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4 THE CARLIST WAR. Campaigning in the Biscay Country. AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE INSURRECTION NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. and the river, so that they can here pass the river with impunity. They have estabiished a ferry and a custom house, which is guarded by a | old ap to twenty, have been dancing, and they are small post of soldiers, and itis by this route that | stulatit, The musie consists of a small fute or trade ts carried on between France and Tolosa. | pipe and a tambour, both played by one old man, The Bidassoa, tt most be understood, ts only | while a fash or lightning now and then from the @ very small stream. At Behobia it 1s not | fort, accompanied vy the growl of cannon for more than thirty yards wide and 1t is oniy navi- | bass, gives to the entertainment a somewhat sin- gable by the smallest craft. The boats are gener- | ister effect. The paasion of these people for danc- ally no more than twenty-five feet long, but the | ing is wonderful. I have been told that during the river is crowded with these, and they are all either | siege of the convent in Estella, which was in the amuggiers or Uarlist boats bringing in munitions | middie of the town, the people used to dance on of war. 1t is here, I think, the greatest part of the | the plaza every night, and that some were even Carlists’ supplies are brought in, for the French | wounded while in the dance by spent balls. my room 100k out on this place, and here for the last half hour the young people, from jour years THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. Shortened Services Granted, but the Rubric of Common Sense Denied—The Fear of a Second Methodist Defection— Another Missionary Bishop Con- farmed—Sketeh of the Gentleman. In the business of the Convention yesterday the Committee on Canons reported against requiring the bishops to nominate two candidates for epis- copal honors in missionary jurisdictions, from whitch the House might choose one. The Lection- ary question, having been up and discussed, was, THE BURNING COAL MINE. How the Buraing Mine in Pennsyl- vania Was Quenched. LIFE IN THE COAL DISTRICTS. authorities are unable to seize them without tres- passing on Spanish territory. It is very true that they do not exercise any vigilance in the matter at all, but if they did the result would be the same. The Middle of the river is the frontier aud the boats have only to keep on the Spanish aide to be beyond French jurisdiction. Nor could the fort of Irun | fire into them without tneir shells falling into the | town of Benobia or Hendaye. Tne commandant at Carlism Not as Bad as It Seems. COMPLICATIONS 9N THE FRONTIER URNtETA, Oct. 15, 1874, This is a little village, situated on the highway leading from the French frontier to Tolosa, right under the guns of the fort of Hernani. The fort is held by a republican garrison, and ts built on the top of a steep, rocky mountain, completely commauding the road from the frontier to Tolosa and the country fer three miles around. The vil- Jage is, nevertheless, In complete possession of the Cariists, who occupy 1t as far as It suits their convenience, passing up and down the road at ‘their pleasure under the very muzzles of the re- publican guns, The result isa kind of desultory firing on the part of the fort, whicu ts Kept up pretty much all day long. Now, while write, & shell goes seething overhead about every ten min- utes and explodes ap the road in the direction of Tolosa, where the Oarlists have a small post. This is kept up all day, sometimes in one direction, Bometimes in another, whenever they @lscover signs of the Cariist soldiers, but they do not fre Anto the village here, even when occupied by the Cariist troops. The people seem to have become quite accustomed to this state of things, looking upon it apparently a8 @ matter of course, and they go about their ordinary occupations as though nothing unusual were gotng on. You see them ploughieg and working tranquilly in the flelds, ‘where every now and then a shell falls, explodes, and heaves up the earth like @ miniature volcano, paying little more attention to the strange visitor seemingly than they would to the dropping of an over-ripe apple in one of their own orchards, Here in the village of Urnieta children are play- ing in the streets and manifesting as much indifference to the shells screaming overhead as though they were so many crows. Only now and then, when one comes lower down than usual and just skims over the tops of the houses, shrieking lke a very demon, do they draw within doorways or behind wails to wait for it to pass and resume whatever they were about, as though a bombard- Ment were the most natural thing im the world. THE WAY THE WAR IS CARRIED ON, Everytning considered, the war is carried on ‘with more humanity than would be expecred under the circumstances. The ordinary occupa ‘tions of the people are little interfered with by either of the belligerents. The people of the country go and come and pass back and forth from the Carlist to the republican Lnes without apparently the slightest let or hindrance. For in- Stance, the villages of Hernani and Urnieta are little more than a mile apart; the former is held by the Serranoists, the latter by the Carlists, and yet the inhabitants pass between the two villages and go and come almost as in times of peace. The ousiness of a Spy must be a very easy one here. As far aa I can see there is nothing to prevent a Cariist sol- i dier from throwing off his unilorm, putting on his ordinary clothes and going through the republican | lines with impunity. Indeed, both parties seem to Dave the greatest indifference to sptes, and pre- sent, in this respect, a morbid contrast to the French, who took is into their heads during the late War that it was spies who did them all the harm. I have now been im the Carlist country two months, travelling in every direction, and have only been asked for my passport three times. France, ander the same circumstances, I would have been asked for it at least fifty. Here, as well as around Pampeluna, Irun, St. Sebastian and other places, the two parties have a kind of tacit understanding that noo-combatants are to be dis- turbed as little as possible, and except during actual fighting they seem to move about as freely as in peace times. Apart from ‘this one cannot help being astonished at the very slight tnterraption the civil administration of the country has suffered, Public works are going on, roads oceing repaired, bridges vullt, and every- | where the regular routine work of the civil gov- ernment is progressing as in times of peace. Don Garlos has by no means seized the whole revenues of the country for military purposes, as might naturally be supposed under the circumstances he In | | Watch the garrisons at Irun and Hernani. Irun might, however, very easily prevent this by keeping @ small post of soldiers stationed at the bridge. This, with the apathy which marks all the actions of the Spanish oMicer, he has not done up to within the last few days, and the result 1s that | shells and cartridges have all along been brought in by the Carlists under the very muazles of bis canoon. THE SITUATION AT THE FRONTIER. Crossing the river by the Cartist ferry you find yourself at the foot of a steep, rocky, woody moun- tain, along whose base and the river bank leads a | good macadamized road in the direction of Vera. You follow this about a quarter of a mile and then ; fake to the mountain by @ path so steep that un- less you have a strong horse or mule you will probably find tt desirabie to dismount and climb | up, Manging to the animal's tall, tumes over rocky shingle, sometimes through bits of wood and little forests of chestnut trees, ‘Until half an hour's ascent brings you to the top of the mountain, which is a long sharp ridge running parallel to the river and covered with heather. | Proceeding along this for @quarter of a mile you | come to the mountain’s brow, where it breaks | suddenly off, and you find yourself oa the edge of | an almost perpendicular wall looking down on the town of Irun lying at ita foot. You have a bird’s eye view here of the town, and can almost see | down its chimneys. The Carlists’ outposts are here within 300 yards of theirenemy, The Serranoist soldiers can be seen lounging about the streets; around the outside of the town, on the land side a sentinel here and there; to the leit the woody Up you go, some- | | year or so since, on t mountains and little valley through whic you | will have to pass in making your detour around the town; beyond the bay, half shut in by a rocky Promontory, extending out into the sea; to the | Tight the little valley of the Bidassoa, the towns of Behobia, Hendaye and Fontarabia; in the dis- tance St, Jean de Luz and Biarritz, and beyona and behind all the mighty ocean, extending to the | | horizon, blue and silent and beautiful. It is a S8e>ne such as those who follow the roads only can | never behold. From here you turn ana go down the mountain | side, and soon find yourseif in a delightful, shaay little valley, or rather dell. There is an iron smeit- | ing furnace here not tn operation. The fires are | out, and instead of the roar and flame and smoke and noise that usually reign in such a place, there | | 18 only stience. The whole place is embowered tn | trees, and Jooks least of all things like an tron fur- | | Dace, while the little raflroad connecting it with | , Iran ts overgrown yith grass, as though no train | | bad been over it for a long while. We follow | the windings of this little stream that | goes brawling through over the rocks for ashort | | distance, and then, leaving {t, soon commence as- | cending a hillside. In a few minutes we are again in sight of Irun, now not more than half a mile | distant. The Carlists hold the country around right up to the town, and we might approach still nearer were we so disposed, without risking any- thing more than a chance shot trom an evilly dis- posed sentinel. The country here is beautiful and rich, and, although very much broken up by hills aud hollows, is covered with orchards and corn- | fields. Maize, or corn, as we usually call it in America, is cultivated throughout this part ol Spain very extensively and with very fair success. We cross another low, woody hill and in half an hour more come out on the high road ieading from lrua to Tolosa, having been two hours in making @ distance we might have accompushed in half an hour by the road, Twenty minutes’ march on the | road bring us to Oyarzun. It is a village of per- haps 2,000 inhabitants, but about one-fourth of the houses were standing in ruins, baving been burned by Santa Cruzin an attack he made here | upon the Madrid troops. It is held by two battalions of Carlist soldiers, who are here to Three miles farther on we are again obliged toleave the road in order to pass around Hernant. This detour ; proves to be muenh longer and the road very much | worse than the last. The mountain here is cov- | See So startin, Everything considered, the peopie show asur- prising indifference to the dangers of war. MEXICO AND GREAT BRITAIN. An English Naval Commission in the Mexican Capital—The Question of the Balize Bouudary Violation Still Un- settled—Are the Unitea States Inter- ested Financially t MEXICO CrTy, Oot. 17, 1874 Considerable discussion ts now being made in all circles bere as to the businegs o/ some English naval officers, who visited this city this week, from an English war vessel, anchored at Vera . Rumors of their visit relating to the Eng- lish debt of Mexico and @ pending arrangement between the convention bondholders ahd the United States government, through the English government, have been afoat, A REPLY REQUIRED. The facts are these:—That the English officers brought and asked an answer to an official com- munication of the English government, in reply to Mr. Lairagna’s answer to Lord Granville @ e Balize question. I learn that the communication of the English govern- | ment is exceedingly polite, but firm, and that it urges upon the Mexican government the neces- sity Of @ speedy settlement of the Balize question. REPUBLICAN DELAY. The government of Mexico will not reply until iv recetves new Information trom Mexican sources in regard to the matter in dispute, THE POPE TO YOUNG CATHOLICS. Allocution of His Holiness Before the Roman Society of Catholic Young Men. [From the New York Catholic Review.] The following allocution was pronounced by His Holiness the Pope, on Octover 2, before the Boman Society of Catholic Young Men:- Yes, the temporal power is indispensable to the sovereign pontits lor the free exercise of their spiritual autnority. The chief of the Church has need of a temporal authority in order to exercise that freedom of action which is necessary to him, Assuredly, if instead of the temporal power the successors Of St. Peter had received that pos- sessed by the Prince of Aposties, and of which we @u illustration in the deaths of Anantas and Sapphira, he would possess so great an authority that he could with any temporal power in order to govern freely the Church of God. But since God has dis- posed otherwise, and we have not this power | which belonged to Peter, it ts absolutely necessary that the sovereign pontiffs should, for the better directing of the Charch of Christ, be subject to no human authority. It 1s essential, therefore, that they should have temporal power. God has willed that the Church shall be constantly persecuted, and we must sabmit to His noly will; but we must, nevertheless, always do our part in main- taining religion and justice. But to fight is the occupation of our live’, for do we not see written in the Seriptures, ‘Mitta est vita hominis super terram? has been she case through many centuries, and will be so to the end of time. It ts but too true that we have to sustain an inward combat. Yet we must not only struggle with our inner nature, but also with externa) enemies, and this battle has become more necessary to-day than ever. It is all the more essen- tual now, when by means of the rapidity of transit and communication the wuole world is transformed into one battie fleld. Iwo armies face each other; you form a part of the Catholic army ; opposed to you ts the revolutionary army which reckons many recruits always ready to fight. Therefore must we be constanuy pre- pie to resist iis attacks and to repulse them. ‘ou have opposite you the army Of the revolution— that is to say of impiety, incredulity and irreii; ion. This ariny, like that of the Catholics, is di- vided into several parts;or rather it resembles the weather which precedes a storm. (At this moment a terrific tempest, which had been threat ening all the morning, burst over the city of Rome, @ circumstance which explains the allusion of the Pope.) We have first a period of gloom, followed by one of sttil greatePobscurity, to which succeeds @ moment of total darkness. These three degrees combine to form the tempest. That is just what happens in politics. First of all you have those men who seem to cross their arms and remain | aloo! in a state of supreme indifference, but who, in the most infamous and perfidious manner, oc- cupy themselves by writing and disseminating the | most pernicious principles. ‘These men are all the more dangerous because they appear inactive. Then come those who seem to advance step by step and who each day commit a fresi act of im- | ptety and usurpation; they succeed in the long run in taking possession of everything and destroy- ing everything. Lastly, there is the completely black gradat‘on, that which resembles the present tempest Which has burst over our heads whule 1 have been speaking. This inundates towns with blood and spreads desolation, incendtartsin ana death. These three colors form the revolution. And now | dears 7ee to Juage yourselves if itis not to the second color that certain well-known governments belong. These do not torget to ao on motion of Dr. Beach, added to the Prayer Book and ordered to be sent to the several diocesan conventions for concurrent action. A long de base ensued on @ proposition to mtroduce the colon, or musical sign, tn the Psalter, so that David’s poetry might the more readily be Panes Wasr Prrrsron, Nov. 1, 167% The Convention decided, however, that those | Tne fre in the “burning mine” (reference to who could sing did not require this colon to belp | which, in the datly papers, drew moro or less How Science Triumphed Over Nature. easily dispense | Would do, but has ordered that wherever not pre- | ered with woods, but is very steep, and in many vented by actual military operations the civil places the one narrow path, owing to the frequent administration should continue to operate as in | springs, isa quagmire. After a two hours’ march ordinary times. This shows that he knows more | we descend into the valley, or rather hollow, of about governing a country than he ts usually | the Urumea, which flows into the seaat St. Sebas- given credit for. tian, It isa rapid but shallow stream, that goes HOW THEY TREAT BACH OTHER. tumbling over avery rocky bed, and we prefer There are other things that strike us here as | fording it to going a mile around to an old stone Deing curious, There seems to be little personal | bridge that exists higher up. It isa wild, savage animosity or bitterness between the soldiersofthe looking dell, and the three or four houses I saw two armies, in spite of all the stories told of cold- | here among the trees were in ruins, having been blooded cruelty to each otner. They often meet in | burned—some of them by the Carlists, some by disputed territory im frontier villages without | the republicans—in the early days ofthe war. We coming to biows, and I have beard @ number of | met here a squad of soldiers, with a wounded Stories which show that, whatever may be their man. They carried him on a litter on their politicai opinion, they have no very great feeling | shoulders, taking turns to relieve each other. of animosity toward each other, and that arecon- | They were very merry apparently, and were talk- ciliation could be very easily effected between the ing and laughing noisily; but they were very soldiers once their respective chiefs were of a gentle with the sick man nevertheless, and al- mind. Opposing sentinels near each other often ways took care to tarn the litter head or feet fore- strike up a conversation, and having come to @ satisfactory understanding lay down their arms, meet each other half way, exchange cigarettes for | wine, or wine for bread, or breaa for meat, as the | case may be, treating each other to a variety of Opprobrious names and epithets the while (the | Spanish soldier, unlike the Russian, always in- sults his enemy), anc then resume their respective positions. In every war it often happens that troops on the skirmish line during a cessation of hostiiities arrange a kind of armistice between themselves, but itis unheard of for sentinels to do 80, The following story, I am assured, is trne in | every particular, A dozen republican soldiers having got lost in the mountains one cold, rainy night, knocked at a house for shelter which hap- pened to be already occapied by a dozen Carlists. Alter a little preliminary negotiation an agree- ment was come to; the repubicans were allowed to enter and the Carlists shared tueir rations with them in the most hospitable manner. They all slept together in the same house, shook hands next morning, and each party went peaccably on its way. The village of Urnieta is situated on the road leading from Iran to Tolosa, It 1s about sixteen miles from the trontier and ten trom the sea. The jort of Hernant forms with Irun, on the frontier, and St, Sebastian, on the sea, an almost equilate- Tal triangle, as they ail three command the railroad and the macadamized road leading from France through Iran and Tolosa, The Carlists are obliged to take to the mountains and have re- course to mules jor the transport of everything coming {rom France by this route, The way is very diMcult and toilsome, bat one fs well repaid for the trouble of climbing the mountains by the mag- nificent views to be got of the surrounding country and of the strange, wild, oat of the way places never visited by the ordinary traveller. ‘The little French town of Behobia, situated on the banks of the Bidassoa, which here forms tue frontier, 1s likewise on the road which leads into Spain through run. The bridge is commanded by the guns of the fort, and the republicans there- fore prevent the Varlists from using it, But as the Carlists have possesston of the hilis around they prevent the republicans from using it, and the bridge is therefore practically closed, On the French side of the river, nowever, is @ narrow but well kept macadamiged road leading to Vera. About # mile above Bebobia the river makes a curve to the right, and here separates from the frontier, so that the Carlists can pass it with. out crossing the river. At this point, too, a high most according as the path led them up or down the mountain side, Half an hour’s steep ascent from here brought us in sight of the Fort of Her- | nani. It 1s partly stone, partly of earth, and, built | on the top ofa very steep, rocky hill, will prove an | exceedingly hard nut for the Carlists to crack. fbe road here led about 1m a very tortuous | manner, sometimes between small cornfields and orchards, again through woods and trees which completely cut off the view, and sometimes it was cut so deep in the earth as to completely hide us. FIRED UPON. Thad stopped here at an open spot to survey the fort, a little more than a mile distant as the | crow flies, when suddenly there was a flash on the | parapets and a few seconds afterward came the shell seething through the air toward us as though mad for blood. It passed over our neads | and exploded a hundred yards from us, heaving up the earth ike @ miniature volcano. My party had been increased by the addi- tion of @ dozen heavily laden mules, whose driver had dropped into a line behind us, and we, therefore, were numerous enough to attract the attentions of the gunners of the fort, who prob- ably took us for a convoy with Carlist munitions of war. And, indeed, for ali I know to the con- | trary, they were right. The mule drivers now | | hurried their beasts forward toa place where the | | banks on each ide of the road were so high as to | afford ample protection, and we waited to see if they would fire any more. They gave us one or two more shots, but as we were completely covered by the dank, and were besides hidden by trees and brushwood, their shells went far astray | and they soon turned their attention elsewhere. | | Prom this on to Urnieta, where Iam writing this | letter, the road was generally covered with trees | or brashwood, they could only get glimpses of us now and then, and they did not think worth while to disturb us farther. Arrived here I determined to stay all night just out of curiosity. 1had at | first some difficulty in procuring a place to sleep. | Although there is @ Jonda, or a hotel, the ' people at first absolutely refused to receive me, insisuung that the place was fall. In the end I had to go to the Alcadi with my papers, | who gave me a billet on the same fonda. 1 am the only guest in @ house large enoogh to afford ac- | commodation for @ dozen. It is now dark, and | for the last half hoar Ihave been witnessing a | Curious spectacle. Urnieta consists of an upper | and a lower town. The lower is on the road, the upper on a little piatean perhaps fifty teet higher | than the other. Here is am open square, on one | the young man to them. side of which—the side next to the fort—rises mountain intervenes between Ge fork af iran | dark and agidre the ald suurok, The wadoma of evil, and each day seize opportunities to commit some iresh act of immorality and impiety. Three days ago I received a ietter asking me to give aid to a house of retuge for poor servant girls, where, | while they are out of service, they can find an | asylum secure from the danger of the loss of the | soul and reputation. Now, one of the cnief reasons | why this hou:e is to be opened 18 because the gov- | ernment itself pretends to take an interest in | these poor girls, And what interest, think you, | 1t takes in them’ it condemns them to @ vile traffic, by shutting them up in houses of prostitu- | tion. ‘That is what the men of tue second category | Lhave indicated do. They work step by step, but not the less surely for that, and their object is to | Overthrow honesty and morality, and to destroy religion itself, if that is possibie. On our side we ought to do what 1s in our power to fight these terrible enemies. We must moruty ourselves and confound impiety and prevent sacrilege. We must have confidence in God, They say that there is | no God. Non est Deus, dixit insipiens in corde suo (there is no God, says the fool in his heart); and, unjorvunately, now many there are who act just as if there were, indeed, no God! But, as for you, openly assert that there is a God, and repeat everywhere, bo:n at home and abroad, that He exists, and that there always bas been, and always Will be, One who will punish the wicked who try His patience and that of His servants. Have courage, thereiore, for the reward will be reserved for those who do their duty, as happened to the man born blind, who was cured vy the Saviour. Our Lord Jesus Christ called him to Him, and after composing a certain material applied it to his eyes, and then told him to go and bathe im the | ool Of Siloe. He went and was cured. The harisees, who were full Of jealousy, called the young man to them and asked him who effected his cure. He answered frankly, ‘The man who is called Jesus took clay and appiled it to my eyes, and then told me to go and bathe in the fount of Stloe. I went, I washed and I see. The Pharisees answered him, ‘‘It is impossibie, for that man is a sinner, and @ sinner cannot periorm miracles!” “{ know not if he is @ sinner,” answered the man, “ali I know is that I saw not before he touched me and that now {see.” The Pharisees, irritated by these answers, callea the parents of Now, these were timid folk, people who held the middie course, and they answered, ‘We know that our son was born blind, but we know not how it is that he sees now, | nor do we know the person who cured him, put is of age, ask him yourselves; aeiatem habet interrogate. Then the Pharisees called the biind man to them @ second time and again questionea him, and he, being wearied with their persistence, answered them:—‘l told you once; why do you ask again? Do you wish to become nis dis- ciples ?? Angered by this answer the Pharisees dragged nim to the door of the temple and pushed him out of 't; bat he met the Saviour, who con- soled him and spoke Kinaly to him, and he knelt and adored Him, fearing not the people who stood by. Let ué follow his example and fear not to con- fese openly our faith. There are many Pharisees s@broad to-day Who are scandalized because they see 80 miracles performed, especially in France. They say that miracies are impossible, as if anything were tmpossibie to God! God per- woe miracies, and it is through the intercession of Mary that they are performed, because there are many Onristians who openly con- intercession of the fess their faith in the Mother of God. Be constant and steadfast, there- fore, and do not be ashamed to oonsess your faith tm God in the midst oi the world and to aes duties as true Christians. | repeat to you, e constant and firm in the fulfilment of your du- ties, and remember that the good example of bo Loe is worth more than a sermon from a min- wind b ow, fnorder to confi ft now, in or rm you in your Als) top and to sustain your courage, I Bice you and your families. Return to your parents and teli them that tne old Pope biesses them and that he has prayed that his biessing may attend them to the hour of ftetr Geatn, Tell oly} es hey and you may bless forever and ever. Benedicto Bet ete. GUNNING OasUALTY, Charles Craft,a young man residing at Locust Valley, was out guoning on Friday afvernoon, and, when in the act of stepping into boat his gun, which he held by the muzzle, was discharged, fsbo | Off one of his fingers and complet shattering the reat of his band, so that he wili be STADIA 10k Life. them and those who could not it would interfere with their correct reading of the Palms. It there- fore voted against the two dots. SHORTER SERVICES DEMANDED. The Committee on Canons’ report on shorte ned services was taken up and the first resolution was a@dopted without discussion. It is as follows:— ved (the House of Bish: tit is tne MRSS Betts Coneessign tpt moibing tothe Dr is Yonven! nothing 1a the present Order of Gomminok Wares ho pits the veparation, when desjrabie, of the Morning Prayer, the Litany and the Order for the Aaministration of the Lord's Supper into | distinet services, which may be used independently of eacu other and éither of them without the others: ‘pro- vided that, when nsed together, they be used in the same order’ as thatin which they have commonly been used and in wuleh they standin the Book of Common rayer. ‘The second resolutiop did not pass soeasy. It created considerable debate, the pertinence of which may better be inferred from reading of the resolztion itself, It 1s as follows:— Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That a joist comminion, sonsisting pf even Blakans Presbyters and seveu laymen, be appointed (the Prosby- ters and laymen to be chagen'by baliot in the House of | Deputies) to take into confideration the whole subject of Tubrical revision, amons other things providing sort- = x 1 more varied cea and @ hew Lectionary, and making such other s@estions as may seem judi: cious with respect to the services and ofdces of tho Church, and to report to the next General Convention. Mr. Meigs, of New Jersey, opposed this resolu- tion on the ground that it interfered with doctrine Which cannot be legisiated on in this way. Mr. Welsh, of Philadetphia, the most pronounced low churchman in the Convention, favored the relief posboed in this resolution, One minister of this hurch has been deposed, though he has declared that he did not violate any essential part of the rubrit. The Church has done all that can be done to prevent the progress of priestoraft, and nothing can be added thereto. Mr. Welsh showed that the only discretionary acé allowed to ministers related to the hour ior baptizing tniants. This commission is to consider and tell us the value ofrubrics. It may be able to show us how we can return to | primitive church rubrics. He believed that other prayers than those in the Prayer Book had gone up to glory and to God. He believed, he saia, in THE RUBRIO OF COMMON SENSE. If he were travelling with a clerical companion and the latter were asked to baptize an infant he would have to delegate that office to the speaker, unless he (the clergyman) had a Prayer Book with him. Mr. Smith, of Souvn Carolina, opposed any change in the Prayer Book. The act would be an- constitutional, and it was too late now to do the | thing asked for, Mr. Douglass, of Delaware, said | there are two things to be considered in this mat- | ter—the human and the divine. Doctrines are divine; rubrics are not, nor of divine authority. ‘They are purely man made and it 1s jolly to say that they are or can be amendments to doctrines, What our ancestors aid in the days of the Wesleys we are likely to do now. Their followers were | ready to receive our sacraments, but we would | | not allow them this right unless they took the | | Prayer Book and all that it contained. He (the | speaker) belonged to the old Evangelical party, and he hoped this Church would not repeat the | eat mistake of the mother Church with the ethodists. AFTERNOON SESSION. A recess was taken for lunch, after which vari- ous amendments aud motions to postpone and lay | On the table and to get rid of this troublesome | subject were offered, put they were voted down | because the deputies had not discussed the matter | suificiently. Dr, Adams, of Wisconsin, got the floor, and said that ifit (this resolution) passed it | would simply make a new Prayer Book. Mr. | Sheffy, of Virginia, asked, What is this that so | drigntens the deputies? Are they airaid to trust | the next Convention? The proposition Is to ap- | point twenty-one men of each order, good men and true, who are to consider and report on cer- | tain matters of importance to the whole Church, It binds no one to anything, present or prospec- | tive. We don’t know what this Commission may | | report, but when their report comes up it | Wil be tame to discuss it. They will be | | as trae to the Church as we are, and 11 | | they say they approve of this proposition | and the House of Bishops approve of it also then during three years more the whole Church will | consider it and if at the end of nine years this | Charch says that these changes shail be made May they not be made? He was not afraid to trust this Onurch. Virginia, the diocese which he represevted would be found alongside the progress of the Church; and if in the providence oi God calamity should befall this Church and she should be driven on the breakers Virginia will be found in that hour, as she has always been, opposed to | | extremes on one side or the other and conserva- | tive as she has ever been | CONSERVATION BY REPAIR. | Dr. Huntington, of Massachusetts, said this | measure was needed, and be reminded the House that the minorities of the present will be the ma- jorities of the future. This is a proposition to consider what shall be done to keep this House of ours in repair for the next 100 years, and do away | with the necessity oi tinkering it every three | years. ‘The true principle 1s conservation by re- | | pair, Mir. Rogers, oi Texas, spoke inst the res- olution and Dr. De Koven for it, The vote was taken and the resolution received its qaietus by a | Vote of sixty-six nays to fifcy-three yeas. | The following amendment to article 11 of the | | constitution was adopted:— Congregations of foreign race worshipping in foreign tongue may be admitted Into union. with this Church or ormanized by ministers of this Church, under such pro- | visions for the conduct of their public worship 4s may from time to time be canonically made by the weneral Convention. Anumber of unimportant messages were re- ceived from the bishops. There was one message, however, woich set off New Mexico and Arizona a3 a new missionary jurisdiction, and the bishops | Dominated as bishop thereof the Kev. William | F. Adams, of New Orleans, whose confirmation, in secret session, was made unanimous, PERSONAL SKETCH OF DR. ADAMS. The new missionary Bishop of Arizona is a na- tive offreland, When he was a child his parents removed to America and settled in Kentucky, where he was educated. They were Metlodists, and he was brougnt up in that faith, but Re sub- | equently united with the Protestant Episcopal | Charen, tn Mississippl, by whose bishop, Green, | he was ordained in 1560, and bis early ministry was | spent in Wardville, in that State. During the yel- | low fever epidemic in Louisiana he temporarily left his own peciatt to minister to the sick and | | dying in neighboring parishes in Louisiana, where | this scourge was severe. For this heroic offering | of nimself he received a gold medal from the an- | thorities. At the close oi the war he was called to | St. Peter’s church, New Orleans, which he aiter- waras left to take charge of St Paui’s parish, where he now ministers. le has represented his | diocese in three successive general attract | | including the present one, He 1s very modest and | | retiring in manner, and his voice has been rarely | | heard in the Convention, though he 1s said to be a | | Muent speaker and a men of sound learning. He is not as long nor as broad as some of the bishops, but he can do good work for the Charch, He 18 forty years of age. RELIGIOUS DISPUTES AT JERUSALEM, According to @ correspondent of the Turqeete, the aspect of affairs among the various Christian sects in Jerusalem is at the presents moment | (October 1%) threatening. While the Greek and Latin communities are disagreeing over | the decoration of the Grotto of the Nativity, | the Christians of all rites are much concerned | | abous the fate of the Pillar of the Scourg- | ing, which 18 their common property. This pular, which is kept in @ Latin church, suddenly @isappeared, but on inquiry it was affirmed thas It had merely been placed in a box for safety while the church was undergoing certain necessary re- pairs. The other communities thereupun set their seals upon the box and all excitement was for the moment aliayed. In the meantime. however, ra- mors have been set on foot that the Latins had pucked up and sent to Rome the true pillar ana Substituted for it another piece of stone. The correspondent adds that it is reared these rumors may give rise to grave disturbances. ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, Suspicions of Foul Play Kntertained. STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 2 1874, The residents of Cos Cob, in the town of Green- | wich, are considerably excited over the mysteri- ous disappearance of Mr. George E. Lockwood, ‘when he was left by the crew of an outward bound sioop in the vicinity Of @ small island of tne since been found in the cabin. The missing man was the chief witness for the State of Connecticut in several prosecutions for theit, which were to have been tried at Greenwich to-day; and it is feared he has veen foully deait with, He is thirty-three years of age, o! heav: build, five (eet nine inches in height, and nad dar! | edies, was in attendance day and night. During brother of Conductor Frederick Lockwood, of the | fearing the concussion of air which results from New York ond Boston tightning train, He was | {i leMk fein ane oe trout Of % last seen on the evening of Tuesday, October 27, | to remain. mouth of Mianus River, near Cos Gob bridge, | it was over, but while the men were absent the On this island ts a cabin, which was | fire had swept through the open 8; and cov- occupied by Lockwood, who was employed | ered a fleid far beyond its original nsions ; air as @ watchman y owners of oyster | currents were reversed; connecting passages peat asa. thts inland in eafoty, for sevoral articles | dough to th Keep them going was to leed reac 0 ral articles | death to the men; to keep them was whicn he had with him on Tuesday night have | the fire. 4 i$ = attention in the early part of the year) 1s at last conquered. The agent which has gained the vic- tory, after months of valiant, persistent battle with the flames, bringing into play almost every resource of engineering skill, is a new one, which henceforth takes ita place as the fire destroyer, whenever that most to be areaded toe enters the mines, The employment of steam by the Lehigh and Wilkesparre Coal Oompany in extinguishing the Empire Mine fire has proved a success, which must be of incalculable value, not alone tn Penn- sylvania, but in mining districts everywhere, The ‘Dame of the foreman of the Empire Mine, Lewis 8, Jones, through whose sagacious and persistent endeavors the trial by steam was made, ts cer- tainly worthy of record and remembrance, Mr. Jones’ own detailea, technical account of the method used in fighting the fire, and of the causes which baffied all efforts through months of energetic, well directed labor, is to be published by the company for the use of those most tnter- ested, and @ paper descriptive of tnese methods has been read before a meeting of civil engineers. But no account has yet reached the publicofa battle with Name as full of vivid and picturesque interest as it was of peril and excitement to those engaged tn it, Seoking information on this and some matters of Kindred interest, your correspondent was re- ferrea by the President of the company to its as- sistant superintendent, on whom had chiefly ae- volved the datly supervision and practical carry- ing out of all efforts for saving the mine, “It is impossible to enter the scene of the late fire,” was the reply to my first query, “as itis entirely walied | up and filled with steam; but I think that with the ald of our maps I can explain to you all you wish to know.” The story {s one full of fascination and of value ag well, in view of the vague and curious ideas of what fire in the mines realiy amounts to, set forth by comments on the same, even in the midst of the mining regions. The general thought seems to be 01 & Vein Of coal burning itself out in certain restricted limits, or so situated that a stream of water could be easily turned in, fooding it out, Comparatively few persons are aware of the absolute necessity of conquering it, invotving not merely heavy expenditure, but a warfare tax- ing to the utmost the inventive and executive ability of men familiar with munes and engineer- ing. Ishali strive to tell the story as succinctly as possible. On the hillside, perhaps @ mile frem where we stood, was the mouth of @ slope from which mines, now abandoned, were formerly worked; afterward used as an up-cast for purposes of Ventilation 12 connection with boilers below. These boilers were placed near the head of Empire siope No. 5, which leads still further down into newer workings. Near the entrance to the slope stood a wooden stack which, at one A. M. on the 81st of last December, was discovered | to be in flames, doubtless carried up to it almost instantaneously from fire originating at the | boilers. The open spaces on each side of the slope had been walled up with stone, but with | doorwass for occasional necessary entrance to the old workings; and tle fire bad communicated at once throug these doors with the timber sup- ports, stretching in all directions through the abandoned chambers. 80 that although officers | and men were promptly on the spot they were | met as the very first by a torrent of flame, like | that whica the lake winds swept over Chicago, carried up througn @ diagonal chimney of 1,200 feet, from what was already a solid stream of fre on & level of 356 feet, as a plumb line might fall, below the spot where they stood. Water was poured into the slope from a reser- | voir above, and turned on below from the water pipe that fed the boilers, so | soon as they could be reached through the near- | est shaft with its connecting gangway, while every effort was used to cut off air from the fire without destroying the ventilation necessary for the workers. But at the end of three hours the slope fellin, shutting the fire in from above and dis- bling the boiler pipe below. A steam pump worked from the mine engine was speedily sub- stituted, but a few hours made it evident that the | campaign needful for subduing the fire was to be both prolonged and dangerous. Plans were rap- idly laid and promptly carried out to save the en- | @ine house and the pillars ou the gangway by | which the boilers were reached, as to lose this Way into the mine was to lose al!. And the enor- | Mous work was then betore them of not only con- quering the fire in its present stronghold, but of | Reading it off in all directions to prevent its com- | Municating through open passageways with other | workings. | From above ® slope was to be driven down for @ distance of 160 feet through gough clay, divided into downcast and upcasi, to reach the fire trom the surface. A fan, needed for the ddwncast, to | keep back smoke and gases that the men might enter, Was taken apart, removed two miles, re- | | fitted and at work witnin thirty-six hours; and In | filveen daysfrom the time the slope was begun, the old slope was reached and water poured In. | | But it was necessary to cross this slope, anda plank “manway” was held by playing on ft con- tinnually until one of stone could be built and pushed through in sections. Below, “manways#’ were to be built and held beside every pillar, and through old fails from the roof, to enable the men to hold & position from which a ogiy bring the hose to bear upon the beds of fire in every cnamber, caused by the crumoling under the intense heat of the outsiue poruons of the pillars, which ‘ell, keeping the masses of glowing ‘ooal rpetually These “manways’ could be held by turning water continually them, the lower end the planks being often on fire belore the upper could be put securely in place, so that the men worked tn heat ranging from 160 degrees to 176 degrees, and as the bluck damp also was steadily rising one man could rarely work tor more than from three to five minutes at a time. Kelays were ready to bring them out promptly If overcome and carry them to the office in the main gangway, where a phy- sician, with three assistants and all needed rem- 2 ‘I 3S 6 al! the terrible conflict, while there were 800 men continually at work, but one life was lost, and that was by the biac! ip, when @ tan finally broke Gown. As the fans could not be stopped a moment for repairs a system of signals was de- vised and successfully carried out, to give warn- | ing imstantly through ail the mine if one gave way. This Was ali the more needful, as the draught of air had two miles to travel before it emerged, bringing smoke and gases with it. ‘The severe winter rendered the campaign more arduous. Heavy machinery, and ali the lumber and stone needed for manways and supports and, later, for walls, were to be brought over moun- tain roads and carried by men into the mine. All waters that had been available from outside were frozen solid for three weeks; and the mine water, which ate out the machinery with feariul Fapidity—the hose not bearing i; more than one or two days—nad to be depended upon, used over sometimes thrice. But probal the neaviest work hog een (feed ts all ee neh res eae organizing, ing, especially the ingp! of the men in the iace of their feartul foe. 9: At the close of February the fire, save for about 200 feet, had been securely enciosed, and the end seemed near, when sound and sign gave | token that the roof of the old workings to the ‘west was about to fall, This had been so provided for as to insure its coming quietly, but the men, 5 al tances, but the fall came so gently that they were Unaware of it, On March 1 the officers zouna'tnat It was at this time when new measures were imperative that tne mine doss, Lewis 5. Jones, a the trial of steam. From the 12th to tne 18th of March it was tested in spaces still en- closed, A wall entirely surrounding the old work- Pe was completed with eager haste; all cave holes above were tightly packed wita clay; @ sin- h eg and & dark mustache. He was clothed ina cack brown, coat and gray pants, apd | Wore @ trusa ‘ae remaining. The steam from gle airway, to be afterwards grad | of most general serted, and in May afl eyes looked fal tarswell tor Ye fire. At that time the thee: mometer attached to the test pipes registered 176 es. Amonth later the lower stratum wag The s however, will be kept confined Until the first of January next, to provide against any lity of lurking danger. § the! thw information your corre- dent very giadly accepted the offer of a ride lown the valley to see something more of this sec- tion of the lon. It wi be superfluous 1 be- tance of eleven miles southwess Wilkesbarre we leit the car, and a8 we clam- if @ rocky path my companion said :—‘4 am going ou ope of the wonders of the ‘world—of this of the world, at any rate. I wal ui sss teed an Uy y a and o! veils But there it was before my sigh Some eight or nine feet of earth had been re- moved and laborers were at work on a clear, solid stratum of coal, twenty-four feet in thick- ness, where @ veln had struck outward, covering @ space of 150 acres, Then it makes a dip again, coming to & sudden terminus 400 feet above on the mountain side. The coutse of these layers of min- eral wealth, which make the valley as rich below ag it ts Surpassingly beautiiul above—as shown the map of a megte f refully surveyed—' provebly be of 88 gréat it $6 others as it was me, i Returning, we stopped at No. 17, to visit company’s stores, also to go through one of br great breakers, and comprehend more Tully than we otherwise might its system of screens and rollers; but we lingered longest to see the slate pickers, Doys WhO Sat Over the slides and threw out the slate from the broken coal as fast ag it rolled down. Watching ther grimy facos, some acute, some stolid, but all showing moral and mental material not easy to deal with, 1 wondered aloud “what the average Sunday is teacher would contrive to make of such a ci@s!”’ and was responded to by my com panton telling me that when he begau < ‘San school among them he did not always know pupiis in their weekday dress and faces, and had more than once been amused and startled by hav- ing one and another oi them swinging open 4 door for him in the darkness of @ mine make a tamiliar request for ‘a chaw of tobacco.” Most of these boys, as their fathers before them have done, be- in fe as slate-pickers, then become doortenders r mule drivers in the mines, then laborers, after- wards miners, and not @ few will end their lives as they began, picking slate in the break- ers. Scattered among them were a few col- ored boys. “Yes,” was the answer to my question, “they work in peace ether.” “There ig talk of introducing compulsory education throughout the State, you are aware,” said the Superintendent. “1 don’t know how it wiit be Fre- ceived here; for in many cases, where tue head of the family has been taken, the entire supports of a household comes irom the earnings of the children. We often tell parents when they pring, the younger boys to us that they had better send them to school; but the most of them are hard to convince, ‘We've got along well enough without schooling,’ they say, ‘and so can the chile dren.’ So here again came up the double dim | culty which is continually meeting us in all at tempts at carrying out the needed syste of ane versal education. ‘How much coal land does the company own and what namber of persons do you employ ? were my next questions. “Twelve thousand acres. and we have a shipping capacity of 3,500,000 tons yearly. That gives employment to 11,000 persons.” “But you seem ww have had comparatively little trouble ‘rom strikes or discontent among your workmen. How have you avoided tne difficulties between the Welsh and Irish which occur at certain other collieries 1? “We keep them together at work in such propore tion that race difficulties seldom come to the sur- face, and they have equal chances to rise and to obtain coveted benefits. For instance, we let ous the driving of the headings every six months—all having ap equal chance to bid—instead of making arbitrary aasignments.”’ It may be well to ex- lain here that in driving tue headings, which lead to the chambers tn the mines, the men ree ceive a certain compensation for each foot or yard opened, in addition to that received for the coal mined. “Beyond that,” continued my informant, “our men kuow that we have their interest a6 heart as well as our own; we care for their home comforts and for what concerns them.” We had passed through several of the miners’ viilages, and I had _ been making my own silent comments upon the marked contrast between the comortable cottages and their pleasant surroundings with what | had seem in another section of tne coal regions not very long before. Anovuer fact of which | had been take ing mentai note was the blended courtesy and confidence, the familiar yet respectful greetings that passed between the oficers in our party and the men whom we encountered; an experience repeated in gone, through one of the mines, its engine house und breaker next day. I compared notes with the superintendent in reference to the former miners’ trade union, the ‘Workmen’s Benevolent Association,” which was the respons- ibie agent in earlier years of the worst outbreaks in the coal regions, and is now endeavor- ing to _ rehabilitate itself and become national in its organization. He confirmed the belief which I bad already gained from conversations with intelligent miners that, while the association might for a time regain a certaim amount oi power, the men had had too thorough anexperience of its tyranny anc lawlessness to permit it to force any permanent serious troubles im those districts tn which capital and Jabor nad begun to recognize their interests as identified with each other. And these comprehend a much larger proportion of the coal regions, especially im the northern part of the State, than ts widely ap- prelended, @ strike or difficulty like the present One ina single collery belonging to a small com- wuny at Moosic velng supposed to represent fairly she general feeling, which it does not, any more tham the reports of murders and outrages among tha dangerous classes in New York fairly represent the city. 1 had marked other matters of which to write you, but pense here, having given the points intgrest. STRANDED ON THE SCATARY ROCKS. The Wonderfal Escape of the Steamer Earl of Lonsdale, Now in New York tor Repairs—The Advantages of Water Ballast. Yesterday morning the disabled English steamer Earl of Lonsdale, commanded by Captain Charlies L, Rogers, came to anchor off the Battery, having been compelled to put ito this port for repairs, caused by springing 9 leak by stranding on the Scatary Island rocks, while on the voyage from Sydney, Cape Breton, to New Orleans. The follow- ing is the Captain’s statement, and shows how by energy he prevented his vessel leaving her bones there, which fate befell a sister steamer belonging to thé.same owners aud in the same neighbor- | hood, about a year ago:— 1 have commandea the steamship Earl of Lon» dale for about a year. I was jormerly chief of- cer on her. She 1s of 1,545 tons burthen, and be- longs to the water ballast school, and to this tact laitribute my gooa iortune in getting her off the rocks. We started from Sydney on the 26th of October on my voyage to the Gulf. We went ashore on Monday night, the 26th of October, at ten o'clock, in @ dense fog, about twenty-six miles from Sydney. I had leit the deck about five minutes belore she struck and was about return- ing there. Tne second officer was on the bridge, and the lookout saw the Flint Island lignt, but, owing to the density of the atmos- here, could not see if it was a revolving ight. After passing Flat Point we took a light tm Giass Bay for Flunt Island, and Flint Island for Scatary. When we struck we were going very cautiously—about half speed. HOW THE STEAMER WAS SAVED. After we had grounded we got out anchor astern, and all hands were employed tn throwing coal overboard, While the engines pumped out the water ballast in the tanks, weighing about three hundred tons, and at nine o’ciock the folowing: morning we backed her astern, and the floated off, When we stranded it was high water, and when We got her off it was nearly the same. Had she gone ashore at low water things might have been different. We found when she floated t her collision bulkhead was filled with water, but ow- ing to the vessel being solidiy constracted the pres sure of the water did not driveit in. I resolved to | put into New York for repairs and not continue my_ voy: to New Orleans with the ship ina leaky condition. I have telegraphed to the ownerm of the vessel at Newcastie-on-lyne for orders. I expect to place the vessel on the dry dock here 1 don’t think they will be extensive. Everybody on board the Earl worked with mij and main to get her off the Scatary Rocks, and E look upon our saving her a8 a piece of wonderfal good luck, and attrivute our success greatly to her being a water ballast veesel. ‘The Bari of Lonsdale is ingured in Newcastie-on- Tyne, and has been to New York on several occa- sions. She was built in 1871, and is capable of steaming about eleven knots an hour. THE COOPERS’ LOCKOUT. ‘The lockout of a few hundred coopers, compos- ing Coopers’ Union No. 2, which has been going om for some ten or twelve days, still continues. The journeymen coopers are still resolute in holding on to the rules of the Union, and say that the lock- out amounts really to nothing, altnough the “posses”? nave been trying to attract attention to themselves on account of their pretended attemps to crush the Union. At the Ute time business is dull, and the em- along, but if they wanted Be er San at ime “corner.” worse off at the p be were the ‘bosses’ not to hold week! ings. Some of the “posses” affirm that they pro~ in future not to employ members of the Baton, with the eed be of a few good men who have been “carrying the inferior workmen.’? The men say that in all only twenty-two have been actually put off work by tne ac! of the em- loyers and the remainder of them are about aa they had been. The Agent goes on in this way, and the workmen are still confident; but not more fo than the “bosses” express themselves to be. None of the genui: coopera in the shops where gra was driven down through pines solld work 18 done are out of cmpoyment. Bor ig tae | there apy “lpgkant” amalngk t