The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1870, Page 5

LIGIOUS. : Services To-Day. “Professor = Wililam. mew of Massachusetts, Speaks before the Society of Spiritualists, morning and evening. Rev, David Mitchell will preach on “Providence Undiscovered Crime,” at tho Canal street Pres- rian church, 17 Greene street, Rey. Oharles B. Smyth lectures before the Amert- fan Free Church, at Masonic Hall, Rey. H. 3, Carpenter conducts divine service at Polytechnic Hall, Brooklyn, Rey. Dr. Wedekind preaches at the English Lu- Sheran Church of St. James. Rey. 8. H. Willy, of California, holds forth atthe Forty-second street Presbyterian church, Rev. ©. F. Lee will preach on “The Saving Power of Ohrist”’ at Plimpton Building, Rev. J. M. Pullman will discourse at the Church of ‘Our Saviour, The rector of St. George's church officiates to-day. St. Mark’s church will be reopened by Rev. Dr. Flagg this morning. Rev. C. 8, Harrower preaches at St, Luke’s Metho- @ist Episcopal church at both services, The Anthon Memorial church opens to-day. ‘The regular Sunday services will be resumed tn Christ charch this morning. Reopening of Howard Mission, No. 40 New Bowery. The painting and repairs are completed, the missionaries, teachers and earnest workers are back from their recreation, the Superintendent, Rey. W. C. Van Mater, has returned from his long absence in Europe, and enters again upon his work, To-day at half-past two o’clock P. M. there will be aunion meeting of laborers, friends, parents and children. to which all are cordially invited. ~ Protestant Rights in Roman Catholic Coun tries. To THe Eprror or 1H HERALD: Many thanks for your kindness in noticing my fermon on the above subject, delivered last Sun- day morning in Chelsea Methodist Episcopal church, Itis the first social kindness shown to me by the public press in this city, At the same time please allow me to say that the statement of your reporter that my sermon was abusive of our Catholic brethren does me great injustice. Not a word have I uttered which might lead to such a supposition, and in this statement I feel confident that the very large congregation, numbering at Jeast seven hundred persons, will bear me ont. At the very commencement of my sermon I dis- tinctly said “that Iam not an anti-Popery preacher. I do not believe in that class of men; that I cher- ish the most friendly feelings towards the Catho- lics, and that if they think they can be saved through their faith and practice I say ‘amen,’ for my heart's prayer is that all of them may be waved.’ In regard to the venerable head of the Catholic Church I did not utter a word which might even border on disrespect. Nor do I be- lieve that there is a Catholic having higher vene- ration for the Pope thanI have. His venerable age, his learning, his paternal care of a large number of God’s children, his lofty station in Church and in State, surely entitle him to my most profound respect. I did not pass a word of comment upon the Pope personally, or the Catholic faith, for 1 would consider such an act very unchristian and against the habits of a true gentleman. I did say, however, that while our Catholic fmends desire to dictate to the Protest- ! NEW YORK, HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPIEMBER 4, 1870,—TRIPLE SHEKT. PO she ah ; Biblical ar, Tatmudical literatare, in the Hebrew languag4’and in fact, in everything that pertetns to rales studies. latter are entrusted fo thd Rev. Dr. Jastrow and Rev. Messrs. Morais, Jaceds and Buttenwieser, all men ‘aid to be @viinently fitted for their tasks, But Maimonides College does not prosper, a4 its founders had hoped and wished it would. It has suffered and languished under various difficul- ties from the very day it was proposed and has not overcome them yet. These difiiculties were made clearly apparent through the discussions of the subject in the Jewish pee of the country, and particularly last May during the sittings m this city of the ‘American Board ot Delegates” of Hebrew congregations, at which Rev. Dr. Jastrow, rector and dean of the college, was pre- sent, and hoped and worked for ao ollicial recog- nition and endorsement of Maimonides College by this central authority of American Jews. The doctrinal ai ritualistic differences between or- thodox, semi-orthodox, moderate, liberal and radical reform could be observed in well defined contrast during the debate on the subject, which for a time was not only animated, but very earnest and occasionally even personal. It is this divergence of views which hae pre- vented Maimonides College from being better maintained. They who resolutely stand by the old form of worship, and vigorously enforce upon and among theiselves the code of laws of the Pentateuch, a8 enacted by Moses under divine in- bi peepee could never harmonize with those whose ideas of worship in the synagogue now in modern grooves, and who fear not to declare that the Mosaic code and many provisions of the Mishna are antiquated, incompatible with the spirit of the age, and being of no religious import, but mere Race regulations of the theocratic State, as it ex- ted under Moses, and after him in Palestine, may and should be disregwded withont incurring the blame of apostacy. As a nataral consequence, 60 long as these irreconcilable ditierences continue, there can be no union among the Jews in poEpors of this college, which tried to go its course about midway between the two extremes. But this juste milieu. thia compromising of the time of Moses with the age of steam, the telegraph and the press, has, it seems, bronght no benefit to Maimonides College, and it is the opinion of many prominent rabbis and other Jews that, in order to tourish, this college will have, sooner or later, to attach itself openly and fearlessly to one or the other, orthodox or reform, and then only will it have warm and energetic partisans. The Jewish Oath. (Prom the Jewish Times of Friday, September 2.) The daily papers contained lately a report that at a judicial investigation one or two Jews ap- peared on the witness stand and, at the request of a certain individual, were sworn according to the Jewish mode, We are at a loss to know what that mode is. We thonght that, according to the Jewish law, a simple affirmation is equiva- Jent to an oath, and that every good Jew fecls bound by his conscience and religion to observe such an oath. There existed formerly a judicial form of adminietering an oath to Jews in Ger- many, but the Jews themselves have protested against this manner of administering it,as the form had its origin In the superstition, the igno- rance and the prejudices of the Middle Ages, and it is now everywhere abolished. It was believed by Christians that a Jew called God to witness only if attired in the phylacteries and the scarf, and to make it more solemn the Thorah Roll was given in his hand. It was a elur cast on the Jewa and their religion, but they had to submit to it until the civilization of our century swept away this remmant of barbarism. But in this free country we see ignorance so rampant that Jews do not hesitate to bring their religion into con- tempt and their morals under suspicion by mak- ing a show of their orthodoxy and their ignorance. Are our Christian fellow citizens to believe that an oath taken by a Jew with uncovered head is not binding on him, and tuat his reli- gion and conscience require a certain form and position? Are we, in this free Sounky, to revive the barbarism of the Middle Ages? Is there no orthedox voice to rebuke the ignoramus for the outrage which he docs commit against his reli- ants in this country where and where not the Bible shall be read, in countries where they are the power, like, for example, in the estates of the Church, we Protestants would not dare to build a church or preach the Gospel according to our own belief; which is true. in Catholic countries with Protestant communities they have the co: cordat, according to whose rules Protestant in- stitutions are governed. Concerning <4 present war I did not say that It was a war between Catholics and Protestants, but quoted from the Catholic press in this cit; that made such assertion. Besides I have as muc’ right to show my sympathy for Protestant Prus- sia as our Catholic friends have to show theirs for Catholic France. I have the same night to preach In vindication of the Bible in public schools as the Catholic clergy have to preach against it. Publio schools are American national institutions, and I deny the eene to a set of foreigners, who came to this eountry to escape slavery and abuse of Old World’s monarchies, to overthrow American institutions. I claim the Bible to be the American national property, made so by the action of the Congress of the United Btates of America, first assembled in Philadelphia, and so recognized officially in courts, Congress and State Legislatures, trom the days of George Washington to the present hour. Such being the ease, nobody has a right to dictate that the Bible shall not be read in public institutions of America. In regard to my saying that if the Catholics do not ‘like this country they may pack their trunks and go somewhere else, I said our Catholic brethren claim the exclusion of the Bible from public schools on the ground that they are citi- wens of this country. Let us reverse the case. Suppose we Americans go to Rome, become citi- sens of Rome, and we tell the venerable Pope that the mode of his governing the people is not in conformity with our American notions, and we, the adopted citizens of Rome, ask him to de- molish his time-honored institutions of Church and State and on their ruins build up new ones incon- formity with the constitution of the United States of America, as well as with our Yankee spread- eagle notions. Would he comply with our request No. On the contrary, the Pope would tell us, and very justly, too, that if we do not like his mode of overning the people, all we have to do i to pack our tranks and go back to America; he did not send after us, and he will not keep us from going away. So I say to our Catholic friends, and to all the foreigners not satis- fied with America and American institutions, pack their trunks and go back to your own country. In conclusion, please let me give you the concluding remark of my sermon, which your reporter calls ‘‘very abusive of the Catholics in this country.”’ Isaid, “In all our aims to main- tain the Bible in our public schools let us be charitable to our Catholic friends. Let us tell the Pope, the cardinais and all the lesser digni- taries of the Latin Church :—Friends and fellow mortais——This is a free country. You are welcome here. You may build your churches, schools and monasteries, and the flag of our country shall rotect you in all your religious rights. You may ke part and be equal with us in all our political matters. We will do all we can to make you free and happy, and all we ask ia return is to remem- ber that this is America, containing some Ameri- can institutions which we desire you to respect. Public schools and the Bible are American institu- tions, recognized to be so by the founders of this giant republic of the West, and | hence we ask you to let them alone, and thus prove your gratitude for the hospitality and freedom you are receiving in this | Jand.”” Where is the abuse? Now, Mr. Editor, | appeal to your noted impartiality in all things, to publish this letter, and disabuse’ the minds of the almost numberless readers of the Herano that Iam an anti-Popery preacher, or that Tam | abusive of my Catholic brethren in my sermons. I contend for the right of the Bible in this country, and for the rights of the Protestants in Catholic lands, without stooping down to the low habit of abusing eh in My Catholic brethren may rest assured that, although differing with them in ‘faith and practice,” [ never yet cherished an unkind thought for them, or uttered a disrespect- ful word toward their venerable Father at Rome, the priests of their Church or their religion; and in this assertion all the ministers and people who heard my sermons will bear me out. hy and how the Heratn’s reporter made me out to be an anti-Popery preacher and abusive of the Catholics, is more than my poor mortal mind can comprehend. Iam a firm believer in the great | bond of humanity, and | look upon every man to be my prother and fellow-citizen, regardless of political creed or religious belief. 4 OSCAR HUGO. | Maimouides College. ' THE HEBREW THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT PmiLa- | DELPHIA--OPENING OF ITS FOURTH YRAR. There exists in Philadelphia a Jewish Theologi- cal Institute, known ss Maimonides College, which will commence its fourth year to-morrow, September 5. This institute had its origin in the Jesire of a number of rabbis and other more or fess prominent Jews in the United States to fur- nish an opportunity to American born young men of their creed to become thoroughbred American teachers of the Mosaic faith. They believed such ion to the an institute necessary, where, in a usual collewiaty courses, instruction is imparted in | has been stirred up by the ambitious proj gion? These orthodox fanatics are they to be allowed to draw contumely and contempt on our sacred treasure? There iano religious position in which a Jew is to take an oath; nay more, a simple affirmation is just as binding and sacred as an oath, and these men who parade their igno- rance and their orthodoxy as genaine Judaism, and thereby create proji es against and wrong conceptions of our religion, are either doing it to make capital of their religion or they are be- uighted bigots. American Bible Society. The stated meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the Bible House on the Ist inst. The death of Richard T. Haiues, one of the oldest members of the Board, was announced. Thirteen new auxiliaries were recognized, of which one was in each of the States of West Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Idaho { Territory, three in Kansas and two in Texas. | Communications were received from Rev | Robertson, Tallahassce Mission, in punta the New Testament in the language of the reek Indians; from Rev. J. F. Pogue, of Hono- lulu, in regard to printing editions of Matthew and Mark inthe Bonobe language for the Ascep- sion Islands in the Micronesian group; from Rev. Dr. Bergne, London, stating that the British and Foreign Bible Society have taken effectual meas- sures to distribute the Scriptures in the French and German armies, and from Rey. Dr. Jacoby, Bremen, showing that he is supplying the German soldiers in behalf of our society,and regretting that he has no French Testaments for French prison- ers. Interesting letters were received from Mr. Andrew M. Milne, Montevideo, showing increasing demand for the Scriptures on his field, and the progress of the work of introducing the New 'Tes- tament asa schoo! book into the national schools Important communications were also received from Rev. Mr. Buel, the Society's agent in Califor- nia, and from Rev. Mr. Driver, as to supplying the Chinese on the Pacific, and from Rev, Mr. Rea- soner, as to the work in Utah. nts of books | were made to the American Bible Union; to the | Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist | Convention: to the New York State Colonization | Society; to the Board of Foreign Missions of the | Protestant Episcopal Church; to the Friends’ | Freedmen’s Association, and many grants to feeble auxiliaries, especially at the South. A con- siderable grant was made for Caba and eleven volumes in raised letters for the blind. The unm- ber of volumes granted is 10,762, besides others to the value of $960 35. It was resolved to add the book of Psalms to the new Danish pocket Testa- ment already authorized. A memorial paper was | revd ana adopted in regard to the decease of Mr. | Haines, referred to abo: \ Evangelicnt AllianceRev. Dr. McCosh on | the Postpon of the Conierence. Cacocuna, Lower Canada, Angust 13, 1870. My Duar Sin—Not being at home in these va- cation times, I was not able to attend the meeting of the Executive Committee, nor did I receive the summons in sufficient time to enable me to send a written opinion. Ailthat [| have to say vow is that I thoroughly conenr im the decision come to. | Indeed, there was no other course open, After | the receipt of the Kuropean telegrams, I yo far- | ther—there was no other course open to the European branches, | know that a very great | many distingnished Europeans, British and Con- | tinental, are most anxious to visit America, and to | hold fetlowship and conference with American Christians, but most of these feel that they could not leave their countries and their families when no man can tell what will be the state of the na- tions of Enrope # few months or even weeks hence. Had the Aflianve put oi the meeting in conse- quence of any act-—any neglect or mistake of its own, of the American Branch or any Kuropean | Branch—the American public might very natur- ally have felt irritated or indignant. But this war of two men, both of whom, 1 happen to know, are acquainted with the Alliagoe, and both of whom have expressed their interest in its proceedings, but neither of whom meant to help or hinder it on this occasion, though they may, in the end, be made to help it, without meaning it. For these men may unconsciously be bringing about a state of things which the Ajliance, and the Christian men who compose it, will have to Rondes care- fully and prayer it the close ot the contest. Ubelieve that you and Dr. Schaff must have felt & pang of pain, as I know Lhave done, at the thought of postponement; you may be tempted to feel as if much of the great labor you have under- n may be lost. But that work of yours has been done as #bly and as wisely as it’ has been done disinterestedly, and it will uot be lost tor the prezent, and the results will yet come out evi- dently in the futu You know that in consequence of the last Nuro- pean war, that between Prussia and Austria, the nference in Holland was postponed for a vemonth, to the disa peuaeee of many. But the feeling grew and strength- power and influence of the meeting ed by the delay. I am con- fident that it will be, the saine oa this occasion, Had we niet t ear we would have felt as if we ve in the imiddile of scenes of which would Know the end ae tw during that ye ened, and the were greatly incre we like to eud, | ‘if we were obliged to be reticent on questions on | church, Cheltenham. It numbers over a hundred which we wo like to speak out. But the Al- liance will have a very important field to survey some time hence, when the precise effect of the proclamation of the infallibility of the Pope and the withdrawal of the French troops are fully known, and we see in what condition the Enro- pean nations are left at the close of the conflict, which looks as if it were ‘the begmning of the end” of the contest between the great religious systems which are contending for the mastery in urope and throughout the Turkish empire. America has had its terrible war; necessary, it would appear, to wipe out its evils. I trust it will now have peace, while some of the European nations have their sins washed away by blood. At the close of the same, where could Christians meet so appropriately as in the United States to consider what should be done to combine the scattered forces of Protestantism? Yours, JAMES McCOSH. Dr. Trenaus Pro. A Magnificent Gift by au Englinh Methodiat. During the late session of the English Wesleyan Methodist Conference, during the discussion of a memorial from the Metropolitan Chapel Building Fund Committee, asking for the appointment of a special secretary for the ensuing year, a very in- teresting and important announcement was made. Rev. William Arthur stated that he had received a letter that verre from Sir Francis Lycett, a distinguished Methodist layman, in which he (Sir Francis) said that he hoped within ten years, per- haps seven, to see erected in London fifty new chapels; and if £50,000 (ahout $250,000) could be obtained from the connection he intended to give as much, The announcement produced a deep impression on the Conference, and was received with loud applause. Of course a special secretary was appointed. Our Methodist brethren in Lon don seem to entertain no donbt thar the other $250,000 will be forthcomin; Transferring Church Relntions. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Western Advocate states that the United Brethren Church of Indianapolis bas come over bodily to the Me- thodist Episcopal Church, including several pro- minent ministers and congregations in and adja- cent to the city. Already a new church—‘‘Mas- sachusetts Avenne”—is projected by our new “brethren,” and they will be found abreast with any of us in every good word and work, The cause of this defection is the extreme measure adopted at their last annual Conference touching secret societies. It has already added a number of earnest and efficient ministers to our ranks in other parts of the State, together with hundreds of excellent people, and the end is not yet. Trouble in the Unitarian Church. The Unitarian denomination seems to be greatly divided at present on the question whether the “Fathers” of the Church availed themselves of a “Statement of Belief’ such as Dr. Putnam and Mr, Hepworth and others call for. The Liberal Christian, editorially, takes the negative, while a contributor, Rev. Dr. R, P. Stebbin: idertakes in a series of papers, by historical re ices, to show the contrary. He states the action of the American Unitarian Association in 1853, when they undertook to disavow the radic: y, intidel sentiments and sympathies of men like Theodore Parker and R. W. Emerson. They were indignant at the denial of supernaturalism in Christianity. ‘This action was virtually ve-endorsed in 1854, and ten years lacer, in 1864, Allevinting the Horrors of War. It is one of the alleviating circumstances con- nected with the terrible war now in progress in Europe that so much earnest Christian activity in behalf of the soldiers has been awakened. our great struggle, Christian hearts are not only to alleviate the sufferings of the sick and the wounded, but to give them spiritual privileges. ‘The British and Foreign Bible Society ing its large facilities for sending to both armi and especially to those in bospitals, the Word As in | members, and meets in a hall specially buiit and furnished by Mr. Cooke for its purposes. Rev. Rufus Wardell, of Salem, Masa., ‘who for ears has been exploring the vagaries of Advent- in its extreme forms,” has completel; renounced the sect and gone back to the Method- ist Church, Last year was one of prosperity to the Comber- land Presbyteriane, some 10,000 new members being added. They now have 25 synods, 100 resbyteries, 2,000 churches, 1,400 ministers, and (50,000 communicants, In Lexington, Ky., in response to an applica- tion from a priest for $500 to aid ia the support of a Catholic school in that city, the city council has just voted the appropriation. The average salaries paid by the Methodist Church in the Boston district, which includes the clty and vicinity, is $1,430. Many of the churches have parsonages attached. The Methodists are about to open a seminary for young ludies and gentlemen at Salt Lake City. Subscriptions have already been proffered for the erection of a church, A new church is in process of erection in London for the deaf and dumb, of whom there are stated to be 2,000 in the city. The Established Chorch of England is said to cost annually between five and six millions of pounds, For the new St. Thomas’ church, Fifth avenue, New York, a musical conductor has been engaged ata salary of $5,000 a year and an elegant resi- dence besides. This places St. Thomas’ church next to a certain Roman Catholic church in this city, which is reported last year to have paid up- ward of $7,000 for its music and less than $1,000 in salary to its priest. ‘The American Baptist Publication Society has done a good thing in issuing a tract on Church Finances, We caunot make room for its admira- ble recommendations; but we advise all clergy- men whose salaries are in arrears to order copies for distribution among their congregation, The Missouri Dunkards have just been holdin, their annual meetings, They have no churokt ail 3 of their own, but preach in other shes, or in sheds and barns, in short, wher- ever they can get a chan They have no or- dained preachers, baptize by immersion, face foremast, and maintain, as a religions ceremonial, feet washing, the men washing the feet of the women and the women of the men. The sacra- ment follows a feast of bread and lamb soup. In dress and daily habits the Dunkards cultivate a severe simplicity, and their honesty and integrity are said to be proverbial. THE COURTS. SUPREME COURT. The Dalzell Alleged Frandulent Divorce Case. Before the Referec An investigation, which has already occupied sev- oral days, 18 proceeding into the circumstances under which the decree in the above stated case was obtained. Edwin James, counsel for Mr. Dalzell, pro- duced that gentleman upon the stand, Upon the com- Dlalnt purporting to be sworn to and signed by him being shown to him he positively swore that his sig- nature was a forgery, and that W. J. Fisher, the attorney, lad suborned witnesses to personate him before the Referee, He further deposed that Mrs, Dalzell was in F nd at the time the witnesses swore to acts of adultery alleged to be committed by her atthe Westchester hotel, in New York, The course adopted by Mr, Dalzell to expose the frauds com- mitted by Fisher, who has absconded trom New York, will develop the gross system of frauds prac- liced by the divorce attorpeys upon the comin uuity. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Belore Gunning 5. Beaford, Jr., City Judge, ‘The September term of the Court of General Ses- sions will commence to-morrow. The calendar for the ensning term is a heavy one and promises te be of &@ most unteresting character, embracing, as tt I , MALY homicides (some of the degree of mur- Lite. The french soldicrs, most of whom are —s kon Romanists, receive the Bible gladly. One dis- | highway robberies burgiaries of @ daring tributor writes from La Villette: “Lhe Si character ninth regiment is departing; four of our fri are busy distributing. Every soldier rec Gospel and expresses his sutisfaction.” Anothe writes:—‘ At Versailles as many as four thousand copies of the Gospel have been distributed at the railway station. * * ™ We try to give the most of them a Gospel, and all seem delighted.” Similar measures are taken for supplying the Prussian soldiers with the Word of God. Religions Notes—General and Personal. ley. George E. Adams, D.D., late of Brunswick, + where he has preached for more than forty re, has ¢ red opon his new field in Orange, | sued about the Lst of September, Corman Young Men's Christian Association w York city has organized a Christian com- Miseion for the relief of the wounded and the | saccor of the orphaned aud widowed by the | Boropean war. ! The people of Maine will welcome as a God- | send the arrival of immigrants upon their shores. A religious colony of 125 Swedish Baptists are reported as having just arrived and seeking a set- tlement in Aroostook county. Chunder San’s missionary movement in Eng land has proceeded so far that sieps have been taken to forma ‘‘ Theistic Society Rev. Mon- | cure D, Conway, and two English Unitarian min- | isters, with Miss Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, are | among tie movers in the thing. | The Universalist churches are being canvassed | preity thoroughly in the effort to raise the “Mur- | ray Fund.’’ In Massachusetts $10,000 yet remains | to be secured. In one mouth the General Con- vention for the United States will assemble at Gloucester, where great preparations are being made for a grand meeting. Excursion tickets will be provided from all parts of the country, | nuny parishes are making arrangements to camp ; ont while in attendance, and au immense tont | will be used for the sessions, The report of the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends shows 4,500 members in New Engiauc among whom there have been during the y thirty-four births, seventy-five deaths and thirty- five admissions. The Ha 1 churches contributed last year | $4,010 for foreign missions. Rey. S. P. Aheong, a native Chinese, has embarked from the Islands | for China as # Chinese missionary. Five of the Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands were admitted to the Hawatian churches last year. | ‘The London City Mission bas in its employ 375 missionaries, who wade over 2,000,000 visits last | year, reclaiming 905 drunkards, restored 676 fallen | | { | | and indneed [84 shopkeepers to give trading. Rey. M. B. Riddle, D. D., was at Heidelberg on | the 5th of August. He holds, in his letter to the j Pittsburg Banner, that the man of the age is not Napoleon, nor the Pope, but Bismarck. In the German Reformed Church in this couatry 180 ministers preach in the German language and 225 proach in Bnglish. Rev. Dr. Macha of the Methodist M China, announces that an “Alphabetical 0 ary of the Chinese Language,’.in the foochow | dialect, on which he and the Rev. ©. C. Baldwin have been engaged for several yeurs, will be is- up Sunday | on in jon- It is reported that by special request Dr. Nehe- miab Adams, of Boston, recently preached at Hong Kong, China, tor Archdeacon Gray, of the Charch of England. ‘The Irish Presbyterian Church bas 126,000 mem- bers aud an annual income from the British gov- ernment of £94,000, It has 1,094 Sunday schools, with 8,050 teachers and 16,305 scholars. { Rev. A. D. Gillette, D. D. (Baptist), late of | Washington, D. C., has accepted the call of the Gethsemane chorch, Brooklyn, and will begin his | labors in September. Rev. Dr. T.D. Witherspoon, for some years | pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, Mem- | phis, Tenn., is sone led to he de his charge on account of his health. He has been regarded as , one of the most successful ministers of the Church South. Rev. Martin Luthar Todd died at Wheeling, West Virginia, August 14, in the thirty-firet year of his age. For atime he did effective labor for the American Sunday School Union. Afterwards he served earnestly aud usefully 43 4 pustor in West Virginia. Bishop Vail or Kansas, had a narrow escape from death recently by a runaway team, near Lake Sibley, He was knocked down and his body run over by the wheels, but, providentially, he sustained no fatal injuries. Rev. William ©. Anderson, ex-President of the Miami University, and for many years pastor of the First Presbyterian church of San Francisco, died at Junction City, Kansas, last Monday. A poor, wild Irish boy, taught in a mission schooi in Ireland, was asked what was meant b saving faith. He replied, “Grasping Christ wi the heart,” ishing sopel e,the banker, conducts a fle class in connection with &t. Pants b | the French | women to their homes or put them in asylums, | be istrict Attorney Garvin, aided by Lis assistants, Will conduct the business on behalf Of the prosecu- | tion, Judge Bediord wii preside, and if a quorum be present, the Grand Jury will be charged at the opening of the court. The petit jary will be empan- | elled and sworn in for the term. ‘The District Autor- ney will then proceed with the calendar and ar- | range with counsel for the disposition of the various | cases, All cases ready will be disposed of at once and days will be assigned for the tria) of the balance, Jadge Bedford and the prosecuting oMcers are de- termined to keep the prisons clear by a rapid dispo- sition of the case All cases net down for partucu- lay days for trial will be disposed of as soon as wad under no circumstances will adjourn- ments be gfanted unless based upon legitimate aud Jegal exe CHESS MATTERS. A great game of chess is in progress bet Germans and the Freneh. the war will b pen the ‘The principal features of found sn the marginal notes in the regular progression of events. Bishop's (nitraile 3 gambat. Ggermans— White, Freneh—Black, 1—P OK 4 1—P to K 4 —PtoK BS 2—P tks P (a) J—BtoQ B4 S—PoQ4 4—P tks P (») 4—Q) lo K BS (0) | K KttoB3 b—B QBS H—P t0Q4 @) 6—B to Q Kt 7—Castles 8—-Q Ki to BS 9—Q KttoK 4 9—QtOK RS We Kt to K 5 10—B to K B4 1—B tks B P (”) H-PtwoK Kt4 12—Q to Kt 2 (9) 13—B tks Kt (i) i4—B tks Q P ch () 15—Kt to Q 2 (n) 16—B to QKts 17~—K Rto K (7) 18, tok 19—B to K Kt ¢ 12—B tks P (1) 13—B tks Kt (A) l4—Kt to K Rt 4 (4%) 15—K to K (ny 16—P to QB 3 (0) 17—Q to Q2(p) 18—Kt to R 6 ch (4) —P 0 Q6 -Q Rito K (ty —PtoKK ) tks Poh — 10 Kis mate ( French vietory, carrying the heights of Suar- Imperial’s bapiisin of dre. pure of Wissembourg and © (a) brue (oH te) (ay ing good gener: i¢) The capture ot Hagenau and forced retreat of general, who is already ina tight place. re on Metz, il. (g) iH (ay Del assault om the fortifications of Mews, (O Severe loss sustamed by the the mitratileuses, vy and vigorous rman cavalry by (k) Sharp fighting in front of Met muke a reconnolssafce. hut are for () ‘The mitraiileuses again at work. () The King of Prussia receives a check and is horrified at hs losses tn Killed and wounded, () Preparing @ Vigorous charge of cavairy on the aieging foree, (o) The Germans by a bayonet charge distoage the heavy artillery. (p) With the intention of moving tu parallel lines. (4) Determined to hold the fortress at all hazards. (7) Bazaine’s rear guard assatied. Lhe Emperor, in danger, exclaims, “On ma coup (8) Fortifying thetr position at M. () ‘This renders the postiion of the French yery critical, (¥ ‘The Prussians have gained position, but their losses are great. (») Vigorous action of the French along the whole line. () A desperate attempt to capture Bazaine, (2) The Emperor, having received a check at Metz, | removes to Chalons, (y) The battle of Beanmont, and capture of tn- | fantry. (2) The grand finale, The Emperor surrenders, COURSE OF EMPIR Yuirty-six hundred and twenty-five passengers | arrived at this port during the past week from foreign ports, The number is ten less than last week’s arrivals, They were divided among the fol- lowing vessels:— Steamahips. Ocean Quee Port From. No.of Paseongera, 5 Port au Prince “3 Glasgow... . Ships. Prince Albert... sMambnrg.. + 261 y London. “0 ke. - Bremen. Buenos 1 w 7 Schoon Paui Seavery. St. Barta, ‘Total number of pa AQUATICS. The Race Yesterday Between the Mutaals of Albany and the Nassaus of New York City— Defeat of the New Yorkers. ‘The stx-oared crew of the Nassau Boat Club came to grief again yesterday in its encounter with the six-oared crew of the Mutual Club of Albany. It will be remembered that during the past week these two crews had a race at Albany, in which the Nassaus came out second best. The lat ter’s boat got aground during the contest, and the crew, it is said, had to get into the water and push their crait of They naturally felt very much dissatisfied with the way they ciaim they got beaten (although the Alpany folks who put up their money on thelr friends contend that the Mutuals were victorious in poimt of fact before the others got aground) and challenged thelr Victors to @ second race for # set of colors, The challenge was accepted, and the result was the three miie straight race of yesterda: The ume fixed for the cont ras in the after- noon, and long before that hourseveral tugs crowded with passengers aud a goodly number of small craft had assembled opposite the Pleasant Valley wuarf, The following were tho crews:— NASSAU. MUTUAL. Is. Ts, 142 Geo, Whitney (bow). ...145 G. F. Jones % George Swartz. M5 F. G. Brown, George Henry F. Bacon....... Avonzo Adams. * J. i. Miller (stroke). ©, Tucteabrink (stroke)i35 A little after four o'clock the two crews put in an appearance, the Mutuals wearing merluo shirts and having their heads bound up in blue kerehefs. ‘the Nassaus were stripped to the waists, and before they tonched their oars certainly looked tar the euperior crew of the two, They were as brown as berries, and thelr muscles stood out like cords, The Atbany boys appeared rather heavy, and by no means as supple @s their antagonists when they first took their seats in their boat, and the membors of the Nassau Club, who were present in large numbers, tn ali the glory of white caps and nobby bine roundabouts, bet their money accordingly. There were a few Albany men present, and they showed thelr confidence ia ther crew by taking all the bets offered. At sixteen Toutes past four the two boats got m position, ‘There had been nearly ali the afternoon a preity sti breeze from the porthwest and the water had been extremely rough; but when time was called and everything had been got in readiness for the starb the water was as calm as could be desired, and the wind nad completely died out, There was a good start, the Nassau gett, J lead of a boat’s length during the first 100 When they lost this wards during the quarter of a mile made thi close bad let themselves down fhe Mutuals began with a ty and kept it up to the — last half iile, when they fell to forly-one, If there had been any difference of opinion as to the merits of the two crews before the start it did not last long after tuey had rowed over the first mile, and the friends of the Nassaus, who had been so ready to bet before the start, kept a pretty close mouth, and evidently wished,they had not gohe it so strong be- fore they had learned more about the Mutuals. AM the race was nota sure thing for the Albany fet for the Nassaus worked stoutly from beginning to end, and wade their antagonists perspire for the i deed, two or three tines the New 1osed up the gap of several length which thetr opponents had opened Ween thein after the drst half mile, but they were not able to hold their own for any length of ume, and were quickly dropped again. The Nassaus had the iuside of the course, and tive or six times they drew in upon the other boat to such a dangerous proximity that a foul was imminent every time, but the Albanyites took good care not to give even an excuse for a foul, and so every time they were ap- proached rowed further out into the river, It may be that the whole thing was purely accidental on the part of the Nassaus; for thetr course during the W. Marely.. George Hugi to thirt stroke of, -Lour. for- e whole race was @ series of letters S—a zig- zag run that made them lose ground -ever. minute—but the desperate attempts tneir opponents had to make to keep away from them looked ugly from the judges’ boat, to say the least. ‘The two boats reached the oul vitriol works with the Nassaus fully five tengths behind, and one or two of the crew looked distressed, three successive “crabs”? being the evidence of it. The crew put ona spurt, however, at this point and managed to get their bow even with the stern of the other boat, but, as before, they were soon shaken of, and the Mutaais forced them to take thetr water in fine stylea minute afterwards. The Nassaus, however, were pluck to the end, and had gained alengih and @ half on the Matuals just as the jatter reached the gaol, in 19m. %s., beating the New Yorkers by three lengths and a haif. The Mutuals were evidently th perior crew, und appeared almost as fresh at the close of the race as they were at the start, The Nassans made a sptrited fight for the vi miserable stcering a8 anything Nassaus claimed that the zi se, 3 course of their crew was not due to bad steering, but to the fact ” that their boat “twiste Such may have been t {tH ry, and they owe their defeat as much to Some of the case fora boat that “twists”? is certainly not the right kind of a boat to row a race in, HIRSE NOTES. History of Startle, Mr. Bonner’s Late Purchase. The wonderful young horse which has come pro- mincntly into public notuce within the past week, and js probably destined to flilan important place In trotting history, deserves a more complete notuce than we have yet been able to give him. He comes of no commonplace stock, but draws his blood from the same renowned source as Dexter, his sire bemg Hambietoman and his dam Lizzie Walker, by | American Star, He was bred at Stony Ford, by Charles Backman. Stony Ford 18 already famous for the magnificent extent and numbers of its stud; but the time is just coming when it ts to gain its rity asa birthplace of trotters, and Startle is the first earnest we have that they are coming. ‘This is the first colt bred at Stony Ford whic | las been started In a race. His future was predicted When he was only three days old by George B. Alley, his late owner, and David Bonuer, who offered Mr. Backman $1,000 for him as he was runnmg by the side of the mare, When three days old. but Mr. Backinan was so much pleased with mim that he said $1,000 was no inducement to him to part with the colt, His future has justitied the refusal, Startle is marked very much jike Dexter and resembles him in form and gait, He was partaily broken last fall and turned out for the wioter into a large yard, with a box siall, Which he cowd enter when he pleased. About the 20th of last April he was sent to Carl Burr to develop, and, we believe, was sent but one mile for time previous to his race at Fleetwood Park. Startie’s mother is a chestnut mare, about fifteen honds one teh high, by American Star, a very finely formed mare, and looks like @ thoroughbred. She could trot low down In the thirties, and was known us a mare that was hard to beat. After Siartie she has a very fine filly by Mes- senger-Duroc, Her next colt 14 promised to Mr. David Bonn We shal: expect a8 much from this cross as Irom the famous dam of Bruno and Bru- netie; but predictions based even upon such a as Startle are still prediclons only, as noracs are almost as uncertain as men. Mr. John B, Dye has got lis black horse Benton in fine Ox, and he astonished some ot the roadmen who ckled” him a day or two since, as they were not Benton was a trotter, Mr. George N. Ferguson drives as fine and fast a pair of steppers as there is on the road, aud his wagon and barpess models of taste and elegance. Dan Mace bas purchased the well known trotting mare Kitty Wink, She isa fine roudster and taster than ever. Mr. Bonner has heen driving Istely a very fine young roan that 15 said to be the progeuy of ihe roan nave he used to own that was so fasi Mr. James W. Gillics drives in the Park behind a very handsome and siylish span of horses attached toa park phacton. The establishment Is unexcep- tonabie in every particular, Mr, John Richards is again on the road behind his oid team, Brother Jonathan and Pet, who have been. aware tli having aletup. ‘They show more speed than for- | merly. Mr. ©. P. Drescher drives a very pretty bay mare to utop Wagon. She isa good and cheerful road- ster, Mr. Oresling drives a brown mare on the lane every afiernoon, Mr. is pair of bay Ham- jeorge Alley can arive bietonians a fast gait the whole length of che read. FINANCES, TOE SERVANT GML An examination was had yesterday afternoon at the Jefferson Market Police Court, before Judge Uox, in the case of Clarke King, Jr., assistant cashier in the banking house of C.arke, Dodge & Co., Wall street, charged with defranding Mary Ann Fitz- gerald cf $101. The particulars of this case have already appeared in the HERALD. Mra, Fitzgerald was placed first on the stand, and examined by counset jor the defendant. Mrs, Fitzgerald's evidence was merely 4 repetition of particulars aircady published, She remained firm to her first statement that Mr, King counted the money before giving her the check, and gave her a tacmorandum of the amount received. In answer to Mr. Howe, she admitted that she had not counted the money in the bank be- fore giving it to Mr. King, but insisted that she had done #0 In & ticket oilice in Trinity Building, where sie had purchased a ticket for Europe for her sister Isabella, who is uow a lunatic con- fined on Ward's Island. For the defence an afidavit from Clarke King, Jr., Was handed tn,’ which stated in substance that on the Ist of August, about a quarter vo three in the after- Doon, the complainant caine into the bank of Clarke, Dodge & Co., and gave King @ roll oi bills which was labelled $767; that King, knowing the complainant Well did not count the money (hen, bucdid so siortly after she had gone away, when he fonnd that there were only $667 in the roil of pills presented by Mrs. Fitzgerald, He then wrote out a check on Duncen, Sherman & Co., for the latter amount, and gave it to complainant on the follow day. At this stage of the proceedings the exan mn Was adionrned until one o'clock Monday. GALLOWS. E Execution of a Negro in North Carolina. Sent Into Eternity at the Age of Fifteen. Rescued for a Week by His “Old Masser.” SRAKAM, Anrust 32, 1870, The death penalty was executed here on Friday lag in & most extraordinary and perhaps unparalle!e4 tn~ stance. Androw Tarpley, a young negro of ffiven years, was hanged for the crime of rape, commirica in April Last, on the person of a itue white gir only eleven years of age, From the evidence on the trial and from persons in the vicinity iatimate with THE OCTKAGE the following aro ascertained to be the facts or ihe Inatter:—It oceurred near the company’s shopa, on the North Osrolina Railroad, tn this county, some time in April last, The victim, a fulr haired little girl, had been sent fo the store at the shops to purchase some kerosene ofl, On ger way thither she observed that her footsteps were dogged by w young black necro, and 84 she entered the store he half concealed himself behind @ post, watching her. Upon returning homewards, when about half way, where the road was thickly wooded on either side, the same negro flend who had followed her sprang from dehind @ tree, and seizing her with his hand by the throat carried rather than forced her into the woods, Her attempts to cry for mercy were stifled, and her feeble eiforts at resistance were soon overcome by. the brute, who then accomplished bis hellish purpose, The poor girl became insepsibic, but it Was not until he imagined she was dying that the negro destated, and then he fled tn alarm, leaving her to her fate. In this condition she was discovered by her friends, who, ow1og to her long absence, had gone in search of her, She was ghastly pale and breathless, her throat bearing the tmpress of her ravisher’s faygers, her clothes tora and her person fearfally bruised. ARREST OF TH RAVISHER, It was not long afterwards that the negro Andrew Tarpley was arrested on the description of the girt whom he had so foully outraged, acd she at once identided the wretch when he was brought before her. The greatest excitement ana indignation pre- valied in the neighborhood, and go terribly incensed were the people that they were with diMculiy re- strained from lynching the young villain on the spot. Better counsela, however, prevailed, when appeals were made by the older citizens in the name of the law, for which the people of North Carolina have a provound respect, and the trembling musecre- ant and violator of the laws of God and man was committed to jall to await his trial by a trivunal of his fellow men. CONVICTION AND SENTENCE, When this took place the evidence against the prisoner was 50 verribiy convincing, the utrocity of the crime so revolting and barbarous in its detatis, that, despite the Fig and ignorance 60 ably urged in extenuation of the crime by the counsei for ine defence, the ears of the judge and jury were closed to appeals fer mercy, and Tarpley was sentenced to be executed on Friday, the lvth day of August, 1870. dad previously made @ fall confession of the crime. AN INSURGENT COUNTY. A complication arisiag from the declared {nsur- gency of the people here by the Governor led many, and perhaps the condemued, tov, to suppose tat his sentence would not be carried into execution. ‘The Sheri! had been arrested by the military forces under Colonel Kirk a8 an alleged Ko Klux, civil law had been suspended, the people were wil declared to be insurgents, and the Chief Jastice of the State Supreme Oourt had decided that an insurgent was Incapable of executing any civil process. In view of the latter fact 1t was generally supposed that Tarpley would escape his just doom, and the prisoner, placing the most tmplicit reliance on the lender aud mereiful sensibilities of the radi- cal Bxecutive, lad pictured to himseif a lifeunie in the penitentiary, with the hope of an ultimate par don. But, alas, the fatal day arrived, and he found bumself on the verge of tue jelon’s grave. A RESPITE. While the condemned was endeavoring, as best ha could, to prepare ior eteralty, wildly umpioring the Great Judge, before whom he waa 80 soon to appear, Tor mercy, and with the last ray of hope banished from his breast, his poor, heartbroken mother yet hoped almost against fate and exbausted every ef. fort to procure the commutation of her miserable son's sentence to tmprisonment for life, but in vain. AS w last resource, on the morn! of the hang- man’s day, the wretched mother went to Dr, Moore her old master, the former owner of hersett and son, and implored Mim to telegraph the Governor for # Tespite of a week, as ber uniortanate son was not prepared to die, -In weeping and heartrending ac- cents the poor creature, wii clasping her handr, sald:—“On, do this, massa, for your old slave; my poor boy is not ready to die.’ At this urgent ap- peal Dr. Moore telegraphed the Governor, asking for @ respite of a week ou the above grounds, and in short line he received the following reply :— RaLeian, August 14, 1870. Dk. Moonr, Company Shops :— T respite the negro fur one week. It ts done at your re- quest. W. W. HOLDEN, Governor. It was eleven A. M. on Friday morning when this extension of life was received. At one P, M. the condemned was to have been launched into eternity. ‘The distance from the company’s shops to Grahaw, Where the execution was to take place, was three mules, 80 that no time was to be lost. Witit all pos- sible haste Dr. Moore hitched up hls buggy, and driving rapidly arrived in time to RESCUE TARPLEY FROM THR GALLOWS. As the hour approached the untortuaate boy, Joined by severat negro female visitors to his ceil, was making the wildest and most vehement appeals to Heaven for mercy, in the vernacular, and wiih the uncontrbitable phrenzy that siezes the negro in moments of intense excitement of any sort. He knelt at a window, his hands clutchiog the tron bars, bis eyes closed, and his face blanched to a death pailor, while the top oi his voice he cried im despairing acce! “O Lord! take my soul to heaven” “QO Lord! nave mercy on me for this)’ Just at twelve o'clock, when the condemned bey Was in @ paroxysin of mingled grief and terror, Dr. Moore arrived with the respite. Upou being informed that he would not be executed ‘that day there was a brief cessation in the wild cries and gesticulations of the condemned. but he scarcely geemed to realize Une intelligence, He glared wildly Uirough the bars at his old master, who again assured him of his short lease of life. Thea he be lieved and comprehended tt, and his gratitude was as violent as were his supplications of a few minutes before. He grasped the hand of his old master, and in a heartielt outburst of gratitude exclaimed, “0, Lord, I thank you again for this.” After a brief and affecting conversation, in which Dr. Moore exhortea his unfortunate ex-sl to prepare to meet his God, he bid him farewell, and Tarpley was leii alone to make the best use of his last week. ‘This rapidiy passed off, the condemned mean- while using the best efforts he was capabie of to re pent and make his peace with Ged, During this tune he made a CONFESSION, bigs | the manner and particulars of the out- } rags ich ate too revolting for publication. Igno- raat as he was, however, he had the comprehen- sion to belleve he was suffering too great a penaity for the crime he had commited. He was evidentiv under the impression that common justice did not demand the extreme penalty of the law in his case, and he was particularly severe on the Governor, who is notorious for the exercise of clemency in cases of & far more aggravating nature than his Was. Ii the elections had not been over he woul not be bung, but now it mattered little with te Governor whether he was hung or not, . THE FINAL SCENE The last day had arrived and the sun shone brightly ri the bars of the condemned boy's cell window, ia sister and mother passed @ por ton of the morning with btm, and tuok a last fare Well, About a few minutes before one o'clock P. M. the sherif entered the ceil ana bound and nablted the condemned tn his death robes. He was then conducted to the scaffold, where he became fearfully nervous and excited. Being asked if he had any thing to say h lied “No,” and thea burst into the wildest exciamations of grief, mingled with the most piveous entreaties to his Maker for mercy. “O Jesus!" he repeated again and aguin “save me for this,” while great tears rolled down his boyish cheeks. The cap was then placed over his face, the rope was adjusted, and almost instandy a biow sent a prop dying from its posiiton; thud went the drop, and et the age of diteen the poor wretch Was thus ushered into eternity, The noose was not properly pla: and the condemned straggied for about five minutes, when ait became stil, After hanging about twenty-five minutes Iie was declared extiuel, and the body was cut down. Upon examt- mutton the features were fouad lo be tearfully dis torted. LVSASTER IN GRAVESEND BAY. Yesterday afeernoon & small sloop yacht, painted white, nuime unknown, was capsized in Gravesend bay, and one of the crew drowned. ‘The steamtug Starbuck approached the scene of the disaster in Unie to rescue one of the strugeling men, Who proved to be a German, but was ta sucd a state of exhan bon as ty be unable to tell eliher his owa ar tie yachts @ The rescued yachtman was We bosvital for treatment. Bent ce