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i ‘ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. June 16--Fourth Sunday After Pentecost. RELIGIOUS EXERCISES TO-DAY The Herald Religious Communicants. The “Religion” of the House of Refuge. POPE JONES’ NEW ALLY. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS. JS CHRISTIANITY A FAILURE? Emanuel Swedenborg and the Theology of the Nineteenth Century. THE BIBLE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY, Religious Services To-Day. Judge J. P. Joachimsen will address the congre- gation B’Nai Israel, at the synagogue, corner of Forsyth and Stanton streets, on the subject of the /Rise and Progress of the Israelites in the United tates.” ' Accourse of sermons on “Caves of the Bible,” in ‘Canal street Presbyterian church, 17 Greene, by the v. David Mitchell. Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- Bngton square, at three P. M. Berean Baptist church, corner of Bedford and wning streets. Preaching by the pastor, Rev. P. Davies, at half-past ten A.M. and a quarter to jeight P. M, Church of the Messiah, corner Park avenue and ffhirty-fourth street. Rev. J. F. W. Ware, of Baltiy more, will preach morning and evening. Church of the Resurrection, Fifty-seventh street, ear Lexington avenue. Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach fmorning and evening. | GC. Needham (Evangelist) will preach in the jevening in the Baptist church, Seventeenth street, pear Sixth avenue. R. Camero, pastor, in the orning. New England Congregational church, corner peng avenue and Forty-seventh street. The v. David Cook, Dundee, Scotland, will preach morning and evening, , Rev. Mr. Pendleton will preach in the West Fifty- third street Baptist church morning and evening. | Sixth avenue Reformed church, Rev. J. L. Dan- | her, pastor. Services at hatf-past ten A. M. anda jquarter to eight P. M. 4 Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. John YE. Cookman, pastor. Preaching by the pastor at half-past ten A. M. and a quarter to eight P. M. The services of the Broadway Tabernacle will be fheld in Association Hall'in the morning; the even- ‘ing service in the Brick church, Thirty-seventh Btreet and Fifth avenue. At Grace church there will be prayers and an an’ jthem this evening at five o'clock. | Memorial church, Eleventh street and Waverly (place—morning and evening. Rev. D. Northrop, West Twenty-third strect Pres pyterian church—morning and evening. ' Attorney street Methodist Episcopal church— moorning and evening. Pope Jones’ New Ally—The Religion of the House of Refuge. To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— Being disengaged for the last week I attended Gaily the trial of the boy Dunn for the manslaughter of Calvert, the keeper of the House of Refuge, and fn an experience of over thirty years at the bar of Europe and America, I never tn any clvilized as- Bemblage heard such stupid assertions semi-autho- witatively stated as those made by the As- sistant District Attorney. In fact, did I not find myself corroborated by the notes of the steno- graphers I could not possibly believe that any official ‘was so ignorant, not only of all legal knowledge, but so impervious to the interests of humanity as ‘this oficial was in his adaress to the jury and the examination of the witnesses. For instance, he had the impudence to ask a witness, who testified ‘that he was sick and wanted & Roman Catholic Priest to confess him, this question :—‘‘What did you Want to confess to the priest?’ Now this question was ‘wholly illegal, and should, as I hope and hear, the oficial who put it will be at once requested to aticnd to some more congenial business than that oi public prosecutor. In his address to the jury he emphasized the assertion “that any person’ de- prived of his liberty tn a House of Correction for- Jeited also his religious liberty and conscience and had no right thereto.” If this had been stated in the heat of argument I would not think it worth while to immortalize this Individual to eternal in- fumy in the pages of your Journal; but the burly oiicial reiterated again and again this vile shibbo- leth, and 1 really believe, so stupid and bigoted did he appear, that he beleved that a child com- mitted to our public institutions forfeited not only liberty of body, but also of conscience. ALLUA, Is Christianity a Failurct To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— As the columns of your truly liberal paper are ever open to tht public for the discussion of religi- us questions I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to you on @ subject of critical importance to mankind, The Rev. Father Burke, in his late elo- quent sermon, to my mind draws the gloomiest pic- ture ever presented to the world (no heaven for man except through our Lord Jesus Christ in the Wiessed' Eucharist). Well may he say this is truly a most awful assertion to make. Now, if his state- ment be true what is the result? Taking the popu- lation of the world at 1,200,000,000 we have at least 600,000,000 of human beings condemned to everlast- ing torment. If this be the result of Christianity after eightcen hundred years can-it be regarded a3 any- thing else but a failure? How can we look on God asa God of justice and love and charge Him with con- demning to endiess misery immortal beings for not believing in what they never heard nor ever had a chance of knowing’ Yet such is the assertion made by Father Burke. Does he not, I ask, charge | God with injustice when he say: you may find | @ heathen or pagan, a Chinese if you will, ‘who never heard of the Word of God, and you | might find him a very honest man and a good, tem- perate man.’ Yet, is that man ft for heaven? He enswers ‘‘No.” Such statements from the lips of Christian divines have done more injury to the cause of Christianity ‘than the combined efforts of its bitterest enemies. It may be that Father Burke did not mean what his ‘words imply, but was over anxious to impress upon the minds of his hearers the benefits to be derived from the Holy Eucharist. Novertheless, the injury done to the cause of Christianity ts incalculable, ‘The time has come when Christianity must be a lit- tle more liberal, if it 1s to retain its hold on the mind of man. ‘Theology has too long held men’s minds in darkness, permitting us only to get a limpse of God surrounded by sword and fire. It fis pictured heaven as the home of a chosen few, ‘and consigned to a place of unutterable woe the ast majority of the human race. It is high time that @ system of teaching 80 Rare gia to the char- ‘acter of God be cast aside and more liberal and emeaars views adopted. J. A, JOHNSTON, Emanuel Swedenborg and the Theology and Science of the Ninetcenth Century. Mo rue Eprror or tus HEKALD:— ¢ None but the careful reader of Swedenborg can Yealize the extent to which his writings are modi- ying the theology and even philosophy of this day. ny of our most celebrated divines, and literary nd even philosophical writers, are reading his pwritings to @ greater or less extent, and not a few f them are firm believers in the idea that he was truth the herald of a new dispensation from God ko man, which is at this day being ushered in. No Wan can read his revelations as to the future life ‘and theological doctrines, and go back to where he Turn and read, “The sou » re (Le ie NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. JUNE 16, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEEX. of this new. age are spreading with wonderful activity. Swedenborg teaches, as St, Paul taught, that man has, while he lives here, a spiritual body as well as a material body; and, although he does not, like St. Paul, call the man who believes in the resurection of the material body a fool, yet he does most clearly and beautifully show that “death is the gate of life,” or a death in this world ts a birth into the next, the resurrection taking place as the material bedy, which had no life in itself, and was only made alive by the spirit, dies: the real man” coming forth from the decaying body as the blade comes forth from the decomposing grain. The ma- terial body is cast off, never to be resumed, in the former case as in the latter, while the spirit, being the real man here, carrying with it all of its facul- tiles and passions, enters on its new life in the spiritual world; which world is Just as near to this world as a man’s spirit is to his body while he lives here, 1t is not 80 much the faith that a man nomi- nally believes here, as it is the life which he lives, which governs his destiny hereafter. Heat or fire corresponds to affection or tove; heavenly fire to love of the Lord and _ neighbor; _ hell tire to love of self, the world and sensual gratifica- tions, which, where they rule aman, make a@ hell hot enough and suffering severe enough here to satisfy any reasonable man, and will be rely todo the same hereafter. The reader has but to inquire among hig neighbors to see how rapidly the old ideas of the resurrection of the material body and a literal hell of material fire and brimstone are fad- ing away from the minds of all intelligent men. Swedenborg has shown conclusively that all who earnestly desire to kuow the truth, seek it, and live according to the best light they can find1in all re- ligions, will finally reach heaven and heaven- ly happiness, and that all infants, Paps tized or unbaptized, who die are saved. It is not necessary to tell the reader how rapidly these views are permeating the religious world, breakin; down the barriers of sectarianism and vigotry and preparing the world for the reception of the grand central doctrine, or corner stone, of the New Jeru- salem, which is now slowly but surely beginning to manifest itself in the two extremes of the Chris- tian world—among Trinitarians and Unitarians; showing conclusively that the day long predicted is at hand, when there shall be but one God and His Name one in all the earth. God is one; the Jeho- vah and Saviour of the Old Testament assumed humanity, and was manifested to men in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, one God in one Divine Person, or God in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself—a most beautiful and sublime doctrine. The idea which a man hes of God is a centralidea, and we can never have a real living union among Chris- tians until men come to recogmze and worship the one only true and living God. With the idea of one God in one person, false doctrines, which have separated and allenated Christians will vanish like birds of night at the rising of the sun, for they will have no foundation on which to rest. In the science of correspondences, revealed through Swedenborg, we have the key for the rational interpretation of the Sacred riptures, so that we can know that they are revelations from’ God, for we _ can intellectually see that the interpretation is true, In the light of this newiy-revealed science the scep- tic is disarmed, and revelation and reason, the Bible and science, are reunited, and God is shown or clearly manifested in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father in the Son. To attempt to worship God out of Christ is to worship an unknown God, without body or parts, a consuming fire. The day ts not far distant when the Bible will be reve- renced as it never has been before, as men begin more and more Freee see that the letter, which to-day killeth, is but the covering or clouds for the spirit which giveth life, and that God’s Word differs as much irom the words of man as God’s works do from the works of men. The first chapters of Genesis, for instance, were written to convey spiritual truths rtaining to the regeneration of man—a spiritual creation—and were not intended as a history of material creation. The tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil—as their very names signify+were not material trees; the serpent which tempted Eve ‘Wis man’s sensual nature, and not a literal talkin, serpent; and he tempts us to-day as much as he di Eve. If the reader would find a rational interpre- tation of these chapters, and receive the most won- derful, useful and beautiful lessons of spiritual in- struction, which will forever set at rest all fears of the discoveries of science conflicting with the Sacred Scriptures, let him read Swedenborg’s ‘Arcana Celestia,” and he will not be disappointed. J. E. The Bible Doctrine of Immortality. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— It is evident that in discussing the great subject ofimmortality the people are giving heed to the admonition of the ancient prophet to “cease from man.” Lovers of truth rejoice that a journal so able and influential as the HERALD 1s willing to spread be- fore its multitude of readers the Bible as well as the popular teaching on this important subject. And there is no more important question in rell- ‘ious matters before the people to-day than “ What is truth’’—what is Bible truth on this snbject? Why should men assert that the Bible teaches a doctrine that it never aifirms? And why will not men believe what the Bible does affirm in relation to this question? Your correspondent, “E. J. K.,” is an example in point. He asserts that “a man, gece the im- fmortallty of the soul, must, necessarily, deny the veracity of the Bible; and inquires, “Does not that good book, through multitudinous paragraphs, show the existence of an everlasting soul?’ Yet not one syllable of Bible language does he quote to show it. Such unsustatned pretensions must pass for what they are worth. I repeat, the Bible never affirms any such doctrine, but just the contrary. i that sinneth it shall (Ezekiel xvill., 4, 20.) The word “immor- tality” occurs but five times in the New Testament. God “only hath immortality.” (I. Timothy, vi., 16.) “To them who seek for immortality, God will give eternal life.” (Romans, tl., 7.) Jesus Christ “hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.” (II. Timothy, i., 10.) At the second com- ing of the Lord Jesus Christ, “This mortal must put on immortality; and when this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall death be swallowed up in victory.” (I. Corinthians, xv., 53, 54.) is testimony is conclusive that immortality is not inherent in man, unless it can be shown that God has given it to him. Let us have the evidence, od people, let us have the evidence. Now look. Firet!Goa only hath immortality. Second, Jesus Christ has brought it to light, through His ‘gospel. Third, it is to be obtained by those only who, by pa- tient continuance in well doing seek for it; and fourth, it is to be given when Jesus comes the sec- ond time without sin unto salvation. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God Is eter- nal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. vi., 23.) Ww. The Christianity of the Nineteenth Cen- tury and the Persecution of the Jews. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD :— The various religious denominations have held their annual yearly convocations and ventilated their cheap platitudes; moral pocket handkerchiefs have been sent in generous profusion to polish off the upturned, refractory heathen nose; conven- tions have discussed with painful claboration “what are sinful amusements,” and evinced a knowledge therein provocative of much scandal. It was proposed to place dancing under a ban, except when the sexes did not mingle; but one reverend member, who evidently knew how it was himself, sagely remarked that it would be dificult to popularize that mode, whereupon the august assembly drifted into a slough of despair and melan- choly frightful to behold. All this goes to show that these religious, Christian gatherings were not pushed for time, and took under their wide-spread, protecting wings the needs and wrongs of “all the world and the rest of mankind.” What an opportune time was this for them to rise above sectarianism and pétty jealousies and throw to the breeze their much vaunted banner of Christianity in its broadest sense and eXpress sym- pathy for the poor Jews of Roumania, who are mal- treated to-day by their Christian neighbors and rulers in a manner which isa disgrace to modern civilization! Ignorance of the facts cannot be pleaded in bar, for the press have teemed with the sickening detalls. The HERALD, especially, with its usual praiseworth; energy and determination to relieve the oppressed, irrespective of nationality or religion, has pub- lished columns of telegraphic matter and liberal editorial comments showing uj in _ their true colors the forced penalties and the modern oe established in Prince Charles’ dominions to crush out the thrifty and therefore envied, though unoffending Jews. No charge of wrong doing Inst the people among whom they dwell or disloyalty to the State has been substantiated. There, as elsewhere, they are a temperate, Sepals: people, who mind their own business and do not interfere with the ecclesias- tic ideas of others. Being Jews is their crime, and religious fanaticism fairly bursts with indignation at the tolerance which graciously permits them to live and move and have a being among the disciples of him who claims to be the leader of civilization. Ministers as weil as laymen read the secular pa- pers, and therefore must have been cognizant of all this, and tid we do not find on record an expression or resolution adopted in convention, a sermon or an allusion in @ sermon, or an article ina religious paper (with one exception, we Leak) demanding civil and religious liberty for the Jews in Roumania and that persecution for religion’s sake shall cease. Indignation meetings have been held at the Man- sion House, in London, and in Manchester, both of which were largely attended by the leading mem- bers of Parliament, and speeches made denouncing in unmeasured terms the cruelty of the Roumanian government, So far as relates to the masses of our,own coun- die.” started from in his views on these subjects ;and if @ teacher or writer imbibes new ideas he is quite eure to promulgate them to a greater or jess ex- ‘tent, and thos they will apread. and the new jqgas. try, we are unwilling to believe, in this instance, that “silence gives consent,”’ though the surround. ings of the case engender a feeling on the part of Israelites not unmixed with sad suspicion. Thanks to the energy and intelligence of Benja- min Franklin Peixotto, our American Consul at Bucharest, who is generously sustained by Mr. Fish, he has succeeded in galvanizing into life the poproeeneesyes of foreign Powers, who have united in a joint protest addressed to Prince Charles’ one-horse government, and Earl Granville, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State of Foreign Af- fairs, seconded by the Italian government, has penne the convocation of a conference of the gr owers to project a new course of ee to be adopted by the Cabinets towards th in view of the constant recurrence of barbarous outbursts of poniinr violence against the Jewsin Roumania, and to debate, also, the subject of the propriety of a direct allied pressure on the Roumatian govern- ment to compe) meusures for the executive repres- sion of such acts or action. In behalt of Russia, Prince Gortschakoff replics with his usual tergiversation, that he-fears this will reopen the everlasting “Eastern question,” and thinks it better that the Powers address a joint note to the Roumanian government demanding an expla- nation of its intentions and what guarantee it will gre for the protection of the Jews ine the future. ‘ussia assents to this, and if our worthy Consul— as we are assured from the past he will—continues to agitate the subject, the best results must inev- itably follow, in spite of the h-poohing and hu- miltating lukewarmness of those whose calling and high sounding expressions of love for the whole human race make them the special champions and monopolists, While on the subject of Jewish persecution we will merely allude to what purports to be an out- burst of fanaticism which, according to a corre- Spondent of the Levant Herald, occurred in Smyrna on the 4th May last. Hamdi Pacha, the Governor, after some delay, succeeded in dispersing the riot- ers, who, “with all the rascality of the town in their train, made for the Jewish quarter, sacked the homes, murdered the inmates and committed other acts of brutal atrocity. Many Jews at length turned upon their assailants, and from attacked in self-de- fence became attackers.” We shall look anxiously for further particulars. Ali this occurs in the boasted nineteenth century of enlightened Christianity! Verily the millennium hath not yet come. SEMI-OCCASIONAL. WasutncTon, D. C., June 14, 1872. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. How Wealth and Wisdom Should Be Used to Secure Blessings to Their Pos- sessors—Sermon by Dr. Vidaver. The sixth chapter of Numbers was the lesson read in this synagogue yesterday, from the twenty- seventh vérse, of which Dr. Vidaver preached yes- terday, namely :—‘‘And they shall put My name on the children of Isracl and I will bless them.” Man, the Doctor said, has one aim in life, and that is to secure happiness to himself, He is constantly seek- ing to be blessed, butin this search he grasps at the shadow and loses the substance. Like aman ina dream, he is feasting at a banquet, but he waketh up and his soul is not satisfied. God gives His blessings richly to every man, but every man docs not know how to keep those blessings. But God is ready and willing to teach us how we may retain those gifts of His bounty and grace. Why, then, should we leave the fountain of Mving waters and seek out for ourselves broken cisterns which can hold no water? Why shall we seek the fading pleasures of this life and wholly neglect the perma- nent pleasures of eternity ? Let us seek the Divine Instructor, that we may know how to keep and en- Joy His blessings. There are TWO KINDS OF BLESSINGS which God gives to mankind—namely, wealth and wisdom; and our rabbies say that these are bless- ings only so long as the recipient accepts them and looks upon them as such and as given by God, but the moment that he seeks to credit his own genius and industry and enterprise with the creation of those blessings they are transmuted into curses. Our text says let God’s name be put on them and they shall be blessings indeed. Wealth is one of Heaven's blessings, This cannot be disputed. The pecriarch, blessing one of his sons, prays that the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth may be his portion. The man of wealth can procure all of temporal pleasure, social enjoyment and the luxury of life with a touch of his gold, yet the Prophet Jeremiah bids the rich man not trust in his riches nor the mighty man in his strength, but rather to trust in the name of the Lord. God has given wealth to some men for the purpose of making it a blessing to others, but the moment they cease to use it thus it ceases to be @ blessing. The Doctor then recited some ways in which wealth may be used to bless man- Kind, and remarked that if it be not used aright it pee hardness of heart and forgettulness of God, and blunts the sensibilities so that the man’s soul becomes a den of iniquity. The curse of the Lord, we are told, is in the house of the wicked, no matter how rich and great he may be, but the bless- ing of the Almighty {s upon the righteous. Gold may surround a man with a host of flatterers, but it cannot bring true friendship. It may give enjoy- ment to life, but it cannot add a single breath nor Stay the fatal hour and hand of death. Virtue is unbought, but the godiess man of wealth throws away honor, truth, affection, true friendship, faith, piety, God and eternity—for what? For 4 GOLDEN CHAIN, which binds his own soul to the earth, With this chain he may charm judges on the bench and secu from them verdicts favorable to himself; with it hi may charm legislators and retain himself in offive and in power to prey upon the people, but he can- not secure thereby either peace or happiness or the favor of God, The chief We | The second blessing is wisdom. that distinguishes man from the beast 1s intell! gence. It isa blessing from God; but ignorance ts @ curse. Lacking wisdom, we lack everything. Hence it is our duty, our highest duty, to cultivate our mental powers. What makes the difference between that half-naked savage that we have seen dancing around in our city and Humboldt and Pro- fessor Morse? The rude marble is there, but the artist has not laid his chisel on it, nor fashioned it. And yet even this blessing of intelligence may be- comes a curse to us unless it 1s subordinated to the Divine will. One of the’ rabbies of the Middle Ages ‘was wont to say that reason is the only mediator between man and God. But he was not wholly cor- for a8 soon as Treason assumes the place of faith and sets itself up as the dictator of the soul it become a curse and not a blessing, and prostitutes itself to the wild passions of man, and says “Amen” to all his vagaries, Intelligence thus used acts Mowe its possessor just as wealth does upon the other. THE INTELLIGENT SKEPTIC takes the Sacred Word as the surgeon takes a bod: on his dissecting table and cuts and hacks it with his knife—reason—until he eliminates from ‘it all that is good and God-like, and leaves in it no salva- tion for any of us. There were in Israel, as there are everywhere, rich men and wise who walked humbly before God. Such, of the former, were Moses Monteflore and George Peabody, who used their riches for the purposes of philanthropy and blessing to others, God’s name was upon all that they - sessed. Seo, again, men of wisdom and genius like Mendlessohn, fumboidt, Morse and the late James Gordon Bennett, whose remains were a few days ago consigned to the earth. These names are im- mortal. ‘Their memory shall never perish from the earth, Mr. Bennett's blessing to mankind has not ceased with his life. His life work remains to bless coming generations, as it has past and present. The Doctor ciosed with an exhortation to his hearers to consecrate their wealth and wisdom to the cause and service of God, and to put His name upon everything they possess if uhey desired always to have the Divine blessing and themselves to be made a blessing to the world, as those persons named above have been made a blessing to mankind. He monet this with a fervent prayer in the same strain. FATHER BURKE'S PAREWELL SERMON, The Great Preacher to Take a Vacation. Tho Very Rev. Father Burke preaches his farewell sermon in this city at the Dominican church this morning. During the time the great preacher has been in America he has almost daily delivered a sermon or lecture in the cause of charity or on some great church festival, when his best etforts were expected to be called forth. There are but few Catholics in the city who have not heard his magic eloquence, and, indeed, there are thousands who have eagerly sought every opportunity to avail themselve of his inspiring words, The won- der is that the friar was able to hold out so long in such arduous labor as he was called upon to un- dergo; yet his latest eifort was as full of nobie thought, clothed in as beautiful language, as was his very first among wus. That he needs rest now his friends have insisted, and he, therefore, leaves this week for a Southern trip which will oceupy him during the summer months. He will return to this city in the fall, and, though no programme has as yet been made out for a fall season of lectures or sermons, it is pretty certain that the eloquent father will be induced to renew his labors on his return to this city for the benefit of many well-deserving charities in our midst. ‘The three lectures he delivered in the cg a Music proved to be remunerative, and he has already received two instalments gf the amount received, these moneys going, of course, not for his own private benefit, but to the general fund of the religious order to which he belongs. These lectures were gotten up by a@ few Catholic gentle- men in this city who, seeing the vast amount of ood Father Burke had done in_ the cause of re- figion, were unwilling that the Dominican Order should be left without some substantial token of tne city's generosity, and, besides, they desired to present Father Burke’ an address expres- sive of their esteem for himself personally and thelr admiration of his genlus. This twofold object was accomplished on Wednesday evening last at the residence of a Catholic gentleman tn this city, a8 has been already noted in the HERALD col- umns. The total amount, including the check for $6,250, reached the handsome sum 0 6,500, ‘which had been deposited According as it came into the hands of the treasurer, Mr. Mul- laly, to the credit of Father Burke, in the Emi- Granta’ Industrial Bank, The total amount drawn from the Emigrants’ Industrial Bank has since been placed in Father Burke’s hands. It is un- derstood that Father Burke ts so delighted with his experience of the institutions of this Gee | that unless his superiors positively forbid it he eventually make America his home. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN CONVENTION. Discussion on the Subject of Compelling the Reading of the Seriptures in All Public Schools=The Subscription Call— The Next Convention To Be Held in San Francisco, LOWELL, Mass., June 15, 1872. To-day was the fourth day of the Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Prayer meetings were held out of doors and in the rooms of the Lowell Association, At half-past nine o’clock the Convention assembled at St, Paui’s church, Prayer was offered by E, R. Holden, of Massachu- setts, which was followed by devotional exercises, The Committee on Resolutions made a report. The first resolution was offered by Mr. Chaplin, of Win- chester, pronouncyng total. abstinence a test of membership, and the second was offered by Mr. Cook, of Milford, that the use of tobaccd is incon- sistent with the highest type of Christianity. The resolutfons will be discussed this afternoon, Mf. Gopparp, of Worcester, attempted to make some remarks on the resolution, but the chatr said that, as objection had been made, the report must ga over as unfinished business, Mr. BURNEY arose to a ree of privilege and read a paper from the Executive Committee ac- panting he action of the Convention last even- ing. It was received with loud and continued clapping of hands. The rules were suspended, and Mr, Godon, of Northampton, read the resolution which caused such commotion eae relative to the Bible in public schools and pledging the efforts of the asso- clation to place it in every Catholic family, Mr. Cowdry, of Detroit, Mich., b; (ed leave, made an address returning thanks for the generous aid furnished to the sufferers in the West by the destructive fires. His descriptive account of the sufferings was very touching. In regard to the question what the general quall- fications and duties of a secretary are, and in what bodies are they necessary, Mr. Syke, of Cleveland, gave his experience, and did not believe it the duty of @ secretary to collect dues, and It frequently be- got ill feeling and partiality. Mr, Winsor believed that the duties and qualifica- tions were important, and said there should be institutes to prepare persons for this as well a8 other professions, The time having expired it was voted expedi- ent to give more time to discussion of the question at a future hour, The time having arrived for the roll call for sub- scriptions for memorial expenses, copies of the pro- ceedings and the Association Montiuy, the call for Boston met with aresponse of $200. New York gave $1,000, A great indifference to taking the Monthly was shown, but the President urged it strongly. Many of the societies pieeaed heavy in- debtedness, Detroit, Mich., could not give as much as usual on account ofits heavy expenses in aid of the sufferers by the fire. The Convention proceeded to consider the choice ofa place at which the next Convention shall be held. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Germantown, Pa.; Providence, R. I., and San Francisco were promi: nently considered; the latter place, however, was unanimously fixed upon, The Committee on Resolutions reported that it was inexpedient to adopt the resolution in relation to the fending of the Bibie in the schools, on the ground that it was not within the sphere of this Convention to make official declaration on an: tople which does not relate directly to the worl of evangelization among young men by agencies appropriate to their own organization, and cited the report of the Sixteenth Annual Convention at Washington, D. C., page 112, This and other reso- lutions and topics promise a meeting this afternoon of some excitement, ‘The whole number of delegates registered is 386, some of whom, living at a distance, are making ep for an early departure for their homes. The Entertainment Committee are somewhat re- lieved from their duties, CENTRAL PARK. Yesterday afternoon the Park again assumed its usual pleasant air of Saturday activity. The cars leading up-townward were crowded with eager seekers after pleasure and fresh air, and by four o'clock the Mall, the base ball common and the Menagerie, were thronged with patrons. The weather was somewhat cloudy and the air was at times unpleasantly sultry, but there came every now and then welcome breezes that fanned with summer-scented breath, the pale cheeks of the ruralizing citizens and carried many of them back in fancy, doubtiess, to the happy days of boyhood, when they were yet vegetating on the paternal flelds, untroubled by that feverish thirst of wealth or fame which drew them to the great city, New Yorkers seem, as the ark grdvs to more and more an institution, to learn better the art of a Ml Pleasures it is capable of atfording them. ere Was a time when every one kept to the trim gravel walks, even though the authorities threw open to their feet the adjacent grass plats, and when to cast one’s self down upon the turf was to incur the ridicule of every passer-by. But now these little social pre- judices have been lived down, and people have the good sense to know that in the “merry woodland” every reasonable freedom may be indulged in. And what can be more pleasant than to lie idly in the shade of a tree and read dreamily some favorite ey jooking up from time to time to e at the lue depths of the heavens or listen to the rustling of the leafy boughs immediately overhead? The band stand, however, remains, of course, the centre of attraction, and the programme yesterday was a singularly good one, and was, as usual, ad- mirably rendered by Dodworth’s Band. The con- cert had an audience of at least four or five thousand People, and the Park Commissioners may, therefore, feel pretty well satisfied with the expense incurred. On the lakes the trimly dressed boat- men toiled all through the afternoon and carried full freights all the time. Hundreds of base ball games went simultaneously forward on the com- mon, and the wild animals and the monkeys held a numerous levee of visitors, The drives also were crowded with elegant equipages, and parties of romenaders, with smiling faces and beguiling the ours With merry chat, were to be found in every walk. Inshort, the vark put on everywhere its weekly fete-day appearance, and tens of thousands of pleasure seekers recognized the advantage of living in a civilized city by heartily enjoying mm. MILITARY COURTESIES, The Reception of Philadelphia’s Crack Company by the Seventh Regiment. The celebrated Company D, of the First regiment of Philadelphia, commandeq by Captain Ide, arrived in this city yesterday morning by the People’s line from Albany. They were met at the pier by Com- panies B and F, of the Seventh regiment, which were specially detailed to “show them the city.” ‘The companies of the Seventh were commanded by Captain Bird and Lieutenants Snitfen, Goodwin, Steele and Quillard. The guests of the Seventh were escorted from the boat to the New York Ho- tel, where a superb breakfast was provided by Col- onel Emmons Clark, his officers and the rank and file. The breakfast was strictly @ social one, and speeches were ignore d. The breakfast over, about half-past eleven the Philadelphians, escorted by their entertainers, left the hotel for the Cortlandt street ferry, with a view on the part of the entertained to take their final leave of New York. The commands, as they moved down Broadway, were preceded bya detail from the sanitary squad and Captain Tony Allaire, of the Broadway squad. Rarely has a more imposing dis- play, considering the number participating, ap- peared on Broadway. The Seveuth’s companies moved by company front and marched like vete- rans. When wheeling at the corner of Broadway and Cortlandt street they more especially exhibited the advantages of their drill, and elicited high en- comiums from a number of old army oflicers who, were spectators, Their guests were no less anxious to favorably impress the New Yorkers with their military sklil, and many declared that the Phila- delphians excelled the crack companies of the Seventh. The Philadelphians, however, did not show their military “agility” until they arrived at the entrance of the ferry house, when their com- mander put them through @ portion of the manual of arms, which was very creditably executed, When the command of “ground arms” was given every musket touched the pavement simultane- ously, and the applause of the spectators was in- tense, An old soldier, who had served on staf in Sherman's army, turned *to one of the police force with the remark, ‘That Movement cannot be excelled. I have seen every volunteer regiment in Sherman's army of 115,000 men, nearly every regular regiment of our pee and about fifteen regiments of the line in the British army, including the Forty-seventh, the Royal Canadian Rifies and the Prince of Wales’ regiment, execute that movement, and I never saw it done with so much precision.” After the usual leave-taking between the commands the Philadel- hians: filed into the ferryboat Hudson City at Pwenty-five minutes after twelve, by column of fours, and, a8 the band played “Auld Lang Syne,” the guests and their entertainers separated. The Seventh acquitted themselves gloriously in the manner of entertaining their visitors, and the Philadelphians will have a new incentive to honor the Seventh should they soon have occasion to visit the “Quaker City.” SALE OF A RAILROAD IN ALABAMA, MontGomERY, Ala., June 15, 1872. In the United States District Court to-day Judge Busteed confirmed the sale of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, and issued an order to the assignees in bankruptcy to deliver the road to the State authorities, THE THOMAS-REAVEY CASE. cs Termination of the Trial of Reavey and Thomas for Alleged Forgery—Charge of Recorder Hackett—Verdict of Not Guilty. oe esi The trial of Alexander H. Reavey and George H. Thomas, charged with forgery in the first degree, which has been on trial for the last five days before Recorder Hackett, was brought toa close yester- day, The case has created a great deal of interest among 4 certain class, and although it has not been 60 fully reported in the newspapers as Many of the important trials which are continually taking place in the General Sessions, it will be remembered as a case of more than ordinary importance, At the assembling of the Court yesterday His Honor the Recorder proceeded to charge the Jury, He said that forgery, at common law, denoted a false making (which included every alteration or addition to a true instrument), a making, malo antmo, of any written instrument for the purpose of fraud and deceit. The crime could also be briefly expressed as “the fraudulent making ot @ false writl which, if genuine, would be apparently of some le; eMcacy.” The statute under which the indictment was framed and upon which the accused are now upon trial provides as follows:—“Every person who shall be convicted of having forged, counterfeited or falsely altered any deed or other instrument, being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any right or interest in real property shall be or pur- port to be -transferred, cone ad or in any way changed or atfected, with intent to defraud, shall be uilty of forgery in the first degree.” To convict he accused or either of them of the charge the evi- dence must have established free from all reason- able doubt the following facts:—First, that Mrs. Taylor at the time of the signing by her and her husband Pyne? of the deeds of conveyance, and on the 7th of January, 1871, was the owner of the premises 829°West Forty-third street. That she was such owner {s shown by the proof, and 1s conceded by the accused; second, that the deeds so signed by her and delivered to the accused Reavey, who ‘was there acting for Thomas and herself, were sub- sequently filled up by them, or falsely altered by one of them acting in complicity with’and having common intent to defraud Mrs. Taylor out of her property, If the evidence satisfied the jury that rs. Taylor, on January 7, while at her house, in- duced by the representation of the accused that the papers she was desired by them to execute were simply to obtain an injunction from a cgprt to re- Strain the enforcement of a len against her prop- erty, and that the accused made such representa. tions with the felonious intent to defraud her of her property, and that she, without knowledge of the nature and character of the instruments submitted to her for her signature, and believing in the truth of such representations, did sign the said conveyances, it wou!d be the duty of the jury to convict. If the evidence satisfied them beyond a reasonable doubt that, after the execu- tion of the deeds by Mrs. Taylor, the accused, act- ing in complicity and with the view and common intent to defraud her out of her property, did fraudulently insert therein a grant and assignment of her property to Thomas, it would be the duty of the jury to find the defendants guilty. His Honor charged them, still further, that if the evidence had satisied them beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused, acting in complicity and with a common in- tent to defraud Mrs, Taylor, did, after the execution of the said conveyances, the same being in blank printed form, without her knowledge, privity or consent, fraudulently insert within said blank printed deeds respectively, and over her signature, any written matter whereby she alienated, assigne: and granted her said property to the accused Thomas, then it would become their duty to find the accused gullty of the charge, If the evidence had not Satisfied them that the accused were actuated by a common intent to defraud Mrs. Taylor out of her property: but that only one or the other was, then it would become their duty to find the defendant guilty whose acts shall appear to have been within the definitions given, and render a verdict of not guilty as to tne other of the accused. The question of intent should be prominent in their delibera- tions. The Recorder then glanced at the position of the parties, The testimony of the main witness for the people, Mrs. Taylor, a lady seventy-three years old, and also that of her husband, if believed by the jury to be true in all its main features, would justify a verdict of conviction as to both of the defendants, But it was the duty of the jury to criticise the statements of those witnesses and to remember that Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had passed to extreme old Ge and were subject to the various intirmities in- cident to advanced age. The jury were to consider whether their memories were in all respects per- fect as to the transactions of January 7, 1871; also all the representations alleged to have been made by the accused to Mrs. Taylor with reference to in- Junctions; her statements as to the purchase of the premises in 1870, the price being $9,250, two mort- gages of $7,000and a cash payment made by her of $2,250; her statements as to the twenty years of affectionate attachment she had borne Thomas; that she had regarded him as her son, aud she had given to him the highest certificate of good character up to the time of the alleged fraud. All the material statements of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were denied by the accused and their witnesses, and other testimony was gen, tending to show that Mrs. Taylor was unworthy of belief. His Honor called special attention to Judge Edmonds’ statement of the interviews had with Mrs. Taylor, which might have tended to show that she knew the character of the papers she signed. If, as she claims, said His Honor, she found she was betrayed and deceived into rte her signature to the conveyances, and consulted Judge Edmonds, with a view to her being righted for the wrong that had been perpetrated, and that he counselled her to make the agreement of a life lease, does not affect the fraud or forgery claimed to have been committed by the accused. In con- clusion the Recorder observed that the case was of unusual panontanee both to the community and the accused. It involves a charge of crime which our law, by the severe penalty it has prescribed upon conviction, regards as one ot the gravest. Especially is this case of importance to the accused, involving character and moral and social degrada- tion, and it should be your duty to give to the questions involved your most earnest and dis- passionate consideration. THE VERDICT. The jury then retired, and, after being absent an hour and a half, returned with a verdict of not guilty. The announcement by the foreman, was reeted with manifestations of applause by the riends of the defendants, Mr. Reavey thanked the Court, the jury and his counsel, reiterated his innocence of any criminality in the transaction for which he was tried, and said that he never would forget the occasion of his trial aslong as he lived. The Court was then adjourned. SPECIAL SESSIONS COURT. Disposing of Forty-four Criminals in One Hour and a Quartcr—A True-Born Irish Girl from Hamburg—“Pasted” in Prison tor Ten Days. In the Special Sessions Court yesterday morning there were assembled the usual number of spec- tators, witnesses of both sexes, lawyers and con- stitutional hangers on, who, week in and week out, congregate in and about the court room simply besause they have nothing better to do and no other way of killing time. Judges aieate Shandley and Cox were on the bench, and in just one hour and a quarter disposed of a calendar of forty-four cases, none of which, however, were of any eee importance, al- though several of them served most excellently to give onea good idea of the nether side of the great metropolis. For instance, James Burns, a vicious-looking individual, with high cheek bones, dark gray scowling eyes and & square under jaw, was charged with assaulting another individual of his own ilk, The complainant's testimony was to the effect that he owed the defendant ten shi'lings, and because he could not, or rather would no’ pay it, Burns hit him im the eye with such force as to completely close it and dress it in a full suit of mourning. This last assertion was evidently cor- rect, for the witness wore about four square Inches of court plaster over the injured optic. The de- fendant now took the witness stand, and, in re- sponse to his counsel, proceeded to give his version of the scrimmage. Said he, “Well, yer Honors, this yer feller he come down to me shanty and insulted me ould woman, and yes knows I’m not the lad to allow any such fullen as that. Oh, no, not your uncle Dudley. Well, when I heard he had gone and insulted the old gal, why, ye see I jist went over and pasted him.” Judge Dowling—I will ‘paste’ you in the City Prison for ten days. Caroline Denahan is a poor, hard working woman, who makes her living, such as it is, by sewing pan- taloons. About two weeks ago she got the cloth for sixteen pairs from a Broadway firm, and, as the firm alleges, returned but twelve pairs, keep- ing the other four. Her counsel said the complaint did not show an sis he Va on the part of the complainant, and he, therefore, moved for her dis- charge. Judge Dowling granted the motion, and the poor woman took her departure with the least possible delay. William Clare was arraigned on complaint of OM- cer Peter M. Henry, whom he had assaulted with a brickbat and the toe of his boot. Clare pleaded guilty. The officer said he was standing at the cor- ner of Mulberry and Prince streets, when a woman came to him and requested that he would arrest Clare, who was very much intoxicated. Henry pro- ceeded to comply with her request, when Clare hit him, as before stated, felling him to the ground, where he kicked him most emacs and would probably have killed him but for the timely interference of a brother officer, who came in response to his cries of distress. Judi Dowling said he was determined to punish severely any person who might be brought before him on such @ charge as this. “The officers must be pro- tected,” he said, ‘from such miscreants a8 your- self, and I will therefore send you to the Peniten- tiary for nine months.” Maggie McFiarety is a buxom lass and looks like @ daughter of the Emerald ea although she as- surec the HERALD reporter that she was born In Hamburg, and that her father was @ true born Frenchman. Maggie was accused of having stolen $3 from her employer, but she indignantly denied the charge. Through the efforts of her counsel she was acquitted, THE COURTS. Bankruptcy Cases—Motion to Quash s Whiskey Indictment—The Court Honse Commission- ers in Court—Failing to Appear Be- fore «a Referee—Decisions— Question of Practice, UNITED STATES DISTRICT couRT. Bankruptey Business, Before Judge Blatchford. | During the two weeks ending yesterday Winam Freeman, Junius W. Petty, George W. Bond, Noyes E. Clark, August Stephan, William H. Granby an@ Henry ©. Folger have filed voluntary petitions in bankruptcy; Richard H. Ferguson, Willard W. lagier, Alexander Bernstein, George W. tt, Martin Murphy, William Davis, Jacob Jackson, Ed: Ward P. Seemser, Edward R. Mclivaine, Charles V. White, E. Lagrave, James D. Otis, Lewis Van Camp and Louis Schmidt have been adjudi- cated involuntary penkrnptay and Sidney Starbuel William Hadwen’ Starbuck, Newman Aronson an Willtam =D, c! ree have received discharges in UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Motion to Quash a Whiskey Indictment. Before Judge Shipman. A motion was argued yesterday morning before Judge Shipman to quash the indictments found against ex-Councilman John Ottn for conspiracy to defraud the United Bans oo tax on large quantities of whiskey. The ground taken was that the indictments. are so vague that the defendants do not know exactly what they are called upon to meet. The Court reserved its de- cision. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Advances by Banks to the Court House Commissioners, Before Judge Barrett. The People ex rel. Tenth National Bank vs. An- drew H. Green, Comptroller.—The full particulars of this case have already been published in the HERALD. It will be remembered that during last year the Tenth National Bank advanced money to various Boards of the city; that in January last an act was passed by the Legislature provi: that the Comptroller raise money on revenue bonds and repay the funds advanced by this and other moneyed institutions to any departments of the city and county, and that subsequently an amend- ment was passed providing that this should not ex- tend to cases where the payments were provided for out of special funds, but this amendment was not to interfere with the payment of advances of the character stated. Among the ad- vances made by the ‘Tenth National Bank, it will be further remembered, was the sum of $457,493 35 to the Commissioners of the nee, Oourt House; that there .was a 8 cial fund of $750,000 to be raised on bonds for completion of the County Court House, authorized by the Tax Levy of 1871; that of this fund the Com- missioners demanded $250,000, and the Board of Audit authorized this sum to be raised, and that $201,077 77 of this $250,000 was patd to the bai leaving stilt of the Seu eee made by the Boa of Audit power, in the Comptroller’s hands to raise $48,022 23, The'entire present claim of the bank is $256,415 58, for which a mandamus was applied for to Judge Barrett. This application was opposed on two grounds—first, that the Comptroller could nen pay it out of the special $750,000, and that he coul not raise the fand without the precedent action of the Board of Audit authorizing that special stock— the County Court House stock—to be issued; and, second, that the bank did not make these advances: in good faith, but h the knowledge that James H. Ingersoll did not intend to use them for the legitimate purposes of the commis- sion, and that they were not so used. Judge Bar- Tett gave his decision Riligh a Bet | le held that under the amendment of February the Cong: troller cannot be compelled to pay this sum unti the Board of Audit authorizes the issuing of the Necessary amount of the special County Oourt House bonds, and that, though they must not un- reasonably hinder or delay the repayment of these moneys, the Board is entitled, before giving such authorization, to have before it, in some judicial form, proof that the advances were properly made; but as the Comptroller has power to raise $48,022 2 under the previous action of the Board, a manda- Rus would issue but for the allegation of bad faith, The bank, if it acted in good faith, is not responsi- ble for any subsequent Sit ee Sines by the Commissioners themselves, He thinks it right, however, to send this question of good faith to Murray Hoffman as referee, and if the latter finds in favor of the relators the mandamus for the smaller sum will issue. Not Appearing Before a Referee. Benjamin Wood vs. G. E. Simmons.—In this case. which is a suit growing out of policy agents, a mo- tion was made yesterday to punish the defendant for contempt for failing to appear and give his testl- mony before a referee. The motion was denied, on the ground that the order was irregular in not naming the officer before whom the examination ‘was to be made. Decisions. In the matter of L. W. P. King.—Memorandum for counsel. Matilda Lombach vs. George W. Chandler.—Report confirmed and judgment of nuljity granted. Pedro Montello vs. Maria Montello.—Both hus- band and wife were not mhabitants of the State at the time of the commission of the offence, nor was the marriage solemnized, nor the offence committed here. The report cannot therefore be confirmed. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge W. E. Curtis. Henry Lindermeyer et al. vs. Edwin J. Pinker- stein.—Motion granted, without costs. See memo- randum, John Loonta vs. Central Park and East and Nort River Railroad Company.—Order granted. . William C, Alden et al. vs. Willlam E. Collender,.— Motion denied, witheut costs. See memorandum. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Deqistons. By Judge J. F. Daly. Kennart vs. The Bartlett Reversible Sewing Ma- chine Company.—Motion granted, without costs, * Bangs vs. The Blue Ridge Ratlroad Company of South Carolina.—Order settled. Schott vs, Wright et al—Judgment ordered for plaintim. MARINE COURT—CHAMBERS. Question of Practica, Before Judge Gross. Robertson vs. Goodloet.—The summons in this action was taken out on the 25th of May, return- able on 6th of June, Motion was now made to dis- miss the complaint and the summons, on the ground that the act relating to the Marine Court, passed May, 1872, in section 16 says, that this act will take effect in prety days from the passage thereof, ex- cept as to actions and proceedings now pending, which may be conducted ps the practice now in use in the Marine Court, &c. It is contended that the action not having been pending on the 10th of May, there was no power to take out or issue summonses, or commence new actions, in the Court between the pass of the act and its taking effect; in other words, that the functions of the Court as to new suits was suspended. The Court held that the words “now pending” meant pending on the date on which the act went into effect and not the date of its passage, and that the act itself was not in force till the 3uth day of May. Motion denied, BROOKLYN COURTS. SURROGATE’S COURT—KINGS COUNTY. Before William D. Veeder, Surrogate. Wills Proved. William W. Wakeman, of the county of Fairflela, Connecticut; Eliza R. Phillips, Patrick Wrinkle, Benjamin Ellison, Jeremiah H. Farrell and Isabella McOorkindale, all of the city of Brooklyn. Letters of Administration. Letters of administration were granted on the estates of Mary Ann Dufleld, Charles Hicks, Mary Ann Fullam, Maria O'Neil, Charles G. Kellogg, Jr, Sarah Reitzenstein, Catharine Mortagh, Edwara L Rooney, Henry M. Keeler, John Milne, Maxwell P. Gaddis,’ Joseph Davidson and John Breens, all of the city of Brooklyn. Letters of Guardianship. Letters of guardianship of the person and estate of Mary P. Churchman, Ella Churchman and Margaret Churchman were granted to William P. Roberta; of Arvilla C. Keeler to Alfred H. Pulcifer; of William W. Gillette and Alice K. Gillette to Mary Gillette, their mother; of Ellen Victoria Lindblad. to Levin Crandell, all of the city of Brooklyn. SUPREME COURT—KINGS COUNTY. A Real Estate Transaction. Before Justice Pratt. Gustave Tussdorf vs, Henry G. Schmidt and Emil Cuntz.—In this action, which has been on trial for three days past, the jury yesterday rendered a ver- dict for the plaintitf of $9,860, The action was brought to recover $50,000 as the Plaintits share of the profits realized by his ser- vices on the gale of a farm in Queens county, about tree miles from Hunter's Point. Tt was In evi- aience that the defendants bov.ght “the farm for $69,000 and sold It for $420,000 within a short time | het to the Bricklayera’ Co-operative Asso- Os