The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1875, Page 6

6 ~ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial and Church Movements. ——s Church Architecture---The Mind and Soul, PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. SERVICES TO-DAY. Dr. Armitage will preach this morning and evening to the Fifth avenue Baptist church. im Fifty-third street Baptist church the Rev. W. Hi. Pendieson will preach this morning and evening and administer baptivm after the evening service. | The subject to be discussed in Grace Baptist charch this moruing by Rev. Robert Cameron ts “The Second: Coming of Christ.” Mr, Cameron Preaches in the evening also. Dr, Fuiton, in Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn, will speak this moruing about “Tne ‘Trial That Is and Toat ls To Be” and this evening on “The Atheistic Tendency.” Mr. Henry Varley, of London, will preach in Barnum’s Hippodrome this afternoon at three and this evening at half-pas: seven o'clock. will address the Sunday school teachers to-mor- row evening in the Broadway Tavernacie. “Mormonism and the Condition of Utah” will be | Presented by the Rev. C, P. Lyford, of Provo City, Utah, this morning in the Central Methodist Episcopal church, and this evening in St. Luke’s | Diethodis iscopal charca. Dr. BH. P. Fairfield will speak for the Spiritual. ists, in Harvard Rooms, this morning and even- tog. Giles B. Stebbins, of Detroit, Micn., will lecture | ~The Ki jom of Heaven” and “The Primai | Gospel” before the Spirituaisis, at No, 57 West Toirty-ihird street, to-day. In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rey, W. B. Dannell will preaca this morning and | evening at the usual hours. | “The Religion Demanded by the Times” will be | Indicated this morning by the Rev. W. Hd. Tuoma and “The strength and Weakness of Young Men’ g, in the Beekman Hisl Methodist Epis- | Dr. J. 5. Free Taberuacie Methodist Ey this evening the City Church gionary Society will be addressed there by Bishop Andrews, Mr. Inskip and others. | Inskip will preach this morming in the iscopal chureb, and ension and Mis- The Rev. W. P, Abbott will preach this evening in Washington square Metuouist Episcopal church, aud will administer the communion this | morning at the regular hours of service. | In the Berean Baptist churcn the Rev. P.L. | Davies will preach this morning and evening at the asual hours. The Rev. Davia Mitchell will preach in the | Canal street Presbyterian church this morning | and afternoon. | Dr. Deems isto preach in the Church of tue Strangers this morning and evening at the usuat | hours, | The Rey. J. M. Puliman will deliver an anniver- | Sary sermon this morning in the Church of Our | Saviour, and this evening will continue his famil- | far talks with young people on what they should | read, In the Calvary Baptist church this morning and | evening tue Rev, R. McArthur will speak about | the “Precious Bloou”’ and about “Paul at Thes- salonica.’’ The Rev. D. R. Van Buskirk will Charch of the Disciples of Christ this morning and evening. Services at the usual hours to-day in the Eigh- teenth street Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. M. S. Terry, pastor. “Christ Crucified” will be presented this morn- ing im the Calvary ciapel (French Protestant cburch) by Rev. E. Borely. Jo the “1xth avenue Reformed churen the Rev. N. B. Merritt will preacn this morning aud evening. Tn St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening the Kev. James M. King will preact as usual, Bishop Andrews and Dr. Dasniell will preach at the usual bours to-day in dedication of the new Methodist Episcopal charch in East Sixty-first street. “The Sablimity of Christian Labor” and “Solo. | mon’s Search for Happiness’ will be considered | to-day in the Tabernacie Baptist church by the Rev. James 8. Hawthorne, The fifth of the series of sermons tn vindication | of the Christian’s God, Bivie and experience agalist the assumptions aud deductions of mod- | ern sceptics and scientists will pe delivered this evening in DeKaly avenue Methodist Episcopal charch, Brooklyn, by Rev. HL. Platt, M. A, | Mrs. Annie R. Diehl will read to and others will | address the Morning Star Sunday echool thus aiter- | moon. | The Rev. Mr. Guischard will preacn this morning | and evening in Plymouth Baptist church. The Rev. . W. Knapp wili preach a: the usual | hours to-day in the Laight strees Buptist Mission | church. | Protessor H. A. Bu Preach in St. Luke’s Me this morning. The Rev. W. P. Corbit will preac and evening in the Seventh stree vopal church. In the New York Presbyterian charch the Rev. W. W. Page will preaco this morning and even- tng. ‘The Rey. J. W. Barnhart will preach in Porsyth Street Methodist Episcopai church this morning and evening at the usual hours. In St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. Dr. Ewer wili officiate at all the services to-day. | Tne Rev. ©. C. Tiffany will officiate and preacn | at the usual uours to-day in the Protestant Epis- copal Church of the Atonement. | “Humanity in the deptus crying unto Goa” is the subject selected by Rev. W. R. Alger for nis meditation in the Church o: the Messiah to-day. In the Russian Greek chapel this morning the Rev. Nicholas Bjerring wiil preach in English on | “Taking up the Cross and following Curist.”? | “Cloudy Providences” and “Pentecosts” will be | discussed to-day by Rev. Dr. Porteous in Kim piace church, Brookiyn, | The Rev. W. T. Egbert will preach this morning and the Rey. Dr. Seymour tuis evening in tne | Wainwright Memorial Protestant Episcopal churcn, Elder Lata will talk about “Free Love; or, The Courtships and Marriages of the Present Day,” this evening. “The Church Represented and Misrepresented’’ of Drew Seminary, will ist Episcopal church his morning ethodist Epls- t of @ lecture to be delivered this evening in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic churca py Rev. J. P. MoClancy. In the Unureh of the Resurrection Rev, Dr, Flagg will preach at tue usual nours this morning and evenin In the First Reformed Episcopal church the Re W. A. Keid, of Brooklyn, w ing and the Rey, W. T Tae Rev. preach in the morn- Sabine in the evening. G, Holland will preach for the Firth Universatist churcb in Pilmpton Hail this morning, The Rev. R. Heber Newton wiil preach this morning in the Anthon Memorial Protestant Episcopal church, and Dr. Rylance, of St. Mark's church, in the evening, ne Rey. George H. Hepwortn will this morning give the Church of the Disciples “The reasons why every one shouid jom the church.” Lr. doun Dowling will preach in the evening. Mr. B. V. Wilsou will taik about Spiritualism tn | Armory fiall, Clermont avenue, Brookiya, this | morting and evening. | “Civilization in Its lation to Christianity” | | will be considered in Ann's Protestant Episcopal church this evening by the Rey. P. B Morgan. The Rev. E. C. Sweetzer will speak about the essence and importance of Universalism tia moruing, and about Christ's temptation to cast | He | preach in the | | so its action Is Celective, \ Himself from a pinnacte of the temple this even- ing in the Third Universalist church, CHURCH ARCHITECTURE AND SOUL SAVING. To Tux Sprrok oF THE HERALD:— Apropos of your report of the essay read last Monday in the Church of the Incarnation betore the conference of Episcopal clergymen on “Church its “faults ana needs,” allow me to suggest that | there are other subjects of so much importance 1 | think it would be well to cail the atten:ion of the Episcopal clergy to some, the discusston of which | Would be more eminently conducive to the saving | of souls, Take, for instance, the Ten Command- ments. Every Sanday morning we hear them | read im church, and yet as regularly a8 sunday | comes they are wiifully disobeyed by a very large | mumber of both the clergy and iaity. Christ taught, “He that offendeth in one of these commandments offendeth tn all.” In the Fifth Commandment we have these words:—“ * * * Thou shait do no manner of work. Thou, thy man servant, thy maidservant, thy cattle, Dor the stranger that is within thy gates.” And yet do we not know that while we are listen- fag to these words being read to us, vy lar the | largest part of the congregation have their poor, weary cooks at home in the kitchen, stewing and roasting over a bot tire, getting ready for their employer’s enjoyment the biggest dinner oO! the week? Now, [ ask 1 all sincerity, 1s this hypocrisy | or is it not? What does Curist care for ‘churca | architecture” im comparison to the sonl of the | poor, overworked cook? Why should we obey tae command, “Thou shalt not commit aduitery,”” aud not obey the others? Une 1s certainly ucb in force ag auother, Agaio, you may 8 oulside of many of our fashionable churches, while these commandments are being read, the gorgeous equipages of thosejwho are inside the warm and comfortable building endeavoring to | save their own souls, witbout the silghtest | regara for the souls of their coachmen. | have spoken to some of these rich Curisians on this | subject, and they all give the same reply, vi. “Oh, they go to early mass,” never imagin- ing, in their innocence, that coachmen like to take arest Sunday morning as much as the employers do, Sunday, for some coachmen, is tue hardest | Gay ol the week. Now, [ propose a subject tor discussion in the next Conference o/ the Episcopal clergy, “fhe Ten Commandments, or a little more common sense in religiou.’? And, lurtoer, | propose to interview the servants of some of these rich communicants and und out the amount of sincerity they possess when they pray ‘*Lord have mercy upon us abd incline our hearts to Keep tis law.” HYPOCKITE HATER, A LOGICIAN’S VIEWS OF MIND AND SOUL. To Tux Epitor or tHe HeRiLD:— In answer to the inquiries of @ recent corre- | spondent of yeur paper, ‘Seeker of Light,” toucn- ing the nature and relations of mind and soul, permit me to say, first, that the soul, according to its general usage In modern times, 1s a kind of ethereal essence, aliquid fuid,a gas oran aura that fills the body of a man something tn the same style ag alconol fills a glass bottie, and when the body of the man dies the sou! spills out and de- parts according to the various /ashions prescribed by the various religious sects. According to some it ascends immediately to the biisa of the spheres or aescends to Miltonian hell or purgatorial pains, According to others it frequents the former scenes of its captivity within the tenement of clay, and occasionally, with sundry raps and taps, seeks to make known its pres- ence and desires to its old acquainances through the mediation of a third party for a con- sideration, The ancient usage of the word is very diiferent indeed. The Hebrew equivalent of the word “soul,” as used by Moses and all the prophets, refers to material animal organisms, to man aad to beast alike. It is first mentioned in the Bibie, in connection with fish (Genesis iL, 20, marginal reading), and though oiten used in con- nection with man itis also appited to sheep and oxen, It 18 never used as expressing the idea of @ conscious ether, independent of tue body, that apes at death, but always conveys the idea of a | “fhe soul that sioneth, 1t shail die? (Ezekiel, Xvul, 4), ‘Phe sptrits should tail before me and the Souls that 1 have made” (Isatab, lvil., 16), “Chat same soul suall be destroyed from amoung | His people” (Leviticus, xxiil., 30), “He ucterly de- | Stroyed them and all the souis that were therein,’’ | (Josnua, X., 23), and other innumerable passages that may be consulted by the use of apy ordinary concordance to the Scriptures. So mucnior the Heorew, The equivalent in Greek nad a still more extensive meaning; tor Aristotle, according to Projessor Bain, “applied tue term ‘soul’ to all characteristic Junctions of Living | bodies, [rom nutrition upto the loitiest attributes of intellect” (Bain’s “Mind and Body”), What | meaning Greek and modern superstitions have at- tachea to the wordt will not stop to inquire, | Believing in the divine inspiration of the Hebrew | Hebrew usage, Which usage is precisely as we now use the words “animal,” “individual” or **persou.”? Moses speaks Of living souls and of dead souls and 0! destroying souls and of eating souis! Is tne mind the souif A soul is & person, an individuai. ‘The writer is one soul, avd “Seeker of Light? 1s | another soul, aud we are both palpable living things, composiiions of matter that live, move and Is te mind a wing, @ Is it matter? have a being. living creasure? | Ne Mind is neither a thing nor @ creature; it is the attrioute or power of the brain. it isthe power | of thought. Every organ of our curiously com- | posed structures has @ peculiar function of its own, ‘The eye sees, the ear hears, the limb moves, cali sight, the second hearing, the third motion, the lourth thought or mind, sight is perisvea; the ear, aud the hearing is gone ; no limb, Ro motion, aud ho brain, no mind. in | like manner as the particalar organ is derangea Diseased eye, defective sight; diseased ear, dull hearing; diseased lim», lameness; diseased brain, defective mental action. Which weil known facts prove beyond the possi- bility Of a doubt, that as tue powers Ol sight, near- ing and motion are dependent entirely upon the organs that produce them, in like mauner mind, although the bighest gift of our Maker, the | wondrous gift that eXalis man above his iellow, and above tne brutes of less capacity, 1s yet de- endent, like the other functions, upon its organ. Architecture,” and the subsequent discussion of | frupuble aud dying thing, as it 18 written, | | prephetical writings, [am willing to accept the | the brain thinks, ‘Ine first mentioned atirivute we | Destroy tue eye, the | | by the pastor of St, Mary’s churen, Father Duggan. it | Street, 1 one of the best $108,000 in ald of the building, which will be com- pleted during the present year, ‘The latest case of restitution through the con- fessional occurred in Hoboken. The fatver of Gen- eral Hatteld bad a watch that was stolen irom him a year ago. The watch hss just been returned The Rev. Fatner Vanuta, pi ol St. Josep! church, Jersey City Heignts, was lately conined | to his house for several Weeks by tilness, By the | advice of his physicians he was removed to the bospital in charge of the Sisters of Cuarity in Pat- erson. ‘The parish of St, Patrick's church, Newburg, N. Y., has been divided, and Rev, Father Phelan, | formerly of Port Ewen, has been appointed pastor | of the Dew parish. A fine property on South uarters of the city, has Just been purchased for $20,000, and tne erecuuon of a church edifice will soon be commenced, The Forty Hours’ Devotion was celebrated in St. | Mary's church, Jersey City, commencing on Sun- day last and Cy with great solemnity on ‘yaesday. It was celebrated during the previous week at St. Peter’s church, in the same city. The German Catholics of Jersey City are prepar- ing @ grand entertainment to take place on Easter Monday, at a Hall, tn aid of the Bene- ctotign Sisters, who have charge oi the parochial school. At the meeting of the Catholic Union of New Jersey, in Newark, on Wednesday, a resolution was passed in favor of the bili incorporatipg the Roman Catholic vrotectory of that State. The Legislature bave stricken out tha: tion of the bill granting 5! aid, aod ha’ so limited its operations ‘0 the children of Roman Catholics, 80. tuat tbe bill is no longer objectionable, EPISCOPALIAN. Ten dioceses, through their Standing Commit- tees, have voted agalust the confirmation of Dr. pekoves @s Bishop of liltmois, Seven bave voied tor him. At a meeting of the vestry of St. Clement's church, Philadeipnia, held last week, tne Rev, Jonn Henry Hopkins, D. D., of Plattaburg, diocese of Albany, was elected rector, to fill the vacancy gocastoned by the resignation of the Rev, Theodore ey. Thirteen bishops have been elected since the meeung of the General Convention, five mission- ary aod tén diocesan. Of these seven have been consecrated, four have deciined and two await confirmation. One missionary jurisdiction (China) and two dioceses (lowa and Fond du Lac) remain vacant. i ‘The Rev. Thomas B. Berry, of Albany, has ac- cepted the rectorship of Trinity churcn, Granville, N. Y., and will take charge April 2, The Rey. H. B. Stuart Martin, of Hackettstown, N, J., has accepted the rectorsnip of St. Mark's, Jersey City, aud will assume his new duties on the first Supuay of April. The Rev. T. A. Snively, for the last two years assistant minister of St. Peter’s, Albany, will re- sign his position the lst of May for the purpose of spending two years to foreign travel. ‘The Rev. E. A, Warriner has resigned the rector- ship of Christ church (Swedes’), Bridgeport, Pa., in consequence of impaired health. A Cincinnati correspondent writes that the Episcopalians of that city are earnestly engaging in @ genuine revival work, and their ministers are doing a noble thing in preaching the doctriue of personal repentance and faith, They are trying 40 bring the gospel to tie masses of the people. METHODIS’ The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Execative Com- mittee have asked the New Jersey Conference lor the appointment of Rev, E. H. Stokes as resident pastor of their settlement, ‘The Rev. J. H. Kuowiles, of the Newark Conter- ence, is so dangerously ill that bis recovery 1s hardly expected. The puipit of the Western Methodist Episcopal church, Puiadelpnia, recently left vacant by te death of Rey. R. H. Pattison, D. D., has been filled oa by toe appolatmens of Key, T. B. ely. Tne Washington con‘erence is the largeat and Wealthiest colorea Conference in the Methodist Episcopal Churcn. It has 3,053 probationers, 24,272 members, 205 local preachers, 105 traveilivg min- isters, 177 churches, valued at $454,728, aud 20 parsonages, worth $21,630; 239 Sunday scnoo 8 and 11,482 scholars. The collections are as follows :— Conterence, $449 51; missionary, $1,947 22, and for all other purposes, $42,968 52, or an average per member fon ail coutrivutions of $2 25. It heid its annnal session a few days ago. ‘The dedication of the new and beautifal Metho- dist Episcopal church in Kast Sixty-tirst street wiil take place to-day. Bishops Janes and Andrews will officiate. ‘The dedicavory services will be con- tinued during the week, with preaching by Dra, Talmage, Armitage, John Hall and others, The annual missionary collection in Washington | square Methodist Episcopal church last Sabbath | amounted to $2,600, of which sum the Sunday school gave $1,800. ihere have been eighty con- versions in this church during the winter, Rey. Gideon Draper, ol the New York Confer- ence, arrived with his family from Europe on Sun- day morning last. He returns to the pastoral | work here, afler an absence of tree years. He | has resided in Geneva, Switzerland, and during the last year Was pastor of the American chapel tn that city. BAPTIST. Tne Secona Baptist church, of Philadelphia, will | dedicate tneir new edifice next Taoursday, 1sto | inst. Dr. Armitage, of this city; Dr. Weston and others will officiate, The Rev. E. J. Foote has resignea at Red Bank, N. J., to take effect June 1. The Rev. Levi Wheelock has @éommenced nis Pastoral labors at Galway, Saratoga county, N. Y. Tne Gethseinane church, Brookiyn, has received about thirty newly baptized members during the present revival season. Tne Rev. 1. Butterfield, pastor of the West Baptist church, Oswego, N. Y., has resigned his Charge, of which he will take leave April 1. The Kev, John u. Dyer, iormerly of the Methodist church, has accepted a Cail to the ancient Baptist church at Lyons Farms, N. J., and entered on bis Jabors. The Rev. L. F, Moore has been unanimously called to be pastor of the Baptist church, Kiash- lug, and is expected to commence bis labors on Sunday next. A Cincinnati pastor of the First Baptist church writes to the New York #za:miner and Chronicle to say that since he became Lve pastor of the First church, a little more than two years ago, there has been a change in the pastorate of every Bape Ust chureu in the city except one colored church, And, with two ether exceptions, in the whole Miami Association. | Collyer in the pasturate O1 tue Charch of the Mes | to their latest statistics (1874), number altoge'her S$ mind ao element of tue soult Mind certainly 13 an attribute of the soul; for we ail possess minds | of some calibre or othe then our souis must, for seives. As to the word “element,” 1 object to its being used to define the relationship of soul and mind; yet | would say that the latter is rather essential to the That isto say we coud pot ry Weil get along without onr minds. Is the | soul responsivle ior the couception of the mind? Every soul ts beid respon: by the laws of every jand for Ris or ber own words and actions, whica words and action’ are merely the expression of his or her miad, and in the the Divine economy there is no exception; for it is written, “God shail bring every Work into judgment, and every secret thing, Whether it be good or evil’ (ec., 12, 14) MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOY MENTS. PRESBYTERIAN, The Rev. A. B. King pas resigned his pastorate at Charlotte, N. Y., to take effect April 1. The Presbyterian church at Middieport, N. Y. after an organized existence of torty-two years and a feebie, fickering life (or the past four years, bas expired and its churcn property bas be: bought by the Roman Catholics for $1,750. Two causes are assigned for the society's decease — namely, no pastor for four years and the scepti- cal tone of public sentiment, The Presvyterian churca in Bast Orange, N. J., received ten into the chuich iust Savbvach on pro- fession of taith, The Kev. J. P. Viele bas resiened at Middle Granvilie, N. Y.. and Rev. A. E. Swilt at Warrens- barg, N. Dr. Jobo Thomson has resigned tu pastorate of the scuteh Presbyterian church, this city. Dr. Talmage denies the rumors that he 18 going to KOrope, and wods that Wren he has attended to his Tal nacie, tne Lay jege and fhe sian at Work and prepar he has not much time | ditions, ee DOORS In Hine Months Wansatlanuc expe- ROMAN CATHOL gone to Florida ed the Very vera, Ad Mis noe. key admini¢ * x veentn stre rhe mission opened in Ss. Peer Paut's charch, Brookiyn, iast Sanday, oy the Dominican Fathers, will bé continued this week aixo rhe Cbristinas collections jor Catholic Orphan Asyiums In this diocese auded in, are reported by the tre. Agrana bigh mass wil s Joseph's Day, the patron saint Josepn's Cathoie church, Tr nt, N. ¥ at chur | in the morning of Maren 19, and in tue evens there will be other servic at Father bourgois lax Jucted @ retreat for Christian mocners in m Vincent de Paul's church, Services aud sermoa each day at nine ¢ k A.M. Rev. Father Cody, of St. James’ c h, Newark N.J., Who has been serousiy ti, & be to avout again. He reporrs that the receipts of ¢ church from all sources during the past year amounted to $26,020, Which, added wo the oe house and lot, swelled the amount to $4 The Rev, P, Hennessey, pastor of Si. latrick'« Catholic churea BOW in course Of erection at Jer sey City, bas received during the past Ove yeurs Rey. B. B, Gibbs, late of Spencer, Tioga county, N. Y., has accepted @ call to the pascorate of the church to Morrisania, and nas entered on mis labors there. A Ladies’ Relief Society has been established in Connection with the Baptist church at Union Hill, N. J., and forty-two of the sufferers by the late fire have bee relieved thereby. MISCELLANEOUS, The Rev. Brooks flereiord, of ingland, one of the most promiment “Libera! Corisuaos” in that country, wil succeed the Kev. Rovert Laird sian, at Chicago, The Moravians in the, United States, according 15,300. They have 75 churches and 8,705 communi+ cants, an increase of 400 during the year. An exampie of seli-saerifice worthy of record has taken piace in Brookiyn. A heavy debt rests upon Dr. Carroli’s Kelorm church, on Bediord avenue. He has relinguished bis year’s salary (6,000) toward its liquidation. A special session of the Classis of Newark was ponte in the Second Reiormed church on Wednes- ay. The pastoral relations between the Rey. Uscar Gesner and the Reformed Charca of Sweden bave been dissolved by request. A classical convention Will be held at the Rey formed chureh in Bellevilte, N. J., on the Istn inst. During the past siX months no lewer than eight pastors have dissolved tbeir reiations with their churches in Jersey City and West Hebvoken, either by expulsion or resignation, THE VARLEY REVIVAL. Mr. Henry Varley, whom Mr. Spurgeon calls the Sreatest lay preacher of the age, has been es- pecially successfal in bis work in the upper end of the city. He held services in the Church of the Dis- ciples on Sunday, Thursday and Friday, and the crowds that iiled the capacious edifice attested | tue general interest felt in this movement, The Key. Mr. Hepworth proposes to continue the work by poiding meetings for prayer and inquiry every Gay tis week, at eigus o'clock in the morning, aud at the same hour in the evening, SPIRITUALISM. —- MODERN HOLMES’ KATIE KING—A SPIRIT ““MATERIALIZATION, IN BLISSFLELD. To tae Eprrow or tae Hera Having recently received many inquiries rela- tive to the Holmes’ Katie King-materializa- tion affair, a8 played in our Village in the months of August and September, 1874, I send you these lines, believing that many of your readers are still interested in the matier. Ihave noticed in some CAUGET— OB THEIR LAST SEANCE jate pan that there are still some writers who are ostensiby ‘#eeking after trath” in this direc. tion, and some have manifested their beliet that that portion of evidence Which conficts with their opmion “is pure fection,” Hence, in view of the above, should any “doubting Thomas” wish for proof of the following narrative it will be o} | Store several times to make g adiy furnished by the writer upon application. | A m was sent, dated Bussfiela, Micn., | At 14, 18T4— To Mra Fiona Ware, Philadelphia :— | ne @ “ Por) NELSON HOLMES. A repiy was re ved oy Mr. Holunes 6 same Gay stating that she would come. In due time a | yoame on atraim from the East, was met at the train Uy Mr, Holmes and escorted by bim to ¢ house of Mrs. Lyon, (She is @ sister of Mrs. Howes.) We are intormed by the servant girl then at work for Mra. Lyon that tne stranger ledy Orought there by Mr. Holmesia the same that periormed ¥ part of Katie King. We are aiso tord that an esp effort was made by the fam. Hy to Keep tne p ignorant of ber presence ‘here; yet 4 neighbor or two, who dropped in an- wares, SaW ber there, Now, as these circum. stances correspond with the statement of Mrs. White in the Philadetptia papers, she 1s, without doubt, the person who played Katie King here, and the question as to wnom Mrs. White may or may not be is of no great significance, The “phe- nomena” (1 beiteve that's the word) is what all true “seekerg aiter truth” are desirous of reading about, After Mrs, White’s arrival s¢ances were held by Holmes ana wife nearly every night, and a whole month of great excitement followed, and the Holmeses and Katie King were (next to the weather) the object of conversation in all this sec- tion of the country, and many more offered them- selves for admittance to their séances than could be accommodated, and the small fee of seventy. five cents seemed to be of no account as compared with the amount of spiritual strength received. It was not till Sepvember 22 that Mrs. B. and myself were able to gain admittance, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes were friendly (tney had been at my urchases), and at once led us into the cabinet, It wasa black wal- ut partition across one corner of the room, cov- ering @ bedroom dvor. This door was boarded over, and apparently the bedroom was inacces! bl Yet attention was rather hurriedly called from one point tu another, and points of greatest Strength had the greater notice; for instance, great spikes were partly driven in, and Mr. Holmes pounded on them with a big hammer to show us how strong the fastenings were. 1 called Mr. Holmes? attention to a black curtain against the wail, inside the cabinet and facing the audience, and asked himits use. He sald it was ‘“nece sary te have the cabinet dark to enable Katie to ma- tertalize.”” A few of our neighbors were present, and quite & pumber of strangers (Spiritualists). rs, Holmes orcanmed the audience, as she sald, with reference to the positive and negative magnetic infuence of the individuals; put to me it seemed that 1t Was with reference to placing their own family friends and known Spiritualists in front and near the cabinet, and strangers and sceptics in the rear; and that the writer was not lookea upon with suspicion enabled him to get a favor- able position in front of the cabinet door. Tue lamp Was in charge of Mr. Gilbert, areiative of tne family; Mrs. Holmes was seated by a table, a few feet to the left of the cabinet and about ten feet from the cabinet door; Mr, Holmes was seated at right of the cabinet door, and near tt, Mr. Will- jams and wife bad charge ot the music, consisting Ot guitar, banjo, &c, Bells were on the table by Mrs. Holmes. Ail being ready tor the “dark sdance,” toe lignt was put out, and several spirt mManilested themselves through Mrs, Holmes, their medium. One of them, “Little Rosa” (the Indian girl), called for Mr. Brown to come and hold ner (medium’s) hands. 1 clambered through the dark to where Mrs. Hoimes sat, seated myself in a chair in front of her and took boid of her bands as requested. | had heard be- fore that now was tne place in the play where the spirits, by some means known only to spirits, put rings upon the arms of the subject, so 1 tried very hard vo fortity my mind and see tr i could find how the spirits did it. At this time Rosa bid me to ex- amine whether the medium bad rings upon ler urms, The examination was made and no rings found, id hands were again held. Belts began to Jingle all about, “A little more music, Mr. Will- jams!” And Rosa was full of talk about spirits to the writer, and my notice was rapidiy called from one spirit to another, as they rubbed themselves against me, first on one side, then on the other, and Rosa asked, “Do you feel them?’ 1 said, “Yes, Rosa;” and I did very plainly feel a fan or something of the sort rubbed against me. ‘Then, among tue bells aud music and the spirits = from above ‘ Jar; . Meg Poh e chon ead dropped acgiden yy “DICK, a oF and atts the wha all going on, the medium was twisting her left hand considerably, and was quite sure that she had (1 mean the 8pirts bad) succeeded in getting a ring Ob hor arm. So 1 satd, “Rosa, | would now like to hdid bot of the medium’s hands in oue of mine, and see | tie medium has not got the ring on her arm,” and was answered, “You must comply with the conudl- tions Chief,” and at once with a sudden jerk tne ring was thrown forward upon my arm, the light Was struck, and the writer was sitting there with partof an old banjo bead ring around his neck aud on his right arm. Next in order was the play of Katie King’s spirit materialized! To prepare the mind, and make us all feel as solemn as the occasion required, Mrs. Holmes led in singing such hymns as “shall we gather at tne river,’’ aud ali who could sing did so. Tne sing- lug was funereal-like, which secmed to me ludicrous alter our experience in the dark séance where the spirita seemed to rejoice in a clamor and contusion, Which, if compared with bediam, would douvtiess Make that a very quiet place. But this “dear, “sweet,” ‘patient’ Katie, as she Was called by her friends, seemed to be of the sober, huimbie sor. Our minds were now it suitable irame, and Katie bad “materialized” so larasto put wer band through tue upper aper- ture of the cabinet, A little more singing “strengthened” ner so much that her face had “formed,” and she presented it at the opening, ana the exclamuations of her spiritual friends, ‘How beautifull’? “How perfect!” were heard. Alter & few Walspered salutations with friends who were permitted to approach her she withdrew. At this juncture Mrs. Holmes requested that ail hands should be Joined, asserting that the union of hands would give Katie “more streogth.’’ Presently the cabinet door opened and Katie came out and moved cauttousiy; kept near the door and ready for a back ward spring, Wien im an in- Stant she could close the door aud foil any attempt to catch her. 1 hoped sae would shake bands 30 that some of u¥, with a firm and continued Tip, fuight, in phat tangibie manner, scertain if she Was “thorouglily’ materialized ;”" but her presence was for only & moment, and she withdrew, the door closing after her, mM Holmes now requested her to ‘‘disappear” ana “re¢- appear” vefore the audiegce. Tue light was made to burn quite dimiy—its adjustment suited natie as expressed by raps. The door opened again aud Katie appeared inside of the cabinet, her white quite distinct against the black er back. figure bein, blanket at slowly sue began to go e | lollowed her belt, which She continued to go down as by setiling upon ber feet, when I observed thas the belt did not godown any further, and the: je began to eniold herself in the blanket, which, being was complete, and whispers expressive of awe and wonder could be beard, The “reappearance”’ Was simply a reversal of tue “disappearance,” and with a sudden spring [caugat her firmiy in my arms, just a5 she Was hear an erect position, At that instant the light was blown out by M ve bert, who had it in charge. I sprang backward two or three steps, and some one grappled me from behind my back, taking hold of my shoulders. My jet foot was pulled oul from udder me, and the strong, Wiry Woman in my arms twiste way. I disengaged Inyself and was standing on the front stoop when Mr. Miller relit tne lignt. No further invest:gation was made. And this was the last scance of the Holmeses in Blissfeld, Mich, % F, H. BROWN, BLISSFI£LD, Mich., March 9, 1575. GRACE GREENWOOD DEFENDS THE MEDIUMS, To THe EpiTon oF THE HERALD:— Tn a iate Suuday’s issue I noticed an abiy written articie on “Modern Spiritualism,” in which ap- pears the joliowiug challeage:— if Mr. Slade wiil permit me to take an ordinary douvle siate to his house, place a piece of pencil in it aud put ifon the table—he may put bis Augers on it lor tbe sake o/ the magnetism or do anytning except put it under the table, wuere | can’t see it—and will then cause to be made thereon o single mark three incaes long, or to be written a single word, I will take back every aspersion I have caston him and pubiicly acknowiedge my error. 50 sure aim I that this cau’t oe done that I wil make him @ present of $50 to accomplish such @ result and acknowiedge that I wave been mis takea in him, Now, I have no special interest in the matter in Gispute, but I like to see justice done and Cnris- tian charity extended even to ministers and me- diums, and so &m moved to state that during a sitting at Dr. Siade’s last spring 1 nad this very test several times repeated, In fact, tuere was no writing for me “under the tabie.”’ All was done on the table, in broad dayligit, under my a and uuder my hand. At one time | piaced in the double siate two ciosely folded notes sent to me to be used as tests, of the contents of whicn lL knew nothing nor did I know the names of the persons ur intelligences to whom they were ad- dressed, These two notes were immediately and correctly answered on the slate with the rgot signaiu.es, as I ascertained on uniolding and reading them. The medium, by the way, had not even touciied these notes; nis hand durtug tne mysterious writing haa rested lightly on the siate, which I grasped ughtly while listening intently to the scratching of the tiny bit of pencil withi AS for the other famous mediums, Messrs, and Mansielc, I will not say that they never cheat in their business, alter the manner of busi- ness men, but I will say that they have not cheated me; perhaps because, though Wary and wateniul, I did bot set out to cheat them. Test questions, carelully prepared belorehand and not written on thin paper, aid not unfolded, have been satisiac- torily answered by or through them; and such facts are of more account to ne than Lue starcing phenomena Of raps, furniture moving and the grasp of invisible hands. 1do not pretend to ve ap investigator of Spiritualism, the matter very littie time. tunities | have had for witnessing its strange Maniiestations have been accidentai; but I know what i have seen and heara and felt. 1 nave here given a li(tle of my own experience, and, as grand old Horace Greeley once said, “1 propose td stand | by tt.” In the desire which “Inquirer expresses to believe in spiritualism, he 1s, doubtiess, honest, but he i8 perhaps unfortunate in a’ peculiar physical organizauion, Which renders tt mpossibie Jor him to Obtain the results Which he bas sought, but despairs Ol, aod #0 doubts that such things can be. Of a large household in this city only one mem- ber is so charged with electricity this severe weather that he can light the gas with the tip or his finger. Ail the others have tried in vain, out they do not doubt his exceptional and “ma less’ power of ignition, “Seeing is believing.’” We must accept most of the marvels O1 6c; Countless geographical discoveries, the very vita truths Of our religion, on rhe testimony of others, And in spite of gone correspondent’s earnest assertion his ““aith” 18 in a thousand matters founded on some “other man’s statement.” GRAVE GREENWOOD, done, the “disappearance”? | I have given to | Aimost all tue oppor= | | all water works of the same general characier of | water in Storage reservoirs, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. WATER SUPPLY. Characteristics and Dangers of Our Drinking Fluid. ORGANIC IMPURITIES The District from Whieh the Croton is Collected and in Which It Is Stored. WATER IN OTHER CITIBS. Suggestions from Practical Men on Purification of Water for Domestic Use. General Egbert L. Viele will publish in the Sant- tarium for April 18 an exhaustive articie on the “Water Supply of Towns and Cities.” The proofs having been kindly placed at the disposal of the HERALD, nis argument is presented below as of deep interest to the public in connection with the pending discussion on the sanitary qualities of our Croton, which just now comes to our tables tinged with green, If not objectionably contaminated :— As the health of all communities depends largely upon the purity of the water with which they are supplied, and ag the fitness of water for domestic use diminishes in a direct proportion to the amount of organic matter that is present in solution or otherwise, it becomes a Subject of the deepest importance, in a sanitary puint of view, that the source of water supply should be beyond the possibility of contamination. Water, lor the use oi smali communities, is ob- tained principally trom welis; but as the popula- tion increases these wells become unfit for use, and as soon as the number Of inhabitants is sum- ciently large tO Warrant the expense the water is supplied from reservoirs, either artificial or nat- ural, located at a remote distance, where 1t 13 al- lowed to accumulate ior general distribution. At first glance it would appear that the latter method would accomplisn all that could possibly be de- sired in furnishing an abundant supply of pure water from a never-failing source, free irom all contaminating influences incident to a near prox- imity to crowded habitations, and yet experience has shown that, in the absence of proper precau- tions, the more abundant the supply of water tae greater are the evils to be feared. While there are many distinct elements which enter into the discussion of & proper water sup- ply for any locality it is too often the case that all Other questions are subordinated to those relating to cost, and such plans are most likely to receive the popular approval as are the least expensive. It dves mot, vy any means, fol- low that the most expensive plan 1s the best. It may be the worst, but, as a general rule, the item of expense is allowed to overshadow all other points, While it is possible to secure, in many Instances, 4 never-failing supply of pure water from remote lakes, yet it cannot be denied that a very large number Of our towns and cities have been too heediess in deciding the water question aud have disregarded pany important points, in- volving errors which unfortunately are, [rom their ature, accumulative. ‘he usual course of proceed- ing in the coustruction of works for supplying water on a large scale 1s to secure, in accordance with legal statutes, the control of a stream of water and the lands necessary for a storage res- ervoir. Adam is then erected across the bea of the stream, beuind which the water 1s accumulated, to be drawn off for distribution asitmay be required. From this reservoir the water is conveyed, in conduits, to a smaller res- ervoir, Irom which the distribution takes place. It the original source is suiliciently elevated the movement ol the water is eifected by gravity; if not, steam is used a8 an auxiliary 1n its collec- tion and distribution, Tne most noted water works in America are those of the city of New York, which 18 supplied with water irom the Croton River and its branches, THE SOURCE OF OUR SUPPLY. The course of this stream lies in the counties of Putnam and Westchester, where the irreguiar character of the topography aforas pecuuar facilities for the construction of storage re- servoirs, of which two have been completed and another is in progress. ‘The first of these, known as the Croton Lake, 18 situated thirty-two miles from the extreme northerly end of Manbattan Isiand, and 1s avall- able lor 00,000,060 gallons. From this reservoir or artificial lake the water is conveyed through a close conduil Of masonry as far us the Harlem River, and thence throughiron pipes and masoury vo large open reservoirs in the Central Park, one being 106 acres im extent and and another 36 acres; irum thence the water is partially distri- buted and further conveyed in iron pipes under- ground to another reservoir of four acres in ex- tent at Forty-second street and Fiith avenue, whence a more extended distribution takes piace. The second storage reservoir 18 situated in Put- nam county and has capacity of 3,000,000,000 gailons. The water, whel required, is conveyed irom this reservoir to the Orgtou Eake through the open, natural caannels of the river and its branches. Another storage reservotr is in course Of construction on the east branch of the Crotou of an estimated capacity of 4,000,000,000 gallons. From this the water is conveyed in the same natu- ral channels as the previous one to the Uroton Lake reservoir. On its completion tne total stor- age capacity will be, inciuding the reservoirs in the city, about 8,000,000,000 gallons. In addition to the reservoirs referred to locations have been de- cided upon for otuers as they may be required, the whole aggtegating a supply of 67,000,000,000 gallons. {he utmost capacity o1 the present aque- duct 18 115,000,000 gallons, while the daily con+ sumption bas been 104,000,000 gallons, These data are cited to show the manner in which iarge bodies Of water are accumuiated and distribuied, and the description Wil! serve as an illustration of construction, DANGERS. It 1s very evident that a large amount of circum- speciion, not only in the original pians, put in their daily conduct and supervision, 1s necessary to insure @ ireedom trom impurity and contamina: | von, In the first place, the geojogical cnaracter- istics of the country irom which the supply is drawn 18. an imporiant element to be consiuered, Water derived irom certain formations 18 almost sure to prove destructive to healta, either by reason of an ex- cess of miueral ingrédients {n solution Wulch act injuriously upon the system, or in con sequence of geological jaults and fissures afford. ing passages through which, by infiltration, ¢ aecon may be conveyea for jong distanc { fas been asserted toat cholera was transmitted through a large seciion of the West trom the con. taminuted water Witch penetrated tue fissures of the limestone Jormation, descending by the force of gravity lo the jowest levels, und impregnating tbe drinking Water derived through the stratifica- tions of Ullis rock, Leaving out the geological cousiderations, and supposing that by means of careiui analysis, the chemical character oi the minerals in polation has been determined beyond douvt to be jreé {kgm objection, we have yet the | Must Mporiant question of all to be decided, and that 1s the result of a rigid microscopic exaniina- tion, While this is tne real pivot upon which the question of pure water turos, tt has béan jn a large measure overiooked, if vot absolutely Tg- nored, in the discussions which hav arisen out of subject, 6 ytical chemists, both in this country and in Europe, have asserted that tne oxidizing process | to which organic matter is subjected in ruoning | water is #uch as to Insure a thorough purification; Wut the theory is based entirely pon the effect which OXyven has vpon decomposing organic | matter, and is entrely ipierential tn its Character, | J, cannot surely be maimtainued that oxygen is de- | structive im itseH of a@il animal or vegetavie germs, Ifit were #o oxygen, instead of being | the great element of life, would be the chief | agent of death. Atl organic matier is out tne development of germs, and an injusorial germ | With water supplies. | polsunous geses escaping from the sewers, Which tay be in @ periectly healtny and hariniess state at certain temperatures becomes diseased and destructive Of peain of temperature. tinguished American scientisi, Professor A. A, Hayes. of Boston, who was in London in 1808, when the Ihames River becawe such a scourge us to fill the whole city with alarm and | consternation, that the cause of the calamity Was | really due to the sudden rise in temperature Which took place in the waters of the river; in fact, that ap increase of 6 deg. Faurentieit caused a Wholesaie destruction of germs and a consequent putrescence productive of widespread disease, | ‘This element of temperature must be considered always in connection with tue accumulation of The presence of or- ganic germs cannot be ignored, Water in storage reservoirs, derived jargely irom the draittage of open farming country and tnetpient villages, is esgarily mixed With leaves, dropuings 0) aut- mals and organic impurities. in this condition it is exposed, especially in the hot Weather of mtd- summer, to the direct action of solar lignt and heat. It isduring tis season of the year that the rapid development of animal and yege- table organisins takes place irom spores con- veyed Into (ue Water from tae atmosphere and the parth, to live, propagats, die and become putres- ht The consiaut recurrence of these condt- tions, More parvicularly in Water whico remains at rest or moves Siowly, a8 in lakes, canals and reservoirs, resuits in an accumulation of living organisms or putreseent matter which renders the 2 Pa > e c < > S = water unsuited for human consumpuop. ven animals safer from drinking water of this char- acter, Some lurval jorms, living im water, have to pass trough the stomach of animals betore they are known to afect human beings, The an- guillula fluviatilis, woich affects the intestinal canal of fish, 1s believed to originate the disease called ‘irichina,’’ Which fas been so fatal to con- Sumers Oo! pork, Putrescibie vegetable matter 10 drinking Water, the refuse of @ starch manufac: ae’ has caused tog death of cows, sheep and sh. UNDER THE GLASS, It 18 utterly wrong to suppose, Stated, that adilution of twene 5 has been parts of oure water, even after running together for some dis- tunce, will render contaminated water fit for dietetic use. A mucn larger dilution chis has been known to produce cholera aud typhoid fever. Indeed, the iallacy of such an assertion becomes apparent when itis remembered that the one hundred thousandta part of yeast, & minute fungus, which the microscope shows to consist of myriads of living cells or vesicles, when added to @ vat of sweet wort, with a marvellous rapidity of growth, converts the whole of it into an mtoxicating drink, and {f the growtn of the fungus 1s Dot stopped at the right moment putre- faction sets in, followed by an:mal organisms that change it into vinegar. The effects of tungus con- veyed tnto the blood circulation through drinkin: water are someumes of the most startling an distressing nature. The fungus foot disease of India, which ia Irequenty followed oy the loss of feet and hands, is due to this cause. The Damascus gore, @ disease that has spread all over the East, ia due to ® minute vegetable cell that grows with wonderiul rapidity, destroy- ing the skin, and ultimately killing the patient. Some of the smaller animatcules found iu water are pot more than the thirty thousandth part of an inch in size, and yet one Microscopic entozoa which finds its way into the biood will mulnpy there in thousanas. (Jabez Hogg. London.) The power aud the value of tue microscope must be fully understood and appreciated in connection ithout underrating the importance of chemical analysis it is nevertheless certain that itis mot safe to rely upon it alone. The septic poison of waiter is undoubtedly aue to infusoria, and not to matters in solution. Hence simple analysis falls to reach the dificulty, EXPERIBNCB AS A TEACHER, ‘This Drings us to another branch of this subject which is entitled to grave consideration, It is well known that within the last few years many jarge provincial towns and other populous places in England have been compelled to abandon en- tirely the use of the water of rivers for domestic urposes. This has been in consoquence of the Impossibility of pene the rivers free !rom pollution in Sntokiy populated sections of country. The towns and parishes of Piumstead, Wool- wich, Cuariton, Deptford and Greenwich have abandoned the use of water from the Ravensborne and resorted to subterranean water for @ supply. ‘The town o! Huil and its suburbs have abandoned the use of the river Hull. The town of Notting- ham has abandoned the use of the Trent. The town ot Birmingham has abandoned the use of the Tiver Taine, Tne city of Canterbury the river Stour. Ail these and numerons other cities and towns in England depend for their supply upon subte ranean sources, In view not only of the posst- bility, but the probability, of a similar condition of affairs manifesting itsell in this country, in conse- quence of @ rapidly increasing population in ce: tain jocalities from which supplies of water are now derived, it becomes @ matter of importance that the subject of obtaining water from subter- ranean sources should be understood, VALUE OF ARTESIAN WELLS. The cases where large quantities of water {ssue from the surface at one spot so as to be depended upon as @ permanent supply for a town are ex- ceedingly rare, although such instances do exist. There is a spring at Vaucluse, in France, which supplies as much Water daily as 1s deiivered into the etty of New York by the Croton aqueduct; and there are other places Where very great quantities of water issue irom the earth. ‘The true source, however, Of a subterranean water supply is Joun through the means of what are known as artesian wells. Many wells of this character have been sunk in different parts of the United States, some Of them to the depth Of from 1,000 to 2,000 feet, ob- taining an ample supply of good water, Tne vast Palwozoie basin, which constitutes the greater part of this Continent, being composed of succes- sive layers of sedimentary rocks, occupying a generally horizontal position, 1s pecultarly adapted lor supplying water through artesian wells, and whenever the time shall come that the density of suburban population, and the consequent poilu- Vion of water supply, requires the abandonment Ol the modes now generally resorted to, it is very probable that all the water demanded may be ob- tained from subterranean sources. The greater urity of water from this source, in being always ree from the possible contamination of organic matter, would entitle it to @ preference over any other, ‘The condition of the water even now distributed in some cities of the United states, to the mauiest injury oi general heaith, demands a careial ex- amination of this question. Jersey Uity, in the Swate of New Jersey, 1s a notable instance. The drinking water of ‘this place 1s poliuted by the sewage Of several large towns, and i! the use of this contaminated water ep Ae ae in, the popu- lation will some day be decimated by a feariul estilence. Even now it 1s a dangerous locality for residence. It is necessary that we should look atit from the broadest point of view. We build thousungs pe iles Of Faliway, whereby all the ptates of the Re,ublic are locked in one vast iran. ain of mutual imteres(# and joutual benefits, 6 constrict, with the ald of the pub- lic money of the Cgiamonwealth, hundreds o| miles of canal, for the development 1 our materiai resources aud the interchange of commodities. Js it not much more imperative that, in the interests of the public nealth—in the reservation of life that nrust otherwise be gacri- jced—plans for the supply of water, pure and un- defiled, should be devised and executed on a scale which would embrace large sections of territory, supplying small hamiets, growiog towns and in- ciptent villages, as well as large cities, in its ex- tended course, bringing to thousands of homes tts abundant biéssings? That in connection there- with grand cloace should be constructed, like those of old Rome in its glory, whica would be equally effective in removing from whole lines of Villages, in its descent to the sea, all tne impuri- tles that now endanger nealtu and lie? Surely nothing that we can do for the future is more im- periously demanded than comprehensive plans ior preserving tae health of the generations which are to lollow us. Salus populi est suprema ler, A PRACTICAL FILTER. . BROOKLYN, March 13, 1975, To Tok EDITOR OF THE HERALD ‘— One of your numerous correspondents proposes filtration throgh animal chaicoal for purilying tae Croton water. Thevretically this looks well, prace tically it is an impossibihty. Tne coal would get sut-charged with fetid and decomposing matter in @ short time and form an adaitional source of danger. I propose simply to use iron filirgs, wire and clippings for filtration, to represent an iron sponge (sponge iron). The organic matter would be decomposed; the amonice wouid be changed juto a nitrous acid by contact with the tron; this acid set iree would destroy any organic impurity left, and the water woulc be pure and wholesome, The iron rust forming by oxidation is not injurious to health, and tue remedy is cheap and effective; ana all that is needed is a periodical replacement of clean iron cuttings, filings, wire, sheet iron in strips, in fact, of & material whica can be had for little or nothing, c. B 43 FULTON STREET, Brookly: COMMON SENSE VIEWS ON WATER AND SEWAGE. New York, March 12, 1875, To Thr EpiTtor or Tim HeRALD:— In relation to “the water we drink” and the poisonous sewer gases we ‘nhule, our luminous savang confound the common comprehension With statements of “solids contained in one gal- lon of Croton water,” and also of the names of the They would, at least, earn the thanks of the public ag | well as their salary if they would propose a rem- edy or partial cure for the defects; but I presume are not paid jor insiructing the public, Come Mon sense says do not draw to the dregs on the Tesources Gi the Croton water. And tor the pole sonous sewer gases put all house and street sewers in connection With some draft sliaft, chime ney or flue. XPERIENCE, ANOTHER FAIR SMUGGLER. A SUCCESSOR TO MLL# JOVIN—CONTRABAND BABY CLOTHES—-CHANGRS FN THE SEIZURE BUREAU. There was something of a sensation ag the Cus- tom House yesterday in the seizure of @ large | foreign trunk, the avowed property of Mme» Gra- dot, & fashionable modiste, whose estatisnment t# on the south side of Union square, in this city. The fair French woman accompanied the sus~ picious baggage on the steamer Ville de Paris, bast Special agent Kitpek had reasons to suppose that the trunk was full of contraband clothing, and aa no deciaration had been inade according to law the customs officer seized it, and the revelations of its Copntraband:character were made apparent by the subsequent ¢xamination of it, Among other things it contained seventy-Ix embroidered cuemisettes, U¥elve skirts, With Most of tle sams elegantly embroidered; twenty-lour picces of chemise fronts, sixty-seven embroidered watats, thirty pairs of embroidered cuffs, forty-elght pairs of childrens’ drawers of the most costly descrip. tion, Jorty-Lwo embroidered chemises, six lace chemisettes, twelve pieces of superb lace, tweive lace collars, eighty-four embroivered cuildreus? bibs, fiity-iour exquisitely eiubroluered handkere twenty-six pieces of embroidered inusiin tor inserting, &c., with a large quantity of waite and Lisle tnread jadies’ bose, some remoants of black suk, Some wea may ve gained from this enumeration of the comtents of the precious trunk, ‘Tue iady seemed to be preparing or providing for a jarge family, and one which should be enwrapped in wil the juxuriows embrotueries Of Paris aud tue soit Jabrics of the Inates. It seems curious that, With the example of the uniorunate Mile. ‘Jovis beiore their eyes the fair smuuglers should stik be willing to Tisk (heir goods as Weil as reputa- tion in defrauding the revenue, CHANGES IN THE DEPARTMENTS, The equalization of the differeat departments of the Custom House, a8 well as the reorgan.za- tion, goes steadily oo, Yesterday Geuerul Nicu« ols, the popular head of the Seizure Bureau, waa Promoted to be 4 Deputy Surveyor, an appoi ment which Must give universal satisfacuion im View Of the character and services i tuat gensie- man, His successor, Colonel Triechel, is trana+ ferred from the Warehouse Departme whichis considered a promotion, The laver getitieman is Vice President of the Army and Navy Ciub, and the appointment is believed to fitting | doy an emincaliy