The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1873, Page 7

6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. September 28---Programme for the Day. Werald Religious Commu- nicants. (ADVERTISING IN RELIGIOUS PAPERS. ‘Leading the Pious and Unwary Into Temptation. REV. FATHER GAVAZZI SNUBBED ‘Re Sharply Explains Why He Will Not Attend the Evangelical Alliance. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services Te-Day. “Temptation” will be fully treated upon by Rev. Wayland Hoyt in the Baptist Tabernacle this even- Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby will address young men evening at Association Hall. ,, Inthe Methodist Free Tabernacle, this morning, Rev. Mr. Cookman will minister to his flock, and fRev. Dr. John Poisal preach at the evening service. * Rey. Dr. Cohen Stuart, delegate to the Evangell- Bal Alance from the Netherlands, will speak in he Holiand tongue in the Brooklyn First Reiormed whurch, In the Madison avenue Reformed church, at Pleven o'clock, Rev. H. D. Ganse will tell “How Modern Christianity Fosters Modern Doubt.” Rev. Dr. Talmage will address his congregation morning and evening, in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, The Evangelical Alliance will ve treated of by QRev. Mr, Mitchell, in the Canal street Presbyterian burch in the morning. “Characters” will be contrasted by Rev. Mr. avies in the Berean Baptist cburch this evening. Rey. U. f. Tracy will preach in the Church of the Reformation this morning. Rev, Mr. Pendleton, in the Fifty-third street Bap- Rist’ church, morning and evening. And Rev. Mr. Mc.Cleliand in St. Luke’s (Metho- it), morning and evening. ‘There will be interesting anniversary exercises }n Immanuel Baptist ¢ehapel in the morning and evening, at the usual hours, ard at half-past two fn the afternoon, Addresses by Rev. Messrs. Knapp, Kennard, Jutten and Alman. “Financial Morality” is the topic upon which Rev. J. M. Pullman will this morning address his congregation (Church of Our Saviour), the past eventful week turnishing abundant illustrations. A Parisian divine, Rev. Dr. J. Loriance, will ach to the French Reformers in Association 1 this morning. Rev. Mr. Sweetser, just returned from his Euro- pean tour, will address the Bleecker street Unl- ‘Versalists morning and evening. The Central Baptists will be favored by Rev. Frederick Evans with addresses upon special sub- jects this morning and evening. “Orthodox Doctrines’ will be elaborated at the Eastern chapel at half-past ten A, M. Rey. Dr. Simpson, an English delegate to the Al- Hance, will preach this morning in Dr. Rogers’ South Reformed) church. In St, Mark’s Rey. Dr. Rylance preaches morning and evening. In the Church of the Strangers, Rev. Dr, Deems, And in the West Twenty-third street Presbyte- Tian church, Rev. H. D. Northrop. Rev. Dr. Fisch, of Paris, and Rev. Mr. Lelievre, of WNimes, will preach in the French Evangelical whurch this morning and evening. Rev. Mr. Verren preaches at -the Churcn Du St. Esprit this morning; French service. The causes and lessons of the financial crash wil, ‘be given by Rey. J. J. White this evening, in the Fourth street Methodist Protestant church, Brook- lyn, E. D. Rev. Dr. Holme preaches this morning in Trinity Baptist church. Divine service at the usual hours in St. Ignatius’, Rev. Dr. Ewer officiating. Rev, W. B. Merritt preaches to young people this evening in the Sixth avenue Reformed church. “The Modern ldoiatry’ witl be the subject’pre- sented to his flock by Rev. Mr. 0, B, Frothingham at Lyric Hall this morning. There will be a baptismal service this morning @nd preaching morning and evening by Rev. Dr. ‘Anderson in the First Baptist church, Services at half-past ten A, M, and four P. M. in ‘the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Professor Asti¢, Swiss delegate to the Alliance, Will lecture upon “Le Travail” this evening, at eight P. M., in the Union Theological Seminary. The “Opening of the Book of Life” will be Rev, Sabin Hough's subject this morning, at Phoenix Hall, South Eighth street, near Fourth, Williams- burg. . Rev. Dr. Bellows preaches morning and evening in All Souls’ church, In the Church of Christ, Rev. Mr. Dawson will discourse upon special subjects this morning and evening. “The Lesson of the Hour’’ will be read by Rev. HH. Powers, in the Church of the Messiah, at eleven AM. Rev. Mr. Newton will discourse upon Biblical subjects this morning and evening, in Anthon Memorial church. In the Church of the Disciples Rev. Mr. Hepworth elaborates upon special topics at the morning and evening services, Rev. Dr. Ludiow preaches as usual in the Col- Jegtate church. Rev. Dr. Wedekind preaches morning and even- ‘Ung in the Church of St. James (inglish Lutheran), Dr.’ E. J, Hamill preaches in the morning, and Dr. J. B. Cottrell in the evening at Forsyth street Methodist church. Rey. Dr. Parker, of London, preaches in Plymouth «hurch, Brooklyn, this morning and evening. “Spiritualism’’ will be explained by Dr. Hallock ‘this evening, in Franklin Hall, Jersey City, \ Mr. Jenny, the journalist, will lecture upon ‘municipal frauds, before the Cosmopolitan Conter- ence, at three P. M. Rev. Halsey ‘Knapp preaches this evening in Laight Street Baptist church. Rev. Dr. D. Henry Miller preaches in Ptymouth ‘Baptist church this morning; Sunday school annt- ‘versary in the evening. In the Scotch Presbyterian church, on Fourteenth Street, Kev. S, M. Hamilton will conduct the ser- ‘ices at half-past ten A. M. and four P, M. ' Bishop Snow at three P. M. in the University. Religious Advertising—Bogus Banks, In- nce and Railroad Companics— Leading the Unwary Into Temptation. Zo Tue Epon OF THE HERALD:— The deteriority manifest in the advertising col- umns of religious newspapers has become a theme of regret with many of the better classes of their ‘readers; but the cause of the degeneracy lies partly ‘with the patrons of the papers, not altogether with the publishers of them. If the vitiated tastes of amajority of the former sanction the departure tuere is no remedy for it, Newspapers have ed- acated the people up to so high a standpoint, that the whilom puptis consider themselves superior to vheir teachers, A publisher, to be successful, must pprint matier not generally obnoxious to his ‘readers, He must cater for the mental wants of {nis patrons as a restaurateur does for the corporal appetites of his; otherwise the patrons of each jill go elsewhere for their entertainment and }wiands. Forty years ago a newspaper was an oracle to JAts readers, who impiicitiv believed and faithfully followed its teachings. Then the number of papers published was few and the circulation of each was limited. Ta many towns of 5,000inhabitants scores of families were not subscribers for any paper, nor did they read one, while a monthly magazine was g@novelty. Hence the power then wielded by a few leading newspapers of national reputation. Now, from Bangor to Matamoros, from New York to San Francisco, one can scarcely find a well-to-do family that does not take from two to half a dozen newspapers, and perhaps half as many magazines, All newspapers contain advertisements not pleasing to some readers; and, pray, how can it be avoided? The tastes of readers, besides being oft- times variable, are a3 various as their counte- nances; and it is often as diMcult for publishers to discriminate between the proper and the what may be improper as it is for the ticket agent of a steamer to decide which are agreeable and which disagreeable passengers. Nevertheless, that some religious papers do ad, mit advertisements nowadays that would not have been touched by them with a ten-foot pole twenty years ago is undeniable, Aside {rom the necessity of more advertising patronage there are other causes silently at work. In many of the higher, more elegant and better cultivated flelds of thought the more aristocratic and carefully prepared monthly is gradually undermining and taking the place of the somewhat plebeian weekly as an educator of the people, so that the weekly very naturally falls back upon more of the characteristics of the dally than it was wont to imitate aforetime. Another and less defensible cause may, possibly, be slowly, though surely, producing its fell effect. That ter- rible disease, love of money, heretofore considered endemic or sporadic (though oiten hereditary in seme families, like the yout, and chronic in others), has of late become epidemic in our country, and it has grown to be both contagious and iniectious, Men of prominence in all stations and projessions have succumbed to its deadly power. Bank oflicers and other fiduciary agents have been smitten; our city iathers and other magnates have been most virulently at- tacked; State legislatures are foul with its poison; the halls of Congress have become pestiferous'with its taint; some gentlemen of the ermine have failen victims to its insidious in leterat governors have been more than suspected of the incipient toning palm, and whispers: are afloat that there have been some slight symptoms ol its presence even in the puriteus of the Presidential palace. All classes and conditions being liable to the ray- ges of this pestilence that waiketh abroad in broad daylight, how is it possible tor even the best and purest of men entirely to escape contagion? Not that they can be supposed to take it criminally like those before mentioned, but just enough to make them hunger and thirst a little after the un- righteousness of display, equipage and state, As ‘was well put by thal ponderous philosopher, Fal- stafl—“In the state of innocency, Adam fell;’.and What should these poor ex-parsons do in the days ol Villany? They average as much flesh as other men, and therefore must have some frailty. ‘Tne space occupied in not a few first class re- ligious pene by bond sellers and life insurance companies might misiead unsophisticated people to imagine that those ponerse had been suvsidized by these interests, neither of which is of much con cern to the great mass of readers. Such advertis- ing is very profitable; but the people at large can- not live upon bonds alone, nor upon insurance alone, nor upon both together—especiaily other people’s—nor is any prophet required to foretell that some untoward event may make such adver- tising as unpopular as was that of corner lots on aper cities In 1836, or that ouipepen railways in England during the mania of 1845, when the Lon- don Times threw away $20,000 a week by refusing that class of advertisements, but ultimately made money by thus eschewing the tempting bait. When naked truth is somewhat deformed it is not alluring; but, even when very ugly, it is not actually repulsive, il viewed in perspective. Let us glance at these papers through a vista of a decade or wo of years adown the stream of time. Should our religious newspapers progress downward in the matter of advertising for the next twenty years as rapidly as some have for the last twenty, their advertising columns will have become as edifying for Sunday perusal as are the circulars of bogus lot- teries, mountebank showmen, quack doctors and swindling gilt enterprises, The advertising side will resembie the unsightly posters daubed on the street front Ol a vacant lot in any crowded thor- oughfare ; hideous pictures, some, perhaps, border- -| ing on indecency; long, black letters and figures, with a liberal sprinkling of printers’ | ! |, somewhat resembling & pauper’s coMin in days of yore, and a heterog eneous hodgepodge of incon- gruities, as offensive to a person of any literary Taste as a Chinese olla podrida of cat, rat and dog meat, hot with the pungency and steaming with the compound odor of garlic, onions and assaiat- ida, would be -to the palate and nostrils of any gentlemantly epicure. . But, a8 before stated, redundancy of advertise- ments in respectable newspapers can be pruned’ by the patrons thereof; for, though a publisher will not give heed to the remonstrance of a sub- scriber so readily as a soldier will obey the tap of a drum or the call of a bugle, yet he can no more / rum counter tageneral public sentiment than the weak water of Taunton can run up hill. Some papers not only greedily snatch at every advertisement that is offered, but their publishers actually employ agents to solicit advertisements from every known advertiser—good, bad and indif- jerent, These vicarious vagabonds prowl up and down the business world like hungry hyenas or aoominated insurance ghouls, begging patronage as well of unrespectabie and irresponsible adver- tisers as of respectable merchants and tradesmen, many of whom often give them an advertisement as one would toss a bone or a crust to a whinin; dog, to get rid of him. They seem to have adopte for their motto—and their obtrusive supplications place their princtpais in the same rather awkward category—the advice of the celebrated Cyprian sage, ‘Put money in thy purse,’’ with the staid old Quaker’s addendum, “honestly if thee canst, but— make money.” This, of course, does not in any manner apply to regular advertising brokers, most of whom are ashonorabie men as live, and whose business is as-honorable and as usetul, too, to both advertiser and publisher, asis that of the cotton broker to both planter and manufacturer, Another crying evil is the offering of premiums for new subscribers, When a publisher openly buys patrons the world at large looks upon the transaction either as proot positive that the price oft his paper is too high or a tacit acknowledgment that he 1s losing patronage and is driven into tne inconsistent measure by present or prospective pecuniary embarrassment. A merchant who has met with unexpected losses can well afford, tor once, to pay usurious tnterest to bridge over the ugly chasm of a heavy note falling due; but to be continually kiting around among the curbstone gentry of Wall street would soon estaplish his status with the worthies of that vicinity. ‘The publishers of cash-in-advance papers may very properly offer premiums, and by a judicious jlo of premium giving find profit in it; but for the publisher of a religious paper, ostensibly es- tablished to defend, elucidate and uphold great moral and religious principles, to offer to pay peo- ple to take his paper is to debase its own princt- pies and-degrade the profession. In the words of the immortal jurist of Messina—‘It 1s most toler- able and not to be endured.” All, or nearly all, religious papers are conducted on the credit system; and, of course, their pro- prietors ean better afford to nake a present to all prompt paying subscribers o! several years’ stand- ing tu.an they can afford {o hire probationers to try their respective papers lor @ single year; fora very large percentage 01 these bought-up patrons dro) offut the close of the first year, and many worth- leas ones continue on for a or two with- out much profit to the publisher. Scarred old volunteer veterans who enlisted for life or during the war, and who have stood the brunt of many a hard-fought battle and have grown gray in the ser- vice, ought to be rewarded with a greater pension than your eleventh-hour raw recruits, who enlisted but for one year, not irom motives of patriotism, but to clutch the offered bounty, and who, till mus- tered out, did nothing but camp duty, though care- ful enough to draw pay, rations and clothing. When a credit new: r offers premiums for single subscribers it is a seductive indacement for old subscribers to transfer the same subscription to some other member of the same fami! paper men who resort to such paltry, ting tricks to gain customers, would new leaf, make their papers better, ap cessity ior their constituencies, they would recet a richer and more honorable reward in the long run, both in fame and fortune. A weekly paper, conducted with ability, gentie- manly character, and scholarship enough to please the more intellectual and better educated, the minds of culture and refinement in its particular Held, whether of politics or religion, will, if that fleld be wide enough, soon secure from them a substantial subscription patronage of the firmest stabliity and a Uden that must make it sought for by thousands of others in more humble circum- stances and of less pretentious spheres, but of the same faith, to whom it will be what a religious pa- per pay: ought to be—an educator, an in- structor; and then advertising, and that, too, of the most unexceptionable character and profitable kind, will as naturally flow into its columns asthe surplus products of the fertile West pour, in one Steady, unceasing stream, into the great cities on the seaboard, Why the Rev. Father Gavazzi Will Not Be at the Evangelical Alliance, To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD: ‘The iilustrious Italian patriot, the great political as well as Christian orator, the eloquent and in- vincible champion of Christianity against Papal in- fallibility at the last Ecgmenical Council held at Rome, Rev. Alessandro Gavazzi, has been esteemed of less account than Mr. Procnet to speak at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance about what evangelical Christianity is in Italy at present and about what would be the best means to be adopted in order to promote its spreading among the mass, Does this mean that Italy must be evangelized only according to the cruel and absurd tenets of the cfie! Calvin? No, no;a thousand times no, Tlong to see the complete overthrow of the Papacy for the good of Italy, but I am sorry to say that NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1873.—QU. the doctrines of the Waldenses will be an obstacle to this long wished-for issue. Among the converts Of the.Waldenses, those who do think for them- Selves leave their congregation as soon as they be- come well acquainted with the cruelty and absur- dity of Oalvanism, and range themseives either among the infidels or go back to the Church of Rome, I know what lam speaking of of. But let us see how Gavazzi has been struck out from the last letter to" tite ltt ana propsistor of 100 editor roprictor o @Htatia, he writes as follows:— Duan Sxcom px Casas OF or See I write briefly, be} gompelled to do so by the conse. wei Rowevae ‘Cots Haas Mae aUy itise which ig to let iny” Aiuerican friends who expected to pg of the Bvangelical Alliance, to, be 1c Byangelical Alliance as a d yield to the here solicita: though I knew the Sacrifice was making. In consequence thereof it was made known to the world that Ishould be the rep! sentative from Italy at the t meeting. When, be- hold! suddenly, toward the end of March, a new! printed programme fell into my hands, in which insteat of my name, I read that of @ certain’ Mr. Prochet ceeeate froin Italy. Atthe same time I received an vitation to be present at the meeting asa delezate trom my Church. But ag! do vot like farces, I declined to ac- cept this sham invitation, and thus it is that I abstain from comin, an triends will prrcolys that this was the only way to save either my decorum or that selt-respect ich every man owes to himself, Jests in such a bad taste as this may succeed with tlovkheads, among whom Tlike not to be numbered, Z Nevertheless, IT wish that my American friends spay, even trom this tact, argue what kind of war the free Chris- Han Churob of Tully must undergo, In order to advance in the path which God has pointed out to her in our dear country. And would to God that the warfare wercloyal, open. 8 rank! But, no! it is a Jesuit-like opposition; passionate, indetatigable . ‘the tact is evident. Some body, anvioes that’, oalaister of the free Italian Church should the Ev: repreent Staly at the mecting of elical Alliance in New York, put forth a \- the latter readily accepted, without giving me any information at all, To excnse such a want of breeding and Christian spirit, I am inclined to imagine that the great doctors of America have found the family name of Prochet more Italian than that of Gavazzi, ‘and also that any high- lander trom the Alps would represent the Italian national character better than a Bolognese, born and brought up in the heart of the italian Peninsula, and well known to the world for his love to Italy in all the phases ot her regeneration, It must have been so, for otherwise Ital ought to be ashamed to be represented abroad by suc! jo not Know even the title page of the code of polite- 8 written by Monsignor della Casa, a book known to and observed by every true Italian, Enough of this clerical gossip, On the Ist of October I will leave for Italy, and when there I shall endeavor to acquaint you trequently with our Italian affairs, especially with what will go ob. at Rome. 1 hope you will tnd my estimates in accordance with truth, al pian they may shock the nerves ot some of your correspondents, as, for instance, of Rockville’s. But is it my fault if men and facts are such as | describe them to you? Poor Lanza! He bas fallen in spite of the ceutches which that correspondent of yours offered him. Requlescant, LESSANDRO GAVAZZL Italy will receive the Gospel of Christ, but in its own simplicity, and will ever turn a deaf car to the doctrines which are irreconcilable with Goc's goodness and wis- dom and the infinite atonement of Cnrist. And were the Waldenses the only Christian ministers in Italy I should say that it would be much better for Italy to listen to those who teach a downright railonalism than to go to their church to be made inconsistent human beings. A word more. Why have not the Waidenses sent to the ce Mr. Ribetti? Or is he yet ashamed x lunder he made at the last “Ecuimenical Council? “Will anyone answer this query? New Youx, Sept. 26, 1873. LANZA FONVECCI, Ministerial Movements and Changes. METHODIST, Rev. J. T. Davis, presiding elder of Delhi district, Louisiana Conference, has been appointed by Bishop Keener superintendent of the Mexican missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Fifty-eight accessions to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ® Virginia are reported in our ex- changes this week. Yorty united with the Taber- nacle church of Baltimore last Sunday, the first fruits of a revival still in progress, The Southern Methodists of Easton, Maryland are building a *$5,000 house of worship there. The Methodists of the North have now four mission stations located in Japan and nine missionaries, four of whom are in Yokohama. Rey. Dr. Tiffany, of Washington, D. C., returned from Europe a@ week ago. Rev. Dr, Cook, of Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, has been prostrated with sickness. Rey. 0. C. Goss furnishes the Metnodist papers*with nearly two columas more of statistics to demonstrate that Methodism does not keep pace with other denominations nor With the population in our large cities. He gives examples from twelve cities in the Eastern, Middle and Western States. The Preachers’ Aid Society of Southeastern Indiana Conference has now a fund of $17,500. The new Methodist Kpiscopal church in Pittsfeld, Mass., will not be ready for dedication before April next. A very interestin; religious revival is in progress in the ‘antage church, New Jersey. Rey. Wiliam H. Lawrence, son of the late Rev. R. V. Lawrence, has entered the minis- try, and has been appointed to Titusville, Pa, The cornér stone of the new church at Nyack was laid last Monday by Rev. R. ene new chapel was dedicated Sunday, Septemper 14, near Bear’s Tannery, near Winchester. It is called Thomas chapel, in memory of the late David EK. Thomas. The Methodists of Philadelpnia are about to organ- ize a City Church Extension Society. [hey have held one meeting, and another is called for Decem- ber 17. Rev. F. A, McCartney, of Baltimore, is seriously ill. Rev. Dr. Curry, of this city, has gone West on a three weeks’ trip to the conferences now meeting in annual session. Bishop Simpson is so fully restored to health as to be able to attend to episcopal work again. Bishop Janes, too, is re- covering. heaith slowly. Rev. 3. H. Tyng, Jr, D. D., preached last Sunday evening in the Forty- third street Methodist kpiscopal church, to the reat delight and edification of the congregation. frev. S. M. Hammond, of the New York East Con- ference, has been very seriously tll at his residence at Freeport, L.I. He is now slowly improving. The corner stone of the new Methodist Episcopal church, Jamaica, North Long Island district, Rev. RC. Putney, pastor, will be laid October 9 Ad- dresses will be delivered by Rev. C. B, Sing, Rev. George Taylor and Rey. L.5. Weed, BAPTIST. The Hartford Baptist Associagion held its eighty- fourth anniversary lately. Eleven churches re- ported 114 accessions by immersion during the year. The West Jersey Association at its late meeting received reports irom 48 churches of 595 additions also by im.cersion, the membership ot the association now numbering 3,650. The First Baptist church of Denver, Col., was dedicated last Sunday week. The Baptists of Kutland, Vt., ex- pect to dedicate a $40,000 church next month. The Stanton street Baptist church, ol this city, expect to enter their new quarters, the :abernacie Bap- tist church building, on Second avenue, the first Sabbath in November. The Tabernacle Society will from that date occupy Steinway Hail for religious services, Rev. J. B. Pixley has resigned the secre- taryship of the Missionary Union for Western New York and Canada, Revs. F. 4. Eveleth and J. 4H. Arthur, recently ordained, are to go out as missionaries shortly—the former to Toungoo and the latter to Japan. Kev. U. B, Cross goes about the same time to Burmah. Rev. James Thorn, lately city missionary in Trenton, N. J., bas cepted a call to the church in ‘Iborough, N. J. The membesship of Mr. Spurgeon's church is 4,418, gathered during a pastorate of nineteen years. Five hundred have been added during the past ear. ‘The Baptists are erecting anew church at awndale, in the westorn part of Chicago. While one-half of what was once the First Baptist church of Hariem, N. Y., has settled the Rev, Mr. Oster- hout as their pastor, the other half have called Rev. G. W. Samson, . D., oy Rutger’s Female Col- lege, who has accepted. The native Christians gathered into the church by the Baptist mission- aries at Burrisaul, India, number 4,000 souls. The mission has been established fifty years, and two missionaries, with forty or filty native teachers and heipers, do all the work. In Middietown, Monmouth county, N. J., stands a Baptist church that was or- ganized in 1688; at Upper Freehold, N. J., ia an- other, organized in 1766, and throughout the country are several venerable Baptist societies and churches. The diMiculty existing between the pastor and the officials of the Union Park ee chureh, Chicago, has resulted in the organization of a new churce, and 111 of the disaf- fected ones have separated themselves irom the pastor and his frienas. KPISCOPALIAN, St. James Protestant Episcopalian church which was destroyed by the Chicago fire, is nearly ready for dedication. It is a large and elegant structure. Rev. F. B. Nash, Jr., deacon, bas been assigned to the charge of St. Michael's, Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The corner-stone of the new St, Paul's Episcopal church at Newark, N. J., will be laid by Blsnop Odenhelmer to-morrow, St. Jonn's Bridgeport, Conn., are building @ new an nd- some stone church at a cost of $80,000, of which the corner-stone was laid last week. Archdeacon Denison, has announced, in @ letter to the Daily News, that he intends to agitate for a recognition of confession as an essential part of Church ma- chinery. He expresses his thankfulness that this juestion in all it ‘ings is now distinctly before the English people, but has no fear that tne result will be contrary to his expectations, The Rev. J. I. T. Coolidge, D.D., who has for nearly twelve years been Rector of St. ‘Matthew’s Pari jh, South Boston, ended his ministration on Sunday, September 14. The Rev. Wm. H. Neilson, jr., has accepted the call to the Rectorship of St. Michael's church, Trenton, N, J., and will enter upon duties on Uctober 12, PRESBYTERIAN. A wonderful revival work is reported among the Spokanes Indians, who, with other kindred tribes numbering nearly 3,000 souls, live in the vicinity (100 miles distant) of the Nez Perces Indians, among whom the Presbyterians have successful missions, One hundred and sixty-iour of the Spokanes were re- cently baptized on profession of faith, and 300 more are bayer awaiting the administration of that rite, One of their own number, a convert named Gary, has been their jaithiul and only teacher and preacher, The Reunited Presbyterian Church sup- ports in whole or in part from its general funds 1,742 ordained ministers and licentiates who are doing gospel work in mussionary flelds at home orabroad. The total number of ministers and liceatiates in the communivn is 4,882, Hence, more than @ third of the clergy of the church are in mission fields, and derive their support wholly or in part trom the benevolent contribu. tious of the Church. The Phillips’ Memorial Prea- byterian church, of this city, have begun the erec- 3 tion of a $89,000 house of worship ou Madison ave- nue, near Seventy-third street. Rev, Andrew Tully has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church of Upper Mount Bethel, Pa,, where he com. menced his ministry giro years ago. Rev. H. E. Thomas, D, D., of Pittsburg, is called upani- mously to Hyde Park, Pa., where 1s Welsh Church in America. Rev. John H. Munro, the new pastor of the Third Presbyterian charch in Boston, and recently of Newry, Ireland, was in- stalled by the Presbytery of Boston on the 18th inst. REFORMED CHURCH. The Reformed Church Messenger pare that the disatfected P raid in the Reformed Church make campaign documents of articles in the Catholic Standard, which Paper they circulate in the Re- formed Church, and this accounts for the fall- ing away of late of so many Reformed ministers each other.” The Synod of the Potomac of the Reformed Church will hold a general conven- tion in Chambersburg, Pa., commencing October 22, Rev. Jonn Ault was installed itor of the Reformed church nm ittlestown, Pa, September 16, While the Mennonite immigration has attracted general attention here two large colonies of Reformed German chur! men from Southern Russia have recently arrived here in @ quiet way. One colony, numbering 643 persons, settled near Omaha, Neb., and the other, hot quite so large, went to Dakota. They brought plent of money with them and tried to purchase jand in the northern part of this State, on which to colonize, but could not. They were offered good land cheap where they have settled. They are nearly all of them communicants in the Reformed church, thriity and steady farmers, ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Catholic Review has succeeded in getting w real genuine “sensation” that is likely to keep it before the public for months tocome. The Propo- sition of its editor to lead a “pilgrimage” trom America to various shrines in Europe and the Holy Land has attracted ‘the attention of the religious preee of other denominations, .wost of whom scout je idea, The retu to the charge and declares that “there is a widespread, deep and thoroughly* Catholic feeling in favor of the pilgrimage as an act of Catholic faith * * * and of devotion to the Venerable See of Peter and to the august Pontif’ who now illis its chair.” It is rumored among the Catholics ot England that in future the priests will appear publicly in their cas- socks, &c., when engaged in their ecclesiastical duties. This, itis said, was one of the decisions of the late Catholic Synod, held at St. Edmund’s College, Ware, Herts ; but nothing orficial has transpired. It is said that the Synod also deter- mined on introducing the -tonsure among the sec- ular clergy. ,The new Catholic church on Paris greet East Boston, is to be called ‘The Star of the ”’ and will be ready lor consecration by the 1st of November. The edifice is of the French Gothic design, with o handsome steeple, and will cost, when finished, about $60,000. A Roman Oatholic priest has been sent to prison for a fortnight in Prussia, for publicly preaching that marriage Litany Protestants 1s mere concu- binage. Rev, Father Babst, 8, J., alter three years’ absence, ,has returned to the Church of the Im- maculate Conception, in Boston, During the late visit of Archbishop Purcell to the new church at Franktort, Ohio, six ministers, converts from other denominations, officiated at the aitar, All but seven of the forty-two Cardinals now living were created by the present Pope, and nearly all of them are very old, Tne oldest is ninety years of age, and the rest range from forty-five to eighty-one, the majority being over sixty. The Rev. Father Fransiolt has entirely recovered his health, and is about to return to Brooklyn. He will leave furope on the 4th of Ootober, and may be expected here about the 15th. He wili continue to labor ior the spir- itual welfare of his fock in St. Peter’s. Rev. Father Healy, of Baltimore, bas been arpentey President of Georgetown College, and Rev, A. F. Ciampi, treasurer of that institution, has gone to St. John’s church, Frederick, Md., from whence Rey, ©. Jen- nee bas gone to Georgetown to succeed Father Diampi. MISCELLANEOUS. It is ascertainea by certain investigation that the increase of communicants of evangelical churches in the Umted States for the last two years is 600,000, ora little more than eleven percent. The same rate of increase for ten years would swell the number of communicants to 10,000,000. This does not very clearly indicate the decline of Prot- estantism. The Nineteenth Annnal Convention of the Evangelical Sunday Schools of Massa- chusetts was held in Worcester last Wednesday and Thursday, The following missionaries saied on Satur 20th:—Miss Abbie P. Ferguson and Miss Annie P. Bliss, who go to Cape Colony, where, in connection with the English Missionary Society, they are to establish a school on the Mount Holyoke plan; also Mrs G«<. LL, Thomson, who goes out to join the force at Constantinople under the American Board. Rev. Dr. Parsons, secretary of the Philadelphia Sab- bath Association, has a petition about 200 feet long, addressed to Mayor Stokley, of that city, asking for the rigid enforcement of existing laws in re- ‘ard to the desecration of the Sabbath. Rev. Lewis ‘ancis was last Thursday evening installed pastor of the Reformed church, Greenport, L.I. The Re- formed church at College Point, L. 1., will be dedi- cated to-day. LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. The Prophet and the Panic Calling the People to Return to the Lord—Interest- ing Discourse by the Rev. Dr. Huebsch Next Tuesday evening begins one of the greatest and most important religious festivals in the Jew- ish calendar, namely—the Day of Atonement, The rabbis yesterday, in view of its approach, preached more or less directly about it. The lesson read in the Lexington avenue synagogue was Hosea xiv., which calls upon Israel to return to the Lord, and which gives this day the name of “shebuhah,” the Hebrew word for “Return.” The second verse of this chapter was made the basis for an interesting discourse by the Rev. Dr. Huebsch. It reads:—“O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.’? The invitation contained in this and subsequent verses of the chapter, the doctor remarked, are important to us at all times, but more eapeciaily so at this season of the year, which is pre-eminently consecrated by Judaism to the holy work of SELF-PURIFICATION AND REUNION with our heavenly Father. The prophet exhorts the people to consider earnestly how deeply they were ensnared in sin, and how far astray they had wandered from God, and at the same time he points out to them how they shall escape from the entanglements of their sins,and directs them at once to the Lord, who is rich in mercy unto all who call upon Him. But the sinner’s return to God is conditional. He must view his iniquity in its true and proper light, No man likes sin, but many do enjoy its beneiits. ‘They look upon sin in much the same light thata builder looks upon his scaffolding, it helps to raise the structure, If their work does not succeed, if the walls of their building tumble down with a crash, of course they are sorry, and are ready, perhaps, to acknowledge the faultiness of their building and its appurtenances. There are many bee stock speculators inthe market to-day, ‘hey regret the ae of their houses and wnel fortunes; but, nevertheless, they are prying, if not praying, for the occasion to use the old scaffold and to rebuild after the old style again. If their edifice shail stand or if it shali fali they will equall discard the scattold by means of which it was reared. In one case it would be useless; in the other it would be a disfigurement and a nuisance. It is not, however, ultimately destroyed. It is stored away to be kept for future use, if it should be re- uired. You can find many a man, said the loctor, who has climbed to the pinnacle of weaith on the ladder of iniquity. In his exalted position he assumes the 7-0le of the saint, for sin would mar the pride and pleasure of his glorious exaltation. But in some corner of his heart lurks the thought, “SIN IS MY OLD, GOOD FRIEND, Towe to it alii have.” This is not the way that leads to God. “Woe unto him that buildeth his house by iniquity,” says the prophet. He does not Mean woe unto him when his house falls down, but when it stands in all ite strength and beautiful proportions; when it 1s admired by thousands and tens of thousands of flaiterers— woe unto him even then, For sin, whether it be successful or not, is the pate atmosphere which gathers the storm-cloud of God's anger around the sinner’s head. Sinner, said the doctor, speaking parenthetically, whether thou standest high or low, to retarn truly to God thou must be conscious that thou hast fallen by thine own in- iquity. THE SECOND CONDITION of an acceptable repentance is an earnest purpose to deserve forgiveness for the past by an untiring endeavor to lead a pure, uncontaminated lifefin the future, Not by empty ceremonies but by @ lie and conduct representing in all things the sublime spirit of the commandments of |, is His favor to be won. Say unto God, take away our iniquity and receive us graciously, 80 will we render unto Theo the calves of our It In_ contrast to the prescribed sacrifices of the Temple, which the people offered, while they retained iniquity in their hearts, the prophet bids them render unto God the calves of their,lips, as an evidence or sym- bol of the sincerity of thelr hearts. ‘They should deserve the grace and mercy of God by a faithful adherence to His words. Thou hast fallen by iniquity; try to rise by equity and virtue and God wili mercifully forgive thy jail. ‘The third condition is to cut of the root of the evil. ‘‘Ashur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our goda, jor in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.” It was their intimate connection with Ashur and with Egypt that led the Israelites to desert their God. That they might secure the good services of these nations they adopted and imitated their idolatry. WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN GOD ye ea Apostacy; therefore their return tothe ord was to be characterized by entirely breaking oi their pernicious connections and trusting alone in Him in whom the fatheriess findeth mercy. The Doctor demonstrated that most of our sins are the results of pernicious connections formed without a true faith in God, and the ultimate con- dition for mercy is to break off all sinful alliances, however profitable they may be, and trust only in God, our everlasting hope. Whoever, said the Doctor, in conclusion, will carefully observe these conditions in returning to God will tind the prom- ise fulfilled, “I will heai their backstidings; 1 will love them freely, for mine anger is qurued away from them,” ADRUPLE SHEET. iw dh aiticen tA RR cero is AEN MER OLE AT SER BG UENO EE We MUSICAL AKD DRAMATIC NITES. Aimée went out last night at the Boadway Theatre; “About Town” comes in to-morrow. Miss Neilson begins with Juliet tomorrow eveming an engagement at the New Park fheatre, Brooklyn. Mr. Hartz, the illusionist, begins a season in the little halt of the Tammany Building on theevening of October 13, Realism, pure and simple, is the ord at the Theatre Comique. For instance, “The lulian Pa- drone” and “Oroloso.”” “Life—Ite Morn and Sunset” is to be th attrac- tion this week at the Bowery. It. will be sure to be tull ef moral chiaro-oscuro. . Theodore Thomas’ series of six symplny con- certs will begin on the evening of Saturlay, No- vember 22, at Steinway Hall. Miss Maggie Mitchell’s Fanchon is a criket that will not be “scrunced.” It will chirp a Booth’s Theatre to-morrow evening week. At the Germania Theatre Mr. Neuendorff will next Thursday evening present ‘Les Bigands,” with entirely new scenery and costumes. Mr. Bellew, begins his readings in th United States next Thursday evening at the churih at the intersection of Madison avenue and FPrty-fiith street, é Signor Campanini may be “the idol of th: London Public,” but we question the expediemy of the New York public's being informed so per adverti- sement, The sublime potentialities of tinsel ontinue to be indicated at the “Black Crook” performance at Niblo’s. Nothing is small about the entertiinment— not even the audiences, is “La Sonnambula” has not been given here for so very long that it will have something of tie favor ofa novelty. It will introduce Mile. di Murska to us next Tuesday evening week. The Fiith Avenue company play October 6 at Newark, 7th and‘l0th in Brooklyn, sth it Eliza- beth, 9th at Harlem, and during the swceeeding two weeks at Albany and Providence. To-morrow evening a drama entitled “Shin Fane’ will be produced at Wood’s Museum, The lure of the title consists in its incomprehensibility. It is tobe hoped the acting will not prisent the same characteristic, The managers of Terrace Garden annouace that @ sacred concert, consisting of “La Grande Duchesse” will be given there this evening, with Mile. Aimée in the pious title rdle, Is bowquet de Caroline the odor of sanctity ? Mr. Frikell will continue to decetve the senses (the only deception of which we believe him capa- ble) for the first three evenings of the present week at Steinwav Hall After that he lets himself loose upon the United States people. Mr. Daly is inclined to give the Saturday night frequenters of the Grand Opert House the worth of their money. Last evening‘‘Haunted Houses” and “The Idiot Witness” were both offered. This is melodrama pressed down ami running over. Next Wednesday Mr. Neuemorf takes posses- sion of the Terrace Garden Tieatre. The opening Plece will be G. Von Moser’s “Das Stiftungsfest.” The opening night will be Ocbher 5; the regular evenings, Wednesdays, Friday and Sundays, Signor Saivini has, we are |nformed, presented to Mr- Edwin Adams the rightto perform the Ens- lish version of “La Morte Qvile” Mr. Adams’ répertoire needs replenishmmt, and this rost graceful courtesy of Signor Savini’s will well begin the work. Tamberlik’s great scene in “Il Polluto” is the “Credo” introduced by him at the conclusion of the second act. Signor Tamlérlik has with much tact declined all invitations jrotfered him by clubs and societies until after hii débutin New York shall have taken place. .‘An audience even larger than that of Friday evening assembled at the Academy of Music yes- terday afternoon to see ‘Othello.’ Salvina was recalled ten times. ‘La Norbe Civile’? will be re- peated on Tuesday evening, and “Hamlet” will be brought out on Thursday. “The Geneva Cross’ is \o begin the regular dramatic season at the Union Square Theatre next Wednesday night. Miss Eytinge will return to the stage atter an absence of four years. The principal other artists are Miss Mestayer, Mr. C. R. Thorne, Jr.; Mr. Stuart Robson and Mr. F. F. Mackay, “The Geneva Cross” is in four acts and has been elaborated by Mr. Rowe. The Marionettes at Kobinson Hall have made an irresistible appeal to the children and young people of New York. Observe that even Nilsson had to goon Friday eventig to gather materials for future creation. There is a rumor that Mr. Macdonongh intends this show as an exposition of the American school of acting; but this we scarcely believe. Next Thursday evenitig Signor Salvini contem- plates appearing at the Academy as Hamlet. Al) that we feel safe in stating at present is that his conception is strictly original, and that, whatever be thought of his truthfulness to Shakspeare, it will probably realize the dearest wish of the man- agerial heart and “create a sensation.’ Waliack’s will open on Tuesday. The plays wil! be “Barwise’s Book” and “The Burrampooter,’; Mr. Sothern will appear in both. The other artists who will become visible are Messrs. Gilbert, Beck- ett, Polk, Holland, Floyd and Browne, Misses Dora Goldthwaite, EMe Germon and Kate Bartlett and Macame Ponisi and Mrs. Sefton. Mr. Wallack will make his first appearance in two years in Novem- ber. Last evening Lydia Thompson bade farewell to the public at the Ulympic Theatre, previous to making what she announces as her sixth and last tour of the United States. It may be the sixth, but we doubt whether it will be the last. The United States will be scoured by the Thompson burlesque troupe just as long as the fair directress ot it continues to retain those charms which some of her disparagers declare already to be upon the wane. Mrs. Oates, who begins an engagement at the Olympic Théatre to-morrow evening, has evidently a laudable ambition to abandon burlesque for the more refined and less unintellectual graces of comic opera. Her opening representation will be in an English version of ‘La Fille de Madame An- got.” Mrs. Oates is as vivacious as she is ambi- tious, has a voice which is as fresh and sparkling as her wardrobe, and her artistic desires warrant respect. The Fifth Avenue Theatre company will pass through the city to-morrow, on the way from Buffalo to Philadelphia. Mr. Daly expected that his three stars, Miss Morris, Miss Davenport and Miss Jewett, would carry off the honors in the order named; but we hear that the first fatied to triumph as completely as is her wont, while the last achieved unexpected success, The extremely fortunate members of the company were Miss Davenport, Miss Jewett, Mrs. Gilbert, Mr. Fisher and Mr. Lewis. Miss Merant goes to Philadelphia in place of Miss Morris, who will not appear in that city. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg's concert, at the East Side Association Hall next Tuesday evening, is looked forward to with mach interest by the fashionables of Yorkville and Harlem, It is so sel- dom that our uptown people have an entertain- ment all to themselves that it 1s quite natural a first class concert by an artiste of Miss Kellogg's rank, assisted 98 she will be by several others not unknown to fame, shonld cause a great Nutter and excitement. The affair promises to be a great success, By the way, why don’t the Yorkvillers and Harlemers establish some permanent place of amusement for themselves ? THE VETERANS OF THE MEXICAN WAR The committee of the veterans of the Mexican war—General J. H. Hobart Ward, General H. Gates Gibson, General Charles H. Graham, General Thomas .W. Sweeney, General Francis E, Pinto, General Addison Farnsworth, General John D. MacGregor, Colonel William Linn Tidball, Major William J, Gary, Captain James O. Marriott, Frank D. Clark and John O’Connor—met at Knickerbocker Cottage, Sixth avenue, on Thursday evening, to erjorm the labors assigned them at the recent Jonvention of the survivors of that war held in Mititary Hall, in the Bowery. A constitution and bylaws were adopted ana oMcers for the associa- tions elected, which the committee will report to the Convention at an adjourned meeting to be held at Military Hall on Thursday evening next. Ail persons who served in that war, in the army or navy of the United States, are requested to be a present gn that PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS. Last Day ot the Autumn Meeting. A Fine Attendance Trotting. A Swindling Race Rightly Panished— Owner, Driver and Horse Ruled from the Track Forever. and Good Finer weather and a faster track was never re quired for a day’s sport than was had yesterday at vhis delightful place. A fine bill of fare was offered and a large number of gentlemen and ladies were congregated on the balconies and stands. at the Prospect Park Fair Grounds to enjoy a sociable afternoon, Two trotting contests were an- nounced and came of, the first being a purse of. $1,000 for horses that had never beaten 2:45; $500 to the first, $250 to the second, $150 to the third and $100 to the fourth, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. For this purse there were four- teen entries, eleven of which came to the post, These were Hiram W. Howe's chestnut gelding I Guess So, E. M, Howard’s bay mare Lucch, George N. Ferguson’s bay mare Miss Miller, L, S, Sammis’ sorrel gelding Fort Washington, James Chan- dler’s bay horse Trustee, John Splan’s brown gelding Chester, William Barnard’s (a fictitious name, the right one being Chase) gray gelding Hopeful, John Murphy’s bay gelding Everett Ray, Ben Mace’s bay mare Nettie Walton, T, S, Carpen- ter’s chestnut mare Lizzie Keeler and J. 8, Baker's bay mare Guinare. te will be recollected that on Tuesday last, when Everett Ray and Hopetul trotted in a large field, and, notwithstanding that Ray was the favorite against.the field before the start, Hopeful beat im, and won the race in three straight heats, making the second one in 2:28. Mark the conster- nation of the honest people who had seen the pre- vious trot and attended the second one yesterday afternoon, when they found Everett Ray sellt at 100 to’ 60 over the horse that had defeate him a few days previously. The previous backers of Hopetul and a few scamps sat on the lower part of the fence iacing the track listening to the mu- sical voice of ‘Tom Baker, the pool seller, who, no doubt, felt in his bones when he knocked the pools down in favor of Everett Ray, even against the field, that the Hopeful party who were looking at him were bent on a robbery; but he, not havin, the proof at hand to proclaim their villany, wen! on with the sales, and pene time the horses came on the ground Everett Ray was anderstood to be the winner, beyond @ peradventure, by sles villain on the ground, and they all took - vantage of their knowledge by investing their bottom dollar on their knowledge. Some gen- tlemen, however, had pluck enough to back Hopeful with full respect for the integrity of the gentlemen who were to be the judges of the race, and who, they knew, would not countenance fraud in any shape. Under this feeling quite a number of the gentlemanly mem- bers of the Association were outspoken about their determination to stop fraud on the Prospect Fair Grounds at every hazard, The race went on and Everett Ray won the first beat in hand, Hopeful having been palpably pulled to every beholder. The second heat was won by Miss Miller (a fielder), and the fact being evident to every eye that Hope- ful had been pulled again several gentlemen appealed to the judges and protfered the cus- tomary $50 for the change of the driver of Hopeful and to have George Washington Jarvis re- moved and ©. 8, Green take his place. G. S. Green, with Hopeful, won the three following heats in extraordinary time, and Mr. Chase, 4 Jarvis and Hopeful were ruled off all tracks re- cognized by the National ation forever and ever. . This will prove a lesson, we hope, to the many vagabonds who prow! over this country from spring time to autumn, enriching themselves and their friends by iraud. The owner of Everett will not escape censure, although his horse trottea as well as he could and made a very good race; in fact, much better than it was expected he could do after the Hopeful party had consented “to chuck the race’? The second trot was between Camors, Sensation, Huntress, W. H. Allen and Gaselle. Five heats Were trotted, the favorite—Gazelle—being dis- tanced the first heat and W. H. Allen the second. Camors won the third, fourth and filth heats, and the race. The backers of the latter horse made “cords"’ of money for bisfriends, as he was sold for less than a song. The following are the SUMMARIES, ProsPECT PARK FaiR GROUNDS, SEPT. 27.—LasP Day OF THR AUTUMN TROTTING MEETING.—Purse $1,000, for horses that have never beaten 2:45; $600 to the first, $250 to the second, $150 to the third and $100 to the fourth horse; mile heats; best three in five, in harness. ENTRIES. W. Bernard’s g. g. Hopeiul.. J. Murphy’s b. g. Everett Ray. G. N. Ferguson’s b, m. Miss Miller. L. 8, Sammis’ s. g. Port Washingtor B. Mace’s b, m, Nettie Walton. P, Manee’s s, g. I Guess So. T. S. Carpenter’s ch. m. Liz: J, 8. Baker's b. m. Gunare. J. Splan’s br. g. Chester. B. pl. Howard's b, m. Luc James Chandler's b. g. Trustee J. L..Doty’s br. g. Versailles A. J, Feek’s cr. g. Prince..... O. S. Green’s br. g. Black Bashaw. TIM. opanen appre auwn — @eSeoseeomnn F - » garowersonur~ § FawSosawnem never beaten 3 $1,! second, $500 to the third and $300 to the fourth; mile heats, best tree in five, in harness, ENTRIES, J. J. Bowen's bik. g. Camors...... 1 Ben Mace’s b. g. Sensation. 22 8. Goldsmith's b. m, Huntress. 3 P. Manee’s b, 8. W. H. Allen...... C. S, Green’s b. m. Gazelle..... G. N. Ferguson’s b. m. Lady Banker. C. 8, Green’s b. m. Lulu... Mile, 222056 2:24 223% 522396 2:24 Third Contest for the Bruce Medal—J. T. B. Collins the Winner—Sixteen Out of a Possible Twenty. The third contest for the Bruce medal, valued at $100, a full description of which has been publishea in the HEBALD, took place yesterday afternoon at Oreedmoor. The shooting was fair, but not equal to either the first or the second match. Mr. J. T. B. Collins, of Bayonne, N. J., a lawyer by profes- sion, was the winner, making sixteen out of a possible twenty. Mr, A. Anderson also made six- teen. They both made a bull’seye (4). Had Mr, Anderson's bull’s eye been made on his third shot, as Mr. Collins’ was, it would have pveen a tie; that is, @ bull’s eye, made on the last sh counts more, when the total is a tle, than any other. The badge was first won by Captain John Bo- dine, and next by Captain Wingate, the Secretary of the association, It must be won three times person before ae | his property. lar match @ 200 yard sweepstakes first prize being $5, the second $3 1, ‘The range is being improved for the October con- test. Raised butts Nos. 1, 2 3 and 4bave been levelled. amd sunken butte substituted for them. Two new targets have been erected, makin; twenty in all, A weil has been sunk to a de of sixty feet, and water has just been reached, As several accidents have occurred to the markers, the splashes from the bullets striking their hands, it is 8 wed that they hereafter use gloves to protect themselves. The injuries are never severe, and the gloves will amply strong for the purpose. No accidents will occur if the danger signal is down; but when a man shoots on the wrong target, as was done yester- day, and is immediat “y! followed by the riglit m: the marker is liable to be injured by the last snok as he throws the door open to score the first shot. A man firing on the wrong target intentionally should not be allowed to fire any more. ‘The Adjutant General has decided to offer as the prizes for the First aud Second divisions, to be shot for at the October match of the National Rife Association, two large silverplated water coolers of elaborate Ree and costing $100 each. ‘They will be inscribed with the names of the winning team, and will form @ handsome ornament to a regimental armory, he Third and Fourth Connecticut National Guard have announced their intention of sending teams” to compete in October. Nearly all the New Jersey regiments will also send teams, and a number of them have already visited the range tor practice. The Adjutant General of Pennsylvania has written to the association acknowledging the receipt of their circulars in regard to tne match and stating his desire to’do ail in his power to fur- ther the objects of the association, The Sixty. Nunth will visit Creedmoor in a body on Tuesday. They expect to take 300 men. To show the amount of practising going on it may be stated that within the last two weeks 3,000 cartridges have been fur. Hished by the association upon the range to ita Members, this being exclusive of those issued by the State to the different orwenuzations of the Naw tlonal Guard nnoy requisition, ——— ee eet a ee i ee 2 Pee et et a a ee