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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. | Programme of Services for Whit-Sun- day, or Pentecost, May 24. Ministerial and Church Move- ments—Feast of Weeks. Herald Correspondence on Relig- ion and Rationalism. Bishop Littlejohn will preach this morning in Grace church, brooklyn Heights, at the installation of the Rey. Mr. Snively, the new rector. Mr, 0. M. Lockwood will preach this morning ana evening in the Fifty-third street Baptist eburcb. Rey. W. T. Sabine will preach morning and even- ing in the First Reiormed Episcopal church, Forty- seventh street and Madison avenue. Rev. Robert Sloss will preach morning and even- ing in the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church, corner Second avenue. Preaching services to-day at the usual hours in the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, West Thirty-fourth street, Dr. L, H. King pastor. Dr. Sproul, formeriy o! Newburg, N. Y., will oc- cupy the pulpit of the West Forty-second street Presbyterian church tuis morning and afternoon. Rev. J. W. Barobart will preach this morning and evening in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal chureh. Temperance meeting at hall-past three PM Dr. Fulton will preach in the Hanson place Bap- ‘ist. church, Brookiyn, this morning on “Christa Coming to John the Baptist,” and in the evening on the “‘Woman’s femperance Movement—Its Peril and Its Hope.” Dr. Ganse will, this morning, in the Madison avenue KeJormed church, illustrate the satisfac- tion wuich God gives in long life, by the saintly ca- reer of tue late Dr. De Witt. The New York Presbyterian church,Waving set- tled down quietly to ita work, will be ministered to to-day by Rev. W. W. Page, pastor, at the usual ours. The Rev. Dr. Potter, of Grace church, will om- ctate to-day in the Church of the Atonement, in Madison avenuc and Twenty-eignth street. Dr. D, H. Miller will preach at the usual hours to-day in Plymouth Baptist charch. Dr. George S. Hare, of Newark, N. J., will preach this morning and evening in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. E. Borcl will preach to French Protestants this morning in Calvary chapel, fourth avenue, near Twenty-first street. Rey. W. H. Knapp will preach at the usual hours tn the Laignt street Baptist church. The Rev. Samuel Hamilton preaches morning and afternoon iu the Scotch Presbyterian caurch, West Fourteenth street. Rev, W. B. Merritt, pastor of the Sixth avenue Reformed churcn will preach there this morning and evening. Dr. W. 8. Mickels will minister to the Stanton atreet Baptist church to-day at the usual hours. Sermons wWili be preached in St. Thomas’ Prot- estant Episcopal church this morning and after- noon by the Rev. Dr. Osgood, The Rev. John 8, Davenport, of Boston, wil, this evening, tell the Catholic Apostolic church some- thing about the nature of the Pentecostal gift. Dr. George F. Seymour, of the General Theo- logical Seminary, wili preach this evening in St. Chrysostom's Protestant Episcopal church, Seventh avenue and Tnirty-ninth street. The Rev. John Love, Jr., of Albany, will preach fm the Tabernacie Baptist church this morning, and in the evening on the Mystic Stone and the Image. There will be pre-dedicatory services to-day in the Harlem Presbyterian church, at which Drs, Adams and Paxton will preach, and next Sunday Rev. George J. Mingins, Mr. Nortorup and the pas- tor will dedicate the structure. The Rev. 8. H. Platt will preach at the usual hours to-day in De Kalb avenue Methodist Episco- pai church, Brooklyn. Sunday school and adult Bible class at two P. M. A mass temperance meeting will be conducted in West Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church, this city, at a quarter to eight o’ciock this evening, by the Women’s Temperance Usion. A similar meeting will be held at the same hour in Seventeenth street Metuodist Episcopal church. The Rev. E. C. Sweetser will talk about “Saving Faith” this morning, in the Bleecker street Uni- versalist church. Mr. Gunnison, of Brooklyn, will preach there in the evening. Rev. P. L. Davies will preach in the Berean Bap- tist church this morning and evening. The Rey. J. M. Pullman will preach at the usual hours to-day in the Church of Our Saviour, Filty- seventh street and Eighth avenue. Rev. W. P. Corbitt will occupy the pulpit of Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. Dr. Deems preaches morning and evening in the Chureh of the Strangers, Mercer street, near Eighth street. Children’s church in the morning. Mr. E. V. Wilson lectures morning and evening for the Progressive Spiritualists in Robinson Hall. Other Spiritualists will meet in Germania Hall. The Rey. R. Heber Newton will preach this morning and afternoon in the Anthon Memortal church, Forty-eighth street, near Sixth avenue. Dr. Frederick H. Heage, of Harvard University, will preach at the usual hours to-day in All Souls’ cburch, Fourth avenue. Dr. Cheever will continue his sermons on Chris- tian Evidence, in Asscciation Hall, this evening. Drs. Typg, Jr, and Irving will officiate and preach in the Church of the Holy Trinity at the ‘usual hours to-day. Services as usual to-day in the Russian Greek church, on Second avenue. Rev. Dr. Ewer will preach at all the services in St. Ignatius’ church to-day. Matthew Hale Smith and George H. Andrews will addresa the Sunday School Missionary Society of the Fith ave Baptist church this evening. Rev. W. ©. Dawson will preach in the Church of the Disciples of Chriat to-day. Dr. Dowling will supply the pulpit of the South Baptist church this moruing and evening. Archbishop Connolly, of Halifax, will lecture this evening in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the “Trials and Triumphs of the Church,” for the Soci- ety of St, Vincent de Paul. Rev. W. T. Clarke will illustrate the minor mo- ralities at Harlem Unity chapel this morning. “What Sort of a God We Worship’ and “The Lions in a Young Man’s Path” are the topics of Morning and evening discourse by Mr. Hepworth in the Church of the Disciples. Kev. David Mitchell will preach morning and afternoon in the Canal street Presbyterian church. In the Church of the Messian the Gospel given to man Will jorm the topic of the morning sermon by Rev. Mr. Lovering, of Concord, N. H. The rector, Dr. Flagg, preaches morning and evening in the Church of the Resurrection, Eighty- Afth street, near Third avenue. Whit-Sunday services will be conancted at the Chusch of the Heavenly Rest by Dr. Howland, rec- tor, and Dr. Coward. The Mev. Mr. Arthur, father of the Collector of ‘the Port, will preach in the Mariners’ church, cor- mer of Henry and Oliver streets, Sunday morning. Free Churoh Movement Among Episco- palians. There ts a growing party in the Episcopal Church, which desires to have all the services of ‘the church free; in the aostiiest edifices to have the rich and poor meet and stand on an ‘equality. To promote this object @ society has deen formed, embracing some oy the most eminent men of the Church, However spacious and grand @ house of worship may be, iteseats must be free to every one. The offertory, or collection, is to pay everything—the salary, the ransic, relief of the poor, with ail moneys for mission @md church work. Even subscription is jooked upon with disinvor. Bach member \s called upon to give weekly as God has prospered him in his worldly affairs, A lew of the wealthy churches set them- selves againat this movement. but it is very DOD NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET, ular with the masses. Mass meetings sre held in the churches to raise the tone of public sentiment in favor of the free church system. Some of these gatherings are large and energetic. Pradentius om Bismarck, Franée and the Jesuits. To Tae EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— You have given proof of equal sagacity and cour- age in publishing, during the past week, what vou know to be the truth about Prince Von Bismarck’s hostile intentions towards France. The corre- spondence of Count Von Arnim fully sustains your posttion and corroborates every assertion of your correspondent, What spirit impels the German Premier thus to expose his own shame to the civil- ized world? While we are on this matter it will not seem amiss to you or your readers to go back @ jew handred years and con a lesson {rom history which seems singularly appropriate at this mo- ment. Weare in the habit of condemning England for her merciless treatment of every vanquished foe, Now, without being in any way prejudiced in her favor, let me contrast her conduct with that of her overbearing neighbor, Germany. You canpot forget how the famous battle of Poitiers had put a French king and nis nobles in the power of Engiand. Old Froissart, in bis “Chronicle,” tells the tale to perfection. It was the custom of that age that prisoners of war should ransom them- selves; and the very flower of French chivalry were in that predicament alter the fatal defeat at Poitiers, The English nobles, truthful old Frotssart says, simply asked their captives how much money they could give without exhausting their own means, and were satisfied with what- ever their prisoners offered. “We do not wish,” they said, “to demand so great a ransom from knights and esquires but that they can live honorably, rule their estates as they ought, do their lege lords all due service and ride in becoming state about the country.” And Frotssart goes on to say:—‘‘Suca is not the custom or courtesy of tne Germans; for they hive netther Pity nor commiseration jorany gentleman. Wheo prisoners fall into their hands’ they ransom them to the very utmost of what they can afford, and even beyond that, They put them in chains, expose them and keep them in the most rigorous confinement in order to wring the highest ransom from them.” ‘These terrible words were written, says @recent French Provestant publication, in 1356—518 years ago. But how true a tale they tell in 1874! And how feartul a condemnation they are of the polley of the German Chancellor, and of tne whoie German Empire, uf it continues to sanction Bismarck’s abominable intentions! ‘to return to the Jesuits. Can it be true that their inveterate fonduess for intrigue is the real cause of their expuision from Germany? To this Fe aghengetrdee acty toa answer is dificult. As to the “intriguing” itgelf, it has never been brought home to the Jesuits as abody. They have bad in the United States an existence coeval with the Union, with Maryland as their centre. They came with Calvert to the shores of the Chesapeake and the Potomac, and were the prime advisers of the first proclamation of thorough civil and religious liberty ever made on this side of the Atlantic. ‘the reiormed constitution of Maryland, which seryed as a modei to the framers of the federal constitution, was principally their work. In the War of independence and in the building up of the federal edifice itselt they bore a historic part. Jonu Carroll was Franklin’s companion when he was despatched on his perilous errand to Canada, to induce that colony to cast ber lot with the revolted provinces, And it was at Frank- lin’s recommendation that Carroll was subse- quently appeinted by the Holy See first Bishop of Baltimore. When Georgetown College was built its progress was lovingly watched by Wash- ington himself, who had found the Jesuits good men and true in the country’s direst need. To this day visitors are shown the tree to which our Pa tied his horse every morning when he came to inspect the builders’ work and con- guilt with Carroll and bis fellows about tne political dificulties which beset the new Repubiic. He pre- sided at the opening of their schools, and it has ever been the custom since Washington that the President and his Ministers should grace with their presence the commencement exercises in Georgetown Coliege. Lincoln, whom posterity will ever honor equally with Washington, com- plied with the custom. General Grant has been the first to depart from that tradition, as from others which it nad been wisdom to respect. Now, having their chief house in the national capital since its very foundation, and embracing the whole country as their field of labor, the Jesuits must have manilested their disposition ior intrigue within the space of a century, with the ample opportunities and the many temptations they had in the seat of government itseli. Have they done so? Have they ever 80 much as been accus2d of tampering with politics and politicians’ There is no suco accusation on record. Not one instance can be pointed out where these men have departed irom the stern rule of their order ior- bidding them under pain of excommunication to meddle in politics or matters of State, Doubtless they have always had, as they have sull, decided political opinions and predilec- tions. No man can love his country without having ® deep and living interest in public parties. During our iate civil war the Mary- jand Jesuits, loving the Union as they did ther own lives, could not help sharing the Southern sentiment. The war ruined their houses; but they remained Jaitbful to the Union, and no body o! priests were more zealous or efficient as chaplains. The writer never can Jorget the heart- fett griet snown by the venerable missionary Fatner De Smet wen apprised in London of President Lincoin’s assassination. We were both sitting at &@ public table when the jearful news was told us, and the venerable man, who had so long braved danger and death tn every form, burst into tears, He Joved the country and loved the great and good man who had saved the national life, and whose taking off was an irreparable calamity. No! The Jesuits of America bave never been reproached with thought, word or deed unbecoming the purest patriotism and the most unsullied priestly character. If such is their record here, where political partisanship and janaticism form not a littie part of the public lile of some religious denominations, is it likely. that the Jesuits of Prussia, of all Germany, have violated both their own constituiions and the commonest dictates of prudence? Catholics in Germany are in a mi- nority, and the Jesuits never possessed more than a few houses within tte Empire. From these they had been driven more than once since the restora- tion of their order by Pius VIL. It is exceedingly improbable that tuey should provoke another persecution by unpairiotic deeds or poiltical in- trigues at the very time that they beheld all their establishments in the Italian and Spanish penin- sulaas annibilated by one biow. Moreover, not one act has been formally laid to their account as Jesuits or proved against them by the government; and they can dely tne German Chancellor and his subordinates to cite one in- stance in which tueir body stands convicted of disioyaity to Fatheriand, disobedience to the laws or a disposition to create public disorder or private strife. PRODENTIUS, More Light on Dark Scriptures Called For. Yo THe Eprror or Tax HERALD:— All the day on Sunday lately, except when we were at church and while we were eating our fru- gal repasts of oatmeal stirabout and red herrings, myself and wile were praising God and giving thanks to the HERALD and to one of its correspond- ents, “A. J. 0.” We were in a joyful and exultant state far beyond the power of words to tell, It seemed as if a great mountain had been lifted off our hearts and a big balloon tied to them, We felt as if one word more would cut away those sand- bag bodies of ours ana send our souls flying up- ward toward celestial glory. But with evenin; came the bad man to talk about the letter of “A. O.,”’ which the HERaLD had kindly brougnt us, and very shortly the gas oozed out, the glory fled and the mountain came down again. Our Wicked friend says that if the Lord knew that the world would be upset inafew days by the devil and a woman he ought not to have called his work “very good,” and if he did not know What was #0 soon to happen, he must have lacked foreknowledge at thatdate. If he did foreknow the trouble why did ne not repent (Gen., vi., 6) while pianning instead ot after exequting ? our hard hearted elgnoot danndt 866 how Gen., vi., 6; Jer., XXXiil,, 17 Matt., xix,, 26, Is., xlv., 7, are swered by Ge; lil., 22—And the Lord God said, Behold tue man is become as one of us to know good and ey “A. J. 0.7 saya, “Eb is evident that the Almighty has left it in man’s hands to de- cide right rom wrong.” Would it not have been more like Infinite love to have given man the power to decide whether or not he should exist, rather than to bring into a world of infinite temptations 4 being loaded with original sin and inherited weaknesses, and then tell him to do right while here or he would fling him into eternal torments hereafter? “A. J. 0.’ says, “He looks only with pitying and reproving glances.” The Bible says (Psaims, vi, 11), “God is angry with the wicked every ‘iay,” and (Josh, x., 11) “The Lord cast great stones from heaven upon them,” and (Jer., Xl, 14) “1 will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, bat destroy them.” Our siniul visitor would refer “A.J. 0.’ to Rom., Xi, 29, and to Dr. Barnes” notea thereon, where it 18 said that the word “repented” is d in its ordinary seuse in Gen., vi, & We now trying to pray in faith, “doubtung nothing;” but it 1s uphill work, and “A. J, VU." must give us on Poot How Long W: Je Answer. To THE Eptror oF THR HRRALD:— Jesus is not the Son of Man, Jesus is the Son of the Holy Ghost. (Acts, v., 8, 4.) And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man, it shail be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be Easiven bir. Neither in this world; neither tn id to come. o es 18 14 15) ie. (Acts, vil, 61. L Timothy, | FRIDAY, 15TH OF NISAN (APRIL 7). From tue sixtu hour to she ninth there was im the Tomb? darkness over the whole land. At the ninth ho! { tract in Ocean county, N. J., for a second Ocean (three P, M.) Jesus uttered with a loud voice the | Grove camp grouns Opening words of the twenty-second Psalm. Again ‘The Newark Preachers’ meeting has passed ried with a loud voice, It is Anisned. Aud | resolutions sustaining Mayor Perry in eniorcing they anointed the body and laid it in Joseph’s | the Saobath laws, new tomb. (Matthew, xxvii, 50-61, St. Mark, ‘The Rev. J. M. Buckley, pastor of Summerfield Xv., 37-47. Luke, xxui, 46-56 St John, ¥ix., | Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, received & ) check for $1,000 \o start him-in housekeeping with SATURDAY THE 16rH OF NISAN (APRIL bis new wile, 8). The chiei priests and Pharisees, with Pilate’s Permission, Sct @ wateh over the tomb, lest his discivles come by night and stegl him away and Unto the people he is risen irom the dead. (Matt, Xxvil., 62-66.) SUNDAY, THE 17TH OF NISAN (APRIL 9). * The Sabbath ended at six on the evening of Ni- san 16, Early the next morning the resurrection of Jesus took place, (Matt, xxviii, 1; St. Mark, xvi, 1.) This witness is pretty good proof of the three 19, heiteve by the daysia the tomb, (Matt, xx., Tam thanktul that I was taught to Bible and the Word that Jesus, the low born son Mary, was the Divine God Himsei So we read and 80 we believe. EXAMINER SraMrorD, Conn., 1874, Ministerial and Church Movements. BAPTIsT, The First African church of Richmond, at its last business meeting, excluded seventeen members for dancing. That looks like business. Rev. J. 8. Dickerson, of South Boston, has been obliged to cease active work on account of im- paired health. Professor James T. Doyle, late of the Pacific Churohman, has been ordained a Baptist mintater in Yokohama, Japan. The East Washington avenue Baptist church, of East Bridgeport, Conn., has been organized and Tecognized, Rev. Dr. Westcott, of Cornwall, N. Y., formerly of this city, commemorated his golaen wedding on the 15th inst, Professor Edward Judson, of Madison Univer- sity, who has been preaching lately in the War- burton avenue chureb, Yonkers, N. Y., is going to Boston for a couple of years to pursue some favor- ite studies, Rey. T. E. Brown, of the Second Baptist church, Rochester, N. Y., is taking a year’s rest to recruit his heaith. He expects to spend the time in Eu- rope. ev. G. W. Wentworth was recently ordained and insta!led pastor of the Baptist church at Sew- ard Valley, N. Y. Rev. Charles H. Woods was recently ordained en pastor of the Baptist church at Eden, N.Y. Rev. Charles ». Decamp has been ordained and installea pastor of the Urient Baptist church at Burrsville, N. J. Of the graduating class in the Hamilton Theo- logical Seminary, Mr. L. F, Moore accepts a call to Flatbush, L.L; Mr. H. 0, Kowlands to Whites- town, N. ¥., and Mr. G. B. Vosbargn to Coopers- town, N. Y. PRESBYTERIAN, The Rev. F. F. Ellinwood, one uf the secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 1s making arrangemegts for a trip of eight months to China and Japan, for the purpose o/ visiting the missions in those countries, Rev. Ff. KR. Harbaugh has received a call to the Presbyterian church at Red Bank, N. J. Rev, W. A. Fleming, of Johnstown, Pa,, has ac- cepted a call tothe First Presbyterian church of Grand Rapids, Mich. The Presbyterian church at Kankakee is talking one building a new house of worship, to cost 15, It is proposed to put a baptistery into a new Presbyterian chureh to be built io Newark, N. J. ‘That looks like allowing Uberty of choice on the subject of baptism. The Genera! Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland met in Edinburgh on Thursday last. Dr. Cunningham, ol Philadelphia, has gone thither as commissioner from the American Presbyterian churches. ‘The theatres and other places of amusement in Hannibal, Mo., have been deserted because of the revival interest created there by Mr. Hammond’s preaching. Services are held in the streets as well a8 in the churches, and in saloons, and a contina- — service of five hours in the street is acommon thing. Rev. J, C, Wright has re: ed the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Greenville, N. Y., owing to impaired health arising from the malarial in- fluences of the locality. Kev. J. A. Quarles, of the High street Presby- terian church, St. Louis, has been compelled by ill health to cease labor for # while. Rev, H. Wilson has been installed pastor of the Presbyterian chureb at Middle Sandy, Unio, The Rev. John B, Brown, a Presbyterian clergy- man at Russellville, Ark., has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for counterfeiting. Mr. Joseph L. Potter, a graduate of Princeton College and Theological Seminary, was ordained by the Pig pea 5 of Cincinnati at Walnut Hilis on the lith inst. He is under appointment as Mis- sionary to Persia by the Presbyterian Bourd of Foreign Missions. EPISCOPALIAN, Mr. 8. 8. Roche, son of Dr. J. A. Roche, of the New York East Conference Methodist Episcopal church, and a graduate of the Protestant Episco- od General Theological Seminary ot this city, will e ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Cue of the Kedeemer, Brooklyn, on Sun nex Rev. H. B. Ensworth, formerly a Presbyterian minister, was recently reordained to the Episcopal ministry by Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. Ao assistant pastor ts required in St. Luke’s Hospital, this city, to reside {a the house, and to have for his main duty the spiritual and moral care of the patients. For this office he should be @ brotherly and sympathetic man, alike at the bed- side and in familiar discourse to the inmates of the wards coliectively. He should be a presbyter, yet in singie life, of some ability as a plain, practical preacher, evangelical in doctrine and in Church principles tiberat, The Rev. Washington Rodman has resigned his charge of St. John’s church, at Bayonne, N. J., ana gone to Astoria, L. L The proselytes to ritaalism, says the South Wales Daily Rees | ‘are rapidly and daily increasing in Cardiff and the neighborhood, while dissenting Protestantism is withering, and Protestantism within the establishment is constantly waxing fainter and feebler. The Bishop of Montreal has lately opened a theological training school ip Montreal, where young men can be prepared for the ministry with- out any tuition fees. The cost ol board and lodg- ing does not exceed $5 per week. Books and clothes are tue only additional necessary expense, The Bishop of Central Pennsylvania has, actin, under Canon V., Title IL, of the digest, depose: Rev. R. H. Williamson, late rector of St. Stephen’s church, Wilkesbarre, Pa. The Vestry of Trinity church have provided a parsonage adjacent to Trinity chapel, and the old rectory adjoining St. Johm’s church, in Varick street, is to be converted into an hospital and parish infirmary, of which it appears there is great need since the removal of the New York Hospital. The Sisters of St. Mary are to have charge of the new hospital, ROMAN CATHOLIO. The Swiss government has handed over the time- honored sanctuary of Notre Dame de Vorbourg to Pe old Catholics, This strine was one of the most jrequented in the republic, The Christian Brothers have at present eighty establishments in the United States, and they Bumber 1,000. The Redemptionist Fathers will commence a mis- sion in the Cachedral, Baltimore, to-day, The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Can- top, near Baltimore, Md., will be dedicated to- morrow b igg eooeeed Bayley. Father V. Sommerisen, a Catholic priest, has returned to Mankato irom the wonderiul Yellow- stone country. He made the outward trip (over 400 miles) through trives of Indians, alone anu un- molested. Rev. Father Ryan, the celebrated poet, has ac- cepted an invitation to address the literary socte- ties of the University of Virginia on the 1st of July. Archbishop McCloskey last Sunday confirmed 300 persons in St. Augustine’s church, Morrisiana, Kev. William Pollard, of Pittsburg, Pa., will de- liver a lecture. on ‘St. Cecilia, the Patroness of Church Music,” In the Church of the Holy Inno- cents, Thirty-seventh street, near Broadway, on Sunday evening, the 8lst inst., at eight o’ciock, for the benefit of that church and tue parochial school hed to it. Retreats for men @ been opened all over France and one at Versailles has been attended by no less than 300 soldiers and officers. They ap- peared at all its services in full uniform, and walked in the grand procession which marked its close, There will be seven great pilgrimages this year in France. The first, at the end olethe present month, to Rome; the second, in June, to Paray-le+ Monial; the third, in July, to Ste. Anne d’Auray; the fourth, in August, to Lourdes; the fifth, im September, to Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseilies, and to the St. Baume, the tomb of Mary Magda- lene; the sixth, in October, to St. Denis, and the seventh, to Tours in November, Winme calle ee ie institutions of the joce: aukee will be dedicaced Sacred Heart on Sunday, June 14. bedi: METHODIST. Wi soaks lcd by a iid Nebraska Confer? 5 De ending & few days vist af pity ana oiniy. breindhiee ~ Vv. Dr. J. . McKown, of Chicago, h: dg of the Board oF Vintors of gs ‘n! tates Naval Academy at Annapolis, The corner stone of the new Method - copal church in course of erection on slaty on street, near Third avenue, will be Jaid on “Tuesday Boxe by Bishop Janes, assisied by . Curry, bady, snd tyne, Fr W, Hi, Warren, of Brooklyn, . Ganse, of the Madison avenu ahon ee Birk pihaaetl The Ry, Mr. Birkins, the new pastor of Wash- ington Hi clgany Methouigt Episcopat church, Hb) reception and housewarming 1n his new parson- age, which has Jost been completed, on Thursday evening. Former pastors and others were present and brief addresses were in order, The Kev. George Lavsing Vaylor will read a vem on “Elijah” before the Adeiphian Society of aine Wesleyan Seminary, on Wednesday, June 3, The Jersey City District Conierence will hold its session in Trinity church, Jersey City, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2 and 8, under the presi- dency of the Kev. R. Vanhorne, ‘The Protestant Methodists Lave purchased « i a . The Rev, John E. Searles, pastor of Washington street Methodist Episco} auscm, Brookiyn, has been granted leave ot absence till the fali, on ac- count of an affection of the lungs. His congrega- tion gave him @ check for $200 a few days ago and & couple taney chairs to help bim over the bard 6, two new Methodist Episcopal churches were built last year at White Plains, at a cost of $66,000, paid one at Yonkers, costing $45,000; one 1s no’ ing built as North Tarrytown, to cost $30, Parsonages nave been built by Washington Heig! church and Bedford street church and one isin cess of erection by the Forty-iourth street Metho- dist Episcopal churcn. MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. Dr, Bollea, pastor of the Universalist So- ciety at Salem, has gone to Europe for a three months trip. Dr. Toayer will supply his ulpit. i The Rey. J. H. Tuttle, of Minneapolis, has taken arun to Europe, and left his Universalist flock in charge of Proiessor Marston, of St. Lawrence Unt- vert I. ty: Rey. W. C. Fowler will be installed pastor of Scurvessns Falls Reformed Dutch church next uesday, The Maimonides Library Association ieomen of this city will inangurate their new ary and reaping room in ‘ieutonia Hall, Third avenue, this morning, There are in Baltimore 214 churches of all de- nominations, of which 85 represent the different Methodisma, 33 are Episcopal, 25 Roman Catholi 17 are Lutheran, 14 Baptist, 9 Jewish, 7 Unite Brethren, 5 Reformed, 3 Friends, 2 Sweden- borgian, and the Congsenationslists, Campbeliites, Unitarians and Universalists have 1 each. Tne Rev. R. L. Schoonmaker was installed pas- tor of tne Reformed churoh at Greenville, N. Y., on Tuesday last. The galiery and upper part of the old Dutch church, on Fulton and William streets, 1s to be re- fitted for the use of the daily prayer meeting. The vacant lots around are to be built on and the lower part of the church adapted to business pur- poses, 80 that by and by this time-honored buil will disappear, The treasury of the Foreign Mission Board of the Reformed Dutch Church closed its financial year May ty devdt $10,000, Rev. W. B, Sandoe, of Auburn, Ind., has accepted & cali from the Thom} Reformed Dutch charge in Seneca county, Obio. Rev. C. A. Hulihorst has accepted a call from the Reformed Datch church at Orangeville, Ill. Rey. Dr. Buddington has been thirty-four years in the wintstry and nino ined. 7esrs pastor of the Clinton avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn. ‘The annual gatherings have been held, with the exception of two or taree that will come off dur. ing the present week. The Sheltering Arms, an Episcopal institution, will hold its tenth annual meeting in the cottages on Fourth avenue and 139th street, on Wednesday next, when the reports will be read and addresses will be made by city clergymen and visitors, The Brooklyn Sunday School Union will parade its Sunday school children on Wednesday, also, with fags and banners and music and headaches. And ice cream and cakes will be added to put the s.omachs of the little ones in the same condition as their heads, The American Sunday School Unton, whose semt- centennial anniversary occars in Philadelphia on ‘Tuesday, will hold # similar meeting here on Thursday in the Broadway Tabernacle. George H. Stuart, of Eniiadeiphia, wil preside, Rev. B, W. Chidlaw, the Sunday school pioneer in the Central West; Rev. John McCullagh, well Known tor over thirty years as a Sunday school missionary in the South, and Stephen Paxson, to whose recital of Western experience on behalf of the children New York churches listened years ago, have, in connec- tion with othe! promisea their presence, Rev. Dr. Ormiston is to respond for New York to what- ever report these workers may bring trom their several sections, The children of St. Chrysostom’s church will hold 4 Whitsuntide festival on Tuesday evening, 26th, During the week also the two pranches of the society of Friends will hold their Jone meetings in their respective houses of worship in this city. The public sometimes become coniused between the two, and it may be proper, therefore, to sture that the Hicksite Friends, who hold the Unitarian idea, but not the Unitarian belief, commence their meetings to-day and continue them toward the end ol the wee! The Orthodox Friends, who hold the Unitarian faith with somewhat of @ tinge of Trinitarianism, will begin their sessions on Friday, 29th inst., and continue them over Sabbath until the middle of next weck. These annual gatherings of Friends are interesting not only to the societies re- resented, but to the outside world also. The fullest liberty of speech is accorded to women in those meetings, and some of the best addresses, both for sound sense and ‘istian faith, are de- livered by tile sex which it aid Paul prohibited from speaking vefore promiscuous assemblies. The New York Episcopal Sunday School Teachers? Association hold their annual meeting to-morrow (Monday) evening. The Rev. Dr. Rylance will preside. Officers tor the ensuing year are to be elected, and some very interesting and important questions will be discussed. STANTON STREET SYNAGOGUE. Significance of the Feast of Weeks— Judaism Not the Only Saving Re- lgion—Sermon by Rev. J. C. Noot. It 1s not generally known even to Jewish readers of the HERALD that the Rev. Isaac 0. Noot, the minister of the Congregation Bnat Israel, preaches in Enghsh about once @ month and also some- times on feast days. The Hebrews of New York are at this time commemorating their annual Feast of Weeks, @ festival designed to remind them of the redemption of their fathers from Egyptian slavery and the birth of the Jewish nation, to whom were subsequently delivered the oracles of God and the Commandments “and the promises, The synagogues are consequently betver attended at such festivals than usual. There was @ fair congregation yesterday Bt the service in the Stanton street synagogue, and, as 18 customary on such occasions, a large number of persons, young and oid, availed them- selves Of their right and privilege to read the ‘Torah. Mr. Noot preached @ sermon on the signi- ficance of the festival in which they are engaved, and took his text from @ portion of the jaw rea during the service, Deuteronomy, xvi., 12—‘‘And thou shait remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.’ In this verse, 80 often repeated im the law of Moses, he said, we behold one of the brightest gems of our nation and of our religion. To-day we CHLEBRATR THE BIRTH OF OUR NATION and if we fully consider the meaning of this text we shall find that its teacning ts sublime. It com- mands Israel to look upon the past, when we were slaves or servants, and then to contrast our pres- ent condition as a nation of priests and a holy people with the past. We are the possessors of the law that was promulgated from Sinai, and leat we should b2 pufied up with pride we ure to be constantly reminded wat we were once servants and bondsmen. The remembrance of this fact will keep us humble. We must not think that the Jewish religion is that alone which wili take us to heaven. God does not confine Himself to one rell- jon or to one people. And when we are inclined 0 arrogate to ourselves religious superiority let -us remember that we were once @ nation o! ser- vants, and that now we owe all that we have to hath redeemed us. Keflect, men of id the preacher, that a nation of 600,000 besides women and children, was brought out of Egyptian bondage without a siruggie, and then tell me if Israel can forget that God who wrought such a mighty deliverance. To-day we are & stand- ipg miracle to all the earth—the custodians of the Divine law and the preachers of it to all men, How, then, can we forget jhese things? These tablets are the remembrances of our iormer con- dition, and while we have these we cannot forget {hat we were bondsmen. We may nothave tne ge of stone as they were originally given to \oses WHEN THE MOUNT FLASHED WITH FIRE and the thunderings and voices were heard there- on; but we have the law agit came from the Al- mighty’s hand. Again, the Sabbath day, originally commemorative of the creation of the world, reminds us now that we were once ser- vants ip the land of Egypt, and how, then, can we fai to remember it, or how can we forget ali these things? How applicable is the text to our every day life, How many disdain to have recalled the days when they were in bumble lie? Now they are rev- elling in riches and they forget even the God wuo brought them out of the servitude of their early Ife. Ye who crowd the fashionable synagogues, exclaimed the preacher, study these things and jeditate on them in your cheerful places and re- ie ween you were as poor as we and when ou Worsuippe in synagugues as humbie as this, Yoox do: {rom your giddy position and remember that ;9U too are but dust. morrow you shall not text be to remind Epa A are here alia be. Jet st teach us hu- t, then, the iesson of pur us that We Were once poor, ali mility of heart and of mind, and of equality of all men before God. And jet us give an edt to the sor- ind relieve rangers, and remember that we were once STRANGERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT. Thus will the chords of our hearts entwine around our God, and while we remember these things pride ‘and vanity will never enter our hearts, but charity and love wili fow therefrom. And let us ever remember the iaw that was given to Moses and to Israel on Sinal, and, though we may not have the tablets of stone that Moses received, we have the words that were written on them, Let ua, there- fore, remember that we were bondmen in Eeypt, and let us observe and do the statutes which the Lord hath commanded us. Mr. Noeot closed with a fervent prayer, and therealter continued the regular services of the Bynagogue. THE STAGE DRIVERS. Their Side of the Argument About Wor! and Wag: New York, May 23, 1874 To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Knowing the sympathy always shown to the workingman in your paper we respectfully re- quest you to give us space to enlighten the public in regard to what we consider our just rights. Now I will just give you the life of a stage driver, Every man that professes to be a driver of horses 1s not what is required to become a stage driver. Not more than one out of every five who make an ‘attempt at the business succeeds, and the four who fail are the lucky ones, although they may consider themselves unfortunate; for once a man makes a business of stage driving he finds tt aim- cult to obtain employment at anything else. Not that he is not competent, but the small pay he re- ceives keeps him so poor that he never can have @ dollar ahead to look for something else. The pro- Prietors of the Fourth avenue, Fitth avenue, Madi- son avenue and Twenty-third street lines can count their money by millions, whereas there is not out of 350 stage drivers more than twenty- five who can safely say that they are clear with the worla and in a fair way of getting along; but out of that twenty-five there 1s not one that has got anyching ahead. About two-thirds of those 350 have been at the business for from ten to twenty years, and some of them economical and saving men, Now, the proprietors of the above lines started about the same time with but very little—in fact, one of them with leas than noting, for the line was mortgaged for twice what it was worth—and you see tne result. With all this suc- cess of accumulating wealth they were still not satisfed; they hada Nankering for more; and to obtain this desire they resorted to this new inven- tion, which is to be seen in all the stages, a recep- tacle for the passengers to deposit their tares in, 80 that the driver might be forced to become an honest man, while heretofore the proprietors had offered @ premium on dishonesty. These new boxes for the fares have been now in use about six months, and the drivers have given them & fair trial. The old rules of driving were about six- teen hours per day, exposed to all kinds of weather, atasalary of $1 75 per day. A driver was obliged to have at eet two meals per day away from his family, which cost about sixty cents, which leit him $1 15 to take home. If he should work six Pastor week he would have $6 90 to take home to family; but it requires a very strong and robust man lo work more than five days per week, which would be $5 75. Now we will take an ordi- nary tenement house rent cut of this, we Will say $10 per month for three littie rooms, jour stories high, back, rear house. We are obliged to go there to live within our means, Tuat 18 $2 50 per week for rent; that leit us $3 25 to enjoy with our little family, perhaps of six persons, the luxuries of iife and Save something in case of sickness or death. But still we did not complain, as the proprietors openly remarked when interrogated in reference to the small “Well, We allow them fo take the balance 0! a iait day’s pay, according to their receipts, For mstance, 9 man carrying $15 worth of passengers during the day we do not say any- thing if we know he has appropriated $1 50 or $2 to himself, a8 we are making money if a stage turns in $7 per day; but if a man is not jortupate enough’ to make thar amount, then we expect him to reduce his perquisites and give us the benefit of what the driver calls his hard luck.’! That is what the stage proprietors would teil any- body Lefore the boxes went in; but, at the same time, they would say :—‘‘If we thought we could get our men to work honest we would willingly pay them from $3 60to $4 per day, hutas we ourselves have made them dishonest we are obliged to pbide by the consequences.”” Well, as I said, the drivers have given the boxes etrialat a salary of $2 50 per day. Now, $250 per day is alair day’s pay lor any ordinary busi- ness where the hours are not more than ten or twelve and a man could stand it for six days per week if he was not held responsibie for iamage he may accidentally do while in discharge of his duty; but when, as [ say, a ‘stage driver works sixteen hours per day and cannot work more than five days per week on an average and 1s respon- sible for every accident that may occar to him, he cannot drive a stage and be honest on 2 50 per day. will give you an idea of the accidents I speak of. If you happen, going down Broadway, to get 10 a crowd of hacks und private carriages, and one 0! them suddenly Btops, the stage behind is liable to put a hole through it, ‘ne cost to repair such an accident wili range from $15 to $75, and the driver ts not allowed to work on any otuer line until be begs, borrows or steals that amount. If he happens to make @ hole in one of his own stages or one ol any other line it will cost him from $3 tu $20. lf he makes what the proprietors call a poor day's work he perhaps is Kept off as.a puuispment fora week, although be may have rendered a strict account of all the passengers he carried during the day. There is One line where, if a man makes & poor day’s work, the proprietors tell him he has been iound short a fare, jor which vad pls alty isa forfeiture of your $2 50 for your day’s work, which you receive every night; aud <he driver is supposed toreport any passenger riding on top ex:ra, and as it dues not go in the box he tarns the money thus received in at night. ‘To neglect to report @ passenger that rides on top is punished by atine o: $1. Well, there are cases where drivers torfeit this $1 without taking one cent. For instance, two gentiemed walking along Broadway, one smoking, the other not, “Let us get in a stage and ride.” The one smoking gets on to; the other gets in- side. inside passenger depusits twenty cents in the box. That pays both fares, Ngw, the driver has no alternative but either to pay ven cents ior that top passenger or take chances of forfeiting $1 for not turning in ten cents tor mis fare. If he tries tu expiain the proprietors will not listen to him, as they aeduct $1 and are satisfied. ‘The driver, if he finds any fault, is told to go and look for work at some other place. The drivers have natorally talked this matter over lor the past three or four months, and came to the conciusion to ask their respective employers for the advance of filty cents per day. For this purpose there was a meeting ‘held on last Sunday, May 17, to discuss the matter nd devise means by which the proprietors might not be inconvenienced. So we appointed a com- mittee of two men for each line to wait in person on their employers. ‘hey did s0, and were re- ceived in a gentlemanly way, and were promised an answer at the earliest convenience. They were all received except by one firm, who, when ap prised of the business of the committee, used some very ungentiemanly language and dismissed the party appointed to wait on them trom their employ. THE STEAMSHIP LIBERIA, The Supposed Loss of the Anglo-African Trader—List of Passengers. {From the London News, May 12.) By the arrival of the British and African steam- ship Volta, Captain GriMitns, at Liverpool yester- day, information has been received which leaves fittle doubt that her sister ship, the Liberia, has been lost. Captain Griffiths makes the following report :—*‘On Friday afternoon, the 8th inst., when the Volta was about 200 miles southwest of Scilly, &@ quantity of wreckage was passed, consisting of kegs of powder, shooks and candies anda gang’ way ladder. A bout was lowered and picked up a Dart of a case or cask marked M. F. C. 74, in a dia- mond; also @ package containing trade boxes Marked, a8 nearly as was distinguishaole, O 1% in a square, with © 5 16 Gaboon outside, and part of a deckhouse painted white or buf color. None of these articles appear to have been long in the water. The same* boat also picked up part of @ case marked Sierra Leone.” All these articles, itis now known, were on board the steamer Liberia. The cause Ol the disaster is supposed to have been Col- lision, inasmuch as the kegs of gunpowder which were found floating in the water were stored in a magazine specially provided forthe purpose. This Magazine was under the two decks below the water line, and situated in the fore part of the immediately abait the collision bulkhead. ¢he a ove being Of extra stiength for the anchor gear, and without any hatches, the kegs could therefore only find their way into the water through the cutting open of the ship’s side by col- Usion. The Liberia was a fine steamer of 1,470 tons pe register, 250 horse power, and was built by john Eider & Co., of Glasgow, in 1870, She w: in every respect a strong and stanch steamer, and was commanded by Captain Lowry, one of the most experienced captains in vhe trade, having made no less than sixty voyages. The Liberia carried @ general cargo, and had a crew of forty- Six hands, all told. She also carried twelve pa sengers. She sailed trom Liverpool on the aite: noon of the 1ith April, and it is thought that she was lost during one of the fearful storms which have recently prevaiied in the Bay of Biscay. The lollowitg is a LIST OP PASSENGERS, WITH DESTINATION. Rev. Mr, Lowe and Mrs. Lowe, Madeira ; Paul Pilastre, boon Commissary Marsden and mani servant. C Coast Castie; H. F. Plow. Lagos; John Gillies Crutchley Jones, Bonny; Jose di Fouvia, Manuel Jona and Rodrigaes Figueira, Madeira ; Alfred Ashcrott, Sierra one, LIST OF CREW. Robert Frew Lowry, captain; Thomas, J. Hayes, first offlcer; Wet. Leo, second. ofticer: W. innan, 1° James Hauiwell, carpenter; Thomas James O'Reilly, kdward Hazzard, John Burns and C,' Matthews, quartermaste GriMths, William’ Smith, John schofteld, k Thompson, Jonn Green, George Cass, C. shaw, C. Lang, ls Robert & and John Cample, A. A. Hetd, chiet engineer; & Purcell, second engineer; Alexander Pink- erton, third engineer; Archibald Darroch, fourth, o eeper; John Drie * Berns, kaward A, Bride, ; Robert pay thorne, 4 ham rion, trimmers; Chari William’ Herbert, D. stewart rk and James Garinan, recond ste and Jonn Wood, cooks and batchers ; purser, Nelson Huggins. surgeon; Miss ardess. The Late G 0 Discoveries in Peru— Engineer's Report of the Extent, Le cation and Yield of the Beds of De posit. Lima, Peru, May 1, 1874 The discovery of large deposits of guano to the south of the province of Tarapaca has engaged the public attention. Before me lies the report of Mr. Thierry, Who was sent out by the Central Board of Engineers to make an examination as to the richness and value of the mines, Mr, Hinkle, another competent engineer, was despatched af- terwards to verify the statements made by Mr Tolerry. This he does fully tn his BEFORT, as follows:— f ‘The Chipana is one of the new beds that 70 min. 15 sec., Greenwich lat., south, 21 ae wip, The bed touches the river Loa. It terminates at the oot of the mountains, This bed measures $9,449 cubic metres, ‘At Huanillos the guano, in certain places, was found to ve of the depth of twenty-five metres. ‘The bed covered a superficies of 120,730 me- tres, while the amount of guano was estimated as 700,000 cubic metres, or 700,000 tons, ne deposit a the Punta de Lobos 1s of vast ex- tent. The grounu covered is put down at 231,146 aquare metres, while the value of mine 1s eacimated aureus depoorts of guano found bet! ‘arious deposits of gual were foun ween Punta de Lovos and the Pabellon de Pica. were mixed with the earth, varying here and there in richness, More or leas sand Jound mixed with these deposits. But them ali was soqnunhered as oe ee ammonia — AD ense gi guano lues on the Pabelion de Pica. At Cueva the deposig ia tprsy feet deep. The mine at Guardian is valu able. The same may be said of th Seponte at St. Lorenzo and infernillo, Pure guano found a& Barlovento, This 1s called white guano ands the most valuable deposit of all, both on account of uality and quantity. On the whole extent of tne ape an de Pica the 090,000. Soeace 3) poe down by these engineers at 4, or Fe Mr, funkie would say, “Lona.” Guano shag found at Patache, Patillo and Cucumate.”” THE GENERAL ESTIMATES are as follows:— Cote Mat as Punta de Lobo LOI, Pavolion de Pica. 6,000,00 Chanava; ey Pataci i Patil 16 Amounting in all to 7, 680,500 tons. The new “Home” of the “assoctation for Be frending Children and Young Girls,” which is situated at No. 136 Second avenue, was opened yesterday afternoon with a reception, and @ large number of persons availed themselves of the opportunity of visiting and contributing towards this benevolent and worthy institution. Since the foundation of this association its doors have ever been open to receive the little waifs and friendleas creatures when application has been made, and now, with a desire of being able to do more, this new “Home’’—which in every sense of the word is a home—has been purchased and comfortably fitted up forthe reception of still larger numbers. The association is @ Catholic one, but of no particular church, The Very Rev. Thomas S, Preston is the spiritaal adviser, but the lady directors and officers represent nearly all the Roman Catholic churches of the city. I; needs but a cursory survey of the building into which the association has just moved to satisfy any one that the comfort of its intenwed occupants has been consulted, and no Veto) spared to make it a home which shall not resemble workhouse or prison. The building was originally owned by the Stuyvesant family, and was eae chased unis society at an expense of abous $34,000, It 13 @ Me every five story brick hot 893, feet front aud 55 ieet deep, standing on a I 126 feet deep, A little plot of green grass divides the building from tne sidewalk. Over the iron’ door, in gilt letters, 18 tae inscription, “Associa- tion for Beiriending Children and Young Girls.” Entering, the first room on the right of the hall is the parlor, containing @ bookcase of instructive works and ornamented with several beautfal paintings. Adjoiniug the parlor and connected by folding doors 1s the chapel. The chancel and altar are really beautiiul, and must, to the little wan- derers, seem a oright glimpse of heaven. In the basement is the dining room, cheerfal and scrupu- lously clean. In the rear of the house @ large laundry has been constructed, and, washing being taken, serves a8 @ source of revenue to assist im meeting the current expenses of the institution. On the second story is the large sewing room, in which were engaged at sewing macnines the older girls as tue reporter entered, and one could not but observe the happy, contented expression wich every face wore. Over the door ot this room was written “St. Joseph,” and, im fact, every apartment bore the name of some pa- tron saint. On tne third story is the sieepin, Qpartment of the smaller children, which is call “st, Anne's” room. ‘The next story contains the dormitories of the larger girls, which is known as “St. Catherine’s,” while the infirmary, on the same floor, 1s called after “St. Elizabeth.” “The fith and top story is at present unoccupied, and used as @ playroom for the children, but can be converted into a dormitory if occasion demands. Every room in the house appears sunstiny and pleas ant and wears an uumistakable air of clean- liness and neatness. The number of in- mates at the last annual report was 70, since then there have been received 260, making, the whole number cared for 330, -The number dis- missed has been 230. Of these 28 were received by their families, 18 were sent to other institutions, and the remainder (184) have been provided with employment, making the present number 100, There are accommodations for 60 more. Every child under fourteen ce Of age receives secuiar and religious instruction during the usual schoo’ hours, while those over that age are taught te perform every kind of housenoid work and & trade. During the reception hours yesterday the institution was visited by very many person! Archbishop McClosky being present a portion the time. A repast was [urnisbed the visitors, who in their tarn contributed liberally toward the support of the association. THE OOOPERS’ STRIKE, Mr. George Bradley, ‘the District President of the Coopers’ International Union, stated yesteraay that on last Friday night the strikers received @ Uberal supply of funas from the soclety’s head- quarters in Cleveland, Ohio, He claims that the monthly dues of the International Union amount to $5,000, and that in case of a strike like the present three times that sum can be called in, it night all the hands on strike—about 500—were 0 be paid off, While on strike single men receive $6 per Week, married $3 and filty cents for each child. The Crispin Society, Lo Fe NO. 105, fi $500 to.the strikers on Friday night, and the Plas- terers’, Tailors’, Bricklayers’, Caulkers’ and other societies have offered aid to the men who are locked out. Mr. Bradley states that the crisis in the several branches of the building trade, which was ex- pected early this month, did not occur, becaus the bosses did not force the issue. It was well provided tor by the workingmen, and the occasion passed away, leaving a considerable amount of accumulated funds ou haad, which they are now Willing to use in aid of the strixing coopers, He adds that some of the employers have already sige nifed their wiliingness to enter into arrange ments with the operatives, but aeems it advisal jor oe present to withhold their names irom the mablic, a The District Board of Conference, that holds ® meeting this afternoon in No, 165 East Broadway, will lay down a definite line of policy for observ~ ance by the men during the pending difficulties. The Coopers’ Strike in Williamsburg. The strike of the journeymen coopers of Wib Mamsborg still continues, the employers being firm in their resolve to employ no society men. The coopers are hopeful of ultimate success, and say the bosses will have to give in before another week, a8 they cannot afford to stand the loss which is falling upon them through the bad work that is now being done by the workmen employed. On the other hand, the bosses say that the work ie now Heine done as Sad as usual, and that they can get all the men they need. ASSAULT ON NON-SOCIRTY MEN. At alate hour on Friday night a German cooper, named August Schmidt, employed in the oil works of sone & Fleming, white in & lager beer saloon tm North Fifth street, was set upon and beaten by two society men in @ shocking manner. One ob the assailants used & beer tumbier 48 a weapon, cutting Schmidt's head, inflicting a very ugly woun Schmidt yesterday morning appearea before Justice Elliott and procured & warrant lor the arrest of Thomas Conneré and John Fox, his assailants, who have as yet escaped arrest, THE TRAVELLING BDITORS. MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 23, 1876 Alarge party of New York editors ai here an@ will remain until Monday, when they will leave by way of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Ratlroad to Atlanta and thence to Chattanooga and W: .ton via Knoxville and Lynchbur, A MURDERER OONFESSES. Curcaao, Ill., May 23, 187% A special despatcn to the Times of this city (rom Carrollton, Ill, says that Clark Evans, who was ar rested for the murder of John W. Halbert, an ol citizen, who resided five miles west of that pl April 30, has made a free contesslon. tae was was done jor money, out only & Obtained, Eyeee "as served one term in she Penk tentiary.