The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1871, Page 5

Him, “What 1 do thou knowest not now.” And it true of the whole work of jesus. What-Jesus thea doing His disciples did not even under- | stand, but He said to Peter “Thou shalt know here. after.” 3¢ was only after ali was passed that the ‘Words, deeds and life of Christ were properly un- | @erstood., We were unable to compretiend the tull rt of what We was dotug uutil kis work was ‘His Father set Huw upon fis right band @nd gave unto Him (he charge of all titugs, All power was given untu Him in heaven and | Garth, and He administers and directs ‘things in tue course of nature and Providence, It @Boula be considered that while our missiun was | Much therefore remained that we did not know? | fature and answer all our questions. Clirist’s | ge Wus as broad as the universe, i administration of these worldly adairs He bas BOb Only tac present bat the fucure belore Him, | ‘What ue resulis of (he future would be was unpos- ible tor us to know. —1¢_ was also to be considered that even things wich we could see He cag fuihom | Maore thorougily than us. We must have a trust in Goo and that wouid ve a sunshine to our hearts and help us to bear the trials aud trioulations wich wo were likely to meet ta this world. ‘This trust in God teaches the loving earts tu say, ‘1 sua. await | Wniil 1614 Mis will to make it known to us.” i ‘was yiciding to the will of God. In all Lis-, We could not. but wie His divine | jom, The course of our lives was mot inade up | Qf miracles, Wnat Christ wae now do! for as | ‘Wonks ve made known to us when we had passed | into ‘ie future state. It would be as absurd to ask Gbrist was now doing for us. I do | nowest notnow;”” ee as in the case of Peter, the "a anewer lo us was, “fou shalt Know here- | ‘Time wouid answer ail the quesuons which arise io our auxious: hearts, aud this was & Of great satisiaction to us, THE MORMON CHURCH, WILLUMSBURG. ‘Wider Miles, recently from Salt Lake City, and Eider Miller addressed a large congregation of Latter-Day Saints in their place of meeting in Wilnamsburg yesterday. The congregation was | composed priucipally of New Jersey and Long Island Saints, tue majority of the Wiluamsburg ; edberents of the Church having leit tor the vaHey. The Eiders named delivered Mmpassioned addresses, during which they waplored | WS Toone to accept and endure perseculuon. | | sO advised ail tue faithful to settle up their atfairs and leave for Utan, ‘in tat sacied valiey,”? said Klier Miles, “you may endare great bardsilp! Dus. if you do, God will w ume give you prosperit, ‘Unless you are willing to suffer persecution jor Him Bow you cannot expect His love in the future,” SERVICES IN WASHINGTON. Dr. Newman on the Reputed Revelations of Sclence Relative to the Fnilaciousness of Scripiural Uistory—The Scientists Too Wi ta Their Owa Concoit. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 1871, | Dr, Newman announced to his peopie that he ould speak to them on Toanksgiving Day on the Fesponsihiirties of American citizenship, and that that day would aiso be devoted to the dedication of the new spiro and ciitme of bella. Dr. Newman then preached froin Romans, xi, 16—“ie not wise in your own conocei'—on tue relation of religion to Belence. ‘the bold speculations of modern scholars } THREE CLASSES OF PERSONS. | They confirm the fufdei in his iniidelity, they | Morease the doubis of those of literary tastes who , Bave but litue inclination for religious things, and they disturb the peace of Christians, These specu- Jations result in the supposition that science and Weligion are antagonistic. 1t ts for the Christian to show that there is the utmost harmovy between them. Tho Christiau minister who canuot answer the scientific objections agatust his religion shoald either maintain a respectiul ailence or abandon a ministry that he ia elther too laay or too incompe- ‘ent to dejend, since tor such ministers tne Church Of this bas DO Work. But what ls to be said of those who have ARGAYED SCIENCE AGAINST CIIRISTIANITY? That peautitul science which descrives the iwarvels the human organism has been brought to bear the upmateriality and tumortauty of mind, ww said that ax.tue ilver secrctca bile, so the brain secretes thought, and men of letters Lave taken from God His creative power and ascribed all life to Spoutancous generation. Tho geologist bas veen taking Lo stady the tablets of the rocks that he deny the orixin of the race a: given in th A tingle word is mwie to aunounce THE TUROKY OF LIFR. series of created acts is set aside for the retoplasm.” When asked for the ded- worl, its author siaics that where a tnavion of carbon, hydiogen, oxygen en exisis there 1 lie. More than buis, some of the schoiurs of to-day declare, in opposition to the Bible, that man was uot created in tue image of God, bat in ‘THE IMAGE OF A MONKEY, How long must this disagreement last? Is there no ud of harmouy so (uat nan May grasp revela- tion wito one haud and nature wih che ower? it Is the Work Of scholars to guther facts aud deduce prwoipies, and it is tne thevlogians’ work to decile wheter these are in narmooy with the Bible or now Mf they are they are to be accepied, If not ie is to gpacertain Whether his luterprctation of tue bible 1s correct or incorrect, If the latter then abandon it and geta better one. ‘The Cuurch does not claun AN INFALLIGLE BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION, God has made Hw revelation in all the power of human Janguage, and it is lo be mterpreted as any Other bUok. Just as the scientist 8 compelled to change bis interpretation of nature with new devel- Opmente and discoveries, so must the interpreta- Gon Of the Kible change, to meet new facts devel- epoa oy the scieutitic world. ‘Shere was @ ume when if was beiievod that this carth would be anni- uated, but chemistry has taugat the impossibiil 1 euch an occurrence, and eters description BOW Understood to mean (hat tue elements will only with jerveut heat. Dr. Newman then reviewed successively the Various changes that had veeu necessiated in theolegica! beie! from the discoveries in geulogy in Feiereuce to THK AGE OF THB EARTH. Ascribing the respoasibiity for tue long-cherishea ANcOusiswncies tw te MAN who first divided the Bible into chapters aud verses, he siuowed how meny and various have beea the changes of 1uter- tauon in reading the book of nature referring, by way of tiilustration, to the diiierent Wieories in relation to light which have been widely adopted anu then set aside $0 make room lor additional lignt om the subject. At was furtuer wade evident Lhat scientific men dis- agree among themseives. Tuus duxiey denies and @sscria tue existeuce of species, Darwin asserts tle theory of natural selection aud Navarre brings strong objections against it, 80 strong that Darwin canuot answer them. Dr. Newman was willing to wate till the scientists should be tn hai mony among themselves before he coutd accept any Ol their theorics which were not in harmony with Scripture, THE BIBLE AGITATION What Father (: Has to Say—It Must Not be Read in the School, Although it was oxpected that the ministers of Hunter's Point would have something to say yester- Gay on the question agitating the ity, only at St. Mary’s church was the sub- ject alludea to. Father Crimmins reviewed the reading of the Bible in the public echools at length. He said that it was contrary to the genius of our institutions, He velieved that all men should wor- ship God according to the dictates of tneir own conscieuce, The constitution professes to project the most humble citizen in us inalienable rignts. A largo majority of the citizens of this community believe that the teachings of the St. James version are wrong wny force it on our children? Either remove the Bibie from the public schoo!s or discontinue the school tax. Me related an incident which stamped itself indelli- bly on his mind at the time, One of lis first teachera ‘while attending school tn the town of Poughkeepsie, bis pauive piace, was forced to reaign, because the Bible was introduced in the scliool, ‘and yet the man was not @ Catholic. Ibs ian was pecul of his own—different irom, the thousand One doctrines of this carih, yet he was conscis entious, and be could not read the bible. Are all the Catholics to pe alicnated from tue pubiic @chooly Must education be denied the poor, ignor- Sut Catholic boy because he cannot conscientivusiy Maten to the reading o! the Bivie? The Bible was juiroduced, under color of law, by the Commissioners, who have a right to judge of text-bouks are read in schools, The frauds of Lammauy are not a eaaiow in compalisou Wilh the extensive prostitution of the public tunds to tuls so-called religious zeal of the country. We don't object tw teach ihe renees, languages itical ecouomy, or even natural tueology, but no “ compromise with unis subject by our Catholics, He aiin’t think we shoutd atiow the reading of ine Ten Commandments, He characterizea the attempt o1 the civil auiuorities to force the reading of the Scriptures @ piece of Manoumedauism. It was putting the Bible 1m one hand of ine policeman and # club in his other. He counselled ovedience wo the Jaws, and maken lance to the constiuted authorities, Tuere must be peace, and the solution of the question must bo ® peacelul one. Vo not discuss it on the sirect corners, nor talk harshly of others even in your own houses. “Avoid all anpearance of evil.’ Jastruct your children vw be respeopul to thoir ‘The long ene word * ition of t @etlnie ON LONG ISLAND. arose | indignation L what Father Marco would regard a scuumeé? ; place, “that i NEW YORK, HERALD, MONDAY, NUVEMBER 27, 1871.—FRIPLE SHEET. teachers ama mus reruse 1 obey any of the rules o the school, What the Leng Island City Trustees Have to Say. Lone IsLanp Crry, Nov. 26, 1871. To Tae Eprron oF THE HERALD:— In reading the report of the “Long Bible Istand War,” as you seem pleased to term it in your issue of this gate, we were greatly surprised at the announce, ment contained therein, that “Father Marco ia some- ‘what severe on the origtnaters of the scheme.” Asi he trustees of the First ward do dcem it and will ever prize the honor of being the first to raise their voices aa school trastees in opposition to the Commission- PLYMOUTH CHURCH HAUNTED, Applauding Spirits Turn Tables in Ap- proval of Father Beecher’s Oratory. MEDIUMISTIC NEWSPAPER REPORTERS. ers-of Gducation adopting asarule of the pubic | The Very Latest and Most Interesting schools that the Bibie, without note or comment, shail be read on the opening of the schools, and having foretold them that if they did not heed thelr advice then (this being at the meting of the Commissioners of Education In Joly Jast) they would hear the voice of more than the majority of the people in their district condemning such action, Now the Commissioners. needlessly adopted said rale, enforced the reading of thla cer- tain rule of faith, and the result was @ visibie dls- contentment on the part of the citizens. On the 26th September the trustces protested ip the school againss the same, a3 noticed ip the HERALD on the Sunday following. At the next meeting o! the Comuiissioners ‘th tees Moved them for an injunction ayainst u ing of the Bibie or any rule of 1aith whatever to the call im atiendance in the public schools, which was then and there granted. Peace and hare me reigned once more supreme in the schools au ieee emerge! i ae we sao Datohet. ae rast ack again, upon whic: the ft determination aud, outburst, of the part of the citizens, Is this he: mean to mpprale the School Trastees for rs copie their duty in conformity with their omik of Does Father Marco mean to condemn the trustees a not a ie ae ian Lib: hee ge bn prem! ‘as the only Cathol prrest In attendancd out of reveral that Swere invited to witness the same, aud tn conjunction with bim and the Kev, Mr, Smith, of the Bapust chur h, after the Teading of the Bible comgratuiace ‘the ciill- drep, and instead of which the trustecs Eee against this Bible reading? oes Father jarco wish Ww conceal his repiv of Approve) 10 question of ove of the trustees at that time a Was not right to read tue Bible ubHc schools, AUPPOSing some ol the children wero jews?” But pertiaps the attendance of our bibie reading commissioner, and others 0: the same stripe at his birthday parties may have changed him from. his sense of duty as a citizen and Catholic priest. We cannot conqude without denying ihe “mam. moth Lada py of tn the sxme article, as alt the names sig to said petiuon as read off before the Commissioners at thelr meeting on riday migus, which we aitenie!, did not exceed 125 in all BCHUOL TRUSTEES, FIRST WARD, SUNDAY AT JEFFERSON MARKET. A Large Calendar, Embracing all Grades of Crime. There were over seventy prisoners arraigned before Justice Cox at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday morning, embracing all degrees of crime, | from the highwayman down to the common drunkard who has been before the Court and on the Island times without number. Among them was AN OLD VISITOR named George Wheeler, cr more familiarly known among tue prison officials as “Gentiemau George,” The ofiicer stated that at an early hour yesterday morning he saw George staggeriaz along the sireet endvavoring to flud his sleeping place. He watched him several times walk around the block, cach ume bringing up at the sume place. When he accosted him George informed him the houses were all upside down and walking around him; that he had stood onthe corner fer some time aud watched them. This unfortunate a iew years ago held a firat ciass position in a wholesale store down town, drove his Own team, imbibed the best of liquors and smoked the choicest Havanas, Having married the daugh- ter of one of the first families of this city he was admitted In the best society and was hale fcllow ‘Well met among the sports. That old and damaging title, “good fellow,” was the ruination of him, as he contracted a habit for drink and gradually sank down to tho low and degraded creature he now is, His protper, who is one of tne professors in a lead- ing college in this city, sent mim to the inebriate asylum at Binghamton, where he remained @ year, without any benefit, however, ior as suon a8 he got out he commenced his old habits, and to-day . scen hanging around cau pneilia, alwaya ready to rm in on some person Gireva Ip. the wile becoming disgasted with bim, took her children and teturned to her parents, leaving the unfor- tunate man to plod alone in iis musery through the World. Justice Cox having compassion on Dim al- Jowed nim to go home, A PICKPOCKET ARRESTED, Catharino Prowion, av aged woman, residing at 400 Sixt streot, appeared ay complaumant agaist a gene. mao named William LL, Parker, eixteen years o1 age, baving po home, ‘The ' complainant charges that whilo passing along Broadway on Saturday migit tne prisoner pat his hand in her dress pocket and took out her wailet, containing a roll of bili, She detected him iu the act aad handed him over to Officer McGowan, of the Fifteeatn precinct, who locked hum upto the Mercer strect police station all night. Yesterday moruing, upon being arraignea, he deuicd tne charge, Dut was remanded to the sta- tion house unui this morning, ANOTUER OLD VISITOR. Annié Austin, a resident of Amity street, 1s fat, fair and forty, dui has been a prisoner at the above Court nearly a8 many times as she has hairs on her head. She has paid fines enough tor her bad beha- vior to purcnase a comfortavie little home. She 13 one of the butterflies who can be seen skip- ping along Broadway nearly all hours of the bight, seeking whom they may devour. When ‘under the influence of liquor she (like a good many females) has no coatrol over her tongue aud be- comes very abusive to the ofiicers, She stated Saturday night she went out for wood and uniortunately ei into the arms of the officer, who conveyed her to the station house, Justice Cox took a charitable view of her case and «ischatged her, with the admonition to be more careful in the future, She promised she would and leit the court room ‘With a smile on her face. A HIGHWAYMAN IN TROUBLE. Aboat ten o'clock on Saturday night as Henry Schiatiman, of No. 481 Greenwich street, was passing up the latter street, he was as sauit by William Bennett, who held him and forcloly took @ watch from his pocket vatued at $65, whica Tan away with. Oiticer West of the Twenty-eighth precinct, hear ing the compiainant shout for nelp, came to his assistance, pursnod Beunett and capiured with the property in his possession, Upon ig arraigned yesterday morning he stated he Was eighteen years of age, resided at No. 48 Van- dam sireet, a truckman by occupation and not guilty of the charge. Justice Cox thought dif- Terenuy, and locked him up in default of $1,500 bail to answer at the General Sessiona, LOST 18 MeNEY, Charles Williams, No. 130 Penn street, Brook- lyn, on Saturday night got paid for his week's work and concluded to visit this city aud take a atrojl around. After Ratt at in several hot wiusk he wandered into the “femaie boarding house’ No. 158 Greene street, and vecame enamored alter one of the boarders, named Aunetta Smith, with whom he retired for the night, he having $20 to money in his | neds When he got in the morning he found hw money gone, and charges that the woman Eighin precinct, and yesterday morning locked up ¥ recine| yesterday m K up in default of $500 to appear for trial, A COLORED WOMAN TUKNED THIEF. Antonio Guerra, of 23 Lispenard street, charges while in @ rvom at 35 Laurens street, with ‘a colored female, named Isabella Mason, she snatched a $6 bill from lus hand aud took another trom his vest pocket, which she refaseu to give back. Sle was arrested by OMicer Jonson, of the Eighch precinct, and yestel morning lovked up for trial. eee BAD COMPANY. Charles Van Orden, @ resident of Albany, arrived in this city on Saturday morning, trom Albany. is elght o’clock In the even: he visited the 62 West Houston formed the ac- quaintance of a female, twenty-one years of age, named Fanny Smith. While in her room he charges she stole bis Wallet, cont $50 in money. she arrested by Ufticer of ihe Eighth pre- cinct, and ‘yesterday moruing arraigned at Jourt. As the complainant failed to appear against her she was locked up to enable the officer to find him. FLIGHT OF A JERSEY JAIL BIRD. A Notorious Highwayman Escapes from tho Hudson County Jail. Ata lave hour on Saturiay evening o most des- perate character, known in Hoboken as “Paddy Murphy,” in some way yet undetermined broke loose from his cell tn the’ Hudson County Jan and took to nis heels totally uumoticed by any of the oMeials, He had just been sentenced for hignway robbery, Naving Attacked two young men somo time ago in Weehawken and shot at at ovicer who undertook to arrest hin, as he is wwlely Known ag @ reckless rovber anil a would-be murderer, in case of an emergency, his fight m0 prison has occasioned no imconsiderable alarm among the ciuzené, He has been repeatedly on triai and served terins Of incarceration in the State Prison and Hudson County Jail, and scarcely had he been released on the expiration of each term when ho took to the vocation of piandering rocery hope j1quol perce 4c, and waylaying Hraveliers. He generally secretes nimeelf by day in caves, by the hillside, or in some convenient stable, Ald Burke, of ilovoken, 0 traced him to an old hay loft, wh he ai red a large amount of Junder, apd captured Murphy at the riskof his fe, Another time Oillcer Hanrahan caught him in pocket picking Operations at a circus, Great efforts should be miade to recaptare him Hilustrations of Psychic Force, A TABLE WITH UNRULY LEGS. Truthfal Account of the Phenom- ena from an Eye Witness. SPIRITUALISTIC HAND-SHAKING. Another Example of Nineteenth Century Enlightenment. We publish below an “interview” which brings prominently before the public one of the most im- | teresting manifestations of “psychic force” which has ever appealed to the credulity of intelligent men | and women, It 1s as well, however, to say at.che | Outset thas this conversation has been reported by # | firm beltever in the possibility of spiritual action | Upon tables and chairs. Bat while we do not, | therefore, comznit ourselves in any way to vouching for the absence of consciqus or unconscious coilu- in | sion on the part of the persons who are honored | with peats at the “midalo reporters’ table” in Father Beecher’s church, we do claim for this narrative that meed of careful attention which justly belongs to the faithfut and serious-statement of an eyve-wit- ness who intenas to simply speak the truth, The fucts ot the case ure very plain. Sunday after Sunday lust summer a table standing immediately Under the little desk from which is weekly an- nounced the Gospel according to Beecher, showed Unequivoval symptoms of being, tirilled by the fer- vid oratory of the “Young Men’s Apostle.” As every one kuows who has attended Plymouth church, the preacher and the audience usuaily seutle down to serious business at about the middie | Of the “prie-sermon” prayer. It 18 Mr. Beecher’s | Custom atthis point of the service to “Ict himself ouv’ with that grand earnestness which is the chief secret of his success as an orator, j and alter a few sentences of passionate rhetoric the congregation willingly abandon them- | selves to the magic spell of that wonderiul message “f divine love ana universal Lrotherhood, and the nobleness of duty and grandeur of unselfishness, a ane heed to which Mr, Beecher rightly deciares to form our only hope of convertiug this hard, practical | world into a millennial paradise, At times, indeed, the audience seem enchanted; they sit motioniess as the men in that Eastern tale who had been turned into atone by the wand of a wicked magi cian, It was atthis juncture that the disembodied rits Who, viewless to the gross vision of mortals, delight to naunt the precincts of the temple, were wont to betray symptoms of agitation. And they “manifested” their excitement after the customary fashion of modern ghosts by an attack upon a i table—that “middle reporter's table,” which is one | Of the most conspicuous objects in the churc’. ; The table began to move to and iro, slowly at first, and then faster, witn a weird, tremuloas, sliding motion that stirred the souls of those who looked on with solemn awe. As “amen” Closed the invocation to the Deity for wisdom to | know the right and strength to hold fast to it the dumb furniture, which thus bdewrayed the sympa- thetic energy of the aead with these grand aspira- tions of the living, tipped up and down—so violently, indeed, as to throw the pencils of the scrives upon the fluor. Through the sermon the manifestations were even more marked. These things, wonderful ag they are, occurred not once or twice, but many times. They were only stayed by tne dispersal of thie set of reporters to other tables. Yielding to a mistaken fear of Mrs. Grangy a vigorous effort has been made to hush up these im- teresting aod instructive illustrations of an unex- plored force of nature, We are assured by eye- ‘Witnesses that there was no possible concert among the reporters to move the table, and that its gam- ‘ols contini:d in @ more demonstrative form than before after every human being near by had drawn back their chairs several feet fro it, These move- ments, alsv, which at times assumed almost a saltatory earnestness, curiously corresponded with the outflow of the currents of Beecher theology. ‘Whenever the preacher made an effective perora- tion he thrilled the table as weil as his hearers, while in seasons of merely ordinary Interest the table had scarcely a perceptible mo- Uon, Let but the tidings of these marvellous phe- nomena be widely circulated and we shall have in | the future @ certain test of the comparative force | and earnestness of the clergy. A pine table will be y universally accepted as the gauge of their oratori- cal merits, To move a }iece of furniture an inch tweive times to and {fro in one minute may be rated at the value of so many degrees on the thermome- ter of Gospel usefulness, ‘e shall, indeed, be able to compare the elfective evangelical strength of Modern aposties with the same ease and exactitude with which we can now determine their height and weight. Vertly, the world, like Joho Brown’s soul, still goes marching on. THE INTERVIEW. It came to the knowledge recently of the MzRALD that the “spirits” bad veeu playing their fantastic tricks before @ crowded congregation at Ply- mouth Charch, and animated by no other | Mouve than a@ desire to get at the real facts of the phenomena, a HERALD reporter. was requested to interview one of tie privileged and remarkavie bebavior of & tabio In fiymouth with @ propriety taat was in characver witn its location, “Do you belleve in Spiritualism ?’ asked the un- believing, matter-of-fact HeRaLD reporter of the Jey reenepabie and suscepubie spiritualistiv spec- tor. “Spiritualism! Do I believe in spiritualism ? Well, I've seen some evidence that's pretty hara to get over. That is to say, I've seen somo very strange manifestations—call it electricity, magnet- any spiritual communications or whatever you case,’ * “Come, now, what have you seen?” t's the use of wasting my breath on this sub- lect? If I tell you precisely what I have scen in the plainest English at my command you will only elovate your eyebrows _ super. ¢clitousiy and that 1 am the victim of halluciwwation, No; Wd rather be excused from playing the victim. “It ts not picasant to talk of mysteries to persons who think they have meas. ured and weighed the untverse, bave sounded ail deptns and pierced all heights, and who have at last come to think, with superd complacency, that what tuey do not know does not, therelore, exist, ‘onsense! A man cannot help unbellef.”” ‘No, @ man cannot help ote Vepon amy have, or ought to have, @ vague Mi ere is Some thing in garth and heaven wider than his little phit- Josophy,' pati tothe point. What have you secn ?” “seen? J have seen enough to make spiritaalists of every man anu woman in the city of New York it Rel ost BEL le that my story was true and that | was sane. “And do you believe that spirits communicate with ns on the earth?” “{ velieve it most emphatically. Why not? We are all ‘spirits,’ Just now we happen to be tenants of a physical body. Those Whom we call ‘spirit lave moved out of the body; but does that neces! tate auy great 1emoval or change? We know avso- luiely nothing of psycho‘ogical Jaws, and yet we come down with our fat Impossible’ at everthing that 18 beyona the limit of our narrow Vision. Aman of any philosophy, or even with a decent a 0 OL humility and common sense, Would In- Vesugate instead of ridiculing. Ridicnie ts the cheapest weapon in the worid, but its wooden blade doves little damage, while the keen, two-edged truth cuts Its slow bat certain way.” “Then you unk tere is no humbug apout members of the ghostly circle on the unrecorded | Church, that until it was lately surrounded by male | and female members of the press, has bebaved itself | maine when it was that It could be» ‘human hand.” mney “I can’t bedeve that,” “Of course not. I bave—but it i@ useless tO tg on. I will only tell you what Rave seen at Ply- poopts chureh, and you may make what you can of “Plymonth chureh ?”? “Yes; there have been some involuntary seances there for a lew weeks past, aud the developments havo been interesting in the extreme, for the reason that there was not the slightest chance for cullasion or deceiving. No sane person could poasibiy desire to get up cn excitement surrounded py a serious circle of sober Congreeavionalist deacons and direc- tors under Mr. kseecher’s nose.” “Goon; this is getting interesting.” “You know there are three reporters’ tables standing against Mr. Beecher’s platform. The miJ- die tanle, directly in_a line with Mr, Beecher, is an innocent looking affair of pine, stained to imitate black walaut. Some tour cr five weeks previous to ‘Mr. Beccher’s summer vacation [ noticed an unusual commotion in the sittie circle of reporters, and, 29 had been seated by the usher in@ chair very near their tao:e, 1 could not avold seeing all that was | ngon. Mr. Beecher was in the middle of his ore-ser‘non prayer, As he uttered the words, “Let the whole earth learn the power of love such a8 brought Christ to earth to die for men,’ the table moved slowly and deubcrately towards one of ‘the ladies, and pushed so violently against her arm that sue was obliged: 10 move back. Then it moved nt Sg ‘he faces or the reporters, They had evi- ceal geen tadvle moving belere, bat ere not prepared for a seance im front of the immense congregation of Plymouth church, Tier eyes said plainly, “What shail we do if this table keeps moving?’ Bat keep Moving KH did, back and iurth, with a slow, mo- hotonous slide, till the prayer was Muished, and then 1 gave three emphatic Ups by way of ‘amen.’ ‘Undoubtediy somebody up stairs enaorses Beecher,’ said I to myself, my eye sti}l on the table. Then the hymna was given oat, Jt was about ad. | verse winds, and cares and troubles, but each stanza closed Wivh this Ine. y As wy ciay my strength shall be, When that line was sung the table tipped a0 that | the penciis lying upon it roiled to the door, and the | Feporters, wo had evidently forgotten the spirits | for @ Dioment in the music. gave & lite involune | Mary start and a look of horror that to a looker-on ‘Was irresistibly comic, ‘Tucy controled themselves rectly, however, and took their paper opon ; bymn books in their japs and vogan to write, Mean- { ing to do their best, they all moved back, so thas ot the hem of a garment touched the tavle, They even lait their gloves upon the projecting rim ot | the platform. Nr. Beecher preached one of his | most radical sermons that day. ile spoke of the ower of brotheriood and of the love that opeth ali things, beheveth all things, endureth alt | thimgs. he spoke of the cruelty of society in its ; Prisons and: ail its disciplinary machinery, and de Yate the world, ‘Ihe table seemed alive. At the very points where @ radical reloriner would have wished to appland the tabie would push with great force one oi the reporters aud travel to the opposite | one, ay if to say, ‘Phat’s 30; tnavs the trata.’ That the tale was not touched py even the reporter’s rai ment during the sermon I would take my oath be- fore any Court in the country.” “How long iid Unis go on 1’? “Ontil the chureit closed for the summer and one or two Sundays alter the reopening:” “How do you account for it?” “I suppose the reporters ail to be more or less | Medwumistic.”? “What do you mean by mediumistic ?”” So organized that spirits can peaetra‘e their at- mosphere. Mr. Beecher has the same organization, on'y in a greater degree, aud he stood wiere he could form a part of the circle, There were well- kaown spiri.ualsts in the immediate neighborhood, and the conditioas were right for manifescattons,”? “You never heard any rappinga there??? * “Yes; once. Durmy the whole of one sermon there were low, but Gistiuct raps, not in the table, bat in the platform, them ti he had not been so earnestly engaged in nus sermon.’ ; “How do you account for the cessation of the manifestations 7”? “Shoe thiag was attracting so much attention that tho reporters had decided to leave the table and sit | separaiely tu the audieuce if it went on, | pose of Course I don’t expect you to agree) that ‘h ir spirit friends didn’t wis to annoy them, and 80 they restrained their wisa to communicate, All this ‘seems to you «lmost, or quite, in- eredivle. For my owa part I am unable to understand the ditficuity which people have in believing these things, Tho Bivie is PAil of spirit ualism. The Vid aaa New Testaments speak con- | stantly of angels appearing and of devils possessing. It is no new thing, and th sensible plan 1s to take the gold, if any is found after patient scientific luvestigation, ana throw aside the dross. It 1s for the philosophers to get out the wheat lest the weak Swallow hask and all, and great mischief be done,” THE FISK-MANS¥FIELD SUIT, Affidavit of Richard E. Kiug—What Mrs. Mansfield’s Servant fad to Say Aboat It. ‘The following 1s the full text of the affidavit made by Richard B. King ana read in the Yorkville Police Court on Saturday: SUPREME COURT. —Jums Fis’, Helen Juvephi Mw etd and Orrers—Oity an b Cravy of, York, i—Richard B, Ming belong duly sworn, says: tion & w twenty two yeara of and am by | from about the 14h of october, 1870, to the 20ts of | March, the piace sald persons ul e ment there, aud got the position, in. answer to an adveriise: ment upun my plication; when I weat to live a the howe of janstield and Mr. Stokes I was told to keep away trom Joun Marahall and all Mr, Fisk's party acd Mr. Fisk, and have nothing whatever to do with tem, aud that that was a coaditionof my keep- ‘when I went there to live { found that mr. Mauafiold were living there together as inan and wife; they both made that house their home; Mr. Stokes bad his meals there almost invariably with Mra, Manstild; they occupied the samme room when they reltfod at night, and In all respects conducted themeelves toward one another as 18 customary for married peovle wo do; aud the sald Stokes never failed, to my recollection, to come there and stay all night with said Mansield at least twice & week—to wit, Saturday or Sunday night and Wednesday or Thuraday’ nights; the princi ot Versation between irs. Mansield, Mr. Mrs. Wiliams, who, ‘I believe, is a cousin of Mra. Mansiield,’ and resided with her from the time I went there to the time I left, was the manner in which they roposed to make money out of slr. ¥ 8 of letters rom him to said Mansiield, which she said sho had, and Statements by said Mansiield of conversations between Nr. Fisk and herself, by selling tue same tothe newspapers, oF compelling him to pay them money to prevent the same being bite, and they aald that they coul amount of money out of Mr. Fisk in that was upon them ai tabie at dipner, and after dinner in end heard much of their conversation upon stated in thfs ailidavit, and among other m Mansfeld sald to tho etid Stokes in my bearing, the letters and I will give them to you and le: you use them to your beat advantage and make all you can out of Mr, Fisk; 0 you inke care of mo and stick to me through life, I will do all Lean to assist you in this matter ¢ Ail L wieh is just to cet satisfaction of that fellow, now e dogs won't look at me; i have to depend on all that you can make and it worries me to deatu;” anotuer timo she said, “Now, Ed.,I have given you these letter you have’ got them abd they ou you to put them to the best you ean’ and take care of me;” bh that he had talked the matter over ani money In ity he i, Fight She laazhed and satd “Bully for you.” le s finds out this it will make bim open his eyes.” Then she “Then wo will Iay back aad draw the greenbacke. if we become victorious 1 will then buy 2 new \d dispose of my lorses and yet a new pair und do! iy time with my balmoral and you. But, Ed., t will some person else, your wife, say ?” Stokes sali, was talking with ber yesterday, and she put on #0 many ‘tho showed me her father's picture; Looked at it ‘and pusied one of his eyea clean out; she raged; she pieces; Vtold her sitzhtly 1 did not care.” Ove T was called up from own into it heavy; aid, “Wnea he z' z 3 Fo all night about ball’ past eleven, o'cloc! sleep in the kitchen by Mrs. Williams, who said she wanted me (o sign some papers; 1 said I didnot want to sign any paper unless I knew what it me any harm, ‘and Mrs, Manslield re I sald, “I don't know what it is; commenced to read it to see what was init, but she took it from me and would not allow me to read ft, and said agnin, requ “Nra, Mansdeid te you a thy and ft won't do TI signed tt, but ¥ dont kuow what itis, except [y me ref re Fisk couing there; 1 never would have signed {t in the world Prtnout reading if, except from the way Mra. Williams talked, T wag sare'l would be dlecharged f¢ I did not. One kes Bail fo meat the table in the and Mra. Williams, cours on any occasion? “You hare not?” I replied « ‘How much money would you take, you take $801" TI sald, ‘*No, sir.” you tal 40; wouldn't you id hot take anything ; I would not svear to a lie for anything.” He lett after be coutd not get me tothe po! aod found he could not get me to swear to a lie, and said, ‘ell, T believe you, RICHARD B, KING, Sworn befors me, October 30, 1871. Frep, BE. BARNARD, Notary Pobiic, New York County, THE COURTS. Dectel GUPREME COURT- -OHAMBERS, By Judge Brady. Bunn va, Messinger Attachment discharged. In 1! , ter of the petition of Matilda Delaplaine—Order granted. In the matter of the petition of Stuyvesant vs. Fogariy—Order granted. Baker vs. Securky Insurance Compaay—Order granted. x wine’ copes pencer, Sawyer vs. Darron—Urder for allowance granted. Bell Bell—Compiatat diamissed. Joachimeen Myman. Order granted. COMMON PLEAB—SPROIAL TERM. Conkiin vs, Conklin: ‘sodgeae a tion from bed y ~ ent of separation from and board granted, Bell vs, Davis--Motion tv re-examine judgment debtor granted. ‘Harrie va, Rothschild—Motion for jujunetion den! without costs, COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. SUPREME CouRtT—GeneRat Tenm—Held by Ingrabam, Barnard and Cardozo.—Adjourned ri9r' Wednesday in December, at 104j o'clock. dens ten ge Brady. Opens at 10 A. M. Calender called at 12 4 N yi Jud, the tet Anitualism 17 On the contrary, I think there is an immense amount of humbug. We don’t live in World» where truth comes out like @ dia mond or & fose, Clear cut and perfect. ‘khe diamond must be sought for in discouraging Magses of rubbish; the rose must come from the dirt. In physical things this travh 13 recognized, but in spiritual only the eyes anointed by Faith; only the children in heart aud the seers In soul can see the seed of truth in the bristling burr of faise- fell, What nave you seen? LY sea a degree humility such as 1 can command,’ “J have bad a friendly hand pul confidenwally in @ egeeserese = ese =o. 158, 196, 167, 169, 100, ‘UPREME CoURT—CrRoUIT—Part 1—| by Jud, Bone a9 oon aa A. Pe f viop 2 Bh rH 3, B47, G49. Part sSRUEMON COURT—TAIAL TERM—Vart L—Case OM Common PLEAS—ThtAL Tarm—Part 1—-Held by Judi ¥. Daly.—Case 08 trial, Calendar ‘wil nos be called iis a nN ia lft Mts 2, 7414, 7415, 7418, TAT, 7418. Part $—Leld by Ya “How TNs, 144, 90D, W195, 8080 708, 197K 008.816, SUPREME CoURT—CnAMBEKe—Held ‘A, oh, 08, ; iia oe Wl 1, ws 10%, 109, 112, 196, 162, 166, 1 Veo I | pretty certain resort to any trickenes as they have donc , plored that seit-sacriiicinz love aloue could regene- | THE GAS QUESTION. THE WRONG PRELIGH. To rup Eprror oF Tus Henaun:— My attention was called to the notice in yous ‘What Action the Companies are Going to Take | journal of te arrest of one Charles Freligh for mar- to.Smother the Public Clamor and What They der, in connection with others, Tne simple spelling are Afraid Of—Stubborn to the Last Against Facts that Cannot Be Denied— When Will the Darkness End? It 1s rumored that some decked action will be taken during the coming week by the gas compa- | nies in order to head off the Legisiature, which, 1 18 | well known, is determined to take thein in hand | once it gets into working order, However it 1s not as yet known what this actton may be; but itis that they will not dare in the past, to make the special comuittees, | af any such are appointed, to swear that black 1s | whrte and that beyond all peradventure of a doubt | the moon is made of green cheese, except when it | is full and enables them to reduce the pressure on as deliberately to the lady opposite. You should | the gas lamps, much totheir profit, It ts believed | that itis the intention of the various companies to hold @ sort of caucus and cndeavor to unite upon some COMMON BASIS OF OPERATIONS looking to the improvement of the gas and the burners generally used in tne city to throw light un | dark subjects, In order to accumplisi anything in | ‘this direction that will in any way satisfy the people | | 18 Will of course ve nevessary for the companies to | foto ®greatdeal of expense, and, unier the Cite cumstances, It 19 surmised that the action that will ve taken by them will depend a great deal more upon what this expense wil! be than upon what they could éasilv do for the benefit of their patrons if they” were willing to be less penny wise | than they are. To a certain degree the public alarm - night be appeased should the companies goto | Work and change all their small pipes and put large ones in their place, and ut the same time INCREA3E THE PRESSURE OF THE GAs | from the manufactories, and regulate its delivery | to each particular dwelling in sucn a way as not to | another with sach @ pressure on the burners as to | be too much of a goud tng for general comfort of man or beast. A HERALD reporter ' yesterday met one of the gas officials coming from church (gas officials actually do go to churcn) and questioned him as to the truth of the ramor of the all among themseivea, “Why, [ haven’t heard of any such thing,” sald he, With a pious inclination of the head, as though he mennt to indicate that to talk gas on Sunday was a sacrilege that no one but a reporier would possibly be guilty of, “put, my dear sir, something must be done, you ‘ than likely if you do not know anything about the matter that there are otnor ofictals who do.” a! that ishkely, Have yoa seen any of them?’ have.” “Ana what did they to; leave one man’s home in partial darkness and f proposed “talk” the companies are about to have | know,” persisted the reporter, “and [think it ts more | Of the name exactly like mine suggests this metnod of informing all who may peruse it that the person mentioned ts not your obedient: servant, CHARLES FRELIGH, Bowery Theatre. MARRIAGES ANO DEATHS. “Marrled. BeNtaMIn—Sapiy.—In this eity, on Thursday November 23, by Rev. Waliou W. Battershall, Rochester, Jusern RK. BENJAMIN, Of New York city, and Asuy, daughter o: Dr. Meury L. Sabin, of W: lamstown, Mass, McGirExn- IRBANK.—At the residence of the room's father, Hediord avenue, Brooklyn, Of edneaday evening, Novein'er 24, 1871, by the Kev. Daniel V. M. Jonnson, D v., rector of St. Mar, ; Church, J.C. McGivens 10 Miss MARY E. Farapang, i of Euzabeth, N. J. No cards, ADAM.—Passed from this sphere of life, at his Tes® dence, to !aterson, S.J, ou Tharsday, November ' g3, GkoaGs AvaM, aued 72 years, 7 months and 7 days. i "the Iriends of the family are invited to attend the’ fuveral, from the Wout Street baptist chureb, as | three o'clock P, M.. ‘Trains leave lor Paterson ab twelve, noun, from Jersey Vity, S BeuntngeR.—At three o'clock on Sunday morn img. November 26, Fults BeeRINGER, & native of Nuremberg, Bavaria, aged 44 years and 6 mouths. The Friends aud acquaintances, also the mem. bers of Goethe L'xige, No, 62% F. and A. M., and of ‘Terpsichore Social Union, and Bund Sorgenfre are respectfully invited to attend the faueral, frown hia Ui romero No. 113 Curystie street, om Tuesday, November 2: tone o'clock. ‘Tue members ot the erpaichore Social Ui are hereby notitied to meet at their rooms, on Tussi, 28th instant, at half-past twelve P. M., to atte funeral of our late Wiig 4 member, F. Berringere By order, RICHAKD H. ROGERS, President, HeNBY GACH, Secret Be BRANIFF.—Un Sunday, November 26, 1871, DANTRL BRanirv, nave of county Down, Portaterry, Ire- land, aged 44. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- ! fully Invited to attend ihe fuaeral, froin his late | Tesidence, 806 Washington sirect, Om Tuesday, 30- | Vember 28, atone o'clock, Beapisu.—Of pucumonta, on Friday, the 24th t, at the residence oi her son-in-law, Mery M, Kunhardt, firs. atrect, MMILY,, , Widow of Wheaton radish, aged 60 ycars, | Phe triends of the faaiiy are tavitert to attend the funeral, at St. Mark's church, ou Monday, tie 27th inst, atl ten o'clock A. M., withont farther notice, CAREY.—In Krookiyn, on Friday, November 24, ! after a short Ulness, MIMON CankEY, @,ed 42 years and 9 months. Friends, acquaintauces and the New York, New Jersey and Panay Wook pilois are respectinliy In) Vited to attend ihe f ral, from his late residence, No, 296 Tharte: uth Lrooklyu, on Mon- duy, Novemver 27, at wo [’. M, London and Bristol (England) paper please copy, CLYDE.—On dab! araing, Novernber 25, alter a short iiness of cisease of the kidneys, Cory J. CLYDE, youngest dwuguter. of Isabela, widow of de. ives und friends of the famtly, and friends of her brothers overt J. aud George HL. Ulyde, | respectiuliy Invited to attend her tuneral, Weduesday, November 25, at »M., irom her Motuer’s residence, 437 Lexiuglou aveaue, corner Forty-tourih strce' Covrax,—On Sunday mor his residence, 200 F.th aveaue, November 26, at GOURAN, @ Dae gay about tho mecting—I mean the rumored ——” Mr. Beecher must have heard | nd I aap. { Jr. 0% Edward 8. Stolen, New her; “ixuctiv; they are, as far a3 I can learn, very sanguine that the Legittavare will do them justice, and that 16 will be necessary for them to be abie to show, a3 Ihsy say they can show, that ine people are ail wrong about tis gas maiter, and tnat tue companies are all wronged. for you, tsu’t 107°? + — Tbhts answer was, it must be confessed, a rather in- detinite one, and tt was so regarded by the pious oMcial, who was evidently afraid of committing ; himself, bat who, the reporter felt by his actions, | knew more about what the companics might do | between the preseat and the meetung of the Legts- lature than he wanted to speak aboat. “Well, att,” saul he finally, “I will candidly say that I know notuing whatever about any combined action of the companies, with a view of making any change in the way gas 13 furnished or anything else which relates to their business. But 1 will say tnis, that tne companies are always willing and ready to do everything that lies in their power to meet THE WISHES OF THELR PATRONS, provided tnose wishes are not woreasonabie.”” “1s it unreasonabie for taem to want good gas?” “Now, When you get on that tack I’m afraid we cannot ‘get slong well togetner in discussing the matter, You will remember that aday or two ago 1 spoke to you on this very subject, and frankly ex- Dluined to you what I believed the companies dia in the way ot making good gas.”” “You did, but. “Buy do you suppose I have changed that opinion already? 1 said then, as I say now, that the gas rar- nisned 13 a3 good gas as can be had in the world, and that 1c 1s not the fauit of the companies if their trons will every once in a while form themselves to asort of grumbling committee because they know it ts popular to do 80.” “It 13 sald the compauies are deine: thelr best to improve the gas, and yet you must have noticed that the gas was no beiter last night, and tnat the street lamps, especially in THE OUT-OF-THE-WAY SIDR STREETS, burn very dimly, or rather there is notenough gas farnished to each lamp to guarantee a good light.” “snat is tne fauit of the burners supped by the Department of Public Works, and not the co:n- panies’, ButI Know that the lamps are furnished with enough gas to bura three leet an hour if the burnors are in good conditlou.”? ut I can prove the contrary.” ‘HOW “One of the gas lamps in Thirty-elghth street, near Madison aveuue was tested on hcyem: evening, A hew burner was put on and left on for several | hours, and, notwithstanding this, it was discovered that there Was not a pressure of two feet of gas.’’ “Well, that may be owing to uu avcidental disar- rangement of the tube, or someshing of thut sort.’ “Do you mean to say that the gas has been as good during the past two weeks as it ever was?” “Ido; and I may say better, lt often happens | that the service pipes get out of order, or that, pending a repairing of the works at tie manufac- tories, the gas 13 for @ short time interior to tho average quality, or thatthe pressure is weak; bat, as a general thing, the gas is good.” “Yet they teil me that in so:ne houses in the dis trict of the Metropolitan Company the gas scarcely buras at all. Can you account jor that?” “Tt CANNOT GIVE MY OPINION of what I have not seen or do not understand. Dount- Jess tne consumers are at fault; if they only touk tho trouble Lo fiad out what the matter Is they'd know | | it. L know tnat every complaint to the companies re- } ceives attention, and that it rarely happens the men do nov tind out that tie tuces or burners are the | mischief makers.” “You must certainly know yourself that of late the gas is very Smoky looking, aud although even where it burns opparenuly with as great a pres sure us ever, it does not GIVE THE SAME LIGHT as when it looks clearer and parer. “That state of aifairs may happen occasionally owing to the cause which I lave tudicated, bat it is not the geueral rale.”? “Tien all the Gecupants or owners of the large estabushaieuts im the city, not Lo speak of the occu. pants of private dwellings, must be aniicted with the same conipiaint—in fact, have been struck at the same time with the idea that their gooa gas 1s baat ‘Lhe oficial did not seem to relish the question, and simply remarked, “I am sorry —— arumble 80, but when an invostigatioa is begun | think everybody will find-tnat there 18 very little ground to inveignh it Lhe COMpan es 80 8 ‘Tongly."’ his ended the conversation, and the official, hailing & car, Jamped into it, and left the reporter in & maze of doaot and mystery, In co iclusion it may be saia that, Instead of there bemg any improvement in the light furnished by thé gas on Saturday night and last night, it was in the side streets @ great deal worse. ‘Ihe police, who are the best judgea as Ww how the gas does not light up the sidewalks they have to patrol, are almost unanimous in thelr opinion that itis not as ood as ib ought to be. In fact, they say that in the out-of-the-way streets it is little better than no light atall, ‘Of course,” said one of them to a HERALD reporter yesterday, “I can see my pn nights of late, but that’s aboutall. 1 guaran- tee COMB ACROSS MORE BHADOWS than I do bright spots, anyhow; and I do believe if @ burglar should be in the middie of that block here and 18 hundred feet of | couldn’t see him."’ Last night was @ bright, moonlight night, and of course the light from the gas lamps was not of su account as when people Gepend upon nt to inake elt it solely at way safely through the streets; ret it |= owas Noticeable that the light burned very dimly. “I dare say,’’ said a policeman to the reporter, “they like moonlight, do these companies, aud I kind o’ think apd ont put the gas on with much | of arush when they know the myon is on hand wo ‘There's @ uistincuon | | where a uve of France, in the 7-d year of his ‘. ‘The friends of the family are respecifally mvited to aticnd lis funeral, on Vucsday morning, doth Just, at half-past nine o'clock. from ihe ciarch Of . Bk Vincent de Paul, Sixth aveuue, Daucuy.—On Saturday morning, November 25, { Freo RuNDALL, youngest son ol 1. C, and K. P, Dauchy, aged 2 years, 10 nonths and 16 days. | _ Funeral services at the residence of bis parents, | 250 South Third street, Brookiyn, E. D., on Sunday, November 26, at three o'clock I’. M. ‘Che remains wili be taken to Amenia, Dutchess county, N. Y., lor interment, Monday, Novemucr 27, at forty minutes past ten A. M., Harlem Rauroaa, DEvTScH.—Un Sunday, November 26, JosBrB Deurseu, aged 52 years, 10 mouths and 23 days, in life beloved, in death jamented, ‘The funeral wili take place on Tuesday, Noveme ber 28, at hait-past nine A. M., from his late resi- dence, 139 West korty-fourth street. ‘The friends are respectfully invited to atiend, . New Orleans and Natchez will papers please copy. ‘Boxry.—on Saturday, Fichbien nh 25, BARNARDUS DOnLy, in the 7ist year of ange ‘The friends of the fauily are mvited to attend the funeral at nis laie resicence, Gravesend Neck, L.L, on Tuesday, November 28, at hali-past one at 01 wo Saturday, November 1871, SLLAGON.—On «lay, Ns NELLIX, Infant daughter of Bennett W. ‘and Oaroline M. Ellison, aged 4 months and 4 days. Funeral et the residence of her parents, cornér Ninth avenue ‘aud Nimety-sxth street, on Monday, November 27, at twelve o'ciocks Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend, F.sugr.—at the residence of his parents, 876 Eighth avenuc, on Saturday, Novemoer 25, Joun AKCHIBALD, youngest sou of kdward and Aunie Fisher, aged 11 years, Fuucral to Calvary Cemetery on Tuesday, at one o'ctock. The irlesds ol tne Lumily are respectraliy invited. Firzvatnice.—On Saturday, November 25, of scarlet fever, at ber parent's residence, No, (42 Parg avenue, Brooklyn, MAUD ROSLYN KITZPTRICK, WLuRs daughter of the lite N. P. and L. Puzpatrick. GEARY,—ELLEN Gkaty, wile of Michael Geary, born in Fermoy, county Cork, ireland, aged 35 years, S months and 19 days, ‘The funerul will take place from her lite residence, this (Monday) moraing, at ten o'clock, thence to Calvary Cem Hart.—On Saturday, November 25, JouN Hart, aged 67 years, 5 months and 7 days. ‘Phe relatives and tricuds ol the family, and also those of his brother Thomas, of his sons, Johu and James, of bis sou-tn-law, entry Roberts, and the mnernvers of the Seventesuth Police precinct are res spectinily inviteu to atteat bis funeral, froin his late residence, 25; Mulberry street, on ‘Tuesday, the 28th inst, atone o'clo’k P.M. Hugsik.—On Thursday, November 23, NATHAN T. Tienix, in his 67th year, ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- bi cag on invited to attend the funeral, from bis law residence, 358 Third street, between Fiftir and Sixth avs.. Brooklyn, this (Mouday) moruing, at ten o'clock. MOGHLANY. ~At Bayonne, on Saturday, Novem- v » Maky STEWARD, relict of Wiliam tloghland, in the 8th year of ber ace, The relatives and, frends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, trom the residence of Mra James Styles, 456 Fourteenth street, corner of Had- son, this (Monday ) morning, ab 10 o'clock. ‘The Te Mnwios will Le taken to Nyack forioterment. JOHNSTON. —Un Sunday, Noveuber 25, ab her reste agence, 198 Union street, Brooklyn, C, STON, Widow of Jacob Johnston, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, trom ner Jate restdeuce, 198 Union street, The remaias Wah be taken to St, Stephen's Roman Catholic church, Carroll street, between Hicks aud fenry streets, Brovklyn, at ten 0” on We.tnesday morning, November 28, where a solemn requiem wass wiil be celebrated, thence 10 Calvary Cemetery, fweuty-tlurd siect, west Jol : = Kina.—On sunday, November 26, MARCELLA, beloved wile of Thomas L. Kiag, aged 35 years and 6 months, relatives and friends of the family, also the memvers of Arericus (6) Association, are mvited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 13h Henry street, ou Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock, MILLER.—On Saturday, November 25, LESCuER, wife of James Miller, aged 45 years. ‘The relatives ant iriends of the family are rev spectfully invited to attend the funeral, irom her late restdeuce, 43 East Elghty-tnird street, this (Monday) alteraoon, at one o'clock. McCDONALD.—On Sanday, November 26, Joun McDonatp, son of Danici ana Margaret McDonald, native of Rock Marshall, county Louth, ireland, aged 37 years. ‘The relatives and iriends of the family and those of his brothers Peter, Patrick, laniel and Samuel, are respectfully invited to attend the ruaeral, on Tuesday morning, at nine o'clock, from bis late Testdence, 220 Cherry street, to st, Teresa’s chupe! olemn ina:8 of rejutem will ve offered up ae the eee Of his soul, Lhence, at oue o'clock, to Calvary Cemetery. Nets —In this city, on Sanday, November 6, JULIUS M, NeLSON, formerly of Fulton, N. ¥. PiLGRiMd.—In_ Brooklyn, on Saturday, November 25, 1371, CuARLES PLLORIM, Veverinary surgeon, M, R. C, V. 5. L., in the 49tn year of his age, ‘rhe friends oi the family, ao members of Star of eC F, and A, M., are respectiully invited his funeral, on Munday, November 27, at two P. M., from tus late residence, No, 25 Wilk ty street. ‘AK OF Llork, F. AND A. M.—Bi EN—You are hereby sun Dope Lod, to attend RETHRI nmoned to attend @ special communicas tion at the rooms, Oltman’s Hall, coraer of Graham avenue and M’Kibban street, on (tnis day) Monday, the vith instant, at hall-past twelve P. M., to akend do the work for them.” In nearly all the | hotels which use so much gas the light furnished is miserable. During a con- versation had yesterday with one of the gentiemen attached to the rotunda of the Astor House he said to the reporter:—“‘Our gas is very bad lately, ab least we get very little light. {t can't o¢ the fault of the burgers for the reason we are constant getting new ones long before the old ones are haif | burned out. We have to nse two jets now, aud to get the same amount of light we usel to, witn say eleven burners, We have to use douvie the nur ber.” This is the state of affairs all about tow Now, what are the gas companies going to do about ur STABBED IN THE BACK. During a slight diMculty yesterday between Paul order G. G. StckLes, Secretray. Sister lodges cordially Invited, PORTER.—On Sunday, November 26, after a short fitness, George R. PORTER, in the 23d year of bis wit) funeral will take place from his late rest- dence, 43 West ‘Twent & street, this (Monday) afternoon, at three o'clock. Relatives and friends ere respectfully invited. RicuaRosoN.—Og Sunday morning, November 26, Captain ADISON RI€MAKNSON, aged 67 yers. he relatives and triends are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, at his late residence, 111 Koss street, Brooklyn, E. D., on Tuesday alveravon, wth Inst, at two o'cluck. the fanerai of our late brother, Coaries Pilgrim. ily SEAMAN, Acting Masier. Gollhoffer, a full grown man, and Frederick Ploust, a boy of twelve years, in Mosea May's slaughior house, Williamsburg, the former stabbed the latter in the back with a formidable knife. The boy Ploust Was removed to his father’s residence in Grabam avenue, and received surgical ald, The wound ts not necessarily fatal, Golihoffer was arrested and locked up in the Stagg street station house, He claims shat the stabbing was accidental, Eastern papers please copy. SeL mth brookiyn, on Friday, November 24, Lucy, eldest daughter of the lave Edward I, the Sist year of her age. ‘The fanera! services will be held at ner late reste Gence, No. 124 Atlantic street, between Henry aud ‘ae atid on Tuesday alterucon, at hall-past wo o'cloc! VaN RENSSELAER.—At Springticld, Mass., oF Saturday, November 25, FRANCIS, son Of the late Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, &. D., of tis city, 19 the 44th year of his age. MS ice of funerul hereaster, Dany papers please copye