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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial and Church Movements--Pruden- tins’ Essay on Creation. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY | The Episcopal Convention’s Proceedings Yesterday. Services To-Duy. The Rev. D. O. Potter, Dr. Bright, of the Exr- aminer; Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, and Dr, Elder, of ‘this city, will preach and deliver addresses at the continuous praise service to-Gay at the Sixth street Baptist church. Dr. J. W. Rogers will lecture In St. Bernard's church, West Fourteenth street, this eveaing, on “The Catholic Citizen of America."’ The Rev. George J, Mingins will preach this morning and address the Sabbath school this evening in the Second avenue Presbyterian church, The Rev. Dr. Hague will preach at the usnal hours this morning and evening in Fiity-third street Baptist church. The Rev. W. T. Sabine in the morning and Pr. James M. Ludlow in the evening wil! occupy the pulpit of the First Reformed Episcopal church to- day. The two pastors exchange in the evening. A meeting in vebalf of city missions and Church extension will be held in Alanson Methodist Epis- copal church this evening. General Fisk, of St. Louis; Dr. Hurst, of Drew Seminary, New versey; | Dr. Brown and Mr. Collord, of this city, will de- liver addresses. Dr. Thomas Armitage will preach, morning and evening, in the Filth avenue Baptist church, The Rev. H. D. Ganse will preach at the usual hours to-day in the Reformed church on Madison avenue. “The Widow's Barrel and Cruse’ will be Dr. Samson’s theme this morning, and ‘Religious Con- viction 8tified” this evening, in the First Baptist church of Hariem. | J, M. Peebies will entertain the Progressive Spir- itualists in the new Opera House this morning with @ lecture on “The True Man” and in the evening with a recital of what he saw the Eddy brothers do as mediums jast week. “Stealing as a Proctivity and a Professioa” is Dr. Fuilton’s topic this morning in Hanson plice Bap- tist church. “Christian Firmness as llas:raved by Daniel” is on his programme {or the evening. The Rev. S. M. Hamuton will occupy the pulpit ofthe Scotch Presbyterian church this norning | and afternoon, Dr. A. H. Vinton, of Boston, will preach in St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal church this morning | and Dr. Rylance in the evening. “Enemies of the Cross” and the “Resurrection of the Human Body” will be treated to-day by Rev. | W. P. Oorbit, in Seventh street Methodist Episco- pal church. Dr, Hurst will preach this morning, and Ray. J. | T. McClelland this evening, in St. Luke’s Methodist | kpiscopal church. | The Rev. W. H. Boole and Rev. J. Pegg, Jr.. will fill the pulpit of Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, to-day, at the usual hours, “Awaking in God’s Likeness” is the topic on which the Rev. J. S, Kennard will speak this morning, and “Pharisees and Publicans’ this evening, in the Pilgrim Baptist church. ‘The spirit ot Samosett, through T. Warren, wil! attempt, what it never tried when in the body, to convert sceptics and strengthen believers 12 Spirit manifestations, this evening, in Tammany Hall. The Rev. H. M. Paynter will deliver a lecture this evening in the Seventh Presbyterian church on “The Court and the Brazen Altar." The Rev. Dra. Ayrault and J. H. Hopkins will oc- cupy the pulpit of St. Igvatius’ church this morning and evening. Dr. Scarborough, of Pittsburg, will preach this morning in St. James’ Protestant Episcopal church. Dr. Twing and other prominent ministers of the Episcopal Convention, now tere, will address a Missionary meeting in St. Michael’s cuarch this evening. Bishop Lay, of Baston, Md., will preach in Trinity church this morning on ‘‘The Folly and Ingratitude of Despair.” The Rev. S. M. Harris, of New Orleans, will preach there in the a(ternoon. “The Dying Vision of Stephen” and “The Hand- writing on the Wall” are the topics of Mr. Haw- thorne’s discourses this morning and evening in the Tabernacie Baptist church. The Morning Star Sunday school (Seventh ave- nue and Twenty-sixth street) will ve addressed this afternoon by William E. Dodge and Rev. J. Hyatt Smitn. { The Rey. George D. Matthews will preach morn- ing and evening, to-day, in Westminster Presby- terian church. The Rev. David B. Jatten will preach, a3 usual, in the Sixteenth strei japtist church. The Rev. John N. jaber will occupy the pul- pitofthe Zion Protestant Episcopal church this morning and afternoon. Dr. Sproul will tell the Forty-second street Pres- Dyterian church this afternoon what he knows about “Dancing.” t The Revs. S. M. Hamilton and Ralph Wells will address the Missionary Association of the Spring | street Presbyterian church tis evening. A missionary meeting in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church will be addressed this evening by the Rey. Dr. Garrett anqjothers. Dr. Dunneil will preach in the morning. Dr, Deems will describe ‘‘A Church Fair in the Wiidernegs thig morning in the Church of the Strangers, ‘The Rev. George 0. Phelps will minister to the Allen Street Presbyterian church to-day at the usual hours. “fhe Commonwealth of the New Dispensation”’ and “Christian and Anti-Christian Churches and ‘Teachings” will be diseussed in De Garmo Hiall this morning and evening. Dr. A. C. Osborn will preach at the usual hours to-day in the South Baptist church. The New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of the Protestant Eptscopal Courch will hold ite sixty-sixth anviversary in Grace church, Brooklyn, this alternoon, and in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York, in tie evening. Bisnops Clarkson, Neeley, Talbot, Robertson and otners will speak, “atver Death What ?’ “The Voice of the Church in Times of Business Depression and Distress” — these are the themes on which tne Rey. James M. Pullman will speak to-day inthe Church of Our Saviour. The Kev. W, H. Thomas will preach at the usual bours to-day in Beekman Bill Metuodist Episcopal church, The Rev. P. L. Davies will preach, morning and evening, in the Berean Baptist church. “Who or What Is tbe Devil is the question that the Rev. £. ©. Sweetser will attempt to answer this evening in Bleecker street Cniversal- ist church. “The Gentile Devt \o the Jew" ts the topic of thought for this evening by Lr. Rudder, of Phila- deipbia, in Christ charcn pulpit. Or. Thompson wilt speak ou “Issues Before tue Church” in tne morning. “The Fading Leat’” and “The Conversion of Paul’ will be commented upon to-day by the Rev. RS Mcarthor in Valvary Baptist churen. ‘The service in the Russian chapel this morning is at haif-past ten o'clock, The Rev. N. Bjerring wil) preach in English on “The Orthodox Fatth.”” Soctal services will be held to-day in the Church of the Nativity, on Madison street, near Classon avenue, Brooklyn, tle Rev. M. J. Moran, pastor. It is the anniversary of the dedication of his church edifice two years ago. The Rev, Robert Cameron will lecture on “The Priesthood” in the Disciples church, in Twenty- eighth street, this evening. The Rey. R. Heber Newton will preach at the nsual hour to-day ip the Anthon Memorial church. » “HaeWay Piety and Negative Sin’ ace the » | be to exist taf diving thin toptes on which Dr. Robineon will epeak to-day in the Memorial Presbyterian church. The Rev. James Grammer, of West Virginia, will ee young men in Association Hail thus even- ng. Drs, Snodgrass, McDonald and Paxton will preach at the dedicatory services to-day in the | Philups Presbyterian church. The Rev. U. C. Tiffany will preacn in the Church of the Atonement this morning, and Dr. Hunting- | ton in the same place this evening. Bishop Bissell, of Vermont, in the morning, and Dr. Van Deusen, of Utica, N. ¥., this afternoon, will preach in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. “The Progress of Faitn in the Soul” and “The Manhood of Christ’? will be discussed to day by | | Rey. S, B, Rossiter in the North Presb) tertan | chureb. | | ‘The Rev. W. T. Egbert is again in the harness in | the Wainwright Memorial church. His pulpit will | be occupied to-day by Bishop Robertson, of Mis- sour, and Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana. The First Baptist church will be ministered to at the usual hours to-day by Dr. Thomas D. Ander- son, | Services will be held this morning and evening _ 48 usual in the Protestant Kpiscopal churena of the Holy Saviour. The Rev, J. W. Bonham will speak about the | great awakening in the Church of England this | evening in the Chapel of the Atonement, West Forty-first atreet. A conference of Spiritualists and lberals will be | held in Harvard Rooms this aiternoon. Christian Spiritualists will meet’ there im the mormng and evening. Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, and Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, will preach im Grace church this | morning and afternoon. The Rev. W. T. Clark will preach on “Authority in Religion” in the Ohurch of the Messiah this | morning, “4 New Heart” and “Ontside and Inside” are | topics to be discussed to-day by the Rev. George | H. Hepworth in the Church of the Disciples, | “Modern Crime” is Dr, Flagg’s topic for this | morning in the Church of the Resurrection. | Bishop Pierce, of Arkansas, will preach there in the evening. The Rev. H. R. Nye, of the Church of Our Father, Brooklyn, will answer the question this evening— i “If We Limit Everiasting Punishment, Must We | Not Limit Everlasting Life ?”" There will be a “high celebration” in St. Mary | the Virgin’s church this morning. Dr. Porteous will discourse this evening in All Souls’ church, Elm place, Brooklyn, on “Defects of Modern Theology.’ An old folks’ concert wil! be given there on Tuesday evening to help forward | the finances of the church. | Dr. Lambert will lecture on “Woman” at Bed- | ford street Methodist Episcopal eurch on Thurs- | day evening, The two Drs. Tyng, father and son, will preach | in the Church of the Holy Trinity this evening and | morning. Dr. Irving will preach in the afternoon. | The Bishop of New Hampshire will preach in Trinity chapel this afternoon; Bishop Howe will | preach in St. John’s chapel this morning, and Rev. | E, R, Atwell in St. Paul’s church this evening. Bisbop Lyman, of North Carolina, and Dr. Sulli- | van, of Chicago, will occupy St. Ann’s church pul- | pit this morning and evening. In the afternoon | the Rev. Mr. Hinman and his Sioux Indian protég’, | Waumdishon, will address the Suaday school. Dr. J. W. Rogers wilt lecture this evening in St. Bernard’s church hall on the “Catnolic Citizens io | america.” A Metaphysical Essay on the Creation. | To THE EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— What is 1t that materialism, though set forth by some of the most cultivated intellects of the age, | can substitute for the Christian pilosophy of the | universe? The great objection made to the notion of acreative act by modern as well as by ancient | materialists, is that it involves an avsurdity—the | producing of something out of nothing, the bring- | ing of a whole world of realities out ofa blank | void, in which absolately nothing pre-existed. This is a most “unscientific use of the imagina- tion,’ a8 a moment’s reflection will convince the | reader, | In the supposition of a God—eternal, self-existent and inevery way infinite in His substantial real- | ity—there cannot be anything like this “nothing. | ness,” this “absolute and immense votd of being,” out of which the creative act is imagined to bring forth the visible and invigible universe. We pic- ture to ourselves the Creator, at the point of beginning His work, standing on the brink | of some dark and empty space, out of whose bosom His voice calls or His hand educes the sbapeless masses of the material world, Nothing can be more fatal to @ right conception ol the truth than such fantastic imaginings. The power to create is a8 essential to God as the act by whicn the Divine Word is generated; but the | | exercise of the latter is necessary and eternal, | that of the former iree and contingent. But when Goa wills to exercise His creative power it is ab- solutely true to say that the sum of being and reality is not increased by the production of any number of cosmic systems, Even in pure | Mathematics a tyro will tell you that by adding to the infinite a finite quantity the Sum or total 1s not increased, And yet the mati- ematical infinite is at best but the indeiinite or the incalcalably great. But, vefore any conceiv- | @bie beginning Of creation, the intellect perceives | in the Divine Being the infinite reality, to whose | periection nothing can be added. Whatever tue divine mind conceives as possible is only so because it has its type in the imitability | of the divine nature; and when that | type is realized outside of the divine | conception the creature thus called into sub- | stantive existence has no positive reality or per- lection that does not aiready exist tn tie Creator | in am infinite degree. And what is said of one creature may be said of worlds, They only re- | produce, in limited degrees, the reality, the beauty, the life, which are the one infinite, living reality Of toe most perfect God. It ig true that the worid which just this moment | a distinct world trom that which | but the moment before conceived | as possible. It is distinct in substance, in its mode of existence, in its forms, 10 the iorces with whico | ic is clothed and the laws which they must obey. But all these correspond to and are the re- production of the essences of things Ii the Creator’s own mind. Making of our imagination a legitimate and scientific use, we cau intellectaaliy behold behind every existing world and every one being within its compass the infinite reality which it copies and reflects. In every substance, material or spiritual, im every form and force, in every display of inorganic energy or vital act, in every successive ebb and flow ol tue mighty tide of created energy and |iie, Ican but behold the pervading presence of the uncreated substance sustaining every being, ener- gizing every force, controling ‘by necessity the action of irrational creatares, directing by love and generosity the aims aud acts of tree agents, but still, as God, the central principle of vody and spirit, of minutest atom and vastest sphere, Understand me weli. I am endeavoring to make clear how false, on the one hand, is tue fundamental axiom of the epicurean system, that creation 1s impossible, because to create is “to produce something out of nothing,” and, on the other, to Siow how the Christian system’ avoids the rock on which pantheistic evolution hay split. To be sure, Were nothiug wuatever in existence, nor eternal God nor eternal matter, it is «not conceivable that anything couid ever exist. But, in the Christian conception of the universe, the eternal aud seli-existent God preceded aii creation. Infinite in His own suo- stantial reality, periection, lire and happiness; for Him there is no Such thing aa the “nothingness” or “void” out of which the materialist iancies | that the creative act must needs evolve the worid, Besore creation existed there waa the boundless ocean of the divine substance to which the philosophic intellect can conceive no centre or circumference, no height or breadth or depth, and alter creation the same inteliect can only behold @ limited number of beings within tuat vast ocean, Whose substance is essentially diferent from the divine, and whose vital acca copy the divine while remaining puysicaliy dis- tinct. There is ever and everywhere aa essential dependence of the creature on the Creator, a sub ordination of the untverse to the divine law and will; but between tue substance of angel and maa and that of their Maker, though there is 4 likeness, there cannot be identity, Thus, in the light of this mach reviled theology, we gee the truth about God and the world. The truth for us, as weil as for God himeell, is to know things aa they are in themselves and with respect to each other. We are told that our conception ol a God who creates, sustains, directa and governs all things by His providence and the laws which He has given them, cannot compare favorably with the | theory of ‘a seli-existent and eternal matter | | Which contains within itself “the Vata and | | promise of every jorm and quality of life.” Tyn- dail affirms that ourtheory ‘converts the power | whose Te agave is seen in the visible. universe into | | an artificer, iashtoned after the haman model, and aated by Broken oor, a6 Man JsAneR tO Ack’? | It remains necessarily true that, | Maker, | is not “His garment” which 1 Be com! | yet, now that the discourses delivered in Belfast | nouncement is premature. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET) |’ No! this is not the of the ‘Ohristian | Africa.” This last named takes the place tm Upper A, Y., bythe willof Mrs, | the schoots of thought from Jasin to Augus- | Bishop Tozer, uf tbe pommee ry holds 10 Dorcas Wiles ot Marathon, Wie deceased. Judge tine, from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and | land as inthe Episcopal Church in this country, The Ltberal Christian announces that Mr. from Aquinas to the teachers of the nineteenth | has no ition as @ bishop hereaiver. Bishop ‘William Curtis will conduct the services in | Comstock, conten. bi “ not ne the Lapeer afer the ae : aaa a a ry ae 4 Png the Unitarian churen, a iew. Seigntoe,, ot oe of the human workman, ut rector from field had this ate, ahd surgests laeat of tne human artificer in the ‘atvine. Ovor in | bishop here. serious objections” if Mr, Cartis should occasion- | the Divine Workman the true ideal subsists eter- METHODIST, | Dally, and, as even iu the patural order oi: light The Rev. W. W. Bowdish, having returned from ol our reason, 1s God’s own uncreated reason and | his European tour, ts jy at work with his word, so our glimpses Of the ideal is even here | church in Harlem, and a couple of Sabbaths ago | below, @ communication of the divine t bring- he recetved thirty-five probationers into full mem- ing 08 true but imperiect Dotions of the eternal | bership. types. We, in all onr works, have but imperfect con- The Rev. C. P. Hard, of the Western New York | ceptions of reality, goodness aud beauty, and our Conference, 1s to sali a8 a missionary to India on | execution of what We conceive are even more im- | Tuesday. Rev. J. Goodwin, o1 Drew Seminary, will | Pertect than tue ideal notion which guides us. But accompany him. we know well that our power of concetving the | _ The new Methodist Episcopal church at Gien- | ideal and our facnity of realizing the conception | don, Pa, will be dedicated to-day. Dedidications are uecessarily iimited, like our being, while God, will also take place at Richvale, Pa., to-day; at in whose likeness we are made, has an infiite mind Providence, K. 1., on Thursday; at MG Pleasant, to conceive pertectly and infinite power to exe- | Md., to-day, and at Trout Brook, N, Y., on the 27th cute, We know with equal certainty that the im- | 1st. - perfection Which We observe in man and nis doings, | ‘The Rev. ©. D, Burlingham, pastor of the charch 8 well all else in creation, are the necessary at- | at Postville (Western New York) Oonfereace, died tendants of @ limited nature, It is as cer- suddenly a few days ago in his work. tain as apy one thing can be in the order | The Kev. Pb, McKinstry has been transferred oi knowledge, that God, mm creating, cannot in any | from the Central New York Conterence to the one being or line Of being prodace a thing so per- | Western New York Conierence, and stationed at fect that He cannot create @ tuning far more per- | West Webster. fect stil. He cannot create the infinite. 11 He | Rev. E. S. Gillette, of the Erle Conference, has cannot, elther i avy one being or clays of beings, | been appointed Agent of the American Bible ven the most | Society for the Northern Vistrict of Ohio. periect human being ever created, one far more | At the recent session of the Ohio Conference, pertect yet remains possible to God. No one bet- ter or more quickly than Jon Tyndail would seize | conference, was re-admitted irom the Presbyterian the germ of truth which 1 here present, or see , church. jurther into the ideal depths which even Bishop Andrews 1s presiding at the Georgia Con- & faint grasp of 16 discloses. Were ne | ference this week. here | suouid gay to him:—Ic 13 more | Bishop Merrill has returned from the Pactflc your misfortune than your fault, that you have | never conversed with the great Christian theologies of the past oF the present. Else, you must bave learned that, if imperiections necessarily exist in the works of God. yet 18 there no imperiection in | the workman, There are limitations in His crea- tures, even in man who stands at the summit of | the visible creation, But tue very moral defi- | ciencies, which result irom” hi bemg | created ree, can compen- — Coast Conterence in exceilent health. The Rev. Dr. Rust has gone South to attend the Georgia and Tennessee conferences, in the interest of the Freedmen’s Ald Society. A new Methodist Episcopal church was dedi- cated at Sugartown, N. Y., on Toursday, 15th inst, Another was dedicated on Wednesday last at Hartiord, Conn. A new Methodist church, 45 by 75 feet, for Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, to coat $10,000 and to seat 600, is to be commenced immediately. A committee of the Wisconsin Conference hay- above all things, man, can be compared to the | ing investigated charges of immorality preierred clock of Strasbarg, which the artificer has wound | ugaiust the Rev. G. U. Haddock, declared him up ior a definite period and then left to itself. | guilty of highly Sa Bao conduct, but on Lis own ‘Thts is not my couception of my Creator, nor | declaration that he was innocent, his character what He bas revealed to me of Himself. I know | passed and he received an appointment. that He 1s ever with me; that His hand and heart | Dedicatory services have been held in the Prim- are all my own at every moment if I will | itive Methodist church on Park avenue, Brookiyn, only use them to assist my Own weakness. It | during the week. An old fashioned tea meeting “in the visible | on Tuesday evening next will dnish up the pro- universe,” but his presence which I discern 10 , gramme. the seep and especially in the unseen. For the | seen 1s contingent and changing, the unseen is | The Roman Catholics have 20,000 priests, 800 unchangeable and eternal, You say that this | monasteries and convents, twenty bishoprics, five power beyond the visible world is the “unknowa- | archbishops and turee vicars apostolic in Ger- bie.” But this is only one of the fatal and perni- | many. cious axioms which lalse science lays down asthe | The “Month's Mind” of Rey. Joseph Bronemann, cornerstones of the edifice of knowledge she pro- | 0. S. F., will be celebrated Monday, October 19, at feases to build up ior the 1uture, | eleven o’clock A, M., in St. Mary’s “Star of the It was a fundamental principle with all Christian | Sea,” Far Rockaway. philosophy, as weil as with the noblest Pagan | Bishop Corrigan has purchased a large house, teachers o: Greece and Rome, that God was the | containing thirty rooms, just outside tue limits of first knowabie, the first element of knowledge, the | Newark, N. J., which will be immediately fitted up very first among the intellectual data of any true | and opened as a House of the Good paspnend, un- system of philosophy or science. For, if the object | der tne Care of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, of knowleage is being, He 1s absolute and neces- | _ Father Hogan, pastor of St, Pius’ church, East sary being, without whose intuitive perception | Newark, is very sick, and has obtained leave of no act ol scientific knowledge is possible. | absence for a few weeks. Father McManus takes But, again, jusi as false science calls God the | charge until Father Hogan returns, unknowable, and thus closes to Him and the very | ‘The new chapel erected tor the accommodation notion or Him the doors of all her schools, so does | of the destitute under the care of tne ‘‘Littie Sis- sbe deny the very notion Of cause and efficiency, | ters of the Poor,” in Baltimore, will be blessed by lest the human mind should henceforth be led to | tne Most Rev. Arcibishop Bayley on Sunday next. conclade the existence of a Ureator trom the con- | The corner stone of & chapel tor the “Little tinuaily present evidences of design, wisdom, | Sisters of the Poor’’ in Washington, D. U., will be ower and love in every part of the visible world. | laid to-day py Archbishop Bayiey. Nay, your boasted science would have us abjure The new Courcn of St. James at Falls Church, the very notions of intellect and truth, the first | Fairfax county, Va., will be dedicated this morn- principles of all knowledge and philosophy, lest | ing by Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond. be sated by the ever ready of hie For neither the material universe, nor, ROMAN CATHOLIC, their use should periorce lead us back | ‘Ihe Archbishop of New York left Rome on the to the knowledge of the God of ages. | 22d ult., expecting to return to New York about Since when has the cultivated intellect of Christen- | the end of this month. Bishop Bacon, who went com, or even of Pagandom, for that matter, con- | abroad with him, has been confined to hospital treatment, in France, for organic disease. Two new dioceses are to ve created in Pennsyl- vania, the sees of which will be fixed at Reading nd Pottsville, The Very Rev. Maurice Waish, V. G., of Pailadeiphia, 18 spoken of as one of the new sented to give the name of science exclusively to \ the observation and classiiication of natural | Phenomena? When has it been agreed to that | Philosophy, theology and jurisprudence should voluntarily or perforce descend from the place to | which the consent of mankind in every | bishops, The bulls are daily expected irom Rome, past age had exalted them, in order to{ The promotion of Mtiwaukee to be a Metropoll- see anatomy, physics and ‘chemistry en- | tan See, with Mgr. Henni as first Archbishop, has tbropeu there as tue sole legitimate teachers of | been extensively annonnced in papers, Catnolic ing generations? No! this cannot be, And | and other. The Freeman's Journal says the an- are coming to us in authentic shape, it is im-| The Right #ev. Dr. Manucy, ls eed Bishop possivle not to see that such is the issue | in partibus and Vicar Apostolic in Brownsville, forced upon the intellect of tne age by the fore- | Texas, has recetved a letter from Cardinal Francni, most scientists. Again, for one, I must enter my | Pretect of the Propaganda, apprising him of the protest against such an attitude towards theology | arduous and self-sacrificing mission on which he of men from whom I haveiearned much. Thevlogy | is to be sent, is but poorly represented, among all the lights of | The Pope has raised the Cathedral of Quebec to the Church since Gregory Nyssen, by so lame a | the rank of a minor Basilica, philosopher as Bishop Butler. And yet his univer- | Tne forty hours’ devotion will begin in St. sally condemned system of the instrumentality of | Joseph’s church, Brooklyn, Cais p the body with respect to the soul is made to offset | ‘ihree Dominican fathers—Daly, Byrne and the materialism. of Lucretius and represent the | Power—have opened a mission in St. Mary’s, highest argawent of theology as against modern | of which Rev. Father Brady is pastor. science! And this is all, or the best, that Jonn Cardinal Calien, in September, consecrated Rev. ‘Tyndali knows about Christian schools of thought! | Dr. Crane Bishop of Bullarat, Australia, Father Rev. W. F. Hughey, formerly a member of that | | any PRUDENTIUs, Which is Truet In the religious correspondence of the HERALD | there are many sharp criticisms passed upon the prevailing religious superstitions of the times, Many of these are written by those who are | honest seekers after trath. There are one or two points in Bible history, in regard to the genealogy and birth of Christ, which I wonid like to ask Christians, ministers, theologians or any one else to explain if they can. The point 1s this, have not either the writerof Matthew’s Gospel or Mary the mother of Christ told an untruth in regard to the genealogy and parentage of Christ. The first verse of the first chapter of Matthew says, “The book of the genera. tuon of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the Son of Abraham.’ From the second verse of this chapter to the sixteenth, the generation or geuealogy of Christ is traced from Avraham down througi Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon, &c., to le the husband of Mary, of whom was born Christ. His mother, Mary, was espoused 10 Joseph, betore they came together, she was found with child of tne Holy Ghost. Joseph, being a just and true man, was not pleased with tnis discovery, and not willing to make ber a public example was minded to put her away privily. But while he was consid- ering the. matter and pondering how to act, ne had adream in which some good angel satisiled his mind — that Mary had not done wrong, and that whatever stories sue had told Lim were to be believed, and that the Son she should bring forth should save His people irom their sins. Now, what I would like to have explained is | how Matthew can give the true geverations or genealogy 01 Christ in tracing His descent irom Abraam to Joseph when Joseph was not His fa- ther? How Carist can be oi the seed of David When theze is none of David's seed in Him’ which affirm that He isto be the root and the offspring of David when Joseph, whom the angel called the son of David, knew ner not till she had brought forth her first-born Son, and he called His name Jesus’? If Joseph was not the father of Jesus how can he be a descendant of David, as the first verse of Matthew expressly declares, Has Mary, or Joseph, or Matthew, or some of the old prophets of the Old or New Testament, one or all | of them, deceived the people in regard to this mat , ter? Who will tell? ELL Ministerial and Charch Movements. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. J. S. Foulk, pastor of the German Re- formed church, Carlisle, Pa., has conuected bim- self with the Presbyterian Church. At the late meeting of the Presbytery of New- castle the Rev. Mr. Edwards, residing at George- town, Del., presented a certificate of his standing in a Methodist Episcopal Conference in Indtana, and was received as @ member of Presbytery. The “Presbyterian Hymnal’ is meeting with a good sale, 20,000 copies having been disposed of during the first month of its publication, The Rev. Dr. Lansing and wife, the well known missionaries of the United Presbyterian Church tn Egypt, sailea for that country on Saturday, They are accompanied by Miss M. G, Lockhart, who goes out Jor the first time. The Rev. George B, Bell has resigned his pas- torate of the Seventh Presbyterian church of this city. The Forty-second street Presbyterian church, New York, has a debt of $50,000 weighing it dow The Rev. Henry M. Morey, of Rocirester, N. Y., has resigned bis charge there that he may accept auotuer tn South Bend, Ind. Dr. Hogarth’s congregation tn Geneva, N, Y., are building a $80,000 house of worship. The Rev. T. M. Hodgeman has taken the pastor- ate of the Presbyterian church at Knowlesville, ne Phillips’ Presbyterian church, corner of Madison avenue and Seventy-tnird street (Rev. samuel D, to-day. EPISCOPALIAN. Rev, J. P. Davis, of the So ern Ilinois Confer- ence, has united with the Reformed Episcopal Churen, Dr. Hagh Miller Thompson has just tssued @ series of papers, in pamphiet form, on the great questions Which now agitate the Protestans Epis- copal Church, They Were first published in the Church Journal, where they attracted very great attention. He nas also published a paper on Romanism, coutroverting the position taken by Father Hecker and other Cathoic leaders, that Roman Catholicism ts the vest religion for this Republic. Dr. Thompson, of course, emphatically dentes this aad brings proof to the contrary, The Anglican Dean o! Ripon has felt it neces- sary to counteract the influen of his charge of the Marquis of Kipon’s secea- sion to Rome by @ Course of sermons in the cathearal. Two bishops were consecrated in Westminster | Abbey on St. Bartholomew's Day; tne Rev, Dr. Wiliam Basil Jones, to be Bisho} and the Rey, Dr, Steere, of the to bem ‘Bishon of tha Cuurch af of St. David's, Zanzibar mission, In the eiguteenta verse we read, when as | What | becomes of ali the Old Testament prophecies | Alexanaer, pastor), wul Le dedicated | upon the people | Burke pi ached the sermon. Rev. Father De Regge, Chancellor of the diocese of Rochester, arrived on Saturday last from | Europe. BAPTIST. The Philadelphia Baptist Association, feeling very | much aggrieved at the stigmas of close com- munionists tald upon its members at their annual | meeting @ few days ago, unanimously resolved that | they were not close but peculiarly open com- | munionists. They thereiore ask of their brethren | of other denominations that the scandal against | them be abated. The Kev. J, W. Henry, of Philadelphia, 1s soon to go as a missionary to the South Sea Islands, The Bev. E. H. Hovey having completed his Montgomeryville Baptist church at Adrian, Pa, | town, N. J. Tne New Jersey Baptist Sunday school Associa- tion of Camden county reports 1,782 scholars and | 191 teachers in its vounds; 3,704 volumes are in their libraries, Sixty conversions are reported. The Rey. J. S. Miller_has closed his labors with the Baptist church at Williamsport, Pa. | _ During the twenty years’ ministry of the Rev. | Dr. Parmly in the First Baptist church ot Jersey | City 1,400 persons have united with the church, of whom 775 united by baptism. ‘The Philadelphia Baptist Association numbers 85 cburch societies and 78 church buildings, together with 14 chapels and 22 parsonages, $2,014,056. The present membership ia 21,324, of | which 1.573 were added over all losses during the | year. The Sunday schools number 109, They con- | tain 1,943 teachers and 18,587 scholars; 44,997 volumes are in their Sunday school libraries. Nine | new meeting nouses and ten parsonages bave been added to the association. church property is $2,014,056. | The Key. William Warlow has been ordained and | installed pastor oi the Baptist church at St. Clair, near Pottsville, Pa. During the two and a half years of this ministry ey Baptist church, Albany, the Rev. Join | Love nas received neariy 300 into memberstup in | the church. | { Baptist mission chapels have been built at Ken- wood, Pageville and North Albany, N. Y., and , churches have been erected at Bath and Green- | bush, near Albany, during the past year. | . Rev. Thomas G. Wright uas resigned at Westerley | First church and closed his labors there. | Rev. b. H. Wheeler, of Rahway, N. J., has been called to Valley Falls, R. I. The Sixth street Baptist church of this city will spend tis day in praise and tuanksgiving ior mercies during the year past. A historical ad- dress will be delivered m™ tue morning by the pas- tor, Rev. D. C. Potter. | ., Rev. W. T. Dixon, colored, of the Concord Bap- tist church, has been selected to deliver the open- | ing address before the Long Isiand Baptist Asso- | ciation, which meets on Tuesday morning next at | Gethsemane Baptist church, Brooklyn. The aedicatory services in Marcy avenue Bap- tist church, Brooklyn, which were continued du | apie sermoa by Dr. Armitage of this city. | _ The Rev. J. B, Cieaver has left the sixth avenue | Baptist churcn, Brookiyn, and started a “gospel | enurch’’ around the corner. His old congregation rejuse to give him a letter dismtssory, and on | Wednesday evening during a stormy church meet- ing he carried of sue pat it, Which he claimed as personal property. He mgd ed fast horses, and some o1 his oid parishioners think this inconsistent | with ministerial prety. The aggregate membership of the West Jersey Baptist Association 18 8,995, being an increase of 449 since last report. MISCELLANEOUS. The fifty-seventh anniversary of the Monmonth County Bible Society is to be held at Centenary church, Long Branch, on November 12. Next Sunday and Monday, Octover. 25 and 26, have been appointed days of prayer throughout | Christendom for the sunday schools of the church. | Since 1839 over 60,000 schoos, containing 400,000 | teachers and 2,600,000 scholars, have been organ- ized by the American Sunday School Union. Toe Rev. Dr. Veews inding that the duties of a college president, a pastor 01 & large congregation and the editor of a weekly paper, were too many | and onerous for one man, has retired trom the | will be benceforth merged in the Church Union, | The American Bibie society at its iast meeting donated 5,177 volumes, 3,032 peing for foreign work, 577 for Various ratiroad companies for use on tueir cars, in tunds $1,000 were granted for loreigh work. ‘The Uniyersalists propose to build a fine memo- rial church in Washington, D.C, where the Uni- tarians have for years had @ leebie society. It isa question whether Universalisin will do any better, A struggling church in Battimore just keeps tis head avove Water. Beyond this, soutaward, Uni- | versalism is seldom named or known, | congregations, some of tuem very feeble, com- | prising al. AS an organization it 1s weaker in Pennsylvania to-day tan it was twenty-five years 0. eth corner stone of St. John’s Reformed church, in Philadeiphia, will be laid this aiternoou, Rev. J. W. LeMoine, of Oxford, has 80 lar recov- ered his health as to ve able to resume his labors in that Universalist parish and the surrounding | country, Toe Brooklyn Tabernacle Lay College is again favored in havi the Rev, Josep! . Duryea, D. D., to deliver the opening address before the students. The addi evening of Tuesday, the 27th inst,, ana the occa- sion will be one of deep interest. 4 legacy of $509 baw | | studies at Reip Institute has taken charge of the | | Tne Rev. P. S. Vreeland. of Paterson, has just | assumed charge of the Baptist church in Woods- | valued at | he total value of its | | ing the week, closed on Friday evening with an | editorship of the Christian Age and that paper | In New Jersey, where Universalism originated a | hundred years ago, itis hardly known, a dozen | ress will be delivered on the | an lai, to the Universalist ally read one of his own “Easy Chair” papers tD- Btead of a sermon. THE EPISCOPALIANS. Another Day of Secrecy—The Bishops’ Estimate of Church Quartets and So- loists—A Canon on Music—Dr. Wells’ Testimonials Signed. Notwithstanding the secrecy of the Convention during ita business sessions the public gather to the devotional exercises in the morning in num- bers about as large as ever. These exercises were conducted yesterday by Drs. Crane, of Mississippt ; Knickerbacker and Kidney, of Minnesota, and Bishop Doane, of Albany. The house was thereal- ter cleared of all save aelegates and the Secretary, and every possible guard was placed about the building #0 that none others, and espectally no reporters, might gain access. There are about filty sextons stationed in different parts of the building at doors or lobpies and walking around as guardians at large. And yet, notwithstanding this precaution, the Secretary was induced on Friday to caution the delegates tu the lunch room that their words must be few and guarded, because the reporters were around. This was & double-pointed insult, not only to the reporters, but to the deputies also, who, by implication, were Informed that they couid not keep @ secret even for half an hour, while they ate a little lunch. For this announcement some of the morning papers lashed Dr. Perry yesterday, 80 that im the open session in the afternoon he explained that his alleged “oficioasness” ‘was simply @ compliance with the request of the New York committee who have in charge the ‘maintenance of secrecy and of order in the Con- vention, lt was not hisown motion atall In- deed, the Doctor considers the secret session & blunder from the start, and one that probably will not be again repeated. Its continuance even now is likely tu be cut short, for though the Conven- tion have decided to go into secret session at noon to-morrow Mr. Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, Gave notice yesterday that he would on Morday move for the repeal of role 17, which Tequires secret sessions when personal char- acter is to be discussed. The rules require that one day’s notice shall be given for ail amendments and modifications of the same. The be, after all, the last refuge 0: the Convention to shorten debate. A score have already spoken on the ritualistic practices and opinions of Dr. Sey- mour, and more than a score besides have sent their names to the President of the Convention as desirous of speaking on the question. And at this Tate the deputies will not get back to their homes and churches for another month at least, The disqualification of Dr. Seymour for the high office to which he has been chosen are classified under two heads:— First, irritability of temper, teaching and practice of extreme ritualistic or Catholic doctrines, such a8 the adoration of the Teal presence in the sacramental elements, auric- ular contession, jasting before communion, pri- vate devotions at the altar asa token of eucharis- resides, 1s cer- dents at the seminary over which he ana a view of the priestly character whic! tainly far removed from Protestant ideas. It. Was alleged, 10 proo/ of the latter, that the students of the General Theological Seminary were in the habit of going to a “retreat” in Connecticut for coniession, fasti f,, and peering in the Roman Catholic fashion. r. Clark, of Connecticut, charged that this was known to and approved by uties transmitting the triennial report of the Min- isters’ Widows and Orpbans’ Fund, whose purport ‘was given in yesterday’s HERALD in advance. The Bishops expressed their hearty satisfaction with what bad been done by the trustees of the fund. The Bishops also sent the appointment o! the Bishops of Central Peansylvania, Ohio and Massa- Deputies to consider the propriety of reducing the size and cost of the printed journal of the Conven- Tinted pages octavo. id ‘With the concurrence of the House of Deputies the Bishops adopted the following CANON ON CHURCH MUSIC:— H every minister and every operatic quartet or | soloist in the whole church. It reads:— It shall be the duty ofevery minister of this Church, witn such assistance as he can obtain from persons skilled in music, to give order concerning the be sung atany time in nis church, and especial! be his duty to suppress all light and unseem and all indecency and irreverence in the pertormance | by which vain and ungodly persons profane the service | of the sanctuary. And, further, that this canon be numbered 21 of title 1, and that the present canon ve num- | bered 22, and that this canon be printed in place | Of the resolutions on the same subject heretoiore prefixed to the Psalms in metre and in hymnal. Aiter the deputies had signed the testimonials | of Dr, Wells and the same oad been transmitted to the House of Bishops the Convention adjourned until ten o’clock to-morrow morning. Personal Sketches of Deputies. Dr. Jono Fulton, of Mobile, ts a man of fine per- sonal presence, the possessor of a clear, sonorous voice, evidently well versed in Church history and | with an innate love for fair play to all parties and | persons, fie fought hard against the secret ses- | ston, and, finding himself overborne, tried to give | the candidates whose character was to be «is- cussed the right of stenographic reports of the secret proceedings. In this, too, ne was ontvoted by the Convention, though to mortals of less ec- clestastical or judicial wisdom it seemed to be a question not only of common sense, but of fair play and justice. Dr. William Cooper Mead, of Norwalk, the ven- erable chairman of the Committee on Canons, ts nearly eighty years of age. His hair is ripening | for the grave, but his heart and his voice are evi- | dently as young and as vigorous as they were half acenturyago. He isa smal!, raddy-faced gentie- | man, and his clear, ringing words can be heard in | any part of the large edifice, This is the sixteenth | General Convention, covering a period of forty- eight years, that Dr. Mead has attendet. | He ts the best posted deputy in | Convention on canonical law, and the Committee on Canons would be but a second-rate committee without the Doctor as chatr- man. The Doctor is Low Church, ecclesiastically. Dr. Edward Sullivan, of Chicago, i8 & man of | medium size, dark complexion, with well defined Celtic teatures and side whiskers. He is an ex- cellent debater, a ready speaker, and well abie to catch the weak points of an opponent’s argument. | His voice is clear and strong. He 1s the leader of | tbe opposition to Dr. Seymour’s condrmation, and 1t 18 & testimony to his ability tnat the Convention has been three days tn secret session on this case. The Doctor is about thirty-eight years of age, ana | has been in America about six years. | servative Churchman, | Dr. James Craik, of Louiavitle, Ky., 18a man of | genue mien, yet somewhat patriarcnial in ap- pearance, Asa presiding oflver he 18 sometimes too lenient, He does not like to enforce ruies | arbitrarily, and thereby to give offence to deputies | who might have someting important to say, though not at the right time. He ts a Low Chu | an, with highly conservative tendencies. He | Candidate, it is said, for Bishop Cummuns’ vacated | position tn the diocese of Kentucky, He 1s a godly | man, and would make a good bisnop. He Is about | sixty years ol age. Dr. A. H. Vinton, of Massachusetts, and his col- league, Dr. Burgess, are, perhaps, too well known in ‘this vicimity to need any description. They hold up the Low Church end of the line ably in the Convention debates. Dr. Vinton’s address before the Church Congress leaves no doubt a8 to bis ecclesiastical status in the Church, ; Dr. DeKoven, of Racine, Wis., is @ fearless and | outspoken ‘h Churchman, leagues class him among the ritualists; but he , himself, 16 18 said, Claims affinity with the party that stands a step iower. He is quick and reauy in debate, and has frequent bursts of true elo | quence in his utterances. among the prominent jay deputies present may be mentioned Judge Steftiey, of Staunton, Va.,a man whore thorough knowledge of parliamentary law has on severai occasions extricated the von- | Vention irom snaris into which it had carried 1t- self by the admission of too many motions, amen«- Ments and substitutes; General C, ©. Augur, of San Antonio, Texas, who takes /ittle or no part in debates; Jacob Thompson, one of Buchanan's Cabinet officers—he hails from Memphis, Tenn. | J. Pringle Smith, of Charleston, one of the largest | | planters anc siaveholders in the South belore the War, 1s bere aiso, bui their voices are not heard on the floor of the Convention. Wiiltam Welsh, ot Puiladelphia, whose efforts im behalf of the Indians are well known, takes a prominent part in every important matter that comes pefore tbe | House. He is a genial gentleman, always wears a | Pleasant smile, and has @ kindly word for every ove | Who speaks to him. Secretary Fish and 3. Bs Kuggles are delegates from this diocese. Thay ace weil Known in New York, Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, known by repntation to all the es | Once and for years the Postmaster Genera o1, the | United States, does not talk much tn, the Won- | vention, but what he says is pertinent ind pointed. He gave notice yesterday that on Monay he would move w reacind rule 17, which provades lor secret | Sessions of the Convention when personal character 1g under discussion. Mayor Hutster, of Brooklyn, | Henry A. Plerrepont, ol the game city, and ex- Governor Jobo A. King, Q Livtie Neck, are amoag admission of the press representatives appears to | and, second, the | tic adoration, the hearing of confession from gtu- | Chusetts as @ joint committee with the House of | tion, which is @ document of nearly 900 closely | which is explicit enough to be understood by | the | He is a con- | Some ofhis col- | go Ofar of Ohicago, hau toughe wel dirlag tao secret session 1or alogeval eanaidate {edge of Syracuse, and Uriando Meads, ‘Albany, are also prominent among the lay depu- ‘Vhough not a deputy to this Convention, there ts no man in the House more prominent than the Dr..Wiliam Stevens Perry, of Geneva, ‘rhe Convention could hardly manage with- filled this postéion for several successive years and is thoroughly familiar with the routine of the office, He is a man of untiring zeal and energy and his triennial report showed that he performed an immense amount of clerical work, while at the same time he attended to the duties of an important parish. He is the author of an interesting and comprehensive ory of the General Conventions of the Church from 1795 to 1871, He bas also published a small work on Sunday schools, and has shown in his own charge that it is quite possible to keep the r Sunday school scholars in the Church, This is the e! to nearly all the churches of the land to-da: ‘ne Doctor's clear voice is eastly heard in rt of the ghuron above the din and contusion of debate. le 18 an honorary member of the Conventio! ith the right to speak, but not to vote. may THE LUTHERAN SYNOD. Proceedings of the Third Day’s Scasion. The third eession of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Synod of New York and New Jersey was continued yesterday at St. Jal ’ Lutheran church, the Rev. W. J. Strobel presiding. The Synod was opened with prayer by the Rev. N. Van Alstine, after which the question of certain amendments to the constitution was taken up. It appears thas at the session of the Synod held a year ago these amendments were relerred to the different pastors to be submitted to their congregations for adop- tion, the result to be reported at the present sea- sion. It was found that during the year not more than one-half of the congregations nad acted the matter, and, in consequence, Rev. G. U. Wi ner offered the following reso.ation, which was adopted :— Resolved, That the pastors of this body be again re- quested to submit the constitution for churches recom- mended by this synod to their respective congregations tor ado tion, and report thereon at the next Convention ol 6 Synod. The committee appointed the day previous to investigate tue case of the new church on Jersey City Heignts, which recently separated from the Church of St. Paul's, Jersey City, and which is now asking to be recognized as an independent con- gregation and be admitted to membership in the ynod, then reported, A majority and a minority report were submitted by the committee, the ma- jority being in favor Of admission of the new church. Two Swedish congregations, one from Lowell, Mass., and the other irom Boston, Mass,, presented application for membership in the Synod. The matter was relerred to the Examining Committee. After transacting routine business the Synod ad- journed for the day. During the afternoon, in accordance with an in- vitation from the municipal authorities, the mem- bers of the Synod visited the institutions om Randall's Isiand. In the evening they attended the American institute Fair at the Rink, VISITING THE CITY INSTITUTIONS. As one o’clock the Synod reassembled, and ina body marcued to the foot Of sixty-tilth street and took the steamer for Randail’s Isian | Which place they visited on the invitation o | Mayor Havemeyer.- On reaching the island | they were received by Warden Stephens and escorted through the several bulidings, after which they proceeded to Blackwell’s Istana. Here they were escorted through the several im- | stituctons by Mr. John E, Flagier, the Chief Store- Keeper. All the delegates expressed themselves highly pleased with their visit, In the evening siete by invitation, visited the American Institute air, 81. PETERS OHUROH FAIR, The fair conducted by the Ladies of Charity of St. Peter’s church, Barclay street, has been open | for the last week. It being the first held in the | partsh for thirty-five years it is a great novelty to | the people of the lower part of the city, Mansy . . Dr. Beers, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., | very rich articles are on exhibition, ormolm baa the. ‘Toor yesterday me Mog " i | clocks, camel’s nair shawls, oll paint Jewelry, The Bishops sent a Message to the House of Dep- | &c,, and a very rare portrait of Father Mathew | also among the many attractions held out by the | ladies who preside at the tabies, Father O'Farrell, ; the pastor, uopes by the proceeds of salea at this | fair to lessen the immense debt due on his new schools, whic, although not one month in opera- tion, are full to overflowing of inchoate scholars. | The lair will continue open next week, A POOR MAR, KILLED. To THE Epiror OF THE H#RALD:— ‘There 1s such a thing a8 false economy, as when haoman life is endangered through fear of being aeemed extravagant because of the expense at- tendant upen providing guards against danger. ‘This view of economy is mere sophistry, and ita | execution is unpardonable neglect —aye worse—it | may be criminal, As an exemplification of this | truth permit me, Mr. siditor, to call your atten- tion to the condition Hine, United States Ap- praiser’s Department at ie corner of Laight and West streets. Tne building is large and commodi- | ous, and has been fitted up under the direction of | the Deputy Collector in charge, Mr. D. H. Tomp- kins, lor the convenience of the employés of the | government, some 300 or more being constantly | employed, ‘and merchants and brokers whose | business calls them to the premises. Being oi nally nine stories high, it tas been changed five floors, and goods are delivered on all floors | above the basement by steam power. On each floor are iour hatchways, through which goods in | cases, baies, &c., are raised by elevators; and, | strange to say, there 1s not a single guard at- tached to or near any of these hatchways, Thus | there are four mantraps on each floor trom which there is tnstant ana imminent danger to the em- ployés whose business takes them to the very | edge of the traps, and they work with tue horrivle | idea on their m‘nds that there 1s buta step be- | tween them and death. A sad occurrence happened yesterday, which | sent a thrill of horror to the hearts of tne em- | ployés, many of whom, in the dally exercise of their duties, are constantly in the immediate vi- cinity of these lioles and every moment liable to the same fate which overtook one of their oum- | ber. A young man, of kuown temperate habits, | working on the iourth floor, while b Tepes 9 his | Usual Vocation, was, dy the sipping of his balehoox, | precipitated in to the trap and was hurried to his | doom, some sixty-fve feet below, thus presenting, | in the twinkiing of @ moment, the change from a@ robust, healthy irame, to a sickening mass of hu- man flesh, Ip the occurrence 01 such horrible cas- Ualties there is blame somewhere. On whom does itfalir Coder whose management, or rather mia- management, are hundreds of tives everin immt- nent peril ® These are solemn questions, Let those | im authority answer. 0. SATURDAY, Oct. 17, 1874. ONE PINT OF MILK. Last Tuesday morning mr. William Dunn, of Madison street, caught two young men running away with the milk pitcher in which the milkkman had left the immaculate fluid for Mrs. D.’s coffee. Mr. D. had not yet donned his raiment when the | young men were discovered; but he did not mind | trifles, so he ran after them in @ state ot nature, as it were, witb his nighcshirt on. One of the young men he caught, but as he could not swear | at the Court of Special Sessions that the young | man be caught was the one who had stolen the milk the young man, named James O’Rorke, was discharged, THE M'DOUGAL HOMICIDE. Willlam Brown, a pedestrian of note, employed as bartender for James E. Johnson, of No, 734 Ninth avenue (the latter of whom stands charged with causing the death of Charles McDougal, late of No, 429 West Filtieth street, by striking him on. the head with some heavy instrument), was yes- terday brought before Coroner Kessier and held to a | pall in $1,000 Lo appear as @ Witness when wanted, | Mr. Joseph Ross, a captain in the Seventy-ninth | regiment, of which Brown is a member, became bondsman for the latter. Johuson, the accusea, has not yet been arrested. | Brown states that ne Knows nothing of the oc- | currence resulting in McDougal’s death, and has no Knowledge whatever o: the whereavouts of Mr. Johnson, his employer, not having seen him since | the night of the alleged assault. The inquest has been indefinitely postponed, in the hope wnat the presence of Joingon. may be secured. SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS. This Board held a special meeting yesterday afternoon at the Comptroiier’s office, at which the. | Mayor, Comptroller, Chamberlain and Alderman ! Van Schatck, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen, were present. The minutes o1 the last meeting, neld September 10, were read and approved. | Tne Comptroller meved that bonds to the amount | of $250,000 be 1asued. ior the use Of the Dock Depart- | ment, subject to subdivision 11, section 6, chap- ter 574, Laws of i871, which was adopted, as was. aiso @ motion to authorize the Department of Docks toe purchase the southerly side of the bulk- head on pier No. 50, Norto River, for $14,000, alter which the Commissioners adjourned, “IT’S NOT 80, SIR.” New Yorg,, Oct. 17, 1874 To THE Eprror oF The HeRALD:— | Im Wednesday’s Heraup, October 4, tt ap | peared that Luke Murphy and Charles Quinn at | tempted to break into Mr. McMahon's store, NO. | 16 Beach street, Mr. Editor, be so kind as to pub | lteh this note, as 1 can prové the report to be & | Slander and an outrageoas folsenood, as I cam | prove Mr. Murphy to be a honest and industrious | man, a8 ts weil known iram lus boyhood im the | Vicinity fn which he eles, sl eh . In Jastice to himeelt and family, and to-hig ~Aineroas: friends, T etate | vais to be a fact PATRIVK CAMPBELLy Deonte Shortt Ci Gall “