The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1872, Page 3

ANOTHER CHURCH DEPARTURE. A Protestant Episcopal Clergyman Goes Over » ‘0 the Roman Catholic Chureh. wv ‘The Rev. Joshua D. Bradley, of the Oratory of &. Bacrament, Delivers a Farewell Sermon to His Church and Announces His Adoption efthe Roman Catholic Faith—A Sympe- ‘izing Congrezation and an Affec- tlonate and Touching Parting. ‘The Rev. Joho D, Bradiey, a nate of Oxford ntversity, ioaland whee he inliied Sis Teane ef Doctor of Divinity, and who has oMciated as pastor of the Protestant Episcopal church—“Oratory of St, Sacrament’’—West Forty-third street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, made a public recanta- Uon Of the Protestant faith in a farewell sermon to hte late congregation yesterday morning. The con- gregation was qui:e unprepared for this avowal of a change of faitn, and it was received with teara py many of those who heard it, The congregation Gesired Mr. Bradley to reconsider his determination, ‘nd expressed to him their great sympathy and affection, Mr. Bradley is » young man, about thirty Years of age, with a fine, intellectual appearance, wich pleasing and captivating manners. Thecongregation has been distinguished for its extremely ritualistic obaracter. The church ie fitted’ afver the manner of Caiholic chapely—with altar, candles, candelabras, crucifix and sacred pic- tures suspended on the walls. The rubric of the Protestant Episcopal Frayer Book has been ob- @erved, but has been always interpreted in the spirit of the Catholic Church, and has been treated as closely alter the formula of the latter as was con- sistent with the office of priest ander a Proteatant Eplscopacy. While tie change of faith might have been ex- pected, from ali this, its announcement yesterday ‘was received with great surprise on the part of a majority of Mr. Bradley's congregation. “Now Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Obureb, end the gates of hell shall not prevail againet if.’ My DEAREST BRETOREN—! stand up here before you this morning to address you for the last time as @ pastor of the Anglican or Protestant Episcopal Churoh, And since it would be an unmanly thing for me to turn my back on you, whom Ihave loved vo sincerely, and who, I know, have returned my love with equal sincerity, without some parting words of explanation and good will, I have forced upon myself the sad task, trusting to Divine Grace to carry me through with it, And, my breth-. ten, I throw myself upon gour generosity, inasmuch as T have had hardly any time to preparo the word- ing of this address, and the little time I have had has been distracted with pains in the head as well as pains in the heart, You know we have all loved our Anglican Church very dearly—none more so than I have done, It contains in it so muecn that commends itself to our religious and natural in- euncts, While, moreover, we have always regarded it asa branch, and that a very pure one, of the holy Catholic Church, we nave thought that its faith was the fatth Of the Charch in every age, and that the fo- called Reformation was 4 reformation not of faith but of mere mattors of ecclesiastical discipline—as, for example, the appeal to Rome, communion in one kind, celibacy of the clergy, services said in a dead language and suck like matiers—but that the faitn remainea the ancient faith, whole and undefiled, as Wt had once for all peen delivered to the saints, We Dave'been faithtully conscious that our Church was an asylum for many and congenial spirits, the chil- Oren of many generations of Protestants and Puri- tans, whom the Church was too weak to cast out of ber pale, while she was too indifferent to insist upon their dutiful submission in her pale. We have Also been equally conscious that our bishops fall very far short of, what our ideal Catholic bishop sught to be. They trucklo to public opinion and are the sleves rather.than the lords of thelr wealthy clergy and infueutial nity.” But we have always beliéved: that God thé Holy Ghost so overruled the united action that however diverse their sentiments might be aa private doctors or thoologii stil God would never aliow them to stullify thei ves aS 90 epiacopate or a Cburch. On this matter he ap} ea ‘with confidence to the past and the future, declar- tng our. Jeave the Church when it We have not willingness should Mave proved itself an heresy. ican Church er our eyes vo the fact that the ry 3 %; A STATE OF sCllISM, that is, that all intercommunion 1s gus- pended between that boay an the = an- cient Roman and Greek communions, But we have thought her atthiuae a justifiable ‘one, the natural result of Papal ageremioe po Atical Jesuitical Intrigue; and while with Dr. Pusey ‘We would have been willing as & body to submit pal supremacy, we Lave deprecated individual wevession, since, as Individuals, we have not ‘7 ourselves persoually culpable. Romam Catholics and orthodox Easterns have warned us that our ‘Churoh did not possess the gilt of indefectibility in faith, and we have as confidently retorted, “Time will prove.” My bretnren, time bas proved. Above ail wo prided ourselves upon the truth of tne vahdity of our order and the patent jact that our Church, 1p ber liturgy, articics and rituais undoubte taught the real presence o! our Lord undcr the forms of read and wine. Ob! how rudely the mask has ‘been torn from our ey: The bishops of this so- a Catholic Churcn meet together in Baltimore solemn counctl, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost, inaugurate their p) huge witn the celebration-of the most divine eucharist, This, at allevents, seems Cpr eipy 9 jought we ‘wander back to the great Bynods the undi- vided Church, We gaze with child-like pliea- sure on the stately procession; we listen with Beating heart to the ancient chant; we look with awe on the closed golden gates, behind winch tho bishop Is consecrating the bicssed sacrament; we think we hear the grand, old, uncompromisi words of the liturgy of St. Chrisostom, “Make ths Dread tne precious body of our Lora and God and Sav.our, Jesus Chriat, and this chalice the precious blood of our Lord avd God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.” We see in imaginatian the curling incense ascending and the prostrate, adoring muiutude of ‘the faitbiul, and we compare witu this the awiul reallty seen at Baltimore. My God! just think of lt! The service 13 over, the blessiug pronounced, ard bishops, with patens FULL OF CONSECRATED BREAD and chalices of consecrated wine are laughing and ‘talkimg, and rag aad ltd | while the body of the church @ scene of uproar, gossip and confusion. Such is the inauguartion of the so- Called Catholic Synod. The proceedings are on a par with its commencement, while its termination We nothing legs than suiciaal and tragical. This Synod turns out to be an Episcopal attack on the two grea: sacraments of the Gospel—Baptism and the supper of the Lord. Both are explained away in order to take to the Episcopal embrace, bot Catholics, Who are already suiliciently scandal. ized at our ecclesiastical attitude, but heretics, who deny all those truths which distiuguish Anglican- dem from other forms of Protestantism. Tne bish- Ops, with that wondertni oficial self-importance so innate in Anglican prelates, presume to define what the Catholic Church means, or rather doves not ‘mean, by the terms regeneration in baptism, They G@eciare that pdaptism does nov effect a moral change. Now of course the word “moras,” as ap- fed to the effect of baptism, was unknown tne Fathers of Trent, and by a charitable quibbie ‘the denial in the strictest sense of a moral change may be allowed to be not distinctly heretical, Bat alas! we know for whose reitef those words were uttered at all, Men who deny baptismal regenera- Uon, and, certalaly, the puviic iu general take the Genial of moral change to be an equivalent to the denial of the Catholic doctrine, which declares in the words of the Fat! of Trent, “By baptism we are signed with & character which can blotted out of our souls. God nothing in the regenerate there is po condemnation to those who sby baptism are truly buried with Chris, * * * But pulting of the old man an putting on the new, ‘who is created according to God, they are made jn- nocent and spotiess, pure, without hurt and beloved of Goi,”’ And the proceedings in the lower house of priests and laity are characterized by a like spir- Stual perversity. One reverend divine thinks the Episcopal Church 1s tottering because he had seen two or three clergymen prostrate befure the sacra- ment, and (only think of it |) their foreiieads to tho floor. among all thatcrowd of the clerical and lay re; tatives of the Episcopal Ohburch one aniy, on the last day of the Monvention; avowed his belief (all honor to him) in the Catnalic verity of the real presence. And what, brethren, 1s the tragical end of the whole mat- fer? A pastoral letter trom the Rent Ang these two astounding statements:—The doc- trine Whichchiefly attempts as yet Lo express Itself Dy rial im questionable and dangerous ways is connected with the Holy eucharist, Tne doctrine A NOVELTY 1% THEOLOGY. wi kaown 25 .Buchayistical aaoration ts un- doubiedly incwicated and encouraged by that ritual of posture yately dpiroduced among ug which finds MO warrant eur “Ome for the adminis- tration ‘of @ Holy Communion,” Although men may, aplaw! reasoning on Sivine a stories, argue’ plemselves int botn of tte Dc Mice and the. doctrine witel te ius. Scripture, eae Aside from the purposes the holy wacrauneast Wae sulted, ABA moat g F = 4 = Se SeweaOy. SerPeT Hen nakea tenes SETqUR St STae eer taney CKARMENAD SNS O—ERASEURENSSRE TORO. a Rees COP AEM FOTN PANT: URNS Ler Pekin WM ame re ee Ce See BPGE Tree Pe Oe Ce Oe ON ASE OS eS eee ee ee eee = E Baseery eee ES Ess + = SiaEs é 5 Fs Beet Bd + : . ges28 e z @ 8 >; sokss g fe egige BFEs 5 5 2s certainly unauthorizea py J NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, -1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, in their tendencies. To argue that the spuaat p Holy Com- such & between the woman of such an undedned and mys- terious presence and the awful error of adoring the elements themselves. Wherelore, if a teacher sug- ests this error by act of posture, he. places himeel} in ani to the docirine of this Churea ana the of God’s Word, and pals ty peril the souls of men. In the presence, therefore, of thts we call upon the ministers and members uf the Church to bear in mind that walle they should always cherish and exhibit that true and genulue reverence which devoutly es ian ‘moe ieee or, = Way MveTsRY great o recelvin thereof,” yet it is the bounden ty or 4 earn eh Nita PRG iss io Bat is even pene to inculcate and encourage supe! and The suggestion that the intercession of the Virgin Mary, or any over saint, is in any way to be sought Be our lease to te throne of ipostolic Fr inepeee canmot too strongly nor distunctly forbid in lis holy and all-suficient name. ‘To this miseravie hei jouncement every bishop in the Episcopal Church is committed. One, indeed, 18 said to have privately expressed a regret at a clergym-~’s supper tal but the ng High Chur. . Ig understood to have [prem & defended the u. vument in. a Church journ: not under his uwn name. And not one single Episcopal voice has been raised in it On the contrary, the conservative Bishop Whittingham, of High Church memory, inaiste that this pastoral i bindiug on the consciences of all the clergy as the unanimous voloe of the “teaching order” in the Church. Now, my dearest, dearest children, do pt ‘the ney Of these visivie facts’ as wr. Newman puts it, Come down from your lofty pedes- tal of imagination. Blow away the phantom of 4 FUTURE COUNCIL of undoubted Christendom, and condescend to look atfacts. Ana itis a fact, as true as the fact of my speekin® to you, that had any bishop or number of bishops given vent to such an utterance in the days of undivided Christendom concerning the eucharist, id the Mother of Gi they would posed, degraded excommunicated, So nat, as # matter of 1act we are in communion With heretics; we teach by the authority of heretics. We not only disobey the upostolie precept, “with Buch @ one not to eat,” but we even receive noly communion at the hands of tose who acknowledge that they do not so “discern the Loru’s body” as to feel they may worship Him there present. “Ab! What communion hath ight with darkness, what fellowship hath he that believeth with the unfaita- ful!? Remember the disciple whom Jesus loved, who, ag an old man, never preached anything else but “little children love one another.” When he was bathing one day he was told that a heretic was in the water with him, and go artxious was he to getaway that he forgot the laws of modesty and propriety. Yes, in communion with heretics! { am told 10 the church dedicated to the holy commumon in this city the pastor, on last Christmas day, com- Municated a Unitarian, and it is @ matter of notoriety that Bishop Potter recently admittea a Presbyterian clergyman 10 holy communion in St. Thomas’ church, Fifth avénie, going forward ancok nds with hint at tue altar rau before the wae 8 go oD bbep tons oe meererne peeet ere, my brethren, go, episcopacy, bap- tismal Tezeneranoh Aha fhe” febr Traserce, White extreme unction has been lost for turee hundred ears, and the less said about holy matrimony and he divorce system the better. And in speaking of extreme unction [admit that its practice has not wholely died out. It 1 still admimstered now and then. - Still, a8 @ matter of fact it 1s not recognized in the Prayer Book, nor 1s there any authorized form for its administration, and tts use ik limited to one clergymau, say.in @ hundred, ‘Tne plea for this MANIFEST. DISOBEDIENCE to God's word ‘is, that unction was one of the mi- Taculous prerogatives of the Aposties. But the sacred text says, ‘is any sick let him call,” not the Aposties, but the ordinary presbyters of the Church. And as for tne pretence that unction was ry ative inst death, 1t Is ap. ny Christians would ere Ia a plea put forth by. High Churchmen that the {refed letter js not nodes bat thie does not alter its hereay. Heresy loea not require synodical sanction to make it heresy, How refreshing it ts to turn trom the babel of Protestantism to the Church which says, and nas recently suld mo hag hah “] know in whom 1 have belie aud ‘am persuaded that I shall keep that which I have committed unto Him until that day.” And, ° indeed, dear brethren, I myself, who am small andof no Teputation, a mere p grain, in tne sand, @ drop in the ocean—I thank God I know it, too—I profess my- self a thorough convert to e of Papal su- aos accepts the bags on tot CHRYSOSTOM. .. she san A ce a The Fourth General Council Chalcedony ‘composed chiedy of Greek prelates, committed steel! hi od: pronouncement to these words: he thrice-blessed and all-honored Peter, who is the Tock and basis of the Catholic Church and the foun- dation of the orthoox faith.’? Now Angustine and Chrysostom were both in their graves, aod their in- terpretations must have been known to the Fathers of the Council; still this Council, which we accept as infallible, has forever set all doubt at rest by aQirming that Peter was therock nat only o1 the Oatholic Church (as the Latin Onurch was called), but algo the foundation of the orthodox faith, as the Greeks were wont to 8) of ‘their religion. ‘Then again, as @ matter of tact, St. Uhrysos who 1s quoted as against Papal supremacy, when he was aepeees, by @ CAS of his provincial bishops, hinseif appealed to Rome. Brethern mine, Please acknowledge (as I said before), the urgency of these historical facts, I brethero, astonished that others should not ree these things do; but I gnow bow blinded with prejudice I have been, and as it has been with me so itis and will be with others, “Seeing they do not see and hearing they do not comprehend,” and as 1 ap- pealed to history, I caunot but acknowledge that there are MANY DIFFICULTIES, But there are no difficulties in the Roman ah to be compared with the diMicul- tles in the Anglican. Roman Catho- lies may differ in matters of taste, opinion or Policy, we are all at sea on the question of each and every sacrament, while the 8 ee Bishop of the whole American beret jurch (the Bishop of Ohio) is kuown to think episcopacy the most valuable and useful form of testantism, but certainly not of divine origin or essential to trne Chrisuanity, But, my bretheren, you will say “What of papal infalhivility?” I confess it has for me agreat cnarm. Our Lord is, of courae, the head of His Churen; but he vicar upon earth. The visible church muat have a Visiple head, the imniallible Church an infallible head, The Pope cannot err munistertally, acting as the head of the Church, though as a private doctor or theologian he may err and commit errors of judgment in the exercise of ecclesiastical discipline. Our treasure is in an earthen vessel, and, therefore, abuses are to be ex. pected, and the head of the Church is sucha head that he may not, for instance, say to the feet, “I have no need of you,”? nor yet may. the feet say to the nead, “I have no need of thee.” Yet this is what the Angiican Church did say when severed herselfirom Rome, King Henry VIII. all his successors since, too, have most positively told the Pope, contrary to the Scriptural command, “[ have no need of thee.” Deny this if you can. “Ah!’you lament, ‘ond 80 you are going back upon your dear old Anglican Charch?’” My breth- erp, no such thing. Iam no fanatic. 1 have neither torn off collar, BURNED MY BIBLE nor destroyed my cassock. 1 leave the Anglican Church, thanking God that there are so many sweet souls in her communion, striving after Catholic unity. Of all forms of Protestautism Angiicanism isthe hignest, There is more good among Angii- cans than among Prosbyterlans, more good among Presbyterians than among Baptists, and so op through the grades of Congregationalism, Unita rianism, &c., &¢c. But high above them all on the rock stands the Unurch of Peter. And if you ask me why I join the Roman communion in preference to any other, I will answer as Father Ignatius Speucer did, who, formerly an Anglican clergyman, died @ Catholic priest. ‘Father, why do you always travel third class?’’ “Because,’? rejoined he, “there is no fourtb.”” And so 1 join the Roman communion because there 1s nothing higher 1 can join, Itis the genuine and perfect form of Christianity, For it was not without reason our Lord said to Pe- ter, ‘Satan hath desired to have you (the apostles) that he mag sift you as wheat; but] nave prayed for thee that thy faith fail not,” And as a matter of tact the faith of the Roman Church never has failed, never will fail, for He, who is the truth, hay promised thatthe gates Of hell shall not prevail against it Diverse no doubt in discipline, as di- verse as the characters and temperaments of Uatho- lic nations, but one in faith. communion and obedi- eice. There 18, Of course, nothing good which can- hot be abused; but I am no more responsibie tor Roman than im the Anglican 45 @ matter of taste and principle I had rathe: bending nt fi joo 0 Sink Tao nding her kn @ biack-faced imag Virgin in Spain than go to tre vestry crppoend ot Trinity church, New York, and find’a dlack bottle labelled “consecrated wine.” And if we are toid of ap old Irish woman who sald a prayer for tne sake of the indulgence attached to it, accompanied ‘With curses for those Jor whom she prayed, this is not more amusing than the traditional old woman of Anglican Jame, wno presented herself tne fourth ume jor confirmation, because, she said, “it was good for the rheumatiz,’’ “] believe in one huly Catholic Apostolic Charch.” Ask yourselves is the Anglican Chu<ct one? Iris either’ one with itself mor with any otuer vod, Is she holy? Ste has not canon- an single saint simce the Reformation, Is she catholic? No, Merely pational. {8 she apos- folic? No one acceph3 her orders but herselt; and many of her greatest jyrnts 40 wot believe in their necessity atail, One ward more and J have done, It was not without come insight into the future of Christianity that our Lord spoke @ parable compar. ing a house built upon the sans, cou SHIFTING, CHANGING, @) the merey ps Wind aad Wave .ty hue WVIES Duly upon the rock. What is therock? A council held iniallible by your own Ohurch teaches you, graeme ons Peter, ae om, this rock,” " &c, 4 not my course, or the slanderous tongues that will lash’ mo when this thi ig publicly known, frighten you back into testantiam. If Roman Vatholl- olism is 80 manifestly an error it will bear examina tion. Just exercise your common sense, and, as you would do in @ matter of business speculation, search and look; consult teachers on ih sides, and, like people of common sense, judge between them, never forgetting the necessity of prayer and the fact that neither jatner nor mother, nor any social or worldly interests are to be preferred to the sweet will of our only Lord and Goa aud Sa- viour, Jesus Obrist, MRS. WHARTON. Review of the Ketchum Murder Prosecution Case. Anticipation of an Acquittal—What May Come Afterwarde—The Van Ness Indictment— The Prisoner and Her Enemies, ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 21, 1872, ‘There are 20 Many peculiar features sorrouading the trial of Mrs. Wharton that I hardly know where to begin and where to leave of recounting them— 80 many that cannot be reconciled by sound and legitimate reasoning that it seems vain to attempt to discuss them. But in the quiet of this day, when Deught of the unpleasant surroundings which have Gathered around this quiet eity ior so many long weeks are about me, I have cause to think and time to indite something that may be of !mterest, THE OASE IN ITS INCEPTION AND PROGRESS. 1t is now nearly eight weeks since the trial first began, and if we may nave any belief in human actions it is fast approaching a speedy and happy termination, The whole proceedings have been draped with such strange and dramatic surroundings that every step bas been [ull of deep and abiding interest. No life trial was ever more 80, The fearful game has been played with & desperation rarely, if ever be- fore, known, and while it nas been going on the world has looked in breathless ‘suspense for the re- Bull r THE ISSUE CLOSE AT HAND, In less than forty-eight hours from the present writing the end w.ll have undoubtedly come, The result can be no longer a matter of doubt, WHAT MAY FOLLOW, EVEN AFTER AN ACQUITTAL, It is safe to assert that the priscner will be pro- nounced wholly guiltless, but whether that verdict of the jury of her countrymen will send her forth from the prison house to ner once happy, but now desolate, home 1s matter*which depends upon the action of thosé Wid. havé 80 bitterly pulided hér during the long and tedious inveatigauon: which 1s now fast drawing to a close. THE VAN NESS MURDER INDICTMENT. ‘There 1s another indictment pending against this unfortunate lady for ap attempt to murder by pol- son Mr, Eugene Van Ness, who was at one time her confidential business agent. That case remains to be disposed of as soon as this 1s deci@ed, either by a noile prosequi trial or couunuance to the spring term of the court, What course wil be pursued may be inferred from the vindictive manner in which the case now almost closed has been prosecuted, It 1 safe to edict that it will be continued until the April rm of court, and that Mrs. Wharton will be jected to tue fatc of remaining tn. jail unvil c Ume—a piece of unjust ution—if she 18 unable to give the necessary bail, which will be ex- orbitant, if one may Judge from the uujust acts of those who have been Jurthering the present prose- eution, If such is the case there is much that may be said im relation to this Van Ness case which is now under the strict banu of secrecy, but which will be of deep ‘terest to the public mind and upon which I aball Dave occasion Wo speak in a future letter, THE FINAL SCENE IN COURT. It is expected that with the meeting of the Court to-morrow there will be an immense crowd of people from js different surrounding citiee to wit- hess the closing scenes, which w' regnant wito an interest such as has never efore mitached minal prosecution in this country. But weal, she und uotediy Section! yan ho acquittal, as oul sho man e- @iate and unconditional release remains in the hands of those who have treated her with little mercy oF even exact justice. DARING BANK BREAKING. Five Burgiare Break Into a Trenton Bank and Blindfold One Watchman—Alarm Given By Another—Escape of the Rob- bers—2100,000 Stolen. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 21, 1872. A bold attempt was made this evening to rou the Trenton Banking Company, Warren street, Tne burglars obtained an entrance about half-past six, ued and blindfolded Swem, one of the watchmen, as soon as he entered, and then went to work; but Bayles, the other watchman, entered the bank by the front door about half-past eight, and was caught hold of by the burglars, He made a short scume at the door, which attracted the attention of @ lady and gentleman passing at the time, who gave the alarm. The burglars succeeded in fasting tmelr escay leaving tools of all kinds u: i their profession and papers of the bank strewn in all directions, The officers of the bank are en- gaged in searching to see how much has been taken, but are unable to say at present. Crowds of people assembled round the pank when the alarm was given, and stood there fora long ume, eager to hear if anything had been taken, It is ree ported that five men were engaged in the robbery. ‘The officers examining the bank found that a number of private boxes had been rifled of United States bonds. Thus far they have discovered twelve boxes opened. The loss may be $100,000. The burglars got in the vault by prying off the door. The private boxes were in this vault, The funds of the bank were not taken, The burglars left a trav- elling bag containing tools and counterfeit coin. People are running to the bank from ali points to know about their private boxes. One of the burg- lars was a very tall man, with o bald head, The police were within two minutes oi them, A LARGE PIPE FOUNDRY BURNED. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 21, 1872. At four o'clock this morning the Union Pipe Foundry of Dennis Long & Co., on Fulton street, near Preston, was destroyed by fire, Loss about $175,000; insurance only $10,000, as follows:—On the builaing—Springfield (Mass.) Fire and Marine, $2,000; North British and Mercantiie, $4,000; Home, New York, $2,000, On machinery—Springfield Fire and Marine, $600; North British aud Mercantile, $1,000; Llome, New York, $500, ‘The pipe foundry was One of the most extensive in the United States, having -a capacity Sor 27,000 tous of metal annually, the main building and wings covering nearly 150 by 210 feet, anu was being run to its utmost capacity, having extensive coutracts to fill, Nearly all the costly machinery was destroyed. Tne foundry was located where there was great diMoulty in getting water. The fire engines hai to be run to the river, and the hose had to be spliced in order to reach the burning building. ‘Tnere was considerable wind, blowing the sparks ana burning brands towards a lumber yard, and a number of frame buildings east of the foundry, and that portion of the city was in great danger for a while, The foundry was supposed to be fireproof: hence the small insurance. The fire was the reeuit Ol an accident, and was discovered by persons out- side, the watchman in the building being asleep. The firm has lost by fire during the past eigat years nearly half a million doiiars, A MURDEROUS LUNATIO, An Insane German Shoots His Sister and Her Two Children and Attempts Suicide. LovISvVILLE, Ky., Jan, 91, 1872, Atten o'clock this morning a young man named Theoaore Thorn in a fit of insanity shot his sister, Mre. Green, and her two daughters, Wilnelmina, aged twelve years, and Larmina, aged eight years, ‘The two former were shot in the stomach, and will probably die, The latter was wounded in the hip, and will recover, Thorn also attempted to shoot his brother-in-law and then put the pistol to his own head and fred. The builet glanced, inflicting @ painful, but not dangerous, wound. Thorn is now in hospital, He will be arraigned in the City Court lo-morgow morning, where application will be made to send him to @ Junatic asylum. Aji are respect- able Germans. Green keeps a grocery at the foot of City street and lives io the rooms above, Where the tragedy occurred, FATAL AQOIDENT IN A BREWERY IN WILLIAMSBURG. Conrad Bersch, @ native of Germany, 20 years of age, accidentally fell through @ hatchway in the brewery of Scharnagel & Reitzner, Williamsburg, on Friday evening last, and sustained injuries that proved jatal, The remains of the uniortunate young man were properiy interred yesterday by directron of Coroner Whiienw). The deceased was employed eae brewer at the me he received the fatal WASHINGTON. OUR POLICY IN THE PACIFIC. Japen Seeking Closer Union with the United States and a Place in the Interna- tional Arbitration Councils. The Mikado to Mediate for Us in the Corea. Admiral Rodgers in the Asiatic Squadron. THE VICE PRESIDENCY. Colfax, Wilson and Bla‘ne Fighting—Lit- tlejohn, of New York, Looming Up. CUBA AND SPANISH SLAVERS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1872, Rear Admiral Jenkius to Kelieve Rear Adwiral Rodgers in the Asiatic Complica- tions in the Enet. The rumor printed in the HERALD some days ago, to the effect that Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins has been ordered to relieve Rear Admiral John Rodgers of the commana of the Asiatic squadron is not only weil founded, but it is an event of more than ordinary significance, Our government has been without a well defined policy in the Eust, even the punishment of the Coreans being considered a victory barren in its results and perhaps disastrous in its consequences, The desire of Rear Admiral Rodgersto return home vo look after his private business gave the Secretary of the Navy an Opportunity to do justice to an excellent officer, who ought to have received the command of the European squadren when Rear Admiral Alden was designated for that position; but the Asiatic squadron is considered at the Navy Depart- ment, as it is Iu fact, the most important fleet in the service, and Rear Admiral Jenkins’ appointment was made out of regard for the importance o1 the place and his own peculiar fitness for its duties, On the ist of Febiuary the order relleving Rear Admiral Rodgers and designating Rear Admiral Jenkins as nia successor will be issued, and the lat- ter will sail from San Francisco about the lst of Maroh, relieving Rear Admiral Kodgers upon his arrival at Yokohama. Rear Admiral Jenkins wilt travel without ostentation, going out on the regular mall steamer, and taking with him only anaid and acilerk. He willretain the Colorado as his fagship, but his squadron will be increased by the addition of three or four light draught vessels, which can penetrate the rivers of Clina and suc- cessfully pursue the Chinese pirates, China and its dependencies, including Corea and Japan, Borneo, Sumatra and Siam, are the princt- p2l conntries with which the Asiatic squadron 1s brought in contact. Of these Japan and Siam are especially friendly; but China, through the Oorean diMculties and from otner causes, has been gradu- ally Cooling in its favor toward America, tli! it has at last assumed an attitude which is al- most hostile, and war with that country is considered more imminent than with either Russia or Spain, Rear Admiral Jenkins will be furnishea with a synopsis of all-the despatches to our Minister.t@ China and the instructions to our fleet, which in ‘way explain our relations with the Eastern matiqns; s0 that he may go to his new command tnowoughly informed on every point with which he may #e compelied to deal. On the arrival in this city of Minister de Long, from Japan, which will be-In a {cw days, he will havea conference with our former and the present Japanese Ambassador, and a defined policy is expected to be the result. It is the design of our government to return the extreme {friendship of Japan by a like friendliness on our part, the coming of the present Japanese Embassy being considered & more im- portant event than the visit of tne Russian Grand Duke, and the fostering of pleasant relations with this singularly active and progressive people as of equal moment with the consummation of the Treaty of Washington. We look to the friendly offices. of Japan to restore good feeling with the Coreang, and it is expected that this im- portant mission will be undertaken and accom- plished by the Japanese government. Tne trouble we have had with the Eastern nations through 11 considered acts of hostility, and the growing im- portance of our Pacitic trade, have both operated to make our government careful in American inter- course with the Asiatic peoples, Rear Admiral Jenkins goes out as the exponent of the new policy, and he will take care never to interfere to the disadvantage of any of the Eastern nations and see that they are not wronged or oppressed either by the representatives of our government or citi- vens of the United States. His task is considered a very dificult one, and but for the friendship of Japan it would be almost hopeless, It is under- stood that the Chinese are placing constructions on the Burlingame Treaty in regard to merchants and missionaries which were not anticipated when it was made, and it is admitted that the latter are a source of great trouble and annoyance both to the Chinese and to us. These diMcuties are to be obvi- ated by treating the Eastern nations as a pari of the great civilized human family and to allow no violent or distasteful inroads upon their religion, simply because they are pagans, In other words, the Navy Department has resolved to enforce the golden rule in the East, and to allow no Biblical despoiling ofthe heathen, But it becomes @ question whether Great Britain and tne other Western nations, in- cluding the Unitea States, will submit to the forced constractions of the Burlingame Treaty, and the relations of China with England, France, Holland and Germany may be complicated, owing to the backward steps which the Chinese are taking. Our government is anxious that there shall be no inter- ference with our commercial privileges and no ob- stacle thrown in the way of our shipping interests io the Pacific. Ever since Mr, Seward’s famous speech in the Senate twenty years ago, recounuing the advantages which would accrue to us from an en- lightened and generous intercourse with the nations of the East, and pointing out the Pacific Ocean as the future highway of American commerce, the idea of @ broad and comprehensive policy has been crystallizing in the minds of our leading states- men, but this is the first really intelligent effort to- ward giving it force and direction. The selection of Rear Admiral Jenkins to com- mand the Asiatic squadron was made solely with this object in view, and he wiil go out not only thoroughly informed on tne whole question of Asiatic and American intercourse, but for all practical purposes more as an ambassador than as @ Daval officer of the government, Great judgment and skili will be required on our part to prevent troubie with China, and these he is believed to pos- sess in an eminent degree. His familtarity with our navigation laws, his recognized abiity as an executive oficer and his ready sympathy with tie spirit of American progress, a3 well as nis claims on account of rank and efficient services, com- mended him as the fittest person to be entrusted with these important duties, and the most benefl- clal results are expected, It is understood that Rear Admirat Boggs, who Nias just been relieved from ihe command of the European squadron, will succeed Rear Admiral Jenkins as Secretary of the Lighthouse Board, ‘The duties of Rear Admiral Jenkins, commanding our fleet in Asiatic waters, are likely to be effectively simplified by the provisions of the tfeaty whicn it is expected the imperial Embassy from Japan, now on its way to this city, will negotiate, Other important resuits are sure to follow the anticipated action of Japan and the United States, and the probable character of these are being discussed here, Not the least significant of these resulis looks, it 19 pre- summed, wards leneppIps (hg hold of Rossa in the eastern portion of Asia, The forcible possession of the island of Saghalien by Russia, whicn is claimed and was long held by Japan as one of her own de Pendencles, is a matter that may come up for arbi- tration before the international diplomatic councils into which Japan will now ask formal admission, The growing iriendly relations we hold with Japan, sure to be strengthened by the new treaty about to be made, will, it is fully expected, have a per- ceptible effect in lessening the present supreme commercial influences Great Britain possesses in China, Japan, Siam and the Malayan Archipelago. Our commerce with Japan ts at present the third in importance, Great Britain aud France being first and second. Germany is next to us in extent. The War for the Vice Presidency—Wilson’s Friends Savage with Colfax ine—Butler Wild with Wilson—De Witt C, Litejoha Talked Of. The friends of Senator Wilson are ourspoken in thetr denunciation of Mr. Colfax m again putting him- self forward for the Vice Presidency. They say that when he retired from political life and announced his political ambition as satisfied, that he did so With such a great flourish cf trumpets that it 1s indecent for him to nominate himself now and expect the whole republican party to quietly acqui- esce in bis self-nomimated canditiacy, They are equally severe on Blaine for playing into the hands of Colfax, and declare that while New England ought to have the candidate that Blaine could -scarcely have carried bis own State against Wil- son. It 1s generally asserted In high quarters that while the President himself will take no part in the selection of the second name for the national ticket, that the feeling of leading members of the Cabinet and other persons near the White House is against Colfax and in favor of some other man east of the Alleghanies. If a suitable caadl- date from New York could be found he would likely to be encouraged by the special friends of the Exe- cutive, and some of the shrewder politicians are beginning to suggest the name ofMr, De Witt C. Lit- Uejohn, It is not likely this suggestion will amount to much, but those who are talking of him affect to believe that he can make a very effective fight in the Philadelphia Convention, ‘That there will be a wevere battle over the Vice Presidency is not doubted. Wilson’s iriends are determined on car- rying him through, while Butler 1s making open war on him and declares that he must be beaten. Cc and the Spanish Slave Drivers’ Demand for Interference. ‘The Cuban leaders who have been in this city for some time seeking to induce Congress to recognize thew republic as a belligerent power are beginnivg to despair of any such result, and are gradually be- coming convinced that they must make their appeal ona broader basis than they have yet occupied, and to demand direct interference. The recent enslave- ment of 25,000 Chinese coolies in Cuba and the iguding of several cargoes gf slaves on that island during the last year will be the principal arguments they will bring to bear upon Congress, Grant Dropping St. Dominge. It was sald recently at tne Executive Mansion that the President does not again intend to urge the pur- chase of St. Domingo, Vongress having ali the argu- ments and facts in the case, and therefore fully understanding 1t, , The Mexican Claims Commission. In the Joint Commission of the United States and Mexico on saturday the Commissioners annonuced opinions in forty-one American and six Mexican claims, all of which they rejected for various rea- sons, The following important order was an- nounced:—That commissioners now give notice that all claims by the United States va. Mexico, and all claims by the latter government va. the former, not disposed of before that date, will, on the 1st day of April next, be entered and heard, whereupon the government wil! proceed immediately to dispose of them in obedience to the requirements of the Convention. The Wisconsin Canale—Extensiou of Time To S Be Granted. The House Committee on Public Lands have agreed to report favorably on the bills for the ex- tension of the time for the completion of tne Port- age Lake and Lake Spperior ship canal and the Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michi- gan ship canal in Wisconsin, each of which 1s designed to shorten navigation about two hun dred miles, The land grants dependent on the pro posed extensjon of time include several hundred thousand acres of pine barrens, valuable mainly for their timber, in the district of country recently burned over, and the committee are largely in- fluenced in their action by @ desire to afford employment to the inhabitants of Peshtigo and other places in the desolated district, in cutting this timber, the proceeds of which are to go tothe canals. The committee are now en- gaged in the preparation of @ general bill codifying and revising all existing laws which relate to homestead and pre-emption settlement. Babcock and Porter’s Defence. The oMcers on duty at the Executive Mansion stand ready with a mass of verbal and documentary evidence, which will be presented to the Custom House Investigating Committee upon its return to Washington, and which, it ts sata, will compietely and unanswerably refute any testimony or reports detrimental to their character. San Francisco Immigration Returns. According to returns made to the Bureau of Statistics it appears that during the quarter ended December last, there arrived at the port.o/ San Francisco 1,866 immigrants, of whom 1,696 were males and 163 females. The nationalities of the im- migrants were as follows:—England, 48; Ire. land, 67; Scotland, 23; France, 8; Germany, Mexico, 126; Australia, 661; Tabit!, 16; Chile, 4; Peru, 7; China, 636—of which 610 were males and 26 females; Vancouver's Island, 189; Sandwich Islands, 66. Their occupations were:—Clergymen, 3; clerks, 42; cooks, 3; farmers, 60; laborers, 1,623, merchants, 64: mechanics, 266; miners, 133; mariners, 16; physi- clans, 8; without occupation, 267, Their ages were:—Under fifteen years, 132; over fifteen and -under forty, 1,583; forty years and over, 160. Deaths on the voyage, 4 males and 1 female, Tue Union Pacific Track Clear of Snow. Delegate Hooper, having gone to Utah on business connected with the admission of the Territory into the Union as a State, is on his return to Washing- ton, having on Friday telegraphed the latter fact from Omaha, saying he arrived there on time, and that the railroad was clear of snow and ta good running order. The War Voluateers and the United States, It appears from the, Treasury records that the amounts refunded to States for expenses in raising volunteers, from 1861 to 1872, are $39,080,301. The balance claimed on suspended accounts ts over five million doliars, New York has filed a claim of $364,000 since the 2d of January, speaker Blaine’s Sick Child. ‘The symptoms of Speaker Blaine’s child seem to be more favorable to day than heretofore. Venezuclan Conaul Recognized. The President has recognized Florencio Ribas as Consul of Venezuela at New York. COLORADO, Meeting of. Farmers and Stock Ralsers at Denver. DENVER, Jan, 20, 1872, The Stock Growers’ Association, of Colorado, met here iast evening, and was addressed by Dr, Latham, of Wyoming. Reports from all parts of the country show very little loss of sheep or cattle this winter, although it has been the severest yet known in the Territory. ON THE FENCE. The Farmers’ Club also held @ meeting in the halt of the Legislature on the subject of fencing in the growing crops. Resolutions were adopted stat- that one per cent o1 the cost of fencing will pay ine expense of herding the cattle to protect the crops, aud"thus enable the jarmers to employ the capital in otver investments for the development of the country. sy also state that capital expended in fences 18 dead property, requiring considerable annual expense for repairs, and that the fences in Tuots cost about ten Umes ag much as the value of ail the catsle In the State, DEATH ON THE TRACK. Hopson, N. Y., Jan. 21, 1872 ‘This forenoon an unknown man was run over and killed by the engine John M, ‘Tobin, on the Hudson River Raliroad, between Germantown and Living- ‘The was nothing on his person to fuaoate | me residenoe, except a curd on wan ‘was written We hog 4 ‘Third street, Albany.’ Tne body was Brought 10 is city and placed yecelying vault by Vorouer Baulilans 8 AND HIS BRIDE. BOTT The Mystery of Murderer Bott’s Marriage. An Interview with Mrs. Wilson, Living in Res tirement in Paterson—What “Lizzie” Saya About Botts and the Widow ‘Julia Jen- kins” —She Stands by Her Affidavit and Refers to Joe McGorey, of Newark— Joe Turns the Tables on Her How- ever—What He is Willing to Make Oath To—The Bill in the Legislature. There is @ chance that Botts, the murderer of “pe? Halstead, will not be executed on Friday. next. The chance, it 1s true, is so slender that it may, be termed hairoreatn, 19 Only one out of @ thousand, that he will nang; but sul there is a chance, and on that chance a great deal of public debate is now being had in Newark and throughout New Jersey. This chance, slender as it 18, 1s divided by two. First, it is the merest chance if the Legisiatare passes the bill to be introduced granting tnd Easex Court of Oyer and Terminer power to re-! open the case, and then, even though it should pass, standing in the way 1s the chance of thé Court’s consklering it a ‘proper duty to avail itself of the power which would be granted. Leaving, this question within a question, there looms api another question, which some consider of real and others of no consequence, except as & mater of, mere information, This question is:— WAS ROTTS MARRIED TO MRS. WILSON? The HERALD last Thursday printed the aMdavit of the tatter, emphatically declaring that she had! Rot been, Subsequently Botts reiterated nis agser-! tion that she was, and declared that if opportunity, wasgiven him he could prove it. Now, there if ot ashadow of doubt but that Botts was marred: to some woman in September, 1864, under the name. of Julia Jenkins. He declares that the latter was the name assumed by Mrs, Wilson on the occasion of the nuptial ceremony, and was used to shield her from the consequences of marrying another while her present husband was still alive without having been divorced. With a view to the ascertainment of further particulars a WERALD reported. ferrettet out Mrs, Wilson's stopping place on Saturday. Her son, a young man of about nineteen, is employed im one of the great express offices on Broadway, and Was first visited, He is quite a well- looxing, well-spoken, bright and intelli. gent young man, who, while fuly realizing the enormity of the part his motner, bore in the tragedy, is nevertheless full of the milk of human kindness for her. “She 1s my mother,’ he sald, “and 1 would be worse than human to re. ject her, however great her fault may ve.” He gave the reporter his mother’s address, with the caution that she might not care to see any one on} such a mission, She had all along shown a decided! aversion, since the trial, to saying anything thao! might injure Botts. Onto Paterson proceeded the! reporter. Mrs, Wilson is stopping with Mra, Van’ Riper, @ married sister, residing on Clinton street, MKS, WILSON WAS FOUND at home, and presently appeared in the parlor, where the visitor had been seated by het sisters She is thirty-eight years of age, medium-sized, of' rather slender form, and altogether ts rather a gen- teel-looking Woman, Not at uli handsome, she 19, nevertheless, not witnont attractions of face and figure, and years ago might have veen quite looking, She was dressed neatly in a biack Labrie, trimmed with lace. in her manner she 1s easy an: self-| |, and would pass among a. large class Of people as bemy very littlylike. £8 faras personnes | ony she is iimmeasurabiy the murderer’s superior. ihe readily answered every question put to her, ana throughout the interview manitested a desire to avoid, as sue herself said, “saying anything whicay might seem cruel or hard about Botts; he had to r enough.’ TIER STORY. is as follows as regards the igi = gestion: </ She first knew Botts, she said, In 1806, the year, President Lincoln was killed, a year after the date of Botts’ marriage to ‘Julia Jenkins.” She hi sited ny, she admitted, v tie Falls in his com) but passed through it The woman Jenkin she i, Was a New York widow whom Botts ad! up With on one of his sprees. Botts her all about Julta—how oa one occasion that, he had bought a set of jewelry for her ina store om Broad street, Newatk, and how that she finally, Yan away from him, carrying with her Presontal and his money. Once after Mra. Wilson acqu! Botts’ acquaiutance Julia returned and asked hina‘ Jor money, he had told her, She was unable to tell anything about the woman's whereabouts pow. She denied tue story which had been circulated’ Fegarding her having gone back to a life of shame, siuce the murder she suid she had been living with her father, and where she 13 now, with the excep- Uon of three weeks she spent In Pnitadeiphia with a married sister. The story that she bad been keeping Improper company with ‘A CERTAIN WELL-KNOWN NEWARKER she denounced as made out of whole cloth, aid} had gone to church frequently with her sons and out with her brother-in-law, and was now solely} desirous of doing as near right as she could. she knew she had been very bad, and was the cause of| all the trouble, aud expected to meet with sight charity from tne world, Sno would try to bear it.) With emphasis she said sue would freely give be own life up if the sacrifice wonld undo what had oeen done. She said that Botts had never, given her children anything except once, whea she left him, he gave her son a silver watch, with a view to getting her cack. His children ade mitted to her that she had done more for-them than their own mother. In to the question whether Halsted really had @ Fs. she said, “Nos if he had there would be a different story to tell.” Halsted might easily have escaped, but ne was not the kind of mau to hide under @ bed. She nevei loved Botts, she said, and once when she lett him said he was satistied, and told her the sooner shd went the better. She went to the juil to see him » consequence of his unportunities that her so doin, would SAVE HIS SOUL. As regards his giving cr his property, he had, she said, nothing lo give, She bad stopped going 10 or writing lim, as she found it made Bim Do bet. ter, and only took tits mind irom his spiritual need, She pli lim, but the law was that a person who committed murder would have to aviae by the law. Regarding the book which Botts was reported to be getting up tobe published aiter his death, she said she understood it was to be for the benellt Layton, Botts’ biographer. She thought such a book ought not to be published, as it might implicate innocent persons und do @ good deal of harm, } In connection with the Jutta Jenkins marriage Mrs, Wilson referred the reporter jor corrovoratiom to Mr. Joseph McGorey, who keeps an oyster saloon’ on South Orange avenue, Newark, Leaving Ars. Wilson, the HERALD au proceeded to the depot,’ Intending to take the train jor Newark, but the train had started considerably wuead o/ tune, Jeaviog him and a score of other people ia a condition of mind bordering a iaanity. The only. roast ie the neglect of the time table was that 801 ry re nad ‘was in ahurry. The people bound for Newar! to get there via New York. Arrived in Newark, the reporter was soon at JOB M’GOREY’S, “Joe is a short, chunky temperance man, who formerly kept the Provost House, on Broad street, above tie Morris and Essex Railroad depot. While preparing some of his best bivalves he readily tered into conversation with the reporter on the subject of Botts without knowing the calling of hig visitor, “Joe said he thought there was very ttle chance for Botts, but Bows, ought not to be hanged, He was plied vigorously with questions, and th result of bis auswers was tnat Botts came vo lu place the day he was married with his wie and wanted a room. Supposing that Botts was not telling the truth about his companion’s relation to lim, ho said:—"No, George; I’ve got po such place as thatg this ain’t your Wite.’ George convinced him byt showing hit and Mrs. Joe tis marriage certiticates ‘They stald at Joe’s place aweek. Botts brought his children there, and one day during bly absence his wife ordered a cab, had her truck pug .on it, and when asked Il she was gomg away she replied, “Yes; 1 married Botts, but lm damned it married tis children.” When Botts returnedj he fore about like ® crazy man and leit, too, Joe never saw botts’ wile afterwards, Since the trial, however, some one came {nto hig place one day and remarked that Mrs. Wilson was in Miller's saloon near by. Desirous of seeing if be could recognize her, Joe dropped in with ‘en ace! quaintance ana took'a seat where, to ase his own words, he could ‘geta good, square look at her.’? She was drinking Wine, he thinks, witna man. 1i¢ says he is wilung to go on the stand and SWEAR THAT SHE and Botts’ yunaway wife ure identical. A polices man 8aW the woman at thesame tine and pomted her out ag Mrs, Wilson. Joe was never positive om the matter, He said that he had visited Botts since his sentence and asked him why he hado’t told thas she was his wife. Botts implorea him to say nothing about 1t; he had promised her to keep 16 secret. In the méantime It is not thought provabie that, even il true, it would help Botts any, as such @ marriage Would be uniawful, Mrs. Wilsou’s hus band being still alive and she not divorced, : “JOB PATALITY, Four Boys Drowned in the Acustmet Rivers New Beprorp, Mass, Jan. 21, 1872 ; About twelve o'clock to-day seven voys atiempted to cross the Acushnet River dn the ice above the bridge, Amd when they were between Will's Poins and Isle of Marsh the ice broke, and two sons of William Wiikinson, aged respectively pine Cd eleven yeara, and two sons of William Lng eR respectively ten and thirteen years, were drowned. ‘The other boys were rescueé,