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4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. THE PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. “BR, B.” Denies that Mr. Hepworth Has a Commission to Preach and Chal- lenges Him to Prove It. A Friendly Voice Pleads for Hepworth and Lectures His Assailant. THE BIBLE IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS, The Old Arguments For and Against from Protestant and Catholic Standpoints. —_——-— MOVEMENTS OF MINISTERS. Services To-Day. Thomas Gales Forster, trance speaker, lectures at half-past ten o'clock A. M., at Apollo Hall, Sub- Ject—“What do Spiritualists Believe?’ And in the evening, at half-past seven o'clock, in the same Place, on the same subject. Bishop Snow preaches this afternoon, at three | clock, at the University, Washington square. Subject—“The Last Dispensation.” Rey. E. C, Sweetser preaches in the church cor- ner of Bleecker and Downing streets, at half-past ten o’clock A. M., on ‘the Letter and the Spirit,” and in the evening, at half-past seven o'clock, on “The Valley of the Shadow of Death.” Rev. W. C. Dawson will preach this morning, at half-past ten o’clock, and in the evening, at half- past seven o’clock, in the Christian church, West Twenty-eighth street. Rey. Dr. Cheever will preach at half-past seven o’clock this evening in the Church of the Purl- tans, Washington square. Subject—*Materialism Not a Doctrine, but a Ditch.” Rev. Henry Powers preaches this morning in the Church of the Messiah on “The Robe of Life.” Ves- Per service in the evening. Rev. Dr. Flagg preaches this morning and even- ing in the Church of the Resurrection, Madison ay- enue and Forty-seventnh street. Services will be held at Grace chapel to-day at | eleven o'clock A. M., three o’clock and half-past Beven o'clock P. M. Rey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., lectures this evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenue and Forty-second street, Subject—“The Sea.” Rey. Robert Bloss, late of Indianapolis, preaches this morning at hal!-past ten o'clock, and this evening at half-past seven o'clock, in the Four- teenth street and Second avenue Presbyterian church, Rev. C. 8, Robinson, D, D., in the Presbyterian | Memorial church, Madison avenue and Fifty-third Street, preaches at eleven o'clock A. M. and at half-past seven o'clock P.M. Morning subject— “Nearing Salvation.” Evening subject—‘Faith and Failure.” Rey. ©. S. Harrower preaches in St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal clurch, Forty-first street, near Sixth avenue, at half-past ten o’clock, and in the evening at nalf-past seven o’clock. Rey. Dr. Morgan preaches in St. Thomas’ church | at hali-past ten o'clock A. M. and in the evening at half-past seven o'clock. Children’s service at haif- | past three o'clock P. M, Rey. J. M. Pullman preaches this evening, at half- Past seven o'clock, in Trenor’s Lyric Hall, Sixth | avenue, below Forty-second sireet, the subject | being “Homicide by General Consent.” Rev. R. Heber Newton preaches at half-past ten o'clock A, M., aud at half-past seven o’clock P. M., in the Anthon Memorial church, Forty-eighth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, In All Saints’ Episcopal church, corner of Henry ‘and Scamme! streets, Rev. William N. Dunneil Preaches at half-past ten o’clock A. M. and at halt- past seven o'clock P. M. A Spiritualistic manifestation will take place this evening at Dr. Gordon's, 406 Thirty-flith street, | the medium being Master Hough. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music this morning at half-past ten o'clock, and this evening at half- past seven, Rev. Dr. De Witt Talmage preaches. The chaplain of the Bieecker street Mission preaches at half-past seven o’clock this evening in | athe mission house, 77 Carmine street. Selections from the Christmas music will be sung by the double quartet this evening, beginning at half-past seven o'clock, in the Church of the Incar- ation, Madison avenue and Thirty-ffth street. A sermon will be preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-fifth street, at half- (past tcn o'clock A. M., and another in the evening at hali-past seven o’clock. Full choral service and igh celebration at the morning service, Rey. J. W. Barnhart preaches this morning at half-past ten o'clock, and this evening at seven o'clock, in the old Forsyth street church, near Canal. Rev. George H. Hepworth preaches at half-past ‘ten o'clock A. M., and in the evening at half-past seven o'clock, at Steinway Hall. In the morning he will give “A New Year Sermon to Our Own People,” and in the evening “A New Year Sermon Ao Everybody.” The Rey. F, 1, Farrelly preaches in the Church of the Epiphany at the high mass, beginning at haif-past ten A.M. “The Forty Hours’ Exposition of the Blessea Sacrament” begins at the high | amass, Rev. W. A. Holbrook preaches at half-past ten o'clock A. M., and Rev. C. T. Woodruff at half-past seven P. M., in Zion church, Madison avenue and Thirty-eighth street. ree ROE Plain Talk to Rev. Mr. Hepworth, and a Bold Challenge to Prove. To THE EpiToR oF THE HERALD :— I see by to-day’s HERALD that a gentleman sign- ‘ng himself “I. N, B.”” has come forward as a yoi- ‘unteer in theology to make an answer to my reason- able questions, puta couple of weeks since to Mr, Hepworth. Iam deeply obliged to this person for the compliment he pays to myself in the course of Ais missive, but lam quite sure he has no author- ty tor his act from my distinguished friend, George Hepworth. The sheer badness of his arguments justifies this aspersion upon his oMciousness. | direly infernal pool of religious doubt, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1873.-TRIPLH SHEET. to follow, and who asks me for the religious submission of my soul and for a muni- ficent contribution in money for his new church, has nO more real authority trom Heaven above to be a teacher of divine obligation to men than the very beast of the field. This is dreadiul, awfal, fearful beyond all degree! It is the knife that has cut my religious pedce in two, And what wonder? The startling meaning of itis that God has set up no Way of certainty on earth for the salvation of Lits creatures, If this is true how can there be any re- ligious obligation whatever on mun? It is impossi- bie. And the reason 1s natural—namely, that there can be no obligation where there is no authority to lay it down, To make this clearer let me make use of Mr. Hepworth. According to “I. N. B.,”? he has no real authority under Meaven to beaclergyman. Therejore there is no o! tion under Heaven on any human creature to accept the Scriptures Irom him. But all other clergymen are as nude ef this authority as Mr. Hepworth. Therefore all men are free of obligation from Heaven to accept the Scriptures irom the ministers. But this quashes all religious obiigation, Therefore there 1s no religious obligation in existence. | This is vigorous iegic. It islegitimate, “I. N. B.”’ can ask no more, But is the irightful general propo- sition laid down in defence of Mr. Hepworth true 1n reality? If it is let us all become Jews, ior they, at least, had areal religious authority. And go Christianity—orthodoxy, to which Mr, Hepworth bas come over—has no authority under Heaven to be enforced with obligation—that is, the whole New Testament is not worth the snap of a finger. Talk about Unitarianism being hideous, execrable, flend- ish itself, alter this! A thesis to this effect’ is im- possible of proof if the general proposition laid down by “I, N. B,’’ in defence ot Mr. Hepwortii is true, Verily, this is a comfortable predica- ment. Hepworth! Hepworth! you are a man of intellect, of truth, of honor, And so ane you an honest man’s question. It is, If, as “1. N. B.,”’ your choson exponent, says, you have no real authority or commission under Heaven to teach the Serip- Lures, with obligation to be heagd, why have you dared to act as ii you had¥ And, secondly, by What right under Heaven do you ask us for our money? Alas, alas, Mr. Editor, [have no hope of getting a satisiactory answer to these two just questions, I know Mr, Hepworth well and I love him affec- tionately ; but he 1s no longer alive with that noble candor which so brightly distinguished him when he made his change. At that time he thought tor himself, He is now the creature of circumstances, A few men that have much notoriety are his pres- ent media for cogitation, He sees Hall, Tyng, Beecher doing well, and he means to fol- low their example. That is a screen under which he can decently thrust his head. 1 tell you, Mr. Editor, that this man’s intellect and heart tell him, with {ight, which it is very hard to obscure, and with emotion, which it is dificult to suppress, that he has no authority or commission under Heaven to teach the Scriptures witua obligation to | be heard, nor sacred right trom Heaven to ask the people for their money. IfT am wronging him let him prove his commission. ‘That is fair, E. B. Hepworth’s Position—A Lecture to “KE, Bo” To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD :— Seemg what religious doubts rack the mind of “E. B.” and make him “stagger in ali his nature’ I feel for him, and make bold to offer some disin, terested counsels to him and to the many others who have been thrown into well-grounded doubts by Mr. Hepworth’s new departure. Like “E, B.,71 admire the reverend gentleman for fearlessly throwing up Unitarianism in obedience to the Summons of his conscience. The reasons he then gave to his congregation to explain his new course were clear, substantial and never refuted, even by those most opposed to the change of his religious views. The man who at any time or age becomes aware that his religion is a false one isa foolifhe still cling to it. Mr. Hepworth, by yielding to the appeals of his logical mind, added greatly to his already numerous merits and well earned laurels.” Your forcible letter may, however, bring great doubts to him as to whether or not his present position is more tenable than the former, though “K. B.”’ thinks he “came forth erect in body and soul and covered with certitude in all his religious fibres’? 1rom a Time will tell whether he shall not find it binding upon him- self to put his new creed also “under his two feet and trample it out of life” (in the very bud), “with all the strength of his vigorous and gracefy, faculties.”” As for “E. B.,"’ struck to the earth like Saul ana “up to the in of his understanding in the lake | of dark theological doubt,” and, as it were, im- ploring the assistance of the charitably disposed, I hasten to throw him a rope of relief with which he tay work his way to the shore of absolute satety Rev. George Hepworth, your dear friend, is not absolutely right, Prayer to God, turther study and unprejudiced reflections will show him that he is still far from admitting ail the truths of the Bible, His present doctrines do not lead to eternal salva- tion, because they are not yet the full teaching of Christ. He has no proved authority from God to preack. He never said he had, still less proved his mission, like the Apostles, by working miracles, Christ never said to him, “Iic that heareth you heareth me, and he that despiseth you ‘de- spiseth me.’’ He is not bound to ‘preach, nor any one to listen to him, at the peril of their souls; nay, according to his theory, you ought to remain at home, “search the Scriptures,” and so frame your ewn religion, Above all, you | ought to prove from the Bible that the book you 80 call Is really the Holy Bible, such as God gave it, well authenticated, unaitered and inspired by God. This you will find impossible; not a text says so, If you wait till Mr. Hepworth proves to | you that he has already all the divine truth neces- sary for your salvation you will die before getting your mind settied. Because Mr. Hepworth was commissioned by men of three creeds it does not follow that he has the whole truth. Three fools cannot make a sane man, nor can three sel{-constituted teachers of faise and con- tradictory doctrines confer on a tourth one the | divine mission to teach the whole truth anc nothingzbut the truth. ‘This 18 manifest. “J, a7 talks nonsense when he so insinuates, as well ; as when he says that “Catholics impute error to each other.” Whatever we may think of this immense religious body, that has stood the storms of well nigh nineteen centuries, tt is an | undeniable fact that the 200,000,000 of them believe and teach exactly the same thing with a striking constancy and apalpable contrast with other de- altions with every wind of doctrine. This has always made a great impression on my mind. I know a man who once passed through the same | Ordeal as you. Alter emerging from it he wrote | the history o: his trials and how and where he | found complete relief and a great peace. His book is well known, It is called “Gropings After Truth.” You had better read it. Read likewise “Hay’s Sincere Christian." Add prayer to your reading, but carnest prayer, with a sincere and firm will to embrace tie whole truth, wherever you may find it, and God, who wishes all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of truth, will no doubt nally reward your unwearied researches and bring you to a haven of rest. A TRUE FRIEND, The Bible in the Common Scheols=Ar- gument for Its Retention. To Tne Epiror or THE HERALD :— “Atheos” in his last reply asks for the solution of seven questions. He is very moderate in his de- mands, To answer these questions satisfactorily, Mr. Editor, would require at least the whole length and breadth of the HERALD till New Year's, | 1874. “Atheos” knows this, and therefore it is that | he pompously parades behind his wall of advance- Ment. There are but two of these questions that have any practical bearing on the subject before us—viz., the fifth and sixth. In order to justly en- | force the reading of the Scriptures it is not neces- | sary that it should declare the book to be either the original work or an authentic copy of the origi- Here, however, | may be mistaken; and, making this concession, I will proceed to consider “I, N, B.” as Mr. Hepworth’s chosen exponent on the itwo essential questions in sacred letters which are at stake. On the painful but legitimate suspicion that Mr, Hepworth may make another somersault, “LN. B."? puts me the following question, evidently looking on it as containing in its heart a projound argument for immutability in the newly- acquired faith of our common friend, The question is:—*Is it an unreasonable postulate that the beloved pastor having gone out (of Unitarian- ism) will remain out?’ I pronounce this to be Quite laughable. In arguments of this nature the -Certitude is equivocal—belonging neither to the affirmative nor to the negative side of the issue in dispute. To show its despicable want of force here, let me counterpoise it thus, for the instruc. tion of the chosen exponent:—“Is it an unreason- able postulate that the beloved pastor having made one extraordinary change will make very many more before he stops?” I hope “1. N. B.”’ will eare- fully consider this interrogation. 1 therefore sub- mit to you that the delegate is incompetent as a Witress Of the Mxedness of the faith of Mr. Hep- worth, Icome now to the second question—Mr, Hep. Worth’s commission to teach the Gospel. “I, K B.," speaking for Mr. Hepworth, tells me at great length that no minister on earth has certain authority from God to teach the Gospel. Very weil, | Granting this universal proposition te be true, it | is ebsolutely certain from it that Mr. Hepworth is | wutterly pude of divine authority to be a clergyman. | Whata stab to Mr. Hepworth thatis! but itis I that have used the dagger. It is the reverend tleman’s own chosen exponent that has raised Weapon. Inthe meantime1 would draw out this dagger if | could but I cannot, It explicitly dilustrate my Whole’ case—namely, that the rev- vend gentlemen whom | lave an inclination nal; all that is necessary 1s that school authorities shall decide that @ certain book may be taught | im its schools without detriment to the | State or to the morals of the children, | Secondly, the State may require certain works to be | read or studied in its schools to elevate the moral | character of its subjects Whether the matter con- tained therein be natural or supernatural the State has nothing to do with it, Hence it is quite possivie that the State which to-day selects the Protestant Bible for this purpose may to-morrow Belect Plato’ epublic.” You will notice one re- markable fact, Mr. Editor, that ‘‘Atheos” very care- fuily and very wisely refrains from giving us any 1 she a8 @ substitute jor our present system, knowing well the impossibility of pointing out a better one. His policy from the beginning has been to attack, He offers no substitute for the re- ligious instruction, no public s ‘uard, no tacen- tive to morality; neither can it be found in his system, It is easy to attack and to destroy; it is diMeoult to build up and re-establish, If “Atheos’ gives the State nothing instead of the Bible, upon what shall we found our code of public morals / tor, after all, both Church and State are but means to an end, means to accomplish the end jor which we were created. Can ‘Atheos’ or the world produce a more effectual bitte and pre- ventive for all the ills, the wants and the miseries of bumawity than the Bible and what it proposes? Is not the State, then, more than justified in the use of religious Mtl is it not her duty to en- courage and toemploy it? Is it not her duty to suppress crime and immorality? And sutely we cannot deny to the State the lawful means of ac- complishing this end. Does not the State profit a thousandfoid by the good produced by religion? Is it not more economical, and at the same time more satistactory and more praiseworthy in the preservation of society and Bs order than physi- cal coercion on the part of the State? The revealed Word of God or the Bible read, as it 18, without note or comment, while it does incaleu- Jabie good from a natural point of view, can offer no nominations, that are constantly shifting their po- i} cuss 80 porous @ subject as the education of our youth with ope whose avowed convictions contra- serious difficulty to the conscience of any one. It is thus that a safeguard is thrown around our children, a way pointed out to them and their con- sciences formed. To deprive us and our children of this boon because of an idea! neutrality which a few persons imagine ought to be observed by civil authorities, is to deprive us of what we prize more than we prize our livese more than we prize this nation or the world. It would at once destroy the whole system of education by the State; for, although parents may be anxious to have their children advanced in secular edu- cation, they do not desire it with any detriment to their morals or with any serious danger of detriment; but if this religious provec- tion be withdrawn, education is entirely secular; the worldling is advanced, but the Christian is in so far degraded. You may give a pagan the science and the eloquence of Demosthenes, but he is still a pagan. If, then, the decision of Mr: Weaver should prevail, it is certain that education by the State must fail, for there is no other alternative for Christians but to assume the responsibility them- Selves to withdraw their children from the State and to educate them in harmony with thelr religious convictions, “Atheos” knows, and, therefore, will not take it amiss, when I tell him that atheism is still held in utter abhorrence by the world, at least by its reat musses; and bad as the world may be to- lay, thank Goi its convictions are deduced from higher and more ennobiing principles than those which atheism can present it. The votaries of atheism are few while aly ine and exceedingly rare while dying, and although it has struggled for a nominal existence in almost every age of the world’s history, it is to-day without a tangible form or importance, and, in many States, is everywhere dreaded as the last degree of spiritual degrada- tion, feared alike by Church and State, its vota- ries are dreaded and their civil existence in many States ignored, and, therefore, dt that others must ever live onin convictions o posed even to his own existence, opposed to hi fellow man and opposed to the world, to its his- tory, to its past, its present and its future. To dis- dict and destroy each other; with one who owns no God and who desires no future, could not be worth while, nor very creditable to me. Our ideas, our first principles, are so far removed and so con- tradictory, it is clear tnat no practical good could result from it, unless an entire renunciation of first principles of belicf by one or the other, which f] evidently neither of us seeks or desires, PRESBYTERIAN, A Catholic’s Protest Against the Bible In the School To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:. Allow me a small space in the columns of the HERALD to direct’ public attention to what I con- sider a palpable violation of the bylaws of the Board of Public Instruction. In some of the schools of this city not only is the Bible read, but a peculiar form of prayer is recited by the principal and pupils. By a wave of his hand every child present—Christian, Jew and Gentile—bends his head lowly down before the modern Pontifex Maximus. No child must raise the head, even when prayer is over, until the pianoforte is touched by the operator. ‘Ihe form of prayer recited after the reading of the Bible is the Lord’s Prayer, used according to the Protestant form. Is it not sectarian teaching to compel Cagholic children who have been taught to recite the Dord’s Prayer differently from the Protestant form to join in communion with those that their religion positively prohibits? The thing ought not to be tolerated, The Catholic form of the Lord’s Prayer must be unlearned when the Catholic child enters Into the public school. As a friend of education and humanity I direct attention to this outrage on the rights of citizens, Let every principal be frowned down with honest indignation who assumes unwarrantable authority in the schools, The #tate Superintendent declares it to be uncon- stitutional to read the Bible in the public schools, How muck greater is the outrage on religious liberty when pupils are compelled to pray ina peculiar form to suit the Puritanical feelings of a principal? PRECEPYOR. Christmas Celebration. Quite an enjoyable affair took place on Friday evening last at the Church of the Resurrec- tion, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street, it being the “Christmas Festival” of the Sunday school. The tree was handsomely deco- rated and loaded with presents for the children, which were distributed among them after the sing- ing of the carols and an address by the rector. The feature of the arene: Was the presentation to the rector—the Rey. Dr. Flagg—of @ pocketbook, con- taining $300—a Christmas offering by the congre- gation, It was given with appropriate remarks by Mr, R. M. Martin, on behalf of the congregation, Ministerial Movements and Changes. BAPTIST. The spley and wide-awake Catholic Review has again caught a Baptist brother napping on “bap- tismal pants.” The Rev. S.J. Knapp wrote last week to the Baptist Weekly that there was “no Scripture or positive example for wearing pants at all.” To which the Review replies that “the Le- vitical law commands the priest betore offering sacrifice to put on the holy linen coat and the linen breeches on his flesh.’ The Baptist brother will have to try again. Furman University, South Carolina, has received within two years an endow- Ment of $100,000, and itis expected that $50,009 more will be raised by July next. The First Bap- Uist church of Springfiold, Mass., are projecting a new chapel enterprise. The lot is already given by two of their brethren, and $10,000 are nearly raised for the erection of the building. The lot has cost $4,000. This will be the nucleus of a fifth Baptist church in Springfield. The Central New Jersey Baptist Association comprises twenty-four churches, twenty-eight ordained ministers and a total membership of 3,072, The net gain during the year was seventy- five, but the membership is now fitty-five less than last year, on account of the withdrawal of the Bel- videre church, The Crooked Creek Baptist church, situated m Harrison township, Indiana, will be dedicated on the first Sunday ‘in January. Five years ago Rev. F. N. Barlow organized a Baptist church in the lumber region of Alpena, Mich., with eight members, three of them being his own family. They have since built a meeting house, costing $5,000, and from this feeble beginning God has led them on till now they number over one hundred and fifty members, most of whom have been converted among them. Outside of Baltimore the Baptists are not numerous in Maryland. But there is an aggressive movement in progress, A new interest has recently sprung up on the East- ern Shore, in Talbot county, one of the pichest in ‘the State, The mjsstonary in Delaware, Rev. 0. F. Filppo, “was invited in the Summer to preach in Baptist family resided, with full liberty to preach Baptist sentiments. Since then there have been baptisms on five successive Sabbaths, @ church of twenty-one members has been recently constituted, and an excellent pas- tor, Rev. George Bradford, settled. who ts partly supported by the church and partly by the Mary- land Union Association. The Beulah Baptist church, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, has just closed a series of meetings held tor four weeks, in which thirteen have professed conversion and expect to be baptized next Sunday. A revival 1s in progress in the Windsor (Pa.) Baptist church. Extra mneetings have been held for some time, and uite a number have been added to the church. God has graciously poured out his spirit on the Baptist church in Drummondtown, Va, More than thirty have been converted and eighteen baptized. ‘This is a new field; the members are poor in purse, but richin faith, The Rev. T. B. Dott receive three persons into the Twellth Baptist church, Philadelphia, last Sunday, by baptism. The col- ored Baptists of Mississippi propose to establish a@ denominational paper. Calls have been accepted by Rev. James Heath, of Pres. ton, N. to Farmington, ROY: ” », Rey. 8. Smith, of Detroit, to Parshaliville, Mich’, | and by Rey. J. M, Craner, recently ordained to the astorate of the Baptist church at Medford, N. J. ev. Daniel Shaver, D. D., retires irom the editor- ship of the Index and Baptist. Church dedications have taken place during the last month in August Mich. ; Auburn, Ind. ; Wakefield, Mass. ; Austin, Til. Tipton, Walkersville and Carondelet, Mo. A Bap- ist church, with fiteen members,’ has recently been organized in Elwood, Ind. There is a neigii- borhood popuiatfon of 4,000 souls in the place, Rev. J. B. Foster, pastor of the church at Cumminsville, Ohio, is obliged, from infirm health, to relinquish his ministerial labors for a season. He has just left for South Carolina, where he expects to spend some weeks among relatives, with the hope of re- gaining his health, His pulpit will be supplied by the Rey, G. M. Maxwell. D. D., of Chicago, Rev. George Kilne has resigned, and will soon cease to be pastor of Park avenue church, St. Louis. Revs. Robert Harris, of Sedalia, Mo. ; Charles Whiting, Fort Scott, Kan., and ©. T. Emerson, Orion, Ill, each among the best preachers and pastors of the Bap- tist Church, are soon to vacate their felds, t Green Valley the church has been much revived tuner the labors of Brother Storrs, the evangelist. The church having no pastor, Brother Storrs com- menced preaching in the meeting house, and the Lord owned the effort. Some ten converts had been received for baptism, Rev. (, Darby, of Ot- tumwa, Iowa, has, on account of impaired health, been compelled to retire from service and is now laid aside at St. Joseph, Mo., while Rev. W. Le Brown, lat Mount Pleasant, [owa, sacceeds as pastor at Ottumwa, The two Baptist churches at ansas City, Mo., have consolidatea their two or- nizations into one under the name of the olde ‘St Baptist church, and Rey, F, M. Ellisis pastor of the united body. Tolono, at the inter- the Methodist chapel in Longwood, where one |G fag house, Mr. Graham preaches at Sadorus, five miles west, where a meeting house, to cost $5,000, is undey way. He preaches also at Pnito, five miles east, and has a station some five miles south of town. Rev. Mr. Bonham has left the presidency: of the Ladies’ Seminazy in St. Louis and assumed the pastorate of the Baptist church in Decatur, Ii. Rev. J, V. Stratton has left the Baptist church i Bryan, Ohio, and come to Roselli J. Je v. M. 0. Kemsey, of lowa, has ted a call to the Baptist church in Batavia, Il. Fiom Mattoon to din, Ill, fifty mites or more, the Baptist cause is weak. At Neogo a house has been commenced, but stopped for want of money and enterprise. The omy church having a pastor is EMngham. ‘The Baptist church Odin has become extinct. There are twenty- mine Baptist associations in Indiana, comprising 632 churches and a membership of 38,132 souls, There are only 343 Baptist ministers in the State and only thirty-nine of the churches have regular pastors and preaching all the time. Forty-nine are entirely destitute of preaching, 344 have it once a month and 100 twice a month. The members have raised for religious and benevoient purposes ofevery kind during the year about $260,192. There are only two Baptist churches in the State with a membership exceedirig four hundred, and they are colored churches in Indianapolis; and only pi also, with a membership of between three ani four hundred, and these also are colored, in Evans- ville. Rev, Mr. Van Meter, formerly of this ci writes from Kome, Italy, to the Weel that his scnool in Frascati (a suburb of Hovie), recently opened, has fity-five Bible students, ant the people are very anxious to have the Gospel preached to them, He has finished ene he New Testament in the vernacular and is engaged im distributing the Word of God. His printing office is within sight of the Vatican. “A few days ago,” he writes, “a man—not a Christian, nor any longer a papist—sent word to me that if I desired to oven a Bible or Evangelical school or preaching! place, J might have rooms at fis house at small cost. Already there have been registered in my five schools 538 as applicants for admission, not more than 300 of whom could be received. I could only beg the parents to wait patiently until I could obtain sufficient means to secure more room and ranloy. more teachers.’ The death, November 21, of Rev. J. W. Johnson, missionary at Swatow, is announced. ROMAN OATIIOLIO, The Italian government, while suppressing the religious corporations in Rome, reserves to each order whose General or Procuror General re- sides in Rome one conven‘ for representation, ‘This property will be considered as a special insti- tution, and may be administered by the officers in- habiting them, according to their free will, but otherwise the religious orders must cease to be con- aldered as possessing any privileges whatever. ‘The educational convents will be turned over to the Minister of Public Instruction to be used as chari- table lay schools of a similar character to those suppressed. The sale, and a certain amount of the product of the suppressed convents, &c., will be used for religious and educa- tional purposes, and will be distributed among parish churches and societies. The monks and nuns will be permitted to remain one year in their convents after the publication of this law. Such friars or sisters who are either infirm or aged, and wish to continue their monastic life, will be Le to unite themselves, accord- ing to their various orders, in one convent. The heads of the various religious orders will send the government, within the space of three months, an exact list of all their properties, mov- able and immovable, as well as the names of all the fathers and friars under their direction. ‘The superloresses of nunneries will do the same. The suppressed houses, when not required for spe- cial purposes, will be sold at auction, and the sums received for them will be paid into the public treasury, and thence redistributed as aioresaid. All books, manuscripts, pictures, statues and other objects ofart found in said convents, in the case of the general houses, will be preserved as they are; in that of the suppressed ey will be distri- buted among the various public libraries and mu- seums, an exchange thinks that within a year or two, when all these Convents and monasteries are swept out of Rome, “the seat of Christianity wil! be more of a pagan city than Pekin.” Monsignor, the Bishop of Périgueux, has joined the Catholic Union. The bishops of France who already take active part in this great work are the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Aix and Bourges, the Bishops ot Versailles, Perpignan, Frejus, Puy, Vannes, Montaubin, Saint Claude, Chalons, Saint Die, Evreux, Nantes, Grenoble and Nevers. The beautitul basilica of Aquileia, Italy, has been re- stored at the expense of the Austrian govern- ment. Aquileia was once the second capital of Italy, after Rome. Itis now almost deserted. In Berlin a fifth and new parish church (Catholic) has been opened, and other chapels are being built in various parts of the oy) 80 great has been the in- crease of Catholics within the last Jew years. On December 8 the Archbishop ef Lyons, France, laid the foundation stone of the new shrine of Four- viere, This ancient church is one of the most pop- ular places of pilgrimage in Europe. The cathedral of Milan has been the scene of a recent sacrilegious robbery. The statue of Our Blessed Mother om one of the altars was robbed of 150,000 francs’ worth of jewelry. The collections in twenty-seven ‘ipo in the dioeese of Newark lor the support of ecclesiastical students amounts to $5,440 97, as first reported by Chancellor Doane, Rey. John McCloskey has been elected President of Mt. St, Mary's, Emmettsburg, in place of Father McCaffrey. Father F. A. Butler has been assigned to the Cathedral, Leavenworth, Kansas. Rev. T. Fitzgerald, formerly at Edina, Mo., is now at Kan- 8as City. Father Bolger, of St. Ann’s church, Phila- delphia, has gone to Irelend. Rev. M. J. Doherty has been appointed pastor of Fort Scott, Kansas. Rev. J. J. Grogan has been appointed to St. Bridget’s church, Chicago. Rev. Henry S. McMur- die is the new Vice President of Mt. St. Mary’s College, Emmettsburg. Archbishop Bayley is seriously ill; his complaint is Bright's disease of the kidneys. ery Rev. Grand Vicar Truteau, of Montreal, Canada, is very ul. Bishop O’Reilly, of Springfleld, Mass., has returned from Europe fully restored to health. Bishop Lafeche, of Three Rivers, Canada, has gone to Rome, Father Phelan has been removed from Kansas City to the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception, St. Louis, Mo, Archbishop Tascherean, of Quebec, has gone to Rome. _ Rey. Felix Swemperg has been transferred trom Prairie City to Wichita, Kansas. Rev. Hugh Garvey has been appoited pastor at Bustleton, Pa. Rev. Father Massimo Ct sini, O. 5. President of St. Bonaventure’s Col lege, Y., sailed from this port on the 7 iteamer Wisconsin. During his ab- sence all business concerning the Rey. President and the College can be transacted with Rev. Father Theophilus, O. 8. F. METHODIST. Bishop Peck announces that he will start for the Western conferences and tor his Pacific home, in San Francisco, on July 1, 1873. The death of Rev. Wiliiam Shaw, one of the oldest members of the British Wesleyan Conference, is announced. The receipts or the Wesleyan Missionary Society in No- vember were over sixty-one thousand dollars. The British Wesleyans have recently established a book concern in Rome, Italy. In the Spring Bishop Har- ris will start on a tour of the Methodist missions in Japan, China and India, and possibly other foreign fields. Bishop Foster will go about the same time to visit the missions in Germany, Switzerland and Northern Europe. Pay Haven is now en route to Mexico, where a Methodist mission is soon to be established, Bishops Merrill and Andrews are looking after the missions among the Indians, and Bishops Jancs and Ames have gone South to meet the nual Conference. Bishop Bowman will strortly start, for Sou mage ary ev, J Simpson fi et AM Part ie ata of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cassville, N. to the superintendency of the Pittman e Camp Ground. Pacific street Methodist Episcopal church, Breokiyn, has given $1,300 to the Missionary Society. A new church at Mill City, N. Y., will be dedicated January 20. A new church at Plymouth, N. Y., will be dedicated January 18, Churches were dedicated at Campton, Ill, on the 27th ult., and at Northville, N. Y., on the Sist ult. A new church in Milford, Md., will be dedicated to-day. Rev. Dr. Lindsay, of the Boston Theological Seminary, after spending a pleasant holiday week in Baltimore, returned homeward through New York on Saturday last. The Metho- dist Episcopal missionaries who salied from San Francisco October 1 reached Shanghae, China, safe and well, November 6, The party consisted of Rev. S. L. Baldwin and family, Rev. B. C. Hart and Misses Howe and Hoag. Brother Baldwin and family left again on the sth, by the steamer Dragon, for Foo Chow, in order to reach that city in time for the annual meeting on the 20th. Brother Hall, who had been at Japan in pursuit of health, with Brother Hart and the young ladies, left for Kiu- kiang on the 9th. The Methodist Episcopal church in Mamaroneck, N. Y., has sent $1,750 as its missionary quota to the treasurer in this city, Pacific street church, Brooklyn, has taken up $1,300 for the same cause; Sands street church, Brooklyn, has raised $2,600, and the Methodist Episcopal church in Morristown, N. J., about $1,400—a marked advapce in each case on the subscriptions of former years. Revivals are re- ported at Jasper, N. Y., Rev. C. Delienbeck pastor, sixty conversions; at Scott, N. Y., Rev. E. A. Peck pastor, twenty conversions; in Annapolis (Md.) Second church, seventy since October 1; in Elk Ridge Landing (Md.) Methodist Episcopal church, fifty conversions; on Calvert Circuit, Md., during the year, 125 conversions; on Bladensburg Circuit, almost as many. In the Frankiin Methodist Bpis- copal church, Wilkesbarre, Pa., Rev. A. H. Wyatt pastor, the revival has been in progress for a few weeks, but the results have not bee given. The same is true of the Methodist Episcopal church in Pittston, Pa. In Nanticoke church Wyoming Conference twenty have been converted, On Great Falls Circuit, Baltimore Conference, Revs, J. G. Moore and H. C. Smith, pastor, there have been during the year seventy-two Cconver- sions—thirty at Ebenezer, two at Furnace; twenty at Hiss’ and twenty at Gatch’s. Fifty of the con- verts have connected themselves with the Metho- dist bogey Church. A meeting of much tuter- est is in progress at the Third street church, Wil- lamsport, Pa., Rey. 8. C. Swallow, pastor. There have been twenty-five conversions, rey eee revival is now going on at Baskenridge, Newark Conterence, Rey. ©, 8, Woodrutt pastor. During the past two weeks over one score of souls have been converted, and the altar ig still filed with mourners, PRESBYTERIAN. An interesting revival of religion 1s in progress in the Second Presbyterian church, Newport, Ky. Sixteen persons have united with the church re- cently. Rev. A. J, Witherspoon, the Evangelist of South Alabama Presbytery, held an interesting meeting in Laurel church, at Shiloh, Ala. Out of section of the Illinois Central and Toledo, Wabash and Great Western railroads, has_a Baptist church which, under th ors of Kev, Mr, Graham, has rown in two years from twenty to ninety mem- 8. They have recently dedicated @ $7,000 mect forty inquirers thirty were colored people. Within a few weeks nearly twenty persons, most of them advanced pupils in the Sunday school, have been added to the Henderson (Ky.) church, of which Rey, D. Owen Davies is pasior. A Presbyterian | Secretaries of the Board of Home church in Boston, it ts John Cameron, of Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia. If is thought he will accept. Another New England Presbyterian church are negotiating with Rev. John M. McLeod, of Charlottetown, N. 8. Rev. E. Van Slyke, of Albany, N. Y., has accepted a eall to the First Presbyterian church at Stamford, Conn. Rev. Lesko Triest has been dismissed from the Sreeater af Memphis, to join the Dubuque Presbytery. Vv. James H. Gillespie has removed trom lett, Shelby county, to Brownsville, Hay- Wood county, Tennessee. Rev. Dr. Backus, {or forty years pastor of the first Presbyterian church at eee has tendered his resignation, but the congregation decline to accept it, and offer to furni 4M associate pastor if he will remain. The Makemie church at Drummonatown, Va., which now flourishes where the first regularly organized Prous Periae church in America was planted by the Rev. Francis Makemie, has called Rev. H. M. Anderson, late of the Nashville Presbytery. A Presbyterian church has been organized at Katonah, N. Y. © congregation meet for the Present in Avery's Hall. No stated pastor has yet been elected, but the pulpit is supplied ajter- ir rao south eae ey eter es , ‘ m, ev. Mr, of South East, Rev. T. L. De Vi nas’ been ‘com ‘eaux ‘4 loss of voice to r of led ‘0 his pastora’ The Presbyterian church at Ji sonville, Fin He has accepted a ition as eUitor of the North bylerian. Rev. William Greenot of Pittsburg, Pa., has been chosen pastor of Cohorksink Presbyterian church, hiladelphia, The Beach street Presbyterian church, Boston, Mass., the Rey, Dr. J. B. Dunn’s, is enjoying a high degree o! prosperity. The secretary ig unable meet the demands cone made for pews and sittings, tnclbed pepe) the extra expenses of the past year, all claims have been met, and the treasurer has sometiing leit. One hundred and siete tnkeo persous have been added to the church during the year—113 on profession of faith, Dr. Dunn ‘was (rmaris. pastor of Central Presbyterian church, of this Rev. Charles A. Dickey, pastor of the St. Louls, has within a Past. been made a doctor of divinity by Princeton College. Rev. Dr. Kendall, one of the ‘Missions, and Rey. Sheldon Jackson, synodical missionary from the Rocky Mountains, have been holding & séries ot home missionary meetings in Central Pennsyl- vania. A revival has been in progress for four Weeks past in the Presbyterian church at North Henderson, Mercer county, lll, Sixty persons ex- press hopes of conversion. The Presbyterian church of Colorado Springs, Colorado, received a very handsome Christmas gift, of a bell bested Sneaky from Rev. Mayo G. Smith, This is the first church bell in the Territory, south of Denver. EPISCOPALIAN. Rev. Dr. Haight, of this city, recently elected Bishop of Massachusetts, has declined the honor on account of his advancing age and by the advice ot his physician. Bishop Whittle has taken charge of the services of St. Mark’s chapel, Richmond, Va., for the Winter months. Rev, J. P. Hutchinson has accepted a call to the rectorship of the Church of the Messiah, Port Richmond, Philadelphia. The eople of New Paltz, N. Y., are agitating the sub- Ject| of building an Episcopal church in that place. Calls have been received or avcepted by Rey. G. 8. Converse to Christ church, Reading, Pa.; by Rev. J. K. Mendenhall to Trinity church, Bethiehem, Pa.; by Rey. F. B. Davies to the rectorship of the Church of the Nativity, Union, 8.,C.; by Rev. Douglas Forrest, as assistant minister in St. Paul’s church, Alexandria, Va.; by Rev. W. B. Hooper to become rector of the Church of the Gooa Shepherd in Milford, Pa, ; by Rey. Ogle Marbury to the rector- ship of Christ church parish, Maryland, and by Rev. Pendleton Brooke to the charge of Botetourt and Woodville parishes, Fincastle and Buchanan, Botetourt county, Va. The Canadian E: gua Church Bishops have adopted a resolution “That the creed commonly called the Creed of St, Athana- sius ought to be maintained in its integrity.” MISCELLANEOUS. The Western Tract and Book Boclety at Cincin- nati offers $100 for the best essay on the subject, “What 1s the Relation of the United States Gov- ernment to Christianity, and the Duty of Express- ing that Relation in our Fundamental Law ¥" Rev: Rufus 8. Underwood, of Springfield, Mass., has ac- cepted a unanimons call to the pastorate of the mission of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York. He is to commence labor in his new field at once. Rev. J. L. R, Trask, of Holyoke, declined a unani- mous aud urgent call to the South Congregational church, Brooklyn, N. Y. There is an extensive re- vival in Norwalk, Ubio. Union meetings have been held for upwards of three wecks, the Presby- terian, Congregational, Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches uniting, ‘More han two hundred persons are believed to be converted, among them infidels, intemperate men, gamblers; one of the latter, it is said, gave public notice. to all from whom he had taken money to make out their bills, as he intended to refund it. Rev. Asa Mann, who ‘has been the pastor of the Bath (Vt.) Congregational church during the last six years, has resigned his charge and will go to Massachusetts, The American Board have com- menced their efforts in northern Spain, at Santan- der, atown of 35,000 inhabitants, from which it is thought access oes be gained to a wide field of labor. Rev. W. T. Enyard, of the North Broeklyn Reformed church, has accepted a call to the Re- formed church at Brighton Heights, S.I. The Re- formed Dutch church, of New Paltz, N.Y., has been enlarged, at a cost of $20,620, By the sale of ninety-five pews $19,975 have been realized. The new rabbi of Munich is an earnest reformer and has instituted quite a chan, in the public worship—organ, choral singing, al breviation of the ritual—all to the disgust of the good orthodox people, who insist upon the ancient mode as the only valid road to heaven. The Ital- jan Bible Society have issued the Scriptures from their own press. Ina circular to evangelical pas- tors of Italy they say that “this publication, which has taken place on the banks of the Tiber, and in- deed at the gate of the Vatican and of the nefari- ous inqutsition, will doubtless attract the atten- tion and sympathy of every evangelical Christian,” as it certainly must. The world moves, and Italy and Rome move with it. An Anglo-Indian Chris- tan Union has been formed in Scotland whose ob- pe is to ean the scattered English Varah A of india under Gospel influences. The Swedish Au- es ana Synod of the Lutheran Church in the United States has 25,000 communicants organized into churches, besides many thousands not yet organized into Pe Daeg It sustains or- plana gee at Andover, Il, and Wasa, Minn., and a8 a Publication Societ, . The new church (Lutheran and Methodist) at Wenksville, Menallen township, Adams county, Pa., was dedicated on Christmas Day. Calls have been accepted by the following named Lutheran clergymen:—Rev. J. H. Hunton, of East Germantown, Ind., to St. James’ Lutheran church, Vandalia, Fayette county, IL; Rev. H. B. Belmer, of Lawrence, Kansas, to be as- sistant pastor of St. Paul’s church, Washington, D. C.; Key. J. A. Beidler, of Yellow Creek, Ill, to the Canton church, Illinois.; Rev. Frederick Ktine- felter, of Tremont, N. Y., to Greencastle, Pa. Rev. N. H. Cornell, re ag Chester Springs, Pa., has resigned, to take effecon April 1, 1873, Ve J. K. Eckman, pastor at Republic, Ohio, on account of failing health has resigned his charge. Rev. Dr. Vidaver was on Sunday last re- elected rabbi preacher of the congregation Bnat Jeshuran, Thirty-iourth street, at a salary of $5,000 a year for three years. At the same time the reader, Rev. Mr. Ingel, was re-elected ata sab ary of $2,500, Christmas services will be held to- morrow in the Greek Chapel in Second avenue—the Russians adhering to the old style of: country, twelve days after our Christmas, Rev. Father Bjerring will preach at the usual hour. st. Paul’s fman Heformed burch in Titusville, Pa., some fans») mt a request to ‘or William for one of the heavy cannon captur ‘om the French in 1870, to be recast into a bell for their edifice. The German Consul at Philadelphia now writes that a 2,000-pound cannon is ready for them. This is a good way to dispose of those destroyers ot life and peace, Thirty-one Congregrational churches in Michigan have taken and reported their collec- tions for home missions. Of the $8,000 to be raised. in the State they were SY fee $2,953, and have raised $3,344. Of these churches twenty have contributed more than were apportioned, six less, and five just the sum assigned, They unitedly have ised $338 more than all the churches of the State con- tributed to this object last year. But they gener- ally are the more wealthy churches, and the 148 that remain need to contribute an aggregate of $4,655, in order to make up the requires amount, Rev. J. L. Dudley, of the Plymouth Congregational church, Mitwaukee, Wis., has brought himself into notice by a remarkable sermon against evangell- cal Christianity. A demand for his expulsion from the ranks of orthodoxy is made bya Western Bepee: The First English Lutheran congregation of Dayton, Ohio, has contributed $40,000 toward the increase of the endowment of Wittemburg College, at Sprinfleld, Ohio. The Lutheran congri it of Kreutz Creek church, York county, Pa., ha gracious revival, A protracted meeting was con- tinued for three weeks, and some forty souls were added to the Church, they CENTRAL PARK METEOROLOGICAL DEPART- MENT. Abstract of Report for the Week Ending at One o’Clock BP. M., January 4, 1873. Barometer—Mean, 30.131 inches; Maximum at ten o'clock A. M., December 30, 30.448 inches; minimum at twelve o'clock P. M., January 3, 29,672 inches; Fr , 776 inches. Thermometer—Mean, 26.2 degrees; maximum at one o'clock P. M., January 3, 47.2 degrees; mini- mum at seven So oe A. M., December 30, 14,2 ;. Tange, 33.0 degrees. “Remade cember 30, snow from 10:45 P. M. to12 P, M.; amount of water, .03 inch. Decem- ber 31, snow from Oh. Om. A. M. to 7:20 P. M.; amount of water, .23 inch, January 2, rain from 10P. M. to 12 P. M.; amount of water, .09 inch, January 3, rain from Ob. Om. A. M. to 8 A. M.; amount of water, .74 inch. Total amount of water for week, 1.09 inch. Distance travelled by the wind during the week, 853 miles. ~WAVAL ORDERS, WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 1873, Sailmaker A. W. Cassell has been ordered to the Nortolk Navy Yard, Midshipman Henry P. Stockton has been de- tached from the Lancaster and placed on waiting orders, Boatswain Herman Peters has been detached from the Pawnee and placed on waiting orders. Boatswain Ansell Keen lias been detached from ee ha aca ordered to requrn home and wait or TWEED’S ULTIMATUM. The Ex-Boss on His Political Position—A Dew perate and Determined Attempt to Escape an TInterviewer—He is in the Hands of His Lawyers and Don’t Care About Politics any More—He Wants To Be Left Alone, Mr. Tweed was yesterday in his Duane street office, looking as bright, as beaming and as bucotic as in the best days of his Koss-ship. A reporter of the HERALD called upon him shortly after noom and was received with the courtesy and freedom of “the good old time’ when Tammany was king. Mr. Tweed sustains his life-long reputation of not “going back’ on his friends; the portraits of gen- tlemen adorn the walls of the office, although the originals thereof are wandering in foreign lands under & compulsory absence from the city. Though the sun of the “Americus Club” has been almost totally eclipsed, the ferocious tiger’s head, familiar to all the ‘“Merry-cusses,” showed its teeth and its open mouth just over Mr. Tweed's head, as he stood at his desk tying up a package’ ofdeeds. Wherever the eye rested there were mer Morials of the vanquished politicians and emolems Of the dethroned municipal rulers, “Mr. Tweed,” said the reporter, “I have called to have a talk with you, if you will allow me.” “T am very glad to see you,” said Mr. ‘weed, “but talk to you I will not.’” “I have pever misrepresented yon, Mr, Tweed, and have always tried to deal fairly with you when Ihave put you before the public.” “Yes, you have. I admit alt that; but language is a wonderful thing, and you gentlemen who deat in it know how to use it, and when it is printed it looks very different to when it is spoken. I don’t care about being ridiculed any more. I have had about as much of that as{care about. I’m not going to give anybody the chance sf doing it ! again.” “I have never ridiculed you, Mr. Tweod, andI am quite sure the HERALD Goes not desire to do so. My object in calling upon you this morning was to ask you about the Senatorship.”” “You know the old proverb, ‘The least said the soonest mended,’ ani I’m golng to acton it, and you're not going to get anything out of me.’’ “My instructions are to ask you, Mr. Tweed, very politely, and without any motive of idle cui whether you are going to the Senate this year? and I know, trom past experience, that you will forgive the apparent impertinence in your appreciation of the fidelity to these instructions,” “Now, I know about as well as any man what you newspaper men are, and if I were tree from the instructions of my counsel I might talk to you; but I have got to obey instructions as well as you ave, “I thoroughly appreciate your position, Mr. Tweed, in that respect, and certainly have no in- tention of asking you anything with regard to it. My inquiries, if you will permit me to pursue are entirely of a political and not of a personal character. May I repeat my question, do you in- tend under tie ghangen: circumstances, which E will not attempt to indicate, to take your seat im the Senate, to which you were unquestionably elected?” “Well, you'll perhaps scarcely believe it, but I assure you it isso, 1 don’t know what the poli constitution of the Legislature really is. I have had plenty else to do without pomerie: myself think- me about that; and it is not very likely I shall do gh a than I have nitherto done in reference to a “That is just the answer I should have expected you to make, Mr, Tweed; but it was incumbent upon me to put the qeeadens “You know that I have been the pack-horse of politics ior many years. I have got nothing for all my hard work but abuse, and I’m tired ofAt. I don’t care who's in polltics and who's out. E know I’m not in, and that’s enough for me.” “That's so, Mr. Tweed, and I have not the slightest doubt that you will have far more enjoy- ment in your private life than you have ever had as @ servant of the people.” “Yes, can atford to do without that kind of thing. 1’m in a position to enjoy myself in my own way and I’m going to do it.” “In this wonderful change that has come over the body politic, this ‘tidal wave,’ to use a cam- eign phrase, itis only natural that on the eve of the Lt | of the Legislature we should think that you might have something to say about it.’” Mr. Tweed took up a piece of red tape, played with it in his old way, familiar to those who knew him when he was in his palmy days, and, with a merry twinkle in his eye, said:—They can do as they —— please about it. 1 don’t expect they’lE ask me about what they’re going to do. I shalk mind my own business; that’s enough for me. can live in New York, and a man like me, who is the hands of lawyers, t do better than k still, Gor when talking will do no good."* “Mr. Tweed, I’m quite sure your silence commend itself to every thoughtiul person. Allow me to say day, sir, and to wish you a very happy New Year.’” . “Good day, sir; I'm sorry I can’t say more, but you see how it is yourself. Ishall be always glad to tee you, but don’t talk politics. That's played out. Mr. Tweed’s messenger entered with the card of & visitor, and the reporter opened the door marked “Exit” and leit the office of the ex-Bosg, reflecti upon the mutations of politics and the vanity human greatness. MORE ITALIANS. beg The Denmark Brings Over Two Hum- dred and Fifty of Them—Scenes at Castle Garden—Are They Brigands t= No Immediate Prospect of Employment. The steamship Denmark, of the National line, ar- rived at this port yesterday, bringing in the steer- age 250 Italians to these free shores. The officers of the ship report that during the passage over the men acted in a very quiet, inoffensive manner, and that not a single disturbance of any consequence, more than characterizes all voyages in the steerage, occurred to disturb the harmony of the passage. Shortly after the steamship anchored in front of the Battery the work of transferring the immi- grants to she Castle Garden depot took place. It was apparent at first sight that the immigrante were precisely of the same class as have already been brought over during the past few weeks. They were of the same low extracfton and deter- mined mien, though their advent in a new land ha@ considerably softened their general appearance, As frightful as they may have been on their sherea andin the wild fastenesses of Calabria, so much were they nervous and meek as lambs when com- ing on onr territory. The novel scenes, the unknown language, the offhand way of do- ing aad evidently frightened them, and for the time being, at all events, made them careful of exhibiting any of their own possi- ble natural warmth. They looked upon the Custom Ho use officers with evident awe, and allowed their effects to be searched with commendable obedi- ence. In their former peregrinations from their own sunny Italy they had no doubt learned that, except in Italy, pradence was the best part of lor. vitnese last arrivals were from the same section of country as their brethren who preceded them; but they had heard nothing of the deceptions which had been practised both on them and on the others. They had the same child-like confidence of finding a country in which gold could could almost. be picked upin the streets, and life would bea leasant, prreperews journey, with no troubles to Bother ’them and” no.’ poverty. to. make them steal. From what our reporter could find out about them these people were mainly farm hands and small farmers, who knew not in their own yen’ what absolute want was, but always had enough to live on— something it is very doubtful they will find here, at all events for the ‘present. When they found the true facts of the case the foreign cursing which ervaded Castle Garden for some time was very lively indeed. They exclaimed that they had been deceived and robbed, and aA expressed fervent ee M4 be back again in the land to which they longed. Of those who have come here viously the main portion are still at Ward's Island, without any immediate prospect of getting of. Some of them are at Castie Garden a looking for employment, and find great diticuity in getting The hard character which has been given these opie hurt them a great deal in this particular, The new arrivals ledged at Castie Garden Isat night, and will be transferred to Ward’: dd to- aye NEWS FROM THE BAHA We have files from the Bahamas dated at Nassau, N. P., on the 28th of December. The journals record the prevalence of must genial weather. One paper, of December 22, saya:—'The weather continues delightful, with a temperature of seventy degrees. Christmas flowers have made their appearance in great pre. fusion inthe suburbs, They are so thickly studded by the roadside as to give the ground the appear. ance of being covered with snow.” We have aiso record of the death of Mr. J. s Howell, which took place at his residence, at Hog Island, after @ short illness, Mr. Howell waa ® man of great enterprise. He contracted to build ‘the Royai Victoria Hotel, and was for some time its lessee. He also estadlished the dry dock xt Hog Island, which he carried on with success, ant | from which geveral Que yachts fave been laugched. ~