The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1872, Page 6

( RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. April 28---Fourth Sunday Af- ter Easter. saereebictae The Religious Programme for To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as a Presidential Candidate, Shall Our Libraries Be Open on Sundays? Services To-Day. Dr. Alex. R. Thompson will preach on “Forty Dayson the Mount of God” in Rutgers Collego chapel this evening. “Days of Heaven Upon Earth” is the title of Rev. David Mitcholl’s discourse in the Canal street Pres- byterian charch. “Disintereatedness in Religion” and “The Sixth iter of Jesus” will be explained by Rev. O. L. wis at the Borean Baptist church. Thomas Gales Forster, trance speaker, lectures at Apollo Hal! morning and evening. Bishop Snow speaks in the University in the* afternoon on Spirituatism. Dr. Cheever, of tho Church of the Puritans, preaches in tho University in the evening. Rev. B. M. Frink, of Maine, preaches at both ser- vices at the New Engiand Congregational church.” Rey. Dr. Nicholson, of Newark, will preach in the evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity. ‘The Rev. Father Sheridan will preach this’morn- ‘ing at St. James’ cathedral, Brooklyn. At tho Church of the Messiah the Rev. C. 0. Car- penter, of Boston Mightands, will preach this morn- ing and evening. { At the Seamen’s Hall, in Cherry street, the Rev. I. & Weed will preach this afternoon, at three o'clook. The Rev. Henry Powers will discourse in Brevoort Hall to-day, morning and evening. ( The pulpit In the Brooklyn Academy of Mustc will be filled this evening by the Rev. Father A. Damen, who will preach for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum, on ‘The Catholic Church the only Truo Church of God.” The Rev. Mr. Pendicton will preach in the West Fifty-third street Baptist church. Tho Rev. 0. 8. Harrower, pastor of St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal charch, will preach to-day, morning and evening, The Rev. R. 8. Fostor, D. D., will occupy his pulpit antl! Mr. Harrower’s return from a summer tour in Europe, which he is about to make. The Rey. T. A. Hoyt will preach in the University chapel! this morning. At St. Ignatius’ charch Dr. Ewer will preach this morning. ‘The celebrated Father Gavazzi preaches in Stein- way Hall this morning on “The Free Church of Italy.” The Rev. Mr. Hepworth, in the evening, will deliver sermon on “ Woman as Wifo, Mother, Wanderer.” The Rev. Dr. Armitage preaches in the Fifth Ave- nue Baptist church this morning and the Rev. Dr. Hokne this evening. Father Gavaz7i will preach in Dr. Ormiston’s church this evening. Father Tom Barke, the eloquent Dominican, will deliver another lecture at the Academy of Music on the 16th of May. > Rev. O. S. Harrower preaches morning and even- Ing, for the last tiie prior to his departure for Eu- rope, at St. Luxo’s Methodiat Episcopal church. Rey. J. Pullman will discourse 1 the morning at the Church of Our Saviour. Rev. Dr. Flagg will speak in the morning at the hall corner of Third avenue and Fifty-fiith street. Rev. Dr. Osgood will dilate upon “The Rising one a oe ss ad be ~~ ore See’? NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHERT, least tho wisdom of legislative bodies Is of doubt ful calibre, ainoe they do things and transact busi- uess in their concrete capacity of which individually each man would be ashamed. But when the com- mon sense and the morale of the poople are fairly awakened to action they seldom make mistakes. As your correspondent says :—The political parties are disintegrating, corruption and peculation have destroyed all honest effort, demagognes ride ram- pene over the best interests the nation, honesty has become f tradition, legtstation a miserable shay and government a mere udministration of spoil, trickery and power, The masses know all this, but are powerless to help it, Certain people who make politics a trade Keep the machinery in their own hands and pull the strings for the simple to dance. Change of partics merely hands the plethorio poe rae from one set of'sha: 8 over to another, and the people are pillaged all the same under different names, The gigantic thieving and daring assumption of Tam- many has but given place to an impeounious horde of political aspirants, whose plunderings are ¢on- trolled only by their ignorance of the methods, By and by they will, perhaps, improve. It is proverbial among the lobbyists of 1872 in Albany that a more ignorant, barefaced set of cheap frauds have seldom been gathered on the legislative benches. The ques- tion this season in regard to any bill is not what is it, but what will it pay? A regular price current of the value of legislative votes is casily obtained, and it is understood among the initiated that merit versus money is always non-suited—in fact, no one ventures to try the issue. New York is by no means alone among the family of States. The same abuses exist in a greater or less degree in all, and probably nowhere in @ more palpable and shameless form than at Washington. Now, can any good reason be adduced by political economists, moral philosophers or even politicians why the people should not awake to these evils, cast the machinery and miser- able seipkaty ofall the party organizations aside, take their own interests in hand and give the coup de grace to partisan politics for atime? Let us try for once what a little patriotic honesty and plain com- mou sense might do forusin the way of an ad- ministration of our well intended government, Henry Ward Beecher ts, of all public men, the one best fitted to bear the banner of an intelligent people to honest conclusions. Ho stands before tho world with a clean, consistent record of noblo endeavor and honest purpose. In nothing narrow or intolorant, no man has better understood tho comprehensive significance of passing events, No man in the pulpit or out of it has labored botter or more wisely to mould popular sentiment to justice, morality and earnest effort. He is himself the best representative of all that is progressive in modern clvilization, He is not a mere Impractica- ble, simple-minded, unsophisticated preacher, but a bold, practical working man, who ubderstands hu- man wants and ks the remedy for human ills; not learned, perhaps, in the devious arts of the poli- ‘lan, but quite as capable of mastering the prob- ‘lems of political economy as the pitiful whipsters who assume the responsibilities of law makers. He is what your political trader and party hack are not—sincere, earnest and honest. Nomil- nate Henry Ward Beechor in the New York or any other convention, so as to place him fairly before the peoplo as the young men’s national candidate, with or without a platform of mere political quiddities, and the result will be a hew party of common sense, an honest and up- right President, of whom the nation may well be proud, and a dignified and respectable administra- tion, free from corruption. The demoralized demo- cracy have no candidat»; better unite on an inde- pendent than a republican. The workinginen, Christian unions, women suffrage and temperance people can propose none so eligible. It is only necessary to organize a party, with all the required machinery for business purposes, upon such broad and patriotic principles as Mr. Beecher could ap- prove, and your correspondent will become a true prophet. A consummation devoutly to be wished, and by none move than A DEMOCRAT, The Poctry of Scionce—Tho Idealist and the Mechanic. To Tau Eprror or TH® HERALD:— ‘Thero was in the HeRALD of the 15th instant a re- port of a lecture or essay by Rev. 0. B. Frothing- ham on Mazzini and Morse, in which the two men or their charactors were compared. In this lecture Mr. Frothingham contradicts himself twice most emphatically. This seems very slovenly or careless in a writer who has plenty of leisure. We could make more excuse for a devout preacher of a Christian sormon who, speaking extemporancously, might be carried off by his pious fervor and straggle a Uttle from the path he intended to follow. He (Mr. Frothingham) first makes the distinction between the two men—that Morse was a man of work or action (9 mechantc); Mazaini a man of ideas. He says, also, that Morse was an artist, and not amean ons. Further on he says that Morse, after some years, turned his attention to the great idea of his life. He praises him suMiciently but for this Palpabla contradiction and erroneous comparison, What is an artist without an idea? What would the work of his fingers be without the idea behind inspiring that work? What is any work without the thought which inspires it? Was it not an idea that originated the Orrery, Sean: of course, the construction was mechanical ? Truly, it wasa grand, a sublime idea to bind two Renee eres in one—to unite the whole globe by the palpiiating chain of electricity! Sach ideas, such works, belong to the poetry of science. These two men were in different flelds of action, but although Mazzini died without the gratification American Church” and ‘The True Use of Sunday” at St. John’s Memorial church. Rey. Isaac Riley preaches at both services at the Thirty-fourth street Reformed church. Rev. Dr. Kendrick preaches morning and evening @t the Tabernacle Baptist church. . Shall Our Libraries Be Cpen on Sun- days? To THR Epiron or THE HERALD:— The addrees delivered by the Rev. H. W. Beecher, on Monday evening last, advocating the opening of the Mercantile Library and other institutions of moral usefulness on Sundays, meets with the ap- proval of a very great many persons who would be only too happy to have such places of resort to Visit and pass the dayin. There are hundreds of young men who for the want of such places of re- creation to go to on Sunday are thrown, as it were, under the influences of improper associates and drawn into demoratizing enjoyments as a means to “kill time.” To that class of our young citizens the opening of the libraries, &c., on Sunday would, in- deed, be agreat benefit and would not interfere with the pious feelings of those who have the good fortune in having pleasant homes and happy sur- roundings. It pleasod me very much to read the liberal senti- ments uttered by Mr. Beecher on the subject, and Yas 8 member of the Mercantile Library have to thank him for endeavoring to enlist the vote of all those contributing to the library in favor of carry- ng this 80 very mc required measure into effect. « Mr. Beecher is a learned and enlightened gentle- man, And an advocate, I believe, for the advance. ment, progress and vindication of all his fellow creatures, and as fuch uses his influence with those who have the good fortaue to hear him discourse to thatend. But he sometimes makes mistakes, and those who admire him IY among the num- ber), cannot but feel pained that so weil learned a man a4 he ta could poasibly make a statement in a public address calculated to mislead. In his address he refers to the Jewa and the Sab- bath, and makes an sasertion thar would indnes the auinformed to believe that the Jewish Sabbath ‘was not intended for tue poor, but for the rich only. ‘That statement is at variance with the fourth com- mandment—Exodnsa xx.—in which not only the rich and poor and stranger are ordered to keep the Sab- ath, but also the cattle that belongeth to the people. No one acquainted with the customs and habits of the Jews from times past to the present can ad- vance the statement made by Mr. Beecher with brat A The Sabbath was instituted by the hty for all mankind, without regard to condl- tion in life, But if it were sible to construe otherwise the intention of the command, then the conclusion must be arrived at that the poor, who are the working classes, were to presit and be benefited. The tich generally do not . wi follow occupations which are of such a ture that ‘rest,’ as intended by the ordinance of Sabbath, is unnecessary to them. With the (the working classes) it 1s a diiferent matter, Ena so much do the Jews recogalze tuls fact that thore are very few among them who do not observe ‘the day tn all ite gg It would be well for lecturers and preachers to themseives thoroughly acquainted with the gubjects on which they speak before addressing au- lences made up in part of intelligent and attentive | hearers, as well as illiterate aud prejudiced persons octets fers pues acer chosen of God. = DW. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as a Presiden- tial Candidate. To rue Eprtor OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, “E. F. B.," in Sanday's Heap, whether hia proposition to nominate and elect Mr. Beecher President was in earnest or not, will find that the mere suggestion will have struck of realizing his hopes the world does not suffer therefrom. Had Morse died without carrying out his idea (since Mr. Frothingham willhave compari- sion) the whole earth would have suffered by the loss, And yet Mr, Frothingham calls Morse a me- chanic, in opposition to Mazzinl, the idealist. Per- haps the lecturer had some such thought as Dr. Holland, when he dedicated a certain poem of his a8 “The work of hia hands."” In speaking of Mazzini Mr. Frothingham says he was too elevated to have recourse to certain infe- rior minds or debased persons; and further on says, he belonged to all the secret societies and asso- ciated with men whom he despised—for their use- Inineas, in his words, to carry out the grand idea of his life, &e. Now, what are we to understand from such con- tradiction? Did he associate himself with vile people or did he not? Oertainly so gifted a man as Mr. Frothingham is said to be should be clearer in hia Liv erin and not quite so far-fetched in his com- arisons, se I would just remark that I never saw onr late dis- tinguished citizen, and write this simply to show the error and inconsistency of Mr. Sa discourse. G. A. H. Consecration of a .Bishop in the Prot- estant Church in Ireland—Plan of Amendment of the Rubric of the Eng- Msh Form. His Grace the Archbishop of Dnblin presided over a meeting of the General Synod of the Irish Branch | of the Protestant Church in Dublin, a few days since, assisting in the reorganization of the estab- lishment since its being disconnected from the State | Church of England by Parliamentary legislation. The House had under consideration the bill to | amend “the form of ordaining or consecrating an | ‘Archhishop or Bishop.” ‘The Archbishop of Dublin | mentioned that the Archbishop of Meath wanted to | introduce an urgent measure with reference to the | consecration of an archbishop or a bishop, to remove | certain matters which were not required since the | passing of the Irish Charch act. Archdeacon Stopford said that the bill was one of immediate necessity, and, at the same time, it | did not in the slightest degree touch upon ay. point of doctrine, nor upon anything that required | the tedious proceedin; brs resolutions and | introducing a bill next session. It related only to | what was rendered a matter of absolute necessity by the passing of the Irish Church act, There must be some oficial document to enable the Archbishop to proceed. Heretofore the Queen's letter was re- | juired, : Sir Joseph Napter, Baronet, did not think the bill absolutely necessary. Archdeacon Stopford said it was necessary that | legislation should be clear and distinct, even sup- joring the bill was not an actual necessity, | joseph Napter’s argument applied to all alterations | in the liturgy which had been rendered necessary | by the Paani of tho Irish, Church act. ba Bd aware that ina good many portions, nares ly in the State prayers, changes were necessitated by the | act. and yetin these there prevailed the utmost possible vartance as to the practice of what changes ought to be made. He, therefore, thought It hij 7 desirable that ‘‘all things should be done regula! | and in order.” Where the alteration was needed | he thonghtit should be defined by the authority of the Synod. Therefore he asked leave to bring in the following bill:— 4 DILL 70 AMEND “THE FORM OF ORDAINING OR CONRECRAT- ING AN ARCKBIAHOP OF BISHOP.” Mynereneit has heen rendered necessary by the passing of the Irish Church act, 1969, that certain changes shoul be made in “the form of ordaining or consecrating of an archbishop or bishop,” be it therefore enacted by the archdishops and bishops, and by the representatives of | the clergy and laity of the Church of Ireland, assemble | in General Synod in Dublin, in the year of our Lord 1872, that In ‘the rorm of ordaining or consecrating of an arch: | hall be made :- | Plahop or bishop,” the following change . Thefrubric tollowing after the | pate lag J of the ep | elect stall be omitted, d the following shall be substi. tuted therfor; “then shall the archbishop demand the certificate of the president of the 4} by | whieh such election (if any) was made, that the person | waaduly elected; or If no snch aynodical election was made, the cortificate of election by the majority of the | Dench of bishops, and also the certificate of the bench of ops of tho fithem of the person clected, and cause the | to he road ; and the bishop elect shall then make and ton of due obedience to the archbish ®ochordin the hearts of the intelligent masses of the American people throughout the Continent, ‘which, fanned ever so gently, would break ont {nto & blaze of party revolution that may sweep the Present organizations into chaos and oblivion, The vor popult in this democratic country, whose gov- ernment ts founded upon our free schools, is always vox Det when forced into expression by long con- tinued political abuses or party corruptions, Wo have witnessed several of these popular uprisings, @nd, wild and enthusiastic as they appoared to be at the time, they have ever proved advantageous in results. The aggregate inteitigence ofany given SOMMUBLEY AMONG Us WAY Yor bo Very gromt; wt Inthe next tollowing rubric the wo: y be changed into “thedeclaration.”” 3. 1 at ig Row tho owth the final words, “so help me God, rough Jesus Christ,” shall he omitre To the rubelé attor the oath of obedience the words "hig oath’ oh into the words ‘thie declaration.” 5. In the first th ms put to the bishop elect the word ‘roabm" be omitted, and the word “church” supstl- | tuted. motion haying been put leave was given and thew read a first time. The second reading was fixed for nextday, The Val f Si ath Schools, Lord Ardmillan, in the course of an address de- | livered at an annual soirée of the Giasgow, Scot- | land, Sabbath Schoel Union, said:—‘‘So far as I am | able to Judgo, the value and tmportange of Sabbath school unions will tnoreass, Not only do such inst!- tutions tend to promote Sabbath observance and Sabbath improvoment, but they are susceptible of yet wider scopo and application, if it be required. It is, I observe, in contemplation, and otrcum- stances may occur to rendor it specially necessary, to have a Sabbath Sohoo! Union for Scotland, If it should be found (which I should much regret, and do not expect) that no religious tnat ion, or delective religious instruction, is introduccd into our common sehools by the people, and more expecially by the parents, then this institution and shiuilar institutions will be able to step into the new fleld, and, witn the well tried organization ofunited Churches in Bible teaching and affectionate tvain- ing, Wil be able to add the saving and hallowing element of Christian faith and feeling to all other knowledge and to gather in the youth of Scotland for the honor and Welfare of our country and for the service of our Father in heaven, I rejoice in the prospect of useful secular education being brought within the reaoh of all under a national system, and I have such confidence in the people of Scotland that | have no fear of their being hostile or indifferent to sound religious teaching. Resignations of English Protestant Colo- nial Bishops. The China Telegraph, of the 8th of April, supplics the following curious facts concerning the resigna- tions of Bishops of the Established Church of Eng- land in the colonies and the retreat of the hierarchs to the mother country and to richer pastures at the central seat of ecclesiastical government, The Right Rev. Dr. Alford, who recently resigned the Bishopric of Victoria, Hong Kong, has become curate of Bowden, Cheshire. The Right Rev. Dr. Staley, late Bishop of Honolulu, has become curate of Croxall, near Tamworth, Some of the retired colonial bishops have been more fortunate. The Right Rev. Dr. Jenner did not give up the living of Preston, in Kent, while he was Bishop of Dune- din, and still holds it. The Right Rev. Dr. Beckles, on die from the — Bish- oprio of Sierra Leone, became minister of Berkeley chapel, Mayfair, and some time since was resented to the rectory of Wootton, near Canter- Bary, The Right Rev. Dr. Chapman, on retiring from the Bishopric of Colombo, became rector of Wootton Courtenay, Somerset, a Fellow of Eton Coltege and a Pred: jary of Wells Cathedral. The Right Rev. Dr. McDougall, on retiring from the Bishopric of Labuan, became vicar of Godman- chester and Archdeacon of Huntingdon, The Right Rey. Dr. Claughton, on retiring from the Bishopric of Colombo, became Archdeacon of London and a Canon of St. Paul's. ‘The Right Rev. Dr. Ryan, on retiring from the Bishopric of the Mauritius, became an Archdeacon in the diocese of Norwich, then rector of St. Nicholas, Guildford, and then vicar of Bradford. The Right Rev. Dr. Abraham, on resigning the Bishopric of Welling: ton, New Zealand, became coadjutor Laie § of Lichflela (with Dr. jer formerly bishop of New Zealand), and the Right Rev, Dr. Hobhouse, for- merly Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, is also an assistant to Bishop Selwyn, and has the living of Edlaston, Derbyshire, to which Bishop Selwyn pre- sented him in 1869, The Right Rev. Dr. Trower, formerly Bishop of Gibraltar, is sub-dean of Exctor Cathedral. The Kight Rev. Dr. Henry Cotterell, formerly Bishop of Grahamstown, has. become co- adjutor Bishop of Edinburg. The Right Rev. Dr. Anderson, on retiring from the Bishopric of Ru- pert’s Land, becamo assistant to Dr. Tait, Bishop of London. and was appointed go the vicarage of Clifton; all these gentlemen retain thelr appoint- ments. The Kev. Dr. Nixon, on retiring from the Bishopric of Tasmania, was presented to the vicar- age of Bolton Percy, @ rich Yorkshire lving, but ee cuueee to resign it on account of enfeebled ealth. The Japanese Porsecution of Christians. ‘The HBRALD specta) correspondent in Hong Kong, China, writing on the 14th of March, reports as fol- lows:—The commotion raised by the press through- out China and Japan about the persecution of Chris. tians at Nagasaki, Japan, seems to have produced a ood effect, as it is reported now that the Christian heads of families sent from Nagasaki Into exile at Christmas have been restored to their families and homes again. Rev. Father Kiely—"“The Church and the World.” The progress of Catholicity in Brooklyn has been frequently noticed, but the ‘explanation of its advancoment has not been fully understood. No elty in the Union possesses more faithful and ener- getic workors in the cause of the old faith than the City of Churches. The working priests of Brooklyn are pre-eminent in their plety, zeal and efficiency, and are untiring in their labors among the poor. Of these the Rev. Father Kiely, of St. James’ Cathedral, is perhaps the most distinguished, A young priest, clever, indefatigable and amiable, he has won to the fold of Catholiclty a number of persons of the other Christian faith within the last two years, and is untiring in his work, He will de- livera lecture this evening at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, for the benotit of the orphans, on the sub- Ject of * The Church and the World,” and, no doubt, A great co ‘se of his friends and admirers will congregate to hear him, THRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE, wi Israel the Parable of the Nations—The Lord’s Covenant with His People Isrnel’s Vitality—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Vidaver. Tho delightsomeness of the weather and the joy of the season gave inspiration and zest to the ser- vices of the synagogue yesterday, so that Dr, Vidaver seemed to preach better and the choir and reader to sing and chant sweeter than ever. The congregation have adopted an innovation which they had in contemplation for a long time, and have introduced five female singers into their choir. The change ts plainly and pleasingly percep- tible. They have also secured the services of a reader from Germany, Mr. Robert Ingel, whose chanting has much more of the joy of religion in It than his predecessor's, whose volee was excceding- ly plaintive and sad. The congregation was large, but through a change tn the time of service, it being half an hour earlier than usual, great number arrived late and missed the elo- quent lecture. Dr. Vidaver's text was Deuteronmy Xvi., 3—Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thon eat unleavened bread there- with, even the bread of afMiction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth ont of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.’ While other nations, he said, were wont to EMBLAZON THE PAGES OF THEIR HISTORY with the glittering insignia of national triumphs, Israel giories in the recollection of past humitita- tions, Egyptian slavery was never to be forgotten by the Isractites and the great deliverance from that bondage was to imperishably graven on thoir hearts. And why was Isracl never to forget its post history? Simply that our faith might be strengthened and our consciousness enlightened with the assurance that the portion of the Lord {3 His people and Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. “Remember the days of old,” exclaims the Divine $ | lawgiver. consider the years of former generations and thus pe shall comprehend your destiny as the people of the heavenly inheritance, Israel, the people of an indestructible vitality, the people of all climes and all tities, cannot sever itself from its past, but with it past and future are blended to- ether with the present, With its exodus from gypt its glorious future ‘commenced, but its end shail not be untli this planet ceases its existence, The moment that Isracl ceased to serve men and idols and began to serve the Lord it entered upon a career that was to be loftier than the loftiest pyra- mid of Egypt, and on a mission as superior to that of all other nations as the arn 4s superior to mat- ter and life to death. Thus Israel has become THR VARABLE FOR MANKIND, who, viewing ite past and future, must behold in Israel's life, as in a Kpotless mirror, their own ultl- mate destiny. Mankind must needs comprehend this parable and understand therefrom that the bondage of Egypt is not to last forever, but that there shall be an exodos from materialism and its idola- tries to the Sinaitic summits of purity and holiness, which must constitute tts great oal in the bright future. While heathenism begina he world’s history with a golden age and follows it through its various stages until they arrive at utter degrasiation, Jndaism begins with the tron age of Egypt, but ascends gradually the golden summit of Horeb, where the shackles of pegire | were broken and the soul-saving treasures of God's truth were revealed to Israel. No wonder, then, that Judaism enjoins upon Iarael never to forget the exodus from Egypt, simee forgetfulness of this event would im- Dip lotgetfninces of our glorious history and destiny a8 the people of Sinal—the people of light eternal and of truth imperishable. No, no! This would be forsaking the fountain of living waters and return. ing again to the ctsterns of Faypt. where error and morance and idolatry revel. Hence it is that the | Divine Legislator bases all his laws upon the recol- lection of ISRAELS REDEMPTION FROM RGYPT. Even the Sabbath and holy days are closely blended with the memorial of Israci's redemption, For, verily, as the celestial orb rises from the midst of a cloudy sky and filumines the darkness and dis. pe ses the mists with his golden fays, even so doth rael's redemption shine forth, carrying healing in its wings, Hence the text commands uA to re- Tember this great event-—to remember that our destiny Js not earthward, but heavenward, And hence Judaism abhors and detesta idolatry and slavery and declares that every homan being is endowed with heaven's own signet of freedom and immortality, This exodus is designed also to re: mind us that the loftiest monuments and the broad- ost pyramids of human glory, ambition and veully | with a stirring appeal are ephemeral, bus that the tempios and monn ments of holiness, wisdom, faith, hope and love, erected by humane hearts and sanctified minds are ag noblest and most enduring structures that oan reared, ‘To remember the redemption is to remember the priceless treasures and glorious bl-ssings bestowed upon Israel, and through Israel to mankind, who are to be one day leemed from the Egyptian bondage of sin and error and false conceptions of God whioh are now entertained by them. And in that day sal the Eternal be one and His name one. History shows that nations who forget their humble origin disappear as suddenly as they rise, but ISRARL CAN NEVER DIR, becanse Israel has never forgotten either ita begin- ning or its predicted future. The doctor closed 1 to his congregation to re- main faithful to the land of moral purity and free- dom where God alone is sovereign—a spiritual Canaan, not bounded by geographical lines, in. re all mankind are to Claim citizenship by and Ye PATHER BURKE'S LECTURE IN 8T. STEPHEN'S. ‘The Very Rey, Pather Burke will lecture on Tues- day evening noxt, in St. Stephen's church, Twenty- eighth street, the subject being ‘The Catholic Chureh the True Emancipator.”” The lecture will be in support of the mission to the colored people of the United States, which the Rey. Dr. Vaughan has organized, and which is already fairly started. So strong have been the prejudices of Irish citizens against the cored race in former times that an attempt is now being made to enlist their sympathies in behalf of this evangelical work. But, apart from this, the eloquence of the lecturer will be sure to present the claims of the colored people so vividly and #0 at- tractively that the lecture, simply as a lecture, will not fail to draw an immense audience, Before tho lecture begins Mr. Danforth, the organist of the church, will play some selections on the organ. ANOTHER EPISCOPAL OHUROH IN NEW JERSEY, The quiet town of Meadham, in Morris county, N. J., was the scene of considerable bustle yester- day, consequent on the laying of the corner stone of a new Episcopal church, the ground for which is agift from Mr. John Van Vorst, of Jersey City. arvices were no less impressive than iting, and were participated in by a large congregation and a goodly representation of clergy. Rev. Dr, Boggs, assisted by Rev. Messrs. Webb and Stansbury, of Newark, oiiclated. Rev, Dr. Seymour, of the New York General Theological Seminary, delivered an eloquent address suitable to the occasion, The music was taken charge of by a full surpliced choir composed of students of the same institution. The church is to be built in the Gothic style of architecture. THE METHODIST BOOK COMMITTEE, The Quadrennial Report Read, Amended and Adopted—Finishing Up Four Yearw’ Work of the Committee. The Methodist Book Committee sat again yester- day morning and afternoon. Dr. Bingham, the Secretary, was absent, having been called away to prepare for publication the minutes of the Black River Conference, of which he is secretary, and for other business which he could not attend to until after the adjournment of the General Conference, had he neglected it now. The morning session of the Committee was spent in read- ing and Listening to the quadrennial report as it now appears, with the Book Conc>rn mattor incorporated. The afternoon was spent in making verbal and technical amendments to the docu- ment and in discussions as to the propriety of pub- lishing it. Deeper insight into the report of the Book Voncern expert reveals the fuct that though no positive or legal proof can be found against Mr. Hoffman there can be no doubt that the Concern has lost considerable through his mismanagement in tixbinuety department. Still, in twelve special accounts of his in which frands had been charged the investigation confirmed the judgment ahd find- ing of the committee in ten of them and showed probably frauds two. Tho repsrt does not make any reterence to the missing vouchers alleged to have been carried about by Dr. Lanahan, as previously reported. The matter came before the committee on a resolution of inquiry regarding them. The report unmistak- ably condemns the practice of purchasing paper for the Concern through Mr. J. F. Porter; but adds that, from a careful comparison of prices, the Con- cern got its paper as cheaply as any publishing house in the city, et Harper's. Aud Mr, K. adds that, if he were the superintendent of the ing department, he would have bought as ply as Harper's, or else have ceased to use Mr. P che: Por From certain statistical tables presented in the report it is shown that in 1863, when the concern is alieged to have been so rotten and almost bankrupt that it paid out in wages and for material some- thing over $180,000 to turn out a little over $204,000 worth of work. But in 1871, when every- thing was supposed to be running smoothly aud economically, nearly $183,000 were expended to turn out $205,000 worth of saleable goods, The mismanagement of the agents in the first named year is not very apparent from this showing. The committee will have another session on Monday (probably the last), when their five years’ business will be finished up. It is believed that the next General Conference will place the publishing trustees, who shall appoint thelr own agents and employés, and thus rid the Annual and General Conferences of this bone of contention. The com- mittee, however, do not expect or intend to make ang such recommendations in their quadrennial report, but will leave the General Conference to ¢ such improvements in its own body. The whole matter will come up for review In a few days, when the Conference will meet in Brooklyn. NEW YORK CITY. The potice arrested 1,589 persons for various of- fences during the past week. For the week ending yesterday there were 606 deaths, 203 marriages and 387 births. Thirty thousand loads of filth and garbage were Temoved from our streets during the past six days, Thirty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dotiars and sixteen cents were collected in this city last week by the Tax Receiver, Fire Marshal MeSpedon reports thirty-elght fires for the week ending April 27, The estimated loss is $318,320 and insurance $586,600, Patrick Meehan, of No. 357 Grand street, acci- dentally shot Charles McCabe, of No. $2 Suffolk street, Tn the wrist yesterday afternoon, Marshal Hart during the past week granted 187 jicenses, receiving $339, One hundred and sixty. three complaints of violations of city ordinances were also received, William Paterson, sixty years of age, of 357 East Eighth street, was seriously injured yesterday by falling to the sidewalk from the second story win- dow of his residence. Seventy-three cases of smallpox were reported at the Burean of Sanitary Inspection for the past week up to Friday night. In addition to this num- ber there were twenty -nine deaths, Isabel Kingsly, cleven years of age, of 148 Wooster street, was fatally burned yesterday afternooe by her clothes taking fire from the stove. She was attended to by the police surgeon and sent to Bellevue Hospital. ba Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith, of 586 Ninth avenue, were thrown from @ wagon at the corner of 124th street and Eighth avenue yesterday afternoon, Mr. Smith was seriously Injured and Mrs. Smith po oA hurt. They were taken home by some jenda, Superintendent Donahue, of the Free Labor Bu- rean, makes the following report for the week:— Applications for employment, 1,080—146 mate 94 females; male help required, 117; fema! situations were procured for females. 1,056 5 99 males and’ 913 ‘The African Methodists at thetr conference yes- terduy had an excited time discussing the expedi- ency of taxation jn order to improve the financial condition of the church. The conference finally ad- journed in much confusion without any decision Telative to the tax. Michael Sherlock, a young man twenty-two years of age, died yesterday afternoon from injuries re- ceived by falling from the roof of premises No, 18 Roosevelt street, The body was conveyed to the residonce of deceased, No, 68 James street, while Coronor Herrman was notified to hold an ingnest, Thomas Park, A man sixty years of age anda native of England, at four o'clock on Friday after- noon entered his room at 96 Sixth avenue and four hours ater he was found dead in his bed, Park had been living there only two days, Coroner Young was notifled, Deceasod has friends in the clty, who will take charge of the remains, Mr. Smith, of Forty-second strect, and his wife, received probably fatal injuries, at 124th street and Beventh avenue, yesterday afternoon, from their horse taking fright at a steam rover and running away, throwing both of them out and injurin; them it ia BPR fatally, Mr, Smith ts an ol Praiman aw oll kAOWD by all the bormemen i interests of the Church in the hands of a board of | LIFE IN THE CAISSON. The Air Chamber Under East River—How the Brifige Builders Breathe Compressed Air. The regent death of a laborer in the caisson of the East River bridge, from, as alleged, tho effeots of compressed air while in thé performance of his labors, has excited some interest in the community relative to the general welfare of these caisson 1a- borers. The stone picr to support the East River bridge on the New York side is now being rapidly pushed forward at the foot of Roosovelt street. An immense dock there is occupied by the frame barracks of the men, the numerous engine rooms and the offices of the contractors. On one side is a slip for the landing of material; on the other is @ Williamsburg ferry landing. Atthe‘outer end or bulkhead of the pier rests the huge masonry just now beginning té'take shape, upon which the New York end of tho bridge is to rest. It is as yet only @ few fect above the tide. This masonry rests upon the caisson, about which so much interest is felt, As the caisson descends the stone foundation settles until when the excavation inside is complete and the huge pile that is to be has secured a sure foundation, not upon the uncertain shifting sands at the bottom of East River, but upon the hard sub- stratum ot rock beneath it, then the pile will com- mence to grow heavenward and will soon attain the tall and slender proportions of that companion pier that seems almost within a stone's throw, and yet rears its head so handsomely three-quarters of @ mile away on the Brooklyn side. The caisson is a huge chamber, or series of cham- bers, seventy-six feet below the surface of the earth, It is lighted by gas, an engine being used above ground expressly for that purpose. It is supplied with air by thirteen small engines, which pump a stream of air into the chamber at the rate of 2,100 feet per minuto, This air tinds egress through numerons pipes opening out on the edge of the pier, through which also the ditt excavated is whirled out, just as a letter is whirled through a pnenmatic tnhe, It also finds egress through the excavations made by the men as they progress and It rises through the water of East River in enormous bubbles, The pressure of the alr In the calsson is about thirty-four pounds to the square inch at high water, the variations of the tide naturally affecting the position of the caisson itself, There are sixty men at work on the caisson, and they are divided into relicfs, so that none of them remain below more than four hours, each man taking two turns, one of two hours and a half and another of two hours. There is, therefore, an allowance of thirty-five feet of air per minute to each man, The trouble does not He in the scarcity of air, but in its density, When you descend into the caisson you enter first & narrow chamber, where all doors are closed and the strong air is let on. At once the pressure canses the ears to tingle and then to pain exces- sively. A minute or so of this inures one to the greater pressure yet tocome. The heat becomes excessive. The perspiration begins to stream down the face. When the air has reached a density equal to that in the main chamber the door connecting the two can be opened. Otherwise the conbined strength of glants would be insuil- client to press it open against the atmospheric pres- sure Inside, “An? ef ye could open it,” said the workman, who was initiating @ HERALD reporter into these myste- ries, “it'd blow all of us up through the well, with- out having to wait for the elevator.” Insidethe main caisson the men are busy exca- vating. The water rests upon what seems to be the floor of the calsson, but is really the floor of the Kast River. The tide ebbs and flows as on the beach, The men wear heavy guin boots reaching up to their knees. The incessant tingling of the ears becomes uncomfort- able, but there is no diMenity in breathing. There is no ever-present terror of instant suifocation as m the mines of Pittston—no choke-damp, no deadly gases. All thatis uncomfortable is the density of bhe alr. It is pure enongh, but there is too mack of it. We can imagine any hearty man standing it for months, but men of sickly constitutions, wasted away with consumption or lable to heart diseass, would be the worst persons in the world to make aliving here. In addition to the tingling of the ears and a heavy pressure on the head there are stitches of pain shooting through the knees and calves, caused by the dampness of the floor. The contractors employ a Nhysician, who examines the men as if they were enlisting in the army, and none with weakly constitutions are hired. While our re- porter was present a man came up to the top of the shaft, assisted by two others, and wended his way to the engineer's office, there to await the coming of the doctor. He was troubled with sharp pains in his Knees, The recent death, according to the engineer, was occasioned by Bright's disease of the kidneys. f we'd known he had it,” said that gentleman, “we would not have hired him, and if he’d known that, no doubt he wouldn't have told us he had it. The men will take risks that way, and we get the blame. We give them a close examination, but soine obscure diseases escape us.’ The dock is covered with engines. Every appll- able means is used to dispense with hand labor, Steam engiacs hoist the stone from the scows, and small raflroad trucks carry them to the pier. Stcam engines raise and lower the elevator in the shaft for the ascent and descent of the men. Gauges are constructed to show the pressure of air in the catsson and to mark the rising and falling of the tide. A telegraphic arrangement, with an originai code of signals, connects the upper portion of the masonry with the chamber beneath, by which signals for any ordinary communication can be conveyed. Huge hinging doors are con- nected with the air pipes to shutoffthe stream, if the pressure becomes too dense. Barracks, with bunks and benches, have been bnilt for the laborers, and hot coifee is served to them whenever they come up from the atmospheric pressure below. In the barrack room a code of rules is displayed urging the best means of preventing accidents and insur- ing health, ‘The engineer maintains that the new men sutfer most from the density of air in the chambers. The old laborers become used to it. Itis not desirable that any one should pass a lifetime in such air, but as thé work has to be done, he maintains that it is done with the greatest regard to the health and comfort of those who doit. As forthe reporter, he felt that he had seen enough in a ten minutes’ visit, and meekly signified his desire to return. Two hours afterwards, when he had inhaled with hearty thanksgiving the blessed air of heaven, un- compressed, hs ears still tingled and his head still felt dull with that ten minutes in the caisson. The Long Wished For Reform Secured— Mecting of the Nincteenth Ward Rail- road Reform Association. A meeting of the Nineteenth Ward Railread Re- form Association was, held last evening at the rooms 889 Third avenue, at which the Chatrman, Mr. McCool, presided as usual. Since the passage by the Assembly of the plan for sinking the track in Fourth avenue—the victory being now half won— the interest of the members in the business of the organization has become less active, except in a few instances where chroni¢ dissatisfaction seems to exist with the doings of the people's sage legislators. Willing to permit the weary nights of heated oratory and thundering debate which distarbed so long the residents of Yorkville to become memories of the past, but wish to continue the wrangling and ambitious bombast which creates so much nolse bat accomplishes so little, By the wiser party the following resolutions were proposed last evening to eee the most arduous labors of the associa- ion:— Resolved, That we accept the proposition of Mr. Van- derbilt to sink the track and arch it over as it is now passed In the Assembly. Resolved, That we ‘tirge the Senate to Resolved, That the continuance of the trouble which has annoyed the citizens for years is an in: Jury to them and that itis our belief that Mr. Vanderbilt means to construct and give ts a quick transit which has so long and earnestiy heen looked jor. Resolved, That through the urgency of onr organization wo have reached the point whereby the tracks of the Fourth avenue wifi be sunk and arched over and the lives ‘and limbs of the eliizens saved. Resolved, That this association will stand organized until the whole improvements are accomplished in Fourth avenue, Mr. Jacob Cohen advocated the resolution which he had offered very eloquently, but finally an amendment less wordy was offered, and passed as asubstitnte. The rooms were re-engaged for the use of the association, at 880 Third avenue, and the meeting then adjourped. JAOK TAR'S MISERIES, A Brutal Satlors’ Boarding House Keeper Splitting the Skull of an Inoffensive Sailor, James Galvin, proprietor of a sailors’ boarding house at 177 Cherry street, was yesterday arraigned before Judge Scott at Esacx Market Court, on ® charge of felonious assault and battery. About six o'clock, last evening John Fudge, @ na tive of Shields, England, a boarder in Gal- vin’s honse, was sitting in the back rt of the ‘barroom, when Galvin came in and Poked him, in alond, drunken volce, “Why didn’t you ship ‘to-day?’ Fudge, who ie a quiet, in- offensive man, not knowing what was ip him, answered plainly, ‘I called at the ship bat found that another man had got berth as mate.” Galvin, iden of losing the seized =a heavy chair, D had time 1 ia where, Ne et: rneyont Iles in & critical condition, tal suffering from concussion of the by ‘who was arreated, 0 deaperate attuggle, by amt Ar oly Stat ain Some are not | ILLINOIS KU KLUK A Western Rival for South Caro- lina Outragos. A Rebel County m Egypt—Delightfnl State of Sooiety in Southern Iinois—Tnirty Murdess in Twelve Years—A Septuagenarian Adulterer Hung by the Ku Klux. Du Quor, TL, April 24, 1872, This.portion of Mlinois, known as “Egypt,” has never been noted cither for the culture of tts inkab- itants or for the respect which they evincod fer the laws; in fact, the census of 1860 showed an alarm- ing degree of ignorance prevailing among the ott Settlers, and, as was to be expected, thoy obeyed the laws about the same as other uneducated, preja- diced frontiersmen did. This Congressional distriet then comprised sixteen counties, and was good fer 16,000 democratic majority. The “hardest” county was Williamson, Att he outbreak of the rebellion it was HEADQUARTERS FOR SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZERS in this State, and there were recruited two compa- nies for the Southern army. ‘The commander of the firat company was a brother-in-law of ex-Congness- man Alen, who subsequently became a colonel im the rebel army. During the first year of the war innumerable outrages were committed upon Union men, and at least twenty of them were murdored because of their Union sentiments, A son and twe sons-in-law of one of the wealthiest capitalists im the county have each committed a murdor of the most wanton character and have gono “unwhipt of justice.” This state of affairs induced the fedora’ authorities to declare the county UNDER MARTIAL LAW, and troops were stationed in Marion, the county, seat, for the preservation of the poace. This soom caused a reaction to take placo. Union men, no longer under fear of assassination, bogan to show themselves, and soon two companies were raised for the Union army, and finally, so great was the change of sentiment that, under the call for troops in 1863, a full regiment was enlisted in Williamson county. But the old rebel element was still strong in the community; and, relieved from the pressure of their Union neighbors, very many farmers openly, proclaimed their secession proclivities, and aided and protected deserters and desperadoes who sought refuge among them. In the northern part of the county, in the bend of the Muddy River, near Six Mile Prairie, A CAMP OF DESERTERS was regularly formed, when several hundred men congregated, built a small fort, cultivated lands, and for more than a year set tho authorities at defl- ance, Subs*quently a band of guerillas was organ- ized here, who prowled throngh the country, from the Wabash to.the NTPs river, murdering and robbing. The captains of this gang of outlaws wore leading politicians, one of them boing county assessor and the other an ex-quaitormastor in the army. In this neighborhoo 1 lived a rich old farmer named Isaac Vancil, who gave count*nance to many ofthese outrages and alded materially in keepin, up the deserters’ camp. He claimed to be the firs! whit child born in the county, and had always ted a reckless life, having Uved over leg years in sti quently Judge Lynch's code is the only one respected. Van- cil finally became very unpopular, and threats were made against his life; but, being about seventy-five years old, he believed his age would shield him from harm. - On Sunday, the 4th inst, A BAND OF KU KLUX, Masked and dressed in long white robes, with black borders, and displaying the skull and oross- bones, rode up to his hous? and delivered to him an ominous looking document, ornamented with a Jarge Ku Klux seal. This paper ordered him to make restitution of property in certain cases, to cease cohabiting with the widow of his nephew, and to perform a number ofother acts,under penal of death. This notice gave the old man alarm, and he faithfully promised to perform every- thing required of him. He complied with every demand, so far as he could, and, thinking that no danger was to be apprehended, on Saturday last returned to his home, which he had mda ng vacated. About eleven o'clock on Monday night after he had retired te bed, Mr. Vancil was arons by a knocking at his door, accompanied with the ordsr to “come forth.” Upon opening the door he was confronted by TWELVE MASKRD MBN, disguised as before, who instant'y seized him, and, despite his cries and the entveatins of his wife, to whom he had been married but a short time, with- out affording him time to dress, hurried him of through the woods, a distance ‘of three-quarters of where they hung him toa limb of a tree. saving the house the inmates were warned against making any noise or of following the Klux; consequently they remaine | quiet until day- ‘and the body of Mc. Vanell was founded susp»niel from a tree. Life had been extinct several hours when the body was found. Murder has become so common in Williamson county as hardly to be considered a crime, at least thirty homicides having taken plac within the last twelve years, A beautiful state of society this to exist in the great State of Illinois! Vancil was seventy-five years of age, quite infirm, and was worth about $50,000, THE NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. Lge Another Chapter of the Records—Sharp Practice Extraordinary—Smuggling Through an Important Ratlroad Bill. For years past desperate efforts have been made by certain parties to break in upon the railroad, monopolists of New Jersey, by obtaining a charter to construct a road between New York and Phila- delphia. Stacks of stamps have been ex- hausted on the project, and as a matter of course there has always been found in the Jersey Legislature a swinging majority who professed to see nothing but a“ job" in the charter, and who, therefore, virtuonsly voted it down by most deel- sive votes, Last winter the thing was tiled, but with the same success seemingly as on former occasions. All sorts Of sttricks: were tried, and raitroad bills were passed for sec- tonal roads and then an attempt made to obtain the connecting link necessary to make the many ; but the lynx-eyed railway managers were ‘ays on the qué vive to frustrate such dodges. It has just transpired, however, that the projectors of the coveted road have laid out not only the railroad men, but the wise men whom Jersey maintained in her legisiative halls the last session, It seems @ Dill was passed by a piece of unparaiicled sharp practice granting certain ersons power to construct a railroad between New York, Stanhope and elsewhere, The sixth section of the bill invests to corporations with all the powers necessary to ay out, construct and operate a railroad, by such practical route as they shall deem expedient, from some point on the Walkill Mountain within three inites of Lake Hopatcong to the Morris and Essex railroad at Stanhope, or to some pointon Lake Ho- patcong, with the usual powers to take lands, &c., and todo allother things which may be suitable or necessary for the completion, repair and man- agement of said road, and for the conveyance of assengers and freight to and from the city of New ‘ork and elsewhere, the consent of the owners the land having been first had and obtained in the usual way, By the word “elsewhere” the incorporagors are of course empowered to run their road right through to Philadelphia. Stanhope is an out-of-tl way place in Sussex county, the hilly home of tear- ful’ Kilpatrick. The charter is — perpetual, nd & non-repealer is embodied in the i, Tt is claimed tors fully intend goin, road, and that it will not the charter ae of under any considera- tion whatever. enty-three farms have been purchased Bound Brook, containing over twenty thonsand acres, upon which a town is to be built, through which the new road is to pass. The work on the road will be commenced in abont one ‘month, and it is intended to be completed in about we of the . allegation is that the bil was eee fy the distribution to the members of the copy which did not contain the clause, while the Engrossing Clerk was furnished with a copy ba ee4 efforts will doubtless be made by the Penn- and Central roads to obtain an tnjunc- Tin cgninet the construction of the road on the Tg that the charter was obtained through ud. D “NAVAL ORDERS, WASHINGTON, April 27, 1872. Master G, A. Tyler has been ordered to ordnance dnty at the Navy Yard at Norfolk; Medical Direc- tor David Harlan to the Naval Hospital at Annapo- Ms; Surgeon Adrian Hudson to the Michigan; As sistant Surgeon John 0, Wise to the receiving shi New Hampshire; Assistant Surgeon Adam reak to the receiving ship Vermont. Detachea—Oommander Robert Bradford, from special ordnance duty at Pittsburg and ordered as inspector of ordnance at the Navy Yard at Ports- mouth; Medical Director William Greer, from the Naval Hospital at Annapolis and placed on jers; Surgeon A. 8. Oberly, from to the Lng din | ship Ohlo and ordered the Navy Y1 at Koston; Surgeon Samuel Shaw, from the Michigan and ordered to the Naval Lowpt tal at New York; Chief hae nl David Smith, frou the Bureau of Steam Kngincering and ordered t On the 10th of May noxt,