 12 M, off Gayhead. e Forcign Ports. ASPINWALL, Dec 8—Arrived, brig Winfleld, Loring, New- port, E; ith, sehr Aspinwall (Butch), Heath, NYork. Bogota, Cassidy, NYork; loth, scbr A De- cans? 16th, bark Agnes I Grace, Smal- + Roval, Sa, to load for Marseilles. Nov 1J--Arrived, ships Levanter (Br), Hewes, Ancon (and sailed 16th for Chinchas ; Tgpgallant, "Phillipa, Gnanane (and sailed 224 for Hamburg); Web, Vigtiate, Whit- inchas (and sailed 224 for Cork for orders); Intre- Old Cotony, Grindle, Mollendo ; 17th, sia, Patten, do (and sailed 19th for Chinchaa); Criterion, Sheldon, Pisco (and sailed 234 for Guanape); 18h, Jobn Sid- ney, Bartlett, Guanape; 2th, barks Burnside, Pendergrast, Valparaiso (and salled 28d for Guanape); 2hd, Georg Henry, Flint, Tome; ath, ships Webster, Norris, Panatn: 21h, Mary Warren (Br), Lowe, Chinchas; 27th, Calhoun, Creary, Acapulco ; Valley Forge, Berry, do; Martha Bowker, Goodbarns Montevideo. Sailed 12th, ship City of Mobile (Br), Bryan, Guanape; J8th, bark Haitie G Hall, Bisk, Hampton Roads for orders; 15th, hip N Boynton, Hyler, do do. Gow, Dec 26—Arrived, steamship Europa, MeDonald, r, Chincha: PANAMA, Dec 17—Arrived, steamship Salvacor, Bowditch, Central American ports. Satled 10th, steamships Costa Rica, Dow, Central Ameri- can ports; 1dth, Golden City, Lapidge, San Francisco. SovuruAmpros, Dec 25—Arrived, steamship Allemannia, Bardua, NYork for Hamburg (and proceeded). American Ports. BOSTON, Dee 25, AM-Arrived, steamers Oriental, Snow, Savannah; Neptnue, Baker, NYork; Rescue, Wolcstt, do; barks Ina! rr), Moody, Buenos Ayres ; Eliza (Br) ayer, Cienfuegos via NYork; briga Don Quixote, Conant, Rosario; Lizabel, Ryder, Baltmore; Cosmos, ns, Philadelphia} Crocus, Colburn, South Amboy; schra Clara, Baxter, George- town, DC; Anna E Glover, Terry, Charleston ; Blondel, Chapman, and AH Cain, Simpson, Philadelphia; Southern: or doi, SP Adams, Tabbut, Elizwbethport; Catawamteak, rd, Also arrived 25th, brige Sparkling Water, Turks Islands; Reporter, Philadelphia, schrs Arm Port au Prince; WD Bickford, do; Light Boat, NYork ; Bhy State, do. steamships William Lawrence, Baltimore ; ark Aibertina, Africa; brigJ L Bowen, Sa- for Havre. FORTRESS MONROE, Dec _26—Passed in for Baltimore, ship Grey Eagle, Coffin, from Rio Janeiro; brigs Chattanoo- fy from St Joht'ss Norma, and Lima;, sehr Valeria, Conk- a sh. trom Matanzas. Passed out, echr Farragut, for Savan- nah. GALVESTON, Dec 18--Arrived, schr St Croix, Eaton, Phiiadelphia, é fe Cleared Ith, steamship Wilmington, Cole, NYork; 18th, brig At M Rowley, Rowley, do. HOLMES' HOLE, Dec 24, AM—Arrivea, schra 8 8 Bick- more, Barter, Piankatank Riv cr, Va, for Boston; Carrie M Rich, Amsbury, Wilmington, NC," for do; Willie Harris, Mer- ritt, South Amboy for do; Jane © Patterson, Scull, Philadel- H kland for NYork. phia for Gloucoster ; Chase, Gross, Roc! PM—Arrived, schta J Maxfield, ‘May, Boston for Phiiadel- Mershon, Ayres, Lynn ‘for do; John Boynton, ix for NYork; Sedona, Holbrook, Vinalhaven Addie Ingalls, Ingalls, Machias for do; Sardinian, Keuniston, Roc! ichmond; Ida Hudson, Greeley; Emma C Verrill, Fales; Mansfield, Achorn, and Thomas His, peak do for NYork; John W Maitiand, Leighton, Portland ‘or do. Returned—Schr M M Weaver. Sailed—Schra 8 8 Bickmore, Willie Harris, Jane C Patter- son, Chase. uth—Arrived, schrs Emma A Higsing, Ryder, Bonton for Mary B Dyer, Purvere, do for pahannock’ River, Va; Tangiers Sb Wheeler, Liord, do for Baltimore; Kendrick el Fish, Webber, Portland for NYork; Margie, McFadden, Georgetown, DC, for Boston. 9 AM—Sailed, achrs Neptune's Bride, George & Albert, DS John Boynton, Mary Lee Newton, iggins, Mary B Dyer, Mershon, Carrie M_ Rich y largie. Arrived, sloop Challenge, Latham, HB Metcal!, Emma A Ii MOBILE, Dee Stonington. Cleared—Bark Adelaide Norris, Reed, Liverpool; brig lensngera {p) ’s let, Barceiona. ORLEANS, Dec 1¥—Arrived, steamship Frankfort (RG), Kubiken, Bremen via Havre aod Havana; shipe | F Chapman, Norton, Havre; Undaunted, Dinsmore, Bath, ie. 20th—Arrived, steamship Do Soto, Morton, NYork via Ha- yana; barks Mataro (Sp, Mataro, and Teresa (Sp), Vierete, Havana. Below, coming lp, ehip ‘Trenton, Dumaréeg, fron verpool. Cleared—Stearnship Milbank (Br), Smith, Liverpool ; ships Mogul, Freeman, do; Francia P Sago, Cronk, Havre; bark Hayden (NG), Stelfen, Hamburg; ecbr GE Morrison, Smith, joaton. PAS6-A-L'OUTRE, Dec 20—Arrived, brign Magin (Sp), Cien- fuegos; Henry (NG), Brane, Rio Jan Souruweet Pass, Dec 20—Arrive iltams, Newport; bark Hart aide, waiting for a wind to Mp Villa France, it Home, Dickey, Liverpool. hip Northampton, ORTLAND, Dee 24—Arrived, brig Gi ay queen, Foster, ‘Martins (and was ordered to boston); sechrs George B Mc: Keane, and Kedington, Gregory, Baltimore ; Addio Ryarson, Houghton, Philadelphia, rei\—Brigs Hattie E Wheeler, Bacon, St Pierre, Mart; wid Bughee, Stowers, Matanzas; sehr J @ Craig, Maxwell, altimore. FICHRORD, Dec %4—Arrived, brig John Chrystal, Barnes, ork. Sailed—Schr CA Hendricks, Greenlow, New Bedford. SAVANNAH, Dee 25—Arrived, steamships Pioneer (Br), Shackford, Liverpool; Alhambra, Wright, Boston; Virgo, Bulkley, NYork; sbip Braemar (Br), Griffiths, Bordeaux; achrs Willimine, Boston ; Jesse 8 Clark, N York. Satied-—Steamsbips San Jacinto, Atkins, and Hunteville, Crowell, NYork, WILMINGTON, NC, Dec 22--Arrived, brig H H Beavey, Lee. 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