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of Rev. Mr. Meredith, of Brook- Dr. Reid and Mr. Steele, with the punc- Yhe Siac eetats anita by “Sammy” Halstead’s band of. praying men. It will thus be seen that our budget of sermons is large and inter- esting to-day, and very much of it will repay full well the time spent in reading. * The Repablican Split in South Caro- * lina. The bolters’ Convention in South Carolina, under the lead of Senator Sawyer, James L. Orr and other prominent men, has nominated @ separate republican State ticket. These men could not endorse the outrageous conduct of the regular Republican Convention and its corrupt candidates. How far this split in the party may tend to break up the organization in the State or to give the conservatives a chance in the future remains to be seen. The Dolters’ Convention was not a large one, there being only about fifty delegates present. But two-thirds of these were negroes, which is a significant fact, showing that there is a break in the colored phalanx. Then, the white men at the head of the movement aro, undeniably, among the ablest and most influential in South Carolina. Reuben Tomlinson, of Charleston, who was nominated for Governor by acclama- tion, is regarded as an upright and gocd man. Heis a native of Pennsylvania, and a Quaker, The parties of both conventions claim to be ‘pure republicans, supporters of the adminis- tration, and in favor of the re-election of General Grant. Which will the administra- tion endorse? Probably it will play the coquette and exclaim, ‘How happy could I be with either,”’ till after the Presidential elec- tion. We think the split a fortunate one for that much-suffering and negro-ridden State, and hope +7 may lead toa thorough reforma- tion. Dz. Asrxen, known familiarly in Europe as “‘Bismarck’s Pen,’ on account of his intimate official relationship to the famous statesman, jhas just died in Berlin. He wrote the Prussian despatch to Benedetti, at Ems, which induced the war with France, and the last one from Versailles, which closed the struggle. War DEPARTMENT, } OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasninaton, D. C., August 26—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has risen somewhat over the Southern States, where it is highest, with generally clear weather, except over Florida. Areas of cloud and light rain have prevailed over the lake region, ‘with light to fresh winds, partly cloudy weather ‘and light to fresh southeasterly to southwesterly “winds from New England to Virginia. f Propaditities. Clear weather generally over the Southern ‘States east of the Mississippi, except possibly along the South Atlantic coast; Winds veering to west- erly, with clear and clearing weather for the Middle ‘States; area of cloud and rain for New England, followed by clearing weather and winds veering to ‘westerly during the evening; southeasterly to southwesterly winds northwest of the Ohio Valley. “The majority of the midnight telegraphic reports Shave not yet been received. * ‘The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the jtemperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- ‘parison with thé corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building:— 1871. 1872. 88 80 78, 37 ue ‘tentperar terd: Lig ele verage ure yesterday.. +e a Average temperature for corresponding date last year... +e 18% ‘FIRES AND HOT WEATHER IN 8T. LOUIS, Sr. Louis, Mo., August 25, 1872. ‘ During the past twenty-four hours, ending at ‘two o'clock thig morning, there were seven small fires in this city, involving a loss of about $15,000. Four firemen were prostrated by the heat and three jorses were sunstruck. This has been the hottest day of the season. The mercury ranged from 98 to 104 in the shade; at eight o'clock this evening it was 95 degrees. PROBABLE FATAL AOCIDENT AT GARRISONS. The half-past three P. M. train from Garrisons Ganding to the Grand Central Depot yesterday Drought James Murphy, of the above place, who yesterday morning fell from the second story of his residence and received a compound fracture of the akull, from which it is feared he cannot recover. ‘The sufferer was taken to Bellevue Hospital. BatmMore, Md., August 25, 1872. A coal train on the main stem of the Baltimore ‘and Ohio railroad ran off the track yesterday after- noon, nineteen miles from this city. Randolph Fowler, the engineer, was killed, and the train was “badly wrecked, CONCERT BY SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN, Boston, Mass., August 25, 1872. A chorns of 25,000 Sunday school children gave a sconcert this afternoon in the Coliseum for the bene- Mt of the House of the Angel Guardian. BASE BALL, Toronto, Ontario, August 25, 1872. In a base ball match here to-day the Boston Red Stockings whitewashed the Dauntless Club of To- Tonto. YACHTING NOTE. Yacht Alga, Mr. Leslie, passed Whitestone yes- ‘terday, from Newport, en route for New York. A SLIGHT UNPLEASANTNESS BETWEEN ITALIANS, Signori Dorrey Maro and Tripolinno Lino hada ‘Personal misunderstanding at 230 Mott strect last evening, the casus belli being favors shown Dorrey by ® bright-eyed damsel of the eye-talian “order, from whom Tripolinno had received the mit- ‘ten, Maro, in accordance with the rules of the Nea- politan ring, kicked, cuffed, scratched and bit his aiversary out of time and was about to retire vic- torious when Lino picked up a boulder and mashed ‘the features which had helped to wreak such havoc von the heart of the charmer in a terrible manner. ‘Dr. Badeau was engaged over an hour in rebuilding the bridge of Maro’s nose, and Lino was sold by a man who saw nto a dr, is box and ‘then celled. aaa woeesT OLIPPED ON THE HEAD. Mr. James Tully, of 2¢ South Fifth avenue, at- “tempted to administer a muscular rebuke last even- ing, at 138 Varick street, to Mr. James Duffy. James the Second is what his name almost implies at fisticuffs, he having taken lessons from Mr. Mace, so not to be behind- hand in civility he yanked ont a pair of iron clips, knocked James the First down, and went to the ‘Twenty-elghth precinct station house like a lamb. aa y at last accounts, had an awful mal de le RBUNOVER ACCIDENT. While George Hensler, of No. 103 Eldridge strect, fwas about to enter his residence last evening he ‘was knocked down by a carriage driven by Thomas Donohne, of 301 Madison street, and had his right Aog severely crushed. Donohue was locked up, FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. , An unknown lad, aged about nineteen years, five eet six inches in height, with dark eyes and hair and @ smooth face, was found unconscious last evening at the corner of Twentieth street and ‘Third avenue, and was sent to Bellevue Hospital from the Eighteenth precinct station hoase, The dad was dressed in a black cloth coat, butternut ‘colored pants and vest aud a black soft |THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Herald Special Report from Geneva. The Arbitration Between Great Britain and the United States Drawing Rapidly to a Close. Official Experts Calculating the Items of the Money Award. POINTS OF ISSUE FOR THE COURT JUDGMENT The Case of the Shenandoah Still Knotty and Difficult. Compensation for the Whaling Ships a Cause of British Complaint. Legal Tilts and Professional Excitement. The Bill for the Georgia Prac- tically Abandoned. WAITING FOR THE VERDICT. International Fetes and Bril liant Festivities. The Herald Banquet to the Members of the Court, the Counsel and Other Eminent Personages. A Musical Jubilee and Glorious Gala Day in the Ancient Swiss City. The Weather in Harmony with the Friendly Sentiment. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the’ Heratp has been received from our corre- spondent in Geneva: — Geneva, August 25, 1872. The arbitration between the people and government of the United States and Her Majesty’ Victorian, Queen of Great Britain, for the settlement of tho Alabama damages. claims bill, draws to a, close rapidly. The work of the counsel en- gaged in the conduct of the national cases, on either side, is practically finished, all the legal arguments having been submitted to the Court. CALCULATING THE LOSSES BY EACH CRUISER. The tribunal work which is just now being done is actually in the hands of the account- ants, who are engaged in calculating the ex- act amount of damages occasioned by the operations of each one of the Anglo-American rebel cruisers. THE FINAL ISSUES FOR JUDICIARY JUDGMENT. When the accountants have completed this duty, and certified the totals, the arbitrators will render a Court decision, made up on the following issues: — First—Whether England is responsible for each cruiser. Second—Being responsible—if declared so— what sum should she pay in recompense for the American losses. KNOTTY CASES AND DIFFICULT FOR ADJUSTMENT. - There is an earnest contest maintained re- garding the case of the privateer Shenandoah. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WHALING suIPs, Some considerable amount of feeling is shown by the English agents and counsel as to the pertinacity of the Americans in pressing the case and asking compensation for damages sustained by the destruction of the whaling ships. Some of the scenes which transpired just lately in presence of the Court were of a very exciting character. THE CASE OF THE GEORGIA. The American plea which was based on the case of the Georgia has been practically aban- doned. WAITING FOR THE VERDICT. It is expected that the Tribunal of Arbitra- tion will render a decision upon the whole subject within a space of two weeks from the present day. AN AMERICAN BANQUET AND BRILLIANT FESTIVI- TIES. Mr. J. Bancroft Davis, the American agent, gave a splendid banquet to the arbitrators, the counsel of the arbitrating nations and the “members of their families present in the city, on Friday last, the 23d instant, at the Hotel Beau Rivage. The banquet was succeeded bya brilliant ball, to which many resident Americans so- journing in Switzerland were invited. Citizen Jacob Staemp4i, representative of the Swiss Republic in the Court of Arbitr- tion, and the Right Honorable Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of England, ‘were not present. COMPLIMENT FROM THE AMERICAN PRESS, Saturday evening, the 24th instant, the New Yorke Herarp entertained the arbitra- tors, counsel, and attachés of the tribunal at a magnificent banquet given in the Hotel Beau Rivage, the American headquarters. Sir Alexander Cockburn sent a polite note, in reply to a card of invitation, expressing his regret at being absent, and to say, also, that “an inflexible rule, which he had laid down for himself at the beginning, to decline all in- vitations whilst the present arbitration was pending prevented his acceptance of the Nzw York Heraxy’s hospitality.” His Excellency Count Sclopis, representa- tive of His Majesty the King of Italy, hada previous engagement, a fact which he pleaded in explanation of his absence. A FINE FETE CONDUCTED AMID6I' DAZZLING DECO- RATIONS. Baron Rothschild, with about twenty other guests, wore present. Honorable Charles Francis Adams sat on the right of the chair. The dining hall of the hotel was decorated with the flags of England, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy and the United States of America, There were no speeches. GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL, The city of Geneva displaysa festive appear- ance. There is an immense show of bunting from private dwellings and the stores, Tri- umphal arches have been erected in the leading municipal thoroughfares in honor of the inau- guration of a grand festival in imitation—on a small scale—of the Boston Jubilee of music and peace. There will be four thousand per- formers. The members of eighty-six French musical corporations, have arrived from France. A CROWNING GLORY. The weather is now magnificently fine. SPAIN. OSA EN aa First Results of the Constitutional Battle Be- tween Monarchy and Democracy. . Electoral Platform of the Republicans and the Response of the People. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Maprip, August 25, 1872. fhe first returns of the preliminary elections for members of the Cortes indicate the following results :— The ministerialists have been victorious in twenty-seven chief towns and 151 districts, and the republicans in ten chief towns and fourteen dis- tricts. Nine districts and six towns are equally divided between the two parties, The conservatives have carried Logrono. PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICANS AND DBMOCRATIC ISSUE WITH THE ROYALTIES. The federal republicans issued a manifesto on the morning of the election urging the voters of their party “to rally at the polls, fight the battle against monarchy in each election district and put forth all their strength to rout its supporters.” “Europe,” it declares, “awaits a result which will strengthen the cause of democracy throughout the Continent.” FRANCE. The Republican: Musicians and Their After-Voy- age Movements. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, August 25, 1872. The band of the Garde Republicaine did not go to Trouville to play before the President, but de- parted yesterday for Paris sooner than was ex- pected. THE WEST VIRGINIA ELECTION, Jacob Said To Be Elected by 6,000 Ma- jority for Governor—An Independent Congressman. WHEELING, W. Va., August 25, 1872. Reports to the Jnteligencer from thirty-three counties give Jacob, independent candidate for Governor, within a few votes of 6,000 majority: This is more likely to be increa¥ed than dimin- ished by the twenty-one counties yet to be heard from. The democrats concede Jacob's election by 6,000 or 6,000 majority. The democratic majority for Governor in 1870 was 2,150, and in 1871, on the call for the Convention, 2,850, so that the change by comparison with 1871, when the enfranchised Con- federates voted for the first time, will be from 8,000 to 9,000 against the regular democracy. The fate of the constitution is in doubt. The large majority against it in this part of the State 1s neu- tralized by the counties east of the mouniainsy which voted heavily for Jacob and ratification. In thirty-three counties heard from there ts a majority against the constitution of about one thousand. This will more likely be reduced than increased by the territory yet to be heard from. This judicial circuit re-elects Melyen Judge by provably 500 majority. The, county gives Jacob 280 majority—a change of 747 from the vote of Gov. ernor two years ago. It gives 370 majority for rati- fication and elects a republican Sheriff and Clerk of the Circuit Court. The regular democrats elect the rest of the local ticket. Davis, independent democrat, is ahead for Congress in this district as far as reported, and his election by about 500 ma- jority is conceded. SEORETARY ROBESON ON MAINE, Portsmourn, N. H., August 25, 1872. Secretary Robeson reached this city in the night train from Belfast, where he spoke on Saturday afternoon, and has rejoined his family at Rye Beach. He opened first at Kittery Navy Yard vil- lage, and has devoted the week to stump speaking, He reports being handso mely received everywhere, and says that the republican prospects grow brighter and bgt oad in Maine, He has no doubt of the election of Hale to Congress in the Fifth di: trict, and thinks Blaine’s majority will be largely increased. Here in New Hampshire Greeley's stock 18 falling, and Dix's nomination is received with de+ light by the republicans. THE SOLDIERS’ MASS CONVENTION IN MAINE, PORTLAND, Me., August 25, 1872. The committee in charge of the Soldiers’ Mass Convention, cailed to meet in this city on Tuesday next, have completed their details, and are looking forward to what they expect to be the greatest demonstration in the interest of the repubiican party occurring in Western Maine for many years. In the afternoon the Convention will be held in City Hall, at which General Selden Conner will preside, Arrangements have been made for low fares on all the railroads in the State, and managers claim that all the princi- pal towns in the State ‘are pledged for large delegations. In the evening a grand mass meeting will be held at City Hall, with speaking in the square in front. A great torch, light procession is to be one of the chief features, and fi is anticipated that not less than dfteen thousand torches will be in line, the tanners of Bangor, Augusta, Lewiston and Biddeford having agreed to come in fullstrength. The republican unitormed bodies of Boston have also been invited. The republicans will give the torch-bearers from abroad a collation, Senator Wilson; Senator Har- lan, ot Iowa; Fred Douglass, General Butler, Gene- ral John ©. Calawell and Gemeral Buraside are among the speakers promised, * WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, August 25, 1ST2. Communicating with the Enemy. A letter addressed to Blanton Duncan, chairman of the Executive Committee, straight‘out demo- crats; Was this morning received in care of Post- master Edmunds, of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, A letter carrier was imme- diately despatched to hunt up Blanton, and, aiter Visiting all the hotels, reported that he could not be found. Southern Claims. The aggregate number of claims presented to the Southern Claims Commission thus far is 16,000, ranging from $12 to $359,000 and averaging $2,500 each, The Commission have finally reported on 580 oases, in which $1,000,000 were claimed, About | 250 of thom were rejected, principally for absence of proofs of loyalty, and for the remaining 350 cases Congress, on the recommendation of the Commis- sion, appropriated $550,000; the money has since been paid, with the exception of $15,000, which wes stopped through the reports of | special agents, who were employed . after the: general report of the Commissioners had been made to Congress, and who discovered | reasons for withholding this amount, in three or four cases, from Virginia. The Commissioners, three in number, absent from Washington, have | whder examination 500 claims apiece, upon which they will report at their next meeting, in the com- ing October, when, in addition, 500 other cases will also be decided, The Commission will, according to the law creating it, expire on tne 3d of March Bex. and six years will be consumed in transact- ing the business now on hand, Under the bureau system, such as prevails in the departments, fifty years would be required for this pur- posg, The rapidity of transacting the business of the Commission is unprecedented, there being one chief clerk and only four assistants. This expedition is principally due to the fact that but few formalities are observed and voluminous books dispensed with, The expenses to claimants aresthall. There are no office fees excepting for taking testimony, and the lowest charge 13 made for ¢laims under $1,000, Information has been re- ceived here that agents in the South are collecting claims of persous whose property was taken for public uses or destroyed to facilitate military operations, but who cannot prove loyaliy owing to their giving aid and comfort to the Confederates. These agents are acting upon the supposition that Congress will ultimately dispense with the loyalty clause. The aggregate of such claims is already jay 1 No Molety, No Informer. Since the act cutting off informers’ moieties went | or attempted evasion of the revenue laws reported at the Internal Revenue Bureau. It is alleged that in ferreting out frauds, &c., the government officieis constantly run a risk of assault, and with- out the incentive of reward they are not anxious Wastburne for a postal convention with France. The fast accounts seem favorable for a good ar- rangement. There is now no plan between the French and United States governments for an ex- change of mails, Letters for France should be ad- dressed “via England,” and the ten cents postage prepaid. Sceretary Delano’s Health. Secretary Delano has so far recovered from his recent sickness as to be able to transact official business, . UTAH. pos Sar Lake Crry, August 25, 1872. General George B. McClellan and wife and party arrived here last night. On the way from Ogden they were joined by Brigham Young and other Mormon officials. The Townsend House to-day has been crowded with citizens who éalled to see and pay Meir respects to the General. The party will leave to-métrow afternoon for San Francisco. The General was detained over @ week on the road by the illness of Mrs. McClellan, who has now recov- ered, MINE BUYING Accompany of Detroit and New York capitalists yesterday completed the purchase of the Monte- zuma, Last Chance and Savage mines in the Little Cottonwood for $155,000, George Hearst has bought the Ontario mine, in Pariley's Park, for $27,000, Both of these were cash transactions. Heavy storms of hail and rain have prevatied last night and to-day in this section. ‘THE PACIFIC COAST, A Real “Mill’—Forest Fires—The Dia- mond Ficlds—Apaches Killed in Ari- zona—A Murdercr Killed Californt Fashion. SAN FRANCISCO, August 25, 1872, The Virginia City and Truckee Railway has been completed as far as Carson City. BRUISERS. A prize fight took place yesterday at Washoe Lake between Ben Williams and Join Chatham for $1,000 a side. Forty-five rounds were fought, Williams winning. ‘The cars yesterday at Healdsburg demolished a carriage, injuring five persons, one of them, Mrs. 8, V. Chapman, of Lake Port, fatally. 3 The Puget Sound fires still an immense amount of timber. Advices from Tucson confirm the first reports locating the alleged diamond fields on the head waters of the Colorado and Chiquito rivers, but the value of the discoveries 1s doubted, A band of Apaches lately attacked a settlement on the San Pedro river, Arizona, but were repulsed by the settlers, who killed three of them. J. Bulieri, who murdered @ Mexican at the mission of San Fernando, near Los Angelos, was_ overtaken yesterday by the Sherif’s party, He fought des- perately, killing Deputy Sheri hilis’ horse, but was Hinally shot dead by the posse, ‘The weather is intensely State, utinue, destroying MURDER IN NORTH CAROLINA. A Negro Killed by a White Man About a Stack of Oats. Mapison, N. C., August 22, 1872. A very sad as well as'serious affair occurred near tnis village yesterday, the 2ist inst. A difference arose between a white and black man, which re- suited in the killing of the latter by the former. ‘The particulars are as follows:—The negro, who was a tenant on the white man’s land at the begin- ning of this year, hired a second negro, and agreed that the white should hold the crop until the sec- ond negro was paid. Yesterday the tenant, after getting the consent of the hired negro, sold a stack of oats. He then proceeded with a wagon and the hired boy to the house of the white to get the oats to deliver to the man he sold them to, whereupon the white refused to give up the oats. The tenant then told him that the hired boy was willing (the boy also told him so), and that it was nothing to him, The white picked up a rail and tried to knock the tenant off the fence, at which the tenant pulled the rali away from him and raised it to strike the white, but before he could strike the latter stabbed nim to the heart. They then clasped and fell, the | white man stabbing him again in the back and ab- domen. The negro boy who was present then pulled them apart, after which the black died with- outa word. Another negro at some little distance witneased the whole affair. The occurrence has caused a deep sensation in the surrounding coun- try. There was nothing political in the ai , as both were of strict conservative belief, having Veen so ever since the war, ALSACE AND LORRAINE IN NEW ORLEANS. New OnneAns, La., August 25, 1872. ‘There was a grand celebration in this city to-day in honor of the declaration of allegiance to France by from one to two thousand natives of Alsace and Lorraine. There was a procession composed of a number of French societies, and the celebration terminated at the Opera House with addresses bi Solomon J. Passaima Dominich and the Frenc! Consul, M. Fouconet. Five thousand people parti- $72, yATORY cipated in the celebration. DISCOVERY OF A NEW PLANET. ‘ Urica, N. Y., August 25, 1 The following communication, addressed to the Utica Herald, was received to-day :— Lircnrigtp Onsr, or Hawintos Cor | CLINTON, N. Y., August 24, 1872, Another new planet was discovered last night— the 124th of the group of Asteroids. It is brignt, shining a8 @ star of the tenth magnitude, and its position one howy aiter midnight was in 22h, 2im, 228, of the riqht ascension, and in 7 deg. 18 min, 80 dec, Of the suuth declination. ‘ ©. H, F. RETERS, into effect there has not been a single case of fraud | hot throughout the | | re NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1872—TRIPLX SHEET. SEA VLIFF GROVE CAMP MEETING, A Love Feast and Preaching—Sermon by the Rev. B. Meredith. The Sabbath dawned bright and cheerful on the camp ground at Sea Cliff this morning, and with the rising of the sun a few early birds gathered in the South Second street Methodist Episcopal church (Brooklyn) tent to warble their notes’ of joy to Him who made the sun to rise upon the evil and upon the good, They kept their prayer and praise meeting going until seven o’clock, when the breakfast was taken, and at eight A, M. another prayer meeting, followed by a love feast, was held in the Tabernacle, and was conducted by Sammy Halstead. Nearly a hundred persons gave in their testimony to the blessedness of a religious life, and their experiences ranged from the veteran of sixty- six years to the young Christian of half a year. A hoary-headed fanatic, who kicked up his capers | at Sing Sing camp mecting, took a turn at loity tumbling at this meeting, but after bumping against a pillar and tumbling over a youth he fell flat on the ground, and, evidently rather irom shame than from exhaustion, he lay there for ten or fifteen minutes, when he took his seat unob- served. Noone deemed it worth the while to re- prove the unseemly conduct of the old man, After the love feast the congregation were enter- tained and edified with a sermon on CHRISTIAN LABOR AND ITS REWARD, by Rev. R. Meredith, pastor of Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, on the camp ground yesterday morning. It was based on I. Corin- thians xv., 58—-“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abound- ing in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is in vain in the Lord.” With such an exhortation as this Paul closes his letter to the church at Corinth, The foundation doctrines of our holy religion are the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins and his resurrection for our justification, ‘These two facts must be proved. But the first has never been called in question. The enemies of the cross could not and would not dispute their own acts, and the infidels of modern times admit the death of Christ, while they deny the evidences of His resurrection, Mr, Meredith here briefly recited the facts and circumstances of the Saviour’s death and resurrection and the testimony against them, On the morning of the third day after the body of Jesus had been laid in the tomb it was miss- | ing, and when the soldiers reported the fact to the chief priests the latter gave them money to tell a clumsy and transparent lie, namely, that the disciples came by night and stole Him away. But He was seen of Cephas, then of the eleven disciples; afterward He was seen of 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part were living when Paul wrote this epistie, thirty years after the event. Then He was seen of James, and last of all of Paul also, These brethren went forth to jeopardize their lives for the small pay received, preaching the Gospel to men who were familiar wi of Postal Arrangements with | with the facts of His death and His resurrection France. also. And hence Paul could boldly put the case to Negotiations are in progress through Minister | tiem:—«if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is not Christ risen; and if Christ be not risen then ts our preaching vain and your faith also is vain.’ But the evidence of Christ's resurrection was then, as it is now, too convincing, and hence neither PAUL'S PREACHING nor the Christian faith are in valo, And the ex- perimental knowledge of this fact enables us at the last hour to triumphantly, “O death, where is th; Mae O grave, where is thy victory?’ With sin destroyed death has no sting, and hence the apostle supplies the ellipsis, and exclaims, “We are not come unto the mount that burned with fire, &c., but we are come unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God,” &c. ‘There is now therefore no condemnation to them thatare in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. We must descend into the grave with Christ, but we shall also rise with Him, “Therefore, my beloved brethren,’ the apostle cries out, “be ye steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor ts not in vain in the Lord.’ The subject of the text is Christian | labor, But we are not all to labor alike. To some the Master gives two talents, to others five, and to others still ten. Some are called to preach the Gospel. others to teach the children in the Sab- bath schools; some are called to pray or to’exhort in public, others to visit the sick, to comfort the amicted, to distribute tracts; but whatever it may be, we each have a work to do which we must do each for himself, else it shall not be done at all. We can't do the Lord's work by proxy, for God h: given every one of his servants @ work for himself especially to do, and the period of labor is short; let us, therefore, do with all our might whatsoever our hands find to do, The Saviour is not a hard taskmaster. He does not ask us to make bricks without straw, nor does He gather where He has not. strewn, Whatever He requires of us is quite within the range of pos- sibilities but where much is given much will be re- quired, and when little Is given little will be re- quired, All that religion claims and that God de- mands it is possible for us todo or to dare. And the Christian must not wait for special openings or invitations of the ministers of Christ to work. Te must offer himself willingly tothe work of the Lord, and as opportunity offers he must do good unto allmen, He must not be led away by false ambi- tion or the glory and applause of men to do his work and to fulfil his mission. If we go to other work than that to which we are each severally called.we shall fail, and others with whom we have interfered will fail also. Some men, with MORE ZEAL THAN KNOWLEDGE, have entered into the retreat and we have felt, said the 1 Reco and others have seen, that th were in the wrong place. He hoped that the Chu would expand, and that the ministry would be e: larged and increased also. He believed in camp Meetings and in praying bands and other Christian organizations, and hoped they would soon see the advantage of holding those grove meetings more than ten days, But what the Church needs to-day more than these or than anything else is individual effort. We may go to that mountain of sin and iniquity with ever so much faith and bid it remove, but it will not stir, and after we have passed away it will still remain. But let each of us take his axe and go up and work, and, if need be, die at our post with glory in our view. : But something more than the employment of our talents is required in Christian work. Against us are arrayed the powers of darkness, the wiles and allurements of the world, the lusts of the flesh and of the eye and the pride of life, and if we would conqner those we must keep ever on the alert and continually watehing unto prayer. There must be no surrender. Death or victory must be our battle cry. Such isthe Christian's life and work—fightings without and fears within—and we may inquire, with the Apostie, Who is sufficient for these things ? Not in our own unaided tat can we combat those enemies of ours and of God’s. But the Lord 1s @ mighty man of valor, and in His strength we can conquer. And what a sweet thought it is that our labor is not in vain in the Lord! Not alone in our skilland knowledge and wisdom {s our help, but the Lord of Hosts is with us and the God of Jacob is our refuge. We can visit the sick, distri- bute tracts, preach the Word, face the devil, crush our own evil habits and propensities, We can do all things through Christ, who strengtheneth us. ‘The Christian's labor ts in the Lord, and the Chris- tian himself 18 shut up in the Lord, for he who dwelleth in jove dwelleth in God and God in him, We often think our labor isin vain. We cast our bread upon the waters, but, after waiting many days, we do not see it appear, and we think that no od hi en done. Onr Sunday school children pass away from our sight and mingle with the world and fall into wickedness; we go on from one toil and ial and aMiction to another, and wave after wave pe over our heads, and we sometimes think here ia no end tothe confict. and no prospect of the reward. But even in this life the Christian has his reward for labor faithfully performed, but not such a reward as the Saviour has promised. He has, to be sure, the peace of God that passeth understanding, but this is an infinitesimal part of what awaits us hereafter. There i8 a religion which passes current in this world by which a man may avoid Uke crimes and abuses in this life ang may, conform his conduct to creeds of Churches, but — let professor of religion try to walk as Jesus walked and follow His bleased ex- ample, and then mark the result. Backbiting, ob- loquy, reproach will be heaped upon him, and all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- tion. The preacher then went on to illustrate how all Christian labor is rewarded. It is not in vain, because it is in the Lord, The enthusiasm of the congregation was aroused to fever heat, and ‘4 ries” and “‘hallelujahs’? resounded throughout the large building. In the afternoon Dr. Reid preached from the text, ‘He was bruised for our iniquities’’—a regular salvation sermon, In the evening Rev. W. C. Steele, of Beekman Hilt church, New York, preached, and between those services prayer meet- ings were held. About four thousand people were ou the ground during the day. A BLOODTHIRSTY WOMAN, Mrs, Emma Anderson, of 226 Elizabeth street, ved company last night, and among her visitors was Jacob Nichols, of 230 Mulberry street, who, in the course of an argument, became dis- agreeably personal, and finally called the lady out of her name. A stove cover Being handy Mrs. An- derson used it to administer a rebuke to Jacob, who was taken to the Fourteenth precinct station house with a badly lacerated head. The fair Enya Wil explain maticra wt tbe Tome today, r= 7 THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR. pe zd enN Opening of the Rink To-Day for the Re- ception of Machinery—List of Officers— Prospects of the Success of the Exhtbi- tion—New Honors Proposed. The forty-first annual exhibition of the American Institute of the city of New York will be opened to- day for the reception of machinery and articies for exhibition, and on Monday next will be open to the public generally. The fair will be held in the Rink on Third avenue, The officers of the Institute for this year are:—F. A. B, Barnard, President; Charles P. Daly, Orestea Cleveland and Henry A, Burr, Vice Presidents; John E. Gavitt, Recording Secretary; Samuel D. Tillman, Corresponding Secretary, and Sylvester R. Comstock, Treasurer. The Board of Managers, in order to accommodate exhibitors of heavy machinery in practical opera- tion, opened all parts of the building devoted to massive machinery much earlier this year than hag been the custom, to give ample time for the e1 vion of foundations and making necessary connec- tions with motive powers, ‘To-day the whole stru ture, having received the finishing touches of the painter and decorator, wilt be ready for the reception of goods, and the Inan- agers have determined to allot the most desirable positions to the earliest entries, Judging from the number and character of the applications alread, received the building will be filled to repletion wit! every conceivable result of industry gud invention. For fruits, Sowers, vegetables and other perish- able articles, such compensations, inthe form ot prizes, will be given as will amply remunerate the exhibitor for his loss, In view of the importance of encouraging efforts tending to the production of superior rican leather, Jackson 8, Schultz offers gold medals ay follows :—One for the best pure oak tannage, one for the best pure hemlock tannage and one for the best mixed or union tannage. ‘These gold medals will be awarded by the Ameri- can Institute, the leather exhibited being subject to the same rules as other articles exhibited. Three or four sides will be shown in the Exhibition Building. ‘The balance of the amount forwarded will bestored at such places in the trade as may be selected by the exhibitor, The leather exhibited must be @ fair sample of the average product of the tanner. The great Medal of Honor will be also awarded for a new machine or process, which is not a mere improvement on what was before used, but which 1s so perfect in its results and so economical tn its operation as to produce a favorable revolution in some branch of the useful arts, Only two such medals have thus far been awarded; and the dif culty of complying with all the conditions requisite for securing this prize has greatly enhanced fts value. No other institution, either in the Old World or the New, has fixed so high a standard of merit, or proposes to confer on an inventor so marked a distinction, ‘The Bo: of Managers have found by experience | that the relative value and eficiency of engines and machines can be correctly arrived at only by put- ting them {nto practical operation, and tn such way that the actual amount of work done by each will be accurately measured by automatic methods; so that no errors of human judgment can effect the result and enter into the final decision, For several years past the Board has expended jarge sums of money for the purpose of making experimental trials. Thus steam engines, pumps and_ boilers have been, in turn, subjects of special investigation. The same plan will be pursued in the coming exhi- bition, provided the number and importance of machines and apparatus for accomplishing the same end shall warrant such a course, The Board further announces that all the perma- nent alterations and improvements in the great structure—covering 100,0v0 square feet—ordered by the Institute will be made for the express pipes ofrendering the show more attractive and giving such facilities as will increase the benefits that are to accrue to exhibitors "OBITUARY. Be Dr. Abcken, “ Bismarck’s Pen.” Dr. Abeken, one of the most influential an@ high-toned leaders of public opinion in Germany, has just died in Berlin. The doctor was known of late years to the Prussians under the familiar title of “Bismarck’s Pen,” owing to the intimacy of his oficial relationsh'p to the famous Prince Premier. Some have said that he was even more than the “pen,” that he was the source of inspiration of the great statesman. The history of Abeken’s life would form a most instructive commentary on the history of Germany since the year 1830, He began life a 8 a clergyman, and many friends will remem- ber him still as such at me in the house of the Prussian ambassador, Bunsen, whose devoted friend he remained through iife. He was with Bunsen in England = at the time of the foundation of the Jerusalem Bishopric, and he published then several most learned essays in English on the ecclesiastical and political questions tnvoived in this first attempt at a common action of the English and continental Churches. He afte:wards entered the Foreign Offce at Berlin, and passed through the bright days of Frankfort and the dark days of Oimutz, always an Independent observer, but, at the same time, a most trustworthy servant of the ministers who were successively called to the helm during those stormy times, When Bismarck had once discovered his sterling qualitics he never again parted with him. During the whole of the late war with France Dr. Abeken was always either with Bismarck or with the Emperor. It was he who sent the famous: Benedetti telegram from Ens; it was he who sent the last telegram from Versailles, He was never intended to act a first part, and it seemed to be his pride to work for others. His attachments were strongand became sometimes a kind of hero-wor- ship. There was something almost feminine in his devotion to his friends; in his utter forgetfulnesae of self; in his faith of characters which he had once learned to respect. He believed tn a divine gov- ernment of the world, and did not believe im suc- cesses which are bight at the expense of princi- le. The Emperor of Germany will lose in him = faithful servant, Prince Bismarck a trusty friend, Germany a true patriot, and England, too a sin- cere adinirer and weil-wisher. He knew both the strong and the weak points of the English char- It was one of his opinions that “The peace of the world could never be secure unless the Ger- man and English nations joined hands for the de fence of the highest interests of mankind,” Veteran Colonists of Australasia, By the Australasian mail of the 18th of June we are informed that John Davies, M. H. A., proprietor of the Hobart Town Mercury, died on the 11th of that month, of apoplexy. He was a very old colo-~ nist and had long been connected with the Austra- lian press. He was connected with the Patriot, a small newspaper esta:lished by John Fascoe Fawkner in the early days of settlement in Port. Philip, Subsequently he went to Tasmania and established the Mercury. Mr. John Baker, a veteran colonist, who landed in South Australia in 1838 with a flock of sheep from Tasmania and became a wealthy squatter, has just died, For the last twenty feet of bis life Mr. Baker was a member of the Legislature. David C. La Touche. David Charles La Touche, one of the heads of the Irish banking house which bears his family name, has just died at his residence, La Vallee, near Dup- lin, He was seventy-three years of age. Few men have earned more general respect for liberality and honor in dealings. As @ politician he never swerved from his eurly attachment to the conserva- tive cause, of which he was one of the most vigor- ous supporters. He was a generous employer, and his private charities were both munificent and unostentatious, He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Dublin and for many years com- manded the city of Dublin militia, DEATH FROM FALLING INTO THE WATER. BaNGor, Me., August 25, 1872. Captain Robert Roger, of this city, died yesterday from the effect of falling into the water on the 13th inst., at which time he walked off the whart while returning from an excurson. He was eigity- four years of age. DEATH OF A RELIGEUSE, Banoor, Me., August 25, 1872. 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