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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. "RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. PULPIT EXERCISES TO-DAY. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. alled “Holy Men” After the Corruptions -of Rome. A “Rationalist” Replies to a “Non-Catholic.” 18 CHRISTIANITY A FALSEHOOD? Rev. Dr. Deems and the Church of the Strangers. Episcopal Cathedral on Vancouver’s Island. Services To-Day. Rev. William H. Pendleton preaches at the morn- dng and evening services, in the church corner of Fifty-third street and Seventh avenue. Bishop Snow holds forth im the University, at three o'clock P, M. In the Bleecker street Universalist church, Rev. ©. ©. Sweetser discusses at the morring service, “The Test of Christianity,” and at the evening ser- vice, “The Universalist’s Idea of God.” Rev. Robert Cameron holds morning and evening services in the Baptist church, Seventeenth street. Rev. Henry Powers discourses on “Prayer” at the morning service in the Church of the Messiah. Rey. Russell Bellows preaches at the evening service. Rev. Frederick Evans preaches morning and evening at the Central Baptist church. Rev.;Dr. Flagg conducts morning and evening services in the Church of the Resurrection. Rev. W. 0. Dawson preaches at, the morning and evening services in the Christian church, Rev. Dr. Cuyler will be the preacher at the dedi- cation service (morning) at the Memorial Presby- terian church, in Madison avenue. Mra. Alderdice speaks at the evening services in ‘the Eleventh street Methodist Episcopal ehurch. Professor Curr, Rev. G. J. Murquies and Edward ‘Eggleston address the Seventeenth street Baptist school at two o'clock P. M. Rev. Dr. Ewer continues his Sunday evening lec- ‘tures at St. Ignatius’ enurch, Rev. Dr. Fairbairn explains, in the Chapel of St. @Mhrysostom, how “The Church 1s the Educator of ‘Her Children.” Rey. Halsey W. Knapp preaches in the Laight street Baptist church at the morning and evening Bervices, Rev. George H. Hepworth, at Steinway Hall, dis- ‘cusses the subject of “Halting Between Two Opinions” at the morning service, and debates on “Christ and the World” at the evening service. At the evening service in the Church of the Holy Trinity tne Rev. Stephen H. Tyng,'Jr., gives his ‘views on ‘‘Preachers an@Preaching for the People.” Rev. J. W. Barnhart conducts services morning and evening in the old Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church. Rey. E. Borel preaches at a morning service (French Reformed) in Association Hall. Full choral service as usual in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Bishop Clark preaches in Calvary church at the ‘morning service, and addresses the Sunday school f the chureh in the afternoon. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., speaks at the morning and evening services in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rev. M. Dunnell holds service in Ali Saints’ Epis- copal church morning and evening, Rev. P. L. Davies preaches in the Berean Baptist church at the morning and evening services. In the University chapel, at the evening service Rev. Dr. Cheever contrasts God’s love and mercy in Christ with the cruelty and fatalism of natural devotion. Rev. Dr. Brown preaches in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church at the morning service.and Rev, ©. 3. Harrower at the evening service, Rev. Dr. Gillette discourses in the Plymouth Bap- tist church at the morning and evening services, Mrs. Stoddard and Master Hough give a séance this evening at Republican Hall. ry Rev. G. M. McCampbell preaches at the morning service in the Spring street Presbyterian church, Rev. W. T. Egbert gives advice to young men at ‘the evening service in the Wainwright Memorial church. ‘i Rev. G. Swift discourses in the Sixth avenue Re- formed church at the morning and evening ser- -vices. “Z amd Three Other Holy Men”—After the Corruptions of Rome. To mE Epiror or THE HERALD:— The HERALD of last Monday chronicles a dis- course delivered the Sunday previous, by*a rev- erend gentleman, in a fashionable Protestant meeting house up town, the amount of which, the report states, was ‘‘a flerce diatribe against the Roman Catholic Church.” To convince his hear- ers of the feasibility of his arguments the reverend gentleman related his experience of Catholicity during aresidence in Mexico, where, he modestly remarks, “land three other holy men found the country seething with the corruption of Rome,” This plan of argument never benefits an assailant or his cause. We would think it strange indeed were a foreigner to hold up our American consti- tution to contempt, and illustrate tts workings Only by what he had gleaned from our police courts and criminal records, ‘The condition of religion in Mexico, South Amer- ica and Cuba, owing to the distracted state of these countries, and the Church being entirely under the control of shifting and irresponsible governments, has Jong been a source of sorrow to every sincere Catholic from the Sovereign Pontiff down. tt cannot ‘be denied that years of civil war has degenerated the Mexican people into a sort of nation of brigands, ruled by uuscrupulons adventurers hostile to reli- go and morality, under whose tyranny the Church as cruelly suffered, Her bishops are powerless, as they cannot, without government per- mission—which is seldom granted—exercise their mght to reprimand, silence or pub- lcly excommunicate a recreant or bad priest, who, amid civil strife and contact with de- moralizea, desperate men, may fall away from grace, oftentimes to become a tool of the party in power by whom they retain their position in direct opposition to their bishop. It was such a state of things as this which brought the late saintly Arch- bishop of Mexico with sorrow to his grave and has banished his successor into exile. Yet, with all these terrible drawbacks, there are good, pious Catholics and priests, too, even im Mexico, ith such, however, our holy iriend (he must be holy, as we have it from the highest authority—himsel!) had nothing te do—there was no no-Popery capi- tal there—his business was with the self-excommu- Dicated, drinking, cock-fighting padre; no matter whether he cut offirom the Church by living in direct op) ition te her commands and teach. ings or not, his priestly garb and name answered pd) yg of our holy friend and his three com- But why did the holy man travel out of his way to study Catholicity in Mexico when he might have done 60 in his own free land, where religion is un- trammelied by the State? Wexico is not the Catho- Ue Church, nor the Catholic Church Mexico. If he Sincerely seeks truth, let him study the Church and her priesthood throughout the United States, in France, Beigium, Holland, England or in Ireland, Where his ancestors came from: He will not find the Catholic clergy scavengers of religion, raking ‘up mire to cast at their separated brethren. In- stead of prostituting their pulpits to uncharitable diatribes against Protestantism, or sensational ais- courses on boiler explosions, gold panics or Tam- any rings, he will find them preaching peace and will to man, toiling unceasingly for the wel- lare of their flocks and the good of society, If the Catholic Church is what this holy man in tis Chris- tan Zeal would make us belive, how is it that so many, from every shade of Protestantism, are dally seeking peace and refuge within her bosom, in ™ eases relinquishing position and worldly ? We would also ask our holy friend to what part of the corruptions of Rome do the devoted Sisters Charity, Sisters ot Merey, Christian Brothers and ail other sel lig “men, and women belong to, who the love of God aaylume, hospitats, protectotien, homes asylums, ies, homes for the aged, Houses of the Good Shepherd, ers in condemned cells, and countless other ways of charity and usefulness, which our holy traveller from Mexico seems never.to havi ? Our hol friend should . study thecstboiate. confine aw self to showing the truths and benefits of his own faith, it he has any, and leave neighbors to take care of theirs. Fierce dia: inst the Christian Church are worse than usei 3 may tend to make the ignorant and bigoted stii more so, but ey will aeror ae ‘an intelli- n' jous testant, wi fru 5 Pine Church toe withstood diafribes, great and small, for nearly nineteen hundred years, and though at this day persecuted at all points, is atill as young and vigorous and indestructible as when her divine founder promised ected s all di even to the consnmmatio! be snk "A CATHOLIC SUBSCRIBER, al 382 7% Christianity a Falsehood and a Fatlaret To THs EpiTor oy THE HERALD:— Fecling an interest, in common with otner mem in things pertaining to the human soul and its sup- posed existence beyond the grave, we listened very complacently last Sunday to a discourse by Bishop Snow upor “‘Romanism—what God will soon do with it,” and we must say in justioe that it was a Very candid admission by one of the great mag. nates of the Church that Christianity itself is a falsehood and a failure. Being neither an advo- cate nor an enemy of the cause it was designed to promote,we can express our opinion untrammeiled, and say with Beecher—this is indeed ‘an age of athi ” nor wonder that the Christian cause deolines, while guch “sermons” condemn and re- vile ‘the children ef the devil’ and ‘brutes in human form’ the greater part of its followers and its friends. If the Church of Rome, then, which comprises two-thirds of the hristian world, is in reality the “creation of the devil’ ‘anti-Christian and un- godly,” what, in the name of common sense, re- Mains of Christianity? Nothing! It is insignifi- cant, below contempt. But while Protestantism condemns the great Church of the Popes, that Church itself is equally sweeping in its denuncia- tion of “the conflicting sects of the Reformation.” Thus we see Christianity roving itself an impost- tion and a.sham; and yet its champions claim to be the world’s greatest benefactors, while they are, indeed, its greatest enemies! Their great aim in life isto man an enemy to his fellow man and en- tail upon him war, misery and all the ills of mutual hate, in the mistaken Sane hat they are helping the cause of Christ, when t! ig are in reality doing it an irreparable injury. Christianity to-day can count within its dominions but one-third of the human race. The great evils it has practised and the dissensions it has established among men have justly condemned it in the estimation of the world, ore} Hy Progress has been correspondingly re- But this is an Bee of reason In which we live, and “toleration” is the watchword /of the masses, On every side we see signs of theught and progress, In Rome the Fone ceases to be a political ruler, but remains the spiritual chief ef a great Church, a change which will be ne injury, but a great service to the Churoh ef Rome. In Irelam see the Church of Britain disestablished, a great triumph for liberal Protestantism and the cause of religious ireedom. These things prove to tke reflecting mind that priests and preachers have ever been the enemies of Yrue religion, Hoping that my words will make some impression on the men who would make God a merciless demon, suppress the nobler sentiments of human nature and forget that To err is haman, To forgive divine, Tam, in sincerity, A SEEKER AFTER TRUTH. Rev. Dr. Deems and the Church of the Strangers. To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Appreciating your well-known liberality on all questions of either religion or mere theology, and knewing that, in your Monday’s columns, are usu- ally to be found reports of sermons delivered by priests of all denominations, I have been surprised, in reading the HERALD, never to have seen even a résumé ef one of the sermons of the Rev. Dr. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers. Dr. Deems’ ‘sermons, which are not the moral lectures into which many clergymen are degenerating, but ser- mons in the best and truest sense of the word, will stand, I think, the test of print, and bear that repetition, in black and white, which many & preacher's words—shorn of the imagery of man- ner, the charm of expression and the pathos of elo- cution will not. He preaches the sultable doctrine of Christ crucified. The redemption of the world through the human incarnation of the Son of God the keynote to his religion; but there is pot a question of the day bearing upon Christian faith, not an ism attacking it covertly or openly, net a doubt raised by the growing and insidious scientitio theories of the age, nota floating fancy ef incre- dulity possible to the human mind that Dr. Deems 1s not fully Pe to cope withal. Not oniy does he employ that emineat but easily managed weapen of controversy, a sublime scorn, but striking the disbelief, the dim doubt or the flaunt- ing philosophy at its reet, he—in all kindness, and with @ most thorough knowledge of the human heart in all its subtlest workings—convinces his hearers not solely by a series of rhetorical plati- tudes calculated te melt the heart, but by direct appeals to men’s brains, of whatever calibre—not through the senses to the mentality, but convincing both at once, firmly, gently, powerfully, I have ventured to call your attention thus at length, believing that the sermons of Dr. Deems, through your columns, woul@ reach a large number and delight them in perusal, as they certainly do the crowded congregations that greet him on Sunday, morning and evening, in the Church of the Strangers. M. #. A. The Pope and His Encmies—Reply to “A Un-Liberal Catholic.” To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:—- I have been constantly interested in the free discussions on religious questions to which every week you concede several columns of your valu- able paper, and having noticed the impartial equity with which you accept the answers of per- sons differing from the ideas of some of your cor- respondents, I hope you will equally allow me to express my opimion in regard to an article which appeared in your last Sunday's edition, under the heading, “The Pope outliving his enemies; will he bury them all?’ Poor indeed 1s the triumph of which the “Un- liberat Catholic” boasts, and if of that he is satis- fled I can easily afford te let him peaceably enjoy it, but in so doing 1 could not hear him so speak of men who have given a new impulse to the progress and enlightenment of this glorious century—those genius alone, helped by the unabated thought that they were fighting jor the noble principles of liberty and truth; their voices were heard; the people comprehended them and raised their brows so long kept down; the-physical and moral chains ‘of slavery, after centuries, were shaken, and all ior the courage and genius of those men. What if they are now dead? Shall we not all die? But know, “Uniineral Catholic,” that, dead as they are, Cavour, Mazzini and Palmerston have left behind them maxims and ideas which spread like the wind; ideas divided no more by a few men, as they were then, but by thousands and Intilions of people. You say the cemeteries of pd Milan and Rome, and you might have added the fields of Montana, have marked the death of many a liberal man; but by the present State of things you should have seen that from each of those tombs has sprung a legion of liberais as dangerous as the first were. If the Pope still lives, long may he live yet! nor will you find one of the followers of Mazzini and Garibaldi to wish for his death. It was liberty that they wanted, and now they have it. But what seems still more Striking to me is that in your enumeration of dead enemies of the Pope you should name Napoleon Ill. 1 perfectly agree with you that he has been the emperor of hypoerit but how an enemy of the Pope? Was it not through his doings that after the glorious victory of Solferino was retarded the day of redemption for young Italy with the signing of that nefarious treaty of Villa- franca, where the Italian government was bound hot to touch Rome? Was it not him that in 1867, when a few but courageous trtote tried to capture Rome so much longed by all the Itatians, which sent his merce- nary soldiers to try for the first time on almost unarmed youths the power of newly- invented Chassepots? Say, rather, that his jail has caused your own “unliberal Catholic,” and you will be nearer the truth. Know that all Europe has opened her eyes. aM lient approval of the occupation of Rom expulsions of Jesuits Ought to be more thi juMicient to prove it, The death of a few leaders of the liberal movements 13 nothing when they leave us deeds and maxims so ape They did not die like beggars or wretches, jut peaceably and contented they fed to their eter- nal home, after having witnessed the victory ef the principles which had been the only and constant purpose of their life. They died honored and re- spected by their fellow countrymen not only, but Lad eutire civilized world—immortalized with statues and monuments in mourning of their death and memory of their names. The Italian Kingdom Pod better King) and ministers may die and the jpe survive them, but the “hopes that the dark days which are over him may be dispelled for- ever.” Under the circumstances you must excuse me, but cannot BY condivided by RATIONALIST, Christian Taste in the Pulpit. To THR EpITOR OF THE HERALD :— Reading the HeraLp Jast Monday morning I Noticed that in the sermons preached in our city on the previous day no word was said of the late and unfortunate ex-Emperor Napoleon. Have tho who had to fight ignorance and tyranny with their | * tists of achers come to thé wise conclusion that itis tter to say noll of an individual when they cannot speak well of him? If so, we uoght to rejoice to see such @ reform those who pro- ope to teach charity and love, Ww persons go church to be told of the acts of men who have earned for themselves universal cenxure. The proper mediums to record such things are our jaily papers. The HERALD publishing the sermons every Monday has given a er tone to the pulpit and @ chance for preachers to Namigalenn i — $ —_—_— Religious Revival in This City, New York, Jan. 25, 1873. ‘To THE EpITor op Taz HeRaLp:— Please publish that quite a revival is existing in the 8; » and that thirtg-ata persons wil ualee with the ehuroh. to: morrow aiternoon. CEM A Now Episcopal Cathedral at Victoria, ve i A new Episcopat Onthedral has been recently Gonseorated at Victoria, Vancouver Island. Victoria at one time, during the Fraser River gold excitement, it was thought would become a rival to San Francisco in population and wealth, When the Hudson Bay Company went out of existence and Governor Douglas was succeeded by Captain Kennedy the colony was erected into a bishopric, and Dr, Hills was sent out from England to Mill tho See. The inhabitants dwindied away, the place lost its importance and is now rarely mentioned in commercial or other circles, Miss (uow Baroness) Burdett Coutts contributed largely to sustain the new bishopric; but the church, owing to the oir- cumstances stated, continued in a feeble condition. However, @ oathedfal has been and an extraordinary scene took p! casion of its dedication to divine worshi, deacon Reece preached and warmly advocated the adoption of ritualism, with all its forms and ceremonies, He said the Church of England had been cold and dead for over a hundred years, and Predicted its further decay, unless ritualism was generally eels The Archdeacon’s remarks, we are told, were not well received and the con- gioustion exhibited evident signs of dissatisiac- ion, At the conclusion of the sermon Dean Ridge came forward and disowned the doctrines put forth by his ecclesiastical superior. He stated that he had been seventeen zene in the ministry and it was the first time he had heard such remarks. He could not help raising his protest against such doctrines, They were wrong, and he would not again sit quietly and listen to their expression. The congregation, seemingly forgetting the sacrea character of the place, gave vent to their feolings by clopping and stamping and the ladies retired recipitately from the building. The Archdeacon, jowever, continucs fo preach, Ministerial Movements. < ROMAN OATHOLIO, The Catholics of Flanders have invited, through “the Catholic Association ef Ghent,” the Jesuit Fathers exiled from Germany to take up their abode in their midst. They protest against the expulsion of the Jesuits from Italy and Germany, and publicly offer them their heartfelt sympathy and respect. Father Leineweber, of Munich, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for protesting publicly against the odious prohibition recently made by the Bavarian government to boys and young men, preventing their serving at mass. The diocese of Ghent, Flanders, during the past year sent over two hundred and ninety thousand francs to the Holy Father as its offering to Peter's pence. All the churches of Florence celebrate masses for the Holy Father and the uitimate triumph ofthe Church. Each Saturday the Archbishop him- self says mass at ten o’clock at the Annunziata, and that church, a very large one, is scarcely ca- pable of containing the crowd of persons of every class which flocks thither to testuy by their pres- ence their affection for the Supreme Pontiff and his cause. His Holiness has written an autograph let- ter to Her Majesty the Queen of Wallis Island, in Oceanica, in which he sends that sovercign his benediction and thanks for hér noble efforts for thie propagation of the Catholic faith. The Rev. James O’Beirne, for twenty years pastor of St. Michael's, Flushing, takes his place this week as pastor of St. John’s, ‘Twenty-first street and Fifth avenue, Seuth Brooklyn. Father sheridan is meeting with every success on his new mission, Already he has col- lected quitea sum of money, thus liquidatang a great part ofthe Roslyn churchdebt, His lanhasset Churek treasury is in a flourishing condition, Tne Fathers of the Congregation of St. Paul, Filty-ninth street, have opened a mission at ‘eresa’s church in Rutgers street, Father Boyce, pastor. The missionaries are Revs. Fathers Young, Dwyer, Searle, Hill, Rosecrans and Brady. The mission will centinue two weeks. Rev. Father De Amet, 8. J., writes that his health is being steadily re- stored and he hopes soen to be at work again, The Pope has received, through Rey. Thomas McGovern, of York, Pa., in the form of Peter’s pence, the ag- gregate sum of $161 80, in small si arying trom ten cents to ten dollars. One donor, having no American ceig,to give, gave 37f, 60c. The Jesnits have fallen into“Uisfavor in San Salvador, South America. Recently they forbade the purchase or perusal of a book published against the Order, and the result was that the government published and circulated the missive under its ewn direction throughout the country. On Sunday, Jan 12, Bishop Domenec, of Pittsburg, blessed three bells tor the Benediction Abbey church, The largest, weighing 2,500 pounds, is called “Maria de Immaculata Conceptione ;” the second, 1,500 pounds, “St. Benedict ;” the third, 1,000 Pouide “St. Schol- astica.” The feast of St. Boniface is iikely to be celebrated with higher honors in future by the Church than heretofere. The omar of Cologne, in replying to the address of the English Episcopate to that oj Germany, sereents the Archbishop of Westminister and his sui ans to join the German bishops in a petition to the Holy See that the Feast of St. Boniface should be kept throughout the Church as a double, and that it should be celebrated in England, the toy of his birth, as in Germany, the theatre of his apostleship. The Archbishop has joined in this petition in his own name and that of is suffragans, The Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Chariesten, 8. C., is tolecture this evening in St. Stephen's Church, Carroll street, near Hicks, Brooklyn, He has chosen for his subject the telling one “Bismarck aud the Catholic Church.” Father Rie new church is the worthy object of the lecture. BAPTIST. An exchange says there is a Baptist church in Indiana whose members represent more than $100,000 in wealth, and hog pay their pastor $150 a year for “onc't-a-month’” preaching. A Mission- ary Cenvention will be held in Philadelphia, com- mencing Tuesday evening, Febru: il. early one-half of the church members of Richmond, Va.. are dines During the last five years the Bap- Petersburg, Va., have doubled their mem- bers. The Rev. Dr. Lathrop, of Stamford, preached last Sunday in the Baptist Tabernacle, of this city, to the great pleasure of his former parishioners. The Baptists of Calvert, Texas, arete erect a fine church soon. The Baptist Weekly facetiously Suggests that some of the churches who desire to increase their congregations resort to the modern method of religious newspapers to increase their circulation, by offering chromos for hearers, as publishers do for readers. Better still if they put the pictures in their sermons, Las Tuesday and ednesday the Baptist Sunday School Association of Philadelphia celebrated its seventh anniversary. The fiity-sixth anniversary of the Sunday school connected with the Madison Avenue Baptist Church Was observed on Thursday last. After two years of severe struggle for existence the Park street Baptist church of Detroit has become merged into tke First church and disbanded their own organization. They separated at the first on account of trifling differences of opinion. Rey. J. Matthews, late pastor of the Park street society, is now acting paster for the united body. Rev. Dr. Johnson, creiale'y of the Western branch of the Baptist Bible and Publication Society, is visiting this region, stirring up the people here to a deeper interest in this werk. ° , Revivals are reported in the First Baptist church of Pittston, Pa., where twenty-eight have recently been added to the church, And the work is going on with increasing power and interest. The Baptist church in Poultney, Vt., has been greatly revived recently under the preachin of Rey. A. T. Dunn, a student of Hamil- ton Theological Semtnary. Thirty-five have been = adde to the church, more are awaiting baptism, and stil! others are inquiring the way of salvation. The Baptist church at Gales- ville, Ill,, has received within three months past seventeen, by baptism and by letter, The work is still going on, Key. B. P. Dulin has recently been Pies Fd eight different churches in Fauquier, oudon, Prince William and Fairfax counties, Va. and reports eighty conversions. In the ptist church in Westerly, R. I., there are indications of a gregiens revival; in Hubbard, Ohio, Rev. John jurke, pastor, has received fourteen by baptism and profession of faith since the week of prayer, and the revival is still prostemee, A growing re- vival interest is reported among the students in the Fenton Seminary, Michigan, of whom there are how ninety. The revival interest continues in the Fourth Baptist church, Philadelphia, On sunday evening at the close of the preaching @ prayer meeting was held in the vestry, fer the purpose of -husban ing. and wha impressions made during the day. ifteen rose for prayer. EPISCOPALIAN, Rev. Robert Scott, rector elect of Christ church, Hyve Park, Mass., and the Rev, Charles H. Bixby, rector elect of All Saints’ church, Brooklyn, have been recommended to the Bishop of Long Island for admission to the Sacred Order of Priests. An Episcopal Orphan Home has just been opened in Kaston, Md. The main building, which 1stwo stories high, 18 38x36 feet, and in the rear of this is a 20 feet. The Home 1s admirably adapted dition, 16x for the purposes for which it was designéd, com- bining both a home and a school for the orphi Rev. J. D. 8. Pardee has accepted the rectorship St. Mark’s, Mystic, Conn. Rev, Dr. Elliott, lave ef Cl cinaati, Ohio, has entered upon bis duties a$ Assist ant minister of Ascension church, Washington, D. C. Kev, Wilbur F, Watkins, formerly of Brooklyn, N. has been instituted into the rectorship of Epip! parish at the church at Washington, D. & Rev. rauk B, Lewis has taken charge of Oxford Acad- emy, Ohena) county, N. ¥. The 1 Mis- sion in Haytt ‘bnen blessed by the in to the ranks of its ministry of twe young colored 8 to the soll—graduated at one o! the divinit schools of the Church tn this country. The Gnuren Journal docs not know who the Rev. W. M. Taylor is, nor where he preaches, but Shadilnde wt ei osrnaret iy before he had been whose church has been enlarged sore ie ae one year its pastor, and th audiences fli every seat, is probably better knewn in this city and out of it the Journal is. Rev. 8. D, Deuni D. D., has been elected mittee ef jary Society in thia city. M ts pro) to hold # union meeting ot PI the several convocations of the diocese a! ‘special invitation of the Eastern District Associa- tion of Massachusetts, in Emmanuel church, Bos- = on Monday and Tucsday of this week. Vv. call to St. Paul's church, Boston. Tho Rev. Charles E. Bixby, rector-ciect of All Suints! church, Brook- lyn, L. L, was ordained to tho priesthood by the ul ir the loth Inst. at Bt. Pa a eile Rev, Mr, Mt resign Christ chure Warne B. 0. IBTHODIST. Tho Southern Methodists of Alabama Conference m rr elders, $75,1 Rev, J. H, Waite, member of the Legislature irom Clay county, was a jew days ago ordained deacon in the Methodist Church. Rev. J. Ogden Winner, for some years a supernumerary in the Newark Con- ference, and resident near Penniagton, ‘N. J, toe , poses to resume the itinerant life next Spring. The church at Hanover, sackna sonny, h,, is to be dedicated. A former edifice on the site of the resent one, when two-thirds completed, was - blown down on October 15, 1 A of about two thousand dollars was thereby occasioned. The audience room of the Union Methodist ee church, Yashington, Q C., will be reopen iay by the Rev. J, P, Newman, Kev. F. A. Blades nd his wile were both severely injured in Detroit by a runaway horse, which \ddenly from a by street and into them. « Mr. Blades was bruised about the head, and Mrs. Blades so much injured that she will prepeply nck walk for months to ceme. Rev.: William H. ys of Troy Conierence, son of Dr, Tiffany, of Washington, expects to superannuate in April and follow shorthand reporting, which tter than preaching in a ceuntry church. Cyeata 7 Tl, which two oate go was & oo station—the people worshipping in an old brick church—has become self-supporting, with a mem- bership of 200 and a new church and grounds worth $10,000, Grace church, Baltimore, has taken uv & Missionary collection of $11,400, St. Paul's Metho- dist Episcopal church, New York, has gone a few hundreds better. High street church, Baltimore, has ri 1 goth for the Missionary Society. The new Methodist seacaDal church at Troupaburg Centre, N. Y., ll be dedicated on Wednesday, January 29. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Grandville, Kent county, Mich., was dedicated January 9. The African Methedist Episcopal church employs twenty-nine home miasionaries—twenty of them in i oek pag Revival meetings are pro- Faces Grace church, Buffalo; in Hancock (N. .) Methodist Fplecopal church, Rev, E. Tinker, paster; at New iberiand, Pa., Rev. J. N. Clark pastor, forty conversions reported; in Trinity church, Jersey City, Rev. D. W. Bartine, D. D., pas- tor, thirty have professed conversion within two weeks; in the Methodist Episcopal church at Belle Centre, Logan county, Ohio, v. J. A. W! it reports an accession of wed within four weeks. Rev. A. B. Earle, the Baptist Ev: gin aseries of revival meetings the street Methodist church, Boston, the last of this month. Krom the Tsomo Mission House, Gra- ham’s Town district, in Kaffirland, Rev. C. Palma, @ native missionary (Wesleyan), writes of work among the heathens in their kraals, and of the cenversien of more than one hundred adults among them, besides eighty young eras of a day school he had _ recently established, and of a revival among the European Christians of his cir- cuit. Rev, hop Roberts writes irom Liberia that the spiritual interests of the work there are on the advance. Protracted meetings are being held at several important points. A revival is also reperted among the pupils of the Wyoming Con- ferenee: Seminary at Kingston, Pa. An extensive revival is also reported in the Central New York Conference Seminary at Cazenovia, which is ex- tending to the town. Seventy-four students are preparing for the Pinter The meetings com- menced the Rev. J. S. Inskip, D. D., at the be- inning ofthe year, in Franklin street church, Bal- imore, have resulted in fifty conversions and sev- enty sanctifications. The meetings are continued by the pastor, Rev. J. W- Hedges. Rev. Drs. Inskip and McDonald are now holding meetings in Wesley chapel, Washington, D. C., ovary Mgnt CONGREGATION, The National Congregational Council voted that $500,000 ought to be yearly expended im home mis- sions, and the Churcfl is actively at work to mect the amount. The Sunday school ef the Windsor avenue Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn., a systematic beneficence, raised last year $950. The last congregational statistics of Missouri show 68 churches and as many mmisters, lacking one; 10 are pasters, 32 acting pastors, and 26 are with- eut eharge. ‘There are connected with these churches 2,700 members, of whom 427 were re- ceived last year, 224 by prefession. Six churches were organized and three meeting houses com- pleted during the same time. The esetogacd value ef the property owned by the thirty- nine churches reporting is $365,500. Among the new members receiv to the Asy- lum Hill church in Hartford, Conn., at the Jast communion, was Lo-a-Yip, by letter, from the Chinese church of Hong Kong. A ci ch was or- ganized, with about filty members, at South Fra- mingham, Mass., January 2. Sabbath services are now held in a hau, with am attendance varying from one hundred toe one hundred and fiity. Rev. Leroy Pierce resigned his position as pastor of the Congregational church, Previncetown, Mass:, on account of ill health, Mr, Henry L, Talbot, of East Machias, Me., recently of Andover Seniimary, has been ordained pastor of the church in ‘Durham, N. H: Rev, KE. Cutler has resigned the pastorate tne church at East Charlemont, and will remove at once to Dorchester, Mass. The church at Mans- field Centre, Conn., decline to accept the resigna- tion of Rev. K. B. Glidden as their acting pastor. Rev. E. L. Jaggar is called to the new church in West Medford, Mass. PRESBYTERIAN, The Rev, Allen H. Browne 1s organizing a bureau for unemployed ministers and vacant congrega- tions of the Presbyterian Chureh. Dr. Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst College, has returned from his tour round the world. The West congregation, of Binghamton, N. Y., dedicated their beautiful chapel on Thursday evening of last week. Rev. D. G. Sprague, formerly of the South Orange Presby- terian church, died at Salem, N. Y., on Saturday. Mr. Hammond, the well-known revivalist, is making juite a stir in Dubuque. He has got the press iown upon him, not only on account of his ordinary performances, which some think are extravagant enough, but for some extraordinary additions to his mode of action. Besides visiting drinking saloons and preaching on the doorsteps, the thing that especially excites the ire ef the roe isacourse of proceedihgs wholly 01 . Mr. Hammond mounts a horse and rides through the principal streets of the city, shouting at the top of his voice, singing hymns and calling upontne inhabitants to ‘‘come to Jesus,” Of course he is followed by a rabble, who think it real is fun. The ungodly have ascertained that Mr. Hammond 1s well paid jor his eccentricities; that he has $200 a week, or, as it is figured up, ‘$33 a day for his ser- vices.” He could afford to be eccentric at that figure, even without religion, The Rev. J. G. Craig- head, iormerly of the Zvangelist,sailed from this port for Savannah on Tuesday, his health imperatively requiring a change to a milder climate, Dr. Craig- head’s address wiif be Jacksonville, Florida, for the resent, He is accompanied by a@ portion of his ly. The Rey. David J. Atwater, late of Ewing, N. J., has accepted a call to the Bethlehem church, Rear Newburg, Oswego county, N. Y., recently under the pastoral charge of Rev. William A. Holli- day, now travelling in Europe for his health. Rev. A. W. Ciisby, of Thomasvilic, Ga., has been called to the Macon church by @ unanimous vote. The church of Bethany, Raleigh, Som- merville, Danceyville and Bartlett, in the Presbytery of Memphis, are vacant. Rev. J. DeWitt Burkhead, recently pastor of the church at Athens, Ga,, has removed to Cartersville, in the same State, The Presbyterian congregation of Manchester, N. Y., have extended a call to Rev. 0, C, Thorne, of Stillwater, to become their pastor. MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. Dr. Isaacs, of the Sengrererion Shaari Tephila and editor of the Jewish Messenger, re- ceived last Saturday and Sunday the congratula- tions of his many friends on the occasion of cele- brating his seventieth birthday. Among many handsome tokens of esteem irom the tor’s friends was a fine large photograph of President Grant, with a few autographic lines. from the General himself, The most substantial testimonial, however, came from the Con- ees Shaari Tephila, with which the Doctor now connected. It was a check for $4,250, The presentation was accompanied by a few compli- mentary remarks by PresidentSolomon. A Jewish synagogue is to be established in Jefferson, Texas. It 18 expected to cost $20,000, The Rev. Stephen i. Tyng, Jr, ana the Rey. George H. Hepworth, two young clergymen of this city, who have almost nothing else to do, have started a newspaper, partly, as we suppose, for the purpose of consuming their leisure. They call 1t The Working Church. Rev. Dr. Liliental has been reappointed to the position of trustee in the Cincinnati School Board, in which capacity he has already served with such eminent satisfaction for thirteen years. The Old North church, Boston, where Ralph Waldo Emerson, as pastor, first avowed his infidel notions, ran down, and the house was sold to the Methodists. The same church bought an Episcopal house of. wor- ship and raisea up two feeble societies, A union was effected last week. The Hanover ‘street church is to be ahandone and both congregations occupy Grace church, Dr. Wallace, one of the oldest pastors in New Hamp- shire, who has been settled over one church thirty- three years, his only charge, has resigned. Dr. Wallace expresses his doubts whether 80 jong, a pastorate is profitable either to the pastor or he comgregation. The Micronesia Mission, established twenty years ago, and which now extends its work over twelve islands, reports the largest proportional increase of church membership of any of the mis- sions of the American Board, the last statistics re- ceived giving the number of communicaits as 928, 189 having been added within the year, Fatner Chiniquy, the devoted evangelical lg ne ot to the French Canadians, is very sick with liver com- aint, which was produced — untiring efforts t Fal to save his mm Full tite'se |The Inquest THE CHATHAM SQUARE MURDER, Before the Coroner. Semporarz_ treasurer of fhe Foreign Com- | “T Shot Him, but He Threatened to Strike Mo with a Whiffletree.” ‘The Wiliam Netison McVickar has declined the | Affecting Scene in the Coroner's Office—The Wtfe and Child of the Accused in Tears— The Prisoner Folds His Child to His Breast and Weeps Also. Coroner Herrman yesterday heid ¢he (aquest im the case of Charles. H. Pfeifer, the truckman who was shot so brutally by Michael Nixon-the evening of Tuesday last in Chatham square, while riding his horse towards Roosevelt street ferry on his way to bis house in Williamsburg, The prisoner, who is not a man whose face would indicate viciousneas, was brougxt into the examination room in charge of Captain Uhiman and his officers and given a seat in one corner, where he could be seen by but few of the spectators, who crowded the room to its utmost capacity and listened with great in- terest to the testimony. Shortly after the arrival of the prisoner his wife, a plainly dressed woman, quite corpulent, entered alone and took a seat on the left of Detective Van Buskirk, who sat on the immediate left of the accused. The first witness called was ‘ THE WITNESS WHO SAW IT. Frederick Clowes, of 1,385 Pacific street, Brook- lyn, testified that on Tuesday evening last te left the Bowery Savings Bank, of-which he is teller, and took a Second avenue car, intending to go to Fulton ferry; the car ran fast down the Bowery until it passed Bayard strect, when the driver stopped suddenly; I was on the rear platform of the car, asking the conductor why the car stopped so’suddenly, when I heard the report of a pistol shot and was attracted by the noise; I looked im the direction from where it came, when I saw a man falling in the street, and a short distance off saw a wagon go away from me with a man on it, who, after drivmg ¢everal yard#; jumped out and disappeared; the man who jet! was partially on the ground; 1 think his feet were on .tne ground; Tsaw @ gray horse near by; the man fell on the track.of the New Bowery Railroad, right in front of Seymour’s hardware store; I reached the man @ second alter; he had nothing in his hand; I was about fifty or xty feet frem where the deceased fell; it was grew! ng dark at the time; with the assistance of several others the deceased was taken to the sidewalk, and when an officer afrived he was taken to the station house; I saw no whiille- tree or any stick near the deceased; cannot iden- tify the man whe fired the shot. ANOTHER WITNESS, Patrick Brady, a driver of a car on the Second Avenue Railroad, testified that he was going up Chatham street at about twenty minutes to six P. M., January 21; when he got to Division street he saw a Wagon, With @ man in it, coming towards him; also saw a manon a gray borse, facing towards Catharine street, while the horse attached to the wagon was facing towards Division street, the’ gray horse bale but om the other track; saw the man in the wagon raise himself, an rising his left hand, fire a shot, when the man on the horse fell off to the ground; saw'a pistol in his hand as he stood in the wagon, imme- diately after the shot was fired; deceased was about three leet away from the man who fired the shot;. did not hear amy quarrel between the men nor did he see any biows struck; after replacing the istol in his pocket the man in the wagon gave one foox at deceased, and picking up the lines, drove off toward Division street. THE GRY OF MURDER. Witness cried out once or twice, ‘Arrest that Tan, he has shot a man!’’ when deceased fell no one was near him; when witness cried out several came up; Witness described the Pl mae op gee of the murderer, but was unable to identily the prisoner ; he saw a whiMletree either on the neck of the horse or hai om the hames;-did not see it used by the decease: William Knees, § boy, testified that h d Lyf a the grins. OF te Frosaway, toward present ;. drive off in Kast Catharine street; saw “No. 11 East Broadway” painted on the wide of the wagon; witness could not identify the prisoner; heard a report of # pistol just before he saw the man lying on the ground; saw the man jump out of the wagon andrun off in the direction of East Broadway. B THE HACKMAN TESTIFIES, yames Reilly, a hackman at‘Chatham square, tes- fifie d that he heard a shot; saw deceased lying on the g round; saw no one fail; & man nearin a wagon drove: off; it was Lindemann’s wagon; could not swear that prisoner was the man in the wagon; did not set’ his face and could not swear to his identity; had sea 0 the same man drive the wagon before; saw ben jump off the wagon at Lindemann’s door; heard we quarreling before this; saw a whifictree ‘on the ga und; witness had seen the prisoner drive this wa 1 previously, but could not say that he was the nm ‘2 Who was in it on this latter occasion; 1 at the horse’s head after the wagon ey a) Tleft him there when I returned to my ‘coach; he wa 3 then in front of Lindemann’s place, No. 11’East Bn 2dway; saw the man get out of the wm ‘nutes before I saw Nixon at the This witness prevaricated all and evidently wished to . He was asked to peint out the shield the accusea seen relageaucly horses’ ani man he aay st the Betective Van Bus- pointed to Nixo#, w DO sat near irk, vit 570 Grand street, Williams- William W. Pecatt, We * lying at’ Park Hospital “ier. burg, testified to the & 4 of 13 Baxter street, tes- be that of Charles Witness Lester Lemo. art of @ pistol and saw and passing over saw Pog that ne nee the rep women an 8 TUNDLTE. . midal @ man lying on the ground f/m oe the rts et car track; saw no whidietrae'n. "ang does’ not did not see the man in the wagon, know who fired the shot. THE GOOD CHARACTER OF TIKB DEL Several acquaintances of deceased tes. his sobriety, and caution in avoiding an, or dispute with others, °4, who Detective Van Buskirk, of the Fourth wat. "i, by Made the arrest, testified to the efforts me. him tosecure him, the details of which have alre) .” been published ; when arrested, prisoner replied} ‘ “Tshot him, but he struck at me.” Witness toe him to the station house with the aid of Detective Fitzsimmons, where he made the same statement to the Captain, and told him that his wife took the istol from him; witness secured the pistol from is wife, all the barrels being empty when he received it; witness had before for disorderly conduct; Reilly dia not profess to know anything until he came here this morning; McClinchey said last night that he saw the man lying en the ground, but amit he does not sustain it in histestimony. Detective Fitzsimmons confirmed the testimony of Van Bus- kirk. Other police office! ho assisted in convey- ing the deceased to the station gave testimony of no importance, except that the whifetree was found detached from tne horse. Officer Van Buskirk recalled, testified that he found biood on both sides of the horse's neck six or eight inches long. THE POLICE OFFICER. Captain Uhiman, of the Fourth precinet, testified that Nixon admitting the shooting, and said it was because he threatened to strike him with the pie dad he seemed as if he had been drinking a little. Dr. Cushman testified as to what he discovered on the post-mortem examination of the body and the finding of the ball; in his opinion the head of deceased was on a level with the pistol, as the course of the ball was horizontal, Aiter a brief charge from the Coroner the jury retired to consider their verdict. Just before they retired Mrs, Nixon, who had gone out during the giving of the evidence, re-entered with a beautiful little girl aged about six years and resumed her seat, So soon as the jury left the room the little girl burst into violent sobs. Her mother attempted to com- se her, but was so overcome that she also burst into tears. The prisoner, seeing the grief of his wife and child, was visib! cted; the tears started unbidden as he reached out his arms to the little girl, who rushed over to her father, and, urying her iace on his breast, sobbed violently. For @ few minutes the murderer and his family were left undisturbed to their grief, the spectators being visibly affected by the scene’ presented. They finally became more composed, and the jury soon after entered and ren- dered a verdict th: came to his death from a pistol-shot wound at the hands ofthe ac- cused, The Coroner committed the witnesses Reilly and McClinchey to the House of Detention, and the accused to the Tombs, to await the action of the Grand Jury. When the accused was bei removed another fit of weeping convulsed the wife and child. The prisoner, in answer to the usual uestion, through his counsel, William F. Howe, lined to say anything except that he would by his witnesses in the future establish his justifica- tion, Relief for the Pfeifer Family. The following letters and contributions were re- ceived yesterday at the HERALD office :— New York, Jan. 25, 1873. To Tn® EpIToR OF THE AERALD:. Enclosed please find $10 for the benefit of the family whose whole support was taken from them this week by being murdered in Chatham street. 1 hope a appeals for the widow and tour children will meet with @ good response from head of the hors &. (= . through his test ‘mony, “BASED, Ufled as to vy quarrel arrested him your patrons. 1 think the public are getting so used to murders in New York that they hardly notice them until they are brought near to thom by some one of thetr family being taken from thom, ag this man was taken from his wife and four childres at @ minute’s notice by ® worthiess yeeghand. ae bea SES TENG AM 1008. 1B Eprror OF THE HERALD: — Enclosed please 10 for the family of C. H. ‘proier. eapectinlly, © "8. BL JANUARY 25, 1873, To ram Evirox or THs HERALD:— find Deak Sin—Enclosed please $2 50 for Mrs. Pfetier, im Wi.Mamabu: howe waa killed by Nixon. especttuly” “4 8 LawY. " ‘New York, Jan. 25, 1873. To rae EpiTor OF THe HERALD:— a I beg to enclose $1 for the benefit of the famHy of Charles H, Pfeifer. Yours, truly, MA! SAVED, BUY SUFFERING. iy Narrow Ese of Ex-District Attorney Garvin and His Daughter from Being Burned to Death=The Pluck and Cool- ness of the Father Saves the Lives of Both. ‘The great, loss of human life by recent tires, the excitement created thereby, the opening of the people's eyes to the fact that life in establishments of all kinds in this city is so shamefully unpre tected, as developed by the recent investigations of the Hekatp Commissioners and by the fndings of public officials suddenly aroused to a sense of duty, have tended to kcep the public mind in ferment of excitement. Almost daily from one quarter or another come tales of the loss‘of life by fire, Nood or storm, and the public is spared to-day the recital of another story of the logs of the life of @most estimable young lady only by the coolness and determination of a fond father under most trying circumstances, The story, however, as far as it goes, is bad enough, Ex-District Attorney Uarvin, while sitting quietly in his library on Friday evening, deeply engaged in adding to hie already weli-stocked mind points and problems of the intricacies of the law, was startled {rom his labors by a series of MOST HEARTRENDING SHRIEES, which proceeded from the upper portion of the house. Without time for thought he bounded from his chair, and, despite his age and weight, was at the third story almost in an instant, On throwing open the door of the front room, whence the shrieks continued to come, he beheld his wife almost in hysterics and his beloved daughter May standing im the middie of the room enveloped im flames. To seize her, throw her on the bed wrap her closely in the bedclotning was but the work of a moment, -The venerable entleman worked with a determination, aided by desperation, to not only save the life, but preserve ty comeliness of his darling child. That he suc- ded the sequel piasnly shows; botin his efforts he himself was severely, but, fortunately, not dan- rously injured about’ the hands and arms. The Beaaing became bg and as soon as the fond father perceived t) fhe bedstead and mattress were both on fire, and great danger that it woald result in setting THE HOUSE ON FIRB, he lifted the precious burden from the burning bed, completed the work of smothering the fire on the clothing of his daughter, and then attacked the flames, which were rapidly spreading over the riclr mattresses and carpeting on the floor, and had already burned through the side buard of the heavy mahogany bedstead, The young lady sufferer aided her. father as weld as she could in smothering the flames on her clothing. The mother was so overeome with ter- excitement a8 to be able torender bat little ald, while the servants rushed hither and thither, wringing their bands, crying and @alliug to-each other to help in putting out the fire, and in their earnest efforts were more or leas.obstruct- pepe accomplishment of the very object they sired. When: at length the fire was fully extinguished and comparative quiet had been restored, THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE ‘was inquired into, It appears that Miss May Gar- vin was dressing to attend an evening party at the residence of Juage Barbour. She was fully robed, and, while her mother was engaged in giving some little extra setting to the lacesor jewelry with ‘which her pet was adorned, or, as the ladies might say. in “titivating” her off a little more, she sud- denly discovered that her underskirts were on fire and the flames rapidly creeping up her heavy silk evening dre: “oH! MOTHER, UM ON FIRE!” she shrieked. The full horror of the situation was at once revealed to the’ mother. So great was her terror that she could do nothing but shriek and scream for help. Fortunately Mr. Garvin was at home, and heard the cries as above noted. It is presumed that Miss Garvin must have trodden ona match, which, becoming ignited, set fire to the skirts, which rested on the ground, and thus almost added another to the already too great list of lives lost by fire. THE DAMAGES AND LOSSES Were speedily canvassed, when it was found that Miss Garvin was badly burned about the knees and limbs. Mr. Garvin was also badly burned on both hands and arms. The bed, bedding and carpet are destroyed, but this loss is scarcely regarded. The family physician was speedily summoned, and the appropriate lotions and dressings applied. Both ir. Garvin and his daughter suffered intensely dur- ing the night, the former being unable to sleep or even lie down to rest. The excitement of the scene through which he had passed tended to dis- turb his mind, and, together with the torturing bodily Pain, rendered sleep and rest strangers to him, for that night at least. " CONTRABAND WHISKEY. ee iat Seizure of a Large Distilicry in New Jer~ sey—Great Amount of Property Confle cated—To Defraud the Government a Paying Operation. Within the past few days the readers of the HERALD might have noticed, among the legal re- ports, statements in regard to the seizure of a large distillery at Spring Valley, in Rockland coun- ty, by Supervisor of Internal Revenue Lucian Haw ley and his aids. This feat was accomplished early last week, and not alone were two men arrested and held, but the entire distillery was seized, a large amount of grain, besides the fittings, tools and machinery, taken possession of, and some fifty odd barrels of highwines captured, and also a rec- tifying establishment in this city taken possession of, saying nothing of the implication of severat prominent properties, Assistant Assessor David Irish, one of Super- visor Hawley’s officers, obtained a elue through the above seizure of some illicit whiskey finding ite way to this city from New Jersey. He communi- cated the few meagre facts to George N. Birdsall, \, Ye Superviser'’s chief clerk, who, aware of New + “sey being outside of Supervisor Hawiey’s limite, the \ vorking up of the case required some fine ma- neay, 28. Mr, Birdsall ordered Assessor Irish to seize th e liquor he suspected, which resulted in the detention. | % eight barrels of rum, Mr. Irish here- upon maa. yhis way to Elizabethport, N. J., and room una .tmnself inside of a finely fitted up dix till bowa ing of every modern appliance. A free ol ‘opper still, of 600 gallons ca pacity, the ‘a 'auisite he sy and ie ”, iter, and, io and yeast ™% "0 new to conduct im eeessary fact, évery Ttde ey, wae found here, besides the production of wc. al from wivielt the ‘spirits are eighty: & sagined tne called,” amou izish, o@examining the molasses, AS ice} ing “full Liang and eu igen. made for lorty- Narge had the books, found that ne ent ty had eight ‘days, and the partes in “4 gdrontery Yosay thar tte mE in connection 5 jon’ , . with the Gistiliery was a rect ‘ifying le,"'¢ to which Mr. irish traced the stolen Whiskey, a, "4 then he took of sion etght reis yf Fume Supervisor, Hawley, was informed et’ x.!!, the above fi but having no jurisdictiononta, “ite New York State, telegraphed to Snperwisor \ 4 ton of Philadelphia, who at once devwpatcha, Revenue Agent Brook one of the best an: ablest revenue officers in the oo, to Elizabet where, in connection with Assstant ssor Irish, ~ he accomplished the complete seisure of the dis- tillery premises and stock on hand, as also the rec- tifying house and contents, with the books and documents of both establishments. The distille: was registered under the frm of L. Weisel, while the rectifying shop was operated under the name of — Sicher. The seizure is calculated to be worth over twenty thousand dollars; but, as the moities were abolished last June, the government receives the agey! of the forfeiture, while the oMleers reap ut the empty mio: THE PAOTORY OHILDEREX, A bill 1s to be offered to the Legisiature by the well known Evangelical agent, C. L. Brace, in aid of the children working Im the different factories throughout the country. Mr. Brace, who has studied the systems of child labor tn dif- ferent lands, has deemed 1t in his provinct to draw up 8 law which shall provide fer the better treat. ment of gir boys whose parents are com. Ned to put them out to work at an early age. The act which Mr. Brace proposes, in connec- tion with a number of Evangelical gentiomen is in substance that children shall not be employed: in a factory under ten years of age, and that chil dren under tweive years of age shail read intel bly, and that there shail be penaities for the break- of the law by the employers, @ act also provides that any employer who may keep @ child working on Christmas, Wasuing. ton’s Birthday, Thanksgiving Day or the Fourth of July shali pay & penalty of $10 for each and every offence. There are, in addition to these sections, 3 a nine other clauses, in which the duties of em: { ployers to minor empioyés aro le iy tied made clearly delim