The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1871, Page 13

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. . Eeclesiastical Meetings for 1871. Herald Religious Correspondence—Dollinger Ver- sas Dollinger—Dr. Booth and the Negro— “Great Cry and Little Wool’’—Influence of Protestautism on the Human Intel- lect—Justice for the Rev. Mr. Talmage—BReligious Personal and General News. fervices To-Day. Rev. Dr. J. P, Newman, of the Metropolitan Me- ‘thodist church, of Washington, D. C., will preach this morning in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Forty-first street, near Sixth avenue, and Rev. 0. 8. Harrower, the pastor, in the evening. “The Victories of the Church” will be the subject ‘Of @ discourse this evening by Rev. G. F, Seymour, in the Memorial church of Bishop Wainwright, West Eleventh street. Rev. Andrew Longacre preaches this morning and evening in the Central Methodist Episcopal huron, Seventh avenue, near Fourteenth street, Rev. Dr. Krotel preaches morning and evening in the Evangelical Lutheran Cnurch of the Holy ‘Trinity, West Twenty-first street. Rey. Thomas Street will preach this morning and evening in the North Presbyterian church, corner of Thirty-first street and Ninth avenue. Subject of the evening discourse—‘Esther, tue True Woman.” | Rey. R. Cameron will preacia in the Open Commu- anion Baptist church, Seventeenth street, this morn- ing, on “The Duty of the Church to the World.” Services also in the evening. Prominent speakers will address the Morning Star Sunday school, at 139 West ‘I'wenty-foarth street, at ‘heir monthly meeting, this afternoon at haif-past ‘two o'clock. “Elijah red” will be the subject of Rev. Dr. Wes- cott’s discourse this morning in Plymouth Baptist church, West Fi ty-first strect, and “Naaman Healed” the evening subject. Bev. sotin E, Cookman will preach, morning and evening, in Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, ‘West Thirty-fourth strect. Rev. E. C. Sweetser will preach this morning and evening in the Bleecker street Universalist church, corner of Downing street, Rev. Dr. Sanderson will preach this evening in the Lexington Avenue church, corner of Forty-sixth treet. Rev. Charies F, Lee will discourse on “David, the Singer," to-aay, in the Fifth Universalist church, Plimpton Building. “One with Christ’ and ‘‘Acts of Apostles’ will be the subject upon which Rev. C. C. Foote will preach im the Christian church, Twenty-eighth street, wis Morning and evening, respectively. Rey. J. M. Pullman will give the first of a series of a course of lectures to young men in the Church of Our Saviour (Sixth Universalist), Thirty-fiftn Street, this evening. Subject—Lavent Power.” Services as usuai in the morning. St, James’ Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Madison avenue and 126tn street, will be dedicated to-day. Bishop Simpson will preach in the morning, Bishop Janes in the afternoon and Rey. Dr. Newman im the evening. . “The Relation of Spirit to Matter and of tne Spiritual World to the Material World” will be tbe subject of Rev. Chauncey Giles’ lecture this evening, in the New Jerusalem (Swedenborglan) church, Thirty-fittn street. Mr. B. F, Underwood will deliver a lecture this afternoon in Apollo fall, on “The Influence of Onristianity on Civilization,” and in the evening on “The Darwinian Theory Explained ana Vindl- coated." Rev. Dr. Ewer preaches morning and evening in Onrist church, Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street. Rey. Dr. Rylace, rector ot St. Mark's church, will preach this evening in the Church of the Transfigu- ration in behalf of the House of Rest for Consump- tives. Rev. Merrill Richardson preaches morning and evening in the New England Congregational church, Madison avenue. Rev. Mr. Hepworth will preach morning and even- ing in the Church of the Messiah. “No Room for the Lord” will be the subject of his evening dis- course, Rey. Morris Evans, of London, will preach this af- ternoon in the Welsh Baptist church, Chrystie street. Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan will speak before the So- elety of Spiritualists this morning and evening, in ‘Trenor’s Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, Hecclesiastical Meet for the Year 1871. GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. Presbyterian, Chicago, Ill., May 18, Southern Presbyterian, Huntsville, Ala., May 18. Cumoerland Presbyterian, Nashville, Tenn., May United Presbyterian, Xenia, Ohto, May 24. GENERAL SYNODS. ‘Reformed Presbyterian, Phi!adelphia, Pa., May 17. Evangelical Lutheran, Dayton, Onio, June 8. Reformed (Mutch), Albany, N. Y., June 7. GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS, &C. Conference of Khode Island, Providence, June 13, General Association of Massachusetts, Easthamp- ton, June 20. General Association of Connecticut, New Haven, dune 20, General Association of Vermont, Newport, June General Association of New Hampshire, Laconta, August 22. Generat Conference of Maine, Bath, June 27. Episcopal General Convention, Baltimore, Octo- yr de Influence ef Protestantixm ou Human Intellect. To THe EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— Agreat many of the so-called smart men of this so-called smart age will consider the heading of this article wild, and qn argument founded on it para- doxical and perhaps ridiculous. But 1 will, how- ever, advance the proposition, and, J think, will substantially prove it, Why, tn the first place, has the nineteenth century given birth to intellectual imbecility? And are we not told that the nineteenti: century and Protestantism are like terms, or one and tho same thing? Where are the men to Protestant countries, in oratory, in statcs- manship, in any sphere of intellectual effort, who as a class can favorably compare with the men of thirty, sixty or a hundred years ago? Why is it that the average cultivated non-Catholic mind in this country at the present moment, in phbliosopnic and sctentitic research, will go no deeper than G@reeley’s celebrated epitome of theoretical non- sense, unscientific science and agricultural-chemical ‘bos, entitled “What I Know about Farming;” and in it poetic aspirations can settle down in com- placent satisfaction reading Bret Harte’s doggerel balderdash on the ‘Heathen Chincet” But 13 not Protestantism the mother of material civilization? ‘Yes; in the mechanical, utilitarian order—in the de- velopment of the earth—in the appliance of science and human be dag! to the development of the resources of the earth and the gene Jooking alter and improvement of man!s temporal, earthly condition there has been a gréat progress since the revolt of Luther; but it can only conceive OF create, not sustain nor perpetuate. As Chris- Uanity 6 the ouly foundation principle of true civ- ilization and as Protestantism has failed ia continu. ous spiritual, Christian untty, developing terly more of the temporal than the eternal character of the Church, therefore under its influence the hu- man mind degenerates—becomes more animal than intellectual and spirivual. In the first place, tne de- velo} human tntellect, in order to Make any suc coastul effort—any true, lasting effect that wiil bene- fit humanity or civilization—inust tirstiuave for Its nuoleus truth, Let it start off without the support -of this great foundation stone and tt wil only tim- ble abstractedly in space—create, no doubt, & mo- mentary, ephemera noise; but sooner or later lose its balance fall stricken motionless ¢0 the earth, Now, where are ail the really great men of the nine- teenth century to be found?’ Joseph du Maistrie, Count de Montalempert, Jonn Henry Newman, Dr, Dollinger, Dr. Manning, Father Ventura, Cardinal ‘Wiseman, Abbe Lacordaire, Dr. Brownson, Monsetg- neur Capelle, Father Felix and many others, who are tried, subtantial men, are to be found only in the Catholic Church. Well, now, some non-Catholic says, 1 Will show you & list of men that will odvet your list—Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Profes- r Huxtey, Sir Charlies Lyell, Professurs Owen, Suoxle, Hegel, Schelling, Huinboldt, Hugh Milier, M. Guizot, Lord Macaulay, James Anthony, Froude, d 80 forth. Wel, my friend, what aout all these men? Can you prove to me that any one of these men named, with the exception of Guizot and Macaulay, have performed enough lasting and mert- ‘torious services to humanity and civilization to be called “greatr” Some of thi them, however, have shelped solence and material progress; but ts there | Dewits Talmage. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 14. 187 Oue in tnis list whose teachings, sophical or moral, in their logical develo; ment, aa | worked out in civilization and civil society, but will degrade man in the social order and, logically, de | moraiize the hamaa tutellect? But 13 there not ; enoug® inteilectaal tmbectitty In Catholic countries, | too? Yes; but uot 30 widespread. [t ia only, low- ever, in those countries in Which Protestantism has | run ‘Its full course that there 1s to be found, even among the so-called educated ciasses, that imbe- cility in nealiny, intellectual thought; that watery senumetality, that obtuse stupidity, and that neral fii back inio inteliectual anarchy. wing lost sight Of truth, the mind, therefore, struggles in intellectnat chaos withous radder or com and is shipwrecke:l. Look at our public lecturers, talking trash to a stupid public; look at our newspapers and magazines, full of nonsensical | sentumental fiction, trash upon trash; look at our state and national legislators, twitting cach other of | stealing, and getting off “sioo dy’ rhetoric; look atthe got of money riding over Intellect, right, truth and ail in its course; and when we see all tus in the hgat of day, how tar are we then trom social, Moral aus political anarchy? Having lost sight of | truth, established and infallibie in regiou, mixing | up revelation and reason, science and civilization; exaiting earth and forgetting heaven, giving away to the mere animal naiure, theretore the logical re- sult is intellectual imbecinty, social demoralization, and in its final results, anarchy, barbarism, des- truction, death. * Justice for the Rev. Mr. Talmage. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Every Christian who reads the HERALD—we were | going to say every one who reads it, for we think all | its readers must have been converted by this time | under its Christlanizing infuence—cannot but feel | grateful to you for the honest criticisms on the leading pulpit orators of the day, which have ap- | eared in your columns from week to week during the past few months, We think, however, that you did some injustice, a few weeks since, to the Rev. T. Although you admitted him to be & man of power, and even maintained in opposition to the general impression, we think, that his voice, | though savoring of the “Jersey datuess’’ was, never- theless, pleasant and agreeable, stili you seemed to think that Mr. Talmage was seeking popularity, or in other words, his own glorification rather than the salvation of lost souls, You are not alone im this belief; in fact we have found that most persons who either have not heard hiin at all or, at least not often | enough t form an unpre,udiced opinion, be- eve tim tw be @ mere sensationultst, seek. ing to amuse rather than instruct Iris audiences. When the nawe of Taluage was | first sounded in our ears, and long stories of his sen- sationailsm and self conceit began to spread through | the press, we, too, Were inclined iv be prejudiced | Ly ere aun, But we had, for so many years, been | admirers of Beccher, ana had so ofien battled against tue prejudiced minds of our friends who thought of Beecher then as many think of ‘Talmage Dow, aud being desirous to show these friends that we tried to practice what we had so often preached to thein—unprejudiced jndginent—we determined to throw away oar prejudice, and with minds unbiased, to go aud hear the celebraced pastor of the Brooklyn ‘Tabernacle. We heard him; and what little preju- dice might have been left in our minds withered be- fore the preacher’s eloquence like a leaf beneath une scorchiig rays of the summer's sun, and we besi- tated not to proclaim DeWitt Talmage one of the leading pu'pit orators of the day. Thus far we are all agreed: but what about his self-conceit and love of popularity ? One might naturally suppose, trom the sen=aifonal subjects which he chooses for his discourses, that he desired only to draw great crowds and to withhold irom them the * strong ineat,’? the subsiantial doctrine, and to feed them on milk and honey to give them an hour’s amusement. We admit that when Mr. T' mage 18 speaking he 1s fully aware of his own p' ence; but we do not believe his seli-esteem carries him away—lia fact, we think it adds force to bis eloguence. We admit that the main object of his preaching seems to be effect; not that effect, how- | ever, a3 it has been intimated, which would result only in tie glorification of the speaker and in the amusement of his hearers; but an effect such as would deeply umpress the stuful with a sense of their sinfulness and rouse up tok goose chris tian to a life of greater activity and usefulness. Mr. Talmage’s discourses demand av great strain of the intellect; they are, almost strictly, appeals to the feelings. li the theme of his discourse be temper- ance, he cuters into no lengthy explanation of the effects of alcohol on the plysical system; he uses no logic; but with his two-edged sword he cuis mght aud left at the accursed rum as if it were a wild beast with open mouth trying to devour him. And thus ne treats all subjects, With language forcible and cutting he depicts the most ieariul horrors, and tramples under foot the most stupeudons evils. Such Preaching as this might not suit everybody; per- hapa, It would not suit us always. But we believe 1 i8 much better adapted to many people than that preaching which 13 perhaps more instructive and doctrinal. And we earnestly hope that those people who are so ready to condemn Mr. Talmage and bs reaching, will go and hear him oiten enough to Mioge him fairly and without prejudice; and we can- not but believe, whatever may be the opinion of otners, that the multitudes who fill the Brooklyn Tavernacle, Sabbath alter Sabbath, will conunue to be greatiy blessed, as they have been in times past, New York, May 9, 1871. JUSTITIA. Dollinger vs. Dollinger. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— ‘The following extracis from Dr. Von Déllinger's work, “Church aud Churches,’ furnish the best argument against his recent course that can be ad- duced, and as they are of particular interest to the readers of your journal at the present tame I hope you will publish them. When any man who has considered the claims of the Church admits her in- fallibility as an expounder in matters of faith and morals, he must, a8 @ corollary, also admit the infallibility of the Pope to the same extent, How absurd, then, is the position of Déllinger, who, asa Catholic, admits the infallibility of the Church, and yet, when that Church bas defined an article of Taithin an authoritative manner, speaking as the voice of the Holy Ghost, he quibbles and questions the truth of the decision! The Church, as a human agency, up to the time when the Holy Spirit illu. mined the understandings of her bishops in council, used all worldly means to discover the truth. In- quiry, criticism and discussion were exhausted, alded by the prayers of the faithful in every land. DOilinger, too, had his say through his book “Janus” before the definition was made, and now, not content with all that, he asks to reopen the whole matter by an appeal from # superior to an interior ceurt, I willlet him snow up his own in- consistency. He says, beginning on page 45:— Outside of the Catholic Church {thas become almost a common form of speech to boundi 7 ast. ‘The Papal power is in at can be imagined, for its to ail persons; and, aa the ble Umes openly deciared, and ordinances of the and ite poiuis. The Papal See is thus, before all others, called upon to ui an exauple of the most rigid adherence to Church ten and it ia oniy upon this condition that it can rely upon oL dience to itself on the part of individual churches, or cal- unju cd @, is to maintain nd to prevent any Intring Church’has iong nince bad iis estab: legislation culate upon tue Tespect of the faitutul. Hence every one well grounded in a knowledge of ecclesiastical legisiation tainty auticipate what the Papal | dts this, x considerable portion of Church ordinances rests, according to the Views of Catho- Hes, oa the Divine commandment; and are, consequently, for every one, and of course for the Papal power be tampered with. ‘he Pope cannot dispense which are commanded by Divine law. This is universally acknowledge. He quotes, in corroboration of what he has writ- ten Pius the VII.:— The Pope 1s bound by the nature and the instit Catholic Church, whose bead he ts, within cera Nantey which he dare not overstep without violating his conscience and abusing that supreme power which Jesus Christ nas confided to him to employ for the buflding up and not the de- struction of His Church. He next quotes from the great American scholar, the fate Archbishop of Baithnure, who says in his “Primacy of the Apostolic See" :— The faithiul are suflictently protected a by tie freedom of thelr own conse inst oe had xf len , mad to. yicul obedience to authority ‘when liegrantiy abused. The Pope only addresses conscience; his laws atid censures are only powerful inasmuch as ‘they are ac- Knowledged to be passed under Divine sanction. stitution wii flood of re aive anew fom the very mature of the thing felt ‘The Papni See will not be destroyed because it ia not reach- able by any human power; because no oneearth 1s strong and yowert al enough to destroy it: If all the powers of Bu: Tope were to unite for ite destruction they could not effect it. that human power to iH and, (oF a long Rome. A\ i indisper atone of the whole _butlding ‘world | Church—the only society that has earnest fulfilled the given purpose of God; that is, to embrace all humanity, and find room for’ allna- tions. The Papacy will continue because God wills cause avery Catholic believes in it; because two bundred mil Hons of men in in all parts of the world desire it; because every one whu knows the conaition of the world acknowl- edges it. The Pope cannot, dare not, teach otherwise than as. these two hundred miilions believe, and have And these millions will, must have the Pope him to be taken from them—will not suffer him to fall. Americaus will find this book very interesting, es- Pecially the chapter on p. 219-249, A CATHOLIC, ind Ni Dr. Booth on the White Maa Answored. To THe Eprtor oF THE HERALD;— I regret that it ts necessary for me to encroach again upon the columns of your most excellent jour- nal, but knowing that you willingly hear both sides of every question I have presumed to make a few re- marks regarding the late article of Dr. Booth “On the Origin of the White Man.” I think the cause for surprise at the renewal of the discussion should be Om my patt instead of his, since the oly argument to be invalid, a8 the negro 1s no cooler on the ground Of radiation or. evaporatioa on account of his color, This he seems to admit, since he has dropped the subject in the present article and discusses points Of minor importance which really have no bearing On the question. My object at present 13 to free my- self trom the accusation of unfairaoss and ignorance with which Tam charred, I acknowledge the au- thority of the saw aud Kalfe in all questions of ana- tomy, but im those of ethnology the testi- mony of actual observers only {8 to be accepted, In regard to the charge of un- fairness tn not quoting all the thirteenth chap- ter of Nehemiah I would say that my sole object Was to prove that tha Hebrews were forbidden by their laws to marry foreigners, and the rest of the chapver contained an account of the extent to which amsigamation had taken place, and did not prove it was not forbidden, any more than the fact that steallug 13 carried on in this city proves that it isnot forbidden by our laws. Iadmit that Dr. Booth knew that the negro possessed hair in- stead of Wool; but in his article, Which was my only criterion, he fairly justified us in drawing the op- posite conclusion. Had he remembered or quovea kpown in this community for her Christian character and ber charities, The architect of the chureh was Mr. W. T. Hallett, while Mr. Edward F. ; Potter, of the ecclesiastical family of that name, it | the archivece of the altar, which will be, next to that in St. Stephens, the most elegant and expensive structure of the kind in this country. Universalism in the Interior. ‘The First Universalist church of Richfield Springs, N, Y.—Rev. 8. R. Ward, pastor—1s being enlarged, and both the exterior and interior of the eduico | Cntirely removlelied and finished tn the most ap- proved modern style. The Universalist Society of tho Village is in & most fourisning condition, and every praise is due the pastor, Mr. Ward, for his zealous | and unceasing labors to promote the interests of ; the society under his charge. The church has re- cently been the recipient of a donation from Mr. Albert De Groot, of this city, of two memoriai win- | dows, @ silver communion service, a Biblio and hymn book for the pulpit and books for the Sabbath school. The church wiil be completed early in Juty, | opening service. Reman Catholic Confirmations. ‘The Most Reverend Archbishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday, May 7. in | and the Rev. %. Lf. Chapin ts to officiate at the | correctiy my language in regard to the “hairy sheep" he would have seen that the charge of reord | the church of St. Nicholas, to 480 persons; on Mon- Trance was ungrounded. | said, They lose all their | cay, May 8, in the Church of the Holy Innocents, to Wool and become covered with hair,’ instead of | 870 persons Confirmation will be administered staung, as he has it, that the ‘wool changed to | to-day in the Churco of our Lady of Sorrows, and hair.” He says the innabitaats of the polar regions ; on Taesday, May 16, in St. Patrick's Cathedral. | san } least not to strougi nen tt. are not black, yet he does not staie their coior. ‘The term black, a8 applied to the color of races, has @ very broad meaning. Thus we speak Of the nezro, the Spaniard and the Brasiiiao a8 being black. The Esquimanx are not as dark as tue negroes; 1 never they were. Dr. Pritchard says tueir color is & very dark brown, with a biuisn tinge, If they were but. one-eighth as dark as the negro the want of design would be just as evidout, so jong as the inhabitants of the tem- perate regions are hghter, ‘tue fact that tue polar animals are white does not artect his argument—at The Esyuimaux dogs, L think, are descended from ancestors from whom they ditter tn color; the white individuals which had appeared irom time to time were preserved, since by this peculiarity they were enabied to sv vive those not possessing 11, being able to escape their eneinles by being undistinguisnabie from tne snow; this peculiarity was inherited by their oi spring, whence sprung the white dog. For adui- Monal ilustration of tis subject 1 would refer him to Wallace ‘On Natural Selection.” It was through no fear of being compelled to acknowledge the val- -ldity of my opponent's arguments that I did not answer directly tne quesuon, “iow the negro reached New Hoiland.”” 1 thought that wheu | stated that | pelleved the Ludians crossed the ocean to America from Asia it mizht be inferred tnat L thought the negroes reached New Holland in a sim- ilar manner, which is actually my belief, Pro!essor Huxley's authority has great weight on many ques- tions, bub until he proves that man inhabited tats earth cus the tertiary epoch the positive state- ment of De la Beche may be fairly placed against this mere surmise. lu statiug that the various breeds of dogs are the offspring of a common parent Dr. Booth says | have a-su— ed what bas never been proved. 1 have made this statement apon the au- thority of almost ail naturalists, who refer all dogs to une species domesticus, genus canis; so Ll think the Tespousibility of proof rests upon the naturalists. The hairless dog of Guiana is a vanety—not a spe- cies, as the author has it—of this genus. The fox and the wolf are stationary, because they are con- fined to a portion of the globe only; while the dog, like man, has representatives everywhere, and would be moditled by external circumstances, whereas the fox and wolf Would remain the same. The author admits that some of the Jews of Cochin have been changed, but not by climate. It was Dr. Pritchard who claimed this as the effect of climate alone. I would include other external influences also, It is a great admission on the part of the writer, a8 it shows that he has been compelled to give up his old notion that a race could only be changed by amalgamation. The question of indt- viduals or races does not alter the result, for if an individual can change s0 can & race, witch 16 but a collection of individuals, I leave the reader to jJuage whether the argument of destgn brought for- ward by the author has or has not been r and whether ail other minor points have been setiied. I will give a single quotation from Dr. Pritchard, which is the conclusion at which he arrived aiter years of study in this department of scieace:— “The diferent races of men are not distingwsha- ble from each other by uniform, permanent and strongly marked distinctious, as the several species belonging to a given tribe of animals, All diversi- ties that exist are variable, and pas3 into each other by insensible gradations, and there 1s, more- over, scarcely an instance in which the actual transitions cannot be proved to have take place.’? QUID EST VERILAs. “Good Clothes vs. Good Seata.’? TO THE EpIToR OF THE HARALD:— ~ Inthe Heap of Sunday last some exceedingly pious youth, who signs himself J. A. L.,”’ complaiued. very bitteriv of not having been ushered to just the Particular seat in Dr. Hepworth’s church which took bis Christian fancy. alluded to does not wear good clothes, which “J. A. L."’ seems to consider a sort of crime; but he certainly does not ‘iack oliteness’”? when he is asked for @ seat by any- ody who comes to the church to hear and be edi- fied instead of making a parade of his own make-up | and his want of that gentlemanly demeanor which can be assumed out ol respect tor others, even where it is pot natural. The Church of the Messian, let me say. 18 not a free church, and if “J, A. L.” 13 & sincere admirer of Dr. Hepworta I think the best way he can slow his appreciation of the fact would be to hire a pew. Tue ushers are always willing to accommodate all comers so far as lies In their power, but they have no power to keep pewholders out of their seats to oblige every person who wants to air himself and his perfumery im the best seat in the nouse. Yours, JAMES H. PHIPPS, Madison avenue. Cursing and Swearing According to Law. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Permit me to suggest that, as car and street out- rages are now the principal topics of public discus- sion, the following provision of the law be en- forced:—‘“‘Every person who shall profanely curse or swear shalt forteit one dollar for every offence — 1 Key, Stat. (Edm.), 626. If Superintendent Kelso would instruct his officers to arrest every offender found in the act of committung an infraction against this jaw, and also those to whori their attention might be calied, do not you think car drivers, street loafers and other embryo assassins would be better behaved and the effect generally highly salutary ? Respectfully, &c., Be Protestantism in Mexico. The following from the pen of Mr. Altamirano, an eminent Mexican writer, will give aa idoa of the strides being made by Protestantism in Mexico:— A PROTESTANT CHURCH. Yesterday a Protestant tempie was dedicated in the locality which was formerly the church of in José de Gracia, and which was adorned with that Christian simplicity that characterizes the temples of the rejormed religion, in which the second commandment of the Decalogue is rigor- ously observed, 7, ¢., (hat neither images nor tdois are adnuited. The audience was immense and completely filled the nave of the church throughout the day. “We learn that 1,500 seats were placed; but they Were not enough, and very many of the beliey- ers remained standing. We were present for the purpose of observing the scene, as we do not profess the Protestant foria of religion, and we were abie to note— First—That the throng was made up of all classes sexes and ages—iadies, gentlemen, artisans and numerous Indians—all were mingled tn one senti- ment of real paternity, according (to tne spirit of the Gospel, and all read from their prayer books and participated in singing their hymns. Second—That, althengh the audience was s0 numerous, there was manifest a spirit of devotion | such as we have never seen hitherto in any of tue Roman churches of this city or country, inasmuch as Weare accustomed to regard them rather as Places of pleasure, of amusement and of flirtation than as houses of prayer. Third—That the democratic sentiment is better developed by Protestanusm than by Roman Ca- tholicism, on account of its form of worstip and the suppression of that species of fetichism imposed by the sacerdotal hierarchy among the Roman: snce, though the Lutherans, for example, have bishops, they scarcely diifer from presbyters, and do not present themseives in public with such @ Pompous staff of chaplains, familiers, secretaries, masters of ceremonies, cross bearers mounted on mules, vergers, acolytes and beadles, as causes such bishops to be considered almost as a fourth person of the Most Holy Trinity, Among the Protestants this Is not the case; the bishop is scarcely to be distinguished except by the greater amount of labor that he performs, All day Worship was kept up in San José de Gracia, the Presbyter Agnas preaching and another who Is the pastor of the new church, and In the afternoon two children were baptized. Perhaps we were the only one who attended through mere curtosity, as all the others showed by their handling of their prayer books that they were old Protestants, Assuredly Protestantism 1s making rapid progress in Mexico, waich forces us to congratulate the Vos ge Mexico, since they Kyeces ots! its triumph. M. ALTAMIRANO, Federaliata, Free Churet of S. Mary the Virgin. On the south side of West Forty-fifth street, be- tween Broadway and Fighth avenue, & beautiful little church, bearing the above ttle, has lately been erected upon land presented vy Mr. J. J. Astor, whose generous gift is one of many from the same source of which the world bears but litte, This church ts of the Protestant Episcopal Ritu. @listic, or High ehurch order, under the pastoral charge of the Kev. T. MeKee Brown, tor. merly assistant to the Rev. Dr. of Christ church. Father brown of the most advanced of Angitcan priest daily celebration of the Holy Bucharist A.M. throughout the year. Un Sundays high mass 18 Sung at halt-past ten A. M., and at four and nalf- past seven P.M. Quite an attraction ts about to be added to the litle churoh of St. Mary the Virgin ia A white marble altar, & gilt (fom one Of Ke Medi It may be that the usher Religious Notes—Perronal and General. mous call to the Prog@itertxn chureh in Jersey City. Rey. George T. Le Botillier, of Parsippany, N. J., has accepted a unanimous call to the Bethany Pres- byterian church, Utica, N. Y. Rey. Isaac Westcott, D. D , pastor of the Plymouth ; Baptist church, in Filty-first street, in thia city, | preached last Sunday morning in review of his forty years of pastoral lavor, Rey. W. J. Parrot, of Pontiac, has been called to Ann Arbor, Mich. The proposal to unite the Pres- ; byterian and the Congregational churches of the | latter place has (ailen through, | The Metnotisc Recorder claims that repnbtican | Methodism, as it now styles 118 denomination, has | recently gained ground, aud that in important | pomts the Methodist Eptscopal uroh 18 drawing | near to the body which, in 1828, 1t drove into e xile. The Episcopalians of Pennsylvania have in con- puon of mimority representation nuons by means of the cumuative mplation the ad iu diocesan con’ vote, A writer tn the Zptscopal Register tears that vuis will give minorities an undue preponer- ance, Mr. J. Warren Stanton offers the First Congresa- tional church tn Stcnington, Conn., $10,000, and the | Second church (of which he ts a member) $25,000, on condition tiat taney each raise by subscription an amount equa: w thelr respective gilts, the whole to remain as a permanent fnad for the society. A PROPOSED NATIONAL EXCHEQUER. To THE Epitor of THR HERALD:— Ibeg to submit to the HERALD a brief synopsis, with some considerations on the same, of @ proposed bill for a National Exchequer which has received tho approval of many eminent merchants as the best way of meeting the changes of which there are many portents on the financial hortzon:—1l. There Shall be an impost or capital of $100,000,000, divided into shares of $1,000 each, to be contributed one- quarter in coin and three-quarters in legal tenders. 2. The institution to be divided into two depart- ments—one for the issue of Exchequer notes, covered by a deposit of coin and government bonds in the proportion of onein coin to three in government bonds up to two hundred millions, then one in coin to two in government bonds for*two hundred mil- lions more, and then one in coin to one-in govern- ment bonds for two hundred millions more, The Issue Department to be under the control of three Commissioners at each office, one appointed by the President, one by the Governor of the State and one by the proprietors of the Exchequer. The other de- partment jor banking, its discounts bemg limited to twice its capital and the rate of interest limied to six per cent. 3 The capital to be distri- buted equally, im proportion to population, to tue several sections of the country. 4. The chief omMice of the Exchequer to be in the city of New York, 6. The government tu keep its accounts with the Exchequer, 6, Any of the present national banks are allowed, under certain conditions, to sub- scribe the whole or any part of their capital to the Exchequer. 7. A governor of the Exchequer to be annually erected by the directory. 8. Limitation of powers and definition of functions of the National exchequer, confining it to its legitimate purpose of giving stability to the business and currency of the nauon. Without giving the bill in er/enso it will be seen ; that the proposition 18 of the first magnitude. A t and thrifty people like the population of the Site States should have @ currency converttvle at any point in coin, but. at the same time, the pressing necessity of the country is capital. A radical deiect in the present system of banking 1s tn its failure, ex- cept at points where the deposits are large, to fur- nish any increase of the loanabie capital or credit of the nation. Take, for example, any Village where there are few merchants and but little idle money and there establish a bank of $100,000 capital, The government bonds cost $111,000 and $90,000 of notes enly can beissued for the u-e of the community. Here we have a clear diminution of the loanable capital, while the proprietors of the bank draw six per cert in coin on $10),000 ana whatever they make additional by the use of the $90,000 in notes. This defect in the present system is fatal to its usefulness, but another defect exists in the danger to govern- ment credit from any attempt to resume specie payments. If the legal tenders were withdrawn the whole structure would tumble, as the banks have not coin enough to keep them going an | hour outaide of the city of New York. Another great evil is the Sub-Treasury—the deformed oif- spring of the pet banks—and their failure in 1837, The government hoids now Idle, as it has done in the past, more than one hundred millions in coin and greenbacks, totally witudrawn from the channels of trade, and, in itself, @ poor investinent in an active ana growing country. A National Ex- chequer would grasp all these matters and lend, as with absolute certainty, toa natural and easy re- sumption of specie payments, would increase the loanable capital of the country by two hundred mi- lions and wouid equalize the distribution of banking capital. ‘The same ideas have not yet been submitted in any practical shape, and now that they are so sub- mitted, it is respectiully suggested to the great mer- chants of New York that some of their number place themselves at the head of such an istitution and bring order out of the present chaos. Every national bank will find in the Exchequer a powerful aux- iary; 1 would settle all fears as to tue course of government; wouid leave the banks free to use their ; OWn capital, and saould they aeed more money would be always at hand to discount their bilis re- celvable, at not over six per cent per annum, besides ‘allowing tiem to retire any portion of | thelr circniation which may reach the Exche- quer from the goverment or other depost- tories, by transferring their negotiable noes properly endorsed in settlement for their bank notes, In other words, the tragsition from an irre- deemable paper curreacy to oue redecmabie in coin would be easy and natura), since the agent which would bring about this’ result could have onty one object in view—viz., to protect tiself and render every other banking institution safe and prosperous; the governinent holding, through its commissioner funds to meet all tssues of the ex- chequer, and with the rates of interest and ex- change limited, no public or private interest could be damaged. The division of the Exchequer into two depart- ments gives the note holder unquestioned security, while the use of the notes in discounts by the bank- ing department would give them all the qualities of @ bank pote, in this that every exchequer pote right- | fay in circulation would be evidence not onty of a debt due by the Exchequer, but also of a debt due hequer. Ww n incalculable impetus would be given to our foreign Pacific trade by the addition of $20,000,- | 090 to tre loanable capital of San Francisco! Let the proposition be canvassed in all Its bearings, and, if it presents @ solution of our financial troubles, carry it mo effect. Ii time and space permitted it could be shown that by the adoption of an exchequer sys- tem a saving of $40,000,000 every ten years, a firth of the national debt, would be evected for the nation; ! tt could be shown that the bapplest political resulis would flow from @ better distribation of banking capital, giving reltef to suffering and restless por- tions of the Union; but IT shall not enter further into the subject at present. ‘This is an age of grand ideas. No country relishes them more than tae United States, and no piace is more capaole of Stasping and utihzing them than New York. Why ailow London to m olize the trade aud money of the world? New York is wise d mighty enough to sway Sceptre of her own, and not bow before that of arival queen. It seems meet that the HERALD, as the great exponent of tne thoughtful and go-ahead portion of the United States, sould first present this subject to the country. S A BILLS SICNED BY THE GOVERNOR. The following additional bills have been approved by the Governor, and are now on file in the ofice of the Secretary of State:— 922—Opening and grading Forty-ninth street in New Utrecht. }— Incorporating American Mortgage and Trust Company. 924—Incorporating the United States Mortgage Company. 925—Amending act authorizing the formation of ratiroad corporations. 926—To lay out and improve a public highway tn the town of Flatbush, on the easterly side of Pros- pect Park. ANOTHER BRIDGE OVER THE MISSISS.FP1.—A com ib iy! has hs Sees he purpose of building a suspeasion, bridge over the river as Uses pou.” Capital atock, ‘Misaissi| $1200.00). Rey. Hiram Eddy, D. D., has accepted a unant- | 1—QUADRUPLE SHEET. litical, philo- | advanced by him, that from design, has bocn shown — bers as & memortal to his deceased wife, # lady well | | THE ETERNAL CITY. A Tribute of Respect from the Foreign Ladies | The Church M in Rome to the Holy Father. 13 RELIGION IN GERMANY, ovement fa the Empire. The Pope's Health and Habite—Contradictory | The Dollinger Excit>ment Dying Out—Activity Accounts—His Holiness Congratulates His Bishops—News from the East, Rome, April 23, 1871, One of the Roman papors draws e paralict be- tween the Pope's specches and Caribaldi’s letters, at least for their frequency of iate. We have just Passed through a period of Papal demonstrations consequent on the recurrence of tne 12th April, and his Holiness has had to reply to the muititorm ad- dresses anu offerings presented to him on that occa sion, I mentioned tn my tast letter that the noble Roman ladies, in number about a hundred, waited of the Ultramontanes—What Assurances Did the Emporor Give the Pope !—Enligh ened German Catholics and Pro. testants — Protestant Into'e- ano3—A Thorough Beform. Brerin, April 27, 1871, There are but few who adhere to the beltef thas the movement which now agitates the Catnolic Churctr ts not a schism, but simply an !* ternal strife, which wil terminate by the submission of bot eplacopacy and laity to the established discipline of on the Ponti on the morning of the 12th inst. in | the Church. It ts true that until now thevelerzy, the tho great Conststorial Hall and presente him a gor. | Teal écclesta regvans, with but few excepions, have geous carpet with which to decorate the balcony of | acknowledged the unlimited authority of the Pope. St. Peter's, from which locality they expressed their fervent desire to see him confer once more his bene- diction urdtet arbi Pins IX. replied to those pious ladies in terms full of gratitude for thelr delicate consideration, but fall of doubt respecting the ful- filment of their desires. The chief pact of his Holl- | ness’ discourse was devoted to a comparison ve- | tween himself ant St. Peter, who, afer totling all | night without catching any fish, nad a miraculoas take on obeying the Savtour’s conrmand to “CASE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STP.” The Liderta exprains this parable by recommend: | ing the Ponti to change entirely the direction of | lis poiicy, and abandon temporal ambition for | purely spiritual affairs, fishing hencetorward sor souls tnatead of world!y crowns, Huwasmg the example of the Boman patrician dames, now visiting or rosidiog in boring nearly a hundred, presented themselves in | the great Consistortal Hall om the morning of the Rome, also num- Toth, with an oifering and an address. The offering | was of a somewhat unusual nature, consisting of a valdacchino or panoply for the balcony of St. | Peter's, intending thereby to follow up the idea of the Roman ladies, and prepare a more splendic to- cality than ever for Pius IX. redivirus, whenever it shail please lus flotiness to emerge from his volun- tary imprisonment. The following is the text of THH FOREIGN LADIES’ ADDRK: “Most Holy FaTukR—Deign to permit us to de- posit at your feet this canopy, which will complete tne offering of the Roman ladies, and wiica, as we hope from the vottom of our souls, will soon serve for the august ceremony, which all your faithful children implore with all the ardor and tenderness of their souls. Most Holy Father! deign to accept it and to dless us and our families.” HIS HOLINESS’ REPLY. In reply, the Pope commenced by stating that every bullding in order to be compicte required three elements—the foundation, the walls and the | Toof, He went on to say thatin the present fright. | ful whirlpool of passion ali Christian souls must look to the Lord for preservation from immimenut destruction and to His Vicar tor a renewal of his, salutary blessing. Lis Hoimess continued to de- + Velop his comparison of an edifice by saying that the | Papal standard designated the walls of the Christian. labric, and the canopy or baldacchino, completed with such care and presented to hin by the ladies, represented its roof; but its foundation was the blessing of God. “My God! exclaimed his Holi- | ness, ‘give new force to. your Vicar on earth, new | Vigor to his voice and arm, so tuat ne may be placed | ¢, in @ situauicn of becoming a sign of reconcliauon and peace, and blessing ouce more all the Catholic people from the summit of the Vatican balcony, re- storing thus, by your aid, Society to calmness and | the practice of Christian virtues.’ Plus PX. invited tne Frenen ladies who formed part of the deputation to pray for their torn and distracted country, and said that he had read with horror in a journal published in Rome, and considered as moderate, an article expressing a wish that the Communists may triumph at Paris, “But let us leave the blind and the leaders of the blind, and, hastening by our Wishes and prayers the moments of divine mercy, let us receive Dow, 18 an earnest of that benediction which the Vicar of Jusus Christ will have to impart sitting on the Vatican balcony—let us receive, 1 say—the benediction watch God himself at \us mo- ment imparts toyou by the hand of tis auworthy | Vicar! May it be tor edch of you a pledge of heavenly love !* In ali these Interviews his Holiness expresses his firm conviction of & final iumph, asserting that it 4s impossible for the kingdom of Italy to last, found- ed, as 1 13, ON an entire separation trom God, ‘The great question ts whether or not large numbers of the laity, the ecciesia serviens, will openly cease to obey, and it woujd seem that in many sections of Germany they are jReparing to do so. If the schism which undoubtedly exists between tue Roman Pon- tir and the bolters trom the Ecumenical Council wore headed by radical reformers of energetic tarm It would have already shaken the rock of St Peter to its very foundation. But it must not be fergottom that D65ilinger ana his disciples are priests and were brought up from their earliest injancy as pious Catholics, who, not unike the ‘avatic pilgrims of old, Wit not make two stops fr vard without make ing one backward, ACRLVITY OF THE ULTRAMONTANES. It ig wonderful to behold the ant-like activity dis- Played by the ullramontanes in stemming the current of the age, which has unquestionably deteriorated at least the temporary scasfolding of the Church of Rome. There is not a Catholic commuatty in Ger- many the priesi of which, closely watched by the bishop, does not exhort his Mock to continue scead- fast im the faith, and not a nobleman, stavesman or any iniluential individual who 1s not taken tn hand far more stringently than any political organization ever attempted and made to work in benalfof the cause which the orihodox managers concetve as the exclusive medium of salvation, And again, what wonderiul silence and what a system cf secrecy characterizes this ant-like work to which i} is the undeniable merit of Dolliager to have imparted new and uawonted energy and vigor. Fully three months ago a deputation of the Silesian Knights of Malta, headea by the Duke of Ratibor, and another of the enisi-Wes'phalian Knights of Matta, headed by Karon Von Schorlemer, carried to Versatiles and put into the hands of the Emperor an a in favor of the independence of the Pope. Not @ word of the answer given them by the Em- peror has since transpired in the umns of the ever bapbling press. they kept it from everybody, allowing it to ve revealed only now, when they see fit to play out one of their big trumps. Under the peculiar’ circumstances, Protestants and Catholics fighting side by side against the French foe, the peror might hi enjoined: secrecy upon them, And where can another organization be found whica would so fully keep similar instructions? Now, however, when the utmost efforts are making to enlist the sympathies of the German government in behall of the Church of Rome, they for the first time publish in their new Catnolic organ of this city— rmania—the Emperor's reply. it is said to bave n to the jollowing effect:—My sentiments to- Wards the Pope, as the religious sovereign of my Cathouc subjects, Dave always been the same. T look upon the occupation of Rome as an act oi vio- lence aud arrogatioa on the part of Italy, and after the termination of this war [ will, in connection with other monarchs, consider upon steps to be taken against It. Of course a sudden revelation like this acts like a bombshell and obscures the real potnts at issue. To Germany and its Catholics it 1s a question of no im- portance Whetner the Pope remains as sovereign at the head of the Papal State. ‘Tnis may interest the Italians, but for the rest of the worid the Pope is Chiet of the Cuurch, whether residing in Rome or Madrid, Brusseis, Munich, or Cologae, ‘The unques- ionabie Wish of the ENLIGHTENKD GERMAN CATHOLICS AND PROTEST- ANTS 1s to live together in peace and quiet, and to ¢on- sider all seetarian ditferences purely domestic and as affairs of conscience, In Lis, however, they ure littie encouraged by the existing laws, under which faith and the Church. Bat he bas lately began to insinuate that the triumph may not come in iis own days, alchough it certatoly will in those of some future Vicar of Jesus Christ. THE POPE'S HEALTH. I do not know why the republican party here look forward to the demise of Pius IX. as @ favorable event, except it be inthe expectation that a new Ponud will ascend the throne of Peter under very new couditions, but it 1s certaln that thelr organ in the press, the Capitale, has been very per- severing of late in announcing the fatliug condition of Vio Nono's heaith. A series of articles in that journal, entitled “Non Videbris Annos Petri,’ predict the conctusion of the present Poutificate before its duration has equalled that of the Prince of the Aposties, and speculate upon the probable nomination of a vew Hicrarca in the petsons of Cardinais Dt Pietro, Amut or Pome- bianco. The Capitale goes into minute details upon the Popo’s health and habits, some of which I quote, as being interesting without guaranteeing their cor- Tectness, That journal stated, on the 21st tustant:— “In order to enabie our readers to judge betier of the quality and gravity of the illnesé which afflicts the Pope, We will give some particulars of the VIOLENT ASTHMATIC ATTACK which seized him night before last. As ts known the Pope sleeps alone, but a person is always on guard at the door of his room to lisien for any noise. After the Pope had been in bed an hour the person on guard heard wun coughing severely, and therelore eutered tue room at once. The Pope was very ill and assistants were summoned, and some cameriert raised his Holiness, who was very red in the face, His doctor came and administered expectorating medicine. The Pope got better, but the doctor judged it necessary to apply leeches, The Pope derived much benclit from this, but bis doctors do not latter themselves respecting the character of this improvement. The Ponts illness is too evi- dent toadmit of doubt. We could mention other sovereigns who recovered from a first attack, but succumbed to &@ seqpnd, and having goue to sleep apparently in excelient health, were found dead in their beds. One of the symptoms of this disease 13. weakness In the legs. Pius 1X. is aMlicted with this weakness, His legs are swollen, and in walking he is obliged to lean on some person and on lus stick. There is & great endeavor at the Vatican to hide this state of things.’ in one of the journals this morning | read the fol, lowing, headed “LAST NEWS PROM THE VATICAN’ “The Pope has passed a wretched nighi. The state of health deteriorates every moment.” Finaliy the Capita of to-day has fn its latest intelligence? “Yesterday alteraoon also there was @ great con- course at the Vatican. It ts feared that the Pope will not be able co receive the new Catholic deputations,"” All this sounds very alarming, but the intelligence must be auceptea cn grano satis. Persons who have been received by his Holiness quite recently and persons who reside in the Vatican assure me that the Poutit appears to be in exceticnt health. The Osservatore Komano tires at the report, Which It contradicts 1 the following weras:~- “CONTRADICTION. “We owe a reassuring word respecting the health of our Holy Father, Pius 1X. Some journals have aMrmed, with Saianic obstinacy, that it gives cause for uneasiness; but let good Cotholics be tranquil, As we have always had to do with regard to the ridiculous mass of inventions spread abroad as news from the Vatican, we have again the unmense satis- faction of declaring the entire falschood of what is Teported of the Holy Father's health, which, by ¢he special mercy of God, keeps as Noria as can ve ge erally hoped io such au advanced age. So may vod preserve him tong for us, to the consolation of the good and the terror and eterna! confusion of oar enemies." THE POPE AND THF RISUOPS. The Carainal Vicar, the Cardmai Bishops of the suburbicanan dioceses and the other bishops of the Romau province, have received @ letter jrom his Boliuess, dated op the Lith tast. In tis Latin docu- Ment the Pope commenced by praisiug the bishops’ devotion and veueration for tbe Holy See and their energetic resistance (o prevent aggressions on the Church and the increasing impiety of the age. Although their sentiments were generally known, the rope rejoiced that the bishops should have committed, Wem to writing, 80 ay to convince future generations that instead of being cast down by =the violence of the enemies of the Church, they witn the greater alacrity declare the law of God aud the rignts of the Apostolic Sec against its wicked assailants, and demonstrate that the Coureh will not yield nor the gates of hell prevail. Yo achieve the desired tri umph the Holy Father recommended continual prayer “vetween the vestibule and the altar,” quote ing {rom Scripture many examples of the miracu- lons eMicacy of prayer, even from single tadividaals, and tlerring how much more poweriul must be the prayers of all Christ's people. His Holiness eon- cluded Withex pressions of gratitude for tne uishops’ demonstrations of love, winding up wiih lus apos- tolic blessing to them and therr dieceses, THB PAPAL NUNCIO AT € Clerical journals have publishea detaied accounts received by velegraph of the arrival of Monsignax Franchi, the Papal Nuncto, at Constantinople on the 16th inst, and the onors paid to hid by tue government and the Catholic popuiation, Tho /n- ternational, however, gives another telegram aMirming that Ali-Pasha, hearing that Monsignor Franont had arrived In Constantinople to treat about the pracainn, Ouaian LC ay fone ne will onl one oes Goate ot Rowe withdrawing {id basis wach oGoude Uae paltay'g sovereign Tights atevery step in public and social lite, from the cradie to the grave, this question is raised and must be answered, ‘What is your religious conlession t’’ ‘Take up the oficial paper of the government, read column after column ol the names of those who, regardless of the state’s claims upon them for mill- tary service, have shaken the dust from their feet and become freemen on American soil—nasimuch as the late levies embraced all the landwehr men up to forty-five their number is supposed from 10,000 to 12,000—and you Will find attached to each inaividual’s name his creed, aa copied trom the register of birius Look at the lists of fuguives from justice, at those of witnesses in civil trausac- tons, mdeed, at any documents or papers, and you will find that whenever tndividuals are spoken of their reiigious faith is made prominent, if a State government maintains such tavidious and super- uous distinctions tt 18 natural that the citizens should do it also, heace advertisewents offering situations generally read, “A servant, put nota Cavhoue, 1s wanted,’ or vice versa, “A clerk, but not of tle Jewish persuasion, may apply,” £c., &c. This undue interference works still. more Juriously in schools and colleges, Teachera who refuse to subscribe an orthodox consession of faith have poehance of appointment, be they ever so learned and capable in their respective branches, Students of law, if they Bappen to be Jews, are told at once that they must. never expect to adorn the bench uniess they abandon their religion, aad theo logians who dare to entertain an opiniou of their own, or even go 80 far as to speak openly of their convictions respecting the ideal and historical Curist, do itat the eminent risk of being, If Catholics, ex- communicated, or, Protestants, ruled out by roval evangelical consistories as heretics, and as lorever incligibie Lo the puipit. PROTESTANT INTOLERANOF, It has been seen that the clergy of ich. have openiy declared, just a4 was done only yesterday by the entire clergy of vnis city and the parishes in the environs, anu In all these cases, without pretend- Ing to consult the members of their clarges, that 1m the matver of observances and of faith the only and highest authority 1s the Chureh; that the clergy ix @ divime body of shepherds, aud that wherever the Pope and bishops are there iy the Church. Preemely the same action tas just been taken by the High Consistory of the Protestants of Pomerania. It haw decided, 1B a sirit siuacking Much more OL the six- teenth Ufan of tae nineteenth century, Waat.slall be orthodox Lith; has subjected leatued doctors theology to cross-examiuullons Worse than those under (he ord Spanisa tnqulsidon, and smitten them with the Wile of herettes, because they hat rounded Weir religion on Holy Writ and paid too litte atten- tion to We utterances of symvouc books. We way weil desist {rom mulupiying instances to show how Much tuis holiest of boous—hiberty of consclence—is violated at the instigation or witli the couseat of the government, and bow much A THOROUGH REFORM is needed in this respect. That a similar, necessity Tan Israelites may be Wierked from the grand conference held here last week, in waich Do Jess than filty-nine German towns and cities were represented. This assembiy may be considered as repaiatory to che Israelite Synod, to. be held nex’ Tuy, in Augsourg, Bavaria. Tue aforesaid coufer- ence was presided over by Mr, Kohper, irom Leip- aig, and a large number of additional communities applied for acunission. This progress, the president Ball, was partly owing to the political achievemei im Germany, though the great war which ef them had brought to view evils which might be averted in future by united action and effort. 1+ waa ® positive fact that almost nothing had been done for the’rellgtous welfare of soidiers of Mosaic faitu, and that even voluntary offers mage io,tue War De- partment were at first ceelined and Got accepted, until wn order to do so Was received, om the Ena- beror hunsell. WOT TD BE CONFOUNDED Tho Defalcatton of (iencrah W Lawrence. {From the Boston Traveliey, May 8.) The deiauiting Pension Agent of New York, Gone rol William Hudson Lawr: nee, shonid not be con- founded with Genera: Wiliam Heary Lawrence, of this city jor “Billy? Lawreuce, as he was kaowa among the “boys” m the army), The defauiting agent was appointed a lieutenant in the Fonrtecath United States Infantry upon the recommendation of Secretary Seward, subsequently received leave of absence to take the command of a New. Jersey regiment, aud astor his resignation was made Pen. siou Agent tn New York city. General Willham Henry Lawreuce is so weil knowa tn theymlitary circles Of this State that lis friends Would, Dot sus~ pect him of any such conduct as Is atcribuged to his Damesake. it wiil ve recoligeied that at she brcak= ing out of the war he was a Heuteaant bathe my Fusilcers, Compaay G, First regiment, M. V. i. Colonel Cowdin saw that he was a very valuable man to have upon als stam, aud comgpissioned. hua as adjutant, Upon reaching te field Geueral Hooxer also cume W & stuiliar conclusioa, and tengered, Lientenaut Lawrence an inportias position on his stad with the rank of general. He served yodly with “iighting Jue’? an all his campaigns, aod when he left the army It was with Tonor to himself ani the respect and confidence of his supertos oilicera., General Lawrence ts sull counectad, with the Boston Custom House. 7 y SHERMAN IN Texas. —Genoral Sherman's arrival a, San Antvome on the 2st ult, was ao- nounced by the fring of fifteen guns from the Alana plaza. fle was appropriately received by both Givi and military authorities, under tht oko General Rev uolis anit Mayor Thieiagape, . jam =,