The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1875, Page 4

4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial and Church Movements. A Jewish Rabbi on Miracles, Ancient and Modern. | Goa. NEW YORK HERALD, S Anderson, Of the First Baptist chureh, presided and delivered a brief address, Dr. White, Dr. Tyng, Dr, Rogers, Mr, William £. Doage and others took part m the services etther in prayer or eXhortation, The topics uuder considera- tion Were religious revivals and the tn- crease Of zeal, spirituality and devotedness | im the churches throughout the world and a clearer Witness lor the truth among them. The unity of Christians attracted tne largest share ot atreation, and Dr. Tyng spoke treely and nobly lor it, He cared nothing for churcies or creeds or jormis Of faith, save as they brought men nearer to He loved ail who love our Lord Jesus Christ, of whatever name they are called, Soon will | come the day when everything material tn the PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. in the Anthon Memorial Protestant Episcopal chureti at the usua, hours to-day the Rey. R, Heber Newton will oficiate and preach. in Christ church this evening the Rev. Dr. Harwood, of New Haven, will begin a course of sermons ou ‘ Christianity and Social Morals." “Phe Choice at the Parting of the Way’ will be discussed tis morning by the Rev, W,. R, Alger ip the Church Of the Messiah, “Religious Moods and Religious Priaciples” will be considered by Rey. Mr, Hepworth this evening, and “St, Paul's Challenge” this morning, in tue Chureh of the Disciples. In the Wainwright Memoria! Protestant Episco- pal church the Rev. W.T. Egvert will consider “The Ancient and the Modern Wise Men Paying Homage to the Babe" to-day. The Rev. Dr. Ewer will oMciate at all the ser- Vices to-day in St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal cbureh, and wil! preach morning and evening. The Rev. J, Spencer Kennard will preach “Repentance or Remorse’ ts moraing, and ou Child Teachers” this evening, in the Pilgrim Baptist church. At che Third Universalist church the Rev. BE, C. Sweerser will discuss ‘God's Jealousy” this even- mg. ‘The Rev. H.R. , of Brooklyn, Wul preach there in the mornin, In whe First Returmed Episcopal church the Rev. B. B. Leacock, D: D., will preach at the usual hours to-day. In the Caureh of the Atonement services will be held to-day, as usual, and the Rev. C, C, Titfuny will preach, “The Historical Plan and Geography of Proph- sey” will be considered this aiternoon by Elder J, B. Cook, in College Hail. ‘Tue Kev, TD. Anderson will preach to-day at the usual hours im the First Bapust church, Dr. Porteous, of Ali Souls’ church, Brooklyn, will discuss the practice of “Praying to and for the Dead’ this morning, and “Iheories of the Spirit Worla’’ this evening. | L. S. Crandall, W.S. Earle and Jobo Orvas, will speak in De Garmo Hall to-day. | Divine service in tue Churcu of the Resurrection | @t the usual hours to-day. Rey. Dr. Fiugg will omiciate. Dr. Rylance will give “A Word to Young Men” this evening in St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal shureb. In the church o! the Holy Trinity the Rey. S. H. Tyng, Jr.. will preach to young men this evening. in the First Baptist church of Hariem this even- ing Dr. Samson wil! discuss tue proposition—*Do Evil tnat Good may Come.” Divine service in the English language to-day, a8 usual, in the Russian chapel in Second avenue, Rey. N. Bjerring, pastor. Service also on Wednes- day, the New Year, old style. “Johu’s Firat Vision in Patmos’ is the theme j apon which the Rey. M.S. Terry will preach this morning tn Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal chareh, ‘The Rev. John N, Gaileher will minister to Zion Protestant Episcopal cliurch this morning and afternoon. “Christ tne Door” and the “Widow's Mite” will be considered to-day by tae Rev. J, B. Hawthorne in the Tabernacle Baptist churen. The Rey. Henry Hiscox will preach in Stanton wtreet Baptist church this morning and evening. The Rey. Thomas Crowther will preach this morn- ‘Dg and aiternoon in the Presbyterian churen in Forty-second street, near Seventi avenue. “Tbe Higner Christian Life’ wil. be considered by the Rev. W. H. Boole this morning in Seveu- teenth street Methodist Episcopal church. In Piymouth Baptist church the Rey. D. H. Mil- ler, D. D., will talk about “A New Song” this morning, and “To the Right or the Leit” this evening. In the Scotch Presbyterian church the Rey. 3. M. Hamilton will preach this morning and alier- | goon. | A Conference of Spiritualists will be held in Harvard Rooms this afternoon, Tue Hutchinson family will give @ sacred concert in the same place this evening. The Rev. W. H. Dannell will minister to All Saints’ vrotestant Episcopal chureh this morning and evening. “The Weakness of the Caurch and the Power of Christ’ will be considered by the Rev. P. L. Davies this morning in the Berean Baptist church, Need Supplied” will be his theme in the evening. The Rey. W. H, Thomas will preach in Beekman Hil Methodist Episcopal church at the usual hours to-day. The Rev. H. D. Ganse will preach a sermon to men this evening in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch chapel, on Seventa avenue and Filty-fourtn uireet. The Rev. C. B, Smith, of St. James’ Protes‘ant Episcopal chureh, will preach this morning in the Church of the Epiphany. The Rev. R. S. MacArthur will preach this morn- | (ng and evening at the usual nours in Calvary | Baptist cuurch. | ‘The Rey. J. M. Pullman will cali attention to the “Neglect of the Higher Ministries of Life’ this morning, and to “The Day of Judgment’ this evening in the Church of Uur Saviour. Dr. Armitage will hold up ‘Jesus as the Great Friend of Woman” this evening, in the Fiith ave- oue Baptist churcn. In the morning he will de- liver his annual sermon to children, The Rey, D. R, Van Buskirk will preach in the Church of the Discipies of Corist this morning and | evening. + The Rev. W. H. Pendieton will minister to the Fifty-third street Baptist church to-day at the usual hours. Preaching services to-day, as usual, in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, L. H. King, D. D., pastor. Dr. Fuiton will show the nation the way out of {te pert! this morning, and will speak of “Lazarus and the Under World” this evening, in the Hauson place Baptiet church, Brooklyn. In the afternovn the Doctor will preach in the Howard Mission, New York, on the “Sacredness of the Children’s Hour.” Different ministers and laymen will address the Morning Star Sunday School this afternoon. Preaching there in the evening. Nellie Brigham will address the Spiritualists at No, 1,195 Broadway this morning and evening. By invitation of Ladies’ Christian Union Miss Sarah F, Smiley will give a Bibie iesson daily, thia week, in tue chapel of the Broaaway Tabernacle, at hail-pust three P. M, The Key. W. Page and the Rey. Dr. M. Vincent will occupy the pulpit of the New York Presby- terian chuich to-day. “The Recognition of Friends in Heaven” will be iscussed this evening in Norloik street Methodist Episcopal church by the Rev, Charies &. Harris, In the Laight street Baptist church the Rev. H. W. Kuapp will preach this morning and evening | as usual. David Price’s Praying Band from Brooklyn will sonduct the services during this entire day in | Seventh street Metiodist Episcopal churca, | The Rev. David B. Jutcen wilt preach this (Sab- path) morning and evening at the Sixteenth | screet Baptist church, Dr, Howland and Dr. Weston will occupy the | pulpit of the Uhuren of the Heavenly Rest at tue oeualboursto-day, THE WEEK OF PRAYER. CLOSING SERVICES YESTERDAY—DRS. TYNG AND ROGERS ON CHRISTIAN UNITY AND THE POWER OF PRAYER—MASS MEETING THIS EVENING. Yesterday was, praciicaliy, the closing of the week of prayer for 1575, and a goodly congregation gathered again inthe Reformed churchon Puta avenue und Twenty-iret street. vr. Thomas Dy on edwct our pledges and promise “The |, | of eloquent the preacher migit be. churches Wil be jorgotten; burt the day will never come when the prayers of the faituful will not bear (ruit by tHE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST that isin them. These prayer seasons tend to bring Out that which ts real racher than that which is apparent in men. The very foundation of prayer “a8 Us unity of love tn JeSus as Its resting pace. Abd U Unis week of prayer brings Us up out of the Churches into the Church, tien we shall have the Diessings promised and praved tor, whether.ti@athen lands have them or not. We shall hever Work for Jesus but as He works in us and With us, O it isagraad thing to walk and work With Jesus! Never again be buried under the mere scorta of the things that are past, but e ministers and peopie rise and Know that there Hop above all bisvops, a Teacner migher an all teschers, and (hat We are golog to our ther’s house and mean to take with us as many as We can persuade to go. Dr. Rogers offered a lew valedictory remarks. He regretted that the tine had come to say fare- well. Never have the doors of hia chureh, ne suid. Deen opened 80 cheeriuily as for (hese ser- vices, and never have days and hours passed so rapidly away as these. Me rejoiced to be per- mitted to spend this week of prayer on the earth, We come together here, he said, and our prayers are Waited up to the throne of tia Who heareca prayer. What a glorious thing it is that all VER THE WORLD PRAYER iS GOING UP to the ou@ God and Fatuer ol vs au! Is there any object or cause under heaven that can bring so many men and women together day after day as this? Tots week of prayer has been very precious aud these prayers Wil uot be in vain in tus city wuere We live and labor. But let us, he said, hope that God’s work will be revived aad that all these men and Women will be baptized with the Hoiv Spirit. How many homes need this bapusm to bring peace and joy into them! How many parents 9 praying for children; teachers tor J ts t ¢ Jacob, biessing His chiidren, declared that the rod should not depart trom Judai gor @ lawgiver trom between is 1eet unuil Shuok came, was the symbol of government ana the embiein of | | Blair, a staunch Seotch Preabyterian minister, Is a regular attendant at this synagogue, and other ministers drop in oceasionally, Tue sermon de- livered oy Dr. Gotchei! yesterday was what might be called a rational exposition of the Mosaic story of the buddimg of Asron's almond rod in the tabernacle and its bearing fruit. The discourse was designed to expiain away the apparent mirac- uloushess of the circumstances narrated, The Doctor read the story a8 given in the Bible so that the congregation might perceive the relation of his text to the context. If a contest such as arose between MOSES AND AARON on one side and the partisans of Korah on the other wus presented to us for decision, what, he asked, would ve the effect upon ust Miracles have lost their argumentative power tn our eyea, They ¢ We have learned to judge them by the hight that We possess, Strange as the thing may appear, if it can be accounted for by Datural causes it proves ho more than the blossoming Of the trees in The sprinz time, But if no such Causes can be shown | tuen We would refuse to accept it ana suspect the | persona who produced tt. The whole course of our training fas been anu-miracuious. Our age may | be desiguated emphatically ap age of reason, We may ciie the discussion of a question that just | how eXciles puvle attention—the aiscussivn be- tween Mr. Gladstone and tue Catholic churen, ‘that Church trusts more im miracles than any other. We are told: oy that Church that on its altars miracies occur datly; that bread and wine ure chauged into actual flesh and biood; that dis- | €ases which have bailed the skill of physiclans ieid promptly to the touch of a little holy water, | ut hu miracles are resorted to vy the infallibuity OF antieiniajivility dogmatists, Way not: Ku- uonal argument 13 here met by rational argu- ment. The Eugiisn Premier has challenged them | to make good their cause, buc they have not in- vited him into their tempies to witness any mira- | cle. Believing then, as we dave been taugut, that | tuere can be NO INTERRUPTION IN THE LAWS OF NATURE, | we are therelore compelled to discard ail such evi- | denees as these. But Wuat are we to do withsuch | Cases as (hat now under disclission—Aaron’s rod? | ‘The Doctor then showed tue significance, in a political and religious sense, of staves or rods in | alages, ancient or modern, They are the tusig- nia Of oMce anu of authority. Hence the patriarch ‘The rod | justice in courts of aw. In Jeremiah the prophet | Pinday sechudr scholars and frends for iriends, lls Upon ail those about nim to vemean hun, aod How many Christian ministers and missionaries are li/ting up thelr hearts to God! And ts now God alearer of prayer? And will He not answer these id prayers made here. And this, the Doctor hoped. the congrega- tion would do, ‘This evening a mass meeting Will be held in the same church, at which the Kev, Mr. Collins will give @ sketch of the Work of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Great Brituin and Ireland, and addresses will be made by Drs. Crooks, Hamilton and o¢..ers, And thus 1875 will have a good religious seud of. | MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. | BAPTIST. y | The Baptist Missionary Union operating in this | city has appropriated $26,000 for its church work bere Jor the present year, and now appeals to the | denomination to help it to meet its obligations | promptly. A series of sctentific lecvures will be given in Association Hall next week in belialf of | this interest | Rev. Willam Reid has resigned the pastorate of | the Macilougal street church in this city, which he | has served Jor six years. | Rey. James B. Simmons, D. D., has accepted the | appointment of the New York State Centennial | Committee, and will devote himself to the work | of raising the Centennial contributions of tae State tor the more complete endowment of Baptist in- | stitutions of learning. PRESBYTERIAN. The mortuary lists of the Presbyterian ministry | show that daring the year 1874, ninety-six clergy- | men of the denomination ceased at once to work | and live. years and the oldest ninety-turee. Father Chiniqay, the Frenca convert from Ro- | mauism, bas been preaching in Putnam, Conn., | ana twenty families have leit the Catholic Chure! ‘They bave’ written to their priest that they have The youngest was aged thirty-three } therefore, need his services nO longer. | found Christ, the Great Hiyn Priest, and will, | METHODIST, A union communion of the Presbyterian, Re- | formed, Congregational aud Lee avenue. Baptist | cuurcaes will be held in St. John’s Methodist Epts- | copal churcn, Brooklyn, shaul-past turee o’cloc Nis 18 specifically a union | of churches in their organized Cuaracter, abd not | merely of individual members. The first service | of the kind ever held iu tins couutry was instituted last year inthe First Reiurmed church, Bediord uvenue, as tne fitting close of the ‘week of prayer,” aud tor participating tuerciu Lee avenue | Bapust courch was expetied trom the Long Isiand Association. | Prizes are offered of $60, $30 and $20 for the | three best essays, tn order 0! merit, on the sub- ject of City Evaegelizauon. Bishop Janes, Dr. Curry and Dr, Crooks have consented to act as @ Comunittee of Crilicism and Award. Ali essays should be jor varded to Key. &. Wheatley, SIxty- fourva street, Boulevard, New York, before the 1st of March next. Tne need, beuveticent results, Methods aud Ways Of providing means to carry on the work of city evangelization in cities of which New York is the type soould be among the points covered by the wricers, | ‘The venerable Rev, Henry Boehm has been very | ul since Saturday, 2d inst. He is just now some- what easier, and may ruliy again. Toe Methodist preachers o1 Pailadelphia resolved by vote, last Monday, tu attend tue lecture of Father Stack, a Catholic priest oi chat city, on | ‘foesday, on “ine Power of the Koman Catholic | Bisnops Incompatible with Individual Liberty and American Lustitutions.”? | The Key. John Irippett, of the New York East Conierence, died recentiy in Liverpool, Engiand, His remains are now on the Way to tas country, and wili be buried in Rhinebeck. ‘Yhe Rev. B. M. Adams, of the Methodist Epleco- pal church at Hempstead, bas resigned his pastor- ate lu Consequence of au affection Oo! the tarout, wnhica he does not wish to aggravate by constant | preaching. his resignation will take eifect in Apri. BPISCOPALIAN, ‘To-day is the first suuday aiter Epiphany. ‘The Rev. P. B. Morgan spent sunday, the 3d tnst., | in New York, on his way to attend a number of | parvchial missions tn the West, purposing to re- turn Bust in time to bold a mission im this city | sume time during the coming Lent, Y | The Key. Dr. Hurwooa, rector ot trinity Church, | New Haven, receive’ a Christmas present Of | $25,000 ivom Oue of nis lady parishioners. | Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Wasuington, nas given | $77,000 to the Churcli of the Ascension in tnat city. | ROMAN CATHOLIC, The diocese of Philadelphia, one of the strongest in the country, 1s to be divided, Father Toner, of | ‘Towanda, Pa., 18 Lo be Bishop of the new diocese, Wito Lis residence at Reading, Pa. Tue poud duue vy the pastors of St. Francis Xavier's cliurch in Baltimore and by others else- where lu the conversion of the culored peopie canuot be overestimated, The jorce of priests eu- Guged in the misston in America Will soon be aug: | mented by the arrival of Patner Richard Gore, brotner Of the Z2atous assistant pastor of St Fraucis’ church, Baltimore, and Facher Joun HU. Green, jormerly 0: Washington, D. C., botn of whom were lately ordained priests at Mullotil, | London, MISCELLANEOUS. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the seitiement of Kev. P. D, Vau Clee, D, D., a8 pastor of the First Kesorimed Dutch church of Jersey ity, wil be ob- served With appropriate services to-c. The pas- tor Will preach ois anniversary sermon this morn- ing. . foe Rev. Dr. Ormiston, of this city, has met with an accident Which may cripple him ior ive. As he was stepping Irom the sidewalk tu a street cai a few days ago a tenon of Ove Of Mis legs broke about midway trom the knee to tue ankle. Tue epapping of the cord Was with & sound like the disciarge Of @ pistol, and he supposed at frst that he had veen shot. He reached home with great diMiculty and in intense sufteriag, and surgical aid was soon at hand, The breaking of the bones would lave been a lignt matter compared with this, a8 the broXen tendon contracts éacn way, and the ;eunion 18 4 slow and precarious process, rhe leg is OW tightly encased, and ita use dis pensed with jor a couple of months at least. ia tie meantime vr. Ormiston i not idle, Me gets aboUL O08 Crutches, Hod Was LD Nis pulpit last Dad- bat. In 1728 there wos but one synagogue in Now York, Thirty-two years ago there was but four. Now there are twenty-six, TEMPLE EMANUEL THE SYMBOLISM OF AARON'S ROD THAT DUDDED— MIRACLES CONTRARY TO KEASON—DISCOURSE BY REY. DR. GOTLHELL, The wealthy congregation which worships tn this beautiful temple having retired tneir vener- able pastor, Dr, S. Adler, on &@ bandsome conipe- tence and given entire charge of the synagogue rervices to Dr. Gotthell, nave laken a (reau start in rejorm, Few, if aay, ov! the young peopie nave cared (or sermons in Gerwau, DO we.téor LOW avle they stayed away, So that there Was a Moti euole discrepuncy between tue members present on the English lew tare days and the German lecture days, but since the new year beau the German lectures have veen abolished, and henceforth the services will be wholly in Kngliso, Yestergay the large building was very tuirly filed with peopie, nail of wuom, | it was believed, Were Clristians, Toe Rev, Hugh , But | Simond tree, and the explanation is give! | oF the other tribes, consutute tie | the fruit of bis priestly jie and otiice 18 syumbol- all that Know his Dame bo say, “How is the stroag | rod and the beautiul stuf broken!” same prophet saw in his vision the rod of an | And the | prayers and shake Chis city as in days past! “ | This Week @f prayer Will be lost to Us Unless We go to iim seo hit anal oa Bulge ie Aa | our pulpits and our homes and put into practical irom the fact that 16 biooms and beurs | fruit Woep an other trees ure in the deadly | entrance of winter, We may then presume that | ait the heads of the tribes of Israel had rods of almond trees a8 emblems 01 Office, Supposing, tien, that this sign of official power formed the | subject of the poet’s eulogy in later years of priestiy authority, what would be more natural jor nim than to represent the high priest’s rod as budding and bearing truit, as symbolical of a | higher authority ee any other elder of the people possessed? And 80 we find in the ninety- | second Psaim, “they that be planted in tue house oi the Lord suali flourish in the courts ol our God. They shail beiug forth irult in oid uge. They shall | be iat and flourishing, to sbow that the Lord is | upright,” Here the reason 1s given. | THE POSTRY OF THE PSALMS | and the prophets has furolsned much of the ma- terial out of which the ruling priests of more modern times have been constituted. ‘This rod Was to secure the high priestnood to Aaron in per- petaity. The Doctor met some oojections that migat be raised against tois symbolical inter- pretation as duing away with God’s revealed | truth. ‘that symivol transplants the spiritual | irom the hot-house of imagination to the | open fied of practical itie, where they are brougut nearer to our understanding. We ltt tue veil of poetic imagery and men and women are seen Walking behiad us as actual as they are to-day. with our fathers in days of yore, carling jor aud dog us good. ‘iber blooming rod and the fower | and fruit must be tous as the blooming of a dry | rte | stick was to Aaron, To believe that waich we | now intensiiied, all her borders were ravaged and deso- Dever can understadd is spiritual Lbarrenness; but to believe that which we can uuderstand 18 a | source of strength. We try to give to every nur- rative its legiamate meaning. ‘Lne Doctor tuen explaiued how the piety aud spirituality of Aaron and his worship, @ compared with the beads blossoms, and ized by the rod, And the same symbols would as Tuily express the same spiritual condition to-day us they did then. The Doctor thereiore urged lus hearers to le. theic lives be blooming anduiruit- bearing by being devoted to God aud 10 the good of humanity. CHURCH AND STATE. ‘ | D., this aiternoon, at | yp ERASTUS BROOKS ON -THE CONSTITUTIONAL | ecclé AMENDMENTS RELATING TO LOCAL CHARITIES. ‘Ihere seems to be agreat deator difference of opinion even among tie members of the last Leg: | islature 4s to the reat meaning of that particular amendment to the constitution adopted vy the people at the last election which relates to tue question of “State aid.” 1t seems that toere are many who believe that the amendmeat prouibits the donation by counties, cities or villages, of moneys to any “associauon,”? no matter of what character. Mr, Erastus Brooks, who was one of the leading members of the late Consututional Commission, aad who had a great deal to gay and do with this very amendment, does no. agree with those who believe that it entirely abridges the right of counties, towns and cities to the dis- pensation of relief to the poor. In conversation with a HERALD reporter on the sabject he said:— “‘rhis very question was thoroughly discussed in | the Commission, The amendment as ortxinaliy reported by Mr. Leavenworth, tae Chairman of the Committee on Charities, it is true, was a very sweeping one. I opposed THE ORIGINAL AMENDMENT strenuously, a3 did several other embers of the Commission, It was the last weck of the session, ana the words | used on the occasion show clearly what the intent of the amendment was as re- to the Commonwealth, and to every county, city, town and viliage in ft, all aid eituer irom the Legisiature or from any munictpal or other local | authority.” “fhat was the scope of the amendment in its original form?” “it was, in my opinion and in the opinion of who took part in the debate that ensued upon it. I studied the amendment thoroughiy, and de- ciared, in my remarks beiore tne Commission, that “if the amendment prevalied only what are called our State charities, and, as the provision reads, not ali of them, could come to the state jor the smuliest possibile support;’ thac it would, If ed, crippie the hauds of all private benevo: Jence and in a Way most Ollensive to tuousauds of people. argued that the amenument originated in & great prejudice ; that tiere had been for years # Clause 1M Lhe State Cuustitution against wuat are calied SECTARIAN CHARITIES which I deemed wholly anjustifiavie, I said:—lt Is asserted and believed, aud is perhaps true, that those o/ the Roman Catholic tau get more than tuelr Share Of tue public Money, Lut this 1s not true, 1 think, i! you consider mumbers as weil as SeCLs, WIL regard to appropriatious and ciauns. Bus if this Case Loe wroug is Luat, because there is More poverty and mistortiuue tu one sect tuan in another, you are Co act not iu ieference t» what is right in liged but as co Who may be reieved.' ' “You reierred in your speecu to the amounts ac- never prove nor disprove any proposition. | | amendments you specity ts corre | votes, God 15 With us now as he wus | proac NDAY, JANUARY 10, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. ! ous oceasion, 18 the prohibition against ratiroad debts and lovns and agains¢ all private and secta- rian charines. Tus Was the view taken by te lawyers 0 the Convention,"@ vMr, Hrooks, What was tue motion you made on closing your protest agall the amendment us origibally proposed’? i moved ab amendment lLimitin | Offensive restriction to the State | tre the proposed gisiature and ngic (vom ail application to the counties, es, towns and Villages Ol the State.’” “And Us amendment prevailed?” “It prevatied alter wome debate without a divi- gion in the Commission, leaving the right as to all | Jocalities JUst a8 provided ior in existing laws."” | HON. DANIEL ULLMAN ON THE AMENDMENTS TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION AND THE COMING RELIGIOUS CONTEST, | Inreply to a sympathetic address from certain | citizens of New York, fon, Dariei Ullman, widely | known some twenty years ago as the candidate | of tue Know Nothing party for Governor and as | one of the recognized chieitains of that organiza- | on, has published the foliowing cirealar embody- ing bis views ou matters of public interest: Prenwot, N, ¥.. Jun, 1, 1375. for your kind congratulations, press to you, briefly, inv cout jes suggested by ¥ouim your Gesttrwen—I thank yor nd wii, with pleasure, ietons on the se ouare right Un. ubledly your interpretation of the | . They were intended tomean precisely what they do. The fe w seetions—10 and M—gi article 8 of the ‘constitution embody a pro- hibition of all sectarian or denominational appropria- tions. Tovether, they contain an absolute prohibition of any grancot « or funds or property in ald of | private or corporate undertadings, There can be no more such State, county, city, town or village grants or spererrened The Common Couneil the city of New York can make hereatter no such leases ot city lows | as those to which youreter. the people cast their bal- | lots. with keen d nation, for the several amenid- wents. The majorities by which these two passed are very satisfactory. wection, 0 A 343,082 and section 11, 4,929, has be at last consummated in the tate of New York an agit years’ standing, Tt is now twent ec sét this ball in motion.” the ¢ and sometimes oitter; but. . we persevered, anil ents have become a patt ct the organic Jaw of t te. it will reqaire time to de yelop dhe ture reaching importance of Uudehange, Lt will cinpansize and he practical the hiscoric and tundamental maxiun Cf our institutions—that there shail be © of Chureh and state. in the advocac ft this principle £ ve. ducing this long mpaign, bes writing num $ articles tor press, addressed more (han 130 ris due to those noble trends who aliautly stood tr i trials aud vicissitudes, ‘Their loyalty has reward in success. but let then not suppose that our work ts finished: their etforts in all the States must not be relaxed. ‘This is a great vietory, yet it Was ouly an affair of ourposts. these hendments touch # small seciou merey of an organ. ized political sysiem, Whose object is to control human uciely. » prophet has yet foretold the end of this great debate; but it is quite manitest that no diplomatic bk an long avert its crisis he two acknowledy: s. fa separation presontatives of the British Be pie have cach spol decidedly on this subject. M Distuell, the present Prime Minister of Envland, again and again, expressed his opin on that Europe | | CITY POLITICS. The Week's Work of the New Regime. THE COMING CHANGES. The Cases of the Fire and Police Commissioners and the Corporation Counsel. THE POLITICAL “HACKS' HANKERINGS. There were month ago very many of the city politicians, and many others who are not politi, clans, who were sanguine enough to believe that by the end of the first week of Mayor Wickham’s term every commisaloner and head of department who was not of the right sort in @ party sense or | Just to the people's liking {n a moral sense would be retired to the shades of private life, nolens volens. Already the first week of the term is more than over, and the too hopefu! ones have been doomed to disappointment. The fact is that Rumor during the week has made more removals and changes than the Mayor has apparently as yet ever dreamed of making; for, while Mr. Wickham has taken active steps for the removal of but one head of department, the trrepressible “It is said” gave him the credit ofa determination to make a clean sweep before sundown yesterday. It is Idle to deny that 1% was the general belief that the very first object of his tender solicitude would be Comptroller Green; but THE COMPTROLLER’S FRIENDS now say, and say {t boldly, like Mr. Pangloss, that he is stronger than ever, and they base this con- viction on the notion that Governor Tilden has | actually promised to stand between the Mayor and his removal, Some of them, indeed, have gone so far already as to assert that Mr. Wick- ham does not *‘dare’—tnat is the word, does not dare—to remove the Comptrolier, As for the Mayor, he has not during the week committed himself one way or the other on the subject, On tie threshold of the religious War of the age; ani Mr. Gladstone has suddeuly roused himself .o & cor sciousness of the deep significance of wuths which wi have been procialmin. frou the housetops for the last quarter of a century, and have, by much Iteration, made commonplice in the United states. .mieligent Ameri- cans have, for many years, reco that a nierareh nis dd miilions of pt the | rth, e, during couturies, clad, sives, | or for their head, the superior allegiit il, politi: | cal ant spiritual—or the whole human race. ‘the ob- jevtive points of Gregory VIL, lunocent f1L., Archbisho} Hughes, and ot the Curia Romana of 1870, were ident- | cal—namely, to wield spiritual authority — for | civil and political advancement. | ‘The so-called Vatl- | can decrees have detined go clearly the imperial | deinands ‘of intulliviity’ that hereatfer ‘no govern. | ment having physical power suiticient to protect | its dignity can perinit, consistently with its selt-re- spect, any considerable "number of Its citizens to prace | Headly accept their binding force. Mr. Gladstone's “Ex. | postulauion” will, however, although taray. work out | hnmense good. ‘the high pedestal on which hy stands | gives Lo his utterances a weight that will not only arrest | the attention of thousands of the Hberal party of ing. | Jand, who wouid otaerwise remam imiifferent and ert, but wlll also cause bis words to be well considered | by the world of mankind. ‘Archuisuop Mauning, one of the leaders of the Vatt- | 1, in au address delivered last year in Lon. | don to rhe Acad BY t | mankind had no other alternative—they will be forced | to choose between “Casariam or ultramontantsm.” Last November he said that “there was undoubtedly up. | ne of the mightiest contests the religious r seen.” a,” declared repeatedly ‘dreaded this impending strugsic, | with horror, that during thirty years of the recalling, e h ceniury, trom a cause exactly the same, but sev laied with fire and sword, | Vrince Hohentoue, now filling the delicate and dif. | 11t post of Ambassador of the Empire to trance, and who, as Prime Minister of Bavaria, had trequent occa. | sions to mexsuce his strength wita the Jesuits mm Munic! stated in his recent speech at Kutmbach that 1 Bistaarck often discussed: in 167, earnest and ever-it anxiely, the importance the contllet now low. over Europe.” Asa warrlor statesman, leading the advance of the army battling for | free thought oppored to. superstition, the Prince Vou Bismarek oveupies & position involving the highest re- sponsibility to himselt, his country amd mankind. The | situation demands the excreise of ail his transcendent abalitics, requiring more generalship than sadowa or Sedan. “His toes, the Jesuits, are the most subtle ap scrupulous antagonists the World ever pr 1 | ing that his is the most valugble lite in | usual they are seeking to de@troy at with some one or all | | of their familiar weapons—calumny or poison, the pastul | | or the dayzer. ‘ | De. Yon Dollinger, of Munich, the ‘most learned of | jastical historians. predicted. in March, 1871, that, | as the Thirty Years’ War was waged chietly within the | | Imits of the old German Empire, so the theatre ot this | will, at firsr, be contined to the boundaries of 1 ww. | | We inay be sure, however, that, It this war be once kin: | died, its flames Will no! ouly enVelop ali Europe, but will | | cast their Marid glare actos’ the Atiantic. The solidarity of nations increases every day, Such is | now their interdependence that whatever great question | agitutes one intl ch the progress | of this struggle, have not tal als for its continuance in the United States are accumu- ing Jesuits are tortitying themselves in every stronzhoild in America. ‘This, Is, indee pressible coniliet,” destined, trom its natur | and absorb all other elemenis ot wtriie— | in its vast sweep tae entre cirele of hu | present and sical and. spiritual. u an “irre to combine Aprehen M relations, | Lotus pray on this Cou i, it may ever remain a contest of | Not degenerare, as it has go often in the elder into a war of blood. xenilemen, truly | ), bL ULLMANN. Aun W. Brekwax, General Samuel B. JONES, Rouxut Waicut, ALEXANDER UsTaaNpeR and others, city of New Yors. WARDEN LISCOMB REMOVED. JOHN M. FOX APPOINTED IN HIS PLACE. Ever since Mr. Stern’s retirement trom the Board of Charities and Correction the removal of | Mr. Joseph L. Liscomb from tne position of Warden | of the Penitentiary has been talked of, not only as @ possible contingency, but as a probability. Mr. | Liscomo has been looked upon all along as | | Mr. Stern’s “‘man Friday,” and it is well known | | that the moment Mr. Stern ceased to be a Com- | missioner Mr. Liscomb ceased to have a prop | ported trom the committee, [stated that it pro- | whereon tolean in the hour of affliction. \ This | | posed to strike down every incorporated charity | hour came yesterday, when the Warden's official | and private benevoience to the extent of reiusiug | head rolled into the basket under the kuile of Commissioner Brennan, to break the Jail. without one tender hand Mr. Liscomb, so report says, | Was considered altogether Loo solicitoas for the | personal wellare and comfort of Boss Tweed, who | las very generally been considered more a guest } at the Warden's quarters than @ prisoner, whose place is 1 a penitentiary cell. | At four o'clock yestervay alternoon the Commis. | | Sioners met in thelr oilice at. the corner of Elev- | several other ol the members of the Commission, | entn street and Tard avenue, when the question | Of appointing a suceessor jor Liscomb was brought | up. Commissioner Batley has a triend in the per- son of Mr. N. D. Bartran, who 14 anxious to serve | the county in the capacity of Warden of the Pent+ tentiary. Mr. Bailey nominated his iriend ‘and voted for him, but nobody eise dit. Commissioner | Brennan nominated Mr, John M. Fox, and Commiz- sioner Cox seconded the nomination, A vote was taken, and Messrs, Cox and Brennan having voted jor Mr, Fox that gentleman Was duly commis- sioned and sent directly to the Islaud, where he relieved Mr, Liscomb at once, | —------ | MUNICIPAL NOTES. | Mayor Wickham was yesterday afternoon served | with au order trom the Supreme Court, signed by Judge Donohue, sammoning him to show | cause why an injunction should not be tissuea prohibiting him irom recognizing the Board of Aldermen as the Common Council, This order | | Was obtained at the instance cf the two gentle. | men who ran (or Assistant Aldermen last Novem- tually donatea by tue lg Mid charities for | ber and who claim that until there tweuty years previous to 1s87 ‘4s @ second bdoai o ased b “[ showed that we were to expend from | p4 petal AIT Ng fon $10,000,000 tu When, lor twenty-one years, ail the State had e pended upon voch public and private caarives amounted (0 bUt $10,s54,260; that in nts time hg, priva.e Coarities bad received trom the Stati $4,040,278; tat lor twenty years previous to i367 ali the State puid ior private Churities was one- gixteenta of @ wii, aa lor public and private Charities ofe-ourd Of 4 uuil; that one Wiird of a mill Would ,ay lof all our CLarities lor bwenty- one ‘yeals, aud One #xto of a mil for all tne laxes paid by the Stace for private charities.” “Vouridés is (oat the ameudineat promibiting the giviag by the State of ls Money or creuit to Of Ui vid OF HOY thUlVidual, association oF corpora tou Goes Dot pronivit @ county or city rom mak- Ing provision ioF tts poor 7 “Yes, that is my idea, and tt is the only justinter- pretation that cau ve put on tie aluendment. ‘There ave certain charities Wuich by law are en- titled tu douatiuns by the State. The amendment Was Not Meant (o avrogate these jaws or deny tue rigut O1 jova! Cha:tties in the state to denute thew taoney lor (he eel of the poor; lor the last seus tence of sevcion 11, articie 8 expressy states “Phis section shall not prevent such county, city, town or Village irom Makiug such provision jor the aid oF support of tts poor as may be authorized by law j' and Mr, Leaveaworcu, 1a his report to tae Commission, remarked that ¢ Visors O. the Various Counties and tie Common Couueils 0: tue uidterent cities have ail the power they have t (olore had to pay O eact Ciuss of Suid usticutious THE MOST LIBERAL COMPENSATION for the Care ahd support of the diferent classes of ublortunates for Wao Wiey were designed.’ “in other words, state ald was aot meant by the Commmsion vo be regarded a4 a pronivitiva aguinat locul charities earnonises by awe? “Lb Wie Bot, Biate aid, a6 1 Lave dala on O Drove $15,000,000 Upon w Stute Capitol, | ne Lourds of Supers | Board of Aldermen are nuil and void. The Committee on Salaries of the Board of Al- dermen, of which Mr, Cole is chairman, Will hoid a Meeting to-morrow to cousiter the Suerid’s tees, ec. the matrimonial market Ia getting lively at the | City Hall, and the Mayor made anotuer couple happy yesterday. The vridegroom was so bashral that he Would aot kiss his brite after the ceremony in the presence of tue Mayor, although che lattes, to wive Lim courage, told him it Was “customary.” The lady's uncie, however, was not so basutul aa the bridegroom aud gave the greeting kiss. Had he not done so, it is barely possible Tha Assem- biyman Daly or Alderman lteilly, Who were pres: ent, would have volunteered. As tie Mayor has | Gecided that the marriage iees shalt hevedtier go to the Clerk Who makes out tbe papers and tose WHO assist Him, it is provable that this arrange- ment wi: increase the matrimonial business in the Hall coustderably. ‘the cerks who ba 1 | will be sure to be on the lookout for people who Want to be made happy cheap ior cxsh. | The pew business olive tor the Mayor and his | private secretary was taken possession o1 yeater. (day. What with the disappearance of the oid railings, anew garpet aod the Ireshened up tre. coves, tae room looks very much changad lor the better. A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT. Ateam atrached toacoacn owned by Geo Britt, of No. 14 Forsyth street, and driven by Patrick Downing, who was quite arunk, run away | last evening and collided with an avenue B car in | Exst Broadway, severely injaring two ot the pas- sengers in the latter and teariog @ Wheel of tae coach, Downing was arrested. | own domineering Way that he was right, | this week by charges already preferred. | thew although he has been irank enough to declare that thus far no charges have been preferred against the Comptroller. Those who claim to know what Mr. Wicki.am’s sentiments are con- cerning the matter state that tne Mayor Is quietly biding his time, and while ne feels that he would be justified in removing Mr. Green, and that he has ample reasons to base such action upon, yet that he does not want to act too hastily nor at a time when the Comp- troller might be looked upon as a sort of martyr to the new régime. They claim that when he does make up his mind to move on the Comptroller's works he will do so regardless of any bargain that may have been made between Mr. Green and the Governor, But what the Mayor actually intends to dois as yet @ mystery, | and what his Irtends claim are his sentiments can be taken simply for what they are worth. It may be mentioned tn connection with this subject that | the Comptrolier has been compelled at any rate to acknowledge the fact that he is NO LONGER THE MAYOR, ag he certainly was to all intent and purpose under Mr. Havemeyer. It was ms custom, for the purpose of annoying people against whom he had & grudge, or whenever he desired to show some rather independent politician or contractor that he was the Grand Mogul of the city government, to keep them out of their just dues for months at @ time; and one of the ways he adopted to make his little game sure was to have the Mayor sign warrants which were not dated at all, noteven the month being written on | the document. Thus, when a warrant was made out by him and signed by the Mayor, say in June, month and date put in the warrant, was enabled to prevent the party in whose favor it was drawn Irom getting his money untilit suited his pleas- ure. It was over tnis little peculiarity of his that Mayor Wickham haa ‘dis first grand talk with the Comptrolier during the week; and as the latter tried to argue in ais old style, aud to prove iu _ the in- terview was quite a lively one. ‘'ne Mayr got his bac up and ig 100t down, and although he did not swear itis quite probable that he selt very much like it. At all events, Mr. Green went away with a big flea in his ear; but, stuboora to the last, he had aiterward warrants made out only half jollow- lug the instructions of the Mayor. He had the month putin, but not the day. Theso war- rants, when thev reached the Mayor's office, were sent back to the Comptrolier’s ofice “or correc- tion,” and the result was another powwow in the Mayor’s office. ‘The climax Was that warrants great and small are now to be made out in proper jorm, and men who earn their thousands in coing work honestiy for toc city, a8 well as the poor scrub women, Who work hard for their few dollars @ month, willno longer be at the mercy ol the whims and jancies oi Mr, Green jor months alter their bills have been audited and signed, CORPORATION COUNSEL SMITH, This gentieman, who received so unexpectedly such an interesting jevter from the Mayor ou Mon- | day, it will be remembered, was given until next Wednesday to frame his answer. What tus will be, M it is made at@all, there are, ol course, but few people wao really know; but there are many who incline to the be- lief that, instead of making any delence, | in extenso to the charges made against him Mr, Smith will content timsell with a general de | mal, aud, Claiming that all the hue and cry about Nim wag set Up lor political effect, and that even hough *he could show that there was not the slightest foundation lor any one of them, his place would be made unteuable—resign. Oa the other hand, it is given out by some of Mr, Smith’s Iriends that he will make a very exnaustive de- lence, and a defence, too, that will cause no little | shake up among the dry bones on the democratic side of the House, and at the same time be will throw up his position, Be this as it may, it 13 almost a settled fact how that within a week or two the Corporation Counsel will be a democrat, for beiore the new order of tuings can be put upon what may be called 10 @ party sense a firm basis, 11 18 deemed necessary that the man upon whose counsels the Mayor 1s to depend in @ great measure far any new moves on tie cess board ue is to make shouid vein har- mony with him. 1t is the Kuowledge ot tus fact, that made Mr. Smith say in his lecter ckham, acknowledging the receipt of the charges, that li Le Knew he “wauted tne. place’ he wouid have given it up. In other words, feel- ing that he was in the way, and, so feeling and being willing to get out of the w mind rather hard to have charges preierred against him, even if they were true, Taking it as a certainty, ten, that there will be @ democratic Corporation Counsel very shortly, tt is reasonavie to suppose that until that time Nu great changes will be maue in any of the commissions, that 1s, none other than have been rendered probable Vnen Mr, Smitn’s case has been decided, ettacr by the charges being proven against bim and his removal by the Mayor, or by his res#&nation alter defend- ing himseif successiuily, i that be possible, the first deparcment that will come under the ban is eprtain to be HE POLICE DEPARTMENT. If the Mayor does vot act first in preferring charges against them it is more than provavie that | @ comuitttee of the lower House of the Legislature Will be appouited Lo take them io hand, aud on the strengti of “poluts” lurnisued them—and whica it 18 Said a Member of the present Legislature has already handed (o the Mayor sor his cousidera- tlion—give them a shaking that may do the pubic good if it does them ho harm, Of course a Cuange tn the entire Police Commission would make a rev. olution in the Bourd of Health, and since tt lias ve- Coie pretty Well understoou that the members of the former must be made to stand aside, and that no matter What measures may be taken by the Mayor and the Goveraor to accomplist the desira- it Was to 1g | | | | | ule end, the community, without regard to party, | will be devoutly thankiul, The neaith oMclas and their subordinates in the department are beginning to tremble in ther boots, Men in its ewploy wio have always been Classed ag republicans and tue hundreds of others Who ha jor years obtained a good living at the pudlic e penge by being their humble followers, have all of w sudden discovered tuat they voted tue demo. | cratic ticket last fall, and always had a sneaking regard tor its leaders even when tuey were cum- peiled to applaud tueir opponents. \ .,,, THE Fite COMMISSIONERS, The Fire Commissioners, whose Jate has been hanging jo the balance for such a long time, are to go (lrvugh the farce of presenting un eiavorate Gelence to-inurrow againgc tue charges preierred against them, aithough they had ample oppor- tunity to ve ready ong ago, Li there were no other charge Auaiust tiem than their alleged con+ bivance With the doings Ol the salary broke aud the infamous way they sustained them against totime aiong the tremen, twenty o: Whom were discharged jor uot puyiug the blood money demand d, they siould be indue tO Walk te punks Enough O1 tie other charges made against thom | has come to light co show that tey are in a very | bad ad HX, Wud tut itis morally ceriain that the eds | tire tiree will ve removed by the Mayor, It 19 true that their defence is not yet known, and that itis rather nuiair to consider tne charges against | H. P. McGrath, them unansweiabvic until itis made puviic, bac Lb John My Herne, Aauma to bo she weneral IMpressioa, Judging wou | W, De faring, ° . thé open way In which the Commissioners allowed many of the wrong dogs to be done in their de- partinent, that the facts in the case against them are too plain to be misauderstoo.) by any one, APTER THE CRUMBS, The appointment of Warden Brennan as Come. missioner of Charities and Correction hus left the wardenship vacant, of course, aud the applications jor the piace bave already beguu to pour in upon the Mayor In streams, 30 tu speak; vut the posl- tioa 1g One whicn requires such a pecullar and in- Umate knowledge of hospital Work that, although the names of many Welleknown persons are men. toned in connection with the vacancy, it is dif cult as yet even to conjecture with any degree ot certainty who the successiul man will be. Dur- ing the coming week, too, Changes may posse bly be made with the Tomus and many other of the oMcials who hold their appointment trom the Com- missioners of Charities, The old rag aud bobtal sort of politicians who, during one year, ure content to hold a $5,000 position, during anotner a $2,000, and yet, during another even a $1,200 be: who, in tact, bvelleve because they have lived, most oi their lives, at the public jon, and who be- lieve because of tnat they shot ever continue to be well fed and Clotued by the pubitc, are ne. ginning to stir themselves lor these wardeashipa, Asan illustration of what a@ hold oficial pap haa upon this gentry tt may be said that one of them, when asked the other day i! ne was @ candidate tor Warden Brennan's place at Bellevue, re- marked, “No, not parriculanl j, T want to get ono can. of the wardensnips if upposing you should fail?’ was the rejoinder, “Well, I’m a candidate and fail in alt Pim entitied to something peXt best under ’ein, ainti?’ This notion of how much they are “entitled” to will doubtless receive a rude shock to all this class of fellows before the mopth is out; for, from what can be ascertained, it i8 the purpose of the powers that be to hereafier ignore the clatms of the ignorant creatures wha are perpetually crawling in and out of office, to the shutting out of men better qualified for place, but with less of the old-time ‘“bhoy’’ influence about them.’? UNPAID PUBLIC SERVANTS. JANITORS OFFICE, NRW CouNTY Court House, NEW YORK, Jan, 9, 1875. To THE Epito® or THR HERALD:— “Will you please publish the grievances of the employés of the New Court House. We have not received apy money for our services last month, We were informed yesterday that our warrants were made out, and would be sent over to the Mayor to be signed to-day. ‘To-day they intormed us that they had sent the warrants over. On further inquiry at the Mayor’s Office we were informed that the warrants were never sent over, aud how they Say that there 1s not money enough to pay the roll. Wuat has Mr. Green done with the money that was set asiue to pay the poor scrub women, who are liable to be put out of their homes for not paytug their rent ? For the last six montns it hag been the 15th or 18th belore we received one cent, and now to have him say that there 1s not mone to pay usis ashame. Will Mr. Green please tell us how we are going to live, with starvation star. ing usin the lace? By publishing this you will render a favor to the employés of the New Court House. JOHN T. ROGERS, PATRICK KERWIN, FREDERICK FINK, ELIZA MORAN, * MARY WALLAC THOMAS HOULAHAN, ’ ATHLETIC SPORT. GENTLEMEN AMATEURS ON THE RUNNING PATH~« HEATS OF ONE HUNDRED YARDS. Though the ground of the ‘New York Athietlo Club at Mott Haven is well patronized by the ad. mirers of athietic sports when the weather is warm and pleasant, tt lacks visitors usually at this season of the year, and all ts blank and drear. ‘There was au exception to this, however, yester- day afternoon, as the old rendezvous was particu larly lively for an hour or two, an important con. test between amateurs there being decided. This event was between three gentiemen, mem- bers of the Union Ciub, and was arranged some time since subsequent to a conversation upon the merits of collegiansin general in sports of an athletic character. The parties in question are Mr. A. B. Purdy, Mr. Robert Waller, Jr, and Mr. W. Iselm., Of these Mr. Purdy bet his \friend Iselin, first, $50 that he could prove victorious in a 100 yard spin, and second, $50 that Waller could also beat him in a like event, the three to run to- gether, in heats, best twoin three, So soon ag this agreement was consummated the acquaint- ances of the respective individuals began to spece Uiate, even money being staked to a considerable @mount that Mr. Isclim would be beaten by both his antagonists. Tne principals went into the matter in earnest, and a few days ago put themselves into the hands of professiouul trainers, John Long looking after Messrs. Waller and Purdy, while Proiessor Judd took charge of Mr. Iselin; but unfortunately the latter bad bia man but three days in all to give him points and suggest proper dietary regimen. ‘The running pata of the club was found to be tn excellent condition jor this season of frost, three or iour days’ Javor beiug expended upou it by competent men, A Wintry atmosphere and a strong breeze, keen a8 a knife, greeted the com- pany that assembled about three o'clock, and thougn consideravie tine was cat to waste in preparing Matters the men came quite promptly to tue scrateh, Mr. Barnett acted as judge for Mr. Iselin, Mr. Arnold for Messrs. Waller and Purdy, Mr. G. de B, Moore served as starter, and that Well and (favorably known athlete, Mr. H. E, Buermeyer, filled the posicion of referee. There was nu betting on the ground. ¢ First Heau—When the principals appeared at the scratch all were confident, ana, it may be added, siniling. ‘Their trainers accompanied them, Purdy and Waller wou tne toss and selected the outside of the path, by far the best position, owing to a quantity of ice on the iuside or Iselia’s side. They got away fairiy at the report of tne pistol, though Purdy Was tae quickest oi the three On the jump, Iselin next aqd Wailer iast, but well up. Purdy fell back to second place, ten yards away, Iselin breezing past him easily and leading his competitors turee or four feet, half way tne distance. Waller was not lagging, how- ever, though the laggard at the sende of, and, coming on in fine style, caught Iselin twency yards {rom the Anish, and, keeping up the steam, breasted the string aoout tea incues in udvance, Purdy a bad third, Leing beaten of seven or eight yards. ‘Ihe timekeeper, not an exe pert at the business, announced che heat as 12 seconds, iuily @ second too last. ‘Toe meu being cailed lor & second heat, they as- sumed their places ag before; but in the send od there arose trouble trom the inexperience uf the starter, Each man was on the scratch in response to tne order, “Get on the mark,” by Mr. Moore when ne fired the pistol ag the sign to get away. Just at this instant Waller cried, “Hold on!’ and the starter, seeing him hesitate, repeated the cry; but meanwhile Iselin and Purdy were on their journey, and, not being able to hear the warning, stuck gallantly to their work, Iselin beating Purdy out over two yards. The starter, when questioned concerning the signal, gave 16 us Dis Opinion that “the start was not fair, and the releree had no other but to declare it “no heaf.” This Was rather severe upon Mr. Iselin, who had two men working hur. moniously together to defeat, as it required him to ran ab additional 100 yards in Waich the w.nuer of the first heat did not purticipate. Yet Mr. Ivelin complained not, and really there 1s none other than the starter to blame in the matter, whose duties were simple enough and should bave been discharged Withont such a serious mishp, Second Heat,—Alter tne usual rest the men went to the scratch, but were kept waiting tov long tn tne raw wind, which seemeu laden with icicles, 8» cutting was it, Mr. Purdy got the bulge on hig iriends, but retired to second place alter tea yards had begn spun, giving way to Mr, Iselin, ‘Tne jatter showed the Way Unt Within fliteen yards of the winning post, when Mr. Waller came Bleaming along und knocked down the string about six or seven inches ahead of Iselin, whu ‘was three yards in frontot Purdy. Time, as ane nounced, 114g seconds, ‘This decided the contest, making it a draw, ae Mr. Purdy 1ost one of his Wagers and woo the otner, ‘There is room for improvement in Mr. Iselin’s style of running, aud when he geta rid of one or two faults—a very easy work—he Will be w hard man to beat, assuming, of course, that his condition Is fair, Yesterday he was not in good fix, ald in each heat, waen two-thirds of the dia talice had been accomplished, nis excessive avoir du) ols told against him, and he could not hold out In April or May next, with proper attention, ne will give any Of our amuteur periormers a lard brusii in a oue hundred-yard spl. Mr. Waller wad in good orm. SUMMARY: New York ATHLETIC CLUB GROUNDS, Haves, N. Y., January 9, heats of 100 yards, vest two in three. (Note, —Air, Purdy betting Mr, Iselin that both be and Mr. Waller can beat him; the resuit a draw.) Mott Robert Waller, Jr a! W, Iselin. H A.B. Purdy a Time, 11 seconds (not correc!) —1174 we! Judge ior Waller aud Purdy— Mr, Aroold, Juuge for Iselin—Mr, nete. ptarver—G, De B, Moot Reieree—H. E. Buermeye: HORSE NOTES. Tho following is & list of the subscribers to the “Gieat Centennial Four Mile Heat Race’ for a purse of $6,000, being & post wtake to be run fur At Monmouth Park, Long Branch, N. J., during tie first race mecting at tat place in 1870 i— W, Cotirul, D. McVauiel, L, A. Hitchcock, dod & CO. nue, iy aan? baa ee ie @. Loriliara, F. B. Harpe James A. Grinstead, P, Lorillard, |. F, Onamberiiy, A. Keene Richards, R. W. Oumeron, Melnty Jacob Bek 1875,—Maten of $200; ,