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Instead of a procession of ladies filing into Harry | 4 the pense away.” There must be more in Hill’s concert aaloon and offering him $100 a night | it than is dreamed of by our philosophy at present, | for the use of nis hall for prayer meetings, thereby | You may think what you pl but tl 800 men RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ‘Programme of Services---Second | Sunday in Lent. ————_ Temperance Thoughts--Min- | isterial Movements. Sita a a Rifle Shots at “Balbutus” and Dr. Fulton. Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, will lecture to- day in the Churcb of the Holy Innocents on “Catho- No Education.” ‘The Rev. David Mitchell will preach in the Canal Street Presbyterian church morning and aiter- noon, Mr. Mitchell has recetved a call from the | Calvin Presbyterian church, of St. John, N. B. pr. A. C. Osborne will preach in the South Baptist | charch to-day, morning and evening. | Rey, E. C, Sweetser and Rev. H. R. Nye will oc | cupy the pulpitof the Bleecker Street Univergplist church to-day, Rev. James Btoknell will conduct a morn{fig’ana an afternoon service lor the Beulan Baptist church, im Greenwich Ball. Rev. A. N. Gilbert, of Baltimore, will supply the pulpit of the Church of Disciples of Christ to-day. Rev. P. L, Davies will tell the Berecn Baptist church this evening how to make a good invest- ment. He will also induct into the Church, through the baptistry, some who have lately made & good investment. The Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach @ sermon of encouragement this evening in the Standard Clap Hall. Dr. Armitage will preach morning and evening | in the Fifth avenue Bapust church. Rev. E, D. Matthews will conduct the Free Churen services in the Harvard Rooms this morn- ing. Rev. C. M. Sims, D. D., of Newark, N. J., will hold services there on Thursday evening. “The Three Temptations of the Church” is the topic chosen by Rev. W. W. Andrews for this even- ing's meditation in the Catholic Apostolic church, ‘The Fourteenth street Presbyterian church ser- vices to-day will be conducted by Rey. Bobert Bioss, Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preach in the Fifty third street Baptist church to-day and Rev. W. H. Ciapp during the week. New Testament baptism will be administered in the Central Baptist church this evening. The pulpit of the Scotch Presbyterian church ‘willbe occupied to-day by the Rev. S. S, Mitchell, of Washington, D. C. Dr. T. M. Eddy will preach m St. Luke’s Method- ist Episcopal church this morning. Sacramental service this evening. Bev. H. W. Knapp preaches to-day in the Laight Street Baptist church, Baptism in the evening, Rev. Professor Wilson, of Columbia, 8.C., wili address the Collegiate Reformed church, in Fifth avenue, Dr. Ludlow pastor, this evening. Plymouth Baptist church will be instructed to- | day by Rev. D. H, Miller, who will baptize converts | in the evening. | ‘Rev. Mr. Barnhart will preach im the Forsyth | Street Methodist Episcopal church to-day. In the afternoon a temperance meeting is to te held | there. Rev. Wayland Hoyt will occupy the pulpit of the Tabernacie Baptist church this morning, and Stein- way Hall this evening. Revival services will be held in the Seveateenth | street Methodist Episcopal church to-day by Revs. Inskip and McDonald. Temperance meeting in the | gfvernoon and also to-morrow morning. | ‘The morning and evening sermons in tne Sev- enteenth street Baptist church will be preached by Rev. Robert Cameron. Dr. Morgan wil! conduct the Lenten services in St. Thomas’ church, and will preach morning and afteronon. Rev. Mr. Giles will repeat a sermon on “The Place.of the New Jerusalem Church in the Progress of Humanity” in the Swedenborgian church, | Thirty-ffth street, this morning. | Services as usual in the Greek Catholic chapel, in Second avenue, this morning. . L. C. Howe will lecture for the Progressive ‘Spiritualists in Robinson Hall morning and evening, | Rev, Father Hammond, of Florida, preaches this morning (high celebration, choral) in the Church of St, Mary the Virgin. Vespers (choral) at four o'clock P. M. At the morning and afternoon services in the | Charen of the Holy Trinity Rev. §. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach, and at the evening service ev. E. H. Kettell. ‘The people will have the Gospel preached to them in Cooper Union Hal! aiso, at bal-past seven o'clock P. M., by Rev. Dr. Tyng. The Reformed Episcopalian doctrines will be set forth by Bishop Cummins at Steinway Hall in the morning and at Lyric Hail in the evening. Rey. Dr. Hogh Miller Thompson wili expound “The Christian Doctrine of Prayer” this evening in Anthon Memorial church. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Newton, will conduct the morning and afternoon services. Rev. Dr. Potter will occupy Christ church pulpit this evening. Other services at the usual hours. ‘The Book of Uommon Prayer and the Prayer Book of 1785 will be lectured upon this evening in St. Peter’s church by Rev. Dr. Beach. «The Pilgrim” will be exhivived this evening in Bain Hall. At the morning and evening services in the | Chureh of the Resurrection the rector, Rey. Dr. Flagg, preaches, Rev. T. S. Pycott will minister to his new charge (St. sohn’s church, Brookiyn), this morning and | evening. | “The Woman’s Temperance War’? will be treated ‘Wron by Rev. Mr. Clarke, in Unity chapel, Hariem, this morning. ‘This morning's service in Wainwright Memorial eburch will be conducted by Rey. Mr. Egbert, rec- tor, and the evening service by Rev. Dr. Geer. This evening and during the week Saran F, Smiley will preach in tue Church of the Disciples. | Rev. Mr. Hepworth preaches this morning on , “Jehovah and Baal in the Human Heart.” “Where to Put One’s Treasure” will be pointed out by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, this Morning, ip the Church of the Messiah. Rev. Dr. George B, Draper lectures this evening in St. Andrew’s church, Harlem. H Dr. Rachel C. Martin will this evening address a temperance prayer meeting in Phenix Hali, Wil- Mamsburg. The asual conference of the Spiritualists of New York will be held at two P. M. Services in De Garmo Hail at half-past ten A. M. and half-past two and hall-past seven P, M. } Practical Suggestions to the Friends of Temperance—-Enforce the Civil Damage Law and Hold Dram Sellers Responsi- | ble for the Effects of Intemperance. To rae Evrron or THR HERALD:— The new war against liquor having taken root in this city, why cannot the crusade be turned into | @ practical course, where the benefits can be made | a8 permanent and lasting as they are spontaneous | and temporarily or apparently successfal ? Every | one knows the history of these spasmodic efforts to “conquer the demon rum; how for @ short time hundreds of habitual and hara drinkers rash forward to be first on the roll of pledge signers and foremost among the new converte to temperance; how fifty per cent of these continue to drink, but “on the sly," the same quantities as before; how forty per cent more cease drinking for a few Weeks and then gradually resume, and how | Mine per cent of the balance, unable to | Withstand the cravings of diseased appetites | | and the taants of former associates, relapse into } their ol4 habite of disstpation, and, stung by re- | Morse at their weakness and failure to reform, | } sink deeper into degradation than ever before. ‘This is the oft-repeated Story of spasmodic temper- Sice reform, and will be the history of this last one ifthe leaders arc not imbued with a few grains | | butcher's and baker's; of common se! practical direction. | advertising that piace and inducing hundreds of | people to there out of curiosity who would hever tnmk of doing so without this populariz- ing— instead of expending their esforta in this mis- guided direction, let them place their hundreds of | ollars in @ common fund and their personal ser- | vices 2 & common cause to prosecute liquor dealers under the Civil Damage act, now In ex- istence in the State, but at dead letter in this city, movement take up the morning papers, note tle humerous cases of violence, injury and murder produced by excessive indulgence in liquor, trace — fe ure out the suderers by each of these ‘ays, 3 their consent and institute suits in the name of these respective parties for the damages done, and prosecute them to @ successiul issue in the courts Of justice, Let them also go into the highways and byways and search ont the thousands of cases of ioamaee emia by husands snd Pie sunee- ering at gin mills money which 3! Ner's Niet these cases be prose- cuted in like manner, and turn the money thus obtained over to the families who are suffering in secret that the rumselier may fourist and flaunt bis finery in the (aces of tis suffering victims. Let the directors of this new move remember that this is not a case of “suing @ beggar,” but that a judgment obtained under the present law, if it cannot be collected from the liquor dealer, is a lien upon the property wherein and whereon the liquid is sold, that to every in- | stance it js worth its full face to the piainti Make eac! juor dealer r the damages = cap = drvexiy traced to i pr ig Cia which he is legally resi e, will im- Mediately. maxentt e thelt “interest” to refuse every man liqddr, who ings for . better without en- | dangeilag the Yee and Umbs i every one he | meots upon the street and.of his own at ome. Let the ladies adopt this course criminate sale of liquor will cease ly can drink with comparative safety to themselv and others will be apt to get liquor, and ina were few weeks the temperance cause will e , vanced position which centuries of spasmodic Pledge signing, Barry Hill prayer meetings and ‘ater street psalm singing can never secure. It Rd be true that uid afford a iimited ie! this plan wor lor oratorical Nourwh, but it would compel the lasting reformation of more drunkards and relieve more Cases of suffering than can be effected by the united efforts of all the praying bands, psalm sing- ers and speech Makers o/ the universe. New York, Feb. 28, 1874. PRACTICAL. Public Speakers on the Present Age. To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD:— Ihave listened toa great many public speakers | of late and have been struck with tne way in which they criticise the present age. it seems to satisfy @ craving and a very morbid appetite of the * audience to hear the days in which we live calum- Biated. If a speaker finds it diMcult to make a hit im any other direction he is sure to find a hearty response when he brings his rhetorical firearms to bear on the infidelity of the times. He waxes wroth as he denounces the community among which he Itves, and his eloquence knows no bounds as with his trembling finger he points to the distant past and eulogizes it as the Golden Age. For myself, [ have little sympathy with this sort of thing. { am glad that I live now, and would rather be alive to-day tnan to have lived at any time tn the past, To be sure there is a great deal of crime, of corruption and of religious infidelity; but what age has been clear of these evils? If we deny it is at least a thoughtful dental, and one that is m search of the truth, and not the cold, heartless and scornfal denial of the French encyclopedists. Other ages have been corrupt, but somehow history carries a pen in one hand and a piece of India rubber in the other; she tenderly recoras ail our salient virtues, and pityingly erases the record of the baser ele- ments, When she does the same for us we shall stand as the peer, atleast, of the times which | rouse oureloquence and our envy. I have little patience with the men who walk backwards, facing the past all the time. They seem to like | whatever is mildewed or cobwebbed with age, | whue they insist that everything newly made must necessarily be imperfect, if not worthless. I have Known such to stand before some old and dingy picture in the Louvre, whose outlinings were blurred and whose coloring was defaced, with a | kind of sanctimonious awe, and pass by with severe indifference a better only fault was that are quantities of men in the nineteenth cen- | tury who do not belong here. They are | fosstls, unconscious of their fossiliferous condition. It would be well if we had a historical undergrouna picture, whose the Middle Ages, for they will never sleep sweetly | amid the fresh flowers, or under the waving grass | of Greenwood, To my mind this is, in a very marked degree, an age of faith. There is more thoughtful, deliberate ana calm confidence in the ways of Providence | than the world has ever seen. This faith is less | excitable and partakes less of the emotional ele- ment, perhaps, than that of former times; but it is at once steadier ana more sturdy. There is among the people astronger confidence in that element of historic progress known as the work- img of the Holy Spirit among men than can be found in the record of any previous century. The | revivals in our churches are less noisy; but they | are none the less efficient for that reason. It is harder to rouse a congregation to religious ecs- tasy and to throw it off Its balance, but easier to preach the living Word to the multitude than ever eiore. People are more thoughtful, more calm and more determined, while they are none the less receptive, than they were in the days of yore. | 1 am awakened toa new appreciation of these statements by certain facts patent to usall. The philosophy or science of prayer is a question to ‘which our generation has devoted itself very avsid- uously, It is the one all important consideration of the hour. The matter is discussed by the lyceum | a8 weil as by the pulpit; by scientists a3 well as by students of theology. There is pot a home in the lana that has not canvassed the subject, If some have laughed at it ag an unscientiic outpouring of | cient propelling power to drive them, the great majority have come to a different conclusion. When one man makes a prayer gauge to discover the exact amount of spiritual steam generated on the bended knee, another points to a respectable citizen-Made out oi a sot as a triamphant proof of | the dynamic force of a petition to the dear Lord. All this deliberation on the subject has produced | one important resnit, We have learned that a | great work i! cairied on without prayer can never 6 @ perfect success, and we have also learned that rayer and laziness come to nothing. Prayer and jabor must be happily united before heroic deeds can be done. They have the same relation to each other that the component parts of Madeira wine go. Ninety-nine parts are water, and the one-nundredth part has never been successfully analyzed. No oue knows what it is, but every one Knows that it is what makes the water into wine, Now, ip every great philanthropic success | see that immense pains are taken, shrewd vusiness management is exhibited, and no opportunity lost to interest the community in its behalf. The found- er says it is all the work of prayer, while the looker of says, ‘No, it is the resuit of right hard work.” On a careful analysis 1 may find that the work expended is apparently 4 cause suficient to account for the movement, bat, after still surther investigation, I discover that the Cause of that very work, Work, work all the time was prayer. Prayer is the unknown quantity in every spiritual problem. You cai are baifled in everyattempt to find out exactly what itis. Jt isa miraculous element, no doubt, and certainly does achieve wonders im most unex- pected ways. een e Muller began his mission in Bristol in ance of the people, He prayed constantly, and was confirmed in his determination to spread the Gospel. The people Knew he prayed and they | kbew what he prayed for. It was not many months before the whole population of Great Britain knew | that George Muller was praying for help to en- | lighten tne peopie. Soon came @ check for a few pounds, then some poor man dropped into his hand a hard-earned shilling, accompanying the gift with a hearty “God bless you!” Then, from some distant quarter, pertiaps India, came a drait for £1,000, until to-day the annual outlay of the | institutions founded by him amounts to more than | $100,000, all of which comes of itself. There is no begging, no dunning—only free-handed giving. hatever may be said, George Muiler’s Orphan House was oe direct resultof praying, Exactly how his petitions were answeréd it is impossivie for us to say, but that they were answered the noble buildings of Ashley Down amp! are not yetover. No man can possibly account for the increasing success of that work in Bristol un- less he admits this unknown and immeasurable element which entered into the movement when Muller yon ape ‘We have another ilinstration nearer home. McKenzte, who is at the head of one of the tew rea! homes for the intemperate, was himself a confirmed drunkard. The habit was so firmly fixed that he cut loose from family and friends and began on the cross Sore paean ioe. Feeling that there was no help he je a desperate rush jor the worst and the ap aed bd eres of remorse, he asi rayed for, and then he BH i atnewhak pants jerhaps, for himself. ¢ says that from that moment to this he has had no desire to drink, Mind you, he has not | it must be good to make one to scenes and places | simply had the power to resist given | in our own dear land where churches are being him; better than that—he has hi the | built and adorned. Iam going to make a pilgrim- appetite itself taken away. That is the marvel. | age every day of this mission tu hear the renowned fe hag had under his care, during the last few Father Damen, and purpose, each visit, to make yours, more than 1,500 drunkards, men sometimes rom high positions, and more than 800 have been “Do you give them medi- thoronghiy reiormed, resent a | jers in this | it was not old, There | railroad and could transport them to the tombs of words that go nowhere, because there is not sum. | "t get on Withont it, and yet you | 18 heart Was stirred by the prevalent ignor- | testify, | ‘They are standing proof that the days of miracles | | 1" asked. “No; I show them that I am their friend, and then we go down on our Knees and are simply miracles, something has done for them what all the rhetoric of temperance lecturers, | and all the pleadings of mother and wie and their | own wills, many times resoived, could not effect. If we believed the Bible more we should pray more. That tells us, in & Way not to be misunder- | stood, that when we ae feoctels. ‘We shall be | answered. For myself I believe it to be literally | true, and, more than once, have been helped in ways I knew Lot of © Xx. A Roman Catholic Answers Dr. Fulton. To rae Eprron OF THR HERBAL! While reading last Monday’s Hgeeap I came across a Sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Fulton, of | Brooklyn, It was under the heading “American- ism tn Church and State.” « Interested by the heading, I read the sermon, end I must confess my interest changed to sur- prise before I reached the end,.Now I, as a Roman Catholic, ask space in your impartial joar- nal to unswer, at least, a few of the reverend gen- } theman’s statements. In the first place he prayed | for the worshippers in the Roman Catholic cburches and hoped that the Gospel of Christ | Might be preached more from their pulpits. Now, allow me to state that it is only the Gospels of Christ that are preached in our churches, and our clergymen never descend so far below their calling od to preach such hatred and bigotry as the Doctor , did in bis Sunday sermon. * Dr... Fulton, in his ser-' “mon réfetring to “Bo! ‘gaid that ‘its power ‘tu, American ‘was: broken. . Yet’a' moment’ after he contradicted this’ statement oy asking if America was to be ed? He also asserts that there are Romanista born and brought up in New York who are a8 ignorant and narrowmindéd as any to be found in Italy or Rome. Now, | defy the Doctor to find Roman Catholic, even tne most uneducated, who feels or expresses 80 Much narrow, unchristian bigotry and intolerance as he did in that one sermon, The reverend gentleman states that Romanists owe allegiance to no gov- ernment but that of the Pope, and therefore can- not be good citizens of the Republic. Now, if Dr. Fulton was not a very bigoted man he would not speak thus of Cutholic Americans, who so nobly | ana willingly gave their blood to preserve the union of our country im the late civil war, tis also Very strange that 80 many “natural enemies” bave been “put on guard” 10 all the troubies of our country; beginning with the Kevolution, Among those are the names of Jonn Barry, frst Commodore of the american navy, and Lafayette, the patriotic Frenchmen. In later ae such men as R. B. Taney, Chief Justice, and Phil Sheridso, second in command of our army. As ag Dr. Fulton’s remarks about the horrors of the con- vens, they are ridicalously false, 8 sight, the reverend gentleman thinks, to see nobie Christian men who cannot get work be- cause all the places are’ filled men with a brogue. But suppose, Dr. Fulton, that “men with @ brogue” are honester and more faithful to their employers than those Christian men would be, what then? The priests will do nothing without pay, he obserts, ‘Now 1 Will venture to say that bis salary is at least double the salary received by any priest in the United States, The Doctor's stories about the poor Irishman with the dead child anda | the poor Woman who signed away her property must | be entirely imaginary. If not, who was the priest the woman's sister went to and who was the bishop? The Doctor should give details. I am glad to know | from such a reliable source tnat most of our news- | papers are influenced by Romanism. Promuneut | gunong she class so influenced must be the New York World, which went so far as to call the Doc- tor “That blazing blatherskite, Rev. Fulton.” | The Doctor’s brethren of the Protestant press must | feel gratified at being told that there is no truly ‘American Christian paper but the one of which ue | is the editor. A ROMAN CATHULIO, A Freethinker Takes a Shot at Dr. Falton. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: -| Dr. Fulton last Sunday discoursed on the subject of “Romanism,” at the Hanson place Baptist | church, Brooklyn. It is ® subject which nearly every Protestant minister speaks about at some | time. He said Catholics believe everything their | priests tell them. Iam indifferent to both Protestant | | and Catholic, but 1 see no difference between Dr. Fulton's congregation and the most bigoted set of | Catholics, when they sit and listen to such false statements as that gentleman uttered on last Sun- | | day. lam inclined to think that he made them witnout due consideration, or else he must have | known they were false, as I have abun- | dant reasons for knowing. I was a pris- | oner at Andersonville for many months, and when Protestant ministers of Baptist and other denominations were afraid to visit us lest | they shoula catch smallpox or “bosom friends’ | | there were two Catholic priests who visited the | sick and dying regularly and cheerfully. They did not expect pay. They came to the pens twice a | week, and one furnished the sick soldiers four | with his own money. 1 feel grateful for their kind- | ness when I was down with a fever, and no other minister would be seen within a mile of the Rese fellows, who heeded their comfort and help. Such menas Dr. Fulton can speak well when they are in nice, warm churches, with rich congregations to listen to and admire their eloquence and to raise their salaries, but in time of actual need they are not to be found, FREETHINKER, A Missouri Baptist Scalps “Balbutus.” To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— | Being astranger to New York, and coming from Missouri to spend a few weeks in this great city, | on Sunday morning I went to buy the best and | most popular paper in the city, The HERALD, I was told, would give me all the information on apy subject. I bought one, and the first paragraph that | I saw was “A Catholic’s Reason for Renouncing His Faith.” It seemed so strange, 80 out of the truths of that Church that a Catholic ba that Church should doubt his own opinions, that I | am compeiled, though @ member of the Baptist Church, to say that *Balbutus,” or “the stuttering fool,” does not show any more logical reasoning for | believing or misbelieving the truths of bis Church. Any one with the least comprehension can see that ‘Balpatus” is an Irishman by his opinions | and composition. I have been mixed and lived with Irisomen of all religious beliefs, but I never met one yet who, loving his Church, no matter what creed he possessed, could be prevailed on to act as he has acted. Yours respecttully, JUSTUS, | The Sea Chiff Association Controversy. NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 1874, To THE Eprror oF THE HERaLp:— | In your issue of Sunday last an article appeared Stating that the trastees of the Sea Cliff Association had denied that they paid $3,600 for damages sus- tained by Mrs. Elizabeth Langdon in the matter of her controversy with said association, which arti- cle was accompanied by a card of William McAl- lister, A. T, Briggs and Richard Kelly, dated Feb- ruary 13, 1874, wherein they state that they ‘accord to the trustees of said association and their repre sentatives the fullest integrity of purpose and eae in all their business deaungs with Mrs, Lang- jon. This article does great injustice to Mrs. Lang- don. The facts are a8 foliows:—Mr. Chauncey Shaffer brought an action in behalt of Mrs. Lang- | don against the Sea Cif Association to set aside au agreement for the exchange ot certain lands, which agreement had been unduly obtained from her by said association on the 23d of December, | 1872. ° The grounds upon which the action was based were iraud, deceit and misrepresentation. | After the action had been pending for nearly a | year the association cancelled and annulied the | agreement of Decemver 23, 1872, and executed a release covering a claim of $3,600 which they heid against Mrs, Langdon, whereupon the suit against the association was discontinued. The settlement was not consummated until Monday afternoon, February 16, three days subsequent to the date of the “card” of Messrs. McAllister, Briggs and Kelly, and this settlement took place in the presence of the trustees and myself, I acting as the counsel of Mrs. Langdon in behalf of Mr. Shaifer, he being otherwise professtonaliy engaged in court. | In justice to Mrs. Langdon 1 wili thank you to publish this note in your issue of to-morrow, in explanation of the article ip your issue of Sunday last, Respectfully yours, JAMES £, BEERS, Catholietty in Harlem—St. Cecilia’s Charch—Opening of a Mission To-Day by the Jesuits—Notes from a “Pil- grim’—Some Interesting Facts as to the Patroness of Music. | To Tne Epiror oF THE HERALD:—~ | | Anew church has been reared in the fats of | Harlem which reminds one of Palryma springing | | up out of the sands of Syria. It isa kind of “little | church round the corner,"? at 105th street and | Second avenue. You can barely get a giance of it as you ride by in the Second avenue cars. Its chief attraction is its rustic simplicity, I was | attracted thither @ few evenings since by the | swelling peals of a beantiful organ, The sermon had just commenced. It was a beautiful sermon, | preached by the Vs ha of St, Paul’s church, Kev. Benjamin Hill. A mission opens in this humble little charch this morning, by the famous Father nowned Jesuit missionary, Here is a chance jor pilgrims, I am a Catholic and believe in the pligrimage and every other good work. If it be good to make 4 pilgrimage to lands where | churches are being confiscated and battered down, | } It is conducted amen, the re- an offering towards the building iund of St. Cectiia’s church—the first ever built on Manhattan Island to the beautiful saint whom Cbristendom recog: | perapence~ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1874,QUADRUPLE SHEET. nse and the effort turned in & nizes as the martyred Atting shrine for the venient enough to be wade in the mud of Yorkville and the lem. ey enence Sar oneeee atso to be m ns, Thomas a’ Ke: in toe ‘They who travel far seld me holy.’ 1, therefo hope to have a goodly number of fellow pilgrims wending their steps to the humble shrine of the beautiful Cectlia—105th street, Secona avenue. As the beautiful new or ig not yet paid for there 18 a chance for tbe lovers of music to do honor to the patroness of that most beautiful of arts. Mr. Strakosch is an amiable aod a benev- understands the philosophy of music. Let bis admirable troupe give a benefit concert or opera for the purpose of presenting an organ to the cnurch of the noble Roman tady, st. Cecilia, who first gave the organ—the king of in- to the musical world. it would be a ‘and graceful benefaction, and the offer be gratefully accepted by the Rev. Father time! would Flattery, the pastor pf the new church, as well as. by the entire music-loving Commun URIM. Ministerial and Charch Movements. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Catholic Review is getting the women after it beeavse the managers of the proposed pilgrim- age refuse to take the softer sex along with them. Une fair correspondent docs not see how the pil- grims can’ present themselves before the Pope without women another thinks the distinction is so invidious that it will destroy the parental in- fluence of’ mothers, All the correspondents hope the barrier {against ;the ladies will be removed. ,The { movement . is,- however, going ahead, and, (committees. are being organised here and there to promote the pilgrimage (and to ensure its success. ‘The young Men’s Osthojic ‘ Union‘ of ; Brooklyn has - appointed a “Pilgrimage Committee” to further ite interestin the movement. The German Catholic be- nevolent societies of Louisville, Ky., forbid, under pain of expulsion, any member sending his child to a State school. By latest accounts Father Hecker was journeying to the second cataract of the Nile, The Roman Catholic cathedral, Greene and Clermont avenues, should be completed. The foundations were laid twelve years ago, but, with the exception of a small part fronting on Greene avenue, the walls have not yet reached the first story. A Jesuit mission is in progress in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic church, Brooklyn, A { mission will be opened in the Cathedral, Newark, N. J., next Sunday. A mission was opened by Ove of the Redemptorist Fathers, at St. Augustine's charch, Rev. VD. U’Oallaghan, pastor, South Boston, last Sunday, A mission of ive Dominican Fathers, from Onio and New York, was opened also at St. Mary’s churcu, Camoridgeport, Mass., Rev. Thomas Scully, pastor, last Sunday. The Rev. R D. Ward, of St. John’s church, Syra- cuse, has obtained leave of absence for two months, in consequence of ill heaitn, from the Bishop of Aibany, and he is now staying in this city for_a iew days preparatory to his departure for the South, arsonist Bishop Janes’ severe pu! ee labor last week (dea- icating two churches in Vermont) has prostrated him, and he 1s again compelled to keep his room. It is thought, however, that a few days’ quiet will be him to resume his official work. ‘the Rev. john W. Butler, of Boston, is to leave the East about April 25 to join his father in tne Methodist Mexican mission, The Sing Sing Methodist Epis- copal church last Sabbath raised $1,540 for the Missionary Society. Revs. Inskip and McDonald opened a winter ‘camp meeting” in the Seven- teenth Methodiet opal church on Friday even- ing. Rev. James in and E. A. Peck, while driving in & buggy near Cayuga Lake a tew days | ago, their horse became unmanageable and rap over a precipice fity feet high into the lake, ye in Erwin cang the brush, Dut his associate, together with the horse and bi » Went into the lake, The buggy was smashed and the horse badly injured, but the ministers fortunately escaped with slight bruises, From our Methodist religious exchanges this week we glean the follow- ing revival statistics by States:—TIilinois leads the | way with 2,041 converts; Missouri follows with 1,008; Iowa gives 893, New York 632, Nebraska 380, Pennsylvania 445, Massachusetts 340, Indiana 327, New Jersey 319, Ohio 155, West Virginia 148, Mary- land 290, Connecticut 92, Rhode Island 60, Kansas | 82. Washington Terri‘ory 15. The revival meetings continue with equally good results in and around this city. In the Second avenue Methodist Episco- pal church (119th street) Rev. W. W. Bowdish, pas- | tor, has received 100 converts during the revival going on there, besides 8 others, we previous fruits of the ordinary meetings of the church. This, too, 1s not his last year there. EPISCOPALIAN, The protestant Episcopai Mission Board during 1873 sent out fourteen ordained missionaries—one | to Africa, one to China, four to Japan and seven to Hayti. A missionary pees was also appointed for Japan, a lady to Africa and two native Chinese as missionaries at Shanghai. Rev. Dr. Braden, rector of St. Stephen’s Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, is poe a course of Lenten Jectures. Dr. Ewer, of this city, opened the series of Friday evening Lenten services in St. Paul’s church, Brooklyn, last Friday. The Rey. T. 8. Pycott has received a unanimous call from St. John’s church, Brooklyn, and will enter upon his duties to-day. Mr. Pycott has been in charge of the Cutler Memorial church, in Brooklyn, where his ministrations have been attended with success. ‘The Episcopalians of Philadelphia are about to es- tablish a mission house in that cliy, after the plan of St. Barnabas Home, of this city, and St. Stephen's House, Boston. BAPTIST. Last Sunday evening twelve converts were baptized by immersion in the Pilgrim Baptist cnurch, this city; eight were baptized in the Cen- tral Baptist church ; at the Berean church five were baptized, making twenty-five during the month. In the Willis street church, Paterson, N, J,, Rev. 8. J. Knapp baptized eres ve converts on Sab- bath evening last. At the Lee avenue church, Brooklyn, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith baptized twenty- one, The revival in the Baptist church at Phenix, N. Y., goes quietly on. Over thirty have professed faith in Christ, mostly persons of middle age. In Jersey City, the First, the North and the Hamilton Park Baptist churches are all enjoying evidences of a revival. Rev. G. A. Starkweather, after a very successful pastorate of five years at Tromanspburg, N. Y., has tendered his resignation, to take effect Aprill. The Lake avenue church, Rochester, Rev. BE. Nesbit, pastor, is now enjoying @ gracious visit from the Holy Spirit. Baptisms have occurred every Sabbath this year, twenty having thus publicly put on Christ. Seven others are candidates for baptism. The Kast avenue church, Rochester, also is favored. Fifteen have been baptized there, while the interest is unabated. Twelve conversions are reported in the Second church. In Philadelphia last Sunday ten were baptized in the Berean church, twenty-three in the First church, West Philadelphia; eighteen in the German church, six in Spring Garden charch and five in the Twellth church. Fifty-two nave been added to the Baptist church at Sharon, Pa., by conversion during the revival meetings just | closed, Rev. B.S. Morse has resigned the care of the Pearl street Baptist church, Bridgeton, N. J. Thirty have been received into the Baptist church at Salem, N, J., during the month of February. A new church, with thirty-nine members, has just been organized at Ansonia, Conn. There had been previously no Baptist church in or near that place. PRESBYT ERIAN. Rev. H. C. Handy, of the Presbyterian church of New Scotiand, Albany county, N. Y., has accepted acall to the Reformed Church of Schoharie, and has entered upon his labors, The Rev, George Van Deurs, of the Bethany Presbyterian Society of Utah, N. Y., has resigned because nis bodily strength was unequal to the demands made upon it by a@ mission field so extended. Rev. James Lamb, of Lake George, has been unanimoss): calied as his successor. The Presbyterian Churc of Seneca, Ontario county, N. Y., Rev. A. B. Temple pastor, has been blessed by the addition of fifty-one to its membership as the fruits of a work of grace that still goes on. The pastoral relation between the Rev. W. G. Hillman and the Westminster church, Philadelphia, was dissolved on Frid: last. Mr. Hillman goes to Wappinger’s Falls, N. Y. A serics of protracted meetings, of fourteen weeks dura- tion, have just closed at Tom’s River, N. J.; ninety souls have been converted there. Tne Rey. James C. Nigotingale, late of Smithville, L. L, has taken ' =r of the First Presbyterian church at Baby- lon, 1.1, The Jane street May ieg charch, of this city, have withdrawn from the United Presby- terlan so to connect themselves with the Pres- pytery ot New York, At Wilson, Niagara county, . Y., about 200 souls have been converted under the evangelistic lavors of Rev. Mr. Reynolds, of Binghamton. Meetings continue to be held there, and ail denominations partake in their results. Rev. W, D. McKinley, of Moscow, N. Y., has taken charge of the Presbyterian church at Castile, N, Y. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Dr. John V. N. Talmage, missionary of the Dutch Reformed church to China wul soon re- turn to his work, taking with him as assistant hig daugbter, who has been trained in the Sunday school of the Third Reformed church, ae City. Rev. James Marshall, of Brooklyn, has received a unanimous cali to the Congregational church at Acworth, N. H, which he has accepted. The “Home,” 822 Lexington avenue, will be open to the Jewish public on Monday and Tuesday, the ai- rectresses ;having commendably arranged @ Purim Reception. The Congregational B'nai Israel, of Galveston, Texas, seem to be abundantly satisfied with their rabbi, Key. Dr. A. Blum, for at @ recent meeting he was re-elected for two years, and his salary received @ handsome increase. Rey, Dr. Bium is doing excellent work in Texas, At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Evan- elical Ailiance on Monday it was resolved to raise 5,000 lor the aid of Mr. Cook’s family, and the churches were requested to take collections for the purpose on the third Sabbath ia March. The Reformed church of Beaverdam, N. Y., under the | pastoral care of Rev. Robert Dotg, is in the midst of a religious awakening. Thirty-two have already manifested an interest in their soul's welfare. Rev. Mr. Connitt still has possession of the parsonage of the Reformed church at New Prospect, Ulster county, N. Y., although the Sherif may turn him out at any time, as thirty days have expired since the decision in his case, Rey. Mr. Demarest, who has been acting as minister of the church tor some time, is put to considerable inconvenience for lack ot @ parsonage, but Mr. Connitt still holds fast to | its possession, and has lately laid in @ supply of coal, thus proving that he ia not readr *~ nave vet. Blood and Iron, or the Cross of Wood and the Iron Cross. Bismarel Tdeal Christian State Viewed in the Light of Modern Events. “Wir Gehen Nicht Nach Canossa.” ————e Baru, Feb. 14, 1874 A handgome, thin quarto volume, full of wise sayings and Nandsome wood cuts, and bearing | the title of “Winged Words of Prince Bismarck,’ has just been placed upon my table, and I think a résumé of its contents, with additions and re- | Mections, may tend to throw some light on the changes which the Prussian stateman's ideas have undergone since he first grew into fame. But I am sorry to say that the book before me does not do justice to its subject, It 1s entirely too Prus- sian and too political in its quotations of the Prince's sayings to suit any but a Prussian taste. | What we expected to find, and what really should t have been done, was to present us with @ collec- | | tion of the terse, epigrammatic and sometimes Poetic sayings'of which, Bismarck is so often guilty in his political speeches. “BLOOD AND ION’? are not the only winged words of his which have attained a world-wide fame Newspaper men, or rather their poor oppressed German con/réres, have had to suffer from his biting sarcasm in en- titling them in one of his speeches ‘people who bave missed their vocation; and, again, as “Catilinian existences,” The factis that no other class of persons can be obtained to do newspaper work in Prussia, 80 jong #4 editors are Mable to imprisonment for writing editorials at variance with the views of the Government. Deputy Sonnemann, of the Frankfurte Zettung, ‘a newspaper man and a gentleman,” is at present undergoing two months of durance vile for aslight newspaper transgres- sion, If Bismarck attempts to persecute the for- eign press, as he has been charged, then let him beware. There will De @ howl raised far greater than that from Posen, and the religious dimculties will sink into the shade, “THE MOST POPULAR MAN IN GERMANY."” The first picture that meets our eye in the vol- ume of “Winged Worda’’ seems as if originally made for the pages of the Fliegende Blaetter—a but in the Bavarian Aips, wherein a hunter isdraw, ing the attention of-his boy to apicture of Prince Bismarck, hung conspicuously on the wall, near to the crucifix. The inscription of ‘winged words'’ attached to this picture mmind us of that well known incident in the “Life of Disraeli,”” who, when the House refused to listen to his speech, declared that some time they would have to. And they had to. So Prince Bismarck, during the time when he was, perhaps, the best hated man in all Germany, declared— “Perhaps. the day will come when I shall be the most popular man in Germany.” And he was; and is still—as well as, bya large portion of the people, the best hated. How this popularity was attained 1s so well known that it needs not repetition, His policy of “Blood and Iron” made him popular because it was successful. These “winged words” have furnished the artist ideas for a design which is at once daring and unique. The picture is entitled “Blood and Iron"— BLOOD, THE CRUCIFIX; IRON, THE IRON CROSS, thus developed :— We have two parallel series of silhouettes, in the one of which the curse of blood is traced from | the death of Cain to the cross, and the blessings of tron from the delivery of the ore to the needle | gun and the institution of the iron cross. The | idea is novel. The one series isealled the Alpha, | the other the Omega; but which comes first we | know not. In the “Blood” series we first see Cain feeing before a fury after killing his brother; alittle higher two ancient warriors are engaged | in combat; a little higher an officer has fallen; he is nursed bya good Samaritan woman, while an angel descends, bringing in the one hand the | wreath of fame and in the other the chalice, The | series is surmounted by the cross, In the opposite series we are shown the noble uses to which iron is put, First we see a pigmy wheeling the ores out of the subterrancan regionsg next a smith | welding @ spear; wext a hunter engaged in the chase; next figures representing husbandry and mechanics ; next a soldier with a needle-gun— | @ Prussian, of course—who, with his right hand, is \ about to grasp the iron cross. Such is the cross of | ‘wood, the cross of iron, the first and the last, the | Alpha and the Omega of the world’s regeneration, Since Bismarck is determined to have a religion to suit the State, we would advise him to have the figure of the cross altered a little to suit the mod- ern Prussian taste—replace the cross of wood by the one of iron, the iron cross. BISMARCK’S STATE CHRISTIANITY. As I said, the book of Bismarck’s, “Winged, | Words,” leaves much to be desired in tne way of | | completeness. We find no sayings at all to illus- trate the present religions conflict that has | broken out in Germany. The work contains but | few quotations or pictures illustrative of the ques- | | | tion. In 1867 the Prince declared that “a great State did not rule according to the views of parties,” a saying which the artist has iiustrated by permitting Bismarck to ride in the | four horsed chariot over feudalism, republicanism | and Jesuitism. Now, Bismarck has uttered at times very fine things about the union of the State and the Church, about Prussianism and Cnris- tianity going hand in hand, and we propose to re- peat them here. They would form arabesques to Posen pictures of the present time. In an interest- ing debate, in 1847, on JEWISH EMANCIPATIO! | Bismarck thus spoke, in defining his views of the | Onristian State :— We have heard the definition of a Christian State. We were yesterday told that Christian su- premacy is an idle fiction, am invention of recent | State philosophers. I am of opinion that the idea of Christian pSpTeminey is as ancient as the ci- devant Holy Roman Empire—as ancient as | the great family of European States; that it is, im fact, the very soil in | these States nave taken ‘root, and that every | State which wishes to have its existence enduring, _ if it desires to point to any justification for that | existence when called in question, must be consti- tuted on a religious basis. For me the words “by their names form no empty sound; but | see in the phrase the acknowledgment that princes desire to Sway the sceptres entrusted to them by the Al- | mighty according to God’s will on earth. I, now- ever, can only recognize as the will of God that which 18 contained in the Christian Gospels, and I | believe I am within my right when 1} call such a | State Christian whose probiem is to realize and | verify the doctrine of Christianity. 1 am convinced that the aim of the State is the realization of Ubris- tian doctrine, It the religions basis of the | State be acknowledged, I am sure that among our- | selves the basis can only be that of Ohristianity. if | we withdraw from the State this religious basis our State becomes Hothing more than a fortuitous ag- gregation of rights, a sort of bulwark against the | universal war of each against all, such as an elder | philosophy instituted, its legislation, then, would | no longer re-create itself trom the original fountain of eternal truth, but only from the vague and | mutable ideas of humanity taking shape only from the conceptions formed in the brains of those who occupy the apex, * * * ‘Therefore, gentlemen, let us hot diminish the Christianity of the people by showing that it 19 saperfiuous to the Legisiature; let us not deprive the people of the belief that our legislation is derived from che fountain of Chris- tianity, and that the State seeks to promote the realization of Christianity, though that end pray not always be attained, ICH BIN EIN PREUSS, These words were spoken in 1847—we are now recording the events of 1874. Figures and ideas have changed, you see. ‘Whoever js me an un- | conscientious politician,” said once the Prince, many years ago, “does me injustice; he should try his own conscience first upon this arena.” We | must admit, however, that Prince Bismarck 18 | firm in adherence to the royalistic sentiments he | uttered more than a quarter of a century ago. He was always an uncompromising Prussian; people a + heart a German to this | day. In ase 8 he Mae against Hberalisim and the i} the grace of God’’.atlixed by Christian rulers to | th | ts of in government he said:—Tho Eagush, peo in Lesa) was then ta a digerent post. ssian peop! we A ry ofrevolution and civil War bad invested tt with the right to dispose of a crown and bind up with 16 conditions tea by Willam of Orange. On the the sovereigns were in pos session of a crown, not by ‘Of the people, bat by God's an actual unconditional crown, some of the rights of which they voluntarily con- ceded to the people—an example rare in history. In another speech he again reiers to the subject: “Prussia must be distinguishable from all other countries, A reference to England was 3 mistake. The Prussian crown must not be forced into the powerless position of the Hnglish crown, which appears more like an elegant ornament at the apex of the edifice of the State. In ours { recognize the supporting pillars.” No one could be surprised, then, when he afterwards said, in 1848:—"Ihe Frankfort imperial crown may be very brilliant, but the gold whicn lends truth to its splendor must be aaded by meiting into its compo- sition the Prussian crown.” Many Germans are “earnestly of opinion that a little too much of the Pr crown has beep melted into the Frankiort Ht ag 3 VIEWS ON WAR, “ The book of “‘Winged Words” has several telling sayings Of the Prince, some oi which are well, pic- .torially, illustrated. The famous words:—“Let us ut Germany in the saddle, she will pe well able ride,” was spoken’ in March, 1868, alter Bismarck had vegun to entertain the German national idea. ‘The tilustration shows Germania armed, riding over the prostrated ene- mies of the Empire—ihe Jesuits, republicans, courtesans and a big dragon. His aphorisms are sometimes telling. In 1809 he wert, “We cannot ripen iruit any quicker by placing @ lamp beneata it.” In 1869 he declares that “war can only be car- ried out on national principles.” Once Bismarck said, after Ausiria, ‘Whoever has once looked inte the breaking eye of a dying warrior on the batule- fleid will pause ere he begins a war.’ In 1869 he said, “Every State must be conscious of the fact that ita own safety depends upon its own sword." Truer words were never spoken in Europe. he says, “In European aifliculties, where ne competent court exists, the right can only oe obtained by the bayonet.” It is worthy of notice that all sayings having reference to France, ever spoken by Prince Bismarck, gre Carefully ex cluded from the volame. The work is entirely too Official to please us. ‘he celebrated words, “Hg LIES AS IF TRLEGRAPHED," are illustrated by a picture of a spider’s web of tele. graphic lines, sentes over which canards (zeitung: bearing despatches are fly! along, With all possi- ple speed, to all points of the compass. One canard is ridden by @ boy, bearing a despatch marked “Victory!” Another brings the hews ol @ rise in stocks to a dancing Israelite in the corner, and another beara a despatch marked “Hntents Cordiaie’ to a dismayed Minister to the left. The famous deolaration made in the Reichstag in May, 1872, against the ultramontanes—“Wir gehen nicht nach Canossa! (“We shall not go to Canossa !"') —1s illustrated by a picture ot Henry IV. standing barefoot in the snow before the castle gates of Canossa betore the Pontiff consents to re- Move the ban of excommunication, while above are seated Germania and Prince Bismarck bathed in the refulgent sun of the German crown. These ‘winged words" and this picture can only be ap- preciated in their full power by a German thor- oughly imbued with the history or bis own country. ‘“WwE WILL NOT GO TO CANOSSAl”’ simply means that Prince Bismarck will carry on the religious war to the very. end. The final quo- tation of the book—that “We, Germany, have grown more constitutional with every: war”—is @ saying, the truth of which our readers themselves will be able to judge by the iignt of modern events,, of which we shall hear more than enough, doubt leas, LEXINGION AVENUE SYNAGOGUE, Historical Remembrances in Anticipa- tion of the Festival of Purim—Dis course by Rev. Dr. Huebseh. The Sabbath preceding the festival of Purim ta in the Hebrew calendar called “Zacbor,” which means “remember.”” Dr. Huebsch’s sermon yester- day was, therefore, of a historical character and wag based on Psalm cxxix, 1-2—“Many a time have they afflictea me from my youth up may Israel now Say; many a time have they aMficted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.” Israel's history, the Doctor remarked, found its way into the writings, the prayers, the creed of the people, and has formed and still forms the pith of their private and public devotions. Israel has a twofold history. That which narrates the Wars waged, the victories won and the conquesta, made by distinguished persons, the increase and diminution of power and the rise and decline of kingdoms. The second class shows how in the mighty stream of events the intellect and spirit of man rose from the depths of ignorance almost to the pinnacle of knowledge—from the darkness of error to the light of truth, This is what makes the faith of history. From its cradle the Hebrew nation was devoted to serve spiritual purposes. Even before the revelation on Sinat THE HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS and the events in Egypt pointed them out asf people destined by God to exert a great lt Quence on the mind of mankind.. The patriarchs were the pioneers to break @ path through the wildernes¢ of spiritual degradation, and the great drama ix the land of Ham was the undeniable proof that an extra-mundane power has a right to meddle tu human affairs, and that the nations of the worlé are under the control of a Most High Commander, These ideas were sanctioned and solemnized on Sinai. The truths were designed for all men and for all time, but one nation was commissioned t¢ propagate them. To be a messenger of God is @ great privilege, and must be dearly bou; ng, for the message of truth challenges the dal powers to battle, and many a@ wound iy inflicted on the vVallant champion ere victo! rests upon his banners. Not until he had wrestle mightily with a powerful adversary in the dark- ness of the night was Jacob called Israel. And hig posterity was to pass through many a hard stru Re in their sujime cailing as God's chosen Israel heir sufferings were so many blessings for them« selves and for the great mass of their Lert | who stood as yet outside the pale of reveale truth. Gradually these successive triais perfecte the nation for its great work, and for the rest 0} mankind they became the living exponent of God’4 never slumbering providence. This song of Israe! which I have chosen for my text, said the white rabbi, is like the sublime hymn offered up daily ta the Lord of the universe. Heaveo and earth by their existence proclaim God as creator; the old. est people of history by their vigorous lire after many trying vicissitudes proctaim Him the Fathe: apd Ruler of mankind. The Doctor then depicte the situation of the Jews under Ahasuerus, whont he identified with Xerxes, for, as he remarked, there are ‘NOT TWO SUCH FOOLS IN HISTORY. ‘A foolish king and a malignant minister cast the lot of a nation of peaceable and industrious cit izens, whose only offence was that they belonged to the creed of the one poor man whom the vain- glorious Minister hated. The Doctor portrayed the character of Mordecai and Esther, and re« marked that they met the danger with no other weapon than prayer to God and trust in His strong arm t bring deliverance to their people. The name of God does not once occur in the book of Esther, and yet that book 18 a speaking testi- monial of God’s justice and mercy. Truth and piety will prevaii over folly and wickedness, though the latter may be clothed in the splendor and magnifi- cence of earthly reap and be protected by the arms of material might, The Supreme Protector of truth and piety sits omnipotent on His celestial throne, and by His strong hand and mighty arm are the cords of the wicked cut asunder. The Doctor then contrasted the condi« tion of the Jews m_ this blessed country, where freedom and not oppression, love and not hatred, plety and not sectarianism are the | lights that’ guide the souls of men to salvation, witn the condition in other countries where thesé characteristics do not prevail. Yes! he exclaimed, @ REMEMBRANCE OF PAST SUFFERINGS and trials must make doubly sweet to us the en- jJoyment of beloved homes and undisturbed peace atong brethren. And our thanks to God, he said, ought to go forth from filial hearts. Admonishing his congregation faithtully to abide py Him who has been always the watcher of Israel and to live according to His holy will, the Doctor concluded by reminding his people how the Purim festival Was celebrated in other times, and pointed at how 1t ought to be celebrated now. They-should make them days of feasting and of joy, and of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor. Emphasizing the last phrase, he said no feeling heart conid Tejoice in such a time of poverty aa this unless it has first eaaed its mite to relieve the J d the needy. aT IHCEROW evening die Purim festival wil be observed by Israelites here and elsewhere. PAYMENT OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, Yesterday was the monthly pay day at the Custom House, and for salaries and other contin- gencies the sum of $201,000 was disbursed, em- bracing upwards of 1,400 checks. This entire mount was patd out by Mr. Samuel J, Jacovs, Firat Assistant Auditor under Mr, Ogden, by three ‘clock. oat the Post Office Mr. Harvey Major, Cashier, disbursed for the Post Ofice employés and the new Post Office and United States Court House nearly $100,000, Seed FIRE IN CHAMBERS STREET. A fire broke out yesterday afternoon on the fourth floor of No. 119 Chambers street that caused a damage of $7,500, The place was occt pied by Chase & Talmage, dealers in papers pat- terns. C. F. Benedict occupied the Hirst Noor as a saloon; $500 by water. Charles A, Wilson’ occupied the second and fifth corral damage $5 notingured, The building belougs to W. B, Beard, and is to the exicus ob $1,000; insured,