The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1872, Page 5

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Religious Programme for To-Day. WERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE, FOREIGN RELIGIOUS MATTERS. Services To-Day. ‘There will be divine services in the Russian @hapel, 91 Second avenue, near Fifueth street, at @even o'clock this morning. After the Liturgy, ‘which t partly im the English and partly tn the Selavonic language, a sermon will be preached by ‘he Rev. Father Nicholas Byerring in the English danguage. Wutiam Dunnell will preach morning and @venimg in Ali Saints’ church, corner of Honry and Seammel strects, Rev. George H. Hepworth wi!l preach in Stein- ‘way Hall this morning on “Prayer,” and in the will deliver the second lecture of his young men. Dr. F. ©. Ewer will preach morning and im St, Ignatius’ church, Seventh avenue. the evening he will deliver the second of the of jamuiiar discourses on ‘Anglican Worship im Its visible Aspect.” Services will be held at the usual hours in the ‘West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church, ‘The sixth anniversary of the Sunday School Mis- @tenary Association of the West Presbyterian church ‘Will be bei this evening in the West Forty-second @reet churoh, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, . Addresses will be made by Rev. William P. Paxson, ®Bunday school missionary; Mr. George W. Stuart, @f Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Hastings, pastor of churen. . Chauncey Giles will this evening deliver the of a course of lectures on the subject of “Genesis and Geology” in the new church in Thirty- ‘Msn street, between Park and Lexington avenues. Rev. David Mitchell wili preach morning and evening in the Canal street Presbyterian church, Rev. W. C. Dawson, of Louisvilie, Ky., will preach fm the Church of Christ, No. 24 West Twenty-eighth street, this morning, on “Co-operation with God,” and in the evenmg on “Three Men’s Opportunitics to be Saved.” At half-past ten o’clock this morning Rev. Dr. Bagh Miller Thompson wili be installed rector of Christ church, Fiith avenue, by Bishop Potter, of hew York, and im the evening Mr. Thompson will preach. Rev. P. L. Davies wil! preach tn the Berean Baptist @urch this morning and evening. Rev, Eaward Everett Hale, of Boston, will oMciate fm the Church of the Messiah this morning and even- Rev, J. M. Pullman’s second discourse on “Things Pertaining to This Life” will be delivered this morn- ‘tng in the Church of Our Saviour. Evening services as usual. In the Catholic Apostolic church this evening the @iacourse will be on the “Calling of te Church.” Rev. Charlies F. Lee will preach this morning $n the Fifth Universalist church (Chickering Hall) on “Religious Needs of the City,” and in the evening ‘Will lecture on “Pygmalion’s Statue; or, the Chris- fan Ideal.” Rey. Dr. Krotel will preach morning and evening $m the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Rev. (. 8. Harrower will preach this morning in &. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church and i the evening will lecture on “The Resurrection.” Rev. E. ©. Sweetser will preach on the subject of Miracles this morning in the Bleecker street Univer- alist church, Rev. Dr. Merrill Richardson will preach morning end evening in the New England Vongregational burch, Rev. J. 8. Willis will preach this evening on “The Bitterness of Regret.” Morning services as usual. Rev. Morgan Dix, of Trinity church, will deliver ‘the second of his course of lectures this evening in ‘Trinity chapel, the subject being “Home, Holy Mairimony, Divorce.” At the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Brookiyn, Services will be heid as fo!lows:—High mass at half- past tep in the morning, when the choir will sing Miné’s celebrated Mass, for our voices, and in the evening Cerute’s grand musical Vespers. Bishop Snow wiii discourse this morning in the University on “The Character and Approaching Doom of Romanism in the Light of Prophecy.” Mar. Walter Hyde will lecture this morning at 220 East Thirty-fourth sireet on “spiritualism: Its Phe- womena aud Phiiosophy.’” Conference tn the afier- Boon. Mra, Emma Hardinge Britten will speak this morning in Apolio Hall on ‘rhe New Bible,” end tm the evening on “The New Social Order.” The Church of « trangers—Germaa Service. To rue Epitor or THE HERALD:— AS we desire to make every part of the Church of the Strangers profitable it has been devermined to have divine service in the chapel in the German language every sunday, at bail-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P.M. There are many of our Ger- man fellow citizens who know the English well enough to read the HeRaLp, but are not quite so ‘Well acquainted with it as to enjoy singing, praying ®nd preaching in our language, We propose to supply them in the janguage of their Fatherland, A learned German minister, well recommended, takes chat We invite @ iarge attendance. Tne chapel wili seat more than tree hundred people. It is a cheerful room. We shall make it as com- fortable as possibie. German Bibies and ilymo Books will be procured as svon as practicable. It is hoped that ali who favor this movemeat will be present. The first service will be heid gay. The entrance is on Greene street, Waverley place anu Clinton piace, The University cars irom the Astor House pass in front of the - All the seats are iree, Will your readers please inform their German iriends? CHAKLES F. DEEMS, Pastor. Gunday as a Day of Kest, Religion and Ke- creation. To Tox Epitor or THe HRKALD:— To you, who are always ap earnest advocate of all Measures tending to the emancipation of the human family, I feel confident | may address a few remarks am favor of a ‘new departure,” having for its object Ahe loosening of the trammels which bind down the generality of people in this country, forbidding them to make use Of the Sabbath as a day of rational and Imnocent recreation, and confine them to their homes, rather as cloistered monks, than permit ‘them to invigorate mind and body by heaithtul out. door amusements, which would enable them to re- turn to their daily labors like “giants refreshed with new wine.” 1 do not think that the majority of tne people are in favor of the Puritanical severity with which ai- most all sorts of pubdlic amusements on Sunday are regarded. This thing seems to be governed by the few of @ rigid and unbending religious morality, Which sees sometiing criminal in alt that does not savor of prayer and peaim singing. How are we to emerge irom this siate of servi tude to the capricious views bigow Chiefy, | should say, by a thorough ventilation of the subject in its entire length and breadth. Pur = Toust, of cou en te mede of the rvance of the da: ut let the pure be fairiy allowed to express itself and 1 douht not mt will be found to give &@ most emphatic vote in favor o: much greater latitude in the way of recreation th 4s at present in vogue, We must not run into the Opposite extreme and see liberty only in a motous and licentioas indulgence. We must nave a de- Corous regard for the conveniexce and comfort of others, and be careful while enjoying ourselves not to molest or annoy our neighbors. In European countries the Sabbath is duly ob- same Serve! as igious festival, while at the ime the people are not only allowed but encouraged the pursuit of rational ures, Some guvern- meuts proviae cheap th cals and musica: enier- tainments for the ore. Horse races are not there Fegarded as a device of :he evil one to ensnare the un- Zo the potomiese pit ast) need the farce eee the door of entrance of the moto wi n wien — _ The King of Italy’s Concessions to the Roma Por To Tae EpiTor oF THE HELD: — As the congratulations of the King of Italy to the Holy Father, on New Year's, may be regarded by many of your readers a3 a concession which the Pontiff should have gladly accepted, | would be pleased for a small space in your columns to pre- sent a true view of the subject. Victor Emmanuel’s professions of friendship are similar to those Of the false disciple, who betrayed the Divine Master with a kiss, and thus he is more base than his hirelings who surround the Vatican prison and cry out “Death to the Pope!” Nor can ‘this hypocritical monarch, who has despoiled the Vicar of Christ of his possessions, be classed among those for whom our Saviour pleade “Father, forgive them, for they know noi what they do.” He knows the rights of the successor of Peter, to whom the Church of God has been entrusted, together with her sacred relics, suplime Monuments Of religious zeal, and the dust of her martyred children enshrined within the Evernal City, and should remember the fate of him mentioned in Holy Writ who was punished for touching whe sacred ark by the vengeance of a just God. The Holy Father cannot willingly resign the inheritances of the Church heid in trust by him without injustice to his 250,000,000 of spiritual chil- dren, and the King of Italy, though aware of this fact, still persists in his upholy course; under the garb of the lamb he conceals the wolf, and thus ap- proaches the helpless victim of his sacrilegious rapacity with “guarantees” and “congratulations,” thereby adding iasuit to injury. VERITE, Can Mormonism Find Shelter Australia? (From the Melbourne Argus, Noy. 6.] Some of our London contemporaries—The Times and Spectator among the number—appear to have attached undue importance vo the sayings and doings of a handful of ignorant fanatics at Nuna- Wading and Oakleigh. The Times is of opinion ‘that Mormonism 1s “‘ukeky enough to find a refuge im Australia. “That vast and mysterious continent,’? 1t is observed, “seems the very place for anew superstition or for any number of competitors.’’ This is one of those hasty suppositions which are Conceived without thought and uttered without re- fection, Supersttion 1s the child of ignorance, and it flourishes most luxuriautly under two sets of con- ditions. One of these 1s & gloomy climate, where men are habitually brought into contact with the aternest and most austere aspects of nature; where lite itself is a perce aa warfare with an ungenial soll, with a depressing atmosphere, aud with the turbulent elements, aud where religion is quite as much the expression Of man’s awe Of the natural forces with which he has vo contend, as of his sense ol @ great creative and fundamental power. The other set of conditions 1s found present in the south Ol italy ana in countries like Chie, where the mass of the population 18 uninstructed and where ite superstitious fears are excited and sus- tained by periodical earthquakes and vol- canic eruptions, which are regarded as special Manifestations of Divine wrath, necessitating the peasement of that wrath by prayers, processions and ceremonial performances of various kinds, In Australia, however, we doubt the possibility of auy degrading superstition taking deep and durable root. Tue climate naturally disposes men to take cheerful and hopeful views o1 religious subjects. ‘here 18 probably no English seene community in which the belief in a physical hell and the per- sonality of the devil finds s0 little acceptation; and the probabilities are, not that religion will pecothe more contamtnated by superstitious in this part of the world, but that the latter will disappear before the advancing intelligence of the people; for what- ever may be the defects of the educational system in Jorce in these colonies, It 1s an undeniable Lact that the whole of them are eagerly competing to banish orance from the land, and that the expenditure for that parpose 13 on & scale of protase liberality. * * * So far as Australia 1s concerned, It con- tains but one “secluded colony’’—that which was jounded on the Swan River. In all the rest the newspaper and the electric telegraph penetrate to every village, the schoolmaster sets up nis desk in every hamiet, the pulsations of political and muni- cipal ie make themselves felt in every towaship, and im not many weeks {rom tho present time no event ol any importance can occur in any part of Ew or of North America, or of Southern asia, or of Northern Airica, or of the Indian Archipelago without being made kuown to and commented upon the next day by nioe-tenths of the mhabitants of this group of colonies. Under such circumstances meu's imaginauons will be denied the opportunity of vecomiumg “dull” and torpid; daily lamillarity With (he great facts of current history will dissipate ignorance, will arouse inquiry, will stimulate the aestre for knowledge, and wii ‘constitute in itself a sort of useful educauion. Isolation from the great body of humantly—irom 118 interests, its aspira- tions, its intellectual acquisitions and its moral, ma- lerial and political progress—will be almost impossi- ble, except toa few solitary shepherds and hut- keepers um sequestered pastorai districts; and thus Superstition will, upon tae showing of the Spectator, have very few chances of optaining & foothold in Australia, while the popular impaticace of authority of any kind would indispo-e people to submit to the rule of such an impostor as the one shadowed out by our contemporary. Dr. Cumming Prophecy. Dr. Cumming recently delivered a discourse in London entitied, “A Retrospect in the Lignt of Prophecy.” Choosing tor a text the first verse of the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, he pointed out the predictions of the signs which were to heraid Christ's coming, ana showed that these pre- dictions were becoming historical facts. He said he did not believe the world was ever to come to ap end—it would probably be raised in temperature, increased in fertility and beauty, and thus become the loveliest piace im the universe, It was not iven us to know tue exact day of Cnrist’s coming; ut certain significant things were to happen. Some of his readers said he was rash in his state- ments; but what had happened during the past yeur’ He had toretold ihe /apal apostacy, and wnat dad they now see but schism in the Romaa Church ? Again, it was strange that whoever the Pope baa bDiessed has come to evil, while those he had cursed had prospered. For instance, the biess- ing showered on the Emperor of Austria had ended Mm Dadowa; tac Queen of ppain, who oad received the Golden Rose, Was soon a fugitive; Maxiuilian, Who had beea biessed, was snot; Victor EI Who had been cursed In the severest ner, Was now King of Italy, lus son King of Spain and hus dauguter Queen of Portugal, As regarded the sigas of the times, he would pomt to tne fact that tne Gospel bad now veen provialmed in every laud and tongue, and, thougu all peopie had not been con- verted, it nad been preached to them “as a wit- ness.” Wars and rumors of wars were rife; every Ration Was a gz tothe teeth, though the great and terrible Hgut of iast year was only just over, and @ great moral revoluuou Was also going on. in the midst Of all cits ne could only beseecu his hearers to Prepare .o meet Weir God. Cerdinal Cullen on the Iucrease of Intem- perance ia Ireland. The following important letter of the Cardinal Archbishop of Dubin to one of the parochial clergy of his diocese will be read with the deevest interest at the present momeut:— Dusi.ty, Dec, 29, 1871. My Dear Cut It grieves me r that x young man has met with « sudden death in your paren sine ‘Christmas, and that at th dest bela ove: lifeless remains the jury drinwing bad caused this sind ts well Vans, and to make rand trembling i on the direiui effects of drunkenness, What calamity Area could bare (vetallen the unvappy young wan jo bave been burried into @leruity in a state of most prect out } ivine Commaud- ments and insuding the Au powerlul Jutge to whom it be- longs to docide upon his fale for alleternity? Call upon your wbiontrs whe (hey have this ay vee by Frese in thetr Wasdettes to protect Lbemee're théir the drea\(l seunrges aad pul would brivg upoo f ott 70. pared so the barvest uf ia and innquity to which gives rise! Aimost all the cr aes Sangre tes, obberied, oa, the gras immorall- and x would be almost and agaio Inaod of Sasnus, #88 bow many eu precious biood of Jesus Cary Uhrongh a9 excessive des’ wf into the avor tw ia- | an eagie. bo Berd public houses Lo set Lhelr (aces againat 6.12 ‘bem at ail times, and to clove thew on | bour, e ae te Cee pavon. 1 Roman bolic “tatistics, From the new Engiteh edition of the “Cathoue Directory," just published, permissu supertoruin, secular lists profized to the more strictly tical portion of the work show that tn the peerage of the three kingdoms Catbolics cam reckon one duke (Norfota), quis (Bule), eight earis, four viscounts barons, the list ending with Lord U' Chancelior of Ireland. Brsvtes Joriy-pine Catbolice ia We i t i | seventeen and a nal feet. i Hower outommens iol whom wh te sr sthanmcto, beeing ore wae act, pai Aa and a to And. chapter, “seouan’ iw sul dived, ito a “Vicar io fi Armagh, Dub- Cashel and ‘over the or Maaster and , Leinster, Mi Uvely, and having under them twenty-four Su! almost gan of the Establisned Church ther number by Mr, Stanley (the late Lord Deroy) just forty fu ago. No less than seventy-one forty-five seculars aud twenty-six been ordained in land alone twelvemonth, raising and forty, serving about twelve nund! and “stations.” “To these details the Archbishops Of the ‘Sees and Vicariates A) in our col- iso of the Patriarchs, enamncien, and Pai jops and Vicars Apostolic in Eu- Tope, Asia, Africa, North and South America and Oceanica, including Australia, New Zeaiand, Ac, We are” informed that there are nine “Patri- archates,’’ of which the chief are Constantinopie, Alexandria, Autioch and Jerusalem; and twelve Patriarchs, seven of the Latin “Kue” and five of the Oriental ‘Rite,’ In conciuston, it Ly re cone! Cardinal Bishops, thirty-six Cardinal Priests and seven Car- dina Deacons ‘The oldest member of the Sacred College in point of years 1s the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, Who was born in the year 1761, There are at nt DO less than twenty vacancies in whe hist of Cardinals; ninety-four have died dur- in@ the present Pontificate, forty-one of whom were presented with their hats by Plus LX, “missions” are added lists of \d_ Bishops of the United states The Jews in England. The Jewish Chrontcle, taking a review of the closing year, thus refers to the position as English citizens of the community it represents:—‘“In the hours of trembling, almost agonizing suspense through which the nation has lately been passing— the hours of the perilous sickness of the first gen- tleman in this reaim—the Jews first of all of Her Majesty's subjects took the initiative in offering up congregational prayers for the stricken Prince, ‘Their love, affection and their pious mode of mani- Testing 11 the leading journal of the land and formed the sub- Ject of an Bloanent chaplais of the Prince of Wales recently preached a hi ae of the Queen and her rovai daugh- r-in-law. prayer was otfered up ior the Princé’s recovery. was @ Jewish who entertain brethren in the Holy Land to lift up their su plications on the sacred soil for the English Prince: and putting his idea into execution by the ald of the ‘wonder-working telegraph, Asia echoed back tne orisons of England in the hour of tribulauon and trial. There are two other events which occurred this year, and which may be considered as stroug evidence ot the frank and free acceptance of Jews as citizens of this State by their fellow countrymen, and of the thorough comprehension of their na- tional position by Jews. We refer to the adoption of Sir David Salomon’s bill by the Legislature, a bill admitting the claims of Jews to exceptional legisla- Uon by reason of their religious exigencies; and to the nomination of Mr. Jessel toa post 1a the exec- utive government of the country. Thus the year has nad its effect in cementing the bond of national connection between the Jews of England and the State. In every national joy, in every national aanger, in every national anxiety and national Dope, we Jews of England bear our part, THE NEW ST. ALPHONSUS CHURCH. Description of the Edifice—Introduction of the Romanesque Style—The Redemptorist Fathers a» Missionaries—The Church To Be Dedicated at Easter. For many years there stood in Thompson street, near Canal, a small and unpretending church, but which, like all edifices of the kind in New York and elsewhere, Was attended by crowded and devout congregations. Even early im the mornings of week days, winter and summer, people might be seen wending their way to render homage to the Almighty within its walls. This was St, Alphonsus’ church, which was dedicated in 1848 by the late Archbishop Hughes, It was in charge of missionary priests, Fathers of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, or Redemptorist Fathers, the name by which they are more generally known. ‘the want of more extensive accommodation for the numerous and rapidly increasing Catholic population nad been long felt in the old church, and the Fatners resolved to undertake the important and costly work of erecting A SPACIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL TEMPLB im its place. Fully relying upon the devotion and lioerality of their people, ized. space. The result is to be seen to-day in the mag- nificent edifice on South Fifth avenue, near Canal street, and which presents the vest evidence of suc- cessful perseverance, No one who looks upon the new St, Alphonsus church will deny that it is an elegant and imposing structure and sn architectu- ral ornament of which New York may be proud, is noteworthy that for many years past the project- ors of religious enterprises have selected sites for their buildings in the upper part of the city, and with the exception of St. Alphonsus none have lo- cated any place south of the neignborhood of Canal street, This church 1s a missionary temple for the people of all nations, and the field chosen by the zealous Fathers is one where a vast amount of good can be accomplished, THE EXTERIOR. The Romanesque style, in which the church is built, was introduced in the eighth and continued to improve until the close of the twelfth centary, when it wa3 succeeded by the Gothic. 1t differs from the latter in baving @ semicircle govern strictly all arches, shorter and smaller windows, ana pilasters instead of buttresses. The whole proportions are not so tall or slender as the Gothic. Numerous ca- thedrals, churches and abbeys in Europe, of the Mediwval age, are butit in the Romanesque style, Among the most celebrated are the cathedrals of Spier, Worms, Bonn and Mayence, St. Alphonsus is the only charch of this order in the United States which is Closely followed in all its details. The site is partly upon that ovcupted by the old building and on a hew piece of ground extending from Thompson street to South Fifth avenue. The extertor 1s completed. Ohio treestone has been used in the front; the arches alternate with North River bluestone and Nova Sco- tia drab stone. The columns are of seneca red- stone and North River binestone, The rear ts built of Pnuladeiphia compressed brick; all other walls of North River hara brick, of which two multons and @ bait have been used. The front has been arranged for two steepies, only one of which ts finished. The construction of the other is leit for a future time. ‘The walls of the steeple are 118 feet nigh, which, with the spire, makes the total to the top 190 feet, On the Fifth avenue side the heighth from the side- wadk to the roof 1s 100 feet, and on Thompson street six feet additional. The small tower ts thirty-five Jeet above the riage of the roof. The gable cad ccn- tains @ statue of 81, Al; hanes eight leet six inches tn height, cut in Outo sandstone, * THE VESTIBULE. The vestibule has a flight of granite steps, with ceiling in groined arches. The main entrauce 14 through three large doors. Over the vestibule are three douvie windows richly ornamented—the mid- die with the Papai arms, Above is a large rosette, seventeen fect in diameter, surrounded by emblems of the four Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, These, according to prophecy, are repre- sented respectively by an angel, a lion, an ox and Each holds the Gospel of which he was Whe riser open at the commencement of the first chapter. THE INTERIOR. The entire lengti of the church from street to street is 163 feet; the width, eighty Jeet, incluui walls. The latter are two feet and twenty inches, respectively, thick i the church and clear-story, @od supported by tweive iron culumas sixteen inches in diameter, All the timber used is yellow pine, Which is of avery durable description, Aito- etuer the construction 1 of the most sola kind, ‘he interior, in its character and arrangements, will be, when finisned, of the most imposing appear- ance, Itis divided into @ Dave and two alsies. The Mave is thirty-five feet wide; the aisies are each Over the latter are gal- leries, The floor is !atd out in marble ties, and the Ws Will seat 1,500 persous; the galleries about 900, @ entire puliding Will be heated by steam. All the churen furnitare ts Walnut, and manufactured according to new designs, THE SANCTUARY, The sanctuary 1s spacious, and when finisied will i adapted for the fuil display of the Poutifical rite, It is built square, with the View of employing every inch of ground. depth ts twenty-eight feet. At the hi From the aliar rails the feet the dome becomes octagon: nt of twenty- The sacris- tes are om either side of the chanccl, over which are oratories opening into the sanctuary by trifo- nims, The altars were construcied by the cele- Mupich house of Meyer & o., from by the arcnitect, Mr. ler. + main al Canopy, ‘There will Fran- alter i to and will be two side v neignt. have called forth the eulogistic notice of passage in a sermon which the In the majority of our synagogues a: uy ntleman—Sir Moses Monteflore— the happy thought of asking his the Redemptorists felt Confident that the necessary funds would be real- They commenced about a year since to make arrangements to supply the pressing need for more It one te embeltisned wit, | MYSTERIOUS MURDER. IN LOUIS- SOUTH CAROLINA. BIGAMIST BOWEN’S BULLY BLAST ‘The body of the murdered man which was washea | Severe Arraignment of Governor Scott on Charge@ ‘at each Paul and St. Peter, the latter holding the keys. VILL: sha Bs, "Fhe Sancaty Wl asd wi a Se a ee va The Body Fousd Seven Weeks After the NTINGS A! RCORATIO! Deed aXotung wil be left undone to wid to me grand | tyce, Was Commibseniwd : Renetteaienes considerable time to complete this work. (From the Loutsvilie (Ky.) Journal, Jan, 18.) gs Axtures are of the most castefut design And pe I werk manchip. Tne walls of oe jes will | ashore at the foot of Sixth street the day before yes- have the fourteen stations of the way of the cross | day has been identified as that of Sam Bateman, cotta and bas relief, They were ob- house of Meyer & Co,, in Munich, and lately arrived. There are to be sixteen paint- story panels, portraying scenes a St. Alphonsus Lignori, The services of Mr. Lamprecat, an artist of reputation, have been secured for tuts purpose. After the walls are frea- coed all the pilasters, columns and mouldings will be richiy glided and decorated in deep colors, ac- cording to the eaqnie style. ORGAN AND BELLS, ‘The tower contains three large bells, which have jaced ta tion. they weigh respectively 400 pounds. ‘Thereis also one of lesser Weight in the small tower, The new organ 1 ove of the largestin the United States, and has sixty-five full stops The case is of black walnut; is forty-six feet high, and arranged in front in two parts, 50 as to Keep the large rose window free and hot ovs:ruct the entrance of ight, In a few weeks it wil! be complete, Wien a sacred concert will be mefit of the church. ‘The baptismal font is om the right of the entrance and Close to the . It 8 of Ohio freestone, and supported by two marble bases. ‘The fuil cost of the church, exclusive of the site, is about two hundrea and fifty thousand dollars, TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION. The corner stone of St. Alphonsus’ church was laid by Archbishop McCloskey on the 4th of last September, ‘ithe building has progressed rapidly since then, and wii! be devicated during the coming Easter week. When the old church on Thompson street Was removed a temporary chapel was erected 1m November fur te accommodation of the congre- gauon, on South Filth avenue. The clergymen have since occupied their new residence adjomtng the church, which it is contemplated to enlarge at some future Ume to meet the wants of additional fathers. ‘The basement 1s now used jor divine service, and 1s in every respect suitable for the purpose, THE REDEMPTORISTS. This Sutingnianed religious order was founded by the cele Itattan prelate, St. Alphonsus Maria de Lignori in the eignteeenth century. He called his order Congregatio Sanstiseim Redemptoris (Con- gregation of the Most Holy Kedeemer), and priests of the order have the imitials of the Latin words, C. 8S. R., attached to their names. St. Alphonsus Wrote several theological treatises, which have from time to time been discussed with spirit. The fathers in the United States have devoted much attention to giving qussions, during which it has frequently happened that thousands have ap- proached the sacraments and abandoned their evil ways. ‘They are celebrated in this respect, At St. Alphonsus, there are eight priests; tne superior ig Father Weyrick, and 1t may be mentioned that twenty-three years ago he attended the late Arch- bishop Hughes as an altar boy when that distin- guished prelate de ticated the old church on Thomp- son street, and witch has now given place to the splendid and imposing edifice on South Filth ave- nue. The Father Superior no doubt regards this as & memorable event in his if, TEMPLE EMANUEL Moses’ Serpent of Brass in the Wilderness Symbolic of the Spirit of Envy in the Human Heart—Lecture by the Rev. Dr. Gathelm. The pleasant weather of yesterday drew together to the temple worsp a goodly congregauon, in whose hearing the story of tne polsoning of. the Israelites by the serpents in the wilderness and their recovery by looking at the serpent of brass made and set up by Moses was read, and from it Dr. Gutheim preached an able and thoroughly practical discourse, setting forth the symbolic character of those fiery serpents which bit the people and of the brazen serpent to which they had but to look and hive. The question has been asked, said the Doctor, can it be possible that a serpent should have the power to kill and to make alive, to wound and to heal? Shall the circumstance be accepted literally? Certainly not, It was not the serpent of brass that produced such marvellous results. It was but a symbol, and whenever the people raised their eyes in repentance and faith 10 God they were healed of their disease, The serpent was kept, we are told, for many years afterward, and actually became AN OBJECT OF IDOLATROUS WORSHIP, and it was not until the reign of Hezekiah that it was cast down and destroyed, The immediate cause for sending the flery ser- pents among the people was the mental (issatisfac- tion of the people with their situation. They longed for what they had not, but which they knew and believed their neighbors possessed. This was the envious serpent which gnawed at their vitals, and caused them to pine and suffer and waste away. And only by looking to God, and raising their souls on high, could they re-establish that peace in their hearts which nad departed from them, There are diseases Of the soul as well ag of the body. The Jatver We submit to the care ang healing of the physt- cian; but the former can be relieved and cured only by a firm trust in God. And when mankind shall be healed from ail their moral diseases then religion Will be little spoken, but will be practised in reality and by all, People who are in the enjoyment of good health do not talk much about it; but when health begins to fail then they make It an every-day topic of thought and conversation. 50 long as institutions of religion are necessary to effect our moral con- valescence 60 long has religion not fulfilled its end, and it must continue tn its beneficent task. But will the time ever come when the soul snall be so wholly devoted to God as not to stand in need of stimulating remedies? Will the time ever come when we shall no longer teach every man his neigh- bor and every man his brother, saying “KNOW THE LORD?” When religion shall no longer be taught from ten thousand pulpits and men shall no longer war and fight about religion, because ail will think and act ina truly religious spirit? We hape so, It is our firm belief and conviction, for it has been guaranteed to us in the prophetic words of Isat: ‘They shall ail my holy mountain, hh the knowl. eage of tho waters covers the deep.” Yes, the time will come when man- kind will be healed from ail their moral diseases, There are two kinds of moral distempers whici it 1s the duty Of religion to relieve and to remove from the human heart, The first 1s to feel too mach our own misfortunes and too little our neighvors, The first causes the eye to gaze with a jealous stare at our neighbor's prosperity, bul the second closes the eye to adversity as weli as CO prosperity, Both have one common source—namely, seifisiness; want of genume phiianthropy. To uproot tnis radical evil and to establish love in the human heart 1s one of the primary objects of Judaism and of ali true rett. gion. This moral disteunper—envy—exciies our con- veupt and pity, To grieve because others proxper— to be miserabie because ovhers are happy—to feel pain at others’ joy—displays a frightful depth of cor- ruption in the human heart, Men whofeel so are sunk, not valy to the level of the brute, but fur beneath it, aud cannot be disturbed by the remotest or most powerful consciousness of the morallaw. Animal selfishness is satistied wien it das 11s own Will, Lut envy 18 never satisted—never glutted—wule others prosper. Ivis CHARACTERISTIC OF THE ENVIOUS MAN to be blind to the blessings which he enjoys, but to have his eyes keenly open to those which nis neigh- bors enjoy. He cannot be happy while others are happy by his side. Hence envy is the prompter of most crimes. No voice of friend- ship or tenderness can mollity its wrath. Jt maintains implacable hostility against ali peace, and ever since st first polluted the earth with a brother's blood it stalks about seeking its prey. And you cannot name a crime ever pers Ve Rh that had not envy for its source and cause. hether the crime be against the property, the ace or the person of another, it matters not. ELVY 18 as rotenness In tne bones; it 13 cruel and relentiess as the grave; its breath 13 a deadly poison, and contact with tt is preguant with corruption. Among the three cardinal vices named in the Mishna envy stands first, lust and ambition veing its companions, From this radical evil religion 13 designed to relieve us. Job declares that envy will will slay the simple. You would be happy, dear friends, sald the Doctor. God has iumpianied iis desire in your hearts, but you cannot bear a spectre to step between you and your coveted Ue pay chases Away lov itp pizglons pean 30d, from your soul. And thud y nd unhappy the more you see of your neighbor's happiness. Open your hearts to the tender emotions oi compassion, and if you would be happy you must obiain it by making others happy. itiere is no greacer Jeeling of picasure and joy for you than that which you create for others, Which returns to (he soul witha double zest. THE SCORPION STING OF ENVY will make and keep you iil, but the medicine of charity and benevoience will enable you to Iift your eyes to the bilis Whence cometh your help, and wil bring peace to your bosom, Weep with those who weep if you would rejoice with those who are joy- ful. The Doctor then called attention to the feeling of carelessness and uuconcern Which possesses so many hearts, and which stand midway between envy and sympathy. He condemned it ag un- qualifiediy as the former, It has the same source, and Is just a8 Wicked in the sight of God as is envy. He urged upon bis hearers deeds of charity and benevolence asthe best means w counteract we Malignant influences o1 envy—the fiery serpent Which subgs, and whose sting is death, PARDONED BY THE GOVERNOR, De, James 8. Gwynne, who was convicted of big- amy and sentenced in New York last February to five’ years imprisonment in Sing Sing Prison, left that institution on Friday, having been pardoned by Governor Hofii arcer: Me Stee eta Parana meets of convict life, and proved quite an juisition superintendent in ope of we manuacturing depart Whose sudden and mysterious aisappearance from bis home on Bank street, bétween Eighteenth and Nineteenth, seven weeks ago, was noticed In tne Courier-Journal atthe time. The marks of violence on the body plainly indicate that Bateman was most foully murdered. In view of this fact we will brieny rehearse the circumstances of the case, The deceased worked at Avery’s plough factory, on Fifteenth and Main streets, and, after receiving ny his weekly Ww: on Monday evening, seve weeks ago, he went home, as was his cus- tom, to assist his wife in bringing water, Making fires and other laborious household duties. His wages, with the exception of $2, were given to Mrs, Bateman for sale keeping. After sup- per Mr, Bateman took the two dollars to the grocery store of John Vetter, on High street and Twentieth, and settled a small ranning account. He and Mr. Vetter were old friends, and talked very pleasantly together for a short while, and a few minutes later young Henry Vetter and the deceased each drank a glass of ale. This was all the drinking done by the 'y during the evening. They were all sober and ‘lendly, and remained together only about haif an nour. Bateman had just moved from the neighborhood, and one of nis children Was still at the house of a neighbor a square below. He left the grocery store stating that he would go after this child, and if it Was not asleep he would take it home, He went, but found the child asleep and it was not disturbed, The hour was not later than nine o’clock, tne weather was cold and the night quite dark. ‘The street was more quiet than usual, the people being mostly indoors, ‘The unfortunate Bateman stood a few moments upon the doorstep of the house where nis child was, talking with the lady of the house about the litte one, which he did not dream that he was never to gee again, Toe child, only two years old, was too young to appreciate, even if told, the awful doom Yat afew hours later must hive overtaken its “Don't wake it up,” said‘Bateman, as he went from the door and the lady turned into the house, “tg motner will come for 1t to-morrow.’? ‘This is the last interview that any one is known to nave had with the deceased, Mrs. Bateman ‘Waited very anxiously for her husband’s return, She sat upail night, and in her restlessness went every few minutes to the front gate ‘co watch his coming.’”’ His continued absence through the wee sma hours, as one by one they came and went, filled her mind with evil for- bodings. Her imfant child, which lay sleep- ing the sleep of the innocent, was her only com- panion. As soon as it was day she went on 8 [ruit- jess search for the missing man. High street was | ransacked from end tv end, but no one had seen him save at the two places above mentioned. The wile, in her distress, visited the jail, the city court room, the station houses, the workhouse, all tne saloons of the city he had been in the habit of visit. ing, but nowhere could she either see him or hear of him, Twenty-four hours later she found his hat near the Ohio river bridge, and this circumstance led to the belief that he haa committed suictde, or had accidentally fallen into the river and been drowned, Other circumstances, however, were against this conclusion, He was habitually sober, and wonid hardly have gone go far as we river, which was considerably out of his way, at that hour of the night, and had no reason, Known to his wile or friends, tor committing suicide. « Mrs, Bateman refused to believe that he was dead, and continued her vain efforts to tind him. Her tears and prayers moved others to join in tue frait- Jess search, which only terminated when the splash- ing waves of the Ohio threw the body of the mur- dered man to the surface at the !oot of Sixth street, The body was brought to shore, put no one could identity It or tell aught of its mysterious history, A ghastly wound stretched across the left side of the head, and left the brains exposed to view. ‘Tae features, swelied and scarred, could hardly be re- cognized even by friends. The inquest held over the mangled remains elicited no injormation con- cerning its bloody svory, the verdict being that the man had been murdered, but by whom was un- known. Mr. Brinkman, an undertaker, took charge of the boay and deposited 1t in the vault of the Westera Cemetery. Mra, Bateman road in yesterday's papers an account of the verdict of the jury and of the disposition of the body, and went immediately tosee it. Her sad search ended there in an awiul certainty. She had made or mended every garment wern by her husband when he leit home, and to her distress and horror she identified those on the dead body as soon as she entered the vault in which itlay. The pants contained a patch on the knee; the socks were ribbed in a peculiar manner, and the coat was all torn away except one sleeve, Which was cut from a piece of cloth now in po: session of the bereaved wile. The shirts also were remembered by certain marks. In addition to this evidence the wretched wire identified the body as that of her husband by the whiskers, and the fami- ilar features themselves are slightly traceable. ‘The wife, in @ wail of anguish, exciaimed, Baas 7 my husband! my poor, murdered hus- ‘Two iriends accompanied the poor woman to the Vault, and, in order to comfort her, expressed a doubt that the muruered man was really her hus band, The lady, however, 1s absolutely certain, and to ‘be consoled. She returnea home sick and weary and heart-broken, and 1s in a deli- cate condition, which renders her bereavement all the more terrible and hard to bear. Her little ones are there, all unconscious, in their youth and inno- cence, of the terrivie fate that has belailen ther father, and a deep po the shadow of an awiul deea, rests like a pall on the little household, while the siirieks and cries of the widow rend the alr and tell of the mental anguish which tortures her. The origin, progress and execution of this foul deed are as yet entirely unknown, Even conjeoiure can do very littie toward unravelling the mystery. Bute- man had no enemies, 80 Jar as the faroily and their friends are aware, He had lived soberly and peace- ably with every one, and every one had lived peace- avly with him. He carried with him very litule mouey and no jewelry to tempt the cupidity of rut- fians and highway robbers. ‘nese lacts rather fn- crease than explain the mystery af the murder, Arumor, however, is deing circulated and ve leved by many that may furnish a slight clue to the deed and bring to justice the assassin, A few Sab- baths previous to his disappearance Bateman came home trom High street w:th @ scratch and a smail black spot on his face. ‘These he told his wife were caused by @ tall down a fight of steps. It 18 said, _ however, though not with any degree of certainty, that he was Knocked down by @ weil known man on High street, Whose hame for obvious reasons we will not now give. The cause of this affair is also unknown, but it 13 this fight which has furnished many-tongued rumor with food for speculation, and it is this dght which will probably be the vasis of the first search for the guilty party. ‘The wife is irantic with grief and her Wild suspicions are to be taken with much allowance. Her theory 1s tnat the mau with whom Bateman had the tight, and who 1s said to live near the route from Twenty-second and High streets to ‘the residence of the deceased, waylait or met the unfortunate man on streets as he Was going home and killed him with,an axe. No sufficient cause has been assigned for the deed, however, and rumor 48 more Often at fault than correct. There is anotier circumstance which should be Mentioned, The vouy was found neur Sixth street, which shows that it must have been thrown mto the river either at that point or avove, and washed down, The oody, il the man was Killed near the bridge, would to ali probability have been consigned to the water at that point. Tne hat, as mentioned above, was found near we bridge. The scene of the murder was very probably near Bateman’s old home, perhaps In sight of the house in which slum- bered his jittie child, The body could, of course, nave been taken higaer up and (ossed tuto the river to throw justice off the track of the murderer, ‘The detectives wili take this mutter in hand and work itup, The assassin is allarge and must be brouglt to justice, The widow and orphans, thougn destitute, alone in the world and unpro- tected, should ve avenged, and society should be protected from the assauits Of such cuttoroats and outlaws a3 must have been the man or men who perpetrated this fearful crime. A CATHOLIO TEMPERANCE S(ATE UNION, id in New York of Deie- ke Counties of New York, Kings, Queens, * ik and Richmond. Acall has been issued by the Presidents of the Catholic Temperance organizations of the counties of New York, Kings, Rockland and Kicumond to the parochial socteties of the Archdiocese of xéw York to mect and appoint three delegates from each to assemble im a con vention on the first Sunday in February. The convention wiil sit in the ball of the Transfiguration Society, corner of Mott and Park streets, in this CY, at two o'clock in the afternoon. {t is proposed to discuss and determine upon the advisability of forming a general union of the Catholic abstinence societies, upon the plan of tue State uulous now established in other Staies, aud also in the central part of New York. But the Ovntrar New York State Union has not hitherto included the counties of Kings, Queens, Suifoik and Kichmond, anil lo ex- tend the venefits of such a union to these aiso is the Object of this move! The reverend 8 oF the district are earnestly invited in the cali, wien 18 signed by the residing ofMicers 0: sixteen socie- ues and county conventions, to atvend aud partici- Date 1n 1 deliberations, POSSIBLY A CASE OF POISONING, Yesterday morning Vari Krixewerkel, 9 Prussian, forty-four years of age, was found dead in bed, at 124 Cedar street. Deceased, a carpenter by trade, had been out of employment for some time past, and john + Siler WHIER VoroNeEs of Gross Immorality and General Official Cor- ruption—The Hotel of the ‘Seven Sisters” in New York—One of the “Black Crook” Blondes in the Case. (Columbia (8. C.), Jan. 15, Correspondence of the Charleston Coarier.) The special message of the? Governor had been jade the special order lor one P. M., and when that hour arrived Bowen obtained the floor. His, speech lasted from one until five o’clock, aad was gelivered amid frequent interruptions and not few passages at arms, The first part of it was d voted to wreview and statement of the financial condition of the State. Having finisnet this he fol-: lowed the example set him by the Governor in hig: Message, and began to he RESPOND, He did it, too, in & most effectual manner, and diss, Closed some transactions whlch, if true, would call, the blush to the cheek of the most hardened wretch upon the face of the earth, Without, however, stop~ ping to comment | proceed to give the details. BOWEN’S SPEECH. He proposed, he said, to review the Special; Message oi the Governor. If he had in the Mesege| adhered to @ deience and proven any facts, would not be on the floor now. He proposed w' show what the word of the Governor was worth.) He then read a@ card from Governor Scoti, published) in the New York Post, staung that ample arrange-- ments had been made vo meet the interest on the’ public debt out of the income of the State. Wh this statement was made he (the Governor) kue that 1 was false, It was a deliberate utter, Bull Cover up his frauds, 11 he had been let alone he would to-day have been paying the interest in, New York, There was scarcely & man on this floor to whom the Governor had not uttered the hanes 1108, and he (Bowen) would not velieve bint on , coal Jamtyon at this Moment arose to a point of order’ and asked that Bowen be not allowed to proceed, oe he withdraw his remark about the Gover- point being overruled Bowen proceeded with) his speech. He said he wanted it understood that a8 the Governor had assailed him in bis fithy Mes-| sage, he woud reply, and if he could not reach him) in his speech he would reach him in a question rivilege. He then went on to review the special lessage, showing that the act which provided tor, the issuing of bonds limited the time in which issue them, and that all the issues alter the expira< tion of the limitation were illegally and fraudu: lently issued. He spoke for over five hours, ani saying that he knew what the result would ‘These very scoundreis, beiore the end of the ayes session, Would come into this General Assembly and; ask the passage of an act leguitzing the very Nonas that they say have not been fraudulently issued.; Accompanying tts bill would come a joint resolus. tion asking the Legislature to pledge the State‘ against repudiation, He then alluded to that part of the M m Which the Governor had alludded to bis (Bowen's) prison record, He saul if Lam @ rogue, as the Governor says in his Message, Why Was he So aXe, lous at the beginning Oi the session that! shoud cone ana dine with lim? Why did he send after ine day after day Dia he not know all about me that he kuows now? If 1 am ail wat he n:akes mo out to be tn his Message, why did he send a friend to me to bring me to his house, and while | was there why did be oifer to give me all his support if £ should run for Governor of the State? He voluntarily: made me a proposition to support me for Governor, He was willing, a8 bad as 1 am, Uo assist in foisting ne upon the aillicted people ol the staie, This shows clearly that if 1 Would have helped him to coven ap huis swindles | could have stepped into hus place. MORAL TURPITUDE. When Robert Kingston Scott talks about moral nakedness let him remember the poor school mis- tress Who was enticed from Walbatia under cover or a certain letter, and Woo came under the roof of his mansion, Aad Whose roum he entered on one dark nights and— At this juncture a point of order was raised as to the use of the language, 5, J, Lee, a member from Edgefield, being temporarily in the Chair, ruied tbe point well taken. Whereupon Bowen arose to @ question of privilege, saying that he had been as. Satied by the Governor, and had a right to assail hia character in return. ‘the speaker hones) having resumed the Chair Bowen proceede ‘There are men to-day, said_ he, serving out long sentences in the Peniientiary who would not have done half as much as Scott did to that poor woman under the Gubernatorial mansion, and ths is the man that talks about moral nakedness. Itiil be. comes him to open lis mouth, Why, then, was no one beneath the roof on that might but himself and the poor Woman who had taxen shelter there, A STORMY SCENE, Here half a dozen members arose to their feet to Points of order. ‘The point raised was that i. was unpariiamentary Lo use such language in reference to the Chief #xecutive of the State, ‘The Speaker ruled that walle he thought the lan+ guage in bad laste hé knew of no rule which enabled hun to prevent a member from atuacking the char- acter Ol any State oficial under cover oi a queston of brivilige, AD appeal was at once taken from the decision of the Chair, but was withdrawn before @ vote could be had. Mobiey, the irrepressible memver trom Union, then arose aud made a similar point. ‘The Speaker repested that he couid not rue we | jage oul of order. Whereupon Mowey im- sisted that he (Mobley) should be called to the Chair aud that he would stop it. his modest request not having been complied with, a motion to adjourn wag made, but was losi, The Speaker having by dint of @ vigorous assault upou his desk with bis oMcial we. Succeeded in restoring order, Bowen con- 1 know (said he) that this effort to gag me would be made, and were it not for these interruptions L should Lave gone on to euumerate the ten or a dozen victims of tis kind dragged down to ruin by this man, who talks about moral nakedness. Alter taking advantage of this poor woman, he wrote her a ietter, m which he threatened her if she ever di- vulged what transpired on that night. Alter bis victim reached Charleston the proot of this mon- strous crime came out—the proof that the Guverna- torial Mansion of South Carolina no longer afforded protection to the virtue ot an innocent woman. A SIDE 8CENS. Hereupon Bras arose, and in words of indignm tion, that Were expressed in his usual violent Way, and accompanied by gesticulauoas of the most violent kind, denounced the language used, and concluded by threatening an expulsion if Bowen did not desist, BOWEN rep/ied as foliows:—1 care nothing for ad threat. Lam not to be builied by the man wi vote can be bought for $5, A BYAS—Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of privi- ree, Pig gentleman says my vove can be bought or The SPEAKER—The gentleman is mistaken; how does the member from Orangeburg know that the gentieman from Charleston refers to him? He has not sald so. Byas—I desire to ask the gentleman if he refers to me? BoweN--If you will ask that question outside of As I was going on to this house | will answer It. say, that Woman came down to Charleston, having in her possession @ letter in Scov’s handwriting, threatening her if she ever opened her mouth about What had transpired. It did more; it described we vile deed that had been consummated, JoNsS (of Georgetown)—W here is the letter? BowEN—The party who had it carricu it to the Governor and made him pay a sum of money for it, and it thus got back into lus possession, An indignant tnember here arose and wanted to know whether we were sitting here to discuss the Governor's private character, or as legislators to make laws for the people. No one was found to undertake the answerii this iadignant question, which was cer poser, aud Bowen once more resumed. He saii1—I{ you waut to see moral nakedness go to Willard’s Hotel in Washington. On the notel OOKS you Will find registered Scott's name in con- nection with # notorious woman from Puiladeiphia, who occupied the sate rovia with him, Follow nim trom Washington to New York and go to No. 2 West Twenty-sixth street (a noted house, called the Seven sisters, or Palmetto House), and learn his do- ings there. If I had been let aione | would nave shown how, tn New York, there lived a woman named Pauline to Whom he offered a set of diamonds Worth $700, but that the price was not large enough, i will, however, now leuve the suiyect, saying to Robert K. Scott that if he wishes’ to investigate all these transactions, “He knows now it is limself.’? I will leave it to the peopie to judge between him abu We. ot a A DISTREBSING OASE. Ungallant Conduct of a Dentist—He fs Aco cused of Stealing a Set of False Teeth. Ella Breen, @ young girl of Insh nationality and of considerable beauty, some me ago engaged a8 the servant of an itailan dentist, named J. @, | Brigwtt, residing at 07 Sixth avenue A | great drawback to Ella’s personal attractions | was the loss of her teeth. Her employer proposed | to remedy this defect by supplying her with # ses lor $40, Which she cou Ray. by serving a limited | time ia uis empioymeut, Tuis agreement she readily ihe had wot the money tO pay for the weeth at the tt A lew days siuce bila’s sister paid @ visit to aud jearniug of the arrangement between hergel auc the dentist the Pte KK. Ct ay on Pra Ella went back 0 sapien, the dentist, was very courteous to hce | entered into, arse of conversation asked how reese She replied, “Very well,” saa ‘SE lowed him w examine ber mouth, was the dentist had veew took the weth oul, pat them 10 wi poor said, “Now, me rather meanly, and avenged. I gave you those teeth you cai't have thei for less than Poor lf cores, felt grieved at ioning her