The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1872, Page 5

WORSHIP AT THE ACADEMY. Haman Pride and Reconciliation te God— Sermon by Rev. Georse J. Mingins. Since free reilgious exercises were initiated at the Academy of Music the congregations, whiob, at first, were quite large, have been gradually de- creasing tn numbers each successive Sunday even- ‘mg. On several occasions the Academy had been 80 crowded that ‘standing room” was hardly abie to beobtained by those who arrived at the buliding ‘vy the time that the services opened. This, how- ever, Was at @ time when these Sunday evening meetings were a@ novelty, but latterly, the attend- ‘ance has been rapidly falling off in point of num- vers, Last evening the butlding was about half Giled, ‘The services, as usual, were under the direction of Rey. Henry Powers, After singing and prayer Rev. George Mingtas, of New York, was presented and: addressed the assemblage. Though he had | only come to make some informal remarks he asked the iaduigence of being allowed to select a text for those remarks. He selected, tnerelore, tne fourth verse of the tenth psalm—‘The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after @oa.” There were two points in theology he deemed of essential importance; tne first was that all good came from God, and that whatever exceljence per- tained to man God was the author. The second was that the evil and misery of mankind was his own. if we believed God's Word and studied i carefully, bias, ne thought We should have proof of it. He calied attention to ‘Vhe point in the text that there 18 @ character to be deiined. If we saw a man under the influence of drink in the streets we ticketed him as a wicked man, If we found a man openly committing sin we SEITLED HIM OOMPLETZLY soon, and could tell where he would go after Redied. The absence of real piety in the heart in- Yolved @ charge of wickedness in the sight of God, We are too apt to judge each other by human laws, We should judge a person honestly, and as we would desire to be judged. We must Gateonize each ovoer from that book which God had given for eur pgigange, and which He declared our moral and religious status. Unieas a man hath the spirit of Christ he is none of His, A second point Mie a ye. of conduct to be explamed. The ‘wicked, r God, In the first place, the’ speaker believed that Man was allenaied trom God by sin, and that all men had followed the desires of their own wicked Dearts until they bad wandered far from Him. He believed that God’s mercy was watching them, and ‘that there were HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN AND WOMEN %0-day WDO-would declare that they had a witness ‘within, themselves that convinced them of these trutas God had given them asa surety of His decla- Fation of @ peace that the world could neither give mor take away. that there was a God, and for Him to punish injustice and. whto would not seek reconciliation with Him. she great city of New York there were only 70,000 McR and women professing to serve God, and all fotng soe ies ghar stinger nde go long life's way singing under conde mation of death, making light of the declaration of God, who hi leclared that while He Keepeth mercy for thousands, He will in no wise are the guilty, It was sad, but true, that men even under condemnation of death refused to seek Feconciltation with God. Infidels laughed at the Bible a8 a bundle of old women’s fables, Mr. Mingips alluded to the desire of men to resembic to resemble a Fisk, a ‘Tweed, or others of wat sort! How many young men there were straining after no 4 BRILLIANT DIAMOND, How fw, indeed, there were who attention to another point—the cause assigned for this. cond @ psaimist said, “fhe wicked meant an undue esteem of himecit. It did ot unk how a man is convicted, as to the life he 1s. fling into his breast thia devilisn pride. But a great many men, after they had become Caristians, were DRMOCRATA OR RBEUBLICANR:. and yet how many there wero who, having this pride their hearts, ref be reconciled to eause God demal that they should Him, _ bi tps orgs table to ay tt Bikea Ben “tt tt bs a je hard-fiste find” che vender kid gloves for the rich He ig san they would only and the same Master presided there, For God's sake let us gee rid of this.pciae aud learn what we are mend the Gospel to ail, and to have tem accept It. THE NEW NORMAL COLLEGE, , the City. One of the most important butidings now in mal Uollege, sliuated on the block bounded by Fourth avenue on the west, Lexington avenue on the street on the south. This college 1s destined to take the place now occupied by the Normal College May 1, 1873, The citizens of New York will be In- flebtead to the present Board of Education, ap- female college, When the subject was first brought ‘ap before the Board of Eaucation they agreed to for the new college. That presented by Mr. Arthur Totten was awarded the premium. It was in the and it was estimated would cost the city about $659,000. The Board of Education had all Nathaniel Sands, who raised an objection to the amount of expenditure, and finally gaining Mr. amount was reduced to $350,000, which was after- wards granted by an act of the Assembly. The new spore about thirty-two lots. It was designed b; . David Stagg, and is of the Euuzabethan aehoa cl eet in black cement, and the lower portion faced with yellow sandstone. The front of the building is me tower, the design of which has been taken from that now adoruing Dr, Philips’ church, in Filth which is a copy of the tower of St. Magda. Jen’s College, pond and generally considered some one or ‘something great. How many sought greater idea than to get and a carriage, desired to resemble Christ. ‘Ihe preacher .called uct. Th oe the pride of bis heart,” &c, By pride Mr, living and the duty peiore him, if Satan can only terrible cowards. Men were not afraid to bo 5 pokn0} efore 10 against ements to the poor, but it required no obj Mteve thay the same tavie And who we are, In conclusion he desired to com. The Hancsomest Educational Instituilon in vourse of construction in this city 1s the new Nor- tast, Sixty-ninth street on the north and Sixty-eighth on Fourth street, the lease of which expires on pointed in 1869 by Mayor Hall, for this magnificent offer a prize of $1,200 for the best design suitable Gotnio style of architecture, built of brown stone, agreed upon this design with the exception of Mr, Bherwood and some others over to his views, the butiding will front on Fourth avenue, and cover the of arciiitecture; constracied of Philadeiphia ornamented in the centre with 9 very handso! avenue, between Elevenvh and Twelltn streets, to be one of the handsumest collegiate structures in the United Kingdom. The new Normul Coliege 4s being built to accommodate 1,500 pupils, as in the present building they have not suffici¢nt room. The average dally altepdance of the past year was about 940 pupils, Ana on Depember 381, 1871, they registered 1,047, The butiding will contain class rooms for 1,500 scholars, and also a lange assembl, ball, with capacity for 2,000 persons, ‘This hall will be used jor lectures, general examinatiogs, &c. ‘The course of instruction will occupy, as at Lape a space of three years, and the pupils will be divided mto ‘three classes, viz ;—introductory, sophomore and seniors. Suilicient space will be jest at the rear oi the Normal Coliege ior building a training cul- lege, lu which the pupils of the Norma College can be educated as teachers, Pupils will ve received at this new educational Palace after thoy have at- tained their sourteenti ar, ‘The average of pupils in the present college is avout sixteen, ana by act of Legislature it will be neces- gary to have previously passed at least one year in one of the public schools, This latter clausé it ap- pears the Board of Education are anxious to have @bolisned, as they state there are Magy instances in which such a law becomes objectionable, For ine stance, a merchant may have educated his daugh. ters privately, out suddenty fails in business, and del from giving them tae benefit of @ con legiaie education at the, Normai College withous fending them first for a year to one of the public schools. Tne new Normai College 1s peogroestng Fapidly, and the workmen are now occapied on the story. It is expected that the college will be compieted early 1 year, and ready to receive Pupils by the lat of May. 1873. It 1s centrally located, 48 pupiis come from ail quarters of Manhattan Island, d will find it easy of access by the Fourth and Madison uvenues and Third avenue lines of cars, The ceremony of laying the corner stone of tho new Normal College wiil pe celebrated to-morrow at noon, Should the weather prove unfavorable the exercises will take place on we first fair day. Mr. Bernard Smyth, President of the Department of Pubdite Instruction, will preside. The exercises will Fa with prayer by the Rey, Willlam Ortis- Mn, D. D., one of the ininisters of the Collegiate Dutch cniirch, and after a ite music Commissioner Wiliam Wovd, chairman of the College Commitee, ‘will make a brief statdineut respecting the organt- Salion and progress of the Normal College. Uom- Missioner Enoch L. Fancher wil then deliver an address, after which the exercises will be concluded by 9 fow remurka from President Thomas Hunter, of the Normal College. Messrs. William Woud, Na- thamel Jarvis, Jr., Magnus Gross, Enoch L. Fancher SS Wiitam L, Duryea consutute the committee of 6 Board of duc now Normal Gor ation WHO are in charge of the we. ROW IN A WILLIAMSBURG BALLROOM. At an carly hour yesterday morning Officer Frank McQuade was culled into Union Hall, Clymer street avd Division avenue, to quell a disturbance in the ballroom. While doing so thi I om a uy end tase aug an vecery nevereae 4 ana yu mas Fre’ seal were arrested and locked dp.” ie vee 1 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, SAINT PATRICK. Service and Sermon at Si. Pat- rick’s Cathedral Yesterday, FATHER TOM BURKE AND THE SAINT, The History, Career, Teaching and Characteris- ties of St, Patrick Eloquently Described, IRELAND'S RELIGIOUS HISTORY. Yesterday morning the Cathedral was crowded with an attentive congregation, and a large number of persons who arrived late were unable to obtain | admission, Tne Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey | oficiated as celebrant, assisted by Very Rev. Dr. | Starra, V. 8S. The deacons of honor were Very Rey. F, Lilly, 0, 8, D., and Very Rev. F, Bapst, 8. J.; Rev. Father McNamee was deacon; Fathers Keane and | Kearney, sul-deacons, and Rev. F. Kearney, master of ceremonies, Alter the Gospel had been chanted , by Rev. Father McNamee, the celebrated Dominican | priest, Faihar “Tom’? Burke, ascended the pulpit. Ina moment all were silent, Every eye was dl- rected toward the great pulpit orator, and every ear Strained to caton the first sound of his voice, The reverond father selected the following as his text:— Let us now praise men of renown, and our | fathers in their generation * * * these men of merey whose godly deeds have not talled; good things contimue with their seed, Their posterity are ; a holy inheritance; and their seed hath stood in the | covenants of their children for their sake remain for ever; their seed and their glory shall not be for- saken. Let the people show forth their wisdom and the Chureh declare their praise.” (Eccl. 44.) After an introductory reference to the duty of the day, which was to obey the commana of God oxpregsea in the text, the father descanted at length upon the celebration of saints by the Church, He traced rapidly, but graphically, the establishment of Onrise tlanity in the world, and as to 1ts totroduction to | Ireland by St. Patrick, he proceeded to say as {0l- lows:— The conversion of Ircland from the time of St. Patrick’s landing to the day of hig death, is, in many Fespects, the strangest fact in the history of the | Church, The saint met with no ‘oppusition; his parece, resembles more the triumphant progress of a ing than the dificult lavor of a missionary. Gospel, with its lessons and precepts of self-denial, prayer, of purity, in a world of the violence which | selzes on heaven, is not congenial to fallen man. | His pride, his passions, his Es Of intellect and | hacdness of heart, all oppose the spread of the Gos- | pel; so that the very fact that mankind has so ui versally accepted it, is adduced ag a proof that 16 must be from God. ‘Ihe work of the Catholic miissionary has, Seen ever been, and must continue to be, 4 work great labor wi ently small results. Sucn has itever been among all the nations, and yet Irciand seems a grand ex- ception. She is, perhaps, the only country in the world that entirely owes her converston to the work of one man, He found her universally Pagan; he left her universally Christian, she 1s, again, the | only nation that never cost her apostle an hour of | sorrow, @ single tear, a drop ot blood. She wel comed him like a friend, took the Word from hi lips, made it at once the leading feature of her life, ] ut it foto the blood of her children and into the | language of her most familiar thoughts, and repaid her benefactor with her utmost veneration and love. And much, truly, hi young Caristian Treland to love and venerate her great apostle, All pancee coming as it does irom God, is an imi- | tation of Godin man. ‘This is the meaning of the | word of the apostle “those whom he foreknew and predestined to be made comlormabie to the image of His Son, the same He called, and justified, and lorified.’’ Conformity io the iusge of God 1s there- fore Christian perfection or sanctity, “the mystery which was hidden from eternity with Christ in God.’” but as our Lord Jesus Christ, ‘in whom dwelt the ' fulness of the Godhead corporaily,” is an abyss of all perfeciions, so do we find the saints aifering one Jrom another in their varied participations of His to His qivine gifts, for #o | “Har Giocreen 10m Bia til glory.” Znen among the apostles, we are accustomed to! thing and speak of the impulsive zeal of Peter, THE VIRGINAL PURITY OF JOHN, &c., not as i{ Peter were not pure, or John want- | ing in zeal, but that where all was the work of the spirit of God one virtue shone torth more promi- nently, and seemed to mark the specific character of sanctity in the samt. Now, among the many great virtues which adorned the soul of Jreland’s apostle and made him go dear to the people 1 tind three whicn he made especially mis own, and these were a spirit of penance, deepest humility and a de- vouring Zeal for the salvation of souls, A spirit penance, It is remarkable and worthy of special Notice in these days of self-tnduigence and fanciful religions how practical the Gospel is. It is pre-eml- nently not only the science of religious Knowledge | but aiso of re'igious life, It tells usnot only what we are to believe, but also what we'are todo. And, now, what is tne Grst great precept of the Gospuif It is penance. brethren, “do penne for the klagdom of Gi is atnand.”” And when, on the day of Pentecost, the Prince of the Apostles first raised pp the standard of Christianity upon tho earth, the people, “when they heara these things had compunction in their hearts, and said to Peter, and to tne restof the Aposties, what snall we do, menand breturen? and Poter said to them, do pen- ance, and be baptized every one of you.’? This Spirit of penance Was esseNtially Patrick’s, His gpa had been holy; preserved irom earilest cnild- | ood by “the blessings of sweetness,” he had grown ; up like a lily in purity, in holy tear and love. Yet for the carelessnees and slight indiscretions of his first years he was filled with compuncton, and with ‘a Ifte-iong sorrow. Hissin, as he culled it, ‘was always before him, and with the prophet he cried out, “wno will give water to my nead anda fountain of tears to mine eyes, and 1 will weep day and night.” In his journeyings he was wont lo spend the mght in prayer and tears and biter tes tee as if he was the greatest of sinners; und when he hastened from “Koyal Meath” into the far west of tne island we read that when Lent a@pproached he suspended his labors for a ume and ‘went up the steep, yugged side of Croagn Patrick, and there, like his Divine Master, he spent the holy time in lasting and prayer; and his “tears were his food night and day.” Whitnersocver he went he left traces of his penitential spirit bebind him, and Patrick’s penance and Patrick’s purga- tory are still familiar traditions in t jand, Thus, my 7 who 3: brethren, did he ‘sow in tear Was destined to reap in 8v much joy; for 80 1t is ever with God’s saints, who do bis work on this earth; “going, they went and wept, scatter! the seed, but coming they shall come with joy. His next great personal virtue was & wonderful humility. Now, this virtue springs from & two- fold knowleage—namely, the knowleage of God and of ourselves, This was the Gouble kuowledge jor which the peat Saint Augustine prayed, “Lord let me know Thee and know myself, that {may love ‘Thee and despise myself ;” and this did our salut poeress in an eminent degree. This knowledge of od convinced nim of the utter worthlessness of all things besides God, aud even of God’s gills, except when used for Himself; and therefore he did all zhings Sor God and nothing for self, and of *his own he gave flim-back again;’? he lost sight of himself in advancing the interests aud the cause of God, he hid bimsclf betfind his work in which he labored for Gou; and strangely enough, bis very name and nis- tory come down to us by reason of his great hamtl- ity, for ne would write himself a sinuer, and calls himself “Patrick, an unworthy and ignor: sinful man; for so he saw himself, judging bimseif by the standard of INFINITE HOLINESS IN JESUS CHRIS?, by which we also shall be one day judged. After descanting at some length upon-the hamil. ity and the virtues of the saint, he said:—Tne culiar points Of st. Patrick's teaching were the fol- lowing:—Fideilty to St, Peter's chair and to Si. Peter’s successor, the Pope of Rome; devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary, prayer and remembrance for the dead, and confiding obedience and love tor their bishops aud priests. These were the four greet prominent features of Patrick’s teaching. y the firat—namely, fidelity to the Pope —he se- cured the unity of tne Irsn Church as a living Inember of the Church Catholic; by the second—ue- votion to the Blessed Virgin—he secured the purity and morality of the peuple; by the third—care of the dead—he enlisted on the side of Catholic truth the natural love and strong feelings of the Irish char- acter; and by the last—attachment and obedience te the priestnood—he secured to the Irish Churc! the principle of internal union, which is the secre of her strength. Ho preached fidelity and uoswery- ing deuotion to the Pope—the head of the Catholic Church, Coming direct from Rome, and filled with ecclesiastical knowledge, hé opened up before tne eyes of nis new children and revealed to them the grand aesign of Almighty God in His Church, He showed them 1n the world around them the wonder- ful uarmony Which speaks of God; then rising into the higher World of grace he preached to them the still more wonderful harmony of redemption and of the Church; the Church, so vast a8 to fili the whole earth, yet As united in’ doctrine and practice as if she embraced only the members of one small family or thej inhabitants of one littie village; the Churen, embracing all races of men, and leaving to all their full individual freedom of thought and action, yet animating all with one soul, quickening all as with one life aud one heart, guiding all with the dictates of one immutable conscience, and keeping every, even the least member, under the dominion of one head. Such was the Church on which Patrick e grafted Ireland, ‘A glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle;”’ @ perfect body, the very mystical bod: of Jesus Christ, through which “we, being wil olives, are engrafted on Him, the true olive tree,’? 80 that ‘we ure made the flesh of His flesh and bone of fils bones.’ Now Patrick taught our fathers, with truth, that the soul, the life, the héart, the conscience and the head of the Charch is Jesus Christ, and that His representative on earth, to whol has communicated all His graces and por THB POPE OF ROME, the visible head of God’s Uburcli, the Bishop of , Which, for 1,600 years, has kept them, | or Mlary’s | which oblations, prayers and sacrifice ior tne ventre of unity and of doctrine, the rock the corner stone on which the wiole e@- a of the Gasen 4 founded and buil N pointed out in the Scriptures, from our Lord to Peter. fas the shepherd of wold, whose duty it was to “feed botn lambs sheep” with “every word that cometh from Peter was the rock to sustain and uphold the Church : thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Cnurci’? (words wuich are the few Pea Of faith in these days of sorrow), al forte Of éueinies, Tee 08, eu nouncing errors, bukiog sinners, gui the gonna, strengthe: the weak, con! he strong ; and EO Ce “ou Peter, confirm thy brethren.” tric! pact the Irish peo; saw the c le not to be scaudalized if they ‘roas upon Peter’s shoulders, and the crown of thorns upon His head, fur so Christ live: in His Church and in her supreme Pastor; but He also. Samet them (hat he who strikes Peter strikes Lord; He taught them what history nia taught that “whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised; and upon whomsoever it shall tall it will grind nim to powder.” fie taugut them that in when (vey separated irom Peter they sepa- ‘om Christ, as did the foolish mea in the Goapel:—“‘Ater tile many of His disciples wout | back and walked no more with Him. ThenJesus said to the twelve, will you also goaway? And Simon Peter answerec him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of evernal lite.’ Thus it was, wy brethren, that He bound them to “the Tock ol ages,” to veter’s chair, with firmest bouds a oer and love, ana infused into their souls SUPERNATURAL INSTINCT, through good report and evil report, through persecution and sorrow, faithful and loyal to the Holy Sez of Rome, It was@ bond of obedience and love that bound Ireland to Rome, Thus, inthe bezinning of the seventh ceniury, when the Irish Bisiops as- sembled to consiver the quesiion of celebrating Bus. ter, we tnd the fathers selecling some “wise and bumble m and sending them to Rome for in- struction, “as children to ther mother; and tue m obedience to a primitive law of the Irish Church, which enacted thas, in every dificuity that might arise, “the question should be referred to the Head Of Cities,” a8 Rome was calied, This devodua Wo the Holy See saved Ireland in the daj of trial. The next great feature in Patrick's preaching was | devotion to the Motwer of God, Of this we have abundant proo! in the numerous churches built and dedicaced to God under her name. Zeampoill Mhuire, Jhurch, became a familiar name in the land. In the far west of Ireland, where the vradi- Mons of our holy faith are still preserved, enshrined in the purest form of our grand oid Celtie lan- guage, ihe sweet name oi the Mother of God is eard in the prayers and songs of we people in their daily igmiltar converse, in the supplicattons of the poor, not under the titie of * Our » or of + Biessed Virgin,” but by the still more endeanng name (Muire Mathair) **Mary Mother.” And 80 it was that Patrick sent his Catholic doctrines nome to the hearts of the people. He ached Jesus Christ under the name by whi known and adored iu that far western land (Mac na Maighdine), “The Virgin's Sou’’ thas adnurabiy insinuating the fzoat mystery of the incarnation, and preaching Jesus through Mary, and Mary ler. seli he preached, with all ber graces and glories, a8 “Mary Mother.’” ‘the example of her virginal purity and maternal love ne nude the type of THE IRISH MAIDEN and mother, and so weil did they learn their nigh lesson, that they have been for ages the admiration of the world and the glory of their ailiicted country. The devotion to Mary sank deep into the heart of tne nation. So well had they already learned to love and appre- ciate her, that, in aiew years after their conversion , tothe faith, when they would express their love and aamiration for the first great irish virgin saint—St. Bridget—they thougnt they had crowned her with glory when -they called her “the Mary of ireland.’”’ This devotion to Mary was a protecting shield over Ireland in the day oi ber battie tor the ny The third great prominent point in St, Patrick’s preaching was the doctrine of purgatory, and, Consequently, carelul thought and earnest prayer for the dead, This 1s attesied by the or. dinances of the most ancient Irian synods, im ure dead are irequentiy mentioned, as eviuently being the praciice, frequent and loving, of the jurch, Whey were not unmindful of the dead, “like Others who have no aope.” Every ancient church had ite httle graveyard, and tne jealous care of the People, even to this day, lor these consecrated spots, the loving tenacity with which they have og to them at alitiines, speak of their faith in this great doctrine, and tell us how much Irish hope and love surrounds the [ edted “Nowhing is our own except our dead,” says the poet, aad so these aftec- taonate hearts took with joy the doctrine of mercy, and carried their love and their prayer veyond the tomb tntv the realms of explauion, Wuere the dross of earth is purged away, the gold and silyer refiued and souls saved are prepared tor Heavén, “yet so the Church, so forck fas by ure’? This doctrine of bly taughe by Patrick, and warmly acce irene the Irish people, waa aiso § lence to Lins nd re fonta faith during tho odie sorrow, evouon to the mother of God was the next great feature of Patrick’s preachiag and of Ireland's Oatholicaty. The image of all thut was fairest in nature and grace, Which arose belore the eyes of the people, as depicted by the great Apos les, captl- vated their imaginations and their hearts, They called her in their prayers “Midendheelisi,” their darling Virgin. In every family in the land tie eldest daughter was a Mary; every Irish maid or mother emulated the purity of her virgtnal inno- cence or the strengin and tenderness of ner mater- hal love. With the keenne=8 of love tuey associaied their dally sorrows and joys with hers; and the in- eflable grace of maiden modesty which clung to the very mothers of Iretand seemed io be the brightest reneanina of Mary whicb nad lingered upon the earth. Finally the great Saint established between the People and their priesthood the firmest bonds oF of pérsecuuon ana mutual confidence and love. In the Uatholic Church | the priest 1s separated from men and consecrated to God. The duties of his office are so high, so holy and supernatural, and require such purity of life and devotion of soul, tuat he must of neceasit; stand aloo: from among men and ongage nimself ith God; for, tu use the words Oi the Apostie, ne is “the minister of Christ and the dispenser of the mysteries of God.” The Irish Church knew no child- hood, no ages of painful and uncertain struggle to put on Chrisuan usages and establish Christian traditions. Like the children in early tS of the Church, who were con- firmed in infancy immediately aiter baptism, Treiand was called upon as soon as converted to become at once the mother of saints, the nome and refuge of learning, the reat tnstructress of the nauons; and, perhaps, the history of the world qoes not exnivit a more sinking and giorions sight than Ireland for the 300 years immediately follow- tng her conversion to the Uatholic faith, ‘The whole island was covered witn schools monasteries, io which men the most renowned of their age, voth for learning and sanctity, recelved the thousands of students who flocked to them from every land, Whole clues were given up to them, as we read of Armagh, Which was divided into three parts:— “Trian-more.”” or the town proper; | *Trian-Pat- rick,” or the Cathedral Close, and “Lrian-Sussen- Sate or the Latun quarter, the home of the foreign students, A long historical sketch of tne religious history of Ireland was introduced here, alter which the per- petuity of the fultn was referred to as 1ollows:— Ireland’s preservation of the Catholic faith bas veen a puzzle to the world, and men have sought to explain in many different Ways the extraordinary phenomenon. Some ascribe it to our natural an- tupathy and opposition to England and everyting English; others again allege tue strong conser- vatism of THE IRISH CHARACTER, and its veneralion for ancient rites and usages, merely because tney are ancient, while English ms- torians and philosophers love to attribute it to the natural obstinacy and wrong-headeaness which they say is inherent in the Irish. 1do not deny that among the minor and human causes that influenced the religious action of tne Irian people, there may have been a hatred and detestation of England, The false religion was.piesented to our fathers by the de- tested hands that had robbed Ireland of her crown; it was offered at the point of the sword that had shed (olien treacherously and foully) the biood of her bravest suns; the nauseous dose of Protestanusm was mixed in the bowl that Poisoned the lust of her great euris, Owen Roe O'Neil. All this may have told with the irish peo- ple; and Lalso admit that @ Uhurcn ana religion claiming tobe of God with such dlvinely-ap- pointed head as the saintly Henry the Elghtn, such @ pursing mother as the chaste Klizabeth, such entie missionaries as the humane and tenuer- jearted Oliver Cromwell, may have presented dimi- culties to a people whose wits were sharpened by adversity, and Who were not wholly ignorant of the Christian character as tilustrated in the history aud traditions of their native land, We may also adinit to a slight extent the con- servatism of the Irish character and its veneration for autigaicy, Oh, how much our fathers had to love in their ancient religion! Their history began with their Christianity; their glories were all mter- twined with their religion; their national banner ‘as inscribed with the embiem of their faith, “the green, tmmortat shamrock; the brightest names in thelr history were ail associated with their religion; ‘“Matachy of the collar of gold,” dying in the midst of the monka, and clothed with their hoty habit, on an isiand of Lough Ennel, near Mul- lingar, in Meat rian, “the great King,” upnoid- ing the crucifix before his army onthe morning of Clontarf, ana ex} epiring. 1n its embraces before the sun set; the brave Murkertach o'brien answering fear- lessly the threat of William Rufus—for, when the English King said, looking towards Ireland, ‘{ will bring hither my ships, and pass over and conquer the Jand.”” “Hath tne King,” asked the Irisi at threatenings i ait And when answered no, ‘Then tell im,’? exclaimed the Irish hero, “1 fear him nos Since he puttet? his trust in man and not in God;”? Rogerick jonnor, the last “high king” of ireland, closing his career of disaster and of glory among the canons of the Abbey of Cong; saint and bard and hero, ail alike presented themselves to the national mind surrounded by the halo of that re- eee which the people were ow called upon to abandon and despise. Powerful as was the appeal of history and antiquity 1 cannot give it any great Weight 1 the preservation of Ireland’s Catholicity, I do not betieve that adherence to ancient usage be- cause of its SL 1s @ prominent feature of Irish character, We are by no.means so conserva- tive as our English neighbors, It is worthy of re- mark that usages apd cusioms once common to both countries, and long since abandoned and for- owen in Ireland (Uhriatmas “waits,” for inst harvest home-feasts, May-pole Gauces and the keh are still kept up faathfully and universally throughou! England, The belis which, in Vathoite times, called the people to early mas#, on Sunday morning, aro this | erd in the early mornotag the | the essential matter ot reli LAB Ses ates S| still rung out as of old through mere love of ancient | Usage, althougn their ringiug from Protestant tlow- has no me: whatever, | for 1t Mvites to no service or prayer. And yet in igion, where jaity It | Self is @ proof of truth, the conservative ae Ashu things seers See el tad | gerdiess of antiquity— an : shed their blood for the old reli He tamer than { tara for one Instant to the strange smposture of the , Rew. But none of these purely natural explanations | Si ereteriag barren oe netiace cnaeien aoua | Rnataeath, rather isa wurrace t vikyand | the true reason i!¢3 in the all-important circum. stance ‘nat the religion of the Irish People was the rue religion of Jesus Christ, bringing not only light | fo the intel , Dut grace strength to ' heart and will of the uation. it of their | ' 1 | divine faith auowed them the hollowness anc fall | of Protestantism, in which they recognized an oi rage u im Gomnmon sons and. Teason, a3 well as ' upon God; @ grace of their holy Catholic religion enabled them to suffer and die in Xs defence, | Here 1¢ is wat we nize Ve providence of God in the preach! of bt. Patrick, The new and false religion led precisely these points of Catholic Leacaing which he had engraved most deeply on the mind and heart of Ireland, as if he had anticipated the trial and prepared for it. Attachment to tne Holy See was more ian a senument—it was a pas- sion in the Irishbosom. ‘Ihrough goon report and ; evil report ireland was alWays fuithful to Peter's | | chair, and it is a curious fact that when the Chris tian World Was coniased dy the pretensions of auti- Popes and ail the nativns of Christeniom were, at one ti ne or other, Jed astray, so as to acknowledge some false pretender, Ireland, with ap instinct truly supernatural, never failed to discover, to proclaim and to ovey the true Ponti, she is A THE ONLY CATHOLIC NATION that never was, for a mo:nent, separated irom Peter, or mistakeil in her allegiance to him, Her prayer, | ; Mer obedience, ner love, were the sure inheritance | Of each succeeding Pope, trom Celestine, Wno sent | St. Patrick to Ireland, to Pius, who, in our own day, bekeid Patrick’s chiidrea guarding his vener- able tarone and prepared to die in his glorious | cause, Inevery Catholic land upiun with Komo is @ principle, iti ireland 1t was a devotion, And | 80, When the evit genius of Protestantism stalked through the land, ana with loud voice demanded of the lnish Repnle separation irom Rome or their lives, the faithful people of Goc consented to div Tather thaw to renouuce the faith of weir fathers | transmitted to them Lurougn the saints. Now, Laay that, in all this, we see tne pt God in the labor of Ireland's ponous ry ‘ho | can deny that the religion which St. Paurick gave to Ireland is divine? A tuousand years of sanctity | attest 1t; 300 years of martyrdom atiest It, It mem wil deny the virtues which it creates, the fortitude which 16 res, tet them look to the history of Ireland. If men way that the Catholic religion. flourishes only because of ine splendor of its cere~ | monial, the grandeur of }ts liturgy and ita appeal , to the let them look totne history of ire- | land, What sustatued the faith when Church and | altar disappeared? when no light burued, no organ pealed, but all was desolution for ceatunes? FOREIGN ARI NOTES, The directors of the Académie des Beaux Arts have resaived to introduce some mnovations this | Year. Owing to the embarrassed financial condi- Vion it has been decided what a certain charge for admission will be made, except on two days in the ‘Week, when the salon will te free, as formerly. A | Mavter cf still more Importance from an art point of view 1s the announced imtenuon of | Fejecuug such works as do not give | evidence of considerable merit. ‘This 1s certainly a step in the rignt direction, and oue that might oe imitated fn our own Academy exhibitions With great advantage to that institution as weil ag to the public. Tne directors of the Beaux Aris have decided aiso on the Jurmation of a museum, to be made up ol copies of celevrated pictures. We cannot say that wo like the tdea much, as copies of Great paintings are seldom successful, and can be \ Well executed only by men who could employ their ume much better in giving form and expression to original works, into which they mignt infuse something of the living spirit witnin. them instead of trying to” galvanize the souls of other men into new lite. If we may judge from the evidence furnished at the late art sales in Paris the heavy misfortunes that have fallen upon her have not much diminished her love for what is beautiful, nor her ability to mark that loveoy generous recognition. A fine work { py Tryon, mays Drinking at a Pond,” brought the ; large sum of $2,040 10 guid; “Tne Death of Hassan,” by lacrolx, $1,000, and a landscape by yunus Dupré | $1,000, AsdmMour A baling Ciediaied Paris by. ‘thé linperiaitst party that tne Vendéme column ill be shority restored, but there is stro.g reason 0 regard It simply a8 a canard, intended Lo feel tne ST. PATRICK’S DAY. The Processions, Dinners, Balls, Ora- tions and General Festivities. iq GREAT DAY FOR IRELAND,” Itis but once in seven or elght years that St. Patrick's Day happens to tall ou sunday, and, a8 @ natural consequence, all secular and civic ag well as military observances of the festival will nave to take place to-day. Yesterday, luckily, was not the day on which out-door festivities were to take place, as the streets and sidewalks Were very sloppy, owing to the meited snow, and, had the procession taken place, many a new’ pair of boots and many a clean white shirt would have been splashed with the mud and slop of the highways. To-uay, it the weather 1s flue and dry, and with a 004, cheerful sun above in the heavens, the pro- cession Will no doubt surpass that of any previous year, One of the cnief teatures of the display this Year will be the turnout of the “Gallowglasses,” a body of men in the costume of the ancient Irish warriors, who were just as good pagans in thelr hearts a8 much as they are good Catholica at present, Many of our public buildings will to-day display the Irish and American flags, and in the evening all theatres will be filled with joyous crowus, eager and willing to celebrate the natal day of Ireland’s | patron saint Av some of the theatres there will be special performances given tu commemorate the festival. ‘ihe Sixty-ninth regiment non-commla- sioned oficers’ ball, which will come of m tne evening, is uiways ihe occasion of fun, iroilc, good fellowship aud enjoyment, ‘Those geatiemen who may have the good fortune to ultead te dinner of the Knights of st, Patrick, at Deimonico's, will have an opportunity of listening to that rare and gifted orator, the great Dominican iriar, father Tom Burke, whose witty after-dinner speeches are sald 9 fh far more enjoyable than bis eiforts in the Tne Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will hold their elahty-eigith annual dinuer at the Hotel Brunswick, corner of Fifth avenue and Tweuty-sixth street, and several distinguished guests are expected to be present on the occasion. One of the teuvures of the procession will be the cocked hat, whicn 18 to be wora by Mr. Jonn Henry, and Wuich was cap- tured at sedan by a Prussian Unian and sent to this couatry. ir, ilenry 18 to represent toe mer- Caultile interest of the metropolis iu the procession. ‘the Ancient Order of Hiberniins, th? most power fal Irish organization in America, Will turn out, it ig said, fully twenty thousand men io tine if the Weather 18 at all toleravie, This order is of great strength in tins city, aud there will be several new banuers in tts ranks, ‘he St. Patrick Mutual Alite @LCe, Composed Wholly Of Natives Of Lae province ot Munster in Ireland, will parade 6,000 inen, and the Barry Benevolent. avsociation, chiefly composed of nucives Of the county Wexford, will tira out 60) men, and the temperance societies will turn out about wwelve thousand strong, so that it is quite probapie there will be 6,000 processionists inline, The sixty-ninia regiment will parade 600 men, the Legion of St. Patrick (a Fenlan organiza- on) 450 men, and the various other military bodtes Will tura out with iull ranks, Ja the evening the Innistallen Club, of Hariem, wil five 4 bull, Lo Which the fashion ana beauty of that locality will be invited, ‘The procession wii move at one o’ctock precisely, when the sigual gua will be fired. As goon as the multary, under command of Colonel James Cay- auagh, shall have passed the right of the civic bodies each society i its order will fall ute column and proceed down Second aveune to Seconda street, up Second § sireet to the Bow- ery, down the Bowery to Chatham street, across the City Hall Park, where the procession will be reviewed by His Honor Mayor Hail and the Common Council; up Broadway to Union square, saluting and passing round Washingion’s, monu- ment; down Fcurteenth street to Seventh avenue; up Sevenin avenue to Thirty-rourth street; across ‘rhirty-fourth street to Second avenue; down Second avenue to Twenty-third street; down Twenty-third siveet to First avenue to Lighth street, to Cooper Ansutute, Where the procession will be dismissed. ‘The procession will fora on Second avenue, the peda! on Eighteenth street, tu the following Orders Ancient Order of Hiberntans of New York. Avelent Order of Hiberntans, Division No. 1, of Morrisania, Westchesler county. Ancient Order of Hivernians, Division'No. 8, of Westchester, Quarrymen’s Union Protective Soclety, New York. St. Bridget’s Mut Benetit and Be Trapblock Makers’ United Protectit lent Society, nd popular pulse and keep the Bonapartes before the popular mind, It 1s said that Wnen the restorauon taka place the ridiculous Classical statue which crowhed the columa will be replaced by THE LITTLE COavORAL, in his well known gray coat, as appealing more directly tothe popular zentiment, It will take all the giory of the earlier triumphs of the Corsican tyrant to blot out the memory oi the reign of Napo- Jeon the Little, and we are rather iciined to think | Laat with the exception of moucnards vut of piace and ex-Senators without incomes there are realy very few meni France Who waut the Bonapartes back again, ‘The tine art exhibition at Ghent nas been remark- abiy successiul, purchases to something like torty- five thousand dollars being announced—a most un- usual occurrence at @ provincial exhibition, in Paris a subscription has veen opened at the Ecole des Beaux Aristo deiray tue expense of a monu- ment to the memory of THE GALLANT YOUNG PAINTER, Henri Regnault, whose paintings, ** An Execution in a Moorisn Paiace”’ and an equestrian portral or General Prim, attracted such general notice in the London interuational Kxnimition last year, When the Prussians besieged Paris this gifted artist laid down his brush and buckled on a sword, He tell fighting gallantly in the action at Buzenval. ‘she Moniceur Beige clains that the Belgian artists disposed of palntiags vw the amount of $41,000 at the London International Extubition. Tne Emperor of Austria nas generously con- ohana, 100,000f. for tne restoration of the Museuin of Nancy. ne interesting controversy as to the correct pose Of tne Milo Venus, which was caused by M. Felix Ravaissou's statement that a grievous faulc had been cominitied in the restoration of the Grecian masterpiece, seems likely to be set finally at rest vy the exhibition of three casts of tne figure, in two of ‘which the errors in the restoration Which M. Ravals- gon discovered bad been corrected. ‘The result of the correction is generally admitted to give an obvious accession of grandeur and elevation to the figure, It 18 not yet determined whether the proposed alteration can be effected without danger of injury to the marble statue, and unless inis question can be saasfactorily seted no rectification will be at- mM pred. it 1s reported that 9 picture by Title, styled “La Vierge au Vole,” has been discovered im an old house at Yurin, where it is said to have been re- moved soon alter the taking of Rome by the Con- stubie de Bourbon, since which event it has bee Jost sight of. ‘the exhibition of fine arts, which ts held every other year in Maura snentng, to the establsned Tules, Was opened Ou the 15th of October, atter four years had passed without one. Tue three branches of art—painting, sculpture and architecture—are up) to be represented; but. the paintings are alone worthy of notice, and are far the most nume- rous, bat their numbers are greater than their ar- tustic merit, . Beulé has resumed his lectures on Pompeii, Which were interrupted by the franco-Prussian war. In his lecture at the Royal Institution on Friday, “On Certain Condiiions of Vision as Affecting the Works of Painters,” Dr. Liebreteh, occulist to St. | Thomas’ Hospital, wil try to show that Turuer and Mulready iabored under disease of the eyes during the latter part of their lives, and that this disease gave their pictures many of thelr most cnaracteris- Uc pecuilaritics, DIFFICULTY BETWEEN GERMAN BROTHERS- IN-LAW—ONE KILLED, [From the Chicago Times, March 16.) On Wednesday afternoon & murder was commit- tea at Gross Polnt, a seitiement about sixteen miles north of this city. Though the crime has created the most intense exctiement in that vicinity, its origin 18 but little understood by the regularly electea coroner of the county or by the police av- thorities, for reasons which shail be herealter ex- lalued, From the meagre intelligence which has Tound its way into te city, it would appear that there was an auction at a German house in Gross Point on Wednesday, at which @ large number of the German residenis of the place were gathered. Among those present were Pever Schmidt and Michael Shaffer, who belonged to the netghbor- hood of Winetka. These men are brothers-in-iaw, and it would seem that for some time previous they had been on very untriendiy terms, While the auction was progressing cach drank @ great deal, and before 118 close they met at the house of Paul Herter, Under the infuence of Jatoxtoanen tig old quarrel was renewed, and all that friends could do failed to bring harmony. Efforts were made to separate tile two, but these only served to increase their animosity for each other and inflame their desires for revenge. Finding that those preseut would not permit a fight Schmidt watched his op- portunity and suddenly drew @ revolver, one chamber of which he ng at schatter. The Dall toid with fata! effect, the man felt dead almost instantly. The murderer was taken into custody, and the body was removed to await the action of the coroner, HIGHWAY ROBBERY, Daniel Clifford, of No, 301 West Twenty-seventh street, appeared before Justice Vox, at the Jefferson Market Police Vourt yesterday morning, and com- plained that, while passing through West Twenty- sixth street at an eany hour yesterday mornit he Was assaulted and knocked down by Wiffiatn McCann and three unknown men, who forcibly took his watcn from tis pocket, McCann was arrested by Officer Frazier, of the Twentieth precinct, and | yesterday morning locked up by Jusuce Vox at Jer { Jerson Market, to appear for urial, Soctety, Weehawke: St. James’ Koman Catholic T. A. B, Soctoty. Roman Catholic T. A. B. Society. jonception Roman Catholic T. A, B. Soctety, Young Men's St. James Roman Cxtholic 'f. A. B. Society. St Gabriel's Roman Catholic T. A. B. Socie! St. Colamba’s Roman Catholic T. A. B. Socicty. St. Hriuget’s Roman Catholic T, A.B. Societ: St. Vincent Ferrer’s Roman Cathol St, Michael's Roman Catholle T. g . Society. Society. T, A. B, Foctety, North New hester county. He T A. B. Noclety, Brooklyn. Holy Innocents’ Roman Catholic T. A. St, Jeroue’s Roman Catholic Ky Wet Vall Yor! Assumption Rou St, Peter's Roman Cat ther Mathew Father Machew U, B. T. A. Young Men's Father Mathew Father Mathew 'T. A.B. Bociety, No. 2, New Yor 'N. A. B, Boclety, No. 8, New Yor Father Mathew T. A. B. Society, No. 5, New York, Father Mathew T. A. B, Socfety, No.1, Brooklyn. Father Muihew T. A. B. Soclely, No. 7, Manhattanville, Young Men's Father Mathew '. A.’B. Society, No. 3, St. An- thovy's church, Greenpo Father Mathew T. A. B. Society, No. 3, Brooklyn, F, D, St. Patrick's Alliance Mutual B, B,' Association, nt CELEBRATION OF ST. PATRICKS DAY IN MANHATTAN COLLEGE, The anniversary of St. Patrick was celebrated yesterday evening with great éclat in Man- hattan Colloge by the Jasper Literary Club. ‘The splendid college hall was crowdea to inconvenience by a ilarge and respect- able audience. ‘The entertainment consisted of specches, singing and music, The proccecdings were opened by Mr. Cunnion with a splendid ad- dress on religious institutions, Mr. E. Burke de- livered an eloquent oration on the Portents of the Day, Mr. Walsh on the Confict between Catholicism and Infidelity, Mr. 8. Syrne on Americas Greatness, Mr. Bower on the Sons of Fame and Fortune, Mr. Adams on Archbishop Spalding, Mr, A. Norris on Erin’s Exiles in the New World, and Mr. Geer on the Day We Celevrate, ‘Tne | subjects were all well chosen, well wril- ten and admirably delivered. ‘the two closing orations by Mr. Norris and Mr. Geer evoked the most enthusiastic plauaits of the audi. ence. The young orators seemed to be more Irisa than the Irish themseives, Father 0’Flanerty closed the entertainment in a patriotic und eloquent speecn, in which he congratulated the talented members of the Jasper Literary Ulub on their brilirant success, He paid @ high tribute to the piety, ieroism and | vitality of the Irish race, and predicted a bright | future for Ireland. He concluded in the well- known verse of the Irish poet, T. D. Sullivan:— God save Ireland, say we proudly; God save Ireland, say we all, PATRICH?S DAY IN 32 ‘The natal day of Iretand’s patron saint will be | celebrated nowhere with more spirit and tervor than in Jersey City. The Hibernian and Father Mathew societies will have a procession, the route extending about eight mies. The Knights | of St, Patrick will hold a grand banquet this even. ing at Cooper's Halil, at which several promivent men from different parts of the State will be pres- ent, The Emmet Guard will have a dali at st. Jonn’s Hall. The Friendly Sons of Ireland will dine | at Tayior’s Hotel. ST. PATRICK AND THE MERALD BifGRi- PHER. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— In the sketch of St. Patrick’s Ife in your issue of yesterday your usually correct “gicaner” is very faulty, or maliciously incorrect in his account of the birth of the Saint, his captivity and the religion of the ancient Scots, as the Irisn were then called. He must have been in @ great hurry to interview the pious old gentieman, and I fear he has only caught a glimpse at “Chamber,” or some other equaily terse and false authority. First—For the last fiity years it 18 conceded by grery wijter of any authority that the saint was rn in Armorica, near pte apa ed in the ve cinity of Lonavem, or Bononi Dis confessions as “Lonavem Taberpid.””* It is also proven that lt wag i the 408, *Niall-Naol- Ghallach” (Niall of tae nite hostages) ravaged Gaul and captured 200 hostages, and among them st, Patrick; but Niall himself was Kiiled by a polsoned arrow on the banks of tie Liane, near where St. Patrick’s father resided—name: Calphuraus, son of Potilus, a Roman oficer and Qeacon, a8 appears by bis letter to Corottcus, where the Saint reiers to the Romans as his lellow rename, The apostle was bapu Cog “Succath,” which signifies “brave in battle,’ the name of Patricius was couterred on him by Bt Celestine, as indicatuve of his rank, a Christa order of nobility created by Charlemagne. Hence the name of Paddy has a lar nigher, origin and meaning than your Adolphus Charles Augasvus, «co, > ‘There were no “grand old vikings’ hear y id Trelana at that period or for centuries after, an posed he “sweet child’? to one of tei % tinat fact must be an imagt- | and the weaiher was likewise very Benevolent | a, a0d Is so stated in | (g00d word for a scissors gieaner) faith, “on whose: great festivals ine vlood of human beings was spilt Upon the altars-of thetr false gods,” L have unly to state tnat | dare him to produce any decent author, ity that any numan Victim was ever sacrificed in Ireland on any festival, “great’’ or smatl, or any human blood shed: there for faith or sacriice betore the glorious Reformation, since which time blood has been there shed, in which your gleaner, it under seven ieet, could easily swim; and still they keep the fa:th of Patricius, ALLUA, *Labmeau—TMistoire de Bretagne,” vol. 2 p. 7—snows that the country of the Morini, fa which Boulogne stood, Was included in Armorica, RACING IN FRANCS, {From Bell's Lite in London, Maren 2.J PORCHEFONTAINE. The Freuch racing season did not commence ane der very auspicious circumstances last Sunday, a9 the fields at Porchofoutaine were unasuaily small, Unfavorable: | Such a bad start was hardly deserved by the man- | agers of these races, for they are really very liberal | 40 all their programmes, and there was little to find ‘fauit with in the present card, cousidering it boasted of 169 sovs., given money, for three events. ‘yhe first of these was a Hurdle face, tor maiden horses at the jumpmg game, and only two very moderate oues came ont ior ft, the winner, Gera- nium, beng a son of M, Delamarre’s oll horse, | Caghostro, wo has hitherto been little heard of. ‘The Hancteap Steeple Chase nad only three accept- ances, Dolona, Contrebande and Flora, and, tne firat-named dechining to put in an eur tes reduced this event to a match also, and odds of two to one were naturally laid on Contrebande, tor Flora is only a pony, shang. a very remarkable M. one, for, alter being sold in Paris tor about fifteen sovereigns, she gov into Borda’s stabie, Won many steeple chases, and subsequently carried M. F. Koy all through the Prussian war. Luck was on the side of the little heroine again to-day, ior, the favorite falling lett her to canter in by herself. The Selling Steeple Chase brought five together, and the musical Caioinus, Who 18 well known Ip kngiana, had It wll his owa way, A better day’s spore mi be expected at La Marcne next Sunday, for tt wil be quite an exceptional case if the Prix d’Esgat ac least does not comprise a far number of com- | petitors, and Lhe contest 1s always intercating, as | such alot of good horses have, in years gone by, made tneir début i this race—the celebrated Cos Miopolite among others. SUNDAY, FEL. 25.—A HurpLe RACE of 1,000f%, for four years old and upwards, that have never won & steeple chase or hurdle race; entrance 60f; the second received half the entries; weigit lor a Maiden horse on she flat allowed 6 1ls.; about one mile five turlongs, Mr. J, Bartholomew's b. g. Geranium, by Cag- hhosto out of Violette, 4 Yrs, 126 IDS... 0. seare Tbs... 2 all his M, E, Porte’sh. b. Sans-Soucie, 4 yre., 126 Betting—2 to 1 on Geranium, who nad it own way, ond won very castly by two lengths, A SreePue CHask HANDICAP of 2,000f. for all horses; entrance 200f, h. ft, and 25 only if de- clared; the second doubted her entry; two miles 81x furlongs. M. A. ae Gorda’s b. m. Flora (h, b.), by Florin, aged, 12010s........ senesdaeae oe : Aoi Maurice's b. m. Contrebaude, 6 yrs., Ds. tegerescosssescnsceas voce seats Betting—2 to 1 on Contrebande. The favorite fell at the second fence, and gelting loose, some time elapsed belore she was caught and remounted, Flora in the mieauiime canteriug round by her A SELLING STEPLE CHASE (handicap) of 1, for | Bll horses; the winner to be claimed for 6,000i,; entrance 100%, 25 1; two miles, Mr, 4. Macovoy's b. o. Cadomus, by the Flying Dutchman ous of Fringe, 6 years, 131103,... Ve el) Perregaux’s vr. m. AtLadou, 6 years, L2H IDB... cseee oe begecscses Baron de Terwagne’s ch. bh. Ye Saphir, 131 1bs.. deeeeceeeeencerees Count d’Evry’s ch. g. Mutual (late Biscatne), Mr, B. Buli’s ch. g. Brockleaby, Betting—6 to 4 against Le Saphir, and 3 1 against Cadomus and Amadou. Cadomns made all the running, sud wou just as he liked by a length; ten lengths between second and third, “Mutual @ bad tourth, Lrocklesby fe! A 6 years, UTOPIAN COLONY IN KANS&SS, A Settlement Upon tue Pian of Assuciation te Be tude in Neosho Valloy—The Veiails of the Project. Another project of Western emigration has been recently staried by Mr. W. P, Tomlinson, a journal- ist of this city, similar to that upon which the colony of Greeley, in Colorado, was founded, He thinks It probable that tae location of the new colony will be in THE NEOSHO VALLEY, in Southern Kansas, about forty iniles south of Fort Scott, on the line of the Missouri, Kansas and . Texas Railroaa, and about one bundred and fifty miles from Greeley. As yet, however, the selec- tion of the site 1s im abeyance. A meet ing was held last evening at No, 11 Second aireet of those who propose to join in the scheme, fnd a committee was appointet to survey tne | States of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska in search of the most suliaole spot for tbe miniature Utopia. The qualiues of country and climate which tt is | hoped to secure are those of heaitaiuiness, con- ; Lgtuty to railroad settiements, sure and easy inter- ; course WIth the Last, fertility of soil, and a plenti- tude of wood and water. For the reason that these are the characteristics of Southern Kaasas more than of any other region, Mr, Tomlinson thinks 1 the most desirable, a residence there of several years having givea him a very thorough kpowi+ edge of the merits of the country, THE PLAN OF ASSOCKATION, ‘The persons who propose to form the company of Beilement Wil, be required to subscribe to or pur- clase the stock, of which there are to be at starting 1v0 shares each Of $100, the aumber which one maa can huild beg limited to ive, With each of these shares will be given @ deed for farm of twenty acres and @ share for five building lots in the pro- Posea town, for which eighty acres will be set aside, foe lunds obtained througa this sae Of stock— veut ten thousand doliars—it is intended to invest in the purchase of laud, provably two thousaad and eighty acres, VOCATIONS. The three distinctive pursuits of the inhabitants of this Utopian settlement will be agriculture, trade and manufacture. THE GOVERNMENT, The government will be upona pecullarly organs ized pian. Buch resident will bea member of the association of the coiony. Each share will entitle the hulder to one vere. ‘There will be a board ot trustees, Wao Will report to tae association annu- ally, One,of the principal laws will be that no tu- toxicating veverages shall be used, bought or sold in tie limits of she community, Every settler mast be of @ stricuy moral aud temperate character, ‘The colony Will ve given the name of Union, and will pe modelicd in many respects alter that of Greeiey. ‘ihe persons who have already enga: in the movement are farmers of Pennsylvania and afew gentlemen of 115 city, ali of whom intend to emigrate within the present year, A TERRIBLE CASE OF HYDROPHOB! Death of a Bride. The Pluston (Pa.) Gazette gives the following parucalars of a most alstressing case of bydropho- bia :—Abcut ecieven weeks ago a young lady named Cox, daugnter of Mules Cox, of Stoadardaville, went tuto the yard to kill some chickens. ‘The dog fol- fowed her, and picking up one of the chickens ran off with it. She chased him with a stick to re- cover it, and coming up with him he turned upon her and bit her ia the arm, lacerating 1t fearfully, Her mother and brother coming to the rescue, ‘were also badly bitten by the infuriated beast. The wounds healed, however, and nothing more was thought of the matier. ‘The young Woman was engaged to ve married toa young man wae, at Gokisboro, named Alfret Kecrick, and the wedding ‘was appointed to come off at that place avout two weeks ago. On the wedding morning a8 she was about to perform her abiutions the sight of water sent & Shiver through her whole system and iright- ened her, and at the breakfast table che coffee had such an effect upon her that she spilled it over tne table. She then complained of feeling unveil, and her iriends advised her to remain at home; bug she said she did not want to disappoint Al, and, accompanied by «# sister, proceeded to Goidsbo: where the wedding ceremony was performed, immediately aiier inis she was seized with spasms, bearing all ve indications of hydrophobia. in one of her lucid intervals she warned the company that she would bite them If they dia not keep awag trom her, “But,”’ sald she to her nusband, “Al, you need not be afraid, I Wron’s bite you.’? In one of her, paroxy isin she At a Ii who was endeavoring to . was the wile of Doe. Homminan, wio drives the stage from Goidsporo to the Sand Cat, on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Ratlroad. Soon atver assuring her husband that she would not bite nin she was seized with convuisious, and, iaying back in hw arws, died. We have seldom been called upon to record so sad 9 case-ag this, or ove mo- | ment a happy bride and then the vicum of a horria death. ‘Tne other meinbers oi the family who were bitten by the dog have noi, ag yet, displayed any | symptoms of tue disease, but they live in hourly | dread. ALARMING SPREAD OF SMALLPOX IN PLAIN. PiBLD, N. J. The town of Plainfield, N. J., 1s greatly excited just now over the alarming spread of small- pox in that neighborhood and the loose manner in which physicians and the local health authorities treat cases. There are now no less than twelve or thirteen cases in the village. ‘The Boara ot Health have Mee purcuased, for $5,200), @trame house to be used as a smallpox hospital. ents have been allowed to roam ut Long ve- fore they were fully cured, A story is related, on good authority, to tne effect tnat two men were Inred to bury @ deceased smialipox victint, each to receive the Irish cblettains, hngland who are very like nation of the New foal poets, gis $25 and a suit ol clothes, They gor RY @ plece and started on their errand, but, as in the case of tne ings, Bi Newark Almsiouse man, one of them got drank dimanoe are Se by tne Way and the other threw up the it is qhird—As to their religion being that probably | suggested that the corpse aud the Wagon may still pow prevalent in the Fui Islands. with & savage \ be jog iu the middle of the road,