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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. AA Eee Programme of Services for the Sixth Sun- day After Trinity, July 12 Ministerial Movements—Clerical Tourists. “Prudentius” on the Cardinalate and Pope- dom—Suocess of Lee Avenue Baptist Open Communion Church, The Rev. W. 4. Boole will preach to-day at the ‘sual hours in Seventeenth street Methodist Epis- copa) church. Rev. 5. M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch ‘Preabyterian church in Fourteenth street this morning and afternoon. Rev. D. H. Miller, D. D., will talk about “Shadows of Business Life” in Plymouth Baptist church this morning. He preaches also in the evening. Rev. W. P. Corbitt wili speak on “The Power of Christ’s Resurrection” this morning, and on ‘The Rock that is Higher than I” this evening, in Seventh street Methodist Episcopai church. Rev. D. B. Jutten will exchange with Dr, Osborne this morning in the South Baptist church. Both pastors will occupy their regular pulpits in the evening. Dr. W. 8. Mickels will preach this morning and evening in the Stanton street Baptist church, Rey. George D. Matthews will preach to-day in Westminster Presbyterian church at the usual ours, Rev. J. W. Barnhart will preach in Forsyth strect Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. Mrs. Dr. Mason will address # temper- ance meeting there in the alternoon. “Looking at Things Not Seen’ is the topic chosen by Rev. Timothy Harley, of Savannah, for @iscussion in the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning. ‘The Lost Piece ot Silver” this evea- tng. Dr. Deems will encourage the Church of the Strangers this morning to “Speak Well of God.” Rev. George O. Phelpa will preach ta Allen street Presbyterian church this morning and administer the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper tiis after- noon. Services in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church, Henry and Scammel streets, will be con- Gucted at the usual hours to-day by Rev. W. N. Dunnell. Rev. P. L, Davies will preach at the usnal hours to-day in the Berean Baptist church. James M. Peebles will talk about travels in the East before the Progressive Spiritualists in Robin- son Hall to-day. Projessor 0. Cone will occupy the pnipit of the Church of Our Saviour (Universalist) this morn- ing. Rev. George H. Blinn will supply tne pulpit of the Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian) this morning and afternoon and at the same hours every Sabbath during the month. Tné Church of Humanity, in De Garmo Rall, wi) be addressed this morning by S. P. Andrews. Dr. Armitage will preach at the usual hours to- @ay in the Fiith avenue Baptist church. Rev, E. Borel will preach for the Reformed French Church in Calvary Protestant Episcopal ebape! this morning. Rey. A. K. Bennett will preach in the Fifty- third street Baptist church this morning and evening, Rev. John Parker, of Brooklyn, and Rev. W. P. Abbott will occupy the pulpit of Lexington avenue | Methodist Episcopal churcn to-day in exchange with Dr. Wakeley. Rev. J. Spencer Kennard will preach this morn- $ng and evening in the Pilgrim Baptist church, Rey. W. H. Thomas will preach tn Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopa) charch, Bast Filtieth street, to-day, at the usual hours. Rev. Dr. H. J. Eddy will preach in the Central Baptist church, West Forty-second street, tais Morning and evening. Rev, W. T. Sabine will preach this morning and evening inthe First Reformed Episcopal church, | Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street, Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach at both services to-day in the Church of the Holy Trinity. Professor Norman Fox, of St. Louis, will preach in Laight street Baptist church this evening. A prayer and conicrence meeting will be held there tm the morning. Rev, H. H. Northrup will preach this afternoon at No, 273 Water streot, on “Ihe Christian Mau.” Rev. BR, S. McArthur, pastor, will preach in Cal- vary Baptist church this morniog and evening. Services at the usual hours to-day in the Authon. | Memorial church (Protestant Episcopal), Rov. R. Heber Newton rector, Rev. Mr, Bevan, of London, will occupy Dr. Beudder’s pulpit tn the Central Congregational ehurch, Hancock street, Brooklyn, to-day, at the ‘usual hours. | “Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ” and ‘‘Chris- tlanity Gaining the Victory Over Sin’ will be topics: of thought to-day by Rev. 5, R. Rossiterin the | North Presbyterian church. Rev. S. H. Piatt will preach morning and evening fm De Kalb Avenue Methodist Episcopal cnuren, Broeklyn. Sunday scbool and adult Bible class at two P. M. Ais, The Duties of Cardinals—The Chance for an American Cardinal. To me Epirox or THe Herat. The question of the propriety or probability of ur having ‘an American Cardinal” has excited of | Jate 80 much attention that it may interest your readers to know exactly what right, if any, the va- rious nations of Ubristendom have to possess rep- resentatives in the College of Cardinals, At the Baine time the extreme old age of the present Pon- tiff, and the peculiar circumstances under which | he concludes his reign, will render some account of the origin and nature of the Carainalatian dig- nity appropriate and opportune, The Cardinals act in a tworold capacitty—as the electors of the Roman Pontiff and as his counsel- lors and assistants in the supreine governinent of the Church. As papal electors, they are, properly Speaking, and trom the very nature of things, the representative of the people and clergy of the | @iocese of Rome. From the beginning and down to the middle of the eleventh century the Bishop of | Rome, like every other bishop in the Church, was | Chosen by the united suffrages of the diocesan clergy and people, The same causes, however, ‘which led in every country to a change in the mode | of election, operated even more powerfully in } Italy, and in Rome particularly. Long before the Bishops of Rome possessed a shadow of temporal power their position as bishops of the great lis- toric city, and their acknowledged supremacy as the spiritnal chieis oi Christendom, made both ine Western emperors ahd the great Italian princes and Roman factions contend fiercely, at the death | of cach Roman bishop, jor the election of a favor- | ite candidate. The abuses and disorders conse- | quent upon this INTERFERENCE IN PCCLRSTASTICAT, APPATRS | Continued down to the time of Gregory VIL, The Church was in a measare powerless against the | united influences of the Western Emperor and lus great foudatories in Italy; but still the struggle | continued without intermission during every suc- cessive pontificate, the reaction of true churchmen Qgainst secular oppression becoming ail the more intense as the latser became more intolerable. In the East the great emperors had everything thetr | Own Way irom tie Moments that the man Pun- tims authority ceased to be acknowledged by Photius and bis successors in the ninth oantnty, Bui this state of polltical servitude was precisely What Gregory Vil., even while yet only a cardinal, | had vowed to preventin the West, He succeeded in neutralizing the interierence of politicians in the choice of bishops. Nicholas II. in 1059 wos elected by the energetio action of Cardinal Hilde- brand, alierward Gregory ViJ., and at his sugges- tion decreed that the College of Cardinals alone | should thencesorward clect the Pope without any Fegard to the claims of tue emperors to interfere in vheir choice or to confirm tt. This extreme necessity called forth the exercise of the apostolic autuority of Nicholas IL. in chang. ing the lormer inode of papal election and in giving At substanthally the form which it has preserved | ever since, Stilctly speaking, the people and | NEW YORK HERALD, UNDAY, JOLY 12, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. 5 2 clergy of Rome had, during 1,000 years, the excin- sive right of choosing their bishop, who, once chosea, was by divine right the BEAD OF THR CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The exercise of this right wae restricted in 1059 | ‘to the sole clergy of Rome, as represented by the cardinals, by the supreme apostolic authority tn the Church, and to prevent the enormous abuses the interference of the secular power had created, The right of electing the Pope, thus restricted to the College of Cardinals, belonged exclusively to the Roman clergy 80 long a8 they alone composed the boqy of electors; When members of other na- tionanties were admitted to membership in the Coliege of Cardinals the right of the Ro- man clergy was not destroved or trans- ferred to other churches, Every cardinal created oecomes (ps0 facto the titular of some church in the city of Rome or of some see imme- | diately dependent on it. Thus be the cardinal by birth an Italian, Spaniard, Englishman, German or Frenchman, he becomes by bis creation as cardi- nal a member of tue Roman clergy, and, as such alone, participates in the election of the Pope, Who 1s primarily Bishop of Rome. Now, no nation has an inherent right to participate in this election ; | that is tue right of the Romans alone, regularly speaking. All the troubles of the Church have arisen either trom the undue influence which other | nations claimed to exercise on pupal elections or irom the unworthiness of the Romans themselves. The great western schigm came from the prepon- derance of French interests in the electoral col- lege, a8 well as from the rebellious dispositions of the citizens of Rome, New troubles would arise to-morrow, were it in the power of any one nation, by controlling the votes ol the papal electors, to bring about a state of things like that which ex- isted under Clement V. and bis immediate succes- sors. Against snch accidents a wise provision has been made by the Divine Founder of the Church, As He committed to Peter the care of the entire Christan | Jojd—pastors and flocks—so are the successors of Peter given full power to suppress disorders in the flock and to promote 1t8 spiritual wellare. Tne MODB'OP ELECTION OF BISHOPS was one of those things which Christ left to the experience of the Church to alter and adapt to the changed circumstances of times and places. The right, become innerent by custom in the people of Rome to concur with the clergy in the election of the Pope, their bishop, could only be valid by the acquiescence or approval of the Church and tis head. When the use or abuse of this traditionary right became a scandal, a detriment and a source of perpetually recurring evils, then it became the duty of the popes to cancel the custom. For, as with the supreme executive authority in any civil community, the maxim of the nataral law holds—satus = popult est with the the Church, He to secure | the peace, the edification, the spiritual good of every portion of Onrist’s peopie, at the expense of local custom or traditionary privilege. This was the rule which Cardinai Hildebrand urged on Nicholas IL, as well a8 on other contemporary pontuls; and it was that which swayed his own conduct in his straggle with the secular powers and with the disoraerly in the Charch herself, The right of election was restricted to the Col- Jege of Cardina’s. They have no right but what ts conferred on them by the pontifical decrees, and are guided, in the exercise of wnat rignt, solely by those decrees. The same supreme aud legislative power can, under the presence of new neces- sities, suspend the present laws of election or modify them, and provide in an extraordinary way tor the peaceful appointment and sure recoguition of a iuture pope, In order to neutralize the mach- imations of the wicked, or to avert extraordinary dangers from the Church. To the ques- tion, thep, What right haye we American Catholics to have @ representative tn the electoral College of Cardinals’ the answer is plain. None, save what it may please the wisdom of the Holy See to confer upon us. Nor, apart from the privi- lege conferred on certain Catnolic nations by long custom and special concordats, has any nation in Christendom a right to participate in the election ol the Pope. The right to be represented in THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, considered as the Pope’s Council in the supreme admmistration of the Church, presents a new aspect of the case and involves a different question altogether, The electors appointed by the new legislation are, de facto and de jure, the | Tepresentatives of the Roman clergy. And, abso- lutely speaking, the mode of election of the Roman pontiff Is a matter solely dependent on tne Church, or, rather, on the Pontif@ himself. There is a native American Cardinal in the present colleze— | namely, Cardinal Moreno—born in Guatemala, and appointed in March, 1868. But this, it is presumed, | 18 not the sort of American the press ts calling lor, PRUDENTIUS, A Priest’s Wicked Joke. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Please tell me in the columns of your paper (‘‘re- ligious notices”) how to reconcile the following :— | “At Trevition, Lombardy, a priest bas 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 sundry disputa- tions, One of the victims was ill a week.” In my “catechism” I find that the “Holy Eucharist” is a sacrament which containsreaily and indeed the boay and blood, the soul and atvinity or our Lord Jesus Uhrist, under the forma and appearances of bread and wine. The substance of the bread is changed into that or the body of Jesus Christ, and the substance of the wme is changed into that of his blood. If the above ia trae and not a lie, how could it have injured the priest, as certainly noth- ing foreign or mjurious could have entered into the pare body and biood of our Lord? Please ex- plain, for I begin to think that our noly religion is nothing but a lie, and oblige, S. S. WILLIAMS. Something Better Than Catholics. “M. M.S., Jr.” suggests to Protestants who do nothing but growl at ana damn Catholics and their religion that they should visit a few Catholic in- stitations first, and be thinks they would be cured of this unenristian practice, He isa Protestant himself, aod coniesses to have had some very nar- row and bigoted notions about the institutions of the Catholic Church untt! recently, when he visited St. Joseph's convent, at Flusmng, L, 1, which he considers 16 the most praiseworthy institution he has ever seen. It is to him a model institution. ‘The young ladies were 80 sweet-tempered and po- lite they completely won bis heart and his judg- ment to themseives. going through the convent from bottom to top, @nd he concludes that very much of what he has heard about such institntions is absolutely and un- goenaraly false. It ts @ shame, but nevertheless a fact, that while the most oi Protestants stand by growling, the Catholic labors to improve the state of mankind by the erection of hospitals, houses of mercy and innumerable good works, and if Protes- tants can find one thing detrimental to Catholics, the former jose no time in making tt a pretext tor some long and shametwi scandal through the col- umus 01 some city or country paper. Abuse for A Query for Believ in Total Deprav- ity. the human race, and of endless punishment in the future, how they cau possibly regard it as con- sistent with the most tinperfect conception of the attributes of Indintte love and infinite wisdom that immortal beings should be sent tuto this lower world without any knowledge, agency or volition of their own and then be capable, in the short Space allotted to them tn the worid of nature, of so conducting themselves as to merit eternal misery? A Word About St. Alphonsas’ Church. “Allred G, Howard” wrives shat he is a constant attendant at the services at St, Alphonsus’ (Roman Catholic) church, in South Fifth avenue, whose doors are open from early morning till late at night. Masses are offered up and coniessions heard, and the faithful have ample opportunity io attend to their religions duties, He admires this not less than the magnificent proportions and appointments Of the edilice itself, But he finds fault with one thing. The largest share of money for its erection was received from trish and Ameri- can Catholics, with the understanding or expecta- tion that the sermons would wwereafter be de- livered in Eng}isn. But they are given in German, especially at the high masses, English sermons are deliv Sunday evenings, he admits, but le wants to know why the E can’t have a Sermon on Suuday mornings and let the Germans have thetrs sometimes in the even- ing. Turn about is fair play, he thinks, and, as there are many who atiend the high masses Who do not attend any other, the bnuglisi. sermon should be delivered at those services. We leave the church authorities to answer Mr. Howard's queries and adopt his suggestions, An “Expounder on Heavenly Visions” Speaks Out. James Johnston Murray, who professes to be an expounder of heavenly visions, writes a long and | mchoate communication, in which he strangely mingles a laudation of “the Holy Roman Catholic Churen” with a string of personal abuse of the HBRALp and @ blasphemous tirade against things sacred and moral. Out of the mass of rubbish we take a few propositions, as follows, for the delec- tation of our readers, Who may not be so weil posted in heavenly visions as our correspondent :— “1 proiess,”? he says, ‘to have power in heavenly matters; I profess to know how to read a hypo- crite better than any man living; | profess to know how to read men’s thoughts without going to soothsayers and fortune teliers, whion the Lord does not perinit, as they have power witn the devil. I profess to know the narrow path which leads to heaven through faith tu Jesus Christ, be- ef tn the intailibility of the Pope, transubstantia- tion, good Works, &o, I say emphatically there is | no other Way to get there, all the preachers in the world to the contrary notwithstanding. Isay that Ihave made it manifest to you and 1,000 others that lama true representative of | the disciples, [say that the pride of man’s heart Will not permit um to come into the Catholic Charen and bow before the Ark of the Lord, sprinkle 4 little,of the blessed wuter on his fore- ‘There was no barrier to pim | “Pf, T.” asks believers in the total depravity of | glish-speaking members | | view of Christianity than all the Protestant | reachers, lawyers, doctors, architects and phi- josophers in this world. If you have not arrived atany conclusion yet of whatI mean | tell you that all religious denominations outside .of the Catholic Charch wil not enter the kingdom of heaven. Knowing those things, anu perverting them with malice aforethougut, their kingdom is in this world, and the devil has got charge of it. I don’t pretend to say, however, that all Catholics will get to heaven, When they cH astray they jose their faith and are lost, like Martin Luther and ali the rest of tue heathen nations, Narrow | is the path whieh leads to eternal happiness, and | few there are who enter in thereat. broad is the path which leads to eternal damnation, and many there are who walk therein. Can you teil me | the name of the college in which Jesus Christ and His disciples graduated ? Do you want me to Gisguise the Holy Scriptures in flowery langage | like H. Beecher and talk of dogs m the pulpit? Verny 1 say that mtelligent dog of his will be belore bim in heaven.” Religious Affairs in Russia. {From the Pall Mall Gazette.) Russian correspondents appear to hope that the result of General Todieben’s present mission vo the Mennonites may be to call the Emperor’s atvention wo the general working of the religious laws of the country, if those can be called laws which are, in fact, mere arbitrary edicts issued centuries since by half forgotten czars. According to the law as it stands, any Russian changing his national creed for a non-Christian one 18 liable to the penalty of death, to be commuted at will into ten years’ im- prisonment with hard labor. ‘Those who join any other recognized Church, as the Lutheran, are subjected to banishment for Iife, and if @ sect, then to transportation toa penal colony, As to their property, tt 18 to be put under sequestration in all cases, and confiscated if they refuse on admonition to return to the State Church, All this severity, it 1s observed, has not in the least prevented the | ap J of large and increasing sects. And as the ennonites’ recusancy has brought the utter un- ; suitability of the existing statutes to Nght tt is hoped that these relics of @ harbarous age may be modified so as to suit existing facts, and to dimin- ish also much Of the bitterness which now noto- riously prevails between the Greeks and Lutherans at their points of contact. Ministerial and Charch Movements. EPISCOPALLAN, The Rev. James H. McMechen, of Wheeling, W. Va., has addressed a letter to Bishop Johns, with- drawing from the Protestant Episcopal Church in order to join the Reformed Episcopal Church, He has become satisfled from recent events that but little it anything satisfactory will be done in the way of prayer book revision by the General Con- vention. The diocese of Wisconsin bas been divided by the detachment of nineteen counties from the old diocese, A sum not less than $15,000 is to be in- vested a3 an Episcopal mand ior the support of the prospective Bishop. The name of the new diocese has not been decided, A petition originating with Rev. vrs, Washburne. Vinvon, ©. ©, Tiffany, of this city, and Phillips Brookes, of Boston, 18 now in circulation here ask- ing the next Genera! Convention of the Provestant Episcopal Churen, which is to sit here in the fall, to 8o amend the baptismal rubric ag to leave minis- ters free to use or disuse the words in that office which imply regeneration. The petitioners, how- ever, judging from past expertence scarcely hope for any relief in this particular from that body. The Rev, HB. Van Kieeck, D. D., of the diocese of Long Island, has accepted a unanimous election to the rectorship of Ohrist’s church, Hyde Park, in_the vicinity of Boston, The Rev. Dr. Clover has accepted an invitation me become rector of St, Stephen’s charca, Milburn, METHODIST. Rey. Dr. G. De La Matyr, of Kansas City, Mo., spent last Sunday with his old parishioners in Sands street Methodist poops church, Brooklyn. Rev. A. Rittenhouse, of the Tabernacle Methodiss Episcopal church, Philadelphia, has been elected to & protessorship in Dickinson College, Carlisie, Pa., but his congregation do not wish to let him go, Rev. Dr. B. K. Pierce, of Boston, spent last Satur- day with his former puptis on Ranaall’s Island, and Sunday with the Second avenue Metnodist Epis- copal courch, whose pastor is now in Europe, Rev. B. F. Taylor, of Jessup, lowa, has been transierred to Colorado Conference. The National Camp Meeting Association have a their visit to Washington until Septem- T. ber. The new chapel of the Methodist Eptscopal church at Dover, N. J., will be dedicated next Wednesday. It ts of stone, and cost $17,000, The corner stone of a new Methodist Episcopal church at Toms River, N. J., was laid on Thursday ant. The corner stone of a new Methodist Episcopal eburch, Soutn, will be laid at Cedar Grove, near. Grace Furnace, Baltimore Conference, to-morrow. Rev, Dr. McCauiey, President of Dickinson Col- lege, will sail for Europe ou Saturday next by the Cunard line. He goes out to attend the British Wesleyan Conference as fraternal delegate trom our General Conference. Mr. 8. Dease, a native of India, but of European descent, who was converted in India under the preaching of Rev. William Taylor, of California, and afterwards bécame a teacher in and supervi- sor of the native schools of that land, is now in Philadelphia for the purpose of itting himself to return as @ medical missionary in the jand of his nativity. PRESBYTERIAN. The new organ butiding for Dr. Hall’s new chureh, in this city, willbe the largest and most powertul in America, it is said. It will cost $25,000, ‘ne unton of the different Presbyterian bodtes in Canada is now virtually accomplished, The synods will meetin October to act on the reports of Pres- byteries and to consummate the union, The Presbyterian church at Bridgeport, N. J., has recently purchased a lot, and will erect a com- modious house of worship soon, the whole to cost $10,000, ‘the congregation of the Middle Parish church, Paisley, have put the ballot toa new use, having introduced it lor the election of a minister. The Rev. D. Watson was successful out of three can- didates. This is said to be the first tnstance on record, in tue Established Church of Scotiand, of a minister being elected by the ballot system. Tne General Assembly of the United Presby- terian Church appropriated, for the coming year, the sum of $73,440 for foreign missions. ‘the Rey. Charles S. Duriee, pastor of the Vak- ‘wood avenue Presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., has received a unanimous call to the pastoral care of the Central Presbyterian church in Geneseo, Liv- ingston county, ROMAN CATHOLIC, Rey. Brother Patrick, Assistant Superior Gen- eral of the Christian Lrothers, arrived in New York on Friday iast by the steamship Washington, from Paris. He received hearty welcome at Manhat- head and receive the sécrament from holy hands as the body and blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. [say that te poorer classes nave dhe Cathglic Jaliw—lavye a more comprehensive | and instructed the Je tan College, Where he labored arduousiy for six years as its President. Brother Patrick will visit the Christian Brothers’ schoois in America botore his rewrn again to France, Within the limits of Manhattan Island there are at present upwards of forty Catholic churches, and a number of others are in course of erection, s0 that before the end of the present year it can safely be stated that there will be fifty Catholic churches in the city of New York. When it Is con- sidered that these edifices equal and in many cases surpass in beauty Of architecture the churches of other denominations the members of which are both wealthy and powerful, the comparatively poor Catholics of New York deserve all the praise they receive from those opposed to them in re- Iugious belief. Bishop Dopnelly, of Clogher, Ireland, writes to the Catholic pressol this city aud country caution- ing them against @ swindler pamed Rogers, who travels here in the garb of a priest, collecting money for a Cathedral tor Bishop Donnelly, He uses forged letters trom the Bishop for thts pur- pose. - His arrest and punishment would be esteemed a favor by the Bishop, Rev. Henry Volz, of the Cathedral, Baltimore, Salled ou the 4tn inst. for Southampton, iutending to pass the summer on the Coutinent jor the bene- fit of his health. A correspondent of the Baltimore Mirror writes from North Carolina to say that on the second Sunday in Angust Bishop Gibbons will dedicate a new church ina Cistrict where alew years ago there was noc a Catholic living. There are now about iorty converts, and the first convert was brought to the faith by reading a sermon of Arch. , bishop McUloskey’s on the Catuolie Chureb, which Was published tn the HERALD at the time, One in- stance like this reintes the statement so often made that nobody reads the sermons, BAPTIST, Three more Baptist missionaries are to sail for Tndta avout the Ist of September, The F. Bk. Mission Society a doing a noble work. One hundred been baptized in Lee avenue churcn, Brookiya, since the great revival commenced and several more now stand a3 candidates. Rey. 8. Mills has resigned his charge as pastor of the church at Johnstown, Cambria county, huis pastoral labors to close With the last Sabbatn in this month, The Rev. R. MacGonegal succeeds Rev. Z. Gre- neil as pastor at Hackensack, N, J. Rev. U. A. Williams, of the Mount Vernon Bap- tist church, alter & most peaceful and happy pas- torate of nearly vine years, has been compelled, on account of his health, to resign. ‘The Rev. Lyman Jewett, D. D., for many years a missionary to the Teloogoos, has joined pis family in this country, and has been Viton benefited by the voyaye and rest. He and his family aré stop- ping at Grand Rapids, Mich, At the last meeting of the Brooklyn Baptist min- isters twenty-two baptisms were reported jor tue month of June. With this month the Rey. D. J. Pierce closes a four years’ pastorate with the church in Laramie, Wyoming Bhai gd apd also his connection with the Wyoming Institute, which for the same length of time he has served as principal. He goes to Porti aud, Oregon. MISCHLLANEOUS. There ts quite a spirit of church building in Phil- adelphia, Lwelve new church houses are im con- templation or in course of erection, Waica wiljcost avout $500,000. For seventeen years vr, Samuel Adier has led Emanuel, formatiy in Twelfth street, now in Futh ayenue, His eloguenve and scholarly atiainments, and seventy-eight believers have | ish congregation Tempio | coupied with his progressiveness, have brought the congregation to the pinnacle of ecclesiastical fame and prosperity. ‘The society therefore did a handsome thing the other day ip retiring him on @ competency, and giving tim a memento of their esteem in & beauuiful service of silver and ap ep- gravee set oi complimentary resolutions. Dr. Gott- erd now becomes chief rabbi oO) the congrega- tion, and perhaps, by and by, Dr. F, Adier will be- come assistant, Rev. 5. H. Meeker, of the old Bushwick Reformed chureb 18 the Oldest effective minisier im Brooklyn. Next January he will prone his semi-centennial sermon 4s pastor of wis church, which has existed since 1908, The clergy cost the United States $12,000,000 an- nually; the criminals, $40,000,000; the lawyers, $70,000,000 ; rum, $500,000,000, The Rev. M. M.'G, Dana has’ accepted a call from the Park Congregational! church in Norwich, Conn. Rev. Theo, L. Day has resigned nis pastorate of the First Congregational church, at Holyoke, Mass., to accept a vali to West Boxford, Mass, The little Congregational church at Henniker, N. H., during the 104 years o1 its history, has sent outeigiteen Ministers and missionaries, or one for thirty Of ite entire membership, Rev, Isaac B. Brokaw, of Newark, has accepted calito the South Bergen Retormed churen, the new congregation of Jersey City neights, The Protestants of Australia number 1,258,525 out of & population of 1,920,375. Tae Protestant churches advance in numbers at a more rapid rate than the population of the country, NINETEENTH STREET SYNAGOGUE, f YR Rev. Mr. Jacobs om the Character of Phineas—What is Needed to Mcei the Present Tide of Indifference in Lerael. Yesterday the Rev. George H. Jacobs preached on the character of Phineas, the son of Aaron, the priest, aa displaying those qualities of zeal and discretion which are required in this day to meet and successiully combat the tide of indifference that is sweeping over every religious denomina- tion in this land. The Scriptures, ne remarked, are very brief in their delineations of character, as instanced in the case of Phineas, who, we are told, in Numbers xxv.,Verse 11, turned God’s wrath away from the children of Israel while he was zealous for the Lord’s sake among them that He con- sumed not the children of Israel in His jealousy. The one prevailing feature which marked Phineas was vealin the cause of religion. The occasion referred to was one that called forth all bis spiritual power to work and fight (for God and for morality. It was his hand that struck down sin and the sinner when idolatry prevailed throughout the land, And now what is the im- portant lesson of this history to us in the present day? Do we ire the same zeal and carnest- ness as was manifested by Phineas? Do the cir- cumstances of our day call tor such zealY Does not our own experience testify tuat we liveina day that requires us to check THE INDIFFERENCE THAT PREVAILS AMONG US, and that we need an earnestness which that of 100 Phtneases could not accomplisn? Zeal is always required of us; but now more than ever to avert the torrent Of irreligion that prevails every- where. But it may be said that Israel is no worse than others; that we are no more biamaole for indiffer- ence than they; that we are but a handful among thousands—a mere drop in the bucket—to those indifferent ones who are to be found in every demonination in the land. But does that lessen our guilt? asked the preacher. 1s it aN argument that because \ransgression is general among Other creeds they gre worse than ourselves? No. The character of Pnineas snows that when defection 1s in the land we must bestir ourselves and meet it; and though we may not require the javelin or the sword, we should use the Holy Scripwures to bring back by kindly counsel and watchiulness those who err irom the truth, Ourown zeal must be the con- stant weapon by which We shall maintain the truth and stand up for God. It is not by might nor by power, but by My spirit, saitn the Lord, that this work must be accomplished. Mr. Jacovs cautioned bis hearers against excessive zeal, which leaps into bigotry and intolerance and which {3 worse than the other extreme, apathy. Moderation is the law and the golden rule that will accomplish all that we want. Apathy and un- reasonable zeal are both bad und are filled with danger. Quoting an old anthor, Mr. Jacobs re- marked that religion branches off into two roads, one @ flery road and the other covered with per- petual snow and ice. Misdirected zeal is the for- mer; apathy the latter. The middle course is therefore the best, and against the other two he counselled the congregation to be well armed and forewarned. Let us, he said, SEEK AND PURSUE THE TRUTH, and remember, in the words of the Scripture, that we shall never return by the way in which we came. But while we advance let us not arrogate | to ourselves the wisdom that does not belong to us but to our fathers. Ihave no Spprsueng on, Mr. Jacobs said, that too much zeal will be shown for the synagogue. My apprehension is the other way. If you need an example of well directed zeal take that of Phineas. And whenever the need has arisen in Israel a Phineas has been rarsed up to turn back the gin that would engulf Israel. The Midrash classes him with Elijah, who stood alone against the King and the priests of Baal. He was very zealous for the God of Israel. And what a noble position for @ man to thus svand us the rep- resentative of God, surrounded by idolatrous ene- mies! It may never be the circumstances of our life to be placed in the position in which Blijan stood; but Phineas and Elijah are lessons lor us | to-day to show us how we should STAND FIRM FOR GOD aND TRUTH and for our fait, which stands more in danger every day trom the sons of the covenant. Let us not sitidly by and see this spirit of indifference spreading from day to day and excuse ourselves irom action merely because it has not reacned our | own doors, And let not our actions ve in contra- vention of our words. Then, acting and living tn | this consistant manner, we shall render ourselves respected and respectable, and we shall have the Dlessing of God upon our Works and the covenant | of peace shall be upon us as it was on Phineas. And the Lord wiil lift upon us the light of His countenance and give us peace. LEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, BROOKLYS, A Remarkable Record—Heavily in Debt | a Year Ago, Ostracised and Pursued by Its Enemies, Now Strong in Num- | bers and Free from Debt. Lee avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, E. 1, has a record that 1s, perhaps, unparalieled in the his- | tory of charches in this vicinity. It has been the | pioneer of open communionism in this section and had to bear the brunt of the battle for all who nave followed in its wake, Its pastor, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, originally a Western pastor, came | | hither and labored quietly without crediting any | or very little stir in clerical circies, even among | his own denomination, until a few years ago, | wnen he began to preach in favor of the union | and communion of Christians as the body of | Christ, Then from preaching he went to writing books about “the gates ajar,’ and in his sacra- mental invitations he was careful to explain to communicants that the table spread before them | | was the Lord’s, and not Lee avenue’s or the Baptist | denomination’s, and that allegiance to Christ was | the prime qualification for participation in the holy feast. This was objected to by many in the Church and out of 1t, and the acceptance of this | kind of invitation by unimmersed Curistians led to the withdrawal of some influential and wealthy | members from Lee avenue Baprist church. Their | places were quickly filled by others of equal, if not | | greater piety, though with less money. The society had a new house of worship on its hands, | on which there was @ heavy mortgage debs, Its | enemies sought to cripple it and to choke oif } | mercy upon us!” THE GREAT OIL FIRE. AScene of Terrible Grandeur | in Weehawken. A Pall of Dense Smoke Extend- ing for Miles. The Oil Tanks Still Abiaze—The Story in Detail. The oll tanks at the Weehawken oil dock, oppo- wite Yhirty-lourth street, New York, which were struck by lightning on Friday evening, continued to burn al} night and all day yesterday. The oil yard has been established for eleven years, and was once before visited by a similar calamity about two years ago. The yard contained about sixteen tanks, twelve of which were filed with crude oil. The four tank» containing refined oil were very s1)all, 80 that it was almost exclusively crude oil which has been consumed py fire, The tanks be- Jonged to the Erie Rai)way, but the greater part of the of] was stored for A. Keyhart, No. 31 William street, and Gast & Hye, No. 82 William street. The refined oil was stored for the Standard Oil Com- pany in this city. . The history of the terrible eonflagration can be told in a few words. The first tank which was struck by the thunderbolt was on fire an hour. The flames were finally extinguished, but not until they had set fire to the next tank. Meanwhile strong efforts had been made to save some of the oil in the first tank; pumps were put to work and 5,000 barrels per hour were pumped into another tank. About @ third of the oil in the first tank had been saved when it was discovered that THE SECOND TANK WAS ON FIRE. This was at eight o’clock on Friday evening. The excitement at that time was intense. The oil yard employs about 500 men, who have their awell- ings in the immediate vicinity. Several rows of wooden cottages are within a stone’s throw of the tanks. The poor laborers’ families who live there were seated at their tables, partaking of their frugal suppers, when the first shock of the explo- sion struck upen theirear. At first nobody knew what tt was. Some women were so paralyzed by the awful shock that they were unable to rise from their seats and could only gasp “God have “What 1s it?’ one woman cried ; “is it an earthquake? For God’s sake, what is it?” At lust the answer came, A weird light tumi- nated the heavens, and @ vast sheet of fame shot up high into the air before them. They could see at last what it was. The large oil tank had been struck by the lightning and was ablaze. Every- body rushed out. Amidst the tncessant contusion the alarm was given, and the engines came. But when the second tank was set on fire the people were alratd that their dwellings would soon BE REACHED BY THE FLAMES, So they proceeded to move their furniture out into the fields, while the rain came down in tor- rents and the thunder pealed over their heads, and the ashes of lightning made the women and cbiidren scream witn terror, Iv was an awiul scene, and its horrors were augmented by the siliy and groundless reports that toe other tanks con- tained napntha and benzine. By midnight five of the southerly tanks were on fire, and hundreds of people came from Hoboken and Jersey City to look atthe spectacle, which was grand in the extreme. Many of the spectators declared that they would not forget the sight as long as they lived. The sheets of flame were of immense size, and the fierce glare of the light could be seen for'miles and miles, At Central Park it was plainly visible, and oné laborer, who was formerly engaged in the oil yard, declared that he could read a newspaper piainly anywhere oa Union Hill, The smoke was of such density that itseemed to wrap tue whole sky in an impenetrable black pall, and when this was hgltning it all looked more like One of tne sublime ‘Thousands remained awake all night and stood for hours in the pouring rain to gaze at the awful, wondrous beauty of the fire storm. Many a heart was bowed and humbled by this manifestation of the supernatural. POWER OF THE ELEMENTS. The five tanks kept burning til Saturday morn- ing, when the fire communicated itself to the tour other large tanks, next to the bonded warehouse. As one of the laborers described it, “the oi] came running Out like a sheet of fume.” There were three terrific explosious and every time the awiul crash was heard the broad volume of fame leaped up as though it would reach the very heavens. A reporter of the HKRALD, who was ob wie scene, Was repeatedly assured by ignorant boys of the neighborhood, who had evidently been impressed with the grandeur of the conflagration, that “the fame went right up to heaven.” The fire spread Coustantly. Between the bonded ware- house and one of the tanks was a pile of lumber, and this was also ablaze. were still working in the Vicinity of the yard escaped only by a miracle. Several telegraph operators who were near one of the tanks dis- covered suddenly that a stream of burning oll had flowed toward them, and fled almost speechless with fear, A party ol laborers on the Pennsylvania coal dock (Which adjoins the oi yard) were trying to bring a hose to bear from a tugboat, when the otl ran out under the bridge and threatened them with A SPEEDY AND TFRRIBLE DEATH. ‘They jnmped into the water, and thns eluded the flame. ‘Lhe six men who were blown up from one ol the tanks on Friday evening, as reported in the HERALD, all escaped unhurt, with the exception of one, who Was shigntiy injured in the side, so that UUs far Dot & Human life has been sacrificed, ‘The firemen of Hoboken and Weehawken did their best to limit the fumes to the tanks, and succeeded partially; but one of the warehouses, a brick structure, the telegraph office, the cooper shop, engine house and pumproom were, never- theless, compietely destroyed. The valuable bridge on the adjacent Coal dock of the Pen vania Railroad, was burned in the middle and had to be cut down, and the greater part of the dock is also a wreck. ‘'wo New York engines arrived at two o'clock yesterday aiternoon, but as it bad been found quite 1mpossible to extinguish the fire they were sent back with many thanks of the Wee- hawken aatnorities. The ships and boats which were moored at the dock escaped with great dufl- culty, owmg to the low tide. THE HISSING AND ROARING of the flames ail day yesterday was not the only noise tobe heard. Special engines were contina- ally shooting to and tro, bringing to the scene o1 the disaster the empicyés of the Erie Railway from neighboring points. saved, About 500 men, who were employed in the oil yard, are temporarily thrown out of empioy- ment, but at least one-half were engaged yes- terday in clearing the wreck. Mr. Watson, Presi- dent ‘of the Ene Rafiway, came to witness the conflagration, and Messrs. Keyhart and Gust and Hye, the owners of the oil, were aiso among the THE HERESY OF OPRN, COMMUNION. | An effort was made to get thé pastor to resign or | je society to rid itself of him. But the cbuurch | would not listen to any proposai of separation, and he held on, Fifteen months ago there was a | debt of $50,000 on the feeble society. its mortgages | were joreciosed. Its church proper was sold by the Sheri, and @ deacon in one of the | close-communton churches—the Centrai—bought it | ‘in, hoping that the Lee avenue church woud | not be abie to redeem tt within the time allowed | by law, St. Jobn’s Methodist Episcopal cnurch and \ the Reformed church, on Bediord avenue, took up collections, aggrogating $1,300, and other churches | here and elsewnere—of iis own and otner denom- | inations—jumped to the rescue. The pastor con- | tinued to preach @ full and @ free salvation, and | crowds flocked to his ministry so that standing | room within bearing distance—without any chance Of seeing the speaker—could not be had at | | any evening service during the past winter, And to give @ better chance to the masses who came to hear tum Mr, Smith proviled separate services ior young men when females wero not admitied to | the building at all, The church edifice will hold | about 1,600 persons, and it Was not an uncommon | | tming at those special services to see from 600 to | 800 young Men rise in their seats, alter one of his pungent Gospel sermons, and’ ask the prayers of Ohristians tn their pehaif, The CONVERTS MIGHT BE COUNTED BY THE HUNDRED, | and baptisms were frequent; 1,701 have been bap- | tized already, And Mr. Smith had had the Academy of Music he could have filled it with | yerne, people as easily as he did his own church. | 1s people have now paid off their indebtedness | | and are again free and independent and they in- | i bein aid to have @ juvilee occasion over the | even ‘The readors of the HkRALD will remember the | defiance which the Lee Avenue church and pastor buried at the Long Island Baptist Association last | | tall, When the latier sought to disiellowsnip the charch, Ifit could take such a stand then, when | it was comparatively weak and heavily in debt, it certainly need not sear the malice of Its enemies | how, when it is strong and free from aebt. The Assoctation at that time appulited a committee | to hunt up the “heretics” in Lee Avenue churea, | | so that at the next meeting tuey miglt ve burned | | seeing that they can’t be drowned. But the com- | mittee bas not been made inuch the wiser by its | nine months’ inquiry, and the provabiliy is that at the next meeting of the Long Island Assocla- on tts connection with Lee Avenue church well be severed, spectators... Thetr loss will amount to nearly $250,000. Mr. Hill, the Supertntenuent, estimates the quantity of off in the tanks—and scarcely any of it will be saved—at 6,000,000 galions, and at five cents per gailon the loss would approximate the above figure. Mr. Keyhart wok his joss very coolly. He looked caimly at the wild flames and remarked to a bystander, ‘Well, this is one of the lucks of the trade.” The ofl was not insured, as the in- surance companies consider it altogether a too dangerous risk to accept, There were two tanks, containing 17,000 barrels (of forty gallons each), two of 15,000 barrels, three of 10,000, one of 6,000, and the other tanks contained smaller quantities. The tanks were circular structures bulit of sheets of iron from ¢ to 10 iees long, 24% teet wide, and trom 34 to 1-16 inch thick, The five which burned first rested on foundations of piles, the four others on stone. Mr. hil esti- mates the joss on the tanks, the buildings and the damage to the dock AT HALF A MILLION OP DOLLARS, They were only insured for about $100,000, bat he | Was unable $0 stace In What companies. The tanks and ail the other burned struciures will be repuilt at once, the requisite timber having been already ordered. Thus many of the laporers will be em- ployed next week, Terrible and ineffably grand as the conflagration was, it had, like every great calamity, alsy, Its humorous side, We shat oniy mention one out of the many comical incidents whica were reported to the writer, An Irishman, who had come all the way from Fitty-seventh street, New York, to see the fire, said :—“By George, when I first beard the lightning yesterday, I thought tt was the comet.” it is hoped that all of the adjacent dwellings wiil be saved, but the fire wiil probably continue till to-day. esterday it Was sO vast that the dense smoke spread over miles and miles, and, for a great distance, hid the sky completely from view, AS the vast chaotic mass of flame burst out from the three largest tanks, which still contained some of the oil. they were immediately lost in the rolling clouds of smoke, Which seemed to become denser and denser and more and more tmpene- trable as the doy Wore on, The giaring, Diinding, red and gloomy, lurid black, Were mingling con- tinnally in such masses @s gave the pictare & dread splendour scarcely to be surpassed, Farther Memoranda, Fonr hundred feet of the Pennsylvania coal pier was burnca—that portion extending into the every now and then rent by the vivid flashes of | aud weird pictares of Doré than Itke reality. | Some of the people who | They were to help in | checking the fire and saving all that could be | river peing saved. One hundred feet of the tong pier were destroyed and the short pier was en- tirely consumed. In all, (here were sixteen tanks, having @ capacity of from 500 to 20,000 barrels each, and containing a total of 75,000 barrels of ou, destroyed. The warehouse, 200 feet square, thé cook house, the cooper shop and one tank, lying between the latter two buildings, were Sayed trom destruction. A large squad of laborers, under command of Mr. Axtord, as been engaged fo commence the work of piling and rebuildiug the docks to-morrow. fhe immense coll of hose semt to the scene of the fire by Superintendent Brown, of the Pavonia Jerry, Was destroyed by the intense heat. Two Steamers belonging to the New York Fire Depart- meut were conveyed to tnevlasing section by the Jerryboat Susquehanna, THE RED FIENDS LET LOOSE. The Terror on the Kansas Border Fally Dota liled—Horrible Crucltios—Sealp- ing—Pulling Toenails Out—Pinning Victims Through Their Bodies, &c.—A Number of Skirmishes, and Over Thirty Indians Killed or Captured—Licuten- ant Brown, of the Fourth Infantry, Wounded. . From our Western exchanges we gather the fol- lowing as to the alarm on the Kansas frontier used by Indians on the warpath, The St. Louis Globe of Thursday bad the following despatches :. ZENS SCALPED AND ONE MUTILATED REAR DODGE CITY. Dopge City, Kansas, July 6, The Indians are very bad out here and peopte are terror-stricken. Up to this time nine hunters and four other men have been Killed, scalped and mutilated. One man was murdered and scalped only six miles {rota town, Wuile on bis retura from atrip to Camp Supply. Aiter kuling him they took his stock. He leaves a wife ana six children here, Their fendish cruelty has no bounds. A hunter by the name of Dadiey was captured the other day. They tied him to & wagon wheel, tore out bis finger and toenails one by one, scalped him from ear to ear, cut his hands off at the wrist, and then staked him to the ground with picket pins driven through his breast, There were eye- ‘Witnesses to this savage deed. A BAPTLE ON YHB CANADIAN RIVEB—ELEVEN IN- DIANS KILLED. One of thetr boldest movements was an attack on the trading posts of A. CO. Myers and Charies Rath & Co., down on the Canadian. A band about 200 strong attacked those places. One is a strong stockade and the otter is made of heavy adobe walls, There were only eighteen men inside to a the fighting, and the most of these hunters, whe are biave men and dead shots, Two whites were Killed outside tne walis and one tnside. Eleven dead Indians were leit on the ground. Desperate efforts were made by the redskina to get their fallen warriors away, but the bunters kept up too deadiy @ fire on them and they had to leave them where they lay, Doubtless many of the wounded they carried away alterwards died. Before leaving they ¥illed all the stock outside of the stockade. THR SITUATION DESPERATE AND HELP CALLED FOR, Yesterday @ man arrived from these trading osta bringing letters trom A. C, Myers and Charles Faun He apes through the Indian lines and was paid $100 te make the trip. Myers and Rath, in their letters, appeal for help, as the Indians are still around there aud hold the country, and can et 2,000 warriors togetuer in & short time. They Rar the posts, will be captured, the stores de- stroyed and everybody massacred. A party of forty men left here to-day to go to their assist- ance, Tuey wanted an escort of soldiers to go with them, but none could be had. ‘ne Indians have also burned a railroad bridge twenty-five miles west of here. The situation is desperate in the extreme and everybody is pray- ing for the arrival of troops—the only Lope of pro- | tection against the Indian butchers, DEPREDATIONS NEAR SYRACUSE, KANSAS, SyRacusR, Kansas, July 5, 1874. On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rauroad, Indians 18 the cry on all sides. Yesterday Albert Lesenger was killed by the savage fiends, and tuey are burning the railroad briages and driving ot the stock in our very midst, On the 3d they burned a pile bridge forty teet long at Cimeron, Emigration is entirely stopped. Usually from fifty to one hundred wagons pussed daily. We expect an attack at any moment, They are working ali alosg the railroad from Dodge City w Grenada. Lesenger was killed two miles east of Sargent, at a deep chasm, in which the cowardly wretches hid themseives, Chey do their work in the day ume. Lesenger was a goud citizen, and respected by all who knew bun. Later from the Seat of War. ‘The Milwaukee Sentinel of the Sta bas the follow: ing later despatcies :— \ MURDERS BY THE RED FIENDS NEAR FORT GARRY. MINNEAPOLIS, July 9—L? - M. A Fort Garry special of last evening says thas | two haif-breed lamilies at St. Joe, Dak., were at- tacked on Sunday vy @ band of about 100 mounted Bioux Indians, 0. W, De Corne and Baptiste De- Corne killed and their houses and wigwams burned. Two women escaped, namely, Mrs, Em- merling and Miss Mayer. A company ot United States Infantry Is en route for St. Joe. Another speciai from Bismarck announces that. on the same day thirty Sioux appeared two miles south of Fort Lincoln and ran of thirty-fve head of stock from the farm of F rd, one of the indian imterpreters, There being oo « at the fort their raid was successiul. Skirmish Between Indians. LAWRENCE, Kansas, July 8, 1874. Jnlormation has been received here that ladians have burned a railroad bridge across a galch twen- ty-live milgs west of Dodge City. Last Monday twelve hunters came mto Dodge City and reported a fight they bad with the Indians about thirty miles from Dodge. The hunters were in fve wagons on their way to hunt the baffalo. When about thirty miles from the city they were attacked by a small band of Indians. The atten- tion of the boys was frst attracted toa small party of Indians about @ mile and a-hall off, and they were busily watching them when another | band of savages suddenly came around, whooping | and yelling and made for the hunters. The boys A Hunters and | immediately corralied their Wagons and | called out, “Come on.” The Indians, seeing how well prepared the hunters were for re- ceiving them, turned and went for tbe rear wagon, which was some two miles behind, As soon as this Movement was made the boys started their teams on the full to aid the tone wazon, and began shooting at the savages, The Indians arrived first, and commenced to shoot at the party in the Wagon, gud would soon have had their scalps but for the timely arrival of the other hunters, A brisk fire was then kept up for about twenty Minutes between the parties, when the | Indians who could get away left with the speed of the wind to join the main body of their brothers three or four miles away. Two Indians are knowo to be killed, and four or five wounded. One pony was captured and two or three shot Abont 150 shots were fired by the hunters, By @miracie not | one of the bunters was hurt. Two or three wagon trains on their Way to the Canadtan are supposed vo have been goboied up by the Indians. A hunter by the name of Peters was shot and scalped on | Beaver Creek a few days since. He went to the woods to outa pole. He was mardered by the In- dians, Reliable information has been received here that the Cheyenne agency will be swept away by the Kiowas, who are now preparing to carry Out their threats. THE MYSTERIOUS SHOT, Investigation Before Coroner Woltman= Discharge of the Prisoners. Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inqneat in the case of the unknown man who, on the after- noon of the 4th inst., was shot through the heart and fell dead at the coruer of Church and Rector Streets. The evidence adduced went to show that John Pepper and Frederick Holmes, both bar- Keepers at the above piace, were shooting ata target, and it was strongly suspected that one of these young men shot deceased; but the evidence failed to show such to have Veen the case. Below will be found @ brief synopsis of the testimony :— John McMahon, a lad, the first witness called, testified that on the afternoon of the 4th inst. he saw John Pepper discharge a pistol two or three times on the corner Rector and New Church streets, and @ few minutes later saw deceased lying on the sidewalk; Pepper, after the shooting, entered the house and went behind the bar; Frederick Holmes, the | other barkeeper, was also there; heard they had | been shooting ata mark; don’t Know trom what direction the man came. Frederick Holmes, a barkeeper, testified that on the 4th inst. he flred ten or twelve snots from the barroom door at @ target on @ plank; the shots were fired through the Rector street door of the barroom; heard afterwards that a man bad been shot, but don’t know who shot him; saw taree boys firing pistols that aiternoon; two shota were fired in the street by Pepper. Joun sepret, of No. 6 Recwor street, deposed that | he was fring at @ board towards Greenwich street | on the afternoon of the 4th insu; heard thata man had been shot; witness fred two shots out In Rector street before firing at a target against the plauk from the rear door, ‘rhe cuse was then given to the fary, who ford that deceased came to his death by a pistol shot wound of the heart at the hands of some one to them unknown, pper aud Hotmes were thereupon discharged by Coroner Woltman, who advised them to be more careful m suture. ol ORANGEMEN, No parade will be made in the streets to-day | by the Orange lodges. The men composing the: | Societies will simply Move to Dr. Tyng’s churet, | from their several pluces of nreeting, through Made | tson avenue, but nothing of a public demonstra | Kon will be attempted. ‘To-morrow (Monday) thes | Will make an excursion to {ona Isiand. Tue police | are jully prepared tor ali emorgeauies,