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NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. $$ ttt RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. | Programme of Services for the Fifth Sunday After Easter, May 10. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Professor Cotte’s Defence of Catholic Doctrines, Dr. A. ©. Osborne will preach in the South Baptist church to-day at the usual hours, “The Golden Piate on the Christian’s Mitre” will be burnished this morning by Rev. George OU. Pheips in the Allen street Presbyterian church, ‘The Rev. Eli Fay, of Boston, will preach morning and evening in All Souls Unitarian church. ‘The Rev. 5S. H. Platt will preach this morning in DeKalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brook- lyn, on “God’s Excuse for Man’s Failures,” and in the evening on “The Temperance Cause.’’ The summer outdoor services in Leiferts Park, Brooklyn, under the auspices o/ the Young Men’s Praying Band, will open to-day with a sermon by Rev. Dr. Porteous. Dr. Peddie, of Philade!pbia, wil preach in the Marcy avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, to-day, in exchange with Dr. Jedrey. Rey. W. P. Corbitt wili preach in Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening at the usua! hours. The Rev. E. ©. Sweetser will this morning talk | about “Spirits in Prison,” and will preach in the | evening also in Bleecker street Universalist | ehuren. Preaching morning and evening in the Berean Baptist church by Rev. P. L. Davies, pastor. | The ‘Preparation by the Holy Ghost for the Lord's Personal Coming” will be the theme handled in the Catholic Apostolic charch this evening. Bishop Cummins wi!l preach this morning tor the First Reformed Episcopal church, and the | rector, Rev. W. T. Sabine, in the evening. Dr. Harper, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church this morn- Ing, and in the evening addresses will be delivered by Dr. Harper and Rev. W. F. Crafts, of Dover, N. A “Serving our Generation” and “Long Life Before tne Flood” are the themes chosen by Dr Samson for consideration in the First Baptist church of | Harlem to-day. The Rev. L. H. King, D. D., will conduct the ser- vices and preach In the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church to-day, at the usual hours, The Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preach in the Fity-third street Baptist church to-day, at the usual bours, Rev. W. ©. Van Meter will talk about his Bibie Schools in Rome this morning m the Madison ave- nue Baptist church, where also Rev. J. F. Eider wiil preach in the evening. Rev. J. W. Barnhart wiil preach to-day, morning and evening, in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church. Temperance meeting there in the aiter- noon, Dr. Ganse will preach in the Madison avenue Reformed church this morning on “The True Goa and Eternal Life,” and in the evening on “Giving | Hearing to the Deaf.” | Dr. Adams will preach the dedicatory sermon for the New York Presbyterian church this morn- mg. Dr. Hall will preach in the evening and the Babbath School anniversary will be held in the Wternoon. Services also during the week. The Rev. J. Spencer Kennard will preach in the | Pilgrim Baptist church this morning and evening. | ‘Tne Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will address the Brookiyn Sunday School Union to-morrow evening, in Plymouth church, on ‘‘The Lord’s Ministers.” Services ip St. John’s Protestant Episcopal church, Brookiyn, to-day, at the usual hours, by Bey. T. S. Pycott, rector. Divine service, morning and evening, in the Church of the Resurrection, East Kighty-ffth street. Dr. Armitage will preach in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church morning and evening. Baptism in | the evening. Rev. W. ©. Van Meter, of Rome, will address the Baptist Sunday School Teachers’ Association in Calvary Baptist church to-morrow evening. Rev. Dr. Deems ts to preach to-day at the usual hoars in the Church of the Strangers. The Rev. M. Maury will officiate this morning and evening tn the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement. The Rev. J. F. McClelland will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning, and Dr. Jon Miley, of Drew Seminary, in the evening. The Rev. S. M. Hamititon will preach in the Scotch Presvyterian church this morning and afternoon. The Rev. W. H. Boole will preach in Seventeenth Btreet Methodist Episcopal church this morning | end evening. vrayer meeting at half-past six P.M. Rev. D. H. Miller, D. D., will preach in Plymouth Baptist church this morning and Rev. W,C. Van Meter will taix aboat his Roman missions in the evening. Rev. W. H. Thomas will preach at the usual hours in the Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church. The Morning Star Mission will be addressed this afternoon by Rev, W. C. Van Meter, of Rome, and E. D. Jones, of St. Louis. The Rev. H. W. Knapp will preach in the Laight street Daptist church this “morning and evening. Baptism m the evening. Dr. George B, Cheever will continue his lectures On the “Evidences of Christianity” this evening in Association Hall, Rev. Dr. Hare, of Newark, N.J., will preach in | Lexington avenue Methodist Episcopal church | Morning and evening to-day. Dr. W. S. Mickels will preach im the Stanton street Baptist church this morning and evening. The anniversary of the dedication of St. James’ Methodist Episcopal church, Harlem, will be ob- served with a sermon in tue morning by Dr. Foss, and in the afvernoon and evening with addresses by Rev. Messrs, A. D. Vail, W. N. McVickar, J. F. McClelland and Judge Fancuer. “Heathen Doctrines of Future Punishment” will be discussed this evening by Dr. Riley, in the Reformed chureb, West Tuirty-fourth street. Ser- mon also in the morning. Dr. M. R. Vincent will preach before the Sea- men’s Friend Society this evening, in the Church of the Goly Trinity. Dr. Tyng, Jr., will preach there in the morning and Dr. Irving in the aiter- noon. The Rev. J. ©. K. Milligan will preach the deat- | catory sermon this morning in the new Reformed Presbyterian charch in West Ferty-eighth street, | Dr. Stevenson will preach in the aiternoon and Dr. Sloane in the evening. “The Nature and Extent of Christ’s Love” is the subject of Rev. Mr. Nicholson’s discourse this morning, and ‘Opposites in Christ” this evening in the Tabernacie Baptist charch. ‘The Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach in the Sixth avenue Reformed church this morning and even- | tng. The Rev. Dr. Dickenson will preach in the Forty- second street Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon, Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach on “The Great Atonement” this morning and on ‘Keeping the Temper” this evening. Temperance meeting | on Wednesday evening. The Rev. R, Heber Newton will preach at the ‘usual bours to-day in the Anthon Memorial church. Rev. W, ©. Dawson will preach in the Church of | the Disciples of Christ this morning. Rev. KE. A. Horton will preaca tu the Churcn of the Messiah this morning on “Strong Feelings Make Strong Men,” and in the evening on the “God of the Living.” Divine service in the English language will be held in the Russo-Greek chapel this morning. Dr. F. C, Ewer will conduct the services to-day in St. Ignatius’ church, The Progressive Spiritualists will hold a confer- ence in Teutonia HaM this aiternoon. Spiritualist | tery of a Trinity, which, he said, | eburch, o1 meetings WM also be held in De Garmo Hall and ip Robinson Hall at the usual bours, Ex-Rabbi Emmanuel H. Schlamovits will deliver the second of a free course of iectures this after- noon, at half-past four, in the school ball of the Church gf the Holy Innocents, Subject—“The Divinity of Christ.” A Catholic’s Reasons for Becoming « Rationalist. “a. M. Cotté’s” letter in a late tasue ef the Hgxacp has callea forth other replies more nu- merous than those elicited by the letter to which his was an answer. And among the number from which to choose we select one by @ native of sunny Italy, who signs him- self “Rationalist.” He was reared a Catholic, and he gives some of the reasons which induced bim to give up that form of faith and accept one which he thinks is mach simpler and more ra- tional. His young mind, he says, set up an ideal God altogether different from the God which the catechism and the Bible reveaied to him. “I felt,"’ he saya, “that the God of a universal deluge; who cemmanded Abram to kill bis son; who ap- proved Pepe) <a a ames a i, And soup @ huogry brother, LV 18 same for “eoeiving bis’ own father; the God destroying cities Men, women and children, by a sulphureous fro; sending the in Egypt, and ordering Gideon wo are in the dark of night and murder the enemy, whom they styled enemy of God, for hav- ing a different religion trom theira, could not be mine. All this to me was not tie work of God, but | of men, and bad ones, Could the great Creator of | gso0, the universe, a being personifying all periect vir- tues to us Known ‘aud more to us incompretensi- bie, Kill, abate and destroy His own work? Itis not more natural than for a human being to kill his own oftspring—a thing which even the most ferocious animals do not do.” ‘*Kationalist,”” how- ever, learned to believe in God and in the immor- tality of the soul; but he could not bring his mind wo reception of Christ, with all his philosopni- Cal aud imperishable evangelical maxims of lib- erty, equality and truth as the Sono: God. He could not ocelieve that God required the mys- was bor. rowed from Brahma, Vishou and siva. He could not accept miracies as facts; nor could he aceept the death of Christ as an atonement for humanity's sins, considering that this 1s am smatiest and meanest of all the planets in God’s great universe. While he believes Christ to be the greatest Of the great, he caunot accept him as the in of God in the divine sense. “Rationalist” has, however, a creed of hig own devising. It is briely this:—Nature proves tO him the existence of God, and the immensity and perfect harmony of the universe reveal His gvodness and greatpeas and power. ‘He believes that there are rules for men a8 here are ruies jor planets, but the former are to be guided by their intellect and reason in the choice of right and wrong. ‘Rationalist” believes also that religion is neediul tor man, be it ever so simple. He Knows 0: no religion that teaches to do wrong, thouga all reiigions, and, he is SOI 50 say, “especially the Catnolic, have en trapsfigured and even reversed by priests.’’ wi he asks, will be the consequence ? Cathuliciam will fall. And this, he says, is not a utopian idea of his, but 18 derived from the jaulosophy oi history. He quotes Livius as predict- ing the decadence of all nations professing that Treligton, and cites a8 examples Italy, euslaved and abused ior centuries and at the mercy of toreign tyrants which haa shaken off or is suaking oif the Roman yoke and coming again to toe light. Spain, the nest or the Inquisition and oi Jesuiti- cal institutions, what is it reduced to? A miser- able wreck. France—there, too, civil wars, internal dissensions, continual revolutions. What is now that grande nation? Still, that is a Catholic country. And Ireland, of which so weil Mr. Couté writes as the land of saints, in what condition Is | she? In siavery, because she does not yet believe What ber sun, Moore, said—‘“The tyrant will throw off his crowu when the priest bis Dook.” of this religio! when the peopie shall recognize these facts which have led him to renounce Cataolicism. Ministerial and Church Movements. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. D. A. Cunningham, D. v., pastor of Spring Garden Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, sailed for Europe Jast month as fraternal delegate | to the Free Church of Scotland, whose General Assembly meets in Edinburgh May 21. The Rev. David Winters, of Paterson, N. J., has received a call tothe Westminster Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, The Eastern Presbyterian church, located on Greene avenue, near Patchen, Brooklyn, will be dedicated to-day. The society was organized two Months ago, and has now over 100 families. The Brooklyn Presbytery, at its last session, recog- nized the church. Dr. J. 8. Evans is to be temporary pastor. Tne Rev. Wilham A. McGinley, of Gloversville, N. Y., has accepted a call to the pastorate of tue Ross street Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, E. D. The Rev. M. McMillen, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mount Gilead, Ubio, has resigned on account of ill health, The trustees and faculty ot Drew Theological Seminary varied trom their denominational prac- tice to invite Dr. John Hall, of this city, to deliver the closing lecture of a course on preaching be- fore the students last Thursday week. The lecture is highly spoken of. The Rev. Narayan Sheshadri, the converted Branmin, is preaciing im the Presbyterian churches in London. Dr. Duryea’s church, in Brooklyn, felt that some- thing should be done to express their gratitude at the rejection of the New York call. The fifteentn @universary of his wedding was selected as the | occasion. A large crowd, many presents and an addition of $1,000 to his salary, making it $8,000, Made the occasion a very pleasant one, Dr. McKaig’s church, in Chicago, has voted, with but one dissenting voice, to defy the Presbytery and retain the Doctor aa 1is pastor. Authority seems in this case not much more potent than advice would have been. The trial of Professor David Swing was formally begun in Chicago on Monday last. The accused | entered a technical plea of ‘not guilty,” explain- ing that the charges were too vague to be answered. His address was manly and generous, and at its conclusion Professor Patton said that in view of the candid statements made by Pro- lessor Swing he would lke to withdraw the coarge; but, in view of what he considered his duty, he could not do 80, Robert Laird Collier, in @ ietter, has denounced the whoie proceedings and reused to be @ witness in the case against Protessor Swing. Rev. Jobn R, sicDongal, well known to American ' visitors in Florence, Italy, as the excelient pastor | ot the Scotch chapel there, is now on a visit to this country. Rev. T. A. Hamilton, of Hancock, N. Y., has ac- cepted a call to tne Presbyterian courcn at Beex- mantowa, N, Y, Kev, James M. Anderson, of Belvidere, N. J., has peek po to the Presoyverian church at Mat- awan, N. J. The Brookfield Presbyterian church, L. I, has extended a unanimous cail to Rev. W. H. Seeley, of Easthampton, to become ita pastor. Rev. David A. Day and wife, Lutheran mission- aries to the St. Paul’s River, iu Liberia, West Alri- Ca, sailed from this port on Monday. ROMAN CATHOLIC. It is reported, on what is said to be good au- thority, that not less than 3,000 Catholic priests have leit the Roman Cuurch io this country tor Various reasons, and are now engaged in secular pursuits here, Rey. Dr. Newman, in the Christian Advocate, gives we following items of Roman Catholic prog- ress tn China:—At Tientsin a chapel and orphanage are in process of erection on the site where the Sisters were massacred and @ new cathedral is being built in the foreign concession. At Chefoo aud Hanghow their buaulidngs are extensive, At Kiukiang part of their estavlishment consists of a tea factory, whose outs.de trade is done by Chinese converts and the mside by priests. The profits for 1873 were $10,000. At Skapghai they are very large landholders, Six miles outside the city they have an establishment covering many acres, including a age, & college jor 200 boys and girls and an obServatory. At Canton they are erecting a cathedral of Hong Kong granite, 100 feet wide aud 250 feet long. A Roman Catholic priest has taken up his resi- dence among the Sandwich Island lepers on Mola- kai, When last heard from, he had baptized thir- | ty-tive lepers and had observéd the Corpus Christi Jestival among bis converts. O1 tae twelve Roman Catholic bishops of Ger- many four are now in prison for disobedience of | | the ecclesiastical laws, The arrest of the Arch+ bishop of Cologne, as described by the London Times correspondent, was a somewhat dramatic Deriormance. His Eminence declined to stir irom his palace uniess ‘force’ was used; whereupon the Chief of Police touched his arm and supplied the requisite amount of force. On this the Archbish« marched off, saying in Latin :—Thank God! pot force. Our downfall will be the Church’s vic- ory. ‘Three hundred and sixty-five children received the sacrament of confirmation at the hands of the Right Key. sisnop Lynch, of Charleston, on Fri- day, May 1, in tue new St, Agnes’ church, East Forty-tuird street, New York. A triduum which began m St. Francis Xavier's church on Friday will be continued to-day in honor Of the beatification of Peter Favre, 8. J., the com- Ter ha Gi Lorolm He died in 1546 and was beatt- The Pope has received Easter gifts valued at $16,000 trom serving maids in Great Britain. Tne Catholics of Philmont, N. Y., have raised Over $1,000 to erect a new church there, The Catholics of New Orieans have @ series of local pilgrimages on hand wo the several churches, which are visited in turns. Similar pilgrimages are going 10rward in Natchez, Miss, Rev. D, B, Cull, lave pastor of st. Joseph’s church, Cindervilie, Unio, has veen transierreu to Ports- in the same State. A Catholic mission has just closed at Fort Me- Henry, Md. At its ciose fifty solaiers received the holy communion, and sixty mun joined @ tomper- with | the | The tall | mn will be nothing but an axiom | They | ance society, which was established the Pas- alonist Fathers, o ‘The Catholics of the diocese of Natche2 will be | represented in the a: jage to Paray- le-Montal, Lourdes and Rome. the person of wo Kev. M. F. Grignon, Vicar General of the The new Catholic church ‘at Gardiner, Mass., Will be completed im July, it will cost about 000, The new Catbolicchureh at Eastport. Me., will be dedicated to-d Bishop Bacot Portiand, ‘The new Gnurew or tl MHeart, Baltimore, Md., will be dedicated py Archbishop Bayley, OD | Sunday, May 24, ior the use of the Germans. ‘sishop Dwenger, Fort Wayne and Rev. Thomas Brehony, of Scranton, Pa., are counted among the pilgrims who are to leave this port for | Lourdes and @ Next week. ‘The Dominican Fathers, principally of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, of New York, open & mission to-day at St. Paul’s church, Brookiyn. ‘The Rev. Fathers condu the mission are the | Jollowing:—Fathers Byrne, Daly, Ryan, Power, Choame and Dinahan, The mission is to last two weel METHODIST, The Rev. W. F. Craite, of New Hampshire Con- ference, was married in Plainfleld, N. J., May 1, to Miss Sarah J. Timanug, of Davenport, Iowa. Dr. Vincent, of this city, and the groom's father ol- fictated. The Rev, Conga Loomis, D. D., has resigned the | presidency of Al Siem College trom July 1. Toe Primitive Met! Church of Canada met in annual conference at Toronto last Thursday. ‘The Troy Conference raised last year ‘or church extension $5,000 against $1,720 for the same cause the year before. The Metnodist mpisoe church at Rocky Hill, aa is in the Court of Chancery and likely to be 80) irienas rally to its support and give it Rev. Bishop Foster will deliver the annual ad- dress beiore the Cincinnati Wesleyan College on ‘Tus , June 9 Rev, 0, C. Olds, presiding elder of the Niles dis- trict, Michigan Conierence, is recovering from & severe illness. Bishop Peck dedicated a new Methodist Episco- & church at Pitwsfleld, Mass, last Tuesday. The v. F. Clymer is pastor, Bishop Janes, ot the Methodist Episcopal Church, entered on the sixty-seventh year of nis age last week. He was presiding over a Methodist £p1s copal Con‘erence. The occasion was marked by some very complimentary resolutions, and a Jadi- cious and modest speech trom the Bishop. The head of the Methodist Church to-day, Bishop Janes, is one of the most popular men in the body. | ‘the Brittsh Wesleyan Connection reports 5,589 schools, 108,446 teachers and officers and 656,766 scholars. The average age of Sunday scholars in | America, a8 weil as of day scholars, is much higher | | im that country. i Bishop Simpson left this city on Monday to | preside at the Maine Conierence on Wednesday. | Rev. Dr. Whedon, of tnis city, arrived home | | | | from Florida last week. | _ Rev. A. P. Ripley, of Buffalo, spent a few days in | New York last week. | _ Bishop Richardson, of the Canada Methodist Episcopal Church, is now in his eighty-fourth year, , Dut yet actively visiting and presiding at the an- | | nual conferences. | Rev. J. 0. Woodward, of Louisiana Conference, | | has sailed for Kurope where he will spend a brief | vacation, | Rev. J.B, Dille, of Lexin; I, has been | granted eight month’s leave of absence to recruit | his health, Salary continued. | Rev. J. K. Chuseman, M. D., of Troy Conference, | | has taken a years’ rest to recrait his health and | | | | ts stopping with Doctor Thompson at Quarantine, Kev. Emory J. Haynes, of Hanson Place Metho- dist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, was married in Poughkeepsie April 23, to Miss Grace Forby. Doc- tor Kendrick oiliciated. BAPTIST. The Rev. Mr. McCarthy, from whom the Baptist ministers of Chicago had withdrawn the hand of fellowship, has organized @ new church with iorty of bis old parishioners, It is open commanion, | and 1s to be known as “Amity Baptist church.” The London (England) Baptist Association has, ‘within the past eight years, erected eight new | churches, Eider J. J. Haley, of the Christian Church was married recently, and immediately started | for his post in Anstrala, Rev. J. W. Coffman, late of New London, Jowa, has accepted a cali from the First Baptist church, Carthaze, fll. Rev. J. A. Jackson has accepted the pastorate of the Freeburg (lll.) Baptist church, | The Rey. Niles Kinney has veen called to the | pastorate of the Baptist church at Bushnell, Ill. The Kev. H. C. First has resigned tne pastorate | or the North Prairie Baptist church, near Prince- | ton, ill. The Rev. M. T. Lamb has resigned as pastor of | the Baptist chureh at Clinton, lowa, to engage in general Sunday school mission work. A Baptist church and Sunday school have been organized at Kesoqua, Iowa. ‘The Baptist pastors of Chicago, at their meeting last Monday, reported additions for the month of April—by letter, 57; by baptism, 31, Thirteen churches only reported. | The new Christian church at Laura, Ohio, will be dedicated next Sunday. The Baptist Pastors’ Conference of this city last Monday reported additions to their churches tor | the month of April, 165, The Brooklyn pastors at | the same time reported 168 additions. The Rev. James Cooper has resigued his pastor- | ate at Rondout, N. Y., to take effect August 1. The Rev. C. J, Balawia, Of Chelsea, Mass., bas accepted a call to the First Baptist church at | Rochester, N. Y. The Baptist church at West Henrietta, N. Y,, has | called to its pulpit Mr. W. Gregory, oi the Roches- | ter Theological Seminary. He will shortly be ordained. ‘The Baptists of Chicago and vicinity dedicated | seven new churches last year, and expect to dedi- cate as many more this year. Tuey are organ- | izing a new interest at Hyde Park, a southern sub- ‘urb of the city. itis proposed to purciiase a lot at once and enter upon the erection of a house of worship. Rev. W. C. Van Meter, of the Bibie and Publica- jon Society Mission to Rome, has arrived ter an | absence of two years. He will make ‘a brief so- journ, dnd be in "eae at the Baptist anni- versaries to be held in Washington. | The trustees of Colby University have voted to raise $100,000, to endow three preparatory schools, one at Watervilie, and one each im the eastern and western parts of the State of Texas, The Fisth Baptist Church, Newark, N. J., has ex- tended a call to the Rev. George A. Simonson of Hartford, The Gethsemane Baptist church, of Philadelphia, dedicated its beautiiul new house of worship on | Thursday last. It cost about $70,000, Rev. A. Cieghorn, D, D., has become pastor of | the church in Champaign, Ii. ‘The Baptists of Germany are callea by the Cath- | Olics “Prayists,’’ because they pray so much, | They fast even more than the Catholics do, and the Ministers are respected just as much as the Catholic priests, and exercise the authority be- | longing to their office. ‘The Bapust church at Oil City, Pa., has called to | its pastorate Mr. George Whiiman, a graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary. He wiil assume the | Office and duties at once. EPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. F. B, Carter, of Flushing, has been elected rector of the Protestant Emiscopal church | at West Islip, L. 1, and will enter on his daties | there June 1, | The Rev. G. W. Strong, M. A., formerly of the | Martyr’s church, Paisley, has become pastor of the | Castle Hill church, Campbelitown, N. BR | Rev. W. A. Snively, iate rector o1 St. Peter's eae rie era toe his duties as rector elect o1 Urace churel rooklyn Heigh' Sun- day next, May 10. " ily; MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. Mr. Amies, of the Noble street (Greenpoint) | Universalist churci, has resigued to accept the pastorate of a church in Wateroury, Conn, ‘the corner stone of the new butiding for the Theological Seminary at Auburn, N. Y., was laid on Thursday by Rev. Dr. Chester, of Buffalo, The Rev. ©. P. McCarthy, ot Philadelphia, will | to-day begin his ministry witn the Universalist | —— ae ne h . iv. Mr. Nutting has been compelled to give up his Universalist pulpit in Gardiner, Me,, | | on aecount of severe itiness, Mey REG | ere are in the United States at present about | 65,000 clergymen belonging to the various denouue | DAvions of the Protestant Church. Their averay sandal salarios are trom $660 to $660 only, the | | highest average in any one denomis —| \ fee eeaae eee $700, RRR OT fhe American Binie Society has r id expended upon its great wor $on4ase eithin the | last year, and yet it is unable to meet the demand | oe Bible that comes irom every part of the | To-day a collection will be taken in e in Boston, Protestant and Catholic, pip foes me | hospitals of the city. This is Jeph @ new and good LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. Flexible and Inflexible Laws—Moses on Woman’s Rights—Prejudice Versus Right—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Huebsch. A large and fashionable congregation gathered in this beanti(ul temple yesterday, to whom Rev. Dr. Huebsch discoursed trom the last verse of | Numbers, thirty-sixti chapter, wnich had been read asalesson. It reads:—‘These are the com- mandmepts and the judgments which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the chil- dren of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho.” The Doctor showed the connection of this text with the narrative of whicn it forma a part, the bearing of the judgment rendered upon the status of woman, explained the distinction be- tween those commandments which are flexible and those that are invariabie and unalterable, ana then drew irom the text its appropriate lessons for the present time and for the congregation which he addressed, There are some men | so constituted that they look at everything from the standpoint of veneration. They are religious and they think ali others ought to be religious too, | because, perchance, our iathers and mothers were religious, It is good to be religious from any motive, but this Goes not reach the fountain; it is | | whom they pleased, would wed some | property Of their father would be alienated irom The law gave them the right to inherit | | that never waxed old. Doctor remarked, and there find everything a8 I left it, I am touched by it, My memory brings | back the by gone days, but while I have OUTGROWN THESE SURROUNDINGS they contunue as they were. enjoy them now as I did when I was @ boy than I could wear the pants of my youth to-day. Just 50 is it with the religious rites of the past that are held to for no better reasons than the remem- brances of what they were to us in our youthiul days. We don’t eat and drink because father and mother ate and drank, but pecause it 1s 8 neces- sity of our nature to do so And we must not think that God aslights the bodv because He makes so much account of the soul. We must nourish it from day today. We must not eat and drink the spiritual iood of tne Bible merely because our fathers and mothers loved it but because it will ive us ats ened, of character and of intellect. You don’t give the child the same food that you give the man atelier y ment. And so the chi learns from the Bible how it may prepare for youth ae manhood, aud the man receives irom it such piritual food as will fit him ior old age, and the aged, in his tura, willbe thereby prepared for his fuiure and eternal home. But we must each feel the aced of this nourishment ere we seek it in the Bivle, But that this spiritual food might be suit- able and convenient for Israel the Lord gave it to them by the hand of Moses, and He gives it now by the hands of His ministers; and we are not at liberty to declare these commandments of God out of time or place, Everything must have its own shape and garment, and the spirit mast have its garment, We may all think ourselves good artists until we try to paint, or good singers until we are tested in opera or oratorio. And we know not how hard it is to keep the command- ments until we attempt it. And the question is, Cun any one declare any of those commandments to be obsolete? Certainly not. For no man 18 reater than God, or than the lawgiver by whom hese commandments were transinitted to the children of Israel. And the Torah was not given Jor Moses’ sake, but for Israei’s sake. They are the rounds by which we are to reach the top of the | ladder. They are the terraces by which we as- end to the elevated plateau beyond. We canngt gel a better or A HIGHER IDEAL MAN than we find in the Bible, ‘The pian of your house is there, but you are to build your own structure, and ou build you will erect your scaifolding, but your spiritual building is complete you don’t need your scatiolding. ‘The plan o! God tor our spiritasl fe and character can’t be better ex- ressed Lan it is in the Bible—**1'o love the Lord thy with all thy soul and mind and strength and thy neighvor as tuyseli.’’ The Doctor then reierred to the cradeness of the ,ideas of the ancients, who offered slaughtered sacrifices for everyting, and when @ murdex was committed the next of kin to the muraered one might take the life of the man- slayer 1 he jound him, Moses tried to restrain these customs among the Israelites, and hence he provided cities of reiuge into which the mansiayer might fiee until his case had been properly adjudicated. It was the same with other habits and customs. Here, for instance, in the lesson read to-day, we get an in- sight into Moses’ estimate of the social and civil relation of women, Their position ts always the | test of the intellectual and social culture ol a commupity or a nation, Even among the Israel- ites in this early age they were considered at best as a necessary evil, but they were not allowed to carry on business or to own property. daughters of Zeiophehad, who inherited their father’s estate, were looked epen suspiciously, and here the first woman’s rights question arose. ‘Yney had no brother, and their neighbors feared that they, exercising their natural right to marry yy whom tne 1s tribe. and possess property, but THE PREJUDICES OF THE PEOPLE required them to marry in their own tribe and among their own kindred, so that the estate should ever remain intact. Moses would elevate women, but the prejudices of the times were I could no more | Rijey, Of Mexico, and Hence the | against him. This law was, however, for that | generation only. We should always have before our eyes the spirit that is in the Bible, which is she | spirit ojala?! day lue, to nourish our souls as the food we eat does our bodies, We should not have such reverence ior old wees ag to prevent us from creating new. We find in the Bible just what we search lor init. If we seek the living | Word tu it we shall have every day something new, and yet it will be like the garments that the israel- | ites wore in their journey through the wilderness hen Sir Walter Scott was dying ne called for the Book, and being asked What book he answered there was but one book, the Bible. The Bidie is the Book of buoks; let us beet it and receive it as the Word of the living ui THE MAY ANNIVERSARIES. Programme of Meetings and BExercises— Greater Enthusiasm Than Usual Ex- | pected This Year. Notwithstanding the apparent alight whicn New York has heretofore shown toward the anni- vergaries the societies whose annual gatherings take place in May cannot give us up. They come here year after year with varying fortunes, but nevertheless with commendable pertinacity. In entertainment or such large audiences as here. From no other centre can their reports goout with such weighty influence as from this. And nowhere else can they find more liberal patrons than here in this commercial mart, where men are supposed to be co immersed in business that they have scarcely time to pray night and morning. These and other considerations compel the several mis- sionury and benevolent societies of the land, most of whom have their headquarters here, hold their annual mectings in this city. Tney have tried to get away, and for a few years past their anniversaries have been held in Albany, Boston, Philadelphia or elsewhere; but, they are obliged to come back again to New York, to | blame tor following his SAS and this year the number of anniversaries that | will be held here is larger than has been known | to be, for many spring times. Some of them will open their sessions this evening with special sermons, a8, for instance, the following :— SUNDAY, MAY 10, American Seamen's Friend Society, forty-sixth anniversary, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenue and Forty-second street. Sermon by Dr. M, R. Vincent, at half-past seven P. M. American Home Missionary Society, in the Broadway Tabernacle, Sixth avenue and Thirty- fourth street, half-past seven P. M. Sermon by Rev. Dr. T. Post, of St. Louis. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in Dr. Paxton’s church, Fifth avenue and Kieventh street, at half-pust seven o’clock P. M. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Seaver, o1 Brocklyn, American Female Guardian Society, fortieth an- Diversary this evening. in the West Presbyterian church, Forty-secona street, near Fifth avenue. Sermon by Rev, Dr. Tyng. BONPAY, MAY 11, American Seamén’s Friend Society. business meeting in the chapel of tne Sailor's Home, No. 190 Cherry street, at two o’ciock P. M., when the report of the Board will be presented, and trustees elected to fill existing vacancies. ad National ‘Temperance Society, ninth anniver- P.M Addresses by Revs. HM Scudder and t,t in Steinway Hall, at hali-past seven o'clock | CQuyler, of Brooklyn, and Rev. James B. Dunn, of | Boston, and the President of the society, Will E. Dodge, and others are announced. hfe ihe The Union Theological Seminary, business meet- ing in the library of the Seminary at half-past three o'clock P. M., and anniversary exercises in Madison square Presbyterian church at hall-past seven v’ciock P. M., when Dr. Adams will be inau- iat President 01 the Seminary, and Dr. George Io Prentiss and Dr. John Hail will deliver ad- Tesses. The annual mer eting o1 th bptiry. dF eting of the American and Foreign Christian Union, is tor other business, will be held in the society's rooms, 46 Bible House, at two o'clock P. M. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, The American Home Missionary Society will hold its annual business meeting in the society's rooms in the Bible House, at jour o'clock P. M. Jor the election of directors and | The American ‘iract society, forty-ninth annt- | versary, in the lecture room of Dr, Crosby's churca, Fourth avenue and ‘i'wenty-second street, at ten o’clock A.M. The report of the operations oi the i, will be presented and the Board and commit- es elected. Alumni of Union Theological Seminary, thirty- second annual meeting, in the newly fitted rooms | of the President and Treasurer of the Seminary, No. 80 Clinton piace, at four o’ciock P, M. A collation Will be served at hall-past six. The report of the Library Fund Committee and other important matters connected with the interests of the insti- tution will be presented for consideration. New York Universalist Association, annual meet- ing, in the Church o1 Our Father, Clermont and At- lantic avenues, Prcoklyn. at ten o'clock A. M. Annual sermon by Rey, J. M. Atwood. THURSDAY, MAY 14. Tne American Congregational Union will hold its annual social reunion this year on ‘Thursday bai May 14, in the Broadway Tabernacle, cor- ner of Thirty-iourth street. Among the speakers ‘will be Dr. John Hall, of the Presbyterian Unurch; the Rev. H. M. Gallaher, of the Baptist Charch ; the Rev, W. S, Studley, of the Methodist, and other distinguished gentiemen representing the Episco- phi and Congregational churches, ihis meeting Will have a special significance the presen’ year, as following the great necting of the Evangelical Alliance, of the spirit of which it has for many years given a practical illustration. | system instead of hel | no otner city in America can they findas ample | , the main responsibility falls upon ti | Dimsell. At all events, @ thorough investigation We, of course, | | to the | Broadway in Baptist church m the eventn; Bev. RB. 8 Addresses 4 ved from Rey. J, F. Elder and others. lis anniversary gesterday i the acsdemy af Mania, ki; were delivered by Dr. H. D. The Waptisteare to hold thetr anniversaries tn Washington, D, C., this year, commencing on Fri- dar. May 22, at nine A. Me, 906 conta over nday. Bible and Publication take the first chance. Sermon ‘eston by Re and addresses during the day by other ministers. The annual sermon re the Mission- ary Union will be preached by Rev. E. Dodge, D. D., President of University, in tae Hall of the House of Representatives, on Sunday morning, May 2% Rev. A. J, F. Behrends, pastor of First church in Cleveland, preaches the Home Mus- sion Anniversary Sermon in the same place Sun- evening. 18 ‘Brook: ‘in Sunday School Union will have its forty-fifth ‘annual parnie on May 27. Eight divis- ions will be tormed this year, go a8 to give the children shorter marches than heretofore. e programme, not yet announced, is said to be very slavorate, and 56,000 children are expected Mo ee out on that day. The anniversary Satern District Sabbath schools will take place june CHARITY NEEDS CORRECTION. The Investigation Into the Books of the Department of Charities and Correc- tion—3crious Charges Made by Presi- dent Laimbeer Against Chief Clerk Lawrence—What Will Be Developed— Mayor Havemeyer Threatens a Second Investigation. Regarding the presentment of the Grand Jury concerning the Department of Public Charities and Correction, about which Commissioner Stern of- fered @ resolution begging the Mayor to cause an investigation to be made, there was no new de- velopment yesterday excepting the following note from Mayor Havemeyer to the President of the De- partment of Charities and Correction :— Bxnovniva Duraurwxxt, Grey Hat, } Naw Yore, May 9 1874 To Wittiam Garmsxer, Paxsipent Derantxnt oF Pos- 110 CHARITIES AXD COmRROTION :— Sin—I received your communication of yesterday witn the accompanying report and resolution. My attention having been previously called to the presentment of the Grand Jury I shall deem it my duty to direct a, thorough Fespectfully, mate OW. F. HAVEMEYER. As this is what Mr. Stern’s resolution calls for, it is very probable that the Commissioners are satis- fled, though it is sala that they need not have given themselves the trouble to call for the exami- nation, which would have been made in any case. This examination regards merely the allegation that the expenditures of the department have been wasteful and extravagant in the matter of purchases, It is very possible, however, that the investigation into the books, which is going on at present, and which has been going on for some days, may reveal a state of affairs which will maxe any farther, or second investigation entirely un- necessary, for it is certain that the accounts of the department, according to the statement of one ol its members, are somewhat mixed, and that whether the fault hes in tne Commissioners them- selves or in their subordinates, a state of affairs exists which will probably be a sarprise to a great. many people when all the tacts come out. Yesterduy @ reporter of the HERALD called at the department butlaing in Third avenue and Eleventh street. Mr. Laimbeer, the President of the Board, was the only Commissioner present. He did not appear to receive the reporter's visit with any ex- treme pleasure, though he expressed himsell ag being Wilimg to give any information in his posses- sion. The following interview then took piace:— Rerorrse—If it does notin any manner inter- fere with your public duties, Mr. Laimbeer, I should like to know irom you what has been de- veloped by the examination which has been going on bs as days into the accounts of your depart- ment Mr. LamMBEER—I can only speak in a general way sto this examination, for it 18 yet young, str, and! have just come down stairs from a session with the accountants who have been investigating the books. These are sent here from the Depart- ment o1 Accounts, It 16 really the Commissioners of Accounts who are making the investigation, and at our own request. REPORTER—Had you any reaso~ to suspect that your bouks were not Droper kept Mr. LaIMBEERB—We ; and we have not heen mistaken. This examination was made necessary by the iact that since we have been here we have repeatedly demanded a balance sheet from Mr. to get one. Time after time 1 has been asked jor, and time aiter time we have been put off with some evasive answer. Complaints have constantly been made by our chief clerk on the Isiand of the way 10 which things were done up stairs, and I have long been convinced that things were not right. We found Mr. Lawrence here when we came, and were assured suat he kmew how to conduct the business better than any one else, having such an intimate acquaintance with it. But his us has only involved us in all sorts of.compiicationa, so that we were te made, “ire cannot tell et what's ra ‘mi e what a full examina- tion will revoat but ‘iresty we have discovered Many inaccuracies and mistakes. REPORTER—Are these mistakes intentional ‘or otherwise ? Mr, LarmprER—I don’t care to say, but simply These are alreaty too numerous to allow conceal- ment, and ‘don’t know what we shail find out be- lore we get through. “is Mr. Lawrence still im his position?” asked the reporter. “He ts,” said Mr. Laimbeer, “and will remain so ‘until the result of the invest tion is fully settled, Toe bookkeepers under Mr. Lawrence are also to when they ut of course mast have known them to be Wrong; ceorase je Chief Cler! Was needed, and will be le. could not but know of this, We had confidence in Mr. Lawrence; and though we did not like the manner in wiich he carried on his work, we did not think matters were as as they are found several days yet.” During a portion of this conversation one of the accountants who is examiming department was present aad corroborated all Mr. Laimbeer said as to the condition of the books of we department, POLICE MATTERS, Commissioner Disbecker took his seat on the Pohce Board yesterday. He was promptly ap- pointed on the Committees on Street Cleaning and | Discipline. The Board thon went into the general business of the department and dismissed E, J. Sheaffer, of the Eighth precinct, Sergeant W. Mooney and patrolmen Dolan and Riley, of the Thirty-third precinct, were treated similarly for incompetency. These officers were attached “Tie: police el Bi bael tate et the tnord 1 nexation, but were pronounce a8 ashe to Potaiied under the rules of the mu- nicipal force. James Lee was a} inted to the lace of Daniel E. Hyatt, Superintendent of Boats tne Street Department. sergeant Mullen, of the squad, was transferred to the Seneca. ‘The office of district inspectors in the Street De- partment was abolished, A resolution was passed ordering the purchase of ground on the corner of Second avenue ana Filty-second street fora sta- tion house and & prison lor the use of the Pos. of the Nineteenth precinct. Thirty thousand dollars is the sum to be paid for this property. y the Mayor and Aldermen consent to the acquisition. The Board adjourned to meet on Tuesday next. GITY AND COUNTY TREASURY. Comptrolier Green reports the following dis- bursements and receipts of the Treasury yes- terday:— DISBURSEMENTS. No. of Warrants, Amount. Claims paid. 1 $2,006 Payrolls paid. 45,080 $50,845 RECRIPTS. From taxes of 1873 and interest... From arrears of taxes, assess From collection of assessment From market reat. From water rents From licenses, Mi From tees and fine: seeee $8441 MELANCHOLY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Yesterday morning a German named Herman Johnson, residing in No, 131 Washington street, Hoboken, shot himself through the head with pistol, in a fit of despondency. ‘The bullet entered under the lef! eye, producing injuries which may terminate fatally. He used to peddle goods on the docks of tue German steamers, and tnroagh ill fortune became involved in debt to the extent of $600, His eiforts to extricate himsell from this diMiculty and to support hia wife and family prov- ing Iruitiess, he resolved to end is misery in death. He is now in charge of the Sisters in St. Mary's Hospital, who will do ever eae, possible to relieve his mental and physical suffering. No doubt some of his wealthy acquaintances in | ken will endeavor also to suvstantially alleviate his sorrows. A NEWSPAPER OPFIOE SACKED, Apany, N. Y., May 0, 1874. Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, | 18th ie eu in the Academy of Music at hall- past seven P.M, Meter, 1. L. Cuyler, D, D., anu others. Singing vy the onildren, Among those societies announced for next week are the Baptist Sunday Scivol Union, whose four- teenth anniversary will be held at two o'clock P. M. on Tuesday, i9th inst. in different churches. The notenougi. Lf 1 go to the homo of my youth, the annual Sunday School Toacners meetups wil ve Addresses by Revs. W. ©. Van | A despatch from Schuylervilie, N. Y., says:—The Standard office in this piace was broken into this morning about three o’ciock. This week's edition and all the books were entirely destroyed; aiso all the forms and ali the type in the office were “pied,” leavieg the office in @ state of compiete wreck. ‘The outrage was doubtiess instigated by the liquor interest, on account of the war waged by \he Standard on thg rug tragic. Lawrence, the Chie! Clerk, and have not been able | mination of his books | content myseii with using the term inaccurucies. | The investigation will not be ended for | the books of the | aa | Mayor, to take effect Juno 1. | YACHTING NOTES. ———___— At the annual meeting of the Boston Yacht Club the following oMcers were elected :—Commodore, Benjamin Dean; Vice Commodore, W. H. L. Smithy Rear Commodore, George B. Durfee ; Secretary and Clerk, ‘Thomas Dean; Measurer, D. J. Lawler; Trustees, 8. D. Nickerson, J. Vlaxton Cary, Arthur Oheney; Regatta Committee, Charles BE, Russ, Coolidge Barnard, W. F. Halsall, 8 L. French; Membership Committee, A. 0. Martin, 0. E. Russ, Paul West; House Committee, Commodore Dean, D. B, Curtis and'8. D, Nickerson, General E. Burd Grubb, of the New York Yachs Club, has secured the services of Captain Edward Smith, who has lett tor Norfolk to take oharge ef the schooner yacht Eva. The sloop yacht Wayward, now being built by Kirby, of Rye, for Mr. William Edgar Morris, of the New York Yacht Club, will probably be finished about the lat of June. She will bea very hand- some craft and judging from her dimensions should have considerable speed. The “shadow” is the name of & new sal lately imtroduced among English yachtsmen that wilt Probably supplant the spinnaker. In its descrip- tion of the sail, the London Field says:—‘The ga@ is sooketed to the masthead under the forestay, and as it has 4 universal joint it will not require unshipping to be shifted from side tostde. Sey- eral hoops will be seized to the nead of the sail, and when the latter has to be hoisted the hoops ‘will be passed over ihe gaff, and then the halliards (rove through a single block) will be hooked to the gat. The sail will be kept in to the mast whilst t¢ 1s being hoisted, and the tack will be hauled out to the 000m end—the boom, by the way, is rigged 98 a spinnaker boom—and the sail sheeted. Te keep the gaff from going forward a brace or vat will lead alt from the gaff end. The sail will cont tain more canvas than would a spinnaker of the same length in the foot, But beyond this, 16 is in- tended, in long runs in light winds, to set a jib- beaded topsail above the gaff, so that an area of sail will be got equal to that of mainsail and sail. There is no doubt that this willbe a effective sail when once set, and that there will be ‘no strain on the topmast.” ‘The new schooner Estelle, owned by Mr. Frank eae bee been enrolied in the Brooklyn Yacks lub flee ‘the schooner yacht Phantom, Mr. William Osgood, New York Yacht Club, is still at her winter bread in New London harbor. She has bees tte with topmasts forty-two feet in le) en increase of twelve feet over those she carried lass season. Mr. Daniel Edgar’s new sloop yacht, built by Kirby, of Rye, is now afloat, poceieee the finishing touches to her cabin and Figeing. he is & able looking cratt and will probably show coa- siderable speed. Ata recent meeting of the New Thames Refewn | Club Mr. J. F. Lontat, New York Yacht Ctub, owner of the schooner yacht Enchantress, was elected a member, The St. Augustine Yacht Club has elected thé following officers for the ensuing year:—Commo- dore, Gordon Granger; Vice Commodore, Daniel Egar; Secretary and Treasurer, KR. F, Armatrongs Measurer, Charies F. Crary; House Commit fa’ a Robinson, of Fiorida, and J. M. Morton, of New ‘ork. The keel sloop yacht Payche is at Mr. Steers? yard undergoing repens. The Lynn Yacht Club have decided to hold their annual regatta on June 17, The schooner yacht Rebecca, owned by J. H. Reed, has been enrolied in the fleet of the Boston Yacht Club. The South Boston Yacht Clubare rapidly increas. ing their feet. They have now 130 members om the rolis and a fleet of thirty-eight yachts. Joseph B. Van Deusen has been overhauling tse Viking, Mr. Mahlon Sands, New York Yacht Club, and fitting her in trim for her trip across the At | antic. Her fore topmast and flying jibboom have been housed and her main boom shortened. She has been fitted with a new suit of working cam vas, and will sail on the 20th of May, Carl, of City Island, has recenty been engaged om a sidewheel steam yacht. She measures 80 feet om deck and is being built for Mr. Frank White. The schooner yacht Madeleine, Oommodore Jacob Voorhis, of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, is at Nyack beimg overhauied preparatory ior the coming season. Mr. 0. H. Delamater is having & small screw. steam yacht built at Oari’s, of City Island, Sne wiil measure 45 feet on deck. ‘The new steam yacht Ideal, built for Mr. Hugo Fritsch, the Austrian Consul at New York, in con- nection with Messrs, Havemeyer, and launched | from Mr. Van Deusen’s yard late last fail, has now been fully completed. The ideal is one of the largest vessels of the New York Yacht Club flees, being 135 feet long, 21 feet beam and 8 tect depth of hold, measuring about 200 tons, common meas- ure, and but for the smokestack presents the appearance of a lull-rigged, fore and aft, schooner yacht, She has exceedingly fine unes, agracefnl bow and elliptic stern. Her machinery consists 01 one 20x20 vertical direct acting engine, with air pul Qjtachment; independent circulating pump, engine, suriace condenser, donkey engine and bilge pumps. ‘The boiler is of the, square box re- | turn tubular type, 12 feet front and length and 8 | feet high, having three furnaces and calculated | for 100 pounds of steam. The machinery was built av the Delamater lron Works from de: of | Mr. George H. Reynolds, and for simplicity, strength and neatness stands unsurpassed. The Ideal nas AE earn from Pen etd trip and pro erself @ rem: cellent an Toa She ran nearly 450 miles | 84 hours, averay over 1 ta per hours | thmes, with the aid of Sintaae ioe ng to 17 | home from Newport she accom- knots. The se plished in a little over 11 hours, thereby mal about the quickest pa: eon record for @ Vessel of her class, Exceedingly good taste and preat ingenuity is noticeable everywhere in her interior arrangement, which, for cqmfort and elegance is not surpassed by any yacht in the squadron. The | Ideal is the first vessel built here that can be prop- erly termed a seagoing steam yacht and is a | credit to her builders and owners. It is reported that Mr. Fritsch intends challenging the steam yacht Day Dream to a race from New York to Brenton’s reef lightship and back for @ cup. The Day Dream, being an exceedingly fast and able vessel, will prove @ dangerous antagonist and one | hard to beat, and a match race between those crack boats would excite a great deal of tutgrest, BROOKLYN'S STOLEN BON panies ieee A Commaunteation from Comptroller Schroeder to the Mayor. Yesterday Comptroller Frederick A. Schroeaer | Sent the following communication to the Mayor in | relation to the alleged payment of duplicate city’ | bonds at one of the banks :— Comrrrouurn’s Orrice, City Hatt, Hon. Joun W. Howres, Mayors nT MAY 1876. } Duar Sin—The following statement, calcul: t throw discredit on the Department of Pit | She, bonds outstanding against ‘the city, ‘appeased nig! “It is confidently said that there are duplt city bonds, and the authorities are unable to Sopher cise nuinber.. It is iurther stated, and the assertion | not been authentically dented, that about $2,300 has al- ready, bee Collected irom the city on fraddulomt oom: 8. of beg to state that during my administration a carefal examination of all coupons presented tor interest hag | been made, that no fraudulent coupons have ever beem presented or paid, and that among the many th | coupons paid but eight duplicates have been disco’ | and when partes is 3 them have been calles | Spon to exhibit the bonds belonging to the coupons (a | some had to be sent for to Europe), it has been found in | every instance that the bonds were properly | many years ago, when it was customary to write the numbers in with pen and ink—only clerical errors hed, been made in numbering the bonds, There are to-day but Uiree $1.00 bouds missing. |All of these are Park bonds, and numbered 8,5.8, 8.609 and 851", and were stolen by Kessler. I am positive that there are no other stolen or fraudulent bonas out against the city.—Very respectfully yours, F. A, SCHRORDER, Comptroller. RESIGNATION OF COMPTROLLER SCHROEDER. Considerable excitement was occasioned im Brooklyn Uity Hall circles yesterday afternoon by | the report that was circulated to the effect that CompiroWer Frederick A. Schroeder had resigned | his position. 1¢ transpired upon inquiry that Mr. | Schroeder, who heretoiore declared that the dis- charge of the duties of office was @ personal incon- venience to himself, sent his resignation to the iis term o1 office would expire this year, having been elected for three years, The Mayor will nominate and the Aldermen confirm the successor of Mr. schroeder. THE OASB OF FITZ JOHN PORTER, HARRISBURG, May 9, 1874, A joint resolution has passed both branches ot the Legisiature, by ® unanimous vote, asking the President of the United States to appoint a board to re-examine the proceedings in tae case of Fits Jono Porter. SUIOIDE OF A FARMER AvGuSTA, Me., May 9, 1874, William Craig, a farmer, of Augusta, possessing | property valued at $40,000 or $50,000, hanged him- ; self last night in his barn witha trace chain, He Was ged seventy, and was one of tae founders of vhe Baptist churca in this city. OINOINNATI PORK TRADE. Report of the Chamber of Commereds CINCINNATI, May 9, 1874 The Superintendent of the Chamber of Com Merce to-day reports the stock of hog product, winter packing, in Cincinnatt up to May 1 wus ae | follows:—Mess pork, barrels, 9,865. Bulk meate— ' Shoulders, 13,540,000 pounds; rib sides, 256,000 pounds ; clear rib, 16,862,000 poands ; clear, 2,668,000 pounds; Lams, 208,000 poun jaca balk, bi Say pounds, Bacon—phoulder: 000 pounds; rib, $06,000 pounds; clear,” 120,800 p dy 2,296,000 pounds, Hams of all kt ie 9,745,000 pounds, Lard—prime steam, 2,567 Kettle condgred, 4,040 tiorces aad a tho heute ’