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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. —-—_——_ Ministerial aud Chureh Move- | ments—Correspondence, Episcopal! church. | To-day, and hereafter until further notice, the | hours of service in Grace church wilt be hall-past The Rev. George McCampbeli will preach to-day at the usaal hours in the Spring street Presby- terian church, is the Roman Catholic Church the True Church of Goat To THE EDITOR oF THE HeRaLp:— For many centuries it has been the boast of the Roman Catholic Church that tt is the true Church | of God and that all others are spurious schts- matic branches of that Church which was founded by Jesus Christ. In your tssue of Sunday, Novem: ber 1, a writer, over the signature of ‘Pruden- tius,” speaking of the Roman Catholic Church, says, “In her tabernacies alone, who ts the only | true spouse of the Lamb, doth He really dwett | evermore.” In this assertion ‘Prudentius’” ab- solutely contradicts the Saviour Himself, who has | deciarea “For where two or three are gathered American Missions at Home and Abroad. Services To-Day. Rey. J. W. Bonbam, Evangelist, is conducting “Mission” in the Protestant Episcopal church of the Ascension, Greenpoint, L, I. Divine service will be conducted to-day in the : together in my name, there am 1 in Russian chapel, Second avenue, near Fiftieth é street, in the Sclavonte language. | the midst of them.” (Matthew, xvill., 20.) | It is sheer folly, then, for any one | The Rev. W. M. Dunnell wil! preach tn All Coane el ty ef His Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church this morning C#UFC to claim @ monopoly @ aioaneite doe ane evenings | Say with us only doth He “really dwell evermore.” ‘The Rev. W. H. Thomas will preach tn the Beek- | His own word has settled that question, 5 When the ancient Chureh of God was first estab- man Hill Methodist Ept rl to-day at the —_ on Episcopal church y | lished on earth under the supertutendence of | The Rev. P. L. Davies will speak in the Berean | pe aay re eee bol ry Boe laws and Baptist church at the usual hour to-day. | CRRTARDOOR Seer T OR SURGE Ree a nereto: ner , The Rev. George 0. Phelps invites all who can to | ™inish from it.” (Deut, Xl, 32) One of the | laws of that Church was that the priests goto the Alien street Presbyterian church this " | morning and evening. should marry, Christ never annulled that law. | 7 | What right, then, had the Roman Catholic Churca Dr. S. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach this evenmg in - | the Church of the Holy Trinity. Dr. Irving will to pay to All prieats,. “yon Sheu not marry, Dus ke a vow of celibacy ?” reach there in the afternoon, and Bishop Whitta- YOU must tal rie of Nevada, in the morning. e ‘ | Christ said, “Atter this manner pray ye, ‘Our The Rey. Ur, Anderson will occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist charch this morning and evening. ey a a Cree ‘Mary, mother of God,’ have mercy on us.” The Rey. 5. M. Hamiiton will preach in the | ish Scotch Presbyterian chured to-day at the usual | 7M Lord Jesus Christ says:—‘Look unto me hours. | amd be ye saved; “Come unto me all ye that are | . | is | Weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest; prt Rev, David P. Juttin will preach to-day at and again, “Whosoever cometh unto me I will is e usual hours in the Sixteenth Street Baptist nowise cast out.” But the Roman Catholic Charen | church. says, “Look unto Mary, and pray to her and to St. Bois mittee beedeeciath tert to-d9y 98 peter and all the other saints to intercede for ‘Te Nature of Obriatu ee ee you.” When the Lord hath spoken one thing, | ‘an Pertection” and “The wnat right has any Church in His name to teach | Judgment Day’ will occupy the Rev. W. P. Cor- | bitt’s attention in Seventh street Methodist Epis- | tok oti oe Te not. sntt-Cariat copal church to-day. ih violation of the spirit and tntent of the first | Pr spartan aati c= ers theo Commandment, which says, “Thou shalt have no enacls; on Mrs. other goas belore me,” and which forbids the ee ihe ig es Pt hci a nua) | Making of any image to bow down to, to adore or io Rev. Dr. Seym : fe annual serve, the Roman Catholic Church for centuries baa wermon before the Protestant Episcopal Sunday kept tmages in its houses of worship, to which School Association this evening, in Zion Protes- tne people bow down and say prayers, and yet | tant Episcopal chureb, Madison ic ne Rev. they say they do not worship these images, nor | J ota will preach there this morning 8nd tne once living mortals whom they represent. | afte: What, then, is worship? When aman is seen on | “God’s Estimate of the Worth of @ Soul” and his knees saying prayers to God ail will “odmit | “The Littie Things that Confound the Mighty” will that he 1s engagea im worship. But when the 3 ig Roman Catholic in the house of God ts on his | be discussed and elaborated to-day in the Taber- knees to Mary or some of the saints saying prayers | nacle Baptist church by the Rey. J. W. Hawthorne. to them that, they say, 18 not worship. So it has | Dr. Alexander Wil! preach at the usual hours to- beet related that some intelligent 1colators have | day in the Phillips Memorial Presbyterian church, declared thet they do not worship she idol to Father Beeson, the Indian missionary, and Dr. which they bow down, but the spiritual intelli- | gence which it represents. But is this a sufficient | Hallock will instruct and entertain the Spiritual- ists in Harvard Rooms this morning and evening. Church teaches “alter this manner pray ye, plea of excase? ‘The command, ‘Thou shalt not | bow down to them’ is as imperative as “Thou | shalt not serve them,” and bowing down to At the South Baptist church Dr. A. C, Osborne men, to ar as or spirits, and cohend will . rayers to them are acts ‘of worship, [sora yertrtghienine awa opel yhen Cornelius fell down before Peter } ten A. M, and half-past three P, M. er | Father who art in heaven.’ The Roman Catholic | & | pal Church will hold its anniversary this year in Boston, commencing Sunday, December 6. western Christian Advocate, was here last week, attending the sessions of the General Missionary Committee. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER T. Egbert in the Wainwright Memorial Protestant ! manner cf spirit ye are of.” But as the Church in in Boston. Fora year past he has been sufleriug | those days bad not declared itsel! infallible and above error there was some hopes of it, ‘Thut the Roman Catholic Charch should have adopted errois of taith and practice hundreds of years o, When men were lar less educated and en- lightened than now, is Dot so surprising. The subject for marvel is that so many succeeding generations have indorsed its errors, uuttl Dow, toward the close of the nineteenth century, it 18 more firmly wedded to error than ever, while tt assumes tO be above if, with an infallibie buman head and uochi ‘eable Jaws aud ordinances. ‘That this Charch should teach error and cling to it, that it should ve added unto the laws and ordinances of God or @iminished irom them, 15 & matter of regret Ww tke balance of Christendom. | How long it will continue to enact laws jor its | government whitch are contrary tc the teachings of Scripture and impose burdens upon its mem- bers which are hard to be borne the future alone must reveal, Bat in its assumed Jnfalbpility and | boasted unchangeabieuess will no doubt be found at length the cause of its decline. Huligntened humanity will het forever receive Its dogmas a8 | the law of heaven, nor accept as commandments | of God the traditions of men. PROTESTANT, | The Gerdemann Apostacy. To THR EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— The following translation trom the Baltimore | Catholic People’s Paper (German), I trust, i | behalf of your many Catholic readers, you will | publish:— “a FALLEN PRIEST, “For over @ week the dally papers have had much to say concerning the fall of Mr. J. W. Gerdemann, of the diovese of Philadelphia, and formerly pastor of St. Boniface church. As ine | papers announce, he fell in love with a Protestant | woman, appointed her organist, and, as Dis court- ship became known, gathered together as much money as he could lay his hands on, and, accom- | nied by bis loved one, toox to flight. In Jersey | ity be was married by a Protestaut minister pre- vious to leaving for Europe, where, without doubt, he expected to be appointed ag an ‘Old Catholic’ priest by the State. Alter his departure he is said to have written to the Most Reverend Bishop | ‘that he could not believe in the infallibility of the Pope,’ and therefore left the church, A German | ‘Pride comes before the fall,’ aod | jas inded verified this saying. He | was, undoubtedly, a talented man, but one who had’ an exaggerated opinion of himsell, He | imagined that he aloue was all-wise, and, on this | account, became so greata tool, At one time he ave Up OUF paper because we defended the tn- | fallubility of the Pope, and again because we were | | not sufficiently ‘Prussian’ in our views, and on | this occasion he ssid that ‘he was German first and Catholic afterward,’ which shows that he is well fitted to fill an Old Catholic position in Prus- | sia, Baden, Switzerland, or wherever the wind | may carry him, Papal imtailtbility | entirely’ tmnocent of his fall, for | it never worred him until ‘emaie — charms held him in chains. Only when he became amorous did he place himseli and bis Protestant love above Pope and Church, It is the same old song. Itis not good when young and inexperi- eGced men are promoted too rapidly; they easil grow giddy and then there is a fall. ‘Scandal must Deeds come,’ says our Saviour, and we must not be depressed by them. They bave always oc- | curred, and this fact alone of the existence of bad | priests stouid iead ua to value and esteem good ones the more. The Church warns us ever to | pray that God may send us good priests, for 80 | much depends upon them that a ptous missionary during his sermon cried out, ‘Children, pray with- out ceasing (or good priests, for if the priest ts | lost the greater part of the congregation 18 lost, | and if the priest 1s saved the greater part of the | congregation will be saved.’ “Many journals hostile to the Catholic Church, m describipgthis unhappy aivair, point to Beecher , and Glendenning; but the comparison is nota fair one. in the Catholic Church there is no room | for bad priests, and at the first moment of their | discovery they flee from her into the Protestant | denominetions, as though pursued by a thousand | furies, There they are received with open arms and find themseives at home. Worthiess Prot. | | estant ministers simply remain at their post, | nas been laid in Eaton, Ohto. where they are protected and even whitewashed | by their equally Worthiess congregations. ‘T'bis | for 31.000. makoae areas fics igen gh hesepe per must jump the fence or it w pitched over. | organtzed in this city, The Outside the Catholic Church such rubbish is re- or y: ceived with joy and esteemed as an arttcle of | secretary. vertu.” What is bad with us | CATHOLIC SUBSCRIBER, Ministerial and Church Movements. METHODIST. ‘The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco- The Rev. Arthor Edwards, D. D., of the North- | Dr. J. S Porter, of the Newark Conference, record where aby one of them exactedan auricu- lar contession of all sin from any penitent beiore he would extend to him the consolations of re- ligion or that healing power with which the Lord had specially endowed them. They pointed men | | to Christ and exacted faith in Him as the condi- | tion of salvation. None of them ever sent a man to the priest, saying, ‘io, coni all to him, and he will grant you absoiution.” Tae doctrine of the auricular confession and the assumed power | of ail priests to forgive sin 1s pureiy the invention upou the ignorant and the vicious, for they think there is no danger in sin; the priest will forgive them, and tis only @ question o/ a little penance | wil reach heaven, no matter what it nas done. The Koman Cataolic Church das declared Mary apd worshipped him, Peter took bim up, epicnaines of St Sees worship him the ange! auld, “See thou do 1t not. pers in the Churcli of the Messiah. (Rev., Xix., 10.) 18 there dny encouragement here Roman Catholic Church bas jor so long a time ing and evening by the Rev. J. M. Pullman in the | of the State, ts mot sanctioned by any precedent tee Chezeh at the Tegan. | those whom He forgave and healed. To benold a | morning and evening, by the Rev. RK. S. McArthur, Sas AAO ies AOE IEEE ees elaborated ruis evening, tn the Elgliteeath street ‘way Hall vo-day. bours, church, “The Peri of Rejecting tne Truth” will alists something about “Sunrise in Heaven” and to ve the “Mother of God,’ the “Queen of The Rev. J. spencer Kennard will try this morn- | motier? He who is declared to be without begin- not contain thee, much jess tris bouse which L chareb. the du “he earth and the work of His hand? “God and Man Friends in Covenant” 1s Dr. Deems’ subject for this evening’s consideration in ‘Stand ba Myseli alsoam aman.” (Acts, x., | 25, 26.) When soun fell at the feet of an angel to | “The Open Door” will be shown this morning by [am thy teliow servant and of thy brecbren that | the Rev. W. R. Alger, of Boston, to the worsnip- have the testumony of Jesus; Worship God.’ 56 to bow down to or worship aught save God alone ¥ ‘Superiority of Manhood” and “The Fate of the ‘The auricular coniession, by means of which th Suicide’ are the topics to be considered this morn- kaos pac morte ce ali members and been re} (el vi Gunbehisf Onr savicas thereby able to @ vast power in the counclis The Rey. U. T. Tracy will preach this morning |i the New Testament. When Christ forgave sin He tn no case exacted along confession from “The Duty of Confessing Christ” and the “Heal- | supptiant sorrowing for sin, praying to and trust- | ing at the Beautiful Gate,” will be considered this 1g 11 Him, were all the conditions He required Paul and the other apostles followed His exam; in Calvary Baptist church, et oe “The Avointing of Jesus’ 1s the topic to be Methoatst Episcopal church, by the pastor. The Shakers will hold their Convention in Stein- The Rev. Dr. Armitage will minister in the Fifth avenue Baptist church to-day at tne usual Dr. Fulton will pay nis respects to the thgatrical question this morning, in Hanson place Baptist be discussed in the evening. Lyman C. Howe will tell the Progressive Spirita- “Occupation in the Spirit Land” this morning and EOL a BREIOW OL MESONITY Or Cis oat 4 ‘ ‘ot a sfad ority or the least warrant in evening at 1,195 Broadway. ali the Word of God for any such titles. Has God a ing to answer the question, “How and How Far Ming or ending of days; of whom Solomon said, has Human Nature Fallen?” in the Pilgrim Baptist Behold, ueaven and the heaven of heavens can- | have outit'" Has He, mdeed, @ mother, and that The Rey. William B. Merritt will minister at the | Motuer a descendant of sinfal Eve—a creature of Usual hours to-day in the Sixth avenue Reformed | js isnot inost preposterous of ali preposterous cburch. | things to velieve so Do the Scriptures anywhere Tue Rev. George D. Matthews will preach this teach us that God has @ mother or fatuer ? f Wi morning and evening in the Westminster Presby- the “anzal’Guoriel to Mary in ‘ronard’ to terian church. The Rev. Rovert Sloss will occupy the pulpit of the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church this morning and evening. ‘The course of lectures began last Sunday evening in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic church, Tremont, by the Rey. Father Sorg, will be continued this evening. The subject is “um the Attitude of the Church in Europe.” The Key. W. T. Sabine will preach this morning and evening in the First Reformed Episcopal church. Tue Rev. Dr. Ewer will preach at the usual Gervices to-day in St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episco- the son that Was promised her? that sue was to become the mother of God? By no means. He satd to Mary, ‘‘Thereiore also that holy*thing which shall be born of thee snall be called the Son of God.” (Luke, 1, 35.) And yet for centuries the Roman Catholic Church has taught that Mary is the mother of God, and bave Suid, perhaps, more prayers to her than to any other being mm heaven. Even if Mary, or any otuer saint, could act a8 intercessor in heaven ior those who asked it (of which there is not a parti- cle of Scripture warrant), they would need to be endowed with the very attrivutes and powers of God to enable them to hear all the peutions ad- dressed to them. They must needs be owntpres- | ent to be cognizant o! ail the prayers addressed to them through the Roman Catholic Unurcn, God 8 & belog omnipotent aud omnipres- ) ent The Scriptures teach that “His pal church. eyes are in every place, beholding the | ‘The Rev. Hl. D. Ganse will preach about heaven Vil and the good.” (Proverbs, Xv., 3.) He beareta prayer. Though all the worid be engaged this Moruing, and about true and false penitents | in supplication, aud iu many tongues, He can licar this evening in Madison avenue Reformed church. and understand and answer. But, why should Preach in St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic church, | wise? [8 it not preposterous? 1s it not absurd? 105th street and Second avenue, and thisevening Christ taught men to pray he § hs? wpe = He there will be grand musical vespers, in connection ame. What right, then, has the Roman Catholic , H Ui i with which Father Bodfsn will deliver a tecture GuurCn tO send any worshipper to the shrine of | on the “Connection of Music with the Catholic ‘The eyes of the worid are getting open to see all Cuuren,” these phinga. To war with tue abuses which have srept into the Ch Ww! Fr agains| Professor Hurehings, erstwhile Barnum’s Ught- | theGuuren of God. tis Church té made Op of His ing calculator, will preach in Bethany chapel, believing people and His worstiiy pers everywhere, | TAs Th atet’ tots i fectaes aud though the Papacy shogd be abolisned ighty-sixth street, to-day, and will lecture there 304 ine Roman Catuollc Church swept out of | to-morrow evening. This is astruggling Baptlst existence, tie Church of Goa would still remain Tission in a oy eighhornood, and the gates of hell could not prevati against it. | The Kev. E. ser wiil discuss “CUniversal- ism and the this evening in the Third Universalist ch It ts | The Rev, Dr. Conrad will preach this morning worthy Of note that the ancient Jewish | Chureh at one time invented a “Queen of Heaven” | to Whom they burned tucense and offered worship; but it was aiter the Cuurch had sunk into idolatry. (Jere., XiV., 17, 18.) | and Dr. Howland this afternoon in the Protestant scat 4 ee eet par caitar upon Episcopal Church of the licavenly Kest, rote! for one is Chae oy of which Laid Dr. C. 8. Robinscn will deliver the fourth of a | (MS‘t. XXill, 9.) | Bus the Reman ete to call ou Experience” in the Church of the Disciples, The ae a of — Sen ay hans ‘*, Oe st 5 in. th jaw O1 celibacy (Wuich Is unsertptar Rev. George H. Hepworth will preacu there im tue | worsnin’ or images Jed to the formation of the ene tit de conducted by Dr. Flagg | tie priesthood led to tue Helorination of Martia vy pS wi e conduc: ir. Play 6 be A “a idaldnad aad favibe peek a i Luter and the formation of the Protestant . us morning and evening =r by it now — phe Lay Maghbwigee ges 4 | Resurrection. | ing of the Roman Carholic Church to error will le: Porte " to further dismemberment and melting away of Dr. Porteus will tell all Souls’ Protestant Epls- | vrat'instication. ‘The dowmas and errors of that Copal church, Brooklyn, this Morping, what be Church have veen te cause of much denomina- thinks about the thief on the cross being a de- pone oe over. What Le gisy py o . believe taat if St. Peter was now on the eart! ie based brigand or an honorable insurrectionist; | Wouln’ act ‘as the present Pope and his predeces: | and in the evening he will examine some theories | gorg nave done—invest himself with royal sur- | concerning the personal power of the devil. | eeaes seins the triple Sat, Sareea | re. G:C. Sit | himseit with soidiers, maintain an intriguing The Re v. ©. ©, Viifany will preach this morning court, proclaim himseli infailible, say that aii in tke Church or the Atonement. Dr. Draper, of paptizea persons belong in some sense to him Harlem, will preach the anniversary sermon of Pitam, ara rd eee fey to Emperor and invoke the ald of Mary’ the House of Rest lor Consumptives im Whe eveD- | “rhe Roman Catuolic Church boasts of Its age as Ang tn this church. an jadication that itis the trae Church of Goa, Dr. Rylance will preach this morning and even- | But the pagan and Jewish churches are much | Ang tn St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal church, fe 4 IDE nien. Or age is oF no avall a8 | Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal charcn will | proof ofits being the true Church. be ministered to to-day by the Rev. J. W. sarnhart, The Rowen oeee icant hak mromied te 2s . cannot err, Deca’ 8 at balf-past ten A. M. and uaif-past seven P. M. sain His Church always, But even this will not | St. Alban’s Protestant Episcopal church will | answer as a plea for inialiibility. The visible celebrate its ninth anniversary to-day, when Rey, | presence of the Most High was with the Jewish Chareh and the cloud of His presence dweit in ©, W, Morrill will preach. the fabernacle and in the tempie of Jerusalem, | Services this weer a afternoon in St. Mary | and yet the Lord aeolared of Ce ‘The be Virgin’s Protestaot Episcopal church, pastors also transgresse¢ 7 1 | prophets proptesied by Baal and walked after Dr. Thomas S. Hastings will occupy the pulpit | things that do not profit.” (Jeremiah fl, 8.) And Of the West Presbyterian church tis morning | woen we come to the time of Christ we find the and evening. disciples were time after time inersor, ie rf was With them; and more than once He correc’ | “The Ancient Athenian and the Modern Sct- | and reproved them, calling Peter at one time Satan, | Qptist’! will be considered to-day by te Rey. W. | and saying to the others, “Ye know nob What | atin performed unon him about a fortnight azo whose sight has been impaired for two years past, | | nas been fully restored by an operation performed in this respect, and there ts aot an instance on here @ few days ago. | aiead at his home last Sunday, aged seventy-five expected. and Work o! men, ana it exerts @ baneful influence | Tract Society will be held in Akron, Oulo, com- mencing December 5, Heaven,” “Queen of Angels.” &c., though there ts | will be South Heberton, Pa., Long Branch church will ve reo; giving Day, corner stone ' was laid on Friday last. church was reopened on Wednesday Brunswick, k. A. a | of which has been waiting jor turee years, ts about | to be compieted. Did he tell ber | boken churcl has reached $3,6v0. for was $3,000. found a piace to worship in Charleston, the event has been duly celebrated in St. Philip’s | church, in toat city. | schools. Thirteen thousand dollars aad been re- The Rev. T. Seymour, of the Troy Conference, | years. A grand Methodist reunion is to be held tn Newark, N. J., December 9. A number of the bishops, secretaries and editors of the Church are The anniversary of the Sunday School Union and | | Church dedications have taken place within a dedicated to-day at Martenville, Pa., at and at Alto Dale, Pa, The ned on Thanks- having been closed for repairs. The of a new church ut Cedar Kun, N. J., ‘Tne Bioomsoury (N. J.) last. { Toe Halsted Praying Band will pe ac the Thirty. fifth street Methodist Episcopal church, near Tenth | ¢¢,090,000, avenue, to-day. The new edifice of the Liberty street church, New Iker, pastor, tie foundation _ ‘Tne subscription for the floating debt of the Ho- | ‘the sum asked | ‘The Sunday school of St. John’s Methodist Epis- copal church im Brooklyn has received ap addi- tional attraction in the shape of the largest organ butit for Sunday school service in the United | States. ‘The seventh anniversary of the Freedmen’s Aid | Society of the Methodist Kpiscopal Churct was held churcn, Philadelphia, on Thursday afternoon and m the Arch street Methodist Episcopal evening. | EPISCOPALIAN, \ The Rev. William S. Verkins, late a presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Bristol, Pa., has formaliy united with the Reformed Episcopal | Charen. A diocesan Sunday School Convocation will be held to-morrow evening 1p Grace Protestant Epis- | of copal church, Jamaica, L. I. | 'tis now 150 years since the Episcopal Church 8. C., and The Reformed /piscopal churcn, at Peoria, LL, | was the first edifice erecied after the Reformed movement began, and, although large and commo- | dious, it is filled to overdowing. tis tO be en- larged in the spring. The Rev. Tuomas U. Dudley, Jr., D. D,. rector of Christ church, Baltimore, has been choset to $ac- | ceed Bishop Cummins a8 Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, He is a conserva | tive, and was a compromise as between Dr, Hare | and Dr. Shipman, of Lexington. | The $5,000 bequeathed by tne late Mrs. Hubbel, | of Massachusetts, lor a memorial chapel for Kem- | per Hall, have been paid over by the executors, and the erection of the chapel will proceed with the least possible delay. A Reformea Episcopal Society has been organ- | ized tn Gloversville, N. Y., one of the most enter- | prising villages im this State. Tnts is the first | movement of the reformers in the diocese of Al- bany, a diocese Where ritualiam has almost gone to seed Within three years, 80 rapid and rank has been its growth. The Rey. Eiwin Potter, recently received from the Methodist Episcopal Charch, bas | become rector of tne new parish. Bishop Cums | mins expects shortly to visit Gloversville, | The new chapel of St. Paul's parish, Flatbash, | L. L, is rapidly approaciitng compietion, and will be opened for the first time jor divine service on Thanksgiving Day. ne Western Convocation, a missionary arm of | the Protestant Episcopal Church in this diocese, whose operations cover Ulster, Orange and Sulli- van counties, met in Newourg on Friday, when three deacons were advanced 1o the priesthood— namely, Revs. George W. ifinkle, of Newburg; J. | C, Tebbitts, of New York, and W. R, Gardiner, of | Amenia Union. Mr. George Love was ordaine deacon by Bishop Potter. ‘To-day is the twentieth anniversary of the con- | secration uf Bishop Potter to the episcopate of the | Provestant Rpecors Church, | The Rev. John Brown, D. D., of St. George’s | church, Newburg, is the oldest Protestant Episco- | pal minister in this diocese, He hag been filty-five | Years rector of this church. PRESBYTERIAN. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Pres- byterian, at its semi-annaal meeting last month, in Philadeiphia, reported ten new missionaries | sent out since tne Jast meeting, The society bas now under its care seventy-eight missionartes, be- sides a number of native assistants and pupils in | ceived during the past six months. Mrs. W, W. | Eddy, returned irom Syria, and Miss MeFarren, | tion, from Bogota, South America, gave ingeresting accounts O1 theirlife and works at their respective stations, The Rev, James M. Maxwell, late of Baltimore, was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian | church, Belvidere, N. J., on Sabbath evening, No- | vember 8 by @ committee of the Presbytery of | Newton. A memorial service for the late Dr, Dickinson Will be heid to-day at Mount Washington l’resby- terian churcet, Inwood, L. £ Dr. Uyrus Hamlin, of Rovert College, Constan- tinople, is recovering from @ severe surgical oper- | our Cbristian 22. from a Lumor to his thigh, Tue health of the Kev. Dr. G. W. Heacock, of Budlalo, appears to be completely restored, Alter languishing tor want of support for two ears, the Presbyterian church on Gates avenue, rookiyn, has given up the ghost and is no more. its pastor bas gone to another city and its mem- bers have united with other churches, Of the 111 Presbyterian churches erected on Man- battan [sland since its first settlement only forty- six are now used as piaces of worship. iu mauy instances the congregations have disbanded, There are now on the isiana 15,404 Presbyterian communicants, showing a Presbyterian population Ol from 40,000 to 60,000, The Presbyterian churches of Newburg and vi- cinity spent all of Thursday last discussing the conditions of spiritual blessing, the development, lay work and consecration and stewardstup. Bartist. Besides the offshoot from Gethsemane Baptist charch, oo Broadway and Raiph avenue, Brooklyn, another Baptist society has been organized in Vi Buren street, petween Throop and Yates avenues. = 18 - be known hereafter as the Pugrim Baptist eburel The Baptist church in Orange, N. J., of which vr. Hague was the late pastor, have unanimously | callad Professor Edward Judson, late of Madison University, now im Eucope, to become their pastor. At Marcy avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, last Sabbath evening, the Rev. Dr. Jeffrey paptized | two venerable pedo-Baptists, each over seventy | years of age, one of whom had served on the battlefleld of Waterioo. ‘The Rey. 8.0. Ferguson, of Union Springs, N. Y., has accepted a cali to preach jor the Baptist churea at Manlius, N. Y. The Firth Baptist church of Philadelphia will, to-day, celebrate the filtieth anniversary Of its organization, Mr. B, F, Leipsner passed @ successful examina- River Baptist Association He will be ordained to the tion before the Hudson on Fricay at Newburg. Ministry next Tuesday. OMAN CATHOLIC. A lecture will be delivered this evening, in the Oooper Institute, by the Rev. Lr. Brann, for the igre: of St. Josepli’s Home for the Destitute and the Within the last fifteen years the Catholics of the world have sent the Pope over $20,000,000, At last accounts Father Hecker, of this city, Was at Frivourg, but not much improved in health. Verdi's mass of requiem will be sungin St. Patrick’s churcn, Kent avenue, Brooklyn, this evening. The proceeds will be for the benefit of the French church of St, Francis de Sales, erected by the Fathers of Mercy in the Eastern Distric:. ‘A honse of the Pa Congregation will shortly be established in A large bell irom the foundry of Menecley & Kimberley, of Troy, N. Y., has been purchased for St. Patrick’s church, corner of Bramhall and Ocean avenues, Jersey Qity. The ceremony of blessing the bell will take place at two o'clock this afternoon, Bishop Corrigan officiating. 22, 1874 QUADRUPLE SHEET. strongest Bud Most successiul missions Of the Bap- tist Church are in Burmah, where seVeral self-sup- porting native churches exist and all the appil- | ances of a civilizea and Christian community are | to be found. They have missious also in Italy and Mexico, in Spain and in Japan and Ohina, where Shey have met with some success, Their priations measure about the same as terians. The Congregationalists expend over $300,000 annually in missionary operations, the largest part of which is devoted to home work, ‘The Episcopalians spend a little less. They have missions in ail the countries named, aud also in Hayti and in Greece. Their success in the last named country is not very encouraging. other denominations named devote smaller sume to missions; but the great bulk of their gifis 1s spent at home, where the results can be better appreciated, perhaps, than abroad. “Vo foreign miaslOns is @ question wore frequently asked, The societies engaged in this work must satisfied that they do, otherwise they would Not contripute $6,000,000 year after year, ever in- creasil their aggregate gifts, for such ob- only in the relig- from Obristianity, jects, they pay, uot ious benefits resultant but they pay a larger percent! m the civil and political and social and intellec- tual benefits that accrue to native and foreign” communities in missionary lands. Christianity is @ leveller of distinctions not based on moral worth, aud, while tt does not cast down the high ones, it exalts the lowly. It carries with it the power and the ability to propagate itself. It is emphaticaliy & missionary religion, and if tts professors mani- fested more of 1ts spirit and made less of the let- ter it would have better success in heathen lands and countries where Christ has not been heard of or known, But our duty to be faithful to the truth and to God ts not diminished by the failure of any other man. THE MUNICIPAL COMPLICATIONS. Rumors Regarding the Removal of Officials by Mayor Havemeycr—Is the Report.a Canard t Mayor nifvemeyer denies, in the most emphatic language, that there is the slightest foundation for the rumors that he intends to immediately re- move on charges some of the commissioners and heads of city departments. This statement he again and again specifically reiterated in an inter- view with the HERALD representative yesterday. ‘Thorough investigation was made yesterday of both sides of tne question. Allegations for and against the Mayor's veracity were frecly circu- lated, THE MAYOR'S SIDE. In the afternoon Mr. Havomeyer was found at The Catholic Union of New York will observe Thanksgiviug Day in the usual manner. Solemn high mass will be celebrated in the Church of St. | Francis Xavier, West Sixteenth street, and the | ir ration, Mott street, at hall-past ten o'clock A. M. Sermons will be preacied by | eee of eminence, and the music will be in oth churches of the high character which dia- | Uunguishes the music oO! the festivals of this Union, MISCELLANEOUS. 4 Rev. Dr. Sears, of Weston, Mass., was 80 Seri- ously injured by a fall two or three weeks ago as | to disable him, for the time being, trom all pulpit Or pastoral duty. He is unable to sit up, except for a little while at a time, is prouibited trom see- ing company, and cannot bear artificial light. A Liberal Christian Union bas been formed in | Buffalo, N. Y., of which J. L. Fletcher, a Univer- salist minister, is the active mover. Many promi. nent Unitarians and Universalists are interested im the objects of the society, waich are social, practical, morai ana literary. Rev. U. H. Dutton succeeds Rev, J. R. Johnson in Marietta (Ohto) Universalist church. Buchtel Coliege has been donated $1,000 worth | 01 books. The corner stone of a new Untversalist church | Rochester, Minn,, wants @ Universalist minister | A Universalist pastors’ association has just been Rev. R. Nye, of resident, and Rev. E. UC. Sweetser, | ‘ney will meet every Monday fore- | noon in the rooms of the Young Men’s Untversalist pedasoa, on Sixth avenue and Thirty-third tree The Rev. Mr. Waite, of the American chapel in | Rome, reached this city by steamer on Saturday. | He speaks 10 very encouraging terms of the work | of cvangelization in Ltuly. | Tue Rev. James beecher, brother of Henry Ward | Beecher, nas just resigned his pastorate of the | Congregational church in Poughkeepsie nd re- tired to a farm to finish his days. if Rev. U. R. Biauvelt. of East New York, has been called to the pastoral charge of the East Reformed | church of Newark, N. J., and will eater upon his | duties early in December. Kev. Charles M. Tyler, formerly of the South Con- gregational church, Chicago, was installed pastor ot the First Congregational church, Ithaca, last Wednesday. The installation sermon was preached La the Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D., Of Brooklyn, tev, iiltam M. Taylor, D. D., of the Broadway Taber- nacie, of this city, gave the charge to the pastor, | and Rev. Dr. Ives Budington, 01 Brooklyn, gave the rigat hand of iellowship. AMERICAN MISSION FIELDS. ——+ Missionary Organizations for Foreign | and Domestic Work—Aggregate Ex- | penditures and Success of Missions. For a week or more past the subject of missions Brovklyn, is in lue or a few masses after death, and the soul | month at Passaic, N. J.; at Torchiake and at Cam- | has received some public attention. The General den, Mich.; at Mount Pleasant, Pa.; ac Lumber City, Pa.; at Belleville, W. Va. Other churcies Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal | Church has been in session in this city, and has appropriated over $700,000 for the purpose of | giving the Gospel and its blessings to the heathen | at home as well as abroad. There are sixteen | | Missionary associations or boards located in this | city, whose aggregate appropriations tor domestic | and foreign missions amounts @naually to over The Methodist Church, being the largest and the most wealthy, heads the list in the extent of its appropriations; the Presbyterians and Baptists follow; the Congregationalists ana Spiscopaiians are not far behind, aud the Catnolic Church, which is generally a mission- ary church, expends from $500,000 to $1,500,000 annually in mission work at home and abroad; butit can hardiy bp ciassified under American Missions siace very much o¢ {ts benevolence ts | distributed by foreign hands acd in ioreign jands, though collected here. The different branches of the Unitarians, the Reformed Dutch and German, the Lutneran, Moravian and other sects have each their missionary societies, wit headquarters tn | | otner cities of the Union. Boston, Philadeiphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago, Nashvilie and New Orleans share the missiguary hogors with New York, but none of them tothe same extent. There are, doubtiess, not less than fiity such socie- ties in the United States, each wita its oitices and officers, tis agents for collect- mg and distributiug the benevolences the Christian communities among whom | they labor, Tuis work costs trom two and a half | to ten per cent of the eau toente, sums received for | missionaw purposes, and svme persons who have | studied the subject jor the purpose of disparaging | missionary efforts have figured out that every heathen convert costs from $113 all tne way to | $1,500, and that at the present rate of manafac- ture it will take twice 6,000 years to convert the rid, But this method of reckoning results is false trom beginnins to end, While we may value @man for mdustrial purposes at 60 much per annum, or for a lietime in dollars and cents, we cannot 80 estimate thought, affection, will—imind, with all its powers and possibilities, One heathen convert may be relatively worth as much a8 & dozen bouie-made converts and vice versa. So that jm estimating the results of Gospel tnstruction, there are too many circumstances abd possibili- ties to be taken iMto account to permit ol a just | judgment thereon. The indirect results may ve lar greater than the direce and these cannot at any particular time be meacured or estinated. Hence our ordinary rules of arithmetic are worth- less when applied to soul values. The most important Methodist missions are in Sweden, India and Ohina, where the Gospel 1s meeting with great success, and native churches are springing up So that independent annual con- , ferences are being formed in those countries, and the purpose is kept in view to make the native cliurcnes wholly independent when- ever they are competent to assume tne responsibilities of independence. In Sweden the missions and native Methouist churches meet great Opposition trom the State Church, but the King, woo is the Supreme Court of the realm, seems ta- vorabie to all jorms of faith and he has recently given decisions whict have given a check to the intulerantspirit of the State Church. In India the missionaries have no such legal obstacles to | contend with, though they have to combat the | spirit of caste which prevails so largely among all classes in that country. But even this is giving way and the fruics of tne Gospel io India within the past two years have been greater than tn any other portion of the missionary world, The same is true, toa lesser extent however, of China, ‘The missions of (his Church in italy are also meeting with great suc- © cess. In South America and Bulgaria the work is almost ata standsuli. in Mexico, Germany, Li- , beria aud Japan they make haste slowly. Now, to meet the obligations of the Uhurch to those mis- sions, American Methodists lave contributed less than twenty-five cents per church memoer. The poor native charches in tiose missions give very much more in proportion to their numbers and wealth, and by their giving actually shame benevolence, To cover for- eign and domestic missions, church erec- sustentation agea ministers and of the’ families 01 and tract = distribution and ali other missionary and benevolent interests of the Church the 1,600,000 Methodist commanteants in this coun- try, with ali their boasted wealth, have given tical year, and are likely to give less the present one, No wonder, then, that those who have no faith in missions mock at such giits and value converts by dollars and cents, The Presbyterians have missions in Syrt Turse, Mexico, Italy, China and Japan; ba though they hold their ground, they don’t seem make mich headway La (age canniries. save, 0¢ | inst. in answer tov deceased ministers, for Bible | sixty-three cents & metiber for the last ecclesias- | his office in the Oity Hall, seated tn the comfort able armchair specially providea to support the Executive body, Being questioned by the HsRaLp reporter as to the foundation and veracity of the rumors the venerable gentleman demonstratively asserted that the ramors published in some of the papers were pure fictions. He had no intention of removing anybody, and no charges had been preferred, RerorTsx—Do you positively assert, Mr. Mayor, that the whole story is false. The MayoR—I do, most unequivocally. If any well-founded charges are presented to me against any official it is my duty to thoroughly investigate them, giving full opportunity for defence I do not propose to remove respectable men who have @ character to maintain without giving them every opportunity of clearing themselves of all accusation, REPORTKR—Then you mean to assert that all | statements and rumors in this connection are simply falsehoods—that they are canards of sensa- tion mongers? The Mayor—That 1s precisely what I mean to | assert. This ended the interview with Mis Honor, and recourse was had tor the Information to a ‘‘bosom friend” of Lis Honor, tn the hope that some new light might be thrown on the subject. This gen- | tleman did not want his name mentioned, but his precise language was as follows :— “Attempts were made to induce the Mayor to take steps against Commissioner Van Nort and Corporation Counsel Smith. So far from taking part with them I ridiculed the idea the moment Iheard ofit. All the parties seeking to use the Mayor accomplished was to get lum to write a letter to Mr. Smith, making inquiries in reference to certain suits. Mr. Smith called this morning and gave lum all the information that he desired, and the Mayor bas written to him, withdrawing his first letter, so the one day's wonder has col- lapsed,” WHAT MIGHT TAPPEN, There Is, however, precedeut and philosophy for this rumored action of the Mayor. The venerable gentleman has, no doubt, cominitted innumerable blunders; but, according to his own statement and that of his friends, be has not yet determined upon a fying trapeze act which might again startle the city With 118 singularity. It ts probably some strategy to cause the removal of officials who could be easily sent about their business by Mayor Wickham on well substantiated charges, thus giving patronage to that gentleman which he otherwise could not obtain. routine to follow before this desirable work can be accomplished. Charges must be regularly made to the Mayor and then submitted to the Governor tor his approval. Ifthey are found to be of a serioas character and proper evidence brought forward to convict them their removal must fol- low as & matter of course. COMMISSIONER VAN NORT INTERVIEWED. ‘The head of the Department of Public Works was found yesterday at nis office, on the secoud floor of the City Hall, The gentieman looked a perfect personification of ease of mind and conscience. He did not look as if tue Olticial axe were about to fall and decapitate his massive head and clegantly twisted mustache. He politely informed the HERALD representative that he knew nothing of the proposea removals, and that he had seen Mayor Liaveuleyer the day before at a meeting of the Gas Commissioners, where their consultation Was most cordial and friendly. CORVOBATION COUNSEL SMITH ON THE SITUATION, The law adviser of the corporation was found at his commodions offices in City Hail square. The version of the story of his proposed removal, as | the Methodist, Presbyterian ana Baptist families, | Cteriet trom @ conversation with the gentleman, 1s 28 iv/lows :— | Mr. Havemeyer has been in the habit, from time | to me, o1 addressing letters of inquiry to Mr. smiih, with respect to various suits pending in | charge of the Counsel to the Corporation. On the 14th inst. @ letter similar to many which have been received before, was addressed to the Coun- sel, and couched in the most polite language, On the loth mst. Mr. Smith replted in ny, and the Mayor at once wrote tohim that be had read his communicauion and that he Saw nothing what- ever that required any criticism at his, the Mayor's, hands. The following is the letter tn ruli:— Maron's Ovricy, Nov. 20 1874. ve received your letter of the 19th ommiunicdtion of the Lith inst, and I see nothing in its statements that requires any criticism at my hands. WILLIAM F. HAVEMBYEK, Hon, & DeLarikup Sait, WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY? ‘And nowcomes the allegations of those who claun to know ail the facts in the gase. These gentiewen solemnly assert that theré was a con- spiracy—a gigantic and well matured conspiracy, My Dean Srr—I } | And here tt 18 :— Comptroiler Green, they allege, has been the Mephistopheles of the Whole manwavre. Like tne wily demon who tempted Faust and overcame Marguerite, he has, they say, plotted and en- gineered the whole scheme. drama, a8 suggested io Stage Manager Havemeyer, was the removal of two of the Fire Commis- stoners—Periey and Van Cott, Then the resigua- | tion of Stern and Laimbeer, of the Charities and Correction, Was demanded. Fire Commissioner Hatch was said to be the principal mover in the attempt to obtau reorganization, which would leave him with two new Commissioners, the object being to head otf the damaging reportof tne lave Commissioners of Accounts. second Act.—Green, it is said, cunsulted with Havemeyer and started ao intrigue at bis own house. His proposition was lor the removal of Smith, Disvecker and Van Nort, Disbecker being thrown in asa batt to catch Havemeyer. Green wanted James C. Carter in Smith’s*piace as Cor- | oration Counsel. Havemeyer opposed this, jreen then proposed Wheeler H. Peckham, and Sidney de Kay as Police Commissioner in place of Disvecker, and Alired W. Craven in place of Van Nort, pledging himself to Havemeyer thatif ne would state in writing his intention to appoint these men, not only that he would obtain Gov- ernor Dix’s consent to the removal of the present incumbents, but also Governor ‘Tilden's promise that the new appointees snouid not ve interfered with. ‘ine Mayor was willing, if the Wuele programme could be carried out, to make the appointments and removals re- quired, Havemeyer was then furnisied by Green with charges against Van Nort and Smith, The charge against Disbecker was to be an alleged ignorance on tue part of Havemeyer of his cuar- acter and qualifications when he made the ap- pointment, and bis subsequent conviction that tt was hot @ proper one, Havemeyer, alter reading Green’s allegations against Smith, hesitated to put them in the saape of charges; but he wrote a letter to Smith embodying the allegations and requesting an explanation. Smith, evi- | dently aware that, although in the sbape Of interrogatories, Havemeyer’s questions were invended as @ foundation for charges and seciug through tue tntrigue, employed counsel. | After examination of those inquiries and of Smith's explanations coun® ed them to be frivolous, Havemeyer wae aited upon by & | Prominent lawyer of ohis chy, well read in muni- cipal law alfa'r foisforme) tim of the irivolous nature of @ 9.’ charges. ‘ie was advised that the /al Of Cae smivigue would assuredly 3 sew compligarton” as to his own official wt tnelatiog M8 Setion in the matter of the \ivewo@abion the cherg.s agamet the Comwmis- slopors OF Chartiies ana Jorrection, The result of this Noor vow Was tle /atire gyerthrow Of Green's | Lagtat ‘ haps, in Syria and Italy. ‘The! nd ove: pancally (ip oe dae "end thn phil eed THE REPUBLICAN jut there is a certain | The first act in the | ‘AP. The Rumored Changes To Be Made in the City Federal Offices. 18S THERE TO BE A CLEAN SWEEP? What the Custom House Wire-Pullers Think About a New Deal—The Probable Ef- fects and Probable Coming Men. The republicans who have for the past few years looked upon the Custom House magnates and the grand moguls generally, who by the grace of the President bave for years held comfortable positions under the federal government, as the only leaders in the party they were bound to fol- low, are just now iM @ very unhappy frame of mind. The fact is, they have come to the conclu sion since the election that the President has at last got bis eyes opened and has discovered, greatly to his surprise, that some of the men to whom he has all along affordea the best chances of getting rich in a wonderfully short time, and whom he has favored because of the “pull” ne thought they had in securing @ large vote for the party on election days, have never had any real pullat all. Indeed, the feeting that the reguits of the late election would bring about 4 CHANGE IN FEDERAL POLITICAL CIRCLES in this city, where everything has been ao snug for 80 many years, has for the past two weeks haunted the rank and file of the faithful, who all get their little pickings for doing their duty to the party without question, but up to a day or two ago thetr tears were not confirmed by anything that conid be considered reliable. But allis now agony and suspense, for it has leaked out that the President has really been LOOKING OVER THE FIELD, and though the gentlemen who are supposed to know the most about the probable changes that ure to be mado are the most silent about the mat- ter, it ia whispered about that the Presidential “looking over? bodes a storm to come. The present Collector, General Arthur, says he knows nothing about it, and his fond hope doubtless is that there will be no change, elthough there are many good patriots who believe there’s millions init Tne pious Lafiin, too, they say, believes the say- ings and doings of the Naval Ofice people during the campaign have won the respect and admira- tion of all true republicans, including the Preal dent; and, as for General Sharpe, the Surveyor of the Port, he certainly would be able to show to his own satisfaction, if asked, by a single rule of three, that, had he been a candidate in the grass hopper Congressional district, the warlike Willis would, in ail probability, have never pulied so far ahead of the tide as he did. Even Mr. Acton, who has been assaying THE MINT WITHOUT, THE JULEP for along period, and George Buiss, who believes that to be @ simple attorney to the Bourd of Health 1s not half so nice as to be a United States District Attorney, can see no good cause for a general change; for didn’t both of them spend | their evenings during the campaign in the room | of the State Central Committee when they ought | tohave been home with thelr families, and im conjunction with General Arthar and General Sharpe and ex-Governor Morgan, and General Knapp and General Glidden and Isaac Abraham | Bailey and Appraiser Darling, make up a map tm | red and white of the battle ground, and figure up a sure majority of thirty in the Assembly for the party, not tv say anything about the “words of cheer they sent on tinted paper to the rural regions with the post- | script, “We wili cut Tilden’s majority in the city | down to twenty thousand,” And, again, did they not meet in the same rooms the night after | election and look over the map together, with tears im their eyes, and talk tcoherently about @ miscaiculation, apd what a tremendous Vote they would roll up next year anyhow, just because they didn’t do it this year? No wonder they pooh+ | pooiied the idea of a change after all the hard work | at the committee rooms, alter shedding such bitter | tears over that map, and all because Of the great | love they bore the President and the contempt they had for their own situations, which do not pay half so well as if they were attending to their private business. THE CUSTOM HOUSE SUBORDINATES who do the wire-puiling in the Assembly districts, it must be said, Were as indignant as their chiefs when spoken to yesterday as to there being gbost of a show for anybody getting possession ot their offictal shoes. Had they, too, not toiled night and day for the party during the campaign— aye, with greater energy than ever before, and had they not held their own, and did they not al- ways hold their own and re, too, when they coula? A change would, in their opinion, be a ais- aster. But, itis to be added, these subordinates are wise men in their generation, tor when the name of Mr. Husted was mentioned ag the coming head centre of the Custom House | region they had nothing but kind words to say of | the man of War in time Of peace. ‘We all," said one of them toa HERALD reporter, ‘‘we all be- Meve that General Arthur ts the right man in the Tight place; but we think that General Husted | would be the right man in the right place too it | made Collector.” Further than this they were | dumb as oysters, The question, Would ‘he not be amore active man for the party—a better or- ganizer than General Arthur? and questions of simular import seemed too deep for them ale together. As for General Husted himsell, he ts such @ thorough politician that tt would require a good sized army oO! interviewers to get him to commit himself as to matters with which his own name is so prominently mentioned. He smiled | genially when @ HERALD reporter asked him if he Was to be THE NEXT COLLECTOR; but, lke the modest man that he 1s, he declare@ that he kuew nothing about the matter; he did | not know o/ any changes ou foot in the republican \ army. But, despite the Geucral’s modesty, there are those who contend that the President not only contemplates a change in the head places in | sowie of the government offices, but thathe has been advised that General Uusted ts the man who ought to be Qoliector, or, in detault of | that, Naval Officer. It is claimed, on what seems to be good authority, that General Dix and other men nigh the party's councils have hed a serious talk over the advisability of putting a young and active man like General Husted alt the head o1 the party tm tne city, General Dix advising that every effort be made to secure the co-operation of the at pres- ent disaffected republicans tn the reorganization of aifairs, so that by the next election the repube leans wilt present an unbroken front to the Com- mon enemy. In other words, it 15 said that he ad» vises that the word “proscription” be regarded | hereaiter as aa obsolete term in the republican lexicon. It is not to be wondered at that every- body who 1s suspected of knowing about the changes that have been talked about, and the mere | rumor of which has created such WIDE-SPREAD CONSTSRNATION in Custom House circles, should deuy any knowl edge of what has been done or what is proposed to be done in the matter oi ringing out the ola and ringing in the new for the benefit of the party. They haye very good reasons for it; but ta @ week or so, unless the powers that be at Wash- ington take the notion to let things remain im statu. quo for some time to come, at least untid Congress reassembles, there will be a lively shag ing Up of the dry bones in administration circles in this city, and places that know certain men well now will know them no longer forever. ST, STEPHEN'S CHUBCH FAIR, | [twill be learned with pleasure that the man- agers of St, Stephen’s Ladies’ Fair will keep it open until the 28th inst, So far tne fair has been a suc- cess, The tasteiully decorated hall presents every night a charming appearance, while the perform. ance of choice selections of music by a well-ap- ointed band gives life and harmony to the scene, The lady managers, with their assistant amateur saieswomen, are tndefatigable in their efforts to insure the success of the good cause to which they have given so much of thelr time and attene tion, | At the different tables are numerous articles of beauty and vaine for eae by sale and lottery. Those on sale are sold at lower rates than are charged at first class stores, while the cost of @ chance on the other vaiuaole articles of virtu and uttlity 18 merely nominal, ranging fram five to filty Cents, and the prospect of winning is not wo remote, Strangers visiting the otty will find St. Stephen's Ladies’ Fair an excellent place to spend | areally enjoyable evening, and New Yorkers who, have not been there snould avail themselves of the | opportunity offered to see the ladies of St. Stephens engaged in their work of charity. SUICIDE BY HANGING, Coroner Woitman was yesterday called to No. 123 Ridge street to hold an inquest on the body of | Antone Betz, a German, fifty-four years of age, who took lis own life the night previous. De- ceased hed long been out of employment, which made him exceedingly ag sa and while in that state of mind hanged bimsel( from the Loar of bis bedroom,