The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1874, Page 15

& . ' rs © “RELIGIOUS ISTALLIGENCE, PROGR/:NIME OF SERVICES FOR TO-DAY. “Prudentius” Expounds Darwin and Spencer's Philosophy—Dr. Brittain on ‘ * Spiritualism, Ministerial Movements—Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. ‘The Allen street Presbyterians give a cordial in- witation and (ree welcome to all to listen to Rev. George O. Phelps preach this morning and evening. Dr. Holme will speak of “Fidelity in Little ‘Toings” this Morning, and will ask and answer the question, “Why turriest thou?” this evening in Trinity Baptist eburch, Services witi be held as usual to-day in the Rus- Bian chapel in Second avenue, Rev, N. Bjerring pastor. “The Son at Home and Abroad” is the theme for Rev. C, E. Harris’ discourse this evening in Alan- bon Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. W. M. Dunnell will preach this morning and evening in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church. Br. A.C. Osborn will preacn this morning and evening in the South Baptist church, The Spiritualists expect to have a grand seance Ahis evening, and Mr. E. V. Wilson will lectare for ‘thom at No. 1,195 Broadway. ‘The loss and restoration of the Apostolic Order to the Ohureh will be talked about this evening in the Vathollc Apostolic church. Dr. Deems will teli the Church of the Strangers this morning why Barabbas was elected and Jesus condemned. The Feast of Tabernacles, which the Jews are Row celebrating, will be commented upon by Rev. ‘B.S McArthur this moruing, The “Boyhood of Pant” will bo portrayed by him tnis evening in Calvary Baptist church. “Cheering News for the Christian’ will be given "by Rev. George H, Hepworth this morning, and “My Father's Business” will be commented on this ‘evening by the same in the Church of the Dis- -oiples, Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach in the Church of ‘Our Saviour this morning. Roy. W. H. Pendleton will preach in Fifty-third etreet Baptist church at tae usual hours this morn- dng and evening. . Rev. W. T. Sabine will preach this morning ‘and Dr. Howard Orosby thts evening in the First Retormea Episcopal churci. Bev. H. D, Ganse will preach morning and after- “noon to-day in Madison avenue Reiormed church. Dn Armitage will preach this morning and eve- Ting in the Fifth avenue Baptist church, The pulpit of the New York Presbyterian church ‘will be occupted to~day at the usual hours by the Rev. W. W. Page, pastor. Dr. Thomas D. Anderson will preach at the usual ‘honors this morning and evening in the First Bap- tist ghurch, Park avenue. Forsyth Street Methodist Society will meets this @fternoon at No. 104 East Broadway for worship, and on Tuesday evening in the lecture room of the Market street church. Their own ediilce is being rebuilt, Rev, Fred Evans will preach to-day at the usual hours in the Central Baptist church, Forty-second street. Rey. S. M. Hamilton, pastor, will preach in the Bcotoh Presbyterlan church this morning and -afternoon. “The infallible Road to Heaven’? and ‘Soul Harvest” are the topics on which Rev. W. P. Cor- ‘Ditt will dwell this morning and evening in the Seventh street Methodist Eptscopal church, Rey. J. Spencer Kennard willspeak this morning in the Pilgrim Baptist church on ‘fishermen Mending Their Nets,” and in the evening on “God’s Fatherhood and Diacipline.”” Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach this morning and evening in the Sixth avenue Union Reformed church, Rev. W. H. Boole will preach in the Seventeenth Street Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. “Bow Obrist was Tempted and Why” will be the subject of Dr. Patton’s discourse this morning, and “Tbe Foundation of the Christian Church” will be Dr. Dowling’s tneme this evening in the Tabernacle Baptist church. Westminster Presbyterian church will be minis- tered to to-day at the usual hours by the Rev. George L. Matthews. Rev. W. T. Egbert will officiate at the usual hours to-day in the Wainwright Memorial (Protes: tant Episcopal) church. Services morning and afternoon in Zion Protes- tant Episcopal church, Rev. John N, Gallaher pastor. The Rev. Dr. Rylance, of St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal church, will speak this morning on “Priestly Absolution.” The Rev. George McCampbell will preach @ sacra- mental sermon this morning “In Memory of Christ,’ in the Spring street Presbyterion church. In the evening his theme will be “The Abiding Spirit.” A full choral service and sermon will be given this morning in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin (Protestant Episcopal). Divine Service will be held by All Souls’ Protes- tant Kpiscopal church-in Elm place, Brooklyn, this morning and evening. Dr, George B. Porteous, pastor, will preach, Rev. 5. H. tyng, Jr, D. D., will preach this morning in the Church of the Holy Trinity, and again in the evening at the people’s service, m the game place, Dr. Irving will preach in the after- noon. Rey. A. D. Gillette, will preach to-day, at the ‘usual hours, in Bethany chapel, Kighty-sixth street. Dr, M. 8. Hutton will address young men in As- sociation Hall this evening. The Spirivualists will hold a conference in Ger- mania Hall this afternoon and a seance this even- ing at No. 174 Bleecker street, when they will ex- hibit faces and forms from spirit land, lft tables irom the floor and perform other, diabolisms. The Rev. William Fishbough will show those wno gather in De Garmo Hall tale morning “The Way Out of Materialism.” Mr. Frothingham will speak this morning in Lyric Hall on “The Spirit of Trath the Com- forter.”” Rev. 8, B. Rossiter will urge the North Presby- terian church this morning to bring forth “Fruits Meet for Repentance.” Rev. John W. Chadwick will preach in the church on Clinton and Congress streets, Brooklyn, ‘this morning, on ‘Emotional Religion.’” Professor William Everett, of Camoridge, Mass., will preach in the Church of the Messiah this morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Flagg will oMciate s¢ the usual hours to-day in the Church of the Resurrection, Rev. Dr, Howland will preach in the morning and Rey, Dr. Weston in the alternoon in the Prot- estant Episcopal Churcli of the Heavenly Rest, Rev. Dr. Ewer will oMiciate to-day at the dif. ferent services in St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episco- pal church, A Hypothetical Exposition of Spencer's “Evolution.” To Tus EvITOR or Tue HERALD:— Two kindred hypotheses have been put forth by men yet living which, taken independently of a supreme creative Intelligence, would be produc- tive ota philosophic chaos, but which, viewed in subordination to the Eternal Mind and to Its ever present providence, would throw no little light on many departments of philosophy. Imean the crude and incoherent theories of Darwin on the origin of species and tho descent o! man, and Herbert Spen- cer’s magnificent system of evolution. Darwin has been an indefatigable observer throughout the wide domain of organic life, but he tails to estab- lish @ theory Which can sustain itself and explain the very phenomena he has bronght together, St. George Mivart has demonstrated the utter im i NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1874.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. adequacy of the mws advocated by Darwin to acedtut for pecullarities of structure and other remarkable yarieties; bia laws, in fact, are no Jaws, and GWMcwsions are far beyond hig premises, ‘) iT f Spencer's theory evolution is the work of # Master mIQG, Giving scientific shape to Darwin’s hasty and imperfect generalizations, aud account- ing by a few simple laws for the changes o: the matertal, social and moral world. The author’s avowed sympathy with some of the most danger ous tendencies of the Huxley scnoel has preju- diced, and not unreasonabiy, the religious schools of thought against all his writings, But, it is humbly submitted that, taking his theory of evo- lution a8 an analysis of the laws exhibited by the All-creating and all-ordaiming Intelligence for the regulating of all force and motion and Ite, it can wonderfuily help toward explaining and under- standing the universe, 1t 1s the proper nature of trath to clear up and unily and harmonize, while error confounds, di- vides and disturbs. Philosophy being the “know edge of things (nature) through their deepest and simplest courses,” a true philosophy, beginning With the great First Cause, would show us His power and wisdom, unfolding this vast world of matter, intelligence and life, from a few simple elements, and governing it through a iew simple laws. in the magnificent synthesis of Spencer, resum- ing as it does and completing all that ts of any scientific value in Darwin’s works, there 1s not one feature which 18 novel to the great schools of Christian theology and pbilosophy; not one prin- ciple which has not been, at one time or other, and under a slightly different form, developed and 1l- lustrated by some great mind within the Church, tis the professed purpose of doing without a creating and governing God, while accounting for the existence, origin, nature and destinies of all things, that is the primal mistake of our modern scientists. This compels‘ religion to oppose and denounce them, And as We are apt to see in our Open and deadly toes none of the good qualities they may possess, so the defenders of revelation naturally overlook in the new scientific theories the most precious elements of truth. Now, the question oi evolution, rightly under- stood and in its natural connection with the Maker and Ruler of the world, occurred in the very first ages of Christianity to these great men, the Chureh fathers, who made it a duty to explain to their people every verse of the Bible irom the first of Genesis to the last of Revelation. The difficulty, then, with the evolutionists does not consist in their afirming that the earth on which we live, and all the similarly constituted bodies around us in space were, milions of ages ago, a nebulous mars, or “a flery cloud; or that in this mass the hand of the Creator might have deposited the primordial germs of ali organic Iife, This dificulty, nypothesis rather, came up inces- Santly in scholastic disputes throughout the course of ages, and was connected or identified with the philosophical system of ‘mediate creation.” St, Augustine mentons this and passes it ligntiy by as a well known intellectual problem which inno- cently exercised the intelligence of students in his day, a8 in every preceding generation. it was stmpty, Could God have created a few simple vegetable and animal forms and from them, according to the essential laws of their natures, have evelved the wealth of life which covered the earth and filled the alr and waters? Or did the nature of things require that He should create in- staneously this solid earth as we now inhabit it, with every plan: and tree in the ripe perfection of its kind, every species of animal in its aduit state? It 1s manifest that here is a wide field for speculation and discussion. In this Held, while the revealed fact of creation was implicitly bellevea by all the mind of the student was per- mitted iree range. Lrespectfully call the attention of such of your readers as are disposed to be alarmed by the word “evolution” to reflect on What ts here said. Let me place side by side a consideration pre- sented in @ former letter on “Creation from Eternity,” with a correct notion of what evojution or inediate creation has meant in the Christlan schools. It was possible tor God to create from eternity; the vomtradictory bas pever been de- monstrated true, nor can it be. Believing, then, as you do, ed reader, that God atd create this fair world, I can, without violating my baptismal belied, go back 1D imagination net merely a million of years buta million of millions, to 1x the date of that “beginning” when He created the heavens aud the earth. Was the material world thus first brought into existence by tbe Almighty words mere abysmal mass of floating fiery vapor? 1 do not know, bat if I conceive it so there ts nothing that ‘is not consistent with the re- cital of Genesis. What is now our world began by being tmanis ef vacua, “without form and void; and over this fathomless, dark and seething mass, the creating Spirit watched and hovered, ripening the germs and preparing the forms of all order, beauty and life tor their ap- pointed time. Do not allow your fancy, crippled ws lt is by our contradictory ideas of space and time, and with its horizon limited to the littie span of our human Iie, to misconceive God's eternity, and to fix for Him some contracted period 10 which must needs display His creative power. You can take for unit in your calcalution @ niilon o! our centuries, and multiply it with ten thousand millions, and proceeding backward jrom the present day, 1x that day when light first dawned on our revolving earth, without counting the duration that went be- flere; and all these ages are as naught compared to God’s antecedent eternity. Why, then, do we Christians, who should stand on the shoulders of the scholars that have gone before us and see even further than they into the legitimate values oi thougnt, resemble a circie of frightened babes in a darkened room wheo this phantasmago- ric figure of “evolution” is projected on the screen ol our fancy? The apparition is rot a new one, Dor is there aught in the pew jorm it takes which shouid startle us oat of our propriety, We can allow, trom the first instant when the maverial elements were created, any number of ages to have clapsed while the nebulous fiery Mass, in obedience to the laws which govern its atoms In every favors Telation, was becoming Qt for the first living things. How long did the first Suurian or Laurentian waters cover the sca bottom on which crept the earliest shellfish known to science? What duration may, we assign to each successive stage mafked by the creation or evolution of new forms from out the tomb of the pust, up to the age when man’s traces are first discovered at the superiices of this geological charnel house? Do not grudge the Eternal the time elapsed irom one period to anotner, We are but too apt to measure His thoughts py our thoughts, His operations by our own impatient longings, and the sure, but slow, action of pature’s laws by the hurry and tmperfec- tion of our own achievements. God has all eter- uity to work in. Our arbitrary measures of time and space, of greatness and fitness, are ours, not His, LU from the one primordial cell, let fall like the protococcus nivalis, on the shining snow drift, God so ordained that the first biade of grass sbould be evolved in 10,000 years, and that from this first grass the seed should spring which, “blessed and multiplying,’’ should clothe, in twice 10,C00 more, the whole globe with verdure, there 18 nothing in the supposition but is in perfect con- formity witn Divine power and wisdoim and good- ness. li irom one primordial “protoplasm,” when un- counted cycles of evolution bad been completed, God wills it that man shail be untolded, every part 01 his bodily organism ripening beneath the suns of unnumbered years, until under the Master's hand the members have frown into readiness for the quickening and invelugent soul, { behold in the increased slowness and care with which God brings to periection the crowning work of His band nobhing that is repugnant to His attributes or to man’s ature, The laws now governing the growth o/ buman life bring a human being to birth in less thana year. But whether the Lawgiver limit theie operation to nine months or extend it to nine millions of years ts free to Him, and L, with my limited intellect, cau well conceive thatit is al the same for the Eternal One, Simple reason, therelore, unaided by the light of revelation, can Tead this great book of our earth’s history, as geology spells out to her every line of every page, and asiow both for its astronomical history and we devolopment of life on its surface, a period that wouid appall the imagination. {n this manner of reading the genesis 01 the earth and of man there 18 nothing to contradict the Genesis of the Bibie. It science, then, Walking band in hand with re- ligion, should go back to the “beginning” of things and the cradle of the human race how easily all the theories pertected or propounded by the One would be reconciled with the authoritative tenchings 01 the ovher! Ali the laws, verified or not, which underlie the origin of species, nacural selection, the survival of the fittest—in one word, the widest, truest and most magnificent system ol! evolution ever conceived or attempted—sup- pose a Lawgiver behind them, One eternal Mind planning all from the first, one Power producing the elements of ee one ail-pervading Wisdom ordering them toward one common end and com- bining them in one progressive movement which the same Hand ever directs, and one unwearying Love cherishing every atom in that great whot, sufering ‘hotuing to perish and furthering unceasingly the happiness and glory of man, so long as _man.does not iorget lis Creator; place the cradle of the human race a8 Jar back a8 you please on the road of time, only let us see God standing beside it; explain all that bas happeved in the earth be- neath us, and in human history at its suriace, by your theory of evolution; oniy let the light of its jaws be derived from Him who made the light, and let that light illumine every succeeding stage of creation continued down to our day, and I can see that all is consistent, because I can read God everywhere, But do not insult the common sense of mankind by tracing the man up to the ape, or the ape to the reptile, or the reptile to the ish, ort ith gutters, Spirttualiam a t Pree tify the aouree he’ mud hurried along in the ratn-s wollen PRUDENTIUS, yee Love—Reckoning with a Hera Correspondent—What Rati Spiritualists Bolleve—Crimt- nals mntertain Evangelical Opinions. Naw YORK, Sept. 22, 1874, To THE Boron OF THB fERALD:— 1 am a constant reader of your paper, and seldom have occasion to complain of any wantof fairness 1 your treatment of eitner political, soctal or re- lgious topics. Most espectally do I recognize the uniform candor and distinguished ability that characterize your editorial department, But among your numerous correspondents I occa sionally meet with one whose limited !nformation and unimited prejudices render him incapable of furnishing reliable information on the subject ce essays to treat. When the views of large classes of intelligent and order-loving people are grossly misrepresented; when the deepest and most sacred convictions—resting upon the scientific basis of fact and law—are subjected to unmeas- ured ridicule, and the collective character of a large body of conscientious citizens radely assaled by writers who are nothing if not equal to the pro- duction of anew sensation, It occurs to me that any qualified representative o1 such a class shoold be heard in tts defence, Trespectfully call your attention to an instance of this kind in your issue of yesterday. It occurs on your third page, in the letter written from Wi- nooski, Vt., in which reference is made to the pro- posed purchase and settlement of Valcour Island by a community of free lovers. It is said that the property 1s now owned by Owen Shipman; ana the small materials-from which it is attempted to feed the too prevalent appetite for scandalous sen- gations appear in the admitted facts that no such community has vet been founded and not $1 has been subscribed toward purchasing the island, So far as the correspondent has informed us be found only three men in Vermont who, on being inter- viewed, gave a qualified indorsement of the free love doctrines, and of those oniy one be!onged there (the others were trom lilinois and Wiscon- sin), which certainly leaves abuudant room ior the inference that the cause is no‘ likely to prosper in that region. But you will, if you please, allow me to reproduce the ioilowing brief passage irom your correspondent’s letter : This old man Shipman has for @ long time been a rest- dentof this vicinity, and has been afllicted tor many years with the disease of Spiritualism, which has never failed to go hand in hand with its kinired diseaso, tree love. Not by any means that I would have it uhder- stood that all Spiritualists are free lovers, but that | uave rarely found a free lover of either sex who is not, to # certain extent, a believer in Spiritualism. Your correspondent boldly assumes that Spir- itoausm is a “disease,” and in this makes an un- necessary exhibition of his ignorance and imca- pacity to form a judgment tbat is entitled to pub- lic respect, After a somewhat famillar acquaint- ance with the subject for twenty-elgat years I am prepared to say that Spirttualism, in a comprenen- Sive sense, 18 a raiioual philosophy of the unt verse; that itis utterly and forever at war with the principles of materialism and every form of seusuality. It affirms the spiritual origin of the creation, the spiritaal nature of man, the existence of a spirit world, to which the faculties and affections of the human soul sustain @ necessary relation, not leas tutimate than that which connects the bodily organs and their functions with the clements, torms and phe- nomena of this world, Pray what is there in such @ philosophy that warrants the inference tbat it is the offspriug of disease ? It will be perceived that from tne very nature of such a system 1c must demand irom the party who accepts it the imposition of rational restraints upon his antmal appetites and passions; in short, spirituality of We. if Lkpow anything of Spiritualism, tn a true sense and in the judgment 01 its rational disciples, it at once tnvolves sach a philosophy and demands sucd a Ite. This Spiritualism is illustrated py innumerable facts which have been of more or less freqnent occurrence in every age of the world. These facts have not only been accepted by the wisest and best of men, in all countries and in every historic pericd, but they constitute the very foandat.on stones in the great religious systems of the world, This being true, by what authority does your corre- spondent assume that Spiritualism, per se, is to be included in the category of diseases? if such a classification can be justified we may ascribe the Bacontan philosophy and Shakespeare’s poetry to a@ similar source. Then, too, the religion of the earliest nations, and of the Jews and Christians, were only so many forms of phases of this disease, since they were all founded on phenomena said to have originated in the operation of spiritual laws and the volition of spiritual beings, Are we to be- lieve that such ancient veachers as Pythagoras, Socrates, Pluto aia many of the most illustrious men of antiquity were all hopelessly diseased ? hey lived and died believing in the presence of spirits within the spbere of our mortal relations; they recognized their influence on tne homan mind and in the destiny Of nations. Are we to include the greatest poets o1 ancient and modern times in the invalid corps? Did Homer, Virgil, Dante and Milton all have the disease ? Shall we attribute the inspiration of Jewish prophets and Christian aposties to this disease? Jesus of Nazareth saw #pirits, Moses, lias and others; spiritual beings opened the prison doors to the incarcerated apos' 3 Paul Tecognized the great ‘cloud of witnesses” that peopled whe alr; and the Rovelator conversed with beings from otuer worlds than this. Are those early spiritual teachers and all divinely il- luminated souls, since the woria began, to pe em- braced in the sick list? And have we po healtuy people in this world except those who are stone blind, spiritually, and who, with Darwin, are proud to foliow the long line of an illustrious ancestry back to the monkeys? Your correspondent says that “Spiritualism has never failed to go hand in band with its Kindred disease, iree love.” tis true he mildiy qualifies this language, by saving that “all Spiritualists do not believe in free love.” If this ts intended to have any meaning it must be taken as a contradic- tion of the previous statement, since Spirit- ualism certainly does fail to go hand in hand with free love in every instance in which the former declines the company of the latter. Now what are the facts? The trutn Is that by far the larger part of all the spiritual societies tnrough- out the United States have already officially und publicly denounced the iree love doctrines, and many of them have published cards or resolutions notifying all whom it may concern that they will not engage the services of any speaker who is known te entertain and defend such views. These are tacts that have been so widely published that no newspaper correspondent can find any justin- cation ior longer circulating such calumnies ainst the great body of American Spiritualists. ‘our correspondent further says he has “rarely found a free over ol elther sex who is pot to a certain extent a believer in Spiritualism.” If this be true the fact proves nothing against the essen- tial truth and practical importance oi Sptritualism, Defaulters, counterieiters, puidtical, stock and lut- tery gamblers are said to nelievé in ‘addition, multiplication and division,” but their crimes furnish no ground of argument against tue science of numpers and no one doubts the respectability of the multiplication table. It has been ascertained, by actual inquiry, that a very large majority of the convicts in our State prisons believe in the fundamental doctrines of the pop- ular religion. But trom such premises will any one have the audacity to assume that larceny, burglary, highway robbery. rapine and murder go hand 10 hand with orthodoxy? This is. the pecu- liar style o1 reasoning your correspondent adopts in his treatment of Spiritualism, and no further illustration of the subject is necessary to expose its Qagrant injnstice and absolute absurdity. In conclusion { suggest thai if your correspond- ent cannot succeed in finding a {ree lover who 18 not @ Spiritualist, be had better go over to Long Isiaud, taking care not to leave the work of inves- tigation to acommitiee. Yours, respectiuily, 8. B. BRITIAN, M. D. Ministerial and Church Movements. PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. G, Swain, pastor of the Gates avenue Pres- byterian church, Brooklyn, has retarned from a European tour. Rev. J. B, Patterson, pastor of the Second Pres- byterian charch, of Elizabeth, N. J., arrived trom Europe last week, after an absence of three months. The next session of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Free College, with the course of lectures by emt- nent men from different parts of the country, will open October 27. A note irom the Rev. Dr. McCosh to the Observer gives most encouraging information tn regard to the progress of the mouvement in favor of a union of the various Presbyterian churches throughout the worid in one federation. Rev, D. Stuart Dodge, a returned Syrian mis- sjonary, has voluntartly devoted himself to mis- sionary labors among the young men in the Bowery, in connection with the Carme! chapel. Tue Rev. John H, Frazee bas resigned the pas- torate of the First ward church of Syracuse to ac- cept a call to New Jersey. The Presbytery of Alieghany, Pa., have adopted Tesolutions condemning the practice of respon. sive service in the pubic servico of the sanctuary, For the first time in many years the Presbyterian Synod of New York meets in New England, ine seasions will be held at Boston next month. With this Synod there are connected nearly one hun- dred and sixty churches and three hundred and thirty ministers, of which some eight or ten are in New England. Among the delegates from New York are Rey. Dra. Crosby, Hall aud Booth, Rey. Dr. West, late of Danvilic, Ky., bas come to the alarming conclusion that Proiessor Swing, jadging by his own statements, “i8 simply a pan- theistio-Arian of the Kutychian type, a monophys- ite and a monothelite and * * * does not Preach the Apaugasmal Brilliance of the Godheaa’s glory * * but is a Macedonian.” This seems of all iffo and all intelligence | almost worse than a trial for nex esY, and tt ts doubunl whether Mr. Swing can bear\'he shock. The Rev. Dopuld Fraser, D, 0. nas WceBuly ar. rived in Montreal to attend the fires general conierence of the Evangelical Alliance yor the Dominton of Canada tn the beginning of do ober. A smajl Presbyterian congregation in GX ©?- wood, 8. Us. have lor years been trying to build & church, but their extreme poverty has preventes the success of the enterprise. They have now, wever, purchased @ lot and raised $1,000, and they ask their Northern friends jor $3,000 to heip them. Mrs. A. M. Aiken, of that vihage, would be giaa to receive subscriptions to & laudable object. An Independent Presbytertan church has been organized ia Astoria, whose members worship 10 @ public hall, ‘The new organization is a split from the First Presbyterlan courca of that village. METHODIST. The new Methodist Episcupal church building in Jamaica, nearly Onished, will be dedicated on Thursday, Ucvober 15. Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Brook- lyn, will preach the dedicatory sermon. The new Primitive Methodist church on Park avenue and Bridge street, Brooklyn, Rev. Frede~ Tick Bell, pastor, will be dedicated on Sabbath, Uctober 11, Tne new Methodist Episcopal church at Stanton, N. Y,, was dedicated last Sunday. The new Methodist kpiscopal church at Sea Clif, L. 1, has been thoroughly equipped for the winter. Rev. Dr, Patton, of tue baptist Weekly, and M Whitlock aod Kittle nave donatea an organ; Mrs. S. Cox, of Gien Cove, has given a large pulpit Bible and hymn book; Mrs. a. J. Case, of York, has donated a bandsoui Mr. J. S. Fountain’ hi solid sliver, and R corn, has provided the cuurcu records, the Re So that v. W, Koss, the pastor, las every thingyneed- ful for a permanent organization, Bishop Pierce and Dr. Mc¥errin, of the Metho- dist Episcopai Chureh South, are now on an oill- cial visit to ine Pacific Coast. At Hibernia, N. J,, seventy-five persons have professed conversion within {four weeks, and others are inquiring the way of salvation. Rev. M. M. Parkhurst, with his wife, has returned from his “long journey aronnd the world.” He is in good “trim” jor a renewal of Lis pastoral work in Chicago. Rey. John W. Hil, of the Erie Conference, died in Springtield, frie county, Pa., September 23, in the seventy-second year of his age, and fiftieth of his ministry, Rey. John S, Inskip and others are holding “Holiness Meetings” to Providence, R. I. Bishop Janes Is still siowly improving, but is not able to leave bis house. Mrs. Dr. Palmor stil Mngers, but {s gradually sinking. Her physical sight has been entirely gone for several days. ‘The Rey. D, 0, Edgerton, pastor of the church at Jordanville, has resigned nis charge oo account of ill health. Rev. A. H. Wyatt, formerly of the New York Conference, has been transierred to the Erie Con- jerence and stationed at Jamestown, The New York Conference Temperance Society will hold a convention at Hudson, N. Y., Octover 5 and 6, ‘rhe Rev. Ernest Wesley, fora year or two past working under the Presiding Lider at Goodwin- ville, Newark Conference, and who claims to be a descendant of John Wesley, having made an un- successful ei/urt to enter the Newark Conlerence, has withdrawn irom the Methodist Church, and s recently baptized in the Lee Avenue Baptist purch, Brooklyn. At Trinity church, Newark, Rev. N. Vansant, pastor, sixteen persons were received im full Wembership last Sunday morning Arevival 18 in progress at Newton Hamilton, Centrai Pennsyivania Conference, A. RK. Miller, pastor. The meeting has been in progress only one week, and there have been thirty conversiona, The annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Holineds will be held in Phila- delphia, October 7, This body selects locations for the nauonal camp meetings. Yhe directors o/ the Methodist Episcopal Book Depository, in Baltimore, have sold their present provers for $20,000, and purchased the splendid tracey Building, on Baltimore street, in the heart of the business centre, for $76,000, ‘Yhe Methodist Episcopal church at Weatfeld, Mass., Rev. J. H. fwombly, pastor, has completed arrangements for erecting one of the best church edifices of the denomigat.on in Massachusetts, costing Dearly $75,000. A District Sunday School Convention is to be held at Pemberton, N. J., next Tuesday and two following days. ROMAN CATHOLIC, An old subscriber and reader of the HrraLy asks Dr. McGlynn, through this paper:—‘'Wout is the Scriptural authority for the worship of the Virgin Mary? ‘This question ts based on & sermon o! the Doctor's recently publisned in the HeRALD. St. Augustine’s Koman Catholic church, in Lan- sinuburg, N. Y., 18 s00n to have anew organ, just built here by Messrs. Jardine, at a cost o1 $4,000, It contains two manuals and two octaves of edals, twenty-six registers O1 the largest class, t has many novel features hot heretofore intro- duced. It was tested yesterday afternoon end gave great satisfaction. The case is of Gotme de- sign, eighteen feet wide, ten feet deep and twenty- six feet high, and richly ornamented, Next Sunday the Churcu ot the Holy Innocents, of this city, Will dedicate thelr new School house and also an Italian statue of our Saviour, which has been imported, and which is to be piaced in a niche in front of the church, Early in Uctober Bishop Gross, of Savannah, Ga., will bless a inarble statue of the Madonna, which has been donated by the Pope to Pio Nono College, Macon, Ga, Father Mogg is pushing the work on the elegant Catholic church on Vuird stiect, near the biuts, Lexington. When completed tt will be the largest and handsomest religious edifice in Western Mis- ro an nonor to tbe liberal people who have ult ite Rignt Rev. Martin Crane, D. D., 0. 8. A. nhs been appointed by the Holy Father bishop of the new See of Sandhurst, in the colony of Victoria, Australla, On last Sunday the Feast of the Dolors of the Blesseq Virgin, the “Forty Hours,” was soiemniy inaugurated in the Church of the Assumption, York street, Brooklyn, ‘ The Catholic Church is making great strides in every portion of the Union. Even in Montana, with ber sparse population, the Catholics are alive to the interests Of their iaith, being about to erect a magnificent church in Heiena, much larger than their present edifice, at a cost of $20,000. Deuth has lately had a rich harvest among the Catholic clergy. Tals week’s religious papers have several obituary notices, from which we select & tew. Rev. Jos. Burnneman, 0. >, F., died at Rock- away, LL, on the 16th inet., aged fifty-eight ears. Kev. J. B. Duly, O. SS. KR, died in New rieans about the same time. Rev. P. F, Cant weil, assistant pastor of St. Jobn’s church, Pater- son, N. J., died on the 16th inst., aged thirty-four years, Kev. J, N. B, Wells, formerly of St. Mary's church in this city, died on the 96D inst, at Suspension Bridge, N., x. On Monday, 14th, the anniversary mass jor the late Father Meade was said in St. Mary’s church, Grand street, in pres- ence of an immense congregation. Rey. J. Bokel, who was lately ordained tothe priesthood by Archbishop Purcell, has been as signed to the parish of St. Dominic, Washington, D, O., a3 assistant pastor, Father Bokel is a Baltt morean, Rev. Joseph Damer, pastor of St. Joseph's, Han- cock, Md., has returued trom Europe and resumed his parochial daties. Rev. Fathers Vols, of the Cathedral, Baltimore, and Carey, Who are at present in Europe, are ex- pected vo return to this couutry next month. To-day Archbishop Bayley will administer the sacrament of confirmation to about sixty members ol St, Anne’s congregation, baltimore, BAPTIST. Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, declares that all are to be Baptists in heaven and should be on earth, Rev. Dr. Harvey, of Hamilton, N. Y., having just returned from @ European tour, tells the Examiner and Chronicle that the Beecher-Tilton scandal has been published all over Europe as a great battle would be. He found it at Atnens, Constantinople, Beirut, Jerusalem and other places, and the eflect, he says, is to undermine Protestantisi, as the pre- vailing conviction ts unfavorable to Mr. Beecher. The Tabernacle church of this city has given a unanimous and hearty call to Rev. J. B. Haw- thorne, of Louisville, Ky., to be its pastor, and the Oy Telations are to be entered upon next Sunday. Rev. K. A. Lecompte, for the last six years pastor of the First church of Syracuse, N. Y., bas accepted acall to the Worthen street church, at Lowell, Mass, ili Syracuse pastorate has been @ iruitful one for the church, The Baptists of Moriah, N. Y., have just built a $4,000 church edifice and dedicated it nearly {ree ofdebt, R. W. C. McAllister is the pastor. Logansport, Ind., with a population of 15,000 souls, has but one Bapust churca, Tremont Temple ts the headquarters of the Bap- tists of Boston and the surrounding world, ana ts, moreover, the a home of the largest Baptist church in New England. Rev. J. 8. Harrmgton has secepted the pastorate ot the South Zora Free Bapust church, near Wood- stock, Ont, Rev, W. Tf. Smith has removed trom West Leba- non to Bar Milla, Me. At the close of the war the Baptists in West Virginia numbered.but 10,000. Now they have in- creased to 24,000, with evidences of continued prosperity. During the past eight months the result of the labors of their missionaries 1s three hundred converts, ‘the North Bantist Assoctation of Boston reports thirty-our charches and a membersiip of 10,022, of witeh number 317 were added last year above all losses. ‘The Second Baptist Society of Philadelphia will dedicate a new churcn early in December. A Philadelphia Baptist layman has given Grace church of that city $1,000 on condition that the memberstip nse Ho more tobacco, The church took a vote thereon. The Memorial Baptist church of Philadelpnmia are building @ $100,000 house of worship. Rev. D. B. Pope was ordained and installed pastor of the Baptist church at Sherburne, N. Y., on the 16th inst. Rev, M. C. Lock wood was ordained and installed pastor of the Baptist church at Brewsters, N, Y., last week. A memorial service for the late Dr. Taylor wil be held in Calvary Baptist church, this city, on ‘Tuesday evening. BPISCOPALIAN. The Church Journal says that @ candidate can. nos be ordained i the Episcopal Charch who does not believe in baptismal regeneration in some senso, Kev. Frederick Brooks, rector of St. Paul's charch, Cleveland, Oblo, was drowned jast week near Cambridge, Mass. ‘Lhe renort of the New York Protestant Episco- pal City Missionary Society for the Inst month Shows that 129 public services were beld, with an Segregate Wwndance of 9,108 persons, ‘tan Parish churel at Flatbush, Long Ta hating fallen into decay, is now. be: e' erected on the cae aarek Will ‘be Lmmediately MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. Joseph B. Sharpe, formerly a Baptist minis- fer, has been pubitcly recognized and recetved n @ she Congregational body at the council in bolic worship, under Congregational anspices, has Dyn Commeneed in Cnion square, Somerville” near Boston. A ball has been secured which will seat abort 300 people. Arevivm has been Prosress in Sandistel, Mass., sinee June, and fifty souls have been con- verted and tie interest i# extending among all the churebes. A summer revival # the \Commregstionsl church of Osceola Viliagé, N. Y., Kev. C. KE. Crawford, pastor, bas nearly doubled Ite membersbtp. ‘Tne Universaltsta, of Good Luek, Pa., will cete- brate the 104th anniversary of John Murray's first sermon tn America to-day. They bave invited rep- resentatives trom all the region around aboat, and intend to have a grand council. Since George Muller founded Kis ornhanage at Bristol; in 1834, he has recetved $3,086,000 in an- swer to prayer, and 38,800 children or grown up persons have been taught in the various schools, entirety supported by the junds of the Institution, besides the tens of thousands who have been ben- salen in the schools wuich wero assisted by its nds. The American Board comes out of its financtal crisid with a better sbowing than many of tts friends Qarea to hope tor. Its debt for the year ending September 1 1s $30,000, or about $4,000 more than the year before, the receipts during the last few weeks being exceptionally large. Aft tho beginning of summer the deficiency was over $100,000; bat the Board's special appeal has waked up the churches of ate, Rev. D. W. Kelley, of Shamokin, Pa., has ac- cepte call rom the Manchester, Md., Keiormed Dutch charge, and expects tocomimence his labors on the 1st of October. br. Deems, in the Christian Age, thinks female colleges have as much right to bestow on lauies vue Honorary degree of “Nurses of Divinity’ as the mate colleges have to dub men Doctors of Divin- ity. Miss Smiley, Mrs. Havaiord, Miss Van Cott and such “elect ladies” should by aii means have this title conierred on them. ‘The Rev, Dr. Muelder bas resigned the pastorate of the St. James’ Reformed Daten congregation of Pittsburg, witha view to devote his laburs to a hew interest recently started above the city, at Sandy Oreek, and to other adjacent promising poluts, The congregation thus vacated has ox- tended a call tothe Rev, John Bachman, of Egg Harbor City, N. J. Rev. Henry Bair has just gathered a Reformed congregation in Goshen, Ind., where none such existed before. Promiment Israelites of this city have under- taken to establisn a Jewish theological seminary. Key. L. Richter, of Fostoria, Ohio, has accepted @ call to the Keformed Dutch church at brush Creek, Onto. Tne South Classis of the Reformed Dutch church of Long {sland met last Wednesday in Brooklyn. Fourteen chureties were represented, Twenty-one Sunday schools, with 4,330 scholars and 3,417 Iem- bers, are the statistics, oi e . H. S. Meyers has accepted a call to the South Reformed Datch church of Brooklyn. The Clinton Avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn, gave Dr. Budington a grand reception on Puarsday eventug. THE FEAST OF TAB °RNACLES. Ancient and Modern Observance of the Festival—Tho Rabbles’ Wail Over the Degeneracy of Isracl—The Sabbath Neglected That Business May Be At tended To. The Hebrew festivals usually come together in a bunch. On the 12th inst. the New Year opened. This was followed a week later by the Day of Atonement and its services of penitcntial fasts, god pow comes a festival of joy and pleasure— the Feast of Tabernacies. This festiva! is author- ized and commanded to be observed in Leviticus, XXili, It commemorates the harvest home—the ingathering of the crops, for whose abundance thanksgiving to God isin order. This feast began yesterday, and will continue eight days, during which period the people are supposed to dwell in booths or tents constructed of boughs of the palm, the citron, the myrtle and the willow of the brook, and of the two fruits of the first named the people partake. To-day, in many ® tenement yard, or on many & roof on the east side of this city may such rude shelters be seen where pious Israelites of the olden time and the ancient faith gather to dwell temporarily during the festival days, With the exception of some really pious Jews from Europe the original command has lost tts hold upon the people here, who complain of the severtty of the climate and the many inconventences that attend @ week’s residence under the booths. Some syna- gogues on the east side also nave booths attached for the convenience of the members who cannot provide them at their own homes or who don’t want the trouble and expense thereof. As the Jewish Messenger remarks, the Israclites of New York and of America are s0 well satisfied with their present state they break Off the history which unites them with the past and remodel Judaism in accordance with their so-called refined {deas—so refined that religion forms out an iufl- nitesimal quantity in their whole system. ‘The design of the festival 1s to keep tresh in the Jewish mind the fact that their ancestors dwelt ta booths when they went out of Egypt, and also long before they went into that land. The dwell- ing in booths, practically carried out, was never in olden times considered a tax on the time anda callon the pursestrings of the people, bat, ag is well known in Europe, the master, mistress and ounger branches of @ Jewish family hailed the Troowing of the Feast of Tabernacles with the most joyous anticipations. Weeks before its ap- proach they were engaged, not only 1n tho ereo- tion of the hut, but in adopting every means within their power to make lt worthy of the occa- sion, The choicest flowers, the best the vegetabie kingdom could produce, adorned the temporary booths; they entered them with joy, left them with @ blessing; they never complained, dnt felt grati- fled in the apiiity God bad given them te obey His will, How differentty their descendants com- memorate the feast. This festival is also typical of God’s shelter and protection—how often Nags it been vouchssfed to Israel! How oiten has God caused the children of Israel to dwell in “booths” when the rage of the heathon thundered against them? He will, says the Leader, cause those to dwell in booths of peaceful contentment who free themselves from the yoke o{ slavery whother of the mind, the body or the heart. Hence the four kinds of boughs already alluded to represent Man as follows:—The citron represents the heart, the myrtie the eye, the wilow the mouth, and the palm the body. So thas man is to praise God and rejotce before him with all his powers of mind and bodyand heart. They also Bymbohze t gbees innocence, humility and faitu— virtues that insure happiness here and hereatter. Being a festival of thanksgiving this is also a sea- son of almegiving by the rich to their poorer brethren. When the temple stood and Jerasatem was in its giory this festival was celebrated with great pomp and ceremony, The squares and thoroughfares of the city were ornamented with fruits and towers brought thither trom all parts of the land of Pal- estine by the pious Jews, who came thither to worship. The Gey | of sacrifices in the temple wag one of the chief features of the celebration, and & grand illumination of the outer court vf tne temple took piace, Connected with it were dances by torehlight and the waving of fino fruits und leaty branches toward tho four cardinal points of the compass, accompanied with the singing of Mcurgical songs. With this festival ends the fall series of Jewish holidays, the next tn order being the Passover, which occurs about the time of the Christian’s Kaster festival. Alter the hoildays are over the synagogues will be comparatively de- serted, and in anticipation thereo! the several rabbies and preachers yesterday tried to tmpress their congregations with the importance of keep- ing up the revival spirit all the year and maintain- ing a due regard for the Sabbath as weil as for the holy and sestival days. THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN PARIS. (From Galignani’s Messenger, Sept. 11.) The solemn inauguration of the Jewish Constis- torial temple in the Rue de la Victoire took place yesterday, being the first day of the sete Johm Kipour, or Grand Pardon, The gates of the butid- ing were thrown open at one o’clock precisely, and in a quarter of an hour all the seats were oc- cupied, The nave is extremely fine, twice as wide as that of Notre Dame, and nearly as high. In the middie of the sacred edifice is the théba, the altar at which the rabbi ofictates, and at the end the chotr, with marble columns and splendid stained glass windows. on which are vepresenced alle- gories of the twelve tribes, THR OBREMONT. At a lgher level is an clegant gallery, reserved exclusively jor the female portion of (ie congre= gation—the Hebrew worship not admitting @ mix- ture of the sexes during aivine service. building bas cost 2,000,000! and raked ten years to construct At two o'clock Barons Alphotse and Nathaniel de Rothsenild, accompanied by the sev- eral members of their tamtly, entered the bujid. ing: and in a few minutes after M. Beer, officiating minister, ascended the théba, Where was seen the seven-branched candlestick, a imagnificent work of art more than six feet in beignt, the tabtes of vhe jaw, an enormous crown symbolizing the crowning of the latter, and two cand whole in massive silver. These ornare given by baron Alphonse, At the opening of the ceremony eight members of the Consistory went to receive, at the door of the temple, M. Zadoc Ka Grand Rabbi; M, Isidor, Rabbi of Parts, and the a: sistant miuisters. A sew moments later the samo members, having at their head M. Créemicux, ‘Want iD procession to tako the tables of ue law my | 15 and bring them to the sanctuary, the gates of which were immediately closed. The temple was magnidcently lighted wit gas at all the stories. Toward three o'clock M. Isidor, Grand Rabbi of the Central Consistory, mounted the pulpit and pro- nounced @ remarkable allocution suited to the oo- casion. A collection was then made among the congre- gation by @ number of Jewish ladies. Afterward the Grand Rabot of Paris deliverea address in which ne developed the theme that, contrary to the opinion of the old men Who, when they had returned from the captivity of Babylon, regretted the splendor of Solomon’s temple, tne aged men of the present day would rejoice in be- boiding how much more veantiful was the new omy of worship im which they were Dow assem~- ed than that which they had been familiar with ip their younger days. The proceedings, whi Were interspersed with the singing of canticlea, then terminated, MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH EUROPE. Postmaster James has issued tne following Schedule, being a list of steamers sailing trom this Qnd other ports during the month of October, whics carry the United States matl. ‘This scheaule 19 made up tn Wastington by Postmaster General Jewell froin a Uist of ocean steamships making the quickest passages, Annexed is given the date of salling, Daine of steamer, name of line, port of destination and intermediate ports of call, nour of closing mail at Post Onice at port of departure an@ the mails to be conveyed :— FROM NEW YORK, OcropeR 1—~Pomwmerauia, Hamburg American packet, Plymoath, Cherbourg ana Hamburg, 11:30 A.M, Mails for Great Britain and [reland; also German, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and italian closed mais via Plymoath; mails for Germany direct; mats for Franse direct; also Swi Danish, Swedish and Norwegian closed mais via flumburg. OcroskR 1—Maas, Netherlands Steam Naviga- tion, Rotterdam. Mails for the Netherlands direct, OcrosER 3—City of Chester, Inman, Queenstown, 9A. M. Matis (or Great Britain and Ireland. OcropeR 8—America, North German _ Lioyd, Southampton and Bremen, 11:30 A.M. German, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italien closed mais via Southumpton; mails jor Germany di- rect; also Swiss, Danish, Swedish aod Norwegiam closed maiis via Bremen; and matis for Gr Britain and Ireland alter closing of the Liverp: stoamer’s mail OcrossR 8—Peretre, General Transatiantioc, Brest and Havre, 9 A. M. Mails for France direct, OcroBkR 6—Switzerland, Red Star, Antwerp, Mails lor Belgium direct. OcTroBER 6—idaho, Wiliams & Gulon, Queens. town, 12M. Matis for Ireland ouly. OOTOBER 6—Lessing, Eagle, Pipa cher- bourg and Hamburg, 12M. Mails for Gre: rita also German, Beigian, Netherlands, Swiss ant Itahan closed mails via Plymouth; is for Hrance direct; maths for Germany direct; also Swiss, Danish, Swedish and Norwegiaa closed mails via Namburg. OvTOLBR 7—Abyssinia, Cunard, Queenstown, 12 M. Mails for Great Gritatn and Ireland; also Ger- man, French, belgian, Netherlands, Swiss an@ Italian closed 'matis. ocrosER §—Silesia, Samburg American Packet, Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, 11:30 A. M. Mails jor Great Britain aud Ireland also German, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss an Italian closed mails via Plymouth ; mails for France direct ; matis ior Germany direct; also Swiss, Dan pea Swedish aod Norwegian ciosed matis via Ham~ org. OctongR 10—City of Richmond, Inman, Queene town, 12M, Matis for Great Britain and Lreland, vcrossB 10—Herman, North German Lioyd, Southampton and Bremen, 11:30 A, M. Ger man, French, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss ana Italian closed matia via Southampton; matla ior Germany direct; also Swiss, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian closed malis via Bremen. OcroBEB 13—Wisconsin, Williams & Guion, Queenstown, 12 M. Mails for Great Britaim and Ireland ; also German, French, Belgian, Nether lands, Swiss and Italian closed mails, OcToskER 14—Kussia, Cunard, Queenstown, 4 A. M. Matis for Great Britain and ireland; also German, French, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss ond Italtan closed matis, OcToRER 14—Deutachiand, North German Lioyd, Southampton and Bremen, 11:30 A. M. Ger man, Freneh, Belgian, Netheriands, Swiss and Atatian closed mails Via Soutiampton; g malls for Germany direct; also Swiss, Danish, Swede ish and Norwegtan closed wats vin Bremen, ond mails tor Great Britain and treiand after cios- of Cunard steamer’s mall. in, BER 15—P. Caland, Netherlands Steam Nave gation, Rotierdaw, Malls for the Netherlands direct. Ooroner 15—Holsatia, Hamburg American Packe Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, 11:30 A. Mails for Great Britetn and lreland; also Germal Beigian, Nether!ands, Swiss, and Italian clos matis via Plymouth; mails for France direct; malls for Germany direct; 2180 Swiss, Danish, Swedisa, and Norwegian closed maiis via Hambarg. OctosEk 1i—St. Laurent, General Trausatiantia, Rete and Havre, 7 A.M. Maus for France rect, OcTosEB 1%—Baltic, White Star, Queenstown, 7 A.M. Malls for Great Britain and Ireland, OcrosreR 17—Kheiu, North German Lioyd, Soush- amptou and Bremen, 11:30 A. M. German, Belgtan, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian closed mails via Southampton; mails for many direct; also Swiss, Danish, Swedish, 4 Norwegian Closed matis via Bremen; and matis for Great Britain or bara aster closing of the Liverpool steamer’s mati. OcToBER 20—Herder, Eagle, Plymouth, Chere bourg and Hamburg, 11:30 A.M. Mails for Great britain; also German, Beigian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian closed mails via Plymouth; mails for France direct; mails for Germany direct; alse Swiss, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian closed mas via burg. OCTOLER es Williams & Guion, Queenstown, 10:30 A. M. Mails for Ireland only. OcrosRR 21—Bothnia, Cunard, Queenstown, 10 A.M. Matis tor Great Britain and Ireiand; also German, French, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italien closed mails. OcroBER 21—Weser, North German Lloyd, South- a@mpton apd Bremen, 11:30 A.M German, Beigia French, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian chose malls, Via Southampton; mails for Germany direcs; also Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegia: closed mails, via Bremen; and mails for Greasg Britain ana Ireland after closing of Canard steamer’s mail, OcropeR 22—Hammonia, Hamburg American Packet, Plymonth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, 11:30 A. M. Malls for Great Britain and Ireland; also German, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian closed mails, via Plymouth; mails for France direct; mails for Germany direct; also Swiss, eel Swedish and Norwegian closed mails, via amburg. OvroBEB 24—Adriatic, White Star, Queenstown, 12M. Mails ior Great Britain and Ireland. Ocroner 2t—Main, North German Lioyd, South- ampton and Bremep, 11:30 A. M. German, Preno Beigian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian clos malls via Southampton; matis for Germany ee also Swiss, Dantsh, Swedish and Norwegran closes mails via Bremen. OoropER 28—Scotia, Cunard, Queenstown, 4 A. M. Mails for Great. Britain and Ireland; also Gere man, French, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian closed’ mauis. OcroOBER 28—Minister Roon, North German Lioyd, Southampton and Bremen, 11:30 A. M German, French, Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian closed mails via Southampton, mails | Germany direct; also Swiss, Danish, Swedish a) Norwegian closed mails Via Bremen, and mails for Groat Britain and Ireland after closing of Cunard steamer’s mail. OUcTOBER 29—Rotterdam, Netherlands Steam Navigation, Rotierdam, Mails for the Netherlands. dipect. OCTOBER 29—Frista, Hamburg-American Packet, Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, 11:30 AM. Mails for Great Britain and lreiand; also Germal Belgian, Netherlands, Swiss and {talian close mails via Plymouth; maiis for France direct; mails for Germany direct; also Swiss, Danish, Sweal: and Lk closed mails via Hamburg. OCTORER 31—Celtic, White Star, Queenstown, & A.M. Mails for Great Britain and Ireland. OcroBER 31—Ville de Par General Transat jeter Brest and Havre, 7 A. Malis for France nrect, OcToRER 31—Oder, North German Lioya, South- ampton aod Bremen, 11:30 A. M. German, Belk giab, Netherlands, Swiss and Italian closed mails Via Southampton; mails for Germany direct; ulso swiss, Danish, Swedish and Norwemian close® mails vis Bremen; and maiis for Great Britagm and ae alter closing Ol the Liverpool stedmer’s mail FROM PHILADRLPHTA. OcTopeR 1—Iilinois, American steamship Com- pany, Queenstown, 12 M. Matis for Great Brita. ana Ireland. OcTosER 8—Ohio, American Steamship Company, Queenstown, 9A. M. Mails lor Great Britain an Treland. . OcToBER 15—Kenilworth, American Steamship Company, Queenstown, ll A.M, Mails tor Great Britain ang Ireiaud. Uctor sb 17—Nederland, Rea Star, Antwerp, 12M. alls tor Belgium. eg irosES 2u—Indlana, American Steamship Come any, Quecustowa, 9A. M. Mails for Great Britain and Ireland. OcroneR 29—Abbotstord, American Steamship Company, Queenstown, LL A. M, Maus tor Gress Britain and Ireland, FROM BOSTON. OcroseR 6—Siberia, Cunard, Queenstown and 6A. M, Malls for Great Britain and Tre. ysed mails for Belgiam and France. 1s—Samaria, Cunard, Queenstown and 9 A.M. Mails ior Great Britain and tree d Malls jor Belgium and France, eR Atias, Cunard, Queenstown and Liverpool, 5 A. M. Mails tor Great Britain and [ree land; aiso closed mais for Belgium and France. OctOBER 27—Marathon, Cunanm, Queenstown and Liverpool, 6 A.M. Matis tor Great Britaim aud Ireland; also closed mails for Belgium and France, FROM BALTIMORE. QOcropsR $—Hanuover, North German Lloyd, Bremen, 12M, Mats for Germany. OctoBeR 10—General Wercer, North Germas Mails for Germany. Lioyd, Bremen, 12 M. i : North German Lioyd, OcTOBER Li—Nurnberg, Bremen, 12M, Mails for Germany, Oorosen %4—Braunachweig, North German Lioyd, Bremen, 12M. Mails for Germany. OcrobkeR 8l—Berlio, North German Word Brew men. 12. Mats jor Garmank