The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1871, Page 4

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. September 17—Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost. Religious Serviees To-Day—Herald Religious Correspondence—Heligious Notes, Personal and General. Services To-Day. Rey. Abbott Brown will preach this morning and afternoon in the Church of the Reformation, Rey. Mason Gallagher will occupy the pulpit of Emanuel church this morning. Rey. Dr. Krotel will preach this morning and even- ing in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of ube Boly Trinity. The Frenen Church du St, Esprit will be opened for divine service this morning. The rector, Rev. Dr. Verren, will oMciate. Rey. W. W. Neweil, Jr., will preach in the Forty- second street Presbyterian church this morning and evening. Divine services will be resumed in the Presbyterian church corner Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street to-day. Services morning and afternoon. Rev. John E. Cookman will preach in Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, West ‘Thirty-fourth Btreet, this morning and evening. Rey. J. M. Pullman will preach in the Church of Our Saviour (Sixth Universalist) thts morning. Rey. H. D. Northrop will preach in the morning nd aiternoon in the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church. Rey. Dr. Morgan, the rector, will officiate in St, ‘Thomas’ church to-day. Morning service at half- past ten o'clock and evening prayers at four. Rev. Dr. Thompson will preach in the Broadway Tabernacle church this evening to young men, on “« The Social Causes of Public Vorraption.’ ‘The members and friends of the South church, ‘West Twenty-fifth street, between Seventh and Fighth avenues, will hold special services to-day, ahe occasion being the reception of thelr pastor elect, Rev. M. G, Hodge, D. D., who will preach in jhe morning at half-past ten o'clock. In the after- Doon, at three o'clock, Rey, Thomas Armitage, D. D., Rey. W. 8. Mikels, D. D., Rev. R. S. McArthur, ®. D., and others, will address the meeting, and Rey. H. G. Weston, D. D., will preach in the evening. Rev, Dr. Merrill Richardson will preach in tne \New Engiand Congregationai church this morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Deems will preach morning and evening 4m the Church of the Strangers. At the Oratory of Sacrament, Forty-third street and Tenth avenue, Rev. Joshua D. Bradley will ‘officiate at seven and eleven o’clock in the morning, and Rey. Dr. Fulton, of Christ church, Mobile, in the evening. Rev. Andrew Longacre wilt preach, morning and e¥ening, in the Central Methodist Episcopal charch, Seventh avenue. Rev. Thomas 8. Preston will preach to-day in St. Ann’s church, East ‘I'welltn street, on “The Duties wf Parents in Regard to the Education of Their Chil- ‘aren, At high mass the chor, under the direction of Mr. L. Dachauer, will sing the Mass of Rossini, gs originally written. Miss Krebs will preside at the piano. “The Only True Religion’’ will be the subject of Rey. George H. Hepwortn's discourse this evening 4m the Church of the Messtab, Services also in the morning. Rev. ©. S, Harrower will preach in St. Luke's | ‘Methodist Episcopal church this morning and even- Ing. Divine services wil! be neld in Christ church to- day as ollows:—Holy communton at seven o'clock A. M., morning prayer, Litany and sermon at half- past ten and evening prayer at half-past seven. ” “Bisnop” Snow, the self-styled prophet, will hold forth to his flock in the University, Washington Bquare, this afternoon. The subject upon wluch he will speak will be, “Will the Pope be Restored to his Temporal Dominion Rev. J. Clement French wili preach this morning pnd evening in the Westminster Presbyterian rharch, Clinton and First streets, Brooklyn. Mr. Thomas Gales Forster will speak before the Society of Spiritualists in Apollo Hall tuis morning and evening. Has the Catholic Charch in this C Backed Down on the To rae Epirork oF THE He! ‘Two or three years since the Catholic press of the United States agitated, to a considerable extent, the Behool question, demanding the denominational system of Prussia, and calling for the establishment, qwhere available, of common public schools, sup- ported, as now, by the State, with the simple pro- mision that the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as hnterpreted by the Catholic Church, whepe Catho- ics are in the majority, shouid be taught in these Schools day by day, week oy week, mouth by month | ‘and year by year, that the rising generation might be thoroughly tdoctrinated in Christianity, and | ‘this great republic of the West, by the intelligence ‘and morality “of the people, go on and livea vigorous Aifein the great march of the ages. This would seem, in the face of it, a mild, salutary and patriotic demand: but Protestantism, or, more properiy speaking, American heathenish supersti- tion and politico-animal religionism, could not for the moment hear the demand, and immediately, mherefore, raised an anti-Popery howl.” Snistling Did Puritan women, like the New York Observer ; gntt-Popery organs, like the New York Zimes; re- Ngious demagogues, like Hepworth and Bellows, | Bil echoed one chorus of extermination against one Portion of American citizens, because they de | | ‘The agitation, from the Catholic | | merely; they are also those of the entire Cabinet. Manded at the public expense Christian education Jor their cluldren. wide, then seemed almost simultaneously to cease, and Protestantism, therefore, since that time has Freposed oa ber oars of victory, thinking that she | Mnauly, by one greai, vulgar, brutal howl, had ‘silenced the Uatholic demand” for equal rights under the American conatituuon. But ho long is one Class of citizens, even in the majority, an disregard of the great charter of American liberty, ware tyranuize over anotuer Class, so long (wail agitauon ‘exist, and will grow and contmue junull Wrong is removed. But Provestants say that if they give tue Cathvllcs their share of the public Bchovl fund ail sects must have their share. ‘This is nonsense; there are only tree classes in this coun- Ury—Catholics, non-Catholics and Jews. Does not Henry Ward Beecuer, the greasy modern Protestant apusile, say ual a anily of form “48 Not necessary, Tut only in spirit: Did not all the evangelical ¢ ominauons a-semble in Cincimpali a couple of years wince, Leaded by old BieLop Morris, ue pioneer of Western Methodism, aud, gatheting around | the ilar us of @ Presbyterian church Mere—Presbyierian, Baptist, Metuodist, —Con- Bregationalis, Luineran, «c., all m brotherly peace-- ‘Take a OI crn auled sacramenial wine ? Bur vy Atho: wiy a band of foreigacrs | tug vo overturn American nowent ece, In the frst covered America and civi- t, alterwards South and 1n this country w liberty. Let us place, the Cathouic lived aud Christians NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1871.—THIYLE SHHET. ‘want public schools maintainea as they are, where boys and giris can gain enough of secular education to be smart and active men and women of the world, but so instracted in Christianity by precept and example that when grown to manhood und> womanhood they may not be scourges of the community, ready Lo draw a matricidal kuife across their country's throat, but be happily the pride of the State and the glory of the Churen, Fiwanctally and inteliecinaily, Popery is no sinall power in the land. Our church property may safely be set down at $400,000,000, which, I think, would exceed in value the church property of the Baptists, Metho- dists, Presbyterians and Congregatiouatists to- gether. Our colleges are numerous and ably con- ducted, and our female academies, where thousands of non-Catholic young ladies are cdacatea yearly, cannot pe equalled by Protestantism, Whether in the education of hand or heart. The Catnrolic World magazine 1s the only intellectual monthly published in the country, Blackwooa’s being rather stupid and dull, and the Avlantic Mouthiy weak, sentimental and trashy, If the denominational system, then, works well in Protestant Prussia, Why not bere? it will work, my non-Catholic Iriends, and we mast try tt. All that We ask, then, in conclusion, is equality under the constitution, and, remembering the last and almost dying words of Washington, that “by tae intelligence and. morality of the people’? the nation would be preserved, and, looking beyond the were triumphs | of material civilizauion and temporai greatuess, which are but fleeting shadows unless tas nation walks humbly at the feet of Christ, and plantin: ourselves under the broad and giorlous canopy ol the American constitution, which grants equality to all, special favors to none, we go forth to success, we go forth to victory, We know it and we feel it, and that at no distant day. Ww. 0. D. “Immortality.” To THe EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, “Truth,” in the issue of your valuable journal of August 27, under the above cap- tion, made the following statement, which we con- ceive to be whoily at variance with facts:—‘Be it understood,” says Truth, ‘that the immortal breath of life which God breathed into Adam on the day of his creation became mortal through disobedience, aud the penalty of disobedience was forfelture of mm- mortality. Adam’s immortal life became mortal life.”” Had Adam.been created Immortal, as Truth states, he was, he never could have become, mortal, for the very fact of his becoming mortal is conclusive proof of his not having had immortality, Such a thought is contrary to reason and the nature of the things which those terms represent. The fact of the mat- ter is, Adam, when created, was neither immortal nor mortal, but in @ state or condition where one or the other Would obtain as @ result of obedience or disobedience. Had Adam maintained his innocence by obedience he would Save risen into permanency oi character and incorruptibility of nature, or, in other words, he would have become immortal; but he chose to disobey, and, in consequence, became corrupt in nature and vacillating in character, sub- ject to all the vicissitudes of nature and change—in short, he became mortal. By careful observation it will be found that the term immortality is not used in Scripture to mark duration of existence, as the ordinary defination of the term would lead us to suppose, but a summing up in one term perfection of character and in- corrupubility of nature—immortality, Being moral and spiritual, a man imperfect in character or cor- Tuptim nature cannot be said to be immortal, be- cause he is in astate susceptible to a further change, and change in that respect 18 mortality. immor- tality 1s perfection and unchangeableness in perfec- tuon, both as respects character and naiure; ¢. g. Goa’ in a certain place is said to be “eternal, which has reierence to the duration of nis existence; but “eternal” is immediately followed by “immor- tal,” which it 13 not reasonable to suppose mea ns one and the same thing that “eternal” does, or that it has anything to do with how long a being shall exist which ts expressed as regards God's existeuce by “eternal.” In immortahty it will be allowed durance coextensive with that expressed by “‘eter- nal” enters into the composition of that which it ex- presses. . God’s existence 13 eternal. He also has a Nature and character commensurate with that ex- Istence which 1s expressed by the term immortal, and as immortality admits of no change. but as it iS soit ever was and shall be, itis expressive of per- | fecton and periection 1s eternal. Since immortality is not expressive of length or duration of existence of beings, but having to do with nature and character expressive of perfection, we must con- clude man as being without immortality; but when we do that we do nov deny him an endless existence, but fully believe that Scripture sustains the doctrine of iife after death. | Ifexistence terminates at death of the body then | Christ when he died ceased to exist, Such a thought would involve insuperable didiculty; but instead of that, while the body lies in the power of death, He, in spirit, went and preached to spirits in prison. | Christ while dead still existed and the dead of ages preceding existed also. He d, Which is conclusive on 1 ni preached and they the point that the only exist after death, but are conscious also. “Goa is not the God of the dead, but of the living,” whica, referring to those who had been gathered to their fathers and whose bodies were mouidering in their tombs, most emphatically deciares them, though dead, to be living, What applies to them will apply to all the dead. “God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. QUERIPEL. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn. To THe Epiror or THE HERALD:— Why 1s it thatso many of our Christlan men (or those who call themselves such) speak so barshly against vlelr fellow Corisuan and brother, tue Rev, . De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyny I am of the opinion that a true Christian man could not do such a thing, and yet Tam acquainted with many who never give him a good word or speak of him as a Christian ehould do. Has he orought too many sinners unto Christ since be has ministered in Brooklyn, or docs he preach sermons that prick their consciences too strong? On, that we had more of such preachers tat iuight preach to the great masses ashe does! They also grumbie about the of church he preaches in. What does i. matier what kind oi a place of worsbip It is so long as they have the spirit of God in ity If services are heid ib @ theatre and they have the spirit of God with them Gou Will accept their prayers and supplications just the same. Now, I hope that our Brooklyn friends and New York, too, 1 tuey have any prejudice Talmage, Will go gud hear him and bw ir prejudices removed and not ve led by those who speak of lim as I have said above. CHURCH MEMBER. Church and State in Bavoria—imyportant De- claration of the Goverum: nt. The Bavarian Minister for Worship, Herr von sented by the Archbishop of Munich, which, as in- aicating the position of the government to the Charch, is meeting great attention in Bavaria, and, indeed, throughout Germany and Austria also, Herr von Lutz begins by declaring that the views he 1s about to express are not his views He fully acknowledges the desirability of good rela- tions between the Church and the State. “The Ba- varlan government,” he says, “is quite conscious in reference to the moral and religious principles which, with the consent and aid of the State, aro impressed on the people from earliest youth how great the danger Is that, from a want of respect for the authority of the Church, an eofeeblement of temporal authority might grow up, The government 1s, therefore, far from under- valuing the importance of the words which Your Excellency directed on ths point to His Majesty the King.’ But, the Minister argues, this community of interests between Church and State would be injured if the decrees of the Council were allowed to be published without being authorized by ine Placecum Kegium, The goverument couid Lot, for various reasons, declare Ils agreement with the new dogma. If the government had agreed to subject the auttority of the State to the voice of the Church, then it would bave surrendered the deci- sion on all matters between Church and State into the Bands of the authorities of the Church; and {us it would have done, not merely on the part of Catholics, out also on that ofthe members of other religions, who acknowl- edge no right on the part of the Church to pro- nounce upou questions of the State, he minister painwains that the doctrine of infalipuity deucy to endanger the rights of the non- Catholic inabitants of the country, aud, further, he accuses the bishops, in Uat they published the dogma of infallipility Without receiving the authort- zation to do 80 by the Placitumn Keyium “a pub- Central America, aod the ‘norinera part or North America; ana it was Lora Baltimore in Mary and, ‘& Catholic, Who first laid we foundation of civil and veriy in Us country e of the most Dames ou the Declaration or Inde- pendence Was that of Coaries Carroll, of Carrol iton, & Cawolic; and Koger i. Taney, the most learned, couscientious a truly constitutional Chief | Justice tual ever adorned the Supreme court at Washington, lived ana died in that laine tt as, however, ue that the uumericai majority of Catnoilcs here are of Joreigu birth (but trae citizens Of Lis country), but fully Oue-third of the Cathoies | in these States Were born in America, in te secona nnd third generation, and, togetier with the thou. Bauds Of converts [rom Protestantism all over the country, inake tue real rullug, progressive power in the American Church, Many of (hese are of Revolu- onary origin, aud are fully indoctrinated iw te genius and spirit of American constitutional liberty, and, theretore, in their demand for Christian edu- weauion they seek tie wellare of Protestant as weil ws Catholic. “The preseut godiess schools all over Ahe country will yet desiroy the country. There 18 mo respect tor law, human or divine, in any part of ‘Suis country, and if the rising generation be bred as ‘heathens @ man (hen does not need the ken of @ prophet to tell what wil happen at some distant ou to this free and giorious country. It ‘will not do, then, my non-Cainolic friends, LO pass this Catholic demand for equai mguts under the constitulion Of by a wave of the land, nor by “howls” of extermination. Kecoliect Wat you have not the mere missionary society to deal with that ‘the Church was here in Use days Of Bishop Engiand, nor the formed, unorganized and undisciplined body of Irish Catholic people that the Church was in 1844, When the great Bishop Hugues stood asa Sreakwater vo your brutal /’rotestaut mob, but that you have to answer te demand for justice and fequality, guaranteed by the constitution, made by Caholic American citizens, who fully understand their duues w weir country and to their God. These men do not want prival arish, sectarian BODYOLS tied At Lue tall Of every Catholic Church, bub | towards carrying out any lic violation of the constitution.” The document conciudes with these words:—‘The threats to which the principles of the Bavarian Jaw are sujected by the dogma of personal infall- bility in the bead of the Church, and, moreover, ie Violation of the constituiton which 18 involved in the disregard shown for the Piacitum Ketan, compel the government to take measures which Wey would giadly avoid. They will refuse ail co- operation towards spreading the new dogma, or lecrees which may be nace by Uke aathorities of the Church in reference to the new dogma. ‘They will stand firm by the | privapie that Whalever measures tre authorities Of he Church may take against Unose who don’t re- cognize the doctrine will be Without any infuence by the political or civil relations of such person, Gud the government will, shouid occasion arise adopt those measures which will secure the inde: pendence of the citizen from the © the Chureb.”’ the compuision of Ultramontanes and Liberals in Bavaria. Munich at present looks forward with consiaera- bie anxiety to the decision of the government on a scheme of school government presented for thejr approval by the magistrates of Munich. The magis- trates are liberals, and the scheme proposed by them 1s true vo the principles of the liberal partyin Mu- nich, The ultramontanes, on the other hand, con- demn it, and have already held three large meet- ings, in Which the government was earnestly called upon tor the scheme, The question, apart Srow its reat Mnverest Im itsels, las Jurther excited Luiz, has issued a reply to an address recently pre- | public attention, because this is probably the first oer subject on which the government ave been calied upon to give decision. And the people of Bavaria are particularly anxious for such a decision, since no one really knows what the true character and intentions of the present ministry are. Liberals anda ultramontanes alike claim them jor their order; but as yet it 18 impossibie to decide who have formed just expectations and who unjust. The Relics of Saints. A correspondent of a Roman paper writes from Milan as follows, relative to the relics of Sts. Am- brose, Gervase and Protase, lately exhumed in that city:—“At Milan, if the Gothic cathedral of white marble is splendid, the church that is veneraple among all others is the old and tamous , basilica of St. Ambrose, where the great bishop preached, at tne door of which he stopped the Emperor Theo- | dosius, a sinner and unabsolved murderer, and where he was interred, as well as the celebrated Christian martyrs, Sts. Gervase and Protase. Dur- ing seven or eight hundredj years the situation of the tombs of those three patron saints of Milan was unknown. and the possibility of finding them was doubted, It was only known that ancient chronicles of doubtful authority related about the year 1,004 a kind of trans- lation of the relics of St. Ambrose, to which were joined in the same porphyry tomb the remains of Sts, Gervase and Protase. But where was this tomb of red propbyry? In 1864, while some repairs were being made to the church, a crypt was noticed, and 1t was supposed it contained some heavy supports of the altar; put the presence there of a porphyry sarcophagus was not discovered till during the latter half of the month of July of the present year. The tomb was at length fully brought to light during the early part of August, and the religious world of Milan was much moved oy the event. It was arranged that on the 9th of August the sarcuphagus should be opened in presence of the Arcubisnop, the cathedral chapter, the clergy of St. Ambroge, the Syndic, a representative of the municipal council, &c. It was accordingly so done. The cemented top of the tomb was removed, and, wonderful fact, the first thing perceived was a quantity of extremely limpid water having no possi- ble means of supply trom any external running “source, It was at first supposed to have been the effect of filtration in some extraordinary phenome- nal manner. ‘his limpid water, filling only about two-thirds of the sarcoph was another wonderiul fact, and shows that the idea of filtration was not a correct theory. At the bottom of the water were three skeletons, very well preserved, conformably to the indications im the chronicles, and all present were satistied beyond a doubt tnat the rematns were those of St. Ambrose, St. Gervase and St. Protase, And this iresn and Mmped water that covered them, what a miracie! Atter having rejected the idea Of filtration of rain water, some suggested the idea of a chemical preparation; but what kind, how, when? After a brief observation of these facts, made rather rapidly, the tomb was reclosed and sealed, after it had been arranged that it would be solemnly reopened im order to analyze the water therein con- ine ; It is stated in another correspondence that one or two of the ecclesiasiics having taken up some of the water in a vessel of some description were requested by the archbishop to pour it back, a certain small quantity ouly being given to a chemist (or analysis. flow the Vatican Likes It. “The old Catholic movement in Germany has at length begun to make the Vatican uneasy,’? writes a Roman correspondent to the Vienna Presse. As I learn from a well-informed quarter the Curia 1s but indifferently satisfied with the excessive zeal of the German and French bishops; for it iooks on the demonstrations they have initiated as prema- ture. The Archbishop of Mayence was summoned to Rome for no other purpose than to furnish con- fidential and precise information, and to receive suitable Instructions regarding Uie demeanor he is to observe under present circumstances, ‘The sum- mons of Archbishop Ketteler to Rome, which is a new prooi of the freedom secured to the Pope in the independent exercise of his spiritual tuuctions, but which had probably more to do with politics than religion, has created an im- pression m liberal circles that the tamous phrase of a justly celebrated statesman, “A free Church in a free State,” however weil it may sound, 1s at best oniy an smpossibie piativude, so long as the Catholic Church retains ils present decidedly antagonistic atsitude Lo the modern civil state. How long Italy can sutfer the organs of the Roman Curia to work zealously for the restoration of the ‘indispensably necessary” temporal power of the Pope—that is, for the destruction of the present government—I must leave to the admirers of toe above-quoted axiom to determine, Pio Nono’s Baptismal Record. The baptismal record of Pope Pius IX. has been going tne round of the European press. Here it In the name of God, amen. [, the undersigned, per- petual Vicar oi the cathedral aud parish church St. Peter, the Apostle, in Smmigagiia, cerufy as fol- lows On May 1%, 1792, Sunday, the most noble Jonn Mary, John Baptist, Peter, Veregrin, !sidore, son of the noble Count Jerome, Mastai Ferretti and of the Countess Catarina Sailazzi, sponsor, was baptized by the very reverend canon Don Andrea Masta. The godmother Was Jeronima Moroni, matron, ‘The chila Was born the same day, at a quarter to Is It a Rogue’s Gallery ? ‘What are we to think of this, which we find in the Guardian, a London weekly, and organ of the moderate high church or conservative party in the Anglican fold:— Complaints are being made by many of the want of a rel ble register o! men, A very Unpleasant cage came r cently under our novice, in which a persun not in orders pei formed for some time the duties of « priest. A correspond- ent suggests that the new convict system of photographing should’ be extended. The Archbishop of Canterbury has already applied it to his vast diocese, Suppose every bishop Kept a cate de visite of each candidate for orders who passed through his hands, it would only be one step in the Immense progress which sun painting is destined to make beture long. The Archbishop of Canterbury has applied the “new convict system” t bis vast diocese | Dreaaful thought | Dr. Dollinger and the Ultramont It ts announced from Munich that the Professors of the Theological Facuity in the Universtty of Munich have petitioned the Minister of the Interior to deprive Dr. Dolinger and Professor Friedrich of their projessorships, and to replace them by otner professors. Religious Notes—Personal and General. The Rey. J. A. Worden, of Oswego, N. Y., has re- ceived a unanimous call to the Second Presbyterian church of $ teu benville, Onio. The Westminster church, Columbia, Ohio, has ex- tended a unanimous call to J. J, Sherrard, of the last graduating class of Princeton Seminary. Rev. Charles M. Fox, D. D., who left New York recently to accept the rectorship of the Church of the Epiphany, in Chicago, died in that city last week. J. H. Stewart, of the last class of Princeton Semi- nary, has recently been ordained and iustalled by the Presbytery of Huntingdon over the church at Perryville, Pa. Frank Paimer, of Bedford, N. Y., 18 having built a very fine church edifice at a cost of $30,000, which he intends to present to the Presbyterian Society of the village, his n ative piace. ss Rev. Daniel Stewart, D. D., pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of New Albany, ina., has re- signed his charge on account of continued ill health. His church reluctantly accepted his resignauon. Rev. Edward B. Boggs, D. )., of New Branwick, for several years General Missionary in the diocese of New Jersey, has accepted a cali to the rectorship of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, Clinton avenue, Newark. R. J. Laidiaw, of the last class of Princeton Sem1- nary, having accepted the catl from the First church, Columbus, Ohio, entered upon his work there the first Savbath of August and will be ordained and in- stalled as pastor emeritus during the present month. At a special meeting of the Presbytery of West- chester the Rev, Daniel 8, Gregory was released from the pastoral care of the Presvyterian church of Sonth Saiem, N. Y., in order that he might accept she Professorship of Mental and Moral Philosophy m Wooster University. ‘The committee appointed by the General Assem- bly of the United Presbyterian Church to consider the propriety of establishing a university under the control of une Assembly have decided to bring the Maiter before the Various churches through vie pas- tors, and thus ascertain whether such an institution could be supported, the age of enghty-six, was the Secretary and Depo- sitary of the Hartford Evangelical Tract Society, alterwards the Connecticut Branch of the American Tract Society, from the time of ics formation tn 1816, Says the Amvrican Messenger :—"Provably Bo other man, living or dead, labored 60 long and g9 etti- cienuy in the tract cause.” Byron Grenongh, who recently died at Portland, e., bequeathed $2,000 to the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, $2,000 to the American aptist Missionary Union, $5,000 to the Colby Uni- versity, and $3,000 to establisi. a@ scholarship, Wiich, with previous donations, make $10,000 he has given to the college. He also gives $1,000 tothe Maine Baptist Convention and the Maine Bapittst Educational Society, ‘The entire congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Newark, N, J., embracing about Uiree hundred members, with their pastor, Rev. J. L, Sweares, have vowed unanimously to go over to the Methodist Episco} church, It 16 said that he has expressed his intention of placit tine new organ in the charch at his own expense, NM enclosed, and We COm TOME CB ty house of worship has bee: SITUCHOR Of the spire Ws ROW Ww DI Charies Hosmer, who died in Hartford, July 26, at | THE JEWISH NEW YEAR. Observance of the Festival at the Synagogues Yesterday. Immense Congregations and Stirring Sermons— The Jewish New Year and Its Inspirations— Eloquent Discourse by Dr. Vidaver in ‘thirty-fourth Street Synagogue. ‘The hearts of the several Jewish rabbies must have leaped with joy yesterday as they witnessed the throngs which flocked to the synagogues as doves to the windows to commemorate in a befitting man- ner the advent of the Hebrew year 5032. Through- out the year on which they have entered they will probably not behold the faces of half so many atany other single service, The three fashionable and wealthy congregations of THE TEMPLE EMANUEL, in Fifth avenue; Shaarai Tephila, in West Forty- fourth street, and Bnat Jeshurun, in West Thirty- fourth street, were packed uncomfortably full with Jews and Gentiles, Christians and sinners alike. It was estimated that not less than fifteen hundred persons were turned away from the Temple, unable to gain admittance. One of the grand attrac- tions at this beautiful house of God is the magnificent cholr of male and female voices, which yesterday was largely in- creased. Brass instruments also added to the effect of the grand organ and the vocal songs of praise, AS the reformers Keep only one day the “blowing of trumpets’? was performed yesterday by Mr. Reuben, the reader, as part of the service. Dr. Adler preached an admirable discourse in German ‘on the day and its characteristics and the inspira- tions toward a better life which it imparts, and shortly after the close of the sermon the cornet was sounded. The services began a little earlier than usual, but were not prolonged more than the regular Sabbath day’s services, The Temple seats about three thousand people, and every seat was occu- pled and hundreds stood up in the rear, glad even to get inside the doors. There was no change tn the vestments of the oficiating clergymen from those Worn on ordinary occasions. In the orthoJox FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE the rush of worshippers or visitors was not so great as atthe Temple, but.1t was filled to its utmost capacity, and 200 additional seats which had been prepared were also taken, while several persons stood along the side aisles. This congre- Deng ‘still adheres to male voices in their choir, and ence the singing had no great attraction for Christians, though tere were many such present to witness the interesting ceremonies which had been announced In the HERALD. In addition to the white coverings on the ark, the pulpit avd the reading desk, the Rev. Mr. Isaacs and his wwo officiating assistants were attired in white vestments and caps of the same material and color to signily forgive- ness for the past and parity in the beginning of the new year 5632. Mr. Isaacs preached @ brief but stirriag discourse to his people, congratulating them on the return of this day and the commence- ment Of @ new year, and encouraging them to do justly, to love mercy and to waik humbly with their God during the year. THE THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE had also a large and fashionable congregation, every seat being Occupied, and many persons were compelled to stand for lack of sitting room. Dr. Vidaver and his assistant were attired in white vestments, a8 13 the orinodox custom. ‘the ark and pulpit and reading desk were also robed in white, ‘The services commenced at siX o'clock in the morning, and were continued untii 12:30 noon. At amuch earlier hour than usual (9:45) Dr. Vidaver ascended the pulpit and discoursed eloquently on Solomon's beauuful and condensed statement of the whole duty of man to “Fear God and keep i418 com mandmenis; tor God will bring every work to judg. ment, whetueér it be good or evil.’? We are now standing before the eve of God, he said, and have come liere to celebrate ‘Rosh Ias- bana?—a uew season from the creation of the world. All over the giobe, wherever an Israelite has pitched his tent, this festival 1s religiously observed. ven those who durmg the whole year live and act as lt there was NO GOD, NO LAW, NO BIBLE AND NO SYNAGOGUE in Iscael; Who are the most indifferent to all the claims of God; who desecrate His festival and de- spise His holy day, will on this day turn their atten- tion towards the law and the nouse oi God. The ido!ator will abandon his idols, the hunter will give up bis chase, and che vice and follies of the lume will be checked that they may hasten to the house of God and seek Him whom they have abandoned and neglected, and ask His mercy again. What is it, the Doctor asked, that distinguishes this Rosn Hashana from ali the otuer holy days of Israel—tnat lends it such a charm, so that it captivates every Jewish heart? It is tat it 18 a day on which the Lord sitteth im judgment on ail the earth, and when | we must appear before His judgment seat—the mas- ter and tue servant, the parent and the child, the rich aud the poor, the mgh and the low, the believer and the unbeliever, the truly pious man and the hypocrite alike. thus before God, they may each see the hoilowness and emptiness of pride and position and wealth ‘There can be no shirking from this ordeal, and every one inust appear in his own stern reauty before God, Wiin no hope of perverting the law of Goa or of bribing Heaven or justice. We must be judged on this day by our deeds aud our misdeeds. Far be it from the mind of any Israelite to believe that God will appoint any single day oC judgment when He shail Judge and condemn or acquit’ man- kind. A thousdnd years are as one day in His sight, ‘To Him there 1s no ditlerence in time. i PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE BLENDED ore God, Who judges mankind every day, each man for himself, “But Kosh Hashana ts a day of judgment set apart for Israelites, and God now stands ready to cali us to judginent tor every- thing that we have said and done. and what day, of ail the year, more Mung than this first day? We thiuk we hear on this day tue voice of God calling us to awake to repentance, to arise from our lethargy apd go and sin no more, God 18 bidding us open the books of the past year and look over our own handwriting of condemnation that there stands against us. Every man, Woman and child is every day engaged writing down his or her history in the books of humanity and of God. Every thought that ashes through the mind, every emo- tion ot tue heart Jeaves its own impression behind. This, then, 18a day of judgment. We must pass In review the actions of our past lives and the present state aud condition of our souls, We shall fina dark specks upon that PUREST GEM OF HEAVEN which should make us shudder. Days and weeks and months im which we nave torgotten God come up before us on this New Year’s day; days and weeks and montis when we foilo the wicked inclinations of own hearts and tried to clence to sl When We forgot that we es, and looked upon the pulpit, the syna- gogue and the Bible as were toys, fivonly for idivts and cuildren to piay with. We may have come here with an air of devouion and read the prayers con- tained in this glorious prayer vook; but how many days, alas! have we trampled ou the precepts and commands of God! ‘She Doctor then reierred ‘vo the dujerent kinds ol prayers which tHe diferent characters of persons always to be found in the house of God indulge in, and boldly declared that the lips wuich had prayed to be kept from guile j and the tongue from evil had to his own hearing aud in the house of God slandered their neighbors. Such prayers, he remarked, are gatuered wgetner beiore the Throne of God, and, with all our evil } qeeds and Words, are held ‘as witnesses against us; but every good deed generates an angel of mercy, as tue ancient rabbies declare. He asked how many good avgels the congregation generated tu te past year How many burning tears of grief had they caused their neighbors? How many Unougnis of envy and jealousy had twey harbored in their bosomsy Mow Many unkind words uttered by the livs or slanderous remarks by the tongue? ‘These shai oli ve arrayed against us. As Kabbi Joshua says, these are the Salans—the evil spirits In our breasts, Lue Sabbath day is desecrated, the Dibie is neglectea and Is superseded by the flash novel: and sail not God bring us unto Judgment for Uhese tings Shall we not trembie at the thought of ine penalty to be tmposed upon us so soon’ The soul thal sinneth it snail aie. We must be doomed to annihilation, to destraction, and shail we not shudder’ No Israelite will be bold enough on this day to deciure himself free from sip or holler than bis neigubor. Waat shall be done, then? IS THERE NO HELI FOR US! Let our hearis rise i thankfulness to Him whom we call our Father, the giorious Holy One. ‘There ts & Dulin jn Gilead; there 18 a Physician there. God does not delight in the death of the sinner, but unto us. God remembereth that we are but dust; He knoweth whereot we are made, aud by His love we are raised higher and stili higher than those beings Who Lave vever known aciual sin, God is not only a God of justice, but He is aiso a God of jove and mercy. This and more Rosh Hashana de- ciures unto us. The doctor closed wi @ fervent appeal to his aadience to begin tae new year witha new and a better life ana # closer attention to all the dutes and obligations of God's jaws than whey had in tie past. Rosh Hastann in Brooklyn. The Heprew chidren, of larger and smaller growth, were fully alive to the religious importance of the feast of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, in the City of Churches yesterday. 4s early as nine o'clock the pious clothiers of Main street, Hamilton avenue and other locailues where deaiers fn raiment, cond hand, do most resort, pul up their new and secon r ea shutters and jacards announcing business would be discontunued for the day, Im consideration of the festival com- memorated. Car routes leading to the various synagogues were besieged by gayly cressed, rolewn-vieaged men, women and cnilaren, carrying Hebrew works of prayer, and @ mournful expres sion, indicative of their regret at belng morally com- pelled to shut up shop on ‘Saturday, above all other days in the week, Services appropriate to the occa- siun were held at the Temple israel, Green aveune, near Carlton, the Bergen street Temply the Beth- Blow, in Pearl axect, and elggwherde Tt 18 that, coming | aNd fame, aud everything that men set their hearts | cali Upon us \o return unto Him and He will return | i \ j and the other department of the instituuon were | and the retirement was suggested. | Out largely’at his funeral, OBITUARY. Dennis H. Mahan, Prefessor of Military and Civil Engineering at West Point. Professor Denni H, Mahan, of West Point, re- nowned as an eminent military engineer, whose Works have become standard in military circles the world over, committed suicide yesterday forenoon by jumping from the steamboat Mary Powell into the river off Verplanck’s Point. Professor Mahan was last June the sixth oldest graduate living of the Military Academy. He was born in New York, and in 1820 was appointed a cadet at West Point from the State of Virginia, where his parents were then living. On the ist of July, 1824, he graduated and was appointed in the army to @ brevet second leutenancy in the Corps of Engineers, and was promoted the same day to a first Meutenancy. After graduating he remained at West Point for three years, two years in the capacity of Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He was Assistant Professor of Engineering from August 31, 1825, to August 1, 1826, when he was sent to Europe on professional duty, by order of the War Department, He remained abroad for four years, being attached meanwhile, by authority of the French Minister of War, as pupil to the military school of engineers and artillerists at Metz. Aiter passing through the usual course of studies at the school he was graduated second in his class—this high honor never before having been accoraed to a foreign pupil. Indeed, it was sup- Posed at the time that had young Mahan not been a foreigner he would have headed the list of graduates, Shortly after hw return from Europe Lieutenant Mahan was appointed acting professor of engincer- ing, and two years after this appointment was made professor of military and civil engineering, a posl- tion he occupied up to the time of his death, During the controversy between the city of Wheeling and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1850, a8 to the true and proper route to the city, Professor Maban was appo inted by the Governor of Virginia as @ member of a board of engineers to decide the quarrel. In 1836 he wrote his celebrated “Treatise on Fieid Fortifications,” and the year fol- lowing published nis “Elementary Course o! Civil Engineering”’ for the use of the cadets of the United States Miltary Academy. His other works were “Elementary ‘Treatise on Advanced Guard, Out- Post, Letachment Service of Troops and strategy,” “Element: ‘Treatise on Industrial Drawing,” “Ad- ditions to Moseley’s Mechanical Principles of En- eee and Architecture,” of which he edited an merican edition; ‘Treatise on Fortification Draw- ing and Stereotomy,” and ‘“Klements of Permanent Fortitication.” ‘Tus latter work was Writtem during the late civil war and created quite a sensation when it made its appearance, and it has main- tained a high place among the military authoriues in this country and abroad ever since, Professor Mahan was a member of the Geographical Society of France and of many scientific associations in the United States, and was made a corporator of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. In 1937 Brown University and Princeton College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. In 1852 he was hon- | ored with the utle of LL. D. by William and Mary | College, Virginia, and by Brown University, and by Dartmouth in 1867, Although Professor Mahan was only one of several ORO atthe Academy, and not by any means | cause of his particular department above any of | his colleagues in authority, he was real!y for many years past the ruling spirit of the Academy. To be Bure there was always in years past as there is row @ Superintendent at West Point, who was supposed to be, as he is now supposed to ve, the ruler of us. every day destinies, the guardian of its interests and the regulator of its discipline; but the real Superintendent of West Pont in all matters that related to the Academy and what were not of # minor character was Professor Mahan. Owing to his great experience as an old projessor and resident at the post, bis counsel aud advice as to what should and what should not be done with this, that always received with the utmost consideration by the authorities at Washington, and always actea upon just as he wanted them to de acted upon; and to this more than to anything else were due the many changes, counter chanyes and small fignts among the West Point authorities that were wont to break out every once in a while during the past ten or fifteen years, As the Professor grew in age his desire to lead as of old grew also, and he dis- covered not long ago that, deservedly or not, he had succeeded during his career 1n makiog for himself many and powerful enemies, who 1 is believed were partly instrumental in inducing the Board of Visitors to recommend his retirement, | which they didlast Jane. When the Board suggested his Tetirement he was undoubtedly as young, intel- lectnally, as when he graduated at Metz; but nis physical infirmities were such as to be a serious drawback to him in the prosecution of his arduous labors, and oftentimes 12 Was noticed that he could not listen to a “recitation” with that patieace which a student at the Academy was entitled to. This, of course, decided the Board, after due consideration, The Proiessor never fully recovered irom this blow. He had livea so long at West Point; had become £0 identitied witn its every interest; nad done so much for its reputa- tion and worked so hard to make it what it 1s to-day, the model institution of its kind in the World, that the idea of being torn | away from it in hls old re, now ‘at the day of his usefulness had passed—thrown aside as if were to make room for one ot his stu- dents—was too much for the old man to bear, and it 1s quite possible that brooding over the tdea may have thro’ lus mind off its balance, and that | while thus suffering, knowmg not what he did, ne took his own life. The death of the learned old man will be received with sorrow every where throughout the army; for although he had his faults (and who nas not?) there is not now in the army a young or old graduate of West Pomt who does not, in great part, owe his present standing on the roll of mili- tury fame and his Knowledge of the great art of war vo ihe old Professor's instructions and teachings, Sydney H. S:uart. Ex-Judge Stuart, for the past twenty years one of the most distinguished of our city criminal lawyers, died yesterday morning at his residence in West Highty-fourth street. Though it has been known that for some time past he has been subject at intervals to attacks of fever and ague his death was wholly un- anticipated, and its announcement was the occasion of most painful surprise to his numerous frienas. Very few more striking examples of what untiring energy, an indomitable will and a determination to succeed are presented than in the career of ex-Judge Stuart. He was emphatically a self-made man. | He fought his way to place and achieved influence | and fortune wholly by his own efforts, He was porn in Bridgeville, N. J., on the banks of the Dela- ware, on May 4, 1811. His father was a miller, and he, being the eldest of a large family, remained at home nelping his father in the mill until he was nearly twenty years of age, when he came to this city, His education was wholly neglected, so muca so that when he arrived in New York he was unable to read. Obtaming a position as porter in a store he soon mastered the mysteries of the alpha- bet by studying the letters on the signs and direc. tons on the dry goods boxes. His ambition aroused, he essayed a higher range of literature by obtaining books from a circulating library, Atlength, in 1844, he received from Mayor Harper the appointment of Clerk*in the First District Policé Court. This deter- mined his future career. He applied humself diligenuy to the study of law, was shortly admitted to the bar, | and rapidly became a inost successful practitioner. | Subsequently he was elected a Police Magistrate, a | osition he filled with pfobity and marked ability. | n 1804 he was elected to a higher judicial trust, that | of City Judge. After his retirement from the bench he devoted his entire energies to nis profession. In | later years be gave tus sole atiention 10 | criminal business. He was & man of ex- tended legal research and an eloquent and forcible pleader. No counsel ever worked more zealously for lis clients. He was employed to de- fend most of the noted criminals whose names have appeared on our court records for the past ten years. Forlorn hopes as many of the cases were, is suc- cess in their defence has been unparaiicled. He,got the case of Purcell, now confined in the City Prison, carried to the Court of Appeais ona writ of error. He has thus {ar saved Foster from the gallows, and the latter in the death of his counsel has lost his best friend and avlest adviser. He had & large and lucrative practice, both in the State and United States Courts. His last appearance in Court was on Tuesday last in a writ of habeas corpus be- fore Judge Barnard. He went home ill from the Court aud the next thing heard of him was the startling intelligence of his suaden death. it is not generally known that Judge Stuart had @ passion for dramatic writing. Only a few days before his death he _finisned writing a& play—“Beatrice —Cencl’/—which is pronounce! by those who have read it @ very meri- torlous contribution to dramatic literature. In Pay the ex-Judge was an old line whig, though he rode into the City Judgeship on the Know-Nothing wave. For many years he has taken no active part in politics, though his affiliations were with the re- ubiican party. He will be buried m Greenwood, t is expected that the Odd Fellows, of which organization he was formerly a conspicuous mem- ber, and the Biossom Club, of which organization, notwithstanding it is a democratic club, he was one of the Most genial and popular members, will turn EXCITING RUNAWAY IN ORANGE. ‘The carriage and double team of Alexander Hud- nut, the HERALD Building droggist, was standing yesterday morning in Main street, Orange, where ‘Mr, Hudnut resides, In the carriage was his little gon, about five years old, Something frightened ‘the hor: and off they dashed at a breakneck pace, creating the wildest excitement along the thorough+ tare. ite brought up finally sgainst a icone wagon. h horses were badily cut and ‘uised, the carriage damaged; but luckily we TOUDRAEK CaCADCA UAAUTle | Brooklyn. | and | Remsen street, | street, near Hx y | mond; Union avenue, wear Souta Third streets The + THE RUSSIAN PRINCE, ‘The Preparations to Receive Him—Where Ha is to Ge and How He ts te be Received. * Now that the Russian Grand Duke Alexis ts fairly. on his way to our shores the Reception Committee are busy in perfecting the arrangements for nis arrival in this city, The cable despatches having announced that the young Prince had been received with royal honors at Copenhagen, and that in England he would be received with great distinction, our re~ publican citizens have become more determined tm making ready a brilliant and gorgeous welcome to our shores tor the royal scion of America’s best and firmest ally. The Keception Committee, consisting: of some of our best citizens and citizens from alk the leading cities in the Union, have left nothing undone so far in regard to preliminaries; but of course up to the present time nothing definite could be determined, and the preparations were merely prospective. Even at the present hour there can be no certain programme announced, for muctt remalns to be settled, and only the mere outline of how the Prince will be received can now be stated It 1s, of course, certain that both the United States ‘Army and Navy will participate in the celebration and 1n welcoming the representative of His Imperial Majesty the Czar; but what particular officers wilk be honored by this commission are not at presens known, nor have their names yet been deter- mined upon. ‘The reception will, however, be eminently national, and wherever the Prinee goes ample arrangements wil have been made to give him a greeting that will eclipse in grandeur and demonstrative heartiness even the recepuiom given to the Prince of Wales on his tour throug this cOuntry. ‘The Committee of Reception numbers, according to the original roll, three hundred well knowm ntlemen, and each of these ts to sub- Beribe $100 to defray expenses, But this ws only one of the many committees that wilt be formed to make the necessary preparations, though probably all others will receive lustructions from ‘this, for the Russian Minister is its inspiring agent, and directs probably the programme so far as inade out. That programme wil include an escort of yachts and steamboats to meet the Prince down tho bay; all the vessels the harbor to display bunting; & military escort wik receive Lim im the city, and he will be then conveyed to his hotel, which has nob yee been selected. Then there will be a committee to show him the public buildings in the city. A ball will be given at the Academy of Music, which 1s to eclipse anything of the sort ever witnessed in the city. There will be a reception breaklast and 8 tri to West Point, beside several grand displays W! will not partake of an pacer Cia aad a torch- light procession on a grand scale, Etne above will be Lege Ly beg pie Commitvee will arrange for; bul said that whatever 1s done’ 10 receive the Prines Will be done on a gorgeous sci me meeting. of fret ‘Executive Committee of the General oe Committce was held on Frid: last, William H. Aspinwall prestding and Jam« Montgomery well wR, citizens were present—among them Henry Ciews and J, tT. Johnson. At this meet ing there was considerable discussion as to the programme, but of course nothing final could be arrived at, but at a meeting to be neld early next week more definite results will be attained. The Executive Committee is working hard, and is subs divided a) comaitacs Cn Hy Ghraaaer da West Point excursion, breakfast, hotel, &c. ‘The Prince 13 expected to arrive here about the 8th of Ociober. ‘So far ihe city authorities have made no move- ment toward @ participation im the reception, but, doubcess, before long Mayor flail will take tne initiae tive insome formal manifestauon of good will and respect to the Russian Duke. ‘Svon after the Prince's arrival he will proceed ww secretary. Several | washington to visit President Grant, where, as & said, a royal welcome awaits him, BROUKLYN AFFAIRS. Arrests. ‘There were 473 persons arrested In Brookiyn by the police during the past week. Christinn Missions in Heathen Lands. The above is the title of a lecture to be given a® | §t. Mary’s Hall, Court street, near Nelson, by Rev. Father J. MacKeyna, this evening. Admission will be free, but a collection will be taken up during the evening among the audience to enable the reverend gentleman, who years ago endeared himself to the pcopte of that section of the city, where he oftict im the holy mat ry, to proceed with the erection of @ churen at Cutchogue, L. 1, where ne is stationed, Felonious Assault. Michael Reed was arrested in West street, New York, yesterday, by officer McLoughlin, and taken to the Raymona street jail, where he was locked up to answer the charge of felonious assault, The offence consists In the attempt of the accused to | snoot John Curtis and Thomas Donovan in the liquor store ol the latter, No. 117 Bridge street, on Tuesday night. The parties, Who had been playing cards, quarrelled, when the prisoner drew a revolver and fired five shots at Curtis and Donovan, The aime was fortunately delective, and Reed managed to escape and elude the vigilance of the police antp yesterday. Another Victim of the Late Explosion. Another victim has been added ¢o the death ro of the Union Torpedo Explosion in Beekman street. Snortiy after noon yesterday Mr. Michael Goid- schmidt, of the firm of Klueber & Goldschmidt, died: at his residence No. 97 Dean street, near Smith, The funeral of the berneers wal oo ace trom bis late residence on Monday morning, Bnd will be attended by ine Mount Nebo Lodge, F. and A. M.; Washington Lodge, I. 0, B. B.; Reuber Lodge. F, Sof |, and Samuel Lodge, I. 0. B. Be ‘The remains will be tuterred in the Jewish Cemetery, Fast New York, and the inquest will be heid om Wednesday next. Evening Free Schools. The Board of Education has announced that the Brookion Evening Free Schools will open for the fall and winter term on Monday, October 2, for the Instruction of young men and women who may be desirous of becoming pupils under the commom school system. The schoo: houses designated for night schools by the Board are located as follows:— Middagh strect, near Henry; Warren street, near Smith; corner of Fifth street and North Fifth streets: near Ewen; Walworth street, near Java_sirect, Greenpoint; Nelson Willoughby sireet, near Ray- Myrtle avenu term will be for twelve weeks, Uncle Sam’s stores Adrift. About a week ago a quantity of patnts, oils, &@ {avout one hundred and fifty dollars’ worth), be- longing to the Quartermasters’ Department of Fort Hamilion, and marked with the address of Lieuten- ant [Hall, United States Army, who 1s in charge of that department of the garrison named, was recov= ered by the poilce at the abode of a butcher named Walsh, on Hamilton avenue, Walsh, who nas @ con- tract for supplying the soldiers at the Fors with: , Was arrested and subsequently arraigned beiore Justice Delmar; but, owing to the failure of the authorities at Fort Hamiiton to appear and pre« fer the requisite complaint against the prisoner, Walsh was discharged from custody. The property ia stl lying unciaimed at the station house, Butler street, ‘ New York River Thieves in Raymond Street dail. Charles Wallon, twenty-four years of age, and Charles Slater, aged twenty-five, were committed to the County Jail, yesterday, by Justice Voorhies ta answer to the Grand Jury for grand larceny. The prisoners were captured on Friday morning by om- cers Kennedy, McFarland, Burrill! and Dredger as they were attempting to leave the dock footeft South Eleventh sircet, Williamsburg, in @ boat jaden with plunaer. ‘Last evening N. F. Ba master of the canal boat Charles Clark, lying Hunter's Point, identified part of the property tm the boat as nis,’ He says that the thieves took pos= session of his boat on the night of the 15th, confined him to his capin, and. carried off the property thas he Wdentified. Iv consists of canvas and rope valued at $80, ‘The prisoners were residents of New York city. MYSTERIOUSLY AND FATALLY INJURED. Two witnesses were yesterday examined before Coroner Keenan 1n the case of Edward Horton, thea: man sixty-two years of age who died in Centre street Hospital some days ago. Horton, who had been @ man of intemperate habits and evidently without home or means of support, re~ mained over night at the lodging house of Mrs, Heavey, 27 Greenwich street, at which; time he seemed to be somewhat bewildered in mi He was bleeding, and told Mr. Heavey that he been hit by an officer; that he had falien in Will! street, and again that he received his ijuries Wiluamsburg. Horton, betore being taken to the hogs pital, told Onticer Burke, of the ‘iwenty-seventh pre~, cinct, that he had been struck on the bead witha club by a policeman in Willam street, but gave no other particulars, He was then in an unsound state of mind, A post-mortem ¢xamination showed that! deceased had received @ fracture of the skull, and in the opinion of Wooster beach, M. D., the fracture ‘Was the result of a fall. The investigation is not yee concluded, although there ‘© nak much more evi altaipable,