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i: : RELIGIOUS. \August 17---Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost. "IMPROPERLY QUOTING SCRIPTURE. ‘Universal Salvation or the Contrary 2: Dedication of St. Cecilia’s Church, in Harlem, To-Day. 4 The Roumanian Jews—Extracts, of a Let- ter from One of the Editors of the Jewish Messenger. MOVEMENTS OF THE MINISTERS, Services To-Day. The Rev. Joseph Parker, minister of the City Temple, London, who wrote a few days ago to the Pvangelist, complaining that he could not finda church open here, will find a dozen or more of them open in different parts of the city to-day, if he will only read the Henaup religious columns, For his benefit and that of other strangers visiting our city at this season, we may say that, Rey. F. 8. Evans preaches morning and evening in the Central Baptist church, Forty-second street, uear Seventh avenue, That Professor B. N. Martin will address the au-- dience gathered in Association Hall in the evening, That Rev. U. T. Tracy, rector, will preach in the Church of the Reformation, Fifty-seventh strect, between Lexington and Fourth avenues, and That Dr. Deems will occupy the pulpit of the Church of the Strangers to-day, as usual, morning and evening. Rev. John Teaz will preach also morning and evening, in the Westminister Presbyterian church, in West Twenty-second street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Rev. David B. Jutten will deliver his message in the Sixteenth “Baptist church, West Sixteenth Street, near Eighth avenue, at both services, The Methodist Free Tabernacle, in ‘rhirty-fourth @treet, near Eighth avenue, will be open also morning and evening, and sermons will be de- divered by some pepular minister in the absence of the pastor. “Mary, Mother of Christ” and the “To-morrow of Sin” are the subjects on which Mr. M. C. Lock- ‘wood will discourse to-day in the Fifty-third street Baptist church, S. P. Andrews will address the “Church of Humanity” in Germania Hall this morning, and Dr. Kinget in the evening. Bishop Snow sees mighty trouble coming on the Mations, and he proposes to tell what he knows about it to those who may listen in the University this afternoon. Lucian S. Crandall will speak in Robinson Hall, East Sixteenth street, this evening. “The Social Revolution” will be discussed by Mr. Hugh McGregor and others at the Cosmopolitan Conference, at three P. M. This morning and evening, in Immanuel Baptist church, Rey. Samuel Alman will preach. At the service this morning, at eleven o'clock, in the Church of the Messiah, Rev. 8. G. Northrop will discourse upon “Culture of the Sensibilities.” Dr. Cheever preaches this morning in the Forty- second street Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Westover will conduct the morning and evening services in the First Baptist church. Divine service at half-past ten this morning in the Church of the Resurrection. These should furnish variety enough to strangers for one day. Quoting Scripture Improperly. To THE Epiror oF THE HERALD:— However instructive and edifying the religions controversies which obtain in your great journal once @ week, no satisfactory solution of the points at issue can ever be arrived at so long as the Bible is referred to as authority and quoted as such by one party to the argument, while it is rejected totally, or its authenticity doubted, by the other, The practice, however, of calling the Scriptures into court to éstablish their own authority and divine inspiration shoula be repudiated strenu- ously. The religious faith of the present enlight- ened age is not ro be based upon the arivelling su- Perstitions ef the past. Its foundations must be jaid in the natural sciences, and be sustained by absolute demonstration and by simple and Straightforward reasoning. What this man said or what that man said, or rather what eitaer is | Said to have said two or three thousand years ago, ‘when gross darkness covered the face of the earth, 80 long as it conficts with good, sound, common sense, 1s not worth a button to-day. Every revela- tion to man, has been made and continues to be made through some natural channel, or through Some agency that demonstrates its supernatural character and power. There is nota single well authenticated line of contemporary history to prove that the just and noble Nazarene was more than a mere man. In fact, if Seripture evidence be worth anything, we are taught to regard Him as not only wanting in ordinary good understanding, but in- ined, at times, to be petulant or vindictive. ‘ake, Jor examole, the story of the barren fig tree. ‘him expecting to tnd fruit out of its season, and pleat with a curse a tree for not bearing before its time. This fig tree was a remarkable one by the wayside, for it Was seen alar of. But what cared He, according to his libetlers, for robbing the neigh- boring children of their favorite noontide haunt beneath its shade or of the % fruits that peri- odically hung from its bou Or what did it mat- ter to Him that the more » traveller who, weary and fooisore, sought its istomed shelter @ month subsequently, with a wiew to resting be- neath its lealy branches and filling his empty scrip, | should find it withered and bare and dying? Let any person in the present day, with even the con- scientious hatchet of George Washington, destroy a leafy, fruitial angel by tne dusty roadside thus and sce how he would tare at the hands of society and those of the press. I am, however, of those who do not believe that the great Reformer was evpr guilty oi such an act. fut so long as men are satisfied to use the same teaspoon and pap which ministered to the ignor- ance and superstition of bygone ages there 1s little use in pointing out such gross absurdities as form the corner stones of most of the religious be- liefs of the day, We may, nevertheless, hope that the dawn is at hand, and that ere long they will begin to perceive how monstrously absurd it was in the founders of their faiths to make God a man and then kill Him to insure his kindness and the forgiveness of offences committed by people who had been dead four thousend years, as well as of those to be committed by others yet unborn. How Wondrous tue credulity that accepts such an ab- surdity and the fatuity that holds you an enemy if | you endeavor to prove that there is no possibility of those who entertain such atheory being damned toall eternity. The bible must be verified in the light of the nineteenth century, else tt gradually goes by the board. GO Universal Salvation, or the Contrary? To THe Epiror oF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, “0. H.,’”’ inquires, “Does J. £. wish to be understood as believing that the life beyond the grave is the only life of any practical importance ?” Certainly not; but he does wish to be understood to say that if we love the Lord and earnestly strive to keep His commandments here we need not be anxious about our future state, for we shall reach heaven as surely asan acorn planted in a congenial soil is developed into an pak; for effect follows cause as surely on the spir- {tual as on the physical plane of life. We want to be saved from sinning or from doing wrong in intention, thought, word or deed here, and if we are so saved a heavenly life will as surely be de- veloped within us a8 physical health will result from obedience to the laws of health, and shunning the causes of disease, and if we can persuade our neighbors and all men to join us in living @ good and true life the further development of hell will cease, for falsehood and Pll make hell. How “practical,” then, isthe life we are leading here, for we are actually building up, by What we think, believe, will and do, our spiritual bodies into the forms of either angels or devils dafly, accordingly as we live good or evil lives, It wili be seen, then, that “0, H.’’ totally mistakes my views when he sup- poses for @ moment that t have fallen into the error of believing that happiness or Casas this Cane. We a Of very Uttla conseausneg 1 de Here we perceive ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1873—TmPLE SHEET. to see men saved from thinking and doing this world, where we have, at least ourselves, some * ‘jurisdiction ;” for if men will persist in doing evil I am not so foolish as to suppose that any man can escape the legitimate consequences, ifyou plei nalties of an evil life, either hei or hereafter, 80 long as he continues in such a life; and my observation satisfies me that the longer men continue in an evil course the harder it is for them to change and the less prospect there is of their being radically retormed or regenerated; for even conscience becomes gradually seared an impaired, What right have I to suppose that the man who is full of hatred, revenge, covetousness, love of dominion, &c., will put away these evil affections in the next world aad change his whole lite and come to love the Lord and his neighbor supremely, when, perhaps, during & long life here he scoffed at the very name of our Saviour and reviled and bated his neighbor? The Lord dees not compel him here; will He do it hereafter? It the Longin reas love for His cnildren does not prevent evil and, consequently, suffering here, who will be so bold as to say that {t must and will do it hereafter? Can we not judge something of His dealing with men in the future by the present life? Wilt He love His children more there than He does here? That there were men during the dark ages of the Christian Churen and that there may be men even to-day in the benighted corners of the mental } earth who believe, as your correspondent “0, H.” intimates, that “God not only hates His enemies now, but will continue to hate and torment them thronghout the endless ages of eternity,” the writer will not question; but, since the dawning light of the New Jerusalem has begun to permeate the mental earth their number is rapidly growing less. In the writ- ings of immanuel Swedenborg we are taught and are shown most beautitully and clearly that Gou is love, pure, and undefiled by hatred or Jeelings of revenge; and that, like the light and heat of the natural sun, his love ever flows down to mau. He stands at the doors of our hearts and knocks; he is ever merciful. All the suffering and punishment which follow the doing of evilin this world and the next are permitted for man’s Food, to restrain him from his evil course. Sweden! assures us that in the spiritual world, however hideous, de- formed and even lifeless evil spirits and devils appear in the eyes of good spirits and angels, the Lord, in His great mercy, permits them to appear beautiful to thetr own eyes. He also permits them to enjoy their own dehghts, as he does here, so long as as they do not interfere with the rights of other but when they do thus interfere they must be ponened there as here, or society could not exist. vil men are punished in the next world for what they do there; but if we make a selfish love our ruling love here we shall carry it with us and it will prompt us to dg wrol there, and we shall suffer consequences there as here. 1 would most respectfully ask your correspondent, “0. H.,” from what he would have the sinner saved? In other words, would.he have him saved from sin, or {rom the legitimate punishment or sufferings which follow an evil life? What possible good can result to any one Sonuipersuecing men that they can live evil lives an escape the consequences ? It certainly is not true that men can violate physical laws and escape the consequences, and we have but to look around us tosee how rapidly evil thoughts and deeds defile the soul and destroy heavenly affections, even until men, instead of loving their neighbors as themselves, as the Divine law requires, will back- bite, hate, cheat, steal from, tyrannize over and murder each other. How easy to give way to licentousness, or to become a drunkard or an opiom eater, and how difficult to retrace one’s steps! Even sincere repentance and bitter tears must be followed by years of strife or deadly war- fare against these evils before the unhallowed cravings of the-soul can be silenced. But suppos- ing the man has pelbexabeyy destroyed all love for a better lite by making evil his good, what then, friend “0, H.#? How are you going to get him into heaven? or, more correctly speaking, get Heaven within him ? J. 1. Dedication of $t. Cecilia’s Roman Cath- olie Church, Corner of 105th Street and Second Avenue—To Be Opened with Solemn Services. Archbishop McCloskey will formally dedicate the new Roman Catholic Church corner of 105th street and Second avenue to-day. The services will com- mence at half-past ten o’clock A. M., when solemn high mass will be celebrated and the dedicatory sermon preached by Rey. Dr. McGlynn. The mu- sical part of the programme will be very interest- ing,a double quartet of eminent artists naving volunteered for the occasion. A splendid new organ has been purchased and will be played upon by Professor Kissinger. . The new church is a fine specimen of Gotnic ar- chitecture, and will accommodate over one thou- sand persons. The interior decorations are very handsome. Nearly all the pews have been already rented. The building has been erected by Mr. L. J. O'Con! a pupy of Kiely’s, the celebrated ar- chitect, whole edifice is surmounted by a large cross. The Catholies of Harlem may congratulate themselves upon this elegant house of worship. Their energetic pastor, Rev. Hugh Flattery, has worked, day and night to accomplish this result, and a most elegant religious | edifice has been raised to the honor o1 the Most High in little less than three months. The la- bors of a priest are seldom appreciated in a proper spirit, and the vulgar and jealous-minded are oiten quick in finding fault with any little detail of ar- rangement which may not happen to suit their fancy. They must recollect that the priest has up- hill work, and that his efforts are not personal but directed solely for the advancement of religion. ‘This evening solemn vespers, Benediction and sermon will commence at seven o’clock. The Roumanian Jews. Mr. I. S, Isaacs, one of the editors of the Jewish Messenger, now travelling. in Europe, sends an in- teresting letter to his paper of last week concern- ing Prince Charles and the Roumanian persecu- tions. He saw the Prince in Vienna and describes him as a man of modest bearing, who seemed to avoid publicity, There was nothing striking in his personal appearance. He appeared in the opera, in company with the Emperor's brother, dressed in ordinary evening costume, and resembled more a, rich banker’s son of quiet ways, self-satisfied, and yet intelligent, than a prince of so large a country as this Roumania. The ruler of so rapacious, revengeful and bigoted @ people would, to the general mind, be cast in a different mould, Fancy paints the Roumanians as a large band of reprobates and robvers, devoid of | humane sentiments—and their chief should have seemingly some marks of power, strong nerve, glittering eye, commanding stature. And yet this undersized gentlemaniy Charles may prove himself abie—as he is willing— to repress the cruel passions of his subjecis, and give to ali the free exercise of their rights. He may have that innate power to com- mand, that giant intellect which is not conditioned by any largeness of frame. ‘True, he has not been too successful in his treatment of the Jewish question; but be has a terribly bigoted people to deal with, passions to suppress which seem to have been Kindled twenty centuries ago, and to be blazing with unabated fury in this country, even though the rest of the world has seen the errors of its ways and turned a kindly tace to the persecuted wanderer. Some of lis Cabinet ofiicerg were in the theatre— the Ministers of War and Finance—well dressed, urbane gentlemen, highly attentive to the ladies re escorting, and seemingly too polite and nt to engage in hostile demonstrations | agains! y sect. And yet one of them ts inimical to the d nd another of the Cabinet, a man of good education, is described as an inveterate op- ponent to ali measures tending to ameliorate the condition of the oppressed. Of the people of Roumania, Mr. Isaacs writes manian nobles and men of influence arises from their defective education, superstition and uncon- juerable bigotry, They cannot conceive that a ew 18 @ man, entitled to all the rights of man. Their theory is that the Jews killed their Saviour nineteen centuries since, and the sin must be visited on their descendants until the end of time, A few may bave pecuniary interests—the thrift and sharp- ness ol the Jews may make them formidable rivals in trade; bat the fact seems to be that the perse- cntions are due to the stupid heads and bad hearts of the Roumanians rather than to their avarice or jealousy. The populace are a brutal class, es- pecially in the towns and villages. He writes Ropetutly, however, oi Mr. Peixotto’s mission in that Principality, and urges Israelites of Europe and America to sustain liberally this self-sacrificing American Consul, who by his presence and in- fiuence has already done 80 much to alleviate the suferings of his Roumanian co-religionists, Ministerial Movements and Changes. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. W. G. Craig, D. D., of Keokuk, lowa, and | Rev. W. R. Brown, of Leavenworth, Kansas, have Sailed for Europe. Rev. John L, Stuart, the Mis- sionary of the Southern Presbytertan Church in China, has returned home to rest. He hopes after spending a year at home to be able to return to China, Rev. Heber Gill, of South Salem, Ohio, has removed to Chillicothe and taken charge of Con- cord and North Fork churches, Rev, George Robinson, of Lancaster, Pa., has been called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church ,of Chester, made vacant by the removal of Rev. A. W. Sproull to Sag Harbor, L. 1. Anew brick Presby- terian church is now in process of erection at An- derson, Ind., which will cost $25,000. Rev; 0. W, Remington has retired from the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Corfu, N. Y., and Rey. T. M. Hodgman, of Batavia, is temporary sup- ply. The Central Presbyterian church, of Philadel- phia, from which Dr. Alexander Reed was transter- red to Brooklyn, has unanimously tendered a call to Rev. Altred 4, Kellogg, Whose ministry it en- joyed during Dr. Reed's recent trip to Kurope. The Jefferson Park Presbyterian church and the Amer- ican Reiormed church, of Chicago, have formed a preliminary union with the uitimate intention of consolidating the two churches and continuing Rev. U. D, Gerlick, of the Reformed Dutch Church, as pastor of the united church, The Presbyterian PUP|t Das Deg VACARI JOE mY HO BARE - that the indifference or open opposition of the Rou- | terson left it. Owing tosome financial trouble ex- isting between Kev, F.T. Brown, D. D. and the trustees of the Central Presbyterian church of St. Paul, Minn., the former has resigned his pastorate oi the Church. The trustees, it appears, had ineur- red considerabie debt in repairs and alterations to their building, which they wanted to pay off before any benevolent collections were taken up. Dr. Brown opposed this plan, and hence the trouble. Rey. George 0. Little, of Con- nersville, Ind., has accepted the cali to the Assembly Presbyterian urch, Washington, D. C., and will ent upon his labors the first of September. Rey. Daniel MeGilvary, for fifteen years a missionary of the Presbyterian Board, and laboring in Siam, has returned to this country to make arrangements for the education of his chil- dren, Rev. Aibert Lyle has resigned the charge, of the Presbyterian church at Union Springs, N. Y., and Rev. Dr, F, S. Jewell has left the pulpit of the First church at Greenbush, N. Y. Kev, Joseph M. Gelston, a recent graduate of the Reminary in New York, bas taken charge of the church in Plymouth, Mich. Rev, Dr, Brown, of Keoki ext, United Presbyterian, if seems, ‘has receritly been accused of being in sympathy with the Plymouth brethren, and is out in a disclaimer in ‘the last number of the Christian Instructor, He repudiates ull sym- thy with their views, and reasserts his loyalty ‘0 the principles of the United Presbyterian Church. ‘The Doctor has recently resigned his pastoral charge of the First United Prpraan church of Keokuk. The just published statistics of the Presbyterian Church, North and South, show that the jormer has 472,023 communicants, 4,802 churches, 4,582 ministers and licentiates and 482,762 members tn thew Sunday schools, The benevolent and church contributions for the lest ecclesiastical year amounted to $9,622,030, The Presb¥terian Church South has 93,903 communicants, 1,555 churches, 938 ministers and licentiates and a Sunday school membership of 64,710, ‘They contributed for church and benevolent purposes $1,126,428, ROMAN OATHOLIO, Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, last Sunday, at College Point, L. L, contirmet! 122 Sabbath school children in 8t, Huber’s chureh, To-day the Bishop of Brooklyn will dedicate the handsome new church at Astoria, Long isiand City, of which Rev. Father Phelan 18 pastor. St, Cecilia’s church, at Harlem, N. Y., under the pastoral care of Rev. H. Fiattery, will be dedicated to-day by the Arch- bishop of this diocese, The Rev, A. Canvin, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church, Hoboken, who has becn twenty years in the pastorate in that town, sailed for Europe on Saturday, the 9th inst, Pre- vious to his departure Father Canvin was pre- sented with @& gold watch and chain and $100 and = other memorial gifts by his many friends. Two new Catholic churches are in process of erection at Henderson, and Littleton, N. C., under the auspices of Rev. J. V. McNamara, @ priest at Raleigh, N.C. The Catholic community at Henderson is composed mainly of Canadians. The collection for the Pope in the diocese of Newark, on the feast of SS. Veter and Paal, amounted, as just announced by Chancellor Doane, to $6,692 33. A writer in the Tatlet is meee extracts from the reports of the benevolent and reformatory societies of this city to show that the aim of their managers 1s the con- version or seduction of Catholic children from tueir ith to that of Protestantism, He calls upon Catholics, therefore, to resist this purpose of their enemics. The health of Bishop Foley, of Chicago, has entirely recovered, and he ts Ce performiag episcopal work in his diocese, ine Pope has re- ceived through the reverend General of the Franciscans, in Rome, 4 large offering of gold from Peru, and an album full of Peruvian signatures, The Rev. Father Deven, of Cape May, . J. was recently presented with a beautiful set of vestments by visiting clerical brethren, guests of his at that favorite seaside re- sort. To-morrow a “retreat” for the clergy of the diocese of Pittsburg, Pa., will be commenced in St. Francis’ Monastery, Loretto. A second ‘retreat’? will be opened in the same place on the 25th inst., each to continue one week. A pastoral ‘retreat?’ will commence at St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md., on the 26th inst., at which all the clergy of the diocese are expected to be present, unless spe- cially excused by the Archbishop. The “Assocta- ton of Erpyers for Deceased Priests’ will be in charge of Rev, H. Didier. On July 25, the occasion of the Pope’s allocution denouncing the spoilers of the Church’s temporalities, three archepiscopal and eleven episcopal sees were filled by transters or new creations of prelates. Eight other episco- pal dioceses were filled by “brief” incumbents, The third Old Catholic Congress is tixed for September 12 to 14, at Constance. The order of proceeding is the same as last year at Cologne: public meetings and sessions of delegates with the invited guests, The subscription list for the National Church of the Sacred Heart, to be built at Montmartre, Paris, has already reached the high figure of 670,000f, It will mark the scene of.the martyrdom oi St. Denis, and also the founding of the Society of Jesus of St. Ignatius and his com. panions, who took their vows in the subterranean chapel. The Right Rev. Bishop Rappe has lately appointed the. Very Rev. F. M. Bot, ‘rector uf the Cathedral, vicar general of the diocese o! Cleve- land, He is one of the oldest and most estcemed priests in the diocese. BAPTISTS. Rev. Dr. Knowlton, Baptist missionary at Ningpo, China, writes home that a new version of the New Testament, in the Mandarin dialect of the Chinese language, has been made and is being freely circu- lated. The spirit of inquiry end a desire ¢o reall foreign books, and especially the Word of God, is increasing. The Doctor himself bas com- menced # translation of the Book of Proverbs in the Mandarin dizlect, which style is easily learned and readily understood by the common people, ‘Three graduates of Spurgeon’s College are labor- ing in Obie, and are described as “showing them- selves approved of God ahd the Baptists.” Five more men of the college are inquiring concerning the opportunities for work in this country. Within a radius of twelve miles from Strawberry Point, Jowa, there are five Baptist churches, four of which are pastoriess and in a@ feeble condition. The fourteen Baptist churches in Chicago report an aggregate membership of 6,122. Two of them have over 1,000 each, one over 500, five between 200 and 600, and the rest run from 40 to 200 each. Rev. Mr. Chandler has resigned his pastorate of the First Baptist church, Bhdianapolis, to accept a pro- fessorship In Franklin College. Rev. F, Kidder has 30 resigned at Ward’s Corner, lowa, Rev.:S. M. Stimson has resigned the charge of the Baptist church at Vincennes, Igd., to accept the State agency of the Foteign Mission Board. Rev, BK OP. Bond has resigned bas charge at Agawam, Mass., to taka a “post- tion in Peddie Lustitute, Heightstown, N. J. Rev. J. Alger has exchanged the Pocasset pulpit for Gay Head, Mass. Rev. A. b. Witte, of East Sagi- haw, las gone to St. Louis Springs, for lis health’s sake, and Rey. William Elgin, of Knowlesville, Y., goes to Prospect avenue Mission, Buifalo, * Rev. S, D, Ross, of Andalusia, has gone ‘to the church at Hornby Forks, N. Y. Rev. R. G. Moses, o: Falmouth, England, who has been temporarily occupying the pulpit of Bedford avenue (Brooklyn) Baptist chureh during the illness of Rev. Hiram Hutchings, pastor, has accepted a call to the pas- torate ol the Norta tist church at Camden, N. ‘The Baptists of N. H., are building a 30,000 house ot worship. e Rev. J. V. Osterhout, ot Webster, Mass., has accepted a callto engage in pastoral labor at -Harlem, N.Y. ev. Dr. Govle, the Baptist missionary in Ja pan, writing to the Axvaminer and Chron- ile of this city, charges Secretary Fish with setting the anti-Christian ball rolling in that Island Kmpire. Our Secretary of State was offended at Minister De Long’s presentation to the ee eror Of a Bible in behalt of the foreign mission- | aries, and demanded his resignation. The Japanese authorities looked upon this act as an evidence that the United States government was opposed to the propagation of the Gosy aud hence the resuit 1s that henceforth foreign Christian teachers are to ve excluded irom the schools of the Empire. An indirect census of the people is veing taken also to ascertain the numbers that are favorable to or op- posed to Christianity, and a system of petty perse- cutions of Christians has already begun. Dr. Goble adds that the Catholic countries of Europe are in- sisting On full toleration for their missionaries, and great surprise 1s manifested that Protestant America should place herself as a block to the wheeis of progress in Japan.’ Dr. Caldwell, of the | First church, and Rey. P. B. Byram, of the Broad- | Way Baptist churen, Providence, R. L, have re- | signed their charges. The East Des Moines Baptist | church has called to its pastorate Rev. GaW. Smith, of Rochester Seminary. METHODIST. Anew Sunday school, with eighty pupils and a fuil force of oficers and teachers, was cee in the great Taberhacie at Sea Clif on Sunday last. Charles H. Applegate, of Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, New York, was chosen Superintendent. Rev. E. ©. Curtis, Agent of Syra- cuse University, has been spending a few weeks In | and about New York and at Ocean Grove with his | family, Mrs. Van Cott is preaching with great suc- | cess in Wisconsin, and Amanda Smith, a tall, noble-looking colored woman, with white, supero teeth, and great, ciear black eyes—a figure that ar- rests one without knowing who she is, in strangest costume for her race, the Quaker bonnet and dress—is preaching at Round Lake camp meet- ing to crowded and admiring adiences, Rev. R. K. Diossy, of the Jouisiana Conierence, is spending his vacation at Babylon, L. 1. Rev, Samu gisters D. D., has resigned the Presidency of the Marylan Agricultural College and will return to the pas- torate, Rev. Benjamin Brown, late presiding elder of Chesapeake district, but now in charge of Asbury Methodist Episcopal church, Washington city, has been for some time in very poor health and apparently near to death, but at last accounts his heaith was slightly improved, Last Sunday week a German Methodist Episcopal church was dedicated at Baltimore, Rev. A, Fiamman pastor, and on the Monday following the corner stone 0! another German church was laid in the same city. ‘This latter is to be dedicated about Christmas, and is to cost $20,008. Presiding Elder Ellison, of the Morristown District Newark Conference, last month organized a Swedish Methodist Episco, church of four members and sixteen probationers at Dover, N.J. They have now a tasteful frame church edifice, which cost $2,500, nearly ready for dedication. Mr. Andrew Ahgran, am ex- horter from the Betnei ship, New York, having gathered them in is now leading them on, A new Methodist Episcopal church at Beverly, N. Ju will be dedicated to-day py Bishop Sim) son and Kev. Dr. lianlon. Rev. J, I. Roe is the astor, The corner stone of the chapel of the ighteenth street congregation, corner of Eight centh and Wharton streets, Philadelphia, will be laid to-day by Bishop Simpson. The Methodist Theologica! Sefninary at Frankfort, Germany, gave eS fiye young men to the mission work this year, add it gives annually from six to ten to the same work. At the session of the Annual Conference last month, at this place, fifteen young men were ordained to the ministry of the Methodist L eeane, + Pao. | Guna OKAY ond, S\tedAd apd navia. An iners of 800 members and probationers 4 reported throt it the conference. Kev. G. W, Miller,on account of poor health, has been compelied to resign his charge at Middlev! N. Y.; Rev, A.. E. Kimmoth takes his piace, nm conversions are reported as the result of the camp meet: cently closed ‘at Shelter Island. Rev, W. N. were’ SARATOGA STATESMANSIIP, Aunlssionary of the Methodist New Connection ‘ai | The Political Ontlook as Viewed Through a Tientsin, China, been presented with a purse ol Sy genene. 48a mark of the high esteem in whic! is held by the pene community at that port. The list of subscribers to the testimonial in- cludes the names of the Consuls for Great Britain, Germany and the United States, the Commissioner of Customs and most of the merchants and other residents. The Metropolitan Methodist church Toronto is the largest and most imposing chur. edifice dn the city. Itijs 216 feet by 104, with tower 30 feet square ahd 190 teet high. It has seating accommodations for, 2,400 persons, but has held @ con; jon of over three thousand four hundre: ‘he cost was about one hundred and pay thousand dollars, The collections dur- ing the dedicatory services amounted to the large sum Of $32,000, EPISCOPALIAN. The Diocesan Convention of lows, at its tate ses- |, sion, through Rey. CO. 5. Percival, reported in favor of establishing a national league or guild for the relief of disabled clergy. Statistics had been sought and thirty-three bishops reported that of the 2,482 ministers in the Church, ninety-seveén are disabled. An estimate of tour per cent is there- fore based on these figures, onone in twenty-five, and allowing each disabled brother an annual in- come of $900, would involve a tax of $36a year upon the effective ones for their support. Or if $600 be deemed sufficient, $24 year will be the amount of tax required. The laity of the Church are, however, expected to bear a portion of this burden, and so to lighten the strain upon the purses of their clerical brethren. The call extended tg the Rev. Jonn B, Morgan some months since by the vestry of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France, has at length, afier much consideration, been ac- cepted. Kev. Constantine Stauder, late a priest in the Roman Catholic viocese of Columbus, Ohio, Was on Sunday, August 3, received into the minis- try of the Protestant Hpiscopal Church, in St, George’s church, Flushing, L, I. Theodosius 8. Tyng, son of the late lamented Rev, Dudley ‘yng, ol Philadelphia, and grandson of Rev. Dr. ‘yng, of this city, Was ordained to the ministry at the last commencement of Cambridge Theological School. ‘The Tyng family appears to be a Eee family. ‘There are now four of them tm thé ministry, Kev. E. P. Smith, of Whitewater, Wis., has been trans- ferred to the Pulpit of St. Thomas’ church, at Hamilton, N. Y. The: Episcopalians have begun the rebuilding of the Churen o! the Ascension, Baltimore, recently destroyed by fire. It will cost over $20,000, The latest statistics of the diocese of Long island show that it has 94 reai- dent clergy, 88 cuurches and chapels and 11,008 members, Its Sunday schools contain 1,780 oflicers and teachers, and 14,975 scholars. The parochial @nd benevolent offerings of the diocese for the last ecclesiastical year amounted to $493,692, The con- secration of the new Protestant Episcopal Church at Brentwood, L.1., which was postponed irom July 26, took place on Saturday last. Bishop Little- john conducted the services and was assisted by several prominent clergymen. MISCELLANEOUS. Rey. O. B. Frothingham, who ns been talked of fot the pastorate o1 the Music Hall Society, Bos- ton, declares that he cannot under any circum- stances acceptit. The Israelites are agitating tae subject of erecting a synagogue at Long Branch for the hundreds of Jews whospend their Sabbaths, if not their entire Summers, in that fasnionable re- sort, Rev. Thomas J. Whitcomb has removed from Cambridge, Pa., to the Universalist church in Canisteo, N.Y.” The new Universalist church at Mount Carmel, Ind., will be dedicated to-day. A Universalist society has lately been organized in San Francisco and Rey. W. N. Vandemark, of Pitts- burg, Pa., has been chosen minister of the same. Rev. W. ©. Leidel, a graduate of the’ Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., has become pastor of the churches at Davis and Dacota, Ill, Kev. P. S. Mack, of Watsontown, has taken charge of the Lutneran church at Hummelstown, Pa. The Israelites of Chicago have asked the Mayor of that city to protact them in the quiet observance of their Sabbath and to prohibit the carrying on of trade im the vicinity of their synagogues. Foun- tain J. Hartley, of the London Sunday School Union, who came to this country in May to bring the greetings of Sunday school workers in Great Britain to their American brethren, and to become better acquainted with the American Sunday school system, sailed on his return trip from New York on Saturday, August 2. .The condition of the Jews in Servia is pitiable in the extreme. All Jews residing for the past ten years in the cities of Sha- batz, Pojarevatz and Semendria are required to leave their homes and to migrate to Belgrade, where they have to recommence life under less favorable conditions, Rev. G. B. Willcox, of the Tabernacle church, Jersey City, N. J., has received @ call to the pastorate ot the Congregational church of Norwalk, Conn. The Rev. Jacob Kantro- Witz has been unanimously re-elected minister of the Congregation ‘Beth Israel Bikur Cholim."’ The Portuguese synagogue at Montreal, Canada, under the pastoral charge of Rev. Dr. De Sola, 1s to be en- larged, the present building, proving insufticient for the wants of the congregation, At a special meeting of the Congregation ‘‘Anshi Chesed,” held on the 7th inst., the Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise, of Cin- cinnati, was elected as their minister. The tem- le—there are no synagogues nowadays—which as been erected at the corner of Lexington avenue and Sixty-third street, at a cost of $225,000, is rapidly approaching completion, ana will be con- secrated early in September. LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. esedsa ered tree et The Glorious Future of Humanity and How It Is To Be Ushered In—Specula- tive Versus Practical Religion—Beauty of the Law of Mosesa—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Huebsch. Rev. Dr, Huebsch preached yesterday to a fair congregation on the office and work of speculative or sectarian religion and of practical religion re- spectively. Histext was Psalm Ixxxv., 8-12—*‘I will hear what God the Lord will say to me, for He wil) speak peace uuto His people and to His saints,’, &c, These few verses of the sacred bard, he said comprise @ beautiful description of the glorious future and at the same time delineate the system of religion by whose agency this prosperous period shall be introduced. The religion of Israel is not a compilation of philosophical speculations or mysterious riddles, but is rather the heavenly guide who leads the chil- dren of the Lord to their highest destination in a path and by away wherein none who desire to follow need go astray. Faith is the leader by which the race or the individual man is to attain this présperity, whether in spiritual or in material affairs. Speculative—that is, sectarian—religion cannot achieve this end; practical religion can. God is the highest idea, that cannot be penetrated by the keenest intellect of the most gifted mortal; | but can be felt in His blissful e ffects by the simple | and trutiiul heart of a child. Not to accept and believe in God, unless our reason can solve the problems that are connected with His attributes of eternity, infinity and spirituality, is as servile and | silly as to refuse the light and warmth of the sun until we can understand the laws by which | that orb is governed, We may mistake or fail to comprehend the influences of those jaws upon the, solar system, but we cannot fail to Let the necessity and beneficial effects of the sun’s rays | upon our world, To philosophize about God, if it | be done in a proper and reverent spirit, will tend to increase our Knowledge of the Supreme Being; but let not our speculations concerning the Deity interiere with our faith in the All-God, even in a hegative way. Moses was not vainglorious when he said of the law which by his agency the Lord had imparted to Israel, 8 18 your wisdom and your understand- ing in the sight of the nations which shall hear all | these statutes and shall say, surely, this is a wise and understanding people!’ Many @ modern phi- losopher, said the Doctor, on hearing this passage, will remark, with a scornful smile, ‘Past and taded glory never to be revived again!” But every enlightened thinker who knows anything of the essence o! these statutes will abide by the prediction of the great prophet ana lawgiver, and will surely hope for the time to come when all nations shail acknowledge the wisdom and grandeur of Israel's law. Put all the philosophical treatises and essays on God and man into the seale with that smail sec- tion o/ the Scriptures which treats of the sanctity of mankind—Leviticus Xix.—and, voluminous as they are, it will outweigh them qll. They are lighter than vanity itself, in comparison with the wisdom of God, In this chapter you can see what Judaism is and what it incuicates, First, it inculcates | faith in tne one only living and true God; it warns | against the sins of idolatry and superstition; tt | teaches honor and obedience to parents, and | | the sanctity of the Sabbath; it incnicates charity to the poor, honesty in ail things, whether in private or in public life, cautions us not to har- bor malice or revenge in our bosoms, and to love our neighbors as ourse! Aud nearly every one ol these commandments closes with the words, “I am the Lord.” As if the Lord had said: “You can know Me only by doing good.” Every pure thought and every virtuous act will bring thee nearer to the idol of perfection—to the Lord. Work out the rinciples laid down in this one chapter of the Roriptares, and yeu will find truth and mercy so ciosely entwined, love and justice so thoroughly embodied in them, that we may justly say, they are not only the indispensible condition jor the weilare of the individual, but they are destined to become the future constitution of mankind at a time when the humi will be purified and will have returned to that unsophisticated simplicity which alone en- ables the soul to listen to the voice of truth and to enjoy the heavenly peace which is the portion of all those that love the Lord with all their heart and | all their soul. . The Doctor then ur his congregation to be thank/ul to the Most High that He had made them professors of so pure and sublime a creed, which contains the true seeds of salvation for mankind, and boped that they might snow their gratitude by @ steady and upright walk in the ways of the Lord, and that they might make Hislaw the rule of every action of their lives, Then, said he, mercy and trath shall meet together ; righteousness and peace shall kiss each other. Then shail the Lord give that which is good and ur jaod sbail yield her mind and heart in general | i ‘ Democratic Glass of Congress Water. THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT AS IT 1S, Prospective Slate in New York City and: State for the Coming Fall Elections, Tammany and Apollo Hall to Unite. Saratoga, August 15, 1873, Probably at no one time since the days when Tammany was king of all she surveyed in the metropolis and silent partner tn the republican firm which partially controlled the State upto a brief year or two ago has Saratoga been so over- whelmed with the genus politician as she is to-day. There are those, dcubtiess, who will tell you that Politicians, 1ike all other mortals, are once in awhile seized with a longing for Congress water after a full Winter spent in liquoring up at Albany or at the City Hall, or that they are always certain to be found wherever there is a horse rave and a pool to make money out , of. All this I concede is in every way reasonable to a certain degree and not entirely devoid of truth; but since the coffers of the city treasury have been shut down upon them in the city the city politicians do not, as a rule, go to any Summer resort where it takes a small-sized fortune to stay a few wecks, and it needs no argument to prove that the backwoods statesmen are too busy at home on their farms just now to be able to give up even a day of their precious time to gayety and idleness solely, The tact is that nearly all of those now here both from the city and trom the country have come here for a special purpose. Now, the great question with everybody here is, What ts tha pur- pose? I think Iam in a position to he able to give you a little insight into tne real secret of THE GATHERING OF THE CLANS. First and foremost 1 need simply call attention to the iact that a few weeks ago there was held here a sort of convention, at which some of the most brilliant lights of that very circumscribed gaiaxy of jokers who style themselves “liberals” twinkled and shone brightly for twenty-four hours and then snuffed themselves out without as much as leaving avtrail behind them. This convocation was held ostensibly for the purpose of deciding what should be done by the “party” at the coming Wall elections, or rather what plan it would be best for the Uberals to pursue in order to maintain themselves properly before the public as a balance of power. Suffice it to say that the Executive Committee, with General John Cochrane at its head, was finally fully empowered to follow the dictates of its own good judgment and take, in the name of the “party,” whatever Stand it deemed best for the general good. This committee has not yet promulgated its decision, but enough nas leaked out to justify the assertion that nothing will be done absolutely until the plans proposed by the liberals shall have been duly considered by the democrats. It is for this reason that so many of ‘i OUR CITY AND COUNTRY STATESMEN are here at present. A few days ago several of the leading democrats here held a private conference together with the liberal chieftains, during which the whole plan of battle, as prepared by the lib- erals, was sketched out, and then followed a “big talk’’ as to the probabilities of success, Although democrats like August Schell, S. S. Cox, Fer- nando Wood and his brother Ben, Homer A. Nelson, Samuel Courtney, Senator O’Brien, Judge Garvin aud others pretend not to know exactly . What was said or done in the talks had about the matter, I have learned enough to know that THE GREAT STICKLER JUST NOW between the liberals andthe democrats, ag to their future united action, turns almost exclusively upon the way the next State Convention of the democracy should be made up politically. It was at first intended by the liberais—and this I learn from an official source—to call a distinct conven- tion of their own, the members not to be pledged in any- way as an aid or countenancer of any other party in its schemes or plans for the campaign, but, on the contrary, to et untram- melled in every respect. For very good reasons, chief! of which Was that the “party” was not suf- ficiently weil organized in every district of the State to assure @ full delegation of out-and-out liberals from every county, this plan was aban- doued. Indeed, it was the democrats who first intimated that anything of the kind would be als- astrous. The next move was to SOUND THE DEMOCRATIC WIRE-PULLERS, and this sounding by the liberals on the one side and a resounding by the democrats on the other has been and is now the chief occupation of the politicians who have so acciden- tally (7), you Kuow, dropped in, one by one, for the past iew days. I understand that the abandonment of the exclusively Liberal Convention idea was due to the wise counsel of ex-Governor Fenton, who saw init nothing that the people would regard as other than a political fight Of politictans for political favor. The upshot of the whole matter, as things stand at present, is, and will be so stated in their address, that the liberals will not make any distinctive fight on their own hook, but that they will request that in the coming Democratic Convention they shall be allowed a fair proportion of the delegates. To accomplish this is by no means an easy task, and as many of the democrats do not seem to take well to the idea, I apprehend that it will tax the ingenuity of the leaders considerably te bring | matters out straight in the long run. I have spoken to several of ihe city democrats now here in relation to this particular phase of the situation, and they one and all appear to be opposed to it, claiming that the Democratic Convention should be an out-and-out democratic afiair, trom the chairman down to the last doorkeeper, and that, if the liverals are really sincere in what they say they want to do for the general good, utterly inde- pendent of what they may lose or gain by their action as individuals, they can join hands‘with the democrats at the polls and help elect their can- didates as AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. And now comes another phase of the whole mat- ter, which may, after all, cause the democrats to think twice before they allow the liberais to make a diversion in favor of some policy which, while hot being in consonance with that of the adminis- tration republicans, may be such as to weaken them In the coming election to such a degree as to make thet defeat quite probable, if not inevitable. It is the question of putting aside political tests at the coming election and calling upon ali honest. men of all parties to rally to the support of good men to be nominated for ail offices regardless of their past politics. The result of such a plan would not exactly be the formation of a ‘farmer's grange,’ to be sure, but practically the effect on the two parties, if the people backed it up, would be pretty much the same in the matter of nomina- ting and electinggood men to office, while it would be different in that it would not advocate the claims of any particular class in the community in an especial inanuer. [had a conversation to-day with @ prominent liberal about this special mattcr and he said, Q. E. D., “Our intention is not to do anything that would endanger success in the coming campaign. If the democrats take kindly to our policy it will be a grand thing for the public good. You see, what is Wanted just now is an upheaval all round against bad men, no matter to what party they belong. In bas ce Legislature we had some splendid sam- ples 0: WHAT STUFF REFORMBRS ARE MADE OF who had to work as politicians for their nomina- tions and then did the bidding of politicians when they got elected, We liberals belfeve that the pub- lic are heartily sick of all this vil- | lany, and that we can, by @ com- bined effort ail round, put men in nomination whom the people will support as against the professional politicians’ candidates. To secure this result it 18 neces that there should be at the coming election a distinct peopie’s party—a party around which the people of the State can rally, with the conviction that the in- famies of the past in city and State legisiation shall not be repeated.” “Do you think that the democrats and liberals could join hands together and throw aside in con- vention the name democratic?” Ll asked. “IT think they could,” he replied, but the great trouble lies with the democrats. ey are willing, apparently, to put good men in nomination, and, 1 believe, Re the liberals a fair proportion of the number in recognition of the strength they can give the ticket, but they will not, lam afraid, give up the idea that whatever move may be made must be made under no other 0 than that of the democracy, I repeat, our efforts are tending to get ‘democrats, liberals, ail classes in Let it be a people’s modvement—iot that of a party, The democrats can eastiy take wae anibiayanee fact, represented at the coming Convention. jena thei call aud alig | W.. Mberals and ail others who have 1 at heart to join with them in pominatag mee or the Fe stamp. tis easy to be seen by this conversatt tha: there is still a great deal of tobe covered before harmony’so elfective between the democrats and the liberals as to in this “people's ch can be secured., Still 1 am inclined to the elief that the liberals and the democrats will’ come to some definite ‘conclusion before the Con- vention meets that will prove satisfac to both: sides, The democrats are somewhat over-conil- dent, even thus early, of their ability to CARRY THE STATE NEXT PALL, and are naturally a little squeamish about giving up anything to even their allies, Who stood shoulder to shoulder with them in the Presidential cam; last November. I have been informed by a Kent man who hails from Kings county, and who has been doing his utmost to bring democrats and liberals to a proper understanding, that from pres. ent indications the address of the liberals to the People of the State will rece:ve the full approbation Of the democrats, and that it has been more than. hall decided upon uiready that @ fair representa- tion in ,the Convention shall be given to the liberals, As to this feature of the problems at stake he says that all the leading democrats in the State have peen sounded, afd every one of them concedes that there ought, to be no difficulty about the matter. He attributes’ the opposition of some of the democrats now here to the Fee 44 springing from fear lest they may bet politicAlly as individuals injured in their districts Should they not be allowed to “fix” their own dele- gates beforehand, At any rate the hob-nobbit between the democrats and the liberals here stu goes on, and ina York cae atthe latest we shall be able to tell, trom the the liberal executive com- mittee will publish, just what conclusion has been arrived at—for the Cail, Llearn, will not be made before a mutual understanding of an entirely friendly character between the parties of tho’ first part and the ties of the second part has ‘been — attaine: The liberals have @ winning card to play and a one, and they will not be foolish enough, I apprehend, now that they know just what scrapie} on. the part of the democrats they must overcome, and What concessions are nece: to be made, to throw away their last hope of success by giving their trampet blast betore givingy their’ friends due warning. Now, in connection with: . this whole subject there comes up the grave ques- tion as to what effect, if any, A PEOPLE'S PARTY, made up of democrats and liberals, would have om politics in New York. The liberals themselves, so Jar as |. can learn,‘are in & quandary a8 to what they ought todo in the city in order to show the people that they are really in earnest in s: that they want to jom only with men who wi ‘ze themselves to nominate only good men tor otfice; and yet | know that part of the bargain as made here between the city democrats and liberals i that in districts where the democrats have a sure: thing only a democrat shall Dominated. The fear that the liberals might possibly kick against some of the nominations chat may be made’ there is giving the city democrats considerable concern, and they are, I find, the most strenuous advocates of a non-intercourse policy with the liberals, These democrats are made all the more ante in their opposition, besides, by what is now considered here almost un Jatt accompli. I refer’ to the junction of 7 THE TWO RIVAL WINGS OF THE DEMOCRACY, Apollo Halland Tammany Hall, against the com- mon foe—the republicans, Senator O’Brien and myself had a long confab about this probability yesterday, and he icels quite confident that at the coming election there will be but one democratic: party in the city.” “I tell you what it is,” said: he, in bis offhan animated way;, “I for myself can see no goo reason way the Anion should not take place. On the contrary, there is every reason why it should take place. No one who Knows anything about: politics in New York city can assert with truth that the idea of the junction of the two factions, as they are called, ‘has been prompted more from a love of the spoils than the good of the people. 1 am personally heartily in favor of the union the two and I sball do. my best to secure it. There was a time when I considered it ab- solutely mecessary to do my utmost to defeat certain men who called themselves democrats, but they are gone forever, politically, and the party has been, consequently, purified. We can all join hands again honorably. New York is democrauuc at heart, and there is no reason why, now that the © thieves who disgraced the party are cleaned out We shouldn’t all put our shoulders to the wheel ant put the party"in power, where it belongs. So long as we are divided down there, just so long will we be ruled by a minority that would, if it could, do es 88 much to rob the taxpayers as did the old ring.’ There intimated to the Senator that [had just been informed by a promment member of i many Hall that no official notice had ever been sent to Tammany that a meeting had been held by Apollo Hall advocating a union of forces, and he quickly replied :— “Well, I think the matter can be arranged soon ina shape that will be generally satisiactory. I know there are some difficulties in the way; but they can,’I feel certain, be overcome if Tammany and Apollo Hall men will only confer together in a Spirit of fairness and with AN BYE ONLY TO THE PUBLIC GOOD IN THE FUTURE. The Tammany men, at least the small try, who affect to have @ good deal of influence in their districts in New York, do not seem to take a@ kindly to a reconciliation as some of the leaders, and contend eeree that Tammany has nothing to fear trom Apollo Hall under any circumstances, and that ali the Apollo Hall party want to get back in the fold for now is to have a finger in the pie; that success at the ‘polls will ve certain to lay a dainty dish before the victors, to whom will, of course, belong the spoils. These epee Hall folks, they say, broke from man; with the hope of getting plunder in the enemy's ber A and now that they have been left entirely out in the cold they are trett to get back so that they can be well taken care of. The leaders here, especially those from the country, are by ho means, I must confess, of this opinion. They know full well that what 1s ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS next November, fully as much if not more than the aid of the liberals, 1s a united front on the part of the democracy. Taking everything into considera- tion for and against the proposed recon- ciliation of the two factions, therefore, I repeat that by the time the Democratic Convention meets next month the tomahawk will be buried, and the vig Injuns and the little In- juns alike will be as good brothers as they ever were in the good old days when the democracy were the victors in every battie at the polls, But just here 1 might as well refer to another matter which may have—io fact, must have—a great bear- ing upon events next November, as tar as New York is concerned, in view of the consolidation of the tival democratic forces. The leaders here, at a conference held yesterday, which was held prin- cipally to discuss the merits of PROBABLE CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGISLATURE had, | learn, qnite a high ola time over the ques- tion of the Senatorial contests, It is by no means as easy nowadays to fix up a “slate” as it was when three or iour clear-headed, keen politicians were able to get together and put up this, that and the other man for this, that and the other district to be voted tor by the people, Still there is a gooa deal of the old grit remaining in the new Tam- Many, and although it may not have that boldness in an emergency that was the distinguishing trait of the old leaders, the wire-pullers of the new régime cannot be set down as entirely destitute of ingenuity and tact. They have proved this gees by the careful way they have gone about thei work of “fixing things’? for November and the ap- parent candor with which every man in any way influential in any district of the be tos been ap- proached and consulted openly. ith all this candor, however, those who have seen fit secretly to take part in the deliberations of the conferences 8o far held are remarkably, reticent as to what con- clusions they have arrived at, aud they have the best of reasons for attempting to conceal the “slate,” now almost positively decided upon. Not indee@ that the remark made to me to-day by one of the Most prominent democrats in the city now here, who appears to be disgusted with the way the work has been done, is entirely true, that “the present would-be leaders have no brains;” but they know Tight well that they are treading on delicate round and must act cautiously and Lag tit ad lave just but one desire—to carry out the wishes of the local leaders in the various wards. Although they bave not as yet shown their hand fully, yet the slate seems to have been decided upon as follows:—Fourth district, James Hayes; Fifth, Charles G. Shaw; Sixth, John W. Chanler; Seventh, Oliver Charlick; Kighth, in doubt. Now, it is generally conceded by every one of the councillors whom I have been able to draw out a word from about the matter, that upon the Senatorial nominations will depend the nomina- tions for Assembly, and that in fixing definitely upon the Senators vhe work for THE LOWER BRANCH OF THE LEGISLATURE will be an easy one when the time comes for mak- ing the nominations. Suffolk, Queens, Richmond and Kings county men have been written to also about their districts, they being so near the city; and although the New Yorkers, of course, have not presumed to “slate” ontside of their own county, the information they have received points to James M. Oakley as the robable candidate in the First district, James F, jerce in the Second and John C. Jacobs in tha Third, As to the Fourth Senatoriat district, the “slate,” | learn, is @ little shaky and is not made in ocd faith, It appears that Dennis Burns and imothy Campbell want to be candidates, and that each claims to be as tully entitled to the succession to Tweed’s seat as Hayes. Th2 district comprises five Assembly districts—the First, Second, ‘Tuird, Fourth and Sixt, ‘The First, in’ the Senatorial Convention, has 25 votes; the Second, 23; the Third, 18; the Fourth, 26, and the Sixth, 18. Hayes, they say, {8 sure of the Third, and Campbell of of the Sixth, and Burns, of the Second. Thus it will be seen that there will be a lively fight for the ‘other districts, and that it is no wonder that the Dame of Hayes is marked on the list hy @ query, It ts believed among the knowing ones that when the contest begins that a third party will, ag @ compromise, walk in and carry off the victory, and that that nartyis Ben Wood. Of pourse no one among the wirepuilers here have even inti- mated suen a thing—Oh, no!—but thus stands the Fourth a3 at present stated. In fact, since I have been able to get at some of the details of the pro-~ ceedings of the conference tolk’s meetings [have learned that there will be a high time in more than one district ifanything like THE GAG GAME OF OLD TAMMANY is pursned, no matter how good the wire-pullers may claim their motivesare. If the local leaders object openly, then there will be trouble, and Chanler’s name in the Sixth district will have to axquad AVG DIACO tO that af Charles WLaew, on the