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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE TO-DAY'S PULPIT PERFORMANCES. —— The Pope and His Enemies--- Will He Outlive Them? THE LATE PONTIFICAL LETTER. Another John Bull on English Church Disestablishment, MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day, Rev. W. T. Egbert will preach at both services at the Wainwright Memorial church. Rey. Dr. Lathrop will lecture morning and even- ing at the Tabernacle Baptist church. Dr. Lattlejohn, of Long Island, will discourse on “The Old Catholic Movement” at the Church of the Heavenly Rest this evening. Rey. Dr. McAllister will answer objections to the use of the Bible in the schools to-night at the Third Reformed Presbyterian church, Rev. G. M. Campbell will discourse at the Spring street Presbyterian church, Rey. Dr. Cheever will hold forth at the Chapel of the University in the evening. Rev. C, 8S, Harrower will speak at both services at St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Dr. Gillette will exhort the congregation at the Plymouth Baptist church at both services. Rev. Dr. Robinson lectures on ‘Born of the Wora”’ and “Our Christian Names” at the Presbyterian Memarial chureh. Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., speaks in the evening at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Mrs. Alderdice preaches this evening at the Elev- enth street Methodist Episcopal church. Rey. J, W. Barnhart discources at both services at the Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church. Rey. Dr. Verren holds divine service at half-past ten A. M. at the French Church du St. Esprit. Rev. W. H. Pendleton preaches morning and evening at the Filty-third street Baptist church. Rev. J. M. Pullman speaks on “Enforced Educa- tion” at Lyric Hall. Rey. H. Powers will preach on “The Story of Enoch” and “Habit" at the Church of the Messiah. Rey. W. C. Dawson will lecture at both services at the Christian church, Rev. ‘lage lectures morning and evening at the Chureh of the Res At the Bleecker Street Mission “Education” wily be the subject of the discourse, Rey. 1. C. Sw Y will tell which is “The Safe Side,” the Bleecker street Universalist church, Bishop Snow will divulge “What Gabriel Said to Daniel,’ the University, 3 T. G. Yorster morning and evening at c. Ewen, D. D., pr evening in St. Ignatius’ chureh, Rey, Halsey W. Knapp preaches in the Laight street Baptist Mission, mornii nd evening. Rev. George H. Hepworth preaches’ in Steinway Hall. Morning subject, “The Only Way Out of the Wilderness: evening subject, “Are You Alive or Dead.” Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preaches in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, morning and evening. Rey. P. L, Davdes preaches in the Berean Baptist church, morning and evening. Rey. William N. Dunnell preaches in All Saints Episcopal church at the morning and evening ser- vie ‘Sectarian Clamor’’ will be the interesting sub- Ject ofa lecture to be delivered this evening, at eignt o'clock, by the Rey. H. A. Brann, D, D.,,in St. Anthony's church, Sullivan street, between Prince and Houston streets. ®he reverend lecturer is one of well Known ability, philosophical in his views and oratorical in his style of delivery, The pro. ceeds of the evening will be charitably disposed of for the benefit of the poor of St. Anthony’s parish. The Pope Outliving His Enemics—Will He Bury Them All? To THE EprTor or THE HERALD:— All the great enemies of the Pope are dropping into thelr eternal graves, summoned before the judgment seat of the Almighty, one by one, whiie the celebrated Pontiff himself, though far beyond eighty years, continues to enjoy the best of health, breathes the most inflexible spirit of independ- ence and gives frequent impassioned utterance to hopes that all the dark days wnich are over him will soon be dispelled forever. It is impossible to reiute this simple assertion. Let us look at the facts of this remarkable condition of things. The great enemies of the Papal See are accurately divided into princes and statesmen. As to the latter, several of them are yet in the flesh, but the majority of them are long sealed up in their silent tombs. Lord Palmerston was the most powertul Minister for a number of years in all Europe. Hatred for Rome, in all her jurisdiction, was in perpetual flame in his heart; his intellect, all cunning, was always on the alert to originate or to assist a nefarious con- spiracy against her ancient rights, and his hand was ever ready to execute wrong on the immova- ble Church. But he is dead—dead as the poorest besgar that ever carried a crutch—whereas Pius 7X. Is still in the flush of life, and, notwithstandin; his cares, in the very Summer of confidence and resolution, Count Cavour is a more striking example. It was he, backed by Palmerston and in treaty with Napo- leon IIL, who has just fallen a corpse, that first really commenced invasions for the overthrow of Shp Semporal power. But he is long dead. He was called to his account in the zenith of his ambition and authority and years. A short time before death entered his chamber he was a heartless jiver at the Pope for his advanced years, for his excom- munications, for all his acts and purposes, But the oid Ponti? has far more than survived him, The cemeteries of Florence, of Naples, of Milan and of Turin are actually distinguished with marble slabs Marking the premature end of Italian advocates and ‘Deputies who took up with Garibaldi, Mazzini, Cavour and the King of Italy against the Pope. ‘This startling, appalling fact has been duly at- tested a thousand times. A leading Deputy in the utalian Parliament, in Rome, lately exclaimed to a crowded house, in the ears o1 Lanza himsell, that proceedings against the Vatican invariably re- Bulted in some awful blight upon their authors. Joseph Mazzini is an additional significant Wlustration. He was the prophet of all the factions jof Italy forthe overthrow of the Papacy. There ,can be no necessity to enumerate his deeds of the hand and of the pen to extirpate the See of Peter. Yet it is himself that ts overthrown, that is extirpated, that 1s demolished and that 1s judged. He used to boast that he would see the total end of the Papacy, but an octogenarian Pope has Nigietod nara seen (he last shovel of wretched earth pitched down upon his coffin. stance out of many—it is that of Napoleon lil. He was the very emperor of hypocrites, the prince of ali the enemies enrolied against the Pope. Mgr. Pie, @ great Bishop of France, callea him tie Pontius Pilate of the times, It was an awful buta gust designation; for while apparently protecting ‘the Pope in the city of Rome be was under tue ond of a treaty with Cavour to make no inter- ference whatever with the invasion of the patri- mony of the Church. That is, he fettered the Pope's hands behind his back while the robber was com- ing in to plunder him. ‘This is @ matter of history. “it has justreceived full and irrefutable contirma- ‘tion in the diary of M. Ideville, @ recent French attaché at the italian court, But how has it all ended ? Let Sedan, Wilhelmshohe and Chiselhurst give the response. ‘There are afew more immedi- te actors alive—the Italian Kingdom and Minis- fers. Wiilthe aged Pope survive them also’ We iknow Not, but it 1s certain that the occurrences of ‘the past would be sufficient to hinder any great Surprise over the realization of such anevent, All ‘this is true, In view of the striking facts it con- tains, What wonder is it that the Pontifical letter to the Cardinals, published a few days since in the HERALD, is the hopeful, defiant, uncom, romising document itis? NOT A LIBERAL CATHOLIC. The Disestabiis! mt of the English c rch. To tHe Eprror or TH HERALD :— Sm—Although @ pretty constant reader of the Herarp, I unfortunately missed seeing your edj. torial remarks on the disestablisnment of the Church of England, referred to by “A John Bull.” With your correspondent, I think the measure which you S@ppear to have advocated most undesirable, and one which no well-wisher of the old country, in- timately acquainted with the interests involved, would seek to procure. What is more, I cannot One more in- | but regard the political agitators iaboring for it in England as dangerous men, who are secking to overthrow a venerable institution, which is at this moment undoubtedly doing its appointed work even far more effectually than in any former period Of its history. At the time when the question of disestablishing the Church in Ireland was mooted the attack on ‘her sister in England was clearly foreseen, and—here it is, The most loudly sounded reasons for the change in Ireland were that the Church in that country was “founded on centuries of oppression” and that tt wasa “badge of conquest,” &c, Listen- ing to such arguments, that the country might be relieved of the imputation of tyranny, the English nation pretty unanimously voted its downfall, and itiell, Carried across the St. George's Channel, such reasons , of course, inapplicable to the Church of the English people, and the raking up of another set only reveals hostility to existing insti- tutions, acting on the first pretext that offers as the animating sentiment of men who may well be reckened among the dangerous classes of society. 1 cannot trespass upon your space so much as to enter into any lengthy vindication of the claims of the Established Church of England, but I coul give the most direct and conclusive testi- mony to the high efficiency of her operations and ‘to the zeal and ability of her ministers. Their lives are spent in unceasing toil for the spiritual and temporal welfare of their flocks, and many an English Parson in the course of one week gets through an amount of work which would Inake aghast not a few of the purveyors of heedless rhetoric and retatlers of State sedition who are seeking to undermine every fabric of the English realm. Take, jor example, Bishop Wilberforce, of the diocese of Winchester.’ Where is the man, in any denomination, whose office is less a sinecure than nis? The béte noir of these abolitionists—reformers, so called—is the comparative independence of the English rector. I could give instances of the work- ing of the opposite system in Sl pyommecimeret the reverse of edifying, where the poorly pai minister is entirely at the mercy of two or three pillars of his conventicle, and must humor their every whim and prejudice or go about his business and make room for some one who will, What would your American readers think of the good man's position who must hustle away the copy of Shakspeare from the table when Deacon So-and-so, who likes not such carnal things, but whose weights and scales are, probably, not above the suspicion of the County Superintendent, knocks at the door? OTHER JOHN BULL. Clerical Changes in the Archdiocese of New York. The Most. Rev. Archbisliop McCloskey has pro- moted the Rey. Bartholomew Galligan, assistant pastor of St. Gabriel's, East Thirty-seventh street, to the pastorate of the Church of Our Lady of Lo- retto, Cold Spring, Putnam county, N. Y., vice the Rev. Cornelius O'Callaghan, deceased, The Rey. Edward McKenna, assistant pastor of St. James’, James street and New Bowery, has been appointed to assist the Rev. J. 0. Byron, in the administration of the parish of the Immaculate Conception, Yonkers, during the temporary ab- sence, on account ofill health, of the pastor, the i Charles Slevin. The Rey. Nicholas I. Hughes, of St. John the Evangeltst’s, East Fittieth street, has been trans- jerred to St. Gabriel’s, East Thirty-seventh street. The Rey, Father Donovan, lately ordained at St. one ane Seminary, Troy, succeeds Father Hughes. The Rev. Father Pamer enters on his missionary career at St. Stephen's, East Twenty-eighth street; the Rev. Father Westerman, at the Church of the Epiphany, Second avenue; the Rev. Father Camp- bellat St. Michael's, West Thirty-second strect, and the Rey, Father Corkery at St. James’, James street. Ministerial Movements, Changes, &c. EPISCOPALIAN. The controversy on the Athanasian Creed has roused the Anglican Church bishops of Montreal, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto and Huron, Canada, to issue amanifesto protesting against the repudia- tion or mutilation of that ancient composition. They declare it as their solemn conviction that it ougnt to be maintained in its integrity, and they would regret its mutilation or disuse, The Massa- chusetts Episcopalians will probably try again for a bishop some time next month, and it looks now as it the contest might be between Rev. Morgan Dix, of Trinity church, New York, and Rev. Dr. A. H. Vinton, of Boston, with Rev. Dr. Burgess, of Springfield, as the third or compromise candidate, There is no use in electing Dr. Dix, as it is not probable that he would ve Trinity. Rev. William N. McVickar, rector received & unanimous call from the parish of St, Paul’s church, Boston, which offers him an annual salary of $6,000. Mr. McVickar is a “Low Church” | man and an able, eloquent and useful minister. Hence, doubtless, this very favorable call. The fol- lowing gentlemen have applied to the Standing Committee Of the diocese of Pennsylvania as candi- dates for holy orders:—Messrs. H. L. King, John | Hamilton Coxe, Robert Landsberger, Harry W. Nancrede, Lewis K. Lewis, Charles L. Newbold, John J. Joyce, Jr.; E. E. Chamberlaine, The Bishop of the diocese of Central New York nas had tempo- rary charge of St. Paul's church, Syracuse, since the death of the Rey. Mr. Fuller, To-day Rev. Mr. Lockwood will enter on the rectorship of the church, At a meeting of the Standing Com- | mittee of the diocese of Virginia Mr. F, A. Meade was recommended as a candidate for holy orders, and the Rev. J. H. Hundley a candidate for priest’s orders, with dispensation. In Kings county there are forty Episcopal Sunday schools, 1,200 teachers and 10,000 scholars, Rev. William H. Kipp has severed his connection with St. Paul’s Episcopal church, at Kinderhook, and has accepted a call to Christ's church, Springfield, Mass., as as- sistant rector. In the great revival in Norwalk, Ohio, the Episcopal minister, Rev. H. A. Morell, is alive to the work, taking the lead of union prayer meetings in his turn and holding revival meetings in his church, And as a result a class of over forty will shortly be presented to the Bishop of the diocese for confirmation. METHODIST. Arrangements have been completed in Council Blutis for the purchase of a residence for Bishop Andrews. Rev. Dr. Bowman, of Dickinson College, reached home on New Year's Day, safe and well, after a seven months’ tour in Europe and the East. A Methodist Book Depository has been opened in Council Bluffs under the management of Rev. Joseph Knott. During a brief stay in Richmond, Va., week before last, Chaplain McCabe paid a visit to Libby Prison, where, during the war, he spent more than half a@ year as a prisoner, and where only the grace of God and his love of music and his ability to sing kept not only himself, but the hundreds confined with him, from insanity er idiocy or untimely graves. He pointed out the hole through the floor by which food was passed from the military prisoners to the famishing Union citizens of Kichmend who were imprisoned on the lower floor, and also some traces of the channel dug under the wall and opening into the middle of the street, by which 120 prisoners made _ their escape. The world as jade — wonderful Progress since that time. f ¥. W. Flocken and Henry A. Buchtel and wife are expected to sail on the 8th proximo, en route for the mission in Bulgaria, On the same day Dr. Butler and family expect to part for Mexico, Summer- fleld Methodist Episcepal church, Brooklyn, Rev. J. H. Buckley, pastor, last Sunday took up $3,000 coliection and subseription for the Missionary So- ciety. The Sabbath school also gave $1,000, | The chapel of the Home for Aged Methodists im Balti- more was dedicated a few days ago. Rev. Dr. Sims, of the Madison avenue church, preached the dedicatory sermon. The fifty-fourth anniversary of the Wesleyan Sunday School Society of East Baltimore was celebrated on Sab- bath last in the Eastern avenue Methodist Episcopal chureh. There are four schools rep- | resented in the society, aggregating 670 scholars and 100 teachers, A meeting has been in progress in the Methodist Episcepal church at Beech Creek, Pa., and 10 have been converted, while the in- dications are for still greater success. Revivals are also reported in the Methodist churches in | Youngsville, I 20 conversions; in Stockholm, N. J, Rev |. Timbrell, pastor, 26; in North Java, N. Y., Rev. W. B. Clit, pastor, 20; in Middlepoint charge, Central Ohio Conference, 20; in Erie, Ind., 70; at Mason, Mich. Rice, pastor, about 40. In the Feeshurg charge, Cincinnatl Conference, three revival meetings have been held, resuiting thus far accessions to the Methodist Episcopal church; at New Holland, Ohio, 35; in Keyport, N. J., Re J. Andrews, pastor, 150; at South Amboy, Rev. BA. 8, Norris, pastur, 30; im Liberty street charch, New Brunswick, 'N. J., Rev. Mr. Boyle, astor, 35 conversions; at Oceanport, N. ‘J, ve ir. MecKonn, 15, and at Atlanticville, . dy 45 have ‘been added to_ the Church, Revivais are also in progress in Forty- third street church, Rev. L. H. King, D. D., pastor; in Perry street church, Rev. C. 8. Brown, pastor; in Jane street church, Rev, Mr. Hamblin, pastor; in Seventh street church, Rev. J. Parker, pastor, and in several other city churches, but the meetings have not progressed far enough to give statistics. There is also a gracious and powerful wouk of revival in the Methodist Episcopal church on City Island, Long Island Sound, Kev. H, Schofield, pastor, where within three weeks 40 have been converted. In Franklin street church, Baltimore, Rev. I, W. Hedges, pastor, about 40 conversions are reported, and the meetings continue ; at Mount Pisgah church, in St. Mary's Circuit, ‘Baltimore Conlerence, 20, Rey. John Burgess, of the Towa Conterence, has been appointed chaplain of the lowa Penitentiary. ‘Ihe Methodists of Chicago have sixteen American churches, with @ membor- itp of 8,700, and church property valued at about 950,000; four German churches, with a membership of 700 aud church property of the value of $110,000, Rey, William and two Scandinavian places of worship valued at $75,000, ther with 960 members. The aggre; umber of Sunday scheols | of the Holy Trinity church, Harlem, N. Y., has | in over 100 | sustained by them ail is with 7,600 scholars and about 800 teach ‘alavom a Con- merece of te Heart a Church, Sous, contains mbers, local preavhe Sunday schools and * teachers therein, The missionary the past year amounted to $5,523 50. The South Georgia Conterence of the same denomination has 25,724 members, and their mission: contribu- tions during the year amounted to 15 88. The North Carolina mference has “tse members, 202 local preachers, 578 Sunday schools and 23,301 scholars and teachers; missionary contributiona, $3,337 59. ‘The statistics of the Mississippi Con- ference show a net increase of twenty local preach- ers and 858 members during the year. The Methodist Italian Mission is to have 1i8 headquarters at Eologns, The Methodists of Richmond, Va., have ten churches and 2,515 members. The Methodists of Norwioh, Ohio, have garnered thirty converts asthe first fruits of the revival in that place, in which over 400 souls have been converted within seven weeks, ROMAN OATHOLIO. During his pontificate of a quarter of a century Pius IX. has witnessed the deaths of nearly a nun- dred Cardinals and has almost twice renewed the Sacred College. It is authoritatively stated that no appointment to the Roman Catholic See of Liverpool has yet been made. For the present a second Archbishop will not be created. In the event of the See 01 Liverpool being constituted into an Archbishopric it is nearly certain that th Rey. Dr. Vaughan, the new Bishop of Salf be raised to the archiepiscopal dignity & +; the charge of the new province. Shox) intention of the Pope be paeeponed, resent it is more than probable ly joward, of Frascati, a dignitary often e; with important diplomatic missions, wi) ip pointed Bishop of Liverpool. ‘A number 6, Ro- man Catholics of Munich proposed setting ona phartn age to Jerusalem on the 14th of January, and to remain away about six weeks, of which twenty days are to be spent in the Holy City, An Ultramontane journal puolishes it to the world that from every ritualistic church in London there is & continual stream of converts drifting toward Rome, aud that in London alone upward of two thousand have actually gone over during the last year, Ten or a dozen Anglican clergymen in different parts of the country, and as many ladies belonging to Anglican sisterhoods, have done the same, Rev. Father O'Hara, pastor of St. Ga- briel’s church, Philadelphia, on his return from Europe a short time since, was presented by his parishioners with the sum of $7,000 for the erection of a parochial residence. His church, which cost $35,000, is now entirely free from debt, and he has in contemplation the erection ofa con- vent to cost about thirty thousand dollars. A branch of the Catholic Union has been formed in Jersey City, and is to be extended throughout the State, The Pope has sent them his biessing by cable. The total collections in the diocese of Newark, N. J., for the seminary students amount to $6,447 27 up to date. Key, G. A. Healey, pastor and treasurer of St, Bernard’s church in this city, announces that he received during the past year $27,000, all of which, except $2,500, he expended jor various religious and church purposes. This does not include a collection of $1,000 taken up for missions in the East in charge of Rev, A. Monnot, S.J. The property upon which the ola church stands, together with that purchased for the new church, with the addition of sums spent for im- rovements, labor on the foundations of the latter, C., 8Wells the total value of both properties up to $88,847 24, of which the large sum of over $40,000, or nearly half the whole, has been paid, PRESBYTERIAN. More than four years ago the Presbytery of New York, aiter trial and conviction, suspended the Rey. Jolin Lyle, of this city, “for conduct incon- sistent with Uhristian and ministerial character.” Mr. Lyle Aue his one having failed to give evidence of reformation, the Presbytery, at its last session, January 6, inst., deposed the delin- quent brother from the ministry and excommunt- cated him from the Church. Rev. 8. B. Reed, pastor of the Fifth United Presbyterian church, of Pitts- burg, Pa., has resigned nis pastowate for three rea- sons—namely, hostility to the revised psalm book, opposition to missionary contributions and unre- quited toil, The last is probably the weightiest reason. The Presbyterian churches of Philadelphia raised over a million dollars for caurch purposes during the past year. The Presbyterian churches in the Indian Nation number 900 members, and in- creased last year twenty-five per cent (fs than our home churches), More than hal the ministry of the Southern Presbyterian Church there are native Indians, and two candi- dates, native Choctaws, were received at the last session of the Indian Presbytery. The labors of the Chinese missionartes of the Southern Church have already resulted in the hopeful conversion of fourteen youths, two of whom have been chosen oftice-bearers. Rey. Alexander Ross hag accepted acall from the Presbyterian church in Embro, Ontario. He leaves Pictou therefor. Rev. C. Ry Vaughan, of Charlotte county, Va., has agcepted a call to the pastoral charge uf the Third Presbyte- rian church, Richmond, Va. The First Presbyte- rian churei in Nashville has invited| the Rev, Thomas. A. Hoyt, of this city, t) become their pastor. Rev. ©. C. Bomberger, of Mount Pleasaut station, hag gone to Greenville, Ky. Rev. W. T. Hall, late of Canton, Mapa,, has assumed the pastorate of the First Pr church in Lynchburg, Va. Rey. Robert. | resigned his charge oi the New Dublin Pri church, Va. The Presbyterians of Covington, Ky., recently dedicated a new church for themselves. It is said to be one of the finest and most convenient in the country, Rev. Dr. J. M. Worrall is the nas- tor. Rev. J. J. Marks. D. has resigned his charge at Brookville, Pa., after three years’ service, aud goes tothe West. Rey. J.T, Backus, D. D., a vet- eran in the ministry, alter forty-five years’ faithful service with the Presbyterian church in Schenec- tady Y., has resigned; he will continue to dwell with his old parishioners, however. Rey. William B. Dade, for five years. Re itor of the Congregational church at Lake City, Minn., has resigned and ac- fa doe! shares of the Presbyterian church at East Palmyra, N.Y. Rev. Walter Condict, formerly pa tor of Calvary Presbyterian church, Newark, N. J. has just returned from a six months’ tour i Europe. The great revival in Newark, Ohio, has added twenty-six to the Prebyterian chureh there, of which the Rev. Henry Rice is pastor. Rev. Nel- son Millard, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Syracuse, N, Y., at its last communion received twenty-five persons into membership, Rev. E. P. Roe, pastor of the Church of the Highlands, near West Point, took in twenty-nine during the past year, ten of them at the last communion. The First Presbyterian church of Denver, Col, Rev. W. Y. Brown, pastor, has addet seventy-eight to its membership during the year—thirty-cight having joined since October last; Rev. C. P. Wells is the pastor. Rev. Ed. W. Fisher has gathered a Presbyterian society of twenty persons in Mott Haven, N. Y., and the Presbytery of Westchester ts shortly to organize them into a church. At present service is held at Braun's Hall (148d street, near Third avenue), on every Sabbath morning, by favor of the First Bap- tst church, who are soon to eccupy their new church, The Sabbath before Christmas Messrs. Carson and Willoughby—students at Lane Semi- nary—commenced a series of meetings in the Pres- byterian church at Goshen, which has resulted in twenty-eight conversions and additions to the church up to the 7th inst., when the young men re- turned to school. The meetings are continued by the church. CONGREGATIONAL, Rey. R. B. Howard's church, at Princeton, IIL, have adopted for the coming year the free seat and wee! offering system for the support of the Gos- Dr. Seeley, of Haverhill, Mass., has been rlough of six months for rest and recup- , and will sail immediately for Europe and the Holy Land, his people meeting his expenses. ‘The revival in Norwalk, Ohio, is now in its seventh week, and shows no sign of abatement. Over four hundred conversions are reported, Since its com- mencement fifty have united with the Congrega- tional Church. Rev. George Lyman has resigned the pastorate of the church at South Amherst. Rev. H. F. Dudley, of Morrisville, N. Y., has become astor of the Congregational church in Warsaw, . ¥.; Rev, W. O'Baidwin, of West Groton, N. J., has been called to labor with the churehes at Le Ri ; Rev, Jos. Chandler has left the Congregational church in West Brattle- boro, Vt.; Rev. George W. Kelley has become pas- tor of the church in Norway, Me.; Rey. William B. Stewart, at the close of his three years’ pastorate of the Congregational churcli at Spencerport, N. Y., soon to come, will return to the Presbyterian fold tn Rochester, whence he came. Rev. !saac Clark was installed pastor of the Elm_ place Congregational church, Brooklyn, on the 9th instant. Dr. Edward Taylor, of Binghamton, has received to the Congregational chureh of which he is pastor the past five years, 264 persons, 125 by profession; there have been accessions at every communion, There is @ revival in Middle Haddam, and upwards of forty converts were re- ceived into the church of which Rev, E. P. Herrick is pastor, on Sabbath, January 5, The Central church, Jamaica Plains, Mass., received twenty-one new members last Sabbath, among whom was the entire membership of the Presbyterian church at Boylston Centre, ten in number. This enterprise was originally a growth from the Central church, and they have continued to own the chapel which the Presbyterians leased from them when the organization came under their control, some months since, Rev. W. B. McWilliam, of Manches- ter, Engiand, has been invited to labor in Detroit, in a field occupied by the Ninth avenue mission, sustained jointly by Presbyterians and Congrega- tionalists. BAPTIST. The twenty Baptist associations in the State of Pennsylvania, containing 618 churches, show an aggregate membership o! 67,269, being @ decrease of goat from the previous year, caused by the sepa- ration of seven colored churches, with a member- ship of 3,484, from the Pmiladelphia association to join the Washington association. The large num- ber of 776 were excluded from church privileges during the year, while only 3,137 were received by baptism, A revival at White River, Ind., has brought thirteen persons into the church; at Bethel church, near Colambus, Ind,, seventeen have joined, and at Vernal church, near Biooming- ton, Ind., a revival is still in progress and severai have been converted. In Lower Providence church, Pennsylvania, six have been eonverted in a revival now progressing. In Linesville, Penn,, twenty-five have been baptized, and in Bridgeport, Penn,, six- teen have united with the churel fo the Fourth tist church, Philadelphia, a Friend, a Catholic and & Methodist were received by baptism # couple of Sundays aga. Protracted meetings are in pro- ess in the Baptist chureb in owe lay. v. J. H, Millard, Secretary of the Bap- tist. Union, England, saya that additions to the Baptista for ten years past have been greater in number than for ary previous ten years. Last Fri was kept as of humiliation and er by 4 Svring Dard in Baptist church, Philsdoloiia, ra ee, Hovey has resigned fe 0! mane {iss ‘church, Butler county, Pa.. to complete education, After February 1 Amana, Muddy Creek and Franklin churches will without pashan They thirteen miles apart. Rev. T. A. Keid, formerly @ missionary to Afriea, has become pastor of the Baptist church at Pine Blud, Ark. v. J. R. Gat has removed from Troy, Mo., to Roseld gr 9 enter on the missionary work in that district. Rev, F. Merriam has closed his pastorate with the Bap- tist church in Hanover, N. R., and accepted @ call to Danbury, Vt. Rev. EM. Haynes has resigned the torate of the First Baptist church in Lewiston, , to take effect the last of March. The Baptists of North Carolina are endeavoring to raise $100,000 for Wake Forest College. The amount contributed by Pennsylvania Baptists during the past yeaT, for religions purposes was $520,460. The Laight strect Mission—as the once Presbyterian church at the cor- ner of Laight ard Varick streets, New York, 1s now called by its Baptist occupants—has a flourisning Sabbath school, which has more than tre led its numbers within three months. Kev. James A. Mets, of Tom’s River, has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church of that place. The Rev. Hendrickson, pastor of the North Philadelphia, has resigned. | Rev. 0. has closed his labors with tne East Dover (Vt.) Baptist church, where he has been laboring for thirty years. Rev. J. V. K. Seeley, of Medina, Ohio, has accepted the cat! of. the Church at Clyde, Ohio. A new Baptist meeting house was dedicateu January 8 at Mexico, N.Y. Sermons were preached on the occasion by Rev. M. G. lurke, D. D., and Rev. I. Butterfield. thousand dollars were raised to iree the church from debt. The pastor is Rev. L. Muzzy. Rev. R. G. Seymour, pastor of the Ruggles street Baptist church, Boston, was elected chaplain of the Massa- chusetts House ’of Representatives last he Christian church at Little Rock have Bhanimansly called Rev. J. L. T. Holland to be their pastor. local paper speaks of him as “undoubtedly an orna- ment to the pulpit.’’ To our thinking there are far too many ornamental preachers in the pulpits of the ®land, A few practical and useful ones are greatly needed in these parts. Twenty-five converts bave united with the Baptist church in Norwalk, Ohio, a3 a result of the great revival there, MISCELLANEOUS. The Lutheran Church in America numbers 2,309 pastors, 4,115 congregations and 485,000 communi- cants, Last year were reported 2,175 pastors, 3,826 congregations, and 458,000 communicants. ‘There has been an increase during the year of 134 pastors, 289 congregations and 27,000 communicants. The fifth annual meeting of the Woman’s Board of Missions was held January 7 in Boston. The receipts of the year were $53,941; expenses, $33,846 ; balance in treasury for salaries of misstonaries under appointment, with donations and pledges from Constantinople Home, $20,005. There are 6,486 churches in the State of Ohio, including 295 Roman Catholic, capable of seating, in all, 2,054,386 peop! The “New Jerusalem” settlement, near Augusta, Ga., under the rule of Joseph Curry, the self-appointed ruler and prophet, from Massa- chusetts, has dwindled from 100 to eighteen per- sons. The Spanish revolution of 1868 opened the country to Protestants, and now there are 10,000 and about twenty native clergymen. The only Reformed church that has ever taken $1,000 at one collection for the Board of Domestic Missions is the First Church of Brooklyn. ‘This has just been done for the second time. There are in the United States 67,405 Orthodox Friends—a gain of only 755 within twenty years. The membership east of the Alle- ghanies has decreased 7,722, while in the West they have increased 8,477. In 1706 the first Jewish con- gregation was formed here, and in 1744 the first synagogue was built. In 1844 there were but four synagogues here, but ten years later there were twenty, and at prongs there are twenty-nine syna- gogues and places of worship in the city. There are 820 Jewish houses of prayer in the United States, The Day of Prayer for Colleges was changed two or three years since, by general con- sent, from the last Thursday in February to the last Thursday in January. At the communion season, held in Heidelberg church, Philadelphia, on the 30th inst., of which the Rey. W. C. Hendrickson is pastor, Sunday, the 5th inst., seventeen per- sons were added to the church. Public services are to be held in the South Reformed church, Fifth ave- nue, corner of Twenty-first street, every Tuesday afternoon, at half-past three o’clock. Next Tuesday Rev. Dr. Ormiston will preach. These week-day services are intended to deepen the im- pression made by the Week of Prayer. The North Reformed church of Passaic, N. J., organized four years ago, has since built a chapel and par- sonage and purchased a site for a church, all ata cost of $25,000, The congregation was for a time without a pastor, but Rev. C. D. Kellogg was recently installed over them. Rev. A. J. Park was installed pastor of the First Reformed charch, Jer- sey City, on January 12. Rev. J. B. Mills, of the American Peace Society at Boston, has sailed for Europe to arrange for an International Peace Con- gress. Rev. C. M. Tyler, of Chicago, accepts his call to the Reformed church in Ithaca, N.Y. With but one dissenting voice both church and congre- gation have voted to withdraw from Classis, that they may come into more aggressive church asso- ciations. Iceland, with 50,000 inhabitants, has 300 pastors of the Lutheran Church. The government pays their salaries, irom $20 to $300 per year. But the pastor does not devote all his time to ecclesi- astical duties; he is a farmer or blacksmith, or follows any business which may be open to him, “laboring with his own hands.” One pastor built his church at his own expense, because he received no salary while his people were destitute of a house. At a late communion season in the Im- manuel’s Reformed church at Williamsport, Pa., of which the Rev. A. J. Heller is pastor, thirteen persons were added to the church, At alate com- munion season held in Kittanning and Emlenton Mission, of which the Rev. L. B. Leasure is pastor, fourteen persons were udded to the church, a. for @ revival of religion amon; the chi . FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. Rev. Mr. Isaacs’ Septennial Birthday Talk—A Review of the Past and a Hope for the Future. The disagreeable weather yesterday deterred people from turning out to the synagogue and the attendance of worshippers was consequently very small indeed. Less than half a dozen ladies ventured out to Forty-fourthystreet and these, doubtless, were as much attracted by the fact that yesterday was the seventieth birthday of their munister, Rev. 8. M. Isaacs. Mr. Isaacs is an ex- ceedingig well preserved gentleman for his years and by action and looks he might be adjudged good for twenty years more. ‘that he may have a long and useful life is and must be the prayer of all who know him. In recurring to the event yesterday Mr. Isaacs was visibly affecwed. There are moments, he said, when the spiritual teacher and guide ofa congregation is perplexed to know what to do or what to say. Instead of exhorting his hearers he would have to exhort himself to- day, he remarked. And asa basis for this exhor- tation he read Psalm xc., 9, 10—‘“‘For all our days are passed away: * * * wespend our years asa tale thatis told. The days of our years are three- score and ten.” Ihave this day, said Mr. Isaacs, arrived at this age, and I thank God that I have lived to see this day. But how, he asked, could he properly praise the Lord for lengthening his years? He would endeavor to do So, he said, by acts and words of kindness and love in the future. PROGRESS OF JUDAISM IN NEW YORK. Thirty-five years ago, he remarked, he landed on the shores of the New World. There were then but three synagogues in this city. But small and feeble as the Jews were then the need of an Eng- lish preacher was felt, and the Congregation Shaaray Tefila called him to be their minister, The changes in wealth, population, &c., which have taken place in New York within these thirty-tive ears were then referred to, when Mr. saacs remarked that in those days Israel was one family. The people had not begun to follow novel- ties, But now they are divided. He traced the progress of the society to which he has minjstered irom its humble quarters successively ih Elm street, Franklin street, Thirty-sixth, and finally in their beautiful edifice, erected at great expense, in Fourty-fourth street. HAPPY MARRIAGES—NOT MIXED, During his ministry he had married 812 couples. but he had never officiated at a mixed marriage ceremony. He had also married the children of some parents whom he had married years ago. Last week he performed one such ceremony and next Wednesday he expected to perform a similar ceremony. He was glad to be able to say that not one of those couples whom he had married had been divorced, He had also coasecrated thirty- eight synagogues in different parts of the United States, including the first one ever built in the State of lilinois, He had also attended the fanerais of many great men, including that of the late President Lincoln, in company with many Christian ministers. His people could therefore readily un- derstand that he had not been idie during those thirty-five years of ministerial life. And his humble labors have been sought and appreciated by others than his own co-religionists as well as by them aiso. During all those years among them, in the words of the prophet Samuel, he asked whose ox had he stolen and whom had he defrauded? Let him now present his claim and he (Isaacs) will restore him four-told. He had endeavored to do his duty throughout his ministry in the past. But what should he say of the present? There is no resent. But then what of the tuture ? atchman, what of the night? As the congregation had In. their service opened a new volume to-day (Exodus) so had he opened a new volume in his life. He could not tell whether he would live to complete it or not. He would like to STAY A LITTLE LONGER HERR, but if God pleases to cali him he will trust to be ready. He may be sinful, to be sure, as there is no man who liveth aud sinneth not; but the mercies of God are great, ana he hoped in His mercy. He prayed that should he be soon or sudden’ away from them, God would send the peop! rue man after His own heart, who should guide them in the trath as they had been fn i) le pray also, that the congregation might adhere to the heritage of their fathers; but, whether they do so or not, as for himself and his house they will serve the Lord a8 their fathers served Him, and will leave the precious unim, to their children. He hoped they would not run atter novelties, but that they would keep the flock withia the fold and that the minister might do his duty toward them At all times, | He regretted the smallness Of te congregation, but pray: those Who were present and upon all others. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. prea kde “Leo and Lotos,” at Niblo’s, has proved a greater hit than was anticipated in the beginning, and It continues to draw excellent houses. Mr. Booth’s Brutus is one of his greatest parts, and the announcement that he 15 again to play che Sternest of Roman heroes ia full of pleasurable anticipations, The Vokes family have made another great hit in the Christmas pantomime at Drury Lane. It is an- nounced that when they return to New York next April they will bring with them several novelties and @ complete set of new costumes. The parts in “Alixe,” Mr, Daly's initial piece at his new theatre, are allotted to Miss Clara Morris, Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Fanny Merant and Miss Linda Deitz, and to Messrs, Charles Fisher, George Clarke, James Lewis and Louis James. The new spectacular piece, “Alhambra,” at the Olympic, has undergone considerable pruning, and the last act has been entirely remodelled, These ohanges were necessary to make the piece gencr- ally acceptable; but with them it is likely to have @ successful run. One of the features of Mr. Sothern’s “Brother Sam,” which stHl holds its place at Wallack’s, is the remarkably faultless English of the London fop. Lord Dundreary talks of Sam as in this coun- try, which will account for the fact that he can speak the language correctly. A complete transformation has been wrought in the new Fifth Avenue Theatre, and its appearance will surprise everybody who saw it as it was in former times. The proscenium boxes are large and handsome, and the French boxes at the rear of the house are better than those in the old Twenty-fourth street theatre. The parquet is well arranged, having been completely remodelled, and the dress circle 1s one of the prettiest in the city. From the family circle the view of the stage is as excellent as it is from any part of the house, and throughout the building is quite as cosey and in many respects much more comfortable than the burned theatre. The Italian Opera Company has been much more successful in Boston than the managers antici- pated. It was supposed the late disastrous fire in that city would have a bad effect; but not only was the first performance of the season attended by a fashionable and crowded audience, but almost every succeeding one has been the same. Pauline Lucca has literally captured the Bostonians, The press, without exception, mentions both her vocal and dramatic powers in the highest terms, and at the opera she has received plaudits and bouquets enough to satisfy any prima donna. When leaving Boston the company will go to Hartford and Provi- dence, and then, perhaps, to Chicago and other Western cities, expecting to return to New York the latter part of February or beginning of March. A grand comedy and musical entertainment is to take place at the Terrace Garden Theatre, in Fifty- ninth street, on Wednesday evening, the 29th of January, for the benefit of the poor of the Dominican church in Lexington avenue. Mr. Augustin Daly has given permission to some of the members of his company to appear in the play of ‘Married Life.” The concert follows, in which a number of well known artists are to participate, among them Miss La Mara, Miss Isabella Stone, Miss Mattie Lynden, Mr. Bonawitz, Mr. William McDonald, Mr. B, Mol- lenhauer, Mr. Frank Bartlett and Signor Poalichi. Mr. George W. Colby is to be the conductor. The management toa great extent devolves upon Mr. J. W. Morrissey, of the Grand Opera House, and the entertainment can scarcely fail tobe a very great success, The long-promised French piece, “Le Centenaire,” will be produced at the Union Square Theatre on Wednesday evening, the 29th of January, under its English title of “One Hundred Years Old.” This piece was produced at the Théatre Ambigu, in Paris, on the 19th of October, and will not be with- drawn there till the end of this month. It is the Play in which M. Lafont, the veteran actor, now seventy-five years of age, made his great hit in the part of Jacques Fauvel, the centenarian. Mark Smith will play M. Lafont’s part at the Union Square, and Mr. Mackay will also have a good char- acter part. Mr. Mackay has shown himself a very clever character actor, some of his conceptions— especially the Prefect of Police in “Agnes” and Lord Atherley in “Atherley Court’—being fine to the point of exquisiteness. ‘Atherley Court” will be played the dast time on Tuesday evening, the 28th instant. Immediately following ‘One Hundred Years Old,’ Louis Leroy’s jolly little comedy-drama, “Cousin Jack,” will be produced at this theatre, ART MATTERS. MR. WALLER’S STUDIO. Mr. Frank Waller, who has lately returned from along sojourn in Egypt and Italy, and whose stu- dio may be found at room No. 7, 806 Broadway, has brought with him mere than a dozen interesting pictures, most of which represent scenes charac- teristic of Egyptian life and landscape. Two of his most prominent and attractive pieces of work are “The Tombs of the Caliphs” and a careful piece of composition offering a scene on the Niie. In the first mentioned effort the hour is evening, and the mosque of Mehemet Ali is discernible in the dis- tance. In the second painting are observable those slender minarets that are first encountered 200 miles above Cairo, and which belong to a differ- ent order of architecture from that found in and around that city. This second picture teems with warm and brilliant light and rich color, and reproduces that languid temper which inheres to the climate of the lotos. A third picture also bears the title of “The Tombs of the Caliphs.”’ Jt presents some of the modern as Well as the antique tombs, is noticeable for the intense quiet blue of its firmament, abounds with those graceful turrets which, with their Oriental traditions, are so lithe, resilient and picturesque, and indicates a fragment of the highway piodded over by the fre- quent Arab, A fourth picture reproduces the causeway at Siout, which presents the overflew of the Nile and affords a background for the contras- pot Late! of the sycamore and tamarisk. A work whic! inence which Eg pcan to itis an “Kastern Sunset,” in whicn the sky holds all the light, and the lower portions are enveloped in the deep, cold shadows which at the hour ef twilight are the pe- culiarity of so many Eastern landscapes. Besides these finished pictures, which base their material upon Egyptian scemery, Mr. Waller's studio is afluently nooked with studies taken on the Nile, and awaiting opportunity to be used in more serious compostion. Among other of his labors that are worth mentioning are two views on the Arno, near F.orenc: The Public Gardens, Venice;” “Lake Maggiore and isola de’ Piscatori;” a “Coast Scene near Boulogne, France ;” a “View upon St. Lazare, Venice,’ and “Mont Blanc, near Geneva, at Sunset.’ The two views upon the Arno give the Bridge of Santa Trinita trom different points of view, In the larger and finished painting are visible the Casina, the house where Napoicon’s treacherous mistress lived and the Orsini Palace, ‘The canvas oifering the gardens at Venice is crowded with luxuriant color, palpitating in that radiant light in which Mr. Waller evidently revels. The “Lake Maggiore’ is not so successful, being comparatively cold and tame. In the “Coast Scene near Boulogne” the sad and solemn sentiment of the scene is repro- duced with many felicitous touches, and is the more grateful for being im striking contrast to the sensu- ous enjoyment and self-satisfied dreaminess which are expressed, directly er indirectly, in so many of Mr. Waller's ether pictures. In the “Sunset at Mont Blanc” the Miapression of melancnoly and loneliness is relieved by the chaste and tender gleams which bathe the foreheads of the distant Summits. Mr. Waller, who has been absent from the city for seme years, intends presently to return to Egypt, there to pursue those studies the initiatory stages in which have already filled his stadio so fall of pieasant specimens, The impressien he gives us Is that ef being a conscien- does not holdin Mr. Waller’s studie the prem- | tieus and enthusiastic student, with a feeling for | what is éither sensuous or sombre, but always re- maining refined and pure. nove dlelier adjoins that of Mr. . Bristol, whose waller, has on hand five pictures, all of which differ widely from one another, ‘and four of which are absolutely new. These four area “View from Sabbath Day Point, Lake George ;” another pic- ture, giving the same scene from a different point of observation ; “Tongue Mountain, Lake George,” and “Long Isiand Sound, near New Rochelle.” ‘The first brims with brilliant light and those soft, vanishing tints which fascinate scrutiny, because they continually Its companion is rather a dy a picture, is less poetic, and devold of the soit colorin and dazzling briiliancy upon which we have jus po ead a 2 Meret lh ae the others as cor wel |, represen’ ing, a8 it does, a mountain shrouded in massive age with @ solitary craft creeping over the tide- water, and s clear but solomn and unbrilliant sky. In “Long Island Sound Near New Rochelle,” of Fe mimore Coo} ied it. A clump ef foliage in the middie ot ¢ e a icture stands for the spot which once empowered cot- tage of the great American novelist, We do not believe Mr. Bristol has any other five pictures bet- ter representative of his talent, . AMBRICAM ABPUNS 18 S4508, pons American male artists stuaying im idgar Ward, Bacon, Bard, Gozlin, Deve- reaux, Larpenveur, Enoch Wiatt Eaton, S, W. Van Schaick, Charlies Dyer and Love. Edward May has lived in Paris for twenty years; Healy ia in the vicinity of Paris; Bridgeman is in Spain, and Wiley and Swift are in Brittany. Among successful female students in Paris are Kate Cameron, of Western New York; Miss E. J. Gardner, of New '* Hampshire; and Mrs, Robinson Morrell, well known in Washington society. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. A Coniovs ForTacomina Book on early Amoert- can history and customs 1s Mr. John B. Dillon’s “Historical Compendium of Early Remarkable \ Laws Enacted in the English Colonies on the Sub- Jects of Religion, Morals, Education, Lands, Slavery, Indians,” &c. Tag ENTIRE CoryriauTs which Frederick vom Schiller, the great German poet, received for his works during his life time fell short of fitteem thousand dollars, PRESIDENT THEIRS received for his historical works, during his long literary career, eighteen prizes, amounting to nearly three hundred thou- sand francs, FRANCOIS GurzoT in engaged upon a book on mi- nority representation. THE EPIDEMIC OF VERSE-MAKING, which @ year ago threatened to absorb almost all the Italian literary world, has changed to more solid and use- ful works in the last few months. Scientific and classical works, historical literature, art and the- ology divide the attention of the best writers of Italy between them. A FRENCH BOHEMIAN has written a book entitled “The Suicide’s Manual.” He enumerates tho re- markable suicides chronicled in history, and sug- gests to his readers humerous methods by which they may take their lives without suffering any pain. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, the Danish poet, is almost totally blind, his left side is paralyzed, and = 4 he is, moreover, & confirmed hypochondriac. His °‘ dissolution is expected at an early day. M. PH. OHASLES, Paris correspondent of the Atheneum, sums up the net results of French lite- rary activity for the year 1872 as ‘“unsatisfactery, sterile and unattractive.” No new men of talent have arisen, and the old writers have been plying their old trade unheeded by the public, who are em- grossed in what is called politics. ’ ‘THE SENSATION TALEs published in certain Ameri- can journals are regularly issued in French trans- lations by Parisian publishers, who sell them im volumes, at one franc each. GERMANY Has Now eleven periodicals printed in the English language. PLATO was not @ facile writer, but the finished diction of his dialogues was the fruit of protracted labor. Up tothe age of eighty he continued to cer- rect and new mould the language of his writings, and @ notebook was found after his death in which he had written the opening sentences of the “Re- + public’ several times over in a different order, M. PAULIN Pais has issued an essay on the origin of the Holy Graal. He contends that the legend sprang from the apocryphal gospel of Nico- demus; that Joseph of Arimathea’s bones were stolen from the abbey of Moieumoutier and brought to Glastonbury, where Arthur was also buried; that Joseph’s dish of the Last Supper was woven into the Arthur legends; and that Walter Map, at the request of Henry the Second, wrote the ro- mance of Joseph of Arimathea, or the Graal, which set up Joseph as the first Christian bishop, in order to place England on a level with Rome, and sv help Henry in his struggle with the Pope. Mr. Witt1aM R. Briss has produced a timely little book entitled, “Paradise in the Pacific,” which Sheldon & Co. will print. EpMonp Axovt’s ‘‘Rouge-et-Noir, a tale of Baden- Baden,” has been translated and will be brought out by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. GENERAL CLUSERET declares that he will never return to the United States; but he is at work upon a book of reminiscences of nis life in this country which will doubtless be romantic in more senses than one. HERR STRavss, the German leader and composer, is writing humoreus letters about his adventures in the United States, to the Pesther Lloyd, a Hun- garian journal. AS AN EXAMPLE of change of tastes in literature, that intolerably langutd book, Sidney's “Arcadia,” was universally read and eulogized at the time of its publication in folio, nearly three hundred years ago. QUAINT AND QUEER OLD SAMUEL Prpys thus records a book purchase he made when collecting for his library, under date of April 15, 1667:—"I to my new bookseller’s and there bought ‘Hooker's Polity,’ the new edition, and ‘Dugdale’s History of the Inns of Court,’ of which there was but afew saved out of the fire, and ‘Playford’s New Catch- book,’ that hath a great many new fooleries init.” The latter was a volume of sdngs set to music, BENJAMIN D, EMERSON, one of the compilers of §, these highly profitable school books, “Emerson's Arithmeties,”” died recently at Jamaica Plains, Mass., leaving about $250,000, of which $100,000 goea_ to Dartmouth College—a netable instance of piling up a fortune in arithmetical ratio. WASHINGTON IRVING’s great delight was to read in the open air. “Come and see me,’’ wags his ex- pressive invitation to a friend, “and I'll give youa book and a tree.” Miss MITFORD, who wrote her books for the sup- port ofa poor and queralous and spendthrift in- valided father, thus bitterly spoke of her lot:— I would rather serve in @ shop, rather scour floors, rather nurse children, than undergo these tremendous and interminable disputes and this unwomanly publicity, * * * Iam now chained to a desk eight, ten, twelve hours a day at mere drudgery. All my thoughts of writing are for hard money. ARE THE BLIND PROTEOTED FROM FIRES? The Terrible and Possible Tragedy which Might Attend a Conflagration in a Blind Asylum—Why not Have Engines on the Spot? The following communication, which has been ¢ sent to the HERALD by one of its readers, contains a good deal of forcible and pathetic suggestions of what might happen if the freaks of fire were at some time to be directed by the terrible unseen influence of fate against the safety of the inmates of some of our asylums for the blind. It is the father of a sightless child who speaks :— New York, Jan. 17, 1873, To THE EpiTor or THE HERALD: When disaster befalls it generally follows with, many “ifs.” “If such or such a thing would have been done it would not happened.” But I approve of your remark, which I have read many times in the HERALD, ‘Prevention is better than cure.” It is true, especially at this time, when the tre fiend plays his game so ea a Now, Mr. Editor, what would be the result if (God forbid!) Among Paris are c ~ a fire shout happen at the Institution, for the Blind, where there are about two hundred inmates. I shudder when I think of such @ possibility, May the Lord have mercy on the poor children in their darkness! As prevention is better than cure, as you say, don’t you think, Mr. Editor, it wottd be advisable to establish an engine station on the very grounds where the institution is? There ts plenty of room. , If you are of the same opinion as I am please use your mighty pem on the subject, and by doing so You will obli THE FATHER OF A BLIND CHILD. OTHE LONG ISLAND INCENDIARISM. Capture of the Alleged RuMfian in Ho- boken. A telegram from the police of Long Island, where several house burnings have taken pli was re- ceived by Chief Donovan yesterday, requesting the capture of a notorious incendiary with several hames, A young man fully answering the descrip, 4 tion was soon “nabbed,” and locked up for hes 2 He gave the name.of Gustave Heilley, and acknowl- edges having resided on Long isiand. In posse on two dirk-knives were found. It is perea he 4 the en who 80 ge | 3 “lous jouses and pro} some time Inland, He will ve transferred to Brooklyn to-day