The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1874, Page 7

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Programme of Services for Trinity Sunday, May 31 ee Prudentius on HNoherlohe—Ministerial Move- ments—Correspondence—The Jewish Pulpit. The Rev. P. L. Davies wili preach in the Berean Baptist church to-day at the usual hours, Tke Rev. W. P. Corbitt preaches at the usual honrs to-day in the Seventh street Methodist Epis- copa) church, The Rev. David Mitchell will preach morning and afternoon, in the Canal street Presbyterian ehurch. “Birthdays” will be bis theme this A. M. The Rev, R. Heber Newton will preach and } oMeclate morning and afternoon, in the Anthon Memorial church. ‘ Dr. Flagg will conduct the services in the Church of the Resurrection, this morning and evening. Divine service is held morning and 2fternoon, in the Charch of the Heavenly Rest. Preaching by Drs, Howland and Conrad. Morning, alternoon and evening services will be held in the Church of the Holy Trinity. Dr. ‘Tyng, dr., and Dr, Irving will preach at those services. ‘The Rev. W. Tr. Sabine will oMciate and preach m the First Reformed Episcopal church this morning and evening. Dr.*Cheever will continue his lectures on the “Evidences of Christianity” in Association Mall this evening. Dr. Ewer will conduct services and preach in St. Ignatius’ church to-day ac the usual hours, The Rev. Robert Sloss will preach this morning and evening in the Fourteenth street Presbyterian cbarch. Preaching at the usual hours 10-day in the Tab- ernacie Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. L, H. King pastor. Rev, J. W. Barnhart will preach in the Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal churcn this morning andevening. Temperance meeting in the after- ‘RoOD. Rev, D. H, Miller, D. D., will preach ag usual in Plymouth Baptist church, Key. S. M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church this: morning and alternoon. ; pire the Bavarians bad shared all the glory of the | was The Rev. W. B. Merritt preaches tn the Sixth avenue Reformed ohurch this morning and even- ing. Bishop Littlejohn will holding an ordination ser- | vice this morning in the Church of the Redeemer, Fourth avenue and Pacific street, Brooklyn. The Feast of Pentecost will be observed to-day (O. 3) in the Greek cliapel tn Second avenue at the usual hour. The Rev. S. H. Platt will preach at the usual Pointment. But simultaneously with this tele- graphic news you congratulated the single-souled veteran who is et the head of the French govern- ment on ms good fortune im having as German ambassador ‘a devout Catholic, like Prince Hohen- lohe,” who would be, from his very religion, dis- posed vo lean toward the Pope and to act acon- ciliatory part between France and Germany. In one word, this appointment appeared to you a sign of good will towards suffering France and an omen Of lasting peace. and, taking up the HERALD’S song, the World piped also to its readers of ‘peace and good will” through the advent of this new princely paragon of piety in the French‘ capital. AS these lines are written, however, you dispel the illusion, and assure us that WAR IS MORE THAN PROBABLE | between the two yreat countries in question, and that Germany cannotand will not allow France to gather strength any longer. | How, without reminding your readers of the facts produced by “Prudentius” tn his first letter concerning the conflict between Bismarck and the | Catholic Church, it could be for an instant con- | cluded by the public press that Prince Hohenlobe | Was a devout “Catholic” ts passing strange. That he is of an old Catholic stock I grant you, and | also that one of his brothers is 4 cardinal. | | But that Prince Clovis ever performed one single | act of Catholic ptety or showed in @ single insgance | his regard for the interests of the Church or his | sympathy with her brave old Pontiff in her strug- | | gles is what the world has yet to learn. \ It is just the time to repeat what has been | already stated in your columns, The persecution | ' of the Catholics in Bavarta, long before the break- | | sort of prayer, influence his conduct daily. How much more, then, when desire is so strong a8 to prostrate Lim tn fervent supplicarions ? “Ali holy desires,” all noble Det rd find their ex pression in some form ol prayer; and this expres- | sion tends to carry men forward in the way of | Moral and spiritual progression. Washington's | prayer at Valley Forge influenced him and ins | army. Fraakiin’s prayer, at the beginning of the } Declaration o! Independence, influenced him aud his compatriots. And where is the inan who bas | Rot been benelited by his mother’s prayers? It touches the divinity that 13 in man, und itis from divinity that ail good hows, | nite power and wisdom, ‘This pervades the entire | universe, ever creating and governing. It gave | birth to the laws of nature, fixed their bounds, ce- | termined their operations: and we have no knowl ; edge that these laws are ever suspended or di- verted from their course by the power of prayer. ; estore sight when the eye is destroyed, it will | bot restore animation when freezing to death. In | @ word, 11 will not snspend nor divert the course raiiaw. And yet A, W. Biakesley bas tie nee, impudence and ignorance” (I use pla | of ni | “arro; | Own terms) to tell us “be has known a train of | rs to be delayed in answer to prayer, to enabie & certain man to gain nis suit tn Court.” A GELLEVER IN PRAYER A Presbyterian Elder on Or. Swing’s Trial. fo THE Epiror oF Tus HERALD:— Isee in the HERALD that when you speak of the trial of Dr, Swing by the Presbytery of Chicago you call it “persecution.” Now, if you would state the charges preferred against him, your readers would understand the question better. If I understand the matter, it ia just this :— When Dr. Swing was ordained he accepted the Westminster contession as bis confession of faivd, and if he afterwards found out that he was in ing out of the Franco-German war, Was due to the , “piety” of this same Prince Clovis Hoheniohe, at | | that time Prime Minister of that kingdom; aud he | ceased to fill that post because the Catholic | | party in Bavaria coalesced with the ‘patriotic party’ to drive him irom it, They knew six years | ago, as they know pat too well to-day, that | | THE BITTEREST ENEMIES OF THE CATHOLIC CAURCH | | are stacesmen who call themselves her children | | while betraying her most sacred interests, and | churchmen, like Cardinal Hohenlohe, whose only | reigion is servility to kings and their ministers, | | France has nothing to hope for but unrelenting | ‘hate from the clever, bad man whom Germany now sends to her. He it was who counselled his | King betore the opening of the late war to cast his ) lot With Prussia and against France, the old-time | | ally of Bavaria, It was, to be sure, an old way of jaying the new debt contracted toward Napo- | | Jeon I, by Bavaria when be raised her to the rank | of @ kingdom. | During the campaigns of the first French Em- | french arms. And when, under Prussian leader- | ship, their legions invaded the French soil in 1s70 and took a loremost partin every battle which hastened the overthrow of Napoleon LiL, and enued in the dismemberment and utter spoltation | of France, there was not a Bavarian who did not | | fee that he was ruiing his best friend to elevate | his worst enemy. Nor was there then a Bavarian who did not know that the man who brought about | the fatal alliance of Southern and Northern Ger- | Many against Mrance, unprepared and deceived, | was Prince Ciovis Hohenloue. ‘Think you this | } political apostate will falsify the proverbial ‘false | aud fatal zeal’ of all apostates against those of | | upon to state that | about the error, Would it not bave been more honorable for him to have come out before his Presbytery and frankly acknowledge his mistake, and asked to be dismissed, than to stab those doctrines as a Presby- verian miniscer? He stated in one sermon (if cor- rectly reported) that while he believed a part of the Bibie was inspired, a part ot It, he stated, was not. The Church of which he was ® minister teaches that all Scripture was given by inspira- tions of God, and as an inteliigent man he knew tt, How, i). Task, sit persecution to account jor heresy? Joseph R, Chandler, once in Congress, felt called certain statements made Catholic Church were not. true, ade no apology ior it It stand or fall on’ its merits, le but he would | said, 1 make no apology for the Presbyterian Church. I Dr. Swing did hot preacn the doctrines as taught by iv it was its duty to cail him to ac- count, and there was no persecution about it, Lf he taught that the Bible was not all of it the Word of God, it was its duty a8 a Chureh to call him to account, and there was no persecution about it that [can see, Let others see what they may see. AN ELDER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ANSWER.—Dr. Swing has not found out that le in error, and the Presbytery of Onicago’ have indorsed his teaching by a vote of tore than three to one, Hence, either he did not teach heresy or the Pres- | bytery indorses heresy, and in either case it is persecution to single out Dr. Swing as a scapegoat. Again, any Man 01 common sense must know that the transcribing of the historical records of tue Jews needed no more inspiration than the history of Engiand or the United States needs, and no man | ig bound to accept the doctrine of its Inspiration in this particular, And to bring @ minister to trial for the rejection of this theory is, if not persecu- | tion, the next thing to It. And, furtnermore, the appeal by the defeated prosecutor shows that he is hours to-day in DeKalb avenue Methodist Epis- | their 1ormer creed when they war against them | righily named a persecutor. copal church, Brooklyn. The Rey. W, C. Dawson will preach this morning im the Church of the Disciples of Christ. The Baptism of the Holy Ghost” is the theme of Rey. J. S. Davenport’s discourse this evening in the Catholic Apostolic church, Rev. E. Borel will preach before the French Evangelical church this morning in Calvary chapel, Fourth avenue, The cause cf failure, !ack of faith and the deluge ; | and have them tn their power? Can you, since | the termination of the late war and the elevation | | of Prince Honenlohe to be Vice President of the | ; German Imperial Parliament, point ont a single | { yore said by him to appease she German appetite for | FURTHER VENGEANCE ON A FALLEN FOE, orasingie deea of graceful mediation between | the conqueror and the conquered? | | No! Marshal MacMahon does not blind himself | to the significance of Count von Arnim’s departure | and Hobhenjohe’s arrival. He 1s periectiy aware | that of all living men the new ambassador best | | knows the mind of Bismarck and is most trusted { The True “Episcopacy.”’ To THE Epivor or THB HERALD — As episcopal means “belonging to a bishop,” and ag Christ is tie “bishop of our souls,” what neca have we of other bishops? And as Jesus has de- clared that “One 1s your master, even Christ, and \ all ye ore brethren,” what right have we to recog- | nize any other bishop? As the true Church of God must of necessity desire to te united with and elong to Christ, what more appropriate name will be considered to-day in whe First Baptist | by the German Chancellor. And all France knows | Could be given to Christ's Church than tue “Epis- church of Harlem by Rev. Dr. Samson. Dr, Fulton will preach in Hanson place church, Brooklyn, at the usual hours, on “Christ’s Baptism and the Perils of Womanhood.” Dr. Wakely 1s to preach morning and evening in Lexington avenue Methodist Episcopal church. Rey. W. W. Page will preach at the usual hours im the New York Presbyterian church. Services in the Church of the Atonement morn- ing and evening will be conducted to day by Rev. QC. Tiffany, of Boston. Rev. Mr. Knapp will preach morning and even- ing in the Laight street Baptist churcn, Rev. Georgé H. Corey will occupy the pulpit of St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church this morn- ing and evening. Rey. A. P. Graves will preach at the usual hours in the Central Baptist caurch, Forty-second street. Dr. Mickels preaches to-day as usual in the Stan- ton street Baptist church. The City Church Extension and Missionary So- ciety will hold a public meeting this evening in Jane street Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. T, M. Eady, Rey. F. Hamlin, and General ©, B. Fisk and J. B. Cornell will deliver addresses, Rey. W. H. Thomas will preach in Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopai church to-day at the usuai | hours. Rev. John Gordon, of Chicago, will talk about the “Christian’s Rest” this morning, and about “Sout Care” in the evening in the Iabernacle Baptist eburch. Rev. W. H. Boole will preach tn Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church to-day at the usual hour this morning. Dr. H. B, Chapin wili occupy the pulpit of the Forty-second street Presbyterian church this morn- ing and afternoon. The Rey. J. W. Bennam wiil give an account of the great awakening in the Church of England this evening in the Churcn of the Holy Apostles. Dr, A. UC. Osborne will preach morning and even- ‘ng at the South Baptist church. The Rev. EB. C, Sweetser will preach at the usual hours to-day in the Bleecker street Universalist eharch. Rev. R. S, McArthur will preach in Calvary Bap- tist church to-day, morning and evening, There will be a musical vespers in St, Elizabeth’s ehurch, Fort Washington, this evening. Miss Louisa Morrison Fiset will sing the soprano parts, Rev. Father Lake will preach. The Oburch of Humanity will be entertained in De Garmo Hal) to-day by 8. P. Andrews, who will give them a scientific talk. Mr. E. V, Wilson will lecture for the Spiritualists ‘this morning in Robinson Hall. Another company of Spiritualists will meet for conference this alter- noon is Germania Hall, Third avenue. “The Discipline of Sorrow” and “A Consecrated Will” are the topice chosen by Mr. Hepworth for his morning and evening meditation. Rev, W.T. Olarke will repeat nis sermon on “The Minor Moralities” in Unity chapel, Harlem, this morning. “Real Presence’? will be treated of this evening at Christ churoi by Dr. Thompson. Dr. Pollard, of Pittsburg, wili lecture on “St, Cecilia” in the Church of the Holy Innocents this evening. There will be services morning and evening in the Protestant Episcopal church, Fiftietn street, near Third avenue. Rev. T, 58, Forbush, of Cleveland, preaches this morning in the Church of the Messiah. “Minor Moralities” will form Mr. Clarke’s theme @t Unity Chapel this moraing. Rev. Minot J. Savage preaches to-day tn Dr. lows’ Church of All Souls. Ber At St. Clemenv’s church Dr. Eaton, the rector, | ‘Will conduct the services ag asual, Rev. Dr. Osgood will preach at both services, morning snd afternoon, to-day, in St, Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church. 4 Rev. M. J. Savage, of Chicago, will preach in All Souls’ church to-day at the usual hours. Rev. J, M. King will deliver an anniversary | ication sermon this morning, in Fifty-third street Methodist Episcopai church, and in the evening will talk avout Decoration Day and its lessons. Preaching as usual to-day vy Rev. Mr. Gause in the Madison avenue Retormed churen, Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach at the usual hours 4m the Church of Our Saviour. Dr. Deems will preach as usual to-day in the Church of the Strange: Prudentias on the New German Ambas- ‘ sador to France, To Tax Eprror or THE HeraLy:— During the past week the telegraph has informed Be that Pripce Clovis Hoheniohe had presented to Marshal MacManon bis credentials as German any Dassador in Paris, in place of Count Von arnim, More than a month ago your correspondent tn- formed your readers of Prince Boneulones ap- | thay this mission means a speedy renewal of hos- | | tillties, ti clever and wuserupulous diplomacy may | surely Gnd & way Ol rendering peaceful negoua- | tion Imposstole, and may as certainly devise means | ol hastening a rupture between two cuuntries, one | | of which {gs maddened by tutolerable and unceas- | ; ing humiliations, and the other blinded by its fears | | Of @ terrible retaliation. | The religious question can only have this much | to do in the sending to France of this “eminent | Catnolic,” that the conclave now daiiy expected | proves a subject of serious diMiculty for “Catholic” | | Statesmen to settic. ‘They would like to have ; Such a Pope as dear Cardinal Hohenlohe would make—a man after their own heart, who would | be alike acceptable to Kalser Wilhelm and that | “most edifying Catholic” King Victor Emmanuel. That it wouid be a grand triumph of diplomatic | Skull to induce France to unite with Germany and | | Italy in controlling the approaching papal elec- | | tion, we have no doubt, and the reader may be | sure that Prince Hohenlobe will do his best to win it. WHAT MAY COME OF HOHENLONE’S APPOINTMENT, Then, there ts the crown of Spain to dispose. of. | Ana if Marshal MacMahon could be induced to al- | low the beggarly bauble to be placea on the head j of @ Hohenzoilern, and to lend bis countenance | to the Comte de Paris, why that alone would be and Tesult accomplished by Bismarck’s fuvortte, | joes the late reported refusal of the Spanish | crown by the Duke de Montpensier point in this | direction? At gs | rate France and her truest | frtends all over. the world could pardon Prince | Hohenlohe many a deed of questionable merit if | he could only be instrumental in bestowing on the | fair kingdom of St. Louis such a sovereign as Lous | | Philippe Il. would be sure to make. But this pros- | | pect of peace, prosperity, national strength and | dignity under such a sceptre is one which circum- | stances scarcely permit those who read the signs of the times to indulge in, And yet it ia hard, | when such @ prospect opens before one, for heroic | France in the hour of her greatest need to put it | away, especially when it is so ea8y to realize it | and when the realization would giadden all | | Christendom. | | _ Whether Prince Hohenlohe’s mission means this | Roe solution of @ mighty international prob- | | lem, or whether it means War, @ war dreadiul to | | contemplate, now is | ENGLAND'S GRAND OPPORTUNITY. | Twice within twenty years has England missed | | her opportunity of securing beyond peradventure | her own and France’s preponderant position in Europe as the two great Western Powers. As auch | their interests are absolutely identical. Whatever | | diminishes the prestige, national honor or terri- | torial integrity of either Power diminishes in Sike | measure that of the other. They should have com. bined at the approach of the Danish war to forbid the outrage committed by Germany on that an- | cient but feeble nation. ‘It was the first step to- | wards the abnormal aggrandizement of Prussia; and Austria was soon made to feel the arm of the | , new Power thus createa by the abstention of Eng- land and France. it was @ capital mistake tor | England, and her best statesmen felt it, } wit prophetic instinct, A satill reater and more fatal one—one which, indeed, | appears now irreparable—was to _ allow | France to go into the late war, or, having allowed | 1%, Dot tohave lost her last shilling and her last | soldier before allowing France to be dismembered | and impoverished by her heartless conquerors, ENGLAND UNDER THR FIRST NAPOLEON | | stirred up and subsidized Europe again und again | to prevent France from becoming the overshadow- | ing Power of Christenaom. She ought, in her owa | deience, in 1870 to have roused every civilized gov- | ernment to resist the formation of a military des- | potisua far more formidable than ever Napoleon | wielded. Since the sudden groweh of this spectre | | of German greatness and France's momentary | prostration England must have elt of how little account her interference was held by Bismarck. | Let her now assert her own dignity. She can once more be the arbiter of peace and war in Europe. She can save France and bind | her to herself by ties stronger than adamant. United, France and England can brave the world. | | ‘The simple fact of their standing together side by | side would prevent the forming of any coalition | against them. | And here is, too, an opportunity for the United | | States. Our Protestantism and our resentment | for the unfriendly attitude of Napoleon IIL. in our | | late civil war ied our people to sympathize | rather with Germany than France in their strug- | | gle. But our old love of France and the memory | | of aid bestowed and blood shed to help make us nation should now urge our govérnment to wirow the whole moral weight of the nation in the | | scale against a new German aggression. It is for | tne HERALD to lead the national opinion in this | | Matter, and thus render a mightier service than | was ever rendered by any journal to humanity PRUDENTIUS. Prayer vs. Messrs. Carpenter and Tyn- | \ dal. TO THE EpiTor OF THE HERALDS— A late correspondent, “A, W. Blakesley,’ seems indignant at Messrs, Carpenter and Tyndall tor holding and expressing befere a “hundred clergy- ; men” an adverse opinion on prayer. He says | “they were arrogant, impudent and ignorant.” Let me remind bim that Galileo was denounced as arrogant and impudent and ignorant when, before alarge body of the clergy, he declared that the earth moved. Time has long since proved to the whole of the civilized world to which of the two these debasing epithets belonged—the philosopher | or the doctors of divinity. One would think be- Nevers in old theological notions would learn { modesty alter saca a severe rebuke, Don’t believe it, for as long as the world stands children wil prefer romance to reason, |” Messrs, Carpenter and Tyndall sald, as we are | informed, “that prayer never did infinence God, nor the universe, nor man in any degree.” In one rense were right, and in another they were ana civilization. | sanctuary for ordination:. copal,” which means beionging to Christ, who is our Ge bishop? Nor should we recognize any other, How much longer are men and women to see the Lord of Truth, the King of Glory put to open shame? Do not vainly imagine that there 18 any salety or joy outside of truth and where false- hood dwelleth, though never so much pusled up by arrogance. There isnone. * * * ISABELLA B. LANGSTON, A Mission on Long Island—St. Joseph’s Church, Hewlctt’s Station—A Religious Retreat. In the fall of 1872 the first Catholic church was erected at Hewlett’s Station. L. L, on tne valley | Stream ana Rockaway branch of the Long Isiand Railroad, under the direction of Rev. J. Dorris (formerly pastor of St. Stephen’s church, Brook. | lyn), and the neat frame structure, from the spire | of which rises the cross, noW attracts the atten- © tion of the thousands wno now travel that line to the sea shore. To the resident Catholics of the etl which covers an area ol about eight miles, tt if @ source vi gratification to have the sacraments brought so near their rustic hotses, and visitors of that faith temporarily stop- ping at Woodsburg, Rockaway and other favorite resorts delight to attend the services at St. Jo- seph’s. Bishop Loughlin has authorized that a | Mission be held at this church—the frst ever given in that tract of country. Tbe mission, which will be opened to-day and will close on the Feast of Corpus Christi, next Thursday, will be conducted by one of the Kedemptorist Fathers, of Third street, New York. make 4 spiritual retreat in the solitude of the country an admirable opportunity will be aiforded ib the coming mission. Ordinations at Seton Hall. At half-past nine o’clock A. M. yesterday com- menced the ceremonies of ordination at Seton Hall College. Thousands of persons thronged the spacious grounds from early morning until noon, The following young men were present in the Mr. James Curran, of 3 Mr. Denis F, McCarthy, of Newark; Mr. oft Dover, N.J., and Mr. Joseph M. Flynn, of New York. The Right Rev. Dr. Corrigan, Bishop of Newark, oficiated at the mass. Very Rev. G. H. Doane, V. G, acted as deacon of honor, Rev. Mr. Fleming as sub-deacon and Rev. Messmer as master of ceremonies, Trento! Jonn Grady, Ministerial and Church Movements. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. J. E. Long has removed trom Truxton to Preble, Cortland county, N. Y. Rev. Joel Wakeman, D. D., has removed to Conk- lin Station, Broome county, N. Y. Rev. C. W. Remington has removed from Lancas- ter to North Bergen, N. Y, Rey. E. G. Ray has become pastor of the Presby- terian church at Vernon Centre, N. Y. Rev. W. H. Webb, of Adrian, Mich., hes accepted 8 call to the Second Presbyterian church in Spring- fleid, Ohio, He was nine years in Adrian. Rey. R.S. Morton has accepted a cali to the church of Little Beaver, Pa, Rev. W. N, Steele has removed from Rossville to Jacksonville, Il. Rev. J. Jerome Ward has removed from Owatonna to Kasson, Minn. The Rey. O. W. Gauss was recently installed pas- tor of the Cape Girardeau church, Mo. Rey. J. L. Gourlay was instaitled pastor of the Presbyterian church of Mount Vernon, Ind. A church of twenty-six members was organized recently at Bowman’s Creek, Pa, and Rev. C. K. Canfield was installed pastor, Rev. L. D. Wells, late pastor of the Waltham Presbyterian church, lil, has accepted @ call to the Presbyterian church at Lacon, 1), Rev. Dr. Rice has accepted the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian church at Fulron, Mo. The Rev. David Winters, of the Third Presby- terian church, ol Paterson, N.J., has received a unanimons call to the Westminster Presvytertan church, of Philadelphia. EPISCOPALIAN, The diocesan conventions—two in Pennsylvania and one In Virginia—have lately passed resolu- tions condemning the spread of Ritualism in tue Protestant Episcopal Church and demanding ot the next General Convention to stop it, The Bishop of one of those conventions has at the same time condemned in unmeasured terms the reformed movement. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel re- cently held its 173d anniversary, Lord Lyttleton in the chair. The contributions page 1873 amounted to $551,000. ‘The society has provided whoily or in part for the support of 484 ordained missionaries. Bishop Clark, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Rnode Island, has issued a pastoral letter to the churches ot his diocese, calling upon them to take M4 A heh ik tor the sufferers by the Southern Or od. The Church Missionary Society have recently sent two married missionaries to Japan in order to open & mission station in the city of Jeddo. In view of the antipathy of the Japanese to the Roman Catholics, these missionaries have veen 10 structed not to Make use of the cross as a symbol. The Church Missionary Society is the twelfth mis- sionary society which has entered upon the work iz Japan. The Rev. 8. declined @ cali to the Ohurch of the Incarnation, Washington, V.C., and accepted one to Curist church, Norwich, Conn. Bishop Odenheimer, on Friday last, consecrated Christ church, Pompton, N. J. In the evening the sermon was ‘preacted by Rev. Samael Hail, of wrong. 's. Blair and Chalmers, two eminent Scotch divines, expressed the same opinion; but unlike Oarpenter and Tyndall, they so quatt their language that it does not appear offensive, It is andeniable that man OrdiaaLy pkares, Kyen lla Morristown, ROMAN CATHOLIC, St. John’s church, Newark, is being entirely renovated, and ‘when tintshed will be one of the ig induenced by | handsomest churches in the city, wuchare al Mgr, Milaph Observanting, 0. 5, Who Wwagte-, But there 1s a Divinity tiat is not tn man—inf- | | dia man be dying of hunger the most heartielt | | prayer will not repienish his stomach. Lt will not | i him to | ‘To such persons as desire to | PB. | a. i D. D., of Baltimore, has — NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. cently appointed vicar apostolic of Ale) and delegate of Syria, has been also Sppeinted pro- vicar patriarchal of the Latins in Constantinople, big ng Mer. Pluym, deceased, june 16 and 23 are the dates of the anniversaries of the election and coronation of tie Pope. The American pilgrims expect to participate i cere- monies on those dates in Rome. ‘The Roman Catholic Society for the Propagation | } of the Fatih has the larvest income of any of the | mnixsionary societies. | $1,104,838, This Was $15,006 less than in 1872, wen special efforts were made, in view of the fistieth | anniversary of the society. | _.At Trevifio, Lombardy, @ priest has just been | sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment for a | practical joke. He put a strong emetic into the | wine used in the celebration of mass, to punish | two priests with whom he had held sundry dispu- | tations. One of the victims was iil lor a week. | The Congregation or Our Lady of Mercy, Debe- | voise street, Brook: has concluded a most suc- | cessful mission, conducted py’Rev. Father Koop- | mans, &. J., assisted by three Fathers of his Order. There were 7,100 communions and 13 converts. The Arebbishop of New York confirmed over 1,200 chitdren 1 three of the churches of this city the week preceding last, he Missionary Sisters of St. Francis are about to erect a new convent, Father Damen, 8. J., haa concluded a very suc- cessiui mission im St. Rose’s church, Cannon street, at which 7,000 communions were received, 26 converts were reported and 675 persons were contirmed, METHOMIST. Rev. Dr. Reid, of this city, has gone on a mis sionary visit of four months to tne West, He will attend State conventions and look at the various mission stations in the Northwest, on the Pacific ere and.among the Indians in the diferent States and Territories. Bishop Harris writes that he would spend the Month of May visiting the mission stations in Tur- key; that he would attend the trish Conference in Dublin Jane 17, the German Conference in Schoft- | hausen July 2, and the British Conference July 29. The Bishop hopes to visit Scandinavia also, and to get back to New York in time for the Episcopal | meeting in October, Rev. D. D. Currie, EB was in the Monday ‘The aanaal meeting of the Ladies’ Five Points | Mission was held op Tuesday. Reports were pre- sented and officers and managers elected for me ensuing year. beipts amounted to $20,108 86, and the expenditures to $17,956 32 ior the year. The Methodists built the fast Provestan® church on the Pacific coast in Oregon City, Oregon, in 1844. It still stands, and answers the wants of the peopie there, The Presbyterians put up the second Protestant church on that coast five years later, when (in 1849) they dedicated one at Benicia, Cal. These were the only Protestant churches at that date between Behring straits and Cape torn. ‘The audience room of the ‘Methoaist Episcopal chureh at Allowaystown, Salem county, N. J., will be dedicated June 7, On the Ellenvite district, New York Confer: @new church’ bas been built at Samsonvull at Downsville a of the Western Conference, city on @ brief visit last 3 ce, and d Woodstock new churches are being built. Parsonages have been built at Bloom- ingburg and Monticello, and over 1,000 persons have been received un probation, narrist, The semi-annnal meeting of the Union wiil be held June 2, at Delmonico’s, taken charge of the F. Baptist church at U1 tN. Y. The Rey. John I. Craig, pastor at Newton, N. J., has been cailed to the care of High street Baptist | church, Baltimore, ; . Pwo more of the Hamilton Theological students are placed, Mr. G. B. Vosvargh goes to Coopers- town, N. Y,, and Mr. b. 0. Rowlands to Whiltes- town, N, Y. ‘d * ‘The trustees and deacons of the Hanson place Baptist church, Brookiyn, have arranged for an encertainment to the Rev. J. D, Fulton, D. D., their pastor, and bis friends, on the evening of Thursday, June 4, at the church. ‘This is tntended a8 an estoppel to the reports of differences exist- ing between them. Some twelve Baptist associations hold their an- Dual meetings in the wonth of June in the State of New York, ‘The ordination of Wiliam M. J. Kincaid, late graduate of the Rochester theological Seminars New York, took place in the edifice of the ‘Tabe: , bacle Baptist church, Utica, N. Y., May 19, J. Swank 18 preaching to the Second Free Baptist church of Harrisburg, Pa, 5. F, Matthows has accepted the pastorate of the Free Baptist church at Ames, N. Y. Marcy Avenue tapeat church, Brooklyn, is in an encouraging condition, The house is inadequate to the congrogation. There have been tity-six baptusms in four months, and the membership has increased from 45 to 179 A contract has been made for the building of a lecture room which will hold 600 people, leaving lots 854x100 for a church, Tae ground will be broken for thé new ediiice aud the corner stone iaid at once. MISOELLANEOUS. At a business meeting o! the Congregation Beth E), iu Lexington avenue, last Sunday, the salary of Dr. Sternberger was raised from $3,000 to $4,000 a year. | The Rey. Joseph Kimball, D. D., of Brooklyn, on Sabbath last, whe preaciing the anniversary ser- mon of the laying of the corner stone of the First Reformed church, of which he ts pastor, was taken suddenly tL AS he was delivermg the closin: sentences of the sermon he suddenly swaye trom side to side and fell forward over the read- | ing desk, with iis head resting on the Bible, He was carried to the vestry, physiciaus were called and restoratives applied. On Monday he was a Lo better, and has been improving during the week, Dr. Mandeville’s Reformed congregation at Harlem are about to build a new house 0i worship. Rev. Henry Jewell wul close his labors with the First Universalist Society of Bristol to-day. | "The Society of Friends are making preparation to build a fine coliege at High Point, N. O,, esti- mated to cost $75,000. Rev. P. B. Crolius has resigned the pastorate of the Reformed church at Guttenburg, N. J. Rev. C. D, Buck has resigned the pastoral care | of tie First Reformed church at Hoboken, N. J. Rev. I. H. Collier has become pastor of the Re- | formed church at Montville, N, J. The Universalist Society at Clinton, New York, has granted Rev. W. K. Chamberlin a’ vacation of three months to visit Scotland, Rey. Matthew L. Haines was installea pastor of | the Reformed church, Astoria, 01 Wednesday, by | the North Classis of Long Island. | ‘The Division street Reiormed church, at Pater- | son, N.J., Will be dedicated on Tuesday next. | Rev. Dr. 5. M, Woodbridge, of the New Brunswick | Theological Seminary, will preach the sermon, A Universalist church of thirty-two members has been organized at Hinsdale. | | — | FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. | |The Priestly Blessing of Isracl and | What It Means—Discourse by Rev. Dr. Mendes. | Yesterday Dr. Mendes made some touching ref- | erences to the absence o/ his senior in the Congre- | gation Shaarai fephila, Rev. S. M. Isaacs, who, hearing of the sudden death of an old triena of his | @ few days ago, became so deeply affected as to ; bring on sickness on himself. He was, therefores | absent yesterday from bis accustomed place in the | | synagogue and many regrets were expressed at | | his absence, Dr. Mendes in opening his discourse | remarked that many details of the Jewish religion | had gone out of date; they were temporary and | local, but now and again they come upon afew | verses which form, as it were, an oasis in the desert | and which revive their interest directly. ‘whe laws of the Nazarites have passed away, but | the blessings of Israel's priests are recited daily. The threeiold benediction given by Divine com- mand 1s heard from priestly lips in every syna- gogue, and our hearts and eyes are refresned at | seeing and hearing those words, Although we deem it very hard to decide which portions shall | have prominence, the priestly benediction will live | as long as Jewish parents have children on whose heads the priestly hands are to be laid and the riestly benediction given. It contains ali that the ' fving mother would cali down on her children, | “May the Eternal bless thee and preserve thee; may the Eternal cause His. countenance to shine | upon thee and give thee peace ; j MAY THE ETERNAL BLESS THER 4 and preserve thee {rom loss," Some persons, the Doctor remarked, piace Wealth in the foremost | rank, but, he asked, can it give happiness or peace ? cannot give: ié seeks God. It was known to the | sages of old that wealth could not give happiness. | | Increase of worldly possessions Is increase of care. | And because onr sages knew this theyjhave had it “preserve thee from loss.” The original word conveys the idea o! preservation from robbers as well a8 trom loss of every sort. Wealth without pride, fortune without persecution, the Doctor iMiimated, might prove a great blessing; bat he contended that it cannot give that for which the | prayer of the text asks. Do we not see, he asked, | that those who have it recede from happiness a8 | their wealth increases. {ne Doctor gave some illustrations {rom nature and observation of this | pot, where there is abundance in getting if, | temptation in continuing it and quien abusing it and sorrow in losing it. And then there | is a terrible account to give at the iast, when we | are called to part'with all our goods, especially if | the heart nas been seared by them. The Doctor ; then indicated how much good may ve | done by wealth and fortune, Here the few grow | Wealthy, while the many are degraded by poverty and are sunken in sorrow. ‘The Word declares | that the poor shall never perish out oi the land; | | and ts he not sinning and siniul who withnolds the | helping hand from the ot your fortune, the Doctor remarked, by the meekness of your hearts and the liberality of your gifts. Show that thy heart is indeed # reservoir of blessings; that thy life is one of bountifulness | and of riches, devoted to charity and to good | works; and may the Bternal bless thee and pre- serve thee from weaith’s worst foes. THE BLESSING OF EDUCATION. May the Eterna! cause His countenance to shine pon thee and give thee peace! What greater essing cao we have than education? At home it is @ friend; abroad it is on mtroduction, It chastens vice and guides virtue. Without educa- an what is man i a a ae ae dares ae ween aspiration for an Le Withont ednaation ‘Sho terror of the hereaster, Last year it amounted to | The mind seeks something which wealth | oor? Show the greatness / | the mina of mun vrings fortn thorns and briers ; that only entangle him; but education causes the ; Same mind to bring forth fruit lusclous and boun- tiful. Just a8 the twig is bent the tree is inelned, | and so is it with the human mind. aay the Eternal be gracious unto thee and give thee light and be Werciiul unto thee; and may He litt up His counte- nanee upon thee. This shows the divine lavor is ex- ercised toward us and our race is accepted by the Lord. “The lifting up of his countenance upon us’? was explained by the Doctor, who cited various | passages of scripture where and the circumstances | In which it is used. God nad promised to Isract | health, a boon which has followed them ail their | days. Wealth is tor adults, and few of them: but | healch is jor all ages and forevery man. Without heaith@ man may starve at the richest table. Without health the palace becomes a prison. And in this God makes no distinction between the | prince and the begwar. It is not to be wondered | at tien that we find health among the blessings that the priests were to pronounce over the peo- ple. Then, with areferonece to the death of the righteous and a prayer that our last end may be | like lus, the Doctor closed his address. \ THE CHURCH COUNCILS The Presbyterian General Assembly— | Reports of Committees—Liberal Contri- | | ! bution to Home Missions. Sr. Lovurs, Mo., May 30, 1874. At the morning session of the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly to-day, Dr. Nelson, from the Com- mittee on Home Missions, reported that great and unusual prosperity bad attended the work in the past year. The receipts tor the year from all sources amounted to $207,150; less by $7,567 than for the previous year. The payments, including the balance of $7,406 reported to the last Assem- | biy, were $204,544, leaving due to the missionaries | on the Ist of April $19,500. There are 1,210 Sab- | bath schools in the mission flelds, embracing | 100,000 children and teachers, and 273 new schools | have been organized during the year, : Dr, Logan, chairman of the Committee on Susten- tation, reported that the committee would need, on the Ist of June, $21,000, and commended tie } cause to the presbyteries and churches. During last year 266 pastorates had received beneficiaries | | ivom the committee. Dr, Jacobus, secretary of the committee, stated that the gain during the year was 43,000, He said that sustentation lies at ihe basis of the lubor of the Church, and inade @n earnest speech in favor of contributing to the lund. The total debt of the | Board of Home Missions, including the Susteuta- | Hon Committee, was now about $73,500, | Elder Stewart, of New York, offered to contrib- ate $1,000 towards reducing the debt. A collection was taken Up and about $40,000 subscribed, the largest subscribers being the Presbyteries of New York and Puiindelphia, Who gave $5,000; Uni- versity place caurch, New York, $1,000; the Pres- | bytery of Chicago, $1,000; the Presbytery of Al- | ; bany, $1,000, and the Presbytery of Lackawanna, $1,001 About 100 presbyteries, 200 churcies and & large number of individuals were among the | contributors. i THE CONSOLIDATION OF BOARDS. | Dr. Booth, from the committee appointed to formulate the action of the Assembly in regard to | the consoiidation of the various boards, made a | feport, which was adopted. He also reported the | causes for which contrivutions are to be collected, viz. :—Foreigh missions, sustenation, education, missionary Work, the Board of Publication, church | erection, ministerial relief, home missions and freedmen, j Rev. Mr. Kulbridge, of Chicago, read a private ; telegram, stating that the United Presbyterian | Church, in General Assembly at Columbus, Mi had voted to angers’ @ committee of conteren with this Assembly, ‘The announcement was re- \ | | | ceived with loud applause. | HOME MISSION. | _ Dr. Dickson, one of the secretanes of the flome Board, spoke on the subject of home missions, al- | luding to the practical and eloquent manner in which the memvers of the Assembly had re- | sponded in the morning, when the debt of the Board was announced. The grand , growth of the Church in the last 160 years | Was dilated on. The want of missionaries in | Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, the Indian Territory and | other places was dwelt upon, He spoke warmly in favor of prompt payment to all ministers as the ; best policy and wisest economy in the | end, ‘The whole country, he said in cun- clusion, = was for more men. The Snyig Ohuren bad all alopg been in favor of civil and re- | ' ligions Mberty, and the way to maintain it was to plant more watchmen on the walls of Zion. The Gospel 1s the only salc which cau save (rom putre- faction the body politic. the body civil and the body religious. The speaker adverted to the fact that in the next few years the vast number of Japanese and Chinese which | { come to these shores will have to be evangelized, and the demand jor missionaries will be Jar ; greater than at present. ; Dr. Eels, of San I rancisco, said the Board was | already doing the work of a board of foreign | missions on home missionary grounds. The subject will be resumed on Monday. | Phe Episcopal Convention of Kentucky. | | LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 30, 1874, | The Episcopal Convention of the Diocese of Ken- | tucky has adjourned until some future time after the session of the General Convention, when it | i | | shall be called together by the Senior Bishop, for | the purpose of supplying the vacancy caused by the separation from the Church of Rev. Mr, Cum- | mins, the Bishop to give thirty days’ notice of his | intent vo call the Convention. { 1 The Maryland Protestant Episcopal | Convention. | WASHINGTON, May 30, 1874, | The Protestant Episcopal Convention of tne | | Diocese of Maryland, tn session here, refused, | aiter an earnést discussion, 119 against 52. tu per- mit the Church of the Holy Communion to or- | ganize, on account of its ritualistic character. | INDICTMENT OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS, ‘The Grand Jury came into Court yesterday morn- | ing, and the foreman having announced that they | had completed thetr labors, Judge Sutherland dis- | charged them with the thanks of the Court for the industry displayed in the discharge of their duties during the term. It was generally understood that for the last few days the Grand Jury have had | under investigation tne complaint made by the | ‘rammapy Hall leaders against some of the Police | Commissioners for alleged violation of the Election | | Jaws, As the result of their examination tnto the | | alleged frauds they presented four indictments, | | which, on motion of the District Attorney, were | transferred to the Court of Oyer and Terminer for | trial. One bill 18 against Oliver Charlick | | ana Hugh Gardner, charging. them with @ | | Violation of section 13 of tne Election law, tu re- moving, without a notice in writing, Jobn Sheri- | dan, on'the 3d of November, 1873, trom the post: | tion of inspector of election for the 'wenty-third Election district of the Kighteenth Assembly dis- | trict of the city and county 0! New York, to which | position he was duly appointed by the Board of | Police of the city of New York. | There is another indictment against Oliver Charlick, Hugh Gardner, Wiluam J. Boylan, Jonn E. Evans and Thomas Barrett, setting forth that | Charles Donohue was @ candidate for Justice of ' the Supreme Court, that on the day of election he furnished Richard F, Stevens with a certificate | designating him to be present at the canvass of | the ballots, and that the parties named tn the in- | | dictment so interfered with Stevens that he was | unable to gee the result of the canvass of the | | Dallots. A third imdictment charged Oliver Charlick, Hugh Gardner and John E. Murphy with violat- | ing section 79 of the Klection law, in that | they ejected John Sheridan, whom Charles Donohue had designated to watch the canvass of votes in the Fourth Election district of the Eighteentn As- sembly district, from the premises, he not having | been guilty of fraudulent or disorderdy conduct. | | ‘The fourth indictment is baa Oliver Charlick, | Hugh Gardner and Edward burke, charging them with ejecting William Shine, who was deputed by | Charles Donohue to be present at the canvass of | the ballots m the Third Election district of the First Assembly district, before thé camplevion of the canvass or the ballots in the box. The Ofences charged against these gentlemen being misdemeanors aud not felonies, it will not be necessary for them to appear personally tn Court to plead to tne Indictments unless they choose to do so. They cau enter a plea through | their counsel, which will probably be done on | Monday, when the June term of the Oyer and Ter- | Miner Will open. The usual course of procedure 18 | for the District Aliorney to procure bench war- | rants and arrest the parties indicted; but in this instance it 18 hkely that the defendants were noti- | | flea yesterday by au oficial connected with the | | District Attorney's office of the action oi the Grand Jury, aud that they will appear on Monday and | give bail for their appearance, Dr, Uhling and Others Indicted for At- tempting to Defraud @ Life Insurance Company. The Grand Jury have also indicted Dr. Ernest | Ubling, Loutsa Germs, Marié Ivaney and Charles | Fink for attempting to obtain $10,000 trom a life | insurance company by falsely representing that | Louisa Germs died on the 29th of March, 1874, the company having issued @ policy for that amount on | the 19th of Juno, 1875. It 1s alleged that the defend- ants conspired to obtain the insurance by irauda- | lently representing that the boay of Louisa | Germs was interred in a certaim cemetery, whereas ‘ ing on fire, and was only | by force. She was so evidently insane that the | State Prison for one pon a id te NEW YORE CITY. There will be a social reunion of the alumni AS sociation of the College of Pharmacy at the rooms of the College in the Universit, i Sey vention June iL 'y Building on Thurs. A strawberry (estival—the first one of this sem son—will be given by the Ladies’ Union Aid so ciety at the institution in Forty-second g1 hear Righth avenue, op ‘Thursday aud Friday evenings, June 4 and 5 Coroner Kessler wag yesterday called to the Filth precinct station house to hold ax inquest on the body of a muie cnild, found in the outhouse at tached to premises No, 60 Laight street. The mother was sent to the Park Hospital. The body of an unknown man about fifty years | Of age was yesterday tound Noating of the foot of Sixty-lirst street, East River, and sent to the Morgue for identification, Apparently the body had been in the water for several weeks. Coroner Croker was notitied, A number of Scotchmen met last evening at No. 60 Lispenard street for the purpose of making arrangements for properly celebrating the cente- nary of the poet Tannahill, which occurs on June 3, It was decided to hold a festival on that day at Pacific Hotel, No. 172 Greenwich street. Mrs, Laura 8, Webb will give a reading at the Academy of Music on Monday, June 15, for the benefit of the sufferers by the late terrible over flow of the Mississippi. Mrs. Webb ts the daughter of a Louisiana planter, and seeks to enlist the sympathies oj tae New York pains in the distress which prevails in her native land, On Friday afternoon, John McFadden, nineteen years old, while driving a horse and cart, corner of Tenth street aud avenue B, was overpowered by the heat of the sun and wag carried by the poe lice to his residence, No. 620 Kast Fifteenth street, where a physician attended him till he died. The body was snbsequently removed to No. 541 East Sixteenth sirect and Coroner Croker notified, The corner stone of the new Girls’ Free School, in connection with St, Peter’s church, Barclay street, will be laid at three o'clock this afternoon by Very Rev. William Quinn, Vicar Gene’ atthe corner of New Church and Ceaar streets. He will be assisted by Father O’Farreil, pastor of St. Peter's, and a large number of clergymen, and the various church societies will be in attendance. A fire broke out last eveningin the five story ~ iron building No. 130 South Fifth avenue thaG caused a damage of $7,000, The third faor of thé | Warehouse was occupied by Hillensbeck & Adler, dealers in cloth caps. Damage to stock $2,000. Om the second floor the Myer Stern Cap sanufactur® ing Company carried on business. Damage to stock $2,000, The building is insured to the ex- tent of $3,000. An tmmense audience gathered last evening 1m the great hall of the Cooper Union to witnes® the fifteenth annual commencement of the Cooper Union Free School of Science und Art, Among those pregent on the Platform were Petcr Cooper, Kdward Cooper, Professors Plympton, Frank W. Vollock, Fitzgerald ‘Tisdall, Frobisher, Miller and Zachos and Abram 8. Hewitt. The salutatory address was delivered by George Knox Nevan. J. J. Heidems delivered a dissertation on the “Birth of Chemistry,” and Edward A. Miller am address on “Pubitc Improvements.’ An orastom on the sciences was delivered by John Wiiliams George; on American citizenship by George A. Hogan. Tue valedictory address was made by George H. T. Doggett. The annual prizes of the School of Science and Art were distributed to the Successiul competitors. The body found floanng off Governor’s island on Friday was yesterday identified at tne Morgue by Thomas Carney, of No. 146 Monroe street, as that of Thomas McCrossen, twenty-one years of age, who lived with Carney. On Sunday night, the 17th-inst., deceased, who had been drinking somewhat to excess, went down to tie Rutgers strect pier with James ‘Tnchall, a8 they said, to hear some music, aud there fell asleep. When Thehall awoke ne missed bis companion. and, re- turning to Carney’s piace, which they had left together, inquired for McCrossen, but learned nothing of him, and he was not afterwards seen alive, The presumption ts, that, while asleep om the pier, McUrossen fell" overboard and was drowned. McCrossen and Thehail on one occasion nad a litue trouvle, but made trienas again, not- withstanding which a distant relative o! deceased seemed to think ne had met with foul play. From @ partial examination beputy Coroner MacWhin- nie was of the o:imion that the wound on McCros- sen’s head was not a pistol shot wound, as re- ported by Sergeant Sminck, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, LONG ISLAND. The Rev. Theodore F. Burnham was ordained ag pastor of the Presbyterian church at Freeport on Friday evening Lefore a large congregation, the Rev. S. D, Carter, of Huntington, Moderator. con- ducting the services, in which the Rev. J. C. Night ingale, the Rev. 3, M. Hammond, the Rey. S. Dy Burchard and the Rey, Dr. Steed took part. Bishop Lougniin, of Long Isiand, has authorized a mission to be held at St. Joseph's Roman Catho- lic church at Hewiett’s station, between Valley Stream and Rockaway, and tt will be commenced to-day, continuing until next Thursday, under the direction of one of the Redemptorist Fathers of Thirty-secona street, New York. ‘the Rev, butner Dorris is pastor of the church. There were formal decoration ceremonies yese terday at Riverhead, Orient and Fiushing, and an informal observance of the day at every cemetery on the isiand where there are soldiers’ graves, At Orient, Wiere there is a soldiers’ monument. there was an oration in the Presbyterian church at one P, M., atter which a procession was iormed, which marched to the monument, and the decora. tion services Look place at three o'clock. The honse of Mrs. Mary Rentalf, at Biissvilie, was discovered to be on fire late on Friday night Acrowd soon collected and the flames were with some difficulty extinguished. Upon pte | the house Mra Rentalt was found saturating a jot of oid clothing with kerosene and setting it om fire. ‘The clothing on her person was also found to be on fire, and she nad 9 narrow escape from burning to death. she appeared determined to set the bulid- revented (rom doing so ties concluded to hold her in durance until her Irlends could act in her vase, NEW JERSEY. The Board of Finance of Jersey City have inaus rated the policy of retrenchment by cutting Sowa the salaries attached to the Jat city ofces, Ex-Vice President Colfax will lecture in Eliza. beth on June 22, the occasion being the thirty» second anniversary of an Odd Fellows’ Lodge organization. * cae The annual National Unitarian Councli wil am semble in Newark on June 9 Rey. Dr. Bellows, Rey. James Freeman Clarke and Edward E. Hale will participate in the exercises, ‘The latest relic of 1776, dug op in Jersey, is & pistol bearing the inscription :—“P. Band, 45 Oorne hill, London, 1701.” It was found in iok ead where the fight took place between the British Americane on December 25, 1776, By a fall from a scaffold on the Methodist churen, in Halsey street, Newark, on Friday, Frank Clark,, Joseph Racker and George Boal were seriously injured. The wonder is that the mon were not instantly killed. ‘Tuey fell sixty feet, Nobody to ‘| blame—ot course. Yesterday was sentence day in the Essex County. Courta at Newark. As usnal there was a large crowd present of morbidly curions persons, One Charles Coates, a horse car conductor, who had) Jailed outrageousiy te respect the sanctity ol female honor on a certain occasion, was sent to it aa tne Court said, in view of eno! ty of hia crime. James Gray, an indecent ramMian void of respect for his own daughter, was treated similarly. James, Bracken axed his wile and was “axed” to pay @ fine of $26, which he did, Foran assault with @ istol on Constavie Newman, of Orange, Jonn, olan patd $26, A number of otner convicts were sentenced to lesser penalties, The New Jersey State Association of Spiritasitets held their quarteriy Convention in Newark yet. terday. The chief features of the Arst day's pro» céedings were two rather good looking females im Bloomer costume, and the consideration ofa reso~ lution declaring that the association dep! \ it was found, upon investigation, that tne | coMin contained bricks instead Of 3 human body, FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD, PHILADELPHIA, May 20, 1874, This morning Alfred Lutz, thirty-five years of \ age, a bricklayer, working on the Guarantee Safe and Trust building, on Chestnut street, above ‘Third, lost his foothold, falling from the scaffold, a distance of fitty ieet, receiving tujuries which will mroye fatal “the observance of Decoration Day as caica: to promote the false Kea | and the warrior s hero.” The Speaker, & | Dr, cooney aid ne powered Mare Bereta] US in 7 thrusts at the Young Men’ rade eemassociation in dRarge of the so called “Bazaar of all ” now holding forth im! Newark, and satd “the of the anr. was part of fhe show, aud Was os rection, balancl At tho / duct as well as tueir down they 20 admirably,” ,