The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1872, Page 6

‘ Religious . Preach at the Seventeenth street Methodist Eptscos | Me tirst stone of a noble college was laid by the ecclesiastical 'To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE, Notes, Personal and | General. Services To-Day. Dr, A. R. Thompson preaches at Rutger’s College | ehapel to-day at both services. | “The First Letter of Jesus” is the title of Rev. P. L. Davies’ sermon at tne Lereun Baptist church thts | Thomas Gales Forster will (cll what he knows | about Spirirualisin at Apollo Hall. Bishop Snow will elucidate ‘The Future of the | Church and the Naitons” at the Ualversity, Bishop Potter will administer the rite of confirm- ation at the French Church dua St. Esprit, West Twenty-second street, at tour o'clock this after- At Christ Protestant Episcopal church Rev. Dr. ‘Muller, rector, three services will be given to-day and | oly Week will be duly observed each day, Dr. Cheever preaches at the Church ef the Puri- | fans this evening. Rev. H. D. Clark, of fIimols, discourses at both #ervices at the Caristian church. Dr. Deems will preach at the Church of the Strangers, morning and evening. Dr. Chapin gives free religious exercises at the | Brooklyn Academy of Music this evening. | At the New England Congregational church Rev. ‘William R. Wright, of Boston, Mass., will preach, | morning and evening. Rey. George H. Hepworth will preach in Steinway Bali morning and evening. Morning subject— God's Will, and How to Vo It.” In the evening ihe will give the second lecture on Our Homes.’ , Rev, H. D. Northrop wil! preach in the West Wwenty-vbird street Presbyterian church on Sunday | @tthe usual hours. Evening subject—‘False Bal- ances.” » Rey. U. 8. Harrower will preach tn St. Luke's | Metnodist Episcopal churen, forty-first street, near Sixth avenue, to-day, at half-past ten A. M, and @ta quarter to eight P. M. He will deliver the third | @faseries of Sunday evening sermons on “Oid ‘Tratns Restated.” Rev. Dr. Osgood will preach in the St. John’s Me- Morial church at half-past ten A. M., “The Pulm of Nobility,” and at half-past seven P, M., “ ‘fhe True Courage,” a sermon to the young, / Rev. Dr. Flagg, of the Churcn of tue Resurrection Rey. J. 5. Willis and Rev. G. H. Hepworth w ‘pai church. The rite of confirmation will be aaministered this | morning at St. Thomas’ cuurch. The Kight Rev. bishop Ciark, of Rhode Isiana, will deliver the eighth lecture in the Grace Chapel | course on Sunday evening, East Fourieenth street, opposite the Academy of Music. Subject—"Did | Christ Rise from the Dead +” | At the Tabernacle Baptist chureb Rev. J. R. Ken- rick, D. D., pastor, there will be preaching morn- Ang and evening. Rev. Hugh Milier Thompson, in Christ Ghurcn, Fifth avenue aud Thirty-tiftn st evening. Rev. John H. Morison, of Newton, Mass., will preach at the Churen of the Messiah—morning and evouing. Rey. Mr. Pendleton, in Fifty-third street Baptist cbhurch—morning and evening. Rev. I. A. Hoyt, in University, Washington square—morning. At St. Alban’s cuurch, Kast Forty-seventh street, Rev. 0. W. Morrili will preach morning and even- 1—morning and | small chapel, “Worship of the Church” will be continned by Rev. Dr. Ewer in St. Ignatius charch this evening. “Victorious in Deatu” is the uue of an afternoon ircourse by Rey. Charies F. Lee, in the Fifth Univer- | Salist church, Chickering Hall. Morning services at ; ball-past ten A. M. Subject—“Yhe Sunday of | Palms.” Attne free church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-tiftn street, near roadway, this day's ser- vices (all fall choral) are at nalf-past ten A. P.M. and seven P. M. The beautiful altar at St. Mary’s is now draped tn black for Holy Week, and | the littic church bears throughout “tne trappings | and the suits of woe.” . Tue Mission to tue Colored People of the South. To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— Your paper is so obviously the great channel through whica the wants of the unfortunate are best made known to the generous public, that 1 ven- cure to claim a place 1n your columns for an appeal | which no one, | trust, will disregard. A scneme has been set on foot by a zealous English priest, the Rev. Herbert Vaughan, to preach the Catholic faith and morals to the colored population, the emanct- | Dated slaves of the Southern States. Many persons | might, it they were wise, encourage this mission on | political grounds; we will confine ourselves to its consideration with regard to charity alone. The Rev, Herbert Vaughan, a descendant of an ancient and noble Catholic family, which suffered much from its doubie loyalty to the Catholic faith and to the hopeless cause of the Stuarts, was moved many years ago by Teelings of deep pity for the blacks setiled in America. He undertook a journey to tnis country and to Brazil to coliect funds for a missionary col a ime ulterior view of pursuing his mtuistry among the negroes of America, Since that time the work | increased and prospered in bngland; a house was purchased and students brought together for this s#peciaiend. The young men were trained to the | most severe seli-denial and the whole work of tne | house was performed by them, thus anticipating | the many inconveniences always sure to atcend the | Precarious lite of a missionary. Three years ago | ed vy the presence of many | liguitaries, as also of all the repre- | tative Catlouc nobiiliy aud talent whica so the mother councr Last December Mannounced, the first jour ussionaries 8 Society. ueated ny their tounver, | @t Baltimore and vegan tucir work. They | achureh aud schouls in working or- | the colored people nave jailed their instal. | maracterisuic deight White persons dary Mine eyes of Rey. Hervert Vaughan, near London, ana the cere- mony was evhan the m aries, | Spirituai precedence in | mens are intensely hese simple peopie | Dave acted Wi ¥y and plentifaiy supplied their with the necessaries | oriiie. One day seven turkeys were found in the Jarder at once, through the gratiiuce of the poor, | neglected biacks. There will be, in Lime, otner cen! tral houses established at New Uricaus, at Mempnis, at St. Loui, and missivns from them will rania into the country, embracing toe more The Kev. Hervert Vaughan York, were he will rematu for a@tihe utmost. He wil) preach im favor o! the iis S100 to-day at St. Stepienu’s church, and, we be Neve, next Sunday at st. Peter's, Barclay street. On the 17th he preached for the same object at st. Paul's, Fifiy-ninth sirect, where be is staying a3 the guest O/ the Paulist Fathers. ‘There are many ii tis cily who profess great love for the colored race ud prove tt by thew generosity in suppore ¢ ew scheme ior the good OF the biacks taken by strangers, of America, yet ing the same personal respou passive part of co-operauny with gilt ence, with sympathy, be eagerly accepted by those ‘whose names stand al tie head of Lue sists of Afri- | ea’s champiuns, No matter what the paruonlar | form Of religion may be, tiey must be glad to see | faith and morality preached to they Iriends; tnat arth Wat taught wue equality long belore the | Jniernational was hear of; that morality Which, expecially with regard to the mio+ bile and passionate temperament of the African, 4s the Only sateguard o! society, There 1s a touch- ing legend of old Catholic times that one of tne three kings, the Magi of the Last, who followed the Star till it led them to the Saviour, Was @ hegro; in old Mediwval pictures he Is so represented, There w proud of the yadilion and aot bear- vility, let at least ine with iufu | speak of such @ God.” ‘will discourse at the Fitty-fifth Street Hail, | | too true, | Kome was since the active part has been } che same race lvis true as that | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARUH 24, {872—QUADRUPLE SHERT, PEPeRS ech att Se ocean race a herie, and, not «nglaud do America’s work without help sympathy; be it much or little, every one's mite will be welcome before the throne of the God ot charity, The Rey. Herbert Vaughan and his col- leagues give themselves to the work; it 1s the noblest gilt, Let the rich give frecly of their sub siance; itis given to them in trust for their poorer brethren. Let the oor give as ireely their influence with their friends, their earnest prayers, their sympathetic enthusiasm, he press, we know, has not fatied and will not tf in giving its concurrence to 30 good a work, and If politicians have any time leit from their lucrative occupations, jet them not refuse to give Lo the people what the people gave to them. We confidently nope that donations will not be Wanting, ‘They may be forwarded to the Missionary, the Kev, Hervert Vaughan, at the Paulists’ Convent, Fiftyent street avd Ninth avenue. No doubt those who will hear him preach will not be abie to withstand his touching appeals in favor ot our colored breturen, Clreulars descriptive ot the work of the Missions Can also be procured at the Paulists’ Convent, May this apostolic labor of love prosper as much and as long as its most earnest friends, in heaven and on earth, could desire, CULUMBA, “ Body, Parts or (assions.’? To THE EDITOR OF THE HERAL! Sir-—-I have observed with pleasure that you allow discussions upon religious subjects, witnin certain proper limitations, in your columns, May I venture to propound a question in the hope that some amoug the tens of thousands of learned readers of your valuable journal may be able to answer it saiis+ tactorily. Iam a Christian man and wish to under- stand my faith so as to be able to “give a reason tor the hope that is in me.” A few days ago I was arguing with ap intelligent Mormon gentlenan, and in the course of discussion he said, ‘‘{£ could never believe in @ God without ‘body, paris or passions,’ and your own Christian #ipie does not anywhere 1 was staggered at tas, for 1 knew at the moment of no scriptural reply where- With to rebut his statement. At the same time I catied to mind part of Article I, of we Anglican faith, which runs tnus: There is but one living and true God, without body, parts or passions,’ &c. ‘This article Is 1n substance believed by all Christians | of every denomination ; but what is tts true mean- The unity and eiernity of God no Chrisuan nies, But what avout the following theses :— “Without body.’’—Is this a fact? What docs ody’? mean here? It the Deity 1s ‘wit hout boay’? What can be possibly bey Perhaps it may be an- swerea, “God ia@ spirit.’ Granted, No one sup. posed that He had a body of flesh, If wesp ak of Him as “a spirit’? do we not read that man has also “a spirit?” And does not St. Paul expressiy state thatthe body “sown” is not the same as the spir- tual body “raised? Does he not infer that the eternal essence or spirit Will Lave a tangible shape when he says, ‘Then shall we know, even as we also are Known.’’ io other places, too, angels and the spirits of men are spoken Oi a8 Walking, singiug, eating, talking, &c. Now, no sensible person sup- poses that the spirit after death will be only a shadow or a myth, and if this {s true of one “spirit” z it not also true of the all-pervading and Eternal pirit? Tope that the great difference between Pan- theists and Christians is that Ciristians believe that God isa person—a positive being, while Pantheists consider what Christians would call “the power of God,” or “nature,’’ or “the law of God’ to be God himself, [donot wisn to play upon words, but is 1b not a contradicuon to state that God is “without body,” and thea inthe same article to speak of | Him asa “person?” 1t has ever been held that reason, Without revelation, could comprehend a Goad (in unity); but can reason, atded by revelation | and inspiration, concelve of a God without a body of some description, unless it be the Pantheistic, "’ pervading ail space, but intangibie—in tact, sunply life or naturey. Does Holy Seripture teach that God is “without body ?” Witnout Parts,”"—We read that angels or spirits have appeared; but we Koow that they had parts aud persons, tor they evinced personai qualities, and in the Book of Genesis are even spoken of as ‘men,’ so close was their resemblance. We read also of “the eye” of God, ‘ne hand” of God, &ec., and evidently not metaphorically; for the char: acteristics Of those inembers are mentioned in jux- | taposition with the mention of the members thein- Selves, Moses stated solemnly thut God haa passed before him, and that he saw the ‘hinder part’ of the Deity, though not his face. Did Moses lie? Christ, after His resurrection, was seca with “parts,” as His Own words to St. Thomas and the testimony of the Apostles prove. Now, fl, as St.’ Paul says, when we are wita Christ we shall be “like Him,” and if Christ had @ body, and if we hereafter are to be “raised a spiritual boay,’’ and if “God 1s in Christ’? and “Christ is God,” how can God be “without paris?’ [ use the word “parts” in Ube sense relative to a “body,’’ and ain justified, I think, vy its position in the article, “Without passions.’’—The article, of course, does not mean vile passions in @ human sense, for no Christian ever supposed that God had such, and to State the negative would be superfluous, But are we not told that God ‘“ioves,” that He *pitrech Mis children,” nay, that God flimseif is lovey’ Do we | notread that He “hates evil,” and that He 1s ‘an. gry with the wicked?’ How, then, can God be “without passions?’ If so, what are anger, love, hatreay Yet that God 18 thus moved both Holy Scripture ana ‘the concurrent testimony ot tne fatuers” declare; and are not these, separate or together, the foundations of all Christian creeds? Which, then, is wrong, (he Scriptures, the fathers or tue article which, since the third century, bas deciared the Almighty One to be, not what Ilis Word declares, but What its dogma asserts, *with- out body, parts or passions ?” Tearnestly desire vo learn “the truth. Can any of your readers cast aside prejudice and shew me “the way 2"? ALFRED, Church aod Her Petty Sian- derers. To THE Epiror of THE HERALD:— it would require a dally journal to be spectally set apart in every city of the Union to contradict the accumulation of absurd caluinies which are continually pouring out against the Catholic Church, her priesthood and her people. Such a state of things reflects upon that American character for fairness and intelligence which heretofore has been our pride. The New York Times, a British publication, now- ever, n its issue of last Monday, has one of 1s characterisuc attacks on the Chureh, in which it The Cath | calls to Its aid one Dreyuorfl, a German Jew, who pretends to give statistics of crime in diferent European nations and cities, stating, aaong otuer things, that in Rome there are 237 times as imunay chances of being murdered as in Englana. Now, Mr. Dreydorff, if he ever took any statistles at all, should have haa the honesty to say they were | taken since the occupation of Rome by the Pied- | montese government; but as he ts doing up an | attack on the Order of Jesus, it, no doubt, suits ns | purpose to leave the enemies of the Churea to infer that such was the state of things previous to ine | invasion. If he pretended to insinuate this the not an American or English Protestant who has ever lived in Rome who will not brand him a vil slande! One of Papal Rome's greatest teatures and attractions for strangers of every creed was the complete absence of crime and immorality. Up to September, 1870, you might have walked her streets | day or might, and far beyond the waiis, without | meeting a solitary occasion to offend the eye or ear; dees of violence Were Unknown, Unless Lhose Coin. mitted by the Garivalat agents, such as blowiug up Une Pope's barracks or the like, That all this 18 now changed ts, unfortunately, Kome 13 no longer the haven of rest, the sanctuary of the peaceful or intelilec:ual stranger. ve In iis Most glaring torm staiks hand in hand with deeds of violence, and those Who year after year found there a winter home have bid it farewell jorever, How can it be otherwise? We know thac when ihe Pledmoutese army entered Kome some Six thousand males and females of the scu of Italy entered with It, and for some days there was no government, peaceful citizens velag left to the mercies of the soluiery and the moo. This scum has Leen pouring in ever since, and we may juage < of ifs quauty from an editorial in’ tne New York Times of the 19th of April last on the subject of “Itallan Bankruptey” and merease of crime in Italy since its unification and the suppression of religious institutions, ignor Lanza, Minister of the Inverlor. says the Times, vieads for penal laws of greater severity to suppress the crime of murder, so fearfully on the increase in His Majesty’s aominions. During the years 1865-64 the number of assassinations amounted to 29,634, while during 1869-70 they show a@ total of $6,425, The scum of such a popula- tion, enemies of God, social order and morality thrown upon @ peaceful, Ged-fearing city such as easily be tmagined., The calamity ts vilized world, deplored as mucn by | Protestants as Catholic: | _ The Pines, in the same article with its Roman | St4ustics, repeats the stale no-Popery cant avout Catholic priests keeping people in profound igno- | France. If Catholic priests keep people in igaorance, | Why are they spending so much tol and anxiety | erecting novle parish schools in every quarter, both here anu in huroper Are they merely ior show or amusement? No, gentiemen of the Times, they are for the Christian education of youtn, without whic society has po saleguard and men de erate into brute beasts. If Catholic priests are en are those ploueers of ctviiaat sionartes—tolling in Ontua, the wilds of Oregou—not heeping at a civil distance irom ue pn, Why i@ Jesuit’ mise In Africa, In reverends, ost OF danger, with all the comforis of i ‘ound them scattering tracts and Bibles with about as iia good resultas the cireulau of 80 much waste paper, but men devoted to God and the regenera tion of thelr race, tolling in the very heart of tuose vast countries, estabiisming schools, civilization and religion, fearless of danger and life, Which so many of them have laid down for the honor and glory of their God? Read the following s'atement of Father Mounot, one of the Syrian missionaries, now in tus city, of the progress of education and religion in is @ Wonderiul fitness in the Catholic religion for ees ta ereuen Of these races; let it bave free oa country, and the juture may yet be nds Of the Christian communities of this land; denou- pe ing @ success Of the enterprise lies im the ‘luem give towards this Work, and let all that venghted land, most of whieh has been achieved in the face of persecution aud death, The report 1s as follows:— ‘nese missions Contain upwards of 300,00 Catho- lics and severat millions of intideis, Missionaries gad Assistants—Kigoty Eurovean re- CW adr Ara native Arabian school teachers, male and female school teact five free primary scnools, open both to infidels ard Catnolics, in which more than ten thousand Arabian children are educated; alarze printing house, F poms classical books and for the propagation of the faith, m at Crieatat languages, "3 People who make stupid charges against Catholic ase should bear tn mind that Catholics are not ‘vols, ‘They have common sense like osher people, and thetr converts daily entering the Church come from the most educated and enlightened portion of Protestantism. They should also remember tnat to the Catholic monks alone are they indebted for the preservation of history, the arts and selences and the Bible during the Middle Ages—long before print- ing or Protestantism was dreamed of, Ali that a Catholic priest seeks to keep his people ignorant of is learning that leads to vice, a species of education somewhat popular im this progeasive age. One word more. Some weeks ago a Mr. Dexter Hawkins—who subsequentiy endeavored to enrich the coflers of tha New YorRK HERALD with a ten dollar biil—wantonly tried to injure his Catholic neigubors by talse statements respecting grants of Public money, He not only charges them with re- ceiving money they never got, but includes instl- tuuions as Catholic which he Knew were Protestant, and puts down remission of assessments granted to all religious bodies as donations, Not satistied With this he galiantly attacks the Sisters of Onarity in charge of St. Vincent’s Hosp by saying tiey refuse Protestant pauegss the atrendance of their respective ciergymen time of sickness; and further, that he gave the Sisters & donation (not a ten dollar bill, we hope), all of which the Sisters emphatically deay in their card of February 25, Hawkins gave no donation, nor have the good Sisters ever refused to admit Protestant clergymen to their patients, to substantiate the truth of which they call to witness Protestant ministers them- selves, ‘Dexterous’? Hawkins should bear tn mind an old proverv ‘Never to throw stones where you have windows of glass.” St, Luke's Hospital, a Protestant insutution in receipt of public moneys, will not admit @ Catholic priest to attend # sick or dying patient on any pretext whatsoever, ‘The oft-repeated falsehood respecting the Cathe- drai property has been so oiten refuted thatit would be an Insult to your readers to dwell further on the subject, Ali Catholics ask is truth and fair play. they cannoc be guarded against. A CATHOLIC SUBSCRIBER, “Open Slander’?—Some Points Damen to Ponder. FATHER DAMEN:— Sim—In your sermon Sunday evening, at the Churen of the Holy Innocents, you said, speaking of Protestants, ‘They object to us because they do not understand us, They tell us that Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible. Now, you all know, this 1s open slander.” Now, sir, I presume that you are aware that the Council of Toulouse, in the year 1229, decreed thus:—‘‘We prohipit the laity from having the books of the Old and New Testaments.’ And also that the Council of Trent decreed and the decree was ratified by Pius the Fourth, March 24, 1564, ‘Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if tne Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the temerity of men will cvuse more evil than good to arise from it, 1¢ 13 on this point referred to the judgment of the Bishops or inquisitors who may, by the advice of the priest or confessor, permi the reading of the Bible—to those persons Whose faith and piety they apprehend will be aug- mented and not injured by tt and this permission they must have in writing, But if any one shall have the presumption to read or possess 1b without such written permission hie shall not recetve abso- lution until he have first delivered up such Bible to the ordinary.” his, sir, 18 not the “open slander’? of Protestants, “who do not understand” you, put the infallible teachtag of Holy Mother Church. In vhe year 1012 Paul the fiith revoked all power to the priesthood to grant licease tor the reading of the Scriptures, and then and there wrote it a pro- hibited book forever, Why, sir, Plus the Seventh, to Whom your fraternity owe 80 much for its resur- rection to life, in the year L814, after its death and burial by Clement the Fourteentn, July 21, 1773, so tate as the year 1816 denounced Bibie socievies and Bible reading to the “lowest hell.’? Clement the Ninth, as you are aware, dendinced the Jansenists because of their attachment to the Scriptures, and Gregory the Sixteenta, in his Encyciical of May 8, 1844, confirmed all the acts of ‘his predecessors, and especially those of Paul the Seventh and of Benedict the Fourteenth, whose hostility to toe Scriptures and tits cir. culation among the people was without @ parallel, “Moreover,” sald this Ponti, “we — contirm and renew the decrees recited abofe, ac- livered im itormer tmes by apostolic au- thority against the publication, distribu- tion, reading and possession of books of the Holy Scriptures translated tuto the vulgar tongue.” Now, sur, do the utterances of Protestants, with Uhese facts, confirmatory of the Churci’s teachings Upon Us point, look Like “open siander?” ¢is net this the fact, that you are false to the teachitzs of your own intalhible Church, and hence fail to be true to your representation of Protestants? =“ But,’? say you, “the bible is our bulwark, our sword and stield of detence,” Sir, is this so? is tt? Then, sir, living truths ace falsehoods, and the past in its re. cords 1s an imposition. Why, sir, 1s it, fl your Church has so revered the Bibl¢ in the past and loves it so fully at the present, that sne proboits iis reading to each and every one ol her commanion without a license irom a priest? And why Is it that to-day it stands a prohibited books upon your cata- logue of prohipited books? And why 1s it that in countries W your Church is supreme the Bible is wholly unknown? Your own Poynter declared betore tne committee of the British House ot Com- mons thut “there 13 no English version of the Bible aathorized by the See of Kome.” Phe Doway Bible sor no authority even among Romanists, and 1s simply a foll upon the ignorance and credulity of the American people. ‘Rorna lowuta est; causa Jinita est'—*Rome has pronounced, and the judg- ment is final.” Reverend sir, we are not ignorant of the devices of your fraternity. E, 8S. HAMMOND, The Controversy on the Immortality of the Soul, To THE Epiror OF THE HERALD:— Having read in your issue of the 17th inst. both the article signed “Cato,” and a reply to him by a “Tnsctple,’? 1 cannot retrain irom endeavoring to convince the former of, what seems to me, the very dark Views which he entertains. He attempts to prove by the Bible that the soul is not immortal, and asseris that he 1s ‘convinced that it cannot sur- vive & separation of body and spirit.” He evident refers to the death of the body; but what does he mean by the irit’—that something which he acknowledges is separated from the vody? And What does he mean by the ‘soul, which he asserts canuot survive tat separation? Are we to infer | that by the *4oul’’ he speaks of that individual con- | sctousnows which makes each and every one what tmey are, unlike any other, and by the ’ tho mere breath that ke this human chinery im motion and at death “'s rates’? Ure body, leaving ali that was of the human ego—vo die out like the flame of a hatisa human being’ Surely not that 2 Which is lormed by gross matter—animal setable auces and the more subtie and tor that part, the body, 18 Liare for Fatuer oxygen changing every hour, aud im seven years, we ‘are told, We undergo a thorough transformation, and not one particle of our former bodies rematus; DUE are We not the very same—ias one experimace been lost, one acquisition of knowleage vanished? No. We, this soul, this individuat consciousness, stui remains intact, Immortal. We may go even fortner than this, and say thas we not only |; do not realize the oss of any portion ; of our bodies when it falls away from us = graduaily; but that @ finger, au arm or @ leg may be severed at once, and we still retain the impression that we possess a body entre, St. Paul says “there is a natural body and there tsa spiritual body,” and that “this mortal must put on immortality.”’ 1tis this spiritual body which can- not be matilated, the limbs of which the possessor is ever coascious of having, although the grosser matter of the natural limbs have been severed and long since returned to the elements or which they were composed. I think tt was sir Isaac Newton who remarked that ‘ smattering of philosophy made one an Infidel, but a deeper knowledge of 113 truths compeiled one tobe a Christian.” We may go far envugh to seo the workings ol one materiat Substance upon another; to Know that we are dependent upon different forms of matter digested ito the system for existence; that Were Gxygen denied us we should cease to be a living material that the beautiful clouds, which in chidhood ed upon m such rapt wonder, tninking lay just beyond, are only gray mist ila. mined by the sun; that the bright stars are onl, worlds like our own, “swinging around the circle,” and that ail forms of iife and being may be traced back #s an effect of matter governed by natural law, and so conciude that we are ourselves put a con- crete iorm of matter, of different degrees ot subtlety, wi snail, by the disintegrating power of death, decompose into the different gases of which we were compounded, and “the spirit return vo God, Who gave It;’' or, in other words, according to | the Paptueistic doctrine, go out into the great ocean of Apirit Wich surrounds ali matter; that a fucare life beyond the grave 1s but a creation of the fancy, conjured up by our own longings for au immortal joy, and that heaven itself is outa myth Such a | condition of mind 1s certainly one of the stepping- stones which uiust be reached by a thinking, rea- soning being who undertakes the arduous journey {rom the dark hails of old theology out into tne glorious jight of God's own troth. ButJetus go a | little further and take note of this wonderful spirit which evolved by the constant of matter—uns thing which says, v0 God and surely ihou must be!’ this thing which loves and mates; no amount of oxy- gen or altrogen or carbon, iu any combination What ever, can ever love or haie—tnis thing Which chains the lightning to do its bidding—whicn counts tue Stars and measures the distances trom sun to sun— Which penetrates Into the very sun itseif and tells Us of 18 properties—which delves into the bowels of ‘the earth and brings us knowledge of tts formauon and age—that allows its mortal body to suffer tne untold agoutes of martyrdom for a brief space, that the freed immortal may gain an oternal weight of aiorkthat [0Oks oul, ever and anon, beyond. above all this turmoil and olashing, into the great here after, and cries, All too contracted are these walls of flesh : ‘This vital warmth too cold ; these visual orbs, Though inconceivably endowed, too dim, ‘or any passion soul that leads ‘To ecalasy— that longs for a love 1t may never know this side the eternal river—that lives a life of sell-abnegation and toil, dreaming beautiful dreams of a land where there is love without seifishuess, music without discord, flowers that wither not, beauty without decay, and youtn that shall never grow old, And who shall say that this is all a dream— that this great throbbing, longing soul shall die— that all these high ho, and heaven-born aspira- uons shali be quench: in death—that all earth’s harsh discords shall not be resolved into one grand harmony “while the earth rolls in 1ts cycles, orbing to @ perfect world?” ‘Truth 1s God’a choicest giftto man. He does not give it to the careless, the sluggish, the worldly, if He did they would pot prize it; they would not keep it. It must be tolled for; it must be yearned alter; it must be agonized over, Men must dig for tas forsiiver. It 1s tho “pearl of great price,’? which he who finds does well to “sell his all and buy.” And if this lite were ali, if after we had toiled, and yearned, and agonized to fnd the truto, we were suddenly called to leave tls world tor- ever, what becomes of the truth, the hopes, the aspirations which guided us? Dead! Barled wita our bodies? All gone—anninilated? No! @ thous sand fimes no! “For now we see through a glass darkly; but then, face to face; now 1 know in part; but then shall 1 know even as also 1 shall be known,” B. E. WASHBURNE, Has Man an Immortal Soul? To THe Epitor oy THE HERALD:— We understand by an immortal! soul a spirit that inhabits the body of man, and which, on the disso- lution of the body, will continue to exist forever, be Conscious of ita existence and have @ perlect know- ledge and recollection of all 1t passed through in connection with the body while alive on earth, If man possesses such a soul or spirit 11 must be independent of life, and either must have existed in an unconscious state before it entered the body, or was called Into existence by the Creator for the Special purpose of inhabiting a particular body, What are the characteristics by which man 13 dis- tinguished as a soul-poseessing animal from a soul- less animal? Consciousness, reason and a knowedge of good and evil are the qualities that distinguish man from the brute, and they are therefore claimed to be properties of the soul. At what time and in What manner does the soul enter the flesh? It cane not be that the fatner and mother, by the act of pro- creation, call the soul into existence, as well as they furnish the quick seed which develops the body by the operation of nature’s law. A spirit is a thing which 1s not in nature, and cannot be called into ex- istence by a law of nature, According to orthodox doctrine the soul 1s breathed into the flesh by a spe- clalact of the Creator. But at what time is this muracie performea? Does the soul exist in the em. bryo, or does it come into the futus with the tirst breath of life? Who will answer the question? Tne soul certatnly must be in the body when the child is born, and remain in an unconscious state unul man becomes a thinking animal, It cannot be denied that the qualities on which we base our belief in the existence of an immortal soll—-consciousness, reason, and tae knowledge of good and evil—are vastly different at different stages of lie, They are developed with the body and decay with the body. They are strong when the body is strong and vigorous, and weak when the body is enieebled by sickness or age. They are mentally great or smal according to the organism which sets them in motton, They may become dor- mant through sickness or from injuries sustained by the mechanism, They may even become apparently extinct’ in man, throughout nis naturallize, and yet at the exanimation of the body @ soul or spirit issues forth from it, with renewed Consciousness and a periect knowledge of all things which affected the living man, even though he were unconscidus of them at the ume they happened | I pause for an answer to my tnguiry, “Has man an immortal soul ?”? Man is acreature of this world, a part of the created all, animated With the spirit that pervades all nature, and governed by nature’s universal and unchangeable law. What is not in nature is not in him. The finite is the limit of man’s knowledge, He cannot go beyond it. The law of nature 18 suiicient for all things in nacure; it leads every- thing through its destiny—each according to its kind, It directs the seed to become a plantor a tree—an upple tree or a pear tree, according to 1t8 kind. In the lower animal it 1s guided by instinct; in man instinct 13 enlightened by reason, which directs him in the pursuit of happiness. Reason is the resalt of thought and experience. Thougnt is & secretion of ihe brain, which affects the nervous system and causes those feelings that give warning of what is right aud wrong. Ex- periehee and the impressions received through the senses enlighten man to correct his understanding, Action 14 the law of Iife, and happiness is its aim. Happiness is within tae law; the pursuit of tt deter- mines fie will. If man understood the law that is in him he wouid find there a code of ethics more suitable to him as a man, more conducive to his happiness and better adapted to his so condi. tion than any that bas yet governed his kind. This I hope to show hereuaiter, if circumstances will allow. A KATIONALIST, FORTY-FGURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE, The Feast of Purim—The Power of Prayer— Joy and Gladness, Instead of Sorrow and Death, The ancient Feast of Purim, which began to be observed by all orthodox Israelites yesterday, and Whose observance will be continued to-day, was the theme of discourse by the Rev, Mr. Isaacs, in the synagogue 1n Forty-fourth street, ‘The reformed Israelites do not pay any attention religiously to this festival; bat socially they keep it, as the ortho- dox dv, by sending presents one to another and giving & portion to the poor and the needy, Mr. Isaacs said he would not undertake to repeat the story in which the Feast of Parim originated, nor to comment very extensively on 1t one Way or another, It had been commented on hundred of years ago. It is a time of joy and gladness, of wearing disguises and of general social mirth. An ancient Hebrew writer states that the reason why people do not wear Scriptural disguises is that nothing ts said about the Supreme Being in tae Book of Esther. Mr. Isaacs would not taik about Haman’s wickedness, for though he was a bad man there was a power avove him; but he would speak about the cause and the effect of the festival. In the times of old when Israel became high and exalted they forgot God aud His great mercies and deliverances to them, When Jesturua waxed fat he kicked. King AHASUERUS MADE A GREAT FRAS' to which 15,500 Jews sat duwn, This w @ large nuinoer to sit down to one feast, but he (Isaacs) be- lieved that U the President of the United States should give a feast in this city he could find that numver of Jews to sit down to his tabiea, But that | in itself! was not aud would not be wrong. The trouble arose because there was a division in the camp, aod tae rich heid themseives wholly aloof } from we poor. ihere was, bowever, one poor orthodox Jew who refused to partake of the feast of the King Aflasuerus—Mordecai by name. He knew the planus and piottings of tae wicked Haman to destroy ail the people of Israei scattered throughout the kingdom, wad he clothea himseli im sackcloth and ashes aud sat at the King’s gate and cried day aiter day, Had he desired to go into tie King’s presence Mordecai would not have roved himself in that humilauiog way. It is said tat he was one of the King’s ministers, and that Kaowing the trouble that was coming upon his people he took this ; Method of showing them by example how great | Was their danger and low important it was that | | they shouid humble themselves before God and call upon His name, Mordecal Saw that tuere was only one way Ww avert the threatened danger, and that Was to trust in and pray to God. He did not know how tar he could depend upon Esther's influence, | Her exaltation to une Queenship of Persia mignd | have made her carcless of tne late of her people, CIRCUMSTANCES DO ALTER CASES. Batshe heard that her uncie sat at the King’s gate clothed im sackcloth and ashes and crying, and she sent her coumberlain to know what was the matter, and Mordecai returned answer and bade her go in unto the King, and If sne failed to do it enlargement should come irom anotuer quarter, while she and her father’s house should be despised mm Isracl and they should not escape destruction in the gencrat slaughter, At her command the people Were gathered together to jast and pray, and tne} ail with one accord united in that petion. Jt mat Vers not how inuch the house of Israel may ve di- vided, in the tume of sorrow and distress they are one, The moment the people put thetr trast in the Almigaty, and not in Esther nor Ahasuerus, they were saved, and Haman, their enemy, was ae- stroyed. But pot only on this occasion, but on ali occasions, God saves His people, He will not forsake His people Whom He naih redeemed for His own hame’s sake. He saved them in Bgypt and He saved them in Snushan, and He saved them then as He saves tiem now, in answer Series There has been always a Mordecat at tne King’s gate to pro- tect the honor of israel, often through agencies which we cannot see. ere is & Mordecai situng there now and pleading for God’s people. We lost one Such last week, said Mr. Isaacs, @ mother in Israci—Sarah by name. she 18 goue wo the world above. one great lesson taugnt us by this nar- rative is that we should put our trust in God In the hour of danger and not forget Him in the time of prosperity. fhe result of Israei’s prayer to God was that they had light and joy and gladness and honor. We have not these in our day. Many @ Mendelssonp Is pining away in secret for lack of a heiping Hand to briag him forward. The people are DYING POR LACK OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE, They can have j) id giadness only in God and in His Word, We imbine our instruction from habit and not from conviction, Israe; was bonored by the people of Persia because they stood up for a principe, But now they eat ana drink and even pray with others not of our ancient iaith. How can otner people iunor us, asked the preacher, when we don’t honor ourseives? Mr. isaacs then gave some special advice to a young man who had jast been admitted to the reaa- ing Of the law, and made a few general remarks to the congregation on the importance ol aoiding by Uhe ancient landmarks of faith, and not ruoni away alter the novelues of tne present day, an closed by hoping taat this Festival of Purim would will and peace this ne earnestly rks ponte OBSERVANCE OF PURIM. Last evening the orthodox Jews met in their re- spective Synagogues and observed the Feast of Purim with religious ceremonies, Besides the usual Sab- bath evening prayers the Megtillah, or Book of Esther, was read and intoned from the beginning towne end, Several of the faithful had their parch- ment scrolls containing the history, which they un- rolied as they read, and at certain poruons of the narrative exclamations of wonder and surprise or thanklulness broke forth from the congregation. According to Talmudic authority the story was written by sacred inspiratiou, and, like the roll of the laws, it is copied with the utmost exactitude on vel- lum and 18 everywhere read aloud to the ussembicd congregations as part of the services of the day. Tradition also says that the book was written under the immediate eye of Ahasherus and incorporated with the royal records of the Per- #1008, WhO, as followers of Zoroaster, Would hardly have been disposed to confess the superiority of tne true God. Hence the name of the Deity, according to any of His appeliations, is nowhere directly ex- essed ‘pre in the book of Estner. ‘Ihe spirtt in which the day was instituted continues to the present day, and to-day, after an early morning service in the synagogue, there wilt be inauguarated a general Season Of social entertainments in the families of the orthodox Israelites. The young men who for- merly celebrated the day with # bail to the uumber of wwo hundred kept the festival jast Thursday at Deimonico’s, and to-night several such entertain- ments on a smaller scale will be given and enjoyed Rerouanont the city, and joy and gladuess will reign abroad, PALM SUNDAY. To-day 1s Paim Sunday, celebrated by the Church in commemoration of the triumphal entry of the Saviour into Jerusalem, For the past week, since Passion Sunday, the Church has been calling to recollection the passion of Christ, but to-day she joins with the multivude in singing Hosannah as the God-man enters Jerusalem in triumph, with palms, the emblem of victory, strewn along the way. But she is not unmind{ul of the type of this rejoicing which occurred among the Israelites in THE PROCESSION OF THE LAMB which was aiterward to be immolated, and blends with the joyous hailing of the King the prayers aud mournful chants which should precede tne scene on Calvary. The day has been celebrated from the earliest ages, though at what precise time the Church first began the blessing of the palms 1s un- certain, Far back as the fourth century the cus- tom was in practice in the East and in Italy. About the seventh century it was more generally ob- served, It was the ‘custom formerly, and tt still 13 mm some Catholic countries, to form # proces- sion, which would proceed through the town, a cleric or layman in some instances being mounted on an ass, to represent the Saviour, while in others the Eucharist or the Bibie would be carried before the people. In England, before the Reiormauion, there were many customs peculiar to ine day, but these were all avolished or ‘ell into disuse in the reign of Edward the Sixth. There stl exists, however, at Caistor, Lincolnshire, 4 CURIOUS CUSTOM. A man representing the owner of the Broughton estate goes into the porch of Caisvor church during the reading of the first lesson and cracks a “gad whip” three times, and then takes a seat in the church, During the second lesson he ap- proaches the munister, holding uprignt the whip, which has now at its upper end a purse containing thirty pieces of silver. Kneeling before the minister he Waves the whip three times around his head, and continues Kueeling until the end of the lesson, when he retires, The origin of this custom 18 unknown. In Rome to-day the cere- monies of the blessing of the palm will be on the grandest scale. The Pope, with his cardinals, bishops, priests and attendants, is at St. Peter’sto bless the palms and head the procession which commemorates that at Jerusaiem. The music 1s said to be grand on this day, the hymn, ‘Gloria, Laus et Honor’ and the “Stabat Mater” being sung. In all Catholic countries THE SERVICE IN THE CHURCHES is ever very imposing on Paim Sunday, and the day held in great veneration, the people wearing bits of palm, or box or yew in their hats, and otherwise attaching to it an especial respect. In this city it is observed by the Catholic Church with great solemnity. The faithful flock to the churches to see the palm blessed, and at all the masses the people get @ twig of palm, which they carry with them from church, after the manner of the custom of the ola countries, The day affords a good theme for preachers, and, as it is the opening ot the Moly Week, exhortations of the most pathetic sort are delivered from the pulpits. On Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday at the Cathedral and at’ St Stephen’s church the “Tenebrw’’ will be sung, and all the other sad but imposing ceremonieswarried out, ANOTHER CHILD OF ERIE DEAD. The New York and Boston Express Company “Gone Where the Woodbine ‘fwineth?— Assets, $196,000; Linbilities, $250,000. The bursting of the Erie owe+ie has set loose and sent flying about a number of lighter and lesser bubbles, which held on to it and kept afloat through its inflation, One of these light and airy things— the New York and Boston Express Company— originally started by ana for Fisk and Gould and the Erie Ring, has just gone, as Fisk would have said, “where the woodbine twineth.” It was started a couple of years ago with funds furoished from the treasury of the Erie Raiiroad. its business was done by Fisk’s steamers to Boston—the Nar- ragansett Steamship Company, the Fall River and Oid Colony and Norwich line, the New Haven and Northampton Railroad, the New Jersey South- ern, the New Jersey Northern, the Erie and other rallroads, Through the aid given to it by Erie it has crushed ont several loca express and freight companies, but tne recent change in the Erie management has caused it to collapse. It has been known for some time that the express company was on the verge of oankruptcy, butit was hoped by its friends to weather the storm and carry on the business a3 usual. The company had pur- chased the express paraphernalia from Fisk and Gould, and paid the price In bonds of the New York and Boston Express Company, to the amount of $171,- 000,10 secure which they executed a chattel mortgage to the Erie Company. They having nothing to pay, and no prospect of betver times ahead, tne Erie Com- pany foreclosed the mortgage, and THE CREDITORS OF THR EXPRESS COMPANY COULD DO NOTHING more than call a meeting to consult &nd devise such measures as they might to get all or any part of the several sums due to them. Such a meeting was held yesterday in the law office of Redticld & Bar- rett, In Nassau street, Mr. O. P. Archer, Vice Prest+ dent of the Erie road, was called to the cnatr, and business was about to proceed when an unlucky scribe Of the Associated Press unrolied his manifold, and at once the suspicions of some of the limbs of the law were aroused. Lawyer Kedfield sprang to his feet and deciared that the meeting Was a private one and related merely to ban«ruptcy business; that REPORTERS WERE BAD COMPANY and should be excluded, and he therefore made a motion to that effect, The motion was not seconded nor put to the meeting, but Mr. Redfeld, by virtue of his position as counsel for the creditors and pro- prictor ot the office, ordered the press men out and snut the door. ‘The business transacted afte ward was substantially as follows:—Mr. J. H. Bacon, President of the New York and Boston Express Company, defunct, made a detailed state- ment of the assets and liabilities of the company. from which it appeared that the aggregate value of the assets of the concern 1s set down at $196,000, while the liabilities reach over $260,000. They owe the Erie Ratiroad $171,000, covered by bonds and the chattel mortgage. They also owe the New Jer- sey Southern and New Jersey Northern and the New Haven and Northampton and Old Colony Rail- roads, and the Narragansett and Fall River steam- ship lines an aggregate of $12,000, They owe the Erie Railroad for transportation $20,000, and other carriers avout $30,000, and a host of misceilaneous creditors $20,000 and over, Tue total deficiency ‘wiil reach nearly to $65,000, Alter hearing this statement and talking matters over caimly and harmoniously for a iittle tine a committee of three, consisting of Messrs, Ingersoll, Shipman and Heyman, was appointed to confer Wiih the officers of the Erie Railroad, to ascertain what, 1F ANY SETTLEMENT COULD BE MADE, and to report the resuit to the creditors at another meeting to be held in the same piace and time, on the 27th instant. The committeemen and the smail creditors looked ratner ‘biue’’ at the prospect before them; and weil they might, considering that the Erie Company own $191,000 out of the $196,000 left by the exploded express company. The other creditors may fight and exhaust themselves over the remaining $6,000, to be distributed among them In iew of $60,000 which they would like and ought to have. Mr. Redfield appeared as counsel for the smaii creditors, Mr. Joseph Laroque ior the Erie Railroad Company, Mr, Morgan for the Narragan- sett Steamship Company, and ex-Judge Green for the New Jersey Southera Railroad Company. The meeting Was very harmonious, and, thuugh fearing the worst, the creditors are hoping for the best, HOBOKEN CITY GOVERNMENT. ‘The financial statement of the City Treasurer of Hoboken, extending trom March, 1871, to the pres- ent time, is to be laid before the Council on Tuesday night, Some of the departments bave spent much larger amounts of money than usual, and the pacer of the city, excluding the money due on improve- ment cerlificates and to contractors, fouls | Hp $268,753 62, Many changes In tne saminisirs: ae fare to take place at the next election. me t4 Foley 1s proposed for the oMce. of la Tor O'Donnell tor Assessor and Peter ny nahi Mayor. F. E. Rowland ts up for tne 7 nove and the chances of success incline a, A named men. A change 1s 6: io tat Education, many of Whose ‘are not famed for livetars ab’ ’ Ugly Story About a Party of Americans, Roms, Feb, 28, 1872, Ihave alreaay mentioned tne systematic demon- strations organized in the different parishes of Rome by the inhabitants of those districts faithful to cae Pontiff and ecclesiastical regimé, On Sunday is was the turn of the parochial districts of tne Matida- lena, St. Eustachio and Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. Therefore, on Sunday morning about two thousan® six hundred persons, comprising the parishioners of these three churches of Rome, were admitted to the honor of an audience with the Holy Father. The vast duca! hall and tne one adjoining were crowae® With persons of every rank and age, and the entrance of His Holiness, at half-past eleveu o’clock A. M., followed by his noble attendants, was the sigaat for @ burst of acclamation and waving of handker- chiefs, the Holy Father being at the same time saluted with the double title of Pontifrand sovereign. After the tumult nad in some measure subsided the oly Father took his seaton the throne, gur- rounded by various prelates and bishops of the Pontifical Court and some of the most distinguishea’ members of the aristocracy belonging to the three parishes. The Marquis Don Francesca Patriat, have ing presented an address testifying to the unalser- able fidelity of the aforesaid parishioners and the full faith they had that the truth of the Holy Catho- lic Church would finally triumph over the calum. nies propagated by a shameless press, &c-, the Holy Father replied in terms to the following eifect:—He thought it a happy coincidence that they should have chosen for this demonstration @ day on which he had to speak to them about para- dise. He reminded them that he himself had once been an Inbabitant of one of these parishes, having’ lived in minor orders in the Convent of La Madda- lena, The delights of paradise could only be obtained by warfare against the enemy. and the threefold enemies were the devil, the world’ and the flesh, explaining iow they were to be conquered, He then referred to tne dialogue be- tween the devil and the Lord concerning Job. This holy, just and pious man was, by God's per- mission, reduced to the most abject misery; the devil afflicted him with diséases and with the death oY his children, robyers took all his possessions from him, * * * but when It pleased the Lord, he Job was comforted and regained what he had i and more besides. There were many just and pious men in the world, in Catholic circles, in Europe and elsewhere, and jthey would certainly be con- solea as was Job, The good Romans, priests and) mouks might then walk the streets of Rome as of old, without fearing outrage, in- suits or death, * * * The Holy Father concluded his long discourse, which lasted half am hour, with invoking the blessing of God upon Present, and also the absent, upon young persona that might not be perverted. upon adults that they’ might persevere in well doing, upon parents that they might bring up their childrea im the holy fear of God, and imploring that this blessing might be the forerunner of that which, after a hoiy life and & tranquil death, they would receive from God im paradise, After the usual benediction apostolic, during which the Holv Father was visibly affected, the acclamations were renewed, and tie three heads of the partshes took their leave, after kissing’ the sacred foot of the august PontiiT and again re. ceiving nis benediction. THE RELIGIOUS DEBATES. It is now pretty generally admitted that the Pope made a mistake in ordering, or even allowing any ol his priests, however zealous or skilful in debate, to reason with unbelievers in what constitutes the tundamental doctrine of tue Catnoite Charch, Signor Sciarelll, an evangelical minister, In a 1et- ter addressed to the Kev, Father Truilet, accepts im the most positive terms the challenge upon the question of St. Peter having ever been in Rome, Dut declines tu discuss m the public journais tha details which should be reserved ior their tuture ar- gument. To which Father Trullet replies that ia ‘his last letter he had abandoned the idea of an oral dispute, and required insteaa an immediate ai swer to his lewer referring to Signor Sciarelit’a assertion:—‘(t ig well Known that the conversion of St. Paul nappened after the year 37”? ‘Ths ag- sertion he defles nim to prove; and, in the event of failure, he (Signor Trullety will consider and ane nounce the same as tne first vigtory will proceed to expose the false reasoning and mts representations of the adverse party; and until he receives wis reply he will say no more upon the subject. THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD AND THE POPE. The Osservatore Romano ot the 27th publishes a letter from the Count of Chambord to Pius [X., in which the heir of St. Louls, after excusing himself irom never having drawn his sword for the Holy See, and atter auding that if he had not dona so it was in order not to create more sertoug embarrassments, concludes by saving that if Pius 1X. summoned him he would be nappy to hasten to the delence of “so cherishea and Tespected & lather.’ ‘There 18, however, not the interest noveity in this letter, Which is dated on the 12th of Decemoer, 1866, apd, therefore, its republication tuls Moment must be either with a view of remind- ing Henry V. of his duties to the Pope, in case of nis regaining the throne of nis ancestors, or else to reply to the Jialie of the preceding day, which journal had expressed its opinion that tf the Count de Chambord succeeded 1n obtaining the throne ne would act towards Italy exactly like M, Thiers, not Wage War for the temporal power of the Popes, HOW THE RED PRINCE WAS ENTERTAINED. The grand banquet at the Quirinal, in honor of His Highness Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, took place, &$ announce, on Sunday evening. His Majesty the King, in the uniform of general of the army, took piace in the Centre of the tavle, having on his rigut hand the Princess Margherita, and on his left Prince Frederick Charles, dressed as a feild marshal of the German empire. All the officers of the Priace’s suite and all tne members of the Ger- man Legation to the Court of Italy were invited to the banquet, which thus had a decidedly ingen 4 character, The King has presented the Prince wi the grand cordon of tue military order of Savoy. PRINCE NAPOLEON will pass through Rome from Florence to Naples without stopping here, tt 1s said, In order not to ind himself in company with Prince Frederick Charles, Prince Napoleon wili find his father-in-law at Naples, where His Majesty Vira at on a hunung excursion di ‘uly after the banquet at the Quirmal THE AMERICAN TOURISTS. General Sherman, Lieutenant Grant and Colonel Audenretd are going through the usual round of ta- teresting excursions at Naples, among wilco that to Pompeil on the 24tn8 Was most enjoyavle, the Classto collation on the spot being attended by about one hundred and fifty persons of the American ,colony in Naples, General Sherman has requested an audience of the King, and proposes leaving Naples on Friday. It appears that the United States squad- ron will not reach Napies before his departure, 18 THIS TRUET T find the following in the Osservatore Romano ot to-day, which | merely translate, reserving to my- Self a verification of the fact: “We have to record the very indecent conduct of four Americans, who, visiling the Vatican Library on Monday last, were invited to go out at the usual hour for closing. They threatened to fling the custoda out of the window for courteously inviting thein to depart, and their insolence reached such & height that he had to call the Swiss guards to drive uiem out. Nor was this enough. Oue of them re turned to the Poutitical Palace about four o'clock, and, bearing that the Museum was then closed, broke out into the most violent invectives against the Holy Father, the Papal Court, the Catholic role conciuding with stupid threats and lamenting the new rulers nad not made a tabula rasa of all that Ig sacred and venerable im the Eternal City. Such facts require no cominents.” THE RING CONSPIRATORS, Return of William H. Cooke to New York— He Gives Bail on Two Indict) ts for Forgery. Among the large batch of indictments found ty Judge Bedtord’s historic Grand Jury were two bilis tor forgery in the third aegree agatost Wiliam Hennessy Cooke. ‘The first alleges that on the 24th of May, 1870, he assisted in forging and uttering the subjoined warrant for the payment of money, pur- porting to be drawn in iavor of Robert Winthrop as assignee of G, L. Schuyiers— To THR CHAMBERLAIN ov THR CITY OF NRw York at 4 BANKi— THR NATIONAL BROADWAY Tit ‘TORK, May 4, 1870, hun- Pay G. t. Sebnyl ee, One dred and aixty-thee ‘and eighteen Mayor, a 24.100 dollars £07 md eed. wk various piers Tor late Street 9. Department, to May Mol 5, CONNOLLY, Comptrolien, A. OAkRY HALL, Mayor. Phe indictment charged that Cooke intended to injure and defraud the Mayor, Aldermen and Vom- inonaity of the city of New York, the people of the State, G L. schuyler and divers others persons w {ue jurors unknown. The other indictment charged Cooke With forging the name of G, L Schuyler for Robert Wiathrop on the back of a warrant for a similar bull to tne toregoing, dated June 24, 1870, the amoant being $162,089 79 It seems (at as soon as the fact of these indict. ments was found and communicated to Cooke, he had “pressing and important business out of town,’* but for some reason or other he returned to the cit; on Friday, and, accompanied by his conngel an surety, proceeded to Judge Bedford’s chambers in Nassau street for the purpose of giving ball, His Honor, the Uity Judge, fixed the amount at $5,000 upon each inatcument, Jono F, Chamberlain, of No, 8 West ‘Twenty-fitth street, was accepted Cooke bondsman, the latter statyg that be at 208 alreeb,