The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1870, Page 4

5 ato the wes Hore, after a variety of oxomplt: should solemn ‘was mado to the recent gaved. | calamity at Richmond, Va., and the contrast noted of Life, and | between the ories uttered by some of the su: ternity of | at that tlne, In conciusion the audience ‘was reminded that tie parable also taught that 1d not resist thelr dreadful fate, but were | although salt was not of works it was for Into the yawning gulf of hell. All | works, We are not called into the vineyard to att live in’ fear until | idie.: An {die Christian was a contradiction of terms, Tu amending our habits, tn cultivating our hearts in resisting temptation and in fighting the ‘good joub! and fight of faith’ we have, uke Nehemiah, @ great work trusted that they would ail yet meet before the | to do 1a our own case, iy where there would be an end to and fara all would rejoice in the beatitud UNION (COLORED) CURCH, je of ‘heaven. Tie preacher concluded with an elo- Sermon by tho Rev. Ely Every. OL O! Uporentering the little wooden buliding occupied ‘ aU LOR. (0 BRR) CHBRCE. by the Union (colored) congregation, in the vicinity at of Eighty-fourth street, yesterday morning, wo Mary at the Tomb of Jesus-Sermom bY ® | ‘una but threo sable brothers in attendance. After Sexton of the Twenty-third Street ProsbY* | 1 ran nour had passed by nine more Africans ap- terian Church, peared, three men and six women, and there were At this church yesterday afternoon and at the usnal hour for picsoeatenay three o'clock, Mr, T. 8. | then alsothree foreigners present, The preacher, Ely ‘Fitus, the colored Sunday school teacher, was busuy | Every, was @ man of advanced age and bore evidence engaged in Instructing a score of boys and girls In & of such & freak of accidental variation on the part of praiseworthy manner, Ata quarter past three the his immediate ancestors as would render them ame- @chool was brought “8 close by singing “Dear Sa- nable to the democratic law, which says, “Thou shalt viour by My Side,” when Mr. ‘Titus delivered a short | Ot miscegenate |” He gaid, in introducing a hymn, address on the progress made by the school, | Tendered in a wild, monotonous chant by the wor- Which is not what tt should but encour- | 52lppers, while we sing let us sing unto the Lord, not Aging, and exhorted the members of the con- | a8if we were singing toa dead god, God, Thou art gregation present, few in number, to take some | indeed very great and much to bo beloved; Thou interest init. While walting for the minster to ar- built the ark of our faith with the axletree of hopo, rive he had an extended conversation with the wri- and set us upon a feet that bl bore #0 ae 0 and prosper. We have seen in this brig! eautl- ter and deprecated considerably the hostiitiies be- | P' toming tnateven the little herb 1s not forgotten tween tie wustees and the Presbytery, which he | py Tiee, and though lying tn tho frostbiton ground said would be the ruin of the church, At forty min- } during the 1ong, bitter winter tu 1¢ seomed to be utes past three o'clock, no minister appearing, ho -. quent prayer for his congregation aud himself. long dead It springs forth now in green youth and beauty, a fitting emblem of immortality. We have went to the platform and, after regretting bitte:ly | geon the tittle ant tolling all last summer through that the cougregation should meet Sunday after Sun- | and -living on the fruits of his jgnOr ye day tofind no minister to preach the Gospel, said tney had no alternative but to adjourn, and pro- ed Singing, the hymn ‘Almighty God in Humble ayer,” belore so doing, Whule so engaged o geutle- ana entered the church and seaied himself on the platform, who proved to be Mr. F, P. Wood, the sexton ot the Twenty-third street Presbyterian church, whe tad heard of the situation of Silo and bad rey generously come to the rescue. Wood commenced by reading the twentieth chapter of St, John, after which the following bya was sung:— Faith adas now charms to earthy bliss aves me from its anarcs, the chill and darkness of winter seen the tees put on their rich clothi of green, and the birds singing sweet antnems, a offering to Thee their first praise; yet, of men, how few do we (ind at Thy feet, swect Lora? We on ihe verge of the city know that in the open country on one side are many gunniog, fishing and trifling awa; the Sabbath, and in the city they are gathered aroun the card tuble or revelling in wine and women, They samen ee 1 would stay wi soul woul in auch'm frame ws thlay Ato overiaatag Mink ‘And aay Let us loo up, said the preacher; itis no use to ~S.. .___ Its ald tn every duty briags, look down. All creation beholds the stars, and why And softens all my cares, siould not man, at least @ part of God's creation, Which wos followed up by @ prayor, in which the | look upward? ‘Blessed 1s that man who worketh Worthy layman thankeu the Supreme Being for tne | not tn the counsels of the ungodiy’—Psalms i., 1.— beantiful duy, for the peace and quietness thecommu- | Was the text. 1 used, as a boy, to go out such nity now enjoy and for all 'ils good gifts. Me implored | bright May mornings as this inio the woods, gather- the Giver of all good to instiil into the hearts of his | ing dowers, listening tv the wild birds and crouch- hearers a feeling of awe and reverence on approach- | ing behind the rocks 1nd _ bushes to watch the flyin; Him and one of thankfulness at His goodness. | and agile squirreis, and this on the holy Sabbath, e have erred and are poor and needy, but trust to | knew no great wrong in this, and I'enjoyed it #0. Him for pardon and help, to stand pure and holy in | But gradually, little by litue, I learned of Christ, and His sanctnary. He implored the influence of the | of His sublime humanity, learned the truth of the Holy Spirit on the day’s meditations, and asked a | Bible, not the empty word, but the spirit, the inefa- biessing on the church, the vity and the na- | ble virtue that runs through the words, as the sap tion, and that the boon of citizenship might | through the tree. Now how dare J, in this holy be appreciated by all to whom it extends. | place, disguise ruth, if itisin my power. the Alter singing ‘Dear Saviour We Are Thine,” Mr, | sap that runs through the tree does not all merge Wood chose his text from John xx., 16—‘‘Jesus saith | into one limb, but revives and nourishes all; so the unto her, Mary. She turued herself and saith unto | truth of the Bible spiritgand Christ's teacbiug does hun, Rabbont ; which ia to 6: master,” and | not pour itself into one sect alone, but in all secis reached an admirable sermon. The subject of his | and peoples and classes, Without food man iscourse Was Mary et the tomb of Jesus, and atter | wiil die and without something of the faith deseribing the horrors of the preceding Friday and | and works of Christ man will go to the chepter from which the text was taken, sald that | hell, The spirit of truth and virtue and the love shown for Jesus may have been tn- | Godliness is like atree. Girdie a tree and it will die; fuipreted to arise from worldly motives. | draw across a life of honesty and virtue one single Jesus hai been announced to overthrow the | line of crime or wickedness and the life of houor is destroyed, its soul withers and dies, Many o7 the phrases of the preacher were homely; he taiked to an humble people in an unlearned strain, but for all his lack of polish, elegance and Nave expecied to be His prime ministers and the | even grammatical construction, there was a wonder- ‘worsen {to be aitached to His cour, Did this occur? | ful power and force in his {ilnsirations and in the No, ior wheu they believed Him tobe dead and | directness with which he quéstioned and challenged lying in the tomb they prepured everything neces- } the congregation. wary to eabalm Him with and siarved with all haste on their sorrowful jourucy, This suows what power SP Jesus had over them. Their love for Him was as Romans and to occupy the throne of David, When, therefore, His execution came to pass it migtit have been supposed that ali falch in and love for Him woud have vanished. ‘Ihe disc. ples mig hit STUALSSTS AT WORSHIP. strong as ever. ‘Toe sorrowiug women started Rnnnnnneccnnne m= iear at the great stone over et :, Ew sll sepulchre, How to remove ity No anit eNom. Branaellee ‘Mra. Cora Hatch Takes ter, full of faith they wended their way art in the KxerciseamMental Flowers and W the tomb, What a crowning grief to find the se. Fantasies. pulchre empty, Wihai thoughts mn) have cro-sed The Progressive Spiritualists met yesterday fore- their ity is —Jesus, their Saviour, removed and per- Hing unieard of indignities at the hands of ¥ Ail lett but Mary to seek means of recov. their Lord s body. noon at Apollo Hall, Twenty-cighth street and Broadway, a roomy, well lighted place, but not con- net pale bees an na r ore: per “5 om | stracted with much regard to acoustic eects, The neighborhood, and as she x ood wee aw the | ceiling 1s lofty aud painted m a semt-gorgeous man- ne glorious vision of the ame’s, turn { saw her Lord, in ber mistake Jesus mus: have een pleased, Her aiiont taguiry after tho saviour’s body inust have moved lis heart, and the word “Mary”? must have beca lovingly pronoenced in his usual tone of Voice for sho was one whom We regard as impure and out of whom Jesus bimsell had cast vut seven edevils, | Over the platform at one end of the room 1s a oO representation of the Coliseum, in which the illusion of perspective is exccliently rendered, and oll around the wails are handsomely decorated in the same style of art. The congregation that dd here yesterday was the largest and 10st assem’ i en artist has delineated ae seene, and a lov- | respectable gathering of spiritualists we have ever ing heart uided a skilful hand * Wha Ackik mohae ; aa er justice done a subject. 1 se The tickic goddess fad many of her votaries there. Youth and beauty, with blonde and raven ud golden tresses arranged in elegant colifuresr and appareiled in allthe gay, light and sprightly ‘The character of Jesus 1s strongly given. After styles of the latest spring fashion, were quite numer- no change had taken piace. lis love, voice and | ous. Rauiant pink and green flowers, worn in the manner were the sawe. With rogard to putting | bonnets ot many of the ladies, Imparted a pleasing donn is the only evong meeting, but his pecu Joving nature. ‘The ieszous to be drawn from this scene are Mee was to set oif Jesus’ Mary back, it may have been that, seeing her frantic } eif<ct to the eyo and 5 Joy, he wished to remind her that she must no long: Mrs. Cora Hatch ove endeavor to hold him to earth, He feared her | and looked as serenely lovely as usual. throwing her arins about him to retain him. That there was nothing avout Him too hoiy for Him to be approached is proved from the fact that Thomas, bat @ shot time after, not only approached Him, but placed Lis dager into His Wounds. The last and wreatost lese are that in the times of the greatest, darkness we need not despair, and the power of God over man, Mary wag in her greatest troubiec, Jesus came before her. The Jews had scaled up the ; ig to a discourse trom some one of the disembod ted Sepulchre, God huriel back the stone. Mary's | host, and they profess implicit faith in the mysteries answer—“Master”—should teach us how to regard | of tabie tipping and the marvelious doings of the God in cbedieuce and love. At the conclusion of the | Seance circle, Yesterday @ spiritualist told our re- sermon a prayer was given and tie hymn, -Blest | porter that the sermon he had just heard was from are the meu whose souls do move,” sung, when the | the spirit of some reformed parson in the other congregetion Were dismissed with a benediction. world. After the preliminary services, which were brief and simple, the choir, avery good one, by tue way, sang tie following appropriate Lues: — Loud {a the vale! the voice is up . With which she speaks when storms aro gone; A mighty unizon of streatas! Of ail her voices one! Notwithstanding the beautiful weatier yesterday Mrs. Lhertiet ae che rose vet mene on M4 t 3 carly ¢ our lar; platform and paused a few moments before speak- which had the effect of filing nearly all of our large Her appearance was. certulnly preposses sing. and fashionable up town churches, the liitle editice has luxuriant browa hatr, which she wore in upon the corner of Lexington avenue and Thirtieth | wavy foids over her pnt ope bine Cocmae | y ] f U tet a manner very easy and graceful. She was attired in pene, Sabwn 9h the Pnitson of the Bolen e a6 hren, | plack silt dress and wore a rumed collar round contained 2% the morning service but a slim au- | per neck. Her style of speaking 1s mild and per- dience. Tue few who were t however, were re ith le utters Son teatnan eee ” 7 te! se, as > pas an angelic smile plays constantly over her featurés. amply repaid for attendance, as the pastor, Rev. A. Hordicourse was on conscience. science, she A, Reinke, preac’ cilent sermon, avd | gaia, was o'ten perverted by polley and warped py one that will be long remembered by those who heard it, “Time's defacing Lt goa are, however, beginning to to grow visible on her broad and immaculate brow. The masculine element of the worshippers consisted mostly of gtay-halred and gray-bearded men, who had spent some time in seeking « after the philoso- Dher’s stone a dream they have found it in the doctrines of spiritualism, They sincerely believe as the mediuin speaks that they are all the while listen- CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN, Mermon by the Rev. A. A. Reinke. “ue selishness, but when left to itself it was like the dle which points toxever to the pole—it always cled us right, She elaborated her theme in a di The service commenced by staging 4 portion of the | very sensible way, and concluded with @ few sharp 676in Lynn: flings a: the betepines treet 10 out, “Lord be mer ciful to you miserable sinners, Lord, in Thy name we meot, Bi ny seat; Sacred may eaca moment be Spent in worship heve with Tues. Mr. Reinke selected his text from Matthew xx., 1—For the kingdom of teaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.” The speaker first considered the parable n refer- nen AAAS nn ence te the householder. This man, like other men | ytay Day at Plymouth Churoh—A Floral Decos in the East of similar circumstances aud position, ration—Admission of One Hundred and owned a vineyard. Upon a certain occasion, when Twenty New Members—A Sermon on the morethan the work of the regular vineyard hauds Hidden Life of the Christia: was required, he repaired at various hours of the day Yesterday was the “Plymoath Easter Day” of Ply- to the market place of his town in order to obtain | mouth church. May day, the neginning of the fowery this additional help from td the Pilates groups | May that from her green lap throws the yellow cow- there asseinbled and on the lookout for employment. | slip and the pale primrose, and to the groves a green thevecme day, his searen fo: iaborets as combined livery gives, 1s to Plymouth church what Lougteliow up to the very last moment, and finding men stand- | describes May to be :— ing Idle he engaged them even at the eleventh hour, Emblems of our own great resurrection, promising to remunerate them properly and justly, Embleas of a bright and better land, In receiving into conuuiunion the one hundred and The following persons composed the cho’ Mrs. E. J. Adams, soprano; Miss McOmbcr, allo, and Mr. P. A, Farnworth, basso. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CAURCH. as vend cowd putin no a fora ms white soho the hour of settlement the inen last hired wery f The Notion ler, aware of their pitening twenty new members yesterday morning, Mr, first paid. ere romero allowed (hem # whole duy’s wages. | Beecher said that about eleven years ago jose who followed revelved the same sinount, nM ndre: er “prese! which was more than many hai expected, The men fone ions meee sR noon Nah anghacty he » hired in the morning, whose work, inall ikelfhood, | Of every section and class of the great was por Led bon ee ne Chas congregation, wore adriticd on the first ong, and through their e demande r . , mote. Wi than a den ue apiece, insisting ponds of May to the Heron: Around that day the the “injustice of the whole procedure, | 2ollest memories of the church had clung, aud ever * gnd making no appeal to ti had lavished ite gifts upon thi rs. Finding that these slovenly workers, who assumed tie air bs injured men and made a continue! outcry | the burden and heat of the day, and rested their demand on the giound , ee peer a os wignally defeated them. If th e contract # bountifuiness which | since then Plymouth church had thought more of that day than of any other Sabbath, To that church each recurring communion Sun in May had been the resurrection day to multitudes of those blessed memories on that memorable Sunday. Hence it had been deemed fitting to give (o It 1 seasonable signii- f justice, the house- chosen ground and i 80 hadtie, They hac cance by dreasing the platform florally and festivaily. denarive, and he hat paid There wos po A ‘ no injustice to them. Why were they ao eanoat This then was the reason that Plymouth church not rejoice that thei poor comrades had been a favored? If he chose to be generous to others wliat concern was it of theirs? ~ Injustice | Why, if they had shown a true spirit and put in the plea of humble men, if their work had really de- served an exira return it would have been a diter. | ent matter. As the case stovd, they having re- | ceived their due, let them pegote, they and their | wi to the place whence they liad come. yesterday had so appropriately # fesuve appearance, The good taste of Mr. and Mrs, 8. Sf, Beach and Mr. Charles LE, Allen had been exercised in the floral decorations, and with an effect that was creditable to this tnteresting occa: . Around the ridge of the platforra was planted a strip of moss, Jaid upon which were small bouquets of simple wiid As Dicaritvatn aad practical. sipects, ani ten ve | Towers, intended as souvenirs, to he presented ferred to indust Of idleness” of many Christians, | YY the pastor to each new mesmber. The floor of the He said the w was the markot Inne variously ied in the kcen pursuits of wealth, pleasure and and many had not one nour to spare for the that belong to salvation, The minister Diatform had rather more than iis usual arr floral decorations. Large sized wire flower stands were filed with exotte plants of gny foliage, inter. , who would, like Paul, ask the muititude in the | spersed hero and there with simpler Mowers and the ; oe hig poe Ngee eerste stand 26 | WXUrlous water lilles of velvety softies. On the ‘i Boro an ine 4 idle? would be considered a fool, } Mitister’s table was a slender, tapering glass vase, a of ke, There was such a thing aa { full of dora) hegnties that Naturo’s ready pencil Yad 40 marvellously tinted, and festooned as in frame the soraloe of che seonenee hi ing along its ridge a Olivet stand held in of unusual brightn 8 floral trail. every part pers who crowded Cah the 40 sacred to the memory of Eat dle tn all Rated e beau 80 str ing the wine dows, a joyous festive feeling brightened every eye, softened here and there with coming tears. on the singing of the frat hymn, commeucing All hail! the power of Jesus’ name! Mr. Booher, before reading the names of those who were about to be admitted us members of the church, addressed the general congregation, the substance of which has been given above. The new members represented the two extremes of human life. One was as yonng. as ten years, and two were as old as seventy-eight and eighty-eight. A A ead number had not been tn their infancy, and this ceremony was performed by the pastor before the Covenant wus read and accepted by each of the can didates. The prayer that precedes the sermon was then offered, and tt is scarcely necessury to say had touching reference to the interesting frouD below the platform in {ts commendation to Him to whom all hearts are open and no secret ts hid. At the conciusion of the prayer an appropriate and well known liymn was sung, commencing with the following verse:— O bappy day! that fred my cholco On thee, my Saviour and my Godt Well may ‘this glowing heart rejoioo, ‘Aud toll ite raptures wll abroad, The sermon was founded on the text tn the third chapter of Si. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, the Sd and 4th verses;— For ye are dead, and your life ts hid with Christ in God. Whon Christ, who fa our lize, suali appear then shall yo also appear with him in glory, The paradox that was apparent tn these words, In stating thatthe Christian was dead at a tine wien ‘he was never so much alive, was mate apparent by several illustrations. ‘The following were several of them:—The sources of life were hidden, a8 the dial of the clock a represents the motion of the machinery that is hidden, Animal and vegetable life are both hidden, and we see only thelr effects and the manifestations thereof, ‘The true Christian life proceeded from @ love rela- tion, and itis a veal and living feeling of love tu- wards Christ that developed ihe Christian tife. It Was a disclosure to the man of Christ as a Saviour, aud evolved in man’s nature two elements—one, of admiration of certain qualities; and another, the love that springs from a seuse of Rereoney beneiac- tion. The Christian life is a love life, that makes it more beautiful to the imagination and quickens a personal relation between Christ and ourselves; that tends to quicken the nature by @ collateral emotion Of gratitude and personal consciousness, This soul Wedding was part of our daliy experience. ‘The mystery of the divine existence was far beyond human comprehension; but that there was an infu- ence of the Holy Spirit upon the hearis of men that worked in some way by which men had a commu- nion with God was manifest, and it was the work of this Spirit to make the moral nature of man beautt- ful. Christian life made but @ lean and Little pro- gress until the Spirit of God rests upon it When the soul found that it loved the Lord Jesus Christ it found a blessed Trinity, which it very speedily un- rig) and then commenced an indwelling with nrist. To all this it may be said by many persons that a Christian was not afier all so dliferent to other men, and does not represent to the ordinary run of men a man who is moved by these higher spiriiual influ- ences. To ali this he (the preacher) replied that men may do the same things, and yet the motive that was behind the doing, and hidden from observation, was altogether different. The slave worked, and every drop of sweat that fell upon the ground and enrich- ed it thereby fell as the consequence of work done by constraint, whilat the freeman worked on the same ground as though he were the owner of it. He could understand a little girl stolen when youn by gypstes even being. constrained by fear to steul, but 1% was the hand that stole, not the soul that was stealing. ‘whe memory of the happy, pious home had not been biotted out, and in’the gypsy tent it ved ita little ive with memories now and then the gypsies could never share and never understand, erefore It was quite true that the disposition which was behind the outer work of @ Christian man’s life was utterly and red different to that which was behind the man ho lived only for himself. ‘There was & conimonly accepted statement that Christian people, as people generally saw them day by day, did not show that they were moved by any sacred or spiritual motive. Well, that only showed the kind of company the people who talked so kept. When the mere formalists and the mere materialists were siited itom the array of proiessing Chris- tians, there was still je!t a vast muititude of good and true men, though tt was true that the beat Christians were not those who were the most seen. There were men who passed through the turmoil of life unstained, and these were flery furnaces yet for Chrisitans to pass through, and there were men who did pass through them’ and thelr garmenis were not touched. There are thou- sands of men who do not live by Fight, but by faith, If they had not go lived they could never have borne the baptiam with which they have been baptized. That which inspired tius life was a hidden life, hidden io many Who could not sce the life that In. spired it though it were there. He (Mr. B.) watched the effect of tie exhibition of pictures at the Acad- emy this week upon plain people. There was a pic. ture of & school, with the schoolmaster and ths, scholars, and on the floor were potatoes and apples. He tiought that the piain people could not have seen What ihe artist saw—the tone, the atmosphere, the pecullar light, the grouping of the figures; and yet ail this was there ag plainly, as the apples and the t abana that the plain people said were so much ike potatoes and apples. Mr. Beecher described at length varions phases of Christian jife, including that of doubt, the joy of the beginning of the Christian life and the aifficul- ties of the enduring to the end. He had been pastor of that church twenty-three years; it numnered more than two thousand members; nearly six thou- sand members had been admitved; many had fallen away—about one in twelve—and yet his faith in Christ, faith tn the apility of men to live a Christian life, Was firmer, greater than ever It was. He, there- fore, urged upon those who were before nim to live @ lite of faith and trust in God, and to be encouraged inso doling by the muititudes of those who had lived and were living, despite of thousands of earthly disadvantages, this dependence of faith and trust in God, A communion service took place immediately after the sermon, in which the new merobders took part, and the entire door of the church was ocenpied by communicants. FIRST BAPEBT CHURCH: Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Brackett~The Richmond Calamity. ‘The Rev. Mr. Brackett, pastor of the First Baptist church, of Williamsburg, delivered an eloquent dis- course in the forenoon to uw full church, Mr, Brackett took for lus text I. Corinthians, v., 7, but wilnded to the impressive sentence—“For even Christ, our passover, is sacrificed for us.” He said that in all ages of the world it has beencommon to perpetuate the memory of great meu and great deeds by the erection of monu- ments In the rude iniancy of nations a great stone set up on end, a hi ae f stones, or @ mound of earth was suiiicient to ute the scene of some Groat victory, or the lust restin, ce of some great warrior, But as civilization advanced and arts were invented and improved, the wise, the brave and the good were preserved from oblivion by more elegant, more imposing and more lasting monuments. An: now every nation and every city its costiy monu- mental str res. Every nation has its memortal days get apart for the commemoration of some no!a- ble event in the national history, And so every day of the revolving ycar becomes in its course, to one people or another, the anniversary of somethin: memorable which befel their forefathers an is remembered by them with triumph or with grief. We call the national anniversa- ries hotldays, but they were originally called holy days, because they were sacred to the memory of some great, man or great event. The Church has also her memorial days, made such not by any mere human authority but by special Divine appolntinents, and therefore binding upon all bellevera, The Sab- bat: is such & meworia) day, pointing back to and commemorating the victory of our Saviour over death and the grave, But ft is true of God's memo ial days, without exception, that they point forward as well as backward; they are pfophetic as well as historical, Mr. Brackett elneidated this by various apt illue- trauions, end lucidly explained the text, arguing that the pascnal.Jamb was meant to be a type of Christ. In conclusion he Incidentally referred to the Rich- mond calamity, saylog, “Kyen from such @ scene as that there may rise, as there did rise, from the mass of broken timbers and wounded, inangled, bleeding, dying men, the triumphant utterance, ‘O death, rare thy stiag? O grave, where is thy vic- ‘Ory ? During the pastor’s connection with tats infvential society, @ period of five years, he has baptized over 200 converts, JERSEY CITY CHURCHES. God the Author of Nature=Sermon in the Tabernacle by Rev. G. B. Wilcox. Among tle dissenting sects in Jersey City there }s no church which numbers so fashionable a congre- gation as the Tabernacie. The excellence of its choir is ip itself a great attraction, and it is gonly clergymen of more than average ability that are in- vited to address that congregation. There was @ Jarge congregation in attendance yesterday, and the services were very imposing. After the opening exercises the following hymu was sung: Who shail the Lor ity stream vinely ro!la, The pastor, Rev. G. B. Wilcox, then took for his te ie following verse from Revelguions, first chapter:—“Lam he that liveth, and was dead; and, beliold, 1 am alive for evermore.’ He then proceeded to deliver @ discourse on the ilfe of Christ, What was the life that Clixist lived from the manger to the Crom? Th wag the Toundation «of = quab emple which enduro for all’ ‘The whole life of earth obscure and overlooked. truth wi find in the text just read i not that Jesus is a friend of two Years ago in Judes, but with the ze eye of recognition we see Him living in His words @ man's 3; We ve~ to-day. There two of koepii a 6. are mover loue, vhege dear ones lover around them, Christ around us everywhere? The world has edu- cated us up toa point where we can see Him more clearly than He was seen in any century. Do we not feel His presence, His inspiring influence around us everywhere? If men were not made acquainted with the powers laid up in the womb of nature, and if they had not seen tie marvellous development of those powers tn the telegraph and the steam engine, how much leas would we know of nature's God? There {8 no Christian to-day who cannot have more of Christ than those who lived in Judea 2,000 years ago, me men say the Bible is an obsolete book, that it is too far behind the times, and that it was merely suited to an jong past’ But ii we fail to show its power In the living present, then they will have some ground for thelr assertion, It opens to us as in @ grand picture the lite of Christ while in the flesh, and the more we ogress in this nineteenth century the more Finuilar we become with Christ, who is ever present in His works, We ought to be absorbed in Him atone, for there is no other being good enough or great enough to fill our souls completely and give {uli range to all our faculties, Others will say that He ts too great, too rah too powerful, to stoop tous in our follies or pity us In our miseries. But it is an inflnite condescension on His part, in the first place to create us gud then to save us; and, having done 30 much, will He stop there? Men possessed of great spiritual power, men who have made an impress on their times, were always men who kept in view this nearness of Christ. Per- haps some one will ask the question, aro we to follow Christ's exumplo in everything, for Instance his use of wine? Well, such men might as well ex- Pect us to lie down on our bedstead at meals be- cause Christ reclined at supper; or that we should discard boots and wear sanda's for the rest of our lives. Weare not expected to conform to a usage that belonged to another age, another climate; and other customs, Let it be remombered that wine was wine then, and pot ailuted 09 ol, The preach- er continié? ' this straff, and Wolnd up with an exhortation to hig hearers to follow the doctrines of Christ. WASHINGTON CHURCHSS, UNIVERSALIST SERVICES AT METZEROIT BALL, Sermon by Rev. A. C. Barry—The Richmond Calamity. Wasuinoron, May 1, 1870, Rey, A. ©. Barry, of the Universalist Church, preached a sermon at Metzerott Hall on the Rich- mond calamity, His text was selected from the twenty-fourth chapter and forty-first verse of the Gospel according to st. Matthew—“Iwo women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be .taken and the other left.’ Ho began by saying that thesé words wero quoted on all occasions of sudden calamity, They were intended a3 an Silustration of the peculiar providence of God, at which we sometimes murmur because we cannot comprehend it. Within the past few days a terrible accident had happened in @ neighboring city, by which over Ofiy persons had lost their lives, and a large number had perhaps been permanentiy disabled. Among those Were men emthent in the pad dane on of character and position, law- . iT fated morte of Pape Numbers in the lu wio were little account in the world werd spared, while men of usefulness were taken, The unbeliever asked, “How was this? Why shouid these men, Whose existeuce was in a certain sense essential to society, be taken, and others whom society could do withont not taken?” This was question of the finite mind, God moved in a mys- erious Way. He takes the lather, the stay and sup- pore of the famtiy, and leaves the widow and the elpless orplans. He spares the oki, deer father or mother, and takes the young, vigorous son. Unbelievers could not reconcile this state of things with the idea of God's love and goodness. Everything, however, was done for a wise Purpose. We cannot teil the end irom the beginning, and therefore what is merciful and just often seems to us tyrannical and oppressive. The Richmond catastrophe aud similar calamities only illustrate the fact of God’s providence, Such thiugs are not the work of chance, No hap-hazard government can be attributed to the Almighty, The true Christian Would not question God's providence. He would be content with believing that out of apparent evil the All-wise Ruler would evolve eternal good. THIBPEENIM STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. “The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God?— Sermon by Kev. Dr. Clarke, of Philadel- phia=Collection in Aid of the Richmond Sufforers. WASHINGTON, May 1, 1870. ‘The services at the Thirteenth street Baptist church to-day were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Clarke, of Philadelphia, one of the secretaries of the American Bibie Union. His text was from First Timothy, first chapter, and part of the eleveuth verse:—" The Glo. rious Gospel of the Diessed God.” The sermon was an exhaustive defluilion of the word “glorious,” as applied to Christ and His ktigdom, in contradistinction to the same word when applied to things earthly. The sermon was listened to with marked attention by a large congre- gation, Among other distinguished persous present was ex-Senator Ira Hairis, of New York, In the evening the services were conducted by the Val Dr. Cuthbert, the subject of his remarks peing the late calamity at Richmond, At the con clusion of his remarés the reverend gentieman an- nounced @ collection in aid of the sulferers by that calamity, which was liberally responded to. SERVICES IN THE CITY HALL Sermon by ‘the Rev. KE. De on Repentauce. WASHINGTON, May 1, 1870, The Rev. E. De Normandie preached this morning in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, ou the text “Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The preacher said the great difficulty with all per- sons in becoming Christians was when to commence, They aiways preferred to designate some time in the future When it woutd be conventent, He said now Was the proper time, and tie first step was re- pentance, the next reformation. Repentance was he mward recognition of the force of God's truth, and was nocessary to bring the soul into proper re- lations with God. Reformation was the outward Normandie ohange, which ail men becoming Christians should make in their actions and daily life. Having put on these two chan: of spirit and body it required more stron; in ever to keep in the way of light. The onfistien 's path was beset with a multitude of dangers and tempta- tions, and it took all the watchfulness he could bestow not to be found falling back into the ve ways of Satan. Forali the world the Kingdom of Heaven ie now at hand, and all who wish to be saved must enter Ohirist's fold at once. EVIRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Scrmon by Rev. Dr. Boynton. Wasuington, May 1, 1870, Rev. Dr. Boynton, at the Central Congregational church, to-day took his remarks from the text—‘‘1 am the vine, ye are the branches.” He drew a comparison between the growth and func- tions of the varions ak of a treo and the relations and dutiés of individual members to the Church, LEvory leaf sent down to the roots tts own fibre, aud when its work waa done this fibre was contributed to the trunk, and thus all the trees were monuments of the work. Tie count- less generations of the leaves gone were monu- ments set up to mark where work had been per- formed, and not such ag tell only that a man is dead. From the course of bud life the speaker illus. trated his views of the proper growth of the Church from the children within its own fatalities. REAL ESTATE SALES, The reat estate market is beginning to share in the general revivai of activityin all departments of trade and speculation. The sales are recently much better attended, and increasing in number, whtle better prices are obtained. Considerable auimation ig looked for during the coming week, as the offerings are considerable, and will be followed by more if satisfactorily taken. In addition to sales already reported Y. K. Steven- son & Co. report the following:—At anction, the four story dwelling No. 76 Fifth avenue, 26.93.x98, lot 126 feet, to Thomas A. Lawrence, for $65,000. At private sale, the four story dwelling No. 18 Bast Porty-first. street, near Fifth avenue, 22x60x100, to ‘Thomas J. Slaughter, for $20,000; Grand Boulevard, southeast corner of Eighty-second street, one corner lot, 26x98 feet, to Francis Martatn, $14,200; one lot adjoining, same size, tosame party, $8,600; one lot adjoining, same size, to same party, }; one lot joining, same size, to same party, $8, iiliam H. Raynor reports the following sates that have Lepu mado op the Grand Boulevard witha the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1870.—TRIPLE’ SHEET, mh ure | ce Sieber ee ree on cho ven south 10 for and resold Four tole neuen en corse temcnars second stl 2 to Gapen for Ge cas! pry Boulevard, bevws 43 146th street and seventeen lots Jots on rear front on rear fronting 147th street, all full lots, sola for 1,000. THE DARIEN CANAL EXPEDITION. Later Particulare=The Sassardi Route Also Believed ImpracticableExplerations te be Continued—The San Blas Route to be Ex- Plered=Prebable Selection ef the Line of the Punama Railroad. PANAMA, April 18, 187 0. ‘The report in my last letter of the progress made by the varien surveying expe:lition and of the im- Practicability of the frst route selected to be exam- ined from Caledonia Bay to the Gulf of San Miguel, then being explored, 1s now fully confirmed, and tt 1a believed the second will, on being thoroughly sur- veyed, prove no more avatlable for the cousiruction of @ canal across this isthmus, On the morning of the 26th of February Captalo Selfridge, at the head of a large party, started with the intention of crossing the mountains and, if posst- ble, reaching the head waters of Savana river. ‘This party returned to the ooast on the 8d of March, hav- {ng Orosaed the Cordiileras and struck the head waters of the river Sucubti; but it does not appear that they found the Savana, as they expected. The “Savana,” according to Autenreith’s map, the last published, a copy of which I send herewith, seems to be much farther north and more in the line of the party sent out from Sassardi, at the northern extremity of the bay. Thecourse followed by Captain Selfridge 13 said to have been the same taken by Lieutenant Strain ttl after the Cordilleras was passed. ‘The exploring party started on the Sth to thoroughly survey the course Captain Selfridge had just passed over. Following it they crossed the mount: and came on the Chucunaque river, one of the largest streams on the Pactflc side, The telegraph corps carried their lines ag (ar ag the head waters of the Sucubit, a distance of nine miles, Advices from Oaledonia bay to the 11th inst. have been received, The surveying pariy had then returned from the Chucanaque, and had pro- nounced the route Whol!y impracticable for a canal. One hill they encountered was proved to be 1,180 feet high, and tn the range of which it formed a art no suitable pass could be discovered. It was nerefore decided to abanion this route at once, Gud a$ the da‘e mentioned (11th inst.) preparations were belng mae to bay to the Nipsts, Mesacontds, BGtt BS MANE flues, und ui Sassari, B00 with the balance of the force, Of the exploring party from Sasardi no particulars have been received further than that they had car- ried they survey 2bout nine iniles in'and, and tue obstacles they lad met with convinced tiem that no rac!ical rouie for a canal could bé found in that sec- tion. The ‘e.ggraph corps had followed about four and a half milé%, The who) Torco was to unite at Sussardt and explore thoroughly for two weoks. in which time {t is likely they will reach the ealwe cre of the Savana river, Which Captain Selfric Ke Was in search of When he struck those of the Sucubu, If in tho time meniioned no sufiabie depression 13 found, the two ships—Guard amd Nipsic—with the ontire force, will proceed north to the Gulf of San Bias and examine the country across tothe Kio Bayamo, which has its rise near the Cordillora, and fows into the Pacific in the Bay of Panama, The San Bias route has already been thoroughly explored at the expense of some American capttal- ists. The survey 1s kuown, I believe, as the “Keily Survey,” and a map of it is published tn Admiral Davis' report. The lowest elevation there found and reported was, iff recollect right, 1,500 feet, an’ the section was considered lees suitable than any other thereexamined. It will take but a short time to de- cide on the merits of the San Blux route, after which the expedition will retern to the Unie Siates. The rainy §2ason will then have fully set in and it will be too fate to prosecute further explorations. The Panama route, the only practicable one of all, should now have some attention. The highest cleva- tion over which the raliroad passes 14 only 262 feet, Bosides the established facts that the climate is much tore salubrious than that of either of the other youtes named, there are many other points in its favor. The country has already been thoronghiy surveyed, and a line of railroad, which would be of immense value in the construction of a canal, has been in th igh working order for over fifteen years. These speak volumes in its favor, The work of the surveying expedition has, from the start, it issaid, been conducted in the most efficient manner and with great spirit and energy by all en- gaged, and, notwithsianding the arduous duties to which all were exposed, but li ickneas has oc- curred. Only @ few cases of fever are reported, The Tudians invariably proved friend 2 NATION. T ASSOCIATION OF MibicaL LEGES. Oi WasuINGToON, April 80, 1870, In the National Association of, Medical Colleges to-day additional credentials were presented ax fol- lows:—Kansas City Medical College, Professor John M. Forrest, Professor A. P. Lankford; Missouri Medical College, Professor A. Hammer; Oniversity of Nashville, Professor W. R. Bowling ana W. F, ee. Professor N. 8. Davis offered several rules tor gov- ernjng proceedings, which were adopted, Mr. Davis offered a resolution that the several propositions adopted by the convention at Vincinnati in 18€7 be taken up separately in the order they stand in the printed report, which was adopted, The first proposition was taken up as follows:— First, That every student applying for matricula- tion in a medical college shall be required to show, either by satisfactory certilicate or by direct exami- natton by a committee of the faculty, that he pos sesdes a gi be of common English branches of education, including the series of mathematics, the elements of natural sciences and sufficient know- ledge of Latin and Greek to understand technical terms of the profession, and that the certificate pre- sented or the result of the examination thus required be Peay filed asa part of the records of each medical college, Professor Logan offered an amendatory resolution that recommendations to the diferent ‘faculties of the medical colleges are not binding till ratified by the several Institutions, After some discussion the resolution was lost, Professor Moore, of St. Louis, moved to strike out ail after the words ‘common education.” He said in institutions not repre- sented here the recommendations would be im- povsible, and Be AE the tendency of the West. 'n institutions would be to clear them up. We ex- clude men from our colleges simply bt use they are not classical scholars. This was wrong, as in many instances our best physicians are without clas- sical educations. Professor YANDBLL, of Kentucky, asked—In case we adopt the regolution as it is, does it enforce ihe education of medical students? He thought It would not. You Ce make medicai students have a knowledge which students in other professions are not required vo obtain before foing into practice. While he would have the medical profession attain the EN abr erandard of I ig, yet vhey cannot requiie this standard. People will sond for the doctor they want without reference to his Latin of Greek know- ledge, so that he ig # sensible and judicious man, and epses the confidence of the public. These edu- tional at ents wi impracticable in this county. Hedid not think that success Was the test of merit, especially in the profession of medicine, A better system of primary education should certainly be encouraged, but he opposed this standard of re- quirements. Professor HamMMONp, in reply to Professor Yandoll, id he was to hear suok arguments advanced, “He did not think any man, however possessed of seni i sctentific maa without a knowledge of Latin or some othor dead language. ‘He moust enter hls oi ined against such 0 standard as that recommenced by the Professor. Professor YANDHLL faid:—Wo have to take the World as It is. is not to be expected ail doctors are teachers. The people want men who can cure them rather than scholars. Professor HAMMER moved an amendment to the amendment offered by Dr. Moon, to the effect that the words relating to Latin and Greek be stricken out and all else retained, Professor Davis opposed the amendment overed to the original proposition, and advocated ail requirements usval a8 4 preparatory. test to entering upon the study of medicine, By walt- ing for the common tide of advance- ment in Knowledge the profession might go backward instead of forward. Hvery man worth having in the profession will come wp to the required standard if itis a well established and arbi- trary rule of meaica! institutions of the country, A ne of demarcation should be drawn between those worthy and the army of parasites who were hanging on the profession, He advocated the amendment offered by Dr. Hammer, and hoped ft would be adopted. Professor MoorE said:—The gentleman's ideas of medical education are beautiful but would not aprly to physicians in the West, where the medical faculty had to labor phyaically avout as hard as farmers do. Dr. R, KBYBURN said he was surprised to hear that @ different standard was required in the Weatern country than was required in the East. He thou the requirements should be as untform as possible @ higher grade should be insisted upon, and 1¢ should be made uniform. Professor LOOMIS said in regard to the Greek Inn- O78 he did not think it so necessary as the Latin. In the guage scientific world Latin was the prevail! lan- age used. Ho would favor striking out the Greek and retaining the Latin, Some standard should be agreed upon. Professor Cox was opposed to the amendment to theamendment, He thougbt they were discussing what formed the corner-stone of the medical profes- sion. We are fooded with charlatans in the profes. sion in consequence of the loose manner in which medical institutions are condacted. Professor YANDELL said the Anglo-Saxon charac- ter could not bé changed nor driven into terms pre- soribed by this 9 uangwigd and the resolution MMlopted would go umlgedgd by the modjoat ogl- q reourted on t! which was debated at length, when the taken, on reconsidering vote by whioh Profes- sor Stelli's substitute was lost, and carried, motion was made to adopt the substitute, when debate again occurred. Professor Davis advocated the adoption of the sub- peng oa geet! ater ap if the schools of Bos- ton, New York and Philadelphia would adopt recommendations and put them into operation, that the whole West would follow sult ae once. (Great lause.) @ substitute of Professor Still! was - adopted as a substiiute for all propoaltions the Convention, It 13 to the effect that the pi Ie {lon in 1867 by the Convention of Delegates from diay suet araragins eres aca ion in would tend to elevate the that the requirements for the degree of Medicine must be spractically determined by each mealcal college for itself by averaze attainments of its students and by other considerations of which it alone can jndge, and that abstaining from all attem er Sonetotation, this Convention — reiterate the atrongest manner, its desire that the several medical colleges will, in the changes from time to time made by them in the curriculum of study, endeavor to conform them to the general plan which was recommended by the Convention of 1867 and adopted tu the same year by the American Medical Association, ASIA. Royalty, Native aud Foreign, in India—Indus. trial Resources of the Empire—Queen Victoria's Compliments. Our latest advices from India by the overland malt to England and thence by steamship to New York are—from Bombay, March 19; Agra, Calcutta, and Madras, March 15. The journals contala the follow ing interesting reports:— . NATIVE ROYALTY IN MOURNING. The young Rajah of Kuppoorthuila has had pis voy- age to England cut short oy ee death, He had only left Ladia towards the end of March, in compa- ny with Colonel Lees, and’on the 24 of April he was ey on Doers the Golcoada, The litness anit haye come on slave his departure from my His Highness of Kuppoorthulla, senotpenied by Colonel Nassau Lees, set out from his st on the 16th of February, en route, via Jubbulpor Bol bay, foy Engiand, where it was his intention to ape! at least 6om@g Months, “The object of the tour was the mntellecwual gratiication w an intelligent survey of the power and Wonar home resources ot Great Britain ie) certain to alfora, rf wel known ang able Dewan Muttra Doss anda sult o twenty or midre native officials ond attendants accompanied his Higuness on the seag."’ UERN VICTORIA AS EMPRESS OV INDIA, jah of Cochin was installed # Knight of thé Exalted Order of the star of india by order of Queen Victoria, The British Resident at hia court delivered the following speech on the occasion:— Youn Hiaunrss—Having communicated her Majesty's Grand Master's Grant, appolating your Highuass e knight of the Most Exaled Order of the Siar of India, it becomes leasing duty to avest your Highness with te ot that dignity. Although the order is not of ancle ante, ital- ready on its rolls not a fow [itustrious nai tae jueen's son, whom we hope soon to welcome to Bout is the last addition to ite ranks, ranks that already ‘Lawrence and Lord Mayo, amoug Englishmen, aud many of the most ancient and agble of the feudatorles of Hindoostan, When first consti- tated, many doubted {f tt was an tn tals—I¢ it would in any commens Would admission, if it was ¢ order was tution suitable to Orleny #0 as to becom: an object ol b | to her Majesty’ indian subjects, Would in {any inceative to ahow themscives wortby of belng thus distinguished by their august Empress? Just at first, perhaps, and on a nerrow viow only, of the then present, here may hare been some ground {er such doubilag but assuredly that time has passed. I am coi Y there Je not a prince or worthy from our own Cape Cormorin to the distant Himalayas, not already a member of the Order, who would not, I will not say envy your Highness the distinotion now bestowed, but who would ‘not dearly prize its bostowal on bimeelf. This knighthood will be regarded by your High- ness asa further bond to the great British power, Wh that it now is as the moon to the noon- house was oiten the ally of the Brit- the enemy of Cochin, as he waa the But the connection of the then rajabe r ‘al _-Tippoo enemy of England, with the rising British power was very different to that your Highness now enjoys with the ‘tirmiy established Sritish empire. ‘Then tucre were wars and rumors of asto them, or to somewhat narrow schemes alliance’ maluly referred. Now, peace amniies arcund, aud assistance 15 naturally looked for towards promoting its arts and sproading far and wide the blesalp; ‘of good government, It isin recognition of services in thi direction that our Queen has been pleased to nominate your Highness a Knight in a noble fraternity of which she herself fs the august Soverign. I hope and J trust that the event osle- brated to-day will not be without ite indluence in encouraging further judicious but vigorous sad enlightened progress, an that your Highness’ adrosnitration will ever be so cond: as to cause the voice of your subjects to contirm the justness Of her Majesty's gracious appreciation of your rulo, ‘That Providence may direct your Highness thus long to rule» prosperous country and happy people is the hope of your many well wishers; and as British Resident at your irr Court, I beg to add my own wishes and a ol tthe rajabs of Cochin may ever deservedly prominent among ce whom the msjesty of Britain delights to honor. With sincere congratulations on this auspicious occasion, T will now in- vest your Highness with the insignia sent by her most gra- cloud Majesty, LORD NAPIER, OF MAGDALA. We learn by tslegraph that Lord Napier, of Mag- dala, has arrived at Bombay, and that Sir W, Maus- field was to leave forEugland on the 10th of April. One of his last public utterances was an emphatic protest in Council against any further reduction of the British treops in India, ‘All things are for the best in this best of possibie worlds,” sceins to be Sir Wiiliam’s maxim. COTTON AND COAL FROM INDIA. The Calcutta Angtishman remarks that thefdiffiont- les of America may truly be said to have been “India’s opportunity.” The cessation of the supply of cotton from the Southern States Jaid open the markets of Europe, to the pra duce of this country, and the mills of Lan- cashire were for a time chiefly kept at work by the cotton of the Berars. Speaking on the undispulable authority of Mr. Rivett-Oarnac, the Viceroy was ina position to anpounce the astonishing -_ that the cotton now exported from 9 dia very nearly equals in quantity the entire exports of North and South America. In quality there may be yet room for improvement; “put,” as his Excellency humorously remarked, “Manchester Is like unto thai free lver who said that the best thing in the world was good wine, and the next best thing was bad wine;” but, whichover it was, let there be enough of it. So, Lancashire clamois for cotton, Let us have the beat, if posst- ble, say the manufacturers; if not, send us what you hi ‘but let there be plenty of it. The produce of the central provinces and the Bevars will now be poured into Bombay without stint and without de- lay, in the sure and certain bope of {mmediate ship- Ment not only to England, but also direct to France through the Suez Canal. THE CHANDA COAL FIELDS. Accessibility to the Chanda coal felis ts second im importance only to the improved communication With the cotton lands of the above-named prov: . Nor ts coal the only mineral to be found in that dis- trict, Iron also abounds, and it is believed that cop- Lag’ and gold also ocour in considerable quantities in short, “the irritamenta matorum need oly t be dag out, now that @ mode of conveyance has in the fulness of time been provided.” THE BROOKLYN WATER BOARD. To fae HpirOR OF THE HERALD:— I have been thwarting this very questionnble body in their attempts to get an appropriation from the Legislature of $600,000 to construct the great novelty of an underland overland sewer through the farut lands of Bushwick, Hence the libel which they in- sinuate against me in your paper of to-day. Four or five years ago I got a permit, and paid for it, to put ahydrantin a yard in North Tenth street, whore there was no water, and connect with the water main in North Ninth, £ paid my tax rogularly for it ever since, and every neighbor who wanted water, there being neither pump nor public hydrant in the neigh- borhood, came and took water, a8, when I idea fed them to cross my premises, they had a periect right to do, and as they did everywhere cise in the city. In trout of my cottages in North Ninth street, on the opposite side of the street, is at this writing @ public hydrant which is now dry, and has been dry for the last three weeks, It has been reported to the underli ot the board—reported even to the tape-line meh— whom they have just sent round preliminary to some new Oppression. And yet so it remains, while tke people who ought to be supplied by It are forced, and have been for the last three weeks, to make & highway of my halls to supply themselves at the hydrant in my yard. I couid not see them starved through the indolence of this Water Board. ‘Yuat indolence 1s nearly # match to its rapacity. On the latter I will not dwell here; but before any com- petent inquest I am ready to show that in the con- struction and tn the management of our sewers and our water and our street cleaning they have, either ignorantly or corruptly, sacrificed the interests of the public im & manner tha has not 1 been dragged into the light Probably it may not be, as my own detestation of thelr practices is excecded even by my contempt for the dull, grumbling submission of the people on whom they trample al impose. ‘Trusting in your sense of Justice to give publicity to this, I remain, &c., THOS, AINGE DEVYR. ij = IMMORALITY IN Sournsury, Conn.—The Deputy Sherif and a constable from Southington on Sunday arrested & man named Atkins, at Collins’ disreputa. ble establishment, “out East.” He is @ reaidont of Southbury, and was gulity of beating and Li his wife and tying her up, atter which he attempted, be- fore her eyes, to commit an outrage on her mother, a woman sixty years of age. He had evaded his pur- suers for several days, but was finaily captured taken back to Southington, whero {t Is hoped he will Tooetve puni: it COMMMENSUTALe 1@ Lid OMERdd~e eu Haven, RNa