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RUIIOSNTELGENG Ministerial and Church Movements. Cardinal McCloskey’s De- parture for Europe. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. To-day will be ebserved as the festival of St. Dominick in St. Vincent Ferrer’s church. The Rev. Dr. 4. Brann will deliver the panegyric of the saint this morning, and Haydn’s Mass No. 2 a8 we'l as Verdt’a “O Salutaris” will be sun; The Rev, W. P. Estes will preach in Norfolk Sireet Methodist Episcopai: cnurch this evening, ‘and in the morning a communion service will bo held, The Rev. 8, P. Lacy, of Newark Conference, will Preach in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church Qt the usual hours this morning and evening. In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Bev, W. N. Dunnell will officiate and preach this morning and evening as usual. The Key. H. R. Nye will minister to the Ohurch of our Saviour this morning, The Laight street Baptist cnurch will be minis- tered unto thieevening by Rev. William Hump- ston. The Fourth Presbyteriam church will be open for divine service this morning, whea the Rev. Qyrus Dickson, D. D., wili preach. ‘The Rey. 14. D, Ganse will preach at the Madison avenue Reformed church this morning. “fhe Uncorrupted Publio Man” will be exhibited this evening in Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. J. Ml. Lightbourn, The Revs. W. R, Davis, 0. D. Foss, D. D., and George Taylor are to occupy the pulpit of the Sea Clif Tabernacle to-day—reached by boat and cars, A spiritual séance will be given in Republican Ball, West Thirty-third street, this evening. “The Leadership of Jesus’ is the theme on which Rey. Mr. Haskell, of Lowell, Mass., will speak this morning in Bleecker street Universal- ist church, The Rev. George D. Matthews will preach in Westminster Presbyterian church this morning aud evening. -God’s New Seng for His Pilgrim People” 1s the | theme on which Rey. Alfred Taylor will expend Ais thonght this morning, im the Congregational Tabernacle, Jersey City. The Rey. C, H. Brigham of Ann Harbor, Mich., ‘will preach in the Church of the Messiah this morning. In the First Reformed Episcopal church divine wervice Will be held this morning and evening as usual. “Job, an Example of Long Suffering, AMiction and Patience,” will be presented by Rev. A. M. Loutrel, this morning, to the Fifth Universalist ebureh, In Plimpton building. The Rey. H. fF. Perry will preach in the Baptist Mariners’ Temple this morning and evening. The Rey. Charles A. Bickford, of Portland, Me., | q@ill preach in Grace Baptist chapel this morning and evening at the usual hours. Dr. William White will speak for the Spiritual- ists in Harvard Rooms this evening. A conference ‘will be held there in the afternoon, Bishop Littlejohn will visit Omrist church, Sag Harbor, L. 1, and preach there this evening. Miss Annie Oliver, an eloquent temperance speaker, will address the temperance people in Bobinson Hall at three o’clock this alternoon. THE BIBLE THE BASIS OF UNITY. To THE EpITOR oO” THE RERALD:— “I havo been reading ‘‘Berean’s” article on “The ‘Theology of tbe Day,” and am much pleased with ‘this taquirer after trath, who is unfettered by any exclusive creed; but who, with the Bible fora text book, 18 endeavoring with Divine aid to work ut the true and perfect system of faith which the Biple teaches us, Speaking of the fallacy of the theologians of to-day, he strikes at the founda- tion, he nits on the fact which has puzzled and @isturbed all thinking minds for ages, when ne complains that ‘so many, so varied and In many TespectS so antagonistic are the beliefs of the Christian world; but as he truly says, this is the resultof “human prejndice and misconception.” The fundamental principles of Christianity, the growndwork and foundation of reiigion, the rock a Which is Duilt the Caristian Church, the grand and sublime principles and truths of the Bible—all these are lost or hidden under the weieht of hu- Man dogmas and theories which have been piled upon them. And nov, as it becomes not only the privilege, but the imperative duty, of every think- ing, intelligent mina to aid in the work of remov- ing the covering of prejudice and ignorance which bas so long hidden the true and simple but pure and beautitul doctrines of Jesus Christ, I would like to join issue with “Berean’’ in his work of enlightenment amd bid bim Goa speed in labors. It is ® aifiicult task to remove the prejudices, superstitions and fanati- isin which years and ages of bigotry snd ignor- ance have estavlisued. But toink that if people (enlightened and intelligent as the people of to- Gay are) Will think, stady and reason for them- weives, instead of biinaiy following tne lead.ofan Interested clergy, they will have no diMcalty in seeing the truth of the lollowing statements :— ‘Taking the Bivie, reacing it Ccarelully and | thoughtialiy considering tne traths it teaches withous prejadice or bias, one cannot help but ba struck by tue fact (as least so It seems to me), that Divine reveiativa only teaches the three igllowing priuciples:— ‘Lhe existence of a supreme being, The divinity of Curist aud The immoriality of the soul. Then look at the creeds of our different church and We find that these principles are almost uui- versally accepied by ali the different sects and ereeas of the Christiaa Caurch, ‘hus it is paipa- bie to every thinking mind that the ditference ts not caused by any misconstruction of the truths of the Seriptures, but by human bigotry and ignorance. ‘Tue troubie always hus been, fe and aiways willbe “that the bind lead the bun: in saying this I mean to state that men jike Oal- vin, Wesley aud @ host of others of similar enarace , blinded vy their zeal, became bigoted im their belie! and forced their dogmas on @ credulous eople, who accepted them blindly, witout | ougut @r guestion. it is this jact which is the cause of the many and widely different | theories which to-day puzzie tne thinking mind. | One sect after another has sprung up, difering aa | to the manuer of baptism or custom of worship, Or as to the future state of ihe soul, or some other | dogmatic question, until we fad in our courches | of to-day suat the dogmas of man aad human theories hold a larger piace im tue croed than the doctrines of Christ ana the theories of a God. “Berean”. strikes @ grand truth when he says what the religious world wants is “unity of faitu.”” And as the many varyiug opinions of the religious bodies to-day are the direct result of ignorance and superstition on one hand, blindly following in 1 jootsteps of bigotry on the other, the only means of obtaining this end is to remove ignorance and superstition by education and en- lightenom ; to teacn ev: man that he is a free moral agent, created in Gu laage, With reason. ing faculties to act and think for himself, and | ligot mast come, Throw eut the dogmas that to- day hide from view the relitioa we search for, and let us accept the doctrines of the Bible ia their beauty and simplicity, These assure us of | the divinity of our Savioar and the existence of eur Creator, and bid us look ferward to & better, higher, purer and novier lile here- alter. Standing On this platiorm of liv. ery of thought, and extending the rigns | band Of fellowsmp to every believer in ,tue trutns of the Bible, we shail eventually root out the differences and enmities which ay disturb and mur the course of Unristianity, and the day Will come Whon We shall all stand as members of ene Common drotierhood. i Theories of baptism, opinions of the future state, modes of worship, ritualism—in all theso things is @-mere matter of conjecture as to who 18 fight or wrong. Ail these are simply differences Ol opinion, and should never be the cause of con- Letus ratuer work together tention. satisfied to leave these things in the hands of a Brovideuce Whicu we know exists, LIN ALITAS, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. PRESBYTERIAN. Rey. J. R. Boyd, D. D., of Geneva, N. Y., and Wife and danghter, arrived in Honojuin, A. 1, ) June 26, where they aro visiting their daughter, Mra. A. F. Judd, The Presbyterians of Freepert, N. ¥., are build. “ing &@ Deat memorial church to the late Mrs, Eliga- th Carman of that place. At arecent meeting of the Presbytery of Syra- cuse the pastoral relation existing between tne | coincidence, on the 9th of Ab the second Temple | of mourning. Their wailings ascend irom the | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, dissolved, to enadle Mr. Best to take charge of | the Grammar School at Clinton, Oneida county, (F 4 Durti she rvice at the first Presbyterian einsen fe Jersey City last Sunday eveniag an ex- cited individual arose in the congregation and in- terrupted the preacher. He became so violent vhat Was arrested, and is pow in the city prison, BAPTIST. The Rev. W. M. Pendleton, for nearly twelve ars pastor of tue West Fifty-third t shuren, iD this city, bas resigned his pastorate, his resig- ation to take effect November 1. ‘The property of nis church, including the adjoining parsonage, 1g estimated to be worth $125.000, on which there ig a mortgage debt of $57,000. The Missionary Bos of the South New York Baptist Association tively eMxaged in raising the sum of $15,000 jor erinanent relief of the cnurcn, The Society of the Second Baptist Church, Brooklyn, E. D., of which the Kev. 0. N. Folwell 18 Pastor, contemplate making extensive additions $o the edifice now in use. ‘The change to be ef- fected embra the erection of a frame edifice, Iront elevation of filty-tlve feet to the peak otal Width of fiity fee. ‘The new building wil be 100 lees in depth, and have a seating ca- | pacity for 600 persons. The style pf the new edi- | fice will be a combination oi Gothicana Blizabeth- | an. Upon buttresses two towers will be ran up, ope on either gi Of the central entrance, a) each cornice will be surmounted with a mi: When compfeted it is anticipated the total it Will be about $10,000, at most not exceeding that amount to any extent. The building 1s to be finished and ready fer occupancy by the 1st of November, The congregation of the Bergen Baptist cuurch in Jersey Ulty have been without @ pastor since the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Hammoud, Wao is | now tn Europe. Itis rumored that the vacancy 18 about to be filled by the Rev. Mr. Woods, The Baptist Association of Treuton, N. J., re- ports a membership of 5,877. There are thirty-one houses of Worship, aud the total value o: Church property 18 $315,300. IST, METHODIST, Rev. E. M. Garton, of tse Newark Conference, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal caurch at Hills | dule, N. J., graauated at Rutgers Cvliege at tae recent Commencement. Tne Rey. William ‘laylor, the famous East India evangelist, bas arrived tn New York after thirteen years’ absence travelling and preaching around the world, He will spend a day or two this week at Sea Cuff. He has already heid several meetings in churches in this city, The Rey. Abrabam Owens, a veteran preacher | of the New Jersey Conference, died last Sunday at | she residence o1 bis son tn tuis city, aged seventy- | five years. He had spent half a century of his life in the ministry, He Was anative of Wales, but came to America la his youti, and iu 1836 aulled with the Puliadeiphia Conierence. Rev. Dr, Curry, editor of the New York Christian | Advocate, Will Sail irom Liverpool for tis city | August 18 He has been absent about two | mont: Bishop Merrill will dedicate @ church in West Liberty, lowa, to-day. The Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, D. D., of this city, has been elected President of the Wesleyan Univer- sity at Middletown, Coun,, of wuick lustitupioa he 18 an honored graduate. | | Rev, Professor Wheeier, editor of the Methodist, | has been selected to assume the pastoral charge of | the Methodist Nptscopal church, Mamaroneck, on | the 1st of September next, when the Rey. Thomas Sucer, the present pastor, will, 1n consequence of ill health, rejinquisa bis charge \o spend a year m Lurope. The damage to the Centenary Methodist Epis- | Copal church, which was struck by lightning at | Long Branch on Wednesday, is estimated at $550. Seven thousand perso; alu a the camp | meeting at Pitman Grove last Sunday, Rev. D. R. Lowrie, the great Metnodist revival ist, has returned irom the country to wis charge in St. Paul’s church, Jersey City. Fatner Boehw, the centenurian, has almost en- urely recovered srom am attack of erysipelas of the cyes, | | | / | EPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. E. A. Hoffman, D. D., having regained his beaith, lis return trom Europe may be looked for at an early day. He will spend some time in Philadelphia resting after nig return, Tne Keformed 5 eg Church is getting a strong bold in the West. The soctety at Peoria, Iu., have Just completed & commodious house of worship, Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, 1s opposed | to any recognition of God in the constitution of the nation; but he isin favor of retaining the Biple in the public schoois—not as a teacher of | any lora@ of religion, but as @ conservator of morals. Ten Episcopalians have purchased a lot in Med- ford, N. J., aid Will soon Commence the erection of @ church thereon. { The Guild of Trinity Chures, In Hoboken, nave arranged {or the holding of a fair to liquidate the church debs, on will whey are paying heavy in- verest. ROMAN CATHOLIO. | The Rev. Michael Riordan, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Brooklyn, recently pre- sented to St. Coleman’s Coilege, Fermey, his fore bol} residence, & number Of valuable American Oks, Rev. Father Logan’s new ehurch in Brooklyn will be dedicated Om the 22d inst. rhe work on the new St. Poérick’s cburch, Washington, D. G., bas been suspended for want | Of funds to continue, About $40,000 nas becn ex- | pended thus lar, and tke building has progressed sufiiciently to show that, whem compictea, it will | be the finest ecclesiastical monument south of | New York. It willrequire £45,000 more to put the | building under roes, and it is Moped to accomplish this neXt year. Father Swift, pastor of St. Patrick’s church, Troy, lies dangerousiy ill, A community of Carmelite friars, who were ex- pelied irom Germany, have se.tied dowa in Pater- | son, N. J., during (he past two weeks, Thoy have | purchased a large pilot, containing eighteen city | lets, at West Paterson for the purpose of erecting | @ monastery, church aad schools. | . On last Wednesday Miss Maggie Scully, a resi- | dent of Grana*street, Jersey City, bade jarewell to | her home and joined the Sisters of Mercy at Man- enester, N. He Rey. Father Vanuta, pastor of St. Jeseph’s | charch, Jersey City Heights, has been an invalid | for several montns. He has now gone so Morris | county, where he will spend a month. ‘fhe Community of the Sisters of Chart¢y ay Mad- ison, N. J., lost a most promising member of the order on Wednesday by the death of Sister M. Theo- | dora McDonald, in the seventeenth year of her | age. The aeceased lady was a daughter of Mr. Patrick McDonald, of Jersey City, ‘ Rev. Father Philip, of the Passionist Monastery, in West Hoboken, preached his farewellsermon at that chureh last Sunday. He bas been summoned vo take charte of a parish in Fittsour, sev. Willlam 0, Poole, of St. Anne’s church, in Jersey City, has been appointed pastor of the Ohurch of St. Kose of Lima, in the Lew parish of West Brighwon, s. 1. Rev, Joun O'Neill, pastor of the Catholic church in Hampton Junction, N. J., will commence the erection of a hew church next month, Within b sbort pastorate he mas elevated tue parish to a Wonderiul degree of prosperity. MISCELLANEOUS. The New York Evangelical church has ad- vanced the sum of $600 for the buuding of the maw churca at West New York. THE JEWISH FEAST OF AB. A COMMEMORATIVE MOURNING DAY FOR ISRAET~ ITES—DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM. On Tucsday next, August 10, the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem will be celebrated by conservative Jews throughout the world asa day of mourning, for on that day the first Temple was destroyed; and, by aremarkable was razed and burned by the sacrilegious hana of Nebucnadnezzar. In subsequent centuries, on the 9th of Ab, Jerusalem, too, was totally aestroyed by the savage hands of Titus. And a little later, op the same 9th of Ab, Bethar, the stronghold and place of refuge of the people of Israel, was stormed, and the blood of thousands failed to satisfy tue inhuman vengeance of Ha- arian. Thia festival has indeed been a gloomy period, and must ever forma dark and bloody -page in Jewish history. It is therefore with a feeling of sorrow and sadness that many thou- nds of orthodox Jews will to-day epproach the Sacred precincts of their synagogues to worship | and pray for the peace and restoration of Jeru- | saiem in anticipation of the coming day. There are Millions of Jews to whom the memorial @ay of the destruction of Jerusalem is & genuine day depth of the heart and their life’s hope is bound up With the expectation thaton some day the prophecies will be fealized, which, as they firmly believe, will re-establish the Kingdom of Judab, of all mighty empires the mightiest. Whatever epinion enlightened Jews and Christians may hold on the subject, smile as they may at the chimerical and visionary expectations, entertained with watve simplicity, {t remains astubborn fact that Jerusalem is still the spot upon which are o hopes of the Jewish peo: Christians who look ‘wit! ward the fulfilment of thes ‘red prophec: Progressive Jews, of course, no longer don the garb of mourning, Reiormed Judaism has pro- claimed ieng since that lerael has igher, & grander mission than could possibly be attained by the erection of @ Jewish pelitical State, nor is it any longer compativle with the enkanced con- ceptions of Israelites, with the progressive tendencies of civilization, to associate re- ligiows worship with & sacerdotal service. Bat, withal, derasalem will retain @ place in the affections of the Jowish people, Witk that name and, that locality are associated memort @ of the world, ‘nat the approaching ta genoraliy observed than it been, 80 that the period of joy spoken of by Zachariah may soon be at hand, “When the iast @ fourth, the fast of the filth, the Jase of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth month, snail become to the house of Judah giad- Rey, laaao O. Maat and tue church a} Ollaco wag ness and joy, mercy feslvaisi only love ye the irubh and peace’? 4 lL | Lynch, * Worship Was unknown. CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY. HIS DEPARTURE FOR ROME YESTERDAY—SCENES ON THE FRENCH STEAMER. His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey left this etty | yesterday morning for Havre on board the French Transatiantic steamship Pereire, en route for Rome, A large number ef people arrived on the dock at an early hour to witness the aeparture of the beloved prelate. Shortly before nine o'clock the magnificent chariot of the Cardinal, with its black Kentucky borses, was seen entering the gateway, and a few seconds later tne Vardinal stepped lightly out of tne carriage and his baggage was taken on board the steamer, Bisnop McNierny, of Albany, and Vicar Gen- eral Father yuinn accompanied the Cardinal in bis earriage and followed him on board the vessel, where they remained tn conversation for several minutes, Meanwhile a second ¢ar- riage had arrived, bringing Bishop Shanahan, of the diocese of Pittsburg, Pa.; Unancellor Preston and Father Farrelly, the secretary of the Cardinal. ‘The following clergy, who were en the whart, then mounted tne gangway and paid their re spects to the Cardinal, who, by this time, was walking on the quarterdeck with a number ef his friends, both clerical and lay :— Dr. McGlynn, uf St. Stephen’s church; Fathers Kearney aud Kane, of the Cathedral; Father McDowell, of St. Agnes’; Father Flattery, of Man- hattanville; Fatner Brann, of St. Elizabeth church, Washington Beights; Father Clouray, ; ot St. Gabriel's; Father Curran, of St. Andrews; Nieot, of the German church in Forty-second street; Brother Stevens, of Manhattanville College, and Fathers Trainor and Hudson, of St. Francis Xavier's Col- lege. A large number of prominent laymen were also present, among whom were Commissioner Eugene Plunkett, Dr. James M. Brann, Harold Henwood, D, O’Dononue, Patrick Farreliy, Joun Haltard and many others, The Cardinal en. tered juto conversaiion with many of als frienas and well wishers wno had come to wish him God speed on Is voyage. He looked somewhat Jatigued, ad i was generally 4 pressed idea that tne voyage and Tepose would do his mue! good. Later on many members of the Catholic Union and several of St, Micnael’s Society arrivea, walle the crowd on the aock became mofe numer- ous from inoment to moment, The veteran agent of the French line introduced the distinguished traveller to the old salior, Captain Dauré, the commander of the steamer, who satd in a lew words that he would do his best to make the ocean voyage a8 agreeable as ke could vo the Cardinal, A large bumoer of passengers, im- pelled by curiosity, pressed clo: reand the clerical gathering and studious! atched the Venerable preiaie as he spoke and shook hands affectionately With the clergy of his diocese and others, ‘The Cardinal will pay @ brief visit to the Arch- bishop of Paris, and will then proceed by easy stages to Kome. He will alse pay a visit to the sialued glass manatactory at Nantes, in France, wifere the stained windows for the New York Cathedral, on Futh avenue, are now being pre- pared, At Rome he will receive his ring from the Holy Fatner, No cardinai’s hat Ras been given, Vicar General Father Quinn sa, since the inv: sion ef Rome by the furces of Victor Emmanuel, Cardinal Patuci, Vicar of Rome, will offer the gelestion of a chureh at Rome to Uarainal McClos- der Bis patronage during his life- Cardinal takes with bam drafts upon Rome to the equivalent of $20,000 tn goid, a gift from the diecese of New York to the Holy Father. THE FAREWELL. Atlast the moment of departure arrived, the mail was taken op board, and the friends of the Cardinal, after wishing bim every happiness bade him iarewell. A general scramble ensued, the lines were cast of and the neble craft swung out into the stream, and when about 100 yards of fired a couple of guns as a salute, and five min- utes later the steamer was off the Battery, head- ing at a rapid rate fer Sandy Hook. According to the Cardinal’s desite no steamer accompanied him down the Bay, his desire being that Ris de- parture should pe as unostentatious as possible ana without aemonstrauon. “His absence from this city will probably be of about three months? duratiom. He is accompaniea by his secretary, Father Farrelly, Father D’Aubril, of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, is among tne passengers, AN ADDRESS 70:THE POPE, The following address to tae Pope from the Cath- olic Union of this city willbe hanged to tue Holy Favher by the Uardinal:— To His Bounxes Pivs tax IX., Sorrexe Poxtirr axp Farsen ov THE Farravol— We, the Catholic laity within the diocese of New Yor! enjoying, through Divine Providence and your Holiness’ favor, the care and guardianship of our Most Rey. Arcn- bishop John McUloskey, approach in spirit and by this ‘writing the Chair of Peter and, reverentially renewing our taithful homage, present to you, our Holy ¥atuer, this expression of our gratitude fur the honor conferre upon ourselves and our country in the elevation of our beloved pastor to the sacred oflice of Cardinal. in the ancient kingdoms of the earth, {rom the pressure Of armed hereay and the, disobedienice ot her erring children, have awakened in our souls emotions of pro- found syinpathy, alike with Your Holiness and with your faituiul clergy and their bereaved people. Yet, amid these evidences that, in the mysterious dispensa- tions of the Divine Founder, evil agencies are still per- mitied, for a space, to exercise their pernicious influ- ence, we find much consolation in the numerous com- nsatory blessings vouchsated to the Church in our lay. Among these, and foremos by reason oi tts be- neficent consequences, may be reckoned the bounty which has bestowed upon us @ Pontiff of unsurpassed piety and virtue, whose serene fortitude paralyzes an- tagonism and converts every temporal loss into a spi itual advantage, thus adding to the countless proofs in history that God’s Charch is not only intaluble iu faith but indestructivie in power. ‘A RETROSPECT VIEW, Jn looking back upon the comparatively recent past we behold, at a state coinciding with great m revolt, an addition to the realm of Christian civilization, destined, as 1s shown by the events of the present age, to afford'a theatre for triumphs of truth excelling the entire past in their magnitude and in the richness of their accompanying temporal and spiritual enjoyments for the human race. The Anglican settlements of the New World partook so largeiy, at their origin. of the views dominant in the parent state, that tor the first two centuries our holy religion made litte progross, FIPTY-TWO METROPOLITAN CHURCIUKS. When the present century, thrice blessed In happy incidents, opened upon the faithfnl, a single small charen was adequate, in the foremost ‘city of the fore- most State, to receive at the matin oall the entire co: greeation, and in whole rural territory the true But now, in its turd quarter, ‘we witness in the metropohtan city fifty-two churches, and in [ts suburbs many more, while throughout the whole land altars arise wherever men are te be found. In this spread of true religion over a territory where no mere earthly power is exerted in its behalfthe innate greatness of the Church is receiving ble mani- festation. In this its extension among so many HAPPY RECRIVERS UNDER GOD'S PROVIDENCE, 4, by the guidance of Your Holiness, examples of nich impressive magnitude are ailorded as may serve to convitice mankind that temporal power must ever fail in its efforts to restrain the acceptance of our holy faith. From what was so recently an uncultivated wilder. ness, and more recently the abiding place in the imaia of those only who will not acknowiedze your authority, we trust that Your Holiness will receive graciously this humble tribuwe of dutitul reverence and sincere thankfulness, Given at New York this Ist day of Angust, 1875, for and gn behalf of the Catholics of the Archdiocese of New York. ie L. B. BINSSE, #UGENG KELLY, FR, COUDERT, WM. and JNO. O'BRIEN, } Committee, T. E. SLEVIN, : J. THORON, WM, VON SACHS, CHURCH CLERGY OUT OF WORK. There is a popular impression that the clergy of the Episcopal Church are better paid, more eie- gantly housed and are better maintained, with easier werk, than those ef any sect among us It is also believed that the hardest worked and poorest paid portion of the clergy are Methodists, Pacts show that the reverse of this popular idea is the true one, The financial policy of the Metno- dist Church is such that every minister hasa ehuren or employment, and) every caurch has @ minister. The average income and support is larger with the Methodists than witn most other sects; While the popular preachers, editors, pro- fessors, agents, have salaries that would be pro- nounced anywhere, in any sect, large. ‘There are more anemployed piscopal clergymen in New York tuan in any other denomination, Assistant ministers and missionaries have very oor pay. A great many men in orders are keep- ing school, Writing books, Keeping books; joyed on the daily papers deke out jiving in various ways, Regularly ordained Episcopal mimisters who ‘2 assistants in churehes are regularly in tri the Stock Excnange sae on w tion ® regular parish. meeting was recently held, presided oyer by the bishops and eminent clergymen, fer the increase of the ministry. It was opealy said that the reason that the society Was 80 weak and that so littie money Was given te raisé up new ministers was that there were so large @ number of men now in who Lad nowhere to preach. One eminent ted that it would be better economy ta put to work the ministers they now hed and sup- port those who were aiready in the field than to expend money in raising up a new supply, who migut be equally idk ST, CECILIA’S EXCURSION. On next Thursday takes place the excursion of St. Ceciiia’s Roman Catholic church, of which Rey. Dr. Hugh Fiattery is pastor, These annual en- tertainments, organized exclusively tor charita- ble purposes, are siways well patrenized. Great attention is paid by the reverend tor to the Tangements for these excursions, so that the utmost order and enjoyment prevail, A steamer and two barges have been provided, which will Proceed to Oriental Grov ug island, on Thars- day morning. ‘lhe bouts leave foot of Rutgers street eight A. M., Seventy-ninth street, bast River, at a quarter oF nine, 1i7th street at nine, and iioth street at hal/-past nine. A large nom- ber of Seventh warders generally attend this ex- Gursion, as Father Flattery for six years officiated in this locality, To accommodate these guests & call Je Made wt the (oot o: Rutgers atreet. s AUGUST 8, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE OHIO REPUBLICANS. Senator Morton's Speech on Republican Policy. He Attacks the Democratic Rag Platform. A Defence of the Vetoed Inflation Bill. Unsana, Obio, August 7, 1875. The following is the speech of Hon. 0. P, Mor ton, delivered here to-day :— SPEECH OP SENATOR MORTON, FPRELLOW CiTizENS—Again the people of Ohio are called upon to make choice between the repubil- | can and democratic parties, Thé success of Gov- | ernor Allen and his colleagues upon the ticket will be the success of the democratic ages nm whieh the individuality of these gentlemen will be almost entireiy lost. It i8 Important, therefore, to review the history, the principles, the purposes and inevitable tendencies of thay party, in order $o understand the consequences likely to result | from its success. It is the boast of that party that | its principles have nos chi fed, and that it | cherishes the same doctrines yesterday, to-day and forever, But this is true only as to constitu. tional questions or those conceruimg the origin and nature of the government and of ine rights of men, for 1t Cannot be aflirmed truthiully that upon economic questions or those of gemeral adminis- tration the patty 18 agreed or has any sevtied principles or views whatever, The distinguisked Senator then reviewed the course of the democratic party in connection with the war and the subsequent events, charging it with responsibility for all the troubles whica be- fell the country, and predicting that its success would render nugatory much, if not all, which had been done by the predominant party tn the way of reconstruction. He defended the administration against the scandals which had been heaped upon tt declaring that General Grant has been as foully calumniated a: any President in our history, unless It was Was! ington and Jackson, and yet none have come out of the great of_ice clearer than hi y the past I predict the future, and that he will leave the Pres- ldency With the love, confidence admiration of the American people, and that his great services asthe leader of cur armies and a8 President will be reinemberead with graittude when his assailants are utterly forgotten, Wuen demo- cratie politicians how! about universal corruption and boast how honestly the government would be administered by them it is not lmproper, aiter pointing them to their Own Aistery in the past, to observe that your acquaintance with them’ in Ohio and elsewhere, in taoelr different relations ia life, does not justify them in putting on airs er ase suming that they would be inore honest or cap- able in oMce than other people, that they ougat to be quite satisfied with the assumption that they are on the average good as otber people, The men who talk most about eorrap- tion are Iaen, who, having no faith in themselves, havo no faith in anybody else; who believe, ac- cording to their standard, that everybedy ts a rascai, and Cannot see, in fact, how any mab can be honest where he has @ chance to steal He then proceeded to the consideration of THE FINANCIAL QUESTION, By the aets of Congress of 1862 and 1863, the government was authorized to issue legal-tender | notes, commonly called greenbacks, to the amount of $400,000,000, which were issued from time to time and put into circulation. By an act passed im 1864, to encourage the sale of our securities, she gevernment gave a solemn pledge to its creditors that the whoie amount of green- | backs to be tssued should never exceed $400,000,000, By virtue of subsequent acis, passed in 1866, @ portion of these notes were retired until the amount in circulation was Teduced to $356,000,000. But it was claimed by the Secretary of the Treasury and his successers, and subsequently declarea by tne votes of both houses of Congress that the $44,000,000 thus retired constituted a reserve in the Treasury, and might be reissued whenever the exizencies of the government made it necessary. And in pursu- ance of vis claim of authority the Secretary ef tae Treasury, 10 1873, after the beginning of the panic, put inte Circulation $26,000,000 uf additional greenbacks, leaving unissued only $18,000,000 out of the 000,000, The most ef the greenbacks had been issued and all were autaorized, wi what are Known as the five-twenty bonds were first put upon the market, and it was with these notes that the vonds were purchased from the government at it was the opinion of many distinguish lawyers in Congress and out uf 1b that as these notes by the terms of the law were made a legal tenaer in payment of all public debts, except interest on bonds and duties on imports, ti rice trees had a right to use them in payment of the principal of the five- twenty bonds, im favor of tkis opinion the Finance Committee of the Senate unanimously reported in 1866, Senator Sherman being chair- man—a hi ‘h autuority, he Naving participated in i the laws upon the subject. To this me Jor that purpose until they bad been brought to par. In 1867 a new financtal school sprang {nto exist- ence, of which Mr. Pendleton, of Unio, was t distinguished head, asserung the ruyht and ¢! duty of the goveroment—then long aiter the five- twenty bonas had been sold, ana in violation of the pledge given im the act of 1864—to make a further issue of greeabacks to am indefinite amount beyond the $40,000,000 and compel the holders of bouds to receive wnem in payment, ‘This new scheme was the poisoned ingredient in the financial cauldron and the most demoralizing proposition ever thrast into American politics. No word er declaration of mine can be found in favor of extending the greenback issue beyond the $400,000,000, In @ speech im the Senate in 1874, Just before the passage of the bill whicn th Presiaent vetoed, I said:—“We must take the greenback as we find it, Its character cannot now be changed, and the promise to pay it in coin 18 an unanswerable reason why it Cankot be sub- stituted lor the national bank notes, Another reason Why it cannot be substituted for the na- tional bank notes is that in the act of June 20, it was aeclared that, ‘nor shall the toval amount of | United States, not®s issued, or to be issued, ever exceed $40,000,000, and such additional sum, not exceeding $50,000,000, ag may be temporarily re- quired for the redemption of a temporary loan.’ ‘This wasin the nature of a contract with tue purehasers of our bonds, that the amount of $400,000,000 cannot be exceeded without a breach 01 farth,”? THE ACT OF 1809. This new doctrine created great excitement throughout the country aad alarm among the national creditors, aud was justly regarded as flagrant repudiation, and 1 myself, at the first opportunity, denounced it assuch. This scheme | Was by tts advocates blended with the rigat as- serted by otbers, to use the original legal tender notes authorized and issued before the bonds were sold aud with which they kad been purchased in payment of tne principal of the bonds, and led Congress, in 1869, to pass a bili known as an act to strengthen the pubile credit, declaring that the five-twenty bonds were pay- able only in coin. The passage of that act settled the question, It was brought about by Mr. Pendieton’s proposition, but settled the question equally with regard to the original legal tender notes. Since that time the bonds have been bought and sold onthe faith of the express declaration that they were to be paid in coin; and the attempt to pay them in anything else now would be repudiation and national dis- honor, The question, therefore, of the mode of | paying the five-twenty bonds mast be considered ‘settled, if anytning can be considered settl where tne democratic party is eencerned, If d ocrats now complain of tae act of 1869 let them console themselves with tue reflection that it was the work of Mr. Pendleton and nis diseiples, and was brought about by the shock and alarm which bis proposition gave to the :noral sense of the na- tion. THE BILL VETOED BY THE PRESIOENT. T come now to the question of the redemption of legal tender notes and the resumption of | specie payment. No one has ever denied that these notes are & premise to pay the amount in coin and constituie a part ef the pubic debt. In April, 1874, @ Dill passed bots houses of Congress, waich Wi b; to whieh I wish Lo saya word. This bill declared | the maximum amount of greeabacks to be $400,000,000, of Whicw all but $18,000,000 were thea in circulation, [t did nos require the government to put the remaining $18,000,000 into circulation, Dut simply declared the law to be wnat President Grant and the Treasury Department, since 1868, baa assumed it to be—that under the acts of 1862 and 1863 the greenback circu; lation might be Kept at $400,000,000, abo which, however, there was much doubt and | discussion, and both the President and Sec ry | of the Treasury had asked Congress to settle the doubt. @ bul farther authorized the inerease of the national bank circulation, in States waving jess than thelr proportion, to the amount of fifty- four millions, 1b was not expected this circu issued rapidly by the establisyment and this has since bech justified by | experience. But the bill contained another pro- | vision, requiring national banks to keep tneir greenback reserves in their own Vaults and not deposit them in New York, where they ‘were loaned to stock jobbers and passed into circula- tion, and this, It Was contended, would eontract the circulation and undoubtedly gave rise to bitter Opposition to the bill, The bill was framed with & view to the Condition Of the country, then ing from the panic, and did not claim to be a full eta py | pd questions, and leit tue question Of return to specie paymouts s vided for afterward, nije bbe apr. 9 THE FINANCIAL ACT OF LAST SPSSTON. When Congress assembled last December there Was @ general conviction among the members ) Would gradually aj | to withdraw from the people grouna could be arrived at, upon me mosy me verial questions, A great diversity of views pre- Valled among the members of both parties, A very few were in favor uf repealing tne Legal Ten- der act, and thus forcing resumption at an early day. Some were in favor of contracting the volame of currency until that remaining io circulation was brought to par. e im favor of fixing @ day for resumption in the future toat business could prepare for it, and the transition be gradual aud easy. Ovhers again were in favor of such a measure as would enable the currency to be expanded if te busi- ness or condition of the country required {t, but the action of the President and bis kaown opim- 1008 preciuded the possibility of any suck meas- ure. A bill was prepared which received the votes of every republican Senator, save one, and of all the republican members of the Mouse, ex- cept a Jew from the Eastern State: ‘THE BILL A COMPROMISB, The dill was im its ature ® compromise and middle ground. lt recognized the propenaety. as @ part of the public debt and the obligation of the gevernment to pay them in coin, and fixed the 1st of January, 1879, for tae period, four years from the time of its passage. It was provided in the bill that when the time arrived the Secretary of the Treasury might employ the surplus geld in the Treasury for the redemption Of greenbacks, And if that was not sufMicieat, might procure eneugh by the sale of bonds at par, the bonds not to bear a greater rate ofinterest than five percent. It was thought with four years’ notice the business of she coun- try could be prepared, witmout shock or injury, for resumption, and taat, as tho time approached, Bay to WILAIM two years, the vaiue of greenbacks preciate and be at pi the vime arrived, and that then there would not « jarge demand to hpmcowger them fur coin. T reen! ‘$ should aot retired 80 as to less than $300,000,000 fa circulation, and 1s contemplated that they should continue to be @ part of the circuiat and the main purpose was to impro ity and bring them to @ par value: wi the bank notes whieh wi redeemapie in een backs. When the panie took place I believed that the period of resumption was necessarily postponed for aconsiderable time, and wat the trae remedy and relief from the pauic was that Which had been successfully employed in England for more than & hundred years wren fii jal panics Came—that is, A moderate increase of ¥ curreney ; and | advised the President to pour im circulation the TVe of greenbac! then in the Treasury. imorease in the cur- Treacy which I sougit by legislation was by the ex- tension of the national banking system, and not by a jurther issue of greenbacks, In a speeon in the Senate om the Ith of Janu- gh rink 1 said vo . “a8 not speaking of increasing the green- backs beyond the $400,000,000, iscinging she $44,000,000 of reserve, but lam speaking of in- creasing the national \K Circulation $44,000,000 or $50,000,000, 80 as to make the States equal and requiring it to be redeemed in greenbacks, That would not cheayen the greenbacks; 16 woutd not affect the value of our currency otal. The na- Honal bark notes would still have to be redeemed in greenbacks, and the number of grecnbacks would not be increased, I submit, thereiore, thas increasing the national bank eurrency to tha amount ispeak of whiok Is little enough, would not cheapen the value of greenbacks and would not increase the premium on gold, would not In- terfere with the gradual return to specie payment that | nope for.” ‘That the period kas gone by when any increase ofthe currency would do good in checking the panic | am free to say, and believe i¢ must run its course until the times are relieved by economy, dustry and the operation of general causes, NEITHER CONTRACTION NOR BXPANSION. The theory of the bill in gnotner respect was that there sould be neither coatraction gor ex- pansion of the currency—that the volume should be maintained as nearly as possible at whats is then was, king Was mi free—that 13, the restriction as to the amount bapk notes thas might be issued in the aggregate, or tn any of t: States, was repealed, and the people left tree te organize new banks in any of the States or Terri- tories upom compliance with the terms and condi- tions of the ta To prevent the expan- sion of the currency irom this souree it was provided that fer every $100,000 of bank notes issued tne Secretary of the ‘treasury snould retire $80,000 in greenbacks, which, adaed to the greenback reserve the new banks would be required to keep in their vaults, would maiu- tain the volume of currency in circulation about the same. I had something to do with the preparation of this bill, voted for tin good faith, and intend to stand oy it until experience bas demonstrated that lt is impracticavle or needs amendment. Ita 5 Th y for mptton and pro- viding, tor 11, proposed to the Senate six years before, and whether the time fixed Is a proper one or not, and I should have preierred it ® year or two later, {it is the method by which I believe specie payments can and will be reached, It establishes the policy of free banking, the slow, gradual, but certain re- turn to specie payments, and no contraction or expansion of the currency until that time, DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. ‘The Columbus democratic platiorm demands tm- Mediate avolition of the national baukiug system, and the substitution for national bank notes of a new issue of greenbacks, A changd so great and vital would be attended by the moss disastrous extent of wiich no man can now foresee. ald require the banks at once $950,000,000 in loans ding, which would audoubtedly result im the greatest distress and the almost total sus- pension of business, The greeback circulauon - Would be suddeniy increased from 875,000,000 to , and would inevitably greatiy depre- ciate. Tne value of greenbacks now is maintained by the ability of tne govermment to pay them, and by the prospect of such payment at no remote time, and if the amount was so increased that the government could not pay them, and tne prospect of payment passed entirely away, they would at once lose the principal part of their value. Lt, | When there are but $375,000,000 in circulation, and we ure within three years and @ half of the time fixed for redemption, tuey are worth but eighty- eight cents On the dollar, what would be tueir vaige tf the amount Was increased to $800,000,000 or $1,000,000,000, with no hope, prospect or pre- tence that they would ever be redeemed? Let any man of common sense answer. But it is said that the legal tender guality, the fact thas the debtor can compel the creditor to take them in payment of debis, will preserve their value eveu if they are never to be redeemed or paid. Tae simple answer to this ts that when the volume of greenbacks is largely increased, and all prospect or pretence of payment is abandoned, people will refuge to sgil their property or labor upon a credit, Kno’ ig that they cam be compelied to r ceive Ul ment depreciated paper never w be redeem AN UNAVAILABLE SECURITY. Bat we are told that any amount of this paper wili Moat, because the faith, resources and credit of the country are pledged for it. If there be no way to convert the resources or credit of tae gov- ernment to the payment of the notes, what does vhe security amount to? If ali the real estate in the Union were mortgaged for tne payment of these notes, DUS there 18 DO way to Loreciose, to collect, to convert, what does the mortgage amounts to? Stripped of ail disguises and pre- tences, the subsritutiom of greenbacks for national bank noses Wili be understood by the country a8 a declaration tuat these neies will never ve re- deemed, THB ENEMY OF GREENRAOKS, ture. Lhe advecates of more greenbacks in the piace of national bank notes are the enemies of are utterly epposed 40 ® national currency ia every form. hep the greenback Sonera wi first proposed in 1862, and was indtspensabie to the sdppression of the ellion and the preserva- the Union, the democratic leaders ever, Genounced 1¢ a8 unconstituuonal dit everything in their power to make ti worthiess | and to bring i6 imto dishonor, This warfare against the constitutionality of greenbacks never been relinquished to this hour. Chief Justice Chase, wita tae majority of the Su- preme Court, decided that the issue of | @reenbacks during the war, under @ muiit- tary necessity to preserve the liie of the Pation was uncenstitational, the decision was | heralded everywhere by tae democratic party ag | the grandest triumph of constitutional principles Known in our history, and when, afterw: ing the adminis issue of green baci sure of national military necessity, was constitu. tional, the democratic rty, With ot accord throughout the United States, declared that the decision Was corrupt and thatthe Court had been packed by ?’resident Grant for that purpose, And you will remember that, during the canvass of 1872, the euarge Of having packed the supreme Coart to procure @ decision sustaining gr i agrant violauon tue constitutl m rs Roelt Opinions upon that subj Onig the oth day, at Gallipo! Mr. Pendleton asserted in the 8 tp ped terms that, as & member o1 Congress, opposed the issue of greenDacks in 1862, because Lkey Were unconstitational; t be never fagers a nis Opinion, and believed ti Congress had no suck power, Mr. Thurman, M Bayard, ana I believe eve! mocratic member of the Senate, have from time to time denied the wer of Congress to m greenbacksa a legal ender, charged that the Supreme Court, by which whe decision was made, was packed, altnoagn decision went no further than holding that Ooi gress had the power to pass such ot the democratic that greenbacks are how can we sumMciently the hypocrisy of &® dema: issue oi pundreds of millions to take the place national bank notes? Lf \hey believe them to be constitutional, no condemnation can be severe enough for thelr conduct during the war, when they denied their constivutionallty and did @il in thelr power to dishonor them, at @ time w they were necessary to preserve the life of th nation, The question a8 to whether # Treasury note can be made a legal tender en 18 purely @ qu ion Of 1a’ ti in wee of deciat ally by the Supreme Court of ti ‘aw in time to he Unive and there 1s not # respectable democratic NOW in the Stale of Olio who does that # new law creating & further issue of greeu- backs as a substitute for Rational bank motes, or for aay other purpose, would be declared by that Court unconstitutional and void, that some financial measure should be passed to remove the doubts and uncertainties prevailing in the country, and that it was the daty of all (0 abate somothi of their opinions. if & common THE ULUIMATUM, This whole scheme of a lurtuer issue of green- backs in lien of natiomal bank netes | arraigcn But 1 here urimas« this whole fraud and impos- | ‘he greenbacks, a8 they have ever been, They | | In ti 5 ——_—_$<—$_—$—$—<$—————_ re to-aBy ms hypocritical and treacherous, de- niga ed in the first place to effect the destruction and then by thelr volume thé co! baci Lves ard toration of the old State ba sovereignty party will never stop short of State bauks, A mational currency, Whether of green- backs or bank notes, 1 ful to that party whico abhors the national idea and declares thas there {8 not one nation but thirty-seven independent and sovereign powers. The party whiea clamors constantly about centralization and federal assumption cam never be the friend of the greemback, which represenis the highest ierm of national sovereignty. Every year the proposition has been brougnt forward in Congress to repeal the law taxing the notes of State banks, which drove those banks existence, and the repeal of which opem up tbe floodgates for pubiue robbery by the estavlishment of jnunumerabie ting and worthie: Oks in all the States. Oaly last year Mr. Thurman ana every democratic Senator voted for a proposition to repeal that law Which was offered a8 an amenament to a dnance Dill, The restoration of the State bank system means 43 many systems ef Danking as there are States, violent ¢Xpamsions and contrace tions, hundreds of broken banks and millions of bank note trash dying in the a of prone: lt means the Western and Southern. tates shail again pay miilions of tribute to the Eastern States in the form of exchange. it mi that the citizen of Ohio cannot pay his hove! in New York or Boston with Owio money witnout suffering @ shave or buying Eastern tunas. It Means that nO man can receive the price of # te: detector horse withont examtning to see that the money ts gor not broken. The old State bank system is neces- sary to the State rights democracy. The party $hat denies the nation and hates everything na-~ Wonal turns with aversion from a@ national cur- reney. State sovereignty and State banks are bwin relics of the mes that we fondly hepe have passed away forever. THE CENTENNIAL. The celebration of the centenary of the Declara« tion of Indepemdence on the Fourth of July, 1876, will be peculiarly grateful to the members of the That y had its origin an instrument, and to its hands, under divine Provi+ dence, was committed their fina: accomplushment, The deciararation that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with cer- vain malienable rights; that among tnese are iiie, liberty and the pareuis of happiness; that to se- cure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers irom the eonsent of the governed, is tho corner Stone of the republican party. it is the grand platform upon which we stand to-day, Upon watch the Union has been preserved an slavery abolished, and tho political and civil equality of all men before the law established. 1s embodies the principies of civil and religious lib- erty upon which our government, alter nearly one hundred years, now stands triumphant, and which have been impressed to a greater or less degree upon all the civilised governments Ip tho world, Ly whatever name called. In its first sens tence it prociulms the grand fact of the national unity by describing the inhabitants of the wir- teen colonies as one people about to dissolve political bands which have connected with another, and to assume among tho Po ‘3 of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them. The existence Of the natien thus asserted in ine beginning is a grand funda- mental fact in the creed of tue republican party, denied for » long time in some of the Staten, crushed to earth by the rebellion, resurrected in blood to live forever, we trust, in the hearts of the people. ‘The Deciaration is the rock upon which our political charc’ 18 built, and sue gates of hell shali not prevail againstit. It is tne gospel of numao liberty; the grand platiorm upon which all others should be built, nile one party claims deseent from Hamilton and suother from Jackson, 1t ia the proud privilege of the repuolican party to claim for Its ancestry the fathers oi the revolu~ Won eng their first declaration of principles lor its platform. POLITICAL NOTES. There are people in New Jersey who would not object to seeing Governor Bedle the democratio candidate for President. The Lancaster county (Pa.) democrats have pro- nounced for H. M. North as the democratic canal date for Governor. The Cooperstown Journal says there are a “few”? Uberals in Otsego county. It used to say there Were @ good many. The Ottawa County (Oblo) Repudlican (formerly Independent) las comé out for tue republican nominations. In a recent letter Raphael Semmes indulges in bis chronic philipptcs against Northerners, calling them ‘‘lazzaroni {rem other States; some of them Jalibirds, who had recently served terms in tue Pentientiaries of the States from which they came, who by aid of the reconstruction acts and of such military vermin as Wager Swain and others, who were sent from Washington to govern us,” &c,, éc. Anon he afiirms that if he were “an autocrat he weuld burn at the stake every man who keptaday book or a ledger for any Qher parpose tham to enter cash transac- tioms.” Among the first duties of the Constitu- tional Convention jast voted for in Alabama should be to provide means jor the establisnme: of # State lunatic asylom. The retirement of Diedrich Willers from the field as a candidate for re-electiom to the omice of Secretary of State calls forth the remark trom tne Albany Journal, that, “Had Mr, Willers been a candidate for re-election, Ris political opponents could have raised no personal objection. If democrat were to be chosen there is no one they ‘Would more gladly see Im tue place or whose suc- cess they would regard as more advantageous to the pupiic.” The ers of good feeling—both parties seem to bo satisfled with the result of the Kentucky election, The republicans in Massachusetts have organ- ized a State Campaign Club composed of the most prominent members of the party in the | State, for the purpose of supportimg “the princt- pies of the republican party as expressed through the Nationa) and State Conventions.” Among the currency gossip from the White Sub phaor Springs we gather the following regarding A. HL Ii. Stuart, ex-Secretary of the Interior:—Is appears that Mr. Staart, Im his anxiety to aidin bringing back tne country to @ sound currency, actually suggestad tne general ides of the measure which passed at tho last session of Congress, under which the mint is now coining $45,000,000 of silver change (buying the motal for the purpose), to take the|place of the fractional currency as tast as 1s can be called in after the Istof January next. THE CRISPINS’ STRIKE. The strike of the Crispins was continued yes. terday, with no better result than on the pre- vious days. The cutters meet daily, and are deter- mined not to return to work until they obtata their regular prices, $24 per week, and also until they all retura in a body. The mon stated yeater- day that Mr. Surt had offered $30 per week to soveral of those on strike, but as the offer was ven to each individual man) they refused, srat- ng that they onlpwanted $24 per week, and any individual acceptance of @ position in Burt's sop would tend to break up the society. The mem seem to have an impression on their Minds that the besses are determined to break their society, and rather than see this evecied ey will hold out throughout the winter. The. are confident, however, that @ great change will take place in @ fow days. Mr. Weil, of Weil Brothers, No. 80 Warren street, id yesterday that bis business was going On the meas usual, He was always wiiling to pay the prices demanded by the men; but now he does not care to employ more men, ho thiuks of closing up his business in this city and intends to take @ manulactory 1n one Of the Kastera States, ae meantime the “botsomers’’ On strike at Weil's ahop hold dally meetings, bat mo dedinite action Ras yet been taken. Yesterday over one hundred men paid $1 60 each to support the strike, DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. 4 MAN KNOCKED DOWN AND GAGGED IN BIS OW STORE—ARREST OF ONB OF THE THIEVES. A daring attempt was made yesterday, be- tween two and three P, M., to rob Robert Frank- lim, Of No. 181 Division street. It appears that two men entered Frankit store to purchase shoes. Immediately the one who je the pur- chase Keized Mr. Franklin and Knocked nim down, ue his accomplice held him forcibly tn a pros- trate condition. mile he was gagged and held jown one of the men preceeded to a thorough arch of his pockets, expecting t find con- siderable money. This operation was disturbed the approack of one or two perso! and the ‘hleves took Migkt without accomplisnin; one ur in citizen's attire on t ‘0. 207 Kast Broadway, and, seeing & m a ri a OUtCTY raise a ursuit, following the man closely, wi jumped on 4 railroad oar @nd alighted from the tf ucceed. parpose. OMcer John Flanagan, of the precine waa pitt was rendered Before Judge Viterbourg a4 sorday he gave his name as Kdward Conway, No. 181 Obrystie street, Itis stated that he wags formerly known by the name of Frederick Curtin, nd that he has been only ten tus ous of tne tate Prison, where he served mm ior murdem Ha wae oo ‘anit of $2,000 ball