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RELIGIOUS, CONTINUED FROM EIGHTH PAGE. time of His passion He exclaimed, “My soul is ex+ geedingly sorrowiul, even unio death.” v3 THE BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Henry Ward Boecher’s Opinion of the Patri- archs in General and of Moses in Particu- lar—Dr. Soudder's Free and Easy Talk About Meekness and the Benefit of Good Temper—Rev- Mr. Pomeroy on White Lies. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher—Pala an Kducator=—The Aim of God’s Government— Men te be Loved Into Goodness—Happiness to be Universal Finglly. Mr. Beecher deiivered one of his most powerful sermons yesterday, taking bis text from the Book of Exodus, chapter the thirty-third, the eighteenth and nineteenth verses, aud chapter thirty-fourth and fifth to seventh verses—“And he said, 1 beseech thee shew me thy glory, And he said, I will make ail my goodness pass before thee, and will be gra- dous to whom I will ve gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. And the Lord desceuved in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him and Droclaimed the L rd, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and siv, and that will by nO Means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the chil- dren’s children unto the third and to the fourth gen- erations,’’ Moses, said be, was the one great man of antiquity. Although there is a certain venerabie- ness in the patriarchs, though they are types, they sald little and did litte worth recording, and they have left as m legacy very little, Moses was not only great measured by his own time, but measured by any ume he was great. His institutes are not worn out to-day. ‘he spirit of Mosaic economy has been breathed Into universal government. I? WAS GIVEN TO THE, JEW to develop the moral side ot human nature, Moses began his public carcer at a time when most men are ready to die. For forty years, beginning at eighty, he administered nationat affairs. In counting the great worthies of antiquity, the writer of the ,Epistie to tne Hebrews speaks of Moses as one who endured through faith. It is @ matter of profound interest, then, to know What were the ileas of God that tuspired him and lay at the bottom 0! tue Mosaic dispeusation. Tne people had gathered atthe base of Sinal. Moses was tilled with a deep sense of dreadiui responsi- bility, aud he said unto the Lord, “show me now Thy way, that 1 may know Thee, that L may tnd grace in Thy sight; consider that this nauon ts Thy people.” So the Lord descended in a cloud and stood with hun there. God showed his goodness in auswer lo Moses’ Uesire to see His glory, as if His goodness was His giory. “What “are _ those views, Oh! amy God,’? said he, “by which I snall educate this great people’? He asked God for achar- ter, and in answer to this practical demaud God gave this view of Lis own nature:— JEHUVAM MERCIFUL AND GRACTOUB, Jong suffering and iorgiving. You will observe that in this dec.aration of Hiniself, made for the specific purpose oi the l.gnest use in life, the very centre 1s that God is a God of goodness, but that there is no absence of primitive adminis- tration, There is the omission of what are called the natural attributes of God. There is noth- Ang said of power and wisdom. Not that these are not divine elements, but Luey are not characteristic elements. ‘Tiese elements are to God what the body 1s to us. God declares that His divinity resides in the central element of goodness. But toils long suflering and patieuce must uot be imterpreied toto moral laxity. tis ihe goodness of one that will Not leave untried a:l appropriate influence to give victory to what is resplendent in goodness and Anedable in purity. God is NOT WEAKLY INDULGENT, but he desires men’s happiness, ana therefore de- Velops them so that tiey may be happy. Nature teaches plainly the doctrine of penalty, and nature obscurely teaches healiny also, if @ man disregaris the Jaw of gravitution and breaks his leg he learns peony but he gues Lume and gets well aud learus forgiveness, Nature teaches penaity and hints remedy. Providence teaches penalty. Men feel that to do rigit is tie best Way Lo tind happiness, We praise the sternuess that gives present pleasu:e for future joy. We praise gooduess seekiig Koodness at the expense of pain. But is there a Divine veing that uses pain for the sake of pain? Is there suffering forthe sake of sudering? And this question every Man asks a8 Well a3 Moses—Wuhat Is the centre from which penaity springs? IS THE PAIN WHICH WE SER in human society, from the bottom clear up to the top, for paiu’s rake? Men have said that it came from a Divine Being that loved sudering, Others have taught that God loved men when they were reconciled to Him, but chat when they were on the wrong side of Him He took pleasure in giving pain, As expressed by the Westminster Catechism:—*Ofr His own free wili God created a race, a large por- tion of Which should be lost, for His own glory. He will by no meaus clear the guilty.” This littie qualifying phrase is all there 18 on the stern side, woile all the power of description ts gl, en to the side of forgiveness. He says:—I aim educating men and af necessary 1 will apply pain; but it Ls for the weil- being of those under my teacning. It 1s in the goodness of God, then, that we are to find the ex- lanation of the whole economy of the old aud new i) tion. There is a point in the text that I rae yet noticed. “I wiil be gracious to whom I will be gracious.’ There 18 a significance to me in this idea of a God who bas liberty, It you ask scl- ence it willtel you that God has made a machine and His business ‘s to oil it, That God 1s A GREAT MILL GRINDER, and He stands grinding out everlasting grists, and af you Want anything you must feed yout bag to the mill. ‘Teil men to pray and they laugh and say, “God governs by iaw; He can’t stop law and give Special gifts.” Some have got so far tat they use the word force, and say that there 1s a force behind the law. They say thut God can tinker the maciine a litue, but he can’t do anything without bis ma- chine. God 1s left a piguy of the uuiverse—once owerlul 10 creaie, but how powerless to con- rol. God 18 represented as having laid the egg of the universe, and now the universe ts going on, and God caunot change it or modily it. There 4s great force Lien in this deciarition, ‘1 will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I am not ab- sorbed in the machinery of the universe, but ama God greater than iny own laws.’’ Men say tnat a miracle can’t be. Why can’t it be? If the divine mind was competent to make a quality can’t it change a quality’ i hold that THE VERY CAPITAL OF NATURE isthe human soul, and the economy of rock and soil 1s mere nest-nuilding. There is nothing more clear than that there ts personal liberty to vary Jaw. I can make an acre barren or make it bring me a hnndred busheis oi corn. [can make a wilder- ness of the world or | can trausform it to a garden and can impregnate dead law with the fire of my brain, Civilization 18 only another name for what man has done with natural laws. 1s God a mere Jocofaotive on iron tracks? ‘This 1s @ base concep- tion. We .are the best part of nature, You ond I are the cream and all the rest is milk. And if youand ican do what we do how much more the Omnipotent, the great Gooduess, the Overpower! These 1leas of Moses need to be em- phasized im this age, when the young are listening 8u) eee supertictal teaching. I am often asked, “WHY DO YOU NOT PREACH the atonement of Uhrist more? I preach the nature of Obrist und Mis teaching. I claim Christ to be the representation of God. 1 preach Christ, Als love, His patience. I preach Uhri-t to every side of hu- man nature—to comiort, to guide and Justruct, After all men say, “Why do you not preach atone- ment?’ What is His atonement? THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST is Christ himseif, It 1s the Inherent and everlasting mercy of God, If is the tendency of God to recupe- rate and heal. Historically (his forgiveness of God ia eminently developed tn Jesus Christ. The only thing that the New sfestamept does explain ts that the atonement of Christ was but the develop- ment of the everlasting love, ‘The disclo- sure wis by His life and death, but the thing itselt was from eternity, This takes away all the machinery; all the dogma that God could not foregive Will fis son died and mace Him good na- tured, The cenwal reason why God forgives ts because VF LOVES TO FORGIVE. Why aid Howard go to alleviate the woes of the World? Because he had love which was only @ Spark from God, Every man that loves has in himself iMterpretation of God's goodness, & goodness that works by smiles i possible, and if not, vy frowns. Pain is but the right hand of love worktn, for the recuperation of the sick, A malign Go hever will make a virruous World, When the father ly stern the child braces itself, But when, in the twilight, the mother comes and puts HER AUMS AKOUND HIS NECK, he breaks down and contesses ail, There 18 but one fase where anything like justice ta administered, nd that 13 In tue family. The Cai, the sword, the cross are used; but the victim hangs upon the cross and not the substitute, If a man does wrong he can't get back any more than @ gull can against the Wind, What we want blazed abroad 8 that there is a God of love, who hates sia and unislies it, not for sake of suffering, but for healing, Mi administration of pata is void unless it reaches baok to love and forward to recuperation. You can’t make bad men good unless you can LOVE THEM INTO GOODNESS. When I Jook at the wavin which we deal with ertminals I think tt 1s the most piteous sight in the world. THERE 18 NO PLACE where God can sit, and be happy while he looks upon irremediabie woe, Tho best fruits ripen slowly, and let us hope that the time 1s coming when benevolence, justice, long-suffering, patience and love shail rule, and that men shall be rounded up Into perfecuion. If you understand nothing else of this sermon, you can at least see that he 1s most 11ke God who is most generous and tender, least patient with himself and more patient with others, and that he 18 not the nearest God who goes oftenest to his closet, but he who generates most love, CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHUKCH, OR- MOND PLACE, Sermon by Dr. Seudder—Touchi and the High Commission. At this church yesterday morning Dr. Scudder delivered the sermon of tne day to a very large and interested congregation, Taking as ihe basis of his somewhat erratic discourse Matthew v., 9, inculcat- ing the doctrine that the makers of peace are blessed, the preacher, by @ variety of illustrative anecdotes, impressed upon his audience the fact that an innate desire tor PEACE 13 THE HARSINGER OF SUCCESS in almost any human undertaking. Gathering strength irom the growing and blooming of flowers, he strewed them along the pathway of his subject, and certainly strongly impressed upon his hearers the beneflis arising from a peaceful, genial method of inculcating, not only divine truths, but also all the other and congental lessons which make up the duty of life, Alter many pertinent proofs of the soundness of the lesson of his text the somewhat erratic divine proceeded to declare, with personai reminiscences, tuat in the education of tae mass we must train our thoughts to expression in kindly wit and genoral humor. Quoting from Solomon, he showed the advantages, in teaching, of a merry heart over a soured, Invrose and forbidding Character. Speaking Of the latier he impressed the belief that on go.ng to SUCH FELLOWS, you found them died up in their bones—cross, crochety and cola—very icebergs in ther physical and mental make-up—the very antipodes of an in- olination to please. In illustration of his view on this subject he told the story of the time when le Was @ school teacher in India, There he found highly excitable congregations, as ready as a Com- mune frencliman to ny olf on the ghost of appearance of anything bordering upon what they might not choose to like, and in dealing with them he had always found it the better part to be Kindly peace- jul, always gedial, and to put upon even their imagined trouvles the kindiiest possivle aspect, THE TRUTH was always the most impressively received when presented in @ pleasant, genial way, A timeiy joke xlways had better and more lasting effect than an unumely curse, Even among such specimens of humanity he had always tound that they were really betier than they appedred, and that an effort to im- press them Javorabiy with the divine truth was al- Ways the more effective the more kindly the effort Was made. And in impressing the lesson of the fact on the minds of bis hearers he noted the other fuct—that with @ man whose duty it was to teach found almost invariably that even his wite wa averse to telling him that he had a cold, cros: grumbling and disagreeable, impetuous and ua- pleasant way of declaring his travis, LESSONS UNPLEASANILY GIVEN were very apt to be unpleasantly received, and a persistence in unpieasantness im the teacher was sure to provoke its growth in those he taugnt; and thata precisely opposite feeling produced a preciseiy opposie efiect he proved by au illustra. not wet came right home tothe point, He was on a time in A STAGE COACH going somewhere, and to tne lesson involved it matiers litue where, On the way they met a wagon going the other way. The roadway was narrow and tearfully bad—as country roads always are—and when the coach arrived opposite the other wagon it Was simply & question of who saould turn out and let the otier pass. To bave sworn at the driver of the otber velicle would simply have determined him to hold his own in tne muduie of tne road. He had equal rignt of way, in lus own regard; and to have informed hin of the superior Ciaims of the stage coach would simply huve made him riled. ‘hat course was not pur- sued. Instead ol miorming the driver ol the oppus- ing vehicle that the velisie in rout of him was & pubite conveyance, and that such conveyance had prior rigut of way, the driver was spoken to pleas- antly; informed of the fact that the stase was a Stage and that it was nearly tull, that it would be exceedingly didicult to squirm it around in the mud, aud asked if he wouldn't, as a favor, JUST SWING HIS CART OUT OF THE WAY. And he did it—toox a warm-hearted pride in doing it—and the stage wenton tts way, And that was the way always, Use ktudly words, and if what you say ig right you ind more and more earnest ivowers than epithets can command. in continuation and exenipiitication of lla suvject and © its correctness he told the story of the vicious man who, with de- nunciatory curses, followed a father to his door, heaping profanity upon him because he had lost his way, aud who Was molliicd aud made ashamed when .be old gentleman, on reaching bis door, called to his — son, and, bidding hin bring the lantern, .ade him light the stranger home as carefully as he would were he showing ois Jather the way, Yius did the preacher prove that THE WAYS OF PEACE were the ways of pleusaniuess. And thus did he show that all that we do should show that we are promoters of peace and encouragers of tranquillity, and vy doing What we do in accordance with the inaxiin laid down, he proved that the eifect of the lesson would be to elevate our aspirations—to ren- der quarreling more dificult and peace more en- during; and in impressing the lesson of nis dis- course Upon his congregation he made reference to the domgs of the JOINT HIGH COMMISSIONERS, for whose work he was thanktul, aad for whose effurt in the cause of hoaorable peace ue expressed the warmest thanks. Foriuerly the minds of states- men had been engaged in solving the problem how besi and most namerously to kill, The later ellort had been to arrive at a permanent cure. Tne effect upon the nations at large must, he fell, be good, and, following the train of thought laid down with his text, he claimed that the course which was good tor Lhe nation Without was good for the man within, in all our movements, in every effort for good, kind- ness should underhe our actions, friendiy fecling be the inciting power, and more of good wouid follow than rom any opposing course, ROSS STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. “White Lias?—Sermon by Rey. Pomeroy. The Ross street Presbyterian church ever since its organization, about eight years ago, has been wor- shipping in @ neat chapel on Wilson street; but they hope to occupy a spacious edifice, now being erected in Ross street, next full, the corner stone of which was laid last week with appropriate ceremonies. Yesterday morning the pastor, Rev, Charies 8. Pom- eroy, preached a discourse upon THE SIN OF PREVARICATION, taking for his text the eighteenth and nineteenth verses of the twelfth chapter of Genesis—‘And Pharaon called Abram and said, What is unis that thou hast done unto me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, Sue Is my sister? 80 I might have taken her to me to wife. Now, therefore, behold thy wife, Take her and go thy way.” in opening the discussion of his theme the speaker made some general observations, re- marking that men made religion too much of @ science and too littie of a practical duty. Many men would starve with a meal before them if they hesitated to eat until they understood the ort- gin and manner of the production of food and the moue of its operation upon the physical system. The bread of life that Jesus Christ brought down from heaven has no nutriment for the man who will not confide {a the honesty and wisdom of the Giver, The patriarch Abraham has been pre- sented as one of the very noblest examples of sacred history, and was characterized as THE FATHER OF THE FAITHFUL, from the unbesitaiing trust in God which marked his eventful life. Whatever may have been the com- mand, if God was the speaker Abraham's obedience was ready. And yet even in the life of that great man there were blemishes, one of which was seen in the Charles 8. passage selected for meditation, The first lesson which they should learn from that episode in the patriarch’s life was that mien make injurious changes in trying to better their position ia lie. Abraham was driven by the fear of fanuine to go among idolaters, but in so doing hazarded another troubie—the loss of his wile, Sarai, by his misconduct, and was obliged finally to quit Egypt and revuin to the famine-siricken land, which, i reliance upon God, he never should have left. Men seldom sought a changed course of life which was likely to lead throug moral perils with- outa reason, eXpress or implied. Semeuumes that reason was personal pleasure or reputation or desire for increased influence; but the most piausivie plea was that of necessity, This point was dwelt upon he at lepgth, and in [ course of his remarks the kor said that the necessives of party “plaster over’ political fraud, and the necessity of malutain- Ing a certain conventional standing In society was used to justly all manner of fashionable follies, ‘Khe beginhin.s of fearful falls are traceable to tu pure duaginings, and the RESULTS OF VICK will be gathered sooner or later. God did not always interfere to restrain from sia any man wio volun. tarily encountered temptation. 1t was better to stand wie a in Canaan taan to go down ito Egypt for relief. ‘The speaker then followed Abraham down among the Egyptians and constderea his unsuccessful dis- simulation there. He passed of Sarah as his sister, hoping to secure his own salety in case some nobre, attracted by her beauty, should endeavor to make NEW YORK HEKALD, MUNDAY, away with him, bnt in rererence to the king he took @ Wrong course; for although by Oriental custom a monarch might take his sister, to take a man’s wife Without his consent would be an outrage which not even those despotic rulers would attempt. She was at tis time sixty-fve years old, but if anyb was disposed to be amazea af tie statement that she was beautiful, he should bear in mind that at that age noman life was twice its present Proportion. ‘There was no justifying the patriarch’s conduct, for he meant to deceive by agnying that she was his wife. Abraham has numberless imita- tors at the present day among those who preserve au excellent reputation for truth and veracity, but who, from custom, necessity or advantage, were continually and almost unconsciously perverting the truth, “There was no sin more havitu.ly and more thoughtlessly committed among al! classes than THS SIN OF LYING, If profanity should be heard from the Ine of every one as often a8 false siatements blasphemy would seem outrageous. People generally only con- sidered talsehood in its blackest associa- tions. When untruths were considered ex- cusable they were called “white lies,” and after being whitened they seem to lose their character. Flattery was nothing but a ite well dres:ed, to make it look agreeable. great Many men and women seemed to live and move and have their being in an atmosphere of “white lies.” There were artifices practised by men in business who would be willing to go to the gallows rather than commit perjury, Whose whole life was made up by these imperceptl- ble, minute insincerities; but they spoil the integrity ol the character Lf otherwise good men, just as the pricking of ten thousand points would din We lus. tre of a burnished shiold, MERCHANTS PUT LYING LABELS ON THEIR MER- OHANDISE, and insert grossly exaggerated advertisements in newspapers, without the least fluttering of con- science, because it 1s the custom of trade, Speakers promise to deliver addresses and get their names in the papers and on the programmes, but that 1s the last that is heard of them, and mechanics promise what they have reason to think they ci hot periorm, for fear of losing thetr coutricts. ne innate truthfulness of any charac’er is tested by stall rather than great things, and it was with truth as with Christian fidelliy that he who ts faith- fui in that which ig least is faithful also im much, Young men in business were counselled to go out upon the current of God’s providevce rather than i sanction the lying commercial customs of tue lay. In closing the speaker dwelt upon the fact that there was @ kind of moral perjury blacker than any other species of fa schood, which, though pot an Jurimg a man’s reputation among ‘nis fellows, ren- dered him guilly of breaking his vows to God. He urged those who had not beileved in the Lord Jesus Christ to repent of their sings and keep the yore wiich they had so often made and failed to uw SERVICES IN WASHINGTON. Dr. Newman in His Pu'pit Again—How Chris- tians Commence Backsliding—The Late Bishop Clarke's Bequest to the .hurch. METROPOLITAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Dr. Newmans “the Various Phases of Apostacy. WASHINGTON, June 11, 1871. Rey. Dr. Newman, who was absent {rom his pulpit last Sunday, reeccupled it this morning and preached @ sermon from the text, “Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he knoweth it not’!— Hosea, vi., 9. We grow old rapidly, he said, yet most persous are unwilling to think themselves or be thought old. There is a strange feeling in the human soul against THE WEA OF INCREASING YEARS. There are some persons who will never tell their age, yet they cannot disguise the fact that time is passing on and the number of their years is increase ing. Art is called in, not to aid, but to disguise nature and to | reserve the appearance of youth, It is @ strange infatuation, for every department of life, infancy, youth, manhcod or old age, is beautl- ful, and this delicacy touching the growth of years is as false as much of THE SO-CALLED MODESTY that prevails 1u-society. ‘The train of thought is sug- gested by the bold rhetorical expression of the text The inspired writers drew their Illustrations from three worlds, borrowing siimiles from nature, draws ing arguments [rom history and compelling poetry and plilosophy to do their bidding. In the text the Prophet draws upon human nature for illustration, He would describe a class who have been drawn astray, but whose departure has been so gradual that they have not known it. The speaker then calied attestion to some of the gray hairs wiuch are seen here and there upon the memovers of tie church, ‘Three kinds of apostacy are mentioned in the Bible—partial, total aud inal. Pactal apostacy 1s that of tue heart, the estrangement of the aifections, the stupidity of the conscience. It was sail of the Churen in Asia Minor thatdt was neither cold nor hot; of another Church that it had forsaken its first love, and a significant figure is found mmibe od proper who represents tue backslidden Epiratia ‘As A CAKE NOT TURNED, baked on one side but dough on the other, Sucha Blaie the World, the fesn or the devi can make in any image it pleased on the dough side. ‘Total de- parture impiles departure from God in the liie, as ‘weil as in the heart, a3 in the case oj the prodigal, Final apostacy is seen in the case of Judas, His de- parture waa first partial, then total, and then tinal, by the open and avowed renunciation of Chris‘tanity and the consignment to that perdition that awaits every one who departs from God, HELL MUSE BB A DiSAGKEEABLE PLACE for any man, but very disagrecable for the backslider who has tasted of the water ol life and who has beena partaker of the bread of life that come.h down from Heaven. The speaker then called more particular attention as the object ol his discourse to the first stage of apostacy. There are certain indications of spititual growth and aiso certain indications of spiritual decune. We can measure thejspiritual as well as the natural. In we Calaveras Grove 0i California trees there are giants of the ilorcst that first began to sprout when Solomon was in his _— glory, that swayed in their prime when Christ was born in Bethiehem. By their rings we can measure thelr years. ‘The growth marks in the spiritual world fare as definite as inthe vegetable, and the indica- tions of decline are as positive. A mau may as cer- tuinly know that he 1s a child of God or a child of the devil, as he may Know that he is growing physically or mentally. One of the first Indications of decline 1s of litle love fur Carist. Too many mistake adini- ration for Christ for this personal affection, No such states of character, no such noble deeds, can be tound im the iite of auy other being in the unt- verse known to man. But adintration is one thing aud affection anotier, We o.ten ‘ADMIRE WHERE WE DO NOT LOVE. ‘vhe highest evidence of our regard for Christ and close relationship with bim 1s found im our personal attachment to him. Neglect of toy ed is another gray hair. If we do not neglect the form of prayer we nay Jose the spirit and mock God with coid ana formal words, Prayer 18 novhing without it ts the expression of the sighs of the soul, of tue groans of the spirit, of the deeper feelings and bitter thoughts of the human soul, ‘There is no mere significant in- dication of real Christian character than earnestness in prayer. Ano.her indication of spiritual decline is hittle hate for sin. It was satd of Christ he loved righteousness, he hated iniquity, The Speaker held ivas atruth tiata man may be developed to such anextent that he wiil love righteousness with tne same natutai avidity that the depraved man loves wickednees. Righteousness may become second nature to him and sin be hated at all times, Some men are never tempied on given pomts. The devil always tempts a man at his weakest points. It is singular that we are always strengthening our Strong points and negiecting our weak ones. Satan is one of THE MOST INTELLIGENT OF ALL THE CREATURES God ever made. He is too wise to aitack men where they are best fortified. Some men can not be tempted to intemperance, licentiousness or gross crimes. He thanked God that man may reach w given point aud posttion In moral development it is also true that there may be a gradual growth in vice as well a8 in morals, hen we hate sin less we love righteousness less, Another Ray. hair and a long ove 18 diminution in liberality. Usually the expression of @& man’s piety is trough bis pocket. There are generous and spontaneous natures that would share their last dollar and divide the last loaf with another, but they are exceptions, Covetousness ant avarice are chara teristics of humanity, anda man’s liberality may usually be gauged by his piety. He rejoiced that the late Bishop Clarke had set an exaiuple to Chrisuan men of wealth by giving one-half of @ for- tune of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to the Church. He knew anotuer Christian man who had had a fortune of three hunared thousand dol. lars, Who said that he had given ail that be possessed to the Lord, but when approached for ait for Chris- tian objects said he felt it bis duty to keep tt till he died, but he willed ft to a daughier who at his deaut murfied a worldly man, and the money that was to go tothe Church 1s beimg squandered io the enjoy- ae THE FASHIONS OF THE WORLD. The speaker hai o ten told his hearers that he believed it to be tueir duty to make money, but he Woud also present tue danger of covetousness, and tell them that they coud measure thetr ron and their rejation to Go| by the extent of their hoerality, Tne discourse was closed With an earnest appeal to Christians to return to their first love, to be aroused to duty by the hopes of heaven, the fear of hell, by the interests of the Church and te wellare of im- mortal souls, SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Mr. Walker Upon the Fountain of Kter- nal Lite Prophesied by Zachariah. WASHINGTON, June 11, 1871. The services at the Shiloh Baptist church this morning were conducted by Rev. Wiltlam J. Walker, | who preached from the text, “in that day there against’ which the gates of nell cannot prevall; but | Shall be @ fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness,”—Zachariah, xii, 1, The speaker sald that the words of the text were read in the light of prophecy, the fulfilment of which had not as yet been realized by the Jews; but those who love God, love Jesues and who have abiding faith in His word had every reason for thanking God for the ex- Astence of that fountain, Let us inquire, then, he sald, WHERE THIS FOUNTAIN IS that 14 to be opened to the world; secondly, tts effect; and thirdly, how shall it be opened? The ancient Jews offered up as sacrifices the blood of animals and fowls {or the sins of thelr people, which, in the main, was only typical, prefiguring that which was to come. The only blood which really could be offered as atonement Tor the sin of man was that prectous blood drawn from our beloved Saviour on the cross, which is the only mediator between God and man that uas eMcacy enough to wash ont our sins, Where would we be to- day had it not been for that precious blood ? Why = should the sinful persist 1n their downward course when there were so many opportunities oitered to partake of the blessing of eternal life? ? rs PAUSE ERE IT IS TOO LATE. The fountain of Gouliness 18 opened to you. Hasten With outstretched arms and partake of its pleasure. ‘Think what Jesus Christ sufered in order that you mnight live, and then ask the question if He in return asks too much of you. The obstinacy of the Jews Jed many to exclaim that blinduess in part has happened to the Jews. Do not, he earnestly entreated his hearers, let that be safd of thei that blindness will continue to re- main until ube fulness of the Gentiles 1s secured. Awake, then, and not only save your own soul, but assist in rescuing those which are on the brink of destruction through their own folly and blindness, They say that they havo no mediator. We are not to understand by that that th's people have no foun- tain, but thatin their blindness they will not adinit of the way being opened whereim they could relieve themselves of their uncleanness by partaking of (he fountain of eternal viesseduess aud come forth pare and spotless. LITERARY CHIT-CHAt, ‘THOMAS CARLYLE ts to succeed the late Earl of Clarendon as president of the committee of the ; lay eyes on her again. London Library, while the new members of the Committee are Lord Lytton, Mr. Froude, Mr. E. A. Bond, Mr. Cecil Munro, Sir Frederick Elliot and Mr. Farle. SaBIN & Sons, of this city, collected in London during the year 1870-71 a large number of books, illustrated by George Cruikshank, Leech, “Phiz’ and other celebrated comic and caricature artists, A curious and interesting collection of ‘Ballads and Broadsides," is included in the catalogue, If HAVING BEEN asserted that Appleton & Co, re- print Darwin's “Descent of Man’ without remu- neration to the author those publishers announce that they pay regular copyright, the same as that usually paid to American authors, to Messrs. Hux- ley, Tyndale, Darwin, spencer, Lubbock, Lecky, Galton and other English sclentlic writers, whose works they reprint. M, ARISTIDE FaNTON, &@ member of the French bar, now residing at Constantinople, has recently come into possession of a singularly valuable manu- script of the Koran and has had it reproduced tn prototype in England for the Mohammedan book market. Tne manuscript is one of six copies written sbout 180 years ago by a renowned Turkish scribe, named Haitiz Osman. Of these six copies one 18 in possession of the Sultan, anotner belongs to Prince Mustapha, a third to the Khedive, a fourth to the Emir of Boklara and a fifth to M. Fanton, The owner of the #ixth has not been ascertained. Tue Critic of the London Athenaeum, tn noticing & new edition of Christopher Marlowe's “Tragedy of Edward the Second,” draws attention to a passsge in which Marlowe’s language closely resembies Mr. Tennyson's description of King Arthur. Edwara laments over his fallen state In the words: — Tell Isabel, the Queen, I looked not thus When for her sake i ran at tit with France, And there unhorsed the Duke of Ciermont. This readily suggests to us the parallel passage from Tennyson:— Not like that Arthur, who, with lance at rest, + From spur to plume a star of tournament, Sho! thro’ the lists at Camelot, and charged Beiore the eyes of ladies and of kin, ‘The resemblance 1s not close enough to warrant a suspicion that Mr. Tennyson borrowed his Ideas from Marlowe, and yet it 1s certainly close enough to ex- ive remark. Tix OLD WAR of words as to the authorship of the famous letters of “Junius” bas broken out afresh in England. Mr. Clarles Chabot, an expert in hana- writing, has “professionally investigated” the let- ters of “Junius” and the results of his labors have been published in bouk form “with a preface and collateral evideuce” by the Hon. Edward Twisleton, Mr. Chabot maintains thas the author was Sir Philip Francta, and the Spectator, in its review of the work, seeins to agree withhim. ‘Ihe A’henw@um, on the contrary, treats Mr. Chabot’s investigations in the most caustic style, and almost tells th t gen- tieman he is a professional fraud. However inter- esting it would be to have the mystery of Junius solved, its solution would benefit lterature so little that we think the English journals are wasting much valuable space in quarreling over nis identity, J, A. Lariam, M. A., has wrilten a work entitled “Theories of Philosophy and Religion Compared with the Christian Theory as Set Forth by St. Paul in His Letter to the Romans.” He reviews the va- rious theories of philosophy—the ‘‘positive,” the “atheistical,” &c.—with some force; but his transla- tion of the Epistle of the Romans is a strange docu- ment, Mr. Latham having attemptea to render it literally. Here, for instance, are the first sentences as given by him:—‘Siave of anointed Jesus called to be Messenger; marked off for God’s glad tidings, which lie promised before through the prophets of His in sacred writings, about his son; who, as to flesh, came from David's seed; who was marked out a Son of God in power as to a spirit of sacredness, from a rising up of the dead; Jesus annointed our Lord; through whom we received favor and a mis- sion unto an attention of trust among all the na- tions, for the sake of His name; among which nations you are also called of anointed Jesus: To all who are in Rome beloved of God, called and sacred; favor to you and peace from God our father and our Lord anointed Jesus,” A DOWESiIC TRAGEDY. A Husband Shooting His Wife Wiile on Her Way to Church in Willinmsburg. James Keenan, aged twenty-two years, 1s an engi- neer by occupation, Five years ago he married Jane McGrade, and until recently the couple have been living in Franklin street, Greenpoint, About three weeks ago the wife abandoned her husband, taking with her their only child, a girl three years of aze, and went to her sister’sq(Mra. Cartin’s), at No, 171 North Sixth street, Williamsburg, where she has since lived. About ten o'clock yesterday morning Keenan started for Mrs. Cartin’s, for the purpose of seeing his child. Before reaching the house he met his wife in North Sixth street, as she was on her way to church. He asked her if he could see his iittle girl, and she replicd that he could not—that he could never Keenan then drew a pistol and, levelling it at his wife, pulied the trigger, It did not go oi. =The woman heard the click of the hammer and tuiabled down to avoid being shot, Keenan again raised the pistol and fired, ‘The ball struck Mrs. Keenan on the back part of the head aud glanced off. The wadding lodged tn the same place and made a painful though notserlous wound, ‘At this time OMecr Kelly came ap and Keenan gave him his pistol and surrendered himself. He was taken to the Fourth street station and locked up, Keenan says he biames his mother-in-law tor #ll his amily troubles, He and his wie had lived har. moniousiy together, and would have continued to do so but tor her inier.erence. He had worked hard and gave his wife all his wages, except about two dollars per week, and she now has about $200 of his money hr aw Williamsburg savings bank. She left him without a cent, taking Ma only child and leaving hin without a home, This drove him almost frantic, and caused him to make the attempt upon the life of his wile. He was at one time in the United States cavalry service, and is known by his friends to be a daring and fearless man. He 1s of slight frame, and has a boyish look. Tne pistol with which he at- tempted the murder was loaned to bli by aa tnju- dicious friend, THE FARMERS GAIN A VICTO‘Y. Supervisor Nostrand, of Jamaica, has been or- dered to pay over to the Commissioners the sum of $30,000 for the completion of the Hoitman Boule- yard, This highway was long desired by the far- mers. There is some trouble about getting the money, and & week’s grace bas been granted. An appeal has been taken to the Generai Term, The peopie are finding fault. This litigation has cost tie town over $ The money was collected by — assessment for the purpose of building this road, JUNE 1%, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, THE LAWLESS LOWRYS.. A Famous Band of Old Tar Marauders. Interesting Description of Their Stronghold at Scuffletown. The Dismal Swamp of Death and Destruction. Lumsgrron, Robeson County, N. ©., dune 6, 1671, } For a veriod now ranging from ten to fifteen years this county has been infested by a gang of despera- does whose avocations embrace nearly every species of crime known. Murder, rapine, burglary and a son are common among their lawless acts, and so widespread was the terror created in the com- munity here at the close of the late war that tho Executive of the State found it incumbent upon him to dectare each and every one of thom outiaws, setting & prico on their heads for them capture, dead or alive, On the occasion of many of the bloody deeds committed by this gang during the last three years As-oviated i'ress despatches were sent North from Wilmington briefly detailing the facts, Which the radical organ at New York invariably tortured iato Ku Klux outrages, when these very acts were of the class which the Ku Kinx in their lawless way undertook to punish, Hence it 18 that I visited this section to investigate the nature of the crimes committed, to ascertain the history of the outlaws aad to lay before the public through the columns of the HeraLp a@ strict and impartial account of affairs as they exist here, As far as I have been able to asceriain—and I have consulted the most orthodox republicans here—there never has beeu seen in this county a DISGUISED MAN or other individual whose acts, appearance or | manner would indicate that he was a Ku Klux, Nor have I in an extensive tour, embracing a great many o/ the Southern counties of this State, during Which I conversed freely with all classes, been able to find any positive evidence of either of the organizations known as the White Brother. hood, the Constitutional Union Guards or the Invisible Empire, which are sald to constitute the Ku Klux Klan, as it existed in Alamance county previous to the impeachinent trial of Govecnor Holden. Allof the ouirages—whipping and scourg- ings—recently committed at midnigut are the re- sults of personal feuds, private auimosities, and often are administered tu punish parties ving in a state of GROSS IMMORALITY and depravity, which ts only too frequent in various portions of the State, Tis has becn pecuilarly tue case In Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Harnett, and even Cleveiaud and Rutheriord, the counties so recently @uublazoued through the radical press as the theatre of Ku Klux outrages. In this county all the lawless acts that have been perpeirated ave the work of the outlaws, and these inen are an inter- mixture oi the white, the Indian aud the negro. They combine the intelligence of the whic man, the savage ferocity of the red man and bratal i- Siincts Of Lue Negro, and Lueir lawless deeds bear the Mppress Of all Ue worst Characiertstics of te three. ‘fhe country ty peculiarly adapied to their operations, WRich are Committed at all hours, day Or night, a8 Opporiuuity aliords, A vast swamp, eight by fiitven miles in extent, which 18 impenetrable to ali but the outiaws, shelters them from pursuit aud enavles them to fire upon their pursuers, unscen, from the thickels and audergrowth with which they have become 80 familiar in @ desperate experience of fiiveea years, ‘This swamp is partly traversed by the Wilmington, Chariotte and Rutherford Railroad, Which passes througit portions of 1 over trestié works. 1ti8 covered by water of a greenish color, out o/ Which the trees stand erect; tue Whole couniry 1s malarious, and the frogs keep up, during the pre- Sent season, & Chorus tht Ls almost deaicning to the visitor [rom @ higher and more healhy country. in | the wesieru portion of the County, borderimy on the swamp, the ANCESTORS, of the present band vi outlaws and robbers, under Various names, lived in @ secon now known by the classic Name of Scuuieiown township. ere, generations daung from colonial tunes, the i of Lowrys have resided, first a8 Tespectavie and Weaithy daruers, but alierwards as bushwhack. rs, robbers aud murderers, exercisiug tuctr peaceful and lawless avoculions alieruateiy, as the umes warranted, Lhey were originally Portuguese, and, prior to the Kevoluuon were respected and @3- Teemed as honest aod ludusirious chizeus by their heighvors; but wien tue war for independence broke out the Lowrys, of whom there were several broihers, avandoued the peacelul pursuiis of muus- | wy, and, belug shrewd and lutelligent, became ior- mutiable as dariug, desperaie and lawless men. Wiute professiag 10 be tories in the Kevoluuonary strugyic, hey depredated wike upon oti parties, Wiluout making any invidious distinction om ac- countot politics. BY a systematic course of piuader and robbery DURING THE ENTIRE WAR the Lowrys became rich, aod at its ciose, owlug to lheir desperate chataciers, taey Were never inter- fered With, and Were left to enjoy tue i-gouien wealth, But this, ike all property accumulated by dishouest meaus, gradually dwindied away, aud ine Lowrys, belng men of DISSOLUTE AND EXTRAVAGAN? habits, again became poor, and were once more Obliged (o resort to tie bush and to plunder to sus tain their reckless and expensive mode of living, if not to obtain a subsistence. in this way taey aain Decaine a terror to ther honest and peaceavle neiguvors, few of whom would undertake to engage in any personal rencon/re With any one of them oa account of their boisterous, quarreisome and violent chaaciers. Unt their riches were entirely squan- dered they had remained comparatively quiet, and their wealth Was so great that evea with taeir liabis it lasted them until about the third generation, ‘when it became exhausted ta the constant Litigation in which they were invoived wilh thea neiguvors, It was alter this, and wien they had resoried to plunder and were outiawed denizens of the swamps, that they intermixed with INDIANS AND NEGROES, and thus from generation to generauon they lived in the swamps or about sculiletowa unul not ove of the race possessed a drop of unaduiterated white blood. Alian Lowry, tie iather ol the present band o1 Lowrys, Was a genuine combination of all u races—the inalan, perhaps, predominating. The names of his sons in the order of tieir ayes are Bul, Tom, Purdie, Sinciair, Sicpaen aud leury Berry. The latter is the LEADER OF THE GANG now inspiring such a terror in this, and, indeed, tho surjounding conaties, About the commenceineat of the late war, loilowing in the footsteps oi their outlawed ancestors, these Lowrys, with a number | Of mulatto cousins beariog the same naine, and a family of hatl-breeds by the name of Oxendines, again began an indiscriminate system of pillage aud = = pluuder = on the citizens = of the county, During this crusade they captured and led =& quanilty of stock, the property ot one James Barnes, At this time the | Bourederate authorities were in urgent need of ail the force they could ovtain to work yon wwe fortilica- tions at Wilmington and other points, tor coast and river aelence, and it was at once conceded by all the citizens that to effect the capture of the Lowrys and despatch them to General Waiting, then in command at Wilmington, would be a most happy riddance to the entire community. Bat this Was no easy task. Barnes, however, undertook to make the capture, seconded in bis efforts by a man named Bryant Harris, who had @ feud with the Lowrys about a HALF-BREED WOMAN related to their family. Both these men made several but always unsuccesstul attempts to arrest the Lowrys, and were only rewarded by capturing two mulattoes who bore the name of Lowry. These. itis said, were Killed by Harris, Whose person. feelings toward the whole breed was oxceedingly pitier and revengelul, This outrave upon the name even of Lowry couid not be allowed to pass unpun- Ished. Revenge among tiem must be sweet, for they have never perimitied an assault or indignity against one of thea to pass without Indicting the duest vengeance. [t was not long, therefore, until Allan Lowry and his sons hat killed both Barnes aad Harris, Which inspired fresh terror among tae | citizer ome time subsequent to this, and about the latter part of 1864, or beginning of 1864, the Lowrys and their gang were joined by a number of ESCAPED FEDERAL PRiSO% from Florence, S. ©. who were making thelr way through the unfrequented and impenetrable swamps to Lhe nearest federal post. This was a valuable ac- cession to the Lowry gang for the purpose of offence and deleuce, ‘ihe prisoners baving but little hope of reaching & friendly post, and fearlug recapture in thelr way through an ene- mys country, were only too giad to join this band of outlaws, and they eagerly accepted a proposition made by Allan Lowry. Tis was, la eect, to drill and mstruect the gang in the use of firearms, until they became experts, for which sere vices tue soldiers were to share alike with them their quarters, thelr hospitalities and THEIR DANGERS. With the recent additions to the gang their numbers were Increased to some twenty-five or \lurty, ¢ prising the Lowrys, the Oxendines, Boss Strong a ihe prisoners, all armed and weil sappiled with amnmunition—a most formidable and despe: ave body. Organized as they were, familiar with the country and always secure in the recesses of the swamps, the approaches to which were carefully guarded, this gang made frequent marauding incursions on come that, just before the close of the war, the citizens of the county organized and resolved to HUNT DOWN AND BREAK UP this band of outlaws, A jarge body, composed of clviltans and ex-Confederate soldiers, lea by uF ty oillcers, eugaed in this raid, which was Successiul In briiging tie outiaws to bay, and fightensued. Tuis took place on the border of ¢ Swanip aud jasted over an nour, during which the | CLuens sigualized themselves by Killing old Alao nya id ‘on, bill Lowry, iu wich tuey considered they had eved & victory of uo litcie Importance, temauder of the Lowry gang escaped int the swamps, or at east were hat puraneds ‘aad there they remained, imaking raias on the peo; le whea- cae, Receantties dema, ded, anti the ‘ var, \With the estiblist peace the gang Was abandoned vy tue damned: who at once set eottal woLuinns, ut in a body for Wilmington, from which city Ley obtained transportation to their Tespective homes in the Nort, ‘The gang then cone sisted of Henry Berry Lowry, ita leader; Stephen Lowry, ‘fom Lowry, Henderson Uxendine, Calvin Oxendine, Pop Oxéndine, Boss Strong and’ George Applewhite, & coal-black negro, who joined them Avout that time and married 4 sister of the Lowrya, Since then the gang has become more desperate than ever, unul now the whole community here are U(TERLY DEMORALIZED and terror stricken. Several members of the gan have been arrested from time to me, when caught Wandering some distance irom the swuinps, but they have always succeeded tu breaking jail, both here and at Wiltmuogton, and escaping, except in one instance—Henderson Oxeudine, Who was executed here in Maren last, as already reported im the HER. ALD Calvin Oxendine i# now in jail at Wilminzton, charged with the murder of ex-Bieriil King, of this county. Every couceivable edort has been made to capture them, even to briuging & company ol lederab soldiers hee; but these, under thelr peculiar in- #Wrucilons, could do noting for the relief of the sullering people. The troops cannot act except under the Ka Kiux law, and tots does not meet the case of these hull-breed oullaws. Until the posse codcus of the County Was exnausted ‘TROOPS COULD NOT be used, and of this iact the oiicer in command had W be oulcially noviiied by the Sherif before he could move, With such ridiculous instructions this come- pany of soldiers Were seit bere nearly ten montanes ago, remaiuing here unl & few days since, whem they Were ordered to Cleveland county for POLITICAL USES, in the alleged Ku Kiux cases in that county. On one occasion the outlaws shot and killed a citizem: named ‘tayior within two huadred yards the camp Where these very United States soldiers Were quartered, ‘Tae soldiers were at once ordered under arms; then with prompt but military pre» cision they fell in, answered roli call, and, alter sundry evolutions, were started at double quick im the direction of the firiug by the outlaws, Of course itis neediess to say thac pursuit by soldiers was o ly a farce, The outlaws escaped. Siuce the war they aave commiticd KIGHT MURDERS in this connty, besides wouud\ug @ large number of clilzens and maltreating aud otherwise injuring & great many, iucluding & number of the most ree spectable ladies, and averagiug at ieast one robbery per weck. y Nave inaugurated the MOST PER/RCY RKIGN OF £ERROR among the people | have ever witnessed. Any man Who makes Limself active in attempting their cape ture is doomed, He isinvaries:, tuurdered and his property destroyed, [a corm yue.ce of this demore Bluzauion and terror the Cousiy id vecolning depopu- lated and property is wortile: People now here would wiliingiy sell what pr ly they own, if eve half tts Value could be Obtained, and emigrate jer and more thrifty pats of the country, where live and property wave some projection, but in many aces tiey Could NOL make & present of tneir farins and residences, All the men who have beem kided vy the gang are democrats, except one, Mr. Tuan, and, Wuatis strange, all the members ol she gang belong to the UNION LYAGUB. This 1s evidence that uothing pouticat has ever en- tered tuto tue outrages cominitied in this county oy the Lowry gang, aud ts @ revucavon of the slanders Prudlished tu that eifect by the radical press of the Nort, RUNNING PéS---POLITICAL AND GENERALS The Richmond Whig says there have been @ few instances of monarchs who have resigned the scep- tre, but General Sherman 1s the first instance in vais country of @ public man who has attempted to pus an impassable gulf between himself and the Chief Magistracy. If not king, Me may become Kking- maker. " ‘Tie difference between Horace Greeley and General Robert Toombs 13 thus deflned by the Mobile Register:— Horace Greeley—a rich, successfal, prosperous man—makes the suffering people of the South p* ‘him $609 Jor an address before an agricultural asso ciation, General ‘Toombs, who has perhaps lost thousands and tens of thousands by the war, writes to tne Franalin Society that he will accept no com- pensation ior his lecture. ‘The Chicago Republican suspects that one, if not the principal, result of the new departure in Ohio is that Mr, Vallandigham gets pretty thoroughly aa~ vertised. The Chicago Republican, referring to Gencral McCook's war record, says he contributed three brotners and a father to the service of his country in tne trying days of the lace war; and It is to be presumed that, if necessary, like Artemus Ward, he woulu have sent every one of his wife’s male reia- tions to the tleld of glory ratner than to have left the old Nag undefended, General George W. McOook was elected Attorney General of Ohio tn 1853 by @ plurality of over 11,000 votes. The renomination of Governor Haight, of Cali- fornia, by the democrats, 13 now considered certain. The republicans seem to be at loggerheads, Thaddeus Dank has been named as the demo cratic candidate for President Judge of the Twenty- fourth Judicial district of Pennsylvania oy the Demo- cratic Convention of Blalr county. The district is composed of Huntingdon, Bialr and Cambria counties, James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, is named as @ candidate for the Presideacy by the Mouad City (IIL) Journat, A Western paper announces that it seems to be am established fact that Salmon rv, Chase is the read author of “the new departure.” Vallaodigham, before he set the Dayton ball in motion, visited tae Fast, and, after a preliminary interview with the Tammany magnates, »yed & long communion with the Chief Justice, The result 1s before the nation, and the Knowing ones claim that it means Chase for the democratic nomination of 1372, Per haps yes, but more likely uo. Name for a new Ohio steamer—"‘New Departure.'? Now word—*“Departist” has appeared. “put Me in My Little Bed’? has been dedicated to the new vepartists by the Memphis Appeal. George BK. Thomas has been nominated for Mayor of Waterbury, Conn., by the democrats. ‘Two members of the present Legisiature of Oone necticut have died lately. “Whom the South wants isa candidate” te dise cussed by the Savannah Republican, The fellows ing are among the requived qualifications:— —He must possess abiliues commensurate with the datics of his high office, that he may be President 1a fict, and not a puppet ta tue hands of wiser and worse men thaa himself, yud—He must have a pecsopal character above ach—not & man upon whom falsehood has proved by others aud duplicity by Lis own con- re} beer S310. " Thi; da=He must be a sincere friend of the constt- tution and free government And an open eneimny of Congressional supremacy and the revolutionary centraizing doctrines aud acts of the radical party. Fouth—e must be aman of physical nerve, who will noc aliow himself be be intimidated or jug Jed out of his seat If elected, Such Aan the Sduch wii support with all her heart, witout regard to party p jatforms, let him come from what quarter of tue Union he may. CAPTAIN HALL AND THE § GYAL SiBVICE. ‘The public will be gratified to know that the ope- ratlons of the Storm Signal Service are to be pushed as far as poasible toward the Poie, An observer has been detailed from the Sigaal OTlve by Ge ierat Myer, at the request of Captain Hali, commander of the new Arctic expedition, and with the approval of both the Secretary of the Navy aud the secrewry cf War. This meteorological offices to accompany Captain Hall's party (Mr. Frederick er), 18 @ gentieman of high scieutifle ur and accompitshed framing. He 13 furnished With @ set of beautiful mstruments for observations both at wea and while the expeuition 14 ta winter quarters, and 1s also supplied with pocket lustrae ments, of exquisite Workmanship and accuracy, (ur the sledge journey, which 1s an important (efure Capa is plan. eins sanamirabiy arranged that the Repent tlons taken Surice every day by the motevrologias of of the expedition shail be synchronous with th . of the Signal on cyeenvere re Pe Bey _ z seattered over th dd States bonny of sis arrangement tg that it will give Chee! rologists an opportuaily never before enjoye of comparing the meteoric conditions of every part of our vast country with those of the trosty aud (rO~ zen regions of the Lewy i, 9 Lite: wen to the ut- st latitude attained e eX) editions . ee Raver en ers: mpon hia inission with ardor and enthusiasm, and will, doubtless, read nis baroweter at the bighest spot reached ou the glove by those yho will accompany bun. kg The results ‘obeauted bg his labors may be tsolated now, but as they are syneauronous with those of the the citizens of the neighborhood, killing thetr stock, Gepsedating on their property and often imperhiing their tives, Dwelling houses were pluadered, stores ‘Were gutted and citizens known to uave any money Or valnables on thelr persons were halted on high- ways and robbed, So oytraggutis had the ganz be or Signal Service observers, they may be atter> vente comnected wosl Cue Otherwise fragmentary 1. formation Will thus be utihzed, The Signat Servi has shown itgell alive and wide awake in Lis a ter, and, it ig to be hoped, may be rewarded for pains