The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 RELIGIOUS INTRLLIGENCE. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. “Prndentius” on Ancient Philesophies---Jerome Mopkins on Episeopal Chureh Music. Ministerial and Church Movements— Methodist Missions, Services To-Day. ‘The Corneil Memoria! Methodist Episcopal church | wil celebrate its anniversary to-day. Dr. Lakin, of Alabama, will preach (hia morning, and Dr. | Gibson, of California, this evening, General ad- aresses will be made in the afternoon. The Rev, W. M. Dwinell wiil preach in Au Saints Protestant Episcop@. chureh this morning and evening. The Rev. George O, Phe:ps will preach in Allen greet Presbyterian church to-day, at the usual hours. air. J. B, Wolf will speak before the Spiritualists in Harvard Rooms, The Rev. BE. R. Swackhamer and Mrs, H. M. Sio- eum will speak for the Churen of Humanity, in De Garmo Hall, this morning and evening. Dr. 4. C. Osborn will preach this morming and evening in the South Baptist charch. The Rev. W. fl Thomas will preach tn the Beek- man fill Methodist {piscopal charch, this morning and evening. The Rev. Pp. L. Davies will speak in the Berean Baptist church tuismorning and evening at the Dsual hours, “Dorcas; Her Memorial” this morning, ‘Paul @nd the Fickle Lystrians” this evening, in Caivary Baptist church, by wne Rev. R. S. MacArtour. The Rev. S, A. Tyng, Jr., D, D., will preach this morning and evening in the Chareh of the Hoi Trmity, and Dr. Irving In We afternoon ip the | same place. ‘rhis evening the Rev, W. &. Milburn will speak tm the Ohburen of the Straugers. Dr. Deems will Speak there in the morning on “Fighting Paith.”” The Rey. J. M. Pullman will speak about the good that cometh out of Nazareth, in the Charen of Dur Saviour, chis morning and about the duration | of punishment. “The sieepiess Night of the King of Persia” will be described this evening by the Rev. W, & Pen- gieton (n the Fifty-third street Baptist church. Tne Rev. Dr. T, L, Anderson will occupy the pak pit of the First Baptist church shis morning and evening. “God and His Attributes the Mode! of duman Perfection” will be set forth bis morning in Pumpton Gall Caiversalist church oy the Rev. F. Bitcheock. Dr, armatage will preach this morning and evening in the Fifth avenue Baptist charea, Dr. Alexander will preach his morning and Dr. Gonkng this evening in the Phillipe Memorial | Presbyterian church. “Hopesul Thoughts for a Hard Winter” and “The Royai Words, ‘I Will Not,’ are the topics chosen for consideration by the Rev. J. 8. Kennard in the Pilgrim Baptist church, The Rev. W. H. Boole wiil deliver @ memorial sermon on Mrs. Phoebe Palmer this afternoon in Allen street Metnodist Episcopal charch, The Rev. Dr. George 8. Gare wil preach in the Central Methodist Eptscopal charch this morning, Bishop Peck and Dr. [ves will occupy the pulpit of the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal charch to-day. The Rev. “Court of Appeals’? and about “The Snip tnac Car- fied a World’s lmhabitants,” to-day, in Seven- teenth street Methodist Episcopal charcn. Tne Rey. B. D. Ganse will delivers discourse about “Heaven” this morning and about “King Sau!’ chis aiternoon. The Rey. M. S. Terry wil speak about “Neigh- sorly Love’? tnis morning and will address young ladies this evening in Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal charch, Toe Rev. S. M. Hamiiton will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church at the usual hours to- day. Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, will lecture in the ffoman Catholic Cnurch of the Epiphany this even- ing. ‘The Rev. H. W. Knapp will address the Laight street Baptist church this morning and evening. br. Dashiell will preacn tn Seventh street Meth- pdist Episcopal church this morning and evening. ‘ne Prodigal’s Return” will be described this evening by tue Rey. W. B. Merritt in the Sixth avenue Reformed church, Dr. ives and sishop Peck will preach this morn mg and evening in the Twenty-foarch street Methodist Episcopal church. “The Cnvetied God’ and “The Prayer of the Dy- {ng Thief’ are the themes on which the Rev. J. B. Hawthorne will speak to-day in the Tabernacle Baptist cherch. The Rev. George D, Matthews will minister in Westminster Presbyterian chureb to-day at the asual hours, The Rev. J. N. Galieher will officiate in Zion »-otestant Episcopal church at the usual hours to- day. The Rev, J. V. Saunders will preach in the Wil- lett street Methodist Episcopaleharch this even- ing on “Dancing asa Christian Amusement,” Bishop Cummins will preach im the Charch of the Incarnation (Reformed Episcopal), in Cumoer- Jand street, Brookiyb, this Morning and will aiso administer the rite of confirmation. He will re- view tue proceedings of the General Convention in the Reformed Episcopal church on Madison ave- nue in the evening. The Rev. D. B. Jutten will preach this morning spd evening im the Sixteenth street Baptist | epurch, doubtless with fresh zeal, since his church has removed its debt. Divine service will ve held im the Russian enapel, in Second avenne, this morning, in the English language. The Rev. J. W. Bonnam, Church evangelist, wi!l eommence a “mission” to-day in the Protestant Episcopal Chureh of the Ascension, Greenpoint, Yhe Rev. Dr, Patterson, the revivalist, will preach his farewell sermon to-day in Dr. Fulton's Baptist church, Brooklyn. Lyman ©. House wili lectare for the Progressive Spritua@lists to-day at 1,195 Broadway. The Rev. Dr. R. Van Buskirk, of Indiana, will | preach in the Discipies of Christ church this morn- ing and evening. The Rey. J. Tuttie Smith wi'l preach morning and alternoom to-aay in the Protestant Episcopal Charch of the Holy Sepulchre. “The Life That Now is‘’ and ‘The Life That Is to Corte” are what Dr. Thompson will speak about Wo-day in Christ church (Protestant Episcopa!). Divine service will be conducted this morning — and evening In the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Saviour. Bishop Kerfoot, of the diocese of Pittsburg, Pa, will preach tois morning in the Ohurch of the Heavenly Rest. The Rev. Charles G, Ames, of Philade!phia, will Preach tn the Church of the Messiab this morning. Dr. Porteous will examine the “Reliability of Religious Revivais” this morning, and the “Loose | Laws of Divorce and Their Infuence on National Morality” this evening, in All Souls Protestant Episcopal charcn, Brooklyn, Tue Rev. KR, Hever Newton will preach this morning ona evening in the Anthon Memorial enurch, The Rev, W. T. Sabine wil preach in the First Reformed Episcopal church this morning, The Rev. W. W. Newell, Jr., is to preach this Morning in the Forty-second street Presbyterian eharch, and Dr, Newell io the afternoon, “phe Safe Side’ and “Rights and Duties” are sopica on which the Rev. B. C. Sweetser will epeak this morning and evening in the Third Caiversal- ist church, At the Amity Baptist charch Williams wiil preach this morning. Dr. Rylance wii minister in St, Mark’s Prov. estant Bpiscopal church this morning and even. the Rev. Dr, pg. ‘The Rev, Dr. Rwer Wil preach this morning and | W. &. Boole will speak about the | evening im St. Ignatius’ Protestant Eptscopai | chareh, The Rev. C. C, Tifany will offictate to-day at tne usual bours iz the Protestant Episcopai Church of the stonement, Agreements and Differences of Ancient Philosophie: TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-~ There are, in al! systems of phtlosophy tn vogue before the Christian era, very many things in which they agreed and not a4 few in which wey didered. In general, they agreed ip those funda- Mental truths which are constitutives of tne ob- Jective reason of the race aa weil as in their obvious conciusions, These principies and con- ctusions belong to that Inheritance of trath which belongs to the human family, whetherit be en- | ligutened by Christianity or ieff to the light of reason. | There is both in Piate’s philosophy and Aris- totie’s some things which bave been rejected by | the Christian schools of thought, bur many more | things which have been adopted. Indeed there is | @ true Platonism and there is an erroneous one. | So far as the origin of things is concerned Plato | ehiedy erred in this, that he made (or, rather, is supposed to have made) of che “types” and | “ideas” of things real substances, seii-subsistent | and eternal beings, external to God and indepea- dent of him. To these the Creator had to look in | formmg the world and producing the preseat | cosmic order. These are the types and idean re | Jected and refuted by Artstoule. This principally | ig the Platonism repadiated by the eariy Churoh | | teachers and by Christian schools of thougas tn every age. But there isatruth underlying Plato’s error, | and which in itself is undeniable, namely, that God, betore creating, knows what He is about to do; that He forms within Bis own mind « conce> tion of His intended work, and that it 18 on this pian shat He creates. Surely, unless we deny the existence of a personal God, we must admit that He is intelligent and reasonabie; that He has an intellect or “mind” as well agawill, It is also certain that all Christian | schools, both of puilosophy and theology, have | taugnt that there isa resemblance between the intellectual operation of the divine workman and the human, We are free to bestow on the concepts of the divine intelligence with regard to created or pos- | sible things any names we please, provided we | admit their realicy, Reagontng from the finite to | the tndnite mind, tt must be true to say that the | concept or mental design formed by the architect of Cologne minster is not more Teal than the design of this = mar- ; Vetlous world, as eternally conceived | | by the divine mind, Christian patiosopners, while | unanimousiy amrming this reality, deny with | equai unanimity that God, while about to create, contemplaied any type, pian, form or essence | external to Himself. And, most assuredly, | nothing in the explanations saggested in my | former letvers can possibly convey the impression | | that such was my teaching or my opinion. So lar, | then, this philosophy is neitner pagan in the wrong sense nor pantheistic, Butis it pamtheistic to teach that there is be- tween the conception or design of the world, aa it exisis in the divine ming, and the world actually | created, a resembiance, @ correspondence? To be sure, human language 1s imperiec: at ail times in conveying pare philosophical thought. Stil, any listener or reader who 1s not wil ully captions, will readily sdmit that language | .treproduces” thought, that the poem, the novel, the painting, the statae or the temple does bus “reproduce” the idea! conception of the artist. ln using the term “reproduce” every one under- stands that this reproduction in outward sensible jorm of the spirivaal design in mind does nos argue anytoing like a erial emanativn irom the soul Which conceived 10 the realized externai work. | Lec ag not dim the truth nor confuse the candid mind by quarreiling about words, There mast be— cailit by what Dame you will—a relation of corre- spondence between every design anu its execution, between a plan and jt® reullzation, between an | ideal type or form and its reproduction im sensible | shape. There must be a correspondence between this world a8 it now exists und tts design, in that moat periect intelligeuce which conceived its pus- sibility beiore It Was Outwardly realized, Tulse be- | longs to the Very nature oi things. Now, in comparing the divine architect of the } universe lo a DUMAan Workman I Was moat scru- | pulously careiui to point out the substantial dif ) lerence between the world just created and the design or pian of it whica but a moment beiore | existed in the divine mind or intelligence, It was precisely against this charge o1 iavoring the iorm of pantheism called “emanationism’ that i stu- diousiy guarded the explanation | was giving to your readers. It is paptueisric to teach that there exists but one substance or that the substance of created things 13 identacal with the divine, or again, that created suvstuuces flow from the Cre- ator like a stream 120M its spring. Had I leit it to be understood or concludea that there is sub- | stantial identity or oveness between the beings | which fill inia wondrous world of ours and that | eternal Being which planned and mace it, tuen | indeed, the charge of “pantheiam” and ‘“emana- onism’ had had some reasonable ioundation. , and yet, in your colamas, Ihave been accused of @educing Matter irom essences, types and arche- types!” Pe tmust, then, be manifest to the unprejudiced mind, that while there 13 @ necessary reiation of resembiance and correspondence between crea- tou wud its Creator, tuis resemblance and cor- Peaponaence cannot be made to argue identity or @ubsiauce. Nor is any other relation a Jed, wheu l say that the realty, beauty and iife of created things ‘copy and reflect” the attribntes oO. thew divive origivai. As tO the iurtuer objection raised, that panthe- ism can be iDierred trom my saying ihat ‘alter creativn 1s Completed the sum of being and rea!- ity 18 Dot thereby increased.” This inierence Supposes that Lintend to convey to the reader the substantial identity of the beings created with tue Crearor, I was auXious to jorestail two obections—First, that if the eum ol reality was increased vy creation, therefore God 1s not inf- nite, since & posiive quantity could be added to lis infwitude; and second, that according to my OWu admission, whic every created being copied or reproduced its divine archetype, yet its | suostance differed reaily from that 01 God, and | yet the sum Of realities remained tue same. |” Amy one who ts lamiliar with this deep question | and the various mauners in which it has been dis- | cussed Knows that philosophers and theologians | soive this dimicaity by saying tuat noreaiity exists | in auy created being wich does not already exist | in @ more tramscendent iorm or in a more eminent Gegree in its divine barure. They use lor this the terms vi'tualiter or eminenler and Jormaluer, Taus the beauty of the human body does uot prup- erly and formally exist in God, with its outlines and limitations; but there i8 no principle of cor- poreal beauty or periection that does not exist in | the divine beauty, Ireed from all limite or umper- fections. Thus every intellectual aud moral vir- tue with which we are acquainted exists either | Jormaiiy or emineutiy in God, Thus the energies | or forces residevt in every created spirituai or | material agent have an infinite equivaient in the | divine power. There is bo effect which the iree | agency of wan or angel can produce—no change Or combination that can be brought about by any | play of the great elementary jorces, but uod’s power can bring about more speedily, surely and | pertectiy. Tnus we say that the power of man and angel, tue Jorce of water, wind, sun, heat or | electricity, are contained “virtually” or “emi- | nentiy,” though oot “formally” im the divine | energy. | Take any one line of being, thea, or any one | | sphere of action, and by # little thougat and com- Parison these principles Will enable the reader to | Couvince limseil (that the countiess aiversity of Individuals in that line contain no one reality thatis out already contammed, either virtually, formally or eminently in tue infinite Being, add yet their reality is not His. in any one sphere tue reader wii find oo energy display: wuieh ts pus 8 dim limitation of Aimigoty power. | itremaims true, therelore, ti our being, our | power, our life, while copying im some degree the | diviae, remain essenualiy and suustantiaily dif- | ferent (rom them. There is @ Vital and impassable | digerence; but there 18 @ necessary and essential | fesembiauce. This | was also careiul to indicate | in my Jormer letters. | How such a doctrine as this, so famillar to all Students of poilosopuy and tueology, can be said to bé “subversive of the cardiuai dogmas of Curis- uauity,” or to be “pantheism in its rudest and raokest form,” bas puzzied gota Uttie orners as | weil as myseif. | That your read may know exactly what to | think of the expianations 60 diMdentiy offered by |'me on this deep mystery of creation, iet me say | that the prineipies with whict [| vegan, regardin, | God’s interior itie and external activity ave derive from the Gospel snd the purest sources of Chris- | than theology. | | St John, im the very firs: page of his Gospel, | gays, “In the beginning was tue Word, and the | Word was. with God, 4nd the Word Was God. | All things were made by hus, and without tim | the Word) was nothing Made thas was made." here is a twofold mauoer of punctuating bere, | and, theresore, two ways of reading the next | yerse, Some of the most ancient Greek and Latin fathers place a full stop aiter the words ‘wae no- thing made.’ The next verse then began “What Was made in him, was life;” and this nad reter- ton of the Holy Ghost; or | ibe io bim; and this had | ence to the proce: “What was made, w | Terence to the manner im whicd created vnings existed, as @ living conception, in the Pye Word irom all evernity, Thus in that Div: \ eae *ea te iy Deiore all ages she ° ‘Ss inl kaowie. | Himseit ana tne pos or 5 same nords we aved | ministeriai censors, such, ior’ Instance, a6 life in the Word; the thought of you formed a part | of His life, And you exist 20% in consequence of that loving thought of the di mind and bear:. Not one true Christian philosopher or theologian ever existed that did not pro! this revealed Piatonism o/ St. John the Evangelist. A3 to ibe atiempt made by me to explain how we could help our reason to attain to some faint conception of the divine creative act oy comp: tng It and its effect with what we cal! “the cr hons’”’ of humaa genius, and, further, oy comparing it to tae act by woieh God begets His Word, | shad not here repeat or justify it. { aid not profess to eXplain what in itseif is in- explicabie 02 Us side of beaven, but reveren:ly and lovingly ofered a few analogies to asaist tbe anderscanding. it ts certaiy that Protestant and Catholic theolo- giane sponse of the divine immensity as | did, uor ave ! One Word to retract. How God created me, whence came the matertal elements { see around | me, {know not. The “now” of creation J cannot understand. But | do know there is and can be no apace from which God ig excluded, 00 body or spirit io which he is pot substantially present, The conceptions of time and space wix tuemselves ap Win ay con- ception of that [ntuite Being; bat | am not wm!!- ing that the weakness of my intellect or the errors of oy (maginanon should interiere with what | kKoOw to be the truth. He is everywhere; He is (a my (nmost soa, as well us tn the core ‘vi every ee. And yet His substance is aot mine or th aor are my Vital acts Gis; aud yer, furtner, He sustains my being and every other and concurs with me in every delpful and aoiy act of my iife. This ts the simpie sruth. itis true Christian philosophy, This does not make of God the “world soul” tmagined by Piaco aud dreamed of in our duys by Schelling. I pray your correspondent to read both the one and the other, They differ btm: but their ‘world soul’’ in nowise resem- bies the fiction of my critic, a0 more than his gar- bied extracts {rom ‘my letters resemble the con- text, no more than his accusations resemble either truch or charity. PRUDENTIUS, The Musical Canon—Opinion of Mr. Jerome Hopkins, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Now that the Episcopal Genera! Convention has adjourned, the ritualistic Oght is over and the smoke of battle bas cleared away, I purpose call ing the public's attention to the action of the said Convention with reference to the music of tae Church, regarding which there were two efforts to legislate. Some years ago the Episcopal! gota sight of the Plymoath church coliection of bymas, with music on alternate pages, and, ever ready to imitate, seldom to initiate, some of her clergy conceived the idea of publishing an Ep! copal “Tune Book’? upon the same plan. The aif- lerent musical wants of the two denominations seemed by nO Means to be en impediment inthe way. For example, the Congregational service requires only simple “tunes,” or psaimody, but the Episcopalian ritual calls for antuems, chants and psalm tunes. Nevertheless, the book waa prepared by a “committee”? of three of the clergy, not one of whom could compose @ chant or write a four-part harmony correctly. They therefore calied in the aid of two | “profeasors of music’ of a very mild type, with “members of the | limited reputation; estimable Cnarch,” bat wretched musical grammarians, and who, moreover, bickered conunually over the ar- Fangement of the tunes, so that some of the latter were printed twice over, differently harmonized ! The book, as might have been expected, wasa mass of trash, badly edited, and disgusted all edu- cated organists who were compelled to,use it or else loge thelr positions. In & few years it beesme obsolete, and other books, gotten up by private enterprise and with more science about them, began to fill its place, Alter all these years’ experience of the useless- ness of the ‘‘Tune Book,” Gnding that the music of the Church, in place of betver and better, has been getting worse and worse ail that time, our reverend fathers at the late Convention decided to make another attempt to control organists and choirs by altering the rubric so as to exciude all “frivolous” music. But it is very aiMcalt to tell how this is to be done unless they kick out many who are at present employed as organists and choir masters in tis city and suburbs. ‘The Episcopal Church is 100 puor, tuo bigoted or too mean to employ competent organists as a rule, | The music committees are too ignorant of the functions of their office properly to select or ex- amie the credentiais ol either organis:s or choir Singers 11 they happen to have any, and the elergy are too uumusical, indifferent or cowardly to ex- | ercige their prerogative of veto whenever music 1s introduced which shocks their sense Of prc- prievy or that of their intimate advisers in the congregution-, Icouid point to Many churcaes in this city Where the must ludicrous strife bas at times occurred between organist, chvit, commit. | tee, rector and congregation, and ali because there Was not one man in the lot with the first jota of Giness to cope with the musical question; et each considered bimself the oply qualified Jeage Of the art tobe found. I ask the clergy who engineered tnis latest canon to explain what they mean by “frivolous” music. It is ubportant ior us organists to be iniormed. Of course it cannot ve Intended to inciude apy of the old time tunes so long loved by pious fogies. Still iess is it intended to call ‘irvolous’? the tunes found in the tamous “guthorized” tune boox of 1ne Courc and kin- red works. Yet the majority of those very con- secrated Lunes are notoriously the very essence of frivolity and musical swash, What, on the other nand, the musicians indorse 18 oiten stigmatized as “frivolous” by these ee selec. tions and adaptations irom Mozart's and Haydn's masses, Handei’s and Mendeissoun's oratorios, Schumann's and Beethoven's symphonies and kin- ared serious, if nut in essence “sacred,” compost- tious. ‘The question of jndyment then becomes an issue between our ciergy and these great masters, Laeny the capacity 0: average clergymen to dis- unguish Whut is Imvoious from that which is in the bighest sense appropriate and admiravie, for the simple reason tuat they cannot teit the ditfer- ence between major and minor modes, the Gri Tian andthe Anglican chants, sumple ‘and dou! counterpoint, correct and lauity harmonic pro- gressions, the proper or improper use oi the six qualities of voice, or between the correct and in- correct application of the simple laws 01 musical dynamics, These are among the rudimental requirements of even ordinary amateurs, and spouid be indis- pensavie to any One Who presumes to direct so complex @ science as ehurcu music, My opinion 18 that all this sort of professea musical legisia~ tion on the part of our Episcopal conventions only heips to bring the Churct into contempt. not only with educated musicians but with all persons outside or inside of her paie who are weil read, 18 impeaenment to lollow all transgressions ol this canon? The music of our American Epis~ copai churches cannot be improved until the vil- Jauous system of employing cheap and non-pro- fessionai and irresponsible amateur organists is abvlisned, @ system now very popular. It is traiy Wonderlul, when one thinks of it, vow very ond the Episcopal ciergy are of cheap music. It bevtomes a question of interest whetuer they could be induced to give equal advocacy to cheap Presening! JEROME HOPKINS, 711 Broadway. NOVEMBER 7, 1674. Celebration of the Feast of St. Cecilia. Next Sunday being the Feast of St. Cecilia, patroness of music, the morning services in the eharch dedicated to the saint, at 105th street and Second avenue, of which Father Piattery is the popular pastor, will be celevrated witn becommg pomp. There will bea solemn high mass, com. menacing at half past ten w’clock. The sermon Will be preached by the distinguisued Father Stone, 0.8, P. Exquisite music, as becomes the Charch of st. Cecilia, whieh has aieady ac- quired @ high name among lovers of the ‘Ceiestial art, Will be discoursed by the accomplished choir. signor Cari Mora has composed several pieces for the occasion. in the evening, at nalfe past seven, there will be grand musical vespers, and @ specia! ode to St. Cecilia bas veen composed for the Occasion, representing the death scene of the suint, A discourse ou the “ounection of Music with the Catholic Churob” will be deuvered by Rev. J. P, Bodtish, C. 8. P. The proceeds ot the occasion wili be devoted to liquidating tue debt of the new church, Ministerial Charch BaPrist. Lee avenue courch, Brookiyn, does net seem to have been greatly injured by its casting out oy the Long isiand Baptist Association. Last Sap- bath morning several converts were baptized, and the spiritual interesc is increasing in tne church, The case very much resembies one of biting the noge to spite the face. Oa Priday last @ party of Baptist ministers and others from Puiladeipnia and vicinity visited Tom’s River, N. J., to selecta alte (ora Baptist summer resort alter the style of the Methodist lovements. | camp meetings. Anew Baptist church will be dedicated as Nor- rigtown, Pa., to-day, A new Baptist charch was recognized by Coun: cilim Chamberabarg, near Trenton, N.J., on the 6th inst, Tne Piigrim church, Rev. J. Spencer Kennard pastor, did a Dandsome thing last Sunday morming ip raising $4,000 to pay off a Gosting debt, The Rev. Harvey Alley, recentiy of horsh New York, 16 now settied at Banksvilie, Uonn. His va- cated pastorate bas been supplied by she Rev. W. B. Marsal. On account of the recent action of Gethse- mane church, Brookiyn, in Withdrawing from the Long isiaad Association, several vreshren nave Wit the Guureh ane propose to organi£g A ROW GOR , 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. gregation, They have secured a hall at the corner of Broadway and Lexington avenue. The Suoday Senool Missionary Society of the Madison avenue Baptist church have raised and | appropriated auring the past year nearly $1,300, | The Rev. L. M. 8. Haynes declines the appomt> ment of Corresponding Secretary of the New York Baptist State Convention. EPISCOPALIAN. { | erated the Ubureh of the Hoiy Trinity, Middie | town. | Dr. Hantingtoa, of AU Satnta’ church, Worces- | ter, Mass., having written to the Dean of Worces- ter, England, for a stone relic of the cathedral of that ancient city, Dr, Yorke has sent him two carved stones aga token O/ brotherly regard and | Christian ubity and a ink between ‘the cuurches | Of the Vid Worl d the New. On Saturday, November 7, the Bishop of Connec- | ticot laid the corner stone of Grace church, | Newington. crated the new and beautiful Trivity church, at | Lime Rock, tn the town of salisbury, Conn, | ~ Bisnop Bedell, of Onto, satied ior Europe Novem- ; ber & le Wil winter in Cairo, turn nome soon aiter 3 mittee will supply bis | The Rey. 8. D. j a his aosence. al long respite in to nis mission work in 4 ‘erguson, this country, has returned | Liberta, Affica, | A “rituals” correspondent, evidently a lady | from ber hundwriting, informs U3 that for some tume ater Dr, Forbes’ renunciation of Roman Catpolicism she went to him regulariyin tue vestry o! @ weil known Church in (Nis city to con- jeasiog, and always received from him autuori- tative sbdsolation, She, tifereiore, fails 10 see his consistency in condemnmg Dr, Seymour and Frei who, with him, Moid to auricular con- session, Dean Cridge, of the Cathedral}, Victoria, Comm- bia, and 350 communicants have retired irom the Church 01 England and identided themseives with he Reiormed Episcopal Church, J, Eastburn Brown, of the Chapel of Free in tis city, has withdrawn jrom the Prot- \ i | Gr estant Episcopal Church and united with the Re- | formed Episcopal Church. The Rey. Mr. Browo has accepted acall to Christ church, Moncton, » By Bishop Cummins’ health has been restored, and ne 18 DOW vigorously pushing the interests of the Re.ormed Episcopal Church, In the diocese of Nortoern New Jersey, lately , there are sixty resiaent clergymen, 6,000 nicants and sixty-four parishes, ROMAN CaTHOLIC, The Dominican Fathers will give @ mission in the Chureh of Our Lady of Victory, Brooklyn, com- | mencing, December 13. Among the fruits of the late mission in St. Gabriei’s church were twenty converts to the | Catholie faith. | The pew cathedralin Boston will be opened on the 18th inst, but pot for dedication, It 1s n0t qaite completed for that, ; _ Last Sunday morning the Church of St, Francis Xavier, Baitimore, Was rededicated, The church to Reisterstown, uear Baltimore, | wiil be formally opened tuis morning. | The mission which bas been couducted for the last two weeks in the Holy Cro%s courch, Batti- | more, will close to-day. 1. bas proved eminently | successiul. | The Zadiet furnishes cheering statistics of the te growth of Catholicism in Great britain for the last | bundred years. in EBngiaud and Scotisnd there | Were counted in 1765, 60,000 Cacuolica; im 1821, 600,000; in 1842, 2,600,000; and in 1865, 3,380,000. England oow contains 1,404 priests, 1,453 enurcues, | 286 monasteries for men, 286 convents lor women | and 1,960 Catholic schools, A. Elmira, Oi, the Irish Catholics have the | Gospel preached to tuem in the Irish lane | guage, 8 ‘The House of the Good Shepherd on Atlantic and Bast New York avenues, East New York, an insti- | disters, having become tou Smail the Sisters are building a larger house. The walls are up, bat the means are lacking to complete tt, aud the Sisters now appeal co the pubitc co ald tiem. ‘hey will undertake any kind of Work, and they will hold a fair forthe venedt of their tnstituuion the first weeks of December next, for which they solicit donations, METHODIST. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Alto | arsed Pa,, will be dedicated next Sunday, 22d sna The African Methodist Fpecopsl Church ia hoping to send out Rev. T. G. Steward as mission- | ary to cake charge of the Haytian Mission, ‘ne First Methodist church of Kockville Centre, erected in place of the ‘old church,” wiil be dedi- cated on Sunday, the 22d inat, ‘The dedicatory | Sermon will be preached by the Rev. Alexander Clark, of Pittsburg, Pa. | Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, heid in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Seadiord avenue, Brooklyn, E. D., on Thursday evening, Rev. Dr. A. J. Kynett, B. D., Secretary and Treasurer, reported tue condition of the society as lollows:—Baiance on nand last year, $1,321 71, Received—General account, $75,546 59; loan fund account, $19,931 80. Total, $96,800 10, ' Disbursed—General account, $64,046 25; loan iund | account, $17,743 90. Tocal, $81,622 15. Balance on | Band to date, $15,277 95. The treasury is, how- ever, actually overdrawn $3,128 21 10 consequence | Of outstanding Habilities, consisting of draits ior ; donations and loans $6,131 16, and dunations and | loans granted but still unpaid o! $12,275, Daring. the nine years of its existence the Board has col- lected and disbursed $604,763 9, aiding 1,385 | churches, 180 of them last year. doe denomina- tion bas Dow 15,000 churches, The Rev, Charies D. shaw, Of Potladel bi ie Rev, SI el a8 temoved to Paterson, N, J.” nine e Rey. E. M. Kellogg, late of Manchester, Eng- land, has taken charge of the Presbyterian churca at ay abt NJ. Dr. R. H. Alien, of Philadelphia, bas received a call to San Francisco, Rey. vr. Murray, in the brick Presbyterian church, in the course of a very able sermon lately, | entered an earnest protest against the recent ex- clusion vi a church irom an association ou account Of its Iree communion principles. Rev, Lewis C. Lockwood bas been installed pas- tor of tue Presbyterian charen at Melville, L, I, The Rev, Mr. Beers, Who nas jor several Sundays been officiating in the Presbyterian church at flats oi has accepted @ call to become its The resignation of Rey. Dr. Rogers, for torty- four years pastor the Presbyterian church at Bound Brook, N, J., has been accepted and the pastoral relations dissolved by the Presbytery, Taking effect last Sunday, when he preached bis fareweilsermun. He has removed to Athens, Ga, Numerovs applications have been mage by the clergy ior the late Dr. sheddon’s pew in Rahway, jd, Out of respect for his memory no imme- bx steps will be taken to fill the vacanes, ‘ne Rev. George >waln bas just been installed agior of the Presbyterian charen as Allentown, jd. MISCELLANKOUS, A new English church, the first ever Duilt in Belgium by the British and American residents There, Was opened jately. It is a handsome Gothic edifice, capabie of seating 600 persons. Rev. 8. 8S. Hughson, late o; Newark, N, J., bas received and accepted o call irom the Congrega- tional church at Patchogue, 1. 1. Mr. Charles Edward Harrington, @ graduate from Bangor Seminary in 1814, was recently | ordained as pastor jn Lancaster, N. H, Rey, 4, RB, Harris has accepted @ call to become a pastor of the Congregationai church at Orient, Rey, John Rogers has closed his labors witn the First Seerronsuonst church in Hartiord, Vonn, ‘The ordination of the Rey. Jonn H. Wyckog, of Hightstown, N.J,, a8 missionary to India, took Pe. on Thursday evening last in the Second Ke- | formed church of New Brunswick, He was to bave | wailed yesterday for India, In December the New York City Mission and Tract Society will celebrate its forty-eighth anui- versary. 1hi8 18 the oldest organization of is kind JD the city, and hae done great service in ad- vencing our local Curistianity, ’ The American Bibie Society last month dis- tributed 653 Bibles ana Testaments to lamilies re- widing in the Nineteenth and Twenueth wards of this city; 237 Vesseis lyiug in tae harbor were aup- plied with 2,832 Bibles or Testaments in diferent nguages, and 2,033 Bibles or Testaments were qistributed among 14,200 emigranie landed at | Castle Garden. Tue Bediord Avenue Reformed church, Brooklyn, will to-day celebrate the twenty-fistih anniversary Of the pastorate of Dr. E. 8. Porter. The Appleton mission on Kent a ie and Hewes street, Brookiyu, will be inaugurated this afternoon and evening. THE SHAKERS, Aconvention is to be held at Steinway Hall on Sunday, the 22 Inst, by the sect of Quakers known es tue Shakers, The object of the meeting is onderstood to ve to institute arrangements and perfect measures for the spread of the creea they call theirown ana the conversion of the out | side worid. The leaders of the vody are itkewise Gesirous of making more extensively known their peculiar tenets and familierizing the peopie with their beliel, According to « popular theory tne Shakers are opposed 10 matrimony, vut tue elders are last spreading tie information that such is aot absolutely the case. They insist that tne adop- Won of their gospel Will Uring about Lue millennia, and the World will see no more death, war or poverty. Prosperity and peace shaii reign every- where. Elder Evans, tue head of the community established at Lebanon, believes the Shakers will, @t ® day not far distant, overspread the worid, The society, be claims, are working for wwo great objects which are kept constenily in view—a anew earth onda new heaven, whicn suall combine o ernment strictly republican and an ownersnip Ov the land by. ail 17s inhab.tants. All CIvil offices apall be filled with intetiectuai celinates of both sexes When the Shakers’ doctrine 4 uni- versally established. The sociai evil iy to disap. 4 (rom view, like drunkeuness, and reprodac- ions Will go ob according to ‘aw. Agiicuitural and Mandiacturing empioyments wil. be perormed by co-operation. fhe present governmeut—that ia, the shaker system—is Wo form the beginoing of the new life which is to regenerate the world. Herevofore the uations have veen jamisn- The soavention so eeneaie sia ser hal Wil) do All in ite power On November 8 the Bishop of Connecticut conse- | On Thursday, November 5, the Bishop conse- | ypt, abd Will re- | nding com- | tution founded seven years ago by a ‘colony of | | _ At the ninth anniversary of the Board of Church | | priated $7,500, the same as last year, | indicated the sum of $1,873 was given to the Ger- | Methodist Episcopal Charch, she reports that she | that the Church papers ve requested to | bus inside contains elavorate and Ane frescoes, | chastely designed aitar, avd all the internal evi- | METHODIST MISSIONARY COM- MITTEE, Appropriations Yesterday to Foreign Populations and Indians in This Land—Plans to Educate the Church in Systematic Beneficence. The committee Saving expended so much | rhetorical and oratorical force on Friday went | to work yesterday with a wii. It was agreed informally that tw give the German missions in the conferenses the benefit of a reduction of twenty-five per cent the American missions must bear @ reduction of at least forty per cept. Bishop Merrili presided. On the understanding man work in tue Caltiornia Conference; $5,260 to the Central German Conference; $3,000 to the Chicago German Conference; $7,000 to the East German Conference; $2,600 to the Lousiana Ger- man missions, located principally in New Orleans, where they have three or four societies, A strong efort was made to reduce this sum still 1urther, but the representations of its needs were such that no greater reduction could be made, The Northwest German Conterence received the same @ppropriation as last sear, $5,000, because of its advance in new territory, buildings, &c. For like reasons the Southern German Conference re- ceived $10,000—the same agit had last year; $500 more were added for transfers. For want of this sum last year important openings in Texas were lett unmanned. The Southwest German Conlerence received $7,000, making a total for German missions Of $32,126 against $48,750, or an average reauction of @ traction over thirteen per cent instead of twenty-five, But as all these appropriations will be reviewed and perhaps redaced, the average may be increased when the work ia completed. ‘THE CHINESE MISSIONS IN CALIFORNIA having been called, Dr. Otia Gibson gave a brief Account of the work there, both by the General Missionary Society and the Woman's Foreign Mis- stonary Society of California, auxiliary to the former. Dr. Gioson was requested to give @ de- talied sketch of the condition of the Chinese | work on the Pacific coast, and to enable him to | do so the time ol the morning session was ex- tended, He made a siatement of the prejudices and tue municipal legisiation against te Chin- ese which he and bis helpers had to combat. ‘The Jesuit Fathee Desboa and a Presbyterian named Pixiey went about the country lecturing aud arousing public Opmion against the Chinese. ‘This question became tue leading one 1 polities, apd the municipal authorities 01 San Francisco Passed ordinances requiring the Cuinese lauudry- men to deliver their work by wagon or to pay & tax, There were many otuer like discriminauing ordinances, ali of which the Mayor of that city vetoed. one, however, the Common Council | passed over his veto, aud ihe past spring they at- tempted to enlorce it; but, a3 it was iramed ip general terms, Ur. Gibson insisted on the arrest | of several wasierwomen a wellas men. ‘nts ‘Was not designed py tae Coungil, and it resulted in the repeal of tue ordinance wituin one week. | Dr. Gibson delivered a lecture in the largest ballin the city on “tue Cninese question,’’ since wiich tume (be persons vamed above nave not opened their moutns against the Cainese. He also pre- pared @ memorial, which was adopted by the Chi- hese merchants, giving thetr view 0. the Cninese | question, He fad aiso to oppose the “six com- | panies’ organized tor the control of the Chivese. | | During the past summer the fare from Sau Fran- cisco to Ching was but $12 to every man who had | the stamp Oo! the ‘six companies,” whien certitied | | that they were members o! one or more of those companies and had paid their $60 fee therefor. | Some of 118 Chinese Christian helpers wanted to | retaru, but could not get passage by the Pacitic | Mail steamers (whose owners were in collusion with tne ‘six compantes”) unless tuey were mew- | Lers of those organizations. One of the ovjects of | those companies is to import lewd women (rom China, and @ Christian company, receiving a sub- | gidy trom @ Christian government, offers a prem- jum to vice in this way. Ur. Gibson gathered up influence enough to present the case to Congress | | and tu get the legisiation necessary, so that now his protegés cam travel at the same rates as Others with merely huis indorsement. He has A CHINESE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCLATION in Sau Francisco, which numbers 400 members, He has @ Magdalene Home, in waieh tuere are now twenty-two women Who have been rescued Irom the control of those “six companies.” The first one received was & woman who, tired of ver life | Of in, threw hereelf into the bay, from which she was rescued and taken toa police station. she there asked to see @ “Jesus man,” and Dr. Gibson was sent for and touk her to mission house. The Doctor gave @ sketch of iis anniversary, which was of such interest that tne oall wus crowded and masy could uot getin, The local | press gave good reports of the exercises, and the | prejudice against tue Chinese is aliasing and the white people are becoming More reconciled to their coming to this country. The discussion wus resnmed in the aiternvon, and Dr. Givson asked | for $11,770, tae sum estimated by the California | Conierence for this work. ‘Ihe committee appro- THE INDIAN MISSIONS in charge of conierences were next called, and -Central New York Conlerence received $400 for its missions among the Onondagas and Oneidas; De- troit Conlerence received $900; Micuigan, ae Northern sew York, $350; Western New York, $300; Wisconsin, $250, Dr, Gibson wanted $1,000 for Indian missions in Oregon and Washington Territory, bat a controversy having arisen about its administration by the Calliorais Conierence, ae he proposed, or by the Missiou Board, aa others suggested, the matter was luid on the tabie, Bishop Harria read a letter irom Mrs. armstrong, Lhe Widow of a Wyandotte cnief, x member of the has $1,500 in trust ior the erection of @ church for those people instead of one burned some sears ago by the Kansas-Missouri border rul- Bans, she wanis the Missionary Society Lo take noid of the Work again, take this money offher bands, send @ MissiuMary to her people, and bring them again under Methodist Cnris- tunity, Long beiore the Methodists had mis sionary society they had missions and flourishing churches among those people, but their repeated | cpanges irom reservation to reservation have weakened the relations existing, and little atten- Mion has been paid to these people for some years. Toe matter was refe red to a committee. we committee to whom Was reierred the mat- cy EDUCATING THE CHURCH ON MISSIONS and other beuevolences reported a series of resola- ions, io Which they say they jear the pastors have been at fault in not presenting those claims to the people, ip whose piety and liberality they have full Confidence. Tne report requests the bishops to address @ letter to the premiding elders @nd the preachers on this subject, and 4 letter to tne whole Church setting forth the needs of the Missionary Society and that the bishops see that one session of every Annual Conlerence is devoted to this interest; a bits! frequent editorials and other articles on the sub- ject, and that the pastors impress on their people tuat personal cousecration tuciudes the consecra- tion Of property aiso; that no better piau can ve devised than that laid down in the discipline. The committee revret that the contributions of the Church have not kept pace with its membersbip. This report having been read for iniormation, throwing light on another report conceroing Missionary Advocate, the two committees were United, and both matters were placed in their hands that they might bring in one report at the nex! nh on Monday morning. CHURCH FAIRS. On Lexington avenue and Sixty-sixth street stands the gothic Dominican church of St. Vincent Ferrer. Externally the churoh is anpretentious, dences of the graceful narmony of high Catholic art, The only article Wanting was a good organ. Father Lilly, the prior of the Dominicans in New York, gave the order to Mr. Roosevelt, who is now | engaged baiiding what is expected to ve the finest organ in the city, and will have Jt ready on Coristmas day next In order to heip to pay th large sum required, a fair is to be held if the bas ment of the church commencing to-morrow (Mo! day) evening, All the novelties possible to have | The tavies are nine in number and in | Well Known ladies of the parish, The charge ‘or | admission on the opening evening ts twenty-five in a fair naye been procured—music, billisrds, shumleboard and shooting gallery, together with | tables adorned with jeweiry, byouterie, ou pain ings, oratories, &c. he following clergym have supervisory control of the different — Fatser Meagher, Aitar Society tabie; Fatner Mc- | ' Kenna, Sacred Heart table; Father Sunger, | | Obristian vocrine tabie; Father Daly, Temperance | | Society tabie; Father Byrne, Rosary society | | Sable, The fair wili last two weeks, | 1 ‘A ladies’ fair (or the benett of the new St. Ber- nard's church will open to-morrow (Monday) evening, in the hali of tne new cnurch, West Fou: teenth street, between kighth and Ninth aven: ‘This charch is fast approaching completion, and | | itis hoped that this fair, which will remain open for tWo weeks, Wili produce 4 suficient iuod to pay off the ar proportiou of the indebted- bess. The tali bas been beautifully decorated, and masic will enliven the scene every evening. arge 0! cents, ana ten cents op (he other evenings, THE ORPHAN ASYLUM FESTIVAL Next Thursday afternoon and evening the an- Dual estivai in aid of the Roman Casnoile Orphan Asylam of this city will be neld at the Academy of Masic. The programme is ander the charge of Mr, Augastin Daly and al) the theatrical man- agers have volunteered to assist in the good work. | Important tn our city government, A very interesting entertainment has veem Ar ranged, Gratulia's entire Seventh negiment Bead CS CRA Bow contains 1,600 children, and is al- supported br contributions a the el ‘clry apd State contribate little or nothing, e Board ol Managers are thereiore called upon to use thelr best efforts in order to support this praiseworthy institution. The com- ing (estival is the main reliance for 1uods to meet the expenses of next year. The price o/ admission is so ahs rand the attraction so Varied that ® crowded attendance may reasonably be expected, LECTURE FOR THE BENEFIT oF 8st JOsEPH's HOME. OnSunday evening, November 22, Rev. Dr. Braum wi!l deliver a lecture at Cooper Institute, the pro- ceeds :0 be appiled to the benefit of St. Joseph's Home, Subject: “Positive Religion the Safeguard of Popular Liberty.” Pew instcations are more deserving Of public sympathy than this, and yet few have more sfender or more precarious means of support, Although this institution 13 non-eec- tarian and is situated in the heart of our great metropolis, gud almost th the midst o/ the abodes where wealth and Jasotop reign, jew think to ena ita helping band except those noble hearts whose purse Is ever open (0 the needy, An vpportunity to remedy this torgetfulness is ‘now offered to our citizens. The orators and nig subject both deserve a sul vouse, but When to these we add the charity that wil be periormet aod the gratitude of the good sigters in belialf of the a: poor under their care, few, we believe, Or at least we hope, will nezlect Vis opportanity of #0 Well expending arty cents. THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR. Disposition of the Case of Broadwell, the Newark Tax Receiving De« faulter. ¥n all probability the case of John A. Broadwell, the sell-conyicted filcher of the public purse of Newark, while holding the position of Receiver of Taxes, and which for over a year past has been an eyesore to Jersey justice and en incubus tothe judicial record of Essex county, has at last veen disposed of, but mot to the satisfaction of either the unlortunate man himself or the public whom he go shamelaliy wronged und betrayed. Lass Septemver @ year ago Broadwell was indicted by the Grand Jury for embeazling the funds of the oity, A subsequent Grand Jory Jound other indictments. The trial Was eet seve Tai times, but Broadwell’s coungel were ever ready with medical certificates to show that oe ‘was not physically fit co undergo trial. At length, wearted with the delays, the prosecutor insisted upon Broadwell’s appearing for trial, He did 40 a few weeks ago and then pleaded non vult con. tendre, Sentence was postponed, It being unques: tioned that the wretched man had become a com- plete mental and physical wreck. The Court ee thorized the appointment of a committees two eminent medical examiners purpose of making for proper. acratiny inp the condition of Broadwell. Yesterday Judge jue announced that le had received the report of rs, Nichols wod O'Gorman, Im it they set forth that they found Brogdweil in bed. His nervous system was particularly prostrate. In walking he had to be assisted, and to sleep poweriul nyn- notics bad to be administered. Broadweli’a trouble 1s a “lesion of the cerebro-spinal system,” He exhibits a condition of mind such as is often observed in those who have been the subject of sodden 30d overwhelming calamities, “It is eve dent,” concludes the report, “that John A, Broad. well may never attain to the condition of a sound body and mind, and is consequently an anfit sub- ject to endure tne rigor of prison con. finement. ‘The mao is, in fact, physically and mentally s wreck. And if, as we believe, his present condition be owing to the egopy of detection and horror oj the prospective penaities of his crime, be has already undergone and 1s still suffering a punishment far greater than the Court can inflict.” Under the circam- stances represented, the Court said furcher post- ponement of sentence would be made until sucn time as the Court thougit proper sentence ought tobe imposed. Tue general belief is that thts the end of the ca that Brogdwell’s case, in other words, bas already been disposed of by the Court of courts; that he will never oe saffictently robast to warrant the Essex courts ov: 10g nim to the State Prison. STATE AND OITY TAXATION. The Legisiative Committee at Work= Proposed Plan of Tax Commissioner Andrews, ‘The Legislative Committee on taxation held another meeting yesterday in the rooms of the Board of Aldermen, General Bateheller presiding. The following synopsis was submitted by Commis- sioner Andrews as to his views on taxation and ® proposed plan for an equitable essessment and collection of the same :— First—The present systema failure. Proof:— The assessment rolis in the show @ decline of many iillions io personal property during & pertod Of great prosperity. ‘Second—At tne Fate of decrease in assessments Spon, peraonal property, neariy the entire burden of taxation must in & year or two jail apom larmers and other owners of real es Proo The capidiy acceleraung decrease 1 asm for personal property a@ by official tavies. ird—That n0 effective system has been or can be devised to tax all personal property. Provt:— ‘That a large expense in money and the etforte of the best intellects in the country bi failed stem when asked for by the es have aot succeeded bet- Fourth—That the plan proposed of taxing cor- porations at a Mixed rate oy a State oficer, and abundoning the vain effort to tax other personal property, will. give rete! to all interests; because corporations Would be taxed at a aniform and Moderate rate; because personal property would no longer lave to resort to secrecy and evasion, and chiefly because w larger revenue will be Faised than the present system will produce twa years hence, and the attraction to the svate of Tesidents, capital and ousiness «iil stimatate and benefit every landed and material interest in tae State ana greatiy advance the prosperity of the ‘whole people, After bearisg remarks from Mr, Isaac Sherman, Mr, Josepn Jex, Mr. J. F, Zeoley, formerly state Assensor, and other gentiemen present, the com Miftee adjourned to meet at the Filth Avenue Hotei on Monday morning, at o'clock, MUMIOIPAL NOTES. Mayor Havemeyer yesterday tied the nuptial knot in the case of four ardent couples. Two of these were Italian and two belonged to the Jew: isn persuasion, Mis Honor went through th¢ ceremony witn that venerable grace and ponden 0us seriousness so essential to & proper adminis tration of the ceremonies. The happy brides ané grooms came fortu from the Executive presence smiling and blushing, evidently much tmpressed With the appearance of our distinguished City Hail statesman. Commissioner Van Nort, of the Department of Public Works, furnishes the following statement Of moneys received during the past week :—for Croton water rent and penalties, $14,307 92; for tapping Croton pipes, $48 50; vault permits, $2,519 63; sewer permits, $4005 Ls ps sold to eontractors, $845 60. ‘Total, $17,621 65. ‘Among the almost daily visitors at the Mayor's ofice are those well known citizens Mr, John Foley and ex-Snerif O’Brien. It would not be a bad idea to induce those gentlemen to go o' ta the uew party about to be organized by General Butler. Probabiy the Mayor, with nis irlends Hugh Gardner and Oliver Chariick, “ex"-Police Commissioners, might aiso be induced to join, here willbe # good many “ex's! aiter the lat of January. Such g comdination might develop | rare politica: tactics UB Movements are to be | taken as indication of HILLY, Some admiring *iriend in need" youd for William M. Tweed for Goveraor at the ast elec tion, The figure was called ont witn sarcastic and iudicrous emphasis at the meeting of the Board o! Vanvassers, The proposition to reduce the teachers’ in the public schools has caused much pe among our municipal officials general duction will have to be made anleds U Apportionment increase their estimates for 1875, a3 submitted to the Board of Alaermen. Mayor-eleet Wickhaw: had a lengtay interview with Commissioner Van Nort at ve Department of Public Works yesterday, Lt 1s sup) o3ed thew our Mayor elect Was famultarizing himself with the intricate and immense work of this bureau before entering upon his duties, The Department of Public Works ag at present organized \s the most There 13 @ talk of dividing tt ap alter tue Jat of January. The serenading lever 19 upon our local poll. ticians at present. Last week a numver of oMcials were called apon by bands of music, among them | Judge Kane and Senator Ledwith. who were vie ited ata iste hour o! the nigit by the Hickory Clay TRIBULATIONS OF A JURY, Am improved Method to Insure Agree ment. The trial of William Brock for robpery was not conciuded im the Mudson county Court House at dersey Oity wil Friday afternoon, The jary were gent out and locked op for the night. When they came into Court yesterday morning they com jainea 60 dndee Hodman that they bad jadered severely from the coid during the night. The reckiess manner we turping oD am at the county bibldjngs Was the so! and Judge Sovman ‘eprimanded the constavie severely ior not send ng a mi © tO bis residence, In Whicn case bé would have sent the Jury to Y Onosen Freeboiders should aivend to wie ma else the copaty Wii be paddied With @ heavy of OY