The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1875, Page 4

4 BEECHER. The Second Tent Service in the Mountains. A TALK ABOUT SINGING. A Sermon on Perfection and Chris- tian Manhood. “THE GOSPEL OF GUSH” DEFINED. Twix Mountain House, N. H. ‘August 29, 1875. This morning another targe audience assembled at this place, under the great tent, to hear the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preach. The day was most delightful, and in all respects favorable to the holding of out-of- door services, Nothing occurred to mar in the least the profit and enjoyment of the occasion, ‘The utmost decorum prevailed throughout the exer- cises, Those present of the ushers who officiated &@ week ago officiated to-day, and others were ap- pointed to supply the places of such as were absent, The opening of the regular services was postponed un- til twelve o'clock, in order to accommodate those who tame from a great distance in cars. The singing, as on last Sunday, was accompanied by White’s Band, and was conducted by a gentleman who responded to Mr. Beecher’s request that some one in the audience who could perform the office of musical director would volunteer his services. The lack of hymn books, which has been felt on all previous Sabbaths when re- ligious services have been held here, was to-day sup- plied through the generosity of a gentleman from Bos- jon, who, last Sunday, noticed this lack, and on re- hurning home caused to be printed a sheet containing some fifteen hymns selected from “Plymouth Collec- tion,”? and seut them on for gratuitous distribution, A large number of clergymen of different denominations aud from varioug sections of the country were present. Among the attendants upon the services were also the following gentlemen, guests of the overcrowded hotel :— Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Horace Fairbanks, of Vermont; ex-Governor W. Hendee, of Vermont; Dr. W. W. Hall, of New York; Frank Jones, member of Congress from New Hampshire, and Judge Donohue and D, ©, Wilcox, of New York. WHAT IS SINGING? Preliminary to the stated services of the morning a hymn was sung while the audience were waiting for the arrival of the Portland train, During the singing ofthis hymn Mr, Beccher was approached and quietly spoken to by one of the ushers, and this incident gave | bim an opportunity of teaching a much needed lesson, | which he improved by making the following remarks at the close of the singing:— What is singing in pub- lic worship? About one-half the people think that it is noise to cover up all the little things that are to be done before the church service proceeds and the preach- | ing begins; therefore they interrupt the exercises, if at all, at the point where a hymn is being sung. Now, a hymn is very often either the ex- pression of profound tender feelings, or it is an address made direct to God, and because you sing a Prayer it is not lessa prayer than it would be if you | recited it. What would you think if Ihad my coat tail pulled right in the middle of a prayer, and were told that that window ought to be lowered, that the draught was coming in and that somebody was in danger of taking cold, and what would you think if I were to stop and tell the sexton to shut down that window and | then go on with my prayer? If you examine you will find that seldom {s prayer so vital, so spiritual as hymns, and yet who Is there that does not think that if any little thing needs to be fixed the time to do it is when the congregation. is singing? I will read one or two stanzas of a hymn by way of fixing this matter in your memory :— God, the omnipotent, Watching invisibl ising unheard; Save us, in mercy, oh, save us from danger, Give to us peace, in our time, O Lord— “Won't you ask the sexton if he will be kind enough toturn that dog out of the gallery? He is plaguing people up there.” The hymn goes on:— God, the all-mercifal, earth bath forsaken Ty ways, all holy. and slighted Thy Word; Let not Thy wrath in its terror awaken, Give to us pardon aud peace, O Lord. “Don’t forgetto take up collection just before the sermon begins; it is a great deal better that it should be done then than afterward.” Then the minister goes back again to his solemn ad- dress to God. This may seem an extraordinary case. It is not. Although our own people at home are trained more than people generally are to regard a hymn as a devout part of public worship—an address to God or a seeking of His presence—it 1s frequently interrupted by circumstances more malapropos than those which I have related to you, and I make these remarks that you may carry liome to your several churches a feeling ihat Singing is not a noise nor an amusement nor a fill up, but areal exercise of public service, in which all the audience and the minister should take part more ear. nestly and solemnly than any other portion, and that therefore it should be reverently attended to, SOCIAL FEELING IX CHURCH. He also took occasion to say, while the people that came by the train were being seated, that he thought social feeling ought to ouraged in church, and he did not like to see peop! pertectly still in the con- mighty avenger, regation before the for service to begin, He | iked to gee them act like human beings, and talk’ with each other ifthey had anything to say. He believed ‘that genial intercourse was eminently” predisposing to Teligious feeling, and he disliked to see animate mum. | mies sitting m rows waiting tor the service to com- mence, and acting as though they never saw anybody before in their lives. A kindly, genial, social feeling is acceptable to God and prepares you to approach Him. He isa father. You are to act like children, and I do not think a dozen children owpr sut together dive minutes without talking, THE SERVICE. The regular service now began with the singing of the hymn commencing, Your harps, ye trembling saints. Tnen followed the first prayer, which throughout breathed a spirit of devout thaukfulnes to God for per- petual and boundless mercies. Another hymn, commencing, Come ye that love the Lord, was sung, after which the sermon was preached from Matthew, v., 48:—“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is pertect.’” He began his discourse by saying:—Is this an exhor- tation to perfection, or is it an exhortation to a particular mode of becoming perfect? This passage is not used in the keuse in which the term “perfection” has come to be used among many Christians, namely—to signify the rising of | met into a state in which they are at perfect peace with | God. It is used to signify « particular condition of benevo- lence; that condition of benevolence which is character- istic of God, and which, if weare to be children, Toust be characteristic of us. The paw immeds- Stely preceding the text he said were an reahoriation on the subject of our relations of temper and feeling to our fellow men. He read these passages and com- mented on them, explaining their relation to the subject of the text on one of them. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do Yood to them thas hate you, and pray fer them wi despitefully use you und persecute you.” more people bad made shipwreck and more were in danger of loging their souls on this than on avy other | & of the Bible, Said he, ‘The whole shore along here ia thick with the wrecks of men,” the text und repeating it, he proceeded to explain how ‘we are to be perfect. In accordance wkh that com mand, he said, by the temper of divine benevolence, by the universal vivitying and healing power of love in the heart of God. He holds the warring races together, aud so is beiag built up that coming new heaven and new earth, in which is to dwell righteous- Ress, aud thus you are to be approved children of God, Meu are exhorted by the Master to be perfect in a given direction WHAT YERYECTION SUGGESTS, Perfection suggests what we call character of that condition to which training, whether conscious or Bnconscious, brings the whole of a man’s faculties, What a man's character is usually depends on the cen- bral or dominant faculty in Lim. There is but one faculty Bround about which any man can aiford w form his tharacter, aud that is the great warming, radiating cen- of benevolence. ‘The end and aim or tho Old Testament was righteousness or rightness of life; the end aud ain of the Gospel is the lormation in Men of characters that shall afiiliate them to God and make them like Him. The Sermon on the Mount was a hep teaching for men to become like God. The irveenth chapter of First Corinthians js a wouderful flescription in which doctrine is largely absent, in which the central element of Christian experience ie set forth in colors that never came from any other palette @xcept that of the Apostle Paul, who there shows that He said | Returning to | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘man in reason, then a man in morai lacuities and then @ man in spiritual clements wasa typical Christian man. CHRISTIANITY NOT PLAYED OUT. Having dismissed this branch of bis subject the speaker went on to discuss the proposition that nothing could come in the form of knowledge or new methods to make men better than that which was contem| in the original design of Christianity. This fact was amply corroborated by the declarations of Paul in his writing to the Philippian churches, Christianity in- cluded everything that had come to men in all ages. DIVINE HELP. In_answering the question, ‘What are the means by which men come t a Christian character?” he told his hearers that the first in point of time, in point of power and in pomt of importance was Divine help. He be- lieved the Divine Spirit was at work in every part of man’s nature that was to be immortal. All schools and civil governments and religious institutions would be utterly unable to carry men up against the fatal attraction which had a tendency to draw them back to earth, This was @ work which only the Divine intluence could accomplish, On this point the preacher said he did not wish w be mis- understood. @ believed that first, middle, last and altogether the great moving power of baman life was the inspiration of the Divine Spirit; bat men were to work with that Spirit. They were commanded to work SHOCKING SHAKERS. A Reunion at Mount Lebanon. THE WORLD AT LARGE ARRAIGNED. Catholics and Protestants Denounced in | tu Unmentionable Terms. The Shake Losing Its Vim and the Institu- out their own salvation, with fear and trembling, but they tere not to rely upon themselves; they were to derive encouragement in working out their own salvar tion from the fact that God was working in them, to will and to do of His own good pleasure, “rae GOSPEL OF GSI.” Here Mr. Beecher answered various objections that are made to the doctrines that the end to be gained by conversion and religious training is the production of a higher type of character, and he repelled the assertion that it 1s @ new-fangled nouon, He declared that it was that which Christ and His disciples taught. Those very things which the Gospel piaces the most stress | upon wore the things which the devil’s disciples called “gush.’' That which Paul said death could not touch was not reason nor shining gifts of eloquence, nor prophecy and forelooking; but those emotions of the svul—faith, hope and love—to them was given the crown of immortality, while all these other qualities were obliged to fall back in the shadow of twilight. enURCH UNITY. On the subject of church unity Mr. Beecher made some extended remarks. He said there were many il- Ingions and false notions respecting it, He supposed that we were little by little approaching @ true spiritual | unity, but not that external unity for which Christen- dom was sighing. Organic unity wasasnare, Never could all the churches be organized into one, neither could they be united in their doctrines, There were some churches which were so similar that they might be united externally, but there were others which were so different that it would be impossible to unite them organically, or doctrinally ; but there was a unity of the spirit which it was possible for churches to attain. A TRIMUTE TO THR JEWS, While dwelling upon this point Mr. Beecher paid a noble tribute to the Jews in the following language: I see no reason why there should be a division line | | between the Jew and the Christian, The old darkness | has passed away; the medieval days that were over | the name of the Jew—that used to be a byword anda hissing—have dropped their habiliments of contempt. This free land, I believe, is the only place on the globe | where the Jews feel themselves to be so perma- | | i nently established that they buy real estate and | settle down and mingle with the people and | become recognized citizens, he that has ground under him takes root in it and is a fixture. | | Now, we are indebted to the Jews for that which is best among us; we have received from the old Jew stock our | | highest notions of manhood. We have received from | them our noblest conceptions of righteousness; all the | | i} | | world has goue to school to Judaism, and we are what | we are—as men discerning mght and wrong, and as | | having unutterable aspirations for a higher manhood— | by the Jewish Scripture avd the Jewish Christ. The | Jews have come among us, and we turn and say to them, ‘hat which was born with you and | ripened und made cffulgent’ by the principles | of one of your own men, descended through the loins | of the patriarch David, Jesus our Saviour, and your | countryman has rounded out and given to the world in resplendent and perfect furm the conception that lin- | gered, twinkled, dawned and shone, but did not come to its noonday brightness in the Old Testament.”’ ‘The sermon closed with a few points of application, after which the services were concluded with a prayer and the singing of a hymn. THR MORNING PRAYER, The daily morning devotional exercises in the parlor | have been continued during the last weex with unusual | interest and have had a large attendance. THE SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT. | SUNDAY IN CAMP—RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN OAK- LAND PARK-—-FOUR THOUSAND PERSONS IN AT- ‘TENDANCE—THE CAMP TO BREAK UP TO-DAY. | Camp Litprrr, Oakland Beach, August 29, 1875. Sunday waz observed in camp to-day with becoming | reverence. Atten o’clock this morning the Seventy- | first regiment was inspected by Colonel Vose, commanding, and at three o’clock this afternoon | religious services were held in Oakland Park, in front of the music pavilion, Nearly 4,000 persons were present. In the absence of Dr. @ohn | Hall, of New York, chaplain of the Seventy-first, ser- vices were conducted by Rev. W. G. Bainbridge, pastor of the Central Baptist church, of Providence, from the following text, selected from the Epistle to the Colos- sians, ii., 3—‘‘In whom are hid all the treasures of wis- dom and knowledge.” A volunteer choir of eight members of the Seventy- first regiment led the singing. The first hymn was the well known one commencing, Am I a soldier of the cross The band also played selections of church musi ny national pot pourri, beginuing with ‘Hail Columbia.” | The regiment attended in force, occupying seats at the foot of the preacher's stand, the field, staffand line officers sitting on the front benches. Dress parade took place at six o'clock. Quartermaster Guibert bas telegraphed to the State | Ordnance Department of New York that the camp will break up to-morrow, FOMENTING RELIGIOUS STRIFE. BITTER AGITATION ON THE PUBLIC sCHOOL QUESTION IN NEW JERSEY, The following circular, which was read from several pulpits in every couhty of New Jersey yesterday, shows | what desperate efforts are being made to disseminate | religious rancor throughout that State. One élergyman | in Hudson county, who refused to read it to his con- gregation, handed it to a HexaLp reporter with the re- mark that “it came 100 years too late,” and that it + | should be properly classed with the English penal code in Ireland :— To mx Mewaxgs or tux Prorestant Cavrcuss or New JunsKy — Dean Sin—Being in possession of your name fas superintendent of a Sabbath school, and, your receiving with favor this question, « im eat importance to the people of this Stute at this time, we ait the following to your very eurnest consideration, and | would request you to use your influence among your friends to urge them to vote themselves und also see that their friends vote on this very important question now submitted to them. Plense request your pastor to beso good as to read this circular to his congregation, On September ‘5; hext the voters of New Jersey will be called upon to cast their ballots for or against ‘the adoption of certain proposed amendments to our State constitution, ‘The full text of these proposed amendinents may be found published in various papers of the State, They cover » | variety of and will doubtless commend themselves, because of their intrinsic importance, to the earnest con- sideration of our citizens. ‘As several of them relate to questions that every Protes- tant is par riy interested in, we have deemed it proper | | to address you in relation thereto. We, therefore, ask your | | very careful consideration of the followiug, viz. — Agricix 1.—Kieuts axp PurviLeces.—Insert as paragraph | 19, 4 new paragraph, as follows :-— “19, No connty, city, borougl, town, township or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to of in aid of any individual association or co tion, or become security for or be directly or indirectly the | owner of any stock or bonds of any association or corpora tion.” Insert as paragraph 20 a new paragraph, as follows “20, No donation of land of appropriation of money shall be made by the State or any muuicipal corporation to or fur the use of any vociety, association or corporation whutever.”” Change the number of present paragraph 19 to number 2! AxricL& 1V.—Ske10n 7.—Paragraph 6—Insert the word * between the word “public” and the word “sebools,” add to the puragraph the following -— 7 the maintenance aud an “The Legisatare shall provid | sapport of a thorough and effic schools for the instruc | between the age Tt will be ap | adoption of th ner very offic arian schools. This friends, otherwise would pay no attention to the matter whatever. Other plans may sugvest themselves to you, whereby publi¢ may b more fully attracted to the subject, all of 4 will loxe no time in earrying ont. nents hi | attentlo little pubite interest in the proposed ame | Rcited, aud there Ix a strong probability that, the i will fail, if the matter. Especially is t s we have | quoted, becau arity that to | them the priests hiireh have been | directed to call the particu of their paris! with strict injunctions to do thelr utmost to secure feat. By request | ComMiTTe | Newank, August 2 joners, ir de: ‘0 CIRCULATE DOCUMENTS, &e. 875, The HxxaLo reporter called on several Catholic clergymen in reference to the matter, and they stated | | in the most emphatic manner that no instructions | | have been given them by Bishop Corrigan on the ques- | | tion, and they disavow any intention t the case, ag they consider there 18 suilic: among the members of their congregations tc them to decide for themselves, No allusion whate to the subject from any Catholic puipi onnection with the same subject postal cards | have been sent to all the city and town officials who are not members of the Catholic Church throughout the State, calling attention by a cartoon to the members from’ Kesex county, who voted for the Catholic Pro- | tectory bill, The cartoon represents a Roman Catholic love is the great foundat.on principie of the universe. », in which s:x mice are caught, while one mouse The whole - ignd of the Gospel, the whole gracious to enter, Perched on a cardinal’s hat on on | paver of in time for the salvation of the world, the figure is a crowing rooster, with the nau directed to the production of Christian mauhood’ | ‘affixed, and in the centre is the Pope's crown, Ubrough the influence of this divine cloment, with ten surmounting crosses broken off, This 1s in- CHRISTIAN MANHOOD, | tended to alfect the approaching elections. Hundreds In this connection Mr. Beecher argued, enforcing | of the cards have been circulated throughout Mon- bis ent by numerous illustrations, that it took | mouth county, urging the re-election of Senator Hen- | the wi being, including the physical, the intellectual, | wory ll, and de- | she social, the moral and the spiritual nature, brought | nouncing Mr. e W. Patterson, « Wo & State of perfection to make # typicul Chrisuan | Hendrickson for the nomination, because Though persous who were not periect in some of | the bill in the Lower House.’ The teed respects might be exemplary Christians, and | Carscallan, for tho Third district of J y City, mi w bonis ey would not be types of the | urged on tho ground o! his opposition to the Protectory, order of manhood, The man who | ‘and because,” the cirquiar adds, “be will stamp oul was Grete man in body, When & man iB thea @ | the Romish element,” | to blossom like the rose and the long-looked-for mil- | But a little time before the preaching of this doc- | of Lebanon and the region of Canaam and from every *X | ences of the speakers, after which an aged indi- | it has been our fortune to tion Dying Out, Mount Lenanoy, N. ¥., August 28, 1875. Tn the midst of # region famous for the number and rarity of its summer resorts stands Mount Lebanon, the home of the United Society of Believers, commonly called Shakers, overlooking what the historian Ban- croft pronounced the most beautiful valley on the top ofthe earth, Here, in the latter part of the last cen- tury, lived @ sturdy race of farmers, over whom still hung the glamour of that asceticism peculiar to their Puritan ancestry, and who fondly hoped to merit ever- lusting happiness in the next world by denying them- selves all pleasure in this, With them to enjoy was to sin, and a new spiritual triumph was ever to be found in the suppression of any desire of the flesh. VOUNDING OF THE SHAKERS. To them came Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, invited hither by their pastor, David Meachum, preaching a new dispensation based on the sacrifice of the family relation and all that that indicates. Under this new gospel the old command to be fruitfal and multiply was done away with, Bodily purity was to be the symbol of inward grace, under which the earth was Jennium was to dawn upon the earth, Mysticism, too, always so fascinating to religious natures, added its in- fluence to the new teacher, who boldly declared that in her the spirit of God was once more incarnate in the flesh to complete the work begun by Jesus Christ. trine a great revival of religion had swept over the farms and hamlets of their native bills and valleys, uc- companied by strange, unaccountable phenomena. Subjects under its influence sunk into trances. They shouted and danced, going through strange contortions, the mystery whereof was very great to the simple minds who witnessed them, Mother Ann explained them as resulting trom the’ immediate influence of the Holy Spirit, and such was the power of her teachings that Meachum and his congregation finally accepted her mission as divinely appointed and became converts to the faith prescribed by her. For somo time thereafter their respective households were continued, ostensibly in obedience to the new teachings, and not until 1784 were the saints gathered from their homes and organized into a community. Henceforward separate houses were awarded to the sexes, and the family relation in name, as it had long previously been in reality, was done away with, Meachum, who had been appointed her successor by Mother Ann, was the new Moses who lead this chosen people out of the land of bondage and established them upon this holy mount. From that time, though other communities have been established in various places, this pomt bas remained the Mecca to which the eye of the true believer ever turns, Here is the church family from out whose hearts the last trace of inbred sin has been eradicated, leaving them fit asso- ciates for the heavenly host around them, with whom they are in constant communion. They have graduated into the higher order. They do not attend public worship as a rule, and as much as possible keep aloof from the profame eyes of the ungodly. Here, too, is the ministry, at present consisting of Daniel Boler and Giles Avery, with two elderesses, successors of Mother Ann, in an unbroken line as sacred as the apostolic succession, and there, on the Mount, in that not remote time when the millennium shall come, is to be established the great centre of God’s kingdom, whose motto and watchword is, “Peace on earth and good will to map.” Varying fortunes have attached themselves to the growth of the Shakers, but their numbers have never been large, 700 being the highest point the com- munity has reached in this vicinity, where there are four families. THE SHAKERS DYING OUT. Of late years they have been gradually decreasing, until now they number about three hundred all told, and their early extinction is confidently predicted. To the modern invention of Spiritualism, notwithstanding | it is said to be an old thing among them, is attributed in great part this decay. In February last, by an in- cendiary fire, eleven buildings of the church family were destroyed; and though the immense meeting house, which has been the object of so much interest to visiting thousands, was happily spared, the exigencies of the situation required its use for secular purposes, and so the public services, which usually commence | with the early summer, have been postponed until today, when they were held for the first time this season, The attendance of the world’s people was very large. General notice of the meeting had been given throughout the confines quarter, and in every class of vehicle came the natives | and the pleasure seekers quartered in the vicinity to be | amused at the strange worship methods of this peculiar | people. Perfor the great hotel at Lebanon Springs, from Pitts- field, Lenox, Barrington, Stockbridge, and’ even from Hudson, Kinderhook and Chatham the visitors poured in a vast crowd, estimated as high as 1,000 | persons. Precisely at'ten o'clock the believers | marched, the men and women entering from different | portions’ of the building, the garments of the latter | presenting @ strange contrast to the brilliant toilets of their sisters of the earth order. After remaining | a few moments in contemplation, at a given signal they arose and formed’ in jel lines facing each other and were addressed by an old elder, who congratulated them upon meeting once more in the house of worship to renew their covenant, He referred to the sufferings they had undergone and reminded them that only through suffering could they be initiated into that higher life which is the ultimate hope and object of all. He exhorted them to live up to what had been laid down for their guidance, and closed by announcing the hymn commencing “OH! WHEN YR THINK THE KARTH Live 18 DRBARY!’? | which was sung in a manner which indicated that music was not much cultivated among them, Other short addresses followed, mostly relating to the experi- vidual turned to the audience and. expressed the hope that suitable propriety would be preserved during the forthcoming exercises. A band of singers th jormed themselves in the centre and the balance of the worshippers began marching ureund them in two circles, keeping time to the music by swaying their hands an by various motions of the body, but with none of that ecstatic enthusiasm which in other days was wont to possess the souls of the faithful aud excite the not alto- gether respectiul astonishment of the spectators. In- deed it was painfully evident, both on account of the paucity of numbers umd the lack of vigor in the inove- ments of the belie , that the old time spirit existed no longer, The marching continued at intervals for half an hour and was the only exercise imdulged in, the dancing being omitted. Several of the young men then made a few remarks, when benches were brought forward and the worshippers seated themselves, preparatory to listening to the discourse of Frederick Evans, the leading «peaker among them. As the well known elder advanced and faced the audience he showed a tall, commanding form, and an intellectual, though excessively ascetic lace, as though all the flowers and g! of his nature bad been ruthlessly cut down by the harrow of duty, PREDERICK VANS’ SERMON, “Ours is a new dispensation,” he said, “Every- where we have been regarded as a singular and peculiar people by those from whose midst we came, And we bave always been a suffering | people, too, Everywhere condemned, ridiculed and | despised, suffering wl things and enduring all things. | Until the American Revolution the civil power joined | with the Church in persecuting and slandering us. The | history of the world is the history of its martyrs, and ontribute to its pages. We | believe that the time “PE pinted for the reign of the beast, as mentioned inthe book of Revelation, ended in 1793, Rogers, Cummings and oar own Miller, who have made the’ prophecies their peculiar study, all agree with us in this, In that year this Church was organized, a period to which all the pure and good had looked forward for ages, A peaceful people we have been, kept by the power of amid perse- cution, slander and misrepresentation of every kind, The flood — which ~— flowed = out-of | the mouth of the dragon hax been for | us a food of lies, and the world’s reformers have ever — suffered in the same manner, Jt is human nature to stand up for our darling sin and so we are wont to attack those with all our strength who attack it, But blessed are those wh» appreciate reproof and whose hearts are opened to new truth, in whom is the gift of humility, for they have oftimes to leurn, even from those idast likely to impart information. CHKIST DISGUISED AB A WOMAX, “If our position is true Christ made his second appear- @nce in 1793 and in the person of a Woman, This truth has beon received, aud by it has been created a Dew heaven and & Lew earth, rhe Spyies teres was oe agalnes Churca insurrection against the Church of England, the eldest born of the great mother of harlots, and as is the mother so are all her children, They are of & class which both God and man unite in condemning.” UNMENTIONABLE REMARKS. The speaker here proceeded to denounce the Protes- tant churches in language unmentionable to ears polite, apologizing for so doing, though claiming that things should be called by their right names. “The result of the Christianity they teach,” he tinued, “has been to set men in antagonism to each other, to incite wars and to stain the bosom of God's ove earth with the blood of His people, Is that the legitimate result of Christ’s teachings? We are a lost people and the work of redemption must be begun from the very beginning, and that is found in the sexual re- lation, This is the new revelation. osus was not the Christ. Expand your ideas and know that Christ is the universal mediator between @ created und the Creator throughout the universe. Jesus was wed in the Christ spirit, and the Holy Ghost descended upon Him when He cathe up out of the water, and it will descend upon you if everything is laid before the Lord by faith, ax it was with Him—as it was with @ poor, ignorant woman in England, God was with her. Her soul hungered after righteousness and was filled with the Christ spirit as Jesus was.” Elder Evans then referred to the resurrection order into which mother and her children were brought by the power of this spirit, “By this," said he, ‘is not meant the resurrection of this perishable body which resolves itself into its original elements.” He commented severely upon the orthodox belief re- gurding the resurrection, claiming it was such as would be accepted only by’ the lower order of m{nds, “The belief of the human mind,” he said, “depends upon its conditions, If you want to believe right. con- fess und repent of your sins and you will then begin to see clearly.” Returning to the revelation of Ann Lee, the speaker continued, ‘‘Herein there is neither marriage nor giv- ing in marriage; all are on an equality. There is no such thing as private property, but all things are held incommon, Was it not so on the day of Pentecost, and why should it not be so now, though eighteen hun- dred years have passed? The question may be asked, Do you want we should all be Shakers? And I answer, No, ‘This order was founded for those who could rise into it; for those who could forsake father, mother, wile and children; for ‘unless ye do this ye cannot be my disciple,’ said Christ. But there is another order and one in Which there remains high and important duties to perform. Remember that the American Revolution separated the Church and State and the government which followed was founded by iniidels to the theology of Babylon, a government under which all havea right to believe or to disbelieve, It is for you to keep the priest out of the government, The Shakers constitute the new spiritual order. The American government is the earth order and should be held equally sacred, Let there be no chaplains im your legislatures, no priests in your public institutions. Keep every vestige of theology out of these and you will be safe, Under any other plan your ruin is certain. Above all look out for the Roman Catholic Church, for within it is concentration, organization and power, It is itself no worse than the Protestant sects, but, thank God, they are divided and can do little injury. Liberty of conscience and the souseanenk prpservesion of this order depends upon you, Keep every branch of the government free from denominational influence and re- sist the attempts being made by the Catholics for the overthrow of your schools. Let us have at least one free government on earth for God’s sake and the sake of His _ people, Again, in the new earth is the generative order which has its duties and which stands sadly in need of reforma- tion, Listen to your reformers who point out the abuses of your nature in this relation, They are better than your priests, who are blind judges leading the blind, so tl both fall into the ditch of sexual sin together. BEWARE OF TUX PRIESTS. “Are your priests holier than the people? No, They are exposed to more temptation. Beware of them! Only from the moral reformers learn of your vices and those of your children. Listen to thein, and thereby learn of ‘scientitic and physiological truth, See the effects of your doctors, and beware of them, too. Know that humanity creates’ its own diseases, Cure yourself by self-denial, not by vile drugs. Begin and learn of God when God is manifest in His works, and yon will have a Bible you can learn to read and interpret, Therefore I say to you, there is a new heaven and & new earth rising in our midst, With the United States government began the new earth order. “We looked for improvement, and much has been done, Slavery has been abolished and the public lands have been given to the settlers, and it is our belief that God is rocking with your reformers, with a view of bringing forth a government in which’ the sword shall be changed into the pruning hook, in which there shall be no more war and the sexual relation shall be contin- ued only for the perpetuity of the human race, And then shall come the millennial order on earth. We work for this, and what we are striving to do is to in- spire you with faith in the new heaven and the new earth, where we may dwell together in righteousness,”” THE ROCKAWAY STEAMERS. THE SUPERVISORS STILL AT WORK—DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EXCURSIONISTS—Aa ‘‘LIGHT” Day. The Supervising Inspector of Steamers, along with several of his associates, having made it their business recently to visit Rockaway and personally compute the number of passengers who went aboard each particular boat, ascertained that the managers had issued about 1,100 more tickets than they were warranted in doing, and the holders of these tickets (because each vessel lad its regular pumber of passengers, and by Jaw could receive no more) were left at nightfall standing on the beach, with no boat to take them back to New York. The majority of these people did not reach their homes until _ APTER MIDNIGHT, Mr. Low compelling the managers to run an extra boat, at the expense of about $400, for their accommodation. ‘The people naturally felt indignant, and many of them made up their minds not to visit Rockaway again this season, lest a similar mishap might occur. The result of this was that at Rockaway yesterday it was the “lightest”? day of the season, The captain of the Amer- icus told the writer that he had brought down during the day only about one half his usual number of passen- gers. Hotel proprietors, —_ restaurant and the managers «f the several bathing houses along the beach all corroborated this statement and said that yesterday was the worst “fair day” they lad experienced during the | ear, Tho beach showed hundreds less than its usual janday complement, and all the attractive spots about it, by comparison, seemed to be louely and deserted. This cannot be ascribed to any bad condition of the | weather, for @ lovelier day never dawned at Rockaway, nor have ever grander breakers rolled upon her beach, It was solely in consequence of the neglect of the mana- gers of the steamers to faithfully fulfil the contract the: made last Sunday to 1,100 passengers whom they leit | behind to get home early as best they could, The inspectors did their duty well last week, for it was far better that by complying with the law 1,100 should be left behind than by disobeying it one human life should have been lost. Nor did they abandon their work after the first week. Mr. Jerry Simonson, In- spector of Hulls, along with several officers of the Cus- tom House, were present yesterday at all the landings to see that no boat carried away more than her regular number of passengers, Their mission, however, was useless, for the number of people was relatively 40 small that no one of the five boats could well be overcrowded. The Americus seemed in danger of being over full on her last home- ward trip, and as soon as this became evident Mr. Simonson repaired to her landing. . Captain Pease, along with Mr. Perkins, treasurer of the line, was found counting the passengers ascending the gangplank, The parties who went on board were counted not only by Captain Pease and Mr. Perkins, but also by Mr. and ra, Patterson. As soon a# 798 people were on board, though hundreds were running to catch the steamer, the gungplank was puied in and she moved off, Sho made two more landings, her total ngmber of passen- gers being 970, which 18 thirty less than her charter allows her to carry, The Americus was the exceptional boat, however, for the General Sedgwick, Nellie White, Neversink and William Cook all came’ home only partially filled, ‘The steamboat inspectors are doing good work, and if they only continue it steamboat transit between New York, Brooklyn and Rockaway can be accomplished without discomfort to passengers or danger of disaster, OUR CITY'S CRIME. ‘The number of sneak thief robberies during the past week has been the largest fur some months. The epidemic of crime appears not to be confined alone to burglary and murder, ‘The following cases were re- ported to Superintendent Waliing:— i Sneak thieves entered the apartments of Jacob Stamkop, on the third floor of No, 257 Delancey street by means of false keys, on the 26th inst., while the family were abscnt, and stole $80 in cash and a silver watch and chain valued at $17, with which they es cal Abraham Cohen, of No, $6 Hester street, while bared on Friday night in bis apartinents was robbed by snea! thieves of a silver watch, valued at $34, and $24 in cur- reney. some time on Friday night the show window of the shoe store kept by J, Wobver, at No, 221 Third avenue, ‘was broken by thieves, and property valued at $50 was stolen by them, Yesterday Mr. Jacob Clute, of No, 123 East Twenty- seventh street, Gr eltges to Captain Allaire, of the Four- teenth precinct, #1 cur he was robbed of a gold stem-winding watch, valued at $200, a unknown man engaged a furnished foom on Fri- day irom Mrs, Harriet MeGrald, at No, 63 Columbia | street, and while he was pretending to arrange his toijet himbly stole from one of the bureau drawers yogi watch and chain, worth $200, and a pair of panta- Jodns, valued at $10, ‘The lager beer saloon at No. 209 Fifth street, kept by John Donahue, was entered by sneak thieves on Fri day night, and property to the Value of $82 was carrie of. The bartender of the place was asleep at the time of the robbery in the saloon, James Dunlap, Jr., @ guest at the Westminster Hotel, reported to Captain Garland, of the Eighteenth precinct, that on Friday evening he forgot his gold watch wn chain, in all Valued at $236, in the water closet of the hotel, and that @ short time after discovering his los he went to get them, but they disappeared, T ‘watch was marked ‘Appleton, Tragey & Co,, Waltham. while asleep at No. 8 Division st on ie ith ig robued fer wate val ” wed keepers | | gets once in twenty-four hours and sometimes only once | in -eight hours. The water 1s handed jn tirst and the prisoner has to drink it before he eats the bread, At other ‘times, when not in the dark cells, Connolly was often deprived of his dinner, which is the ouly meal worth having, This is a common punishment, He was punished thus for not doing the quantity of work expected of him. Connolly, to my knowledge, lad never refused to work, but he was sick and anable to do it, Since I met Connolly first he was in the dark cells seven or eight times; T° cannot say the exact number | of tin but that about the number, IT also knew | at while riding ona Fourth avenue | | kicked and beat him, A SON’S WICKED CRIME. Supposed Murder of a Mother by a Drunken Son. FOUND DEAD IN A POOL OF BLOOD ‘The curse of rum added another victim yesterday to its long list of violent deaths, and perhaps another offering to the gallows, A poor, miserable woman, living in squalid poverty in one of the wretched tenement houses in South Fifth avenue, the mixed abode of whites and .blacks, was found yesterday afternoon lying dead ou the floor ina pool of blood, in her small and scantily furnished room, her face bloated and blackened and bearing, together with the sickening evidence of excessive drink, marks and bruises of a violent character. How long the pitiable woman had been cold in death before she was discovered can be ascertained only by conjétture; but some hours must have clapsed since death had set in, as the body when found was cold as ice, ‘The discovery was made by a Mrs. Walker, a colored woman, living at No. 183 South Fifth avenue, who fre- quently visited the deceased and appeared to be on terms of intimacy with her, although the latter was a white woman, Shortly before one o’clock P. M. Mrs. Walker called at No. 189 South Fifth avenue tu see Mrs, Cal- laghan, Ascending the dingy stairs to the top floor, where the latter in a narrow room resided, Mrs, Walker Tapped at the door, but received no response. Going inside the room the first object that met her view the dead body of Mrs. Callaghan lying in the middle of the floor, her arms thrown over her head and a pool of blood at her side. Tho furniture of the room, which was very meagre in quantity, was scattered around in confusion. Hurrying from the house, the horrifled woman called a policeman of the Fighth precinct, to whom she imparted what she had seen, In a few minutes Captain McDonnell was on the spot. Looking at the face, he saw unmistakable signs of blowa, One side was very much discolored and swollen, and on the forebead were several bruises, The lips, also, were very much swollen. The occupants of the rooms below were quickly col- lected together, and the Captain began an investigation with a desire to ascertain what violence, if any, had been used on the deceased, From them he learned that she was much addicted to liquor and that she had fre- quent quarrels with her son, a man about thirty years of age, named Thomas Callaghan. Some of the tenants had heard loud words between the pair the evening previous. Kittie Callaghan, daughter of the deceased, aged fourteen years, also stated that her brother had the night before beaten her mother and herself while he was under the influence of drink, Captain McDon- heard nell, being satisfied from what he had that the unnatural son had either caused or hastewed the death of his mother, ob- tained a full description of him and immediately detailed a large number of officers in citizens’ dress to search for him in every direction, Atter a lapse of three hours he was found by Otlicer Hendricks, much intoxicated, and taken to the Kighth precinct station house, where he was locked up. Coroner Croker was then notified of the occurrence and arrived at the place within a few hours, where he viewed the bat examin- ing the marks and bruises, and coming to the conclu- sion that, if not the immediate cause of death, they at least accelerated the same. Kittie Callaghan, the daughter before mentioned, was taken to the station house, where she was held as a witness. On being interrogated by a reporter she made the following statement :— “Tam fourteen years old, and work in a factory. We have been living’ in our present place some seven months. Mother takes in washing, and my brother has not been working of late. He was formerly im the army, He left the army last November, since whic time he has been away at intervals. My mother has been addicted to drink, as also has been my brother. On Saturday night, at about eight o'clock, Tom came into the room where my mother and myself were. He was very much intoxicated, und they began quarrel- ling. He struck her with his fist and threw her on the floor, where she lay. He has frequently abused me, and after he had beaten mother he caught me by the neck and tried to choke me, I got away and ran out of the house. came back after a while and he was tying on the bed, while mother was still on the floor, At eleven o'clock, I think it was, mother was up, I went out on the stoop, being afraid to stay in the house, where I remained until six o'clock this morning, when | went into Mrs. Hugg’s room, on the second floor, Once during the night, I think’ it was about one o'clock, I went up stairs and found mother lying on the floor, Her face was swollen, When I came im, she asked me to got her some b I told her | had no money and could not get any. wok after that time I do not know, time I saw her she was dead,’” Daring the conversation the girl wept very bitterly. ‘The prisoner, Tom han, Was next visited in his cell, He is a well-built young man, woove the medium height, with clean-shaved face, and reddish hair, When spoken to he had entirely recovered fyom the effects of the liquor he had been taking and appeared very dispir- ited at the death of his mother, Said he:— “Lam twenty-eight years old, and was for eight years and until last November a soldier in the Fifteentu New York imfantry, when | was discharged, my term of service having expired. I served one year in York Volunteers. Icame into the house on Saturday night, having been drinking pretty hard. My mother Degan abusing me, calling me a loafer and other nam and threw a pitcher at my head, hitting me in the tem- ple. Ithen, I suppose, struck her, but not violently, She was intoxicated. Later in the night I heard ber fall, aud I suppose she fell down stairs. I saw her lying on the floor early this morning, and [ thought she was sleeping. I cannot say what time she died,” Some hours after the occurrence Captain McDonnell learned from one of the neighbors that about seven o’clock yesterday morning Calaghan was seen carrying out of the house a large Bible, He after a while came eer, but What The next back and carried away some dresses, a mattress and a — clock, Following up this clew the Captain ascertained that the prisoner had taken the above articles toa neighboring puwnbroker's shop, where he had pawned them for the sum of three dolla) While he was en- guged in removing the goods his mother was lying in the room right before his hy tog dead, but it is thought that being stupid with drink he believed her asleep. A visit to the scene of the tragedy yesterday evening revealed a sickening sight. The body lay in the posi- tion in which it was found, guarded by a policeman waiting for the arrival of the dead wagon trom the Morgue, while crowds of whites and darkies, attracted by curiosity, lined the entries and barricaded the door- ways, The marks of violence on the dead woman’s face are very prominent. Whether death was caused by the brutal assault or was the result of excessive drink will be for the Coroner to determine in the post-mortem ex- amination, which takes place to-day. The deceased is about iifty years old, and bas threo children living. Her husband has been dead eleven years. WAS CONNOLLY MURDERED? THE TWO BLACKWELL'S ISLAND KEEPERS TO BE ARRESTED ON CORONER'S WARRANTS. In pursuance of an affidavit sworn to by John E. Owens, who was recently a prisoner on Blackwell's Island, making charges of brutal and inhuman treat- ment against Keepers Geary and Boyle in the caso of Malachi Connolly, who died on Friday last in the hospie tal of that institution, Coroner Croker yesterday issued warrants for the arrest of the officers above named. Coroner Croker has expressed his dotermination to sift these charges to the bottom, but has not yet named the day on which the inquest will take place. A Herat reporter has received the following state- ment from John E. Owens, the discharged prisoner, | who makes the allegations ay to the bad treatment:—I first met Malachi (commouly called Michael) Connolly avout the 7th or 8th of last June in the Penitentiary on Biuckwell’s Island, I was at that time in the samo gang. I had escaped from prison and had been recap. tured; was wearing a ball and chain at the time, Con- nolly was then what is called in prison phraseology a “marker’’—that is, a man whom the keepers mark out | for special persecution and will punish whenever they getachance. Ho had been several times in dark cells and fed on bread water, When a prisoner is in the dark cells his on iy food is bread and water, which he him to be about three weeks contined to his cell, and during all that time deprived of his dinner every day. This bad treatment commenced immediately” after Warden Fox went on his vacation, The Warden js a humane; Chirisiwn man, who uses no unnocessury I saw harshness, ¥ KICKKD AND CLUBRED r Geary, who isa cracl man, 1 riday aud Saturday of Jast wore other keepers whi On one of those days, | canno' #ay Which of theta, [saw Connolly thrown into a lurge frou pot into which the prisoners’ slops are empti ‘This was done by other piissuers in Keeper Gear, presence and with his approval, Geary suid, “Give it to him, boy's; git it to the lazy von ofa b—h."’ 1 saw Goury strike Connolly several Cimes with an old shovel, the hoad of which Was nearly worn oft It was with Uils part he stru im, wad he did it as bard as he could, raising tue Weapon high cach time, and abusing lum in the moat profune language, Tulso saw Keeper Bayle strike Counolly with a stick. There are two Boyles—one of thei “ who would not sirhke © prisoner. Hae acyis't waene ho is several tin saw this do week particularly, the than wl the war in Company C, Seventy-seventh New | Tith Geary, looking afler the nd same gang. When Come STRUCK WITH 4 SHOVEL he cried out, “You have murdered ine,” aud Geary re- plied, “You soa of « b—b, you want to go to the hospi- tal, but I'l make you work.’ Ho also used other expres- Sions of the foulest nature. Geary had three or four ree ashing and pulling Connolly and worrying it in the most barbarous manner, The Deputy Warden kicked Connolly on one occasion for a distance of thirty or forty feet. “When he fell he kicked him for fuling. All this bad treatment, which | saw, happened between Thursday of last week and last Thursday, Sev: eral other keepers treated Connolly badly also, and if there is an investigation there can be pleuty of wit- besses got to prove it, These are only some of the facts, and when the whole truth comes out it will be found to be mach worse, It is my firm conviction that Connoll} was killed by bad treatment and that they meant to kill him ‘Tho inquest will be held in the course of this week. THE MURDER ON A SCHOONER. A BLOODY TRAGEDY—DEYECTIVES IN PURSUIT OF THE MURDERER, ‘The schooner Josephine Potts, on which the Captain, Lawrence, was so foully murdered on Friday, lies dis mantled at Port Washington, New York detectives ar- rived at City Island late on Saturday—as soon after they received the news by telegraph as they could, ‘The schooner was loaded with" coal from Elizabeth port, N.J., and was bound for Port Jefferson, Long Island, and the mate, who committed the murder, had been on board only the iew days that the Josephine was sailing from her Jersey port to the point where the deed was done. The owners, with the detectives, took @ boat at City Island and went across the Sound to Port Washington, and atter examining the vessel and cargo had the Captain’s body transshipped to his home in New Jersey for interment, the Coroner and jury having previously viewed the body and given the necessary permission, Captain Burch, a pilot of Port Washing- ton, was put in charge of the schooner and will take her to her destination, The murderer is now fully known, and the detectives have traced him through NewRochelle, It is now believed that the robbery of Captain Lawrence was the only thing intended at first, as between $40 and | $60 of money witch he had with him is missing. But the Captain, though sixty-two years of age, was high tempered and resisted the attempt, and his resistance led to his murder. ‘The conilition ‘of the Josephine’s. cabin shows that the struggle between the two men was u pretty severe one, and the Myers boys who were on board say the murderer went away with a bad scratch ‘on one cheek and a deep sear made in one hand by the dead man’s teeth. The murderer washed his hands oyer the vessel’s side, threw his coat on his arm and hurried away, leaving many other of his belongings in the vessel. “These the detectives have taken possession of. The day chosen for the foul deed (Friday) was one that lad attracted a great many people out on the water to witness the regatta of thé Sands’ Point Boat Club, and had therefore in a measure left the Captain at the mercy of his mate, and from this circumstance it i thought by many that this is not nis first crime. He is expected to run for Port Jefferson betore the Josephine gets there, as he has shipped from that port before, and. itis believed his home is there, and detectives have gone thither to intercept him. It is generally believed at City Island, Sands’ Point and other places along the Sound that he will be in the hands of the oificers before the middie of the week. PISTOL AND CHLOROFORM. AUDACIOUS BURGLARY—A NOCTURNAL VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF AN EDITOR OF THE SUN. A most garing burglary was committed in Brooklyn at an early hour yesterday morning, which has caused no little consternation among the residents of the local- ity in which it occurred. The victim of the robbery in this instance is Mr, William Young, one of the editors of the New York Sun, Mr. Young resides at No, 230 Dean street, near Nevins, and sleeps on the parlor floor in a room be- tween the front and back parlors, About four o’clock yesterday morning, just as the gray dawn was begin- ning to penetrate the windows, so that objects became discernible, Mrs, Young awoke, and upon looking up saw @ man of stout build, medium height, with black mustache, standing at the head of the bed. In one hand he held what appeared to bea pistol, while with the other he was scarching under her pillow for the gold watch which she kept there, Remembering the fate of Mr. Aaron Shute, of Tompkins avenue, who was shot twice by an unknown burglar, she did not dare to catch hold of the ruitian, but with both hands she clutched her husband who slept by her side. She , pinched him in terror, but did not dare to make an out- cry. The burglar looked right down in her eye and secured the wate! He then took a handkerchief which was saturated with chloroform and held it betore her nose and mouth; but the lady managed to avoid rors, 4 by moving her head rapidly from side to side. burglar then went round to the other side of the bed and searched for Mr. Young's watch, which was also | beneath his pillow. It would appear that the villain feared to awaken that gentleman by thrusting his hand too far under the pillow, the watch being directly under the sleeping gentleman’s head, as he turned his atten- tion to other booty. The burglar secured Mr. Young’s puntaloons, and, iaking them into the front parlor, laid ly’s watch on a chair, while he ransacked the In one pocket he found a wallet containing | $50 in greenbacks, which he transferred to his own | pocket, At this juncture Mrs, Young succeeded in awakening her husband, to whom she hastily explained the outrageous affair,’ He jumped up tininediately | and ran into the room where the burglar had been, but | “the bird had flown”? Rushing out on the piazza through the window by which the burglar had fled, he cried out “Thief! Police!) but neither rogue nor roundsman responded to the call, He then secured his pantaloons, and examining the fob pocket where he had placed a roll of $100 the night before, he was delighted to find that the robber had fai to notice that money in his hurried search. Mrs. Young thinks she could identify the burglar. The case was reported by Mr. Young to ; Superintendent Campbell later in the day, aud Detective Roche, of the Third precinct, was set to work in the matter, with but very slight clew to the identification of the fellow, Here it may be mentioned that the lady's as found after the burglar’s visit on a chair in ‘e he had laid it down to examine the pantaloon’s poc The entire proceeds ot the ‘ erime were therefore but $50, Mr. Young was about starting out on his vacation to Seneca Falls yesterday, The robbery has detained him until to-day, ‘The entrance to the house was effected through the front window, which had been left open during the night. On Saturday night Mr. Young went to an ice cream saloon in Nevins street to get some cream for higgvife. When paying for it he took out a roll of sputnbecks, which Was eyed in a very suspicious manner by two men who were present at the time, A WOMAN STABBED FIVE TIMES. BRUTAL CASE OF ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER IR WILLIAMSBURG. Yesterday afternoon a tragic quarrel took place in Williamsburg, which may yet have a fatal termination, William Smith, of No, 88 Maujer street, having stabbed his wife Catherine five times during a drunken quarrel, The affray occurred shortly before two o’clock in the | afternoon and the particulars, as near as they can be gathered, are as follows:—William Smith, with his wife and two children, moved into his present apartments in the rear of No, 38 Maujer street two weeks ago, from Ninth street, from whence he was compelled to move in consequence of frequent quarrel with his wife. Smith, when under the influence of | liquor, is very ugly. Yesterday morning he went te his place of employment, corner of Kent and West streets, to clean out the firepla f the boiler in the factory, where le ia engineer, and on his return found her drunk and not prepared for dinner. He Vecame very angry and soundly berated her, until pro- yoked by his severe language she seized a large fancy bottle (won at a raille) from the bureau and threw it at him, cutting him slightly on the cheek. He then, tired with anger, knocked her down, stabbed her five times, she says with a knife, he says’ with a fragment of the bottle, The wounds are a cut on the fingers of the right hand, one on the neck, one on the shoulder, one on the left side and one on the teft forearm, the latter being the most serious, as it severed an artery, the woman ran out of the house fully half winile, bleeding all the way, jurgeon Hesse was sent for and removed her to the Eastern District Hospital, where she now lies in a very critical condition from the great amount of blood she has lost and the danger of the bleeding from | the severed artery breaking out anew. Mean- | while the husband, alarmed at what he had done, remained in his room, where he was found in tears by the officer who arrested him, Smith acknowledges cutting her, but insists he did it with the fragments of the bottle she broke on his head; Dut this is thought mprobable by the doctor, as the clothing of the Woman shows a clear cut without any rending over the Wounds and corresponding with them. The wo young clitidren of the illassorted couple are | taken care of by the neighbors, all of whom seem te exist in the same stute of degraded poverty as the vio tim of the ailray. | SUDDEN DEATH OF A REPORTER. H. Y. Ultenhoven, aged thirty years, a Gorman re porter of the New Yorker Presse, was found dead in bis ved at No, 23 Frankfort street, The cause of his sudden deuth is unknown, ENTERPRISE AT TODTENVILLE, , ——-_ The village of Tottenville, at the west end of Staton Island, is now one of the most thriving places on the island, doing quite a large business in boatbuilding, and having & number of marine railways along the shores, which have been constantly employed during the season, The great Pennsylvania codl yurdy a Just ucross the river at Perth Aimboy, where mu; the time wre are irom seventy-five to a hundred cls wWaite ing cargoes, wud trade aud I W the residents of Towenvilie” en a ,