The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1874, Page 6

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ‘Programme of Services for the Fourth Sunday After Easter, May 3. ‘Ministerial Movements—The Ger- man Catholic Imbroglio. ‘Tho Shiloh Presbyterian ohnrch will hold services | and for some time to come in the chapel’) jo, 140 Sixth avenue. Rev. H. H. Garnett will A Russian quartet will sing the liturgy of the \e@reex Church this morning in the Russo-Greek ‘chapel im Second avenue, above Fiftieth street. ‘The Rev. W. T. Sabine, having accepted the rec- torshtp of the First Reformed Episcopal church, ‘Will preach for the society to-day in their new house on Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street. The New York Presbyterian church will enter ‘their new house of worship in West Eleventh \atreet next Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Page wit! preach. Rev. A. H. Strong, D. D., will preach this morn- fing and evening tn the Tabernacle Baptist church on “Confessing Ohrist and Invitations to Christ,” ‘The Rev. C. B, Smith will preach this evening in ‘®t, Peter's Protestant Episcopal church. ‘The Rev. J. W. Barnhart will preach morning | and evening in the Forsyth strect Methodist Epis- | copal church. A temperance meeting will be held there also in the afternoon. Preaching in the Sixth avenue Reformed church to-day by the Rev. W. B. Merritt. Dr. W. S. Mickels will lead the devotions and ‘preach in the Stanton street Baptist church to- | day. P This morning and afternoon, in St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church, Dr. Morgan will con- ‘duct the services and preach, as usual. Commu- anion at morning service. Dr. George B. Cheever will begin a series of ser- mons on the ‘Evidences of Christianity” in Asso- ‘ciation Hall this evening. Rev. J. F. McClelland will preach this morning in ‘Bt. Lake’s Methodist Episcopal church. The Lords Supper will be administered in the evening. Rev. W. P. Corbitt will preach in Seventh street ‘Motnodist Episcopal church this morning. The evening service will be devoted to the Sunday ‘chool anniversary, when Dr. Dupuy and B. F. (Judson will address tne school. | Bev. H. W. Knapp will preacb at the usual hours | *to-day in the Laight street Baptist cuurch. | She av. ew, Hempilien wil preach tn: the ‘Scotch Presbyterian church this mo! tafternoon. { Rev. W. H. Thomas, the new pastor of Beekman Methodtst Episcopal church, will preach there | ‘St the usual hours. The sermons in Seventeenth street Methodist | \Spiscopal church, at half-past ten and @ quarter to | ‘eight o'clock to-day, will be preached by Rev. W. U. Boole. Dr. D. H. Miller will preach in Plymouth Baptist ‘chureh this morning and evening. | “Faith’s Pilgrimage” is the topic of Rev. J. ‘Spencer Kennard’s discourse this evening im the %Pligrim Baptist charch. “The True God and Eternal Life” for this morn- Ang and “Giving Sight to the Biind’’ this afternoon ‘are to be treated in the pulpit of the Madison ave- tude for such @ mark Of confidence under the ctr- cumstances, When it did reach Berlin it was only to tell Bismarok aud his Vice President that the Pope couid nos receive Cardiuai Hohenlone as | tor the Pope. He was made to resent Cardinal Hoheniobe’s rejection as a persoual insult. | | fessors in their chairs in spite of tre bishops, and | bold utterances tn Parliament of the representa- OsTTL and | wherever he met with Catholics, They were the | us were avowealy the boldest, bravest, most skillful NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET, Cardinal Hohenlohe accepted It, whereas his oath | as caraturl bound him to obey the Pope and de- fend the independence of the Holy See. Was he one of those countiess juntor sons of princely houses, who, having to choose between beggary and the Church, chose the latter only to become a& disgrace and a curse to her? Tho reader will live to judge for himself. The next surprise was jor Bismarck, who walted and waited for an answer from Rome expressing the Holy Father’s grati- German Ambassador. This was an unexpected humiliation for the two arch plotters, but it was especially felt ag such by the old Emperor, who until then bad always avowed a respectiul regard Thenceiorward no intercourse was to be kept with the littie court of the Vatican. Besides, while the ANGRY DISCUSSIONS OP PARLIAMENT were still echoing throughoat Germany and Eu- rope the Archbishops of Cologne and Guesen, with eleven other prelates, addressed 8 memorial to His Majesty complaimung of the acts of his Minister of Public Worship maintaining “Old Catholic” pro- continuing in their livings or appointing to tne eure of souls priests who prociaimed their rebel- son against the head of the Caurch and a Gen- eral Counctl To this remonstrance the Em- peror was made to answer that he was surprised ‘hat he or his government conid be accused or sus- pected of violating their pledged faith towards | Catholics, whereas it was the prelates and their bettors who were opposing religious liberty. | aitor, in sending science of specuiation and the master of all and of lai You will not go ast Mr. y ‘their destination tis solemn charge on the one part and this goodly comfort on the other. J know whereo! I speak and can sub- stantiate what | allege and sae, to do 30. BENJ. PAUL BLOOD. AMSTERDAM, N, Y. Where Did “W. ©.” Get His Protestant “Clippings?” To ram Eprron or THB HERALD: — in your religious correspondence “W. C.” tately which I ask leave to make the tollowing observa- tuons:— ¥irst—Many Protestants are very ill-informed on matters of doctrine, no doubt, Roman Catholics, But, class for class, Protestants are as well iniormed on religious questivas as Roman Catholica, Seoond—Vo be of much value the “Clippings” | should indicate whence they come. Some ol tem into controversial litera: and who hav to be very suspicious of “C! "” out of their connection. ‘io know, for example, at what Period 01 ais life or in what connection Luther de- fended the mass and purgatory would show how much right the “Clipping” has to represent tae doctrines of the German reformer, Third—Some idea of the men who furnish the doctrinal statements would wlso throw liglt on the points at issue. Take an example. Bishop Montague furnishes four of the clippmgs. Let av: , reader turn to Alibone’s “Dictio: y 01 be yalen 1 and he will find the Bishop thus described : le | Was eminent for his learning, strong Armenian- fsm and weak Provestantisiu.” ‘toere is DO doubt as to the place where Bishop Montague de- | wired to go and to carry with him the King and the Churen of Engiand—to the bosom of the Vuurch of Rome.’ Hallam describes him as “justly reok- oned the chief of the Romanizing fucuou.”” Now, 1 some one quoted to us the views o: vr. Manning, Under the new Empire all denominations must be free, and tne “Old Catnolics” as free ag the others, The laws should be oveyed equaiy by all. That is, all denominations would be {ree to abuse | the Catholic Churcb, her own rebellious chiidren should be appointed to and kept in places of honor | and emolument because they retused to accept her | | solemn decisions, while any prelates wav dared to visit such rebellion with the prescribed cauonical ities should themselves be held amenabie to lawe Oi the land, and punished by fine, depriva- tion und imprisonment for daring to do their duty. Meanwhile the iron rigor with which the new aa- Miuistration of Alsace-Lorraine was eulorcing its authority, and making tne most unwise and | wholesaie changes, bed called forth tndig- | nant comment from the tree press of Eng- jend and America. Censure from this quar- ter is pecuitarly annoying to the sensitive German Chanceilor, and the annoyance in the present instance was rendered intoleraple by the on education. BISMARCK SAW Hi tog born irreconcilable toes of the German Empire. | ‘They were hounded on by the Jesuits, and the Jesu- | and most unscrupulous soldiers of the Vat.can. He would have m Germany none but such as were true to iaiherland, loyai to the Empire, and | who joreswore allegiance to a ioreign Power, be it Feligious or political. Of course, every priest who professed his ven- eration lor the 5 read sympathy with bim in lus stress was “a uit,’ or “‘afliliaved to the Jesuits,” which was the same thing. Then, the one thing urgent was to muzzle the priests, and a Jew years beiore his secession trom the Enylish Church, as representing Protestantism, he would be as honest and rational as in bringing tnis dignitary of the seventeenth century, | who gave to me rything but his personal adhesion, He was Bisuop of Nor- wico, ‘Thorndike is @ tavorite oi the English | tractarians; so is Sparrow. We know tneir quality, | thereiore, What Stillingfleet i quoted irom one | Cannot gather rom the “Ouppings, but we pre- | Bume it to be the Bisnop of Worcester (died 160%). | Of tus works Bickersteth says:—“All bishop Still- leet’a works 6 Popery are valuable.” We infer, thereiore, there 18 some explansyon of his | recommending Romanism, The quotation given | Fepresents him just as che “clipped” sentences | from the *Coniession oj Augsburg” and irom the eee of Common Prayer” represent Protestant loc 2. #ourth—When, therefore, “W. 0.” enlightens us with quotations, piease let us have opportuuity to examine the context, not that great questions | gives from the annexed French provinces and by | of this kina are to be determinea by hu- the courageous opposition of their constituents to | man authority, or ever lumen author- the high-tanded acts of the local government | ity to be determined vy euippings ;" but there Oiliciais. This was iurther Leigutened by tne re- | Will then pe & substan’ contribution to sistance which tue Poles opposed to tle new laws , Clear thinking. Controversialists cannot be | trusted in “Clippings.” Let me commend to ‘“‘W. C.” the verdict of Disraelt on Meglin, another of the “cupped” divine, and almost the only uther in the world of letter: “‘Heglin, in his history of the Puritans and Presbyterians, blackens tuem for politicai devils. He is the Spagnolet of story, de- lighting huaself with horrors at Which the painter himself must have started.” We must know tne @ltitade of men vefore we can judge of tueir rep- resentative coaracter. i. 4 Laborer’s Reflections on Piety and Poverty. To Tae Eptror or THE HERALD:— ing bishops as well, and expel te Jesuits. E tpe end of November a bill was introduced | into Pa at by the Bavarian Minister, Von Lutz, making is penal for ciergymen tv speak of | “politics” tn the pulpit or in connection with their public office, In moving to introduce the bill Von Lutz said that be had veen lacely assured by the | Bishop of Passan that the Catholic Church had | always striven to be supreme in the State, and | ue Reformed church by Kev. Dr. Ganse. | John B. Gough will speax on temperance this | ‘evening in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church. + Dr. Thomas Armitage will preach at the usual Mhours to-day in the Fifth avenue Baptist churcts | Rev. Robert Sloss will preach in the Second ave- | ‘ue Presbyterian church, Fourteentn street, this morning and evening. | } “The Gospel View of Divine Sovereignty tn Good fand Evil” and “The Climax of Human Depravity |before the Deluge” are the themes on which Dr. Sampson will talk to-day in the First Baptist ‘church of Hariem. The Rev. L. B. King, D.D., will preach in the Free | Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church to-day. | The Rev. H. R. Nye, of Brooklyn, wil! preach in ‘the Bleecker street Universalist church this morn- ‘ng, and the Rev. K. 0. Sweetser in the evening on ,“The Nobility of Serving Humanity.” Ex-Rabbi Schiamovitz will deliver a free leeture ‘this afternoon in the School Hall of the Holy Inno- ‘cents’ church. Subject, “Is Ohristianity or Modern | Judaism True?” Father Koopmans and five other Jesuit priests | ‘will open a mission in the Church of Our Lady of | ‘Mercy, Brooklyn, to-day. Fatver Koopmans will preach this morning and his assistants will ‘deliver three discourses daily during the contina- ‘ance of the missiun—two weeks. Dr. Reid and Rev. M. 8 Terry will address the Church Extension and Missionary meeting in the ‘West Eighteenth street Methodist Mpiscopal church this morning. In the Church of the Disciples this evening the Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach on “Keep- ing Your Temper,” and in the morning on “Recog- ition of Friends im Heaven.” The Rev. S. H. Platt will preach in De Kalb ave- Due Metiodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, to-day, at the usual hours. The Progressive Spiritualists will meet in Robin- son Hall, the non-progressives in Germania Hall and the Freethinkers in De Garmo Hall, to-day. Dr. A. C, Osborne will preach in the South Bap- tist church this morning and evening. Dr. George B. Porteous will preach for All Souls’ Protestant Episcopal church to-day, at the usual hours, in the hall of the Young Men’s Christian As- | that now, deprived of the support of absolutism | and constitutonalism, it was stirring up the masses in its iavor. Such being the case, let the clergy be Loe ger by the crumnal law for every | such appeal on politics, even though mage in fuil | canonicais. The bill was passed bya large ma- | jority. es THR PEOSSIAN MINISTERIAL CRISIS | came in Decemver, brought on not only by the | Widespread opposition which such laws as this | created, together with the concentrating and ab- | sorbing tendencies evident in the bilis passed for | estublishing @ uniform imperial coinage and a, common code of criminal and civil law and pro- cedure, but by the expressed dissausfaction of | members of the imperial iamily and of Bismarck’s own colleagues in the Ministry. Bismarck re- But he only retreated out of signt tor a Moment to return more poweriul and secure of bg, ‘The Pope delivered an allocation at Christmas, in which the acta of the German government were not spared. There are some of the Pope's best friends who Wish he bad the one quality which all admire in President Grant, the happy one o/ not making aliocutions. The German oficiais prowib- ited 1ts pubiication in the locai papers. Some very wise members in Parliament interpellated the ministry thereupon, and a most unfortunate dis- cussion ensued, Everything was favoring Bis- marck’s plans. On January 9, 1873, the Min- | ister of Public Worship, Dr. Faik, brought in new ecclesiastical Jaws “applicable to the Evangelical Churco as well as to the Catholic.” ‘These laws, tae Minister explained, aimed at rear- ing 4 national clergy as contradistinguished from ultramontane one, and at protecting the mem- D ers ofsuch clergy in their riguts and indepen- dence as against their ecclesiastical superiors, ‘There was auother avowed object—namely, to PROTECT APOSTATE CATHOLICS from any of the inconveniences or losses conse- quent upon their throwing off their allegiance to tne Charch. In furtherauce of the frst object all seminaries and institutions for Catholic education should be piaced under tue sole superintendence of | the State, and it was forbidden to open any Dew ones. Candidates ior the priesthood shouid be compelled to attend the State gymnasia and universities, and beiore their ordinations they must be examined by @ board of government off- clais in order to test their efficiency. The State Must also have a right of supervision over all cier- ical appointments, and the right of dismissal claimed by ecciesiastical superiors should be strictly limited. Bisneps or other superiors who made appointments which might be ancondition- ally revoked were to be visited by heavy fines. A rigorous State supervision was to be maintained over ail disciplinary establishments proper to the atnolic clergy. A power Of appeal to tne State Against ecclesiastical sentences was provided for; ‘but the State might interfere even when not ap- Jed to, and, in all cases, al! ecciesiastics couia be | “Anti-Climax.’” It might not be out of place to give you the opinion of a laborer on Obristiantty, suggested by @ letter in the HsBaLD of the Sth inst., signed There are mo people on earth who have better opportunitiémthan Americans to distinguish between mght and wrotg as [ar as re- ligion is concerned, as emigration brings the People of all nationalities tace to face here, and, whether the emigrants be from Uathoue or Prot- estant countries, their appearance generally indl- cates a happy deliverance from persecution. From my limited knowledge Iam inclined to think the majority of the people in Christian countries are both ignorant and poor. If ignorance and poverty be a part of the Christian requirement, those wno teach the Curistian «ioctrine seem to be fortunate in their escape from eituer poverty or ignorance, Another teaiure at present altractimg consider- able attention irom the working Classes 18 the desire of ali religious denominations to erect costly places of worsuip while the | Majority of the people are starving for | Meaus to earn an honest living. To judge from appearances, these costiy edifices are not intended for the lowly or the humoie, but for the rich and the gieat. Another ieature deirimentai to Chris- tianily 18 its tolerance of wrong by omigung to practice what it preacues, If to love God avove | aul things aud your neighbor as yourself be the trst duty of a Onristian, those who live and get rich by studied injury to their neighvors have very little claim to Chuis! ty. nO matter bow much | their carflages, brown stone houses or churcu pews cost. Those who go to church on Sunday Morning With goid offerings and make their neigh- | bors drunk in tae aivernvon with pomoued Liquor | are no acquisition to Christianity. What can be | the laborei’s iuture Lope woen he sees the differ- | ent parts of the city where the poor reside having | almost every other house @ distillery or porter | Seats in our Caristian churches? Or if we cast our eyes to fasnionaole localities we can beboid the | rich distiller and brewer, the disuonest and corrupt | politician, side by side with the Christian teucner In their brown scone or marble palaces. While the | poor are permitted to starve in tne slums, the prey of ravenous wolves, their snepherds are either sleeping or looking on inactive. Wherever we look we beavid preparations to punish crime ever on the increase, aud no prevention to it. We | see our government bent on crushing tue poor and honoring tue rich. We beuold the honeet | totler unavie to dnd work, and, woen it is foand, | he cannot live by @ depreciated currency. We see the impudent poitiician threatenmy the pubiio | preas for defendiug the peopie ; we sce fasion and | Indation going On Dended Knees in the mud pray- | ung lor the poor publican, wno sins by retail, while | they sin by wholesale. in fact, we have very littie | Dope except in God and the public press—the peo- | ple’s pext besc iriend—at the head of which | Marches the HERALD, Which in the time of need has suown [riendship to the people by liberally giving to the poor, and whose honest cause it Will Cou- tinue to vindicate until dishouesty aud sham piety tue ancient or modern, ta the mysteries of rei | any man now living to | Salvation ag that preached to-d: gave some “Olippings’? from Protestant doc- | stitto | trimal literature, in view of Protestants, | tounding ignorance” of their own doctrines, on are not unlamiliar to those of us Who have dipped | learned much known, for Barr and Danverry ure nvt giants | house and their proprietors occupying the best | Job, Jonah, Joshua, &c., would “Christian” believe them? I venture not. Yet on no eenenn or poser o evidence he is willing to believe that ually were true thousands of years ago, and he will use odious epithets toward | those who herein differ with him. Again, were present such a rom all ortho dox puipits, and proclaim bi Goa, born of @ virgin, given as @ sacrifice for the sins of men, would’ “Onristian”” his disciples? I venvure not. And why not? Simply because his observation and reason would repudiate any such scveme as absurd and ridicu- lous. Nevertheless he belteves just such things Dave ti ired in an of ignorance and super- f -Obristian’” san explain just how | can believe ail those things, in the absence oi evidence to convince my reason and agaiust my conviction of trath, | am ready to belleve. SCEPTIO, Mimusterial aud Church Movements. BAPTisTs. A sensational ripple has passed over a Baptist church tn Boston, where, on a recent Sunday morn- ing, while the services were going on, a lady left her pew and walked up to the platform. The min- ister, supposing she had something to communi- cate, advanced to meet her. She ascended the steps, and, with an air worthy of # bishop, laid her bands on the head of the astonished minister and retired, ‘The Rev. 0. W. Burpham, of Valley Felis, RB. L, goes to the Baptist charch at Hinsdale, N. H. Rev. George A. Williams, late of Warwick, Maas., or taken charge of the Baptist church at Ashfeld, ase, Dr. Middledite&, of Flushing, L. I,, has resigned be jpaeeere to saree his time and talen‘s to Baptist Weekly. New York loses & good eeper and Ohio ins one by the acceptance oi the Rev, Thomas Stillwater, of the call to Middletown, Onto. Rev. 8S. P. Way closed his pastorate at Pitcher, N. Y., last Sunday. The Greenwood oburch, Brooklyn, are takin, measures to erect a new edifice, It is to be bull of brick, with a seating capacity of 900, and is ex- pected to cost Taylor, of Topeka, Kansas, has ac- Rev, E. 0. cepted a call to the First Baptist churon o! Iunia, METHODIST. The Rev. John Carey, one of the oldest ministers of Irish Wesleyanism, died recentiy. He was ninety years of age, and had spent sixty-four in the min- istry. Beye Dr. Whedon is expected from Florida this wee! The pew Methodist Episcopal church at Pitts- field, Mass,, Rev. J. F. Clymer, pastor, willbe de- dicated on Tuesday. Bishop Beck, Dr. L. T, Lowa- send and Dr. Ives will officiate. The New York Conference gave last year for all the benevolent collections $65,000, nearly $2 per memoor, The trastees of the New England Conference report that they have nearly $10,000 in trust ior various benevolent gbiaces. Last Wednesday Bishop Haven dedicated a new Methodist Episcopal church at New Bultimore, N. ¥.. This week he will dedicate another ($80,000 one) at Malden, Mass. During Mrs. Van Cott’s ministry in Ames Metho- dist Episcopal church, New Orieans, lately, the trustees refused to permit colored people to the body of tae pouses The galleries were open to them, but the invidious distinction has worked trouble in the host, The Kighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, will be reopened to-day, when the Kev. Dr. Curry, of New York, will preaoh. Among the venerable men of the New England Conierence are:—Bartholomew Otheman, who | Confervoce jn 1814 ana has just ‘United with ape xtiees year in the itinerant minis~ completed try. Though seventy-elght years of age, be is still | effective. Isaac Jennison united with the Conler+ ence in 1818, He is now eighty-four years oi age, feeble, but full of joy. A. D. Sargent, A. D. Merrill, N.S, Spaulding and samoel Kelly united with the Conterence in 1822, and consequently have been in the ministry flity-two years. ‘The Methodist Preachers’ Meeting of Philadel- phia has unanimously voted against the attempted Tepeal of the Sunday law. PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. ©. B. Strong, of Roslyn Presbyterian church, intends to start with bis family on a European | tour on the 9ti of May. He will be absent about six months, during which time his place will ,be filled by one of his student iriends. At the receut communion in the Scotch Presby- terian churc in Fourteenth street twenty-seven members were added, sixteen on profession and eleven on certificate, making seventy-seven addt tions since the installation of Key. 5, M. Hamilton in Octover last. Zhe corner stone of the Memorial preerieran. chareh of Pennington, N. J., will be laid to-day. ‘the Presbytery oi New Brunswick, at its late Meeting in Princeton, licensed Messrs. Jonn R, Batusby, Thomas McUrea and Wiliam M, Martin atudents of the Tueological seminary. ‘fhe Dutch Neck Presbyterian chure’ at a recent communion received fifteen on proiession, of whom ten were baptized, The Orst truits of a revival Mr. 0. S. Vincent, of Auburn Seminary, has be- come pastor of the Presbyterian charch at Turin, N.Y. Mr. Robert E. Cutler, of the same tostitution, has accepted a call to Sodus, N. Y. The new church on Madison street, Onester, Pa., ‘Will be aedicated to-day. A new church on the Chester Valley (Pa.) mus- sion will be ready for dedication next sunday. The committee of Presoyterians appointed during the meeting of the Evangelical Alitance to make arrangements jor a Pan-Presbyterian Cuun- cil, now asks every Presbyterian organization in the world to express in a formal manner ics ap- Proval of such a council, and to appoint @ com. mittee to correspond aud co-operate with other bodies for the furtherance of the object. The Presbyterian church, whose house was crushed a short time ago, at Houston and Chomp- son streets, have purchased and refitted a church building in Bleventh street, west of Sixth aveuue, | into which they purpose to remove next Sunday. ‘the Bethlehem mission of tne University place church will in consequence seek other quarters not so near to this society. The Presbytery of Chicago have juired Dr. Patton to revise his charges and specifications of heresy aud pastoral negiect against Proiessor Swing, and have fixed May 4 (to-morrow) tor the trial. The gravamen of those charges is that Mr. Swing, in 8 sermon, eulogized the late Mrs. Mary Price vollier and John Stuart Mill aud lectured in aid of @ Unitarian chapel. Rev. Robert Latrd Uol- ler, now travelling in Europe, is supposed to be | He is | not expected home before two months, and the | Prosecution would like @ postponement, out the | gan At the session | at esbytery last Monday vr. Patton ad } on ity ab ‘ ales coe | half in 1:19, Normahbuil now began to notch ia @n important witness for the prosecution. defence and the Presbytery object. that he could not prove ail the ailegations spe- cifically, he could generally. Dr. Thomas, a Metaodist, has preached in javor of Mr. Swing. EPISCOPALIAN. heme of mself to be the son of become one of as required by the Kook of Discipline, but | ‘2 4 iodist? has | the cand in 2:38, It now became evident that | atver her on the fourth mile, send! tion Of a college, which will be the largest inatita- ton of the kind in the Te MISOELLAN Rev. R. O. Lansing has resigned his charge of the Universalist church at Buatingion. LL, and hi ven up preaching for a year, order to re- ois th, K cait has been accepted by Dr. I. P. Booth, of the present graduating class at Canton, and he will begin bis work in July. Prayer meetings for young men are how held daily in the clab rooms at No. 40 St. John’s place, Brooklyn, The temperance ladies sometimes at- tend and address the yong men The Reform churen in kville Centre, L. 1, was orvanized last July, and on Thursday, 23d ult., @ new house of worship was dedivated. Park street Congregations! church, Boston, have ir. Murray an aasistant and six ve of absence. Rev. Alexander McKelvey has accepted the pas- torate of the Reform chureb at Pi 1. Je Rev. James Talim: D. D., of Napanoch, N. Y., has sccepted call to ‘the church of Wiltwick (Kingaton), and wiil enter on his duties hegre The Charch of the Peopie, who have been holding services for some time past at Central Hall, on Fulton street, Brooklyn, have rented the Adelphi Academy, Laiayette avenue, corner of pie. frat special services will be heid in Rew quarters to-day. FLEETWOOD PARK. eo ART Opening of the Trotting Campaiga— Two Events Decided. After repeated attempts, but failing because of Unpropitions weather, the trotting campaign at Fleetwood Park was inaugurated yeateraay. Two events were set down and duly came off, one of which—the sweepstakes—had been on the nooks for decision @ fortnignt or mote, but the fre- quency of heavy rains of late prevented the wished for consummation. The first on the pro- gramme was & match against time, the conditions being that the bay gelding Whiteloot, belonging to @ medical gentleman of the Ninth ward, could not trot three miles im twelve minutes, the backers of “time” betting the owner $200 egainst an even sum, he to drive. Much interest was manifested in this event, as those Who favored “time” Knew {ull well that White- foot could perform the jeat, but they wagered their money on the strength 01 the Doctor's re- puted inierior driving, feeling in this particular that they had “a sure thing.” In this they were mistaken, however, as the sequel demonstrated that the owner of Whitefoot “could nandie the riobons pretty tairly,”’ ag one of the losers ex- pressed it, and thut they had been “wrong all the ume.” Jn tne pools the horse had sligbtly the best of the betting, the figures on an averuge being Whitefoot $50, time $40, The judges called the horse to tue score promptly at three o'clock, when amid many amusing remarks the word was given for the trial. The first mile was made in 3:44, the Becond in 4:51 aud the third in 3:42, a total of 11:17, leaving 43 seconds to spare. The second event was a sweepstakes of $200, mile heats, best three in five, catch weights and amateurs to drive. Kutered for this were \our con- testante—gil belonging to one stable up town, and, consequently, the jnteres¢ centred to it, although ot somewhat a local nature, a peep nd carne The several postponements td which the race deen subjected gave the owners of the horses and snele iriénds ap opportunity of doing a great deal of betting and it was taken so much advantage of that a large amount depended on the result, ‘the entries were Fred. Lonnd’s bay mare Butcher Girl, Robert Lindsey’s bay Cnt Barpt Dumpty, Benjamin Wilson’s brown gelding iy Boliver, to read wagons, and L. Devoe’s bay mare Pet, in harness. in tne pools Boliver bad the call, seiling for $40, Humpty Dumpty $25 und the fleld $25. The javorite proved tre winner in three Straign§ heats, Mauch to the disgust of Humpty Dumpty’s friends, who fell quite heavily. The attendance, considering the bleak afternoon, was quite satisiactory and the track im excellent fix. It is dae to Supertotendent Van Cott to say that his exertions to improve the track have been | crowned with great success. All the hard places of last year have disappeared under his plan of Manipulation, and it ts now of that elastic nature | as to cali orth unreserved praise from all the trainers located there. The steep grade at the Yoint of Rocks, which gil turimen remember, has. also been done away with by filimyg in the lower portion o1 the track to the poiut required, so in this particular nothing seems to be lacking to make Fleetwood attraofiye to all concerned, SUMMARY. FLEETWOOD PARK, MORRISANTA, N. Y., May 2.— Match of $400 spare tume; three miles in tweive minutes, Judges—William Shaw, James Dater and Albert Odeil. Owner’s b. g. Whitelvot....... Time—First mile, 3:34; second mi mile, 3:42. Total, 11:17. Sixx Day.—Sweepstakes of M460; mile heats, best turee in five; amateur drivers and at catch- weignts. Sentanin ‘Wilson's br. g. Patsy Boliver, to TOMA WAGOD.......ceseereee cessreseceeees LoL DT Robert Linasey’s b. g. Humpty Dumpty, to TOBA WAGOD.....scessecevenre sores +. 228 Fred Lound’s b. m. Butcher Girl, to road wagon... seeseeeneres - 3382 L, Devoe’s b. m. Pet, in harness. a4 ‘TIME. : aS 8:00 First heat... 3 x Second heat. ‘ £ 1:25 2:01 Toird heat, . 43 1:26 8201 TROTTING IN CALIFORNIA. Lady Mack the Winner of the Five Mile Purse. {From the San Francisco Call, April 25.] The race at San José yeaterday was a purse for trotters, dash of five miles, There were entered jor the event Lady Mack, John Stewart and Normahall. The attendance was not large, though the contest proved the most interesting of the week. After a slight delay the horses were started, Stewart in the lead, the bay mare breaking badly, but Yank Smith svon got her to work, and went af- ter Stewart, who had passed the helf mile in 1:2034, She soon collared and passed him, and came tear- ing down the stretch under the line in 2:40, Stew- art second, the other trailing. In the second mile the Lady led by six lengths to the half mile, which she made in 1:20; the gelding began to gather and passed the mare home in 2:41, In the third mile the bay mare still led, doing good trotting to the and came well up to the Lady’s Wheel as she passe er to the ‘warm work Was coming, as iaendiig. ner hard halt in 1:17, Here the bay broke™and Lehigh FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, An Easy Money Market—Gold Lower and a Good Exhibit by the Government. Stocks Lower and the Fu- ture Uncertain. The stook market to-day was without feature worthy of special comment, There were feverisn- news and doubt—indisposition on the part of the bears to depress prices and unwillingness on the part Of the buils to go home loaded with snares that might suffer from changes between this and Monday morning. The transactions were agaim comparatively small and elicited little interest The opening this morning was at an advance from the closing prices of the night before, and these were for the moment encouraging; but decline folk lowed, ana, until the end of the day, the reactions were insignificant add unsuggestive, More than once the remark was made, ‘This is only amid- summer market.” It was inexpressibly dull, THE CHANGES may be recorded as foliows:—New York Central closed last night at 98% ; to-night at 98, a loss of %§ per cent; U., C. andl. 0, loses % per cent, Brie snowed a gain of % per cent, Hannibal ana St. Joseph showed @ loss of % per cent, Lake Shore of 4% per cent, Northwest 1 per cent, Obio and Mis- sissippi % per cent, Paciic Mail % per cent, Rock Island 1 per cent, St. Paul 154 per cent, Wabash $ per cent, Union Pacific 3 per cent and Western Union % percent. Prices, therefore, ranged up te the dignity of an average decline, HIGHEST. AND LOWEST. The following table shows the opening, highest and lowest prices o! the day:—~ Nortawesteru preferred. kook Island. Pittsburg. 88 Milwaukee and St, Paul bd 25; 105} Del., Lack. and Western... 106: Union Pacitic 34} @., Cand ind. C, 20; Western Union an Pacific Maul. “ Panama....... 10656 THE UNITRD STATES TREASURY. The following were the United States Treasury payments by warrants during April:—Civil and miscelianeous, $7,540,832; war, $2,831,316; navy, $2,228,057 ; interior, Indians and pensions, $521,457. Total, $13,171,163. This does not include payments made on account of the public debt. The irae tional currency received in Washington this week Was $357,000; shipments, $628,900. Internal reve- Bue receipts to-day, $582,893; for April, $1,167,080; for fiscal year, $82,992,572. The Treasury holds as security for national bank circulation $392,919,100, and for public deposits, $16,535,200, The ou standing national bank circulation at this date is $340,059,588. The estimated receipts for May are $10,500,000, The customs receipts to-day were $321,000. ‘The total payments by the freasury on account of May interest, to date, are $3,977,000, The Treasury operations a& the New York office during the week included the disbursement of $2,837,600 on account of interest, $230,000 in redemption of five-twenty bonds and the receipt of $2,185,700 for customs. The Assist- ant Treasurer paid out to-day up to noon $1,106,000 on account of interest and $51,000 in redemption of five-twenty bonds. THE MONEY MARKET. Money was casy at 3 and 4 per cent on cat, | Foreign exchange left of firm at 4.87}; a 488 for prime bankers’ six days sterling and 4.90}; a 491 for demand. Commercial bills are quoted at 4.843, @ 4.86, Continental exchange is firm Reichmarks, 95% a 96 for bankers’ long and 95% @ | 955 for commercisi; Paris trancs, baukers, 5.1656 | 9 5.16% for long and 5.11% a 5.123, for short. Com mercial francs are scarce at 5.18 & 5.20. THE GOLD MARKET. Gold commenced work at 113, but closed at 112%, at which rate the principal business of the day was done. ‘There was nothing in the market to elicts comment. The carrying rates were 3, 8% and 2 per cent. OPERATIONS AT GOLD EXOHANGE TO-DAY. Gola balance: 1,437,606 Currency bat 1,663,671. Grosa clearances...... 31,430,000 CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. Currency exchanges.. Curreucy balances Gold exchanges . Gold balances . WEEKLY CLEARING HOUSE STAT! Currency exchanges Goid balances .. THE FOREIGN MARKET. The amount of bullion which went into the Bank® of England on balance to-day is £12,000, Paris despatches quote Rentes 60f, 17c. Frankfort— United States five-twenty bonds, 98% for the issue of 1862, Amsterdam—Union Pacific tirst mortgage bonds, 71% ; Union Pacific shares, 293, ; Northwest ern preverred, 573g; St. Paul preferred, 51; Erle shares, 30%. | are iorced to give iair play to Christianity am 4 MAN. In a newly-issued charge Bishop Wordsworth | people. has detivered a scathing denunciation of simony, waich he attirme to be mcreasing in the estabiish Courch oj England. THE BANK STATEMENT. The bank statement is more encouraging, inas- BALTANVILLE LABOBE! assed her amid shouts from those who had 150 : oars! | emete im $40 pools. Down the stretch they both | trotted finely, Nor going by the stand sociation, Brooklyn. | | deprived o1 their offices when their holding them The Rev. P. L. Davies will preach morning and | ‘Was deemed inconsistent with pubiic roi aud order. A Supreme Koya! ourt, sitting at Berlin, | A Seeptie Open to Christian Convictions. shall nh agit sets forth that these institutions now evening in the Berean Baptist church. ‘was created to take coguizance o/ all such matters, The Reformed ipiscopal Ch hi . | alength or two ahead of the Lady in 2:35. muc! ‘The Rev. W. 0. Dawson and Rey. Robert Came- | OF the Jesuics in my next letter. To Tas Eprror or THE Hebaty:— ton, Rey. Mr. Heid rector, Oral ubteateer whey i Now the race was interesting. Smith called | hold $16,149,822 in excess of 25 per cent of their yon will conduct the services to-day in the unurch PRUDENTIUS. In “Christian’s” review of “Sceptic” im alate | in the Cumberland street chapel, between De Kalb | OD the mare, and she was more and more | torai liabilities, There has been an increase im Of the Disciples of Christ. Rev. F. Binckley will preach in the Church of the Messiah to-day. The Rev. George 0, Phelps, pastor-elect, will preach to-day in the Allen street Presbyterian church at the usual hours, The Rev. D. B. Jutten will baptize eleven con- | verts this morning in the Sixteenth Baptist | church immediately after the sermon. The Rey. Fred Evans will preach in the Central Baptist church this morning, and the Sunday School anniversary will be held in the evening. “The Signs that Christ’s Personal Coming is Near” will be presented to-day oy the preacher in the Catholic Apostolic churcn. Rev. Dr. Rylance will preach this morning in St. Mark’s Proiestant Episcopal church, and Bishop Potter wili administer the rite of confirmation there in the al/ternoon. The Rev. KR. Heber Newton, rector, will preach in the Anthon Memorial church this morning and | afternoon. Preaching three times to-day in the charch of the Holy Trinity—morning and evening by Rev. br. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., and in the afternoon by Dr. Irving. Preaching at the usual hours to-day in the Fifty- third street Baptist church, The Rev. Dr. Ewer will officiate in all the ser- ‘vices held to-day in St. Ignatius church. Rev. Dr. Coward, associate rector, will preach in | the Oburch of Heavenly Rest to-day, at eleven A. M. and four P. M. The signs of the near coming of Christ will be discussed to-day, in the Catholic Apostoite church, | Sixteenth street, between Sixth and seventa ave- | ues. Dr. Pycott, the rector, will conduct services in ‘St, Joha’s church, 5t. Joun's place, Brookiyn, tms amorning anda evening. “Predentius” om the German Catholic | Imbroglio. | portunity taro ‘To THe Epitor oF THE HERALD :— ‘The discussions in the German Parliament have ‘unvelied the tactics both of Bismarck and tne Catholic party, for it would be not only ill faith but downright falsehood to call them by the nickname of ultramonianes. Prince Hoheniohe’s sympathies nd antipathies were openly avowed, In April Cardinal Antonelli was notified that /rince Gustav | Adolph, a brother of the former and @ cardinal. | FPiest of the Koman Church, had been appointed | German Ambassudor near the Holy Father. The | Arst surprising thing in tws appointment was tat Unpardonable Ignorance Charged Upon the American Pulpit. To THE Epiror or THE HERALD :— Aware taat mention in the HERALD gives fame, and that fame in America is money, and that money isa very good thing to have, I am forced tosuppose that the HERALD regards tle sermons which it Teporte as generally at the height of theological attainment, An occasional dry editorial remark, on the otner hand, leaves room for the supposition tnat the height of attainment required ior publicity | im your columns is but commensurate with the ap- prectation of the laity whose memories you ao- commodate and refresh, while yet you dream of better things. If the latter is the true state- ment of the case, then you will be open to receive certain charges which [ suall preter against the representative genius of the | clergy ol this country. Asan expert I charge upon the American ‘gy and upon the scuools wuich educate them an utter ignorance of dialecuies, through which gione 1s it possivie to interpret, in the lauguage of thus worid, tue metapnysical mean- ing of the weightier utterances of Jesus, which tuey usually nore = and = occasioually bosch most grievously. I accuse them of general ig- Morance of the results of Greek and German thougnt, ignorance of puilosopny, ignorance of the necessary ultimates of their own methods and statemeuts, Wuereby Christianity is thrust upon the faith of people whose doubts aud excepuons have no auvoc champion nor respectable op- rguments which @ secular jury impertinent and void, while would reject SS and in enlightened use the deience of have been bis Bibie, and that he | esus towers above the common understanding would have looked upon all disbeilevers @pd, rather than begs complaisance, ento: re- | with the same contempt and horror spect. The American clergy present the avomaly tuat he now does upon poor sceptics? | of a class of Mén well paid and amply Or had “Christian” been the son of Brigham } oung, So anos conceited, yet utterly ignorant of preceding excel- | Jence in their business, I ave reed your reporta caretuly since you began togive them, and gave Specia! attention to all mention of the late kvan- gelical Alliance, and | am compelled to “report” from my standpoint no evidence of any man in the Alerican pulpit who has been instructed in either Plato or Photinus or Parmenines or Heraciitua or Kant or fiente or Hegel And am in bal, and be taunting ail others with unveliel, But, oonscience and honor bound to tell these let me consider the ciaim 01 the bibie as a book OF glib and flippant teachers of tue peuple divine reveiation, Suppose that a man, that, however good their intentions and tueir in whom “Ubristian” reposes nis greatest | storai care may be, their ignorance of confidenve, were to announce § to ‘he attainments of ancient and modern thought— that he had a persvnai interview ana the very height of which is barely competent to che defence 0: Jesus—is & reproach to theim in tae eyes of scholars even of my order, while their confidence and empty arrogance are an imposition on those Who as ignorantiy, though more humbly, volerate Sud sustain wen. Ani to these last, and to all who are earnestly seeking foraray of guiding light amid the con- Tualon of this work, I respectiuily Charge that che Claims of Jesus rightiv understood are capable of & delence of Which @ business man need not be ashamed among his fellows upon a se for entirely aside irom any prestige reierable to bis origin OF bis mission—even as a homeless Jew ip Paieatane. U vou wili—Jesus is the mit of the Sunday issue 0] the HERALD he says, ‘The assertions Of sceptics or infldeis are the nardest of ail to deal with, because not amenable to the Bible or Church | dogmas.” To me it appears that it is “Christian” | imtrenched behing bis Bible and Church dogmas, received by faith, who is the more difficult to | reach, because he hoids faith paramount to obser- | vation and reason, and is thereiore quite beyond | the reach of argument, refusing to accept evidence | which in everyday life he would unhesitatingly re- ceive. “Ohristian” accepts on faith alone the divinity of the Bibie, turns upon the sceptic, | Who cannot conscientiously do so, and, with | Christian modesty, says you “are vain, conceited | and shallow minded.” Certainly be must bea | blind sceptic not be convinced by such arguments. | Pray, dear “Christian,” will you teil me how I am | to oelieve that which, after careiul and honest in- | Vestigation, I fail tofnd evidence to convince my | reason and judgment of the truth of? sitting upon a jury to pass upon the guilt or inno- cence ola prisoner, and alter listeuing to all the evidence in tue case, you were not convinced of | bis guilt. couid your opinion bave veen otnerwise, aud, if honest, should you ve bismed ? And what respect would you have for the other eleven jarors Who were convinced, should they ridicule and abuse you with epitiets for your unvelier? | T hoid belei in the Bibie and Church dogmas to be Muinly, if vot entirely, # thing Of early education. Had “Christian” been born in Constantinople, of Mahometan parents, reared aud educated in the beuef of the Koran aod of Mahomet a8 a rophet, does he dowbt that the Koran would | reared and educated under his tuition, he wou aod Lafayette avenues, progressive state. ‘The Vicar oi Richmond, England, created some excitement in ais parish by bulidinga high wall in the churchyard so ag to separate the elect deaa | from the nonconiormist dead. The friends of tue latter rallied and tore down the wail, aud an eccle- siastical court has prohibited him from rebuilding it. A common fovtpatn now, as heretofore, ai- ed, The Low Church men of England are calling for & new ecclesiastical tribunal to be created by act | Of Parliament, hai clerical and bali lay, with a bishop ac its head, to deal with reiractory priests 1p each diocese. he ritualists are dead against it | because they see in it a 1oe. Bishop Nilea, of New Hampshire, ignoring the | Bnd otner ministers im that State, has iss | itil whine over its spiritual desutution, w Were you | host of Methodist, Baptist, Congregauonal aod a there are nearly 400,U.0 souls id only iisveen | Parochial and missionary clergy. sad, indeed! Dr. Porteous’ iriendy have engaged the Hall of the Young Men’s Ciristian Association, Brooklyn, Where he will hereaiter preacn twice each sunday, The Firat Retormed Episcopal church of this city, having secured the enurch building on Forty- Seventh street and Madison aveuue to worship in, and the Rev, W, f, Sabine, late of the Onurch of the Atonement to minister to them, will begin their regular services to-day in their new home Under more 1avorabie auspices than ever, Rev. L. Van Bokkelen, L. D., has taken charge Of the parish of the Church of the Mediator, Broox- lyn, aad will enter upon his pastoral duties to-day. Rev. George Thomas Packard has been installed as pastor of Holy Trinity church, Jersey Oity Heights, ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Catholics of the Nineteenth ward of Brook- | lyn are about to erect @ $100,000 church building db J intersection of Hooper street and Marcy avenue, Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, is the only sur- | Viving Bishop oi the Roman Catholic churca ap- undoubtedly have been @ worthy son and faithiul | pointed by Pope Gregory. follower of tuat propu The Book of Mormon would have been is bible, and the Gentiles the recipients Ol hw auathemas, So we might say of ali regions and dvctrines, Under certain other circumstances, “Ubristiaa’’ might have been just | as Curnest & pagan, idolater, Jew, savage or canni- conversation with the Aimighty, and received direct irom His hands, engraved upon tabiets of stone, ® law for human acuos, and had been him. sel: divinely commissioned to administer tuat law | Rev. J. J. Keane, assistant pastor of St. Patrick's church, Washington, D. U,, has been giving # mis- sion at Winchester, Va., id will svon give another at Harper's pitt Tne Key. Arcibishop of Baltimore administered the suciament 0! coniirmation last Monday in St. | Mary's (German) church, Washingtou, D. U., to ninety persons, and in St. Joseyh’s (German) church, Capitol Hil, to fiity-three persons, The new churca of the Sacreu Heart, which has bim | just been completed at Canton, (Baltimore) will be dedicated on Wuit-Monaay, May 26. is intended to supply a want long felt by the Ger- bo Catholics living im that distant part of the city. ‘oe Rey, J. F. O'Callaghan, pastor of the cathe- and rule over tue peopie, Would “Christian” yield | dral, Cincinnati, 18 starting @ total abstinence so- ready and willing ovedience ard have no doubts? This 18 a paralie) Case to tiatol Moses, who e the first p0oks of the Bible. And “Cbristian” is uder stronger Obligations to beeve tn the latter case, because It comes irom @ living witness of | acknowledged integrity; or, were bis friends to relate dreains ater (he manner of the patriarchs, regarding thein 48 communications from Gud; or, proiessing to be Lospired, were they to relate Stories such a8 those of the ork. ‘egation, to be aggre- | in his benavior towar ‘. qurad tothe Catolico. Toma, ‘batinénce Union of | stated that sue never Feceived one cent from the ated Lo the Catholic Total merica, the first nemoer on the roll being the Most Rev, Archbishop Purcell. The society is to be placed under the patronage of St. James. ‘The impetus given to the movement of the Young Men’s Catholic Association of Trenton is unprece- | dented, They wili hoid @ grand reunion next Tucs- day evening. The German Catholics of the samo iat Mamaou, | piace are making stupendoud e@lforte (or the ereg- This will be their perma- | nent abiding place. ‘The parish is sald .o be ina | | Vides the “dissenting” dead irom the “eatabiishea” | | three lengths, | | denied in the most ‘This church any foundation inthe rere that her son had been he had | vernont waa apparent but of late a marked Med ge fie way Cs with Normahail to the half. They trotted well to- gether, when the latter and evidently considered herseli beaten. the haifin 1:16, and led into the stretch two or jormanall made a fine brush for the heat, but could not get up, the mare taking the last mile in 2:36, making the five miles in 13 :083,. SUMMARY. SANTA CLARA VALLEY ASSOCIATION, SAN JOSE, Cal., April 24, 1874.—Purse $—, dash ot five miles, in harness. Frank Smith's b. m. Lady Mack. 1 G. Lehigh’s Normahall, 2 Owner's Joan Stewart... 3 ‘Time, 18:08 35. BROOKLYN EXCISE EXCITEMENT. PROGR 9 Be Lady Crusaders Rebuffed—Freddy In- graham’s Disappearance—Speculations Concerning His Whereabouts. The lady crusaders against the whiskey shops met with quite a rebuff yesterday afternoon in the Board of Excise. Mrs, Polly and Mrs. Wright, of the Kastern District, charged that Anthony Meyer Kept his saloon, at Broadway and Second street, open on Sunday, the 12th of April, for | business purposes. Mr. Meyer denied this, aud as. | serted that his barkeeper alone was in the piace for the purpose of ‘cleaning up.” He furtuer informed the Board that the husbands of the complainants were habitual drunkards and that he refused to sell them tiguo’ The invariably created trouble when they visited the place, and the bartender was instructed never to turnish them with drinks, bx-snerift Waiver, the father-in-law of Mr. Meyer, stated to the Board that he had advised date the men. ‘The complaint was dismissed by the Board. ‘The Commissioners 01 Police and Excise have been unsuccessiul in their efforts tu obtati clew to the whereapouts of Freddy Ingraham, the missing withess 10r the prosecation in the cases of seventy odd alleged violators of the Excise law. The boy, who 1s fourteen | yeace & has not been hear ‘om 5! when his mother sent him om an errand to » rein the victaity of tnetr restdence, No. 1,d44 Fulton avenue, Mrs. Ingrabam visited Police rroend quarters yesterday morning, ona = Le era cee Yerred in tue most™ positive verms that there was at the in- ent = him- admitted that been very wiid, prevailed upon for p stance of liqaor self from Brvoklyn. some time ago rr, ther Temperance Wom tion for services ren- dered in serreti keepers, and tha of wn ex-District out any compensation. are growitg suspicious about the cause of tne av- sence ot Freddy, and pay “it looks very tmysteri- ous, was acting upon the advice torney in the matter, and with- ie Lady passed | Mr. Meyer not to accommo , o either seen or’ Ince six o'clock on Thuraday evening | ‘out evidence against saioon | ‘The temperance people | legai tenders and a decrease: in loans, a6 will be shown by the following tabie of contrasts:— April 25. May 2, Differences. Loans. $258,423,500 $286,574,300 Dec. $1,849,200 specie. «28,336,400 24,639,600 Inc.. 1,808,200 Legai tenders 54,739,600 5,833,000 Inc,. 1,093,400 Deposits...... 234,486,700 234,401,600 Dec, 85,200 Circulation.... 26,901,600 26,899,600 Dec. 12,000 | The toliowing shows the relation between the total reserve and the total ilabilities :— | April 25." May 2. Pon doe gata, 300 In6-$1,308;300 berate 165,838,000 Luc. 1,003,400 Total reserve. $78,070,000 $80,472,600 Inc. $2,306,000 ireulati 901,600 ° 26,880,600 Dec. 12,000 Deposies. 234,480,700 234401500 Dec. 65/208 Tot. iiWMeries$261,388,300 $261,291,100 Dec. $07,200 Sey) cates, 65,347,075 65,322,775 Xcess OVEF 2 pe Teserve 12,728,925 16,140,825 Inc.. 2,420,908 RAILROAD BONDS. Ratlroad bonds were firm, but the transactions, as usnal on saturday, were small, amounting te only $33,000, The latest bids were:— Alb & Su: 9% Bufl & Erie new bds... 96! 25” Lake chore aly bas... Bet a Marietta & Cin Ist ma... ae Mich Ven con 7's, \9ud.. 94 Mich Cen Ist m, 8's, "2 108: New York Cen ’s, '83.. 91! Rew York «en 8 187.. Be New York Con 6's, re. New York cone "& bub. OF icon ¥ nz Nd Ce . 9 NY ci Ain Do RY Con's, 65-70... lu Mil & st New York Gen ist mi, cl ‘Mil & St New York Cen Ist mri chi aN Hud R 7's, 2d in, st, Chi & 8 Harlem 7's, ist m,¢ 103; onan Harlem 7’s, Ist in, r..,108} Gale North Missouri ist m... gs Ohio & Miss con § Del, Lac! Odio & Miss cone, 0. Del, Cen Pac state aid IM Bett Lael Union Pac Ist in bds. ee Union Pac Ug 7s. ..0000 Soere Union Pacite 10% ine, Sores Union Pucife # fss.sse ist Pacific RK of Mo, Istm 3d ms by Mo. <q m.1UE Dab & Sioux City Ist ni 90 Duy & stoux City 2d di 9 Cedar ! & Minn lst m. 775% Ind, Bloom & West i: 3 Mich =outh 7 Wie Clev & iols 18 Tol, Peoria Gisy ivy ld bd: 3 & t West By m ‘ old bis... Clev, P & A new bas... ae pas) ap = Detroit, Mon & Toi bis 98 * Ex div. GOVERNMENT BONDS. Government bonds closed steady at the following - equotations :—United States currency sixes, 116% & 116% ; do. do., 1881, registered, 120 & 12044; do. do., do., Coupon, 121% a 122%; do, five-twenties, 1862, registered, 115% @ 115%; 40, do,, do., 6X coupon, 115% @ 11534; do, do., 1864, registered, 116% @ 117; do, do. do. eX coupom, 17 @ LIT: do