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4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, February 11—Quinquagesima Sunday. Religious Services To-Day i in New York and Brooklyn. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE, Religious Notes, Personal and General. Services To-Day. Rev, Dr. Merrill Richardson will preach in the New England Congregational church this morning on “Our Life Work.” Rev. David Mitchell will preach this morning and evening in the Canal street Presbyterian church. Rey. P. L, Davies will preach in Berean Baptist church this morning on “The Two Units.” Bishop Potter will administer confirmation in the Ohapel of St. Augustine, Trinity parish, this even- ing. Rev. J, B. C. Beaubien will officiate im the morning. Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson will preach in Christ church this morning and evening. “Tne Romantic rheory? will be the subject of Rev. J. M, Pullman’s discourse this morning in the ‘Church of Our saviour, Evening services as usual, Rev, Mr. Sweotser will preach this morning and evening inthe Lieecker street Universalist church, Hits morning subject will be “Christ Stilling the ‘Tempest on the Sea.” Rev. C,S, Harrower’s discourse tnis evening, in &t. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, will be on “The Law of Retribution and Its Place in the Future," Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach thts morning in the hati corner of Filty-fith street and Third avenue, Rev. Charies #. Lee will preach this morning in the Fifth Universalist church (Chickering Hall), on “Tne Saving Mission of Chfist,” and in the evening is subject will be ‘Winter: A Chapter from the Book of Nature.” At the Protestant Episcopal Free Cnurch of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-filth strcet, services Will be held as follows:—At half-past ten A. M. ‘Litany, with Holy Communion; atfoar P. M, Even- ing Song; and at half-past seven the usual services, ‘with sermon, Rev. Henry Webbe will preach this morning and ‘@vening ww the Church of St. John the Evangelist. Rev. Morgan Dix will deliver the fifth lecture of ‘his course this evening in Trinity chapel. His sub- ect will be “Life in Religious Community: Its Idea ‘and Sanctions.” Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter, President of Union vollege, ‘leotures this evening in Grace Chapel on “Miracles Attested as Facts; Christianity is True or Nothing is True.” Rev, Joseph P. Woods will deliver a lecture this evening in st Paul's church, 117th street, near Fourth avenue, uncer the direction of the Soclety of ‘St. Vincent de Paul, for the benefit of the poor of the parish. The reverend genuemaa’s subject will be “Onristtanity and Education.” Rey, Wiliam N. Vunneli will preach tais morning and evening in All Saints’ Free church. Rev. Chauncey Giles will deliver tie fourth iec- turein hts course on “Geuesis and Geology” this evening in the New Church House of Worship in East Thirty -fitth screet. Rev. George H. Hepworth ‘will preach in Steta- ‘way Hall this morning on ‘The Crucifixion,” and in the evening will deliver his fifth iecvure to young men. Rov. T. A. Hoyt will preach this morning in the Small Chapel of the New York University. Services will be held in St, Alpan’s church this morning, aiternoon and evening. The rector, Rev. O, W. Morriti will oficiate, Rev. Dr. Ewer will preach in St. Ignatius church this morning, and in the evening will deliver the fifth lecture in his course on “Anglican Worship 10 Ate Visible Aspect.” Rev, Dr. Kendrick will preach morning and even- ing in the Tabernacle Bapust church, “When the Son of Man Cometh Shall He Find Faith on the Eurth?’’ will be the subject of the pastor’s discourse tnis evening in the Catholic Apostolic church. Rev. James Hubbell will preach in the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church at the usual hours, The Morning Star Sunday School monthly meeting ‘will be addressed this afternoon by Rev. Halsey W. Knapp aid other prominent speakers. Free religious services will be held this evening inthe Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rev. Henry Powers, Rev. J. Hyatc Smith and Rev. A. P. Putnam ‘will address the congregation. The music will ve Mra. A. W. Tenny, Mr. Fred Stern, Mr. C, H. Baager, with a full choir of over forty voices. Bishop Snow wil preach this afternoon on “The Restitution of All Things” in the University. Mrs, Laura Cuppy Smith, of Valtfornia, will lec- ture this evening in Lyric Hall on “Modern Reli- gions What Is it Wortn?? Missionaries ia tl Kast. Te THE Evtror or THE HeRaLp:— In reading the interesting letter from your cor- Yespondeut in Japan, published last Saturday, 1 noticed, with regret, the disparaging manner in ‘which he spoke of the missionaries in the East, and - Tcoaid not but think that had he cultivated their Boclety more than I imagive he bas done, and taken @ IitUe more paius to make himself better acquainted ‘with the resuits of their labors, he would not have suffered himself to make statements which are not only incorrect put far from original. 1 do not desire to enter into a newspaper contro- versy, but as your correspondent has made these derogatory assertions ana challenged contradiction, I venture to raise a protest agatnst allowing such erroneous impressions being spread abroad, Ihave ocea engaged for @ nuuber of years in ‘business pursuits in China and Japan, and have been more or less intimately acquainted with many 0! Lue missionaries there, I have seen some of the results of their labors (and they are only to be found have us velicve. Many a@pastor in this Christian land, where time.: puored customs are not to be en-+ rely overthrov re the Gospel can be re- cuived, would rejo1 ceedingly lad he as many Teal additious to Uis Church auring the year as ao gome of these tmisslonaries, Your correspondent fais into the very general error of imagining that every one who attends @ wissionary school or chapel must necessarily be a convert, whereas there aremany who, although they receive a regular e Of instruction and earn our language “aller @ Jashiou,” leave te schools without accepting we religious teachings imculeated, But there are a great many who do become vealous converts, and live a thoroughiy earnest, sincere and devout Cnristian life, in spite of ihe per- cuuoaus which assail tiem. flere arein Japan jone over four thousand native Christians (mostly Roman Catholic converts), who are held in bonuage On account of their veltel, 1 admit that ali the missionaries are not stars of the first magnitude as regards pulpit eloquence; Dut they are nol, as Your correspondent asserts, ‘as Brule, uulit for ie Work.” 1 Link that “as a ruie’! ‘they are men eminently adapred to the peculiar ‘work required—patient, earnes:, seif-denving men— ‘who lavor 1m season and out of season, quietly but wleadily, in the nobie eid they Dave cuosen, 1 also deny that the misstonaries “are usually to ‘be seen with tne rest of loreigners ip the race for doliara.” During the war, when sonfe of ihe mis- wionary boards here were unable to cuntinue fheir remittances, some of the missionaries ‘were Oviized to apply themselves Ww mer. suits to obtain the common necesraries ut i have yet to hear of the first one who devote a large proportion OF bis time tu his regalar work, without the hope of fee or reward; and, as to their belug over-paid Bud living on the fat of the iand, I faveonly to Suggest to your correspondent that he spend oue Monts with the vest paid missionary and then one mouth with any of the foreign Hongs, and then de- cide which he would choose as @ piace for a1 fesidence. My word for it, it would be the latter. it has become a fasbion for foreign residents In the Kast to speak slightingly of tne missionaries Bad Gecry their usefulness, But, sir, It 1s high time that it should ve stopped. “I have many times heard the very saine siavenents which your correspond- ent makes, vut 1 don't remember ever to have near d them gem, persons who Knew anything avout the Very presence of the missionari Constant rebuke to the licentiousnesa of many of Ghe loreigners who thus vainly try to quiet their own. and who, by their Sigion sud Constant eaeoration of the Saveur undo NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1872.TRIPLE SHEET. @ great measure the that tho missionaries Sioomnving w accomplish, ONE WHO KNOWS. The Midnight Mission and Other Christian Institations, New YorK, SATURDAY MORNING. To THe EDITOR OF TH# HKRALD:— {was much surprised, on reading the communica- tion from ‘A Mother’? in your paper, to see that one 80 laudably concerned for the welfare of her sister TRURNCHLT op ‘thé Various tums farther benefit of the class named in her note. ‘The sporadic attacks of police ofticials on Broad- Way and other “saloons,” &c,, are in effect only & temporizing measure, saiutary ingo far as that they call the attention of the benevolens and thoughtful in a pointed manner, if at long intervals, to the ex- isteace Of such excresences on the body social, and suggest the devising of some radically remedial meaus. The present writer with “A Mothet however, in questioning the advisablity of pubiish- ing tomale names in such connection, if, 1deed, ther names are ever given im sucd cases, But to the present immediate issue, The Mid- night Mission, 260 Greene street, stands ever ready With 18 open doors to receive into its protection @ny wanderers from the right path who may sue for entrance. No questions are asked of their ante- cedents; no spirit of imquisitiveneas seeks to dive nto their immediate present condition, {t 1s enough that they desire to forsake the life of error ‘they have ied for a longer or shorter period and be received there as daughters into a home. Catholics, Protestants, without distinction, they are made Welcome in tue spirit of fim who. said, “Daughter, thy sins be forgiven thee.” In like Manner says the New York Magdalen Asylum in Eighty-eighth street, near Fifth avenue, Come unto me all ye that ure weary and neavy laden.’ Again, there ts the House ot Mercy, toot of West Eighty-sixth street, Nortn River. ‘then tae Young Women's Home, 23 Washington square. At East Eighty-ninth street and the river the House of the Good Shepherd stands, and there are other instivu- tions, all conducte| upon the principle of true lous conduct of a few of his congregation, and got &@ prominence altogether distastetal to his retiring habits and devotion to mis spiritual auttes; but he has passed througn the ordeal, after having his affaira scrutinized by the ecclestas- tical authorities and by the public, with the conclusion that there was absolutely notning against him, and his conduct bas been a complete vindication, not only of himself, but of the charagier | # i Reppshood, he following correiponderisé, OW tuat une Excitement is past, plainly shows that & majority of the congregation were and are with him, and it was through his advice and examplo that they remained paasive:— LETTER TO REY. J, 8, SULLIVAN, TO THE REV. JAMES 3, SULLIVAN: — DEAR REVEREND FATHER—With profound re- gret we see the time Las come when we must, how- ever unwilling, ny to you farewell, It is not need- ful that you should be assured by us that the Oatho- lic people of Huuson have been ever true to you, have ever loved you a8 their faitniul pastor, have been ever desirous of seeing you ruing the Church of God ip peace here among us, You have lived and labored for us many long years; you have s3ep whe babes you baptized nere row up to manhood and womannood, and you now that your people love you and are sorely grieved at seeing your enemies and the enemies of order aud religion in our midst gratified in every respect, We have followed scrupulously P bose pacific coun- sels turough these troublous months; we have made no remonsirances; we have made no demonstration of physical force, though we were immensely in the jority: we have forborne even when forvearance had ceased to be a virtue and came to ve taken Jor in- ditference; but we have been overpowered and rebels against lawiul ecclesiastical authority and order have got ihe upper hand, But it 1s not for us to at- tempt righting this grievous wrong. All we can do isto submit, Meanwhile we deeply regret that we are tobe separated from our beloved and trusted pastor, and we make you the trifling present which accompanies this letter as a proof of our enduring affection for you, May God’s choicest blessings ever atvend you, Father, Your faithtul children—Joba U. Christiau charity to fellow sinners, in degree, if not in kind, whose oiticers would be g!ad to have daily acceasions to the ranks Of their inmates, A letter Oi this Kind does aot adintt of suificient apace for detailed accounts of what the writer knows of the successful operations of these Christian institu- tions, but a brief mention was not to beforvorne, in View of the possivility that young women from con- cert saloons und over ill haunts might pe deterred from seeking some of tem through sheer ignorance Ol their existence or locality. This writer assames the responsibility of vidcing One aud all to any of these asylums, assuring her sisters Who, through circumstances of want or ign0- Fauce or wiliul offending, have stepped aside from the right, taat they will never be calted to account by worms of the dust like themselves, but wiil be received ag sisters, guided, advised, assisted and encouraged with the hope of better lives, One word more, and this to newspaper editors: Does not this “Mocher’s’’ letter indicate the neces: sity Of keeping Our benevolent institutions, their objects, plans of operation and tucidents ulustrative of tueir work, more constantly oefore the public? That this subject should receive more attention the undersigned has long been convinced, especially secing how applicants for a nighi’s shelter, for in- stance, have beeu sent ariiting at late evening hours, now here, now there, to seek the same, hav- ing through ignorance applied where it was impos sible to accommodate them, STELLA, Low Church Episcopncy on the Rampage— The Heraid tic Only Orthodox Religious Paper. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— What 1s the matter with the radical Episcopal papers? Ever since the consecration of the beauti- ful altar at St. Mary’s the Virgin certain Low Church papers, such as the Zpiscopalian, the Pres- byterian, the Church ana State Churchman ana the luke, have been in a state of religio-combustiveness, pitening into the venerable diocesan who performed the service, into tue service itself, into the altar, into the little churca or ‘mass house,” as they launtiogly call it, and into other thiugs generally. But for the obscurity of these so-called religious papers their strictures might do harm. But there is no catholicity in such narrow-minded views. The broad ground of charity and love upon which the New YorRK HERALD conducts its church discipline has established it as tie higner authority in these Matters, and we have reason to believe that no clergyman in Bishop Potter’s diocese ever esd mio his puipit without first consuit- ing the columns of the HERALD for pulpit ideas and sometimes preach from them. Kat way do all the radicals attack the high alter at St. Mary’s? 1s not an altar regular? Uris it because it 13 a “nigh” altar and theirs are “low” ones? High altars are better for high churches and low altars for low ones. Perhaps it this magnitcent Work had been placed within the chancel of the “Ascension,” or of “Grace,” or of “St. George,” Vhere would be nothing heard of these wailings, but because the saucy ttle parish of St. Mary's, the only really progressive enterprise o1 its kind, has been the lucky recipient of the splendid guit, the unlucky ones veat their spleen upon 1. Never mind, Whenever these $10,000 clergymen, woo open thelr churches once a week, smoke ‘their Partagas acter a rollicking breakfast, and take a turn in the Fark belore dinner, commence work tn good earnest, a3 13 done at St. Mary’s, with dally services [rom sunrise to sunset, with a place fur sinners to say their pravers within the church gates, and another to unburden their consciences before the priest, then they may expect a like recognition of their merits. Dr. Rogers on Dr. Bradley’s Departure. Oa Sunday evening Dr. Rogers, formerly Episco- pal rector, Mempmis, Tenn., lecturea to a large au- dlence of Catholics and Protestants in the Catholic Church of the Assumption, Peekskill, on ihe subject, “How I Became a Cathollv.”” He commenced by saying that, though suffering from severe indisposition—having, on account of it, recalled severai engagements—he hoped, neverthe- less, his voice might be sufficient, and that, being @mere layman, he must express his gratiwude both to Dr. McSweeny and to Father GriMn for allowing him to give in the church his reasons ior becoming aCatholic. Referring, then, to the statement of a correspondent in that day’s issue of the HERALD— to tae effect that ‘no persons of any worth, except: ing Dr. Palmer, had ever abandoned the Church of England for .Romanism’’—he sait that wuile thousands = of Se, and = uvlearned clergy and laity, lke imsell, had re- pounced Anglicanism, there were also hundreds of tne very first intellects of the age wyo had de- liberately turned toew backs upon thé splendid preferments of England, and bowed down to con- fess their sins at the footstool of Catholic priests— among them Dr. Manning, the present catholic Archbishop of Westmuuster; Drs, Newmau, Faber, the two Wilberforces (sons of the great emancipa- tor), the two Marshals, &c., whose writings are read wherever the English language 1s spoxen. ‘That even in New York we have such men as Father Preston, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese; a whole community (the Paulists) converted mataly Irom the £piscopal Church, although their great and truly noble Superior, Fatner Hecker, he thought, “had been a Presbyteriau. Amont those converted from Teo Rie are our learae nilosopher, Father lewet, Fathers Baker, Young, Bodfish, &c., all disun- gaisued for their eminent Jearmng and geal; that Dr. Ives, late Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, had founded the “Protectorate” in New York; that Father Doane, the son of tue late Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, is now Vicer General of Bishop Batley (limself a convert). In short, to give the names only of such men would require an imposing catalogue, commencing from the conversion of Father Ignatius (brother of the Karl) and ending with Dr. Bradley, wio had just eshon, Out by searching), aud I know that the good done | Knocked at the coor of the Catholic Church and was 48 not so infinitesimal as your correspondent would | taken in “out of the cold,” ‘The speaker then proceeded to oben d the growth of Catholic principles in Oxford, and to demon- strate the generai proposition—that rationalism had attacked the Sivle itself so successfully on Protestant principles that Oxford divines had been compelled to abauion their old fortiications called “evicience iristianity,’’ and to fall back on Catholic ground to save their Bibles; that at frat they went only so tar as to assert that the Uatholic Church (not the oman) had been in- falnvle, when sho determined, ta the year ‘395, which was tne New Toesta- ment and what books, taen considered inspired, were apochryphal. They were then taxed with the questions: I the Church was infallible in the fourtn aud fifth ages, when did she lose this peculiarity )— and how 13 it thatshe practised priestly absobution when infallivler—now 13 li she then tanght ald the Romish doctrines rejcctad at the Reformation? Ina vain endeavor to auswer these questions they come, one atter another, to the Catholic Church, That tor himself, being only @ simple-minded and unlearned clergyman, yet kuowing enough to keep oul. of the re, he had, after feng of study, bowl in Kogland and this country, been convinced mainiy by buoks of Anglican converts, tat there could be but one Church (unus Deus,“ unus Christus, una Beresia), That mere logic, however, could not impel the nat- Uralman to abandon ail present advantages, ana that one Sunday night in the Dominican church in Memphis, at the benediction of the blessed sacra ment, his logic and imperfect jearaing were titted up and consecrated by Him who is ‘fone “the way, the truth and the life,” from which moment he had escaped the network of doubt and scepticism which must ever assail the Protestant mind, Finale of the Hudson Church DiMiculty =—Tese timonial to Rev. Father O’suilivan, ‘The Catholics ot Hudson, N. Y., reeling deeply the separation from their esteemed late pastor, who has had the care of thelr spiritual affairs for many years, have given substantial evidence of the nigh favor in which he 1s heid by them. Father O'Suil- van will be appointed by the Right Rev. Dr, Conroy, immediately after Easter, to one of the most im- portant parishes in the diocese, The fatigue inci dent to the ordeal he has passed through, and his services for the past twenty-five years in the diocese, together with the present condition of his health, require @ few weeks of repose, which has been accorded him. The reverend gentleman has been dragged before the public through the icbel- | Yney ask one another, * Ball, Fenton Shaw, Maurice Wolte, John Lane, and many others. FATHER O’SULLIVAN’S REPLY, To THE FAITHFUL CATHOLICS oF HUDSON:— Amid the sore annoyances and vexations that have during the past seven moaths attended me I aave ever had one consolation, and it was always suill- cient to alleviate my trouble, viz.—the assurance tuatthe love and esteem of my betoved people hever failed me and that their prayers went up daily to the ‘Vhrone of Grace on my benalt. it would be unbecoming in me on an occasion like this to make mention cf the misconduct of those who have disturbed the peace of the parish, Gur Heavenly Father, who has permitted tnis trial cor His own wise purposes will, in due time, manifest His approval of your Christian conduct and Obedience to authority. You have the commendation of your old pastor, and the approval of your con- sclence, an example worthy of imitation. Would God that it were allowed me to spend the remainder of my days among you, my children; but i hath been otherwise ordered, and | bow with what sub- mission I can command to the decree which sepa- Tatesme from you. Yet wheresoever I may be placed I shall never forget my faithful pepe of Hndson, and my prayers shall ever ve for their wel- fare, temporal and spiritual, I thank you with all my heart for the generous gift you now make me, It is timely aid to me now, aud on that accouat doubly acceptable; but it 1s still more precious to me, as being a 1oken of your affection for your old pasior, Farewell, JAMES 5. O'SULLIVAN, Religious Profession and Reception. We learn from the Tablet that on Tuesday, Janu- ary 23, Miss Bridget O'Toole, in retigion Sister Mary Loretto, made her profession in the Unapel of the Ursulines, East Morrisania; and Miss Josephine Loewekamp, of Baitimcere, Md, and Miss Mary Foley, of New York, received the white veil. Their names ia religion are:—Sister M. Regina and sis- ter M. Anselma. Tne ceremony was performed by the Very Kev. Dr. Starrs, V, G,. of the diocese, High mass was celebrated by the Rev. Josepn Hayne, of St. Augustiue’s, Morrisania, assisted by the Rev. Wiluam F. Brady, of St, Jerome's, North New York, as deacon, and the Kev, William Loewe- kamp, C. SS. K., of St. Peter's, Philadelphia, Pa., as sub-deacon. Rev. John Hughes, pastor of St Jerome's, acted a8 master of ceremonies, Rev. Michael Meagher, of Nashville, Tenn., and Rev, Francis Karei, of Melrose, N. Y., were also present 1n the sanvtuary, Religious Notes—?ersonal and General. The New Testament revisers have got to tho second chapter of Luke, and hope to finish their work in six years, ‘ ‘The latest official news from Rome is to the effect that che Rey. Father McNierny, Archbishop McCloskey’s secretary, has been preconized as co- adjutor bishop to the ordinary of the Albany diocese, Dr. Conroy. Tne bulis are expected to ar- rive ina few days, and Dr. McNierny’s consecra- ton will then soon follow. , As an offset to the departure of Father Bradley, the Episcopalians chronicie the submission of the Rev. Bichard Nelson Newell, M. A., ol Memphis, to “the authority and jurisdiction of the American Church.” ‘There are 417 Baptist churches in London, with a Membersulp of 27,426. Tne average gain of tnese churches during the last year nas been about 24 members per church. Sittings are furnished by these churches ior about 68,000 persons. ‘ihe Right Rev. Wililam Croswell Doane, Bishop of Aibany, is in town, The Right Reverend Pre- late attended the early celevration of the Blessed Sacrament at the Free Church of Sc. Mary the Virgin on Thursday morning at seven o'clock. FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. Trae Worship of God—What It Is a: How to Perform It—Sermon. by Rev. Mr. Tanacs. “If any desire to know how to serve God and in what that service consists let nim read tae words which are written in Exodus, which have been read 1n our lesson to-day,” said Mr. Isaacs to his congre- gation yesterday. ‘But those who sefve other gods will I utterly destroy; serve only the Lord our God,” It is a matter of vital importance to all of us, sald the preacher, to understand the nature of the true worship of God, and it is tne duty of the minister to instruct the pevple im matters of faith and of religion, not vy lauding thetr virtues, but by reproving their vices. The practice is now too common to laud the people as if they were saints, instead of declaring them to be sinners and seeking to turn them from their sins, Fat, God be praised, he added, you have no such idea. The Lord spake by Ezexiel, the prophet, and said that if the wicked man sin and thou warn bim not and he die 1n his situs, bis blood will I require at tay hands, ‘This is the duty of the minister, and not. to persuade the people that tuey are worthy Israel- Mtes—to seek to raise them from earta toward heaven. Tuose who sacrifice to other gods shall be utterly destroyed. These words carry us back to Was not a word said in itavout serving God. Ratier were they prohibitea from serving any otner god, They had seen tbe wonders of the oniy living aud true God both in Egypt and in the wiiderness, and when tne Lord uttered His thanders the people cried out, “Let Moses speak unto us, but let not ine Lord speak unto us any more, lest we die.” Moses re- plied, “fhe Lord has come to prove you, that His fear may ve in you. Bul because God nas spoken to you Irom heaven you must not make anything like uato Him, for you have not seen tim.” CREATION’S CREATOR IS UNCREATED. The author of periection 1s perfection itself. The human mind cannot grasp God, nor can it compre- hend the Invisible. Build me an altar of earth, said the Lord, to teach Mis people huminty. God gave His law from the lowest of mountains; His mints- ters were the lowltest of all men and [ils peopie were the smallest and {cevlest of the earth. What, then, ig humility? It 1s a sense of notinngness in the presence of the great God, before whoi we live and walk. Pride cannot find its way into tne heavenly home. Even angels are, and must be, humble before God, for, thougn He is a great God, He must be worshipped in humility. God Himself does not descend to earth in iwighty power, iut rather in humility, to see what we are duing and to teach us Himself. THE WORLD I$ FULL OF PRIDE, and it becomes an importa 1 question how we shall serve God. In old times the synagogues were very bumble and the people knelt in humility before Giod; but now the synagogues are magniticent and niguly attractive structures, He did not object to this, but he did object to the manner of the worsiippers. ve you seen our syna- wogue’” put, suid he, Nota stone im this building betongs to any one of you. It has oeen solemnly deuicated to God and to Him atone it belongs. Every- tiing has been done o! lace years to attract the peo- pie to the synagogues and churches—spiendid edi- fices, beautiful music, eloquent preaching—bui all have failed, Let us humble ourseives under the | miony hand of God and pray for His blessing upon us. We are tue slaves of passion and of pride, and When we visit God’s dwelling 1t 18 to show our- Beives—to see geen—rather than to Worsmp God, But when we come as poor men beforé God in humility and fear, then do We show ourselves true Israelites, And where are there to be found any who have more reason to thank God, he asked, than the Israelites in the United Staves, for whom God was done #0 much? Look at the condition of ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA TO-DAY, fleeing trom one foe only to be taken by another. Contrast your condition with theirs and be chank- ful. Or look at the condition of thousands of Israel- ves IM the province of Ispanan, Persia, to-day, cry: ing and dying ‘or lack of bread, ‘Think of them and learn to be thankiul for everything you enjoy. It ts not your superior industry that has made you belter than they, How many’ hundreds of meit in the world are just as “‘sinarv” as you who are not a8 Well off and as happy as you! God ‘has promised that they woo honor Him ie witli honor, and tose Who despise Him shail be lightly esteemed. Come thea, dear friends, to the house of God, sald the preacher, at the proper time and worship God re- Bpectfuily and serve Him taithiuily wherever you ere— at home, tn your business or on the aurceteand God will biess you abuadanuy. Amea, Sinai, where the law was given by Moses; but there | THR LENTEN SRASON. Preparation for the Period of Fast- ing and Prayer, |. gant Byes PANCAKE NIGHT AND ASH WEDNESDAY, Dioecsan Circular of Archbishop MeCloskey and Pastoral Letter of Bishop Bayley. The holy season of Lent approaches, next Wednesday being Ash Wednesday, which ta the first of the forty days of Lent. Ash Wednesday isa memorable feast and occurs eight days earlier in the season than 1t did last year, Shrove Tuesday which immediately precedes Ash Wednesday, has memories of pancakes connected with its observ- ance, and is commonly regarded among Catnolics and a certain number of High Cuurch Bpiscopa- lans as the last day preceding the forty upon which the enjoyments of the flesh can be tolerated. There seems to have been of late years &@ very marked falling off in the formerly strict observance of the Lenten season. Even such @ high authority as the Rev, Henry Manning, Arch- bishop of Westminster, has ventured to break through the practice of abataining from meat on Fridays. Dr. Manning and Cardinai Cullen will allow their flocks tnis year to eat meat on Fridays for sanitary reasons, and many Vontinental Bishops have made a similar new departure, for the reason that smallpox is raging im some of the principal Cities in Europe. But many Catholics in New York are of the opinion that a similar course will be pur- sued in some of the American diocesea for the Same cause. In European cities tt 18 customary to hold high carnival on the day and night preced- ing the first day of Lent, and tne Mardi Gras and ‘Mi-Caremé balls at Paris are noted all over the Continent. The most solemn day in Lent is Good Friday. This day 13 observed in commemoration of the tremendous fact that the Redeemer suffered for mankind. Easter Day closes the forty days of prayer and tasting. The priest solemnly warns the pecnle when dipping his finger in the urn of ashes ‘Oo these memorable words:—“ Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverum reaibere.” It ts neediess to state to our readers that tne forty days of Lent are intended to typify the forty days or fasuing and suffering of our Saviour in the wilder. hess, Next Tuesday night will be wild uight and @ night of joliity and fun in the Quaruer Latin, and hilarity will reign supreme im the Jardin Mabille, the Cioserien des uilas and the Caté Valentino. It 413 a strange fact, and worth noting, that Ash Wednesday should fall on the ldth, which 4s also St. Valeutine’s Day, when Cupid holds sway. ‘The Feast of Lent ts one of the oldest opservances of the Catholic Churen, as it dates kK to the ver earliest days of Christianity. Tne tin and Gree! names ol this fast signily “Forty days.” The Eng. lish word fast means ‘Spring fast,’ Lenten tide in the Saxon language siguilying “Tne spring season."’ In those old days the people did a great deal of fasting, and had some of our New York boarding house landladies lived in the medimval age they migat have Manazed to have made their business even more proficable than they do now. In the sec- ond century the dispute regarding the time for the celebration of Easter—or in other words, the close of the solemn yearly fast—occurred ; and then it Was agreed on all sides that the solemn Anti-Pascal Fast of Lent should be kept. There 13 some doubt as to whether it was at first distinctly understood that the fast should last forty days, but at last, at the Council of Autioch, in the fourth ceniury, it was confirmed that it by precept necessary to fast the forty days, using ouly dry meat. It was required that nothing should be ome at che meal after sunset but bread, salt and water, Fourteen centuries have done much to ameliorate these conditions, and the circular from Archbishop McCloskey, which we print velow, on the observ- ance of Lent wiil seem to our readers very moderate in its discipline wnen compared with the strict and onerous fasts of the early Curistian Church:— ARCHDIOORSE OF NEW YORK—REGULATIONS FOR LENT. 1. All the week days of Lent, from Ash Wednesday till Easter Sunday, are fast days of precept, on one meal, with the allowance ot a moderate collation in the evening, 2. ‘The precept of fasting impiles also that of abstinence fromthe use oi flesh meat.’ But, by dispensation, the use of flesh meat in allowed in this diocese at the principal on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays of Lent, with the ex- ception of Holy Thursday. % ‘There is neither tast nor abstinence to be observed on Sundays of Lent. 4, It is not allowed to use fish with flesh meat at the same meal in Lent, 6. There is no probibition to use eggs. butter or cheese, provided the rules of quantity prescribed by the fast be com- ied w' M6. Lard may be used {n preparing fish, vezetables, £0. 7, The Church excuses from the obligation of fasting (but not of abstinence from tleah meat, excep: in special cases of sickness or the like) the following classes of persons the intirm; second, those whose daties are of an exhausting or laborious character; third, persons who are attaining their growth ; fourth, women 'in pregnancy or nursing tn- fants; fifth, those who are enfecbied by oid age. ‘The public religious exercises during Lent, in the ch of the city, to commence each evening at’ hall-past o'olock, will be :— ‘On Monday, in the Church of the Nativity, of the Assump- tion (German), St. Michael's and St. Anthony's (Italian). ‘On Tuesday, in St. James’, St. Joseph's, St. Vincent de Bau’ (French), St. Jobn the Evangelia’s, Holy Cross, St. Gabriel's, Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Sor- rows. ‘On Wednesday, in St. Peter's, Most Holy Redeemer (Ger- man), St, Francis Assisium (German), St. Francis ler’s, St. Ann's, Annunciation (Manhattanville), St. Paul's (Ninth id Filty-ninth street), St. Teresa's and St. Joho (German). in Cathedral, St. Andrew's, St, Stephen's, st. aie St. Alphonsus’ (German), St. Holy rents | St. Rose of Lim: (German, Manhattanville, an St, Elizabech's (Fort Washington ). On Eriday, in St, Mary's, Transfiguration, St, Paul's (Har- lem), St. Bonitace’s (German, St. Vincent’ Ferrer's, St. Ber- nard'a, Churei of the Epiphany, and Holy Name of Jesus, der af the Most Kev, Archbishop, Ww YORK, Feast of the Purltication of the B, V. M., 1873. BISHOP BAYLZY’S PASTORAL, Lawrence's ( + Bt. Nicholas’, St. Josep A Warning Against the Vices of the Age= Marriage and Divorce—Education—The Pub- lic Schools Virtually Protestant—Spread of Intemperance=The International Society— Immoral Books and Newspapers. ‘The following pastoral letter, accompanied by tne regulations for Lent, will be read on every altar in the diocese of Newark this morning:— JAMES Roosevest BAYLEY, by the grace of God and the favor of the Apostolic See, Bishop of Newark, to the clergy, secular and regular, aud tho laity of his'diocese, health and benediction :— The Church of God, which lke its Divine Founder, “knows what is in man” ‘knows his wants and necessiti the holy season o} on the part of her children No matter how careful we may be, the dnat and dirt of thls busy world in which we live and have our work will settle down upon out work, will seitie down upon our souls, and we need from time to time & particular season of prayer and penance to cleanse and purity them in order to the more eifectual action of the Grace of God upon them. x It is the duty, then, of every Catholle to make a good use of these days of penance and reconciliation. It is a time when every good Christian should endeavor to get into the a wortd. Prawn upon rong you cannot YOU CANN bbz | 2st Br oka o worpe. Bad you Ougat to thank ay . “Whas therefore Go: bo nothing to 40 with * Sponste joined es YORE LOVERS AND STRONG-MINDED Uke every difticulties, Christian 4 turning them to good, from theun. cay pe from the trials of sife. We have to of all ti ur but to the family and of the community of which {ou form apart, Tn connection wish this subject I have ‘express my regret and sorrow at the increased FRREQUENOY OF MIXED MABRIAGI amongus. There is nothing that shows more clearly how much the true idea of Christian marriage has ine weak- ne Foligions who uifer “te ‘on this 10 or who differs from you all important point, ‘can be ded Only as @ port of PRAOTIOAL HEATUENISM, It into ignore the ‘of the marriaze unton, which ie to bring up children in the fear and love ot God. What sort of a marriage 1s that fn which God may be sald to have no part; when parents eel down to pray to- gether; when all {nstraction to thelr children of @ religious character is either neglec.ed, or, if attem by its contiict- ing character, produces doubt and erences? I was so much struck by some words of the LORD CHANORLLOB OF IRELAND 1m a decision which h> gave summer, the Ruardisoship. of the children of ‘a mized marriage of this Sort, that 1 made acopy of tham and wiil repeut them to you here. ‘The dispute was between relatives of the two deceased parents, one side wishing to bring the children up as Catholics and 1e rth In such cases the Chancellor amine the children personally, 1s made to turn upon thefr own choice, they are old enough to make one. In giving an account of his interview with them he says:—The spectacle was a very sad one, ‘The simple cloudless coniidence of childhood, adhering joyously to religion, ag expounded and made dear to them by loving r arents, wn broken uw struggling influ- Pace, and transmuted into Tehaatare fee desolate douvt.” Alas! = for such arents, and I may ay still more, alas! for such ‘ohiltren, the innocent victims ‘of the folly and want of Christian principle of those who ought to have trained them up trom their tofancy, in fuish and virtue and all good conduct. in immediate connection with this matter I tnust say afew words to you upon a aub- ject which I have so often dwelt upon in my Pastoral letters, ‘and at the time of my visitation of parish 8 OHRISTIAN RDUCATION of the young. This includes two things—Christian education athome and Christian education in the school. Of these Christian education at home is the most important. There is no responsibility before God so beavy- es that of Christian parents in this matter. Upon them depends for the most part the destiny of their children for time and for eter- Bity. liar character and conduct of ever one chiefly upon the influences wine! surround them in early life. “As the twig is bent the tree's ‘The education of achild, inthe full and proper sense of the word, may be said to commence from the mo- ment it opens its eyes and ears tothe sights and sounds of the world about tt, and of these sights and sounds the words and example of parents are the most impressive and the moat enduring. Of all lessons those learned at’ the knees ot a good mother sink the deepest into the mind and heart and last eat, Many of the noblest and best men that ever lived and adorned and benefitted the world have declared that under God they owed evervthing that was good and use- ful im their livesto ths love of virtue and truthfulness and piety and the fear o: God instilled into their hearts by the Lies OF A PIOUS MOTHER. If every one of our households, no matter how poor and humble, were what they ought to religious Christian Donseiee what @ different state of things would we see about us But though the dutfes and responsibilities of parents in this matter are the heaviest and most important for them- seives and for society of all others, yet there are none which are more neglected, In our busy anid exacting days PARENTS HAVE NO TIME, and, apparently, little disposition, to attend to their children. ‘The poor have to work too hard during the day and are too fond of drinking houses in the evening, and the beiter classes, as they are called, gad about too much and are TOO FOND OF AMUSEMENTS to attend old-fashi to these matters. ‘The consequences are that the joned Christian family may be said to have almost ceased to exist among us, . Tt ia on this account, anong others, that it has become of such paramount importance to have in evory parish good Curistian schools, best of schools, ft is true, can never adequately make up for the want of good relizious but it is to them that homes, we look for the only ‘remedy to the evil, so far as it can be supplied. would jestly exhort the pastors Of souls to spare no exertions to ‘establish these schools and watch over them themeeives with the greatest solicitude, and I would exhort all Catholics to shrink from no sacrifice in order to have them in their midst, A pariah school does not deserve the name, and can bring little consolation to the hearts of either priest or paces. T know that it is heavy burden, and demands sacrifices on our part to support parochial schooia, at the same time that we have to pay taxes for the support of State schoola. “But there fs no heip for it. We would gladly o THE PURLIO BOHOOLS if it was in our power to do so, But as they are at present conducted it is impossible tor us to send our children to them. The public schools in this State ere virtually schools, as if Protestantism was the established religion of the State; and yet I find out the difference between Uhurch and State, ‘and schools. and State, as schools are managed. Strange stories nave sometimes reached my years, as bearing upon this matter; but if Ihadany doubts as to the decided ana strong-flavored peiled by the if Bow Rupermtondent of Public Instruction for Public ‘School Livraries in New Jersey,” which came {nto my hands ac- cidentally @ auort time since, If the name of the author was not given on the ttle pi jon looking over it might suppose that the selection of such works as bear upon the history of religion and the Church had been made Ly some virulent anti-Popery lecturer. We have litt’ hope that the tradition of falsehood and mis- representation in regard to everything connected with our religion is likely to die out of the minds of men when sucn booxs as D'Aubigny's History of the Reformation and Llo- rente's History of the Inquisition, are recommended to the {ustructors of the rising generation as fountains of truth. Still, we ought to be thank(ul, I suppose, that they let us have any schovis at all. 1 am almost ashamed to speak to you again in regard to the HORRIBLE VICE OF INTRMPERANCE, and I might add that almost discouraged from doing so, Notwithstanding all taat has been done and sald against tt, 1¢ is, I am afratd, increasing among us and throughout the country. It kills more people in Great Britain and this country than all the malignant diseases put together, Besides the sin and misery caused by tt, the money squan- dered upon bad and poisonous drink would feed all the peo- le, provide ro hospitals forallthe sick, not to that wo-thirds of the poverty and sickness in the world would disappear, if this evil habit was put a stop to. Tne State is very much to blame in this matt It 1s bound to protect the lives and weltare of the people far ad lies in its power nd an efliicient law in regard licenses, and the proper inspection of what is sold under the nemect arink thoroughly entorced, would save halt of the j money now | spent on rho prisons and Tnatle asylums. [: is not my ousiness, however, to aiscuss THE DUTIES OF THE STATE, especially when there is no probabliity of its doing an good, but to remind you of your own personal duties in th! matter, as citizens, as parents, as Christians. A drunkard 18 a bad citizen, unonatural parent and a scandalous Chris- tian, and as such can have no place in the kingdom of heaven. All that can do warn you agi the miserable vice, and direct your pastors to enforce against those who make themselves the slaves of it, and those who sell drink to them, the statutes and regulations which have been made upon the subject. [ Know of no more pitiable sight in this world than to see a strong, healthy man, who could earn aa honest livahuood by the labor of bis hand, standing behind # counter and dealing out crime misery aod death by the sale of adulter- ated and poisonous drinks. I am informed that what is © THR INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ts making strong efforts to enroll the working classos of this country among its members. It 1s hardly necessary for me to say anything about it; for no one likely to listen to my words would ever think of joining it.The principles of their association have been published to the world, and the Knowledge of what they profess and what they aim at should be suificient to keep any honest man from having anything to do with them, As 4 citizens of this country, and as Catholics, you are bound to eep away from ail secret associations. They are contrary to the spirit of our repuniican form of government, the secu- rity anc rest from the turmoil to inquire how he with God; how far he has kept h ns, and what he is doing to secure his pre) tatvation, T would take advantage of this calm, of this disposition to listen to holy truths, to say a few plain words to certain matters which regard us generaily—as than as individuals, ‘The topics I intend to aw nothing new about them; they are as old as our religion; but experionce teaches us’ that they need to be constantly recalled to mind. There is nothing that shows more clearly the weakness and fickleness of our poor fallen nature than the siint bold that tue most sacred and import. | ant truths have upon us unless they be constantly repeated, | And jn the first piace let me urge upon you the obhigation of adhering with all your mind and soul to the principles of your holy religion, Remember that dod, | in all “His omnipotence, cannot confer upon ' any one a more precious gift than that of faith. “It has the | promise of the life that now Is and of that which isto | come.” When it dwells in our souls and reguiates our hives | ft makes all the rough piaces smooth, and gives ts peace in | lite ana at the hour of death. Reject with horro so common in the mouths of men in our di makes fs that it NO MATIER WHAT A MAN BRLIEVES “ao long as his lite is right.” Such assertions as these in- voive a denial that God has made any revelation of His will to men. A man’s life can be right before God oniy when he | believes ail that God has reveaied and “observes all that He has commanded him." It may sound very fine ana liberal to creed cannot be wrong wiose lite is in the UI that is necessary 13 to be just,” but these sentences are but te expression of an til-concealed intidelity. Ther beastandard of right and justice to fix the exact weight and meaning of these expressions, and if they do not come up to that sandard which God has given us, then they are worth nothing. “Unless your justice,” our blessed Lord, “exceeds that of (ho Scribes and Phar | you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven I" But remember | also that a right faith can prolit you nothing, untess 1s brings forth in you tue fruit of a good life; “for aa the body without the sptrit ia dead, ao faith without works is dead.” it cannot be denied that the great obstacie to the progress of our RELIGION IN THTS COUNTRY is not the prejudices and misrepresentations of those who ‘oppose it, bui the wicked lives of so many who profess to believe in And when we reflect how pure and holy thet reiligto (: yem by i | of all evil, corrupting company e words | bad permanency of which depends upon éverything done openiy and above board; fellow men need ty hide itself from the open light of day. No form of slavery ever existed in this world so abject and miserable as that to which a man gives himseif up who, di- vesting himself of the rights ot his reason and his will, and of everything that gives dignity to human nature, makes bimsel THR BLIND INSTRUMENT of secret central commi:tes, whose names he has never heard, whose faces he will probably never see, and whose real object, 1a fact, he knows nothing about. And since my-object in addressing you at this time ts to warn you, against the evil ifuences that surround you in world T would be omitting the most insidious and in some ects the most hurtful of all these influences {f I did not say a word to you about bad books and HAD NEWSPAPERS. If we are bound by every principle of our religion to avold bad company we are equally bound to avold bad books—for the worst 1s a bad book, @ Most pernicious influences at work the world at this moment come { books and = bad _ newapap The ye covered literature, as it is called is ap lence compared with which the yellow fever and cholera smallpox are as nothing, and yet there is no quarantine against it. Never take a book into your hadds which you Would not be seen reading. Avold not only notoriously im- moral books and papers, dui avoid also all those MISEHAGLE SENSATIONAL MAGAZINES and novels and filustrated which are so profusely scatiered around on for such garbage speake badly tellectual training of those wh keep your mind pure and your soul {n the grace of God, you must make it a firm and steady principle of conduct never to touch them, We live in a time of great activity and change, and intense worldiiness. “Men run to and ito and knowledge is in- creased." Wonid that we couid feel that there is an increase also in integrity and virtue and respect for religion, We all Know that it is not so, So far as we can form ac: curate ideas of the social and religious condition of men at any particular period of the world’s history, we may doubt whether the words of tue Apostle St. Pani, describing what shall come to passin what he calls “the inst ever touched any body of py who cullod themaeives Chrinians so clossly as’ they do those of our times, “Men, says, “shal be lovers of themeelves, covetous, hanghty, proud, Disaphemous, disobedient to parents, un~ atefl ‘There can be no doubt that ow good and virtuous our lives would be if we ort Precepts, we must be convinced tnat the greatest enemy of God revealed hay and scandalous ‘often call to mind and meditate upon that moat important truth, ao often repeated to us, in favor with and lay up treasure in Hoayen we must live in & state of grace, by avonding sin and the occasions of sin, and by making a’ good nse of the most holy sucramene of the Church, by which, In the worda Of the Council of Trent, “all true j hexins, of being be- us is increased, oF velng lost is restored.” The frst pariteu- fer'onject to which I wish to call. your attention 1s that of Gua CHRLOTIAN, MARRIAGE, would urge upou the cleray they, minds the tesebiny of your religion and the eked, without affection, without pence, lerers, incontinent, unmerciful, wibout kindness, traitors, stubborn, putfed up, and lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.” Well may the Apostie speak of such times as “danger times.” “When the moral atmosphere we breathe ts. 90 full of what the 8c call “the spirit of this world” we can only hope to escape {te corrupting influ oe by prayer, yy, maoditating agg, & sernal ‘trutos, and ¢ regular and careful use jacrainent Tet tiny therefore, resolve 49 make'® vod uss of this holy ir or the lB. ‘@ are mavy na Feason, that wo are Dear to those “ast the Chureh upon this most important matter, remind you that you are bound to lay to heart these teach- jugs, so wise in themselves, ao full of advantage to you iman society; and yet which are so often neglected, There is no inatitution of our jon about which the Church nas been so solicitous trom the beginning—none in regard to whi i ite sacredness and Gol'and Feguiated oy iw Ouurch. Onristlan marriage te the i well for ‘ not ay and that God.” But ate uime of 1 han ae | “4 sect i chatacters far distant. To many among us er in which Inst season of apecial uraces, and upoa ine Heaiecr 19 "inom ii “Sanead our” eteraius. The ia pad ienop ‘order Right Reverend Bian By order sona H. Doasm, Chancelior and Secretary, Archbishop of Olm cinnatt, has addressed to archdiocese a lenten pastoral, which breathes tae spirit of fervor and tender solicitude for the aook committed to him, and counsels his children, in tae most earnest and paternal manner, on all the topics of importance to them. The heads of this calm and dignified document, as we find it in the Catholto qharees. ere The Church, and her life and fer- Sona the great dednitions made by the Holy Father jus 1X., including the last Papal tofallivility; the cause of the late disasters which have over taken France; the uses and ad- vantages of the holy season of Lent; the im- portance of educatin; the “sohool Uon at the present time; auxiliaries to the gol ihe shape of Sodalities and other societies for the young; the responsivility attending entrance into the married state; che proper conduct of wakes and funerals; tae obligation which rests on the fallbiul of praying for our distressed Holy Father, and, in conclusion, a congratulation to both clergy and laity on the blessings for which tne diocese has to thank the Almighty. We hope next week, if poasibie, to Teproduce the entire pastoral, or, at least, to make some extracts ol its leading passages. QUICK TRANSIT. Mecting of the Committee of Ninety Last Kvening. The Committee of Ninety of the Citizens’ Reform Association held a meeting last evening at No, 68 dona Union square, the President, Mr, Foley, presiding. immediately after the meect- ing was called to order, Mr. Townsend, on behalf of the twenty-five who recently proceeded to Albany for the purpose of urging upon the Legislature the necessity of the appointment of a railway commis- sion, Whose duty it shalt be to provide a means of quick transit from the lower to the upper portion of the city, made a report, having at first, however, fully explained the mode of operations adopted by the committee walle in Albany and the success they met with. In this connection Mr. Townsend said their ‘They were cordially received by the joint committee of the visit had been eminently satisiactory. two houses, Wio at once acknowledged the justice of the claim set forth by tbe gentlemen of tne visit- to them @ ing committee, who, in turn, proposed bill, the adoption of which, che speaker thought, would prove @ panacea for the great injustice under which our citizens now suffer as regards getting to and from the upper to the lower end of the city. ‘The first section of this bil provides that Willi F. Havemeyer, Benjamin F. Beekmaa, William Booth, Myer Stern, Jonathan Sturges, Peter @: John Foley, Randolph W. Townsend and Jonn Daly and ‘thelr successors in office are here! constituted a Board of Commissioners City Rallways in the city of New York, with power to lay out, construct, matntaim and operate city railways for rapid transit in said city, by steam or other power, in the manner pro- vided in the act. This section alone provoked no inconsiderable discussion. One gentleman thought men represent ing tne broadest culture and the greatest experience of any of our community should be named as incorporators, In his opinion every gentleman now mentioned as incorporaters was wholly without experience in the matter im hand. There are, he asserted, perhaps greater engineering difficulties to be overcome in laying @n underground road from the Battery to Four- teenth street sha have ever been considered here- tofore, and there ‘should at least be one or two such eminent engineers as General McVlellan and General McAlpin placed among the incorporators, Mr. STERNS was sure that each and every one of the gentiemen now named as commissioners were Feady to give way to any person or persons who Were willing and able to give their time and atten- tion to the subject. Mr. HENRY CLEWs stated that there need be me apprehension in regard to the raising of money. If the right kind of a charter 1s granted vy the lature he would guarantee to raise $20,000,000 from Europe in thirty days, and thus avoid the necessity of the city’s building the road. After a greut deal of debate on the subject of the charter the whole thing was referred tor revision to the gentlemen who drew it, in connection with three other gentiemen named by the Chair. THE LATE ROSWELL H. JEROME, The death of this young gentleman cast a gloom over a large circle of friends and associates, to whom the shock was doubly severe because it came un- heralded and unlooked for. An insidious and un- suspected disease brought a few hours of llness, and then the spirit departed. _Death seems always sud- den and unwelcome, but’ more especially so when it bears away a ious man in the vigor of bis life and the zenith of his usefuiness. Roswell Hart Jerome Was born Octoper 1, 1846, in the city of Rochester, N. Y., where he passed his chil@hood. Showing an uncommon taste and aptt- tude for study, he was sent im early youtn to con- Wnue his education for four years at college in France and Germany. Returning to America, he became a midshipman in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, where nis talents and in- dustry gave him a high standing In his class, and his genial aud frank nature made him a lavorite with his classmates, Retirmg from the navy, he devoted himself to the study of ia @ projession for which nis quick perceptions, Rotem eri and profound power of analysis admirably fitted him. Having pursued the course at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, where he graduated with creait, he entered upon the prac- tice of his profession 1m this city, and was rapidly gaining a reputation at the bar when he received an appointment under Judge G: in _ the ofice of the District Attorney, @ position which he held up to the me of bis death. In reviewing his short life we find little to censure, much to claim our admirativn and regard. His genial qualities of mind and heart, his generosity and manly inde- pendence of character, endeai hun to all with whom he was associated. Nature endowed him with her choicest giits, both mental and physical; fortune gave him rare advantages for their culture and development; bis energy and untiring industry made the most of these gifts, and in his snort career he attaimed a degree of proficiency in law, science and letters such as 1s reached by lew men in a long lifetime. “THERE'S MUSIC IN THE AIR.” A Piano Maker’s Wi'o Elopes With Another Man—A Warrant for the Absconding Pajr. Hans Copradson, of 246 East Fifty-fitth street, a plauo maker by trade, applied to Justice Bixby, at the Yorkvilie Police Court, yesterday, for a war- rant for the arrest of his wife and a man named Johan Hanson, The latver, he explained, was @ plano maker also, and for some time past had been on visiting terms with Hans and his Tamily. Not even for one moment did he suspect the constancy or virtue of his wife, and above all the honor of his friendyonan, whom he thought uatil Friday night last to be the embodiment of true friewdship. On going home from work that night the news which his neighbors had to give bim was such as shock even stronger nerves than poor Hans was possessed of, He was informed that his wie, assisted by that ‘gay deceiver” Ha’ had removed every vestige of furniture from Lis apartments, and, putting them into a truck, drove oif with them. As soon as hans was able to collect his scatiered thoughts he went im search of the absconding couple, and succeeded, aiter a diligent search, in discovering them at 824 East Twenty-second street, where they had already engaged rooms, They retused to listen to his expostulations against the keeping of his Niture, and told him to do his “best about it.” The warrant was, of course, granted on @ charge of larceny against the fatthless wile and her festive Lothario, and they will, douotless, be arrested. SHOCKING DOMESTIO MISERY. Last evening a respectable looking young me- chanic named Benjamin Price appeared at the Ho- boken police station and unfolded a sad tale of the sufferigs which himself and his children are com pelled to undergo through the cg sede abn of ater, it appears, resides with her his wife. in trequently.in a state ot beastly Intoxt- Her four little cuildren are housea p in the room with her, and frequently feel the pangs of hunger and neglect. The lather, of course, must be away, except at night time, and is in continual dread toatl the house and his chil- dren shall ve burned in bis absence, The unfortue nate Woman has already served two terms of im- prisonment for drunkenness. An officer was sent fo cake her incto castody, aud she was locked up to await trial before the Recorder. The dismal abode jes ohildren were a mourntul spectacie policeman entered to drag her, un- prison, ANOHER SUICIDE IN NEWARK. Andrew Ginter, a German, residing at No, 31 Dickerson street, Newark, blew his brains out with @ pistol on Friday night. For some time past he had had some troable with lawyers and reai estate men, and belleving that he was bei robbed right and left became crazy in dread o} overty. He owned a piece of property worth Bio He had threatened to shoot one Herman k, whose voy saw Ginter purchase a pistol, Yesterday morning Beck appearea at the Court to swear out @ warraat against Ginter. It ‘was not granted, for as much as Ginter had alreaag. arrested, tried, sentenced and havond nog t Olergy and laity of the’ the young, with a glance as juestion,” so deeply agitacing the na- u nool im sub-committee of