The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1871, Page 4

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ‘November 19—Twenty-fourth Sun- day After Pentecost. Schedule of Services for To-Day—Herald Religious Correspondence—Religious Notes, Personal and General Services Te-Day. A discourse on “Unseen Help” will be preached this morning in Canal street Presbyterian church by Rev. David Mitchel. Rev. P. L, Davies will preach this morning in the Berean Baptist church, Bedford and Downing streets. Rev. Andrew Longacre will preach this morning and evening in the Central Methodist Episcopal chureh, “The Beneft of Different and Differing Denomina- tions” will be the subject of Rev. J, J. White's dis- course this evening in the Attorney street Methodist chareh. Rev. Dr. Krotel will preach this morning and evening in the Evangelical Lutheran Churen of the Holy Trinity. Rev. H. D. Northrop will preach this morning tn the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church. A praise meeting will be held in the evening. Rey. Dr. Merril! Richardson will preach this morn- ing and evening in the New England Congregational charch. Rev. James M. Pallman will preach this morning im the Church of Our Saviour, and in the evening ‘will give the first of a course of lectures on Social Vices, “Gambling.” Rev. Charles F. Lee will preach this morning tn ‘the Fifth Universalist church (Ubickering Hall) on «The Cloud of Witneases.’? Rev. C. 8, Harrower will preach this morning and evening in St. Luke's Methodisl Episcopal church. Rev. E. ©. Sweesser will preach on “The True Boad to Success in Life’’ this evening in the Bleecker street Universalist church. ‘The second meeting in behalf of the New York In- fant Asylum will be held tn the Church of the Mes- @iah this evening. Addresses will de delivered by Rev. Dr. Hepworth and others. Rev. Chauncey Giles will answer tne question, “What is Truth?’ this morning, in the Sweden- dorgian church, in East Thirty-fifth street, and in the evening will address the young on “Their Rela- tions to the Church,” Rev. J. L. Danner will preach this morning and evening im the Sixth avenue Reformed church. ‘The evening discourse will be on “Temperance.” Rey. William N. Dunnell will officiate in All Saints’ church, morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach, morning and evening, in the Chureh of the Resurrection. Rev. Dr. Bellows will preach tnis morning a very loteresting sermon to young men. His sunyect will be:—“unly @ Lad; or, the Significance of Small Things and Humble People.” Rev. Dr. Smith will preach in Christ church tnis morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Rylance preaches morning and evening In St. Mark’s church. Services will be heid this morning and evening in ‘Zion’s church as usual. Bishop Snow will talk about “The Rainbow Angel Bnd the Little Book” this afternoon in the Univer- sity, Washington square. Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten will speak before the Society of Spiritualists in Apollo Hall this morning and evening. Paying for the Priviiege of Worship. To THE EDITOR OP THE HERALD:— I notice in to-day’s HERaLp a letter signed “A Catholic Subscriber.” Now, why cannot “A Catholic Subscriber” give his name and address? When a person sends a communication to an influential jour- nal and withholds his name he places himself in the position of an unnatural parent, being ashamed of his own offspring. “‘A Catnolic Subscriber” takes ob- fection to your correspondent “Catholicus” for styl- ing himself a good Catholic, Now jt 1s well known these words are only a set form of expression com- mon among Catholics, Again, he says a good Cath- colic will not rush into print with a view of drawing odium on his Church; but ‘A Catholic Subscriber” fails to substantiate the fact that such were the in- tentions of your correspondent “Catholicus.” He simply begs the question, ana contents liimself by asserting that there is (arc) abundant means of obtaining relief. Now, reierring to the articls in Sunday 8 HERALD abont the Calvary vemetery, the Vicar General uses the following words:—“I de- cline to give any information on the subject.” Where, then, are the abundant means of which “A Catholic Subscriber” speaks? Again, “A Catholic Subscriber’? asserts that the only source of revenue for the support and building of churches 1s the rent- ing of pews. This is contrary to the fact, and if “A Catholic Subscriber” 18 not aware thereof he should seek further enlightenment on the suvject before committing such random assertions to the public ear. I do not see why “Catholics” should not make his complaint through the columns of the HKRALD. He has a right to doso. Even the Catholic Church in her discipline must be amenable to free thonght, and while we bow to her im matters of faith as an unerring, 1nfallibie guide, we claim for ourselves the rights and privileges of mannood. Troe it is that the five, six, seven and eight o'clock masses are free for the poor. overtasked, overwrought laboring man, but what ts the condl- tion of the poor cierks, to which class the writer belongs, Oolshing his work at twelve on Saturday night, receiving bis poor pittance at hal!-past twelve, his marketing to do on Sunday morning— bowcan he get up for an eight o'clock mass? Would it not be well to reverse the present order of things and let the elegant, the genteel, the fashionanle, the idiers of the six daysof the week arise a little eartier and attend the first masses, and by 80 doing make the poor man’s free masses at ten {stead of at so early an hour? JOSEPH BURTON, BROOKLYN, Nov. 12, 1871. Another Correspon Ve Views on the Same Subject. To THE Eprror OF THE HERALD:— In your Sunday's tssfe of the 12th inst. a person signing as “Catholic Subscriber’ thinks that a Person cannot be a good Catholic who, when imposed upon, lets his ideas be known t the public through the medium of the Press. Paying for a seat may seem right to “Catholic Subscriber.” but to me it does not. It ‘would be bewer for ‘‘Subscriber’ to think that there are @ great many poor people living in New York and Brooklyn, too, that are not able to pay for a seat; and, because they have not got the'money to obtain that seat, is it right that they should have to stand or knee: tn the aisle and become a detrt- ment to others that have to pass by them who have money to pay for their seats. According to “Sub- scribder” the poor mast suffer their misfortune ana Hot complain. Independent of paying for seats, the collection plate 1s passed around for more money, pot excusing the poor. Now, we all know that in a large city like New York, where there are trom three to four masses sald every Sunday morn- ing, independent of vespers, that each person not having the means to rent a’ seat in church by the year must be taxed five cents for @ seat If be wants tomtdown. Now, if all the five cents were added together that is charged for tbe seats and the yearly rents of ine pews likewis and the movey that is given voluntarliy at the col- lections at tbe different morning masses, were all summed 1 think there would be more than suf- cient to defray the expenses of the church, and @ balance that would be equivalent to the five or ten cent tax which is now charged in most of the churches for the transient seats, which would re- (ease the poor to some extent, and give them the privilege of hearing a sermon as well as those that ere better provided for. If voluntary subscriptions are not sufficient to defray the expenses of the church I think it would be advisabie not to bulid them 80 expensive, Again, | say, if the seats area tax to the poor that are unable to pay for them take them out, ana jet us ali kneel down the same as they do in Mexico and Chile, and other Cathoue countries; for there is, in my estimation, a waste of the people’s money aiready, The two Cathedrals now bulldiug—one in New York the other in Brooklyn—where if the money already expended had been put ont at interest or even int smalier churches, or even scnools, it would Rave been doing some good, and there would ave been a quick return to the many peopie that have already subscribed to them—are both pretty much in the same fx. The means have given out, therefore they must stop ull tne poor have been taxed for a seat, and a sufficient sam raised where- by those two large edifices may be completed. In Uhe next twenty years to come they may probably firaw near compietion. In that time the amount of spiritaal learning that might be preached from smalier churches is now lying dormant, Mae anti! those who now need it get so bad th they cannot be redeemed. “Subscriber” says that every good and bad Caiholic is well aware thai at the early masses, {rom fix Ww nine A. M., the seats are free, with few exceptions. Now “Sub- eeriver” Knows Very Well tuat there ly no sermon NEW - YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 187L—IRIPLE SHEEP, at any of the carly masses; therefore the ‘who do not have the means to procure @ seat wish to hear the Scriptures ex- pulpit, or go home ana content their prayer books, “= | own, and whether their convictions lead them to adopt the principles of one party or of the other is | perfectly immaterial co their Snek, provited teir pastoral duties are faultieasly performed; but we jo not ask the priests for the head of the body, which we are quite competent to provide for our- Christ preached His sermons on earth He did not | selves, but for the head of the soul, the word of tax the people woo came to hear Him, whether transient or other they were poor, riber’ says there area Number who attend mass, like ‘‘Catholicus,” with Out a cent in their pockets even for the plate. Now | I ask ‘subscriber’ is it requisite to have your Pockets full of money, or only half tull, when you go tochurch, or 1s it @ place to worship God, to thank Him for His kind protection during the past week and ask his blessing during the coming ‘Week; or are we only called there for wuat we pul oo piate? aan, © ther me scoher we hare Tos and free seats the better for ail c Church, A BROOKLYN CATHOLIC. Stump Oratory as Distinxvished from Chris- To THE Epitor OF THE HERALD:— Permit me through the medium of your columns to say afew words in behalf of the church-going Catholic public, whose sense cf fitness ana decorum was rudely assailed on Sunday last by the very un- ecclesiastical utterances of Fatner Ducey, of the Chureh of the Nativity, Second avenue, We are aware of the youthiu! exuberance of strong feeling and consequently of equally strong language incidental to some natures, and should be disposed to forgive its display under circumstances Jess important, but the time and place chosen fora virulent philippic on the not too choice subject of our city frauds were such on Sunday lasi ihat we cannot help protesting most peremptorily against the irreverent misuse made of them. I¢ is a rule of the Catholic Uhurch that the sacrifice of the mass shall not be interrupted for any discoarse that does Rot treat specifically of the mass itself or some por- tion of 1t—the Gospel, espistie, or any text belonging to the numerous extracts of Holy Writof which the ilturgy is mainly composed. This rule at once militates against the pulpit be- coming a sort of supplementary hust- ings, where tne fanaticism of party feeling is rendered all the more revolting, because it nas the field to itself and can defy contradict.on from behind the rampart of silence witn which reverence and custom protect the officiating mumister. tle book, entitied ‘The Priest on the Mission,” has been recently published by a London priest, Canon | Oakeley, in which the undue interruption of the mass is deprecated in these emphatic term3:—~For sermons at high mass I think no subject so appro- priate as those which consist in clear explanations ana practical enforcement of the didactic portions of the mass. Such sermons strike me altke as the most respectful to the Holy Sacrifice itself, whereas by long discnssions on alien subjects secm, as it were, to cut the mass in two, partly by their undue lengvh and partly by their tendency to divert the thougnis of the hearer into a new channel’ (p. 21). The same writer says (p. 42):—“I think that long sermons, or topics which have no immediate con- nection with the subject of the day, are out of piace in the middle of mass, Besides protracung tae mass to an inconvenient length they tenu to inter- Tupt its continuity.” ‘These words seem to me to condemn ail reference, even by implica ton, to indl- vidual reputation, and still more to the ofticiai char- acter of public servants of the State. A man may be at full liberty to believe what he pieases about current politics and their wire-pulle’s, but he certainly is not at liberty to foist his opinions on & congregation who have no desire whatever to be initiated into the result of lis private lucubrations, Your journai, Mr. Editor, is the great acknowledged medium of reiorm in all departments of our city life, We, thereiore, look to you to secure us the much coveted boon of worshipping on tne Sabbath without being helped to the unsavory food of poll- tical harangues. 1 have tbe pleasure of knowing a few priests, men, 1p every instance, worthy of love and respect, and who wo ld be the frst to deplore ‘ube ill-tamed zeal so virulentiy evinced iast Sunday by their young colleague. I believe that in what I am saying I am only interpreting their serious con- victions, I also believe that no influence couid in- duce nineteen-twentieths of the Catholic clergy to countenance or make use of political pulpit oratory, even for the benefit of the people. They know, better tnan all oihers, that the end does not justify the means, Father Ducey found comfortable justification in referring to the oft-told case of St Ambrose castigat- lng an erring Emperor. I think it need hardly be Said that this misquotation 1s suicidal. In the first place St. Ambrose did mot anticipate judg- ment—he chastised @ guilty Emperor, whose crimivalitly was proved beyond cavil, and who was hime Tepentant. Now, Mr. O'Conor has not yet completed the investigation he nas so ably begun, and we know not wheiner at this or uy future ‘stage of the proceedings, the accused parties show ur will show any serious sign of re- pentance and willingness to receive castigation in the humbte spirit of the Emperor Theodosius. In the sec- ond place, Iam not aware that any objectionable ept- thets sell irom the lips of the justly indignant pre- late. In the third place, Theodosius was rebuked outside the church, and, What is most to the pur- pose, not in the midst of divine service. So much fof the misquoted anthority of St. Ambrose. But | apart froin tne consideration of the unseemliness of interruptions during the um a consideration in itsell suMcient to restrain un ming language during the hours devoted to the most solemn duties of a Chrisuan and a priest, we have a word to say concerning the matter of this surorising address of a youog and comparauvely unknown speaker, ‘We read in the Acts of the Aposties that when St. Paul had been preaching successfully jor two years in yEpnesus there arose a tumult among the silver- smiths, who, with Demetrius at their head, clamored loudiy in favor of the Goddess wiana against we Christian teachers, Was it througn any love of Diana and her heaihen mysteries? or rather was {t not for the very business-like apd obvions reason that their trade was being ruined, since ‘silver temples” and other simular images for the service of the goddess were in danger of Rapenney | no more cussmers, and of remainii as so much dead loss on their gands? But I suspect that if Demetrius of Ephesus haa known that noly water fonts, chalices and other sacred vessels could be made of stiver, and that St. Paul anc bis disciples could afford to pay well for the mannfactare of such articles, the indignant silversmith would have been quite ready to transfer his ekill to the service of the new religion. Had he reflected that St. Paul’s very crozier, which he so dreaded, was a thing quite in nis own lini bat from the aitar railings to the very door metal work could not be dispensea with, it 18 doubttui of Ephesus would have furnished a stancner stickler for Saal of Tarsus than this Ulog- ical son of Vulcan. Millions of men. young clergy- men not excepted, are similarly deceived, agen on religious matters, The Itberality with whic! Catholie interests were troated, and the deference with which old and venerable priesia were sur- rounded by those who have now, politically speak- ing, gone to their last account is so well known that it has even become one of the handles used against the now disarmed and powerless ‘Ring.’ Perhaps the <intemperata young orator, whos zea} last Sunday certainly overicaped itself, might have 7. digerentiy had he reflected maturely pon this fact, and the consciousness of tt might have made him slow to strike a falien confederate, or cast water on drowned rata. Ihave mentioned the liberality of certain promi- nent parties to Catholic institutions, not because [I approve of such precarious gifts or endorse the con- ditions upon which they are mutually given and re- ceived, butsimply because this open-heartedness has long been » patent fact, and we all know that facta havea value of their own. The value of this par- ticular fact 1s that in order to have the right to abuse gman your own hands shuuld be empty of any giftfrom him, It 1s nothing betier than cow- ardice to disavow the favors you have willingly and thankfully received—and even sought—sunpiy be- cause the unlucky donor happens to have got into trouble, and, paruy through this very indiscriminate fonerosity, has come down in the world. Of course 4 @ constitution where material help toward re- ligioas ‘ends is not, aa itshouid be, regularly de- termined by law and perfectiy independent of any municipal change of government, it unhappliy jauls to the lot of religion to be more or less tudentined with one or other of the political parties of the day. We are not competent eltuer to blame or excuse such proceedings, nor to pronounce judgment upon the contracung parties, who doubtiess had their Own cogent reasons for their every move. But looking at the position from the outsiae and in the same light as any ordinary business transaction would be viewed among mea of honor, we can say that we do consider it ap unManiy thing to de- nounce one’s own benefactors in the hour of their need, however well merited this retributive nour of need may be. I would also say, by way of conclusion, that It is time our ears Were no longer shocked by such un- seemly utterances as those of @ certain fellow laborer of Father Dacey—a Father Clancy, of St. Joseph’s church, who, though but @ curate, took upon nimself, a lew Sundays ago, the task o! casti- jog! oar delinquent officials. Among the epithets @ applied wo them—in the presence of the blessed sacrament, «let tt be remembered—were these “thieve kguards aud debauchees.”” Withou asking the reverend gentieman whether these aro terms worthy of priestly lips it may be doubted whether they are calculated 10 accomplish the end Of preaching. If these words had been uttered on the boards of @ certain sensational theatre they might have passed current as refined sarcasm, and have fuifiled the great end of ali sensational decia- mation oy “bringing down the gallery.” It they had been said oy # Hepworth or a Frothingham they might have been deemed a furcible illustration Of a style of lecture singularly adapted to that tran- sition stage between “divine service” and a drawing room reunion, which is so convenient to fll up the hours of 4 Sabbath evening. Bat launched out, as they were, in the midst of @ most solemn ceremony, and flung at hearers perfectly unaccus- tomed vo such 1ij-timed causucity, they are simply & Teproach to the clergyman who Was not ashamed to Pronounce them. itis said, indeed, that the gen- Ueman’s discourse Was of quite @ vicarious charac- ter, he merely Maving ulrected the ammunition Jorged by & reverend colleague. Be that as u may, the undoubted repubiican tias of a brother clergy- man under the same roof with the preacher, gives suspiciously strong ground for t2inking that polit. cal partisanship, rather than @ disinterested desire of true municipal retcrm, was the fount of inspi- vation in this imstance, Of course reverend gentlemen are, I repeat tt, enurely at livery to form aud hold opinions of Wei nor exclude them because | Alit- | | God, the doctrines of the Gospel, which have noth- ingto do with the election ol petty oficiais nor with the changes at the White House itself, Ip ; ebureh, ‘We want to see In Our pastors a body of men in- dependent of party trammeis, under obligations to no man, doing the work of God with God instru ments alone, and rejecting all extraneous ald which comes with a condiuon of a guid pro quo. Above all, we want a body Of meo who will 4] to our weary minds of heavenly things and eternal truths, and make our Sunday duties a true “spiritual re- freahy.ent” to our souls, Thts cannot be done by thundering inco our unwilling ears the thousand reports an second hand denunciations that harass and pursue us through tbe week, and make us long to fly to a land where politicians are unknown aud honesty and charity are more than mere philoso- phical abs-ractions. Your valuable paper, Mr. Editor, which ts always arrayed on the side of fatr play, and never reiuses & hearing to every proposition, will, we trust, be our helper in this matier and our second 1n this protest, COLUMBA, feast, “Let us have peace,” Should Marringes Between Jews and Chris tians be Encouraged ¢ To THE EpIToR oF THE HERALD:— This Inquiry ts not proposed with a view of cre- ; aung unkind feelings besween the ancient and the modern chosen people of God. Such a motive should be repuznant to both Jew and Christian: but the motive for making tus inquiry 1s to draw the atien- ; ton of both people to the calm consideration of the ! Propriety of such unions, for such have occurred of | Jews and Christians discountenance such mar- miages; hence [ think thatI may answer the inquiry | In the negative, and Jay down the proposition that | Such marriages should not be encouraged or even | telerated. 1t13 not with these two people as it Is | with Christians of different denominations, who | can be and generally are reconciled in matters of faith, and whose manners and customs are so much alike. With Jew and Christian itis very different. First, what two things can be more diametrically opposed to each other than the faith of the two people? Nothing in this world. The one believes that the Great Messiah nas not yet come upon tne | earth; the other veheves that He blessed the earth | ago. The oue velieves that when He arrives He will | come in the character of @ mighty prince, who wiil | restore their ancicut Zion, bring ali nations subject vo Luis pecuitar people, and inflict a terrible chastise- Jews; the other believes that He has already come, | in the character of @ meek and humbie Prince of Peace, devoid of pomp and power, Zealvus, not for tne toll of this world, but for the honor giory of tim who sent lun. ‘nis contrariety of faith might be con. ; tnued to a great length, but the Lew points just res ferred to wilt serve ior the present purpose, Second, @ marrage between Jew and Chrisuan Musi be productive of much discord aud misery. One party looks back with complaceucy to his Solomon and his Samson; to his Josapnet, lus Judith anu Josias; he imay not cast atglanc. 1ato the | land of Exypt or of Babylon, but he will not be uikely to forget the wonders waich God wrought in these countries in his behall, Now, while the Christian party must admit all these works of tiod’s love in Denalf of the Jew, what has he to polut out as a spe- ciai work of the Divine favor in als own regard? Nothing, except the weeping Jesus in the crib of Betulenew or dying Saviour on the cross of Catvary. How does the Jew relish these marks of vive love? With hun they are stumbling blocks ant Tocks of scanual, Which be views with patred and contempt, wile the Christian consort views them, | or at leasi, ought to view tem, with admirauon | and love. Now, when their religious zeal uscenus to boiling height, shall the Chrisiian party draw ls sword (o cut Off the ear Of Maicus, or sail ne sell his Divine aaster for thirty pieces or periiaps less; or shall the Jew erect the cross ior tie disciple of ne Crucified, or siall he, like anotuer Saul, cry out, “Lord, What will thou Lave me to do? There ts no doobt in wy mind as to the result, The aiscipie of the Crucified will deny his Lord and Master. ‘There have beeu very few Sauls among the Jews since the days Of Saul, ana the few such marriages We have heard of lately, imeach instance tae cross Was spat upon. It may be, indeed, that neither | Party Will trouble themselves inuch avout the cross or the Pentateuch; but this can baray be supposed, | for we see that through the long series of ages | since the angels descenied to the earth to slog “Glory to God in the hignesv’ at the birth of His divine Son there have becu very few Jews who nave renounced the faith of their fathers; and through the elzteen centuries which have just elapsed since the destruction of their nation, their city and their temple, no matter in what country he may have | dwelt, he still preserves his peculiarities, Dis mother | tongue, his ancient faith, nis hatred jor the Craci- | fed—in a word, ne is stillaJew. While many other trives and nationalities have passed away and become blended with other peopies, the children of Abraham sull 100k back to their loag lost Jerusa- lem with a fond hope of again seeing the ancient temple, city and nation restored with greater splea- dor than vefore, Hence It ts reasonable to conclude | that marriages between Jew and Christian must end im the Christian abandoning his or her faith, and at best that they must be unhappy, and conse- quently that they should not be wicgatoasaes. a The Free Charct of St. Mary. Atthe Free Church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-filth street, between Broadway and Eighth avenue, the litany commences this morning at hali- past ten, with full.choral service. Eveniug prayer at four and compline (full choral) at nalf-past seven this png ae Mary's is one of the most advanced Protestant Episcopal Ritualistic churches with daily eucharistic service at seven A. M. throughout the year. Although a free church, depending entirely upon its offertory, it is weil sustained, with large congre- gations, along whom are some of our most re- spected families, The Young Ladies’ Scnool of the Sisters of St. Mary also worsnip here, and a magnificent white maar} pe vite 6 im course of erection within its chaccel, Bishop Dupai 1D, Orleans, France, Upon Primary Education. M. Dapanioup, the Bishop of Orleans, has written the following letter on the subject of primary educa- tuon to the Imparwal du Loiret:— ORLEANS, Oct, 30, 1871. Srm—I have read in the Jmparial du Loiret, of the 29th of this month, the following lines:—“The Constitutionnel announces that M. Jules Simon has terminated his labors upon the law of gratuitous nd compulsory instruction. The votes of the Counctis General being almost everywhere in sup- port of it, that law will, it is said, be brought for- ward at the opening of the Chamber.” Permit me to Bay that | regret those lines. do not know how Buch a subject can be prejudged by the Councils Gen- eral, the session of which ua scarcely commenced, and I do not understand, moreover, how such a question couid be settled before being thoroughly examined; for assuredly it 18 very grave, very com- plex, very cimicnit, J desire as much as any one that there shail not be a singie young Frenciman nor a single young French woman unable to read and write; and I am tue successor of a bishop who, in ihe seventecnth cevtury, founded at his own ex- pense 20¢ gratuitous primary schools in the divcese or Orleans. But considerations of more than one Kind must pe taken into account, and without pre- tending to develop them completeiy tn unis letter there are some that preseut Llemseives at the out set.and are of 2 nature W make serious minds reflect, M, Duruy, who Was daring in many things, and was urged by Dis master 1m this question, did not dare to settle it, 80 beset did he find it by dimticuities. He had suomitted it to the Academy inspectors. and the majority of the inspectors—sixty at least— Teplied that the graiuitous system did not favor the progress of primary education; that in all cases where the schoo! was gratuilous it was less assi- duously frequented. I have before me thetr reports, which expressly state the fact, and give the reason of the fact. Tue Counciis General in 1567-68-69, althoug! pressed on this point by the imperial gov- ernment, did not show tuemselves more favorable. I have read their reports. It will perhaps be said, But where 16 & simple mode Of Causing the schools to be ‘Well attended; 1t1s to render them compulsory and to force all the chidren into them. As for me, I do not consider these means simple. When the ume comes J shail, in the present siate of education and morals in France, nave some very serious things to | Say, But the fact remains that the gratuitous sys- | tem 1s notin itseit favorable to (he attendance at the schools and the progress of instruction, Moreover, the gratuitous system will destroy most of our reli- gious schools, for tnis decisive reason, that they Will no longer be abie to sustain the compeution of ‘the gratuitous schools, nd our religions schools de- stroyed, ali our children will be handed over by com- Baier to @ system of instruction which, if we may judge by the efforts recently made in Paris aurin the Commune, apd cisewhere at this momen might become an tmmense soctal and religious dan- ger. And independent of that danger, nothing would be gained from an edulational point of view: for these primary religious schools, which will us be destroyed, it is proved by official statistics have the superiority; that is to say, that, duly compared, they figure for a larger number among the scnools that the inspecturs cali gooa schools, Finaily, it should the scholastic remuneration at the present time amounts to gvout twenty millions, These twenty milifons are paid by the rich for themselves and the poor; for gratuitous education is accorded now to all the poor, to all who need it, In establishing grataitous nage l instructon for the rich as well as tne poor yy means Of the general rate inscribed upon tho budget of public insiruction, the poor—that is to say, he largest number of taxpayers, those who cannot pay for their schooling and who pay nothing now—will PY, then, and paruy jor the rich, There is, 1 know it, @ reason that many woriy people give atonce, and without having refecied on we question, to Wit, thas the Prussians-—(or we are much ‘ this moment to the imitation of Prussia—tnat the Prussians conquered us because they knew how to read better than we do, That the Prussians cau read 1 know wel: but L also Kuow— = | late, I believe that by far the greater majority of | by His presence more than eighteen hundred years | Menton God's enemies—t ¢., on ail who are not | Abraham, his Isaac and his Jacoo; to his David, bis | | for I sat good deal of them during six months of | long and mournful memory—that if tney beat us 1 was not only because they knew how to read, but because they knew how fo obey. The gratuitous and the compulsory system of education may be decided on: for in times like ours everything is de- cided Lor the occasion and with great rapidity. But when the moment for serious decision comes, at Jeast it will be necessary to know then what is wanted and what 1s possible. There is the little I have just written and many other things sitll to examine before adopting a resolution, Iam, &c., 'ELLX, Bishop of Orleans. Bismare'< the Catholics—(Coquctting with Rome—A Statement Demanding an Explanation—A Bishop’s Contradictio The Geneva Correspondent, an ultramontane Paper, alluded some time ago to Prince Bismarck ip the following manoer: Nopody is in doubt about him to-day. He really is vot a great, but rather @ fortunate man. Hels a cynic in the true sense, and joves to induige in ex- pressions such as these, “Might 13 right,’ “Blood and tron” and the like. We have a few more items Which deserve to oe pablished, COQUKITING WITH ROME, A German bishop took lately occasion to remind Prince Bismarck that during the late war, and at the time when Rome was about to be occupied by the itatians, he was exceedingly anxious to secure the good will of the Catholics; why then did he, Prince Bisinarck, now persist in prosecutinz the Cathoitc Church in Germany at the present juncvare ? | ©Why,’’ rejoined the Chancellor, can you reaily not conceive that last year | could make use of you, but at present you cannot render me auy servicer”? be remark was impuden‘. It was the reply of a cynic, WiAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE WITH THEM, On anoiher occasion 16 was remarked that the prosecution of tue Archoishop of Colo:ne, which | took piace some thirty years ago, did more harm to Prussia than a host of batile, “I admit that,” re- pled Bismarck. “It was @ great mistake to remove only & single bishop. 1 would have imprisoned | Wem all.” AN EXPLANATION REQUESTED. In reference to the foregoing the Spener Zeitung remarked:— “The-only ‘German Bishop’ who has had lately a | Conversation with the Prince is tne tishop of May- ence, a member of the Reichstag. The statement reierred to can, therefore, only emanate from Mon- signore Ketteler, and tue very reverend prelate eee soubtedly take occasion to explain the mat- T, BISHOP? KBITELER'S CONTRADICTION. In reply Monsignore Ketteler, Archvishop of Mayence, writes the foilowing to the Germania, & German uliramontane journal:— Whether it be true that Iam the only German Bishop who lately had a conversation with Prince iismarck J am unable tosay. But since that has been paviiciy asserted { wil not | fallto'say that { never took the troubie to read the Geneva Corvrspo deny waiter the first few numvers which bad been forwarded to me, for the reason tbat the tone and ibe spirit of that journal ‘failed to do justice to the cause it pretended to serve, Moreover, no words ever p: my lips which could have uiven occasiun to the foregoing statement. I have had only ounce the honor of a lengthy conversation with the Prince, but nothing was spoken which could have the remot- est semblance to the communication made by the Geneva Corre-qoud So far as I am concerned there is not a word of truth in the matter. Kelizious Notes—Personal and General. The Roman Catholics lost $1,500,00 in ecclesiasti- cal property by tne recent fire in Chicago. Archbishop McUloskey confirmed about seven hundred persons at Newburg, on Sabbath last, mostly children. Rev. H. 0. Riggs, of St. Albans, Vt., accepts the Call to the First Presbyterian church of Rutherfurd Park, N. J. Rey. T. Y, Scott has resigned his charge of the Fort Scott Presoyterian church in Kansas, which is now vacant, Mr. Voysey is finally unfrocked, and his vicurage has been conferred upon the kev. Christopher berg, M. A., vicar of Weston, near Leeds, Rev. J. H. Byers has resigned his charge of the Third Presoyterian church of Kansas City, and ac- cepted a callio the First church at Lexington, Mo. Rev. M. A. De Wolf owe, o! Philadelphia, was elecied Bishop of the new Episcopal Diocese of ates Peunsylvania, on the 9th 1ust., at Harris- ung. Mr. Thrall and Dr. Cooper have their followers in the Old Country. “A Free Church of England,” in- dependent of Episcopal controlshas veeu estab- lished at Wolverhampton. The matter of separation of Church and State 1s up for discussion before the Grand Council of Geneva. Several speakers have demanded that the matter ve subinitted to popular vote, Dr. Goss, the Roman Catholic Bishop ot Liverpool, finds fault with Mr. Bruce, the Englisii Home secre- tary, for using the wora ‘Popish” in lus letter to the Renfrew electors, “Mother” Winslow, ‘the cideat Methodist in this country, if not in the world,’ of whom mention was recently made in these columns, died at her home in Canton, Masne, on the 13th ult., at the age of 104 years. She was the mother of uine children, all of Whom lived beyond the age of sixty, five of waom survive her. Henry Boehm, the oldest living minister of the Methodist piscopal Cuurch, officiated on the Ist of October ut the laying of the corner stone of tne Third Methouist Episcopal church in Lancaster, Pa. Sixty-eignt yeara before he preached the first Methoaist sermon ever delivered in that city, and organized the first society, consisting of six mem- bers, One person was present at the corner stone laying who heard the first sermon, in 1803, . FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. Rev. Mr. Isancs Lamenting the Defecti of Israel and the Innovations of the Ke- formers. The Kev, 8. M. Isaacs yesterday addressed his congregauon on the innovations which the reform. ers are making on the old established usages of Judaism. He called their attention to Mulachi’s prophecy, wherein that good man calls upon Israel to remember the law of Moses, the servant of the Lord, and tells the people that they had refused or neglected to bring all their tithes into the storehouses, and that they had thereby robbed God. And tne priests had encouraged the people in this neglect, and had offered polluted bread upon the altar of the Lord, until the congregation looked upon the altar and the table as contemptible. And none of them would even shut the doors of the temple for naught, the prophet declares, so careless were they and 80 ab- sorbed in their own selfish pursuits, Mr. Isaacs called particular attention to the sixth and seventh verses of the first chapter of this prophecy, and pro- ceedeu to say that Malachi lived subsequent to the destruction of the great temple, and that he was one of THE SAINTS OF ANTIQUITY. During his ministry the people had lapsed into idolatry, and when tne prophet called upon them to return to the Lord’s house and to the simplicity of its worship they replied that the table of the Lord was contemptibie. The services of the temple did not keep step with the spirit of the age, and they wanted reiorms and innovations just as they do now. The people want reform, and the priests are only too anxious to please them and to betake themselves together, if not to heathenism, at least lo the worsnip of the Gentiles, to the neglect of the Jaw ot Moses, the servant of the Lord, The Almighty requirea plainness and sim- Plieity of worship, and hence ordered that his altars should be pullt of stones—whole swunes— and that no tool of iron should he sifted upon it, be- cause iron shortens Iife and the altar and its wor. ship Were designed W be perpetual. The priests said not in those days, “Where i the Lord?” But they tickied the ears of the people just.as they du now. They honor God wisn their ps while thelr hearts are farfrom Him. he people of Israel would pot have forsaken the Lord had not the priests encour- aged them thereto and made the Lord’s table con- temptible. Our ortnodox religious ideas are too simple; we must have some alterations and im- rovements; and tuus Judaism is being aestroyed, in Clucinuall, said Mr. Isaacs, A PRIEST TOOK OFF HIS HAT in the synagogue and performed the service In Eng- lish, utterly ignoring the Hebrew. Bat, rater than l would give up Hebrew or remove my nat, he added, | would resign iny Office. These are the re- forms which are sapping our foundation. It i true, he continued, we have nosuch altar as Israel once had. But we have, nevertheless, turee altars—in our hearts, in our homes and in tne syna- gogue, The altar in tne chiid’s heart prompts bim to ask Who 18 God and where 1s He? And alas for the parents who must reply by hushing up the little one from such inquiries ! There are among us, he said, some who knowingly forsake Judaism. But he hoped that the youth of his congregation would, like the dove when tred, rest first upou one wing and then on the other—the two wings being fain and knowiedge—aud that they would not forsake the faith of their fathers. The altar in tne jamily was next treated of, and the congregation were warned against backbiting or having anything for- Didden on their tables, And so should tne wives bo fruitful vines and the children be oilve branches round about the table. The third altar 1s the temple ‘of the Lord, where the law of God 1s kept--tlus iaw ‘which has been carried avout Europe and Asia und is now recognized by the whole world, The kings have set themselves and the rulers nave taken COUNSEL AGAINST THIS LAW to destroy it, but they have utterly failed. And wo Jace it here in the centre of the buuding, said the Kavos, to show where is the seat of trutn and ower, and to show, further, that we have but one od and one destiny, and we have no desire to foliow or imitate otners, The Jew exalts God when he adheres to tue faith. is now among the nations and we should recognize His hand. Our prayers should notjbe offered iu listlessness, but in Bincerity, as to a God of holiness, The house of Israel, collectively and individuaily, are called to holiness and purity, and we musi not make excuse or say that tue tavie of the Lord is contempubie, ‘We must not despise God, but must rememper that we have three altars to malutain—in the heart, in the home and in the house of God, | If we neglect or despise the first two it were far better for us to lock up the doors of oar synagogues and cast all aside, Rather let us cling to and mainiain ail and prove God if He will not pour us out such a blessing that (were shall be room ta contain It THE COURTS. Important Question of Jurisdiction—The Erie Railway Litigation—Decisions in the Courts, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Impertant Suit te Life Insurance Com The Importation of Shingles Fro! Brunswick—Charge of Fraud. WASHINGTON, D. C,, Nov. 18, 1871. No, 270, Phaeniz Mutual Life Insurance Co. v8, Bailey.—Appeal from the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia,—The object of this sult was to en- join the appellee from assigning or otherwise dis- posing of two policies of fe insurance, amounting in the aggregate to $10,000, and compel her to deliver them up to be cancelled, because some of the state- made by the insured in answer to the questions Proposed to him upon his application for insurance were untrue and fraudulent, and also vecause the statements respecting the health, habit aud physical condition of the tnsured, contained in the certificate furnished to the company by the ap lee (to whym the policies were made payable), were likewise untrue and frauiuient, Tne Itie insured was that of Albert G. Bailey, whose widow is the Sppellee, The misrepresentations and suppressions set forth are tnat at the time the policy was issued the insured Was in consumption, and that both bim- self and wife believed he was dangerously ill, and both of them suppressed the tact, and represented the contrary. Also, that the insured was addicted to the habitual use of spirituous liquom™, and yet both parties denied te fact, The decree beiow was against the company, and the cause comes zene the deendant in ercor maintaiming that a court o equity has no jurisdiction in such a case, where the question to be tried Was whether a representation Was false or true, material or immaterial, and also that no fraud was practised, Oa the ovicr hand it 4s insisted that the jurisdiction of courts im equity to compel the delivery up to be cancelled of ayree- ments, &c.,\obtained through false and fraudulent representations, 18 well established, aud that the representations here made were material, and that vhey were (alse and fraudulent. The 1k nd tne evidence were examined at lengut by tue respective counsel to establish their counter positions. J. M. Carlisie, J, DW. McPnersin and M. 4, Cox for ap- pellant; W. D. Davidge and #. B. Washington for appellee, No. 271, Stockwell é Cutter vs, The United States— Error to the Circuit Court for Maine.—This was an action of debt brought by the United States to re- cover the amount of forfeiture and penalties claimed on account of alleged violations of the Revenue laws in the importation of shingles from New Brunswick during the years 1863-64, together with the amount of duties claimed to be chargeable thereon, The firm was represented in the business by one of their number, and the Court below charged that his acts bound the firm, and that il he knowingly purchased and received on their joint ac- count the growth and produce of New Brunswick and trandulently documented them as tne growth of Maine, the shingles unported were illegally im- Ported aod lable to seizure, The action being a civil proceeding and not a criminal prosecution, the knowledge of one of the firm on these mat ters is to be deemed the knowledge of mis copartners; Dor was it necessary for the govenment to show thas the other members of the firm had per- aonal knowledge of the facts, they being within the knowledge of the partner. The verdict and judgment were for the United States, and the gov- ernment here maintain the correctness of the ruling on the evidence and the law as expounded by the Court, The plaintiffs in error contend that the Court erred in holding that a civil action of debt will he for the United Scates in such a@ case un- der the statute; and tuat it was error to charge that the knowledge by the defendants as copartners re- juired py the statute was conclusively presumed rom the knowledge of their agent beimg their part- ner in the transaction. Also that the provisions of the act of 1823, relating to the subject, does not apply to the importers themselves, and that tne penalty under the second section of that act 1s re- vealed by the act of 1866. H. H. Dana, Jr., for ae- fendant in error; B. H. Preston for government. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. An Lmpertant Question as to the Jurisdiction of the Court. Before Judge Benedict. In the recent term of the Court a Chinaman, named John Aldo, was convicted before Judge Benedict on an indictment charging the prisoner with having stabbed an American citizen on board an American vessel on the Ligh seas, The prisoner was convicted. On the trial an important question as to the jurisdiction of the Court was raised, and it was to this effect:—A vessel arriving in the Lower Quarantine arrives in waters which are in the East- ern district of New York, The police boat went down there and took Aldo off the vessel tn which, it is alleged, he committed the crime for which he has been founé guilty, and brought him off to New York, which 1s in the judicial district Known as the “Southern district of New York.” There a warrant ‘Was issued by Commissioner Shields for Aldo’s ar- rest, and he was put into the custody of the Mai shal. The law reads that a prisoner committing an offence such as that laid to Aldo’s charge shall be tried in the district in which be is apprehended or first brought. Now, the question arises, in what dts- trict was the prisoner appreuended or first brought? Counsel for the government contend that Aldo ‘Was brought through the Eastern district into tne Southern aistrict, and there arrested. On the other hand, counsel for the prisoner matn- tains that Aldo was be di ey in the Lower Bay, that he was first brought into tne Eastern district, and that, therefore, his trial should have taken place in the Eastern district, Judge Benedict, we understand, intends to write an opinion on the question, whichis an interesting One, ANY 1t 18 NOt al all improbable that Aldo may have @ new trial, If the point should be decided against the government, they wili have tosend all such Cases as that of Aldo to the Eastern district for trial; but counsel for the government appear to be confident that the judgment of the Court willbe in thelr favor. AN UNFORTUNATE COUNTERFEITER. The United States vs. Jackson.—The defendant Nad been committed in the last erm of the Court ior counterfeiting. He was brought down yesterday for eentence. The uniortunat’ man appeared in court the very picture of melancholy, nay, of almost despair, He seemed to be quite sick. He was re- manded, and his counsel will, in the meantime, file affidavits in mitigation of sentence, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. The Erie Railway Litigation—The Receiver’s Fees. Before Judge Blatchford, Quite an array of able counsel were on hand yes- terday morning ip the United States District Court, before Judge Blatchford, prepared to argue a mo- tion respecting the fees that ought to be paid to Mr. James H. Coleman, as Recetver in the well known litigation of Heath ana Raphael, the English share- holders, against Fisk, Jr., Gould and the Erte Rail- way Company. Mr. W. M. Evarts and Mr. South- mayd represented the knglish sharebolders; Mr. Dudley Field and Mr. Beacon were for the Erie Com- apny, ‘and Mr. T. C. T. Buckley appeared on behalf of ir. Goleman. Had the motion gone on there would, in all probability, have been a ‘field day;’’ bus the matter went over by consent till Saturday next, Mr, Coleman, itis admitted on both sides, has faithfully, and in strict accordance with the crders of the Courts, whether State or federal, discharged the duties of his receivership, which has been to him throughont rather an clephant on his hands than a paying concern. Volaatary Petitions in Bankraptcy. Charles Broom, Lewis Dill, Elinu H. Taylor, Fred- erick P. Gaudimeer, Adjudications In In mary Cases, Joseph Struthers, William Christal, Charles FE. bg ete Jacob Newberger, Simon stern, Mathias E, Eaton, Nea New Discharges. Charlies W. Barton, Mary Westcott, Joseph Blu- menthal. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Spencer. Istiah Keyser vs, Frederick Goodrich.—Order granted, ‘ eee Treiand vs. William H. Nichols et al.— Ann Eliza Herrick vs, The New York Guarantee and Indemnity Company.—same, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions, By Judge Loew. Clarke et al. vs, Beman.—Motion to place cause on spectal calendar of short causes granted. Pesant vs. McBride. Motion denied, without costs, The New Orleans, Modile ana Texas Ratlroaa Company vs. James et al,—Motion granted. The New York Nattonal Bechange Bank vs. Warner et al.—Motion granted, KINGS COUNTY SUSROGATE’S COURT. Wills Admitted, &c. Before Surrogate Veeder. Daring the past week Surrogate Veeder admitted to probate the wilis of Henry Edward Sutton, of Naples, Italy; Thomas Jefferson Parmele, of Augusta, Georgia, and Frederick ©. Holste, Mary Austin, Dorothea Dixon, Lasse Hjousbery, Thomas H. Whitehouse, Jonathan C. a ienite ar Jed ikeman, John jer aus - By tiger or tne. tty of Brookivn. Letters of administration were granted on the es tates of Thomas Taylor, Margaret Diver, John H. Calahan, Francis P, Dale, Jonn Cunningham, val, wn P, Sanger, Join Young. Joslan P. ard: Wary Ann Suitivan, Prudence Chesebro, Hugh Vie- tor and George Henry, all of Brooklyn. Letters of administration, wich the will annexed, were granted in the estates of Ann Elles, of Brook- lyn, and Henry E. Sutton, of Naples Italy. Letters of guardianship of the person and estate of Francis an! Frederick Kean were granted to Ellen Ball, their mother; of Norman C. und Henry Kise ainart and Solon S alara'is*Gous & . cry §auinard, their father. thai COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS The First “Keno” “ase Befor2 This Court- Sum mary Punishment for the Gamesters— Judge Dowling D:t-rmined to Put a fStop to It Before Judge Dowling. ‘Twenty-nine cases of “A, & B,” “P, L.” ana “Aband” conirouted Judge Dowling yesterday morn. ing on the calendar of the Vourt of Special Sesatuas, ‘The initials and abbreviations represent the terms “gssault and battery,’ ‘petit larceny” and “atam donment.” The first two charges are excceuiugly requent, and the last, although by lar too common, cannot be said to appear as olten as the others, ; Oo the calendar of yesterday, however, was one case such as does not often appeur ip this Court. This Was @ case in which the proprietors of A KENO GAMB : were arraigned for “running” an establishment at 165 Crosby street, When it was announced that ihe trial was that ol keno game owners, there seemed to be @ general sensation throughout the court room. ‘The crowds on the berches—comprisiug compluin- ants, police officers, curiosity seekers, ioafers and loungers of all sorts—bustled themselves up mte good heuring positions, while the prisoners toon their stand at the var. The prisouers were two young men named Judd and Dempwolf, neither of them remarkable lor any special traits of character or countenance, Captain Waish and two of his officers appeared against the prisoners and testified as to huw ihe raid had been made on the establishment, and that there were some twenty or more men engaged 1m the delectable occupation of placing common BUTTONS ON NUMGERS on cards in froat of them, while we prisoner Judd swung @ large box on pivots aud called out the numbers from the balis that dropped irom the box at the end of the twisting. The oiticers had seem the crowd, the wheel, the money and the meu; bad never heard, of anybody winning anything, and aid not know of anybody losing anything at this particu- jar time, y Counsel for the prisoners asked to have the oners discharged, as there was no evidence of any “gaming” at which mouey was lost and won being in ress. ‘Huage DOWLING interrupted the doughy little defender and said, “‘Wnat is the ase of couusel standing up here to tell 4 magistrate that there no evidence, When he has just heard it aud every- body in the room has beard 1t, it 1s simply rye to insult & man’s intelligence to make Such 4 state- ment.” CounsEL—Your Honor, the law ts very c ear—— Judge DOWLING—Yes, so 18 the Hesmiony. (Turn. ing to the prisoners.) 1fnd you guilty, Now what have you to say why sentence should not ve pro- nounced upon you? Prisoner JUDD—I’ve only been in the business @ week or two, Lnever was in it before. 1 was out of work, and 1 got a chance at this place to do some- thing to make a living. Prisoner DEMPWOLF sald he nad nothing to say, « Judge DowLInG—This game, as far us I can learn, ig most dangerous, because young boys aud poor men mostly patronize it. Prisouer JuDv—We never had any bovs im there; we wouldn’t let them in. Judge Dow.ine—Yes, but if they came in and paid their money, you woulun’t turn them oul, Jupv—We would not let them in. Captain WaLsu—I may say, your Honor, that they were mostly business wei irom the aeighour- horhood we found 1 there; men pretty well to uo, aud | was astonished to see thei there. COUNSEL hoped tne Court would take into Com sideration what Captain Waisn had stavea. Judge DowLinc—Yes, Vil take everyuhing into consideration. 1] take into consideration tuat the public are crying out aguiust suck places as this Louvre. This 1s the first of these cases that has come before wus Court, ‘The parties arrested on simiar charags heretofore have Teen smart envugh to elect wo be tried at the Gen- eral Sessions, where they have to .o through we Grand Jury and the District Attorney’s ollice, where the papers can be CONVENIENTLY SHELVED and no more heard avout it. I am determined to break this thing up as far as I can, aud in considera. tion of what has been said 1 will give the prisyners each six mouths in the Penitenuary and fue them 250, : ‘At the announcement of the judgment there was @ very percepuble sensauon and an audible “whew” from several parts of the room. » The other cases were gcnerally of a nature scarcely Wortny of publication, THE CHULYRA A3ATING. No New Cases—Oficial. Report of the Sure geon in Charge. The patients attacked with cholera on the Frank- lin and now _lying in West Bank Hospital are rapidly recovering, and but one or two are likely to die, No new cases have occurred among the passengers on the receiving ship Delaware, Yes- terday Anna Darsing, aged sixteen years, died at West Bank Hospital. The following is the official report of the disease made to Health Oiicer Car nochan:— Meaita OrriceR’s DEPARTMENT, | QUARANTINE, TOMPKINSVILLE, 8. L, Nov. 15, 1871, as Phas CannocnaN, Health OfMicer Port of New ‘ork:— Six—I have the honor to submit the following Teport concerning the steamship Franklin:— The Franklin left Svettin October 10, Copenhagen October 12, Curisuansand October 15, There were twenty-two saluon passengers, 611 steerage; 1n all, 633, With a certined capacity for 060 ngers. They were ops | from Stettin, there being about one hundred and twenty from the other two ports. ‘The first case of sickness occurred on the 234 of October, alter being eight days at sea, and was fol- lowed by others until, after the arrival of the vessel at Halifax, on November 5, there had been forty deaths, some of the worst cases dying within twenty-four hours after the commencement of the attack, and the average time Of sickness in the fatal cases being about three days. They lett Haitiax on the 8th of November and Teached (Quarantine on the 12th, having had one more death during this ume, There were seven vases in the bospital of the Frankin when she ar- rived here, one of whom died the next day of Asiatic cholera. Within eight hours of the arrival of tne steamship in port the well passengers and partof the crew were transferred to the receiving steamship Dela- Ware, and the sick to the hospitalon West Bank, Since then one case has occurred in the portion of the crew left on the Franklin, and from the Dela- ware there have been sent to the hospital the follow- ing cases:— On Monday.. 21 On Wednesday. On Tuesday.. 8 On Thursday... ‘Three more have died of the cholera, making m ail forty-five deaths, and there are now ander trea~ ment with that disease lorty patients in the hos- pital at West Bank. The condition of the Frankiin at the time of her Qrrival Was as good as that of any of the emigrant ships, The provisions were suMicient in quant.t; and of good quality, and the water in use, whic! was from the condenser, was good. 1 examied this by testing it, as there had been reports that the water was bad and had caused the sickness. The malignant character of the disease was made Manifest vy two deaths on Tuesday night, both of the persons who were attacked having been appa- renuy weil aud walking about that evening ten hours before they died. That the disease has uot proved more fatal among s0 many people exposed to it under such circumstances is probably due to the gel management on board, which was shown by the absence of panic and the general good condl- tion of those who had escaped the disease. The agents of this hue of steamships—Messrs. Wenat & ammelsberg—nave cordially co-operated with us since the arrival of the Frankiin and car- ned out all of your directions, Fresh me: eS tables and other provisions irom the markets have been added by them daily to the stores already om board, Mr, Wendt having given to it his personal . Respectfully yours, pica aac a So ifosite Deputy Health OMcer. TRAGEDY IN UNION HILL ¥. J. ‘At ten o'clock yesterday morning a sad occur rence took place in the rear of Franklin street, near Huason avenue, Unton Hill, which resulted in the death of a well-known German, named Martzel 5 firty years. He resided in @ house on faa street, and Wont out Wilh an old gun tO tire wt atarget. In-some way not yel determined the com tents of the gun exploded, enterimg the side of hia head and k&ling him almost instantly, Whether he intended to shoot limseif is not ceiinitely knowa, but inasmuch as he had been drinking for some ume previously, it 1s conjectured that he mey have voluntarily terminated his existence, His wife and two children appeared frantic on learning of the melancholy affair. Coroner Parsiow, of Hoboken, will hold an inquest on Monday. DARING DIAMOND ROBBERY. Three men yesterday went into the Jewelry store of J. Brennan, 28 Maiden lane, and while woof them engaged the attention of the proprietor of the sore and his clerk, the third one put his hand over the discovered, i