The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1875, Page 5

THE O'CONNELL CENTENNIAL, {UH CELEBRATIONS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND— HOME RULERS HONOR HIS MEMORY—CARDINAL MANNING ORDERS A TE DEUM—AN IRISH RIOT IN GLAsGow, Loypox, August 8, 1875, The O'Connell centenary was celebrated in this city by ® banquet last night at the Cannon Street Hotel. The majority of the gentlemen present were home rulers, A TE DEUM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES, Cardinal Manning ordered a Te Doum to be sung this evening in all the churches of the archicpiscopal dio- cese, for the blessings resulting from O’Connell’s labors. TRISH ORANGEMEN AND HOME RULERS IN CON- FLICT IN GLASGOW—A NUMBER OF PERSONS WOUNDED, Loxpow, August 8, 1875. There was a serious riot in Glasgow yesterday be- tween tho Orangemen and home rulers during the O'Connell celebration. Five policemen were injured and fifty arrests were made, THE AGITATION CONTINUED, ‘The rioting was resumod to-night, , A NUMBER OF PERSONS ARRESTED—THE MILI- TARY HELD IN READINESS. Loxvow, August 94:90 P. M. Many fresh arrests were made in Glasgow last night im consequence of the renewal of the disturbance, Several rioters and policemen were injured, MILITARY READY FOR ACTION, The military are held in readiness to prevent further disorder, REVOLUTION IN CENTRAL ASIA, THE KHAN OF KHOKAND DEPOSED AND IN ¥LIGHT—HIS ARMY JOINS THE INSURGENTS. Loxpox, Angust 8, 1875, Despatches from Central Asla report that a revolution has broken out in Khokand. The Khan has fled, and his forces have joined the insurgents, OUR RIFLEMEN ABROAD. Panis, August 8, 1875, The American marksmen and their friends left Paris to-night for London. THE WRECK OF THE SCHILLER, See Se A LARGE AMOUNT OF SPECIE RECOVERED FROM THE VESSEL. Lonvon, August 8, 1875. An additional recovery of specie, to the amount of $100,000, has been made by the divers from the wreck of the steamer Schiller, SPAIN AND GREAT BRITAIN. ————— AN ENGLISH CONTRABAND VESSEL TO BE TAKEN FROM HAYTI TO HAVANA, Havans, August 8, 1875, The cargo of the British vessel Laura Price, which ‘was pursued into Haytian waters by a Spanish gunboat, has been embargoed by the Consul General of Spain in Hayti as contraband, and will be taken by the Spanish man-of-war Churruca to Havana, CUBAN THANKS TO THE ENGLISH. The Diario thanks the British Consul General in Hayti for his good offices in the affair, THE FLOODS IN FRANCE. | Panis, August 8, 1875, The waters of the Rhono arg falling, and the danger of an inundation is averted. OUR NAVAL FLAG ABROAD, BUENA AAAS cel Loxpox, August 8, 1875, The United States steamer Tennessee has arrived at Palermo, The usual official courtesies and visits were sxchanged between her officers and the port authorities, EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. City or Mexico, July 31, 1875, An earthquake ts reported in Jalisco, GOVERNOR TILDEN IN BUFFALO. THE PROGRAMME ARRANGED FOR HIS ENTER- ‘TAINMENT. Berraw, N. Y., August 8, 1875, Governor Tilden, accompanied by Lieutenant Gover- nor Dorsheimer, attended divine service at Christ church chapel this morning. The programme of his stay in this city as fur as completed is as fol- tows:—To morrow (Monday) morning he will re- Seive guests at the residence of the Lieutenant Governor, A grand lawn party in the afternoon and evening has been tendered and accepted at the residence of Mr. B. C. Ramsey. On Tuesday morning he will be formally re- ceived by the Buffalo Board of Trade and address of welcome will be made by Hon. B, Hibbard. In the afternoon, accompanied by a of invited guests, on invitation of Mr. 8. 8, Jewett he will make a.trip around the harbor, visiting the different points of interest and will sail down the river. The pro- Ffamme for Wednesday has not yet been decided om, he Governor is enjoying good health. Geo, party THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. THE RESULT STILI. UNKNOWN—BOTH PARTIES CLAIMING A MAJORITY, Wiiainatox, August 8, 1875, Returns received during the past two days leave the fesult of the election still in doubt, Both parties claim a majority of tho delegates, and it may be several days before the result is definitely known, as several oxtret westorn counties are yet to be heard fre provablo that the majority will exceed tw TRIBUTE TO ANDREW JOHNSON. Mempmis, Tenn., Angust 8, 1875, A meeting of citizens was held at the Exposition Building last night to express their sorrow at the death of ex-President Johnson Tho meeting was addressed by Henry Craft, Judge Pierce and Captain T. W, Brown, Resolutions setting forth the life and services of de- ceased, and the loss to the State by his death, were adopted. THE HOOSAC TUNNEL HEAVY FALL OF ROCK FROM THE noor, Spnixerieup, Mass., August 8, 1875, About 600 yards, of 1,200 tons, of rock foll from the roof of the Hoosac Tunnel about ten o'clock on Friday night noar section 10,003, The rock was supported by heavy timbers, and its fall was hastened by excavations which had been made preparatory to the brick arching, All the men that could be utilized were at once put to work to remove the obstruction, and freight trains running to-night and passenger travel will be resu to-morrow, GLOUCESTER'S CENTENNIAL. AN ANCIENT TOWN COMMEMORATING THE HE- ROIG DEEDS OF THE OF THE REVOLUTION, Grovensten, Mass., August 8, 1875. One hundred years ago to-day this ancient town bore @ conspicuous part in the Revolutionary struggle in sue cessfully repelling the attempt of the British ship-of-war Falcon to burn the town, and in. capturing two eehoon- ers, two barges, a cutter and some five British soldiers and sailors. During the struck the Unitarian ehw suspended from the centre morning eugagement a cannon ball hi, and itis still preserved of the old church, This AN APPROPRIATE SERMON Was preached by the pastor, Mr. Gage, and tho church was tastily décoruted, Te rable oe rile, iy da bail int Governor ton and stall and numerous military bIViG tea tee sta nnd ary und civic Wolbles an | PAST—REMINISCENCES | i » { | | NEW' YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMEN THE TREASURY ROBBERY. CONTRADICTORY STATEMENT OF HALLECK— PRODABILITY OF RECOVERING A LARGE PORTION OF THE MONEY. Wasurxcron, Angust 8, 1875. There are few developments concerning the heavy Treasury robbery. No other arrests have been made than those already mentioned. The parties are all yet in custody, and will appear at the Police Court to- morrow. Halleck, who is confined in the Central Police station is the principal object of police attention, In conversation he has made several state- ments which are regarded by the authorities as conclu- sive evidence of the guilt of the parties arrested, though he denies having any acquaintance or dealings whatever with “Pogley” Brown, MALLECK'S STATEMENTS in substance are to the effect that he did not himself commit the robbery, but that he became possessed of the money immediately afterward, and took it to Att- mann. He also says that he only received $620 of the entire amount. Th rs, however, are satisfied tha he is the party who committed the theft, and 4 also believe, from circumstances that have happened, that onty about $10,000 of the amount has been ex: pended and that they have a fair prospect of recovering the remainder of it, BISHOP CUMMINS AT Newnuro, N. ¥., August 8, 1875. Bighop Cummins, founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church, preached to a large congregation in this city to- day, and took steps to organize a chureh of that denomi- nation here. Legal notice of an election of wardens and vestrymen to be held Angust 25 was x NEWBURG. THE YALE NAVY. New Havex, Conn., August 8, 1875, By the generosity of Mr. F, W. Stovons, of New York, President Ferry, of the Yale Navy, has been en- abled to begin the club system at Yale boat house. There is only one club at present, for which nine boats are being built, A ROWING MATCH. Prrrsncra, Pa., August 8, 1875. Articlos of agreoment were #igued here last night be- tween Henry Coulter and Evan Morris for w five mile single soul! race, $600 a side and the championship of the United States, the raco to be rowed on September TI, weather permitting, within twenty miles of this city, and the course to be chosen within the present week, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. San Francisco, August 8, 1875, A fire at Iowa Hill, Placer county, yesterday, de- stroyed the Parker Honse, the Methodist church and ten dwellings, Loss $30,000, STEAMER BURNED. Watertown, N. Y., Angust 8, 1875, Tho steamer York was burned to the water's edge at three o'clock this morning at Massena, N. Y, MURDER IN NORTH CAROLINA. A WIFE AND CHILD KILLED AND HORRIBLY MUTILATED BY THE HUSBAND AND FATHER— EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE OVER THE SUPPOSED CAPTURE OF THE FIEND—NARROW ESCAPE FROM LYNCHING OF ANOTHER MUR- DERER. ‘ Raxuien, August 6, 1875. Intense excitement was created in this city about three o'clock this afternoon by the arrival at the county jail of a party of mounted armed men with a man tied in a buggy driven by one of the guard. The rumor spread like lightning that the notorious and brutal double murderer Scott Partin bad been captured, In a few minutes an immense crowd had surrounded the Court House and approaches to the jail, and, with cries for vengeance, a rush was made for the prisoner, Without delay, how- ever, Sheriff Dunn hurried the prisoner within the jail enclosure, and then announced that the captive was not Scott Partin, but one James Smith. The excitement at this moment knew no bounds, and it becoming known that Smith, too, was a woman murderer, a ery went up, “Hang him! hang the damned villain!” ‘The jail doors, however, had now closed upon Smith, and the law- abiding spirit of our people soon again prevailed. ‘The circumstances of THE CRIME of James Smith are briefly as follows:—During the last two or three years Smith, who is a rather good looking man of slight build and about twenty-two years old, lived with a widow named Hepsey Austin, a disreputa- ble character somo thirty-tive years of age, Towards the close of last year the parties quarrelled and Hepsey abandoned James and took up, it is_said, with another. met the unfortunate creature in the woods and sent a bullet from a rifle through her neck, killing her in- stantly, as was evident from the nature of the wound, This murder was committed fifteen miles southeast from Raleigh, near the Johnston and Har- nett county lines, The murderer at onco fled and took refuge, it is said, in South Caro- lina, and sneceeded in eluding tho officers of the law until this morning, when he was discovered and arrested in bed at the residence of his unelo, near the scene of the murder, by a neighbor named Wilburn. Ho mad? no resistance. A guard was summoned, and he was brought in this afternoon, as stated above, The circumstances of the murder of Hepsey Austin were in- quired into in due course of time and presentment made anda true bill found against Smith by the Grand Jury of Wake county at the last June term of the Superior Court. Smith, the ©, how stands indic for this murder, and will be tried at the November term. It is said he admitted his guilt to the guard this morning on his way to jail, and seems to think little or nothing of | the affair. THe SCOTT PARTIN MURDERS, As the readers of the Hxr. tside of North Caro- not be familiar with the details of the horrible cott Partin, the State papers, ont of a mis- justice, having made little or no mention of the matter, jest it Might prompt the fugitive to go beyond the reach following sketch of the “horrid deed is ‘covt Partin, a young man himself, resided with his La child ten months old at the ly teen miles southe ustin murder, a » of Visiting his broth boring he left his tather’s house with his wifi AMter an absence of several days Par- tin returnod to his home without his wife and child and reported he had left them with some friends near Golds boro, in Wayne county, in this State, Soon after Partin rem while at home and then b ning to W in an mneasy f ul near in a neigh. ul reported © of them rtin him. thoin to be lett and at other places, but no tr could be found, Search was now made for self, but he had disappeared, And now that foul play became a settied conviction and the h for the living Wife and child changed to a search bodies From the date of the disapp ‘ot the wite and child three to four months ¢ Finally, within bones of acow a tion of the mire or quicksand in a dense undergrowth, and, horrible to relate, a bag was exhumed containing paris only of THE MANGLED REMAINS of the missing wife and child, among the most conspicu- ons of which one entire breast of the mother and ono efr of the child. The remains were found (bones and flesh) to have been horribly mangled, subsequent discoveries disclosed a log on whiell jon hart been effected with an axe, and a spot ¢ made to burn the bedi oft no room to doubt the d bodies, and the tight and well duct of Scott Partin left no doube of his being fiendish perpetrator, The deliberate and cold- oracter of this erime may be gathered from going cireumstanees, particularly ax no cause er for it can be assigned by the friends and neighbors of the 1 rer and bis vietims. It stated also that purpose « raing the remains; slow and fearing that buzaards xy Would indicate by led remains, Ii * consumed by fire and. sel the well-known. impassable vhieh, and at a considerable found, To explain the congregfu this place, Partin took the pr and drowning or st wighbor’s cow, Stich are the borrible details of this most brutal m Nor is it to be wondered at that the to-day of qhe the the seene our Court House, As already intima iT ‘orth Carolina are a law-abiding people and have to lynch law. But it is very doubtful MnMnity in our State in which Partin can be eaptured and tried by the slow process of the Jaw, unless by very oxtraordina ortson the part of the civil power, At the last term of our Superior Court Partin was mdicted and a trae bill found, and he 1s now a fugitive, vernor on his head dis above referred t this is denied by ce the location to bury what he for the burial . pth, the remat p of buzzards, & nition of driving ter 7 t Partin was seen Inst Sunday in the region of Smith’s capture, and was fired upon and -probably missed. Ac strong force of armed in on oh dl in pursuit of him, and bis capture is daily expected, of the proper mode of cubserving the ends of | nae Of | | | | | BEECHER. First Discourse of the Plymouth Pastor in His Summer Parish. MORALITY AND SPIRITUALITY The Leaves and Blossoms Which Develop Into the Fruits of the Spirit. AN APOSTROPHE TO PEACE. Twix Mouytars Hovse, N, H., August 8, 1875. Long before ten o'clock this morning swarms of visitors came flocking to the house to hear Mr. Beecher preach, In anticipation of the rush Mr. Barron had stationed two men at the door- way of the parlor, with orders to allow no one in without a pass, No passes were issued until after the ghosts of the Twin Mountain were seated; after them came the guests of the Crawford and then the holders of passes were admitted, The crush was tremendous for ashort time, but finally the crowd got seated. It was estimated that 1,400 people were present. Atall the windows and near the doorway groups were collected, and many, unable to obtain seats, leaned upon the win- dow sills and listened, About eighty teams and twenty- five stagecoaches brought parties to the house, and a special train from Fabyan came in just before service began, Messrs, Sullerman and Huntington, of the celebrated Park church choir, of Hartford, were in attendance. It was expected that the whole choir would be present, but many of the lady members being in the country they could not be brought together, Among the crowd was Mr, John G. Sinclair, the demo- cratic leader of New Hampshire. THE SERVICES opened with hymn No, 187 in the Plymouth collection:— 0 God! our help in ages past. Mr. Beecher said as the books were scarce, and many in the congregation who could sing had no books, he would resort to the old-fashioned method of reading two lines at a time in order that all might join in the sing- ing. After the singing of the hymn Mr, Beecher prayed as follows :-— THE PRAYER. Wilt thou be gracious to us, our Father, not according to the wisdom and the purity of our asking, but accord- ing to the greatness of our necessity and according to tho greatness of Thy generosity. ‘Take no measure our way of thinking; take no ineasure from our habit of put from thine own self; Thou that art infinitely riches; Thou that dost delight to give rather than ; Thou that dost love to overflow with Thy light give 'a portion of it to all things that we loo! upon this morning, Though onr troubles may seem to us or to any of us very great; though our sorrow may seem very deep; thongh our disappointments may seem griovous; though our limitation may seem very narrow; though we may seem to be pinched or pierced; though we may be pursued or oppressed; though woe may be at liberty or in the wilderness, or wandering in our necessity, ‘Thou wilt not withhold Thyself from us.’ Giving will not impoverish Thee, nor will withholding make Thee rich. Grant, therefore, that there may be — given to ns from Thine Infinite fulness and graciousness, Thy loving kindness and tender mercy, so that we may for- get our own sorraw and find ourselves. stronger in our God; made cheerful by the cheer that isin Him, Look- ing away from self, no longer whirling in that small sphere where our troubles are, may wo know ourselves to be the sons of light and the sons of God, andthe heirs of the heavenly inheritance; and may we rise up with the dignity, the joy and the conscious power which belongs to us—not of ourselves, but of Thee! Prayer was followed by the hymn— Josus, [love Thy charming Name, Mr. Beecher then announced his text from the Gospel, according to Jobn, ili,, 5-6—Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man bo born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God, That which is born of the flesh fs flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit,” Mr. Beecher spoke in substance as follows :— TIE SERMON. We are not to understand by the declaration that there is any mysterious efficiency in. the application of water. Indeed, this is not a dogmatic statement. In 8 far as that is concerned Nicodemns thonght it was ne- cessary to be baptized as a frosh start in life; but Christ. told shims its wasneeessary ’ to be more than baptized; that aman needed the water and the Holy Ghost at the same time. It was the ad- ditional element of the Divine Spirit that was to be ¢ phatic, Nicodemus 1s one of the most thoroughly mi: represented rulers in all the Script Ho wasa of inent courage, great sagacity and purity of life, Nicodernus went to Christ in the night time, not be- cause he was afraid, but because he wanted lo have a meal of talk with Him and pour out himself and ask for enlightenment. It was not cowardice, it was hunger, | sont hunger, that brought him by night. Then onl This enraged Smith, and on the 26th of last November he | SoUyht Pie he ti J could he find what he longed for. He was, indeed, a strange coward who, being a member of the 8a hodrin, stood up and’ said to his peers, who had detor- mined to kill Christ:— “Doth our law condemn any man until he is heard?” Did not Nicodemus display” great cowardice when he went with Joseph, took the body of Christ, em- balmed and buried it? Any man could be courageous in a crowd, Jt is easy to go along with the strong tide of popular opinion, but he who is — bold enough to stand alone and fight for a principle has wd, t heart and = brave will, and Nicodemus had both of these attributes, It akes it all the more remarkable that to such aman jared, “That which is born of the flesh ts flesh, jut which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” You ain is everything; born of the flesh we orrupt. Are we to understand that until there has passed a crisis in a man’s spiritual destiny everything that he ever felt or thought. or did went for nothingY In other words, are we to understand that morality is without any ‘spiritual value? Are we to count only that part of human thought, will, conduct and character which is directly inspired by the Divine Juable in human life? Many have thought e doctrine, There are TWO KINDS OF MORALITY. First, what may be called the popular notion of moral- ity, and, secondly, the philosophical notion, ‘The popu- lar idea is that if & man does not do anything very. bad and if he does some things that are very tolerable he is moral. Thus, if he does not steal; if ho is not given’ to violence; if he ‘doos not injure anybody purposely; if’ he is reasonably industrious; if he never lies ‘except occasionally— (aughter)—if he is a_ good neighbor; if he pays “his debts; if he isa kind father then he, as the world goes, is understood to be moral. When wo speak of a moral man we ge understand a man who is free from v that is that he the negative virtue of being free from bad qualities. What is morality? What do wo meansby morality in’ the higher, larger and | more philosophical sense of that’ term? We | mean a reasonable — obedience to the Jaws of — oursely: and the cireumstances in which we are He who discharges the duties | required of him by reason of the physieal laws in: | herent in us all; he who discharges, with reasonable | fidelity, the laws that are imposed on him by his neigh borhood; he who fullils the obligations that are ineum- bent on him by reason of his industrial and commeretal relations in society; he who performs the duties that belong to him as a citizen—he discharges moral duties and he is moral. Morality is obedience to the laws that regulat our conduct in all the varied conditions which we are placed in the world, the question arises, Is this in regard jar idea of morality that it is very val \ it would be one of the very worst things you could do to destroy this morality and’ give a neighbor. hood the idea that @ man was no better for having nega- tive virtues, and that not to howl, not to quarrel, not to get drunk, not to steal is of no moral worth, What I | say of these things is that, while they are not all that is required of aman, they are of very great importance in | his relations to his fellows, But Jook at the higher conceptions of morality. Is it | nothing, that a man, knowing the laws of health, avoids tranegressing them’ If he obeys them is it nothing? De Jnws of natnre spring from God, and are they Did He not ordain the m, the brain and the heart? Jaws were not told from Sinai, they are as much ¢ laws ax the Decalogne is God's law. If morality is good. | for nothing, wonld it not be worse if there were nono of it? But who will say itis good for nothing? «It may not be good for everything; it may not. {ill the measnre of dnty, as we will have oceasion ‘to ehow, bat in so far as it goes it fs good and is to be encouraged. If to treat all men as you would have them treat yon, in aecord- eS in Now morality of no account or value? T must say even to the pop! ance with the golden rule, 18 of no moral the opposite is tne, The'filfilment of onr . mereial and industrial relations, is morality. ‘When mon, therefore, ask me, “Do you preach mor- ality?” Tsay, Certainly fd.” “Don't you believe Im spiritual mornlity ?” «do, most certainly, and 1 will illus ft. TL have a vineyard on my hillside and when my vines were all set out £ was doubting whether they would grow or not, but when after so sof southern wind and rain L dds were swollen and were breaking ‘ns rejoiced, ind Twas glad to seo I suid, “How fare you?? to every leaf and y began to show out at every stem ‘with more as happy, Indeed.” " ‘what were your leayes good | meat them?” | 1s there any wine in them? Oo, Tone, "? svertheless the leayes were good and the stem was good, because ft had started onthe way toward the blossoms. It had got a start toward grapes; it was on the rond toward their juice Now, morality’ is | the Jeat and spiritan TIN BLOSSOM. AND THR CLUSTER, grow out of something lower and less than themselves, and spirituality grows out of morality. It is carried up and carried on, and tho reason why morality is not enongh is simply that it has not had its development. It is good to begin with and goon with, but it should perfect itself asx every single root secks to run through the whole cirele of its appointed being. rges and w Jorions, and w & ness of autumnal harvest, so in the human sont are germinated the first stem forms, and these lower forms should go on. to higher ones, reaching more and more nearly to the blossom and finally coming to the fruit, No vine, no matter how many leaves it has, could bring forth any | fruit there es alone, and — yet no one brings forth could —afford to turn to its I and say, “Yon — are of no aceount,”” but they t. Now, moralities a or like vines whic ar nothing, though they nate, Unfruitfut v re, in many places in the Bible, Set up as the emblem of aman who bas just the low earth form of virtues, but never lets them grow and de- p into their higher forms. Lam therefore a preacher of morality because Lam a preacher of spiritnality am a preacher of morality. be though I belie the Divine Spirit and thong in the indis P that the Spirit does not create, but develops, Let us now tu py some of the PRUE 4 We shall find them rated in the fifth chapter of Paul’ ter to the Galatian Church, This is the But the fruit of the Spirit is love, Joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meck: hess, temperance; against such there is no kw.” I cannot help thinking when I read such passages as this of the catechnumenical examinations which L have heard made by a committee of persons for church member: ship. The evide that they were Christians and were prepared to join the people of God was supposed to be that they believed in the fall of Adam, in original sin, in elvetion and reprobation, and u stood all about — ability or inability, the perseverance of the ‘saints and about’ all the intricate and subtle questions of theology. The Spirit of God is nothing one would think from the questions that are asked, One would think that the Holy Ghost was the editor of catechisins from some of the examina- tions which are made, But in the Word of God, what is that frnit of the Spirit called love? These committecs never ask what a man’s opinions of love are, nor how is the matter of Joy. Joy ix ruled out very often. No | one is considered fit to goto church as long as he is | Joyful. He must be TONG FACED AND WITHOUT SMILES, A feeling of joy, it is thought, should only be occa- sional, vacation experience, | TI look with suspicion upon fayety, beautyand buoyancy and the development of taste. ‘They will do for the natural man, they say, Dat yon must remember you are a Christian! My laration is that because you are a Christian you must be the most happy, joyful and buoyant of all people. The first fruit of the Spirit which is mentioned is love; the next is joy, and your joy is an indication that you have been born again, A ian without Joy may have been born again, but he was dwarfed in infancy; for there are spiritual dwarfs, : In speaking of peace Mr. Beecher was so forvent that many in the congregation were moved. These are his words :— Peace is one of the fruits of the Spirit. You may look among the churches of the land and you can hardly find it unless you catch persons asleep, “Ah! the sweetness of peace; the calmness of it; that strange and glorious joy which steals upon a true soul, walking alone in cominunion through the vast expanse; that soul rest, coming one knows not whence and abiding strangely in the midst of distemperatures and troubles; that language which is tanght by no teacher o languages; that treasure which money cannot measure, which neither gold nor silver nor precious stones can valuo; this you may possess, though men are out npon you and the storms are black in the heavens, Not peace Alone of quiet, not peace alone of not doing, but peace in activity, in enterprise, In sickness, in peril. Strange power of inwardness that holds every. fear in abatement and eg to courage strength and calmness, In speak- ing o' enw pout PAITIL IN MEN Mr. Beecher said no man is halfa man who has lost faith in his fellows. I believe in depravity, for it is in- dispensable to charity. If one begins very low, you will never be surprised except it be agreeably, for you often find men better than yon expected. Ih'speaking of gentleness Mr. Beecher said that some people who were sick thought they were gentle; but true gentle- ness is the vntleness of strength, Think of a bellows putting on all the airs of a great wind storm and saying, “I don't knock down poor men’s houses and tear up great trees and lash into anger the wide, wide ocean."’ Of course it don't, but why! Simply because itis not able, Gen- tleness is not feebleness, No definition can be given of goodness, You know some men and women are good; they are not geniuses, can’t hold an argument, and they cannot write poetry, thank God. Still they are good, and you love them. You can’t exactly tell why; you cannot mention one single attribute of them, bat tiey have the faculty to make everybody happy aadbevter; not to make them better and thier happier, but happier and consequently better, Temperance, one of the frnits of the Spirit, Mr. Beecher said, meant self- control, and on simming up continned:— TILE CONCLUSION, These are the fruits of the Spirit, Moralities are the sprouts and these are the fruits of moralities, and if you trace them one by one you may see that every one of these qualities, which are distinetly pronounced to be the working of God's intluenee, is the onteome of a natural faculty and carried up under the inspiration of God to that stage at which it blossoms and brings forth fruit, and when a man gets out of these lower moralities: 60 that he cannot but blossom, he then has become a child of God, A SERVICE OF SONG was held in the parlor to-night, under the auspices of the choir of the Park church, Hartford. NEVER WAS A SLAVE. MR. ROBERT MORRIS, JR., OF BOSTON, EXPLAINS. Bostox, August 7, 1875, To tne Epiron or tim HERALp:— In perusing the New Yorx Heraxp of August 6, 1875, I find it stated that Robert Morris and Robert Morris, Jr., were once slaves, I refer to the paragraph under the head of “The O'Connell Centenary in Boston.” Now, sir, Robert Morris, who has been a lawyor in this city for over thirty years, was never further South than New York. Twas for more than cleven years a student in the colleges of France and England and at the Middle Temple, in London, ef which I ain 4 member, never been South.” In faet, [left this country w was so young I hardly knew what slavery meant, he Wo wore both present at the banquet in the Revere House, in this city, and at the exercises in Music Hall, 1 sin? ceroly trust you will rectify what might convey a mis- taken idea to your readers, Yours, very respectfully, ROBERT MORRIS, Jr. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. A CATHOLIC PRIEST ASSAULTED BY FOUR ARMED MEN—ONE OF HIS SUPPOSED ASSAILANTS CAPTURED. At ten o'clock on Saturday night a boy, breathless with fear, rushed into the Palisade House, at Englo- wood, N. J., and informed Chief of Police Hills that the parish priest, the Roy, A. J, Smits, was being murdered by four men. Chief Hills, accompanied by an officer, immediately | ran to the father's residence and found him and his | household not hurt, but very much alarmed, To the Chief the father told the following story :— Upon coming from evening service to my honse (ahont 100 yards distant from the ehurch) 1 noticed two Nk, ¢ upon im were join their be t strange, I 1 One of them ndiately said, “Your mone: 4 told them Thad only ono or two: dollars about me, which was the truth, One of them, | apparently the leader, said, “Secure him!" Twas then | seized and thrown down on my back on the stoop of | my house and my hands were tied. My servants, look- ing from one of the upper windows, saw me fall, and sereamed, At this THR ROMMERS NECAME FRIGHTENED, as thore were still some of my parishoners about, and | ran, [am not hurt, although some of the thieves had weapons in their hands, The Chief of Police examined the ground thoroughly, and immediately despatched officers in every direction, The county was thoroughly | search and a dirk knife was found near the place of assault, Three men were arrested, who answered the | descriptions of the highwaymen, Father Smits th from their accent, that the highwaymon were ps or Spanish, Two of the men arrested were evi- mps, and were discharged, nthe third, who was arrested at it four miles Ww Englewood. He stated avis; that he had come up the train, and, becoming intoxicated, was afraid to go home to his wife, who was staying im Englewood, He contradicted himself several times, and | was, = + POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED by two of Father Smit's servants. He was held by Police Justices MeColloh and Miller without bail. BOLD ROBBERS IN BROOKLYN, A HOUSE ENTERED AND A LADY ASSAULTED AND | ROBBED--ONE ROGUE CAPTURED, An iitusually hold robbery, even for Brooklyn, oc- curred in that city yesterday afternoon about two o'clock. At that honr threo men drove up ina Jight wagon to the eurbstone in front of the residence of Mr. Casper Ulrich, 3 and alighted. Mr. Ulrieh and Nis had left the in charge of their danght Knoll, she | owhat surprised on observing the men, who were perfect strangers to her, walk into the parlor where she was standing. On inquiring their business one of the men strick her on the head, knocking her down, she screamed loudly for "assistance, | One of the men seized a gold wa and chain whieh she had on, toro it from about her neck and fled with his companions, Roundaman Car: ey, Detective Murphy and Officer Clayton, having ‘ard the outery raised the neighbors, gave chase to the fuftians, oundrels, finding me of the the officers closing in on the wagon, jumped ont and tried to escape down aside street hy tunning, He was captured, after a shary At the Twelfth precine , station house he his name as Bernard Me aged twenty years, He would not tell Capt who his assoclates were, On searching him the gold | Ohio Vail THE FLOODS. A CREVASSE NEAR ISLAND NO. 10—PLANTERS WORKING ON THE LEVEES—NO HIGHER FLOOD ANTICIPATED. Muarurs, Tenn., August 8, 1875. The river continues to rise steadily at this point and has risen an inch during the past twenty-four boura, Captain Crane, of the Bello of Memphis, reports that a crevasse formed at Willis’ plantation at Donaldson Point, just above Island No, 10, on Friday night, which swept over that plantation, which contains about 2,000 acres, and thence to St, Francis Valley, This doubtless caused tho river to come toa stand here yes- terday, and thero is not a crevasse at Bradley's, 4s at first supposed, Running through to the St. Francis River will af ford relief to the plantations on the Mississippi side to Helena, but greatly oREASES THE DANGER and planters on that shoro, be- tween here and na, are working on the leveos in the rear to protect their lands from that din The water now stands four inches below the flood of the past spring and two feet and four inches below the uri flood of 1867. AS a ine of an inch is reported Cairo to-day, old steamboat men predict that the flood will not exceed that of last spring. ‘on the A’ DAMAGE TO GRAIN IN ONTARIO, Orrawa, August 8, 1875, Heavy rains yesterday broke down and damaged thousands of flelds of grain in this vicinity. THE ANGRY MISSISSIPPI. The chief cause of the devastating inundation of the bottom lands of the Lower Mississippl, after periods of heavy rains or from the melting of the snow and ice in the spring, is the elevation of the river bed by deposits of alluvial matter, The sinnosity of the channel below the junction of the Missourt is caused by the low rate of inclination of the river from that point toward the sea, the actual average rate of declination south from Cairo being less than four inches to the mile, or a total fall of 322 feet in 1,100 miles, + The Ohio River presents a similar low rate of inclination toward the Mississippi, for its level at Pittsburg—976 miles from its mouth—is only 699 fect above the level of the sea, giving au average fall for the river of about five inches to the mile. The mouth of the Yellowstone River, on the Upper Missouri, is 2,010 feet above the sea level, while the level of the Mississippi at St. Paul, Minn,, is 828 feet, showing a gradual rise westward from that city of only two feet per mile, a distance of 670 miles, ADLUVIAL DEPOSITS. In ordinary stages of the river level the Mississippi forces its winding way through the great alluvial plain that extends from Cairo to the Gulf, and by reason of the peculiar character of the deposit and the low velocity of the current bends of over thirty miles in length occur in the channel in making two or three milos in a southward direction, As already stated, the river deposits in its bed a large part of the sediment brought down by its waters from. the upper regions of the watershed, and these doposits assume in time the alluvial plain formation which ts so much prized for its fertility. The levee system has been extensively applied to the preservation of these bottom lands from inundation where a diversion of the river channel leaves them in large bodies on either side of its course. The supply of earthy matter being as constant as that of the water that transports it, and the area of deposit being limited by levees to the river bed, the raising of the level of the river bottom results as a natural consequence and progresses in enormous pro- portion to the averction of each preceding year, We find, therefore, in this region the active operation of the same agencies that combined to create THe “NLURP PORMATION” of a certain section of the watershed, and which are nothing more than vast accumulations of alluvial: mat- ter which were deposited along the submerged lower lovels of the Mississippi Valley when that portion of the groat basin bore the same relations to the river systems of the time that the Gulf of Mexico now bears to the Mississippi River; the only difference being that at present the building up of the future bluff! formation is more rapid than that of the former period and moro limited in area, This phenomenon is illustrated on a smaller seale by the changes taking place in OF THE RIVER PO, ent writer on the physics of ic the transportation of earthy " 8, — Nevertheless much is still deposited in the bed of the river, which isin con- sequence raised higher and higher each successive year. Hence it has" become necessary, in order to prevent inundations, to add every season to the height of the embankinent, so that the river now presents the aj arance of an enormous aqueduct, of which some idea may be formed from the fact that in the neighborhood of Ferrara the surface of stream Is higher than the roofs of the houses. ’? jate Professor Mahan, in his Rivers,” makes special mention of the rai ing up of the beds of the Mississippi and the Po by t adoption of the leveo system on both rivers, although he suggests the erection of levees as the proper means of excluding surplus waters from the low lands, he also advises the utmost cireumspection in. the selec. tion of their site, so that the capacity of the river to carry off all its waters may not be impaired by the inju- us location of the: orks. vees are intended merely to protect river bottom Wis from inundations arising from causes as regular in eration as those which produce the periodical f the Nile, the same importance need not bo attached to the question of location as when t erected to guard against an ever threatening such as we 1 down from the the Mississippi. THE QUESTION OF PROTECTION AGAINST IN so far as the th ened territory ~ rned, assumes something like th term the sudden floods that now pour upper rogions of the great watershed of NDATION, Mississippi © following or it is better to be guided by exp ize only the pressing necessities of th tension and repair of the pr of levees and take all the chan the near future, or that ay It matured plan for tho ntire territory be devised rested nd that this plan, in its conception and ¢ pormanent protection of the and carried out as a joint work by the in State ue le of provide for’ the most. feasible the necessities of the the immutable laws that forces to be dealt with Hitherto the si tion has been presented for solution ;—He area of valuable bottom land, how is it to. be prose from inundation from the Mississippi River? We have tried to solve it by diking, but the river and its terri- ble floods have changed the nature of the prot rather foreed it on our notice in its true construction, and we must now recognize the river as the principal fi nr caicnlations, and subordinate ipterests and. he uncompromising demand of a great physt- i or any of its great tribu- hows us THE ARKA OF THK WATER- way, s must be sacrificed for this 8 we provide artificial outlets. that will in r the encroachments of the sett builders on the true bed of the stream, rglect, of these precau tions will result’ in- ti in anal men by th a river of its present bod, and the fort new one through. th ach prized cotton planta which will leav Jovated bed of the old ¢ form an embankment, as it were, for the way, just as the river has left its former bed on the top ot the earthy bluffs many hundreds of feet above the present level. OTHER INPORTANT CONSIDERATION worthy of notice is that the volume of the Mississippi is not likely to decrease in time, On the con- yy ith ural to expect an increase in the rainshed basin, or rather a gradual retur r of forest lands, to that degree of humidity that existed before struc tion of the vast forests that covered the plains and the . This prospect, taken in connection with the impaired capacity of the river to carry off flood waters through its present channel, furnishes one of the strongest arguments in favor of providing artilicial out- lets to supplement the desired want, AREAS AND AVERAGE RAINPALL OF THE SURDIVISIONS OF THE MISSISSIPET BASIN, Under this head an interesting comparison can be m: f the as and annual rainfall of the great sec tions of the main basin representing the watersheds of the tributary river systems, and as it has been proved by the lai advices that even these subdivisions have hot been affected alike over their respective areas we will divide the western one, dramed by the Arkansas and Red rivers, into two parts, whieh will embrace only the watersheds of these rivers, respectively, 1! n hen and records of eminent authorities give the following results :— Average Annual Subdivision of Main divi Waterchet. in North Mississ Mixsonrt Ri Ohio River. Ronth Mississippi River Arkansas River Red River... pi River, ay Total area Tt will tons, whieh sippi River ay and that the aren of th only tw namely, the rhand southern see: alley and Lower Missi est average rainfall, rth of the whole ‘rage by bait sof the Wa th Atlantic aud Gulf slop Hels of latitude aud temper: annual rainfall are the and bear out concerning ele, vOD8 ina suepi rei their attraction for heavily eharged rain THE SUDDEN DOWN-POUT. OF THF from the Ohio Valley can be readily accounted for by the presence of large tracts of forest lands, and and you cannot get the blossom and the cluster ont in the air withous auytuing for them to hang on, They must watch stolen from Mr, Knoll was found, Ho was locked up to answer, rolling and mountainous character of the topography of tho watershed. the former preventing evaporation and | tae tater causing the | | 4 | | | prompt discharge of storm waters into the rivers that drain the region referred to. ‘The influence of forest growths on the rainshed of tho sections of the Mississippi: Valley is very marked, and may be briefly illustrated by the fact that west of the ninety-seventh meridian, or where the treeless plaitis commence, the annnal rainfall is g n inches, while all over the Ohio Valley and uthern Mississippi, where forest lands exist in proportion of from’ 120 to over 560 acres to tha mile, the ann rainfall is as high as fifty inches, Although the lake region may be called THE HOME OF TIL STORMS, being traversed more frequently than any other on the continent by the storm eet alley or Mississippi and visited by these meteors, _ all proportion, as they are more extensively cultivated, Ohio are frequ from nore deusely popu’ EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. Sax Francisco, August 8, 1875, A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Hollister, Sam Benito county, this morning. No damage is reported, THE PAWNBROKER ROBBERY. Ctxcixxati, Ohio, Augnst 8, 1875, It has been ascertained that the robbery of the pawne broker Pereira on Friday was ¢ itted by his som, who has fled the city, taking the booty with him, BROOKLYN ASSAULTS, During an altercation which took place on Saturday night at the foot of Majer street, between George Colgan and Frederick Hoizelberg, both young men, the former struck the latter on the mouth with a paving stone, inflicting a very painful wound, Captain Kaiser, of the Sixth precinet, who witnessed the occur- ase to the assailant, who led the officer for Sr gat tloiecibtra tie tele uit and Heizelberg for being or Gunn and James Williams, two colored me: who had been drinking in commemoration of the Eman- cipation Day anniversary,, hada fight at Pulton ferry ou Saturday night, when James drew a penknife “and stabbed his adversary in the arm. The accused waa comnitted to answer the charge of felonious assault, JUVENILE THIEVES AT LARGE. ‘The six juvenile thieves who escaped from the New y Reform School at Janesburg on Friday aro still at large, although the Superintendent of the institution veral counties of the State in s f the young jail birds were the notorious bootblacks of Jersey ell and Finerty—who were convicted of burg! The latter is the more desperate, and is supposed to be the chiot conspirator of the plot that led to the eseape, A DESPERATE ROBBER. Robert Murray, of No. 111 Partition street, Brooklyn, laid down in his hallway yesterday afternoon to take a While he was sleeping James Meeda came along and rifled his pockets, Mecda was making off, when Murray awoke and cried “Stop thief.” Meeda then drew a knife, and, turning back, threatened to stab Murray if he dit not stop his noise, ‘The police arrested the follow and also his companion, named William Lynch, DEATH IN A PRISON VAN. pecs dilie 2 Coroner Nolan was notified yesterday to hold an in- quest on the body of a German named George Weh- mart, a middle-aged man, who died on Saturday last im the van used to convey prisoners from the Justices? Court to the jail and penitentiary, Deceased been, arrested on a chargo of vagrancy, arraigned before Jus- tice Eames and sentenced to the County Penitentiary for three months, He was placed in. the wrotched, ily ventilated vebicle with a large number of misérahi destinetl for the Penitentiary, While the van was « ing in front of Justice Elliott's Court for more. p. gers Wehmart fell in a fit and died ina few minntos, His body was removed to an undertaker’s and thenoo t@ the City Morgue. SUICIDE IN THE BOWERY. H. 8 Retd, who has been living for some time past at the Occidental Hotel, in the Bowery, committed snicida yesterday, about one o'clock, by blowing his brains out with a revolver, His friends cannot assign any motive for his committing the act, ashe was notin need of money, bad no family ditfiewlties and was apparently im ent health, Coroner Wottman will hold an inquest. OBITUARY, nap. It 4 ¥. CONKEY. J. F, Conkey, a lawyer, of Amherst, Mass, Register of Bankruptcy for the Ninth district and member of tho Stato Legislature in 1852, died snddonly yesterday morn- ing at his residence in Springfield, Mass, WILLIAM BAYLB BERNARD, THE DRAMATIST. Acable telegram from London, under date of this morning, 9th inst,, reports tho death of William Bayle Bernard, the dramatist, who was born in 1808, in Bos ton, Mass. His father was once a popular English comedian. i pased prepared for the press his father’s “Reo- ns of the Stage.” He was himself the author popular p! the best known of which aro ervous Man and the Man of Nerve,” “The Irish ,” “His Last Legs” and “Tho Boarding School. * THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the tomperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parison with the corresponding date of last year, as in- dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy, Henano Buildin Average temperature yesterday... ‘ AV temperature for corresponding date last sees ~ 70 Tf IS A SERIOUS A sorts to the senside or spr OYANCE, WHEN ONE RE to haye one's complexion distig I by priekly heat or other effect mpon the enticle, by intensely hot weather or the sin and wind. Guenx's BULPHUK Soar completely neutralizes such intlue $9 25 TO NIAGARA; $6 50 TO SARATOGA. TO NIAGARA FALIA IN ELEVEN HOURS. WITH SAFETY AND COMFORT, AT THE RATE OF FIFTY MILES AN TOUR. TAKE THE HERALD TRAIN EVERY SUNDAY MORNING, AT THALY-PAST TWO, FROM GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT, VIA HUDSON RIVER AND NEW YORK CENTRAL RATLROAD. THE ONLY FOUR TRACK ALL STEEL RATLROAB IN THK WORLD, CONNECTING WITH THE LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHER) Lao THE KAT WEST. RATLWAY ADA FOR ALL Po! 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